With a stay at Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport in Orlando, you'll be near the airport and close to Orlando Watersports Complex. This 4-star hotel is within the vicinity of Nemours Children's Hospital and University of Central Florida College of Medicine.
Make yourself at home in one of the 445 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Your pillowtop bed comes with down comforters. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers.
Take advantage of recreation opportunities including an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and shopping on site.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and express check-out. Planning an event in Orlando? This hotel has facilities measuring 42,000 square feet (4 square meters), including a meeting room. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.


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Trump And His Administration Are A Nightmare For The Dreamers
Leah Litman
// 5/4/17 // Commentary
Trump's first 100 days in the office have been …. not great. In the first 100 days, he walked back his promise that Mexico would pay for the wall to now be a promise that "eventually, but at a later date" Mexico would pay "in some form" for the wall. (Would Cheerios work?) Trump also walked back his promise (within a day of repeating it) that he would withdraw from NAFTA. His first 100 days have also put our country on the verge of several constitutional embarrassments and disasters, if not crises.
But to my mind one of the most heartbreaking disasters of Trump's first 100 days is what those 100 days have done to the so-called "DREAM-ers," the group of young immigrants who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). DACA identified a group of especially promising young immigrants and subjected them to rigorous background checks to determine, among other things, that they posed no risk to public safety. DACA then promised those individuals, who were brought to the country as children, that they would not be deported so long as they abided by the terms of DACA (which required them not to commit a subsequent crime, among other things). Many of these individuals were also granted authorization to work in the United States.
The First 100 Days of DACA Under A Trump Administration
In the first 100 days of Trump's presidency, several young DREAM-ers have been arrested and detained by officers in Trump's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One DREAM-er has been deported, and Trump's officers are trying to deport several more. Those individuals include young people who have committed no crime, and who have done absolutely nothing to suggest that they are anything close to a risk to public safety.
Among the individuals that the Trump administration is trying to deport is Daniel Ramirez Medina, a young father and two-time DACA recipient. The government has attempted, at various points, to justify its treatment of Daniel on the ground that he has a tattoo and thus might be a gang member. The tattoo is of a nautical symbol and includes the name of the place where Daniel was born. If the administration believes that nautical symbols are gang signs, I assume that they are rounding up everyone who is wearing Vineyard Vines clothing. Or better yet, that they are monitoring Martha's Vineyard for people wearing clothing with sailing motifs.
While the administration has kind of walked away from the suggestion that Daniel himself is part of a gang, it has also justified the decision to arrest, detain, and deport Daniel on the ground that Daniel knew gang members at some point in his life. It is news to me that our system of government operates under a principle of guilt by association. I went to high school with people who were convicted of counterfeiting, and for doing drugs. Am I suspected of those crimes too?
Despite these alarming facts (and there is no alternative version of them), Trump maintains that he will treat the DREAM-ers with heart. Early on in his campaign and presidency, he described the question of what to do with DACA (whether to continue it, suspend it, or honor it) as a "tough issue" for him.
In fact, just over a week ago, Trump said with a straight face that DREAM-ers should "rest easy" about his immigration policies. He explained that he is "not after the dreamers, we are after the criminals." "[T]hat is our policy." Last weekend, on CNN, DHS Secretary Kelly repeated the President's views about DACA and the DREAM-ers: "We're [DHS] not targeting them [the DREAM-ers]. The President is obviously sympathetic." Obviously, he says—despite the arrests, detentions, and deportations.
Why Those First 100 Days Are So Devastating To DACA
Baloney. It doesn't matter much that ICE isn't actively scouring the United States for DREAM-ers. (ICE's treatment of Daniela Vargas raises questions about whether ICE is in fact targeting DREAM-ers. ICE agents went back to find Vargas and haul her in as soon as they learned that her DACA renewal was pending.)
The thing that matters is that ICE isn't honoring the promise that was made to DREAM-ers, which is also the promise that defines DACA and the government's understanding and implementation of DACA. The promise was that DREAM-ers can stay, and that DREAM-ers' immigration status would not be held against them unless they do not adhere to DACA's terms. DACA directs ICE and CBP agents who "encounter[]" DACA beneficiaries to "immediately …. prevent" them "from being placed into removal proceedings or removed." It states that "an individual who has received deferred action is authorized … to be present in the United States." And it declares that such an individual "is therefore considered by DHS [the agency in which ICE and CBP are housed] to be lawfully present during the period deferred action is in effect."
The government, however, has offered precisely zero evidence that Daniel is a threat to public safety. (The government repeatedly concluded he was not when it granted Daniel DACA.) Nor has the government offered any such evidence about Daniela, the DREAM-er who plays the trumpet and wants to become a math teacher.
If Trump and his administration do not honor DACA's explicit and implicit promises, Trump and his administration have destroyed the DACA program. A DACA in which ICE agents can round up DACA recipients based on piddly nothings and DACA recipients' immigration status is not DACA at all.
Attorney General Sessions appeared to embrace ICE's destruction of DACA when he responded to reports that a DREAM-er had been deported. Sessions said:
Everybody in the country illegally is subject to being deported, so people come here and they stay here a few years and somehow they think they are not subject to being deported — well, they are.
Add to that comment some other purported policies of this administration. The administration's formal enforcement immigration enforcement memos do not rescind DACA. But the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of ICE, "is now mandated to make collateral immigration arrests of non-targeted individuals found at the scene of operations." In plain English: If HSI conducts a sweep for one of the "criminals" ICE is purportedly targeting, and HSI finds instead (or in addition) someone who just happens to be undocumented, HSI must arrest that person as well. Are DREAM-ers and DACA exempt from that rule? DHS and ICE should make that clear.
The Chronicle also notes that merely using HSI to conduct these kinds of immigration arrests greatly increases the reach of the administration's enforcement powers. Until now HSI agents "work[ed] separately from" ICE and have "generally avoided immigration-only arrests during operations," at least in California. HSI is the largest investigative arm of DHS—it has around 6200 agents, compared to the 5800 deportation officers within ICE.
If Sessions' statement is in fact the Trump administration's policy toward the DREAM-ers, the dream is over. DACA, as implemented and structured by the government, only works if the government abides by the promises and representations that it made to DACA recipients. As Mark Stern has explained at Slate, if DACA allowed ICE to deport DREAM-ers based only on their immigration status (i.e., for reasons other than their violation of DACA), "[i]t would render the program purposeless at best, dangerous at worst." To apply for DACA, DACA recipients not only identify themselves as undocumented, they also turn over a great deal of personal information about themselves to the government—the entity that could deport them.
DACA also provides work authorization to eligible DACA recipients. Through that, and other promises and representations the government made (such as highlighting particular DREAM-ers and their achievements), the government has communicated to DREAM-ers that they could come out of the shadows. It has telegraphed to the DREAM-ers that they could and should avail themselves of the variety of public benefits and services that people with legal status take for granted every day—drivers licenses, employment opportunities, health insurance, educational scholarships. And you know what? The DREAM-ers did that. DACA allowed the DREAM-ers to "obtain work permits, attend universities, open bank accounts, start businesses, buy homes and cars, and—for Luis Cortes Romero, [one of my] co-counsel in the Ramirez case—graduate from law school and pass the bar."
But DACA only works if the government follows certain procedures before rescinding those promises and representations. Why else would DREAM-ers go through the DACA application process, if they're treated no differently than every other person without "lawful status" in the United States? Why would they rely on the government's representations that they could participate in a variety of government programs and interact with government officials, all while having identified themselves as undocumented, if those officials could yank them up at any time? It doesn't make much sense.
As my co-counsel Ted Boutrous and Jesse Gabriel wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal: "[T]he government, after coaxing these young people out of the shadows, deeming them 'lawfully present,' and then promising not to arrest, detain or deport them if they follow the rules, cannot turn around and do just that."
Tomorrow, I'll discuss why Trump is responsible for all of this mess. Stay tuned!
Disclosure: I am among the counsel to Daniel Ramirez Medina, the DACA recipient whom the Trump administration arrested and detained and is trying to deport. For an update about what is happening in the case, read Ted Boutrous and Jesse Gabriel's piece in the Wall Street Journal. Further disclosure: Few things make my blood boil as much as this administration's treatment of the DREAM-ers.
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This awesome couple from Copenhagen will be this years Special Invited in Tangocamp Sweden.
You will be able to see their performance on Sunday night! Not to miss!
Most welcome - Alma Dujso and Aldo Velásquez from Denmark.
For everyone travelling from Athens Airport, there is now an updated Guide which you can download.
You find it under MEDIA in and then select DOWNLOADS and then TRAVEL GUIDES.
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can no longer acccept registrations from SINGLE WOMEN for the lessons.
If you are a couple and want to register for Tangocamp Italy, you need to register the leader first, then use the registration nr of the leader to register the follower. This way the registration form will let the you registert the follower.
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we invite Alper and Selen to be Speicial Invited to Tangocamp Greece. We will enjoy to see them perform!
Alper & Selen, a couple of the new generation, dance in harmony of dynamism, emotion and elegance.
dance but also in their method of teaching.
While sharing knowledge and experience about tango, they created a enjoyable style concentrated on the essence of subject, combined with musicality and improvisation.
They continue to teach and learn with the respect to opinion of learning never ends in tango, so as life.
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Total Price Loss Coverage payments in Dawson County, Texas totaled $30.1 million from 1995-2019‡.
Counties in Dawson County, Texas Receiving Total Price Loss Coverage payments, 1995-2019‡
1 Wharton County, Texas $85,914,932 6.0% 6.0%
2 Gaines County, Texas $78,107,441 5.4% 11.4%
3 Matagorda County, Texas $47,277,971 3.3% 14.6%
4 Terry County, Texas $45,201,258 3.1% 17.8%
5 Colorado County, Texas $39,223,084 2.7% 20.5%
6 Deaf Smith County, Texas $38,221,539 2.6% 23.1%
7 Yoakum County, Texas $33,982,432 2.4% 25.5%
8 Jackson County, Texas $32,875,613 2.3% 27.8%
9 Brazoria County, Texas $32,825,047 2.3% 30.1%
10 Dawson County, Texas $30,065,164 2.1% 32.1%
11 Jefferson County, Texas $29,277,522 2.0% 34.2%
12 Nueces County, Texas $29,147,403 2.0% 36.2%
13 San Patricio County, Texas $24,667,590 1.7% 37.9%
14 Collingsworth County, Texas $24,115,594 1.7% 39.6%
15 Chambers County, Texas $23,625,773 1.6% 41.2%
16 Hansford County, Texas $23,452,732 1.6% 42.8%
17 Liberty County, Texas $21,895,730 1.5% 44.4%
18 Parmer County, Texas $20,713,015 1.4% 45.8%
19 Swisher County, Texas $20,193,090 1.4% 47.2%
20 Willacy County, Texas $18,857,558 1.3% 48.5%
21 Ochiltree County, Texas $18,163,294 1.3% 49.8%
22 Castro County, Texas $16,908,125 1.2% 50.9%
23 Fort Bend County, Texas $16,733,699 1.2% 52.1%
24 Haskell County, Texas $16,651,340 1.2% 53.2%
25 Sherman County, Texas $16,638,647 1.2% 54.4%
26 Cochran County, Texas $16,239,082 1.1% 55.5%
27 Carson County, Texas $15,314,889 1.1% 56.6%
28 Hale County, Texas $14,432,036 1.0% 57.6%
29 Moore County, Texas $14,287,865 1.0% 58.6%
30 Floyd County, Texas $13,943,980 1.0% 59.5%
31 Cameron County, Texas $13,178,097 0.9% 60.5%
32 Wilbarger County, Texas $12,899,570 0.9% 61.3%
33 Lamb County, Texas $12,569,889 0.9% 62.2%
34 Hockley County, Texas $11,992,690 0.8% 63.1%
35 Victoria County, Texas $11,621,831 0.8% 63.9%
36 Hill County, Texas $11,293,060 0.8% 64.6%
37 Randall County, Texas $10,968,464 0.8% 65.4%
38 Knox County, Texas $10,611,660 0.7% 66.1%
39 Williamson County, Texas $10,378,641 0.7% 66.9%
40 Jones County, Texas $10,211,589 0.7% 67.6%
41 Calhoun County, Texas $10,127,507 0.7% 68.3%
42 Fannin County, Texas $10,051,413 0.7% 69.0%
43 Runnels County, Texas $10,005,166 0.7% 69.7%
44 Hidalgo County, Texas $9,645,183 0.7% 70.3%
45 Bailey County, Texas $9,467,698 0.7% 71.0%
46 Hall County, Texas $9,185,675 0.6% 71.6%
47 Tom Green County, Texas $9,021,268 0.6% 72.2%
48 Baylor County, Texas $8,948,266 0.6% 72.9%
49 Hardeman County, Texas $8,172,823 0.6% 73.4%
50 Lamar County, Texas $8,089,773 0.6% 74.0%
51 Ellis County, Texas $8,014,750 0.6% 74.5%
52 Grayson County, Texas $7,950,407 0.6% 75.1%
53 Waller County, Texas $7,913,402 0.5% 75.6%
54 Dallam County, Texas $7,909,975 0.5% 76.2%
55 Lubbock County, Texas $7,857,781 0.5% 76.7%
56 Wichita County, Texas $7,856,844 0.5% 77.3%
57 Refugio County, Texas $7,701,802 0.5% 77.8%
58 McLennan County, Texas $7,681,064 0.5% 78.3%
59 Bell County, Texas $7,172,201 0.5% 78.8%
60 Frio County, Texas $7,118,624 0.5% 79.3%
61 Armstrong County, Texas $6,911,922 0.5% 79.8%
62 Gray County, Texas $6,898,764 0.5% 80.3%
63 Falls County, Texas $6,426,196 0.4% 80.7%
64 Atascosa County, Texas $6,385,715 0.4% 81.2%
65 Austin County, Texas $6,364,170 0.4% 81.6%
66 Harris County, Texas $6,258,921 0.4% 82.1%
67 Milam County, Texas $5,800,706 0.4% 82.5%
68 Donley County, Texas $5,763,218 0.4% 82.9%
69 Comanche County, Texas $5,736,265 0.4% 83.3%
70 Childress County, Texas $5,644,420 0.4% 83.7%
71 Oldham County, Texas $5,617,160 0.4% 84.0%
72 Wheeler County, Texas $5,610,456 0.4% 84.4%
73 Jim Wells County, Texas $5,555,858 0.4% 84.8%
74 Crosby County, Texas $5,454,600 0.4% 85.2%
75 Lynn County, Texas $5,327,966 0.4% 85.6%
76 Kleberg County, Texas $5,238,600 0.4% 85.9%
77 Briscoe County, Texas $5,198,319 0.4% 86.3%
78 Eastland County, Texas $5,093,734 0.4% 86.6%
79 Denton County, Texas $4,914,501 0.3% 87.0%
80 Archer County, Texas $4,784,860 0.3% 87.3%
81 Concho County, Texas $4,748,314 0.3% 87.6%
82 Young County, Texas $4,683,148 0.3% 88.0%
83 Howard County, Texas $4,669,434 0.3% 88.3%
84 Taylor County, Texas $4,626,359 0.3% 88.6%
85 Clay County, Texas $4,485,600 0.3% 88.9%
86 Foard County, Texas $4,384,283 0.3% 89.2%
87 Collin County, Texas $4,296,552 0.3% 89.5%
88 Coleman County, Texas $4,237,842 0.3% 89.8%
89 Bee County, Texas $4,234,461 0.3% 90.1%
90 Fisher County, Texas $4,221,363 0.3% 90.4%
91 Wilson County, Texas $4,117,271 0.3% 90.7%
92 Galveston County, Texas $4,082,655 0.3% 91.0%
93 Hartley County, Texas $4,050,348 0.3% 91.2%
94 Medina County, Texas $4,002,939 0.3% 91.5%
95 Hunt County, Texas $3,943,720 0.3% 91.8%
96 Cooke County, Texas $3,907,050 0.3% 92.1%
97 Navarro County, Texas $3,859,201 0.3% 92.3%
98 Guadalupe County, Texas $3,823,516 0.3% 92.6%
99 Lipscomb County, Texas $3,776,226 0.3% 92.9%
100 Throckmorton County, Texas $3,745,314 0.3% 93.1%
101 Lavaca County, Texas $3,716,255 0.3% 93.4%
102 Martin County, Texas $3,702,047 0.3% 93.6%
103 Andrews County, Texas $3,348,491 0.2% 93.9%
104 McCulloch County, Texas $3,331,230 0.2% 94.1%
105 Bowie County, Texas $3,005,295 0.2% 94.3%
106 Red River County, Texas $2,929,582 0.2% 94.5%
107 Coryell County, Texas $2,904,428 0.2% 94.7%
108 Uvalde County, Texas $2,830,226 0.2% 94.9%
109 Starr County, Texas $2,657,601 0.2% 95.1%
110 Johnson County, Texas $2,513,698 0.2% 95.3%
111 Travis County, Texas $2,416,773 0.2% 95.4%
112 Brown County, Texas $2,217,010 0.2% 95.6%
113 Motley County, Texas $2,174,902 0.2% 95.7%
114 Cottle County, Texas $2,158,832 0.1% 95.9%
115 Stonewall County, Texas $2,108,271 0.1% 96.0%
116 Hutchinson County, Texas $2,016,427 0.1% 96.2%
117 Mason County, Texas $1,855,949 0.1% 96.3%
118 Glasscock County, Texas $1,790,528 0.1% 96.4%
119 Mitchell County, Texas $1,716,505 0.1% 96.5%
120 Montague County, Texas $1,643,419 0.1% 96.7%
121 Potter County, Texas $1,554,233 0.1% 96.8%
122 Nolan County, Texas $1,548,550 0.1% 96.9%
123 Robertson County, Texas $1,545,295 0.1% 97.0%
124 Limestone County, Texas $1,538,805 0.1% 97.1%
125 Kaufman County, Texas $1,529,485 0.1% 97.2%
126 Bexar County, Texas $1,453,661 0.1% 97.3%
127 Shackelford County, Texas $1,426,252 0.1% 97.4%
128 Live Oak County, Texas $1,425,416 0.1% 97.5%
129 Caldwell County, Texas $1,416,026 0.1% 97.6%
130 San Saba County, Texas $1,299,090 0.1% 97.7%
131 Roberts County, Texas $1,287,931 0.1% 97.8%
132 Hamilton County, Texas $1,261,653 0.1% 97.9%
133 Duval County, Texas $1,199,526 0.1% 97.9%
134 Scurry County, Texas $1,175,922 0.1% 98.0%
135 Wise County, Texas $1,165,822 0.1% 98.1%
136 Zavala County, Texas $1,156,888 0.1% 98.2%
137 Hemphill County, Texas $1,137,187 0.1% 98.3%
138 Bosque County, Texas $1,036,435 0.1% 98.3%
139 Hopkins County, Texas $994,938 0.1% 98.4%
140 Dallas County, Texas $989,282 0.1% 98.5%
141 Brazos County, Texas $977,401 0.1% 98.5%
142 Dickens County, Texas $956,111 0.1% 98.6%
143 Burleson County, Texas $929,742 0.1% 98.7%
144 Hardin County, Texas $914,425 0.1% 98.7%
145 Erath County, Texas $914,011 0.1% 98.8%
146 Fayette County, Texas $861,238 0.1% 98.9%
147 Reagan County, Texas $852,543 0.1% 98.9%
148 La Salle County, Texas $849,560 0.1% 99.0%
149 Bastrop County, Texas $823,088 0.1% 99.0%
150 Gillespie County, Texas $799,412 0.1% 99.1%
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152 Delta County, Texas $756,049 0.1% 99.2%
153 Schleicher County, Texas $658,154 0.0% 99.2%
154 Lee County, Texas $655,069 0.0% 99.3%
155 Karnes County, Texas $564,007 0.0% 99.3%
156 Borden County, Texas $551,200 0.0% 99.4%
157 Reeves County, Texas $523,388 0.0% 99.4%
158 Kent County, Texas $505,748 0.0% 99.4%
159 Gonzales County, Texas $503,052 0.0% 99.5%
160 Houston County, Texas $501,802 0.0% 99.5%
161 Goliad County, Texas $475,283 0.0% 99.5%
162 Hays County, Texas $470,095 0.0% 99.6%
163 King County, Texas $406,516 0.0% 99.6%
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165 Lampasas County, Texas $349,772 0.0% 99.7%
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167 Hudspeth County, Texas $324,284 0.0% 99.7%
168 Pecos County, Texas $318,381 0.0% 99.7%
169 Coke County, Texas $300,844 0.0% 99.7%
170 Stephens County, Texas $257,747 0.0% 99.8%
171 Garza County, Texas $256,990 0.0% 99.8%
172 Webb County, Texas $241,901 0.0% 99.8%
173 Tarrant County, Texas $217,711 0.0% 99.8%
174 Mills County, Texas $212,839 0.0% 99.8%
175 Jack County, Texas $209,786 0.0% 99.8%
176 DeWitt County, Texas $199,883 0.0% 99.9%
177 Orange County, Texas $148,997 0.0% 99.9%
178 Rockwall County, Texas $135,974 0.0% 99.9%
179 McMullen County, Texas $132,375 0.0% 99.9%
180 Franklin County, Texas $132,309 0.0% 99.9%
181 Brooks County, Texas $117,099 0.0% 99.9%
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188 Aransas County, Texas $88,533 0.0% 99.9%
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190 Rains County, Texas $79,186 0.0% 100.0%
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199 Palo Pinto County, Texas $25,027 0.0% 100.0%
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212 Smith County, Texas $4,997 0.0% 100.0%
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215 Hood County, Texas $3,541 0.0% 100.0%
216 Morris County, Texas $2,819 0.0% 100.0%
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218 Kimble County, Texas $2,457 0.0% 100.0%
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222 Maverick County, Texas $308 0.0% 100.0%
223 Val Verde County, Texas $270 0.0% 100.0%
224 Somervell County, Texas $162 0.0% 100.0%
225 Ward County, Texas $143 0.0% 100.0%


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Nigeria can unlock 3-6% GDP using good digital identification —Mckinsey
Apr 18, 2019 Business News Report
Mckinsey and company has said that Nigeria and other emerging economies implementing good digital identification could unleash between 3 to 6 per cent of Gross Domestic Product by 2030. Mckinsey in a new report said "Around the world, governments and businesses are implementing digital identification programs with mixed results and adoption levels. Yet when carefully designed, "good" use of digital ID programs can help people participate more fully in their economy and society. That can create enormous economic value and inclusive growth". According to the new McKinsey Global Institute report, high adoption of digital ID with the right principles can help unlock 3 per cent economic value equivalent of GDP in advanced economies and as much as 6 per cent in emerging economies on average.
Rogerio Mascarenhas, Managing Partner of McKinsey's Nigeria office said "We find that three-quarters of the potential economic value of digital ID could accrue to individuals in Nigeria, making it a powerful key to inclusive growth, while the rest flows to private-sector and government institutions. The largely informal and self-employed workforce skews the overall benefits of digital ID toward individuals, who could receive 74 per cent of the total overall value."
Close to one billion people in the world today, mainly in emerging economies, have no form of legal identification and may be denied access to critical government benefits, health care, financial services, the labour market, or the ability to secure property rights or register their business. The rest of the world's 6.6 billion people either have some form of identification but limited access to services that increasingly are being provided online, or they are active online but struggle to keep track of their digital footprint securely and efficiently. Digital ID can help.
Amuche Okeke-Agba, a McKinsey partner "Nigeria's unmet financial needs are significant. 60 per cent of the adult population, or about 64.5 million individuals, do not have a bank account and therefore may be cut off from access to credit or the ability to deposit income. The World Bank found that 18 per cent of the unbanked population in Nigeria cited a lack of identification documentation as the primary reason for not opening an account. We estimate that increased lending to individuals and businesses resulting from an expanded deposit base could generate up to $21 billion in additional investment by 2030," Unlike a paper-based ID such as most driver's licenses and birth certificates, a digital ID can be verified remotely over digital channels, often at a lower cost. The report defines "good" ID" in four ways: an identification that is verified and authenticated to a high degree of assurance over digital channels, unique to an individual, established with individual consent, and protects user privacy and ensures control over personal data.
The report offers a framework to understand the potential economic impact of "good" use of digital ID by analysing nearly 100 ways in which digital ID can be used, with deep dives into seven diverse economies: Nigeria, Ethiopia, Brazil, China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In the seven focus countries, MGI finds that digital ID has the potential to unlock economic value equivalent to 3 to 13 percent of GDP in 2030, if the digital ID program enables multiple high-value uses in areas such as financial inclusion, healthcare delivery, and government services and attains high levels of adoption. The potential value in a given country depends on the portion of economic activity where digital ID–based use could be deployed to address inefficiencies, as well as the scope for improvement in formalisation, inclusion, and digitisation. "The Digital ID potential for Nigeria is significant. Based on MGI estimates, we could capture economic value equivalent to 5 to 7 percent of GDP in 2030 from greater formalisation, fraud reduction, increased tax revenue, and financial inclusion. Scaling Digital ID in Nigeria has to be a top priority for enabling inclusive growth," says Eyitope Kola-Oyeneyin, Nigerian-based Partner at McKinsey.
For institutions, gains could come from higher productivity, cost savings, and fraud reduction; for example, improving customer registration could reduce onboarding costs by up to 90 percent, and reducing payroll fraud could save up to $1.6 trillion globally. "We estimate that Nigeria could use digital ID to expand the tax base to include informal income and reduce fraud and errors in tax filing to generate more than $13 billion in additional tax revenue. Nigerians could save 1.8 billion hours annually from efficient services that reduce the need for travel to and from government offices and filing of physical paperwork," said Fiyinfolu Oladiran, a McKinsey partner.
While digital ID can form the foundation of a host of applications in many aspects of an individual's life, work, and social interactions, the report notes that the potentially pervasive nature of digital ID makes it akin to dual use technologies—like nuclear energy and GPS—that are designed to generate benefits but are also capable of being used for harmful or undesirable purposes. This means the design, implementation, and governance of digital ID must guard against its misuse. Careful system design and well-considered government policies are required to promote uptake. User adoption of digital ID will be accelerated if it provides value, creates trust, and protects privacy. Institutions will be drawn to digital ID uses that lower costs, improve customer experience, or, in the case of public institutions, improve welfare. Governments can consider exploring public-private and consortium-led models of digital ID provision, developing policies and legal frameworks to enable trust and acceptance of digital identities, and partnering with private-sector institutions to capture country-specific sources of economic value.
Businesses can innovate digital ID-enabled processes that could boost efficiency and improve customer experience, facilitate development of global standards, and collaborate with governments to conduct bespoke cost-benefit analyses of digital identity applications. Civil society institutions can shape the priorities of businesses and government in program design. They can also help ensure that individuals are better informed and educated about how to safely use digital ID – and digital technologies more broadly– and that the policies are in place to make digital ID programs accessible and socially beneficial.
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Q: multi-byte characters in libc regcomp and regexec Is there anyway to get libc6's regexp functions regcomp and regexec to work properly with multi-byte characters?
For instance, if my pattern is the utf8 characters 猫机+猫, finding a match on the utf8 encoded string 猫机机机猫 will fail, where it should succeed.
I think this is because the character 机's byte representation is \xe6\x9c\xba, and the + is matching one or more of the byte \xba.  I can make this instance work by putting parenthesis around each multibyte character in the pattern, but since this is for an application I can't require users to do this.
Is there a way to flag a pattern or string to match as containing utf8 characters?  Perhaps telling libc to store the pattern as wchar instead of char?

A: Can you use a regex to build your regex? Here's a javascript example, (though I know you aren't using js):

function Examp () {
  var uString = "猫机+猫+猫ymg+sah猫";
  var plussed = uString.replace(/(.)(?=[\+\*])/ig,"($1)");
  console.log("Starting with string: " + uString + "\r\n" + "Result: " + plussed);
  uString = "猫机+猫*猫ymg+s\\a+I+h猫";
  plussed = uString.replace(/(\\?.)(?=[\+\*])/ig,"($1)");
  console.log("You can even take this a step further and account for a character being escaped, if that's a consideration.")
  console.log("Starting with string: " + uString + "\r\n" + "Result: " + plussed);
}
<input type="button" value="Run" onclick="Examp()" />

A: According to its manual page, glibc understands POSIX regexp. There is no unicode support in POSIX regexp per se. See this answer for an excerpt of the standard that enlightens this point. This means that you can also forget about UTF. This means also that whatever locale environment you're in, multi-byte characters won't fit.
The post I've mentionned (as well as this one) suggests you use some unicode-aware regexp library, such as pcre. If you're interested, pcre provides a fake posix interface, with the addition of a non-standard REG_UTF flag. You won't have to rewrite your code, except for the #include directive, and the addition of REG_UTF at compile step.
Hope this covers your needs.

A:
Is there a way to flag a pattern or string to match as containing utf8 characters?

I suspect that LC_CTYPE environment variable (or other related locale settings) is the way to make regcomp/regexec understand your encoding.
At least, grep program seems to take it into account, as shown in https://stackoverflow.com/a/40809461/94687; I haven't tested this with regcomp function.

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Proprietary Name: Lotemax Sm What is the Proprietary Name?
Non-Proprietary Name: Loteprednol Etabonate What is the Non-Proprietary Name?
Lotemax Sm with NDC 24208-507 is a a human prescription drug product labeled by Bausch & Lomb Incorporated. The generic name of Lotemax Sm is loteprednol etabonate. The product's dosage form is gel and is administered via ophthalmic form.
FDA Application Number: NDA208219 What is the FDA Application Number?
Invert closed bottle and shake once to fill tip before instilling drops. Apply one drop of LOTEMAX® SM into the conjunctival sac of the affected eye three times daily beginning the day after surgery and continuing throughout the first 2 weeks of the post-operative period.
LOTEMAX® SM (loteprednol etabonate ophthalmic gel) 0.38% is a sterile preserved ophthalmic gel containing 3.8 mg of loteprednol etabonate per gram of gel.
LOTEMAX® SM, as with other ophthalmic corticosteroids, is contraindicated in most viral diseases of the cornea and conjunctiva including epithelial herpes simplex keratitis (dendritic keratitis), vaccinia, and varicella, in mycobacterial infection of the eye and fungal diseases of ocular structures.
Prolonged use of corticosteroids may result in glaucoma with damage to the optic nerve, defects in visual acuity and fields of vision. Steroids should be used with caution in the presence of glaucoma. If this product is used for 10 days or longer, intraocular pressure should be monitored.
Prolonged use of corticosteroids may suppress the host response and thus increase the hazard of secondary ocular infections. In acute purulent conditions of the eye, steroids may mask infection or enhance existing infection.
Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug cannot be directly compared to rates in the clinical trials of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in practice.Adverse reactions associated with ophthalmic steroids include elevated intraocular pressure, which may be associated with infrequent optic nerve damage, visual acuity and field defects, posterior subcapsular cataract formation, delayed wound healing and secondary ocular infection from pathogens including herpes simplex, and perforation of the globe where there is thinning of the cornea or sclera.There were no treatment-emergent adverse drug reactions that occurred in more than 1% of subjects in the three times daily group compared to vehicle.
Risk Summary There are no adequate and well controlled studies with loteprednol etabonate in pregnant women.Loteprednol etabonate produced teratogenicity at clinically relevant doses in the rabbit and rat when administered orally during pregnancy. Loteprednol etabonate produced malformations when administered orally to pregnant rabbits at doses 4.2 times the recommended human ophthalmic dose (RHOD) and to pregnant rats at doses 106 times the RHOD. In pregnant rats receiving oral doses of loteprednol etabonate during the period equivalent to the last trimester of pregnancy through lactation in humans, survival of offspring was reduced at doses 10.6 times the RHOD. Maternal toxicity was observed in rats at doses 1066 times the RHOD, and a maternal no observed adverse effect level (NOAEL) was established at 106 times the RHOD. The background risk of major birth defects and miscarriage for the indicated population is unknown. However, the background risk in the U.S. general population of major birth defects is 2 to 4%, and of miscarriage is 15 to 20%, of clinically recognized pregnancies.DataAnimal DataEmbryofetal studies were conducted in pregnant rabbits administered loteprednol etabonate by oral gavage on gestation days 6 to 18, to target the period of organogenesis. Loteprednol etabonate produced fetal malformations at 0.1 mg/kg (4.2 times the recommended human ophthalmic dose (RHOD) based on body surface area, assuming 100% absorption). Spina bifida (including meningocele) was observed at 0.1 mg/kg, and exencephaly and craniofacial malformations were observed at 0.4 mg/kg (17 times the RHOD). At 3 mg/kg (128 times the RHOD), loteprednol etabonate was associated with increased incidences of abnormal left common carotid artery, limb flexures, umbilical hernia, scoliosis, and delayed ossification. Abortion and embryofetal lethality (resorption) occurred at 6 mg/kg (256 times the RHOD). A NOAEL for developmental toxicity was not established in this study. The NOAEL for maternal toxicity in rabbits was 3 mg/kg/day. Embryofetal studies were conducted in pregnant rats administered loteprednol etabonate by oral gavage on gestation days 6 to 15, to target the period of organogenesis. Loteprednol etabonate produced fetal malformations, including absent innominate artery at 5 mg/kg (106 times the RHOD); and cleft palate, agnathia, cardiovascular defects, umbilical hernia, decreased fetal body weight and decreased skeletal ossification at 50 mg/kg (1066 times the RHOD). Embryofetal lethality (resorption) was observed at 100 mg/kg (2133 times the RHOD). The NOAEL for developmental toxicity in rats was 0.5 mg/kg (10.6 times the RHOD). Loteprednol etabonate was maternally toxic (reduced body weight gain) at 50 mg/kg/day. The NOAEL for maternal toxicity was 5 mg/kg. A peri-/postnatal study was conducted in rats administered loteprednol etabonate by oral gavage from gestation day 15 (start of fetal period) to postnatal day 21 (the end of lactation period). At 0.5 mg/kg (10.6 times the clinical dose), reduced survival was observed in live-born offspring. Doses ≥ 5 mg/kg (106 times the RHOD) caused umbilical hernia/incomplete gastrointestinal tract. Doses ≥ 50 mg/kg (1066 times the RHOD) produced maternal toxicity (reduced body weight gain, death), decreased number of live-born offspring, decreased birth weight, and delays in postnatal development. A developmental NOAEL was not established in this study. The NOAEL for maternal toxicity was 5 mg/kg.
There are no data on the presence of loteprednol etabonate in human milk, the effects on the breastfed infant, or the effects on milk production. The developmental and health benefits of breastfeeding should be considered, along with the mother's clinical need for LOTEMAX® SM and any potential adverse effects on the breastfed infant from LOTEMAX® SM.
Safety and effectiveness of LOTEMAX® SM in pediatric patients have not been established.
Loteprednol etabonate is a corticosteroid. Corticosteroids have been shown to inhibit the inflammatory response to a variety of inciting agents. They inhibit the edema, fibrin deposition, capillary dilation, leukocyte migration, capillary proliferation, fibroblast proliferation, deposition of collagen, and scar formation associated with inflammation. While glucocorticoids are known to bind to and activate the glucocorticoid receptor, the molecular mechanisms involved in glucocorticoid/glucocorticoid receptor-dependent modulation of inflammation are not clearly established. However, corticosteroids are thought to inhibit prostaglandin production through several independent mechanisms.
The pharmacokinetic exposure to loteprednol etabonate following topical bilateral ocular administration of one drop three times daily of LOTEMAX® SM for up to two weeks (Day 15) was evaluated in 18 healthy adult subjects. Plasma concentrations of loteprednol etabonate were analyzed using a validated LC/MS/MS method and the lower limit of quantitation for loteprednol etabonate was 0.05 ng/mL. The mean (± SD) Cmax values for loteprednol etabonate in plasma were 0.13 (± 0.06) ng/mL on Day 1 after a single dose and 0.16 (± 0.06) ng/mL after the last dose on Day 15 of the study. The mean (± SD) AUCt values for loteprednol etabonate in plasma were 0.15 (± 0.15) hr•ng/mL on Day 1 after a single dose and 0.35 (± 0.32) hr•ng/mL after the last dose on Day 15.
Long-term animal studies have not been conducted to evaluate the carcinogenic potential of loteprednol etabonate. Loteprednol etabonate was not genotoxic in vitro in the Ames test, the mouse lymphoma tk assay, or in the chromosomal aberration test in human lymphocytes, or in vivo in the mouse micronucleus assay. Treatment of male and female rats with 25 mg/kg/day of loteprednol etabonate (533 times the RHOD based on body surface area, assuming 100% absorption) prior to and during mating caused preimplantation loss and decreased the number of live fetuses/live births. The NOAEL for fertility in rats was 5 mg/kg/day (106 times the RHOD).
LOTEMAX® SM (loteprednol etabonate ophthalmic gel) 0.38% is a sterile ophthalmic submicron gel supplied in a white low-density polyethylene plastic bottle with a white controlled drop tip and a pink polypropylene cap in the following size: 5 g in a 10 mL bottle (NDC 24208-507-07)Use only if imprinted neckband is intact.Storage: Store upright at 15º to 25ºC (59º to 77ºF). After opening, LOTEMAX® SM can be used until the expiration date on the bottle.


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Maria da Graça "Xuxa" Meneghel is famous in Brazil as the cheery blonde host of a long series of popular variety shows for children.
Xuxa was a teen model who later posed as a centerfold in the Brazil edition of Playboy (1982). That didn't stop her from becoming the unabashedly sexy host of her own children's TV shows, featuring Xuxa singing and dancing with her cadre of teen helpers (known as "Paquitas"), receiving visits from celebrities, and performing other colorful hijinks. Her message was wholesome, and her skin-baring outfits made her a hit with dads as well as kiddies.
An American version of her hit TV show lasted only one season, from 1993-94, but Xuxa has remained one of Brazil's wealthiest and most multi-purpose entertainers. She has starred in a long series of movies, including Xuxa e os Duendes (Xuxa and the Elves, 2001), Xuxa Abracadabra (2003) and Xuxa em O Mistério de Feiurinha (Xuxa in The Mystery of Feiurinha, 2009).
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A Torn Hem or Broken Seam!
A torn hem or broken seam can be fixed in a number of ways, depending on what you bring around in your purse. One way to be at the top of your game is to bring around a travel sized sewing kit. Having a needle and thread on hand can fix nearly anything that's torn, at least for the rest of the evening. If you aren't good at sewing, you can always stash a few safety pins or even double-sided tape in your bag for a quicker, but less secure, fix.
You can avoid torn hems and broken seams by making sure your dress fits you well. Dresses that are too long are just accidents waiting to happen. Have yourself measured and alter your dress accordingly. If some seams look weak, have them reinforced, but don't make it an excuse to force yourself into a dress that doesn't fit.
There's a Stain on your Dress!
One of the worst things that can happen to you when going out is to spill something on your formal dress, and create a huge, obnoxious stain. First; don't panic. Depending on whatever was spilled on you, and the cloth that your dress is made of, there are different ways to lift the stain out. Make sure you know what kind of dress you have so you know how to deal with these stains appropriately. For example, a food stain on a silk dress can be cleaned with detergent and hot water.
You can avoid stains by making sure to place your napkin on your lap like you're supposed to, and by being careful. But accidents happen, so the best way to deal with stains is to be prepared for anything, like by bringing a detergent pen in your bag at all times and knowing where the nearest bathroom is.
You're having the time of your life and suddenly you fall to the floor. You turn around and see to your horror that the heel of your beloved right shoe has broken right off. This is a hard one to fix because it requires some heavy duty work. But if you've got Shoe Goo or any other strong adhesive, it can save you for the night. If you're really desperate, you can even use duct tape. It isn't meant to fix your shoe forever, but it'll fix it until your Cinderella hours are over. Make sure to have it repaired at a real cobbler so it'll last more nights out on the town, and watch your step.
Your friend told a joke so funny that you started to tear up. Suddenly your friend points at your face and says "Your makeup is running!" You get to the bathroom and see that your eyeliner has started to streak. What do you do? With tissue and a little precision, nearly any makeup mishap can be fixed. But it pays to always keep a makeup kit in your bag. Whenever you go out, bring at least the basics: lipstick, pressed powder, blotting sheets and tissue. If you have heavy eye makeup, bring mascara, eyeliner and cotton buds for touch ups. If you have acne or blemishes you want to keep covered, bring concealer. What you bring depends on the makeup you're wearing.
You can avoid messy makeup by making sure your face is primed so it lasts longer. Obviously you're going to need to touch up every once in a while, but making sure it goes on well can give you the reassurance to party on without worrying about your lipstick getting on your teeth.
Your Hairdo Has Been Destroyed!
Imagine you're walking with your girls, and one of them trips and grabs onto the nearest thing for support. Unfortunately, the nearest thing is you, and what she grabs is your painstakingly prepared hair, similar to Jennifer Lawrence's Oscar fall. Luckily for her date, her hair wasn't ruined. But if you have a fancy hairstyle, it doesn't hurt to keep a kit of bobby pins, travel hairspray and a comb with you. You may not make it as perfect as it was when you left the house, but what's important is that it at least looks good in photos, right?
Anything can happen when you go out to have some fun, so it's always a good idea to be a Girl Scout and be prepared. However, don't let thoughts of fashion disasters and wardrobe malfunctions get you down. With enough resourcefulness and a supportive group of friends, you can get through anything a crazy night can throw at you.


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Good News! Retirement Concerns Appear to Decline with Age, But Planning Still Required
With age comes wisdom - and apparently the ability to better handle unexpected expenses, according to the Society of Actuaries (SOA).
In their recent study, the SOA analyzed financial risk management across generations. Chief among their findings? That "the ability to handle unforeseen expenses increases with age, peaking with Early Boomers and then declining for the Silent Generation."
It's one of many findings according to the study, "Financial Risk Concerns and Management Across Generations." The Silent Generation refers to those born between 1925 and 1945.
The SOA based its finding on the fact that 6 in 10 Early Boomers say they could afford a $10,000 expense using their savings or emergency funds. Yet "only 46% of Millennials would use their savings, which is not surprising since they have lower assets and more competing financial priorities."
Those in the Silent Generation remain vulnerable. The SOA reports that half of them aren't able to use their savings for an unexpected $10,000 expense.
Financial Risk a Moving Target
Financial life inherently carries risk, and these risks continue for a lifetime. It's a more complicated set of circumstances for those who are retired, as their primary sources of income will change. And, if they failed to plan for the future, retirees may have limited income options.
Of course, a single unexpected event could present a challenge to all generations. But retirees, including Baby Boomers and Silent Generation, also face other financially related risks, including "living longer than their financial resources, a major long-term care event, investment and inflation risk, and unexpected medical expenses," according to the SOA report.
Concerned About Medical Costs, But Not Saving for Them
Interestingly, Millennials reported the highest concern over having enough money to pay for healthcare in retirement at 69%. Among late Baby Boomers that issue concerns only 62% of respondents and among early Baby Boomers, 53%. The Silent Generation recorded the lowest level of concern at 49%.
Still, among all ages, only 36% consider saving for future medical costs a high priority.
The study sounds an alarm on preparedness: "Americans in each generation express a high degree of concern about several financial risks they face in retirement, yet their actions often do not align with their concerns. Many are not planning for the long term and are not taking advantage of available strategies to protect themselves against the risks they face, as relatively few use formal risk management approaches or products."
Achieving a Better Outcome
The SOA has suggestions on managing the various risks that can hinder financial security in retirement. "For those already or close to being retired, it is important to not only be aware of these areas of risk but also to understand how to address them," according to the report.
Sticking to a budget or a monthly savings plan can help mitigate the risks of unexpected expenses and longevity later in life, the SOA suggests. Millennials score highest (61%) on sticking to a budget, but the Silent Generation beats out all the generations in between (Gen Xers and Baby Boomers) to come in with 53% reporting that they stick to a budget.
The SOA also recommend working to keep debts under control. One-third of all respondents, regardless of age, reported they are making efforts to get their debts under control. According to the report, "Addressing debt, especially those with high interest rates prior to retirement, can alleviate pressure on savings and emergency funds and allow more focus on other risk management strategies."
Contributing to an employer-sponsored retirement plan is a strategy about 33% of Millennials, Gen Xers, and Late Boomers have adopted. Late Boomers are targeting investments to grow money and produce income both now and in retirement, which coincides with the majority of this segment gearing up for retirement.
Novices Needing Advice… And Action
The study found that few respondents from any generation considered themselves "investment pros." In a surprising result, members of the Silent Generation, who have been managing investments for the longest period of time, were most likely to describe themselves as investment novices.
"Yet confidence in making financial decisions increases with age, perhaps partially explaining the lower level of concern for the older generations," the study says.
While across all generations there is high concern around retirement risks, this is often not translated into action to protect against risk, the report says. "Retirees say they will deal with risks if and when they happen. To offset their concerns, retirees are trying to hold on to their assets rather than spending them down."
Health Expenses Cast a Long Shadow
Retirees younger than 65, who do not yet have access to Medicare and supplemental coverage, may be challenged by medical expenses. "Long-term care is a major risk for which the majority have no plan. Medicaid offers a safety net for individuals whose assets do not exceed specifically stated requirements."
Rather than risk being at the mercy of the nation's medical safety net, Americans need to take action, according to the SOA. "It is our hope that the insights this research has provided about each generation will lead to further efforts to educate individuals on the key steps to financial security and enhanced protection against adverse events that pose a threat to that security," the SOA concludes.
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Carly Simon is the daughter of Richard L Simon, the co-founder of one of the largest American publishing companies, Simon & Schuster.
Born and raised in New York City, Simon enjoyed all the privileges of being related to one of the world's leading literary tastemakers, including stints at private liberal-arts schools like Sarah Lawrence College.
She started out singing with her sister Lucy as The Simon Sisters and recorded some unreleased tracks for Bob Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman.
She signed to Elektra in 1971 and enjoyed a US-only hit in 1972 with That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be.
1972's No Secrets album made Carly an international star thanks to the classic single You're So Vain which contains one of the most enduring musical mysteries of all time.
Just who is so vain that he probably thinks the song is about him? Simon previously revealed that actor Warren Beatty inspired the second verse of the song ("Oh, you had me several years ago/When I was still naive"), but speculation abounds regarding the other man (or men) behind the ire. Either way, the track – with Mick Jagger on background vocals – is pure soft-rock fire.
Carly married singer/songwriter James Taylor in 1973 and the couple duetted on a 1974 hit single, Mockingbird (a carbon copy of the original by Inez and Charlie Foxx).
Hotcakes (1974) reached #3 and was certified gold, though it did not match the sales of No Secrets.
Her record sales declined further with Playing Possum (1975) and Another Passenger (1976), but in 1977 she had a surprise international hit with the million-selling single Nobody Does It Better, the theme to the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
Her career took another upward swing in 1978 with the hit album Boys in the Trees and released her last album for Elektra, Spy, in 1979. It sold poorly. She sojourned briefly with Warner Bros and Epic before settling at Arista in 1987.
Simon won a Grammy in 1990 for the Working Girl (1988) movie theme, Let The River Run, and issued two albums in the same year – My Romance (an uncomfortable collection of standards) and Have You Seen Me Lately? (a more considered and largely self-composed set).
She continued to write and record music for films and enjoyed success as the author of a number of children's books, including Amy and The Dancing Bear, and The Boy Of The Bells.
Simon was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997, and underwent surgery that year and again in 1998.
During the 1990s, the American press reported an incident between Simon and Pretenders' vocalist Chrissie Hynde, at a Joni Mitchell concert at New York's Fez Club.
Some reports stated that a drunk and disorderly Hynde grabbed Simon around the neck and punched her, although Simon attempted to put these rumours to rest on her official website in 2002.
Numerous witnesses, however, claim that Simon was, indeed, assaulted by Hynde.
In 2000, Simon released a new album, The Bedroom Tapes. Largely written and recorded at home in her bedroom (hence the title) while she was recuperating from her health problems of the previous couple of years, it was her first album of original songs in almost six years.
In 2002, Simon recorded a Christmas album, Christmas Is Almost Here, for Rhino Records, while she was in Los Angeles to lend support to her son Ben Taylor and his band.
That same year, Simon personally chose all of the songs for a new two-disc anthology album, simply titled Anthology, for Rhino Records.
Simon continued to record a series of LPs of 'standards' and in March 2008 it was announced that she had signed to Starbucks own music label. She released an album called This Kind of Love with them in the spring of 2008.
However, in October 2009, it was reported that Simon was suing Starbucks, saying they did not adequately promote the album (although the album did make the US Top 20 and sell nearly 150,000 copies).
In May 2010 Simon revealed she had been one of the several celebrities who fell victims to (eventually-imprisoned) financial advisor Kenneth Starr, whose 'Ponzi scheme' lured her into investing millions of dollars with him, which she lost.
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The retail EMV quagmire
Chip card payment confusion, anger rages on
Visa's EMV struggle: Is better preferable to consistent?
Visa moves to streamline chip-card processing certifications
The Zen of IT
By Evan Schuman, Contributing Columnist, Computerworld |
What's holding back EMV?
Visa has new stats showing that nearly three-quarters of U.S. merchants still can't handle chip cards
Martyn Williams
New stats from Visa paint a sobering picture of the acceptance of EMV, a.k.a. chip cards. June stats from what Visa says are the "top states for chip-ready merchants" show that 66% of merchants are not yet able to handle EMV. Nationally, that "do not accept" number jumps to 72%. This is nine months after October's EMV liability shift, which was supposed to have been when most merchants were supposed to be accepting EMV transactions.
"The challenge for many merchants has been getting their EMV-capable POS terminals certified and turned on by their merchant acquirers," said Alex Johnson, the director of the credit advisory service at the Mercator Advisory Group. "The certification process has proven to be more complex and time consuming than many had expected and thus there is a big backlog of merchants waiting to have their terminals certified."
Visa's presumed point in releasing the stats was to show how the numbers were even worse before. (OK, it would probably prefer to say that the stats are better than they had been.) Either way, the U.S. EMV migration is hardly performing swimmingly.
Let's dig a little deeper in the newly released stats. Visa reported the existence of more than 326 million Visa cards, which means there are a lot of cards that have never been inserted into a chip reader.
In the merchant details, things get interesting. From Visa: "The U.S. added more than 100,000 chip-enabled merchant locations in June, bringing the total to 1.3 million, or about 28 percent of the total merchant population in the U.S. More than three-quarters of those chip-ready locations are small and medium-sized businesses."
Visa then threw in a bit of context, which itself needs more context: "The U.S. is the largest chip market in the world, with more cards than the U.K. and Brazil combined, the second and third largest chip markets respectively." At a glance, that appears to suggest that the U.S. is doing well, but the U.S. is the "largest chip market" solely because it has such a large card-using population. The percentage of merchants accepting in the U.K. and Brazil is much higher. Then again, they have both been using EMV for a lot longer than the U.S.. (That's the trouble with context. More context simply begets yet more context.)
The bottom line in all of this is that the card brands put in place a system for EMV approval that was highly bureaucratic, requiring sign-offs and approvals at each stage. That's fine, if they had put in place — courtesy of a very large budget — sufficient people to go around and do all of that approving. I've talked with lots of merchants that would love to accept EMV cards, but they are awaiting software patches from vendors or secondary approvals from processors or sign-off from someone representing one of the card brands.
There is a lot of history here that explains some of this. Merchants — who, like journalists, see little reason to do anything until the deadline is imminent — delayed starting their EMV process, only then discovering that it would take far longer than anticipated.
One of the reasons for those merchant delays has been mobile payments. At times when they should have been starting the EMV process, mobile wallet efforts were making marketing claims that distracted merchants, many of whom were privately hoping for an alternative to EMV. Hence, a deadly combo of wishful thinking and procrastination doomed the EMV process.
Evan Schuman has covered IT issues for a lot longer than he'll ever admit. The founding editor of retail technology site StorefrontBacktalk, he's been a columnist for CBSNews.com, RetailWeek, Computerworld and eWeek. Evan can be reached at eschuman@thecontentfirm.com and he can be followed at twitter.com/eschuman.


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New York Times admits Obama Admin used spies against Trump campaign, two years after Trump was mocked for calling it
The New York Times admitted on Thursday that the Obama administration deployed multiple spies against the Trump campaign in 2016, confirming recent comments by Attorney General William Barr that 'spying did occur' during the campaign.
Following months of angry claims by journalists and Democratic operatives that the Obama administration never spied on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, The New York Times admitted Thursday that multiple overseas intelligence assets were deployed against associates of the Republican nominee.
In addition to noting that long-time informant Stefan Halper was tasked with collecting intelligence on the Trump campaign, the Times story details how a woman was sent overseas under a fake name and occupation to oversee the spy operation. The woman's real name is not mentioned in the article, though the Times says she went by "Azra Turk" and has a relationship with an unidentified federal intelligence agency.
Halper was handpicked by a seasoned FBI counterintelligence agent out of the New York office, according to the article.
"Turk," the U.S. intelligence operative who claimed to work as Halper's assistant, had previously been identified to George Papadopoulos, whom she targeted, as a spy who rather blatantly tried to plumb him for information about Russia and other topics. After the Times published its article on "Turk," Papadopolous wrote on Twitter that she "clearly was not FBI" and instead "was CIA and affiliated with Turkish intel."
"She could hardly speak English and was tasked to meet me about my work in the energy sector offshore Israel/Cyprus which Turkey was competing with," Papadopoulos wrote.
The NYT also admits in its article that the aggressive and unprecedented action of deploying spies and luring American targets overseas to collect intelligence on a rival political campaign "yielded no fruitful information." It is not clear whether information collected by Halper and "Turk" was used to justify formal spy warrants against any U.S. citizens.
Why Leak This News Now?
The New York Times has repeatedly been used by FBI officials who ran the anti-Trump spy operation to launder damaging information that reflects poorly on the agency. Nearly a year ago, the Times confirmed that the U.S. intelligence apparatus was used to spy on Trump's presidential campaign in 2016.
While that article included explosive revelations, it downplayed their significance and later curiously denied that any spying had ever occurred:
"The F.B.I. investigated four unidentified Trump campaign aides in those early months, congressional investigators revealed in February. The four men were Michael T. Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page and Mr. Papadopoulos, current and former officials said …
The F.B.I. obtained phone records and other documents using national security letters — a secret type of subpoena — officials said. And at least one government informant met several times with Mr. Page and Mr. Papadopoulos, current and former officials said."
In that case, the ostensible purpose of the leak was to get ahead of what congressional investigators had figured out: the Obama administration targeted the Trump campaign with secret informants.
The leak that fueled the Thursday NYT bombshell was likely placed in anticipation of the formal release of even more damaging information about how U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies potentially abused their authority to punish the government's political enemies. The article specifically references the forthcoming release of an extensive inspector general review of potential improprieties at the Department of Justice (DOJ).
By leaking the information to the friendliest of friendly reporters, including Michael Schmidt at the Times, the individuals who ran the anti-Trump operation are likely hoping to spin the news in their favor.
This Explains the Anti-Barr Freakout
So long as anti-Trump operatives controlled the FBI and DOJ, this type of leaking and concealing of information worked well. Most major media outlets have chosen to ignore the spying scandal in favor of non-stop anti-Trump advocacy. That left actual fact-finding and truth-seeking to a small group of media outlets and a handful of elected lawmakers tasked with oversight of the nation's spy agencies.
When William Barr took over as attorney general, it was the first time in years the agency had any real political accountability. Trump's first attorney general recused himself from overseeing anything related to the 2016 campaign, and his deputy who took over is alleged to have been involved in a conspiracy to oust the president.
While Barr was adamant that Mueller's special counsel probe be unimpeded and his report fully published, he scared the anti-Trump forces in and out of government when he said spying on opposing political campaigns is inappropriate. His public vow to examine whether the widespread spying operation against Trump and his affiliates was lawful and appropriate sent shockwaves through an organized anti-Trump political operation that had completely controlled the narrative until recently.
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–thefederalist.com and foxnews.com
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