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General Motors falls short of Wall Street expectations as supply chain challenges dent profit
General Motors reported second-quarter earnings Tuesday that missed Wall Street's estimates after the company was unable to ship nearly 100,000 vehicles by quarter-end due to parts shortages.
But the company maintained its previous earnings guidance for the full year, saying it's confident it will be able to ramp up production in the second half of 2022. It also confirmed it has locked in sufficient supplies of critical battery-related materials to support its mid-decade EV plans.
The company's shares were down roughly 1% in premarket trading Tuesday.
Here are the key numbers, compared with Wall Street's consensus expectations as compiled by Refinitiv.
Adjusted earnings per share: $1.14, versus $1.20 expected and $1.97 in the second quarter of 2021.
Revenue: $35.76 billion, versus $33.58 billion expected and $34.17 billion in the second quarter of 2021.
EBIT-adjusted: $2.34 billion, versus $4.12 billion in the second quarter of 2021.
EBIT-adjusted margin: 6.6%, versus 11.2% in the first quarter of 2022 and 12.0% in the second quarter of 2021.
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CEO Mary Barra said in a statement that GM has "binding agreements" securing all of the battery-related raw materials it will need to build 1 million electric vehicles annually in North America by 2025, including "new multi-year agreements" announced Tuesday with Livent for lithium, and with longtime GM battery partner LG Chem for cathode material.
Like other global automakers, GM has been working through supply chain disruptions for the last several quarters as Covid-19 outbreaks – and more recently, Russia's invasion of Ukraine – have forced factory shutdowns and wreaked havoc with logistics around the world.
Those disruptions have been felt at GM's U.S. dealers, where inventories continue to be tight. The dealers have had just 10 to 15 days' worth of inventory over the last year, including through the second quarter, the company said Tuesday. That's much tighter than the 60 to 90 days' worth that was typical before the Covid-19 pandemic.
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But GM expects to get more vehicles to its dealers soon. The company told investors on July 1 that it had about 95,000 vehicles with missing components in its inventory. It confirmed on Tuesday that it expects to complete and ship those vehicles — many of them high-margin SUVs — over the next few months.
GM, like most automakers, books revenue when a completed vehicle is shipped to dealers, not before.
"We have been operating with lower volumes due to the semiconductor shortage for the past year, and we have delivered strong results despite those pressures," Barra said. "There are concerns about economic conditions, to be sure. That's why we are already taking proactive steps to manage costs and cash flows, including reducing discretionary spending and limiting hiring to critical needs and positions that support growth.
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"We have also modeled many downturn scenarios and we are prepared to take deliberate action when and if necessary," she said.
Barra said that GM is still confident that it will meet its previous guidance for the full year. The company expects net income of between $9.6 billion and $11.2 billion for 2022.
"This confidence comes from our expectation that GM global production and wholesale deliveries will be up sharply in the second half," she said.
Correction: General Motors reported an EBIT-adjusted margin of 6.6% for the second quarter of 2022. An earlier version of this story misstated the number.
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For the last month, Ubisoft has made it their goal to clean up the online community for Rainbow Six Siege. Alongside issuing bans for chat toxicity, Boosting, and just plain cheating, the team behind the competitive shooter plans to enact even harsher punishments.
Players who are caught cheating will now lose the rank and rewards that they received during that time period.
"We are currently assessing how we will be delivering this from a technical side, but all players sanctioned for this will have their rank and rewards removed prior to the launch of Season 3," Ubisoft wrote.
That means that any charms, skins, and anything else earned will be Last week alone, Ubisoft suspended around 1300 players caught cheating, each receiving 15-day suspensions.
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A December 11 People's Daily editorial suggests that Party officials may be moving to tighten control over Chinese non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
The editorial emphasizes the need for NGOs to carry out Party policies and ideology and to adhere to relevant laws and regulations. Calling on Party and government organizations to exercise leadership over NGOs, the editorial stresses that the Party and government should work together to achieve the "development and supervision" of NGOs. The writer describes the value of NGOs in utilitarian terms: they are good for resolving local conflicts, providing social services, and giving Party officials a channel to understand local opinions.
The editorial follows other official pronouncements on the need to increase the Party's governance capacity, and accompanies recent crackdowns on dissident authors. Foreign news media also have been reporting (New York Times, subscription required) on the efforts of Chinese leaders to tighten control over society. Cumulatively, these articles and statements suggest that the Chinese government may be moving to reassert control over civil society organizations.
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Beatles fans at the Brown Palace Hotel
In July 1964, Peter, Paul & Mary played Red Rocks Amphitheatre and had to deal with a thrown beer can. The "beer can bomber" incident and general rowdiness were on everyone's mind as the biggest group in the world—the Beatles—was set to appear in August. Many feared that the crowd conduct for the Beatles would not be acceptable. For that reason, a new ordinance was passed to ban alcoholic beverages, cans and bottles in the park. The security force was also increased—estimates ranged from 137 to 250 Denver policemen—and auxiliary recruits were briefed in "Beatle Invasion" strategies and assigned to "mop-top" duty.
Nevertheless, Denver, like the rest of the country, succumbed to Beatlemania in a tidal wave of sheer exuberance. The Beatles had appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in February, and the first wave of the British Invasion, as it came to be called, was so swift that in the first week of April, the band held the top five positions on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, which has never been accomplished by any other band or artist. The Beatles' 32-day visit on their first American tour was the longest concert swing they ever shouldered. The sixth stop was a performance at Red Rocks.
For all of its seeming magnitude, the concert almost didn't happen. The expense of bringing the band to Colorado was viewed as prohibitive, and the booking nearly fell through several times. The show was promoted by Verne Byers' Lookout Mountain Attractions; Byers said he didn't know the Beatles particularly well, but he was looking for someone to book in Denver, noting that they used their bowl-shaped haircuts as a "gimmick'' to separate themselves from Peter & Gordon, the Beach Boys and similar acts that were touring that summer.
On the Wednesday morning of August 26, some six hours before the Beatles plane touched down, hundreds of kids bearing "I Love the Beatles" signs, Beatles hats and Beatles pins were already waiting at Stapleton Airport. By noon, nearly 10,000 had blanketed a fenced area on an adjoining boulevard. Huge numbers of sobbing and fainting teens mobbed the front entrance of the venerable Brown Palace Hotel on Broadway, where the group stayed before the show. Six girls and one harried policeman (who had been bitten on the wrist trying to hold back the hysterical mob) were taken to Denver General Hospital for treatment.
Nearly a thousand Beatlemaniacs also crowded the road leading to Red Rocks waiting for the gates to open at 3 p.m. Seating was general admission. Weather predictions called for rain, and emergency plans were made to transfer the show to the Denver Coliseum if necessary.
Later, the Beatles arrived at Red Rocks and were involved in a press conference back stage. Members of the Colorado Jaycees committee presented the four with official vests (called "boleros") with the band members' first names on them—John, Paul, George and Ringo.
Fans were polite for Jackie DeShannon, the Righteous Brothers, the Exciters and the Bill Black Combo, the opening acts on the bill. At 9:30 p.m., the audience erupted into 35 minutes of nonstop screams when the Beatles finally took the stage and opened with "Twist and Shout." The audience was boisterous but polite—and whatever music might have been audible on the primitive sound system was drowned out by the teenagers' piercing shrieks. The band, dressed in black suits, white shirts and skinny black ties, speedily performed its repertoire of hits, politely bowed to the audience, and left the stage without so much as an encore.
The altitude was the only factor that proved troublesome throughout the Beatles' performance—halfway through the first song, they were gasping for breath. The members wound up using oxygen canisters that were placed nearby.
"We were all told it was high above sea water, altitude. We thought, 'Well, so? What's the difference?' We got there, and we started finding it a little hard to breathe, because we weren't used to it," Paul McCartney said. "I remember singing 'Long Tall Sally' and thinking, 'Hey, this is great, hyperventilation of the highest order! Well, Long Tall Sally, wheeze, wheeze…' I was sweating, but I got through it. It was an interesting experience, physically. It was a lovely arena. It looked beautiful at night.''
The Beatles were indeed pelted—with handfuls of jelly beans (reportedly their favorite candy), not beer cans. Police officers were stationed all across the front of the stage, and the wall held. Men on horseback, on foot and in jeeps along with mountain climbers cleared kids off the rocks who wanted a better view of the band, but many kids were determined to climb the rocks and sneak in.
Red Rocks was the only one of the initial dates on the Beatles' 1964 tour that did not sell out—at least officially. Only 7,000 fans bought general admission tickets to see the show in the 9,000-plus capacity venue. Press accounts blamed the unsold tickets on the "out of the way" location, coupled with no public transportation for teens.
But photographs and news clips of the crowd showed a well over-capacity crowd and no empty seats. At $6.60, tickets were nearly $3 more than those for a recent performance by Igor Stravinsky, who was considered the world's greatest living composer. Although the cost was consistent with prices across the country, many fans suffered from Fab Four sticker shock and plotted alternate ways to get into Red Rocks, which was still viewed as a mountain park rather than a musical venue. It was well-known in Denver high schools that there were hardly any gates, ticket takers and bouncers, and a few thousand enthusiasts managed to sneak into the event.
After the show, John, Paul, George and Ringo were whisked back to Suite 840 at the Brown Palace, and visited for a while with Joan Baez, who was in town for a gig at Red Rocks two nights later. The predicted rain finally arrived as the Beatles headed for the airport the following day. An estimated 3,500 people waited at Stapleton. Shortly after noon, the group left Denver for Cincinnati, never again to return as a band.
Reportedly, the $48,000 gate netted the city $2,000 in rent for Red Rocks, but as crowd control cost nearly $3,000, the city lost money on the Beatles.


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BISHKEK, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Kyrgyzstan will deepen relations with China in the spirit of good-neighborliness and strategic partnership, the new President Sooronbai Jeenbekov said here Friday.
The president made the remarks during his inauguration ceremony after winning 54.77 percent of votes in the Oct. 15 presidential election.
During the ceremony, the chairwoman of the Central Election Commission Nurzhan Shaildabekova handed Jeenbekov a certificate, a badge and a standard of the president.
Further, Jeenbekov swore an oath to the people on the country's constitution and delivered an inaugural speech.
"Relations with the People's Republic of China will deepen in the spirit of good-neighborliness and strategic partnership," Jeenbekov said in his speech.
During the speech, Jeenbekov said that the Central Asian country's main directions in foreign policy, as before, would be the protection of national interests and the creation of favorable external conditions for the country's sustainable social and economic development.
He also noted that Kyrgyzstan will continue to actively participate in international affairs and integration processes through international organizations and regional structures including the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Some 450 people were invited to the inauguration ceremony, including representatives of the public, artists and scientists, members of parliament, members of the government, members of the diplomatic corps and representatives of international organizations.


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James Ramsden ran a super-popular supper club until about a year ago - it was the supper club featured in Russell Norman's TV show The Restaurant Man. Now he and Sam Herlihy run the restaurant Pidgin in Wilton Way, Hackney, and every month they'll be running a 'back to front' supper club for charity. It's 'back to front' because for this one night a month the chefs do the serving, and the front of house staff do the cooking - it sounds like a lot of fun!
"A monthly charity night at Pidgin in Hackney hosted by Owners James Ramsden and Sam Herlihy themselves!
On the first Monday of each month Pidgin is going back to front. Owners James Ramsden and Sam Herlihy, who ran the hugely popular Secret Larder supper club, will be getting back in the kitchen with their front of house team helping out, while the cooks see what it's like running a dining room.
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AC Ace – samochód sportowy produkowany przez firmę AC Cars.

AC Ace I
Pierwszy samochód o tej nazwie pojawił się w 1956 roku i produkowany był do 1961. Miał otwarte, dwumiejscowe nadwozie z długą maską. Pod nią znajdował się silnik sześciocylindrowy o pojemności 2,0 l. i mocy 105 KM. Samochód ten stał się podstawą do opracowania modelu AC Cobra.

AC Ace II
Kolejny Ace pojawił się na rynku w roku 1997. Firma International Automotive Design opracowała Ace'a w roku 1991. Prototyp miał silnik Cosworth, czterocylindrowy z doładowaniem, który w produkcji zastąpiono zmodyfikowanym silnikiem Ford V6. Model po sprzedaniu 48 egzemplarzy został wycofany. Wytwórnię przejęła firma Pride Automotive Group, gdzie opracowano obecny Ace o bardziej łagodnych liniach nadwozia. Wykończenie zewnętrzne stanowiły elementy z aluminium i kompozytów, przymocowane do podwozia ze stali nierdzewnej. W zawieszeniu zastosowano podwójne wahacze z przodu i z tyłu. Samochód wyposażono w tarcze hamulcowe o średnicy dla wszystkich czterech 17-calowych kół z obręczami ze stopu lekkiego. Pod maską znalazł się znowu Mustang V8, jak w AC Cobra Shelby'ego, ale tym razem z wtryskiem paliwa i doładowaniem.

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How good a performance was that?
I can't fault any of them to a man. I thought they did everything today, playing some really good stuff, but they also fought, dug in and ran for each other. If someone made a mistake, someone else helped them out and that was the most pleasing aspect, that we tied two elements of the game together.
I thought all three goals were excellent. It was two good footballing teams and MK Dons are where they are in the league because they are a good team. We are starting to show signs that we are a half decent team as well, but with where we are we have to keep doing it again and again because we are playing catch-up.
Yes, it's difficult because they flipped their formation half way through so things we were trying to tell them to do in the build-up to the game then became trying to get them to do the opposite of that. It's something hard getting your message across, but I thought with Tyrone (Barnett), they ended up not competing for headers with him because he absolutely battered the life out of them and he got his goal. I was pleased with him getting his goal as he spends a lot of time outside the posts, but he arrived on it and it was a great header.
Yes, there was lots of good football today and incisive football as well. I talked about before, bluff football, when teams roll it around the back and then end up whacking it anyway. We have moved it, we've worked on certain things and they've come out today. It doesn't always happen.
I have just told them that. They might feel that they were camped in our half a little bit. Something we need to get better at is being patient when the other team have the ball sometimes. You don't always have to press all the time. Sometimes you have to let them come on to you. On the chance count in the second half we had more than them. They had a key one, with Watson having a big chance at 2-1, but there was lots of good stuff.
Are Tyrone Barnett and Sam Jones knocking on your door to say 'keep me after January'?
I've not had a conversation with them yet. It's coming obviously, so we will have to sit down and talk about that with them.
No, I have just seen their result, winning 4-1 away from home at a good team. They have the best away record in the league, but it's a local derby, it's a festive fixture and we're both coming off good wins. They are a good team, but we've just beaten a good team so we have to do it all over again. That's the difficult bit, doing it all the time and that's what the best teams do.
You are hoping you can deliver a performance and people realise we are improving and we can do different parts of the games. That was the pleasing thing for me and hopefully a few more of them will come back.
Yes, we are playing catch-up so we are going to have to show good form to finish mid-table if that makes sense. The priority is still to get further clear of the bottom two before we start looking anywhere else, but we have to keep doing our work, looking after ourselves and keeping our noses clean and hopefully we'll be all right.
It's just another game, another win and another three points, which is stating the obvious I know, but it's momentum. If we'd lost today, does it all of a sudden become doom and gloom? No. You dust yourself down, pick the bones out of it and go again. That's what we'll do.
You seem very calm, but on the inside is the adrenaline flowing?
Yes, of course it is. It's important you keep a lid on it though. It's genuine when you say you can't get too high and you can't get too low. That was a good performance against a very, very good team and I thought we deserved our win thoroughly. It was nice to see a few more supporters here and there was good noise made at the stadium. It goes hand in hand and for them to turn up we need to deliver more performances like that and if we deliver more performances like that more people will come. I said it when I first came in and we want more people to come to the games, obviously, but it's up to us to show people what we are doing and we did that today.
You lost 3-0 at MK Dons early in your reign, how much does this result highlight the progress made since then?
That was the message to the players before and there is talk in the dressing room about improving and getting better. Now opposition managers have started saying little complimentary things about it, so the message is getting further and further out, but we are still wary of where we are.
Was that your first touchline yellow card?
Yes and probably the first of many! I thought it was a foul in the build up to their goal, a blatant push in the back. I shouldn't have reacted the way I did and I have apologised to the referee at half-time and to someone I hit with water. It's frustrating as a couple of key decisions today could have changed the game, negatively. We are not talking about it as we've won the game, but it's still frustrating.
Kevin Dawson back fit and on from the bench, how pleased were you to see him back?
Yes, it was quite a bad one yes a medial ligament injury. He's not fit in terms of heart and lungs fit, but he is what he is. He is an experienced player and we could throw him in the middle of the pitch. I thought he did well when he came on, so I was delighted for him.
Were Ryan Broom and Jacob Maddox close?
They weren't really in consideration. They were close, but if they are not fit, they are not fit. We have had people coming in and affecting games. Conor Thomas is doing a great job out there considering he's not a right-back. Jonesey (Sam Jones) came in and showed why he's a League One player at times because he can do things, which has been frustrating as we've had him and he's done it in training but you have to deliver. I thought he was good and from one to whatever number we are up to now, they were all excellent and they deserve every bit of praise they get, but it will be work again, day off and work again and done and dusted, three points that's all it is.
Could you have anyone back for Saturday?
I don't know, we'll have to wait and see.


In the accounting of profits portion of this bifurcated trial,1 the parties settled most issues, but required determination of four specific points. The first, discussed in this post, is whether Apotex had a non-infringing alternative available during the period of infringement. The decision raises two significant issues. One is whether an infringer must know at the time of the infringement that the NIA is non-infringing, for it to be considered available. More generally, this case is novel in that Apotex attempted to establish case an NIA "defence"2 based solely on alternatives which had been developed only for the purposes of litigation , . This contrasts with the leading cases to date, Lovastatin FCA 2015 FCA 171 and Perindopril FCA 2017 FCA 23. In Lovastatin (see here) the putative NIA had actually been developed and commercialized by Apotex prior to the infringement; in Perindopril (here) the issue involved export of infringing product made in Canada, and the NIA was that the product would have been exported to the same countries, and made by the same process in it other jurisdictions where it was not patented. In the leading US decision, Grain Processing 185 F.3d 1341 (Fed. Cir. 1999), the alternative did not actually exist at the date of infringement, but was commercialized almost immediately after infringement was established. In this case, in contrast, the putative NIAs were seven alternative formulations which Apotex never commercialized and has no intention of ever commercializing . They were developed solely for the purpose of arguing that they could and would have been commercialized in the but for world.
Apotex won on the law, but lost on the facts. Barnes J held that these types of alternatives could in principle be considered, but he found that Apotex failed to establish that the particular alternatives it developed would have been commercializable, or that they would have received regulatory approval. While this ultimately turned on the specific facts of the case, there is perhaps a broader lesson. The testing of the alternative formulations that was done in this case fell far short of what would be required for regulatory approval. The tests used to predict both bioequivalency and stability were appropriate for use in a formulation screening exercise, but this was far from enough to persuade Barnes J that the formulations would probably have been approved and commercially successful , . This suggests that while post-infringement NIAs are acceptable in principle, it will be difficult for a generic to surmount the necessary evidentiary hurdles to establish the NIA on the facts. Apotex also failed to establish it would have sourced non-infringing product from a third party (which I will discuss tomorrow) . On the whole, this decision should give comfort to patentees who were concerned that the acceptance of the NIA defence would open the floodgates to speculative defences.
On the law, AstraZeneca made three arguments of principle. First, relying on MacKay J's decision in Wellcome v Apotex (TMP) (1998), 82 CPR (3d) 466, -[33}, it argued that a valid NIA must be perceived or known by the infringer to be non-infringing at the point of the infringement . . To simplify slightly, in TMP the final product, TMP, could be made by two processes, both of which were patented by Wellcome. At trial, one of the process patents was held to be valid and infringed, but the other was held to be invalid. Apotex argued that it – or more precisely, its suppliers – could have used the process protected by the invalid patent. MacKay J rejected this argument, saying "there is really no evidence that at the time the product was acquired there was available product then known to be non-infringing" . In part this was because the alternative patent was not then known to be invalid, and in part because Apotex did not know which process was used by its suppliers. On the whole, though the discussion is brief and somewhat cryptic, TMP does seem to me to support AstraZeneca's argument. Barnes J distinguished TMP on the basis that MacKay J also considered whether Apotex "could have known" . I don't find this distinction entirely persuasive. MacKay J's point, as I read it, is that not only did Apotex not actually know, it might not have been possible for it to know – this reinforces the importance of knowledge, rather than diminishing it. In any event, Barnes J did accept that knowledge is relevant, saying "[k]nowing whether or not a proposed NIA would infringe is, of course, a factor in determining whether the infringer 'would have' employed it in place of the infringing product" , though "this falls well short of making prior knowledge of non-infringement an absolute pre-requisite to the assertion of a NIA" . Thus, Barnes J agreed with MacKay J that knowledge that the NIA is non-infringing is relevant, and the difference between them, if any, is whether it should be a complete bar.
But why should it be relevant at all? As Barnes J noted, it apparently follows from the "would have" branch of the test for availability, evidently on the notion that the infringer – eg Apotex in TMP – would not have known to insist that its suppliers use the non-infringing alternative because it did not know that it was non-infringing. But this seems dubious in principle, as this approach allows an invalid patent to shield behind a valid one. To go back to first principles, the reason alternatives are considered is that the return to a patentee should be commensurate with the value of the patented technology, which is equal to its value as compared with the best non-infringing alternative: Lovastatin FCA . A technology may be innovative and patentable, yet not valuable, if the product is no better or cheaper than a mundane alternative. If the infringer must know that a patent is invalid before that technology can be used as an alternative, the patentee can improperly inflate the apparent value of the innovative technology by patenting obvious technologies that serve the same end, even though those patents are ultimately invalidated. This is a kind of remedial evergreening that is not addressed by the usual expedient of invalidating the offending patents. It will be interesting to see how the law continues to develop on this point.
If foreseeability meant that the infringer must have the asserted NIA in mind at the time of the infringement, it could potentially punish those who had no idea their product was infringing while rewarding those who had an appreciation of the risk and courted it, but nevertheless had a back-up, work-around solution available.
Barnes J's observation strikes me as compelling.
Finally, citing Grain Processing 185 F 3d 1341 (Fed Cir 1999) and Micro-Chemical 318 F 3d 1119 (Fed Cir 2003), AstraZeneca argued that an NIA "requiring the infringer to 'invent around the patented technology' is not considered to be 'available' to the infringer" . Barnes J rejected this, saying that cases stand only for the proposition that "[t]he time and effort of coming up with a non-infringing solution is certainly relevant to whether the infringer would have pursued it, but they are not absolute barriers to the defence" . That conclusion strikes me as both a correct reading of those cases, and sound as a matter of principle.
The correct question is simply "Could the infringer have made the product had it attempted to do so at the relevant time and would the infringer have sold the product on some reasonable financial basis in substitution for the infringing product?" .
While the law was largely decided in Apotex' favour, Barnes J pointed out that post-infringement development of an NIA may present serious problems of proof, which were manifest in this case .
One general point is that the Court should be wary of hindsight bias when assessing the availability of post-infringement development of an NIA , in the same way as the Court must be wary of hindsight bias was assessing an obviousness attack.
 When a pharmaceutical NIA has been created and has obtained regulatory approval, one is not left to wonder whether it "could" have been available for use (assuming a capacity to obtain it in commercial amounts). In this case, however, Apotex's self-created NIAs were made in non-commercial batches, without full stability, bioequivalency or clinical studies, and without obtaining the required regulatory approvals for commercial use.
Nontheless, Barnes J did not dismiss Apotex' tests out of hand, but at the end of the day, the data presented by Apotex was flawed and speculative in many respects: "shortcuts like the ones employed by Apotex may be acceptable in the early stages of product selection, but they are entirely unacceptable in the context of proving the viability of a NIA for the purpose of this case" . For much the same reasons, Apotex could not establish that its proposed alternatives would have received regulatory approval -.
2 I don't like the term NIA "defence" because in most circumstances it does not serve as a complete defence, but only to reduce the quantum that would otherwise be awarded. Nonetheless, the term is convenient, and it seems to have become established, so I will use it, albeit with this caveat.


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The Berry Brothers
The Berry Brothers have been involved in gospel music since childhood and their family has a rich history of ministry. Their father Clyde was a pastor for over 40 years. He was a member of the Berry Quartet, a popular quartet from Fredericktown, Missouri in the 1950's and 1960's made up of Clyde and his brothers. The mother of the Berry Brothers, Phyllis (Rogers) Berry, was a talented pianist from a singing family as well. Her father was a member of the Rogers Quartet from Fredericktown, Missouri. Phyllis, her father, Glenn, her Uncle Lindell and sister, Janice Durbin were a part of the quartet in the 1950's and 1960's.
The older brothers, Alan and Steve, were part of a popular quartet, The Young Messengers, in the mid 1970's. After the Young Messengers dissolved, Alan and Steve started a new group known as The Berry Singers with Brian and Crystal Kinder. Doug later joined The Berry Singers and the group quickly became a favorite gospel group in the Midwest. Their album Jesus, How I Love You, included the song, Hallelujah Meeting which reached number 15 on the Midwest Gospel Music charts in 1976.
While all have had successful solo careers and music ministries, they are at their best when they are together. Both the Young Messengers and The Berry Brothers have performed in concerts with such groups as The Oak Ridge Boys, The Imperials, and The Blackwood Brothers. They appeared on several television and radio programs throughout the South and Midwest.
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Burnout is not only a side-effect of working too hard, but it also comes from increasing mental pressures and lack of positive outcomes. Since prevention of professional burnout is easier than treatment, let's take a look at the key causes and methods of coping.
Professional burnout is work-related stress, specifically of physical or emotional exhaustion that involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity.
Lacking the energy to be consistently productive.
Feeling a lack of satisfaction with your achievements.
Feelings of disillusionment about your job.
Using food, drugs, or alcohol to feel better or to numb yourself.
Becoming overly critical and cynical at work.
Lack of control – All therapists have experienced this at some point in their career. When you work with people, you cannot always control what they do. Things can happen that were not part of the plan and this can feel like a lack of control over circumstances or environment.
Lack of support – Often therapists in a school or medical setting have high caseloads and high productivity levels. Therefore, colleagues and supervisors are also spread thin as well. This can lead to inadequate support and feeling that you are on an island by yourself.
No work-life balance – Also due to high caseloads and productivity requirements, many therapists are unable to complete paperwork and documentation during the workday. Therefore, this is done at home or at the end of the day, thus cutting into the therapist's homelife. This imbalance can create resentment.
Unclear expectations – This can also be related to lack of support. When supervisors are spread thin, they are unaware of what is being done and what needs to be done. These unclear expectations can cause frustration and can hinder overall client progress.
Make an appointment to speak with your supervisor – It is important to make a scheduled appointment with them, so it does not fall through the cracks. Come with a detailed list of concerns and questions, as well as some ideas for possible solutions.
Reach out to co-workers – Speaking with a co-worker can be invaluable because they may understand your concerns in a way that no one else can. Having a sounding board and mentor can help greatly and allow you to feel supported.
Practice self-care – In a profession that focuses on helping and caring for others, it is all too easy to forget to care for yourself. Don't neglect yourself – exercise, get adequate sleep, and do nice things for yourself. If you enjoy getting a massage, do this monthly. If you love to read or get outside, carve out time each week to do this. Put self-care on your calendar so that it becomes a priority.
Take time off to recharge – Use your PTO and do not feel bad about it. When you do, try not to check email or answer the phone. Take the time to truly relax and not do any work.
Say no to extra work – To be the best therapist possible does not mean you hurt yourself in trying to help everyone, you must take the time off to be refreshed.
Join a support group – A support group on social media or traditional group therapy sessions can help you work through the stress of working as a Clinician.
Make sure you pay attention to yourself and your needs as prevention of professional burnout is easier than treatment. Most importantly, remember why you went into this profession and see if you can pinpoint more of the professional highlights because they are there.
Written by: Jennifer Martin, MS, CCC-SLP and New Grad Program Director at Advanced.


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WALTER changes his name
In the latest episode of NXT 2.0, we saw in the main event WALTER challenge one of the veterans of the company, Roderick Strong, in a match that many fans were eager to see after the announcement made on social media. WALTER has interrupted the ring announcer by declaring his name is Gunther and no longer WALTER as we have all been accustomed to knowing the master wrestler of chop for some time.
WWE filed a "Gunther Stark" trademark on January 13th. The description of use filed with the USPTO (United States Patent & Trademark Office) was for general use in the world of pro wrestling and sports entertainment, the same description of use that they often present with brands related to ring names.
New details on WALTER
In a decision that has left fans dumbstruck, WWE changed WALTER's name to Gunther on tonight's episode of NXT. WALTER is one of the most dominant athletes of the modern era, and many believe that he has a bright future ahead of him in WWE.
The Austrian superstar is known for his historic 870-day reign as NXT UK Champion. The apparent name change is receiving a lot of criticism on social media because "Günther Stark" was also the name of a U-Boat commander who served in WWII in the Kriegsmarine, Nazi Germany's navy.
Kapitänleutnant Stark died at the age of 27 on June 8, 1944, while at war on the English Channel. There has also been some speculation that "Gunther Stark" was the name of a new NXT Superstar, probably related to the injured Zoey Stark, but now it looks like this may be the new ring name for the leader of the Imperium.
Among the criticisms that have come into the spotlight, there is that of a former WWE superstar, or Keith Lee, who with a tweet wanted to underline his disappointment at this change of name: "Damn ... if what I heard it is true….
Poor Walter." But he was not the only one to have said something negative about this choice, in fact, many fans have lashed out against the company, which obviously is not new to these name changes, but WALTER was now WALTER for everyone and it is difficult to get used to it, even if Gunther isn't all that strange, certainly less strange than saying Piper Niven and then finding himself with Doudrop.
Recently, the company filed to trademark the term "Gunther Stark" and the news took Wrestling Twitter by storm. It was quickly pointed out that Gunther Stark was a captain lieutenant who served in the navy for Nazi Germany during World War II.


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Blind Tiger in NYC this Wednesday...keeping the bar high with a blowout Brooklyn Brewing event.
Some great chatter over at Beer Advocate about this event. Garrett Oliver chimed in as well with a couple of notes about the Black Ops.


By default ffmpeg sends a whole lotta messages to stderr: when built, how built, codecs, etc, etc, etc.
How can I make it quieter?
I've tried -v 0 (and -v 10 since the documentation just coyly says Set the logging verbosity level. with no indication of what the range of inputs is) -- still not quiet.
I've tried -loglevel quiet -- still not quiet.
I should mention, I'm looking for "quieter," not "no output ever". If there's an error I want to see it, but I don't need to hear about ffmpeg's configuration every. single. time.
This is alluded to in a comment below the current answer.
Then it is absolutely quiet in my usage scenario.
This hides the banner and only displays errors. Use -loglevel warning if you would like to see warnings.
By default the program logs to stderr, if coloring is supported by the terminal, colors are used to mark errors and warnings. Log coloring can be disabled setting the environment variable AV_LOG_FORCE_NOCOLOR or NO_COLOR, or can be forced setting the environment variable AV_LOG_FORCE_COLOR. The use of the environment variable NO_COLOR is deprecated and will be dropped in a following FFmpeg version.
This is a little cheap to go about it, but appending >/dev/null 2>&1 is a sure way to keep ffmpeg silent in the shell.
Is there a way to disable or hide output thrown by FFmpeg?
Can I make FFmpeg precisely constrain the video bitrate?
Make ffmpeg reference position coordinates?


Even though I'm a digital native and enjoy visual media, I have a deep love for audio–both radio and podcasting. It could be from my days growing up in a family without a TV. I was glued to the radio, listening to play-by-play of the Chicago Cubs, listening to Old Time Radio classics and to Christian radio. In this case it was Moody Radio Chicago.
Today, I have the wonderful opportunity to talk with a radio broadcast veteran, one of the best voices in Christian media: Bob Lepine. Bob is the Senior Vice President and Chief Creative Officer at FamilyLife and is the longtime host of their flagship program, FamilyLife Today. He is also the voice of many other radio broadcasts, including Truth for Life with Allistair Begg and Today in the Word on Moody Radio. Bob is also a local church pastor, Redeemer Community Church in Little Rock and an author of several books. Bob is a lively conversationalist. I sat down with him during the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, where he served as the emcee of the event.Bob is a board member of the NRB as well.
We talk in depth about the medium of radio, about his perspective of the evangelical movement today, and what its like to pastor, preach and host a syndicated broadcast. I guarantee you will love this conversation.


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By ELIZABETH RALPH
RULING THE WEEK
As we all hunker down to weather the coronavirus pandemic, let's remember that women are going to bear a large share of the load.
When it comes to infection and death rates, the disease appears to be affecting men more than women. Men have a higher death rate from COVID-19, and slightly more men than women appear to be infected right now.
But the social and economic disruption caused by the virus will likely hit women hard. "The vast majority of nurses, flight attendants, teachers and service industry workers are female, and their jobs put them on the front lines of the outbreak," writes Janet Paskin in Bloomberg Businessweek. "At home, women still do more caretaking, so when the virus closes schools, restricts travel, and puts aged relatives at risk, they have more to do."
There's also the risk that women's dominance in the service fields and their tendency to be family caregivers could expose them to the disease at higher rates than men, shifting the medical burden as well. "In most societies women are more likely than men to be caregivers for the sick in both health-care settings and at home. In this capacity, women are more exposed than men to infectious agents," according to a 2007 WHO report about gender and disease.
And then there's the unintended consequences of staying at home. For victims of domestic violence, for example, home is not safe. "In China, activists have reported a surge in domestic violence cases as millions of people have been under quarantine," writes Melissa Jeltsen in HuffPo. "Perpetrators of domestic violence commonly try to isolate victims and cut off their relationships with coworkers or friends or family," Allison Randall, vice president for policy and emerging issues for the National Network to End Domestic Violence, told Jeltsen. "Not being able to go to work and connect with your colleagues, it can certainly increase your vulnerability."
-- "'Not good enough': How Rep. Katie Porter's relentless questioning led the CDC chief to commit to free coronavirus testing" WaPo
Welcome back to Women Rule. I hope you're all staying healthy. In social media news, Ariana Grande was the most tweeted about woman in 2019, followed by Beyoncé, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Halsey and Hillary Clinton, according to Twitter.
Facebook added two new women to its board, making the board 40 percent female. Globally, women still hold just 20 percent of seats on the boards of public companies. That's not high enough, but it's higher than it used to be, in part thanks to California's law requiring companies headquartered in the state to have at least one woman on their board.
Read on to see what stories Maya Parthasarathy gathered for our reads of the week section … Subscribe here.
2020 WATCH -- WOMEN BREAK FOR BIDEN -- Joe Biden saw big wins in the Democratic primaries on Tuesday, winning female voters by 23 points. Women made up 54 percent of the electorate. WaPo's Daily 202
-- "Women leaders demand female VP pick from Dem nominee," by Holly Otterbein: "In a letter to the Democratic National Committee and the eventual winner of the primary, top officials at EMILY's List, the American Federation of Teachers, Working Families Party and several other groups argued that mobilizing women is an essential component in defeating President Donald Trump.
"'Democratic victory in 2020 will depend on record-breaking participation by women,' they wrote. 'Women are the backbone of the Democratic party. Women are a majority of Democratic voters, volunteers and donors.'
"The women who signed on to the letter called for the Democratic nominee to make five other commitments, including appointing a majority-women cabinet, investing in women-led mobilization efforts, and making women-focused economic issues such as paid family leave a priority in the first 100 days." POLITICO
NEW WOMEN RULE PODCAST -- This week, Anna spoke with Katia Beauchamp, CEO of Birchbox, which delivers a personalized monthly cosmetic box to your door. Here's what she had to say about making sure she's not judging herself through other people's eyes.
"Just like all of you, I source my value externally in my worst moments. … I know it's a fallacy when I catch myself needing someone else's validation and needing someone else to tell me what I'm capable of. I'm human. Of course, I go there. If you notice it and you pay attention and you're like, 'Wow. I'm just giving all of this power to someone else.'"
"One thing that really has helped me do this is meeting someone I really respect … and then having this opportunity to have a conversation with them. And then thinking, like, 'Do they know everything? Are they exactly sure how to navigate all of the questions that are in front of them for their companies, for their lives?' Absolutely not. And the ones that I end up being so impressed by … are the ones who have the humility to own it." Subscribe to the podcast … read the article
CHART OF THE WEEK -- Check out this moving chart depicting the female share of U.S. bachelor degrees by academic field over the past half-century. AEI
#METOO LATEST -- "Harvey Weinstein Is Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison," by Jan Ransom: "The startling sentence meant that Mr. Weinstein, who is 67 and in poor health, might spend the rest of his life in prison. Just before the sentencing, Mr. Weinstein, who was sitting in a wheelchair, told the court that he was remorseful, but also 'totally confused' about what had happened to him." NYT
SPORTS NEWS -- "U.S. Soccer Federation President Resigns in Wake of Sponsor, Player Backlash," by Rachel Bachman: "U.S. Soccer Federation president Carlos Cordeiro resigned Thursday night in the face of a fierce backlash against the federation's defense of a pay-discrimination lawsuit against it by the U.S. women's national team. …
"'My one and only mission has always been to do what is best for our Federation, and it has become clear to me that what is best right now is a new direction,' Cordeiro wrote. 'The arguments and language contained in this week's legal filing caused great offense and pain, especially to our extraordinary Women's National Team players who deserve better. It was unacceptable and inexcusable.'"
"The filing, rebutting claims that U.S. Soccer violated the Equal Pay Act, asserted that a 'higher level of skill' and 'more responsibility' are required of members of the men's national team than the women's team. The arguments sparked outrage from former players and, later, objections from U.S. Soccer sponsors Coca-Cola, Visa, Deloitte and Budweiser." WSJ …
-- What's next? Cordeiro will be replaced by U.S. Soccer board Vice President and former U.S. women's player Cindy Cone. She'll be the federation's first female president and will serve until 2021, when an election will determine the next president.
IWD TALK -- "U.N. chief: Gender inequality biggest human rights challenge," by the Associated Press: "Calling himself 'a proud feminist,' U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lashed out at men who abuse power and declared before Sunday's observances of International Women's Day that the fight for gender equality is 'the biggest human rights challenge we face.'
"Twenty-five years after 189 countries adopted a 150-page road map for achieving equality for women, a new report by UN Women says the reality is that millions of women still face poverty, discrimination and violence. It notes over 70% of lawmakers and parliamentarians and managers are men and nearly 500,000 women and girls over the age of 15 are illiterate." POLITICO
LETTER FROM ILLINOIS -- "Bill would allow campaign funds to cover child care in effort to create 'a system that's more available to moms,'" by Antonia Ayres-Brown and Jamie Munks: "'Why should women have to wait until they're in their 50s and 60s to make a mark, when, if our system supported women in their 20s, 30s and 40s, we could be making a mark already?'" said Alexandra Eidenberg, a Wilmette resident who founded We Will, a bipartisan lobbying organization that encourages women to get involved in the legislative process.
"Under Illinois law, candidates are prohibited from using campaign funds for personal expenses that they would have incurred regardless of their candidacy, such as laundry or rent. The law doesn't mention child care costs, which have ballooned in recent decades and become one of many working parents' largest monthly expenses, leaving it unclear whether those expenses are allowed." Chicago Tribune
HISTORY DEPT -- In honor of Women's History Month, the White House Historical Association has curated a digital collection of stories highlighting women who shaped White House history as First Ladies, activists, pioneers, enslaved women, picketers and more.
I talked to White House historian Lindsay Chervinsky about some of her favorite stories in the collection: "One story that I think it really important to highlight is Gracey Bradley. She ... worked as an enslaved seamstress in the White House and was also Sarah Yorke Jackson's ladies maid, sometimes nursed the children," Chervinsky says. Since the former working space of the White House has been renovated, "those renovations and the modern touches tend to obscure some of the labor that took place. … It was very much a site of slavery."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth was "so fiesty that her dad told her that no daughter of his would smoke in the White House, and so she climbed on top of the roof to smoke," Chervinsky says. Longworth, who went on diplomatic missions for her father, carried a snake in her purse that she would pull out when conversation lagged. White House Historical Association
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Katerina Sakellaropoulou, a former high court judge, was sworn in as Greece's first female president on Friday, March 13. | Alkis Konstantinidis/Pool via AP
WHAT RULERS ARE READING
2020 LONGREAD -- "The Original Sandernista," by Bridget Read: Jane Sanders "told Connie Schultz, the wife of Sherrod Brown, to get a desk in Brown's office when he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, the same year as Bernie Sanders. By then, Sanders had, in addition to being mayor of Burlington for eight years, served 16 years as a representative in Congress. He and Jane had been married since 1988. Schultz, a journalist on a leave of absence from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, recalls asking Jane about the desk, 'Why would I do that?' 'They need to know you're there,' she replied.
"To Jane, the desk was a symbol that she was there to work, not just to visit occasionally as the senator's wife. 'They,' in Schultz's memory, referred to the senator's staff and those with whom he would be working in government. It was not a reference to the public, which didn't, and still doesn't, necessarily know much about Jane Sanders at all. ... One reason she's remained unfamiliar to many voters is because of the location of those desks. Hers have almost always been, in some way or another, inside the offices of her husband. Though Jane, a community organizer when she met Bernie, has held other jobs over the last 39 years, none has lasted longer than working for him. Their romantic and political lives are arguably more intertwined than any other presidential hopeful pair of the last decade. ...
"On Super Tuesday, Biden bested Sanders by ten points with women overall. Jane, as the top woman in the Bernie Sanders project, the person who has his ear, could theoretically help Bernie bring them in. Yet in an election in which candidates have been asked more than once to address the gender pay gap, Jane is a woman who has worked for her husband for free. She doesn't tell stories on the campaign trail about sexism or use the word patriarchy; she has said she has never really 'done gender politics.'" The Cut
-- "Elizabeth Warren did better with college-educated white men than with working-class women," via Vox
AROUND THE WORLD -- "Mexican Women Stay Home To Protest Femicides In 'A Day Without Us,'" by James Doubek: "What would happen if all the women in a country simply disappeared? Mexico got a preview Monday, when women across the country stayed home as part of a 24-hour strike to protest staggering levels of violence against women. Calling it 'a day without us' or 'a day without women,' countless women skipped work, school and social functions, leaving classrooms half full, trains and buses empty and fewer cars on the streets.
"About 10 women are killed in Mexico each day. There's a name for the killing of women because of their gender: femicide. Mexico has tracked femicides for the past eight years. In February, the country's attorney general said femicides have increased 137% over the last five years, four times more than the general homicide rate." NPR
-- "The Best Foreign Policy Puts Women at the Center," via Foreign Affairs ... "'How Do I Know Where Your Socks Are?'" via NYT ... "What It's Like to Be a Leftover Woman," via The Atlantic
IN THE POLLS -- "Americans overestimate voters' prejudices against women and ethnic minorities": "The researchers found that Democrats, in particular, appear to overestimate the prejudices of American voters. For instance, Democrats in the survey guessed that only 61% of Americans, and 43% of Republicans, would say that they are willing to vote for a woman as president. But according to the Gallup poll, 94% of Americans, including 90% of Republicans, said they would be prepared to pick a woman.
"The Democrats polled by Mr. Mercier made similar misjudgments about Americans' expressed willingness to vote for ethnic minorities, Muslims and gays (see chart). Republicans surveyed by Mr. Mercier also tended to overestimate their party's voters hostility towards minority candidates, though not nearly to the same degree as Democrats. Might respondents be hiding their real prejudices from pollsters? In fact, past research has found that people are generally truthful when polled about their willingness to vote for candidates who belong to ethnic-minority groups." The Economist
TECH TALK -- "Internet 'is not working for women and girls,' says Berners-Lee," by Ian Sample: "Women and girls face a 'growing crisis' of online harms, with sexual harassment, threatening messages and discrimination making the web an unsafe place to be, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned. The inventor of the world wide web said the 'dangerous trend' in online abuse was forcing women out of jobs, causing girls to skip school, damaging relationships and silencing female opinions, prompting him to conclude that 'the web is not working for women and girls.'" The Guardian
WOMEN IN ART -- "Women's Art Is Every Kind of Art," by Julianne McShane: "Underrepresentation of female artists is a problem many institutions share. Women account for only 13 percent of artists represented at 18 major museums across the country, including [Boston's Museum of Fine Arts], according to a study published last year in the online journal PLOS One. The M.F.A. has accepted women's works into its collection since its founding 150 years ago, when the Arts and Crafts movement unfolded here. (Those pieces are the focus of 'Boston Made: Arts and Crafts Jewelry and Metalwork,' through January.) But female-identifying artists have represented only 5 percent of the M.F.A.'s acquisitions in the last decade.
"The seven galleries of 'Women Take the Floor' — divided into themes like landscape and action painting, textiles, printmaking and photography and abstraction — were meant to fix this oversight. Works were pulled from the museum's collection as well as private collections, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Danforth Art Museum in Framingham, Mass." NYT
IN THE MEDICAL WORLD -- "When surgery becomes 'women's work': the devaluation of gynecologic specialties," by Sarah Temkin: "Surgical specialties were particularly resistant to the inclusion of women, with the exception of obstetrics and gynecology. After decades of increasing percentages of women entering gynecology, the field became the first majority women surgical specialty in 2012. This should have been embraced as evidence of the legitimate role for women in surgery. Instead, it led to a devaluation of gynecology as a specialty. …
"The ... collective abandonment by men of now female-dominated fields is, at least in part, because of the gender-specific stigma and wage penalty associated with working within a 'feminine' occupation. A tipping point, when approximately one-third of a field becomes women, leads to a precipitous decline in men employed in the field. In gynecology, this point has passed: Women comprise 58% of practicing OB-GYNs and 84% of trainees.
"Gender segregation across occupations drives much of the gender wage gap. As the share of women in a field increases, wages go down, even when controlling for education and skill. A documented negative correlation exists between the percentage of women working within a specialty and the mean salary. For OB-GYNs, salaries are currently lower than for any other procedural specialty. Similar work on women's reproductive tracts is reimbursed at lower rates than on men's reproductive tracts. For example, a surgeon is paid 45% more for a biopsy of a penis than of the vagina." STAT
BOOK CLUB -- "Stop Telling Older Women to Step Aside," by Leslie Bennetts on "In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead," by Susan J. Douglas: "A University of Michigan communications professor whose previous books deconstructed the role of sexism in the idealization of motherhood as well as in the media and pop culture, Douglas devotes much of 'In Our Prime' to documenting various forms of social tyranny that blight women's lives, from the anti-aging industrial complex to the grim financial realities facing women, who are 80 percent more likely to spend their later years in poverty than men are." NYT
-- "Rebecca Solnit's Memoir Is Much More Than a Feminist Manifesto," via The New Yorker
WOMEN RULERS
SPOTTED at the Junior League of Washington's annual Women's Leadership Breakfast at the Hamilton last Friday, featuring speakers Carly Fiorina, Tammy Haddad, Michelle Rice and Rajshree Agarwal: Cameron Normand, Charlyn Stanberry, Meredith McPhillips, Molly Fromm, Rebecca Ballard, Cheryl Teare, Meghan Ogilvie.
TRANSITIONS -- Joe Biden has named Jen O'Malley Dillon as his new campaign manager. O'Malley Dillon managed Beto O'Rourke's campaign for president and served as deputy campaign manager for Obama's 2012 reelection bid. … Lydia Polgreen, editor-in-chief of HuffPost, will be head of content at podcast operation Gimlet Media. … Jenifer Fernandez Ancona is returning full-time to Way to Win, the donor collaborative she co-founded in the wake of Trump's election, to spearhead political strategy and strategic communications.
WISDOM OF THE WEEK -- Phyllis Kurlander Costanza, head of UBS in society and CEO UBS Optimus Foundation: "This new decade demands we solve the world's greatest challenges. If someone had told me at the beginning of my career that finance skills would be integral to helping millions, I wouldn't have believed them. In the two decades I've worked with philanthropists and investors, I've witnessed the impact strategic investing in the right places, for the right reasons, has on communities around the world. To create sustainable impact, we must harness the power of financial capital and invest in communities, mobilize people and develop emerging markets. So, if you want to change the world, study finance." Connect with Phyllis here
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The Vault of the Almost Forgotten Pt.2: Get Rich Or Die Tryin (Soundtrack)
Every once in a while I ravage through my collection of cd's and I come across some albums that I haven't listened to in forever. Most of them are for a good reason but some special ones need to be sync'd to the pod immediately. This morning I did the same thing and I came across the soundtrack to the 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' movie. I remember hearing this album for the first time and thinking "damn I never heard such a good movie soundtrack". This album definitely came out when 50 was on a roll. So let's revisit this joint.
Hustler's Ambition
https://justmythoughtsman.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/01-track-1.mp3
Such a good song. The lyrics reflect the hustle and the hunger. The production was on point.
I like how 50 made up witty analogies by saying "what if" he were like other artist and stars. You would think it would be annoying but the way he presented it to the listener was smooth. 50 was one of the first artist to get on that harmonizing tip and he actually sounded good doing it.
Things Changed ft. Lloyd Banks & Spider Loc
This guy was above average with his chorus writing game. This song is definitely something to cruise or chill out to. kudos to Sha Money XL for that production, so funky and hard.
You Already Know ft. Lloyd Banks and Young Buck
I remember thinking that this song really didn't fit in with the other songs.
When Death Becomes You ft. M.O.P.
A tough track but it wasn't something that I was forced to press repeat on.
Goodness those drums were so hard. Nate Dogg just sounded at home on this joint. 50 was yelling "ggggg g-unit" too much in the background.
We Both Think Alike ft. Olivia
The sample for this track had my face similar to this picture. It was another song that I could bump and just maintain a steady head bob to. Kudos to DJ Khaliil for such a groovy track.
Don't Need No Help ft. Young Buck
I hated this song. I still skip it to this day. This would have sounded better if Eminem was on it but Young Buck just sounded so terrible.
Get Low ft. Lloyd Banks
I still hear this song sometimes on the radio but it's mostly the instrumental playing during the ads. Lloyd Banks was smooth with the word play but this song was just a fail for me.
Fake Love ft. Tony Yayo
https://justmythoughtsman.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/10-track-10.mp3
One of my favorite tracks off the whole soundtrack. Even though Tony wasn't the best with the rhymes he definitely kept it real.
"some people want nothing out of life, some people want it all plus more"
"money talks and bullshit runs marathons"
so true! There's nothing but lessons in the words Tony speaks in this song. Another reason that I like this song is because of the sample, peep (@ 2:45)
Window Shopper
"the top feels so much better than the bottom….so much better"
That sounds like a breath of fresh air. This thing was an anthem for the longest time. In the video does Ma$e still have the same shoes on from that Mo Money Mo Problems video??
Born Alone, Die Alone
A very tough song! Havoc on the production. Banks was so hungry back then and when you mix that with talent you get something near perfection.
You A Shooter ft. Mobb Deep
The production is decent but 50's chorus made this song pop and he made it bearable.
I Don't Know Officer ft. Lloyd Banks, Prodigy, Spider Loc, & Mase
This had to be one of the hardest tracks out at the time. All of the artist were going hard on this track. I bet Flex wanted to drop a bomb on this thing so many times, definitely worth spitting a freestyle over it.
50 used to talk so much shit in his songs. His personality really took over this song.
You can tell this is one of those real songs cause you can't make up thoughts and emotions like that. 100% authentic. I have to give it to Dr. Dre and his crew for providing 50 with this smooth beat. You can hear the agony in 50's voice, no other artist at the time put so much behind the words they spit.
MY GOODNESS kudos to Hi-Tek, this thing never gets old. 50's harmonizing game was up to par and the lyrics in this song were excellent. Make a ni99a want to sing along lmao.
I'll Whip Ya Head Boy ft. Young Buck
You know what I said about 'I Don't Know Officer' earlier, I take that back. This song had to be the hardest track out at the time. 50 knew how to put together a hell of a song. Made me want to ride around grillin people with this song on blast just asking for it to go down. When they played this song during the movie, the visuals matched the feel of the track perfectly.
This album/soundtrack is definitely worth remembering and if you don't already have it, go cop it. There was so much street knowledge in this album that one would think that they were tough after listening to this joint. I would have to say this the songs off this project were pivotal to the future of hip hop music for sure.
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Some employers are expanding eligibility to those without college degrees for positions that previously required them. (Shutterstock illustration)
Companies Can Benefit From Expanding Opportunities to Employees Without Degrees
Back Commentary Jan 13, 2022 By Gina Olson
Gina Olson is the senior vice president of enterprise applications at SAFE Credit Union.
Employers report they are having a difficult time filling positions as the "Great Resignation" affects numerous industries, from retail and hospitality to education and health care. Employers are seeking multiple solutions, including expanding eligibility to those without college degrees for positions that previously required them.
I applaud this move because I know firsthand it's possible to rise through the ranks without a four-year degree to become a senior vice president — even while juggling a demanding career and raising children. However, these achievements take an eagerness and willingness to learn new skills, and employers who will provide support and training to help workers climb from an entry-level job to an office in the C-Suite.
Stories like mine shouldn't be a rarity. And the good news is that employers have the opportunity to ensure experiences like mine will not be so unusual for the 70 percent of American adults who don't have a four-year degree.
The past two years saw two main societal forces strike employers: the economic impacts of the pandemic and urgency to increase the diversity of their ranks from entry level to top leadership. One way to improve diversity is to change to skills-based hiring practices. That's because requiring a college degree automatically eliminates 83 percent of Latino candidates, 76 percent of Black candidates and 75 percent of American Indian candidates, according to data from the Education Trust.
Some of the largest employers in the U.S. have committed to hiring based on skills, not a degree. The Rework America Initiative by Markle invites employers to provide opportunities and career paths to workers who have gained experience and skills through alternative pathways. Employers who have signed on with this initiative include IBM, Goodwill, Google, Microsoft, NAACP and CVS Health.
Hiring is only the first step. Training, mentoring and clear career pathways are also essential to help employees thrive and support a company's success. During my career, I took advantage of the many opportunities my employer provided and sought out mentors to help me learn management and leadership skills. I embraced unexpected opportunities and was willing to try new things.
In the Capital Region, workers are fortunate to have several avenues available to them to receive advanced training, earn certificates and finish degrees. With only 31 percent of adults in Sacramento County having a bachelor's degree or higher, those training opportunities can launch the nearly 70 percent without a degree into well-paying careers.
Programs like Project Attain! provide ways for working adults to finish their degrees. The program reinforces educational equity, regional and individual prosperity, and skills alignment. Workers can earn certifications for career-building skills through the College of Continuing Education at CSU Sacramento and campuses in the Los Rios Community College District. In the Bay Area, Year Up offers tuition-free training for tech jobs.
More employers are starting to realize the untapped potential of workers who have strong skills and potential but don't hold degrees. As the pandemic continues to affect employment and employers seek to increase diversity in their workforces, providing career pathways for those who have the skills and desire to grow is paramount for success.
It's up to all of us, as businesses and industry leaders, to have the courage to increase employee advancement opportunities.
Gina Olson is the senior vice president of enterprise applications at Folsom-based SAFE Credit Union.
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Q: How to mock or fake HttpApplication / HttpContext for testing I'm trying to run some tests on my MVC application but I've been experiencing a world of trouble getting it to work. I'll try to get right to the point:
I'm using RhinoMocks to try something like this:
Setup:
MockRepository mocks = new MockRepository();
HttpContextBase _mockContext = mocks.FakeHttpContext();
mocks.SetFakeControllerContext(new LoginController());
HttpApplicationStateBase appState = MockRepository.GenerateStub<HttpApplicationStateBase>();
_mockContext.Expect(mc => mc.Application).Return(appState);
HttpContext.Current = _mockContext.ApplicationInstance.Context;

Here's the FakeHttpContext() method:
public static HttpContextBase FakeHttpContext(this MockRepository mocks)
{
    HttpApplication app = mocks.PartialMock<HttpApplication>();

    HttpContextBase context = mocks.PartialMock<HttpContextBase>();
    HttpRequestBase request = mocks.PartialMock<HttpRequestBase>();
    HttpResponseBase response = mocks.PartialMock<HttpResponseBase>();
    HttpSessionStateBase session = mocks.PartialMock<HttpSessionStateBase>();
    HttpServerUtilityBase server = mocks.PartialMock<HttpServerUtilityBase>();

    SetupResult.For(context.ApplicationInstance).Return(app);

    SetupResult.For(context.Request).Return(request);
    SetupResult.For(context.Response).Return(response);
    SetupResult.For(context.Session).Return(session);
    SetupResult.For(context.Server).Return(server);

    mocks.Replay(context);
    return context;
}

I really need to access HttpContextBase.Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath but it's always returned as null. The same goes for HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.
Can anybody help me out here? It's safe to say I'm desperate at this point.

A: Why don't you make an abstraction class which contains calls to the HttpContext base?
Then you can do something like this:
public class MyClass
{
   private readonly IHttpContext _httpContext;
   MyClass(IHttpContext httpContext)
   {
       _httpContext = httpContext;
   }

   public void Blaat()
   {
        _httpContext.DoYourThingsWithTheHttpContext();
    }
}

Assuming you are using dependency injection, otherwise look at the Fakes and Stubs framework from Microsoft.

A: First of all, try avoid using HttpContext.Current as using a static method makes it much harder to test as you have found out now. If you are using a dependency injection framework, inject HttpContextBase into your constructor.
For your actual problem, in FakeHttpContext() try to change
 HttpRequestBase request = mocks.PartialMock<HttpRequestBase>();

to
 HttpRequestBase request = mocks.GenerateStub<HttpRequestBase>();

and then in your test you can do something like this:
_mockContext.Request.Stub(x=> x.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath).Return("foo");
var result = object.DoSomething();
Assert.AreEqual("foo",result);

I don't think it's quite useful to do partial mocking on the HttpContext as you will be testing the framework instead (i.e. test that the framework returns you the correct value X based on value Y and Z in the HttpContext)
Another alternative is to create a wrapper class around HttpContextBase that will return you computed values. E.g. HttpContextBaseWrapper.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath(), HttpContextBaseWrapper.RequestIpAddress(). This will make testing ALL your other classes less complicated as they do not have to worry about mocking HttpContextBase and the details, they simply have to mock your HttpContextBaseWrapper class.
Edit:
I'd also recommend you to inject your HttpRequestContext as well, but if that's not possible then you can stub the RequestContext like so in the FakeHttpContext method:
var requestContext = MockRepository.GenerateStub<RequestContext>();
request.RequestContext = requestContext;

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1 Injured in Richland Hills Apartment Shooting. Security Failure?
Did negligent security contribute to this violent Nashville apartment robbery?
A shooting at the Richland Hills apartment complex in Nashville reportedly left one person critically injured Monday night, December 18, 2017.
The complex was apparently the subject of an an armed robbery investigation in November 2017, per Tennessean reports.
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