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Indiana lottery class action certified
Hoosiers who bought losing Cash Blast tickets may be eligible to claim refunds… at least if they've held on to tickets in the now-defunct game from the period May 2005-July 2006. (Jeremy Herb, "$20M lawsuit against Hoosier Lottery gets class-action status", Indianapolis Star, Jul. 10).
Filed under: class actions, Indiana, lottery
This one caught my eye too. One of the named plaintiffs, Jeff Frazer, reportedly paid $40,000 for 4,000 $10 tickets and considered his purchases an "investment" based on the advertised odds. http://classactionblawg.com/2008/07/11/hoosier-lottery-class-action-is-it-typical-to-spend-40000-on-lottery-tickets/
By Paul Karlsgodt
This could be like a tax rebate check from the poor.
By Todd Rogers
On the surface, the class action sounds reasonable. The state kept selling tickets after the prize was won but this is a problem inherent in every scratch off game. The operator is looking for a profit and that profit depends on a large volume of tickets being sold. Things being what they are, the big prizes will be gone about the time 50-67% are sold and sometimes before 99% are sold. It's also necessary to understand that the state isn't gambling. It has an almost guaranteed profit — provided a sufficient number of tickets are sold. Interestingly, except for the time factor, there is no significant difference between a scratch off and a random drawing.
Is the class action reasonable? Perhaps, but only if its goal is to stop scratch off type games.
Are the plaintiffs reasonable? Yes, but with a caveat.
I play the horses. It's possible with a lot of work and careful planning to make a modest profit. This is because it's possible to find bets that pay more than break even. State lottery games however are losing propositions. (math alert: break even payout = bet cost/probability of winning).
I've never understood the mentality of "investing" in a negative cash flow venture (one with payoff below break even). It's like making a product for $300; selling it for $295; then trying to make up the difference in volume. Sounds more like gambling to me.
In racing circles a person who "invests" a lot of money on a one time event for an anticipated 5% profit is called a Bridge Jumper. Presumably it's assumed such a person took out a mortgage to finance the venture. (IOW: Bridge Jumper = Stupid Bettor)
Still, the large "investor" in scratch offs is the only one paying attention to the odds of winning. The rest are either spur-of-the-moment buyers or those who become glassy-eyed at the thought of any calculation. The "investors" must constitute a mighty small group.
OTOH, the very same "investors" should have a deep understanding of the game which includes the knowledge of the possibility of buying tickets after the chance of winning has gone to zero.
Conclusion: the class action is a dumb idea but gives the "investor" another shot at winning.
By DAV
There was recently a story out of UVA where a prof was going to sue VA for a ridiculous sum (80M?) over scratch offs. His complaint was that they continued selling tickets after the top prize was claimed. Since most every state post notice (online and usually at stores on request) when the top prize was claimed, and 90% of people dont play just to win the top prize I have a hard time justifying this lawsuit going forward.
I think most people play scratchers for the momentary rush that comes with gambling. Its more of a spur of the moment or impulse purchase then a calculated risk.
I know when I used $20 in scratch offs as reward for my employees it worked better then $20 in cash.
By Tracy
What I think is being missed here is that the state offered….wait for it…EXACTLY what they are suing for. Plus a small (read large) and unearned, lawyer fee.
Every time I see a case like this it see that the lawyers, like everbody else, realize that not everyone who is "entitled" to a rebate is going to do the legwork or even know about it. Of course, the lawyer is just trying to help everyone get their fair share right?
Not even close. They know that most will not even receive the rebate, but that each one will count towards computing their fee. The more counted, the higher the fee. That's why we have opt out instead of opt in provisions for class actions.
By Happy Fun Ball
This is one thing which absolutely burns me up. It also happened with the "million little pieces" book thing. The lawyer does absolutely nothing but take in free money. How is that ethical?
Oh, yeah… lawyers.
By Deoxy
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what if they were trying to get these not winning tickets out of the peoples hand by doing a mail in contest on $10.00 tickets, and by giving these people coupons for $10.00 to use on lottery tickets.
By edith milburn


Planetlab Europe is the European arm of the global PlanetLab system, the world's largest research networking facility, which gives experimenters access to Internet-connected Linux virtual machines on over 1000 networked servers located in the United States, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. Researchers use PLE for experiments on overlays, distributed systems, peer-to-peer systems, content distribution networks, network security, and network measurements, among many other topics.
Organisations can join PLE if they provide two physical servers at their premises, which are directly connected to the internet (no firewalls) and are put under the control of the PLE management software. Once you are a member of PLE, you can request virtual machines on any of the PLE physical servers. These virtual machines will always be directly connected to the public Internet. As an experimenter, you have full control over these virtual machines. The PlanetLab Europe Consortium has over 140 signed member institutions: mostly universities and industrial research laboratories, each of which hosts two servers that it makes available to the global system. These institutions are home to 937 experimenters. On a typical recent day, 244 were connected to on-going experiments.
Through Fed4FIRE, experimenters affiliated to organisations that have not joined PlanetLab Europe will now also be able to perform experiments on the PLE (European) arm of the global PlanetLab system. Access through Fed4FIRE to the other PlanetLab instances in the Unites States, Asia and elsewhere is not yet foreseen.
The nodes belonging to PLE are part of institutions spread over Europe. Furthermore, through specific PlanetLab federations between PLE, PlanetLab Central and the Japanese PlanetLab instance, PLE experimenters can in fact deploy their virtual machines on servers anywhere across the world.
The depicted resources are PLE specific: 2 physical servers per site on which experimenters can create virtual machines belonging to their slice. These are connected directly to the public internet, without any firewalling or NAT.


Despite not having grazed their back paddocks for six months as part of their normal rotation, Sam Johnson said the area "looked as though we'd had a mob of wethers sitting on it".
The Johnson family farms at Murringo, near Young in the NSW South West Slopes region.
Third-generation farmer Sam, who grew up on the property, farms with his wife Claire and two of their adult children Sid and Molly, as well as Molly's husband Tom, who are proudly fourth-generation farmers on the 1,500-hectare "Windermere".
The Johnsons have 220 Black Angus breeders and a 20-sow, free-range pig operation. The pig enterprise is based on the older Berkshire and Hampshire breed genetics, with the Johnsons finding they do better and produce better quality meat than the intensively suited commercial breeds such as Landrace.
Sam and Claire have been managing "Windermere" since 2002. Their management philosophy focuses on increasing the property's biodiversity and the landscape's biological health. Sam says they consider themselves "gardeners of the landscape" using tools such as "water pipe and electric fencing, cattle and pigs and all the plants and biological life we can encourage…. with the aim to produce fertile, biologically active soils, a tapestry of wildlife and native species, and excellent, healthy food".
In 2010, they moved away from commodity markets. They now produce and market grass-fed beef and free-range, pastured pork to customers locally and in Canberra under their "Boxgum Grazing" brand. (So named for the property's grassy box gum woodlands.) The driver, says Sam, was for their produce "to go direct to people who want excellent food and are sick of the industrial food system and understand the vital connection between healthy land and healthy food".
Also part of the Johnsons' philosophy is generating a real income from their multi-generation business.
And that means "no free feed".
"Windermere" is surrounded on three sides by a conservation area. While this gives them very beautiful scenery, they've suffered increasing pressure from kangaroos over the past couple of years particularly.
"Our records go back a fair way; we looked at what the roos were doing and how much feed they were taking out from the mob of cattle, and in assessment comparisons with years gone by, they were taking out at least two months' worth of feed for a mob of 500 or so animals.
So the Johnsons put up a fabricated boundary fence; however they soon discovered it didn't hold the kangaroos: "they just go through it, over it and under it".
With the not-very-old fabricated fence failing to hold against the roo pressure, the Johnsons investigated Westonfence a bit more, including visiting farms that had Westonfence kangaroo boundary fencing.
After further investigation, Sam says rather than just putting an outrigger on, it would be better in the long term to replace the fabricated fence with an eight-wire D8 Westonfence.
After consultation with Gallagher, the Johnsons decided to go with advice to decrease steel post spacings from the recommended 10 metres to 9m and the Insulated Suspension Posts (ISPs, or droppers) from 3.3m to 3m, holding them with the recommended two clips per ISP. They also chose a heavier-gauge 2.8 wire.
They also chose a Gallagher M5800i Energizer, running on solar.
"It's a remote location — the energizer's about four kilometres from a power point. We have four 80-Watt solar panels and 600 amp-hour storage in deep cell batteries.
Sam says while they researched the Westonfence, they didn't look around for energizers.
Sam says once they learnt the method to construct the Westonfence, it was easy.
"We talked to the people at Westonfence and Gallagher and we're very happy we used the heavier-gauge wire — the 2.8 — they suggested, too. The advice was that if we were just keeping in sheep and cattle, then go a lighter-gauge, high-tensile wire, but because we're getting high pressure from roos, the heavier-gauge wire is worthwhile because we won't break it.
"Even early on, when the roos were getting used to the fact that it's live and trying to go through it or crashing into it, we've never broken a wire — and there have been plenty of times there's been a lot of pressure on there. Those droppers don't move either.
"We've been so happy with the boundary fence with the national park that we're continuing it on with the neighbour's boundary too, because we're getting a lot of roo pressure from there. In total the fence will be 9.5km. The national park has put up some exclusion zones in their areas neighbouring us, using high fabricated fencing, and even though the roos can't go over it, they are trying to go under it like crazy. So that hasn't really solved the issue.
Sam says despite the cost of taking down a relatively new fabricated fence, the outcome has been worth it.
"We looked at what the roos were costing us in terms of feed: we were losing two months of grazing straight out, but probably the biggest impact is that because the roos are set stocked on the country, they actually stop it growing and will knock the perennials out. That cost is hard to quantify, but it's certainly there.


If we're talking about the best national parks in Australia, then Karijini has to be the creme de la creme, the cream of the crop, the big daddy!
When we visited there as part of our 4wd budget road trip around Australia, we were with a North American backpacker who described it as Zion National Park on crack.
I'll let you read into that what you will!
But suffice to say, Karijini National Park is truly spectacular, truly huge and truly worth visiting!
What Makes Karijini National Park Special?
First up, this place is massive, in every sense of the word.
Not only does it cover a huge geographical region, but the landscape itself is huge, the range is massive, the sheer expanse of it all is breathtaking!
Second are the colours – that classic Outback red is heavy all around due to the iron-rich character of the earth here.
Contrast this with a classic blue Pilbara sky and those ancient greens trees and you've got a landscape that looks as if it hasn't changed much since the dinosaurs roamed it.
Next up are the sheer amount of activities to do here, from exploring those ancient gorges on foot, to swimming in natural water holes, to camping under the stars – Karijini National Park provides a wealth of things to see and do for next to nothing.
And last, but not least the connection to country here is both tangible and magical.
Revered as a special and sacred place to the indigenous population for tens of thousands of years, Karijni National Park is steeped in story and significance.
Visiting here feels like is a privilege. The stepping out of our world and into another is there for all to enjoy it .. so do!
Ha, now this is half the fun right!
Karijini National park is located in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The nearest major towns of significance are either Karratha or Port Hedland, both of which are a good few hours' drive away.
There are sealed and unsealed road options to get here, but do research in advance the route you want to take and plan accordingly – you may require a permit to travel on some roads.
We made the drive from Port Hedland in a day and then headed to Karratha, via Millstream-Chichester National Park, on the way back.
In between, we stopped at Tom Price a small mining town near to Karijni that had a fuel station, supermarket and visitor centre. Many road permits required can be obtained here.
Outside of Tom Price there are no fuel or vehicle repair facilities in the Karijini area, so make sure you are well prepared with adequate supplies and necessary car checks in place before you come here – we actually had to rescue someone with a blown out tyre ourselves here!
You also want to check the WA National Parks website before travelling to Karijini to ensure road conditions are good and the park is open.
The best time to visit Karijini National Park is undoubtedly during the winter months of April – October, when the chance of heavy rain is significantly lower … as are the temperatures!
Most rain falls during the summer months of November – March and access during this time to both the parks, tracks and pools can be severely restricted.
Summer temperatures also regularly exceed 40 degrees, which makes doing anything in this dry, baking heat nearly impossible!
During winter, the day temperatures are a little cooler, which makes hiking and exploring the park more comfortable.
Nights can be chilly however, even frosty, so do bring suitable attire if you're camping out during the colder months of July and August.
We visited Karijini in early October and found it perfect. Nights were cool, not cold and daytime temperatures were great for hiking as well as taking a dip! Also the crowds were much thinner!
Like almost all the national parks in Western Australia, Karijini National Park has an entrance fee.
Costing $12 per vehicle, this isn't bad if there's a few of you and is payable at the entrance to the park or the Karijni Visitor Centre.
Being pretty damn remote, it's likely that if you do visit Karijni National Park, you'll end up staying here.
Driving to the park and then seeing even a glimpse of what this spectacular place has to offer is going to take you much longer than a day!
Here's the rundown of the few places there are to stay in and around Karijini.
The cheapest option when it comes staying at Karijini National Park is within the national park camping itself.
Even after the entrance fee, you still have pay for camping here, but given the location, it's a bargain at only $10pppn.
The National Park camping at Karijni is collected around the Dales Gorge Area of the park in its eastern section.
There's several different campsites here (essentially looped areas next to each other) with some catering for generators, caravans etc and others designated as quieter, tent zones.
Camping at Dales Campground you are very near to the eastern attractions of the park including Fortescue Falls, Fern Pool, Circular Pool and the Three Ways Lookout.
Campers at Dales Campground must be largely self-sufficient with no water, food or fuel on hand here. There are toilets, but no showers.
A more glamorous option can be found in the western area of Karijini National Park, otherwise known as the Weano Gorge Area.
Karijni Eco Retreat is a privately-owned accommodation resort that sits within national park land.
They have some lovely glamping and cabin options, for those who are less keen to rough things and also a small shop and café/restaurant, meaning you don't have to bring all your food and water here.
Showers and toilets are available too, along with a host of other amenities.
Accommodation prices at the Karijni Eco Retreat are in addition to the regular park entrance fee and can be found here.
The other option is stay at Tom Price and travel to the park.
Here you will feel closer to civilisation and can stay in a hotel, such as the Tom Price Motel.
There are also a number of free camps in and around Karijni National Park.
Download the wikicamps app for more details.
We stayed at one on the way in from the Port Hedland side and one on the way out near Tom Price, but paid for camping when we were actually within Karijini.
This is because we worked out that the cost of driving out every night from the park to the free camp, and back again in the morning, would have cost almost as much in fuel as the $10 camping fee!
Many people advise staying between 3-4 nights when visiting Karijini National Park.
This initially sounds like a very long time, but it really is advised as there is so much to do here and it takes a long time to get there!
We stayed 4 nights – 2 nights in the national park camping and 2 nights in free camps just outside the park.
This gave us 1 day to drive there, 1 day to explore the Dales Gorge Area, 1 day to explore the Weano Gorge Area and 1 day to explore the Hammersley Gorge Area.
This was well timed, as we didn't feel rushed, but I'd hate to have cut it any shorter, especially when you've come all this way!
Karijini National park has several excellent walking trails.
Although none of them are very long, probably given the hot climate out here and the tendency for dehydration – not to mention complex rescue operations if things do go wrong – they are extremely rewarding.
It goes without saying that during any walking here you need to wear sturdy shoes and be mindful of the gorge edges which can be slippery, unstable and high.
Do not hike here if there are flash flood warnings or significant rainfall!
My only other advice would be to set off early and to carry lots of water. It can get very hot here in the middle of the day.
From the Dales Camping Area, you can actually walk to, and then along the length of, the gorge taking in all the attractions as you go.
It roughly takes 3 hours, but that's not including time for a dip in Circular Pool, Fern Pool or Fortescue Falls.
The walk is a combination of high rim walking, which gives great elevated views, and walking along the gorge floor to gain an entirely different perspective.
For the Weano Gorge walks, it's best to park in the Weano Day Area and hike from here.
The 2 trails you can't miss are the ones to Handrail Pool and Kermits Pool – these are absolutely spectacular, but do require scrambling and, at points, swimming through water.. so bring your waterproof cameras!
The Spider Walk, in particular, is more an adventure sport, than a walk, but is brilliant!
You can loop these 2 top picks together via the Oxer Lookout Trail and / or the full Weano Gorge Loop, which is definitely worth doing if you have the time.
Again this will take you about 4 hours, but do allow more time for swimming, relaxing and photographing!
Hiking to the various pools is certainly the main attraction when visiting Karijini National Park, but alongside this, there are plenty of other things to enjoy.
Check out the excellent visitor centre here, it has a very interesting exhibition about the heritage of this magical place.
Wildflowers bloom here during the colder months and the spectacle they produce is quite astounding to see.
Wildlife watching including kangaroos and wallaby spotting, as well as watching hundreds of bird species and reptiles is great fun.
Swimming in all the wonderful rock pools and waterfalls is a great way to relax and cool down in Karijni National Park. Just be careful and don't dive in as the water can be freezing!
Photographing the landscape from some of the many lookouts is definitely one of the best things to do in Karijini National Park.
Head to Hammersley Gorge, a short drive away from the other sections of the park to swim, snap and hike in this stunning spot.
So that's our ultimate guide for visiting Karijini National Park in Western Australia.
I really can't recommend visiting this place highly enough, so definitely consider adding it to your list if you're ever travelling this part of the Land Down Under.
It's beyond incredible Cat, really. Just pick your time to visit carefully, because if you want to hike, heading there in winter to avoid the scorching temperatures is a must!


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Friday, August 28, 2015 - 8:40am to 12:30pm
While this tour has been cancelled as a convention activity, there will be instructions and maps available for anyone wanting to explore the area on their own.
Discover Portland the green and eco-friendly way. This award-winning walk clarifies why Portland is regularly recognized as one of the best places to live. By the end of our walk, you will want to move here too. You'll hear about early and modern Portland as your guide shows you an enlightened city, rich with artwork, parks, bridges, downtown trains & streetcars, fountains and friendly people. Even locals are amazed and entertained by what they learn. This walk meanders through the most fascinating portions of the city, leading eventually to the waterfront. The courthouse, which is a National Historic Landmark, is the single most important 19th-century government building in the Pacific Northwest to survive into the 21st century. Opened in 1875, you are invited to visit the building to tour its ornate hallways and public areas, dignified courtroom on the second floor, the cupola above the fourth floor (with its astounding vista of a century of Portland architecture), and exhibits throughout that tell the story of the building, the courts, and the people who have worked here. Please have picture ID for this tour. The courthouse uses door security, so no pocket knives or other items that might be interpreted as a weapon. They will be confiscated and won't be returned.
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2. Let me be clear.
4. The honest truth is.
8. The real issue is.
9. I understand what you are saying, but.
You might think you come across as authentic if you use such phrases as "honestly", "believe me", "trust me" and "let me be clear", but in fact the opposite is true. According to a survey by the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC), when spoken by politicians and business leaders, these words cause instant distrust.
The survey also found that the three qualities that are most important to how trustworthy a politician or business leader appears are emotional openness, calm rationality and benevolence. Displays of aggression, competitiveness and outspokenness were likely to cause people to question the trustworthiness of public figures.
Don't use 'sincere' jargon. Cloaking messages in qualifying statements and managerial soundbites makes people less likely to trust what you say.
Clarity is key. Most (83%) people are more likely to trust someone using simple language.
Don't play the boss. Clear, open and emotional communication is much more effective than aggressive boardroom language.
So if you want to sway audiences, be emotional, but don't use emotive terms such as "trust me". Honestly, that's the truth.


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The White Queen Mini-Series Comes to Blu-ray Next February
Get ready for a truly royal battle of wills. Anchor Bay Entertainment releases the acclaimed Starz Original mini-series "The White Queen" on a three-disc Blu-ray with Digital HD Ultraviolet and DVD set February 4, 2014 – allowing consumers to watch it anywhere, on any device, any time! Based on Philippa Gregory's series of best-selling novels, "The White Queen" is a vivid re-telling of the classic War of the Roses family feud (York vs. Lancaster) from the viewpoint of the women involved. "The White Queen" is a riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history. A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville. In their quest for power, they will scheme, manipulate and seduce their way onto the English throne.
"Lusty royal romp…"
– Boston Globe
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Beverly Hills, CA – Get ready for a truly royal battle of wills. Anchor Bay Entertainment releases the acclaimed Starz Original mini-series "The White Queen" on a three-disc Blu-ray with Digital HD Ultraviolet and DVD set February 4, 2014 – allowing consumers to watch it anywhere, on any device, any time! Based on Philippa Gregory's series of best-selling novels, "The White Queen" is a vivid re-telling of the classic War of the Roses family feud (York vs. Lancaster) from the viewpoint of the women involved. The set contains all 10 gorgeous episodes of the drama, plus a bountiful supply of bonus features. SRP is $59.99 for the Blu-ray™ with Digital HD Ultraviolet™ and $49.98 for the DVD. Pre-book is January 8th.
"The White Queen" is a riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history. A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville. In their quest for power, they will scheme, manipulate and seduce their way onto the English throne.
The year is 1464, before the Tudor dynasty ruled the country, and war has been ravaging throughout England over who is the rightful King. It is a bitter dispute between two sides of the same family, The House of York and The House of Lancaster.
The House of York's young and handsome Edward IV is crowned King of England with the help of the master manipulator, Lord Warwick "The Kingmaker." But when Edward falls in love with a beautiful Lancastrian commoner, Elizabeth Woodville, Warwick's plan to control the throne comes crashing down. A violent, high-stakes struggle ensues between Elizabeth, her most fierce adversary, Lancastrian Margaret Beaufort, and Anne Neville, the pawn in her father's power game - each woman vying for the crown.
The Making Of The White Queen
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"The White Queen" stars Rebecca Ferguson (A One Way to Antibes) as Elizabeth Woodville, Max Irons (The Host) as Edward IV, Golden Globe® winner and Academy Award® nominee Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs) as Elizabeth's mother Jacquetta Woodville, James Frain ("The Tudors") as The Kingmaker and Amanda Hale ("The Crimson Petal and the White") as mother to Henry Tudor, Margaret Beaufort. The series also stars Faye Marsay as Anne Neville, David Oakes as George, Duke of Clarence, Eleanor Tomlinson as Isabel Neville, Aneurin Barnard as Richard, Duke of Gloucester, Ben Lamb as Anthony Rivers and Tom McKay as Jasper Tudor.
Posted by Sean Ferguson on Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Oh good! I wanted to watch it, but since I don't have Starz, I couldn't. Looking forward to it!
Sean Ferguson October 30, 2013 at 10:13 AM
I haven't seen it yet either but after watching the trailer I'd be interested in reviewing it.
At least I'll know who to borrow it from. =)


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Album Review: Steve Moore – Pangaea Ultima
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Steve Moore: Pangaea Ultima
Similar Artists: Zombi, Bookworms, Lovelock
Genre: Synths n' Stuff
Label: Spectrum Spools
I originally intended for this review to be for L.I.E.S.' Music For Shut Ins, as the compilation has been my revolving soundtrack for the better part of the last month. If you're not cool enough to already know, just as American Noise was last year, Music For Shut Ins is an impeccably solid grouping of new and previously released tracks from the New York umbrella label that represents some of the most exciting experimental electronic music around. So it's too bad that I eventually found the release to be too overwhelming to write a proper review on. Luckily, Steve Moore (an artist who released multiple 12 inches for the label), has just released his newest and arguably highest profile release to date, and with it consisting of 9 similarly produced tracks, it happens to be a much easier statement to digest.
Pangaea Ultima is Steve Moore's first release on Spectrum Spools: a label curated by ex-Emeralds member John Elliott that has harnessed an ever-increasing array of talent ever since its inception in 2011. In addition to Moore's plentiful amount of solo material, he has recorded as a member of Zombi, the bass guitarist for prog-rock outfit Titan, and has offered his multi-instrumentalist talents to groups such as Panthers and SunnO))). He's also written his own film scores (mostly for low-budget horror films), proving he's not only a skilled multi-instrumentalist, but a skilled composer as well. Thankfully, this prolificness isn't a detractor from the quality of his work, as Pangaea Ultima emerges as only the most recent of this artist's dense and masterfully coordinated projects. However, there is something about Pangaea that feels more assured and fully realized in comparison to many of the artist's earlier solo ventures, and hopefully this means it will be the release to garner him the larger audience that he deserves.
The album itself happens to be a soundtrack to the theorized super-continent destined to re-emerge on Earth within the next 200 million years or so, and with track titles like "Planetwalk" and "WorldBuilding", it's no secret that this is representative of Moore at his most colossal. The tone here is dark, and admittedly, this tone changes only very slightly throughout the hour long running time. Despite the limited emotional and instrumental range though, the album unfolds masterfully — as you might expect from someone with the resume of a film composer. Furthermore, despite Moore's electronic and even post-punkian upbringing, he pretty much strays away from anything that could be deemed danceable, and several tracks are even entirely beat-less.
While Pangaea Ultima is not entirely without a chugging pulse ("Planetwalk" and the title track are borderline techno), Moore is much more concerned with concocting a stable mood and ominous intrigue. This direction is not to be confused with ambient music though, as Pangaea Ultima is a work that is as engrossing to listen to in the foreground as it is to lay dormant in the background (I've also found that it makes for some killer tetris battle music). Similarly, although many tracks appear to be in the vein of minimalism ("Deep Time", "Logotones"), they all eventually emerge as dense and extraordinarily epic; at the most intense moments it's as if we can feel the weight of the continents shifting beneath our feet.
There are a lot of keyboards present at any given moment — all of them arpegiatting and oscillating onward into some infinite void — yet the pieces themselves are uncluttered and organically rich; of which I give credit to the superb mastering of Rashad Becker. The recordings of Krautrock pioneers Tangerine Dream are an easy comparison to Pangaea Ultima, and truth be told, similarly designed compositions have been available as early as the 60's. More recently, we've had Oneohtrix Point Never, who thoroughly documented how gripping solo synth pieces can be with his extensive and career making Rifts compilation. However, while what Steve Moore is doing here may not be unique or even immediately ear catching, it's far from artless, and shouldn't be taken as a mere throwback LP. Within a scene of synthesizer fetishists who — with the more readily available recording technology of today — are capable of making monstrous sounding synth music on the fly, what makes Pangaea stand out is that it clearly isn't the sound of some virtuosic talent recording a day's worth of work, but a unified and wholly satisfying piece that's filled with as much blood, organs and bodily fluids as the organism that made it.
1.) Endless Caverns
2.) Planetwalk*
3.) Deep Time
4.) Nemesis
5.) Pangaea Ultima*
6.) Logotone*
7.) Aphelion
8.) Endless Mountains
9.) Worldbuilding*
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Album Review: Omar Souleyman – Wenu Wenu
by Rio Toro
Omar Souleyman: Wenu Wenu
Similar Artists: None that I know of
Genre: Dabke, Syrian Wedding Music, Line Dancing
Label: Ribbon Music
I've been getting some pretty strange looks from people who overhear Omar Souleyman's Wenu Wenu blasting from my headphones. This is probably because I'm white, and with my black leather jacket and torn jeans I probably resemble someone who would listen to punk or hard-rock rather than anything as foreign as Syrian wedding music. The thing is, despite the initial ethnic hurdle (you'll have to look up a translation if you're interested in what these songs are about), Souleyman's high octane version of Dabke — a traditional style of music intended for the purpose of line dancing — translates quite efficiently to the now popularized brand of melodic techno/house.
So yes, this is party music in the truest sense of the word. While Souleyman himself is a dynamic force on the album — with his soaring and spiritual voice — the main appeal (at least to us Americans) comes from longtime partner Rizan Sa'id's virtuosic keyboard playing. His adventurous synthesizer rhythms are a non-stop presence through the 40 minute album, and since they are often backed by bouncy 4/4 beats and hypnotic bass loops, if you let it, this is music that can truly make you move.
Omar Souleyman has apparently recorded upwards of 500 albums — of which he only made one copy of, to give to the bride and groom — but only recently has he been working within an actual studio in an attempt to capture the essence of his highly talked about live performances. Wenu Wenu is being seen as his first "proper" studio full length, as it was put out on Ribbon Music instead of Sublime Frequencies, who put out versions of his more low-fidelity recordings. Production duties have been handled by Keiran Hebden(AKA Four Tet), and although his influence on the music itself is only modest, he treats the sounds with a clarity and buoyancy relatable to his own work. This is a good thing, because Souleyman and Sa'id don't need to change their formula; not now, not ever.
Wenu Wenu is about channeling the best of this duo's output (many of these tracks are rerecorded versions of previously released career highlights) and making it work in a home listening setting. While some people may prefer the more chaotic and unintentionally noisy characteristics of Souleyman's previous work, this is an album that took a whole lot of time to get here (around 20 years), and every non-Syrian should brave any slight uncomfortableness they may have and listen to it at least once.
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Creative puppetry show to bring fresh experience of Vietnamese culture
Trang (The Moon) Puppetry Show features different types of puppetry to offer the audience a new experience of the Vietnamese culture.
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The Hanoi-based Vietnam National Puppetry Theatre has launched an experimental art program named "Trang" (The Moon) that features different types of puppetry to offer the audience a new experience of the Vietnamese culture.
Director of the theatre Nguyen Tien Dung said the moon symbolizes beauty and peace and is very familiar to every people. It is also an endless source of inspiration for poetry, music, and literature. Hence, his idea is to use the image of the moon, the combination of land and water puppetry, and traditional music to create a contemporary art show that introduces the culture of Vietnam's ethnic groups, from the north to the south, according to Vietnam Plus.
He added that the performance is expected to become a must-see for tourists, helping them understand more about the unique Vietnamese culture. Tickets for the show will be sold starting February 8, Dung noted.
The show is built not based on a specific story but is based on a unique cultural element of the regions of Vietnam: moonlight. Coming to the show, audiences will be guided throughout the country by the lead of the moon: from the pale moon of highlands, the gentle moon of Hue citadel to the warm moon of the West's dances.
The creative team includes author, director, Nguyen Tien Dung; visual artist The Khien, art deco Ngo Thang, musicians Tran Duc Minh, Minh Duong, and Xuan Phuong. The puppet show was performed by the Vietnam Puppet Theater.
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A clear understanding of responsibilities and relationships between and among the Board and school personnel is essential for a smoothly running and efficient school system. It should be remembered that the Board, school administrators, teachers, and all others responsible for any phase of the work of the school system have a common and basic responsibility—the welfare of the children in the schools. This responsibility must guide all of the Board's considerations and decisions.
Board and Superintendent
The relationship of the Board and the Superintendent can best be described as one of teamwork. They must function cooperatively as some of their functions are not readily separable. However, the primary functions are separable and should be clearly understood by each. The Board is the governing body of the school unit and has the responsibility for adopting policies and providing for the care and management of the schools.
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The School Principal has no direct administrative relations with the Board. His/her relations to the Board are through the Superintendent, for the Board recognizes that the Superintendent is the person to whom it must look for professional leadership within the schools. A spirit of cooperation and mutual helpfulness must prevail between the Superintendent and the Principal if the best results are to be realized. For instance, the Principal and the Superintendent must cooperate in the selection of school staff because the Principal is in the best position to know the kind of person needed for a particular type of service in the school. However, the Principal must make recommendations to the Superintendent and not to the Board.
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The relationship of the teacher to the Board is indirect. The teacher is directly responsible to the Principal/Assistant Principal and through the Principal/
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The Story of a Secret Rescue Mission
January 26, 2012 wpadmin
St. Petersburg During the Russian Civil War
Group of older children who were rescued,
on deck of Yomei Maru, 1920.
Photo: Vladimir Lipovetsky
The calamities of the First World War with its massive loss of Russian lives greatly weakened the power of the Romanov dynasty and, in 1917, the Tsar was forced to abdicate his throne. A weak Provisional Government was formed in February 1917, but the losses from the war, the breakdown of the economy, and the violence caused by rival political factions created an opportunity for the Communists to seize power in the fall of 1917.
Russia then disintegrated into civil war as the Red Army of the Communist Party, which controlled St. Petersburg (Petrograd), Moscow and the central Russian heartland, found itself surrounded by conservative forces who wanted to crush the radical Bolshevik revolution. The opposition forces were called the White Army and the violence of Russians versus Russians quickly spread across the country.
The Plight of the Russian Children
It was during the chaos of these years of civil war that parents in St. Petersburg loaded thousands of their children and chaperoning teachers on trains headed a thousand miles southeast to the Ural Mountains, where they would be safe and well-fed, sheltered from the conflicts in the region around the Russian capital city of St. Petersburg.
Most of these children returned home at the end of the summer of 1918, but nearly 800 of them were trapped in Siberia as the civil war spread east. During battles between the Red and White Armies, the train line to the west was severed and the children, dressed in summer clothes, were facing hunger and the threat of winter without adequate clothing.
We now know a remarkable story about how these children were rescued by the American Red Cross. In the fall of 1918, Red Cross volunteers working in the Russian Far East heard rumors about hundreds of abandoned children dressed in rags and foraging for food in Siberian forests. The volunteers set out to find these children and, when they were located, put them on trains eastward to the port city of Vladivostok. Once in Vladivostok, the children were taken to a former barracks on nearby Russky Island where they remained until the summer of 1920. On the island, they were under the protection of the American Expeditionary Force that was deployed there to protect American military equipment loaned to Russia during World War I.
Riley Allen with one of rescued children,
on Russky Island off Vladivostok.
As the American troops prepared to leave, the Russian children's fate became an issue. At this point, the American Red Cross once again stepped in. A Red Cross volunteer, Riley Allen, arrived in the Russian Far East to report on developments there as a journalist, but when he learned about these children, he decided to help them. A Japanese cargo ship was refitted and used to transport 20 American Red Cross volunteers, 780 children, and their 50 teachers to California, where they arrived in August 1920. During the next six months, the children and teachers were brought back to St. Petersburg by way of Finland – a journey that had literally taken them around the world!
This remarkable story is now being told for the first time by Russians who want to make the rescue mission known. Most of the children involved in this adventure never spoke about their experience as they grew up because contact with foreigners was dangerous in the Soviet Union. One of the authors who wrote about this rescue mission is Olga Molkina, whose book has been published in Russian, but not yet in English. She said: "The Americans who worked in the American Red Cross were simple people, and those lost children were someone else's. They didn't have to do anything, but they did."
NOTE: This post is based on an article by Kathy Lally entitled "A Red Cross Rescue of Russian Children," published in the January 7, 2012 issue of The Washington Post.
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Q: TouchableOpacity is slow when dispatch is used I am using react-redux with redux-toolkit
import { setLanguage } from "../../redux/main";

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Above code is working fine and it is updating the state globally for me, but problem is TouchableOpacity or pressable or TouchableHighlight is delayed by 500 ms to 2 seconds.
I tried             delayPressIn={0} with no result.
if i remove   dispatch(setLanguage("English")) , Button click is  working fast.
I thought Language state renders multiple component , that is why it is slow .. So I created dummy state which is not used anywhere , still I get this performance issue.

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... Yet Obama is oozing empathy compared with his attorney general, who last week called us "a nation of cowards" about race. Eric Holder, who showed precious little bravery in standing up to Clinton on a pardon for the scoundrel Marc Rich, is wrong. We have just inaugurated a black president who installed a black attorney general. We need leaders to help us through our crises, not provide us with crude evaluations of our character. And we don't need sermons from liberal virtuecrats, anymore than from conservative virtuecrats.
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'The Mighty Ducks' Second Season Will Hit Our Screens Next Month
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by Sam Amico September 1, 2022, 11:03 am 240 Views 0 Votes
It's been 30 years since we were first introduced to The Mighty Ducks. Therefore, 30 years since those very Ducks won the peewee hockey tournament.
And after two follow-ups, and a Disney+ series, guess what's on the way? That's right, another season of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. And this season will feature a new coach, played by a new actor.
The character is Coach Colin Cole, who will be portrayed by Josh Duhamel. Cole arrives from an elite Los Angeles summer hockey program and replaces coach Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez).
But summer hockey isn't exactly tons of fun for our beloved Ducks. Instead, their ideas of low-stakes offseason enjoyment is actually "more of an intensive training program for future NHL players than a fun few weeks on the ice with friends," wrote Entertainment Weekly.
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
Anyway, a lot of people are asking what became of Estevez, the coach in each of the three films and Season 1 of the Disney+ show.
Well, it seems the studio decided to replace him over contention over the show's COVID vaccination requirement.
"The actor, who also served as an executive producer on the show, reportedly would not confirm whether he would comply with the vaccine mandate," Entertainment Weekly wrote.
That said, Estevez has come out and said that he is far from "anti-vaxx." He also said in a statement to EW that his departure is the result of "a good old fashioned contract dispute" and "creative differences."
Either way, the Ducks are back and from the sounds of things, they'll be every bit as much fun as ever.
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1.	Title and commencement-(1) This notice is the Resource Management (Approval of Radio New Zealand Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 2001.
(2)	This notice comes into force on the 28th day after the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.
(d)	"Predecessors" includes Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand and New Zealand Public Radio Limited.
(2)	In this notice, any reference to an enactment is deemed to include a reference to all subsequent enactments passed in amendment or substitution for that enactment.
(e)	a designation is included in a district plan, and Radio New Zealand Limited or its predecessors has been or is the requiring authority for that designation.
(b)	the operation, erection, installation, maintenance, replacement, alteration, improvement, removal and other use, including ancillary use, of land (within the meaning of section 9 (4) of the Resource Management Act 1991) in respect of any such radiocommunication or telecommunication facility.
Dated at Wellington this 31st day of January 2001.
PETE HODGSON, for the Minister for the Environment.
Principal Edition, 15 February 2001.


A lot has changed in 13 years.
That was the messaged delivered by Valedictorian Erika Thorimbert as the St. Mary class of 2018 gathered together one last time Wednesday morning.
Inside the walls of the Art Hauser Centre, the grads celebrated how far they had come, and how they had helped each other along the way.
School officials said the graduating class of 190 students is one of the largest ever, as the school outperforms the provincial graduation rate average.
According to Thorimbert, and fellow student Jayden Bissky, that's because this group of graduates came together.
"(Our journey) was filled with good times and bad," Thorimbert said.
"Although we dealt with loss and tragedy, we also shared unforgettable, joyful moments with each other.
Bishop Albert Thevenot urged the grads to go forth and live a life led by love. It's a message also passed on by principal Mark Phaneuf, who said there hasn't been a Grade 12 group more respectful than the class that graduated Wednesday.
"We live in a world where we're constantly bombarded with messages stating supposed problems with youth today, and decrying uncertainty for the future," he said.
Bissky, who gave the salutary address, wished her fellow graduates well. "We've had a lot of glories and defeats, she said.


First, I want to express my delight that the moderators are now posting more. Eva2k, you've got some real hard-working mods here, and it must be a real pleasure having them work for you. .
Now, this is the first stage in a series of new ideas that I will be proposing. Some of my more advanced tactics will have to wait, because great tactics take a while to craft to perfection, but here is a simple one to kick-start the process.
Why do people switch on the TV on a Saturday night? Because they anticipate seeing something entertaining. Equally, why do people load up the website AnimeBoards.com? I'm not sure, but if you had a regular poll, then that would really give people something to look forward to. Expectation is a key ingredient behind motivation and a poll of the week would really help to generate the expectation of taking part in exciting polls. Also, recall that in the distant past, there used to be a poll every week made by the moderating team.
Of course, I would just make the polls myself, but as far as I can see, normal members don't have this ability. So I propose that the moderating team make a poll every week and advertise it in some way. If you're short on topics, then I can give you some great ideas. There could be a poll about anime or world events for example, or perhaps there could be a poll that alternates between the two topics.
This is an idea that would take so little effort to implement and could reap great rewards.
So who's up for this?
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1. Great idea, we can't live without it!
2. Can we vault with it?
3. That's stupid, voting is over-rated!
4. Could we get a cookie instead?
But seriously do you really even care about other people's opinions? What would be the point of this poll? What would we vote about that everybody would have an understanding of?
We have weekly online polls at work about random crap, I used to take the time to wiki the answers since thats where they originated from but I ended up not caring and clicking on 'D. I don't know' everytime.
I think its an excellent idea! Knowing the likes/dislikes of the newer members would let us have a better understanding of what people WANT to talk about here.
...this is your big idea? Really?
I think Wolfpac was the only mod that loved to make polls.
Im just in shock 2 MOD's accually posted in the same thread!
But seriously do you really even care about other people's opinions?
Why are you posting on a messageboard if you don't care about other people's opinions at all?
What would be the point of this poll?
To get people thinking and to start discussions. To give something for people to look forward to and do.
What would we vote about that everybody would have an understanding of?
Have you forgotten that we are on AnimeBoards.com?
We're totally on the same wavelength here, kami. . This place definitely needs more proactive, enthusiastic members like you, especially since my former right-hand man Black_Knight legged it back to 4chan or something.
Just the the tip of the iceberg; as I mentioned in my first post, this is just the first in a series of tactics that will stretch the boundaries of imagination. Together with your invaluable help and that of Eva2k and the other mods, we can bring the good times here to AB. Watch this space. .
I was thinking more of the polls Drizzten used to make - e.g. http://www.animeboards.com/showthread.php?t=46193, although he's since left to concentrate on bringing down the state.
So Pen2 and ATh, you up for making these polls? Just let me know in this thread if you want any topic ideas!
I'm not shocked at all - on the contrary, I expected such professionalism from our excellent moderators. .
As long as it isnt in the eva forums im game. Not sure how to do it, but i can look into it.
Set it out, give me the forum, the title, the polls, we'll see if its the 2nd coming or not.


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It would be easy to write off Samantha Hunt's nineteen year old female narrator as unreliable and delusional, drowning in her own solitude and sorrow in her soggy, salty northern coastal home. Submersing herself into the whole mermaid mythos, after all, would be a fairly logical madness given the grey-blue existence that has consumed her remote world since her father walked into the sea twelve years prior. Of course he may not have walked into the sea, per se, from the aqua-marine perspective of our heroine; he simply, unavoidably, returned to it. Which of course is fate fulfilled if that's where he came from.
From the beginnings of this love and pain-racked little gem of a novel, Hunt weaves a dual reality that leaves the reader enthralled. We do not need to know if our water-logged young guide is truly a maiden of fantasy or simply living in her own crazed mind; both realities are truth. There is no need to explain away all of her wet visions, preoccupations and fantasies; they are every bit as real as the dry "rational" explanations the world may offer. The submersive, hopelessness of her impossible love scenario with the older, war-wrecked fisherman Jude is a salt-stained watercolor portrait of the wrathful power, ridiculousness and abject suffering of unrequited love.
Bring an open mind, an open heart and... a towel. Hunt's "The Seas", a re-release from 2005, will saturate you with its imagery and its longing.


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With Global Alliance, an International Network of Tech Public Relations Agencies, Launches
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Founding Members include Affect (North America), With (UK), WEdge (China), Ideosphere (India), and Bold (Singapore)
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Affect, a public relations agency specializing in technology, healthcare and professional services, and European tech PR and marketing agency With, announced today the creation of a global network of technology public relations agencies, the With Global Alliance. The With Global Alliance is launching with founding members Affect (North America), Ideosphere (India), Bold (Southeast Asia), With (UK) and WEdge (China), spanning 4 continents and serving 18 countries.
The With Global Alliance is designed specifically to support technology businesses and the founding members all have deep expertise in the field. Experience across the Alliance includes AI, blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, and spans sectors including martech, fintech, cleantech and edtech, among others.
Founding members are already working together on global accounts, providing strategic counsel as well as expert in-country execution. Experts from across the With Global Alliance members are working together as unified, global account teams to offer clients consistent delivery and streamlined reporting as they scale their communications across markets. Members are active in the U.S., Canada, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, India, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand.
Members were identified after a detailed due diligence process and face-to-face meetings with shortlisted agencies in their markets. In addition to the tech focus and media expertise, key criteria were an integrated approach to marketing and communications, impeccable client references, long-term growth and profitability and leading-edge client servicing standards. All members are owner-managed agencies with hands-on senior teams and previous international agency experience.
"Being a European agency, we have always had a multi-market offer at our heart," comments Debbie Zaman, CEO and founder of With. "But as an Alliance, we are now uniquely well placed to support technology businesses as they scale, whether they are looking to enter new markets or grow existing ones. Global business is changing exponentially, whether it is trade deals, M&A or Brexit related, and our aim is to redefine how agile global PR and marketing delivers on that."
Sandra Fathi, president of Affect, added, "As a trusted partner and advisor for our clients, we have always sought out like-minded agencies across the globe that have both the domain expertise and the skills to consistently deliver stellar tech PR programs. The formation of the With Global Alliance provides us with proven, vetted partners to service client needs in 18 countries and counting, that share the same commitment to client service and results. The Alliance has already benefited our individual team members, our agency and our clients."
The With Global Alliance has already soft-launched with integrated global work for three different tech clients on projects including investor relations, events and traditional media relations. Joanna Derain, VP International at With, is working alongside With agency Founder and CEO Debbie Zaman on the delivery of global client work under the Alliance. Zaman becomes the Global President of the Alliance with an executive committee formed of the founders of Affect and Ideosphere as well as Derain as Global Company Secretary.
Rebecca Rosborough, CMO for MiQ, a Sunday Times Tech Track rising star, said "The Alliance has delivered exactly what we needed: agile but expert comms in the UK, US, India and APAC. The combined team knows the media we need to know, creates killer content that suits local markets and is helping get us in front of both customers and partners. They bring us proactive ideas that work both globally and locally. We are very excited for what we can achieve in 2020."
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Taxi é um romance gráfico de Gustavo Duarte, publicado de forma independente em 2010. O livro conta a história de um músico de jazz que esquece sua case no bar onde estava. Para voltar ao local, ele pega um táxi que é dirigido por um elefante, começando uma sequência de confusões. A história toda é desenvolvida sem balões de fala e foi impressa em formato quadrado, com tamanho semelhante aos antigos LPs. A apresentação na quarta capa foi escrita em português, inglês e espanhol pelos desenhistas Fábio Moon e Gabriel Bá. O primeiro lançamento o livro ocorreu na New York Comic Con, sendo posteriormente lançado em Buenos Aires e São Paulo. Em 2011, o livro ganhou o Troféu HQ Mix na categoria "melhor publicação independente edição única".

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How safe is your banking job? This is where big banks need to cut costs
by Sarah Butcher 27 November 2017
Are you going to lose your job before bonuses are paid? This clearly depends how well you performed. It also depends upon the degree to which the bank you work for is overweight in your division.
Whilst we can't speak for the former, we can give you an idea of the latter. Tricumen, the banking intelligence firm, has just released a new set of charts based upon its own research into productivity per head. They reveal where each bank needs to trim some fat. They also suggest that some divisions in some banks are a lot less efficient than others.
1. You DON'T want to work for the investment banking divisions (IBD) of UBS and Deutsche Bank. You DO want to work in IBD for Goldman Sachs
Tricumen's research suggests that UBS and Deutsche Bank have too many people working in their investment banking divisions (equity capital markets, debt capital markets, M&A and securitization). At both banks, revenues earned per head are well below the market average. By comparison, Tricumen suggests investment bankers at Goldman Sachs excel at revenue generation. If you're looking for job security, Goldman looks like the better bet.
Operating revenue/front office headcount in IBD, 2017
2. You don't want to work in fixed income, currencies and commodities for a Swiss bank. You do want to work for RBS or Citi
In fixed income currencies and commodities (FICC), Tricumen suggests Swiss banks are the great under-performers. Fixed income traders at both UBS and Credit Suisse generate extremely low revenues per head (despite UBS chopping huge swathes of fixed income traders from 2012). By comparison, Morgan Stanley's fixed income traders are averagely productive (despite Morgan Stanley chopping 25% of fixed income traders in 2015), as are Goldman Sachs'.
The safest fixed income jobs are not where you'd expect. Tricumen's research suggests the most productive fixed income traders are to be found at RBS. RBS has also made heavy job cuts in the past five years, but has a reputation for employing excellent macro traders, whose revenue-generation appears exceptional. Similarly, Citi's more credit-focused fixed income traders more than earn their keep.
Operating revenue/front office headcount in FICC, 2017
3. You want to work in equities sales and trading for Morgan Stanley, for J.P. Morgan or for Goldman Sachs. Avoid Citi, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank
If Citi's fixed income traders are exceptionally productive, the same cannot be said for Citi's equities traders. During the bank's third quarter call, Citi CFO John Gerspach told investors he was happy with the 30% combined year-on-year uplift in equities sales and trading and equities capital markets revenues. However, the chart below suggests that after several years of hiring Citi's equities professionals still need to generate a lot more in revenues to justify their existence. Along with rivals at Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, they're exceptionally unproductive.
By comparison, equities traders at Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and Goldman generate revenues per head that are far above the peer group average. If you're looking for a secure job in equities, these look like the best places to be.
Operating revenue/front office headcount in equities, 2017
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The route for the 2011 Tour de France was unveiled on Tuesday. Somehow, despite my professed love of the Tour, I always miss the unveiling, but fortunately, Joel pointed out the news yesterday, so I immediately checked it out.
What immediately caught my (and Joel's) eye were the ante-penultimate and penultimate stages. Once again, as has been the custom the last couple of years, the penultimate stage will be an individual time trial. What makes it special for us is that it will be in Grenoble, where Joel spent the fall a year ago and where we visited him a a year ago next week. And the ante-penultimate stage will be a stunning day in the Alps, with climbs over the Col du Télégraphe and Col du Galibier as warmups for the stage-ending climb of Alpe-d'Huez. This holds special interest to us as well, since we made that climb 51 weeks ago today. (By car.) If only the timing of our trip were different.
But regardless of our personal stake in these stages, can you imagine? The final two days before the ceremonial ride into Paris consist of the famed ride up Alpe-d'Huez and an individual time trial! So much can change so late in the Tour. And I haven't even mentioned the stage that precedes that of the Alpe-d'Huez climb. It's a monster too, starting in Pinerolo, Italy, climbing the Col Agnel into France, then the Col d'Isoard, followed by a stage-ending climb up the Col du Galibier to a finish at the resort of Serre-Chevalier. That's two successive Alpine stages ending with climbs and then the time trial.
I can't wait.
And don't spoil it for me by bringing up drugs. I'm sure (2008 and 2010 champion) Contador is clean. It was the steak.
Tour-de-France or bust
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Caroline Bouvier is a member of the Global Advertising Lawyer Alliance (GALA) and has co-authored numerous articles in the areas of advertising, communication and intellectual property.
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India's Life Insurance Corp. files for a USD 8 Bn stock market debut
Category: #headlines | By Mateen Dalal | Date: 2022-02-14 |
Life Insurance Corporation of India has reportedly filed papers to sell 5% of the company shares to raise approximately USD 8 billion, marking it as India's largest IPO by a considerable margin. The Mumbai-based insurance and investment giant is planning to sell 316.25 million shares, which will account for around 5% of the post-offer paid-up share capital.
The apparent IPO has been deemed to be critical to the government's efforts to meet its tightly trimmed divestment target for this financial year. It could also offer a success story to the government's pro-market policies.
Given the current market conditions, the government is likely to raise around USD 7.79 billion from the insurance, while LIC's market listing is scheduled to be completed by March-end.
Notably, the filing showed an embedded value of approximately USD 71.56 billion. The IPO will also test the investor appetite given that various companies that debuted last year are now trading below their offer prices.
LIC's market debut also comes when foreign investors are slowly pulling funds from the domestic market. India's largest insurer, which had 105,000 full-time employees in September last year, accounts for a 60% share in India's life insurance market, managing around USD 500 billion of assets.
The company has also issued at least 280 million policies in force, with experts putting LIC's brand value at USD 8.66 billion. It is also worth noting that India's recent public listing by a life insurer was back in 2017 when HDC Life Insurance managed to bag USD 1.3 billion while its share price nearly doubled since its stock market debut.
In 2021 alone, several companies in India have raised a record USD 16.6 billion through initial share sales, which is at least 52% more than the previous record in 2017. Reports have it that LIC's listing could make it one of the five biggest companies in India by market capitalization, following the behemoths such as Reliance Industries, Tata Consulting Services, HDFC Bank, and Infosys.
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What the "Superstar" album meant for Wizkid, the Brand.
What the "Superstar" album meant for Wizkid, the brand by Emmanuel Esomnofu.
We love our favorite celebrities for different reasons but key of it is the realization of the need for a separate existence, an existence where one's dreams become real through association with another person.
For the average person who pressed play on Wizkid's debut album Superstar, it wasn't thought of that seven years later, they'll still be stanning behind the man who is now a global brand but then well, was just a whiz kid. How did he do it, though?
The likes of D'banj ruled the airwaves in 2011.
In 2011 (on the iconic June 12) when Superstar was released, there was too much grown ass music. Teenage exuberances weren't properly represented, the likes of 9ice, 2face, Psquare and D'banj ruled the airwaves and everybody turned a blind eye to the fact that a healthy music industry should be like a well stocked supermarket; it should have at least something appropriate to the cravings of everyone. Then Holla At Your Boy happened and Wizkid became what the people wanted all along, without them knowing. Fathers rocked to it, mothers danced, kids sang along, teenagers lived it. A brand was born, not just cool music.
Banky W mentored Wizkid.
Mentored by the enigmatic Banky W, the tiny voiced pop act knew one or two things about the art of the debut album, in no time releasing Superstar which was nominated for the Headies Album of the Year. Content wise, Superstar album was a hit fest, with almost all seventeen songs growing into their own buzz. In Say My Name, Wizkid affirms his new found status as a celebrity, usual bragaddocio after scoring one of the greatest hit songs of the past half decade. Songs like Don't Dull, Pakurumo, Tease Me, Wiz Party, Slow Whine (ft. Banky W) and Scatter the Floor take on the scope of a young entertainer in sync with his female audiences. With Wad Up, Wizkid takes a dig at the people who once called him dirty. It was what basically what every teenager related to; no deep analysis of the society or musical experimentation. He worked with just seven producers on the album and the result was a success.
After the commercial success of Superstar, it wasn't hard for Wizkid to live the life; rock blings, spend on girls, drink from expensive bottles and all that, and as his mates did, lose his Midas touch. But with a firm structure and a wise voice behind him, It was hard to fail. Until, the breakup.
Headlines were outrageous, the press clamored for details, everyone was tightlipped but the truth seeped through the gasp of every young person in Nigeria; Wizkid was leaving Empire Mates Entertainment. Like concerned adults, we feared that the kid was being a kid, that all he's worked for will come crumbling. That our dreams being lived through the boy from Ojuélégbà was dissolving into nothing. But instead of falling, he ascended to heights unprecedented.
Wizkid has now grown into a global superstar
Seven years later, after musical growth and transformations, the sound might have changed, tattoos might have covered where there was once honeyed skin, The numerous collaborations with Drake still bangs, the 20k capacity 02 stadium might have been filled, the voice might not tickle as it once did, but Wizkid still represents the cycle of the talented youngster who finally made it. Seeing him on our screens everyday and hearing of his global exploits remind us that hard work, as portrayed in his song Ojuélégbà pays. With his collaboration with Nike, modelling for the Nigerian Super Eagles jersey, he has proven to be influential outside his chosen field. Racking up endorsement deals day by day, he is still the man. Yet, musically we feel he has not done enough recently.
Wizkid's Cross over Project failed to impress.
Whilst "Sounds from the Other Side" was an expert recycling of dominant foreign sounds such as EDM, Reggae, Kwaito, etc, there is still an unspoken clamoring for the untainted Wizkid, the Ayo Balogun before the Chris Brown affiliation and the Pepsi deal, the kid with a voice before his microphone. And he promises that. In a chat with veteran music DJ Tim Westwood in the UK, Wizkid said; "The new album is called Made in Lagos, Wizkid Made in Lagos; 10 tracks, no features just straight Wizkid"
Wizkid is readying his new project; Made in Lagos
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