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Pritzker Trust Bought Stock in a Top Illinois Contractor After He Was Elected Governor
by David Jackson February 25, 2022 January 14, 2023
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The blind trust set up to manage Gov. J.B. Pritzker's vast wealth bought stock in one of the state's biggest Medicaid contractors in 2020, the same year his administration made several decisions that benefited the company's bottom line.
The purchase of stock in health insurance giant Centene Corp. was made on behalf of the billionaire governor by trustees at Northern Trust, appointed by Pritzker to independently manage his portfolio to separate those investment decisions from his role as the state's most powerful elected official.
The investment in Centene — which collected more than $2.6 billion from state Medicaid contracts in the first half of 2021 alone — demonstrates the pitfalls of a blind-trust arrangement that still leaves the nation's richest governor open to potential conflicts of interest.
The acquisition by Pritzker's trust came despite his campaign pledge to purge his personal portfolio of companies holding state contracts. He also promised, as governor-elect, to make charitable contributions matching gains in his trust's holdings from entities that hold state contracts.
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The issue of stock purchases by elected officials is now being debated in Congress, which is considering an array of strengthened stock disclosure laws aimed at stopping lawmakers from profiting from their access to insider information. The stock holdings of judges and federal banking officials also have come under scrutiny.
Experts interviewed by the Better Government Association say the governor could have avoided the potential conflict by instructing his trust managers to refrain from investing in state contractors. Pritzker's spokespeople declined to say whether he ever considered doing so.
"I don't see why a trustee couldn't operate within those bounds — especially given that he seems to have acknowledged the potential of a conflict with his pledge" to divest of companies that hold state contracts, said Eleanor Eagan of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, based in Washington, D.C.
Neither Pritzker representatives nor the managers of his trust would say how much the investment in Centene is worth to Pritzker's bottom line. They also declined to say specifically when the stock purchase was made.
Asked whether the governor — after learning he became invested in one of the state's largest contractors sometime during 2020 — took steps to recuse himself from decisions that directly affected the company's finances, his spokeswoman said he has not.
"The governor is not involved in the contracting process related to Centene," said Jordan Abudayyeh, Pritzker's communication director. "There is nothing he would have to recuse himself from."
She referred all other questions about the trust investment in Centene to Pritzker's campaign officials.
Experts interviewed by the BGA said there is a conflict of interest if the state has contracts with a company in which the governor's trust holds stock.
"Absolutely," said Eagan. "I don't really see how one can argue otherwise."
The stock purchase was first disclosed May 3, 2021, four days after Pritzker signed his annual economic disclosure statement — a document detailing real and potential financial conflicts of interest that all state elected officials must fill out — listing Centene among more than 300 investments in 2020, each with a value of more than $5,000.
Pritzker, who is running for re-election this year, declined to be interviewed about the blind trust or the decisions he or his administration made that benefited Centene at a time when his personal wealth may have been affected by those decisions.
However, both his lawyer and a campaign spokesman said it would be unfair to suggest any connection between the decisions the governor has made as a public office holder and any boost to his personal fortune.
"Gov. Pritzker's trust is blind," said campaign spokeswoman Natalie Edelstein. "This means he is not a part of any decisions, nor does he have any information regarding any investments.
"He receives no regular reporting on what the trustees and investment advisors decide to purchase and plays no role in any investment decisions. Period," she said. "Any reporting that would suggest otherwise ignores critical facts and would be grossly inaccurate."
Pritzker's attorney, Marc Elias, echoed that claim with an even stronger rebuke.
"The only information he received is a ready-to-file Statement of Economic Interest, which contains no values," said Elias in a written statement to the BGA. "To suggest otherwise is not only inaccurate but potentially libelous."
The purchase of Centene stock highlights potential problems with the inadequacy of blind-trust arrangements to completely shield elected officials from receiving information about investments made on their behalf. In the case of Pritzker's blind trust, wealth management trustees at Northern Trust provide Pritzker a list of his investments each year — a list to which he must attest as a requirement of state conflict of interest and disclosure laws.
"It's a blind trust in the way of — put your hand over one eye," said Jay Young, executive director of Common Cause, an organization that advocates for government transparency.
The Pritzker camp declined to provide a copy of the trust agreement and would not disclose the name of the trust. Edelstein said under the rules of the blind trust, Pritzker cannot communicate with the managers of his wealth, order them to buy or sell assets, or inquire about potential conflicts of interest between his wealth and his public actions.
Centene officials issued a brief emailed statement stating the company "was not aware of Gov. Pritzker being a record holder of its stock."
Centene contracts overseen by governor's office
A BGA review of public records shows the purchase of Centene stock could have been made any time between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2020. While the blind trust is designed to guard Pritzker from knowing when the investment in Centene was made, actions taken by his administration nevertheless benefitted the big health care company.
Starting in 2019 and continuing into 2020, Centene faced antitrust concerns during its $17 billion acquisition of Medicaid insurer Wellcare. The Pritzker administration helped Centene overcome federal antitrust scrutiny by reassigning thousands of Centene patients into other plans.
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The state of Illinois also oversaw Centene's June 2020 acquisition of state Medicaid contractor NextLevelHealth Partners. The transfer gave Centene a toehold in the lucrative Cook County Medicaid market.
And in September 2020, the state enrolled 36,000 juvenile state wards to a Centene subsidiary named YouthCare amid concerns from foster parents and child welfare advocates about Centene's performance.
While all those decisions by the Pritzker administration affected Centene's operations in Illinois and nationally, it is unclear from public records whether they significantly altered the company's stock prices. However, Centene referenced these developments in the highlights of its annual statements to stockholders or in press releases.
In a written response to BGA questions, Centene officials said they worked with multiple state agencies over a year. "To imply that this approval was the decision of an individual elected official is completely inaccurate," the statement said.
Centene has become a dominant player in the lucrative world of low-income health care as increasing numbers of states turn their Medicaid programs over to for-profit insurance contractors.
Since 2019, Centene has reported nationwide annual profits of more than $1 billion. Its stock price increased from $60 per share at the beginning of 2020 to $83 on Feb. 11, 2022, amid an upward trend for the U.S. stock market, including health care stocks.
A glimpse of Centene's prominence as an Illinois contractor came in the first six months of 2021, when Illinois paid $2.6 billion to Centene subsidiary Meridian Health Plan of Illinois to serve Medicaid patients, and Centene reported profits of $99 million from that portion of its contract alone. It is not clear from public records whether Pritzker's blind trust continued to hold Centene stock during this period.
Since 2019, Centene has contributed more than $186,000 to Illinois political campaigns of both parties and more than $1 million to numerous federal politicians of both parties. None of those contributions went to Pritzker's campaigns.
Pritzker's promises
In 2019, Pritzker took office assuring voters he would divest his portfolio of companies with state contracts, and also promised to make charitable contributions equal to any trust investment that made money from a state contract during his term.
It is not clear how and when Pritzker might learn of such a profit and how he would publicly calculate the personal investment gain, given the secrecy requirements of a blind trust.
His promises went a step further than the typical blind-trust arrangement many wealthy elected officials employ. During his campaign, Pritzker called prior Gov. Bruce Rauner's investment arrangement a "charade" because Rauner placed his holdings under the control of a private equity company in which Rauner had invested.
Pritzker's representatives say the blind trust prohibits the governor from knowing the amount, status or timing of any of his investments — with state contractors or not. They say he is also restricted from communicating with the trustees on any matters, even to ask them to divest.
"A blind trust is an imperfect solution to dealing with conflicts of interest," said Eagan, who researches stock investments by lawmakers. "Public officials know what goes into the blind trust, and they also then get an update every year of what's in there."
"If the beneficiary can easily know what assets are in the trust, that takes care of just how 'blind' this trust is — not very," Columbia Law School professor Richard Briffault told the BGA.
Illinois is not among the 10 states with rules governing how public officials should set up blind trusts to avoid conflicts, according to research by the National Council of State Legislatures. Alaska, for instance, stipulates that trust managers should avoid investments in companies subject to the official's oversight.
"Generally speaking, the best way in our view to manage conflicts of interest is to divest into broadly held mutual funds or other sorts of instruments where you can't really affect the broad movements of those financial interests," said Eagan of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Another state contractor among investments
Besides the Centene stock investment, the BGA found Pritzker's trust in 2020 made at least one additional stock acquisition in a company with state business, according to Pritzker's disclosures and the Illinois Comptroller's office.
The trust acquired stock in the CSX Corp., the rail services giant, which has held about $13.4 million in state business with the transportation department dating back to 2009.
Pritzker's Centene stock ownership is also notable given Pritzker's 2018 criticism of Rauner for being slow to recoup millions of dollars in profits taken by Illinois Medicaid contractors.
"While costs skyrocket for his secret Medicaid overhaul, Bruce Rauner is negligent in recouping tens of millions of dollars in overpayments to insurers," Pritzker said in a March 2018 statement during his run to unseat Rauner. "Incredible sums of taxpayer dollars are falling through the cracks, and there's no one in charge to stand up for hardworking Illinoisans."
The Pritzker administration in 2020 and 2021 worked with the association of for-profit Medicaid insurance contractors, which includes Centene, to scuttle a proposed bill by Democratic state Sen. David Koehler of Peoria to "claw back" COVID-19-era profits from Medicaid contractors, including Centene, according to government emails obtained by the BGA.
Pritzker's administration says Koehler's clawback bill would have put federal funding at risk and raised costs for taxpayers and it added that Illinois expects to recoup $220 million from Medicaid managed care organizations, including Centene, once an analysis of 2020 bills is completed later this year.
The heir to a sprawling business fortune, Pritzker has a net worth of $3.6 billion and is among the richest politicians in the U.S. His extensive offshore holdings and his decision to release only summary tax reports have made it difficult for the public to understand whether his personal investments might influence his administration's policy decisions. In addition to the trust investments Pritzker publicly discloses, he also benefits from family trusts held in offshore accounts.
BGA investigative reporter Jared Rutecki contributed to this article.
David Jackson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and four-time Pulitzer finalist whose work has focused on lifting the voices of neglected people amid life-threatening government failures. More by David Jackson
by David Jackson, Illinois Answers Project

Pritzker Trust Bought Stock in a Top Illinois Contractor After He Was Elected Governor

by David Jackson, Illinois Answers Project
February 25, 2022

The blind trust set up to manage Gov. J.B. Pritzker's vast wealth bought stock in one of the state's biggest Medicaid contractors in 2020, the same year his administration made several decisions that benefited the company's bottom line.

The purchase of stock in health insurance giant Centene Corp. was made on behalf of the billionaire governor by trustees at Northern Trust, appointed by Pritzker to independently manage his portfolio to separate those investment decisions from his role as the state's most powerful elected official.

The investment in Centene — which collected more than $2.6 billion from state Medicaid contracts in the first half of 2021 alone — demonstrates the pitfalls of a blind-trust arrangement that still leaves the nation's richest governor open to potential conflicts of interest.

The acquisition by Pritzker's trust came despite his campaign pledge to purge his personal portfolio of companies holding state contracts. He also promised, as governor-elect, to make charitable contributions matching gains in his trust's holdings from entities that hold state contracts.

The issue of stock purchases by elected officials is now being debated in Congress, which is considering an array of strengthened stock disclosure laws aimed at stopping lawmakers from profiting from their access to insider information. The stock holdings of judges and federal banking officials also have come under scrutiny.

Experts interviewed by the Better Government Association say the governor could have avoided the potential conflict by instructing his trust managers to refrain from investing in state contractors. Pritzker's spokespeople declined to say whether he ever considered doing so.

"I don't see why a trustee couldn't operate within those bounds — especially given that he seems to have acknowledged the potential of a conflict with his pledge" to divest of companies that hold state contracts, said Eleanor Eagan of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, based in Washington, D.C.

Neither Pritzker representatives nor the managers of his trust would say how much the investment in Centene is worth to Pritzker's bottom line. They also declined to say specifically when the stock purchase was made.

Asked whether the governor — after learning he became invested in one of the state's largest contractors sometime during 2020 — took steps to recuse himself from decisions that directly affected the company's finances, his spokeswoman said he has not.

"The governor is not involved in the contracting process related to Centene," said Jordan Abudayyeh, Pritzker's communication director. "There is nothing he would have to recuse himself from."

She referred all other questions about the trust investment in Centene to Pritzker's campaign officials.

Experts interviewed by the BGA said there is a conflict of interest if the state has contracts with a company in which the governor's trust holds stock.

"Absolutely," said Eagan. "I don't really see how one can argue otherwise."

The stock purchase was first disclosed May 3, 2021, four days after Pritzker signed his annual economic disclosure statement — a document detailing real and potential financial conflicts of interest that all state elected officials must fill out — listing Centene among more than 300 investments in 2020, each with a value of more than $5,000.

Pritzker, who is running for re-election this year, declined to be interviewed about the blind trust or the decisions he or his administration made that benefited Centene at a time when his personal wealth may have been affected by those decisions.

However, both his lawyer and a campaign spokesman said it would be unfair to suggest any connection between the decisions the governor has made as a public office holder and any boost to his personal fortune.

"Gov. Pritzker's trust is blind," said campaign spokeswoman Natalie Edelstein. "This means he is not a part of any decisions, nor does he have any information regarding any investments.

"He receives no regular reporting on what the trustees and investment advisors decide to purchase and plays no role in any investment decisions. Period," she said. "Any reporting that would suggest otherwise ignores critical facts and would be grossly inaccurate."

Pritzker's attorney, Marc Elias, echoed that claim with an even stronger rebuke.

"The only information he received is a ready-to-file Statement of Economic Interest, which contains no values," said Elias in a written statement to the BGA. "To suggest otherwise is not only inaccurate but potentially libelous."

The purchase of Centene stock highlights potential problems with the inadequacy of blind-trust arrangements to completely shield elected officials from receiving information about investments made on their behalf. In the case of Pritzker's blind trust, wealth management trustees at Northern Trust provide Pritzker a list of his investments each year — a list to which he must attest as a requirement of state conflict of interest and disclosure laws.

"It's a blind trust in the way of — put your hand over one eye," said Jay Young, executive director of Common Cause, an organization that advocates for government transparency.

The Pritzker camp declined to provide a copy of the trust agreement and would not disclose the name of the trust. Edelstein said under the rules of the blind trust, Pritzker cannot communicate with the managers of his wealth, order them to buy or sell assets, or inquire about potential conflicts of interest between his wealth and his public actions.

Centene officials issued a brief emailed statement stating the company "was not aware of Gov. Pritzker being a record holder of its stock."

Centene contracts overseen by governor's office

A BGA review of public records shows the purchase of Centene stock could have been made any time between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2020. While the blind trust is designed to guard Pritzker from knowing when the investment in Centene was made, actions taken by his administration nevertheless benefitted the big health care company.

Starting in 2019 and continuing into 2020, Centene faced antitrust concerns during its $17 billion acquisition of Medicaid insurer Wellcare. The Pritzker administration helped Centene overcome federal antitrust scrutiny by reassigning thousands of Centene patients into other plans.

The state of Illinois also oversaw Centene's June 2020 acquisition of state Medicaid contractor NextLevelHealth Partners. The transfer gave Centene a toehold in the lucrative Cook County Medicaid market.

And in September 2020, the state enrolled 36,000 juvenile state wards to a Centene subsidiary named YouthCare amid concerns from foster parents and child welfare advocates about Centene's performance.

While all those decisions by the Pritzker administration affected Centene's operations in Illinois and nationally, it is unclear from public records whether they significantly altered the company's stock prices. However, Centene referenced these developments in the highlights of its annual statements to stockholders or in press releases.

In a written response to BGA questions, Centene officials said they worked with multiple state agencies over a year. "To imply that this approval was the decision of an individual elected official is completely inaccurate," the statement said.

Centene has become a dominant player in the lucrative world of low-income health care as increasing numbers of states turn their Medicaid programs over to for-profit insurance contractors.

Since 2019, Centene has reported nationwide annual profits of more than $1 billion. Its stock price increased from $60 per share at the beginning of 2020 to $83 on Feb. 11, 2022, amid an upward trend for the U.S. stock market, including health care stocks.

A glimpse of Centene's prominence as an Illinois contractor came in the first six months of 2021, when Illinois paid $2.6 billion to Centene subsidiary Meridian Health Plan of Illinois to serve Medicaid patients, and Centene reported profits of $99 million from that portion of its contract alone. It is not clear from public records whether Pritzker's blind trust continued to hold Centene stock during this period.

Since 2019, Centene has contributed more than $186,000 to Illinois political campaigns of both parties and more than $1 million to numerous federal politicians of both parties. None of those contributions went to Pritzker's campaigns.

Pritzker's promises

In 2019, Pritzker took office assuring voters he would divest his portfolio of companies with state contracts, and also promised to make charitable contributions equal to any trust investment that made money from a state contract during his term.

It is not clear how and when Pritzker might learn of such a profit and how he would publicly calculate the personal investment gain, given the secrecy requirements of a blind trust.

His promises went a step further than the typical blind-trust arrangement many wealthy elected officials employ. During his campaign, Pritzker called prior Gov. Bruce Rauner's investment arrangement a "charade" because Rauner placed his holdings under the control of a private equity company in which Rauner had invested.

Pritzker's representatives say the blind trust prohibits the governor from knowing the amount, status or timing of any of his investments — with state contractors or not. They say he is also restricted from communicating with the trustees on any matters, even to ask them to divest.

"A blind trust is an imperfect solution to dealing with conflicts of interest," said Eagan, who researches stock investments by lawmakers. "Public officials know what goes into the blind trust, and they also then get an update every year of what's in there."

"If the beneficiary can easily know what assets are in the trust, that takes care of just how 'blind' this trust is — not very," Columbia Law School professor Richard Briffault told the BGA.

Illinois is not among the 10 states with rules governing how public officials should set up blind trusts to avoid conflicts, according to research by the National Council of State Legislatures. Alaska, for instance, stipulates that trust managers should avoid investments in companies subject to the official's oversight.

"Generally speaking, the best way in our view to manage conflicts of interest is to divest into broadly held mutual funds or other sorts of instruments where you can't really affect the broad movements of those financial interests," said Eagan of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Another state contractor among investments

Besides the Centene stock investment, the BGA found Pritzker's trust in 2020 made at least one additional stock acquisition in a company with state business, according to Pritzker's disclosures and the Illinois Comptroller's office.

The trust acquired stock in the CSX Corp., the rail services giant, which has held about $13.4 million in state business with the transportation department dating back to 2009.

Pritzker's Centene stock ownership is also notable given Pritzker's 2018 criticism of Rauner for being slow to recoup millions of dollars in profits taken by Illinois Medicaid contractors.

"While costs skyrocket for his secret Medicaid overhaul, Bruce Rauner is negligent in recouping tens of millions of dollars in overpayments to insurers," Pritzker said in a March 2018 statement during his run to unseat Rauner. "Incredible sums of taxpayer dollars are falling through the cracks, and there's no one in charge to stand up for hardworking Illinoisans."

The Pritzker administration in 2020 and 2021 worked with the association of for-profit Medicaid insurance contractors, which includes Centene, to scuttle a proposed bill by Democratic state Sen. David Koehler of Peoria to "claw back" COVID-19-era profits from Medicaid contractors, including Centene, according to government emails obtained by the BGA.

Pritzker's administration says Koehler's clawback bill would have put federal funding at risk and raised costs for taxpayers and it added that Illinois expects to recoup $220 million from Medicaid managed care organizations, including Centene, once an analysis of 2020 bills is completed later this year.

The heir to a sprawling business fortune, Pritzker has a net worth of $3.6 billion and is among the richest politicians in the U.S. His extensive offshore holdings and his decision to release only summary tax reports have made it difficult for the public to understand whether his personal investments might influence his administration's policy decisions. In addition to the trust investments Pritzker publicly discloses, he also benefits from family trusts held in offshore accounts.

BGA investigative reporter Jared Rutecki contributed to this article.

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The singer describes his take on music as a "kitchen sink pop approach." He says there's always a little bit of "Afro" in his music, and a little bit of church and blues. He says he wants his listeners to always wonder what instrument he'll bring next.
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Walther Eidlitz, född den 28 augusti 1892 i Wien, död  den 28 augusti 1976 i Vaxholm, var en österrikisk författare, religionshistoriker och bhaktiutövare.

Biografi
Eidlitz var från början skönlitterär författare med dikter, noveller och romaner. Han företog långa utländska resor under 1930-talet, då han flera gånger besökte Sverige och lärde känna framstående kulturpersonligheter, såsom Verner von Heidenstam och Selma Lagerlöf.

Eidlitz religiösa och filosofiska intresse förde honom 1938–1946 till Indien, där han under en period satt i interneringsläger på grund av andra världskriget. Under denna tid konverterade han till hinduismen.

Sedan 1952 var han bosatt i Sverige. Han blev hedersdoktor vid Lunds universitet 1975.

Bibliografi i urval
 Hölderlin 1917 (drama)
 Die Herbstvögel 1921 (skådespel)
 Der Berg in der Wüste 1923 (drama)
  Der Kaiser im Walde 1924 (sagodrama)
  Das Licht der Welt 1932 (roman)
  Reise nach den vier Winden 1935 (resebok)
  Vindrosen runt 1935 (resebok)
  Der Mantel der grossen Mutter 1936 (resebok)
 Den glömda världen: en bok om det okända Indien. Stockholm 1948 (självbiografi)
 Indisk mystik. Stockholm 1952. (Studentföreningen Verdandis småskrifter 526)
 Krsna-Caitanya. Sein Leben und seine Lehre. Stockholm 1968. (Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion 7)
 Guds lek. Stockholm 1976
 Livets mening och mål i indisk tankevärld. Stockholm 1972.
 Den glömda världen: om hinduism och meditation. Stockholm 1972.
 Se även

 Chaitanya

 Referenser
 Ferdinando Sardella: "Upplysning i ett indiskt koncentrationsläger – Walther Eidlitz: en konvertits andliga sökande." Gränser, Humanistdag-boken''. Göteborg 2003, s. 333–340.
 Svensk uppslagsbok 1955, Eidlitz

Noter

Externa länkar
 Walther Eidlitz självbiografi, Unknown India: A Pilgrimage into a Forgotten World. (Med senare rättelser av författaren, 2002.)

Österrikiska författare
Svenska religionshistoriker
Hedersdoktorer vid Lunds universitet
Födda 1892
Avlidna 1976
Män
Personer från Wien

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Cannabidiol: The future perspective made of hemp.
Hemp has been known for its beneficial, health-promoting effects for thousands of years. Formerly, it was used as a source of inspiration in religious rites and as a remedy and fiber plant in ancient China as well as in ancient Egypt, India, Greece and Rome.
Major cannabinoids such as tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol were isolated and chemically detected in the first half of the 20th century. However, subsequently cannabidiol falsely suffered a setback with regards to the attention of scientists and the public for several decades of the 20th century. This may be due to the fact that, in contrast to marijuana, cannabidiol does not show any exhilarating effects and does not result in addiction.
For the last decade it is particularly noteworthy that cannabidiol is being recognized as an auspicious hemp substance with a plethora of health-promoting effects becoming more and more valuable to counterbalance increasing physiological and psychological stress factors resulting from our unceasingly accelerating way of life. This fosters hope that cannabidiol may even help to meet the challenges of modern lifestyle diseases.
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Q: How do you fix the group by requirement in sql queries? I have a SQL query:
SELECT A.Emp_ID, A.Emp_Name
FROM Employee A
INNER JOIN Assignment B on A.Emp_ID = B.Emp_ID
WHERE B.Emp_ID
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;

Which returned the error:

SQLException: You have an error in your SQL syntax;
check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'group by Emp_ID' at line 1

I looked it up and found a post on here that talked about it, and what to do.
I changed it to this:
SELECT A.Emp_ID, A.Emp_Name
FROM Employee A
INNER JOIN Assignment B ON A.Emp_ID = B.Emp_ID
WHERE B.Emp_ID
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
GROUP BY Emp_ID;

Which, to me, looks exactly like it is supposed to, so I'm confused why it doesn't work. Can someone help me straighten this out please?
Thank you.

A: Presumably you want:
SELECT e.Emp_ID, e.Emp_Name
FROM Employee e INNER JOIN
     Assignment a
     ON e.Emp_ID = a.Emp_ID
GROUP BY e.Emp_ID, e.Emp_Name
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;

Notes:

*

*The WHERE clause is useless.

*You need a GROUP BY.

*Use meaningful table aliases rather than arbitrary letters.

A: group by before having
SELECT A.Emp_ID, A.Emp_Name FROM Employee A INNER JOIN
Assignment B on A.Emp_ID = B.Emp_ID
group by A.Emp_ID, A.Emp_Name
 HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;


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Music Synthesis
Music synthesizers are back in the news, and that's great news for aficionados of the genre. But what about us poor schlubs who are unable or unwilling to fathom the nuances of this electroacoustically artsy style? What, exactly, is a music synthesizer? For an explanation, we turn to the American Linguistical Remediation Dictionary.
Synthesizer: one that combines or synthesizes to the extent of promoting synthesis, often with a keyboard. See also synthesis, synergy, Synklavier, synagogue and Beano Bengaze.
Synthesis: a synthetic prosthesis, such as a titanium nose. Etymology: In the Middle Ages, noses belonging to members of certain avant-garde religious sects were removed at birth and placed nostril-up in fertilizer-filled sarcophagi in the belief they would be visited by archangels taking the corporeal form of tweezers bearing good luck and chocolates. The attendant physicians, typically unschooled in state of the art cosmetic surgery practices of the day, replaced the noses with artifices made of reinforced cardboard. While functional and, for a while, even stylish, the life spans of these pseudoschnozzles were severely abridged if the wearer experienced prolonged bouts of sneezing, which the appendages often provoked. Temporary wooden noses became fashionable after Martha Washington opted for one to cover a melanoma the size of an artichoke on her own honker. Today, most false noses are made of an amalgam of latex, leather and linoleum by a guild of artisans in Tuktoyatuk. See also tungsten lips.
Tungsten lips: an aftermarket, corrosion-resistant labial gateway that surrounds the opening of a mouth or other telepathic orifice. Invented by Beano Bengaze, a nasally-challenged musical shaman, they enjoyed an haute couture popularity in Paris during the 1920s. A design flaw that limited facial expressions to grimaces and contributed to an increase in cases of voluntary anorexia eventually led to its demise. See also synthesizer.
Yes, well we've already been there, done that. So, free associating this and other related definitions, a music synthesizer is an electrical tool that a composer can employ to produce novel sounds that would be much more difficult to produce through standard instrumental means, what with prima donna musicians unwilling to play any tune that might distend their lip cartilage and ready to sue a composer for writing a passage that caused his or her lung to blow out. In 1968, composers of this genre got a real scare when the same Canadian nose guild attempted to unionize all electronic synthesizers. They believed that these devices were sentient machines, and no more enjoyed making the sounds than most audiences did listening to them. In a bizarrely worded manifesto that stretched the limits of grammatical good taste and subsequently did for the dependent clause what scabies did for calamine lotion, the guild demanded that any music written for electronic music synthesizers -- the analog ones, at any rate -- use only algorithms approved by the American Algebraic Association. This would have eliminated any models not divisible by prime numbers or that contained fewer than ten motif redundancies. Well, the electroacoustic composers community, not normally known for recognizing a problem, let alone championing any one cause, banded together and lobbied public opinion against the synthesizer alliance, and the guild was forced to retract its declaration. And once again, synthesized music was saved from a fate worse than ... well, than being fodder -- and, by extension, the bull's eye -- for the 189th episode of Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar, which now will have to find another musical target for Kalvos to grind.


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Knowledge Base Content Audit
There is a considerable amount of literature on content audits for websites but hardly anything on content audits for knowledge bases. However, the basic principles are the same. They need to be customised because the content audit should be as individual as the content that is audited.
Company knowledge is considered intellectual property and belongs to the category of intangible assets. Although its nature is not physical and its value cannot be expressed in monetary terms, it may prove critical to the success or failure of a firm. It does not obviously affect the current market value of a company but has an enormous influence on its future worth because the continuity of internal operations depends on it ("Intellectual Property as a Business Asset", n.d.).[1]
While mergers and acquisitions often have the objective of gaining knowledge, they constitute a risk of knowledge loss as well. It is not unusual that employees will either give notice themselves or are laid off and the knowledge transfer in such cases is often incomplete. Thus, knowledge needs to be preserved and maintained which can be done with the help of an internal knowledge base (Bloomfire Admin, 2017).[2]
The benefits of a centralised knowledge base are manifold. Business-critical knowledge is saved and is still available even if the experts decide to leave the company. All employees have access to the self-service tool and can easily find up-to-date information they are looking for. The onboarding of new staff is facilitated and communication is streamlined across teams. All these aspects increase productivity and help saving time and money (Clayton, n.d.).[3]
However, it is a big challenge to administrate an internal knowledge repository. The different writing styles of article authors may create an impression of inconsistency and there is also the risk of redundancy. To avoid these potential drawbacks, it is recommended to provide best practice guidelines, style manuals and templates.
Moreover, it is crucial that the knowledge base is maintained on a regular basis to prevent information from becoming outdated. Thus, a content audit should be performed on a regular basis but at least once a year.
Content Inventory
The content inventory is the starting point in any content strategy process because the as-is state of the content can be measured on its basis, as Ladenburg Land (2014)[4] explains. According to her, "a content inventory is a detailed representation of the data about a website or content set, often represented in the form of a spreadsheet".
Either a tool is used to capture data automatically or the information is gathered manually and entered into a spreadsheet. However, Halvorson and Rach (2012)[5] recommend doing a human review to gain a deeper understanding of the substance, quality and accuracy of the content.
The minimal requirements for a content inventory are:
A list of all files relevant to the project and their location.
Relevant data that will be useful in the analysis stage in the content audit.
If available, details from site analytics should be recorded as well because they help to identify high- and low-performing content. When metadata such as the meta title and descriptions are included, their value for content management can be assessed by the auditor. A log of the cross-links should also be kept because it proves helpful when the content needs to be updated.
After the quantitative evaluation of the content has been completed, the next step is the content audit that focuses on qualitative analysis.
Content Audit
The content audit is described by Ladenburg Land (2014)[6] as "a qualitative evaluation of a set of content". Content audits can reveal the content's strengths and weaknesses when quantitative and qualitative data are contained. Halvorson and Rach (2012)[7] state that the format, size, or timing for an audit depend on the individual goals.
Kissane (2011)[8] explains that a content audit helps to find out if the content is:
Useful and user-centred
Clear, consistent and concise
Properly supported or outdated or inaccurate.
She points out that the decisions about how to measure these qualities and the scope of the audit must be made by the auditor.
To measure content performance, quantitative (based on numbers) and qualitative (based on opinions) methods and metrics need to be used as Casey (2015)[9] explains. Surveys mainly provide quantitative data (such as rankings) while in-person user feedback rates how the content is performing.
However according to Agius (2017)[10], excellent qualitative can be obtained by conducting a survey among readers and the statistics in the spreadsheet can be complemented by these data. Surveys help to develop a better understanding of the audience. When the pain points, desires and aspirations of the audience are known, it helps to improve the content.
When large company knowledge bases are concerned, it is advisable that the content is split into chunks and for each chunk a separate audit is performed.
A content audit of a knowledge base shows that it makes an enormous difference whether you look at the pieces of content individually or at the content as a whole. When articles are revised bit by bit, you never get the big picture. The content audit reveals how the articles relate to each other in their content system and then the strengths and weaknesses can be discovered. This knowledge helps you to keep your knowledge base the powerful tool it can be.
[1] Intellectual Property as a Business Asset. (n.d.). Retrieved February 13, 2018, from http://www.wipo.int/sme/en/ip_business/ip_asset/business_assets.htm
[2] Bloomfire Admin. (2017, August 21). 5 Benefits of a Knowledge Base. [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://bloomfire.com/blog/671606-5-benefits-of-a-knowledge-base/#
[3] Clayton, Olivia. (n.d.). The Ridiculously Simple Guide: Internal Knowledge Base. [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://status.net/articles/internal-knowledge-base/
[4] Ladenburg Land, P. (2014). Content Audits and Inventories – A Handbook. California: Xml Press.
[5] Halvorson, Kristina and Melissa Rach (2012). Content Strategy for the Web. United States of America: New Riders.
[8] Kissane, Erin (2011). The Elements of Content Strategy. New York: A Book Apart.
[9] Casey, Meghan (2015). The Content Strategy Toolkit: Methods, Guidelines, and Templates for Getting Content Right. United States of America: New Riders.
[10] Agius, Aaron (2017, March 29). What Most Companies Get Wrong With Content Audits. Retrieved from https://www.searchenginejournal.com/what-most-companies-get-wrong-with-content-audits/191029/
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The bad news: Valdez just closed to renovate and move. The good news: Chef Steve Gonzalez is taking his Latino street party on tour, with a stop at night two of this year's Night Market. On his menu this year is a must-try Choripan. If you're missing the house made chorizo from Valdez, have no fear as this dish has it alongside some slaw.
The Night Market veteran tells us, "I love doing the Stop Night Market and have been doing it for like 3 years now. For me, it's an opportunity to get out of my kitchen and hang/cook with some of my friends and colleagues for a good food cause."
If Richmond Station (owned by Top Chef Canada winner Carl Heinrich and Ryan Donovan of West Side Beef) is on your must-try list but you still haven't made it to the restaurant, now's your chance. On night two, Richmond Station will be serving up perfectly Instagrammable (and delightfully portable) vegetarian shawarma.
Donovan, another repeat Night Market vendor, says "Each year I hear people around me whisper, 'this city should have a set-up like this all the time.' It remains a special night, a unique evening that happens predictably, habitually... It's almost spiritual."
Ready to get your slurp on? Known for providing Toronto with the nation's finest selection of oysters, Oyster Boy will be on-site serving up freshly shucked Malpeques from Prince Edward Island to Night Market guests.
Participating for their third year in a row, Alex Tso and Melanie Harris of Dundas Park Kitchen are focusing on handheld street food this year. They're serving up crispy polenta cake garnished with refried bean sauce and crema, served alongside their signature side salad.
Tso is one of The Stop's biggest supporters. "Prior to starting Dundas Park Kitchen, I was able to spend time working for The Stop's event catering/social enterprise division, as well as to volunteer at their lunch drop in program," he says. "I saw how efforts by culinary professionals could immediately impact the way the Stop CFC was able to operate. For me, I enjoy contributing to a night that raises over $200K a year for a cause that is relevant to me, both as a chef and as a business, in Toronto's hospitality industry."
On night two of the market, Chef Rocco Agostino will be featuring one of the restaurant's most popular dishes: gnocchi fritti. This light, ricotta-based gnocchi is finished on a bed of spicy ndjua sauce. Anyone who's tried it will confirm that this one is not to be missed.
So why does Chef Rocco bring his Pizzeria Libretto team to The Stop's Night Market each year? "It is easily one of my favourite events," he says. "From the transformation of an inner city landscape, to the collection of fabulous chefs and restaurants, to the music that carries you into the late night air. The event is fast-paced, fun and also raises money for an incredible community program. Giving back through food is my favourite thing to do!"
Since 2001, The Stop Community Food Centre has been bringing together people from the Davenport area with their community cooking and kitchens. This program is just one of the reasons why the Stop Night Market is so important each year: nearly 100% of funds raised go back to the organization.
For this year's Night Market, Scott MacNeil (Community Chef for the Stop Community Food Centre) will be making and preparing a trout gravlax on a rye cracker—served with a root vegetable puree—as their dish of choice. Stop by for an example of the types of programming that operate year-round at the food centre.


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The Life of James Lesile
When James Lesile Cookson was born on 14 October 1886, in Stoddard, Stoddard, Missouri, United States, his father, James C Cookson, was 29 and his mother, Arusia Adaline Hinkle, was 21. He married Lula I Montgomery on 17 March 1909, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Duck Creek Township, Stoddard, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died on 12 January 1964, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 77.
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St. Louis hosted the 1904 World's Fair and welcomed a crowd of 200,000 visitors on opening day of April 30, 1904. The fair had exhibits from 50 countries and 43 states. Several notable inventions showcased at the fair include iced tea and the ice cream cone. By the time of its closing in December 1904, over 20 million people had visited the fair.
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Nokia Disconnects; No More BlackBerry Support for Eseries
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By Zach Epstein
July 30th, 2008 at 9:44 AM
Purchasers of Nokia's latest Eseries devices may be a bit distressed to learn that BlackBerry Connect will no longer be updated for Nokia's S60 devices, effective immediately. Just after a recent update was issued for the latest E90 firmware Nokia made the announcement and was hardly indirect with its reasoning for the move. Nokia's Simon Ainslie had this to say:
RIM are a competitor and have done a reasonable job in a space that is traditionally ours, so it's no great surprise that we see this as an opportunity to give consumers a proper choice on what email solution they want.
Perhaps the most confusing part of this move is the simple fact that Nokia's OEM email support is, well, shoddy at best. Unreliable, poorly-executed and horrible are more descriptive terms that have been tossed around from time to time. The integrated POP / IMAP support is just north of unusable. Nokia's Mail for Exchange client historically hasn't been much better, though the most recent client addresses many issues of the past. Mail for Exchange however, as the name might dictate, only supports Exchange email. This might be fine if you use your device strictly for work (and your company uses Exchange) but in the day and age of "convergence", most people like to have access to personal email as well. Nokia's recent "Nokia Email" beta does show signs of life, though slight. All this aside, if your company uses RIM's email system and you had plans to snag an E71 instead of a BlackBerry… Think again.
Zach Epstein has worked in and around ICT for more than 15 years, first in marketing and business development with two private telcos, then as a writer and editor covering business news, consumer electronics and telecommunications. Zach's work has been quoted by countless top news publications in the US and around the world. He was also recently named one of the world's top-10 "power mobile influencers" by Forbes, as well as one of Inc. Magazine's top-30 Internet of Things experts.
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There goes the neighbourhood – How hyper-local changes everything.
Hyper-local breweries are changing the way beer is brewed, sold, and drank as they shift perceptions of freshness, price points, formats, and where/how that beer is bought and sold. Do their constraints become everyone's new expectations?


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Q: Docker registry:2.0 overriding configuration options Has anyone tried using environment variables to override configuration options in the registry, say if you have to use s3 bucket as the storage for example. I read the doc and it says (https://docs.docker.com/registry/configuration/):
Overriding configuration options
Environment variables may be used to override configuration parameters other than
version. To override a configuration option, create an environment variable named
REGISTRY_variable_ where variable is the name of the configuration option.

e.g

REGISTRY_STORAGE_FILESYSTEM_ROOTDIRECTORY=/tmp/registry/test

will set the storage root directory to /tmp/registry/test

So I tried this command, but it does not seem to have any effect when I start the registry:
docker run -it -v /var/log/docker-registry:/var/log -p 5000:5000 \
-e REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_ACCESSKEY=****************** \
-e REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_SECRETKEY=****************** \
-e REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=itmcc-docker-registry-backend \
-e REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_REGION=us-east-1 \
registry:2.0

In the logs I see the regular output as if it does not take the env variables into account and try to connect to S3:
INFO[0000] endpoint local-8082 disabled, skipping        environment=development instance.id=025c9fcd-2ec1-4d5f-82ec-d3246d54cdb5 service=registry version=v2.0.0
INFO[0000] endpoint local-8083 disabled, skipping        environment=development instance.id=025c9fcd-2ec1-4d5f-82ec-d3246d54cdb5 service=registry version=v2.0.0
INFO[0000] using inmemory layerinfo cache                environment=development instance.id=025c9fcd-2ec1-4d5f-82ec-d3246d54cdb5 service=registry version=v2.0.0
INFO[0000] listening on :5000                            environment=development instance.id=025c9fcd-2ec1-4d5f-82ec-d3246d54cdb5 service=registry version=v2.0.0
INFO[0000] Starting upload purge in 42m0s                environment=development instance.id=025c9fcd-2ec1-4d5f-82ec-d3246d54cdb5 service=registry version=v2.0.0
INFO[0000] debug server listening localhost:5001

PS: If I use an IAM role with my ec2, it seems redundant to pass in the access and secret key to docker registry container, can docker utilize the IAM role yet, has anyone tried that?
Edit:
After I run container and the exec command to see output of env:
root@0a349294f792:/go/src/github.com/docker/distribution# env
REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_SECRETKEY=*************************
DISTRIBUTION_DIR=/go/src/github.com/docker/distribution
GOLANG_VERSION=1.4.2
HOSTNAME=0a349294f792
REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=itmcc-docker-registry-backend
PATH=/go/bin:/usr/src/go/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
PWD=/go/src/github.com/docker/distribution
REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_REGION=us-east-1
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root
GOPATH=/go/src/github.com/docker/distribution/Godeps/_workspace:/go
REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_ACCESSKEY=*************************
_=/usr/bin/env
root@0a349294f792:/go/src/github.com/docker/distribution#

A: Try adding -e REGISTRY_STORAGE=s3 into your docker run command.
This overwrites default filesystem configurations by empty.
Detail: https://github.com/docker/distribution/blob/master/docs/configuration.md > Override configuration options > Note

A: I am loading the accesskey and secretkey via environment variables in my docker run command. However, I am specifying my bucket name and region in the config file, and in the process of looking for solutions to your problem, it appears that you must specify the region and bucket name in the config file. Any time I try to specify these in environment variables in my docker run command, I get errors and the container doesn't start. I suggest loading this information via the config file (and dropping those flags in your docker run command), and specifying your accesskey and secretkey via environment variables like you are. I've spend a bit of time digging through the source for information about why this doesn't work the way we think it should, but didn't come across anything really helpful. I think it must be something that AWS S3 doesn't like, but I didn't get far trying to shed light on that since it works for me in the above configuration. Good luck!
PS: In regards to your IAM access, there are some comments in the source that might help give you an idea of what to expect.

A: The complete command that works for me from a docker run command is:
docker run -d -p 5000:5000 \
-e "REGISTRY_STORAGE=s3" \
-e "REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_REGION=us-east-1"\
-e "REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=******"\
-e "REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_ACCESSKEY=******"\
-e "REGISTRY_STORAGE_S3_SECRETKEY=******"\
registry:2

Note the addition of the REGISTRY_STORAGE=s3 environment variable.
They hint at this in the registry docs:

Note: If an environment variable changes a map value into a string,
  such as replacing the storage driver type with
  REGISTRY_STORAGE=filesystem, then all sub-fields will be erased. As
  such, specifying the storage type in the environment will remove all
  parameters related to the old storage configuration.


WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Five Oregon State University softball players earned All-Pacific-10 Conference recognition on Wednesday, as was announced by Commissioner Tom Hansen.
Sophomores Vanessa Iapala and Adrienne Alo were named second team All-Pac-10 selections, while senior Monica Hoffman, junior Kelly Petersen and freshman Mia Longfellow garnered honorable mention accolades.
Iapala, a first baseman from San Diego, CA, has led the Beavers throughout the season in multiple offensive categories. She boasts a team-best .349 batting average, 68 hits, 44 RBI and 14 doubles. Iapala needs just five more RBI to break the Oregon State single season mark. As a sophomore, she already ranks in the OSU career Top 10 in three different batting categories.
Alo, an outfielder from Carson, CA, earns the second Pac-10 accolades of her career after picking up honorable mention honors as a freshman. Alo leads the team with 41 runs scored on the season - tying the OSU single season mark. She ranks second on the squad with 11 doubles and 12 stolen bases.
A three-time All-Pac-10 honoree, Hoffman, a pitcher from Vancouver, WA, leads the Beavers with 19 victories on the season. She broke the school record for single season strikeouts (247) last week and earlier this season broke the OSU career record for saves (11).
Petersen, a shortstop from San Diego, CA, earned back-to-back honorable mention Pac-10 accolades after ranking second on the team in runs scored (39) and sacrifices (11), while boasting a .291 batting average.
Longfellow, an outfielder from Ramona, CA, ranks second on the team with a .318 batting average. She broke the Oregon State single season stolen bases record (15) and her 17 sacrifices on the year are just four shy of a new school record.
University of Washington catcher Kristen Rivera was named Pac-10 Player of the Year, while University of Arizona's Alicia Hollowell and Caitlin Lowe, picked up Pitcher and Newcomer of the Year honors, respectively. Stanford University's John Rittman was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year.


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A Guide to the Cleveland Browns' Nightmare Offseason
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The concept of "rock bottom" is a myth. Things can always get worse, no matter how bad they may already be — just ask the Cleveland Browns. In the last month alone, their star wideout has received a one-year suspension for drinking alcohol, their quarterback of the future has checked himself into a rehab facility, and their GM is being investigated for illegally texting down to the sideline during games. Oh, and their former offensive coordinator put together some sort of lengthy PowerPoint presentation detailing his grievances with the franchise.
Wait. What? Tell me more about this PowerPoint.
It was only, like, the 17th-most damning revelation in this Jason La Canfora report, so your ignorance is understandable. According to La Canfora, Kyle Shanahan "presented [Browns head coach Mike] Pettine with a 32-point presentation on why he wanted to get out of his contract." It must have featured some breathtaking animations, because Pettine was so moved by it that he subsequently allowed Shanahan to join the Falcons. Can the hackers at Anonymous please make this slide show public? The universe needs answers to questions like "How did Kyle Shanahan feel about the Browns' decision to pass on Odell Beckham Jr. for Justin Gilbert?" and "Does Kyle Shanahan use clip art?"
Speaking of Shanahan, whom did Pettine hire as his replacement?
John DeFilippo, who most recently served as the quarterbacks coach of the Oakland Raiders — they of the NFL's 26th-ranked passing offense. The Browns' press release touted DeFilippo's "track record of developing young quarterbacks" and proceeded to praise his work with … wait for it … Mark Sanchez, Terrelle Pryor, and Matt McGloin.
This isn't to say DeFilippo isn't a bright offensive mind or that he can't become a competent playcaller. It's merely to point out how limited Pettine's options were. I mean, he actually contacted Charlie Weis and Mike Martz, who were last seen commiserating over the proliferation of the spread offense at a Hooters in Lawrence, Kansas. These are dark times.
Well, at least DeFilippo has some promising young talent to work with, right?
Maybe in 2016. That's when Josh Gordon is eligible to apply for reinstatement from his yearlong suspension, which, to reiterate, was for consuming a substance that is promoted endlessly by the NFL. Meanwhile, La Canfora says that free-agent tight end Jordan Cameron "is not interested in returning to Cleveland," and Manziel, remember, is in rehab following one of the most disastrous rookie seasons of all time.
Let's go back to the Gordon thing. I concede that his suspension is sort of bullshit, but doesn't he have to be held accountable for continually violating a policy that's written into his contract?
This is a common line of reasoning, and while rules are rules, Gordon's ghostwritten explanation on the matter is worth reading. Gordon claims that he thought his "league-imposed restriction on drinking had expired at the end of the regular season" and says his positive alcohol test stemmed from a widely Instagrammed trip to Las Vegas with teammates and since-fired receivers coach Mike McDaniel, who watched as the Pro Bowl receiver enjoyed "two beers and two drinks," thus ending his 2015 campaign nine months before the start of the season. In this respect, the Browns failed Gordon as much as Gordon failed that test.
Still, when he returns, Gordon should be able to net the Browns something in a trade, right?
Not nearly as much as the Browns would have gotten for him in 2013, when then-CEO Joe Banner and then-GM Mike Lombardi had worked out a deal that would have sent Gordon to San Francisco for a second-round pick and more, only to have the trade nixed by owner Jimmy Haslam at the last minute. Now he's probably worth a fifth-rounder at most.
Well, let's focus on something positive: the draft! Do the Browns have enough ammunition to address their pressing wide receiver need early and often?
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Well, they boast a whopping 10 picks … for now. As mentioned above, GM Ray Farmer is currently mired in Textgate. (Of course that's what we're calling it.) Basically, Farmer is being investigated for offering in-game strategic advice to a member of the Browns coaching staff (possibly former quarterbacks coach Dowell Loggains), who would then relay the message to a none-too-pleased Shanahan. The NFL is reportedly set to "announce sanctions within the next couple of weeks," and that will likely include a multigame suspension for Farmer and the loss of at least one midround draft pick.
On the bright side, a lost draft pick is just one less opportunity for Farmer to select a surefire bust. You said it yourself: The man took Justin Gilbert over Odell Beckham Jr. What was up with that?
Look, it's easy to hammer Farmer for not taking ODB, but 11 other teams passed on him, too. The real issue is that Farmer neglected to take any receivers in an especially deep year for the position. Kelvin Benjamin, Jordan Matthews, Jarvis Landry, John Brown, Davante Adams — any of these players would easily be the most talented non-suspended wideout on the Browns. And I like Andrew Hawkins a lot!
But man, Justin Gilbert …
What about him?
Per La Canfora:
[Gilbert] was routinely late, was a chronic knucklehead and rubbed teammates and coaches the wrong way, sources said. At times the coaches had to have him active on game days due to not having enough healthy corners, but his shortage of playing time was accountable not so much to injuries or poor practice as to his habits. Players must be to the stadium by 11 am at the latest on game days for 1 p.m. kickoffs, but Gilbert showed up as late as 11:45 at least once. By the end of the season he was seen more as a nuisance than an asset.
So you're telling me his pick-six of Andrew Luck was an anomaly?
That's exactly what I'm telling you.
Of course, that paragraph could have just as easily been about Manziel, right? What are the Browns' plans at quarterback?
They could try to re-sign Brian Hoyer, but he seems fed up with the organization and eager for a change. Manziel will probably have a chance to compete for the starting job in training camp, but it's hard to imagine him as the team's Week 1 starter after reading this account of his rookie year. Jason Cole says the Browns are strongly considering trading up in the draft for Marcus Mariota or Jameis Winston, which is sort of like if I said I was strongly considering going on a date with Kate Upton, while Chris Mortensen thinks they may attempt to acquire Mike Glennon, because this guy is definitely the solution to the franchise's long-standing quarterback woes.
I guess the one constant in this mess is Haslam. What has he been up to since paying his way out of that rebate scandal?
I can tell you firsthand that Browns fans still pray for an indictment every day, largely out of fear that Haslam will fire Pettine if the team doesn't drastically improve next season. According to La Canfora, Haslam has created a culture in which "the division between ownership and day-to-day coaching decisions [is] becoming increasingly blurred," as we see in everything from the drafting of Manziel to team president Alec Scheiner joining Pettine for a film session at 6 a.m. every Monday. It is most certainly a mess.
Anything else to report?
Yes! The Browns just raised season-ticket prices by 30 percent.
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Books By Crommelin Authors
by Miff Crommelin
Though our family name is not a common one, there have been a few writers amongst us who have had their works published. Perhaps the most prolific is Irish/English novelist Maria Henrietta de la Cherois Crommelin (aka May Crommelin) who published about 50 romance/mystery novels from 1874 to 1924 as well as various articles in notable periodicals of her day.
Her cousin, the astronomer Andrew C. de la Cherois Crommelin (aka A.C.D. Crommelin), was similarly gifted having written numerous articles and popular books about astronomy. Their biographies appear on the Crommelin Family website, but it is interesting just to see a gallery of the covers and illustrations which embellish some of their books.
For several years Govert Deketh and I have been trying to acquire as many books and publications as possible by Crommelin authors with the plan to someday turn them over to the Crommelin Foundation archives for posterity. This is another way of keeping our history and heritage alive for the benefit of future generations.
Many of May Crommelin's books are now available as 'brand new' reprints, or books that are printed 'on demand' because her copyrights have expired. This puts May's works in the 'public domain' where anyone can print, publish, and benefit from her writing. Her novels are now considered 'antiques' - sources of information about manners, customs and society in a bygone age when life was a little more elegant and gentle than it is today.
Those familiar with the background of authors such as Beatrix Potter [The Tale of Peter Rabbit, etc.] or Lucy Maud Montgomery [Anne of Green Gables] know how the loneliness of a young child raised by governesses often causes her imagination to 'invent' playmates which re-emerge later in life as best-selling books - 'books born out of boredom', so to speak. I believe May Crommelin had a similar background where isolation, governesses, and a strict code of conduct regarding one's duty to look after ailing parents led to long periods of boredom where one's only escape was in the world of fantasy and writing.
May Crommelin's books take us back to the late Victorian era and turn-of-the-century when life moved at a slower pace. Technology was not so far advanced - electricity was in its infancy and used mainly for illumination; bicycles, horses, carriages, boats and trains were the standard means of transportation. This was a time when elegance and etiquette were still in fashion, and the importance of 'doing one's duty' for the sake of the family superseded one's own personal ambitions. This was a common theme in May Crommelin's writing.
Color Plates...
May Crommelin also had a keen interest in the beauties of nature. Her novels usually open with a vivid description of the surrounding countryside with lavish detail given to the varieties of flowers, trees and wildlife, all of which set a delectable stage for the story that is about to unfold. In fact, one of her books, Poets in the Garden, is all about flowers with lovely color plates of each specimen and quotations from famous authors who mention these plants in their poems and prose. Truly, she had a great love for gardens and flowers.
She often wove a mystery into her romance novels with unexpected twists that would take the reader to the very end of the book before he/she could put it all together, but always with a happy ending. Sometimes her books turn into a 'Who dunnit?' in the style of Agatha Christie, and it wasn't 'breaking the rules' for her to introduce a mythical creature from South America and then have it play an important role in the unfolding of the tale!
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Biographies about her also point out May Crommelin's keen interest in family history. Being an avid traveller and amateur historian she visited distant relations in Holland and wrote a book called My Book of Friends, Pen and Ink Portraits by Themselves. This unique book provides blank entries in which to record details about one's own family and friends as a kind of 'diary' for future reference. Each page carries a wise epigram by a famous author.
Kinsah, A Daughter of Tangier
As a world traveller, May Crommelin went as far as Chile, Peru, Morocco and Egypt to acquire impressions and material to include in a forthcoming novel. This was no mean feat for an elderly spinster when cross-country and intercontinental travel was long, arduous and uncomfortable by today's standards. Thus she was an enterprising lady who was able to pay for her ambitious overseas excursions through income generated by novels written as a result of her travels. An endorsement for her book, Kinsah, A Story of Harem Life, reads as follows: "The book owes its vivid rendering of Moorish character and customs to personal study on the spot, no less than to assistance from those of the author's friends localised and naturalised in Morocco."
May Crommelin's much used passport.
No doubt May Crommelin would be amused by the amount of interest there is now in her books but unfortunately she won't have benefited from this new readership. Many of her titles are available by internet vendors such as Abebooks.com while others are available as free downloads (See also).
Occasionally May would collaborate with another person to produce a novel. This happened in 1889 with Violet Vivian, M.F.H. where the technical aspects of equestrian life involved consultation with an expert. The same thing occurred in 1911 with the book Isle of the Dead, a book described as "Not a weird fantasy novel, but a novel of adventure, starting and ending in California. Main events take place on the Isle of the Dead, a remote island in the Gulf of Alaska inhabited by the Alaskan Semidi indians, with much detail concerning their rites and customs." In 1916 a lively children's book entitled Little Soldiers was in collaboration with Louis Wain who did the illustrations.
Many of the illustrations above are from books we have acquired thus far. These are from 'original' copies, not reprints. Dare we hope that someday the Crommelin Foundation will have a complete library of May Crommelin's books - a collection that began with the book Queenie by a bored young girl in 1874 and ended in 1924 with a book entitled Halfpenny House? Time will tell.


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Domino (review)
by MaryAnn Johanson
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You can't make this stuff up, and they didn't: this is a true story. Mostly. Domino Harvey was a poor little rich girl who, seeking to escape the deprivations of Beverly Hills and the rough life of a fashion model, turned to — no shit — bounty hunting for adventure and excitement. I say "was" — the real Domino died of a drug overdose in June; before that, she was totally onboard with director Tony Scott (Man on Fire), who has turned her exploits into the kind of hyperkinetic film that makes you understand why a tiny, delicate, bored little china doll like Domino would rebel against the shackles of privilege. Aggressively antisocial and brutally funny, this is Scott's masterpiece, at least to date, a wild film that is, in fact, assured and tightly controlled. With its twisty, sneaky plot — about a casino heist gone wrong, pissed-off mobsters, sassy black woman who work at the DMV, and a sick baby — and relentless, ultraviolent action, this is not a film that will appeal to all, just to those who see the appeal in being antisocial. Keira Knightly (The Jacket), in a tour-de-force performance, proves her kinship with Domino: she dares you to limit her power to just her pretty face.
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Q: What was Herman Munsters' role when he fought in World War II? I was researching the Munsters as I build a Lego Munsters diorama for Emerald City ComiCon. According to Herman Munster's Wikipedia page, he fought in World War II.

Herman married Lily, and eventually the couple and Grandpa (Lily's father) moved to America, where Herman joined the U.S. Army, fighting in World War II.

I don't recall seeing an episode featuring Herman either in the Army, or fighting in World War II.
What was Herman Munsters' role when he fought in World War II? It's stated he fought. Did he see action?

A: In the Season 1 Episode 6 titled "Low Cal Munster", Herman wants to attend a reunion of his U.S. Army outfit.  Around minute 3:30 we get dialog between the Munster family about his time in the Army.

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*In what war did Herman serve?

Herman: "This is the first time in 20 years the guys in my old outfit
  are getting together."

The show was set contemporary in the mid 1960s, so that would place his service at least at the end of World War II in the mid 1940s.  It could even be earlier than that, since the show does not indicate whether Herman and his Army buddies had reunions or get-togethers after their enlistment ended before the 20-year gap.

*As for what role he had in the war, we get limited information but he was on the front lines:

Herman: "When I get up out of that foxhole, the enemy would take one
  look at me in this uniform and run.  Come to think of it, a lot of our
  guys used to look at me and run too."