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Shadow Government: A decade later and the Iraq debate is still contaminated with myths A decade later and the Iraq debat...
A decade later and the Iraq debate is still contaminated with myths
Here on the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, I wonder how long it will be before we can discuss the war free from the contamination of myths. It may be sooner than many myth-purveyors expect. Just listen to this lecture by Mel Leffler, one of the leading historians of American diplomacy. He has been ...
By Peter Feaver
| March 17, 2013, 6:37 PM
Here on the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, I wonder how long it will be before we can discuss the war free from the contamination of myths. It may be sooner than many myth-purveyors expect. Just listen to this lecture by Mel Leffler, one of the leading historians of American diplomacy. He has been a harsh critic of Bush-era diplomacy and his speech does accept some of the conventional critique (specifically about the "hubris" of the Bush administration), but his analysis is far more balanced than the conventional wisdom on the topic. All in all, Leffler's analysis is a promising example of myth-busting.
For my part, the myths that get thrown at me most often have to do with why the war happened in the first place. Here are five of the most pervasive myths:
1. The Bush administration went to war against Iraq because it thought (or claimed to think) Iraq had been behind the 9/11 attacks. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the Bush Administration did explore the possibility that Hussein might have collaborated with al Qaeda on the attacks. Vice President Dick Cheney (along with some officials in the secretary of defense's office) in particular believed this hypothesis had some merit, and in the early months gave considerable weight to some tantalizing evidence that seemed to support it. However, by the fall of 2002 when the administration was in fact selling the policy of confronting Hussein, the question of a specific link to 9/11 was abandoned and Cheney instead emphasized the larger possibility of collaboration between Iraq and al Qaeda. We now know that those fears were reasonable and supported by the evidence captured in Iraq after the invasion. This has been documented extensively through the work of the Conflict Records Research Center (CRRC), which examined the captured files of the Hussein regime. A 2012 International Studies Association panel sponsored by the CRRC on "Saddam and Terrorism" was devoted to this topic and spent quite a bit of time demonstrating how those who insist that there were no links whatsoever simply rely on a poorly worded sentence referencing "no smoking gun" of a "direct connection" in the executive summary of the 2007 "Iraqi Perspectives Project – Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Documents" report and ignore the evidence of links and attempted connections uncovered in the report itself as well as subsequent work by the project.
2. The Bush administration went to war against Iraq because it wanted to forcibly democratize Iraq. The administration was, in the end, committed to using force to defend the democratization project in Iraq but this myth has the logical sequence out of order. The correct sequence, as Leffler and myriad memoirs and contemporaneous reporting demonstrate, is this: (1) Bush was committed to confronting Iraq because of the changed risk calculus brought about by 9/11, which heightened our sensitivity to the nexus of WMD and terrorism (believing that state sponsors of terrorism who had WMD would be a likely pathway by which terrorist networks like al Qaeda could secure WMD); (2) Bush was also committed not to making the mistake of Desert Storm, namely stopping the war with Hussein still in power and concluded that confronting Hussein must end with either full capitulation by Hussein or regime change through war; (3) given regime change, the best option for the new Iraq was one based on pluralism and representative government rather than a "man on horseback" new dictator to take Hussein's place. To be sure, the Bush administration greatly underestimated the difficulty of the democratization path, but democratization was not the prime motivation — confronting the WMD threat was. Democratization was the consequence of that prime motivation.
3. The "real" motivation behind the Iraq war was the desire to steal Iraqi oil, or boost Halliburton profits, or divert domestic attention from the Enron scandal, or pay off the Israel lobby, or exact revenge on Hussein for his assassination attempt on President George H. W. Bush. These conspiracy theories are ubiquitous on the far left (and right) fringes, and some of them were endorsed by mainstream figures such as President Obama himself. All of them seem impervious to argument, evidence, and reason. The absence of evidence is taken as proof of the strength of the conspiracy. Contrary evidence — eg., that Israel was more concerned about the threat from Iran than the threat from Iraq — is dismissed. Mel Leffler's lecture on Iraq is a bracing tonic of reason that rebuts many of these nutty charges, but I suppose true believers will never be convinced.
4. What Frank Harvey calls the "neoconism" myth — that the Iraq war was forced upon the country by a cabal of neoconservatives, who by virtue of their political skill and ruthless disregard for truth were able to "manipulate the preferences, perceptions and priorities of so many other intelligent people…" who otherwise would never have supported the Iraq war. Frank Harvey painstakingly reconstructs the decision process in 2002 and documents all of the ways that the Bush administration took steps contrary to the "neoconism" thesis — eg., working through the United Nations and seeking Congressional authorization rather than adopting the unilateralist/executive-only approach many Iraq hawks were urging. (Leffler makes similar points in his lecture). Harvey goes on to make an intriguing case that had Al Gore won the election in 2000, he would have likely authorized the Iraq war just as Bush did. Harvey has not fully convinced me of the latter, but he usefully rebuts much sloppy mythologizing about Gore's foreign policy views, documenting how Gore was, in fact, the most hawkish of officials on Iraq in the Clinton administration. At a minimum, Harvey proves that the Iraq war owed more to the Clinton perspective than it did to then-candidate George W. Bush's worldview as expressed during the 2000 campaign. The neoconism myth serves a politically useful function of fixing all blame on a specific group of Republicans, but, as Harvey shows, the truth is not quite so simplistic.
5. Bush "lied" in making the case for war. I have addressed this myth before. It is a staple of the anti-Iraq/anti-Bush commentary — and not just of the pseudonymous trolls in blog comment sections. John Mearsheimer, one of the most influential security studies academics, has written a book built around the claim that leaders regularly lie and that Bush in particular lied about Iraq. Mearsheimer claims "four key lies," each one carefully rebutted by Mel Leffler.
The first is the question of links between Iraq and al Qaeda. As I noted above, while the Iraq files contain no "smoking gun" of an active operational link, the record includes ample evidence of overtures originating from either side — each pursuing precisely the k
ind of enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend alliance of convenience that Bush worried about.
The second is the Bush administration statements of certainty about Iraq's WMD programs. It turns out the Bush administration officials were wrong on many of those particulars and should have been less certain about how they were reading the intelligence, but there is no compelling evidence that they knew they were reading the intelligence incorrectly, which is what is logically required to prove the charge of "lying" rather than being "mistaken."
The third is the charge that Bush claimed Saddam was behind the attacks of 9/11. Here Mearsheimer ignores the explicit and repeated explanation by President Bush (and countless administration figures) about what they meant — namely that the links they saw were (i) how 9/11 had changed their risk calculus and (ii) how terrorist groups and states sponsors of terror should be treated as part and parcel of the same war. Again, the Bush administration may or may not have been wrong to view things that way but these are disputes of reasoning and policy, not fact.
The fourth is the charge that Bush "lied" about sincerely pursuing a diplomatic solution short of war in 2002-2003. In fact, Bush was committed to a final resolution of WMD issue, which he believed would require either abject capitulation by Hussein or forcible regime change. Bush was not open to a wide range of face-saving and half-way diplomatic measures, but he never claimed to be. In other words, Bush was not willing to accept diplomatic solutions that others might have accepted, but he did go to great lengths to secure the diplomatic solution he was willing to accept but Saddam was not.
When one examines the historical record more fairly, as Leffler does, the "lying" myth collapses. This doesn't absolve the Bush administration of blame, but it does mean that those who allege "lying" are themselves as mistaken as are the targets of their critique.
All of these myths add up to the uber-myth: That the arguments made in favor of the Iraq war were all wrong and the arguments made against the Iraq war were all right. Sometimes this is recast as "those who supported the Iraq war were always wrong and those who opposed the Iraq war were always right." Of course, many of the arguments made in favor of the Iraq war were wrong. Hussein had not yet made by 2002 the progress in reviving his WMD programs that most intelligence services thought he had made. Many specific claims about specific WMD programs turned out to be not true.
On the other hand, many of the arguments made by those who opposed the Iraq war turned out not to be correct, either. For instance, Steve Walt cites favorably a New York Times advertisement paid for by a group of academics (virtually all of whom I consider to be friends, by the way). Some of their arguments were prescient, more prescient than the contrary claims by war supporters — the warning about the need to occupy Iraq for many years, for example — but others not so much. It turns out, for instance, that there is considerable evidence of Iraq-al Qaeda overtures and attempted coordination, precisely what the Bush administration worried about. Likewise, contrary to what the war critics warned, neither Iraq's arsenal of chemical and biological weapons nor their skill at urban warfare posed much of an obstacle to the invasion — of course, insurgency tactics such as urban warfare did pose serious obstacles to the occupation and reconstruction phase of the conflict.
Moreover, Walt and the others he cites favorably almost to a person opposed the surge in 2007, and while some of them now admit that they were wrong about this others still cling to the thoroughly rebutted view that the surge was irrelevant to the change in Iraq's security trajectory. (Ironically, the debate over the surge may be where the grip of mythology lingers the longest. See how Rajiv Chandrasekaran, in an otherwise sensible piece of myth-busting, makes the error of claiming that it is a myth to believe that the surge worked. I have already answered the argument put forward by Chandrasekaran and others and so won't take the time to do it again.)
The point is not that Walt and others were fools or crazy to doubt that the surge would work — on the contrary, they were squarely within the mainstream of conventional wisdom at the time. Rather, the point is that neither side in the Iraq debate has had a monopoly on wisdom.
I know I haven't had a monopoly on wisdom either and, indeed, my own personal views on Iraq have evolved over time. I opposed putting the Iraq issue on the front-burner in the 2001-2002 time frame and refused to sign a petition arguing for that because I thought the higher priority involved chasing AQ out of ungoverned areas. When the Bush administration did put the Iraq issue on the front-burner over the summer of 2002, I found the arguments of Bush opponents to be over-drawn and unconvincing — in particular, the anti-Bush position seemed not to take seriously enough the fact that the U.N. inspections regime had collapsed nor that the sanctions regime was in the process of collapsing — and so I found myself often critiquing the critics. I found the Bush argument that Hussein was gaming the sanctions and poised to redouble his WMD efforts when the sanctions finally collapsed to be a more plausible account of where things were heading absent a confrontation (and as we now know from the interviews with Hussein after his capture that was exactly what he was planning to do).
However, as the march to war accelerated in February 2003, I was one of those who recommended to the administration that the deadline be extended in the hopes of getting yet another UNSC resolution, one that would provide a united international front at the outset of the war. The administration rejected that course, and, in retrospect, I doubt whether what I was calling for was achievable.
Since the war started, I have had my fair share of criticisms for how the war has been handled, but I have always supported the position that having invaded, we now had to succeed. I supported the surge, and I opposed the Obama administration's decision to walk away from the commitment for a small stay-behind force that would be a makeweight in internal and regional balances of power.
I feel more confident about the positions I took on Iraq later in the war than the ones at the outset. But more importantly, I am increasingly confident that the judgment of history will be more nuanced and less simplistic than the judgment of contemporary critics of the war. And, hopefully, less contaminated by myth.
Peter D. Feaver is a professor of political science and public policy and Bass Fellow at Duke University, and director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy. He is co-editor of Elephants in the Room.
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I was born in a family of eight with me being second to the youngest. My father is a hard-working man, a plumber with no permanent employment while my mother stays at home. We live in the city where everything is expensive. Despite all the hard work, my family's income sometimes is just not enough. It even came to a point where my parents decided to borrow money with a gigantic 20% interest just to sustain our needs and schooling. That was our situation for many years.
During my 6th grade, I started to have an interest in computers. I was really fascinated by the things a computer can do. It was in high school when I dreamt of having a degree in IT and work as an IT guy. After finishing high school, with the help of my older siblings, I was fortunate enough to have a taste of college. Just a taste of college because I only enrolled to a 2-year computer course due to financial limitations and other factors. Thankfully, I was able to finish the said course.
After finishing the 2-year computer course, I looked for a job, not being choosy but there's hardly a job that is "friendly" with my educational attainment and also my personal limitations; that is, not working on the Sabbath and the Holy days.


CHICAGO, June 13 (Reuters) - U.S. soybean and wheat futures fell sharply on Wednesday, with wheat sinking 3.4 percent and soybean futures hitting their lowest in more than nine months.
Traders said that long liquidation by investment funds triggered the sell-off. Concerns about trade with China sparked the bearish wave in soybeans while wheat was ripe for a round of profit-taking after surging 3.9 percent on Tuesday.
At 11:57 a.m. CDT (1627 GMT), Chicago Board of Trade July wheat futures were 18-1/4 cents lower at $5.16-1/4 a bushel.
CBOT soybeans for July delivery were down 14-1/2 cents at $9.39-1/4 a bushel. The most-active contract hit its lowest since Aug. 31.
Soybean futures have fallen for seven of the last eight days, shedding 8.0 percent during that time.
CBOT July corn futures were 2-1/4 cents lower at $3.75-1/4 a bushel, with the weakness in wheat and soybeans spilling over into the corn market.
Private analytics firm Informa Economics cut its estimate of 2018 U.S. corn plantings to 88.706 million acres from 89.0 million acres.


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Home > ICT Jobs > Make Money Online > Message to School Drop-outs : Get into food Production and Become a Business Tycoon
Message to School Drop-outs : Get into food Production and Become a Business Tycoon
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Everything happens for a purpose. Some things do not happen the way we expect and when they happen that way, there are things we can do about it, but sometimes there's nothing we can do. We have to accept the fact that things have happened the way they have, and look for alternatives. A good philosophy to have is that when one door closes, another opens.
This time of the year there are thousands of young people whose future hangs in the air because they have been left out by the education system. Most of them have not been able to meet the academic requirements to pursue further education, while many have been cast aside due to other reasons.
Whatever the case may be, the dropouts' lives at the cross road. They and their parents can look for money to pursue studies through self sponsorship. Many will do this. But many are likely to roam the streets in frustration and hopelessnes.
As I was thinking about what is happening in the country, I was reminded of a story in the Bible. It is the story of Joseph.
Joseph's is a long story but what I would like to focus on is what he did in his position as Prime Minister of Egypt after 13 years of hardship including hatred and rejection from his family, being sold once by his blood brothers and sold again in Egypt's slave market, working as a slave in Potiphar's house, being falsely accused for rape, and being imprisoned in the dungeon of Egypt.
When he was put in charge of the country's Food Security Program, he collected excess food during the first 7 years of abundance. Then when the 7 years of famine came, he sold the food not only to the Egyptian people but also to surrounding nations.
In Genesis Chapter 47, the Bible says that Joseph took all the money in Egypt by selling food, until there was none left in the land (verse 14). When there was no money to be found, the people exchanged their animals for grain. When all the animals were sold, they sold their land, and ultimately themselves (verses 15-26).
The lesson here, which I believe is a message for drop outs, is that the wealth of Egypt and neighboring countries shifted to Pharaoh through Joseph's stewardship of FOOD in Egypt.
With PNG's ever increasing population, food and livestock production is going to become a lucrative business. Everywhere in the world, farmers are usually among the wealthiest people because they produce and supply what everyone eats. This includes the Prime Minister and politicians to highly educated bureaucrats to business people and down to the so-called grassroots.
If you are a drop out reading this, I encourage you to become a food producer. Plant Kaukau, potatoes or vegetables, or look after pigs and chickens. It will be hard work, and people will gossip about you being a dropout and tilling the land. But if you brush people's opinions aside and persist, you will make money. The money you make may look dirty because your hands are dirty, but it will have the same purchasing power as the 'clean' money earned by office workers.
If you take to heart what I am sharing and do what Joseph did, eventually you will end up with the money earned by your highly educated and highly paid school mates, because they cannot eat money; they eat food. Then with the money you make you can purchase livestock, and land, and even make educated people become your employees.
Start at home, on your own land, and make your way eventually into the city. One asset you have on your side is time. Follow this path and one day you can be one of PNG's tycoons.
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An American Housewife: Happy Thanksgiving! Traditional Pecan Pie and Blueberry Pie!
Happy Thanksgiving! Traditional Pecan Pie and Blueberry Pie!
Happy Thanksgiving to my readers and my family! Yesterday I made the pies for today and this year, we are just having 2 pies and neither are pumpkin. We are not hosting a large gathering, so two pies are sufficient and I went with two kinds that everyone loves; pecan and blueberry.
As a matter of fact, my future son-in-law apparently only likes my pecan pie - which is surprising because there isn't anything special about it. It's about as traditional 'made like great grandma used to make' as you can get. But last year there was a store bought pie and my pie both brought to one of their Thanksgiving get-togethers with friends and he and another guy ate the entire pecan pie I had made. They had one bite of the store bought and pushed it aside. I would have thought they would taste the same? Apparently not.
And my youngest daughter's favorite pies are apple or blueberry. I had a huge bag of frozen blueberries in the freezer so... blueberry it was!
Preheat the oven to 350. In a bowl combine the corn syrup, sugar, eggs, butter, salt and vanilla. Mix well. Pour filling in the crust and position the pecan halves around the pie in rows until you finish with one pecan half in the center. Bake in a gas oven approximately 50 minutes and in an electric oven about 1 1/4 hours. You can cover with foil if it is getting too brown on the edges for your tastes.
Mix the blueberries, lemon juice, flour, sugar and cinnamon together in a large bowl and then place in the bottom crust. Top with the cut up butter and then carefully place the top crust over and crimp or use a fork to seal the edges. Slice a pretty star shape on the top with a knife or fork to let steam escape. Optional: to sprinkle the top with sugar and/or cinnamon. Bake at 425 for 20 minutes and then lower the temperature to 350 for another 30-40 minutes. Cool.
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Early in my collecting days I purchased a small pottery cream jug with blue & white transfer decoration and a wonderful wicker replacement handle. I had not seen a repair quite like it before, woven, I believe, by a basket maker. Flash forward about 20 years when I was notified by one of my favorite dealers in the UK who offered me another jug with a similar woven handle. The photo he sent did not show the scale, so I had no idea what size the jug was. When an oversized parcel arrived a couple of weeks later, I unpacked what turned out to be a HUGE jug.
This Dutch shape pottery jug with blue and white transfer decoration and woven rattan replacement handle was made in England in the first quarter of the 1800s. Measuring 9.25 inches high and 12.5 inches wide from lip to handle, it is marked "Lasso" on the underside. It must have been much loved over the past 200 years, as is evident by the unusual replacement handle and large hole worn away on the bottom. Although unable to hold liquids today, this impressive jug and ultimate survivor still commands respect merely by sitting quietly on a shelf in my home.
This jug with similar form and decoration shows what the original handle on my jug may have looked like.
Yesterday I stopped by a local craft show in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania, and discovered Ellen McGinnis, a crafty lady who makes a form of contemporary make-do's. By pairing up unwanted single ceramic plates with glass candle stands and bases, she creates footed cake stands and serving bowls. Although not officially inventive repairs, they are a form of recycling that I feel have the same spirit as vintage make-do's.
This cut crystal compote from my collection has a do-it-yourself replacement base made from a discarded wooden spool, which has the same sensibility of Ellen's contemporary creations.


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namespace App\Console\Commands;

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class ParseBounces extends Command
{
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     * The name and signature of the console command.
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     * @var string
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    /**
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    public function handle()
    {
        Job::dispatchNow();
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Dongshankou () is an area in the Yuexiu District of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. The name "Dongshan" can trace back to Ming dynasty (14th–17th century). A eunuch named Wei Juan, who was an officer in Guangzhou in years of Chenghua of Ming dynasty, built a temple on a small hill in the east side of Guangzhou city to boast himself. Guangzhou people at that time often called the main small hill as "Shan" and called the hummocks around it as "Gang", so they named the temple "Dongshan Temple" (). After that, the surrounding area is called Dongshan.

History
According to the historic record, Dongshankou was the suburb area of Guangzhou city before Qing dynasty. With poor development and utilization, this wooded area was called "Jindongjiao" (), which means the Near Eastern suburbs. In the late Qing dynasty, as the modern industry began to grow up, Dongshankou met the unprecedented development opportunity. During the same period, the construction of Guangdong–Hankou Railway and Kowloon–Canton Railway promoted a rapid population growth in Guangzhou city. Therefore, Dongshankou became a hotspot of the development of public buildings and residential area. Under the Treaty of Wanghia, the Southern Baptist Convention bought lands on Miao Qian Xi Road, Xu Gu Yuan Road, Pei Zheng Road and Si Bei Tong Jin Street in Dongshankou and erected churches, schools and hospitals there. After World War I, some Overseas Chinese came back to Guangzhou and became the main force of Dongshankou development.
Dongshankou had belong to Dongshan District before the district merged with Yuexiu District in 2005.

Landmarks
 Tung Shan Christian Church ()
Tung Shan Christian Church, formerly Tung Shan Baptist Church, was built in 1909 by the Southern Baptist Convention.

 The Museum of Site of The Third National Congress of the Communist Party of China ()
 Dongshan historical mansions ()
Most of the historical mansions and villas in Dongshankou are listed as important protection units of cultural relic. These historical mansions, combined with Chinese and Western styles, show the special and multicultural history of Guangzhou City. Kui Yuan, Chun Yuan, Jian Yuan, Ming Yuan and Yu Yuan are prime examples.

 Guangzhou Dongshan Lake Park ()
 Guangzhou Yuexiu Library ()

Dongshankou today
People also come to Dongshankou to visit historical mansions, many of which have been renovated into upscale bars, cafés, restaurants, clubs and galleries. Besides, the film Hell Lover was shot in Dongshankou in 2016.

See also
 Dongshankou Station
 Dongshan District, Guangzhou

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The Chautauqua Institution is an origination dedicated to providing continued learning and the arts both in our small community and nationwide. It seeks to spark discussion on the subjects most important to our lives, whether they are religious, social, or political. This dedication to education has remained consistent within the Institution since its founding in the late nineteenth-century. Learn about the Chautauqua Institution history and importance in our country.
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The former chief negotiator for NAFTA under the Mulroney Government says, NAFTA's been a good trade deal for farmers and ranchers.
John Weekes recently spoke at the Calgary Stampede Agri-Trade Symposium, and says the United States is the principle market for Canadian agriculture exports.
"Obviously we're also looking on how to diversify that, although there is no real replacement for the United States. It's the largest market and will remain so indefinitely for Canada, but going ahead with the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, we need to make sure Canada is in at the ground level when those tariffs start coming done on the Japanese market."
Weekes adds, the NAFTA negotiations seem to be at a bit of a lull right now.
"The Americans, including the President, have made it clear that they don't think they can be finished until after the U.S. mid-term elections in November. There could be some useful work that would be done now in terms of exploring potential solutions, but frankly, the real deal cutting won't begin until after that."
He says, the U.S. doesn't know what the make up of the Congress will be until after the elections.
Weekes says, they need to find out who's in control before they decide on some of the final elements they would want to see in the trade agreement.
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A person in need of supervision (PINS) is a term frequently used by social services agencies in the United States to describe a juvenile who is not currently in the household of a parent or legal guardian, or is currently not under their control as evidenced by the person's status offense, who is not an emancipated minor. The term is often abbreviated PINS. Usually, a person in need of supervision is a runaway, an orphan, a truant, or an unruly child.

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Donald Trump's younger brother Robert dies
President Donald Trump's younger brother Robert has died aged 71.
Robert had fallen seriously ill in a New York City hospital and was visited by his brother on Friday.U
Mr Trump said: "It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight.
"He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again.
"His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace."
Family biographer Gwenda Blair said: "When he worked in the Trump Organisation, he was known as the nice Trump.
"Robert was the one people would try to get to intervene if there was a problem."
Robert Stewart Trump was born in 1948, the youngest of New York City real estate developer Fred Trump's five children.
The president, more than two years older than Robert, admittedly bullied his brother in their younger years, even as he praised his loyalty and laid-back demeanour.
"I think it must be hard to have me for a brother but he's never said anything about it and we're very close," Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal.
"Robert gets along with almost everyone," he added, "which is great for me since I sometimes have to be the bad guy."
A Boston University graduate, Robert Trump later managed the Brooklyn portion of father Fred Trump's real estate empire, which was eventually sold.
Once a regular boldface name in Manhattan's social pages, Robert Trump had kept a lower profile in recent years.
He avoided the limelight during his elder brother's presidency, having retired to the Hudson Valley.
But he described himself as a big supporter of the White House run in a 2016 interview with the New York Post.
"I support Donald one thousand percent," Robert Trump said.
In early March of 2020, he married his longtime girlfriend, Ann Marie Pallan.
The president's surviving siblings include Elizabeth Trump Grau and Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal appeals judge.
Authors Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher described Robert Trump as soft spoken but cerebral in Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President.
They wrote: "He lacked Donald's charismatic showmanship, and he was happy to leave the bravado to his brother, but he could show flashes of Trump temper."
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By Mike Czapar
Late in the regular season, it seems the weakest opponents often make up the most important matches. Such a statement is especially true for the No. 25 Illinois women's volleyball team as they travel to Purdue and Indiana this Friday and Saturday.
With three of the Illini's final six opponents ranked in the top 10, a pair of wins this weekend against unranked teams would greatly improve the team's confidence and help establish the Illinois squad's dominance.
Head coach Don Hardin emphasized the importance of this weekend's matches at a press conference last Wednesday.
"This is a very critical weekend for our program," Hardin said. "Purdue and Indiana are typically teams that wreak havoc for Illinois on the road. Both teams are capable of beating us; that's the Big Ten. But we are most certainly able and ready to beat them as well."
When the Illini met these two teams the first time, the squad limped onto the court with both senior setter Erin Virtue and redshirt freshman middle blocker Jen Hynds on the disabled list. Consequently, Illinois lost to Purdue, but was able to salvage the weekend with a win over Indiana.
This time around, the team has recovered mentally from the huge loss of Virtue, and is physically stronger with the powerful blocking of Hynds back in the lineup.
Senior defensive specialist Lauren Harks said there is a big difference between the inexperienced team that faced Purdue and Indiana last time and the one that will take the court this weekend.
"Bringing Hynds back into the lineup has made a huge difference because of her blocking," Harks said. "Stephanie has had a lot of time to get comfortable at setter since last time, and the team chemistry has completely evolved since then. We're a totally different team the second time around."
Because Purdue served Illinois one of its only two home losses, the Illini have a little extra motivation to beat the Boilermakers in front of Purdue's home crowd; the match has been moved from its scheduled 7 p.m. eastern time start to 8 p.m. However, the focus this week at practice has been less on revenge and more on playing strong Illinois volleyball.
Hynds said the Illini and the Big Ten as a whole have both grown more competitive as the season has progressed, and that she looks forward to this weekend's matches.
"There's always the revenge factor when you play a team that beat you, but we can't get too into that or we'll lose our focus," Hynds said. "Every team is stronger and more prepared to play later in the season. This whole week practice has been very focused and very enthusiastic. I think we've slowly improved throughout the season and are ready to play."


In early January, a researcher with a grant from Kone Foundation and eight artists began their two-month residencies at Saari Residence.
In early January, a researcher and eight artists from different parts of the world arrived at the picturesque, snowy winter wonderland of Saari Residence. In January and February, the residents at Saari Residence are writer Frankie Gaffney (Ireland); playwright, screenwriter Alexander Manuiloff (Bulgaria); film director, screenwriter Erol Mintaş (Turkey); circus and theatre director Meri-Maija Näykki (Finland); author, comic artist Dılşa Perinçek (Turkey); Dr.Pol.Sc., historian Timo R. Stewart (Finland); radio artist and sociologist Karen Werner (USA) and photographer Leena Ylä-Lyly (Finland). Playwright and director Kevin Doyle will continue as the Saari Invited Artist for the spring.
Irish writer Frankie Gaffney is interested particularly in visual dimensions of meaning in the novel. Punctuation, typography, spelling, these are often neglected both creatively and critically as dimensions of meaning, and seem more acute relevance than ever given the increasing textuality of life.
Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter Alexander Manuiloff is working with a text-based theatre installation using the concept of an escape-room situation in which around 15 people can participate at a time. They get dilemmas related to corruption and have to decide what to do with them so that the game can continue.
Circus and theatre director Meri-Maija Näykki is working on three performance concepts that will allow a circus and a theatre to collaborate on an equal footing.
Turkish filmmaker Erol Mintaş is working on two projects: an experimental film and a documentary film.
Dr.Pol.Sc., historian Timo R. Stewart received a grant from Kone Foundation and spends his time at the residence revising his book on Valter Juvelius and Montagu Parker's undertakings in Jerusalem, as well as on the concepts of the Lost Ark, science and myth that prevailed in Europe in the early 20th century.
Photographer Leena Ylä-Lyly is exploring the link between the photograph and zen meditation. "More than anything in a photo, I have always been fascinated by its core characteristic: silence," she says.
New York-based playwright and director Kevin Doyle is continuing his work as Saari Invited Artist until the end of April. Read more about his work from here.


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The Golden Globe-nominated actress appears on Fallon.
by Brian Cantor Dec 16, 2022, 10:32 pm
THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 1768 -- Pictured: (l-r) Actress Jenna Ortega during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on Friday, December 16, 2022 -- (Photo by: Todd Owyoung/NBC)
On the heels of receiving a Golden Globe nomination for her work on "Wednesday," actress Jenna Ortega appears on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."
The eagerly anticipated appearance — one first broken by Headline Planet and heavily hyped by NBC throughout the week — comes during Friday's episode.
Said episode, which marks the last "Tonight Show" original of 2022, comes as buzz over the Netflix series remains considerable.
Friday's "Fallon" also features a chat with James Corden and a stand-up performance by Mike Feeney. Ahead of the episode, NBC shared photos from the taping:
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AirTest Automation Framework For Games and More
Do you need to test hard to automate some applications? Games, for instance?
I just learned about an open-source tool that can make it easier. It's called AirTest, and I wanted to write a quick post about it.
AirTest is an open-source, test automation tool aimed at hard-to-automate applications like games.
No surprise, really, since one of the largest game companies in the world, NetEase, developed it.
It currently has more than 1,265 stars on GitHub.
For even more cred, it was developed in conjunction with Google.
AirTest Technology Stack
I recently discussed AirTest with Noemi Ferrera, a computer scientist and automation engineer at NetEase who helped create it.
She describes it as a cross-platform, UI test automation Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for games and apps. It provides a wide range of tools for mobile app developers and testers to write fully automated test scripts in a convenient way and in an easy-to-use environment.
Automation testing using AirtestIDE utilizes the advantages of two test frameworks that have image and UI recognition techniques—Airtest and Poco.
AirTest provides cross-platform APIs using image recognition technologies and is compatible with all Android mobile applications and Windows games.
As I mentioned earlier, it also leverages Poco.
How is AirTest Different than Other Automation Testing Frameworks?
You may be accustomed to using tools that have visual testing, or use the DOM or object model abstractions. With AirTest you can, within the same IDE, use either approach from many different platforms. You also write your test in Python.
What about Selenium
AirTest also has a plugin for Selenium that gives you the ability to also record and edit tests for a browser application. Once you set up the path to the Chrome driver you can record or directly code up you selenium test automation script.
What is Poco?
Poco is a cross-engine, UI automation framework that provides engine-independent, powerful APIs that retrieve the UI element hierarchy in an app's runtime.
Poco supports mainstream game engines such as Unity3D, Cocos2dx, and native Android apps.
AirTest and Game Testing with Unity
I've spoken with a few game developers and none of them seem to use automated testing solution. Mostly because they told me they were not aware of any. Neither was I — until now.
AirTest uses Poco to help accurately locate the position of the elements on a game screen in the actual UI tree. Using Poco access method it's able to test your game engine like Unity3D by using the Poco SDK.
The Poco SDK supports Unity3D version 4 & 5, ngui & ugui, and C#.
If you're doing Unity game testing, you should try it out.
Sound good?
Give AirTest a Try for Your Automation Testing
Check out AirTests' Getting Started with AirtestIDE post, which contains some tutorial videos.
Noemi went on to assert that it's a lovely automation solution; however, it's not well-known in Europe or in the USA, but hopefully, we'll be able to change that.


I made hamburger buns yesterday - they came out really beautiful (how sad is it that I am so excited about how wonderful looking my hamburger buns came out!). My only pictures today are of the only two remaining buns! It was nice to have some American fare - sloppy joes (another new recipe) and an old favorite, mushroom burgers. Dustin still misses American bread and buns, but I will keep trying :-) I put some of the wheat type flour in the buns, so I'm sure that could have affected the flavor, but I thought they were pretty good. The consistency was good, not quite as moist as some of the buns in the US, but nice none the less. I had hoped to make my sister-in-law's recipe for sloppy joes, but I didn't find any canned condensed soups last weekend.
Brenna took no nap today and threw a fit at the end of German class, not quite sure what her mood was for today...Hopefully, tomorrow will be better. At least it is Friday tomorrow :-) We still enjoyed reading several more books this afternoon with the extra time.
Get well wishes go out to my Grandma today - our prayers are with you as you recover!
Well, that is all for today - take care!
Amanda!!! Cute buns!! I started a blog a while back and don't keep it up- but I'm staying at home with Kingston now- so I'll try to be more on top of it! Brenna is getting so big! I'm sad we missed you guys over the holidays- but we were so busy!! Kingston is getting so big... 7 months today! Hope you are all well!!


Five years ago we found the most awesome camp for Angela. Wisconsin Easter Seals Camp Wawbeek!!
Camp Wawbeek has several different sessions throughout the summer, for a wide variety of ages and special needs. It is staffed 1:2, and then each 3 person team is part of a larger group of around 8 campers and four counselors. If your child isn't really ready for a "camp" experience, they also have a respite camp for those with more challenging behavior or medical needs. Respite camp has a 1:1 staff to camper ratio. It is open one weekend a month year round. The very first time Angela went to camp Wawbeek, she went for a respite weekend so they could get an idea which camp would be a better placement for her. At the time her behavior was really challenging. Although she required 1:1 staffing, the director felt Angela would like the regular camp better because she's a very capable young lady. So the staffed for her at a 1:1 ratio but had her attend the regular camp. I was really pleased they were able to see past the behavior and to the real Angela. They made adjustments to what they normally do and made accommodations to find the best fit for her. Now, years later, Angela's behavior is only rarely a problem and she attends the regular camp with the same camper.
Angela has been anticipating camp for weeks. We've been going over the calendar each day so she's gotten a daily reminder of when it's coming. Those who know Angela know how she gets a bit obsessed about what's coming up on the schedule. LOL Anyway, at 8:00 on the Saturday night before camp I decided I should get the rest of the camp forms filled out for Monday's drop off. When I opened the PDF's to print them I realized I had a problem. Drop off was the NEXT DAY! OMG!!
Panic ensued. I had planned on spending the next day getting laundry caught up so I'd have 12 days of clothes to pack for her. Instead I thanked God for 24 hour shopping at Walmart. Angela was due for some new summer clothes anyway, I just hadn't planned on it being that day.
I have gotten good at this packing for camp thing. I try to pack so Angela is as independent as possible while at camp. The less help she needs the better it is for her.
This is how I do it: Each 1 gallon bag below contains a full outfit: shorts, shirt, socks, underwear, bra. All Angela has to do is open a bag and put on everything that is in the bag. But this is in Wisconsin, and just like where we live in Minnesota, several seasons could happen within the same day, not to mention cool mornings and evenings. I pack several pairs of jeans and sweatshirts to deal with that.
Here is all of Angela's camp stuff. I found a new product by Suave. It is a 3-in-1 shampoo/conditioner/body wash. The one I found came in a pump bottle, which is perfect for Angela who has trouble managing screw or flip-top bottles.
If I only stop once it is a 3 1/2 hour drive to camp in the Wisconsin Dells. The entire drive is full of great anticipation on Angela's part! Finally we reach the entrance into the Wawbeek camp forest!
Angela always tells me, "Just drop me off. Please?" Because she just wants to get on with camp already! LOL Every year I have to remind her there is a whole check-in process that we are required to go through, dropping off meds with the nurse, getting her things unpacked, etc.
And then....then I get in my car and drive home. Alone. Three and a half hours all to myself! We spend many days keeping the other boys busy, and going over the calendar so they know when Angela is coming home. They really miss her a lot, but before we know it, it's time to go back to get her!
She is always SO EXCITED TO SEE ME!!! She nearly knocks me over as she comes barreling toward me for a hug. This time Axel came along and he got the same warm welcome.
Angela with one of her camper friends.
Bye camp Wawbeek! See you next year!
Wow! That sounds like an awesome camp. Do any of the counselors know sign language? Are you ever nervous about her being away? I know I would be anxious myself, especially the first time. I hope Owen will have an experience like that someday.
Stephanie, the first year Angela went for a whole week I was a wreck. This camp was longer than previous years. Yes, there were times I worried, like "Omg, what if their canoe flips over in the lake? Will she be ok?" and stuff like that, but I quickly get distracted by other things. LOL All the counselors are from Americorp, and come from all over the world! (they try to give Angela a counselor who doesn't have a strong accept because she has a hard enough time with her hearing loss.) However, on the camp registration forms we can specify if a camper needs ASL. So, that is a good question which I will be asking!


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The Institute for Corporate Social Development believes in the following Business
Principles which are based on, and adapted from the Caux Round Table Principles of
Business. The Caux Round Table, founded in 1986, is an International network of principled
business leaders working to promote moral capitalism throughout the world.
We therefore believe that business can be a powerful agent of positive social change, and we
offer the following principles as a foundation for dialogue and action by business leaders in
search of business responsibility. In so doing, we affirm the necessity for moral values in
business decision making. Without them, stable business relationships and a sustainable world
community are impossible.
Principle 1. The Responsibilities of Businesses
The value of a business to society is the wealth and employment it creates and the marketable
products and services it provides to consumers at a reasonable price commensurate with quality.
To create such value, a business must maintain its own economic health and viability.
Principle 2. The Economic and Social Impact of Business
Businesses established in foreign countries to develop, produce or sell should also contribute
to the social advancement of those countries by creating productive employment and helping
to raise the purchasing power of their citizens. Businesses also should contribute to human
rights, education, welfare, and vitalization of the countries in which they operate.
Principle 3. Business Behaviour
While accepting the legitimacy of trade secrets, businesses should recognize that sincerity,
candour, truthfulness, the keeping of promises, and transparency contribute not only to their
own credibility and stability but also to the smoothness and efficiency of business
transactions, particularly on the international level.
Principle 4. Respect for Rules
To avoid trade frictions and to promote freer trade, equal conditions for competition, and fair
and equitable treatment for all participants, businesses should respect international and
domestic rules. In addition, they should recognize that some behaviour, although legal, may
still have adverse consequences.
Principle 5. Support for Multilateral Trade
Businesses should support multilateral trade systems and agreements. They should cooperate
in efforts to promote the progressive and judicious liberalization of trade and to relax those
domestic measures that unreasonably hinder global commerce, while giving due respect to
national policy objectives.
Principle 6. Respect for the Environment
A business should protect and, where possible, improve the environment, promote
sustainable development, and prevent the wasteful use of natural resources.
Principle 7. Avoidance of Illicit Operations
A business should not participate in or condone bribery, money laundering, or other corrupt
practices: indeed, it should seek cooperation with others to eliminate them. It should not trade
in arms or other materials used for terrorist activities, drug traffic or other organized crime.
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PGA strips major championship from Trump's New Jersey golf course
KAPALUA, Hawaii -- The PGA of America cut ties to President Donald Trump when it voted Sunday to take the PGA Championship event away from his New Jersey golf course next year.
The vote comes four days after the Trump-fueled riot at the nation's Capitol as Congress was certifying the election victory of President-elect Joe Biden. This is the second time in just over five years the PGA of America removed one of its events from a Trump course.
PGA President Jim Richerson says the board voted to exercise its right to "terminate the agreement" with Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey.
"We find ourselves in a political situation not of our making," Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America, said in a telephone interview. "We're fiduciaries for our members, for the game, for our mission and for our brand. And how do we best protect that? Our feeling was given the tragic events of Wednesday that we could no longer hold it at Bedminster. The damage could have been irreparable. The only real course of action was to leave."
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The PGA of America, which has some 29,000 golf professionals who mostly teach the game, signed the deal with Trump National in 2014.
It canceled the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in 2015 at Trump National Los Angeles Golf Club after Trump's disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants when he announced he was seeking the Republican nomination for president. The event was canceled for good the following spring.
The shocking insurrection Wednesday rattled the country, and in golf circles, attention quickly focused on whether the PGA of America would keep its premier championship - and one of golf's four major championships - at Trump's course in 2022.
"Our decision wasn't about speed and timing," Waugh said. "What matters most to our board and leadership is protecting our brand and reputation, and the ability for our members to lead the growth of the game, which they do through so many powerful programs in their communities."
Trump had delivered a speech to his supporters in which he repeatedly made baseless claims that the election was stolen from him and urged them to "fight."
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"This is not because of any pressures we feel. We're not being forced into a decision," Waugh said. "We had to make a business decision. It's a perpetual institution. My job is to hand it off better than when I found it. One hundred years from now, we still want to be vibrant."
He chose not to comment when asked if he expected any legal challenge from the Trump Organization.
The PGA of America, which operates separately from the PGA Tour and its week-to-week tournaments, previously held the Senior PGA Championship at Trump's course outside Washington in 2017. That was the same year the USGA staged the U.S. Women's Open at Trump National in Bedminster.
Trump also owns Turnberry in Scotland, one of the most picturesque links in the British Open rotation most famous for the "Duel in Sun" between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus in 1977, and most recently Stewart Cink beating a 59-year-old Watson in 2009. The R&A, which determines the British Open rotation, has not returned to Turnberry since Trump took over.
He also owns Trump Doral outside Miami, for years a venerable stop on the PGA Tour schedule and most recently a World Golf Championship site. Trump's presence made it difficult to find a corporate sponsor, and the tournament moved to Mexico in 2017.
Waugh said the PGA of America already had a team in place in New Jersey to start work on selling the events to the public and local sponsorship. Now it's about finding a place to play the PGA Championship, which dates to 1916, for next year.
The PGA is at Kiawah Island in South Carolina in May.
"We've had a number of places reach out already," he said. "We think we'll have a bunch of options."
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Megaport partners with KIO Networks to expand services in Mexico
Megaport Limited, a leading NaaS (Network as a Service) provider, has reportedly announced plans to expand in Mexico through a partnership with KIO Networks, the largest data center provider in the country.
The partnership of Megaport with KIO Networks will introduce strong value to local Mexican businesses looking for a wide range of service providers and extensive access to direct cloud connectivity as they widely integrate multicloud and hybrid cloud architectures.
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HomeMoneroThe crypto whale who wants to give billions away – Cointelegraph Magazine
The crypto whale who wants to give billions away – Cointelegraph Magazine
March 4, 2021 CryptoExpert Monero
Like many people in crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried is in it for the money. As the founder of quant trading firm Alameda Research, exchange FTX and DeFi protocol Serum, the curly haired 28-year-old has amassed a $10 billion fortune in just three years in the industry.
Unlike most people in crypto though, he's building up a fortune in order to give half of it away. An 'effective altruist' he's essentially robbing from the rich, via his preternatural crypto trading strategies, in order to give to the poor.
"Maybe without the robbing part," he says. "In the end my goal is to have as much impact as I can, however that is. And right now, I think that's flowing through donations, so figuring out how I can be able to make as much as I can and donate as much as I can."
SBF, as he's sometimes referred to, has been walking the walk for some time now. He spent a couple of months as the director of development at the Centre for Effective Altruism in 2017 and before that, gave away half of his income during his stint on Wall Street. He plans on giving away around 50% of his crypto billions too — but only after he's finished reinvesting in his ever-expanding empire.
He does donate to causes as they come up however. He was the second largest donor to President Joe Biden's campaign, after former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, tipping in $5.2 million.
"I was excited about the impact it might have. I basically thought that it mattered what happened in the election."
Also, the FTX Foundation launched recently. It'll give away 1% of the platform's fees and match user donations dollar for dollar up to $10,000 a day. In its first couple of weeks the Foundation has raised more than $2M, mostly in user contributions, with users able to vote on the recipient charities from a carefully curated list.
The old bean bag
SBF's growing public profile was given a shot in the arm when he was named on Forbes 30 Under 30 finance list for this year. "I'm honored," he says. "I tend to be fairly forward looking instead of backward look and so it was cool for a bit but it sort of wore off pretty quickly."He also came in at number three in the recent Cointelegraph Top 100.
Famous for sleeping on his bean bag at his Hong Kong office so he never misses a trade, and it seems a key reason SBF makes more money than anyone else is that he's barely ever off the clock.
"I'm at the office, well usually 24 hours a day. I'll sometimes just nap on a beanbag here and obviously shoot the shit with coworkers and sometimes with people online, but mostly its work."
He doesn't have a girlfriend or even see many people outside of work, though he makes time to speak with his family back in the U.S. "a few times a week on the phone." It's safe to say SBF isn't the type of person desperate to strike the perfect work/life balance or who even accepts that productivity decreases after the first 11 hours or so at work.
"I think that sort of narrative is substantially oversold and the brutal or inspiring truth, depending on how you think about it, is that the more you put in, the more you get out," he says. "It's motivating for me and it's fulfilling, but you know, another piece of it is that, it's how I think I can have the most impact."
How did I get here?
The child of two Stanford Law professors, SBF discovered the Effective Altruism movement during his Physics degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Popularized by philosophers and ethicists including Toby Ord and Peter Singer the movement is focused on pragmatic ways to help others using science and reason to ensure the benefits are maximized, rather than the good intentions and poor outcomes that characterize some charitable organizations. This practical approach also extends to a hard headed examination of the best way an individual can help.
"Imagine the amount of good that you could do working directly for some cause, versus the amount that you could do working on Wall Street and donating to it. In a lot of cases you could probably actually help them out more with the donations. And so basically I checked out Wall Street."
Friends who'd interned at quant trading firm Jane Street Capital gave him the pathway to Wall Street, and he began working there straight after college in 2014. Why did they hire a physics major with very little financial experience straight out of school you ask?
It turns out quant trading strategies are "super valuable" trade secrets which means no one teaches the successful ones in Uni degrees. Instead, firms recruit people with raw talent: maths whizzes or people with strong backgrounds in physics or computer science.
"What you need to know about markets, they'll teach," he says. He traded a variety of ETFs, futures, currencies and equities and designed an automated OTC trading system. While there he became interested in the insanely profitable arbitrage opportunities in the inefficient crypto markets and set up crypto quant trading firm Alameda Research to profit from it in late 2017.
The whale to rule all whales
Alameda Research has now grown to become one of the biggest companies in crypto with around $2.5 billion in assets under management, although as with his own fortune, SBF qualifies this with some provisos around liquid and illiquid assets.
Alameda is the Moby Dick of crypto whales, responsible for up to 10% of the cryptocurrency moving around the markets at any one time. "I think at particular times it can get up to about that fraction of the volume," he says. "I think it averages a bit lower. It's solidly in the group of the five to ten larger trading firms in the space."
That means any trade Alameda takes has the potential to move markets and cause liquidations. In October last year, Alameda was widely blamed for crashing the price of YFI by shorting, though SBF has downplayed any impact. He believes that with great power comes great responsibility.
"It's absolutely a responsibility," he says, adding that he tries to follow the approach of TradFi quant firms. "Their role is to find profitable trades, but it's also to provide liquidity and promote healthy markets," he says. "The biggest duty is the duty to do no harm. And to make sure that what you do is, on the whole, promoting liquidity in healthy markets and efficient trading, as opposed to intervening in it."
He adds that arbitrage trades, for example, can have positive impacts as it makes markets more efficient and brings down prices where there are premiums. Identifying and working out how to profit from arbitrage trades was the whole reason Alameda was founded. "One of the first big ones that we actually made some money on was Litecoin," he recalls.
"There was a week in late 2017 when Litecoin was trading at a consistent 20% premium on Coinbase GDAX [now Coinbase Pro]. There's sort of this idea like 'Oh that's cool, you just make 10% every half hour I guess you make infinity dollars?' And of course, that's not the answer."
It turns out that trying to exploit the opportunity was hideously complicated and required getting around trade size limits, and withdrawal limits of a million a day. "Especially a few years ago in crypto an enormous piece of the problem was figuring out the logistical steps," he says.
Another arbitrage trade saw SBF and friends move up to $25M a day through a series of intermediaries and rural banks in Japan to take advantage of the famous Kimchee premium, which saw Bitcoin trading for up to a third more in South Korea's hard to access financial system than the U.S.
But it was dealing with the legacy financial system that threw up the biggest challenges. "The single hardest part of the arbitrage, the piece that was slowest and hardest and most expensive and most frustrating was the fiat," he says, noting difficulties getting accounts, which could then be shut at any moment, the archaic procedures and bureaucracy and insanely slow wire transfers.
"We spent five man hours per day in physical bank branches for a good solid five months, because that's what it took to send the wire transfers," he says, adding:
"Like got there at 10am and stayed till 1pm with multiple people there, to have all the meetings we had to have every single f–king day of the week, in order to send the same wire transfer we sent yesterday."
This is one reason SBF is so passionate about DeFi – his vision is for it to one day replace the lumbering existing financial system. "The current payment rails are not efficient at all," he says. There's trillions of dollars of companies, which are just built around trying to abstract that away and you end up with this incredibly complex web of shit to make it usable for most people. They're running on systems that are old and not designed even with the internet in mind."
Crypto influencer
For many people SBF sprang fully formed as a major crypto and DeFi personality during the mid-2020 DeFi boom, as he began to make an impact on Crypto Twitter. This was a deliberate move: he'd been happy to fly under the radar in 2018 because Alameda's quant trading focus had: "Very little need for publicity, it's sort of mostly downside." But when he launched the innovative crypto exchange FTX in 2019 he needed to build a community around it and he stepped up to become its public face on social media.
"With FTX as a retail facing business the more customers the better. You can build the best product in the world but if no one knows about it it's not worth anything," he says.
"One of the hardest and most interesting pieces has been figuring out how to get users, and increasing awareness was a big part of that."
He seems to have figured it out as FTX became the fifth largest derivatives exchange by volume, with a $3.5 billion valuation. It's launched a range of innovative markets, including tokenized fractional stock offerings of companies like Tesla, Apple and Amazon, as well as pre-IPO trading in Coinbase.
He's also using his wealth and influence to try and overcome what he sees as the biggest blocker preventing the wide scale adoption of DeFi. He believes that Ethereum, including Eth2 can't scale enough to allow crypto and DeFi to replace the existing financial system. DeFi can currently handle about 10 transactions per second, with second layer solutions enabling a few thousand TPS.
"This is an absolute hard, immoveable barrier, in terms of growth," he says. "DeFi just literally cannot grow as an ecosystem until that is addressed. And so no long-term plan that doesn't address it is viable. […] That is just fatal." Even Eth2's goal of 100,000 TPS isn't enough for what SBF has in mind.
"If your goal is to scale to 100 million or a billion users, […] if you want to have the upside of an application that might grow to the scale of the largest applications in the world, it needs to be able to scale up to about a million transactions a second. And so you can just sort of cross off the list permanently with no recourse and not even needing to consider any other factor, any scaling solution that doesn't get there, if that's your goal."
That's what led him to become one of the most vocal proponents for Solana, a blockchain that can currently process 65,000 TPS and whose team claim it can eventually scale up to astonishing levels: 710,000 TPS on a 1 gigabit link or 28.4 million TPS on a 40 gigabit link.
He founded the Serum DEX on Solana and launched the SRM cryptocurrency in August 2020. Bankman-Fried say you can see Solana's benefits in Serum's on chain order book matching engine and fees of "100th of a penny to send an order and trades happen in seconds."
"So you get a lot of juice out of having the higher throughput. And that's really helped scale up that product base quite a bit. To the point where I think that, you know, our best guess is that, probably Serum DEX in six months of operation has, has consumed more transactions than all of the Ethereum blockchain in history."
Ethereum's network effects mean he faces an uphill battle getting DeFi projects and users to migrate to Solana. Even after he was handed control of SushiSwap by Chef Nomi, he was unable to convince the community to port over. "It ended up being way harder than we thought to get the existing projects to port over and way easier to just have new projects built," he explains, adding:
"We would still be super excited for them to have an outpost on Solana. I think they still may at some point. But I also think that Serums' gonna march on either way. In the end, like, I sort of want to have the best products and users, you know, however it gets there."
(Following our interview, a new proposal emerged to build a version of SushiSwap on Solana and Serum, potentially called Bonsai.)
Although SBF says the network effects of having so many interconnected applications built on Ethereum are substantial, he points out that eventually each project will have to "migrate and break composability and tooling with the existing options" in order to switch to layer-two, Eth2, or some other scaling solution. In terms of user numbers he says ETH's network effects are overstated.
"The other part is that while the current DeFi user base is super devoted, super important and powerful, it's not that large. Daily active users, I think it's in the tens of thousands. I think FTX probably has more daily active users than all of DeFi combined."
SBF's plan appears to be to embed the Solana blockchain as infrastructure in apps where it's invisible to most users, in order to onboard millions into DeFi. At the start of 2021, Alameda led a $50 million funding round to embed DeFi style tools in Maps.me, a European offline mapping application with 140 million users. It'll have a multi-currency wallet with staking and swapping facilities built on Solana. FTX's purchase of Blockfolio may follow a somewhat similar strategy.
"I think it's gonna be a really cool product and powerful product suite for the app," he says of Maps.me. "I'm super excited about it. I think it might really kickstart adoption.
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