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Jan Chats with Gaylen Ross About Her Controversial New Doc 'Killing Kasztner'
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(First Posted in 2009)
Reszo Kasztner was a leading member of a Zionist rescue group in Budapest when the Germans occupied Hungary in March, 1944. This was late in the War, the Germans were clearly losing, and in a sudden about face, Adolph Eichmann offered to negotiate. His goal? Sell Hungarian Jews in exchange for cash and supplies. As a gesture of "good faith," Eichmann allowed one group to enter Switzerland on what is now known to history as "the Kasztner Train."
After the war, Kasztner made aliyah, but once in Israel, he was condemned as a collaborator. Yes, it's about the Holocaust, but KILLING KASZTNER also addresses urgent issues equally relevant in our own era.
Jan called Gaylen to discuss her film prior to its Chicago premiere at the Music Box Theatre on January 8, 2010.
Jan: When did you first become interested in this subject, Gaylen?
Gaylen: Around 1997; I was producing and writing a documentary on Swiss banks and Holocaust accounts (BLOOD MONEY: SWITZERLAND'S NAZI GOLD), and there was a woman, Alice Fisher, who got to Switzerland, she said, "on the Kasztner Train." I didn't know what she was talking about. I said: "What is this train, and who was Kasztner?"
And I thought: "This is incredible!" I'd heard about non-Jews who rescued Jews (like Schindler and Wallenberg) and all the smaller but equally courageous stories (hiding Jews in barns and in attics,) but the idea that there was a Jew who rescued thousands of Jews during the War, and it's not even a conversation, was amazing to me.
I didn't know enough to say: "Is this man a hero or not a hero?" I didn't even understand the level of complexity and controversy, which I soon found out, about this story. But I just thought: "How is this not even discussed? How is this not in our books? Why are we not shouting it from the rooftops?"
There was this Jew, Rezso Kasztner, who negotiated for thousands. And the fact that he was erased from our Holocaust teachings was incredible to me. That's when I started researching, and those who did know some of the story said: "Don't do this. Don't go there. It's too controversial. It's too difficult."
And then they said: "Well, if you're going to do it, talk to Professor Egon Mayer." He has since passed away, but he worked with me on the film. His mother was pregnant with him on the Kasztner train. He was a professor. His specialty was sociology, not history, but as his avocation, he was the one in the U.S. who became the keeper of the flame.
And Mayer was approached to moderate a symposium at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan. That was June '01, right before the World Trade Center …
We filmed, and that was the first and only symposium on Kasztner in America.
Kasztner Train Survivors in Switzerland
Jan: This is really helpful background, Gaylen, because watching KILLING KASZTNER the first time, I was amazed by the amount of access you had, especially at Yad Vashem. I was frankly stunned that you were allowed to film real-time conversations between Yad Vashem officials and Kasztner Train survivors.
Gaylen: The survivors had wanted to have a meeting about Kasztner with the head of Yad Vashem for a long time—to discover where Kasztner existed in the institution's understanding of rescue, and how he was to be acknowledged, or at least mentioned.
I went to Yad Vashem with the survivors and we filmed the meeting. I don't speak Hebrew, but, as opposed to other situations, the survivors weren't going to wait for me and conduct their meeting in English. This is much too important for them. So they went ahead in Hebrew, and I had no idea what they were saying until the meeting was over and I went back to New York and got it translated.
And I have to hand my hat to Avner Shalev, the Director of Yad Vashem, who was in a very, very sensitive, difficult situation. With survivors confronting him, he allowed the filming to go on. He allowed himself to be presented in this difficult situation, and following that meeting, Yad Vashem has been amazing in addressing Kasztner and acknowledging him—not just the receipt of the Kasztner archives in '07, but a special presentation on Holocaust Memorial Day of the film KILLING KASZTNER just last April ('09) in the Jerusalem Center for Performing Arts, introduced by the Mayor of Jerusalem.
This was a huge gesture and very courageous, and they received criticism from those still against Kasztner for presenting the film on this most important day in Israel, but they proceeded anyway. Israeli television also chose to broadcast the film on the eve of Yom HaShoah, so it was a very significant step forward for the re-examination of Kasztner.
Jan: So Israelis are intellectually vigorous on this subject?
Gaylen: Yes, the Israelis are ahead on this; they're not afraid to look at it. But of course it is also their story—the political and historical background of the nation. The trial and the assassination of Kasztner was a monumental period in their country's past.
However, I wish American institutions here would be so forthcoming, for it is also an important story for all Jewish communities, in Israel and abroad. I'm pleased to say that The Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan (where we originally filmed in '01), is going to present the film on March 7th, near the date of the German occupation of Hungary. And I would like to see other Jewish American institutions start talking about Kasztner, whether they show the film or not.
Jan: How do you answer the charge that you're "an apologist" for Kasztner?
Gaylen: For every person, every reviewer, and every article that says my film is biased, there's another one that says it's not, so I don't consider the reviews anymore. What I try to do in my film is say: "Look, here's the new information."
Some people are still reading Ben Hecht's PERFIDY after five decades. I understand very, very well the argument that the right-wing had against Ben Gurion's government. Unfortunately, the Kasztner trial became politicized—both the politicization of the Holocaust and the means to bring down the government (which was essentially Ben Gurion's party) and to attack what was thought Ben Gurion's inadequate rescue of Jews during the World War. Unfortunately Kasztner became collateral damage in the course of this trial.
Hecht was a friend and political ally of Shmuel Tamir. PERFIDY isn't a biography of Kasztner. Perfidy was written by a very good screenwriter who was never a historian, never a scholar. If people are still reading Ben Hecht and looking at my film and saying, "Ross is an apologist," then it's like trying to explain the Kasztner story to somebody who's only reading, I don't know what the equivalent would be—something as ridiculous as writers who still are purporting the world is flat.
Since Perfidy there are dozens of books written about this period of the Hungarian Holocaust, many by historians, and just these last two years two books on Kasztner.
(Editor's Note: Gaylen is correct; a 1997 edition of Perfidy is still in print, and it's available "new" from Amazon. Shmuel Tamir, long deceased, was opposing counsel in the Kasztner Trial. In KILLING KASZTNER, Gaylen interviews his son.)
Jan: So you're saying you have no vested interest in any of this personally, right, no family members who were either on the Kasztner Train or not the Kasztner Train? Your starting point is the mystery of invisibility—why, even today, so many years later, is it still so hard to talk about Kasztner?
Gaylen: I'm trying to separate the truth about Kasztner (and what Kasztner tried to do) from the rumors, falsehoods, misinformation, and politics. I was not there, but I've certainly read and looked at the newest research that has evolved over five decades. Archives have been opened, and new interpretations are now being given to the Hungarian Holocaust. This information was not available to Judge Benjamin Halevi during the original trial in Israel; not available to Ben Hecht; not available to the world then.
In Israel, unbelievably the first real national conversation about the Holocaust was during the Kasztner Trial (1953-1955), but it wasn't until the Eichmann Trial (1961-1962) that people really started to understand the absolute isolation of Jews in Hungary—the speed of the ghettoization and deportation. The fact that people were doing anything at all to save any lives was an amazing thing. The blame, shame, and guilt that followed the Holocaust—much of it ended up at Israel's doorstep. The bitter divide that happened in Israel politically is all part of this horrendous story, and the great tragedy, of course, that colors the entire Kasztner story is the Holocaust.
Rezso Kasztner with his daughter Zsuzsi
Jan: From my POV, KILLING KASZTNER is a fascinating film about the Holocaust, but even beyond that, I think you accomplish two things in this film that I'd like to discuss next.
First is the subject of negotiation. We sit here today at the tail end of 2009; World War II was a long time ago and tonight President Barack Obama is going to tell us his plan for Afghanistan. Negotiation is terribly, terribly difficult.
So it's very easy to sit here in 2009 and say that Neville Chamberlain was an idiot, yak, yak, yak. But from the perspective of 1938, if the horrendous slaughter of World War I were fresh in our minds, we would say: "Please, Mr. Chamberlain, try anything! Negotiate with anybody if it will prevent a new war!" It's only now, after the Holocaust, that appeasement looks like such a stupid strategy.
Applying that to Rezso Kasztner, shouldn't we applaud that he negotiated as hard as he could, stalled for as long as he could, did whatever he could to keep murder at bay? Were you thinking about these broader questions?
Gaylen: First of all, Kasztner's negotiations in Hungary could not have happened at all and did not happen until the end of WWII, when the Germans were desperate, losing the war, and needing money and supplies. This was the initial basis for the negotiation: a million Jews for 10,000 trucks.
Jan: Right, the Germans would not have been willing to negotiate before Stalingrad, when they still thought they were winning …
Gaylen: I think the idea of negotiation is an option, and it's an option alongside other options. But what happens is that the negotiator ends up being the one that's condemned first—the one that's maligned and looked at as weak.
Kasztner represents choices. In the section of KILLING KASZTNER where we interview young students from Tel Aviv University, the students are looking at traditional hero models in Israel and saying: "We want other options." It's true that people do come to the conference table and conduct negotiations, but it's often after much blood has already been shed in conflict and war. The option to talk with one's enemies, to negotiate, shouldn't mean it has to be the last resort.
Jan: So one message of KILLING KASZTNER is that we should always be vigilant in our negotiations, but still respect the negotiator?
Gaylen: Exactly. In the early Israel, of course, that wasn't even a consideration. As one of the older students at Tel Aviv University (actually a former paratrooper) says: "You can't build a generation of soldiers on the legacy Kasztner, but you can build a generation of soldiers on the legacy of Hannah Senesh."
Jan: So, Hannah Senesh—Hannah Senesh was born in Hungary and made aliyah in 1939. She became a member of the Haganah, and then she enlisted in the British army and trained as a paratrooper so she could work with Hungarian partisans.
Gaylen: Hannah Senesh was very courageous and she became the symbol of heroism in Israel. Her act of parachuting into Hungary in the midst of the Jewish deportations to Auschwitz resulted in her immediate capture, and she didn't rescue anyone. But her willingness to sacrifice her life became the emblem, and that's the difference. "Negotiator" has a certain taint to it, as if you're going to give away things—collaborate with your enemy, sacrifice some at the expense of others—as opposed to saving lives.
At the beginning of the film, I use a quote from Bertolt Brecht's 1938 play Galileo:
"Unhappy is the land who has no heroes."
"No, unhappy is the land who has a need for heroes."
Kasztner thought of himself as a hero, but when we start naming some heroes at the expense of others—Hannah Senesh over Rezso Kasztner; the Warsaw Ghetto martyrs over those who negotiated—it seems so unfortunate and so sad.
And a big part of this is that Jewish rescue of Jews is not recognized at all; many Jewish rescuers had no guns, but were forging documents, smuggling, doing all sorts of things to save Jewish lives at even further risk to their own. It wasn't just non-Jews who did this. Jewish rescuers have been recognized very late at Yad Vashem, and they're still not recognized at all in America.
Jan: So KILLING KASZTNER reminds us there is also a kind of heroism—courage, faith, and an incredible amount of will—entailed in the role of negotiator?
Gaylen: You're absolutely right: at least let's have the option, let's have the possibility.
When we opened the film last January '09, the Gaza War had just begun. I said to the Israeli producer: "Nobody's going to come; who's going to come to a film about a negotiator in the middle of a war?"
But the cinemas were absolutely packed, sold out, and the discussions after the film were incredibly profound, very emotional. People have many different feelings about Kasztner; pro and anti, but the fact that conversations were happening in the middle of the Gaza War was amazing to me.
Jan: Okay, so subject number two: Let's flip our conversation around from what KILLING KASZTNER has to say about the role of negotiator, and let's discuss what KILLING KASZTNER has to say about the role of terrorist.
In Killing Kasztner, you have footage of Ze'ev Eckstein reflecting now on who Ze'ev Eckstein was at age 24 (when he shot Rezso Kasztner in 1957). He tells you about what he thinks motivated him back then, and he tells you how he thinks about his actions today, approximately 50 years later. By and large, most terrorists are young men (like Eckstein was once), but most of them die. We'll never be able to interview the 9/11 terrorists in 50 years, so did you learn anything from Eckstein that you can pull forward for us? Is that even a fair question for me to ask you?
Gaylen: Yes, I think the tragedy of Kasztner's murder also encompasses Eckstein, the assassin. I never condone the murderer or his act, but, in the film, I try to show what happens when bitterness and ideology and hatred and fanaticism are in the air. They start to, like a magnet, draw in young people who want to "be somebody."
They could be Israeli, or American, or Palestinian—whomever—and they have no real mission or identity in life, and they get involved, they get filled with this hateful thinking. And then, in the very extreme cases, like Eckstein's, they commit murder, which is horrendous. Yet the people who are creating the language and writing and promoting the ideology, of course, they continue on with impunity …
And let's not forget that Kasztner was condemned as a collaborator. The Kasztner Trial was not his trial (Kasztner was only a witness for the prosecution), but the judge, Judge Benjamin Halevi, turned the trial around and said that Kasztner had "sold his soul to the devil." Collaboration with Nazis—in Israel, to have that verdict was practically handing Kasztner a death sentence anyway. Even though the Court of Appeals reversed Halevi's decision, it was too late.
Eckstein got caught in all of that and Eckstein was twenty-something years old, and he thought he was going to be "a hero" too. As the former prison warden says in the film, Eckstein "thought he was going to save Israel and the Jewish people by killing Kasztner."
Jan: Before the Nazis took control of Hungary, wasn't Kasztner part of a Zionist group that was smuggling people out of Eastern Europe, providing forged documents, etc?
Gaylen: In a little group, yes, a tiny Zionist committee called the Vaada. They were involved in rescue work with refugees fleeing into Hungary long before the occupation, so they were already familiar with what was happening, and they were the only ones doing what needed to be done—forging documents, establishing safe houses, smuggling money and people across borders.
However, what happened after the war, and in the course of the trial, is that Kasztner became known not for who he saved but for the fate of the Hungarian Jews who did not survive. According to certain interpretations, every single thing that happened in Hungary during the War, it's all Kasztner's fault. In Hungary, 500,000 Jews, including Hannah Senesh, died because of Kasztner—not because of the Nazis or the Hungarian police.
Whatever the arguments, pro or con Kasztner, how is it possible that this one man is responsible for the murder of a half million Jews? There were refugees fleeing into Occupied Hungary warning people. There are many accounts of communities in Hungary turning away these people, calling them alarmists who were needlessly scaring Jews. The BBC was able to be broadcast in Budapest, secretly. How is it possible at the end of the War (in 1944), that the only person who knew anything about what was happening was one single Jew named Rezso Kasztner?
But the bitterness and the blame and the shame—I think it's part of this. People come to the film, their families had perished in the Holocaust in Hungary, and they say that their families knew nothing about Auschwitz. They say they're still bitter that Kasztner didn't save them, that he saved only his family, friends, and rich people. This is simply not true. There are historians who say Kasztner made up none of the list for the train, and some say only part of it, but certainly not all of it. About 100 of Kasztner's own family died in Auschwitz. Only 150 people paid for everyone to be on the train; no one else paid. There were rabbis, scholars, Zionists, and orphans on the transport. People don't want to hear that, and at the same time I'm not going to argue with people whose families perished in the Holocaust.
The core of the whole issue is that Kasztner was a Jew who rescued, and it makes everything else that happened a whole different layer of conversation, as opposed to Schindler or Wallenberg or any other non-Jew. It's a mirror back to other Jews: Why this one Jew could rescue and everybody else could not. And it's a very, very difficult, painful question—the blame that was cast on Kasztner by the Jews whose families were not saved.
Filmmaker Gaylen Ross
Jan: Okay, so, last question. What's your own personal take away from all of this? What's the most important thing you've learned through this 10-year process?
Gaylen: I'm thinking: What's next? Now we have my film about Kasztner; now there are several new books about Kasztner, much history and scholarship; so, what's next? When are the institutions and museums going to look at this story, and start to include it and talk about it instead of being embarrassed and ashamed?
There are Jewish film festivals in America that are reluctant to show my film. They don't trust their audiences, and they don't understand that their audiences want to see it. They're nervous about it. It's time to stop being nervous—not just about Kasztner, but about the entire subject of Jewish rescue. Why can't we talk about Jewish rescuers during WWII?
We brought the film to Budapest and it was amazing—again, sold-out audiences, incredible conversations. I was with Zsuzsi (Kasztner's daughter), and we were walking around the Jewish Quarter, and there's this incredible statue of Carl Lutz. Lutz was not Jewish. He saved many Jews, and the statue shows Lutz as a sort of winged angel with his hand reaching down to the ground—and below Lutz, prone on the ground, with his hand reaching up, is the Jew. And this is how righteous gentiles are viewed—saving the victim, saving the helpless Jew.
Kasztner was not prone on the ground, nor is he ever going to be characterized as a winged angel. So where—between the victim and the savior—does Rezso Kasztner exist?
© Jan Lisa Huttner (12/15/09) – Special for Films For Two. Reposted with permission.
December 1 telephone interview conducted, condensed & edited by Jan Lisa Huttner.
All photographs courtesy of Gaylen Ross.
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Dudley South MP Mike Wood added: "They clearly haven't thought this through.
"There's no chance of it being ready for when we need it. The traveller season starts in a few weeks.
Councillor Qadar Zada, leader of Dudley Council, has said there are legal issues that need to be overcome before the council can reveal its favoured site.
"We set out our criteria for a smaller site, not close to residential and ok for access and deals with all the things we said we would resolve. I'd gladly say this is the site but my hands are tied by ongoing discussions. Discussions with landowners are live, they are happening as we speak. I've asked officers to try and conclude those discussions.
"We do want to make sure people are very clear this is one of our biggest priorities – we have made progress and identified sites and agreed across both parties.
"I think people thought we were not going to sort it.
But he refuted claims one was not in the Dudley borough.
The plans will be discussed further by the council's cabinet at a meeting tonight (Wednesday March 20).


But morning came and Ferthy served coffee, bread and fresh tuna salad for breakfast and also a fruit, among other things oranges which we had not had on the whole trip. They grow only in St. Vincent and during certain periods.
Coco and Ferthys son came to visit and drove us out to the sailboat. They wanted to see that all was well and Coco said to Ferthy "take good care of my people!". (We didn't tell them what had taken place the previous night.) Once aboard again we had a delicious chicken with rice and fruit for dessert. We had already (!) decided to go back to Union this afternoon and so it had to be. No more sailing with this skipper ..


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Professor Holmgren's Worsted Test for Color Blindness
Category: Equipment
Sub-Category: Colour Vision Test
Designer/inventor: HOLMGREN, Alarik Frithiof
Time Period: 1900 to 1939
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Chicago, Ill, USA
Publisher/Manufacturer: F A Hardy & Co
Description Of Item: Lidded dark green cardboard box, 266 mm long x 122 mm wide x 35 mm high, containing coloured skeins of wool each attached to a circular numbered brass disc and printed instructions inside the lid. Three samples are labelled A, B & C and the skeins to match are numbered 1 to 40. Skein number 29 is missing. The label advises consulting Jenning's on 'Colour vision and Colour blindness' for further information. (see Cat No 66 for this book).
Historical Significance: Alarik Frithiof Holmgren (1831-1897) was a Swedish physiologist who trained with von Brucke in Vienna and Helmholtz in Heidelberg. He was professor of physiology at Upsala, Sweden, from 1864. He researched the ERG but is best remembered for his studies of colour vision and colour blindness and railway and maritime colour vision standards. His investigations were initiated by a railway accident at Lagerlunda in Sweden in April 1876 which he believed was due to colour blindness of the engine-driver, although it is doubtful if this is true . Holmgren surveyed 266 employees on the Uppsala-Gavle railway line and found 13 who were colour-blind. He was a vigorous advocate, lecturing on the dangers of DCV in USA and Europe and in 1877 colour tests had been prescribed for railway and shipping personnel in Sweden. See http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2202.html and Vingrys AJ, Cole BL Origins of colour vision standards Ophthal Physiol Optics 1986, 6, 369. This test was used by the British Board of Trade to test the colour vision of seafarers from 1895 to 1913 and by some railway companies. There are variations on it, namely the Holmgren-Thomson test, Olivers' worsted test, Thomson's Stick, Donders' Wool Test. See Jennings Color-Vision and Color-Blindness: Practical Manual for Railroad Surgeons 1905 Cat # 66. Instructions for use of the test can be found in Swanzy Handbook of Diseases of the Eye 1897. (see Cat No 625). There are many versions of the test and although it was devised in 1877 or thereabout, this version may have been made in the early 20th C. See Cat No 624 & 1934 for other examples.
How Acquired: Purchased by Kett Museum
Date Acquired: Sep 2013
Location: Archive room. West wall. Unit 1 Drawer 2


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Introduce artificial intelligence systems with great care — or suffer the consequences, writes Ronald Yu.
For many organisations, artificial intelligence has arrived or will be coming soon, bringing all sorts of new challenges for counsel, especially with respect to cross-border data flows.
While most discussion regarding international data transfers has been focused on privacy and cybercrime, these are just two aspects of an increasingly complicated set of converging issues.
To understand how complicated these matters could become, let us start with demolishing any notions that current AI thinks like a human being. It does not. There is so much that still we do not know about the human mind, essentially precluding the possibility of replicating the operation of a human mind by artificial means.
AI is, however, good at analysing and extracting patterns from massive amounts of data and deriving generalisations from these patterns.
The limitations arise
We are only now starting to more broadly recognise the limitations of this approach.
For instance, what if we developed an AI system to identify potentially dangerous animals but only trained it to recognise potentially dangerous or large mammals located in Europe?
That system would not be robust enough to deal with the potential dangers kangaroos hopping across a road could pose to a fast-moving car and using it in a self-driving car in Australia, without the proper alterations to its programming, would be irresponsible. This was, in fact, the very problem Volvo encountered in 2017 when it discovered that its autonomous vehicle prototypes, which had been trained to recognise the potential dangers of large Swedish moose and elk, did not know how to react to Australian kangaroos.
AI systems, of course, can learn new tricks though not always what their developers expect or want as Microsoft famously learned when its Tay chatbot began posting offensive tweets through its Twitter account, causing Microsoft to shut down the service within 24 hours of its launch. While Microsoft blamed this on a coordinated attack by people who had exploited a vulnerability in Tay and it later admitted it had made a critical oversight for this specific attack.
Controversy and court action
Though AI systems are often touted for their putative benefits: mitigating human bias and error, and offering the promise of cost efficiency, accuracy and reliability, poor implementation — particularly in health care, criminal justice, education, employment, benefits disbursement and other areas, has resulted in numerous problems — and challenges, both in the courts of public opinion and in actual courts.
For example, while more police departments employ predictive policing systems to forecast criminal activity and allocate police resources, such systems are increasingly being challenged by critics who claim they are built on data produced during documented periods of flawed, racially biased and sometimes unlawful practices and policies, resulting in controversial policing practices. Critics also slam vendors' assurances that their systems adequately mitigate or segregate this data as insufficient.
There has also been litigation in America and Europe over the use of AI in the disbursement of medical benefits, public school teacher employment and juvenile criminal risk assessment.
But these are not the only problems with AI systems. Modern AI systems are often criticised for their lack of creativity or adaptability as compared to a human (though it should be noted that an AI system could be updated with new training data though this would not be instantaneous).
AI systems still have communications limitations, thus the reason why some AI companies employ armies of humans to review conversations recorded by their devices (eg, Amazon's Alexa) for accuracy, resulting in all sorts of privacy-related critiques.
Finally, AI systems are limited in metacognition — they cannot really think about how they think. Thus, if an AI system encounters a problem, it will revert to what it has been trained to do and will continue to do so as it is unable to step back, consider what it is doing wrong, analyse the problem and try a different (and hopefully successful) approach.
While we might deride such behaviour in a human — ie, doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result — as insanity, AI systems just do not know any better.
The implications are that we will have to live with communications-challenged AI systems for a bit longer and that human intervention will be required where AI systems encounter something they do not expect. The latter means that AI-based products may still require considerable additional development to adapt to local conditions — something tech companies developing AI products will need to consider (as well as the related data-transfer issues) — and that companies introducing AI systems must recognise that the systems they are introducing may be wholly inappropriate for their business environments.
Given the aforementioned public backlash and legal action against poorly implemented AI, this is no small consideration.
And one more thing…
This growing resistance to AI and related technologies such as facial recognition may likely mean companies will have less flexibility in employing new technologies, will need to be more careful in how they introduce and implement AI systems, or both. How this could affect longer term growth and progress is yet to be seen.
However, as if the potentially serious issues with an AI system that was trained using biased or limited data, employs problematic algorithms or was sloppily implemented — or the concerns of future worker displacement by AI — were not enough, there is also the present problem of worker disaffection among tech workers who increasingly feel left out of the mainstream, as exemplified by protests against ride-sharing companies (that employ AI and data analysis extensively) by livery drivers in the New York metropolitan area or by collective bargaining actions undertaken by African workers in Minnesota against Amazon in the past year.
The techlash is just beginning…
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Q: ArtifactTransferException: Could not transfer artifact ... to/from central I'm following this tutorial: Spring - DAO and Service layer
I'm getting this error in Eclipse on my pom.xml:
ArtifactTransferException: Could not transfer artifact org.antlr:antlr:jar:3.2
from/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): No response received
after 60000

Any ideas why?

A: This sounds like a simple networking issue. I would recommend you attempt to access that URL  in your web browser to confirm you have connectivity: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2. You should see:

Browsing for this directory has been disabled.
View this directory's contents on http://search.maven.org instead.

You may also wish to check that your local system does not require a proxy to access the Internet. If so, you need to follow these instructions to configure Eclipse to use your proxy.

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Friday, July 20, 2018, is National Lollipop Day! This one should be a pretty easy one to celebrate. I'm sure you can find a lollipop lying around somewhere. I know we still have a dozen or so left over from Halloween!
BUT if you're looking for something else to acknowledge National Lollipop Day, keep reading!
If you have a See's Candies nearby, you can stop in for a FREE Lollipop on Friday July 20th!
Zollipops are a natural, gluten-free and sugar-free lollipop, containing xylitol, stevia and erythritol (healthy sugar alternatives). By helping raise the pH in the mouth, Zollipops neutralize acid and help reduce the risk of tooth decay, dental caries and future development of cavities. She also has two other product lines: Zolli Drops and Zaffi Taffy, which include the same benefits as Zollipops, but in a different candy form.
Let me know of any other Lollipop goodness you find!


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My crafting life has been consumed with my latest quilt for the past few weeks. It took a day or two for me to adjust to the fact that it was completed and in its new home. The quilt turned out 96×96, and I free motioned it on my Bernina. He performed like a champ and the bsr made quilting this a pleasure. It only took a few days to quilt it. I've taken longer on much smaller quilts because the machine I was using didn't exactly make it easy. I basted this quilt on my bed. It was a lot easier than crawling around on the floor. I had a few puckers but a lot less than when I floor baste. All in all this went well and my mother liked it a lot. Now I find myself thinking what next?
When I would wake up from my quilting haze a few things were completed around the house. The hubs and the kids carved some pumpkins. My son is three so my husband did his but my daughter did hers by herself.
I also tried a new recipe.
Apple Cider Donut Muffins. The glaze was good. I'm not impressed with the muffins. I felt they should have been sweeter. Tonight I'm going to be trying out Mushroom Asiago Chicken. I have high hopes for this recipe.
I hate Halloween. Im the Halloween Grinch, but I won't begrudge everyone else their Halloween. So have a good one.
I started a replacement quilt for my mom after I abandoned the last one. The piecing on this one went really quickly as well, but this time I'm happy with the results. The pattern is called Big City Quilt. The pattern says its great when you want a large quilt with little fuss. That's a pretty accurate description. I did the king/queen size and I did not feel overwhelmed by the process. Check back with me after i start quilting it. I'm sure I will feel overwhelmed then. The pattern is great. Its a small tiny little booklet, but it gives you all the information you need to make the process fun and simple. I would make this again in a second.
The size makes it hard to photograph. Not enough space on the ground. (I wonder if I will ever miss the days of toys being in the background of my pictures.) I bought some quilting stencils to see if that will help with my free motion quilting. With the stencils and the bernina bsr unit I'm excited to get started.
I've been eyeing dress forms and mannequins for about a year now. Rather than paying the high price tag for one I would rather put that money into fabric or yarn, therefore I've held off on buying one. I found one on amazon that was on sale. It was normally 85 and I got it for 65. I also had 27 dollars in citi card points so I had to buy it.
It's a size 12-14. I wish I was that small, but the sizing difference won't really matter. I plan to use it for photographing knits and bags I sew.
On to the very little knitting news I have….
I finally have all the stitches picked up for the neckband of my Blue Sand Cardigan. Next is tons of stitches in ribbing, and more short row shaping *sigh*.
There was a lot of pressing going on around here this weekend. I didn't think I would ever finish. The downside of sewing is definitely all the time at the ironing board. I had 100 squares to press and trim. I really had to "press" on to get this done. I even tried to talk my husband into pressing blocks. That did not work.
It doesn't look like it but that is the pile of 100. Not to mention the other components of the quilt that went through the pressing process as well.
After all my suffering I'm finally able to get to the fun part. Aseembling the final blocks. No curved seams in this quilt!
My jamberry nails this weekend were definitely appropriate. This nail wrap is called Quilted. (Don't focus to much on my ravaged cuticle/hands.
I have been knitting a lot more this week. I finally decided to be a mature adult and go back to my BlueSand Cardigan. I think knitting with dk makes my hands hurt, but I will finish that sweater!
I thought making a quilted pillow cover would be a quick project. It took several weekends. It was a fun project that I was drawn to work on so the time it took didn't bother me. The pattern is Confetti Party Pillow from Quilty Magazine. Here it is after quilting.
I like the way it looks flat. As a pillow some of the stars can't be seen. The baby stars are the ones that were paper pieced.
I used my blind hem foot to do the binding totally by machine. It didn't go as bad as it usually does. I was grateful for that. I need more practice machine sewing the binding. The Red Pepper Quilts blog has a very good tutorial on it, but there seems to be a learning curve. Simple envelope back in yellow. My mom is a lucky lady today. She is getting a knit hat and a pillow.
After I finished this project I pulled everything off of the sewing table and there was so much paper, lint, and scraps everywhere. I cleaned everything off in anticipation of my next sewing project. A clean start for fall feels good.


To study the gas sensing properties for CO2 and NH3 gas, powdered gold nanocomposite polyaniline was chemically synthesized and ultrathin films were fabricated. XRD spectra of these samples indicate the polycrystalline nature of the film. UV-vis spectra showed peak at 3.8 eV corresponding to π-π* transition. The relative sensitivities of the gas to air were around 70 and 530 for CO2 and NH3 gas respectively. Temperature variation of gas conductivity showed the increase of conductivity of the films up to about 42 °C and then decreased for small change of temperature. Recovery time for the sample was 54 s.


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Пантић је српско презиме. Може се односити на:
 Александар Пантић (рођ. 1978), српски фудбалер
 Александар Пантић (1992) (рођ. 1992), српски фудбалер
 Данило Пантић (рођ. 1996), српски фудбалер
 Дано Пантић (рођ. 1972), бивши српски џудиста
 Димитрије Пантић, измишљени лик из филмског серијала Тесна кожа и телевизијске серије Бела лађа
 Душан Пантић (1892—1964), српски политичар
 Ђорђе Пантић (рођ. 1980), српски фудбалер
 Марко Пантић (рођ. 1998), српски фудбалер
 Милан Пантић (1954—2001), српски новинар
 Милинко Пантић (рођ. 1966), бивши српски фудбалер
 Милојко Пантић (рођ. 1947), српски спортски новинар
 Мирослав Пантић (1926—2011), српски историчар књижевности
 Михајло Пантић (рођ. 1957), српски писац и критичар
 Миша Пантић (1904—1942), српски лекар и учесник Народноослободилачке борбе
 Младен Пантић (рођ. 1982), српски кошаркаш
 Никола Пантић (1927—2002), српски геолог
 Саша Пантић (рођ. 1967), српски глумац, сценариста, хумориста и редитељ
 Снежана Пантић (рођ. 1978), српска каратисткиња

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It was foggy and cold most of the day, about 41° in the morning, and in the 50's by the late afternoon. I headed over to the Cosumnes River Preserve for a walk even though Wilson was hurting a bit. It was super foggy out there, so it was nearly impossible to see any birds, but I figured I might be able to get some scenery and spiderweb shots. I was happy to see that the preserve that put metal skid-strips all along the wooden boardwalk to the river trail. That boardwalk could get really slippery when it was wet or icy; the strips will help to cut down on slip-and-fall accidents. I walked a little bit further than I probably should have and was really in pain by the time I got back home about 3 hours later.


It's not always easy to get all of the nutrients found in dairy products because you have to consume so much in order to get the RDA your body requires. Fortified foods such as soymilk and cereals can be used as a supplement.
Besides allergies or similar health concerns, many people make a choice to stop eating dairy, whether it is to help lose weight, fight acne, irritable bowel syndrome, or simply to avoid specific antibiotics and hormones that are often administered to cattle.
Whatever the reason may be, it is crucial to ensure that you are still getting the nutrients you need which are easily found in dairy foods. These nutrients include protein, vitamin D and minerals including calcium and phosphorous. Milk may actually be the leading food source for these nutrients.
Dairy protein is a complete protein and it provides all of the essential amino acids necessary for good health and so a protein source must be utilised in order for adequate protein nutrition to occur in non-dairy consumers. Soy is similar to milk in that its protein source also contains all of the amino acids that are needed for human nutrition. Rice protein is another popular source for non-dairy consumers.
Whole foods are an important source of nutrition; especially for vegans because the nutrients found in whole foods are packaged with other enzymes and nutrients, they are more easily absorbed by the body.
Rich sources of calcium include leafy greens and broccoli, chia, flax, sesame and also quinoa. Beet greens, tomatoes and sweet potatoes are a good source of potassium typically found in dairy. Mushrooms are also the best vegetarian food source of vitamin D.
It's not always easy to get all of the nutrients found in dairy products because you have to consume so much in order to get the RDA your body requires. Fortified foods such as soy-milk and cereals can be used as a supplement. This is especially relevant for vitamin B12 which is generally found in animal products, vitamin B12 can also be found in kale and nutritional yeast.
Almond and soy milks are probably of the most popular products on the vegan food market today, often coming in a variety of flavours with varying amounts of sweetener added to them.
Soy milk is often fortified with calcium, vitamins A and D and riboflavin, and packed with protein! Almond milk contains lots of Vitamin E - it provides about 50% of the daily value in one serving. However, it only has about 1/3 of the calories cow's milk unless fortified.
Oat milks and coconut milk which are made from oat groats, water and sometimes other grains and beans such as barley, brown rice and soy beans can be used as a milk alternative. Oat milks are rich in Fibre, Iron, Vitamin E and folic acid and are also low in calories, cholesterol and saturated fat.
Hemp milk may also be a good alternative for those allergic to soy, nuts and gluten. Hemp milk is made from hulled hemp seed, water and sweetener. It is full of fatty acid and protein, however is generally low in calcium unless fortified.
Fortified foods help with the absorption of vitamins as they are fat soluble so teaming up your fortified foods with vitamin-rich sources can help to maximise absorption.
Other vegan alternatives include dairy free cream cheese, ice cream, cream and yogurt. These products are usually pretty easy to find in the supermarket or it is possible for you to make them yourself!
Many vegans chose not to consume dairy and avoid foodstuffs that come from animals. This is often because dairy production relies on reproductive systems and the mothering of other animals. No matter the reasons for making the decision to be vegan, it is absolutely essential that you make sure you're getting the correct nutrients from the alternatives you use, be sure to find something that is the closest nutritional profile to the dairy products.


Our 9 year old contributor, Sofia Lewis, visited the Imagine Children´s Festival at the Southbank Centre with her mother in its last day.
"It was interesting, however all of the things were for the younger kids (2 –8) so yeah.
*Saying that, I loved taking some photos of very gorgeous and expensive dolls.
The food in one of the cafes was shoo! Yammer!
*The gathering of the Ball Jointed dolls collectors was not part of the Imagine Festival but rather an informal event by a collector´s club.


. . . and babies make four.: A beautiful Easter Sunday.
9:15 a.m. We arrive at the Easter Egg Hunt and Michal and Kenna are ecstatic when they see the Easter Bunny.
9:30 a.m. The scheduled start time for the much-anticipated Easter Egg Hunt finally arrives.
9:31 a.m. The Official Egg Hunt Starter yells, "Go!" and the first group, ages 0 to 2, crawls, toddles and walks to their egg hunting area.
Michal and Kenna patiently wait behind the rope with the ages 5 to 7 group of egg hunters.
9:34 a.m. The Official Egg Hunt Starter yells, "Go!" for the second time intending for the ages 3 and 4 group to start. Instead, several egg hunters in the neighboring ages 5 to 7 and ages 8 and above groups hear the starter, jump over the rope and head for the eggs. A moment of chaos ensues as some parents try to grab their little rope jumpers and put them back at the starting line while others try to lift their egg hunters over the rope and point them in the direction of the eggs.
Finally, someone just lowers the rope and the mad dash for eggs takes place.
9:37 a.m. In less than three minutes all of the eggs are found.
9:55 a.m. Michal and Kenna make their way to the bunny petting area where a sweet little bunny gets petted and petted and petted.
9:40 a.m. On to the craft area. Michal and Kenna decide to make Easter wands out of the provided beads and pipe cleaners that were intended to be made into bracelets.
9:50 a.m. Then on to cookie decorating, which means squirting on as much frosting as you possibly can and then covering the frosting with M&Ms and sprinkles.
11:30 a.m. Easter brunch and a second visit with the Easter Bunny.
1:30 p.m. Back to the beach for one final afternoon.
A very Happy Easter all the way around.
The last photo is adorable. Did you come home to snow?
No! We came home to a huge rain storm but it was really warm -- one day in the 80s! -- while we were gone and everything had started blooming.
The trees were totally bare when we left and had leaves on them when we got home. The forsythia are all in bloom and so are the daffodils and some of the tulips.
I love the girls' dresses!
That last picture needs a frame, it's beautiful!
Those are very very cute dresses! What a fun (and sunny) vacation!
Where did you find those adorable rolling backpacks the girls have in the last picture? They are growing so fast!
Their headbands are by Screamin' Beauty and are available at lots of children's boutiques.
I bought the rolling backpacks filled with sand toys at CVS in Florida. They were great! The girls each picked out a child on the beach to give them to before we came home. I just saw the same ones at Tuesday Morning here yesterday.
Hi Kristi - you always find the cutest things! Wondering about the Bogs from another post - do they run big, are they too much for spring-rainy days, and are they heavy? Thanks!


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If It's Fall, It's Time for the Hong Kong Jewelry Show!
The September Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair jump-starts a period of bejeweled celebrations When the September Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair is held Sept. 12–16 at AsiaWorld-Expo and Sept. 14–18 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Manoj Butani, director of Hong Kong–based Butani Jewellery Ltd., is planning to "go big." "It's basically the show that kicks off the season," he says. "We have to cover all our bases, not just with the big important pieces but the ready-to-wear as well as aspirational pieces." In a slight departure from tradition, the company is expanding its line beyond diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds to include "a splash of color," Butani adds. "We'll be dabbling in semiprecious as well: purple sapphires, chrysoprase, quartz. Different colors that are softer on the eyes. The biggest element i


I've been really enjoying scrounging around my closet to find things to DIY. I cleaned out my closet to move into our new house (see our new video series) and I gave away a lot of stuff except the things I was still excited to wear OR excited to DIY-upcycle into something fresh and new (feeling). Case in point, these sneakers! These were from Forever 21 two years ago and I love the print, but I stopped wearing them because the laces were getting a little dingy. But with a little leather cording (found in the depths of my craft supplies) and a fabric marker, I'm re-energized to rock these sneaks.
My shoes came with this aztec print but you could easily recreate a geometric pattern like this using a black fabric marker on white shoes. See DIY Tribal Print Bracelet for more tips on geometric patterns.
Analyze the design of your shoes and see if there are any areas you want to spruce up with some color then use a fabric marker to color in the areas, you may want two coats. I chose to color inside the printed areas but you could even use a black marker to recreate this print if you like it. See DIY Tribal Print Bracelet for more drawing tips. Let the marker dry, put on your shoes and dance!
F21 always has the cutest printed shoes! LOVE.


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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and cybernetics presents, for the first time, a complete overview of the field of systems and cybernetics and its development from its beginnings more than forty years ago up to the present. It includes both general and well-known basic concepts and specific and detailed information on the subject. Much of this information was, until now, scattered among hundreds of papers presented in international or national meetings, most of them completely out of reach for the majority of scholars. While redacted in English, it contains also a considerable store of valuable information gathered from sources in various other languages e.g. Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, etc. The work contains:
nearly 3,000 entries in alphabetical order
a considerable quantity of verbatim quotes from hundreds of authors
more than 1,200 specific references
general information about Systems and Cybernetic Societies in the world
principal journals in the field.
The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics is an indispensable tool for any scientist, librarian, student or researcher seeking to establish better transdisciplinary communi-cation with specialists in other disciplines. Leaders with economic, political or social responsibilities will want to consult it regularly as will any member of the general public who has questions on this subject. This is a book that should be on the shelf of every university library and in the faculties of philosophy, economy, history, politics, sociology, and communications.
Charles François is a Belgian citizen, born 1922 He retired from the Belgian Foreign Service in 1987. and lives now in Argentina since 1963; He is the author of numerous papers and books on systemic topics.
K.G.Saur München, 1997, 423 pages. hardbound. DM 398.00, ISBN 3-598-11357-9
By Gerhard Chroust
Published: March 1, 1998 | Category: IFSR NEWS
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Hello Admin, Can you explain Grigori Perelman's solution to the Poincaré conjecture in a brief way understandable by layman?
When checking the announcement section, it shows from time to time there is problem like lockup. Is it because .32 kernel still have issues in general?


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At Friendship Baptist Church over the last year, we have prayerfully sought to both encourage and equip our members to be involved in the Great Commission as they let God use them by making their life available to touch another life.
Disciple making should be organic and flexible…but it should also be directional. In order to provide direction to our church, we have published a disciple-making map. Within this map, we are providing a framework that we pray will lead many people to progress over time from disciplee to discipler.
1. Salvation – These resources are available as we reach out to people who are not believers, or who are working through issues related to salvation.
– Simple Christianity – This is a booklet that contains lesson one from Foundations on salvation. It is an excellent Bible study on the subject of salvation that will be valuable in helping a person walk through what God's Word says about this topic.
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3. Growing and Sharing – These resources are designed to be used by believers in a monthly meeting.
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– Discipling – This is a wonderful and brief work on the topic.
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5. Faithful Example – These resources are designed to be used by disciplers who meet occasionally.
As the leaders of Friendship Baptist Church, it is our prayer to equip the saints to do the work of the ministry (Ephesians 4:11-13). We hope that this publication will be a help and that it will bring clarity to where we are going as God continue to direct us!


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Q: "Missing required module" when pod library is installed in one Target only I'm embedding frwkproject.xcodeproj product (frwkproject.framework) in the mainproject.xcodeproj project.
I am trying to use Firebase Library in the frwkproject.framework only. Using this cocoa pods:
source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '9.0'
use_frameworks!

workspace 'frwkproject.xcworkspace'

abstract_target 'Shows' do

    pod 'Toaster'

    target 'frwkproject' do
        project 'frwkproject/frwkproject.xcworkspace'
        pod 'Firebase/Core'
        pod 'Firebase/Crash'
    end

    target 'mainproject' do
        project 'mainproject/mainproject.xcodeproj'
    end

end

In the mainproject project I have imported the framework with:
import frwkproject

And this error appears: "Missing required module Firebase"
Importing the cocoa pods library in both projects avoids this problem. Like this:
source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '9.0'
use_frameworks!

workspace 'frwkproject.xcworkspace'

abstract_target 'Shows' do

    pod 'Toaster'

    pod 'Firebase/Core'
    pod 'Firebase/Crash'

    target 'frwkproject' do
        project 'frwkproject/frwkproject.xcworkspace'
    end

    target 'mainproject' do
        project 'mainproject/mainproject.xcodeproj'
    end

end

But Firebase will crash when imported in both project.
Is it possible to implement Firebase in the framework project only?

A: Ok, got exactly the same problem. Here is how I've resolved it:

*

*added
pod 'Firebase/Core'

in a child project pod target

*added
pod 'GoogleToolboxForMac'
pod 'nanopb'

in a main project pod target (these are dynamic pod dependencies of Firebase)

*added recursive $(SRCROOT)/Pods/Firebase in main target Build Settings -> Header Search Paths (got that idea from here).

Hope that helps!


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Does it make sense to have multiple synchronizations on different parts of the same page?
Or is that a little overkill with eValid?
Thanks for posting your question RobbieB.
Do all of the AJAX-generated parts of a page arrive in a fixed order.
The best answer is to assume NOT!
It may be that there is an order in which page parts are loaded, but it probably is not wise to pivot one part of a test on an element that is not involved in that specific part of the test.
We have indeed seen cases where a cascade pf synchronizations is necessary.
But the general rule is, better safe than sorry, and what this means in practice is, synchronize first and then test for something.
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Emerging Europe Talks Technology (Modern Communications) with Victoria Masso
Andrew Wrobel
@andrew_wrob
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Andrew Wrobel speaks with Victoria Masso, the founder of Behaviour Hackers. Victoria is an international trainer based out of Birmingham in the UK. She's been working on building bridges between technological advancements and human interactions using behavioural science.
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Sainsbury's is BACK with a £1.3 billion takeover bid for Argos
Oscar Williams-Grut
Feb. 2, 2016, 2:31 AM
Sainsbury's CEO Mike Coupe.
REUTERS/Neil Hall
Sainsbury's has reached an agreement with the board of Argos and Homebase-owner Home Retail Group over a possible £1.3 billion takeover.
The supermarket says in a statement on Tuesday that it is offering to pay £1.1 billion for Home Retail Group, plus an additional £200 million paid out directly to Home Retail Group shareholders. Part of the payout is intended to cover the sale of Homebase to Australia's Wesfarmers, announced last month.
Home Retail Group owns DIY chain Homebase and catalogue retailer Argos, which sells everything from toys to garden furniture. While Homebase is being sold, Sainsbury's believes Argos' diverse stock and its online delivery network would prove a good match for the supermarket.
The bid comes weeks after it emerged that Home Retail Group knocked-back an earlier takeover bid from Sainsbury's back in November. The deadline for the pair to reach an agreement on a new deal is 5 p.m. GMT (12.00 p.m. ET) today, however it has now been pushed back to February 23.
Home Retail Group says in a separate but almost identical statement that it is willing to back the takeover offer if the pair can iron out the rest of the details of the deal to everybody's satisfaction.
Sainsbury's says:
The combination is an opportunity to bring together two of the UK's leading retail businesses, with complementary product offers, focused on delivering quality products and services at fair prices, through an integrated, multi-channel proposition.
Crucially, Sainsbury's says the deal will give it "a strong presence across food and grocery, clothing, homewares, toys, stationery, electricals, furniture and other general merchandise."
Sainsbury's currently has a good position in the grocery and clothing market but catalogue retailer Argos will supplement this with its strong reputation as the go-to place for electricals, toys, and discount jewellry.
Despite its enthusiasm, investors seem lukewarm on the idea. Sainsbury's shares initially opened lower in London and are now up less than a 1% — not a huge endorsement of a £1.3 billion deal.
Meanwhile, Home Retail Group investors aren't keen at all. The Argos-owner's share price is currently down over 2% on news of the deal.
There had been rumbling of Home Retail Group pushing for a higher price, so investors may have been hoping for a juicier price tag.
Sainsbury's says the deal is expected to add one-off costs of £280 million, spread over three years. UBS and Morgan Stanley are advising Sainsbury's on the deal, while Bank of America Merrill Lynch are fighting Home Retail Group's corner.
More: Sainsbury's Home Retail Group Argos Homebase


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HomeTransparency at BART
Transparency at BART
January 2022 January 2022 admin 2022, Rail and Bus Systems
On December 9, 2021 BATWG sent a letter to BART citing the lack of transparency in three key elements of its program; namely, the ongoing redistricting process, its Police City Review Board and its Auditing Committee.
BATWG has major concerns about public transparency and lack of easy access to these and perhaps other BART Board Committee meetings, especially during the pandemic when many meeting are held "virtually." This problem requires immediate remedial action due to the rapidly-moving BART Board redistricting process. Following are three examples of the kinds of problems produced when relevant public information is kept from the public. Of particular concern right now are the backroom redistricting processes now ongoing, apparently all over the Region.
BART's 2021 Redistricting Information is impossible to adequately analyze from what is shown on BART's website: Since December 9th the quality of the maps has improved. But without a full scale drawing and a means of seeing one map superimposed on another, it is difficult to see precisely how the boundaries of the nine BART districts and their impact on the affected neighborhoods and communities would be affected by Plans A and B. See
https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2021/news20211105.
In order for there to be meaningful public review and evaluation, there needs to be a better way of displaying the desired changes.
Video recordings of the Redistricting Ad Hoc Committee meetings are known to exist. However, the December 1, 2021 Redistricting Ad Hoc Committee meeting video recording is not available at https://bart.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx To ensure prompt compliance with this request, pursuant to Government Code §§ 6250 et seq., BATWG requested a video recording of the most recent BART Redistricting Ad Hoc Committee meeting. To satisfy this Public Records Act request, BART could upload any such recording to https://bart.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
BART's Police Citizen Review Board meetings should be conducted with video access and video recordings of its meetings should be available on the BART website. Given the great public interest in recent years in BART's law enforcement policies and operations, as well as media interest in violent crime and fare evasion within the BART system, it is essential that present and past video recordings of the Police Citizens Review Board be made available for public review and consideration. To ensure prompt compliance with this request, pursuant to Government Code §§ 6250 et seq., BATWG requested a video recording of the most recent BART Police Citizen Review Board meeting. To satisfy this Public Records Act request, BART could upload any such recording to https://bart.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
BART's Audit Committee meetings should also be conducted with video access and video recordings, available on the BART website. Audio recordings would be insufficient. BART has faced declining fare revenue in the past two years and a surge in construction spending during the pandemic. There is considerable public interest in the BART Inspector General's reports. BART was reminded of the well-conceived and highly relevant principles set forth in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, principles about Audit Committee independence and of "auditor independence" from corporate management. See: https://www.sec.gov/info/accountants/audit042707.htm These requirements, enacted following the notorious Enron and WorldCom financial scandals, are designed to ensure that auditors are independent of their audit clients. BATWG believes that the open availability of Audit Committee meeting video recordings would help to assure the independence of BART auditors from undue influence and/or control by BART management. Video recordings of Audit Committee meetings would assist the public in evaluating both the independence of the Audit Committee itself and the performance of its members. To ensure prompt compliance with this request, pursuant to Government Code §§ 6250 et seq., BATWG requested a video recording of the most recent BART Audit Committee meeting. To satisfy this Public Records Act request, BART could upload any such recording to https://bart.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
In sum, materials used to develop committee recommendations as well as video recordings of their meetings ought to be readily available, especially during these times of "online"/"virtual" meetings. The BART Board should adopt a policy stating that its committee members should remain "on-camera" during the meetings as much as possible, just as they are expected to remain on the dais during meetings at physical locations, to ensure that the Brown Act's "public deliberations" requirements are met and that "serial meetings" are not being conducted in off-camera "backrooms." Past and present video recordings of the important above-listed sub-groups should be placed on the BART website as soon as possible.
← Union City's December 2, 2021 Presentation to the BART Board
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