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Bedside Big Data, multiorgan variability and complex systems science
Physiological waveform data collection and bedside Big Data
Utilizing the currently untapped information contained in waveform data has the potential to reduce the diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty inherent in critical care. This uncertainty results in delayed diagnosis, unnecessary or inappropriate therapy and increased complications, mortality and cost of care. For over a decade, we have been facilitating and championing physiological waveform collection at hospital sites, within the context of multicenter clinical studies, in order to answer clearly defined, practical clinical problems. One of DAL research focus is the collection, cleaning, processing and extraction of key information from physiological waveform data.
Variability and complexity research
The patterns of variation of fiducial points extracted from physiological waveforms, such as inter-beat and inter-breath interval time series (i.e. HRV and RRV) have been shown to relate directly to underlying health. Health is characterized by a large degree of complex variations and decreased variability is associated with age and illness and correlates with illness severity, indicating reduced adaptability and/or increased stress. In order to uncover and characterize these complex patterns of variation, we have developed a tool called Continuous Individualized Multiorgan Variability Analysis (CIMVA). CIMVA is a software platform for performing a series of automated algorithms that assess the quality of physiological waveform files and provide a comprehensive multivariate characterization of the degree of variability and complexity of physiological signals, tracked over time. Each variability metric calculated provides a unique perspective on the data as no single technique offers a definitive characterization of biologic signals. CIMVA facilitates the reproducibility, internal and external validity of results across different studies and different groups of researchers. Custom drivers have been developed to parse a inputs from various bedside and ambulatory monitors. With the help of CIMVA, we have explored a range of clinical applications of variability monitoring.
Fractals and entropy production
Entropy production is universally present in nature. Thought to be unrelated, fractal structures demonstrating multiscale self-similarity are similarly ubiquitous. Combining data sets from the human organism, the study of the two and their hypothetical association may be evaluated. This research project seeks to fundamentally understand if nature's desire to optimize entropy production is the driving force for fractal structure, by rigorously evaluating multiscale self-similar spatial and temporal structures and their relationship with entropy production, focusing on the utility of this novel understanding. Understanding the association between fractals and entropy production has broad scientific implications for monitoring and impacting the system level properties of far-from thermodynamic equilibrium dynamical systems. This project is run in collaboration with Prof. André Longtin (Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada).
Artificial Intelligence at the bedside: predicting patient outcomes
Predicting Extubation Outcomes
Expeditious, safe extubation is vitally important in the care of ICU patients as prolonged mechanical ventilation and failed extubation (i.e. re-intubation within 48 hrs) are associated with prolonged ICU and hospital length of stay as well as increased morbidity, mortality & costs. Ability to tolerate reduced ventilatory support during a spontaneous breathing trial (SBT) is the current recommended practice to assess extubation readiness. Despite this practice, several studies document an extubation failure rate of 15% and traditional measures (e.g. rapid shallow breathing index) and weaning indices are in general poor predictors of extubation failure. In a large prospective, observational, multicenter CIHR-funded study of 721 patients (Weaning and Variability Evaluation (WAVE) study), we found that while heart rate variability (HRV) and respiratory rate (RRV) during SBTs were significantly altered in association with extubation failure, a predictive model (called WAVE score) based on a few RRV measures demonstrated better predictive accuracy compared to current measures. Internally validated performance of the WAVE score suggest AUCs of 0.72 overall, with increased performance on patients with high RSBI or in patients clinically deemed high-risk. Extubation Advisor™ (EA) is a bedside decision support tool designed to help both standardize the process of SBT performance and reporting, and provide the clinician with optimal prediction of extubation outcomes. EA will provide a means for RTs to record their objective and subjective assessment of an individual patient's readiness for extubation, along with an estimate of the risk of extubation failure based on conventional measures (f/VT) and based on respiratory rate variability analysis, summarizing the information in a report delivered within minutes at the bedside, to help clinicians assess a patient's readiness for extubation. We believe this combination of standardized SBT performance and reporting and optimal prediction of extubation outcomes will improve outcomes and reduce costs, by both decreasing the incidence of extubation failure and expediting extubation of low risk patients, shortening length of stay We are currently analyzing data from a pilot phase I mixed methods observational study, where we introduced and evaluated Extubation Advisor within two academic critical care units and will publish results in early 2019.
Predicting deterioration in patients and risk stratification
Sepsis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality with a large number of hospital admissions, deaths, and $24 billion in hospital costs per year in North America. Severe sepsis and septic shock are the most common causes of mortality in critically ill patients, accounting for 10% to 15% of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and 2.9% of all hospital admissions. Early treatment improves outcomes and unexpected, late deterioration requiring ICU admission in patients with infection initially admitted to the ward are associated with higher costs, hospital length of stay, and greater mortality.
Sepsis risk stratification in the Emergency Department (ED)
Disposition decision-making for patients with infection in the ED is both complex and critical to patient outcomes. A standardized, repeatable and individualized tool to enable ED physicians to predict future deterioration does not yet exist. In a recently published study in collaboration with Dr. Doug Barnaby (Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY), we have evaluated vital signs, laboratory values and HRV prospectively upon ED admission in 1247 patients (832 patients with high quality data) presenting with infection and SIRS. Using machine learning techniques, we have developed model based on a combination of HRV metrics and laboratory values to predict subsequent deterioration (vasopressors, intubation, non-invasive ventilation, ICU admission, death) within 72 hrs of ED presentation, and identified a high-risk cohort of patients. We are currently pursuing validation and are implementing our predictive model as part of a standardized assessment and clinical tool to assist disposition decision-making, deciding if patients should be discharged, admitted to wards or step-down units, and thereby better prevent costly and harmful unexpected deterioration on wards and improve care.
Early warning of sepsis in at risk populations
Bacterial infection leading to septic shock remains a major cause of suffering and death, particularly in patients with impaired host defense. Timely antibiotics and restoration of perfusion are proven to save lives and costs and therefore early identification of both presence and severity of infection is critical to prevent clinical deterioration, organ failure and death. We have demonstrated that HRV monitoring provides an early detection of infection in neutropenic patients, with a loss of heart rate variability across different metrics up to 48h prior to antibiotics escalation. We are now looking at combining the value of sensitive continuous variability monitoring with specific daily serum biomarker assessment, in order to provide early detection and prognostication of infection in high-risk patients with a daily risk stratification and early warning of infection. Over 10 years, we have collected up to 2 weeks of continuous ECG data from 81 ambulatory patients with hematologic malignancy undergoing myeloablation and bone marrow transplantation (BMT), who have a markedly elevated risk of infection. Using machine learning techniques and a small set of features extracted from a composite measure of variability over time, we trained a predictive model to estimate probabilities of deterioration over time for each patient. That model was further combined with key blood serum biomarkers data available at 24h intervals to refine and further improve the prediction. These results are expected to be published in early 2019.
Severity of illness in the ICU
In conjunction with RRV, HRV monitoring helps track the severity of illness and organ failure in critically ill patients and can improve the benefit, timing, and duration of sedation interruption in critically ill patients.
Predicting organ donor suitability and physiology at the end of life
Organ donation provides lifesaving and cost effective treatment for thousands of Canadians, yet hundreds of patients die every year waiting for transplant. Previously, deceased organ donation was a rare event that only occurred after a person was declared dead by neurologic criteria. Organ donation after circulatory determination of death (DCD), which allows donation in the event of a severe unrecoverable illness (but not requiring fulfillment of criteria for neurologic death), has expanded donation. DCD now accounts for a quarter of deceased organ donation in Canada. There is marked potential for DCD to grow as challenges are addressed. Over a third of consented DCD candidates do not proceed to donation after the withdrawal of life sustaining measures (WLSM); patients do not die within the time limits set to minimize ischemic organ damage. These unsuccessful DCD attempts increase family distress and consume scarce healthcare resources because the retrieval team is assembled prior to WLSM. DCD is often not offered to families or if offered, many do not consent to DCD because of the uncertainty regarding likelihood of success. There is a critical need to improve the prediction of time to circulatory death and DCD suitability, and to objectively characterize ischemia time during the dying process. As part of the Death Prediction and Physiology after Removal of Therapy (DePPaRT) Study led by Dr. Sonny Dhanani (University of Ottawa), we have been investigating these questions. Applying machine learning techniques to biomedical waveform data, we have derived and validated a predictive model, based on reduced heart rate and blood pressure variability, demonstrating 80% accuracy in identifying which DCD candidates are likely to become successful donors. Assessment of biomedical waveforms also enables objective characterization of organ ischemia during the DCD process. We hypothesize that this pioneering approach will provide DCD clinical decision support that will enhance the efficiency and success of DCD donation attempts. Ongoing efforts and future plans include pursuing the development of a prototype clinical decision support tool (Donation Advisor, or DA) that will also accurately quantify organ ischemia during DCD and conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) to provide a standardized, personalized assessment of donor and organ suitability. The inability to predict time to death of DCD eligible patients results in uncertainty, inhibition of DCD initiation, and in frequent unsuccessful DCD attempts that harm families and waste scarce resources. Our pioneering bedside application of biomedical engineering combines a novel waveform-derived predictive model rooted in variability analysis along with personalized assessment of organ ischemia during WLSM, within a feasibility RCT. A world-class, multidisciplinary team is poised to complete this study in Ontario, implementing a tool that is automated, adaptive, easy to understand, and timely. The study outcomes have the capacity to markedly improve DCD efficiency, donor effectiveness, family experience, and reduce costs throughout Canada.
Variability monitoring
Autonomic Nervous System function and ability to dissipate heat during environmental and physical stresses
WHO estimates that heat exposure will cause >100,000 additional deaths per year during the 2050s. To address this vital public health issue, experts have urged the development of criteria to identify and, ultimately, protect individuals who are at susceptible to heat stress, such as the rapidly aging population and workforce. A heat stress monitoring system capable of identifying individuals at risk and providing a probability of developing heat related injuries within a given time frame can play an important role in preventing and mitigating the public health risks caused by increased ambient temperatures. HRV monitoring can be an important tool for assessing the impact of heat stress and exercise on vulnerable individuals, with implications for environmental health policies. In collaboration with Dr. Glen Kenny, we are investigating the short- and long-term changes in ANS function and in the ability to dissipate heat, caused by exercise-induced or passive heat stress and related to age, sex, chronic conditions (diabetes, hypertension), environmental conditions (e.g. cooling, protective clothing) and physical characteristics in adults. Using HRV and RRV as indirect measures of cardiopulmonary health and function during exercise or heat stress, we are looking at key metrics that could provide a repeatable and non-invasive assessment of heat-stress susceptibility, predict and prevent incoming heat-related injuries. This could generate appropriate heat management activities (health warning system, emergency response plan, heat adaptation strategies) to protect health during EHE, based on the identification of age- and disease-specific high risk ambient and exercise conditions.
Assessment of Cerebral Autoregulation after Sub-Arachnoid Hemorrhage: Variability in Transcranial Doppler signals
The brain is one of the most metabolically active organs in the human body, accounting for approximately 20% of the body resting energy consumption despite weighting only 2% of the total body mass. While a reduction in perfusion leads to ischemic injury, overabundant cerebral blood flow is also problematic as it may lead to breakdowns in the blood-brain barrier resulting in severe neurologic sequelae. Thus, stringent regulation of cerebral blood flow is crucial to the maintenance of brain function. This physiologic mechanism called cerebral autoregulation adjusts the resistance of the cerebral vasculature with the purpose of maintaining a constant cerebral blood flow regardless of changes in systemic blood pressure. Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is a life threatening condition with an estimated annual incidence of 9.1 patients per 100,000 and case-fatality rates close to 40%. Surviving an episode of subarachnoid hemorrhage is often associated with the early loss of the ability to regulate cerebral blood flow. This is critical, as approximately 80% of patients lacking cerebral autoregulation are at risk of developing delayed cerebral ischemia; a condition that is the leading cause of morbidity, mortality and disability after surviving the rupture of an intracranial aneurysm. Consequently, accurate detection of impairment in cerebral autoregulation can allow early identification of patients at risk of delayed cerebral ischemia, so effective preventative measures could be established. Transcranial Doppler (TCD), a non-invasive ultrasound method that measures cerebral blood flow velocity in large intracranial vessels has been used to study cerebral autoregulation as it can reflect changes in cerebral blood flow with acceptable accuracy. Traditionally, cerebral autoregulation is evaluated by linear correlations between blood flow velocity and pressure, whereby the presence of correlation suggests impaired cerebral autoregulation. However, cerebral blood flow is thought to be a non-linear and non-stationary phenomenon and regulation of cerebral blood flow requires short and long-term adjustments to match substrate delivery with metabolic demands. Preliminary studies suggest that changes in cerebral blood flow variability may increase the likelihood of adverse events. Therefore, nonlinear variability metrics are better suited to identify patients at risk of losing their ability to regulate cerebral blood flow. In this pilot study led by Dr. Rosendo Rodriguez (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute) we are assessing the variability of cerebral blood flow velocity, blood pressure and heart rate over time looking a fractal and chaotic metrics, by using TCD in age- and gender-matched healthy subjects and patients with aneurysmal sub-arachnoid hemorrhage.
Non-invasive fetal health monitoring
In collaboration with Dr. Martin Frasch (University of Washington, Seattle, WA), we are researching the applications of continuous fetal heart rate variability (fHRV) analysis for early detection of hypoxic-acidemia near term as well as the mechanisms and the manipulation of the fetal neuroimmune response to inflammation. Fetal HRV can be used as a non-invasive tool to detect foetal asphyxia near-term better than currently-available FHR monitoring. Multidimensional fetal HRV analyses can also provide a non-invasive approach to identify fetuses developing inflammation and acidemia and thus reduce risk of lasting neurological deficit. We and others have successfully linked fHRV metrics with inflammatory markers in the blood, gut and brain in animal models of fetal development, with potentially important applications for the monitoring of adverse events (acidemia, prenatal stress) in human fetal development. In collaboration with Drs. Helena Soares and Lavinia Schuler-Faccini (INAGEMP - Departamento de Genética - Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), we have also been investigating the use of fHRV to help identify toddlers exposed to Zika virus during pregnancy.
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Korsun slaughter
During the freezing cold night of February 16, five divisions of General Hube's 1st SS Panzer Army, (54,000 men) including the 5th SS Division Viking and the Belgian Volunteer Brigade Wallonie, made a last desperate bid to break out of the Russian encirclement around the towns of Korsun and Shandrerovka in the lower Dnieper south-west of Kiev (Kyiv).
At 4am, elements of the 8th Army formed up into two marching columns of around 14,000 men each and flocked into two parallel ravines in the surrounding countryside, and where the two ravines met, the troops, now in complete disorder, then emerged into open country and headed out towards the town of Lysyanka. There, disaster struck as troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, under General Konev, were waiting.
Soon after 6am, the slaughter began. Soviet tanks drove into the two German columns crushing hundreds under their tracks. Fleeing in panic, the troops were then bombed and shelled before being confronted by units of Cossack cavalry who started hacking them to pieces with their sabres, There was no time to take prisoners and in the short space of three hours around 20,000 German soldiers lay dead, their bodies later dumped in holes dug in the ground.
The hundreds of wounded and medical personnel left behind were butchered by the Cossacks. Only a few officers survived, most had fled the scene by plane some days before. (Russian sources put the number of dead during the two weeks of fighting at over 70,000)
To reach Lysyanka the troops had first to cross the raging Gniloy-Tikich river. Reaching the opposite side many were transformed into blocks of ice their uniforms frozen to their bodies. About eight thousand others, who had fled the scene and were hiding in the woods, were rounded up during the next few days and taken prisoner. For this great victory, General Konev was awarded the title 'Marshal of the Soviet Union'.

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Act of War: Gold Edition
Act of War: Gold Edition includes Act of War: Direct Action and the expansion Act of War: High Treason. Act of War: Direct Action Act of War: Direct Action is a highly realistic, near future real-time strategy game, set against the backdrop of a conflict that threatens to permanently change the fa...
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Act of War: Gold Edition includes Act of War: Direct Action and the expansion Act of War: High Treason.
Act of War: Direct Action
Act of War: Direct Action is a highly realistic, near future real-time strategy game, set against the backdrop of a conflict that threatens to permanently change the face of our world. Created in conjunction with US Air Force captain (ret.) Dale Brown, author of 14 New York Times best-sellers, this techno-thriller game puts you in control of Task Force Talon, a direct action team put together to defend cities around the globe. With the ultimate in authentic modern day weaponry, vehicles and intelligence at your disposal, no other game puts you in better control of tomorrow's war!
Act of War: High Treason
Act of War: High Treason is the thrilling continuation of Act of War: Direct Action. With its fast-paced, action-packed and well-balanced gameplay, extensive tech tree and amazing visuals, this ultra-realistic modern military real-time strategy game is sure to be a welcome addition to any RTS fan's shelf!
With naval combat, expanded tech trees and a massive new single-player campaign, High Treason contains hundreds of hours of intense RTS gameplay!
Control the ultimate in cutting-edge military technology and units in this first look at tomorrow's war!
Command highly realistic modern military units
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Skirmish with up to eight players in a variety of intense multiplayer operations
Face the realities of real urban combat as you defend the streets of London, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Capture enemy soldiers, rescue hostages, and occupy or destroy buildings.
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Jamie, hope you get this. My husband and I had something very similar happen to us in Paris years ago. It turned out it was a pick-pocketing scam. So some of the people involved may have had that intention but were stopped because of the person that interviewed you. In our case, the man in front of me on the escalator dropped his credit card. I pushed it out of the way and bent to pick it up. My husband started to help but fortunately felt the man behind him fumbling in his pocket and grabbed him. You were wise to check for missing items.
I told the embassy staff about this and they told me that the scam usually works like this: one person drops the obvious money (see through plastic pocket). When the innocent (me) picks it up, the first man first thanks the innocent. Then a second man (the witness) comes up. The first man then discovers that some of his money is missing. The second man says, yes, the innocent may have taken it. A shake down follows. But all this was interrupted by what probably WAS a policeman, recognizing that a tourist was about to get fleeced. So he stepped in and broke it up. In the winter, with my long coat, I would have been very hard to pickpocket.
Honestly, people are so tricksy.


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Debt Rattle September 4 2020
September 4, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:35 am Finance Tagged with: antitrust, Biden, Covid19, David Graeber, DOJ, elites, Google, smear, TIP, Trump, voter fraud
Robert Capa Catholic church between bricks from the destroyed Jewish Ghetto Warsaw, Poland 1948
• Bipartisan Washington Insiders Plan for Chaos if Trump Wins Election (Webb)
• Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers' (Atl.)
• The Trump Era Sucks and Needs to Be Over (Matt Taibbi)
• If Dems Win In 2020, It's Virtually Impossible For GOP Ever To Win Again (PJW)
• Cuomo Admin Accused Of Stonewalling Over COVID19 Nursing Home Deaths (NYP)
• DOJ Conducting "Very Big" Voter Fraud Investigations – Barr (ET)
• DOJ To File Antitrust Charges Against Google Within Weeks (ZH)
• In the Worst of Times, the Billionaire Elite Plunder Working Class America (CP)
• US Court: NSA Mass Surveillance Program Exposed By Snowden Was Illegal (DW)
• Capitalism Isn't Working. Here's An Alternative (Varoufakis)
• Eulogy to David Graeber (Steve Keen)
60 days to go till November 3 and hunting season is open. Smear's the word. It'll be so ugly many people will just turn away in disgust. Many others will keep staring at it the way people stare at traffic accidents.
Bradykinin give us even more incentive to roll out rapid tests, HCQ, zinc, vitamin D in huge quantities. What are we waiting for?
Taleb and Bar-Yam
Whitney Webb is one of multiple voices discussing the Transition Integrity Project (TIP). Bipartisan in this case means: anti-Trump. Basically, all these war scenarios claim that if Biden doesn't win big, there'll be war in the streets. They sort of openly advocate for that.
A group of Democratic Party insiders and former Obama and Clinton era officials as well as a cadre of "Never Trump" neoconservative Republicans have spent the past few months conducting simulations and "war games" regarding different 2020 election "doomsday" scenarios. Per several media reports on the group, called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), they justify these exercises as specifically preparing for a scenario where President Trump loses the 2020 election and refuses to leave office, potentially resulting in a constitutional crisis. However, according to TIP's own documents, even their simulations involving a "clear win" for Trump in the upcoming election resulted in a constitutional crisis, as they predicted that the Biden campaign would make bold moves aimed at securing the presidency, regardless of the election result.
This is particularly troubling given that TIP has considerable ties to the Obama administration, where Biden served as Vice President, as well as several groups that are adamantly pro-Biden in addition to the Biden campaign itself. Indeed, the fact that a group of openly pro-Biden Washington insiders and former government officials have gamed out scenarios for possible election outcomes and their aftermath, all of which either ended with Biden becoming president or a constitutional crisis, suggest that powerful forces influencing the Biden campaign are pushing the former Vice President to refuse to concede the election even if he loses. This, of course, gravely undercuts the TIP's claim to be ensuring "integrity" in the presidential transition process and instead suggests that the group is openly planning on how to ensure that Trump leaves office regardless of the result or to manufacture the very constitutional crisis they claim to be preventing through their simulations.
Such concerns are only magnified by the recent claims made by the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State under Obama, Hillary Clinton, that Biden "should not concede under any circumstances." "I think this is going to drag out, and eventually I do believe he will win if we don't give an inch, and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is," Clinton continued during an interview with Showtime a little over a week ago. The results of the TIP's simulations notably echo Clinton's claims that Biden will "eventually" win if the process to determine the election outcome is "dragged out."
The for now (but don't hold your breath on that one) ultimate smear piece, based exclusively on anonymous sources. All it says has been denied by not anonymous sources, who were actually present, like Trump himself, and Sarah Sanders, but that's not the point. The point is smear; that's how this will be fought.
Trump remained fixated on McCain, one of the few prominent Republicans to continue criticizing him after he won the nomination. When McCain died, in August 2018, Trump told his senior staff, according to three sources with direct knowledge of this event, "We're not going to support that loser's funeral," and he became furious, according to witnesses, when he saw flags lowered to half-staff. "What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser," the president told aides. Trump was not invited to McCain's funeral.
(These sources, and others quoted in this article, spoke on condition of anonymity. The White House did not return earlier calls for comment, but Alyssa Farah, a White House spokesperson, emailed me this statement shortly after this story was posted: "This report is false. President Trump holds the military in the highest regard. He's demonstrated his commitment to them at every turn: delivering on his promise to give our troops a much needed pay raise, increasing military spending, signing critical veterans reforms, and supporting military spouses. This has no basis in fact.")
[..] On Memorial Day 2017, Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery, a short drive from the White House. He was accompanied on this visit by John Kelly, who was then the secretary of homeland security, and who would, a short time later, be named the White House chief of staff. The two men were set to visit Section 60, the 14-acre area of the cemetery that is the burial ground for those killed in America's most recent wars. Kelly's son Robert is buried in Section 60. A first lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Robert Kelly was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan. He was 29. Trump was meant, on this visit, to join John Kelly in paying respects at his son's grave, and to comfort the families of other fallen service members.
But according to sources with knowledge of this visit, Trump, while standing by Robert Kelly's grave, turned directly to his father and said, "I don't get it. What was in it for them?" Kelly (who declined to comment for this story) initially believed, people close to him said, that Trump was making a ham-handed reference to the selflessness of America's all-volunteer force. But later he came to realize that Trump simply does not understand non-transactional life choices. "He can't fathom the idea of doing something for someone other than himself," one of Kelly's friends, a retired four-star general, told me. "He just thinks that anyone who does anything when there's no direct personal gain to be had is a sucker. There's no money in serving the nation."
Would things be better if Trump were gone? The only alternative is having Hillary and Pelosi and Schiff in charge. Is that an improvement?
The question, "What is Trump thinking?" is the wrong one. He's not thinking, he's selling. What's he selling? Whatever pops into his head. The beauty of politics from his point of view, compared to every other damn thing he's sold in his life — steaks, ties, pillows, college degrees, chandeliers, hotels, condominiums, wine, eyeglasses, deodorant, perfume (SUCCESS by Trump!), mattresses, etc. — is that there's no product. The pitch is the product, and you can give different pitches to different people and they all buy. In 2016 Trump reeled in the nativist loons and rage cases with his opening rants about walls and mass deportations, then slowly clawed his numbers up with the rest of the party with his "softening" routine.
Each demographic probably came away convinced he was lying to the other, while the truth was probably more that he was lying to all of them. Obviously there are real-world consequences to courting the lowest common denominator instincts in people, but to Trump speeches aren't moral acts in themselves, they're just "words that he is saying," as long-ago spokesperson Katrina Pierson put it. In this sense the Republican Party's 2020 platform is genius: there isn't one, just a commitment to "enthusiastically support the President's America-first agenda," meaning whatever Trump says at any given moment. If one can pull back enough from the fact that this impacts our actual lives, it's hard not to admire the breathtaking amorality of this, as one might admire a simple malevolent organism like a virus or liver fluke.
Trump blew through the Republican primaries in 2015-2016. His opponents, a slate of mannequins hired by energy companies and weapons contractors to be pretend-patriots and protectors of "family values," had no answer for his insults and offer-everything-to-everyone tactics. Like most politicians, they'd been protected their whole lives by donors, party hacks, and pundits who'd turned campaigns into a club system designed to insulate paid lackeys from challenges to their phony gravitas. Trump had no institutional loyalty to the club, shat all over it in addition to its silly frontmen, and walked to the nomination.
[..] The paradox ensnaring America since November, 2016 is that Trump never intended to govern, while his opponents never intended to let him try. In an alternate universe where a post-election Donald had enough self-awareness to admit he was out of his depth, and the D.C. establishment agreed to recognize his administration as legitimate for appearances' sake, Trump might have escaped four years with the profile of a conventionally crappy president, or perhaps a few notches below that — way below average, maybe, but survivable. Instead it was decided even before he was elected that admitting the president was the president was "normalizing" him. Normally no news is good news, and the anchorman is encouraged to smile on a day without war, earthquakes, terror attacks, or stock market crashes.
Under Trump it became taboo to have a slow news day. A lack of an emergency was a failure of reporting, since Trump's very presence in office was crisis.
The ruling class.
Professor Angelo M. Codevilla warns that if the Democrats win the 2020 elections, it would be "virtually impossible for conservatives ever to win again." Codevilla, who is professor emeritus of International Relations at Boston University, made the prediction in a review published by the Claremont Review of Books for Michael Anton's new book The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return. The book makes the argument that although some Americans may be disappointed in Trump's performance, voting for him again is absolutely crucial for the republic's survival because "this country's ruling class would use control of the presidency to hurt us in our private and public lives for having dared to reject their mastery." Importing non-citizens who are then given the vote, as well as institutionalizing elections by mail, which would give those who count the votes the power, would 'guarantee disaster' for the country, according to Codevilla.
He then issues a stark warning; It's game over permanently for Republicans if Trump loses in 2020. "Should the Democrats win, the ruling Left – which includes just about everyone who controls American government and society's commanding heights – is ready, willing, and eager to implement plans that would make it virtually impossible for conservatives ever to win national elections again," writes Codevilla. The professor also cautions that Democrats' stated refusal to concede to Donald Trump, which was recently amplified by Hillary Clinton, could manifest itself in "one or more blue state governors to refuse to certify that state's electors to the Electoral College, so as to prevent the college from recording a majority of votes for the winner." This threatens to set off a "systemic crisis" that could lead to a civil war "less like the American Civil War of the 19th century and more like the horror that bled Spain in the 20th."
It'll be ready on November 5th. No, the joke is not lost on us. That's two whole months for what nursing homes are by law obliged to tally on a daily basis. It shouldn't even take two hours.
A government watchdog group is accusing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration of sitting on data that would provide the full death tally of nursing home residents from the coronavirus. The Empire Center for Public Policy accuses the state Health Department of stalling on compliance with a Freedom of Information Law request seeking the information. Currently, New York's tally of nursing home fatalities only counts those residents who died or are presumed to have died from COVID-19 inside those facilities. The figure excludes potentially thousands of nursing home residents who were transported to hospitals for treatment and died a few days later.
"The state Health Department is offering a new explanation for why it won't provide the full death toll of coronavirus in nursing homes: it can't find the records," said Bill Hammond, a health analyst for the Empire Center who submitted the legal request for the data in early August. In a response letter sent to Hammond on Monday, the department said it could not yet fulfill the request "because a diligent search for relevant documents is still being conducted." "We estimate that this Office will complete its process by November 5, 2020. The Department will notify you in writing when/if the responsive materials are available for release or if the time needed to complete your request extends beyond the above date," said the department's record access officer, Rosemary Hewig.
The delayed compliance in releasing information in response to legal requests has been a common practice of government agencies, with officials often saying they are still conducting a "diligent search" for records. "In this case, however, a search of any kind should not be necessary," Hammond said in a blog post. He said the department's Health Emergency Response Data System (or HERDS) has required nursing homes to file daily reports throughout the pandemic — including counts of all residents who die from coronavirus, both within the facilities or hospitals or elsewhere. "Those numbers are the basis for the partial count that the department does make public – which stood at 6,639 as of Aug. 29, but omits potentially thousands of residents who died in hospitals," Hammond said.
Hammond said the "unusual methodology" is used by few if any other states and gives the public a "distorted picture of the pandemic." "It makes it hard to compare New York to other states, or to gauge the merits of particular policies, such as the Health Department's much-debated March 25 directive compelling nursing homes to accept coronavirus-positive patients being discharged from hospitals," he said. The Justice Department is looking at whether the policies of New York and three other states contributed to COVID-19 nursing home deaths.
And you thought hanging chads were controversial…
The Department of Justice is conducting several "very big" voter fraud investigations in multiple states, Attorney General William Barr told CNN in an interview aired on Sept. 2. "I know there are a number of investigations right now, some very big ones, in states," Barr said in response to a question about how many voter fraud indictments the Department of Justice (DOJ) has brought on his watch. Barr said he did not know the exact number. At least 32 people have been criminally convicted of voter fraud in 2019, according to a database maintained by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank. The attorney general made the remarks as part of a tense exchange with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer about mail-in voting.
Barr has repeatedly said that mass mail-in voting is an invitation for voter fraud and coercion. Blitzer pressed the attorney general for evidence that this will be the case in 2020. Barr pointed to a recent conviction in Texas over 1,700 fraudulent ballots and noted that widespread evidence isn't available because the United States has never attempted an election with the kind of massive access to mail-in voting available in 2020. At least 83 percent of American voters, or roughly 100 million people, will be able to vote by mail in the 2020 election, according to a tally by The Washington Post. "We haven't had the kind of widespread use of mail-in ballots as being proposed," Barr said.
"We've had absentee ballots from people who request them from a specific address. Now what we're talking about is mailing them to everyone on the voter list, when everyone knows those voter lists are inaccurate." Barr referenced the findings of a nonpartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, which determined in 2005 that mail-in voting creates the potential for voter fraud and opens the door to coercion if activists or party workers are allowed to handle ballots. Carter recently issued a statement to point out that the commission's key finding was that states should invest in more research on mail-in voting. The former president encouraged states to invest resources to expand voting by mail.
More than 43 percent of likely American voters would not trust in the integrity of an election if all voters automatically received ballots or ballot request forms by mail, according to an Epoch Times National Poll conducted in late August. "This is playing with fire," Barr said. "We're a very closely divided country here and people have to have confidence in the results of the election and the legitimacy of the government. And people trying to change the rules to this methodology—which as a matter of logic is very open to fraud and coercion—is reckless and dangerous," Barr said.
Bill Barr Busy.
The Department of Justice will is preparing to slap Google with an antitrust case over the next several weeks, according to the New York Times – which insists, based on five sources, that Attorney General Bill Barr "overruled career lawyers who said they needed more time to build a strong case against one of the world's wealthiest, most formidable technology companies." The Times is suggesting, based on leaks, that Barr is rushing the case for political purposes and the charges are premature. "The Google case could also give Mr. Trump and Mr. Barr an election-season achievement on an issue that both Democrats and Republicans see as a major problem: the influence of the biggest tech companies over consumers and the possibility that their business practices have stifled new competitors and hobbled legacy industries like telecom and media." -NYT
Some 40 lawyers working on a DOJ antitrust inquiry into Google parent Alphabet were reportedly told to wrap up their work by the end of this month, according to three of the five leakers, who we're guessing are part of the 40-lawyer team – as "most of the 40-odd lawyers who had been working on the investigation opposed the deadline." Others said they would not sign the complaint, while several left the case over the summer.
"Some argued this summer in a memo that ran hundreds of pages that they could bring a strong case but needed more time, according to people who described the document. Disagreement persisted among the team over how broad the complaint should be and what Google could do to resolve the problems the government uncovered. The lawyers viewed the deadline as arbitrary. While there were disagreements about tactics, career lawyers also expressed concerns that Mr. Barr wanted to announce the case in September to take credit for action against a powerful tech company under the Trump administration. But Mr. Barr felt that the department had moved too slowly and that the deadline was not unreasonable, according to a senior Justice Department official." -NYT
Barr has shown a "deep interest" in the Google investigation, requesting regular briefings on the DOJ case, and "taking thick binders of information about it on trips and vacations and returning with ideas and notes." The Times notes that antitrust action against Google has bipartisan support from a coalition of 50 states and territories, though Democrats and Republican state attorneys general conducting their own investigations are split on how to move forward. Republicans have accused Democrats of slow-walking the work in order to bring charges under a potential Biden administration, while Democrats have accused Republicans of wanting Trump to receive credit – a disagreement which could limit the number of states participating in prosecuting the Silicon Valley giant.
But but, I read Jeff Bezos lost $9 billion yesterday!
In the midst of a global pandemic, unprecedented economic collapse, mass unemployment, hunger and desperation, the stock market is booming and the richest of the rich are richer than ever before. Since March, more than 58 million people in the U.S. have filed for unemployment. The Internal Revenue Service now predicts that the U.S. economy will have almost 40 million fewer jobs in 2021 than they predicted before the pandemic, as a result of the prolonged economic depression. As it becomes widely recognized that the economy is not going to "bounce right back" into full activity – even when coronavirus cases do eventually decline – and that the current depression will continue for a long time, companies are doing anything they can to drive their stock prices higher.
Desperate to maintain their profits, many large corporations are planning massive layoffs and acknowledging that currently furloughed workers are not going to have jobs to come back to. The Wall Street Journal reports that a recent study found, "nearly half of U.S. employers that furloughed or laid off staff because of COVID-19 are considering additional workplace cuts in the next 12 months." The companies say low-paid workers will be the first to be cut. Twice as many workers had their pay cut by July 1 as during the Bush-Obama recession that began in 2009, according to the Washington Post. More than 10 million private sector workers have had their wages cut or been forced to work part-time. Car company Tesla forced all workers to take a 10 percent pay cut from mid-April until July. In the same period, Tesla stock skyrocketed, and CEO Elon Musk's net worth has now quadrupled from $25 billion to over $100 billion.
Business software company Salesforce announced record sales levels one day and layoffs of 1,000 workers the next. The company's stock rose 26 percent. Among small businesses, another study found that 50 percent of all small-business employees who were furloughed since March are still without work. Twenty-eight percent are still furloughed; 22 percent have been permanently laid off. Even in the government's rigged and severely undercounted unemployment statistics, the number of people who have been unemployed 15-26 weeks is nearly double what it was at the height of the 2009 recession — and exponentially higher than at any other time since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
So the entire NSA brass must all move to Russia now? And Edward can come back home? Or is exposing an illegal program more illegal than said program itself?
A US federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the controversial National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden was illegal. The ruling stopped short of calling the program unconstitutional. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said that the program, under which the NSA collected and analyzed bulk data provided by telecommunications companies, was in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and could have been unconstitutional.= "Seven years ago, as the news declared I was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth, I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them," said Snowden, who fled to Russia after exposing the program, on Twitter.
"And yet that day has arrived." He still faces charges of espionage in the US. After initially denying that the intelligence agency collected information on Americans, officials maintained that the spying helped the country combat domestic extremism. The most popular case cited was that of four California residents — Basaaly Saeed Moalin, Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud, Mohamed Mohamud, and Issa Doreh — who have been convicted of funding the Al-Shabaab extremist group in Somalia. NSA's domestic spying program helped get this conviction, which will not be impacted by the latest ruling. However, human rights organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union have hailed the ruling as "a victory for our privacy rights."
"..the pandemic stripped away the veneer of politics to reveal the boorish reality underneath: that some people have the power to tell the rest what to do."
Before 2020, politics seemed almost like a game, but with Covid came the realisation that governments everywhere possessed immense powers. The virus brought the 24-hour curfew, the closure of pubs, the ban on walking through parks, the suspension of sport, the emptying of theatres, the silencing of music venues. All notions of a minimal state mindful of its limits and eager to cede power to individuals went out of the window. Many salivated at this show of raw state power. Even free-marketeers, who had spent their lives shouting down any suggestion of even the most modest boost in public spending, demanded the sort of state control of the economy not seen since Leonid Brezhnev was running the Kremlin. Across the world, the state funded private firms' wage bills, renationalised utilities and took shares in airlines, car makers, even banks. From the first week of lockdown, the pandemic stripped away the veneer of politics to reveal the boorish reality underneath: that some people have the power to tell the rest what to do.
[..] Suppose we had seized the 2008 moment to stage a peaceful hi-tech revolution that led to a postcapitalist economic democracy. What would it be like? To be desirable, it would feature markets for goods and services since the alternative – a Soviet-type rationing system that vests arbitrary power in the ugliest of bureaucrats – is too dreary for words. But to be crisis-proof, there is one market that market socialism cannot afford to feature: the labour market. Why? Because, once labour time has a rental price, the market mechanism inexorably pushes it down while commodifying every aspect of work (and, in the age of Facebook, our leisure too).
Can an advanced economy function without labour markets? Of course it can. Consider the principle of one-employee-one-share-one-vote underpinning a system that, in Another Now, I call corpo-syndicalism. Amending corporate law so as to turn every employee into an equal (though not equally remunerated) partner is as unimaginably radical today as universal suffrage was in the 19th century. In my blueprint, central banks provide every adult with a free bank account into which a fixed stipend (called universal basic dividend) is credited monthly. As everyone uses their central bank account to make domestic payments, most of the money minted by the central bank is transferred within its ledger. Additionally, the central bank grants all newborns a trust fund, to be used when they grow up.
People receive two types of income: the dividends credited into their central bank account and earnings from working in a corpo-syndicalist company. Neither are taxed, as there are no income or sales taxes. Instead, two types of taxes fund the government: a 5% tax on the raw revenues of the corpo-syndicalist firms; and proceeds from leasing land (which belongs in its entirety to the community) for private, time-limited, use.
Oh David! @davidgraeber. . They say only the good die young, but why did you have to be one of them? There's even more bullshit in the world now that you are no longer with us. It was a pleasure to know you, and it is a tragedy to say goodbye.
David was special for many, many reasons. The first I'll mention is what I expect is the foundation of David's appeal to Nika: his trusting innocence. There was a boyish openness and lack of ego in David that made you trust him, because you could. He was, at the same time, extremely intelligent and extremely funny. He had a nervy aspect, very befitting of someone raised in New York. But he was fundamentally funny, and looked on the world with a sense of bemusement, and all the while, incisive insight. He was intrinsically an anthropologist, in that he was capable of living amongst people and seeing their customs more clearly than they could themselves, while all the while celebrating those aspects, the good and the bad, because they were his people as well.
There was a selflessness to David too. There wasn't an ounce of David's body that was in it for David's benefit alone. Well, he enjoyed his pleasures, but they could never be had at the expense of another person. That made him someone you could trust with your life. On top of that, he was an excellent if sometimes rambling speaker, whose charisma attracted support which was worth giving. David, I believe, came up with the slogan "We're the 99%". David, I believe, developed Occupy Wall Street's voting system, which was a very powerful form of democracy that still respected the rights of the minority. He was a true leader in large part because he didn't want to be.
He was also an excellent historian of money and debt. If you haven't read Debt: the first 5000 Years, buy a copy and do so. It's such a pity that David won't be here to chronicle the start of its next 5000 Years. That's the other thing: the suddenness. I knew David wasn't feeling well—I'd exchanged a few messages with Nika where David's health came up. Maybe it was Covid—I still don't know. I won't speculate. But it is so bloody awful to lose such a brilliant, lovely, funny, warm human being. It's the unkindest cut of all that 2020 has managed to deliver.
Now we know why we speak of 20:20 vision, and 20:20 hindsight. We thought it was an ophthalmologist's crazy numbering system. In fact, it was a warning from a time traveller.
Nassim Taleb – David Graeber
He was a real intellectual; very real: not one fake cell in his brain, not one fake bone in his body.
He thought independently.
He was monstrouly original.
He had intellectual courage.
The world seems much much smaller today than before Sep 2.
David, RIP
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) September 3, 2020
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Robert Capa Catholic church between bricks from the destroyed Jewish Ghetto Warsaw, Poland 1948 • Bipartisan Washington Insiders Plan for Chaos
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 4 2020]
September 4, 2020 at 10:31 am #62881
That's an awesome photograph; no human's that I can discern, anywhere to be seen…
I must profess ignorance, when it comes to that part of WWII…shame on me…
Kudos to Steve Keen's eulogy for Graeber; likewise Nassim Taleb as well.
I loved Debt, The first 5,000 Years; it grew me up to the world/humans in debt.
It freed me to live a real/genuine life, debt free for the last decade plus…
RIP David Graeber…
September 4, 2020 at 12:00 pm #62883
Aube Digitale has translated my Wednesday article They Only Serve Themselves into French: Ils ne font que se servir eux-mêmes…
September 4, 2020 at 1:14 pm #62885
sumac.carol
I have David's book on my shelf but sheepishly admit to not having read it yet. I will do so this winter.
Congrats on getting your excellent article translated Ilargi.
Hunting season for politicians is one day, every 4 years.
Hunting season for deer is for 4 months every year.
Deer's average life span is 7- 12 years
There are no studies on the average life span for politicians.
You live in the past. It's 12 months now. And twice on Sunday. I don't know if we can blame Trump for that, or CNN, but there's no denying it is open season all year long now. Which saved CNN's ass of course.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant "They make a desert and call it peace" -Tacitus
And he would know. Note they get a lather for Hiroshima when much worse was done here, Dresden, and all over.
Remember kids, we can make every U.S. city look like this in 30 minutes, with or without foreign help.
"It'll be so ugly many people will just turn away in disgust."
Yes: Turn away from the US$. Prepare accordingly. Gold hasn't doubled for nothing.
"all these war scenarios claim that if Biden doesn't win big, there'll be war in the streets."
There's so much in there, it writes itself, but note this one: If Biden wins, Trump supporters won't riot or do anything else. …Because Trump supporters are the only violent irrational ones. Meanwhile, Democrats, being full of peace and love WILL riot unless there is a 49-state Biden landslide. …Because Antifa and the Marxist left adore Biden so much.
Ah, you can't make it up. Okay, John, I'll take your word for it: Trump is peaceful and Biden is violent, got it. Whiskey Tango.
"The Trump Era Sucks and Needs to Be Over (Matt Taibbi)"
Ah, Taibbi, what are YOU thinking? Not much, "it's just words he's saying." It's a shame so many good and snappy writers make no logical sense, and "Without Evidence" is a 1-second Google click away.
He is doing something. They are thinking something. The other guy has a point and isn't dumb, or no dumber than the rest of us. You just don't want to ask and believe it. Which is arrogance. The kind that loses elections.
"If Dems Win in 2020, It's Virtually Impossible for GOP Ever to Win Again (PJW)"
Pretty inflammatory. Maybe he didn't notice that they said this same thing about the GOP in 2015. It's not un-true, but I wouldn't trust either side. Trust, but verify. You know, like those now 100,000 mail-in votes that have been discarded nationwide. No one cares. They demand mail-in only over Saint Birx and Pope Fauci.
"US Court: NSA Mass Surveillance Program Exposed By Snowden Was Illegal (DW)"
Good, but this was the SECOND time Federal Court has said it's illegal and unconstitutional. They didn't care the 1st time either. I think the DNC should Impeach until this is straightened out. Instead they gave the NSA more money than was asked.
"governments everywhere possessed immense powers."
Sure. Sure they do. They can't even order coffee correctly. They only thing they have is your slavish compliance. Without that, they are helpless. Their power is you giving YOUR power away. Don't. Stay home. Comply with nothing.
"The virus brought the 24-hour curfew"
The virus didn't bring it. YOU did. Voluntarily. Every person that died from the economy, you did on purpose. And you can stop killing them, black businesses and black inner city people any time you want. Is it time?
Lots of talk. Legal only during hunting season. Heehehehe
my parents said know
Over at the Slog ("Trump vs Biden") there is a video that may be of some interest. Thanks to kbx66.
I think there are some surprises ahead this election season.
I still can't hyperlink- the realslog should get you there.
Sorry- nobody likes blind "links". It's a rap video/trump ad. I have a suspicion you'll come across it somewhere else.
I still can't hyperlink
If there is anything that makes humans special, it is our ability to laugh at tragedy.
20:20 is the year the chickens came home to roost. Donald Trump is such a transactional, money magnet, dyed in the wool, neoliberal oligarch, that I believe he said to a father of a fallen soldier at his grave site that they all are losers. How apt an eulogy for the fallen corporate led Western Empire that had no heart, no love, no community.
Only the restoration of government by and for the people can save the USA from breaking apart.
Debt Rattle September 3 2020 Debt Rattle September 5 2020


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A-levels: 2022 students need easier exams to make up for Covid disruption, headteachers say
A school leader said there could be a sense of uproar from young people doing their exams next year
Tens of thousands of students in England will receive their A-level and GCSE results this month after exams were cancelled for the second year in a row due to the pandemic (Photo: PA)
By Serina Sandhu
August 9, 2021 6:45 pm(Updated August 10, 2021 8:37 am)
Students taking their A-levels in 2022 should be given easier exams next year to provide a more level playing field with pupils receiving teacher-assessed grades tomorrow, school leaders have said.
This year's A-Level grades look set to break records after being determined by teachers following the cancellation of exams due to the pandemic.
Thousands of university students are expected to defer until 2022 as higher grades push up demand for places, creating intense competition for young people taking their A-levels next year.
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Geoff Barton, a former English teacher and general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said there would be a "sense of uproar from young people doing their exams" next year if their results "fall back in line with 2019".
He said: "We're already hearing examples of universities which are incentivising young people to defer their entry to next year. What that means is that young people, next year, may find it even more competitive to get into university because they're going to be competing with people from this year.
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"Young people who may be tasting normality because they're back in exams [are] feeling that actually they've been penalised because of what's happened during the pandemic."
Mr Barton told i there is no simple solution but the ASCL will discuss with the Department for Education a fairer way to compare exam results following the pandemic.
He added: "I didn't think that could be a big bang decision, because I think it will lead to a lot of young people feeling very, very let down by a system not of their making."
Even if schooling returns to normal next year, exams must take into account that so many young people have missed out on learning during the pandemic, Mr Barton said.
The former headteacher suggested that while teachers should not be given sight of exam papers themselves, they should be in a position to steer students towards what they need to study as a way of compensating for their disadvantages.
He said: "[ASCL] believe that it is only fair to young people that they have a clear sense of what they will be assessed on, how they will be assessed, not pre-release of the paper or anything like that, but knowing what are the key bits of knowledge I should focus on."
GCSEs and A-levels 2021: Worried students want all results bumped up to compensate for 'unfairness' in grading
Despite concerns over grading, school leaders said students will deserve the A-level results – which have gone through quality assurance processes – they receive tomorrow as their marks are the product of "human expert judgement" not grade inflation.
Both exams watchdog Ofqual and school leadership union NAHT said students and parents can be confident of the grading system.
The union's general secretary, Paul Whiteman, said: "This year's grades are based on students' actual work, assessed by their teachers, moderated and quality assured. There are no algorithms this year, just human effort and human expert judgement."
Commenting on why talk of "grade inflation" is unhelpful, Mr Whiteman said 2021 results cannot easily be compared to past years.
Mr Barton added: "I think what teachers have been required to do is to back up their judgement with evidence so what we're not going to get is… this is a kind of sentimental, emotional reaction that because young people have missed out, they will be given higher grades and compensation. I really think that that is erroneous."
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1. Who decides which union would represent graduate assistants?
Typically, a group of workers seeking union representation will affiliate with an established labor union, such as the Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers, or the United Auto Workers, for purposes of organizing a new chapter, and then participate in a union representation election. Cornell Graduate Students United (CGSU) chose to affiliate with the American Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers (AFT/NYSUT).
2. What is the Union-University Conduct Rules and Recognition Election Agreement (U-UCRREA) between Cornell and AFT/NYSUT/CGSU?
Cornell and the CGSU/AFT/NYSUT reached an agreement (U-UCRREA) governing how an election would be conducted if federal labor law changed, as it did on August 23, 2016 with the NLRB decision in Columbia University. The agreement is not recognition of a graduate assistant union; rather, it is a guide to behaviors for all parties, based on the principle of fostering an open and respectful environment in which graduate students are free to learn about the labor union and reach an informed decision should there be an opportunity for them to participate in a union representation election. The U-UCRREA covers which students would be part of a potential bargaining unit, an agreed upon process for conducting an election if sufficient signed authorization cards are produced by the union, and a blueprint for respectful conduct between Cornell and CGSU/AFT/NYSUT during the union's campaign.
Under the U-UCRREA, the potential bargaining unit would include all Ithaca and Geneva campus-based graduate students enrolled in the Graduate School who hold appointments under University Policy 1.3 as teaching assistants, graduate assistants, research assistants, and graduate research assistants.
3. How would an election process work and what is the timeline?
CGSU/AFT/NYSUT is asking eligible graduate students to sign cards (electronic and hard copy) authorizing the union as their exclusive bargaining representative for terms and conditions of employment as graduate assistants.
CGSU/AFT/NYSUT must produce signed and valid authorization cards from at least 30% of the graduate assistants who would be eligible to vote in order for an election to be held.
A secret ballot election conducted by the American Arbitration Association and held on Cornell's campus would be conducted about two-to-three weeks after the 30% of authorization cards was determined to be valid. To maximize voter turnout, any official Cornell break or finals examination period would not be appropriate times for an election.
4. What are "authorization cards" and how are they used?
An authorization card drive is one of the first steps toward establishing a union to represent members of a collective bargaining unit. Paid union organizers or interested graduate students will ask graduate assistants in the potential bargaining unit to sign a card authorizing the union to act as their exclusive representative for purposes of negotiating the terms and conditions of employment as graduate assistants. Graduate students have the legal right to sign, or refuse to sign, authorization cards without pressure or coercion from anyone.
Authorization cards are legally binding documents signed by individual graduate assistants indicating their interest in a specific union to become their exclusive representative for purposes of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment as graduate assistants. Signing a card legally authorizes the organizing group (CGSU/AFT/NYSUT) to act as the signer's sole agent in seeking an election to establish a labor union, but the act of signing an authorization card does not commit the signer to vote in any particular way if a union representation election occurs. Signing an authorization card is like signing a petition to request that a union representation election be held.
The U-UCRREA between Cornell and the CGSU/AFT/NYSUT has a provision that if the union secures signed authorization cards from at least 30% of the individuals within the defined bargaining unit and presents those cards to the American Arbitration Association to determine their validity, an election process will begin.
5. If I sign an authorization card and a union representation election is held, do I have to vote in favor of the union?
No, the act of signing an authorization card does not commit the signer to vote in any particular way in a union representation election. The signer is free to vote in an election either for or against union representation.
6. If I don't sign an authorization card, can I still vote in an election?
Yes, if you are an eligible voter. A graduate assistant does not need to sign an authorization card to be eligible to vote in a union representation election. Signing – or not signing – an authorization card does not influence your ability to participate in the election, and does not compel you to vote in any particular manner.
All eligible voters will be free to vote however they want, regardless of whether they previously signed an authorization card or not. Graduate assistants who did not sign an authorization card may vote "yes" or "no" on the question of union representation; similarly, a graduate assistant who signed an authorization card may also vote "yes" or "no".


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Macron: Trump Will Exit Iran Nuclear Deal in May
https://sputniknews.com/news/201804261063912001-macron-trump-exit-nuclear-deal/
French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed on Wednesday that he believes US President Donald Trump will rip up the 2015 joint comprehensive plan of action (JCPOA) limiting Tehran's potential to develop nuclear weapons, despite strong suggestions from world leaders to keep the deal and, if necessary, build on it.
"My view — I don't know what your president will decide — is that he will get rid of this deal on his own, for domestic reasons," the 40-year-old French leader said at a speaking engagement at George Washington University.
Macron: France Will Not Leave Iran Nuclear Deal
"If you heard him in the Oval Office you will have come to the same conclusion," Macron said, noting that it was a "campaign promise."
Macron clarified that Trump's pending move will form part of a "strategy of increasing tension" with Iran, whose influence has grown considerably across the Middle East over the past 20 years, despite the US military's presence in Qatar, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Bahrain.
"It can work in the short term but it's very insane in the medium to long term," Macron said of Washington's inability to maintain a consistent position about agreements it has already signed.
The French leader said he plans to call Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to discuss potential diplomatic steps that can be taken should Trump leave the agreement as expected.
© REUTERS / Kevin Lamarque
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Trump has criticized the Iran deal for opening floodgates of funding to Tehran without, in his framing, requiring enough of the nation. World leaders, retired military generals, and sitting Defense Secretary James Mattis, however, have said that it is in America's interest to keep the agreement going, and no inspection team has ever suggested that Iran has violated the agreement. When presented with Senator Angus King's (Ind.-ME) question last October, "Do you believe it is in our national security interest at the present time to remain in the JCPOA? That is a yes or no question," 'Mad Dog' Mattis replied, "yes, senator, I do."
Macron made his comments at the conclusion of his state visit to Washington this week. Macron held extensive talks with Trump, including a one-on-one session, gave a speech to the US Congress on Wednesday, and is speaking at GWU for a town hall event. This week is "France Week" at the university, which is located near the State Department in Foggy Bottom.
Mohammad Marandi, professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran, explained to Sputnik Radio's Loud & Clear this week that Washington has violated the Iran nuclear arms deal "ever since it was signed."
"Most importantly, the United States behind the scenes was putting pressure on banks, financial institutions, insurance companies and shipping companies not to work with Iran," which violates the terms of JCPOA, the professor said.
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› Reviews of the Best Cars › Commercial vehicles
Mercedes t1
07-01-2018 Commercial vehicles
Frozen diesel or ground in the tank ... MERCEDES 308D T1.
An extensive family of light-duty delivery vehicles under the general T1 index, the Bm 601 series debuted in 1977. The number of modifications produced is difficult to count. All-metal vans, "combi" (3 - 5 passenger seats), minibuses, cargo and passenger and on-board cars with single or twin cab, chassis for the installation of bodies and special equipment, and even dump trucks with three-way unloading of the body. The variety of versions T1 is expanded in three versions of the base length (3 050, 3 350 or 3 700 mm) and two - the height of the roof (2 240 and 2 525 mm). Depending on the load capacity and, accordingly, the total mass, the rear wheels may have a single or double busbar. If we add to this set a wide range of engines, taking into account the range of ratios of the main gears plus the ability to install the automatic transmission, the total number of possible configurations will approach 500.
The volume of the cargo compartment of the Mercedes-Benz T1 varies from 7 m³ to 11.4 m³, and carrying capacity - from 825 kg to 2580 kg. Passenger versions of the T1 can accommodate up to 13 people including the driver. The total mass of some modifications of the T1 reaches 4.6 tons.
For 18 years of production, the appearance of the car has not changed. The idea of the exterior design of the T1 is standard for utilitarian Mercedes-Benz models from the period of the 70s to the 80s: they don't have the charm and elegance of today's Sprinter. Semi-structured layout, straight lines of body panels and head optics of strict forms do not look like avant-garde. Anti-corrosion resistance of the car at a high level. Thresholds, body welding areas and frames are galvanized. The wheel arches and the bottom of the van are protected by a special elastic coating, which also serves as a sound-absorbing material.
Salon Mercedes-Benz T1 - the kingdom of austerity and minimalism. Finishing materials are made in the spirit of the seventies from hard plastic. Because of the semi-layout and the desire for maximum compactness, landing in the T1 cab was not very convenient, mainly due to the high wheel arches. In addition, does not cause delight and ergonomics of the driver's seat: the front seats have a small number of adjustments. But the build quality at the height and the heating system is quite effective. The front compartment in the Kombi version can be separated from the cargo compartment either as a single or low partition. As standard, behind the front seats installed protective, steel partitions. Passenger modifications are quite roomy - the number of seats varies from 7 to 12, and there are instances, both with separate and twin seats. Transforming the cabin T1 from passenger to freight is quite a laborious task. The seats are attached to the floor with impressive bolts.
T1 was equipped with sliding side doors on both sides (in earlier versions you can also find hinged doors) with an opening size of 1 100x1 478 mm and rear hinged doors, the angle of rotation of which is adjustable using retainers (maximum 270 °). For standard versions of vans and minibuses loading height is 690 mm. On order for the T1, a small step was installed at the back to facilitate loading and unloading and to facilitate entry to the salon. Loading long and bulky goods in T1 is not difficult due to the high doors.
Under the hood of the T1 produced before 1982, you can find either a 2.5-liter 85-horsepower gasoline engine (with a carburetor) or a pre-chamber 72-horsepower diesel engine with a working volume of 2.4 liters. The last power unit is not very picky about the quality of the fuel and is relatively economical (15 - 17 l / 100 km). The installation of these engines continued until 1989. After five years of production, they were added a 3.0-liter five-cylinder diesel engine (OM617) with an output of 88 hp. But the designers did not stop there. From 1989 to 1995, up to decommissioning, the T1 was equipped with a 2.5-liter gasoline engine (with an injector) with a capacity of 105 hp, as well as two diesel engines with a working volume of 2.3 and 2.9 l, capacity respectively 79 and 95 hp Options for gearboxes are traditional for the 80s - either a five-step "mechanic" or an "automatic". Since 1989, in an effort to increase the active safety of the T1 and its stability on the road, ABS has been proposed as an option.
The frame of the Mercedes-Benz T1 is made of a complex W-shaped steel profile, to which the body floor is welded. Thanks to this design, the frame can withstand high loads, which is not the case with the front suspension. Front suspension scheme - double lever. Dependent rear spring suspension - the traditional solution for Mercedes trucks.
The design was so successful that only in 1995 T1 was removed from production, and it was replaced by the modern Sprinter.
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