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Is a Tesla dealership considering a location in Wauwatosa? Rumors persist.
Karen Pilarski
Is Tesla eyeing a location for a dealership in Wauwatosa?
City officials are looking at a development with a mix of retail and residential units proposed in an area of Wauwatosa that used to house car dealerships at 11221 and 11333 West Burleigh St.
While it is unconfirmed whether Tesla is in fact mulling it over, there are some mysterious hints which has led to some speculation.
In an online filing with the Wauwatosa Plan Commission, documents show an electric vehicle showroom/service center in one of the old car dealer buildings on Burleigh. The name "TechCo" is used on a rendering.
The Milwaukee Business Journal wrote a story suggesting Tesla is eyeing a location in Wauwatosa.
Typically, Tesla owns its own dealerships, but that looks unlikely in Wisconsin, according to Jim Tolkan, president of Automobile Dealers Association-Mega Milwaukee, who also has said he has no information about any plans of Tesla to open a showroom in Wauwatosa.
"In Wisconsin new vehicle manufacturers cannot sell directly, unless a dealer is terminated," Tolkan said. "Then the manufacturer can operate a dealership for up to one year to find a new buyer. The other exception is if there would be no likelihood that an independent dealer operator would open a franchise because there was little or no possibility the franchise would be profitable,consequently, being unable to find anyone to open such a dealership.
"The second option would not be viable because there would be dozens of existing new vehicle dealership owners that would open a Tesla franchise, or other business entities, if Tesla would agree to comply with Wisconsin Franchise Laws.
"I believe that Tesla has been testing the waters among our state legislatures to modify or make an exception for Tesla, to allow them to sell direct in Wisconsin, as well as in most other states that prohibits vehicle manufacturers from selling direct."
Nevertheless, there is no firm word that Tesla is even looking at Tosa.
Mayor Kathy Ehley and City Attorney Alan Kesner were unable to confirm if the company which specializes in electric car manufacturing is looking at finding a home in the city.
A representative from Tesla and Brian Randall, attorney with Davis & Kuelthau SC in Milwaukee, which is representing local developer Boulder Venture, didn't respond to messages at press time.
Boulder Venture LLC plans to redevelop the existing 5.787-acre property into a new mixed-use development containing up to three retail/commercial parcels, as well as a high-density, multistory residential or restaurant or hotel parcel, the online filing said.
The property includes four former Dodge City automotive dealership structures on the west portion of the site and the former Frascona Buick automotive dealership foundations on the east portion of the site, the filing said.
The property is currently owned by Micro Center Sales Corp. Boulder Venture has entered into a contract to purchase the entire site and is acting as the developer for the project.
The preliminary plan calls for a single-tenant fast-casual restaurant, a retail/commercial building and a multi-story high density residential or 75-125 room residential/hospitality building with underground or structured parking, the filing said.
Including in the filing are pictures of Café Zupas restaurant and a Chase bank branch.
The Wauwatosa Plan Commission will discuss the proposal on Feb. 11.


Institute of Cancer Research Repository - The integration of docetaxel into first-line chemotherapy for ovarian cancer.
The integration of docetaxel into first-line chemotherapy for ovarian cancer.
The integration of docetaxel into first-line chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. Docetaxel is being explored as an alternative to paclitaxel in the treatment of ovarian cancer for several reasons: a) evidence of superiority in preclinical models; b) at least comparable activity in platinum-refractory patients (28% response rate in four pooled Phase II trials), together with activity (23% response rate) in paclitaxel-refractory patients; c) indirect evidence of superiority in breast cancer; d) easier administration, ie, 1 h q3 week schedule vs. 3 or 24 h infusions; and e) potentially superior toxicity profile, particularly regarding neurotoxicity. The Scottish Gynaecological Cancer Trials Group (SGCTG) has performed successive first-line feasibility trials of docetaxel in combination with cisplatin (100 patients) and carboplatin (141 patients). For docetaxel/carboplatin, a regimen of 75 mg/m(2) and AUC 5 proved optimal. Over 90% of patients completed six cycles, q3 weekly, and toxicity was very acceptable; a low level of:neurotoxicity (5%) was particularly noteworthy, since levels of over 30% are regularly reported for paclitaxel- carboplatin. Activity comparable to paclitaxel-carboplatin (median progression free survival of 16 months) therefore justified a randomized comparison between the two regimens (with paclitaxel 175 mg/m(2) in 3 h and carboplatin AUC 5). This has now been completed, with 1077 patients (FIGO stage IC- IV disease) randomized, from 83 centers in 10 countries. Accrual was accomplished in 17 months (October 1998 to May 2000). A toxicity analysis has been completed, since the last patient finished treatment in October 2000. Treatment was delivered as prescribed (6 cycles) in a similar number of patients (79-84%). Significant differences in toxicity were seen, and this analysis together with response data is scheduled for presentation at the May 2001 ASCO meeting.


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Dirk Reinier Lippits (født 2. maj 1977 i Geldrop) er en hollandsk tidligere roer.

Lippits deltog i OL 2000 i Sydney i dobbeltfirer. Med en andenplads i indledende heat gik hollænderne i semifinalen, hvor de med en ny andenplads kvalificerede sig til A-finalen. Her måtte de se sig besejret af den italienske båd, men med andenpladsen blev det til sølv for Lippits og holdkammeraterne, Michiel Bartman, Jochem Verberne og Diederik Simon.

Ved OL 2004 i Athen stillede Lippits op i singlesculler, og efter en tredjeplads i indledende heat, kvalificerede han sig med en andenplads i opsamlingsheatet til semifinalen. En femteplads her betød, at han kom i C-finalen, og en fjerdeplads her gav ham en samlet placering som nummer 16 blandt de 29 deltagere.

OL-medaljer
 2000:  Sølv i dobbeltfirer

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I am writing this article on an Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet, using LibreOffice with a mouse and keyboard. I am working in Desktop mode, experiencing what Ubuntu describes as "convergence," the ability of the hardware to run both as a tablet and a personal computer. And make no mistake -- convergence is comfortingly familiar to a long-time Linux user and makes productive work on a tablet much easier. However, when Ubuntu claims that the tablet "turns into a full PC," I have to make allowance for the exaggeration of advertising.
More accurately, I would say that the current state of convergence reproduces some of the convenience of a laptop or workstation, but not all of it. Nor is using it made any easier by the sparse and sometimes inaccurate documentation provided with the Ubuntu Edition.
To start with, what the documentation does not tell you is that the tablet does not display the toggle for turning Desktop mode on and off until you have plugged in the necessary hardware. Once you have, the toggle displays permanently, but, until you do, you might suspect that your tablet is defective.
Of these two choices, the third is the one I would recommend, although none are completely ideal.
To use Bluetooth devices, you must enable Bluetooth in the settings -- support is not automatic. Then you must select a device and connect to it. However, if you have ever worked with Bluetooth, you probably know that its behavior can be eccentric. I have seen the Ubuntu Edition unable to detect a Bluetooth mouse or keyboard a few centimetres away, while detecting Bluetooth speakers fifty metres away.
To make matters worse, while the advertising seems to indicate that the tablet can connect to more than one Bluetooth device, the manual states that it cannot. The manual appears to be correct, and, since the virtual keyboard used in Tablet mode does not work in desktop mode while the touch screen does, logically you want to connect to a keyboard.
Similarly, you will probably need to special order the micro HDMI cable to connect to a monitor. In addition, you will probably still want a mouse and keyboard unless you happen to have a touch screen monitor. In effect, this choice requires two solutions.
Of the three setups for Desktop mode, connecting to a USB mouse and a keyboard is the most reliable. However, what the documentation skips over is that this choice requires a hub if you want to use both a mouse and a keyboard, but the tablet uses a micro-USB plug, which means that a standard USB hub does connect to it. What you want is an OTG hub, which connects with a micro-USB plug, and includes three or four full-sized USB ports, allowing you to connect speakers or other devices as well as the mouse and the keyboard.
The only trouble is, OTG hubs may not be standard stock at your local computer store. I was told by several clerks that such things did not exist, and in the end I had to order mine online. However, once I had it, the hub worked without any trouble -- at least, once I enabled the Desktop mode toggle. The hub even included additional slots for SD cards, which could triple the amount of available storage.
Once you are in Desktop mode, you will find it falls short of a full desktop experience. Desktop mode is noticeably slower than tablet mode, and you may detect a half second or so pause before the cursor responds to the first movement of the mouse. Taking a screen shot by pressing both ends of the tablet's volume button can also bring Desktop mode to a crawl for several moments afterwards.
The tablet's behavior also changes in Desktop mode. You can type in the standard free software applications that come with the Ubuntu Edition tablet, such as Firefox, LibreOffice, and Gedit. The virtual keyboard used in Tablet mode is unavailable, but tablet apps that use it can use your attached keyboard.
Similarly, applications in Desktop mode default to full-screen mode, although dialogue windows appear at smaller sizes at the bottom of the screen, which can mean dragging the cursor a long way down the screen to use them. While for many functions you can swipe with your fingers, just as in Tablet mode, Desktop mode does not appear to support Tablet mode's limited ability to maximize or reduce the size of a window, although you can hide windows in the same way. As a result of these limitations, Desktop mode works best for tasks that require only a single application open; you can swipe to the right to select another open application, but doing so can distract you from your work.
Some reviewers have complained that some of the free software applications are too small for convenience, but that can be partly fixed by using a larger than usual font. In LibreOffice, you can also select Tools > View > User Interface > Scaling to increase the size of the menus and the toolbars. Scaling to 150-200% greatly improves the ease of use, although at the cost of reducing the amount of screen display for your work.
Desktop mode is somewhat less than seamless. However, once you have learned how to set it up according to your preferences, most of the inconvenience can be avoided by knowing its limits. You would not attempt to render animation on a workstation with two megabytes of RAM, so why would you try something equally ambitious on a tablet with the same amount of memory?
By contrast, if you are doing basic office productivity, the Ubuntu Edition's Desktop mode offers an adequate solution. Granted, the ability to resize windows easily and work from two or three windows side by side would be welcome, but having a decent keyboard and mouse is worth putting up with a few limitations.
Even with the addition of a mouse and keyboard, the Ubuntu Edition is a practical portable computing solution. Give it another release or two, and the clumsier parts of it should be improved. Meanwhile, Desktop mode is acceptable enough that, before I was two paragraphs into this article, I was focusing on expressing my thoughts rather than on the hardware, which is the way things should be. What we have, then, is a usable beginning.


In terms of passenger numbers, Kittilä is the country's fastest-growing airport.
Last year its passenger numbers grew by 26 percent, and according to Finavia's senior VP Jani Jolkkonen, the expansion will help to increase those figures, saying this phase of the renovations were completed just in time for the airport's peak Christmas season.
The new, 1,500 square meter terminal that opens next week will be for departing passengers and outfitted with new, Nordic-styled wooden furniture and fixtures, a cafe, restaurant and a family-friendly play area for children.
The airport is also now able to serve a dozen planes at the same time, which Finavia said will facilitate faster loading and unloading of aircraft.
The next phase of improvements at the airport – which include a 500 square meter expansion for arriving passengers – will be ready in a couple of months. And further work on the facility – including the construction of a new, full-length runway – will continue, according to the company.
The new runway, called "Taxiway T", will be complete by Christmas 2019.
The Kittilä improvements are part of a two-year, 55 million euro project at three airports across Lapland, an increasingly popular destination for international tourists. The project will also help to expand operations and service at airports in Rovaniemi and Ivalo.
All of the projects began last spring and are expected to be complete by the end of 2019, according to Finavia.


Equipment: satellite TV; internet access Wi-Fi (included); electric heating; underfloor heating.
Feature: Please note: Non-smoking house. Property in an apartment house (max. 3 floor(s)).
Furnishing: good, well-kept, parquet floor. partially low door height (1.70 m).
apartment, 8 people, 5 room/s, 4 bedroom/s, 3 bathroom/s, approx. 125 m², 3 floor/s, year of construction 2008.
Bedroom 1: (ground floor): double bed (1.60 m wide, 2.00 m long). Additional information: direct access to sanitary no 2.
Bedroom 2: (ground floor): bed for 3 persons (1.60 m wide, 2.00 m long).
Bedroom 3: (floor 2, roof pitch): double bed (1.60 m wide, 2.00 m long).
Bedroom 4: (floor 2, roof pitch): double bed (1.60 m wide, 2.00 m long).
Kitchen: Kitchen/ cooking equipment: 4 gas rings, oven, dish-washer, refrigerator, small freezer, coffee machine, water boiler, toaster. open to the living room (floor 1).
Living room: (floor 1): furniture suite, gas fireplace. From the living room stairs to upper levels, to lower levels.
Sanitary 1: (ground floor, access from one bedroom only): shower, WC, sauna.
Sanitary 2: (ground floor, access from one bedroom and corridor): bath, WC.
Access/parking: reserved car park in underground garage.
Estate: (shared use with holiday guests): open plot, gravel.
Fishing: good fishing possibilities, in the lake in approx. 4 km.
Situation: suburbian area, holiday village, altitude 980 m, panoramic view.
Wellness: shared use (free of charge): steam bath.
Arrival: Airport Oslo Gardermoen in approx. 232 km. Ferry port Oslo in approx. 220 km. Train station Geilo in approx. 4 km.
Beach/waters: Lake (bathing possibility) in approx. 4 km (Ustedalsfjorden). Lake in approx. 4 km (Budalsvann).
Bus stop: Bus stop in approx. 3 km (Geilo Esso).
Golf course: (9-hole golf course) in approx. 5 km.
Next village/town: Center Geilo in approx. 3 km. Gol in approx. 52 km.
Public swimming pool: Indoor public swimming pool in approx. 15 m, free entrance for INTER CHALET guests.
Shopping: Next supermarket (Geilo) in approx. 3 km.


The Baltic nation has the highest per capita drug-related death toll in the EU, due almost entirely to synthetic opiate fentanyl – which is used primarily by Estonia's Russian-speaking minority.
Tourists look at the skyline of Tallinn, Estonia, September 6, 2013.
When one thinks of countries with drug problems, the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia is likely not the first to come to mind.
But despite being best known for IT startups and the fairy tale medieval old town in Tallinn, the capital, Estonia has the dubious distinction of leading the European Union in deaths from drug overdoses per capita – almost entirely caused by the use of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that took root among Estonia's intravenous drug users during a heroin shortage a decade ago.
Stranger still, abuse of fentanyl is a particular scourge of Estonia's marginalized Russian-speaking minority, and has not crossed into the majority ethnically Estonian community. This peculiarity has flummoxed social workers and government officials combating the problem, who say that it hints at deeper sociological roots to the drug's abuse.
"Russian-speaking Estonians, due to their socio-economic background, of being for a generation on the margins of Estonian society due to language and cultural borders and unemployment are more at risk to experience greater stresses in their lives," says Kristina Joost, a social worker with Convictus, an Estonian nongovernmental organization that strives to mitigate the fentanyl problem and runs Tallinn's needle exchange program.
Called "China White" on the street, fentanyl in most of the world is a prescription pain reliever administered through a patch or tablets. Estonia's addicts inject fentanyl, which can be hundreds of times stronger than heroin. The drug creates the intense but short lived euphoria that addicts crave – it is common for fentanyl users to use the drug three or four times a day.
Like heroin, it is extremely addicting and causes intense withdraw symptoms when use is ceased. For users, days and nights are centered on how to meet the needs of their habit and because fentanyl is so potent and doses vary in strength, overdosing is a constant threat.
According to the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, an EU agency, a total of 123 cases of direct drug-related deaths were recorded in Estonia in 2011, the last year in which statistics are available. Of these 95 percent were caused by fentanyl overdose. Nearly all were men and the average age was thirty.
Estonian Minister of the Interior Ken-Marti Vaher, whose office works to interdict the flow of illegal drugs, sees a link between fentanyl's place of origin across the border in Russia and use among Estonia's ethnic Russians. A heroin shortage of ten years ago was quickly seized upon by Russian producers of fentanyl.
But the fact that fentanyl use is largely confined to Estonia's Russian speakers is a puzzle that leads experts to theorize about the country's differing subcultures.
Peeter Vihma, a lecturer in sociology at Tallinn University who studies the city's drug culture, sees differences in consumption habits between ethnic Russians and Estonians.
"Stimulant use is definitely greater among ethnic Estonians. It's associated with the clubbing scene," Mr. Vihma says. But where the drug scene for the majority group centers on partying and the cache of expensive drugs associated with nightlife, the Russian minority's subcultures are more diverse and drug-use bonding is more cloistered and hard-core.
"Group solidarity is bigger with ethnic Russian subcultures," he says. "The Russian community is more differentiated and the obligation to the group seems stronger. There can be something of a ghetto effect." Bonding in the intravenous drug-use subculture means using fentanyl.
Vaher too sees social factors as contributing greatly to the restriction of fentanyl use largely to ethnic Russians.
Though Estonia has made remarkable strides since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian-speaking population has lagged behind and not reaped the benefits of economic growth and political freedom. Substance abuse, high rates of HIV, and criminality plague these communities.
Estimates for the number intravenous drug takers in Tallinn run between 6,000 and 10,000. Of those, over half use fentanyl. Interestingly, these hard-core users may not fit everyone's stereotype of a junkie.
But fighting the fentanyl problem means more than just helping addicts. The sale of the drug is a lucrative business involving transnational criminal syndicates.
"One of the most important priorities towards decreasing the supply of drugs in the recent years has been activity against fentanyl sellers through the whole purveyance chain, starting with street dealers and ending with large criminal networks. This will remain a priority for the upcoming years," says Vaher.
Both the Estonian state and the NGO community see some headway with their efforts.
"Estonia has been very good at developing harm reduction services for drug users in cooperation with NGOs," says Joost.
Michael Amundsen is co-editor at TallinnArts.com.


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COVID-19: consequences of the crisis for consultancies.
On the wisdom that it's better to rip the band-aid off, let's get the bad news out of the way quickly: The global consulting industry is in a tailspin. It's forecast to experience a 19 percent drop in fees in 2020 versus 2019, which amounts to a one-year revenue hit of approximately $30 billion.
It's not all doom and gloom from here — in fact, there are encouraging signs that the worst of the impact may be over. Just two months ago, for example, the majority of consulting firms reported a "rapidly and significantly deteriorating situation." Today, the majority say market conditions are either stable or improving. Quite a turnaround.
As a Principal of executive search at Tatum and the leader of our professional services search practice, I have firsthand insights into not only the impact that COVID-19 is having on consulting firms, but also its downstream ramifications for human capital in turn. Let's dig into everything that's scary, everything that's not — and where we're going from here.
COVID-19 and the impact on human capital
In light of the significant revenue losses most consultancies are reeling from, pay cuts, layoffs and other cost-containment measures have been the first line of defense for firms across the board. None of this is shocking. In fact, Deloitte's recently announced decision to cut 5,000 jobs may have been least surprising to those who were the most immediately affected — one survey found that, well before the cuts were announced, nearly 60 percent of consultants at Deloitte and Accenture said they thought layoffs were coming.
Of course, Deloitte was not alone in taking action. Each of the Big Four consulting firms introduced a similar mix of salary reductions, layoffs, cost-containment measures and more, varying by degrees. Steep pay cuts for partners, representing as much as a fifth of compensation at Deloitte, EY and elsewhere, were ratified on the grounds that this was a necessary stopgap: an emergency measure designed to obviate still deeper cuts companywide. (Although, in what was perhaps the most surprising move to me, PwC went so far as to downwardly adjust full-time offers after the fact, meaning new hires were asked to accept salaries lower than what they were initially offered.)
All of this will likely continue. And, the last move notwithstanding, many of these changes seem like off-the-shelf solutions borrowed from the playbook of 2008. The key difference being that, back then, there was comparative economic certainty around recovery. What's next now? Who can say.
But, in any case, let's look at three factors — region, segment, and industry — that will undeniably influence the success of consultancies as they respond to our ever-evolving pandemic.
One glance at Iceland is enough to know that the toll of the virus has been anything but uniform globally. And so will it be for consultancies. Going forward, the picture looks least cheerful in Europe (home to the world's second-largest consulting market), Latin America and the Middle East, where declines of 28 percent, 19 percent and 18 percent are forecast, respectively. In North America, on the other hand, home to the world's largest consulting market, a somewhat more modest 15 percent contraction is expected.
2. segment
Alongside differences in regional impact, variance on a segment-by-segment basis should be expected, as well. One recent report, for example, predicted relatively minor negative impact (-7%) for technology consulting services, compared to services like HR and change management consulting, which may be viewed by clients as more discretionary in nature (and where as much as 34 percent contraction is expected as a result).
3. industry
From an industry standpoint, any sector accustomed to heavily onsite (and often fee-heavy) consulting partnerships is going to face significant disruption due to social distancing protocols, travel restrictions and the like. And not to put it too bluntly, but that is the foreseeable future. As a result, analysts expect business services, healthcare, energy, and resources consulting to swan dive, at least over the near term. That can't be avoided, unfortunately.
reasons for optimism?
Concerning though these trends may be, I want to argue that there are also reasons for optimism. Let me break down three.
1. the M&A forecast
True, in the first quarter of 2020, deal volume plummeted to a seven-year low — with overall deal value a full 33 percent lower than it was the year previous. But it's also true that acquisitions made in a downturn tend to yield higher three-year shareholder returns than their S&P 500 sector average. That, together with the exorbitant amount of dry powder on hand at private equity firms right now, is a good recipe for M&A action.
I've seen a lot of this firsthand. There's simply no denying it: The consulting world is in a highly acquisitive mode. Larger organizations are taking advantage of the fact that valuations have dropped. Bigger players are keen to snap up smaller shops.
Plus, as valuations drop, consolidation opportunities that would not have been feasible pre-COVID-19 are going to emerge as well. If (and the question is not "if" but "when") M&A activity picks up, a resurgence in strategy work for consultancies is bound to ensue.
2. consultancies are hiring
Despite early, worrying reports of widespread hiring freezes, it doesn't look like that's going to happen, at least not at the larger consultancies (even if they are, as in the earlier examples of Deloitte and Accenture, doing some downsizing). Take the example of internships at PwC, for one. The firm has moved to an all-virtual internship experience for its roughly 3,500 undergraduate and MBA students this summer, which is encouraging news.
I've watched this switch to virtual channels with interest at Tatum, and I think it's a really positive story. For example, we're seeing a lot of placements happening purely based on video interviews. (These have typically entailed multiple one-on-one interviews, but they've occasionally involved panel-style interviews in which a single candidate has a video conference with, say, eight senior-level interviews — I prefer the former, but hey, there's no rule book at this point.)
3. the "road warrior"
There's an old consultant's joke: Consultants are sometimes asked to deliver like Jerry Seinfeld, but they're always expected to travel like Jack Kerouac. It was never very funny, but it was true of some, and they were the so-called "road warriors:" high-touch consultants who spent the vast majority of their time OOO in order to be onsite with clients. Beyond the travel, their hours were notoriously grueling (six years of billable client work during a four-year period isn't unheard of).
Surveying the largely vacant offices at most consultancies today, it would seem that there's a cruel irony in the limbo these road warriors face now. That is, in the past, the office of the road warrior was always empty — that was how it was supposed to be. It meant he or she was spending value-adding, billable hours with clients. Now, those empty offices portend something more ghostly, and the unfortunate reality is that it may be some time before the road warriors can come back to reclaim them.
Until then, expect to see from our road warriors the same brand of resilience we've seen from organizations at large as they've rapidly switched to new work-from-home models. It's going to be a transition, not without growing pains, but the all-digital road warrior will be a highly effective and essential piece of the consulting puzzle going forward. The truth is that there are distinct advantages — and disadvantages, too — of not being continually onsite. Not for nothing, "The Road Warrior" (at least in its U.S. release) was a sequel.
Closures of offices. Slim-downs. Haircuts. All of these have and will continue to occur. For U.S. consulting firms, of course, that's going to coincide with a period of tumult and uncertainty as the economy slowly but surely kicks back into gear. It would be foolish to pretend otherwise.
At the same time, I'm confident in the core capabilities of consulting firms: They'll continue to evolve their practices, deliver bottom-line value to clients and spearhead transformative change. Whether or not they make good on that optimism in the short term remains to be seen, but it's absolutely the case that each cause of alarm about the present moment can be counterbalanced by a source of optimism, as I've tried to make clear in my analysis. There's light at the end of the tunnel — we just don't know how long the tunnel is. But a bad year and a bad era are by no means the same thing.
Looking for help navigating the crisis with your own professional services firm? Reach out to us at Tatum to find out why we were recently ranked as one of America's top Executive Search firms, and why we're the go-to partners for so many leading consultancies today.
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Steffen Udengaard Knudsen (* 23. November 1998) ist ein dänischer Leichtathlet, der sich auf den Sprint spezialisiert hat.

Sportliche Laufbahn
Erste internationale Erfahrungen sammelte Steffen Udengaard Knudsen im Jahr 2015, als er bei den Jugendweltmeisterschaften in Cali im 200-Meter-Lauf mit 21,95 s im Halbfinale ausschied, während er über 100 Meter mit 10,84 s nicht über die erste Runde hinauskam. 2019 schied er bei den U23-Europameisterschaften im schwedischen Gävle mit der dänischen 4-mal-100-Meter-Staffel mit 40,22 s im Vorlauf aus. Bei den World Athletics Relays 2021 in Chorzów kam er mit der 4-mal-200-Meter-Staffel nicht ins Ziel.

2019 wurde Udengaard Knudsen dänischer Meister in der 4-mal-100-Meter-Staffel und 2016 wurde er Hallenmeister in der 4-mal-200-Meter-Staffel. Zudem wurde er 2017 Hallenmeister über 200 Meter.

Persönliche Bestzeiten
 100 Meter: 10,70 s (+0,6 m/s), 15. August 2020 in Kopenhagen
 60 Meter (Halle): 6,90 s, 25. Februar 2017 in Skive
 200 Meter: 21,57 s (+1,7 m/s), 28. August 2016 in Aarhus
 200 Meter (Halle): 21,87 s, 23. Januar 2021 in Odense

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Iran reveals plans to manufacture tractors in Uganda
The government of Iran has revealed plans to start manufacturing tractors in Uganda.
The Iranian Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Seyed Morteza Mortazavi, told the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, that a team of Iranian manufacturers had visited different stakeholders in Uganda earlier this year, and was moved by the potential the country possesses in the agricultural sector.
H.E Seyed Morteza Mortazavi met the Speaker at Parliament Building on Thursday 12 December 2019.
He promised to provide financial support as well as technical expertise to Ugandans to begin the manufacture of tractors.
He expressed the desire of Iranian Parliament to form friendship associations with Parliament of Uganda, saying it is the desire of the Speaker of Parliament of Iran, Ali Larijani to strengthen the ties before his term end.
The Parliamentary friendship groups, Mortazavi said will be part of the wider strategy of strengthening friendship between Uganda and Iran. He further revealed that currently his team is organizing an official visit of the Iranian President to Uganda, upon the invitation by Premier Ruhakana Rugunda.
Speaker Kadaga welcomed the pledge saying that the manufacture of tractors was a proper investment in a country that is dominantly agricultural.
"We are an agricultural country, we will be happy for this kind of venture so that we manufacture tractors for our own use and export to our neighboring countries that are similarly agricultural," said Kadaga.
Kadaga pledged cooperation from Parliament of Uganda but noted that a memorandum of understanding between both Parliaments will be required to regularise the friendship groups.
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If there was one health issue I could focus on and potentially save thousands of lives, it would be cardiovascular disease. Are you aware that one in three Americans die from heart attack or strokes? That is almost 34% of all deaths! It far outranks cancer, kidney disease, infections, and accidental deaths!
Some of the top risk factors for developing cardiovascular disease include: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, elevated blood sugar, sleep apnea/chronic lack of sleep, and obesity. What I want to discuss today is a silent killer that many Americans are unaware of – lead.
The presence of lead in the body is associated with SIX times more deaths from heart disease and strokes as compared to those who don't have lead in their body.
Six times! That means for every person who dies of a heart attack, there are six more that die of a heart attack who have lead in their body. Why is this significant? Because lead can be removed from the body, thus saving lives!
What is lead and where does it come from? Lead is a naturally occurring metal that has been mined for thousands of years and is still used widely in commercial products. Lead is a stable metal and accumulates in our tissues (liver, kidneys, muscle, ovaries, prostate, brain, fat) and bones over time and repeated exposure. Most of us are aware of lead-based paints and water pipes as a source of getting lead in our bodies. Leaded gasoline is still used by farmers, boaters, and race car drivers. Lead is in the air we breathe, in our water from brass fixtures (5-7% lead), lead-glazed dishware and crystal, and is in foods and spices from Mexico and China.
The reason lead toxicity is a silent killer is that almost 40% of Americans have lead in their bodies and do not know it. We know that blood lead concentrations as low at 2 mcg/dl is a public health hazard and causes a significant increased risk of dying from heart attack or stroke. Levels as low at 4 mcg/dl can cause high blood pressure. Both the CDC and EPA agree that there is no measurable level of lead in the body which does not cause harm.
Who is at risk for lead toxicity? We are aware of children's risk from ingestion/inhalation of above mentioned sources. Occupations at higher risk of lead exposure include: electricians, plumbers, painters, ceramicists, ammunition specialists, and paint and ink manufacturers. Workers may not only get lead poisoning on the job but may also bring the lead home to their families. Other populations at risk for lead toxicity include menopausal women/andropausal men, hyperthyroidism, cisplatin chemotherapy, osteoporosis or osteopenia, and vitamin D deficiency. This is because in these conditions, bone is being turned over, releasing their stores of lead accumulated over the years.
The symptoms of lead (and other metal) toxicity is long. The checklist we use at our clinic includes: irritability, excessive itching, depression, rashes, numbness/tingling, metallic taste, cold hands/feet, jittery/nervous, memory problems, frequent insomnia, high blood pressure, chest pain, constipation, constant pain in joints, elevated heart rate, diminished libido, twitching muscles, burning tongue, tremors/shakes, headaches after eating, leg cramps, ringing ears, frequent diarrhea, chronic anemia, frequent heartburn, and nerve pain.
Now that you know this, what can you do? A blood level of lead is easy to test at any lab and most insurance companies will pay for it. We recommend this to be done yearly in people over the age of 50 and in people with symptoms. You will need to ask your primary care provider to order this as most health care providers haven't learned about this silent killer (despite the release of information in our medical literature). At our clinic, if we are suspicious of your body having lead toxicity, we will give you medicine to pull the lead (and other metals) from your tissues and then test you – this is actually the most accurate way to test. If you do have lead toxicity, we encourage you to seek care from a health care provider (such as Sonas) who has had training and expertise in the safe removal of lead from your body. A website that can provide you more information is http://www.acamnet.org.
Renae Blanton, MSN, ANP is a Family Nurse Practitioner at Sonas Integrative Medical Center in Durango. She specializes in integrative family medicine with a focus on environmental issues such as lead toxicity, hormone therapy for men and women, and chronic disease and illness. She can be reached at 970-247-2500 or www.sonasimc.com.


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DC Approves Fines for Food Trucks That Squat on Parking Spots
By Scott MacFarlane, Rick Yarborough, Steve Jones and Nikki Hauser	• Published at 7:08 pm on December 18, 2018
The D.C. Council unanimously approved legislation on Tuesday designed to break the logjam of food trucks squatting on some of the District's most prized parking meter spaces.
The News4 I-Team spotted food trucks monopolizing parking spaces and got the attention of city legislators.
The food truck operators have taken control of sections of E Street SW and 12th Street SW, both lucrative sections of the District for food truck sales, by collaborating to keep permanent hold of the parking meter spaces.
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The parking operation was first revealed in a News4 I-Team investigation in February. It has created conflict with neighboring businesses, other food truck operators and raised questions about the effectiveness of parking laws and enforcement in the District.
D.C. Council Member Charles Allen thanked the I-Team for its work.
"The local media was fantastic on this. I think NBC4 in particular helped highlight exactly what the problem was, helped us work toward solutions," he said. "So, I'm grateful for that, because it really helped shine a light where we needed it."
The I-Team review found the food truck operators work collaboratively and share a set of older cars. After the lunch hours are complete, operators move their food trucks from the metered parking spaces but immediately move some of their fleet of shared junk cars into the spaces. Doing so blocks access to those spaces to others and allows the truck operators to squat on the spots around the clock and through the weekends.
The parking spaces are not part of D.C.'s 10 approved food truck lottery zones but are located near large federal office complexes and thousands of potential customers, including the headquarters of NASA and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
The food truck parking blockade along 12th Street SW operates outside the headquarters of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
An I-Team review of D.C. parking citations, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, shows some of the placeholder junk cars used by the food truck operators have been ticketed dozens of times this year. Public works officers have issued at least 620 parking tickets near the E Street SW parking spaces since January, the I-Team found.
D.C. Department of Public Works officials said the tickets range in cost between $30 and $50 but do not increase if there are multiple violations.
D.C. Council member Charles Allen said the cost of the parking tickets has been an acceptable "cost of doing business" for the food truck operations.
"It's the cheapest rent in town," he said. "It's just a shell game. They're sliding them around. It's a racket."
Citing the findings of the I-Team, members of the D.C. Council drafted new legislation to adjust D.C. parking laws to make it prohibitively expensive to incur multiple parking tickets at those Southwest D.C. parking meter spaces. The bill empowers the mayor to designate those streets as "Repeat Parking Violation Pilot Zones." The cost of the tickets would increase for second and third parking infractions involving the same car in those zones.
"It's a fraudulent, preplanned and sophisticated execution arrangement that is their business model," said D.C. Council member Mary Cheh, who chairs the Council Transportation and Environment Committee. "To stop this fraudulent enterprise from continuing, we have to be more aggressive."
Food truck operators in the Southwest zones declined to comment to News4 when asked about the legislation.
During the I-Team's February investigation, at least two truck operators acknowledged they were executing a plan to squat on the parking meter spaces. They said it was motivated by a shortage of other spaces made available by the District in its 10 designated food truck zones.
Food truck operator Ben Rohani, who is among those squatting on the public spaces along E Street SW, said the lottery only provides him an official zone space elsewhere in D.C. once each week.
"It's very difficult. We can't be OK if we don't have a spot. We can't tell our employees, 'OK, you don't work today,'" Rohani said.
D.C. records show the number of food trucks has soared from approximately 115 trucks in 2013 to 450 in 2018. D.C.'s food truck zone lottery program, which divides 100 designated food truck parking spaces each month, is too small to afford zone spaces to all of the current operators.
D.C. Department of Public Works director Chris Shorter said, under D.C. law, it is not illegal for food truck operators to park trucks next to public parking meters, but Shorter said his agency has received a large number of complaints and inquiries about the food truck parking blockade in the months after the I-Team investigation in February.
"We know it's a challenge, and we're continuing to send our officers," Shorter said. "Our parking enforcement is doing its best to ticket when it's appropriate."
D.C. Council gave preliminary approval to its new legislation at a hearing Dec. 4. It was approved on a second vote Tuesday, Dec. 18.
If approved by Mayor Muriel Bowser, the bill will become law next year.


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Nothing tells the story of Athabasca University better than the success of our students and alumni — people who are making their marks on the job and in their communities.
Meet Julie Lys, MN '07: AU's Distinguished Alumna Award recipient.
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AU's 2016 Distinguished Alumna, Julie Lys
Community is everything for Julie Lys, a 2007 AU Master of Nursing graduate.
She is a proud champion of her northern Métis heritage, her sprawling family — both immediate and extended — and her community members of Fort Smith, in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories.
Lys, a nurse practitioner and educational health advocate, is committed to doing whatever it takes to nurture her community and instill in its members a sense of passion, pride, and a continuous desire to learn – no matter one's personal circumstances.
The idea to become a nurse and care for her community came after the light-bulb moment when, as a teenage candy striper at her local hospital, she realized there was a definite lack of diversity among the people working in healthcare-related roles.
"I didn't see aboriginal people working there in positions such as doctors," says Lys.
"I saw local people working in the kitchen and housekeeping, but not in nursing roles. I just thought people from "the South" (as in Edmonton or Calgary) do those kinds of jobs."
When she was a child, her father said: "My girl, you were born to care for others."
He was right. Nursing was the natural fit.
After she finished her degree, she fulfilled her goal to come straight home to work in the community where she grew up among her tight-knit family, including a dozen siblings.
– Julie Lys, 2016 Athabasca University Distinguished Alumna
She has also made it her life's mission to promote education among Fort Smith's aboriginal, Métis and indigenous learners.
"I love to learn and I love education," says Lys, who has served on the education board in Fort Smith for 14 years, namely as chair.
She is a strong advocate of youth in her community and enjoys talking to them about the post-secondary experience. She says nothing is more satisfying then the pivotal moment when she gets to flip over the tassel of a high school graduate's cap.
Equally inspiring, she says, is watching these young people follow in her own previous educational footsteps — "graduating from university and coming back to work here."
Lys was instrumental in the development of Fort Smith's Phoenix School for youth — an alternative platform to help students reinvest in their education and, moreover, to graduate.
"Nothing is more satisfying then the pivotal moment when she gets to flip over the tassel of a high school graduate's cap."
Like AU's mandate for flexible education, the Phoenix School operated independent hours to accommodate students' jobs and roles as young parents — a place where they could "check in and work at their own pace."
For Julie Lys, education is the gateway to one's future career.
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A number of genetic disorders occur more frequently in certain ethnic populations. In the Ashkenazi Jewish population (those of Eastern European descent), it has been estimated that one in four individuals is a carrier of one of several genetic conditions. These diseases include Tay-Sachs Disease, Canavan, Niemann-Pick, Gaucher, Familial Dysautonomia, Bloom Syndrome, Fanconi anemia, Cystic Fibrosis and Mucolipidosis IV. Some of these diseases may be severe and may result in the early death of a child. Carrier screening is available for all of these diseases with a simple blood test.
- How are These Diseases Inherited?
- What are the Diseases?
- What if Both Parents are Carriers?
- Resources on Genetic Diseases?
How are these Diseases Inherited?
In the nucleus of every cell in the body there are 46 chromosomes. Each chromosome is a package that holds many genes. Our genes contain DNA, the set of instructions that makes up who we are. All chromosomes (and the genes that are on those chromosomes) come in pairs. We receive one member of each pair of chromosomes from our mother and the other member of the pair from our father. Sometimes there is a change in a gene (called a mutation) that causes the gene to malfunction.
All of the above-mentioned conditions are inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. This means that an affected person has a change in both genes of the pair of genes, one change inherited from each parent. Neither gene in the pair is working properly, which causes the symptoms of the disease.
A carrier is someone who has a change in only one gene of the pair of genes. Carriers are healthy individuals who are only at risk for passing the gene change on to their children. Most often these diseases occur in families with no prior history of the disease.
What are the Diseases?
A condition where children develop normally until about four to six months of age. It is at this time that the central nervous system begins to degenerate. Individuals with Tay-Sachs Disease lack an enzyme called hexosaminidase (Hex A). The child loses all motor skills and becomes blind, deaf and unresponsive. Death usually occurs by the age of four. The carrier rate in the Ashkenazi Jewish population is approximately 1 in 25. More rare than the infantile type is Late Onset Tay-Sachs Disease, where the progression of symptoms is slower and milder.
Very similar to Tay-Sachs Disease, with normal development until age two to four months, followed by progressive loss of previously attained skills. Most individuals with Canavan Disease die by the age of five. An estimated 1 in 40 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier for this disease.
Niemann-Pick Disease – Type A
A disease in which a harmful amount of a fatty substance accumulates in different parts of the body. Failure to thrive and a progressive neurodegenerative course lead to death by three years of age. The carrier rate in the Ashkenazi Jewish population is approximately 1 in 90.
Gaucher Disease – Type 1
(Pronounced go-shay) is a variable condition, both in age of onset and in progression of symptoms. A painful, enlarged and overactive spleen, with anemia and low white blood cell count are usually the initial features of Gaucher Disease. Bone deterioration is a major cause of discomfort and disability. Approximately 1 in 14 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of this condition. Treatment is available.
A disease that causes the autonomic and sensory nervous systems to malfunction. This affects the regulation of body temperature, blood pressure, stress response, normal swallowing and digestion. An estimated 1 in 30 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of FD.
Characterized by short stature, sun-sensitive facial skin lesions, an increased susceptibility to infections and a higher incidence of leukemia and certain cancers. The carrier rate is about 1 in 100 in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.
Fanconi anemia – Type C
A disease associated with short stature, bone marrow failure and a predisposition to leukemia and other cancers. Some children may have learning difficulties or mental retardation. Approximately 1 in 89 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier for this condition.
Mucolipidosis IV
Caused by the accumulation of certain harmful substances throughout the body. Individuals with ML IV experience a range of levels of motor and mental retardation, with developmental delays often manifesting themselves as early as the first year of life. Other symptoms can be related to the eyes, such as corneal clouding, pseudostrabismus and retinal degeneration.
A multi-system disorder that causes the body to produce a thick mucus. The mucus accumulates primarily in the lungs and the digestive tract, resulting in chronic lung infections and poor growth. CF does not affect intelligence. The carrier rate for CF among all Caucasian individuals is approximately 1 in 25. The CF carrier test has a detection rate of 97% in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.
What if Both Parents are Carriers?
If two carriers of the same disorder have children, there is a 25% chance of having an affected child, a 50% chance of having a child who is a carrier like themselves, and a 25% chance of having a child who is neither affected nor a carrier. If an individual is found to be a carrier, genetic counseling is available at many clinics throughout the country to discuss the implications of this finding. If partners are found to be carriers of the same disorder(s), a genetic counselor can provide information and support, which may be helpful in making important family planning decisions.
The results of these tests are highly accurate. However, there is a slight possibility that someone who tests negative for being a carrier could still be a carrier. There may be rare mutations that DNA testing may not pick up.
Resources on Genetic Diseases
- Einstein Victor Center for the Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases
- Chicago Center for Jewish Genetic Disorders
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine Center for Jewish Genetic Diseases
- Canavan Foundation
- National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association
- Fanconi Anemia Research Fund
- National Gaucher Foundation
- National Niemann-Pick Foundation
- Late Onset Tay-Sachs Foundation
- Dysautonomia Foundation
- Familial Dysautonomia Hope Foundation
- Mucolipidosis IV Foundation
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- National Society of Genetic Counselors
- Genetic Alliance
Sources: Victor Center for Jewish Genetic Diseases


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Trump victory corresponded with Doug making a break with MHI and was publically denounced by Kliman (as was I as his "side kick"). This has pushed to look into Marxism and see its not the answer to everything, and whoever thought that it would be?
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Q: The Initial and boundary conditions of a 2nd order nonlinear ODE The problem is derived from:
Original gradient index optics problem

See the Figure above.
$O:(0,0)$ is the disk center of light source $\odot{O}$ with radius $3$.
Then the profile light rays of disk $O$ from the view point $B:(-14,0)$ is defined by segments $DB$ and $EB$ (also the tangent lines of $\odot{O}$ through $B$) when the refraction index is a constant value everywhere. -- By saying profile I mean, $D$ and $E$ are exactly on the edge of the visible disk.
Now if the refraction index is defined as:
$$n(x,y)=\dfrac{e^{\tfrac{(x+15)^2+y^2+12}{(x+15)^2+y^2+11}}}{e}$$
How to determine the two profile light curves of disk $O$ from the viewpoint $B$?
Per Fermat's principle, I tried to establish:
$$\delta\int{n(x,y)}\rm{d}s=0$$
and the second order nonlinear ODE via Euler-Lagrange equation:
$$y''(x)=\dfrac{2\left((x+15)y'(x)-y(x)\right)\left(y'(x)^2+1\right)}{\left(y(x)^2+x(x+30)+236\right)^2}$$
In order to obtain a numerical solution, it is easy to have one boundary value condition $y(-14)=0$ of the ordinary differential equation, but I don't know how to establish another, e.g, $y'(-14)=?$.
Update
I tried some calculation, and it seems, for any numerical solution $y(x)$, it will be difficult to determine whether it is tangent to the circle $O$ or not:

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Joao Almeida
Written by burning ambulance
João Almeida is a trumpeter from Lisbon, Portugal. He's not even 25 yet, but he shows terrific promise already. As a student, he has worked with a broad range of forward-looking musicians from Portugal and beyond, including Peter Evans, Rodrigo Amado, Gabriel Ferrandini, Hernâni Faustino, Susana Santos Silva, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and many others.
Almeida released four albums in 2020. The first, Solo Sessions *||||, is exactly what its title suggests. It consists of eight pieces ranging in length from 1:47 ("Membrane") to 9:29 ("Train"). Some feel like a single idea explored until it has given up every last shred of its potential; others are journeys that begin in one place and end in another. At one point in "Stuck" he creates two tones at once, the more subtle of which is a low rumble existing just underneath the long, repetitive but frantically energetic cyles of notes that are the heart of the piece.
Almeida's next two releases were far away from the realm of improvised music. Static I and II are ambient works with no trumpet content at all. The first uses overlapping field recordings, captured during a late-night walk and run through multiple EQs and time-stretching software, to create a single 30-minute piece that's somewhere between Mick Harris's work as Lull and the drone of someone running a large machine on the other side of a brick wall. It rumbles and vibrates, pitching up and down subtly like it's shifting gears, and occasionally seems like it's speeding up or slowing down, but its essentially arrhythmic nature makes any sense of motion purely the creation of the listener's mind. The two pieces on Static II were created with software intended to emulate a modular synthesizer. The first movement starts off with hums and dripping sounds and subtle, almost subsonic drones, like the beginning of a track by Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band before the primary instrumentalists come in, when it's still Hancock and Patrick Gleeson creating atmospheres. Around the five-minute mark, though, things go awry and it begins to get noisier and noisier until it's almost Merzbow-ish; later, high-volume organ-like chords zap and sear like a 1970s horror movie soundtrack.
Almeida's final release of his first year of public activity is almost traditional, though the tradition is the supposedly iconoclastic one of non-idiomatic free improvisation. It's a live recording from March 5, 2020, only 10 days before most of the world went into COVID-19 lockdown, featuring Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and electronics and João Lopes Pereira on drums. Lonberg-Holm distorts his cello to the point that it sounds like both a bass and an electric guitar at once; sometimes it sounds like he's stretching giant rubber bands over the mouth of a steel barrel, with the whole junkyard assemblage mic'ed and swathed in echo and reverb. Almeida's horn sound is clean and very dry. He occasionally rises to a passionate cry, but mostly grows and murmurs to himself, emitting long strings of notes and sometimes devolving into a gritty squall. Pereira's drumming is post-rhythmic, with only a suggestion of timekeeping found in the way he sets up repeated small explosions.
Listening to all four of these releases (though honestly, you could skip Static I), a picture emerges of a highly creative musician with a promising future in a scene that can always use new blood. João Almeida is someone to watch for, and listen to.
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Can you repeat that?
This report from the British Council talks about how being a native speaker of English isn't as big an advantage as it might seem. A review says (and my experience agrees entirely):
As English increasingly becomes the language of business, native speakers feel, quite understandably, that they are at an advantage. But discussion often goes more smoothly when the native speakers leave the room – proceedings are not muddied by idioms and intuitive, unthinking use of slang. Conversation among non-native speakers may be more direct and pragmatic – correct, probably, yet stripped down and functional. The people who see themselves as facilitators are, in reality, obstacles. This is increasingly evident to non-native speakers, and it is having an impact on the teaching of English as a foreign language.
Most people are impressively incompetent when it comes to talking with non-native speakers of their language. The exceptions are generally those who have learnt through experience how to talk simply – businesspeople, tour guides or travellers. But it's a skill which
be taught – it just isn't.
Teaching of foreign languages in Britain, for good reason, farcical: a basic knowledge of French is pretty useless, when every child in France is learning English to a far higher level. Why not let kids opt out of learning foreign languages, and instead take a course in 'how to communicate with foreigners'? Give them prose-composition excercises with a thousand-word vocabulary. Mark them down for using slang, or irony, or meaningless pleasantries that confuse the conversation. Have comprehension exercises where children must make sense of Babelfish translations, or letters badly translated from Finnish. Get them onto skype, let them talk to the Chinese kids their age who are learning English. Teach them how to rephrase and repeat, how to pitch their language according to the audience, how to figure out when a listener hasn't understood them. It'll be far more use than a few words in French.
Trotsky and leapfrogging
The [Worldchanging](http://www.worldchanging.com) folks often talk about [leapfrogging](http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001743.html), 'the notion that areas which have poorly-developed technology or economic bases can move themselves forward rapidly through the adoption of modern systems without going through intermediary steps'. It's nice to see the same concept in different clothes, in a [book on Trotsky](http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2635#_ednref14) (who naturally had the problem of explaining Communism in Russia):
>In appending new forms the backward society takes not their beginnings, nor the stages of their evolution, but the finished product itself. In fact it goes even further; it copies not the product as it exists in its countries of origin but its 'ideal type', and it is able to do so for the very reason that it is in a position to append instead of going through the process of development. This explains why the new forms, in a backward society, appear more perfected than in an advanced society where they are approximations only to the 'ideal' for having been arrived at piecemeal and with the framework of historical possibilities.
Independent Iraqi politics, 2006
Reading [Blair Unbound](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3669345/Tony-Blair-Hat-trick-hero.html), Anthony Seldon's political biography of Blair since 2001, I've been struck by how forcefully it confirms the view much of the outside world had of Number 10 in that time. Namely, that everything was driven by personalities rather than policies, with Blair rarely hearing — let alone listening to — the outside world.
[Naturally](http://ohuiginn.net/mt/the_world/iraq/) I've been paying particularly close attention to the treatment of the Iraq war. This was the first political event I was deeply involved in, and re-viewing it as history provides a chance to see what I interpreted correctly and falsely at the time. Generally, the lesson is I was most likely to be right when I was at my most cynical.
A good example of this is the casual way in which Blair and Bush controlled Iraqi politicians — including elected politicians, whose democratic selection was one of the last remaining justifications for their war.
So, when Nouri al-Maliki's selection as Iraqi Prime Minster in early 2006, replacing Ibrahim Jaafari,
[most reports](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/mar/16/iraq) treated it as a decision made by Iraqis. Relatively few journalists discussed it as a selection determined by the Americans. [I did](http://ohuiginn.net/mt/2006/04/jawad_almaliki.html), correctly cynical for once, mainly because I had been paying attention to [Helena Cobban](http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/election/2006/0405impasse.htm):
>The US and British governments…have been using the power of their countries' military position inside Iraq to try to subvert the results of the December election by pursuing a determined campaign against the nomination of Ibrahim Jaafari as Prime Minister.
Now it is safely in the past, Seldon is free to show that the cynics had it right:
>[Blair] became convinced that al-Jaafari should, in the interests of Iraq's future, step down. But how? Al-Jaafari did not want to relinquish office, and so the full weight of the Bush administration would be required to shift his view….Blair told Bush that he had asked Straw to go to Baghdad to 'bang heads together' and suggested that Rice join him….Straw and Rice were unable to dislodge al-Jaafari during their visit, but, in making clear that they spoke with the full authority of their bosses, they made their point. Sawers and the NSC's Megan O'Sullivan remained behind to maintain the pressure. Blair kept in close contact with them, and on 20 April, al-Jaafari eventually stepped down.
Book: China Pop
Despite the column-yards given over to news from China, I often feel that the only stories I read from that country are ones about money. There are other, less business-oriented voices around — how could there not be, given the number of people constantly travelling to and from China — but you have to go and hunt them down rather than waiting for them to arrive on the front page.
So [on Cosma's recommendation](http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/china-today.html) I bought myself a copy of [Zha Jianying](http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/23/070423fa_fact_zha?currentPage=all)'s book [China Pop](http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/books/books-of-the-times-now-china-has-its-soaps-and-celebrity-authors.html).
Written in 1995, this is a a tour of the Chinese culture industry – books, film, television, art and the press. Zha wisely avoids the temptation to cover everything. Instead she focuses mainly on her Beijing-intellectual friends, people she understands and who will be willing to talk with her. So we get telling pen-portraits of a handful of successful artists. There is the team behind TV melodrama Yearning (ke wang), a mix of highbrow writers such as Zheng Wanglong, who devoted their energies to building a chinese equivalent to Mexican soaps. Or there isChan Koon-Chung, one of the breed of ambitious Hong Kong media entrepreneurs trying to expand onto the mainland.
Many of Zha's subjects are intellectuals who have consciously abandoned an inward-looking and elitist 'avant-garde' in favour of the mass market. It all sounds strikingly like Yeltsin-era Russia, where some professors become millionaire wheeler-dealers, while many of their colleagues end up bewildered and impoverished, unable to find a position for themselves inside a new world. Even as she focusses on the success stories, Zha does manage to point out the number who have lost their way.
What's truly striking, though, is how dated the book feels. She writes of the fledgling contemporary art scene in Beijing; now, [artfacts](http://www.artfacts.net) lists 149 galleries there, and Chinese influence on the international world is growing exponentially. Equally, much of the media – the press, music, even porn – has been transformed beyond recognition by the internet. I'd love to see Zha write a similar book now, and capture what has changed in the past 15 years. Unfortunately her [latest book](http://new.artzinechina.com/display_vol_aid247_en.html) won't help: she's devoted it entirely to the 1980s.
Dubai: Hari, plus Mike Davis
There's much to be said for Johann Hari, whatever [uncertainties](http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Johann_Hari#Challenges_to_his_credibility.2C_and_Hari.27s_responses) you may have about his reliability. He's one of the few reliably left-liberal voices in the British media, and he's an excellent writer. His long [piece on Dubai](http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html) in last week's Independent deservedly ruffled a lot of feathers. In it, he describes the life of the labourers imported to build Dubai's skyscrapers, kept without chance of escape in what amounts to slavery:
>Every evening, the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town, where they are quarantined away. Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on cattle trucks, but the expats complained this was unsightly, so now they are shunted on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat. They sweat like sponges being slowly wrung out.
>Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete buildings. Some 300,000 men live piled up here, in a place whose name in Hindi means "City of Gold". In the first camp I stop at – riven with the smell of sewage and sweat – the men huddle around, eager to tell someone, anyone, what is happening to them.
The reaction was immense, and consisted of that odd mix of "you're making it up" and "that's old news" which is generally a sure sign that you've hit a nerve.
But in the interests of not relying on Hari alone, here's a somewhat similar [account of Dubai](http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2635), by [Planet of Slums](http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Slums-Mike-Davis/dp/1844671607/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239803062&sr=8-1) author Mike Davis:
>Dubai, like its neighbours, flouts ILO labour regulations and refuses to adopt the international Migrant Workers Convention. Human Rights Watch in 2003 accused the Emirates of building prosperity on 'forced labour'. Indeed, as the Independent recently emphasized, 'the labour market closely resembles the old indentured labour system brought to Dubai by its former colonial master, the British.' 'Like their impoverished forefathers', the London paper continued, 'today's Asian workers are forced to sign themselves into virtual slavery for years when they arrive in the United Arab Emirates. Their rights disappear at the airport where recruitment agents confiscate their passports and visas to control them.'
Back to Hari for the last word:
>Perhaps Dubai disturbed me so much, I am thinking, because here, the entire global supply chain is condensed. Many of my goods are made by semi-enslaved populations desperate for a chance 2,000 miles away; is the only difference that here, they are merely two miles away, and you sometimes get to glimpse their faces? Dubai is Market Fundamentalist Globalisation in One City.
Georgia: rebels without a programme
In Georgia, the [protests](http://ohuiginn.net/mt/2009/04/georgia_protests_friday.html) continue: [small rallies](http://georgiandaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11123&Itemid=133), alongside attempts to blockade the streets outside parliament and other official buildings. Day in, day out, there are still several thousand people involved in the protests, an impressive show of strength.
The problem is the leadership; as [Paul Rimple](http://tbilisiblues.blogspot.com/2009/04/salome-ii-pure-genius.html) writes:
>I'd really like to sympathize with the opposition, but these people must understand what a grave responsibility they bear when talking to thousands of tired and angry people. If you are a leader, people depend on you to guide them. If you don't know what you are leading them towards you have no reason to be sitting in the chair.
They have genuine grievances. Problem is, they won't allow any avenue to resolve them, short of toppling the government. They've rejected out of hand suggestions of directly elected mayors, and of a coalition government. They aren't putting forward demands of their own, except for the unachievable one of complete power.
And if, somehow, they did manage to oust Saakashvili? The new president would instantly be beseiged by the same crowd of disaffected politicos, and there's no reason to expect any better behaviour from the protest leaders than from Saakashvili. My instinct is usually to support protesters, but in this debacle I don't see much to admire anywhere.
By the way, [here](http://kosmyryk.typepad.com/) are [some](http://caucasusreports.wordpress.com/) [blogs](http://tbilisiblues.blogspot.com/) following the protests.
: Judging by the [Global Voices roundup](http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/14/concerns-emerge-over-protest/), more or less every other blog has the same view. Doesn't mean we're right, of course.
A financial crisis reading list
[warning: a mainly-for-my-own-benefit big-list-of-links post]
Despite the left's [general](http://ohuiginn.net/mt/2009/04/german_left.html) [crapness](http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2009/04/07/what-is-the-lefts-approach-to-the-financial-crisis/) in responding to the economic crisis, they must have _some_ ideas, somewhere. I just can't find them. The obvious solution – ploughing through a big pile of documents, and hoping to find something insightful buried within it. Here's the pile – makeshift, incomplete, and poorly-arranged, likely to grow and mutate over time, but (hopefully) containing something worthwhile. My [delicious](http://delicious.com/perspectivelute/gfc) has even less-sorted links. Categories are very vague.
From the left
* [Mat Taibbi](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print) in _Rolling Stone_
* [The crash – a view from the left](http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/ebooks/crash.html), a collection of articles co-edited by Jon Cruddas. [Direct link to pdf](http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/ebooks/crash.html)
* [Rowenna Davis' LC post](http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2009/04/07/what-is-the-lefts-approach-to-the-financial-crisis/#comments) bemoaning the lack of action on the left
* Fabians: [pamphlet on green economics](http://fabians.org.uk/publications/publications-news/cheap-energy-harman-independent), [speech by Sunder Katwala](http://www.fabians.org.uk/general-news/general-news/katwala-finance-downturn-risks), [focus-grouped views on bonuses &c](http://www.fabians.org.uk/images/stories/Fabian_Review_Winter_Fabian_Essay.pdf)
* ATTAC: [new docs from France](http://www.france.attac.org/spip.php?page=nouveautes)
* [Casino Crash](http://casinocrash.org/): "Critical thinking on the financial and economic crisis"
* Prospect: [After Capitalism](http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10680)
* The Nation: [Reimagining Socialism](http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090323/ehrenreich_fletcher?rel=hp_picks)
* Demos: [Lessons from the global financial crisis](http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/aftertheapocalypse)
* IPPR: [Towards an accountable capitalism](http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=652), [commentary on the G20](http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=655), and (getting tenuous now) [green jobs](http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=658)
* [Amartya Sen](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22490) on 'Capitalism Beyond the Crisis'
* [The quiet coup](http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice) – Atlantic article on the IMF, by Simon Johnson of baseline scenario
From the centre
* [Planet Money](http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/), a blog and tri-weekly (?) podcast from NPR. The team also made an [hour-long introduction](http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1242)
* [Obama's latest speech](http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=04&year=2009&base_name=obamas_speech_1) on the economy, giving an overview of what he's been up to
* [The Turner Review](http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Library/Corporate/turner/index.shtml). [Guardian summary](http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/18/banking-regulators). [Direct pdf link](http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/turner_review.pdf)
* G20 London summit: [Communiqué](http://www.londonsummit.gov.uk/en/summit-aims/summit-communique/), [official site](http://www.londonsummit.gov.uk/en/), [unofficial information collection](http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/g20/)
* Esprit issues devoted to the financial crisis, [November](http://www.eurozine.com/journals/esprit/issue/2008-11-10.html) and [December](http://www.eurozine.com/journals/esprit/issue/2008-12-11.html)
* Economics blogs/pundits: [Paul Krugman](http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/), [Tyler Cowen](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/), [Brad DeLong](http://delong.typepad.com/), [The Baseline Scenario](http://baselinescenario.com/), FT [Economists' Forum](http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/), [Nouriel Roubini](http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini), [naked capitalism](http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/)
* Max Otte's book [Der Crash kommt](http://www.amazon.de/Crash-kommt-Max-Otte/dp/3430200016) has been hanging around on German bestseller lists for months. But I haven't seen it mentioned in the English-speaking world, and there doesn't seem even to be an English translation
* Charles Morris, the trillion dollar meltdown
* Robert Shiller, [the subprime solution](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8714.html)
* Nassim Taleb, [The Black Swan](http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2007/04/nassim_talebs_t.html)
* Charles Kindleberger, Manias, Panics and Crashes. [First Chapter](http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/46/04714671/0471467146.pdf)
* Friedman, The great contraction. [First Chapter](http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8754.html)
* [Books listed in the Turner Review](http://labourandcapital.blogspot.com/2009/03/fsa-reading-list.html)
* Martin Wolf's book [Fixing global finance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Global_Finance)
Renting vs. buying, Sofia-style
Bulgarian anthropologist Ivaylo Ditchev has some interesting articles up at Eurozine. He's good on migrant workers; he's downright brilliant when justifying my prejudices against home ownership.
As in the rest of the country, nine out of ten people in Sofia own the home they live in (unlike in the former GDR, for example, home ownership in Bulgaria was as high during communism as it is today). A similar proportion consider it self-evident to keep the same flat for life and see their children inherit it; to sell property is considered somehow to be an evil.
The real-estate market, abolished under communism in 1948, has been slow to come into motion. People find excuses not to sell: they waited for prices to go up first with Nato accession (2004), then with EU accession (2007). Well, prices did go up, but there was no property boom. Typically, elderly persons would live in extreme poverty, turning off the central heating in all but the bedroom, and obstinately refusing to sell their bigger flat and buy a smaller one.
This means that even after 15 years of "transition", the spatial expression of new social inequalities has been slow to take shape. In the same block of flats, one finds growing differences in income, culture, and expectations; rarely is it possible to convince all owners to pay for the re-plastering of the façade (making much of the city look as if it had been subject to air raids). From the outside, it is possible to single out the rich owner who has covered his floor with a strip of brand-new stucco; it is said that burglars identify their targets according to the estimated price of the window frames.
The British and American faith in home ownership as a free-market idol confuses me. In personal terms, investing 300% of your wealth in one asset seems like dubious personal finance. In market terms, apartment blocks are like enclosures: more efficient than strip farming, and they free the serfs to seek their fortune in another city.
Seems to me, Britain isn't far from Bulgaria on this. Some of the reasons for owning homes are exactly comparable: faith in ever-rising prices, and the desire to pass on a family home through the generations, despite the low likelihood of your children wanting to live in the same place.
Most of our other reasons are historical, cultural and social, conservative rather than pro-market. Renting meant government ownership, hence unresponsive management. It also often meant blocks of flats, hence New Brutalist concrete, product of cheap postwar reconstruction and a bone-headed architectural fad. Thatcher's sale of council homes was a way to turn the richer workers into loyal Conservative voters. Pillaging public assets to subsidise this, she made buying into a genuinely good deal for anybody rich enough to afford it. Since then, we've convinced ourselves that house prices always rise, so anybody who rents is either a fool, or too poor to get rich. Plus, there's that unpleasant "Englishman's home is his castle" thing.
Despite this, we talk about home ownership primarily in economic terms. Why?
German left
The [weakness](http://ohuiginn.net/mt/2009/04/market_socialism.html) of the left's response to the financial crisis is also noticeable here in Germany. Left-wing parties are somehow managing to
popularity, even as capitalism collapses around them. Even Attac — the group campaigning for a [Tobin Tax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax), and generally among the better-informed critics of unfettered free markets — have failed to make a dent in the debate. [Der Spiegel](http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,618304,00.html) nails one reason – the left's certainty of itself, regardless of the rest of the world:
>Those who know they are always right can deal less with a specific moment than with their principles. So they miss the forward-pass from history, the breath of the moment.
>Thus the clear weakness of the left is not least their inability to react adequately to this unique historical moment, which is for many as confusing as it is threatening.
>That has always been the power of a successful protest movement: vocalising the situation in order to change it. Tangibly, surprisingly. It happened in 1968. It happened in the 1970s, with the environmental and anti-nuclear movements. It happened in 1989, as the wall fell. Always the expression of suppressed or displaced feelings played a decisive role – wit, verve, impudence, passion and a touch of genius, brought together for a 'concrete utopia' [all very loosely translated]
[John Gray](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22556) likes Margaret Atwood's new (non-fiction) book on debt:
Atwood's project is to show how human thought has been deeply shaped by notions of debt. It will be objected that she is merely spinning out an extended metaphor suggesting analogies between debt and noneconomic phenomena that are only vaguely analogous. In fact she is advancing the contrary and more interesting claim that economic activities involving borrowing and lending are metaphorical extensions of an underlying human sense of indebtedness. Beliefs about debt are not shadows cast by processes of market exchange. They are presupposed throughout much of human activity. Economic life invokes a sense of order in human affairs, widely dispersed throughout society.
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