Parkinson's Disease is newly diagnosed in over 50,000 Americans every year. It can be a startling diagnosis to receive. There is a lot to know about the disease and many different treatment options.
Parkinson's Disease is the 2nd most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's Disease. It is a progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement. Certain nerve cells (neurons) in the brain breakdown or die. Some of these neurons produce a chemical messenger called Dopamine. The loss of dopamine in the brain is what causes the issues with movement.
Parkinson's effects seven million people globally; one million in the U.S alone. It usually effects men around mid-life, age 60.
What are some causes of Parkinson's Disease?
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Gretchen Carlson Gives First Interview Since Filing Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Fox News CEO Roger Ailes
"I wanted to stand up for other women."
By Mehera Bonner
Former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson is suing Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment, saying Ailes allegedly fired her after she rebuffed his sexual advances. Now, days after her lawyer Nancy Erika Smith's candid interview with Marie Claire, she's speaking out for the first time.
"I just wanted to stand up for myself, first and foremost," Carlson tells The New York Times. "And I wanted to stand up for other women who maybe faced similar circumstances."
Carlson says that she and Ailes met "between six to 10" times to discuss her claims of harassment, and he spent that time, well, harassing her. "I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago, and then you'd be good and better, and I'd be good and better," Ailes allegedly told her.
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Carlson reportedly asked Ailes for more work at Fox in a series of handwritten notes, which has some questioning the legitimacy of her claims. But when asked why she was seeking work while being harassed, Carlson explained: "I think it's hard when you've been a victim—you keep thinking things are going to get better."
Carlson's integrity has been called into question by former colleagues (who she notes are "still being paid by Fox"), but at the end of the day, she isn't filing this lawsuit for vindication—or even money. She's filing "to stand up for what happened to me and what was the truth."
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Grosjean: P8. Magnussen: P16. Haas' qualifying results in Singapore were nothing if not stark, with Romain Grosjean narrowly missing out on being the leading midfield contender, while Kevin Magnussen found himself out of Q1 for only the second time this season.
Although Magnussen lost out on a place in Q2 by just 0.03s, Grosjean's own Q1 time saw him finish the segment in an incredible fourth place and, more tellingly, nearly a second quicker than his team mate. And the Dane had no answers to explain away the gulf in time between the two Haas VF18s.
"One second, it's a light year," said Magnussen frankly, after failing to claw his way out of Q1 for the second time at a street circuit this season, the first having been at Monaco. "I don't think anything special happened. We just don't have the pace this weekend.
Were there any crumbs of comfort to be had for Magnussen? Well, Grosjean reckoned he would have been the fastest midfield runner in qualifying – ahead of Force India's Sergio Perez, who ultimately beat him to seventh place – had he not had an oversteer moment at Turn 21, which he estimated cost him three-tenths. So the pace is there for Haas – but will Magnussen be able to unlock it and repeat his swashbuckling drive from 2017, which saw him overtake a number of cars on the notoriously tight Singapore track?


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Kymab Implements Genedata Biologics for High-throughput Antibody Discovery
Genedata Biologics™ integrated workflow platform used to increase automation of Kymab's transgenic mice-based discovery platforms
Basel, Switzerland, November 17, 2015
Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that Kymab Ltd. has licensed Genedata Biologics™ for use in their proprietary antibody discovery programs. The platform will support biopharma R&D operations from early B-cell and hybridoma screening, to antibody engineering, expression, purification, and analytics.
"Genedata Biologics is the leading workflow platform for high-throughput antibody discovery. Having access to this platform is expected to enhance Kymab's capabilities across all our research programs," said Glenn A. Friedrich, PhD, Chief Operating Officer at Kymab Ltd. "Thanks to Genedata's flexible business model, we are able to take advantage of Genedata's unique technology under terms that work well for a company of our size."
Kymab uses Genedata Biologics for their screening platform to deeply mine the proprietary Kymouse™ antibody repertoire and to identify candidate-quality molecules with exceptionally broad diversity and the quality of fully human antibodies.
"Genedata Biologics makes the antibody discovery and optimization process more efficient. The platform's open architecture allows us to flexibly configure the system to work with Kymab's proprietary workflows and technologies, including our transgenic mouse platform," said David Melvin, PhD, Director of Informatics at Kymab. "We are building our screening, expression, purification, and analytics workflows on the Genedata Biologics platform, which we believe will lead to an increase in throughput and automation."
"We are delighted that Kymab, a leader in the development of transgenic mouse platforms, is now also taking advantage of the Genedata Biologics platform to further their antibody discovery programs. We see a rapidly growing number of smaller, highly innovative biotech companies like Kymab, who require an integrated workflow platform to manage and streamline their increasingly complex antibody discovery processes," said Dr. Othmar Pfannes, Chief Executive Officer of Genedata. "We look forward to continue to partner with the best biopharma R&D organizations worldwide."
In the four short years since its first release in 2011, Genedata Biologics has been rapidly adopted by almost half of the world's leading biopharmaceutical companies. Genedata's collaborations range from single group installations to large, global, multi-site partnerships and include technology transfer, customizations, project management, training, and roll out and deployment support.
About Genedata
Genedata transforms data into intelligence with a portfolio of advanced software solutions, which make research data accessible and understandable and research processes more efficient. These solutions are used worldwide by leading pharmaceutical, industrial, and agricultural biotechnology companies as well as academic research organizations. Genedata innovations enable scientific discovery that fights disease and improves health and quality of life worldwide. Founded in 1997, Genedata is headquartered in Switzerland, and has offices in Germany, Japan, and the US.
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In 2019, Microsoft probed Bill Gates over 'romantic affair' with employee
Microsoft Corporation says it conducted an investigation into an alleged affair between Bill Gates, its co-founder, and an employee of the company.
The company said in 2019 it received information of Gates' involvement with the employee which commenced over two decades ago.
It said Gates was about to commence a romantic relationship with the employee when the company's board launched a "thorough investigation" into the allegation.
In a statement, Microsoft said an external law firm was engaged to probe the allegation but the investigation was not completed because Gates had stepped down during the period.
"Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000," the statement said.
"A committee of the Board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm, to conduct a thorough investigation. Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern."
In reaction, a spokesperson for Gates said the co-founder's decision to leave the board had nothing to do with the romantic involvement with an employee.
"There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably," she said.
The spokesperson added that Gates' "decision to transition off the board was in no way related to this matter".
This revelation became public days after Gates and Melinda, his wife, announced their divorce after 27 years together as a couple.
According to some media reports, the split may not be unconnected with Gates' relationship with Jeffrey Epstein who pleaded guilty to sex trafficking case in 2008.
Epstein had committed suicide in prison two months before his trial on federal charges related to sex trafficking.
In October 2019, the New York Times reported that Gates met with Epstein several times, and once stayed at his New York townhouse.
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Senate Training accessed a CBILS-backed loan through NPIF
Specialist social impact lender, GC Business Finance (GCBF), has provided Senate Training with a CBILS-backed loan through NPIF – BFS & MSIF Microfinance, which is part of the Northern Powerhouse Fund.
Alsager-based Senate Training was established 20 years ago by husband and wife Paul Keeling and Janet Keeling. The business operates a Global Security Operations Centre with 24-hour a day CCTV monitoring and alarm receiving for large premises such as corporate buildings, privately owned citey centre areas and shopping centres. The firm also provides bespoke training for emergency incident management and business continuity, as well as risk consultancy services to protect businesses against crime, protests and terrorism.
The current lockdown measures imposed by Government have forced the training and consultancy arms of the business to pause for the foreseeable future. The NPIF loan using CBILS backing provided by alternative finance provider GC Business Finance has allowed the Senate Global Security Operations Centre to remain open, meaning clients' CCTV is still under surveillance and 15 members of staff are still working.
The funding will also support the company's efforts to diversify its offering to include online training, as it looks to develop virtual classrooms. This could potentially allow for Paul and his team to open back up their training revenue stream in what would typically have been their busiest time, April through November.
Paul Keeling, CEO at Senate Training, said: "Our business has been adversely impacted by the crisis, with the current lockdown measures meaning that two significant revenue streams have suddenly dried up. However, we still have a duty of care to protect our clients from existing and evolving threats, so it was imperative that our Security Operations Centre continued to operate on a 24/7 basis.
"Matt and the Team at GC Business Finance had a refreshingly different approach to the methods used typically by High Street Banks. They gave consideration to exactly how we had been affected by the Conronavirus crisis and focused on understanding our business and its potential. The facility provided by them will help us to navigate this extremely challenging period, and support innovation in terms of the design and launch of a portfolio of digital learning products."
Matt Robinson, Fund Manager at GC Business Finance, said: "Senate Training is a reputable business with impressive scale, and we are proud to support Paul and his team at a time of dire need. GC Business Finance is committed to helping companies in the North West that have felt the impact of the coronavirus, and we would encourage business owners to consider applying for funding if they require financial support during these unprecedented times."
Sue Barnard, Senior Manager at British Business Bank said: "In the current climate, it is essential that funds are deployed as quickly and efficiently as possible to ensure the safety of so many impacted businesses. It's encouraging to see GC Business Finance complete yet another NPIF loan backed by CBILS , and we hope this funding will make a huge difference to Senate Training in these difficult times."
Clare Hayward MBE DL, Chair of Cheshire and Warrington LEP said: "It's fantastic to see Senate Training adapting their business to deal with the current challenges Covid-19 presents. The government schemes are a new form of finance and the LEP would urge all businesses to explore their eligibility, using services like the Business Growth Hub. Gaining an NPIF loan backed by CBILS is testament to the work of Paul, Janet and the rest of the team and will ensure they can continue successfully and be in the best possible position moving forward."
GCBF is committed to supporting North West-based SMEs, providing CBILS loans to those that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus. This scheme builds upon GCBF's existing range of loans across the alternative finance market, including Microfinance from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, as well as Start Up Loans on behalf of British Business Bank. GCBF is positioned to lend to businesses that otherwise couldn't access funding from mainstream lenders in a fast and responsible approach to lending.
CBILS provides facilities of up to £5m for smaller businesses who are experiencing lost or deferred revenues, leading to disruptions to their cashflow. Delivered by the British Business Bank, through 40+ accredited lenders and partners, CBILS will support the continued provision of finance to UK smaller businesses during the Covid-19 outbreak.
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund project is supported financially by the European Union using funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020 and the European Investment Bank.


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At the Camarillo Family Y, we are proud to teach students of all ages not only how to be safe in the water, but thrive in it. No matter the level of a student's comfort or experience, our instructors make swim lessons engaging, encouraging and fun by focusing on the tried-and-true methods that we've developed from teaching people around the world for more than a hundred years.


We had a wonderful trip to Japan thanks in large part to Yuji Sasaki who kept us on schedule during the two weeks.
So glad that you all made it back to the States safe and sound. Thank you so much for keeping us informed about your new experiences and adventures while in Japan. It sounds like you had an amazing time and I'm sure you represented McKendree University very well. Looking forward to hearing more about the trip this fall.


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You're probably tracking the visits to your restaurant website, to see how many people are coming and what they're doing on your site. There are a lot of platforms which help you do this, and often they provide so much complicated data that it is difficult to divine any real insight from the data.
Sure, you can see how many unique visitors arrived to your site. Or which pages are visited the most. But that other data just seems too complex to understand.
In this post, I'll show you three simple ways you can learn more from your Google Analytics data, to help you improve intelligence about where your restaurant's marketing efforts are succeeding and where they might need more work.
Google Analytics is a service that helps you track visits to your site. If you're not using Google Analytics, you're probably using another platform. Many of the terms and techniques I'll discuss are common to other services, but some are specific to Google Analytics.
Referral traffic is the term we use to describe any visitors that arrived to your site by clicking on a link on another page. Are you listed on Yelp or Trip Advisor? When a visitor clicks on a link to your site from those pages, it should show up as a "referer" in Google Analytics.
Keeping track of your best referrers can tell you a lot about where to put your efforts. Are you getting a ton of traffic from Yelp? Then make sure your listing there is kept up-to-date and be sure to engage customers leaving reviews there.
Not getting any traffic from Trip Advisor? Maybe it's time to re-invest there and encourage more of your customers to leave reviews. Or maybe it's just not the right site for you, and you know you can let it go.
Taking a look at your referrers is a great way to get a sense of where you're getting linked from. You might discover some unexpected places where you can improve your marketing efforts.
Want to look deeper at your referrals? Check out this tip on getting full referral URLs.
You probably run occasional marketing drives for your restaurant. Maybe it's a special 2-for-1 offer. Or maybe a big discount for large groups. You want to track how many visitors you've driven to your site from this special offer, but visitors might be coming from lots of different places: your Twitter or Facebook accounts, your Yelp description, maybe a local listing website or even an email sent out to many users.
To do this, you can use Google Analytic's campaigns system. You use it by simply appending a query string to the end of the link that you share.
The Source of this click is a "Plugin".
The Medium of this click is a "Plugin Description".
The Campaign of this click is "Food and Drink Menu".
That's a lot of useful information. Since I do this for all of my plugins, I can now see a great breakdown. I can see how many people are arriving from any of my plugins with the "Plugin" source. I can see how many people are arriving from my plugins' description (I have separate mediums for plugin documentation). And I can see how many are specific to my Food and Drink Menu plugin.
After that URL add a ? which the browser will interpret as a query string.
Let's add a "key/value" pair specifying our source. This link will come from our marketing efforts, so let's make it Marketing.
Ok, now we're ready to add another "key/value" pair. This link will be send in an email to our mailing list, so let's make it MailingList.
And finally, add another "key/value" pair specifying our campaign. Let's call this our AprilDiscount. (Don't forget the ampersand — &).
And there you go! Just post this link and you'll be able to track all the visits in your campaigns panel.
Now that we've drilled down into two methods for tracking specific sources in greater detail, let's step back and get a high-level view of our traffic. Go to Acquisition > All Traffic > Channels to view a breakdown of all of your traffic by channel, source and medium.
Take note of the different options that I demonstrate in the video above. You can view by Default Channel Grouping, which will show you a very high-level look at how many visitors come from search engines, how many from referrals, how many from social network sites, and so-on. This is great for understanding where the bulk of your traffic lies. Be sure to notice the percentages, which can make things a bit clearer than the raw numbers.
You can also view by Source/Medium which will show us any of the campaigns we've set up in the last section, as well as another level of specificity for search traffic and referrers.
Now you should have a good idea of how to pull useful intelligence from your Google Analytics data. Knowing how many people visit your site is nice, but it doesn't really tell you much about where you're succeeding and where you need to work harder.
If you take a look at the data described above and start using the campaigns feature, you should get a much better idea of how your marketing efforts are doing.


One of the most common questions patients ask Dr. Rashmi Ambewadikar, pediatric dentist at Astoria Smiles Pediatric Dentistry during their children's dental visits is "Why is my kid grinding his teeth at night? It's so loud while he's sleeping, it wakes me up!" Nighttime teeth grinding, also know as "bruxism" is a very common behavior. Most children that are experiencing bruxism will decrease this activity when their "6 year molars" begin to erupt around age 6 and stop between the ages of 9-12.
While there is no certain consensus on why this occurs, there are a few theories. One is that a child's bite is flexible and changing as they grow. Grinding is a subconscious attempt to compensate for these changes. Another theory is that grinding may be due to stress, as in adults, but that is more commonly noted in children of middle school age during school exams, changing of environments, and changes in family life.
Fortunately, most cases of nighttime bruxism do not require treatment since the habit will stop long before the permanent teeth can be affected, and pain or compromised esthetics due to grinding in the primary (baby) teeth rarely occurs. Dr. Rashmi Ambewadikar at Astoria Smiles Pediatric Dentistry will evaluate each patient at every dental checkup for signs if bruxism. Occasionally, severe bruxism cases and cases that do not stop naturally will require intervention in the form of a mouthguard to be worn at night to protect the permanent teeth.


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Knife raider threatened staff at Rea's in Lanark
Raider struck at Rea's Today, at Mansefield, in the Westport (Picture Sarah Peters)
Published: 17:46 Monday 20 February 2017
Staff and customers at a Lanark store were left shocked but unhurt after an armed robbery there on Sunday night.
Now a major police hunt is going on for the thief who, at around 9.05pm, entered Rea's Today store in the Westport armed with a knife.
He threatened staff with the blade before making off with a haul of cigarettes
He was last seen making off in the direction of Lanark High Street.
Police say that, at the time of the incident, there were two female members of staff, aged 18 and 22, within the shop as well as four customers.
Said a spokesman: "No-one was injured but the incident has upset those involved."
The thief is described as being white, male and of a slim build.
He was wearing dark coloured clothing at the time and had the hood of his jumper pulled tight around his head and face to try and conceal his identity.
Officers are still gathering CCTV footage for review in the hope that it provides additional information.
In charge of the investigation is Detective Constable Graham McAdam and he said on Monday:"This has been a frightening incident for those who were in the shop at the time.
"I am appealing to anyone who was in the area around the time of the incident to contact us.
"It's possible you saw the suspect either prior to, or following the crime, maybe you saw him run off towards Lanark town centre. If you have any information or knowledge, please do pass it on to police."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Wishaw Police Office via 101 or anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
After the incident, the shop's proprietor, well-known local businessman Wilson Rea said: "I'm just pleased that the staff members and customers weren't hurt. That's the most important thing.
"I understand that it wasn't a small knife that was used but what loked like a large kitchen one.
"Obviously, it is important to know where the thief went to after the robbery and the police are looking at various town centre premises' CCTV footage to find that out."
This robbery came just eight days after a female taxi driver was attacked and robbed after picking up two passengers in Lanark.


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The Warmbier Parents Try to Sue Kim Jong Un
The parents of Otto Warmbier — the 22-year-old University of Virginia student who died on June 19, 2017, after being released from North Korean captivity — sued the country on Thursday, claiming that they "brutally tortured and murdered" him, according to court documents provided to PEOPLE and made available online.
I ask you, what exactly does it mean when someone sues a small country that is hostile towards to US? What exactly is the expectation? What does a response look like. Well, it's going to look empty.
Welcome to world of the Kardashians and a bunch of media weird shit where people enter into actions that make no sense. Imagine this was your son. No I take that back, imagine your son was a marine serving the US. Now, if he was sent to a hostile land and into combat, our country will support him in combat with leadership and artillery as well as communication. If, and I mean god forbid, he is killed in action, this was an known and accepted risk undertaken on behalf of this country and freedom.
Where the Warmbier's fail is in their effort to sue a small hostile country in which their son sidestepped the US policy on visitation to North Korea by signing up to tour the region with a Chinese tour operator intentionally to gain access. So, unlike the above, he sought out this experience. Sadly the whole thing went wrong.
Suing North Korea is just a media stunt and it avoids a very real issue, Otto went and his parents feel guilty and bad. It was Otto's choice, he did it and the hostile country did what it does.
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Horror invades SXSW 2019
Published on March 8, 2019 at 12:32 am
SXSW 2019 is continuing the trend by shining a spotlight on films that feature evil doppelgängers, reanimated cats and even a sex demon, whatever that is.
Here is some of the best horror SXSW 2019 has to offer:
Directed by Jordan Peele
Premieres March 8
Arguably the most highly anticipated horror movie to premiere at the festival, "Us" is Jordan Peele's sophomore film effort right off the heels of his successful "Get Out." The new film follows a family as they head out to a summer home for some relaxing time in the sun. Unfortunately, their vacation goes south when an eerie group of doppelgängers begins to terrorize them. The film sports an incredible cast which includes Lupita Nyong'o ("12 Years a Slave," "Black Panther") and Elisabeth Moss ("The Handmaid's Tale"). The new horror film also continues Peele's effort to diversify the genre as it features a black family as the main protagonists.
Directed by Keola Racela
Quite possibly the strangest film featured in SXSW's 2019 horror lineup, "Porno" is the feature-film debut for Keola Racela. The film follows a group of movie theater employees who uncover long-lost secrets about their theater's erotic past. Obviously, this leads to a sex demon being released that gives the group "a taste of the dark side," according to the synopsis. The film features a slew of television actors and actresses including Robbie Tann ("Orange Is the New Black") and Jillian Mueller ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit").
Directed by Michael Chaves
Premieres March 15
Based on the Latin American urban legend of the same name, "The Curse of La Llorona" brings the terrifying child-drowner La Llorona to the big screen. Michael Chaves ("The Conjuring 3") directs the film, which follows a social worker and a single mom become intertwined within La Llorona's sinister agenda. The film stars Linda Cardellini ("Green Book," "Legally Blonde") and is produced by horror mastermind James Wan ("The Conjuring," "Aquaman").
"Tales from the Lodge"
Directed by Abigail Blackmore
Director Abigail Blackmore, with two short films under her belt, makes her feature-film debut with "Tales from the Lodge." The film follows a group of friends who head to a secluded lodge in order to spread the ashes of their late friend. While there, the group decides to tell a slew of scary stories, featuring creatures such as ghosts and zombies. Unbeknownst to them, the friends are actually the stars of their own scary story. The horror film features Mackenzie Crook ("Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest") and Laura Fraser ("Breaking Bad").
"I'm Just F*cking With You"
Directed by Adam Mason
"I'm Just F*cking With You" is the April Fool's entry in Blumhouse's Hulu series "Into the Dark," where each installment revolves around a particular holiday. Directed by Adam Mason, the story is set in a secluded motel where a man and his sister have to endure a plethora of frightening practical jokes. While the synopsis may seem vague, Blumhouse surely has a twisted treat up its sleeve. The film stars Keir O'Donnell ("American Sniper"), Hayes MacArthur ("She's Out of My League," "Super Troopers 2") and Jessica McNamee ("The Meg," "Battle of the Sexes").
Directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer
Closing out the annual film festival is the much-anticipated "Pet Sematary" remake. Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, the film follows the Creed family as they move to rural Maine to start anew. Unfortunately, their new home's listing forgot to mention the ancient burial ground deep within the woods on the property. The film features stars Jason Clarke ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Amy Seimetz ("Alien: Covenant") and John Lithgow ("Dexter," "Interstellar"). Sometimes dead is better.


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Crispy potato pancakes are topped with foie gras and apples for an extravagant hors d'oeuvre or first course.
1. Combine the sliced apples with simple syrup in a bowl and soak for 8 hours or overnight.
2. Add the apple trimmings to the demi-glace, bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain and keep warm.
3. Grate the potatoes, sweet apple and onion into the same bowl and gently stir in the parsley, egg and flour. Season with salt and pepper. Heat enough duck fat to measure about 1/2 inch deep in a large, heavy skillet. Form the potato-apple mixture into 12 pancakes. If the potatoes are too moist, add a little more flour. When the fat is hot, at about 375 degrees F, add as many pancakes to the pan as will comfortably fit without crowding, flattening them slightly after you put them in the pan. Cook the pancakes until browned and crispy on both sides, turning once. Remove with a slotted spatula, blot on paper towels and keep warm in a oven set at a low temperature. Discard fat and wipe out pan.
4. Heat a large skillet until very hot. Season the foie gras with salt and pepper and sauté until lightly browned and medium-rare inside, about 45 seconds per side.
5. Divide the pancakes among 6 plates. Top with apple slices, a foie gras medallion and chopped chives (if using). Spoon sauce around the dish and serve.


One of the birthstones for October, Tourmaline is called the 'gemstone of the rainbow' because it represents an array of colors that no other gemstone can compare with. An old Egyptian legend claims that on its long journey up from the center of the Earth, the tourmaline passed over a rainbow, and that is the reason for its wide variety of colors. Tourmaline truly suits all personalities and moods due to its vast color possibilities. Tourmalines are dynamic in their displaying color, but they are also very hard - claiming 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale - and this makes the stone a very lasting and particular favorite for jewelers and wearers alike. With all the wonderful attributes of the Tourmaline, it is no wonder that magical powers have been attributed to the stone since ancient times. Tourmaline is the gemstone of love and of friendship, and is said to render relationships firm and long-lasting.


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The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology is an international, peer-reviewed journal whose website features a staid font and splashes of orange. For a time it had an online doppelgänger– the Clinical Epidemiology Journal, whose website looked strikingly similar.
"When you'd go to the website, it looked exactly the same. They'd taken everything from ours to make it look legitimate," says Jessie McGowan, an adjunct professor with the School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Health at the University of Ottawa, who is a member of the journal's editorial board.
The main difference was that the second journal is what's known as a predatory journal, set up to collect fees from researchers desperate to publish. It would forgo the usual scientific review process reputable journals stand behind.
The sham was convincing: researchers were fooled by spam sent from the second journal inviting submissions, McGowan says, only to realize later they'd played into the hands of a fake.
The site has since shut down, taking the research with it.
When a researcher submits a study to a legitimate academic journal, it normally undergoes peer review, a process that can take up to six months or longer and involves careful reading by independent experts in the field. These reviewers may request further study or clarifications or may suggest rejecting the article altogether.
"The whole point of publishing is to make research decisions. We need to know if the information is true, whether the information is valid," McGowan says.
But when many legitimate academic journals moved to an open access model – providing readers with free online access to studies rather than charging hefty subscription fees – it spawned a new business model. Researchers were now asked to pay for their research to be published, sometimes with fees of $1,500 or more.
A cottage industry of unscrupulous but enterprising entrepreneurs soon emerged. Predatory publishers, as they're called, are defined as those who use an exploitative open access model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals.
Over the past decade, this has ballooned into a massive trade that some feel has fundamentally warped the academic publishing and peer review process. It has become increasingly difficult to tell real from fake.
"Experienced and inexperienced researchers are getting caught up in this," says David Moher, a senior scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program and director of the Centre for Journalology at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
A 2015 study in BMC Medical found that predatory journals published a whopping 420,000 papers in 2014, at an average cost of $178 per paper, with fees ranging from nearly $800 per article to as little as $83. The number of journals identified as predatory has exploded, growing from 1,800 titles in 2010 to more than 8,000 journals in 2014.
While the study found the vast majority of researchers falling prey to predatory journals are either from India, Asia or Africa, nearly one in five researchers were affiliated with institutions in Europe, North America or Australia.
In Moher's own hospital, a publications officer has tried to help more than 100 researchers who've inadvertently placed their work with a predatory journal or are trying to revoke a submission to one.
Since publications can influence hiring and tenure decisions, they can affect the quality of a researcher's credentials. Publicly funded research may also be lost to these journals, which are not indexed on sites like PubMed.
And while the aim of predatory journals is to turn a profit, these types of journals have been used to spread conspiracy theories, perpetuating myths about chem trails (a debunked theory about the vapour left by airplanes), for example.
Worse, patients may find themselves participating in trials that build on scientific findings that have not been rigorously assessed.
"The problem is it's been poisoned by this open access. Predatory publishers have realized that the more they publish, the more money they get paid," says Jeffrey Beall, a research librarian at the University of Colorado and an expert on predatory publishing.
Until recently, he kept what was considered the definitive list of predatory publishers and journals on a personal website, a project that began in 2009 with only 18 names and now lists more than 1,000. His criteria – including 48 elements of questionable practices around transparency and adherence to established scholarly review processes – allowed for "potential," "possible" or "probable" categorization.
The list was unexpectedly taken down earlier this week.
On his blog, Beall recently wrote about legitimate Canadian journals being bought up by predatory publishers, only to start cranking out unvetted papers.
Beall says many predatory publishers also trade on Canada's scientific reputation, listing their company addresses as somewhere in Canada to gain credibility, when in reality the publishers are located in other countries.
Peer review is not a perfect process. One need only follow the disastrous fallout of Andrew Wakefield's study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism to know that even legitimate journals sometimes fail to weed out junk science.
But predatory journals skip that step entirely, or offer a rushed or questionable review process.
Ottawa Citizen science reporter Tom Spears has chronicled his attempts to test the limit of what a predatory journal will publish, first concocting a paper that was one part geology, one part medicine, accompanied by a picture of Mars and a graph lifted from a Google search. He made up a university and claimed his research had been done in the Nepean desert – Nepean being an Ottawa suburb. Of the 18 journals who received it, half agreed within two days to publish it – just as soon as Spears' cheque cleared.
"I thought it was a one-shot story, maybe a couple days worth, then it would die down," he says.
But then Experimental & Clinical Cardiology, a legitimate Canadian journal, was sold and flipped on to new owners who were thought to be purveyors of poor science. Spears tested the new editors by submitting a plagiarized paper on HIV, having replaced "HIV" with "cardiac." When the journal asked for more details, he sent them a couple pages cribbed from a book about northern Italian landscapes circa 1850. Negotiations to appear in the once credible journal began at $1,200 US.
"Again, I thought that was it, but these clowns keep setting the bar lower and lower," says Spears.
Spears has watched predatory journals morph from grammatically poor websites to polished imitators to hosts of phony, money-grabbing academic conferences. Lately the scam involves "start up journals" asking established researchers to join their editorial boards, he says. Respected researchers then find it very difficult if not impossible to remove themselves from the mastheads of these dubious journals.
Last year, Spears joined the editorial board for the Journal of Applied Molecular Cell Biology at the invitation of Consortium Publishing of Saskatoon, which is affiliated with OMICS International of Hyderabad, a publisher with a long-standing place on Beall's list.
At their request, Spears sent a bio claiming he was a research chair in the phrenology of nematodes – an expert in the shape of a roundworm's head, in other words – at the esteemed Chateau Lafayette campus, a nod to The Laff, the oldest pub in Ottawa.
His editorial on "Scientific Communication in an Era of Progress," is a thinly-veiled attack on the journal itself, with special reference to the sucker fish, which reproduces at a rate of one every minute.
One way to shut down predatory journals would be to shut off the money flowing in for publication. And yet nearly a decade after these types of journals appeared on the scene, researchers are still sending their submissions.
Some academics are doing an end-run around academic publishing, Beall said, archiving their papers with pre-printing sites and then sharing them within their fields, skipping both peer review and publication altogether.
Almost everyone agrees that publish or perish is part of the problem.
"What you want, in general, is an incentive structure that rewards the right things, that rewards sharing data, that rewards being open about data, that rewards acknowledging error and that also rewards and reflects the incremental nature of science, as opposed to the 'every paper is a blockbuster' thing that we have now," says Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch, a site that reports on scientific integrity and fraud.
Beall says some American universities are moving away from a reliance on "bibliometrics," the statistical evaluation of a publication based on its impact, including the number of times it's cited and the impact factor of the journal in which its published. It too is a system that has been corrupted, partly because hiring committees lack the time to actually read publications, but also because of "citation stacking," or researchers collaborating to cite one another's work and artificially bump up their impact scores.
Instead, applicants are being asked to present only their top three publications, creating a more reasonable workload for tenure and evaluation committees to personally review for quality.
Moher and his team have developed guidelines for submissions and are undertaking an education campaign to keep researchers aware of the risks of predatory publishing and their responsibility to avoid it. They also recommend researchers visit Ulrich's list and the website Think, Submit, Check before engaging with a new journal.
Ensuring researchers know how and why to identify suspicious publishers could lay the groundwork for labelling publishing with a predatory journal as grounds for academic misconduct.
Using public research grants or funds to pay publication fees could also be banned.
In September, the US Federal Trade Commission launched a lawsuit against the OMICS Group and two sister companies, alleging they've deceived academics and researchers about the nature of their publications and hid fees until after articles had been accepted, then refused to release submissions.
A statement on the OMICS website refutes this.
I have also noticed many bogus journals and publishers aggressively looking for submission of articles. It would be helpful if there is a list that can be readily available to researchers to search, so that they can quickly identify them and not fall into trap. The other observation I have is that the open access of selected articles or journals on the internet is discouraging people to search valid databases such as MEDLINE to identify other articles that may be important to review but not readily available because they are not "free" on the internet. This open access has created a bias in how selected information is available to the public, thereby skewing the public viewpoint. This can be dangerous especially when pharma companies are paying for public access of selected articles with positive results for their marketed drugs but articles with negative results are being ignored.
I will sell product Y. I don't have to buy product Y, because it is given to me by others. They were paid by their government or a charity to produce product Y. I don't even have to ensure the quality of product Y, because other makers of product Y will check if it is good; they are paid by their government or hospitals. Then people, governments, universities, and hospitals will pay huge amounts of money for product Y. By the way, my part of product Y used to be expensive, I had to typeset it, print it, mail it etc., but now most of those things are cheap and I put product Y on the internet. My expenses are far lower than they were a few years back!
Who would not start a company with such a business model??


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Q: Azure File Sharing with domain permissions? We have a local Windows 2008 R2 file server, part of a Windows domain, with security settings on the shared directories depending on domain security groups.  I would like to move the file server function to Azure and get rid of our on-premises server.
I am contemplating a setup whereby I would have a VM with file shares, duplicating the same setup and permissions as the on-premises solution, just in Azure (we would use Windows file sharing to map the shared directories for the end users).  However, I have noticed that one can use WebDAV with Azure File Storage to share files as well.  I believe the virtual machine setup using the virtual machine as the file server would work better for my purposes.  Am I right? Does anybody have any other suggestions?
Note that we have a VPN with Azure, which we would use.

A: For your purposes I would use a VM with File Shares, the VM can be joined to your domain (or Azure AD Domain Services) and you can restrict access the same way you do now on premise. Azure File Storage is designed to allow applications to access a file share using SMB. so if you have an app on premise that uses UNC paths and SMB Protocol it can now easily moved to Azure using Azure File Storage.
Azure File Storage is not really designed to store files for users.

A: Azure files does as you say allow you to access Azure storage using SMB and WebDav, however the only way these are secured is by key, either storage account key or SAS token, you cannot apply NTFS or NTFS like permissions to it. For this reason we have had to implement an IaaS file server until this is possible.

A: The answer to this question will be changing at some point in the future per the recent update from Microsoft on this user voice post.
"Azure Active Directory integration is in plans but we do not have a timeline to share yet."
[https://feedback.azure.com/forums/217298-storage/suggestions/6078420-acl-s-for-azurefiles?tracking_code=6ac92d84c1845d2ab59f44e7ec991bcb][1]
It's also a case where "Azure Active Directory Integration" could be implemented a number of different ways, with a lot of different capabilities. What use cases you'll be able to achieve is still very unclear, however it still seems promising.

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Design Considerations for Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (BTES): A Review with Emphasis on Convective Heat Transfer
Average heat transfer fluid temperatures in a BHE array. The grey envelope in the middle of the diagram shows the range of heat transfer fluid temperature for a BTES where heat extraction and rejection are seasonally balanced (324 MWh/season, each across a 4-month extraction and rejection season). The envelope between the red dotted lines indicates the typical heat transfer fluid temperature range for a BTES where heat is being rejected year on year (324 MWh/season; maximum temperature in summer, minimum in winter); the envelope between the blue dotted lines indicates the range of heat transfer fluid temperature for a BTES where heat is being extracted year on year (324 MWh/season). In both diagrams, the green dotted line shows the estimated annual marginal heat accumulation in the BHE storage in the case of heat rejection only (calculated from the gradient of the heat rejection temperature curve, a rock volumetric heat capacity of 2.4 MJ/m3/K, and a BTES volume of 90,000 m3). (a) An array of 36 number, 100 m deep boreholes on a square grid at 6 m spacing; (b) an array of 81 number, 44.4 m deep boreholes on a square grid at 5.6 m spacing. (a) also shows the temperature curve for a comparable single 100 m deep borehole extracting or rejecting 9 MWh heat per 4-month season (i.e., 324 MWh/36). Initial ambient average ground .


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January 12, 2022 by Ray Payne
SMASH DRAGON DRONE
Israeli-based fire control systems manufacturer Smart Shooter has this week unveiled its new armed drone system, which the company boasts can be fitted with a range of small arms and has been integrated with the company's SMASH Technology to undertake enhanced target selection.
Dubbed the SMASH Dragon, the drone can be armed with an array of assault rifles, sniper rifles and 40mm rounds.
According to the company, SMASH Technology utilises Smart Shooter's proprietary target acquisition and tracking algorithms, coupled with computer vision, to undertake sophisticated target selection.
The lightweight drone is also integrated with stabilisation capabilities that enable the drone to accurately fire while moving.
"Smart Shooter's SMASH technology offers precise elimination of threats at ground, air and sea. We are now happy to offer the same precise, combat-proven target engagement technology mounted on an unmanned aerial platform that can be controlled from a distance," Michal Mor, chief executive of Smart Shooter, said.
"When it comes to drones, platform weight is a critical factor as it impacts mission endurance and cost, and we are proud to announce that the extremely lightweight SMASH Dragon meets this criterion."


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Coorie in for Christmas, Edinburgh (December 2020)
We've partnered with Thrive Edinburgh – the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership's strategy for improving mental health and wellbeing – to launch a wellbeing booklet for the festive period.
The free booklet, 'Coorie in for Christmas' has been developed in response to the additional pressures that COVID-19 presents for people this winter. It focuses on the Scottish concept of 'coorie', which is all about comfort, family, nature and home. The booklet looks at the things people can do to look after their mental health and wellbeing from the comfort of their homes.
It includes resources to help people cope with the unique challenges that they are facing, like grief, loneliness and staying connected. It also brings together a range of helpful contacts and has some festive recipes and craft ideas that people across Edinburgh have contributed.
Wendy Bates, Chief Executive at Health in Mind, said:
'The festive period can be a really tough time of year. But this year, it's going to look and feel different. It might be the first year we can't celebrate it in person with our friends and family and are coming to terms with what a digital Christmas and New Year period will look like, we might be facing additional financial pressures, or feeling alone. That's why we wanted to create this booklet to offer some additional help as we find our way through these tough times. It's a reminder to try to find comfort in the little things, and to make time to look after yourself.'
Judith Proctor, Chief Officer for the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership said:
'It's important we reach out to one another at this time of year. Simple acts of kindness and consideration can make a huge difference. "Coorie in for Christmas" is full of advice and ideas, we really hope it will be useful for people who may be finding this festive season a bit of a challenge.'
The guide is being distributed by Thrive Edinburgh supported by Network Rail colleagues. An online version can be downloaded by clicking on the link to the right.
The guide is also available from iThrive Edinburgh and Thrive Edinburgh - visit www.ithriveedinburgh.org.uk and www.edinburghthrive.com.
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2020 Fire Service Executive Development Institute Participants Selected
Chantilly, Va. – The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) today announced the participants accepted into the eighth year of the prestigious Fire Service Executive Development Institute (FSEDI).
FSEDI is a yearlong leadership-development program developed by the IAFC to provide new and aspiring chiefs with the tools they need to have successful and productive tenures. The members of the cohort will meet in March 2020 for their first session in addition to two other sessions four to six months apart in 2020. They will also be attending Fire-Rescue International (FRI), August 19-21, in Phoenix, Arizona as part of the program.
The group will communicate and share ideas between and continue their learning process using an online forum.
"The Motorola Solutions Foundation is proud to support the training and development of emerging leaders in fire and emergency service to ensure they have the tools needed to best serve the community," said Monica Mueller, executive director Motorola Solutions Foundation."
The Fire Service Executive Development Institute is a year-long leadership-development program developed by the IAFC to provide new and aspiring chiefs with the tools they need to have successful and productive tenures. The members of the cohort will meet in March 2020 for their first session in addition to two other sessions 4-6 months apart in 2020. They will also be attending FRI in Phoenix, Arizona as part of the program.
Those accepted into the program are:
Augustin, Chad – Deputy Chief, Sacramento FD (CA)
Burress, Colin – First Deputy, Memphis FD (TN)
Enoch, Ray – Deputy Chief, Carrboro FD (NC)
Griffin, Herbert – Asst. Chief, Houston FD (TX)
Hall, Justin – Deputy Chief, Sand Springs FD (OK)
Heard, Guillermo - Deputy Chief, Laredo FD (TX)
Jenkins, Jason – Asst, Chief, Fairfax FD (VA)
John, Mark – Chief, Olympia FD (WA)
Johnston, Abbey, Asst. Chief, Bedford Co. FR (VA)
Letcher, James - Asst. Chief, Kansas City FD (KS)
McCurdy, Hallie – Deputy Chief, West Pierce (WA)
Mooney, Richard – Asst. Chief, Apache Junc. FD (AZ)
Newport, Martha – Deputy Chief, St. Lucie FD (FL)
Pilgrim, Riley – Asst. Chief, Unified Fire A (UT)
Rodriguez, Diosbani -Div. Chief, Miami-Dade FR (FL)
Swisher, Ronald – Deputy Chief, Rochester FD (MN)
Vaughn, Travis – Chief, Lenexa FD (KS)
Welch, Alicia – Chief, Golden FD (CO)
Wells, Jason – Asst Chief, Lexington FD (KY)
Zak, Ronald – Deputy Chief, Mentor FD (OH)
"Congratulations to this year's cohort of emerging fire and emergency service leaders," said Chief Gary Ludwig, IAFC president and chairman of the board. "The IAFC's Fire Service Executive Development Program has become the premier career- and leadership-development program in our profession thanks to the generous support of the Motorola Solutions Foundation. Many officers from the previous programs have been successful in achieving fire chief positions and are effectively leading their departments."
The Fire Service Executive Development Institute (FSEDI)
FSEDI is a program developed by the IAFC and funded by a grant from Motorola Solutions Foundation to provide new and aspiring chiefs with the tools they need to have a successful and productive tenure. After individual complete their yearlong program they remain active members of FSEDI as part of an alumni. Learn more
The Motorola Solutions Foundation is the charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola Solutions. With employees located around the globe, Motorola Solutions seeks to give back to the communities where it operates. The company achieves this by making strategic grants, forging strong community partnerships and fostering innovation. The Motorola Solutions Foundation focuses its funding on public safety, disaster relief, employee giving and education, especially science, technology, engineering and math programming. Learn more
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The IAFC represents the leadership of firefighters and emergency responders worldwide. IAFC members are the world's leading experts in firefighting, emergency medical services, terrorism response, hazmat response, natural disasters, search and rescue, and public safety legislation. Since 1873, the IAFC has provided a forum for its members to exchange ideas, develop professionally and uncover the latest products and services available to first responders. Learn more
IAFC's Fire Service Executive Development Institute Available for 11th Year
UPDATE: The 2023 FSEDI application period is closed. Applicants will be notified in the near future. read more
IAFC Honors Fire Chief of the Year Awardees
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Tia and Tamera Mowry rock long curly hair in recent pics from their 70's themed bday bash
By Maria Varela
https://news.amomama.com/93688-tia-tamera-mowry-rock.html
Tia and Tamera Mowry had a blast on their 40th birthday bash where they sported afro dos and bell bottoms for a night of disco dancing. The twins also revealed why they decided to have a party and what turning 40 means to them today.
Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Tamera Mowry-Housely just turned 40 on July 6, and they opted to celebrate the milestone with a 70's themed birthday bash on Saturday.
The identical twin sisters fashioned bell bottoms and afro hairdos as they entertained family and friends including their younger brothers Tahj and Tavio rat Good Times at Davey Wayne's in Hollywood. Tia rocked an all-black shimmery ensemble while Tamera blushed in shiny pink.
According to Tia, the last time they had a party together was when they were 21. Then life happened and throwing a birthday party now seemed like a good idea. She told People,
"We live very kind of busy lives and I really wanted us to slow things down for a minute and take the time out to celebrate. The last time we had a party together was when we turned 21. We have our individual careers, but I just felt like it was something we needed to celebrate together."
Tamera added,
"We didn't miss a beat. It was kind of like when you're with your friend that you hadn't seen in a long time and you get together and it didn't feel any different. It felt like it was just yesterday."
The affair had the duo dancing the night away to disco tunes with classic bites on the side including hotdogs, hamburgers and grilled cheese sandwiches. A colorful retro birthday cake was also in the house created by Dani Flowers Bakery.
Describing their feeling that night, Tamera said,
"We were both able to relax and just be together with our friends for like three hours. My sister and I were just on the same page, and it was awesome."
Reaching the 40th mark made the famous sisters realize how nothing has changed despite their leading separate lives. Their bond remains unbreakable.
"What I've learned over the years, especially being twins, people tend to view twins together and think that everything that they do has to be the same. Tamera and I, what we've done and what we've learned over the years is to embrace our differences because by us being able to be individual people, we've been able to thrive. Just like in any type of relationship. You have to know who you are, you have to be content with who you are. When you celebrate your individuality, you become stronger together."
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She added,
"I think what I've learned is to embrace and respect our differences. We're night and day. With sisterhood, it's so wonderful and powerful. Being a woman in generalis hard, but when you have someone who's going through the same milestones, you're able to talk to each other and learn from one another. If you see that your sister can do it, then you're like, 'I can do it too.'"
What a truly happy birthday they had!


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Matt White's journey through the UK music industry has been both influential and exciting. Growing up around a mixture of music from Soul, Calypso, Reggae, Jazz and Funk.
After which moved to Catch a Groove Records, who were only known for selling US House and Dance records. However, when Matt started they quickly established a reputation for good quality R&B and Rap music.
During this time Matt was approached by Steve Jervier and asked to join him at Kiss FM. Matt embarked on the new path as a radio DJ alongside Steve and a year later when Steve left took over the slot.
Matt has since set up his own promotions and marketing company with clients including; Nicole Scherzinger, Rihanna and Beats by Dre.
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best represents the causes of the Financial Crisis?
It was the fault of the government It was Wall Street's fault "Everyone" was at fault: Wall Street, the government, and our wider society. None of the Three Narratives.
Matthew Lynn "government was most at fault"
Jacob Madsen "Most of all economists are to blame"
Jennifer Taub "Wall Street, institutional investors and the government"
Which FCIC View best represents the causes of the Financial Crisis?
2013 or beyond - Viral Acharya, Dean Baker, Clive Boddy, Roddy Boyd, Aaron Brown, Ludwig Chincarini, Aaron Clarey, Jesse Colombo, Jerry Davis, Vox Day, Kevin Dowd, Larry Doyle "latter half of this decade", James Galbraith, Isaac Gradman, Jeremy Hammond "no recovery", Robert Hardaway, Fred Harrison, Michael Hirsh "no projected end", Steve Keen, James Kwak "in its broadest sense", Nye Lavalle, Les Leopold, Ross Levine, Michael Lim Mah-Hui, Robert Litan, Francis Longstaff, Matthew Lynn "until 2031", Jacob Madsen, Yalman Onaran, Ann Pettifor, Edward Pinto, Nomi Prins, Donald Rapp, Jay W. Richards, Robert Rodriguez, Richard Roll, John Rubino, Nicholas Ryder, Hersh Shefrin, Laurence Siegel, Paul Sperry, John Talbott "far beyond 2013", Peter Tanous, and John Wasik "we'll keep paying for a generation," and Matthew Watson.
Some additional publicly stated opinions.
Sheila Bair answered the questions "Who and what caused the economic crisis?" in Greed, Bailouts, and the Causes of the Financial Crisis from USNews (1/4/2013) by starting with "Greed and shortsightedness were the two overarching causes." Bair previously argued in Short-termism and the risk of another financial crisis (7/8/2011) in the WP that "The common thread running through all the causes of our economic tumult is a pervasive and persistent insistence on favoring the short term over the long term, impulse over patience. . . the No. 1 cause of both the crisis and the subpar recovery we are in: a stubborn refusal to deal head-on with past-due and underwater mortgages." Bair offers her prescription in Bull by the Horns and also discusses many of the commonly argued causes for instance, "GSEs played a major role not by directly buying and guaranteeing subprime mortgages but after the fact, by gobbling up the senior-tranche securities packaged and sold by Wall Street investment houses. Though greed was a primary motivation for the subprime craze, the government played a role by giving favorable capital and accounting treatment to banks that securitized their loans and also by giving the GSEs credit toward their affordable housing goals."
Dr. Michael Burry is featured in Michael Lewis's The Big Short and this Chapter in Vanity Fair is online. The ScionCapital web site (november 2011) included the following commentary ... "Dr. Burry repeatedly wrote that he had no faith that the SEC, the Federal Reserve, or any other branch of government, least of all Congress, would act to keep the housing bubble from expanding. In fact, Dr. Burry felt the government was absolutely complicit in enabling the housing bubble." Watch his 4/5/2011 presentation at Vanderbilt video for more on his thoughts and his prescriptions.
Robert Shiller in The Financial Fire Next Time (1/14/2014) wrote "If we have learned anything since the global financial crisis peaked in 2008, it is that preventing another one is a tougher job than most people anticipated ... The financial crisis, which is still ongoing, resulted largely from the boom and bust in home prices that preceded it for several years (home prices peaked in the United States in 2006). During the pre-crisis boom, homebuyers were encouraged to borrow heavily to finance undiversified investments in a single home, while governments provided guarantees to mortgage investors. In the US, this occurred through implicit guarantees of assets held by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac." Shiller and George Akerlof wrote in Animal Spirits "The crisis was not foreseen, and is still not fully understood by the public, and also by many key decision makers, because there have been no principles in conventional economic theories regarding animal spirits. Conventional economic theories exclude the changing thought patterns and modes of doing business that bring on a crisis. They even exclude the loss of trust and confidence. They exclude the sense of fairness that inhibits the wage and price flexibility that could possibly stabilize an economy. They exclude the role of corruption and the sale of bad products in booms, and the role of stories that interpret the economy. All of these exclusions from conventional explanations of how the economy behaves were responsible for the suspension of disbelief that led up to the current crisis. They are also responsible for our current failure in knowing how to deal with the crisis now that it has come."
Nouriel Roubini wrote "It is widely agreed that a series of collapsing housing-market bubbles triggered the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, along with the severe recession that followed. While the United States is the best-known case, a combination of lax regulation and supervision of banks and low policy interest rates fueled similar bubbles in the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, and Dubai.
Ron Paul made his views clear in Blame the Fed for the Financial Crisis (10/20/2011) in the WSJ.
Joseph Stiglitz suggested the global financial crisis was due, at least in part, to the war in The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond (9/5/2010) in the Washington Post.
Paul Krugman (and Robin Wells) in The Occupy Handbook (or via Salon) wrote "It's clear that the financial crisis of 2008 was made possible in part by the systematic way in which financial regulation had been dismantled over the previous three decades ... In summary, then, the role of rising inequality in creating the economic crisis of 2008 is debatable; it probably did play an important role, if nothing else than by encouraging the financial deregulation that set the stage for crisis."
James Grant (per The Occupy Handbook ) believes that "the root cause of so many of our problems is statism." Echoing Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), he believes that the confrontation with "more and more legalisms and interventions" drains people and leads toward lethargy and withdrawal--as he puts it, "an endless low-level flu." The United States has, like Japan, made a serious policy mistake in subsidizing housing and mortgages to a tremendoes extent, and he suggests that much of our political activity since then has been focused on "postponing the repricing and recognition of this great mistake." Grant suggested that our recent financial crisis was caused by the free market working around unnatural government interventions; the primary culprit, in his view, was the chinese policy of recycling export earnings into U.S. dollar assets in an attempt to maintain the renminbi at an artificially low level.
Henry Paulson (as reported by Andrew Ross Sorkin in Five Years After TARP, Misgivings on Bonuses in the NYTimes) said "I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies."
Tim Geithner summarizes his crisis opinions in Stress Test - "The fundamental causes of this crisis were familiar and straightforward. It began with a mania--the widespread belief that devastating financial crisis were a thing of the past, that future recessions would be mild, that gravity defying home prices would never crash to earth. This was the optimism of the great moderation, the delusion of indefinite stability. This mania of overconfidence fueled an explosion of credit in the economy and leverage in the financial system. And much of that leverage was financed by uninsured short-term liabilities than could run at any time. This combination of a long rise in borrowing fueled by leverage in runnable form is the foundation of all financial crisis, and it would have been dangerous in any financial system. But it was much more dangerous for us, because many of the overleveraged major firms that were borrowing short and lending long were outside our traditional banking system. These institutions were not constrained by the regulatory safeguards that applied to banks, which was why so much risk migrated in their direction, and they did not have access to the government safety net designed to contain runs on banks. The safeguards for traditional banks weren't tough enough, either, but what made our storm into the perfect storm was nonbanks behaving like banks without bank supervision and bank protections, leaving by some measures more than half the nation's financial activity vulnerable to a run. When the panic hit, and the run gained momentum, we did not have the ability to protect the economy until conditions were scary enough to provoke actions by congress . . . the root causes, as usual, were mania, leverage, and runable short-term financing. That's how our financial system became that scene from It's a Wonderful Life . . . the most powerful theory of the crisis was simple. It started with a long mania of overconfidence, the widespread belief that house prices would not fall, that recessions would be mild, that markets would remain liquid. The mania fueled too much borrowing, too much leverage, and too much runnable short-term financing, with too much of it happening outside the traditional banking system. Borrowers took too many risks; creditors and investors were way too willing to finance those risks; the government failed to rein in those risks, and then was unable to act quickly and forcefully enough when the panic hit. Meanwhile, the actions the government finally took to end the crisis created new dangers of moral hazard. And our Wild West system of consumer protection was a national disgrace."
Alan Greenspan wrote in The Crisis (Spring 2010) "it was the heavy securitization of the U.S. subprime mortgage market from 2003 to 2006 that spawned the toxic assets that triggered the disruptive collapse of the global bubble in 2007–08."
Adair Turner writes in The Failure of Free-Market Finance that "Five years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, the world has still not addressed the fundamental cause of the subsequent financial crisis – an excess of debt... If we do not address the fundamental fact that free financial markets can generate harmful levels of private-sector leverage, we will not have learned the most important lesson of the 2008 crisis." Previously, in a speech at South African Reserve Bank (11/2/2012) he wrote "The crisis of 2008 was essentially a crisis of excessive leverage, the result of a steady build up of excessive debt contracts over several preceding decades. That excessive leverage led to bust. And after the bust, deleveraging creates deflationary pressures which we cannot offset by conventional monetary policy alone, since interest rates are at the zero bound."
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff discussed crisis causes in Top Culprit in the Financial Crisis: Human Nature in Barrons (11/24/2012). Reinhart stated "this is so grounded in human nature, I'm extremely skeptical that we will overcome financial crises in any definitive way" while Rogoff stated "It is almost as if these institutions and these legal systems [in Asia, Europe, the U. S.] were forms of clothing and makeup, but inside the person is the same." More recently, Reinhart was quoted in the NYTimes "This crisis may in the end surpass in severity the Great Depression in a large number of countries." Rogoff also summarizes in Innovation Crisis or Financial Crisis? "the main cause of the recent recession is surely a global credit boom and its subsequent meltdown."
Michael Lewis (author of The Big Short, which has sold more than a million copies, as well as Boomerang, and Liar's Poker) wrote "the idea that the story begins and ends with government policy is insane. Wall Street, all by itself, orchestrated the crisis by a web of deceit that was breathtaking...Incentives are at the bottom of it all" in Michael Lewis on the Next Crisis and previously in an interview (with himself) (from The Occupy Handbook) Lewis wrote "The chief cause of the financial crisis was what the government didn't do (regulate) rather than what it did (subsidize homeownership)."
Andrew Ross Sorkin (in Too Big To Fail) wrote "The seeds of disaster had been planted years earlier with such measures as: the deregulation of the banks in the late 1990s; the push to increase home ownership, which encouraged lax mortgage standards; historically low interest rates, which created a liquidity bubble; and the system of Wall Street compensation that rewarded short-term risk taking. They all came together to create the pefect storm. By the time the first signs of the credit crisis surfaced, it was probably already too late to prevent a crash, for by then a massive correction was inevitable. Still, it is reasonable to ask whether steps could have been taken even at this late stage to minimize the damage."
David Wessel wrote in In Fed We Trust "The causes of the Great Panic are many, the list of culprits long. Ultimately, every check of the system failed to restrain the excess and greed or to correct for the myopia and delusional optimism. Blame the well-paid executives and directors of the nation's financial institutions ... Blame the bankers ... Blame the credit reporting agencies ... Blame the chain of subprime mortgage makers ... Blame the supposedly sophisticated investors ... Blame the home buyers ... Blame the politicians ... Blame the regulators ... Blame the reporters Blame the Federal Researve ... And, yes, blame Alan Greenspan ..."
Gary Gorton discusses crisis causes and prescriptions in "Misunderstanding Financial Crises", a Q&A with Gary Gorton in the FT(10/25/2012). He disagrees with the greed and fraud arguments - "explanation of the recurrence of systemic financial crises throughout the history of market economies cannot be explained by greed or fraud, etc. These are not explanations of crises and they are not the central problem. We are talking about systemic crises: that is crises in which the entire financial system is at risk." He focuses on bank runs - "A bank run is a demand that all short-term debt in the banking system be turned into cash. That is simply not possible. It would be best to create a system where such a demand does not arise because the government's oversight has created sufficient confidence."
William Cohan's sub-headline for his article How We Got the Crash Wrong in the Atlantic is "Leverage was not the problem—incentives were, and still are."
Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber write in Fragile By Design "the subprime crisis of 2007-2009 was the outcome of a series of spectacular political deals that distorted the incentives of both bankers and debtors ... severe bank-insolvency crisis require a combination of imprudent lending and inadequate bank capital to back high-risk loans ... the devil is in the details, but one cannot escape the conclusion that the decisions made by regulatory agencies were driven by the logic of politics."
In Washington's Financial Disaster (1/29/2011), regarding the FCIC report, Frank Partnoy concluded that "Congress should try again." In What's Inside America's Banks? Partnoy and Jesse Eisinger (1/2/2013) wrote "The financial crisis had many causes—too much borrowing, foolish investments, misguided regulation—but at its core, the panic resulted from a lack of transparency. In Did Fannie Cause the Disaster? (10/27/11) Partnoy and Jeff Madrick review Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner's Reckless Endangerment and they conclude "Contrary to many commentators on Reckless Endangerment, and to its chief claims, it was Wall Street, not the GSEs, that fundamentally caused the 2007–2008 crisis." Christopher Whalen has a Letter to Editor (11/16/2011) on his web site in response. He summarizes "the housing GSEs and the Wall Street banks are one and the same. Arguing about which did more harm is a frivolous waste of time by some very smart people."
Andrew Smithers writes in The Road to Recovery: How and Why Economic Policy Must Change "I aim to convince the reader that the financial crisis, the great recession which it produced and the failure to generate a strong recovery are all the results of policy errors in the management of the economy..."
Martin Wolf, author of Fixing Global Finance (Forum on Constructive Capitalism) writes in The Occupy Handbook "we need to emphasize the role of the government and its agencies, including central banks. These acted as stabilizing forces during the crisis. Indeed, they needed to do even more than they did. But they also acted as destabilizing forces before the crisis: in particular, central banks were too aggressive in preventing moderate recessions, thereby exacerbating the willingness to take risks, and governments were too willing to encourage excessive leverage in the household sector, to promote the dream of universal homeownership."
Joe Biden in the Vice Presidential debate said "And, by the way, they talk about this Great Recession if it fell out of the sky, like, "Oh, my goodness, where did it come from?" It came from this man voting to put two wars on a credit card, to at the same time put a prescription drug benefit on the credit card, a trillion-dollar tax cut for the very wealthy. I was there. I voted against them. I said, no, we can't afford that."
Newt Gingrich has suggested jailing Frank, the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Dodd, who headed the Senate Banking Committee until his retirement this year.
"President Barack Obama cited Wall Street misdeeds last year in signing the most comprehensive new financial regulations in more than 75 years."
Independent candidate Laurence Kotlikoff (and author of Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague) summarized his Prescriptions to Heal Economy (9/27/2011) and How to Fix Mortgage Mess (1/13/2011) at Bloomberg.
Eugene Fama said "I think the global crisis was first a problem of political pressure to encourage the financing of subprime mortgages. Then, a huge recession came along and the house of cards came tumbling down" in An Experienced View on Markets and Investing via the Financial Analysts Journal (5/6/2012). In response to the question "What would your suggestion be for monetary or fiscal policy at this point?" Fama responds "Simple. Balance the budget."
Burton Malkiel in an interview stated "I think there are misaligned incentives that are a problem, but not deregulation. To be sure, the Glass-Steagall repeal was not a great idea. I think the too big to fail problem is worse now than before the crisis, but it was not Glass-Steagall that caused the crisis ... I think, again, it was poor regulation. We had people looking at bank capital. And yup, the SEC and the Federal Reserve, they did screw up, absolutely, by allowing that kind of leverage to exist. Although I don't think 1,000 pages of Dodd-Frank is the answer."
Clifford Asness wrote "The war continues over whether the 2007-08 financial crisis was caused by governent or by the big banks ... When any bubble bursts ... and a global financial meltdown follows, nearly everyone shares some blame. You can't get a good bubble off the ground without governent, the financial industry (including not just bankers, who are often the named party, but the whole real estate industry, the entire mortgage finance industry, rating agencies, and others), and regular individuals (nobody wants to lay any blame on Main Street; where is the political hay in that?) acting stupid and short sighted (e.g. quitting real jobs to flip houses) ... the typical narratives and debates conflate two events. We had (1) a real estate/credit bubble in prices that, upon bursting, precipitated (2) a massive financial crisis. The collapse of the real estate/credit bubble did not have to lead directly to a financial crisis. See the tech bubble's deflation for a counterexample. The question of who should shoulder what share of the blame for the real estate bubble and who should shoulder the blame for the financial crisis do not necessarily lead to the same answer..."
Felix Salmon writes in The Occupy Handbook that "There's a lot of blame to go around when it comes to the causes of the financial crisis, but at heart, it was about debt--or, as the financial markets like to call it, leverage. Investment banks created highly leveraged mortgage-backed securities that blew-up; commercial banks backed up their holdings of super-senior debt instruments with little or no capital; homeowners bought houses with no money down, paying for them by borrowing amounts they could never afford to repay. In many ways, the debt-fueled housing bubble was the financialization of America carried to its logical conclusion."
The origins of the financial crisis "it is clear the crisis had multiple causes. The most obvious is the financiers themselves ... Central bankers and other regulators also bear blame ... The macroeconomic backdrop was important, too. The "Great Moderation"—years of low inflation and stable growth—fostered complacency and risk-taking. A "savings glut" in Asia pushed down global interest rates. Some research also implicates European banks, which borrowed greedily in American money markets before the crisis and used the funds to buy dodgy securities. All these factors came together to foster a surge of debt in what seemed to have become a less risky world."
Where's the next Lehman? "The disaster of September 2008 had many causes ... Lehman's demise spawned catastrophe because it combined three separate vulnerabilities. The underlying one was a surge in debt, particularly in the financial sector, brought on by a housing bubble. The ensuing bust was made more dangerous because of the second weakness: the complex interconnections of securitised finance meant that no one understood what assets were worth or who owed what. Lehman's failure added a third devastating dimension: confusion about whether governments could, or would, step in as finance failed.


Just in time for Christmas, the entirely non-festive Orange album is now complete and available for download. Here's the link, and here's what you get.
All songs traditional except where stated (which is to say, mostly not traditional at all). Accompanied on English concertina, flute, recorder, C whistle, zither, drums, improvised percussion and miscellaneous drones.
This is the album where I gave free rein to my interest in the Kipling / Bellamy oeuvre; it's not traditional (apart from some of the tunes) but it's good stuff.
Puck's song is Kipling's hymn to deep history; deep English history specifically. Features C whistle, English concertina and bees.
Sir Richard's song tells the story of a Norman nobleman falling in love with an English woman and hence with England. Zither and flute.
Frankie's Trade is an unaccompanied belter. Guaranteed to arouse strong feelings on the subject of Francis Drake.
Anchor song, also unaccompanied, is two minutes of rapid-fire nautical arcana.
Follow me 'ome and Ford o' Kabul River are two songs about a man losing another man in wartime; a friendship "passing the love of women", as one of them quotes. Accompanied with concertina and with splashy trudges.
Poor honest men is an exercise in pushing irony until it snaps, accompanied on concertina.
Big steamers both is and isn't a children's song (listen to the last verse).
Roll down to Rio, the last of this album's Kipling / Bellamys, definitely is a children's song, but it's rather lovely with it. Concertina again.
Jusqu'à la ceinture (an album-only extra) is Graeme Allwright's translation (and adaptation) of a song by Pete Seeger, accompanied on concertina and drums. There's a thematic connection with Ford o' Kabul River.
Queen Jane (Child 170) is a very old and very sad song, accompanied on flute and recorder.
Earl Richard (Child 68) is one of my favourite songs, pieced together from multiple versions and accompanied sporadically. More information here.
Rounding the Horn, also known as the Gallant Frigate Amphitrite, is a fairly uneventful maritime song. Sung here in an 'ensemble' arrangement (featuring concertina and drums), after Jo Freya.
Roll down, by Peter Bellamy, is a shanty but not a traditional shanty.
Dogger Bank isn't a shanty, just a lot of nautical nonsense.
Come down you bunch of roses is a traditional shanty, although it's not the shanty most of us think it is (involving blood-red roses). More on this here.
The trees they do grow high is one of my favourite songs in the world; I hope I did it justice.
Four Angels, another album-only track, is a Kipling poem set to music by Martin Simpson. Sung here with live concertina accompaniment – my first song recorded like this.
Like the other downloads in the series, the Orange album comes with a PDF file containing full lyrics, notes and artwork. And, like the other downloads, it has a minimum price set at a symbolic 52p – although you're very welcome to pay more!
Download 52 Folk Songs – Orange.
The original idea for this selection of songs was to do Ford o' Kabul River together with a traditional song about somebody drowning in mid-stream. But I couldn't find a traditional song I liked, so I decided to do Follow me 'ome together with a traditional song about somebody lamenting the loss of a close friend. Then I couldn't find one of those either – apart from the 'poacher' songs of which Bill Brown is an example – so I decided to group these two together as songs of bereavement, with "Trees" as the obvious traditional candidate. And here we are.
The trees they do grow high is one of my favourite songs, traditional or otherwise. There are at least four distinct versions that I know of; I think this is the best.
Follow me 'ome, a Kipling poem with a Bellamy setting, is about bereavement within a male – and presumptively non-sexual – friendship. It's still bereavement, though. Accompanied here on English concertina.
Ford o' Kabul River is another Kipling/Bellamy and has similar subject matter. It's set during the Second Afghan War (1878-80); I wonder what number we're up to now. Accompanied on vocals and squelchy percussion.
Week 42's songs were delayed owing to football; watching a nil-nil draw settled on penalties after two full hours of play somehow seemed like a much better idea than putting the finishing touches to this week's songs. I don't know what I was thinking of; it won't happen again.
There are three thematically-linked songs this week, one traditional and two by Kipling and Bellamy; they're all sea songs, and they all focus on South America in particular.
Rounding the Horn – a.k.a. The gallant frigate Amphitrite – makes rounding the Horn sound like a thoroughly good idea, as long as you don't get lost on the way. Accompaniment: drums, recorder, English concertina.
Frankie's trade is Bellamy's take on Kipling in praise of Francis Drake, and by extension in praise of English seamanship and England in general. The idea seems to be that Drake could never have been the seaman he was if he hadn't cut his teeth as a marauder across the cold North Sea. I defy anyone not to get a bit patriotic towards the end.
Roll down to Rio, lastly, is a jokey, dreamy little poem from the Just-So Stories, accompanied here on English concertina.