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Serpents of Secrecy Honor the Late Rev. Jim Forrester with New Album Ave Vindicta
by Big Shot Concerts
in ALBUMS, NEWS
Baltimore, Maryland doom outfit Serpents of Secrecy album Ave Vindicta is set for release on Halloween day. The long-awaited debut album, in homage to the late Rev. Jim Forrester, will be available October 31, 2020. The band, formed by members of Sixty Watt Shaman, King Giant, Foghound, Borracho, and more, has issued the album's cover art, preorders, and more. Additionally, the tracks "Warbird's Song" and "The Cheat" are available for streaming.
Several years in the making, Serpents of Secrecy has been through overwhelming grief creating the Ave Vindicta album. Following a CD single release in 2017, bassist Rev. Jim Forrester (also of Sixty Watt Shaman, Foghound) was murdered on the streets of Baltimore. The band spread the word to help track down the killers while dealing with their own personal loss of their dear friend, while leaving the record to the side as it was just too painful to hear. Finding solace in the fact that Jim would have wanted the album to see completion and release, the band finally forged their way through and locked into the final stages of creating the record. Having completed the record in recent weeks, the band is now extremely proud of the final product and is ready to present Ave Vindicta. The album will see release on Halloween, Forrester's favorite holiday.
A massive eleven-song recording, Serpents of Secrecy's Ave Vindicta delivers more than fifty-two minutes of hard rocking classic doom metal. With Rev. Jim Forrester's bass riding high in the mix, guitarist Todd Ingram (King Giant, Pimmit Hills), drummer Chuck Dukehart III (Foghound, Sixty Watt Shaman), guitarist Steve Fisher (Borracho), and vocalist Mark Lorenzo (Zekiah, Crawler) create an album as inwardly personal as it is thundering to the passing listener. The songs are clearly rooted in and fed by the fertile doom metal their hometown and surrounding area is internationally known for yielding, with an overwhelming bounty of powerful, dynamic, grooves delivered from an intensely soulful core.
Ave Vindicta was engineered by J. Robbins and Matt Redenbo and recorded and mixed by J. Robbins at Magpie Cage Studios Baltimore, Maryland (Jawbox, Burning Airlines, Government Issue), with the keyboards engineered and recorded for "The Cheat" and "Dealer's Choice" by Adam Micalczu at Empire Studios in Windsor, Ontario, and mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio in New Windsor, New York. The album is completed with cover art by Joe "Joweone" Nasatka, photography by Shane Gardner, and graphics by Bill Kole. Ave Vindicta features guest keyboards on "The Cheat" and "Dealer's Choice" by Mark Calcott and by J. Robbins on "Bleeding Still."
Stream Serpents of Secrecy's "Warbird's Song" and "The Cheat" RIGHT HERE.
Serpents of Secrecy Album Ave Vindicta
Serpents of Secrecy will release Ave Vindicta through their own new Moving The Earth Records on Halloween, Saturday, October 31st on CD and via all digital platforms. Find preorders at Bandcamp HERE. Watch for new audio tracks, an official video, and more on the album to be issued in the days ahead.
Ave Vindicta Track Listing:
1. Ave Vindicta
2. Heel Turn
3. The Cheat
4. Time Crushes All
5. Lament
6. Warbird's Song
7. Orphan's Dream
8. Dealer's Choice
9. Bleeding Still
10. Broke The Key
11. In The Lock
It was two years to the day since their brother and bandmate Rev. Jim Forrester was murdered on the streets of Baltimore, and it was the first time they had been in the same room together for almost as long. They had assembled to finish the album they had started with Jim. Everything just clicked.
"We'd often talked about getting in the jam room to figure out what we wanted to do for this solo or a vocal part or a melodic figure between verses, but it just never happened. Sometimes it was due to schedule conflicts, but I know personally it was often too painful to listen to the songs," says guitarist Todd Ingram. He adds, "I hadn't listened to the album in many, many months. I'd start to and then I just hit the stop button with my eyes welled up. I drove to the studio feeling bad. I felt I'd let my brother down by not spending hours preparing like I would do normally. But that feeling soon disappeared as everything from vocals and guitar parts were getting nailed in just one take."
"We'd look at each other and say, 'Well that's badass. No need to mess with that at all,'" offers vocalist Mark Lorenzo. Inspiration continued as Chuck Dukehart decided to add kettle drums to the instrumental track "Lament." Guitarist Steve Fisher adds, "Ideas were flowing effortlessly. I was listening to playbacks of 'Lament' and I thought, "Yeah, this needs a slide guitar track." "Steve's slide work was perfect. It really brought out the haunting quality in that piece," adds Ingram.
Lorenzo continues, "I had this idea for a preacher like call and response with Steve at the end of 'In the Lock,' and then after listening to the playback, Chuck comes up with the idea for hand claps, foot stomps, and Gospel-like background vocals. Next thing we know all four of us are doing Rev Jim Gospel hour. It was a blast. Sort of a tongue in cheek homage to our brother. We knew he'd be cracking up at the whole scene."
"At the end of that last session we knew we had finished the work in a way that would meet Jim's approval, and we couldn't help but think Jim had guided the parts… It was that effortless," reveals Ingram.
Chuck Dukehart adds, this weekend we're going to shoot a video with Shane Gardner who is also an amazing photographer. The video will encompass the last two tracks on the album, 'Broke The Key' and 'In The Lock,' so look for that to come out around the same time the album drops. We chose Jim's favorite day of the year October 31st. Ultimately this is Jim's album and he'd have wanted it that way."
Serpents of Secrecy:
Rev. Jim Forrester – bass
Todd Ingram – guitar
Chuck Dukehart III – drums
Mark Lorenzo – vocals
Steve Fisher – guitar
Cover photo by Shane Gardner
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EKATERINA: PRETENDERS
Number of episodes: 16
Number of episodes: 8
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH
TWO TICKETS HOME
GODUNOV
Criminal drama
LOST IN THE BALTICS
History of WWII
GREAT CHINA REBORN
SALYUT-7
SAVING HERITAGE
SOLZHENITSYN: REPENTANCE
Length: 42'-47'
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WILL SHOW RUSSIAN DOCUMENTARY UP TO THE SKY
Russia Television and Radio's massive library of documentaries on different topics traditionally attracts buyers at all international markets. As part of the new deal, the documentary film "Up to the Sky" has been licensed.
ANIMATION SERIES THE MOUNTAIN OF GEMS TO AIR IN SERBIA
Russian cartoons are gaining popularity worldwide. RTS Serbian Broadcasting Corporation, Serbia's largest public TV and radio company, has licensed broadcasting and digital rights to "The Mountain of Gems", an animation series produced by the Pilot studio.
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To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Morinaga hot cake mix, special pancake baths are opening at a resort in Kanagawa Prefecture for a limited time.
While the baths aren't actually filled with pancake mix, each hotto keeki ofuro (ホットケーキお風呂), or "hot cake bath," does smell like vanilla and maple, reminding bathers of a delicious breakfast. If that doesn't maybe the brown water will?
According to IT Media, three times a day, however, maple syrup is added to the bath.
This same resort is also home to an amazake, a red wine, and a coffee bath!
The Morinaga Hot Cake Bath will be at the Hakone Kowakien Yunessun resort until April 25.


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JET-SETTING around the world and rubbing shoulders with A-list film stars was all in day's work for Dartmouth couple BosIe and Felicity Vine-Miller.
The pair, who are both now retired, spent their working lives in the Hollywood film industry.
Bosie fell into that world by accident, while Felicity became immersed in the industry after meeting and marrying her first husband, the film director Ridley Scott, while studying at London's Royal College of Art.
Softly spoken Bosie, who rose from a humble runner to the dizzy heights of assistant director, said: 'I got into it quite accidentally. I did my national service in the Royal Navy and when I came out I got a job on the south coast as a yachtsman which really paid nothing, but it was fun.
'I was chatting to a chap in a pub one day and he said why don't you come and work at Walter Studios, which is now a housing estate, as a runner, which is the very bottom of the production tree.
'So I said yes and so I was thrust into this world where everyone drank large whiskies and drove motor cars. My world was strictly pints and a bicycle.
Felicity travelled with Bosie, who she met in a pub in Wardour Street, Soho, in the early Seventies, when he was filming. Rather than just hang about the set she preferred to get stuck in and work, putting her hand to everything including catering, prop buying, set design and in the make-up and wardrobe departments.
Together they worked on countless film sets all over the world, meeting numerous actors and pop stars including Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas, Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Harvey Keitel, Susannah York, Denholm Elliot, Jenny Agutter, Michael York, Tony Curtis, David Niven, David Hemmings, Adam Faith, John Thaw, Simon MacCorkindale, Alan Arkin, Tom Jones, David Essex and Engelbert Humperdinck.
'They are just people,' Bosie said. 'If you are working away on location you have an awful lot to do with them because you are probably staying in the same hotel, eating in the same restaurant and drinking in the same bar but if you are on location in England you go home at the end of the day and don't see them as much.
'You just take for granted what happens on a daily basis when working with people that other people may be in awe of because to you they are just somebody you work with – it doesn't matter whether they are Kirk Douglas or Tom Jones.
It's memories of the film crews she worked with rather than the stars which bring a smile to Felicity's face.
'Film crews are like family, they look after you,' she said.
'The crew always got on well together and used to go out after hours. When we were filming The Riddle of the Sands in Germany with Jenny Agutter and Michael York the crew organised a fancy dress party.
Felicity does have fond memories of some of the film stars she has worked with, particularly Charlton Heston.
'He was lovely, such a gentleman,' she recalls.
'He was never late and knew exactly what he was doing and was extremely courteous. He was an old-school actor.
'He had to kiss me because I was standing in for his wife who was pregnant. I had to lie in the back of a jeep to go to hospital. While I was standing in for her he had to bend down and kiss me. It was lovely.
'In Bad Timing I played Denholm Elliot's mistress and had to come out of the shower naked rubbing a towel on my head. Bosie said if I wanted to do it, it was fine by him.
'I had to entertain Christopher Lee on the Return of Captain Invincible. I had to keep him company because they didn't want him to get bored while he was waiting to go on set.
'I was utterly transfixed. He had a wonderful speaking voice, it had great resonance.
He has been assistant director on many box office hits including The Return of Fu Manchu, The Persuaders, The Riddle of the Sands, Revenge of the Pink Panther and Goodbye Paradise. He was also the associate producer on the short film, The Dollar Bottom, which won an Academy Award in 1981 for Best Short Subject.
'It was absolutely wonderful to win an Oscar, it was the pinnacle of my career,' Bosie said.
He has worked all over the world but cites India as his favourite location.
In 1981 Bosie and Felicity also spent time filming in Dartmouth for the TV film Drakes Venture starring John Thaw. 'A lot of it was shot in Dartmouth and I used local people as extras at Blackpool Sands,' Bosie recalled.
Felicity's two children with Ridley, Jake and Luke, also have successful careers in the film world. She said: 'They were brought up in the film world. They would sit having breakfast with David Bowie and meet all sorts of stars.
Felicity and Bosie lived in Australia for 10 years during the 1980s and it was there she began painting again.


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Santana es una localidad y también una pedanía del municipio de Respenda de la Peña, en la comarca de la Montaña de la provincia de Palencia, en la comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León, España.

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Evolución de la población en el siglo XXI
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 Iglesia de San Saturnino: Templo parroquial de estilo románico bajo la advocación de San Saturnino.

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 Turismo en la provincia de Palencia
 Comarcas de la provincia de Palencia

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Entidades locales menores de la provincia de Palencia
Localidades de Respenda de la Peña
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Michelle Dawson Owens, 44, was arrested in April on suspicion of stealing from two parent-teacher group accounts. She is currently on unpaid administrative leave until the case makes its way to trial. She's suspected of siphoning money from the accounts over a period of nearly two years, from September 2015 to June 2017. The money allegedly was stolen from revenue raised from PTA. Owens told police she used the money for "things around the house," as she and her husband keep separate bank accounts. Her husband "provides her with a periodic amount of money to run the household with."Suspicion arose when the PTA bank account went into an overdraft, but the account was supposed to have been closed due to a restructuring of the group. Owens had been writing checks from the defunct account to herself, witnesses told police, "above and beyond normal expenditures of the PTA," leading them to conclude she was pilfering funds. Her trial is scheduled for Nov. 14 in 4th Judicial District Court in Colorado Springs.
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Why are financial bubbles so easily popped?
When Paul Volcker set out to slay the inflation monster in the early eighties, the Effective Fed Funds Rate had to go up to more than 19% before he was successful. In contrast, financial asset inflation seems to be a delicate creature; it takes only an interest rate of 5%-7% to kill it. Why?
The answer is obviously leverage.
Consider a hedge fund with an equity capital of $5 that borrows $95. It invests the money in the stock market.
At an interest rate of 0%, when the market rises 1% the fund earns a return of 20% on equity. Given five such days in a year when the market rises 1% the fund can easily earn a return of 100% on equity. Nice bonuses all around. Thank you, Mr Bernanke!
When the interest rate is 1% the annual cost of financing is 0.95%. So the market needs to rise nearly 2% to give a return of 20% on equity. If the market remains stationary, the fund undergoes a loss of nearly 20% on equity.
When the interest rate is 2% the annual cost of financing is 1.9%, so the market needs to rise nearly 3% to give a return of 20% on equity. If the market does not rise, the fund suffers a loss of 38% on equity.
When the interest rate is 5% the annual cost of financing is 4.75%, so the market must rise 5.75% to give a return of 20% on equity. If the market does not rise, almost all the fund's equity gets wiped out.
We have not considered staffing and other costs or the fact that a hedge fund can bet on the market's fall as well as its rise. But despite the simplification the idea is clear. Each percentage rise in interest rates increases the risk that a highly leveraged hedge fund can go bankrupt. It is not surprising, therefore, that a Fed Funds Rate of 5% is enough to pop most bubbles.
So what are the implications for policy? The US government has tried to set limits on bonuses, on the transparency of hedge funds and other financial institutions, on capital requirements and so on. I rather agree with Alan Greenspan that no regulator can keep pace with changes in financial engineering. To remove all risk from the system one would need to have a regulator looking over the shoulder of every trader. That would be going the way of the Soviet Union. And I doubt whether even that would prevent catastrophes.
On the other hand, a Fed Funds Rate of about 5% seems guaranteed to prevent any asset bubble from growing, judging from the past decade. But won't that also penalise businesses producing real goods and services? I have argued in Why banks do not lend at near-zero interest rates that both the economics and the evidence give the lie to this fear.
For a firm producing real goods and services, an interest rate of 10% probably won't add more than a percentage point or two to total cost. And this can easily be absorbed or passed on to customers. For financial trading firms, though, such an interest rate would be disastrous.
There is a curious corollary to the above thesis. I argued that raising the interest rate to moderate levels prevents any money from going to feed bubbles. Carrying the argument a step further, low interest rates, by diverting money to asset inflation, keeps the inflation of real goods and services down.
This conclusion militates against all common sense. In its favour, consider the fact that before the Great Depression, the crash in Japan, and the Great Recession, inflation was very low. That is to say, low inflation need not be a sign of slow monetary expansion, but quite the opposite: an indication that money is growing steeply.
The Fed is surprised. For more than two years it has held the Fed Funds Rate at near zero levels. Yet bank lending has remained anaemic during the whole of that period.
That meagre bank lending is due to, not in spite of, low interest rates is an idea that has never occurred to the Fed.
The logic behind keeping interest rates low seems to be as follows, to use an analogy. If the price of wheat is kept low, even the poor can afford it and demand will be high. Then, if the government supplies wheat at low prices to grocers, they will add a small mark-up and supply it to consumers.
The analogy seems apt, if you replace grocers by banks and the low price of wheat by the low supply cost of money. But in practice the analogy does not seem to have worked. Why?
To begin with, money is not wheat. When a grocer sells a kilogram of wheat to a customer he collects the price for it and that is the end of the transaction. When a banker lends money that is just the first leg of the transaction. He needs to get the money back and make sure that the value of the money he gets back is not only more than the value of the money he lent out but also meets all his costs and yields a profit besides.
During a period of near-zero interest rates the chances of this are bleak. The reason is inflation. If inflation is 0% when the bank lends at, say, an interest rate of 5% and is 5% at the end of a year when the load is repaid, the bank will have clearly sustained a large loss, if lending costs and provisions for bad loans are taken into account. And high inflation is not just a remote possibility. It is a certainty considering that it is the Fed's avowed aim to raise inflation. And given the Fed's record before and after the Great Recession, what guarantee is there that inflation will be just 5%? In such an uncertain situation why blame banks for not lending? Their chances of losing money are smaller if they don't lend than if they lend.
The other reason that banks don't lend when the cost of money is low is just plain common sense. But in an era of complex mathematical economics, common sense has been a prime casualty, so that I need to invoke an economist who has for long been held in considerable contempt: Alfred Marshall.
"If a person has a thing which he can put to several uses, he will distribute it among these uses in such a way that it has the same marginal utility in all. For if it had a greater marginal utility in one use than another, he would gain by taking away some of it from the second use and applying it to the first."
Now, loans are not the only use that money can be put to. Banks can also use money in trading, which has the singular advantage of not tying up money for long periods and so does away with the uncertainty connected with those long periods. If banks can earn profits through trading, they would naturally not risk making loans. The return of huge bank bonuses just a year after the financial crash is proof that this was what happened.
Why has such a commonsensical idea not occurred to the Fed or to most economists? I think the reason is that Keynesianism has held economics in thrall for more than half a century so that economists are unable to see past the demand side of an equation.
To illustrate the point he makes in the above quotation Marshall considers a housewife with a limited number of hanks of yarn who must make a decision about how to divide the yarn between making socks and making vests.
"Our illustration belongs indeed properly to domestic production rather than to domestic consumption. But that was almost inevitable; for there are very few things ready for immediate consumption which are available for many different uses. And the doctrine of the distribution of means between different uses has less important and less interesting applications in the science of demand than in that of supply."
It almost sounds like an admonition to Keynesians from beyond the grave.
Especially interesting is the period from around the beginning of 2001 when the Fed began to reduce interest rates to get out of a recession and kept reducing rates until the middle of 2004. All through that period, commercial and industrial loans shrank. From the middle of 2004 the Fed started raising rates to curb the housing bubble and immediately commercial and industrial loans began to rise.
Only an amazing coincidence, I'm sure.
In the graph of Corrected Money Supply (shown below) that I have mentioned in previous blogs there was one strange formation that I had never been able to account for. This was a sudden drop in money supply from around $1175 billion in April 2008 to $ 1055 billion in August 2008 and then a sharp rise again to $1182 billion in December 2008 before plunging again.
Now a couple of Bloomberg articles throw light on the sudden rise in money supply. See Lehman borrowed $18 billion from undisclosed Fed program during '08 crisis and Goldman Sachs took biggest loan from undisclosed 2008 Fed crisis program. The loans were made under a program known as the Fed's single-tranche open-market operations or ST OMO. The detailed information was released by the Fed after Bloomberg put in a Freedom of Information Act request for details.
The peak of the lending to units of 19 banks from 7 March 2008 to 30 December 2008 was $80 billion in loans outstanding. In the graph of Corrected Money Supply the sudden rise is about $130 billion. The difference is about $50 billion. I wonder whether there were any other secret loans to other parties under other programs.
The loans seem to have been put right back into trading in an effort to recoup losses but the effort failed and money supply plunged again.
The note at the end says that DeLong is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. The content of the column makes this a bit difficult to believe but if Bloomberg says so it must be true. It also adds that he was deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury. This is perfectly believable when you remember that it was during the time he served in office that the Glass-Steagall Act was finally killed.
There is only one real law of economics: the law of supply and demand. If the quantity supplied goes up, the price goes down.
Back in the third quarter of 2008, the public held about $5.3 trillion of U.S. Treasury bills, notes and bonds. As the recession hit, tax revenue plummeted, and government spending rose, that total reached $9.4 trillion by mid-2011.
We're on target to have $10.7 trillion outstanding by mid-2012 -- doubling the Treasury debt held by the public in just four years. Supply and demand tells us that a steep rise in Treasury borrowings should produce a commensurate fall in Treasury bond prices and thus higher interest rates -- and that increase should crowd out other forms of interest-sensitive spending, slowing productivity growth.
Yet the market has swallowed all these issues without so much as a burp. By all accounts, it's smacking its lips in anticipation of the next tranches.
"If the quantity supplied goes up, the price goes down." Is this the law of supply and demand? I should think even a raw undergraduate knows that there is a proviso. If the quantity of a good supplied goes up while its demand stays constant, the price goes down.
So what makes DeLong think that the demand for government debt has remained constant? If you accept his figures then between the third quarter of 2008 and the middle of 2011, government debt increased by $4.1 trillion. During that period the two bouts of quantitative easing put about $2.1 trillion of cash into the hands of various players. That leaves $2 trillion to be accounted for. During the period the cumulative current account deficit was about $1.1 trillion and it's not too much to assume that a large chunk of this was used to purchase US debt. So that leaves just $0.9 trillion. And this is just peanuts when you remember the amount of cash sloshing around; US pension funds alone had about $9.9 trillion in assets as of 31 March 2010. [Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States quoted in Wikipedia Pension Fund]. Why wouldn't fund managers park some of their cash temporarily in US debt given the riskiness of other assets?
In other words just a couple of simple additions combined with the law of demand and supply (the real one, not DeLong's version of it) can easily explain why large issues of US debt have not raised interest rates much.
But since DeLong does not understand, or perhaps does not want to understand, demand and supply, he is surprised that interest rates have not gone up. To explain it he has to bring in the history of the Clinton and Bush administrations, the liquidity trap, the IS-LM diagram and much else, stopping finally only to scratch the back of Paul Krugman, a favour that will no doubt be returned next week.
Sometimes I am tempted to share Krugman's opinion of PhD economists. Never having learnt economics formally I am not in a position to say, but perhaps there is a sign at the entrance to university economics departments that says: "Abandon common sense, all ye who enter here."
Incidentally, according to Debt to the penny, between the start of 2011 and the middle of 2011 debt in the hands of the public has gone up from $9.4 trillion to $9.7 trillion, an increase of only $0.3 trillion, probably less than the amount of quantitative easing during that time.
On 1 June 2011, Fed Vice Chair Janet L. Yellen delivered a speech on Assessing Potential Financial Imbalances in an Era of Accommodative Monetary Policy at a Bank of Japan conference in Tokyo.
"The severe economic consequences of the recent financial crisis have underscored the need for central banks to vigilantly monitor the financial system for emerging risks to financial stability. Indeed, such vigilance may be particularly important when monetary policy remains highly accommodative for an extended period. As many observers have argued, an environment of low and stable interest rates may encourage investor behavior that could potentially lead to the emergence of financial imbalances that could threaten financial stability."
"A sustained period of very low and stable yields may incent a phenomenon commonly referred to as 'reaching for yield,' in which investors seek higher returns by purchasing assets with greater duration or increased credit risk."
"First, the Fed cannot reliably identify bubbles in asset prices. Second, even if it could identify bubbles, monetary policy is far too blunt a tool for effective use against them."
"But bubbles generally are perceptible only after the fact. To spot a bubble in advance requires a judgement that hundreds of thousands of informed investors have it all wrong. Betting against markets is usually precarious at best."
The rest of Yellen's speech is devoted to the parameters the Fed is keeping track of to ensure that there are no financial imbalances and concludes that though there is the stray worrying sign, overall there are no significant imbalances.
From the graph of Corrected Money Supply (Mc) that I have constructed I would seriously doubt this.
The steep rise in Mc in recent months and the fact that banks aren't doing much lending to firms suggest that their profits are coming from trading and taking on risk assets.
I am really curious to know why the large banks are cutting back on staff just after they've made such huge profits. Is it a sign that they are in trouble?


I'm very satisfied with my purchase of LQ2 - it's such a cute, fun game, and it provides many hours of concentrated fun.
However, it cannot keep you entertained forever, and after your first couple of playthroughs you lose the urge to play.
Certainly worth buying, but don't expect to keep playing for months without bore.
The Kudos-series certainly provides some of the best and most simulation games out there. I'm a big fan of the interface and concept, which draws you in.
However, the game is very simple and after a while you find yourself slightly bored with repeating the same actions over and over. Also, I wish there were more options to costumize your characters.
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Russian Oil and Gas Starts Flowing East
By Boyko Nitzov
Since the beginning of the modern petroleum industry around 1850, oil exports from Russia and other countries in the North Caspian have flown almost exclusively one way: west. The Baku refineries in Azerbaijan were already linked to the Batumi port on the Black Sea by a kerosene-carrying pipeline in 1906. Once the oil treasures of the Volga-Ural and West Siberia basins became known and developed, more pipelines reached out to Black Sea and Baltic ports and Central Europe. Projects to develop new fields in Russia's Arctic have invariably been accompanied by plans to move oil west, either by tanker or by pipe. The main export lines built by Azerbaijan (BTC) and Kazakhstan (CPC) point to the west.
What all this means is that up to this day almost all the oil exports originating in the former Soviet Union end up on European markets, part of the larger Atlantic Basin oil markets. Gas exports end on European markets as well and are priced to oil by using various formulas. Since the share of oil and gas in Russia's exports exceeds 60%, this also means that Russia is dependent on the European oil and gas market for about 60% of its total export revenue and 20-25% of its GDP. Exports of hydrocarbons to Europe are of similar importance for several other countries in the North Caspian.
For a good century and half this pattern of oil and gas flows from the heart of Eurasia to markets made a lot of economic sense. To the east, until the early 90's China was an oil exporter. Oil from Indonesia and the Middle East could easily be shipped in large tankers to Japan and Korea at a freight rate that made the construction of a pipeline from Russia's oil fields to the Pacific economically nonviable. Domestic demand in Russia's sparsely populated Far East was served by oil and gas produced on Sakhalin. Products were supplied by two refineries and rail shipments from Angarsk, the easternmost point on the pipeline system in Russia. Overall, Russian and North Caspian oil and gas were sold internationally where they were most in demand and brought the highest margins: on the neighboring hungry, fast growing European market.
A fundamental change in this pattern of flows may be underway. The first project in Eurasia for moving large quantities of oil eastwards by pipeline got underway in July 2006, when the link between Kazakhstan and China over the Alatau pass was commissioned. Designed to carry up to 20 million tons of crude oil per year (about 15% of China's imports in 2005), the pipeline could not quickly reach its ultimate capacity, as inland in Kazakhstan there was no link to the main producing fields located in West Kazakhstan. To use the available capacity, transit of Russian oil was arranged via an existing line from West Siberia leading into Kazakhstan from the north and connecting to the export line. But in Kazakhstan the construction of the 761-kilometre Kumkol-Kenkiyak crude pipeline extension is slated for completion by October 2009, providing a backbone west-east connection in the country. Crude output at fields in Kazakhstan operated by CNPC, the state-owned Chinese company, was 18.62 million tons (139.3 million barrels) in 2008 and natural gas output was 4 billion cubic meters.
More is to flow to China soon: On April 21, China and Russia finalized a $10 billion loan to the Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft and another $15 billion loan to the state-run oil major Rosneft. The loans are in exchange for supplies of 300 million tons of Russian oil over 20 years via a pipeline between Angarsk and Skovorodino in Russia and Daqing in China. The deal will also allow Transneft to bring the capacity of the line between Angarsk and Skovorodino to 30 million tons per year and to move oil from Skovorodino to the ports on the Pacific, initially by rail. Eventually the entire pipeline between Angarsk and the Pacific will be completed, thus expanding the presence of Russia on markets in Northeast Asia.
Also in April 2009, China signed a $10 billion loan with Kazakhstan, with CNPC acquiring 50% stake in Mangistaumunaigaz for $5 billion. The remainder of the loan is to be used for the construction of the Beyneu-Shikment gas pipeline, part of a project that would allow China to import up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Central Asia, mostly from Turkmenistan. China is also talking to Gazprom about building gas pipelines from the fields in both West and East Siberia to China, and if these projects move forward, 30-40 billion cubic meters of gas could flow from Russia to the east.
The deals with Russia and Kazakhstan are seen as part of a $46 billion loans-for-oil strategy pursued recently by China in four countries around the globe. Brazil also agreed to supply 100 million barrels of crude to China in exchange for loans of up to $10 billion.
The massive infusion of Chinese investment in upstream projects and transport infrastructure across Eurasia is, of course, a major driver for reorienting oil and gas flows from the west to the east. At design capacity, the east-leading pipelines already in operation and under construction will carry 35 million tons of oil and 40 billion cubic meters of gas. Projects being negotiated could add another 20 million tons of oil and 30-40 billion cubic meters of gas flowing to eastern markets. To put the figures in perspective, one may wish to note that the total capacity of proposed new oil and gas pipelines from Russia and the North Caspian to the west is in the range of 30-40 million tons of oil (CPC expansion, Transcaspian system of pipelines and shipping, expansion of Russian pipelines to Baltic ports) and 80-90 billion cubic meters of gas (Nabucco, ITGI, Nord Stream, South Stream). Note also that some of the projects in the west are competing with each other, while none seem to be doing so in the east.
Europe will continue to be the major market for oil and gas exports from Russia and the North Caspian, but for the first time ever most of the increment of oil and gas production is likely to flow to the east. Apart from the "China factor," other drivers tend to facilitate this outcome:
Russia may wish to demonstrate to its counterparts in Europe that it does have options when access to markets is at stake, particularly gas markets. For years now, Russia has been trying to consolidate its control of the gas chain from the well to the retailer, acquiring exclusive rights over existing pipeline capacity in several countries, touting asset swaps, and making downstream acquisitions in Europe. These moves have often been viewed with suspicion as they may lead to vertical foreclosure on the liberalizing European markets. For Russia, the availability of alternative markets for its oil and gas means that the bargaining with the Europeans just got more fun.
Producing countries in the Caspian region have had for decades now to rely almost exclusively on Russian infrastructure for exports. While it has been possible to transit oil across Russia, gas had to be sold at the borders to Gazprom, which then re-sold it in Europe at a huge mark-up. For producers to the east of the Caspian, the availability of alternative markets for their oil and gas means that the bargaining with Russia just got more fun.
But maybe the most striking feature of the reorientation of oil and gas flows in Eurasia is that it is from free, competitive markets, to markets controlled by government-owned entities where commerce is under long-term contracts, reminiscent of the deals between Russia (then the Soviet Union) and European customers during the 70's and the 80's. That used to be a stable but wasteful model of energy supply.
Most of the hydrocarbon resources of both Russia and the Caspian are natural gas, not oil, and the largest upstream and transportation projects that are being mulled are almost invariably related to natural gas: Shah Deniz II in Azerbaijan, South Yoloten and the offshore fields in Turkmenistan, Shtokman, the Yamal fields and Kovykta in Russia, and so on. Kashagan in Kazakhstan, one of the largest oil fields discovered during the last 40 years, is gas-rich and cannot be developed without factoring in infrastructure for handling the gas. So far, however, only one modest pipeline links the gas resources of the Caspian directly to competitive markets: the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) from Azerbaijan across Georgia to Turkey.
For the U.S., it would be reasonable to focus on solutions that provide to Caspian producers outlets to free markets, rather than lock them up in a long-term relationship with state-controlled entities. For oil, there is a history of success, for example the BTC line. For natural gas, precious little has been brought to fruition. The absence of outlets for North Caspian gas to free markets at a time when the gas sector in the littoral countries is set to grow at a fast pace from already dominant role in their economies is a chokepoint that often forces these countries into unpalatable choices and promotes instability. The U.S. and Europe should put their act together to give these countries better access to free, competitive energy markets.
Boyko Nitzov is Dinu Patriciu Fellow for Transatlantic Energy Security and Director of the Eurasia Energy Center at the Atlantic Council.
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NYC APARTMENTS
Last year, I bought my first apartment in New York City—an absolute dream come true. I've lived here pretty much all of my adult life, but always as a renter, and I've always wanted to own a place here. I was born in Manhattan, and after spending the first several years of my life here, I had to admire it from the far reaches of suburban Long Island for the rest of my childhood and teen years. As soon as I could make my way back after college, I did, and I've lived here ever since—in almost every corner of this island, I might add. Even after my career picked up, I stayed in New York instead of moving to Los Angeles, like most people in this business end up doing. I will never leave. It's home, the place where I can absolutely be myself—even if being myself means I have to nest with cockroach carcasses, rat droppings, and even worse, boyfriends.
I fucking love New York. It just makes sense to me in a way no other place does. Growing up in the suburbs wasn't for me: big houses separated by big yards and fences on wide streets. Big parking lots outside of huge stores. When you're in the city, everyone is so unquestionably close to everyone else, physically, that there's no choice but to bump into other humans at all times. It always seemed so cozy in comparison to Long Island. Like in the movie Beaches when they share a shitty apartment in New York and sing Christmas carols. That's what I longed for when I was a kid, imagining myself as a grown-up with my own place.
There's more than one benefit to being on top of each other all the time. Everyone has to walk the same streets, smell the same gross hot-garbage stink, and no one gets to be better than or different from anyone else. The painful humanity is everywhere. The fucking queen of England could knock into you on the subway and you'd be like, WATCH IT, CUNT. Hahahahaha. I've never called anyone a cunt on the subway. But that image really made me laugh. Someone please make a cartoon of that.
I've lived in nearly every neighborhood in all the boroughs of New York City, with the exception of the Bronx and—of course—Staten Island. No offense to the Wu-Tang Clan—I'm on a strict no-Shaolin (Staten Island) policy. So many of the important life lessons I've learned are written all over this city—the streets, subways, bars, restaurants, theaters, parks, and comedy clubs. Fortunately, those lessons have all been completely obscured by a fine mist of urine and spray paint, with a confetti of bedbugs and survival sprinkled into the mix. This is the magic of NYC: you're always starting over and moving fast. That could actually describe a lot of things in life: my relationship with my mom, my career, my digestive tract. I have, in essence, learned nothing, other than to keep moving.
I'm used to moving. I've been a comic on the road for over a decade. And before I went away to college, our family changed residences just under ten times. But it's nice to be in one place now. I love my apartment. It's full of all the things that make a home homey. In the bedroom, a great bed with soft jersey T-shirt sheets, and of course, my disgusting stuffed animals. In the kitchen, a good frying pan for eggs every morning, and a bunch of fancy teas that I never drink. Also a bunch of wine that I do drink (enough to outlast the apocalypse). And in the living room, there must be a good-size TV. It can't be humiliatingly small, but can't be too large either—I don't need to watch The Bachelor on IMAX. I just need to DVR SNL every week and be able to see the whites of the Bachelor's eyes. It's a one-bedroom on the top of a four-story walk-up, and the lobby and hallway are kind of gross and no one wants to visit me because there are a lot of stairs to climb to get here, but I don't care. It is MINE and it took me thirty-four years to get! For the last ten, I was always renting something, living with a new roommate, constantly moving around and storing stuff at my mom's place. It's exhausting to think about how many times I moved and how many landlords I paid more than 50 percent of my monthly income.
I never wanted to compromise and put down stakes in any other city. It always had to be New York for me. I know I can be a flake, but this is one goal from which I never deviated. Even if it meant I had to live in a shoe box, I never cared, as long as it was a New York shoe box. My first New York apartment was on Orchard and Hester on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was a studio that cost $800 a month—and it was tiny. A tiny apartment in New York is unlike any other in the country. I've gone and stayed with friends who worked as production assistants in Portland, Oregon, who'd describe their apartments as small, and then I would walk into a large one-bedroom with a balcony and think, Fuck you. You have no idea. Small in New York is small for real. Like you can reach over and flush your toilet while standing at your front door, which thankfully has nine locks. And you don't even have the spare real estate in the corner that is your kitchen to stock some box wine, because the container is literally too big for your fridge. I was twenty-two years old at the time and couldn't afford the rent on my own, so I put an ad on Craigslist for a roommate. Yes, a roommate—in a studio apartment. Hey, I said I wanted cozy, right? This was it. This is a reality that many New Yorkers have lived. The apartment was maybe about thirty feet by twenty feet, and it was filthy when I moved in. My mom and I scrubbed it clean and decorated it cute. I made the bed with my favorite sheets, and I was in heaven that it was mine.
I got a response to my Craigslist ad from a girl named Brittney who was from the South and coming to the city for art school. We spoke on the phone once and she moved in. I know this sounds like the setup to a shitty horror movie, but she was sweet and clean and we got along great. We never fought. We couldn't afford cable but we had a little TV, so we watched DVDs of Sex and the City and Will & Grace. Now that I think of it, it may have been the best time of my life.
After paying rent, I could barely afford to eat. Fortunately, we lived in Chinatown, where food can be very cheap. There was a dumpling factory right around the corner from us, and for five dollars you could get a huge bag of them—enough to eat for a week. I ate a record-breaking number of dumplings that year. No nutrition, but delicious. My face would swell and lips would blister from the salt. Because the only way to consume them is by drowning them in high-sodium soy sauce.
The price of real estate—or just the price of rent—in this city can really warp your judgment. Rent is so high and good places are so scarce that sometimes you talk yourself into very bad ideas. Case in point: When I moved back in with Dan after the blackout of 2003, I told myself that my instinct to make it work with an abusive ex had nothing to do with his nice two-bedroom apartment. But of course it did. Not that I wasn't enjoying folding my Murphy bed into the wall every night. It was a great way to kill the bugs in there and have space to lie on the floor and cry.
Dan was living with his friend Rob at the time, in Murray Hill. Both he and his roommate were children of privilege who could always rely on some rich relative to give them dough when the going got tough, but they had no jobs and no money of their own. The neighborhood was vile, home to young corporate America, shitty bars playing shitty classic rock, and shitty white kids drinking their parents' money away. I'd take the subway to work and sling rib eyes all day at the steakhouse in Grand Central Terminal while Dan would do God-knows-what. He tried his best to be reliably sane for a while, but he eventually started acting nuts again and was scaring me. Remember: this was the same boyfriend who pulled a knife on me. I knew it was dangerously stupid to continue living with him, but instead of moving out myself, I convinced him to move home with his mom. Which wasn't a tough sell because she happened to be a kind person with a dope-ass apartment. Right at the same time, Rob had been invited to travel around Europe with a cousin, but he didn't want to go and leave his girlfriend, Mary, behind. But Mary was sick of him and was eyeing the apartment, so she convinced him to go. After both boys left, Mary and I lived there alone. I remember the day Dan and Rob were both officially out of the house. Mary and I jumped on our beds like little girls to celebrate our healthy relationship decisions and getting them out of our lives. But mostly I think we were delighted at how funny it was that we'd evicted our boyfriends from their own apartment. The bottom line to this sad story is that I would have done anything to be able to live in the city I loved. And even though "anything" included making a regrettable choice with a dude, I still take it as a good sign that I was persistent enough to fight my way from one gross overpriced domicile to the next.
I was always pushing and struggling for the easiest setup and the cheapest rent. I once shared an apartment with a married couple in Brooklyn who needed a roommate to make rent. Or so they said. They'd give me lots of attention and make me feel really wanted, but I soon figured out it was because they didn't want to be alone together anymore. I see now that my presence was meant to distract them from their impending divorce. Some couples have a kid to try to save their marriage—these two had a twentysomething waiter/stand-up/actress who ate more than her fair share of pantry items she didn't purchase. Their tactic didn't work and they eventually split up, but they helped me get by for a while—so shout-out to that couple who prevented me from having to move back in with my mom or eject myself to the suburbs.
I'd also like to give a shout-out to the single-lady roommate who'd descend the stairs completely naked from the waist down, sometimes to get attention from my boyfriend. Here's to the old guy who was still living in my new apartment on the day I moved in. My roommate and I had to pack all of his clothing and box up his huge collection of vintage nudie magazines. One of them featured a girl wearing a varsity sweater, and she looked so much like me. The magazine was called Babyface. I was flattered there was a market for girls like me, who resemble that eighties doll Kid Sister or one of the Garbage Pail Kids. Oh, and one more very special shout-out goes to the roommate who invited exactly one-third of Manhattan to our place for a Halloween party, which ended when I found an aggressive dude ass-fucking a woman in a cowgirl costume in my unlocked bathroom.
All in all, the common thread in my sad string of NYC apartments is that I put up with a lot of vermin and weirdness and "coziness" so I could be where I wanted to be. I believe you should fight for what you want. I'm proud of almost every housing decision I made in the sense that they kept me in the city where I needed to be. I wouldn't have made it this far as a comedian or human if I hadn't stayed here.
I guess I only strayed from this pattern when I would get distracted by a guy and moving became a dating tactic—a not very sly but surprisingly effective dating tactic. Besides the aforementioned time I moved back in with Dan, I set up a real nice home life with my boyfriend Rick when I was twenty-five. He wasn't at all ready for us to live together but that didn't stop me from pressuring him to let me move in with him. I've lived with four boyfriends in my life and I've tricked each of them into it. It always ended poorly. I don't think I even wanted to live with Rick, but I wanted him to want to live with me. Being a woman is so fun!
Anyway, Rick and I lived together in Brooklyn in a small but not completely horrible one-bedroom apartment. We'd work hard all day at our respective restaurant and office temp jobs, and then I'd do a stand-up show at night, which I was just starting at the time. Around ten p.m. one of us would make dinner, then we'd watch a movie we'd gotten in the mail from Netflix. We'd drink wine, smoke pot, and eat ice cream. The fridge was big enough to house all of these things! It was heaven. What more is there to life than being stoned and full and having sex, unless of course you're too full? Anyway, after living together for a while, Rick and I were in love and really excited about each other. We would make each other laugh and gaze into each other's eyes—and it felt like life was going to be all right. But I was with him during a big turning point in my life—when I got the full-blown comedy disease (which I told you about in "How to Become a Stand-up Comedian"). I had it bad, and the only cure was to get on the road and do more comedy. I couldn't imagine putting anything else first in my life. Not even a guy I loved. I was also learning that I was an introvert (one of the first things I told you about myself in this book) who worked best when she had large spans of time to herself. So even though the fake-married life was nice for a while, I realized it wasn't for me. At least not in that moment in time. After we broke up (when I was on Last Comic Standing), I basically lived on the road for a while.
You'd think I would have learned my lesson about living with a guy, but not too long after, I became infatuated with this hot dude from my acting class, Devin, and eventually ended up moving to Astoria just to trap him into dating me. Which worked. But the joke was on me. Not only did I move into the worst part of Queens, but I also got bedbugs, the 9/11 of bugs, which provide both a logistical and existential nightmare when they come into your life. They are nearly impossible to get rid of—so I had to subject my poor elderly stuffed animals to a scary ride in a high-heat dryer. And everyone I knew was quietly reevaluating their friendship with me. This is not an exaggeration and it's another classic New York story—some people will straight-up take you out of their phone when they learn you have been hit with this plague. But bedbugs aside, there are many beautiful places in Astoria—just not where I lived!
I went to the grossest carpeted gym of all time there. It was billed as being "just for women"—which almost always is code for "subpar." The whole thing was built on a slant, so when you'd run on the treadmill, one leg would take all the weight. There were a lot of Muslim women in the neighborhood, and they would be on the ellipticals in their burkas while their husbands sat in the lobby area, waiting for them to finish their workouts, staring at the rest of us while they waited. I've been more comfortable getting a pelvic exam from a gynecologist with Parkinson's. Amy, that is unsympathetic to people with that horrible disease and now we are mad and writing about it on message boards. Okay, you're right, I'm sorry. But relax: my first-ever gyno actually had Parkinson's and it was awful. He was a million years old, and I found out that he'd died when I went in for one of my annual checkups. The new guy told me the news while his fingers were inside me and my ovaries were being squished. The previous sentence is also the title of my next book.
In defense of the Rick and Devin situations, I think there is a lot to be said for just picking up your things and moving to the neighborhood of the guy you like. When you're a child, you're friends with people based on proximity—and I've found it's the same for men. That's why so many of them sleep with their nannies, because THEY'RE THERE! And besides, I'm still great friends with both of these guys. They're both amazing actors, and Devin Dane (hahaha, his real name is Kevin Kane) has become my working partner in everything I do.
I feel like I could write a whole book on all the gross, weird places I've lived and all the bizarre or wonderful roommates I've had. Each place was just a temporary stop on the road to getting me where I wanted to be. I never quit moving and I didn't bother getting too comfortable because I wanted to be ready for whatever came next.
Now that I finally own a place, maybe I will stay for a while. I have everything I need. I even live near a small body of water, where I like to do my preferred form of exercise—a long geriatric walk while nibbling on a scone. And, guys, I got a wine refrigerator for my kitchen! (Is that not relatable? Have I sold out from my days of drinking single-serving box wine with a straw? No, because I still drink those too. It's just that I recently learned that I drink my chardonnay too cold, and I didn't even know that was possible, but now I am dedicating my life to correcting that error!) Anyway, as long as I'm in this city, not too far from my second home (the Comedy Cellar), I'm happy.
I suspect I will never stop moving. Literally. I might live in a few (hundred) more apartments, but they will always be on the same island of Manhattan and I will continue to circle this same pond over and over again, until I am an elderly woman. I know there are probably bigger, better bodies of water in LA, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal to transport a baked good from one location to another there. Can you imagine walking into a Beverly Hills SoulCycle with a fistful of quiche? I have to do that sometime. But even if they were cool with it, LA would never feel like home to me.


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Distance from Bathgate to Glenrothes
Distance between Bathgate and Glenrothes is 44 kilometers (27 miles).
Driving distance from Bathgate to Glenrothes is 62 kilometers (39 miles).
Distance Map Between Bathgate and Glenrothes
Bathgate, Edinburgh, United Kingdom ↔ Glenrothes, Edinburgh, United Kingdom = 27 miles = 44 km.
How far is it between Bathgate and Glenrothes
Bathgate is located in United Kingdom with (55.902,-3.644) coordinates and Glenrothes is located in United Kingdom with (56.1951,-3.1732) coordinates. The calculated flying distance from Bathgate to Glenrothes is equal to 27 miles which is equal to 44 km.
If you want to go by car, the driving distance between Bathgate and Glenrothes is 62.41 km. If you ride your car with an average speed of 112 kilometers/hour (70 miles/h), travel time will be 00 hours 33 minutes. Please check the avg. speed travel time table on the right for various options.
Bathgate 55.902, -3.644 55° 54´ 7.3440'' N
3° 38´ 38.3280'' W
Glenrothes 56.1951, -3.1732 56° 11´ 42.5040'' N
Estimated Travel Time Between Bathgate and Glenrothes
Bathgate, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Related Distances from Bathgate
Bathgate to Coatbridge 32 km
Bathgate to Bishopbriggs 46 km
Bathgate to Cumbernauld 40 km
Bathgate to Clydebank 57 km
Bathgate to Bearsden 53 km
Glenrothes, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Related Distances to Glenrothes
Shetland to Glenrothes 505 km
Glasgow to Glenrothes 104 km
Giffnock to Glenrothes 110 km
Bathgate to Glenrothes 62 km
Dalserf to Glenrothes 96 km


Darton Case, an EO Detroit member and president of DartAppraisal.com, recently partnered with eMerchant, a leading provider of online payment solutions and endorsed by Yahoo! Small Business Merchant Solutions, to provide advanced eCommerce integration solutions to streamline the appraisal-payment process..
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Marilena Makri (, born 18 November 2002) is a Cypriot sailor. She competed in the Laser Radial event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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2002 births
Living people
Cypriot female sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors of Cyprus
Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial
Sportspeople from Limassol


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Q: Listening to release asset changes with Github webhooks I have automated my Github releases with Grunt (https://github.com/hypeJunction/deploy_test/blob/master/Gruntfile.js) and currently trying to deploy a webhook when the new release is made.
The problem that I am facing is that the Grunt script needs more time to upload a .zip asset than it takes Github to issue a webhook. My webhook listener issues a request to Github API to retrieve latest release info, but the assets are not yet available for download. If I manually trigger webhook redelivery, the request succeeds.
Is there a way to delay a Github hook, or do I need to implement a delay in my listener (would rather not make it async)?

A: Answer from Github.

No, there's no way to delay a webhook on our end -- you'd need to do
  it on your end.
Another workaround might be that you create a draft release first,
  then upload all the assets, and the publish the release (by updating
  it via the API). The release webhook is triggered only when the
  release is published, so this should allow you to trigger the webhook
  only after all assets are available.
Hope this helps.

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Q: Simple SharedPreferences in Android I'm having a problem, and I already tried everything I found on this site, it's not helping, so I'm asking this question myself.
my code is:
public class MyActivity extends Activity{

    protected PositionSense positionSense;
    protected Preferences preferences;
    String IP;
    String ID;

@Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        positionSense = new PositionSense(this, null);
        SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences("preferences", 0);
        IP = settings.getString("ip", "http://192.168.1.3:8080/servlet");
        ID = settings.getString("id", "USER");
    }

Later on, I use these variables in a background running thread that contacts the servlet and sends some info (including position and ID of the user which is saved in preferences)
I'm not posting all of that because I don't want to clog up the thread more than necessary (but if it is needed, I will post it all)
In any case, it doesn't work and it gives me the following error log:
09-14 16:47:20.854: WARN/dalvikvm(552): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x409c01f8)
09-14 16:47:20.884: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(552): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
        java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not execute method of the activity
        at android.view.View$1.onClick(View.java:3044)
        at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:3511)
        at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:14105)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:605)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
        Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
        at android.view.View$1.onClick(View.java:3039)
        ... 11 more
        Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.moodswings.MoodSwingsActivity.clickHappy(MoodSwingsActivity.java:94)
        ... 14 more

I don't know what to do about it.
Can someone give me the SIMPLEST possible way to save 2 strings in preferences in one activity that are used in some other activity within the same application? It's supposed to be really simple, but I simply cannot make it work, and I'm nearing my deadline.
Thanks!

A: To save to shared preferences you can try:
String ip = "192.168.1.1";
SharedPreferences prefs = getSharedPreferences("IP", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
prefs.edit().putString("Sample IP", ip).commit();

To get the information from the shared preferences you can try:
String newIP = prefs.getString("Sample IP");//You can also place a default value if needed; to bypass the null character.

Now to pass them into activities you can try doing an intent call like below
**Activity One
Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),SecondActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("IP",newIp);
startActivity(intent);

**Activity Two
Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();
String tmp = extras.getString("IP");

Also you can use this link to reference.


Updated Tuesday March 6, 2018 by Buffalo Grove Bills Youth Football and Cheerleading.
Welcome to the 2018 season of the Bills Youth Football and Cheerleading Association. This will be our 46th year of providing outstanding youth football and cheerleading for the Buffalo Grove Area. The Bills Youth Football and Cheerleading Association is a non-profit organization directed by a Board of Directors and Coaches Committee. The program began in 1972 and has grown since its inception. Bills is a member of The Chicagoland Youth Football League (TCYFL Link).
A copy of the Childs birth certificate is required at registration for new participants.
Our program is designed to teach the basics fundamentals of the game of football and cheerleading in an atmosphere, which teaches both discipline and having fun. Winning and losing is a part of the game, and while we always strive to win, we dont always and so we have to learn the graceful art of bouncing back. Each athlete has only one job, it is the coaches job to teach the athlete where to go, when to go, what to do, before, during and after he goes. The most important job the athlete has is to go with as much effort as his heart can summon from his body.
Football all of the equipment will be provided by the Bills (Except shoes, rib protectors and cup/supporters), which includes the following: Game jerseys, game pants, shoulder pads, pad set, game socks, practice pants, mouth guard, and helmet, We only buy and retain safety approved equipment, which remains in top shape. Each year we replace and recondition a large portion of our equipment. Arm pads, hand pads are optional and are supplied by the player. Cheerleading uniforms and accessories will be provided by the Bills (except shoes).
The Bills Football and Cheerleading program is insured for liability coverage. Medical insurance is not provided and is the responsibility of each parent.
Our Program is designed to offer a challenge and experience to meet the needs of the largest number of youths possible. We offer (5) levels of competitions so each athlete is fully challenged; yet playing within the limits of his physical capabilities/ All teams participate in travel leagues.
For Football Playing requirement including age and weight parameters, click here.
Ages 7-14, Grades 1st 8th. Girls will be assigned to teams according to age levels of the corresponding football teams. Each squad will participate in a minimum of one competition per season. Competition is held in the fall and details will be provided at a later date.
For those of you who are concerned about injuries, we want to assure you that because of the careful and effective way we stress physical conditioning we have a significantly lower injury rate than might be expected. We believe our record shows us to be safer program than soccer and most other sports.
The Bills coaching staff is one of the finest in the area. Each year all of our coaches are required to attend coaching clinics to assure our athletes quality coaching. Several coaches have no children in the program and thus give objectivity to their tasks.
The Bills home games are played at Emmerich East Park (click here for a map). Most of the games will be played on Saturdays and Sundays. Transportation to away games is the responsibility of each parent or guardian.
Bills clothing, jackets and other items will be on sale in the June mailing.
It has been our philosophy to offer only the highest quality in equipment, uniforms, training equipment, coaching personnel, and playing facilities. This year it will cost our program over $550.00 to place a football player on the field. We must raise the difference through fund raising (yearly $100.00 raffle per family), concessions, sponsors, clothing, and outside contributions. Only you can make the difference. We encourage your help to hold our costs down by your participation and support.
Parents are required to work one concession assignment during the season. Parents are also needed to support the team by volunteering time during the season as team moms, for field set-up and tear-down, and chain gang, etc. Please remember Bills Youth Football is a 100% volunteer organization and without your help and support we could not offer the quality program that we do.
During the month of August, we practice Monday thru Friday 5:30pm - 7:30pm. Once school begins we practice 3 days a week, with specific day's determined by each coach.


One of Northern Ireland's longest established family jewellers is preparing to launch a new online platform as it looks to better compete on an omnichannel level.
Shannon's in Lisburn, which incidentally has just completed a major refit of its main store, plans to give its business a digital makeover aimed at reaching more customers.
Owner Mervyn Shannon told the Belfast Telegraph that many independent jewellers had struggled to compete with major online retailers, but it is confident that the investment it is making in a new web platform will pay off.
The company already has a website for selling products, but Mr Shannon said the company has gone back to the drawing board and will shortly launch a new platform with a fresh look. A notice on its homepage states that its new website is "coming soon".
It will bring its luxury stock and bespoke services to a wider customer base through the new website.
Shannon's is already well plugged into the benefits of new technology, with Mr Shannon explaining how customers buying bespoke or remodelled pieces receive a video of prospective designs, sent via smartphone.
"We then take it step by step and create a ring to their choice. Over the last 10 years that has completely changed and revolutionised our lives," he stated.
Mr Shannon told the paper that the retailer's longevity in the market – it has been trading since 1925 – was down to its focus on personal service and bespoke luxury items.
With the competition at the lower end of the market fierce, he said the business has found its niche at the higher end.
A key part of the business model is now remaking and restoring jewellery, according to Mr Shannon, who said: "It's jewellery that has been passed down as heirloom from one generation to the next and we're remodelling, resizing, bringing the next generation what they'd like.


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Epidemiology |1 November 1985
The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Gay Men
HAROLD W. JAFFE, M.D.; ANN M. HARDY, Dr.P.H.; W. MEADE MORGAN, Ph.D.; WILLIAM W. DARROW, Ph.D.
HAROLD W. JAFFE, M.D.
ANN M. HARDY, Dr.P.H.
W. MEADE MORGAN, Ph.D.
WILLIAM W. DARROW, Ph.D.
▸Requests for reprints should be addressed to Harold W. Jaffe, M.D.; AIDS Branch, Centers for Disease Control; Atlanta, GA 30333.
The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a major health problem for gay men in the United States. About three fourths of all reported cases have occurred in this population, and the number is projected to double in the next year. In Manhattan and San Francisco, AIDS is now the leading cause of premature mortality in men aged 25 to 44 years who have never married. In a sample of a cohort of gay men enrolled in a San Francisco clinic, 2.7% of the men had the syndrome and 26% had related conditions in 1984. Antibody to human T-lymphotropic virus, type lll/lymphadenopathy-associated virus was found in sera from 67% of the men, including 58% of asymptomatic men. Behavioral factors associated with an increased risk of AIDS include large numbers of sexual partners, receptive anal intercourse, and "fisting." The adoption of safer lifestyles is currently the basis of attempts to control the syndrome in gay men.
JAFFE HW, HARDY AM, MORGAN WM, DARROW WW. The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Gay Men. Ann Intern Med. 1985;103:662–664. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-103-5-662
Loss of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-I) Antibodies with Evidence of Viral Infection in Asymptomatic Homosexual Men: A Report from the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
Risk for the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Among Thrombocytopenic and Nonthrombocytopenic Homosexual Men Seropositive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Long-Term Seropositivity for Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type III in Homosexual Men Without the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: Development of Immunologic and Clinical Abnormalities: A Longitudinal Study
The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in a Cohort of Homosexual Men: A Six-Year Follow-up Study
HIV, Infectious Disease.
Emerging Cancer Survival Trends, Disparities, and Priorities in Adolescents and Young Adults: A California Cancer Registry-Based Study.
JNCI Cancer Spectr 2019;3(2):pkz031.
Quinolone derivatives: Potential anti-HIV agent-development and application.
Arch Pharm (Weinheim) 2019.


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In 1927, Wright submitted a series of cover designs to Liberty magazine. All were rejected by the editors as too "radical" and were never published. One of these designs was "Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers," Wright's interpretation of a desert landscape. Although initially disregarded, the image became one of Wright's most popular and was later transformed into a stained-glass feature for the lobby of the renowned Arizona Biltmore hotel.
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As each Motawi tile is crafted by hand, dimensions may vary slightly by up to 1/16".
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Eikon Exhibition Centre is Northern Ireland's largest events campus.
We are conveniently located beside the main arterial routes to Belfast and Dublin and have a diverse range of facilities on offer for your visit.
The Eikon Exhibition Centre is within a 90 minute drive from a population of 4 million people. We have hosted some of the most successful exhibitions, festivals, conferences and outdoor events on the island of Ireland.
With the launch of an additional exhibition hall this year, the venue now boasts over 10,000 sqm of adaptable indoor events space. This is complemented with 4,000 free on-site parking spaces, all seamlessly located in the 65 acre event campus. The possibilities for your event are endless.
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