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Creative Capital: The Berlin Reader
17 July, 2014By Rob Wilson
While Berlin may for a time have gained the moniker of 'hippest city on the planet', it seems to have become less lovable and liveable for many of those who live there
This book on the urban development of Berlin is none too appetising on first view: an unashamedly dense collection of essays and articles. Yet in its main aim, to give 'non-German speakers an insight into the very controversial debates after reunification', it delivers handsomely. For most of the content has been translated into English for the first time and provides a fascinating series of snapshots by key German commentators from the early '90s onwards, with the emphasis more on the sociological and urban planning rather than the architectural.
It's not exactly a neutral overview and bills itself on the back as highlighting 'the ambivalent consequences of Berlin's urban transformation'. The articles are shot through by a healthy Germanic scepticism of market-led urban development, more focused on its fall-out than its benefits, a bracing inversion of the default Anglo-Saxon view. Not for nothing is the book subtitled 'A Compendium of Urban Change and Activism', rather than '… of Urban Development'.
Its structure follows a loose chronology, the collection of essays and articles split into four sections: Berlin's Megalomania, Berlin In-between, Berlin on Sale, Berlin Contested looking successively at the immediate inflated hopes for the city as the new capital, post-Wall; the reality check of its near-bankruptcy at the end of the '90s; the subsequent processes and consequences of privatisation and gentrification; and the situation today, with an increasingly fragmented constituency of interest groups in the city.
The ongoing backstory seems to be the search to regain the special status or importance the city enjoyed over the last century, from Weltstadt and cosmopolitan power house in the first third of the last century − when huge growth saw it become the biggest industrial city in Germany and the third largest city in the world − to its shattered, divided self, in the last half, which perversely made it a proxy 'Capital of the Cold War'. And in between the short dark watershed of Hitler's grandiose dreams of 'Germania', almost foisted on the city, remaining a haunting presence, which one suspects still feeds a hubristic suspicion of any grand plan.
Simone Hain, in Berlin's Urban Development Discourse (1997), explores this search for models, quoting Hanno Klein, the city's investor liaison, who in 1990 spoke of his wish for a new 'bold & brutal Wilhelminian period'. This was to be reflected in the so-called 'late Prussian-style' of severe, gridded and orthogonal architecture promoted at the time, the most ambitious example of which is discussed by Wolfgang Kil in Last Exit to Alexanderplatz (1995): Hans Kollhoff's plan for the old centre of East Berlin − where up to 13, 150-metre tall buildings were planned, each projected to house the headquarters of a major German company.
But 1990 predictions of the city just picking up again on where its dizzying growth had left off in the 1920s, and reaching a projected population of six million, did not materialise.
The reality was that it was a shrinking not global city − a frontier town not a new East-West omphalos, or as Uwe Rada in The Barbarian East (2000) puts it: more 'a crazy mixture of Detroit and Lodz' than New York or London. For while it lost its industrial base − which had been weak and outdated in the East, inefficient and heavily subsidised in the West − the expected new service metropolis, taking up the slack in providing jobs, did not emerge. Meanwhile the city near-bankrupted itself on mega-projects, and bailing out a public banking consortium involved in dodgy property deals.
Hans Kollhoff's severely banal neo-Prussian Beisheim Center on Potsdamer Platz
What followed were neo-liberal lite policies to shore up city finances: selling and offloading assets, including the botched privatisation of the Berlin Water Company, traced by Ross Beveridge and Matthias Naumann. Meanwhile processes of gentrification, analysed by Matthias Bernt and Andrej Holm, continued to spiral out clockwise from Prenzlauer Berg across the boroughs of central Berlin, gradually becoming the nexus not just of internal, national migration but international immigration. This phenomenon in the city, of individual initiative, people taking advantage of cheap space and low costs of living, has, rather than any grands projets, been the process that, by making Berlin a magnet for the young, has transformed it into a global centre: but one for electronic music, art and digital start-ups. It is an image, both crystallised and given traction by the phrase: 'poor but sexy', coined by the mayor, Klaus Wowereit, in a television interview in 2004. A prescient model perhaps for how austerity in a city can be turned to advantage: from one that suffered it a good decade before the rest of Europe.
This image of a city that developed: of youth, digital start-up, club and party culture, does indeed echo an earlier model, but that of the liberal 'Babylon on the Spree' model of the Weimar years: one of the pleasure and creative capitals of the world.
But the final section of the book, Berlin Contested, explores the flip-side of this: the blow-back from botched city finances, social fragmentation and rising inequality. Most prominent has been the recent rise in mass protests, expressing public discontent at the selling off of public land for new developments that are only now breaking ground, although often resulting from property deals wrapped up years ago. One of the most prominent of these protests − discussed by Jan Dohnke in Spree Riverbanks for Everyone! (2013) − was the 'Sink Mediaspree!' campaign which partly succeeded in blocking a scheme for mixed-use development which had tried crudely to cash in, both on the 'creative Berlin' brand, but also on a prime riverbank site adjacent to the line of the Berlin Wall that had remained undeveloped.
These big developments in Berlin remain fairly few and far between compared with the property deals and speculation continually transforming London, but they signify far more prominently on the urban landscape of the city, whose USP has been the vast tracts of liminal, empty space even at its centre, spaces that speak both of history but have for the last decades also seemed to offer a literal metaphor for the city's openness, and potential to new arrivals.
They are now gradually disappearing under generally mediocre new buildings. And meanwhile tellingly, Berliners appear increasingly to be getting more disillusioned with their city. This is a trend identified by Johannes Novy in Berlin Does Not Love You (2013), its title, coming from the message on stickers that appeared suddenly across the city in 2011, seemed to symbolise the alienation and anger of people, with a city for which previously there has been an almost sentimental identification − with it commonly embodied as the bear of the city's crest. Thus while an earlier cartoon in the book, shows a cuddly version of this bear − the city − crucified on the back of dodgy property deals, now it is the city itself that is perceived as implicit to such deals − not protecting, but actively cutting across the interests of its citizens.
This book underlines how, while Berlin may for a time have gained the moniker of 'hippest city on the planet', it seems to have become less lovable and liveable for many of those who live there.
The Berlin Reader, A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism
Editors: Matthias Bernt, Britta Grell and Andrej Holm
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
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Inside the 'AN0M' bust: How fake encrypted app sting saw 4,000 cops sweep through the underworld arresting more than 100 and seizing a trove of 3.77 tonnes of drugs, $45 million in cash, guns and GODFATHER memorabilia
Huge AFP bust has seen 4,000 cops storm Australia's underworld overnight
In the nation's biggest ever police bust, 224 people have been arrested
Cops used world-leading tech to bust criminals' encrypted message systems
But Mail can reveal mission was almost compromised by a tech geek blogger
Ninja Warrior star Sopiea Kong was arrested after 154g of meth was seized
Bachelorette star Samuel Minkin was charged with possession of cannabis
Former Bandito bikie Benjamin Joseph Thornton was arrested and denied bail
Police charged 224 alleged offenders and shut down six clandestine laboratories
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By Alana Mazzoni and Daniel Piotrowski and Kylie Stevens For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 20:08 EST, 7 June 2021 | Updated: 11:10 EST, 8 June 2021
Australia's biggest ever police bust has seen not only seen the arrests of the Who's Who of the global criminal underworld, but yielded an extraordinary haul of 3.77 tonnes of drugs, $45 million in cash, guns, luxury cars, motorbikes and watches.
The country's Federal Police released pictures of the wealth, firepower and even taste in gangster movies of those arrested during sweeping raids across the country, the U.S., Britain and wider Europe after the alleged criminals were covertly monitored for three years using an encrypted communication app called 'AN0M'.
They allegedly used the app, secretly developed by the FBI, to message each other around the world, unaware everything they said and did was being intercepted by FBI special agents and the Australian Federal Police.
The app gained currency in the underworld after being promoted by drug kingpins such as Australia's most wanted man, Hakan Ayik, after first being distributed by police informants.
Through the covert operation, detectives allegedly uncovered 21 murder plots, gun distribution and mass drug trafficking, with mafia bosses, bikies, and reality TV stars arrested and charged.
A luxury Ducati motorcycle, Audi sedan, Rolex watches, ammunition, bullet-proof vests, firearms and even memorabilia from the 1972 cult classic The Godfather was seized from a number of properties.
Senior investigators allege '100 per cent' of telephone conversations intercepted on the devices were all business and in relation to criminal activity.
But the Daily Mail can reveal the entire elaborate sting was placed in jeopardy in late March, when an anonymous blogger sounded the alarm, labelling the platform a 'scam' which rerouted peoples' data through to the United States.
The bust exposed new details about how one of Australia's most wanted fugitives gave police extensive access to the world's criminal underworld
Among the items seized by the AFP was memorabilia from the 1972 cult classic The Godfather
Australia's biggest ever police bust has seen 3.77 tonnes of drugs, $45 million in cash, guns, luxury cars, motorcycles and watches pictured) seized
Ninja Warrior 2017 contestant Sopiea Kong was among those arrested. The 33-year-old was charged last week following a raid at a Kangaroo Point home, where police allegedly seized 154g of meth
An anonymous tech geek posted a blog in March, titled 'AN0M ENCRYPTED SCAM EXPOSED', placing the mission into jeopardy
Blogger 'canyouguess67' posted a chilling warning to users of the AN0M app on March 29, warning people: 'STAY AWAY .... IF YOU VALUE YOUR PRIVACY & SAFETY'
An anonymous blogger known only as 'canyouguess67' posted an article warning users to keep off ANOM for their 'own safety', Daily Mail Australia can reveal.
'STAY AWAY FROM ANOM IF YOU VALUE YOUR PRIVACY AND SAFETY,' the blogger wrote in an article, which has since been pulled down.
'THEY ARE COMPROMISED, LIARS AND YOUR DATA IS RUNNING VIA USA'. The hacker added that law enforcement agencies had been tipped off.
However, it seems few alleged criminals in the sights of law enforcement did a cursory Google search into the 'encrypted' phone and app platform.
The Australian Federal Police announced on Tuesday that it had seized 3.7 tonnes of drugs, 104 weapons and almost $45million in cash as part of the operation - which was three years in the making.
The alleged offenders are linked to the Australian-based Italian mafia - known as the Ndrangheta - as well as outlaw motorcycle gangs, Asian crime syndicates and Albanian organised crime figures.
Police have charged 224 alleged offenders with 525 charges, shut down six clandestine laboratories and acted on 21 threats to kill, including saving a family of five.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the AFP operation, known as Operation Ironside, had struck a 'heavy blow' against organised crime.
'The operation puts Australia at the forefront of the fight against criminals who peddle in human misery and ultimately, it will keep our communities and Australians safe,' he said on Tuesday.
'Illicit drug use ruins lives and fuels organised crime.'
AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw said federal agents had been in the 'back pockets' of criminals through the encryption app.
'The FBI had the lead on this. We provided the technical capability to decrypt those messages,' he said.
'Some of the best ideas come over a couple of beers.'
Ninja Warrior 2017 contestant Sopiea Kong was among those arrested. The 33-year-old was charged last week following a raid at a Kangaroo Point home, where police allegedly seized 154g of meth.
Police have charged 224 alleged offenders with 525 charges, shut down six clandestine laboratories and acted on 21 threats to kill
Pictured: one man accused of participating in the syndicate sits on his bed after being raided by AFP officers
A luxury Audi sedan seized by the AFP as part of their joint investigation with the U.S. FBI
The bust exposed new details about how one of Australia's most wanted fugitives gave police extensive access to the world's criminal underworld. Pictured: one man being arrested by AFP officers
A tradie is seen kneeling with his hands tied behind his back after being arrested following raids
A luxury Ducati motorcycle was among the hundreds of items seized by AFP officers during raids as part of Operation Ironside
Kong, who was also allegedly in possession of $2,030 cash and a revolver, was granted bail and will appear in court on June 28.
Former Bachelorette star Samuel Minkin, who appeared on Becky and Elly Miles' season of the dating show, was charged with possessing a large commercial quantity of cannabis after police stopped a van in Byron Bay last month.
Former Bandito bikie Benjamin Joseph Thornton, 31, was arrested after police seized two mobile phones and a small quantity of cocaine. He was denied bail and will reappear in court next week.
The bust exposed new details about how one of Australia's most wanted fugitives gave police extensive access to the world's criminal underworld.
Drug kingpin and Comancheros bikie associate Hakan Ayik has spent the last decade on the run from Australian authorities after fleeing the country in 2010.
Now living in Turkey, he was tricked into distributing messages to his criminal associates around the world via encrypted communications app AN0M, unaware it was being run by FBI special agents.
Three years ago, Australia Federal Police identified Ayik as a key influencer to successfully distribute the encrypted AN0M devices due to his high status in the criminal underworld.
REVEALED: The truth about AN0M, secret FBI spy app used by the Australian Federal Police
On its glitzy website, the 'ANoM' phone looks like any new tech innovation with sleek black lines, 'invite only' exclusivity and a pledge to 'enforce your right to privacy'.
But its best feature - and for most of its users, the worst - wasn't promoted in its marketing material.
The phone, which supposedly allowed encrypted communications safe from the eyes of the law, was actually a cunning trap laid for a who's who of organised crime.
The Australian Federal Police on Tuesday revealed a breathtaking three-year tech ploy which led to 4,000 police executing 525 search warrants.
'Enforce your right to privacy': This is how the ANoM website advertised its product - with users not realising that law enforcement officials could read each and every message
Senior bikies and mafia figures were tricked into buying hi-tech phones that would supposedly let them messages one another, free of police snooping.
But the ANoM phones were actually designed by the FBI and allowed Australian police to read the texts of organised crime figures.
Police watched in real time as alleged crooks spilled their secrets to one another on their own app.
Some 21 execution plots were foiled and drug and gun smuggling networks dismantled.
Some 224 people have been arrested, $44,934,457 in cash seized, as well as 104 weapons, 3.7 tonnes of drugs and multi-million dollar assets.
Alleged crooks even paid six-monthly subscription fees to the police - the money only further reinforcing law enforcement methods.
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Police have charged 224 alleged offenders with 525 charges, shut down six clandestine laboratories and acted on 21 threats to kill, including saving a family of five. Pictured: weapons seized by detectives
Australia's world-first Assistance and Access Act passed in 2018 allows intelligence agencies to require tech companies to hand over encrypted messages. Pictured: ammunition seized by police
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the AFP operation, known as Operation Ironside, had struck a 'heavy blow' against criminals
Hakan Ayik (pictured) gave police extensive access to the world's criminal underworld through encrypted communications app AN0M
They sat back and secretly intercepted millions of messages sent as unsuspecting associates openly stated their plans including plots to kill, importing drugs and identifying those who could help them with their criminal enterprises.
Senior investigators describe Ayik as the 'principal distributor of the AN0M handset.' who didn't just distribute the devices among associates but also profited from the sales.
'It's like having The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) sponsoring your gym. This is a high-value criminal sponsoring a criminal communications system,' Australian Federal Police Superintendent Jared Taggart told News Corp papers.
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'It's just pure revenue, it's a bit like selling Amway for him. His good name goes behind it, he gets some … fees, there's a cut from the selling of the handsets.'
'He's (Ayik) essentially leveraged his position of trust in the underworld to push this platform and that's what generated its success. His associates would readily take his word for it,' an AFP investigator added.
Then known as Joseph Hakan Ayik, the Sydney bikie associate and gym junkie fled Australia in 2010 to avoid arrest over a $230 million heroin importation.
Ayik, subbed one of the world's most prolific drug-smuggling masterminds, was later detained in Cyprus but then escaped and fled to Turkey, where he has created a new life.
He invested his proceeds of crime in hotel and resort developments while living a lavish lifestyle that extended to flashy cars and private yachts.
His Dutch wife, hair transplant business owner Fleur Messelink publicly flaunted the couple's elaborate lifestyle on Instagram until this week.
How did the AN0M scam work?
Users could buy phone handsets costing between $1,500 and $2,500 from what has been described as underground distributors.
The phones were stripped down - they couldn't even make calls, access the internet or send emails.
What did do was send encrypted messages, photos and videos, using a foreign SIM card to apparently avoid Australian data snooping laws.
Crooks could buy a six month subscription to use the app - the funds raised unknowingly redirected to the police.
The app was invitation-only as of Tuesday morning - before the page was sensationally taken down and replaced with a warning by the FBI
Anom's Twitter account claimed the company was based in the famously neutral nation of Switzerland
The app was accessed by entering a PIN number into the phone's calculator, the stuff of spy dramas.
ANoM's website, which was only deleted about 10am on Tuesday, made the technology sound bulletproof.
The company was apparently based in famously neutral Switzerland and boasted of 'military grade encrypt and sanitise'.
For its encryption, it claimed to use 'OMEMO Double Ratchet Algorithm ... independently audited by Dutch security research group Radically Open Security'.
That may have been an in-joke - as all the supposedly self-destructing messages sent on the app was radically open to the Australian Federal Police to read.
Former Bachelorette star Samuel Minkin, who appeared on Becky and Elly Miles' season of the dating show, was charged with possessing a large commercial quantity of cannabis after police stopped a van in Byron Bay last month
Hakan Ayik (pictured) was tricked into distributing messages to criminal associates
Hakan Ayik has spent the last decade living a lavish lifestyle in Turkey. He's pictured with wife Fleur Messelink on their wedding day
Hakan Ayik (pictured) has been on the run from Australian authorities since 2010
Ayik is wanted in several countries, including Australia, where he is listed as one of NSW's most wanted criminals.
An Interpol red notice has also been for Ayik's arrest, who remains on the run from authorities.
AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw said the alleged syndicate included 'some of the most dangerous criminals to Australia'.
'We allege they are members of outlaw motorcycle gangs, Australian Mafia, Asian crime syndicates and serious and organised crime groups,' he told reporters on Tuesday.
'We allege they've been trafficking illicit drugs into Australia at an industrial scale.
'Sadly, criminal gangs are targeting Australia because it is one of the most profitable countries in the world to sell drugs, and for three years, this operation has been overt.'
Mr Kershaw said detectives have arrested the alleged 'King makers' behind the alleged crimes, prevented mass shootings in suburbs and 'frustrated serious and organised crime by seizing their ill-gotten wealth'.
'And these figures are likely to increase over the coming days. Collectively, these alleged offenders are facing jail terms that could run into hundreds of years and some of the charges they are facing carry life imprisonment,' he said.
An Interpol red notice has also been for Ayik's arrest, who remains on the run from authorities. Pictured: ammunition seized by authorities
Operation Ironside foiled 21 murder plots and seized more than three tonnes of drugs, $35.8 million in cash, 72 firearms and 1650 devices with the encrypted app
The app AN0M was installed on mobile phones that were stripped of other capability. The mobile phones, which were bought on the black market, could not make calls or send emails.
It could only send messages to another device that had the organised crime app. Criminals needed to know a criminal to get a device.
The devices organically circulated and grew in popularity among criminals, who were confident of the legitimacy of the app because high-profile organised crime figures vouched for its integrity.
'These criminal influencers put the AFP in the back pocket of hundreds of alleged offenders,' Mr Kershaw said.
'Essentially, they have handcuffed each other by endorsing and trusting AN0M and openly communicating on it – not knowing we were watching the entire time.'
Mr Kershaw said detectives witnessed associates 'turning on each other' and doing business behind each other's backs.
'There's no doubt going to be some tension within the whole system about who owes what drug debt and so on. So that was pretty brazen to see that they were actually disloyal to their own groups,' he said.
More arrests are expected domestically and offshore under a coordinated global response connected to Operation Ironside.
The AFP is also likely to seek extradition requests of a number of persons of interest living overseas. It comes as there have been tonnes of drugs and hundreds of arrests overseas.
'I have a message for the criminals targeting Australia and Australia's interests - the AFP will be relentless,' Mr Kershaw said.
Samuel Minkin, 28, appeared in court last week after allegedly being busted by cops
The AFP is also likely to seek extradition requests of a number of persons of interest living overseas. It comes as there have been tonnes of drugs and hundreds of arrests overseas. Pictured: items seized by the AFP
More arrests are expected domestically and offshore under a coordinated global response connected to Operation Ironside. Pictured: one of hundreds of arrests
'We will outsmart you. We will be a step ahead. Operation Ironside is just the beginning and the AFP is living up to our maximum of keeping Australians safe.'
New Zealand authorities have also arrested 35 people for alleged drug dealing and money laundering, seizing some $NZ3.7 million ($A3.4 million) in assets.
Only five per cent of encrypted messages sent by criminals in Australia use the Anom platform - but Mr Morrison said suspects will now be living in fear ahead of further sting operations.
'It is our intention that they are looking over their shoulder,' he said.
'We're bearing down upon them. But you know, this isn't over. This is a long way from over.'
Australia's world-first Assistance and Access Act passed in 2018 allows intelligence agencies to require tech companies to hand over encrypted messages.
Mr Morrison said the AFP's covert mission was 'seeking to frustrate [the alleged criminals] in every link of the chain'.
'And it is our intention that they are looking over their shoulder, because our law enforcement agencies and the partnerships we have around the world are bearing down upon them,' he said.
'That's what we're doing. We're bearing down upon them. But you know, this isn't over. This is a long way from over.'
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Zeunerts är ett bryggeri som i sin moderna form grundades 1993 i Sollefteå, men som räknar sina anor tillbaka till det 1857 grundade Sollefteå Bryggeri (SOBRA), vars gamla lokaler togs över av Zeunerts. Namnet Zeunerts kommer från bryggeriets förste tyske bryggmästare, Christoffer August Zeunert, född i Bayern 1824, som 1859-1865 arbetade vid bryggeriet i Sollefteå.

Historik
Sollefteå Bryggeri köptes 1966 av Wårby Bryggerier, som ägdes av Kooperativa förbundet. 1989 köpte Spendrups hela KF:s bryggeriverksamhet och efter två år lades bryggeriet i Sollefteå ner. Vissa av bryggeriets varumärken, inte minst Norrlands Guld, behölls dock av Spendrups.

Bryggeriet kunde senare återuppstå sedan personalen och ett antal lokala intressenter köpt bryggerianläggningen av Spendrups, men det dröjde till 1993 innan man fick igång någon tillverkning, bland annat med hjälp av Fors Nya Bryggeri. Det nya namnet blev Zeunerts Bryggeri.

Efter att Zeunerts fick ekonomiska problem i början av 2000-talet, lade Kopparbergs Bryggeri hösten 2000 ett bud på företaget, som då var börsnoterat på Göteborgslistan. Zeunerts är numera dotterbolag till Kopparberg under namnet Zeunerts i Norrland AB.

Produkter
Zeunerts julmust fanns redan under SOBRA:s tid, men var efter Spendrups uppköp borta från butikerna under många år.

Under 1990-talet och början av 2000-talet har Zeunerts tagit ett flertal medaljer i öl-VM, bland annat en guldmedalj för Zeunerts Pils samt en guldmedalj i kategorin lager för Zeunerts original 2004.

Zeunerts gör även en lagrad julmust och påskmust som kommer tillbaka varje år i respektive högtid.

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In a few days Microsoft will be releasing the latest iteration of its data platform, SQL Server 2008 R2. R2 will provide customers with a trusted and scalable platform that can increase IT and developer efficiency and deliver expanded reporting and analytics through self-service business intelligence. SQL Server 2008 R2 also introduces two new premium editions; Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (formerly codenamed "Madison").
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· PowerPivot (formerly codenamed "Gemini")
PowerPivot gives the users the power to create and manage self-service business intelligence solutions.
- PowerPivot for SharePoint adds shared services and infrastructure for loading, querying, and managing PowerPivot workbooks that you publish to a SharePoint 2010 server or farm.
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· Data -Tier Applications
A data-tier application (DAC) forms a single unit which contains the database schema and some server level objects required by the database in order to support an application. This simplifies the development, deployment, and management of the data-tier objects that support a multi-tier or client-server application
· Application and Multi-Server Administration
SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces the SQL Server Utility, which forms a central repository for centralized management and consolidation of data-tier applications and instances of SQL Server that have been enrolled in the utility.
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For more information on R2 see the following links:
MSDN: SQL Server 2008 R2
SQL Server 2008 R2


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The indictments were announced by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as part of the ongoing probe by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The indictment says that the Russians hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
The Russians are also accused of releasing stolen Clinton campaign emails on the internet in the months before the election.
Here is the indictment that was filed in Washington D.C.


Home » Self Care – Build your Neural Language to understand your Body.
This is probably the most exciting journey you can ever go on – that is….
Once you get to decode your own 'neural' language.
I was teaching a student. Giving her cues and clues to using her voice better. I asked – where does the voice come from. Her answer was text book perfect….from the throat; and the mouth forms the shape of the sound.
However, in observing her, her voice didn't connect with her words. The sound was not clear or fluid.
She was actually unaware of what her mind was telling her.
I needed a way to make her connect with her faulty sense so that she could then experience how her brain/neural talk tells her what's real.
So I did a little experiment with her.
I asked her to extend her arm and hold it there.
Then I asked what was keeping her arm up.
She replied – her arm muscles.
I suggested that she now think of her arm as an extension of and connecting to her back.
Then I asked her what did that do for her.
She was intrigued! Her arm felt less heavy!
The only thing different was that she suddenly 'got' the direct neural path!
She knew 'knowingly' her own true neural expression, her neuro-physical precision.
Result: it was much less effort, less intensity, more relief!
Her next find is her true neuro-vocal sound. Uncovering the resonance that lies dormant until she 'languages' it!
Imagine 'knowingly' knowing the whole of you! How much easier it would be.
Want to journey with me? If you have already done one, a refresher is ok too.. As one of my students quoted….success is not the destination, it IS the journey!


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Q: Hex converter help - Python I have this code that converts binary to hex
##  The Input part

l = raw_input('Input 8-bit number: ')
j = list(l)

##  Value Error part

t = [int(x) for x in j]
if len(t) != 8 or len([n for n in t if n not in (1, 0)]) != 0:
  raise ValueError('NOT 1 OR 0, or NOT CORRECT LENGTH')

##  The Conversion part

a = l[0]
b = l[1]
c = l[2]
d = l[3]
e = l[4]
f = l[5]
g = l[6]
h = l[7]

p = a+b+c+d
q = e+f+g+h

y = hex(int(p, 2))[2:]
z = hex(int(q, 2))[2:]

##  The Results part

print
print 'Results'
print 'Binary: ',l
print 'Hex: ',y+z

my whole conversion part is insanely long because whenever i try to convert a number that has 0000 in front of it it doesnt print the 0 and i need it to print the 0 is there a way to do this without doing the long process

A: If I understand you correctly, you want to print out a 2-digit hex number that is gotten from the binary input l. You can do that as follows:
print 'Hex: ', hex(int(l, 2))[2:].zfill(2)

A: Skip all that coding.
First off, try hex(): http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#hex
Then, check out format(): http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#format

A: print "%02x" % int(raw_input("Enter a number in binary: "), 2)

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Artemis Home / Insights / Blog / Saving for College and Changes to FAFSA Under COVID Relief Bill
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Saving for College and Changes to FAFSA Under COVID Relief Bill
By Kathleen McQuiggan
Colleges and universities charge an average tuition of $26,820 per year for a public four-year in-state college, and $54,880 per year for a private four-year college, according to a Fidelity study, College Savings and Student Debt. (And closer to $80,000 if you are thinking Ivy League.) After a tough year dealing with the COVID pandemic, four in ten college bound high school seniors now rate cost as the most important factor when asked about choosing where and how to pursue their education.
With college costs so high, most families turn to federal aid, which requires filling out a FAFSA form (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). Last December, the COVID Relief Bill was passed, which included several important changes to the FAFSA application; changes which could significantly impact the financial aid you or your child are eligible for.
FAFSA Changes Under COVID Relief Bill
Although changes to FAFSA do not go into effect until the 2024-25 school year, the 2022 tax-year will be the first tax year impacted (since FAFSA info is based on two years prior tax filings).
For reference, federal financial aid determinations are made using the following formula:
Cost of Attendance (COA) – Expected Family Contribution (EFC) = Demonstrated Need. And, although FAFSA is a needs-based federal program, colleges and universities also reference it when determining merit awards. The formula for non-needs-based aid is as follows:
Cost of Attendance (COA) − Financial Aid Awarded So Far* = Eligibility for Non-need-based Aid
With this in mind, here are the four most important changes to the FAFSA you should be aware of:
Change #1: Expected Family Contribution (EFC) has been renamed to the Student Aid Index (SAI).
This change was enacted to dispel confusion caused by the term Expected Family Contribution (EFC). Understandably so, families assumed that the EFC was the amount they were expected to pay, when in reality it was simply a measure of a family's financial health. Since each college and university has their own financial aid policy, the EFC was simply used as a signal to these colleges by which they could then determine their own financial aid offering. The goal of this name change to SAI is to create a better reflection on the true cost of college. The formula to calculate the SAI is basically unchanged.
Change #2: If you are divorced, the parent who provides the most financial support will complete the FAFSA application.
In prior years, the parent who had physical custody of the child was expected to fill out the FAFSA application. Under the new rule, it is the parent who provides the most financial support that is expected to fill out the FAFSA application. In scenarios where the parents provide equal financial support, the parent with the greater income is responsible for completing the FAFSA.
Change #3: Benefit is Reduced for Parents of Multiple College Students
While the previous EFC calculation divided the parent assessment by the number of family members in college, the new calculation does not. This will significantly impact high and middle-income families who have multiple children in college at the same time. For low-income families with an SAI of zero, however, there will be no effect.
Change #4: Financial support from others, such as grandparents, aunts and uncles, or friends, will no longer be considered income to the student
In an attempt to simplify the FAFSA application to encourage more families to apply, the Department of Education has reduced the number of questions from 108 to less than 40. One of the questions to be eliminated asks about cash gifts from grandparents (and anyone else outside of the custodial household).
This is good news for grandparents and other relatives who are interested in leaving an educational legacy while also reaping the tax and estate-planning benefits these plans offer. That's because under the old rules, distributions from these 529 accounts were factored into a student's "total income" when calculating need-based aid, reducing a student's aid eligibility by up to 50%!
Saving for Your Child's Education
At Artemis, we often encourage parents to make sure their children have a little skin in the game for college. But for those that have intentions of paying the full cost of college, we recommend you aim to have about 75-80% of the total cost of college funded in 529's saved by the time the child graduates high school. Utilizing a 529 plan can help you save and grow your money tax deferred. And, with the recent (BIG) change to how 529 distributions are viewed, whether you are a grandparent, or a PANK ® (Professional Aunt No Kids) like me, you can now contribute to a loved one's education without the financial aid hit of the past.
College is expensive. There is no way around it. But education is an important investment in a child's future. By planning ahead and utilizing 529 plans, you can ensure you are financially prepared when it comes time to sign the tuition check. After all, that day will be here sooner than you think!
Finally, if you're looking to dig in and learn more about saving for your child's future education, I recommend Ron Lieber's newest book, The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make.
*includes aid from all sources, such as the school, private scholarship providers, etc
Kathleen McQuiggan
Kathleen is a Partner and Wealth Advisor at Artemis Financial Advisors LLC. She has 30+ years of experience in the financial services industry. Her specialties include the financial planning needs of women and employing sustainable investing approaches. She considers herself a financial ally, helping clients develop strategic wealth plans.
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I've not been an avid reader of Bruce Warila - but I like what I do read. Now Bruce has enunciated (almost) exactly my thinking on the best way to "give away" your music. This is a brilliant and very important post. Read it carefully - and read his earlier ones that lead to this one.
It has always frustrated the crap out of me to hear promotions people - who usually have nothing at stake - advising musos to "just give it all away" in a desperate bid to gain attention. To my thinking, this ignores the nature of purchase behaviour and the fan relationship. It also assumes that revenue can be picked up by performing live and ignores the harsh reality that it costs a lot of money to tour but giving recordings away reduces the revenue available to bands/acts that might be used to fund a tour. It also effectively kills the prospects for an act that cannot tour (like movie soundtracks, musos with day jobs, and so on).
Jonathon Coulton follows this approach.
I have had the idea of multiple versions and encouraging fan remixes since before 2004, the time this blog began - though I lack the time and resources to effectively implement the strategy. I'm also not so keen on the idea of hacking endings off or appending messages. But the most important thing here is the recognition that people who want your music for free are going to go get it anyway, and that these people are NOT your fans.


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UK weather: Heatwave continues across southeast England, with milder temperatures in north and Scotland
Clea Skopeliti
8 August 2020, 3:57 am ·3-min read
The scorching heatwave is set to continue across southeast England, while northern parts of the UK experience milder temperatures.
There could be a significant 20C difference between parts of Scotland and southeast England, according to the Met Office.
The heatwave has the potential to be be exceptionally hot and long-lasting — unlike last Friday's one-day high of 37C, the sweltering weather is set to continue throughout the weekend and into the start of next week.
However, Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England will see considerably cooler temperatures, with temperatures falling to as low as 6C in parts of Scotland. Following overnight showers in some parts of the country, clear skies are expected across much of the UK on Saturday.
Wales, central and southern England should prepare for another scorching day. The maximum temperature expected today is 35C, slightly lower than yesterday due to cloud cover in parts of central and southern England, while the northwest should see the best of the day's sunshine despite lower temperatures.
Despite temperatures in the single digits in some parts of northern Scotland, average temperatures should linger around a balmy 22C.
The heat will continue overnight, with Saturday night expected to be another close one, though showers are likely across the southeast.
Sunday promises to be another mostly dry day across most of the country, with some possibility of showers in parts of central and northeast England. Cloudy skies are expected early on Sunday morning in parts of northeast England, but should clear as the day goes on. The best of the sunshine is expected to be in the northwest.
Sunny skies could across the southern parts of the country, with some cloud cover expected in western England. Once again, temperatures are expected to hover around average for most of the country, while the southeast basks in low to mid-30C warmth.
Sunday's maximum temperature is expected to be 35C and is most likely to be in the London area.
The heat will extend beyond the south from Monday. While the southeast can expect to start the week with another exceptionally hot day, the rest of the UK should have a pleasantly warm summer's day.
However, the heat is likely to boil over at the start of the week, resulting in severe thunderstorms. The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across the whole of the UK on Monday and Tuesday, with showers and storms expected before dawn on Monday.
⚠ Yellow Warning issued ⚠
Thunderstorms are expected across the UK on Monday and Tuesday
Details are still uncertain, but where thunderstorms develop they could be torrential
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Details remain uncertain about the locations of storms and the Met Office added that it may issue another warning for Wednesday.
The Met Office has advised people to stay cool in the sweltering heat, and watch out for vulnerable people who may experience the temperatures more intensely. Everyone is advised to wear sun-cream and drink plenty of water.
England sees hottest August day for 17 years ahead of weekend heatwave


Queen Ethelburga's College in York is one of top boarding schools in England. Originally founded in 1912, Queen Ethelburga's is a traditional English boarding school boasting contemporary interiors, modern facilities and extremely comfortable accommodation.
Over the last few years the college have invested £65m in new facilities, including the construction of a new 25m swimming pool. Not wanting to stop there, they have just ordered a Colorado Time Systems touchpad timing system along with a 12.7mm LED Video screen to show live results and video footage during competitions.


A recent wave of attacks on Jews in Brooklyn led to concern about rising antisemitism. Seven synagogues and Jewish schools were targeted by arson in the fall of this year and there were at least six physical attacks on Jews in October and November. This comes amid a larger trend of assaults on Jews, particularly those who appear Orthodox, with some suspects shouting "fake Jew" as they beat the men. Yet some have attempted to downplay the attacks, asserting that it's not really antisemitism.
An article in The Forward claimed, "Jews are being targeted, say residents of these communities, by members of non-white ethnic groups who see Jews as symbols of gentrification in their neighborhoods." According to the article, local non-Jews, unsurprisingly, don't see the attacks as antisemitic.
Across the Atlantic Ocean in the UK, Muslim communities and activists held an event to inaugurate a report on "Islamophobia Defined." The report sought to create a definition for Islamophobia.
THIS PHENOMENON was encapsulated in comments by the Women's March activist Linda Sarsour in 2016 where she had said that anti-semitism is different than racism against black people or Islamophobia.
There is an increasing attempt to portray Jews as "white" in order to excuse hatred of them in Western countries. These are the same countries where only a bit over a half century ago, Jews were subjected to genocide specifically for not being white. Now, as being "white" is considered a negative stereotype in Western countries, Jews have been increasingly described as white.
In this formulation, not only have Jews turned into "white Jews," but antisemitism is excused as merely a form of anti-gentrification, just as we heard in the beginning of this discussion with regard to attacks in Brooklyn. In additions Jews are accused of profiting from the "slave trade" and being "white supremacists." In a sense Jews become a stand in for every crime of white supremacy. This isn't an argument based on the concept that Jews are "white passing" and sometimes benefit from white privilege, but an attempt to single out Jews are particularly responsible for slavery and white supremacy.
Part of this racial discussion also dovetails with another toxic form of hate crime in which Jews are attacked as "fake Jews" in the US. In a case on a B train in New York, a Jewish man was accosted by an African American who asked if he was Jewish. When he said "Yes," the other man said, "Blacks are Jews, man. I'm a real Jew, you're an impostor." The "fake Jews" accusation showed up at a rally in May in Washington, DC. Council member Elissa Silverman was called a "fake Jew" and Jews were called "termites." The "termites" term was also used by Farrakhan in October.
The attempt to deracinate Jews from their minority status and to take them away from their Middle Eastern roots and classify them as "white" is a part of a larger agenda. The agenda is not confined to claiming Jews benefit from "white privilege" in the US. If that were the sole agenda, then one could say the same thing for Turkish-Americans or Arab-Americans. Instead, the agenda is to make being Jewish a form of "whiteness," while make being Muslim not only a minority religion, like Judaism, but a racial minority, like African-Americans. A Jewish American who converts to Islam immediately becomes a victim of racism and Islamophobia. His appearance didn't change, but how racialized politics and intersectionality classifies people did change.
ACCORDING TO the definition of Islamophobia that has been put forth in the UK, the hatred of Muslims is partly directed at them for the religious clothing they might wear, which is used to "other" them – for instance, the wearing of hijab. Discriminating against someone who wears a beard or hijab is seen as a form of racism. So why isn't it also a form of racism for a man to beat and attack an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn? Because of an agenda put forth increasingly in some media, among some activists and others that seeks to differentiate and excuse attacks on Jews.
Let's say you accept the theory behind the "Jews are white" activists. If they are white, then why are their synagogues burned, their graves smashed, swastikas painted on their houses, doors, dorm rooms and places of worship? If they are just "white," then one would expect swastikas to appear as randomly on other places of worship and for the graves of other groups to be smashed as regularly.
In 2016, more than half of religious hate crimes in America were against Jews. In the UK, there were 672 attacks on Jews from May 2017 to April 2018 and 2,965 attacks on Muslims defined as hate crimes. That's four times more attacks on Muslims, but there are 10 times as many Muslims in the UK. So Jews are more likely to be a target.
One could see this as an example of the commonality between Jews and Muslims, both of whom are victims. But increasingly, especially in the US, there is an attempt to excuse antisemitism under a racialized lens that denies Jews their diversity and history. The new form of anti-Jewish hatred is being born in the West's toxic environment of racialized discussions.


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004 | How to Cultivate Communities and Build Authentic Relationships Online with Akansha Agrawal
In this episode, I interview Akansha Agrawal - founder of the online wellness community, Citrus + Gold. After years of working in the corporate world in many great positions at LinkedIn, Akansha made the leap to follow her passion project full-time.
As she went full-steam ahead to work on building her business and audience, Akansha has learned a great deal about building authentic online communities. She has built an authentic and engaged community on Instagram and Facebook. In fact, Akansha grew her Facebook Group, C+G Girl Gang to 500 people in less than 6 months! Akansha covers the strategies she used to grow her Facebook Group and why maintaining authenticity is so important to the success of her business.
Authenticity is crucial to any online community today. People are more sensitive to "fake" or inauthentic brands, businesses and people. If they sense authenticity, they won't buy into what you're talking about. Akansha covers how to avoid that and exactly how to maintain real relationships with your audience and community.
We also chat about how Akansha's business is growing and changing. Akansha polls her audience from time to time to understand what they want to know more about. She kept getting feedback from her community that they wanted to learn more about how to build brands and run businesses. Because of this, Akansha has been expanding the Citrus + Gold brand to include creative strategy and coaching. She already has a growing Facebook Community called, "Passion to Profit."
How did Citrus & Gold come about?
What was your vision originally?
Was community a part of your strategy from the start?
How did you deal with that uncertainty of entrepreneurship?
What do you do to nurture your online communities?
How do you know the difference between authenticity and inauthenticity?
In the context of business… why are authentic relationships + trust so important?
I think we are holding entrepreneurs more accountable in 2018 than ever before… why do you think this is happening on the internet / social media?
What advice would you give to someone who is growing a brand / biz in 2018? How do they build a heart-centered biz that is truly authentic?
Why build authentic relationships & trust online even if you don't have a brand or business yet?
How to deal with the uncertainty of entrepreneurship
Tips for nurturing and building authentic online communities
The importance of authentic online relationships in 2018
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God does play dice
Einstein said that God does not play dice.
In Einstein's view, the golfer may be uncertain where the ball will end up; but this is because of a lack of knowledge.
Stephen Hsu, of the University of Oregon in Eugene, now says that "not only does God play dice with the universe but, if he did not, the complex universe we see around us would not exist at all. We owe everything to randomness." Universe explained by quantum randomness
Supporters of Hsu might argue that God chooses to be uncertain where the ball will end up.
God may feel that the created world needs an element of randomness, for it to be a real created world.
Alfred Russel Wallace and Indonesia
I gaped and wondered how all this had come about. When Mother Nature began her work, was the resulting jungle a mixture of the random and the non-random? In other words, was it all an accident, or did God play some limited part, or did God follow a blueprint designed in heaven and get everything perfect?
"Have you read about Wallace and Darwin and natural selection?" I asked Rahayu.
"I have. Wallace spent time in Indonesia. He helped produce the theory of natural selection."
"The idea that the butterfly with the best camouflage is the one most likely to survive," I said, vaguely remembering lessons on evolution. "Or that in Africa, giraffes developed because the longest necked creatures could reach the highest up leaves on the trees."
"Creatures are continually taking on new forms," said Rahayu.
"Is it random?" I asked. "Is it all an accident? Is the scary appearance of the spider the result of random change? Is the neat shape of the ferns just an accident?"
"Natural selection is non-random," said Rahayu, without elaborating.
There followed another period of silence. I began to consider the question of whether or not there was any divine intervention in the creation of the beautiful butterfly's wing?
"Do you think God plays a part in all this?" I asked. "I mean, is it true, as they say, that God's fingerprints are all over the universe?"
"God's fingerprints?" Rahayu had apparently not heard the phrase before.
"Well, let's imagine you are playing poker and keep on winning. That's because you get good cards and because you apply your brains. But, is the fact that you keep on getting all the aces because the angels are on your side?"
"Scientists would say that if there are an infinite number of universes, then someone is bound, some day, to get all the aces."
Our path seemed to be curving and taking us back towards Cipanas.
"I was thinking of artists," I said. "Is the world like a painting? Let's imagine the painter has an idea of what he wants. He starts applying his brush to the canvas. The paint goes all over the place. Now, is the finished painting partly something that was planned, and partly the result of chance?" My goodness, the heat of the jungle was doing funny things to my poor brain. Maybe I should go back to the hotel and have a nice cup of tea, and a lie down, and stop worrying about things that were beyond me.
"You mean the artist is like God," said Rahayu, "but can we be sure the artist exists?"
"You're not sure?"
"I'm a Buddhist," said Rahayu. "The Dharma, the law of nature, is the only solid thing we can be sure of."
"I don't understand. We can be sure that trees exist."
"The trees, and your body, are made up of subatomic particles and empty space. You probably know the subatomic particles are not really solid. They exist for only a trillionth of a second."
"I didn't know."
"The particles continuously arise and then vanish. They come in and out of existence. The trees have no real being."
"They look solid to me." I stretched out my hand to touch a branch.
"That's because you can't see what's really happening."
"What about spiders? What about all the suffering in nature?" I asked. I was thinking of Marni and thalassaemia.
"Suffering is not due to chance. There are causes. Our actions are the cause of suffering."
"Isn't it possible," I said "that everything has come about by chance?"
"No. Mind precedes all phenomena. Everything is mind-made."
"When a baby dies, or an insect is swallowed up, could it just be bad luck?"
"Everything must have a cause," said Rahayu.
"But what about when a baby dies? How can you say its actions are the cause of its suffering?"
"Karma. The baby's previous life. People who cause pain to other living things experience a lot of sickness. There's a path leading to happiness and one that leads to suffering."
We turned a corner, and were suddenly returned to civilisation. Rahayu shook my hand and set off to the nearby boarding house where he said his girlfriend awaited him. I was not sure that I had been enlightened. I should have asked Rahayu more about this Dharma.
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I have been researching reusable menstrual products lately. Mostly I've been looking into reusable pads.
"If you menstruate 340 times in your lifetime, using 20 disposables per period, that amounts to 6800 pads or tampons thrown away. Now consider all the women using disposables in the world. If 500 million women use disposables throughout their lifetime, that's 3.4 trillion pads or tampons thrown away! Not only is landfill space taken up, but these materials cannot be reused and are no longer part of the resources available to us.
Then, of course, there's all that packaging, (wrappers, boxes, applicators) that are also thrown away, all the garbage bags used, all the diesel fuel used to truck those products to the stores week in and week out. Using GladRags for even a portion of your cycle makes a difference!"
Don't get me wrong, I still use disposable menstrual products regularly, but after reading this I'm going to try to switch over to reusable products.
What about you? Would you ever consider using reusable pads?


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Michael Bublé, a crooner and a crack up, who knew…
Stephen Lavoie / February 6, 2015
Pleasantly surprised to have a few laughs at a concert. And I'm not talking about laughing at a pathetic performance or being amused by some foolish fans but rather a comedic talent at a professional level. On more than one occasion, the sold out crowd erupted with laughter, and not just giggles, people really were laughing. Very entertaining show…
Interestingly, there were moments, usually within a few minutes of each other, when he'd bring the crowd to the opposite end of the spectrum, with a heartfelt edition of a classic, many on the edge of tears. I found the polarity of this striking.
There was also a mixture of age groups, yes most were over 50 and some needed assistance on all those stairs, but also in attendance, were plenty of 20 somethings, great to see different generations of folks coming together enjoying a concert.
And yes there was singing, and singing done well. most of the time anyway. I admired the fact, that at the beginning of the show he explained his concert premise. The actual songs performed may not perfectly match a CD, you could just listen at home for that, but it'll but something more, he was there to spend time with the crowd, using the analogy of going on a first date.
Looking to share more of an experience not just a concert, he promised everyone would have fun, fortunately he delivered. Dressed to the nines, and singing exceedingly well on many of the tracks, which were mostly all covers, only 2 or 3 out of 26 or so were original songs.
The lengthy set-list was admirable to see, most artists these days, don't go over 20 songs. Maybe a little shaky on a Journey track, "Don't stop Believin'," but no lack lustre when he busted out with Fever at the start of the show, after his entrance sliding down a ramp.
He even joked later, asking the crowd if they enjoyed the expensive fire effect in the opening, he said you paid good money to see the show, and we'll give you special stuff like that, but that's about it; there goes the budget, just blew our load right there. Many of the jokes had sexual connotations, which made some of the fans uncomfortable, including myself, and some who missed it, the comments went right over their heads.
Interesting song choices, yes; you'd expect Frank Sinatra, but not the Bee Gee's "How can I Mend a Brocken Heart," then into "Everybody", by the Backstreet Boys, a pop song. Duping the crowd into believing it was his grand-parents wedding song, again the crowd burst into laughter when the song began, which could even be heard over the band.
And there was plenty of instruments on stage, a small orchestra which sounded fan-tas-tic. They also included other special effects, confetti cannons during "All you need is Love" by the Beatles and an elevated portion of the stage which lifted him, maybe close to 30 feet in the air towards the end of the show.
Which by the way he ended the last few lines without the use of a microphone. I've seen this technique before from Pat Monahan of Train. You have to have a huge voice to even attempt it, especially in an over 12,000 seat arena! It's a bit nuts if you think about it, but he pulled it off for the most part. One half of the crowd, literally said "schhh" to the other half; who were letting out excited cheers, but overwhelming his voice, which when the crowd was quiet, you could still hear from afar
All this combined made it a show worth watching, an outstanding cast of backing musicians, the stage production, a well thought out video presentation with various large LCD panels expertly located, candid comedic conversation.
Going in, a little skeptical, but found a outstanding live performer, something that cannot be captured on a recorded version of any song, whether on 8-track tape or the latest high quality digital file. At a relatively early age, he's acquired the admiration of many, he's a special character, keep an eye on this man.
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" Former government leaders vehemently rejected suggestions in a report that they were pulling the strings behind a suspected meltdown cover-up when the Fukushima nuclear disaster was unfolding in 2011.
The report, compiled by an investigation panel commissioned by Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the crippled nuclear power plant, said Masataka Shimizu, who was TEPCO president at the time of the accident, instructed employees not to use the term "meltdown," leading to a delay in the official announcement.
But the report also implied that Shimizu was acting on orders from high up in the government.
Yukio Edano, who was chief Cabinet secretary of the Democratic Party of Japan-led government when the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered the nuclear crisis on March 11, 2011, described the report as preposterous.
"As far as I know, it is unthinkable for government officials back then to ask TEPCO to do such a thing," Edano, now the secretary-general of the opposition Democratic Party, told reporters on June 16.
"It is utterly irresponsible for the panel to say that it did not uncover that (Shimizu) was instructed by who and what," he said.
TEPCO declared the meltdown at three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 plant in May 2011, two months after it occurred.
According to the report, Shimizu entered the chief Cabinet secretary's office, which is located at the prime minister's office building, by himself on March 13, 2011. The following day, Sakae Muto, vice president of TEPCO, explained the conditions of the reactors at the plant.
During the news conference, Shimizu handed a memo to Muto through a TEPCO public relations official, telling him not to use the word "meltdown" on the instructions of the prime minister's office, according to the panel.
Naoto Kan, who was prime minister at the time of the disaster, denied giving the instruction to TEPCO.
"I myself have never given directions to TEPCO not to use the expression 'meltdown,'" Kan, a member of the Democratic Party, said in a statement.
One reason for the lack of clarity in the report is that Shimizu, who was interviewed twice for a total of four hours, said, "I do not remember very well" with regard to who gave what instructions.
The panel interviewed about 60 former and current TEPCO officials but no government officials and bureaucrats who were involved in dealing with the crisis.
"Our authority to investigate is limited, and it is difficult (to uncover the entire truth) in such a short time," said Yasuhisa Tanaka, the lawyer who headed the investigation.
Tanaka and another panel member, Zenzo Sasaki, a former prosecutor at the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, were also in charge of the third-party investigation into the accident conducted in 2013.
The findings by the latest panel showed TEPCO officials looking into the nuclear disaster were aware of Shimizu's order not to use "meltdown," but TEPCO's in-house investigation team did not include it in its report in 2012, apparently believing it was not significant enough to mention.
The revelation that Shimizu ordered the avoidance of "meltdown" fueled feelings of distrust toward TEPCO among local governments hosting TEPCO nuclear power plants.
"We are still in this stage of the investigation even five years after the accident," said Toshitsuna Watanabe, mayor of Okuma, which co-hosts the crippled Fukushima plant.
Hirohiko Izumida, governor of Niigata Prefecture, home to TEPCO's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, called for a further investigation to reveal the whole picture of the Fukushima disaster.
The latest panel was established in March at the request of the Niigata prefectural government's technology committee, which aims to determine why TEPCO waited until May 2011 to announce the triple meltdown.
TEPCO initially said it did not have the criteria for defining and determining a meltdown.
" Was Tokyo Electric Power Co. (now Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.) putting top priority on ensuring the safety of residents around its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant when the accident occurred? The findings of a recent probe have raised doubts even about this.
A third-party panel of lawyers set up by TEPCO released a report on why it took as long as two months after the crisis for the utility to acknowledge that the reactors had melted down.
On March 14, 2011, three days after the accident occurred following the massive earthquake and tsunami, then TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu instructed a then executive vice president during a press conference "not to use" the word "meltdown," according to the report. The message was delivered via a public relations staffer, citing instructions from the Prime Minister's Office, the report said.
Subsequently, TEPCO used the description "core damage" in connection with the accident. "The nuclear power plant and the head office shared a recognition that they should refrain from using 'meltdown,'" the report pointed out.
Then Prime Minister Naoto Kan and then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano have completely denied issuing such instructions on their own.
At the time of the accident, many politicians, bureaucrats and others concerned were working at the Prime Minister's Office. The third-party probe failed to identify who gave the instructions to Shimizu.
This shows the limitations that the third-party panel faced as it probed the accident based only on interviews it conducted with TEPCO officials. Furthermore, Shimizu's memories of those days were vague.
However, the probe revealed that TEPCO was paying too much attention to the Prime Minister's Office's intentions in responding to the accident.
When a nuclear power plant is hit by a serious accident, residents living around the facility face severe consequences. It is the primary responsibility of the plant operator to respond appropriately.
In such a situation, the highest priority should be placed on the safety of local residents. The operator must accurately provide local governments and residents with precise and necessary information regarding the situation the power plant is facing.
TEPCO chose to use "core damage," an expression that made the status of the accident unclear, instead of "meltdown," even though "meltdown" would have clearly shown the severity of the developments the Fukushima plant was dealing with. The operator cannot avoid criticism for having betrayed local residents with this decision. This kind of stance taken by the utility has caused increasing distrust of nuclear power plants.
At the time of the accident, TEPCO had internal manuals that described what constituted a meltdown. The operator must seriously reflect on why it failed to follow these guidelines.
When it came to public relations announcements at the time of the accident, the investigation committees set up by the government and the Diet both pointed out that the Prime Minister's Office had some involvement.
An official at the then Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry was replaced after referring to a "meltdown" during a press conference. TEPCO was told by the Prime Minister's Office to brief it in advance of any announcements made at press conferences, according to the latest report.
Read the Economic Times' article on an injunction to keep two reactors at Kansai Electric's Takahama nuclear power plant closed.
" TOKYO: An outside investigation team appointed by the operator of Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday that an instruction from the company's then-president to avoid using the term "meltdown" delayed the full disclosure of the status of three reactors.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. described the condition of the three reactors as less serious "core damage" for two months after a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami destroyed the plant.
The panel of three TEPCO-commissioned lawyers said the company used the milder term despite knowing that the damage far exceeded its meaning, because of the instructions by then-President Masataka Shimizu. The report said he was apparently under pressure from the Prime Minister's Office, but that the panel did not find direct evidence of that.
TEPCO reported to the authorities on March 14, 2011, that the damage, based on a computer simulation, involved 25 to 55 percent of the fuel but did not say it constituted a "meltdown," the report said. The company's internal manual defined a "meltdown" as a core condition with damage exceeding 5 percent of the fuel.
In May 2011, TEPCO finally used the description after another computer simulation showed fuel in one reactor had almost entirely melted and fallen to the bottom of the primary containment chamber, and that the two other reactor cores had melted significantly.
TEPCO has been accused of softening its language to cover up the seriousness of the disaster. But the investigation found TEPCO's delayed acknowledgement did not break any law.
In the 70-page report, the lawyers said Shimizu instructed his deputy not to use the word "meltdown" during news conferences immediately after the crisis when officials were peppered with questions about the reactor conditions. TEPCO's vice president at the time, Sakae Muto, had used the phrase "possibility of meltdown" until March 14, 2011.
Yasuhisa Tanaka, the lawyer who headed the investigation, said interviews of 70 former and current TEPCO officials, including Muto and Shimizu, showed that Muto had planned to use the word "meltdown" until he saw the memo, which has since not been found.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Japan's nuclear regulatory unit at the time of the accident, was also reluctant to use the word. Two spokesmen were replaced between March 12 and 13, 2011, after suggesting meltdowns had occurred.
Government and parliamentary investigations have suggested officials, seeking to play down the severity of the Fukushima Dai-ichi crisis, resisted using the term. Tanaka said his investigation, which did not interview government officials, could not track down what exactly happened between Shimizu and the Prime Minister's Office.
The Prime Minister's Office has denied putting any pressure on TEPCO and the safety agency over language. But previous investigations of the accident show it demanded they coordinate with the office and unify approaches before making any announcement.
TEPCO has said the delay in confirming the meltdown didn't affect the company's emergency response at the plant. Although the reactors have been stabilized significantly, the company is still struggling with the plant's decades-long decommissioning.
Read SimplyInfo's article (with photos) on the latest developments on the ice wall at Fukushima No. 1.


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Green Savings Bond: What Is It and Where Does the Money Go?
By Richard Howard
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At the March 2021 Budget the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced the creation of a Green Savings Bond. This savings product would be available to UK savers via NS&I (National Savings and Investment), the same organisation which offers Premium Bonds, and whose proceeds will be used to support green investment in the UK
In summary, the Green Savings Bond allows UK savers to receive a stable rate of return whilst ensuring their money is put towards 'green' projects and initiatives – see below for a list of areas which are considered green.
Green Savings Bond – Headline Numbers
In the October 2021 Budget the Chancellor elaborated on his previous announcement and NS&I gave further details about the details of the Green Savings Bond [1,2,3]:
Type: Fixed (i.e. you are unable to access your money for three years)
Interest rate: 0.65%
Min deposit: £100
Max deposit: £100,000
Date of interest payments: When the product matures (i.e. after 3 years)
Tax free: No (due when product matures, if required)
Risk: Very low (NS&I guarantees 100% of your savings)
How will the money be used?
The UK Government released the "Green Financing Framework" in June 2021 to introduce the rules surrounding where revenue raised via the Green Savings Bonds as well as the Green Sovereign Debt ('Green Gilts') can be spent [4].
The main draw of the Green Savings Bond is the fact that they will support green initiatives. Unlike other existing green bonds and financing, the revenue raised by the Green Savings Bonds does not have to fund a specific project (e.g. a wind farm). In fact they can take the form of "direct or indirect investment expenditures, subsidies, or tax foregone".
Basically the revenue can be used by the government to help fund green schemes and initiatives (e.g. the Renewable Heating Incentive or sustainable research and development) as well as specific green projects (e.g. tree planting etc.). The UK government can even allocate up to 50% of the revenue to offset expenditures 1 year prior to issuance. i.e. they can use it to help fund the previous year's budget.
It can be argued that investments in initiatives are better than just investing in individual projects since they have the ability to provide returns that are greater than the sum of the money invested. For example, investment in research and development may lead to new technologies and methods which accelerate us towards a zero carbon future.
However, the UK Government has already committed funding to many of these projects via traditional means. So if the Green Savings Bond's revenue just supplants existing funding then there will be less benefit than if the revenue provides additional funds.
Where will the money be used?
The schemes, initiatives, and physical projects funded by the revenue raised by the Green Savings Bond fall into six categories, known as Eligible Green Expenditures.
Clean Transportation
Low and zero emission mobility
Renewable energy generation – wind, solar, hydrogen
Renewable heat use – heat networks, heat pumps, hydrogen heating
R&D for commercialising renewable energy technologies
Energy efficiency programs in the commercial, public and industrial sectors
Residential energy efficiency programmes – heating, retrofit and insulation
Pollution Prevention and Control
Reduction of air emissions and greenhouse gas control
Waste prevention, reduction, recycling, and emission-efficient waste-to-energy
Living and Natural Resources
Protection and enhancement of terrestrial and marine biodiversity, ecosystems and natural capital
Sustainable land use and protection
Clean water, water storage, and wastewater system
Data-driven climate monitoring
Technical consultancy dedicated to climate change adaptation
What will be excluded?
Although the UK Government believes that nuclear energy will play its part in getting to Net Zero, it has not included it in the list of Eligible Green Expenditures. The Government will continue to fund nuclear [5,6,7] but it will not be via this mechanism.
There are also four other broad exclusions to ensure no revenue will support:
Vehicles powered by fossil fuels or ethanol
Fossil fuel exploration and exploitation
Large hydroelectricity power schemes (>25MW, i.e. schemes that risk damaging ecosystems)
Weapons, tobacco, gaming, palm oil, or alcoholic beverage manufacture
Furthermore, any projects which fall foul of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights will also be excluded.
How will Eligible Green Expenditures be selected?
The UK Treasury will lead the evaluation and analysis of potential projects and initiatives. This will be done in consultation with other government departments. The Treasury will compile lists of potential expenditures and present them to a cross-government group of representatives, the Inter-departmental Green Bond Board (IDGBB). The IDGBB will meet twice a year to aid on project selection and evaluation. It will also advise on updating any the rules, frameworks and guidelines. Ultimately, however, the power resides with HM Treasury, who chairs the IDGBB and with whom final decision-making lies.
Conclusion – Green Savings Bond
On the face of it the Green Savings Bond is a relatively secure and simple way to support the UK Government's green ambition. It offers a one stop shop in which to invest is a range of different schemes all looking to improve our environment. However, as we have repeatably commented upon defining what is and what is not green takes a bit of time and forethought.
HM Treasury, 2021, Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021
NS&I, 2021, Green Saving
NS&I, 2021, Green Savings Bonds
HM Treasury, 2021, UK Government Green Financing Framework
GOV.UK, 2021, Future funding for nuclear plants
World Nuclear New, 2021, UK government adopts new financing model for nuclear projects
New Civil Engineer, 2021, Government sets aside £1.7bn for Sizewell C nuclear plant
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