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What an unusual auction says about the art market
Penny pinch, a Chicago street artist, likes to have fun with art-world finances. His work—from murals to paintings to tote bags made in collaboration with the Chicago Cubs baseball team—uses scavenged or donated materials (hence the name). His latest experiment, hosted at A Very Serious Gallery, in the city's north-west, is in pricing.
On December 16th Mr Pinch is due to sell 15 paintings, one of which is pictured, in a Dutch auction. Each will start at a price of $3,000, which will be cut by $100 every hour until a buyer emerges. According to Mr Pinch and Allan Weinberger, the gallery's owner, it is the first-ever such auction of new art (a claim your correspondent could not disprove).
Dutch auctions are more commonly used to sell homogenous goods, such as cut flowers in 17th-century Holland or government bonds today. Their use for unique works is considerably rarer. Mr Pinch says the auction is "an opportunity for people who can't normally buy large pieces of work". It is also an opportunity to poke fun at the art world.
The opportunity may come at a cost. As Eric Budish of the University of Chicago notes, the trick with a Dutch auction is knowing where to set the starting price. For Treasuries, the range is established by looking at previous auctions. For Mr Pinch's art, there is no equivalent, meaning he risks setting the price too low and leaving money on the table.
Mr Pinch is unconcerned by this, as he has something else in mind. At a regular auction, a potential buyer is influenced by the crowd. Clamour for an offering indicates a higher potential resale value and a greater status gain if the auction is won. These sorts of considerations are "icky", reckons Mr Pinch, which is why he likes Dutch auctions, where they are not possible. When somebody else bids, it is too late. Potential buyers must focus on how much they value the art, not how much others do.
Yet there is an irony to the experiment. By launching the first Dutch auction for art, Messrs Pinch and Weinberger may generate enough hype to attract exactly the sort of buyers they wish to repel—those motivated more by status than a love of art. ■
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Since the brand's launch in 2020, Bellini's sales have skyrocketed, selling over $1 million in its first year and exceeding its sales in 2021, in 2022, with over 2 million sales in euros. Seeing this, it is clear that art sales are booming, and people want to see more of his unique pieces.
However, because Bellini's website is the only place to view and purchase his art, the public has begun to request a gallery or a pop-up gallery where they can go visit Bellinis' work and see it for themselves.
Rendering of The Burn, 2023. (Javid JAH)
What if you could just set fire to the past? Would you feel liberated — free to start fresh in 2023, flush with feelings of love and peace and other things you could file under positive vibes?
The City of Toronto launched an interactive art project last Thursday called The Burn, a seven-week initiative that aims to offer a moment of respite in the wake of COVID-19, and it comes to a climax on March 11 — the third anniversary of the pandemic.
On that date, a monumental art installation will go up at Nathan Phillips Square, and the centrepiece involves three towering steel sculptures that'll be set aflame for 24 hours — fires that will keep on burning with a little help from the public, who'll be invited to add bits of (supplied) wood to the blaze.
It's a scenario that sounds significantly more thoughtful and controlled to hear Roger Mooking describe it. Mooking is the lead creative on the project, and he talks about The Burn as a chance to heal and grow as a collective. In short, it's bigger than an all-day bonfire.
Mooking says he began thinking about the work in 2021, prompted by the "overwhelming melancholy" of lockdown. "I recognized that I was not the only one, that we were in this kind of collective consciousness globally, and we all needed to heal," he tells CBC Arts. And with The Burn, he's inviting Torontonians to actively begin that healing process.
The first phase of the project is already underway, and involves a series of interactive sculptures — significantly smaller vessels than the ones that'll go up at Nathan Phillips Square. They're being stationed at public sites around the GTA as part of a tour that launched Jan. 19 in three locations: Fort York National Historic Site, the Toronto Zoo and Twist — Mooking's restaurant at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Here he is, testing it out in Terminal 1.
As of writing, people can find The Burn at three new sites through Feb. 1: Spadina Museum, Native Canadian Centre and the Market Gallery at St. Lawrence Market.
"We want to make sure that we're hitting every corner of the GTA: north, east, south, west, central — all the nooks and crannies," says Mooking. Twenty-one locations are currently scheduled for the tour, and a full map and schedule can be found through the city's website.
Through March 11, visitors will find metallic dodecahedrons at different destinations — sculptures created by local artist Javid JAH. And under each sculpture is a bowl of wooden balls: spheres the size of marbles that have been carved out of cedar.
Find vessels like this one throughout the GTA. This shot was taken during The Burn's install at Fort York National Historic Site. (CBC Arts)
Take a ball, and you'll be asked to stop and think — to sit with your feelings, really. In the language of The Burn, you'll be "setting an intention." Is there something weighing on you: an emotion you wish you could change or simply set free? Once you've identified that feeling, you're asked to drop your ball inside the sculpture. It's a moment for "letting go," so to speak.
"People are carrying so many things, especially coming through this COVID time," says Mooking. "It's a very simple thing … that can be very, very emotional."
A multihyphenate known for his success as a chef, TV personality (Man Fire Food), and musician (Bass is Base), Mooking's presented participatory art projects for the city before. Just last August, to coincide with Emancipation Month programming at Toronto history museums, he launched Read(In), an interactive installation that also appeared in multiple locations throughout the GTA.
To bring The Burn to life, project curator Umbereen Inayet connected him with collaborators JAH (who designed and produced the installation's ornate sculptural elements) and artist Catherine Tammaro, a Wyandot Elder who served as an advisor, particularly concerning the project's spiritual bent. Says Mooking: "There's a deep history of Indigenous cultures using fire and water for cleansing and preservation and healing, so we needed that guidance to make sure that we were respecting that tradition."
The wooden balls collected at each tour site will eventually fuel the fire on March 11, and Mooking says those attending the activation at Nathan Phillips Square will also have the opportunity to set an intention. At the big event, visitors will send their cedar spheres down a chute, directly into the flames. And when the fire's extinguished, all the ash that's left behind will be collected for use in city gardens. "We're really trying to emulate the cycle of life: from the spark to the ash," says Mooking. "We're looking to carry the spiritual intentions from everybody in the city to fortify our Earth."
The city says it will be announcing more public projects that respond to COVID's impact on residents. Like The Burn, they're part of a program called Stronger Together that launched in late November. More programming is expected to be revealed in February.
In the first few days of The Burn's cross-city tour, Mooking says he was receiving reports from the participating venues. Folks are interacting with the sculptures already, he says. "It's been cathartic, I hope. … I can't wait to see how much healing we're able to do when we really roll out the full scale of this at Nathan Phillips Square."
Full event details, including a map of The Burn's tour locations, can be found on the project's website.
Art is everywhere this weekend
Saturday, Jan. 28
2023 ArtsEverywhere Festival
Multiple locations; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
From film screenings to drag brunches and book fairs, the free annual festival has something for everyone. Learn more here.
Royal City Studios; 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Join Royal City Studios for a live music tribute to Woodstock 1969; attendees are encouraged to wear their best 60s style clothes. Get tickets here.
Music Weekends
Western Burgers & Steaks; 2:00 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The genre-bouncing Probable Cause will perform live at The Western, pay-by-donation. Doors open at 2 p.m., show starts at 2:30.
Sunday, Jan. 29
River Run Centre; 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The last day of the free festival features a lecture and a film screening, both at the River Run Centre. Learn more here.
Onyx Nightclub; 2p.m. to 5 p.m.
Join SHEBAD for their live concert at Onyx. It's family-friendly and pay-by-donation. Doors open at 2 p.m., show starts at 2:45.
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Kentucky's Calipari Elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
INDIANAPOLIS – Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari will join basketball's fraternity of legends in August after being elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The announcement was made Monday at a press conference in Indianapolis.
"This is going to be hard for people to understand, but I'm at a loss for words," Calipari said. "I was overwhelmed when I heard the news and so grateful. I would imagine other recipients felt how I feel now: unworthy of such an honor, but appreciative. As a coach, this award means that many parents entrusted you with their sons and many players entrusted you with their careers. That's why this award has happened for me, and I'm indebted to all of them, all of the staffs and all of the administrations that have helped me build these programs."
Coach Calipari will join an elite group of basketball players and coaches in the Naismith Hall of Fame, considered to be one of the ultimate honors in the sport. Calipari and the Class of 2015, which will also include Dick Bevetta, Louie Dampier, Lindsay Gaze, Tom Heinsohn, John Isaacs, Spencer Haywood, Lisa Leslie, Dikembe Mutombo, George Raveling and JoJo White, will be enshrined during Hall of Fame festivities in Springfield, Mass., Sept. 10-11.
Prior to Monday's announcement, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame consisted of 325 inductees, including 95 coaches.
Twelve finalists were eligible for this year's induction. A finalist needed 18 of 24 votes from the Honors Committee for elections into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Dampier, a member of the program from 1965-67, was named one of five direct elects as initial members of the Class of 2015 in mid-February and will be a part of the induction ceremonies in September. Dampier, a Second Team All-American at Kentucky and a seven-time ABA All-Star, was voted in from the American Basketball Association Committee.
Calipari's credentials are certainly Hall of Fame worthy. In his 23 seasons as a college head coach, he's guided six teams to the Final Four, including four over the last five years, becoming one of just three coaches (John Wooden and Mike Krzyzewski) to achieve that feat. He's led one team to a national championship and produced 30 NBA Draft picks, including 19 in his first five seasons at Kentucky and 15 first-rounders.
Included in his 30 draft picks are three No. 1 picks (Derrick Rose, John Wall and Anthony Davis). Calipari is the only coach with three top draft picks.
The 2014-15 season has arguably been Calipari's finest coaching job. En route to leading Kentucky to a 38-1 season, which tied two of Calipari's other teams (UK in 2012 and Memphis in 2008) for the most wins in NCAA history, Coach Cal has been awarded national coach of the year honors by the Atlanta Tipoff Club (Naismith), the Associated Press, the National Association of Basketball Coaches and Sporting News, among others.
Calipari's Kentucky team was the first team in NCAA history to post a 38-0 record before falling to Wisconsin in the Final Four on Saturday.
Among Calipari's most notable achievements are nine 30-win seasons, including five straight from 2006 to 2010. He's the only coach in NCAA Division I history to achieve that feat. The 56-year-old has won three Naismith Coach of the Year honors (1996, 2008 and 2015) and been named a Naismith finalist four other times.
On his way to more than 600 on-court wins, which he achieved this season, he's notched 21 consecutive seasons of 20 or more on-court victories, more than all other active coaches. Of course, as a players-first coach, Calipari credits his success to his players, which include 16 All-Americans during his career and three national players of the year (Marcus Camby, Wall and Davis).
The Pennsylvania native has won 13 regular-season conference championships, 12 conference tournament titles and has been named the coach of the year in his respective conference nine times in his decorated career.
In Calipari's third year in Lexington, he guided Kentucky to its eighth national championship. In the process, he became one of only two coaches to lead three different schools to a Final Four (UMass-1996; Memphis-2008; Kentucky-2011, 2012, 2014 and now 2015).
Following his fifth season at UK, Calipari's overall on-court record was 597-166, giving him the third-highest winning percentage (.771) among active NCAA Division I coaches with 10 years of experience at college basketball's Division I level, trailing only Mark Few and Hall of Famer Roy Williams. After opening the 2014-15 campaign with three straight wins, Calipari became the 13th active head coach with on-court 600 wins.
Following Saturday's games, Coach Cal has a 325-51 record, the most wins of any college head coach since the 2005-06 season.
Calipari is one of only two coaches (Roy Williams) in NCAA Division I history to amass 400 or more wins in his first 16 years as a head coach, and his 173 victories from 2008-12 are the most ever for a coach over a five-year span in Division I history. Since the 2005-06 season, he has the best winning percentage among all Division I coaches.
His NCAA Tournament record of 47-15 (.758) is the second-highest winning percentage among active coaches. His six Final Four appearances are tied for the fifth most by a coach all-time, and his 11 straight NCAA Tournament wins prior to the 2014 national championship loss represented the longest winning streak in the tournament since the Florida Gators won 12 straight in 2006 and 2007.
Calipari's foundation, The Calipari Foundation, has raised millions of dollars to help the lives of those in need in the Commonwealth and across the country, and in 2010, he used a telethon to raise more than $1 million for victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. He followed that with another telethon in 2012 that raised $1 million for victims of Superstorm Sandy.
A year after helping raise $350,000 for charity during the inaugural UK alumni weekend, Calipari was the driving force behind the more than $1 million that was donated to local and national organizations during the second annual alumni weekend. Despite the absence of the alumni game - a large generator of the alumni weekend funds -- in 2014, he and his basketball fantasy experience matched the $1 million the following year.
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A millennial searches for meaning with the Bard 400 years after his death
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Goddamnit, Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece
He's good even when he's not.
"Do you ever get sick of Shakespeare?" my sister-in-law asked me.
It was late morning, an unusually rainy day. I was sitting in a reclining chair, Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis open on my lap, and I was making absolutely no progress in the poem. If only I could read like I drank coffee: No cream, no sugar, all day long, with lots of trips to the bathroom.
People were putting together their breakfasts in the kitchen, planning out activities and to-dos for the day, mapping out who would use the cars when, dogs barking out the window at passers-by, chickens squawking in the coop out back, a FaceBook video blaring on an iPhone, a call for "Who wants another cup of coffee?" ("I do.") We were all back home at Christmas headquarters, my in-laws in Southern California. It wasn't an ideal environment for a focused reading of Shakespeare, to be sure, but it wasn't like I was making a dent in the poem. And this morning, my efforts were particularly half-assed.
"I wouldn't say I get sick of Shakespeare, but I would say I get mad at him."
"Sick? I wouldn't say I get sick of him." I explained to her how starting a new play was like jumping into cold water. You hesitate, fearing the initial shock of the icy immersion, the work you have to do warm up, but you soon acclimate to the temperature and love splashing around.
Then I looked down to Venus and Adonis.
I had been trying to wrap up Shakespeare's other, non-Sonnets poems – including this one, The Rape of Lucrece, and a handful of other random little ditties – for a few days now. These felt like a long hike in the dessert.
"But I would say I get mad at him."
Goddamnit, Shakespeare, I moaned to myself, my eyes glazing over at the fourth stanza into some extended metaphor about Adonis' sexbod. Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem, 1194 lines long, about Venus, Roman goddess of love, falling in love with Adonis, a beautiful young man. Venus wants to jump Adonis' bones, but Adonis is only interested in hunting. He does, the next day, but is killed by a boar. Venus is devastated, which is why, in the logic of myth, love is now so complicated. As she concludes:
Since thou art dead, lo, here I prophesy
Sorrow on love hereafter shall attend,
It shall be waited on with jealousy,
Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury end.
Ne'er settled equally, but high or low,
That all love's pleasure shall not match his woe. (1135-40)
She goes in, in poignant lines about how love hurts: "It shall be fickle, false, and full of fraud" (1141). But goddamnit, Shakespeare, why did you have to make us wait for over 1000 never-freaking-ending lines for this?
It's funny. Venus and Adonis was the first work Shakespeare published, and, arguably, his most popular. (Plays, back then, were owned by the theater, so the publication process, as well as the concept of authorship, was a different animal.) But now, with only Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Edward III standing in the way of my completist goal, Venus and Adonis felt like homework. Like a chore. And I, a recalcitrant schoolboy, having a tantrum about it.
I was taking far too much time to read Shakespeare's "Other Poems." Sure, there was day-drinking, outings, visits with friends and families, holiday parties, and all sorts of welcome and ready distractions. But I had more than enough time in between to put back these verses. So I snuck out to a Starbucks one under-scheduled afternoon to take on The Rape of Lucrece. This (motherfuckin' 1855 lined rhyme royal) recounts how the son of the last king of Rome, Tarquin, rapes Lucretia, wife of a fellow soldier. Shamed and dishonored, Lucretia kills herself, leading to Tarquin's banishment – and the founding of the Roman republic.
But then here I was, bored to tears about a poem treating the horrifying rape of a woman.
I kept nodding off in the oversized café chair. I'd rub my eyes, try to get my finicky phone on WiFi one more time, and groan, "This is so boring."
At one point, a group of late-middle-aged and older women gathered around a table nearby my seat. They were sporting Christmas sweaters and passing around Christmas cookies. They chatted – polite, soft-spoken, attentive – about the holidays, their kids and grandkids, movies and TV, and then politics.
I pretended I was reading (not that this required much of a change) and eavesdropped. "I just don't know what the Access Hollywood video had to do anything. I mean, it doesn't concern policy or anything." She was referring to the tapes showing Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault.
I was shocked. How could she – a woman, a mother, a grandmother, a Christian, from what my eavesdropping gathered – shrug off Trump's "Grab 'em by the pussy"?
In the Roman psyche, a woman's rape brought shame to her husband and family. And in the Elizabethan mind, women were seen as weak. "Those proud lords, to blame, / Make weak-made women tenants to their shame" (1259-60). Rape of Lucrece is far from any feminist anthem, at least people got up in arms about Tarquin's heinous act.
Goddamnit, Shakespeare. You did it again.
Author John KellyPosted on January 18, 2017 Categories Gender, Other Poems, reading, Sexism, The Rape of Lucrece, Venus and Adonis, ViolenceTags boredom, Donald Trump, rape, rape culture, Sexism, Shakespeare, Shakespeare 2016, Shakespeare 400, Shakespeare's narrative poetry, the difficulty of reading Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, Venus and Adonis10 Comments on Goddamnit, Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece
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Democracy, National Sovereignty, and Economic Policy: The Challenges Facing Europe and the United States
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An Interview with Mark Weisbrot, by Nacho Berdugo
La Circular nº5 (Instituto25M), pp. 114–125
Nacho Berdugo: After seeing the major political events that have taken place in the past year in the member countries of the European Union, such as the humanitarian refugee crisis, the economic recession, the uptake in cases of xenophobia, terrorist attacks, and Brexit, what political and economic trends are we going to see in the old continent in the short and medium term?
Mark Weisbrot: Among all of these problems that the EU faces, I think the most important one is the structural problem of the eurozone. This is the most fundamental cause of high unemployment in the EU, which is still twice the level of that of the US; the "lost decade" that the EU is approaching since the world financial crisis and recession; and the continued hacking away at the region's prior social and economic achievements, i.e., the achievements of social democracy. All this contributes to xenophobia, racism, and right-wing resurgence (as in France and the UK); and it makes the refugee problem much worse, since it would be much easier to absorb refugees if there was not so much unemployment and unnecessary constraints on government spending. (On the other hand, the refugee crisis is primarily a result of joint US/EU foreign policy in the Middle East, a fact that is generally overlooked; so this, too, urgently needs to change in order to resolve the refugee crisis.)
The most basic problem is that the governments of the eurozone countries gave up their national sovereignty over their most important economic policies: first monetary (including interest rates) and exchange rate policy, and then, when they got into trouble, some found that they had lost control over their fiscal (government spending and taxation) policies as well. Even worse, they gave up this control over economic policy to a group of institutions and people (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF and the eurogroup of finance ministers) who had a fierce neoliberal agenda of their own, directly at odds with the majority of Europeans. And so, for example, in 2011 and most of 2012, these unaccountable European authorities deliberately prolonged and exacerbated a financial crisis and recession, pushing the regional economy several times to the brink of a financial meltdown, in order to pressure the more vulnerable elected governments to adopt policies that people would never vote for. This included fiscal austerity, of course, but the deliberately prolonged financial crisis also contributed to the extra two years of recession that Europe had, which the US avoided. And they did this in order to promote neoliberal "structural reforms," including cuts in health care spending and pensions, unemployment insurance, and labor law "reform" that reduced the bargaining power of unions. There is a whole paper trail of thousands of pages of IMF Article IV consultations with EU governments, which are negotiated between the finance ministries of these governments and the IMF, which spell out this agenda pretty clearly.
And the EU itself has also increasingly adopted a neoliberal project, for example with the misnamed European Stability and Growth Pact, adopted in March 2012. This applies to the whole EU, not just the eurozone. It builds on the mistakes of the Maastricht Treaty, and it is another major obstacle to Europe undertaking the expansionary fiscal policy ? including public investment ? that is necessary to move the regional economy toward full employment.
So a big challenge for progressive forces in Europe will be to negate and replace this neoliberal project with a set of policies that can restore social and economic progress in Europe. This will not be easy, and there are tough questions regarding political strategy, e.g., what can be accomplished inside versus outside of the eurozone. On the positive side, we have seen a very big change in monetary policy, with quantitative easing; in this sense it is similar to the US, where the next step is to change fiscal policy, although the situation with mass unemployment is much worse in Europe. And Europeans need to reverse the process of implementing neoliberal "structural reforms."
It appears that Greece's worst fears have been confirmed since the arrival of Alexis Tsipras' government — the economic recession has installed itself as an irreversible process while austerity policies are having a deep impact on Greek society. In this scenario, it appears practically impossible to bring an end to the Greek situation without at least partial debt forgiveness. What is your diagnosis for the Greek people?
Well, even the IMF has acknowledged that Greece will need more debt cancellation in order to return to sustainable growth. But the more urgent problem in the short run is again fiscal policy; the European authorities are still squeezing the Greek economy with austerity, too much to allow it to even get out of recession, much less do something about its more than 23 percent unemployment (and more than double that for youth). They are insisting that Greece run a primary budget surplus of 3.5 percent by 2018, a level that it has practically achieved for the first seven months of this year, but that is not compatible with economic recovery. Of course, the arithmetical reason for such high primary budget surpluses is to pay off more debt. The political reasons are less certain; it seems clear that the European authorities had a political strategy of "regime change" last year, prior to the July referendum on austerity, and it is possible that they would still like to get rid of Syriza, despite the latter's surrender after the July 2015 referendum. But for whatever reason, they are on track to keep the Greek economy in recession and crisis indefinitely, and even the IMF has objected to this, pushing for debt relief, although the European authorities have prevailed for now.
I think this dissent from IMF officials represents a difference between Washington and the European leaders, headed by Germany, over Greece. Washington does not care very much about the neoliberal project of these European leaders, and it looks at Greece through a geostrategic lens, and has at least some worries that Greece could be forced out of the euro if present policies continue. Whereas their European partners have other priorities, and once it was clear to them that Greece was not going to leave the euro last year, they simply crushed Syriza with brute force. It's tough to say whether Syriza had any bargaining power in that situation, because they didn't try to use any.
From an economic point of view, it is clear that Greece would be much better off today if they had left the euro six years ago, rather than going through more than six years of depression. Of course there would be a short-term crisis upon leaving, but if we look at the financial crises associated with devaluations of the past two decades, the economic losses are very short and small compared to what Greece has lost. But politically, it is difficult for politicians to risk the short-term hit of leaving, especially when the majority of the electorate doesn't understand the economics of what is at stake, and for other reasons wants to remain within the eurozone. This is one reason why the EU authorities issued mafia-like threats to the UK before the Brexit vote, and many still want to punish them as much as possible if they actually leave.
The European authorities have never wanted anyone to think that there was life after the eurozone (or the EU, in the case of the UK). But the economics of the situation are such that most governments in the eurozone, including even France, if they had wanted to move toward full employment in the past seven years, would have found that vastly easier to do outside of the euro.
With due respect to the differences with Greece, the Spanish economy is growing at an extremely slow rate, youth unemployment is alarming (over 40 percent) and austerity measures continue to tighten. In this scenario, we are witnessing another context of political deadlock in which the old bipartisanship is trying not to lose its complete dominance and Podemos is unable to achieve enough electoral strength to lead a political change in Spain. The political situation in the country is at a standstill after the second consecutive election, and a panorama of uncertainty continues to reign. What is the prognosis— in your opinion — for Spain, and how might it be framed within the context of southern Europe?
Podemos has made great political advances in a very short time. I cannot predict what will happen in the near future. But politically, it is hard to see how any government that continues the present policies of austerity could have much of a future, even if one is able to be formed from an upcoming election. The economic recovery that Spain has had since the second half of 2013 has been driven to a large extent by favorable external influences, including quantitative easing by the ECB and low oil prices, as well as the government missing its fiscal targets and thereby escaping the austerity that it had promised. But the [governing] Partido Popular promises continued budget tightening, and that will weaken or abort further recovery.
The IMF has projected that Spain will still have 16-17 percent unemployment when it reaches its potential GDP several years from now. In other words, they are saying that this level of mass unemployment is basically full employment ? as good as it gets. With youth unemployment currently at more than 45 percent, this is intolerable, and cannot be accepted by the majority of the country.
Podemos has put forth a feasible economic program that would move the economy much closer to full employment, and at CEPR we have done similar work that shows it is possible to do so even while remaining in the eurozone. Spain has relatively low taxes as a share of GDP, so there is room to increase taxes on upper-income taxpayers and use this for public investment and other expenditures that will increase growth and employment. And borrowing costs are extremely low right now, with Spanish government 10-year bonds currently yielding less than 1 percent. So there is plenty of room for expansionary fiscal policy. And Spain has the fourth-largest economy in the eurozone, more than six times larger than that of Greece ? so a left government in Spain would have a lot more bargaining power with relation to the European authorities than Greece has had.
The campaign of fear and distrust around Europe has won in the United Kingdom; the most reactionary propositions coming from notable figures like Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage have prevailed in a referendum that asks for an exit from the European Union. What is the real viability of this process in the medium and long term in a country divided in this regard? What would the economic impact of this decision be if it eventually materializes?
Well, there was also a campaign of fear on the other side, the anti-Brexit or "Remain" campaign ? the media, the IMF, the OECD, the UK Treasury ? all predicted that the sky would fall after a "yes" vote. But it certainly didn't: unemployment doesn't seem to be rising, and the financial markets rebounded and remain calm. The Brexit vote seems to have been primarily a protest vote, by many who belong to the majority of citizens whose incomes are still well below their prerecession level.
The Brexit vote represents a very similar problem as in the rest of Europe: the center-left (in the UK it was New Labour) embraced an internationalism that abandoned the interests of the majority and especially workers, buying into the neoliberal project of the "New Europe." In Greece and Spain, where conditions were ripe for it, including prior grass-roots organizing and some talented leadership (in particular Alexis Tsipras and Pablo Iglesias), a sizable fraction of the center-left defected and went to the left (Syriza and Podemos). But it can also go to the right, as in France, and in the Brexit fight, the UK. This problem is fundamental, and it would seem that the European left will have to come up with a progressive economic nationalism, one that recognizes the vital importance of national economic sovereignty to basic democracy. (Syriza was successful in doing this, until its surrender to the European authorities.) And in this age where neoliberalism has such self-assured hegemony in the highest circles of power and the intelligentsia in Europe, and is aggressively trying to chip away at the welfare state, to fail to contest their agenda in the name of "internationalism" is to abandon an entire generation to their program; and in so doing, to risk feeding the growth of the extreme right.
The problem is much worse in the eurozone than in the UK, given the eurozone's deep structural problems that I have noted. But many people who are considerably to the left of center are confused; they think it somehow most important to support internationalism and international institutions, even when those institutions are committed to lowering living standards and creating mass unemployment for millions of their fellow citizens and residents. Stathis Kouvelakis, a member of the Syriza Central Committee, noted that even some European Marxists share this view; in their case, he says, "it is easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of the euro."
At this point it is not at all clear that the UK will actually leave the EU; if I had to bet, I would bet that they will not. And while the uncertainty that exists now will most reduce likely investment somewhat there, it is not clear how much the economy of the UK, or Europe, will be harmed in the interim. Again, Europe's main problem is the deficiency of aggregate demand; it needs more government spending in order to recover. Unfortunately, now some voices, including in the media, will blame the continued weakness of Europe's recovery on Brexit, when it is really due to continuing rotten macroeconomic policies in the eurozone.
In a brief analysis, what do you believe is the state of the US economy, and how do Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's [respective] economic proposals fit within that context?
Compared to recoveries from previous US recessions, the current recovery is one of the weakest in the post-World War II era. So even though the headline unemployment rate for June was 4.9 percent, if we look at employment for prime age workers (25–54), we are still down about 2.5 million jobs from where we should be, if we were to match prerecession levels of employment.
Nonetheless, the US economy looks great compared to Europe. And I would attribute much of this difference to the fact that however limited democracy on economic issues is in the US, there is vastly more accountability than exists in the eurozone. At the same time, the US and Europe face very similar problems, with Europe having much more severe cases of some of the same diseases. On fiscal policy, we didn't have the terrible, procyclical austerity of Europe; but the initial stimulus in 2009–10 was a small fraction of the annual demand lost from the bursting of the real estate bubble and from cuts in state and local government spending. And per capita government spending during the first two years was very weak compared with previous recoveries.
US monetary policy was way ahead of Europe too, with the Fed cutting short-term interest rates to about zero in December of 2008 and keeping them there for eight years. It also engaged in quantitative easing, and ended up creating $3.7 trillion dollars since the Great Recession.
It is difficult to say what Trump would do since his positions on the issues change frequently. Most likely he would cut taxes, favoring rich households and many businesses; although Wall Street does not trust him, and their money is going to Hillary. And much of other Republican politicians' distaste for him is because of his populism: he opposes the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement, and pledged not to cut Social Security and Medicare. As for Hillary, she has adopted some of Bernie Sanders' progressive program, including free college tuition for at least the majority of families, opposition to the TPP, and increasing Social Security payments. Who knows what she would deliver; her ties to big corporate and Wall Street donors are well known. But it is very unlikely that she would be like her husband, who ushered in a whole set of terrible structural changes: NAFTA, welfare reform, the WTO, and financial deregulation. More likely she would be more like Obama, and have some net positive impact, as he did with his deeply flawed but still significant health care reform. And the social movements that have come out of the Sanders campaign will exert considerable pressure.
It is in the area of foreign policy that a Clinton presidency is most worrying, given her past support for wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and aggressive posture towards Iran.
Trump has crafted, with tremendous skill, a figure of an outsider who "will save the country," playing with the political disaffection of a large part of the working class and white middle class. In a context where immigration is a rising phenomenon and the Spanish language floods every corner of the country, what are the possible consequences of the extension and consolidation of this xenophobic discourse among broad sections of the native population?
I think that Trump has done damage by his appeal to racism and xenophobia, but he is unlikely to have a lasting impact. Hispanic voters are an important and growing part of the electorate, and the lesson that politicians will draw from this election and Trump's (and Republican) losses is much more likely to be that his anti-immigrant and racist politics are a losing strategy. Trump never had a serious chance at the presidency, and he won the Republican primary largely because he got $2 billion of free media. If Bernie had gotten anywhere that much media, he would have won the Democratic nomination and be well on his way to the presidency. Trump's worldwide media attention has made him seem much more important than he really is in US politics. His legacy will be his contribution to the demise of the Republican Party, which is unlikely to win a presidential election in the foreseeable future, and only hangs on to the House of Representatives through gerrymandering and voter suppression.
After Bernie Sanders was ruled out as the Democratic nominee in the US presidential race and Hillary Clinton has been reaffirmed as a solid establishment candidate, is it possible to continue the process of political regeneration that Sanders started or, on the contrary, or is there no room for transformation within the Democratic Party?
The Sanders campaign was unprecedented in US politics: a social democrat, identifying himself as a socialist, with no money from elite or corporate sources, won 22 states in the Democratic primary and could very well have won the nomination (and the presidency) if he had done a few things differently. And there are two new organizations, including Sanders' own, who are organizing to recruit and raise money for candidates ? for Congress and for local offices ? organized around a progressive program. This is the real legacy of the 2016 presidential race, and it is likely to change the country more than either of the current candidates for president. The Democratic Party itself is not nearly as much of an obstacle to political change as centrist political parties in Europe are, since anyone can compete for the Democratic nomination for any office without having been a Democrat or making any political concessions to the party.
What is your assessment for the upcoming general elections in November and how could the US political agenda be structured accordingly?
Hillary Clinton is very likely to win the presidency, and the Democrats are likely to take the Senate but not the House of Representatives ? although this is also possible if Trump loses badly enough. On the economic front, an important struggle is shaping up to stop the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates and thereby slowing employment and wage growth. The base of the Democratic Party, more mobilized than before the Bernie campaign, will try to put pressure on the Clinton administration around such issues as climate change, the $15 minimum wage, expanding health care and Social Security benefits, and other measures to reduce poverty and inequality. They will also try to pressure Hillary and the Congress on war and peace issues, including a possible move by a Clinton administration to intervene more in Syria.
Western societies, first the US with the New Deal and later Europe after World War II, have defined citizenship through employment. Since the 1980s, we've seen how this model has been falling apart. If to be a citizen, one must be employed, could we say that we are currently facing a citizenship crisis?
The mass unemployment in Europe is overwhelmingly a result of macroeconomic policy, not technological change. It is tragically ironic that at a time of deflation when money is free and even getting negative nominal interest rates in some countries, political leaders cannot be forced to implement policies, including public investment, that will create employment while at the same time accomplishing desperately needed social goals, such as reducing carbon emissions. To a certain extent, it is a problem of public education: most of the public does not understand the basic economics of what needs to be done. Although in Europe the structural problem of the loss of democracy in the eurozone makes things much more difficult than in the U.S.
Do you think that a universal basic income could guarantee security, while also promoting a more innovative fabric of production?
This does not seem like a practical way to reduce poverty, at least in the foreseeable future; maybe in a much more distant future. But for now, with the same amount of money, vastly more people could be pulled out of poverty with a targeted program that guarantees people can live above the poverty line, rather than giving everyone ? rich, poor, and everyone in between ? the same amount of money. There is no reason at present to believe that robotics must result in mass unemployment, any more than much more rapid technological change and productivity increases created mass unemployment in the 1960s. Similarly, I don't accept the idea that social democracy is dead ? in fact it is even coming to life in the US, as the Sanders campaign showed. I won't go through all the arguments that this is not a feasible or necessary change; Vicente Navarro has summarized them here and here. But of course if there is a country where this idea becomes popular enough to implement ? ahead of other, more practical proposals ? it could be an advance.


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17/03/2018 Reading
Ryu Murakami – In the Miso Soup
It was one of those happy coincidences when I came across In the Miso Soup and Murakami's other thin book Audition in a bookshop a few weeks ago. I was looking to see if Haruki Murakami had anything new out and just stumbled over the original written version of one of the most memorable Takashi Miike film's I've seen. Audition stars Ryo Ishibashi a lonely widow auditioning young woman to be his next wife and falling foul of a complete nutter with a penchant for needles and piano wire. I snaffled up both books based on my enjoyment of the film.
In the Miso Soup written by who I'm probably always going to refer to as 'the other Murakami' in 1997, and translated into English in 2003, features twenty-year-old Kenji who provides Westerners with guided tours of Tokyo's seedy nightlife and Frank a 'gaijin' who is seemingly a typical American sex-tourist wanting to hire Kenji's services for a few nights leading up to New Year's Eve.
After spending some time with Frank – drinking at bars, going to a peep show, hitting some baseball – it becomes clear to Kenji very quickly that Frank is hiding something and he suspects that he was involved in the recent murder of a Tokyo school girl. When a homeless person at the baseball nets is also found dead, Kenji is almost sure Frank is to blame.
It's a short book spanning just over 180 pages and for the bulk of the tale the reader is teased by Kenji's suspicions – is he just being over-imaginative and intrigued by Frank's odd behaviour. Frank it seems is a bit of a hypnotist, a liar and has a bit of a short fuse. What we don't find out until quite deep into the book is that he also has a razor sharp blade hidden about his person.
This blade is put to horrific use in a late night bar. Kenji witnesses multiple murders and is only spared by Frank because they have formed a bond. Kenji fights with the moral dilemma of calling the police while also risking provoking Frank's wrath. It's this part of the book I have a bit of an issue with as I struggle to understand Kenji's motives for not calling the police.
Instead he sleeps at Frank's hideout, a deserted hospital, and later escorts him to listen to some traditional bells ringing in the New Year. Frank has told him his life story – how he became a serial killer in the US, how he spent time in prison and was later treated for his mental illness – and Kenji thinks Frank will let him go once he hears the bells and is perhaps cleansed of his wicked ways.
At the end of the book, Kenji unnecessarily puts his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, in harm's way and it's rather an anti-climax when Frank disappears into the crowd (or the 'miso soup' as he puts it).
I enjoyed Frank's character and the atmosphere of frustrated loneliness inherent in the underbelly of this snippet of Japanese culture, but wasn't blown away by the overall story. It didn't feel like any of the characters really changed or learned anything useful from the shocking events contained within book.
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Corbin Melissa Robison
About Corbin Melissa Robison
(Shown at age 57)
Corbin Melissa Robison was born on May 10, 1893 in Moultrie, Georgia and died on January 20, 1977 in Tallahassee, Florida. She lived to be 83 years old.
She was called "Aunt Babe". She married Robert Daniel Harrell ( 11-26-1889 to 7/26/1970).
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Click on any of the News, Events, or Discoveries buttons above to see historical things that happened during Corbin Robison's life. These are only some of the major events that affected the life and times of Corbin, her family, and friends. For example, Corbin is 16 years old when The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
64 1957 The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.
69 1962 The Seminole Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.
2 1895 Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance.
4 1897 First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph
7 1900 Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams"
7 1900 The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control.
8 1901 First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent.
9 1902 The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered.
43 1936 The first regular television broadcast happens in England
45 1938 Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
53 1946 The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
54 1947 Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
58 1951 The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
59 1952 The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
64 1957 Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
67 1960 The ruby laser was created by Maiman
69 1962 U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
72 1965 The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
78 1971 The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
81 1974 Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright
82 1975 Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
45 1938 NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
46 1939 NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
48 1941 NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers.
57 1950 NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
62 1955 NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
67 1960 NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
70 1963 NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
76 1969 NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface.
77 1970 NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest.
84 1977 NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.
36 1929 Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
37 1930 Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
39 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
40 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!
41 1934 Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.
41 1934 Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
42 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
46 1939 Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
50 1943 Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit.
51 1944 On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
52 1945 President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
61 1954 The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency.
69 1962 The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
73 1966 The Black Panther party is founded.
74 1967 Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad.
78 1971 Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
79 1972 Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
80 1973 The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
84 1977 Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
45 1938 Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
46 1939 Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun.
52 1945 World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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Intermodalitet är ett begrepp inom transporttekniken, som avser att transport av en godsenhet sker med fler än ett transportsätt. Det bildas av prefixet inter som betyder mellan eller inom och modul som betyder enhet.

Godsenheterna utgörs av enhetslaster som containrar, växelflak, semitrailers, kassetter eller hela lastbilar varvid transportsätten är godståg, lastbil, fartyg eller flyg.

Den vanligaste användningen av begreppet är för godstransport av containrar, växelflak, semitrailrar eller kassetter som sker på järnväg och landsväg. Omlastningen sker då vid kombiterminaler från godståg till drag- och lastfordon eller omvänt.

En fördel med intermodala transporter är att själva godset ej hanteras.

Europeiska Unionen eftersträvar en ökad intermodalitet bland annat för att i större utsträckning kunna utnyttja det europeiska järnvägsnätet och sjöfarten istället för landsvägar.

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Thank you! It's such a beautiful and inspiring place.
Thank you! I'm also completely ready for autumn. Tired of all the heat, this summer was brutal, eh? But lovely tonight, we're all having a nice peaceful evening with windows open and nice cool breeze. Hope your weather is calming down, too.
Windows open? Not here, neither today nor tomorrow. Still high humidity & maybe a few drops of rain (desperately needed). Cold front arrives after midnight Sunday. Then we'll think about opening things up. Enjoy your weather!
Oh gosh, I do struggle with the humidity, but at least we had some rain today and it did cool off some. You've had it even worse than here 😦 Hang in there Del!
I'm hanging in, thanks to the air con, but thank you for ther kind thoughts! Yes, we've had some clouds around, and they can definitely help… when they're not also raising humidity levels (all to often😦). How many sleeps until your vacation?!
Will be anticipating **lots** of great photos when you're back!
Thank you! My blogging has been quite sporadic of late, hope to get into the swing of it soon.
Thanks Denis! It's a glorious place, especially in autumn.


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Q: Cannot read property 'emit' of undefined typescript im building a simple chat app with socket io angular 2(typescript) and nodejs as a backend server
i have this function which works perfectly when i click the connect button

connectUser(name){

   if (name == null || name == ""){
   return  console.log('you must enter a valid username');

   }
   this.username = name;

   this.socket.emit('add-user',name);
   //load connected users in the user-window section
   this.socket.emit('request-users',{data:'request users success'});
   var connecctedUsersListener$ = Observable.fromEvent(this.socket,'users');
   connecctedUsersListener$.subscribe((observer:any)=>{
    this.users = observer;
  },(err)=>{
    if(err) throw err;
   },()=>{
    console.log('complet');
   });

  //load messages and keep track of Them
  this.socket.emit('request-messages',{data:'request Messages success'});
  var messageListener$ = Observable.fromEvent(this.socket,'message');
  messageListener$.subscribe((observer:any) =>{
   this.messages = observer;

  })

  }

however i try to use  bootbox.prompt whenever the user tries to connect so i wrap all the code inside this simple function

addUser(){
  bootbox.prompt('what is your name ',function(name){
  connectUser(name); // this is the function in the first code snippet

     });
  }

i get this wierd error Cannot read property 'emit' of undefined
how can i fix that and what is the problem here ?

A: When you are calling connectUser from addUser you are doing it from another function (apparently a callback).
Javascript binds 'this' to that wrapper function you are using, and that function doesn't have a 'socket' member.
When you call the function connectUser from the connect button directly, you are probably calling it inline from the object, thus, 'this' is bound to the object that does contain the 'socket' member.
Review the following snippet to have a look on how the "function() { }" wrapper is affecting you:
class Whatever {
   socket: { emit: string }

   constructor()
   {
      this.socket = { emit: 'works' };
   }

   doSomething()
   {
      console.warn(this.socket.emit);
   }

   works()
   {
      this.doSomething();
      (() => this.doSomething())();
   }

   doesntWork()
   {
      (function () { this.doSomething() })();
   }
}

let obj = new Whatever();
obj.works();
obj.doesntWork();

Basically you can probably just change this:
function(name) { connectUser(name); }

For this
(name) => connectUser(name)

and it should work.

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Not at all. I majored in business and was accepted to all of the schools I interviewed at. You still have to do well in the sciences and on the OAT, of course. Some things that will help is joining a pre-optometry club, volunteering, and shadowing.
Nunquam permissum lemma adepto vos in vestri tergum.
Your performance in necessary courses, not your choice of major, will determine your competitiveness as an applicant. The only edge a science-major stands to have is being able to show he or she has taken upper-level courses beyond the pre-requisites of a college's O.D. program; if you wish, you can take these classes, yourself (with departmental permission, perhaps).
Also Totally True: Bio based major will help you out a little on the OAT and other prereqs.
I feel like if I did nothing in college but take the prereq classes, I might be a little less prepared when it came to some sections of the OAT. The Bio section is notorious for being really random, but if you have a well-rounded view of the natural sciences via a lot of science classes, it's cake. BUT if you're really great at studying a book (which I am not) and you absorb information instead of cramming it and forgetting it 2 months later (which I do), then you might be fine just taking prereq classes.
Also, if you're a business major, check with your school, it's possible that all the OD prereqs might earn you a minor or maybe even a second major with a few extra courses.
I found the OAT Destroyer to be indispensable in preparing for the O.A.T.'s biology section. As I recall, the book reviewed ~350 questions in the subject (a number of them, repetitious), and, having drilled the facts into myself, I wasn't too surprised by the bio. questions on the test.
Well I was actually a psychology major and got in. At the same time I had to work twice as hard because none of my science/optometry pre-reqs were required for my major ofcourse... I've seen music majors get in to medical school as well-- just depends on how your OATs and Science grades stack up against the high-level competition out there.
My advice: Study hard; start studying VERY early on for the OAT. Also, get some good shadowing under your belt with an optometrist who will also be writing you that oh so nice letter of recommendation!!
It also helps if they know someone at the school your applying too!
Thanks for all of the advice. Looks like i will be sticking with my major in business, just gonna do the best i can in all of my pre-req classes.


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Roberti Ranch:
A Time Honored Partnership with the Land
By Debra Hasbrouck
Living in the mountains can be an extraordinary experience—spectacular beauty is a daily standard, often accented with breathtaking seasonal changes. Although the volatile weather may be exciting, it can create challenges for the residents of these majestic environments.
In the time that Sierra Valley was my home, I developed a deep sense of respect and admiration for the farmers and ranchers who live and work in the big, mountain valley. The level expanse sits at just under five-thousand feet elevation and the surrounding mountains seem to create a chilly, micro-climate. It's not uncommon for winter temperatures to dip well below zero or for a hard frost to hit in June.
For almost a century, the Roberti family has honored a commitment to the Sierra Valley land that they call home. According to Rick Roberti, his grandparents, Alfred and Josephine Roberti, started in 1922 with a small dairy on the property northwest of the existing main ranch. The couple had two children, Elia and Elmer, who grew up helping their parents on the family dairy and attended a one-room school three miles away.
Alfred and Josephine, along with their son, Elmer, began a transition to beef cattle in 1952 when they purchased 30 registered Angus cows. Today, Roberti Ranch has about 400 commercial mother cows. Approximately 200 of those calve in the spring and stay in Sierra Valley year-round. The rest of the cows calve in the fall and spend winter down in the foothills. The drought has forced the family to sell about 100 cow-calf pairs due to a shortage of feed.
For eighty-seven years, Elmer Roberti lived and worked on the ranch—a lifetime filled with family devotion and hard work tending the land. Elmer left an extraordinary legacy when he passed away in October of 2012. His wife, Helen, is still an integral part of the ranch and can be found throughout the week, cooking and serving lunch at her big dining table.
The ranch has remained a family operation, with Elmer and Helen's three sons—Jim, Rick and Dave—living and working on the home place. All members of the family are involved in some way.
Rick and his son, Weston, take care of the cattle and produce livestock hay on dryland (non-irrigated) pasture. Rick's wife, Carolyn, developed a ranch calendar that she uses to help coordinate ranch schedules. She keeps everyone informed about daily plans, which is vital for a family business. Rick and Carolyn's daughter, Katie, will graduate from Cal Poly in June with a degree in Agricultural Communication.
Jim and Dave work with Jim's son, Ben and son-in-law, Jay Gant, on alfalfa production and harvest. Their alfalfa crop yields about six to seven thousand tons per year. Jim's daughter, Jenny Gant, also helps to cut hay in the busy summer months.
The business end of things is handled by Dave and his wife, Jane. They also manage hay sales. Their daughter, Kristin, raises dairy goats and has a market steer for 4-H.
Over the years, the family-run ranch has grown to its current size of nearly 6,000 acres. They grow sprinkler-irrigated plus dryland alfalfa on about 2,000 acres and native pasture makes up most of the remainder.
There are also wetland areas on the property that they continue to enhance and preserve. "A love of the land has always existed and through the decades we find better ways to be in harmony with the environment," Rick said.
With the help of the County Extension Service and the National Resource Conservation District, the Roberti family has improved existing ponds and created new wetlands. "Construction is also underway for a seventeen acre wildlife habitat," Rick said. "It will include ten acres of open water with nesting islands and coves where ducks can raise their hatch safely throughout the summer."
On a rainy, spring day I was able to participate in a ranch tour that Rick and Carolyn hosted for the Plumas Audubon Society. It was the perfect opportunity to see direct results of the family's hard work and planning.
We took off in the Roberti's re-purposed transit bus, with Weston at the wheel and his cousin, Jenny, co-piloting from a seat behind him. Her son, Emmett, was spending some time back at the main ranch with his great-grandmother, Helen.
Our first stop was at a distant barn where a few geese nested on hay bales. Rick called our attention to a pair of owlish eyes peering out from a wooden box up in the rafters. He explained that a man from Washington State installed the box and collects the owl pellets (regurgitated wads that contain parts of bone and hair from their prey) for schools to use during classroom dissections.
After driving past green fields inhabited with curious cows, we came to a shallow lake, heavily populated with multiple varieties of waterfowl and shorebirds. According to comments from Audubon members, the three-foot depth of its water is perfect for migrating birds.
"The lake is much bigger than last year," Rick explained. "But the water table is still down and we need more to recover from the drought." While the birders surveyed the lake with binoculars, they kept mentioning the term "peeps." I soon learned that "peeps" are small, unidentified shorebirds.
It didn't take long for the Audubon members to identify all of the species present. I was amazed at their vast knowledge of birds, especially when it came to the subtle differences of each type. The sharp eyes of the birders also spotted a bald eagle on the opposite shore.
Rick and Carolyn explained that they have always had an interest in birds and recently became members of the Plumas Audubon Society. This is the second year they hosted a tour for the group. "I now take a camera with me when Rick and I check cows," Carolyn said while showing us a fascinating video she had taken of dancing Sandhill Cranes.
As we bumped down another dirt road, Rick pointed out the differences in grazed and un-grazed areas. "The land responds well to grazing and the birds seem to like feeding where the cows have been," he said. "The fenced-off areas are great for nesting."
Our next stop was beside a beautiful irrigation pond with willows planted along its banks. The area was like a popular avian resort, with birds bobbing in the water and circling overhead. A nesting goose occupied a man-made island in the center of the pond.
Next to the shore stood a beautiful, old cabin with a covered porch and a wooden dock. As we explored the structure, Rick told us that it was estimated to be of the same era as the Beckwourth Cabin (circa 1852 according to the Eastern Plumas Chamber of Commerce). Along with members of their church, they had moved it, piece by piece from a nearby field and rebuilt it with a new roof. It now serves as a place for family gatherings and a "prayer cabin" for their church.
We finished our tour by visiting an area where burrowing owls had recently been seen. Using a scope, one birder spotted a burrowing owl on a distant fencepost and offered everyone a look. As we turned back toward the main ranch, three pronghorn antelope grazed nearby, giving us a memorable farewell.
The Roberti Ranch is a wonderful example of how agricultural families are working hard to produce food, while preserving the precious land that is entrusted to them. Farmers and ranchers everywhere embrace a way of life that shares a special partnership with nature. It's an ancient dance that moves with the rhythm of the earth and is guided by the tempo of the seasons.
For more information, they have an excellent website at www.robertiranch.com. Roberti Ranch sells alfalfa and some grain hay. Their email address is robertiranch@gmail.com
According to David Arsenault, executive director of the Plumas Audubon Society, fifty species of birds were identified that day. Their website is www.plumasaudubon.org.
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Victims stay with abusers to protect pets. This former prosecutor wants to change that
Kara Berg
LANSING — While prosecuting a domestic violence case in the mid '90s, Allie Phillips called a shelter to see if they could host a victim and her three pets.
The shelter staff laughed at her and hung up.
That case has stuck with Phillips, who then was a young prosecutor in Ingham County. The victim wanted Phillips to dismiss the case because she had gone back to her abuser in order to protect her goat and two dogs.
That woman, and the anger Phillips felt after calling the shelter, became the foundation for her nonprofit, Sheltering Animals and Families Together. The group works with domestic violence shelters to create housing for victims and their pets.
"Pets are targets and pawns in the cycle of domestic violence," Phillips said. "They stay because they know if they leave, their pet is going to be killed."
Phillips was given the 2018 Trailblazer award by the Urban Resource Institute in New York for her work with the nonprofit. It's been a passion project for her since the mid-'90s, when housing pets and domestic violence victims together was an "unheard of" concept, she said.
She compared staying in an abusive environment to protect pets to the people who stay in their homes as a catastrophic hurricane approaches because they are unable to leave their pets.
"People stay behind, knowing the danger, knowing they could die, because they couldn't take their pets with them," Phillips said. "To me, that's domestic violence...They would stay behind in known danger, knowing they could be killed, to protect their pets."
She's been chipping away at the project since that case in the '90s. She formalized the program in 2010, and it received nonprofit status this year.
In 2008, when she first really began focusing on the program, Phillips said she only knew of four shelters in the country who were hosting pets on site. Now, it's up to 150.
"It's growing, it's picking up speed," Phillips said. "When I talk with women and families who go into shelters, it's really amazing. Until we have more domestic violence shelters that allow pets, I'm going to keep doing it."
Michigan now has four domestic violence shelters that will house pets, in Howell, Saginaw, Port Huron and in Oakland County. Phillips has spoken to a shelter in Ingham County, but they said they were not ready to allow pets in.
Many shelters have off-site housing where they'll put the animal in a shelter or in foster care, but that's not enough, Phillips said.
"When they've lost everything, it's their pet that heals them," Phillips said. "People don't want to be separated from their pet."
Phillips now is a legal consultant and the founder and CEO of Sheltering Animals and Families Together. She travels to help shelters across the world create on-site pet housing.
Contact Kara Berg at 517-377-1113 or kberg@lsj.com. Follow her on Twitter @karaberg95.


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Q: There's some way to know whats is the $document_root on NGINX? I have created a new NGINX VHOST called lottaleben.test in my .conf and also seted php cgi conf but apparently he's always calling index.php from server_name localhost.
There's some way to know the $document_root value ?
nginx.conf
worker_processes  1;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {

    include            mime.types;
    default_type       application/octet-stream;
    #sendfile          on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    #gzip               on;

    #default
    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;
        root         "c:/dev";

        location / {
            index  index.php index.html index.htm;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass              127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index            index.php;
            include  fastcgi_params;
       }
    }

    include sites/*.conf;

}

lottaleben.conf -> that is project i  am trying call (inside sites/*.conf)
    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  lottaleben.test;
        root   "c:/dev/lottaleben.test";

        location / {
           index  index.php index.html index.htm;
       }

        location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            include fastcgi_params;
        }
    }

in the hosts file in c:/windows/System32/drives/etc i have setted like:
127.0.0.1 lottaleben.test www.lottaleben.test
EDIT 1: seems always i call lottaleben.test, redirects me to index.php inside c:/dev and not to c:/dev/lottaleben.test` that contains index.php totally diferent.
EDIT 2: fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; is setted inside fastcgi_params file.

A: I found error. In php.ini i seted doc_root = "c:/dev". I had no knowledge to say why this was bugging but after comented this line and refresh php-fpm everything works fine.


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A property company contacted me regarding a large Victorian tiled hallway at their head office which dated from the late 1800's. The floor had been neglected for some years and recent restoration to the building had taken its toll making the once glorious floor look very tired.
I visited the property in Tipton located about halfway between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. I surveyed the floor and could see that the intricate patterns although dull and uninspiring at present would be truly stunning once restored and would create a real focal point for the building. I discussed with them what could be done to renovate the floor and the process needed.
We agreed a price and a timescale, and the job was booked in. The only complication being the employees who I would need to work around so they were not unduly inconvenienced.
When I returned I started by focusing on deep cleaning the tiles. To do this the floor was given a coating of a strong solution of Tile Doctor Pro-Clean which was left to dwell for ten minutes. To work the solution into the tiles I used a 200-grit diamond pad which was attached to a weighted rotary machine, this really got into the ingrained dirt in the pores of the tiles.
The floor was then thoroughly rinsed off with water and the soil extracted with a powerful Airflex wet vacuum. After this I inspected the floor and could see the tiles still needed more work, so the whole process was repeated the process until I was satisfied.
Given the age of the floor I highly doubted it was unlikely to be protected by a damp proof membrane, so I was concerned about efflorescence salts appearing as the floor dried. To counter this and to further clean the tiles I then applied Tile Doctor Grout Clean Up and again went over with the diamond pad. Being an acid-based product, it will neutralize any alkaline salts present in the floor and in the alkaline cleaning solution used earlier. The floor was rinsed off thoroughly afterwards and died as much as possible with the Airflex.
I then reset some loose tiles, one in particular was right by the front door and had been irritating the staff for years catching the door! They would definitely be pleased to see that problem resolved. Luckily there were no damaged tiles that needed replacing so it was just a repair needed. Some areas were also re-grouted with a matching grout. This immediately improved the look of the floor.
The floor was left to dry for a day, then I returned to apply a sealer which would protect it from dirt becoming ingrained. After checking the moisture levels were acceptable with a moisture meter, I sealed the floor firstly with a coat of Tile Doctor Colour Grow which is an impregnating sealer that enhances the natural colour in the tile. Once this was dry it was followed with multiple coats of Tile Doctor Seal & Go, this works really well on Victorian tiles and gives the floor a lovely low sheen finish. Once finished the floor was restored back to its former and has given the building back is wow factor.
I left my client some Tile Doctor Neutral Tile Cleaner to maintain the floor with going forward. This is especially formulated for the regular cleaning of sealed tile and stone and will help maintain its' delightful finish. The customer was very happy with the results and even called me next day to say that their customers were already making impressive comments about it when entering the building.


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Q: cumulative Distribution function error in indoor localization How I'm just wondering if somebody can explain about how can we get the CDF error for indoor localization as in example I found this quote in one of the paper
"Usually, the cumulative probability functions (CDF) of the
distance error is used for measuring the precision of a system.
When two positioning techniques are compared, if their accuracies
are the same, we prefer the system with the CDF graph,
which reaches high probability values faster, because its distance
error is concentrated in small values. In practice, CDF is
described by the percentile format. For example, one system has
a location precision of 90% within 2.3 m (the CDF of distance
error of 2.3 m is 0.9), and 95% within 3.5 m; another one has a
precision of 50% within 2.3 m and 95% within 3.3 m. We could
choose the former system because of its higher precision."
I just didn't get it, can somebody help me to represent it with Maths plz

A: This quote is somewhat poorly worded but the way I read it was. For the first system, the reported location 2.3 meters or less away from the true location 90% of the time. Also for the first system the reported location is 3.5 meters or less away from the true location 95% of time. For the second system, the reported location is 2.3 meters or less away 50% of the time. Also for the second system, the reported location is 3.3 meters or less away 95% of the time. Precision usually means how close your results are to each other. If the results were Gaussian distributed, system 1 would be a Gaussian with a smaller variance and hence higher precision.