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Sergiu Mișcoiu: Romania relies on the EU for economic answer to the war in Ukraine
An interview with the Romanian political analyst about the specifics of Romanian foreign policy orientation in the times of war in Ukraine, about the contingency plans that Romania relies on in order to protect its industry and about the role the National Plan for Recovery and Resilience play in all that
Sergiu Mișcoiu is a professor of Political Science and European Studies at the University Babeș-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca. He gave to Cross-border Talks' Vladimir Mitev a four-parts interview, in whose first part he spoke about the Romanian reliance on an united West – the USA and Western Union acting in ensemble, which makes it unique in Central and Southeastern Europe. Romania relies on EU contingency plans and policies and that might be limiting its space for maneuver in economic sense in the current crisis. But in Mișcoiu's view the benefits of EU membership are far greater than the disadvantages.
Mr. Mișcoiu, we are making an interview about a number of important issues that deal with Romanian foreign policy and the geopolitical context. And first of all, let us start with the war in Ukraine, which creates a number of dilemmas. So what is the Romanian foreign policy logic with regards to this war? How does the state prepare for the different possible outcomes of when the war ends? Is Romania more interested in having a strong security and defense answer, or is it also appreciating a lot the economic dynamics which usually leads to opening towards the east, given that traditionally Western European countries have had economic ties with Russia. And also, is Romania more interested to be the country at the front oran avanpost of the West? Or does it also have some current, which is interested in strategic ambiguity, a current which allows for certain, maybe greater complexity in engaging the East?
Thank you a lot for these very interesting questions and for inviting me here to start with. I think we have to put the things in a rather historical cultural logic. After 1989, Romania passed through a period of hesitations, I would say, up to the mid 1990s, remaining to some extent into what we may call the gray zone, or at least hesitating between a very pro-Western attitude and a moderate neutral attitude in relation with the former USSR and especially with the with Russia. But since the mid-nineties and especially since the beginning of the two thousandths, Romania has developed into one of the most pro-European and pro-Atlanticist states in the region.
We have also another state that looks like this, which is Poland. But Poland is to some extent less pro-European than Romania, and I would qualify Romania as being at the same time, pro-NATO and pro-EU, which does Romania unique in the region. And this comes, of course, with the price. The price is the quasi-loss of the foreign policy self-determination. The capacity of playing a role that is independent from the one that is ascribed by the partners in the Western countries is quite limited. And I think that after a series of agitations, especially around the 2000, Romania played this card as being the unique solution solution, as it was seen back then in order to get rid of the legacy of the communist past, and especially in order of getting out of this zone that was perceived as being an obstacle for the development of Romania.
So more or less what I would like to argue here is that we've got now a pro-Western narrative that replaced the pro-Eastern and the nationalist narrative in the past. And at the same time, this led to a loss of the capacity of Romania to determine its own way. And, of course, this came as a volunteer decision of most political decision makers. And it was and still is to the extent appreciated by the public opinion. This has, of course, also geostrategic consequences. And turning to the second part of your question regarding what happened after the beginning the war in Ukraine. And of course, Romania considered itself as being vulnerable on its eastern frontier, sharing a wide frontier with Ukraine and also being partially responsible for the tutelage and the European integration of states such as Moldova. And because of these of these arguments, Romania played and still plays once again the security card, which of course, prevents Romania of playing other cards. But it was a choice that Romania made in that Romania will secure its frontier, will coordinate 100% with the Western allies and in this way will drop any pretension of any play of claim, of playing a role of mediator, negotiator in the region. And from this point of view, of course, it is a very different situation If we compare it with the situation of Hungary, for instance, and also if we compare with the situation of of Turkey, a much more independent and based on its own agenda as an international player, although a member of of NATO.
Romania is a great level, relatively great level of industrialization with the help of foreign investment and state encouragement for it. So how is the war in Ukraine affecting Romania with regards to its economy and the energy issue and the infrastructure issues? Apparently some delay or crisis in the eurozone is expected. There is inflation and a number of challenges which probably put to test the Romanian industry. So what are the contingency plans? What is the answer? What is the space for manoeuvre which Romania has in order to protect and maybe even develop further, if possible, its industry?
You know, one of the good things with Romania is that its dependence on the Russian gas is much more limited than the one of the other other countries in the region. But this being said, as you rightfully put it, Romania has still an important and quite modernising industrial sector, and it was plainly hit even in the first month of the war. Of course, all the imports from Russia in this field have been severely restricted, but because of the situation, Ukraine was no longer able to sell different components, different raw materials. The Romanian economy was was effected on this industrial side.
Well, the contingency plan includes rather part of the European strategy of contingency plans, which means that there is a need to reduce as much as possible the dependence on the raw materials on the sub components and different, for instance, metals for some subcomponents in industry from from the East and find other sources. Up to this moment, Romania was not very successful in doing so, as far as I know. It tried to diversify, turning towards some countries in Africa and Latin America, in Southeast Asia. But of course, these changes take time.
And once again, of course, the advantage is belonging to the European Union is that you get the subsidies, the help and of course all the resources mobilised in situations of crisis from the EU. But on the other hand, you are also very much stuck as far as your own strategies are concerned. You can no longer dispose of your own decision making processes in several sectors without the authorisation of the European Commission. And this, of course limits the margin of manoeuvre, the autonomy of the Romanian government in building contingency plans. Maybe those contingency plans could have been more adaptive if the European constraints were not there. But once again, this was the volunteered decision of Romania and up to this moment I think that on the long term, the pluses of belonging to the European Union are far more important than the minuses.
Talking about the EU. Romania benefits from the National Plan for Recovery and Resilience. But how effective is this plan? Can some kind of judgment be made at this moment? Are there any problems with accessing the funds or realising the projects? Especially with regards to infrastructure. Romania, had an ambitious plan for developing of infrastructure in its current government. What is happening in this regard?
Well, infrastructure is one of the most delicate problems in Romania because it took a very long time to develop a pertinent strategy in building infrastructure. Romania was far behind its neighbours in the quality of infrastructures. And this was a very bad point for the European integration of Romania in for instance, the networks of railways in the network of highways, as it could have been one of the most successful transit countries, given its surface and its geographical position. Romania tried and still tries to mobilise European funds in order to build infrastructure. The problem was very delicate when the resilience and recovery plan of the EU, the post-COVID one, was discussed at the European level as most of the demands that Romania made in order to get subsidies for infrastructure were not in line with the priorities, which were much more concentrating back then on green energy, on the resilience to climate change, digitalisation and, and so on. And this is and still was and still is a problem for the Romanian government. How to I wouldn't say disguise, but rather to make up things in such a way that an important amount of European funds that were missed during especially 27, 2013 multiannual budget of the EU could be now to some extent recovered mobilised in order to attain the objectives. And the objectives are unfortunately quite basic. Lots of regions in Romania have very poor infrastructures and massive investment in these infrastructures is very obviously necessary in order to bring them to light.
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Vladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian Romanian-speaking and Persian-speaking journalist. He is the founder of the Bulgarian-Romanian blog "The Bridge of Friendship", as well as the founder of the Bulgarian-Romanian-Persian blog "The Persian Bridge of Friendship. Vladimir has etablished the Romanian section of the Bulgarian cross-border site Baricada. He currently makes a Ph.D. research on Iranian prose before 1979 at the University of Sofia.
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Sarijlu (, also Romanized as Sārījlū and Sārījelow; also known as Sarīchloo, Sārī Chollū, Sārījehlū, Sarjal, and Sārjalāh) is a village in Kharqan Rural District, in the Central District of Razan County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 880, in 196 families.

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"I'm a CFO and I've Been hacked": With Cybercrime on the Rise, IMA and ACCA Ask: Does Your Finance Function Have a Plan to Fail?
Cybersecurity is growing too dangerous and powerful to ignore and a head-in-the-sand attitude to this once nascent, now pervasive threat is no longer an option, according to a new study by IMA (Institute of Management Accountants) and ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).
The joint study, "Cybersecurity – Fighting Crime's Enfant Terrible," is an assessment of the cyber-threat landscape across the globe, tracks current and future Cybersecurity trends and highlights particular areas that are likely to have a direct impact on the future of the accountancy profession.
"Exploitation of the myriad weaknesses within Cybersecurity is now being perpetrated by a rogues gallery of hostile nation states, digitally enabled terrorists, conniving competitors, organised crime syndicates, hacktivists and even the odd disgruntled employee," said Faye Chua, ACCA's head of business insights.
"From health records to credit cards, individual pieces of confidential data are fetching up to $45 per unit on the black market. With databases holding millions of records now commonplace the consequences of a breach have become too serious to ignore."
Raef Lawson, Vice President of Research and Policy at IMA added:
"When establishing a plan it is important to be realistic about the resources at your disposal so you can deploy them appropriately. To be effective, implement a 'layered' approach to Cybersecurity that establishes priorities for your most valuable digital resources."
Amid escalating cybercrime episodes across the globe, the criminal enterprise is presenting a number of threats for the finance profession – and the theft of financial assets through cyber-intrusions is the second largest source of direct loss from cybercrime, according to one study noted in the report.
Accountants and finance professionals can, and should, play a leading role in defining key areas of a strategic approach to mitigating cybercrime risks. These include:
Creating reasonable estimates of financial impact that different types of Cybersecurity breaches will cause, so that a business can be realistic about its ability to respond to an attack and/or recover from it;
Defining risk management strategy;
Helping businesses to establish priorities for their most valuable digital resources, in order to implement a "layered" approach to Cybersecurity.
Closely following the work of government and various regulators, in order to have clear, up-to-date information on adequate legislation and on requirements for adequate disclosure and prompt investigation of Cybersecurity breaches.
"Predicting the potential implications of a breach is crucial to enabling a swift recovery should the unthinkable occur. Putting a 'plan for failure' in place might feel like an admission of weakness, but it is the best way to accelerate the process of repair after an incident," Faye Chua said.
"Professional accountants possess both industry knowledge and a strategic understanding of the overarching strategy of the organisation. In addition, they boast a well-deserved reputation for being fiercely analytical of potential risks to the safety of their clients and employers."
Ultimately, said Raef Lawson, it is up to finance professionals to keep a watchful eye when it comes to cybercrime. "Above all, professional accountants tend to be cautious in dealing with innovations that have a potential to put safety at risk. These traits make them perfectly placed to hold vigil over potential threats to the Cybersecurity of the organisation," he said.
The study found that accountants and other finance professionals clearly understand the importance of the issue. 85% of respondents said that management at their respective companies was concerned about cybercrime risks.
The full report can be downloaded here:
http://www.futuretoday.com/content/dam/IMA/pdf/Technology/Digital/ACCA-IMA-Cybersecurity%20Report%20v8.pdf
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ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is the global body for professional accountants. We aim to offer business-relevant, first-choice qualifications to people of application, ability and ambition around the world who seek a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management. We support our 178,000 members and 455,000 students in 181 countries, helping them to develop successful careers in accounting and business, with the skills required by employers. We work through a network of 92 offices and centres and more than 7,110 Approved Employers worldwide, who provide high standards of employee learning and development. Through our public interest remit, we promote appropriate regulation of accounting and conduct relevant research to ensure accountancy continues to grow in reputation and influence.
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About IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants)
IMA®, the association of accountants and financial professionals in business, is one of the largest and most respected associations focused exclusively on advancing the management accounting profession. Globally, IMA supports the profession through research, the CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) program, continuing education, networking and advocacy of the highest ethical business practices. IMA has a global network of more than 80,000 members in 140 countries and 300 professional and student chapters. Headquartered in Montvale, N.J., USA, IMA provides localized services through its four global regions: The Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and Middle East/Africa. For more information about IMA, please visit www.imanet.org.

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Fineza da Silva Eusébio (born July 18, 1990, Luanda) is an Angolan basketball player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Angola women's national basketball team in the women's event. She is 5 ft 10 inches tall.

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Here is a play kitchen I made for my daughter, mostly as an excuse to get a new router and do some wood working. The original plans are from Play Kitchen Project Plan, but as usual I diverged from them immediately only mostly keeping the layout and size. For example, I was a fan of making it easy to take apart, but I didn't like the slot and hook on the sides.
The sink is just a stainless steel pot and the faucet is the cheapest one I could find. Of course, it's not connected up to anything.
The burners are made out of wood pieces basically that I just glued together to look like some sort of burner. They are covered with a nice thick coat of acrylic.
Of course, the color scheme has to make sense for the intended demographic. Some acrylic for a see through oven door, some turntable oven knobs, and handles for the doors make a nice touch.
Ready to go for hours of play.


Chemist Kris Pupek and student researcher Thoe Michaelos prepare validation experiments for the synthesis of battery materials at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. Battery research at Argonne, and other national laboratories like it, are helping plug-in electric vehicles become more efficient and affordable.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are working to create an electric car battery that is smaller, cheaper and allows drivers to go farther on a charge.
Materials scientist Larry Curtiss is part of an Argonne team working on a new battery architecture that uses lithium-oxygen bonds as it stores and releases energy, and silver as the metal catalyst that makes this possible. This new battery could store up to 10 times more energy than current lithium-ion batteries and offer drivers a cruising range upwards of 400-500 miles before it's time for the next charge.
When you charge contemporary electric vehicles, lithium ions migrate from the positive electrode to the negative electrode where they are stored in a higher energy state. When you start the car, these stored ions release their energy in the form of electrons, and the lithium ion migrates back to the positive electrode. Today's electrode materials provide good charge-discharge cycles with the migration of lithium ions between electrodes, but they need to take advantage of other chemical processes to store more energy.
The discharge products were characterized by high-energy synchrotron x-ray diffraction at the 11-ID-C beamline of Argonne's Advanced Photon Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
The transmission electron microscopy characterization was performed by the Electron Microscopy Center Group at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
Computations were carried out on the high-performance Mira supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and on the Carbon Cluster at the Center for Nanoscale Materials.
Funding for this project was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy and Office of Science. A paper on this work was published online on Sept. 12, 2014, in Nature Communications.
This article is an EV News Report repost, credit: Argonne National Laboratory.
I think when you compare energy densities between Li-ion systems and metallic lithium systems, especially an oxygen(gas) electrode you make the discovery sound very impressive. It is not the right comparison to make. I applaud the work but 10 times although true is just a PR hype technique – we really do not need this in the industry and coming out of a National Lab is very disappointing for me.


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The sperm cell of flowering plants cannot migrate unaided and must be transported by the pollen tube cell of the male gametophyte to achieve successful fertilization. Long-distance pollen tube guidance is controlled by the seven-celled female gametophyte, the embryo sac. Previous reports showed that the synergid cell of the embryo sac is essential for pollen tube guidance. Here, we report the identification of a central cell guidance (ccg) mutant, which is defective in micropylar pollen tube guidance. CCG encodes a nuclear protein with an N-terminal conserved zinc beta-ribbon domain that is functionally interchangeable with that of TFIIB in yeast. This suggests that CCG might act as a transcription regulator for pollen tube guidance. CCG is expressed in the central cell of the female gametophyte. Expression of CCG in the central cell alone is sufficient to restore the normal pollen tube guidance phenotype, demonstrating that the central cell plays a critical role in pollen tube guidance.


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Cronaca nera (Grievous Bodily Harm) è un film del 1988 diretto da Mark Joffe.

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LIEBERMAN LABORING OVER PRESIDENTIAL PLANS
DAVID LIGHTMAN; Washington Bureau ChiefTHE HARTFORD COURANT
There's a veneer of serenity to Joe Lieberman in these final days before he makes his White House bid official. But beneath the calm is a man still framing, still wrestling with, how to explain and market the biggest decision of his life.
Though the Connecticut Democrat talks expansively about why he wants to be president, his syntax and his logic are often labored. He is still developing his rationale for running. He is still trying to prepare for critics who will say he's on too many sides of too many issues, that he's too thin-skinned and unwilling to dirty himself in the political mud.
And looking for a way to differentiate himself from a president he has supported on many issues.
Ask Lieberman why he wants to run for president, and he offers a winding answer that uses the word "opportunity" nine times and is peppered with announcement-speech musts like "awesome" and "dream" and "responsibility."
There's no doubt Lieberman is on the brink of this race. It is a prize that has dangled before him most of his life, a quest that's accelerated and even consumed him since he narrowly lost the vice presidency two years ago.
So he is proceeding the way he normally does -- studying, analyzing, calculating why he wants to run, how the show will be staged and how the product will be sold. He is talking to the party elders, people such as former presidents Carter and Clinton, looking for wisdom. He's indulging in long conversations with candidates and friends such as senators Bob Kerrey and John McCain.
But as a candidate not quite polished or even wholly confident yet, Lieberman briefly hesitates to answer directly when asked at the outset of a 40-minute interview last week at his Senate Hart Office Building suite why he is so driven toward this position.
"The question I ask myself is: Can I now, with an opportunity that I never believed I'd have, do even more for my country as president?"
Gradually, the politician, the lifelong competitor, emerges.
"You've got to reach a conclusion why you can do this better than the other candidates," he says.
This is vintage Lieberman -- soft-spoken and philosophical, but passive-aggressive, always ready to enter the fray as long as his velvet gloves are ready.
Why, he is asked again, would he choose to seek the White House to fulfill his goals?
"Because," he says, measuring his words, "it would give me an opportunity to ... " He pauses for a few seconds, then continues, "be even more successful at pursuing the goals and values and programs, principles I think will make the country better. ... You can get more done."
Characteristically, he seems more comfortable outlining his views than offering a glimpse into his gut.
"I don't believe [President Bush's] first years in office have earned him re-election," Lieberman says, his eyes now more focused, his jaw tighter. "He has given us some good leadership in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, and right now in leading the effort to get Iraq to disarm.
"But in a host of different ways he has failed to lead."
He is in cozy territory now, and what are probably the four pillars of his candidacy come rolling out.
The centerpiece would be the economy, where Lieberman believes Bush "has been AWOL and, as a result, people in the country are hurting." When Congress returns next month, Bush is expected to offer an economic stimulus plan that includes broad tax cuts for consumers; Lieberman will push to skew breaks toward lower income people and to businesses so they can hire more workers.
Second, Lieberman will argue that Bush's foreign policy is "much more of the sword than the plowshare." He will cite his own January speech at Georgetown University that sought not only aggressive military action against terrorists, but also outlined a four-point plan to promote democracy and improve health, education and other aspects of life throughout the Muslim world.
Those two positions tend to be aligned more with traditional, or at least expected, Democratic views. Lieberman has staked out more independent, and possibly problematic, positions on his last two points: moral values and homeland security.
Morality and civility pop up in Lieberman's comments almost as often as opportunity, and he insists that while Bush "wanted to change the tone in Washington, I don't see that. I think the place is as partisan if not more partisan than it was when he came in."
But Lieberman, analysts said, is going to have a hard time winning a struggle with Bush over who is more moral and civil. And Lieberman's moral stance could cause him trouble in his own party.
Jeff Woodburn, a former New Hamsphire Democratic chairman, acknowledges that because Lieberman was early to condemn President Clinton's behavior in 1998: "There are Clinton people who will never support him ."
Ultimately, though, Woodburn said Lieberman's values would be a plus, a window into his character.
"Look at it this way," Woodburn said. "Sen. Lieberman didn't have to take a stand on Clinton's behavior, but he did. To a lot of moderates, [Lieberman] comes across as thoughtful, and that's a good quality."
Homeland security is another cornerstone of the Lieberman platform, and here, too, Lieberman is prone to have opponents' footprints on his back. Though he made an early push after Sept. 11, 2001 for a separate homeland security agency, things did not necessarily end well for the senator.
His legislation got stuck in the fall, tying up the Senate, as the two parties wrestled over how much flexibility to give Bush in hiring and firing, and it arguably became an election issue that may have helped the Republican Party. After the election, Republicans -- and some Democrats -- cut Lieberman out of final negotiations and slipped a host of special-interest provisions into the bill.
He called the add-ons "a shame and an embarrassment," yet when the homeland security bill passed, special interest provisions and all, Lieberman appeared with his rivals at a Capitol press conference and declared, "We're working together."
Those actions raised questions among Democrats -- whether Lieberman is too nice, too obsequious, to sit at the center of national and world power.
"He doesn't come across as strong," said Merle Black, professor of government at Emory University in Atlanta.
Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway said that "every good candidate knows you start with roughly 25 to 28 percent of the people unwilling to vote for you. The good candidate learns to ignore those people. Joe Lieberman needs to learn that."
What seemed to bother many Democrats most was how Lieberman appeared alongside Bush this fall to show support for a tough policy on Iraq. Though most Democrats backed Bush's initiative, they did not go that extra step.
"Lieberman is a very decent person who's attached to his convictions," said Beth Arsenault, a Laconia, N.H., Democratic activist, "but he's done a lot of sucking up to Bush. ... Lieberman is trying to find that center space, and he's going to get run over."
Lieberman calmly defends his White House appearances.
"The president," Lieberman says, "stood up and was willing to show some leadership on [Iraq]. I wanted very much to support him; I thought it would be hypocritical and foolishly partisan not to."
Voters need to remember, the senator says, that what seems to be siding with Republicans is not opportunism.
"It's typical of the way I try to practice my politics, which is to be independent, that I would support [Bush] when I agree with him and I would oppose him when I disagree with him," he says .
And the criticism that he's not tough enough to be president? Lieberman does not leap up and pound his chair, but coolly responds.
"It's not the worst thing in the world, if the worst thing they can say about you is you have no enemies. I'm not a screamer. It's not my nature. I've also been raised to be courteous, decent to people."
The best evidence of his toughness, he says, is his political record.
His three seminal political tests involved trying to topple incumbents -- in 1970, when he challenged state Senate Majority Leader Ed Marcus; in 1982, when he replaced Attorney General Carl R. Ajello; and in 1988, when he upset Sen. Lowell P. Weicker.
"Right now," Lieberman says imperturbably, even dispassionately, "I'm probably going to run against a very popular president, because I feel I can do a better job. ... Watch me."
Lieberman's stump strength has always been his ability to parlay his warmth into that most valuable of political currencies -- likability -- and that's gotten him a long way. His world is one in which everything can be analyzed and everyone is a potential friend.
He starts from the heart, from a set of beliefs fueled largely by his religion, which obliges him to practice "tikkun olam." It's a Hebrew concept thatsuggestsin part, as the senator put it: "Each of us has the opportunity and responsibility to advance that process [of improving oneself and the world], both within ourselves and the wider world around us."
That benevolent view notwithstanding, Lieberman insists he's ready for what's going to be a media and political machine gun, not the paper cuts he's had to endure. "I think my skin has grown tougher from experience. Those who don't want you to succeed will be coming at you and you have to be ready for that.
"Look," he says in his trademark tranquil way, "I've worked too hard over the 30 years to build a reputation for integrity to want to lose that or have it compromised during the campaign."
Lieberman knows that what he's about to do is politics at its roughest and least ordered, not a moral crusade where each sermon can be planned.
So he continues to read history, to learn from the examples of Theodore Roosevelt ("you may get sweat and blood on your face"), Harry S. Truman and his political hero, John F. Kennedy.
He talks to party sages such as Carter, with whom he talked last week, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, Clinton -- and Gore. They communicated by e-mail last week, and Lieberman hopes to speak with him early next year.
"It will not be in a hot tub, either," Lieberman laughs, referring to a sketch involving Gore and a Lieberman stand-in on the Dec. 14 "Saturday Night Live."
Lieberman seems unworried about whether Gore will support him. Instead, at least publicly, he is being his usual self, accumulating reasons for running and putting them into the kind of package that will make an easy-to-follow half-hour speech.
He knows that nothing compares with seeking the White House, not even his 2000 experience.
"This is a marathon," he says, and no matter how he boils it to down to pithy sentences on legal pads, this will be all-consuming.
"If we start in January, it will go for at least a year, and at most for the rest of my life," he says. He thinks he's ready.


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Finally—Victoria Beckham Just Announced She's Launching Her Own Beauty Brand
by Mica Ricketts
It's the news that all stylish women, beauty fanatics, and, let's be honest, Spice Girls fans have been waiting for: Victoria Beckham is launching her own beauty brand. As part of her eponymous fashion label, Victoria Beckham Beauty will be landing later this year with her F/W 19 collection (which we'll be seeing this coming weekend during London Fashion Week).
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Victoria Beckham Shows How You Can Still Wear Your Dresses When It's Baltic
While we don't know the finer details quite yet, Beckham released a statement hinting at what's to come: "I want to take care of women inside and out, providing them with the must-have items in makeup, skincare, fragrance, and wellness that I feel I need in my own life," she said. We've always wanted her to take care of us, so 2019 looks like a good year already.
A post shared by Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) on Feb 12, 2019 at 10:32pm PST
Beckham previously collaborated with beauty giant Estée Lauder on a hugely successful capsule makeup collection back in 2016. In fact, it's Sarah Creal, the former head of global makeup development and marketing at Estée Lauder, who will be heading up Victoria Beckham Beauty in New York.
We'll be keeping our eyes peeled for more details to come, but meanwhile, if you want some insight into Beckham's impeccable beauty taste, then check out her VB Beauty reel on Instagram—a wealth of beauty recommendations and product highlights, approved by the lady herself. Scroll down to shop some of her skincare essentials.
Chanel Le Lift Firming Anti-Wrinkle Flash Eye Revitaliser ($130)
Augustinus Bader The Cream ($265)
Sarah Chapman Liquid Facial D-Stress ($56)
SkinCeuticals Phloretin CF ($166)
From £7 to £205, Here Are the Beauty Buys Margot Robbie's Makeup Artist Uses IRL
Dr. Barbara Sturm Enzyme Cleanser ($75)
Next up: Victoria Beckham Is Obsessed With This Organic, Exotic Body Oil, so I Tried It
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Initially I was going to give BBC1's 'The Missing' a miss, because I reckoned it would be McCann-based, and too exploitative for my taste, but I'm hooked now. It's spread over eight episodes so there's a long way to go, but already I know that there's something very wrong about the guy Mark, the UK police liaison at the start of the story, who's with Tony's ex at the present time. At the moment we're being led towards Ken Stott as the bad guy, but I want to know more about the guy that Tony put in hospital, I want to know how the French cop wound up in jail, and I want to know how Baptiste got that limp and what's the back story of his English wife.
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I agree but it's still hard to shake off the eerie feeling that you're merging somehow into the agony of the McCanns. In me, at least, it generated a niggling doubt that I was teetering on the outermost boundary of discretion. Meanwhile back at the ranch, another sub-plot that's still loose on the hinge is whether Vincent made a clean breast of things to the nurse at his injection and if so ….
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Cairo touristic Attractions | Things to do in the capital of Egypt
The Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis
The Sphinx of Memphis is the largest Albastro sculpture ever built. Currently, the Alabaster Sphinx is on display in the open-air museum of Mit Rahina, next to the spectacular colossus of Ramses II.
The village of "Mit Rahina" near "Badrashin" in Giza Governorate is considered the first capital of Egypt after the unification, and its ancient name was "Memphis". What we now know is that the one who founded this eternal city is King Menes in 3400 BC, that is, more than five thousand years ago. Unfortunately, there are only a few statues left, and a few stones and foundations that refer to the places of ancient temples.
The statue of a king from the era of the Middle Kingdom (1980 - 1630 BC) and the original owner is still unexpectedly unknown despite the size of this one rock of alabaster cut in the form of a mythological figure called by the Greeks as the sphinx, except that during the era of the modern state, inscriptions on the statue of King Ramses II, whose names and titles were carved around the base, were later rephrased, Later he added his son and successor King Merneptah his own name to the shoulders of the Great Sphinx.
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Christian Marclay's 'The Clock'
Dear Chicago museums and galleries:
Would one of you please show "The Clock"?
It's hard to believe this work of art from 2010 — celebrated by critics, unbelievably ambitious and staggeringly impressive — has traveled to at least a dozen cities but has yet to appear in Chicago.
Photo by Ben Westoby/White Cube
Last week, I followed the advice of the Chicago Tribune's Christopher Borrelli and took a trip to Minneapolis, where the Walker Art Center was showing "The Clock." Christian Marclay's 24-hour-long video collage pulls together thousands of clips from movies throughout history, most of them showing a clock or watch displaying the same time at that very moment of the day in the world outside the video screen. In other words, if you're watching "The Clock" at 4:05 a.m., you'll see a scene from a movie in which it's 4:05 a.m.
That's the gimmick, but "The Clock" is far from gimmicky. If you saw just a few minutes of it, you might think, "Well, that's clever." But then, if you keep on watching, the experience becomes strangely compelling. Somehow, even though "The Clock" lacks anything resembling a traditional narrative, it keeps you glued to the screen.
After a while, it becomes deeply moving and resonant, feeling like a portrait of humanity, of people from scattered places and eras, all progressing through the rhythms of one day. And it also functions like a history of filmmaking and acting styles, a commentary on how editing plays with our perceptions — and a masterful job of editing, too.
In 2012, The New Yorker published an excellent article about Marclay and "The Clock" by Daniel Zalewski, which explains the painstaking process Marclay used to create this stunning piece.
In some cities where "The Clock" has been shown, people waited in lines to get into the screening room. There were no lines at the Walker during my three visits, though the room frequently got crowded, with people standing in the back or sitting on the floor. Shortly after arriving in Minneapolis on a Thursday, I went to the museum and watched "The Clock" from 6:22 p.m. until shortly before the museum closed for the night at 9 p.m. The following day, I returned and watched from 11:35 a.m. to 2:05 p.m. and 2:25 to 5 p.m. — when the museum closed for the night. Saturday was one of the days when the Walker kept the gallery open around the clock, so I returned around 8:30 p.m. (watching the next half-hour or so for the second time) and stayed until 1:30 a.m.
So, all together, I ended up watching slightly more than half of "The Clock." And now I regret not staying for longer, as the film continued to reel into the early-morning hours. And I wonder: When will I get a chance to see it again?
In his Tribune story, Borrelli reported that a curator at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, which represents Marclay, "told me there have been no serious negotiations with any local museum or gallery to bring it to Chicago." Really? If it doesn't come to Chicago, I hope it gets a showing in another city I can visit. How about a permanent installation somewhere?
"The Clock" is, as other critics have proclaimed, one of the most incredible works of remixed art — art that takes elements from old sources and mashes them together into something new. (A strict adherence to copyright law would make an artwork like "The Clock" impossible, though I'd argue that Marclay's technique qualifies as fair use.)
It doesn't seem quite correct to label "The Clock" as a film; it certainly isn't a traditional example of a movie. But the act of watching "The Clock" inside the dark gallery is essentially a moviegoing experience. However it is categorized — as video art, an installation or as a film — "The Clock" is one of the definitive artworks and most amazing viewing experiences of our time. Do not miss it if you get the chance.
Photos from the White Cube website.
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Q: Значение символа из ascii таблицы в Python Как получить десятичное значение символа из таблицы ascii в Python?
У меня есть буква 'А' русская, я хочу получить 192.

A: ord(ch) выводит код символа ch.
a = "А"
b = a.encode('windows-1251') # переводим в Windows-1251
print (ord(b))

Обратная операция (вывести символ, используя его численный код) - chr(num):
print (chr(192)) # выведет не А, а À, т.к. по умолчанию используется юникод

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Mani? Say that name again and I'll mince you, kitty.
I've teared the former servant limb from limb to feed the sylphs. I just didn't like his hair style. Ahaha!
My children are the voices of the wind, never tied to anything.
How dirty. Wipe the blood off your hands.
Fine, I'll unshackle you for a little while. Enjoy your sleep. But remember kitty, if you cheat on me in your dream, you'll never see a daylight again.
Where were you until now? You need more breaking, it seems.
You know, you've made a right choice. I will treat you with great love, little kitty.
Huh, fool. A life without me is all but empty.
Oh my little puppet, you serve me well.
Bad bad puppy. I need to punish you.
Oh, such a nice gift. Do you have a secret intention or something?
My dear little kitty, you deserve a reward, don't you think?
Serve me to the end of this pathetic world, for you are my dearest slave.
Obey me and surrender everything. I shall mince all the pigs that try to hurt your beautiful face, my kitty.
You dare to call my name?
Are you going to sleep? Really sleepy? Good night!
Weeee♪ You are back? You are back!
Weee! You really have faith in me? Do you really?
Mewmewmew! Really betray me? Really betray me?
Weeee! I'm so happy. I like you! I like you!
Here's a gift! For you! Mewmew!
My heart aches! I think I like you...I guess!
I love you! Love you! You will be with me forever...promise!
You should mechanize your body.
Always behave true to my name.
No need to hurry. The day machines dominate the world is much closer than you think.
Don't you want to decompose it?
Ah, this soul could be a good component for a new machine.
Flesh and blood, how pathetic to waste much of your limited life sleeping. But rest well for now, for you will need to serve me again.
Ah, you've returned. You're tougher than I thought.
Oh, someone comes to me finally. Devote yourself to my tasks, you'll be rewarded greatly, maybe.
Well done. After all, you might be useful than I thought.
You've been a faithful servant of me. Here, use it wisely.
Truly, you are an ideal believer. I'm impressed.
Sacrifice your very soul to me and I shall protect you with my name.
Welcome back...I was...waiting for you.
I...will have no mercy..for enemies...absolutely.
Muwahaha! I'll be following you, to your dream.
Am I really suitable for this job?
I-I'll never give you a good night kiss...ever!
N-no...I-I wasn't looking for you! Silly!
I-I don't expect you to be my servant...I-I r-really don't, you silly!
I-I don't miss you. I-I really don't!
W-What? I-I'm not gonna praise you. I'm not!
I-I'm not that pleased. I-I'm not, you silly!
I-I'm not giving it to you as my gratitude! I-I r-really am not! Silly!
N-No! Cut it! I-I don't love you. Stupid!
I-I'm not falling l-love with you! D-don't you never ever leave me...okay? You stupid...!
You mortals will never understand the pain we hold.
My name is Itzpalt. I am the origin of elements, the king that bears the earliest flame and the master of all the Gods.
God's war never end. In times to come, you shall be a warrior of my faction.
And so the soul returns to the element.
Chant my name proudly. Flame and eternal rest for the dead.
Relieve your fatigue. May the eternal flame protects you from filthy beings that crawl in the shroud of night.
And so the mortal returns. You shall serve me again.
Do not fail me, servant.
Remember mortal, a betrayal is not something I can forgive.
Impressive. Your action shall be remembered.
You shall pay a painful price for your foolish try.
To answer your loyalty, you shall have this reward.
Very impressive, mortal. You shall be the one worthy to carry my name.


TYSON FURY'S wife has revealed she suffered a miscarriage on the day of the Gypsy King's comeback fight but hid it from him.
Paris, 28, decided to keep her baby heartbreak from her boxer husband until after the bout to save him from distraction.
Former world heavyweight champion Fury was making his return to the ring after 32 months to face Albanian Sefer Seferi in June.
Paris told the Sunday Mirror: "I was about eight weeks pregnant. Then on the day of the fight I knew I'd lost our baby.
"I didn't mention it to Tyson before he went in the ring.
"Then straight after it I told him and the next day we went to the hospital and it was confirmed.
"Five weeks later we fell pregnant again – and now our new baby, a boy, is due in March. We were still heartbroken over our loss, but overjoyed at the same time."
The couple, who married in 2009 already have four children together and will be expanding their family next year.
Having overcome depression, Fury drew with American WBC champion Deontay Wilder last weekend after getting up off the canvass twice in Los Angeles.
It was the third fight of his comeback after almost three years out of the ring.
Fury was banned from boxing for two years after being tested positive for elevated levels of banned steroid nandrolone in February 2015.
Fury, who was world champion after beating Wladimir Klitschko, fought Francesco Pianeta in August before the Wilder clash earlier this month.
A rematch is expected to be announced to take place next year with the U.K. a likely destination.


A charter member of the All-America Football Conference, the 49ers took the field in 1946. One of the more dominant teams in the AAFC, San Francisco moved to the NFL in 1950. The team enjoyed success in the early 1970s but rose to the top of the NFL in the 1980s and 1990s. The 49ers captured five world championships with wins in Super Bowls XVI, XIX, XXIII, XXIV, and XXIX.


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Q: Provide dependent file in a multi-stage build I need to read in my application from a file "cert.pem" whose path is a) provided as an argument or b) it is retrieved from the directory of the main application file main.py.
I have created the following dockerfile, but after building and running my application using the image the "cert.pem" file cannot be accessed. Is there a way to read from this file?
FROM golang:1.17-alpine AS builder
RUN apk add --no-cache git
WORKDIR /app
COPY . .
RUN go mod download
RUN go build -o ./bin .

#final stage
FROM alpine:latest
RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates
COPY --from=builder /app/bin /app/bin
EXPOSE 3000

CMD ["/app/bin"]

The instruction to load the file is the following:
....
var (
    cert_file = flag.String("cert", "./cert.pem", "File name of x509 certificate")
)
...
func main() {
...
    _, err := ioutil.ReadFile(*cert_file)
...

A: you just have to copy your cert.pem file to the location of the binary in the final stage in docker. Assuming you have the cert file in your docker build context, you run a copy command.
FROM golang:1.17-alpine AS builder
RUN apk add --no-cache git
WORKDIR /app
COPY . .
RUN go mod download
RUN go build -o ./bin .

#final stage
FROM alpine:latest
RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates
COPY --from=builder /app/bin /app/bin
COPY cert.pem /app/
EXPOSE 3000

CMD ["/app/bin"]

Make sure you set the cert.pem location in your go program as ./cert.pem

A: The solution is to define an ENTRYPOINT instead CMD and add a WORKDIR instruction:
#build stage
FROM golang:1.17-alpine AS builder
RUN apk add --no-cache git
WORKDIR /app
COPY . .
RUN go mod download
RUN go build -o ./bin .

#final stage
FROM alpine:latest
RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates
COPY --from=builder /app/bin /app/bin
COPY --from=builder /app/cert.pem /app/cert.pem

EXPOSE 3000

WORKDIR /app
ENTRYPOINT ["/app/bin"]


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Lawmakers Cite Transportation, Housing as Top Priorities
Democratic state lawmakers hope to find agreement around funding transportation and housing this year. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)
The California Report
Marisa Lagos
When Gov. Jerry Brown unveils his budget proposal Tuesday morning, Democratic lawmakers will be particularly interested in how the governor approaches two key policy areas: transportation and housing.
While state leaders got a lot done in 2016, there was no grand deal on how to tackle two of California's most vexing and expensive infrastructure challenges. Now, Democrats in Sacramento -- who control both houses of the Legislature -- say that improving aging transportation infrastructure and building more affordable housing are among their top priorities in 2016.
Lawmakers who have pushed for state solutions to both issues in the past said they're optimistic that the time is right.
"I think all indications are that there is a great desire among the whole spectrum of my colleagues to really focus on these issues of housing and transportation in a way we haven't in the past, so I am hopeful," said San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu.
Of course, state leaders need to find money to tackle either problem -- and that's where the challenge lies. Last year, a special session called by the governor in 2015 to deal with the state's estimated $130 billion in road repair needs ended without any agreement on how to fund those fixes. Another proposal by Brown to put $400 million into low-income housing development if lawmakers agreed to relax building regulations died amid concerted opposition by environmentalists, local governments and the construction trades.
In August, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon declared a $400 million affordable housing package 'dead,' pointing to intense opposition to Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to relax local land-use rules, which was included in the package. (KQED)
Democrats now have a two-thirds majority in both houses of the Legislature -- meaning that in theory, they could pass a gas tax or other tax hike without Republican votes. It's not clear whether moderate Democrats are any more willing to back tax hikes than GOP lawmakers are, but Chiu said he think there's room for agreement, since the issues transcend regional differences.
"I do see a path in part because these crises have only intensified -- the housing crisis that started in San Francisco and the Bay Area has spread to the entire state of California," he said. "And Californians up and down the state are very frustrated with the state of our roads, with the lateness of public transit, the lack of real options to get around and the tremendous congestion we face on the roads."
'Road repairs are something that if we don't do, it's like an unfunded liability -- it is wrecking the economy.' Sen. Jim Beall
State Senate President Kevin de León said there is agreement among both houses of the Legislature and the governor that a transportation infrastructure plan is needed. He hopes to get it done within months -- and with Republican support.
"My hope is that we can get it done in a bipartisan fashion, irrespective of the supermajorities that we currently enjoy in both the Assembly and Senate, because a transportation infrastructure package is a vote for continued economic growth of the middle class of California," said de León, D-Los Angeles.
San Jose Sen. Jim Beall has been one of the Legislature's most vocal supporters of a transportation deal. He noted that lawmakers already have legislation in front of them in both houses -- in the Senate, he authored SB 1 -- that would raise about $6 billion a year through an increase the gas tax and car registration fees. That plan is more expansive than the 6-cents-per-gallon tax proposed by the governor last year, but less ambitious than earlier proposals of Beall and other Democrats.
"Road repairs are something that if we don't do, it's like an unfunded liability -- it is wrecking the economy," Beall said. "The governor has said it makes no sense to let things deteriorate further."
He said he expects Brown to make a proposal similar to the one the governor's office put out in 2016 and he hopes they can strike a deal.
Housing Agreement Further Off
While there is at least agreement between lawmakers and the governor on potential funding sources for transportation, common ground on housing may be a bit stickier. Brown's proposal last year was seen by critics as a giveaway to developers that would have done little to spur affordable housing production.
This year, lawmakers have a host of ideas on the table. Chiu and other Democrats in the Assembly unveiled a legislative package in December that includes a proposal to eliminate a tax break for second homes, $400 million a year they want to redirect toward affordable housing development. In the Senate, Beall and San Diego Democratic Sen. Toni Atkins are looking to tack on a $75 fee to real estate transactions to fund the construction of low-income homes; they also want to put a $3 billion housing bond before voters.
Luxury housing under construction in San Francisco in 2015. (Anya Schultz/KQED)
It's not clear whether Brown, who has been reticent to add to the state's debt or increase taxes and fees, would support either proposal. Assemblyman Phil Ting, who is a co-author of the Assembly proposals, said he thinks there is room for agreement with Brown and others who may be wary.
Ting, D-San Francisco, said the state needs to take a bigger role in funding affordable housing development after taking a step back in recent years.
"But we also heard loud and clear the governor's desire to streamline the development of housing so we can reduce those costs, so public dollars can go further, which makes a lot of sense," he said. "I think there are different proposals we are looking at that can balance the interest of different groups."
What About Trump?
The wild card in all of this is what a Donald Trump presidency will do to the state budget. The president-elect has threatened to strip funding from "sanctuary" jurisdictions like California that limit their cooperation with federal immigration officials, and there's huge uncertainty over what a repeal of Obamacare will do to the state's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal.
On the other hand, Trump has repeatedly talked about investing in infrastructure. Democrats said they're open to working with the new president, but are skeptical of how Republicans will go about paying for an infrastructure package.
"Where we can find common ground with Washington we will find common ground, but to move an infrastructure package at a national level by incurring much more debt, and by rolling that debt over year after year, is not the most fiscally prudent thing to do," de León said. "You can't offer free money because there's no free money -- somebody has to pay for it eventually."
In Sacramento, lawmakers agree, the heart of the debate this year will focus on that exact question: how to pay for the investment they believe the state desperately needs.
Katie Orr contributed to this report.
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The Official Trailer for 'Jackass Forever' is Absolutely Insane
Graham Hartmann Published: July 20, 2021
The official trailer for Jackass Forever has finally been released. The newest Jackass movie is the first release from the boys since Jackass 3D dropped in 2010.
Jackass Forever will be the first not to feature Ryan Dunn, who passed away in 2011, and Bam Margera, who was fired from production due to substance abuse issues. Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Wee Man, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Ehren McGhehey, and Preston Lacy will all return to the legendary crew, while Sean 'Poopies' McInerney, Odd Future's Jasper Dolphin, and Zach Holmes have been added to the main cast.
MGK, Eric Andre, and Tyler, the Creator can also be seen in the trailer. Additional guest stars on Jackass Forever reportedly include Tony Hawk, Matt Hoffman, Shaquille O'Neal, UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou, AEW wrestler Darby Allin, and others.
Jackass Forever will be Johnny Knoxville's final contribution to the franchise. "You can only take so many chances before something irreversible happens," Knoxville told GQ. "I feel like I've been extremely lucky to take the chances I've taken and still be walking around."
Watch the trailer for Jackass Forever below. After being delayed multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jackass Forever will be released in theaters Oct. 22.
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Bring Me The Horizon's 'Throne' Has Been Certified Gold In The UK
Jack Rogers 23 November 2020 at 10.53
A huge achievement!
Bring Me The Horizon's 2015 track 'Throne' has been certified Gold in the UK!
That's the equivalent of 400,000 sales, which is a pretty massive milestone.
The track is taken from the band's album 'That's The Spirit', which is also certified Gold. In terms of albums, that's the equiavlent of
It's also not the only track on the record with its own certification with 'Happy Song', 'Drown' and 'Follow You' both at Silver level.
The video for the track is also currently sitting at just under 125 million views on YouTube, and you can add to that below:
Bring Me just released their new record 'POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR'.
That features 'Obey':
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Dragon Quest's creator doesn't want to stop working anytime soon
'I think I can still go strong for another 20 years or so'
By Andrew Webster Aug 27, 2018, 3:09pm EDT
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Part of The Verge holiday 2018 gaming guide
For nearly half his life, Yuji Horii has been obsessed with giant dragons and cute blue blobs. In 1986, he partnered with composer Koichi Sugiyama and artist Akira Toriyama — best known for creating Dragon Ball — to design a new role-playing game for the Famicom, the Japanese version of the NES. The goal was to streamline the game, making RPGs approachable for even casual players, while still retaining the feeling of going on an epic quest. The result was Dragon Quest, which went on to become a blockbuster in Japan and one of the country's most iconic and best-selling video game series.
Next week will see the debut of Dragon Quest XI in North America, a title that marks the series's 30th anniversary. Horii is now 64, which means that the series has been an ever-present factor in his adult life. Outside of a few notable exceptions, including the iconic Super Nintendo RPG Chrono Trigger, his career has been almost entirely devoted to Dragon Quest. Not only is he okay with that, but Horii also doesn't see himself stopping anytime soon. When I ask him about it, he mentions Sugiyama, who is 87 and still composing new songs. "Looking at him, I think I can still go strong for another 20 years or so," says Horii.
When it launches outside of Japan, Dragon Quest XI will be available on both the PlayStation 4 and PC. It's a massive production, with lush worlds to explore, a myriad of complex systems to master, and plentiful voice acting. It's a far cry from the original game, which had fewer than 10 people working on it. During that time, Horii had to tackle many different aspects of the game's creation himself. Among other duties, he wrote the story, drew the maps, and helped come up with ideas for character designs. As the series continued and moved on to new, more powerful platforms, his role steadily began to shift. He became less hands-on, focusing more on the big picture.
Yuji Horii at a Sony event in 2014.
But he says that, despite the long years and changing role, his love of Dragon Quest never really wavered over that time. "There has never been a moment where I felt tired of working on the game." Part of this, he says, is due to the ever-changing nature of game development. While the first few entries in the series came out on the Famicom, eventually Dragon Quest expanded to more powerful devices, and it often took advantage of that. Dragon Quest VIII on the PS2 introduced cel-shaded, 3D visuals that made it look like a cartoon come to life, while Dragon Quest X, which never launched outside of Japan, was a massively multiplayer game.
"There has never been a moment where I felt tired of working on the game."
For the 11th installment, Horii had a somewhat contradictory goal in mind. "It's essentially a culmination of the series," he says, "but I also wanted this game to serve as a new starting point, too." The idea was to craft an experience full of references and moments that longtime fans could appreciate, but without making it unwelcoming for new players. In the Nintendo 3DS version of the game, which is exclusive to Japan, players even have the option to switch back and forth between modern visuals and classic Dragon Quest pixel art graphics. "I believe we have always strived to maintain the good aspects [of the series] while actively incorporating the new," says Horii.
In North America, the game will only be available on the PS4 and PC, and that decision was an attempt to appeal to a slightly different audience. For all of its breakout success in Japan, Dragon Quest has yet to become a household name outside of its home country. There are various theories as to why. Some blame poor timing, others localization issues. Series executive producer Yuu Miyake thinks that for Western audiences, the contrast between Toriyama's colorful art and the game's complex role-playing systems can be too much. "For a kid to play, it's a little bit advanced," he told me back in June, "and then an adult looks at it and thinks, 'Oh, this is just a cartoon. It isn't for me.'"
In order to better serve Western audiences, there have been a few changes. For one, the focus on more powerful platforms like the PS4 and PC is meant to showcase the best version of the game possible. And since Dragon Quest XI has a much larger focus on story than its predecessors, the North American release will also include the addition of voice acting. The idea is to offer an experience that feels like a modern, big-budget game, but still retains the elements that make the series unique. "I hope Dragon Quest XI becomes a new starting point for the franchise overseas," Horii says.
After three decades of Dragon Quest, it's hard for Horii to imagine a life beyond the series. That said, as his role has become more custodial over the years, he's managed to amass a team of directors and producers who he trusts to manage the ship in his absence, whenever that may be. It's a very different feeling from when he first started Dragon Quest. Back then, he wasn't too worried about longevity. "It took me about 10 years to get a sense that the series may potentially last," Horii says. "It had never occurred to me that it would continue for 30 years when I initially started developing the game."
Dragon Quest XI launches on September 4th on PC and PS4; stay tuned for our review later this week.
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TrueAccord's data-driven debt collection platform is disrupting the collections industry by helping businesses collect more debt online than traditional methods. True Accord's platform is powered by machine learning with a decision engine that analyzes consumer behavior and delivers personalized experiences by communicating with consumers at the right time in the right channel with payment options that meet their needs.
"It was the personal experience of dealing with a debt collector that made me realize the traditional collections industry was ripe for disruption with technology innovation and a more human approach," said Ohad Samet, in a phone call last week. "With changing consumer preferences, strong regulatory support for innovation, and clients who understand a customer-focused collection process is good for their business, we're experiencing tremendous demand from the market. We are seizing this opportunity to use machine learning to humanize debt collection for good." he continued.
This additional investment will fund TrueAccord's strategic growth initiatives, including ongoing product development and innovation of its customer-focused platform, providing audit and compliance functionality, continued expansion into vertical markets, client acquisition and retention, and hiring.
"TrueAccord is redefining the debt collections industry through a digital approach for debt recovery," said Melissa Guzy, co-founder and managing partner at Arbor Ventures. "It is achieving higher customer engagement, satisfaction and recovery rates through its data-driven platform, which tailors the collection process to individual consumer preferences. This unique approach makes a positive impact on an overlooked industry ripe for innovation and empowering many of the estimated 77 million people in debt to get on a path to better financial health."
TrueAccord aims to be the platform for financial health for people in debt, offering long term solutions for financial health in the debt collection process, "On our way there we must first establish our technology as superior for both consumers and lenders. After demonstrating we beat traditional agencies in 2016 and 2017, we are now quickly expanding our service to reach the majority of the 77 million Americans in debt every year." said Samet.
Other investors participating in the round include Nyca Investment Partnership, Assurant Growth Investing, Caffeinated Capital Fund, Felicis Venture, TenOneTen and Crystal Towers. Khosla Ventures, which led the previous round, hasn't announced participating in the current round and TrueAccord wasn't able to comment on Khosla's plans at the moment.


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Flag on the Field
Can Howard Dean admit when he makes a mistake?
By Chris Suellentrop
Nov 04, 200311:50 PM
BOSTON—Who wants to bet that Howard Dean wishes he had said last week thathe wanted to reach out to people who have silhouettes of naked women on their mudflaps? Or people who sport, "American by birth, Southern by the grace of God" bumper stickers? Or people who display pictures of Calvin urinating on Chevy or Ford logos on their back of their trucks?
But no, he had to say, "I still want to be the candidate for guys withConfederate flags in their pickup trucks" in an interview with the Des Moines Register. I happen to think this is a bogus issue. Recovering their appeal to white working-class voters is something of an obsession among Democratic Party politicians, and the Dean campaign rightly points out that the Confederate-flag comment is something that their candidate says all the time, and that he never received any criticism for it in the past. During tonight's debate in Boston, the campaign issued a press release pointing to C-SPAN footage from the February 2003 winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee that was attended by every candidate except John Kerry. There, Dean said, "White folks in the South who drive pick-up trucks with Confederate flag decals on the back ought to be voting with us because their kids don't have health insurance, either, and their kids need better schools, too." The campaign says he was received with a standing ovation, "even bringing Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe to his feet," and they say you can see it on C-SPAN here, right before the 2:09:00 mark.
That said, Dean handled tonight's kerfuffle over the Confederate flag poorly, and he did so in a way that raises a worrisome question about his candidacy. Why is he so obstinate about admitting that he was wrong? Earlier in the campaign, when Dean was confronted with changes in his positions on trade, on Social Security, and on Medicare, his first instinct was to deny that he had held the earlier position. Surely it would have been far easier to just say, hey, I made a mistake.
Something similar happens tonight. Dean could easily have pointed out that he phrased his comment slightly differently this time, and he could see how it was misinterpreted. It is, after all, somewhat different to say that you want to "be the candidate" for those who wave the Confederate flag than to say that you want to bring those voters into your party. The latter suggests at least some effort to change hearts and minds, while the former implies that you just want to be their standard-bearer. Sure, he calls the Confederate flag a "loathsome symbol," a "racist symbol," and he says the party shouldn't embrace it. But on the matter of admitting that he made a teeny, tiny error, Dean won't budge.
In a way he created his own mess tonight. Had he simply answered the question he was asked by an audience member—"Could you explain to me how you plan on being sensitive to needs and issues regarding slavery and African-Americans, after making a comment of that nature?"—he might have gotten off more easily. But instead of explaining what he wants to do for African-Americans, Dean decides to talk about white people. "There are 102,000 kids in South Carolina right now with no health insurance. Most of those kids are white. The legislature cut $70 million out of the school system. Most of the kids in the public school system are white. We have had white Southern working people voting Republican for 30 years, and they've got nothing to show for it." This is all fine and good, and I'm generally against targeting political appeals to specific ethnic groups, but it was shockingly tone deaf for Dean to respond this way. The question was, how will you be sensitive to the needs of black people? Dean's response was, by working to help white people.
Al Sharpton jumps on Dean and says, "You are not a bigot, but you appear to be too arrogant to say 'I'm wrong,' and go on." (After the debate, Dean mistakenly attributes this comment to John Edwards.) Then, John Edwards stands up to confront Dean and delivers one of the best shots of the evening: "Because let me tell you the last thing we need in the South is somebody like you coming down and telling us what we need to do." By the time Edwards is done, you can feel his poll numbers among Southerners with chips on their shoulders start to spike. Luckily for Dean, at this point Carol Moseley Braun decides to bail him out, by endorsing his explanation that the party should bring whites and blacks together. She says, "Yes, this is an important conversation. But it has to be done in a way that does not play into the real racists and the real right wing."
Here was the night's marijuana-use scorecard, for those who didn't hear all of it: Kerry, yes; Kucinich, no; Sharpton, no; Edwards, yes; Lieberman, no; Clark, no; Braun, no comment; Dean, yes.
This may be my own pangs of guilt for calling him "irrelevant" after the Detroit debate last week, but other than the fact that he was dressed like Wesley Clark's Mini-Me (in an identical black turtleneck and blazer), I thought Dennis Kucinich had a pretty good night. I agree with him on almost nothing, but this was the first debate in which he did more than switch from angry ranting to moon-eyed idealism and back again. He was even a little inspiring when he told the young people in the audience to trust their hearts and their "inner knowingness."
Still, Kucinich couldn't top Wesley Clark for the best moment of the evening. In the spin room after the debate, Matt LaBash of the Weekly Standard asks the general what he thought when he noticed the two candidates were wearing the same outfit. Clark pauses, as if he's unsure of how to take this, then says, "I thought Dennis Kucinich had excellent taste."