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News from Bosnia
since 21 October 2000
Beth Kampschror
HDZ protesting election regulations
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) President and BiH Presidency member Ante Jelavić got a scolding from OSCE Head of Mission to BiH Robert Barry this week for his continued insistence on a BiH Croat referendum.
"He [Barry] has emphasized that this initiative is not a legal, valid way to change the BiH constitution and he added that this referendum is nothing more than a means of propaganda for a political goal and will not have any legal effect," said OSCE spokesperson Luke Zahner on Wednesday.
Jelavić and his party have proposed the Croat referendum to, as they say, allow Croats to voice their opinions about BiH—a veiled way of saying they want their own Croat entity. The decision came in reaction to the OSCE's decision to change the rules governing elections to the Federation's House of Peoples before the 11 November elections.
Before the changes, delegates to the House of Peoples (the upper house in the Federation parliament) were elected by the Federation's the ten cantonal assemblies. Canton assembly members could vote only for candidates from their own ethnic group. For example, a Bosniak assembly member could only vote a Bosniak candidate into the House.
Some three weeks ago, the OSCE ruled that canton assembly members will now be able to vote for any candidate regardless of his or her ethnicity. The OSCE has also reserved 20 seats in the House for "others" who are neither Croat or Bosniak. The decision means Croat canton assembly members are not limited to electing solely Croat candidates and could, for example, vote for opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidates, or they could decide to vote for non-HDZ Croat party-candidates who are seen as more likely to compromise to get things done while in office than those from the hardline HDZ.
Local observers feel that, as a result, HDZ could see its dominance in Croat-majority areas slip away. The party is obviously nervous: one of their campaign posters states starkly, "Determination or extinction," as if BiH Croats will go the way of the dodo bird if they do not vote HDZ.
Then, last week, the party stated that it would organize an all-Croat conference in Novi Travnik (about 100 kilometers northwest of Sarajevo) on 28 October to decide what would be on the Croat referendum.
Technically, this is a violation of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, which stipulate that BiH Croats are in a Federation with Bosniaks and must work through those institutions instead of organizing separate ones. Croatian president Stipe Mesic made the point on Tuesday, when he told BH Press that Bosnian Croats need to work within Federation institutions if they want to make any changes.
"I am for all parties solving their problems through the institutional system," he said. "I think what is hidden is that those who want a referendum do not understand what is happening in BiH, that it is an internationally-recognized country that has its own institutions. Parties cannot take over institutions' roles. They can struggle for their own programs, they have goals, they have their own themes, but they cannot ... do work that is not party work."
Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Račan's government does not share Mešić's views. The Croatian government sent a letter both to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna and to Bosnia's High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, expressing concern that Bosnian Croats will be disenfranchised by the new election rules.
As of Friday, Robert Barry was headed to Zagreb for meetings with Croatian government officials to clear up any "misunderstandings" about the new rules. Barry will not be meeting with Mešić.
Meanwhile, Barry's message to Jelavić did not go unanswered. Jelavić said the party would complain to the United Nations and that Barry must not forget that Croats are one of three constitutive peoples in BiH.
"This decision does not just harm one party, as you usually interpret it, but rather it disturbs national equality before the law and the foundations on which the FBiH and BiH rest upon," he said.
But as much as the HDZ would like to say that they speak for all Bosnian Croats, two major Croat parties have distanced themselves from both the conference and the referendum. The New Croat Initiative (NHI), the second-largest Croat party in BiH, stated this week that it will not attend the conference, adding that it is against the referendum.
Similarly, the Croat Peasants' Party (HSS) will not send representatives to the conference. The HDZ and seven small Croat parties will be on their own.
And in other news...
Last week's unrest in the Brčko District has calmed down. RS-TV reported on 20 October that 30 buildings were damaged, 20 people were arrested and two police officers hurt during the four days of high school student protests. The Serb Democratic Party (SDS) has maintained that it had no hand in the protests, in which Serb students protested having to share school buildings with Bosniak students in Brčko by creating chaos in the town.
Yugoslav President Vojislav Koštunica visited BiH on 22 October. He attended Serb poet Jovan Dučić's burial in the RS town of Trebinje (along with 50,000 other people) and then came to Sarajevo to meet with government officials at the airport. BiH and FRY have not had diplomatic relations since 1992, and Koštunica's visit was hailed as "historic." He said he intends to establish diplomatic relations with BiH, but noted Sarajevo's outsanding suits in international courts against FRY as obstacles.
High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch decided this week to set aside a plot of land in Potočari for a cemetery and memorial center for the victims of the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The center should be built this spring, when the first 700 bodies of the victims will also be buried. More than 4000 bodies have been recovered in mass graves so far. About 3000 more are still unaccounted for. Bosnian Serb military forces took over the UN-designated "safe area" on 12 July 1995. The town's mostly-Muslim men were separated from the women and children in the suburb of Potocari and later executed. Petritsch warned Srebrenica officials (the town is now in the RS) not to obstruct the building of the memorial.
BiH Presidency members Ante Jelavić and Halid Genjac and Civil Affairs and Communications Minister Tihomir Gligorić were the first to receive unified BiH passports on Wednesday. Before Wolfgang Petritsch recently imposed the travel documents law, BiH citizens had either "Federation of BiH" or "Republika Srpska" printed on the front of their passports. The new passports will be issued starting 30 October, and international officials said they hoped this would lessen BiH citizens' problem of "being at the end of the visa queue."
Beth Kampschror, 28 October 2000
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Nothing really new to report on Trey. He is doing well. He is not requiring any pain medication, and his spleen is staying down. His appetite is also much better. The rash is still there, and the doctors are still deciding what to do about it. He has a procedure scheduled for next Tuesday if it is not much better….We are applying creams daily and increasing the campath does slightly.


What Andrew Wakefield Thinks About Autistic People: A Blight.
On April 10, 2016 Cecilia Farber posted an email exchange between Grace Hightower (Robert DeNiro's wife) and Andrew Wakefield, with the headline: BREAKING NEWS, Tribeca-Gate: Revealing Email Exchange Between Grace DeNiro and Andrew Wakefield.
This from a man who claims to be an advocate for autism.
Autistic people have always been here. Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccine Advocates: Please Don't Discriminate Against Autistic People.
Andrew Wakefield is a professional parasite who slimed his way into the De Niro's hearts preying upon their vulnerability, desperation and celebrity. I wonder though, even if Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower subscribe to the vaccine-causation idea, would they consent to have their son portrayed in the manner Wakefield exploited in his film? Even more importantly, would their son consent to be portrayed in such a humiliating manner? If they don't have a problem with their son being called a blight on their family would they mind their son's personal details on display for public consumption? If they would have a problem with that then perhaps they should reconsider Andrew Wakefield as an ally and take a critical look at who he really is because he isn't an autism advocate or researcher or even film-maker as he so recently fancies himself.
Updated to add: This masterful synopsis of the film. Click to enlarge.
That one raised my hackles too, so much so I wrote a post about it and the utter contempt for autistics displayed in his fraudumentary.


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The governor's budget would increase state spending on public transit after years of flat funding. His bill would be helpful for Milwaukee County, which has struggled for years to maintain existing transit services and to replace aging buses. The proposals may not pass, however, and either way structural challenges will remain for the county transit system and its budget.
Our March 2019 State Budget Brief identified transportation as one of the key issues likely to dominate upcoming budget deliberations. While our analysis focused on funding for the state's roads, the governor's budget also includes smaller but notable proposals for public transit services. We highlight those proposals and their potential impacts on the state and its largest county here.
The governor's bill proposes a 10% increase in general transit aids beginning in calendar year 2020, which would boost state funding from about $111 million to $122 million. General aids support transit system operations in places that include a city or village with a population of at least 2,500; in 2018, 74 transit systems received funding from the program. The vast majority of that funding supports bus services, though assistance also is provided for shared-ride taxi services and the city of Kenosha's downtown streetcar. Rural and tribal transit services are funded through separate, federal programs.
The bill also includes a 10% increase in annual funding for paratransit services, which are designed for people with disabilities. Currently, the state provides $2.75 million for paratransit services each year, with funding distributed to transit systems based on their expenses and total revenue miles. That would increase by $275,000 annually beginning in fiscal year 2020 (which runs from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020).
The other major transit proposal in the governor's budget would introduce a new capital assistance program for urban areas, which would provide funding for transit systems to replace aging buses. The budget calls for the capital program to begin in fiscal year 2021 with an annual budget of $10 million.
No state capital transit program currently exists in Wisconsin. Local governments instead rely on federal and local funding sources to finance bus replacements and to make other capital improvements related to their transit operations (e.g. repair facilities and technology). Our research indicates that most other states provide some level of capital transit assistance.
To put the potential impacts of the governor's proposals into perspective, we took a closer look at Milwaukee County, which has the largest transit system in the state. In fact, the Milwaukee County Transit System's (MCTS) total 2018 expenses of $174 million were roughly equal to those of the rest of the state's transit systems combined, and MCTS received 58% of the state's total general transit aids that year.
Under the budget bill, MCTS would receive approximately $6.4 million more in annual operating funds beginning in calendar year 2020. Ideally, that additional funding would be used to add service to existing bus routes or to introduce new routes. For perspective, MCTS expects to spend about $6.6 million in 2019 to operate the GreenLine (one of its core bus routes), so an extra $6.4 million ostensibly would be enough to support a major new route or multiple smaller routes or extensions.
Unfortunately, because of a stubborn structural deficit that has impacted MCTS finances and service levels for years, such an increase would need to be allocated largely to meeting the system's "cost to continue." In fact, Milwaukee County's budget director recently notified the county board that due to a combination of factors (increasing costs related to employee benefits, fuel, etc.; loss of temporary revenue sources; and a potential levy reduction target), MCTS could enter 2020 with a budget gap of about $6.4 million—an amount equal to the proposed increase in state aid.
With regard to the state's new capital transit program, the budget does not specify how much of the $10 million annual total would go to Milwaukee County. If roughly half does so, as is the case with state aids for transit operations, then Milwaukee County could expect to receive approximately $5 million per year, which would be enough to replace about 10 buses annually (out of a fleet of about 400).
In March, the state signaled its intent to award $32 million from the recent Volkswagen settlement to local governments for bus replacements, including $5.5 million for Milwaukee County. That would allow Milwaukee County to replace about 11 buses. The governor's budget seeks to award the remaining $25 million from the settlement, which could bring additional one-time funds to the county.
Together, these new sources of capital funding could provide modest relief to the county's overwhelming capital finance challenges. Previous Forum research identified the need for Milwaukee County to optimally replace about 30 buses per year. To do so, the county projects a need of about $13 million each year in local funding to pay for bus replacements per its latest five-year capital plan (see Figure 2), which would comprise nearly a third of the county's total annual borrowing capacity. The ability to access $5 million per year in state funding for bus replacements from the proposed capital transit program would reduce but not eliminate that challenge.
Transit is a relatively small item in the state budget and thus has not received the level of attention the state's roads and other items have. This makes it more difficult to predict the likelihood for the governor's transit proposals to survive upcoming budget deliberations. State GOP leaders have not supported additional spending on transit in recent years, however, so the path forward is likely to be thorny.


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Posted on Wed, Apr 10, 2013 : 3:49 a.m.
Tippi Hedren talks about kissing Sean Connery and more at the Michigan Theater
By Jenn McKee
Over 1000 people flocked - dare I say, like the secondary stars of "The Birds"? - to the Michigan Theater Tuesday evening to see both a Hitchcock movie ("Marnie") and a Hitchcock movie star (Tippi Hedren).
For Ann Arbor is the 8th stop on Turner Classic Movies' nationwide, 10 city Road to Hollywood series tour, and TCM host Ben Mankiewicz moderated a nearly one hour on-stage conversation with Hedren to kick off the evening.
Seated in armchairs, the two discussed Hedren's start in show business; how she met Hitchcock; her work in his films, and his subsequent obsession with her; and her passion for animal advocacy (specifically, in regard to tigers and lions).
But Hedren began by talking about how, at age 15, she was living in Minneapolis when she stepped off a streetcar and received a business card from a woman who wanted Hedren to be part of a local department store's teen fashion shows.
This moment launched Hedren's modeling career, but after a time, her father's health problems caused the family to move to California. She continued her work in Los Angeles, but soon struck out for New York and got modeling work within a week.
It was the 1950s, and Hedren got lots of work in television commercials. But a phone call took her in a new direction.
"I received a call - it was 1961, Friday, the 13th of October," said Hedren. "It was an executive at Universal Studios, asking if I was the actress in the commercial for a Pet Milk product called Sego. … I said 'Yes I am,' and he said, 'There's a producer/director that's interested in you.' I said, 'Who would that be?' and he said, 'Why don't come over and we'll talk about it.'"
Hedren met with the executive, who artfully evaded her questions, and she spent the weekend wondering who she might be working for. The following Tuesday, the exec sent her to a big talent agency, where she was informed that Alfred Hitchcock wanted her to sign a contract.
"I was so stunned," said Hedren. "He was at Paramount at that time, so we went to his office. He had door open, and he was standing there, looking very pleased with himself."
At this initial meeting, the two discussed travel, food and wine, and Hitchcock introduced her to key players on his creative team. The director told Hedren he wanted her to do a screen test, performing scenes from "Notorious," "Rebecca" and "To Catch a Thief."
"He became my drama coach, as well as his wife, Alma," said Hedren. "And what an incredible time that was. To have that powerful man in our industry be my drama coach."
After trying to "break" Hedren during the three-day screen test, by way of dirty jokes and limericks and insults ("I had spent 10 years modeling in New York, so this wasn't my first rodeo," said Hedren), Hitchcock invited her to lunch at an industry-favorite Beverly Hills restaurant, along with Universal Studios head Lew Wasserman.
"Mr. Hitchcock placed a very beautifully wrapped package in front of me, which I opened, and I was stunned," said Hedren. "This pin, … it's a pin - of gold and seed pearl - of three birds in flight. It's really beautiful. I looked at him and he said, 'We want you to play Melanie Daniels in 'The Birds.' … I got big tears in my eyes, and I looked over at Alma, his wife, and she had tears in her eyes. … And then the real work began."
In fact, although Hitchcock had hoped to lure Grace Kelly back to film by way of "Marnie," the man-hating, thieving nature of the female lead role caused the Princess of Monaco to say no, leaving Hitchcock to consider other options - like Hedren, whom he approached about "Marnie" while shooting the sand dunes scene in "The Birds."
"Marnie" came with a raise - from $500 a week for "The Birds" to $600 a week ("You know what? It's all gone," quipped Hedren) - and an easy-on-the-eyes leading man; but Hitchcock had initially struggled to cast the lead male role.
Hedren recalled that "after a month of so, he came into the office and said, 'I've found your Mark Rutland, and I said, 'Oh, great, who is it?' He said, 'Sean Connery,' and I went, 'Sean Connery, the Sean Connery … who is right now on the cover of Newsweek magazine as the sexiest man in the world? The Sean Connery who could melt the iciest of blonds? How am I supposed to deal with this character?' And he said, 'It's called acting, dear.'"
But during the filming of "Marnie," Hitchcock became so controlling, monitoring Hedren all the time, that she decided she needed to get out of her contract with him, though it was only the second year of a 7 year contract.
"I said, 'As soon as I'm finished with the picture, 'I have to get out,'" said Hedren. "And he said, 'Well, you can't. You have your daughter to support; your parents are getting older.' And I said, 'Nobody who loves me would want me to be in a situation like this. I want to get out.' And he said, 'Well, I'll ruin your career.' I said, 'Do what you have to do.' And he kept paying me my 600 dollars a week for the next almost 2 years, and by that time - coming out of those 2 films, I was hot as an actress. And all kinds of producers and directors wanted me for their films, but to get to me, they had to go through him, and it was so easy for him. All he said was, 'She isn't available.' And it was over."
Hedren claimed her upbringing helped her transcend the bitterness she otherwise might have carried around for years. "I chose to look at Alfred Hitchcock as two different people," Hedren said. "There was the man who was the brilliant director, idolized by people all over the world for his genius in motion pictures, … then there was, let's call it 'the dark side.'"
Near the end of the talk, Mankiewicz asked Hedren about the famous on-screen kiss she shared with Connery in "Marnie," and Hedren said, "It was unfortunately so technical that I really don't know what it's like to kiss Sean Connery. And I have to tell you something else. So many people have asked me, 'Did you have a fling with Sean Connery? … I learned very, very quickly that when you have an affair with anybody, it shows in your eyes, and I wasn't about to let anything like that ruin my performance by having an affair with Sean Connery. Although I must say I regret it now."
Ypsilanti's Robert Owens and Tom Burden were among those in the crowd.
"It was interesting to hear (Hedren's) insights about her problems with Hitchcock, and how he ruined her career," said Owens. "I hadn't known how bad it was."
And because Connery's character in "Marnie" traps Hedren in various ways, Burden said, "I almost couldn't help making an analogy between the story in the movie and what was happening with Hitchcock offscreen."
Jenn McKee is an entertainment reporter for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at jennmckee@annarbor.com or 734-623-2546, and follow her on Twitter @jennmckee.
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 : 6:12 a.m.
I love Hitchcock's movies and the series The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, though a lot of what I've heard about the man creeps me out! Can anyone recommend a good Hitchcock biography? Thanks!
Jenn McKee
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 : 2:44 p.m.
I read Donald Spoto's "The Dark Side of Genius" - which Hedren reference during her talk - while taking in a Hitchcock course in grad school. Very readable and informative!
P. J. Murphy
Wed, Apr 10, 2013 : 10:53 a.m.
Really a nice summary of the event and quite relevant seeing as how people are still trying to figure out if Hitchcock was a genius or a monster.
Wed, Apr 10, 2013 : 7:57 a.m.
My apologies for the lack of photos; my seat was unfortunately in the middle of a row that was too far away from the stage to get a decent shot of Hedren during her talk.
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News tagged with plagiarism
Russian academics fight back against fraud, plagiarism
A dissertation council reviewing work on the mediaeval era is not normally national news, but Russia was abuzz this month when historians convened to pass judgement: was the culture minister a fraud?
Ethics of research not so black and white
With federally funded research under growing scrutiny from the public, researchers face more pressure than ever to defend their work and make ethical decisions regarding their research process. However, a new study from sociologists ...
Boys plagiarise more than girls at school
Research by the University of the Balearic Islands has analysed the phenomenon of academic plagiarism among secondary school students. The study, published in the journal Comunicar, confirms that this practice is widespread ...
Study shows increase in negative messages about Muslims in the media
Organizations using fear and anger to spread negative messages about Muslims have moved from the fringes of public discourse into the mainstream media since the Sept. 11 attacks, according to new research by a University ...
Misconduct, not error, accounts for most scientific paper retractions, new study finds
In sharp contrast to previous studies suggesting that errors account for the majority of retracted scientific papers, a new analysis—the most comprehensive of its kind—has found that misconduct is responsible for two-thirds ...
Zynga fires back in legal war with Electronic Arts
Zynga on Friday returned fire in a battle with Electronic Arts, accusing the videogame veteran of using unlawful tactics to squash competition from the newcomer which rose to stardom via Facebook.
US journalist resigns amid cloud of plagiarism: report
A Washington Post writer whose blog posts triggered editor's notes for "serious factual errors" and what was described as a "significant ethical lapse" has resigned from the newspaper.
Scientific plagiarism: A growing problem in an era of shrinking research funding
As scientific researchers become evermore competitive for scarce funding, scientific journals are increasing efforts to identify submissions that plagiarize the work of others. Still, it may take years to identify and retract ...
Hong Kong Apple tribute designer denies plagiarism
A Hong Kong design student whose sombre tribute to Steve Jobs became an overnight Internet sensation denied Tuesday that he had copied another artist's work.
Climate study gets pulled over plagiarism
Evidence of plagiarism and complaints about the peer-review process have led a statistics journal to retract a federally funded study that condemned scientific support for global warming.
Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work, but the notion remains problematic with nebulous boundaries. The modern concept of plagiarism as immoral and originality as an ideal emerged in Europe only in the 18th century, particularly with the Romantic movement, while in the previous centuries authors and artists were encouraged to "copy the masters as closely as possible" and avoid "unnecessary invention."
The 18th century new morals have been institutionalized and enforced prominently in the sectors of academia and journalism, where plagiarism is now considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics, subject to sanctions like expulsion and other severe career damage. Not so in the arts, which not only have resisted in their long-established tradition of copying as a fundamental practice of the creative process, but with the boom of the modernist and postmodern movements in the 20th century, this practice has been heightened as the central and representative artistic device. Plagiarism remains tolerated by 21st century artists.
Plagiarism is not a crime per se but is disapproved more on the grounds of moral offence, and cases of plagiarism can involve liability for copyright infringement.


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Top 6 Best Picture Nominees
February 25, 2019 February 24, 2019 Alicia Schulze-Makuch
There are literally over a hundred amazing movies that were nominated for Best Picture, but unfortunately didn't win, that I could choose from, and it's impossible to list them all, it would be too long of a list, plus there's many that I haven't seen. Here are just a few of the movies that if you haven't seen, you should see! What are some Oscar-nominated movies that you think people should see?
1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Though this movie isn't a nominee (I'm already breaking my rule. It won Best Picture); but only some people seem to know about it! This movie is phenomenal and has been rated as the best war film ever made. It doesn't focus on the fighting of WWII, but instead on how Veterans have to return from war and re-enter civilian life. The movie follows the lives of three veterans each having their own battle to fight: a loveless marriage, PTSD, and family acceptance. It's beautifully made with heartfelt emotion depicting the horrors of war and the beauty of friendship.
2. Born of the 4th of July (1989)
Born on the 4th of July is literally the type of movie that punches you in the face, and the gut, and the heart. It's a terrific movie, besides the soundtrack (which in general is fine, though some scores really take away from the movie). This movie sadly gets forgotten when people talk about war movies, and many people didn't like it, because it revealed the real horrors committed during the Vietnam War and the effects it had on America's young and patriotic men. It also reveals how the U.S. government failed to support its veterans, and it critiques American nationalism. It's a movie that after watching it, always stays with you, and there are just some scenes that are so powerful they're forever seared in your movie mind.
3. Fargo (1996)
Fargo is a black comedy-crime drama that's based on real events in Minnesota/North Dakota. A failed car salesman hires two goons to kidnap his own wife and hold her for ransom, until… things go horribly wrong. This is unique, and a hilarious movie, that, and its Netflix spin-off deserve all the love. Towards Fargo, I'm biased, because it is one of my favorite movies and TV shows. For us dark humored people, there's not much out there, but this movie from its great dialogue, insane story, humor, tension, and visuals creates a movie that if you've never seen a Coen-Brother's film, it will be a whole new experience for you.
4. The Green Mile (1999)
The Green Mile is one of the most beautifully tragic movies I've seen, and I truly believe that Michael Clarke Duncan not getting an Oscar is blasphemous (a huge snub). In case you don't know about this movie, it follows Tom Hanks, Paul Edgecombe who works on The Green Mile, aka death row. While working there, he meets John Coffey, Michael Clarke Duncan, who is accused of brutally murdering and raping two little girls. It is later that Paul Edgecombe discovers John Coffey's supernatural gift. This is an original story that we haven't seen before, and in a world of reruns it's hard to find a movie that's fantastical, has a darker tone, but is still filled with beauty.
5. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Pan's Labyrinth wasn't a runner up for Best Picture, but instead for Best Foreign film. Though this movie isn't even that old, many people have never heard of it. It's a movie which expertly mixes horror and fantasy to create and complicated an emotional dark fairytale. The movie follows a young girl, Ofelia, in fascist Spain, who is trying desperately to escape the horrible realities of her life and war. She's visited by a faun in the darkness of the night, who will allow her to journey to a fantastical world with her younger brother if she is to fulfill three tasks…The movie resembles a moving painting with its visuals, there's great acting from the whole cast, especially the child actress, and a unique fairytale plot that is a must see, especially if you love fantasy.
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Now most movies on this list are very emotional, and though The Grand Budapest Hotel does have tragedy underlining its ending, it is a movie that will make you laugh all the way through it. It follows, the lovable Zero and his life as a lobby boy with the ever infamous Monsieur Gustave, who get caught up in art theft and a murder mystery only to form an amazing friendship. The viewer follows their story to see how The Grand Budapest Hotel fell into the poor foreigner's, Zero's, pocket. The Grand Budapest Hotel has a masterful soundtrack, an amazingly vivid color palette, and is a movie that has so many unexpected twists and turns that its joy to watch again and again.
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The Great Collusion: How Big Defense Took Over the White House
The Biden administration's leadership failure is the net effect of Capitol Hill's revolving door politics. The White House is not in charge. The Big Defense is.
By Dan Steinbock
In a recent China policy speech, secretary of state Antony Blinken managed to add a bunch of new "strategic ambiguities" to the Biden administration's old contradictions. Progressive Democrats have lost trust in the administration. They are concerned with American welfare and the triple bear market in US stocks, bonds, and cash.
With de-globalization, international macroeconomic conditions are deteriorating. The number of globally displaced people exceeds 100 million for the first time on record, propelled by the war in Ukraine and other fatal conflicts. The fragile status quo is more likely to worsen than not, due to the Fed's rate hikes and quantitative tightening.
Yet, the White House seems intent to escalate its new Cold War with China. That's not in line with America's national interest, as evidenced by the dramatic plunge of Biden's approval ratings, but it will benefit the Big Defense.
Let's start with the links (Figure 1).
Figure 1 Influence, Collusion and Geopolitics
Collusion with Big Defense
As the president's coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs on the National Security Council (NSC), Kurt Campbell is president Biden's Asia czar. In 2019, he and Sullivan introduced their China doctrine of stiff "competition without catastrophe," which would allow America to "both challenge and coexist with China." The doctrine is central to the "pivot to Asia," which Campbell developed in the Obama administration.
The illusionary assumption is that the escalation of discord into open animosity is viable without collateral damage. Replacing the old Soviet Union with China, Campbell and Sullivan declared Beijing America's pre-eminent rival; and hence the target of the "Indo-Pacific" containment.
As in the '50s, the effective objective is to militarize containment and minimize US costs by diversifying risks to allies and proxy conflicts to Asia. The idea seems to be to fight to the last Asian.
The new Cold War promoters like to quote George Kennan, the architect of US containment against Kremlin in 1947. Here's the irony: Kennan himself pushed for dialogue with Moscow already by 1948. He denounced Truman administration's "distorted and militarized" version of containment, which "led to 40 years of unnecessary, fearfully expensive and disoriented process of the Cold War."
Campbell-Brainard, Pentagon, Fed and Big Defense
One of president Biden's first acts was to issue a new ethics pledge to weaken shadow lobbying. Yet, his key figures in defense, security and foreign affairs have made fortunes in such lobbying. Campbell is not just a veteran diplomat, but former CEO of the Asia Group LLC. By its own testimony, the secretive company has Fortune 500 clients, particularly in defense and military high-tech.
In January 2021, Campbell's appointment unleashed a public debate in the US, due to his portfolio of ex-clients rife with potential conflicts of interests. "Shadow lobbying" outfits, like Campbell's firm, call themselves consultants to avoid restrictions associated with traditional lobbying. Campbell himself got $25,000 monthly retainer from several defense firms.
In November 2021, Biden nominated Fed governor Lael Brainard to serve as its vice chair. In the past, Brainard was seen as a dove. As the Fed is tackling soaring inflation months belatedly, it is overshooting in a hurry. After the confirmation of her appointment, Brainard is now promoting rapid rate hikes. She is an accomplished veteran Democrat, like her husband – Kurt Campbell.
So, in addition to Campbell's alleged conflicts of interests, the husband-wife linkage reinforces critics' perceptions of tacit collusion in decision-making by the executive branch, monetary chiefs, capital markets, Pentagon and the Big Defense.
And Campbell is not alone.
Blinken, Sullivan, CNAS, and the list goes on
Jake Sullivan advised some of the world's biggest businesses at Macro Advisory Partners, a secretive firm that is run by ex-British spy chiefs. In that role, Sullivan, who had been negotiating the Obama JCPOA nuclear deal, used his expertise to help companies exploit the opening of the Iranian economy.
Macro Advisory also guides state-owned entities, such as Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the US. Unsurprisingly, the militarization of US Taiwan policy shifts toward and weapons shipments to Taiwan has escalated in parallel with Taipei's big donations to Biden's corporate proxies.
Blinken has his alleged conflicts of interest. Between the Obama and Biden administrations, Blinken co-headed WestExec Advisors with Michèle Flournoy, Obama's undersecretary of defense and a military expert. With key clientele in defense industry, private equity, and hedge funds, WestExec ensured Blinken over $1.2 million dollars in compensation.
Even before WestExec, Flournoy was making over $450,000 a year as a head of a think-tank, Center of New American Security (CNAS), which she co-founded in 2007 with Kurt Campbell. Biden's former press secretary Jen Psaki and current CIA head Avril Haines, who had contributed to Obama's drone program for extrajudicial killings, also served in CNAS, which was led by CEO Victoria Nuland, a neoconservative uber-hawk, who has played a key role in the Ukraine escalation as Biden's undersecretary of state.
The top donors of the CNAS include the crème de la crème of the Big Defense: Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon; energy giants Chevron and Exxon, and Soros's Open Society Foundations.
Pentagon, Austin, Raytheon, Pine Island and revolving doors
Flournoy and Blinken also served as strategic partners in a private equity firm Pine Island Capital Partners, led by controversial investment banker John Thain who tanked Merrill Lynch in 2008, while paying himself bonuses along the way. Amid the subprime debacle, Thain spent $1.2 million to remodel his office, including a $35,000 golden toilet.
WestExec's clients include Winward, an Israeli AI venture launched by Israeli naval intelligence officers with the country's former chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi on its board. Winward's lead investors was Li-Ka Shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, through VC fund Horizons Ventures.
By late 2020, Pine Island Capital, now linked with the Biden administration, was well-positioned to cash in on the US Covid-19 response, investing in government contractors. The firm also employed Lloyd Austin, the first black secretary of defense.
A veteran of the US Army (1975-2012), Austin has a remarkable story, but it, too, reflects revolving door hazards. As head of US Forces in Iraq, he befriended Biden's son, Beau (Hunter, the other son, was linked with the Trump era "Ukrainegate"). He was then nominated to become the Army's vice chief of staff. A year later, then-president Obama tapped Austin to head up US Central Command.
After the Trump triumph, Austin left the Army and joined the board of steel colossus Nucor, a beneficiary of Trump's tariff wars, and military contractors that merged in 2020 with Raytheon, a top Big Defense lobbying spender. Austin earned seven figures from the defense companies until he stepped down from all three board positions following his nomination in 2020.
Inflated China threat for more spending
With the deterioration of macroeconomic conditions, geopolitical divisions have rapidly increased from the Middle East to Asia, even to Europe? Big Defense has been the prime beneficiary (Figure 2). As Investor's Business Daily headlined in March, "Russia's War On Ukraine Makes Defense Investors $49 Billion Richer." Without a full policy reset, this is just a prelude to far worse in Asia.
Figure 2 With Geopolitics, Economies Falter but Defense Stocks Climb
Source: Tradingeconomics; DifferenceGroup
In mid-May, NBC's Meet the Press aired a segment, which imagined a conflict over Taiwan in 2027. In the war game simulation, run by CNAS, the US-Sino tensions burst into an open war. What made Beijing opt for the year 2027? Nothing. The year was "postulated" by the controversial outgoing Commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Philip Davidson already in March 2021.
What's the CNAS solution? Flournoy demands US to develop "the capability to credibly threaten to sink all of China's military vessels, submarines, and merchant ships in the South China Sea within 72 hours." Whether that would contribute to peace is debatable, but it is certainly in line with the interests of CNAS donors, such as Northrop Grumman, Austin's alumni in Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and of course Taipei's US office.
Dr. Dan Steinbock is an internationally recognized strategist of the multipolar world and the founder of Difference Group. He has served at the India, China and America Institute (USA), Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China) and the EU Center (Singapore). For more, see https://www.differencegroup.net
The original version was published by China-US Focus on June 2, 2022
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Revised Enbridge Biological Assessment, 7/9/21
Significance Determination, 11/23/21
File No. LRE-2010-00463-56-A19
Project Update (6/24/2021)
The Corps of Engineers will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to evaluate the proposed Line 5 pipeline tunnel. The EIS will provide for a thorough review of potential impacts and reasonable alternatives and will inform a permit decision on Enbridge's application. Details on the EIS development will be updated on this website when available. More information on the announcement is available at: https://www.army.mil/article/247787.
Project Update (2/1/2021)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, continues to conduct its independent review in accordance with federal regulations. There is no specific timeframe for the Corps' decision.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) issued an National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit and a draft permit under Part 303, Wetlands Protection, and Part 325, Great Lakes Submerged Lands, for the project on January 29, 2021. EGLE permit decision documents can be found at: https://www.michigan.gov/line5/0,9833,7-413-100616-550690--,00.html. EGLE permit issuance is a prerequisite for Corps permit issuance. USACE may use information generated for the EGLE permit reviews in our analysis.
Between our initial public notice and the comment period associated with our December 7, 2020 public hearing, we received over 15,000 comments. We are reviewing the comments to help identify specific information needs that we will ask Enbridge to address.
Enbridge Energy, LP, has submitted an application for a Department of the Army (DA) permit to construct a pipeline tunnel under the bed of the Straits of Mackinac between Point LaBarbe, St. Ignace, Mackinac County, and McGulpin Point, Mackinaw City, Emmet County, Michigan. The tunnel would house a new 30-inch pipeline for light crude oil and liquid natural gas which would replace the existing dual submerged Line 5 pipelines crossing the Straits of Mackinac.
A detailed project description is in our public notice.
The purpose of the proposed work is to transport light crude oil and liquid natural gas between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan.
Regulatory Authority
The Corps of Engineers is reviewing the proposed project under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.
Under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, the Corps of Engineers regulates work or structures in, over, or under navigable waters of the United States. Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, the Corps of Engineers regulates discharges of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States, including wetlands.
Scope of Analysis
The Corps' scope of analysis includes the construction of the tunnel between the tunnel boring machine entry and exit portals; associated construction activities, equipment use, and materials staging within the limits of disturbance; spoils disposal; site restoration; operation of the pipeline tunnel; and decommissioning of the existing dual pipelines, either by abandoning them in place or removing them.
The Corps review is limited to the proposed crossing of the Straits of Mackinac and adjacent wetlands. Other parts of Line 5 are not within the scope of the Corps' pending permit review. The Corps does not have the legal authority to regulate the construction, maintenance, or repair of upland segments of pipelines. The Corps does not have the authority to regulate the operation of oil and gas pipelines or to address spills or leaks from oil and gas pipeline.
The existing Enbridge Line 5 pipeline was constructed in 1953 to transport crude oil and natural gas liquids. Line 5 is 645 miles long in total, and it transports products from Superior, Wisconsin to Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Line 5 is a 30-inch-diameter pipeline that splits into two 20-inch pipelines, known as the dual pipelines, as it crosses the Straits of Mackinac over a distance of approximately 3.6 miles. The dual pipelines are buried close to shore and are supported by the lakebed or screw anchor structures at depths up to approximately 225 feet.
We are reviewing this application under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The District Staff has reviewed existing information on historic properties potentially affected by the proposed project, including the National Register of Historic Places. The Corps is consulting with federally recognized tribes to help us identify historic properties that may be present in the review area and determine how historic properties could be affected by the project. Enbridge has provided archaeological surveys of the terrestrial areas within the construction zone. The Corps will request additional cultural resource studies from Enbridge to help identify any historic properties that may be present. We will consult with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and federally recognized tribes under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
Federally Listed Endangered and Threatened Species
We will review the potential impacts of the project on federally listed threatened and endangered species pursuant to Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. The following federally listed species are, or potentially are present at the project site or vicinity, and may be affected by the proposed project: northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), gray wolf (Canis lupus), rufa red knot (Calidris canutus), piping plover (Charadrius melodus), Houghton's goldenrod (Solidago houghtonii), and dwarf lake iris (Iris lacustris). It is our preliminary determination that the project is not likely to adversely affect gray wolf, piping plover, or rufa red knot; and it is likely to adversely affect northern long-eared bat, Houghton's goldenrod, and dwarf lake iris. Enbridge has provided a biological assessment (BA). We requested additional information and revisions to the biological assessment on January 26, 2021. Once we determine that the biological assessment is adequate for consultation, the Corps will initiate formal consultation with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
The decision whether to issue the Department of the Army permit will be based on evaluation of the probable impacts of the proposed activity on the public interest. That decision will reflect the national concerns for both protection and utilization of important resources. The benefit which reasonably may be expected to accrue from the proposal must be balanced against its reasonably foreseeable detriments. All factors which may be relevant to the proposal will be considered including the cumulative effects thereof; among those are conservation, economics, aesthetics, general environmental concerns, wetlands, historic properties, fish and wildlife values, flood hazards, floodplain values, land use, navigation, shoreline erosion and accretion, recreation, water supply and conservation, water quality, energy needs, safety, food and fiber production, mineral needs, considerations of property ownership, and, in general, the needs and welfare of the people. In accordance with our Tribal Trust responsibility, our review includes consideration of the project's potential impacts on tribal lands, treaty rights, and protected tribal resources.
The Corps of Engineers has solicited comments from the public; Federal, State, and local agencies and officials; Indian Tribes; and other interested parties in order to consider and evaluate the impacts of this proposed activity. Any comments received will be considered by the Corps of Engineers to determine whether to issue, modify, condition or deny a permit for this proposal. To make this decision, comments are used to assess impacts on endangered species, historic properties, water quality, general environmental effects, and the other public interest factors listed above. Comments are used in the preparation of an Environmental Assessment and/or an Environmental Impact Statement pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act. Comments are also used to determine the need for a public hearing and to determine the overall public interest of the proposed activity.
This activity involves the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States. Therefore, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' evaluation of the impact of the activity on the public interest will include application of the guidelines promulgated by the Administrator of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, under the authority of Section 404(b)(1) of the Clean Water Act.
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CHANDLER, Ariz. - The popular Arizona grocery chain Bashas' is now officially part of Raley's, an independent regional grocer based in California.
Edward "Trey" Basha, president and chief executive officer of Bashas', and Keith Knopf, president and chief executive officer of Raley's Holding Company, announced the deal on Oct. 1. It was finalized this week.
They said Bashas' store banners, employment, and operations across Arizona will continue without change or interruption.
Under the agreement, Bashas' will be a fully formed operating company with the Raley's enterprise. It will continue to serve customers across Arizona and New Mexico and its tribal partners, including the Navajo Nation, White Mountain Apache, San Carlos Apache, and Tohono O'odham.
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Q: Typescript Class inference Does anyone know how to get the current class in an abstract-generic-class | how to reference the current class like a type "CurrentClass" and not just the abstract class?
reason: i'm writing a small library, that should "infer" the current class without doing "as CurrentClass"
abstract class Super {
  public static create(args: keyof CurrentClass) {}
}

class CurrentClass extends Super {}

// to prevent
CurrentClass.create({} as CurrentClass);

i searched everywhere, but couldnt find an answer to this, so is it even possible in typescript?

this question would solve it, but not for static functions
Update: it seems that this is the issue i was looking for

A: The usual workaround is to add a type parameter to infer the target from the call:
abstract class Super {
  s = ""
  public static create<T>(this:new (...a: any[]) => T, args: keyof T) {}
}

class CurrentClass extends Super {
  c = ""
}

// to prevent
CurrentClass.create("c"); // ok
CurrentClass.create("s"); // ok

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Disseminated Mac Infection in a Patient with Anti Ifn Gamma Autoantibody
T. Watanabe1*; J. Branch1; E. Tanaka1
1Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, KAMAKURA, Japan
Meeting: Hospital Medicine 2014, March 24-27, Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation:
A 43‐year‐old female was admitted to our hosipital experiencing fever, cough, dyspnea, generalized lymphadenopathy and weight loss. She had been examined previously in another hospital and subsequently treated for community acquired pneumonia for 5 weeks. Her past medical history included repeated episodes of pneumonia treated with antibiotics, with the last episode being one and a half years prior to admission and bacterial arthritis of right knee secondary to Mycobacterium abscessus treated by surgically one year prior to admission.On admission, laboratory data revealed severe anemia, thrombocytopenia and elevated level of soluble interleukin‐2 receptor. Computed tomography showed right lober pneumonia, generalized lymphadenopathy involving the mediastinum and the intraperitoneal space, along with hepatosplenomegaly. Infection resulting from an underlying hematologic disease was strongly suspected. The patient underwent bone marrow biopsy, but the result was unrevealing. Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) was identified in the sputum and bone marrow aspirates by acid‐fast bacillus culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Furthermore MAC was also detected in the urine, pleural effusion and ascites. Disseminated MAC infection was diagnosed, and she was treated by standard antimycobacterial agents. Sadly, the patient succumbed to disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and multi‐organ failure on the 42nd day of admission.
Usually disseminated MAC infection occurs in immunedeficient hosts such as in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients and individuals with hematological malignancy especially treated with chemotherapy. Examinations for anti‐HIV antibody and anti‐HTLV‐1 antibody were negative and the CD4 count was within the normal range. Post‐mortem examination was also undertaken, but it did not reveal any hematological malignancy.Recent studies have shown that the Th1 cytokine cascade, the interleukin 12 dependent high output interferon‐gamma pathway, is critically important for protection against intracellular organisms, including mycobacteria, because certain mutations in the genes for Th1 cytokines and their receptors have been reported to cause such infection. A recent report from Asia showed that anti‐interferon‐gamma autoantibodies were detected in 88% of HIV‐negative Asian adults with multiple opportunistic infections, including MAC.Serum anti‐interferon‐gamma autoantibody was investigated in this patient, and a high titer was detected. The cause of disseminated MAC infection in this case appeared to be anti‐IFN‐gamma autoantibody.
In patients presenting with opportunistic infection without risk factors of HIV or HTLV‐1 infections, hematologic malignancy or drug‐induced immunosuppression, anti‐interferon‐gamma autoantibody should be considered and investigated appropriately, especially in patient with Asian ancestry.
A 43‐year‐old female was admitted to our hosipital experiencing fever, cough, dyspnea, generalized lymphadenopathy and weight loss. She had been examined previously in another hospital and subsequently treated for community acquired pneumonia for 5 weeks. Her past medical history included repeated episodes of pneumonia treated with antibiotics, with the last episode being one and a half years prior to admission and bacterial arthritis of right knee secondary to Mycobacterium abscessus treated by surgically one year prior to admission.
On admission, laboratory data revealed severe anemia, thrombocytopenia and elevated level of soluble interleukin‐2 receptor. Computed tomography showed right lober pneumonia, generalized lymphadenopathy involving the mediastinum and the intraperitoneal space, along with hepatosplenomegaly. Infection resulting from an underlying hematologic disease was strongly suspected. The patient underwent bone marrow biopsy, but the result was unrevealing. Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) was identified in the sputum and bone marrow aspirates by acid‐fast bacillus culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Furthermore MAC was also detected in the urine, pleural effusion and ascites. Disseminated MAC infection was diagnosed, and she was treated by standard antimycobacterial agents. Sadly, the patient succumbed to disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and multi‐organ failure on the 42nd day of admission.
Usually disseminated MAC infection occurs in immunedeficient hosts such as in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients and individuals with hematological malignancy especially treated with chemotherapy. Examinations for anti‐HIV antibody and anti‐HTLV‐1 antibody were negative and the CD4 count was within the normal range. Post‐mortem examination was also undertaken, but it did not reveal any hematological malignancy.
Recent studies have shown that the Th1 cytokine cascade, the interleukin 12 dependent high output interferon‐gamma pathway, is critically important for protection against intracellular organisms, including mycobacteria, because certain mutations in the genes for Th1 cytokines and their receptors have been reported to cause such infection. A recent report from Asia showed that anti‐interferon‐gamma autoantibodies were detected in 88% of HIV‐negative Asian adults with multiple opportunistic infections, including MAC.
Serum anti‐interferon‐gamma autoantibody was investigated in this patient, and a high titer was detected. The cause of disseminated MAC infection in this case appeared to be anti‐IFN‐gamma autoantibody.
Watanabe T, Branch J, Tanaka E. Disseminated Mac Infection in a Patient with Anti Ifn Gamma Autoantibody. Abstract published at Hospital Medicine 2014, March 24-27, Las Vegas, Nev. Abstract 674. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2014; 9 (suppl 2). https://www.shmabstracts.com/abstract/disseminated-mac-infection-in-a-patient-with-anti-ifn-gamma-autoantibody/. Accessed January 29, 2020.
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Want to know what books Stephen D King recommends on their reading list? We've researched interviews, social media posts, podcasts, and articles to build a comprehensive list of Stephen D King's favorite book recommendations of all time.
A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Jonathan Glover | 4.48
Renowned moral philosopher Jonathan Glover confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the mystery of why so many atrocities occurred. In a new preface, Glover brings the book through the post-September 11 era and into our own time—and asks whether humankind can "weaken the grip war has on us."
"It is hard to imagine a more important book. Glover makes an overwhelming case for the need to understand our own inhumanity, and reduce or eliminate the ways in which it can express itself—and he then begins the task... more
"It is hard to imagine a more important book. Glover makes an overwhelming case for the need to understand our own inhumanity, and reduce or eliminate the ways in which it can express itself—and he then begins the task himself. Humanity is an extraordinary achievement."—Peter Singer, Princeton University
"This is an extraordinary book: brilliant, haunting and uniquely important. Almost 40 years ago a president read a best seller and avoided a holocaust. I like to think that some of the leaders and followers of tomorrow will read Humanity."—Steven Pinker, New York Times Book Review less
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Power and Plenty
Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
Ronald Findlay, Kevin H. O'Rourke | 4.08
International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course of the last millennium.
Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke examine the successive waves of globalization and deglobalization that have occurred during the past thousand years, looking closely at the technological and... more
Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke examine the successive waves of globalization and deglobalization that have occurred during the past thousand years, looking closely at the technological and political causes behind these long-term trends. They show how the expansion and contraction of the world economy has been directly tied to the two-way interplay of trade and geopolitics, and how war and peace have been critical determinants of international trade over the very long run. The story they tell is sweeping in scope, one that links the emergence of the Western economies with economic and political developments throughout Eurasia centuries ago. Drawing extensively upon empirical evidence and informing their systematic analysis with insights from contemporary economic theory, Findlay and O'Rourke demonstrate the close interrelationships of trade and warfare, the mutual interdependence of the world's different regions, and the crucial role these factors have played in explaining modern economic growth.
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Stephen D KingWhat's particularly good about this is the tremendous detail on the way in which different parts of the world used to trade with each other, and how it helps us to think about a world that wasn't purely European, or European-plus-satellites focused. (Source)
Adam Smith | 4.09
In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy. The Wealth of Nations provided the first--and still the most eloquent--integrated description of the workings of a market economy. more
In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy. The Wealth of Nations provided the first--and still the most eloquent--integrated description of the workings of a market economy. less
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.
First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic... more
First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck's powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. less
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Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's cultures lead to - or retard - economic and military success and material achievement. Countries of the West, Landes asserts, prospered early through the interplay of a vital, open society focused on work and knowledge, which led to increased productivity, the creation of new technologies, and the pursuit of change. Europe's key advantage lay... more
David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's cultures lead to - or retard - economic and military success and material achievement. Countries of the West, Landes asserts, prospered early through the interplay of a vital, open society focused on work and knowledge, which led to increased productivity, the creation of new technologies, and the pursuit of change. Europe's key advantage lay in invention and know-how, as applied in war, transportation, generation of power, and skill in metalwork. Even such now banal inventions as eyeglasses and the clock were, in their day, powerful levers that tipped the balance of world economic power. Today's new economic winners are following much the same roads to power, while the laggards have somehow failed to duplicate this crucial formula for success. The key to relieving much of the world's poverty lies in understanding the lessons history has to teach us - lessons uniquely imparted in this towering work of history. less
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Is this how it is going to be from now on? Bin Laden will send a video calling us to worship Islam as the only solution for our survival and George W. Bush calling us to fight terrorism harder by helping Iraq? Is this really what comes from 9-11?


It is, seriously. Nothing is perfect but I had a lot of fun during these last 10 years.
I work in Ubisoft. Still a new kid though (Only 2 years :P) in the industry and company but looking forward to being part of such awesomeness!!
Nice mate. Where are you working exactly?
Thanks for sharing this blog post… Ubisoft bashing always makes me sad when I see all the energy and good will its employees put into their work. I'm curious to see if Kotaku will publish something about your post. I've reshared it with proud anyway.
Thanks! I don't really think this will happen. I mean there is not a lot of stuff to debate here or anything click-bait worth. But I'm happy that this post got way more attention than my last one.
I was hoping it would be fair they do the same with your. Now, knowing Kotaku doesn't carry us in its heart. It's unlikely to happen.
Even though, they maybe wanted to bring Ubisoft trust back with all the cool articles about Syndicate.
Ha ha ha , you work for food right?
Awesome read! I will hit the 10 year mark with Ubi this year and it's been a blast so far. I worked on Watch Dogs 1 and 2 for some years now and after the succes of wd2 I just can't take game reviewers seriously anymore. Games have to played not described. Ubi hate has no base.
I had to get over it, so is all the employee, at least if you just barely go on the web and read what people say about the games you've made.
It can be hard sometimes.


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Astro is as simple as it looks. Each speaker comes with a charging and auxiliary cord because that's all you'll need!
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BOLT is what we call a Wearable. It is fashionable bracelet crafted in genuine leather with different finishes on its clasps such as 18K Gold, Silver or black Rhodium. Once open, BOLT turns into your Apple Lightning cable allowing its User to sync and/or charge any of your Apple mobile devices compatible with the Lightning port.
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The Lost Leonardo is an internationally co-produced documentary film directed by , released in 2021. It follows the discovery and successive sales of the painting the Salvator Mundi, allegedly a work by Leonardo da Vinci, an artist for whom there are only a few attributed works in existence. The film chronicles the dramatic increases in the painting's value from its original purchase in 2005 for $1,175 to its auction in 2017 for $450 million, when it became the most expensive artwork ever sold. The use of high-end artwork for hiding wealth, as well as the conflicts created by large commissions and other economic incentives, are explored in the film. It includes interviews with leading art experts and art critics on issues regarding the provenance and authenticity of the work.

Production was announced in late 2019 following the success of Ben Lewis's book The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 13, 2021, and was released in the United States on August 13, 2021, by Sony Pictures Classics and in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2021, by Dogwoof.  The film was widely praised by critics for its content, pacing and the portrayal of the subject as a thriller. A French-made film on the topic called The Saviour for Sale was also released at the same time.

In October 2022, StudioCanal announced a plan to develop the film into a limited series with The Picture Company and Entertainment360.

Synopsis
The film opens by introducing two American art dealers, Alexander Parish and Robert Simon, who buy a painting titled "After Leonardo" at a 2005 auction in New Orleans for $1,175. Both think the work is a "sleeper", a painting by a much better artist than is realized, although neither considers it to be by Leonardo. They show it to the New York art restorer Dianne Modestini, who cleans away the overpainting and discovers that the position of a thumb has moved (i.e. pentimento), suggesting the painting is an original. She also finds that the lips are drawn with no line, a technique common to other paintings by Leonardo, which she takes as a sign that the painting is indeed his work.  Modestini completes an extensive restoration of the work that lasts from 2005 to 2013. Parish and Simon engage art dealer Warren Adelson.

In 2008, they present the work to a curator at the National Gallery, Luke Syson, who asks five Leonardo experts including Maria Teresa Fiorio and Martin Kemp to view the picture. Syson is ambiguous about whether they authenticated it, and Fiorio says she did not authenticate it. In 2011, Syson controversially includes it in a National Gallery exhibition of Leonardo's works with the label, "by Leonardo da Vinci". Sotheby's are immediately engaged to sell the painting, asking $200 million, but find little interest. Professor  of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, declined it, saying: "Most of the painting is a remake and this was, for me, the argument to say, 'No, this is not a painting for the Gemäldegalerie'". The Leonardo expert Frank Zöllner says: "You have the old parts of the painting which are original—these are by pupils—and the new parts of the painting, which look like Leonardo, but they are by the restorer. In some part, it's a masterpiece by Dianne Modestini". Modestini declines to disclose her financial interest, saying: "He [Simon] paid me generously".

The film then introduces the businessman Yves Bouvier, a developer and owner of freeports, and describes how he has become an art dealer in his own right due to the amount of art that clients have deposited in his freeports around the world. The film explains how high-end art has become a tool for wealth management by people who need to be able to physically carry and secretly move large amounts of wealth around the world outside of the banking system. In 2013, Bouvier showed the painting to a Russian billionaire, Dmitry Rybolovlev, who engages him to purchase the work. Bouvier hires a professional poker player to negotiate with Sotheby's and agrees on a price of $83 million, but he tells Rybolovlev the price is $127.5 million. When Rybolovlev discovers the deception and realizes that there have been numerous other deceptions, he legally pursues Bouvier (in events known as Bouvier Affair), who tells the film he has since lost everything.

In 2017, Rybolovlev hires Christie's to sell his entire portfolio and they market the painting as the "male Mona Lisa" and create a promotional video that includes Leonardo DiCaprio. The painting breaks the previous record for an art sale, selling for $400 million, with an additional $50 million of commission to Christie's. Word leaks that the buyer is Mohammed bin Salman and that the painting is being kept on his yacht. The film switches to a 2019–20 Leonardo exhibition at the Louvre where the painting is expected to be shown. In advance of the exhibition, bin Salman visits the Louvre with Emmanuel Macron and a publication appears in the museum's shop that authenticates the painting as being by Leonardo. However, in a dramatic twist, the painting fails to appear at the exhibition and the publication is removed from the shop with the Louvre denying that it was an official Louvre publication. The film ends speculating that bin Salman pulled the painting as the Louvre would not show it alongside the Mona Lisa, and that he was planning to show it in a new dedicated museum in Saudi Arabia.

Cast

People interviewed in the four different sections of the film are:

Discovery and restoration:
 Alexander Parish, an American art dealer (and "sleeper hunter") who found the painting in 2005
 Robert Simon, an American art historian and art dealer who bought the painting with Parish
 Dianne Dwyer Modestini, an American art restorer who worked on the painting from 2005 to 2017
 Warren Adelson, an American art dealer engaged to value and sell the painting

Authentification and 2011 National Gallery exhibition:
 Luke Syson, Former British National Gallery curator who labelled the work "by Leonardo" in 2011
 Martin Kemp, British art historian and academic
 Maria Teresa Fiorio, Italian art historian and academic
 , German art curator at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin
 Frank Zöllner, German art historian and academic
 Kenny Schachter, American art expert, art writer, and art collector
 Georgina Adam, British art expert, art writer, and art journalist
 Jerry Saltz, American Pulitzer prize-winning art critic and art journalist

2013 sale to Bouvier and then to Rybolovlev:
 Yves Bouvier, Swiss businessman and art dealer who purchased the painting in 2013, and sold it weeks later to Dmitry Rybolovlev
 Bruce Lamarche, a business associate of Bouvier and expert in the activities of Freeports
 Robert King Wittman, founder and former leader of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Art Crime Team (ACT)
 Doug Patteson, former CIA officer
 Evan Beard, head of Fine Art services at Bank of America
 Alexandra Bregman, art writer and art journalist who wrote a book on The Bouvier Affair

2017 sale by Rybolovlev to Mohammed bin Salman and postponed Louvre exhibition:
 Alison Cole, a British art historian and editor of The Art Newspaper who was the first to reveal a Louvre book authenticating the painting
 Antoine Harari, a French journalist who phone interviews the Louvre about their withdrawal of their book authenticating the painting
 Jacques Franck, a French fine art restorer and Leonardo specialist who wrote to Macron warning him against displaying the painting at the Louvre
 , a French art historian and art journalist who published the book withdrawn by the Louvre
 Stéphane Lacroix, art academic and expert in Middle Eastern art and art buyers
 Bradley Hope, an American investigative journalist and author of books on bin Salman
 David Kirkpatrick, an American journalist who wrote a New York Times article stating that bin Salman bought the painting

Production

In April 2019, the British art critic and filmmaker Ben Lewis published his well-received book, The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting, giving a detailed account of the discovery and sale of the Salvator Mundi painting, and the issues and concerns around the provenance and authentification of the work. In October 2019, it was announced that Andreas Koefoed would direct a film about the painting, The Lost Leonardo, with Dogwoof set to distribute in the United Kingdom.

The producer Andreas Dalsgaard told BBC Culture that "When we chose the title, the inspiration was partly that the painting is lost right now and the truth is lost, but it was also inspired by movies like the Indiana Jones movies that are full of treasures and treasure hunts". Koefoed told The Guardian that the tone of the film was to be "The Emperor's New Clothes", "puffed up institutions and authorities declare they've discovered a Leonardo, only to be exposed and mocked".

Release
In March 2021, Sony Pictures Classics acquired worldwide distribution rights (excluding the United Kingdom, France and Germany) to the film. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 13, 2021. It also screened at AFI Docs on June 26, 2021. It was released in the United States on August 13, 2021, and in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2021.

At the same time a second, French-made film, by , was released titled The Saviour for Sale: The Story of Salvator Mundi. It covered much of the same material as The Lost Leonardo but did not include some central figures such as Dianne Modestini; Vitkine's film took a dimmer view of Modestini's motivations and actions. Saviour for Sale includes interviews with anonymous French government officials who had access to the Louvre's analysis of the painting. They reveal that the Louvre could only conclude that Leonardo "contributed to the painting", which was not acceptable to bin Salman who required full authentification.

Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 97% based on 78 reviews, with an average rating of 8.00/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Critics praised the film for its portrayal of the story as a thriller. Timess film critic Kevin Maher awarded the film 5/5 stars, calling it "a thrilling examination of art world". The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw awarded the film 4/5 stars, saying that "The story of the hotly disputed discovery and sales of a purported new Leonardo da Vinci work doesn't paint the art market in a flattering light". Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman called it "An Enthralling Art-World Mystery That Only Starts By Asking: Is It or Isn't It?". The Financial Times film critic Danny Leigh also gave the film 4/5 stars, saying that "So riveting is the documentary The Lost Leonardo, you can imagine namesake Leonardo DiCaprio starring in the dramatisation".  The Washington Posts film critic Annabel Aguiar gave the film 3.5/4 stars calling it "... an art documentary that plays like a thriller". Glenn Kenny at the New York Times added the film to his "Critics Pick" list, saying that it "packs the fascination and wallop of an expertly executed fictional thriller".

Awards
6th Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, Best Documentary Feature (Nominated)
Stockholm International Film Festival, Bronze Horse Award (Nominated)

See also
Economics of the arts and literature
List of works by Leonardo da Vinci
List of most expensive paintings
The Price of Everything, a 2018 American documentary film about contemporary art valuations

Notes

References

External links

2021 documentary films
2021 films
American documentary films
British documentary films
French documentary films
Swedish documentary films
Danish documentary films
Documentary films about the visual arts
Cultural depictions of Leonardo da Vinci
Sony Pictures Classics films
2020s English-language films
2020s American films
2020s British films
2020s French films


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package Tpong;

/*
 * Pong Tutorial - Tim Brailsford, 2015
 *
 * This tutorial shows the step by step construction of a classic
 * "bouncing ball" program.
 *
 *   The GameItem class for use with Tpong
 */

import java.awt.*;

/*
 *  GameItem represents any individual moveable element in the game
 *  (such as a ball or a padle).
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	   private static final long serialVersionUID = 56334921;

	   int HEIGHT;
	   int WIDTH;
	   int WINDOW_HEIGHT;
	   int WINDOW_WIDTH;
	   int WALLWIDTH;

	   Color COLOR;

	   int Xpos;
	   int Ypos;

	   int Xvelocity = 0;
	   int Yvelocity = 0;

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