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Is Mongolia Worthy of Visiting? Find out!
Mongolia is probably not a dream destination for many people – a landlocked country with yet a diverse natural culture. The country is, however, a hub of natural beauty and has maintained the nomadic lifestyle. Located between Russia and China, the country is famed for its rugged terrain, which has helped the nomadic culture to thrive.
Mongolia has a wide range of accommodation options. They include camps, Sofitel, and lodges. Specifically, The Blue Sky Hotel is a good option for visitors. Once you arrive in the country, it's always best to consult with experienced locals.
Since Mongolia is a developing country, the transport system is sub-par, and thus getting around could be hectic. It's advisable to work with a ground operator for assistance in logistics, to avoid trouble.
Experience the best of Mongolia
If you want to enjoy the best of Mongolia, here are the top 4 must-do and visit attractions.
Tour around on a horse
Many numerous tour companies offer horse trekking. Riding is a hobby for most locals in Mongolia and, thus, the country's horse hype. You ride a horse while viewing the Ulaan Baatar and Kharkhorin (traditional capital of Genghis Khan).
For wildlife fanatics, Mongolia is a must-visit destination. Visit the Khustai National Park and have an interaction with 44 species of mammals, 459 species of vascular plants, 33 mushroom species, and 90 species of moss. Among the animals in the national park include the Roe deer and Mongolian gazelle.
The Gobi desert is also a home of plenty of wild animals. Apart from gazelles running up and down the desert, eagles soar above the skies. The Mongolian government established the Great Gobi National Park in 1975.
You can take a camel ride as you adventure the dunes and interacting with the local communities in the region. There is also a Buddhist temple with a monk who lived in the hills of south Gobi. This temple was built by hand, and the laborers carried stone pieces and wood pieces up 1800 steps to the summit of the mountain to reconstruct their place of worship.
The best way to experience Mongolian culture is to attend the Naadam festival. Naadam festival happens once per year, around July. The festival attracts thousands of natives and several tourists. During the Naadam festival, the locals participate in wrestling, archery, and 30km horseback race.
Unlike most holiday destinations, the best way to wrap up a busy expedition day in Mongolia is by camping. When the aspect of camping comes at hand, group tours are best. You spend the night beside a fire, gazing at the stars and sharing stories with your travel crew.
Once in the country, you will learn the ancient history of the Chinggis Khan and the subsequent rise in the Mongol Empire. Lake Khuvsgul, Gorkhi Terelk National Park, and Erdene Zuu Monastery are places to visit in Mongolia to feel the expansive nomadic culture and its history.
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Popularly known as Dr Cheena, he has 25 years' experience in treating patients from his Laxmi Homeo Clinic in Madurai. He has also been a visiting honorary consultant to Jain Dispensary, a charitable hospital, for more than 12 years.
He completed his B.H.M.S. degree (Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicines and Surgery – 5½ years) at the Government Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Thirumangalam and M.D (Hom) at Ahmedabad Homeopathic Medical College, Ahmedabad.
He is the authorised Mother NGO Consultant in Rural Education and Development Society (REDS) for the project of ISM & H, which is funded by the World Bank to protect each and every system of medicine. He also worked as honorary visiting lecturer in Saradha Krishna Homoeopathic Medical College, Kulasekaram. Dr. Cheena has served the Indian government as honorary consultant to Southern Railway, Madurai for 14 years.
He has been elected twice in succession as a first-class committee gazette member of the Tamil Nadu Homeopathy Council, which is an advisory body to the government. He has also served as a member of the board of examiners in the council and conducted examinations for D.H.M.S., D.Pharm and refresher courses for registered medical practitioners.
Elected thrice as vice-president to the Qualified Homoeopaths of Madurai, once as President of Similia Health Academy, once as vice-president and research medical officer of Human Care and Homeopathic Research Centre, Madurai, he organized many CME programmes, seminars and rural camps
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Posthumus and Imogen
John Faed R.S.A.
Origin Scotland
Dimensions 87.6 x 59 cm (34¹/₂ x 23¹/₄ inches)
Gallery Sphinx Fine Art
And, sweetest, fairest,
As I my poor self did exchange for you,
To your so infinite loss, so in our trifles
I still win of you: for my sake wear this;
It is a manacle of love; I'll place it
Upon this fairest prisoner.
- Postumus Leonatus, Cymbeline, Act I, Scene I
John Faed frequently exhibited subjects from William Shakespeare (1564-1616) during his career, and here he depicts a scene from Shakespeare's romantic tragedy, Cymbeline. The play's protagonist Posthumus, a lowborn gentleman, is brought up by King Cymbeline alongside his daughter Imogen, with whom he falls in love. Posthumus marries Imogen and in doing so is banished by Cymbeline from his Kingdom. This scene depicts the moment in which Posthumus presents Imogen with a bracelet before departing, the bracelet itself later plays a crucial part in the development of the play.
Stylistically, this painting is influenced by the work of the Pre-Raphaelites. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a secret society formed in 1848 by seven young artists in London with the aim of creating a new British art. The Brotherhood emulated the art of late medieval and early Renaissance Europe until the time of Raphael and was a deliberate and marked step against contemporary academic painting.
Characterised by minute detailing, the Pre-Raphaelites depicted subjects of a noble, religious or moral nature and Shakespeare's plays became a great source of inspiration for them, in particular Sir John Everett Millais (1829-96). The Pre-Raphaelites keenly observed the botanical accuracy of the natural world and adopted a bright palette of colours that recalled the work of medieval artists and luminous manuscripts. The technical precision in Posthumus and Imogen is equally remarkable, as is the brilliance and varied choice of palette, all demonstrating Faed's experience and talent as a painter of miniatures earlier in his life.
Faed was born in Kirkcudbright, Galloway in Scotland in 1819. Faed's artistic skill was evident at a very young age, exhibiting his first miniature painting at the age of just ten. Faed was primarily a self-taught artist and, at the young age of eleven, he painted a miniature series of local Galloway aristocrats. He painted miniatures until the age of twenty one, when he settled in Edinburgh where he attended the Trustees' Academy. From the end of the 1840s he started exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy to which he was elected an Associate in 1847 and to full membership four years later. In total he exhibited over 240 works at the Royal Scottish Academy in his lifetime, as well as exhibiting works at the Royal Academy. In 1864 he moved with his brother Thomas, also a successful artist, to London staying there until 1880. However, his love of Galloway meant that he spent much of his time between London and his house in Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway.
Signature: Signed and dated 'Faed 65' (lower left).
Dimensions: 87.6 x 59 cm (34¹/₂ x 23¹/₄ inches)
Provenance: Bought from the artist by Morby in 1865 (£300).
Literature: Mary McKerrow, The Faeds: A Biography, (Edinburgh, 1982,) p. 147.
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Giovanni Maria Morandi (Florence, 1622 - Rome, 1717)
Austrian Cavalry Resting in a Village
Albrecht Adam (Nördlingen, 1786 - Munich, 1862)
Tsar Peter the Great Viewing the Mock Sea Battle Held in his Honour in the IJ, off Amsterdam, 1st September 1697
I. de Beer (Dutch, active, 1750 - 1777)


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LUDLOW, Maine — A state police sergeant was justified when he shot and killed an armed man outside the man's residence here last fall, the Maine attorney general has concluded.
"All facts point to the conclusion that Sgt. Joshua Haines acted in self-defense and in the defense [of another trooper]" when he fired on 52-year-old Alan Gillotti Sr. on Oct. 14, 2014, Attorney General Janet T. Mills stated in a news release issued Thursday.
Mills indicated her decision was based on an extensive forensic investigation and her review of the evidence gathered and interviews conducted with numerous individuals after the shooting.
Gillotti was shot to death after police said he was involved in an armed home invasion in Bridgewater earlier in the day on Oct 14.
A trooper and two deputies from the Aroostook County sheriff's office earlier that Sunday had gone to Corner Road in Bridgewater after the homeowner called 911 to report a man had forced his way in while brandishing a firearm. She said there had been a brief altercation inside with a man later identified as 48-year-old Timothy Slaton. Slaton then fled in a vehicle with another person later identified as Gillotti.
State police Sgt. Haines and Trooper Saucier were subsequently called in to assist and drove to Gillotti's home in Ludlow at approximately 3:30 p.m. in an effort to locate him, Timothy Feeley, spokesman for the attorney general's office, said in a written statement issued Thursday.
Haines recognized the home as one where he had been in the past and recalled that Gillotti had been confrontational on that occasion, Feeley said.
The troopers parked their cruisers off the roadway in sight of the residence but not in the driveway.
Both troopers were in uniform, and Saucier was driving a fully marked cruiser, Feeley said. When Haines got out of his cruiser, he saw Gillotti standing in the doorway, holding a handgun in his right hand, which was at his side, according to Thursday's release.
Saucier, who saw Gillotti with his forearms extended out of the doorway and pointing a black handgun in the direction of Haines, then drew his sidearm.
Further investigation showed Gillotti was approximately 89 feet from Haines, according to investigators.
Gillotti refused additional commands from police to drop his weapon, Feeley said, prompting Haines to retrieve a rifle from his cruiser. Saucier had drawn his sidearm but was out in the open without adequate cover, according to investigators.
In response to several more commands to drop the gun, Gillotti pointed the gun in Haines' direction, according to the report. Haines fired several rounds from his rifle at Gillotti, who disappeared from the officer's view. Haines and a deputy sheriff who arrived at the scene approached the residence and found Gillotti dead on the floor just inside the doorway. A black .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun in the "fire" position and loaded with nine rounds was near his right hand, according to the report.
No one else was inside the residence. Investigators later found 10 additional live .45 caliber rounds in the right pocket of Gillotti's pants.
An autopsy determined Gillotti had been shot four times, according to the attorney general's office.
Gillotti was previously diagnosed with chronic pain because of trauma, osteoarthritis, back pain, pain disorder and anxiety disorder, according to the report.
The attorney general investigates any incident in which a law enforcement officer uses deadly force in the performance of his or her duties.
On June 17, 2015, Slaton was convicted of aggravated criminal trespass and criminal trespass and sentenced to 39 days in jail for his role in the crime.


© The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Lawrence was teaching art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn when he created this painting.
Jacob Lawrence, who lived near this intersection of Fulton Street and Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn, captured a dynamic scene of New York City life. He uses boldly colored, jagged shapes to present people rushing around this busy evening.
Jacob Lawrence (born 1917) has been a prominent artist since 1941 when, at age 24, he became the first African American to have a work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His career, now spanning seven decades, has been devoted to documenting African-American life and history, from everyday scenes to the universal struggle for freedom, social justice, and human dignity. Moving to Harlem as a teenager in 1930, Lawrence was influenced by the artists, writers, and philosophers of the Harlem Renaissance-among them Romare Bearden, Langston Hughes, and W.E.B. DuBois-who fostered pride in African-American culture. Lawrence's subjects include the legendary abolitionist heroes Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and John Brown, and the story of the massive migration of African Americans from the rural South to the industrialized, urban North during the early decades of the 20th century. After thorough research, Lawrence chronicles the crucial events of each saga by creating a series of small paintings on paper in a modernist style of flat, brightly-colored forms.
signed lower right "Jacob Lawrence 58"
1 Jacob Lawrence sold the painting directly to the Alan Gallery in 1958.
2 Although Slyvian Rittmaster died in 1978, the 1981 Sotheby Parke Bernet catalogue lists the painting as coming from their collection, hence listing the painting's dates with the Rittmasters as ending with 1981 rather than 1978.
Sotheby's (Firm). American Impressionist & 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors & Sculpture. May 29, 1981. Lot 182.
Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 19. 1958-January 4, 1959.
American Sculpture and Painting: American National Exhibition in Moscow, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, July 25-September 5, 1959; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 28-November 15, 1959.
Between the Fairs: Twenty-Five Years of American Art, 1939-1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 24-September 23, 1964.
Contemporary Urban Visions, Wollman Hall, New School Art Center, New School for Social Research, New York, January 25-February 24, 1966.
Crossing State Lines: Twentieth-Century Art from Private Collections in Westchester and Fairfield Counties, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, March 26-June 18, 1995.
Jacob Lawrence Memorial Exhibition: Paintings, 1937-1999, DC Moore Gallery, New York, February 6-March 3, 2001.
Syncopated Rhythms: 20th-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, November 18, 2005-January 22, 2006.


Every soul enters this world in order to accomplish its mission in life. Most people are sent into this world to complete their own life's purpose and also to influence others, according to their ability. However, there are lofty souls who are unable and do not require a personal tikun, but are sent to this world strictly to teach others.
Perhaps these souls are sent to point out to us man's great strengths and what lies within us. These souls who spent their time in utero studying Torah, and achieved such greatness that they saw from one end of the world to the other with unlimited clarity, were brought into the world to make us understand man's great knowledge and abilities.
Therefore, it is worthwhile to print this book in English, so that people may understand the secrets and greatness of the human being. One must not forget the directive, "You shall be wholeheartedly faithful to Hashem, your G-d," and not use these abilities to predict the future.
The great gaon, HaRav Aharon Leib Steinman has personally 1 told me that he regards this new form of communication with the mentally disabled as a manifestation of profuse Divine compassion meant to arouse the slumbering who, due to the vanities of our time, have forgotten the truth, and their entire lives immerse themselves in empty and futile pursuits. He also regards it as a means for strengthening bnei Torah in all those areas which require strengthening in our time.
Their words of mussar are like searing flames of fire, which greatly arouse all those who examine them. Therefore it is befitting to disseminate and publicize them.
HaRav Steinman was personally present at FC sessions with the mentally disabled, and marveled at their answers to his questions. According to HaRav Steinman, it is very important to examine their words of mussar, in order to take stock of one's ways. These messages should not be disregarded.
Hakodosh Boruch Hu is sending us an illumination from Above, which many people overlook or deprecate.
Therefore HaRav Hagaon Rav Steinman greatly encouraged me to publish this book which conveys these messages to the public at large. However, he also asked me to caution that one may not use these messages in order to derive practical advice or for halachic guidance. He also warned not to ask the mentally disabled questions about the future. We have merited the revelation of this remarkable phenomenon only for the purpose of drawing the hearts of the Jewish People closer to their Father in Heaven.
(1) HaRav Steinman saw this letter, and authorized its insertion in the book.
"The nation which walks in the darkness, saw great light." We are currently living in an era in which immense darkness and confusion prevail. Many Jews are not even familiar with their Father in Heaven, while many [in Torah observant circles] are still far from perfection. The Creator Blessed be He pitied His nation, and in His vast kindness sent us a means for arousing people from their deep slumber, in the form of a new mode of communication with the mentally disabled. This form of communication demonstrates to us that the spiritual world is revealed to the disabled. Even though in the eyes of the world, these people are regarded as lacking in understanding and in cognizance of their surroundings, this new form of communication called Communication by Support [or Facilitated Communication], shows us that their knowledge of the spiritual aspects of the world, and their perception of their Creator, and of [the workings of] Divine Providence, as well as their knowledge of mussar in on a very high level. [This phenomenon] has already greatly strengthened many Jews, causing them to return to their roots or to strengthen their link with Torah and mitzvos. Therefore, I feel that it is very important to publicize the book, Ve'Nafshi Yodaat Me'od (the Hebrew version of Secrets of the Soul) and the messages of the mentally disabled, which result in the drawing of the hearts closer to our Father in Heaven.
Due to my many commitments, I was unable to read through this book, and asked a talmid chacham, whom I trust implicitly, to review it. He indeed reviewed a large part of the book, and conveyed its content to me. In addition, his first hand observations of this form of communication caused him to conclude that it is authentic and highly valuable.
Alongside this, we must stress that while the messages conveyed to us by means of the disabled are worthy of strengthening and drawing close the hearts, one may not practically implement their advice without consulting a Rav, since as it is known, the Jewish Nation is led only by the Torah sages.
May all those disseminating these important messages, with the purpose of sanctifying Heavne's name and magnifying His Blessed Name and magnifying His Blessed Name in the world, be blessed. May Hashem Yisborach help them, and may they succeed.


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Are you there, God? It's me, Margared
Midwinter marriage
Henson Keys
Henson Keys (AKA "actfive") is a Chicago-based actor and director who fell in love with opera while working for the Met Ticket Service in NYC in the early 80's. An Equity actor since 1974, he has performed in over 130 roles in New York and regional repertory including 46 productions of Shakespeare. From 1999-2015 he was Chair of Acting Programs at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, having previously led programs at Ohio University and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. He also writes opera CD/DVD reviews for Opera News.
review / performance
The opera utilizes the idea of "magical realism," telling a realistic story combined with elements of magic and fantasy.
By Henson Keys	on November 24, 2021 at 6:10 PM
Unequal tooning
There is sensory overload, and very little humanity.
Lady willpower
Hie thee hither to the Lyric Opera House!
By Henson Keys	on October 05, 2021 at 2:48 PM
The brew that is true
This is an exuberant, uplifting, and joyous Elisir, and, for once, it was actually laugh-out-loud funny.
By Henson Keys	on September 28, 2021 at 12:30 PM
Skeleton key
Original Director Richard Jones and revival director Benjamin Davis have created a staging that veers wildly between fascinating and fatally flawed.
By Henson Keys	on February 25, 2020 at 1:20 PM
Under the covers
Winter weather has taken a toll on the cast of Lyric Opera of Chicago's revival of Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
Distant 'Light'
Whether Lyric Opera of Chicago is an appropriate venue for such an intimate, gentle show as The Light in the Piazza is a subject of much critical debate.
By Henson Keys	on December 17, 2019 at 12:14 PM
Give me libertine
Ryan McKinny's Don is subtler, slyer, smoother, with a sharp wit and sense of dark humor that gives added dimension to the role.
By Henson Keys	on December 07, 2019 at 1:25 PM
The three faces of Sondra
It was a gloomy, chilly, rainy day in Chicago on Sunday afternoon, a perfect reflection of the sad and gloomy fates of the title characters in Lyric Opera of Chicago's presentation of The Three Queens.
By Henson Keys	on December 03, 2019 at 9:00 AM
Darkness on the edge of town
Lyric Opera of Chicago'as Don Giovanni lands smack dab in the middle of our current debate about wanted or unwanted sexual advances and outright sexual abuse.
By Henson Keys	on November 19, 2019 at 11:51 AM
"Haven't we all suffered enough?"
Sunday's matinee at Lyric Opera of Chicago was my first experience of Heggie and McNally's 2000 opera Dead Man Walking. It certainly won't be my last.
By Henson Keys	on November 12, 2019 at 9:00 AM
The Wurm turns
Luisa Miller snowballs toward disaster and death.
By Henson Keys	on October 14, 2019 at 9:00 AM
Sparkle, Lyric, sparkle!
It's an old chestnut of a joke that applies even more to opera than to the theatre: A veteran actor is on his deathbed.
By Henson Keys	on September 30, 2019 at 10:00 AM
Lakeside story
In our current political climate with issues of immigration, tribalism, and white nationalists, the 1957 musical West Side Story has a distinctly contemporary feel.
By Henson Keys	on May 07, 2019 at 2:04 PM
Ryan's hope
Sunday's "Rising Stars in Concert", featuring the Ryan Opera Center ensemble and members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra, was a stirring and entertainingly musical afternoon.
By Henson Keys	on April 11, 2019 at 3:34 PM
questo e quello, review / performance
Saturday night, Lyric Opera of Chicago gave us a wonderful evening of vocalism in honoring Renée Fleming's 25th anniversary at Lyric.
By Henson Keys	on March 25, 2019 at 10:58 AM
All these events are simply too big for a one-act opera.
By Henson Keys	on March 19, 2019 at 9:18 AM
In the baroque midwinter
It's been a rough winter in Chicago, and an especially rough one for lead singers at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Those of us who were hoping for "a star is born" performance were, alas, disappointed.
By Henson Keys	on February 22, 2019 at 8:41 AM
Revenge served cold
Of course, Stemme had the character's frenzied fury at her father's murderers in hand, but she had far more nuance—at times this Elektra was seductive, sympathetic, loving, even humorous in her bitterness.
Jules Massenet's version of the Cinderella fairy tale, Cendrillon, seems to be back in vogue after many years of obscurity.
By Henson Keys	on December 07, 2018 at 10:35 AM
A starred day's night
Anna Netrebko sang throughout with a palpable sense of joy and ease in vocal production, never a hint of strain or any moment forced.
Great Chicago fire
If sheer clarion vocalism is what draws you to the opera, then hie thee to Lyric Opera of Chicago's rousing revival Of Verdi's Il Trovatore, the oddly plotted but musically sublime opera that opened last night in the David McVicar production, originally seen in 2006.
First action hero
Director David Pountney and his splendid designers have brought Lyric Opera of Chicago a visually spectacular Siegfried full of daring ideas.
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Q: XSS form security Is there a generic way to prevent XSS on a form?
Is we consider the basic sample code below...
HTML:
<form action="test.php" method="POST">
 <input type="text" name="test">
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PHP:
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    $query = mysql_query("INSERT INTO `test` ($fields) VALUES ($data)");
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Is this enough to protect from SQL injections & XSS breaches? Is there a better way to do it? Or is there no generic way?

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You can read more about the different methods of XSS here: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_Filter_Evasion_Cheat_Sheet
I see you used only array_sanitise whose code isn't added to the question, so it is hard to say what is it. But based on its usage it seems to be some kind of SQL escaping, so hopefully it helps to defend against SQL injections. Hopefully.

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Second presidential debate at best a draw
The most generous analysis of Donald Trump's performance at Sunday night's debate is that he "maintained the status quo," said political science fellow Mark P. Jones. "He had the opportunity to really address" his remarks in the Access Hollywood recording, but he "simultaneously dismissed them as not all that meaningful and in some ways even denied them." Undecided voters were likely still on the fence after the debate, which just "led to another poisonous atmosphere." Fox 26 News: http://bit.ly/2e0x3Vz


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Is Precision Castparts Wasting Your Money?
Rich Duprey, The Motley Fool, AOL.com
Jan 24th 2013 11:29PM
Stock buybacks are generally considered a bullish signal on Wall Street. They return capital to shareholders, while declaring management's belief that its own cheap shares are its best return on investment. As long as profits remain consistent, share repurchases can even increase earnings per share, by dividing the same amount of earnings among a smaller pool of shares outstanding.
But don't forget -- a company isn't obligated to repurchase shares just because it announced its intention to do so. So don't use the announcement as a reason to buy by itself. Rather, use it as a launching pad for additional research.
Returning value
Maybe Precision Castparts is preparing for the inevitable. After reporting solid third-quarter earnings and completing its acquisition of Titanium Metals, the aerospace supplier announced a $750 million share repurchase program that will be good through June 2015. With shares bumping up against new 52-week highs, it's not as id management would consider them screaming bargains at the moment, but considering Boeing's Dreamliner fleet is still grounded and customers are paring back orders, the plane-building business won't look so rosy in the near future.
Going nowhere
As has been well documented, Boeing's battery woes have led the the FAA to order United Continental to ground the six Dreamliners operated by United Airlines -- it's the only U.S airline with 787s -- as well as aviation officials around the globe grounding the entire fleet until it can be determined what's causing the battery problems in the advanced technology aircraft.
Precision Castparts, as a primary supplier to Boeing, will feel the effects if there's going to be blowback. Although the problems didn't originate with them, but rather battery supplier Yuasa, it will still suffer the consequences if Boeing doesn't get its fleet aloft soon.
A big deal
Despite being diversified across all major aircraft engine platforms from General Electric , United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, and Rolls-Royce, Precision was counting on the 787 program to accelerate its sales growth. GE is its biggest customer, accounting for 15% of revenues in 2011, yet it still considers Boeing a major customer and admits that any problems arising at the plane maker, particularly with the 787, could have a material adverse impact on its own operations. I'm guessing the grounding of the fleet might be considered a problem.
No doubt part of the reason behind Precision's acquisition of Titanium Metals was Boeing's desire to have its supply lines consolidated. It said the Dreamliner suffered interminable delays in production because suppliers all too often were reading from different playbooks. If they consolidated, they'd be doing Boeing and themselves a favor, since conflicts would disappear. Airbus agreed with that sentiment, also believing that if it had a more select group of suppliers to choose from, they'd be able to more efficiently increase their production schedules.
Time to get jiggy
It doesn't hurt that Titanium Metals is a major jet-engine supplier in its own right, making the acquisition a strategic fit. Precision had worked with the titanium parts maker over the years and was familiar with the operations, so integrating the company shouldn't pose many problems, and the $2.9 billion it spent should start getting paid back right away. But Precision has been acquisitive over the past decade, rolling up almost 30 companies in the industry under its roof, and there's always risk involved in a growth-by-acquisition strategy.
At 15 times earnings estimates, Precision Castparts carries a bit of a premium to other suppliers such as Rockwell Collins, Spirit AeroSystems, and Boeing itself, but with a diversified customer base it may gain more altitude than its peers. But keep in mind that GE supplies the engines to the Dreamliner, so still getting sucked into Boeing's vortex is an all-too-real possibility.
With great opportunity comes great responsibility. For Boeing, which operates as a major player in a multi-trillion dollar market, the opportunity is absolutely massive. However, the company's execution problems and emerging competitors have investors wondering whether Boeing will live up to its shareholder responsibilities. In this premium research report, two of The Fool's best industrial industry minds have collaborated to provide investors with the key, must know issues around Boeing. They'll be updating the report as key news hits, so make sure to claim a copy today by clicking here now.
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BioBeats Brings in $650K Seed Funds From Hollywood Donors
Written by Will Schmidt
Updated on August 2, 2013
BioBeats today announced a successful seed funding round, hauling in a total of $650,000. The funds did not come from groups that traditionally donate to medically affiliated startups. Rather, it came from a host of Hollywood's finest: Will Smith, Scooter Braun, and Damon Wayans, to name a few.
Nadeem Kassam, David Morelli, and Dr. David Plans have created a reactive technology with their startup, BioBeats, which utilizes your smartphone to learn your biometric data. The iOS app then takes the data and transforms it into engaging and exciting music that can help you exercise, meditate, and stave off disease.
Living a healthier life is as easy as placing your fingers on key points of your smartphone to have your heart beat read. Additionally, BioBeats can pull in data from a wide range of other devices that will work with it, like FitBit, Nike+ FuelBand, and Jawbone Up.
As your heart rate increases, so does the pace of the music, and as you slow, it slows. The technology is so adaptive that it can actually detect an unhealthy heart rate and automatically slow the pace down to get your heart rate back to a healthy range.
"It's one thing just to wear a device and have data about your body," says Kassam. "It is a whole other thing to move that data to a platform that will make it engaging."
The team at BioBeats wants to give people who need encouragement a multitude of reasons to stick with their wellness regimen. In that vein, they are planning to develop a set of consumer tools as well as research applications in the future. Android users can expect to see an app at some point as well.
Will Schmidt Writer
Will is a Senior Writer with Tech.Co, based out of America's Finest City: San Diego. He covers all territory West of the Mississippi river, digging deep for awesome local entrepreneurs, companies, and ideas. He's the resident Android junkie and will be happy to tell you why you should switch to the OS. When he's off the clock, Will focuses his literary talent on the art of creative writing...or you might find him surfing in Ocean Beach. Follow Will on Twitter @WJS1988


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Misfits Unite
Janet Steen
I FEEL SO awfully tired sometimes driving through Kingston, New York. I'm talking about the strip-mall area in particular, that stretch of franchise after franchise that somehow always makes me feel completely disenfranchised. Every American with half a pulse knows this particular ennui. The bleary, arrhythmic stopping at red lights, absently looking out the window at Baby Depot, Staples, Dress Barn. Dress Barn: two words in the English language that should never have been put together. Same for Baby Depot. I want humanity to do better than this.
On a flatlined afternoon recently in this area I was revived when I put a CD in the car stereo. It was a blind shot, a record that had been sent by a friend (thank you, Camden Joy), with a $1.99 sticker on it from a used record store. Devin Davis's Lonely People of the World, Unite! from 2005. Never heard of him.
"It's hard to live in a basement and not get carried away…." he starts off in the first song. I interpret this to be Devin himself toiling obsessively underground on his record, and I recognize this feeling, the euphoria of getting lost in one's own world of make-believe. He sounds on the edge of spilling over into too much emotion; I know this feeling too. I have found a kindred soul on a disconnected day, just what his album title exhorted me to do.
I check the credits on the sleeve of the CD. Devin is one of these guys who plays everything himself—guitar, drums, bass, vocals, saxophone, organ, piano, theremin, trumpet, trombone, giant gong. The record is a mix of guitar-fuzz rock (I hear a young Stephen Malkmus and also David Bowie in there) and slow songs of extreme melancholy. Some of the lyrics are deliriously impressionistic: "Keep on watching your movies/on the backs of your eyelids/that we shot on abandoned lots/that we found back when we were kids…." Others are perfectly direct: "Awake through the sound of the sad city sleeping/I turned around to find out who was speaking/but there was no one there." The song "Sandie" is so pretty and lingering it sounds like something I was waiting a long time to hear. His voice breaks a lot. It's a good voice but a little messy. On a couple songs the melodies and chord changes put me in mind of Elliott Smith, another guy who could do it all "from a basement on the hill."
So what do I do after falling for his record? I find him on Facebook, of course. Because in this day and age we expect everyone to be just a friend request away, even if they live, in Davis's case, all the way in Chicago and have no idea who I am. I write and ask him when his second record is coming out. From the looks of his website he has been working on this second record for years. He has written something on his site about hoping it'll be out for the holidays, but I can't figure out which holiday of which year. A day later he writes back a friendly message and says he wishes he knew when it was coming out but he just can't say for sure. I send another message and tell him I may want to write something about the first record, give him my magazine credentials, and ask him a few more questions, about finding his place as an artist, about obsessiveness. For days I don't hear back from him. I assume either he has lost his Internet connection or he didn't like my questions. Or maybe he just didn't want to drain the mystery out of his art by talking about it. (Unpleasant sucking noise here.)
So I'm left to commune only with the music, not the person, which I figure is probably for the best. Why did I need Devin the person anyway? Devin may have disappointed me. Instead I can cobble together a persona that floats to me from the songs combined with my own vision of who Devin Davis might be, or who I would like him to be.
In an interview with Terry Gross on NPR's "Fresh Air," John Updike once politely complained about the craving in people to find out more about artists through reading interviews with them: "In some ways I do resist and resent the tendency to milk people through interviews to get them to betray or reveal…the real John Updike, let's say, when the real John Updike has been trying to show the real John Updike in his writing all these years."
And what do I want the real Devin to be? Perhaps a little awkward, not too at home in the world, not arrogant, a little tortured. A misfit, as juvenile as that sounds. I even ask him this—do you consider yourself a misfit?—which sounds sort of idiotic. But there are certainly clues that this may have some truth to it. On his Facebook page one day he posts: "I think the stork delivered me to the wrong universe." And on the record, well, the speaker in the last song ends up on a "deserted eyeland." Actually, in that song we're all there on a deserted eyeland.
In a wonderful interview back in 1992 with Yoko Ono, who as we all know did not fit in very well with one particular club, the writer and composer Kyle Gann quoted Ono on the subject of belonging: "There were always people who felt [what I did] was very Fluxus, or that [it] was not Fluxus. Or, that's not rock. Or, what I thought was poetry, no, that's more like prose. Something maybe doesn't fit, but that part is me. You always end up being yourself."
If you're lucky, that is. It can be a lonely business being yourself, but consider the alternative. Even in these days of DIY home recordings, some musicians still sound like they're trying to be something they're not. Not Devin, though. Even with all the influences he's mining, he sounds heartbreakingly like himself the whole way through, or at least he sounds like what I think he is.
Just as I'm about to give up on hearing from him, a message appears, a beautifully articulated missive carefully contemplating the things I had asked him. Is he a misfit? He actually sends me two dictionary definitions of the word—I like his attention to detail—because he had to really think about whether that was the right term for him. They sound like descriptions of a sociopath, so he qualifies things: "Maybe I'm a 'functioning misfit.' I mean, I have a nine-to-five job, I have never been arrested. I don't talk to myself on the train or walk around shaking my fist at the empty sky." Or perhaps he's more accurately a "loner," he says, which explains the labor-intensive recording process of laying down every track himself. "I think I have always had an obsession with figuring out how everything works. I definitely think that slows down my productivity….When I listen to something off of Lonely People of the World, Unite! after not listening to it for a long time, I don't necessarily notice a particular drum fill, for example. But at the time I was recording the song, the drum fill was a life and death matter."
He goes on, "I've always said that I have this little bell that goes off when something is 'done,' when it says what I want it to say, when it sparkles (to me). I remember when I knew that Lonely People was done." As for the new songs, he says, "I hope I hear that bell ringing soon."
He is obsessive, thoughtful, humble. I have not been disappointed—not one bit. I want to take him out for an ice-cream sundae in Chicago, if I ever get to Chicago.
"At times with this new album," he writes, "I have felt like I was trying to look at the Great Pyramid through a microscope, grain of sand by grain of sand. It is my great ongoing personal battle to try to relax the scrutiny I have for all of the individual parts being 'just right' and to let the big picture reveal itself."
It's an exquisite description for so many things—for just, well, the process of learning to be oneself. Thank you, Devin. I'm glad I asked.
Devin Davis
About Janet Steen
Janet Steen started on the editorial staff at Esquire, where she tweaked the prose of writers including Norman Mailer, Denis Johnson, and Mary Gaitskill. She went on to become the books editor at Time Out New York, an editor at Us Weekly, and the literary editor at Details. She has written for the New York Times, Interview, Details, Us Weekly, and Time Out New York. Her profile subjects include such widely varying personalities as Steve Martin, Barry White, Martin Amis, and Dennis Hopper. She edits books and is a co-founder of Editrixie.com, and lives in upstate N.Y.
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State Street and SimCorp form business partnership
October 12, 2020 [email protected]_84 business classes
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) and investment management solutions and service provider, SimCorp (OMXC25: SIM), today announced their intent to form a business partnership to provide a premier, fully integrated, front-to-back investment outsourcing solution for insurance firms in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
EMEA-based insurance companies will have access to SimCorp Dimension's cloud-based, multi-asset class capabilities, advanced accounting functionality and managed services, together with State Street's leading data management, middle office and custody services on the State Street AlphaSM platform. Consistent with the Alpha platform commitment to provide clients access to leading capabilities through an open architecture, this partnership will integrate SimCorp Dimension with State Street's proprietary software solutions including Charles River Development.
The solution comes as EMEA insurers face increasing pressure due to low returns, a decline in interest rates, increased regulatory burden and rising technology costs. The new partnership from State Street and SimCorp addresses operational efficiency, delivering improved accuracy and timely, high-quality, multi-asset data for their full front-to-back operations. The integration of SimCorp Dimension with State Street AlphaSM fully addresses what has historically been a fragmented, expensive and time-consuming process across the investment lifecycle.
"This new offering will provide a significant competitive advantage for our insurance clients in the region," said Jörg Ambrosius, head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at State Street. "This partnership is an example of the open architecture and flexibility that our Alpha platform provides and our commitment to working with SimCorp as a strategic partner to offer the best solutions to our clients."
"We welcome the new business partnership with State Street," said Jochen Müller, chief commercial officer at SimCorp. "We are pleased that State Street is expanding the use of SimCorp Dimension in their European business and we are impressed how open they want to be in their Alpha Platform, also accepting the complete SimCorp Solution to deliver their services."
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Kidazzler Review – Scam or a Legit Way to Profit from Advertising Revenue?
by Dan | Jun 17, 2019 | Reviews | 6 comments
What is Kidazzler?
Who's Behind Kidazzler?
How Do You Make Money With Kidazzler?
How Much Do You Get Paid?
How Do You Get Paid?
Which Business Types Should You Lock In?
Is There a Limit to How Many Business You Can Add?
Is Kidazzler Paying Out?
Is Kidazzler a Scam or Legit?
My Thoughts On Kidazzler
1: You Might Get Paid
2: You're Probably Being Exploited
3: This Won't Last Forever
Conclusion: Possibly Legit – But Caution Advised
What's the Alternative to Kidazzler?
Kidazzler
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Kidazzler is a GPT site that claims to pay you $10 for every relevant business that you refer to them.
At the time of writing it does appear that Kidazzler is paying out.
But there's no guarantee this will continue indefinitely.
You might make money.
Might be a waste of time.
Unlikely to be a sustainable source of passive income.
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Opinion Disclaimer: the content in this review is ultimately a reflection of my own opinions and is not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, anyone, or anything.
Name: Kidazzler
Website: Kidazzler.com
Real owner: Alex Rehman (?)
Platform: Independent
Type: GPT – lead acquisition
Recommended? Caution advised
How to join? Via invite link only
Call me cynical.
But whenever I see a website pop up claiming to pay you for performing simple tasks whilst waxing lyrical about 'changing the world' or playing on family values…
My knee-jerk reaction is to brand it as a scam.
And why's that?
Because the vast majority of such opportunities that I've reviewed here on Online Income Solutions have turned out to be data harvesting cons or Ponzi schemes.
It's important to look at the facts.
And as I'm about to reveal in my honest Kidazzler review.
I was actually quite surprised by what I saw when I signed up.
Here's what I discovered.
Image source: blog.kidazzler.com
Kidazzler is a GPT ('get paid to') website.
Where you're compensated for sourcing and adding the contact details of businesses associated with children and/or parenting.
Kidazzler refer to this process as building a '…global directory for everything kids'.
But basically?
You're getting paid to find business leads for the people who own Kidazzler.
And you're supposedly paid a percentage of the advertising revenue generated from the resulting partnership formed by Kidazzler and the business(es) that you've successfully referred.
More on the mechanics of this process in just a moment.
Because the front-end of the Kidazzler website doesn't give much away.
But there's a post on the Kidazzler blog that says Alex Rehman is the Founder and CEO of Kidazzler.
The Privacy Policy also states that Kidazzler is operated by JAR Global, Inc.
Image source: blog.kidazzler.com/2019/03/28/meet-our-founder/
You make money with Kidazzler by adding the contact details of relevant businesses to the back-end of your Kidazzler membership area.
This process is called 'locking in' a business.
To initiate this process, click the 'add a business' button on your dashboard.
And then fill out the details of the business you wish to add.
You're supposedly paid $10 per month for each business that you lock in.
You can also earn $2 per month from each business that your referrals lock in.
The link to do this can be found by clicking the 'invite friends' button on your main dashboard page.
Kidazzler say that you can get paid by PayPal and Venmo.
And apparently…
Kidazzler plan to build their own '…proprietary payment infrastructure – The Kidazzler Wallet'.
There's a full list of eligible business types available on the FAQ page.
But the main types of businesses that you can track down and add fall under the following categories:
Kids activities.
Childcare and daycares.
Events and parties.
Family fun locations.
Camps and classes.
Doctors and dentists.
Barbershops and salons.
Museums and amusement parks.
You're able to secure a maximum of 65 businesses per month.
This is to stop certain people adding most of the businesses.
And whilst the limit means that your earnings are thus capped at $650 per month…
You can technically bypass this by recruiting others into Kidazzler using your referral link earning $2 for each business they lock in.
It's free to join Kidazzler.
You must be 18 or over and live in either the US or Canada.
According to the anecdotal reports I've seen online?
Kidazzler does appear to be paying out in line with their claims of $10 per business added.
I have no way of really knowing if these Kidazzler 'payment proofs' are legit or not.
It's entirely possible that these positive Kidazzler reviews have been faked by affiliates to try and get people to join up via their affiliate link.
But I'm just speculating here.
This is a tough question to answer.
Because based on what I've seen so far?
I'd be forced to admit that Kidazzler is legit and NOT a scam.
But as I'm now about to discuss in more detail.
There may be more to Kidazzler than meets the eye.
Here's the problem.
When a GPT site or investment scheme starts paying out…
People automatically assume that the operation is legit.
But as I've seen time and time again whilst exposing many Ponzi schemes here on Online Income Solutions…
Such payments are often just confidence tricks that are designed to keep the scam going for longer.
Here are my personal opinions on Kidazzler.
In all honesty?
It's quite possible that you could sign up to Kidazzler, start adding businesses, and earn a passive income each month thereafter.
You may find that one day…
Kidazzler suddenly stops paying out, shuts down their website, and is never heard of ever again.
And why would they do that?
Because they got what they needed from you.
So there's no need to carry on paying you.
But what exactly do they want?
Data collection is big business online.
Because both personal and business records can be leveraged for marketing purposes and more nefarious uses such as spamming – or even ID theft.
I'm certainly not implying that Kidazzler is doing anything bad or illegal.
I have no idea what Kidazzler are REALLY doing with the database of companies that they're compiling.
But consider this.
If you're NOT paying for the product…
Then it's quite likely that YOU are the product!
Take legitimate GPT sites like Swagbucks and the merchant companies they link to.
The merchants understand that people are willing to toil for hours on end just to earn a few pence filling in online surveys.
And so they can take that data and leveraging it to make better marketing decisions and make far more money than the 'spare change' that it cost them to collect said data.
Thus making the people filling in the surveys the resource ('product') that's being exploited.
Although participating in Kidazzler appears to only cost you your time…
You really need to consider what's in it for the owners.
Because they wouldn't be running Kidazzler unless it benefited them significantly more than the people using a service that's otherwise free of charge.
Even if Kidazzler is squeaky clean?
Unless they add to their service going forward…
There's no way that Kidazzler can continue indefinitely.
Because there are a limited number of businesses that you can add.
Hence why so many people are starting to complain that every business they try to add to the system has already been entered by someone else.
As things stand at the time of writing?
I can't really call Kidazzler a scam.
Because whilst it may be true that you're being exploited in terms of what you're getting back for your time…
Kidazzler do appear to be honouring payments.
But as I said before.
Don't be surprised if Kidazzler suddenly stops paying one day and disappears from the face of the Earth.
So by all means…
Sign up and have a go yourself.
But I certainly wouldn't count on Kidazzler to supply you with an indefinite source of passive income each and every month.
Personally?
I won't be wasting my time with Kidazzler.
Because I'd rather put my efforts into building my OWN website that I can monetise with affiliate links and other strategies.
Because I'm creating an online asset that could RELIABLY earn me a passive income for many years to come.
It's MY business.
Meaning that I'm in control of what happens.
Building a website that makes money isn't something that you can do overnight.
It takes many months of consistent work and patience.
Which means that if you're interested in possibly making 5-figures online in passive income like I have…
Then you'll need to get away from the idea of trading your time for money.
But if you're willing to delay the financial gratification…
Then click the button below.
And I'll show you how to start your own legitimate online affiliate business from scratch.
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Lori on July 6, 2019 at 6:56 am
After reading your review, it is very clear you do not understand Kidazzler at all. To use swagbucks as a comparison is beyond laughable. Kidazzler is not a GTP site.
Kidazzler is a legit and sustainable business model. They are paying members and I have provided authentic proof of my payments.
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Dan on July 6, 2019 at 12:01 pm
It's great to hear that you've been paid by Kidazzler – thanks for letting us know.
L.d on August 6, 2019 at 9:29 pm
Been paid out by kidazzler many times as well. The model speaks for itself as to why it can be a sustainable income source as businesses need advertisement & as you said, a business can only be added once & becomes locked to whom adds it. (It is also a platform that has never been done before that parents can find resourceful in using)
This is also why participation on it is better now than later.
Unlike other sources that offer one time low payouts. Kidazzler. Offers an investment on a directory without any money down for a share in the advertising revenue on a monthly basis. As far as payouts now, considering the platform hasnt fully launched you won't see as many payouts at this stage. Finally, kidazzler will not just disappear because they "got what they needed" .
I personally spoke to a founder & believe me when I say not only is this legit but, the founders on this are truly driven by good & are passionate in their execution of their platform.
Im with lori on this
Dan on August 6, 2019 at 9:50 pm
Thanks for letting us know that you're making money with Kidazzler and providing us with more info on how the business works – much appreciated.
Chris on September 24, 2019 at 4:21 pm
Love the review, great points. Someone advertised a kd reflink via Craigslist ad and I wanted to know more.. Will be checking out more of your reviews as well.
Dan on September 25, 2019 at 9:10 am
Glad you found the review useful.
If you do go ahead with Kidazzler – can you update us with your results?
Because from the comments above, it looks like people are getting paid – so this might be legit after all.


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'Small Axe': A Searing Portrait Of Racism And A Community's Will To Survive
Fresh Air | By Justin Chang
Malachi Kirby (standing) plays activist Darcus Howe in Mangrove, the first film in Steve McQueen's Small Axe anthology.
Steve McQueen has made searingly powerful films about historical injustice, from slavery in the American South to a 1981 hunger strike in a Northern Irish prison. But only now has he dramatized the experiences of Black women and men in the U.K., specifically the West Indian neighborhoods of London where he grew up. He clearly has a lot to say: His anthology Small Axe, which he directed and co-wrote, consists of five dramatic films, each one telling a different story set between the 1960s and the 1980s.
I haven't seen the last two films in the series, Alex Wheatle and Education, which will air later in December. But the first three are terrific: Engrossing, vibrantly shot and superbly acted, they draw us deep into a community defined by its strong bonds, often expressed in joyous scenes of characters singing, dancing and sharing meals. But they also show how hard-won that joy is.
The first film, Mangrove, is an electrifying account of a landmark 1971 trial that exposed anti-Black racism within London's Metropolitan Police. Shaun Parkes plays Frank Crichlow, a Trinidadian immigrant who owns a restaurant called the Mangrove that becomes a favorite meeting place for Black Londoners. Before long, it's being raided by white police constables, driving away patrons and destroying Frank's property. Darcus Howe, an activist played by a sensational Malachi Kirby, urges Frank to respond to this campaign of intimidation by organizing a protest.
The community organizes a march to a local police station, where Frank, Darcus and seven other demonstrators, known as the "Mangrove Nine," are arrested and charged with inciting a riot. That setup might bring to mind the recent film The Trial of the Chicago 7, but the legal drama here has none of Aaron Sorkin's glib self-satisfaction.
It's also more cinematic: McQueen's camera boldly captures the lopsided power dynamics of the courtroom, where dishonest cops and a biased judge seem bent on upholding the status quo. But justice of a sort does prevail, and Mangrove becomes a stirring tribute to the power of impassioned home-grown activists like Frank, Darcus and Altheia Jones-LeCointe. She's played by a terrific Letitia Wright, so memorable in the Marvel superhero movie Black Panther.
Mangrove has a clear thematic link to the third Small Axe film, Red, White and Blue. It's another fact-based story of police injustice, but a more somber, intimate one. John Boyega, known for the most recent Star Wars trilogy, gives a genuinely star-making performance here as a cop named Leroy Logan. He joins the force in 1983, hoping to fight the institutional racism that has already devastated his community, including his own father, Kenneth, who was violently beaten by two cops for a parking violation.
Leroy believes the only way to transform an unjust system is from within. Easier said than done: He witnesses and experiences no shortage of mistreatment by his white colleagues, especially when they ignore his call for backup while he's chasing a suspect. The real-life Leroy Logan went on to spend three decades with the police and became one of its most important reformers. But his brilliant career is only hinted at in Red, White and Blue: This is Leroy's origin story, a reminder that even the smallest steps can bring about necessary change.
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Micheal Ward and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn are strangers who connect on the dance floor in Lovers Rock.
The sublime second film in the anthology, Lovers Rock, is one of its most unique: It's the only story here that isn't based on real-life figures. Arriving between the harder-hitting Mangrove and Red, White and Blue, it feels like a respite — a blast of pure, unfiltered bliss.
The movie takes place over one glorious night at a 1980 house party in Notting Hill. McQueen revels in the little details: We watch as a few men clear away furniture and hook up speakers, while a group of women work and sing in the kitchen, cooking goat curry and other Jamaican dishes. The title refers to lovers rock, a genre of reggae music that will figure heavily on the evening's playlist. But it also establishes the movie as a romance between two beautiful strangers, played by Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn and Micheal Ward, who seal their mutual attraction on the dance floor.
Running a short 68 minutes, Lovers Rock is a thrillingly immersive piece of filmmaking: The gently swaying camera puts us right there in the room as everyone sings and dances the night away, pulling us into a kind of trance in which time itself comes to a rapturous standstill. Given McQueen's tendency to focus on human suffering, it's wonderful to see him cut loose here: Lovers Rock is easily the most exhilarating film he's ever made. It shows that joy itself can be an act of defiance, an expression of a community's life force and its will to survive.
Justin Chang
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Apple Watch growth, physician access to data likely to become major Apple healthcare revenue sources
Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 08:44 am PT (11:44 am ET)
The growth of the wearable devices market could lead Apple to earn more than simply Apple Watch sales, suggests Loup Ventures, with the opportunity for data collected by it and potential future AirPod models to be offered to members of the healthcare industry for a monthly fee.
Apple's gradually increasing focus on the health and wellbeing of its users has been encouraged under the tenure of CEO Tim Cook, who has previously expressed hope the iPhone producer will be remembered in the future for its contributions to health than technology. While Cook may be trying to make health "Apple's greatest contribution to mankind," it may also be a prime opportunity for the company to earn more revenue from its existing and rumored future devices.
According to Loup Ventures analyst Gene Munster, Apple's ambitions to enter the healthcare market is "not currently priced into shares" yet. Apple is thought by the analyst to "pursue a path toward improving primary healthcare by leveraging wearables, AI, and their user-centric software to connect consumers, providers, and payers."
It is reckoned healthcare accounts for 18 percent of the US gross domestic product, but despite the size, technology hasn't had much of an impact on the industry. A number of factors limits its impact, Munster claims, with "how we pay" for healthcare a prime reason followed by FDA approval hurdles and the use of legacy technology for infrastructure.
The payment element is what Munster believes is Apple's key to becoming widely used across the industry, by aligning itself with "the incentives of payers and providers." While payers, such as private insurers and the government, have an incentive to save money, this doesn't give much opportunity for Apple's consumer-focused approach to come into play, due to the separation of payers and patients.
As physicians and providers bridge the gap between payers and patients, it is likely they are the biggest target for Apple's healthcare moves, as they have the ability to influence patients. "The question is, can tech enhance or foster that relationship to be more regular and more productive?" Munster asks.
The financial incentives have slowly shifted towards providers in the last 15 years, with physicians taking the financial risk of care. As a physician is paid per month for the total care for a patient rather than on a per-event basis, this leads to physician and provider profits to increase if they can get patients to be healthier, making them prime candidates for life-affecting technological changes.
Minster believes there are two approaches to this, with the obvious being the addition of more health-monitoring elements to its devices. The Apple Watch and "eventually AirPods" could add other biomarkers such as blood pressure and hydration to its existing roster of fitness metrics, with the market primed to continue growing.
"The wearables segment represents a measurable revenue opportunity given its small today and foundational to Apple's healthcare master plan," Munster believes, with wearables accounting for 5 percent of current sales with expectations for it to grow to 8 percent in five years.
Based on Apple Watch sales of 67 million since its initial release and estimates that 85 percent of units are still in use, it is suggested there is an active install base of 57 million Apple Watches. With an active iPhone base thought to be over 900 million, it is proposed the Watch business could eventually be 15 times bigger if widely adopted by iPhone users, but more realistically could be four times the size than at present.
While AirPods are rumored to have health tracking functions added in a future revision, Munster believes the features are "likely years away," though highlights how the inner ear is an attractive location for monitoring a user's health, as well as Apple's patents on the subject.
Munster's other suggested approach is for Apple to take advantage of all of the data it is collecting from the Apple Watch and offer it to healthcare providers. Harvesting data, then filtering and analyzing it on behalf of providers would offer data that could be used to better treat the patient, most likely at a far lower cost than the physician or provider would pay to gather the information itself.
"The offering would likely start with the consumer paying about $300 for a Watch that captures heart rate, activity, sleep, temperature, blood pressure and makes the data actionable," muses Munster, continuing by proposing "the physician would pay Apple a per-month per-user fee."
The proposed cost to physicians would be $10 per patient per month, which would be quite a small cut from the monthly profit they would usually make, but given it would provide access to many hours of organized and analyzed data of the patent's living habits, it could be a relative pittance to pay compared to the potential benefits.
Apple's existing work in healthcare has made some progress, with its Health Records platform for sharing personal health data between patients and caregivers receiving very favorable reviews from its early users. Apple's policies to minimize data collection in favor of user privacy is also thought to be a benefit for healthcare, with Cook suggesting at the end of February "People will look at this and feel that they can trust Apple," a key item for firms working in the health space.
The company also counts at least 50 medical doctors on staff throughout the company, working to extend the health technologies already offered in its products, as well as updated versions.
Gene Munster,
Loup Ventures
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We believe that the scientific community needs to consider the challenge of raising the productivity of agriculture to meet the growing global demand for food by taking a new perspective. We argue that a major research effort is needed on the dynamic interplay of productivity growth in agriculture, farming and ecosystem sustainability, and resilience. We offer a framework that identifies two pathways for growth—technology-based and ecosystem-based—and explores two-way linkages with sustainability and resilience outcomes in farming systems.
As a geographers working in land system science, we had been struck by the lack of connections among researchers working on agriculture-related issues – including sustainable intensification, agricultural specialization vs. diversification, GMOs, land-sparing vs. sharing, land conservation, and ecosystem services – and how few researchers were paying attention to the veritable farming revolution that had occurred – at home and abroad – that is raising agricultural output – not by intensification or farming new land – but by making farming more efficient, i.e., raising "total factor productivity" (TFP). It seemed that work on TFP was both under-recognized (beyond agricultural economics) and under-developed analytically in terms of how exactly farmers "get more for less" and the potential synergistic or negative linkages with ecosystem services that could profoundly affect future productivity.
As agricultural economists, we were examining the sources of productivity growth in farming, with emphasis on the potential synergies/tradeoffs associated with diversification versus specialization. For example, what were the productivity benefits of crop rotations or integrated livestock-cropping systems? We were also interested in the role of investment in R&D for future productivity growth, and concerned about the recent decline in public investment dollars in agricultural R&D.
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Why is Trump suddenly talking about World War III?
Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)
By Anne Applebaum
Columnist focusing on national politics and foreign policy
Back in March 2014, just after the Russian invasion of Crimea, Russia's most famous state television broadcaster presented the international situation in stark terms. "Russia," Dimitry Kiselyov told his millions of viewers, "is the only country in the world that really can turn [the] USA into radioactive ash." Against a backdrop of mushroom clouds and throbbing nuclear targets, he spoke ominously of how President Obama's hair was turning gray — "I admit this can be a coincidence" — and the increasing desperation of a White House that truly feared that nuclear war might break out at any moment.
Now it's October 2016, and Kiselyov, who also heads Russia's state-owned news agency, is at it again. "Impudent behavior toward Russia" has a "nuclear dimension," he warned ominously on Oct. 9. In the same program, he again featured photographs of Obama. Kiselyov said that there had been a "radical change" in the U.S.-Russian relationship, and he added a threat: "Moscow would react with nerves of steel" to any U.S. intervention in Syria — up to and including a nuclear response. "If it should one day happen, every one of you should know where the nearest bomb shelter is. It's best to find out now," another television channel has advised.
What a difference two years makes: The U.S. government, and the U.S. public, brushed off Russia's nuclear narrative the first time it was presented. But this time around, the language sounds different. We are in the middle of an ugly presidential election. More important, we have a Republican presidential nominee who regularly repeats propaganda lines lifted directly from Russian state media. Donald Trump has declared that Hillary Clinton and Obama "founded ISIS," a statement that comes directly from Russia's Sputnik news agency. He spouted another debunked conspiracy theory — "the Google search engine is suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton" — soon after Sputnik resurrected it.
Now Trump is repeating Kiselyov's threat, too. "You're going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton," he said this week. Just like Kiselyov, he has also noted that Russia has nukes and — perhaps if Clinton is elected — will use them: "Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk."
Why is Russian state media using such extreme language? And why is Trump repeating it? The Russian regime's motives aren't hard to understand: It wants to scare Russians. The economy is much weaker than it was, living standards are dropping and with it support for President Vladimir Putin. A ruling clique that stays in power thanks to violence and corruption is by definition nervous, and so it is using its media monopoly to frighten people: Only Putin's regime can protect you from U.S. aggression.
During a speech in Charlotte, Oct. 26, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that the strategy of his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton to address the war in Syria could lead to World War III. (The Washington Post)
The regime surely wants to scare us, too, and persuade us to abandon Syria. If the United States and Europe throw in the towel, then Russia will be free to help the Bashar al-Assad regime impose the same kind of "solution" that Russia used in Chechnya more than a decade ago: kill tens of thousands of people, flatten the landscape, destroy all political alternatives and then start again, with a Russian-backed dictator. In the interim, the war has its uses: It has increased the destabilizing flow of refugees to Europe, broadening political and economic chaos that Russia believes serves its interests.
The Russians also have a major interest in our election. Since last summer, when Russian hackers tried to spoil the Democratic National Convention with leaked emails, it's been clear that Russia prefers the Republican nominee, a man who has repeatedly stated his admiration for Putin and his dislike of U.S. allies. From personal experience, the "political technologists" who design the regime's information campaign know that fear and hysteria can persuade people to vote for an authoritarian candidate. It costs them almost nothing to try to create fear and hysteria in the United States. It might not work — but it might pay off big.
There is one more possible motive. Whatever the outcome on Nov. 8, political uncertainty will follow: the months of transition, a change of White House staff, perhaps even the violent backlash that Trump may incite. This could be an excellent moment for a major Russian offensive: a land grab in Ukraine, a foray into the Baltic states, a much bigger intervention in the Middle East — anything to "test" the new president.
If that's coming, Putin needs to prepare his public to fight much bigger wars and to persuade the rest of the world not to stop him. He needs to get his generals into the right mind-set, and his soldiers ready to go. A little nuclear war rhetoric never fails to focus attention, and I'm sure it has.
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Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum is a Washington Post columnist, covering national politics and foreign policy, with a special focus on Europe and Russia. She is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and a professor of practice at the London School of Economics. She is a former member of The Washington Post's editorial board. Follow