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The Regulation of Sustainable Finance in the EU
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Sustainable finance began occupying a prominent place on the EU's policy agenda following the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change and gained significant push with the creation of the High Level Task Force on Sustainable Finance (2016), the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance and the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (2018). The recognition of the urgency of financing the transition to a low-carbon economy and contribute to mitigation and adaptation are at the heart of the EU's sustainable finance strategy, which aims to mobilise and channel capital towards green/sustainable instruments.
Likewise, the EU's current policy agenda and regulatory framework reflect the need to finance the green transition and limit the potential for risks and threats that could undermine economic and financial stability through a prudential approach to climate and environmental risk management, where the finance sector is expected to commit to building a resilient and sustainable financial system.
The Covid-19 pandemic also contributed to a major push the EU's sustainable finance agenda, as it fostered the EU's green financial capacities through the NGEU instrument, where around 30% of the NGEU's RRF will be financed through green bonds. The EU has also recognised the urgency for financial institutions to integrate ESG factors into their business models and risk management strategies, with the aim of ensuring that the entire financial sector plays a key role in driving the transition to a sustainable economy, and also intends to continue exploring new ways to increase the mobilisation of private capital towards sustainable investments. On the latter, a number of important new policy initiatives have been emerging, but much remains to be done to address ESG-related challenges.
Likewise, policy developments are not only moving fast, but also represent a major challenge for financial institutions and financial regulators and supervisors, as they must adapt quickly to these policy changes while at the same time striving to contribute to a resilient and sustainable economy and financial system.
In light of the latter, this training course will aim to provide an overview of key EU regulatory developments (including current and upcoming legislation), such as the EU taxonomy, the EUGBS proposal, recent initiatives related to disclosure and climate benchmarks (i.e. SFDR, CSRD among others). It will equip participants with relevant knowledge and tools to better understand and critically reflect on the potential opportunities and challenges posed by the new pieces of legislation for different actors/sectors, including policy makers, prudential supervisors and the private finance sector.
In terms of format, this course will be delivered during a 3-day residential course at the EUI premises in Florence. It will also include interactive practical activities/exercises and two optional sessions at the end.
Introduce participants into the world of sustainable finance and the core global policy and regulatory development
Reflect on the role and involvement of the finance sector, central banks, regulators and supervisors in supporting the net-zero transition and a "healthy and sustainable financial system"
Gain relevant knowledge on some of the most common ESG metrics and indicators and critically reflect on their usability / list, compare and reflect on the variety of ESG existing ratings and indicators
Offer a comprehensive overview of the EU sustainable finance strategy, its main objectives and building blocks
Provide participants with significant knowledge to identify the core tools and instruments contained in different regulatory pieces and new proposals related to sustainable finance in the EU
Acquire relevant understanding on the core elements of the EU taxonomy regulation and reflect on the future opportunities and challenges
Critically reflect on the challenges posed by the issue of greenwashing
Familiarise participants with the key objectives components of the CSRD and SFDR and other relevant legislative instruments and policies related to disclosures
Grain relevant knowledge and understanding of the key objectives of the EU Green bond standard proposal and its core components
Identify the role played by the different EU authorities (i.e. ESMA, EBA and EIOPA) within the different legislative pieces
Explore and reflect on some of the current supervisory and regulatory challenges in the realm of sustainable finance
Maria del Carmen Sandoval Velasco
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Pierre Schlosser
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Linda Zeilina
International Sustainable Finance Centre
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€ 1950: Private Sector
€ 1750: Public Authorities (e.g. National Competent Authorities, Central Banks) and European Institutions
€ 950: Full-Time Professors, PhD Students, Research Associates
Please submit a certificate attesting your status of Professor, PhD Student or Research Associate to fbf@eui.eu before registering. FBF secretariat will provide you with a code to register.
* Seats for academics are limited
* Limited seats per institution
Please note that the payment must be settled two weeks before the start of the course.
The fee includes tuition, access to all course materials and pedagogic activities, coffee and lunch breaks and social activities. It does not include travel and accommodation expenses or other local transportation costs (taxis, private cars).
A certificate of attendance will be provided to all participants after the course.
In case you can no longer attend the course, you are required to inform the organisers by sending an email to fbf@eui.eu in order to free a seat for participants in the waiting list.
In case of frequent cancellations, FBF reserves the right not to accept further registrations from the same person.


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Q: 1 sql query results into another I am trying to get distinct data from a view that I have created from 2 tables
I have a view with the following data
emplid  date_and_time   cardreader  empl_first_name empl_last_name
845         2017-12-12 08:38:02.000 GH-ENTRY-01 Amanda  Gill
61811       2017-12-12 08:38:00.000 GH-ENTRY-02 Julie   Moore
61618       2017-12-12 08:36:02.000 GH-ENTRY-01 THOMAS  HOEY
62094       2017-12-12 08:36:01.000 GH-EXIT-03  Mikaela Dawson
56481       2017-12-12 08:35:00.000 GH-ENTRY-02 Chase   Bennett
5134        2017-12-12 08:33:02.000 GH-ENTRY-05 Martin  Byron
51532       2017-12-12 08:33:01.000 GH-ENTRY-05 Gary    Brennan
61996       2017-12-12 08:32:04.000 GH-ENTRY-05 Dylan   Roberts
58447       2017-12-12 08:32:03.000 GH-ENTRY-05 Michael Guy
61931       2017-12-12 08:32:01.000 GH-EXIT-01  Mark    Gibbs
61991       2017-12-12 08:32:00.000 GH-EXIT-02  James   Keysell
41932       2017-12-12 08:31:00.000 GH-ENTRY-05 Mark    Sadowski
40437       2017-12-12 08:27:01.000 GH-ENTRY-05 John    Manning
62094       2017-12-12 08:27:00.000 GH-ENTRY-01 Mikaela Dawson
62094       2017-12-12 08:25:01.000 GH-EXIT-01  Mikaela Dawson
61758       2017-12-12 08:25:00.000 GH-ENTRY-02 Deries  Gordon
62094       2017-12-12 08:24:01.000 GH-ENTRY-01 Mikaela Dawson
51532       2017-12-12 08:24:00.000 GH-EXIT-05  Gary    Brennan
61067       2017-12-12 08:23:02.000 GH-ENTRY-05 Matthew Hutchinson
61185       2017-12-12 08:23:01.000 GH-ENTRY-05 Brendan Mckew
61991       2017-12-12 08:21:01.000 GH-ENTRY-02 James   Keysell

I would like to get the most recent record for each emplid
so the query above gets me the data order by date_and_time desc
but the emplid column will have duplicates
so I need to select the distinct emplid as follows
Select distinct emplid
from [EBI_Interface].[dbo].[GateTimes_EmployeeNames]

how do I pass this into the 1st query to only get the distinct emplid for the most recent date?

A: Here is one method:
select e.*
from [EBI_Interface].[dbo].[GateTimes_EmployeeNames] e
where e.datetime = (select max(e2.datetime)
                    from [EBI_Interface].[dbo].[GateTimes_EmployeeNames] e2
                    where e2.emplid = e.emplid
                   );

The canonical solution is to use row_number(), but I think SQL Server does a better job of optimizing this query (with the right indexes).

A: select e1.*
from [EBI_Interface].[dbo].[GateTimes_EmployeeNames] e1
join (select e21.emplid, max(e21.date_and_time) 'dt'
        from [EBI_Interface].[dbo].[GateTimes_EmployeeNames] e21
        group by e21.emplid
    ) e2 on e1.emplid=e2.emplid and e1.date_and_time=e2.dt

If you want to write it some other way around

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Crash Closes Stockton Roadway
STOCKTON – A crash involving several vehicles closed a busy roadway in South Stockton Sunday night.
The crash happened shortly before 9:45pm near the intersection of East Jefferson and El Dorado Streets. At least three vehicles were involved in the crash. Two were sport utility vehicles, and the third a Honda sedan that appeared to be parked.
The occupant of one of the involved SUV's was trapped in the vehicle for a short period of time and had to be freed by Stockton Firefighters. Early reports indicate the motorist was an expectant mother.
El Dorado Street was closed by police during the investigation of the crash. No further details were available at publication time.
Fatal Crash Closes Highway 132
Turlock Police Arrest Suspect in Fatal Hit and Run Case
STANISLAUS COUNTY – At least one person lost their life in a vehicle collision on Highway 132 Tuesday afternoon.
Firefighters and officers with the California Highway Patrol were dispatched to the area of Highway 132 and Gates Road at about 6:11pm. A big rig and a Honda Civic were both involved in the collision and came to rest on the northeast corner of the intersection.
One person was trapped in one of the vehicles and had to be removed by rescue personnel. At about 6:45pm the coroner was requested to the scene.
The truck was hauling soda. Eastbound lanes were unaffected by traffic, one westbound lane appeared closed for emergency equipment. Gates Road was closed while the collision was under investigation.
MODESTO – A pedestrian was rushed to a hospital with major injuries Tuesday evening after a vehicle collision.
The crash happened at about 5:51pm near the intersection of Paradise Road and Harris Avenue. Emergency crews arrived and found the pedestrian down in the roadway. They were rushed to a hospital with major injuries and in unknown condition.
Police and CHP officers closed the road to investigate the collision. Early indications suggest the involved driver remained at the scene.
No further details were available at time of publication.
MODESTO – Officers with the California Highway Patrol investigated a fatal crash Tuesday morning that claimed the life of one motorist.
The crash happened near the intersection of Patterson Road and Skittone Road at about 9:43am. According to Officer Thomas Olsen with the California Highway Patrol, a Honda sedan traveling westbound on Patterson Road was stopped at the intersection to make a turn onto Skittone Road. A white Ford SUV approaching the Honda also westbound was unable to stop. The driver attempted to swerve, rolling the vehicle into the oncoming lane. A Chevrolet SUV traveling eastbound struck the Ford as it rolled.
The driver of the Ford died of her injuries at the scene. She was identified only as a woman in her 60's or possibly older.
The driver of the Honda appeared uninjured. The driver of the Chevrolet SUV and her three children were taken by ambulance to hospitals. Two children were taken to Doctors Medical Center, the third to Memorial.
Officer Olsen explained that had the children not been properly restrained, the crash would have had a much worse outcome.

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Broome Museum
AWM Memorial Boxes
Broome: Then & Now
Shinju Matsuri
Race, Rights & Rivalries
Multicultural Broome
Aboriginal Pearlers
Neck chains
White Australia
White Divers
Racial tensions
Regulated Lives
Stolen Childhoods
Aboriginal Internees
Broome during World War Two
Broome Attacked
Dutch refugees
Courageous rescue
Japanese fighters
Diamond plane
Defending the North
RAAF Tragedy
Broome life
Donations to the Broome Historical Society
Home Race, Rights & Rivalries Aboriginal Pearlers
The abundance of pearl shells in the waters around Broome has shaped the lives of local Aboriginal people, but not always for the better.
Riji from the Broome area
Long before Europeans arrived in Australia, Aboriginal people collected and ate pearl shell oysters.
The shells were of great significance to Aboriginal people in the North West and archeological evidence indicates they were traded to other areas.
Carved shells like this, known as a riji, were worn by Aboriginal men in the Broome area.
The powers of the natives in diving, especially the females, are spoken of as something wonderful, they go down to a depth of seven fathoms and remain below a time that astonishes their white employers.
Perth Gazette and West Australian Times, 25 September 1868
In the early days of the pearling industry, many Aboriginal people were used as pearl shell divers.
The industry began in the 1860s in waters well south of Broome, but the Aboriginal divers came from right across the north west region.
Many of the men and women were forced or tricked into working far from their traditional lands.
In this image from around 1915, some of the men are wearing rijis.
Group of Aboriginal people
A few years ago the aborigines were easily induced to sign a contract binding them to their employer for the diving season, and in remuneration for their labour received the usual pay — food, tobacco, clothing from the neck to the knees, and a blanket. They lived aboard a schooner on the fishing grounds during the five summer months, diving from small boats. . . Excepting an hour for dinner, they remained away from the schooner from sunrise to sunset.
The Inquirer and Commercial News, 9 July 1892
Aboriginals, Employment in the Pearl Shell Fishery (1871)
This law, passed in 1871, aimed to better protect Aboriginal people working in the pearl shell industry and prohibited the involvement of women.
In 1905, however, a royal commission reported that the enforcement of such laws in Broome was 'very mixed'.
By the 1880s, Asian workers using breathing apparatus had mainly replaced Aboriginal skin divers.
While some Aboriginal people remained in the industry, this was usually in the role of deckhands.
In this image, an Aboriginal crewman can be seen working on a pearl lugger.
Aboriginal man working on a pearl lugger
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Eric Cox's Oral History Extract
It was very hard growing up in the mission, because when you get to five years of age you get taken away from your parents and put in the dormitory – they had a dormitory for the girls and for the boys – small boys, middle-sized boys and the big boys – and you never go back to see your parents, you only get to see them from afar, that's all. . . They actually have a lot of boys from the Kimberley sent to the mission. There were about 40 or 50 of all us on one dormitory. But I found it was very good, like no grudge. Everything we were taught, we were doing the right thing. Like there was only two things we used to do: If you're not praying, you're working. If you're not working, you're praying. That's how it was.
Extract from Peter Matsomoto's Oral History
My mother did not want to leave my father and she asked to be interned with him and that meant that my brothers and sister were interned also at Tatura. . . She was a very strong lady and. . . once going through all that trauma, which I blame the authorities for, that. . . once she had me in Tatura, Victoria, she. . . broke down and had mental problems, and the authorities, because her husband was taken away from her even down there and put into not the internment camp but put into Cowra – Cowra was where all the nationalists were, with the Italians and Greeks and all that. And then she was still in Tatura, Victoria so that placed more stress and anxiety on her that she had a mental breakdown and she never ever overcame that, even when the war was over. The four of us. . . the four kids, were taken away from her while she went to a mental hospital in South Australia and we were on our own in Balaclava, which is a racecourse, in those days, in South Australia in one of those shacks where they keep horses, and we had to share that with other Aboriginal families. . .
Peter Koens describes attack 70 years later
Peter Koens was only 13 years old when together with his sister Elly and parents, arrived in a flying boat from Java. He describes that morning exactly 70 years later at the age of 83.
Peter Koens:
Just as we were drifting into the bay the Japanese came in and strafed right across the wing where we were standing and my dad jumped off and he got some shrapnels from the bullets that were coming through, and the fellow that was standing next to me got hit immediately so when I turned around to see what happened to him he just fell into the water and I looked and there was nothing but blood and that's it.
My dad was then at that time yelling at me to come and jump in the water because they were coming back.
So I just jumped into the water and swam to my dad and then we had to find my mother and my sister who were on the other side of plane, so then when we were swimming around the plane I could hear my mother yelling at a man that was also swimming with us to come and get his wife because she was hanging onto this burning wing and with a child around her neck.
But the man could not swim back to the plane to help his wife because the tide was so strong that he had no possibility to reach them and she just disappeared with the wing into the water.
We had twenty people in our plane so I assume the other ones would have the same.
Just shouting and screaming all the time.
So plane was on fire so then once we collected my mother and sister we stayed as close to the fire as possible, that's what our dad told us, in case there were sharks or anything like that.
So, and then after we swam for about ten minutes close to the oil fire he just said to just go onto your back and just lay and relax and stay together, and that's what we did.
Andrew Irelands recount of the Attack
We were first alerted to the fact that we were under attack when holes appeared in the hull, the sun came streaming through these holes and it was rather like being in a colander.
It was probably the second run, by the second aircraft anyway that made its run, that virtually chopped our starboard wing off completely.
It just sunk into the sea, the aircraft listed then to port very badly and from here in difficult to describe, simply that in an endeavour to get the rubber dingy out, I don't quite remember how.
I got up to the flight deck and was either blown or jumped, here again I don't know – the crew say I was actually blown out, but at that time one of the fuel tanks must have erupted and caught fire because it was just an inferno from that point on.
Witness Marjory 'Biddy' Bardwell (The West Australian, 10 March 1942)
It was all incredibly quick. I suppose the whole attack was over in 20 minutes.
Those eight fighter planes tore round at a terrific speed, dived one by one on their objectives, and the rat-a-tat of their machine-guns was followed by a spectacular display of fireworks…
They left a trail of smoke behind them and set fire to everything they hit.
In a few minutes the whole harbour was covered by a pall of thick, black smoke, through which it was impossible to observe what was going on.


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February 28, 2017 / 11:06 AM / in 2 years
With businesses split on U.S. border tax, wider reform looks shaky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major U.S. corporations are going to war in Washington over a Republican 'border adjustment' tax proposal meant to boost exports over imports, with lawmakers in Congress coming under pressure from some of the nation's biggest employers.
Vehicles can be seen going through customs entering the U.S. from Sarnia, Canada from the Bluewater bridge in a view from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Blackhawk helicopter in Port Huron, Michigan August 6, 2008. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
The political split that is opening, most pronounced in the narrowly divided Senate, could doom the proposal. If it dies, prospects for a thorough tax code reform, a top 2017 goal for President Donald Trump's Republicans, would be diminished.
Trump, who has vowed to produce a "phenomenal" tax reform package, without recently offering many specifics, has not taken a clear stand on border adjustment. He spoke favorably about it in a Reuters interview on Thursday.
The main thrust of border adjustment is to exempt companies from having to pay federal income tax on export revenues, while ending the deductibility of import costs from taxable income.
Border adjustment is a core part of a broad tax reform "blueprint" being pushed by House of Representatives Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and tax panel chairman Kevin Brady. The blueprint has not been put into formal legislation, but border adjustment is already a sticking point.
At least eight Republicans in the Senate have expressed concern about it. Several are from Republican-leaning states where Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) is a major employer.
Wal-Mart is a member of Americans for Affordable Products, a business coalition working against border adjustment. Other members include Best Buy (BBY.N), Costco (COST.O), Gap Inc (GPS.N), Macy's Inc (M.N), Nike Inc (NKE.N) and Target (TGT.N).
If the Republican-dominated House approves the blueprint and moves it to the 100-seat Senate, Republicans could lose only a handful of votes and still be able to pass the blueprint.
REPUBLICANS HAVE CONCERNS
"If it came up today, I couldn't support it," Arkansas Republican Senator John Boozman told Reuters. "That's not to say I couldn't (support it) in the future with modifications."
Boozman said he was concerned that border adjustment would raise prices for consumer goods such as cars and gasoline. He said he worried that Arkansas farmers could be hurt, too, if border adjustment triggered a global trade war.
Boozman's state is home to Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer. Wal-Mart and its employees have been among Boozman's biggest backers in 2011-2016, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance watchdog.
Wal-Mart Chief Financial Officer Brett Biggs, on a conference call with reporters a week ago, said, "The things that are being discussed about the border adjustment tax pose a concern."
Republican Senator Tom Cotton, Boozman's Arkansas colleague, has also expressed concerns on border adjustment. "He supports the goals of tax reform and job growth. But he believes that a new tax on working-class Americans is not the best way to achieve those goals," said Cotton spokeswoman Caroline Rabbitt.
Perhaps border adjustment's most outspoken Senate critic is Georgia Republican David Perdue. He has called the House proposal "a bad idea" and urged colleagues not to support it.
One of Perdue's top backers in 2013-2016, according to data from the center on its website, has been the Club for Growth, a conservative group that donates large sums to like-minded politicians. Club for Growth opposes border adjustment.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
Border adjustment has attracted opposition not only from retailers, but also from oil refiners and automakers.
Texas Republican John Cornyn, a senior senator whose constituents include oil and gas firms, as well as companies that do business with Mexico, told Reuters: "If you're talking about disrupting business models that people have come to depend on, there's a lot in play and a lot at stake."
Border adjustment has support from U.S. multinational exporters organized in another group, the American Made Coalition. Its members include Boeing Co (BA.N), Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N), Dow Chemical Co. (DOW.N), General Electric Co (GE.N), Honeywell International Inc <HON.N, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N), Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and United Technologies Corp (UTX.N).
Chief executives of 16 big companies sent a letter this month to lawmakers urging tax reform including border adjustment. In it, the CEOs said border adjustment would make U.S.-manufactured products more competitive abroad and at home.
Since Trump's Reuters interview last week, the White House has sent mixed signals on border adjustment. Trump is scheduled to make a major speech to Congress on Tuesday.
"We would be surprised if Trump specifically mentions (border adjustment) on Tuesday night," said Chris Krueger, analyst at financial firm Cowen & Co. in a research report.
The proposal "is a 15-round heavyweight fight and we are only in the 3rd round ... It can all end with a single uppercut from Trump in opposition, though that does not seem to be the direction the White House is headed," Krueger said.
Additional reporting by Nandita Bose in Chicago; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and James Dalgleish


Developing on the successes of our Source-to-Sea Expedition that occurred in the fall of 2011 and winter of 2012 (see below), the Rockies Project undertook another expedition in the summer of 2012: the Down the Colorado Expedition. Having witnessed the perilous state of the river basin firsthand in their first trip, our two fearless expedition managers, Will and Zak, set out once again to research the river up-close-and-personal. This time they set out to create a video narrative of the river, interviewing stakeholders along the river and producing a video episode series set to be released in the spring of 2013. For this journey they were joined by two other recent Colorado College graduates who acted as Rockies Project field researchers, and in addition to the videos they captured along the way, they took daily water samples to produce a dataset covering the Upper Colorado River. To visit the expedition's website, go to: www.downthecolorado.org.
Down the Colorado Expedition video series released with Canoe and Kayak Magazine!
In the spring of 2013 we teamed up with Canoe and Kayak Magazine to release the five-part video episodes produced from the Down the Colorado Expedition. The video series follows our expedition members from the headwaters of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park to Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona. Examining major issues of the river system through interviews with various stakeholders, including farmers, recreatonalists, and politicians, the series seeks to bring a voice to the many people who rely on a healthy Colorado River. To view all of the episodes and some of the Rockies Project's video work, please visit our Vimeo site.


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Home Aircrafts The longest flight ever: Singapore to Newark (SQ22)
Steph T.
The world's longest commercial flight is back in the game and flying passengers from Singapore to the New York region. On October 11, 2018, the Singapore Airlines set off to cover a long distance of over 15,000km in almost 19 hours.
Flight routes taken by SQ21 and SQ22
The comeback of an older experience
Previously, the Airline Company has stopped long flights due to expensive fuel costs. The flight SQ22 had 150 passengers and 17 on-board crew. The flight took off from the Changi International Airport to Newark's International airport that services New York. However, there was not much of a fanfare.
The administration of the airline company told passengers before takeoff that the flight to Newark would be the longest flight in the world by a distance, and it would take around 19 hours. Earlier in 2018, Qantas airlines launched a long seventeen-hour direct service from Perth to London. Likewise, Qatar airways ran a 17.5 hour long service between Auckland and Doha.
The flight did not have any economy class seats. Instead, it had 94 spacious and premium economy and sixty-seven business class seats. What's more interesting to know is that these state-of-the-art seating can also fold out into a bed.
Singapore Airlines A350-900 Business Class
Is this the future of long haul flights?
Various companies are already using the newer A350 and A900 on their long haul flight routes. These airline models have great on-board structural mechanisms including higher ceilings, lighting designed to decrease jetlag, larger windows, spacious and roomy cabins, etc. So much so, all good things and facilities for busy business travelers.
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However, the ultra-long range version bought by Singapore airlines from Airbus has the longest flying capability, thanks to the amazingly modified fuel system. Now, the airline can fly for 19-20 hours non-stop, and this is something most airline and aviation experts will tell us that it is indeed the future of long haul flying for pleasure and business. The aviation industry is really entering into the new age/era of travel.
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Coming Off Climate Talks, Us To Hold Huge Crude Sale In Gulf
By MATTHEW BROWN and JANET McCONNAUGHEY
Jon Fahey, ASSOCIATED PRESS
FILE - This Oct. 27, 2011, file photo, shows the Perdido oil platform located about 200 miles south of Galveston, Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. is holding a large oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, after a federal judge in a lawsuit brought by Republican states rejected a suspension of fossil fuel sales that Biden imposed when he took office. (AP Photo/Jon Fahey, File)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday will auction vast oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico estimated to hold up to 1.1 billion barrels of crude, the first such sale under President Joe Biden and a harbinger of the challenges he faces to reach climate goals that depend on deep cuts in fossil fuel emissions.
The livestreamed sale invited energy companies to bid on drilling leases across some 136,000 square miles (352,000 square kilometers) — about twice the area of Florida.
It will take years to develop the leases before companies start pumping crude. That means they could keep producing long past 2030, when scientists say the world needs to be well on the way to cutting greenhouse gas emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change.
The auction comes after a federal judge in a lawsuit brought by Republican states rejected a suspension of fossil fuel sales that Biden imposed when he first took office.
The Democrat campaigned on promises to curb fossil fuels from public lands and waters, which including coal account for about a quarter of U.S. carbon emissions, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Yet even as he's tried to cajole other world leaders into strengthening international efforts against global warming, Wednesday's sale illustrates Biden's difficulties gaining ground on climate issues at home.
The administration last week proposed another round of oil and gas lease sales in 2022, in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and other western states. Interior Department officials proceeded despite concluding that burning the fuels could lead to billions of dollars in potential future climate damages.
"We had Trump's unconstrained approach to oil and gas on federal lands and Biden's early attempt to pause drilling. Now it looks like the Biden administration is trying to find a new policy," said researcher Robert Johnston with Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.
"They're being very cautious about undermining their fragile momentum" on climate issues, he added.
The energy bureau said in pre-sale documents released Tuesday that it received bids on 307 tracts totaling nearly 2,700 square miles (6,950 square kilometers). That's the largest total for a single sale since Gulf-wide bidding resumed in 2017. Those seven sales have generated almost $1 billion in total revenue.
Environmental reviews of the Gulf of Mexico sale conducted under former President Donald Trump and affirmed under Biden reached an unlikely conclusion: Extracting and burning the fuel would result in fewer greenhouse gases than leaving it in the ground.
Similar claims in two other cases, in Alaska, were rejected by federal courts after challenges from environmentalists. Climate scientist Peter Erickson — whose work was cited by judges in one of the cases — said the Interior Department's analysis had a glaring omission: They left out greenhouse gas increases in foreign countries that would result from having more Gulf oil on the market.
"The math is extremely simple on this kind of stuff," said Erickson, a senior scientist with the Stockholm Environment Institute, a nonprofit research group. "If new leases expand the global oil supply, that has a proportional effect on emissions from burning oil. Therefore, giving out these leases in the Gulf of Mexico would be increasing global emissions."
The Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in recent months changed its emissions modeling methods, citing Erickson's work. But officials said it was too late to use the new approach for Wednesday's lease sale, which they said had been through "a rigorous process with specific timelines."
"The environmental analysis for Lease Sale 257 was already complete and as such does not contain the newer approach to considering the impacts of foreign consumption of oil and gas," the agency said in a statement provided to The Associated Press.
Administration officials declined AP's interview requests. For upcoming sales, spokesperson Melissa Schwartz said Interior is conducting a more comprehensive emission review than any prior administration, as it appeals the court order that forced their resumption.
Erik Milito, president of the National Ocean Industries Association said he was uncertain that using the new approach would have changed the government's conclusions, since drilling for oil in other parts of the world is less efficient and hauling imports also adds to carbon costs. He described the Gulf as the "backbone of U.S. oil production" and said companies consider it a strong investment.
The continued use of the old analysis rankles drilling opponents who say Biden isn't following through on his climate pledges.
"We're talking about transitioning away from a fossil fuel economy and they are selling a giant carbon bomb of a lease sale," said attorney Drew Caputo with Earthjustice, which has a lawsuit challenging the Gulf lease sale pending in federal court. "That creates a property right to develop those leases. It's a lot harder to keep the carbon in the ground if you sell the lease."
Some Democrats also objected to the sale. The chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, said Biden promised to lead on climate issues but continues running a fossil fuel program with a long history of mismanagement.
"The administration needs to do better," Grijalva said in a statement Tuesday.
The Gulf of Mexico accounts for about 15% of total U.S. crude production and 5% of its natural gas.
Industry analysts had predicted some heightened interest in Wednesday's sale since oil prices rose sharply over the past year. It's also a chance for companies to secure drilling rights before the administration or Congress can increase drilling fees and royalty rates or adopt new restrictions on environmental permits, said analyst Justin Rostant with industry consulting firm Wood Mackenzie.
An outright ban on new leases and drilling seems unlikely after the federal court shot down Biden's temporary suspension, he added.
"Different companies have different approaches and different strategies," Rostant said. "Some could think this might be the year to go big."
Brown reported from Billings, Montana.
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Bill Supporters
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We Stopped the Internet Censoring Bill
We are very glad to say that we defeated the bill. The National Assembly of Korea finally decided to remove the internet censoring provisions from the Copyright Act Amendment Bill. We also blocked attempts to narrow the scope of legitimate private copy. This victory, however, does not mean no internet censoring in South Korea. The communication authorities, specifically the Korea Communication Standard Commission still possess the power to block internet connection. We will keep monitoring the KCSC and the legislative body and raise early alarm if there comes a similar attempt.
Stop Internet Censoring
We have seen many attempts to censor the Internet under the pretext of copyright protection. Notorious attempts are SOPA and PIPA of 2012, which triggered the largest online protest in history and was eventually withdrawn, and ACTA, a plurilateral trade deal killed by the European Parliament in 2012. Now, Korean government tries to enact a much stronger internet censoring rule. If it passes the legislative body, a copyright protection agency may cut off access to websites that the agency views as copyright infringing. The concerns over mass surveillance and privacy vulnerabilities by the proposed rule are widespread amid the government's new drive to block "https" traffic by SNI eavesdropping (See, press release of Korea Communication Commission on February 12, 2019 and press release of MCST on May 2, 2018, both in Korean).
Proposed Bill to Block File Sharing Websites
According to the proposed bill, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) may order internet connection service providers, or ISPs, to block users' access to foreign websites that allow unauthorised sharing of copyrighted materials (proposed Article 133bis (1)(iii)). Also, Korea Copyright Protection Agency (KCoPA), a governmental body, may recommend ISPs to take the blocking measure (proposed Article 133ter (1)(iv)). The bill, having passed the relevant committee in December 2017, is waiting for approval of the Legislation and Judiciary Committee, the final hurdle before the plenary session.
For timeline of the bill, please see timeline.
The censoring proposal is a move to strengthen the Korean three-strikes-out rule and implement the "website shutting down" obligation under the US-Korea FTA. Governmental measures to block, without any prior judicial scrutiny, access to foreign websites that host illegal information is not new. For several years from 1990s, the communication authorities have blocked and filtered contents deemed illegal and violating social norms, including those violating others' copyright. But the proposed bill is new in that the copyright protection agency holds a power to block website access.
The bill is more harmful than SOPA and PIPA that provoked an Internet blackout in January 2012 because the blocking can be implemented by an administrative decision without prior judicial review. Besides, the blocking is handled by a copyright protection agency whose mandate itself is biased in favor of interests of copyright industries rather than a balance striking between protection and dissemination of copyrighted works. Therefore, the proposed bill is very likely to violate the right to access, a citizen's fundamental right in digital environment, institutionalize internet censorship, and bring about a conflict with human rights such as freedom of expression and right to science and culture.
The proposed blocking measure is not limited to websites that are hosting illegal "copies" of copyrighted materials. It also covers any information that can infringe any right protected under the Copyright Act, which may include hyperlink and search result. It further includes computer programs or information that may help circumvention of technological protection measures (TPMs).
The U.N. special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights confirmed that website blocking measures to combat piracy "could result in restrictions that are not compatible with the right to freedom of expression and the right to science and culture." (A/HRC/28/57, para 51)
Who Supports the Bill and Why?
Copyright holders, especially web-based cartoon creators vehemently support the bill. They are backed by copyright bureaus such as MCST and KCoPA who want to strengthen their own authorities. Webcomic writers have suffered from pirate sites such as "Bam Tokki". Due to this suffering, they were captured by the myth that the bill would effectively address piracy problems by quickly blocking pirate sites, more specifically by shortening the time in making an administrative decision for blocking from two months to two weeks.
But the rhetoric of "two months v. two weeks" is misleading. Under the current blocking rules and procedures, the communication authorities may make a decision in two weeks. In reality, the Korea Communication Standard Commission built up a task force to combat piracy and proclaimed that its examination on blocking would complete in four days.
What the bill makes matters worse is skyrocketing of websites blocked by KCSC for the purpose of copyright protection. The bill provoked competition between administrative bodies in holding the blocking power. As shown in the chart below, after the bill passed the relevant standing committee of the National Assembly in December 2017 and the webcomic writers have crusaded to make the bill enacted, KCSC's blocking decisions have tripled in 2018 (from 777 in 2017 to 2,338 in 2018). Further, KCSC tries to simplify the reporting and examination procedures for blocking decisions, implying a weakened procedural fairness.
The copyright protection agency, i.e., KCoPA, is not a proper body to hold a power of website blocking as designed by the bill.
Firstly, KCoPA was established in 2016 by an amendment of the Copyright Act. Its mandate is to provide copyright protection services (Article 122-2 of the Copyright Act). The birth of KCoPA has a historical background. MCST had long provided financial support to Copyright Protection Center, a private organization and one of the main branches of the largest association of copyright industries. The tax money that MCST had provided for the copyright industries amounted KRW 29.9 billions for five years from 2011 to 2015. However, this huge financial support turned out to lack statutory grounds. One way the MCST to avoid this problem is making the private Copyright Protection Center into a public body.
Secondly, KCoPA violates the Copyright Act. The Act requires KCoPA to constitute its committee by keeping a balance between the number of members reflecting the interests of copyright holders and those reflecting the interests of users (Article 122-6 of the Copyright Act). Yet, the committee was not formed under this requirement, and KCoPA has no plan to change the committee construction before a three-years statutory term of office of the existing committee members.
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Scientists Offer Roadmap for Studying Link Between Climate and Armed Conflict
People gather around a community well in Mauritania, Africa. A severe drought led to a major food crisis in the region in 2012.
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By Diana Udel
New assessment provides path forward to manage increased risks of violence from climate change
MIAMI—Climate change—from rising temperatures and more severe heavy rain, to drought—is increasing risks for economies, human security, and conflict globally. Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science are leading an effort to better assess the climate-conflict link to help societies manage the complex risks of increased violence from a changing climate
The links between climate and the risk of violent conflict are well studied; however, scientists in varying research disciplines often disagree about the scope and severity of possible climate change impacts. Some of the open research questions are about the links between climate change and violence, including large-scale armed conflict.
In a new report in Earth's Future, a group of scholars, with backgrounds including environmental and political science, geography, and economics, analyze the relationship between climate and organized armed conflict to define crosscutting priorities for future directions of research. In a previous assessment published in 2019 by the group, it was estimated that over the last century between 3–20 percent of organized armed conflict risk has been influenced by climate.
In this new assessment, the scholars suggest that future directions for climate–conflict research include deepening insight on what the links are, when they matter, and how they manifest. They suggest that future research can use data from diverse sources, including satellite and drone imagery, social media, and population surveys.
"Our changing climate poses threats for human security," said Katharine Mach, an associate professor at the UM Rosenstiel School and lead author of the assessment. "In this commentary perspective, we provide a roadmap for future research that is supportive of appropriate societal responses. The options include deepening our understanding of how climate shapes security and conflict risks, as well as the ways in which research can prioritize ethical, interactive, and ongoing engagement with the many organizations and governments promoting peace and stability in societies."
Changes in Earth's climate are already impacting societies and economies and will further increase the risks of a range of outcomes, including civil conflict, which is profoundly and enduringly destructive for societies. Comprehensive and transdisciplinary efforts are needed to fully understand the multifaceted links between climate and conflict and appropriate responses by governments and humanitarian assistance organizations.
"This research topic is controversial and contested," said Caroline Kraan, a PhD student in the Abess Graduate Program in Environmental Science and Policy. "We came together to provide a full range of expert views to establish a way forward for research that can serve decision-making needs."
According to the authors, priorities for future directions of research include (1) deepening insight into climate–conflict linkages and conditions under which they manifest, (2) ambitiously integrating research designs, (3) systematically exploring future risks and response options, responsive to ongoing decision-making, and (4) evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to manage climate–conflict links.
The study, titled "Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict," Earth's Future - Volume 8, Issue 7, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, on July 2020.The study's coauthors include: Katharine Mach from the UM Rosenstiel School, Caroline Kraan from the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at UM; Neil Adger from University of Exeter; Halvard Buhaug from the Peace Research Institute Oslo; Marshall Burke, James Fearon, Christopher Field, and Kenneth Schultz from Stanford University; Cullen Hendrix from University of Denver; Jean-François Maystadt from the University of Antwerp in Belgium; John O'Loughlin from University of Colorado Boulder; Philip Roessler from William & Mary; Jürgen Scheffran from University of Hamburg; and Nina von Uexkull from Uppsala University in Sweden.
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Norton, John (1858–1916)
from Truth (Melbourne)
John Norton, Eden Photo Studios, 1898
State Library of New South Wales, 892968
It is with great regret that we have to chronicle the passing hence of a great journalist, a great man and a personal friend, in the person of Mr. John Norton, the well-known proprietor of "Truth", who died at Melbourne on the 5th ultimo. Born at Brighton, England, Mr. Norton, after some journalistic experience in the Levant (and after refusing an offer of a distinguished position in the British Diplomatic service) landed in Australia in 1884. At first connected with the "Evening News", he joined the "Truth" newspaper at its origin, and in due course became proprietor of that paper. As a journalist, he was vitality itself: his energy was inexhaustible and in his denunciation of corruption. pumppuritanism, tyranny, and meanness of every kind, he spared no-one from the highest to the lowest. His contempt for the petty, and for the dishonorable, for the Pharisaic and the rottenly respectable, was unbounded; and his language in denouncing all shams and patrons of such was ? in its fervour. His literary style was wide; without the polish of the practised phrasemonger. It had in its rough and volcanic violence of diction the fury of an irresistible torrent of utmost apocalyptic invective. The keen shaft of satire that points the bitterness of Pope's lines was beyond him: the ponderous antitheses of Gibbon were too elaborate for a tribune of the people: but he poured out with the vigor of Rabelais or of Victor Hugo a whirlwind of fierce and stinging English that the "Bulletin" vainly attempted to imitate, and that only a genius Junius or a Butler could have rivalled. In Australia he was a power: and since we have referred to him as a modern Butler in prose, we may speak of him as being (as the epitaph on the author of "Hudibras" expresses so well) "a man of extraordinary learning, wit, and integrity; the curious inventor of a kind of satire amongst us, by which he plucked the mask from pious hypocrisy: the first and last of writers in his way".
As was natural, Mr. Norton made enemies, but his friends—and the poor were particularly his friends—knew full well the essential nobility of his real character. The flinty face he showed to the smug counterfeiters of society hid a kindly heart: and many of the poor of Sydney will lament a vanished friend, who did good by stealth, while his weaknesses were flaunted in the face of the world.
The "Oceania" newspaper was represented at the funeral service and at the graveside by the Editor, and now in these few lines we pay a final tribute to the memory of a great Australian journalist. He hated the false: and he did, he wrote, not always the best perhaps but the best as he saw it, for the annihilation of the false, and for the assertion of the liberties of the oppressed and the downtrodden.
Truth (Melbourne), 6 May 1916, p 5	(view original)
Other Obituaries for John Norton
Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 10 April 1916, p 6
Richmond River Herald (NSW), 5 May 1916, p 3
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funeral, Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW), 20 April 1916, p 4
photo of the crowd at his funeral, Sun (Sydney), 16 April 1916, p 3
his will left nothing to his wife or son, Australian Worker (Sydney), 20 April 1916, p 1
Full Crt reserves its decision in Mrs Norton contestation of her husband's will, Gosford Times (NSW), 16 November 1916, p 8
Norton, John
Norton, Ezra (son)
Rosa, Samuel Albert (friend)
Willis, William Nicholas (business partner)
Meagher, Richard Denis (acquaintance)
Perel, Irvine (acquaintance)
Hervey, Grant (acquaintance)
Clarke, Henry Lowther (opposed)
Black, George Mure (opposed)
Meagher, Richard Denis (opposed)
Lawson, James Robert (related entry)
'Norton, John (1858–1916)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/norton-john-7863/text35129, accessed 22 January 2020.
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Well, I hoped you enjoyed parody week last week on this blog. After the parody of the Old New Thing I posted Monday as an April's fool, I admit I got a little carried away and posted a parody of Hypercritical Tuesday, a parody of Coding Horror Wednesday, and concluded with a fake parody of Fake Steve Thursday.
So of course these posts last week were not entirely serious. But… Let's see, for instance, Did Apple just cargo cult the iPhone platform?; clearly, I would not use a cargo cult metaphor for the iOS platform, even with precautions, outside of a parodic context: "cargo cult" is a very specific and grave accusation that just does not apply to the iOS platform. But just because this was a not-really-serious, parodic post, does not mean it was only for laughs and entertainment: if you are not coming away from that post thinking there was a deeper message to it, then I have not done my job properly (hey, what's this bold text doing here? Oh God Jeff is contaminating me). I think that good satire makes you laugh, then makes you think, and I hope I was up to that standard.
As always, thank you for reading Wandering Coder.


Flowers add a special sense of celebration to our worship each week. They enhance the altar and bring glory to all things beautiful. If you have an artful eye for flower arranging and would like to be part of this ministry please contact the office at 604-941-4800.
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This is a project that has been growing conceptually and in practice for many years now, and is finally finding its space in the ether! It has always been my solid belief (and experience) that everybody will see results from a minimum of 10 minutes, every day. Finding motivation, space and time for 10 quality minutes is feasible for most of us, and once we start seeing the benefits, a lifestyle is created!
This is in no way meant to be a substitute for your supervised classes with an experienced teacher to guide you, this is meant to be your 'filler' for the days that you have no formal scheduled sessions of exercise. These are for your workouts when you are away on holiday. These are for you to request personalised workouts for specific issues you are dealing with.
The first 6 clips can be done in sequence to form a full hour class if you have the time to do that. They are my first ones, so I am sure they will improve as I go along, but do give me feedback as to what works and what doesn't.
To start with I have some clips that give you some explanation about what to listen for and what certain cues mean so that when you start doing the clips, you will understand what I mean and you won't hurt yourself. Please note that Pilates needs to be done carefully and with caution so as not to get injured. If you are unsure of anything, please clarify and ask me by email first.
I hope you will enjoy this process with me and help me get better and giving you better!
Rule of thumb for finding the correct leg and foot alignment.
Understand why we cue the lowering of the ribcage.


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By Steven Lieberman
Observer Reporter
The British Invasion are invading the Canyon Clubs with Dramarama, Naked Eyes and Herman's Hermits
There are three great concerts coming to the Canyon Clubs.
On February 4, Naked Eyes, and on February 26, Dramarama, will take the stage in Agoura Hills.
Naked Eyes is a British new wave band that first rose to prominence in the early 1980's after being formed by two college friends from Bath, England. They had four Top 40 singles in the United States.
Original lead singer, Pete Byrne, is carrying the torch for his fallen bandmate, Rob Fisher. He's put a great band together to play all of their great hits like "Always Something There To Remind Me," "Promises, Promises," and more.
They have toured with The Go-Go's and The Human League and other popular bands from the 80's.
Sporting three of the original members of Dramarama, the band is having more fun than ever and exudes a confidence and ease that only can come through experience.
Peter Wood, Mark Englert, and John Easdale gathered up a new bassist and a drummer and are sounding just like they did back in the day.
Their song "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)" remains one of the most requested songs of all time on LA's world famous KROQ 106.7 FM.
Then, on February 19, the British Invasion brings Herman's Hermits - starring Peter Noone, to the stage at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
At the age of 15, Noone achieved international fame as the lead singer of the legendary sixties pop band, singing hits like "I'm Into Something Good," "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter," "There's a Kind of Hush," "Listen People," and his anthem "I'm Henry VIII, I Am," among many others.
Ultimately, Herman's Hermits sold over 60 million recordings and 14 singles and seven albums went gold.
Noone is known to be larger-than-life on stage. He's talented, witty and has a great connection to the the audience. Nobody has more fun than him and his spirit is contagious.
And he has a well-preserved singing voice which he keeps in shape by consistently touring.
For more information, go to: https://wheremusicmeetsthesoul.com/
Make time to enjoy some Baroque music in Beverly Hills, master performances of the viola on the 28th
Come listen, how Armageddon was averted at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Time to let it be a great summer and get back some of the 70s Classic performances of the Beatles
Celebrate the new year with a classical concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
Disney's Winnie The Pooh
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myGulpTask.js
const gulp = require('gulp');

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module.exports = myGulpTask;
gulp.task('my-gulp-task', myGulpTask);

This allows you to use this gulp task using:
$ npm run gulp myGulpTask
But since the task is directly assigned, would it make sense to define the export as follows:
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    return gulp.src(paths.srcFoo)
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Maybe it's sweating the small stuff, or is there a difference in these two module declarations?

A: There is no difference in either way, the first one is more friendly and easy to read.


When you meet with a financial advisor they may recommend a variety of strategies to fund your retirement. Most recommend a balanced mix of stocks and bonds (this is not a bad plan), some recommend using whole life insurance, and other may recommend an annuity. The problem is that in most cases, the annuity is only good for the financial advisor to get paid a commission and it's not a very smart choice for the client.
Consider recent comments by the federal reserve. While Janet Yellen said that they are expecting an increase in rates, hidden in that speech is an important look into the shifting long term stance of the Fed regarding real interest rates. While nominal interest rates will remain positive and may rise slowly, the Fed intends to keep real interest rates negative, something they are calling "conventional unconventional policy". This means that the inflation rate minus the nominal interest rate is negative and they intend to keep it that way for the forseable future. But what does this mean for annuity holders?
The problem that people face when they buy a fixed annuity is that interest rates are low, astonishingly low. When you look at the rate of return that they get (about 2% from most companies as of the time of this writing) and you net out inflation, at a best case scenario they are just barely keeping pace with the rising cost of housing and goods and more likely they are falling further and further behind. This means that in terms of real purchasing power, annuity owners are becoming poorer and poorer as inflation rises.
A fixed annuity works by paying out a fixed amount of money over a fixed period of time, or for the lifetime of the owner depending upon the type of annuity that they choose. In exchange a lump sum payment, or series of payments was made to the insurance company. Annuity owners obviously have a choice about what to do with their savings and retirement accounts. They chose the annuity for a logical reason, but it may hurt them a lot later in life.
The reason people buy annuities instead of investing their money in stocks and bonds is because they know exactly how much money they will receive in a payout. If they are budgeting for retirement, they can match the payout with their cost of living expenses and be guaranteed to have enough money.
They problem that people run into is that they assume that their cost of living is predictable. In reality, the cost of housing, food, fuel, and unexpected expenses has risen significantly faster than anyone thought over the last 20 years. What is someone to do if they own an annuity? What should they do instead of buying an annuity? Well luckily there are some better options for you.
A fixed annuity may have a place as a small portion of a retirement account because it does guarantee a certain level of income no matter what the market does. On the flip side, the owner bears way to much inflation risk.
What people need instead is a hedge against inflation. There are a couple of ways that someone can allocate a portion of their retirement portfolio to do this.
Gold and precious metals are the best way in our opinion for a client to hedge against inflation. Nothing else has proven to be so effective in the history of the world. No matter what currency you own assets and cash in (we know its almost certainly the US dollar for you) during times of inflation savvy investors have flocked to gold and silver to preserve wealth and fight off the fear of inflation. Why is it such a valuable way to do this?
The relative value of gold stays the same. For example, let's say that an average car costs 10 ounces of gold today and that equates to $15,000. Now let's say that inflation causes the value of the dollar to get cut in half over 5 years. now the average car will cost you $30,000. How much gold is this? Well it will still only be 10 ounces. The value of an ounce of gold will double if the value of currency gets cut in half. Regardless of what happens to the value of currency, the value in terms of buying power of precious metals actually tends to rise slowly over time. During times of inflation, demand for metals actually usually increases their real buying power.
This makes gold and other precious metals like silver and platinum an unrivaled hedge against inflation. The person stuck with an annuity will see their buying power drop with inflation. The best choice between the two is clear to us.
Stocks and bonds can also be a hedge against inflation, but they carry significant risk. Equity prices also reflect relative value, kind of similarly to gold, but they have unique risks and pricing fluctuations that can make them very dangerous for an investor that wants to keep his money. For instance, stocks are subject to price cycles with the economy and market. The prices also don't really depend on 100% tangible factors, the price reflects other market driven variables such as perceived growth potential and speculation as well as overall sentiment.
Price to earnings ratios for equities can range from single digits to hundreds, and historically the S&P500 has ranged between less than 10 and more than 40, a very wide range indeed! This means that the same group of stocks with the same fundamentals may trade for 1/4 the value one day than another day, based on the market sentiment.
Individual stocks can range from negative P/E's to P/E ratios in the hundreds. So while they technically adjust for inflation (all else being equal) the reality is that not all else is nearly equal. Stock prices can do anything. There is some evidence that we are at the end of a bull market upward run in equity values and stock prices may be due for a decline in the not too distant future.
Gold on the other hand does experience fluctuation and cycles, but compared to stocks they have been minuscule for the vast majority of gold's history. Gold tends to rise over time, and for a lot of recent history the gains have outpaced the stock market. Gold goes up when the stock market goes down, gold goes up during times of inflation, and gold tends to go up when the economy is good. If you want to give yourself a good chance with a secure investment, instead of an annuity consider gold.


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'Behind the Shovels': An Homage to Park Crews Everywhere
December 15, 2021 | By Mary Murphy
The Jackson Hole Park crew is a team of snow and park enthusiasts dedicated to making the mountain better.
The Jackson Hole Park Crew is widely known as the Swiss Army knife of the employees on the mountain.
Ever wonder who builds and maintains all the terrain parks at a resort? What about creating those crazy features for Natural Selection and Kings and Queens of Corbet's Couloir?
In this video, Jackson Hole profiles the folks behind the shovels and gives us a really fun glimpse into what it takes to build a park — from the first snowflake on up.
Want to know what life is like on park crew? Watch to find out.
And as the Jackson Hole crew reminded us, "Don't forget to thank your park worker!"
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Mary is based out of GearJunkie's Denver, Colo. office. She has a degree in English and journalism, and has been writing professionally for more than six years. Her outdoor interests span from running to sport climbing, from landscape photography to skiing to pack-paddleboarding. If she's not writing, you can most likely find her at the top of a fourteener, or in a local bakery.
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320 sq. ft. / 29.8 sq. m.
10-14 Cherry Street is located just off of Goldsworth Road within a small industrial complex near to Morrison's supermarket.
The subject property is approximately 0.3 miles away from Woking town centre and with the mainline rail station providing a fast and frequent service to London Waterloo (approximately 26min).
As well as the M25 via Ottershaw being 5 miles away; the A3 via Send is also within 5 miles and there are ample motorway links nearby both North towards London and South to Portsmouth.
The subject space is formed of the ground floor space to the front left hand side as you enter the premises. Internally there is a lobby entrance with a sound recording area to the right and an office/performance space to the front.
There is an extra storage element which can be accessed from the exterior of the unit on the right hand side. The shared WC's for the unit are also accessed from the right hand.
There is no associated parking with the unit.


Officer Kevin Ward, with LPD (holding child) was the first emergency responder on the scene (Sergeant Ronnie Bogany also pictured at right).
2 Vehicle Accident Hospitalizes 2, LIVINGSTON, April 20, 2016 - At approximately 1:30 pm on April 20, 2016, a white 2012 Chevy Malibu, driven by Ieshea Annett Lane, 24, of Cleveland, was north-bound on US-59. Lane was just south of the Livingston City Limits when the rear half (passenger's side) of her vehicle was broadsided by a white 2006 Dodge Ram 250 pickup driven by Billy Grimes Hill, 82, of Livingston. Hill attempted to cross over the north-bound lanes of 59 to the south-bound lanes (from S. Washington, Camp Cho Yeh exit) but failed to yield to Lane. The impact caused Lane to lose control as her vehicle slid backwards into the center median where it came to rest facing south. Hill stopped his vehicle in the crossover part of 59. Allegiance Ambulance and Americare Ambulance Service were dispatched to the scene along with Officers Kevin Ward and Sergeant Ronnie Bogany with Livingston Police Department and Troopers Ashlee McBride and Donny Akers with the Texas Highway Patrol. Lane and her daughter were transported to CHI Livingston Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Hill was physically okay. Traffic on 59 was not blocked during investigation and cleanup. Hill is facing a citation for failure to yield right-of-way. A rollback wrecker from Ken's Towing recovered Lane's vehicle and it will be stored at Harrison Body Shop in Livingston. Hill drove his vehicle from the scene.
24 year old Ieshea Lane's 2012 Chevy Malibu was impacted on the rear passenger's side.
82 year old Billy Grimes, of Livingston, was driving this 2006 Dodge pickup when he broadsided Lane's vehicle.
Trooper Ashlee McBride (left) is the accident investigator.
Lane was transported by ambulance to CHI Livingston Memorial Hospital.
Lane's vehicle was recovered by Ken's Towing (Houdini pictured).


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Ота Докан (*太田 道灌, 1432  —25 серпня 1486) — середньовічний японський військовий діяч.
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Offit Kurman Creates Suburban Philadelphia Presence
Offit Kurman Philadelphia Office Featured in The Legal Intelligencer
By: Lizzy McLellan, The Legal Intelligencer
Josh Quinter
Baltimore-based Offit Kurman is opening its first office in the suburbs of Philadelphia with the hire of two lawyers from Blue Bell-based Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein.
The new office, in Montgomery County, is staffed by partner Joshua C. Quinter and associate Karin Corbett. They both practice construction law and commercial litigation, representing contractors. They will work out of a temporary office in Plymouth Meeting until Offit Kurman finds a more permanent space in the area.
Karin Corbett
Quinter and Corbett officially joined the firm Dec. 30. They said they were attracted by the regional presence and resources the firm provided, while also allowing them to remain in the suburbs. Offit Kurman had already been planning to open an office outside Philadelphia before it began talks with the two attorneys. Quinter, who will be running the suburban office, said Offit Kurman's business philosophy was also a draw.
"Law firms are businesses and they're in the business of practicing law, and that's often lost in the law firm setting," Quinter said. "We understand that we're a business and we want to interact with our clients in the same way."
The firm plans to grow its suburban Philadelphia office "significantly" by recruiting lawyers and groups of lawyers to the new location, CEO Theodore A. Offit said in a statement. Quinter said he has already started talks with some lawyers about joining the new office.
He and Corbett will be bringing most of their clients with them to Offit Kurman, they said, and the firm's intention to open in the suburbs was a factor. The construction industry has become a regional enterprise, Quinter said, which makes Offit Kurman's footprint useful for clients. But his clients also want their legal counsel in a convenient location.– Lizzy McLellan, The Legal Intelligencer (Click here to read the full article)


The data is from the US Census. Below are 1023 Missouri cities ranked 1 through 790. You can copy and paste this list directly into your favorite spreadsheet program. Don't you just adore lovely numbers listed nicely in columns & rows? We do!


Cat in the hat comes back!
Berenstain Bears : all aboard!
Alien in my pocket : on impact!
Junie B. Jones : boo!- and I mean it!
I spy ABC : totally crazy letters!
We lost our entire library (K-5) due to flooding from Hurricane Harvey. For each book that is donated to Mauriceville Elementary library through this site, Bound to Stay Bound will donate 4 books! Help us replace our library and place books in the hands of our students.


In Minnesota, it seems we are constantly in the 'construction season'. Whether it be road, housing or industrial, wherever you look there seems to be a construction project in process. In the construction industry, 25% of injuries incurred on-the-job, are back injuries. Construction sites have the second-highest rate of back injuries than any other injury, next to transportation. Back injuries cause 1 in 100 construction workers to miss time from work every year. The attorneys at Meuser Law, P.A. are experienced in Minnesota workers' compensation and personal injury law and have successfully represented many clients with this type of injury.
When working construction, injuries to the back are most often caused by lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing, or pulling heavy materials. Low back injuries are more likely to occur if you are often carrying heavy loads, twisting while carrying heavy loads, often bending over, or perform work in awkward positions. Most back injuries are sprains and strains, but a back injury can be more severe, such as a herniated disc or nerve impingement.
For example, in a case where the insurance company denies liability, you may have to seek payment of your medical bills through your major medical insurance carrier, like BlueCross and BlueShield. BlueCross and BlueShield would then have a "subrogation interest" in your case.


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#FlashbackFriday: "I'm back."
What we're gonna do right here is go back. Waaay back. Back into time.
Each Friday, SiriusXM will help you reminisce, as we hop into a time machine and relive the great sports moments of the past. Both on the hardwood and off of it, we'll try to bring you some interesting tidbits from back in the day that you may not have known.
It's impossible to consider in this climate of constant distraction that a story could dominate an entire sports league for a day, let alone the entire sports media world, but Michael Jordan's return on March 18th, 1995 was prominent enough to blot out the sun and not just for a day, but for days. The return of His Airness eclipsed the day's results from the NCAA tournament; MLB teams at Spring Training kept practicing, but who was paying attention? MJ's famous two-word fax of "I'm back," delivered to the media on a Saturday no less, sent shock waves throughout the sports world long before hashtags were more than anything you'd see in a phone book. ESPN's news crawl was flooded with the news, CNN's too. NBA teams who were hoping to vie for rings in the years to come surely collectively uttered "Aww, crap." at the news that Jordan was back.
In his first game back from his self-imposed, baseball exile/chasing a dream, Jordan's game, for the first time in years, was matched or outsized by the hype. He lost at Market Square Garden to the ornery Reggie Miller-led Indiana Pacers. He "only" scored 19 points (but also dropped six dimes, nabbed six rebounds and for good measure picked up three steals.) Still, had the game passed him by? He had bulked up significantly for baseball, had he lost a step? Psyche!* NOT!* After his pedestrian-by-only-his-standards game against the Pacers, Jordan warmed up. He hung 27 at the legendary Boston Garden in a Bulls win. Two nights later, in a homecoming, he scored 21 in a loss to the Orlando Magic. The Bulls would lose only twice more in the regular season. The next night in Atlanta, Jordan daggered the Hawks with a game-winner on his way to 32. The next game out at Madison Square Garden against the rival New York Knicks, a mere ten days after announcing his return, Michael did Michael things on his way to 55 points.
Famously, Michael Jordan sported the 45 jersey throughout his return. The reason was simple, his return was so unexpected that neither the Bulls, nor the NBA were prepared to "unretire" his legendary 23. In a ceremony on Opening Night, with MJ in a suit, and Scottie Pippen as the newly christened leader of the Chicago Bulls, the Bulls hung 2-3 up from the rafters in an homage to the incredible run His Airness had delivered. 45 was the number Jordan had worn during his stint on the minor league Birmingham Barons baseball squad and he thought it the most appropriate digit to rock in his on-court return.
All of that changed once the Bulls faced the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference's semifinals. In Game One of the series, Orlando's Nick Anderson famously stripped 45 in the closing seconds, leading to an Orlando fast break that gave the Magic the win. It was a lapse by MJ and a great play by Anderson. Following the game though, Anderson poked the tiger stating Jordan "didn't look like the old Michael Jordan" and that "No. 45 doesn't explode like No. 23 used to." Ever the hyper-competitive athlete and trash-talker, Jordan switched back to "23" for the next game and the remainder of the series. The NBA fined the Bulls for the move, but the message was clear. MJ subsequently dropped 38 and 40 points in the next two games with Anderson left primarily trying to take his foot from out of his mouth.
Of course, Orlando did wind up winning the series and went on to lose to the Houston Rockets in the NBA Finals. Still, it was unmistakably apparent that this was still Michael Jordan's league and the rest of the NBA was on notice. The Bulls would win another three-straight NBA titles beginning with the very next season and also reset innumerable NBA records that now, 20 years later, the Golden State Warriors are beginning to break. Michael Jordan, of course, remains the standard that all NBA greats are compared to. He remains the G.O.A.T and Nick Anderson remains a footnote to a Michael Jordan trivia question.
That's so 90s!
The Bulls weren't the only thing that was red-hot in the 1990s. Here's a rundown of a few things that were straight-bangin' in March of 1995.
Billboard top tunes in March of 1995:
Madonna – Take A Bow
TLC – Creep
Soul For Real – Candy Rain
TLC – Red Light Special
Brandy – Baby
Sheryl Crow – Strong Enough
Des'ree – You Gotta Be
The Notorious B.I.G. – Big Poppa
Brownstone – If You Love Me
Boyz II Men – On Bended Knee
Cool food innovations?
The Starbucks Frappucino debuted in 1995. I'm not a fan, but this damn thing has been on Starbucks' menu for over 20 years.
DiGiornio, NOT delivery, debuted in 1995. A better frozen pizza for frat houses everywhere.
Sorry, not sorry?
The Macarena also premiered in 1995, things were cool, but this was not cool. We're sorry, future generations.
*Psyche! and NOT! were "cool" things that "the kids" used to say in the 1990s. Seriously.
NBA, Sports
Find out where to catch your favorite NBA team's regular season openers
NBA All-Star weekend heating up in New Orleans
Jason Terry has a problem with Kyle Korver likely being traded to Cleveland


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Sam Smith: Political Pathology 101
Saturday, 20 October 2007, 11:03 am
Opinion: Sam Smith
Political Pathology 101
Undernews Extract From Prorev.com Editor Sam Smith
Given that so many politicians lie, equivocate, exaggerate or change their positions, it is difficult sometimes to diagnose a truly sick pol. But as with other psychopaths, there are a few clues. One is the way they explain themselves when they're caught. Normal politicians may apologize and ask that we move on or they may say that new factors had entered the equation and so forth. But a truly psychopathic politician will give an explanation devoid of intellectual of moral justification because it is enough for them that their new position helps them do what they want to do. It doesn't occur to them that morality has anything to do with it.
In other words, ask a psychopath why he murdered a woman and he might say, "Because she wouldn't give me her purse." The justification is entirely self centered.
Bearing this in mind, read this by Helene Cooper of the NY Times: |||| Senators Joe Biden and Chris Dodd voted against it. Senator Barack Obama said he would have voted against it if he had voted. Former Senator John Edwards implied he would have voted against it if he could vote.
And Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton? She voted in favor of the measure in question, which asked the Bush administration to declare Iran's 125,000-member Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization. Such a move - more hawkish than even most of the Bush administration has been willing to venture so far - would intensify America's continuing confrontation with Iran, many foreign policy experts say.
Part of the reason for Mrs. Clinton's vote, some of her backers say privately, is that she has already shifted from primary mode, when she needs to guard against critics from the left, to general election mode, when she must guard against critics from the right. That means she is trying to shore up her national security credentials versus Republican candidates like Rudolph Giuliani and Mitt Romney, and is trying to reassure voters that she would be a tough-minded commander in chief. By supporting the bill - sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Jon Kyl of Arizona - Mrs. Clinton is also solidifying crucial support from the pro-Israel lobby.
In other words, we might end up in World War III because President HR Clinton was trying to shore up her rightwing support as she moved from primary to general election mode. It doesn't get much more psychopathic than that.
H.R. Clinton Willing To Wage Illegal War Against Iran
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG, GUARDIAN - Hillary Clinton moved to secure her position as the most hawkish Democrat in the 2008 presidential race, saying she would consider the use of force to compel Iran to abandon its nuclear program. In an article for Foreign Affairs magazine intended as a blueprint for the foreign policy of a future Clinton White House, the Democratic frontrunner argues that Iran poses a long term strategic challenge to American and its allies, and that it must not be permitted to build or acquire nuclear weapons. Article continues "If Iran does not comply with its own commitments and the will of the international community, all options must remain on the table," Ms Clinton said.
Elsewhere, Ms Clinton took the edge off her steely posture by saying she would abandon the Bush administration's policy of isolating its enemies, and would deploy diplomacy. "True statesmanship requires that we engage with our adversaries, not for the sake of talking but because robust diplomacy is a prerequisite to achieving our aims."
She says she would even consider offering incentives to Iran in return for a pledge to disarm. However, she sets out a series of stringent conditions that are virtually identical to current White House policy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/hillaryclinton/story/0,,2191830,00.html
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Higher 30 Day Mortality in Patients with Familial Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm after EVAR
K. M. van de Luijtgaarden, F. Bastos Gonçalves, S. E. Hoeks, J. D. Blankensteijn, D. Böckler, R. J. Stolker, H. J.M. Verhagen*
ACS - Atherosclerosis & ischemic syndromes
Objectives To determine the influence of a positive family history for aneurysms on clinical success and mortality after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). Methods From 2009 to 2011, 1262 patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) treated by EVAR were enrolled in a prospective, industry sponsored clinical registry ENGAGE. Patients were classified into familial and sporadic AAA patients according to baseline clinical reports. Clinical characteristics, aneurysm morphology, and follow-up were registered. The primary endpoint was clinical success after EVAR, a composite of technical success and freedom from the following complications: AAA increase >5 mm, type I and III endoleak, rupture, conversion, secondary procedures, migration, and occlusion. Secondary endpoints were the individual components of clinical success, 30 day mortality, and aneurysm related and all cause mortality. Results Of the 1262 AAA patients (89.5% male and mean age 73.1 years), 86 patients (6.8%) reported a positive family history and were classified as familial AAA. Duration of follow-up was 4.4 ± 1.7 years. Patients with familial AAA were more often female (18.6% vs. 9.9%, p =.012). No difference was observed in aneurysm morphology. There was no significant difference in clinical success between patients with familial and sporadic AAA (72.1% vs. 79.3%, p=.116). Familial AAA patients had a higher 30 day mortality after EVAR (4.7% vs. 1.0%, adjusted HR 5.7, 1.8–17.9, p =.003) as well as aneurysm related mortality (5.8% vs. 1.3%, adjusted HR 5.4, 1.9–14.9, p =.001), while no difference was observed in all cause mortality (19.8% vs. 24.3%, adjusted HR 0.8, 0.5–1.4, p =.501). Conclusions The current study shows a higher 30 day mortality after EVAR in familial AAA patients. Future studies should determine the role of family history in AAA treatment, suitability for endovascular or open repair, and on adaptation of post-operative surveillance. For the time being, patients with familial forms of AAA should be considered at higher risk for EVAR and warrant extra vigilance.
European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejvs.2017.04.018
10.1016/j.ejvs.2017.04.018
van de Luijtgaarden, K. M., Bastos Gonçalves, F., Hoeks, S. E., Blankensteijn, J. D., Böckler, D., Stolker, R. J., & Verhagen, H. J. M. (2017). Higher 30 Day Mortality in Patients with Familial Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm after EVAR. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 54(2), 142-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejvs.2017.04.018
van de Luijtgaarden, K. M. ; Bastos Gonçalves, F. ; Hoeks, S. E. et al. / Higher 30 Day Mortality in Patients with Familial Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm after EVAR. In: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 2017 ; Vol. 54, No. 2. pp. 142-149.
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