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Interview with Narrator C.S.E. Cooney
November 5, 2015 Narrator Corneraudiobook, cozymysteries, narratorinterviewtantormedia
By Sarah Barning
I had the wonderful opportunity of interviewing C.S.E. Cooney. Ms. Cooney is an in house narrator at Tantor and her smile and personality lights up the place. It is always a great day when she is here recording. She is very talented, and I am thrilled to share her interview with everyone.
C.S.E Cooney
How did you get into narrating?
This is a question that people have been asking since I landed my job at Tantor back in April! I find it tricky, because there is no short answer. Some of it was luck: right place, right time, right email address. But to get to that time and place and email address, I spent two years stopping everyone I met who had any connection whatsoever with the audiobook industry to say, "I want to do this; how do I do this?" Some of it is my BA in Fiction Writing with an Acting minor from Columbia College Chicago (a peculiar combination of education that makes this job peculiarly ideal). I began by narrating for such short-form fantasy podcasts such as Uncanny Magazine, Podcastle, Tales to Terrify, and Goblin Fruit.
Mostly though, after looking into a job as a proofer for Tantor, I heard from a friend—at the time employed in that same position—that the company was also looking for narrators. I sent in an email with an audition reel, made an appointment to audition, and landed a trial run with two cozy mysteries (later mentioned). After that, I got a 13-week contract, and found myself booked through the summer and early fall doing the Best Job Ever. It was the most glorious, double lightning strike of luck and work.
What was your favorite audiobook to narrate?
Well… I think that's a toss-up between Combat Ready Kitchen and Tales from the Back Row. This surprised even me, for I read and write fiction primarily, and these were two of only three non-fiction books I narrated. I felt like I was learning loads of interesting things in the process—not just about narrating, but about cheese bacteria, and New York City Fashion week—and on a very basic sentence level, I found the sentences conversational and cathedral-like. Sometimes in fiction a sentence can get very basic, making way for a forward-driven plot, snappy dialogue, and colorful characters. With these two memoirs/histories, the focus was on conveying new and often useful information with clarity and beauty and wit; I found it extraordinary.
How do you choose what voice a character gets?
You know those voices you get in your head when you're reading? I get those too, and then I try to make my voice match. But it doesn't always work. Sometimes it's just a close approximation. Sometimes I imagine actors I'd like to play those parts, and pretend I'm that actor. And sometimes I remember characters from movies I like that are sort of like the characters I'm playing, and steal a little of the spirit of that voice for my own. Actress Meryl Streep is often called The Queen of Voices. Well, my own muse is audiobook narrator Barbara Rosenblat, who I consider the Empress—or even GODDESS—of Voices. And I'm just sort of like the pageboy or saucy kitchen maid of Voices, but at least I've got a foot in the same castle.
What is your favorite accent to perform?
In J. C. Nelson's Grimm Agency series, there was a character called "The Black Queen" who is described as having a French accent. The accent I imagined for her was not the Pepé Le Pew French accent, but the gentler, softer, musical accent of actress of Sophie Marceau. She plays the French Princess in the movie Braveheart. At one point William Wallace asks her, "Why are you doing this?" And she answers, "Because of the way you are looking at me now." I often used my memory of her accent and intonation in that one line to launch me totally into the Black Queen's character voice. But don't tell Sophie Marceau that.
What is the most challenging book you've voiced?
In a way, the most challenging books I've voiced were the two I mentioned were my favorites—and for many of the same reasons. The difficulty in the material, the heavy research, the unfamiliar and often international names and brands, the complicated sentence structure, were all quite difficult for me to negotiate. But I loved every second of the process.
Most lately, I narrated a piece of historical fiction called Coal River. The material was densely researched, highly descriptive, often bleak, and with a wide variety of powerful characters. It was surprisingly difficult and moving material; I was often quite tired at the end of the recording day, and the images and characters and conundrums of the story stayed with me long after I left work. This era of factory strikes, child labor, and the rise of unions is a particularly powerful and fascinating one. I had already read a lot of literature and seen movies about this time period, and found it profoundly satisfying—if occasionally difficult—to narrate a piece of fiction about it. Really lovely.
What is your favorite genre to narrate?
I read and write mostly fantasy, and I have to say that's where my heart is. Although memoir and history is growing on me. And I really liked doing those mysteries. Oh, and science fiction would be fun. And YA is kind of a hoot. And, and, and… I just like narrating, really.
What book do you wish you could have narrated that is already published?
Ah! Do I get a list? But if I had to choose just one… Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. I love this book. I love Cordelia Vorkosigan as a character. I want to be her when I grow up. I've read this book twenty times. Maybe more. Hard to tell. I would love to give voice to it. But there's already a quite good audiobook with narrator Grover Gardner who voices the entire Vorkosigan Saga (great space opera; I do not use the word "epic" lightly—and also fun and witty and deeply moving), so I don't think there's much of a chance.
I'd love to read anything by author Kage Baker—but perhaps her fantasy books first. Jane Austen's novella "Lady Susan." Emma Bull and Steven Brust's Freedom and Necessity.
Who would you love to collaborate with?
Actors or authors? Of actors… Recently hired to Tantor were a few actors I know and/or have worked with through Flock Theatre of New London, CT. I'd love to collaborate with any of them on a project: Callie Beaulieu, Michael Hinton, Amy Melissa Bentley. Also, I got to know narrator Susan Boyce a little just through chatting in the Narrator Lounge, and she'd be a lovely narrator to work with.
Of authors… Neil Gaiman and Ellen Kushner are two significant voices both in fiction writing and audiobooks. They are always doing cool projects, and it would be great to work with them sometime—on anything really. Because anything they do is bound to be awesome. The Serial Box project (serialized novella-length fiction released to subscribers in episodes over a period of weeks, in eBooks and in audio) is really exciting; it would be fun to narrate for them sometime.
What do you like to listen to? (music, audiobooks, podcasts)
I've been recently listening to a great podcast called Fakelore, wherein a pop culture geek and a folklorist discuss books, movies, and culture and debate on whether the roots of certain stories are "folk or fake." It's hysterical. I love Podcastle—a great place to get short-form fantasy stories. I sometimes listen to Savage Love for kicks.
I'm in the middle of two audiobooks right now Back Channel to Cuba; The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana by William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh, narrated by Robertson Dean (non-fiction), and Daniel José Older's Half-Resurrection Blues, narrated by the author (fiction).
I love music of all kinds, but especially musicals and folk songs. I love the Blues, and parody songs or satire, and I like music that can't be easily defined. I get to go see a Joanna Newsom concert in December—so that's very exciting!
Your book Bone Swans was recently published. What was your inspiration?
Bone Swans is actually a collection of five novellas. Four of them were previously published, and one (the title story) is original to the collection. They're all fantasy, set in different secondary (non-Earth) worlds—but not all the same world. Fantasy is a great uber-umbrella of a genre, so I have one story that's sort of high-octane adventure sword-and-sorcery-ish, with flying carpets and rebels and gods who are very involved in the lives of mortals. One is a murder mystery set on an island. One is a retelling of the fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin"—wherein the title character is NOT the villain. One's a mash-up of "The Pied Piper" and Grimm's tale "The Juniper Tree." And one is a sort of post-apocalyptic horror story with scary clowns and ghost children. So, as you see, the inspiration was perforce as varied as the material!
The murder mystery (the story titled "Martyr's Gem") came directly from a dream I had, wherein two characters met for the first time because they were contracted by law to marry. The boy falls in love with the girl on sight, but he is very shy, with quite a low self-esteem. The girl is deeply lost in grief and her quest for vengeance; her young sister had recently been murdered. But she too finds herself falling in love with her young, wise, stranger-husband. The dream and its characters haunted and hounded me until I wrote it out. Ann Leckie, then editor of the e-zine GigaNotoSaurus, originally published "Marty's Gem," and you can still find it online. Ann has since gone on to become the New York Times bestselling author of the science fiction novel Ancillary Mercy, the epic conclusion of the Imperial Radch trilogy.
What projects can your fans expect from you next?
Well, I hope I get to narrate loads of audiobooks! At the moment, I have no projects pending, but that may change at any moment. Voice work aside, at the moment I'm working on the fourth draft of my novel Miscellaneous Stones: Assassin. I'd love to finish that out, and then venture out again on my Great Literary Agent Quest.
This year I crowd-funded for a music project called Brimstone Rhine. I released my first EP in July, called Alecto! Alecto! (you can listen to it on Bandcamp, if you so desire. It takes less than 20 minutes total). It's eight songs about women of myth and legend: witches, queens, nymphs, fiends—you know, people just like us. Brimstone Rhine's second EP The Headless Bride is due to come out sometime before the New Year, I hope.
I also hope to finish my third novella in a dark romantic fantasy series called Dark Breakers before the end of the year. The Dark Breakers novellas take place in a world very much like Earth, at a time very much like our early 20th century, in a city very much like Newport, Rhode Island (I call mine "Seafall"), in a mansion very much like The Breakers. They're super-fun stories, and the first two "The Breaker Queen" and "The Two Paupers" are available on Amazon.
I recently finished listening to Carol J. Perry's Caught Dead Handed. I am a huge fan of cozy mysteries, so when I saw you read this, it was a huge plus! The cat also adds bonus points. This is the perfect time of year to listen to story based in Salem, Massachusetts. I was very impressed with all of the characters that you performed and all the different voices they had. Even with so many characters, each one was spot on. I couldn't imagine trying to remember who gets what voice, and you do it so naturally. I am excited to listen to the rest of the series. You are so talented, and I am excited to see what audiobooks you record next.
Thank you! I loved doing these mysteries! And Carol J. Perry just keeps getting better and better. Her newest book Look Both Ways has an antique bureau with a SECRET COMPARTMENT! I love secret compartments. And pink diamonds! And ghosts! And plus, there are so MANY MANY CATS in this one!
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I first used this a few years back, but lately I've picked it up again and tinkered with it. While it's not a full replacement for something like You Need a Budget, it's free and it's really flexible.
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Q: How to open the FloatingView (library) and show a custom layout in it? I'm using FloatingView library in my app.
I have successfully started it, now what I want is I want a custom layout to be shown inside it when it get clicked like what happens in facebook messenger chat heads.
Here's ChatHeadService.java file's code:
public class ChatHeadService extends Service implements FloatingViewListener {

    private static final String TAG = "ChatHeadService";

    private IBinder mChatHeadServiceBinder;

    private FloatingViewManager mFloatingViewManager;

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        if (mFloatingViewManager != null) {
            return START_STICKY;
        }

        final DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
        final WindowManager windowManager = (WindowManager) getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
        windowManager.getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
        mChatHeadServiceBinder = new ChatHeadServiceBinder(this);
        final LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(this);
        final ImageView iconView = (ImageView) inflater.inflate(R.layout.widget_chathead, null, false);
        iconView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Log.d(TAG, "Charhead clicked");

            }
        });

        mFloatingViewManager = new FloatingViewManager(this, this);
        mFloatingViewManager.setFixedTrashIconImage(R.drawable.ic_trash_fixed);
        mFloatingViewManager.setActionTrashIconImage(R.drawable.ic_trash_action);
        final FloatingViewManager.Options options = new FloatingViewManager.Options();
        options.shape = FloatingViewManager.SHAPE_CIRCLE;
        options.overMargin = (int) (16 * metrics.density);
        mFloatingViewManager.addViewToWindow(iconView, options);

//        startForeground(NOTIFICATION_ID, createNotification());

        return START_REDELIVER_INTENT;

    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
        destroy();
        super.onDestroy();
    }

    private void destroy() {
        if (mFloatingViewManager != null) {
            mFloatingViewManager.removeAllViewToWindow();
            mFloatingViewManager = null;
        }
    }

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public void onFinishFloatingView() {
        stopSelf();
    }

    public static class ChatHeadServiceBinder extends Binder {

        /**
         * FloatingRateService
         */
        private final WeakReference<ChatHeadService> mService;

        ChatHeadServiceBinder(ChatHeadService service) {
            mService = new WeakReference<>(service);
        }

        public ChatHeadService getService() {
            return mService.get();
        }
    }

}

Here's how I am starting it from my MainActivity:
startService(new Intent(MainActivity.this, ChatHeadService.class));

Please let me know how to do what I want to do.
Sorry for bad formatting of the question. I'm still a beginner.

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With the water that comes through our homes from the tap being full of chemicals, who would want to drink it? It tastes disgusting and who knows what bugs are coming through with it. On the other hand, bottled water costs a small fortune and who has the money to be buying bottled water all the time? There is an alternative to tap and bottled water. Filters are one way to clean out all the chemical components and the bugs often found in our tap water that can cause stomach and bowel irritations.
There are a few different options with water filtration. You can buy water filters to have fitted onto your tap or you can buy a water cooler with a water filter. Compare the costs of buying bottled water each year with the cost of the filter. The filter will cost you between $55 and $110 per year depending on how many people drink from the water cooler. Bottled water will cost you on average between $970 and $1940 per year. Using a filtration system is more economical.
A large percentage of the body's cells are made up of water so it is important to stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water. Health professionals recommend two litres per day. Water is also a very important part of the blood and the lymph system. The body loses water through perspiration and normal elimination so it is important to replace what the body loses each day.
There are more health benefits to drinking water as well; once you know these you will never look at water quite in the same light again. It is a natural remedy for headaches and backaches due to dehydration. Not only will you enjoy younger, healthier looking skin but it also helps to regulate the body's temperature when exercising. Water also helps you to be more alert; your brain is made up of water. It also helps with digestion and constipation by raising your metabolism. These are just a few of the benefits of drinking two litres of water per day.
So, for your own benefit and health, it would pay to make sure the water that you are drinking is clean and free of chemicals and other impurities. This is why it is so important to invest in a filtration system. The filter helps to get rid of the impurities and chemicals in the water. Do yourself a favour and get one today.
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Job, livelihood fair set for NHA beneficiaries
The special fair will be conducted in Metro Manila, Central Luzon, and Southern Tagalog from May 9 to 11
Patty Pasion
@pattypasion
Published 6:10 PM, April 19, 2017
Updated 6:10 PM, April 19, 2017
KADAMAY. Members of urban poor group Kadamay at a resettlement site in Pandi, Bulacan. File photo by Darren Langit/Rappler
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday, April 19, announced that it will hold a special job fair for settlers in housing projects of the National Housing Authority (NHA).
The special fair will be conducted in select NHA sites in Metro Manila, Central Luzon, and Southern Tagalog from May 9 to 11. This includes a fair in the town of Pandi in Bulacan where thousands of Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) members occupied idle housing units.
According to Director Dominique Rubia Tutay of the Bureau of Local Employment, most of the jobs are low-skilled work that are nearer to the beneficiaries' residences, but there will still be employers offering jobs outside their area. Livelihood training will also be provided.
To ensure that the opportunities to be offered to the resettled families match their interests and skills, Tutay said they will convene the participants before the event to consult with them.
Access to jobs is a concern of families resettled in NHA houses because most projects are built in off-city places like in Bulacan, where there are 36 housing sites that are located two to 3 hours away from Metro Manila.
In effect, the lack of livelihood opportunities makes it hard for them to settle their monthly dues with the NHA, which are around P200 to P600 per month, depending on the location. (READ: Why P600-a-month housing is still a burden to the poor)
Vice President Leni Robredo, former chairperson of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, previously said that resettled families received training for small-scale businesses but these did not prosper since they were too far from market centers.
Asked about this, Tutay said DOLE will monitor trainees for 3 years to ensure that their businesses will develop. They are also offering additional capital in case the trainees want to expand their ventures.
She added that Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III is eyeing a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to help monitor the trainees.
"What we want is for the DTI to monitor them once DOLE is done with the intervention. It's like transitioning them from informal to formal," said Tutay in a mix of English and Filipino.
Aside from the special fair, DOLE has organized 52 job fairs in celebration of the 155th Labor Day on May 1. – Rappler.com
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Q: Django is not loading the URL I defined I am working on a project that generates dynamic urls, For ex. if I type 127.0.0.1:8000/newpage it generates a new model with slug newpage
Earlier the project was working fine but suddenly it started to show some bugs.
I am calling a URL using ajax like this (5th line):
$(document).on('click', '#save', function (e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            $.ajax({
                type: 'POST',
                url: '{% url "text:update" %}',
                data: {
                    newText: $('#text-content').val(),
                    slug: "{{ obj.slug }}",
                    csrfmiddlewaretoken: "{{csrf_token}}",
                    action: 'post'
                },
                success: function (json) {
                    if (json['status'] === 'OK') {
                        document.getElementById('msg-box').innerText = 'TEXT SAVED';
                        window.removeEventListener("beforeunload", beforeUnloadListener, { capture: true });

                    }
                },
                error: function (xhr, errmsg, err) {

                }
            });
        });

It should load the view which I defined in the update url patterns but because of some reason it is still loading my slug view and generating a new url with slug update, I mean it shouldn't do that if I am telling it to load a specific view in URL pattern then why it is still loading slug view below is my urls.py:
#Only patterns
path('', home, name='home'),
path('<slug:slug>/', textview, name='textview'),
path('update/', update, name='update'),

views.py

def textview(request, slug):
    obj, created= Text.objects.get_or_create(slug=slug, defaults={'text':'', 'password':'123'})
    return render(request, 'text/textpage.html', {'obj' : obj, 'created' : created})

def update(request):
    if request.POST.get('action') == 'post':
        slug = request.POST.get('slug')
        text = request.POST.get('newText')
        obj = Text.objects.get(slug=slug)
        obj.text = text
        obj.save()
        response = JsonResponse({'status':'OK','text':text})
        return response

A: Where are you using this AJAX code? If it is in a JavaScript file (.js), Jinja won't work there, so you have to write the absolute URL or you have to define a variable for the Jinja in the HTML and then use that variable in the JS file.
And try to add a slash after the URL if your APPEND_SLASH not True in settings.py.


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10 Supposedly Unhealthy Foods That Aren't Actually Incompatible With Your Diet
By Jess Catcher November 21, 2018
When you're trying to eat healthy, it can be hard to keep track of what you can eat and what you can't, what's unhealthy and what's actually good for you. Diets talk about paring down the junk food intake, but also skipping out on foods packed with protein because they might have high sodium or fat contents. But as it turns out, plenty of the foods people tell you to steer clear of are actually full of things that you need. And we're not just talking about how dark chocolate is actually good for your heart or how a glass of wine can boost productivity.
We're talking about those foods that you've been trained to think of as off-limits when dieting. As it turns out, they actually can be part of normal, healthy meals. Sure, you don't want to binge on steak on a regular basis. But you don't have to stick to just lean chicken and fish to get your protein without veering off course. Unfortunately, junk food itself will never really be healthy (though if you're looking for healthier versions of junk food, we've got your covered). But these supposed "unhealthy" foods can actually be super good for you. Check out the gallery below to see what you don't need to be stripping out of your diet after all.
Is bacon healthy?
Most people who are trying to be conscious about their health know to stay away from bacon. But in reality, it's packed full of protein, not to mention omega-3 fatty acids that can lower your risk for depression, rheumatoid arthritis, and dementia. If you're at higher risk of heart disease, sure, you might want to be careful about how much bacon you eat. But pigging out now and then should never be off the table.
Bread can be healthy to eat, too.
Again, bread is something we've been taught to stay away from. But whole wheat bread is a major source of fiber that helps keep your digestive system functioning normally. And even maligned carbs are what your body breaks down for energy. You likely still don't want to eat all of your soup out of a bread bowl (OK, you definitely want to, but you still probably shouldn't), but you don't have to shun sandwiches in favor of lettuce wraps.
Popcorn can be a healthy snack.
When you think of popcorn, your brain goes right to the buttery, salty goodness that you get at the movie theater — the kind that leaves your hand all greasy after reaching into the bag. Make no mistake, that is totally unhealthy. But when you skip all those toppings and go for an air-popped bowl instead of a microwaved bag, it's actually a great source of fiber. There's even a popcorn diet you can follow if you're someone who needs to munch during the day.
Is pasta healthy?
Like most of the other items on this list, the delicious but notoriously shunned food has a bad reputation as being too carb-heavy to enjoy while dieting. However, according to a study published in April 2018, pasta has a low-glycemic index that causes smaller increases in blood sugar levels than other refined carbs. In fact, the study also observed participants who ate roughly three servings (about half a cup cooked) of pasta-based meals per week and they actually lost weight rather than gained.
Is rice healthy for you?
Although white rice is highly processed and stripped of the bran and germ (rice's nutrient-rich core), it's not necessarily an empty carb. According to Healthline, most white rice in the United States is enriched with added vitamins and minerals like iron, B vitamins, and folic acid. That said, brown rice is the entire whole grain, including the fiber-rich bran and nutritious germ. It also has fewer calories and carbs than white rice, and twice as much fiber, making it a better choice overall. You can also look into how a basmati rice-based Ayurvedic kitchari cleanse can help you balance your body and even lose weight.
Potatoes can be healthy.
French fries, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes — you've been told over and over that these are "unhealthy" foods, off limits, no good, etc. But actually, white potatoes come loaded with potassium, fiber, calcium, and vitamins C and B6. Those nutrients are typically in the skin, but if you incorporate that into your cooking, you're good to go.
Salt is healthy, believe it or not.
Our bodies actually need salt. Without sodium, bodies can become seriously dehydrated and your nerve impulses won't fire correctly. Babies and children who become sodium-deficient can experience salt cravings the rest of their lives. Adults are safe from this, but still — the benefits from salt outweigh the potential risks, which are being increasingly debunked.
Is butter healthy?
It's high in vitamin A and those omega-3 fatty acids, so it's definitely not something to be scared of. Sure, it's easy to overdo it on the butter — especially when it makes desserts taste so good — but if you need it for a recipe, don't be afraid to toss some in. No need to hunt down some kind of "healthy" substitute when using butter in moderation can give you essential nutrients your body needs.
Red meat can be pretty healthy.
Like bacon, red meat is packed full of protein, and it's got vitamins and minerals your body needs, too, like vitamin D, vitamin B12, iron, and zinc. It's also home to linoleic acid, which can help when you're trying to shed fat. Yeah, eating red meat every day could be trouble — but eating it once or twice a week can actually be good for you. Just make sure you're cutting off the fat and going for leaner portions.
Is the egg yolk healthy?
If you've been limiting yourself to egg white omelettes, it turns out there's no real good reason to be avoiding the yolks. They're full of choline, an anti-inflammatory agent that can help with brain function, and they can help prevent vision loss. You may still want to be careful of the cholesterol, but egg yolks definitely aren't something you want to be cutting out of your diet entirely or you'll miss out on servings of vitamins B and A.
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Stock Futures Drop on China Headlines
The White House is turning up the heat on Huawei and ZTE, per Reuters
Karee Venema
Oil futures are trading lower this morning, too
Following yesterday's historic rally on Wall Street, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) are trading well below fair value this morning. This premarket volatility follows a weak reading on Chinese industrial earnings, as well as a Reuters report that the Trump administration is preparing to ban U.S. companies from purchasing telecom equipment from China's Huawei and ZTE. Oil prices are set to resume their rout, as well, with February-dated crude futures down 2.3% at $45.14 per barrel.
Continue reading for more on today's market, including:
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Plus, a big bull note for CBS; a tech stock set to jump 25%; and JPMorgan gets fined.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) saw 940,209 call contracts traded on Wednesday, compared to 585,603 put contracts. The single-session equity put/call ratio fell to 0.62, and the 21-day moving average ticked down to 0.73.
Loop Capital reiterated its "buy" rating on CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS), citing a "favorable risk/reward." However, given the stock's roughly 27% decline from its early November highs near $60, the brokerage firm also lowered its price target to $59 from $68 -- still a 26% premium to last night's close at $43.37. CBS stock is up 1.3% in electronic trading.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved Delight PSAP, a hearing aid device made by Energous Corp (NASDAQ:WATT) that does not require a prescription. WATT stock has been making a beeline lower in 2018 -- down 76.5%, as of last night's close at $4.58 -- but is set to open up 25.6% at $5.80 per share.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) will pay more than $135 million to settle claims the financial firm improperly handled "pre-released" American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) between 2011 and early 2015, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing released yesterday. After rebounding from an early intraday 15-month low of $91.11 to close up 4.1% yesterday, JPM stock is down 1.4% ahead of the bell, on track to open near $94.54 per share.
Weekly jobless claims fell to 216,000 from a revised 217,000 last week. The Fed's balance sheet and consumer confidence data are due today, while trade data is expected tomorrow. New home sales data has been postponed due to the government shutdown.
Global Stocks Track Volatile Wall Street Trading
Markets in Asia were all over the place today. Japan's Nikkei finished an up-and-down session 3.9% higher and out of bear market territory, thanks to resurgent tech and energy sectors. However, China's Shanghai Composite shed 0.6%, after top officials from state-owned oil entity Sinopec were suspended over suspicious trading concerns. South Korea's Kospi finished marginally higher, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng gave back 0.7%.
Over in Europe, stocks have been unable to match the resounding rally from U.S. equities yesterday. As markets reopen following the Christmas break, the German DAX leads the laggards with a 2% drop, at last check. Elsewhere, the French CAC 40 is off 0.3%, while London's FTSE 100 is down 1.2%.


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Why cyber security needs to be a priority for your practice
Last updated: 29 / 11 / 21
Patient data is sensitive information, and anyone involved in the provision of healthcare has a responsibility to keep this important information safe. With cyber attacks on the rise in the healthcare sector, cyber security needs to be a priority for all practices – regardless of size. If patient data becomes compromised, there can be significant legal, financial and reputational impacts.
Recently, two major cyber attacks targeted the IT systems of hospitals in Victoria. In March, a ransomware attack in Melbourne's Eastern Health District forced a number of hospitals to shut down their computer systems. And in 2019, hospitals within the Gippsland Health Alliance and South West Alliance of Rural Health (SWARH) networks also had to shut down their computer systems to isolate a ransomware infection, resulting in systems remaining offline a month later.
The ransomware attacks locked staff out of patient records, disabled booking and management systems, and created enormous strain on staff as they tried to resolve the issue. Patients were heavily impacted too, as non-urgent surgeries had to be cancelled, and the lack of access to records sparked concerns about the impact of losing access to vital information about a patient's condition.
And it's not just sophisticated cyber criminals that are to blame.
In September 2020, a NSW nurse was banned from practising for two years for forging prescriptions by logging into medical software with the usernames and passwords of two GPs at her practice. As well as using the software to forge opioid prescriptions for herself and a relative on more than 30 occasions, the nurse had also accessed a family member's medical records to forge a letter from one of the GPs about the family member's mental health.
These incidents illustrate how easy it is for medical software and patient information to be used for unlawful means if security is not taken seriously by a practice. And the impacts have the potential to be devastating.
Legal and financial impacts of a data breach
Phil O'Sullivan a Partner at Allens, a leading international law firm, explains the potential legislative and financial impacts of a data breach. "You're generally talking about privacy legislation and in Australia, the Commonwealth Privacy Act. There are penalties up to about $2.1 million for a serious interference with privacy."
Currently, the Australian Government is looking to increase this penalty to the greater of $10 million. These changes, will bring the Privacy Act in line with Australia's consumer protection legislation and also align more with the substantial penalties in other countries.
Reputational damage and erosion of trust
OAIC's Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey reports that 70% of Australians consider privacy protection to be a major concern in their lives, with the top two risks identified as identify theft and fraud (76%) and data security and data breaches (61%).
A data breach can negatively impact an organisation's reputation for privacy protection. If a practice is seen to be mishandling personal information, patients will turn to other options and the resulting reputational damage (and, consequently, loss of income) can be devastating. In fact, up to 60% of small businesses who are impacted by a major cyber incident never recover and close their business within six months.
For your patients to feel comfortable sharing their medical issues, they need to have a high level of trust towards their practitioner. Once this trust is broken, it can be difficult, or even impossible, to get back. The latest Digital Trust Index report from identity provider, Okta, found that 49% of Australians surveyed would permanently stop using a company's services following a data breach.
How to protect your practice
Data breach prevention needs to take a multifaceted approach, starting with having clear processes in place for how a practice manages and gives access to data. And having appropriate back up and business continuity procedures in place will help to ensure your practice can be up and running as soon as possible after a cyber incident.
Technology solutions, such as MedicalDirector Shield, can be invaluable when it comes to protecting your practice. Developed in conjunction with cyber security experts, MedicalDirector Shield provides a physical plug-in device for your network, around-the-clock monitoring by an experienced Cyber Security Operations Centre, as well as reporting, training and guides to help safeguard your data.
By taking every reasonable measure to safeguard access to your computer systems, you'll be in a good position to prevent a data breach, as well as demonstrating to your patients that you're serious about the security of their information.
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I'm a little confused about massless neutrino.
because I want to remove massless and massive neutrinos.
and I checked that massive neutrino's value is zero.
Although I check that 'CP%Num_Nu_massless' is zero, but for density perturbation and Delta_r/k^2 in transfer.dat output file, massless neutrino has non-zero value.
How can I remove all neutrinos?
Or are massless neutrinos always calculated?
The neutrino transfer function may still be calculated even if the actual energy density in neutrinos is zero.
I understood that massless neutrino is calculated even if 'massless_neutrinos' parameter is zero.
Then, is my parameter setting right for removing all neutrinos?
It looks right, but I haven't tested it.


The French Connections | Cover Story | Style Weekly - Richmond, VA local news, arts, and events.
"Napoleon: Power and Splendor" is on exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts through Sept. 3. "Napoleon in His Study Wearing the Uniform of a Grenadier of the Guard" courtesy of the VMFA/Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau; photo-illustration by Ed Harrington.
Bastille Day is July 14 and France has conquered the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, for the summer at least, with the visually sumptuous special exhibition, "Napoleon: Power and Splendor." But for more than 300 years, a city that cultivates its ties to England has been fascinated by France, connected with its people and both was influenced by and sought its culture.
Memorials to the French Huguenots who settled west of the Falls around 1700 include a high school and a bridge connecting River Road with, well, Huguenot Road. These resourceful Protestants had fled persecution from Louis XIV and the Catholic Church. Although the first wave of 207 refugees were headed for the Virginia-North Carolina border, William Byrd I, a major landowner along the James, lured them to what is now Powhatan County where they were to be a buffer from Native Americans and become farmers. But the sect was drawn to trade and industrialism and drifted westward into what became Cumberland, Goochland and Fluvanna counties. By 1750 they had deserted their settlement of Manakin Town and married into local English families.
The bust of Lafayette by Houdon has a place of honor in the Capitol Rotunda.
Despite Americans' sense of manifest destiny, their break from England was a long shot. That made the new nation especially grateful to the military prowess and generosity of the Marquis de Lafayette. The 19-year-old nobleman left France in 1776 to join the Continental army and was a valued member of George Washington's staff. In 1781, when Gen. Benedict Arnold sailed up the James and marched into Manchester he soon retreated, knowing that Lafayette's troops waited across the river in Richmond. The Frenchman was essential to defeating the British at Yorktown.
One of Lafayette's staff who worked effectively in espionage was James Armistead, a slave from New Kent County. After the Revolution, Armistead was freed. He assumed the name Lafayette and was awarded a pension.
Back in France, Lafayette refused a position with Napoleon's government. In 1824 he took an extensive good-will tour of the U.S. An honorary banquet was held in Richmond at Masons Hall in Shockoe Bottom. Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall presided.
Today, Lafayette's bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon graces the statehouse rotunda.
The former Second Baptist sanctuary on West Franklin was inspired by the Maison Carrée. It was better detailed than the Virginia's Capitol.
Few people wax poetically about a building. But in 1787 Thomas Jefferson wrote of the Maison Carrée, a well-preserved Roman temple in Nimes, France: "I gaze upon her like a lover would his mistress." Earlier, Jefferson, then ambassador to France, had engaged French archeologist Charles Clerisseau to design a Capitol for Richmond that would capture the building's spirit.
Initially, local contractors weren't up to giving the Capitol design justice. But in 1906, Richmond architect Noland & Baskervill got its own adaptation of the Maison Carrée correct with Second Baptist Church at 9 W. Franklin St. Today the edifice is an elegant element of the Jefferson hotel complex.
Beaurepaire, a late 18th century French émigré, was among the first foreigners to volunteer in 1776 for service in the American Revolution. Afterwards he acted on suggestions to start a French academy in Richmond to teach the "polite arts." Richmonders, he wrote: "are inclined to encourage none [of the polite arts] except dancing." Soon after constructing a theater at East Marshall and 12th streets, he visited Petersburg and Norfolk, slightly larger communities than Richmond, to raise money. He then sailed to Paris, hoping his countrymen would support the scheme. But they, like U.S. Ambassador Jefferson, were not encouraging. He never returned to Richmond and his facility became a city auditorium. The state convention that ratified the federal Constitution met there.
In 1796, La Rochefoucault-Liancourt, an aristocrat with democratic beliefs, visited Virginia. His diary offers vivid snapshots of Richmond in the late the 18th century. The scholar was frequently unimpressed: "Gaming is the ruling passion of the Virginians; after Pharo, dice, billiards, at every imaginable game of hazard, they lose considerable sums."
Upon traveling from Williamsburg to Richmond he wrote: "I did not see twenty houses: and such I saw were mean and wretched." More positively he noted Richmond's stock of brick houses and its hilly topography and was delighted by Manchester: "The well-built town… [is] ornamented by an infinite number of trees… [that embellish] the sweet, variegated, agreeable and romantic perspective.
Jean-Antoine Houdon's depiction of George Washington in the Virginia Capitol rotunda was sculpted from Carrara marble during the 1780s. The brilliant French artist, who spoke no English, stayed at Mount Vernon for two weeks to observe the retired general and do preliminary work. Two years later the final product was delivered from Paris. Today it is considered the nation's most valuable piece of sculpture.
The stepped walkway in Capitol Square was designed by Godefroy in 1817.
Although Jefferson's and Clerisseau's Capitol was occupied in 1788, it wasn't until 1817 that the grounds were landscaped to become Capitol Square. French architect Maximillian Godefroy created allées of trees to create axial relationships and formality. Although much of his work was undone decades later, his handiwork still exists in the walkway descending toward Bank Street from the Washington Monument and the roadway linking the Executive Mansion to Ninth Street.
As a young man, Louis Philippe, the future king of France, spent 21 years in exile, many during Napoleon's reign. Three of those years were with his two brothers and their dog visiting American cities. But the back country beckoned to him: he wanted to know how every day people lived. Donning buckskin outfits the brothers traveled south on today's Route 11 through Winchester, Lexington and Christiansburg. They found Mrs. Tease's tavern in Staunton one of the nation's worst. Some years after Napoleon's reign, in July 1830 he was proclaimed King of the French People. Decidedly more down-to-earth than previous royals, he was the last French monarch.
If Virginians turned to Paris for a great sculptor to depict George Washington after the Revolution, a century later they again engaged a renowned French artist for the design of a monument to Confederate Gen Robert E. Lee. By Memorial Day 1890 the equestrian statue by artist Antonin Mercié had arrived in Richmond and been lugged by white school children from Rocketts Landing to Monument and Allen avenues. Then it was hoisted onto a high pedestal — where it continues to inspire heated debate today.
When planners envisioned Monument Avenue they turned to Paris, the city that gave boulevards their name, for inspiration. Beginning in 1850, as a way to quell insurrections, twisting Paris streets were replaced with sweeping and straight landscaped boulevards, all envisioned by public administrator George-Eugene Haussman.
In the 1890s Richmond took a lesson from this French playbook to create one of the nation's most beautiful and famous streets.
In 1917, with the U.S. entry into World War I, Richmond surgeon Dr. Stuart McGuire closed St. Luke's Hospital and became the head of United States Base Hospital No. 45 in Toul, France. McGuire, the dean the Medical College of Virginia, was joined by a staff of some 40 colleagues in medicine and nursing who operated eight miles from the front, serving 17,000 wounded.
The Crozet House on East Main Street.
Claudius Crozet was an engineer in Napoleon's army who emigrated and taught at the United States Military Academy. He later moved to Virginia upon being appointed principal engineer for the commonwealth. He lived at 100 E. Main St. from 1828-1832, a house still standing. He was also a founder of the Virginia Military Institute and chairman of its first board of visitors.
In Virginia the irascible genius also worked with private companies, especially in designing railroads. The 1840s were particularly fertile years. From 1845-49 he taught at Richmond Academy, a well-thought-of but underfunded school. In 1849 he engineered a major rail tunnel through the Blue Ridge Mountains. At the end of his career he retired to Midlothian where he lived with his daughter and her husband. First buried at Shockoe Cemetery here, his remains were moved to a prominent spot at VMI.
On Nov. 23, 1921, French Gen. Ferdinand Foch, supreme commander of the Allied armies, visited Richmond while touring the United States and Canada after having helped bring World War I to a conclusion. Given a hero's welcome, Gov. Westmoreland Davis and Mayor George Ainslie met him at Broad Street Station. En route to a Jefferson hotel luncheon, his motorcade stopped at the Lee monument for a wreath-laying. He later reviewed 3,000 marchers, including Benedictine and John Marshall High School cadets. Tours of Civil War battlefields and a dance at the Blues Armory on East Marshall Street (soon to undergo restoration) rounded out the itinerary.
Shirley MacLaine plays "Irma La Douce"
Shirley MacLaine, born at Richmond's St. Luke's Hospital in 1934, received her third Academy Award nomination in 1963 for best actress in the title role of Paris' most successful lady of the evening in "Irma La Douce." The romantic comedy co-starred Jack Lemmon as a police officer with a soft heart. Billy Wilder directed.
MacLaine, whose father Ira Beaty was the principal of Westhampton elementary and high schools and whose mother pushed her into showbiz, began dance lessons at age three with Julia Mildred Harper whose studio was in Ginter Park. As "Irma La Douce," MacLaine danced and delivered some high kicks to Andre Previn's Oscar-winning score.
Richmond once had few upscale restaurants and any national acclaim as a dining destination — such as L'Opossum being anointed the South's best restaurant in 2018 by Southern Living — was unimaginable. But the 1971 opening of La Petite France at 2108 Maywill St. in a warehouse district changed that.
Wedged between discount stores, a fitness center, and a doggy day-care center, Style Weekly critic Davis Morton wrote in 2001: "Once inside the restaurant, that ugly commercial world is left behind [for] the pleasant formality and serenity of the softly lighted room, fresh flowers, and crisp napery. There is a club-like ambiance because so many [patrons] know each other and are known by Chef Paul [Ebling] and his hostess-spouse Marie–Antoinette. … It's as French as you get around here."
The Eblings sold the beloved restaurant and, two owners later, it closed in 2006.
Wally Shawn, at left, and Andre Gregory appear in the Malle-directed film.
Louis Malle directs "My Dinner With Andre"
Frenchman Louis Malle, an Oscar-winning film director, created a sensation here in winter 1981 during the filming of "My Dinner With Andre" at the Jefferson hotel, then not restored.
The script by playwright and actor Wally Shawn had languished for years since most couldn't envision filming a two-hour conversation between friends. But Richmond native Jeffrey Ullman, a designer and friend of Shawn's, got the script to Andrew and Ginny Lewis: The president of Best Products and his wife were film aficionados and became backers of the low-budgeted production. Avoiding unions, and with the blessing of George Ross, the Jefferson's owner who charged no rent, the hotel ballroom stood in for Manhattan's Café des Artistes.
The Richmond opening was at the Biograph cinema, the afterparty at Virginia Commonwealth University's Anderson Gallery. Some critics named "My Dinner with Andre" the year's best film. Until Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" in 2012, it was the most famous movie shot in Richmond.
Those seeking a visual jolt of French art and design should visit the Lewis-Mellon Wing of the Virginia Museum of Arts. It's a triple treat. First is the Paul and Rachael Mellon collection of French impressionism with a delightful treasure in Edward Degas' "Little Dancer Fourteen Years Old," of 1881. As the painter was losing eyesight, he turned to working in clay.
Secondly, are two collections established by Richmond philanthropists Frances Lewis and her late husband, Sydney. Their holdings in art nouveau and art deco furniture and decorative arts anchor a sumptuous world-class collection that continues to grow.
In 1985 the Mellons and Lewises teamed up to the build the museum's west wing as the repository for their treasures.
Twenty-five years ago, husband and wife Peter Kirkpatrick and Francoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick (above), professors of French literature and film studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond, respectively, founded the Richmond French Film Festival.
The ambitious celebration of French cinema presents contemporary features and short and classic films. The program benefits from Richmond's relative proximity to the French embassy in Washington.
Every March, the French tricolor is unfurled in Carytown near the festival's venue, the Byrd. The historic movie palace is a fitting setting: If you squint, it resembles the glorious Paris Opera house. For another French connection, festival receptions are sometimes held at VCU's Scott House. It is an 1911 copy of the Petit Trianon, Marie Antoinette's opulent Versailles hideaway.