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Faux News Rolls Out Their Lawn Jockey to Attack Chris Rock
As anticipated, yet another effort at putting a black race pimps face on racism…
Posted by btx3 on February 29, 2016 in Faux News, The Definition of Racism
Tags: Faux News, fox, Fox News, News, race, Racism, racist, Uncle Tom
Stacy Who? Joke at Oscars
This one was a shot, probably missed by many in the audience and public, at black conservatives being used as front men in politics and some corporations, the fake "Diversity" efforts of tech firms an the media, and the lack of sincere effort by white dominated industries (including Hollywood).
Slate picked it up for the culturally uncognizant –
Here's What That Stacey Dash Joke at the Oscars Was All About
At Sunday's Oscars, Stacey Dash popped onstage with Chris Rock—as the "new director" of the Oscars' "Minority Outreach Program"—to say one thing: "I cannot wait to help my people out. Happy Black History Month." If you were left scratching your head, here's a quick explanation.
It all started in January, when, in response to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, Dashtold Fox & Friends that the BET Awards and Black History Month should be done away with:
Because we have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration. If we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black. If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms. It's a double standard.
For her part, Dash has also already issued an explanation of her Oscars moment. From Patheos:
When they added ME to increase the diversity, I'm sure many black people rolled their eyes. I'm not "black enough," they say. But guess what? I've heard that all my life. I would rather be a free thinking, black than a cookie cutter black who thinks—and votes—just like all my friends.
Backstory aside, Dash's appearance at the Oscars was a joke that, for the most part, those outside the sphere of Black Twitter might not have understood. In some ways, bringing Dash into the fold for a joke the white audience wouldn't necessarily understand might have been Chris Rock's biggest coup so far.
Posted by btx3 on February 29, 2016 in BlackLivesMatter
Tags: Black Twitter, Chris Rock, Oscars, political statement, Stacey Dash
With Scalia Dead, Uncle Tommie Clarence Speaks For the First Time in 10 Years
Amazing what no longer being required to have his nose up Scalia's derriere has done for the man. He can actually take a breath and say something…
Clarence Thomas Just Asked His First Question in a Decade on the Supreme Court
For 10 years, Justice Clarence Thomas has sat on the bench of the Supreme Court through innumerable oral arguments without asking a single question. That all changed today.
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Voisine v. United States, a complex and arcane case involving domestic violence and gun ownership. The case initially seemed to revolve around a technical question of criminal intent. Stephen Voisine was convicted of "intentionally, knowingly, orrecklessly caus[ing] bodily injury or offensive physical contact" to his girlfriend following a domestic dispute. As a result, he was stripped of his ability to own a gun, because United States federal law indefinitely bars individuals convicted of "a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" from owning firearms. Voisine now argues that "recklessly" causing violence—as opposed to knowingly or intentionally—shouldn't disqualify him from possessing a gun under federal law.
Arguments were somewhat dry until the last few minutes, when Ilana H. Eisenstein, an assistant to the solicitor general representing the federal government, was preparing to finish up and take her seat. Just before she left the lectern, Justice Clarence Thomas spoke up, asking his very first question from the bench in a decade. The entire court perked up. Everyone shifted forward in their seats, and there was a look of shock on many spectators' faces. We in the press section nearly fell out of our seats, though the other justices kept admirably cool, with only Chief Justice John Roberts swiveling his head in evident surprise.
Thomas noted that a conviction under the federal statute in question "suspends a constitutional right"—the right of individuals to own guns, as established in 2008's decision, District of Columbia v. Heller. The government argues, Thomas explained, that "recklessness" in using physical force against an intimate partner is "sufficient to trigger a misdemeanor violation that results in the suspension of what is at least as of now still a constitutional right." (Thomas appeared to be extremely aware that Hellerwas a 5–4 decision, authored by Justice Antonin Scalia, which could be on the chopping block if the balance of the court shifts to the left.)
The justice, speaking calmly but forcefully, then pointed out that under the federal law, a domestic abuser doesn't actually have to use a gun against his partner to lose his gun rights. He need only commit some form of domestic abuse, with a firearm or without it. Thomas struck a tone of puzzlement with a tinge of irritation. "Therefore," he said, "a constitutional right is suspended—even if [the domestic violence] is unrelated to the possession of a gun?"
Eisenstein retorted that individuals who have previously battered spouses have an exponentially higher risk of injuring their spouse with a firearm in the future. But Thomas dug in, asking whether any other law indefinitely suspended an individual's constitutional rights for recklessly committing a crime. What if "a publisher is reckless about the use of children in what could be indecent displays?" he asked. Could the government "suspend this publisher's right to ever publish again?" Is suspending First Amendment rights substantively different from suspending Second Amendment rights?
At that point, Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer jumped in to help Eisenstein. (Kennedy joined Heller but isn't a Second Amendment absolutist like Thomas; Breyer dissented from Heller.) Kennedy mentioned laws that indefinitely regulate sex offenders' liberty, though it was a weak example, because those laws do not suspend any fundamental rights absolutely and indefinitely. Breyer veered away from Thomas' question, noting that Voisine wasn't directly arguing that the federal law violated his Second Amendment rights. (He had argued that earlier, actually, but the Supreme Court refused to consider that question when it agreed to hear the case.) Instead, Voisine pushed the doctrine of "constitutional avoidance"—essentially arguing that the federal law might infringe upon his right to bear arms, and so the court should rule for him on other grounds to avoid having to decide that vastly more monumental question.
Posted by btx3 on February 29, 2016 in Black Conservatives
Tags: bench, Clarence Thomas, questions, Scalia, speaking, Supreme Court, Uncle Tom
Chris Rock Oscars Monologue
In case you didn't watch…Here it is…
Posted by btx3 on February 29, 2016 in The New Jim Crow, The Post-Racial Life
Tags: Chris Rock, discrimination, Hollywood, monologue, Oscars, race, Racism
Silicon Valley Funds CBC Parties for "Diversity"
Perhaps I am a bit too cynical, but HTF does funding yet another cabaret make jobs for underemployed, and unemployed black tech workers?
And HTF is it that with 12% of the graduates in Computer Engineering being black, there is a "shortage in the school pipeline"?
The way things are done in the tech business is you hire some competent recruiters ("headhunters") to go and get what, and who you want to hire. There is no shortage of minority middle managers, tech staff, and senior tech staff – although you may have a hard time getting them to move to the West Coast whitopias anymore. That shouldn't be an issue – because most of these companies have data centers and offices all over the east coast, and a lot of companies hire "virtual" workers…
I been in this business over 20 years, working in senior positions for startups, as well as big players and hold patents in the technology…I haven't heard jack shidt from these people – although I do get calls from big eastern based companies.I know a couple of guys who read my blog are senior techies like myself…When exactly was the last time you got a recruiting call from Google or Amazon?
But I guess it is just easier to buy off the CBC with a couple of parties.
Under diversity pressure, tech courts minority groups in D.C.
Congressional Black Caucus chairman G.K. Butterfield warned that "talk is not enough," in diversity in tech.
Some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies are quietly funneling money to minority groups in Washington, including those affiliated with black and Hispanic lawmakers — a move that comes as the firms face growing criticism about the lack of diversity in their workforce.
The donations, known as "honorary expenses," fund events like dinners and cocktail receptions where members of Congress and federal regulators are the guests of honor. The leader of the pack is Google, which spent a record of more than $490,000 on such expenses last year — devoting most of it to minority groups like the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, according to newly filed federal ethics reports.
Apple chipped in $1.2 million for an awards gala for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and Uber wrote a $10,000 check to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the disclosures show. It marked the first time either Apple or Uber reported any honorary expenses.
The recent uptick in these donations coincides with growing political pressure on the tech industry over diversity, as companies struggle to address complaints that their employees are largely white and male. The debate has taken root in Washington, including with members of the Congressional Black Caucus, which sent a delegationto Silicon Valley in August to demand that the industry recruit more African-Americans.
The tech industry's newest tactics don't appear to have quelled the outcry from Capitol Hill, and they don't sit well with some diversity advocates.
"We've had years now of campaigning and advocacy around the diversity problem … [but] the only thing that's gotten better with these companies are their talking points," said Rashad Robinson, the executive director of ColorofChange, a nonprofit that works on civil rights issues. The problem, he added, is "not going to be solved by throwing money at the CBC and other institutions."
Asked about their spending, Apple and Uber declined to comment for this story. A Google spokeswoman said the company believes it's important to "help policymakers understand our business and the work we do to keep the Internet open and encourage economic opportunity."
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute serve as the educational and policy arms of their respective caucuses on Capitol Hill. While they're technically separate organizations, many black and Hispanic lawmakers serve as board members for the nonprofit groups. The Thurgood Marshall College Fund, meanwhile, is a nonprofit that provides scholarships and other support for African-American students at historically black colleges and universities.
The CBC Foundation, for one, stressed that the tech industry's donations have gone to a good cause. They've allowed for "professional development briefings for our interns offering them real-world, first-hand exposure to careers" in key tech fields, Shrita Sterlin-Hernandez, a spokeswoman for the group, said in a statement. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund did not comment for this story.
But the checks can also double as powerful forms of leverage in Washington, where influence often is measured in dollar signs. "There are many ways companies and other organizations can establish a presence in Washington, and gain access to politicians. And one way to do that — that some people pay less attention to — is by giving money to a charitable cause that a politician is associated with," said Viveca Novak, a spokeswoman for the Center for Responsive Politics.
Such contributions are a "well-trodden path," in the words of Novak, for established industries in Washington, from big tobacco companies to telecom giants like AT&T and Comcast. The donations, in addition to supporting nonprofits, provide lobbyists with greater access to lawmakers and regulators.
And Silicon Valley certainly could use more allies in Washington when it comes to diversity issues.
Apple is almost 70 percent male globally and 54 percent white in the U.S., according to the company's most recent diversity report, though the company emphasized that many of its new hires have been women, Asian, Hispanic and African-American. Google's workforce is also 70 percent male globally and 60 percent white in the U.S., despite its own efforts to diversify. Uber, for its part, has not released a report detailing the composition of its employees.
Those poor report cards prompted the Congressional Black Caucus last May to launch an initiative dubbed Tech2020, hoping to pressure tech companies to add more African-Americans to their ranks. The CBC later dispatched top lawmakers to the Valley — including its chairman, Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) — to make that point directly to executives at Apple, Google, Intel and other firms.
Butterfield sounded the theme again in September at the CBC Foundation's annual legislative conference, where he warned that "talk is not enough. And we need more than an amen from the choir. … We want to see results."
Tech companies have pledged to fix the problem, but as they invest in hiring initiatives, they're also pumping big money into Washington. Over the course of last year, Google covered $150,000 in honorary expenses for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and provided an additional $95,000 in multiple checks to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, according to an analysis of the ethics records.
Another roughly $150,000 in spending went to "various vendors" that aided events with women, black and Latino lawmakers, the records indicate. At the CBC Foundation's annual legislative conference in September, Google played a key sponsorship role at a reception that featured FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, according to an invitation for the event.
Google has donated to the CBC Foundation before, but its "honorary expenses" for the group and other minority organizations have increased in recent years. Asked whether this amounts to a form of lobbying, the CBC Foundation stressed in a statement that the support benefits the organization's mission: "Our sponsors and partners provide support to our organization because they share our goals of providing important opportunities for the communities we serve."…More…
Posted by btx3 on February 29, 2016 in The New Jim Crow
Tags: apple, CBC, discrimination, Diversity, employment, galas, Google, jobs, minorities, neutron dance, Silicon Valley
Dayton Pastor Murdered During Sunday Service
Dayton Rev. William Schooler was shot dead by his brother during the Sunday service…More shocking is the identity of the killer.
The late Rev. William Schooler
Ohio pastor gunned down during Sunday service
The Rev. William Schooler turned over Sunday service at his Ohio church to the choir director and headed to his office.
Then, as the choir sang, Schooler was shot and killed, the Dayton Daily News reported.
"We heard pow, pow," St. Peter's Missionary Baptist Church member Beulah Booker-Robertson told the newspaper. "The usher at the door said 'everybody get down, everybody get out.'"
On Sunday, police arrested Schooler's brother, Daniel Gregory Schooler, on murder charges. He was expected to be formally charged Monday, the Associated Press reported.
Jail records do not list attorney information for Schooler; his first court hearing is scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Daniel Gregory Schooler (Montgomery County Jail via AP)
Sgt. Richard Blommel described the shooting as a "domestic incident," NBC News reported.
Reports paint a chaotic scene at St. Peter's Missionary Baptist Church in Dayton. About 20 people were in the congregation during the shooting, and William Schooler was pronounced dead at the scene, WDTN reported.
"I just got everybody out of the church and we just kept hearing shooting and shooting," parishioner Alberta Blayth told the Dayton Daily News.
A parishioner who called 911 told the emergency dispatcher, "We were still having church services when he started shooting," according to audio obtained by WDTN-TV.
The pastor, 70, was shot multiple times, police told the newspaper.
"I can't believe it," church member Vonette McGraw told the station. "I can't believe that my pastor is gone."
Posted by btx3 on February 29, 2016 in American Genocide
Tags: brother, church, Dayton, in church, murder, Ohio, Rev. William Schooler, shooting
Melissa Harris-Perry and Bad Career Moves
I am beginning to think Melissa Harris Perry (MHP) is living in an alternate universe. I mean, MSNBC isn't exactly known for standing behind their people. Indeed the Network's history as at deserting their staff at the least whiff of controversy is well established… I've long suggested they got the wrong bird as their logo. It should have been a chicken.
So why would our girl start a public spat with the cowardly peacock? Definitely a career limiting move.
Melissa Harris-Perry is out at MSNBC
Melissa Harris-Perry will not be back on MSNBC.
On Sunday morning, two days after the host's private fight with management went public, an MSNBC spokesman confirmed that the channel is "parting ways" with her.
Earlier in the morning, Harris-Perry posted a photo on Twitter and said "Farewell #Nerdland," a nickname for her weekend show, "Melissa Harris-Perry."
"Inviting diverse new voices to table was a privilege," she tweeted. "Grateful for years of support and criticism."
Harris-Perry confirmed to CNNMoney that her representatives are in talks with MSNBC about an exit deal.
Harris-Perry had felt for months like MSNBC was trying to squeeze her off the air and take away her editorial point of view.
On Friday, she spoke out about the treatment, saying she had been "silenced" by MSNBC and placed in a form of cable news purgatory, having been pre-empted for two weekends in a row.
"Our show was taken — without comment or discussion or notice — in the midst of an election season," she wrote in a letter to staff that was shared with her fans.
MSNBC and its rivals are all trying to squeeze higher ratings out of the chaotic primary season. The channel pre-empted her for campaign coverage with a "Place for Politics" title.
The same thing has happened to other shows, too, MSNBC said in a statement responding to her letter on Friday. The channel called her reaction "surprising, confusing and disappointing."
But Harris-Perry said the February pre-emptions were merely the most visible manifestation of the channel's marginalization of her show.
In the letter, she said "no one on the third floor," where MSNBC's executives work at 30 Rockefeller Center, "has even returned an email, called me, or initiated or responded to any communication of any kind from me for nearly a month."
Posted by btx3 on February 28, 2016 in The Post-Racial Life
Tags: cancelled, cowardly peacock, fired, Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC, show, spat
Another Whitewash Jury in San Jose
I could debate about the punishment that would be appropriate for the miscreants – and whether locking them up, or giving them some serious community service time would be more effective. I think about 30 days in jail, followed by 4-6 months of working community service in a poor section of town might do wonders.
Donald Williams Jr., center, walks with his parents, Nancy and Donald Williams, out of Santa Clara Superior Court on Monday morning, Feb. 1, 2016, in San Jose, Calif.
All white jury fails to convict white San Jose State students who abused black classmate of hate crimes
Donald Williams Jr.'s parents were shocked to find a the Confederate flag posted in the common room of their son's dorm. It was accompanied by a white board that featured the N-word and a swastika. But that wasn't the worst of what Williams endured as a freshman at San Jose State University.
In September of 2013, one of his seven white roommates came up behind him and placed a U-shaped bike lock around his neck. Williams struggled to be released for five minutes before his roommate finally gave him the key. A week later, three of his other roommates attempted to do the same thing but failed when Williams engaged in a scuffle.
There was also an incident when Williams, who is reportedly claustrophobic, was locked inside a closet. His roommates assigned him nicknames such as "three-fifths" and "fraction," which referenced how the Constitution once counted black slaves.
Despite the racially charged and abusive behavior, which were pieced together by police statements and an independent investigation, an all white jury deadlocked on the hate crime charges and ultimately failed to convict the suspects. Instead, Colin Warren, Logan Beaschler and Joseph "Brett" Bomgardner were found guilty ofmisdemeanor battery after "offensively touching" Williams during the bike-lock prank, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
Sentencing is set for March, and the students face a maximum of six months in jail. According to the Washington Post, they're unlikely to serve any time due to the absence of a hate crime conviction. They're likely to get off easy with community service instead.
Ultimately the jury believed that the actions taken by the students were just pranks that went too far as opposed to hate crimes. But the fact that the students forcefully put a bike lock around Williams' neck and didn't deal with felony assault charges is ludicrous.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen disagrees that what Williams went through was nothing more than pranks, and is considering pursuing a retrial.
"Prejudice is not a prank," Rosen said. "This violence did not happen in a historical vacuum. This violent act was done to a young black college student by five white men, an injustice inflicted upon him because of the color of his skin."
Often times when debates about white privilege come about, white individuals believe it's a denial of their own struggles and the hard work they put into their success. But white privilege is simply getting the benefit of the doubt by those in authority and the community.
The jury in the Williams case decided to give the white students the benefit of the doubt by believing that their actions were simply meant to be pranks and nothing more. But if the tables were turned and the races were reversed, does anyone actually think that black students would get the same treatment? Anyone who says "yes" is either incredibly naive or in denial.
Tags: all white jury, black student, BLM, Donald Williams, failure to convict, harassment, hate crimes, San Jose
KKK and Counter Protesters Battle in California
Probably the worst clash between the KKK and counter-protesters since North Carolina…
KKK, counterprotesters clash in California; 5 hurt and 13 arrested
Violence broke out Saturday when Ku Klux Klan demonstrators and counterprotesters fought in Anaheim, California, leaving five people injured and 13 people arrested, authorities said.
Anaheim police spokesman Sgt. Daron Wyatt said the KKK planned a "walking protest" at Pearson Park. The counterprotesters arrived beforehand and attacked when the KKK got out of their vehicles around noon, he said.
Several fights broke out along a city block involving six KKK members — none wearing the traditional KKK robes — and 30 counterprotesters.
Three counterprotesters were stabbed — one with the decorative end of a flagstaff, one with a knife and one with an object the police did not describe, Wyatt said.
The person stabbed with the flagstaff was hospitalized in critical condition and the other two were in stable condition, police said.
Police witnessed one KKK demonstrator being stomped by by two male and a female counterprotesters. Another KKK member told police he'd been stomped and might have broken ribs, Wyatt said.
The first KKK member had minor injuries and was not hospitalized, police said, and the second one was hospitalized in stable condition.
Arrested were six male and one female counterprotesters and five male and one female KKK member, Wyatt said.
The district attorney's office will decide what, if any, charges will be filed, he said.
Wyatt said anyone with cell phone video of the fight should contract police.
Posted by btx3 on February 28, 2016 in Domestic terrorism
Tags: Anaheim, arrests, California, counter protest, fight, injuries, KKK
Hillary and BLM
Good conversation here on Bill Maher's show…Michael Eric Dyson does an excellent job of laying out the case here.
Posted by btx3 on February 27, 2016 in BlackLivesMatter, Democrat Primary
Tags: bill maher, black voters, BLM, civil rights, democrats, Hillary Clinton, Michael Eric Dyson, politics
Streetcars Return to DC
Re-purposed "antique" DC Capital Transit Fare Tokens,, which are actually a bit smaller than a dime.
As a youngster, I remember Streetcars running on the streets of Washington, DC. Indeed, somewhere in my collection of trivial things I've never thrown out is a DC Capital Transit Fare Token. As a youngster, my Mom and I rode the Subway Car through Georgetown on the last day in 1962, before they shut the system down. The Washington, DC METRO Subway System was built with little regards as to where the people who were actually going to use the system actually lived – or where developers were building huge communities outside the Capital Beltway. As such, an area like Tyson's Corner, a non-incorporated area near the City – which employs more people than the City of Washington, DC only got access with the addition of the new Silver Line last year. In a number of other fast growing un-served communities in the area, the Streetcar has become a rallying cry – and plans to build at least 6 lines have been underway with varying success over the last few years.
The first of the proposed systems is scheduled to open 2/28/2016, covering he rapidly developing (re gentrifying) H Street corridor in Northeast DC.
While a romantic idea from a bygone era, there are valid questions as to whether such systems are even viable.
The new system?
Yeah they are pretty…But they are going to make a hell of a mess of traffic on H Street
Posted by btx3 on February 27, 2016 in General
Tags: Capital Transit, DC, H Street, History, revival, Streetcar, urban renewal
Cruz Sugar Daddy Buys a Lawn Jockey
Times are good over at Lawn Jockeys 'R US with the Republican candidates actively on the hunt for black buffoons and race prostitutes. Ted Cruz's Sugar Daddy has found their boy.
Professional Lawn Jockey Raynard Jackson and Dick (Darth Vader) Cheney
Cruz Sugar Daddy Funds a Fake Black GOP Group
"Black Americans for a Better Future" is bankrolled by white billionaire Robert Mercer and has just one apparent member: an extreme-right black political operative.
One of the GOP's leading billionaire donors is also funding 96 percent of a super PAC named "Black Americans for a Better Future."
Funny thing is, that donor, eccentric billionaire Robert Mercer, is white.
Two eagle-eyed watchdogs, Derek Willis of ProPublica and Dave Levinthal of Public Integrity, spotted the funding in a recent set of FEC filings, and The Intercept first reported the news. As the filings showed, Mercer has provided $400,000 of the group's $417,250 donations so far.
Is it odd that an organization that says it's made up of "Black Americans" is in fact bankrolled by a white billionaire? Sure, but that's just the beginning.
The organization, "Black Americans for a Better Future," essentially a one-person shop run by longtime GOP political operative Raynard Jackson.
Jackson is an unusual character. This is clear even on the surface: his slapdash websitelooks like a bad parody of 1998, and is littered with typos and grammatical mistakes. ("Is homosexual entitlements the new civil rights?" "I am also available for speaking engagements also.")
But the weirdness goes deeper than that.
So far, the only expenditures for "Black Americans for a Better Future" are Jackson's own salary of $155,000, travel costs (including, as The Intercept reporting, $5,000 at Morton's Steakhouse in New York), and the $13,000 cost of its only activity thus far, a November 17 luncheon at the National Press Club.
Jackson himself is a profilic blogger who often takes fellow African Americans to task. His favorite target, unsurprisingly, is President Obama, of whom Jackson says, "He is light skinned, has no connection with the Black community, Ivy League educated, and seems very uncomfortable around Blacks who are not part of the bourgeoisie."
Jackson is also not fond of Spike Lee, describing Lee's newest film, Chi-Raq, as a "profanity laced, liberally biased, finger pointing diatribe that blames Republicans and Whites for all the murders taking place in Chicago."
It's an odd critique, given that Chi-Raq, a retelling of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, is about black women demanding that black men stop killing each other (and withholding sex until they do), clearly placing responsibility, for the most part, on black men.
Maybe that's because Jackson's "review" is actually a pitch for one of his pet projects.
"It is extremely imperative that Republicans have an active surrogates program," Jackson writes. "Black Republicans are constantly ridiculed in movies, TV sit-coms, and in pop culture. I have constantly expressed to party leaders the necessity of having a vibrant surrogates program where Black Republicans are seen on TV, heard on the radio, and interviewed in newspapers."
Who does Jackson like? "Black men need more white women like Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham," Jackson wrote in a 2014 post. Even though they are conservative media personalities, they have done more to promote the well-being of black males than many of the very women who stridently complain about the lack of 'eligible' black men."
Jackson explains that Coulter's anti-immigration stance helps black people, quoting her statement that "We owe black people something… We have a legacy of slavery. Immigrants haven't even been in this country." As for Ingraham, Jackson quotes her statement that Democrats "turn their heads away from the millions upon millions of black babies slaughtered in the womb over 10 years.… Is that racist?"
Jackson concludes, "We black men need more white women like Coulter and Ingraham, not back [sic] women who will give a pass to a failing black president."
Of course, it's not just black women; President Obama received 96 percent of the African American vote in 2012. But Jackson says they are deluded by Black leaders who refuse to criticize the president else they "jeopardize their invitations to the White House's Christmas party."
So, Jackson continued, "it's ok to do specific things for the Black bourgeoisie—private invitations to the White House, rides on Air Force One, private movie screenings at the White House, but [Obama] can't do things specifically to address the high unemployment rate in the Black community?"
(The black unemployment rate when Obama took office was 12.7 percent; as of June, 2015, it was 9.5 percent. Obama also started the "My Brother's Keeper" initiative in 2014 to focus on improving the lives of young African American men.)
In fact, the predominant theme in Jackson's many online screeds seems to be his own resentment at being excluded from such elite circles. In a 2015 blog post, he complained that GOP chairman Rience Priebus stole his idea of giving out a "Black Republican Trailblazer Award" each February.
Most curiously, he complained in 2012 that "My Republican Party Has Abandoned Me" and rebuffed his efforts to attract more black voters. And yet, he wrote in 2012, "twice this year some of these same people have approached me about funding for some election year tricks that they (White Republicans) have conjured up and simply need a Black face to execute the plan. On these two separate occasions, these funders were willing to spend upwards of $20 million to have me organize a national campaign to identify Blacks who would be critical of President Obama."
But wait, isn't that exactly what Robert Mercer is paying him $400,000 to do in 2016?…More Here…
Lawn Jockeys 'R Us Award
Posted by btx3 on February 27, 2016 in Black Conservatives, The Definition of Racism
Tags: black, Conservative, fake, race, Racism, Raynard Jackson, Republican, Robert Mercer, Ted Cruz, Uncle Tom Award
Second Company Threatens to Leave Over Georgia KKK Bill
I call the Georgia bill, the misnomer "First Amendment Defense Act" the "KKK Bill" because besides supporting LBGT discrimination it provides cover for christian identity (white supremacist groups) to discriminate based on race or ethnicity. Not that a law supporting Jim Crow against LBGT people isn't offensive enough solely by itself. Here is a background of discrimination racist zealots have tried to promote in the name of religion for the past 100 years. In Employment Division v. Smith the Supreme Court decided that religious exemptions did not trump civil law, and again in Loving v. Virginia. So the Georgia law is on shaky Constitutional ground, and with the fortuitous death of Scalia, the ability for the far right racists to reenact this foundation of New Jim Crow Law is kaput providing another racist doesn't get appointed to the court.
Salesforce CEO Is Going To War In Georgia Over New Anti-LGBT Bill
Marc Benioff led the charge to strike down Indiana's anti-gay law last year. Now he's taking on a similar bill in Georgia.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is strapping on his boxing gloves again.
Nearly a year after the cloud-computing giant led the charge to topple a law in Indiana that legalized discrimination against LGBT people in the name of religious freedom, Benioff says he is gearing up for a fresh fight against a similar bill in Georgia.
"Nobody wants a discrimination law in America today," Benioff told The Huffington Post in a phone interview on Friday. "But there are still bigots out there fighting for people to be discriminated against."
The bill, passed by the Georgia Senate in a 38-14 vote last Friday, allows religiously affiliated groups to refuse to "rent, lease, or otherwise grant permission for property to be used by another person for an event which is objectionable to such religious organization." Dubbed the First Amendment Defense Act, the legislation actually takes Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act a step further, barring government authorities from bringing civil cases against organizations accused of discrimination.
"The law that was adopted in Indiana was a balancing act, where at least the government had the chance to go to court and make an argument that they should be able to penalize someone for discrimination," Sarah Warbelow, legal director at the LGBT advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, told HuffPost. "With the FADA, there's an absolute right to discriminate, and that right is based on your view that marriage is between one man and one woman."
The law in Indiana was amended last year to include protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people after Benioff launched a scorched-earth media campaign, rallying some of the country's most powerful executives behind him. Salesforce — the largest tech employer in Indiana — vowed to pay to move any employees at risk of discrimination out of the state. Benioff also threatened to scale back the company's operations in Indiana unless the law was altered to protect LGBT people.
Salesforce may only have about 1,000 workers in Georgia, but in May it is scheduled to host its annual Connections conference in Atlanta. The event draws about 15,000 Salesforce clients each year for three days. On Friday, Benioff posted a poll on Twitter, asking if he should change the event's location if the FADA bill becomes law. By early evening, 75 percent of the roughly 2,500 voters supported the move.
"We will bring economic consequences," Benioff told HuffPost. "We will deliver a rolling thunder of economic sanctions against the state, in this case Georgia, which is waging a war against LGBT people."
Benioff said he already contacted the chief executives of Home Depot, Coca-Cola, email marketing service MailChimp and shipping giant UPS about the issue. Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes said in an email that "we've been clear for some time now that we won't support anything that discriminates." The other three companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
But Benioff plans to bring other corporations into the battle, too.
"Look, this is about providing an environment for our employees and our customers that's nondiscriminatory, that's all," Benioff said. "Come out and say you want equality for all, and we'll get off your case."…Read More Here…
Tags: bigots, discrimination, First amendment, georgia, KKK, LBGT, race, Racism, religion, Republican, Salesforce
Clueless on Crack – "Stump for Trump Girls" Attack Rubio Sexuality
The clueless "Stump for Trump Girls" are smoking that crack again…This time taking a below the belt shot schoolboy shot at Rubio's alleged sexuality while getting their clueless heads handed to them by a CNN Reporter. Think they need to change their screen names to Dumb and Dumber.
Posted by btx3 on February 26, 2016 in Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks, The Clown Bus
Tags: clueless, dirty politics, gay, homosexual, Juvenile, republican dirt, rubio, Stump for Trump, taunt, trump
The Rogaine Renegade!
Might be cheaper to buy a wig…The Rogaine Renegade strikes again!
Police Hunt For Man Traveling The Midwest And Stealing Rogaine
Your help is needed in identifying a serial thief. The individual pictured was involved in the theft of $847.00 in Rogaine and Prevagen products from the Walgreen Store located at 7864 Hamilton Avenue, in Mount Healthy. He has also been identified in similar thefts from North College Hill, West Chester, and other locations. It is believed he operates a white jeep. If you can help us identify this individual, please call Mt. Healthy Police at 513-728-3283 – Officer Baird or Crime Stoppers 352-3040.
The male pictured in the photo has allegedly shoplifted merchandise from three locations in our city. He has hit a CVS and two different Walgreens locations. The subject usually steals Prevagen supplements and Rogaine This is the same male that is on video committing similar acts at drug store locations across the tristate and is believed to be responsible for several thousand dollars worth of stolen merchandise. Several law enforcement agencies are looking to identify this person. He has been seen driving a white Jeep Cherokee. Anyone with information on his identity please contact Det Cpl Erik Daniels at 859-334-5562 or erik.daniels@florence-ky.gov.
Posted by btx3 on February 26, 2016 in Nawwwwww!
Tags: bald, bandit, Naaaaaaw!, Rogaine, shoplifting


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in mailbox and as option subjects, real names and lengths of letters.
"sh I-AmigaFilter" (or "chmod 700 I-AmigaFilter" and "I-AmigaFilter").
Installer automaticaly writes doc, source in current directory.
For compile under Unix type "cc from2 -o from2".
"execute from2.c" for compiling with SAS C.
Of course change your mbox path.
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Sar and Theo move on from Sar's affair with Lash, struggling to build a new life with their werecougar son Devon. Rebuffed, Lash resumes his solitary existence, biding his time. Ulysses lurks in the shadows launching repeated attacks on his enemy Devlin, whose darker side emerges rampant in an effort to protect those he loves. The vampire Danial prepares his dhamphir son Theoron for manhood, even as Ulysses delivers a last crippling blow to Devlin in his relentless quest for revenge.
Lash stepped closer to me, his arms going around me.
"Don't, please," I said softly, my weak words so rife with need that I flushed.
I inhaled his familiar scent, closing my eyes. There came the gentle touch of his hand on the back of my head, gently pushing it against his shoulder as he stroked my hair.


Few months ago my Dell laptop battery did not work.Whenever I unplug it from main AC supply,the laptop switched off immediately.After few days of frustration, I replaced the battery and kept the dead one (as per my laptop message) for tinkering.I was curious what I would find inside it.Then I go through several blogs and forum to get some ideas.I got lot of things from http://www.candlepowerforums.com/.
Then I took apart the battery and charged them by using a good charger.By luck I found 4 batteries are in good condition. I used this battery to make a descent power bank.It really works fine for me.I thought I'd share the info to all.So that any one reuse it without throwing it in to the dust bin.
In this tutorial I will show you, how to harvest the 18650 battery from any of the old laptop battery pack you might have. Most of the time, laptop battery packs go bad when just one or few cells in the pack are dead. The protection circuit in the charging board cuts out the entire pack as a necessary protective measure for the user. There are still a few good cells though.At last I will show you how you can make a power bank by reusing these salvaged batteries.
Disclaimer: Please note that you are taking apart battery packs in this tutorial which is expressly discouraged by the manufacturer as this is potentially a very hazardous process. I cannot be held responsible for any loss of property, damage, or loss of life if it comes to that. This tutorial was written for those who have knowledge on rechargeable lithium ion technology.Please do not attempt this if you are novice. Stay Safe.
If you do not have,you can ask to your friend or relatives.
You can also find it from any computer repairing stores.
You can buy it from eBay.
First identify the weak spot somewhere along the seams, and pry until the pack pops open.I carefully insert a screwdriver blade and twist to separate. Some packs pop right open, some (like this one) take a little more effort. Because the packs are usually ultrasonic welded along the seams, with added double sided tape.
If having trouble finding a weak spot along the seams, use a dremel saw or cutting disk to cut through an angle - not along the seams, or you risk damaging cells. Be careful during doing this process.
Safety: When doing anything with bare li ion cells, it's wise to have a fireproof container nearby, along with a bucket of sand. If a cell starts heating up and/or smoking, quickly throw it in the container and dump the sand on it. Sand is the only reliable way of dealing with a lithium fire; water and most fire extinguishers won't do squat.
They are normally held in by double sided tape or connected using metal tabs.
Safety : Be very careful when removing the cell assembly. Try not to bend the tabs as they could meet and short, resulting in a fire or explosion.
Then carefully cut the tabs/ wires that are connected to the charging circuit and between the cells using a Wire Cutter.After separating the chairing board I kept it for future tinkering.
Safety: Avoid contacting two separate metal tabs if you are unsure about polarity.
I found 6 18650 Li Ion batteries manufactured by Samsung.The capacity was 2200mAh.
The two batteries are wired in parallel, and 3 parallel packs are connected in series for the desired voltage and mAh.
Then separate the individual cells.
First twist each parallel group and separate them by using a cutter.
Twist the solder tabs off by using a nose pliers.If you want to build a pack with the harvested cells, you might want to keep the tabs instead of twisting them off, as it makes soldering a lot easier and safer.
After the tabs are pulled off, gently dremel the weld points until the surface is flat.
Keep all the removed tabs and taps inside a tray.Then dispose it in a safe place.
Safety: Be very careful when separating the individual batteries. The welded tabs are extremely sharp, especially when they are cut or torn.I wounded my finger during this process.
3. Measure cell voltage off the charger. verify it's between 4.1 and 4.2v.
5. Measure cell voltage. if it's fallen less than 4v, throw it away. Otherwise record the voltage.
6. Store cell for 3+ days in cool, dry place.
7. Measure cell voltage. if cell voltage has fallen more than 0.1v from the recorded voltage, throw it away.
Any cell that hasn't been thrown away by doing the above test is considered to be good one.
I kept all the good cells inside the 18650 battery storage box.
Buy a Power Bank USB 18650 Battery Charger Case.
I bought the Power Bank casing and charging board from eBay.
Insert the battery inside the slot provided in the case.
The positive terminal of the battery should be towards the charging board.Sometimes polarity is marked inside the case.
Safety: Be sure you are inserting the battery with right polarity( if the charging board do not have reverse polarity protection).I did the mistake and fried my charging board instantly.
Then put it for charging by using the USB cable provided in the packet.
Attach the key chain with the case.
Finally the power bank is ready for use.
After charging I test the USB output voltage by using my CHARGER Doctor.
The output voltage is 5.06V which is good for smart phones,Tablet or any other gadgets.
Then used my another battery capacity tester to check the capacity.
Hope my tutorial is helpful.If you like it,vote for me.
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Please give the battery connection diagram if i use all six batteries for power bank.
If the batteries are dead will they still explode?
Discharged lithium batteries aren't dangerous in an of themselves with a caveat. If a Lithium battery drops below 2v don't recharge it, it can be dangerous afterward.
Basically when a battery drops below 2v it dissolves some of the metal inside, and when you re-charge it after that the dissolved metal can short inside the battery. That can make the battery dangerous (fire/explosion).
Some people find 3v a safer (e.g. use 3v in what I said above), but personnally I think thats overly cautios.
So, if I have an old laptop I haven't used for years it would be dangerous to use the batteries?
No, its still safe to harvest the "good" batteries from inside the pack; many of the individual batteries may be quick good. Once you get the individual batteries out, just toss the ones that are below the voltage previously discussed.
Reason: The whole "pack" may show dead because the circuitry in the "pack" detects a couple bad batteries it cuts off that/those sections; so a couple of bad batteries can make the "overall pack" dead. But for using the individual batteries inside in other projects, you may still have luck.
I've personally harvested a dead pack from a Sony laptop and gotten 8 good batteries from 9 originally in the pack; they were even fully charged when I pulled them out. That 9th battery just shorted in the pack and the circuit killed the entire thing.
If they have some charge and you chop into them with an axe, maybe (there's fun youtube video's about that).
If they are completely dead, no. Just don't recharge the dead ones.
Hey, just thinking here, I have a few power backs from dollarama that should take 18650 batteries, but I've got better 18650 batteries in my battery box, so is it worth trying to rip apart the ones I've got? They only cost me $4 Canadian.
If you have the casing from where you got the batteries, than you can calculate how many amps they have. Typically, they have from 2 to 2.2amp per cell. Voltage is always 3.6-3.7.
Since you revived them, there is no tell how many amps they can hold now. Maybe they can hold the same as before or less. Are you charging them with proper charger, i mean charger that was made for charging li-ion?
Yes, i have a proper charger that was made for charging li-ion, li-po, ni-cd and ni-mh batteries. it can charge up to 5 amps, and now, when im reading my comment, i thought of charging to 4.2v and discharging them to 3.7v at 1 amp and calculate how many milli amp hours it would be and then just calculate it to amps.
Looked around Ebay a bit.
Supply your own battery, around 3,000 mAh.
I understand recycling, reusing, and all that jazz; but maybe find something else to do with your batteries?
With the above hack, you get real batteries, which would cost you around 3-4 bucks per cell, for a lot cheaper. Laptop batteries are the real deal unless you buy a counterfeit, but that one won't last long anyway.
If he would use 2 or 3 cells and made the circuit for charging in and out by himself then it would be much more efficient.
No it will not work on AA battery.
My problem is how do i recharge the disassembled Lion Batteries or i have to charge them indibidually with direct charger?


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A new AI model can accurately predict human response to novel drug compounds
New York, October 17, 2022 – The journey between identifying a potential therapeutic compound and Food and Drug Administration approval of a new drug can take well over a decade and cost upwards of a billion dollars. A research team at the CUNY Graduate Center has created an artificial intelligence model that could significantly improve the accuracy and reduce the time and cost of the drug development process. Described in a newly published paper in Nature Machine Intelligence, the new model, called CODE-AE, can screen novel drug compounds to accurately predict efficacy in humans. In tests, it was also able to theoretically identify personalized drugs for over 9,000 patients that could better treat their conditions. Researchers expect the technique to significantly accelerate drug discovery and precision medicine.
Credit: CODE-AE illustration
Accurate and robust prediction of patient-specific responses to a new chemical compound is critical to discover safe and effective therapeutics and select an existing drug for a specific patient. However, it is unethical and infeasible to do early efficacy testing of a drug in humans directly. Cell or tissue models are often used as a surrogate of the human body to evaluate the therapeutic effect of a drug molecule. Unfortunately, the drug effect in a disease model often does not correlate with the drug efficacy and toxicity in human patients. This knowledge gap is a major factor in the high costs and low productivity rates of drug discovery.
"Our new machine learning model can address the translational challenge from disease models to humans," said Lei Xie, a professor of computer science, biology and biochemistry at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College and the paper's senior author. "CODE-AE uses biology-inspired design and takes advantage of several recent advances in machine learning. For example, one of its components uses similar techniques in Deepfake image generation."
The new model can provide a workaround to the problem of having sufficient patient data to train a generalized machine learning model, said You Wu, a CUNY Graduate Center Ph.D. student and co-author of the paper. "Although many methods have been developed to utilize cell-line screens for predicting clinical responses, their performances are unreliable due to data incongruity and discrepancies," Wu said. "CODE-AE can extract intrinsic biological signals masked by noise and confounding factors and effectively alleviated the data-discrepancy problem."
As a result, CODE-AE significantly improves accuracy and robustness over state-of-the-art methods in predicting patient-specific drug responses purely from cell-line compound screens.
The research team's next challenge in advancing the technology's use in drug discovery is developing a way for CODE-AE to reliably predict the effect of a new drug's concentration and metabolization in human bodies. The researchers also noted that the AI model could potentially be tweaked to accurately predict human side effects to drugs.
This work was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Institute on Aging.
About the Graduate Center of The City University of New York
The CUNY Graduate Center is a leader in public graduate education devoted to enhancing the public good through pioneering research, serious learning, and reasoned debate. The Graduate Center offers ambitious students nearly 50 doctoral and master's programs of the highest caliber, taught by top faculty from throughout CUNY — the nation's largest urban public university. Through its nearly 40 centers, institutes, initiatives, and the Advanced Science Research Center, the Graduate Center influences public policy and discourse and shapes innovation. The Graduate Center's extensive public programs make it a home for culture and conversation.
Nature Machine Intelligence
A Context-aware Deconfounding Autoencoder for Robust Prediction of Personalized Clinical Drug Response From Cell Line Compound Screening

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Only two Ithaca College students attended a follow-up discussion hosted by the college Feb. 6 about a racist video of a student.
Ithaca College held a follow-up discussion Feb. 6 about a racist video of a student saying the N-word that became popular on social media.
The event was originally scheduled for Jan. 31 but was rescheduled due to cold weather. The discussion was a follow-up to two other conversations that were held by the college in response to the video in December 2018. At the previous conversations, students discussed how the video made them feel and how the college was responding. Some have criticized the college's response as lackluster.
The video featured a student, sophomore Khush Khemlani, in a Snapchat video using the N-word to describe her skin tone after receiving a spray tan. The video was recorded by others and uploaded to Twitter. Many students at the college reacted negatively and called for the college to take action. The college responded by issuing a statement on Intercom, acknowledging the pain the video produced among many and how common such incidents are in today's society.
The college did not reprimand Khemlani. Khemlani apologized for her use of the racist language.
At the most recent event, only two students attended.
Present at the event were many of the college's senior administration: Ithaca College President Shirley Collado; Bonnie Prunty, dean of students in the Department of Student Affairs and Campus Life; La Jerne Cornish, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs; Rosanna Ferro, vice president in the Department of Student Affairs and Campus Life; William Guerrero, vice president in the Department of Finance and Administration; Robert Wagner, executive director of Strategic Communications; and Nicole Eversley Bradwell, interim vice president and director of admission. Sean Eversley Bradwell, director of the Center for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Social Change, planned to attend but could not due to illness. In total, there were nine community members in attendance as well.
Freshman Sebastian Chavez, who did not attend the previous events on the topic, said he wanted to know what the administrators in attendance had to say about the video. Going around a set of two tables pushed together that people in attendance were seated around, the administrators' reactions to the video was a mix of shock, surprise and disappointment.
Chavez said he is worried about what the community will do when racist language is used again. He also said that the lack of students at the event did not put him at ease while talking to the administration members who attended the discussion.
Nicole Bradwell said that after the video surfaced, she knew she had work to do as an admissions director, as prospective students may have questions about the video. She said she thinks mistakes like the one made by Khemlani can and should be forgiven.
Luca Maurer, director of the Center for LGBT Education, Outreach and Services, said he responded to the video with disappointment, and said he tried to help students by providing feedback and counseling.
Cornish said she expected more people to show up to the discussion based on the attendance at the previous discussions and one held by Sean Bradwell, but said she understands why more did not come.
Collado said it is difficult for the college to prepare for another video to come out and that when it happens, the community must come together to discuss where the college should go next.


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Alliance football league moves title game to Frisco, Texas
By BARRY WILNER - Apr. 11, 2019 08:55 AM EDT
The Alliance of American Football is moving its championship game from Las Vegas to Frisco, Texas.
The new eight-team spring league, which plays its seventh set of games this weekend, said Wednesday that the April 27 title match will switch to The Ford Center at the Star, which is owned by Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys and is the indoor practice arena for the team.
"I am a big fan of The Alliance," Jones said. "They are the first high-quality alternative football league to come along in a long time. The championship being live in prime time on CBS and the league's success in drawing good crowds in Texas means this will be a great event for the fans of the Dallas/Fort Worth area."
Originally, the title game was set for Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, an aging college facility. But when Tom Dundon, owner of the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes, joined the Alliance last month as chairman, he helped arrange for the championship game's move to Texas during a meeting with Jones at the NFL combine.
Fans who purchased tickets to the game in Las Vegas will receive full refunds.
Pro Football Hall of Fame executive Bill Polian and TV-film producer Charlie Ebersol are co-founders of the Alliance, whose games have been televised by CBS, CBS Sports Network, Turner Sports and NFL Network.
"To have the championship in the Dallas Cowboys' facility immediately following the NFL draft was an opportunity we could not pass up," Ebersol said, noting that the Alliance's San Antonio franchise has been one of its most popular. "The reception we have received in Texas has been tremendous, in many ways exceeding our expectations, and holding the biggest game of our inaugural season there will be an incredible experience for players, fans and the league. When this idea came up, we spoke with our Vegas partners ... to explain why we thought the move was ultimately in the best interest of the league, and they were understanding. Las Vegas and Sam Boyd have been phenomenal partners and we look forward to bringing many more future events to the city."
One of the AAF's long-term goals would include an affiliation with the NFL. Having Jones, one of the NFL's most powerful owners, in its corner can't hurt the Alliance.
Jones plans to attend the title game after finishing his work as general manager of the Cowboys as the three-day draft ends earlier that Saturday.
"Yes I do. Just as soon as we reach an agreement with our last undrafted free agent," he said. "Don't want to miss out on a Tony Romo.
"I watch the games. I'm a fan. I have been very impressed with the Alliance. The quality of football has exceeded our expectations, and the reception among the fans and the television viewers has been encouraging. There are few football minds I respect as much as Bill Polian, and he has delivered.
"I don't know what the future holds with respect to a potential relationship between the Alliance and the NFL, but they have certainly done a great job of laying the groundwork for players, coaches, officials, executives, and technology to get developed. I always say, what is good for the game of football is good for all of us. It floats all boats."
More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/tag/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL


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[Book; Limited Edition; Senhouse copy; HEAVILY ANNOTATED LIST] Bentley's Standard Novel Series
Michael Sadleir
"Printed in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Colophon, April 1932"
Cloth-backed boards, [16]pp. + frontis., 4to, edges and corners rubbed, sl hinge strain, Title on upper cover, frontis (illustration of Bentley bindings), pages within red borders. This is an offprint (no. 44 of 50 copies only) of Sadleir's essay in "The Colophon" in 1932, which later appeared in a slightly revised form in "Nineteenth-Century Fiction", vol.II, revisions of "style rather than content". This copy was apparently acquired by Roger Senhouse, co-owner of Secker & Warburg, in 1936 (according to a note by Alex Fothergill, bookseller, former owner). Senhouse has enclosed various cuttings from "The Times", notably Sadleir's obituary, with his MS. note, "He had an operation for cancer of the tongue in 1956 [...] John Carter must in all decency write afteer the Mem[orial Service". (He does indeed add Carter's note on "sadleir the book collector and bibliographer". There is also a letter dated Jan. 1965 from 'Eric' concerning the transfer of five cases of books - almost certainly Senhouse's Bentley Collection, saying, "Might we ask you [...] not to mention the passage of these books to anyone: especially not to John Carter or Dudley Massey [...". The most interesting aspect of this copy is the meticulous listing by Senhouse, in extensive pencilled marginalia, reflecting his own collection of Bentley's Novels. Senhouse appears to have owned at least two-thirds of the 126 titles on Sadleir's list, and has added notes on variant bindings and paginations to many, creating a significant research base. No copy listed on COPAC/WorldCat.
Pamphlets and Books
Book Trade History
Printing History
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RICHARD M. FORD


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Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | Main
Criminal Minds (2005–2020) is an American television show, airing on CBS, about an elite squad of FBI profilers that analyzes the country's most twisted criminal minds and anticipates their next move before they strike again.
1 The Job [11.01]
2 The Witness [11.02]
3 Til Death Do Us Part [11.03]
4 Outlaw [11.04]
5 The Night Watch [11.05]
6 Pariahville [11.06]
7 Target Rich [11.07]
8 Awake [11.08]
9 Internal Affairs [11.09]
10 Future Perfect [11.10]
11 Entropy [11.11]
12 Drive [11.12]
13 The Bond [11.13]
14 Hostage [11.14]
15 A Badge and a Gun [11.15]
16 Derek [11.16]
17 The Sandman [11.17]
18 A Beautiful Disaster [11.18]
19 Tribute [11.19]
20 Inner Beauty [11.20]
21 Devil's Backbone [11.21]
22 The Storm [11.22]
The Job [11.01][edit]
Aaron Hotchner: "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Aristotle
Penelope Garcia: "Courage is grace under pressure." Ernest Hemingway
The Witness [11.02][edit]
Derek Morgan: "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." Tony Robbins
David Rossi: "The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence." Paul Auster
Til Death Do Us Part [11.03][edit]
Tara Lewis: "And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course." Khalil Gibran's The Prophet
David Rossi: Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, "I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Outlaw [11.04][edit]
Spencer Reid: "All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation." W. H. Auden
The Night Watch [11.05][edit]
Spencer Reid: "Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night." J.M. Barrie
Tara Lewis: A Spanish proverb says, "More grows in the garden, than the gardener knows he has planted."
Pariahville [11.06][edit]
Derek Morgan: "I swear, from the bottom of my heart, I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast who nobody wants." E.M. Forster
Tara Lewis: "To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do, therefore, is to strive and persevere and never give up." Dalai Lama XIV
Target Rich [11.07][edit]
Aaron Hotchner: "We are all sharks, circling, and waiting for traces of blood to appear in the water." Alan Clark
David Rossi: "To a father, nothing is dearer than a daughter." Euripides
Awake [11.08][edit]
Jennifer Jareau: "You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind." Mahatma Gandhi
Jennifer Jareau: "Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death." Coco Chanel
Internal Affairs [11.09][edit]
Aaron Hotchner: "The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality, that we have to contend." Marcus Tullius Cicero
Future Perfect [11.10][edit]
Aaron Hotchner: "The clock talked loud. I threw it away. It scared me when it talked." Tillie Olsen
Aaron Hotchner: "The first condition of immortality is death." Stanislaw Lec
Entropy [11.11][edit]
Spencer Reid: "Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to struggle against entropy." Vaclav Havel
Drive [11.12][edit]
Spencer Reid: "To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt
Aaron Hotchner: "A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life." Oscar Wilde
The Bond [11.13][edit]
Aaron Hotchner: "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." Honoré de Balzac
Tara Lewis: "The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation." James E. Faust
Hostage [11.14][edit]
David Rossi: "By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound." Angelus Silesius
Aaron Hotchner: "Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice." Samuel Johnson
A Badge and a Gun [11.15][edit]
Derek Morgan: "The darkness always lies." Anthony Liccione
Jennifer Jareau: "You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them." Amy Tan
Derek [11.16][edit]
Morgan: I'm scared, Pop. I can't feel anything. Pop, I'm scared.
Hank Morgan: Dying is easy. You know what's hard? Not being there for your son.
The Sandman [11.17][edit]
Derek Morgan: "Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth." Peter Ustinov
Derek Morgan: "Lucky I'm sane after all I've been through. Life's been good to me so far." Joe Walsh
A Beautiful Disaster [11.18][edit]
Derek Morgan: As a good friend of mine said, "Every ending is also a beginning. We just don't know it at the time." I'd like to believe she's right.
Tribute [11.19][edit]
Emily Prentiss: "Originality is nothing but judicious imitation." Voltaire
Penelope Garcia: "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." Helen Keller
Inner Beauty [11.20][edit]
David Rossi: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." James Baldwin
David Rossi: "Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." St. Augustine
Devil's Backbone [11.21][edit]
Aaron Hotchner: "Don't you know there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to take off his mask?" Søren Kierkegaard
Tara Lewis: "No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself." John Steinbeck
The Storm [11.22][edit]
Tara Lewis: "The sea is dangerous, and its storms terrible. But these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore." Ferdinand Magellan
Aaron Hotchner: "The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Mark Smalley is Founder of Betanomics.asia and R1.my.
Betanomics is an Asia-wide project to help envision, create, and sustain an online decentralized economy throughout the region and beyond.
Their team is a small collective of open source admirers and economic enthusiasts who are fascinated by digital currencies and the potential they bring for new opportunities. Their mission is to help people exchange goods and services more freely than ever thought possible — and to do it with complete transparency.
R1 DOT MY Sdn Bhd is a newly formed company that was incorporated in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in January of 2012. They have been working on several highly disruptive MongoDB (NoSQL) web-based products for 12 months prior to their incorporation and are now seeking investment that will help them to bring these products to market. These products include MongoPress and MongoKong.
Mark has been living in Malaysia since 1997 surrounded by finance from a young age through family ties to equity fund management and other financial web-based services and solutions. He's been a freelancer, founder, and innovator. He is most passionate about the ideals of Open Source technologies, and evangelizes their use and philosophical implications at every opportunity he gets.
He started with web technologies from a designer's perspective and considers user experience to be extremely important, which may have led him to win an award at Mongo SV in Silicon Valley for MongoPress; the NoSQL CMS. With over 5 years of experience in the financial sector and 15 years of design and development experience building custom made software for banks and other institutions, he is finally in a position to share his knowledge. Over the past year or so he has been a passionate supporter of community growth, leading to the organization of the Kuala Lumpur MongoDB User Group — as well as NoSQL Asia.
More recently, Mark has grown incredibly interested in cryptographic currencies and has helped to establish Betanomics.asia in order to promote and education in the region.
Watch Mark Smalley — MongoDB (Webcamp KL CMS Battle 2011). Read With Data as a Commodity, Wealth is an Illusion: Big Data in Bitcoin — Are we at the Brink of an Economical Fork where Data is King?, Betanomics: Fighting Corruption through Decentralization, Betanomics: A Tale of Two Economies, and Introducing Bitcoin: The (Mostly) Visual-Guide to Cryptographic Currencies. Read his LinkedIn profile. Follow his Twitter feed.


1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: ZZ-JFS-V2, ZZ-JFS-3/J2.
JAERI Fast Reactor Group Constants System.
NUCLIDES: Be, B-10, B-11, C, O, Na, Al, Si, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Mo, Th-232, U-233, U-234, U-235, U-236, U-238, Pu-239, Pu-240, Pu-241, Pu-242, Am-241, fission products of U-235, and fission products of Pu-239.
WEIGHTING SPECTRUM: The cross-section adjustment has been made by using an auxiliary equation for simultaneous evaluations for U-235, U-238, and Pu-239.
NUCLIDES: H-1, He-4, Be-9, B-10, B-11, C-12, N-14, O-16, Na-23, Al-27, Si, Ar, Ti, V, Cr, Mn-55, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zr, Nb-93, Mo, Eu-151, Eu-153, Gd, Gd-155, Gd-156, Gd-157, Gd-158, Gd-160, Ta-181, W, Th-228, Th-230, Th-232, Th-233, Th-234, Pa-233, U-233, U-234, U-235, U-236, U-238, Np-237, Np-239, Pu-236, Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-240, Pu-241, Pu-242, Am-241, Am-242m, Am-242g, Am-243, Cm-242, Cm-243, Cm-244, Cm-245 and 12 LFPs for 4 mother nuclides (U-235, U-238, Pu-239 and Pu-241) and 3 burnup days (180, 1080 and 1800).
WEIGHTING SPECTRUM: the collision density spectrum for a typical large LMFBR core spectrum is used as the weighting function.
ZZ-JFS-3/J2: To improve fast reactor group constant set JFS-3-J2 to be applicable for high burnup reactor calculation, burnup depending lumped FP group cross sections for mother fission isotopes of U-235, U-238, Pu-239 and Pu-241 have been generated by using 155 FP nuclides of JENDL-2 and ENDF/B-V data. The group constants for minor actinides such as Np, Am, and Cm have been produced on the basis of the JENDL-2 data, to be used for TRU-transmutation calculations. This library is designed for JAERI fast reactor analysis and design code system. This library contains the 70 group constants with quarter-lethargy width for the following 59 nuclides and 12 lumped fission products: H-1, He-4, Be-9, B-10, B-11, C-12, N-14, O-16, Na-23, Al-27, Si, Ar, Ti, V, Cr, Mn-55, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zr, Nb-93, Mo, Eu-151, Eu-153, Gd, Gd-155, Gd-156, Gd-157, Gd-158, Gd-160, Ta-181, W, Th-228, Th-230, Th-232, Th-233, Th-234, Pa-233, U-233, U-234, U-235, U-236, U-238, Np-237, Np-239, Pu-236, Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-240, Pu-241, Pu-242, Am-241, Am-242m, Am-242g, Am-243, Cm-242, Cm-243, Cm-244, Cm-245 and 12 LFPs for 4 mother nuclides (U-235, U-238, Pu-239 and Pu-241) and 3 burnup days (180, 1080 and 1800).
ZZ-JFS-V2: 25-group constants in ABBN energy structure and 70-group constants in JFS energy structure for the following elements: Be, B-10, B-11, C, O, Na, Al, Si, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Mo, Th-232, U-233, U-234, U-235, U-236, U-238, Pu-239, Pu-240, Pu-241, Pu-242, Am-241, fission products of U-235, and fission products of Pu-239.
ZZ-JFS-3/J2: Group constants are generated with the data processing code system TIMS-PGG. In this code, the collision density spectrum for a typical large LMFBR core spectrum is used as the weighting function. The group constants in the unresolved resonance region are produced on the basis of the random sampling resonance generation method. The ultra-fine group calculation method is used for the resonance region.
The resonance shielding factors are tabulated for 8 background potential scattering cross sections (0, 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000 and 1000000 barns), 4 temperatures (300, 800, 2100, and 4500) and 4 resonance interface parameters.
ZZ-JFS-V2: The cross-section adjustment has been made by using an auxiliary equation for simultaneous evaluations for U-235, U-238, and Pu-239. For light and intermediate elements, the nuclear data for ENDF/B-IV were used.
JFS3CARD : JFS-3 user library is tranferred from binary to card mode.
JFS3BINA : JFS-3 user library is tranferred from binary to card mode.
DUMP70 : Tables of group constants are printed out.
EXPANDA-G-S: One-dimensional diffusion code uses the JFS-3-J2 library.
SLAROM-3 : Heterogeneous cell calculation code uses the JFS-3-J2 library.
JAERI Fast Reactor Group Constants Set, Version 2.
JFS-V2 Utility Codes - User's Manual.
Keywords: JAERI fast x-sec data set, data library, fast neutrons, fast reactors, group constants, multigroup.


Although only measuring 700 metres, this trail is worth the 20 minutes it takes to complete. It exhibits some of the gorgeous Klein Karoo vegetation, as well as a number of local bird species. It is particularly abundant in flora, which is quite unusual for this part of the country. The Guarrie Trail is easy to complete, making it perfect for families with children, or those that are less fit.
The Spekboom Trail is one of five short day trails ranging from 0.7 km to 14.4 km in the Gamkaberg Nature Reserve. These routes take walkers through typical succulent Karoo, subtropical thicket and evergreen forest in the Tierkloof gorge.
Piet Barbet Trail takes hikers through the subtropical thicket of the Gamkaberg Nature Reserve. This picturesque area in the Klein Karoo is within the Cape Floral Kingdom, which is one of the botanical wonders of the world. The trail takes you through vegetation that is unmatched in its plant diversity, compared with other arid regions.
The 2.5 km Mousebird Trail takes hikers through Succulent Karoo and Subtropical thicket in the Gamkaberg Nature Reserve. This part of the Klein Karoo is within the Cape Floral Kingdom, and is considered one of the botanical wonders of the world, unequalled in its plant diversity compared with other arid regions.


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A referendum on whether Italy should leave the euro currency is not in the governing coalition's contract and will not be pursued, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the 5-Star Movement Luigi Di Maio said in a published interview.
Assogestioni expected to release June fund flows data.
Treasury sells BTP and CCTeu bonds. Subscriptions close at 0900 GMT.
The government will launch soon a new tender to find a partner for the Italian airline, Transport Deputy Minister Armando Siri told Il Messaggero on Monday. The newspaper said the tender would take place in September and the state will keep 51 percent in the carrier. Alitalia could sign a partnership with Ferrovie dello Stato or Poste Italiane or Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, the paper said.
The retail division CheBanca! will reach 1 million of clients by 2020, CEO Gian Luca Sichel told L'Economia/Il Corriere della Sera.
The ship building company would be interested in ThyssenKrupp's submarine unit if the German company decided to sell it, Fincantieri's CEO Giuseppe Bono told analysts on a post-results call, according to Il Sole 24 Ore on Saturday. (*) Italy and France are discussing about a cross shareholding of 10 percent between Fincantieri and Naval Group, Affari&Finanza/La Repubblica said on Monday.
The private broadcaster said on Friday its advertising revenues in Italy in the months between January and June rose 4 percent year-on year, lifted by the World Cup, despite posting a 43 percent drop in first-half net profit.
The company said first-half revenues from the pay-TV business fell to 267.1 million euros from 299.7 million euros, a slide showed.
Chief Financial Officer Marco Giordani said he expected performance in the second half of the year to be "certainly better" than in the first six months, also due to the agreement with Sky.
Giordani added that cash available at year-end would be distributed if no investments under discussion at the time.
Mediaset said the deal with Perform's DAZN would help retain pay-TV customers without any cost.
The broadcaster said it had terminated the contract with Fedele Confalonieri as an employee and manager but the latter would remain chairman of the company.
The Italian travel caterer cut its outlook for this year after restructuring charges and higher labour costs in North America dented its first-half results.
Italy's market regulator Consob is carrying out routine checks on Fiat Chrysler's share price performance and the way the company informed the market about the health crisis of its former CEO Sergio Marchionne, two sources close to the watchdog said on Friday.
The carmaker has called a shareholder meeting for Sept. 7 to vote on the proposed appointment of Michael Manley as executive director.
Various papers name Pietro Gorlier, head of parts maker Magneti Marelli, as a serious contender to succeed Alfredo Altavilla as head of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Ferrari are well placed to keep pushing in Formula One without late chairman Sergio Marchionne, even if his shoes are impossible to fill, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said on Friday.
The company has called a shareholder meeting for Sept. 7 to vote on the proposed appointment of Louis Camilleri as executive director.
The lender is seeking to sell a portfolio of 250 million euros worth of non-performing loans related to photovoltaic plants in Italy, Il Sole 24 Ore said on Saturday, adding the deal had attracted interest from financial parties and groups specialised in renewable energy. The paper names Luxemburg-based WRM and U.S. fund Fortress as possible interested parties.
Another deal on Intesa's table is the sale of a 250 million-euro portfolio of unlikely to pay loans, the paper added.
Board meeting on H1 results, followed by conference call (afternoon).
The company said on Saturday its board had met to evaluate the binding offer presented by Bain Capital Credit (BCC) regarding Trevi's equity and debt restructuring and identified some elements "to be further explored". The board has given a mandate to Chief Restructuring Office Sergio Iasi to verify whether the offer can be improved and whether conditions exist to engage in exclusive talks with BCC and start negotiations. The board has also decided to suspend the payment of interest on a bond issued on July interest on the bond issued on July 28, 2014.
Board meeting on H1 results, press release on July 31.
Trade ex-dividend of 0.06 euro per share.
Board meeting on H1 results: CALTAGIRONE EDITORE, CERVED GROUP followed by conference call, MOLMED .
Extraordinary shareholders' meeting: CALEIDO GROUP (0800 GMT), KI GROUP (0900 GMT).
The airline's consolidated net loss stood at 315.2 million euros in the first six months of the year, down from a loss of 527.6 million euros in the same period last year, Il Sole 24 Ore said on Saturday, citing an internal document.


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Emerging Market Risk Rises Following Turkish Lira, Chinese Yuan Deterioration
Peter Hanks, John Kicklighter,
USDTRY moved to an all-time high near 7.0 while USDCNH hit January 2017 highs this week
Emerging market currencies have suffered against the dollar, far outpacing any majors' losses
Investors' risk appetite remains volatile, and emerging markets remains particularly sensitive
Turkish Lira Shows the Emerging Market Spillover More Readily Than Chinese Yuan
The US and China have been embroiled in a steadily escalating trade wars for the past five months. Yet, the implications this economic conflict represents to the rest of the world seems to have been generally downplayed by global investors. Yet, new fronts in the United States' offensive against the emerging market have made it more difficult to overlook the pressures at hand. The deterioration of the Turkish Lira following the implementation of US tariffs spread to the euro on Friday August 10th, worrying market participants globally. Concern of contagion arose from the exposure of European banks to the Turkish economy. In particular, Spain, France, and Italy have the largest outstanding balances. In total, Europe is owed $194 billion from Turkey. And, while action from Turkish regulators and an investment pledge from Qatar has offered some hope of stability, the damage to investor complacency may already be done.
Source: BIS Statistics
Turkey Moves to Buoy the Lira
Since its initial tumble two weeks ago, Turkey has moved to stem losses for the Lira. Battling an ailing currency, Turkish regulators have set the leverage ratio in the lira FX market to 1:1. The move immediately cut some losses for the currency as the USD/TRY currency pair moved below 6.5. Following the announcement, Qatar announced a pledge to invest $15 billion in Turkey. The lifeline added further strength to the lira, pushing it below 6.0. However, through Friday August 17th, the Turkish courts rejected calls to release the American pastor Andrew Brunson at the center of this standoff, checking the next move back to the US government which said Thursday it was ready with new sanctions is compromise was not found.
The Battle of Higher Returns and Higher Risk
Emerging markets, in part due to their higher interest rates, offer investors the prospect of high returns should they be willing to accept elevated risks. The opportunity for higher growth is quite an attractive prospect for many investors as well as banks, especially considering the stable economic conditions the world has experienced in recent years. The economic climate encouraged many European banks to confidently increase their exposure to emerging markets like Turkey and China.
In contrast to the 'developing' world, many of the developed economies still maintain record low interest rates, attempting to spur or maintain their current levels of economic growth. However, with a benchmark like the US moving to normalize its benchmark rates and other major leaders on the cusp of following suit, emerging markets may steadily lose attractiveness as rate differential decrease while the skew in risk grows.
Evidence of this yield rebalance are showing through as over the past year, the dollar has shown considerable strength particularly relative to emerging market counterparts. In the charts below, the performance of the major currencies and notable emerging market currencies relative to the Dollar is depicted.
Chart 1: Currency Performance Denoted in US Dollars, 3-Month
Chart 3: Currency Performance Denoted in US Dollars, 12-Month
Emerging Markets Suffer Losses despite the Promise of High Return
With a few minor exceptions, emerging market currencies have been battered during the last twelve months, with the most recent Lira developments exacerbating losses. The South African Rand for example has seen considerable weakness on the back of the Turkish currency's drop, most likely due to the country's similar size and profile, since the two countries do not have significant exposure to each other.
The longer time-frame also showcases when the Ruble's losses started to accumulate. Due to tariffs and sanctions, the Russian Ruble felt serious pressure in the past 3 to 6 month range – though it has not seen the same scale of loss as Lira or arguably the Rand. The resilience of the Ruble is likely due to its large volume of energy exports, consistently providing the nation with a steady stream of income despite geopolitical concerns.
Yet the Ruble may fall under further pressure in the coming weeks after US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Sigal Mandelker said the US "will not hesitate to bring economic pain to Russia if its conduct does not change." Should the US impose further restrictions on Russia, the Ruble would undoubtedly feel significant pressure, adding to the broader turmoil in emerging markets.
The Chinese Yuan has similar slid in the past weeks as the United States presses on with import taxes targeting specifically China. Yet, like many emerging markets in Asia, the Yuan has suffered less than other geographical regions in just this past week due in part to markedly fewer contagion fears.
Developed Economies also Weakened Versus the Greenback
Developed markets have also lost ground to the greenback during this time. The Japanese Yen and Swiss Franc have performed admirably, due to their stability and relative safe-haven status. The two havens received a boost after the recent emerging market contagion fears, offering a rebound from some of their losses earlier in the year.
US Dollar Basket Price Chart, Year-to-Date: 24-Hour Time Frame
Still, the dollar remains on top for the time being with multiple tailwinds. One such tailwind is the hawkish rhetoric touted by the Federal Reserve. With future rate hikes, investors will receive even higher returns in an effectively risk-free environment. At its current benchmark range from 1.75 to 2.00 percent, the Dollar already represents a higher yield than the traditional carry currencies amongst the majors – the Australian and New Zealand Dollars. It would take far more hawkishness than the Fed is likely willing to entertain for the US to see baseline returns at levels comparable to the average for emerging markets. Yet, how much will the prospect of 'safety' count when determining appetite for returns? If volatility persists or global capital markets outright decline, the stability factor will matter far more than a modest yield advantage. In that scenario, the Dollar may very well rise, but emerging markets would almost certainly face further capital outflows as investors look to protect their funds.
--Written by Peter Hanks, Junior Analyst and John Kicklighter, Chief Currency Strategist for DailyFX.com
Peter Hanks, Junior Analyst
John Kicklighter, Chief Currency Strategist
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Drink-drive ban for Reading FC striker
Reading FC striker Mathieu Manset has been fined £1,400 and banned from the road for a year after refusing a breath test.
Reading FC striker Mathieu Manset has been fined £1,400 and banned from the road for a year after refusing a breath test
The Royals footballer was arrested on suspicion of drink driving in Southampton following a pre-Christmas bash on December 18.
He gave one sample after being stopped by officers on The Avenue but became angry and refused to take the required second test at the police station, Southampton Magistrates Court heard.
Appearing at court on Wednesday (11) the 22-year-old Frenchman admitted the charge of failing without reasonable excuse to provide a specimen of breath for analysis.
Jonathan Driver, defending, said Manset, of Michael's Chase, Caversham, was "agitated and confused" at the police station about having to give two breath tests and matters got "lost in translation".
He told the court Manset had drunk two glasses of wine and two of Champagne.
His initial breath test recorded 76 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
Manset was fined £1,400 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £15 victim surcharge. He was also banned from driving for a year.
Reading signed Manset for two-and-a-half years from Hereford United for an undisclosed fee in January, last year.
He began his career in his native France with Le Havre, before being recommended to Hereford in summer 2009.
But recently the powerhouse striker has struggled to make an impact with manager Brian McDermott saying in November he needed to work harder at his game.
Manset will now be unable to drive around in his expensive new motor. Recently the powerful striker splashed out on a brand new white Mercedes E-Class Cabriolet worth around £40,000.


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Hearts set on a tribute to Windberg
Former volleyball coach, Kylie Windberg, was honored at the annual cancer night volleyball game.
Erin Kremers, Staff Writer|November 6, 2019
Pink jerseys were worn to support the fight against cancer during the homecoming volleyball game.
On Thursday, October 3rd, the Cannon Falls volleyball team faced the Zumbrota-Mazeppa Cougars in their annual Fight Cancer night, but this year was a little different for these girls. They played honoring former coach, Kylie Winberg. "It was an emotional night for not only our coaches, but for our players too. It brought back a lot of memories most of us hadn't even thought of in almost a year," said varsity coach, Melissa Huseth.
The team started accepting donations for Winberg's family as soon as the c-squad game had started. There was a guessing the candy in the jar game, a dash for cash, and a serving game throughout the night; however, the biggest part about that night were the words and actions put forth by the whole program.
At the very front of the bench, a picture of Winberg was propped up, so even though she wasn't with them physically, it felt like she was. The words said by the coaches before the varsity game resonated with a lot of people in the crowd. Silence filled the gymnasium when the coaches started their heartfelt speeches, paying tribute to not only their fellow coach, but a dear friend.
"Before the game, we were all talking about how we wanted to play for Kylie and do the best we could for her and her family.""
— Kyra Schoenfelder
"Before the game, we were all talking about how we wanted to play for Kylie and do the best we could for her and her family." said freshman, Kyra Schoenfelder. "The whole thing meant a lot to me. I had her as a coach and a teacher. It was really sad for me, but I'm glad I got to play in her honor."
Though the team didn't pull out a win, they still gave it their all. They felt disappointed after the loss but proud they got to play for Winberg. The team hung up the "you matter" sign they made for the night in the locker room for the remainder of the season as a reminder that it doesn't matter your role on the team: once a bomber always a bomber.