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13 Charts: High Yield Today
This post was written for CFA Institute and coauthored with Marty Fridson, who is one of the most perceptive analysts I have ever met. It was first published on the Enterprising Investor.
The standard joke about high-yield bonds is that they're not high yield any longer.
People started to tell that joke when the high-yield index fell below 10%. They've continued revising it as the index has moved steadily downward to its present 6%.
So let's replace it with a much better joke: A bond manager has to appear in traffic court for a moving violation. The judge asks, "Don't you know what 'yield' means?" The bond manager replies, "It's been so long since there's been any, I've forgotten."
The judge begins to lecture him: "It's every citizen's duty in our society to understand the laws and obey them. It's a sacred covenant." The bond manager interjects, "I didn't understand that last part."
This joke evoked a chuckle from the audience at CFA Society New York's 28th Annual High Yield Bond Conference. Martin Fridson, CFA, has been organizing and moderating the event for its entire history, starting back "when government bonds were yielding 9% and a respectable high yield credit could be found yielding around 14%." Attendees have come to expect a mix of quirky humor, tactical insight, and portfolio management wisdom.
Enterprising Investor and CFA Society New York hope to transmit healthy doses of each through this experimental format.
What follows are 13 charts interspersed with related commentary from panelists throughout the event. To be clear: These quotes are from 13 and 14 June 2018 at the CFA Society of New York. In most cases, the charts and commentary were offered at different times. Participants' remarks have been edited for clarity, and many rich veins of discussion could not be included due to length considerations.
CFA Society New York has made videos and copies of the presentations available, but the best way not to miss out next year is to attend in person. CFA Society New York puts on many insightful programs and offers many opportunities to get involved.
"The ability of companies to access the market [since the crisis] led to a large spike in B issuers. There are also a lot more rated issuers in total than 2009." — Robert Schulz, CFA, managing director, corporate ratings, S&P Global Ratings
"The investment grade market has grown 40% over the last four years. The HY market has shrunk since 2015, and its overall credit quality has improved." — Riz Hussain, director, US high-yield credit strategy, Barclays Capital
"Usually, things are never at the average. When defaults start spiking, they spike to double digits. A 'non-recessionary' average default rate for bonds is 2.3%. We don't see anything at Fitch that leads us to believe the cycle is going to turn into a spike over the next year." (Editor: Fitch's work put the high-yield default rate at 1.8% in 2017.) — Sharon Bonelli, managing director, Fitch Ratings
"There's no question [default rates] are very low. People talk about this as 'We're in the 13th inning of a credit cycle.'" — George Varughese, managing director, Alvarez & Marsal
"Our view is that money will be shifting from US to a more global situation over the next few years. Right now we're getting to the unusual position where you don't have a pickup from local EM into high yield. There's an embedded view on the dollar, but that opportunity to swap into EM is a pretty compelling one from a total return standpoint." — Henry Peabody, CFA, vice president, multi-sector portfolio manager, Eaton Vance Management
"Almost one third of the market was expected to default during the credit crisis because of their near-term maturities. Most companies now want to extend their runways. [They] are going out five, six, seven years. When rates start rising, you wind up getting more tenders. High-yield companies withstand rising rates better than expected because of that." — Anne Yobage, CFA, director/co-founder, SKY Harbor Capital Management
"If you think about the financing cycle we've had this last few years, high-yield companies have built this incredible runway which means it will take some time for issuers to pay higher coupons. . . . I think the loan index coupon actually fell by 40 basis points this year. . . . [Rising interest rates] will certainly affect lower-quality issuers the most because they have more floating rate notes." — Martha Metcalf, CFA, senior portfolio manager, Schroders Investment Management
"The shift we've seen over the past year to the Fed not giving you a get-out-of-jail-free card, the ECB not backing down as Italy gets volatility. We're more nervous about rates than others. We don't see a 10-year Treasury north of 5% as crazy, and people are asking if there's value in the front end, if a 2.5% two year is sucking attention away from other credits." — Henry Peabody, CFA
"If rates are going up because earnings are going up, most of the market will be just fine. From a total return basis, it gets back to bonds and what's investable. High yield has a strong record of outperformance when interest rates are rising. Over the past 20 years, there have been 16 50 basis point hike cycles." — Kevin Lorenz, CFA, managing director/portfolio manager, TIAA
"This late in the cycle, you're really down to the relative value argument. The opportunistic buyer has definitely stepped back. Fundamentals are supportive, technicals are in balance, but valuations are stretched here." — Martha Metcalf, CFA
What does a flattening yield curve mean? "The strongest relationship is between 2s10s and the 3yr forward default rate. So the oft-forecast crisis via rates is likely to happen in 2021." — Riz Hussain
"Right now, we have to defend the asset category. We're at historical tights, so a lot of clients think there's nowhere good to go from here." — Anne Yobage, CFA
"We like the B part of the market probably the most. Five to 6%, two- to five-year maturity is our sweet spot." — Anne Yobage, CFA
"We're more focused on B and CCC, but partially offset with investment-grade exposures, because we found that we could find large-cap BBB entities with higher yields than BB. Subordinated paper from [for instance] JP Morgan has more liquidity, plus a [yield] pickup. And in contrast to what we've said about high yield, supply in investment grade has been quite good this year." — Martha Metcalf, CFA
"You don't get paid two or three times the Treasury base rate for absolute certainty." — Wayne Plewniak, managing director/portfolio manager, Gabelli & Company.
"It used to be that credit had a very tight correlation with rates." — Sam Derosa-Farag, market strategist
"We're quite positive on the credit cycle. We think it still has long legs here. We are very comfortable moving down in credit quality for that reason: We think we've experienced much of the major headwinds already in the high-yield market. We are looking for a 5% year for both full duration and short duration products." — Anne Yobage, CFA
"We are constructive on high yield overall. From a strategic vantage point, spreads are top-decile narrow, top 30% over the last 20 years. Put those two together and look at it by credit rating. If you back out credit-risk premia, historically BB has provided very strong risk-adjusted returns. We think they will continue to do so." — Kevin Lorenz, CFA
"It's hard to be enthusiastic about valuations. Leverage is extended, even though backward-looking interest coverage is solid. Technicals have been very strong. We do get the sense, at least in the near term, that foreign participation is backing away." — Henry Peabody, CFA
"Maybe equity valuations are too high, and if they are, that's going to be felt across all asset classes." — Kevin Lorenz, CFA
"The average high-yield new issue is worse than average because companies come to market opportunistically." — Martin Fridson, CFA, chief investment officer, Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors
"You should be willing to move between acting as an owner and acting as a creditor if you are buying these assets." — George Varughese
"We cut our forecast for new issue supply by $40B, which puts it as low as it was in 2009–10." — Riz Hussain
"We tend to think there's a pretty good correlation between volatility spikes and slowdowns in the new issuance calendar." — Jarrod Kaplan, director, Credit Agricole Securities CIB
"Seventy percent or so of high-yield proceeds has been used for refinancing . . . that's the highest since 2007." — Riz Hussain
"We have the luxury of avoiding the new issue market . . . . Generally what's new issue today is what you want to buy in one or two years. Bankers aren't in the business of enriching investors, they work for their clients." — Henry Peabody, CFA
"Seventy-seven percent of the floating-rate loan market is considered 'covenant lite.' Leverage through the first lien part of the capital structure is about as high as it's ever been. Relative to high yield, there are some concerns about credit quality. We've seen a 20% increase in capital structures that are loan only, and 58% of loan issuers are loans only. That means a majority of loan issuers today don't have bonds below them." — Riz Hussain
"When [abuses of covenants] happen, the company is simply doing what the documents allow them to do. And shame on us, shame on the investment community, for letting that happen." — George Varughese
"The recovery experience will be much different than it's been historically." — Martha Metcalf, CFA
"Back in the mid 2000s, the structures got very esoteric. Each deal was unique. It still worked out in the end. Contrast that to today, where every deal is pretty much boilerplate. But the point that keeps getting made is that cov-lite is going to hurt." — Kevin Lorenz, CFA
"You have to really trust that management teams have your interests at heart . . . " — Anne Yobage, CFA
"And they don't." — Kevin Lorenz, CFA
"We invest across bonds and loans. In our mutual fund, loan exposure has ranged from 0 to 20%, and today it's at 7%. Everything we buy is based on bottom-up credit views. The problem we've had in the loan market is one of repricing. It is just getting too rich for us." — Kevin Lorenz, CFA
"You're seeing the most late-cycle behavior in the loan market. It won't be a catalyst for defaults but it will affect the recovery experience . . . . I heard a CLO manager say that covenants don't pay coupon, cash flow does." — Martha Metcalf, CFA
"Now is an excellent time to be in active management . . . you need to treat the market with caution and go in with a deep fundamental view." — Henry Peabody, CFA
"Dispersion is sitting at the lows. Positioning suggests caution. Dealer inventories are basically flat. High-yield CDX positioning is basically flat. Mutual fund manager performance this year is really narrowly distributed." — Riz Hussain
"We've seen deals in 2018 with a seven-plus year maturity, though still no longer than eight. For instance: Iron Mountain, Vista Energy, Telenet. There's a continued loosening of terms. The market is getting more aggressive. The depth of the second lien loan market is increasing with large 'bond-size' placements readily achievable. Two to $5 billion enterprise value LBOs, where you would tend to need a junior piece to be a high-yield bond, [can now be funded with] first and second lien loans." — Jarrod Kaplan
"HYG and JNK have much higher flow volatility than what the price volatility would suggest. Managers have increasingly been using ETFs to take tactical views, but also to manage liquidity overall. That means you can't look at ETF flows as additive to mutual fund flows." — Riz Hussain
"ETFs are 3.4% of the US HY market. All 45 high-yield ETFs trade 15.7% of 3m average daily volume in total market. The largest premium/discount to underlying was ~.3%/-~.4% on the five most stressed days." — Bradley Kotler, vice president, SPDR Fixed Income Group, State Street Global Advisors
"We see ETFs as enhancing the liquidity process. As a seller, you're getting the greater of the liquidity in the underlying or the ETF." — Sal Bruno, chief investment officer, IndexIQ
"On Columbus Day, there was $1 billion in volume for JNK even though the bond market wasn't open." — Bradley Kotler
"We are very underweight retail. We like the telecom space a lot. Basic industries and housing are very strong areas too." — Anne Yobage, CFA
"Retail bankruptcies, most of the time, end up in liquidations. Most of the lending to a retail company is typically done on an asset-based basis on inventory and receivables. Because of Amazon and many other things, brick-and-mortar business models are under attack. So when a bankruptcy happens, a secured lender is best able to get a recovery by liquidating the receivables and inventory instead of assuming the business risk. Most of the time the secured creditor wins because they have a lien to the assets. Not true in all cases: Many retail companies have emerged from bankruptcy and continued to be companies afterward." — George Varughese
Retail is "the most active in terms of defaults these days, the total 12-month default rate for retail is about 9% on the high-yield side." — Sharon Bonelli
"Individual sectors have been strained, but it hasn't spilled over to the broader market." — George Varughese
"I don't believe we've taken many ratings actions based on tax reform." — Robert Schulz, CFA
"About 40% of public high-yield issuers have interest coverage below 3.3x. Tax reform means that interest above 30% of EBITDA is no longer deductible. So, some portion of their interest bill will no longer be deductible. But there will be an offsetting effect in the form of a lower tax rate, which means their tax expense will also fall." — Riz Hussain
"The most mentioned use of tax saving proceeds [on company earnings calls] was M&A/asset purchases." — Riz Hussain
"There has never been a three-year period where the high-yield market has exceeded its beginning carry. Previously, when we had sub-carry years, CCC meaningfully underperformed while BB outperformed. This year, that's inverted and CCC has outperformed." — Riz Hussain
"CCC also offers a nice premium but is the most volatile and most subject to volatility, so we are less excited about CCC given the run." — Kevin Lorenz, CFA
"We want to like the CCC space but you really have to look at the companies there. We find CCC attractive as a ratings category, but don't like the names." — Anne Yobage, CFA
"From 1984 to 1999, CCC bonds were badly behaving citizens. Lots of institutional investors wanted indices that excluded CCC." — Sam Derosa-Farag
"Energy rising stars (Editor's note: that's the opposite of a fallen angel) are particularly strong. They were 60% of rising star volume in 2017." — Riz Hussain
"If a company goes bust, the short-term bond and the long-term bond are both going to default. Maturity does not affect recovery in a bankruptcy. So at the extreme, people will trade a short-term bond and a long-term bond at the same dollar price." — Martin Fridson, CFA
But in other circumstances: "do you get a bigger risk premium relative to treasurys in the short or the long end of the high yield market?" — Martin Fridson, CFA
The first two studies came to opposite conclusions:
Jerome Fons found wider spreads in short term bonds and narrower spreads in the longer end of the curve. (Financial Analysts Journal, 1994)
Helwege and Turner looked just at pairs of the same issuer (pari passu) issues of the same name and found that, pretty consistently, spread on shorter-dated maturity of same deal was wider (Journal of Finance, 1999).
"Our study (forthcoming in the Journal of Fixed Income) concludes that it's not correct to say either that it's always negative or always positive. We can reject the idea that negatively sloped curves are an illusion based on difference in credit quality among maturity baskets." — Martin Fridson, CFA
"Positive spread curves indicate low concern about default risk, and are most frequent in the BB sector." — Martin Fridson, CFA
"There's been a transfer from high-yield bonds, which used to be the currency to finance LBOs, to leveraged loans. Clearly it could be better, but for a sponsor to put in 40% in equity is a reasonable cushion." — George Varughese
"LBOs involve large-scale borrowing to fund the acquisition of the target company, with the stated intention of bringing debt down to manageable levels by the time the next recession hits. We never know when the next recession will arrive, but with each month that elapses since the last recession, we know with certainty that we're one month closer to the next one. Logically, therefore, the multiples of debt piled on an LBO should decrease as we get closer to the next recession and there is consequently less time to bring leverage down. What we actually observe, however, is that multiples increase as the economy gets closer to the next recession. This cannot be wise corporate financial policy." — Martin Fridson, CFA
"Are we late cycle? I'd put it in perspective to the three cycles the modern HY market has experienced. I've been a part of each of them. Each correction is cleaning up the excesses of a market cycle. Each time, that's been LBOs. In 2007, the standard deal almost overnight became 10x leveraged. We're not at that level yet. The Journal had an article this morning that the average deal was 6x EBITDA . . . that must be adjusted EBITDA. It's more like 8x or 9x, and then they tell you why it's really 6x." — Kevin Lorenz, CFA
"Two to 5b enterprise value LBOs, where you would tend to need a junior piece be a high-yield bond, are getting funded with first and second lien loans. The depth of the second lien loan market is increasing with large 'bond-size' placements readily achievable." — Jarrod Kaplan
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Brad McQuaid Tells His Side of the Story
By Andy Chalk Legacy Author May 17, 2007
Brad McQuaid, co-founder and former CEO of Sigil Games Online, has spoken out in an interview on f13.net, covering topics ranging from Sigil's relationship with Microsoft to his absence from the parking lot announcement of Sigil's demise.
Central to the interview is McQuaid's assertion that the breakdown of the Sigil-Microsoft partnership – the first public indication that not all was well with the company – was due to problems at Microsoft, not Sigil, brought about primarily by management shakeups due to Microsoft's new focus on the Xbox 360. "The lower level people were put in charge of our project were people who didn't have any MMO experience," he said. "They had done Zoo Tycoon 1 and 2. We tried very hard to bring them up to speed and with open arms to show them the differences and similarities between developing an MMO and a single-player game – the scale and things like that. That just didn't seem to work."
As time passed, Microsoft also became more demanding with their expectations, according to McQuaid. "They wanted detailed schedules going out for months that were fairly inflexible," he said. "The more artistic a project is, the less schedulable it is down to the long term."
Eventually, requests for more time and money began to fall on deaf ears. While early in the development process, Microsoft was "totally cool" with Sigil's requests for budget increases, the growing focus on the Xbox 360, coupled with the inexperience of the Zoo Tycoon management team overseeing the Vanguard development, led to a situation in which Microsoft became increasingly critical of Sigil's practices, as well as more heavy-handed in their oversight. "More and more Microsoft people would come down to try to analyze what was going on," he said, "where we were 'messing up.' What they could do to 'help us.' Until finally they flat-out said no." At this point, according to McQuaid, Microsoft cut off funding completely, and demanded a firm release date of July 2006.
Sigil's inability (or refusal) to meet this release target ultimately led to their split from Microsoft, which according to reports heralded McQuaid's increasing absences from the office. Rumors flew fast and furious, but McQuaid claims it was simply a matter of necessary marketing, and one he wasn't especially fond of. "The executive producer side of things is more fun than the CEO business side of things," he said. "But it had to be done, right? So it was a bummer leaving a lot of that behind and it simply had to be done."
The interview covers a wide range of other topics, from charges of nepotism within the company to the influence of McQuaid's religious beliefs on his game designs, and why a fairly unknown employee like Andy Platter, rather than McQuaid himself, dropped the hammer on the Sigil staff. Near the end of the interview, he states that as CEO of the company, he takes full responsibility for its demise; a touch ironic, given that he spends the bulk of the interview up to that point laying responsibility elsewhere.
Brad McQuaid's side of the story can be read in its entirety here.
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La grotte des Cottés ou grotte des Cottets est située à Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé, dans le département français de la Vienne, en Poitou-Charentes, région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Elle a la particularité de présenter une séquence archéologique continue depuis la fin du Paléolithique moyen jusqu'au début du Paléolithique supérieur, incluant ainsi le Moustérien, le Châtelperronien et les premières phases de l'Aurignacien. Louis Pradel l'a établie comme gisement éponyme du Châtelperronien évolué, sur la base de la « pointe des Cottés », une pointe de Châtelperron élancée. Si ce Châtelperronien évolué constitue bien une phase finale du Châtelperronien, il pourrait être l'un des rares témoignages du comportement des tout derniers Néandertaliens de la façade ouest de l'Europe.

Situation
Le site se trouve dans la vallée de la Gartempe, à environ  au nord de Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé et à moins de  au sud du château des Cottets. Il est desservi par la D11.

Toponymie
La carte de Cassini du  nomme le hameau  « Petit Coté » (avec un autre lieu appelé « le Coté », situé d'après la carte de Cassini au nord-ouest du premier mais qui, selon les cartes plus récentes, se trouve au nord, au sommet de l'escarpement formé par les coteaux de la vallée de la Gartempe, et fait face à cette vallée autant qu'à celle de son affluent au nord appelé la Carte  ; ce deuxième hameau s'appelle de nos jours « les Vieux Cottets »).

Sur la carte d'état-major du  (1820-1866), il porte le nom de « les Cotets ».

La carte IGN actuelle donne le nom « les Cottets ». Cependant l'ensemble de la littérature archéologique ancienne et actuelle utilise le nom « les Cottés ».

Fouilles
En 1880, R. de La Rochebrune fouille la grotte ; il y trouve deux niveaux d'occupation : Moustérien et Aurignacien. L'abbé Henri Breuil donne un compte-rendu de ces fouilles en 1906.

Louis Pradel la fouille à partir de 1951, et F. Lévêque entre 1972 et 1984.

En 2006, Marie Soressi entreprend de nouvelles fouilles.

Vestiges humains
En 1881, les couches récentes livrent un squelette d'Homme moderne, en position fœtale. Perdu à la fin des années 1960, Marie Soressi retrouve ce squelette dans les années 2000.

Stratigraphie
En 2008, Soressi et al. déterminent les couches suivantes :
 couche 8 : Moustérien
 couche 6 : Châtelperronien
 couches 4 et 2 : phases anciennes de l'Aurignacien. La couche 4 peut être divisée en deux sous-couches. Certaines parties des couches de l'Aurignacien ancien (couches 2 à 4) sont enrobées de matrice sédimentaire rouge, couleur que Soressi attribue à de l'ocre.

Les couches 6 à 8 témoignent d'une occupation du site partagée entre hommes et carnivores. Entre la couche 6 et la couche 4 se trouve une mince couche archéologiquement stérile.

Archéologie

Les couches moustériennes et châtelperroniennes (donc néandertaliennes) sont séparées du proto-aurignacien (associé à Homo sapiens) par une période d'environ  (correspondant à la mince couche stérile mentionnée plus haut). Mais l'industrie lithique montre une contemporanéité du Châtelperronien et de l'Aurignacien.

Par ailleurs, le proto-Aurignacien et les débuts de l'Aurignacien proprement dit semblent contemporains, ce qui indique une transition rapide de l'un à l'autre dans cette région. Les hommes modernes occupent la grotte des Cottés vers  ans AP, une période qui coïncide à peu près avec le début de la phase froide de l'évènement de Heinrich 4.

Industrie lithique

« Pointe des Cottés »
La « pointe des Cottés » a été définie à partir d'une série de 33 exemplaires qui, d'après Pradel, représentent « l'élément essentiel d'un niveau périgordien » à l'industrie plus avancée que le Châtelperronien et moins avancée que le Gravettien. Ce niveau périgordien a été trouvé sous une couche stérile mince, identifiée en 1959 par Pradel comme un niveau archaïque du Gravettien. Cette couche stérile est suivie par un horizon de l'Aurignacien I ; Pradel note que cet horizon aurignacien semble « attardé ».

Soressi définit la pointe des Cottés comme une « pointe de Châtelperron élancée ». Pradel la décrit comme un outil lithique à bords abattus, plus effilé, plus étroit, plus mince et en somme plus leptolithique que ceux de Châtelperron (grotte des Fées) et moins que ceux de la Gravette (sur Bayac en Dordogne)

Origine des matériaux lithiques
Les fouilles Soressi montrent qu'au fil du temps les usagers de la grotte s'approvisionnent en matériaux lithiques à des sources de plus en plus éloignées du site. L'outillage lithique témoigne de voyages jusqu'au Grand Pressigny (25 km au nord), et dans la vallée du Cher au nord-est (~).

Parures
De 2006 à 2008, les fouilles Soressi trouvent dans les déblais des fouilles précédentes une dizaine d'objets de parure, dont une canine de renard percée, une parure d'anneaux en os et des perles. En 2008, la fin de l'Aurignacien ancien livre une perle en ivoire.

Animaux et climat
La proportion de vestiges de renne (animal de climat froid) sur l'ensemble des restes d'animaux, croît au fil des temps, ce qui indique une baisse notable de la température entre le Moustérien et le plus récent niveau de l'Aurignacien.

Interstade des Cottés
L'interstade des Cottés est souvent cité dans la littérature spécialisée. C'est un interstade (période de radoucissement relatif) de la glaciation de Würm, appartenant à l'interpléniglaciaire du Würm III (ou SIO 3), de . Arlette Leroi-Gourhan (1983), pionnière de la paléopalynologie, propose de l'arrêter à , Momplaisir (2003) le fait commencer à . Il a porté ou porte encore d'autres noms : « Göttweig » (Bayer 1927, Momplaisir 2003), « Hollabrunn » (Götzinger 1938), « Oberfellabrunn » (Brandiner 1954), « Stillfried A » (Fink 1954), « Mittelwürminterstadial » (Woldstedt 1956). Il recouvre une partie du Châtelperronien.

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Notes et références

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Références

Grotte dans la Vienne
Site préhistorique dans la Vienne
Site paléolithique en France
Moustérien
Châtelperronien
Aurignacien

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Those living within Birmingham and the surrounding areas are able to join a well-established support group who meet regularly to discuss ideas on how best to cope with tinnitus. As well as the drop in sessions which take place at a local venue, we also provide confidential telephone support by key members of the group, which gives people another avenue for confidential, mutual support.


One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew, they were staging an elaborate ruse, acting as if they were humble servants. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception, he responded with explosive violence.
Drawing on research on four continents, The Empire of Necessity explores the multiple forces that culminated in this extraordinary event—an event that already inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Benito Cereno. Now historian Greg Grandin, with the gripping storytelling that was praised in Fordlandia, uses the dramatic happenings of that day to map a new transnational history of slavery in the Americas, capturing the clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800s.
Greg Grandin is the author of Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A Professor of History at New York University, Grandin has published a number of other widely-acclaimed books, including Empire's Workshop, Kissinger's Shadow, and The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft Prize.
"Elegant . . . a wonder of power, precision and sheer reading pleasure . . . Grandin takes readers on a tour of the hell of the slave trade, a tour so revelatory and compelling, we readers, unlike Captain Delano, can't fail to see the truth before our eyes." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "Fresh Air"


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Air Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Time Slot: 9:00 PM-10:00 PM EST on TNT
Episode Title: (#404) "Tank"
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"Tank"
Tuesday, June 18, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT)
The Cody boys are thrown by Smurf's (Ellen Barkin) increasingly unnerving behavior as she shows up in unexpected places. J (Finn Cole) realizes he needs to set his own plans in motion if he wants to lead the family. Deran (Jake Weary) gets disturbing news from an old friend; and Pope (Shawn Hatosy) struggles to resist the advances of Angela (Emily Deschanel).
Directed by Megan Griffiths
Written by Addison McQuigg
Based on the Australian motion picture Animal Kingdom written by David Mich�d
Developed for television by Jonathan Lisco
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(from TNT's press release, July 2019) TNT, a division of WarnerMedia Entertainment, has renewed its powerhouse drama Animal Kingdom for a fifth season. The popular series continues to grow its fanbase, reaching nearly 18 million viewers this season so far across all platforms, defying industry trends where the typical returning series is down double digits. Season four of Animal Kingdom premiered on par with the season three average and the series is one of this year's top 10 cable dramas (P18-49, L+7). Animal Kingdom season four stars Emmy(R) and Tony(R) winner Ellen Barkin as the matriarch of the Cody crime family along with Shawn Hatosy, Ben Robson, Jake Weary, Finn Cole and Sohvi Rodriguez. Emily Deschanel also joins the cast this season in a recurring role. This season, Smurf (Barkin) is back on top reminding her boys who's boss no matter whom she hurts. Trapped with Smurf and becoming increasingly unhinged, Pope (Hatosy) has found new and dangerous ways to deal with his anger. J (Cole) continues to scheme about how to take over the family business, Craig (Robson) plots one of their most difficult heists and Deran (Weary) is worried about his future with Adrian (Spencer Treat Clark). Outsiders move in to threaten the Cody's fragile peace, including Angela (Deschanel), the former best friend of J's deceased mother and a recovering junkie, who tries to snake her way back into the family's good graces. And for the first time audiences meet a young Smurf (Leila George) and the original crew that started it all.
· Ben Robson as Craig
· Daniella Alonso as Catherine
· Ellen Barkin as Janine "Smurf" Cody
· Finn Cole as Joshua "J" Cody
· Jake Weary as Deran Cody
· Molly Gordon as Nicky
· Scott Speedman as Barry "Baz" Brown
· Shawn Hatosy as Pope
· Andrew Stearn as EP
· David Michod as EP
· John Wells as EP/DIR (Pilot)
· Jonathan Lisco as CRTR/EP
· Liz Watts as EP
· drama
· John Wells Productions
· Warner Horizon Television


In this episode, I discuss the latest game from Overworld Games, "Legends of Euphoria" with its creators, Brian Henk and Clayton Skancke. We discuss licensing a game IP, working with Stonemaier Games, and some game development legal issues. Don't miss it!


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Glencore has today been informed by the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) that it has opened a criminal investigation into Glencore International AG for failure to have the organizational measures in place to prevent alleged corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo currently under investigation by the OAG.
Glencore will cooperate with the investigation by the OAG.
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With a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, Glencore's industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 30 marketing offices.
Glencore's customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities. Glencore's companies employ around 160,000 people, including contractors.
Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
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When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation, till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refuses to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature - a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into a compliance with his measures.
He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of land.
He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws establishing judiciary powers.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers, to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and bretheren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, in unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind - enemies in war; in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in general congress assembled, appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemmly publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do al other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.


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Coleman Lew Starts CEO Search for McColl Center for Art + Innovation
April 24, 2017 – Executive search firm Coleman Lew + Associates has been retained by the McColl Center for Art + Innovation to lead its search for a new president and chief executive officer. Reporting to the board of directors, the incoming CEO will have full responsibility for all facets of the organization and its mission, including fundraising, operations, and board and stakeholder engagement.
The chosen leader will likely exhibit the track record of a highly-organized change agent who is adept at leading human resources, budgeting, financial planning, and operations within an organization. The incoming chief will have the ability to build partnerships in new markets, establish relationships with funders, political and community leaders in several areas of expansion as well as internally with staff, committees, volunteers, and the board.
McColl Center for Art + Innovation, established in 1997 and opened to the public since 1999, is dedicated to promoting art locally and supporting artists regionally, nationally, and internationally. Its mission is to empower artists, advance communities, and impact lives through the creative process by providing a place for research and development as professionals.
From offices in Charlotte, NC, Coleman Lew + Associates recruits senior executives and board members globally. Since its founding in 1979, the firm has led searches for a wide range of public, private, and international companies, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and government agencies.
Currently, it is leading searches for a variety of clients, including Lenoir-Rhyne University; the Hamilton County Department of Education; the Urban League of Central Carolinas; and the North Carolina Constitution, among others.
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Executive search firm AlbertHall&Associates has placed Hillary Hart as executive director of the Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) in Houston. The placement concludes an extensive 10-month national search.
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Executive search firm Howe-Lewis International has been chosen by Friends of the High Line and the Sundance Institute to lead their searches for chief advancement officers (CAO). Howe-Lewis serves the not-for-profit and healthcare sectors.
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Korn Ferry has recruited Michael Murphy as president of Shea's Performing Arts Center. Mr. Murphy replaces longtime Shea's president Anthony Conte, who has decided to step down from the post.
DHR Lands New CEO for New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Executive search firm DHR International has recruited Gabriel van Aalst as president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO). James Abruzzo, managing partner of DHR's global non-profit practice, led the search.
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Isaacson, Miller placed Paul Hogle as the new president of the Cleveland Institute of Music. VP Sheryl Ash and principal Rebecca Swartz led the search with associate Randi Alberry.
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With increasing frequency, arbitration agreements are becoming standard components of nursing home admission paperwork. Unfortunately, the average person isn't very familiar with the arbitration process. Consequently, arbitration agreements are often presented to residents and their families in such a way that it makes it difficult for them to make an informed decision. To help you determine the best course of action for your family, consider the following information about arbitration.
The most important thing to know about arbitration agreements is that when you agree to submit all disputes to binding arbitration, you waive your right to a jury trial. The implications of waiving a jury trial are vast. There is a reason that the jury is the hallmark of the American justice system. Legal experts agree that the jury is the fairest way to resolve criminal and civil cases. Juries protect litigants from potential bias and ensure objectivity. Arbitration, though, does not provide the same protections that a jury trial does.
In arbitration, the parties are not afforded the opportunity to be heard by a jury of their peers; rather, they are subject to the opinions and beliefs of the paid individual or individuals chosen to arbitrate their case. Unfortunately, arbitrators have not always proven to be as disinterested and impartial as justice would require. There are several instances where arbitrators were found to be biased, interested in the outcome, and even corrupt. Deciding to forego a jury trial and agreeing to send your case to arbitration is not a decision that should be made casually. Take the time to really consider what you would be giving up.
Arbitration is final and binding. This means that you cannot have the arbitrator's decision appealed. In a jury trial, however, if errors were made, you can typically always appeal to have the decision overturned. This is one of the most significant disadvantages of arbitration.
Discovery is the process through which a party to a lawsuit obtains the information that he or she will use at trial to prove his or her case. Some of the tools utilized during the discovery process include: interrogatories, document requests, and depositions. Discovery is especially important for plaintiffs, as the plaintiff is the party who bears the burden of proof. In a normal case set to be heard by a jury, the discovery process is long, and allows the parties to fully investigate the information known by the other. In arbitration, though, the process is much more limited. Parties are often restricted to one or two depositions each and lack the power to make witnesses show up. This truncated discovery process can be extremely detrimental to a plaintiff's case at arbitration.
While typically touted as a cheaper alternative to trial, in reality, arbitration can easily wind up costing more. Taking into consideration the initial filing fee, along with the separate costs to have the arbitrator rule on a motion or attend a conference, the total fee can end up costing thousands more than litigation. It's important to know the financial breakdown and the allocation of costs before signing an arbitration agreement.
Arbitration awards tend to be lower than verdicts awarded by juries. This is partially due to the fact that punitive damages are rarely awarded in arbitration, and partially because arbitration agreements frequently contain clauses that cap damages at a certain value.
Arbitration is an unfamiliar process for most people, which is a disadvantage in and of itself. Navigating unfamiliar waters takes time, and considering the shortened discovery process in arbitration, time is of the essence.
Approach the decision to sign an arbitration agreement deliberately. Take the time to weigh all of the pros and cons before you sign away any of your rights. If you need help deciding how to proceed with your nursing home abuse or neglect claim, contact a Tennessee nursing home abuse attorney today. The experienced lawyers at The Higgins Firm are here to assist you.


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Q: flatMap Not returning onCompleted I have created below function with chaining of multiple observables however whatever I do it does not seem to call completed ? it only return the following:
(facebookSignInAndFetchData()) -> subscribed
(facebookSignInAndFetchData()) -> Event next(())

even though when I debug the observables individually they all return completed
here is my chaining function
func facebookSignInAndFetchData() {

    observerFacebook.flatMap { (provider: FacebookProvider) in
        return provider.login()
        }.flatMap { token in
            return self.loginViewModel.rx_authenticate(token: token)
        }.flatMap {
            return self.loginViewModel.fetchProfileData()
        }.debug().subscribe(onError: { error in

            //Guard unknown ErrorType
            guard let err = error as? AuthError else {
                //Unknown error message
                self.alertHelper.presentAlert(L10n.unknown)
                return
            }

            //error message handling
            switch err {
            case .notLoggedIn:
                print("not logged in")
                break
            default:
                self.alertHelper.presentAlert(err.description)
            }

        }, onCompleted: {
            self.goToInitialController()
        }).addDisposableTo(self.disposeBag)

}

rx_authenticate
func rx_authenticate(token: String) -> Observable<Void> {

    return Observable.create({ observer in
        let credentials = SyncCredentials.facebook(token: token)
        SyncUser.logIn(with: credentials, server: URL(string: Globals.serverURL)!, onCompletion: { user, error in

            //Error while authenticating
            guard error == nil else {
                print("error while authenticating: \(error!)")
                observer.onError(AuthError.unknown)
                return
            }

            //Error while parsing user
            guard let responseUser = user else {
                print("error while authenticating: \(error!)")
                observer.onError(AuthError.unknown)
                return
            }

            //Authenticated
            setDefaultRealmConfiguration(with: responseUser)

            //next
            observer.onNext()

            //completed
            observer.onCompleted()

        })

        return Disposables.create()
    })
}

fetchProfileData
func fetchProfileData() -> Observable<Void> {

     return Observable.create({ observer in

        //Fetch facebookData
        let params = ["fields" : "name, picture.width(480)"]
        let graphRequest = GraphRequest(graphPath: "me", parameters: params)
        graphRequest.start {
            (urlResponse, requestResult) in
            switch requestResult {
            case .failed(_):
                //Network error
                observer.onError(AuthError.noConnection)
                break
            case .success(let graphResponse):

                if let responseDictionary = graphResponse.dictionaryValue {

                    guard let identity = SyncUser.current?.identity else {
                        //User not logged in
                        observer.onError(AuthError.noUserIdentity)
                        return
                    }

                    //Name
                    let name = responseDictionary["name"] as! String

                    //Image dictionary
                    let pictureDic = responseDictionary["picture"] as! [String: Any]
                    let dataDic = pictureDic["data"] as! [String: Any]
                    let imageHeight = dataDic["height"] as! Int
                    let imageWidth = dataDic["width"] as! Int
                    let url = dataDic["url"] as! String

                    //Create Person object
                    let loggedUser = Person()
                    loggedUser.id = identity
                    loggedUser.name = name

                    //Create photo object
                    let photo = Photo()
                    photo.height = imageHeight
                    photo.width = imageWidth
                    photo.url = url

                    //Append photo object to person object
                    loggedUser.profileImage = photo

                    //Save userData
                    let realm = try! Realm()
                    try! realm.write {
                        realm.add(loggedUser, update: true)
                    }

                    //next
                    observer.onNext()

                    //completed
                    observer.onCompleted()

                } else {
                    //Could not retrieve responseData
                    observer.onError(AuthError.noResponse)
                }
            }
        }

        return Disposables.create()
    })

}

observerFacebook
//FacebookProvider
private lazy var observerFacebook: Observable<FacebookProvider>! = {
    self.facebookButton.rx.tap.map {

        return FacebookProvider(parentController: self)
    }
}()

A: The chain starts with calling observerFacebook, which returns an observable that will emit values everytime facebookButton is tapped.
This observable will only complete when facebookButton gets released, most probably when the view controller holding it is removed from screen.
The rest of the chain will map or flatMap, but never force completion as another tap will trigger the whole chain again.
The easy way to solve this would be to add a call to take(1) on facebookButton.rx.tap, so that the function would be defined like so:
private lazy var observerFacebook: Observable<FacebookProvider>! = {
    self.facebookButton.rx.tap
    .take(1)
    .map {
        return FacebookProvider(parentController: self)
    }
}()

Now, observerFacebook will complete after the first tap and you should see a call to onCompleted.
Note that you'll need to resubscribe to the chain on errors if you want to perform it again when another tap comes in.

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I'm writing this on New Year's Day. The day where people usually want to put their resolutions in place. A fresh start after what most people feel was a bad year (according to an Ipsos poll) for a variety of reasons, including health or personal reasons.
I've already written about why I hate the holidays and this time of year, but I will share that I don't think I've ever kept a New Year's resolution. Past resolutions usually were to lose weight, go to the gym, be more organized, be more productive, have a better sleep schedule, eat better etc. Pretty typical for the most part.
Earlier today, my husband was telling me what his resolutions are, all good ones, which would be great if they are implemented and then asked me about mine. I said I don't have any. I don't think he liked that answer or understood why I said it since it probably sounded like me being a pessimist.
Yesterday someone asked me if I had any New Year's resolutions and I said, "No, I never keep them, so I decided not to have any." She thought it was a fair answer. I mean, if you're not going to do something, why promise yourself that you will?
I think these resolutions lead to more disappointment, so I am boycotting them. That's my resolution!
What could that be? I am going to be kind to myself; perhaps a very good example of self-care. After all, "they" (whoever "they" are) say we are our own worst critics.
Maybe my non-resolution resolution will help with my inner critic. Change the dialogue. And if it doesn't? That's okay too, because it's not really a resolution. I'll think of it as more of a suggestion that I came up with.
As much as my medication works, there are days when I rapid cycle, feel extremely anxious for no reason, or painfully sad. This is okay. I am okay with this because I know it's all part and parcel of my bipolar experience. I try my strategies to get through the day, sometimes I can help myself, sometimes only Ativan (Lorazepam) or Rivotril (Clonazepam) help, and I must give in. This is when I feel less productive and don't feel organized. I can't cook because I am nauseous and don't want to look at food or am too tired to. The dishwasher is ready to be emptied and I can't deal with it. The dryer has my clean clothes in it but I don't want to fold them. I have papers and who knows what else all over the couch and kitchen table, but I can't clean it up. I think this is what is called the "lack of motivation" component of depression. It is a symptom, and it's a frustrating one. But don't confuse it with laziness, because it isn't. It's not intentional. And pushing myself into a hypomanic state just to get things done is not worth the exhaustion and horrible depression that follows.
So you see, it is better for me to feel that I don't have to reach a bar that is too high to touch.
Let me avoid or minimize the amount of times I am going to disappoint myself.
Let me feel what an accomplishment feels like.
Let me soothe my busy brain.


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Tiffany from 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way gives birth to a baby girl
Wed Jul 10, 2019 at 1:18pm ET
By Shaunee Flowers
Tiffany and Ronald welcomed their new daughter. Pic credit: TLC
It turns out those Tiffany Franco pregnancy rumors were true! It was just revealed that the 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way star has given birth to a baby girl!
Tiffany Franco and Ronald Smith welcomed their first child together on July 3. According to People, their daughter was born at 7:35 am and weighed in at 8 lbs. 3 ounces. She is 19 inches long.
It was revealed that Tiffany and Ronald named their new baby girl Carley Rose after initially having a hard time finding the right name. She joins Tiffany's 9-year-old son Daniel.
Tiffany and Daniel moved to South Africa at the start of the 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way season so that Tiffany and Ronald could get married. The two met earlier while she was on vacation there and quickly fell in love.
While Ronald was not able to come to the U.S., it looks like he and Tiffany had a great reason for trying to be together despite that obstacle.
After news of Carley Rose's birth, Tiffany took to Instagram to finally share a few photos. The first being her ultrasound photo.
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Tiffany previously shared that she was just shy of her 18th birthday when she gave birth to Daniel. Her pregnancy was a complete surprise all the way up until she went into labor.
She certainly can't say that this time around. A newly shared pregnancy photo proves that Tiffany enjoyed her pregnancy and she was sporting quite a baby bump!
Congratulations to Tiffany and Ronald on their bundle of joy! We can't wait to see her introduced on the TLC show.
90 Day Fiance: The Other Way airs Mondays at 9/8c on TLC.
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Co-op insurance is trying to increase transparency around the cost of car insurance by explaining where your annual premium is spent.
The insurer has decided to make a short video in an attempt to educate motorists after it's recent research found that over half of people don't understand how their premium is calculated and two fifths were unclear why their premium price could fluctuate from year to year.
Its research has also revealed that many people aren't aware of some of the fundamental things that their premium is for. For example, 42% of drivers don't realise it is in case another driver claims for personal injury, as a result of an accident that is their fault.
For four out of ten of drivers, motor insurance is reportedly a grudge purchase, with over a tenth (15%) of drivers saying that they would not buy motor insurance if it wasn't a legal requirement.
In response to these findings, the Co-op Insurance has launched the first, in a series of three, animated videos which has been designed to explain how insurance pricing works, to improve transparency for its customers.
This follows a similar move earlier this year when it launched an online tool which was sent to over 10,000 home insurance customers, which was positively received, and fully explained how home insurance premiums are calculated.


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Growing up in the UK, my knowledge of wagon parties and pioneers was shaped by Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie". But reading the stories as an adult, you don't get the real sense of danger and the unknown that the groups travelling west would have encountered.
Needless to say, I'd never heard of the story of the Donner party and their fateful trip into the unknown. I was gripped by the story from the outset, mainly because the story was based on real people. My one criticism would be that the large ensemble of characters made it difficult sometimes to follow the individual stories as the last instalment could have been a few chapters back and I found myself flipping back to re-read some sections. This could have been helped by including a list of the characters at the beginning of the book, but I was reading an advance copy and this may be included in the main print run. I think the book would have also benefitted from a map charting their perilous journey, but that could just be the geographer in me!
All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and it has certainly made me want to read more about a period in history I know so little about. Little House on the Prairie it most certainly ain't!


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Prodrive Legends to restore works race and rally cars back to their original glory
The world's most successful independent motorsport constructor establishes its official restoration programme as interest builds in its historic cars, including Subaru Imprezas, BMW M3s and Aston Martins
Banbury, UK, November 27th 2019… Prodrive is seeing a growing demand for its historic race and rally cars and has launched Prodrive Legends, a new operation dedicated to the authentication, restoration and support of these cars.
The creation of Prodrive Legends is a direct response to a significant rise in requests from vehicle owners to verify the provenance and then restore race and rally cars that Prodrive has constructed over the last three decades. There are also an increasing number of opportunities to race historic competition cars and a dramatic rise in values, especially for vehicles that have won high-profile events, fuelling the market for historic cars.
Since its formation in 1984, Prodrive has built more than 1,100 race and rally cars, from the first Porsche 911 SC RS to the latest Aston Martin Vantage GT cars. These cars have won titles across a range of motorsport disciplines, from World Rally titles for Subaru with Colin McRae, Richard Burns and Petter Solberg, to world sports car and Le Mans titles with Aston Martin and Ferrari; and British Touring Car Championships with BMW and Ford.
"Many of these cars are now appreciating classics with immense value to their passionate owners," says Paul Howarth, head of motorsport operations. "With the formation of Prodrive Legends, owners can now bring the cars home to the same company – and even many of the same people – who originally designed and built them and took them to multiple wins."
The programme, which only covers Prodrive vehicles, includes: a 'fixed price' authentication service that will verify whether a chassis is a genuine Prodrive car; factory specification engine rebuilds in Prodrive's new powertrain centre; and whole-vehicle work from servicing and race preparation to ground-up restorations to the original Prodrive specification.
Over the years, Prodrive has built more than 700 Subaru rally cars, including nearly 100 Impreza and Legacy Group As and 160 Impreza World Rally Cars. In the 1980s the company also built nearly 40 BMW E30 M3s and, more recently, nearly 50 Aston Martin racing cars based on the DB9 and a further 180 on the previous generation Vantage.
All restoration work, including chassis, engine, transmission and bodyshell preparation, is carried out in-house at the company's world-class engineering facility in Banbury.
For owners of ex-Prodrive vehicles or those considering purchasing one, utilising the expertise of Prodrive Legends offers numerous benefits, as Howarth explains: "Quite simply, there is nobody in a better position to rebuild a Prodrive car – we literally know them inside out and many of the people we have on the Prodrive Legends team built the cars originally.
"What's more, we have all the original build data and also hold the rights to reproduce key parts of the cars, while sourcing genuine components that are notoriously hard to find doesn't pose an issue thanks to the network of contacts we have established since the early 1980s."
He continued: "The level of our work pays dividends for customers who wish to compete with their car and those that lean more towards seeing it as an investment. Some owners choose to run their cars in less demanding exhibition events or merely show them, but any car that leaves us will be turnkey and ready to run competitively.
"For those that wish to optimise the value of their car, as well as its performance, having Prodrive Legends authenticate and rebuild it ensures that it meets market expectations, where only the cars with the most impeccable provenance command the highest prices. The difference between two cars that are similar in all respects other than provenance can run into tens of thousands of pounds or, if there is evidence of significant competition success, even six figures."
For further details on the services offered by Prodrive Legends, visit www.prodrive.com or call 01295 273355.
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SIFF Exclusive: Fat Kid Rules the World
by Warren Cantrell on May 30, 2012
Warren Cantrell reviews a new indie film from the 2012 Seattle International Film Festival:
Telling a story about teenagers is difficult, for those young enough to speak honestly about the subject are rarely so mature that they can translate that experience into literature or film, and those old enough to do so are invariably too far removed from that formative period to do it any justice. A few people have pulled the trick off, however, perhaps the most notable example being the late-great John Hughes, a storyteller who seemed to have an unbroken pipeline into the most genuine recesses of youth. Actor-turned-director Matthew Lillard (Hackers, Scream, Scooby-Doo) has offered up his own treatise on late adolescence in the form of his debut directorial feature, Fat Kid Rules the World, and while it's no Breakfast Club, its heart and sense of authenticity match up with anything Hughes ever delivered.
That said, Lillard doesn't try to copy or emulate Hughes, a director who mostly set his films in the suburbs, and kept the tone of his work light. Fat Kid Rules the World is an adaptation of K.L. Going's novel of the same name, and is predominantly an urban adventure. The story of an obese, suicidal teenager living in the outskirts of downtown Seattle (1st Hill, to be exact), the film follows Troy (Jacob Wysocki) as he journeys through a few difficult, formative weeks.
Troy's world is shaken up after his suicide attempt is thwarted by Marcus (Matt O'Leary), a recently-expelled high school classmate who initially targets Troy as a mark to be exploited. Socially inept and fat though he may be, Troy isn't an idiot, and immediately clocks Marcus for what he is: a teenage waster on the fast-track toward full-time bum-hood. Yet there's an odd, desperate charisma coursing through Marcus, and Troy can't help but get swept up in the grifter's universe.
Before Troy knows what's happening, Marcus has enlisted him to play drums in their band (one created on the spot), despite the fact that Troy knows about as much about playing the drums as he does about wearing a pair of size 32 jeans. The audience learns that Troy recently lost his mother, leaving him in the exclusive care of his ex-military father (Billy Campbell), and slightly younger, far more in-shape brother, who both live with Troy at arm's length. And while Lillard employs familiar tropes to frame his narrative (hard-ass dad, snarky brother, video-game playing dork-hero, etc.) there's a lot of spark and creativity in his film.
As Fat Kid Rules the World develops, Troy uses his band and the drums as a creative outlet that allows him build a little self-confidence, and grow into his own skin. At a personal crossroads when the movie opens (Troy did try to kill himself, after all), the movie is ostensibly about a chubby kid taking that most daunting leap of adolescence: when one realizes that true happiness means embracing one's self despite what the world thinks. It's a somewhat tired and tried story to tell, yet Lillard finds a way to breathe new life into the familiar narrative, due in large part to the performances of his actors, and the authentic texture of the characters they portray.
As the star, Jacob Wysocki carries the film in an effortless fashion that leads one to believe that he's been acting for a lifetime. His only failing is that he has to share most of the movie with Matt O'Leary (Marcus), who turns in a performance that is nothing short of inspired. Though the wardrobe and make-up department did him a lot of favors (one can practically smell Marcus through the screen), O'Leary succeeds in disappearing into the role of the pill-popping street kid sinking so fast into his own suffocating addiction that he spends most of the picture clutching at those around him like a drowning man.
O'Leary has been making a name for himself on the indie film scene recently with highly-praised work in Natural Selection, and Eden, and his stock will certainly rise with this one. Yet it's Billy Campbell, as Troy's father, who runs away with this film, for what could have easily been recycled into an American Beauty character-clone develops into one of the most important, dynamic characters in the piece. There's a tender yet guarded warmth that comes through in Campbell's performance, and it elevates the film above the somewhat cliché, predictable conclusions that follow in the movie's wake.
Sure, there's a romantic sub-plot that runs out of steam in the third act, and a slight shift in the film's focus around the halfway point where Fat Kid Rules the World becomes more about Marcus, and less about the title fat kid, yet the ultimate conclusion proves to be surprisingly more than the simple sum of its parts. Filmed on-location in Seattle, the movie is also an exceptionally rare treat for residents of that city, who will notice that the picture was indeed filmed there, and not in British Columbia.
Everything from the Metro bus seat patterns to the grime-smudged benches in Pioneer Square speaks to the unmistakable Seattle experience, one made all the more familiar by musical contributions by Pearl Jam's Mike McCready. Fat Kid Rules the World has been making the rounds on the festival circuit, and has found a friendly audience at the Seattle International Film Festival, where it's currently playing.
Watching the film, it's not surprising, either, for director Matthew Lillard took a familiar teen coming-of-age story and made it fresh: a truly difficult maneuver in an era when the most exciting industry innovations come packaged in 3-D.
Warren Cantrell
"Obvious Child" is the debut novel of Warren Cantrell, a film and music critic based out of Seattle, Washington. Mr. Cantrell has covered the Sundance and Seattle International Film Festivals, and provides regular dispatches for Scene-Stealers and The Playlist. Warren holds a B.A. and M.A. in History, and his hobbies include bourbon drinking, novel writing, and full-contact kickboxing.
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As the Republican platform committee met in Cleveland, Hillary Clinton's gender gap grows and grows. She has opened a record advantage among women voters; that is, the highest level of female support in more than four decades and the widest gap ever recorded, according to national polls, including the latest Pew Poll. Donald Trump is even losing GOP women voters, too, not to mention that he inflames divisions within the GOP, with trade and immigration issues near the top of the list.
Much of this is due to a deep distaste for Trump, polling shows. The platform committee has one huge job, huh?
Even if Trump does not become the president, these rifts in the party will remain, so says Bushes Sr. and Jr., and Mitt Romney, too.


"On December 20, 2018 following a public show cause hearing at Nantucket District Court, Clerk Magistrate Brian Kearney issued a criminal complaint of indecent assault and battery against Kevin S. Fowler, also known as Kevin Spacey", a statement from the Cape and Islands District Attorney office read.
Next week, Kevin Spacey is due in a Nantucket District Court on charges of felony sexual assault.
Supporting documentation from his attorneys claimed that if Spacey attended the hearing, it would "only serve to heighten prejudicial media interest in the case and will increase the risk of contamination of the pool of jurors available for the trial".
Prosecutors opposed the motion, calling on the judge to deny it, according to court documents obtained by the paper.
The actor has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than a dozen men - beginning with allegations by "Star Trek: Discovery" star Anthony Rapp that Spacey made sexual advances toward him when Rapp was 14 years old. Defendants are required to appear for court arraignments unless their appearance is waived by a judge, according to MA court officials.
"He did not report the crime at the time, and that was largely because of embarrassment and fear", she said. On the day he was charged, the actor released a weird video on his social media accounts in which he revived his deceased House of Cards character, Frank Underwood, to deliver a pre-prepared monologue protesting his innocence.
"I know you're just doing your job", he told one photographer.
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Sarasota interim superintendent candidate won't take the job
Ryan McKinnon Staff Writer
Sarasota School Board members must figure out next steps now that Bill Vogel, whom they planned to name interim superintendent, has stepped down from consideration.
The leading contender to become the Sarasota County School District's interim superintendent has withdrawn his name from consideration for the position.
Bill Vogel, the former superintendent of Seminole County Schools, had been a majority of the School Board's top choice to lead the district following former superintendent Todd Bowden's departure last month.
But Vogel told board members on Monday that he was no longer interested in the position.
Vogel said Tuesday morning that he had spoken with board members and current interim superintendent Mitsi Corcoran over the past several days and had reached the conclusion that the district would be best served by a leader already known by the community.
"In an interim situation, it's best to have someone lead the district who is familiar with it, that has the respect of all the board members," Vogel said. "… I feel it's in the best interest of the district to continue with (current interim superintendent) Ms. Corcoran … I sat down with her and we talked for more than two hours. Looking at the challenges they have in place, she is up to meeting that challenge."
Corcoran, whose appointment was presented more as a stopgap measure until Vogel could be named the long-term interim, has been the district's Chief Finanacial Officer since 2007.
Vogel declined to elaborate on why he withdrew his name, beyond saying he wanted what was best for the district and would be available to serve in capacities other than interim superintendent. He emphasized how positive all his conversations with district leaders were.
Whoever does fill the role of interim superintendent will be taking on a host of challenges, including a deeply-divided board, contentious union negotiations, allegations of a sexual misconduct coverup by administrators at Brookside Middle School, and a state investigation into the district's special education services.
Now, board members must chart a new path. On Nov. 19, the board appointed Corcoran to fill the superintendent role until board members Eric Robinson and Bridget Ziegler could speak with Vogel, who already had the support of board members Jane Goodwin, Caroline Zucker and Shirley Brown.
Given that Vogel had the enthusiastic backing of the board majority and Ziegler and Robinson didn't outright oppose him, his appointment to the position seemed to be a given, as of late November.
On Monday, Goodwin said Corcoran would be the optimal person to hold the job for the time being.
"I think Mitsi (Corcoran) is going to stay in the job until we get a real live superintendent," Goodwin said. "She knows everyone and knows all the issues at hand. I think we'll be in good hands with Mitsi."
Ziegler, however, said she would like for the board to solicit community input in appointing an interim superintendent, and she said it was important for the board to explore all options.
"The last thing we need is the perception of a foregone conclusion and it being a dog and pony show," Ziegler said.
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With the current wave of technological advancements, nanotechnology is expected to play a very significant role in developing inexpensive and clean energy. Nanotechnology has great potential to solve most of today's energy challenges. At their size dimension, the chemical, biological, and physical properties of nanomaterials differ greatly in valuable and fundamental ways from the properties of individual molecules, atoms, or bulk matter.
The characteristics present in materials at the nanoscale present a host of innovative applications of nanotechnology. These innovative uses include the creation of revolutionary and new energy applications. These apply to a wide variety of energy sources including geothermal, hydrogen, solar, natural gas, and fission energy.
Hydrogen which is great energy storage medium is not a primary source of energy. This has made the realization of an alternative energy source from hydrogen almost impossible. Nanotechnology has provided new methods of approaching the interaction of materials with hydrogen, and it has provided more efficient and cost effective methods of storage and transportation of the gas.
Nanoscience has also made solar energy more economical by improving the efficiency of the photovoltaic cells. It is also through nanotechnology that the problem of waste, that plagues all nuclear plants, seems to be close to getting workable solutions. Furthermore, it is through similar tevchnology that geothermal energy sources have been enhanced by enhancing the thermoconductivity of the materials used.
Eventually nanotechnology is expected to allow for more efficient, more powerful, and inexpensive energy production, distribution, and transmission. Nanotechnology will not only allow for the optimization of the current energy sources, but it will also make it possible for new energy sources such as nuclear, solar, geothermal, and natural gas to be fully exploited.
Additionally, nanotechnology is expected to make it possible to reduce consumption of energy by a great margin through the manufacture of more energy efficient appliances. The application of nanotechnology in the energy sector might turn out to be the most important tech advancement of our time.