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U.S. productivity grew 8.1% in the third quarter, the Labor Department told us last week. In the short term, that's great news for company profitability, but bad news for workers. In the medium term, though, higher productivity is good for both companies and workers, because if demand starts to grow, companies will still need to hire more workers to meet that demand. But where does increased productivity come from? This is the first of a three-part series focusing on companies that show their clients how to be more efficient.
Information technology spending has dropped off significantly since the dot-com bust. And since the recent recession began in December 2007, companies have been looking for ways to cut IT spending further while maintaining or increasing performance.
To achieve that, IT consultants like International Business Machines' (IBM) Global Services unit and Accenture (ACN) offer a service called application portfolio management. APM helps companies to identify and streamline overlapping computer applications -- such as consolidating seven accounts-payable systems down to one -- and converts applications that companies do need to operate using more cost-efficient technologies.
IT services -- of which APM is one line -- is a huge market. ChannelInsider reports that worldwide revenues for IT services totaled $806 billion in 2008 -- up 8.2% from 2007. It further reports that IBM was the top firm in the industry with a 7.3% market share on $58.9 billion in revenue, while Accenture was third with $23.7 billion and a 2.9% market share.
IBM reduced its applications portfolio from a high of 15,000 systems in 1998 to 6,800 in 2000.
The defect rates of IBM's applications have declined by 58%; maintenance costs for these applications have been reduced by 20%.
IBM currently sources 40% of its maintenance work to lower-cost regions and achieves cost savings in the range of 60% to 70%.
Overall, IBM has cut application maintenance spending. Today, 22% of IBM's IT budget goes to maintenance -- it was 40% in 1990.
Portfolio assessment: Collecting relevant application portfolio information, analyzing the information in the context of business and technical objectives, and identifying transformation opportunities.
Portfolio transformation management: Identifying key business drivers and monitoring their effect on the application portfolio, providing governance and sequencing over transformation projects and activities, and measuring the business value of transformation projects against identified objectives.
The details of each of these phases would take pages to describe, but I don't think it's an accident that IBM leads the IT services industry. IBM got there by creating tremendous value for its clients.
Peter Cohan is a management consultant, Babson professor and author of nine books, includingCapital Rising (due in June 2010). Follow him on Twitter. He has no financial interest in the securities mentioned.
Meet Peter Cohan at The World Money Show Orlando, February 3-6, 2010 at The Gaylord Palms Resort.


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Two-Lane Blacktop on Criterion
Cult director Monte Hellman lets the motors do the talking in Two-Lane Blacktop.
Chris Gisonny
Cult director Monte Hellman lets the motors do the talking in Two-Lane Blacktop (1971). Poignant and unique, this road movie cruises across the border of entertainment into the realm of art. The film evolved from a screenplay penned by novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer and features performances by singer-songwriter James Taylor and Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson. The great Warren Oates, the sole professional actor in the main cast, delivers a performance that not only approaches brilliance, but speeds clear past it with a raucous howl. The sparse plot leaves plenty of room for meditative long takes, gorgeous shots, and intimate monologues. The Driver (Taylor) and the Mechanic (Wilson) drag race for cash in the Car (a '55 Chevy). They pick up the Girl (Laurie Bird), a possibly under-aged free spirit who adds some tension to their quiet co-existence. The manic GTO (Oates) menaces them playfully in his slick 1970 Pontiac until they all meet at a gas station and agree to a cross-country race. They mail their pink slips to an address in D.C. and the first to arrive gets the other guy's car. The film's collaborators alchemized this simple premise into a complex work that explores the notion of competition and its failure to provide a lasting escape from an existence often stalled by malfunctions no mechanic can fix.
Emotion is rather shy in this film; it shivers in the Driver's cold eyes, lounges in the Mechanic's relaxed body, laughs behind GTO's flimsy mask. The Driver is an ascetic, alone with the road no matter who surrounds him, a hermit behind the wheel, in communion with his ascending speed. "You can never go fast enough," he scolds a naïve GTO. There is no heater in the Car because, he explains, "it slows it down." The Mechanic is his loyal guide, typically quiet but prepared to perform surgery on the machine's inner workings if anything threatens its thunderous power. The Mechanic fixes not only the Car—he uses his handiest tool, his affability, to ease the tension between the other characters. The Girl is a drifter in everything she does. She drifts from the Mechanic to the Driver. She drifts from the Chevy to the Pontiac. In the end, she just drifts away.
While the Driver, the Mechanic, and the Girl lack personal histories, GTO serves as their comical opposite. In contrast to his reserved opponents, this man is a poet, spouting such gems as, "Color me gone, baby" and "If I'm not grounded pretty soon, I'm gonna go into orbit." With a kaleidoscope of fictional anecdotes spinning inside his mind, GTO recites a different story about his past to each of the unimpressed hitchhikers he picks up. His consistent inconsistencies find their reflection in his wardrobe—he wears the same style sweater without fail but every time he appears the sweater is a different color, appropriate for man who is always the same and always different. Collectively, GTO's lies conspire to provide us with the truth: He is a middle-aged man desperate to escape from himself, racing against his disappointing past for the prize of a fulfilling future.
The characters speed through epic wide-screen compositions that render the commonplace profound. Headlights soar through the dark like shooting stars. Landscapes unfold solemnly beyond voyeuristic windshields. Greasy diners and gas stations blossom along the side of the road. The visuals find worthy competition in the soundtrack, a symphony of baritone motors, falsetto breaks, tuneful horns, humming engines, and a harmony of lonely voices. Music leaks out of radios and characters sing along as if they had finally found a friend. Despite all the fuss about the cars, the camera and the sound equipment are the greatest machines at work.
Critics often affix the word "existential" to Two-Lane Blacktop because its stylistic austerity easily invites the label. A look beyond the stark visuals and minimal dialogue, however, reveals that Two-Lane Blacktop primarily concerns competition and its tendency to veer from its rightful course and become ubiquitous in the characters' lives. Tension between competing elements defines the film. It is an American road movie that looks like a European art film. It is a slow-paced movie about speed. The characters strive for both solitude and camaraderie. The Driver lusts for the Girl but is married to the Road. GTO is desperate to communicate but avoids the truth. The Driver and the Mechanic compete for the affections of the Girl and then GTO competes with both of them. It is a film of many thematic layers competing to rise to its stylistic surface.
The other major theme—obsession—thrives in the subculture of car freaks who haunt the characters along their frequently stilted journey. The Driver and the Mechanic obsess over the Car like finicky parents and exchange obscure technical lingo as if it is the only language they speak. They mingle at racetracks and street races with other car nuts. Minor characters lingering in gas stations and parking lots marvel at the Car and enthusiastically inquire about its engine power. Scouting suckers for a race, the Mechanic notes the attributes of the assembled cars with the knowing air of a scholar. These esoteric rituals might stir vague feelings of recognition in the film buff, as if by viewing this film the obsessive cinéaste in question had wandered into a house of mirrors that distorts his reflection and renders it somewhat comic. "They're not for you," GTO warns the Girl of the two gear-heads she's riding with. "All they think about is cars." Some of us think only about films.
The film's finale finds GTO offering a lift to two soldiers on leave. He provides them with his final lie, the most moving and pathetic of them all because he pieces it together with actual fragments from the film's story, suggesting that he might have cannibalized bits of disappointing truths for the construction of his previous lies. Following the painful fiction he offers the soldiers, he explains that there is nothing like building an old car from scratch and beating a Detroit machine in a race. "That'll give you a set of emotions that'll stay with you. Know what I mean? Those satisfactions are permanent." He disappears in his yellow chariot and we visit the Driver one last time as he awaits the starting signal for yet another race. A peaceful silence descends and places us within his devout concentration. In what might be one of the greatest final shots in history, as the Driver accelerates silently towards the horizon, the film stutters, halts on a freeze-frame, and dissolves from the heat of the projector, punctuating the film with a poignancy only cinema can provide. It is as if the characters refused to stop moving, so the movie itself felt obliged to. Two-Lane Blacktop proves that great films can spark the same set of emotions GTO referenced, the ones that stay with you. Those satisfactions are indeed permanent.
Image/Sound/Extras: The Criterion Collection presents Two-Lane Blacktop in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio in a digital transfer supervised by Monte Hellman. The sound is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1. Two commentary tracks accompany the film, the first a conversation between Hellman and filmmaker Allison Anders that primarily focuses on details of the production, the second a conversation between screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer and film professor David Meyer that is more analytical. In addition to the standard rare production stills, screen tests, and original theatrical trailer, Disc Two contains many filmed conversations between the collaborators that provide the viewer with everything they would ever want to know about the film. The production was an interesting one—Hellman filmed the scenes in order so the crew essentially embarked on the very same cross-country journey as the characters and he only gave the actors portions of the script as filming progressed, a decision that must have added to the film's natural feel but apparently frustrated James Taylor to no end.
The DVD booklet contains an interesting and informative essay by Kent Jones, an enthusiastic blurb by Tom Waits, a list of Richard Linklater's very amusing reasons for loving the film, and a piece by Michael Goodwin about the production originally published in Rolling Stone in 1970. The most interesting inclusion in this Criterion package is Wurlitzer's screenplay, which Esquire had originally published in its entirety with the declaration that Two-Lane Blacktop was the "Film of the Year" before it had even been released, dooming its chances with a counterculture audience anticipating another Easy Rider. The screenplay features many scenes that didn't make it to the final cut, providing a context for certain sequences that might seem idiosyncratic but have merely been stripped of the passages that explain them, which indicates that the editing also played a huge role in creating the film's atmosphere. The screenplay and the many extra features enhance the experience of this incredible work, unappreciated on its release and largely unavailable for years.
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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) used a snowball on the Senate floor Thursday to make his point that global climate change isn't the threat it's cracked up to be.
The Factor sent Jesse Watters up to Boston to get the folks' take on the seemingly never-ending snow and sub-zero temperatures.
Disney is not in favor of State Department's idea to use "Frozen" to teach climate change.
Many officials in the Obama administration - including Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama himself - have repeatedly hammered home the message that climate change is one of mankind's greatest threats. According to Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman, however, there is no scientific proof that supports man-made climate change.
Is President Obama plotting yet another end run around Congress? The New York Times reports that the White House is negotiating a way to sign an international climate change deal without approval from Congress.
Author and columnist Mark Steyn was on "Hannity" to discuss global warming.
Apple CEO Tim Cook took on so-called climate change "deniers," issuing a stern message to anyone who disagrees with the company's clean energy push.
Judge Andrew Napolitano called out the president for playing golf in California this weekend with King Abdullah II of Jordan right after a speech in which he blamed climate change for the severe drought in the state.
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Jul 31st, 2019 | By Ophelia Benson
Originally a comment by latsot at Miscellany Room 3.
Have we done this one yet? So many of these things turn up in my labyrinthine feeds that I sometimes have trouble keeping track.
[Answer: no, we haven't. I saw it last week and made a couple of attempts to read it but found it way too long for purpose as well as excruciatingly annoying so I turned my back on it.]
Anyway, as the URL suggests, the title is Dear Philosophers, You Can Trust the Feminist Consensus: Gender-Critical Radical Feminism is Bogus
It seems to be all over the place and since today I reached peak procrastination, I finally started to read it.
It's written by a philosopher to philosophers. We know that because he inserts "dear philosophers" into every other paragraph. It's also an excellent reason to ask "what is it with all these philosophers" and a house-bankrupting fallacy bingo card.
I won't go into the fallacies here in any detail, they are far too tedious. But I feel compelled to convey the general dishonesty and I will paste the guy's mission in writing the article. What's that lesson we're all supposed to learn about hubris, again?
First he has a droning preamble about how people might think gender critical people have a point and that we should be able to discuss this stuff in an adult fashion, all the time clumsily telling any of us foolish enough to believe that that we're naive and wrong. He says he, too, once thought as common swine but lo he had an epiphany and now he's superwoke. While he was reticent in the past about telling feminists how to feminism because he's a man, now his post-epiphany status as a member of the wokinati means that he's practically obliged to do it. He's doing those misguided women a service, after all.
Then he picks three points we've all been talking about (it really doesn't matter which ones) and says:
I'm going to try to show not just that these are wrong, but that they are baseless, rooted in some combination of conceptual confusion and factual error, and hold together as an ideology only because of the organising power of anxiety, confusion, or hostility to trans people.
Oh rilly? Anyone else here get the feeling that he's going to completely misrepresent arguments and just say they're wrong, possibly throwing out a few fallacy bombs in his shambling wake like a fugitive dropping scent bombs to confuse pursuing dogs?
Well spotted, but it's hardly like we need a spidey-sense at this stage, is it?
Part 1: Do Trans People Reinforce Gender Stereotypes? (No)
Well, if the answer's no, there's no need to read further, obviously. But if you did you'd see that he picks an illustration of a point (gleefully from the gendercritical subreddit and claiming that means he – superwoke as is he – is incapable of bias)…. and then of course completely misrepresents it and staples strawmen (transstrawmen?) all over it.
He misrepresents the point of the image and then uses baited language to misrepresent the point of this part of the debate because he wouldn't be sufficiently insufferable otherwise. The image is this one:
The idea that people transition in order to better fit gender stereotypes is, as best I can tell, just false.
And with that brilliant stroke of logic, that whole argument is bogus now and for all time and we shouldn't even talk about it. Even though he is talking about it. Shut up, he's superwoke and allowed and you are neither.
In case you're worried about spoilers, don't. He has pages and pages to say on the matter. I'm not an expert on fallacies, really, but he's setting the bastards off like fireworks. He finishes – I can barely type this – with an appeal to his "dear philosophers" to use the tools of philosophy when discussing this issue, which – he insists – they are not allowed to do because he says so, citing "reasons".
Part 2: Are People Being Pressured to Transition? (No)
He quotes a comedian (Robert Webb) saying that he was gender non-conforming as a child and that it would be wrong to tell children that because they were non-conforming they must be trans.
Philosopher-dude leaps on this using what seems to be his favourite word: "all". He turns every argument everyone has ever made into absurdity by quoting a fairly reasonable and innocuous statement like that then saying "well, it's just not true that all children are being told that!!!!!"
Nobody – not even Robert Webb – ever said anything of the sort. People – including Robert Webb – have said that it might be a bad idea and that's pretty much it.
Part 3: Does Admitting Trans Women Make Women's Spaces Less Safe? (No)
He understands the issue here, no doubt about it. He makes it very clear that he knows what the gender critical argument is. But…
Well first he says that "the most respectable" gender critical philosophers aren't claiming that – his favourite word again – "all" trans women are predators, implying that anyone at all is saying they are.
And there are plenty of people out there making that crude and obviously transphobic argument!
Citation? Nope. He invents some scenarios about how sex segregation might work in bathrooms without ever seeming to understand that…. this already happens. It happens all the time. It has happened throughout all living memory without much difficulty. And to compound matters, he also invents a scenario in which women demand to see people's ID before they are allowed to use the facilities and if the accused non-women refuse, they are assaulted by their accusers.
This is so transparently bullshit that it looks like satire, which is the very signature of this fallacious crap.
I'm too exhausted to talk about the conclusions and there are dozens of delicious fallacies you can hunt out for yourselves.
This is the standard of argument we get and everyone still rolls over. As Josh said recently, the trans movement has done zero work for this. The LGB and feminist movements did all that work and that's where we live now. Arse.
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Kathleen Stock has responded, part 1 and part 2.
latsot
Thanks, Holms!
Musicotic
You don't seem to have responded to any of his points, and neither has Kathleen Stock.
Colin Day
But Crip Dyke assured me that transwomen are women because "women" is in "transwomen".
Powerful argument!
Sackbut
Re #3, it seems to me that latsot and Dr Stock have both responded quite well to the points raised in the article. Read Dr Stock's Part 2 in particular. She mentions the huge amount of misrepresentation of her (and other gender-critical) positions inhibits her willingness to seek common ground.
Here you go, Musicotic–
Funny how Roelofs just brushes off gcf's pesky requests to define the term "gender identity" (he doesn't bother with other salient terms, like "gender", "woman", "man", "transgender" etc.
One way to ask 'what is gender identity' is as a question about the nature of something whose existence is clear and uncontroversial. It says: 'wow, a lot of people have strong preferences about how they present and how they are embodied and how they are gendered, often in defiance of gender stereotypes. Where's that coming from? What are the psychological roots and structure of this fascinating phenomenon?' It's an investigative sort of question. If we can't come up with a good answer, we just have to work harder.
"Gender identity" is something whose existence is clear and uncontroversial? Really? As a thing apart from our bodies (on the one hand), and our society's narrative about what people who inhabit such bodies are like — what is this but gender stereotyping? —(on the other), there exists a thing called "gender identity" that can exist independently of either?
Gender identity is a "strong preference" about "how they present and how they are embodied and how they are gendered"? (The key point, "how they are embodied", is buried.) Whence come these "strong preferences" and how are they to be understood? Is having "strong preferences" a reason to compel others to accept one as a member of the other sex?
It's a neat trick, accusing people of ill will if they don't accept a fuzzy concept as axiomatic.
There is, however, a different, transphobic, way of asking this question: as a challenge. It says: 'well, trans people may claim that their preferences about presentation, embodiment, and gendering come from this mysterious inner thing called a 'gender identity'. But what is that? I can't work out what it's meant to be, so probably they're wrong.'
More like, "I can't work out what it's meant to be, therefore I am not going to accept it as axiomatic."
That is, the transphobic sense of the question poses it as a test: if a good definition of gender identity can't be offered, then trans people's self-descriptions of their motives and feelings shouldn't be believed. Call this the skeptical version of the question
This is both a strawman AND a red herring. Nobody is questioning most trans people's "feelings and motives." People's can be utterly sincere and still be wrong. The question is, why must society be ordered around one group's feelings and motives? Are feelings and motives always reliable guides to reality (or social policy?)
clamboy
Thank you, Lady M, I was just about to point out to Musicotic @ 3 that the words in their post were false. Musicotic will, of course, never return to offer a reply to you or anyone else, though they are free to do so.
The Atheist Experience, possibly Matt Dillahunty had a good way of phrasing it: What do you believe, and why do you believe it?
@Musicotic, you're right! I didn't answer any of the 'points'. I didn't intend to. Perhaps this could have been a clue:
I won't go into the fallacies here in any detail, they are far too tedious. But I feel compelled to convey the general dishonesty and I will paste the guy's mission in writing the article.
There isn't much to be gained from a point-by-point rebuttal, which is why Stock didn't do that either. Lady Mondegreen did an excellent job of addressing some of the points at #7 but there's just too much stupid in the article to make any more effort than that worthwhile. We'd be at it all week and wouldn't convince the righteous. Besides, these are not new arguments, we've all seen them before.
My intent was to point out to the people here – who as you can see for yourself are perfectly able to spot flaws and fallacies in arguments – that we have yet another proper grown up philosopher making dishonest arguments that should be embarrassing to any philosopher and which could be debunked by a 12 year old during a commercial break.


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Key areas in microfinance Budget 2015-16 should focus on
E. Kumar Sharma | Friday, February 27, 2015 | 16:48 IST
Associate editor E Kumar Sharma lists the key areas Finance Minister Arun Jaitley should focus on when he reads out his Budget speech on February 28.
Exempt service tax on the processing fee charged by MFIs as it is the poor borrower who has to ultimately bear the cost.
Associate editor E Kumar Sharma lists the key points Finance Minister Arun Jaitley should focus on when he reads out his Budget speech on February 28.
Announce measures that provide a specific role for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the financial inclusion agenda of the government. MFIs need not be just agents but could be direct players. This holds for both for-profit and not-for-profit MFIs.
Broaden the definition of priority sector lending to include different loan products, taking it beyond livelihood-related loans. It can include loans for education, health, water and sanitation, and even solar energy products. This should only be for low-income households. While it may be argued that the Reserve Bank of India has a greater role in this, the Budget can still look at this area.
Increase the fund allocation for Sidbi's India Microfinance Equity Fund beyond Rs 300 crore. It should have a corpus of at least Rs 1,000 crore so that it can extend more equity to MFIs. Plus, take measures to make its access easier for MFIs, with more equitable terms and conditions.
Exempt service tax on micro insurance services offered by MFIs.
Provide tax holiday to MFIs. This will encourage more investments in the sector and benefit end borrrowers through lower interest rates.
Liberalise domestic/ foreign ownership norms for small and medium MFIs with total loan outstandings of less than Rs 100 crore.
Make a statement on the Microfinance Bill and its re-introduction.
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BNP to Plead Guilty, But When Will a U.S. Bank Have to Do the Same?
The Justice Department is only 'getting tough' on foreign banks
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Today, France's largest bank, BNP Paribas, will become the second major financial institution this year to plead guilty to violations of U.S. law. Following Credit Suisse's admission in May to facilitating tax evasion, BNP's guilty plea concerns $30 billion in transactions between 2002-2009 that violated U.S. sanctions against countries like Iran, Cuba, and Sudan.
The guilty pleas are designed to prove the Justice Department's new "get-tough" policy against big banks, though the policy actually would be better described as "look-tough." BNP will pay $8.9 billion to settle the investigation, over four times what HSBC paid in 2012 for similar conduct. However, because BNP approved so many more illegal transactions, the penalty per dollar of violations actually comes out on the low side, compared to other banks. The guilty plea sounds strong, but the Justice Department has managed to remove all the punitive implications, from threats to the bank's charter to loss of the license to operate as an investment adviser. Initial reports suggested that BNP would lose critical access to dollar-clearing services for a temporary period, which would hamper the bank's ability to make even rudimentary transactions for clients. But the Financial Times reports that BNP struck a deal to avoid that penalty for up to six months, giving them time to find alternatives for their customers instead of simply losing them. BNP will also have to "fire" over two dozen employees connected with the scheme, which I put in quotes because most of them have already left the bank.
You can make a case that, relative to the conduct, both BNP and Credit Suisse got off easy. But judging from the Justice Department's actions, these banks would have received even lighter rebukes had they been based in the U.S.
BNP and Credit Suisse were caught in the crossfire of substantial criticism of the Justice Department for its failure to prosecute the worst abuses of the financial crisis. Instead of seeking criminal charges against banks central to the crisis, like JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America or Citigroup, DoJ instead pursued these foreign firms. The foreign banks' violations at issue had nothing to do with those abuses—they're guilty of sins against the U.S. government and its foreign policy agenda, rather than against individuals like homeowners or investors. In fact, during talks over fines for conducting business with countries like Iran, BNP was given a license by U.S. officials to… conduct business with Iran. So the penalties seem purely discretionary, in this context, and unquestionably tangential to the misconduct that caused the Great Recession. Meanwhile, the parallel investigations against domestic banks over fraudulent mortgage securities are all civil probes, with no prospect of criminal indictments.
Even if it was committed to prosecuting foreign-policy violations, the Justice Department could have still pursued domestic banks: It's not like they have no history of laundering money for entities officially banned by the U.S. government. The Federal Reserve cited Citigroup for failures in its anti-money laundering program last year, but included no fine or admission of wrongdoing. Citi remains under investigation for lack of compliance. Wachovia, since bought by Wells Fargo, laundered money for Mexican drug cartels to the tune of $384 billion, over ten times the amount of BNP, yet paid a grand total of $160 million in fines, less than one cent on the dollar. Bank of America also helped launder money for the Mexican drug trade. JPMorgan Chase engaged in a series of transactions with Iran, Sudan and Cuba from 2005-2011, the exact same violations of trade sanctions that BNP engaged in. Their fine? $88.3 million, without a guilty plea.
This critique only goes so far. As Pro Publica's Jesse Eisinger points out, the Justice Department has been notoriously weak in its prosecutions of every major financial firm, foreign or domestic. As noted previously, DoJ made sure to scrub recent guilty pleas of any consequences, and no individual bankers have been indicted in any of these cases. Credit Suisse and BNP seem guilty mostly of being the next bank up when the pressure got too great on DoJ, forcing them to at least make a show of getting tough. But we're really talking about the relative strength of slaps on the wrist.
However, since the standard of meting out justice to financial institutions seems so arbitrary, it's hard to escape the absence of domestic banks in the conversation. Though still weak, BNP's fine will wipe out a substantial portion of its 2013 profits (BNP plans to cut its dividend to pay the fine, showing how ultimately shareholders pay for this misconduct, not bank executives). The guilty plea could cause some risk to the bank's reputation. And it's notable that other European banks under investigation for similar violations have grown worried, while their domestic counterparts remain nonchalant by comparison.
Domestic banks simply know how to play this game better. They get direct meetings between their CEOs and the Attorney General, a luxury not typically afforded to lawbreakers. They threaten to fight any fine in court, wracking the nerves of Justice Department lawyers afraid of losing a big case. They use allies in Congress and K Street to fend off accountability. And it works well.
To be clear, everyone in global financial services can avoid punishment for their crimes with minimal damage. But the Justice Department appears to bend even further backwards if you're headquartered in New York or Charlotte, instead of Paris or Geneva.
David Dayen @ddayen
David Dayen is the author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud.
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Several government authorities were present at the inauguration of Nektium´s new production facilities, which were designed to produce high-quality, standardized botanical extracts. The construction of the industrial estate—comprised of a manufacturing plant, advanced laboratories, and an office complex spread over 10.000 square meters—started in 2015. Since 2018 the facilities have been fully operational with a production capacity five times bigger that its past headquarters.
"Researching innovative ingredients and producing them here in our facilities is the core of the business. It was a logical consequence to emphasize both these pillars of Nektium," said Dr. Miguel Jiménez, founder of Nektium Pharma. He added that the R&D team opted for a new production plant with higher production capacity.
This decision was honored by the Spanish Secretary of State for Commerce, Xiana Méndez who attended the inauguration among other representatives of the government. Secretary Méndez thanked Dr. Jiménez for selecting the Canary Islands as the location for his business.
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Nothing is permanent, not even loneliness. Where there is hope, there is always possibility—the possibility of love and the possibility of friendship.
Pandora, a picture book written and illustrated by Victoria Turnbull, is a book about hope. Pandora, the main character, lives alone in what looks like a junkyard full of broken and forgotten objects. Pandora's heart, however, is not vanquished by her lonely and barren existence. She makes a cozy home and goes about sewing abandoned teddy bears and making wind chimes out of old glass bottles. One day, a little injured blue bird falls outside her window and Pandora's life begins to change. She not only makes a friend, her generosity ends up bringing her a whole new world full of life that she never expected.
The book jacket says Pandora is about "renewal and the power of hope, friendship, and nature". I agree, but I would like to add that it is about the magic that can be reaped by sowing genuine hope and friendship even when it might seem pointless.
At first, Pandora and the blue bird bring the only color to the surroundings, but that changes as the little blue bird's tiny gifts begin to bear fruit.


Daylight saving time starts tomorrow, thank God. After four months of dark and dismal evenings, many Americans will relish commuting home next week in full daylight. Which begs an obvious question: Why do we turn the clocks back at all? Others have argued that daylight saving time is pointless and should be abolished, but I'd like to take this opportunity to firmly disagree: Saving daylight is awesome, and we should do it all year.
This article was originally published on October 31st, 2015, and has been updated to reflect the fact that daylight saving time is now beginning, not ending.
First, to dispel the most common misconception: Farmers have nothing to do with daylight saving time. It was introduced in World War I, first by the Germans, who fancied it a clever way to save fuel for the war effort. The idea caught on, and soon everyone was doing it. Many countries reverted back to standard time after the war, only to pick up daylight saving again during World War II. Daylight saving time is now used in over 70 countries worldwide, although the beginning and end dates vary from country to country.
Because daylight saving time was established for historical reasons that have little bearing on modern society, and because the actual energy savings of turning the clocks forward have since been hotly contested, some will argue that we should do away with daylight saving time altogether. On the other hand, why can't we rid ourselves of standard time—which, by the way, only encompasses about four months of the year at this point—and enjoy longer evenings year round? Here are three reasons why the latter option makes a lot more sense.
A growing body of research indicates that switching the clocks back or forward can have adverse health effects, by disrupting our sleep patterns and leading to short-term sleep deprivation. For instance, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the incidence of heart attacks is significantly higher for the first three days after the transition to daylight saving time in the spring. Risk of heart attack was also higher on the first weekday following the transition out of daylight saving time in the fall. A study published last year corroborated this find, revealing a 21-25% jump in heart attack incidence on the first workday after switching the clocks.
If turning the clocks either direction is a source of undue insomnia and stress, one might argue that we simply abolish daylight saving time. But a forthcoming paper authored by researchers at Brookings Institution and Cornell suggests the opposite.
According to this study, making daylight saving time permanent could dramatically reduce the number of rapes and robberies, which most often occur in the evening commuting hours between 5 and 8 pm. The researchers note that when Congress increased the period of daylight saving time by four weeks in 2007, "robbery rates for the entire day fall an average of 7 percent, with a much larger 27 percent drop during the evening hour that gained some extra sunlight." This led to an estimated annual social cost savings of $59 million.
And no, the drop in evening crime wasn't compensated by an increase in morning assaults. Criminals (shocker) don't appear to be early birds.
How many people do you know who look forward to spending their entire evening in darkness four months out of the year? Commuting home in darkness. Going on a run after work in darkness—or better yet, not, because it isn't safe. Picking up your kids after school as the sun's final fleeting rays bend distressingly low across the horizon. When the sky goes dark before you've finished your daily grind and gotten a chance to relax, an irresistible little voice starts whispering in your ear. You know the one I'm talking about. "Don't even bother going out and enjoying the world," the voice says. "It's been a long day. There's a frozen pizza in your freezer. There's a new season of Supernatural on Netflix." How many hours of human creativity and productivity have been wasted in the name of inexplicably early evenings we can only imagine.
Daylight saving time might have a weird, misguided origin story, but that doesn't make standard time better. If there's one thing nearly all human beings will agree on, it's that we like the goddamn Sun. Let's stop needlessly wasting it.


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US Authorities Sanction Bosnian Top Politician
U.S. authorities designated on Monday Fadil Novalić, the prime minister of one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's two semi-autonomous regions, for his alleged involvement in corruption, as well as "divisive and destabilizing activities in the Western Balkans."
U.S. Sanctions Bosnian Serb Leader over Graft and for Destabilizing Moves
The U.S. sanctioned on Wednesday the leader of the Bosnian Serbs and a TV station believed to be under his control for his "corrupt activities and continued threats to the stability and territorial integrity" of the Balkan country.
Serbia's CINS Considers Lawsuit Against Bosnian Serb Leader
The Serbian Center for Investigative Journalism, CINS, will be considering its legal options regarding accusations made by the President of the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia who accused the organization and its editor-in-chief of "destroying regional political structures with money from international organizations."
Russia Hits Back at OCCRP Macedonia Spying Report
Russia's government and state media have hit back at a report by OCCRP and partners on Sunday that showed Macedonia's counterintelligence had been tracking Russian spies in the country who it believed were involved in trying to stop the Balkan country joining NATO.
Bosnia Indicts Sixteen for Banking Scam
Bosnia's State Court confirmed Friday the indictment against 16 people charged with financial crime that led to the collapse of a bank and the theft of 123 million KM (US$ 83 million).


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Hear Tenille Townes' Reflective New Single, 'Jersey On The Wall'
posted by Blake Taylor - Aug 19, 2019
Tenille Townes captured the attention of many with the release of her moving debut single, "Somebody's Daughter." The song tells a real-life story of an experience that Townes had with a panhandler in Nashville. The empathetic and thought-provoking lyrics come together to create a truly powerful record.
Townes new single, "Jersey On The Wall," released on Friday (August 16) continues to tackle difficult subjects. This time, Townes touches on faith and how it's tested during various trials of life.
"If I ever get to heaven / you know I got a long list of questions," Townes sings. "Like how do you make a snowflake? / Are you angry when the earth quakes? / How does the sky change in a minute? / How do you keep this big rock spinning? / Why couldn't you stop that car from crashing? / Forgive me, I'm just asking."
Townes is the type of artist who views music as a way to connect with others on a deeper level. "Truly, that's what music is for me," Townes shares with Rolling Stone. "To make us feel less alone in what we are going through.Writing songs from a witness perspective is what I feel drawn to, that's the anchor of the mission for me."
Recently, Townes partnered with Brandi Carlile for Cracker Barrel's 50th-anniversary initiative, "Five Decades, One Voice." The two joined together for a special performance of Townes' "Somebody's Daughter" and Carlile's "Fulton County Jane Doe."
"That was the craziest day," Townes shares with Rolling Stone referring to the initiative. "I was losing my mind because I love her (Carlile) so much. We were sharing stories and her perspective and I said, 'What's the best advice you have gotten?' And she said, 'People telling me not to take other people's advice.' You have to follow your own gut. You can learn from people and take what you need, but it's gotta come from you."
Townes is currently out on the road opening up for Dierks Bentley this summer. Later in September, she'll join Miranda Lambert on her "Roadside Bars And Pink Guitars Tour."
Hear Townes' latest single, "Jersey On The Wall" below.


New Leitrim manager Shane Ward will be a very busy man after the Leitrim GAA County Board confirmed his appointment as the new manager of the County Senior, U21 and Junior teams.
Ward's appointment, along with that of selectors Brendan Drummond and Gregory Sweeney, was confirmed by delegates at Monday's County Board meeting. All three were in charge of this year's U21 team who recorded a first win in the Provincial championship since 1998 when they reached the Connacht Final.
The new management team will also be in charge of the U21 & Junior teams and County Board Chairman Joe Flynn told the Observer that Drumreilly's John McKeon will be involved with training players based in Galway while there will also be training centres in Dublin and Limerick. It is expected that all three panels will train together.
• See page 84 for reaction on the appointment of new manager Shane Ward from County Board Chairman Joe Flynn.


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According to CVS executives, these changes are representative of what consumers want.
CVS drugstores are headed for a health and beauty makeover– find out more, next!
First it's quitting tobacco, now it's a beauty makeover! The nation's second-largest drugstore chain recently announced that it is adding fresh foods, healthy snacks and expanded beauty options to several locations.
For example, several of the Rhode Island-based stores are headed for makeovers that will mean adding fresh and refrigerated foods to about 500 of its stores and bulking up on healthier snacks chain wide. Bagged candy, which occupies the first aisle in many stores, is being moved back and replaced with items like nuts, trail mixes and granola.
According to CVS executives, these changes are representative of what consumers want. There is a growing interest in health & wellness amongst consumers, and retailers need to show that they are listening. Other stores, many CVS rivals, have been taking the same approach when it comes to expanding sales of healthier items. Walmart for example, expanded their sales of organics.
The makeovers for CVS are a smart move. Increasingly they are customizing their stores to cater to what their customers want. CVS is also showing no signs of slowing down, with their most recent deal of purchasing Target's pharmacy and clinic business, with the deal being worth about $1.9 billion. According to the company's statement, CVS will acquire more than 1,660 Target pharmacies across 47 states in the United States and operate them through a store-within-a-store format. This deal will inevitably make the CVS drugstore impact even stronger.
Health and wellness is a profitable area for retailers and those that emphasis and cater to the growing trend of consumers towards a healthier lifestyle will continue to attract shoppers.


Iruka: In Japan, attacks to Light Workers have been substantially reduced since the beginning of 2017. What can be the causes for this?
Iruka: While taking a Tachyon healing chamber, may we connect with Pleiadians,Siriuns and angels?
Iruka: Such connection may continue even after chamber session?
Iruka: Can you please raise effects and merits of Tachyon chambers that are not widely been known?
Cobra: Tachyon chamber connect you with your I AM presence.
Iruka: I heard that Tachyonized Farden Quartz and Aquamarine has an effect to connect with a mother ship of the Galactic Confederation. Are there any other minerals that have a similar effect?
Cobra: Aquamarine is the best stone to connect with the mother ships.
Iruka: Are there any minerals that enable us to connect with Ascended masters?
Iruka: How Aquamarine , Morganite and Goshenite as you recommended are great? What sort of secrete is hidden in beryl minerals?
Cobra: Beryl minerals have hexagonal crystal structures which is the most powerful sacred geometry form to connect with the light.
Iruka: Can you please comment on Guy Ballard or Godfre Ray King's books and I AM activities?
Cobra: Both are very good books to connect you with your I AM presence and with ascended beings.
Iruka: Can you please comment on Alice Bailey's books?
Cobra: Partially correct. Use discernment.
Iruka: The book called Divine Healing of Mind & Body by Murdo Macdonald-Bayne is said to be written being overshadowed by Jesus Christ. Do you have any idea about this?
Cobra: Murdo Macdonald-Bayne had a strong connection with ascended beings. His connection was quite reliable, but again, not perfect.
Iruka: Astrology generally has a geo-centric theory view as it analyze and predict the situations by looking at the positions of Sun, Mars, etc. from the earth. There however exists a heliocentric theory based astrology by looking at the earth, Mars etc. from Sun as the center of the solar system and it may make more accurate analysis.
In the heliocentric astrology, a person born under the zodiac sign of Scopio for example is Taurus. Any comment this?
Cobra: For people born on earth, Geocentric astorology is far more accurate.
Iruka: Many people say that they are healed when they visit Okinawa. Is Okinawa a Goddess vortex?
Iruka: The existence of many US bases there are intended to suppress the vortex?
Iruka: There is a legend that Sanat Kumara descended on MT.Kurayama-yama in Kyoto, and in fact in every May, Vesak fest is hosted there. Do you have any idea about MT.Kurama-yama?
Cobra: Kurama-yama is one of many entry points for the energies of Sanat Kumara.
Iruka: Is there in japan an underground base and high speed railways of RM and the Light forces?
Iruka: Can you tell us anything about real Japanese history such as imperial family, Shintoism and when Cabal entered here?
Cobra:First, the Jesuits came in the 17th century through Nagasaki port and were later expelled. Then the Rothschilds infiltrated the imperial court at the beginnings of the Meiji period and they still keep controllings Japan.
Iruka: Are there any books other than Gnosis writings that describe the accurate information of Archon, Chimera and Yaldabaoth?
In the books of David Icke for example, we see reptilians but not Archon and Chimera.If there are books or knowledge systems that accurately describe Archons and Chimera, can you please let us know?
Cobra: Not in His Image by John Lamb Lash is fairly accurate.
Iruka:Please rate these people from 1 to 10. 1 is very good and 10 is worst.
Iruka:How do the positeve Andromedan and Arcturian look like(appearance)?
Iruka:Pleiadian may look gentle and Sirian may look light. Then, how about the positive Andromedan and Arcturian?
Iruka: In Japan, it is suspected that there have been tampering in the vote counting. Are there illegal elections occurring in Japan?
Iruka: Why President Kennedy was assassinated?
Cobra: Because he wanted to release the collateral collateral accounts and because he wanted to tell the truth about UFOs.
Iruka: After your introduction to the book by Amora Quan Yin at our last interview in Japan,many of us have read it. Can you please recommend some other books too such as ones for spiritual and esoteric, extraterrestrial beings and truth of earth?
どういたしまして。 Victory of the Light!
Victory of the Light! 幸運を!


Every year for lotsa years, I've written our family Christmas letter as lyrics to a song.
I offer this to you one condition: that you don't just read it…you gotta sing. You already know the tune, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, so no excuses.
Go on, give a good harumph and clear your throat.
And now that you have the attention of the people around you, invite them to join in!
And banish with your cheerful voice, those gloomy kinds of clouds.
And is the national President, of Neuro Section, PT.
On weekends starting in mid-year, just she and husband Joe.
Under full-time appointment served, he'd like to shift his gears.
"Retirement is the way to go," he said, "come next July.
— If you only sing it in your head to see if the syllables fit the tune, it doesn't count. Gotta belt it out!
I enjoyed trying to make some of that work (yes, out loud). Shed a tear about your news though. I know you are thrilled, especially Patty, I'm sure.


IMMIGRATION Services Department yesterday cleared the air over misguided reports awash on social platforms and some international media that two journalists of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) were being detained in Tanzania, saying the latter were just questioned and released.
The reason behind the interrogation of the Kenyan and South African journalists, Ms Muthoki Mumo and Angela Quintal respectively, on Wednesday evening, was that they were conducting activities against entry permits granted to them, according to the department's spokesperson Ally Mtanda.
On their release, the journalists spent the night at Dar es Salaam's Southern Sun Hotel, contrary to reports that the two were detained until yesterday.
Yesterday, the authority gave back travel documents to the duo in the presence of their countries' ambassadors to Tanzania.
"They were given their travel documents, including passports, and were also educated on particular law that they had violated," Mr Mtanda told the 'Daily News' in a telephone interview.
Director of Tanzania Information Services, which accredits people to work as journalists in the country, Dr Hassan Abbas, said normally foreign journalists who come to Tanzania for journalistic activities are given temporary press cards which last for 90 days.
For foreign journalists who want to work permanently in the country, they are required to acquire a renewable one-year press card like the local journalists.
"These embattled CPJ journalists have never applied for the press card. Therefore, apart from violating immigration laws, they have also infringed the Media Services Act, 2016," said Dr Abbas who doubles as government's chief spokesperson.
He presumed that the two could have come for some other 'hidden' agenda, the reason they did not seek press cards from authorities.
The Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRDC) yesterday posted on social media, independently confirming that the two were not given any condition for the release of their travel documents.
"They were assured security and told to continue with their work. No charges are currently pending in any authority in Tanzania against the two," the THRDC states.
Detailing on what had led to holding the two for interrogation, he said, the officers were on normal patrol and went to the hotel to make follow up on whether Ms Mumo and Quintal adhered to the conditions of their permits.
"When they requested for visa the two said the purpose of their entry was just a visit…but the Immigration officers established that they were conducting meetings with journalists without following proper procedures," he said.
Social media was yesterday awash with the reports that the two staffers were detained in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday evening.


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Welcome to the Math Department. A variety of courses are available including Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1 and 2, Geometry, Statistics, Calculus, and Computer Science as well as honors and advanced placement classes.
Detailed information for each of the Math courses offered at EPHS (including Course Descriptions, Prerequisites, and Essential Learning Targets) can be found on the MATH COURSES page.
TI-30XSII is recommended for Algebra I and Geometry.
TI-84 Plus (or TI-89) is recommended for Precalculus, Algebra/Trigonometry, Statistics, and Calculus.


Aside from promoting the "green cities" theme for Earth Day this year, the Earth Day Network is also behind The Canopy Project campaign. You can watch the promotional video below (with a short advertisement about Jaden Smith's movie "After Earth").
As mentioned in the above commentary, efforts to plant trees and reverse the effects of climate change have been happening all over the world. In Italy, residents are preserving local wetlands and forests on a major floodplain. In Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden Uganda and the United States, activists are planting trees everywhere, even in urban areas.
So, if you didn't know, planting a tree is a great step to help the Earth. They reverse land degradation (by helping mitigate erosion), provide food and income, and filter the air so we can breathe. Planting trees has been at the forefront of conservation since the beginning – so go out there and plant one!
Earth Week 2014 Tuesday: Happy Earth Day!
Earth Week 2014 Thursday: National Parks Week!