OmniVision Technologies, Inc. a world leading supplier of CMOS image sensors, today announced the availability of its new all digital OV7710 CameraChip advanced CMOS image sensor developed specifically for automotive applications. The OV7710 is a highly integrated CMOS video camera that combines a high level of functionality with all digital output. Digital output is a key requirement for automotive machine-vision applications such as airbag deployment, lane departure warning, collision avoidance/pedestrian detection, windshield wiper control, and drowsiness detection.
The OV7710 features a dual dynamic overlay function allowing for both a dynamic and a static visual aid layer (text or graphics) within the image. This is especially useful for reference frames and guiding systems in backup and parking assist cameras for cars and trucks. A new windowing feature allows users to adjust the camera setup by moving the sensitive area of the camera by a few pixels, which is especially useful in fine tuning fixed position cameras mounted in places where there is a chance of obstructed views such as car bumpers.
The OV7710 is a high performance 1/4 inch, single-chip VGA digital video camera that excels in low light conditions and can operate in a wide temperature range from -40˚C to +105˚C. A black and white version (OV7211) is also available. Both meet all existing automotive market requirements in terms of performance, quality and reliability.
The OV7710 incorporates a 640 x 480 image array capable of operating at up to 30 frames per second (fps). The sensor technology utilizes algorithms to cancel Fixed Pattern Noise (FPN), eliminate smearing, and significantly reduce blooming. The OV7710 also provides all existing required camera functions including exposure control, gain, white balance, windowing and more, which are programmable through the Serial Camera Control Bus (SCCB) interface. Other key features of the OV7710 are its low power consumption, progressive scanning, external frame sync (Genlock) capability and support for both 10-bit raw data and 8-bit YUV/RGB outputs.
Samples of the OV7710 are currently available in both QFP and CLCC package formats.
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Q: Which functional language(s) does Clojure share the most in common with? I don't know much about functional programming but am interested in learning Clojure.
Are there any functional languages that would be a good point of reference to understand how functional programming works in Clojure?
Or is Clojure different enough in its functional programming approach that I would be better off to just focus on Clojure's functional features by themselves?

A: Common Lisp of course :) Scheme might be an easier introduction though and easier to get a stable, simple, common environment.

A: Clojure is a lisp so learning other lisps will help a lot in getting used to the parts of the "lisp culture" or general way of doing things. Remember that Clojure breaks significantly with Common Lisp though.
Clojure is lazy so learning Haskell will really help get you used to the idea of real lazy programming.
Clojure is concurrent so learning a little bit of Erlang will help though you will need to keep in mind that Erlang includes a lot about distributed programming while clojure is all about concurrent programming that is not necessarily distributed.

A: Clojure and Lisp share a lot of ideas with Ruby as well, though the syntax is much different

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5-Alpha-reductase 2 is an interesting pharmaceutical target for the treatment of several diseases, including prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, male pattern baldness, acne, and hirsutism. One of the main approaches in computer aided drug design is structure-based drug discovery. However, the experimental 3D structure of 5-alpha-reductase 2 is not available at present. Therefore, a homology modeling method and molecular dynamics simulation were used to develop a reliable model of 5-alpha-reductase 2 for inhibitor pose prediction and virtual screening. Despite the low sequence identity between the target and template sequences, a useful 3D model of 5-alpha-reductase 2 was generated by the inclusion of experimental data.
The online version of this article ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s12539-017-0280-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
This work is supported in part by a Grant (BS-1394-01-02) from the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Sheikh Bahaei National High Performance Computing Center (SBNHPCC) for providing computing facilities. SBNHPCC is supported by the Scientific and Technological Department of Presidential Office and Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Iran.


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About This orangutan just finished traveling on the National Zoo's Orangutan Transport System, or O Line. The entire distance is 490 feet. The cables are 50 feet (over 15 meters) off the ground.
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a bacterial species that causes relapsing fever in North Africa, the Near East, and central Asia; transmitted by the small variety of the tick, Ornithodoros erraticus.
Endemic foci of the tick-borne relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia crocidurae in Mali, West Africa, and the potential for human infection.
In preliminary studies, we detected the DNA of Borrelia crocidurae, Rickettsia spp.
Tick-borne relapsing fever imported from West Africa: diagnosis by quantitative buffy coat analysis and in vitro culture of Borrelia crocidurae.
Positive control reactions for each assay incorporated DNA extracted from Borrelia crocidurae.
Approximately 20 travel-related cases have been published in the past 25 years, and most of them have been acquired in western Africa (mainly Senegal), where Borrelia crocidurae is the predominant species (3).
Borrelia crocidurae infection of Ornithodoros erraticus (Lucas, 1849) ticks in Tunisia.
Molecular identification of Borrelia crocidurae in a patient returning from Senegal.
DNA sequencing demonstrated that Borrelia crocidurae and B.
Tick-borne relapsing fever imported from West Africa: diagnosis by quantitative burly coat analysis and in vitro culture of Borrelia crocidurae.
A comparative study of three methods of detection of Borrelia crocidurae in wild rodents in Senegal.
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World War II postal acronyms were first used to convey messages between servicemen and their sweethearts back home. They were usually written on the back of an envelope.

The acronyms, possibly including some more recent additions, include:

 S.W.A.L.K. — Sealed With A Loving Kiss. A variant is S.W.A.K. ("Sealed With A Kiss").
 V.E.N.I.C.E. — Very Excited Now I Caress Everywhere
 E.G.Y.P.T. — Eager to Grab/Eagerly Groping/Grasping Your Pretty Tits
 B.U.R.M.A. — Be Undressed/Upstairs Ready My Angel
 R.A.D.I.O. Romance And Delight I Offer (often used with B.U.R.M.A.)
 S.I.A.M. Sexual Intercourse At Midnight (used with B.U.R.M.A. as in B.U.R.M.A. 4 S.I.A.M.)
 H.O.L.L.A.N.D. — Hope Our Love Lives/Lasts And Never Dies
 I.T.A.L.Y. — I Trust And Love You or I'm Thinking About Loving You
 F.R.A.N.C.E. — Friendship Remains And Never Can End
 M.A.L.A.Y.A. — My Ardent Lips Await Your Arrival
 B.E.L.F.A.S.T. - Be Ever Loving, Faithful And Stay True.
 N.O.R.W.I.C.H - (K)Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home

Terry Pratchett parodied this briefly in his Discworld novel Going Postal. His acronyms included L.A.N.C.R.E. and K.L.A.T.C.H. (Lancre and Klatch being two locations in the Discworld), although these were never officially expanded.

A Dirty Pretty Things song is named "B.U.R.M.A." after the postal acronym and contains the line 'Be Upstairs Ready My Angel'.

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Posts Tagged 'The Political Uses of Symbols'
Sacred illusions
Posted on 11:03, March 22nd, 2010 by Lew
Pita Sharples has severely undermined his own and his party's credibility with his Race Relations Day speech criticising "one person, one vote". As a minister in a democratic government, he has taken aim at one of democracy's fundamental symbolic virtues, in such a way as to give the impression he (and his party) are anti-democracy. After years of fighting for the voices of mana whenua to be heard in democratic politics on strong principled grounds, Sharples seems now to have accepted the extreme right's framing of that representation as antithetical to democracy.
Let's just be clear: "one person, one vote" is no sort of actual democracy, it is an illusory ideal which persists only in hearts and minds, placed there by bold principles and the stirring oratories brought by democratic leaders of old looking to appeal to something bigger than they were. Even our present democracy, which is a very great deal closer to the ideal than the original American system, is pretty far from "one person, one vote" at a functional level. For a start, we have two votes. Even if you had one, what sort of vote would it be: first-past-the-post, where you're at the mercy of geography; or single-transferable, where you're not sure until after it's all over who your vote actually got counted for; or what? For another thing, you can be a person and not have a vote — people under 18 don't, prisoners convicted of serious offences don't (and that could soon include all prisoners). There are more, but I won't go on — the point is that "one person, one vote" is symbolic, not literal.
But neither are Sharples' objections literal, they are symbolic. In the non-literal sense, what "one person, one vote" means is the opportunity for equality of input into the electoral process — whether that be by one or two votes, in a big electorate or a small one. What happens after that is democracy in action. In this regard, an electoral system which pays at least some regard to the principle of "one person, one vote" is a minimal bound for a modern democracy (though there are others also). Sharples' criticism is that this isn't enough — that democracy should be about equality of outcome rather than input. I agree — and I think very many other people do as well. Making democracy work takes much more than votes. But when it's framed in the way he has framed it, this sort of discussion is political poison, because it attacks the heart of our political culture. This "race-based" framing of mana whenua political representation has been expressly developed in order to make those things seem indefensible in a liberal democratic context. Sharples has swallowed the hook, and instead of continuing to defend the Māori Seats and mana whenua representation on the existing and well-proven grounds (that it's necessary for the establishment and maintenance of tino rangatiratanga, guaranteed by the Treaty) he has made a declaration which amounts to "yeah, they're anti-democratic: so?" The most ridiculous aspect of it is that the existing mechanism which is so reviled complies with the principle of "one person, one vote": electors on the Māori roll get get the same vote as anyone else, the only difference is in how they cast it. There is equality of input to the democratic process by Māori at the electoral level — it's elsewhere in the process which is the problem.
I've argued before that the core symbolic and philosophical stuff of modern democracy is liberalism of one brand or another. No mainstream political concern can hope to win a democratic mandate without founding a lot of its agenda in liberalism. The symbolism of "one person, one vote" is crucial to this orthodoxy. Charles Elder and Roger Cobb, in The Political Uses of Symbols presented a typology of political symbols in the American context, organised into "political community" symbols which express political values at the highest level ("America", "The Flag", "The Constitution"); through "regime" symbols which express the political values of the current orthodoxy (in this case, American democracy, not a specific administration — the examples given are "The Presidency", "Congress", and "One Person, One Vote"); and three classes of "situational" symbols which express particular policy or administrational preferences of lesser affect ("The Reagan Administration; "gun control", etc.) The higher up Elder and Cobb's typology you go, the greater the degree of political consensus on the values imbued in a particular symbol. Nobody in American politics gets anywhere if they stand against "America": the task of politics in that context is to convince people that what you stand for is "America". "One person, one vote" is pretty high up that symbolic ladder. It is an illusion, but it's a sacred illusion.
Every party in New Zealand's parliament at present, except one, lays claim to this broad liberal tradition in one way or another. That one party which does not is the māori party. That is not to say that their agenda isn't broadly liberal in function, but that it's largely that way for non-Western-liberal philosophic reasons. This is the māori party's great electoral purpose: to normalise an indigenous political-philosophical tradition. But they can't do so this way, by attacking the liberal orthodoxy's sacred illusions, the bedrock values held even by those who would never dream of calling themselves liberals. The māori party, more than any other, must recognise the value of "one person, one vote" as part of the history of democracy working for downtrodden minorities rather than against them, and adopt this as part of its own political basis.
As libertarians have discovered, if you don't really believe in democracy it's best not to bother with it — then you get to maintain whatever you claim as high moral ground and leave the actual business of governing to those who lack your unshakeable principles. But that's not what the māori party is about. They do believe in democracy; they do recognise the importance of engagement and compromise and consensus, and they do plenty of work toward it, and a misguided outburst like this one puts it all in jeopardy. "Race-based" is National's catch-cry from just a few short years ago, and they will take any encouragement given them to reach out to New Zealand's conservatives, who are already distrustful of the māori party. It will force Labour further down the path of attacking the māori party to try to recapture the centre ground, rather than encouraging cooperation and the mending of fences. Most critically, it could create a backlash against the very mechanism Sharples seeks to save, generating opposition to the Māori seats his party needs for its survival, and which exist only by the pleasure of the Pākehā majority whose sacred illusions he has slighted.
While it should have been underway already, the māori party must now redouble its efforts to appeal to voters outside the Māori electorates, and prepare to live in a world without them.
Tags: black civil rights, Charles Elder, Democracy, Labour, liberalism, Maori Party, Māori seats, National, Pita Sharples, Roger Cobb, symbolic politics, The Political Uses of Symbols, Tino Rangatiratanga
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Q: disable per-column ordering in MYSQL workbench? When I use MySQL workbench and get a huge dataset, i find it annoying that if I accidentally click on a row, workbench tries to order the data by that row - generally taking several minutes to complete.
I'm of the opinion that if I wanted a dataset ordered a particular way, I would have used an order-by clause.
Is there any way to disable the behavior of ordering a dataset by clicking on a particular column?

A: Unfortunately I think you're out of luck in this regard, unless of course you download the source code for MySQL Workbench and change the way the UI behaves and add in an option to disable column ordering on click.
Source is available here. (Change the 'select platform' drop down to 'Source Code')


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Johan Peter Gumbert, connu sous le nom de J. P. Gumbert, né à Nimègue (Pays-Bas) le  et mort à Leyde (Pays-Bas) le , est un professeur d'université néerlandais.

Biographie
J. P. Gumbert est un érudit spécialisé dans les manuscrits européens médiévaux. De 1979 à 2001, il a été professeur (puis professeur émérite) de paléographie et de codicologie occidentales à l'université de Leyde.

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Exterior Design of New Apartment Building.
Two new apartment buildings, consisting of three apartments each, are being erected next to New Vrindaban's community garden and are expected to be ready to rent by spring 2016.
According to ISKCON New Vrindaban president Jaya Krsna Das, they will fulfill an immediate need for more accommodation especially during the peak summer season.
But the additional accommodation is also essential in helping along New Vrindaban's current phase of growth — many devotees are now returning to the community or moving for the first time with their families.
The apartments aren't just cheap temporary accommodation; ISKCON New Vrindaban is aiming for the highest construction quality within its budget.
Each of the two buildings will include a one-bedroom studio apartment in the basement, a two-bedroom on the first floor, and a three-bedroom on the second floor. They'll acccommodate single people, smaller and larger families respectively. And they'll each come with comparatively-sized, temperature-controlled storage spaces located in the basement.
The buildings are being constructed by PennKraft, a Western Pennsylvania company that prefabricates modular homes at its factory and then assembles them onsite. Quality is the same as with an onsite home, with the advantage that factory construction conserves materials and is thus more environmentally-friendly. It's also faster, more efficient, and protected from the elements.
The foundations will be made with Superior Walls, a precast concrete system with insulated wall panels often used in green home construction. This will save energy, keep out the cold and make for an overall stronger structure.
Meanwhile the buildings will each have insulated exterior doors to provide the best thermal barrier possible, a 50-year metal roof, and high-quality energy efficient windows that will keep the heat and cool in.
Inside, each apartment will have its own individual electric heating and cooling system, which is the rental standard and a safer option than gas.
The interior doors will be solid core oak with red oak trim, the floors a very durable solid vinyl plank, and the kitchen cabinets solid maple. Each apartment will have LED lights, which consume up to 90% less power than regular incandescent bulbs, and its own individually-controlled heating system.
Care is being put into selecting the fixtures and appliances, too.
Outside the buildings, there will be parking for residents. And to fit in with the New Vrindaban mood and lend a uniform look to the entire masterplan, the buildings' entrances will feature ornate columns and the same Jagannath chakra that adorns the roof of Sri Sri Radha Vrindabanchandra's temple.
Despite the first-class construction, rent will range from only $550 to $850 depending on the size of the apartment, with water, waste water, and road maintenance included. "We're aware of the concerns about pricing, and we wanted to make sure the accommodation was affordable to the devotees," says Jaya Krsna.
The apartments will be constructed using a loan from Eco-Vrindaban. The plan is for both the interest and principal to go into an endowment fund for the long term care of cows in New Vrindaban.
The new apartments are the beginning of a thirty-year plan that includes thirty apartments in total, plus twenty townhouses and ten new cabins.
These additional buildings, as well a new access road connecting directly with the public road, will be constructed over the next thirty years as the need for them arises.
Three things, according to Jaya Krsna, are needed for a community to grow: a school, jobs and accommodation.
"We have the Gopal's Garden Homeschool Co-Op," he says. "We have a number of very nice services to do for the temple, several devotee-run companies offering jobs, and a planned retreat center that will create additional jobs for devotees.


"I just wish she had less influence over vulnerable parents who may believe her misinformation."
Catherine Hughes was so concerned after seeing Pauline Hanson comment on vaccination recently that she tweeted a photo of her late son Riley and tagged the far right political leader.
Hughes' son was 32 days old when he died from whooping cough, and she has since become a campaigner for vaccination.
"I don't know who is providing [Hanson with] advice about immunisation, but she needs to consider having a chat with some real experts," Hughes told BuzzFeed News. "The advice she is offering parents is not just thoughtless, it's dangerous."
Hanson's fringe views on vaccination are in the headlines again after the One Nation leader suggested parents should do their own "research" before getting their children vaccinated.
Hanson also said the government's "no jab, no pay" program, which required parents to have their children vaccinated in order to receive welfare payments, was "blackmailing" people.
"I think people have a right to investigate themselves," Hanson said.
"If having vaccinations and measles vaccinations is actually going to stop these diseases, fine, no problems."
The medical community described Hanson's comments, which were made on the ABC, as dangerous and ignorant.
Labor's health spokesperson called on the government to condemn her stance, particularly in light of the WA Liberal Party preferencing Hanson at this week's state election.
Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and health minister Greg Hunt joined the chorus of people calling out the anti-vaxx comments.
The clear & categorical advice from medical experts including the CMO, based on decades of research & evidence, is vaccinations save lives.
As did Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young.
Pauline Hanson's view on vaccinations is dangerous and puts all of our children at risk. As a mother I am appalled she could be so reckless.
Hughes said the danger in giving Hanson's views a platform is that they are often "regurgitated" online by parents opposed to vaccination.
"They use Pauline's clout as a politician to add more weight to their anti-vaccination arguments, and it is really troubling," she said.
"At the end of the day, it seems like Pauline is another parent who has been hoodwinked by vaccine conspiracy theories. I just wish she had less influence over vulnerable parents who may believe her misinformation."


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Q: Wordpress/Woo add headers BCC on custom email template I have gift cards plugin that is sending a custom email template to the user. How do I manipulate that email header in my functions.php file and add a BCC based on a custom order meta? That order meta has an email address in the value.
add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_headers', 'order_completed_email_add_bcc', 9999, 15 );
function order_completed_email_add_bcc( $headers, $email, $order ) {
        if ( 'pw_gift_card' == $email ) {
            $bcc = get_post_meta( $order->id, 'my_custom_order_meta', true );
            $headers .= "Bcc: ".$bcc."" . "\r\n";
        }
        return $headers;
    }

A: Your code seem to be alright although it needs improvement. You have 3 arguments and not 15. Also for brevity, use $order->get_meta() instead of get_post_meta().
add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_headers', 'order_completed_email_add_bcc', 9999, 3 );
function order_completed_email_add_bcc( $headers, $email_id, $order ) {
    if ( 'pw_gift_card' == $email_id && $bcc = $order->get_meta('my_custom_order_meta')) {
        $headers .= 'Bcc: ' . $bcc . '\r\n';
    }
    return $headers;
}


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Just Plain Cool
Man Makes Successful Flight with Human Bird Wings: Fake or Not
By now most people on the internet have seen the video of Dutch engineer Jarno Smeets achieving flight with his motorized bird wings. When I first saw this video on Wired after finding the link on Reddit, I was in awe. That was so cool. I really was not questioning the legitimacy of the video. Then I read the comments on Reddit, and followed those up by reading comments on other sites such as Wired and Gizmodo among others. Too many people were screaming, "Fake!" Some people even questioned if Wired had even done its homework.
Needless to say I rewatched the video, closely this time without amazement. This time I could sort of see why other people had their doubts; however, I still wanted to believe it was real, and I had little reason to believe otherwise while watching the video. So, I sent the link to my fiancé who is a computer and engineering whiz and can usually spot a fake at once. He told me it could be, but he had no reason to doubt it was real. Yay, I have hope again!
Today, Wired attached this update, which goes into much detail about what the camera was doing during recording, and the physics that would be involved with something like this without being biased. The writer, Rhett Allain, does not commit to one side or the other, but tries to show what he could determine was really happening in the video.
I personally believe some people were confused. Many believed that Smeets was flying by using his own arm strength, but in fact he was using a motor putting out 2,000 Watts of power to support not only his weight but also the light-weighted wings. He has also been developing this device for over six months.
Not to say that the backstory could all be a lie, but there is too much real history that can be found to prove it is not fake. People also assumed this was first flight, but how do they know that. There are actually videos that prove it was not the first time, and the previous attempts did not go so well.
I just think so many people really wanted someone to really invent something like this, but when it really happened no one actually thought it could be done. We are such a jaded society. I believe that Mr. Smeets has actually created a way for humans to take flight, and if it turns out I am wrong, oh well.
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The release of genetically engineered apple trees raises the question of their potential environmental impact, and the transfer via pollen of transgenes to cross-compatible cultivars of Malus domestica and Malus species is deemed to be the greatest source for environmental exposure. The hybrid TNR 31-35, a descendant of Malus sieversii var. sieversii f. niedzwetzkyana, carrying a homozygous, dominant gene responsible for red pigmentation in all plant parts, was used to assess gene flow in an apple scion repository of genetic resources. The red pigmentation provides a morphological marker that enables large-scale evaluation of cross-fertilization under natural conditions. In two consecutive years, 60 and then 56 apple trees of 38 different Malus domestica cultivars were selected to serve as pollen-receptor trees. In these two years, 6876 and then 5513 seeds, respectively, were gathered from pollen-receptor trees located at different distances, 2–100 m from 15 pollen-dispenser trees. In total, 11 797 seedlings were examined. An average of 1.8% and 1.4%, respectively, of all seedlings obtained showed red-colored leaves. Considering both years of sampling, 69% of the seeds fertilized by TNR 31-35 were found at less than 10 m from the nearest pollen-dispenser tree. Almost 91% of all seeds fertilized by TNR 31-35 were found at less than 60 m from the nearest pollen-dispenser tree, which is equal to 30 adjacent trees along the row. In this study, pollen was dispersed at least 104 m. After phenotypical evaluation, seedlings selected as red-colored were investigated by simple sequence repeat (SSR) analysis. Each seedling was tested with at least one heteromorphic SSR-marker, which allows the verification of TNR 31-35 as the male parent. All but four seedlings showed one allele specific for the appropriate fruiting tree and the second allele specific for the pollen-dispenser TNR 31-35.


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Jerzy Biziewski (ur. 10 sierpnia 1955 w Szczecinku) – generał dywizji Wojska Polskiego.

Życiorys
W latach 1975-1979 był podchorążym Wyższej Szkoły Oficerskiej Wojsk Zmechanizowanych im. Tadeusza Kościuszki we Wrocławiu. Po ukończeniu szkoły i promocji został przydzielony do 49 Warszawskiego pułku zmechanizowanego w Wałczu i wyznaczony na stanowisko dowódcy plutonu piechoty zmotoryzowanej. Następnie, w tym samym pułku, dowodził kompanią i batalionem. W latach 1985–1988 był słuchaczem Akademii Sztabu Generalnego im. gen. broni Karola Świerczewskiego w Rembertowie. Po ukończeniu akademii zajmował stanowisko szefa sztabu 36 pułku zmechanizowanego w Trzebiatowie. W 1994 uzyskał doktorat nauk wojskowych (specjalność: taktyka) w Akademii Obrony Narodowej na podstawie pracy Manewr w obronie (na przykładzie wojen bliskowschodnich lat 1973–1991)  (promotor: płk prof. Zbigniew Ścibiorek). W latach 1996–1998 był adiunktem w Katedrze Taktyki, a następnie w Katedrze Strategii Akademii Obrony Narodowej w Rembertowie. Następnie pełnił służbę w Zarządzie Operacyjno–Strategicznym Sztabu Generalnego WP (1998–2002) i na stanowisku szefa Oddziału Transportu i Ruchu Wojsk w Dowództwie Sojuszniczych Sił Zbrojnych NATO w Brunssum (2002–2005). W międzyczasie ukończył Podyplomowe Studia Sztabowe w Akademii Obrony Królestwa Danii. W 2005 roku dowodził 1 Brygadą Pancerną w Wesołej. W tym samym roku został wyznaczony na stanowisko zastępcy szefa Zarządu w Generalnym Zarządzie Operacyjnym P-3 Sztabu Generalnego WP. W latach 2007–2008 był dowódcą II zmiany PKW Afganistan. 25 maja 2010 roku został dowódcą 2 Korpusu Zmechanizowanego w Krakowie. 26 lipca 2013 roku przekazał obowiązki dowódcy korpusu swojemu dotychczasowemu zastępcy, generałowi brygady Andrzejowi Knapowi i z dniem 1 sierpnia objął stanowisko Zastępcy Szefa Sztabu Naczelnego Dowództwa Połączonych Sił Zbrojnych NATO w Europie z siedzibą w Mons, w Belgii.

Awanse
 generał brygady – 2006
 generał dywizji – 2010

Odznaczenia
 Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Krzyża Wojskowego – 2008
 Srebrny Krzyż Zasługi – 2002
 Brązowy Krzyż Zasługi – 1997
 Złoty Medal za Długoletnią Służbę – 2013
 Gwiazda Afganistanu – 2011
 Srebrny Medal "Siły Zbrojne w Służbie Ojczyzny"
 Złoty Medal "Za zasługi dla obronności kraju"
 Kordzik Honorowy Sił Zbrojnych RP (Wojska Lądowe) – 2013
 Odznaka "Honoris Gratia" – 2013
 Officer Legii Zasługi – Stany Zjednoczone, 2012
 Bronze Star – Stany Zjednoczone
 Medal NATO za misję ISAF

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne

 Publikacje w katalogu Biblioteki Narodowej [dostęp 24-08-22]

Absolwenci Akademii Sztabu Generalnego
Absolwenci Wyższej Szkoły Oficerskiej Wojsk Zmechanizowanych
Oficerowie ludowego Wojska Polskiego
Generałowie dywizji Sił Zbrojnych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Komandorskim Orderu Krzyża Wojskowego
Polacy odznaczeni medalem NATO
Odznaczeni Srebrnym Krzyżem Zasługi (III Rzeczpospolita)
Odznaczeni Brązowym Krzyżem Zasługi (III Rzeczpospolita)
Odznaczeni Gwiazdą Afganistanu
Odznaczeni Srebrnym Medalem "Siły Zbrojne w Służbie Ojczyzny"
Odznaczeni Złotym Medalem za Długoletnią Służbę (III Rzeczpospolita)
Odznaczeni Złotym Medalem "Za zasługi dla obronności kraju"
Odznaczeni odznaką "Honoris Gratia"
Polacy odznaczeni Legią Zasługi
Polacy odznaczeni Brązową Gwiazdą
Urodzeni w 1955
Żołnierze Polskiego Kontyngentu Wojskowego w Afganistanie
Ludzie urodzeni w Szczecinku
Oficerowie 36 Łużyckiego Pułku Zmechanizowanego
Oficerowie 49 Pułku Zmechanizowanego


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Q: How do I change a single color in a colormap in Matlab? I've got a series of data in a regular x by z matrix that I am plotting using pcolor in Matlab. I am using the JET color map (flipped upside down) and would like to know how I can specify that when ever the parameter I am plotting has a value of 0, then the color should be white instead of the default dark red?
My data is not filling out the entire matrix, so all cells without data are set to 0. This provides a plot which is semi-satisfactory as the contrast between the datafilled cells and the 0-cells is great enough that the area covered by the data is easily identified. However it would enhance the image greatly if all 0-cells where plotted in white.
Best wishes
ENOK

A: You can get an array representing the colormap:
map = colormap('jet');

You can then modify individual rows as required, and then set the colormap:
colormap(map);


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Prior to 1981, children with developmental delays and their families were required to travel to Prince George or Terrace for therapy and support services. To address the need for local services, a Steering Committee was established to enlist support from groups and agencies on establishing a Child Development Centre. The Ministry of Human Resources responded with contracts for a "special needs" preschool program and an Infant Development Program. Under the sponsorship of the Bulkley Valley Child Development Society, the Centre opened its doors on November 23, 1981.
In September 1986, the Centre moved from the Village of Telkwa to Town of Smithers where the Society leased space from the St. James Anglican Church. At this time, the Society was able to purchase Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy services from the Terrace Child Development Centre and to then include these services to the BV CDC.
In January 1991, the BV CDC was successful in obtaining the contract for the Early Intervention Program which included Family Support, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Services.
In February 1992, a Toy Lending and Resource Library was established with funding from the Ronald MacDonald's Children's Charities.
In May 1995, the BV CDC was successful in acquiring a contract through the Child Care Strategic Initiatives Program to establish the Child Care Resource and Referral Program.
In the Spring of 1997, the Society restructured the "special Needs" preschool program to facilitate and support the inclusion of children with special needs within all community based child care programs.
Beginning in 1998, the BV CDC contracted with schools throughout the Bulkley Valley to provide Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy services. The Society also provided contracts with the Aboriginal Head Start Programs for therapy services.
In 1999, the Society completed the purchase of a new building and relocated its services and programs. This purchase was the result of thirteen years of fundraising efforts including the Celebrity Golf Tournament, donations from the community, the Vancouver Foundation and the Lions Society of BC.
In 2009, the BV CDC acquired sensory motor equipment through funds from the Ronald McDonald House Charities. These funds provided new therapy equipment for children and youth in Houston, Hazelton as well as in Smithers. The BV CDC has now has three community based sensory motor rooms!
Today in 2011, the BV CDC's main building is in Smithers as well as three other community based locations in Hazelton, Houston and Smithers. In Hazelton, the BV CDC is located within the Hazelton and Area Early Child Development Services building. In Houston, the BV CDC has office space within the Northern Health Center. In Smithers, the BVCDC's CCRR program operates within the Early Child Development Services building. Our services are family centered, community-based with outreach to homes, child-care programs in 22 communities from Topley to Kitwanga, Dease Lake and Iskut. The Bulkley Valley Child Development Centre is one of over 30 Child Development Organizations in the Province of B.C. The BV CDC is a member of the B.C. Association of Child Development and Intervention.


Kilgore attacks Kaine. Kaine whines.
Outlining what may be a major attack theme of his campaign for governor, Kilgore said Kaine, like Kerry, is opposed to the death penalty.
"Both believe in higher taxes rather than smarter government," Kilgore told about 400 Republican activists attending the Republican Party of Virginia's annual Advance at the posh Homestead resort.
"Both believe the Second Amendment to be some sort of antiquated colonial relic. Both have failed to stand up for a culture of life. Both are out of touch with Virginia values," he said.
Mike Henry, Kaine's campaign manager, responded that Kilgore was launching the first attack of the campaign because he doesn't have a positive agenda.
Like I said, Kilgore is going to run a nasty campaign, and Kaine is going to lose if he doesn't fight back. Campaign manager Mike Henry could have responded by pointing out that Kilgore both bashed Kaine for opposition to the death penalty and for not being a part of the "culture of life" — these two goals are mutually exclusive. He could have responded by accusing Kilgore of fraud and participating in the cover-up over the Republican eavesdropping scandal. He could have had any number of rejoinders prepared.
Instead, the response is that Kilgore doesn't have a positive agenda. OK, fine, he doesn't. Is this bad? I mean, I think it is, but does polling support the notion that accusing the opponent of not having a positive agenda is something that is going to hurt him? I'm thinking not. There's nothing wrong with Kaine running a positive campaign. But he can't roll over and cry foul every time that Kilgore attacks him. And he damned well needs surrogates going after Kilgore. Without aggressive responses and a well-orchestrated series of attacks on Kilgore, this is a losing proposition.


The Lifestyle Center Aquatic Department offers a wide variety of programs for our Visalia health club members and guests to enjoy. Our pools include a 25-yard multi-purpose lap pool and warm water therapy pool where our instructors offer water aerobics classes. No matter your fitness level, our aquatic area is a great place to increase your strength and endurance through our fun classes and programs.
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Price Says He Will Pay for His Charter Flights
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By	Ian Smith	on	September 29, 2017	in	Agency News	with	0 Comments
HHS Secretary Tom Price
Update: Tom Price has resigned as HHS Secretary amid criticism over his use of private planes.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price issued a statement saying that he intends to repay taxpayers for the private charter flights he took recently.
Price said that they were all done legally as the travel was approved by HHS, but he also said he understands that he "was not sensitive enough to my concern for the taxpayer."
Amount Price is Repaying
HHS officials confirmed to several media outlets that the amount Price will repay comes to $51,887.31. Price added that it's an "unprecedented" move. "[It's] never been done, to our understanding, before by a secretary, in spite of the fact that previous administrations have had secretaries that flew an awful lot," he told Fox News in an interview.
In its investigation into Price's travels, Politico reported that the total amount of Price's use of the planes came to more than $400,000. According to the Washington Post, the amount Price has pledged to repay "appears to cover the cost of his seat on chartered flights but not those of his staffers" which could explain the difference in the two amounts.
Politico noted in its report that the amount Price is paying is "just a fraction of the total costs" but said that HHS did not confirm the details of the discrepancy. Politico also stated, "HHS did not address the costs of the staff and security officials who accompanied Price on those flights."
IG Review
An Inspector General review of Price's travel at HHS has been opened, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is looking at travel from various federal agencies as well with respect to use of charter flights. Price said in his statement he intends to cooperate fully with the IG investigation and that he has initiated a departmental review to determine if any changes or reforms to agency travel policies are necessary.
President Trump even weighed in on the situation, noting he was unhappy with Price's decision to take the private flights. "I'm not happy about it, and I let him know it," Trump told reporters.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that the White House has asked that private charter flights by agency officials be stopped, particularly at HHS, until the investigations are completed.
A copy of Price's full statement is included below.
Statement of HHS Secretary Tom Price, M.D., Regarding Private Charter Airplane Travel
"I continue to welcome and am cooperating fully with the Office of Inspector General (OIG) review of processes and procedures related to my official travel as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). I have also taken the additional step of initiating a departmental review to determine if any changes or reforms are necessary. As I have previously stated, all of this travel was approved by legal and HHS officials.
"Despite this, I regret the concerns this has raised regarding the use of taxpayer dollars. All of my political career I've fought for the taxpayers. It is clear to me that in this case, I was not sensitive enough to my concern for the taxpayer. I know as well as anyone that the American people want to know that their hard-earned dollars are being spent wisely by government officials.
"To make sure everyone knows that I understand and appreciate this, and to make sure everyone knows that this will never happen again, I am taking the following steps:
My staff and I will continue to cooperate fully with the OIG and internal review.
I will take no more private charter flights as Secretary of HHS. No exceptions.
Today, I will write a personal check to the US Treasury for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes. The taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes.
"I have spent forty years both as a doctor and in public service putting people first. It has been my personal honor to serve the American people, and I look forward to continuing that service."
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Q: how to open specific page on Google's docs viewer I'm using google's docs viewer to show a pdf document in a html page and I would like to open the document starting on page 20 instead of 1 for example.
There's hardly any documentation about Google's docs viewer service. They say in its webpage https://docs.google.com/viewer that the service only accepts two parameters (url and embedded) but I've seen other parameters searching the web, like "a", "pagenumber", "v" and "attid", none of them did anything to me. I've tried to add #:0.page.19 at the end of my url (that's the id of the div containing page number 20 inside the body google creates) but it just ignores it or works in a random way.
Do you guys know how to tell google docs viewer to show the document starting on a specific page?

A: I found these two ones :
1) just an Screenshot(Image) of specific page (without navigation):
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf&embedded=true&a=bi&pagenumber=12

2) a link to specific page of PDF in IFRAME (with navigation):

p.s. then you can have on your website go to page 3

A: For me this solution didn't work with the current version of google viewer. Link to specific page on Google Document Viewer on iPad helped me out. Use &a=bi&pagenumber=xx as additonal URL parameter.

A: I found a solution I'll post here just in case somebody is in the same situation.
Every page inside google's docs viewer iframe has an id like :0.page.X, being X the number of the page. Calling the service like this

won't work (maybe because the pages ids are not yet created when the page is rendered?)
So you just have to add an onload attribute to the iframe:

and voilà, the iframe will automatically scroll down after loading.
Note that page indices are zero-based. If you want to view the 20th page of a document in the viewer, you would need use the parameter :0.page.19

A: Got it working in the imbed viewer
By changing the url with a timout function, this becous the pdf is not directly shown
$(window).load(function() {
    setTimeout(function() { $('.gde-frame').attr('src', 'https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://yourdomain.com/yourpdf.pdf&hl=nl&embedded=true#:0.page.15'); }, 1000);

});

Just copy the imbed url and add your hash for the page (#:0.page.15 > will go to page 15)
You might want to change the language to your own &hl=nl
and for the people how have to support ie8
if you use a boilerplate like this:

you can change the output of the link directly to the pdf like this,
if( $("html").hasClass("ie8") ) {

           $('#linkID').attr('href', 'http://yourdomai.com/yourpdf.pdf');

        };

the pdf will be shown in the pdf reader from IE

A: My PDF is 13 pages, but when I used hash: 0.page.13, it only jumped to page 10. I had to setTimeout and call the same function again:
Only needed to do that once per page load, then it seems to be synched properly. I am sure there is a more elegant solution:
var is_caught_up = false;
function pdf_go(page){
     $('pdf_frame').contentWindow.location.hash=':0.page.'+page;
     if (!is_caught_up){
         setTimeout('pdf_catchup('+page+')', 500);
     }
}

function pdf_catchup(page){
    $('pdf_frame').contentWindow.location.hash=':0.page.'+page;
     is_caught_up = true;
}


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Thursday August 8 2019, Weekly News Digest
Source: LendingClub and LendAcademy
Allen Taylor
Today's main news: Funding Circle debuts U.S. ABS platform for small biz loans. LendingClub to pursue national bank charter, reports Q2 losses. SoFi sues unnamed defendants over Consumer Loan Program 2015 Trust. DigiFi launches first open-source loan origination system. BlockFi raises $18.3M for crypto lending. Funding Circle posts higher revenues, bigger pre-tax losses. Klarna valued at $5.5B after $460 funding round.
Today's main analysis: International P2P lending volumes for July 2019.
Today's thought-provoking articles: PeerIQ on Fed rate cuts. Why employers are paying back employee student loans. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's update on first no-action letter. One man regrets retiring at 34.
Funding Circle debuts small business loan ABS platform. We've been looking forward to this. Funding Circle launches four classes of notes on this $198.5 million deal.
LendingClub to pursue national bank charter. LendingClub announced it is pursuing a national bank charter even as it discusses Q2 losses. But it's not all bad news. Loan originations hit a record $3.1 billion.
SoFi files against Jaime Daric and unnamed defendants. This lawsuit was filed on July 12 in the Superior Court of California for San Francisco County.
PeerIQ on the Fed rate cuts. PeerIQ also has something to say about other recent news.
DigiFi launches open-source loan origination system. The world's first. This is huge, but I wonder why no one else has thought about this before.
BlockFi raises $18.3 million for crypto lending. That's not a huge raise, but it's a decent raise for such a small market. I do expect the crypto lending market to grow, however. The battle lines are being drawn.
If you want to hire millennials, employers must pay off student loans. And many of them are. Worth your time to read.
CFPB's update on credit access and its first no-action letter. This is a MUST-READ.
Why one millionaire regrets retiring at 34. An interesting read.
LendingClub envisions a marketplace bank. There is a lot of interesting news today. LendingClub's news is top billing. More on why they want to be a national bank.
LendingClub gets some digital banking love.
LendingClub registers lower-than-expected losses.
More on LendingClub's losses.
LendingClub increases credit access with Select Plus.
LendingClub says Americans don't need another credit card. Hear that Apple?
Affirm, Verishop partner on buy now, pay later.
Klarna offers installment payments to Toms, Asos customers.
Lendio facilitates over $1.5 billion in small business loans.
Behind the growth of PayPal's SMB lending business.
Earnin hit by security breach.
Banks hit record high small biz loan approvals. Alt lenders decline.
P2Binvestor's struggles.
Fox Corp. buys 67% stake in Credible Labs.
Cross River provides banking as a service.
Al Goldstein of Avant, Amount. Lend Academy interview.
Mall landlords consider becoming lenders.
How one woman paid of $10,000 in credit card debt.
Don't let artificial intelligence trigger a fair-lending violation.
OppLoans review.
Dharma pauses deposits, crypto loans.
Galaxy Digital invests in DrawBridge Lending.
DeFiner.org wins 2019 Detroit Fintech Challenge.
Funding Circle adds U.S. ABS supply.
Funding Circle posts higher revenues, bigger pre-tax losses.
Starling, Tide ramp up competition.
Young SMEs are prime targets for neobanks.
1 in 4 UK robo-advisors shuttered in two years.
OakNorth appoints CTO, COO.
Klarna valued at $5.5 billion, highest valued fintech in Europe. At a time when they begin their expansion in the U.S., which could turn out to be their largest market.
What's next for Klarna?
Penta raises 8 million euros.
Two issues in P2P lending.
EstateGuru launches property-backed loans marketplace in Portugal.
July 2019 P2P lending volumes. This chart is always worth a look at. Mintos jumps ahead of Zopa, RateSetter.
Decentralized finance protocols on Ethereum.
Global impact investing at $502 billion.
Australia: CommBank invests $100 million in Klarna. Klarna will establish itself in the Australian market.
New Zealand: Prospa to establish warehouse facility.
China: Jiayin closes cases against 12,000 online debtors.
India: Indifi raises $21 million.
Australia: Judo raises $400 million.
Singapore: 65% are interested in digital banking.
Funding Circle debuts ABS platform for U.S. small-business loans (Asset Securitization Report), Rated: AAA
LendingClub Discusses National Bank Charter, GreenSky Exploring Sale (Lend Academy), Rated: AAA
LendingClub envisions a 'marketplace bank,' seeks charter (Bank Innovation), Rated: A
Digital Banking: LendingClub Gets Some Fintech Love as it Pursues National Bank Charter (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: A
LendingClub Logs Lower-Than-Expected Losses (PYMNTS), Rated: A
LendingClub posts smaller-than-expected loss on loan originations (Nasdaq), Rated: A
P2P lender LendingClub increases credit access with Select Plus Platform (Verdict), Rated: B
LendingClub: America Does Not Need Another Credit Card, Apple Card Spells Disaster for Consumers (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: A
Court activity on July 12: Sofi Lending Corp. vs Jaime Daric (Northern California Record), Rated: AAA
Rate cuts (PeerIQ), Rated: AAA
DigiFi Launches the World's First Open-Source Loan Origination System (Markets Insider), Rated: AAA
Bitcoin and Ether Lender BlockFi Raises $ 18.3 Million Series A (CoinDesk), Rated: AAA
Want to Hire Millennials? Better Help Repay Student Debt (Bloomberg), Rated: AAA
Verishop and Affirm Partner to Enable Customers to Shop Now and Pay Over Time (Yahoo! Finance), Rated: A
Klarna offers payment installments to Toms, Asos US customers (Retail Dive), Rated: B
Lendio Surpasses $ 1.5 Billion in Small Business Loans Facilitated (Lendio), Rated: A
Behind the growth of PayPal's SMB lending business (Tearsheet), Rated: A
Online lender backed by Nas says it was hit by security breach (New York Post), Rated: A
Small Business Loan Approvals at Banks Hit Record Highs (GlobeNewswire), Rated: A
What business does a crowdfunding fintech have with banks? (American Banker), Rated: A
Fox Corp. Buys 67% Stake In Consumer Loan Marketplace Credible Labs (Stock News Press), Rated: A
Cross River — A Regional Bank Providing Specialized BaaS Services (Tearsheet), Rated: A
Al Goldstein of Avant and Amount (Lend Academy), Rated: A
Mall landlords weigh becoming lenders to blunt retail crash (American Banker), Rated: A
This woman paid off $10,000 in credit-card debt with a personal loan, but her first attempt landed her in the red again (MarketWatch), Rated: A
An update on credit access and the Bureau's first No-Action Letter (CFPB), Rated: AAA
Don't let AI trigger a fair-lending violation (American Banker), Rated: A
Peer-to-peer crypto lending startup Dharma pauses new deposits and loans (The Block Crypto), Rated: A
I quit my job at 34 with $ 3 million—here are my 5 biggest regrets about early retirement (CNBC), Rated: AAA
OppLoans Review: Installment Loans for Borrowers with Bad Credit (Money Check), Rated: A
Galaxy Digital Makes Its Next Move in Crypto Lending Markets (Bitcoin Magazine), Rated: B
Minneapolis-based Digital Finance Startup DeFiner.org Wins 2019 Detroit Fintech Challenge (Yahoo! Finance), Rated: B
Funding Circle adds to August ABS supply with first US deal (GlobalCapital), Rated: AAA
Funding Circle posts higher revenues but pre-tax losses widen (P2P Finance News), Rated: AAA
Tide, Starling Ramp Up Rivalry Over SMB Customers (PYMNTS), Rated: A
Young SMEs and companies that have recently switched banks are prime UK neobank targets (Business Insider), Rated: A
1 in 4 UK robo-advisors shuttered in two years (AltFi), Rated: A
OakNorth strengthening leadership team with appointment of Jackson Hull as CTO and COO (Fintech Finance), Rated: B
Jiayin Closes Cases Against 12,000 Debtors Online (CapitalWatch), Rated: AAA
Swedish fintech Klarna valued at $ 5.5 billion in funding round (Reuters), Rated: AAA
Video: What's next for Klarna, the most valuable EU fintech (Yahoo! Finance), Rated: A
Penta, the German business banking startup, raises €8M additional funding (TechCrunch), Rated: A
Two Issues Currently Evolving on P2P Lending Marketplaces (P2P-Banking), Rated: A
EstateGuru, a Marketplace for Short-Term, Property Backed Loans, Launches in Portugal (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: A
International P2P Lending Volumes July 2019 (P2P-Banking), Rated: AAA
Ethereum's Latest Milestone — 200,000 Smart Contracts (Crypto.IQ), Rated: A
Crowdfunding: alternative ways to find a community of impact investors (Specialist Banking), Rated: B
CommBank Invests US$ 100 Million In Fintech Klarna As Digital Transactions Continue To Grow (Which-50), Rated: AAA
Prospa Establish NZ Warehouse Facility, Shares Rise on ASX (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: AAA
Judo bank breaks Aussie record with $ 400m round (Fintech Futures), Rated: A
India's Indifi raises $ 21M to expand its online lending platform (TechCrunch), Rated: AAA
65% of Singapore Customers Interested in Digital Banking (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: AAA
Funding Circle is securitizing its first pool of U.S.-based small business loans.
According to Kroll Bond Rating Agency, the online business-loan lender is marketing $198.45 million in notes backed by loans made to small- and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. Funding Circle has previously issued notes for asset-backed pools of small-business loans in its native UK.
The transaction consists of four classes of notes, including a $142.8 million Class A tranche with an initial A- rating from Kroll, and benefiting from 32.5% credit enhancement.
A topic that has been coming up more often is the potential of a national bank charter. Last week we learned that small business lender OnDeck was pursuing a charter and LendingClub is doing the same.
Today LendingClub reported their Q2 2019 earnings. Highlights include record loan originations of $3.1 billion, up 11% from the prior year period and record net revenue of $190.8 million, up 8% year over year.
GreenSky Q2 2019 Earnings
David Zalik, GreenSky Chairman and CEO included this statement in the press release:
Notwithstanding the Company's solid operating results, in light of the complexity of the Company's operating model, we do not believe that the Company's current market value is reflective of the Company's strong record of cash flow generation and intrinsic value. Accordingly, GreenSky's Board of Directors, working together with its senior management team and legal and financial advisors, has commenced a process to explore, review and evaluate a range of potential strategic alternatives focused on maximizing stockholder value. In connection with this review, GreenSky has retained FTP Securities LLC ("FT Partners") and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as its financial advisors, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Troutman Sanders LLP as its legal advisors.
The news sparked Christopher Donat, an analyst Sandler O'Neill to speculate that Square or Goldman Sachs could be potential buyers according to this article in American Banker.
Peer-to-peer lending platform LendingClub is exploring the possibility of obtaining a national bank charter as it adjusts its strategy following a $10.6 million loss in the second quarter.
Shares in LendingClub (NYSE:LC) are rising during another down market day as the trade war with China has no end in sight and political tempers flare. Shares are currently trading over 10% higher following yesterday's Q2 earnings report where LendingClub said it expected to finally report a positive net incoming in Q3 following years of losses.
Second, LendingClub has hardened its lending model with years of fine-tuning. Unlike some other digital-only banks, LendingClub has been providing credit to consumers for more than a decade having originated over $50 billion in loans.
By the numbers, net loss came in at $10.66 million or $0.12 per share — a lower loss than last year when Lending Club reported a loss of $60.86 million or $0.72 per share. Adjusted loss per share narrowed to $0.01 from $0.08 a year earlier.
Net revenue increased 8 percent from year-ago revenues of $176.98 million in 2018 to $190.8 million in 2019, driven by the higher volume of loan originations Sanborn mentioned. Loan originations during the quarter were at $3.1 billion, up 11 percent year over year. While the revenue number is an improvement, it came in very, very slightly below analysts' estimates.
LendingClub said it now expects smaller loss for the year than it had previously forecast. Adjusted net loss is expected to be between $5 million and $20 million, from $9 million to $29 million.
LendingClub, a US-based P2P lending platform, has introduced the Select Plus Platform to offer borrowers access to sophisticated investors.
Apple Card, a "new kind of credit card" launched by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) in partnership with Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is expected to be made available to the public within the next few days. In fact, it has been reported that invitation emails have already gone out to a small group of iPhone owners. More will follow during August.
One detractor is LendingClub.
Anuj Nayar: Americans don't need another credit card. They need the right tools to help them build their financial futures and pay down debt without the opportunity to accumulate more at high-interest rates. Goldman Sachs tried to pursue building a helpful consumer tool with Marcus but now has slipped back into its old ways, looking to make money by getting consumers hooked on revolving, high-interest debt on Apple's credit card.
The Superior Court of California for San Francisco County reported the following activity in the suit brought by Sofi Lending Corp. against Jaime Daric and other unnamed defendants on July 12: 'Declaration Of Non Service (transaction Id # 63543270) Filed By Plaintiff Sofi Lending Corp., As Attorney In Fact For Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Trustee Of Sofi Consumer Loan Program 2015 Trust'
This week, we discuss the Fed rate cut to the 2 to 2.5% target range, and provide market color on OnDeck earnings.
Fun fact #1: It has been 3,878 days (10.5+ years) since the FOMC last cut rates.
This is the second longest streak on record behind the 4,115 days that passed between cuts in the discount rate since 1954. Markets are speculating on additional rate cuts before year-end although Fed Chair Powell positioned the rate cut as an "adjustment" rather than a change in trend.
Source: Chicago Fed PeerIQ
DigiFi, an enterprise SaaS company building the future of lending technology, announced today the launch of its open-source loan origination system (LOS). The free-to-use platform, which was built over 45,000+ development hours and has been operating in-market with top lenders since late 2018, provides an end-to-end suite of modular capabilities that can be used individually or together to drive digital transformation.
DigiFi's open source release underscores the lending industry's dissatisfaction with the closed-loop systems available from existing LOS providers, which force lenders into onerous long-term contracts for inflexible systems.
Crypto lending startup BlockFi received $18.3 million in a Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures, the company announced Tuesday.
Valar, which was founded in part by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, was joined by Winklevoss Capital, Galaxy Digital, ConsenSys, Akuna Capital, Susquehanna, CMT Digital, Morgan Creek, Avon Ventures and PJC. Valar's investment was its first in the cryptocurrency industry following prior investments in other fintech firms like Transferwise, a press release said.
Like millions of her peers, Nicole Read graduated with thousands of dollars of debt. Unlike most of them, she's getting direct help from her employer to pay it back.
In Read's case, it's $100 a month.
Such plans are spreading. They were on offer to staff at about 8% of U.S. employers in 2019, more than double the 2015 level, according to an April survey by the Society for Human Resource Management.
Another study by business adviser Willis Towers Watson found that 32% of firms are considering introducing a similar benefit by 2021.
Verishop Inc. is excited to announce a partnership with financial technology company Affirm Inc., giving customers more choice at checkout to pay for their purchases over time.
To see if they qualify, customers only need to provide five simple pieces of information2 and a credit decision is made within seconds. Monthly payments are shown in real dollars instead of hard-to-calculate percentages so customers will know exactly what they owe with no hidden or late fees. Customers never pay a dollar more than they agree to at checkout. The pay-over-time option is available for purchases ranging from $50 to $17,500 with a 30-day payment deferral available for smaller amounts.
Klarna, an alternative payment platform, announced Monday that Asos shoppers in the United States will now be able to use its services, according to a press release. The announcement comes after Klarna also publicized its partnership with Toms on Thursday.
Lendio today announced it has facilitated more than $1.5 billion in financing to small businesses across the U.S.
According to the Federal Reserve Banks' 2019 Small Business Credit Survey, "applications to online lenders continued to trend upward" last year, with 32% of applicants turning to online lenders, up from 24% the previous year.
Lendio's 15-minute online application gives business owners access to multiple lenders with offers suited to meet their capital and business needs.
In just a few years, PayPal's business financing solutions has serviced over 225,000 small businesses around the world with funding. Between PayPal Working Capital and PayPal Business Loans, the company has recently surpassed $10 billion of capital it's leant out to SMBs
Earnin, which is also backed by tech investor Andreesen Horowitz, discovered in February that a third-party security firm had accessed customers' bank transactions — including all their debit card purchases and payment statements going back for months, the company confirmed to The Post.
Approval rates for small business loan applications rose to another post-recession record (27.7%) at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets), while also climbing above 50% at small banks in July, according to the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index released today.
Small bank approvals of small business loan applications inched up one-tenth of a percent to 50.1% from 50% in June.
Small business loan approval rates among alternative lenders dropped three-tenths of a percent to 56.8% from 57.1% in June.
Krista Morgan, the founder and CEO of the crowdfunding fintech P2Binvestor, always understood that funding small-business loans through investors would be challenging. But when the firm launched in 2014, she quickly recognized it wasn't lining up the investors or capital that was the difficulty.
"Finding capital through our investor platform has been relatively straightforward," she said. "Finding businesses and winning the business and being competitive in market and building the technology that supports the lending has been the harder side of the marketplace."
Citing reports, as per the terms of the deal, the shareholders of Credible Labs will reportedly receive A$ 2.21 in cash per CHESS depository interest (CDI), representing A$55.25 per share of common stock of the company.
Fox says it will commit up to $USD 75 million ($AUD110.8 million) of growth capital to Credible over the next two years.
Who we spoke to: Gilles Gade (Founder and CEO) and Phil Goldfeder (SVP and Communications)
Establishment year: 2008
Bank license: Yes
API documentation: https://www.crossriver.com/api
We last had Al Goldstein, the CEO and Chairman of Avant and Amount, on the show back in 2015. So much has changed since then not just in the personal loan space but in the banking space as well. And Avant has evolved to meet those challenges.
Mall landlords accustomed to offering rent reductions to ailing retailers are mulling a new strategy to forestall the industry's collapse: positioning themselves as lenders to tenants struggling to stay afloat.
The boutique bank PJ Solomon has organized discussions with several mall owners about pursuing such a strategy with the troubled retailer Forever 21, according to people with knowledge of the matter, in what could serve as a model for future transactions within the sector.
This woman paid off ,000 in credit-card debt with a personal loan, but her first attempt landed her in the red again (MarketWatch), Rated: A
Rogers is far from the only person to have used this debt-consolidation strategy with success. At the end of 2018, nearly 11% of adults in the U.S. held a personal loan, according to data from Experian. EXPN, +1.84%. The number of personal loans has risen 42% since 2015, making them the fastest-growing category of debt in the country.
Around 61% of personal loans are used for debt consolidation, said Ezra Becker, senior vice president of research and consulting at TransUnion.
For some consumers, the use of unconventional sources of information, or "alternative data," to evaluate creditworthiness may be a way to increase access to credit or decrease the cost of credit. Alternative data includes information not typically found in core credit files of nationwide consumer reporting agencies and may indicate a likelihood of meeting obligations on time that a traditional credit history may not reflect.
The Bureau remains committed to using all of the tools at its disposal under the Dodd-Frank Act to help address these important issues around access to credit. Toward that goal, the Bureau is currently reviewing comments to its proposed No-Action Letter, Trial Disclosure, and Product Sandbox policies.
The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning poses both opportunities and risks for financial institutions.
While using such predictive techniques may mitigate consumer lending credit risk, financial institutions should be cognizant of the potential impacts of bias and its implications on fairness.
Dharma, the San Francisco-based crypto lending startup behind the open-source protocol of the same name, has announced via Twitter that it is "pausing new deposits and loans" on its platform.
And in 2012, I finally retired at 34. By the time I quit my job, I had amassed a net worth of about $3 million that generated roughly $80,000 in investment income per year.
If I worked a few extra years before retiring, I would have had the financial confidence to buy more real estate in 2012, right before prices began to take off. (A rental property in San Francisco that cost $900,000 in 2012 would be worth roughly $1.6 million today.)
Source: Bay Area Market Reports, Compass
I also could have leveraged my interests in real estate and technology to start a real estate crowdfunding company — or, at the very least, join one. I still believe that real estate is one of the most straightforward ways most Americans can build wealth over the long term.
One such lender that is looking to capitalize on this space is OppLoans. The US-based lender offers loans to those with poor credit, ranging from $500 up to $5,000.
DrawBridge Lending (DBL), a digital asset loaning, borrowing and investing company, has received an investment from merchant bank Galaxy Digital with the aim to greatly expand DBL's institutional investment and lending capacity.
Less than two years after being conceptualized, Minneapolis-based digital lending & borrowing platform DeFiner.org has beat out 17 other Fintech startups to win one of the industry's most coveted prizes.
UK-based marketplace lender Funding Circle is set to issue its first US securitization, a $198.45m deal backed by loans made to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
FUNDING Circle has increased its revenues but widened its pre-tax losses, according to a half-year report which echoed last month's results preview.
The FTSE 250-quoted firm posted a 29 per cent jump in revenue to £81.4m but pre-tax losses widened to £30.8m from £27.1m in the first half of 2018.
Adjusted core earnings fell year-on-year to £1.2m from £3.3m.
The rivalry between U.K. challenger banks Tide and Starling continues to heat up as Tide signs on its 100,000th small business customer.
Reports in The Telegraph on Monday (Aug. 5) said the companies continue to compete for the small business customer base. Tide has on-boarded 100,000 small business customers, described by the firm's chief executive Oliver Prill as a "very significant milestone."
UK small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are fairly satisfied with their current banking situation, which leans heavily in favor of major incumbents: 88% of financial decision makers at UK SMEs say their main account is with an established high street bank and 86% are either "very happy" or "fairly happy" with the service they receive, per a report from Finastra and YouGov. Further, just 29% of SME respondents said their business would be likely to switch its main bank account in the next five years.
Digital wealth management, or robo advice as it used to be called, has been around for more than a decade and launched into the UK in 2011 with the arrival of Nutmeg. Things started to get really interesting around 2016 and 2017 when a flurry of companies were founded to attack the space dominated by traditional wealth management, an industry looking after £1trn of investors' assets.
OakNorth has today announced the appointment of Jackson Hull as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO). With over 15 year's C-suite experience in London and San Francisco, Jackson is a leading expert in building high-volume eCommerce applications, global SaaS platforms, mobile and IoT platforms, as well as award-winning products and services in finance, fintech, travel, accommodation and retail.
Jiayin Group Inc. (Nasdaq: JFIN), China's online lending platform, announced it has solved more than 12,000 cases of overdue payments and attempts to escape debt as of May.
Shanghai-based Jiayin runs a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, known as Niwodai, which connects borrowers and investors. The company has established a tailored legal department for post-loan management to handle online arbitration. As it reported on its website, as of the end of May, it has closed more than 12,000 cases in more than 30 provinces in China.
Online payments firm Klarna, which has attracted a growing following with its "buy now, pay later" service for shoppers, said on Tuesday it had raised $460 million in a funding round that makes it Europe's most valuable fintech startup.
Investors led by San Francisco-based Dragoneer Investment Group put new money into the Swedish company, giving it a valuation of $5.5 billion and additional financial firepower to expand in the United States.
Yahoo Finance's Adam Shapiro, Julie Hyman, Rick Newman, and Scott Gamm join Klarna Co-Founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski.
Penta, the business banking provider for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that was recently acquired by fintech company builder Finleap, has raised "over" €8 million in new funding.
The startup raised a €7 million Series A round in late 2018, and is thought to have had more than €18 million investment since being founded in 2016.
This week some investors on the p2p lending marketplaces Viventor, Grupeer and Mintos are affected by issues that hinder the normal procedures on these marketplaces.
(Screenshot from Viventor.com)
Update 14:02: Apparently Mintos has now suspended trading of Aforti loans on the secondary market.
EstateGuru, an online marketplace for secured, short term loans, has launched in Portugal, according to a note from the company. EstateGuru is now providing crowdfunding services in six different countries including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, and Spain. EstateGuru said by opening in the Portuguese market the company had achieved its next milestone in its long term strategy.
Mintos leads ahead of Zopa and Ratesetter. The total volume for the reported marketplaces in the table adds up to 611 million Euro.
Source: P2P-Banking
DeFi protocols such as Compound, Dharma, and Uniswap are among the most advanced tools of Ethereum-based P2P lending solutions. Another interesting use case built on Ethereum is the decentralized prediction market platform Augur (REP).
At the same time, there's been a remarkable increase in the impact investment market — investments made with the intention to generate positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return — with the Global Impact Investing Network valuing the global market at $502bn.
Commonwealth Bank has invested in Klarna, a Swedish rival to Afterpay, and will bring the European buy now, pay later provider to Australia. The deal accompanies the bank's continued investment in its digital capabilities.
CommBank invested US$100 million in the fintech's US$460 million funding round, announced yesterday, which values the company at $5.5 billion. The bank will also become Klarna's exclusive partner in Australia and New Zealand.
Online lender Prospa Group Limited (ASX: PGL) has established its first warehouse facility specifically to fund New Zealand small business loans. According to a note from Prospa, the 3-year facility has an initial capacity of NZ $45 million.
Australian challenger, Judo Bank, has completed the biggest single funding round in the country's history by raising $400 million, writes Jane Connolly.
StartupSmart reports that the finance – which is double Judo's original target for the round – came from new institutional investors, including Bain Capital Credit and Tikehau Capital, along with existing investors.
Indifi, a Gurgaon-based startup that offers loans to small and medium-sized businesses and also operates an online lending marketplace, has raised 1,450 million Indian rupees ($21 million) in a new financing round to expand its business in the country.
Indifi, which has raised about $34 million in venture capital to date, has also relied on debt to grow and finance loans on its platform. Currently, it's in about $21 million in debt, Alok Mittal, co-founder and managing director of Indifi, told TechCrunch in an interview.
A typical loan processed by Indifi is of about $7,000 in size. Overall, the startup offers between $1,400 to $70,000 in capital to businesses.
According to a recent survey, in Singapore digital banking has some pent up demand. JD Power has published a brief retail banking satisfaction study and, according to their numbers, 65% of consumers are interested in opening digital bank accounts. This is an increase from the year prior where 52% of surveyed individuals expressed similar digital banking interest.
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Q: Toggle collapse text to single line I'm want to collapse a long text to a single line and show a MORE link on the right. The expanded text should show a LESS link on the bottom and also on the right. Some examples could make it clear:
text text text MORE

text text text text
text           LESS

The collapsed state seems to work fine with position: relative; float: right, but I don't know how to achieve the expanded state. There's nothing like float: right-bottom (actually even simulating float: bottom needs a complicated hack, but this hack doesn't seem to be usable in my case). The algorithm is trivial: If there's enough space after the text, put it at the end of the last line, otherwise, put it in a next line (also right-aligned), but how to tell the browser?
More examples, how it should work.
text           MORE

text a_long_word
text text text LESS

text a_long_word
an_even_longer_word
               LESS

Note that the line text           MORE should be produced as a shortened version of the lines below.
I sort of got it working with something like

MOREthe text....LESS

hiding one of the links, and setting overflow: hidden; height: 20px; in the collapsed case. Now, I'd like to get text-overflow: ellipsis, too...
I'm not looking for a pure CSS solution. I know the height of the expanded text and if I also knew where it ends horizontally, I'd position MORE absolutely and call it a day.

A: That seems really simple with CSS, unless I'm missing something. What about this? http://codepen.io/pageaffairs/pen/AwfoI
<!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset="utf-8">

    text MORE

    text a_long_word text text text LESS

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Q: Source of overcounting in delegation formation Problem: Three delegates are to be chosen from a group of four lawyers, a priest, and three professors. In how many ways can the delegation be chosen if it must include at least one professor?
I realize there are $C(8,3)$ total ways to form a delegation of three (not satisfying the constraint). The total number of delegations without a professor is $C(5,3)$. Thus, the number of delegations with at least one professor is given by $C(8,3)-C(5,3)=56-10=46$.
My question concerns how to go about this in a different way such as $C(3,1)\cdot C(7,2)$, where there will be clear overcounting because there is only one priest, but that representation is as if there were two priests. Now, $C(3,1)\cdot C(7,2)=63$. How could I correct for the extra $17$ delegations introduced? That is, how can I pinpoint exactly where the overcounting is occurring?

A: All the delegations including more than one professor will be overcounted.  Those with two professors will be counted twice, once with each professor being the one counted in the $C(3,1)$.  Those with three professors will be counted three times for the same reason.  The overcounting has nothing to do with having only one priest.  Your $C(3,1)$ picks a professor, then $C(7,2)$ picks two of the remaining people.