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Завистливое распределение объектов (без зависти, БЗ, , EF распределение) — это задача справедливого распределения объектов, в которой критерием справедливости служит отсутствие зависти в получившемся распределении — каждый агент должен получить набор объектов, ценность которых (как он считает) не меньше долей, полученных другими агентами.

Поскольку объекты неделимы, БЗ распределение может не существовать. Простейшим случаем такого дележа является один объект, который следует распределить между хотя бы двумя агентами: если объект достанется одному агенту, второй будет ему завидовать. Таким образом, процедуры дележа предполагают различные виды ослабления требования отсутствия зависти.

Поиск распределения без зависти, если оно существует

Упорядочение предпочтений для наборов: отсутствие зависти
 находит полное распределение БЗ для двух агентов тогда и только тогда, когда такое распределение существует. Процедура требует от агентов ранжировать наборы объектов, но не требует информацию о количественной полезности. Алгоритм работает, если предпочтения агентов строго монотонны и нет необходимости предполагать, что они являются . В худшем случае агенты могут иметь ряд возможных наборов, так что время работы может экспоненциально зависеть от числа объектов.

Упорядочение предпочтений для объектов: заведомое/возможное отсутствие зависти
Обычно для людей проще упорядочить индивидуальные объекты, чем упорядочить наборы объектов. Предположим, что все агенты имеют , тогда имеется возможность поднять упорядочение объектов до частичного упорядочения наборов. Например, если объекты упорядочены w>x>y>z, отсюда следует, что {w, x}>{y, z} и {w, y}>{x, z}, но не следуют какие-либо предпочтения между {w, z} и {x, y}, между {x} и {y, z}, и так далее.

Если дано упорядочение объектов:
 Распределение заведомо не будет иметь зависть, (заведомо без зависти, ЗБЗ, , NEF), если оно не имеет зависти для всех адаптивных упорядочений наборов, согласующихся с упорядочением объектов;
 Распределение возможно не имеет зависти (возможно без зависти, ВБЗ, , PEF), если оно не имеет зависти для по меньшей мере одного адаптивного упорядочения наборов, согласующегося с упорядочением объектов;
 Распределение является заведомо оптимальным по Парето (ЗОП, , NPE), если оно оптимально по Парето для всех адаптивных упорядочений наборов, согласующихся с упорядочением объектов;
 Распределение возможно оптимально по Парето (ВОП, , PPE), если оно оптимально по Парето для по меньшей мере одного адаптивного упорядочения наборов, согласующегося с упорядочением объектов.

Бувре, Эндрисс и Ленг изучали алгоритмические вопросы поиска ЗБЗ/ВБЗ распределения с дополнительным условием эффективности, частичности, полноты, ЗОП или ВОП. В общем виде случай ВБЗ вычислительно более прост, а случай ЗБЗ более труден.

Существует ли БЗ распределение
Пустое распределение всегда БЗ, но если мы хотим потребовать эффективность вдобавок к БЗ, решение задачи становится вычислительно сложным:

 Решение, существует ли полное БЗ распределение, является NP-полной задачей. Это верно даже когда имеется только два агента и даже когда функции полезности аддитивны и идентичны, поскольку в этом случае поиск БЗ распределения эквивалентен решению задачи разбиения множества чисел.
 Решение, существует ли эффективное по Парето БЗ распределение, является более трудной задачей, чем NP — она -полна даже с дихотомическими функциями предпочтений и даже с аддитивными функциями полезности.

Поиск распределения с ограниченным уровнем зависти
Некоторые процедуры находят распределение, которое не имеет зависти за исключением одного объекта (БЗ1) — для любых двух агентов A и B существует один объект, при удалении которого из набора агента B агент A уже не будет завидовать агенту B.

Круговая процедура
Если все агенты имеют слабо аддитивные полезности, следующий протокол (который похож на круговое планирование) даёт полностью БЗ1 распределение:
 Упорядочиваем агентов произвольным образом.
 Пока есть нераспределённые объекты
 Позволяем агентам с номерами от 1 до  выбрать объект.

 Доказательство: Для любого агента  делим выборы, сделанные агентами на подпоследовательности — первая подпоследовательность начинается с агента 1 и заканчивается агентом . Последняя подпоследовательность начинается с  и заканчивается на . Во второй последовательности агент  выбирает первым, так что он выбирает лучший объект, а потому не завидует другому агенту. Агент  может завидовать только одному из агентов , и любая зависть получается только из объекта, который был выбран в первой подпоследовательности. Если этот объект убрать, агент  не будет завидовать.

Протокол кругового планирования требует слабой аддитивности, поскольку в нём требуется, чтобы каждый агент выбирал «лучший объект» без знания, какие объекты будут выбраны им впоследствии. Другими словами, это предполагает, что объекты являются независимыми товарами.

Процедура циклов зависти
Процедура циклов зависти возвращает полностью БЗ1 распределение для произвольных отношений предпочтений. Единственным требованием является возможность упорядочить агентами свои наборы объектов.

Если предпочтения агентов представлены функцией кардиналистской полезности, то гарантия БЗ1 имеет дополнительную интерпретацию: численный уровень зависти каждого агента не превосходит максимальную предельную полезность, то есть наибольшую предельную полезность отдельного объекта для этого агента.

Приблизительная П-КРРД процедура
Механизм  (П-КРРД, , A-CEEI) возвращает частичное БЗ1 распределение для произвольных предпочтений. Единственным требованием является возможность агента упорядочить наборы объектов.

Небольшое число объектов может остаться нераспределённым. Распределение эффективно по Парето в отношении распределённых объектов. Более того, П-КРРД механизм является приблизительно стратегически неуязвимым, если число агентов большое.

Максимальное по Нэшу Благополучие
Алгоритм максимального по Нэшу благополучия (МНБ, , MNW) выбирает полное распределение, которое максимизирует произведение полезностей. Он требует, чтобы каждый агент обеспечил численную оценку каждого объекта, и предполагает, что полезности для агентов аддитивны. Результирующим распределением будет также БЗ1 и эффективное по Парето.

Если предпочтения агентов не аддитивны, МНБ решение не обязательно БЗ1, но если предпочтения агентов по меньшей мере , МНБ решение удовлетворяет более слабому свойству, называемому предельным распределением без зависти за исключением 1 объекта (ПБЗ1, , MEF1).

БЗ1 / БЗд
Имеется альтернативный критерий, называемый Отсутствие Зависти за исключением самого Дешёвого (БЗд) — для любых двух агентов A и B. Если мы удалим из набора объектов агента B любой объект, то A не будет завидовать B. БЗд строго сильнее, чем БЗ1. Но, пока неизвестно, всегда ли существуют БЗд распределения.

Минимизация отношения зависти
Если дано распределение X, определим отношение зависти i к j (EnvyRatio) как:

так что отношение равно 1, если i не завидует j, и больше 1, если i завидует j.
Определим отношение зависти распределения как:

Задача минимизации отношения зависти — это задача нахождения распределения X с наименьшим отношением зависти.

Оценки общего вида
При предпочтениях общего вида любой детерминированный алгоритм, который вычисляет распределение с минимальным отношением зависти требует количество запросов, в худшем случае экспоненциально зависящее от числа объектов.

Аддитивные одинаковые оценки
При аддитивных и идентичных оценках предпочтений:
 Следующий жадный алгоритм находит распределение, отношение зависти которого не более чем в 1,4 раз превосходит минимум;
 Упорядочиваем объекты в порядке убывания ценности;
 Пока имеются нераспределённые объекты, отдаём очередной объект агенту с минимальным суммарным значением;
 Существует PTAS схема минимизации отношения зависти. Более того, если число игроков постоянно, существует FPTAS схема.

Аддитивные различные оценки
При аддитивных и различных оценках предпочтений
 Если число агентов входит во входные данные, то за полиномиальное время невозможно получить коэффициент аппроксимации лучше 1,5. Если только не P=NP.
 Если число агентов постоянно, существует FPTAS схема.
 Если число агентов равно числу объектов, существует алгоритм распределения полиномиального времени.

Поиск частичного распределения без зависти
AL-процедура находит БЗ распределение для двух агентов. Она может отбросить некоторые из объектов, но конечное распределение эффективно по Парето в том смысле, что никакое другое БЗ распределение не лучше для одного и слабо лучше для другого. AL процедура требует упорядочить по ценности отдельные объекты только от агентов. Процедура предполагает, что агенты имеют , и даёт распределение, в котором заведомо отсутствует зависть (заведомо без зависти, ЗБЗ).

Процедура «подстраивающийся победитель» возвращает полное и эффективное БЗ распределения для двух агентов, но может потребовать разрезания одного из объектов (или один из объектов остаётся в общем пользовании). Процедура требует, чтобы каждый агент сообщил о численном значении полезности для каждого объекта, и предполагает, что агенты имеют аддитивные функции полезности.

Существование размещения без зависти со случайными оценками
Если агенты имеют аддитивные функции полезности, которые взяты из распределений вероятности, удовлетворяющих некоторым критериям, и число объектов достаточно велико по отношению к числу агентов, то БЗ распределение существует с высокой вероятностью. В частности
 Если число объектов достаточно велико, , то с большой вероятностью БЗ распределение существует (то есть вероятность стремится к 1 при стремлении m к бесконечности).
 Если число объектов не достаточно велико, то есть , то с большой вероятностью БЗ распределение не существует.

Отсутствие зависти и другие критерии справедливости
 Любое БЗ распределение является min-max справедливым. Это следует прямо из обычных определений и не зависит от аддитивности.
 Если агенты имеют аддитивные функции полезности, то БЗ распределение является также пропорциональным и max-min-справедливым. В противном случае БЗ распределение может не быть пропорциональным и даже не быть max-min-справедливым.
 Любое распределение, обладающее  при равных доходах, не имеет зависти. Это верно независимо от аддитивности.
 Любое оптимальное по Нэшу распределение (распределение, максимизирующее произведение полезностей) является БЗ1.

См. статью Задача справедливого распределения объектов с детальным описанием и ссылками на литературу.

Итоговая таблица
Ниже используются следующие обозначения:
  = число агентов, принимающих участие в дележе;
  = число предметов (объектов), которые следует распределить;
 БЗ = без зависти, БЗ1 = без зависти при исключении одного предмета (более слабое требование, чем БЗ), ПБЗ1 = предельно без зависти при исключении одного предмета (более слабое требование, чем БЗ1).
 ЭП = эффективно по Парето (PE = ).

См. также
 Максиминимизация долей — другой критерий справедливости.

Примечания

Литература

  ACM link

Справедливый делёж


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11 Twisted Facts About 'The Far Side'
BY Mark Mancini
For 15 years, "The Far Side" added a dash of irreverence to the funny pages. Offbeat, macabre, and sometimes controversial, Gary Larson's trailblazing cartoon was a gigantic success that ran in nearly 2000 newspapers at the height of its popularity. It also gave an entire generation of humorists a renewed appreciation for cow jokes.
Here are 11 things you should know about this highly-evolved comic strip.
1. IT EVOLVED FROM AN EARLIER STRIP CALLED NATURE'S WAY.
A native of Tacoma, Washington, Gary Larson was born on August 14, 1950. At a very young age, he developed the passion for wildlife that would give "The Far Side" its unique flavor. In his early years, Larson spent countless hours chasing amphibians and nurturing pet snakes. So when he enrolled at Washington State University, his decision to major in biology surprised no one. But halfway through college, Larson's focus shifted. "I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's degree in biology, so I switched over and got my degree in communications," he told The New York Times. "It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did." Had he pursued a scientific career, Larson says that he'd want to become an entomologist.
After graduating, he landed a job at a record store. Dissatisfied with the gig, Larson began to draw bizarre, single-panel cartoons in his spare time. One day in 1976, he presented six of these to the editor of the popular Seattle magazine Pacific Search. The half-dozen comics were swiftly bought up (for $3 apiece) and published under the title "Nature's Way." Following his print debut, Larson took a three-year hiatus from cartooning. Then, in 1979, The Seattle Times agreed to revive "Nature's Way" as a weekly comic strip. Riding high on newfound success, Larson decided to see if any other publications might be interested in his work. The quest began—and ended—with a visit to the San Francisco Chronicle's headquarters. Editor Stan Arnold took an immediate liking to Larson's comic strip and successfully got it syndicated nationwide.
Early on in the process, Larson was asked if he'd mind changing the title from "Nature's Way" to "The Far Side." Mildly put, this wasn't a problem; Larson once joked that for all he cared, "They could have called it 'Revenge of the Zucchini People.'" "The Far Side" that we all know and love made its grand debut in newspapers across America in January, 1980.
2. FROM THE GET-GO, GARY LARSON DIDN'T WANT "THE FAR SIDE" TO INCLUDE RECURRING CHARACTERS.
Chronicle Features syndicated "The Far Side" and asked Larson to embrace at least one aspect of the standard comic strip formula before it was distributed nationally. "They… wanted me to develop characters like Charlie Brown or something [who] would always come back," the cartoonist said in a 1998 NPR interview. At the time, he explains, it was widely believed that every strip needed a cast in order to be successful. Larson felt otherwise.
"I instinctively thought of that as very limiting," Larson explained. "And I also just didn't see humor as something that had to be confined to one particular character. To me, what was exciting was trying to do something that would crack someone up. And I didn't see how characters or a particular character enhanced that. In fact, I think it would work against it in some cases. A certain face on a character would work in one instance but not in another. Although admittedly, as the years went by, all my stuff got boiled down to about six faces."
3. AN ODD CHILDREN'S BOOK WAS ONE OF LARSON'S BIGGEST INSPIRATIONS.
You need a fairly warped imagination to come up with things like teenage dragons lighting their sneezes. "The Far Side" brand of comedy took some of its cues from Larson's family and what he has described as their "morbid sense of humor." Older brother Dan Larson left a particularly big impact on his developing mind: When the two weren't out collecting tadpoles or salamanders together, Dan would pull all sorts of pranks on his younger sibling. "[He'd] scare the hell out of me," the cartoonist said.
Another influence was the picture book Mr. Bear Squash-You-All-Flat by Morrell Gipson. True to its title, the story is about a large bear who goes around sitting on other animals' houses. In 1986, the TV program 20/20 ran a feature on Larson. Halfway through the interview, he was visibly delighted when Lynn Sherr surprised him with a copy of the then-out-of-print book. "There was something so mesmerizing about the image of this big bear going through the forest and squashing the homes of these little animals," Larson said. "I just thought that was the coolest thing in the world."
4. ONE EARLY STRIP CONFUSED SO MANY READERS THAT LARSON HAD TO EXPLAIN ITS MEANING IN A PRESS RELEASE.
With "The Far Side," Larson turned bovine jokes into a real cash cow. From gags about vacationing cattle to the exploits of a bloodthirsty vampcow, the strip was loaded with heifer hilarity. "I've always thought the word cow was funny," Larson said. "And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor."
Every so often, though, this affinity for the hoofed mammals got him into trouble. In 1982, Larson drew a cartoon that was supposed to satirize the outdated anthropological belief that, of all creatures, only Homo sapiens makes tools. The strip in question shows a cow presenting an assortment of low-tech gadgets she's built. Larson's caption reads, simply, "Cow Tools." Some people didn't get the joke. In fact, hardly anyone did. Chronicle Features was bombarded with letters and phone calls from confused readers begging for an explanation. Within 24 hours of the strip's publication, Larson was asked to write a press release explaining its significance to the masses.
That October, his official statement appeared in newspapers throughout the U.S. "The cartoon was meant to be an exercise in silliness," it claims. Larson goes on to say "I regret that my fondness for cows, combined with an overactive imagination, may have carried me beyond what is comprehensible to the average 'Far Side' reader." Embarrassing as this incident was, Larson got the last laugh. On more than one occasion, he's credited the "Cow Tools" debacle with boosting the popularity of "The Far Side."
5. "THE FAR SIDE" GAVE BIRTH TO A WIDELY-USED PALEONTOLOGY TERM.
Stegosaurus is world-famous for its lime-sized brain and the quartet of nasty-looking spikes on its tail. A 1982 "Far Side" strip decided to have a little fun with the latter attribute. In that cartoon, we find an early human anachronistically lecturing his fellow cavemen about dinosaur-related hazards. Pointing at the rear end of a Stegosaurus diagram, he says "Now this end is called the thagomizer … after the late Thag Simmons." Without meaning to, Larson's strip plugged a gap in the scientific lexicon. Previously, nobody had ever given a name to the unique arrangement of tail spikes found on Stegosaurus and its relatives. But today, many paleontologists use the word "thagomizer" when describing this apparatus, even in scientific journals.
6. FANS OF THE STRIP HAVE NAMED THREE DIFFERENT INSECTS AFTER GARY LARSON.
In 1989, entomologist Dale Clayton discovered a brand new species of biting louse that exclusively targets owls. When the time came to name it, his first choice was Strigiphilus garylarsoni. Clayton wrote the cartoonist to ask for his blessing. This proposed insect name, he explained, was the scientist's way of recognizing the "enormous contribution that my colleagues and I feel you have made to biology through your cartoons." Larson happily gave Clayton the green light. "I considered this an extreme honor," the "Far Side" creator said in retrospect. "Besides, I knew that nobody was going to write and ask to name a new species of swan after me."
Indeed, scientific nomenclature has yet to give us a "Larson's swan." However, in addition to Strigiphilus garylarsoni, there's now a beetle called Garylarsonus and a butterfly known as Serratoterga larsoni.
7. ONE COMIC TOOK SOME HEAT FROM THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE.
"Well, well—another blonde hair … Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?" A sassy chimpanzee makes this remark while grooming her mate in a 1987 "Far Side" comic. The one-liner started a controversy that erupted and then vanished in record time. Shortly after the cartoon ran, Larson's syndicate received an angry letter from the Jane Goodall Institute's executive director. Its author minced no words. "To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable—even by a self-described 'loony' such as Larson," read the dispatch.
"I was horrified," Larson wrote in The Prehistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Collection. "Not so much from a fear of being sued … but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to primatology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way."
But in a stunning turn of events, it turns out that Goodall herself loved the comic. "I thought it was very funny. And I think if you make a Gary Larson cartoon, boy you've made it," she said. The chimpanzee expert claimed that she was away in Africa when the director lashed out at Larson's syndicate without her knowledge. Later, the "offending" cartoon appeared on special T-shirts that generated cash for the Institute. Also, Larson got the chance to visit one of Goodall's research facilities in 1988. Here, he met a chimp named Frodo—who apparently wasn't a "Far Side" fan. Without warning, Frodo pounced on an unsuspecting Larson, leaving the artist with a patchwork of scrapes and bruises.
8. AN OHIO NEWSPAPER SWITCHED THE CAPTIONS FROM "DENNIS THE MENACE" AND "THE FAR SIDE"—TWICE.
The Dayton Daily News committed an unforgettable funny page blunder in August, 1981. Back then, the paper would run "The Far Side" right next to the more traditional "Dennis the Menace." On that fateful August day, their captions were switched. "The Far Side" strip now showed a young snake who kvetches at the family dinner table by saying "Lucky I learned to make peanut butter sandwiches or we woulda starved to death by now." Elsewhere, Dennis Mitchell—who's munching on a sandwich of his own—groans "Oh brother … Not hamsters again!"
"What's most embarrassing about this is how immensely improved both cartoons turned out to be," Larson opined in The Prehistory of The Far Side. Somebody at the Dayton Daily News made the same mistake two years later. This time, readers were confronted with a psychic cavewoman asking "If I get as big as Dad, won't my skin be too TIGHT?" Dennis Mitchell, meanwhile, casually looked his mother in the eye and said "I see your little, petrified skull … labeled and resting on a shelf somewhere."
9. TWO ANIMATED "FAR SIDE" SHORTS EXIST.
CBS aired a 20-minute program called Gary Larson's Tales From the Far Side in 1994. Conceived as a Halloween special, the film was essentially an animated reinterpretation of several classic "Far Side" cartoons. Marv Newland—an animator whose best-known work is the Larson-esque short film Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)—directed Tales, which won a Grand Prix award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The year 1997 brought with it a sequel, Gary Larson's Tales From the Far Side II. By then, the comic strip which inspired both movies had been laid to rest, as Larson retired in 1995. He has said that the two animated projects presented an interesting challenge because he "didn't want any dialogue" in the finished products.
10. A "FAR SIDE" MUSEUM EXHIBIT OPENED IN 1985.
Natural History Magazine once called Gary Larson "the unofficial cartoonist laureate of the scientific community." For physicists, biologists, and naturalists around the world, his work is the subject of near-universal admiration. By the mid-1980s, numerous hallways in the San Francisco-based California Academy of Sciences had basically been wallpapered with "Far Side" cartoons. Inspired by this décor, the facility got the bright idea to set up a special exhibit in Larson's honor. Dubbed "The Far Side of Science," it featured some 600 individual cartoons. The display first opened at the CAS in December, 1985 then traveled through such cities as Los Angeles, Denver, and Orlando—often breaking attendance records along the way.
11. LARSON HAS LIKENED HIS OTHER BIG PASSION—MUSIC—TO CARTOONING.
A lifelong jazz fan, Larson would frequently listen to the work of genre maestros when he needed to generate ideas for "Far Side" comics. He ranks legendary guitarist Herb Ellis among his favorite musicians. In 1989, Ellis asked Larson if he'd design the cover of his next album, which was to be named "Doggin' Around." The humorist took the job—in exchange for a guitar lesson. Nowadays, with "The Far Side" (mostly) in his rear view mirror, Larson dedicates a portion of each day to honing his skills as a jazz guitarist.
This new pursuit, he says, isn't all that different from drawing comics. "It has some parallels to cartooning because it's improvisational—you never know exactly how something is going to turn out," Larson told the Associated Press. "Taking a solo on a tune is always a little bit scary. Yet it has structure, there are certain rules to follow, and you try to create something with those rules."
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10 Impressive Facts About Dame Maggie Smith
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While Dame Maggie Smith's tenures as Harry Potter's Professor Minerva McGonagall and Downton Abbey's Dowager Countess Violet Crawley might have made her one of the most internationally recognizable faces in entertainment, she's really been delivering exceptional performances—in everything from uproarious comedies to somber dramas—for more than half a century.
Here are 10 fascinating details about the life and career of the iconic, relentless, 85-year-old living legend.
1. Maggie Smith's parents weren't keen on their daughter's acting aspirations.
Margaret Natalie Smith was born on December 28, 1934, in Ilford, England, and grew up in Oxford, where her father worked as a University of Oxford lab technician. Smith's parents were far from avid theatergoers, and her interest in the performing arts came as a surprise—even to her.
"Honest to God, I have no idea where the urge came from," she told the Evening Standard in 2019. "It was such a ghastly time and we didn't go to the theater. I got into terrible trouble once because the neighbors took me to the cinema on a Sunday."
Smith's mother, a secretary from Glasgow, Scotland, thought her daughter should follow in her secretarial footsteps, and doubted that she'd be a successful actress "with a face like that."
2. Maggie Smith prefers the stage to the screen.
To most viewers, Maggie Smith's memorable performances in Harry Potter and Downton Abbey are clear indications of her brilliant virtuosity as an actor. To Smith herself, however, those roles are practically just low-hanging fruit.
"I'm deeply grateful for the work in Harry Potter and indeed Downton but it wasn't what you'd call satisfying. I didn't really feel I was acting in those things." she told the Evening Standard. "I wanted to get back to the stage so much because theater is basically my favorite medium."
Apparently, she and Alan Rickman (who played Severus Snape) used to commiserate over their mutual feeling that their work in Harry Potter was nothing more than a series of reaction shots.
3. But Shakespeare isn't Maggie Smith's thing.
Not only did a 17-year-old Maggie Smith begin her career as Viola in an Oxford Playhouse School production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, she went on to appear in countless Shakespeare plays during her time with Laurence Olivier's National Theatre in the 1960s and Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival in the 1970s. She was even nominated for an Oscar for playing Desdemona in the 1965 film adaptation of Othello (which featured Olivier in the title role).
Despite her formidable résumé—and her self-proclaimed love for the stage—Smith maintains that the works of Shakespeare simply aren't her cup of tea.
"Shakespeare is not my thing," she told The Guardian.
4. Maggie Smith can sing, too.
Smith's droll delivery and expressive gestures made her a shoo-in for satire and comedy roles in variety shows, and her early career was characterized by dynamic musical performances in revues—though Smith is self-deprecating about her own singing ability.
"I think Leonard was under this mad illusion that I could sing," she told The New York Times, referring to when producer Leonard Sillman saw her in a West End revue and promptly cast her in his Broadway revue New Faces of 1956.
Smith hasn't just sung on Broadway, either: She also belted a rousing rendition of the World War I recruiting song "I'll Make a Man of You" in 1969's Oh! What a Lovely War, and performed more than one highly amusing musical number on The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s.
5. Maggie Smith has won a Tony, an Emmy, and an Academy Award—the Triple Crown of Acting.
Smith took home a Best Actress Oscar playing the titular character in 1969's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and won the Tony for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Lettice Douffet in the 1990 comedy Lettice and Lovage. In 2003, Smith finally clinched the Triple Crown with an Emmy win for the lead role in HBO's television movie My House in Umbria.
Actors technically only need one of each award to be considered a Triple Crown winner, but Smith has a few extra, too. Among many nominations, she's also won three Emmys for Downton Abbey and a 1978 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for California Suite.
6. Maggie Smith has been married twice.
Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens in Travels With My Aunt (1972).
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In 1952, Smith met playwright Beverley Cross at an Oxford student revue, and later performed in his 1960 play Strip the Willow. The two dated while waiting for Cross to finalize his divorce, but their relationship was interrupted when Smith joined Laurence Olivier's National Theater and fell in love with another company member, Robert Stephens.
The couple married in 1967, and went on to appear together in 1969's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and 1972's Travels With My Aunt. They had two children, Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin, before splitting in 1975. Smith and Cross married soon after that, and were together until Cross's death in 1998.
"I'm remarkably fortunate," Smith said, according to The New York Times. "When you meet again someone you should have married in the first place, it's like a script. That kind of luck is too good to be true."
7. Both of Maggie SMith's sons are actors.
Though Smith has said that she didn't encourage her sons to act, they both followed in their mother's footsteps. Her oldest, Toby Stephens, starred opposite Ruth Wilson in the 2006 miniseries Jane Eyre, and is perhaps best known for the role of Captain Flint in Starz's Black Sails. Younger brother Chris, who guest-starred in Black Sails, is also set to appear in Outlander's upcoming season 5.
8. Maggie Smith has teased Sir Ian McKellen on more than one occasion.
At the Academy Awards in 2002, Sir Ian McKellen explained to Maggie Smith that he had worn a traditional New Zealand pounamu pendant to bring him good luck in the Best Supporting Actor category—he had been nominated for playing Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
After he lost, he ran into Smith, who quipped: "It didn't work, did it?"
Then, while recounting the story on The Graham Norton Show, McKellen did a riotously entertaining impression of Smith, which apparently wasn't an isolated incident.
"He does them all the time," she told the Evening Standard. "I rather acidly told him that I'd done one of him but people didn't know him well enough to recognize it."
9. Maggie Smith battled breast cancer while filming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
In 2009, news broke that Maggie Smith had been undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer in the midst of filming the sixth Harry Potter film.
"I was hairless. I had no problem getting the wig on. I was like a boiled egg," she told The Times. "I was holding on to railings, thinking 'I can't do this.'"
Though Smith confessed that the experience made her "fearful of the amount of energy one needs to be in a film or a play," she never really took a break from working: She also appeared in 2009's From Time to Time and 2010's Nanny McPhee Returns, and reprised Professor McGonagall in 2011's final Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
10. Maggie Smith doesn't ever plan on retiring.
In a 2013 appearance on 60 Minutes, Smith shared that although she felt her theater days were behind her, she wouldn't ever officially retire from film or television.
"I'll keep going with Violet [from Downton Abbey] and any other old biddy that comes along," she said.
As it turned out, her theater days weren't over: Smith returned to the stage after a 12-year hiatus to portray Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary of Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, in 2019's A German Life at London's Bridge Theatre.
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14 Amazing Facts About Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Do you follow Lin-Manuel Miranda on Twitter? If not, you should. The Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of Hamilton tweets prolifically—and delightfully—about his life and his work, dropping in inspirational messages along the way.
Twitter isn't the only place you can get a dose of Miranda these days: In addition to making the rounds at awards shows for his work as an executive producer on Fosse/Verdon (where he also made a memorable cameo as Roy Scheider), Miranda had a major role as Lee Scoresby in HBO's adaptation of His Dark Materials and had some fun playing a soldier in Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker.
This summer, Miranda will produce and star in the big-screen adaptation of his play In the Heights and is preparing to make his directorial debut with an adaptation of Jonathan Larson's musical tick, tick… BOOM. In celebration of Miranda's 40th birthday (Miranda was born in New York on January 16, 1980), here are some fun—and surprising—facts about the creative Renaissance man.
1. As a kid, Lin-Manuel Miranda couldn't make it all the way through Mary Poppins.
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In 2018, Lin-Manuel Miranda starred alongside Emily Blunt in Mary Poppins Returns—but he didn't see the original movie all the way through until he was an adult. Miranda recalled to Vanity Fair how, as a kid, certain songs would make him "burst into tears." Those songs included Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You," Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and a track from Mary Poppins.
"I couldn't get through 'Feed the Birds,'" he told Vanity Fair. "I was very sensitive to minor-key music, and that song was so sad that I don't think I saw the ending of Mary Poppins until I was grown, because I would just cry. I loved 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.' I loved Dick Van Dyke. I loved the whole movie but then that one song was so sad I kind of never survived it."
2. Lin-manuel Miranda's talent for the dramatic was clear from an early age.
Miranda's father, Luis, wanted his son to be a lawyer—but according to Playbill, it was clear after a young Lin-Manuel filmed an "infamous" video book report about Jean Merrill's The Pushcart War in the third grade that he was destined for the stage, not the courtroom. Miranda posted the video to YouTube noting, "I got an A." (You can enjoy it for yourself above.)
3. Lin-Manuel Miranda faked an injury to get out of summer camp.
Miranda—who was born and raised in New York City—did not enjoy his trips to summer camp. "Sending me to a place without electricity was a very bad idea," he told Jimmy Kimmel.
Miranda wrote his parents letters from camp describing his malaise, and his flair for the dramatic was on full display: "Dear Mom and Dad, Please come and take me back to New York, away from this hellhole," he wrote in one letter. In another—in which he called himself "the kid you ditched in the woods for a month"—he drew "a picture to remind you of me": an image of himself jumping off a building. Miranda recounted to Kimmel that he finally escaped from summer camp by faking a spinal cord injury—and had to keep up the act all summer long.
4. Lin-Manuel Miranda was profoundly influenced by Rent creator Jonathan Larson's work.
In a 2004 essay application for the Jonathan Larson Grant, Miranda wrote that seeing Larson's rock musical Rent on his 16th birthday "simply changed everything … Never had I seen a show that spoke to me so directly, that used fresh, new music as a way of addressing contemporary concerns in an honest way. By writing about his friends with the problems and anxieties he faced, Jonathan Larson gave me permission to write about my life, hopes, and fears." The show inspired Miranda to write his first musical (more on that in a minute), which was then performed at his high school. After that, he never stopped writing.
It wasn't the last time Larson's work would inspire Miranda. After graduating from Connecticut's Wesleyan University, Miranda saw Larson's tick, tick… BOOM!—the story of an aspiring musical theater composer struggling to make it—which, Miranda wrote, "spoke to me and strengthened my resolve."
He was workshopping what would become his first Broadway show, In the Heights, when he wrote that essay; though he ultimately didn't get the grant, Miranda tweeted that "it turned out okay anyway. Don't give up. Don't you dare."
Miranda is currently in pre-production on a movie adaptation of tick, tick… BOOM! The film will mark his feature directorial debut.
5. The first musical Lin-Manuel Miranda ever wrote was about … a dissected fetal pig.
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According to Miranda, the show "involved a dissected fetal pig rising up for revenge." It was directed by Chris Hayes—yes, MSNBC host Chris Hayes, who was then a senior in high school—and ran about 20 minutes. "I can still hum the tunes of that show," Hayes said in 2017.
6. Before he was a Broadway star, Lin-Manuel Miranda was a substitute teacher.
After college, Miranda "taught 7th grade English for a year," he tweeted in 2016. "[T]hen I was a professional substitute teacher UNTIL I got Heights on Broadway." He was subbing at his old high school, Hunter College High School, for a while, he told Playbill, when he was asked to "stay on to continue to teach part-time." At that point, one of the future producers of In the Heights had also reached out to Miranda because he was interested in his writing.
Unsure of what to do, Miranda asked his father: "Should I keep teaching or should I just kind of sub and do gigs to pay the rent and really throw myself into writing full time?"
Luis wrote his son "a very thoughtful letter, in which [he] said, 'I really want to tell you to keep the job—that's the smart 'parent thing' to do—but when I was 17, I was a manager at the Sears in Puerto Rico, and I basically threw it all away to go to New York, [and] I didn't speak a lot of English. It made no sense, but it was what I needed to do ... It makes no sense to leave your job to be a writer, but I have to tell you to do it. You have to pursue that if you want.' That was very opposite advice from, 'Be a lawyer,' and I'm glad I took it."
7. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote music for local politicians.
Luis is a political consultant, and while his son was working on getting In the Heights to Broadway, he used his connections to get Lin-Manuel gigs writing music for ads for many of New York's leading politicians, including former governor Eliot Spitzer. "He'd say, 'I have a Sharpton radio ad—I need 60 seconds of smooth jazz,'" Miranda told The New York Times in 2012.
According to Miranda, the music he composed was "generally accompanied by footage of the candidates shaking hands, doing very task-oriented things," so the music needed to be "generally hopeful." Music accompanying an attack ad, on the other hand, would have "sad strings" before transitioning to something more upbeat. "It's a little like movie scoring," Miranda told the Times. "If you've got a scary scene, you've got to write music for the scary scene."
8. The version of In the Heights that Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote in college is drastically different from what ended up on Broadway.
Miranda began writing In the Heights as a sophomore at Wesleyan. The college version, he told The Guardian, "was really just a love story set in" New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood. But when he came back home after college and saw the changes happening in the neighborhood, that began to change, and the show became, "In a sense ... a time capsule of a Washington Heights that's not going to exist in 10, 15 years," he said. "All I know is I wanted to write a little show that captures what it was like, as I remember it. And so that will exist. My little memory of the neighborhood, through the show."
In the Heights—which Miranda also starred in for a time—ran on Broadway from 2008 to 2011; it was while Miranda was on vacation between the show's off-Broadway and Broadway runs that he read the biography by Ron Chernow that would lead him to Hamilton.
9. Lin-Manuel Miranda was really nervous when Hamilton author Ron Chernow came to see In the Heights.
Christopher Jackson, who played Benny in In the Heights and George Washington in Hamilton, recalled to Rolling Stone how Miranda told him about the idea for his next musical just a few days after he got back from vacation: "When Ron Chernow came to see Heights, I had never seen Lin that nervous," Jackson told Rolling Stone. "He said, 'Ron Chernow's here!' I said, 'What does that mean?' And he said, 'The show needs to go well today.'"
10. Lin-Manuel Miranda's favorite Hamilton verse is in "WE Know."
The moment occurs when Hamilton is accused of embezzlement. "I decided that when Hamilton is backed into a corner, he gets super internal rhymey," Miranda told Katie Couric. As he's telling Jefferson, Madison, and Burr about the Reynolds Affair, Hamilton raps:
She courted me
Escorted me to bed and when she had me in a corner
That's when Reynolds extorted me
For a sordid fee
I paid him quarterly
I may have mortally wounded my prospects
But my papers are orderly
As you can see I kept a record of every check in my checkered history
Check it again against your list n' see consistency
I never spent a cent that wasn't mine
You sent the dogs after my scent, that's fine.
"Those are enormous fun to put together," Miranda said. "When Hamilton's mad, it's, like, Super Eminem, I'm going to destroy you with my mind."
11. Lin-Manuel Miranda identifies with The Little Mermaid's Sebastian.
"As a child, the [character in The Little Mermaid] I related to the most was Sebastian the crab, and I think as an adult he's still the one I relate to the most," Miranda said in WIRED's autocomplete interview. "He just wanted someone to sing in his concert, poor guy. He's a frustrated musician! I relate."
12. Lin-Manuel Miranda compares himself to other people, just like the rest of us.
Miranda has packed a lot into his 40 years. To name just a few of his accomplishments: He has created Hamilton and In the Heights, co-written the music and lyrics for Bring It On: The Musical, penned a mini-musical called 21 Chump Street for This American Life, and translated the lyrics of West Side Story into Spanish for a 2009 Broadway revival. He has also appeared in The Sopranos, Modern Family, the revival of The Electric Company, and Sesame Street, among other shows.
While starring in Hamilton, Miranda wrote songs for Disney's Moana (with Opetaia Tavita Foa'i and Mark Mancina) and composed music for a scene in J.J. Abrams's Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He co-wrote Hamilton: The Revolution, wrote a book with illustrator Jonny Sun, and somehow finds time to do monthly "Hamildrops" of remixes and new music inspired by the show.
But despite all Miranda has done, that doesn't stop him from comparing himself to other people, just like the rest of us.
"I've seen people my age and younger shoot to success, and I measure myself against people by age," Miranda told Rolling Stone in 2016. "Paul McCartney had already ended the Beatles and was midway through Wings when he was my age! Like, the entire Beatles, and he was not 30 yet. There's always someone to measure yourself against when you're like, 'F***, what am I doing with my life?'"
13. Lin-Manuel Miranda keeps a high school math trophy next to one of his Grammys.
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In his career, Miranda has been nominated for an Oscar, won a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Genius Grant, and taken home three Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, four Drama Desk awards, three Grammys, and an Emmy (among other awards). But, as he told Variety in 2016, he's "just as proud" of a trophy he won for math in the 11th grade, "Because I got straight C's in math all through high school." The award, he said, "is on my shelf next to my Grammy."
14. Lin-Manuel Miranda works hard to stay grounded.
Despite all that he has accomplished, Miranda doesn't intend to get a big head. "I think the trap is in getting caught up in the importance of those titles and letting that make you think you're important. I try very hard to fight against that," he told Variety. "I have friends who are very happy to remind me that I'm myself," adding that most of his friends "roast" him whenever they see him: "That's why they're my friends."
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U.S. ENGLAND. GREECE. ITALY. SWITZERLAND. CHINA. FRANCE. Gagosian Gallery holds worldwide exhibition of 25 years of spot paintings by Damien Hirst
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011" by Damien Hirst (Bristol, 1965). The exhibition will take place at once across all of Gagosian Gallery's eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on January 12, 2012. Most of the paintings are being lent by private individuals and public institutions, more than 150 different lenders from twenty countries. Conceived as a single exhibition in multiple locations, "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011" makes use of this demographic fact to determine the content of each exhibition according to locality.
Included in the exhibition are more than 300 paintings, from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986; to the smallest spot painting comprising half a spot and measuring 1 x 1/2 inch (1996); to a monumental work comprising only four spots, each 60 inches in diameter; and up to the most recent spot painting completed in 2011 containing 25,781 spots that are each 1 millimeter in diameter, with no single color ever repeated.
"Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011" precedes the first major museum retrospective of Hirst's work opening at Tate Modern in London in April, 2012.
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Tuesday 30th April 2013 – Happy birthday George.
It's our little boys birthday today…well not so little he's now 11. They sung to him at school, and he took in some homemade triple chocolate cookies. We've just had pizza for dinner and then it's profiteroles drizzled with chocolate for pudding. Then his choice of film. I think he wants Terminator 2!
But this morning was spent on the allotment only for an hour and a half, but I managed to dig most of another bed which is good. It's getting to that stage where that's all I seem to be doing, but it's getting the beds ready for the planting in June when the frost has gone. Must get the mower out and dust off the cobwebs. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
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Happy birthday to little George!! May be healthy and happy, for his entire life!!
I saw the chocolate profiteroles picture! Delicious!! I am saying that, as a food blogger!! Bravo, Claire!!
Irene E. from Pireaus Greece.
The profiteroles were rather yummy. My parents want me to make them when we go out to Spain in the summer.
I have to admit, that I didn't have any as I don't like cream and chocolate gives me a migrane, but the rest of the family enjoyed them.


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First of all, sorry for not posting yesterday. I'm sure the 2 visitors that were eager to discover more about the making of DeadMan's Reach were very disappointed, Mum... Conor... sorry.
1) I couldn't draw with a GoPro on my head for 16 hours, I had to stopped after 8 hours... Neck fixing is not included in the film budget.
2) Even speed up 3000 time, the video was extremely boring.
And I'm still working on it... I'm now thinking "Summer 2016" is a good release date.


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Home » News » Russia began to massively transfer tanks, MLRS, air defense and military to the border with NATO
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Russia can increase the size of its army on the western borders up to 500 thousand people.
At the moment, about 100 Russian servicemen and thousands of military equipment are deployed on the border between Russia and Ukraine, however, footage of a large-scale transfer of military equipment from the eastern part of Russia towards the western borders is actively published on the Web. This indicates that Russian troops are on full alert against the background of a very high risk of attack from NATO.
Given the scale of the transfer of military equipment, we can talk about building up Russian troops on the border with NATO and Alliance partners up to 500 thousand people. This means that most of the Russian troops will be in this direction.
On the presented video frames, made in different parts of the country, one can see numerous echelons with a wide variety of military equipment - tanks, multiple launch rocket systems, light armored vehicles, engineering vehicles, military trucks, field artillery, etc. Judging by the numerous publications on the Web, in At the moment, dozens of echelons with equipment and military personnel are moving towards the borders of Russia and NATO.
Previously, it was assumed that the military equipment transferred to the western part of Russia would be deployed on the border with Ukraine because of the risk that the Armed Forces of Ukraine could attack both the Donbass and Crimea. It appears that Russian troops will be deployed to numerous military field camps along the entire western border and, more likely,even on the border of neighboring Belarus with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
The reason for this is the refusal of the US and NATO to negotiate security and, apparently, the measures taken by Russia will be really tough, although it is clear that the key goal of the Russian military is to protect the country's borders.
Alex January 22 2022 18 in: 53
Do you think about why they are so openly transferring equipment to the West without even covering it with a tarpaulin?
Maybe then it will come what happens
H.Andrey January 19 2022 23 in: 00
Our people do not take courage - examples in history. And with a pen, and with a "sword".
Denis January 19 2022 18 in: 54
Now the 41st year is coming
Valentine January 14 2022 18 in: 17
in 1941, people like you also insisted that no one would attack the Country. who out of stupidity, and who on assignment. and how are you?
Well, you take up arms and go to defend the Motherland like everyone else. Or are you better at writing?
Have you forgotten about Alaska? .. There is the USA and Canada. There is no need to talk about Western countries. Moreover, Finland and Sweden have gathered in NATO. So our military is doing everything right, well done!
Sveta January 14 2022 17 in: 18
The Chinese Airborne Forces have been transferred to the Black Sea to enter from the south through Odessa and Nikolaev. Ukraine will never join NATO and the EU. This is RUSSIAN LAND.
LG January 14 2022 17 in: 16
When people become poor, they must be frightened and convinced that foreigners want to seize their poverty.
The minimum wage in Russia from 2022 is $ 180,
Honduras smokes on the sidelines - Minimum wage Varies by sector and number of employees from $292,27 to $554,57
Jury January 14 2022 15 in: 49
Studded wheels on the drive and normul, not weak.
hahahaha. Well, what are the borders of NATO? There are only 30 participating countries. And even more partners. This is if only for the company of the construction battalion. Where do we have these borders with NATO. Che, I don't remember that the Russian Federation bordered on Canada, for example))
vlad January 14 2022 11 in: 27
By the way, the Chinese are also going to help protect Russia's borders from NATO.
Well, the Chinese will take Siberia without firing a shot.
a guest January 14 2022 04 in: 24
What will we fight with trucks? Weak somehow.


The Financial Services Authority (OJK) recently announced that it planned to issue a guideline on internal recovery planning for 12 systemic banks as part of its efforts to shield the economy from a major bank failure.
A recovery plan sets out actions that a bank will take to restore its viability in the case of significant deterioration of its financial condition. The OJK rule on this subject — expected to be issued in April — is a supporting regulation mandated by the 2016 Financial System Crisis Prevention and Mitigation (PPKSK) Law.
The law effectively gives clarity and space to authorities handling a banking crisis or the threat of one. Nonetheless, despite the improved legal protection and clearer protocols, the PPKSK committee is unlikely to have a comfortable time when a situation calls for its resolution authority to be exercised.
To reduce the likelihood of intervention by the authorities being called for, a clear and credible recovery plan is necessary: When near-default scenarios happen, what actions will a bank take? Where will it raise capital and liquidity? What businesses would it rein in or sell? How does it test its recovery options and does it set and monitor early warning signs? What are the triggers to invoke certain recovery actions? How and when will the bank's management communicate to key stakeholders?
A recovery plan contains special case contingency plans, such as funding contingency plans, a business continuity plan and disaster recovery. A recovery plan differs from these plans in that it focuses on severe scenarios when the bank is at the near default zone, just before the point where a resolution tool like bail-in bonds is activated. Bail-in bonds are a debt instrument converted to equity when the capital ratio falls to a certain threshold.
Obviously, to support the recovery planning process, the banks' directors and top management should deploy dedicated resources. In some countries, the banks' chief executives, main commissioners and controlling shareholders must sign the recovery plan to demonstrate their commitment to it.
Hence, the initiative might cause apprehension in bank executives as many concurrent and related regulations are already at work, for example in relation to required submissions of annual business plans, risk-based bank rating and stress testing results.
After all, Indonesia's banking sector is widely considered solid with its average capital ratio and the profitability of its biggest players is among the highest in the world.
If anything, some bankers might argue that the industry's priority should be further directed for the handling of non-performing loans, for example.
Being a derivative of the PPKSK Law, recovery planning is indeed a compliance project as the plan will eventually have to be approved by the OJK, perhaps after two or three rounds of supervisory revision. The iterative process is necessary because in the first submission, most banks are unlikely to come up with a credible document that is considered by supervisors as a useful playbook during a crisis.
That being said, according to our observations in other countries (e.g. European Union member states), managements and shareholders will find the exercise highly beneficial.
Recovery planning actually draws together weak parts of risk management that might currently be ineffective.
At any rate, the supervisory authority will likely tell banks to shore up their stress testing practices and integrate them into the risk management framework when preparing a recovery plan.
A particularly helpful approach is for banks to use reverse stress testing as a starting point in the process.
This means that a bank will first define a point or magnitude of shock that would lead to its failure and then explore plausible scenarios that could cause this. As an end result, the bank will not only get insights about its (hidden) vulnerabilities but also test possible measures that could effectively avert a breakdown of its business model.
Because of the considerable virtues, I think smaller banks should also prepare recovery plans — while appropriately taking into account their size, complexity and nature of business.
A lesson from centuries of financial history is that banking crises are a constant, only the timing is variable.
Sometimes, the failure of smaller player, say bank number 13 in the size ranking, can trigger a full-blown crisis. By the same token, the imminent failure of a small player might be considered a systemic threat and a decision be made in support of a rescue using public funds.
While it is true that the state of the banking industry is stronger than ever, that conclusion is often based on average profitability and capital indicators. In an industry where confidence and interconnectivity are prominent, downward surprises can come from any (smaller) bank. There is a considerable advantage to having a banking industry that is strong on average and does not have contagious weakest chains at the same time.
The existence of weak players could unduly prevent Bank Indonesia from applying countercyclical macroprudential measures because banks with weak financials and poor business models cannot keep up. For the same reason, they could also prevent the OJK from imposing stronger prudential standards, or allowing fiercer competition that benefits banking customers, e.g. lower lending rates.
The concern with the weakest links in the banking system is a key reason why all banks, unlike players in other sectors, face socalled minimum requirements for capital and liquidity. This being said, the minimum requirement has an inherent problem in that it is sometimes too little and too late. The capital requirement, for example, is largely calculated from past snapshots, such as last quarter's risk positions.
That is why, with its strong forward-looking orientation, the upcoming OJK recovery plan regulation will further strengthen Indonesia's banking sector.
It could lead to early management and/or supervisory actions to deal with the significant threat of default and, as necessary, trigger faster consolidation in the industry.
This initiative is so relevant to bank risk management that it should be applied to smaller players in the near future as well.


Dysfunctional telomeres in human BRCA2 mutated breast tumors and cell lines.
In the present study the possible involvement of telomeres in chromosomal instability of breast tumors and cell lines from BRCA2 mutation carriers was examined. Breast tumors from BRCA2 mutation carriers showed significantly higher frequency of chromosome end-to-end fusions (CEFs) than tumors from non-carriers despite normal telomere DNA content. Frequent CEFs were also found in four different heterozygous BRCA2 breast epithelial cell lines, occasionally with telomere signal at the fusion point, indicating telomere capping defects. Extrachromosomal telomeric repeat (ECTR) DNA was frequently found scattered around metaphase chromosomes and interstitial telomere sequences (ITSs) were also common. Telomere sister chromatid exchanges (T-SCEs), characteristic of cells using alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALTs), were frequently detected in all heterozygous BRCA2 cell lines as well as the two ALT positive cell lines tested. Even though T-SCE frequency was similar in BRCA2 heterozygous and ALT positive cell lines they differed in single telomere signal loss and ITS. Chromatid type alterations were more prominent in the BRCA2 heterozygous cell lines that may have propensity for telomere based chromosome healing. Telomere dysfunction-induced foci (TIF) formation, identified by co-localization of telomeres and γ-H2AX, supported telomere associated DNA damage response in BRCA2 heterozygous cell lines. TIFs were found in interphase nuclei, at chromosome ends, ITS and ECTR DNA. In conclusion, our results suggest that BRCA2 has an important role in telomere stabilization by repressing CEFs through telomere capping and the prevention of telomere loss by replication stabilization.
21575645 - Telomere dysfunction and chromosome instability.
10206225 - No evidence for linkage between schizophrenia and markers at chromosome 15q13-14.
10746725 - Low variability in a y-linked plant gene and its implications for y-chromosome evolution.
Cancer Research Laboratory, BioMedical Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Vatnsmyrarvegi 16, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland.


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Masquer8 is another submission for Octo-ber jam II: http://octojam.com/octojam-ii/games/masquer8
It's written for Octo, a high-level assembler for Chip 8, an 8 bit assembly language from the 1970s: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo

Masquer8 is a game where you control Cammy Cuttlefish, a master of disguise.

!! Using V on the "Press Key" menu page will continue from the last level you were on !!

Blend in with your surroundings perfectly so that the Shark can't see you!

You have a HUD in the bottom right corner.

You start with access to Vertical Lines on keys 1-4. Every time you change your pattern, the shark will get slightly closer. There is an icon for the Shark in the HUD. If you can see its eyes, it's really close!

At any time, press V to try and blend in. If you're not quite a perfect match, you will lose a lot of time and the shark will get closer. You must be lined up *both* horizontally and vertically. This can be very hard with some patterns.

The HUD has an indicator that shows which patterns you have active. Try cycling them a little bit to see how it works. You can use this to work out how to get back to normal.

After a few levels you will unlock horizontal lines on keys Q-R.

After a few more, you will unlock Patterns mode, which is REALLY HARD. These are on keys A-F and Z to C. A pro tip to get started is that, remember these puzzles are only 2 or 3 layered patterns, so, find one you think must be involved and try toggling on other patterns.

If you get a game over, press V on the title screen (or just navigate all menus with V) to Continue from the level you were on.

The game has 10 levels.

After you get the ending screen, you will enter infinite mode, where you will be presented with random puzzles to match. In this mode, the Shark will ignore you. If you can't beat a puzzle, or get your camouflage in a muddle, mash V a bunch and it will give you a game over and allow you get a new puzzle.

You can press Z on the title screen to jump straight to infinite mode, also.

Infinite mode is really, really hard, and I often see a puzzle on it and go 'how the hell can you do that??', so, don't feel bad.

The game was designed to be playable even at 7 cycles / frame. It also has a loading screen where it generates all of the patterns for Cammy, instead of having to program them in yourself. This means that there's about 1K of 0s at the end of the code, which hopefully would have been easier to type in.

After going back and revising the game a little bit, I have managed to get the memory footprint to be under 3.2k, which hopefully means that this game would have been genuinely playable on original hardware.


The Executive Director of Academics Search Ad Hoc Committee has identified the top three candidates to move forward with the next steps in the hiring process. The committee was comprised of 10 teachers, 5 support staff, 3 members of administration, 1 Adams12 district representative, 2 Stargate board members, and 1 Stargate Accountability Committee member. We had nearly 80 people apply for the position and the Ad Hoc Committee reviewed and ranked 31 qualified applicants. The Ad Hoc Committee then interviewed 7 candidates and voted on the three finalists. The candidates were evaluated based on community feedback regarding the following characteristics: Administration/Higher Level Leadership Experience, Gifted Education Experience, Curriculum and Instruction Experience, Community Outreach and Engagement, Social Emotional Learning, Charter School Experience, Special Education Experience, Strategic Planning Experience.
A short bio and answers to questions from each of the final candidates can be found on the website HERE.
Please join us on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 6:30 in the Elementary Commons, for a Town Hall Community Meeting to meet these three final candidates. If you have questions you would like to be considered for the Town Hall, please complete the form found HERE. Questions are due by midnight on Sunday, March 31, 2019. Feedback about the candidates from the Stargate community will be gathered after the Town Hall for presentation to the Stargate Board of Directors.
Interviews for the Executive Director of Academics position with the Stargate Board of Directors will be held at Stargate on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 from 10am - 1pm. The final board discussion and decision will be during an open meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, April 3, 2019. Both of these meetings will be held in the Performing Arts Auditorium.


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Energizer: 265 new jobs headed to Dover
William H. McMichael
A consolidation of Energizer's Montreal and Dover facilities will bring as many as 265 new jobs to Dover over the next two years, a company executive revealed.
A total of 270 of about 430 current jobs at Energizer's Montreal manufacturing facility will transfer to Dover's Energizer Personal Care plant, where the full-time workforce numbers about 470.
Only about five to 10 workers are expected to actually make the move from Montreal, said Chris Crowell, vice president of operations for Energizer Personal Care, one of two divisions of Energizer Holdings, Inc. Most, he said, speak only French and are not likely candidates to relocate.
As many as 58 of the jobs, most of them for engineers, will pay in excess of $70,000 a year, according to the division.
The move was announced last summer. But the number of jobs had not been released.
The Dover plant, in existence for some 80 years, manufactures Playtex feminine hygiene products. Energizer bought Playtex in 2007. In 2013, the newly named company bought the feminine care division of Johnson & Johnson, which manufactured its products in Montreal. In July, the company announced it would move and consolidate all feminine product operations in Dover.
"It'll be one of our biggest facilities when we're done," Crowell said.
The decision to move production from Montreal to Dover was based on business factors, Crowell said. But the nearly $3 million in state grants approved Monday by the Council on Development Finance to help with relocation and workforce training, he said, "were well-received, and they'll help in the training we have planned."
Although Crowell met with Alan Levin, director of the Delaware Economic Development Office, before the decision to move was made and said he was given the sense that the state would be "likely" to help, the grants were not, he said, the deciding factor.
"The investment we're making is altogether $60 million, $40 million in Delaware between equipment and relocation, things of that nature," Crowell said. "And then there's another $20 million in severance, and things that are required to shut a plant down." The company is estimating another $7 million to $8 million in training costs.
"So it was a fairly substantial question and decision we had to make," Crowell said. "It was important and helpful that Delaware was going to offer this assistance. Obviously, we had to make this decision based on what was the right economic and business decision for Energizer, whether or not Delaware could give us the funds."
The $1.43 million Strategic Fund Performance grant is based on the personal income tax gain for the company's new employees to the state. "So we're only giving them back three years of what that personal income tax gain is to the state," said Levin. "But it's not paid upfront. It's paid after the employee is employed, and has paid their taxes ... so we are always paying with, technically, the business's dollars."
Under the Strategic Fund Capital Expenditure grant, which is "not to exceed $1.5 million," the state will assist with payments of up to 3 percent of $50 million in capital expenditures by the company. "If they spend $100 million, they only get $1.5 million," Levin said. "They have to spend it to get it."
Levin agreed the grants weren't likely a deciding factor for Energizer. But they can influence the process, he said.
"Do companies need these incentives? It helps defray their costs, in some ways, of startup, of moving, of capital expenditures, things like that," said Levin. "In the end, every dollar helps, because we're in a competitive world. So if they can do it cheaper elsewhere, they can get more incentives elsewhere, that makes companies take a look. It doesn't mean that's what they make the decision on. But it's one of the attributes."
No tax credits are involved, Levin said.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Playtex bought Energizer in 2007. Energy bought Playtex. The story has been corrected.
Contact William H. McMichael at (302) 324-2812 or bmcmichael@delawareonline.com. On Twitter: @billmcmichael.


Maggy Variant for next season/grinder?
Discussion in 'Deck Help and Strategy' started by LegendaryLugia, Jul 22, 2008.
Strategy: Recycle Mag. Hopefully start with Rotom, and TVR/Felicity's and charge a quick Mag. If not, pound with Mag. When Maggy is nearly dead, drop an Arcanine and hit for 120. When Arcanine/Mag dies, Moltres re-attaches energy to itself and htis for 100. Soon, Stark Mountain will make this deck awesome.
Why not exclude Rotom and include the card on the front page along with Typhlo?
^That, plus add another Growlithe.
EDIT: Oh, and you're wrong about Empoleon.
Drop some fire energies, 18 are really enough.
My big question: no 2-2 Claydol? or 1-1 Thyplosion and 1-1 Togekiss?
IMHO if you where to include them in your deck, it will give you more speed and power, imho rotom is nice, but your better of with sableye as a starter in this deck IMHO.


Created by david.bastedo on Mar 24, 2014 2:01 PM. Last modified by umayal.manivasagam@jivesoftware.com on Mar 6, 2018 6:49 PM.
2) Identify if the URL of the group you wish to change.
Once a Social Group is created in Jive, administrators are unable to change the URL. The article aims to walk a user through how to change the URL of a Jive Social Group by using the Jive v3 API.
Social Group URLs cannot be changed through the Jive web interface, or through the admin console. The only way the URL of a Social Group can be changed, as of Jive Custom 7, is through use of the Jive Core API v3.
In this example it is "old-group-name".
Here we will run our first API call. We will use the Search API to look up the "Place ID" of this particular group.
Please note, if you are receiving a "403 Unauthorized" error when making an API call, please be sure that you are correctly setting the "Authorization" and "Content-Type" headers. See How to: The Basics of using Jive's REST API for more details on this.
You can also reference Finding the Content ID and Place ID using Jive v3 API to find the correct Place ID for your social group.
In the Response text, you will want to note the Social Group's "groupType" JSON value, as you'll need to provide this value when you update the group. By Default this will be set to "OPEN", for an Open Group Type, but it may be set to something else, like "MEMBER_ONLY", "PRIVATE", or "SECRET"
Be sure to keep the "groupType" value the same as what was found in Step 4 above.
Change the "displayName" value to be the text you want for the new group URL.
You should see the API call generate a "200 OK" status. This means that your new URL is available for use.
You will need to clear your system caches at this point, otherwise users may still be able to access the group from the old URL, which can cause confusion. Please note that Cloud customers will have to file a case with Jive Support as only On-Premise and Hosted customers can clear their own application caches.
An Admin can do this by going to Admin Console > System > Settings > Caches and clicking the top Checkbox and scrolling down and clicking the "Clear Selected" button.
Re: How do you change the URL of a project?
Re: Can you change the URL of a group AFTER you've created it?


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Things to do in Mumbai today
Mumbai Mirror | Updated: Aug 24, 2018, 00:00 IST
Check out what can you do in Mumbai today.
Party in your pyjamas
Don't want to get out of your cosy pyjamas but still want to party hard? Then head over to this bash where there is only one rule: Instead of dressing to the nines, you have to show up in your comfi est bedtime wear. Only then you will be allowed entry. Once in, you can take part in fun games such as pillow fi ghts and beer chugging contests. Or hit the dancefl oor. FYI: If you don your coolest pyjamas, you can win titles such as 'Pyjama King', 'Pyjama Queen' and 'Best Pyjama-ed Couple', along with other goodies. WHERE: Tamasha, Lower Parel WHEN: 8 pm ENTRY: Rs 825 (without food and drinks) onwards LOG: www.insider.in
Discuss urban planning and health
Dr Ravikant Singh, founder of the medical humanitarian organisation Doctors for You, is set to deliver a talk titled 'Designed for Death'. Based on recent fi ndings conducted on rehabilitation and resettlement sites in Mumbai, it was discovered that due to the lack of access to sunshine and proper ventilation, diseases such as tuberculosis have become rampant in these sites. In this lecture, Singh will focus on the importance of building architecture and site-planning when it comes to building a healthy atmosphere for these urban colonies. He will also critically analyse and question the existing policies related to rehabilitation and resettlement schemes. WHERE: School of Environment and Architecture WHEN: 6.30 pm ENTRY: Free CALL: 65002156
Celebrate up-and-coming talent
An evening packed with music, stand-up comedy, storytelling and spoken word poetry — that's what is on the cards at the 'MotoJojo Gatherings'. It will feature six of the best performers selected from the 'Big Wild Open Mic', organised by MotoJojo, a platform that celebrates all things related to travel, music and storytelling. The aim of the event is to provide a space for like-minded people to connect and share their experiences with each other. WHERE: The Habitat, Khar WHEN: 8 pm ENTRY: Rs 250 LOG: www.instamojo.com
Savour Pathare Prabhu cuisine
Youtuber and chef Kalpana Talpade has been serving delicious dishes from the Pathare Prabhu community (one of the original settlers in Mumbai) at her home for several years. Starting today, you can taste these dishes at a Juhu restaurant, as Talpade has curated a special menu which is sure to include her specialities such as kheema pathwad, batati ani valache bhuzane, bangda che aatle and dudhi halwa shingdya. The menu is à la carte. WHERE: Plus 91, Vile Parle WHEN: Aug 24 to Sept 10 CALL: 66921100
Immerse yourself in Hindustani lit
Ek Baar Ki Baat Hai' pays tribute to Hindustani literature through the staging of short stories penned by renowned writers. Organised by Jashn-E-Qalam Storytelling, the show will see performances of three short stories: Bade Bhai Sahab by Premchand, Chuimui by Ismat Chughtai and Apne Desh Ke Log by Kamleshwar. The stories will be performed by Vicky Ahuja, Shashwati Sharma and KC Shankar. WHERE: Redbrick Offices, Andheri WHEN: 7 pm ENTRY: Rs 350 LOG: www.bookmyshow.com
MUST ATTEND
A lecture on Zarina
Art aficionados, mark your calendars. This Saturday, the director and chief curator of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Roobina Karode, will deliver a lecture on artist Indian-born American artist Zarina Hashmi, who was born in Aligarh in 1937. It is titled 'Zarina: A Life in Nine Lines: Across Decades: Continents: Geographies', as the artist is well known for using the geometric shape of the line as her visual tool in her works. Zarina, who earned a degree in mathematics before pursuing printmaking, tends explored themes such as home, displacement, borders and belonging in her works. WHERE: Dr Bhau Daji Lad, Byculla WHEN: Aug 25, 6 pm ENTRY: Free, by RSVP RSVP: ccardoza@bdlmuseum.org
THE GIG GUIDE - Party hard this weekend at the hottest gigs in the city
Whether you love live music or electronica gigs, this Friday night planner has something for everyone.
MAY CONTAIN NUTS
For a dose of rock 'n' roll, make your way to this show. May Contain Nuts is a cover band that plays hit songs by acts such as Nirvana, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, The Beatles, Pearl Jam, Metallica and Pink Floyd by giving it their own signature twist. The band comprises Dean Fernandes (guitar, vocals), Jackson John (guitar, vocals) and Leonard Jordan (percussion). The Stables, Andheri (E). 9.30 pm. For reservations, call: 9820645845
ANKUR TEWARI + SIDD COUTTO
The two popular musicians, who play together in the Tewari-fronted Ankur and the Ghalat Family, are set to deliver an immersive and interactive set this evening. Expect a lot of live looping and beatboxing, along with generating songs based on topics and genres suggested by the audience. The Great Eastern Home, Byculla. 7.30 pm. Entry: Rs 499. Visit: www.insider.in
NUSH LEWIS
The talented singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist's weapon of choice is not the guitar, but a harp instead. Apart from being a faculty member at Furtados School of Music, she also started OffSet, an initiative to promote arts education. The Sassy Spoon, Nariman Point. 9.30 pm. Entry: Free. Call: 9920003500
DJ PROOF
The DJ and electronica producer is set to throw a mad party tonight. The occasion? His birthday. Proof, who started deejaying in 2010 and counts DJ SA as one of his mentors, is roping in special guests such as Garth Adam and Shah Rule for tonight's shindig. Raasta, Khar. 10 pm. Call: 8655000811 for entry
NIKHIL CHINAPA
The VJ, DJ and festival curator has been one of the champions of the electronica dance music scene in India for more than a decade. Tonight, watch him drop him electrifying beats at a gig which will also see sets by Nawed Khan, Nosh & SJ and K-os Theory. Playboy Club, Worli. 10 pm. For guestlist and reservations, Call: 8454881609
JORAN VAN POL
The Dutch producer started his career by playing backroom DJ sets at popular clubs in Amsterdam. Cut to the present, he is running his own record label (Fade) and his propagating his love minimal and techno tunes to all the corners of the globe, including our city tonight. Supporting acts: FEEL, Beatfrenzy and Maulik. Ark, Andheri (E). 11 pm. Call: 61369999 for entry
TECHNICAL HITCH
There is an undeniable link between Israel and psytrance (think: Skazi and Astrix). David Semo aka Technical Hitch is another example of this. If you want to trip out to crazy psytrance tunes, then catch him in action at an Andheri club. Blacklisted, Andheri. 10 pm. Entry: Rs 999. Visit: www. tickets.madvibes.in
AANKH MICHOLI
This is a big day for the folk/fusion/rock quintet, as they are all set to celebrate their third anniversary. The band comprises Osho Jain (vocals, guitar), Pankaj Pathe (guitar), Hansel Dias (bass, backing vocals), Bharat Chandore (drums, backing vocals) and Akshay Dabhadkar (keys). Supporting act: Sabu. True School of Music, Lower Parel. 7 pm. Entry: Free. Call: 66243200
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KEMP GADEGÅRD is Berlin based brand that produces a line of slow crafted contemporary womenswear. The brand is born out of an ambition to produce garments conscientiously, that are long lasting and beautiful. Aesthetics, comfort and attention to detail are at the forefront of the brand's philosophy. Luxurious silks and perfectly cut cottons are trademarks of their beautiful collections.
KEMP GADEGÅRD is a line of slow crafted contemporary womenswear. It is born out of an ambition to produce garments conscientiously, that are long lasting and beautiful. Aesthetics, comfort and attention to detail are at the forefront of the brand's philosophy.
KEMP GADEGÅRD focuses on working with high quality, natural and organic fabrics. They produce to the highest labour standards with consideration for the environmental impacts of production and transportation. For this reason, garments are produced in Europe, in a small city on the coast of the mediterranean, Granada.
"All of us are activists and investors in the present and future we want to build. By buying slowly, for the long haul, and wearing slowly and meaningfully, we are actively questioning the current system of disposable objects with built-in obsolescence and creating awareness about the environment, global labour standards, the political implications of consumption and with this, addressing issues of global inequality.
By creating seasonless pieces that can be worn in countless ways, we aim to discourage the disposable view of clothing that has become increasingly pervasive. Our hope is to return to the days of a minimal, functional and beautiful wardrobe worthy of care and passing on."
KEMP GADEGÅRD was founded in 2016 by Eilis Kemp Arizmendi and Maya Byskov Gadegaard and is based in Berlin, Germany.


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