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Jul 16, 2020 Jul 17, 2020 Mayur Lookhar
On #WorldSnakeDay, we slither into Hindi cinema's HISS-tory
Revisiting Bollywood's fascination for mythical shape-shifting creatures with various filmmakers drawing inspiration from mythology to create their fantasy stories
Think of serpent and many cultures around the world think of them as demonic creatures. Yes, they invoke fear but there are also fascinating limbless creatures. Snakes have evoked both fear and awe in Hindu mythology. While the multi-hooded Sheshanaga is said to be a devotee of Lord Vishnu, Lord Shiva roamed with the cobra Vasuki around his neck.
Given its significance in mythology, it was natural for the serpent to find its way into cinema too. From being worshiped to be painted as an evil creature, Indian filmmakers have used their creativity to sell their slithering stories. Today (16 July] is marked as World Snake Day. Well, as remarkable as it may sound, but it is true. The #WorldSnakeDay is trending on Twitter.
So, on this day, we decided to slither into Hindi cinema's Hiss-tory.
Nagin [1954]
Often regarded as the first Hindi film to tap into a mythical creature, writer Rajendra Krishan and director Nandlal Jaswantlal's Nagin [1954] burrough-ed into the myth of the ichchadhari Naag/Nagin [shape-shifting] cobras, that would later set a template for slithering tales in Hindi cinema. It starred Vyjayanthimala and Pradeep Kumar in the leading roles. Vyjayanthimala shed all her inhibition, if any, to play the shape-shifting nagin in this fantasy film set in a tribal land. While the film is not so memorable, but composer Hemant Kumar scored the classic track Man Dole Mera Tan Dole crooned by Lata Mangeshkar. The sound of the pungi [been] charmed one and all.
It took 22 years before the ichchadhari nagin resurfaced in Hindi cinema. Director Rajkumar Kohli ignited the revenge plot as the shape-shifting nagin [played by Reena Roy] avenged the death of her lover cobra [played by Jeetendra]. The film boasted of a stellar cast with Roy, Jeetendra, Sunil Dutt in leading roles, and ably supported by Sanjay Khan, Feroz Khan, Rekha, Mumtaz, Vinod Mehra. Kabir Bedi, Anil Dhawan. Nagin [1976] is said to be resounding success paving the way for more slithering tales.
Nagina [1986]
A decade later, director Harmesh Malhotra was bitten by the ichchadhari nagin tale, as he roped in super star Sridevi to play the shape-shifting serpentine. Rajni [Sridevi] is married to Rajiv [Rishi Kapoor] but it is later alleged by the tantrik Bhairo [Amrish Puri] that the woman is a snake who is here to avenge her lover's death. The film was a huge success with Lata Mangeshkar finding another slithering number in Main Teri Dushman, Dushman Tu Mera,
Nigahen: Nagina Part II [1989]
Nagina's huge success saw Malhotra come up with a sequel Nigahen: Nagina Part II [1989]. Rajni and Rajiv's daughter Neelam [also played by Sridei] takes the reigns forward with human Anand Sunny Deol as her lover. The new story revolved around Gorakh Nath [Anupam Kher] vowing revenge against Rajni's family. However, the sequel couldn't match the success of Nagina [1986].
Naag Nagin [1989]
In the same year, we had director Ramkumar Bohra throwing a pair of shape-shifting snakes in Naag Nagin [1990]. Her green eyes made Mandakini apt to play the female serpent Chandni while Rajiv Kapoor played a double role, one as the snake Kuber. Bohra had hoped that the audience would warm up to the Ram Teri Ganga Maili Ho Gayi [1985] pair again, but that wasn't to be as his fantasy tale was the biggest dud that year.
Nache Nagin Gali Gali [1989]
It looks like 1989 was a year where filmmakers were burrough-ing the serpentine tales. Mohanji Prasad's Nache Nagin Gali Gali was another addition. Well, it it were to release now, perhaps this title would be more apt for an item song. Popular actor Meenakshi Sheshadri got her first taste of playing the mythical creature. Nitish Bharadwaj, who had shot to fame playing Lord Krishna in Mahabharat TV series, couldn't repeat the same success here.
Sheshnaag [1990]
K.R. Reddy's film was titled after the legendary mythical creature. Mandakini, Rishi Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Jeetendra found themselves in another creepy crawly tale. It was a maiden shape-shifting role for Madhavi and Rekha. Anupam Kher was one of the bad guys, but the Aghori/tantrik here was played by Danny Denzongpa.
Tum Mere Ho [1990]
Just like Ramkumar Bohra, Tahir Hussain, too, had hoped that the audience will shower love again to his Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak lead pair [1988] Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla. However, like Bohra, Hussain, too, met with disappointment. Let's just say Aamir Khan couldn't say no to his father. Another tribal tale, Shiva [Aamir Khan] had the powers to charm snakes. The nagin here was pure evil, played by Kalpana Iyer.
Doodh Ka Karz [1990]
Filmmaker Ashok Gaekwad's Doodh Ka Karz was a slightly different tale with the human-serpentine bond being the USP of the film. It was titled Doodh Ka Karz for a reason. In one controversial scene, the widow Parvati [Aruna Irani] feeds her breast milk to a cobra, who later would repay the karz [debt] by helping her son Suraj [Jackie Shroff]. Neelam Kothari and Varsha Usgaonkar were the female leads.
Vishkanya [1991]
Pooja Bedi turned into a Vishkanya [poisonous girl] in Jag Mundhra's revenge drama. This was her debut film. Bedi acquires the serpent's power after willingly drinking snake poison. More than content, the film courted news for Bedi's bold scenes. Pooja's father Kabir played her father in this film.
Naagmani [1991]
The herd mentality came to the fore again when filmmaker V. Menon tried selling the cliched snake, naagmani [snake-stone] story in his film Naagmani. It didn't have any A-list cast with the likes of unheralded names Sumeet Saigal, Shikha Swaroop, Kiran Kumar in leading roles. The film had some popular songs with Anuradha Paudwal's Mera Laung Gawacha becoming a huge hit.
Jaani Dushman – Ek Anokhi Kahani [2002]
Director Rajkumar Kohli revisited the fantasy genre with Jaani Dushman – Ek Anokhi Kahani [2002]. However, this was no anokhi [novel] tale but another case of an old wine in a new bottle. The film had an ensemble cast, led by the likes of Sunny Deol, Rajkumar's son Armaan Kohli, Manisha Koirala, singer Sonu Nigam. Suniel Shetty, Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi, Aftab Shivdasani all had small but pivotal roles. The only twist to this tale was the millennial setting and as opposed to a nagin, it was the male-serpent Kapil [Kohli] who went on a killing spree to avenge the death of his female-serpent. The film was a disaster in every sense. It failed to revive son Armaan's career and would be the last directorial of the veteran filmmaker.
Hisss [2010]
One thought that the days of shape-shifting snakes was over in Bollywood. But with advanced technology, one felt that the fantasy genre could be revised. Hiss [2010] was shot in English and Hindi simultaneously with American filmmaker Jennifer Chambers Lynch helming the much hyped film. Mallika Sherawat looked the part as the new-age nagin but visual effects was not enough to save this dull drama. The late Irrfan Khan, too, couldn't save this film. Hisss simply failed to create any history.
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Means to foster cooperation ties between the Moroccan region of Casablanca-Settat and the South African Gauteng province topped talks held here Wednesday between Mustapha El Bakkoury, Chairman of the Council of Casablanca-Settat, and David Makhura, Gauteng Premier.
Discussions focused on ways to consolidate cooperation with Gauteng, the largest province in South Africa, Bakkoury told MAP news agency.
Cooperation with Gauteng which, like Casablanca-Settat, contributes more than 30 pc to the national GDP, is part of efforts to foster a decentralized cooperation geared towards consolidating Morocco's successful overture onto Africa, he added.
Cooperation between Casablanca-Settat and Gauteng will further be enhanced and endowed with an institutional framework through the signing of cooperation agreements that will govern the exchange of expertise among territorial actors in several areas, including industry, tourism and education, said Bakkoury, stressing that these steps are part of the consolidation of cooperation between Morocco and South Africa at large.
Gauteng Premier, for his part, underlined the important roles Casablanca-Settat and Gauteng play in both countries' economies and in the regions of north and southern Africa in general.
Stronger cooperation ties between the two regions will benefit large parts of Africa, he said.
"There's a great deal we can learn from Casablanca-Settat, especially in the fields of energy investment and tourism", said Makhura, calling on African countries to work together to serve Africa's interests and help achieve the goals set out by the Agenda 2063 of the African Union.
"The challenges we are all facing can be taken up only through a joint multilateral action," he pointed out.
More than 5.000 participants, including civil society activists and partners from other cities in the world, are attending the 8th Africities Summit with the aim of giving a new impetus to development and integration in Africa.
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Seems worth mentioning this fearsome vocal on the Forward rhythym. Absolutely mentalism is all I can say. Brap! You can hear it on the Hotsound show on 1xtra, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/1xtra_aod.shtml?hotsound click it forward to 15 minutes through the set, and they drop it (and re-re-re drop it) round about there.
Heard this on Master B show on Raw UK - absolutely dirty. Best version so far.
absolutely tearing. spragga's gotta be shuffling round his mid-to-late 30's at this point...that's showin em old timer.
agreed, that version is MURKY!
he's not actually so old, you know. i'm continually shocked at how young a lot of these guys are. it just *seems* like they've been around forever!
oh and while i like this a lot, it's not an exclusive vocal cut, it's actually an overlay of the lyrics from "put foot ova", which was spragga's version on the dancehall rock. doesn't make it any less fun, of course. would just be nice to hear some one-off voicings by the JA crew on grime rhythms.
yeah now would be a good time to remind people of harry toddler over eskimo, donkey kick, which was a proper link up. more stuff in that vein would be great.
Yeah the ragga vocals on that Logan set are breathtaking. Essential listening (although I think Eskibeat may be temporarily down at the moment).
Thanks for clearing up whether it was a new vocal or not, Stelfox. I just assumed it was new, because it seemed to fit so well- it sounded tight, which often isn't the case when you lay an accapella over another beat.
it's a great track on the original rhythm anyway - sorry i feel like i've broken everyone's new toy now! - and i don't really care one way or another; i like it just fine. be fun to see some proper cross-pollination again, though.
HELP! did anyone record this? I missed it and now this weeks show is online.


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← Range, in 1897
Club Life in 1908: snapshot of the wireless world →
Poldhu-Newfoundland 1901: actually a shortwave achievement?
It's well-trammelled ground, over whether Marconi really got a low-frequency signal across the Atlantic in 1901, like he's famous for doing. More precisely, the issue is whether he could have. We don't know what frequency he was using (Marconi didn't either), and there are gaps in our knowledge about his equipment. So we don't know for sure that it was possible. But David Sumner, G3PVH, in a superb piece of reconstructive detective work, has shown that the big jump may well have happened – but not at low frequency. If it happened, it very likely occurred by spurious emission in the 30 meter shortwave band.
It was John Belrose, VE2CV, who gave us the canonical 500 kHz, or 560 meters, at which we suppose the transmission occurred, and he it was who also pointed out the difficulty of a long-distance leap at that frequency, particularly during daylight. There sits the problem. But Sumner's argument goes like this. A spark transmitter can generate secondary signals with high peak power. The 'jigger' coil Marconi was using may have a self-resonance at about 10 mHz. The transmitting antenna, from what we know of it, could have been resonant at that frequency, as could the receiving antenna (which, incidentally, was wind-borne on its kite in the right direction for great-circle propagation). The feed-point impedance at 10 mHz would suit Marconi's particular coherer better than one at 500 kHz. This coherer and the earphones he used form a sensitive enough detector to receive HF broadcasting. Normal propagation on 30 meters at the time of Marconi's documented reception is transatlantic. (I myself have crossed the Atlantic on 10 mHz lots of times, and at 100 watts peak, not his 10 megawatts.)
The technical details of Sumner's sleuthing are a gripping read. He made his own jigger, after Ambrose Fleming's Poldhu design, and tested it with an antenna. He sourced a Collier-Marr 'phone at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science. He takes us through previous work on coherer curves, too, a fascinating trip all by itself. It's a magnificent article, and its bibliography is full of treasures for the scholar, as you'd expect.
Says who:
John S. Belrose, 'A radioscientist's reaction to Marconi's first transatlantic wireless experiment,' Conference Digest, 2001 IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society International Symposium, July 8-13, vol. 1, 22-5.
David Sumner, 'UK to Newfoundland, 1901 Style – the possibility of HF communication,' RadCom, July 2018, 44-54.
Picture: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marconi_at_newfoundland.jpg)
Filed under the prehistory, to 1912

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Machine translated chapter 1077 of Almighty Student light novel.
"Thanks!" After Xia Tian brings back own credential, on direct three buildings. When he arrives at three buildings discovered that this should be a restroom, in each room has the Dragon Group member to be busy the different matters, they are very busy, Xia Tian that looks are not cruel enough, they have bucket of landlords, three dozens one, plays mahjong. Also some people sleep there. Easy and comfortable! They give the first feeling of Xia Tian are easy and comfortable, now truly is the peace age, loss that but this type easy and comfortable will possibly be hard to recall to national bring. Xia Tian after corridor time, has caused in these rooms the attention of person, because the gate is opening, here environment is good, each room is very big, goods in each room should also have. In this easy and comfortable environment, how possibly not to make people lazy. Xia Tian moved toward 308 directly. Thump! Xia Tian has sounded the door. "Comes in!" Xia Tian walked directly: "Senior Official is good!" "Came Ah!" China No. 2 figure to look at a Xia Tian eyespot the nod: "You also saw, how plans to do?" "After ten minutes, outside training ground set, I go to greet with them first." Xia Tian said.
"Em, goes!" China No. 2 figure looked at time. Afterward Xia Tian walked directly, in each room has many people, a Xia Tian face smiling face entered each room, finally their responses are the same, nobody responds Xia Tian. Plays there own. Xia Tian hit for quite a while to call, only then a person said one: "Newly arrived?" Then did not have the sound. dīng! "All personnel training ground emergency musters." The broadcast sound transmits together. Hears the broadcast sound time, these person of few people move directly, they continue to hit in that waited to play these to walk to outside, Xia Tian also followed them. A sound of emergency muster, enough ten minutes, all talented people all arrive in the training ground. China No. 2 figure stands there: "Today introduces the Dragon Group new vice-president teacher to everybody." "This!" Xia Tian directly from the crowd, surroundings these people are a face strange looks at Xia Tian, although they had not responded Xia Tian a moment ago, but they may remember Xia Tian with they 11 greeting. "He is your Dragon Group new vice- teacher, Xia Tian." China the figure introduction said on the 2nd. All people all is a brow wrinkle, but also some people cast the vision of disdaining to Xia Tian, because Xia Tian was really too young, moreover a smiling face of face, to person a not mature feeling: "Hello, starting today I was your teachers, Senior Official, all people here?" "Em, Dragon Group ordinary members here." China figure said on the 2nd, ordinary that he said that that definitely also has Advanced, how he must have a look at Xia Tian to process these ordinary Dragon Group members now, then brings Xia Tian to look at these Advanced Dragon Group members.
"300 people, were a much less." Xia Tian light saying. Hears Xia Tian these words is, many people cast the discontented vision to him. "Snort, what you know, our Dragon Group does mission have the multi- dangers you to know? Were the people short have completed? Does not understand blindly do not speak." Stands directly shouts in front one person loudly. "Do you refuse to accept me?" A Xia Tian face smiling face looks to that person. "Snort!" That person of cold snort, had not stated clearly, but on his face has written the answer. "Leaves ranks!" Xia Tian shouts directly. That person looked at Xia Tian nearby China No. 2 figure, does not prefer walked: "You had been dismissed by Dragon Group, and lifelong no longer hires." "What?" Hears the Xia Tian words, all people all stares. "Why? I have performed that many distinguished services for the country, why openly expressed to eliminate me to dismiss me? I refuse to accept!" That People sound shouts. "You think why you can enter Dragon Group?" Xia Tian looked that asked to that person, but he has not waited for the opposite party to reply that he replied: "You have handled these matters to take boast? Or is used to discuss condition with the country?" "Oneself walk, goes to finance to lead your subsidy." China No. 2 figure opens the mouth to say directly.
Beijing versatile school beauty when hears Jianghai University these four characters, the whole body trembles, she remembered that college entrance examination foremost person in the field suddenly, in the legend has only missed for several points to attain the perfect score that super talent. That person goes to school in Jianghai University. Looks back that Xia Tian leaves, she felt suddenly this person as if can definitely superpose with that person. It is not good, I want, if he is that person, I must with his comparing well, I do not believe that I will be worse than him. Beijing versatile goddess saying silently. This time Xia Tian sat on rental car, the position that Dragon Group is covert, the ordinary people could not find, he looks like a giant stadium is the same, usually these Dragon Group people treat train here, accept mission, here has one set of complete flow. Normal, Dragon Group mission either does not do, either is in danger. General mission has Operations Office to process specially, even if will be difficult mission will have Dragon Group and Operations Office completes specially together, if mission will need Dragon Group to complete alone. That generally is very difficult. Dragon Group is mystical regarding anybody, Xia Tian is no exception, although he has fought with the Dragon Group person, the person but who fights with Xia Tian do not say is Dragon Group, these Earth Grade intermediate stages, the Earth Grade late stage person also will suffer a loss. Because he fights the use brain. Dragon Group, I came. Looks at front this giant stadium, Xia Tian walks toward inside directly, usually fights thinks that here is the ordinary sports training ground, side is also a market, therefore some people will not go, greatly faintly in Shi, is this meaning. Looks at front old and young, the Xia Tian trend hall step by step, his front is the Dragon Group base, China strongest a group of agents. This group of people definitely are the lofty character, wants to deal with these fellows, cannot hit to finish up, moreover they have also made the person of contribution for the country, therefore the processing method also is more tactful. When Xia Tian arrives at the hall, he discovered that here also is really an appearance of stadium, the female service personnel in onstage said Sir, here had reserved all seats for a performance. Em. Xia Tian has handed over the credential, when the female service personnel see the Xia Tian credential, has sized up Xia Tian again, then said Sir, on left elevator three buildings, 308. Thanks After Xia Tian brings back own credential, on direct three buildings. When he arrives at three buildings discovered that this should be a restroom, in each room has the Dragon Group member to be busy the different matters, they are very busy, Xia Tian that looks are not cruel enough, they have bucket of landlords, three dozens one, plays mahjong. Also some people sleep there. Easy and comfortable They give the first feeling of Xia Tian are easy and comfortable, now truly is the peace age, loss that but this type easy and comfortable will possibly be hard to recall to national bring. Xia Tian after corridor time, has caused in these rooms the attention of person, because the gate is opening, here environment is good, each room is very big, goods in each room should also have. In this easy and comfortable environment, how possibly not to make people lazy. Xia Tian moved toward 308 directly. Thump Xia Tian has sounded the door. Comes in Xia Tian walked directly Senior Official is good Came Ah China No. 2 figure to look at a Xia Tian eyespot the nod You also saw, how plans to do After ten minutes, outside training ground set, I go to greet with them first. Xia Tian said. Em, goes China No. 2 figure looked at time. Afterward Xia Tian walked directly, in each room has many people, a Xia Tian face smiling face entered each room, finally their responses are the same, nobody responds Xia Tian. Plays there own. Xia Tian hit for quite a while to call, only then a person said one Newly arrived Then did not have the sound. dīng All personnel training ground emergency musters. The broadcast sound transmits together. Hears the broadcast sound time, these person of few people move directly, they continue to hit in that waited to play these to walk to outside, Xia Tian also followed them. A sound of emergency muster, enough ten minutes, all talented people all arrive in the training ground. China No. 2 figure stands there Today introduces the Dragon Group new vicepresident teacher to everybody. This Xia Tian directly from the crowd, surroundings these people are a face strange looks at Xia Tian, although they had not responded Xia Tian a moment ago, but they may remember Xia Tian with they 11 greeting. He is your Dragon Group new vice teacher, Xia Tian. China the figure introduction said on the 2nd. All people all is a brow wrinkle, but also some people cast the vision of disdaining to Xia Tian, because Xia Tian was really too young, moreover a smiling face of face, to person a not mature feeling Hello, starting today I was your teachers, Senior Official, all people here Em, Dragon Group ordinary members here. China figure said on the 2nd, ordinary that he said that that definitely also has Advanced, how he must have a look at Xia Tian to process these ordinary Dragon Group members now, then brings Xia Tian to look at these Advanced Dragon Group members. 300 people, were a much less. Xia Tian light saying. Hears Xia Tian these words is, many people cast the discontented vision to him. Snort, what you know, our Dragon Group does mission have the multi dangers you to know Were the people short have completed Does not understand blindly do not speak. Stands directly shouts in front one person loudly. Do you refuse to accept me A Xia Tian face smiling face looks to that person. Snort That person of cold snort, had not stated clearly, but on his face has written the answer. Leaves ranks Xia Tian shouts directly. That person looked at Xia Tian nearby China No. 2 figure, does not prefer walked You had been dismissed by Dragon Group, and lifelong no longer hires. What Hears the Xia Tian words, all people all stares. Why I have performed that many distinguished services for the country, why openly expressed to eliminate me to dismiss me I refuse to accept That People sound shouts. You think why you can enter Dragon Group Xia Tian looked that asked to that person, but he has not waited for the opposite party to reply that he replied You have handled these matters to take boast Or is used to discuss condition with the country Oneself walk, goes to finance to lead your subsidy. China No. 2 figure opens the mouth to say directly.


What does a 'proportionate response' to the terror threat look like?
It's a question that must nag at the conscience of international meeting planners.
While the chances of, say, an international medical conference being singled out by terrorists might appear remote, the impact of such an attack could be utterly devastating.
The expectations of delegates will no doubt inform planning.
A visible security presence might be expected at a meeting of world leaders, celebrities, or business leaders, but could easily cause alarm and confusion at a gathering of plant biologists.
And yet most acts of terrorism don't discriminate.
There might be something 'symbolic' in blowing up a pop concert or mowing down pedestrians outside parliament – but the victims could be anyone. Hotels, beaches, shopping malls – the common denominator is a large number of people gathered in one place, caught entirely unawares.
My hunch tells me that most meeting planners are ill-prepared for such an outrage. Security experts, notwithstanding their obvious commercial interests, have told me my hunch is correct.
Most of the conferences I attend have no visible security arrangements, except a registration desk where you're given a badge once your name is found on a list. When your name isn't on the list, you're often given a badge anyway; less embarrassing than turning someone away, I suppose.
Our next cover-story provides more evidence that, even where sabotage is more likely (in this case a meeting of high-level bankers), meeting planners are still leaving an awful lot to chance.
We are grateful to the European Banking Federation for sharing exclusively their humbling experiences with this magazine and hope you can take something from their words of advice.


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2012: Accra Ghana
Global Institute of Logistics> Industry Event
Participation> Endorsement
ACCRA APRIL 2012
GIL DELIVER KEYNOTE AT AFRICA PORTS AND LOGISTICS
The Institute was asked to deliver the key note speech at Africa Ports and Logistics in Accra Ghana. The conference examined how putting the spotlight on the challenges and innovative solutions facing the operators and users of Africa's ports and terminals and its transportation corridors.. Within this context Mr. Ring presented the results of the Institute's research into how port communities are changing in order to meet the demands of full integration into the global supply chain.
KIERAN RING ADDRESSES DELEGATES AT AFRICA PORTS LOGISTICS & SUPPLY CHAIN
African ports are faced with serious challenges of productivity, efficiency and sustainability impacting logistics and supply chain performance - the 3rd Africa Ports Conference in Ghana addressed these issues and was organised to help ports to achieve competitiveness and supply chain innovation.
With world trade expected to double within 15 years, and the growing importance of African countries as global trading partners, most shipping lines are investing heavily in new vessels, including vessels over 10,000 teu. Port and terminal operators must accommodate these new shipping trends and needs. Expansion of terminals is taking place globally including in Nigeria, Angola and Egypt, and new terminals are being built in the Congo and Liberia, among others.
The Conference addressed the readiness of African ports to receive the newer and bigger vessels, developing, improving and protecting port facilities; securing financing for marine infrastructure; managing congestion and increasing operational efficiency; assessing intermodal options and promoting regional and international trade flow.
The title of M. Rings speech was HOW CAN LOGISTICS EFFICIENCY BE IMPROVED? and included on the results of GIl's research explaining how port communities are significantly changing so it can accommodate for full integration into the global supply chain.
GIL PRESENTATION
The distinguished panel of speakers includes representatives from regional government authorities and trade bodie including Nestor Percy Galley, director general, Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority and Jerome Ntibarekerwa, secretary general, Port Management Association of East and South Africa.
Joining Mr Ring to speak at the seminar were Carlos Ahenkora, President, Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders who welcomed the conference and as the dynamic voice of freight logistics service providers and urged all players to be aware of professionalism and "to possess minimum liability insurance for customer comfort and reliability."
ABOUT GLOBAL INSTITUTE OF LOGISTICS
The Global Institute of Logistics (GIL) was established in 2003 under the Chairmanship of renowned US logistician and author Robert V. Delaney in response to the logistics industry's call for "joined up thinking" amongst stakeholders in the global supply chain. GIL looks to resolve the challenges facing the global logistics chain of managing single transport modes, modal systems and targets which are set on stand-alone operations to create a seamless global logistics system.
A Think Tank, GIL brings together thought-leaders and thought-followers as part of a global knowledge network committed to building up the information base, best practices and standards. This, in turn, creates a platform through which knowledge is shared, best practice is adopted and trade developed. Today the Institute is a community of organizations and professionals from across the world that share a commitment to collaborating on global logistics solutions.
The Institute's mission is to 'Network the Global Logistics Community'
For further information, visit www.globeinst.org
chainPORT THIRD AGM IN LA
A group of leading ports from around the globe wrapped up a two-day meeting in Los Angeles on November 7th as part of the maritime collaboration chainPORT, a global initiative established in 2015 to digitally connect ports worldwide and boost efficiency within the global maritime supply chain.
AEROSPACE LOGISTICS GROUP BEST IN CLASS
The Global Institute of Logistics Accredits Aerospace Logistics Group 'Global Best in Class Aerospace Freight Forwarding Network'
WORLD FREIGHT ALLIANCE BEST IN CLASS
The World Freight Alliance has been named the benchmark Independent Freight Forwarding Network globally.The announcement comes as a result of the Institute's preliminary findings from its research study Independent Freight Forwarding in Global Logistics
2014: INSTITUTE JOINS IAPH
IAPH is a global alliance of ports, representing today some 230 ports in about 90 countries. The member ports together handle well over 60% of the world's sea-borne trade & 80% of the world container traffic. It is a non-profit-making NGO headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
2011: JOACHIM COENS NEW CHAIRMAN
click on picture to hear interview
Joachim Coens Chairman-Managing Director of the Bruges-Zeebrugge Port Authority succeeded Rafael Aznar CEO of the Port of Valencia as Chairman of the Institute. His vision is to build on the work done by previous Chairs in establishing the role of the Port Authority as central to the global supply chain.
2013: JEAN-LOUIS CAMBON INDUCTED INTO HALL OF FAME
Jean Louis Cambon, former head of Michelin Ocean Management Committee in Paris, was inducted into the Institute's 'Hall of Fame' at their 8th Annual European Chapter dinner on Tuesday 16th of April 2013. The dinner was held at the Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels.
2013: INSTITUTE CELEBRATES ITS 10TH BIRTHDAY IN SHENZHEN
In 2003 a group of logistics executives from across the world came together to form the Global Institute of Logistics. 10 Years on GIL is playing its part in making the world smaller through its philosophy of promoting collaboration. Shenzhen China played host to the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Global Institute of Logistics this October.


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The Scout Report for Business & Economics - February 22, 2001
The target audience of the Scout Report for Business & Economics is faculty, students, staff, and librarians in business and economics. Each biweekly issue offers a selective collection of Internet resources covering topics in the field that have been chosen by librarians and content specialists in the given area of study.
New from Internet Scout
Open Letter to Our Readers
Livelihoods Connect
Guidelines for studies of the social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS -- UNAIDS
Financing for Development -- United Nations
Taxation Aspects of Electronic Commerce -- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
Internet Economy Indicators
New Features from the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)
Tobacco Control Archives
Conflict Resolution in the Airline Industry
Rationalexpectations.com
Osh.Net
The Business Eccountant
The President's Agenda for Tax Relief
Encyclopedia of Finance
World Bank Photo Library
Glossary for Traders
Finance and Insurance Subject Series, 1997 Economic Census -- Census Bureau
Producer Price Index, January 2001 -- Bureau of Labor Statistics
International Energy Annual -- Energy Information Administration
IBM defends itself against Holocaust allegations
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/about/letter-010202.html
Dear Readers: Here at the Internet Scout Project, we have been working on securing a new source (or sources) of funding for the Scout Reports. We are soliciting your ideas in an Open Letter to Readers that has been sent to the subscriber mailing lists and is available on our Website. Please read the letter at the address above and send us your ideas.
Livelihoods Connect [.pdf]
http://www.livelihoods.org/
Livelihoods Connect, a Website sponsored by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex, is a learning platform dedicated to helping users from all backgrounds understand the importance and potential of sustainable livelihoods as a way to combat global poverty. This active Website includes a variety of news, information, and support for those interested in sustainable livelihood. Featured on the site is a large collection of information resources mainly from the DFID including Guidance Sheets on the Department's Sustainable Livelihoods Approach, easy-to-understand, jargon-free distance learning materials, and links to related organizations and Websites. The site also contains a frequently updated Key Documents database which provides users with summaries of related working papers, manuals, and other documents. Interested users may participate in online message boards or sign up for free email updates. [EM]
Guidelines for studies of the social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS -- UNAIDS [.pdf]
http://www.unaids.org/publications/documents/economics/costeffec/JC326-Guideliens.pdf
This 64-page document from UNAIDS is part of the Best Practice Collection of guideline manuals. The purpose of this set of guidelines is to "place socioeconomic impact studies in the planning process in a systematic way" especially in a number of sectors including agriculture and education. The guide is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter is a wonderful introduction to the socioeconomic impact of the HIV/AIDS virus. Part two offers a clear set of guidelines for assessing the socioeconomic impact of this virus, including types of data to be gathered and how to analyze data in economic and social impact studies. The third part contains information on the conceptual framework of the guidelines including the study of the impact of AIDS/HIV in specific sectors. The conclusion explains the limitations of these impact studies, especially the lack of simple technical solutions. Guidelines for studies of the social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS gives a clear framework for conducting impact studies on this disease. [EM]
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/
A Website from the United Nations, Financing for Development offers information on the 1999 collaboration of the UN, World Bank, IMF, and WTO to find innovative solutions to finance development. These organizations are gearing up for a "high-level consultation in the first quarter of 2002," and many of the documents and much of the information on this site have to do with plans for this consultation. Brand new on the site are the summaries from sessions of the preparatory committee, including regional consultations, and reports on the Business Community and Civil Society hearings. The site also features a listing of new policy developments, and information on upcoming events in development financing. For those following the UN's participation in development work, Financing for Development collects many relevant resources all in one place. [EM]
Taxation Aspects of Electronic Commerce -- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development [.pdf]
http://www.oecd.org/daf/fa/e_com/public_release.htm
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has just released a collection of reports and technical papers dealing with taxation and electronic commerce as it relates to implementation of the Ottawa Taxation Framework Conditions. The documents are simply listed with links on the main page of this Website and are loosely grouped by topic, including direct tax, consumption tax, and administration tax. The documents are available in .pdf format, and the site provides very brief descriptions of the papers' contents. In March 2001, the OECD will also publish its own report on implementing the framework conditions of ecommerce taxation. [EM]
Internet Economy Indicators [.pdf]
http://www.internetindicators.com/
Internet Economy Indicators published in January the third of its biannual reports on the state of the Internet economy (for information on the June 2000 report, see the September 7, 2000 Scout Report for Business & Economics). The latest report finds that "the addition of 612,375 jobs in the Internet Economy in the first six months of 2000 was nearly as much as all of 1999 (when 650,000 jobs were added)." These data apparently belie more dire recent predictions concerning the state of the Internet economy. The report offers data and analysis of employment, revenues, types of jobs, comparison of Internet employment growth to the rest of the economy, comparison of Internet employment growth to revenue growth, and more. Funded by Cisco systems, the report was conducted by the University of Texas. Questions about the influence of corporate sponsors aside, the information here serves as a counterbalance to concerns about dot.com crashes (the report points out that dot.coms make up less than ten percent of the Internet's economy). The full report is offered in .pdf format with an executive summary, key findings, an overview, and selected data also posted on-site in HTML. The site also features an extensive report entitled Dot Coms and Productivity in the Internet Economy as well as an archive of previous biannual reports. [DC]
ERS/USDA Search
http://search.ers.usda.gov/
ERS/USDA Briefing Rooms
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/
ERS/USDA Data [.pdf, .zip, .wk]
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/
http://www.ers.usda.gov/
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (see the July 2, 1998 Scout Report for Business & Economics) has recently launched several new services that collectively offer expanded access to information on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural development. The new search page allows visitors to search by keyword or advanced options or browse a collection of selected key topics. Results may be sorted by date or title and can also be filtered by resource type (briefing rooms, publications, data, topics). The briefing rooms are in-depth overviews of over 70 selected topics which include background, features, recommended readings, recent research developments, suggested data,newsletters, and links, among other content. The new data page contains a complete catalog of ERS data products (listed by title or date), listings by date and topic, popular data products, and an internal search engine. [MD]
Tobacco Control Archives [.pdf]
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
Sponsored and hosted by the University of California-San Francisco Library & Center for Knowledge Management, Department of Archives & Special Collections, this site offers a wealth of papers, unpublished documents, and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues (primarily in California). The final version of the archive will contain over 40 million pages of documents, but even now users can access thousands of pages in three collections. These are the Brown & Williamson Collection, the Joe Camel Campaign: Mangini v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Collection, and California Documents from the State of Minnesota Depository. All three are searchable and browseable. Also included at the site are a guide to searching tobacco industry Websites, full-text reports on tobacco industry activity, and links to related resources. [MD]
Conflict Resolution in the Airline Industry [.pdf]
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/e_archive/miscellaneous/default.html?page=airlines%2Fairlines
New from the Catherwood Library of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, Conflict Resolution in the Airline Industry offers several resources on this topic. The site features a lengthy bibliography of print resources on labor relations in the airline industry, along with chronologies of airline industry strikes and presidential emergency boards under the Railway Labor Act from 1935 to 1969. These resources will offer a solid backbone for any labor relations collection. [EM]
http://www.rationalexpectations.com/
Created by Englishman Ralph Lazer, rationalexpectations.com is a full-service gateway into online economic resources. Featured on the site are detailed directories listing conferences, jobs, and Central Bank resources. Rationalexpectations.com also includes links to a large collection of resources from academic, corporate, and government institutions. User submissions are welcomed and solicited. A majority of resources on this site are UK-based. [EM]
http://osh.net/
Created and maintained on a for-profit basis by WorkCare, this metasite offers over 1,300 links to occupational safety and health information and resources. The heart of the site is the Health & Safety Index, which lists sites by topic in fourteen categories. Some, but not all, of these links are briefly annotated, and banner ads are interspersed. Other content includes feature articles, a FAQ, an internal search engine, a bulletin board, employment postings, and a free newsletter. [MD]
http://www.dti.gov.uk/mbp/index.html
From the UK's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Best Management Practices offers sensible advice, informative articles, and helpful links to management resources. The site presents several resources from the DTI, including "Competitiveness - How the best UK Companies are Winning," an article that identifies the key elements of 100 successful companies in the UK, and the Benchmarking Index, a site that allows users to benchmark their companies against others. Be sure to visit the section entitled Best Practice Guides, Tools and Publications, which includes a wonderful collection of management sources from the DTI. [EM]
http://www.businessed.net/
The Business Eccountant, published by BusinessEd.net, offers an excellent weekly round-up of business and economics related news from around the world. Geared towards college educators and librarians, this newsletter offers headlines and links to top business stories from international news sources along with financial results; articles on corporate governance; currency, interest rates, and global economy summaries; and a company profile. While all users may read via the Web, academics may register to receive a weekly email update. Intelligent and current, The Business Eccountant is a stellar business and economics current awareness and news resource. But what is an "Eccountant"? [EM]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/reports/taxplan.html
President Bush has released a summary of his agenda for tax relief. He claims to offer a "bold and fair tax relief plan that will reduce the inequities of the current tax code and help ensure that America remains prosperous." Highlights of Bush's proposal include doubling the child care credit to $1,000 per child, reinstating the ten percent deduction for two-earner couples, thus reducing the "marriage penalty," and eliminating inheritance taxes. The rather celebratory summary provides a short explanation of each element of the new tax plan, along with several charts on topics including consumer debt, tax rates for Americans on the edge of poverty, and the tax reduction for the poorest families. Finally, the report offers an easy-to-understand, side-by-side comparison of the current tax code and the Bush plan. [EM]
http://www.ameritrade.com/education/html/encyclopedia/index.html
Created and maintained by the Ameritrade Education Center, this straightforward financial encyclopedia explains basic concepts in clear, easy-to-read language. The encyclopedia covers six main topics: Stocks, Securities Analysis and Research, Debt Securities, Mutual Funds, Investment Strategies, and Retirement Planning. Each entry begins with a basic overview of the subject and moves to a variety of in-depth concepts. Users may choose to browse through the main topic and subtopics, or they can do a keyword search of the entire encyclopedia. Thoughtful and carefully written, this encyclopedia should be bookmarked by all beginning finance students. [EM]
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/emps/photo.htm
New from the World Bank, this photography library offers over 500 online images of development from around the world. The pictures, works of art in their own right, cover an extensive range of subjects including people, nature, and urban environments. Registration is required. Users may, however, browse the library by entering "guest" in the user name field and "browse" as the password. The library offers both a simple keyword search, as well as an advanced search which allows users to search for images in specific fields including country, topic, photographer, and description. The photographs, marked with a World Bank stamp, are displayed in large thumbnails and include accompanying information. [EM]
http://www.newsearching.com/nft/glossary.html
This handy glossary of trading terms is from the News for Traders Website. Trading words and phrases are concisely defined and listed in alphabetical order. Hyperlinks within the definitions lead users to other words in the glossary or to outside sources. The glossary may be browsed, but there is no search feature. [EM]
Working Papers [.pdf]
Federal Reserve Board of Governors International Finance Discussion Papers [.pdf]
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/2000/default.htm
On the Effect of the Internet on International Trade
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/2000/693/default.htm
Current Account Adjustment in Industrialized Countries
Information Costs and Home Bias: An Analysis of U.S. Holdings of Foreign Equities
News and Noise in G-7 GDP Announcements
Size, Charter Value and Risk in Banking: An International Perspective
The Geography of Capital Flows: What We Can Learn from Benchmark Surveys of Foreign Equity Holdings
Output and Inflation in the Long Run
Firms and Their Distressed Banks: Lessons from the Norwegian Banking Crisis (1988-1991)
Federal Reserve System [.pdf]:
FRB Cleveland Working Papers
http://www.clev.frb.org/Research/workpaper/2000/index.htm
Is the Political Business Cycle for Real?
http://www.clev.frb.org/Research/workpaper/2000/Wp0016.pdf
FRB Philadelphia Working Papers
http://www.phil.frb.org/econ/wps/wp01.html
Will Bequests Attenuate the Predicted Meltdown in Stock Prices When Baby Boomers Retire?
http://www.phil.frb.org/files/wps/2001/wp01-2.pdf
An Exploration of the Effects of Pessimism and Doubt on Asset Returns
FRB Richmond Working Papers
http://www.rich.frb.org/wpapers/wpfind.cfm
Financial Stability, Deflation, and Monetary Policy
http://www.rich.frb.org/wpapers/abstracts.cfm?absn=254
FRB San Francisco Working Papers
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/papers/index.html
Forward-Looking Behavior and the Optimality of the Taylor Rule
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/papers/2001/wp01-03bk.pdf
Term Structure Evidence on Interest Rate Smoothing and Monetary
Policy Inertia
The Federal Reserve Banks' Imputed Cost of Equity Capital
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/papers/2001/wp01-01.pdf
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Working Papers [.pdf, MS Word]
http://www.oecd.org/eco/wp/onlinewp.htm#2001
Regulation in services: OECD patterns and economic implications
http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2001doc.nsf/linkto/eco-wkp(2001)13
A small global forecasting model
Managing public expenditure: some emerging policy issues and a framework for analysis
Trends in immigration and economic consequences
Economic growth: the role of policies and institutions. Panel data evidence from OECD countries
http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2001doc.nsf/linkto/eco-wkp(2001)9
Does human capital matter for growth in OECD countries?
The tax system in New Zealand: an appraisal and options for change
Institute for International Economics Working Papers [.pdf]
http://www.iie.com/CATALOG/WP/2001/wp01.htm
Price Level Convergence and Inflation in Europe
http://www.iie.com/CATALOG/WP/2001/01-1.pdf
Subsidies, Market Closure, Cross-Border Investment, and Effects On Competition: The Case of FDI in the Telecommunications Sector
National Bureau of Economic Research [.pdf]
http://www.nber.org/new.html#latest
Antitrust and the Not-For-Profit Sector
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8126
Two Mezzogiornos
Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration Out of Africa
Administered Prices and Suboptimal Prevention: Evidence from the Medicare Dialysis Program
Generalized Cash Flow Taxation
Exchange Rates and Tax-Based Export Promotion
Macroeconomic Effects of Regulation and Deregulation in Goods and Labor Markets
Tropical Underdevelopment
Contagion: How to Measure It?
Decentralized Employment and the Transformation of the American City
FX Trading and Exchange Rate Dynamics
Money's Role in the Monetary Business Cycle
Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Papers [abstracts only for non-subscribers, .pdf papers for subscribers]
http://www.cepr.org/pubs/eDPs/new_DPs.htm
Gaps and Triangles
http://www.cepr.org/pubs/new-dps/dplist.asp?dpno=2668
Joint Ownership and Incomplete Contracts: The Case of Perfectly Substitutable Investments
The Race To the Bottom, From the Bottom
Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy under Imperfect Competition
Optimal Degrees of Transparency in Monetary Policymaking
Official Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market: Is It Effective, and, If So, How Does It Work?
Do Monetary Handcuffs Restrain Leviathan? Fiscal Policy in Extreme Exchange Rate Regimes
International Monetary Fund Working Papers [.pdf]
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/wp1_sp.cfm?s_year=2000&e_year=2000&brtype=default
Depositor Behavior and Market Discipline in Colombia
Issues in the Unification of Financial Sector Supervision
Measuring Integrated Market and Credit Risks in Bank Portfolios: An Application to a Set of Hypothetical Banks Operating in South Africa
An Incentive Approach to Identifying Financial System Vulnerabilities
The U.K. Business Cycle, Monetary Policy, and EMU Entry
Financial Development and Economic Growth: An Overview
Will the Emergence of the Euro Affect World Commodity Prices?
Stockholm School of Economics Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance [.pdf]
http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/
A simple efficient GMM estimator of GARCH models
http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/abs/hastef0434.htm
Specification and estimation of random effects models with serial correlation of general form
Asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator of random effects models with serial correlation
Ohlin on the Great Depression. The popular message in the daily press
On the Adjusted Rate of Return to Women's University Education: A Preliminary Study of OECD Countries
Cooperation or Conflict in Common Pools
A Classifying Procedure for Signaling Turning Points
FRB Boston [.pdf]
New England Economic Review
http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/neer/neer2000/neer00.htm
Abstracts and full-text articles from the New England Economic Review include "Building an Infrastructure for Financial Stability: An Overview," "The Use of Value at Risk by Institutional Investors," and "Has the Stock Market Become Too Narrow?" [EM]
FRB Chicago [.pdf]
http://www.chicagofed.org/publications/economicperspectives/index.cfm
First Quarter 2001
The four articles in this edition of Economic Perspectives cover the topics of the 1998 banking crisis, market discipline and subordinated debt, the North-South business cycle, and Internet banking. [EM]
FRB Cleveland [.pdf]
http://www.clev.frb.org/research/Et2001/0201/index.htm
Published by the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Trends includes updates on the following US economic trends: Workers' Health Care Insurance Costs, Credit Unions, and the US Trade Balance. [EM]
FRB New York [.pdf]
Current Issues in Economics and Finance
http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/curr_iss/sec_dis/2001/ci7-1.html
The most recent issue of Current Issues in Economics and Finance contains the article "Declining Manufacturing Employment in the New York-New Jersey Region: 1969-99," which examines the reasons for the dramatic drop in employment. [EM]
FRB Richmond
http://www.rich.frb.org/regionfocus/current/index.html
Summaries of articles from FRB Richmond's Regional Focus are now online. Featured articles include "After the Coal is Gone: West Virginia Finds New Uses for Former Coal Mines" and "Hand-Crafted Glasswork is a Family Legacy for Blenko." [EM]
International Monetary Fund [.pdf]
http://www.imf.org/external/Pubs/FT/staffp/2000/00-02/index.htm
World commodity prices, currency crashes, and a historic look at the Japanese economy are just three of the topics covered in the December 2000 issue of IMF Staff Papers.[EM]
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) [.pdf]
BIS Review
http://www.bis.org/review/index.htm
Recently released articles and speeches from the BIS Review include a speech given by M R Chatu Mongol Sonakul, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, on the major economic events in Thailand; the comments of Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors Urban Backstrom on the Swedish Economy; and General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements and Chairman of the Financial Stability Forum, at the Center for Financial Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Andrew Crockett's lecture on ecommerce and online banking. [EM]
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
AEI Russian Outlook
http://www.aei.org/ro/ro12368.htm
Conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research's AEI Russian Outlook studies the Russian middle class. [EM]
BakerBooks -- Harvard Business School
http://www.library.hbs.edu/bakerbooks/
The latest issues of New Books at Baker Library and New Books from HBS Press are now available from Harvard University's BakerBooks site. These updates are posted by the fifteenth of each month and cover new additions for the preceding month. [EM]
National Bureau of Economic Research Books
http://www.nber.org/books.html
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) presents its collection of books published in 2000, complete with tables of contents and ordering information. The site also offers chapters from books-in-progress. [EM]
Econbase -- Elsevier
http://www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/29/27/show/
The abstracts, tables of contents, and in some cases full-text, for over 60 journals are now available online, including the following: Journal of Financial Economics (Vol 59, No 1), Economics Letters (Vol 70, No 3), Resources Policy (Vol 26, No 3), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance Vol 41, No 1), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (Vol 9, No 1), Mathematical Social Sciences (Vol 41, No 3), and World Development (Vol 29, No 2). [EM]
http://www.econ.vu.nl/econometriclinks/#conferences
Choice experiments: a new approach to environmental valuation
Harper Adams University College, United Kingdom
http://www.irs.aber.ac.uk/mec/CEconf.htm
I Mediterranean Summer School in Theoretical and Applied Economics: Inequality, Welfare and Redistribution
Palma de Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain
http://www.uib.es/depart/deeweb/websummer/1indexUIB.html
http://jobs.chronicle.com/free/jobs/faculty/sscience/econ/links.htm
http://jobs.chronicle.com/free/jobs/faculty/professional/business/links.htm
Finance and Insurance Subject Series, 1997 Economic Census -- Census Bureau [.pdf]
http://www.census.gov/prod/ec97/97f52-sb.pdf
Recently released, the Finance and Insurance subject series of the 1997 Economic Census offers four major tables: Insurance Agents and Brokers for the United States and States: 1997, Administrative Expenses for the United States: 1997, Insurance Benefits to Policyholders for the United States: 1997, and Exported Services by Selected Kinds of Business for the United States and Selected States: 1997. [EM]
http://stats.bls.gov/ppihome.htm
The first monthly Producer Price Index of 2001 reports that the Producer Price Index for Finished Goods rose 1.1 percent in January. It rose 0.2 percent in December 2000 and 0.1 percent in November. [EM]
2001 Agency Reports/ Schedule
http://www.usda.gov/news/calindex.htm
USDA summarizes its report releases from various sources (the Economic Research Service, the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the Foreign Agricultural Service, and the World Agricultural Outlook Board) at this calendar site. Notable data for February 2001 include the report on cattle. According to the most recent update to this report, there were 97.3 million head of cattle and calves in the US as of January 1, 2001. This is one percent lower than a year ago and two percent lower than in 1999. [EM]
http://www.eia.doe.gov/iea/
This yearly publication from the EIA offers annual historical data for topics including world energy production, consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions. Country-level data span from 1980 to 1999. [EM]
1) "Book, Lawsuit Slam IBM's Nazi Ties" -- News Factor Network
http://www.newsfactor.com:80/perl/story/7417.html
2) "IBM Technology Helped Facilitate the Holocaust" -- Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com:80/news/comment/20010219/t000015086.html
3) IBM Holocaust
http://www.cmht.com/casewatch/civil/ibm.html
4) IBM Statement on Nazi-era
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/E761868F46444B06852569F20064F555
5) "IBM Gets An Ugly History Lesson" -- Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/2001/02/12/0212global.html
6) "New IBM-Holocaust book provides one-sided look at Watson" -- _Binghamton Press
http://www.binghamtonpress.com:80/binghamtonnews/business/Subus1.html
7) "Counted for Persecution; IBM's Role in the Holocaust" -- Washington Jewish Week
http://hometown.aol.com/merryeee/ibmstory.htm
Recently, the IBM computer company has been receiving bad press due to both a newly published book and a lawsuit which claim that IBM aided the German Nazi party in World War II. According to both IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black and a lawsuit filed by five holocaust victims, the Nazis used IBM tabulating machinery to help identify and persecute the Jews. The lawsuit focuses on IBM's responsibility in the Holocaust. Suzette M. Malveaux, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, explained, "We know that IBM equipment and expertise was used in concentration camps and that IBM knew this." Edwin Black, the author of IBM and the Holocaust, also identifies IBM as the Nazis' database equipment supplier, but he writes that IBM aided the Germans not because the company was sympathetic to Nazi policies, but because the company was simply trying to get ahead in the global market.
The News Factor Network (1) and the Los Angeles Times(2) provide basic details on both the lawsuit and the book alleging IBM's role in the Nazi's attempt to exterminate the Jews. The law firm Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld, and Toll (3), which represents the five holocaust victims suing IBM, provides an excellent collection of news articles and important documents from the case. IBM (4) has released a statement acknowledging its business dealings with the Nazis but insisting that it has no ideological ties to the party. Forbes Magazine(5) offers this sympathetic editorial about IBM's World War I-era business choices, and Kevin Maney, a columnist for the Binghamton Press(6), complains that IBM and the Holocaust overlooks the brilliance of IBM's founder Thomas Watson Sr. Finally, this Washington Jewish Week article (7) from 1998 offers a synopsis of IBM's role in the Holocaust. [EM]
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The capital city of Zimbabwe, Harare, is a beautiful, light-filled, open city; located high on the country's central plateau. It is a city of modern buildings, wide thoroughfares, several parks and gardens.
There is a strong appreciation for the city's cultural and historical heritage and a number of the older buildings have been preserved. The Mining Pension Fund Building at Central Avenue and Second Street is one example.
If you want to experience shopping the way it is traditionally done in many African countries, you need to stroll around at the open flea-market at Mbare. Here you can look at, or buy, a colourful array of baskets, food, clothing and other small handcrafted items.
The Kopje, a granite hill rising above central Harare, is a great place to go for views of the city.


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Q: Getting Pyphons Tkinter to update a label with a changing variable I have a python script which I have written for a Raspberry Pi project, the script reads a value from a micrometer every second, and stores this value as a TkInter StringVar (http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/variable.htm)
What I want to happen is that that string is displayed on the UI as a label, and updated on the UI when the value changes.
I chose to use a Tkinter stringvar instead of a standard string because I thought that Tkinter would then automatically update on the UI, but it doesn't seem to work.
Currently the script displays nothing for the label, and does not update when show sets virtual_reading.
From other threads I have read, the Tkinter method update_idletasks() should force the window to update, but I haven't been able to get this to work.
Can anyone give any guidance on where I'm going wrong?
This is my first go at Python so sorry if this is simple.
import datetime
import csv
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import messagebox
import time
import pigpio
import os

os.system("sudo pigpiod")

root = Tk()

winx = 480
winy = 320

CLOCK=21
DATA=20

g_level=0
g_reading=0
g_bits=0

pi = pigpio.pi()

virtual_reading = StringVar()

def go():
   global cb1
   global cb2
   cb1 = pi.callback(DATA, pigpio.EITHER_EDGE, cbf)
   cb2 = pi.callback(CLOCK, pigpio.EITHER_EDGE, cbf)
   root.after(1000 ,go)

def show(bits, value):

   inch = value & (1<<23)
   minus = value & (1<<20)

   value = value & 0xfffff

   if inch:
      reading = value / 2000.0
      units = "in"
   else:
      reading = value / 100.0
      units = "mm"

   if minus:
      sign = "-"
   else:
      sign = ""
   global virtual_reading
   virtual_reading = StringVar()
   virtual_reading.set("{} {:.3f} {}".format(sign, reading, units))
   print(virtual_reading.get())
   cb2.cancel()
   cb1.cancel()

def measure(event=None):
    todays_date = datetime.date.today()
    try:
        get_tool_no = int(tool_no_entry.get())
        if get_tool_no <= 0:
            messagebox.showerror("Try Again","Please Enter A Number")
        else:
            with open("thickness records.csv", "a") as thicknessdb:
                thicknessdbWriter = csv.writer(thicknessdb, dialect='excel', lineterminator='\r')
                thicknessdbWriter.writerow([get_tool_no] + [todays_date] + [virtual_reading.get()])
            thicknessdb.close()
    except:
           messagebox.showerror("Try Again","Please Enter A Number")
    tool_no_entry.delete(0, END)

def cbf(g, l, t):
   global g_level, g_reading, g_bits
   if g == DATA:
      if l == 0:
         g_level = 1
      else:
         g_level = 0
   elif g == CLOCK:
      if l == pigpio.TIMEOUT:
         if g_bits > 10:
            show(g_bits, g_reading)
            g_reading=0
            g_bits=0
      elif l == 0:
          g_reading = g_reading | (g_level<<g_bits)
          g_bits += 1

go()

record_button = Button(root,width = 30,
                               height = 8,
                               text='Measure',
                               fg='black',
                               bg="light grey", command = measure)

tool_no_entry = Entry(root)

reading_display = Label(root, font=("Helvetica", 22), text = virtual_reading.get())

reading_display.place(x = 50, y =80)

root.resizable(width=FALSE, height=FALSE)
root.geometry('%dx%d' % (winx,winy))
root.title("Micrometer Reader V1.0")

record_button.place(x = 340, y = 100, anchor = CENTER)

tool_no_entry.place(x = 120, y = 250, anchor=CENTER)
tool_no_entry.focus_set()

root.bind("<Return>", measure)

root.mainloop()

cb2.cancel()
cb1.cancel()
pi.stop()

A: You are misunderstanding how StringVars work. For one, you're recreating the StringVar every second, and only  the original one is tied to the label. The one you create isn't associated with any widgets so it will never be visible.
The second problem is that you're associating the variable with the label incorrectly. You're doing this:
reading_display = Label(..., text = virtual_reading.get())

... when you should be doing it like this to get the auto-update feature:
reading_display = Label(..., textvariable = virtual_reading)

That being said, you don't need to use a StringVar at all. You can use it, but it's just an extra object you have to manage. You can directly set the displayed string with the configure method anytime you want
text = "{} {:.3f} {}".format(sign, reading, units)
reading_display.configure(text=text)

Note: you do not need to call update or update_idletasks

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In 1983, Circle Jerks bassist Roger Rogerson stole the band's van and dropped off the face of the earth. Thirteen years later, he came back, demanded that his bandmates reunite so they could become "bigger than the Beatles," and promptly dropped dead. Though he was a founding member of the band and played on three of their best albums, Rogerson was lost to history.
Woven from interviews of people who knew him,The Prodigal Rogerson explains what happened to Rogerson, where he went, and who he was—all against the backdrop of the Los Angeles punk scene in its prime.
J. Hunter Bennett writes for the music magazine Ugly Things and plays bass guitar in the band Dot Dash. In his spare time, he practices government contracts law at a large law firm in Washington, DC.


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In defense of 'Roseanne'
Jonathan Zimmerman
The cast of "Roseanne" arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of the show. The show was canceled following Roseanne Barr's racist tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. But the show itself was an effort to overcome partisanship, portraying a family divided by politics but trying to get along. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
"Maybe we pushed too far. Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe."
That's what Barack Obama told adviser Ben Rhodes, following Donald Trump's surprising White House victory in 2016. The episode is recounted in Rhodes' new memoir, "The World as It Is," which paints a melancholy portrait of Obama. He had come into office preaching unity across America's differences, but now he worried that Americans didn't want it.
He was right. But it's not just Trump's supporters who have fallen back into their tribe; it's Obama's, too.
Everyone is drawing a line around themselves and denouncing the people outside of it. It's us or them, my team or your team, kill or be killed. And there's nothing in between.
Witness the sad demise of the hit TV sitcom "Roseanne" following a racist tweet by its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr. To most of my fellow liberals, the swift decision to fire Barr — and to cancel the next season of the series— represented a simple victory of good over evil.
"This morning @RobertIger quickly and easily determined that righteousness trumps profits by firing an open racist and anti-Semite from his company," tweeted actor Bryan Cranston, congratulating the CEO of Walt Disney after the Disney-owned ABC fired Barr. "If our elected officials had the courage to do the same by declaring that country trumps partisanship, we'd have a healthier society."
But the show itself was an effort to overcome partisanship, portraying a family divided by politics but trying to get along. And we'd have a much healthier society if we made more efforts to follow its example.
"Roseanne" showed its Trump-friendly star arguing over health care and job growth with her sister, Jackie, who wears the trademark pussycat hat of the anti-Trump crowd. They also clash over Roseanne's new Muslim neighbors, whom she fears are terrorists.
Jackie points out — correctly — that Roseanne's tirades about "Eye-raq' and "Talibanistan" are ignorant and bigoted. And, by the end of the episode, Roseanne has changed her tune: We see her defending her new neighbor from an Islamophobic grocery store clerk, who is trying to shame the neighbor for using food stamps.
Yes, critics on both sides of the political aisle complained that "Roseanne" caricatured them. But how many television shows have even tried to depict the deep tensions that Donald Trump's election has unleashed in our country? Indeed, how many have depicted any Trump supporters at all?
The answer is none, so far as I can tell, except for "Roseanne." Sure, there are other shows featuring everyday Americans; as "Speechless" star Minnie Driver tweeted, in a shameless plug for her own sitcom, that show is also "about a middle-class family." (So "come and watch us" instead of "Roseanne," she added.) But "Speechless" is a gentle comedy about how a family brings up a teenager with cerebral palsy; it's not about politics.
Ditto for our other shows about middle and working-class Americans, which explore the hardships of life in Trump's America but avoid mentioning Trump himself. On "Superstore," we watch a young mother work two jobs so her daughter can go to a good day care; in another episode, employees try to find a better alternative to their lousy health plan. But we rarely hear the T-word or people arguing about him, as we did on "Roseanne." And now we won't.
That can't be good news for our bitterly polarized nation, where entertainment — like everything else — seems to split us along political lines. But in this respect, too, "Roseanne" was different: 39 percent of its viewers voted for Trump, and 34 percent voted for Hillary Clinton, a near-even split. We need more such opportunities to explore our differences, which might be the only thing that can bring us together.
Let me be clear: Roseanne Barr's tweet about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett — likening Jarrett to an ape — was as vile and hateful as American racism can get. It came on the heels of other offensive tweets by Barr, including an anti-Semitic attack on financier George Soros. Surely ABC was within its rights to cancel her show, as an affirmation of its commitment to equality and inclusion.
But you'd think that people who share those values would also bemoan the demise of "Roseanne," one of the few shows that attempted to include people from different political backgrounds. In the best of all possible worlds, we could denounce Roseanne Barr and still defend "Roseanne." But in the world as it is, to borrow from Ben Rhodes' book title, that's become impossible. It's all tribalism, all the time.
Jonathan Zimmerman teaches education and history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author (with Emily Robertson) of "The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools" (University of Chicago Press).
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Meet The Beautiful Family of Omar Borkan Who Was Allegedly Expelled From Saudi Arabia Years Ago.
By Jamesravi_the_blogger (self media writer) | 1 year ago
In 2013, the viral wold was stumped when a picture of Omar Borkan Al Gala surfaced stating that he was expelled from Saudi Arabia supposedly for being 'too handsome.'
Omar was among the three UEA men expelled for being too handsome, although the identity of the two others remain anonymous.
Omar was believed to have been deported by the authorities as they felt his good looks might corrupt impressionable women at n annual festival.
But the truth of the matter is this, the model, actor, and photographer became internationally notorious in August 2013. The incident occurred during the 'Jandriyan Cultural Festival' in Riyadh, in which he, plus two other male models, worked on a promotion stand.
In January 2015 interview, Omar said that at the festival, some girls recognized him from some modelling he had done and they gathered for autographs and photos, after which the crowd then began to grow.
He stated that, "the religion police didn't like it, and they came and they asked me politely to leave the festival."
According to a police officer, "the members of the Commission for the Promotion of virtue and Prevention of Vices feared that female visitors would fall in love with them."
Later, the delegation of Saudi Arabia issued a statement clarifying that Borkan and the other two models were never asked to leave the country, only the festival, and that had nothing to do with being 'too handsome', but was related to the unexpected presence on the stand of men, something that challenged the country's custom regarding having women not to interact with men who are not of their family. They also stated that Omar Borkan had performed 'indecent' dances at the event.
The incident became one of the most viral stories on the internet after the photographs of Omar were disseminated through social media, and he was invited to give interviews on various television programs and appeared on various magazine covers, being presented by the international press as 'the most handsome Arab man in the world' or 'the most handsome man in the world.'
His social media handle followers grew into millions over night following news of his alleged deportation.
A s a result, Omar made a tour that took him to Mexico, Chile and Ecuador in Latin America- before finally relocating to settle in Vancouver in the same year of the alleged deportation. According to some sources, he moved with his parents and two brothers.
Of course the Samsung product ambassador looks cute and he knows and loves the attention he gets, especially from the girls. This he had this to say in an interview about hes new found international fame, "The attention is one of the things that every man in this world wants. Especially from the girls, right? So every man wants to be in that place whee he gets all the people's attention and everyone's looking after him. It happens to me and it feels great."
Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Omar was raised in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The model and photographer who studied Hotel Management in school now has a beautiful family that looks or befits his kind of looks.
Married to Yasmine Oweidah (who is a fashion designer) in 2015, the beautiful couple now have and amazingly handsome boy, Diyab.
Although there are some critics who argue his wife is not as beautiful as she was supposed to be?
Since then, Omar has taken it upon himself to post pictures of his pretty wife and cute son on all his social media handles as can be seen below.
believe everyone wants a beautiful family just like his. And we all love to flaunt our families as well, irrespective of the looks. I wish he continues to enjoy a happy married life.
But if you would ask my honest opinion, I don't find him attractive at all, and I won't go on a date with him if I was a lady.There are numerous number of Nigerian men who can beat him to cuteness I believe (e.g he doesn't come anywhere close to Ramsey Nouah, Jim Iyke, 2 Baba, Obinna Uchendu BBN's Ozo etc.) I bet you agree with me on this?
Also, do you agree with the the critics who feel his wife is not as beautiful as expected? Let your opinions known in the comment section below.
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A24 Producing a Transition of Power Doc From Sean and Andrea Nix Fine
The project hails from Oscar winning filmmakers Sean Fine and Andrea Nix, who were already filming in D.C. when last week's insurrection at the Capitol occurred.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden
A24 is producing a documentary about the transition of power in the American government from directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix, IndieWire has learned. The Oscar-winning filmmakers were in Washington, D.C. filming as a violent insurrection swept through the Capitol last week. The film — focused on the big picture of transitions of power rather than just this most unusual one — has long been in the works. But the filmmaking team happened to be in Washington last week and were able to capture some of the chaos and violence as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to interrupt Congress' certification of Joe Biden's electoral college victory.
The Fines are producing the documentary through their Fine Films banner with A24. The husband and wife team's "Inocente," about a homeless and undocumented California teenager, won the 2013 Oscar for best documentary short. Their most recent movie, "Life According to Sam," about a teen living with a rare genetic disorder, was released by HBO in 2013 and earned a Peabody and Emmy.
The insurrection at the Capitol last week left five people dead. Even after the pro-Trump insurgents erected gallows on the Capitol grounds and drove members of congress into hiding as they stormed the building, some politicians voted against certifying Biden as the elected president. Objections to Electoral College votes were recorded twice before: 1969 and 2005. As in this case, the House and Senate rejected those objections and the votes in question were counted, according to the House historian.
The transition of power from Trump to Biden has become even more exceptional after the House voted to impeach Trump Wednesday, charging him with "incitement of insurrection." That makes him the first president in US history to be impeached twice.
Ten Republican representatives joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump. Now, with less than a week before Biden's inauguration, the Senate will vote whether to convict Trump of the charge. However, The New York Times reports that the Senate will not likely reconvene before Jan. 20, meaning the president will likely serve his full term.
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (NAS: MKTX) , the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for U.S. and European corporate bonds, emerging markets bonds and other types of fixed-income securities, today announced total monthly trading volume for March 2013 of $51.5 billion, consisting of $32.8 billion in U.S. high-grade volume, $2.3 billion in eurobond volume, and $16.4 billion in other volume. This data can be accessed on MarketAxess' website at www.marketaxess.com.
Monthly volume updates are posted in the Investor Relations section of the website on or before the tenth business day of each month. The data provide current month and historical volume totals on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
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What does Brexit mean for Britain's museums?
When it comes to Brexit, museums – and the wider cultural sector – seem to be fairly low on the list of public priorities. The government has its hands full negotiating the future of the country's legal, regulatory and trading systems, so why worry about our cultural institutions? Won't they get along just fine, whatever happens?
Well, yes and no. The UK's 3,000 museums do not face all of the Brexit-related uncertainty that banks, businesses and EU citizens have experience over the past two and half years.
After 29 March, they will continue to welcome visitors, display and research their collections and work with local schools and communities. Yet while they are not on the frontline of Brexit, museums are by no means impervious to it.
Many of the practical concerns that museums have about Brexit are related to freedom of movement. Will European tourists still be able to come to the UK with ease?
Will European members of the workforce be welcome in the country – including experts who earn below the new £30,000 'highly skilled' threshold? And how will we navigate new rules for importing, borrowing and lending museum objects?
The latter question is a serious concern in the event of a no-deal Brexit that brings chaos at the border. Such a scenario could lead to valuable objects being held for lengthy periods in queues for ports, thus creating new risks to valuable works which in many cases are indemnified by the Treasury via the Government Indemnity Scheme. Ultimately, museums may choose not to borrow and lend with European partners for a period.
Then there's the issue of funding. If there is one over-riding concern amongst the museums sector, it is the fear of a post-Brexit recession after a decade of damaging austerity.
Local authority museums experienced a 31% cut in public funding between 2010 and 2016, and many are now in a fragile financial position which makes them ill-prepared for another major economic shock.
But the UK's withdrawal from the EU is also having a more immediate impact on the sector. Consider the example of Leeds Museums, which lost the opportunity to be part of European Capital of Culture last year, and is also facing legal and contractual uncertainty in planning for major events such as Yorkshire Sculpture International in 2019.
The issues facing the sector in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are all the more stark. EU funding has played a more important role in the cultural sector there than in Britain, and cross-border partnerships are common.
While museums have pressing practical concerns about Brexit – and particularly about the possibility of a no-deal Brexit – they have also been adapting to the substantial cultural shifts that the referendum has brought to the fore.
Museums are not exactly bastions of pro-Leave sentiment. Most people in the sector subscribe to a set of internationalist values – promoting cultural exchange, inspiring audiences, sharing knowledge freely – which are inimical to the Brexit project.
Back in 2016, the Creative Industries Federation found that a whopping 96% of its members – which include museums – wanted to remain in the EU.
The referendum has shown that audiences do not necessarily share those values and views. This poses an interesting challenge to our cultural institutions. Should they simply carry on as before?
Or should they attempt to decipher the Brexit vote amongst their local communities, and adjust their public offer accordingly?
If Brexit is, as many have argued, an essentially cultural divide, then what role should museums play in its aftermath? In the long run, this may be the question that matters most.
By Alistair Brown, policy officer at the Museums Association.