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Bitcoin, Digital Culture, and Right-Wing Politics
broader analytical frameworks. The first of these is the phenomenon that scholars call
cyberlibertarianism. The central texts describing cyberlibertarianism are Barbrook and Cameron
(1996) and Winner (1997); for more recent accounts see Turner (2008) as well as Golumbia (2013b,
2013c, in preparation). In its most basic and limited form, cyberlibertarianism is sometimes
summarized as the principle that "governments should not regulate the internet" (Malcolm 2013). This
belief was articulated with particular force in the 1996 "Declaration of the Independence of
Cyberspace" written by the libertarian activist, Grateful Dead lyricist, and Electronic Frontier
Foundation founder (EFF is a leading "digital rights" and technology industry advocacy organization)
John Perry Barlow, which declared that "governments of the industrial world" are "not welcome" in
and "have no sovereignty" over the digital realm.
In practice, opposition to "government regulation of the internet" is best understood as a core (and
in important ways vague) tenet, around which circulate greater and greater claims for the "freedom"
created by digital technology. At its most expansive, cyberlibertarianism can be thought of as
something like a belief according to which freedom will emerge inherently from the increasing
development of digital technology, and therefore entails that efforts to interfere with or regulate that
development must be antithetical to freedom—although what "freedom" means in this context is much
less clear than it may seem. As Winner (1997, 14–15) puts it, to be a cyberlibertarian is to believe
that "the dynamism of digital technology is our true destiny. There is no time to pause, reflect or ask
for more influence in shaping these developments. . . . In the writings of cyberlibertarians those able
to rise to the challenge are the champions of the coming millennium. The rest are fated to languish in
the dust."
Cyberlibertarianism is thus not to be understood as the belief system of someone who overtly
describes themselves as a political libertarian—a member of a libertarian party or someone who
votes for libertarian candidates—and who supports or promotes the development of digital
technology. Someone who fits this description would likely have cyberlibertarian beliefs, of course
(and a few pundits associated with the Koch brothers–funded Mercatus Center do explicitly embrace
the label; see Thierer and Szoka 2009). But the analysis of cyberlibertarianism is getting at something
subtler: the way that a set of slogans and beliefs associated with the spread of digital technology
incorporate critical parts of a right-wing worldview even as they manifest a surface rhetorical
commitment to values that do not immediately appear to come from the right.
Certainly, many leaders in the digital technology industries, and quite a few leaders who do not
work for corporations, openly declare their adherence to libertarian or other right-wing ideologies.
Just a brief list of these includes figures like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Eric Raymond, Jimmy Wales,
Eric Schmidt, and Travis Kalanick. Furthermore, the number of leaders who demur from such
political points of view is small, and their demurrals are often shallow. But the group of people
whose beliefs deserve to be labeled "cyberlibertarian" is much larger than this. The core tenet of
cyberlibertarianism—the insistence that "governments should not regulate the internet"—appears to
be compatible with a wide range of political viewpoints. As EFF's senior global policy analyst
Jeremy Malcolm (2013) has written, "Even politically progressive activists are inclined to be more
distrustful of governmental intervention online than offline, in an expression of Internet
exceptionalism."
As Winner makes clear in his 1997 paper, the critical point about cyberlibertarianism as a belief
system is that it "links ecstatic enthusiasm for electronically mediated forms of living with radical,
right-wing libertarian ideas about the proper definition of freedom, social life, economics, and
politics" (14). His emphasis on "proper" definition is the key to Winner's analysis: people who
subscribe to cyberlibertarianism for the most part do not describe themselves as cyberlibertarians
and may not call themselves "libertarians" or even identify with right-wing political parties. Instead,
and at least sometimes without explicitly knowing it, they accept definitions of certain fundamental
terms that come from the political right, especially when digital technologies are at issue.
The most important of these redefined terms that occur repeatedly in discussions of Bitcoin are
"freedom" and "government," both of which are central to all cyberlibertarian and political
libertarian rhetoric. Referring to the 1994 manifesto "Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna
Carta for the Knowledge Age" by Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth, and Alvin
Toffler, Winner (1997, 16) writes:
Characteristic of this way of thinking is a tendency to conflate the activities of
freedom-seeking individuals with the operations of enormous, profit-seeking
business firms. In the "Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age," concepts of rights,
freedoms, access, and ownership justified as appropriate to individuals are
marshaled to support the machinations of enormous transnational firms. We must
recognize, the manifesto argues, that "Government does not own cyberspace, the
people do." One might read this as a suggestion that cyberspace is a commons in
which people have shared rights and responsibilities. But that is definitely not
where the writers carry their reasoning.
The "freedom" these writers advocate turns out, in a way they themselves do not always
acknowledge, to be identical with the use of "free" in the phrase "free market": that is, free from
government regulation. Building on the foundational, often unspoken rightist beliefs about the uniquely
oppressive nature of governmental power, they "advocate greater concentrations of power over the
conduits of information which they are confident will create an abundance of cheap, socially
available bandwidth. Today developments of this kind are visible in the corporate mergers that have
produced a tremendous concentration of control over not only the conduits of cyberspace but the
content it carries" (16). Indeed, in the nearly two decades since Winner wrote, this is exactly what
we have seen happen; in the name of vague slogans like "internet freedom" (Powers and Jablonski
2015), wealth and power have concentrated enormously (Hardoon 2015; Piketty 2014) as digital
technology has spread all around the globe.
From a cyberlibertarian perspective, governments—all governments, not simply whatever current
"bad" government we describe as doing wrong—exist only to curtail the freedom that is inherently
negative (in the classic sense of "negative" vs. "positive" freedoms developed in Berlin 1958): to be
"free" simply is to be "free" from government. The core cyberlibertarian belief that "governments
should not regulate the internet" really makes sense only if it is true that government exists to curtail
rather than to promote human freedom. Yet in most non-rightist political theory, government exists in
no small part to promote human freedom.
Their advocates make it sound like, and may often believe that, cyberlibertarian commitments are
about limiting power, but this is only true so long as we construe "government" as equivalent with
"power," and "the internet" as being oppositional to power, rather than, at least in significant part,
being strongly aligned with it. The most direct way to arrive at this perspective is to accept the
definition of government developed by the far right, especially anarcho-capitalist theorists like
Murray Rothbard and David Friedman, and echoed by politicians like Ronald Reagan and Margaret
Thatcher. According to this view, "government" is inherently totalitarian and tyrannical; indeed,
"government" and "tyranny" are essentially synonyms.
Cyberlibertarian doctrine did not develop in a vacuum. It fits into, and at best does nothing to
resist, the profound rightward drift evident in so much of contemporary politics. This becomes clear
when we examine the explicit political and economic doctrine and practice that is usually called
libertarianism in the United States (here meaning the political movement that is explicitly advocated
by right-wing partisan institutions such as the Cato Institute, the Heartland Foundation, the Mises
Institute, and others, as well as astroturf movements like the Tea Party and political figures like Ron
Paul and Rand Paul) and its connections with the less explicit doctrine analysts call neoliberalism.
Both of these doctrines or dogmas stem from the writings of core right-wing thinkers such as
Friedrich August von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, Rothbard, and others, as well as
their more recent followers. The most trenchant critic of this work, on whose research my analysis
relies in particular, is the economic historian and theorist Philip Mirowski, whose Never Let a
Serious Crisis Go to Waste (2014) remains the single most comprehensive account of what he calls
the Neoliberal Thought Collective and the nearly identical Mont Pelerin Society (MPS), of which
Hayek was the founding president.
Mirowski, along with some of his colleagues, has explained with particular cogency how Hayek
and others disseminated neoliberal doctrine. From somewhat different angles, writers like Chip
Berlet (2009), Berlet along with Matthew Lyons (2000), Claire Conner (2013), Sara Diamond
(1995), Michael Perelman (2007), Jill Lepore (2010), and the writers in Flanders's edited volume
(2010) give us thoroughly documented accounts of how those wider spheres of right-wing political
thought and practice operate, distributed among actors whose overt adherence to MPS doctrine can
vary widely, though they tend to be found far more on the right than the left.
The journalist Mark Ames explains how apparently disparate political interests, especially in the
context of Silicon Valley, can be seen to work together. Reflecting on some surprising alliances
between today's technology giants and the lobbying groups and of the world's major extractive
resource companies, Ames (2015) writes that
even if we still give Google and Facebook the benefit of the doubt, and allow that
their investments in the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute
weren't directly motivated by killing Obamacare and throwing millions of
struggling Americans back into the ranks of the uninsured and prematurely dying
—nevertheless, they are accessories, and very consciously so. Big Tech's larger
political goals are in alignment with the old extraction industry's: undermining
the countervailing power of government and public politics to weaken its ability
to impede their growing dominance over their portions of the economy, and to tax
their obscene stores of cash.
Google—like Facebook, like Koch Industries—wants a government that's
strong enough to enforce its dominant private power over the economy and
citizens and protect its wealth, but too broken and too alienated from the public to
adequately represent the public interest against their domineering monopolistic
In this way, much right-wing discourse, even when it appears to be focused on issues that are not
purely economic, turns out to work extremely well for the most concentrated sources of capital and
power in our world.
Power is one of the central subjects for political analysis, and perhaps the central subject: who has
power, who wants power, what the perspectives those who have and want power are on the creation
and maintenance of methods for the management of power. We might say that right-wing politics sides
emotionally and practically with power—it identifies with power, and via this identification works to
ensure that nobody interferes with the concentration and exercise of power. On this view, left-wing
politics is specifically focused on the limitation of power, on mechanisms for distributing power
equitably, and on the excesses that almost inevitably emerge when power is allowed to grow
unchecked.
Rather than a balance of powers and regular elections to curb the inherent possibility of abuse of
power, the cypherpunks and crypto-anarchists accept, often without appearing even to realize it, the
far-right, libertarian/anarcho-capitalist definition of government that extends from the German social
theorist Max Weber (who famously and tendentiously defined the state as a "monopoly of the
legitimate use of physical force within a given territory"; see Weber 1919, 33; see also Giddens 1985
for a thorough critique of Weber's definition) to Ronald Reagan's inaugural address of 1981, in
which he famously claimed that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the
problem." In Why Government Is the Problem (1993), Milton Friedman, a key player in the creation
of neoliberal economic doctrine, makes the same case at greater length.
The clearest articulation of these views is found in the work of arch right-wing thinker and Cato
Foundation cofounder Murray Rothbard. In an essay titled "Anatomy of the State," first published in
the 1974 volume Egalitarianism as a Revolt against Nature, Rothbard abruptly dismisses with
almost the entirety of political theory prior to Hayek, while taking Hayek even farther than he was
willing to go, at least in print. Arguably the position Rothbard develops is among the farthest to the
political right offered in Western discourse, with the exception of those who explicitly identify with
fascism: "We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.'
The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the majority of the people" (Rothbard
1974, 56). With no supporting argument or analysis, Rothbard dismisses nearly all the political theory
on which democratic rules are based (even the monarchist Thomas Hobbes thought that the sovereign
represented the people over whom he ruled, in an abstract sense) and the entire theory of
representative democracy.
At their limit—a limit that is often surpassed in current cypherpunk and crypto-anarchist rhetoric
and practice—these views suggest bizarrely that only government is capable of violence, and that
even when private institutions and enterprises engage in what appears to be physical violence, it is in
some sense of a different order than that practiced by governments. Even more bizarrely, these views
entail that democratic government lies about the one thing that does in fact distinguish it from other
forms of power—that it is directly accountable for its actions to the people from whom it draws its
power—while simultaneously entailing that power derived from capital and markets is accountable
to citizens. Worse still, it suggests that this market-based form of accountability does not merely
trump the electoral and legal accountability built into representative government, but also shields
corporate forces from the political critique to which the right routinely subjects government. In other
words, no matter how much power corporations take, their power can never be "evil" in the way that
governmental power inherently is.
There are certain keywords that move with a fair amount of ease between explicit right-wing
discourse and more general political discussion but that serve as rallying cries for right-wing
political action. Two of the most prominent and most relevant to Bitcoin are "tyranny" and "liberty."
When the right wing uses them, these words are removed from their more general meanings and
grafted onto holistic bodies of political thought, so that it can sound reasonable to oppose Social
Security or Medicare on the grounds that they offend "liberty" and constitute "tyranny," despite the
signal lack of substantive political thought that would make such assessments coherent. It is no
accident that the right-wing ideologue and talk show host Mark Levin titles one of his best-selling
books Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (2009), or that he misleadingly claims that
"the Founders understood that the greatest threat to liberty is an all-powerful central government" (4),
and that "conservatism is the antidote to tyranny" (11), a "tyranny" that in the United States is best
exemplified to Levin by social programs enacted under the New Deal (6–7). Despite our abhorrence
of real tyranny, then, the right wing uses the words "liberty" and "tyranny" to solicit and activate
populist energy against exactly those democratically enacted structures and programs among whose
main purposes is to curtail the tyrannical abuse of individual liberty by concentrated economic power
(Puddington 2013 describes this dynamic with regard to uses of the word "tyranny" by the Tea Party).
The effect is to make such concentrations of power even more possible and even less subject to
oversight, and this is very much the direction in which Bitcoin heads.
There are many things worth saying about Bitcoin. This short book is concerned not with providing a
thorough description of the technology, a detailed history of its uses, an account of the scandals and
triumphs associated with it, or profiles of the various personalities involved in its creation and
subsequent use (for which good introductory resources include Lanchester 2016; Murray 2013;
Pagliery 2014; Payne 2013; Popper 2015; Robinson 2014; Scott 2016). Its goal is more limited: to
show how much of the economic and political thought on which Bitcoin is based emerges directly
from ideas that travel the gamut from the sometimes-extreme Chicago School economics of Milton
Friedman to the explicit extremism of Federal Reserve conspiracy theorists. While it is beyond doubt
that many who "believe" in Bitcoin think they do not subscribe to these theories, it frequently turns out
that they rely on assumptions and concepts that do emerge from the far right. As they are currently
configured, Bitcoin and the blockchain technology on which it rests satisfy needs that make sense only
in the context of right-wing politics; those of us who do not share those politics must, therefore, view
Bitcoin and the blockchain with both skepticism and a clear eye for the political terms and concepts
invoked in the discourse surrounding them.
I am sometimes asked to account for Bitcoin enthusiasm among those with explicitly left-wing
politics. My response is to ask two questions analytically prior to this one: first, to ask for accounts
of where and how it happened that a technology developed specifically to magnify the powers
favored by the political right has mutated so as not to serve those powers but the forces they oppose;
and second, to ask for accounts on economic and political-economic grounds that proceed from leftwing thought (whether Marxian or Keynesian) to the need for and utility of Bitcoin. Almost uniformly,
responses to these queries repeat some of the rightist tropes about central banking and governmental
tyranny I describe here, and those that do not (e.g., Bauwens 2014) emerge very skeptical about
Bitcoin. Perhaps Bitcoin and the blockchain can serve politics other than the ones from which they
were birthed and which they continue to embody; my goal here is to document those politics and to
show what any non-rightist politics of Bitcoin needs to overcome.
2. Central Banking, Inflation, and Right-Wing Extremism
IN THE 1960S AND 1970S the John Birch Society (JBS) was the best-known exponent of right-wing
extremist thought in the United States. JBS founder Robert Welch's 1966 essay "The Truth in Time,"
which appeared in the JBS house organ American Opinion, remains a central text for U.S. right-wing
extremism. Obsessed, as the right was at that time, with the "menace of the Communist conspiracy"
which is nonetheless "only a tool of the total conspiracy," Welch's propaganda is directed at a
"ruling clique" called "the Insiders." "Under the guise of humanitarianism, and in the pretended
promotion of freedom and brotherhood," Welch writes, "these Insiders, and the gullible idealists
who served as their dupes, were busily undermining the very beliefs and institutions which made the
Nineteenth Century a high water mark of such civilization as man has laboriously achieved."
According to Welch and the JBS, the main tool of these "Insiders" was "progressive legislation";
on this view all social welfare programs, such as worker's compensation and Medicare, "made
possible, of course, by idealists with only the noblest of intentions," were "rot introduced in the name
of progress." The goal of such measures was to "reduce the responsibilities and rights of individual
citizens, while steadily increasing the quantity, the reach, and the potential tyranny of governments."
And chief among the tools to accomplish these goals were "such decisively important measures as . . .
central banking, a graduated personal income tax, and the direct election of senators."
By "central banking" Welch refers in particular to the U.S. Federal Reserve, the body that has
remained a touchstone for the far right in the United States since its creation by the Federal Reserve
Act of 1913. Welch writes that the Fed's
long-range significance and use could be well hidden under the pretended
objectives at the time of its founding. And its ultimate value to the conspirators
could be tremendously enhanced by the character and ability of the good men
drawn into its top positions during the early decades of its existence. But what
this function and prestige of the Federal Reserve System would inevitably come
to mean, in time and in actual practice, was the control of credit, the control of
the money supply, the ability to spend with increasing profligacy, and the means
to steal continuously from the people by the debasement of our currency, on the
part of the Federal Government.
Welch insists that inflation itself is a "tax," so that, as a 2009 JBS pamphlet called "What Is Money?"
puts it, "the value of money ends up in the possession of whoever does the inflating." Rather than the
standard economic definition of inflation as an increase in prices, the JBS defines inflation as "an
increase in the amount of currency in circulation," despite the fact that inflation frequently does occur
without any such increase (see Frisch 1983 for a comprehensive discussion); inflation can have many
causes, of which the printing of money is only one. Yet because, according to the JBS, the Fed has
been uniquely granted the power to print money in the United States (though the Fed does not actually
have the power to print money; see Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 2015b), it is not merely the
source but the beneficiary of inflation, and by "expanding the money supply . . . [it] devalues the
money already in circulation" (5); thus, and this claim will be key in what follows, "since the
establishment of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power
while the Fed maintains a monopoly over the issuance of bank notes or cash" (4).
This description radically misstates economic principles in several important ways. Most
economists feel that moderate (but not runaway) inflation benefits an economy, particularly by
encouraging the production of goods, since they may eventually sell for more than the producer would
have been able to receive simply by holding on to his or her money (the reverse of this dynamic is the
main argument against deflation; see Burdekin and Siklos 2004; Frisch 1983). The comparison of the
value of US$1 between 1913 and 2009 is extremely deceptive, because it fails to take into account
critical factors such as wage rates, the interest rate on savings, and the possibility of investing that
US$1 in capital markets or in industry. A much less conspiratorial take on economic history would
point out that US$1 invested in something as simple as a bank savings account using compound
interest will typically be worth much more than the simple rate of inflation would provide by 2009;
even slightly more aggressive investment would produce even more gains. A far more reasonable
form of comparison would be to ask whether the average laborer needs to work more or fewer hours
to purchase a like good in two different circumstances—for example a quart of milk or a pound of
flour. This is why economists calculate such statistics not in raw numbers but in inflation-adjusted
terms: the point is that all prices in an economy tend to adjust with inflation, including labor. Labor
that earned US$1 in 1913 is likely to have earned around US$21.67 in 2009; and US$21.67 in 2009
buys about what US$1 did in 1913.[1] This is no disaster, "hidden tax," or "destruction of value"; but
viewed in isolation and taken out of context, it can provide a completely distorted view of both labor
and economic history. The idea that inflation is a "destruction of value" and that the U.S. dollar has
lost most or all of its purchasing power over the course of a hundred years has long been a staple of
conspiracy theories, in no small part used by demagogues like Alex Jones to drive the unsuspecting
toward purchases of gold and other precious metals (on inflation conspiracy theories in general see
Aziz 2014 and Krugman 2011; for Ron Paul's use of inflation conspiracy theories see Foxman 2012).
The extremist characterization of inflation may have found its way into some parts of popular
discourse via its promulgation in JBS and other right-wing propaganda, but it was a theory developed
and cultivated by the architects of neoliberal doctrine associated with the Chicago School of
economics and the Mont Pelerin Society. Chief among these was MPS founding member and early
1970s president and University of Chicago economics professor Milton Friedman. Since at least the
1950s Friedman preached a very specific point of view about inflation, summarized in his famous
(Friedman 1963) dictum that "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." While
this matter may have seemed an arcane and technical matter for economists, it ended up underwriting
a new form of right-wing practice, where instead of demanding that governments take a "hands-off"
policy toward markets as had their predecessors, neoliberals wanted to take control of state power
for their own ends: "A primary ambition of the neoliberal project is to redefine the shape and
functions of the state, not to destroy it" (Mirowski 2014, 56). When Friedman was hired as a senior
adviser to U.S. president Ronald Reagan in 1981, he thus became the chief architect of a program
called monetarism, according to which continuous modulation of the money supply controls inflation.
Thus Friedman could want "to abolish the Fed" while writing "many pages on how the Fed, if it does
exist, should be run" (Doherty 1995).
Friedman's redefinition of inflation started out, like many extreme right-wing political dicta do in
our time, as a fringe theory that few took seriously; then it became a backstop against which more
mainstream economic theories could rest; then, via the direct exercise of the state power neoliberal
theory claims to eschew, it forcibly took over the mainstream when only lukewarm resistance was
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Record Growth in Exports from Ankutsan
According to TIM 1000, 2020 results, ANKUTSAN has increased its place among Turkey's top 1000 exporting organizations with a growth of 54.6% by 339 steps and ranked 503rd.
Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) has announced the results of its study determining Turkey's top 1000 exporters. According to the 2019 results, Antalya Kutu Sanayi ve Oluklu Mukavva Ticaret A.Ş (ANKUTSAN), which ranks 842th among Turkey's 1000 exporting companies, continued its rise in Turkey's largest exporters league this year as well and rose 339 steps in 2020 to become Turkey's largest exporter. It ranked 503rd among the biggest 1000 exporting companies of Turkey.
ANKUTSNA, which increased its employment to 1000 people despite the coronavirus pandemic that affected the world in 2020 and all the negativities brought by the pandemic, renewed its growth record and provided a net sales revenue of over 1 billion TL in 2020, while its exports amounted to 38.9 million dollars. Ankutsan A.Ş., which has been the sector leader in exports for years in the packaging industry, was among the ' '20 Fastest Rising '' companies in the TİM 1000 research. In the corrugated cardboard sector, ANKUTSAN A.Ş. continues to increase its contribution to the country's economy every year.
The first and only company in its sector, including in the Turquality Project, Turkey's branding program under the Ministry of Commerce.
Ankutsan A.S. General Manager Deniz Erdoğan said, "We continue to grow rapidly in our primary target markets with the brand support program they are involved in within the scope of Turquality." He also emphasized that they represent Turkey and Ankutsan in the best way by participating in 7 international fairs this year despite the pandemic conditions.
Contribution to the country's economy and sector will continue
Ankutsan A.S. General Manager Deniz Erdoğan thanked all employees, customers, and business partners who contributed to ANKUTSAN's success. Stating that they are working to become a world brand in their sector, he said that they will continue to contribute to both the sector and the Turkish economy. Expressing that ANKUTSAN's achievements have been crowned with the awards of many national and international organizations, Deniz Erdoğan stated that they will realize a turnover of 1.9 million TL and 60 million dollars in 2021.
In 2021, it targets a turnover of 1.9 billion TL and 60 million dollars in export sales.
Deniz Erdoğan, General Manager of Ankutsan, said, "Despite all the negative developments caused by the pandemic, we continue to invest and grow. In addition to our existing paper factory in Adana, we are establishing a new high-tech paper production facility with an investment of 60 million Euros. With this investment, we will be producing all of the raw materials we need as 100 percent integrated. ''said. Stating that they will also commission the 2nd stage investment of 15 million dollars for the Ankara facilities, which they purchased before, at the end of the year, Erdoğan said, "We will continue our growth and will work with all our strength to achieve the turnover target of 1.9 billion TL in 2021."
Expressing that they are the clear leader in their sector with a 54.6% growth on a dollar basis and a turnover of approximately 38.9 million dollars in exports last year and that they aim for an export figure of 60 million dollars by the end of the year, Erdoğan underlined that they maintain their market leadership.
Ankutsan A.S. General Manager Deniz Erdoğan said, " Last year, we exported to more than 60 countries in Europe, Australia, Asia, North Africa, America, and the Middle East. We continue our efforts to expand our existing markets. Our Food and Industrial boxes constitute the general product groups that we export. Developed countries with high per capita income in the Far East are also among our new target markets. We develop existing markets to improve our exports and continue our research by working with the world's most respected international market research companies for new markets. '' said.

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Hipsters love classic novels and pretending they still play classic video games. So it's no surprise that a 1980s style Nintendo Entertainment System game based on F.Scott Fitzergald's, The Great Gatsby, is a cult hit on the Internet. The fact that it's free also helps. The novel (or the CliffsNotes version), has been compulsory reading for American college and high school students for decades.
The 1925 novel has been made into six feature films. A seventh film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire, is currently in production.
The game is set in the 1920s and as the digital version of Nick Carraway, you search for Gatsby, throw your hat at enemies and down Prohibition era martinis. The start screen pays homage to the novel's original cover, iconic as the novel itself. The game's soundtrack is also available for download. While this game pretends to be some long lost Japanese Nintendo cartridge, the game is actually of contemporary vintage.
What classic literary work would you like to see in literary form? A Zelda-esque maze version of Kafka's The Castle?
Give it a whirl, old sport.
Joseph Hammond is a freelance journalist who has been published in California, Estonia, Egypt, and Jordan. He enjoys learning languages and is pretty good at table football. He's a big fan of boxing, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and FC Barçelona. He is currently based in Prague, Czech Republic.


Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, PMLR 89:2231-2240, 2019.
In this work, we consider the problem of autonomously discovering behavioral abstractions, or options, for reinforcement learning agents. We propose an algorithm that focuses on the termination function, as opposed to - as is common - the policy. The termination function is usually trained to optimize a control objective: an option ought to terminate if another has better value. We offer a different, information-theoretic perspective, and propose that terminations should focus instead on the compressibility of the option's encoding - arguably a key reason for using abstractions. To achieve this algorithmically, we leverage the classical options framework, and learn the option transition model as a "critic" for the termination function. Using this model, we derive gradients that optimize the desired criteria. We show that the resulting options are non-trivial, intuitively meaningful, and useful for learning.
%X In this work, we consider the problem of autonomously discovering behavioral abstractions, or options, for reinforcement learning agents. We propose an algorithm that focuses on the termination function, as opposed to  - as is common - the policy. The termination function is usually trained to optimize a control objective: an option ought to terminate if another has better value. We offer a different, information-theoretic perspective, and propose that terminations should focus instead on the compressibility of the option's encoding - arguably a key reason for using abstractions. To achieve this algorithmically, we leverage the classical options framework, and learn the option transition model as a "critic" for the termination function. Using this model, we derive gradients that optimize the desired criteria. We show that the resulting options are non-trivial, intuitively meaningful, and useful for learning.


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Arfaraz Khambatta, Director of Accessibility Consulting Group, Sally Swanson Architects
Arfaraz Khambata is an ICC-Certified Inspector and a Certified Access Specialist who has over a decade of experience in accessibility consulting. Arfi's responsibilities include project management and oversight, client and agency coordination, detailed project design and feasibility analyses, and project controls. His large portfolio of work covers cities and counties, K-12 and post-secondary educational facilities, private and public office buildings, residential projects, recreational centers, luxury hotels and resort complexes, convention centers and health care facilities.
Arfi is a leading expert in assessments of facilities for compliance with ADA/ADAAG, CCR Title 24 and other relevant access requirements. He collaborates with state agencies, counties and other public entities to develop their Self-Evaluations and Transition Plans. In addition, he conducts access compliance plan reviews and back checks of drawings and specifications for the Division of the State Architect (DSA).
Under his leadership, SSA has completed sidewalk inventories documenting ADA barriers using sidewalk profiling technology that captures field data integrated into GIS. His work in this field has resulted in the acceptance of papers for the 2012 Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C. and Transed 2012 in New Delhi, India. Mr. Khambatta also presented at the 2012 APWA International Conference and was a panelist at the 2012 National Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Conference. He has presented to the U.S. Access Board on developing Accessible Guidelines for Outdoor Developed Areas. He has worked at SSA for over seven years and also is a presenter and trainer of best practices for the firm.
Kari Edison Watkins, Civil Engineering, Georgia Tech
Dr. Kari Edison Watkins, P.E., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She returned to her undergraduate alma mater to become a faculty member in 2011 after completing her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. Her teaching and research interests revolve around multi-modal transportation planning and the use of technology in transportation, especially as related to transit planning and operations and improved traveler information. At the University of Washington, Dr. Watkins' research focused on transit travel time reliability and the effects of transit traveler information. She co-created the OneBusAway program (http://onebusaway.org/) to provide real-time next bus countdown information and other transit information tools for transit riders in greater Seattle-Tacoma. Dr. Watkins doctorate was funded by a three-year US DOT Eisenhower Fellowship, a UW ARCS Fellowship and a UW Valle Fellowship. Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Watkins worked for a decade as a senior transportation engineer at Wilbur Smith Associates in New Haven, Connecticut. Her work at WSA ranged from bus rapid transit and commuter rail studies to regional transportation visions. In line with her years in industry, Dr. Watkins' undergraduate teaching focus is on sending top-notch engineers into the workforce through practical experience in the Senior Capstone course.
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Arsenal v Man City: Live stream, TV channel, kick-off time and how to watch the FA Cup semi-final on BT Sport
Arsenal take on Manchester City at Wembley from 7pm on Saturday, exclusively live on BT Sport, with a place in the FA Cup final at stake.
Published: 8 September 2020 - 10.28am
By Press Association Published: 8 September 2020 - 10.28am
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We have reached the semi-final stage of the world's oldest football competition, with a thrilling clash in prospect between the record-winners and the holders.
Arsenal defeated Manchester City at this stage three years ago and went onto see off Chelsea in the 2017 final to claim their 13th, and most recent, FA Cup.
But City have been the cup kings in recent outings and destroyed Watford 6-0 in last season's final to claim the 2019 edition.
Mikel Arteta will be desperate to show his mentor Pep Guardiola how far he has come, but City are taking no prisoners if recent form is anything to go by.
Will Arsenal repeat the trick of the 2017 semi-final and see off City at Wembley? Or will Guardiola's men march onto a second successive final and end the Gunners' trophy hopes for the season?
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Our coverage gets underway at 7pm (7.45pm kick off) on Saturday 18 July, live on BT Sport 1HD and BT Sport Ultimate on TV.
The match is also available to live stream on the BT Sport app or right here on bt.com/sport - full details below.
How to watch Arsenal v Man City on your mobile or tablet
Watch on the go with the BT Sport app with a link to the live stream available at the top of the homepage when our coverage gets underway.
With the enhanced video player featuring an interactive timeline, multi-camera functionality, 360° live streaming and highlights, the app truly offers the most-immersive viewing experience available.
It's available to download for free on iOS and Android phones and tablets; and offers far more than just live streaming options.
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Arsenal v Man City is available to live stream here!
Follow the link above or access the live stream via the bt.com/sport home page when our broadcast begins.
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The 20-year-old discusses his return to action and admits taking over from David Silva is a 'massive responsibility'.
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A late Dani Ceballos goal sends Arsenal to the semi-finals of the FA Cup for the 30th time in their history.
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No problem. A highlights package of the clash will be made available to all shortly after the game on both the BT Sport app and bt.com/sport. We'll also publish in-game clips throughout the 90 minutes.
There will also be several opportunities to watch the match in full on TV and online after the event. For more information on the latest listings, check out our TV Guide.
What other live football does BT Sport show?
We're all remaining Champions League and Europa League matches live this August, as well as much, much more.
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Constant Contact's First Quarter Financial Results 2015
Constant Contact recently announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015.
"We were disappointed with the mixed results for the quarter, as revenue came in below expectations while profitability was better than expected," said Gail Goodman, chief executive officer of Constant Contact. "In the quarter we didn't deliver an acceleration in customer additions as expected, which resulted in missing our revenue goal. Given the current trends, we are adjusting down our revenue plans for the remainder of the fiscal year."
"We are confident in our strategy for an integrated marketing suite for small businesses and organizations," continued Goodman. "However, it is clear that we need to execute better. We have a framework to deliver sustainable revenue growth of greater than 20 percent, coupled with profit margins greater than 20 percent, and while disappointed by the near term setback, we are confident in our ability to deliver on this goal over time."
First Quarter 2015 Financial Metrics
Revenue was $90.4 million, an increase of 14.6% compared to revenue of $78.9 million for the comparable period in 2014.
Gross margin was 73.0%, compared to 72.5% for the comparable period in 2014.
Adjusted EBITDA was $14.7 million, compared to adjusted EBITDA of $11.0 million for the comparable period in 2014. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 16.2%, compared to 13.9% for the comparable period in 2014.
GAAP net income was $3.6 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $850 thousand, or $0.03 per diluted share, for the comparable period in 2014.
Non-GAAP net income was $7.4 million, compared to non-GAAP net income of $5.0 million for the comparable period in 2014. Non-GAAP net income per diluted share was $0.22 per share, compared to $0.16 per share for the comparable period in 2014.
Cash flow from operations was $20.2 million, compared to $11.1 million for the comparable period in 2014.
Capital expenditures were $5.3 million, compared to $5.9 million for the comparable period in 2014.
Free cash flow was $15.0 million, compared to $5.2 million for the comparable period in 2014.
The company had $179.1 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities at March 31, 2015, compared to $162.6 million at December 31, 2014.
Operating Metrics
Added 55,000 gross new unique customers in the first quarter compared to 55,000 in the fourth quarter of 2014 and 50,000 in the first quarter of 2014. (*)
Ended the first quarter with 645,000 unique customers, an increase from 635,000 unique customers at the end of the fourth quarter of 2014 and 605,000 unique customers at the end of the first quarter of 2014. (*)
Average monthly revenue per unique customer (ARPU) in the first quarter was $47.09, up from $43.82 in the comparable period in 2014, and $46.59 in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Monthly retention rate of unique paying customers remained in its historical range of 97.8%, plus or minus 0.5%, for each month during the first quarter. (*) Unique customers are rounded to the nearest 5,000. We define unique customers as customers of all of our products and services, inclusive of both subscription and transaction-based products. Transactional customers are included in the customer count for the period if they transacted within the prior 12-month period. A customer of multiple products and services is counted as one unique customer.
"The underlying trends coming out of 2014 suggested a path to accelerating revenue growth for the year. However, during the first quarter we experienced unexpected headwinds," said Harpreet Grewal, chief financial officer of Constant Contact. "While we are adjusting down our revenue guidance for 2015, we are raising guidance for full year profit margins as well as our full year free cash flow expectations. We are committed to getting back on the track of consistent, reliable execution, and remain committed to driving accelerating revenue growth over time, while continuing to expand margins and generate higher cash flow." Nely Bonar
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Subject: Sensitive Places and Times
1925 Mich. Pub. Acts 108, An Act to Create a District of Refuge in Ingham County to Be Known as "Pine Lake Wild Life Sanctuary" in Which It Shall Be Unlawful to Kill,Catch or Destroy Any Wild Game Animals . . . , § 2.
Sensitive Places and Times | Michigan | 1925
It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, kill or otherwise destroy any wild game animals, wild game or songbirds, their young offspring or eggs in the district hereinbefore described, or to molest the homes, nests or houses of such w...
1924 Miss. Laws 554, An Act Creating Bird and Game Sanctuaries, Providing That Parks and Play Grounds of Certain Dimensions Shall Constitute Such Sanctuaries, and For the Protection of Birds and Game Therein, ch. 323, § 2.
Sensitive Places and Times | Mississippi | 1924
It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt with gun or dog on any sanctuary or preserve for birds and game, or to rob or destroy the nests of any birds, or to catch, snare, trap, or net any birds within any such prescribed limits, and any person found...
1923 Mo. Laws 241-42, An Act to Provide the Exercise of the Police Powers of the State by and through Prohibiting the Manufacture, Possession, Transportation, Sale and Disposition of Intoxicating Liquors. . .§ 17.
Sensitive Places and Times | Missouri | 1923
Any person, while in charge of, or a passenger thereon, who shall carry on his person, or in, on, or about, any wagon, buggy, automobile, boat, aeroplane, or other conveyance or vehicle whatsoever, in, or upon which any intoxicating liquor, including w...
1921 N.C. Sess. Laws 54, Pub. Laws Extra Sess., An Act to Protect Animals and Game in Parks and Game Reservations in Either Private or Public Parks or Places, ch. 6, § 3.
Sensitive Places and Times | North Carolina | 1921
That any person who shall carry a pistol, revolver, or gun in any park or reservation such as is described in section one of this act, without having first obtained the written permission of the owner or manager of said park or reservation, shall be gu...
1919 Me. Laws 193, Possession of loaded shotgun or rifle in motor vehicle on highways, fields or forests prohibited; penalty.
Sensitive Places and Times | Maine | 1919
No person shall have a rifle or shotgun, either loaded or with a cartridge in the magazine thereof, in or on any motor vehicle while the same is upon any highway or in the fields or forests. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be subje...
1919 N.D. Laws 173, § 8.
Sensitive Places and Times | North Dakota | 1919
Section 51 . . . is hereby amended . . . Any person traveling in any manner in any part of this state off the public highway, outside the immediate bounds of the inhabited parts of any village, town or city in possession of any kind of a shot gun, with...
1917 Mont. Laws 179-80, An Act to Establish a Game Preserve in South Moccasin Mountains, Fergus County, Montana, for the Protection of Game Animals and Game Birds, and Providing Penalties for the Pursuing, Hunting or Killing of Such Animals or Birds in Such Preserve, ch. 109, § 2.
Sensitive Places and Times | Montana | 1917
It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to hunt, trap, kill, capture, chase or molest any game animals or game birds whatever within the limits of said game preserve, or to discharge any firearms or to create any unusual disturbance tending to ...
1917 Id.Sess. Laws 461, An Act . . . To Regulate the Use and Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons . . .
Sensitive Places and Times | Idaho | 1917
If any person (excepting officials of a county, officials of the State of Idaho, officials of the United States, peace officers, guards of any jail, any officer of any express company on duty) shall carry concealed upon or about his person, any dirk, d...
1917 Wis. Sess. Laws 1243-44, An Act to Repeal Sections . . . to Create a New Chapter to Be Numbered 29 . . . Relating to Wild Animals, and the Regulation of the Enjoyment, Disposition and Conservation Thereof, Prescribing Penalties, and Creating a Conservation Fund, ch. 668, § 3, pt. 29.57 (4).
Sensitive Places and Times | Wisconsin | 1917
(4) Absolute Protection. No owner of lands embraced within any such wild life refuge, and no other person whatever, shall hunt or trap within the boundaries of any wild life refuge, state park, or state fish hatchery lands; nor have in his possession o...
1916 Va. Acts 568, An Act to Prevent the Destruction of Wild Game Within Certain Territory Lying Within the Boundaries of the Massanutten Purchase Area, in the State of Virginia… §1.
Sensitive Places and Times | Virginia | 1916
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to hunt, pursue, kill, or destroy in any way, any wild game or to enter with dog or gun or both with intent to hunt, kill, pursue, destroy any wil...
1913 Or. Laws 433, An Act to Provide for the Protection, Preservation and Propogation of Game Animals, Game Birds, Game Fish, Game, Wild Fowl, Non-Game Birds, and Fur-Bearing Animals, and to Provide for the Enforcement Thereof . . . , ch. 232, § 22.
Sensitive Places and Times | Oregon | 1913
1912 Ariz. Sess. Laws 253, § 24.
Sensitive Places and Times | Arizona | 1912
It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot a rifle, revolver, or shotgun of any caliber or guage (gauge) upon, from, or across any public highway of the State of Arizona, where there is cultivated land or dwelling houses either side, thereof, or wher...
1911 N.C. Sess. Laws 735-36, Priv. Laws, An Act to Incorporate the Washington Branch Baptist Church in the County of Greene, ch. 293, § 4.
That it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to use loud, profane or indecent language, fire off a gun or pistol in hearing distance of those assembled for or engaged in divine worship, or otherwise disturb and annoy those assembled for or engaged in ...
1911 Tenn. Priv. Acts 1431, A Bill to Be Entitled "An Act to Amend the Charter of the City of Knoxville, Tenn. . . . ," ch. 498, § 45.
Sensitive Places and Times | Tennessee | 1911
1910 Ga. Laws 137, Shooting at Houses, Prohibited, § 1.
Sensitive Places and Times | Georgia | 1910
. . . it shall be unlawful for any person to shoot at, toward or into any occupied dwelling house in this State with any gun, pistol, rifle or any other deadly firearm, except in defense of person, property, or habitation, or under the circumstances of...
1910 Md. Laws 521, § 16c.
Sensitive Places and Times | Maryland | 1910
§ 16c. That it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, pursue or kill any of the birds or animals named in Section 12, 13, 14 and 14A of this Act, or any insectivorous birds (excepting English sparrows), in Allegany County on Sunday, or on elect...
1908 Md. Laws 416, § 116.
1907 Minn. Laws 408-09, An Act to Prohibit the Shooting of Firearms Within Three Miles of the Corporate Limits of Cities Having a Population of 50,000 or More, ch. 300, § 1.
Sensitive Places and Times | Minnesota | 1907
It is hereby declared unlawful for any person to hunt with or carry loaded any rifle or other firearm for the purpose of hunting within three miles of the corporate limits of any city having a population of 50,000 or more, except target practice on reg...
1905 Ind. Acts 677, Public Conveyance—Attacking, § 410.
Sensitive Places and Times | Indiana | 1905
Whoever maliciously or mischievously shoots a gun, rifle, pistol or other weapon, or throws a stone, stick, club or any other substance whatever, at or against any stage coach, or any locomotive, railroad car, or train of cars, street car, or interurba...
1905 N.C. Sess. Laws 488, Priv. Laws, An Act to Amend the Charter of the Town of Magnolia, in Duplin County, ch. 174, § 60.
That the board of commissioners of said town shall have power to pass ordinances for the protection of the persons and property of the citizens of the same, and to that end may pass an ordinance making it unlawful to discharge any gun, pistol, or other...
1905 Ga. Laws 86, Rocking or Shooting at or in Cars, § 1.
. . . Any person who shall throw a rock or other missile at, towards or into any car of any passenger train upon any railroad or street railroad, or shoot any gun, pistol or firearms of any kind at, towards or into any such car, or shoot while in such ...
1905 Minn. Laws 620, An Act for the Preservation, Propogation, Protection, Taking, Use and Transportation of Game and Fish, and Certain Harmless Birds and Animals, ch. 344, § 53.
State Parks – No person shall pursue, hunt, take, catch, or kill any wild bird or animal of any kind within the limits of any territory set apart, designated used or maintained as a state public park, or within one-half mile of the outer limits t...
1903-1904 N.J. Laws 178, A Further Supplement to an Act Entitled "An Act Concerning Disorderly Persons," ch. 68, § 1.
Sensitive Places and Times | New Jersey | 1904
Any person trespassing upon any marsh, swamp or meadow grounds lying within the bounds of any meadow bank company, organized or to be organized under the provisions of the act . . . where the owners and possessors of the said marsh, swamp or meadow lan...
1903 Ga. Laws 71, An Act for the Protection of the Officers and Employees of the Georgia Penitentiary at the Various Camps throughout the State, and for all other purposes, § 1.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act it shall be unlawful for any person in the State of Georgia to come inside of the guard-lines ...
1901 N J. Laws 265, An Act for the Protection of Certain Kinds of Birds, Game and Fish, to Regulate Their Method of Capture and Provide Open and Close Seasons for Such Capture and Possesion, ch. 120, § 14.
It shall be unlawful to hunt with a hound or hounds, or with fire-arms or weapons of any kind, or to carry a gun in the woods or fields or on the waters on the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each offence.
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Clearly taking a page from The New York Times's A Game of Shark and Minnow, which in turn had its roots in the controversial Snow Fall, The Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines has published a special section of its website for the Sesquicentennial of Andres Bonifacio. It focuses on "Monumento", his famous edifice in the north.
The page starts with a CloudFlare loading screen; a jarring but appears to be required feature of the content delivery network it's hosted on. You are then greeted with the official red logo of his 150th birth anniversary and introductory text to the subject matter, presented as a video in the background: a timelapse of the Bonifacio monument in Caloocan.
The first screen of the page shows the official anniversary logo, intro text, and a timelapse video of the Bonifacio monument.
Could it be, a government website that actually looks good? Good effort, but there are a few technical difficulties that would fly over those who aren't in the design and development profession. First, the header bar struggles a bit to stay sticky over the top video while the black text becomes difficult to read.
The character count per line is problematic and the long blocks of text should be made more digestible whether you're a history buff or not, as it's basic rule of legibility.
Long line lengths will tire out even the most dedicated Gat Andres fan.
On the flip side, parallax! Yes, I'm normally cynical about this: it's everywhere and the go-to special effect for the last 3 years. It's what all the bosses who don't know any better want to copy from those NYT feature articles. It's a trope. If a website's main feature is this, it says you care more about making your audience go wow than making your message or product awesome. But on this page, it tells me the team cared enough to make it a little bit more memorable. I'm cutting the government some slack—but only about this.
Unfortunately all the parallaxed photos disappear on mobile widths when they could have been retained by simplying removing background-position: fixed and/or keeping them in as non-background images. Truth is, these shouldn't have just been background images; they should've also had a gallery of their own so the readers could get a proper look at them.
Beautiful closeups of the monument is weaved into the parallax scrolling but unfortunately not seen on mobile.
Another small thing on the plus side: hiding the discordant social media sharing buttons away in its own popup.
All in all, I appreciate not condensing the rich storytelling (and not taking the infographic route, though using one would be a smart move to promote the microsite), but someone who has more experience in typography would have made all this in-depth history go beyond a textbook experience.
Is this better than having crappy content that happens to have top-notch aesthetics? Of course. Content reigns supreme.


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Search On For A Killer After Woman Found Asphyxiated In Her Bed In South FarmingdaleThe Farmingdale community is at a loss to explain why a 27-year-old mother was found suffocated in her bed on their quiet, close-knit suburban street.
Jersey City Police Officers Remembered 10 Years After Tragic Death
Filed Under:Jersey City, Memorial, Robert Nguyen, Samantha Liebman, Shawn Carson
JERSEY CITY, N.J (CBSNewYork) — A special memorial service was held Friday for two officers who died in the line of duty 10 years ago.
Jersey City police officers Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen were killed when their patrol car plunged off the Lincoln Highway Bridge into the Hackensack River, CBS2 reported.
The officers were called to deliver flares on the Kearny side of the Route 1/9 bridge, but the fog was so thick, they failed to realize the drawbridge was open, 1010 WINS' Samantha Liebman reported. The officers drove off the bridge and fell to their deaths.
"The plunged about 40 feet to their deaths in the emergency services vehicle," Jersey City Police Lieutenant Vincent Glenn said.
The annual ceremony included a wreath-laying and a minute of silence at the time of their deaths.
"The emergency service unit is such a close-knit family that we see officers past and present every year come out," Glenn said.


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Can one to two sentences influence contribution rates to a 401(k) plan, even if the cues do not add information? The authors answer this question by running two field experiments with employees of a large technology company. They tested different cues that can be divided into three categories. First, anchors present an arbitrarily chosen increase of the contribution rate. The second type of cue involves thresholds based on employer's matching conditions to the participants. Third, arbitrarily chosen savings levels were given as examples of savings goals in some emails.
High cues (i.e. high contribution rates, thresholds and savings levels) increased contribution rates by up to 2.9% of income, while low cues decreased contribution rates by up to 1.4% of income, compared with participants who received a control email. Anchors affected contribution rates for the longest time (i.e. up to a year), while the effect was delayed by several months. Especially high anchors decreased the likelihood of a change in contribution rate for the first months. Very high anchors did not increase contribution rates more than moderately high anchors.
Emails with the savings thresholds did have an immediate effect, but this effect did not last as long and only kept participants away from the threshold. Adding the goal examples to the threshold cues amplified the effect of cues.
The paper shows that a simple one or two sentences added to an email communication can impact contribution rates significantly. Cue effects are especially effective when one compares them to the costly alternative of matching contributions by employers.
Furthermore, the authors give the intuitive explanation of why so many participants save at the default rate, the match threshold or the maximum contribution rate: these are obvious contribution rates! Placing other rates front-and-centre also shifts some participants towards those rates.


The ultimate breakfast burger. Crispy potato hash brown, salty smokey bacon, fried eggs and lashings of HP sauce stuffed into a soft roll. Great for feeding a crowd at a breakfast barbecue.
Squeeze the grated potatoes until all of the juice has come out of them. Place in a bowl with the onions, cheese, parsley, chilli flakes, oregano, 1 minced garlic clove and salt and pepper, combine well.
Heat a non-stick fry pan on a medium/high heat and add olive oil. Add four spoonfuls of the potato mixture to the pan, pressing down on the heaped piles until they're almost flat. Once the cakes have crisped up and golden brown on one side gently flip to the other. This should take approximately 3 - 4 minutes each side. Repeat process with remaining mixture.
In a separate non-stick fry pan, add a little olive oil and fry bacon on a medium heat, once golden brown remove from pan and place on a plate lined with paper towels, this will soak up any excess oil. In the same pan fry your eggs on a medium heat until cooked to your liking.
Turn your oven on to grill at 200°C. In a small bowl mix together the softened butter and remaining minced clove of garlic. Cut rolls in half and spread the butter mixture over the 4 rolls. Grill rolls butter side up for a few minutes until just starting to golden, you want the rolls to remain soft.
Stack your rolls as you please, allowing two hash browns, 2 eggs and 2 rashers of bacon per stack. Season with salt and pepper and squeeze over HP sauce.
All of the frying can alternatively be done on a flat plate barbecue if feeding large groups.
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Ajay Ajmera, the man who changed the lives of 5000 underprivileged women!
Posted on January 13, 2022 Author dsprime Comment(0)
Surat (Gujarat) [India], January 13: There is a Chinese proverb, "Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime."
And the same proverb has been brought to life once again by a dynamic textile entrepreneur, the founder of Ajmera Fashion, Mr. Ajay Ajmera.
Ajay Ajmera, who has also been featured in Forbes Magazine, is a well-known face of the Indian textile industry, but his even greater feat is the revolution he has brought in the field of livelihood generation for women through entrepreneurship.
Mr. Ajmera, who himself had once faced the brunt of poverty, was determined to do something which would pull people, especially women, out of destitution.
He, along with his wife Mrs. Rachana Jain, brainstormed over many ideas and finally came up with a unique proposition that would later change the lives of thousands of needy women.
The idea was to promote women entrepreneurship by helping housewives belonging to the underprivileged sections of the society to do business.
Immediately a team was set up to identify and train the women from villages, small towns and even big cities who were eager to change their lives by doing business.
These women were taught how to start a saree business by saving and investing a little amount of money. They were educated about every aspect of the clothing business. The earning potential of the business was quite instrumental in convincing them to start this business.
And once the women were equipped with the know-how of doing Saree business, Ajmera Fashion provided them with quality saree stock at a subsidized rate.
The results were surprising, the women who were confined to the four walls proved that they could do anything if given the opportunity.
Ajay Ajmera was now convinced that this was an idea that could be scaled up. But again, the question was "how"?
And the answer was the ubiquitous Internet. Ajay Ajmera himself came forward and made scores of youtube videos to propagate this idea amongst the masses.
And as the French poet and novelist Victor Hugo has said, "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
The word spread fast, and within a few years, more than 5000 women from every nook and corner of India became a part of this movement.
Many such women are now the primary breadwinners of their family, and many who started the business from a small room now own a big saree showroom.
The powerful impact of this initiative was also recognised by the government. Ajay Ajmera's selfless efforts won him the prestigious "The Champions of Change Award 2020", which was conferred by Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari, the Governor of Maharashtra.
We congratulate and thank Mr. Ajay Ajmera for his noble work, and we are very optimistic that his continued efforts will be instrumental in changing the lives of lacs of Indian women. To know more details, please check it out https://youtube.com/c/AjmeraFashionSyntheticSareeManufacturer
1 Finance appoints Anand Nigam as Chief Technology Officer
Read Time:3 Minute, 15 Second Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 28: Mumbai-based 1 Finance announces the appointment of former National Stock Exchange (NSE) Vice President, Anand Nigam, as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Anand is responsible for setting the technical direction and technology roadmap for 1 Finance, thereby creating and executing a complete plan of action […]
2022 has been an amazing year for Shikhar Dhawan Foundation & For Dr. Kanika Dewan, India's most generous sports celebrity backed philanthropist
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Employee Spotlight: Miguel Gonzalez & His High-Fiving, Caramel Coffee-Loving Energy
by Campus Advantage | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog, Employee Spotlight
This month, we're pleased to highlight Miguel Gonzalez, a resident director at Prado Student Living, who joined the company seven months ago. In that short time, he's quickly become recognized for his high energy and magnetism. We had the opportunity to interview Miguel and learn more about the high-octane, personable approach he brings to Campus Advantage every day.
Describe your role at Campus Advantage.
I am currently a resident director (RD) with aspirations to continue to grow in my career to one day become a Leasing Manager or Assistant General Manager.
In a few words, describe what you/your team does for Campus Advantage.
We help run the office and bring people in. We're not just a property where people live, we are a community. We really work to invoke a community-minded atmosphere in the office, addressing people by their first name and making an effort to have personal conversations with people when they stop in. It really makes a difference for residents. As an RD, I'm always inviting our residents to events and addressing them by their first names. I take it upon myself to know everyone's name. There's a book I read called, "How to Win Friends and Influence People," and some of the advice it offers is about how small touches like addressing people by their first name, can make a big difference. Names are so important; it's part of being human, and people often light up when they hear their name.
What three words best describe you (inside or outside of work)?
Personable – People describe me as personable.
Genuine – I have a genuine approach to my interactions with people.
Honest – Honesty and transparency are so important and goes miles to winning people over and building trust.
If your life had a soundtrack, name one song that would be on it.
"The Good Life" – by T. Payne and Kanye West. I aim to live the good life – to be happy, to always try my best. My mom always taught me to strive to be my best, and that's really an important part of how I pursue my studies and how I'm generally moving forward into my senior year.
What are three words you think best describe our culture?
Personal, genuine and joyous. Our culture is genuine and approachable and that's just so important in the office.
What are you doing to ensure that residents have a great experience living at Prado?
Being a residence director, I like to engage in a variety of ways to put my best foot forward. I get to know and interact with residents by joining in games, eating with them and trying to add a personable approach whenever possible because I know it makes a difference in how people feel about their community, ultimately influencing their choice to continue to stay with us.
If you had to choose one company value that best represents you, what would it be and why?
MOJO (our secret sauce of fun, charm, and charisma) is my emphasis. I try to be charismatic to the best of my abilities and not take myself too seriously. I have a more relaxed approach to my job and try to keep in mind that I am in control of how I react to things.
Thinking of your most successful peers or teammates, what characteristics do they share?
My teammates have a great energetic approach. If you were to walk into our office, you'd see us high five each other. We're all united and working towards one goal. That synergy between all of us motivates me more than anyone individual. Our personalities click really well, and that kind of shared motivation is like whip cream on the coffee.
What motivates you to get up and come to work every day?
Coffee! I am excited to go to work after I have my coffee. Ten ounces gives me a little pep in my step. I'm cool with caramel but I don't limit myself to one flavor; I like to dabble. As an RD, I love that my days are never really monotonous or boring, and as a people person, I love that there are challenges I can help overcome.
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Today, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, announced a new collaboration with the Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA), as the partnership's newest deep dive city. The BEA is a public-private initiative that turns global expertise into action to accelerate local government implementation of building efficiency programs and policies.
With support from the BEA, the Ulaanbaatar City Environmental Department, ICLEI East Asia and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Ulaanbaatar has committed to creating an enabling market for energy performance contracting and other finance models for energy efficiency retrofit in residential buildings. The city launched this latest engagement with a kick-off workshop to highlight the city's commitment to energy efficiency, engage partners who are critical to implementing new programs, and develop a shared vision for future building efficiency policies.
Ulaanbaatar is the world's coldest capital city due to its altitude and northern climate. But despite an average annual temperature of -1.3°C, the city is Mongolia's largest, and it's still growing – quickly. In the last ten years, Ulaanbaatar's population has almost doubled to 1.4 million people. This shift reflects new urban opportunities as well as a change in lifestyle for many rural communities. Around 68,000 nomadic herders have moved to the city since 2001, marking a significant change in Mongolia's demographic makeup.
This rapid urbanization is physically straining the city and its resources, resulting in unsustainable energy practices and hazardous air pollution. The World Health Organization estimates air pollution is responsible for 4,000 deaths each year in Ulaanbaatar. As the city's primary energy source, burning coal accounts for 80 percent of this pollution. And due to its cold climate, the city requires a lot of heat energy.
To combat air quality and make residents healthier and more comfortable, the city is turning to building efficiency. With the support of the Building Efficiency Accelerator, Ulaanbaatar will play a major role in meeting Mongolia's goal of reducing emissions 15 percent by 2030 and reducing building heat loss 20 percent by 2020 and 40 percent by 2030.
Ulaanbaatar joined the BEA partnership in March 2017, and it is the fifth new city to be selected as a deep dive in the last year.
About the Building Efficiency Accelerator
The Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA) is a partnership of businesses, NGOs and multilaterals assisting local governments to take action to improve their buildings. The BEA is coordinated by WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities and includes more than three dozen partners, including WorldGBC and industry co-convener Johnson Controls. The BEA is supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G).
The BEA, part of the UN Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll) campaign, works with subnational governments and global and local private and civil society partners to implement policies and programs to improve buildings. In its first two years, the BEA reached 253 cities with its resources and obtained 47 commitments on building efficiency action from 32 cities in 17 countries. Learn more at buildingefficiencyaccelerator.org.
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Unprecedented It occurs to me that our current president has engaged in a rather large number of actions that are unprecedented by any other president, as well as some only rarely happening and not for a long time, many of which for nearly all other politicians would make them viewed as simply unacceptable for being a president. However, with him, there have been so many that people simply ignore most of them as being, "Oh well, there goes Trump again being himself." First of all, I do not have a full list of his norm-shattering precedents. In googling I saw an article that proclaimed he had violated 20 "presidential norms." But it was behind a firewall. And even though these may have been norms, it may be that other presidents violated at least some
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It occurs to me that our current president has engaged in a rather large number of actions that are unprecedented by any other president, as well as some only rarely happening and not for a long time, many of which for nearly all other politicians would make them viewed as simply unacceptable for being a president. However, with him, there have been so many that people simply ignore most of them as being, "Oh well, there goes Trump again being himself."
First of all, I do not have a full list of his norm-shattering precedents. In googling I saw an article that proclaimed he had violated 20 "presidential norms." But it was behind a firewall. And even though these may have been norms, it may be that other presidents violated at least some of them. Anyway, here goes a partial list.
The first president to be accused of violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution. Actually, there are two such clauses, the more famous one involving foreigners buying off a president, and then a domestic one as well. He has been accused of violating both of them on numerous occasions, although never formally convicted of any, with a couple of law cases in court, mostly involving just the Trump Hotel in Washington. But the list of likely violations is long and involves many properties and forms, with at least 22 foreign nations reputedly involved. The funny thing is that just because something is forbidden in the Constitution does not immediately make it specifically against the law. In any case, it remains that somehow no other president has even been accused of violating either of these clauses, but Trump is pretty clearly massively guilty of actually violating both of them blatantly and numerous times, with only the mildest outcry even from his critics.
He is the first president to have been legally charged with engaging in racial discrimination. This would have been in 1973 right after he began working for his father's real estate business. He was not found officially guilty but had an out of court settlement in which he was ordered to stop doing what he had been doing. As it was, the Justice Dept later accused him of doing exactly that, returning to his previous racially discriminatory practices, after which he seems to have more or less stopped. Of course there are past presidents with much worse race relations records than his, such as outright owning slaves as did most of the Founding Fathers from the South. But in those days what they did was legal, if immoral.
The first president to be sued for breach of contract. I do not have the exact number of times that he has been so sued, but it is a lot. As it is he has been involved in over 3500 lawsuits, although more often than not with him as the plaintiff. This is more than the combined lawsuits involving the top five construction businesses in New York City. Many presidents have been sued for a variety of things, such as defamation or policy actions they engaged in as president. Not a president, but Hillary Clinton has been sued about 900 times, mostly by people upset with policy actions by her, never for breach of contract, despite all her and Bill's Whitewater shenanigans. Somehow I would think that repeatedly violating something so basic as simply keeping one's word in a business contract would make one ineligible to be president, but I think many of his followers inaccurately think this is a sign of him being a "good businessman," a reason many people voted for him in 2016 reportedly.
The only president to go bankrupt more than once, in his case six times, another matter suggesting he has not been as good a businessman as many think he has been. Four other presidents have gone bankrupt, each of them once and in all cases due to cosigning for loans where the person they cosigned with engaged in conduct that led to the financial problems that dragged the president into having to declare bankruptcy. Those four included some distinguished ones: Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, and William McKinley. Of course, Jefferson was a profligate spender and poor money manager, dying deep in debt. Lincoln's wife, Mary, was a notorious overspender. Grant generally had a poor experience in his business affairs, with his bankruptcy occurring after he left office, with some attributing his drinking to his poor business judgment.
The only president to suggest that those who died in military service for the US were "losers" and "suckers," apparently the last straw that led John McCain's wife, Cindy, to support Biden for president.
The only president to publicly lie in office more than 1000 times. The latest count for him now exceeds 23,000 times, and this is in a bit less than one term. Actually, I could not find an exact count for any other president basically because they did it so infrequently nobody seems to have kept count, so it is possible I am wrong on this. But certainly, nobody came remotely close to him in his lying rate. Digging around it seems that his closest rivals were actually a predecessor-successor pair: LBJ and Nixon. LBJ notoriously repeatedly lied about the Vietnam War, a very serious matter, with the Gulf of Tonkin incident at the top of the list. Of course, Nixon repeatedly lied about Watergate. Almost certainly every president lied while in office, with the lies ranging from serious to strategic (FDR in WW II) to political to sexual (Bill Clinton) to careless unawareness of facts (Reagan) to just frivolous. In digging into this I found an article excoriating Obama for supposedly lying 37 times about details of the ACA, with the article, written by a critic while he was in office, suggesting that this would ruin the entire rest of his presidency and nearly rose to the level of impeachability. Oh, how we have moved on.
Which brings us to refusing to concede defeat when an election was called against him by leading observers. We need to be clear here that a number of elections were not called for a long time and involved difficult and even extra-constitutional machinations, including 1800, 1824, 1876, and 2000. But in all those cases once the unusual delays ended in determining the winner, the loser conceded forthwith without further efforts to undo the outcome. As of almost a week ago Trump did finally allow the GSA to allow transition activities to begin, but only because he could still contest the election outcome, which he continues to do, with I gather a majority of his backers still supporting his efforts, even as nearly all his lawsuits have failed and enough states have formally certified their results to guarantee that indeed Biden will have more than 270 electoral college votes.
This leads us to the last item, not completely unprecedented and not yet done by him, but not done since 1869, and on twice before then, in 1801 and 1825 in connection with two of those dragged out contested elections, with this one a pretty clearly solid win for Biden. It would be if he refuses to attend and participate in the inaugural of his successor. Even Herbert Hoover did so in 1933 for FDR in what many have identified as the last really hostile and difficult transition, although Hoover did not contest the landslide outcome against him. Trump may yet change his mind, but current reports have him considering not only not attending but holding a rival event at the same time, a rally in which he would declare his candidacy for 2014, and if he does that, it would be another unprecedented action. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and the also impeached Andrew Johnson did not do anything like that when they did not attend the inauguration of their respective successors. And if somehow Trump does, expect his fervent followers to be all impressed rather than duly shocked.
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I remember how loud it was. I was a young Economics undergraduate, and most professors didn't really slam points home the way Dr. Rosser did. He would bang on the table and throw things around the classroom. Not for the faint of heart, but he definitely kept my attention and made me smile. It is hard to not smile around J. Barkley Rosser, especially when he gets going on economic theory. The passion comes through and encourages you to come along with it in a truly contagious way. After meeting him, it is as if you can just tell that anybody who knows that much and has that much to say deserves your attention.
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