KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 16): The Ministry of Finance said in the Economic Report 2015/16 that household debt rose to 88.1% of nominal gross domestic product (GDP) in August from 86.8% at the end of last year, though it noted at the time that it grew at a more moderate rate than years prior, and assured that total household financial assets are still more than double the debts.
Time and again, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) highlighted that it had capped the household debt service ratio, or the percentage of loan obligations to take-home pay, to 30%.
However, Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) (pictured) director of research Dr Muhammed Abdul Khalid said this will not deter the low-income group from getting deeper into debt, as they can still turn to informal channels to borrow for consumption, like getting an "ansuran mudah" (easy payment) scheme to buy durable goods.
"BNM said [the household debt level] is not much to worry about because aggregate-level household assets are more than loans. I suspect it is true for the higher income, not the lower income," said Muhammed, who was also formerly head of economics at the Securities Commission Malaysia, in a recent interview with The Edge Financial Daily.
Economic Planning Unit data showed the top 20% households in the rural and urban parts of Peninsular Malaysia made up nearly half of the income share last year, at an average of 44.3%.
In an article published by KRI, entitled "Antara Dua Darjat", it was shown that investment growth between Amanah Saham Bumiputera's (ASB) top and bottom investors went in different directions. While total deposits grew by 13% from 2012 to 2014, the average deposit of the bottom 6.16 million investors — which made up 72% of ASB investors — fell by 12.3%.
As their deposits were miniscule, these investors' average dividend was just RM45 in 2014 — or RM3.75 a month. "That's only enough to get a breakfast of roti canai and teh tarik once a month," said the article.
While the government debt level gets heavy scrutiny, there is comparatively less attention on Malaysia's household debt, Muhammed said. Why is that, when Malaysia's economy is heavily anchored on domestic demand, he questioned. Private consumption this year made up 52.71% of GDP this year, according to the Economic Report.
"The public debt limit of 55% of GDP is a self-imposed one. What happens when you break it? Nothing, although there will be some cost. Now, we are borrowing about RM630 billion, so an additional one basis point is just RM630 million — that is the extra cost. But household debt is much higher [at RM940.4 billion as at end-2014]," said Muhammed.
The Department of Statistics showed that the median monthly salary and wage in 2013 were just RM1,500. Last year, it was RM1,575.
"Meanwhile, Selangor's median wage was RM2,000 last year, from RM1,980 in 2013. This means in the richest state, people get only RM20 extra per month. But count how much the increase is when divided by 30 days. And toll hikes for, say, [the] MEX highway, went up by RM1; [the] SILK highway by 80 sen. So, of course they feel [the pinch] when prices go up," said Muhammed.
He disagreed with the perception that Malaysia's consumer price index (CPI) is skewed due to inclusion of controlled items, as only few items in the entire 512 goods in the CPI basket are price-controlled items, and even then, they are only controlled during festive seasons. The CPI went up by 10% between September 2010 and September 2014. "We tend to get confused about [the] CPI; it captures the rate of change of prices, not the level of prices," he added.
"But if you look at other big-ticket items, high-rise properties went up by 54%, terrace house 61%. Even [everyday goods] like ginger was up by 57%, kailan by 20% and sawi by 10% during the same period. People remember this. And people remember that toll prices [have] gone up as well," he said, before adding that houses are not included in the CPI. Only rents are.
For low-income earners, Muhammed said it is normal for them to borrow for consumption. With many items' prices increasing, this could just delay the low-earning people's purchases of homes.
BNM's Financial Stability and Payment Systems Report 2014 showed that total household loans were primarily mortgages (45.7%), while personal financing made up 15.7%. However, households which earned RM3,000 or less had a debt-to-income ratio of seven times, even though their total loan share was only 26.7%.
Apart from easy-payment schemes, Muhammed said low-income earners could turn to personal acquaintances or worse — loan sharks — to obtain credit. Forget the fact that ah longs charge exorbitant rates, Muhammed said these numbers are not included in official data. "So, we won't know how much debt came from these informal sources," he said.
Muhammed said these loans were usually for consumables or not backed by assets. The younger ones borrow to study, while the older ones for medication.
Former CIMB Investment Bank Bhd regional head of economic research Lee Heng Guie, meanwhile, said many in their 40s tend to borrow from loan sharks for their businesses' short-term financing.
"Sometimes, these people need quick cash to help with their cash flow. Going to banks requires a lot of requirements and a longer process. So, these small business owners just go to the ah longs and use their possessions as collateral," he said.
Both Lee and Muhammed agree that Malaysia's household indebtedness will not be reduced anytime soon. "It will take a dramatic fall in loan growth or a sharp GDP rise to reduce the ratio," said Lee.
Muhammed suggested that easy- payment schemes be disallowed from advertising low daily repayments and instead display the actual annual percentage rate (APR).
This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on Nov 16, 2015.
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Mailbag: Lessons Learned From Bad Investments
Q: What's the worst investment you've ever made? And what did you learn from the experience?
A: Don't fall in love. My big mistake was that I fell head over heels for the Nano.
What the heck is a Nano?
It used to be the "world's cheapest car." It was underpowered, under-equipped, under-automated and under-engineered. But because it was also underpriced, I willfully ignored all those other not-so-good "unders."
The Nano was made by Tata Motors. The Indian company planned to make an affordable car for the young but rapidly expanding middle class in India before rolling it out to other developing countries. It sounded like a winning formula to me.
When it entered the Indian market in 2008, it cost about $1,500. That price tag caught my attention. As a young man, I loved driving my Volkswagen Beetle, an underpowered but hugely popular car in the U.S. and dozens of other countries. Because, by god, it got you from point A to point B.
Tata said that with local low-cost engineers and factory workers, it could build a car that would allow millions of Indian citizens to graduate from motorcycles, scooters and India's infamous three-wheeled auto rickshaws to a car that wasn't fancy but DID THE JOB.
Only it didn't do the job. The Nano was plagued with production, safety and crash test issues. It was also known to catch fire at inopportune times (which begs the question, when is a good time for a car to explode into flames?).
Tata had a great product to market to a burgeoning market at the right price.
BUT IT DIDN'T EXECUTE. Plain and simple.
And the stock lurched from low to lower, as it fully deserved…
I learned the hard way that the most brilliant product idea can't overcome horses**t execution.
I never forgot that lesson. And several years later, I even expanded upon it: Brilliant ideas can't overcome poor execution, but great execution can many times overcome less-than-brilliant product ideas.
Keep in mind, you cannot "hear" great execution. You won't know if a startup will have great execution based on a slide deck. And above all, great execution cannot be assumed. It must be proven and demonstrated in the here and now.
If it isn't, you're taking a big chance.
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Q: What do you think about Beyond Meat?
A: I think Beyond Meat has shown incredible growth, but the stock is way too expensive. My reasoning is pretty simple.
Beyond Meat did $165 million in sales over the past year. Yet the company is currently valued at $7 billion. That gives it a price-to-sales ratio of 42, meaning it is currently valued at 42 times its annual sales.
The company is growing at an incredible 287% year-over-year pace. So it certainly deserves a premium valuation. But 42 times sales? That's crazy. And I'm not buying unless it gets a lot cheaper.
Right now, the stock is priced like it's risk-free. But there are risks to consider. The big one is competition, which is going to become a much bigger problem soon. Impossible Burger and countless new entries into the sector are all competing for market share. Tyson Foods, Nestlé and Kellogg – just to name a few – all want a piece of this market. And Beyond Meat's incredible success will make the competition even more fierce. There's a bull's-eye on its back.
I think that Beyond Meat is a really great company and that it's doing plant-based burgers the right way – non-genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and without soy. But I can't be sure Beyond Meat will come out on top. Impossible Burger's genetically modified plant-based burger could end up winning, simply because most people don't seem to care about the GMO issue.
I'd certainly consider buying Beyond Meat in a market crash scenario, but for now I'm steering clear.
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3 Men Shot And Wounded During Carjacking Attempt
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One of the victims had a graze wound to the head, but none were seriously injured, a Los Angeles police officer said.
The officer said the victims, all in their early 20s, were dropping a friend off at a gas station in the 2400 block of West Temple Street when they were approached by two men who began arguing with them. One of the two men then produced a handgun and fired at the men in the car before the suspects made off with the vehicle, she said.
The suspects drove a block west to North Rampart Boulevard, where they abandoned the vehicle, the officer said.
The victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, she said.
From Mario Ramirez:
The LAPD Rampart division is investigating a triple shooting in Westlake early Wednesday morning.
Three people were shot near Temple and Park View Streets at about 2:55 a.m. According to police, 2 suspects approached a group of men in a white vehicle. One of the suspects opened fire shooting them. Two of the three men shot were able to run to a Mobile gas station on Temple and Rampart before calling for help.
Authorities say the injuries appear to be graze wounds and non-life threatening. All 3 victims were taken to area hospitals and listed in stable condition.
No arrests have been made. Police say the suspects appear to be gang members.
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From Aurora to Newtown, 2012 was unprecedented for this kind of mass gun violence in America.
After a Colorado movie theater was hit with ghastly gun violence last July, one of the first things we did at Mother Jones was contact a top expert on mass murder, hoping he could help answer some questions. Was this disturbingly familiar event occurring more often? What kind of people carried out these killings and with what weapons? And why had no academic, journalist, or policy thinker gathered in-depth data on this recurring problem in more than a decade?
Part of the challenge, criminologist James Alan Fox confirmed, was that no clear definition for "mass shooting" exists. Fox himself has worked with broad criteria, using statistics from the FBI on crimes involving four or more fatalities (not including the perpetrator). With this approach he has concluded that mass shootings in the US have fluctuated since the mid 1970s, averaging about 20 per year with no clear trend up or down.
But Fox's conclusion relies on the raw numbers of total incidents and deaths in all manner of crimes, including those with motives such as gang killings, armed robberies, and domestic violence in private homes. For our investigation, we settled on narrower criteria excluding such crimes, as Fox noted in his recent criticism of our work. Our goal was to dig deeper into the phenomenon of seemingly indiscriminate attacks in public places—shopping malls, religious buildings, workplaces, schools—to try to make more sense of these "senseless" tragedies.
Part of what we discovered was that these events have indeed been on the rise: 2012 was a record year for them by our measure, with more than 140 victims injured and killed. (Fox's study, it should be noted, does not go beyond 2010.) But that's hardly the most valuable takeaway from our data, and it's unfortunate that Fox, in focusing on our differing conclusions about frequency, overlooked the rest of our investigative findings.
We also came to realize that a limitation of our approach was the threshold of four fatalities. It underscored the magnitude of the phenomenon we were focused on: If we were to lower the fatality count, there would be dozens of additional similar cases to account for, from a rampage at a Knoxville church in 2008 (two dead, six injured) to one at a Pittsburgh fitness center in 2009 (three dead, nine injured) to one at a Cleveland high school last February (three dead, three injured).
We chose to stick with the threshold because it is the only one that appears to be widely accepted by experts, based on a FBI report from 2005. But the challenge of arriving at a workable definition also points to a broader problem recognized by everyone studying this issue: Much more research is needed. Data on guns and gun violence is notoriously lacking, thanks in no small part to the National Rifle Association, which has worked effectively with its allies in Congress not only to undermine enforcement of gun laws but also to kill research that would serve the public interest. President Obama's new plan for regulating firearms aims to change all that, but it will take an act of Congress to make robust research a reality.
Mass shootings represent but a tiny fraction of America's overall gun violence. That doesn't mean we shouldn't work harder to understand how they happen and how we might diminish them. For those who suggest that they are statistically unimportant, there stands an obvious question: How many more Tucsons, Auroras, Sikh temples, and Newtowns do we need for this problem to deserve deeper attention?
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Written by D. Daxton White• January 4, 2011• 1:55 pm• Blog, Securities Fraud
Sanjeev Jayant Kumar Shah Pleads Guilty To Securities Fraud
A former Smith Barney financial adviser in New York has plead guilty to attempting to defraud a client of more than $3 million.
According to Reuters, Federal prosecutors have said that Sanjeev Jayant Kumar Shah admitted to sending false documents in March 2009 that authorized Smith Barney to transfer $3.25 million from a client's account to an offshore bank.
Shah allegedly told the client that the transfer was made to purchase bonds. He then said a computer error at Smith Barney prevented the bonds from appearing on the client's online account statement, said the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in New York.
Shah, 35, spent three and a half years at Smith Barney, a unit of Citigroup Inc, according to filings with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He has not been registered with FINRA since April 2009.
Shah pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud, carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison plus a fine, and three counts of wire fraud, each carrying a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison plus a fine.
Shah entered his plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Theodore H. Katz in Manhattan federal court.
In November 2010, FINRA announced that Shah was named in a FINRA complaint alleging that he made unauthorized foreign currency trades in a client's account, resulting in margin calls being generated for the account and, without funds to meet the calls, certain of the customer's accounts were frozen and one customer was unable to wire funds out of the account. The complaint also alleges that Shah made unauthorized transfers from another client satisfy, in part, the fund request the first client made and to satisfy the margin calls for the account. Additionally, FINRA also alleges that Shah, in order to carry out the unauthorized wire transfers, forged a signature and falsified Letters of Authorization (LOA) directing the transfer of funds.
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Re: The Matilda, queen of the desert.
Well, they could be used as mobile fire support for the kiwis , purely fighting agaist infantry, the Matilda armor cannot be defeated by the ridiculous 8mm antitank rifles wich some nazi paratroopers carried, the terrain didnt help much for tank mobility either.
Good info Nick,I am pretty sure no german panzer landed until the end of the fight for Crete. Maybe some halftrack but surely no tanks.
Would the Germans have been able to bring a tank in during the battle for Crete?
After the Germans had secured the crucial main airfield at Maleme, they brought in reinforcements etc through that airfield. Could they have transported a tank by air?
Could they have brought tanks in by sea when they didn't control the Mediterranean?
Separate aspect on tank use, and loss, in small engagements in Crete.
As the New Zealanders withdrew, the Germans wasted no time in occupying Galatas. Colonel Howard Kippenberger, commanding 10th (NZ) Brigade, realised that if the village was not retaken it would become a jumping-off point for an attack on the New Zealand line. So when two light tanks from the British 7th Royal Tank Regiment arrived that evening, Kippenberger quickly formulated plans for a counter-attack.
[Lieutenant] Farran stopped and spoke to me and I told him to go into the village and see what was there. He clattered off [in the tanks] and we could hear him firing briskly, when two more companies of the Twenty-third arrived … each about eighty strong. They halted on the road near me. The men looked tired, but fit to fight and resolute… . I told the two company commanders they would have to retake Galatos with the help of the two tanks… . The men fixed bayonets and waited grimly.
Kippenberger placed the remnants of 18th Battalion on the eastern edge of Galatas. At the same time, two companies from 23rd Battalion fixed bayonets and moved into position on either side of the road into the village. The plan was simple: each company would attack on their side of the road behind the two tanks.
Sergeant Alfred Hulme, 23rd Battalion, played a prominent part in the counter-attack at Galatas. When the New Zealand assault was delayed by a German strongpoint, Hulme rushed forward alone and used hand grenades to clear the position. For this action, and earlier exploits around Maleme airfield on 21–22 May, Hulme was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) in October 1941. Read more.
The tanks set off just after 8 p.m., followed by the infantry. They were soon under fire from all sides. Rather than stopping and clearing each house, the New Zealanders raced through the village to the main square. There they found the tanks: one was knocked out, the other damaged. Under heavy fire from the other side of the square, the men charged. The action was brutal – much of the fighting was at close quarters with bayonets and rifle butts – and the Germans withdrew in disarray. Reinforced by 18th Battalion, the New Zealanders pressed forward. When the fighting died down, the Germans had been pushed back to the south-west corner of the village.
Despite the success of the counter-attack the decision was made to withdraw from Galatas. The New Zealanders did not have the resources to hold the village – a lack of men, artillery and air support had left the defending troops exhausted. There was also concern that the Luftwaffe (German air force) would begin bombing Galatas. With many civilians still inside the village, it was considered an unacceptable risk for the New Zealanders to remain there. In order to maintain an unbroken defensive line, Puttick ordered his forward brigades to withdraw and set up a new line west of Canea.
The only german machine that fly and could transport a tank in may 1941 was the Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant, but they never had a proper 4 engined bomber for towing the beast, much less with 15 to 20 tons of tank inside. The tug He-111Z entered in service in late 1941.
I did a quick Google search on the Gigant, which I hadn't heard of before. Looks like it needed specialised equipment to move it around on the airfield, so that would have to be flown in too, creating a bigger logistical drain on German aviation resources.
1. Was there a launching airfield under German control within range of Crete?
2. Was the airfield at Maleme, or other open ground on Crete, suitable to land the Gigant with a panzer on board? Obviously, there's no "go around" power for a second approach on a glider, and the British experience with gliders at Arnhem demonstrates that glider landings tended to have high crash rates compared with powered aircraft.
2. Could the airfield at Maleme launch the Gigant and its tug for a return trip?
My suspicion is that, even if the Germans had a suitable tug for the Gigant, the logistical effort and problems in getting a few panzers onto Crete by air would have been better directed to landing more troops and artillery, although the Germans won with what they actually had anyway.
The Italians were nowhere near the easybeats that British wartime propaganda made them out to be. Their army in Africa was the wrong shape: the lean, mean Brits took advantage of this - fought the right type of war for their resources. The Italian colonial troops - as expected - folded like paper. The professionals manning the artillery were a different proposition, and gave the Commonwealth forces a hard fight. Little could be said for their poorly-equipped armoured forces. Italian tanks just sucked - that's right, they sucked-in British 2pdr projectiles like they couldn't get enough. In that environment, the Matilda II came into its own - invincible against the then-current threat, but outmatched by German 88mm guns later in the campaign.
The italian tank issue en 1939-41 was particulary awful, they probably should bought the license and tools to produce the panzer III and its arc welding technology.
Yes, they controlled mainland Greece.
Was the airfield at Maleme, or other open ground on Crete, suitable to land the Gigant with a panzer on board? Obviously, there's no "go around" power for a second approach on a glider, and the British experience with gliders at Arnhem demonstrates that glider landings tended to have high crash rates compared with powered aircraft.
It could be done,the exercise was feasible.
3. Could the airfield at Maleme launch the Gigant and its tug for a return trip?
No, they need a very long take off with heavy loads.
Does anybody have the data for British World War 2 tank engines, especially the Matilda II?
It seems that the overall dimensions of British tank engines are still top secret. Of the many books I've read and websites visited, none gives the dimensions. I recently bought an AEC book, but it doesn't give any details as to the size of its engines.
Irritatingly, books about WW2 tanks just seem to recycle the same old stuff, such as the Meadows Flat 12 was low in height, but very wide, then go on about how radiators had to be relocated and so on. Frankly, it makes for boring reading when the actual length, width and height are never cited. It is a bit easier to find data about American tank engines of the period.
I've found the same thing concerning turret rings too and very often when given, different numbers are given, depending on the source. As engine size appeared to be crucial to the development of useless British tanks such as the Covenanter, it would not be unreasonable to assume that readers would be interested in the actual dimensions, but alas, this isn't the case.
So if anyone knows of a good reference book or website with British tank engine data, please let me know.


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Carlo Cafiero (, Barletta - , Nocera Inferiore) est un militant communiste libertaire italien.

À l'origine proche de Karl Marx et Friedrich Engels au sein de l'Association internationale des travailleurs, il rompt ensuite avec eux, en partie pour suivre l'idéologie anarchiste de Michel Bakounine, alors très populaire en Italie.

Partisan de l'anarchisme insurrectionnel, il cherche à mener un soulèvement dans les montagnes du Bénévent en 1877.

Durant son séjour en prison pendant l'hiver 1877-1878 Cafiero décide de rédiger un Abrégé du Capital de Karl Marx à partir de la traduction française de J. Roy, offrant aux lecteurs italiens le premier exposé synthétique de l'œuvre de Karl Marx.

Sa jeunesse

Cafiero est né dans la région des Pouilles en 1846 dans une famille de riches propriétaires terriens de Barletta (côte Adriatique). En 1864, il commence à étudier le droit à l'université de Naples dans la perspective de poursuivre une carrière de diplomate. Mais le contact avec le milieu diplomatique à Florence l'ennuie profondément et il s'intéresse à d'autres domaines intellectuels, dont les langues orientales et l'Islam. Il fréquente le cercle radical de Telemaco Signorini, peintre naturaliste qui trace un portrait acerbe du Risorgimento italien, peignant les bas-fonds, les asiles, les prisons, etc. Au début de 1870, il était à Paris invité au célèbre peintre Giuseppe De Nittis, son compatriote. De juillet 1870 à mai 1871, Cafiero est à Londres, où il rencontre Karl Marx et Friedrich Engels, leaders de l'Association internationale des travailleurs, qui subjuguent durablement le jeune homme. Marx et Engels associent Cafiero à leur cause et le destinent à devenir le correspondant du Conseil général de Londres en Italie, où l'influence « marxiste » est encore inexistante. La scène italienne est occupée par la querelle entre Bakounine et Mazzini. Ils lui demandent de retourner à Naples, ce qu'il accepte alors que la Commune de Paris vient d'être défaite.

La correspondance avec Engels

Les rapports épistolaires de Cafiero avec Friedrich Engels constituent les premiers pas du marxisme en Italie.
En juin 1871, dans une lettre à Engels, Cafiero décrit la misère abominable de l'Italie du sud où « les masses, inconscientes du progrès humain, croyant fermement être nées pour servir et souffrir sur terre, n'ont comme seul espoir d'accéder à la pitié divine au paradis ». Il blâme la responsabilité des Espagnols, des Bourbon et de l'Église catholique dans cette tragédie.
Cafiero mise ses espoirs dans la lutte des classes en cours, mais ses conceptions diffèrent de la conception « marxiste ». Cafiero fait dès le départ une synthèse entre les conceptions révolutionnaires de Marx et Bakounine. D'emblée, il écarte le populisme religieux de Mazzini, après que celui-ci a qualifié la Commune de Paris de « perversion diabolique des valeurs démocratiques ». Si Cafiero critique, dans son rapport sur la situation italienne envoyé à Londres, le « gâtisme » déiste de Mazzini, qui associe Dieu et le peuple, il reste discret sur son appréciation de Bakounine.

Dans ces courriers, Engels n'aura de cesse d'inciter Cafiero à prendre part aux critiques contre l'influence "dangereuse" de Bakounine. Mais Cafiero ne répond pas à l'attente d'Engels ; au contraire, il ne voit pas les idées de Bakounine comme une menace contre celles de Marx. « En ce qui concerne Bakounine, je peux vous confirmer qu'il a beaucoup d'amis à Naples qui partagent de nombreux de ses principes, qui ont avec lui certaines communautés de vues ; mais qu'il ait une secte, un parti qui ferait dissidence avec les principes du Conseil général, je l'infirme complètement. » (Lettre du 12 juillet 1871). En fait, la section des internationalistes napolitains est constituée de nombreux bakouninistes : Carmello Palladino, Errico Malatesta, Emilio Covelli.

Le 16 juillet 1871, Engels l'invite à nouveau à s'éloigner d'eux et de trouver d'autres alliés, il lui décrit les partisans de Bakounine (la Fédération jurassienne) comme les pires obstacles à l'unité de l'Internationale .

Cafiero attend deux mois avant de répondre à Engels et encore il n'évoque toujours pas les attaques contre Bakounine. Il décrit la répression que subissent les révolutionnaires napolitains et l'imminence de la « plus terrible révolution sociale ».

Enfin, le 29 novembre 1871, Cafiero répond aux propos d'Engels contre Bakounine. Il insiste sur le fait qu'elles sont, selon lui, dénuées de réalité. Cafiero trouve chez Bakounine des « marques de profonds estimes et respect pour Marx ». Engels ne répond pas à cette lettre. Cafiero tente d'obtenir une réponse le 21 janvier 1872, mais Engels garde le silence.

S'il garde une approche marxiste dans son analyse du capitalisme, Cafiero se rapproche de Bakounine sur l'analyse de la situation sociale de pays pré-capitalistes et du rôle révolutionnaire de la paysannerie et du lumpenproletariat.

Il abandonne alors son rôle de correspondant de Marx et d'Engels et décide enfin de rencontrer Bakounine à Locarno, en Suisse, en compagnie de l'anarchiste Giuseppe Fanelli le 20 mai 1872. Il s'enthousiasme pour Bakounine (« après quelques moments de conversation, nous réalisâmes que nous étions tous deux en complet accord sur les principes. »), comme il s'était enthousiasmé pour Marx deux ans auparavant. Bakounine connaît la situation italienne mieux que Marx, pour y avoir séjourné plusieurs fois depuis les années 1840.

La rupture avec Engels et dans l'Internationale

Le 12 juin 1872, Cafiero envoie ce qui peut être considéré comme une lettre de rupture avec Engels en même temps qu'une profession de foi anarchiste : « votre programme communiste est, pour moi, une grosse absurdité réactionnaire. » Il reproche au Conseil de Londres de vouloir transformer l'Internationale en parti politique selon la résolution IX de la Conférence de Londres et supprimer l'autonomie des sections.
Il lui reproche également de vouloir appliquer un système politique uniforme sans considérer les problématiques particulières à chaque pays : « Le poulpe se doit d'être cuit dans sa propre eau ». Enfin, il fait la critique de l'illusion du communisme d'État.

Engels répond violemment à Cafiero. Il se sent d'autant plus trahi que le Bulletin jurassien a reproduit des propos professés contre eux par Engels auprès de ses correspondants italiens. Or Cafiero est le seul correspondant du Conseil général, il est par conséquent soupçonné d'avoir révélé les attaques du Conseil de Londres à ses ennemis. Cela marque la fin de leur correspondance.

Au Congrès de Rimini en août 1872, la Fédération italienne de l'Internationale rompt « toute solidarité avec le Conseil général de Londres », en considérant que ce Conseil « avait usé des moyens les plus indignes, comme la calomnie et la mystification, pour réduire l'Internationale à l'unité de sa doctrine spéciale ». Le Congrès de La Haye auquel Cafiero assiste en observateur achève la rupture entre « marxistes » et « bakouninistes ».

Il participe ensuite du 15 et 16 septembre 1872, au Congrès de Saint-Imier, qui signe l'acte de naissance du mouvement anarchiste.

Cafiero devient l'ami de Bakounine à qui il dévoue sa part d'héritage en achetant la villa La Baronata qu'il fait agrandir sur les plans de Mroczkowski. Mais le révolutionnaire russe dilapide la fortune de Cafiero qui commence à trouver ses extravagances peu conformes aux idéaux anarchistes.
Les relations de Cafiero et Bakounine se détériorent par la suite.

Insurrectionnaliste

Le troisième Congrès de la Fédération italienne, sous la plume de Cafiero, marque une orientation insurrectionnaliste des internationaux transalpins : « la fédération italienne croit que le fait insurrectionnel – destiné à prouver par les faits les principes socialistes – est le moyen le plus efficace de propagande et le seul qui, sans corrompre ni tromper les masses, puisse pénétrer dans les plus profondes couches sociales et attirer les forces vives de l'humanité dans la lutte que l'Internationale mène ! » (21-22 octobre 1876)

En août 1874, Cafiero achète 250 fusils et pistolets en vue d'un soulèvement élaboré par Malatesta et Costa et qu'ils souhaitent déclencher dans plusieurs régions d'Italie. Costa est arrêté avant que le moindre coup de feu ne soit tiré et sans le soutien de la paysannerie tant espéré.
Cafiero ne participe pas à la tentative de soulèvement car il se trouve alors en Russie avec son épouse russe Olimpia Koutouzova, qu'il cherche à extirper des griffes des autorités tsaristes.

La bande du Matese

En 1877, Cafiero et Malatesta décident de déclencher une insurrection paysanne dans les montagnes du Matese, dans le Sud de l'Italie, où l'esprit de résistance vis-à-vis de l'État italien est encore vivace, notamment à travers de nombreux actes de banditisme.

En avril 1877, trente internationalistes prennent le village de Letino et brûlent les papiers administratifs ainsi que le portrait du roi Victor-Emmanuel II. Cafiero s'adresse en dialecte aux villageois pour leur exposer les principes du communisme libertaire : « Liberté, justice et une nouvelle société sans État, sans maîtres ni esclaves, sans soldats ni propriétaires. » L'événement prend un tour millénariste par l'intervention du curé qui explique aux paroissiens enthousiastes que les internationalistes sont « les vrais apôtres envoyés par Dieu ». Le jour suivant, le village de Gallo est occupé de la même manière. La police, comme en 1874, est avertie dès le début du complot grâce à leur infiltration dans les milieux anarchistes, peu enclins à la discipline nécessaire à la clandestinité et au secret. Les insurgés ont été trahis par Vicenzo Farina, un vieux garibaldien qui devait leur servir de guide. Et six jours après le début de leur aventure, à l'endroit où des compagnons devaient les rejoindre, ce sont près de 12 000 carabiniers qui les encerclent. Des coups de feu sont échangés et deux gendarmes sont atteints, dont l'un succombera à ses blessures.
Pris par le vent, le froid et la faim avec des armes défaillantes, les insurgés se font livrer par les paysans qu'ils sont venus délivrer. C'est un nouvel échec pour la stratégie insurrectionnaliste tant prônée par Cafiero.

À 30 ans, Cafiero passe 16 mois dans les geôles italiennes. Malgré les lourdes charges qui pèsent contre les insurgés (conspiration contre l'État, subversion armée, destruction de propriété d'état, vol, et meurtre d'un carabinier et blessure d'un autre) et qui leur font encourir la peine de mort, ils vont bénéficier de l'amnistie consécutive au sacre du nouveau roi Umberto .

Le film des frères Taviani Saint Michel avait un coq (1971) s'inspire largement de cet épisode insurrectionnel et du personnage de Cafiero.

Abrégé du Capital de Karl Marx

Durant sa détention Cafiero décide de rédiger un Abrégé à partir de la traduction française du Capital, offrant là aux lecteurs italiens la première vulgarisation de l'œuvre de Marx qui paraît en juin 1879. Cafiero pense que Le Capital éclipsait tous les travaux intellectuels de l'époque. Cafiero insiste sur l'aspect sociologique et historique du livre et sur les effets du capitalisme sur la paupérisation des masses à travers l'exemple de l'Angleterre utilisé par Marx (chapitre sur l'accumulation du capital et l'accumulation primitive du capital).

En juillet 1879, Cafiero adresse deux exemplaires de son Abrégé à Marx, malgré leur différend antérieur, lequel lui répond avec la plus grande courtoisie : « Mes remerciements les plus sincères pour les deux exemplaires de votre travail  ! ». D'après James Guillaume, Laura Marx confirmera que « son père considérait le travail de Cafiero comme un très bon résumé populaire de sa théorie de la plus-value ». Mais leur correspondance en restera là.

Son Abrégé du Capital, traduit en français en 1910 par James Guillaume a été réédité en décembre 2008 par les éditions Le Chien Rouge.

Cafiero collabore avec Emilio Covelli, également initié à la pensée de Marx, qui écrivit la première recension du Capital dans une revue italienne. Cafiero et Covelli partageaient la même aversion vis-à-vis de l'autoritarisme marxiste sans pour autant répudier la critique du capitalisme.

En 1880 à Lugano, Cafiero chercha à écrire un autre essai marxiste inachevé, un dialogue entre "un mort-de-faim et un suceur-de-sang". La police suisse confisqua le manuscrit. En novembre 1880, Cafiero écrit Anarchie et communisme, une synthèse entre la liberté politique et l'égalité économique. Cafiero y dénonce le réformisme comme le cheval de Troie de l'État, instrument de la classe dominante, au sein du camp socialiste.

Rupture avec Costa

En 1880, Andrea Costa, ancien compagnon de Cafiero, rejoint le camp réformiste. L'échec de la tentative d'insurrection de 1874 l'éloigne des vues révolutionnaires et il se rapproche du légalisme ; il est élu député socialiste en 1882. Cafiero le dénonce comme ennemi du socialisme et comme carriériste. Dans Le Révolté du 25 décembre 1880, un article intitulé « L'Action », habituellement attribué à Pierre Kropotkine et plus rarement à Cafiero, précise que « le capitalisme ne peut être réformé » : « Le capitalisme repose sur la compétition et le profit, le socialisme sur la coopération et l'égalité. » « Non, mille fois non ! Nous n'avons rien à faire avec les manœuvres de la bourgeoisie. Nous ne devons pas participer au jeu de nos oppresseurs à moins que nous souhaitions participer à l'oppression. ». Cafiero est favorable à la propagande par le fait, à l'action directe. Il insiste aussi sur l'importance d'une avant-garde révolutionnaire, dans l'idée de l'Alliance démocratique des socialistes, fondée par Bakounine.

En 1972, un étudiant italien, Gian Carlo Maffei, redécouvre un essai inachevé, intitulé De la révolution qui avait en partie disparu depuis 90 ans. Dans cet essai extrêmement radical, Cafiero promet aux capitalistes d'être « dévorés » à leur tour ; il exalte la violence prolétarienne à abattre l'autorité dans une bataille finale où les « hommes pourront vivre dans la concorde et la fraternité ».

Mais il met en garde aussi contre le « monstrueux mécanisme bureaucratique » qui pourrait advenir dans la mise en place du communisme d'État selon le système marxiste, et le risque de voir émerger de « nouveaux oppresseurs encore plus terribles que les précédents ». En raison de la corruption qu'engendre tout pouvoir, la société doit rester sans État. Avec idéalisme, il esquisse une société d'égaux où chacun pourra se développer entièrement et librement, « en étudiant, en vivant avec la nature, en admirant le travail des arts, en aimant. »

Les dernières années

La santé de Cafiero commence à décliner dès 1881, il perd du poids et devient pâle, puis entre en dépression. Il espère rencontrer Marx durant un séjour à Londres durant l'hiver 1881-82, mais Marx a dû quitter la capitale anglaise. Sa maladie s'aggrave, il développe des signes de délire de persécution. Il tente même de se suicider.

Kropotkine prétend que sa maladie empira encore alors qu'il essuyait un revers sentimental auprès de l'ex-épouse d'Andrea Costa, la socialiste et féministe, Anna Kuliscioff. Il erre jusqu'à sa mort dans un état mental précaire, accentué par de graves crises de délire. Son épouse, Olimpia, longtemps séparée de lui par l'exil le soutient dans son calvaire. Il meurt de la tuberculose le 17 juillet 1892 à 45 ans à l'asile de Nocera Inferiore. James Guillaume comme Errico Malatesta lui garderont les marques de leur indéfectible amitié.

Bibliographie
 Carlo Cafiero, Abrégé du Capital de Karl Marx, éditions du Chien Rouge, décembre 2008, extrait du chapitre VI.
 Enzo Santarelli, L'anarchisme en Italie, Le Mouvement social, n°83, avril-mai 1973, texte intégral.
  Richard Drake, Carlo Cafiero: Prophet of Anarchist Communism, in Apostles and Agitators. Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 2003.
  Robert Graham, Anarchism : A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 CE to 1939), volume I, Black Rose Books, 2005, texte intégral.

Articles connexes
 Histoire de l'anarchisme
 Anarchisme en Italie

Liens externes

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 La Grande Encyclopédie Larousse en ligne : notice biographique.
 Anarchie et communisme, Carlo Cafiero, 1880.
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Personnalité politique italienne du XIXe siècle
Anarchiste italien
Anarchiste insurrectionnel
Communiste libertaire italien
Écrivain libertaire
Membre de l'Association internationale des travailleurs
Membre de la Fédération jurassienne
Naissance en septembre 1846
Naissance à Barletta
Décès en juillet 1892
Décès à 45 ans
Décès à Nocera Inferiore

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Minor clerical error clears way for SoCal community to craft cannabis ordinance
A copy-and-paste error cost Imperial Beach residents the chance to vote on a ballot initiative that would have allowed recreational marijuana dispensaries, cannabis consumption lounges, and manufacturing facilities in the coastal city.
Now, Imperial Beach is moving ahead with its own recreational marijuana ordinance that allows one dispensary, with an option for a second a year later. The City Council scheduled two hearings in June to approve the regulations.
The first meeting, scheduled for June 6, will be a first reading on the proposed regulations. The second meeting, scheduled for June 20, will be a second reading and a vote on the regulations.
If Imperial Beach approves the ordinance, the regulations would still need to be green-lighted by the state Coastal Commission because the regulations would require amendments to the zoning ordinance.
Imperial Beach does not plan to levy a special tax on marijuana, therefore marijuana regulations can be implemented without a November vote.
Imperial Beach has been able to write its regulations without pressure from outside groups introducing ballot initiatives because the Association of Cannabis Professionals fumbled its attempt to introduce a ballot measure in February.
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The association has filed initiatives in cities throughout San Diego County. Its Imperial Beach initiative called for fewer regulations than Imperial Beach's ordinance in that it would have allowed marijuana consumption lounges and weed manufacturing.
City Clerk Jacqueline Kelly rejected the association's petition in February because the language on its notice of intent did not match the language on its signature packets.
That difference was one word: "medical."
The notice of intent said the initiative was "to clarify and refine marijuana regulations in the City of Imperial Beach," while the signed petitions' stated purpose was "to clarify and refine medical marijuana regulations in the City of Imperial Beach."
Kelly said the change was a substantial one and would likely mislead or confuse the public about the true nature of the initiative.
A San Diego Superior Court judge agreed.
The Association of Cannabis Professionals asked the court to issue a writ of mandate so that Imperial Beach accepts the petitions. In its request, the association said the "minor error" was the result of a careless cut-and-paste job while formatting the signature packets.
Apparently, an association employee copied language from an earlier draft of the notice of intent that included the word "medical" and nobody caught the error.
The court denied the association's petition in April, records show.
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Magic Leap's move into the consumer mainstream is still out on the horizon, but the well-funded augmented/mixed reality tech startup this week has begun to take orders on a version of the product that will give developers an opportunity to kick the tires.
And this toe-dipping into the AR pool comes at a steep price.
Magic Leap Inc. 's One Creator Edition, available at magicleap.com, fetches the lofty price of $2,295 on pre-order. The package includes the platform's Lightwear headset, Lightpack computing pack, a handhold controller, chargers and a quick start guide. Its complementary "LiftOff" service for developers provides setup, calibration and fitting.
And even if you have the cash to splash on the One Creator Edition, there are even more constraints to grapple with, as Magic Leap is limiting sales (with limited quantities) to developers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Seattle, though more cities are expected to join the list this fall.
Pre-sales of the developer version is a step in the right direction for the startup, but the company's must make a quantum leap forward if it's to fulfill its grander consumer plans.
"We are going to be integrating Magic Leap Two into AT&T's 5G cell network," he said, adding that the company will provide software updates to keep the One Creator Edition up to snuff.
Magic Leap hasn't set a price or a launch date for the produce for the masses. But it's probably smart of Magic Leap to be methodical and to take its time, as early impressions of the product for developers haven't been great.
The Verge called it a "flawed glimpse of mixed reality's amazing potential." While the headset is "surprisingly comfortable" and light, its field of view was "constantly distracting," the apps weren't all that interesting, and the image quality was merely on par with Microsoft's HoloLens. Despite all that, the product "is still very, very impressive compared to most mixed reality headsets," the pub found.
Wired found that the experience wasn't very good until the device was properly fitted, but was "creative and compelling" once those wrinkles were ironed out. But the overall experience was not "mind-blowingly better than the competition."
Even if AR becomes a key app for the 5G networks of tomorrow, it appears that, as of today, everyone needs to lower the bar and cycle down the hype-meter on Magic Leap with respect to the raw wizardry and experience it will be able to deliver out of the chute.
Despite this week's step forward, we're still a far cry away from the vision that got everyone so hot and bothered in the first place.


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Q: Possibilities to scan qr-code in flutter web I want to build a PWA based on flutter web which relies on scanning a QR-Code and accessing the user's current position.
From my point of knowledge for both functionalities there are currently no packages available.
However for getting the user's location there is a stackoverflow thread (Get User's Location for flutter Web) providing a solution.
So I'm wondering if there is any chance that there is a similar solution for the QR-Scanning issue?
Sadly, I'm not very familiar with web and javascript development. So any help would be highly appreciated.

A: Following these two articels, I managed to use the jsQR Library in my flutter web application.
https://medium.com/@mk.pyts/how-to-access-webcam-video-stream-in-flutter-for-web-1bdc74f2e9c7
https://medium.com/flutter-community/using-javascript-code-in-flutter-web-903de54a2000
https://github.com/cozmo/jsQR
By this, I'm now able to scan a QR-code in flutter web.

A: I used the library ai_barcode.
Documentation of the plugin is teribble so I post here my widget:
import 'package:ai_barcode/ai_barcode.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class _BarcodeScannerWidget extends StatefulWidget {
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  final void Function(String result) resultCallback;

  @override
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}

class _AppBarcodeScannerWidgetState extends State<_BarcodeScannerWidget> {
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    _scannerController = ScannerController(scannerResult: (result) {
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            ..startCameraPreview();
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        _scannerController
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  @override
  void dispose() {
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  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
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Also add the jsQR.js from plugin repository.
ai_barcode: ^3.0.1

And add this line to index.html:
<script src="jsQR.js" type="application/javascript"></script> <!-- Add this line -->
<script src="main.dart.js" type="application/javascript"></script>

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ROCK HILL, S.C. (Aug. 1, 2017) - CORE autosport goes from the shortest track of the year (Lime Rock Park) to the longest track of the year this weekend when it arrives at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
The historic 14-turn road course is 4.048-miles in length, including three long straightaways.
Road America is the site of CORE's last IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship podium. Drivers Jon Bennett and Colin Braun finished second in the Prototype Challenge category last year despite starting from eighth.
With four rounds left in the 2017 IMSA season, CORE is still looking for its first top-five finish with the Porsche 911 GT3 R in the ultra-competitive GT Daytona (GTD) category.
CORE has five podium finishes at Road America, including a 1-2 finish in the PC category in 2012.
The Braun family is from the Milwaukee area. Engineer Jeff Braun is a Milwaukee School of Engineering graduate.
"My parents grew up in that area: my mom in Northern Illinois and my dad in Milwaukee. There's definitely a lot of family up in that area that will be coming to check out the race. It's a bit of a home race in a way for me, maybe even more so than COTA. All my surrounding family is in that area still.
"Road America is a great facility from an infrastructure perspective and it also has a great layout. It has all aspects of a cool racetrack in one place. You go to some other layouts and they are fun for one reason or another, but Road America has fast corners, slow corners, elevation changes… it has everything!
"Road America is an amazing, classic road course. It has fast sweeping corners, quick technical sections, and a nearly flat-out kink. It is challenging and beautiful.
"It's difficult to say if the long track length will favor our Porsche 911 GT3 R. Hopefully, our efficient shape and low drag will be an advantage down the long straights. Managing the brakes is always a challenge at Road America; keeping brake temperatures up during the long straights can be difficult.


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Thank you for the commentary, Rabbi. Just to add; prayer, study, midrash, praise, charity (giving), and steadfastness (even in adversity), are some of the intricate details necessary today, to bring Yahweh's presence into our lives.
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Learning about the various sacrifices is definitely challenging. There are so many details that go into each sacrifice and that define what makes it an appropriate sacrifice. It's easy to get bogged down in the details and lose sight of the goal.
The desires of our heart when we study the Torah is to find Elohim in all of these words. As much as we long to know HIM and draw closer to HIM, the more the words seem to push us away. Each Torah cycle, I begin again with the hope that the veil will be removed from my eyes and I, too, will be able to see HIS glory for myself.
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"to find Elohim in all of these words" these are your words. I think tje other way around might be more sucessful: to let yourself be found by Elohim. This will mean trust HIM, wait for HIM, and expect HIM to enter your heart, so that HaShem can lead you all the way.
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Meryl Streep VOGUE January 2012 Cover
December 13th, 2011 |By Marta | Related | Filed Under
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Meryl Streep graces the cover of Vogue's January 2012 issue, available on newsstands nationwide December 20th, 2011. Never one to shirk a challenge, the actress takes on the iconic British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in her latest screen incarnation for Iron Lady. In Vogue's first issue of the new year, Contributing Editor Vicki Woods sits down with the Hollywood legend to talk about women, power, and the view from the top. Read full article in VOGUE.com
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Deborah Lippmann Spring 2010 Nail Polish Trends
April 1st, 2010 |By Marta | Related | Filed Under
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Deborah Lippmann nail lacquers were one of the most popular choices for painting nails backstage during New York Fashion week Fall 2010 and also on the red carpet, think Oscars 2010. These nail polishes surly set some of Spring/Summer 2010 nail trends.
TINY DANCER Sweet spot pink (sheer),$16.00. Seen on Meryl Streep Oscars 2010 (which Marta's is wearing and loving right now:)
Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet Oscars 2010
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Oscars 2010 Nail Trends: Deborah Lippmann has been the authority on hot nail trends this year, so it's no surprise Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet put their hands in her hands for the Oscars this year!
Meryl Streep accompanied her Chris March gown with a light blush from Deborah Lippmann called Tiny Dancer Sweet spot pink (sheer), $16.00.
L'Oreal Gifts SAG's Leading Ladies
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L'Oréal Paris and Carelle have once again collaborated to create gorgeous compacts to celebrate and honor Hollywood's leading ladies. This year, L'Oréal Paris received a prestigious star on the Friends of Hollywood Walk of Fame. To celebrate this achievement, each of the three different compacts showcases shooting stars encrusted with diamonds. The three compacts are made in sterling silver and plated in a different color 18kt gold, which enhances the beauty of the stones and embodies the spirit of the award show for which it is exclusively made.
To celebrate their "Best Actress in a Feature Film" nominations, L'Oreal Paris and Carelle are thrilled to congratulate Sandra Bullock, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Gabourey Sidibe and Meryl Streep with these exclusive compact mirrors.
"Mercy" Star Taylor Schilling Interviews With Marta Walsh
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I recently had an amazing chance to interview actress Taylor Schilling who plays Nurse Veronica Callahan in an upcoming NBC TV series "Mercy". There are two other nurses in "Mercy": Chloe Payne played by Michelle Trachtenberg, and Sonia Jimenez played by Jaime Lee Kirchner.
Schilling made her debut on the big screen in the role of Jackie in the First Independent Pictures film "Dark Matter," which co-starred Meryl Streep. The film, inspired by actual events, follows the journey of an ambitious Chinese scientist working towards his Ph.D. in America, only to be marginalized to the extent that he ultimately loses his way.
"Mercy" premieres Wednesday September 23RD 8/7c.
In this interview Taylor Schilling talks to Marta Walsh about her beginnings in the acting world. What attracted her to Veronica's character on the new NBC show "Mercy". Taylor even shares with us some of her beauty secrets and her future plans.
"Mercy" stars from left: Michelle Trachtenberg, Taylor Schilling, and Jaime Lee Kirchner
Marta Walsh: How did you decide on a career in acting, and what were some of your first breaks as an actress?
Taylor Schilling: I have wanted to be an actor for as long as I can remember…I studied acting in undergraduate and graduate school in NYC. Was only a year ago but seems like forever!
MW: What attracted you to Veronica's character on the new NBC show "Mercy"?
TS: I suspect on some level, everyone has experienced a life changing event that has left them feeling like a fish out of water back home. Veronica is trying to navigate through that feeling in her relationships, at work, with her family and friends…everywhere. She makes mistakes. She's flawed and she's raw. I appreciate her vulnerability and ferocity, her compassion and desire to do the right thing.
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Emmanuelle Chriqui looked stunning as always on the "Entourage" premiere – Chriqui opens up to Women's Health (www.womenshealthmag.com) in the July/August 2009 issue on her exotic look, challenges she's faced in her career, and advice on how to embrace being different.
Embracing her uniqueness: "There's been a massive shift of consciousness. We have an African American president, there's been a huge influx of Latin talent in mainstream music and film, and there's a real audience for international films like Slumdog Millionaire. Guess what? The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that All-American thing. Now it's about accepting who you really are and being proud of that. When you have confidence that's what becomes attractive to other people and makes them want to work with you and spend time with you."


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The Chilling Way Trump's State of the Union Address Targeted the Mueller Investigation
Trump never mentioned the Russia probe—but he clearly signaled his intentions.
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Despite Donald Trump's recent statement that he is looking forward to being interviewed "under oath" by Robert Mueller, it's long been clear that the president has been involved in an all-out effort to sabotage the special counsel's sprawling investigation into Trump-Russia matters. We know that Trump ordered his White House counsel to fire Mueller just weeks after Mueller was appointed, that he pressured Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down the probe, and that he has openly attacked DOJ and FBI leaders as corrupt.
In Tuesday night's State of the Union address, Trump gave two conspicuous signals that he will continue to do everything in his power to fight Mueller—including trying to grab more power. Not long into his speech, Trump uttered a chilling line: He called on Congress to give his White House the authority to summarily fire any federal employee deemed to "undermine the public trust, or fail the American people."
Trump did so under the cover of talking up the need for better veterans care and praising his administration for already removing "more than 1,500 VA employees who failed to give our veterans the care they deserve." But following days of intense and rapidly escalating political battle over a controversial memo from House Republicans aimed at giving Trump cover from the Mueller probe, the broad meaning of Trump's proclamation was unmistakable. He basked in an applause line about giving "accountability and respect" to "our wonderful heroes, our veterans." Then he continued:
So tonight I call on Congress to empower every cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust, or fail the American people.
As Yascha Mounk writes in Slate, "Under Trump's proposal, any Cabinet secretary could decide that, say, a law enforcement official investigating the president had 'undermined the public trust' or 'failed the American people'—and fire him on the spot. In other words, Trump is calling for an end to any semblance of independence for the IRS, the FBI, the Department of Justice, or any other federal agency."
Congress is very unlikely to comply with such a proposal. But the president's call to put career civil servants under the thumb of unilateral executive power continues a prolific pattern of budding authoritarianism from Trump that I've tracked closely since the day he was sworn in. In that light, Trump's words, coming in such a high-profile speech, are stark.
A FBI statement said of the Nunes memo: "We have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy."
Another telling moment came as Trump exited the House chamber Tuesday night, when he briefly interacted with GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina about the secretive memo assembled by House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes:
"Mr. President, let's release the memo," Duncan said.
"Oh yeah, don't worry, 100 percent," Trump responded. "Can you imagine? You'd be too angry."
CLIP: As President Trump exits the House Chamber, @RepJeffDuncan asks him to #ReleaseTheMemo. #SOTU #SOTU2018 pic.twitter.com/O1hHYFdPxM
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On Wednesday morning, the high-stakes fight grew even more fraught: Bloomberg reported that FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Trump White House that he opposes the release of the Nunes memo because it contains inaccurate information and paints a false narrative. Wray soon went public with his concerns, with a FBI statement saying that the bureau "was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it. As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy."
The FBI statement followed dire warnings from Democrats in Congress and a recent letter from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd, who said that making the Nunes memo public without proper FBI and Justice Department review of highly sensitive material would be "extraordinarily reckless." Wray's position now pits Trump against the FBI director he himself appointed after firing James Comey, whose fate resides at the heart of a potential obstruction of justice case against Trump.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, White House chief of staff John Kelly told Fox News radio that the Nunes memo will be "released pretty quick," adding, "This president wants everything out so the American people can make up their own minds."
With rising coordination between the Trump administration and House Republicans against the Mueller investigation—not to mention the over-the-top drumbeat on Fox News—the imminent constitutional crisis that political analysts keep referring to may already be upon us.
Trumpocracy: Tracking the Creeping Authoritarianism of the 45th President


Advanced Voting Day for the 2018 Municipal Election in Smithers his happing today at the Town Hall.
The advanced polls are open from 8 AM to 8 PM at the Town Hall, 1027 Aldous Street.
Smithers is one of the only municipalities in the area to hold a second advanced voting day.
"Every year there are people who aren't able to vote because they find themselves out of Town on election day or they have something going on and they aren't able to get to the polls so advance voting is a way to make sure you get it done early and skip some of the bigger lines on election day," says Mayor of Smithers Taylor Bachrach.
A look at who the candidates in Smithers are.
For mayor, incumbent Taylor Bachrach is running against Randy Bell.
There are nine candidates running for Town Council.
For the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako, The two candidates are incumbent Mark Fisher and Leah Germain.
There are three open seats for School Board Trustee in the Smithers, Glentanna, and Driftwood area.
This is the last chance for residents to vote before election day, happening this Saturday, October 20.


Further evidence of weak economic expansion in the Euro zone and the UK, with downgrades for growth in 2012.
Risks remain elevated in the Euro zone, with Italy and Spain under the spotlight and market nervousness spreading to other membe states.
The prime real estate market remains resilient and it is riding the volatile bond and equity markets.
More investible product is expected on the market as banks review their exposure to real estate.


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Q: The boundary of the convex hull of squares of skew-symmetric matrices
Let $n \ge 3$, and let $C$ be the convex cone generated by the squares of all real $n \times n$ skew-symmetric matrices. Is $C$ closed in $\mathbb{R}^{n^2}$? What is its boundary?

$C$ is a strictly contained in the cone of negative semi-definite matrices.
I know that the set of the squares of all real $n \times n$ skew-symmetric matrices is closed, but in general, a convex cone which is generated by a closed linear cone does not have to be closed.
Edit:
Let's focus on the case where $n=3$, and try to describe $C$ more explicitly.
Let $T:\mathbb{R}^3 \to \mathbb{R}^3$ be a skew-symmetric operator on $\mathbb{R}^3$. $T$ has the form of $T(x) = v \times x$ for some $v \in \mathbb{R}^3$, where $\times$ is denotes the cross product.
The triple vector product implies that
$$ T^2(x)=v \times (v \times x)=\langle v,x \rangle v-\langle v,v \rangle x. $$
Thus, $C$ is the set of all operators $\mathbb{R}^3 \to \mathbb{R}^3$ of the form
$$ x \to \sum_i \langle v_i,x \rangle v_i-|v_i|^2 x.$$
I am not sure if this observation really advance us...

A: I will prove in the below that $C$ is identical to
$$
L=\left\{S: S\preceq0,\ 2\lambda_\min(S)\ge\operatorname{tr}(S)\right\}.
$$
Note that the conditions $S\preceq0$ and $2\lambda_\min(S)\ge\operatorname{tr}(S)$ together imply that any $S\in L$ cannot be a rank one matrix, and when $S$ has rank two, its two nonzero eigenvalues must be the same. It follows that if $S\in L$ has rank $\le2$, it must be the square of some skew-symmetric matrix.
If $C$ is indeed equal to $L$, then $C$ is closed in the cone of negative semidefinite matrices, in the set $\mathcal S$ of all symmetric matrices, or in $M_n(\mathbb R)$, and

*

*$\partial C=C$ in $M_n(\mathbb R)$, as we can always perturb every $S\in C$ to some non-symmetric matrix, so that $C$ has an empty interior,

*$\partial C=\{S\in C: 2\lambda_\min(S)=\operatorname{tr}(S)\text{ or } S \text{ is singular}\}$ in the set of all symmetric matrices, and

*$\partial C=\{S\in C: 2\lambda_\min(S)=\operatorname{tr}(S)\}$ in the cone of negative semidefinite matrices.

To prove the inclusion $C\subseteq L$ is easy. The square of every (possibly zero) skew-symmetric matrix is clearly a member of $L$. It follows that every sum of squares of skew-symmetric matrices $S=K_1^2+\cdots+K_m^2$ is a member of $L$ too, because
$$
2\lambda_\min(S)
=2\lambda_\min\left(\sum_iK_i^2\right)
\ge2\sum_i\lambda_\min\left(K_i^2\right)
\ge\sum_i\operatorname{tr}\left(K^2\right)
=\operatorname{tr}(S).
$$
To prove $L\subseteq C$, we prove by mathematical induction that
$$
L^{(r)}=\left\{S\in L: \operatorname{rank}(S)\le r\right\}\subseteq C
$$
for $r=2,3,\ldots$. The base case $r=2$ is true because every $S\in L^{(2)}$ is necessarily the square of some (possibly zero) skew-symmetric matrix. In the induction step, suppose $r\ge3$ and $L^{(r-1)}\subseteq C$. Pick any $S\in L^{(r)}$. By orthogonal diagonalisation, we may assume that $S=\operatorname{diag}(s_1,s_2,\ldots,s_r,0,\ldots,0)$ where $s_1\le s_2\le\cdots\le s_r<0$. The condition $2\lambda_\min(S)\ge\operatorname{tr}(S)$ is equivalent to that $s_1\ge\sum_{i>1}s_i$. There are three cases and we will prove in each case that $S\in C$:

*

*$s_1=s_2$. Then
$$
\begin{aligned}
S&=(s_2-s_3)(I_2\oplus0)+(s_3-s_4)(I_3\oplus0)+\cdots+(s_{r-1}-s_r)(I_{r-1}\oplus0)+s_r(I_r\oplus0)\\
&=|s_2-s_3|(-I_2\oplus0)+|s_3-s_4|(-I_3\oplus0)+\cdots+|s_{r-1}-s_r|(-I_{r-1}\oplus0)+|s_r|(-I_r\oplus0).
\end{aligned}
$$
Since $-I_2\oplus0=(E_{12}-E_{21})^2$ and
$$
-I_k\oplus0
=\frac12\left[(E_{12}-E_{21})^2+(E_{23}-E_{32})^2
+\cdots+(E_{k-1,k}-E_{k,k-1,k})^2+(E_{k1}-E_{1k})^2\right]
$$
for each $k\ge3$, we have $S\in C$.

*$s_1-s_2\ge s_3$. Let $A=\operatorname{diag}\left(s_3,\,s_2+s_3-s_1,\,s_3,\,s_4,\ldots,s_r,0,\ldots,0\right)$. Then $A\preceq0$ and the two most negative eigenvalues of $A$ are both equal to $s_3$. Therefore $A\in C$ by case 1. But $S-A=(s_1-s_3)\operatorname{diag}\left(1,1,0,\ldots,0\right)=|s_1-s_3|(E_{12}-E_{21})^2$ also belongs to $C$. Hence $S\in C$.

*$s_1-s_2<s_3$. Let $B=\operatorname{diag}(s_1-s_2,0,s_3,\ldots,s_r,0,\ldots,0)$. Then $B\preceq0$ and
$$
2\lambda_\min(B)=2(s_1-s_2)\ge(s_1-s_2)+s_3+\cdots+s_r=\operatorname{tr}(B).
$$
Hence $B\in L^{(r-1)}$ and by induction hypothesis, $B\in C$. But $S-B=\operatorname{diag}(s_2,s_2,0,\ldots,0)$ also belongs to $C$. Therefore $S\in C$.


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Adam B. Schiff & Chris Collins
Compare the voting records of Adam B. Schiff and Chris Collins in 2017-18.
Adam B. Schiff
Represented California's 28th Congressional District. This was his 9th term in the House.
Represented New York's 27th Congressional District. This was his 3rd term in the House.
Adam B. Schiff and Chris Collins are from different parties and disagreed on 66 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
Dec. 21, 2018 — To redesignate Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge as the Nathaniel P. Reed Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge, and for other purposes
Dec. 21, 2018 — 9/11 Memorial Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Protecting Girls' Access to Education in Vulnerable Settings Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Tropical Forest Conservation Reauthorization Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — 75th Anniversary of World War II Commemoration Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make certain corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 4174
Dec. 21, 2018 — Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Federal Personal Property Management Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — GAO-IG Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Department of Transportation Reports Harmonization Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — To make technical corrections to provisions of law enacted by the Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018, and for other purposes
Dec. 21, 2018 — To amend the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016 to provide flexibility with respect to the leaseback of certain Federal real property, and for other purposes
Dec. 21, 2018 — To amend the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016 to ensure that the Public Buildings Reform Board has adequate time to carry out the responsibilities of the Board, and for other purposes
Dec. 21, 2018 — Designating room H-226 of the United States Capitol as the "Lincoln Room"
Dec. 20, 2018 — Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules, and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules
Dec. 19, 2018 — Museum and Library Services Act
Dec. 19, 2018 — To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain facilities, easements, and rights-of-way to the Kennewick Irrigation District, and for other purposes
Dec. 19, 2018 — Water Infrastructure Improvement Act
Dec. 19, 2018 — SECURE Technology Act
Dec. 19, 2018 — State Offices of Rural Health Reauthorization Act
Dec. 19, 2018 — BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act
Dec. 19, 2018 — Traumatic Brain Injury Program Reauthorization Act
Dec. 19, 2018 — Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act of 2017
Nov. 13, 2018 — Gulf Islands National Seashore Land Exchange Act
Nov. 13, 2018 — To rename the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge as the Congressman Lester Wolff National Wildlife Refuge
July 18, 2018 — Jody B. Hice of Georgia Amendment No. 69
July 16, 2018 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 511 East Walnut Street in Columbia, Missouri, as the "Spc. Sterling William Wyatt Post Office Building".
July 16, 2018 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1075 North Tustin Street in Orange, California, as the "Specialist Trevor A. Win'E Post Office
June 19, 2018 — Stop Excessive Narcotics in our Retirement Communities Protection Act of 2018
June 19, 2018 — Securing Opioids and Unused Narcotics with Deliberate Disposal and Packaging Act of 2018
June 8, 2018 — Takano of California Part B Amendment No. 16
May 21, 2018 — Veterans Opioid Abuse Prevention Act
May 21, 2018 — Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Programs Reauthorization Act of 2018
May 21, 2018 — Servicemembers Improved Transition through Reforms for Ensuring Progress Act
April 16, 2018 — To designate a National Memorial to Fallen Educators at the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas
April 16, 2018 — Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act
March 22, 2018 — Strengthening Local Transportation Security Capabilities Act of 2018
March 19, 2018 — Kennedy--King National Commemorative Site Act
March 19, 2018 — To update the map of, and modify the maximum acreage available for inclusion in, the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
March 14, 2018 — Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018
March 13, 2018 — Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2017
March 5, 2018 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 99 Macombs Place in New York, New York, as the "Tuskegee Airman Post Office Building"
March 5, 2018 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13683 James Madison Highway in Palmyra, Virginia, as the "U.S. Navy Seaman Dakota Kyle Rigsby Post Office"
Dec. 11, 2017 — Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2017
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Sept. 14, 2017 — Mitchell of Michigan Amendment No. 204
Sept. 13, 2017 — Norman of South Carolina Amendment No. 77
July 17, 2017 — Granting the consent and approval of Congress for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia to a enter into a compact relating to the establishment of the Washington Metrorail Satefy Commission
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The Skyline Sentosa Luge is a fun Singapore attraction that offers a truly unique outdoor experience. One of the most thrilling and unique Singapore activities, the Luge is a wheeled gravity ride that provides riders full control over their descent on purpose built Luge track.
Skyline Luge offers a fun family friendly adventure activity. You can navigate the luge down 628 meters of the Jungle Trail or the 688 meter Dragon Trail by going thrillingly fast or cruising slow.
After the Luge, you board the Skyride chairlift to go back up the hill and take in the fantastic panoramic scenery of the Singapore city skyline and beautiful coastline of Sentosa Island. Sally and I had a great time three.


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Ashanti Gold SC, även kallade AshGold, är en professionell fotbollsklubb baserad i Obuasi i Ashantiregionen, Ghana. Klubben spelar 2018 i Ghana Premier League.

Historia
AshGold bildades 1978 under namnet Goldfields Sporting Club, populärt kända som Obuasi Goldfields, av en grupp arbetare från Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, ett guldbrytningsföretag i regionen, och laget etablerade sig fort. Laget drevs av arbetarna fram till 1993 då företaget noterade lagets framgångar och tog över driften.

AshGold flyttades upp till Ghana Premier League inför säsongen 1986. Laget hade därefter sin storhetstid då de vann Ghana Premier League tre säsonger i rad mellan 1993 och 1996. Samtidigt rönte laget framgångar kontinentalt då laget tog sig till kvartsfinal i African Cup of Champions 1995, åttondelsfinal 1996 och till slut finalen 1997 (då turneringen tog sitt nuvarande namn CAF Champions League) där de fick se sig besegrade av Raja Casablanca efter straffläggning.

Laget nådde aldrig samma framgångar igen men har konsekvent varit ett lag i den inhemska ligan sedan dess. Redan säsongen 1997/98 var de dock nära att åka ur högsta serien då de hamnade på 13:e plats (av 14 lag) och tvingades till kval mot Brong Ahafo United. Efter flera säsonger på tabellens övre halva hamnade de i blåsväder under säsongen 2003 då de använt en otillåten spelare i Valentine Atem och blev sedermera fråntagna 12 poäng i ligaspelet vilket innebar att laget hamnade långt ner i tabellen på en 14:e plats (av 16 lag). Den 16 april 2004 bytte laget till sitt nuvarande namn när Anglogold Ashanti tog över laget. 2015 vann laget återigen ligan och kvalificerade sig till CAF Champions League 2016 där de dock åkte ut redan i kvalrundan mot MO Béjaïa från Algeriet (totalt 2-3 över två möten).

Spelartruppen 2018

Tränare
 Paulistinha
 Mohammed Gargo
 Momčilo Medić
 Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (1990–92)
 Charles Gyamfi (1992–93)
 Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (1993–95)
 Hans van der Pluijm (2000–2002) (2004–2005)
 Sam Arday (2004–2005)
 David Duncan (2005–2008)
 Zdravko Logarušić (2010–2011)
 Joachim Yaw Acheampong (2011–2012)
 Bashir Hayford (2013–2017)
 Charles Akonnor (2017–2018)
 John Christensen (2018-)

Statistik

Tabellplaceringar
Nedanstående är Ashanti Golds/Obuasi Goldfields ligaplaceringar i Ghana Premier League sedan 1986 då de flyttades upp för första gången till högsta serien. Tabellplacering saknas för säsongerna 1988/89 och 1989/90. Ligan består sedan 1999 av 16 lag (ligan bestod innan dess av 12, 14 eller 16 lag i olika omgångar och antog olika spelformer).

Meriter

Inhemska
Ghana Premier League:
 Vinnare (4): 1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96, 2015.
 Andra plats (6): 1992/93, 2000, 2006/07, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12,

Ghanaian FA Cup:
 Vinnare (1): 1993
 Andra plats (2): 1984, 2012.

Kontinentala
CAF Champions League:
 Andra plats (1): 1997

Referenser

Noter

Fotbollsklubbar i Ghana
Sportklubbar bildade 1978


The Non-Canon Expert explains what Tarkin really thought happened when Mace and the other Jedi Masters confronted Palpatine at the end of the Clone Wars and why the Imperial Grand Moff didn't believe the official version of events.
This is a Canon story for Tarkin from the novel "Tarkin" by James Luceno. I hope that you enjoy it!