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Posts Tagged 'Bret Stephens'
Thursday Night Links!
* CFP: The 9th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse. CFP: Horror(s) of Childhood and Adolescence. CFP: Trans Futurisms. CFP: Critical Comics Studies. And CFP coming soon: The X-Men Animated Series.
* Depictions of death on TV and in the movies are unrealistic; the characters are awake and carry on meaningful conversations, then suddenly close their eyes and die. That's not how it works. In the days when deaths occurred at home, most people had seen a relative die. And today we have a lot of knowledge about what happens in the body as it begins shutting down.
* Almost micro-targeted to my mental illness: How many US cities can you name?
* What Fan Fiction Teaches That the Classroom Doesn't.
* So much of college administration is rule by decree under the sign of emergency.
* California Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes To Profit From Endorsements. Free labor from college athletes may soon come to an end. And please don't worry: Ending the sham of NCAA amateurism will not end Title IX.
* Here come the esports majors.
* The Cult of Rich-Kid Sports.
* Anatomy of a Polite Revolt in Columbia's English Department. Reckon it could probably stand to be a little less polite.
* My university is dying.
* Former College Towns Left to Adapt to Business Loss.
* The inaugural issue of our journal Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic is finally live.
* Earth is a fire planet, the only one we know.
* Humans Are Disturbing Earth's Carbon Cycle More Than the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Did.
* First as Tragedy, Then as Fascism: Ecologist Garrett Hardin's enduring gift to the nativist right. The Delusion and Danger of Infinite Economic Growth. Now That's What I Call the Anthropocene™!
* What If We Really Are Alone in the Universe?
* 'Sci-fi makes you stupid' study refuted by scientists behind original research.
* Amber Guyger found guilty of murder at trial in fatal shooting of neighbor Botham Jean.
* The toll of #MeToo.
* This time they can't use procedural tricks to stymie the march of progress! *five seconds later* Ah, well, nevertheless.
McConnell added that it would require 67 votes to change Senate rules to prevent a trial from taking place – so the rule change won't happen. But he can move to dismiss after the trial begins. "How long I'm on it is another matter," he said of a trial
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 30, 2019
The Senate voting along party lines to refuse to hold the trial at all — which is what they would have to do for this to work — is probably the best case scenario for the Democrats short of conviction (which is a fantasy). https://t.co/n3yJ5bXcut
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) September 28, 2019
* The Week That Everything Changed. Paralyzed and teetering on the edge of a cliff. High on His Own Supply. Crazy. Shoot Migrants' Legs, Build Alligator Moat: Behind Trump's Ideas for Border. Government Plans to Begin DNA Testing on Detained Immigrants. Trump Administration Separates Some Migrant Mothers From Their Newborns Before Returning Them to Detention. After two ICE officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear. Will Trump ever leave the White House? The only way out of this catastrophe is for everyone on both sides to pretend Pence isn't completely dirty even though he very obviously is. President Pence's First and Worst Choice.
Mitch McConnell's wife is Secretary of Transportation.
Mitt Romney's niece is RNC Chair.
Antonin Scalia's son is up for Secretary of Labor.
etc. https://t.co/TS5ut3ydEb
— Jonathan Dresner (@jondresner) September 29, 2019
This looks like a meeting of the human villains from every Muppets movie. pic.twitter.com/IO64xvFmia
— Devin Field (@thatdevinfield) October 2, 2019
Every worry people have about the way mass media leads people to eliminationist and genocidal thought is present in every form of rightwing media, from talk radio to blogs to Fox News. The foundation is laid.
* Somehow Elizabeth Warren keeps attracting the right enemies. Warren's plan for workers. Warren and the selfie line.
* How Bernie Sanders convinced me about free college.
* Snowden in the Labyrinth.
* John Kelly, man of honor.
* "shoddy system backed by extremely shoddy research and jackboot instincts should be applied globally"
* WeWork is really shaping up to be the Enron of our moment, narrowly edging out Uber.
* The Enduring Myth of "The Economy."
* The Boeing whistleblower.
* Welcome to Estonia's Isle of Women.
* How they teach slavery, then and now.
Here is a page from "Our Virginia: Past and Present" by Joy Masoff (2010). Notice the reference to free blacks expressing loyalty to the Confederacy and of course the black Confederate claim:
"Thousands of Southern blacks fought in Confederate ranks…" pic.twitter.com/outkKpaIS7
— Kevin M. Levin (@KevinLevin) October 1, 2019
* Turns out you can say something so stupid you get fired from Fox.
* The Supreme Court will hear three cases next Tuesday that ask whether it is legal to fire workers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. That alone is enough to make them three of the most important employment discrimination cases in many years. But there are additional layers to these cases, layers that could imperil all workers regardless of whether or not they are LGBTQ.
* I suppose this is canon (again).
* Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino in conversation.
* Star Trek: Discovery Became The Most Popular Streaming Show In The World.
* The His Dark Materials sequel is here: The Secret Commonwealth.
* Why Has Transphobia Gone Mainstream in Philosophy?
* Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?
* Is it weird that no one can sustain a media operation of any size no matter what the topic or longevity?
* More than 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: FBI. Hard at work to double that number by 2025.
* Absolutely psychotic nation.
* Great country. Truly great.
* Only in America!
* When your industry is so racist you have no choice but to level up.
* Superheroes are real.
* get you a man who can do all three
get you a man who can do all three pic.twitter.com/yYOLHQPZNn
— Dickie Greenleaf (@ohgoddickie) September 28, 2019
* Food mascots and whether or not I'd be able to kick their ass.
* A cultural history of an incredibly self-referential tweet.
* Don't vape!
* Stop Getting Married On Plantations!
* america.jpg
* This one is a real america.jpg too.
* america.jpgs all over.
* Nothing gold can stay: the end of BoJack Horseman.
* He Spent Years Infiltrating White Supremacist Groups. Here's What He Has to Say About What's Going on Now.
* Tor.com takes up one of my favorite elements of the Foundation series, the Encyclopedia Galactica.
* And I feel like this is worth at least two weeks of therapy.
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* CFP: Reading Lovecraft in the 21st Century. CFP: JOSF Special Issue on Environmental Studies.
* I saw some tweets tweets last night that turned my head a bit on the statement from the Tiptree Motherboard. I feel very conflicted.
* Academics calling for a boycott against Disability and Society.
* The latest from the Marquette free speech tire fire: University, attorneys differ on 'permission' in demonstration policy.
* Student debt is transforming the American family.
* No child grows up wanting to be a management consultant, and the fact that high levels of educational achievement strongly correlate with becoming a management consultant doesn't mean people who become management consultants are any smarter than dental hygienists or taxi drivers or the unemployed. That's where any honest accounting of meritocracy has to land, but the author can't manage it.
* Wait — there are ethics in college admissions?
* U.S., France, Britain may be complicit in Yemen war crimes, U.N. report says.
* How Has Climate Change Affected Hurricane Dorian?
* How Does Waffle House Stay Open During Disasters?
* Incredible image of the devastating flooding in The Bahamas. Yellow lines are original coastline. Look at what's left. Dorian's incredible stall over the island of Grand Bahama appears to set a new record for the slowest moving major hurricane over any 24-hour period since records began in 1851. Climate change is slowing hurricanes. Our first images of Abaco from air.
Our first images of Abaco from air. pic.twitter.com/rPmXuKDrSD
— Travis C-Carroll (@TravisCC) September 3, 2019
* As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most. New Elevation Measure Shows Climate Change Could Quickly Swamp the Mekong Delta.
* All good news is also bad news: Joe Manchin Will Stay in the Senate Because He Could Become Its Most Powerful Member.
* The wild corruption of Trump's golf courses deserves more scrutiny. This Ireland one really is outrageously bad.
* Never a single misstep.
* The protesters engaged in a "rolling picket" on August 27, rallying at branches of HSBC, Vanguard, BlackRock, and Prudential in order to pressure the companies to divest from CoreCivic and GEO Group, which imprison immigrants for ICE.
* Under the law, a 16-year-old who has sex with a willing 13-year-old—a crime in Alabama, since the 13-year-old isn't old enough to consent—could also lose parental rights decades later if he ever has a child, says Gar Blume, a longtime attorney in Tuscaloosa who has received national honors for his work on juvenile law. "It is so broad," he says of the legislation, "that anybody ever convicted of a sex offense essentially is having their right to parenthood severely constrained, or there's the potential for that to occur." He described the law as "blatantly unconstitutional."
* Nation that never abolished slavery getting a little angsty about it.
* South Dakota had a Democratic senator four years ago.
* Democracy Dies From Bad Fact-Checking.
* The voting machines don't help, either.
* At least a little good news: North Carolina Court Says The State's Districts Are Illegal Partisan Gerrymanders. North Carolina Court Strikes Down Gerrymander, Citing Smoking Gun Evidence in the Hofeller Files.
* "I feel like my kids have been part of a huge massive experiment I have no control over."
This is literally every cohort of kids for the last forty years or more. Dumb fads sweep through again and again, chewing up valuable time in the ONE CHANCE that these kids have to get a basic education. https://t.co/Hl9jSiv8A0
— Adam Kotsko (@adamkotsko) September 3, 2019
* Neal Stephenson Wants To Tell Big Stories.
* Yeah, that sounds like a really bad show!
Richard Gere was set to star as one of two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved 50 years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today's self-absorbed millennials and the duo then go on a shooting spree.
* She spent more than $110,000 on drug rehab. Her son still died.
* In Flint, Schools Overwhelmed by Special Ed. Needs in Aftermath of Lead Crisis.
* Facing a labor shortage, restaurants are turning to on-demand services for line cooks, dishwashers and other trained workers.
* The app went down, so I couldn't unlock my car.
* "Ben & Jerry's new ice cream flavor is inspired by racism in the criminal justice system."
* Grenada's Revolution at 40.
* Never say die!
* A glossary of dirty tricks websites use against their readers.
* There is something inherently entertaining about the self-proclaimed defender of uncomfortable speech on college campuses coming unglued when he found a sentence on the Internet that he didn't like.
* Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
* A review of Atwood's Handmaid's Tale sequel in the wild! I was told they weren't giving copies to reviewers. Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale Sequel Is Already Being Developed by Hulu.
* The Book of Prince.
* This is a hell of a thread. If you're concerned about unprovoked violence against peaceful demonstrators at political protests, you need to understand that the primary instigators of such violence are the police.
This is a hell of a thread. If you're concerned about unprovoked violence against peaceful demonstrators at political protests, you need to understand that the primary instigators of such violence are the police. https://t.co/SiwwLEh8jo
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) September 3, 2019
* And there's no idea so bad you can't make it worse.
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* Marquette now requires permission for on-campus protests. An Open Letter Opposed to Marquette U.'s Anti-Demonstration Policy.
Two aspect of Marquette's new protest policy worth noting:
1) All protests must be approved by the administration and in the designated protest era. This recalls the "free speech zones" of the Trump era. Essentially: denude protest of power by hiding it. pic.twitter.com/zh8aG9ztUm
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) August 28, 2019
* Elsewhere in academics behaving badly: Professors rally behind MIT Media Lab director after Epstein funding scandal.
* The Quantitative Easing of the Humanities.
The dangerous essence of the humanities is loyal criticism of the institutions one serves.
— William Pannapacker (@pannapacker) August 27, 2019
* Most-Expensive 4-Year Private Nonprofit Institutions, 2018-19. Impressive for Harvey Mudd to be so committed to that last three dollars to tick just over $75,000/year.
* College Board Drops Its 'Adversity Score' For Each Student After Backlash.
* New analysis finds that education researchers, unlike scholars in many other disciplines, don't check one another's work.
* Academia: A Life.
✍ by @tomgauld pic.twitter.com/FQ3EkVW12M
— New Scientist (@newscientist) August 26, 2019
* The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials.
* I just knew it would be something like this.
* As e-scooters take over Milwaukee streets, other cities reckon with injured riders, scarce helmet use.
* This Professor Compared a Columnist to a Bedbug. Then the Columnist Contacted the Provost. A Q&A With the Man Who Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug. Bret Stephens's "bedbug" meltdown, explained. Who Gets to Speak Freely? Aaron Bady goes all the way back to 2005 for a good old-fashioned blog post.
Rorschach's journal, August 27, 2019: "Time to do what I long ago promised to do. Twitter is a sewer. It brings out the worst in humanity. I sincerely apologize for any part I've played in making it worse, and to anyone I've ever hurt. Thanks to all of my followers, but I'm deact
the thing you have to understand is that university administrations absolutely despise faculty and will gleefully seek out any opportunity to hurt them no matter how petty or embarrassing https://t.co/VZ1b9PotBD
* Speaking of the mystery of free speech: Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked.
"When I asked every time to have my phone back so I could tell them about the situation, the officer refused and told me to sit back in [my] position and not move at all," he wrote. "After the 5 hours ended, she called me into a room , and she started screaming at me. She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend[s] list."
* Southern California police arrest 3 middle school students for inciting a riot.
* Journalism Is an Action.
* Photos: The Burning Amazon Rainforest. The basic premise of geoengineering is that it will be easier to get the planetary atmospheric and ecological systems to change the way they work than to get the capitalist economy to change the way it works. It is immoral to have climate change in the era of babies. Wildfires and Floods Push Russia to Revise Its Stance on Climate Change. Let's just spray trillions of tons of snow on Antarctica?
it cost $350 million to make Avengers: Endgame https://t.co/WOdh4fEcxN
— flglmn (@flglmn) August 26, 2019
The US spends $32 million on its wars – per hour. https://t.co/0oetA6fFod
— Amir (@AmirAminiMD) August 26, 2019
That's what climate change is. https://t.co/ooGMmSbIw7
* The Affair, climate change, and the new realism.
* Florida Marine vet teacher on leave after telling students he would 'be the best school shooter.'
* Bigotry and hate are more linked to mass shootings than mental illness, experts say.
* Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S. (A rebuttal.) Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart. Trump Allies Reportedly Set Up Network to Smear Journalists Ahead of Election. He also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly, those officials said.
* The Entire Plane of the Milky Way Captured in a Single Photo. Keep scrolling, there's more!
* A reading list on alcoholism.
* School Administration Reminds Female Students Bulletproof Vests Must Cover Midriff.
* Native American Lacrosse Teams Reported Racial Abuse. Then Their League Expelled Them.
* When your kids start beating you in games.
* Where the candidates campaign. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Understands Democracy Better Than Republicans Do.
* When you're extremely on message.
* Congress by the numbers.
* Being Andrew Luck.
* Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products.
* Dairy Queen burgers are not made of human flesh, a county coroner is forced to confirm. He's in on it.
* Johnson & Johnson must pay over $572 million for its role in Oklahoma opioid crisis, judge rules.
* Drug prices in 2019 are surging, with hikes at 5 times inflation.
As 1/4 of diabetics ration their insulin to survive, here's how much Pharma execs rake in:
Regeneron: $118M
Merck: $49M
Pfizer: $47M
Johnson & Johnson: $46M
Abbott: $32M
Gilead: $22M
Eli Lilly: $14M
Pharma's greed is as lethal as the diseases they're supposed to be treating.
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) August 23, 2019
* The US Created MS-13.
* 2 California towns where chickens have free range.
* Uber And Lyft Take A Lot More From Drivers Than They Say.
* A growing army of 'Airbnb' police gets paid to expose the addresses of homeshare hosts.
* 'They're Putting People at Risk': Sexual Misconduct, Harassment, and Inaction at Zeel, the Top Massage App.
* Human-guided burrito bots raise questions about the future of robo-delivery.
* More evidence of YouTube rightwing radicalization. In a study of >79 million YouTube comments, @manoelribeiro et. al. shows that a high % of people who now comment on Alt-Right videos used to comment exclusively on IDW or Alt-lite videos.
* ProPublica found that – despite the TSA saying it is committed to treating all passengers equally and fairly – five per cent of civil rights complaints against the TSA related to the treatment of trans passengers, despite trans people making up less than one per cent of the US population.
* Lots of nerds *think* they like science fiction because of the technology and perditions.
* Marvel Comics Just Retconned the Entire Vietnam War.
* There Are People Who Think The West Invaded Iraq Over a Stargate.
* Mystery Deepens Around Newly Detected Ripples in Space-Time.
* "We are in a mass delusion that it's all Gary, that he's the father of role-playing games," he said. "Humans do not like to admit they've been hornswoggled, lied to, cheated, or fooled."
* We Can Be Heroes: How the Nerds Are Reinventing Pop Culture. The Campbell Award gets a new name.
* How Do We Colonize the Moon?
* And submitted for your approval: the new culture industry.
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Rocky Mountain Links!
* Media Recklessness on Russia. Great list from Glenn Greenwald.
* Meanwhile, MSNBC tells on itself (yet again).
* Turning and turning in the widening gyre: The Syrian catastrophe.
* Organizing in the university. An Education Worth Fighting For. Under Fire, These Professors Were Criticized by Their Colleges.
* The Rise of the Thought Leader: How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.
* "Dear Dean and Joe," the letter begins. "We have begun the humiliating process of justifying our continued presence at The New York Times. We take some solace in the fact that we have been assured repeatedly that copy editors are highly respected here…
* Florida Cop Cites Imaginary ID Law While Threatening 21-Year-Old Black Man With Jail for Jaywalking.
* Whiteness and assisted suicide.
* Now that the president is normal again, I'd be very grateful to be able to enjoy this health insurance and all these patient protections that have saved my small business and my child's life. So please, don't repeal the Affordable Care Act.
* My relationship with the God of Death began as these things typically do: I met him at a Republican donor event.
* Look my son in the eyes and tell him that he's fought so hard to be here but sorry, you're just not worth it anymore. I dare you.
He died doing what he loved: suffering from a preventable illness so that a millionaire could get a huge tax cut on investment income
— Leotard Cohen (@pharmasean) June 27, 2017
* Paging Eliezer Yudkowsky.
* How Marvel set up Black Panther to fail.
* Science fiction and the Islamic world.
* Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-numbingly big it is…
* Science Has Consistently Underestimated Women Because Scientists Are Sexist.
* Black children aren't allowed to be innocent, part 339.
* Let's be real, it's impossible to lose weight, don't try.
* NRA more or less openly calling for a purge. We are six months in.
* You FLAV?
* Zuck/Soong 2020.
* Truly, grim times.
* And because you demanded it! Now your nightlight can notify you of retweets and emails.
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Trapped Inside of LAX with the MKE Blues Again
* A great Storify from the great @moyabz of the great Octavia Butler conference at the Huntington this weekend. By universal acclamation, one of the best-loved moments. Check out the exhibit of her papers if you're able to get near there! It's gorgeous.
* You are living in a death cult.
* Every lie Trump has told as president, a very long list by the New York Times.
* Obama's secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin's election assault.
Republicans, 2026: "Democrats knew Trump was dangerous, Obama never should have allowed him to take over."
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) November 23, 2016
* Union-busting for God: Catholic colleges and adjunct organizing.
* Student Evaluations at Center of American University Tenure Fight. Given the research on the implicit bias of student evaluations and the obvious perverse incentives involved it is incredible to me that any college administration in the country feels empowered to use them for anything.
* When the Dean Quashes Your Class: An Interview with Jay Smith.
* Major medical groups call for rejection of Senate health bill. This is the biggest pure giveaway to the rich in the Republican health bill. Can't wait to hear from the centrist Dems why it's wrong for Bernie to do this. No single payer in Communist-run California, of course.
Names for yachts billionaires will buy with tax cuts from Medicaid being gutted:
– Lucy's Kidney
– Mom's Insulin
– 10 thousand wheel chairs
— Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) June 24, 2017
Trumpcare would reduce the price of insurance the same way removing the doors and the engine would reduce the price of a car
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 24, 2017
also it's not clear that they'll actually charge less, just that the service you must buy or die will have more ways to kill you anyway https://t.co/jOC509VdaC
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 24, 2017
* Trump's election integrity commission needs to redress voter suppression, not fraud. Counterpoint: it's a voter suppression commission, that is literally the entire point of it.
* Trump says pretending to have Comey tapes "wasn't very stupid." The video is stunning even by Trump standards. Still, after this, I'll probably vote for him.
* Once more with feeling: Never Trump is not a thing.
* Forced into debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing. Indentured servitude in the transportation industry in California.
* Mountain lions have better politics than just about every human being.
* Science isn't an exact science with these clowns.
* Surely the best ending of any New York Times column ever.
[setting fire to orphanage] the quality of the feedback, frankly, has been disappointing
— Felix Gilman (@felixgilman) June 24, 2017
* From the archives! No one goes dark like children's literature goes dark.
"Personally I am very pessimistic," Miyazaki says. "But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making."
* Anthony Kennedy is the key swing vote to determine whether he is the worst Supreme Court justice ever to serve.
* Every generation gets the folk-hero bandits it deserves: Canada police investigate theft of mummified human toe served in drinks.
* And a great Tumblr mashup: The Weird Adventures of Tin-Tin, by H.P. Lovecraft.
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Mother's Day Links!
* Happy Mother's Day! You Will Hate Your Husband After Your Kid Is Born.
* Humbled to be a finalist for a 2017 Locus Award.
* I'd like to apologize in advance, but after consulting with my colleagues in other departments at Reality Publishing Corporation, I'm afraid we can't publish your book, Zero Day: The Story of MS17-010, as things stand. However, I'd like to add that it was a gripping read, very well written, and we hope to see more from you in future! The World Is Getting Hacked. Why Don't We Do More to Stop It?
* It is the iPad that sits on a counter at the entrance, with a typed little note: "Here is a glimpse of what you're missing over at the main terminal right now."
* A pair of provocatively negative takes on Donna Haraway's recent work.
* Meet The Techno-Libertarians Praying for Dystopia.
* Genetically engineered humans will arrive sooner than you think. And we're not ready.
* Transforming deaf culture at Gallaudet.
* The future is here, it just hasn't been properly risk assessed yet.
* Teeth and the class struggle.
* Why Milwaukee is among top cities for sex trafficking, what's being done about it.
* Exploitation and Abuse at the Chicken Plant.
* When Will Republicans Stand Up to Trump? Will they even ever criticize him on the record? Oh honey. No one in politics has less courage or shame than Paul Ryan. But the real heart of anti-anti-Trumpism is the delight in the frustration and anger of his opponents. Mr. Trump's base is unlikely to hold him either to promises or tangible achievements, because conservative politics is now less about ideas or accomplishments than it is about making the right enemies cry out in anguish. How Worried Should I Be? And just in case you need the reminder: The FBI Is Not Your Friend.
* Cuomo 2020!
* At 3 a.m., NC Senate GOP strips education funding from Democrats' districts.
* In Wisconsin, ID law proved insurmountable for many voters. Meet Trump's voter suppression task force.
* "The Rent Eats First": Fighting Gentrification in California.
* Gaslighting and Dolezal/Tuvel (and academia more generally).
* Abolish Jeff Sessions.
* Jason Chaffetz Has Been Telling House Republicans He Will Join Fox News. There should be a ten-year ban on politicians and political staff going to media (and vice versa), like with lobbying and the military.
* Man who doesn't understand the first thing about diabetes says diabetics deserve to be sick.
* For 15 years, Pixar was the best on the planet. Then Disney bought it.
* Depletion of dissolved oxygen in our oceans, which can cause dead zones, is occurring much faster than expected, a new study finds.
* New York Times publisher sends personal appeal to those who canceled over Bret Stephens, then publishes garbage column by Erick Ericsson for some reason. Six Ways The New York Times Could Genuinely Make Its Op-Ed More Representative of America.
* As far as I'm concerned they should do the whole movie this way.
* No! That's not true! That's impossible!
* Yale History's Major Comeback.
* The future looks bright. Hunt Tories, not foxes. Fandom, or, academia. Still one of my favorite sets of images on the Internet. Tumblr, perfected.
* And at least there's something to look forward to.
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Wednesday Night Links!
* Journal Sentinel columnist James Causey was a third-grader at Samuel Clemens Elementary School. The problems of the city would play out with his classmates.
* Teen's brothers witnessed his 'violent, senseless' death in Texas police shooting, family says.
* Flint puts 8,000 people on notice for tax liens for unpaid water bills.
* Ah, the holy mystery of free speech, with its inscrutable twists and turns.
* Today in academic controversies. I'm hard-pressed to think of a recent issue where my Facebook feed divided so evenly for and against.
* NASA, here to help: Science Fiction Space Technology Terms.
* What Algorithms Want.
* Contingent No More: An Academic Manifesto.
* Democrats Can Retake the House in 2018 Without Converting a Single Trump Voter. Of course, they can lose that way, too… And speaking of losing. The coming clown show. I would have thought Gillibrand would be an instant frontrunner. Why did Trump win? New research by Democrats offers a worrisome answer. More on that last link here.
* A noncriminal mother of four was deported. Now in Mexico, she fears for her safety.
* Well, this seems fine: Donald Trump on whether he could start war with North Korea: 'I don't know. I mean, we'll see.' How Trump Could Get Fired.
* The Whole World Is Now a Message Board.
* Why does a newspaper employ opinion columnists at all?
* A cure for Type 1 diabetes?
* Thor-centric podcast from Miles while Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is on hiatus.
* The greatest writers of the nineteenth century were drawn to the North Pole. What did they hope to find there?
* The story of NESticle.
* A Rare Journey Into the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, a Super-Bunker That Can Survive Anything.
* Finally someone said it: Let's end compulsory schooling and stop forcing education 'down everybody's throat.'
* How your selfie could affect your life insurance.
* Shock finding: Colleges Respond to Racist Incidents as if Their Chief Worry Is Bad PR, Studies Find.
* Even more shocking! Men Are Less Moral after Exposure to Images of Sexy Women, Research Finds.
* Teach the controversy: Are Baby Boomers A 'Generation Of Sociopaths'? Seems harsh.
* Mike Pence — IN SPAAAAAAAAACE!
* And my sabbatical, RIP.
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Resurrection Men Audiobook | Audiobooks in Review
Author: Listening Guy
read by Joe Dunlop
I was unfamilar with Ian Rankin's writings, but Resurrection Men is one in a series of "Inspector Rebus" novels (published in 2002). I wasn't sure what I was getting into, but the listener comments had been good, and I thought I'd give it a shot.
Detective Inspector John Rebus is somewhat surly and skeptical (to be expected for a cop). He's a hard drinker (as is pretty much everyone in the story…apparently common in Scotland) and he's been sent back to Police College in Scotland as punishment for acting badly toward his supervisor, who happens to be a woman. But, as it turns out, this was a fix excuse. He's actually being sent there to try to unravel a mystery involving some possibly bad cops who are also in trouble for their attitudes…including one Francis Gray, who has a reputation for being tough and competent, and has often been compared to Rebus himself.
There's a second strong character in the story as well. Her name is Detective Sargeant Siobhan Clarke…pronounced "shuh-vawn", and she's recently been promoted and is still trying to get a handle on surviving as a woman in the boys' club of police work.
**This story type is obviously alluded to as a "procedural", and I'd say that is a well-suited title. It moves at a consistent speed, has a lot of discourse and discovery…and unfurls over the long run as Rebus and Clarke work on two distinct cases that show up increasingly more to share components practically speaking.**
I loved the story. It was a nice full length (about 15 hours) and the energy never waned.
But I was REALLY pleased with the narration, performed by Joe Dunlop. I've never heard this guy before, but he's as comfortable as a well-worn shoe. His energy level never varies a great deal, but the story doesn't suffer for it one bit. He really comes off as a storyteller. Character variations are handled very nicely, and I felt that he was a guide into a world mostly unfamiliar to me. Rankin's descriptions and his delivery were picturesque and engaging all the way through.
As an American, when listening to English delivered in as heavily-affected a dialect as Scottish, I find myself considering my own language (terminology and delivery) in new ways. Phrase after phrase popped up that I may have or may not have heard before…but in working to follow the story, I found that much of it became self-explanatory over time. Truly a delightful experience!
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As far as the audio itself, the recording quality was great. The editing lacked a bit. I noticed two edits that were completely missed by the editor…which I always find disappointing in a commercial product. But, overall, this was a thoroughly enjoyable story and listening experience!

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There are many benefits to migrating to Office 365 and not just through cost savings. More specifically, businesses can take advantage of the expandable data management that comes with a cloud hosted environment. However, a poorly planned Office 365 migration can lead to ballooning costs and wasted IT resources. So, let's talk about how to pop that balloon and make sure your business is operating efficiently and on budget while migrating to and operating in the cloud.
Trying to quantify the number of items before migrating your email to Office 365 can seem overwhelming, especially for a team that has not experienced a migration. This is where working with an experienced Managed Service Provider (MSP) can launch your project in the right direction right from the start. An MSP will also help keep overall costs low and your project on track. Let's face it, as the leader of an IT department you are always juggling projects and business priorities and dedicating the necessary time to a cloud migration project isn't always feasible. That's also when partnering with the right MSP that can provide the dedicated attention necessary to properly plan and execute your project is crucial.
Switching to Office 365 is not a 'One Size Fits All' endeavor. Working with an MSP to create a custom strategy will streamline your Office 365 migration and keep you on budget. An MSP supported project or solution also provides your internal IT team access to experienced engineers and exposure to expert guidance and escalated support options. Whether you partner with an MSP for consulting or to assist in a cloud migration, it's a partnership that can be critical for success.
Finding an MSP who is also a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) can save you a ton of headaches and potentially a lot of money. It's important to identify the needs of the company and which product plan will best support the end-user experience you are trying to provide.
The requirements are changing every day and having a trusted partner that understands these requirements will help you remain compliant.
Will your environment be 100% cloud or a hybrid of cloud and on-premise?
What DNS changes will be required?
Who will provision the Office 365 environment?
What changes will need to happen to SPAM filtering?
Whose answering all those phone calls and emails?
How do end users connect on their mobile devices?
Can your network bandwidth support this?
Is integration with other applications supported?
Post migration, the consideration of an ongoing support agreement with an MSP should be considered. Having that level of support available to your internal IT team for support of an environment they know little about will be critical. They can provide Level 2 and Level 3 support and let your team get back to doing what they do best. An MSP can also provide 24x7 support to you IT team and help deliver a quality end-user experience.
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SCENTRE EYES MORE OF CARINDALE TRUST
Written on the 23 February 2016
SHOPPING centre operator Scentre Group (ASX:SCG) plans to increase its stake in Carindale Property Trust (ASX:CDP), despite the Brisbane-based business reporting a 43.8 per cent decline in half-year profit.
Carindale Property Trust (CPT) posted a profit of $15.3 million in the six months ending December, down from $27.3 million a year earlier.
Property revenue improved 1.9 per cent to $28.3 million, driven by the trust's 50 per cent investment in Westfield Carindale. The shopping centre is 99.5 per cent leased and recorded retail sales of $914.6 million last calendar year.
Scentre Group has signalled intentions to increase its investment in CPT in the 'near term', subject to prevailing market conditions.
The group develops and owns Westfield-branded shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand.
"Scentre Group considers that the acquisition of further units in CDP, particularly in the current market environment, represents an attractive investment opportunity," the company says in a statement.
Westfield Carindale was valued at $1.5 billion at the end of 2015, with CPT's share worth $767.6 million.
The announcement comes on the back of solid full-year results for Scentre Group, with a raft of store openings and redevelopments.
Assets under management totalled $42.1 billion, following openings at Chatswood, Hurtsville, Kotara and North Lakes (pictured) last year.
The group is set to capitalise on its $425 million share of developments at Chermside and the second stage of North Lakes this year.
The merger of Westfield Retail Trust and Westfield Group's Australian and New Zealand management business to form Scentre Group in the middle of 2014 hit its bottom line.
Net profit fell 58 per cent to $2.7 billion compared to a year earlier, while strong underlying performance offset the impact of the restructure on funds from operations (FFO) with a 3.8 per cent lift to $1.2 billion or 20.9 cents per security distributed.
Scentre Group chairman Frank Lowy says the results demonstrate the strength of the group's portfolio, particularly after merger.
"Scentre Group's preeminent portfolio and unique market position have provided a strong operating performance and excellent returns for security-holders since the group was established as a separate entity," Lowy says.
Scentre Group forecasts FFO growth for the end of this year to be up 3 per cent and distribution to increase to 21.3 cents per security.
Carindale Property Trust will pay a distribution of 19.6 cents per unit to members on February 29, with forecast FFO expected to be up to 14 per cent for FY16.


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Christine Elliott
March 12, 2018 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday March 13, 2018
Christine Elliott concedes to Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford
Christine Elliott is conceding defeat to Doug Ford, congratulating the new Ontario Progressive Conservative leader and promising to run for the party in the June provincial election.
Her move brings to an end the extended drama of the party's tumultuous leadership race, triggered six weeks ago by the sudden resignation of Patrick Brown amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
Elliott initially disputed the results announced late Saturday, alleging "serious irregularities" in the voting. The party declared Ford the winner by a margin of just one percentage point.
But in a statement issued Sunday night, Elliott struck a conciliatory tone.
"Our team took the last twenty-four hours to review the results of an election that was incredibly close," she said in the statement. "After completing my review, I am confident in the results. I extend my congratulations to Doug Ford on a hard-fought campaign."
As CBC News reported first, Elliott initiated a meeting with Ford on Sunday afternoon. The pair met for "several hours," according to a senior official on the Elliott campaign.
While the official said the campaign team believes they have a good case to dispute the result, the only recourse would be to go to court, and that is not something Elliott or her team want to do with the party facing an election on June 7.
"Christine is choosing not to challenge this," said the official. "Christine and the team were unanimous that this was the right way forward. The name of the game is unifying the party."
"Ontario needs a Progressive Conservative government to finally defeat Kathleen Wynne," Elliott said in her statement. "I look forward to running as a candidate." (Source: CBC News)
Posted in: Ontario	Tagged: Caroline Mulroney, centrist, Christine Elliott, Conservative, Elites, moderate, Ontario, PC Party, Rob Ford
March 7, 2018 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday March 8, 2018
Doug Ford raises abortion issue in effort to woo social conservatives: expert
One of the four candidates competing to lead Ontario's Opposition raised questions about access to abortion this week, resurrecting a political hot potato while stopping short of promising to reopen debate on the issue.
Doug Ford's statements that he would not personally revive the abortion debate but would allow those in his caucus to bring forward legislation on any matter important to them appears to be a "Hail Mary" move aimed at wooing the party's socially conservative members as the leadership race comes to a close this weekend, a political analyst said.
"This is a top-down leader and for him, on this issue, to be signalling that, hey, it's ok by him for any of his caucus members to be where they want to be on the map on this one tells me that this is a retail politics vote-getting move, pure and simple," said Myer Siemiatycki, a professor of politics at Toronto's Ryerson University.
"If he really believed it, he would say this is what he's going to deliver, and the fact that he's not prepared to say that says to me it's about appealing to a base and portion of the (Progressive) Conservative party that nobody else has, on this issue, spoken to."
In interviews with various media outlets this week, Ford suggested that as party leader he would welcome having members of his caucus table legislation that would require parental permission for abortions sought by minors.
He clarified his position Tuesday, saying that while he personally believes in "the sanctity of life," he would follow in the footsteps of the federal Conservatives by not rekindling debate on the issue.
"That being said, I will allow MPPs to draft, bring forward, and debate any legislation that is important to them," Ford said in a statement.
"The Liberals have set a dangerous and narrow-minded precedent both federally and provincially. I will never put members of my party in a position where they will have to compromise or deny their personal beliefs. I will never muzzle members of our caucus."
While the right for patients to give or refuse consent is laid out in law, there are currently no provisions regarding parental notification, according to Ontario's medical regulator. (Source: CTV News)
Posted in: Ontario	Tagged: Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott, Doug Ford, leadership, Ontario, PC Party, Tanya Granic Allen, Women's day
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Friday March 2, 2018
Ontario PC Leadership Debate Adds To The Political Drama
The race to lead the Ontario Progressive Conservatives might be the most captivating political drama in Canada right now.
The race took another turn this week when Patrick Brown — who sparked the contest by resigning as PC leader last month amid sexual misconduct allegations — abandoned his controversial bid to reclaim his job.
Some of the remaining contenders have deep political connections that make for an interesting contest, even for those outside of Canada's largest province.
Former Toronto councillor Doug Ford is the older brother of late mayor Rob Ford; lawyer Caroline Mulroney is the daughter of former prime minister Brian Mulroney; and former MPP Christine Elliott is the widow of late federal finance minister Jim Flaherty.
Anti-sex-ed activist Tanya Granic Allen has also joined the race as a champion of the social conservative wing of a party that was moved more to the centre under Brown's leadership.
With voting to begin Friday, PC members are hoping to drill down on policy and priorities of the candidates who seek to lead the party into a June election. More than 1,000 questions have already been submitted by party members for debate consideration, said Raj.
Though Brown has bowed out, questions about his management of the party and the divisions that have surfaced over a tumultuous few weeks remain.(Source: Huffington Post)
Posted in: Ontario	Tagged: Christine Elliott, Doug Ford and Caroline Mulroney, Kathleen Wynne, leadership, Ontario, PC Party, Tanya Granic Allen, wrestling
February 20, 2018 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday February 21, 2018
Patrick Brown's PC leadership bid could lead to 'political fratricide,' experts say
Patrick Brown's entry into the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race could lead to ruthless infighting, leaving the party at a disadvantage, experts say.
"This is a time when the party should be taking all its resources and throwing them at Kathleen Wynne," Jim Warren, a political strategist who has worked with the Ontario Liberals, said this week.
"Instead, they've got the guns pointed at each other and are about to have a 'shootout at the OK Corral.' You will see this real insider fighting — political fratricide, if you will — of the leaders turning on each other."
Brown entered the race on Friday, just weeks after he resigned in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct made by two women and first reported by CTV.
The other four leadership candidates, preparing for opponents with roughly similar political advantages, will now have to revise their game plan to focus on Brown. The former leader already has a base of support and extensive political experience.
"He's been the leader for the last two years. He has sold a lot of the memberships to the members now. Are they PC members or Patrick Brown members?" Warren said.
Patrick Brown Retrospective
Either way, Brown's entry into the leadership race is a gift to the Ontario Liberals, according to Jaime Watt, executive chair of the public relations company Navigator and a long-time Conservative strategist.
"I think it harms all the candidates at an important time in Ontario's history," Watt said.
"If I were (Kathleen Wynne) I'd be running to the convenience store to buy a lottery ticket." (Source: CBC News)
Posted in: Ontario	Tagged: Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott, Doug Ford, horror, leadership, Ontario, parody, Patrick Brown, PC Party, Tanya Granic Allen, The Shining
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday February 15, 2018
Sex-ed and other social-conservative hot buttons starting to light up Ontario Tory leadership race
For more than two years, the Ontario Tories have managed to skirt around the kind of social-conservative flashpoints that have brought them little but grief in the past. But as the party's leadership race picks up momentum — and a surprise, potential fourth candidate — that unofficial moratorium appears to be ending.
Two of the three most prominent contenders say they will at least revisit the controversial new sex-education curriculum introduced by the Liberal government, with one charging Monday it is riddled with "Liberal ideology," the other promising she would allow free votes on questions of conscience. And the newest would-be entrant — Tanya Granic Allen, head of a parents group that opposed the sex-ed revamp — is pledging to make sex-ed and similar issues her prime focus.
Pro-life groups are suddenly energized, and hope the candidates will also debate the Liberal law passed last fall that created "bubble zones" around abortion clinics, rendering pro-life protests illegal within 50 metres.
"We have been crying for three years, unwanted in our party, but now are back in the fold," said Charles McVety, Ontario's most prominent evangelical Christian activist.
Allen said she will use her candidacy to "force" those issues to the fore — so long as she raises the $100,000 needed to officially run.
"There are a lot of grass-roots conservatives who feel disenfranchised, who feel shut out of this party," she said in an interview Friday. "I'm here to be their voice."
The more mainstream candidates are undoubtedly eager to corral some of those Tories, too. Rreaching out to social conservatives may well be a "shrewd" short-term strategy, says pollster Greg Lyle, head of the Innovative Research Group. (Continued: National Post)
Posted in: Ontario	Tagged: Carbon taxes, Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott, conservatism, Doug Ford, Jeopardy, leadership, Ontario, PC Party, right wing, workfare


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Bigler ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Alfred Bigler (1898–nach 1936), deutscher SS-Oberführer
 Ernst Bigler (* 1946), Schweizer Jazzmusiker
 Hans-Ulrich Bigler (* 1958), Schweizer Verbandsfunktionär und Politiker

 John Bigler (1805–1871), US-amerikanischer Politiker
 Josef Bigler (1866–1949), deutscher Verwaltungsjurist und Leiter des bayerischen Landesvermessungsamtes
 Kurt Bigler (1925–2007), Schweizer Pädagoge
 Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger (1933–2022), Schweizer Juristin und Bundesrichterin
 Milo Bigler (1914–1989), Schweizer Skeletonpilot
 Rolf R. Bigler (1930–1978), Schweizer Journalist und Autor
 Samuel Bigler (* 1947), US-amerikanischer Gewichtheber
 Sascha Bigler (* 1968), Schweizer Drehbuchautor und Regisseur
 William Bigler (1814–1880), US-amerikanischer Politiker

Bigler steht für:
 Bigler Township, Ort in Pennsylvania, Vereinigte Staaten

Siehe auch:
 Biegler

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Competition Authority Publishes Draft Settlement Regulation
The Competition Authority ("Authority") published the Draft Regulation on the Settlement Procedure for Investigations on Anticompetitive Agreements, Concerted Practices, Decisions and Abuse of Dominant Position ("Draft Regulation") on its website on March 18, 2021. The Draft Regulation aims to save time and resources in investigations by concluding the investigation process rapidly and conclusively, and to establish the settlement procedure introduced by the Law No. 7246 Amending the Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition ("Law No. 4054"), which entered into force on June 24, 2020. Opinions, suggestions and evaluations on the Draft Communiqué may be submitted to the Competition Authority until April 19, 2021.
What Do the Developments Mean?
The Draft Regulation is another effort of the Authority to harmonize the Turkish competition law regime with the EU. The Draft Regulation aims to regulate the procedures and principles for the settlement mechanism applicable for the undertakings or associations of undertakings investigated for their conduct under Articles 4 and 6 of the Law No. 4054, which prohibit restrictive agreements and abuse of dominance, respectively. The Draft Regulation implements the following procedures and principles:
Applicable for any kind of anticompetitive conduct: Unlike the de minimis exception and the commitment mechanism, which were also newly introduced by the Law No. 7246 Amending the Law No. 4054 and further regulated through communiqués published recently, the settlement mechanism would be applicable for any type of violation falling under Articles 4 and 6 of the Law No. 4054 and would not exclude clear and hardcore violations.
The time limitation for settlement: In line with Article 43 of the Law No. 4054, the Draft Regulation provides that the Competition Board ("Board") could settle with the investigated parties, who accept the existence and scope of the violation, until the official service of the investigation report.
Procedure for the initiation of the settlement process: The settlement procedure can commence after the initiation of an investigation based upon the investigated parties' written request or ex officio by the Board. In case the investigated parties request a settlement, the Board may accept or reject the request, or may decide to invite the other investigated parties (if any) for settlement discussions. If the Board commences the settlement process ex officio, the investigated parties should submit their intention to commence the settlement discussions within the time period designated and any submissions after this period would not be taken into consideration.
In terms of the initiation of the process, the Board will consider the procedural benefits derived from concluding the investigation process rapidly and any differences of opinions of the investigated parties and the Board itself on the existence and scope of the violation. The Board may also take into account (i) the number of the investigated parties; (ii) whether a significant number of investigated parties apply for settlement; (iii) the scope of the violation and nature of the evidence; and (iv) the possibility of reaching a common understanding on the existence and scope of the violation with the investigated parties.
Settlement discussions with the Authority: The Draft Regulation indicates that once the investigated parties' request for settlement is accepted or they duly accept the Board's invitation, the settlement discussions will start as soon as possible. Article 6/2 of the Draft Regulation underlines that a party would not be deemed to accept the allegations because it participates in settlement discussions, and the parties may rescind their acceptance before the submission of the settlement letter. As per Article 6/5 of the Draft Regulation, during these discussions, the Authority will enable the parties to obtain information on: (i) the content of the allegations against the relevant party; (ii) the nature, scope and duration of the alleged violation; (iii) the primary evidence used to determine the alleged violation; (iv) potential reduction rates; and (v) the range of potential administrative fines.
Interim decision on the settlement: As settlement discussions come to an end, the Board issues an interim decision on the settlement process, which lays out the basis of the settlement letter. The interim decision will mainly include the (i) nature, scope and duration of the violation; (ii) minimum and maximum administrative monetary fine rate calculated pursuant to Regulation on Fines to Apply in Cases of Agreements, Concerted Practices and Decisions Limiting Competition, and Abuse of Dominant Position ("Regulation on Fines"); (iii) reduction rate as a result of the settlement procedure; (iv) minimum and maximum reduction rate pursuant to Regulation on Active Cooperation for Detecting Cartels ("Leniency Regulation"), if applicable; and (v) time period for the submission of the settlement letter to the Authority. Should the parties agree with this interim decision, they must submit their settlement letter within the Board's determined time period, which should not exceed 15 days. Otherwise, the interim decision will not be binding for the Board.
Settlement letter: If the parties accept the content of the interim decision, they will submit their settlement letter to the Authority, which should include the parties' explicit declaration of acceptance on (i) the existence, scope, duration, results of the violation and its responsibility arising from the violation; (ii) the maximum rate and amount of fine which may be imposed by the Board; (iii) them being sufficiently informed about the allegations and allowed to provide their opinions and explanations; and (iv) not challenging the administrative monetary fine and content of the settlement letter. Once the settlement letter is duly submitted to the Authority, it cannot be withdrawn.
Settlement decision: Within 15 days upon the submission of the settlement letter before the Authority, the Board terminates the investigation against the relevant party with a final decision finding a violation and including the fines.
To Settle or Not to Settle?: Similar to the commitment procedure, the settlement procedure also seems to be a strategic decision for undertakings in terms of saving costs and time. One would have to weigh the potential advantages and disadvantages when deciding to settle.
Reduced Fines: The Draft Regulation envisages up to a 25% reduction in fines.
Best of Both Worlds – Leniency and Settlement: A settlement procedure does not prejudice a party's benefits under a leniency application. Pursuant to Article 7/3 of the Draft Regulation, a party could still benefit from reductions awarded under these two different procedures, i.e., the reduction of the fine granted to the parties for settlement will be added to their leniency reward.
Judicial Review Restriction: As also stipulated under Article 43 of the Law No. 4054, the Draft Regulation deprives settling parties from appealing the administrative monetary fine and content of the settlement letter.
Confidentiality Obligation: As per Article 12 of the Draft Regulation, settling parties should keep the content of the settlement discussions and information and documents they obtained during the settlements discussions confidential until the final decision. If the Board identifies the violation of this obligation, it has the authority to launch another investigation and will consider it as an aggregating factor for the determination of the administrative monetary fine.
Application of the Draft Regulation to Ongoing Investigations: The Draft Regulation provides that the regulation provisions can also be applied to ongoing full-fledged investigations where investigation reports are yet to be served once the Draft Regulation enters into force.
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Morgan Stanley President Colm Kelleher to retire at end of June
March 28, 2019, 5:32 p.m. EDT
Morgan Stanley President Colm Kelleher, who helped navigate the firm through the financial crisis and was once seen as a potential successor to Chief Executive Officer James Gorman, plans to depart at the end of June.
Kelleher, 61, will continue as a senior adviser after his official retirement, according to an internal memo Gorman sent employees on Thursday.
"I am extremely grateful to have been able to call him my partner," Gorman said in the memo. "His sharp mind, wicked humor and Irish charm sets him apart in the world of all-too-often dull business leaders."
Kelleher, who joined the New York-based company in fixed-income sales in 1989, has overseen Morgan Stanley's investment bank and trading operation since 2010. By taking on the retail brokerage in 2016, he had responsibility for the firm's two biggest businesses.
Gorman didn't name a new president, and said in the memo that the four executives who previously reported to Kelleher will report to the CEO after the departure. Morgan Stanley in July named Ted Pick, 50, to head the investment-banking and trading division, bolstering his position as a possible successor to Gorman. Franck Petitgas, 58, who's also considered a CEO candidate, was appointed head of the bank's international operations as part of the same management shuffle.
Andy Saperstein and Shelley O'Connor, co-heads of the retail brokerage, are also considered in the succession mix, along with asset-management head Dan Simkowitz, Chief Financial Officer Jon Pruzan and tech chief Rob Rooney.
Kelleher rose through the trading and capital-markets ranks. One of nine children who grew up in Ireland's County Cork and an Oxford University graduate, he served as chief financial officer during the financial crisis, even conducting business lying down on his office floor after suffering a back injury in a car accident.
He helped the investment bank rebuild client confidence after hedge funds pulled money during the crash. He cut back on bulky fixed-income trading positions as Morgan Stanley tried to mimic its success in electronically trading stocks.
Power StruggleAfter winning a power struggle with his co-head of the investment bank, Paul Taubman, Kelleher made a push to gain more trading business on the back of underwriting deals and advising on mergers. The bank is now the world's top equities-trading firm, and has gained share in fixed-income trading in each of the past three years.
Kelleher's competitive spirit often manifested in the firm's battles with rival Goldman Sachs Group Inc. In his remarks at Goldman's annual financials conference in 2013, Kelleher spoke of the "pleasure" he took in passing the host firm in stock-trading revenue, and last year said Morgan Stanley was catching up to Goldman in advisory fees because "we're nicer guys."
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Lodi announces suspension after teacher is accused of sexual contact with 13-year-old
Katie Sobko
NorthJersey
LODI — The Board of Education on Tuesday night placed two teachers on administrative leave, one widely believed to be Stephanie Carafa, who has been accused of inappropriately touching a 13-year-old boy.
The other teacher is believed to be Jason Nardachone, who was indicted by a federal court Oct. 11 on charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. One is an unpaid leave dating back to Oct. 15, likely Nardachone.
The second suspension, which was a late added resolution Tuesday, is with pay and dated Monday, the day charges were announced against Carafa, who is the daughter of longtime borough Mayor Emil Carafa.
According to the arrest warrant, Stephanie Carafa was working as a teacher in the district when she "touched the victim's … penis over his clothing (pants), allowing the victim … to touch her breast and buttocks over her clothing along with sharing illicit photographs and videos of sexual nature."
Carafa, 32, was arrested Saturday and charged with aggravated criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office said.
Before the public comment portion of Tuesday's meeting, board attorney Douglas Silvestro told those in attendance that although they were entitled to comment, the board couldn't answer because it is a personnel issue.
A few parents took the opportunity to do just that, including Cynthia Klawans. She said there have been "serious accusations" made recently and that she had a "terrible night" trying to explain to her 12-year-old why his teacher was arrested.
Yesenia Flores echoed those sentiments. She said her 11-year-old asked the most "heart-wrenching question" last night. He asked her "what is sexual molestation," she said.
Both women wanted to know why the school district doesn't have better plans to inform parents.
"Why is it that I, as a parent, have to find out through the news and through social media that my son's teacher was arrested? Why isn't there simple communication from the school system saying there was a situation and it's being handled?" Klawans asked.
Carafa was arrested after an investigation by the Prosecutor's Office and borough police. Officers received information that Carafa, a teacher at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, had exchanged the photos and videos with a juvenile under age 16.
She is scheduled for a detention hearing in Hackensack on Friday at 9 a.m. .
Meanwhile, Nardachone, 45, of Nutley, faces charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
Nardachone is a social studies teacher who, according to public records, was paid $93,841 last year. His initial court appearance was Oct. 11 in federal court in Newark. Nardachone is accused of knowingly causing the billing of medically unnecessary compounded medications, such as metabolic vitamins, pain creams and scar creams, for himself and three other teachers.
In all, the indictment alleges that Nardachone defrauded the benefit program of $564,754.
Past district issues
Lodi teachers have found themselves in legal trouble before. Earlier this year a math teacher at the high school was fired after being sentenced to four years in prison for hitting a Bergen County police officer with his car, leaving the officer with career-ending injuries, in 2014.
The teacher, Michael Ettz, had been suspended from his job without pay since June 2014. His salary at the time was $101,169.
Melissa Grant-Terhune, a special education teacher at Lodi High School, was charged with driving while intoxicated in January 2016. Grant-Terhune was involved in an argument with a resident who was outside of the vehicle. Officers gave her field sobriety tests and arrested her. She was later released with a summons.


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As Summer Begins CFA Urges Caution for OHV Riders Especially to Children Under 16
Fourth of July Remains Most Dangerous Day for OHV Fatalities
June 30, 2022 | Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Consumer Federation of America (CFA) issues an alert to off-highway-vehicle (OHV) riders to operate their vehicles with caution as summer officially begins. In 2022 so far, CFA has documented 172 OHV fatalities. Children under the age of 16 account for the most fatalities, making up approximately 21.5 percent of all OHV deaths so far in 2022. In 2021, children under 16 also accounted for the highest amount of tracked OHV fatalities at 18.7 percent, and in 2020 children under 16 were the second highest amount of tracked OHV fatalities at 15.8%. Since 2019, children under the age of 16 have ranked in the top three age categories of OHV fatalities. Last year children under 16 accounted for the age group with the highest number of OHV fatalities, a statistic that has not been evident in CFA's data since 2015. For the past five years, children aged five and under have accounted for an increasing number of fatalities, growing from five in 2018 to seven in 2021. CFA has tracked eight fatalities aged five and under in the 2022 data so far.
"Children under 16 continue to suffer the largest percentage of OHV fatalities," stated Rachel Weintraub, Legislative Director and General Counsel with CFA. "As summer begins, we hope that OHV incidents will not remain as high and urge caution to OHV riders."
OHVs are comprised of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), recreational off-highway vehicles (ROVs), and utility task vehicles (UTVs). According to data gathered by CFA and its OHV Safety Coalition, from 2013 through 2021 July has been the month with the most OHV fatalities with May, August and June following as the second, third, and fourth months with the most deaths. Our 2021 data showed May and August tied as the months with the most OHV fatalities, with July and April following as the second and third months with the most deaths. Despite this shift, the 2013- 2021 data show that July accounts for the highest number of fatalities compared to all other months. The summer months of May, July, and August remain the deadliest months for OHV fatalities.
"All OHVs, even youth models, pose risks," said Dr. Gary Smith, President of the Child Injury Prevention Alliance. "OHVs are fast, complex machines, and due to their design, they roll over easily. One wrong choice could lead to the emergency department or worse. Children younger than 16 years just aren't ready for the demands of safe riding, so we encourage parents to find a different activity for their child."
CFA and its OHV Safety Coalition have been documenting OHV deaths since 2013 by compiling, analyzing, and making publicly available data and findings from relevant newspaper and government resources. From 2013 through 2021, CFA and the OHV Safety Coalition have documented 729 total deaths during the month of July for those years combined. For the entire period of 2013 – 2021, CFA has documented over 5,478 deaths. While these numbers are high, these findings are not yet complete, and the number of deaths will likely increase as additional information becomes available.
OHV Fatalities in Each State
CFA's OHV fatality data includes state by state data. Our data from January 2013 through December 2021, identifies that the states with the most fatalities include: 1) Pennsylvania (294); 2) Texas (274); 3) Missouri (226); 4) California (224); and 5) Wisconsin (223). The heat map below provides fatality information for each state.
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Never operate an OHV on a road.
Never permit children younger than 16-years-old to operate an adult-size OHV or any OHV that is too large or too powerful for them.
Always wear a helmet and other protective gear when riding an OHV.
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Never allow more people on an OHV than it was designed to carry.
Never ride when under the influence.
Take a hands-on safety course.
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RPR – School Report Cuts Sales Cycle in Half
Posted on July 13, 2017 by Nabeel Jamal
Real estate apps claim to do it all and, most likely, some do. But for this West Michigan Realtor®, the only apps that matter are the ones that save her time and money.
"As a Realtor®, I spend a lot of money investing in my business," said Michelle Gordon, Realtor® and founder of The Gordon Group, JH Realty Partners, based in West Michigan. "I need to make sure the tools or apps I buy live up to expectations."
Michelle consistently evaluates apps for their ability to produce results and whether or not the data they provide overlaps with another app that she is also paying for. She claims her diligence to protecting dollars spent is one of several reasons she is loyal to the Realtors Property Resource® (RPR®) app.
"I will no longer pay for vendor tools that attempt to replicate RPR but fall short," she said. "RPR is already paid for in our NAR dues. It offers everything I need to run searches, generate comps and run reports. It doesn't spam me or advertise to me, and is constantly adding new features and tools. What else could I want?"
"Thanks to that beautiful RPR report, the home buying process for this client was shaved from five to two days," said Michelle. "Within minutes of choosing their school district, we were able to jump back into RPR, search for properties in that district, and email them RPR Property Reports for each. The next day, only 48 hours into the process, we wrote an offer."
Michelle Gordon, Realtor®
Founder of The Gordon Group, JH Realty Partners
Michelle says that Realtors® only need to ask themselves one question when considering adoption of a new business tool: Does it show value? "All the app needs to do is prove to us that it's going to help us make money and make our life easier. From there, we should be able to put our minds to using it."
Yet, she says, many of her contemporaries avoid using real estate apps simply because there are too many choices or they lack the technical know how.
"We need to stop labeling ourselves. It's too limiting," she said. "When we convince ourselves that, because of age or perceived learning limitations, that an app is too complicated without even trying it, then we've shortsighted ourselves and our careers."
"I'm 55 and proud of it," laughs the recently inducted member of the Society of Distinguished Real Estate Professionals or SOD. "And I get a kick out of knowing that, at this stage in my life and career, I'm using all of the so-called 'tech tools' to my advantage," said Michelle. "Unlike my daughter, who, as a Millennial, is conditioned to live in the tech world yet hates tech!"
According to Michelle, RPR's app consistently proves its worth in the real estate realm. Here's a recent example of how that happens.
"The Gordon Group specializes in working with relocation clients who have little time to waste when purchasing a new home," she said. "These folks put a lot of work into coming to town, finding a home and school, mapping out amenities, etc. It's a pretty intense few days."
In this case, Michelle's daughter and colleague, Amanda Gordon, hands off her week's workload to her teammates, then turns to RPR. "It's standard protocol for us to set aside an entire week to work with a relocation client," said Michelle. "We get to know their priorities and then establish a timeline of activity such as visiting schools, touring the area, and viewing properties."
This particular client's first priority was to identify a few suitable schools for their children, visit them individually, and then begin a home search in the district of their choice. And they needed Amanda to steer them in the right direction. Yet, as all Realtors® know, guaranteeing a certain school district or sharing personal opinions about the quality of schools in an area can be construed as a violation of the Fair Housing Act.
To ensure compliance with her judicial responsibilities and to best serve her clients, Amanda turned to the RPR School Report––an in-depth portrait of student populations, testing outcomes, parental reviews, ratings, and contact information about a public or private school. The data can be compared among different schools within a district or a specified radius, and can include up to 20 nearby listings.
Gordon Group's good news came sooner than later. Shortly after sending the School Report to her clients, they called to say they were so impressed by the depth and detail of the data, as well as the presentation, that they were able to choose a school that fit their criteria without having to set up appointments with three or four schools, as anticipated.
"Thanks to that beautiful RPR report, the homebuying process for this client was shaved from five to two days," said Michelle. "Within minutes of choosing their school district, we were able to jump back into RPR, search for properties in that district, and email them RPR Property Reports for each. The next day, only 48 hours into the process, we wrote an offer."
"RPR will continue to be an invaluable business asset moving forward," said Michelle. "In fact, by year end, I predict I will save even more money simply because I've made RPR my exclusive go-to business tool."
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Q: Function to manipulate a string ("abcdef" -> "faebdc") Hi everyone I'm working on a function to manipulating any string in this following manner.
"abc" -> "cab"
"abcd" -> "dacb"
"abcdef" -> "faebdc"
"divergenta" -> "adtinveerg"
... and so on.
This is the code I've come up with so far. I think it does the job but I think the code and solution is kind of ugly and I'm not sure if it's fail proof and if it is working properly for every given case. I would highly appreciate any input on this code or any examples on how you would write this function. I beg you to bear in mind that I'm very much a n00b so don't go too hard on me.
string transformer(string input) {

string temp;
int n = 0;
int m = (input.length() -1);

for( int i = 0; i < input.length(); i++) {

    temp += input[m];

    if (input[m] == input[n]) {
        break;
    }

    else {
        temp += input[n];
    }

    n += 1;
    m -= 1;

    if ( temp.length() == input.length() ) {
        break;
    }
}
return temp; }

A: You have three problems.
Try it with "abbba". If the result isn't what you want, then this conditional:
if (input[m] == input[n]) {
break;
}

is just plain wrong.
Look at the other conditional:
if ( temp.length() == input.length() ) {
  break;
}

You're adding two characters at a time to temp. What if input has odd length?
Suppose that works correctly. Consider the loop:
for( int i = 0; i < input.length(); i++) {

...

  if ( temp.length() == input.length() ) {
    break;
  }
}

That loop will never terminate in the for statement. You might as well do it this way:
while( temp.length() < input.length() ) {
...
}

Once that's all working correctly, you should look into iterators.

A: std::string transformer(const std::string& input) {

    std::string res(input.length(), '0');

    for (int i = 0; i < input.length(); ++i) {
        res[i] = input[ i % 2 == 0 ? input.length() - (i/2) - 1 : (i/2) ];
    }

    return res;
}

A: This function just walks two indices toward the center until they meet or pass each other. The last if block handles the case of an odd length input string. It works for all your test cases on ideone.com
std::string transformer(const std::string& input)
{
    std::string temp;
    int i = 0;
    int j = input.length() - 1;

    while (i < j) {
        temp += input[j--];
        temp += input[i++];
    }
    if (i == j) {
        temp += input[i];
    }
    return temp;
}

A: Unfortunately if (input[m] == input[n]) will make sure that if the first and last characters are the same, it immediately quits after the first character is processed.

A: I'd do this with std::string::iterator and std::string::reverse_iterator:
auto it = input.begin();
auto rit = input.rbegin();
std::string temp;

for (size_t i = 0; i < input.length()/2; ++i) {
    temp += *rit++;
    temp += *it++;
}

The logic for handling empty and odd-length input is left for you to do, shouldn't be too hard. (Input of length 1 is also a special case)

A: I would use pointers instead of indexes to do this.
So you have a pointer the reading the edges and you keep swapping them with each iteration.
It will also make it faster.
I think this should work, but I can't remember how to make an array of const char pointers. Can anyone help me with that step?
string transformer(string input) {

     std::string temp;

     const char *front, *back;

     for (*front = input.c_str(), *back = front + input.length() - 1; front < back ; front++, back--) {
        temp += *back;
        temp += *front;
     }

     if (front == back)
        temp += *front;

     return temp;

}

(using the same method as @Blastfurnace, but skipping unnecessary indexes.)

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"학생은 책을 두 번 잃었어."
Translation:The student lost their book twice.
The answer must be revised. The student lost her/his book twice!
"A student lost a book twice." should also be accepted.
well, as they/their can be used to refer to a person of "unspecified gender" (as mentioned by the oxford dicitonary) it very well belongs here.
Doesn't it supposed to be "The student lost his book twice"?
For those quibbling about the gender neutral their being used, consider the word themself. You/you/your/yours is also plural, and the singular equivalent was thou/thee/thy/thine. So unless you want to go back to Shakespeare, Elizabethan English and such, I'd drop it.
It accepted my "lost" answer..


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The 2022 Big Ten Men's Swimming and Diving Championships was held from February 23–26, 2022 at the Morgan J Burke Aquatic Center in West Lafayette, Indiana. It was the 113th annual  Big Ten-sanctioned swimming and diving championship meet.

Team standings
Full results

Swimming results
Full results

Diving results

Awards
Big Ten Swimmer of the Championship:  Brendan Burns, Indiana

Big Ten Diver of the Championships: Andrew Capobianco, Indiana

Big Ten Freshman of the Year: Alex Quach, Ohio State

All-Big Ten Teams
The following swimmers were selected to the All Big-Ten Teams:

Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Honorees

References

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