Yes, not only did the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders guest star on the Love Boat, but they were featured in a two part episode right int he middle of sweeps!
The two-parter also featured Hollywood icons Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Ginger Rogers as well as television icons John Hillerman ("Higgins" from Magnum P.I. and a native Texan), Larry Linville (from M*A*S*H), Natalie Schafer (Mrs. Howell from Gilligan's Island) and Bill Daily (The Bob Newhart Show, I Dream of Jeannie)...not to mention a young Jackie Earle Haley! Whew! Now that's a sweeps lineup!
One of the stories involves Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Wendy who's mother is getting married and is meeting her new stepfather for the first time. The plot of this one involves the mother, Helen, thinking her fiancee and daughter share a mutual attraction and that they plan to run away together. This is resolved by the two of them telling her it's not true...so I guess that's kind of a story, right?
Wendy is played by Gaye Carter, a real life Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader. This seems to be her only acting credit and she now works in real estate. So if you've always wanted to buy a house from a former member of the world's most famous cheer squad, then that seems to be an option now.
Another of the stories has another cheerleader, Stacy, being stalked by a guy whose only interest seems to be stalking her. He bought a ticket to the cruise to be near her which seems like it would make this a dramatic subplot for the show but, no, it's played for laughs and those crazy kids end up together in the end.
Stacy is played by Tami Barber, another real life squad member. She also played the recurring role of "Bev" on Dallas (the TV show, not the city) but, other than a few small roles here and there, that seems to be about it for her acting career. I'm not sure if she made it to the real estate game or not.
Both gals did a great job and I was genuinely surprised to find out they weren't professional actors. Other stories in the episode involved a jewel heist, a guy hiring actors to pretend to be his family and a sparring couple who realize they were meant for each other. It was a busy cruise. But enough of that, let's see the show!
Thanks for the memories, gals! We'll see ya on the sidelines!
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Here's what they look like. The round loops of fruity goodness not only garnish the tasty treat, they also make up the inner filling. Inside the crisp shell is a "goo" (for lack of a better term) that has the essence of Froot Loops. Somehow the cereal was mashed up or liquefied or goo-ified but it definitely tastes like the real deal.
Like many deep fried treats at the fair, the creators feel it necessary to dump a ton of powdered sugar on top of it. And that's not necessarily a bad thing but if I breathe in right before a bite, I tend to get a lung full of sugar...which is an unusual sensation.
Lastly, there's also a type of icing or topping to round out the experience. I wasn't sure but I think it was marshmallow flavor. I'm also not even sure that marshmallow is a flavor...it is, right? So as far as I'm concerned, we now have a brand new way to enjoy our favorite fruity breakfast treat. If you try them, tell 'em Toucan Sam sent ya. See you next year at the fair!
Anytime I drive out of or into the Lone Star State I try to stop at one of the Texas Travel Information Centers at the border where I load up on pamphlets and unload my bladder. Yesterday, as I was heading back from some business in Oklahoma, I noticed much more than the usual amount of cars joining me along I-35.
They even brought one of their friendliest snakes to greet the visitors. I didn't catch his name so I mentally named him Snakesy McSnakes-a-lot. I also never got clarification on whether he was rooting for Texas or OU but he probably didn't want to be controversial so I guess we'll never know.
Notice the tray on the driver's side window with the prop Whataburger meal? It's a great little touch that reminds people what side of the Red River they're on.
It was an interesting surprise to see such a brouhaha at one of my regular travel stops but it was time to hit the road. You never know what you'll find along the way. Enjoy the game!
Most businesses spend a fair amount of time and money on market research. Before you roll out a new product you're going to want to make it as good as possible and to do that you need to test it out. And that's what brought me to an East Texas Dairy Queen today.
I got the "grilled" version. You can definitely taste the buffalo sauce...I'll say that for it. So I ate my sandwich, filled out the form and went on my way. Will we end up seeing the Chicken Buffalo Ranch Sandwich at Dairy Queens across Texas? Only time will tell..


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How Bare Heads Are More Than Just Bare Heads, and Why It Matters for YU
By: Benjamin Koslowe | Editorials | October 14, 2018
There exists a sizeable population of male undergraduate Yeshiva University students who publicly do not wear kippahs on campus. Bareheaded undergrads have become a normal sight in YU hallways, outdoor plazas, lounges, libraries and even classrooms. This phenomenon is antithetical to Yeshiva values and should be shocking to any member of the extended community.
The problem is not about religious non-observance. Indeed, Yeshiva University accepts students spanning a wide range of religious commitment and does not enforce any religious observance on its students. It is an open institution that welcomes non-religious students who want to connect to and learn from Judaism in their own way, allowing everyone to feel comfortable in his own level of observance. As far as school policy is concerned, a student in the privacy of his dorm room is permitted to eat on Yom Kippur.
On the institutional level, though, Yeshiva University is Orthodox. This is explicit in various founding documents, mission statements and official slogans. It is also implicitly obvious from institutional policies. The educational requirements include Jewish history, Bible and Hebrew. There are vibrant batei midrash where hundreds of students spend their mornings fully immersed in a traditional yeshiva setting. Even those who do not spend their mornings learning Gemara dedicate half of their education to Jewish studies courses. The cafeterias serve only kosher food. The academic calendar accommodates Shabbat and Jewish holidays. And the list goes on.
As an Orthodox institution, Yeshiva University legitimately demands public respect of Orthodoxy. While a student may watch Netflix on his own on Friday night, the workout gym and vending machines, whose usage would create an atmosphere that detracts from Shabbat for others, are closed to him. Public respect includes other activities to avoid in public, but it includes active requirements too. A prime example is that students (and faculty) are expected, both formally and societally, to dress according to religious Jewish standards of modesty.
Kippah-wearing belongs to a similar category of reasonable requirements. These requirements are natural expectations that derive from the community rather than from some official set of rules. In fact, Yeshiva University does not officially demand that men cover their heads. The only requirement of male students, according to YU's official dress code, is that they "wear pants and a shirt." But communal expectations in any institution extend beyond the classroom and the letter of the law; in the case of Yeshiva University, male head-covering is one such unwritten expectation, and its noncompliance constitutes disrespect of Orthodoxy.
The practice of Orthodox Jewish men to wear kippahs transcends halakhic observance. The kippah represents belief in God and commitment to the system. The covered head serves not only as a reminder to the individual but as a meaningful signal to those who see him. By extension, a community of kippah-wearers signals to the outside world that they, both in themselves and as part of whatever group they represent, are Orthodox. In such a community, those individuals who do not comply stand out. So a Yeshiva University student who does not cover his head makes more than an individual choice. He, as a member of the community, detracts from the group's religious image.
The difference between complete and incomplete kippah compliance is very significant. When the community becomes one that includes a noticeable group of individuals who publicly do not commit to Orthodoxy, the institution loses some of the inherent respect that it owes, as per its mission, to Orthodoxy. This matters in any Orthodox institution, but especially in Yeshiva University, a place where there are few other ideas besides for "Orthodoxy" itself that can unite the entire community.
Think for a moment about any other Orthodox institution, whether it be a high school, yeshiva, sleepaway camp or synagogue. Would it not seem highly unusual in any of these institutions to find a population of men or boys who do not cover their heads? And yet, in Yeshiva University, it has somehow become not only an existent culture but a normal matter of fact.
It is worth noting that the population of non-kippah-wearing students at YU is certainly not homogenous. There are many reasons why an individual student might choose to not wear a kippah, or perhaps even not ever put one on in the first place. Some students do not even have a reason, per se, but rather simply never thought twice about how kippah noncompliance at YU might be a bit strange. There are even many Orthodox students who are not used to wearing kippahs because of their particular custom, be it their Sephardic or some other heritage.
It would be unfair to ascribe malicious or antagonistic intent to any individual student who does not wear a kippah. That being said, the actions of many individuals collectively add up to the communal problem.
Of course, the reasonable expectation of kippah compliance is nuanced. There are exceptions to the rule, such spaces like gyms, the swimming pool and bathrooms, where even the strictest religiously-minded remove kippahs temporarily. Another exception is non-Jewish graduate students and professors who, despite walking around YU premises with uncovered heads, are typically discernibly older than most undergrads. The average passerby, with his ability to recognize that these of bare skulls are not Yeshiva University undergraduates, does not form an impression from these members of the institution about the undergraduate religious community.
Another area of nuance is the outer rims of YU's campuses, whose exact boundaries are hard to precisely delineate. It is clear that the batei midrash, classrooms, libraries and cafeterias are intrinsically part of the institution. Certain outdoor spaces, such as the 185th Street Pedestrian Plaza, are similarly endowed with institutional status by their central locations. But does a student walking a block away from the main campus represent YU? What about when he is eating in one of the YU-dominated restaurants? These grey areas are complicated.
What can be done going forward?
The solution is not for the administration to crack down on dress standards, which would almost certainly result in unpleasant pushback. If any change is to occur, it will most likely be the result of slow, patient, thoughtful, open-minded dialogue about this topic. This dialogue might address certain important questions: Are students simply unaware of the importance of wearing kippahs in an Orthodox institution? To what extent does kippah noncompliance indicate an apathy towards religious practice? Are there students whose bare heads indicate a rejection of YU's basic values and beliefs? Is there a place in YU for those students who would answer yes to the last question?
Is kippah noncompliance an isolated issue, or is it indicative of something much more alarming about the state of Yeshiva University's undergraduate community today?

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Q: replace comma with dot in scientific notation in r I want to read a csv-file that uses scientific notation and comma as a decimal separator into a data frame or vector. Then I want to use this data for further calculations. The problem is that R does not recognize the data as numeric. How can I translate this scientific notation with commas into the "correct" scientific notation with dots so I can use as numeric values?
I tried the following:
mferg_1<-read.csv("file.csv",sep=";",dec=",",header=FALSE)
When I look at the dataframe mferg_1 the following appears (excerpt):
          V2        V3        V4        V5
14 3,063E+01 1,775E-02 6,641E-07 3,747E-02

I thought that I could replace the commas by using gsub or sub:
mferg_1<-sub(",",".",mferg_1)
But then mferg_1 looks like this:
[1] "425" "388" "535" "472"

I fear there is an easy way to solve this problem but I have not been able to find it.

A: You probably have something in your csv (a character line) that does not allow converting the columns to number, because the dec = "," parameter should work. See this example with your data:
text <- "3,063E+01 1,775E-02 6,641E-07 3,747E-02"
read.table(text=text, dec = ",")
     V1      V2        V3      V4
1 30.63 0.01775 6.641e-07 0.03747

Now, if you can't identify the problem (find what is preventing R to identify your columns as numeric), you could use gsub.
df <- read.table(text=text)
df <- sapply(df, gsub, pattern = ",", replacement= ".")
df <- sapply(df, as.numeric)
     V1        V2        V3        V4
3.063e+01 1.775e-02 6.641e-07 3.747e-02

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RICKY BURNETT
(b. 1949 Birmingham, England)
Ricky Burnett has always been interested in abstraction and non-figurative image-making. He has drawn inspiration from Cezanne but cites Rembrandt and Goya as artists of great tenderness who also worked with the painterly quality of paint. His recent series have been inspired by Goya's etchings and paintings, but the paint soon takes on a direction of its own. Often Burnett will use the pivot points in a particular composition of a Goya image as a starting point for a work. The works develop a surface tension that is derived from looking at the Goyas – so the final paintings become a derivation rather than a representation. Often all that remains of the Goya source is the whiteness of a page, the suggestion of pencil marks, the red from the bloody bullet holes on a white shirt or the colour of someone's red garment. Burnett likes to quote the Sung Dynasty poet Yang Wan-li:
"Now, what is poetry? If you say it is simply a matter of words, I will say good poets get rid of words. If you say it is simply a matter of meaning, I will say a good poet gets rid of meaning. 'But,' you ask, 'without words and meaning, where is the poetry?' To this I reply, 'Get rid of words and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.' "
Ricky Burnett is a painter and a teacher of painting. Born in Birmingham, England, in 1949, Ricky Burnett moved to South Africa at the age of six. He attended Wits University, where he studied Medicine before switching to a BA degree in the Humanities. In 1972, he met the artist, Bill Ainslee, and within a year he was making art objects. Almost simultaneously, he started to teach – and found an aptitude and passion for teaching that remains with him today. His remarkable talent for curating also emerged soon afterwards: he curated two exhibitions for the Art Foundation. These were followed by two solo exhibitions of his own work at the Market Theatre Gallery and the Enthoven Gallery, South Africa.
For several years, Burnett would remain associated with the Art Foundation and write reviews for the local newspaper, Rand Daily Mail. A major turn occurred when he started the BMW Tributaries project, which involved collecting artworks throughout Southern Africa. Following the success of Tributaries, Burnett moved to London in 1985. There he worked on what would eventually become the famous Brenthurst Collection, now on permanent loan at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
In 1989, Burnett returned to South Africa to curate a ground-breaking exhibition of renowned sculptor, Jackson Hlungwani's work. The following year, Burnett established Newtown Galleries with collector and philanthropist, Mary Slack, granddaughter of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer. This gallery was the first in the country to exhibit new work from the rest of continental Africa. Burnett curated around thirty exhibitions during this period.
Burnett moved to the United States in 2001, near Seattle, where he continued to teach and make art before returning to South Africa in 2007. He soon re-established himself as a teacher and curator – and curated the celebrated 'Horse' exhibition at the Everard Read (Johannesburg) and CIRCA. A series of ground-breaking exhibitions also followed: 'Margins' (Everard Read Johannesburg, 2008), 'Resurrection Cycles & On Skin' (smac, 2009), 'Damascus Gate' (Gallery 2, 2014), 'Troubled with Goya' (Everard Read Johannesburg, 2015) and 'Goya Adaptations' (Everard Read, Johannesburg, 2016). In 2016, Palimpsest Press published a book about Ricky Burnett's recent work. Titled Troubled with Goya, it features photographs by Liz Whitter and Ricky Burnett in conversation.
Winter 2022|23, Everard Read, London, UK
Winter 2020, Everard Read, London, UK
Bronze, Steel, Stone & Bone, Everard Read, London, UK
CO-RESPONDENCES - a collaboration with Deborah Bell, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
Southern Abstraction, Everard Read, London, UK
Goya Adaptations, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
Troubled with Goya, Everard Read Johannesburg, South Africa
When Feelings Associate a Consciousness Forms, Everard Read Galley, Johannesburg, South Africa
Damascus Gate, Gallery 2, South Africa
Resurrection Cycles & On Skin, Smac, South Africa
Margins, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
Resident Artist, Fordsburg Artists' Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa
Black Front Gallery, Olympia.
Previous: Two solo shows in London, a group exhibition in Germany, numerous solo and group exhibitions in South Africa, including the high profile 'Four Johannesburg Painters' touring exhibition, launched at the National Gallery of South Africa
CURATING INCLUDES
Tributaries was the first exhibition in South Africa to bring together the many diverse threads of South African society, South Africa
Jackson Hlungwani, a retrospective exhibition of a virtually unknown rural artist that later earned him the status of one of South Africa's two 'artists of the millennium', South Africa
Persons and Pictures: the modernist eye in Africa, an exhibition of contemporary art from countries formerly under British rule and influence, South Africa
Re-placing, held at the Pretoria art museum, South Africa
Numerous exhibitions for Newtown Galleries. This was a large +/- 6,000 sq ft venue which was used to display provocative and stimulating explorations involving many of South Africa's most prominent artists, as well as artists from the rest of Africa and from abroad, South Africa
The New Delhi Triennale, commissioned in 1995 to curate South Africa's entry to the New Delhi Triennale.
Horse – Everard Read and CIRCA, 2011, South Africa
MAFA, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa


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Q: Finding correct xpath for the "Next" button on Google search I'm using R, but I can't seem to extract the correct xpath for the "Next"
button on Google search's. Eg, one searches something, scrolls to the bottom, and then clicks the "Next" to the right of the list of numbers.
This is what I can extract from Chrome's "inspect":
//*[@id="pnnext"]

But when I get a blank list when I try using that xpath. The CSS Selector gadget gives me this:
//*+[contains(concat( " ", @class, " " ), concat( " ", "ch", " " ))]//span

But same problem. To be useful in R code, or "clickable," I know it has be from the href part. What's the correct xpath to "click" the "Next" button?

Code leading up:
library(RSelenium) # run in docker

remDr <- remoteDriver(port = 4445L, browserName = "chrome")
remDr$open()
remDr$navigate("https://books.google.com/")
books <- remDr$findElement(using = "css", "[name = 'q']")
books$sendKeysToElement(list("NHL books", key = "enter"))

# Clicks on all 10 links of first result page
bookElem <- remDr$findElements(using = "xpath",
                       "//h3[@class = 'LC20lb']//parent::a")
links <- sapply(bookElem, function(bookElem){
  bookElem$getElementAttribute("href")
})

# Gets stuff I want from every search result
big_list <- lapply(links, function(link) {

  # Navigate to each link
  remDr$navigate(link)

  # Do various things
  if (...) {
  ...
  } else {
  ...
  }

})

A: As you asked for an XPath solution, i will add that.
This works for me:
nextButton <- remDr$findElement("xpath", "//*[@id = 'pnnext']")

So actually your xpath does not look wrong. Maybe there is an error when wrapping it in the findElement() function.
I will add you the full code so that you can reproduce the results.
Full example:
remDr$navigate("https://books.google.com/")
books <- remDr$findElement(using = "css", "[name = 'q']")
books$sendKeysToElement(list("NHL books", key = "enter"))

bookElem <- remDr$findElements(using = "xpath",
                               "//h3[@class = 'LC20lb']//parent::a")
links <- sapply(bookElem, function(bookElem){
  bookElem$getElementAttribute("href")
})

nextButton <- remDr$findElement("xpath", "//*[@id = 'pnnext']")
nextButton$clickElement()

remDr$screenshot(TRUE)

remDr$getCurrentUrl()

"https://www.google.com/searchq=NHL+books&tbm=bks&ei=M9y2XL2HBPDjkgWklqXoDg&start=10&
sa=N&ved=0ahUKEwj97OjL09bhAhXwsaQKHSRLCe0Q8NMDCIUB&biw=1020&bih=694&dpr=1"

A: Have you tried to find the element by id?
remDr$findElement(using = "id", "pnnext")

I find it always more secure to find elements by a unique value when possible.


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В реестр морских портов России включены 67 портов, которые входят в пять морских бассейнов и расположены на берегах 12 морей, трёх океанов и Каспийского моря. Грузооборот морских портов России за 2021 год составил 835,2 млн тонн, увеличившись на 1,7 % в сравнении с итоговым показателем 2020 года. Объём перевалки сухогрузов составил 412,8 млн тонн (+2,0 %), в том числе: угля — 202,7 млн тонн (+7,6 %), грузов в контейнерах — 61,2 млн тонн (+6,1 %), зерна — 42,4 млн тонн (-15,8 %), черные металлы — 29,0 млн тонн (+7,8 %), минеральных удобрений — 19,3 млн тонн (+0,4 %), руда — 11,9 млн тонн (-9,6 %). Объём перевалки наливных грузов составил 422,4 млн тонн (+1,5 %), в том числе сырой нефти — 238,1 млн тонн (+1,3 %), нефтепродуктов — 146,7 млн тонн (+2,7 %), сжиженного газа — 32,3 млн тонн (-0,7 %), пищевые грузы — 4,2 млн тонн (-7,9 %), перевалка осталась на уровне прошлого года и составила 216,3 млн тонн. Экспортных грузов перегружено 660,9 млн тонн т (+2,2 %), импортных грузов — 40,5 млн тонн (+10,8 %), транзитных — 64,2 млн тонн т (+4,1 %), каботажных — 69,5 млн тонн (-8,7 %).

Главная роль морского транспорта России заключается в осуществлении экспортно-импортных перевозок грузов, развиваются малый и большой каботаж. Основная проблема морского транспорта России — нехватка портов в целом и крупных портов с большим грузооборотом в частности, а также мелководность 60 % российских портов.

Наибольший грузооборот приходится на порты Балтийского бассейна. Через Балтийский бассейниз России вывозят нефть, лес, металлы, а ввозят — машины, промышленные и продовольственные товары. В структуре экспорта Черноморского бассейна преобладают нефть и нефтепродукты, уголь, металлы, лес, строительные материалы, а в структуре импорта — зерно, сахар, машины и оборудования, трубы для трубопроводов, продукты питания. В Каспийском бассейне преобладают каботажные перевозки, где преобладают нефть и нефтепродукты, соль, зерно, хлопок, шерсть, рыба. Дальневосточный бассейн осуществляет каботажные и экспортно-импортные перевозки. Через порты Дальнего Востока вывозят рыбу, лес, уголь, нефть, продовольствие, ввозят машины, оборудование, металлы. В бассейне действует морская железнодорожная переправа Ванино — Холмск. Арктический бассейн — район быстрого роста морских перевозок, где важную роль играет Северный морской путь. В структуре экспорта преобладают уголь, лес, нефтепродукты, руды цветных металлов, оборудование, в структуре импорта — продовольствие.

Список портов по бассейнам
Ниже представлен список портов Российской Федерации с их основными характеристиками на 2022 год.  в таблице выделены незамерзающие порты.  — порты Северного морского пути.

Азово-Черноморский бассейн

Балтийский бассейн

Каспийский бассейн

Дальневосточный бассейн

Арктический бассейн

Карта
Величина грузооборота крупнейших портов за 2021 год:
  — от 1 млн до 10 млн т
  — от 10 млн до 20 млн т
  — от 20 млн до 50 млн т
  — от 50 млн до 100 млн т
  — свыше 100 млн т

Грузооборот портов
Ниже представлен алфавитный список морских портов России и величина их грузооборота (в тыс. т) за 2003—н.в.

Данные за 2003—2012 в основном по данным ЕСИМО.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Морские порты России
 Реестр морских портов Российской Федерации
 Росморпорт
 Грузооборот морских портов России за 2012 год
 Грузооборот морских портов России за январь-декабрь 2016 года

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Списки:Транспорт России
Списки портов

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Eastern Spirituality
10 Common Questions About Islam, Answered
by Dave Roos
Does Islam Condone Terrorism?
The family of Iraqi Sgt. Maj. Haydar Fakhri Harbi hangs a mourning banner in a funeral tent to announce his death by an ISIS suicide car bomb in Mosul in 2016. The death of the Shiite officer fighting to liberate a northern Sunni city, the family says, indicates an Iraqi desire for secular unity. Scott Peterson/Getty Images
Like all other major religions, Islam prohibits the taking of innocent lives, and only allows warfare in the face of direct attack. And even then, according to the Quran, the moment an aggressor yields, all fighting should cease and be replaced with forgiveness and mercy.
But why, then, do groups like al-Qaida and ISIS, who claim to be believing Muslims, encourage their followers to commit horrendous acts of violence against innocent civilians?
In those cases, religion is used as an excuse for the violent pursuit of largely political goals. Religious scriptures have been cherry-picked by fundamentalists of all faiths to justify violence against nonbelievers, and the Quran is no different [source: ING]. If you pull certain verses of the Quran out of their historical context, they can be twisted to sound like instructions to kill non-Muslims "where you find them," as one verse puts it.
In the early years of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad and his followers were persecuted and attacked in Mecca, forcing them to flee to Medina. Although his supporters wanted him to fight back, the prophet refused until Allah gave him permission. And when that permission to "kill the disbelievers" finally came, it was in response to a specific attack under specific historical circumstances [source: Rashid].
Other Quranic verses about warfare make it clear that violence is allowed only in cases of self-defense, or when defending the lives of other believers, such as Jews and Christians. And the moment the enemy "desists," fighting should stop [source: Rashid].
It is often reported that people who join groups such as ISIS believe that if they die during battle or as suicide bombers they will go straight to heaven as martyrs. But when one digs deeper there is generally an economic, identity or other motivation for them joining as well [source: Simon]. Equating a just war to fight oppression and injustice with terrorism is a mistake made both by terrorists and critics of Islam.
What Is a Mandala? (No, Not Nelson. That's Mandela)
10 Big Questions About Buddhism, Answered
That Fat, Jolly Fella Isn't Buddha


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Mauritians' Assessment of Election Quality took a Hit in 2019
L. Amédée Darga
Afrobarometer
Political participation
Free and Fair Elections
In November 2019, Mauritians conducted their 11th general election since independence in 1968, handing the ruling Militant Socialist Movement a clear victory and Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth a five-year term. In the Economist Intelligence Unit (2019) Democracy Index that followed in early 2020, Mauritius ranked as a "full democracy," 18th worldwide and No. 1 in Africa. Yet some worrying allegations and unanswered questions still linger in citizens' minds due to perceived irregularities in the electoral process. A member of the Electoral Boundaries Commission announced in a news conference that 6,813 people had been unable to vote because their names were not featured on the voters' registration roll. Furthermore, marked ballots were alleged to have been found outside counting centers – a first in the history of Mauritius. A number of challenges to the announced results are awaiting court proceedings. An Afrobarometer survey in Mauritius, conducted about a year after the election, shows that citizens' assessments of their national elections took a hit. While a majority see the 2019 election as having been generally "free and fair," negative assessments of election quality more than tripled compared to views of the 2010 and 2014 elections captured in previous surveys. A large majority of citizens believe that an unusual number of people's names were absent from the voters' register. Significant minorities think that some people voted more than once and that the media was not fair in its coverage of candidates. Despite these concerns, a majority of Mauritians believe that the announced election results are largely accurate.


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Home » Resources » Blogs » Q&A: EU MDR Date of Application Readiness
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Q&A: EU MDR Date of Application Readiness
Jay Crowley
The following questions were asked during the EU MDR Date of Application Readiness webinar presented by Jay Crowley, Vice President of Medical Device Solutions and Services at USDM.
Watch the on-demand webinar: EU MDR Date of Application Readiness
Is Actor registration in EUDAMED still voluntary? If so, what does this mean for Importers?
Assuming the relevant Competent Authority (CA) is participating, Importers can register and obtain a Single Registration Number (SRN). However, this is not required until the European Database on Medical Devices (EUDAMED) is made fully functional and available.
What happens if the Authorized Representative (AR) has not completed their verification of information for legacy product registration by 26 May 2021?
Since only Medical Device Regulation (MDR)-compliant devices can be placed on the market after the Date of Application (DoA)—including Legacy devices—you must have a signed MDR agreement in place with your AR. However, these devices should not require a formal document review until they transition to an MDR CE certificate. This is not true for Class I self-certified devices, which will need to be MDR compliant by DoA, and will need to a reviewed by your AR.
Our Periodic Safety Update Report (PSUR) drafts are prepared. The module in EUDAMED is not yet available. What is the next step relative to notified body (NB) review of these reports? Do we submit the PSURs to the NB directly?
Yes, for Class III and implantable devices, the PSUR is always submitted to the NB directly (in the case of EUDAMED unavailability), but check with your NB to determine how they want to receive it until EUDAMED is available.
With respect to the MD symbol, there are two applications: one as "Medical Device," but on Patient Implant Cards, the MD symbol corresponds to the brand name. Why are there two meanings now?
Yes, that decision was made by the Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG). In the MDCG 2019-8 v2 guidance document it states, "Please note that in the ISO context, the 'MD' symbol is used to identify that the product in question is a medical device. On the implant card, this symbol is used to indicate the device name."
Since it's unlikely there will be harmonized standards for EU MDR available at the DoA, what affect does that have on the ability to use standards for conformity assessment?
That is up to your NB and whether they will allow you to apply them prior to harmonization (noting how differences between the requirements of directives and regulations have been taken into account). There has been progress in that CEN-Cenelec have agreed to revise the many existing standards listed under the directives and draft the required new standards for the new regulations.
Can you elaborate on the newly proposed Master UDI-DI by the EU Commission?
It is too early in the process to go into much detail. All we know is that its purpose is to find a solution for grouping devices with many individual permutations (e.g., contact lenses) to reduce the number of records in EUDAMED. We also know that the Master UDI-DI will be a production identifier (PI) in the UDI. The Commission will need to publish an Implementing Act to add this new requirement.
Our AR has informed us that the German Competent Authority is not issuing SRNs as EUDAMED is still "voluntary." Do you see this being an issue when submitting to NBs for MDR CE certification?
No, this is not an issue as EUDAMED is still voluntary, as is generating SRNs. Other CAs are also not issuing SRNs.
Does the GS1 Global Model Number (GMN) and the Basic UDI-DI have any other useful purpose as we integrate it into our product? Would it benefit anyone to include for non CE-marked products?
There are other regulators considering the use of Basic UDI-DI (GS1's GMN); however, at this point, only the EU is requiring its use.
If a Class III device (MDD) is not placed on the market, then is the BUDI and SRN not required at DoA but later once the legacy device is placed on the market?
A BUDI is never required for a Legacy device, but rather a EUDAMED-DI. Both will be required to register the device in EUDAMED, once available.
Is Switzerland still negotiating with the EU? We are an in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) manufacturer with DoA in May 2022.
Yes, they are still negotiating. Unfortunately, it is unclear how long it will take and if they will ultimately be successful.
Is it true that we don't need to publish data for Legacy devices unless there is an adverse event?
No. Unless the Legacy device is replaced by a Regulation-compliant device by the submission deadline, the Legacy device will need to be registered in the EUDAMED.
If I have a Class 1 registered FDA medical device that is sent to the importer in Germany and is not sterile, will I essentially need to be ISO 13485:2016 compliant? Is this assumption correct?
Regardless of the class, ISO 13485:2016 compliance is a prudent step. Though the standard is not (yet) harmonized with the MDR, many manufacturers use 13485 to help establish a quality management system (QMS) that meets the requirements of the MDR. Note that there are additional record keeping requirements stipulated in the MDR.
Here are a few clips from the webinar presented by Jay Crowley. Click here to access the full-length on-demand webinar. If you have more EU MDR questions or would like to speak with Jay directly, please contact us.
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On-Demand Webinar: EU MDR Date of Application Readiness
Blog: More Medical Device Implications of Brexit
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Abe Boasts Openly About Duping The Americans In Trade And Warmongering
EVERY President beginning with Reagan in particular, gets Japanese money when they retire and now, even before that, when they are running for President. Like AIPAC, Japanese money warps our government so it works for them, not us. This is why all our trade with Japan is nearly totally one way and ditto, Israel which also runs a big trade surplus with the US while both nations demand we back every imperial move possible and provoke deliberate wars with neighbors expecting us to fight their battles.
President Obama dutifully gave the Japanese everything they wanted and in return, they gave him nothing at all except, I presume, strong suggestions that he come back when he retires and give a speech for $3 million. Rubbing his hands with joy, Abe says he achieved 'historic' success with Obama ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion: this comment from one of the readers pretty much sums up what this all means for the people of Japan who are as abused as the US public, all deals being goodies for their oligarchs and the LDP:
DisillusionedAPR. 25, 2014 – 04:01PM JST
Well, I wouldn't say nothing was achieved. At least Obama got to eat at Jiro's.
Some14some – The success and failure of Abenomics lays heavily on the TPP. The only reason Japan is procrastinating is because they would have to give up their price fixing practices for produce and subsidising farmers. But, this is the failing of the Japanese economists' logic.
They increased the sales tax to contribute to the public debt, but by increasing the sales tax and not ensuring the corporate tax cuts were passed on to employees as salary increases people are spending around 5-10% less.
This means the sales tax increase is a step in the wrong direction. However, if Japan gives up their price fixing on commodities and floods the market with cheaper imported goods they will increase spending and the tax hike will actually mean something other than a third arrow up the butt for consumers.
Japan is running a huge trade deficit right now and the ONLY country they have a big trade surplus with is the US. So they will kill to maintain this relationship so it is vampiric. They must, to survive. The cherry on the cake was the US promise to die for Japanese imperialism. Disgusting is a word that barely describes this despicable promise to fight for uninhabited islands right offshore of a very angry China and annoyed Korea, both north and south.
Xinhua Focus: Right-leaning Japan becomes Washington's liability in Asia-Pacific which is correct.
The New York Times agrees that this deal business with hostile Japanese winning everything is bad: Obama Suffers Setbacks in Japan and the Mideast. The 'set back in Israel is due to Netanyahu and is also due to the fact our government is owned by dual citizen Jews who hate this country and love their home base and are actively looting this nation and making their home base stronger.
I expect them to demand what the Japanese got, that is, direct promises to fight all Jewish wars for them and die for them. A few more million bucks in bribes should fix that.
Here is proof that the Japanese and ONLY the Japanese stopped the negotiations while Obama was in Tokyo to sign the accords: Amari says no accord reached with U.S. on TPP ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
The ambitious 12-nation deal has stalled as Tokyo and Washington lock horns over key details, including Japanese tariffs on agricultural imports and U.S. access to its ally's major auto market.
For many years, the Japanese didn't allow US cars in Japan. Our trade differential in this matter is huge. From this winter: Ford Looks to Fiesta to Increase Sales in Japanese Market but so far, has sold virtually none in Japan in stark contrast with the rest of Asia which has bought many of these cars. 90% of the car deals between Japan and the US are one way in Japan's favor. And they have zero incentive to change this.
Normally, long before Detroit was destroyed, the US should have stopped this flood of cars from Japan. But we didn't due to Reagan being owned by Tokyo. The US hopes that our promise to fight Japan's territorial claims isn't stopping China, for today China says it will maintain patrols near Japan's new island base.
China frees ship after Mitsui O.S.K. pays $28 mil for WWII debts. The Japanese backed down on this. Anti-Japanese sentiment is rising rapidly in China and South Korea. Japan ignores this and the US is clueless. And none of this makes the news in the US anyways.
China vows to supply humanitarian aid to Syria because they are angry at the US for incursions offshore Japan. So they figure, irritate the Real Rulers in Tel Aviv might be useful.
Malaysian Jet Search Has Cost U.S. $11.4 Million: Pentagon which presumes we can spend tons of money for nothing forever. This flight was NOT an American plane nor was it flying to an American destination and we had nothing to do with it at all. The Chinese were eager to do the hunt due to most of the passengers being Chinese and the destination being China.
Our military is wasting precious money patrolling the planet all the time all over the place which is insane because we are running huge trade deficits and our shipping industry has collapsed to near zero so we aren't protecting our own ships and we do still have planes but…we should be protecting our assets, our property, not foreigners for no reason especially when they are reaming us out in trade deals!
Tiny Pacific nation sues 9 nuclear-armed powers because NATO used their islands as bombing targets with nukes and this is insane. And when Russia fell and China tried to be friendly, the US doubled down on the nuclear bombs and warmongering and now we are flying rapidly into WWIII. I hope their lawsuit wins. But like Japanese whale hunting, the nuclear bomb nations will cling to these weapons no matter what.
Ukraine FM: Army 'Ready to Fight Russia' after Biden Offers Strong Support to Ukraine and Issues a Sharp Rebuke to Russia. And unlike the Jews and Japanese, they didn't have to bribe anyone. They need the US to do all the fighting because they Sold out: Ukraine's leadership swapped best military weapons for cash and are way, way weaker than Russia.
Russia was the Sick Man of Europe for a while but not any longer. It is much stronger and Europe is much weaker and Japan is going bankrupt and the US really is bankrupt but doesn't really know it yet due to trade partners propping up the dollar with their huge FOREX holdings.
But Russia is no longer falling apart. Anyone boasting about the US not falling apart should tour our big cities especially in the Heartland where our manufacturing used to thrive. It lies in ruins. No need to nuke most of our cities, we nuked them already, ourselves.
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16 responses to "Abe Boasts Openly About Duping The Americans In Trade And Warmongering"
You said, "But we didn't due to Reagan being owned by Tokyo. "
Reagan was not owned by Tokyo. Reagan was a wholly owned subsidiary, or perhaps merely a desk in the PR department of, GE. (remember them? they built the nuke plants at Fukushima)
The thing that is ruining the planet is gigantice multinational corporations that pay no attention to any laws or regulations in ANY country and pay no taxes. And the TPP is engineered to make that situation WORSE.
As for Japan, I am very sorry for the people there. It's amazing that they have kept the place going for 3 years without the nuclear power, on which they were very dependent. They can't keep going without energy, and they must import almost all of it.
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ELAINE: No surprise you don't know that the very first thing Reagan did when he retired was to give a $2.5 million dollar ten minute speech in Japan and then be in a Disney World parade! That was the equivalent of $6 million plus today! And there was a faint stir of concern about this. The Chinese leadership at that time had members staying with me in New Jersey and I admitted to them, he was bribed.
They were OVERJOYED. So, we can buy Presidents? they said. 'We would have shot him for this!' Well, he was considered a 'hero' and worshipped today and all the corrupt politicians which is nearly everyone, loves him, too.
Joseppi
"Russia was the Sick Man of Europe"
"Standard & Poor's cut Russia's credit rating to just one notch above junk status"
Russia has a 11.5% debt to GDP level and has consistently had a trade surplus. Russia has just raised interest rates as the the ruble tumbles.
"Standard and Poor's on Friday maintained its rating for France at "AA" with a stable outlook"
Even though France has a trade deficit and 93% debt to GDP ratio – France celebrates and sends Mirage jets to the Baltics to irritate the Bear.
S&P is the Ministry of Statistical Newspeak Truth and cooked books for US dollar hegemony. It's future is in serious doubt.
HAHAHA. Russia, the #2 sovereign wealth nation on earth with no trade deficit! And France which is about to destroy itself a la Italy. That is hilarious.
Letting the Japanese cars into the US was the best thing that happened to the auto industry. US cars at the time were complete junk, and the industry was fat, lazy, and completely unconcerned for what the customer wanted. They didn't have to be concerned, because if the customer didn't like it, they could buy a Mercedes or VW. The quality of the Japanese cars was a real awakening for the US consumer. I drive a 1990 Toyota 2.3L pickup. I used to drive Ford Ranger, but after about 400K miles the body was too rusted. I think it had a Mazda engine, which was wonderful, the transmission was good, too,; I don't know who made it. Right now, I'd like one of
these, but the US won't allow them for import. This one's made by Tata (who owns Jaguar, the irony of ironies), but all the major companies make a similar version. Another thing the Japanese forced on us all is the cross-manufacturing that all the car companies participate in. After the Japanese showed that they could take a copy a US engine and put it in a decent vehicle, all the companies now buy components from each other, and even sell identical vehicles under different brands. It's very exciting.
Good US cars are NOT bought in Japan. Period. So we shouldn't trade with them.
DeVaul
"Letting the Japanese cars into the US was the best thing that happened to the auto industry."
Again, I disagree. Letting a foreign power flood your country with cheap, government subsidized goods to destroy your native industries is insane. It is why we declared independence from England and committed treason against our soverign leader, King George III.
A better plan would have been to force the American automobile makers to stop building idiot sized cars and trucks and build economical cars or be nationalized for National Security reasons, like Putin did with the Russian oligarchs after he packed Yeltsin off to a resort in southern Russia on New Year's Eve.
Those oligarchs that cooperated with him were pardoned. Those that did not were crushed. Whatever you think of this strategy, it saved Russia and now they are stronger than us in every way.
Reagan (and Thatcher) were all about "trickle-down theory"…and yet the Fed and all central banks behave if this theory were gospel and part of the natural order…how has trickle-down worked so far when world debt has increased from 70 trillion US$ in 2007 to 100 trillion in 2013 and world gross domestic product has stagnated adjusted for real inflation. This is where the political discussion should take place before western middle classes are extinct and the western world is confronted with a modern day " 1790's French Revolution".
@Mike
I don't know about you but I've learned to knit recently in case of a 1790's French Revolution.
The best moments in history are when Royal lines are cut dead.
Eri Blood Axe
the problem with US cars in Japan, is that they are Rhand drive, while the Japanese drive on the left.
Christian W
OT Ukraine:
Funny that Israel has secret meetings with the probable next Ukranian President… Guess Poroshenko wanted to talk to the real bosses directly and not bother with the empty suits in Washington.
Lieberman, Peres met with Ukraine presidential hopeful Poroshenko
In secret visit to Israel, frontrunner in the Ukrainian presidential election Petro Poroshenko held meeting with president and foreign minister, who broke Israel's silence on Ukraine, saying 'normalization with Russia in our, world's interest.'
DeVaul, I +/- agree w/everything you've written. It did not happen that way. In fact, if it had happened that way, there might be real consumer input and I'd be able to buy a small cab-over diesel utility truck in this country, like consumers can buy in all of the 'third world'.
El Kabong
Fukushima Didn't Just Suffer 3 Meltdowns … It Also Suffered Melt-THROUGHS and Melt-OUTS – http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/fukushima-didnt-just-suffer-3-meltdowns-suffered-melt-throughs-melt-outs.html
"…a small cab-over diesel utility truck in this country…"
I think I have seen that car. My wife may have owned one in Thailand without the roof over the bed. It seemed like a tiny pick-up truck, but the front looked more like a car — maybe like a miniaturized Camino (?) or something. We don't have anything like it here.
Is that what you are referring to? It looked weird, but it was handy, and it did not use much gas. We could have made those easily.
But, as you said, it did not happen that way, and now we are paying for it.
kenogami
A financial blogger (I do not remember who it was) has given the best definition of trickle-down economic theory:
"in trickle-down economics, the only thing that trickles down on the poors and the middle class is the piss of the wealthies."
Reagan's post-presidential Japan speech did get some attention, and yes, it was in the news, and no, I did not miss that news. And I also recall the Bush clan's embarrassing imitations of that performance.
However, my statement still stands: Reagan was fuelled by GE money.
You probably thought it was little old Japanese grannies passing the hat around to collect a few yen for that overpriced speaking fee. Well, that didn't happen. While I doubt that the check was autographed by the GE CEO, whoever it was, the check came from the same MIC that Reagan so enthusiastically endorsed and subsidized and supported with our money.
The jap.gov was happy to accept all the industry Reagan was exporting, and the MIC was happy it could find cheap workers to keep wages down everywhere.
it was the LDP and industrial giants who paid Reagan.
As all top politicians are today: they give a boring speech to rich people who pay them a huge fee and this is a bribe!


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I'm working on a project and need a little help so to speak. I need to know your opinions of the disadvantages of either speaking no English or very poor English while living in the U.S. Also what advantages would those people gain from learning to speak English at least to the point they can be easily understood.
1) You speak only Spanish, and are located in Laredo, Miami, LA, etc. I think you'd fit right in.
2) You speak only !Kung, Basque, etc., and you find yourself in the rural Northeast (Hardenburgh, NY, for example). In this case, you'd be unable to comunicate verbally at all.
The problem with not being able to speak English in the US is that you will not be able to integrate yourself into the American mainstream. While this may not be an issues from a cultural perspective, it is extremely limiting from an income-earning point of view. People who can't communicate in English will likely remain permanant members of the barrio class and will have to do hard manual labor jobs. The rub here is that carrying lumber and clearing away debris from construction sites is a young man's job. It gets more difficult as you age. You can go to many places in the American Southwest and see guys that are in their late 50s standing around with nothing to do because they can no longer do the work they were able to do when they were 20 years old. Unemployment and not being able to earn a living leads to alcoholism and earlier death.
Of course, these are probably all minimum wage jobs.
And they all require at least some knowledge of English... Training will still be in English, customers will probably speak English, etc.
"People who can't communicate in English will likely remain permanant members of the barrio class and will have to do hard manual labor jobs."
Spanish-only speaking immigrants are doomed to cleaning toilets the rest of their lives.
haha I know a couple of uneducated kinda off spanish-only inmmigrants who made big bugs in the Construction business, they have their offices and subcontract people with more English-Skills that them to do the hard-working stuff , hahhaaha, go figure !!!
So depending on how ambitious you are , you only need to know to do something really good, market those skills, maybe opening several stores/businness in the barrios all over L.A, and who cares if you do not speak English you will not need to, just see the Chinese FOB, after a 3-4 years they own their Restaurant.
So, few words for making Money in the U.S you DO NOT need to SPEAK GOOD english.
Big bugs? Do you mean "bucks"?
I think you can do with Spanish in Miami and in LA to some extent. It depends where you are. If you want to be stuck in one area or with your own group, you may be able to do it.
"haha I know a couple of uneducated kinda off spanish-only inmmigrants who made big bugs in the Construction business, they have their offices and subcontract people with more English-Skills that them to do the hard-working stuff , hahhaaha, go figure !!! "
Your own English skills leave a lot to be desired. I noticed five or six mistakes right away.
Well, my great-grandparents lived in the US for 50 years or so speaking little or no English, so it can be done. My maid speaks no real English and drives a brand new Ford Expedition. All of these people, of course, lived or live in areas with large ethnic enclaves of their own linguistic groups, so they were able to find work and even success in those areas. If they had lived in Wisconsin or Tennessee, probably not. So it just depends on where you live.
K.T why get limited ?
Depends on what you are loooking for. If other people ( In this case English-only People) have nothing to offer you, why would to try to make the effort to learn well their Language?
If someone argue you need to to get more jobs opportunities, life is still very difficult even for those who speak english natively.
Cities like LA,NY,Dallas,Miami,etc are where the most likely immigrants with no English skills would go to live. They would not go to some White-only states o cities only to be treated like a second-class citizen.
Pimpope, there is no such things as a white only state or city in the United States. I grew up in a town of two-thousand people and there were Native Americans, Latinos, Asians, and African Americans as well as Caucasians. It is obvious by your statement that you really do not know much at all about the United States and what it is like. This is still a country where hard work and efforts get you places no matter who you are. Certainly, it may be a little more difficult based upon your background, but there are many people who have managed to over come this. And this is also true for any Nation in the world.
Yeah, I've lived all over the US, and I have yet to find a white-only state.


WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) -- In people with type 2 diabetes, the drug fenofibrate reduces the need for laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness among working-age adults worldwide.
Australian researchers studied close to 9,800 type 2 diabetes patients, ages 50-75, who received either 200 milligrams per day of fenofibrate or a placebo.
After an average follow-up of five years, fenofibrate reduced the frequency of first laser treatment for macular edema by 31 percent and for proliferative diabetic retinopathy by 30 percent.
The findings, by a team from the University of Sydney, were published online by The Lancet medical journal and were expected to be published in an upcoming print issue of the journal.
The researchers noted that although fenofibrate is a lipid-modifying agent, it didn't lead to clinically important differences in high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in the type 2 diabetes patients who took it.
"These findings suggest that the mechanisms of benefit of fenofibrate in diabetic retinopathy must go beyond the effects of this drug on lipid concentrations or to lower blood pressure and might be conferred mainly by other means," the study authors wrote.
They concluded that, "The substantial benefits of fenofibrate on need for laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy are likely to be additive to those benefits arising from tight control of blood glucose and blood pressure in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus and emerge rapidly after treatment is commenced."
The findings support the use of fenofibrate in the management of diabetic eye disease, they wrote.


O'Fallon Police Chief Eric Van Hook presented Telecommunicator Michelle Foster with a Chief's Commendation for completion of the "Ruck to Remember 60 to 60." Foster completed the 60-mile challenge this spring in honor of fallen officers and soldiers.
"Michelle is a dedicated public servant, avid runner, and proud mother of a Marine. She is a great example of the selfless, and dedicated employees that we are fortunate to have," said Mayor Herb Roach.
A ruck is generally associated with hiking or working with a backpack over rugged terrain, such as in miltiary manuevers.
The 60 to 60 is a 60-mile journey that begins in Harpers Ferry, W.Va. In 35 hours, a team traverses 60 miles to remember the fallen and the sacrifices of battle. By sunrise on Memorial Day morning, the team descends into Washington, D.C, making a final movement through the National War Memorials and into Arlington National Cemetery, Section 60.
Foster completed the challenge in honor of Pfc. Tyler R. Lubelt, 20, of Tamaroa, Ill., who died Nov. 12, 2016, of injuries from an improvised explosive device while serving during Operation Freedom.
PHOTO: From left: Mayor Herb Roach, Police Chief Eric Van Hook, Telecommunicator Michelle Foster, and Support Services Supervisor Daryl Ostendorf.


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As marketers look to make more of their data, music streaming giant Spotify shared how it is taking people's habits on the platform and turning it into actionable insights.
While many organisations struggle to corral and verify the data for their customers, streaming platform Spotify has the opposite problem – how to make the most of a lot of verified first person data.
Globally the streaming platform has now passed 140m users, all of whom have to be registered and logged in to use the service, with every one having a unique experience courtesy of the music they choose to listen to.
As Richard Frankel, the global creative director of Spotify, told the Mumbrella360 conference: "We have moved beyond demographics to reflect the person behind the device. It's one thing to know who your audience is, and another to understand them. And when you intimately understand them, that's when you can dynamically evolve effective marketing strategies.
This data has allowed the company to map how users behave on the app and build out new products and services. However, Spotify believes they can also start to predict the future behaviour of these users, by using it to determine their personality type.
One data set they are dabbling with is the Discovery streaming habits on the service, which measures how much users listen to new music and how willing they are to hear things they've never heard before on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
The second facet they are looking at is the diversity of music people listen to.
"That measures the range of music you're listening to and measures things like genre and tempo," explains Frankel. "Listening to music from a wide variety of genres makes you an eclectic, and listening just to soul music or jazz you're a loyalist.
The next element of listener behaviour being investigated by Spotify is one they have invented, called Tilt.
Frankel explains: "This measures how much people are actively curating their streaming experience. Think about the way you tend to listen, do you lean in, are you curating your music?
"Curators have the app in the foreground and are manually controlling the songs. If you just like to queue up a playlist, put the phone in your pocket and put the sound up and let it play you're an Easy Goer.
The streaming giant is also starting to investigate other facets of listening they think can help them map user's personalities, including Nostalgia and Obsession.
He also points to the Spotify for Brands website which already has some tools allowing marketers to deep dive on certain groups based on their musical habits.
The brand has also started walking its own walk, using the data to help them "find our own voice" with their consumer facing marketing to attract new users to the platform.
"We do a thing at the end of the year which is a bit of fun, it's Your Year in Music," explains Frankel.
But the marketing team realised while that was a good tool for talking to everyone who was already on Spotify, those insights could also be used to create a bigger campaign, breaking down the areas of New York City and delivering some insights to them.
"Instead of giving them this report we decided on an out of home campaign where we put up what happened in that place," explains Frankel.
The insights showed things like artist The Weeknd being popular in the 'cooler' neighbourhood of the East Village, while the older neighbourhood of Soho saw Janet Jackson and Stevie Wonder as the most played artists.
However the team hit the real insight when looking at 'hipster Mecca' neighbourhood Williamsburg.
Frankel says: "Imagine our surprise when it turned out the most played song in this hip Mecca in the middle of New York was a Justin Bieber track Sorry. So we bought the largest single piece of outdoor real estate we could find and said 'Sorry,not sorry Williamsburg. Bieber's hit trended highest in this zip code'.
"We were just being good reporters, making charts and graphs and reporting back as to this is who you are. And this was a way in for us, we suddenly thought let's go beyond taking the musical temperature and start making some actual heat.
This led to the idea for the team to "create culture in our own community and report on it".
It led to a much wider campaign for the brand at the end of 2016 which ran across several countries showing how the community was listening.
In London the brand pointed out how many people had streamed 'It's The End of The World as we Know it' on the day of the Brexit vote, while in Williamsburg someone listened to the song Broccoli 513 times, leading to the slogan: 'We get it, you're vegan'.
While Spotify is only in the early stages of managing its unique pool of verified first-person data and detailed knowledge of how user behaviour it has already started to create insights to help advertisers on and off the platform. With more detailed analysis to come the streaming player may well have tapped into a rich source of data that will enable smart marketers to get deeper and more personal with consumers than ever before.
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Martin Feldstein has long been one of the country's top conservative economists. He has been an economics professor at Harvard University since 1967. He was president of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) from 1977 to 2008.
Feldstein served as Chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984. In 2006, George W. Bush appointed him to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, where his job was to oversee intelligence gathering and report abuses.. President Obama appointed Feldstein to the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
In addition to being a leading advocate of lower taxes and reduced government spending, Feldstein has also been a leading proponent of the privatization of Social Security. One of his most important early papers was a 1974 article in the Journal of Political Economy which purported to show that social security leads to a 30-50% reduction in private savings. It later turned out that the paper's findings were the result of a programming error.
Feldstein was a director of American International Group (AIG) from 1987 through June 2009, a period in which the company was rocked by scandals. In 2005, Maurice Greenberg, who had been the company's CEO for nearly 4 decades, was forced from his seat after an accounting error came to light: AIG had overstated its income by $3.9 billion over five years. Following the scandal's fallout, journalists noted that Greenberg appeared to have cultivated an especially loyal relationship with AIG directors by approving sizeable donations from the foundation of which he was chairman to organizations associated with AIG board members. The NBER received over $3 million from Greenberg's foundation from 1998 to 2005.
Over the two fiscal years before Greenberg's ouster, in 2003 and 2004, the board approved his compensation at over $53 million, or $67 million in today's dollars. Greenberg's successor, Martin Sullivan, steered the company from 2005 to the precipice of the financial meltdown—he resigned in June 2008. The AIG board determined that Sullivan's departure was for "good reason," a decision that approved his $47 million severance package.
Less than four months after Sullivan stepped down, AIG was driven to the edge of bankruptcy, having issued hundreds of billions of dollars in credit default swaps which it could not support. It was saved from bankruptcy by a government bailout that required more than $180 billion in loans.
Feldstein also served as a director of the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company from 2002 through April 2012. The company significantly underperformed the S&P average from 2004 through Feldstein's retirement, and performed particularly poorly from the trough of the recession in early 2009 through the end of his term as director. In 2009, probably the company's worst year under Feldstein's direction, CEO John Lechleiter's compensation exceeded $20.9 million, up 60% from the company's CEO pay in 2007.
Feldstein previously served as a director of HCA Inc., the largest for-profit hospital chain in the U.S., from 1998 through 2006. Feldstein joined the board just after then-CEO and current Florida governor Rick Scott was forced out during investigations into massive Medicare fraud, for which the company was fined $1.7 billion.