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Environmental Advocate Robert F. Kennedy Visits Ohio State University
by Free Press Staff
Robert F. Kennedy was greeted with a standing ovation on Wednesday at Campbell Hall on the OSU campus. A Harvard graduate, Kennedy is a professor at the Pace University School of Law, senior attorney for the National Resources Defense Council, and chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund.
More than two hundred people came to hear him talk about his new book, Crimes Against Nature, and the Bush administration's irresponsible environmental policies.
Kennedy blamed the public's ignorance of President Bush's environmental abuse on the timidity of the national press and the White House Press Corps, whom he referred to as "stenographers."
One of the problems Kennedy discussed is the particulate emissions from 1100 coal burning plants operating illegally in the country, causing acid rain, sterilization of lakes, accumulation of ozone, and mercury poisoning. Effects of air pollution are thought to be responsible for as many as 5000 deaths per year and a recent increase in cases of asthma in children. Lawsuits from the Clinton era against many of these plants were ordered to be dropped by Bush after he received a total of more that 100 million dollars from coal companies. Kennedy expressed frustration that corporations can buy their way out of free market controls by paying off politicians, and maintained that coal plant emissions could be drastically reduced if plant owners were to spend only one percent of their profits on technology to allow for cleaner burning.


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Protecting Personally Identifiable Information in the United States
September 9, 2020 September 9, 2020 Posted in General Posts
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
Logan Kline, Associate Member, University of Cincinnati Law Review
Today, smart devices fill every facet of life; We check the time on our smart watches, listen to music on smart speakers, stream shows on smart TVs, and do just about everything else imaginable on smart phones. These systems are constantly pooling information to better serve both the individual user and the customer base as a whole. Amidst this growing sea of raw data, personally identifiable information (PII) serves as a link between the individual and the otherwise faceless accumulation of information.[1] PII includes any data that could identify an individual such as a person's name, face, or phone number, but the concept can also extend to IP addresses, web browser information and even GPS coordinates.[2] When your speaker calls you by name, or your phone recognizes your face, PII collection is streamlining your technological life.
However, a breach of trust and privacy can occur when the information a person believed to be protected is shared with others or sold for profit. To prevent this violation of confidence and security, various laws have been implemented on the state and federal level to govern the sharing and sale of PII, but these laws are far from uniform.[3] Some states, like California, have pushed ahead by passing legislation that thoroughly protects their citizens, while the majority of states lag behind, leaving their residents relatively unguarded.[4]
II. The Federal Landscape
The United States currently lacks a comprehensive law that governs the commercial sharing and sale of PII.[5] In this way, the United States lags far behind the European Union, which passed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016 to protect its resident's personal information and data.[6] The GDPR has set the global standard for PII protection, and a number of states have recently taken steps to follow this foreign example.[7]
However, the United States is not entirely devoid of federal regulation in this area. Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act) prohibits unfair or deceptive practices and is the primary federal law protecting American PII.[8] While the FTC Act does not explicitly regulate the sharing of this information, it asserts that companies must be abundantly clear about what information they will be collecting, particularly when that information may be shared with a third party.[9] In short, the FTC Act does not tell companies what they may or may not do with the data collected, but instead ensures that the companies are transparent with how they intend to use customer data.[10] No private right of action exists under the FTC Act, so individuals are granted no recourse under federal law for violations of their PII rights.[11]
III. The State Legal Landscape and California's Latest Legislation
Many states are quickly developing their own data privacy laws to fill the gaps left by the federal legislation.[12] California has led the way for American PII protection, but many other states have taken substantial steps to protect residents' PII from financial exploitation.[13]
Effective January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) serves as the United States' most comprehensive statutory protection of PII.[14] The CCPA does not regulate every business that collects consumer data in the state, but instead focuses on those for-profit businesses that collect and profit the most from PII. [15] To be subject to the CCPA, a business must:
1) collect consumer PII;
2) determine the purposes and means of processing that PII; and
3) meet one of the following thresholds:
A) have annual gross revenues in excess of $25 million;
B) annually buy, sell, or share data relating to 50,000 or more consumers or devices; or
C) derive 50% or more of its annual revenue from selling this data.[16]
The CCPA provides various protections to the data of California residents, including mandating that consumers have the right to opt out of their PII being sold.[17] Businesses that fall under this law must help consumers exercise their opt-out rights by including a "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link in a "clear and conspicuous" location.[18] The CCPA also prevents businesses from discriminating against those customers that opt-out of sharing their PII, or otherwise exercise their rights under the act.[19] Under the California law, consumers have both a right to know what information is being collected and a right to delete this information by request.[20]
Unlike the current federal system and most other states, the CCPA provides a private right of action for consumers in the event of a breach, with maximum statutory damages of $750 per consumer.[21] The new California law also expands the definition of PII to include all "information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household."[22] While information that is made publicly available on the state or federal level is exempted from the statute, California's expansive definition of PII affords its residents more comprehensive rights to data protection than anywhere else in the country.[23]
That said, the CCPA only protects California residents, with the vast majority of states lagging significantly behind in data protection legislation.[24] While other states have recently passed or are actively considering new legislation, each state adopts their own definition of PII, what constitutes the sale of PII, and what level of protection should be afforded to the data.[25]
In 2019, Maine passed L.D. 946, which afforded consumers the right to restrict the use of their PII and prevented businesses from discriminating against those that asserted this control.[26] In these two areas, the L.D. 946 mirrors the CCPA, but Maine's latest legislation differs from California in several key areas, including a less expansive definition of PII and the omission of a private right of action.[27] Even without these provisions, Maine is far ahead of the vast majority of states which have no laws at all governing the use and sale of PII.[28] This inconsistencies are creating a highly variable legal landscape that lacks predictability or cohesive structure.[29]
IV. Analysis
The current patchwork approach regulating the collection, use, and sale of PII provides insufficient protection to the data of most Americans. The amorphous form of data collection presents a challenge too pervasive for the states to handle on an individual basis. In order to best remedy this mounting problem, the United States could either implement nationwide legislation that creates a baseline protection for all citizens or draft a uniform code that provides state legislatures a model to build upon.
To protect all residents from overreaching and exploitative PII use, the United States could implement a national statute establishing fundamental data protection rights for all Americans. This approach would provide a level of consistency and predictability that the current system lacks. Currently, when an app user in Columbus, Ohio connects with a friend from San Diego, California, the applicable statutory lines are blurred. Can the app developer collect and sell the PII of one and not the other? What if the app company is based in Maryland and wants to apply Maryland law? These ambiguous situations occur constantly in contemporary data sharing. Without uniform legislation, companies are free to target residents of states with the least restrictive regulations on data sharing and PII. Of course, even with a national law, some states would inevitably pass further legislation to protect their residents beyond the protections provided by the federal government. While this future state innovation would create some inequity across the country, a nationwide law would effectively raise the floor for data privacy rights from the current nonexistent requirement to a more just standard.
Businesses would also benefit from a federal statute that establishes a minimum threshold for PII protection. Currently, businesses in this market are forced to go through each state's applicable PII laws and ensure that their policies are up to date with rapidly developing and relatively unpredictable legislation. Companies have to evaluate their risk of exposure to litigation under each statutory construction independently and decide whether business in the state is worth the risk. In contrast, a federal standard would simplify this process by providing businesses a stable, consistent benchmark by which they could conduct business.
The most prevalent countervailing interest to this proposed federal law arises from a concern for the financial wellbeing of small businesses in the face of potentially oppressive regulations. However, this objection could be easily addressed by establishing a sliding-scale standard based on business size and the amount of data collected. For small businesses that collect relatively little data, the requirements would be fairly lenient, while large corporations that collect vast pools of consumer data would be held to a higher standard. A comparable approach has already been implemented in California and could be similarly applied on a national scale with some adjustments.
Absent national legislation, a model code to serve as a framework for best practices in data protection legislation could be immensely helpful and lead to more predictable laws from state to state. States would have to voluntarily choose to adopt this uniform law, but a model statute would at least provide a baseline for commonality between the states. The advantage to this approach is that it leaves the decision up to the states and avoids federal interference in state affairs. Each state legislature could adjust the model code to fit the needs of their particular constituency instead of having to build upon a federal statute in which they had limited input.
The next time you mindlessly plug in your name, date of birth, or phone number into one of your smart devices, pause for a moment and consider if you actually know where that information goes after you press send. Even now, what sites are collecting your information and linking it to you through PII? Without a comprehensive and uniform legal system protecting the PII of individuals across the country, the answer could be drastically different depending on your home state.
To remedy this inconsistency, the United States should follow the example of the European Union and create an equitable, predictable PII regulation that affords every American the same right to privacy and data protection.
[1] Data privacy principles all legal providers should adopt, Thomson Reuters,https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/insights/articles/data-privacy-principles (last visited Sept. 4, 2020).
[2] Id. (PII includes both direct and indirect identifiers. Direct identifiers include information that can independently identify a person such as their full name or complete social security number. Indirect identifiers also point to an individual, but they do so less explicitly, and therefore require other information to identify a specific person. Indirect identifiers include birthdates, the last four digits of a social security number, and street addresses without a city listed.).
[3] Andy Green, Complete Guide to Privacy Laws in the US, Varonis (Mar. 29, 2020), https://www.varonis.com/blog/us-privacy-laws/.
[4] Id. (See for more information on PII laws in New York, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Dakota, and California).
[5] Ieuan Jolly, US Privacy and Data Security Law: Overview, Thomson Reuters Practical Law https://1.next.westlaw.com/6-501-4555?isplcus=true&transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29 (last visited Sept. 4, 2020).
[6] Commission Regulation 2016/679, 2016 OJ (L 119).
[7] Elizabeth L. Feld, United States Data Privacy Law: The Domino Effect After the GDPR, 24 N.C. Banking Inst. 481 (2020) (The GDPR focuses on individual rights to data that had previously not existed in Europe such as the right to control and delete one's own data); Green, supra note 3 (Upcoming or recently passed PII legislation in New York, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Dakota, and California.).
[8] Federal Trade Commission Act § 5, 15 U.S.C. §§ 41-58 (2018); Green, supra note 3.
[9] Jolly, supra note 5.
[11] Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 45 (2018) (citing Morales v. Walker Motors Sales, Inc., 162 F. Supp. 2d 786, 790 (S.D. Ohio 2000)) (There is no implied private right of action under the provision of the Federal Trade Commission Act prohibiting unfair and deceptive acts and practices.); See also U.S. v. Philip Morris Inc., 263 F. Supp. 2d 72 (D.D.C. 2003).
[12] Mitchell Noordyke, US state comprehensive privacy law comparison, IAPP (Apr. 18, 2019), https://iapp.org/news/a/us-state-comprehensive-privacy-law-comparison/.
[13] Cynthia Brumfield, 11 new state privacy and security laws explained: Is your business ready? CSO Online (Aug. 8, 2019), https://www.csoonline.com/article/3429608/11-new-state-privacy-and-security-laws-explained-is-your-business-ready.html.
[14] TITLE 1.81.5. California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 [1798.100 – 1798.199].
[15] Brumfield, supra note 10 ("The law applies to applies to businesses that collect information from California residents and meet at least one of the following thresholds: (1) have over $25 million in annual gross revenue; (2) buy, receive, sell, or share for commercial purposes the personal information of 50,000 or more consumers, households, or devices; or (3) derive 50 percent or more of their revenue from the sale of consumers' personal information.").
[17] California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), State of California Department of Justice, Attorney General's Office, https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa (last visited Sept. 4, 2020).
[23] See California Consumer Privacy Act, supra note 17. (Information that is exempted from the statute includes public licenses or property records.)
[25] Green, supra note 3; Noordyke, supra note 12. (Maryland, Hawaii, New York, North Dakota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts are some of the states that have recently proposed or passed legislation related to PII protection.)
[26] Noordyke, supra note 12.
[27] Id.; L.D. 946, 2019 Leg., 129th Sess. (Me. 2019). (PII is defined in Maine by § 9301(1)(A)(1)).
[28] Green, supra note 3 (As of early 2020, only California, Nevada, and Maine had privacy laws regarding PII in effect.).
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I'd like to talk frankly for a second about a taboo subject: money.
It's bad form to mention money, and it's something everyone is really apprehensive about. It's awkward and frustrating – but ultimately every business transaction comes down to it. So let's get real, and talk business in a serious way, without shuffling our feet or using euphemisms.
Is hiring a marketing agency worth the cost?
Here's the long answer. A relationship with a marketing agency isn't cheap, and it shouldn't be. In the same way a really great car isn't cheap, or a high-quality computer isn't cheap, or a financial advisor isn't cheap: you get what you pay for. And yeah, a great marketing agency can run you into six digits a year. Even on the low end, you'd be looking at something like $70,000 a year for dedicated marketing support.
So the question I get asked all the time is, well, why someone should hire an agency instead of just bringing someone on in-house. Surely that'd be less expensive.
You need to consider what that $70,000 a year gets you in both cases.
Let's start with the in-house model. You hire a full-time junior-level marketing manager to handle all your marketing efforts. She's pulling in, say, $60,000 a year – but she can't do everything on her own. She'd need to bring in outside resources for copywriting, web design, graphic design, and more to cover skill gaps and to help her use her own time more efficiently. The cost of managing your marketing strategy plus actually implementing it adds up quickly – and that's before you consider all the rest of the overhead a new team member brings with them, from insurance to benefits to equipment costs. You could be looking at overall costs approaching a full $100,000 a year.
And all that really gets you is one person.
With a marketing agency, all those resources are built into the retainer. Because a marketing agency is supported by multiple clients, the costs of maintaining the team are distributed, giving you a significant discount on the same level of marketing you'd get from a dedicated in-house team. For essentially the cost of one in-house marketing manager and a stable of outside vendors (with their own costs built into their fees), you get an entire team working on your behalf.
And it's a team of seasoned professionals, including web and print designers, web developers, copywriters, and strategists, who are able to work more quickly, more efficiently, and more effectively than one harried person in an office struggling to wrangle a team of offsite contractors.
Let's think about the other hidden cost of building your own marketing department: turnover.
Building a department isn't a matter of hiring people. It's a matter of hiring the right people, with the right skillsets, temperaments, personalities, and inborn talents to help you accomplish your goals. That's a lengthy and often expensive process – which an agency has already done. It's the difference between building a computer from scratch and buying one at the store: the first may be cheaper in the short run, but it comes with a significant opportunity cost in lost time.
There's a lot to be said for plug-and-play.
The point of this isn't to convince you to do something you aren't comfortable with – if you're not sure an agency is the way to go, don't hire someone until you are. But the truth is that agencies are a more effective use of your money. And while the cost may seem higher upfront, the value is immense. So while building your own department can be tempting, the costs associated are significant.
So why not go for the experts?


One of the problems old-timers like myself have with craps revolves around the fact that it's a stand-up game. As players age and develop some of the diseases that go along with aging – diabetes and arthritis just to name two – standing at the table for long periods of time becomes a problem. So it's always good to have a couple of play options that will allow you an opportunity to get a load off your feet – without necessarily taking a load out of your bankroll at the same time. Taking a break and playing the Banker Bet at Baccarat fills that bill nicely.
Baccarat is the game of the rich and famous. Jackie Chan, Sean Connery and Michael Jordan are all well-known baccarat players. Jackie Chan even featured baccarat in some of his films – as did Sean Connery as James Bond. But the game is familiar to only a small percentage of the gambling public. For decades it was kept under wraps, played away from the casino floor in plush high-roller pits. The lowest minimum bet in the baccarat pit was usually $25, and many players openly scoffed at anything less than a $100 minimum table. But today average Joe can play a popular variant of Baccarat – Mini-Bac – in just about any casino in the United States, often with table limits as low $5.
Baccarat also comes closer than most other casino games to offering the customer an even break. The house edge is as low as 1.06 percent for a bet on the Banker hand and 1.24 percent for a bet on the Player hand. The house edge on the "tie" bet is so ridiculous I won't even go into it. Just don't bet it. Blackjack players who use basic strategy can do slightly better odds-wise; as can craps players who take full advantage of the Free Odds bet. But baccarat is a game that requires virtually no skill to master. You don't have to learn to count cards or control the dice. You simply need a systematic method of play combined with good money management and discipline skills to walk away a winner.
At the full-sized, 14-player baccarat table, one dealer — the "Call-man" — stands up. He turns cards face up after they are dealt by the bettor holding the shoe. The Call-man is responsible for calling out the point totals and announcing whether either hand gets another card according to the set hit/stand rules of the game. Two other dealers remain seated on either side of the Call-man. They are responsible for paying off winning bets and collecting losing wagers. Mini-baccarat has just one dealer, who deals the cards and combines all the responsibilities of the three dealers at the larger table — but does it at a much faster pace. Because of this pace, a $5 or $10 Mini-Bac player may find himself wagering more per hour than a $25 bettor at the full-sized game – which is why the casinos prefer Mini-Bac.
Regardless of how many people are playing, only two hands are dealt. One is designated the Banker hand, the other is the Player hand. Any customer may bet on either hand, with the exception that the customer holding the shoe in the full-scale game must either bet Banker or pass the shoe. Don't think of the Bank hand as belonging to the house or the Player hand belonging to the bettor. There just two different ways to bet.
In full-scale Baccarat, the bettor holding the shoe slides one card out and passes it face down to the stand-up dealer, who passes it to the customer with the largest Player bet. The next card, the first of the Banker hand, is placed next to the shoe. The bettor then deals another Player card, then the second Banker card. The dealer calls for the Player hand, and the customer with the largest player bet first looks at the cards, then gives them to the dealer. The dealer turns the cards face up and announces the point total. Then the dealer calls for the Banker hand, and the shoe holder looks at the cards and gives them to the dealer. If the Player total requires a draw, the dealer will say, "Card for the Player," and the shoe holder will pass a card to the dealer, who will pass it to the Player-bettor, who looks at it and passes it back to the dealer, who turns it face up. Finally, if the Banker requires a card, the dealer will call, "Card for the Bank," and repeat the process with the shoe holder.
The casino is more than willing to offer the time-consuming ceremony to its largest bettors. They will even let the players bend, crumple, or tear the cards at the end of a hand, since the cards are not re-used in most casinos. That is not the case in Mini-Baccarat.
In Mini-Bac, the dealer plays out both hands. There are no time consuming formalities and a hand is dealt and decided in less than half the time it takes to accomplish the same thing in a traditional Baccarat game.
The object of the game is to bet on the two- or three-card hand that totals closest to nine. Tens and face cards all are worth zero points; all other cards are worth their face value, with the ace worth one point. If a total is more than 10, the second digit is the value of the hand. For example, a 9 and a 7, which total 16, make up a six-point hand.
Initially, two cards are dealt for each hand. The point totals determine whether either hand gets a third card. The Player hand is completed first. A total of 8 or 9 is called a "natural," and the Player hand gets no more cards. In fact, unless the Banker has a natural 9 or ties the natural 8, no further cards are drawn, and the naturals are automatic winners. Player also stands on totals of 6 or 7. On any other total, 0 through 5, Player draws a third card, unless Banker has a natural, in which case the Bank hand wins with no further draw.
Banker rules are a bit more complicated. The Banker also stands on 7, 8, or 9 and draws on 0, 1, or 2, but on other hands the Banker's play is dependent on the value of the Player's third card. Banker hits 3 unless the player's third card is an 8; hits 4 unless the Player's third card is 1, 8, 9, or 10; hits 5 only if the Player's third card is 4, 5, 6, or 7; and hits 6 only if the Player's third card is 6 or 7.
There are a few exceptions. A natural, as noted above, stops play with no further draws. And if the player has one of its other two standing hands, 6 or 7, bank stands on 6 as well as 7, 8, and 9. Neither hand ever gets more than three cards. After the hands have been played out, the hand totaling closer to 9 wins. Winning bets are paid off at even money. Ties push — neither hand wins nor loses.
Bettors also may wager that the two hands will finish with an equal number of points. Winning bets on Ties pay off at 8-1. That sounds tempting, but this wager carries a hefty 14.3 percent house edge and should be avoided. So should any other side-bets you may find in "carnival game" versions of Mini-Bac.
Baccarat players are allowed to keep track of the results of each hand, and most casinos provide score sheets and pencils to do so. Players simply put an X in a column beneath "Banker," "Player," or "Tie." Most gaming analysts contend that it is pointless to track decision results as Baccarat is a pure guessing game. The Banker hand wins slightly more often than the Player, but the house collects a 5% commission on winning Banker bets, resulting in the 1.17% house edge on the bet.
With that said, Baccarat, like craps, roulette, or any of the other "coin flip" type games is subject to producing streaks of Banker or Player that can be capitalized on with systematic play. There are both follow the trend and buck the trend strategies for the game – most more or less based on some sort of negative progression. The ones most frequently mentioned on the forum (since they're my favorites) are the Fibonacci and the Paroli. Both can be effective. Of course, the key to Baccarat – as with any casino game – is not to let greed get the better of you. Set reasonable win goals and loss limits. Then, get in – get ahead – and get gone. Remember – the correct time to push away from the table is when you're ahead.


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Bank wealth management performance: it could have been worse, says Kehrer Bielan
March 16, 2017, 3:43 p.m. EDT
Wealth management businesses at banks and credit unions endured a difficult 2016 as revenue and adviser productivity sagged in anticipation of the fiduciary rule, according to this year's "industry checkup" by consulting firm Kehrer Bielan Research & Consulting.
Revenue dipped 1.5% from 2015 across all financial institutions. Banks and credit unions that worked with third-party broker-dealers or TPMs were hit especially hard, with revenue diving 5.9%. At banks that own their broker-dealer, revenue was flat from the prior year.
Adviser productivity as measured by revenue per adviser was also off from 2015, falling 1.5% across the board.
Despite the stagnant performance, things could have been much worse given the toll that planning for the fiduciary rule has taken on bank wealth management businesses, said Tim Kehrer, senior research analyst at Kehrer Bielan.
"We were projecting much bigger hits to revenue," he said.
Adviser headcount took a punch too, slipping 1.1% across all banks and credit unions. The decline was particularly steep for financial institutions that work with TPMs, where the number of advisers slid a significant 8.2%.
Commission rates on fixed annuities expected to settle around 3% under the fiduciary rule
Banks and credit unions scramble to adjust their product choices with a significant 40% of those surveyed developing separate menus for retirement and retail accounts.
LPL puts final touches on product lineups in preparation for fiduciary rule
The firm has already standardized its variable annuities and alternative investments and is working toward doing the same for mutual funds as well as indexed and fixed annuities.
Changes are coming in bank adviser compensation
Consultant Peter Bielan urged bank wealth execs to incentivize long-term thinking on the part of advisers, not just hitting a monthly goal.
By Lee Conrad
Advisers are concerned about the impact of the fiduciary rule on their compensation as well as the "additional disclosure loops they are going to have to jump through," said Kehrer.
The report did contain somewhat of a silver lining. Investment assets under administration in 2016 rose 5.2% across all financial institutions, with those having a TPM jumping 5.9%.
On its face, the rise in assets is good news, except when compared to the S&P 500, which returned 9.8% in 2016.
The discrepancy, Kehrer noted, could flag a problem to executives worried about assets moving to lower-cost options. "It could be read as a warning sign that assets are leaving," he said.
Fiduciary RuleTim KehrerKehrer Bielan Research & Consulting


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12.5.09 (G.Lucas)
Coupled with their explosive playing, the consistent flow of bust-outs speckled the path of fall tour. Each night, Phish reached deep into their catalog and pulled out at least one rarity they play only once in a blue moon; or at most, once per tour. This became one of the defining features of fall, and one that many fans crave, leaving many setlist pads sparkling. Without traveling across the country time and time again, some of these rarities may never be heard by regional fans, making the current frequency of these infrequent moments all the more exciting for so many. Sought after bust-outs carry the aura of the golden-ring; a reward for catching that particular show; a personal little treasure along the ride. Some songs become elusive between eras, fading in and out of existence, while others remain rare for their careers. This fall, Phish brought out more than a few songs that nobody saw coming, adding an refreshing element to their sets.
12.3.09 (W.Rogell)
The multitude of bust-outs breaks down to the oozing confidence that Phish now boasts after relearning a good part of their repertoire. Their display of bravado began back in Hampton, with the very first song of this era – "Fluffhead." Seen for years as the ultimate bust-out, and unplayed in the post-hiatus years because the band simply couldn't handle its intricacies, "Fluffhead" made an immediate statement that Phish had a different attitude this time around. Unveiling one of their most difficult compositions right off the bat, the song has since become a staple of the band's current rotation and a virtual musical microcosm of 2009 – tight, energetic, and hugely emotional. But the band also earned some others along the way, dropping more than a few rarities and spicing up setlists throughout the fall.
At some point during this past tour, Phish played, "Mountains In the Mist," It's Ice," "Axilla," "Big Black Furry Creatures From Mars," "Sleep Again," "Fire," "Train Song," "On Your Way Down," "Golden Age," "Torn and Frayed," "My Friend, My Friend," "Tomorrow's Song," "My Mind's Got A Mind of Its Own," "Two Versions of Me," "Sanity," "Uncle Pen," "Foam," "Vultures," "Walk Away," "Meat," "Dinner and a Movie," "Crimes of the Mind," "Timber," "Pebbles and Marbles," "Nellie Kane," "Horn," "Weigh," "Peaches En Regalia," "Glide," "Shine A Light," "The Curtain (With)," "Scents And Subtle Sounds," "Cities," "Camel Walk," "Sneakin' Sally," "The Old Home Place," "Carini," "Freebird," "Cool It Down," and "Bold As Love." Though there have been longer gaps between some of these songs than others, that's quite a list for a bakers dozen worth of shows. Some of these songs represent mere kick-downs, while others hold more potential; the most significant of all being the return of "Scents and Subtle Sounds." Though re-introduced in succinct fashion, the band has already reached sky-scraping heights with the surreal springboard. If "Scents" gets back into rotation, watch out.
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While bust-outs can't make a show on their own, they can certainly add some spice to an evening, especially within the current framework of first sets that rely so heavily on song selection. "Alumni Blues" or "Buffalo Bill" certainly don't equal musical explorations – or jams at all – but they can make the time in between them all the more entertaining. With a clear focus on reacquainting themselves with so many of their pieces, it seems that Phish has laid the foundation for years to come. Armed with an infinite amount of material, a vibrant spirit, and a burgeoning sense of exploration, the light is, indeed, growing brighter now.
"46 Days" 11.18.09
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This is the first jam of tour, and holds up as one of the most engaging. Featuring some of the thickest funk and locked-in, methodical playing we've heard in a while, this one came our of nowhere late in Cobo's first set.
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I: AC/DC Bag, Chalk Dust Torture, Wolfman's Brother, NICU, Ocelot, Brian and Robert, Poor Heart, Sample in a Jar, Peaches en Regalia, The Divided Sky, Cavern
II: Golgi Apparatus, Light > Slave to the Traffic Light, Tweezer > Joy, Sparkle, Harry Hood, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Suzy Greenberg, Run Like an Antelope
E: A Day in the Life, Tweezer Reprise
Source: Schoeps mk41 > KCY > Sonosax SX-M2/LS > SD 722 (@24bit/96kHz)
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704 Responses to "Dustin' Them Off"
"I'm glad I changed my mind."
Us too Stitch, what a horrible feeling to experience, who would want to wish that upon anyone? We've surely all had our moments of tuning out certain songs. Radio can be such a drag, especially when your ear is finely tuned. Can you imagine living a daily life tuned into your local rock radio station and only knowing that stuff to be good music?
:shudders in horror:
Phish for President 2012 – "Save the Masses, Listen to the Mayans"
Lycanthropist Says:
@ stitch
ha ha we did it again. for it being the first time we directly spoke we have been right on point!
i love this board. Take your time on the listening
Great post, miner. Great job as always!
SillyWilly Says:
Lycan,
In all seriousness, I might be in Atlanta for an internship this summer. If I am I really wanna do a "Tour of the South" hit Birmingham, Mobile, Hattiesburg, New Orleans, and Memphis.
Will you be around this summer?


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Where Are All The Female DJs?
Story from Music
I Grew Up Loving Dance Music. But Where Are All The Female DJs?
Serena Kutchinsky
Photo: Benjamin Dupont / FOAP
Picture the scene. You're on the dance floor in a dimly lit club. All around you, people sway in unison, lasers illuminate euphoric faces, the DJ drops another track, triggering a frenzy of head-nodding. The partygoers are evenly split between men and women, as are the bar staff, but in the DJ booth it's different. Pale, skinny men strut behind the decks as the crowd stares at them blankly. Behind them, a gaggle of girls jostle for attention. Passing the DJs their drinks, rolling their cigarettes, rifling through their record bags. Does this sound familiar? It does to me because, for a time in my 20s, I was that girl.
As a lover of dance music, I became a lover of DJs. There were doomed liaisons with beard-scratching musos whose vinyl collections and beat-matching prowess would make my inner music geek go weak at the knees. Often tracks that I had discovered would make their way onto set lists, but I never got the credit. If I was lucky, I might be given the honour of running the door at a party — proving my worth by standing in the cold for hours, clipboard in hand, snarling at those who weren't on the list.
Looking back, I can see how sexist this scenario is. I didn't allow inequality to permeate any other aspects of my life — I have always fought hard to be an equal partner in work and love — so why, in a club setting, was this ok? Why did I never learn to DJ myself and take centre stage? The answer is that it never entered my mind that I could. Nobody offered to teach me. There were no skilled girls to learn from, few female role models and the last thing you wanted was to look stupid in a room full of competing male egos. "All the friends I used to buy records with were male and all my friends, bar one, who were DJs were male," says Radio 1 presenter and DJ Annie Mac. "I never saw a woman DJ in the clubs I went to."
The traditional assumption in clubland is that the girls are there to look pretty, while the boys do the serious work of spinning records. There are exceptions to this rule, but even those women who have broken through still have to fight against stereotypes. Glasgow-based DJ and producer Nightwave, aka Maya Medvesek, admits she feels pressure to hide her femininity: "The old-school conditioning of having to dress a certain way to be 'taken seriously' is still around, and there will always be some idiot claiming you're using your looks, or worse, sexual favours, to get places," she says.
The upper echelons of the industry are overwhelmingly male. There were no women featured in last year's Forbes list of the world's 12 highest-paid DJs and next to none in Billboard's Annual Power List of DJs and Execs. This lack of box office power is reflected in a study by the dance music website, Thump, which revealed that in 2016 only 17% of headliners at electronic music festivals were female. Today, dance music seems a tougher career choice for women than other patriarchal professions such as the law, where women make up 30% of high court judges; the civil service, where women occupy 40% of top roles; and even finance, where the number of women on boards stands at an estimated 23%.
This disparity is especially jarring because dance music subculture has a long association with diversity and political struggle. House music was born in the late 1970s as the soundtrack to Chicago's gay, black party scene. It was radical and helped break down racial, sexual and gender barriers. In the UK, the early '90s rave scene was defined by its antiestablishment values and slogans such as "Peace Love Unity Respect". But gender equality has failed to follow that initial spirit of inclusion; today's clubland is heavily commercialised and male-dominated.
"There are not enough females at the top of the food chain," says Mac. "More female promoters and bookers would make a big difference to who you see DJing at the weekend." German label head, DJ and producer Anja Schneider agrees: "The number of female artists is not as low as it once was, but the big festivals and important clubs are still not booking so many women. There is a [fear of] risking something from the big promoters."
It's not just behind the decks that women are underrepresented; they also struggle to be taken seriously in the studio. According to a statistic on the website of the Women's Audio Mission, a non-profit dedicated to helping women in audio production, only 5% of recognised music producers are women. This figure is an estimate made by the Women in Audio Committee of the Audio Engineering Society back in 2000. Today, WAM believes that number could be even smaller, based on attendance at Audio Engineering Society conventions.
"There is this default opinion that women are unable to produce themselves. Which is wrong on so many levels," says Annie Mac. "I know successful male producers who have their music engineered and sometimes fully produced for them. It's unfair that women get hung out to dry for working with people to make music." This retro attitude endures despite the work of prolific producers such as Schneider, who has 53 tracks to her name, and the emergence of fresh talents like London-based producer Maya Jane Coles, whose soulful productions shot her to fame in 2010.
So what can be done to make dance music less pale, male, stale? Do we need to plan protests outside fabric and insist on quotas at festivals? Or should we junk the term "female DJ" and focus on promoting talent regardless of gender? Researching this piece, some artists, including Coles and techno star Nina Kraviz, chose to stay silent. According to their respective publicists, Coles, whose new album launch is imminent, would rather focus on what she sees as "key topics", while Kraviz would rather fight sexism by setting an example of success — not only does she DJ but she also runs two labels and hosts radio shows and events. "I think we're all sick of talking about it to be honest," says Nightwave. "There's not much we can do — we need men to speak out, agents and managers to support talent and promoters to book us. That's it."
Still, there are signs of imminent progress. A handful of women-only networking groups and booking agencies have emerged, aimed at championing female talent. The founders of organisations such as DiscWoman and She Said So seem to grasp that remaining silent just allows patriarchal attitudes to persist. fabric is hosting a series of workshops, starting in May, aimed at teaching women production and promotion skills. But more women need to speak openly about the struggles they face. "I'm in my 30s now and I've chosen my career over motherhood… A lot of DJs have kids but they are mostly dads," says Nightwave.
Turning the tide of sexism takes more than just individual success stories. It needs a collective approach by women in music worldwide. "Female DJ" might be an annoying label for those who wish sexism would just go away, but if we don't draw attention to gender, women will remain the exception behind the decks and in the boardroom. "You have to fight for your rights and speak loudly so your voice is heard," says Schneider. "And also handle the disappointment that in this so-called freedom and equality music business… a lot of traditional thinking still exists."
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Q: Couchbase View not returning array value I am trying to create a view to group on a particular attribute inside an array. However, the below map function is not returning any result.
JSON Document Structure :
{
   "jsontype": "survey_response",
   "jsoninstance": "xyz",
   "jsonlanguage": "en_us",
   "jsonuser": "test@test.com",
   "jsoncontact": "test@mayoclinic.com",
   "pages": [
       {
           q-placeholder": "q1-p1",
           q:localized": "q1-localized-p1",
           q-answer-placeholder": "jawaabu121",
           q-answer-localized": "localized jawaabu1"
       },
       {
           q-placeholder": "q2-p2",
           q:localized": "q2-localized-p2",
           q-answer-placeholder": "jawaabu221",
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       },
       {
           "q-placeholder": "q3-p3",
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}

Map Function :

function(doc, meta){
emit(doc.jsoninstance,[doc.pages[0].q-placeholder, doc.pages[0].q-localized,doc.pages[0].q-answer-placeholder,q-answer-localized]);
}

A: It looks like you made a typo at the end of your emit statement:
doc.pages[0].q-answer-placeholder,q-answer-localized.
Instead q-answer-localized should be changed to doc.pages[0].q-answer-localized.
Further to this it seems that you have defined a field as q-localized in your emit statement, but actually according to the sample document that you posted this should actually be q:localized, I assume that this was a mistake in the snippet of the document and not the emit statement, but if not then will also need amending.
I would imagine errors like this would be flagged up in the view engine's map-reduce error log, in future you should check this log so that you will be able to debug errors like this yourself.
The location of the mapreduce_errors log can be found in the Couchbase documentation

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Q: Can we use ULN2003A to power up another module I have one requirement wherein, I need to power up one of the modules occasionally. I do not have relay in my controller board, but I have ULN2003A in my board. The module consumes around 400mA. So can I use ULN2003A to drive this external module? In case I can drive, how the connection will be? In case of relays, we give power to one side of the relay and the other side is connected to the collector of ULN.

A: The ULN2003A is a 7 channel low-side driver that is rated for 500mA per channel, but drops ~1V at 400mA.
If your module will work with ~1V less than your supply voltage and its ground pin being raised by 1V isn't a problem then it may work (though the ~0.4 W power loss in the ULN2003A could make it very hot).
However if another device has to communicate with the module then the raised ground potential probably will be a problem, so it would be better to use the ULN2003A to switch a high-side power transistor, like this:-

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
The high-side switching device can either be a PNP bipolar transistor (as shown here) or a P-channel MOSFET designed for 'logic level' Gate drive (eg. IRLML5203). Either type should be rated for several Amps to ensure low voltage drop at 400mA.


HARARE, ZIMBABWE-Zimbabwe's opposition leader has dismissed "unverified fake results" after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared winner of the first election since the ousting of Robert Mugabe.
Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance vowed to launch a legal challenge, saying the vote was rigged.
Mr. Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans to unite behind his presidency.
A BBC correspondent in the city center says a police vehicle with a loudspeaker is broadcasting the message: "Zimbabwe is open for business. We are here to protect you. Feel free to walk and open your business. All is well, fear not."
Mr. Mnangagwa, of the governing Zanu-PF party, took office after President Mugabe, 94, was forced to resign in November. The vote was intended to set Zimbabwe on a new path following years of repressive rule, but tensions are now rising.
Mr. Mnangagwa narrowly avoided a run-off by taking 50.8% of the vote, official results show. Mr. Chamisa took 44.3%.
The electoral commission announced the presidential election results from the 10th and final province, Mashonaland West, late on Thursday after days of waiting.
The results of the parliamentary election were announced earlier in the week. They gave Zanu-PF 144 seats; the MDC Alliance, which is made up of seven parties, 64 seats, and one seat to the National Patriotic Front, formed by Mugabe loyalists.
Although Zanu-PF won by a landslide, its majority has shrunk since the 2013 election when it obtained 160 seats and the MDC, then led by the late Morgan Tsvangirai, 49.
"The Zec scandal of releasing unverified fake results is regrettable," Mr. Chamisa tweeted on Friday, referring to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.
"Zec must release proper & verified results endorsed by parties. The level of opaqueness, truth deficiency, moral decay & values deficit is baffling."
The opposition also questioned the high turnout of more than 80% in most of the country's 10 provinces.
"What they have been trying to do of late is to play around," Mr. Chamisa told a news conference hours before the final results were announced.
"That is rigging, that is manipulation, trying to bastardise the result, and that we will not allow."
Zec responded by saying there was "absolutely no skullduggery".
It was a close finish. The "crocodile" just scraped through to legitimize his presidency, eight months after Robert Mugabe was ousted as president.
But Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party are not celebrating yet. Zimbabwe's constitution allows for a legal challenge to the results but Nelson Chamisa now has the huge task of proving his bold claims.
There is no room for inflammatory talk in court - just hard evidence. Mr. Chamisa has been criticised here for prematurely declaring victory and fuelling tensions particularly in the capital.
If his challenge is to succeed, it won't be through the scenes we saw on Wednesday which led to six people being killed.
Aside from the disputed results, both leaders have injected new life into their parties. They have each ignited hope for what Zimbabwe could become.
But how the next few days play out will be the true test of how ready the political leaders are to embrace true democracy - where there are winners and losers but still a country to run.
Mr. Mnangagwa, 75, who took over from Mr. Mugabe in November, took to twitter to say he was "humbled" to have won the election.
"Though we may have been divided at the polls, we are united in our dreams. This is a new beginning," he added.
He has called for calm and said the government was in talks with Mr. Chamisa to defuse the crisis.
Mr. Mnangagwa has proposed an independent investigation to bring to justice those who were behind Wednesday's violence.
"This land is home to all of us and we will sink or swim together," he said in a series of tweets.
Mr. Mnangagwa has vowed to revitalize Zimbabwe's tattered economy after decades of international isolation under Mr. Mugabe.
Neighboring South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa - who is chairman of the Southern African Development Community - has appealed to political leaders and the Zimbabwean people to accept the outcome of the election.
European Union and Commonwealth election observers had earlier criticised the delay.
EU observers also said they had found an "un-level playing field and lack of trust" in the election process.
It was the first time in 16 years that the government had allowed EU, Commonwealth and US election monitors into the country.
The following day, when Zec announced that Zanu-PF had won the parliamentary vote by a landslide, tensions rose further.
Opposition supporters were also angered by the delay in announcing the presidential results.
There were chaotic scenes in Harare on Wednesday as troops and riot police clashed with MDC Alliance protesters. Six demonstrators were killed and many others injured.


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Film Diary
Publicizing The Legacy
Posted by Just Another Film Buff under All Posts, Cinema of France, Marathon | Tags: Chris Marker, George Steiner, Jean-Pierre Vernant, l'héritage de la chouette, Onassis Foundation, The Owl's Legacy, Watch The Owl's Legacy |
Chris Marker's epic series The Owl's Legacy (1989) is neither a deeply 'auterist' work nor a brilliant piece of Cinema. It is, plainly, the documentation of a thirteen-part symposium on Ancient Greece enabled by the Onassis Foundation and conceptualized by Marker. However, the amount of ground it covers and the number of new directions it opens up for us to think about contemporary politics, science, culture, law, economy and art (specifically, cinema) makes it one of the richest works of criticism that I've come across. It is extremely unfortunate, then, that it is neither available on video officially in any form nor spoken about really widely. Following a slew of earnest mails (OK, two mails) asking me if there was any site where the film can be viewed online with English subtitles, I decided to upload the copy I have of the entire series. Of course, all credits go to the original uploader who floated TV rip on the internet. It is because of people like her/him that the Internet has turned out to be the greatest repository of culture, globally.
[Note: There is no monetary interest for me in this endeavor and if you feel that the series shouldn't be put online the way I have here, please drop a note in the comments section]
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3. Democracy, or the City of Dreams
4. Nostalgia, or the Impossible Return
5. Amnesia, or History on the March
6. Mathematics, or the Empire Counts Back
7. Logomachy, or the Dialect of the Tribe
8. Music, or Inner Space
9. Cosmogony, or the Ways of the World
10. Mythology, or Lies like Truth
11. Misogyny, or the Snares of Desire
12. Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death
13. Philosophy, or the Triumph of the Owl
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Allegations stands that Ratty gang has fled St. James and is now hiding out in bushes in St. Elizabeth where residents spotted them hiding out.
According to an inside source, the soldiers were quickly informed and began hunting them down like dogs yesterday.
Two have been confirmed dead while one battles for life in hospital. A search was conducted where two guns where recovered also suspected blood trails which indicates that other members of the gang where shot and injured.
The people are in support of the (SOE) system because they recognize the damage criminal elements are doing to the country and that these insurgents are using gorilla warfare tactics.
Images seen floating around on social media has raised numerous unanswered questions as to what is happening down there in St James.
One commentator exaggerated that the only remedy for all this gang related killing is an army taken off its leash.
Stay connected with us while this and other stories unfold.


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How COP26 made me believe that things are different this time
Rick Smith's reflections from Glasgow on how the carbon transition is accelerating
Glasgow, Scotland—Perhaps unsurprisingly, given how complicated the issues at play are, opinions on what's occurring here at COP26, the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, are many and varied.
Here's mine: I'm pleasantly surprised at COP26's success.
The most important thing that any public policy issue needs is a sense of momentum. It's what bumps it up the political priority list. It's what gives the public and decision-makers the feeling that progress is possible. And it's what aligns disparate interests around that process of change.
After a week of announcements on issues ranging from coal phase-out to massive new corporate net-zero commitments to new protected areas, efforts to tackle climate change have undeniable momentum.
What makes this COP different from many others is the fact it has produced actual plans. Over the past week, real roadmaps have emerged on how nations will meet their long-agreed targets.
Significantly, these plans now encompass important areas of policy previously disconnected from the debate over how to deal with the climate crisis.
For instance, an agreement announced this week that the EU and the U.S. will work together to "achieve the decarbonization of the global steel and aluminum industries," including through the use of focused tariffs, means that climate change policy is now trade policy.
The unveiling of a multibillion-dollar partnership between the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany and the EU to help South Africa finance a quicker transition away from burning coal for energy means that climate policy is now foreign aid policy.
And the fact that a new international coalition of the world's biggest financial companies has amassed up to US$130 trillion (yes, that's "trillion" with a "t") of private capital committed to hitting net-zero emissions targets by 2050 means that climate change policy is now economic policy.
As a result of these detailed new initiatives, the International Energy Agency quickly calculated this week that, if implemented, the sum total of new pledges would put the world on track for 1.8°C of warming: a total that is below 2°C for the first time and getting close to the agreed target of 1.5°C.
The key phrase here is "if implemented." Regardless of the agreements reached in Glasgow, countries can enact new global warming policies only through national legislation. So, when COP26 concludes at the end of the week, this is the necessary next step.
Canada has been a positive force here in Glasgow, launching numerous useful new initiatives and partnerships. And domestically, it's all systems go for rapid progress. We are entering what may well be the most consequential period of carbon-reduction planning and action in our country's history. We have a government that's been re-elected with a detailed climate change platform. We have new ministers who are experienced and committed to progress on the climate change file. And we have a relatively new net-zero law at the federal level that mandates – by the end of December 2021 – that the federal government will deliver the country's first 2030 carbon-emissions-reduction plan. The net-zero law is clear regarding what this plan must contain, namely:
"The greenhouse-gas-emissions target for the year to which the plan relates; a description of the key emissions-reduction measures the Government of Canada intends to take to achieve its greenhouse-gas-emissions target; a description of any relevant sectoral strategies; and a description of emissions-reduction strategies for federal government operations."
What's clearer to me than ever after a week in Glasgow is that the carbon transition is spreading and it is accelerating. Gone are the days when, after brief spurts of activity at UN climate summits, everyone went home and little follow-through occurred. With the business community clearly deciding that climate change is something that they must wrestle with in order to ensure future prosperity and success, progress is going to proceed everywhere, regardless of the political cycle of the moment or the political party in power.
COP26 has produced inarguable evidence that carbon reduction is the new global political and economic imperative. It's about time.
Originally published in Corporate Knights.
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DevSecCon Singapore will take place on 22-23 February 2018 at the Swissotel Merchant Court, located right in the heart of the city centre, by the banks of the historical Singapore River and within walking distance of Singapore's financial hub.
The Swissotel Merchant Court is a 30-minutes drive from the airport and there are 60 free parking spaces at the venue (which will be allocated on a first come first served basis). Popular Singapore cab services are: City Cab (+65 6552 1111), ComfortDelgro, GRAB and Uber.
The nearest bus station is "Hong Lim Pk, New Bridge Rd" and "Opp Hong Lim Pk, New Bridge Rd" , the venue is 2 mins walk from the bus stops.
For more information about public transport services in Singapore visit http://www.smrt.com.sg, https://www.sbstransit.com.sg.
The nearest MRT station is "Clarke Quay (North East Line)", which is 4 mins walk from the venue, alternatively you can exit at "Fort Canning (Downtown Line)" MRT station; which is 8 mins walks from the venue.
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Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud says he has been working on controlling his emotions during matches in his attempt to have Diego Costa's attitude on the pitch.
Speaking before yesterday's game against Monaco, the 28-year-old said he wanted to be "less demonstrative" during games.
But he was not shy to show his emotions after missing numerous chances in last night's 3-1 defeat at the Emirates.
"When I do this [putting his head in his hands] after a missed chance, the coaches get a bit annoyed," Giroud told L'Equipe.
"They want me to have a 'killer' attitude, almost insensitive.
"Diego Costa shows no emotion. I am more emotional. I have therefore learned to control my emotions. I try to be less demonstrative.
"With age, you get a little bit cleverer. I have learned from my mistakes.
"I have changed my habits, my way of training. I do a little bit more gym work and muscle work. I weigh one or two kilos more. I am gained in explosivity and I am more mobile."
Meanwhile, the Frenchman believes he is not far behind the dominant duo of Diego Costa and Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero.
"I don't have an inferiority complex," he said.
"I might not have their names but when you look at the statistics, I am only just behind them."