It's a fantastic time to be in the market for a Pixel 2 or 2 XL, especially if you're a Verizon customer and live near a Target store. Hot on the heels of a Google Store deal offering $50-75 off the latest Pixel phones, Target is offering a $250 gift card if you activate a Pixel 2 or 2 XL on a new Verizon line or a current one, and Verizon is offering a $300 bill credit spread out over 24 months. That adds up to a rather hefty $550 off Google's latest smartphones, if you're fine with some creative math.
The Galaxy S8 and S8+ are getting extremely cheap for what they are, especially considering they're only about three months old. We're not entirely sure why, but hey, we're not going to complain about it. The latest deal is for the Verizon models at Best Buy, where you can pick the S8 up for just $17.50 a month ($420 total) or the S8+ for just $21.50 a month ($516 total).
Verizon isn't known for having the best prices so much as it is for great coverage, but that doesn't mean it can't offer up some good deals once in a while. Big Red currently has the Pixel and Pixel XL for just $15 and 20 per month, respectively, and it's throwing a free Google Home in. There are also some other nice deals available, such as the Moto Z Play Droid for $5/month and the LG Stylo 2 V for free.
Google's premiere devices for Android Wear 2.0, the LG Watch Style and Sport, had details leaked well before the official announcement today. By contrast, Verizon's announcement comes as something of a surprise. In a blog post discussing how Verizon will offer the LG Watch Sport, the company also announced its own exclusive 'Wear24' smartwatch.
In recent years, WiFi calling has become increasingly prevalent on various carriers and devices; the recently-announced Pixel and Pixel XL back up this fact. Google has confirmed that the Pixel smartphones will support WiFi calling for both T-Mobile and Verizon upon launch.


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Rockefeller heir scoops up $15M co-op combo
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Theodore Spencer, grandson of John D. Rockefeller III, has snagged a combination co-op in Greenwich Village for $15 million, the New York Observer reported. The home is located on the 12th floor of 40 Fifth Avenue, and appears to have broken a price record for the building.
The home was not publicly listed. Without listing data, the Observer said the acquisition appears to include a combination of a three-bedroom classic seven and a two-bedroom apartment.
In addition, the transaction appears to have topped the last record-setting purchase at the building, which was set in 2009 when Chipotle founder Steve Ells bought a four-bedroom penthouse for $11 million, the Observer said, citing StreetEasy data.
Spencer works at the Natural Resources Defense Council's Climate Center. He bought the home along with Tracy Spencer, his wife.
Fred Hochberg, chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, was the seller. [NYO] —Zachary Kussin
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Preventing stroke can be quite possible in many individuals, however sometimes prevention may be more complicated.
As we have seen, there are two main types of stroke. A stroke can take place when blood flow to the brain becomes blocked, either by narrowed blood vessels or a blood clots: The second, less common type occurs when there is bleeding in the brain. Deprived of nutrients, brain nerve cells begin to die within a few minutes. As a result, stroke can cause vision and sensory loss, problems with walking and talking, or difficulty in thinking clearly. In many cases, the effects of stroke are irreversible.
Some people are more at risk for stroke than others and measures and preventing stroke should be considered. The so-called "risk factors", such as high blood pressure and diabetes can increase your risk, cigarette smoking, being overweight, and heavy drinking are also possible risk factors. If you have already had a stroke or a transient ischemic attack (often called TIA or "mini-stroke"), you are at highest risk.
It is now common belief among medical professions that stroke is as preventable as heart attack. In addition to primary prevention tactics such as quitting smoking, drinking only in moderation, and exercising: Medical therapy can also decrease your risk of stroke if you are in a high-risk group. Therefore, it seems prevention is possible.
Leading a healthy life and adopting a number of lifestyle changes can help prevent stroke and also diabetes, heart disease and obesity. Isn't it worth the effort?


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Review: True Grit by Jamie
Filed under: Review | Tags: 2010, 2011, Academy Awards, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Supporting Actress, Carter Burwell, Charles Portis, cinema, cowboy, Elizabeth Marvel, Ethan Coen, film, Films, frontier, Jeff Bridges, Joel Coen, Mike Zoss Productions, movie, movies, oscar, oscar nominated, oscars, Paramount Pictures, reimagining, remake, Review, reviews, Roderick Jaynes, Roger Deakins, Scott Rudin, Scott Rudin Productions, Skydance Productions, Steven Spielberg, True Grit, turn of the century, western, wild west
I've been on a real Western kick lately and I think 'Red Dead Redemption' is entirely to blame. Yes, I'm still playing it, although to be fair I didn't have my Xbox for about three months after Undead Nightmare was released. And so I went through and watched a few westerns like '3:10 to Yuma' and kind of Westerny things like 'There Will Be Blood'. To be fair, I loved those two films the first time I watched them but I'd never really liked Westerns as a kid. My thing was dinosaurs. Show me a cowboy who can beat up an Ankylosaurus and I'll call you a liar. Still, they've weaselled a small way into my heart of recent times (and my head because I can't get the fucking theme to 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly' out of it).
So I was really looking forward to 'True Grit'. Was I disappointed? No sir, I was not. As such, this may be my shortest review in some time. I literally don't wanna spoil anything in this film. I'll say it's very similar to the 1969 version that was based on the same book though there are some pretty big differences which I won't get into, again, for fear of spoilers.
The story revolves around Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a headstrong fourteen year old girl who is determined to track down her father's killer, Tim Chaney (Josh Brolin), and see him hanged. She seeks the help of a US Marshall who she hears has true grit, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) and the party has an on-again, off-again third member in the form of Texas Ranger LaBouef (Matt Damon and here it's pronounced LaBeef). They travel far and wide, dealing with nefarious outlaws from Lucky Ned Pepper's (Barry Pepper) gang as well as growing closer together and learning a lot about each other… kinda.
That's all I'm gonna give you synopsis wise. Seriously, go see the damn film. OK, so everyone is brilliant in this film. Jeff Bridges plays the gruff, drunken yet world-wise Cogburn perfectly. He grumbles and mutters his way through rambling stories about his past just enough that you get to learn about the character and how he came to be where he is but still manages to retain an air of legendary status… at least until a certain point in the film where you kind of get the sense of the kind of man he really is… or is he?
Hailee Steinfeld is truly incredible as Mattie. She portrays the character as someone who's incredibly wise beyond her years, determined and willing to be just a little bit underhanded in order to get what she wants. In fact, you almost get the impression that she's exactly what Cogburn himself would have been like at her age, before drink dulled his senses somewhat. Normally a young character who is so good at getting what she wants and goes about it in such an intelligent way would pull me out of the film a little. I'd find them a little bit unbelievable but Steinfeld managed to have me believing that such a character could exist from the beginning. I'm genuinely shocked that Natalie Portman beat her at the Baftas because, as I think I addressed in my Black Swan review, Portman's good but the character was sometimes just a little too pathetic to the point where it stretched all reason. Steinfeld is literally just perfect. It's also criminal that she's been nominated as a Supporting Actress at the Oscars. As Mark Kermode said if she's the supporting actress then that must make Matt Damon the lead actress.
Speaking of Matt Damon he's also incredibly good as LaBeouf. He infuses the character with a kind of douchiness (and occasionally a kind of paedophilic creepiness) yet never pushes it to the point that you don't like the character. Kind of like what Robert Downey Jr did in Iron Man (and if you wanna see what happens when it gets pushed to the point where you don't like the character, watch Iron Man 2). He's incredibly big headed and thinks that he deserves some kind of special respect because he's a Texas Ranger much to the amusement of Mattie and especially Cogburn. There's a turning point for this character as well where he kinda redeems himself though and it's done very well.
As for the other aspects of the film, well, it looks great as we should probably all expect from the Coen Brothers by now. From big, sweeping Western vistas to close ups of characters standing silently and waiting in the snow for someone following them to catch up, it's all shot perfectly. It looks bleak but somehow beautiful. And it all serves to tell a pretty damn interesting story of vengeance in the old west.
If I did have one problem with the film, it's that occasionally Jeff Bridges mumbling was so severe that it could be kind of hard to understand at times. It's just a little thing really and doesn't take anything away from the awesome that is this film. Five pints out of five. Right, that's all the Oscar season films I'll probably see for now. Time to get back to reviews that aren't gushing and terrible. Time to hopefully watch some films that I can really rip into… Oh Shyamalan, where are you when I need you most? Laterz.
Review: The Social Network by Jamie
Filed under: Review | Tags: 2010, Aaron Sorkin, Andrew Garfield, Angus Wall, Armie Hammer, Atticus Ross, Ben Mezrich, Brenda Song, Ceán Chaffin, cinema, Columbia Pictures, Dana Brunetti, David Fincher, facebook, film, Films, internet, Jeff Cronenweth, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Kevin Spacey, Kirk Baxter, Max Minghella, Michael De Luca, movie, movies, Relativity Media, Review, reviews, Rooney Mara, Scott Rudin, The Accidental Billionaires, Trent Reznor, Trigger Street Productions, website
Some small spoilers but I've tried to keep it relatively spoiler free, nothing that isn't really obvious from watching the first third of the film or so.
Facebook has irrevocably changed the way human beings interact, either for the worse or the better. It's hard to tell which. It ensures that we can stay in touch with old friends who it'd just be difficult to keep in touch with otherwise but then there's always the odd report of a paedophile setting up a group so they can get pictures of kids. Whether true or not (and I tend to lean towards not because it's my experience that the internet creates the ultimate herd mind, a mass organism that has all of it's fight or flight instincts multiplied by billions compared to that which you'd experience in a single human being. If you don't understand then just ask Tommy Lee Jones in Men In Black), these reports certainly help to bring into question just how good of a thing Facebook is. But rarely is the question asked How is Facebook? The reason that that question is rarely asked is because it's poorly worded. A better question would be where did Facebook come from? And that just so happens to be the subject of this film 'The Social Network'.
Now I remember when their was first talk of this film being made and everyone, including myself, were basically saying "A film about Facebook? That's fucking retarded! Who the hell's gonna see that?" It didn't matter that David Fincher was directing or that Aaron Sorkin was writing. It just seemed like a film about a website was a really stupid idea. And on reflection it would be a really stupid idea if that website wasn't Facebook. The reason that Facebook is the exception is, as I stated, it is a world changing thing but more importantly it's the way in which the website came to be that is fascinating.
Still, even knowing that the movie was about the complicated relationships behind Facebook, I wasn't completely sold. The trailer pissed me off a little. What with the whole choir version of Radio head's "Creep" it just seemed so pretentious and so self-important for a film about the founding of a website. Still, I had thought the same thing about the trailer for 'Frost/Nixon' and that ended up being a film that I really loved. The proof I decided would be in the pudding and, as it turned out, what a fucking awesome pudding.
From the opening film where Mark Zuckerberg (Jessie Eisenberg) was having a war of words with his girlfriend to the films final resolution, I was fucking hooked. The story is twisty and turny, filled with betrayal and intrigue. It's hard for me to even begin this review.
Ok, so the basic plot is Mark Zuckerberg breaks up with his girlfriend, hacks Harvard's computer network and creates Facesmash, a website that allows people to compare girls at the university whilst blogging nasty things about his ex. The website goes viral and within a few hours, Zuckerberg has managed to crash the entire Harvard network. He is reprimanded by the school but his actions gain the attention of the Winklevoss twins (Arnie Hammer) and Divaya Narendra (Max Minghella) who approach him with an idea for a new social network, completely exclusive to Harvard, allowing friends to share photos and keep in touch and that kind of thing. Zuckerberg agrees to help them.
As he's working on the site, however, he comes up with his own idea. It's similar to their idea but greatly improved allowing for greater user participation and a wider range of features. He calls it 'The Facebook' and launches it with the financial aid of his friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) who becomes the manager of the business side of The Facebook. Eventually the website expands beyond the grounds of Harvard which attracts the attention of another internet pioneer, Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) the creator of Napster who finds himself having fallen on hard times due to being sued by pretty much everyone in the music industry. It's here when things really start to expand and soon everyone is rich.
Of course the Winklevoss twins and Narenda haven't exactly been too pleased with all this as they feel that Zuckerberg basically just stole their idea. Finding no help from Harvard's higher ups, they send a cease and desist letter and pretty much leave it at that as one of the twins is really reluctant to sue. That is until they find out Facebook has spread all the way to England. Then it's litigation time.
Meanwhile Zuckberberg basically screws over Saverin who also decides to sue him and Zuckerberg suddenly finds himself fighing two cases.
It's these trials that are basically the framework of the film with all the other stuff provided as flashbacks. It's handled really well all though the first time the film left one trial only for the flashback to end in another I was a little confused though it didn't take long to figure out what was going on. It's a really interesting way for this film to play out especially if, like me, you haven't read the book it was based on 'The Accidental Billionaires'. You know that Zuckerberg is gonna screw over the twins and Narendra, at least from their point of view, and it's fairly obvious how but you can't figure out just how he's going to screw over Eduardo who, to be honest, seems like the only real friend that Zuckerberg has due to his… somewhat abrasive personality.
So yes, it's time to talk about Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg. Well, for years the standard joke has been that Eisenberg is basically the guy you get in your film if you can't get Michael Cera but in 'The Social Network' he really shines. I honestly couldn't see Michael Cera pulling this off. The way he portrays Zuckerberg as this arrogant, selfish, self-centered… Hell, basically sociopathic individual that for some reason you still feel something for is amazing.
Hell everyone's amazing in this film. Andrew Garfield stands out as poor Eduardo who sticks with Zuckerberg through everything despite his personality and is ultimately discarded. In fact the scene when he is finally just screwed over by his best friends is one of the most heart-breaking things I've seen since maybe Toy Story 3. I didn't cry this time but I think I was actually close.
Even Justin Timberlake surprised me as Parker, again someone who, like Zuckerberg, should be truly, truly unlikeable but there's something about him that just you just can't fully hate him. Oh, you can hate him more than Zuckerberg but still there's something just kinda likeable beneath all of his doucehbaggery.
Fuck, everything in this film was great. The plot and the way it unfolded, the score by Trent Reznor, the way Eisenberg handled the quick, snappy dialogue, the fact that one guy is playing both twins and you would swear that, no, they must've just cast twin…. Everything. Go see this movei. Drop whatever it is you're doing right now and go see it.
On top of everything else there is a personal investment in this story. We all use Facebook. That's just the way life is now and to see it's origins and to see how it spread and became this major force in our lives, well, it's just incredible. See it. Five pints out of five. Laterz.


Roger Machado was announced as the new coach of Atlético Mineiro; he signed a contract until December 2018.
The coach's appointment was confirmed by the board on Wednesday, but the talks began almost a week ago when the former coach of Grêmio was in Europe. After resigning from the post at Grêmio, the coach went to Europe to study and improve his knowledge in football. And it's where the first contact between Roger and Atlético Mineiro occurred. Hours after the dismissal of Marcelo Oliveira, president Daniel Nepomuceno opened negotiations with Léo Ferreira, agent of Roger. The conversation with the businessman was to know the situation of the coach, who was also on the agenda of Pedro Abad, one of the presidential candidates of Fluminense. During the phone contact with the agent, it was agreed that the coach would not talk to another team before sitting with Nepomuceno and football director Eduardo Maluf. The meeting was scheduled for Wednesday at the home of one of the leaders, and the coach's stance was enough for the board to make sure a positive outcome.
In the seven days between the first conversation and the meeting in Maluf's residence, Roger Machado was not approached by another club. Even newly elected Fluminense president Pedro Abad didn't try to contact the former Grêmio coach. With the path totally free, Atlético Mineiro formalized the proposal and reached an agreement. In the conversations with Roger, however, a point was settled. The coach will not interfere in the training that precedes the final of the Copa do Brasil, which was postponed to December 7. He has already returned to Rio Grande do Sul, his home state, to get the details of the move to Belo Horizonte and enjoy the holidays with his family. The trip to Minas Gerais will only take place in January next year.


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New Haven, Conn. — In a new study, Yale Cancer Center (YCC) scientists suggest that as the number of clinical trials in cancer immunotherapy grows exponentially, some caution should be exercised as we continue to better understand the biology of these new therapeutic targets. The findings are published today in the journal Cell.
Yale's Jun Wang was first author on the paper. Other Yale contributors included Miguel Sanmamed, Ila Datar, Tina Tianjiao Su, Lan Ji, Jingwei Sun, Gefeng Zhu, Linghua Zheng, Ting Zhou, Ti Badri, Sheng Yao, Shu Zhu, Agedi Boto, Mario Sznol, and Kurt Schalper. Other co-authors included Ling Chen and Yusheng Chen of Fujian Medical University, Weiwei Yin of Zhejiang University, Ignacio Melero of the University of Navarra, and Dario Vignali of the University of Pittsburgh.
Lead funding for the research was provided by the National Institutes of Health (Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer) and Boehringer Ingelheim.


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On a crisp autumn afternoon, Michelle Wu stood on a sidewalk in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. She looked around at the small businesses that served the community: a tattoo parlor, a nail salon, a dentist office, a barber shop, and a travel agency. But one storefront on this block particularly excited her: a small Ethiopian restaurant called Ethiopian Cafe. This unassuming restaurant held a special place in Wu's heart, because it was one of the first restaurants to benefit from one of Wu's first initiatives as City Councilor: introducing Bring Your Own Bottle ("BYOB") permits in Boston. Unfortunately, Ethiopian Cafe was also one of only a few restaurants with a BYOB permit. It had been nearly two years since restaurants could apply for permission to allow patrons to bring wine and beer into their establishments, yet, to Wu's surprise, fewer than ten restaurants out of approximately 200 eligible establishments had applied for permits. As of September 2018, only three BYOB restaurants operated in Boston. Wu wanted to increase the program's impact. "What," she wondered, "was needed to make the program more popular?"
The case goes on to describe liquor licensing laws (and their historical origins) in Massachusetts and the political climate and appetite for considering changes to the licensing process. Wu and City Councilor Ayanna Pressley found themselves working from opposite sides of the same problem as Pressley pushed for broad liquor license reform while Wu sought to carve out a highly-specific exception to the law that would allow restaurant owners in disadvantaged communities to obtain a BYOB permit. Wu's ordinance to grant the Boston Licensing Board the authority to promulgate BYOB regulations passed in February 2015; although Pressley said the ordinance was an important step, she was "keeping [her] eye on the ultimate prize—fighting for Boston to have full local control of the liquor licensing process." In light of the subsequently low uptake of BYOB permits, Wu comes to believe that the problem rests with inadequate awareness of the program among restaurant owners and contemplates her next steps.
The case is designed to facilitate a live, in-class discussion to help students understand the challenges and opportunities of political leadership. The case asks students to consider the strategic leadership challenge faced by the protagonist: considering the legal structure of liquor licensing within Boston, should she pursue a full-scale re-examination of the city's liquor licensing or "settle" for the passage of a limited but doable BYOB program. Stu-dents must also consider the value of incremental progress when working to foment change; true leadership is recognizing the value in the aphorism, "the best is the enemy of the good."
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Metacognition training boosts gen chem exam scores
It's a lesson in scholastic humility: You waltz into an exam, confident that you've got a good enough grip on the class material to swing an 80 percent or so, maybe a 90 if some of the questions go your way.
Then you get your results: 60 percent. Your grade and your stomach both sink. What went wrong?
Students, and people in general, can tend to overestimate their own abilities. But University of Utah research shows that students who overcome this tendency score better on final exams. The boost is strongest for students in the lower 25 percent of the class. By thinking about their thinking, a practice called metacognition, these students raised their final exam scores by 10 percent on average – a full letter grade.
The study, published today in the Journal of Chemical Education, is authored by University of Utah doctoral student Brock Casselman and professor Charles Atwood.
"The goal was to create a system that would help the student to better understand their ability," says Casselman, "so that by the time they get to the test, they will be ready."
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Errors in estimation
General chemistry at the University of Utah is a rigorous course. In 2010 only two-thirds of the students who took the course passed it – and of those who didn't, only a quarter ever retook and passed the class.
"We're trying to stop that," Atwood says. "We always want our students to do better, particularly on more difficult, higher-level cognitive tasks, and we want them to be successful and competitive with any other school in the country."
Part of the problem may lie in how students view their own abilities. When asked to predict their scores on a midterm pretest near the beginning of the school year, students of all performance levels overestimated their scores by an average of 11 percent over the whole class. The students in the lower 25 percent of class scores, also called the "bottom quartile," overestimated by around 22 percent.
This phenomenon isn't unknown – in 1999 psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger published a paper stating that people who perform poorly at a task tend to overestimate their performance ability, while those who excel at the task may slightly underestimate their competence. This beginning-of-year survey showed that general chemistry students are not exempt.
"They convince themselves that they know what they're doing when in fact they really don't," Atwood says.
The antidote to such a tendency is engagement in metacognition, or thinking about and recognizing one's own strengths and limitations. Atwood says that scientists employ metacognition skills to evaluate the course of their research.
"Once they have got some chunk figured out and realise 'I don't understand this as well as I thought I did,' they will adjust their learning pattern," he says. After reviewing previous research on metacognition in education, Atwood and Casselman set out to design a system to help chemistry students accurately estimate their performance and make adjustments as necessary.
Accurate estimation
In collaboration with Madra Learning, an online homework and learning assessment platform, Casselman and Atwood put together practice materials that would present a realistic test, and asked students to predict their scores on the practice test before taking it. They also implemented a feedback system that would identify the topics the students were struggling with so they could make a personal study plan.
After a few years of tweaking the feedback system, they added the element of weekly quizzes into the experimental metacognition training to provide students more frequent feedback. By the first midterm exam of the 2016 class, Casselman and Atwood could see that the experimental course section's scores were significantly higher than a control section's that did not receive metacognition training. "I was ecstatic!" Casselman says.
By the final exam, students' predictions of their scores were about right on, or a little underpredicted. Overall, the researchers report, students who learned metacognition skills scored around 4 percent higher on the final exam than their peers in the control section. But the strongest improvement was in the bottom quartile of students, who scored a full 10 percent better, on average, than the bottom quartile of the control section.
"This will take D and F students and turn them into C students," Atwood says. "We also see it taking higher-end C students and making them into B students. Higher-end B students become A students."
Atwood adds that the students took a nationally standardized test as their final exam. That means that the researchers can compare the U students' performance to other students nationwide. The bottom quartile of students at the U who received metacognition training scored in the 54th percentile. "So, our bottom students are now performing better than the national average," Atwood says.
"They're not going to be overpredicting their ability," Casselman says. "They're going to go in knowing exactly how well they're going to do and they will have prepared in the areas they knew they were weakest."
A cumulative effect
This study covered students in the first semester of general chemistry. Casselman has now expanded the study into the second semester, meaning some students have had no semesters of metacognition training, some have had one and some have had two. Preliminary analysis suggests that the training may have a cumulative effect across semesters.
"The students who are successful will ask themselves — what is this question asking me to do?" Atwood says. "How does that relate to what we're doing in class? Why are they giving me this question? If there's an equation, why does this equation work? That's the metacognitive part. If they will kick that in, they will see their grades go straight through the roof."
Both Atwood and Casselman say this principle is not limited to chemistry and could be applied throughout campus. It's a principle universally applicable to learning, and has been hinted at for centuries, including in a Confucian proverb:
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
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Electrification of vehicle powertrains is set to significantly reduce personnel requirements, with suppliers expected to take the hardest hit. The transition to electromobility can succeed if the right overall conditions are established. Government and companies now need to develop strategies to tackle this challenge.
By 2030, electromobility could directly or indirectly impact every second job in the drive technology sector for cars. This is the conclusion of the "Effects of vehicle electrification on employment in Germany (ELAB)" study conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO. According to the findings, electrification and productivity – assuming the most likely developments – will result in the loss of around 75,000 jobs in Germany's drive technology sector. This figure factors in the creation of some 25,000 new jobs for components such as batteries and power electronics. Germany's automotive industry currently employs around 840,000 people, including around 210,000 who work in drive train production.
If you consider that the total number of people employed in Germany exceeds 44 million, the potential loss of jobs is comparatively low, explained Professor Oliver Riedel, institute director at Fraunhofer IAO. "But on a plant and regional basis, the effects can be serious. Think about smaller businesses, for example, that are unable to make up for lost sales of components for internal combustion engines, or structurally weak regions where alternative employment is scarce," he said.
In the study – initiated by IG Metall, BMW, Volkswagen, Daimler, Robert Bosch, ZF Friedrichshafen, Schaeffler, Mahle International and the German Association of the Automotive Industry – researchers from Fraunhofer IAO examined the effects of electromobility on employment in three scenarios. The focus is on a scenario in which by 2030 a quarter of all vehicles are powered by all-electric motors, 15 percent of vehicles are plug-in hybrids and 60 percent have a higher efficiency gasoline or diesel engine. Plug-in hybrids are particularly significant. Owing to the fact that they combine conventional and electric engine types, their impact is positive both in terms of climate and of employment. All scenarios are based on the assumption that the components for hybrid and all-electric vehicles are largely produced in Germany.
The study draws on production data from the participating companies. Given that the share of employment analyzed at these companies accounts for more than half of the drive technology value chains in Germany, the results are highly valid.


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"Trapper" John McIntyre - is a fictional character in the novels, the film (played by Elliott Gould) and the M*A*S*H TV series (played by Wayne Rogers). He is one of the main characters in the M*A*S*H TV series during the first three seasons. His nickname comes from an incident in which he was caught having sex with a woman in the lavatory aboard a Boston & Maine Railway train: she claimed in her defense that "he trapped me!" In the book and the film, Trapper John serves as thoracic surgeon of the 4077th. In the film, he has a dry, sardonic, deadpan sense of humor, while in the M*A*S*H TV series he is more of a class clown. Trapper spends much of his time on the series engaging in mischief with Hawkeye Pierce, with the two playing practical jokes on Majors Frank Burns and "Hot Lips" Houlihan, drinking, and trying to seduce women. While Trapper expresses great love for his wife and daughters, he also fraternizes with the nurses a great deal with no pretense of fidelity. In the film, Hawkeye and Trapper are given roughly equal focus, but in the TV series the character became more of a sidekick to the character of Hawkeye. This frustrated Rogers, and in combination with a dispute over the terms of the contract for the fourth season, he quit the show; the character of Trapper was abruptly discharged from the Army and sent back to the United States between seasons. The character later appears in the spin-off TV series Trapper John, M.D., played by Pernell Roberts.
M*A*S*H film - Elliott Gould
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Urizen, character in the mythology of William Blake. A godlike figure, Urizen personifies reason and law, and Blake believed him to be the true deity worshipped by his contemporaries. Blake first told Urizen's story, the struggle against the chaos caused by the loss of a true human spirit, in the so-called "Prophetic Books," including America, a Prophecy (1793), T Blake depicts Urizen as a grim scientist, creating the Earth with a huge pair of compasses.
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Cindy Lou Who (is a sweet young girl from Dr. Seuss' storybook How the Grinch Stole Christmas appearing as a minor character, and the 2000 and 2018 films appearing as one of the main characters, serving as the deuteragonist. She was a two-year-old girl who lives in Whoville and plays a minor role in the story in the storybook. In 1966, she was voiced by the late June Foray. In 2000, she was portrayed by Taylor Momsen in the live-action film of the same name who has more role than her cartoon version. In 2018, she appears in the film remake 18 years since the Jim Carrey film. However, it is computer animated instead of live action and she is voiced by Cameron Seely who was in the film The Greatest Showman)
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Where Are You Christmas by Taylor Momsen (with lyrics)
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Cut out numbers and lettings with icing by using this fab batch of numbers and letter shapes! Great for spelling out names and ages with a set of fun and funky designs, make your cakes stand out with this fun set! Just use the bar to fit it across evenly, cut and then tap out!
This letter cutters set is ideally used with finely-rolled icing and sugar paste. Beginners can enjoy the additional benefit of the instructions on the back, whilst bakers of all skills can enjoy the convenience of the simple 'tap out' mechanism to make your freshly-cut paste pop out.
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Tarod IX is the ninth planet of the Tarod star system, and was the location of a Federation outpost in the 24th century.
The planet was capable of sustaining Human life, although it is not known what planetary class to which Tarod IX belonged. Being the ninth planet in the system, and thus some distance from its main star, it had a frigid climate, and was covered in canyons and escarpments. It was also said to have had intense winds blowing across its surface.
During the mid 2150s, the planet was the site of Human settlement known simply as the Tarod IX outpost. As the planet was located in Sector 30, the settlement was a considerable distance from Earth and other colonies such as Deneva and Vega colony. Moreover, the outpost was also close to Romulan territory. In fact, in 2155, the colony came under attack from the Romulans who vaporized many of its inhabitants. Those who survived were rescued by the Enterprise and had to be treated for radiation burns. (ENT novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, ST reference: Star Charts)
In 2364, the outpost was destroyed by a Borg vessel which had destroyed many outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone. The USS Enterprise-D arrived to investigate the attack shortly after, but the attacker wasn't revealed until the Enterprise's encounter with the Borg in 2365. (TNG episodes: "The Neutral Zone", "Q Who?"; Star Trek CCG: Premiere)
Tarod IX article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
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This Leaked Government Brexit Analysis Says The UK Will Be Worse Off In Every Scenario
Exclusive: BuzzFeed News has seen a new Brexit impact assessment, which says leaving the EU will adversely hit almost every sector and every UK region.
Posted on Jan 29, 2018, 9:30:02 PM GMT
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The government's new analysis of the impact of Brexit says the UK would be worse off outside the European Union under every scenario modelled, BuzzFeed News can reveal.
The assessment, which is titled "EU Exit Analysis – Cross Whitehall Briefing" and dated January 2018, looked at three of the most plausible Brexit scenarios based on existing EU arrangements.
Under a comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU, UK growth would be 5% lower over the next 15 years compared to current forecasts, according to the analysis.
The "no deal" scenario, which would see the UK revert to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, would reduce growth by 8% over that period. The softest Brexit option of continued single-market access through membership of the European Economic Area would, in the longer term, still lower growth by 2%.
These calculations do not take into account any short-term hits to the economy from Brexit, such as the cost of adjusting the economy to new customs arrangements.
The cover title of the new analysis.
The assessment seen by BuzzFeed News is being kept tightly guarded inside government. It was prepared by officials across Whitehall for the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) and is reportedly being presented to key ministers in one-to-one meetings this week ahead of discussion at the Brexit cabinet subcommittee next week.
Asked why the prime minister was not making the analysis public, a DExEU source told BuzzFeed News: "Because it's embarrassing."
Even though the analysis assumes that the UK will agree a trade deal with the US, roll over dozens of the EU's current trade agreements, and consider loosening regulations after Brexit, there is no scenario that does not leave the country worse off.
Officials believe the methodology for the new assessment is better than that used for similar analyses before the referendum.
The January 2018 analysis looked only at existing EU arrangements, which means bespoke arrangements have yet to be modelled. Prime Minister Theresa May has repeatedly said she is seeking a "deep and special partnership with the EU".
The other main findings of the analysis:
• Almost every sector of the economy included in the analysis would be negatively impacted in all three scenarios, with chemicals, clothing, manufacturing, food and drink, and cars and retail the hardest hit. The analysis found that only the agriculture sector under the WTO scenario would not be adversely affected.
• Every UK region would also be affected negatively in all the modelled scenarios, with the North East, the West Midlands, and Northern Ireland (before even considering the possibility of a hard border) facing the biggest falls in economic performance.
• There is a risk that London's status as a financial centre could be severely eroded, with the possibilities available under an FTA not much different to those in the WTO option.
• On the plus side, the analysis assumes in all scenarios that a trade deal with the US will be concluded, and that it would benefit GDP by about 0.2% in the long term. Trade deals with other non-EU countries and blocs, such as China, India, Australia, the Gulf countries, and the nations of Southeast Asia would add, in total, a further 0.1% to 0.4% to GDP over the long term.
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Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the EU David Davis, Theresa May, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, and EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier meet at the European Commission in December 2017 in Brussels.
The government has found itself in repeated difficulty over the existence – or lack – of Brexit impact studies. Last year, the Brexit secretary David Davis suggested that dozens had been carried out "in excruciating detail", but after a Commons vote forced the publication of these assessments, he told MPs he had been misunderstood and they did not exist after all. DExEU published a series of broad "sectoral analyses" instead.
The biggest negative impact comes from the UK's decision to leave both the EU's customs union and the single market – the issue at the heart of the Conservative Party's ongoing internal strife over Brexit.
Leaving these arrangements creates what the analysis calls "non-tariff barriers" to trade, such as loss of market access in certain sectors and new customs and border checks and practices.
Some of these can be minimised if Britain were to remain in the single market via the EEA, and the impact can also be partly offset through domestic policy or trade deals with the US and others, but the losses cannot be eliminated altogether once the UK is outside the customs union.
This new analysis suggests that there could be opportunity for the UK in agreeing trade deals with non-EU countries and deregulating in areas such as the environment, product standards, and employment law.
However, the analysis also casts doubt on the idea that these benefits would be enough to mitigate the losses to the economy caused by leaving the single market and customs union. Moving away from the existing set of rules and standards would also make it harder to trade with the EU in the future, and would be politically controversial domestically.
This specific debate risks deepening the conflict inside the Tory party between those, such as chancellor Philip Hammond, who want to remain more closely aligned to the EU for years, and the hardline Brexiteers, led by backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg.
A government spokesperson told BuzzFeed News: "We have already set out that the government is undertaking a wide range of ongoing analysis in support of our EU exit negotiations and preparations.
"We have been clear that we are not prepared to provide a running commentary on any aspect of this ongoing internal work and that ministers have a duty not to publish anything that could risk exposing our negotiation position."
A government source said: "As part of its preparations for leaving the European Union, officials from across Whitehall are undertaking a wide range of ongoing analysis.
"An early draft of this next stage of analysis has looked at different off-the-shelf arrangements that currently exist as well as other external estimates. It does not, however, set out or measure the details of our desired outcome – a new deep and special partnership with the EU – or predict the conclusions of the negotiations.
"It also contains a significant number of caveats and is hugely dependent on a wide range of assumptions which demonstrate that significantly more work needs to be carried out to make use of this analysis and draw out conclusions."
Alberto Nardelli is Europe editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in London.
Contact Alberto Nardelli at alberto.nardelli@buzzfeed.com.
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Is Margaret Thatcher's Hometown Ready to Put Her on a Pedestal?
GRANTHAM, England — Statues of the politically unpalatable have this 12 months been toppled, beheaded and graffitied from the American South to Belgium, and Britain to New Zealand. Not even Winston Churchill was spared.
In the English city of Grantham, an hour's prepare journey north of London, an 11-foot pedestal now stands empty. That's not as a result of the statue atop it has been vandalized — although many count on will probably be as soon as it's lastly put in.
Next 12 months, that plinth is to develop into the bottom of a stern-looking, larger-than-life bronze monument to Grantham's most well-known daughter: Margaret Thatcher.
If Mrs. Thatcher — the "Iron Lady" who was the primary feminine prime minister of Britain — is presently getting a sympathetic portrayal from Gillian Anderson on Netflix's "The Crown," she stays a divisive and polarizing determine three a long time after leaving workplace.
That's true even in her hometown. So whereas the revealing of a statue is often a festive event, few in Grantham count on Mrs. Thatcher's homecoming to be celebrated as a hero's return.
"If you're a Conservative," mentioned Graham Newton, the information editor of the weekly Grantham Journal, "you want a statue, and you want her recognized. But if you're not, there's a lot of people who — not to put a fine point on it — hated her."
Many in Grantham count on her critics won't wait lengthy to make their mark, Mr. Newton added. "Either way, it'll make a good story for the paper," he mentioned.
Culture wars have been roiling round statues since 2017, when officers in Charlottesville, Va., mentioned they might take away a statue memorializing Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy's prime basic. But voices calling for the elimination of statues related to slavery and colonialism have grown steadily louder this 12 months, significantly because the killing of George Floyd and the resurgent Black Lives Matter motion.
In England, some have taken issues into their very own fingers. A monument to Edward Colston, a 17th-century slave dealer, was toppled in Bristol in June throughout a Black Lives Matter protest.
That identical month, a protester in London scrawled "racist" on a statue of Winston Churchill, an ardent imperialist who as soon as mentioned it was proper for "a stronger race, a higher-grade race" to say territory from one other. (He can also be extensively thought to be Britain's biggest prime minister for his management in World War II.) The statue was boarded as much as stop additional injury, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned on Twitter that it was "absurd and shameful" that Churchill's statue was liable to assault.
As within the United States, the place a statue of Abraham Lincoln was thought of honest sport for protesters in Portland, Ore., a variety of monuments now appears extra weak to assault. And whereas it's uncommon for a statue of a girl — a rarity itself — to draw such sturdy feelings, this was all the time the best way with Mrs. Thatcher.
Internationally, Mrs. Thatcher, who died in 2013 at age 87, could also be seen as a political colossus, the British equal of Ronald Reagan. But in Britain, her 11 years in energy have a extra sophisticated legacy.
Some see her because the chief of a much-needed political and financial revolution, privatizing business, going through down commerce unions and profitable victory for Britain in opposition to Argentina within the Falklands War. To others, she is somebody who, coldly, left cities that had been depending on state-run industries to rot and turned Britain right into a society of uncaring people.
Perhaps that's why Mrs. Thatcher's presence in Grantham is presently so low-key. She grew up above the grocery retailer her father ran, and there's a small plaque on the constructing in the present day — though the shop itself is now a middle for "chiropractic natural therapies," magnificence and therapeutic massage remedies. The city's museum options just a few reveals, together with her childhood mattress and one in every of her fits, although none of her trademark purses are on show.
"She was never very fond of Grantham, and so Grantham was never very fond of her," mentioned John Campbell, a biographer, stating that Mrs. Thacher hardly ever visited the city as prime minister, and didn't point out it in speeches. "She was happy to leave it behind," he mentioned.
The new monument, designed by the sculptor Douglas Jennings, received't be Britain's first to Mrs. Thatcher, however will probably be the primary outdoor, in simple attain of vandals.
In 2002, a marble statue was unveiled by the previous prime minister herself contained in the Guildhall, a regal municipal constructing in London. (She praised the sculpture for its "good, big handbag.") Within months, a person attacked the statue with a cricket bat, earlier than decapitating it with an iron bar. He was jailed for 3 months; the statue was repaired, and remains to be on show.
Another statue of Mrs. Thatcher stands in a foyer of the Palace of Westminster, home to the British Parliament. It has additionally suffered injury since its unveiling in 2007, albeit of a extra benign form: Devoted lawmakers who rubbed the monument's toes to deliver good luck on their means into the debating chamber wore off the patina of the brass.
The Grantham statue was initially proposed for Parliament Square in London, placing Mrs. Thatcher within the firm of Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela and the Churchill statue that was boarded up this summer time.
But officers rejected it twice for quite a lot of causes, together with a rule that folks honored with statues should have been useless for a decade, "to allow partisan passions to cool and enable sober reflection."
The monument is now in storage at a secret location, mentioned Ivan Saxton, the founding father of the Public Memorials Appeal, a nonprofit that raised the cash to erect it.
The plinth was put in in Grantham in February, and the statue was meant to hitch it in May, Mr. Saxton mentioned, however the coronavirus pandemic scuppered these plans. The unveiling ceremony will now be postponed till social distancing is now not required, he added, so the occasion may have a way of pageantry, full with native dignitaries and a army band.
For many, such pomp couldn't be extra inappropriate. In a phone interview, Charmaine Morgan, a Labour Party councilor in Grantham, mentioned that Mrs. Thatcher "represents a period in our history when inequality was prevalent, and many of her policies led to a significant increase in it that is only continuing to grow."
She mentioned she wouldn't thoughts if the statue had been within the city's museum — she simply doesn't need it in public.
Charles Moore, a former editor of The Daily Telegraph newspaper, who wrote a certified biography of Mrs. Thatcher, mentioned such objections had been the views of a minority. "It's obvious there should be statues to Britain's first woman prime minister, and I think they would be accepted by most people in Britain," he mentioned.
Mr. Moore added that whereas "divisive" was the primary phrase most British journalists used to explain her, he most well-liked "successful."
"She won every election she fought," he mentioned. "She won big majorities. And this made some of her critics very, very angry." Her success is what made her divisive, he mentioned.
The authorities in Grantham thought of additional measures to cease the statue from being vandalized, mentioned Rosemary Kaberry-Brown, a Conservative native councilor. "I still think it should be in the middle of a fish pond, so anyone who wanted to vandalize it has a hard job," she mentioned.
But final week, the plinth appeared removed from a fortress. Two native authorities workers stood by it, discussing a plan to put in flower beds.
In interviews with 20 Grantham residents, extra had been in favor of the statue than in opposition to.
Joan McDaniel, 82, mentioned she had combined views on Mrs. Thatcher as a politician, however added that she deserved a monument, even when it may "attract idiots" who would possibly vandalize it.
"It looks just like Maggie — the fierceness of her," Ms. McDaniel mentioned.
Many mentioned it could be good for at the very least one factor: tourism.
"No one talks about Grantham" mentioned Sarah Gibson, 46, a restaurant proprietor. "At least this will get them."
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