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Shroud of Turin Authenticated by Antiques Roadshow
Daughter finds out her uncle is her dad's brother
WHO congratulates Donald Trump for having carried out a coup without leaving home
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THE VATICAN – The hosts of long-running TV series Antiques Roadshow from the United States, UK, and Canada teamed up at the request of Pope Francis and have determined that the Shroud of Turin was without a doubt Jesus Christ's funereal blanket.
After hours of examining the tattered 8 cubits by 2 cubits piece of blood-stained linen, Mark Walberg (PBS), Fiona Bruce (BBC), and Valerie Pringle (CBC and heiress to the Pringle Chips empire) announced that the Shroud is legitimate and "could fetch upwards of $200 million (BPS 131, $204 CDN)."
"A bit eggy waffing when the Swiss Guards first opened the case. Manky smell that," said Bruce, former host of Who Can Tap Dance Great Britain? and author of Snogging Through the Ages. "Tattered toshy hank of blankie really but it snuggied the Son Of Him I figure."
"Yeah. What she said," said PBS host Mark Walberg.
The trio of television hosts was flown to Turin by the Vatican and spent most of an afternoon at The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist before emerging to speak to media gathered in the apse.
"We've all seen lots of fakes with pretty good nail wounds, and that spear wound to the chest," said Walberg, no relation to actor and former underwear model Mark Wahlberg. "But this one had little bits of flax right in the cloth and they did use flax in everything around the Year Zero. You cannot fake flax."
The Catholic Church has never endorsed nor rejected the legitimacy of the Shroud but issued a statement immediately upon the findings being released.
"The Catholic Church blesses this holy Shroud as the burial wrap of our Lord Jesus Christ," read the Papal Release "This is a miracle from our Father and the Shroud will begin a world tour with Catholic singer Nana Mouskouri backed up by the Pat Boone Band, on the orders of Pope Emeritus Benedict."
The 14'3″ by 3'7″ (4.4m X 1.1M) bolt of eggshell cloth bears the image of a white man who appears to have suffered wounds one might get from being crucified. Computer enhancements have shown the image to be that of a bearded man with shoulder-length streaked blonde hair. He is estimated to have stood 3.5 cubits (6'2″, 1.88m) with a muscular build and long-haired chest moles.
American reality TV show Pawn Stars was also asked by the Vatican to examine the Shroud but declined, saying their participation could put the legitimacy of the research in doubt.
"If it was in mint condition, I'd have been interested," said Richard "Old Man" Harrison, star of the History Channel's Pawn Stars. "But it'd be hard for us to sell when you can get a pretty realistic Shroud knock-off printed on a beach towel for around $99 with free overnight FedEx delivery."
By Father Guido Sarducci, Reporting for The Vatican Enquirer
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STOMPED TOMATO – A growing trend in the online world are stories of family dynamics changing drastically with uncovered family relationships, such as the daughter who found that her uncle is really her father's brother.
What will this do to the family dynamic? Reddit
Another commented that he was in a similar situation, but different, not too long along when he found that his aunt is really his mother's sister.
"The entire family freaked out," writes M.
Fortunately, there are a few things that could be done to preserve your family's chemistry and dynamic.
Family dynamics can really be screwed. Take the case of a B and his wife's family situation. B writes, "Her mom and aunt both married brothers. So my wife's uncle (now deceased) was actually her uncle twice over. He was her uncle because her mom's sister married him, and he was her uncle because her dad was his brother. For that matter, her aunt is also her aunt twice over."
R writes, "I know exactly how the feeling. I just found out that my brother is my baby's uncle, and my brother's children are my child's cousins. Obviously, this is a confusing time for everyone and we are navigating it as best as we can."
A has an equally challenging situation, she writes: I just found out that my mom is actually the one who gave birth to me, and that my grandmother is actually my mom's mom and I'm so confused and worried like what this will do I don't know if I can see them in the same way now…"
This is very serious. This kind of experience can cause long lasting trauma.
One recommendation is to log off the internet, obviously, these people have way too much time on their hands. For those who can't log off, you can help improve your family dynamic by going on Amazon and order lots of self-help books.
Luckily there are many treatments for this ailment being experimented with.
While a lot of countries and international organizations condemned Wednesday's riots in the United States Capitol, the Wordly Health Organization congratulated President Donald Trump for acting responsibly in the midst of a historic pandemic, for staging a coup from home.
Given the warnings of health authorities not to go out, Mr Trump decided maintain social distancing and stay at home to try to overturn the 2020 presidential elections.
"We are pleasantly surprised at responsibility that Donald Trump took need to the stay at home measures by the WHO during the events on Capitol Hill on January 7, 2021," said the organization in a statement.
In a statement of his own, Donald Trump said that he preferred to stay at home, "where I can see them from the comfort of my home, than to do it out there with who knows who".
After the events in Washington's Capitol Hill, Mexico has decided that they WILL pay for the Trump wall, commonly referred to as "the wall". And Canada wants one too.
For years Mexico has refused to be pressured by U.S. President Donald Trump to "write out a check" for the border wall, stating that it is a wall they don't want or need. But that came to an end as the events unfolded in real time on Wednesday, January 7, 2021.
Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), said that given this week's events in the United States and the pledge by president-elect Joe Biden to halt construction of the wall, now is the time to take action before it's too late.
Asked as to how he intends to pay for the wall, AMLO explained it would most likely be jointly by the government and "private enterprise" and that Mexico would reimburse the United States for the about 30 miles (48 km) that has been built since 2017, with a plan to have the rest built in less than 60 days.
AMLO detailed that Mexican workers from "both sides" of the border would work around the clock on the wall project.
The President also emphasized that the purpose of the wall would change from one to keep Mexicans from crossing over to the U.S., but rather to keep protect Mexico from its neighbour.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday that he would be counting the friendship and cooperation with Mexico over a wide range of political, trade, social, environmental and security interests to get a wall built across the 8,891 kilometers (5,524 miles) terrestrial boundary with the United States.
Trudeau and AMLO are expected to start talks in the coming days.
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You ought to have gotten the hint by now that I was going to be away from the U.S for awhile. All this talk of backup content and not being able to host my friend or see my brother for some months.
That's because I'm on a plane. As I write this, I am seated in seat 27A of a British Airways flight from Philadelphia to London where I will catch a connecting flight to Lagos. That's right, I'm going to be out of the U.S for two months and boiling under the hot African sun… Much better than the 6 inches of snow I just left behind in Philadelphia.
I can't wait to see my family and old friends. To eat pounded yam and ogbono soup. Shout "UP NEPA!" and sit for 2 hours as I watch my Facebook page load.
Yes, all this 24-hour supply of electricity, and blazing fast Internet was getting too much for me. I need to go and suffer small so I can appreciate what I have again. That said, I probably won't have a phone for my first few days back, so catching up will have to wait.
U.S People: I won't be carrying any food on my way back. Not interested in airport wahala.


Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISPH) announced the top-line results from its second Phase 3 clinical trial, TIGER-2, with denufosol tetrasodium for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF).
The trial did not achieve statistical significance for its primary efficacy endpoint, which was change from baseline in FEV1 (Forced Expiratory Volume in One Second) at the Week 48 Endpoint (48 weeks or last observation carried forward). Patients receiving denufosol in the 466-patient, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial had an improvement of 40 mL, compared to 32 mL for the patients receiving placebo (p=0.742).
Adrian Adams, President and CEO of Inspire, stated, "These TIGER-2 results were disappointing and unexpected given the treatment effect observed in the TIGER-1 trial. We will conduct a thorough analysis of the data to fully understand the results from this trial and the impact on any future development of denufosol and on the Company going forward. We expect to provide a detailed corporate update by mid-February. Meanwhile, we will continue to focus on our ophthalmology business."
Charles A. Johnson, M.D., Executive Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Medical Officer, stated, "We believe that the TIGER-2 trial was designed and executed appropriately and was sufficient to provide data on the efficacy of denufosol at 48 weeks. The analysis of the primary endpoint, key secondary endpoints and select subgroup populations in TIGER-2 indicates an absence of meaningful treatment benefit in this patient population. We want to thank the investigators, cystic fibrosis patients and caregivers for their involvement in this trial."
For the 466 patients randomized in TIGER-2, the treatment groups were balanced with respect to demographic and background characteristics: the mean age was 15.1 years, the mean lung function was 89.7% of the predicted normal value of FEV1 and the use of concomitant medications including inhaled antibiotics, dornase alfa (PULMOZYME®), and oral macrolide antibiotics was similar between the treatment groups. Patients were enrolled in the U.S. (82%), Australia and New Zealand (11%) and Canada (6%).
- Time to first pulmonary exacerbation, as defined by treatment with I.V. antibiotics for at least one respiratory sign or symptom (p=0.132).
Patient retention rates were similar between treatment groups with approximately 82% completing the trial (82% for denufosol, 83% for placebo). Six percent of patients in both groups withdrew from the trial due to adverse events (AEs). The most common AE was cough, which was similar in both treatment arms. The incidence of AEs and serious adverse events in the denufosol group was comparable to the placebo group. The incidence of pulmonary exacerbations, as defined by treatment with I.V. antibiotics for at least one respiratory sign or symptom, was similar in both treatment arms (21% for denufosol, 26% for placebo).
Patients that completed the TIGER-2 trial were eligible to enroll in a separate three-year open-label trial of denufosol called DEFY. Based on the lack of meaningful benefit observed in TIGER-2, Inspire will be recommending that patients in the DEFY trial discontinue treatment with denufosol. Inspire will be communicating with participating clinical trial sites on the next steps for the DEFY trial in the near future.
TIGER-1, the first Phase 3 trial with denufosol for the treatment of CF, included a 24-week placebo-controlled portion, followed by a 24-week open-label safety extension. The placebo-controlled portion was a double-blind, randomized trial comparing 60 mg of denufosol to placebo, administered three times daily by jet nebulizer, in 352 patients with mild cystic fibrosis lung disease (baseline FEV1 ≥ 75% of predicted normal).
TIGER-2, the second Phase 3 clinical trial with denufosol for the treatment of CF, was a 48-week, placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trial comparing 60 mg of denufosol to placebo, administered three times daily by jet nebulizer in 466 patients with mild cystic fibrosis lung disease (baseline FEV1 ≥ 75% and ≤ 110% of predicted normal).
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening disease involving a genetic mutation that disrupts the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) protein, an ion channel. In CF patients, a defect in this ion channel leads to poorly hydrated lungs and severely impaired mucociliary clearance. Chronic secondary infections invariably occur, resulting in progressive lung dysfunction and deterioration. Respiratory infections and complications account for more than 90% of the mortality associated with this disease. According to the U.S. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Patient Registry, the median life expectancy for patients is approximately 38 years. There are approximately 33,500 diagnosed CF patients in the U.S. and Canada.
Pharmaceuticals, Inspire. "Inspire Announces Results Of Second Phase 3 Trial With Denufosol For Cystic Fibrosis." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 5 Jan. 2011. Web.


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This airline is a Brazilian airline and has become the largest domestic and one of the best third largest international airlines across Brazil. These are the result of its luxurious services it provides to the costumes as their only goal is to have comfortable offerings to their travelers.
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Does Inaugural display symbolizing 56 U.S. states, territories signal Biden support for new states?
New statehood among liberal-leaning territories would aid the Democratic Party in the Electoral College.
By Carrie Sheffield
Updated: January 20, 2021 - 12:08am
Biden support for statehood for Puerto Rico
Norton press statement on Jan. 7
Norton office statement.
President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration decor touting 56 U.S. states and territories provokes new questions about whether Biden will push for new statehood for six U.S. territories, which could aid the Democratic Party in the Electoral College.
Under the U.S. Constitution, statehood requires only a simple majority in Congress, which could be achieved if Democrats decide to remove the 60-vote filibuster threshold currently in place in the Senate.
As part of the "Field of Flags" display at the National Mall ahead of Biden's inauguration, the Presidential Inaugural Committee planted nearly 200,000 state and territory flags on Monday night, meant to represent the American people unable to travel to Washington, D.C., for Inauguration Day due to the COVID-19 pandemic and security threats.
Fifty-six pillars of neon blue light, representing the U.S. states and territories, were also lit up for 46 seconds to mark the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden. The prominent light beams were reminiscent of the grounds of the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan.
Biden has said he supports statehood for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. The Biden transition team did not respond to a request for comment from Just the News about Biden's position on additional territories or about the inaugural display as a possible symbolic nod to possible statehood. Other U.S. territories with permanent civilian populations include Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Mario H. Lopez, president of the Hispanic Leadership Fund, who describes himself as "a mainstream conservative with a handful of libertarian leanings," told Just the News he believes "that displaying flags for American territories is entirely appropriate in government buildings and ceremonies, including those related to military." Lopez noted that citizens of those territories are American citizens by birth.
"Hawaii was a territory at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, and of course no one at the time doubted that Japan had attacked America," Lopez noted. "There has been discussion of admitting D.C. and Puerto Rico as states but to my knowledge nothing about the other territories, not even from their elected representatives in Congress."
Politically, Lopez said the differences between D.C. and Puerto Rico "are substantial," with Puerto Rico electing Republicans to its Legislative Assembly and its governorship "with substantial frequency," including the current Resident Commissioner Jennifer Gonzalez.
Historian Jason Steinhauer told Just the News on Tuesday that the National World War II Memorial "serves as a useful reference point for the Field of Flags display" because it contains 56 pillars representing each state and territory from its period, including the District of Columbia. Those 56 pillars represented a different assortment of states and territories from that time period: 48 states, plus the territories of Alaska and Hawaii, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Steinhauer noted that memorial opened in 2004, during the George W. Bush administration.
However, Steinhauer said: "I would not be surprised if the issue of D.C. statehood arises during the 117th Congress. D.C.'s population is approaching 700,000 people, none of whom presently have direct representation in the House or Senate."
In the aftermath of the deadly mob invasion of the U.S. Capitol, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) pushed for more local control and continued to push for D.C. statehood.
"The mayor should not be reliant on the president to deploy the National Guard to protect public safety in D.C., and D.C. should never have to worry that a president will take over its police force and use it how he or she sees fit," Norton said in a press statement on Jan. 7. "While we fight for D.C. statehood, Congress now has all the evidence it needs to pass the District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act and the District of Columbia Police Home Rule Act," she said.
On Tuesday, Norton announced that her guest for Biden's inauguration was Hector Rodriguez, founder and chair of Veterans United for D.C. Statehood. (Norton said members of Congress are only allowed one guest due to COVID restrictions.)"There are 30,000 veterans currently living in the nation's capital, who have served their country in the U.S. military while having no voting representation in Congress," Norton's office said in a statement.
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Q: Different func parameters at the same time To learn about dictionaries I am trying to use a single function with arguments for different operations.
This function is actually the logic of five similar functions that were independently called by five individual cells at the time to do stuff like calculating a difference. Not very optimized I thought.
Here is the logic now, calling the function with different parameters at the same time:
let milkUSD : Double = 3.00
let chocolateUSD : Double = 4.50
let reduction1 : Double = 0.50
let reduction2 : Double = 0.30

var prices : [String : Double] = ["p1": milkUSD, "p2": chocolateUSD]
var reductions : [String : Double] = ["r1": reduction1, "r2": reduction2]

func calculateReduction(_ price: String, _ reduction: String) {
    let price = prices[price]
    guard price != nil else { return }
    let reduction = reductions[reduction]
    guard reduction != nil else { return }

    let result = price! - reduction!
    print(result)
}

//called at the same time:
calculateReduction("p1", "r1") //prints 2.5
calculateReduction("p2", "r2") //prints 4.2

It works in the playground but will using a function like this cause me problems in my app when it will be called at the same time to process more complex operations and with value changing variables? Or do I simply underestimate computers haha?

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Judging older Pokemon sprites (thing)
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(thing) by Chord Thu Nov 26 2020 at 4:16:56
The sprite for Geodude in Pokémon Red and Blue stands out for me above all the others because it looks almost NOTHING like the promotional art. It looks like a human head with curly hair and arms attached, and the way the arms are bent it looks like an umpire telling someone they're out. Hit the road, jack. Scram.
In the original Red/Green version Geodude's sprite has kind of the same face but the eyes are larger and the arms are only raised, so it looks like a lil child trying to look tough. It's so CUTE. Still not obviously a rock.
Meanwhile Cloyster looks nearly the same as it has ever looked since, except that this was before they flipped the shell opening vertical and added a spike on top like ho ho ho the kids won't know what that is! Better hope so. (Check that: the Red/Green sprite had the vertical version and then they probably decided they were going too far.)
Red/Green Rapidash is curious. Gamefreak doesn't always get the sprites for that one right, but for a flaming racing unicorn they usually manage to play up the flaming and racing parts appropriately. The Red/Green sprite is the only one that plays up the unicorn part and makes the Rapidash look mysteriously majestic.
Galarian Rapidash looks like a regular Rapidash ran through an ice cream factory. It looks like what happens to dogs when they're bred for Best In Show at Westminster. What have they done to you, my magnificent steed.
Venomoth has only improved with age but it's also the bug pokemon that looks most like a real-world bug, which is to say it's kind of ugly up close.
As for the Ghastly line................
Sometimes I think that the idea of that line was to show a creature slowly condensing from gas into a solid form, because Haunter's original sprites appear to have solid particles coming off them.
But I've read some speculation that their design was originally supposed to invoke an extradimensional creature slowly busting its way through to our world. So with Ghastly in its first sprite, it's probably supposed to resemble a gas, and it does, but you wonder if that's not some...thing shoving its head through from its own world. And then Haunter kind of looks like it got farther forward, and then Gengar looks like it got all the way through. No idea if that's true, but I can see it. Gengar in Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow kind of looks like it's...still not part of our world. Not completely. It almost looks like a shadow of the real thing, cast onto our reality. Except with eyes.
Meanwhile in Red and Green Gengar's Sprite is -- what is that. What the hell is that. Why is it grinning at me. Is that fur on its back or something? Why is it just standing there grinning at me? What the hell does it want?
I think the design of that one is supposed to be some kind of Oni because it looks like it has fur and hair, and it's in shadow like you're running into it within the deep dark woods. It's creepy in its own way. Not quite the same way as the later sprites. Bulbapedia says that the design might have been trying to evoke Shadow People, which is where you're in a sleep paralysis and the part of your brain that registers other people has a glitch, so you see a person-shaped hole in reality --
Imagine how much more terrifying it would be if that shadow opened its eyes and grinned.
But Gengar looks purple now. Not scary at all. Mega Gengar looks scary because they make its shape more intense and they lit it from below, but it's more like epic-boss-battle scary, not "what the hell is that" scary. That being said -- when I'm playing the game and my pokemon are below the mid-tier levels, seeing a Gengar on screen still scares the hell out of me, because those things are tough and mean.
The sprite for Hitmonchan in Red/Green is --
Ha ha ha ha ha.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
TOGETIC IS WATCHING DODUO POOP.
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This is one way to show you care about all children. We can opt our own children out of high stakes tests. We are informed. How do we inform others?
Most of us grassroots activists don't have the millions of dollars to lobby legislators like the Corporate Driven Education Reformers do.
Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools.
What we do have is heart.
What we do have is a voice.
What we do have are the brains to dig and learn and understand what is happening to our public schools.
Are you willing to spread the word in a free and simple way?
Consider printing out a sign to place on the inside back window of your car.
Prickly over high stakes tests?
Prickly over the common core standards?
I glued the sign on to a piece of scrapbook paper for a colored border.
Our children are more than a score. Our children are individuals with unique gifts and talents and need not be contained to a set of standards or test scores.


Your article, "We need better forecasts – and fast" (3 May, p 8), is written solely from a weather forecaster's perspective rather than from the perspective of a climate-change researcher. This is unhelpful at best. It is not true to say that climate models "cannot reproduce El Niños in the Pacific Ocean… nor the Atlantic storm tracks and blocking high pressure zones that determine whether western Europe is wet or dry".


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SXSW 2016: What you missed (Arkells)
Posted on March 23, 2016 by Michael Mayer
Max Kerman, lead singer of the Canadian band Arkells, plays at the Canadian Blast BBQ in Austin during SXSW. (Photo by Meri Simon)
By Michael Mayer
Photos by Meri Simon
Arkells are no stranger to SXSW. The Hamilton, Ontario, band has torn through Austin a few times before, always playing a zillion shows and leaving the newly converted in its wake. Their Canadian blue-eyed soul meets anthemic-rock sound is so made for the stage. This is a band that knows how to arrange a song, maximize its power and deliver it with passion and elan. Its shows are dance frenzies, with intense sing-along choruses and unexpected fun (lead singer Max Kerman loves to stroll into the crowd mid-song).
Their three albums are all gems (they've won four Juno awards, the Canadian Grammys) and this time they arrived with a clutch of new songs from the yet-to-be-released fourth album and it promises to be another great one.
For all its success in Canada, Arkells have yet to make a huge dent in the U.S. scene but there are lots of shows coming up in the spring and summer of 2016.
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Kimya Dawson brings `Juno' to the Bay Area
Posted on April 27, 2008 by Jim Harrington
Call it the season of soundtracks by the Bay.
It kicked off earlier this month when Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder performed a trio of local shows, which drew heavily from his Golden Globe Award-winning score for the movie "Into the Wild." Fans also got to see Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova _ the duo responsible for "Falling Slowly," the track from the film "Once" that won the Oscar for Best Original Song _ on Saturday (April 26) at the Paramount in Oakland. And then there was Kimya Dawson, the main voice of the "Juno" soundtrack, who visited the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco on Friday night (April 25).
Of those three acts, Dawson has definitely made the biggest splash with her cinematic offering. The "Juno" record, featuring eight Dawson performed/penned tracks, is one of the most successful soundtracks in years. It hit No. 1 on the Billboard album charts back in January, becoming the first soundtrack from an Academy Award best picture nominee to reach the peak since "Titanic" in 1998.
The overwhelming and immediate success of the "Juno" soundtrack has transformed Dawson, previously a little-known indie-folk cult figure, into a star. Her fan base has multiplied at least a hundredfold and she's moved up from playing small clubs to filling major theaters.
This kind of overnight success, even when it happens to someone who, like Dawson, has been performing regularly since 2002, can be a little hard to handle. The 35-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist was still trying to get a grasp on her situation when she played for the packed house at the Herbst.
"I'm sorry," she apologized to the crowd, while trying to calm her nerves. "It's just that I've never played a show in the Bay Area that cost more than $5. And this all feels like some type of twisted joke."
The concert's punch line, however, was that Dawson proved worthy of all this success. She came across as a strikingly original artist, blessed with a charmingly disarming voice, and displayed a songwriting approach that was deeply deceptive in its simplicity.
The latter is a direct result of two things _ her minimalist approach on guitar, which is most often little more than rhythmic strumming of a few chords, and a penchant for lyrics that seem to mimic nursery rhymes. That combo has led some listeners, who aren't really listening, to believe they could write songs that are as good as Dawson's.
Yet, very few songwriters have been able to mix curious, telling observations and heartfelt messages with tiny jokes and catchy choruses like Dawson has done during both her own solo career and, previously, as a member of the duo, the Moldy Peaches.
In San Francisco, she mined her back catalog for such diversely appealing winners as the politically conscious "12/26" and the sweet fairytale "I Like Giants," although the crowd, as expected, reacted most strongly to the "Juno" material. She didn't play all the songs from the soundtrack _ the most notable omission was the Moldy Peaches tune "Anyone Else But You," which is the number that actors Ellen Page and Michael Cera sing in the film's last scene. Still, what she did sing was enough to make us realize that Kimya Dawson will be around long after the "Juno" craze has past.
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Peace Seekers
By Barbarella Fokos, Sept. 1, 2005
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'I got more power doing the right thing than I ever had being an actual violent gang member," says Derek Grover, author of The Gangbanger's Dictionary: One Hundred and Eighty-Seven Things You Better Know Before You Join a Gang. Grover will be giving a lecture and signing his book at the San Diego Public Library in Mira Mesa on Saturday, September 3. For a quarter of a century Grover went by the name D-Man and was the leader of the Bloccide Crip Gang in Southeast San Diego. With his book he hopes to educate the public. Grover instructs kids how to answer a simple question like "Where are you from?"
"Your answer could get you killed," he writes. "The best way to answer this is to just stand there and look at his hands. Let God talk for you. To say anything else is a form of disrespect to the [gang]banger."
Grover explains, "There's a lot of killings on holidays because on holidays a gangster plans rival attacks. All holidays are like that except Christmas Day. Gangsters are extremely spiritual people because they die young. When you go to jail, you believe in God one hundred percent." Grover has been to jail around 40 times in the past 27 years for gang-related crimes. "I was sitting in San Quentin and God came to me and said, 'I'm gonna show you some things, and I want you to write this book.' He wasn't coming and telling me in a soft, squeaky voice or a loud voice, He was telling me in my own voice because it's my own voice that I trust. But I knew it was God talking to me because it was thoughts that I couldn't control; it was something more powerful than me."
When he was at the top of his game Grover was a millionaire. "I got those millions of dollars from robbing and stealing and taking," he says. "Fighting gang wars is extremely expensive; it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year because you have to pay your gang members. If you don't pay people then nobody comes to you with information. The more money you got the more the streets talk to you. The streets tell you what's going on."
In Gangbanger's Dictionary, Grover defines several street terms, a few of which he reads aloud: "'Busted on' means to shoot a full clip. A 'gat,' that's a gun that's fired no matter what. A gun is used by law enforcement, [and] a gat is used by a violent criminal. When somebody says 'gat,' he's saying he's shot [the gun]. A "strap" is a fake gun, and as any stoner can tell you, a "blunt" is a "cigar from which tobacco is removed and replaced with marijuana" that is resealed and smoked. A "homeboy" is a well-connected friend, and a "homie" is a person who is not well known.
"The reason I wanted to write this book [is because] one of my homeboys was killed in a fiery shootout in 1997. My gang robbed the Saks Fifth Avenue in Mission Valley for two million dollars in diamonds." A week after the robbery police officers caught up with Grover's homeboy, Bobby Lewis Kirk, Jr., while he was at home. "[Bobby] just sprayed 'em up a hundred times with an AK 47. They shot back and burned the house down on top of him," says Grover. "I couldn't take his death like it was just another day. I wanted to dedicate my life to righteousness after his death." Bobby is one of four people Grover lists in his book under the words, "This book is dedicated to the homeboys of the Bloccide Crip Gang. Your loyalty to the gang will never be forgotten."
In his gangbanging days Grover regarded police officers the same way he did the Bloods, his rival gang. "The police are gangsters, too. It don't seem like it, but only a gangster can bring down a gangster. If you was a cop and you didn't do nothing bad, you wouldn't catch nobody. You have to use deadly force against some gangsters in order to disarm them. That's how it goes in the world of gangbanging."
How do his old homeboys feel about the D-Man's new book? "Gang members don't kill people that preaches peace 'cause all gang members are looking for peace. They just need somebody who knows their language to talk to them." -- Barbarella
Gangbanger's Dictionary lecture and booksigning with author Derek Grover
1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Mira Mesa Branch
8405 New Salem Street
Info: 858-538-8165
More stories by Barbarella Fokos
Some bad news for the Vista Home Boys — May 1, 2019
This Other Epidemic — May 7, 2009
Gangsta Rap Extinction? — Oct. 18, 2007
Dictionary — Oct. 18, 2007
Gang life ends at Gladiators gym in Southcrest — Sept. 20, 2007


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IBT Industrial Solutions Announces New Vice President of Marketing
IBT Industrial Solutions announced that Jeff Cloud will take over as the new Vice President of Marketing.
"Jeff will work closely with his team of marketing professionals to develop hard-hitting, competitive strategies designed to create profitable, sustained growth," said Mike Flannery, the President and CEO at IBT. "I selected Jeff for this important role based on his knowledge of the business and skill sets, which will serve the company well as we work to expand IBT's market and product presence."
In his new role as Vice President of Marketing, Cloud will manage all business groups—plus all marketing communications, including: strategic market planning, e-commerce strategy, supplier rationalization, and sales support. He will also serve on IBT's Executive Committee.
In addition to overseeing IBT's product and service positioning programs, Cloud will also work closely with other leaders in the organization to develop and deploy short- and long-term strategic plans designed to enhance IBT's unique value proposition.
"My goal is to enhance IBT's ability to provide the highest possible level of products and services to our customer base," Cloud said. "I plan to develop a formal, yearly strategic marketing plan that helps guide both our product groups and our sales team to grow our business together with our trusted supplier partners."
"I am very much looking forward to watching Jeff and our business group directors work closely with Dennis Vogel, our Vice President of Sales, and the regional managers to help move IBT to the next level of sales and profitability," said Stephen R. Cloud, Chairman of the IBT Board of Directors.
Cloud continues his family's 67-year ownership of the company, which was founded by his grandfather, Forrest L. Cloud, in 1949. "I'm proud of Jeff taking this opportunity to help IBT move toward a third generation of ownership by our family," Stephen Cloud said.
While Cloud has always been involved in the family business, he started full-time work at IBT 10 years ago, working in both Inside Sales and Outside Sales. Since 2011, he has served as a Regional Manager, supporting 6 branch locations—from Nebraska to west Texas.
"I've always worn a lot of hats at IBT," Cloud said. "But in this new role, I can now focus 100% of my energy on a single set of objectives."
At home, Cloud enjoys spending time with his wife, Kayce, and 2 children, Owen and Alice. He also enjoys golf, BBQ, fishing, and watching KU Jayhawks basketball.
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Nobody Wanted to Give Up the M-1 Carbine
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A grim-faced U.S. Army major led a group of armed men away from a tropical village he decided not to attack. Wearing jungle boots and olive-drab battle dress, Edwin Brooks grasped a lightweight, reliable, .30-caliber weapon in his right hand as he walked.
It was an M-1 carbine.
The scene could have been anywhere in the South Pacific during World War II or somewhere near the Pusan Perimeter during the Korean War. But Brooks also wore a green beret with a Special Forces flash and he was leaving the then-South Vietnamese village of Ban Me Thuot in 1964, leading the indigenous forces he commanded back to base in an effort to defuse a rebellion.
It's all on the cover of the January 1965 National Geographic magazine in a photo by writer and photographer Howard Sochurek. Not a single M-16 is anywhere to be seen. The Pentagon had shipped thousands of the new M-16s to U.S. troops including the Special Forces, but in 1964 many Green Berets still preferred the M-1 carbine, the weapon of their fathers' wars.
What's more, Brooks' Viet Cong enemy was almost certainly wielding the more modern Kalashnikov assault rifle. As for the Montagnard tribesman Brooks trained and led, they also were carrying some of the 800,000 M-1 carbines the U.S. sent to South Vietnam during the war.
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Quote from: Elderberry on March 22, 2018, 02:03:29 PM
@Elderberry
Naw,that's not what was happening.
In 64 the SVN Army and the VN indigenous were being issued surplus WW-2 firearms and ammo. The SF advisors that went out on patrols with them had access to pretty much anything they wanted short of nukes,but carried the surplus WW-2/Korean War carbines too because they would be able to shoot the same ammo as the people they were advising if things got hot. You want to see something that looks out of place,find a photo of a 14 year old 'yard soldier carrying a BAR. It looks like it weighs more than he does.
Some carried the old M3 grease gun chambered for 45 ACP,but not around areas like Ban Me Thuot. The jungle wasn't thick in that area and they needed something with more range than the old 45 ACP. Granted,the 30 caliber round fired by the M1/M2 carbine was also a pistol round,but it was the equivalent of a magnum pistol round,and shot flatter and further. Didn't have much killing power,though. I knew a Major that was shot 4 times in the back with a carbine by a camp striker as he stood shaving in the latrine,and he strangled the shooter to death and walked to the dispensary to get patched up. Granted,he was a sick puppy for a long time,but he did survive. The charm of the carbine was 30 round magazines. You could usually afford to shoot somebody 3 or 4 times to kill them.
Back then lots of SF advisors also carried 9mm sub guns like Swedish K's or British Stens,too. They were popular for "special mission" operations because you could get them with silencers on them,but the problem then was you had to shoot a downloaded subsonic round to keep from burning out the silencer,and it was quicker to choke somebody to death than shoot them to death with a silenced 9mm. I had a friend shoot a NVA point man 14 times in the chest from about 20 feet away with a silenced Swedish K,and the SOB still managed to unsling his AK and return fire before he died.
My "special missions weapon" was the old grease gun with a silencer. The full-power military 230 grain ball round was subsonic anyhow,so you lost nothing,and I guarantee you that you never have to shoot anybody 14 times in the chest with military 45ACP Ball ammo.
This reminds me. A couple of recon teams were at our launch site at Dak To,waiting for the rain to stop so we could get inserted into our targets,and the platoon tent at the launch site was leaking right over the door way. You walk inside and hit that slick wet plywood floor,and would go skidding down the aisle. A friend of mine named Squirrel Sprouse decided to use his silenced/suppressed Swedish K to shoot a couple of holes in the floor so the water would drain,and the silenced K was so quiet the shooting wouldn't cause anyone to panic. The freaking bullets bounced off the wet plywood and made more holes in the tent. It was only due to luck they didn't make any holes in any people.
Back to the M-1/M-2 carbines. We loved to issue them to the yards and the yards loving being issued them because they were light,and so was the ammo. They were also super reliable and easy to dissemble and clean. They were a good "fit" for the small natives in every respect.
By 68-69,all the M1/M-2 carbines had been pulled,and the yards were all carrying M-16's.
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Quote from: Elderberry on April 27, 2018, 06:57:01 PM
BTW,that's not a paratrooper carbine shown above. REAL paratrooper carbines had wire buttstocks. Can't remember right now if the just slid forward and backwards and locked,or were hinged and swung up and back,but I THINK they just slid forward and backwards like the collapsible butt stock on the M3 series grease guns.
And yeah,the paratrooper carbines had flash suppressors,but I never saw or heard of one with a scope and don't know why anybody would want one. The US Army paratroopers of WW-2 and the Korean War also jumped with and carried M1 Garands,and snipers jumped with the old 03 Springfield sniper version as well as the M1-Garand sniper rifle. 30/06 sniper rifles make sense. 30 Caliber carbine sniper rifles make no sense at all.
They're calling it a "Sniper Carbine", not a Paratrooper.
The only scoped carbine I've heard of was the Sniperscope M3.
Says "Paratrooper Carbine right in the photo.
A "sniper carbine" is akin to a "sniper pistol."


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Available now: THE AAYAKUDI MURDERS by Indra Soundar Rajan
We're excited to announce that The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan (translated by Nirmal Rajagopalan) is now available on our website in paperback and eBook formats. You can also buy it from the Kindle Store.
It's a supernatural murder mystery thriller with many twists and turns. If you liked Indra Soundar Rajan's stories "The Rebirth of Jeeva" in The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 1, "The Mansion of Kottaipuram" in The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 2, and "The Top of the Game" in The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 3, we think you'll like this one even more!
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Arthur Kapetanakis | April 21, 2019
SAN ANTONIO – Fed Cup has sparked the imagination of an already vibrant tennis community in San Antonio, as the local residents have extended a warm welcome to Team USA and its collection of world-class tennis talent.
On Saturday, Freeman Coliseum became the first venue in the state of Texas to host Fed Cup play.
"San Antonians take great pride in that," said San Antonio Tennis Association president Cari Richardson. "We love that we're hosting the Fed Cup in San Antonio, for the first time in Texas."
Perhaps no one is more excited than the San Antonio youth, who were wide-eyed at the opportunity to see some of their tennis idols in person. But San Antonio's next generation of tennis greats got more than that—roughly 150 local students at Friday's Net Generation Kids' Day event had the chance to rally with members of Team USA.
Sonya Kenin, Jennifer Brady and Jessica Pegula made an appearance to chat and play with a group from San Antonio Sports' "i play!" after-school program on Friday. San Antonio Sports, which played a major role in bringing Fed Cup to the city, continued to collaborate with the USTA during the week.
"I think it was a great experience. All three of us had fun," said Brady. "It's always good to see young kids out playing tennis, trying to do what we can for the kids."
The pros were joined by two top American juniors, Ashlyn Krueger and Vivian Ovrootsky, who also hit the Net Generation courts. The high school freshmen were selected to travel to San Antonio to train alongside the senior team, under the tutelage of USTA national coaches Jamea Jackson and Jean Desdunes, and join in on the Fed Cup festivities.
Another 100 San Antonio children attended a second Kids' Day event on Saturday, with a lucky few selected to warm up the Freeman Coliseum court for Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens ahead of the day's play.
"Fed Cup has definitely drawn people together," said Mike Carter, director of Net Generation strategy for USTA Texas. "There's been a lot of fun and energy because Fed Cup's here. We've had lots of volunteers from San Antonio and all of the various organizations."
Carter helped run both Kids' Day events, his infectious energy mirroring that of the participants on 14 kid-sized courts set up in a warehouse adjacent to the Freeman Coliseum. Some of the Net Generation players are also directly involved with the Fed Cup event, serving as ball kids and flag bearers on court.
USTA Net Generation ambassador Jayden McCareins was also on hand, making the five-hour trip from the Dallas area to be a part of the fun. In her ambassador role, Jayden got to interview Kenin, Brady and Pegula about their off-court hobbies and on-court habits.
The kids were the only ones who got a chance to rub shoulders with Team USA. On Tuesday evening, U.S. captain Kathy Rinaldi joined a group of 130 women at McFarland Tennis Center for a celebration of women in tennis, mingling and playing doubles with the attendees.
As the focus shifted to the main event on Saturday afternoon, San Antonio's tennis community went from playing to cheering, as they made their voices heard in the stands.
On Easter Sunday, their support will be needed again, as Team USA's Fed Cup fate hangs in the balance. What was a best-of-five tie has now condensed into a one-day, best-of-three battle. If the U.S. can emerge from the drama with two match victories over Switzerland, their place in the 2020 Fed Cup World Group will be secured.


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26/10/2018 - AFTER A FANTASTIC CLOSURE, ELIA SDRUCCIOLI IS READY TO TAKE THE LEAP
Silver medalist at the European and World Championship, gold medalist at the ISSF Junior World Cup: Elia Sdruccioli's 2017 has been quite memorable. And the only thing the 20-year-old talented shooter could do to improve it, was to climb that one, final step.
At the Changwon International Shooting Range in Changwon, the fascinating venue that welcomed the 52nd edition of the ISSF World Championship l'affascinante teatro della 52esima edizione del Campionato del Mondo ISSF, Elia arrived with great confidence, after participating in two final matches at the Junior World Cup held in Sydney and Suhl, where he respectively placed 4th and 3rd.
Sdruccioli qualified for the final with the score of 121 hits out of 125 clays, then wrestling his way to the top of the table and barely avoiding elimination in 3rd place, finally closing with the fantastic score of 55 target hits out of 60 and the shiniest medal around his neck.
Q: What was your spirit, your approach, as the championship was coming closer and closer?
A: I left home with only one thing in my mind, to win. That's what I always do. I have this particular theory that says that the 2nd placed athlete is the first of the losers, so I can't say I'm happy or satisfied until I claim the gold.
Q: And the gold is finally here…
A: Yes, finally! Right in my final year as a junior shooter. At the European Championship, despite pocketing two team gold medals, I wasn't happy about my individual performance: I didn't qualified for the final after losing a four-way shoot-off. That result probably gave me even more determination, to come here and take this gold.
Q: How does your career change, now that you're about to become a senior shooter?
A: I'd like to think that this win is not a final goal, but a starting point. A trampoline towards my biggest dream: the participation at the Olympic Games. I haven't had the chance to talk about it with the Italian coach, Mr. Andrea Benelli, but he knows my aspirations. And this title is the best business card I could give them.
This is Elia Sdruccioli: confident, swaggy, maybe a little bit cocky, but never disrespectful or distracted. Elia is not scared at all, he's ready to continue the great and long tradition of Italian clay shooting. He's ready to take the leap.


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Marcella Albani, eigentlich Aida Annita Maranca, (* 7. Dezember 1899 in Rom; † 11. Mai 1959 in Wiesbaden) war eine italienische Schauspielerin, Filmproduzentin und Autorin, die besonders im deutschen Stummfilm erfolgreich war.

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Ihr Vater Oreste Maranca war Besitzer einer angesehenen Gastwirtschaft in Trastevere. Sie besuchte die Höhere Töchterschule, das Gymnasium sowie die Gabelsberger-Nöe-Stenographieschule in Rom. Ihre Ausbildung als Schauspielerin erhielt sie an der Akademia Santa Cecilis in Rom.

Für den Film wurde sie von Guido Parisch entdeckt, der ihr den Künstlernamen Marcella Albani gab. Ihr Filmdebüt gab sie 1919 in Seelenkampf der Myriam-Film, in dem sie die Hauptrolle übernahm. Nach einem weiteren Film für die Myriam-Film drehte Albani von 1920 bis 1922 zahlreiche Filme für die Amrosio-Film in Turin. Sie arbeitete bei den Filmdramen und Abenteuerstreifen mit Parisch als Regisseur zusammen.

Albani kam 1923 mit Parisch nach Berlin und hatte in Deutschland sofort Erfolg. Sie drehte zunächst für die Berliner Nivo-Film, sowie für ihre eigene Albani-Film GmbH. Bis 1926 führte meist Guido von Parisch unter dem Pseudonym Guido Schamberg in ihren Filmen Regie. Während der gesamten 1920er-Jahre verkörperte sie im deutschen Stummfilm elegante südländische Schönheiten. Auch in französischen, tschechoslowakischen und österreichischen Filmen wirkte sie mit.

Mit dem Aufkommen des Tonfilms widmete sie sich vermehrt ihrer literarischen Tätigkeit und veröffentlichte einige Romane wie Glauca, l'amata l'innamorata, der in deutscher Sprache als Liebelei und Liebe erschien. La Citta dell' Amore wurde durch den Regisseur Mario Franchini verfilmt. Franchini war seit 1931 ihr Ehemann, mit dem sie ein Kind hatte.

Im September 1930 wurde die Albani-Film in die Ariete-Film GmbH (1930–1937) umgewandelt. 1937 brachte das Ehepaar Albani/Franchini die Ariete-Film als Gesellschaftsanteil in die Gründung der Firma Deutsch-Italienische Film-Union GmbH (DIFU) ein.

Filmografie

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Albani, Marcella. In: Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films. Verlag der Lichtbildbühne, Berlin 1926, S. 5–6.
 Kay Weniger: Das große Personenlexikon des Films. Erster Band A – C. Erik Aaes – Jack Carson, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3, S. 49.

Weblinks

 Marcella Albani bei www.cyranos.ch

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IAS plus
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IASB Meeting — 24–25 April 2018
Primary financial statement
Business combinations under common control
Goodwill and impairment
Dynamic risk management
Disclosure Initiative: Definition of Material
Date recorded: 25 Apr 2018
Dynamic Risk Management [Macro-hedging] – Agenda Paper 4
When the IASB issued IFRS 9, it did not replace the requirements in IAS 39 for portfolio fair value hedge accounting for interest rate risk (often referred to as the 'macro hedge accounting' requirements). The Board has been assessing how to replace those requirements. A Discussion Paper was issued in April 2014. In the light of the comments received, the IASB decided to develop a second discussion paper, which it expects to publish in the first half of 2019.
Summary of discussions to date – AP4A
This paper provides details of the Board's discussions to date and is for information only. See the March IAS Plus meeting summary.
Target Profile: Designation and Qualifying Criteria– AP4B
This paper sets out qualifying criteria for the financial liabilities used to determine an entity's target profile. It also discusses designation and de-designation of financial liabilities within the Dynamic Risk Management (DRM) model and corresponding documentation requirements.
Staff preliminary views
The staff set out their preliminary views:
(a) Financial liabilities designated at fair value through profit or loss should not be eligible for the purpose of determining an entity's target profile.
(b) An entity's risk management policies and procedures will ultimately define when fixed rate financial liabilities with a demand feature are treated as core demand deposits within the DRM accounting model. However, core demand deposits must be financial liabilities with a demand feature and must not re-price with changes in market interest rates over time. Additionally, qualifying criteria focused on the estimation of the core portion of a demand deposit portfolio could be arbitrary and potentially inconsistent with the objective of the DRM model to not govern, but reflect the impact of risk management activities in financial reporting. Since the aim of the model is to faithfully represent, in the financial statements, the effect of DRM activities undertaken by an entity, the effects of when an entity inappropriately treats deposits as core demand deposits should be captured in performance assessment.
(c) Designation of financial liabilities and future transactions should occur on a portfolio basis. This is consistent with the asset profile designation mechanics agreed at the February 2018 Board meeting, which in turn is consistent with one of the goals of the DRM accounting model to reduce operational complexities associated with the application of the current hedge accounting guidance to dynamic portfolios. Designation of financial liabilities on a portfolio basis would allow for a faithful representation of DRM in the financial statements. In particular, this would align the designation mechanics with the way risk management considers interest rate risk.
(d) The DRM accounting model should allow for designation of a percentage of a portfolio of existing financial liabilities and future refinancing, provided that:
(i) the designated percentage is consistently applied to all expected cash flows within the portfolio;
(ii) the same percentage of a portfolio of financial liabilities is applied to a related portfolio of future refinancing; and
(iii) designation of a percentage of a portfolio is consistent with an entity's risk management strategy.
Additionally, an entity can designate a proportion of growth in the target profile provided the designated percentage is consistent with the risk management strategy, and the designated amount is the same as the amount of growth designated as part of the asset profile.
(e) Financial liabilities and future transactions should be de-designated from the target profile if the financial liabilities are derecognised in accordance with IFRS 9 or the qualifying criteria are no longer met. In addition, the DRM model should not allow voluntary de-designation of portfolios within the target profile when the risk management objective for a particular portfolio of financial liabilities remains the same and all other qualifying criteria are still met.
(f) Formal documentation of items designated within the target profile should be required. In particular, an entity should document the following upon designation:
(i) The portfolio(s) of financial liabilities and amounts designated under the DRM accounting model. The level of detail of the documentation should provide sufficient specificity such that when new financial liabilities are originated it is clear to which portfolio they should be allocated;
(ii) A description of the methodology and key assumptions used by the entity to estimate the core and non-core portions of its demand deposit portfolio;
(iii) The methodology used by the entity to determine the amount of future transactions and how designation as part of the target profile is consistent with risk management policies and procedures. For example, if the entity designates future transactions related to refinancing and growth, the entity should document the methodology used to forecast the amount considered highly probable and how the designated level of future transactions is consistent with the entity's risk management strategy; and
(iv) Evidence supporting the high probability of future transactions occurring. This is consistent with the documentation requirement applicable to the asset profile when an entity would prepare a cash flow maturity schedule, including the effects of the resetting of interest rates for financial assets and liabilities, showing that there are sufficient levels of expected cash flows to establish that the future transactions are highly probable to occur. This schedule can be supported by past practice of reinvesting cash inflows and refinancing cash outflows as well as observable data used to estimate the expected growth of a designated portfolio. In addition, the time period during which the portfolio of future transactions is expected to occur should be documented within a reasonably specific and generally narrow range of time from a most probable date, as a basis for assessing performance.
The documentation should be supported by an entity's risk management procedures and objectives. Changes in documentation should be infrequent and consistent with the entity's risk management practices.
Preliminary View (a)
The Board members agreed that there must be qualifying criteria. One member found the terms 'forecast transactions' and 'firm commitment' confusing as one was based on probability and one not.
One Board member noted that a hedge cannot be eligible if already designated for interest rate risk, however, it could be if designated for foreign currency risk and this should be considered more. Furthermore, when a liability in the past has been designated as FVTPL, on transition this can be amended to amortised cost so the liability can fall under these criteria but own credit risk cannot be recycled under IFRS 9. This should be considered further by Staff.
The Vice-Chair and other Board members questioned whether liabilities that have a variable rate and an interest swap to fix the interest could be included. Staff commented that they did not think so given that the risk should not be managed on both an individual and portfolio basis although the issue was more practical than conceptual. The Vice-Chair asked Staff to confirm this approach.
Preliminary View (b)
One Board member agreed with the proposal and agreed that if an entity treats a deposit as core it should be captured in the performance assessment. Additionally, there is a definition of a demand deposit but it would be helpful to also have principle based qualifying criteria to determine what is 'core'. Another Board member and the Vice Chair agreed that it is important to consider what is core from management's perspective based on future economics and that this should be based on available and supportable information and this should be included in the proposal.
The Chair added that ordinarily what is core is based on contractual rights and it would need to be explicit that this is based on future risk management.
Some Board members said that in their jurisdictions there were demand deposits available that are repriced that would not currently fall within the definition but are considered a core component. Staff agreed to consider how to address this issue.
Preliminary View (c)
One Board member commented that they could not see any alternatives to the portfolio basis. Another added that financial liabilities and future transactions, as at paragraph 37, should have similar risk characteristics if in the same portfolio.
One Board member reflected that they are happy with the proposals but find it hard to understand, prior to the performance discussion at a future meeting, the extent to which a target profile is a meaningful benchmark of the extent to which you achieve a goal. Additionally, there should be a further discussion on whether these proposals will be mandatory or elective, however, once there are designations and qualifying criteria they are effectively elective as an entity will be able to deliberately fail a test in practice.
The Vice Chair added that the comments on rebalancing in the paper do not appear to reflect how this is intended to work under IFRS 9 which is a very narrow concept rather than for a change in size of the overall group.
Preliminary View (d)
One Board member clarified that where in the example the liabilities had been split in to 2 parts, banking and equity, the words 'designating 50% of liabilities' meant designating 100% of the in scope liabilities.
Other Board members clarified that the risk management strategy is a high level concept that encompasses the wider risk management policies and procedures.
The Board supported all of the preliminary views unanimously except for (b) which had one dissenting vote.
The Dynamic Nature of Portfolios – AP4C
Staff analysis
This paper demonstrates how the dynamic nature of portfolios affects the asset and target profiles, and their interaction, on the basis of the DRM accounting model as it has been developed by the Board.
This paper does not ask for any additional tentative decisions from the Board.
One Board member commented that it is important to draw out that the change in fair value will be split into the interest driver element, recognised as interest, and the remainder which will be recognised as a fair value movement. This must be explicit as it results in an amount in interest income/expense that is not a receivable or payable.
Furthermore, it is important to consider other drivers in change of value of derivatives. This has not yet been discussed by the Board and only interest rate swaps have so far been considered. Complex instruments should be considered, as it may not be appropriate to have all fair value movements go through OCI except for the interest element.
One Board member questioned the rolling strategy in scenario B when the DRM continues rather than has a new designation and when this would be appropriate. Staff commented that in this situation they had distinguished and separated a portfolio with a continuous nature as opposed to one with a finite nature.
One Board member questioned the use of the word 'consider' in paragraph 55 ("the DRM accounting model must consider the difference in contractual terms") which staff clarified meant that the difference should be reflected. Furthermore, they discussed the wording in paragraph 39 ("The allocations to the respective time buckets within the asset and target profile do not reflect when the transactions are expected to occur. Rather they reflect the expected impact on the asset profile, and the objective the entity wants to achieve"). Staff clarified that this related to growth and repricing not to when it will be originated.
One Board member commented that the layering in the model may not make it less onerous on preparers and this will be discussed further in a future meeting when performance is discussed.
Staff plan to deliver a paper relating to derivatives on basis swaps and then on performance in the future.
Financial instruments — Macro hedge accounting
Updated IASB work plan — Analysis (November 2020 meeting)
Updated IASB work plan — Analysis (October 2020 meeting)
Updated IASB work plan — Analysis (September 2020)
Additional update to the IASB work plan — Analysis
Updated IASB work plan — Analysis (May 2020 meetings)
Updated IASB work plan — Analysis (April 2020 supplementary meeting)
Deloitte comment letter on IASB DP 2014/1 'Accounting for Dynamic Risk Management: a Portfolio Revaluation Approach to Macro Hedging'
Need to know — IASB issues macro hedging discussion paper
Robert Bruce interviews — Accounting for dynamic risk management – a portfolio revaluation approach for macro hedging
IFRS Project Insights — Financial instruments: Hedge accounting
IAS 39 — Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement
IFRS 9
Financial instruments — Limited reconsideration of IFRS 9
Financial instruments — Effective date of IFRS 9
Financial instruments — Asset and liability offsetting
Financial instruments — Comprehensive project
Financial instruments — Derecognition
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Cold, powerful magnet will help control hot plasma in fusion reactor
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A team at ITER, an international experimental fusion reactor in southern France, prepare on Feb. 10, 2022, to move one of six modules for a central solenoid, a powerful superconducting magnet being built by General Atomics in California under the management of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (Photo used with permission. © ITER Organization, http://www.iter.org/)
A magnet so powerful it could lift an aircraft carrier six feet into the air was designed in a project managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It will be used in an international experimental reactor in southern France to produce energy using fusion, the same process used by the sun and other stars to create heat and light. If successful, the reactor could revolutionize energy production, potentially showing how to provide a nearly limitless energy supply without planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions or long-lived radioactive wastes.
Six modules for the reactor's central superconducting magnet, plus a spare, are being made by General Atomics in Poway, California. Two of the modules have already been shipped to France. Two more are completed, with one of those expected to ship this year. The remaining three are more than 60% complete, and manufacturing should be done this year, said John Smith, General Atomics senior director of engineering and projects.
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The students of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Vidyalaya, Panchkula participated in an Inter School Yoga Competition organised by the Swami Vivekananda Millennium School, Pinjore and stole the show with their yogasanas.
Kritika Talwar and Arunima Sharma of Class IX were the first prize winners and were awarded a Trophy and certificates.
The school also celebrated Martyrdom Day on January 31, 2012 by paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi by conducting a special assembly and highlighting his ideologies of Truth and Non-Violence and re-enacting the Dandi March.


You guys. I can't believe I fell off the blog wagon for an entire year. Actually, I totally can believe it, but I'm a little bummed about it. I really like going back and being able to see where I was at different points in time. It's cathartic.
ANYWAY I felt like I needed to do another update. Let's see if I get back into the swing of things again. First of all – is anyone still out there? Or is this going into the internet black hole? I'm not sure that it really matters to me, but I am curious.
Okay onto the goods … Riley is 16 months old. I can't believe my last update was when she was 4 months.
11.5 months: first steps a week before her first birthday!
Riley is now walking, running, climbing (ugh), and dancing. Her favorite things to play are stacking cups (the Ikea ones = gold) and stacking rings. She loves to read books but sometimes only 3 pages before she's on to the next. She is so chatty, and this speech language pathologist mom LOVES it. I think she has around 35 words. Her favorites are: all done, more (sign), different (sign), duckie, night night, bye bye, uh oh, baba (bottle), yeah, no, up, down, and agua (she goes to a Spanish speaking daycare).
So the major update since my last post is that we obviously figured out what was going on with her skin. As it turns out, she has multiple severe food allergies, which is a big fat bummer. Right around the time of that last blog post (4 months), the pediatrician ran some allergy blood tests just to "rule out" food allergies since there is a family history (I am allergic to tree nuts). At that visit, she tested very positive for peanut, milk, egg, and dog, and borderline/unknown clinical significance for wheat and soy. I kept breastfeeding (started to wean at 12 months and fully weaned by about 14.5), and ended up cutting out dairy, eggs, soy, and peanuts. By the time she was 9 months, I was able to add back soy and by 10 or 11 months I added back dairy and eggs. I wasn't able to add back peanuts per our allergist. We've since done further testing and dealt with many reactions to foods as we started to introduce real food, so the current/updated allergy list is: peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, dairy, eggs, wheat/barley (gluten). She is able to eat soy, which is great. But she is definitely a very allergic kid. Sesame was a recent discovery that ended in using her Epi Pen and a trip to the ER. It's scary and a big fat bummer, but we are learning to live with food allergies. Up side is: she eats a very healthy diet of mostly whole foods (processed foods always have something she's allergic to in them). She drinks Ripple as a milk substitute, which is a plant-based milk made of pea protein. We love it – it has more calcium, Vitamin D, and protein than most other plant-based milks like soy and coconut. She loves avocado, applesauce, veggie straws (may as well be crack), and homemade risotto.
Can you even handle the cuteness that is kids being tossed in the air?
We had planned to start trying for number 2 when she was about a year old. I knew we'd be doing IVF again, and am lucky enough to have coverage for IVF this time (now that I spent 2 years proving I'm really for certain infertile), so we needed to wait until Riley had weaned to get anything started. We didn't have any frozen embryos from last time (Riley was our only frozen embryo from that cycle), so had to do the whole thing again. I knew it would take a while to get the ball rolling, but didn't know how long it would take to wean, so I didn't call for an appointment with my RE until I had actually weaned. They didn't have anything until the end of April! Luckily I'm a good squeaky wheel and she was able to squeeze me in that week.
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Johnson's UK government forwards legislation flouting the rule of law
By Robert Stevens
The European Union (EU) launched legal action against Boris Johnson's Conservative government Thursday, after it pushed through an Internal Market Bill that breaks the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with Brussels governing post-Brexit trade relations.
Britain's Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)
After the Tories published the legislation last month, the EU gave Johnson three weeks to withdraw the legislation and threatened to take his government to court if not. The European Commission said, "Violating the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement [from the EU] would break international law, undermine trust and put at risk the ongoing future relationship negotiations."
Parliament passed the third reading of the Bill Tuesday, with a majority of 84 votes. The Bill went forward to the House of Lords. MPs voted by 340 votes to 256, with a party rebellion failing to materialise. No Tory MPs voted against the Bill, with only around 20 abstaining after Johnson informed them that he would seek MPs approval if he wanted to change the Brexit departure deal.
With the three weeks up, EC President Ursula von der Leyen announced Thursday that Brussels had sent a "letter of formal notice" to Johnson to begin the process of "infringement proceedings". Action had been taken as "This draft bill is by its very nature a breach of the obligation of good faith laid down in the Withdrawal Agreement. Moreover, if adopted as is, it will be in full contradiction to the protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland."
Under the agreement's terms, Britain remains in a transition period and is subject to many of the same rules applied by Brussels until the end of 2020. London has been given until the end of October by the EU to respond to the legal action.
Johnson also met with almost no opposition Wednesday, as Parliament renewed the draconian Coronavirus Act. The Act enables the government to use extraordinary powers to restrict or prohibit events and gatherings in England and Wales during the pandemic in any place, vehicle, train, vessel or aircraft, any movable structure and any offshore installation and, where necessary, to close premises. It provides a temporary power to close educational establishments or childcare providers, extended to cover Scotland and Northern Ireland, where there is no equivalent legislation.
The Act grants police forces the powers to arrest and isolate anyone suspecting of being able to spread COVID-19.
Utilising the rapid spread of the pandemic in Britain due to the Johnson government's declared herd immunity policy, the 321 page Act was passed within four days of being introduced before parliament on March 19. The legislation was enacted without any vote, as the Labour Party, then led by its nominally "left leader" Jeremy Corbyn, allowed its passage.
The forwarding of the two Bills without obstruction this week, which breach international law and threaten democratic rights at home, follows the pushing ahead last week of legislation representing an explicit repudiation of the Rule of Law. The Overseas Operations Bill protects British Armed Forces personnel who have committed war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan from prosecution and those committing atrocities in future. The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) Bill allows confidential informants working for MI5 and the police to break the law. As it stands, the Bill does not explicitly rule out any crimes being committed, even torture and murder.
Parliament has become an arena for enshrining naked criminality within the highest echelons of the state. And there is no constituency in ruling circles for opposing this.
The limited conflict that arose over the Withdrawal Agreement reflected divisions within the ruling elite over the orientation of British imperialism's foreign and trade policy. Johnson's move to abandon the Northern Ireland protocol threatens economic relations between Britain and Ireland post-Brexit and by extension with the EU, which is still Britain's biggest market. The five surviving prime ministers—Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May—warned that, according to Brown, breaking the EU treaty would see Britain plunged into "battle with Europe for years ahead."
On the Coronavirus Act, Johnson's opponents within the Tory Party endlessly cited their great concerns over the loss of freedoms for everyone that had taken place, even under the extremely limited national restrictions put in place by Johnson last week. But behind these cynical paeans to individual liberty, their barely disguised aim was to ensure that under no conditions would another national lockdown or any measure impinging on the profit drive of big business be enacted.
Leading the Tories threatening to oppose the Act's renewal were some of the parties' most frothing right-wing elements. In an interview last week with The Post, Sir Graham Brady laid out the motives of his rebels, who at that point numbered around 80. As early as April, "Many of us have been making the case for sensible, cautious opening [of the economy]… Certainly it was pretty obvious back then that you could allow open air markets to operate, and garden centres, all things that could have reduced the economic damage…
"Some sectors like aviation and the events sector have been completely put out of business by the restrictions."
Brady commended the Swedish government's refusal to impose a lockdown—which has made it the Nordic country with the highest infections and death toll, particularly among the elderly—claiming that as infections were lower now than at the height of the pandemic, people are no longer "dismissing the Swedish evidence."
Asked "If there was a vote on a full second national lockdown tomorrow, what would happen?" Brady responded, "I would vote against a full national lockdown… I think there would be a very significant number of Conservative members of parliament who would vote against a full national lockdown."
Brady's opposition evaporated after Johnson promised that he would allow MPs a vote on any further coronavirus measures to be applied nationally.
A hated government whose policies have led to tens of thousands of deaths in the pandemic and pauperised millions more can only pursue its criminal agenda because it is kept in office by the Labour Party and the trade unions.
The Tories passed the Coronavirus Act by a majority of 306 votes after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer instructed his MPs to abstain to allow it to remain on the statute books. Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds commented, "Here in the UK, we have seen over 42,000 deaths, lives altered in ways unimaginable a year ago, and our economy facing one of the worst recessions on record." Handing Johnson a free pass he declared, "We accept the challenge that presents, which is why we have recognised that, in a pandemic, any government needs extraordinary powers available… we will not block its passage."
Only six Labour MPs (out of 201) voted against the draconian powers but Corbyn and his main allies John McDonnell and Diane Abbott were not among them as they lined up to abstain. Starmer reassured Johnson that in any future vote, he would have Labour's backing in allowing its renewal.
This was just days after Starmer sacked three MPs from Corbyn's Socialist Campaign Group from their frontbench roles after they voted against the Overseas Operations Bill, instead of abstaining. Neither Corbyn nor McDonnell uttered a murmur in protest.
At Labour's annual conference this week, Starmer declared that he was offering "A New Leadership". As Labour's every move has demonstrated, this new leadership is one in which Labour operates a part of a de facto government of national unity.
Johnson government rolls out Kickstart youth cheap labour scheme
French students denounce inadequate partial lockdown
Starmer begins purge of Corbyn supporters from UK Labour Party
Clare Moseley on the horrific plight of English Channel migrants: "They are asking for help, but being treated like criminals"
Priceless artefacts vandalised in Berlin museums