But that cut in production has itself contributed to the rise in prices. And just as producers cut back, now that prices are on the way back up, they could swing idled production back into action. Related: Could This New Business Model Save Fracking?
The Permian is one of the very few major shale areas that the EIA thinks will continue to increase output. That is because companies like Occidental Petroleum will add rigs to the Permian basin for more drilling later this year. In fact, Oxy's Permian production has become a "sustainable, profitable growth engine," the company's CEO Stephen Chazen said in an earnings call. Oxy expects to increase production across its US operations by 8 percent this year. Diamondback Energy, another Permian operator, may add two rigs this year.
As John Kemp over at Reuters notes, that is not an enviable position to be in. Much has been made about the geopolitical and economic influence that shale drillers have snatched away from OPEC. The oil cartel has lost its ability to control prices, the thinking goes. Now, the US is the new "swing producer," and with it comes influence and prosperity.
But if oil companies oscillate between cutting back and adding more rigs as the price of oil bobs above and below the $60 mark, they won't exactly be raking in the profits. Worse yet, EOG and Oxy may be profitable at $60, but there are a lot more drillers in the red.
(2) 1997-98 Production was overstated by about 700 million bbls.
Our economy needs cheap oil. Our government demands cheap oil to damage Russia, Venezuela, and Iran. We get news articles galore to support this pitch.
Actually, imports are down according to EIA data. If you go back to 2005, imports were approximately 10 mbblpd. Roughly 2013 was 8 mbblpd and 2014 is about 7.5 mbblpd. So the US is importing less. Back in 2013, US production was about 7.5 mbblpd and it is now 9.3 mbblpd.
There was a large short position at the start of the year, but now there is a large long position as hedges speculated oil price would go up.
The oil price should drop, if it wasn't for hedge funds trying to control the price in my opinion.


Blizzard VP says that players would feel cheated if they introduced micropayments in World of Warcraft. This is about as dumb a report as I've ever seen... NO? Really? Why would they feel cheated just because they spent $300+ grinding to earn their epic gear and along comes a spoiled kid n00b and buys a complete set his first day.Why would they feel cheated? Just the fact that Blizzards VP actually had to say this says a lot about the normal level of awareness about game design. I know that many companies are only just waking up to the fact that more designers are needed to spot these problems early on. But I am still astounded each time someone excretes one of these ideas.
Yahtzee stole the show at GDC with another brilliant Zero Punctuation. Yes it's crass, yes it's cheap, but he's also right on the money and one should never underestimate the power of really short entertainment.


Seagulls Feeding in the river corrib that runs through galway city in Ireland. A group of seagulls bob up and down on the churning deep blue water of the river Corrib. Some hover while others float in the water.
A Seagull flies high in against the backdrop of a deep blue sky as it's eye scans the seascape below. In the bright mid day sunshine the white feather of this flying seagull contrast with the deep blue sky behind it.


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I attended The Institute for Therapeutic Massage in Haskell, NJ. I specialize in Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports, Prenatal, and Chair massage. One of my favorite practices is medium to firm Swedish, Deep Tissue, as well as Sports massage. I decided to become a massage therapist because I enjoy helping people and making them feel good about themselves. My goal by the end of every session is for everyone to be satisfied.


Dan Gordon has been the rabbinic spiritual leader of Temple Beth Torah in Humble since 1998. He has been involved with Jewish education for twenty-five years in a variety of capacities, including camp director, youth director and religious school principal.
He also has an international reputation as a storyteller and folklorist, having toured throughout the U.S. , Israel and Australia. In addition to his work with Temple Beth Torah, he teaches Jewish adult education classes in Houston, leads storytelling workshops for educators and serves as a chaplain to four Texas prisons.


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Watch out Audiobook Listeners–here comes Dead Hollow!
You'll find introductory clips from the books below. The Prodigal sample is the first time our hero Adam Rutledge appears. I may be biased, but I have to say, I love this guy. (Adam, that is. Although Alex is pretty amazing, too.) You can listen to additional audiobook clips in the video section of my Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/judykwalkerauthor/videos/.
Have a listen. And kudos to my awesome narrator, Alex Knox!


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Q: Why does my code only read first row in database? Dim con As New SqlConnection
con.ConnectionString = "Data Source=(local);Integrated Security=True"
Dim cmd As New SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM login where Admin = @Admin AND Password = @Password ", con)

'Set up parameters for the sqlcommand
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Admin", comb.Text)
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Password", Txtpass.Text)

'If the username or password is empty then throw an error
If comb.Text = String.Empty Then
        MessageBox.Show("Please choose the username.", Me.Text, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error)
ElseIf Txtpass.Text = String.Empty Then
        MessageBox.Show("Please enter the password.", Me.Text, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error)
Else
        Try
            'Open the connection and declare an sqlreader
            con.Open()
            Dim reader As SqlDataReader = cmd.ExecuteReader

            'If our reader has one or more rows then read those rows and compare the text

            If reader.HasRows = True Then
                reader.Read()
                Dim ReadUserName As String
                Dim ReadUserID As String
                ReadUserID = reader(3) 'This is the first field returned, most likely UserID
                ReadUserName = reader(1) 'This is the second field returned

                'If the username and password match then it's a success
                If comb.Text = reader("Admin").ToString And Txtpass.Text = reader.Item("Password").ToString Then

                    MessageBox.Show("Login successful" & ReadUserName)

                Else
                    'If they don't match than throw an error
                    MessageBox.Show("Login Failed." & Environment.NewLine & _
                                    "UserName and Password are casesensitive.", _
                                    Me.Text, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error)
                End If
            End If
        Catch ex As Exception
            MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString, Me.Text, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error)
        Finally
            con.Close()
        End Try
    End If

A: You're telling your code to read one row:
If reader.HasRows = True Then
   reader.Read()

If you want to read all rows from your SqlDataReader, you need to use a loop (here in C#):
while (reader.Read())
{
    ..... (read the individual values for the current row) ......
}

The .Read() call will return true, as long as a row has been read from the SqlDataReader - now fetch the data from the row, store it or process it - whatever you need to do - and then your next call to reader.Read() checks if another row can be read. If so: repeat your processing.
If reader.Read() return false, then all rows have been read and you're done.

A: If command runs the code only once and  read one row. So use while loop to read all the line
       If reader.HasRows = True Then
           While reader.Read()
            Dim ReadUserName As String
            Dim ReadUserID As String
            ReadUserID = reader(3) 'This is the first field returned, most likely UserID
            ReadUserName = reader(1) 'This is the second field returned

            'If the username and password match then it's a success
            If comb.Text = reader("Admin").ToString And Txtpass.Text = reader.Item("Password").ToString Then

                MessageBox.Show("Login successful" & ReadUserName)

            Else
                'If they don't match than throw an error
                MessageBox.Show("Login Failed." & Environment.NewLine & _
                                "UserName and Password are casesensitive.", _
                                Me.Text, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error)
            End If

        End While ' I don't know much of vb.net'
    End If

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Born in 1971 in Köln, Germany, master watchmaker Dirk Maier went to work within the Swatch Group (Omega, Longines and Rado) before starting his own business.
He registered the brand Rheinmeister by taking cues from the Rhein (Rhine), one of the most important European rivers that serves as natural border between Switzerland and Germany.
Maier tries to source all of his parts in Germany and Switzerland and assembles himself the watches, which can be purchased directly from his workshop or through selected retailers in Germany. Prices for 2010 range from EUR 1630 to EUR 2230. Besides his collections, Meier can assemble custom pieces and source bespoke engine-turned dials.
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Herman Cain, the former pizza executive has abandoned his White House ambitions after a string of "false accusations" of sexual misconduct.
Mr Cain, who briefly upended the Republican race to face President Barack Obama next November, arrived at the opening of a new campaign headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, holding hands with Gloria, his wife of 43 years.
Mr Cain, 67, was by turns defiant and emotional as he announced his decision.
"I am proof that a common man could lead this nation," he said, his lip trembling "I consider myself to be one of you, not one of the political elites.
"But as false accusations about me continue they have sidetracked and distracted my ability to present solutions to the American people."
His decision was a blow to Mitt Romney, the party establishment favourite for the nomination who is facing a powerful surge from Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Mr Cain's announcement followed days of speculation after he announced he was "reassessing" his candidacy. It will prompt a clamour for his supporters to switch to rival candidates, with Mr Gingrich's chances of becoming the "anti-Romney" candidate being given a significant boost.
It triggered a contest to secure Mr Cain's endorsement, which he said he would make in the coming days.
Mr Cain, who became an unexpected favourite of conservative Republicans until a series of women made claims of sexual harassment against him, admitted making "mistakes in life… personal, professional, as a candidate" but blamed "spinning in the media" for highlighting "these false and untrue allegations".
He declared: "The statement I want to make to you today is that I am at peace with my God. I am at peace with my wife. And she is at peace with me. And I am at peace with my family and I am at peace with myself."
To groans of disappointment from some 200 supporters, he confirmed: "As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt caused on me and my family."
His announcement ended what had been a wild and unexpected ride. Many suspected that Mr Cain's White House bid was essentially a book tour masquerading as a presidential campaign. He stayed away from early-voting states, preferring to attend events at which he would sign his motivational tome: "This is Herman Cain!"
But Mr Cain, a charismatic former chief executive of the Godfather's pizza chain and one-time president of the National Restaurant Association (NRA), seized the imaginations of many conservative activists.
With no clear alternative to Mr Romney, the party establishment's favourite, emerging, Mr Cain struck a chord with activists yearning for a businessman untainted by Washington.
His simple pitch of "I am not a politician. I am a problem solver" excited many supporters of the low-tax, small-government Tea Party movement. His "9-9-9" economic plan – a nine percent national sales tax, income tax and business transactions tax - was hailed for its boldness and simplicity.
Suddenly, Mr Cain was top of the national polls, edging ahead of Mr Romney in late October, and also making a strong showing in the first-voting state of Iowa.
A viral YouTube ad featuring his campaign manager Mark Block taking a drag on a cigarette seemed to sum up Mr Cain's determination to break all the rules and mock conventional political campaigns. "We've run a campaign like nobody's ever seen, but then America has never seen a candidate like Herman Cain," Mr Block said.
Mr Block exhaled smoke into the camera and an image of Mr Cain's visage breaking into a devilish smile flashed up, before the ad ended with Krista Branch's Tea Party anthem: I am America.
When Mr Block was criticised for smoking, he told Fox News: "I'm not the only one that smokes in America for God's sake… The real message that we're trying to get through was the Cain train is on a roll."
The candidate himself seemed bewildered by his own success and his campaign, run on a shoestring and containing no one with significant political experience, was utterly unprepared to capitalise on it.
Just as his poll numbers reached their zenith, it was revealed that the NRA had paid settlements to two women who claimed that he sexually harassed them in the late 1990s.
A third woman said that Mr Cain made inappropriate sexual advances but that she had not filed a complaint. Other stories of predatory behaviour emerged.
It was claimed that after a speech in Cairo organised by the US government in 2002, Mr Cain had asked a female official: "Could you put me in touch with that lovely young lady who asked the question, so I can give her a more thorough answer over dinner?"
When the suspicious official declined to do this, Mr Cain responded: "Then you and I can have dinner."
Initially, he appeared to be weathering the storm. His indignant protestations of his innocence were largely accepted by supporters, some of whom suspected he was a victim of political correctness or even racism, and the fact that the allegations were anonymous helped him.
His poll numbers were robust and there was even an increase in campaign donations in reaction to what his allies portrayed as a media "lynch mob", determined to bring down a successful black conservative.
Then came the high-profile New York press conference of Sharon Bialek, 50, who gave a graphic description of how Mr Cain had lunged at her in a parked car in 1997, pulling her head down towards his crotch and putting his hand up her skirt. She said that when he resisted him his reaction was: "You want a job, right?"
He issued another blanket denial but this time there was widespread scepticism. Although Ms Bielak, a single mother, had a chequered employment history and financial past, her story was all too believable. It was, moreover, a description not just of an unwanted advance but of a sexual assault.
Just as serious for Mr Cain was his difficulty in answering policy questions. On foreign affairs, he seldom moved much beyond boilerplate statements that he would surround himself by experts and listen carefully to all their advice before making a decision.
As much as the sexual harassment allegations, his campaign never really recovered from the moment in Wisconsin when he struggled to recall which country Libya was during a video-taped discussion with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel editorial board.
"I do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason." He then stopped and said: "Nope, that's a different one." Shifting in his chair, adjusting his jacket and looking up again, he explained; "I got all this stuff twirling around in my head."
Cain began to sink in the polls but was still in a four-way tie in Iowa with Romney, the maverick libertarian Ron Paul and a surging Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives. It was still possible that he could eke out a victory there and his campaign would catch fire once again.
Then came Ginger White. With characteristic ineptness, Cain decided to go live on CNN to deny her accusations even before she had made them. She had been a "friend", he insisted, and there had been no sexual relationship.
White, 46, begged to differ, telling Fox 5 in Atlanta that the pair had conducted a 13-year affair that began in the late 1990s after he had made an NRA presentation and he invited her back to his hotel room.
"I'd like to see you again," White said Cain had told her. "You are beautiful to me, and I would love for us to continue this friendship." He then pulled out a calendar and invited her to meet him in Palm Springs.
The first rules of crisis communications are to get the whole story out quickly and stick to the script. Instead, Cain and his staff floundered. It emerged that Cain had been paying White monthly amounts and that his wife had not been aware of her existence.
Then, Cain announced on a conference call to supporters that he was 'reassessing" his campaign. Characteristically, Cain's staff and then the candidate himself almost immediately began walking back on his words and then reversing themselves again.
His spokesman J.D. Gordon said that Cain was just taking a fresh look at campaign strategy, such as "what states we visit, what interviews we do, how we allocate resources, things like that". But Block said Cain was indeed "reassessing whether to stay in the race" – before stating the same day that there was "no way he's dropping out".
Having announced he would make a "major announcement" on Saturday, Cain chose this moment to launch a Women for Cain webpage, complete with stock picture of nubile young women giving him the thumbs up. The "National Chairperson" of Women for Cain was named as his wife Gloria.


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Learning the Ropes: Insights for Political Appointees
Submitted by rgordon on Sun, 05/15/2005 - 00:00
Mark A. Abramson
Paul R. Lawrence
Learning the Ropes: Insights for Political Appointees is geared to providing helpful advice to new political appointees on a variety of topics related to the challenge of managing in government. Chapter two by Judith Michaels presents key lessons learned from two surveys of previous political appointees, as well as personal interviews with nearly 50 former political executives from both Democratic and Republican administrations. Chapter three by Joseph Ferrara and Lynn Ross dispel common myths held by political appointees about careerists and by careerists about political appointees and sets forth constructive 'rules of engagement' that political and career executives can use to form partnerships in achieving the administration's program and policy objectives. Chapter four by John Trattner presents advice for working with Congress, including an overview of how Congress functions, how decisions on money and programs are made, appropriators and authorizers, legislators and their constituencies, oversight, and how to get things done. Chapter five by John Trattner describes how political appointees can work with the media, including advice on how to minimize the impact of bad news, offensive and defensive strategies, and how to survive in the government/media culture. Chapter six by Mark Abramson and Paul Lawrence presents useful advice on eight lessons involved in transforming organizations. Chapter seven by Dana Michael Harsell presents advice for political appointees on working with career executives to 'manage for results.' The final chapter by Chris Wye describes how political executives can overcome common problems in the design, alignment, use, and communication of performance measures and information.
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May 27, 2022 9:39:43 AM
New kid on the block, Aurora Capital, has launched a range of KiwiSaver funds specifically centred around combating climate change. Falling under the Aurora Financial umbrella, Aurora Capital's first offering to the market closely aligns with its goal of providing forward-looking investments powered by modern technology.
"We believe that we offer the most progressive funds in the market at the moment, as they focus on tackling climate change at a grassroots level," explains Aurora Capital CEO, Simon Rolland. "We're choosing to actively invest in areas, technologies and industries that need these funds to make real changes in reducing their environmental impact. Where others avoid, we're choosing to go head-on."
The demand for responsible investments is certainly growing and Aurora Capital are positioning themselves perfectly to service these ethical investors. The recent KiwiSaver Annual Report from the FMA reveals a massive 56% growth in "socially responsible" fund membership.
From the onset, it became apparent that technology would be central to support their goal of making the KiwiSaver Scheme a success. Aurora partnered with Auckland-based fintech company Invsta, to develop an engaging and easy-to-use digital onboarding platform and customer portal that would meet the demands of today's digitally-savvy investors.
"The brief was to provide an engaging digital solution through which KiwiSaver members could interact and manage their investments. It also had to reflect and incorporate Aurora's core values and goals of education, empowerment, communication and authenticity," explains Rachel Strevens, CEO of Invsta.
With the underlying modules and functionality already built out, Invsta's white-label KiwiSaver solution was ideally suited to meet those requirements. Not only did it offer the level of customisation that Aurora was looking for, but the API-driven modules were crucial to help meet tight implementation deadlines, and to enable easy integration with other third-party providers. Aurora's unique workflows, branding, and design elements were then layered over the underlying modules, to provide the required customisation.
Strevens explains that an important step in the implementation process is to dive deep to understand each customer's unique brand, purpose, and vision. This enables the user experience (UX) team to create seamless, customer-centric digital experiences that echo that of the rest of the business. "From overall design, background images, button layouts and graph designs through to workflows, compliance processes and data capturing, we were able to customise each module for Aurora in a fraction of the time that it would have taken them to do a custom build."
Rolland adds that the technology will help bring advisors and investors closer together through improved visibility. "Two of our core values as a business are empowerment and trust. Invsta has really helped us to align to those values by creating an engaging digital platform that improves accessibility and transparency for our clients. It really helps us to engage with our clients in a way that gives them the power to control their investments, and to ultimately control their outcomes."
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Cities & Communities
Flagging Down Driverless Buses
Alon Levy
Automated buses are already operating in some communities, but they may be on an even slower road to widespread adoption than headline-grabbing driverless cars.
AP Photo/Regina Garcia Cano
Patrons wait to board a driverless shuttle bus on a street in Las Vegas
Public transit systems have run driverless trains for decades. The first fully driverless train network, Vancouver's SkyTrain in western Canada, has been in operation since 1985. The Paris urban transit system has automated its oldest and busiest Metro line and plans to automate about half the subway system by 2050. Yet in the United States, transit automation is years behind Europe where driverless trains mostly connect airport terminals.
Automated buses are already operating in some communities. But when American cities have green-lighted the technology, the results have been uneven: A November accident in Las Vegas involving the first automated bus for public use in the U.S. raised still more questions about whether the technology is ready to hit the road. Some private companies launch relatively untested technology, hoping to spearhead innovation by being the first to deploy an invention. But without a tight regulatory regime in place (and in the U.S., the technology is miles ahead of the regulators in most states), the results can be disastrous.
Las Vegas's transit agency, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC), uses technology developed by the French company Navya, one of the global pioneers of driverless bus production, and is partnering with Keolis, the public transportation operator owned by the French national railway system. But just two hours after RTC launched the American Automobile Association-sponsored pilot, a truck collided with the Navya shuttle.
The bus sensor technology responded at it was programmed to do—the shuttle stopped when it detected the truck. But the truck kept going and hit the bus. There were no injuries to the bus passengers or the occupants of the truck, and Las Vegas officials decided to continue the year-long pilot program. The accident has not deterred other cities. Small-scale pilots are underway, about to begin, or have been completed in Minneapolis, Denver, Gainsville, Florida, and San Ramon, California, while Bismarck, North Dakota, might consider a pilot program next year.
California's 1st driverless bus debuts in San Ramon https://t.co/Tzgs1gDtJO pic.twitter.com/neWnuvgmBE
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) March 7, 2018
But driverless technology is still very much in its infancy. In March, an Uber driverless car struck and killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, who was walking her bike across a Tempe, Arizona, road. Transportation experts blamed Uber's self-driving technology for the crash, saying that an attentive human driver would not have killed Herzberg. The average car accident death rate in the United States is one fatality per 85 million vehicle-miles traveled. (In Britain, where the roads are slower and safer, it is one in 141 million miles.) The American self-driving car industry has only logged 15 to 20 million miles traveled, and Uber driverless cars have only logged one million miles.
(Uber suspended its self-driving car experiments after the crash, as has Toyota. More comprehensive regulations would likely demand that the operators be held to higher safety standards than human drivers, rather than lower standards as is the case today.)
Nevertheless, public transportation officials continue to take a hard look at the technology. Transit authorities could run small driverless buses more frequently, especially in areas where it may not be cost effective to run large buses, such as on routes with lower ridership. How buses interact with other vehicles; how bus drivers might be reassigned; and how to respond to passenger concerns about traffic accidents and crime are a few of the concerns that the technology poses for transit systems.
Automation offers certain benefits, speed for one. In Paris, automated trains provide faster acceleration and deceleration. On the automated Metro line, average speeds improved from about 16 miles per hour to nearly 20 miles per hour, a 23 percent increase. But while driverless trains are faster than trains with people at the controls, buses have yet to pick up the pace: one driverless bus prototype, the EZ10, has a top speed of 25 mph and a cruise speed of 12 mph.
However, automated buses have significant challenges to overcome before widespread deployment can begin. Like cars and unlike trains, buses run on roads shared with other vehicles, with cars on crossing streets at intersections and pedestrian navigating crosswalks or, worse, jaywalking. Driverless buses would need regular updates about traffic rules (like temporary speed limits and road conditions) along its route as it jockeys with other vehicles and pedestrians. Driverless buses would still need to employ technology that can recognize and brake for pedestrians and cyclists. Yet while driverless buses may be able to navigate safely, they may not be able to avoid collisions with other drivers who do not know how to interact with driverless buses as the Las Vegas incident shows.
The new technology also may be at a disadvantage due to the historic, second-class status of buses. Eric Goldwyn, a postdoctoral fellow at New York University's Marron Institute of Urban Management, argues that every new mode of transportation needs extensive associated infrastructure. Trains have railroads, cars have wide paved roads, planes have airports, high-speed trains have dedicated high-speed lines. Yet buses never have dedicated infrastructure: Bus rapid transit lanes have not been widely adopted nationwide (and some metro areas are just catching on to the benefits) which is one of the reasons that buses do not have usage rates as high as cars or subways.
While driverless buses handle acceleration and braking with relative ease, it is not clear to what extent driverless bus technology can replace the human eye. Obstacles in a road, such as a pedestrian about to cross a street or a car that suddenly changes lanes, still flummox the technology, rendering an automated bus more of a hazard than a viable means of transportation. Driverless buses may need to maintain greater distances between other vehicles on the road, and adjust speeds accordingly, which would reduce rather than improve performance: a bus that slows down on the road trying to judge whether something is an obstacle or not creates more safety issues.
Potential road hazards are not the only problem. Brian Sherlock, an international safety specialist with the Amalgamated Transit Union, notes that the technology sometimes fails when the vehicle has to enter a bus bay where passengers wait to board.
Mobileye, an Israeli company, has pioneered some of the most advanced technology driverless in use today. Even so, a 2016 study by Jung-Hyup Kim, a University of Missouri industrial and manufacturing systems engineering professor, found that that Mobileye's assisted driving technology has a reaction time of 2.8 seconds, too long to brake in some cases. Moreover, a 2017 review by the trade paper Electronic Engineering Times finds flaws in Mobileye's safety calculations and says that its propriety technology should be independently assessed, as its claims to safety are all sourced to internal company data. Indeed, this week, a Mobileye driverless car ran a red light at a demonstration in Jerusalem, which was blamed on electromagnetic interference from a camera from a nearby film shoot.
Even in Helsinki, the one of the few cities in the world with a regular driverless bus service, the buses a run in a closed, controllable environment. Jaime Garmendia, a commuter rail project coordinator at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the regional Boston transit system, searched out the city's automated buses during a recent visit and found that they are restricted to a closed, short route (only a fraction of a mile) at the city's zoo. Cars cannot drive on the road where the buses run.
While labor unions have been concerned about what automation means for transit workers, these drawbacks mean that front-line bus employees are still in the driver's seat. While some systems may choose to prepare for the transition by choosing to hire fewer drivers as veteran drivers retire, it is far from certain that driverless buses will replace conventional buses in the short term.
Sherlock of the Amalgamated Transit Union, argues that automated buses are simply not roadworthy, since current state of pedestrian-detection technology for driverless vehicles in general is "really fairly wretched." Moreover, the Las Vegas crash shows that while the vehicles themselves may be safe, but the human drivers of other vehicles have unpredictable responses to unfamiliar technology. (While driverless subways and elevated trains perform well, for the most part, on dedicated tracks, they have not been deployed on lines with street-level crossings and traffic lights—that is, where they may have to interact with other vehicles or humans.)
Like drivers of other vehicles, passengers also face a major culture shift, accepting that a computer not a human is in control of the bus. Yet the more difficult adjustment may be riding with strangers on an unstaffed bus. People routinely share subways with strangers. Usually those trains are staffed with just one train driver, in a compartment away from the passengers and is unable to immediately respond to an incident. But bus passengers would have to take an extra leap of faith if there is no transit employee anywhere on the bus. Some bus operators employ an attendant to assuage these concerns. The Las Vegas pilot has customer service attendants.
Amelia Zaino, a biracial, 27-year-old community activist from the North Bronx, does not worry about crime on public transit. She doesn't believe that driverless buses would be more dangerous anyway in New York because "here the buses are so big and so crowded that the driver really couldn't do much in terms of pickpocketing or small crimes." However, while Zaino expresses some apprehensiveness about the technology, she is more worried traffic accidents than crime.
Others worry that the absence of a driver means trouble. Martha Dosztál, a 28-year-old transgenger University of London student of Hungarian and British descent says she would feel "very vulnerable in small shared driverless vehicles," and would especially worry about safety in Hungary, where homophobia and transphobia are worse than in Britain and the United States. During visits to Baltimore, Dosztál always sat next to the driver especially when she rode buses at night when there are fewer passengers.
Employing bus attendants could reassure some nervous riders. However, turning drivers into attendants would turn a trend to reduce the need for labor into a scheme to further de-skill workers, replacing relatively well-trained and paid bus drivers with low-wage customer service or security workers. When Paris automated its Metro line, the system did not lay off any drivers. To avoid strikes, it reassigned them as platform attendants. But because bus operating costs are heavily dictated by driver wages and benefits, some transit agencies may not reassign every driver to a new position unless an agency automates buses very slowly.
Neither driverless buses nor cars have little chance of revolutionizing transportation without substantial investments in entirely new infrastructure, according to Adriano Alessandrini, a professor of civil and transportation engineering at the University of Florence in Italy and one of the lead researchers for the European Union's CityMobil2 project which aims to integrate automated vehicles into cities.
The free-for-all approach used by Uber and other American technology companies is unwise: American tech companies' efforts focus on running driverless vehicles in mixed traffic. But CityMobil2 runs its vehicles in mostly segregated traffic in closed circuits aiming to run them in fully-mixed traffic in the future. Helsinki's driverless bus, running on a road without cars, is one example of this alternative approach.
Although the CityMobil2 project does suggest that some driverless cars and buses may be in our future, their full adoption by transit agencies may take decades. Security issues alone may restrict deployment to the busiest routes in the cities with the most extensive bus systems. The Las Vegas accident and Helsinki's limited bus route suggest that the most pressing issue for driverless road vehicles—the need to safely navigate streets along with other cars, trucks, and buses—is not yet solved.
What is more likely is that public transit operators will continue to study transitioning to driverless fleets. But the technology media's claims of incipient disruption of public transportation as Americans know it today are premature. American cities that want better public transit should invest in conventional bus and rail service and not base their bus fleet decision-making on a technology that is still in its infancy.
This post has been updated.
Labor Raises the Floor in Nashville
Chris Brooks & Rebecca Kolins Givan
As construction booms in an increasingly progressive city, workers find the power to unionize in the otherwise non-union South.
The Government Created Housing Segregation. Here's How the Government Can End It.
Richard D. Kahlenberg & Kimberly Quick
No policy limits African American income, wealth, and education as thoroughly as housing segregation. Herewith, a plan to end it.
Democrats Get Serious About Affordable Housing
Sam Ross-Brown
Ahead of the first 2020 presidential debates, Dems have released some of the most far-reaching housing plans in decades.
Based in Paris, Alon Levy is an affiliate scholar with the Marron Institute of Urban Research at New York University. Levy blogs about public transportation at Pedestrian Observations and has published articles about transit at Vox, Curbed, CityLab, and a variety of trade and local magazines.
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This week is part of what is known as academic advising on campus. To upperclassmen, this may seem like a routine part of every semester, but for first-year and transfer students, the process may seem overwhelming.
Advising primarily serves as the time, set out each semester, for students to figure out what courses to enroll in for the upcoming semester. During advising, you meet with your advisor to discuss course options, such as what classes you need to take to complete your major and your general education credits. Advisors are either professors within your major or, in the case of first-year and undeclared students, the professor connected to your First Year Seminar class.
What many students don't know is that advising is also a great time to discuss future plans with your advisor, such as graduate schools and potential career paths. Keeping your advisor updated on any plans for after college can help them steer you in a direction that best suits your goals. For example, many graduate schools require certain classes as prerequisites to even apply, so it's helpful to know what classes you may need to enroll in if that is your goal. If you are unsure about your future, your advisor can also provide you with potential directions and opportunities to explore through academics, extracurricular activities and internships.
To register for classes, you will first need to schedule a meeting with your advisor. It is best to schedule this meeting prior to your assigned registration date and time, or the earliest time you can register for classes. This information can be found on your MyWitt portal under "Student Academic Info" and "Registration Priority and Holds." If you don't meet with your advisor, you will be unable to register for classes. It's also extremely important to register as early as possible because seats quickly fill up, and upperclassmen get first-pick, so waiting too long might affect your course options if you're a first-year student. Many advisors have sheets you can use to sign up for a meeting time on their office doors or send out an email for advisees to sign up using an online system, so be sure to look out for these if you haven't already.
As a junior, the best tip I can offer for a successful advising meeting is to be prepared. Use the open course listing, which can be found on the registrar's webpage, to see what courses are being offered in the upcoming semester. Get a copy of the general education requirements from the Compass webpage, or in person, and see what you need to take to graduate. Go to the department office of your major or intended major and pick up a copy of your major requirements. I have always found that after consulting all these resources, writing down the classes I am then interested in taking serves as a great way to keep everything organized for my advising meeting. You can easily compare your choices against your advisor's advice. Also, remember to choose a few alternate classes in case your preferred classes fill up before your registration time.
After figuring out what classes you want to take, use the MyWitt portal to create a "preferred course section" list. This way, when its time to register, you will just have to click "submit." You can use the "search and register for courses" option to easily look up course numbers and add them to your list. Once your date and time for registration arrives, simply set all your classes to "register" using the drop down boxes to the left of each listing, click "submit," and you have easily registered for classes. The advantage to preparing your list of courses ahead of time on MyWitt is that you will have a better chance at securing a seat if a class only has one or two spots open by the time you can register.
Academic advising doesn't have to be a stressful time of the semester if you remember to prepare early and utilize the resources available to you. Wittenberg offers a number of services besides just meeting with your advisor such as the COMPASS and Career Services that can help streamline the process. Remember that part of advising is intended for students to get to know professor on a more personal level outside of class, so never be afraid to ask for help. Happy advising.
Academic advising doesn't have to be a stressful time of the semester if you remember to prepare early and utilize the resources available to you. Wittenberg offers a number of services besides just meeting with your advisor such as the COMPASS and Career Services that can help streamline the process. Remember that part of advising is intended for students to get to know professor on a more personal level outside of class, so never be afraid to ask for help. Happy advising!


Spring is officially here! And although there may still be a few piles of snow on the ground, let's ignore those for a second and talk about preparing our homes for the new season!
1. Take a walk-through. Set aside a block of time, whatever you think you'll need, and tour your home room by room. I will literally stand in a room and just look around for a while, taking in each detail. What do you love? What do you keep to simply fill space? Are there things that you value but they don't quite fit with the style of the room? Are there things that are impractical (you constantly trip over, your toddler destroys, something too big or too small)? As you ask yourself these questions begin to move anything that falls into one of the categories and create a pile of these items.
2. "De-Winterize." This applies to any season, but since we're talking about Spring- are there items in your home that are specific to winter? For me, the moment temperatures start to rise some things I pack away are my fur pillows and sweater blankets. They give me something to look forward to come Fall. I also get the urge to simplify and decorate with a more minimalistic style when the weather is warmer, so I tend to pack away extra knick-knacks or photo frames.
3. Sort. Now that you've removed all the things that are either impractical, off-season, or you just don't love, sort that pile! Chances are you've probably got some things to drop off at Goodwill, some seasonal items to store away, and some things you really like- just not where you had them.
Re-use the things you have!
Before running out to HomeGoods or Marshalls for an impulse buy, look at that pile of things you do like. Figure out ways to reincorporate those items in other areas of your home. If you're like me, you may continually cycle things in and out of rooms in your house until you finally find the spot that sits right, or maybe you realize you never liked that thing to begin with.
5. Make a List/Replenish. NOW that you have officially cleaned out, rearranged, and de-winterized- it's time to assess the situation. Where are the holes in your vision for a fresh, Spring home? What are some things you can add that help you to feel the new season? (I love adding a few new houseplants for spring and summer.) It's fun to treat yourself every once in a while, so whether it's new throw pillows or a new bathroom rug, this process will probably highlight at least one thing you "need."
Design Tip: The things I love the most in my home, the things that I move from room to room but never part with, are the things I have either been given or the things I have searched for.
The impulse buys at discount stores are always fun, and trust me I love HomeGoods as much as the next girl, but the more intentional I am with an item I am looking for, the less I end up spending in the long run!
So take a day, or maybe a few, and spend some time reevaluating all the beauty your home has to offer. Nothing feels better than a fresh start!


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The Relationship of Income And Money Attitudes To Subjective Assessment of Financial Situation
Gąsiorowska, Agata (2008): The Relationship of Income And Money Attitudes To Subjective Assessment of Financial Situation. Published in: Selected Proceedings of the IAREP/SABE 2008 Conference at LUISS in Rome (4. September 2008)
This paper examines a model of economic status satisfaction (money satisfaction) that controls attitudes toward money, income level and gender. Money attitudes were measured with SPP scale (Gąsiorowska, 2003), fully developed in Polish environment, and better adjusted to Polish conditions than other money attitudes scales. In the first study, path analysis showed that gender is the strong moderator of money attitudes - money satisfaction relationship. Money attitudes presented by females do not influence significantly their economic status satisfaction, while in case of males, financial anxiety and power connected with money explained 13% of variance of dependent variable. In the second study, in addition to the previous, income data were also collected. In the group of females, income was found to be a better predictor of financial situation assessment than money attitudes, and the anxiety dimension of money attitudes was slightly mediating income - financial situation relationship. In the group of males, the effect of money attitudes in predicting financial assessment is primarily additive to the effect of income.
economic psychology; income level; money attitudes
D - Microeconomics > D3 - Distribution > D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
D - Microeconomics > D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics > D14 - Household Saving; Personal Finance
Agata Gąsiorowska
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This charming cottage offers much to see and do nearby, where you can enjoy busy days spent exploring then return to the cottage to relax.
Living room: With gas wood burner and Freeview TV.
Just short walk to York Minster, from this apartment, and ghost walks, river boat trips and Shambles all close by.


Stayed at quite a few sites along the Rhone (up to 20 Km either side of it) between Lyon and Orange, although not that one. The Ardeche is a nice area if you like cycling/walking/canoeing but I've never stayed at a campsite there and thought 'wow'. A lot of folk use them (as I do) transiting from Germany or Holland to Spain as an overnight stopover for which most are fine but not somewhere I'd want to have a holiday.
If your car's Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) + your caravans MTPLM exceed 3500 Kg you will need to do a B+E test.
Does that mean you still have a South African Driving Licence and not a UK one? My mates daughter passed her test in Germany, had a German EU licence, moved to live in the UK and was stopped by the Police after living in Britain for about 5 years, apparently her non-UK licence was only valid for 1 or 2 years after that she should have got UK one. I find it strange (and unfair) that post-Brexit Brits driving in the EU will require a multitude of IDP's yet when I visit the UK with my German EU licence I don't need one.
I'd love to have a motorbike and I started doing the training about 15 years ago but I had really bad Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in my right hand (only 32 at the time) and after about 5 minutes of riding I had no feeling in my hand so unfortunately had to stop. It's been operated on about 10 years ago and it's much better than it was and my mate runs his own driving school and has offered me free lessons to see if I still have the same problems but now the Mrs won't let me do it and for a quiet life I do as I'm told I have to have a full medical every 5 years (since I turned 45) to keep my C+E entitlement, although I very rarely use it these days.
As far as I'm aware, if you already have a full B+E entitlement it will automatically be added to your new licence on re-application at 70. I think full medicals are just for C & D licences, you just have to meet the minimum eyesight requirements for B + E. Have you looked on the gov.uk website?


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Iniesta's goal in extra time gave Spain the victory.
Spain win the World Cup for the first time as an extra time goal from Andres Iniesta gives them a last-gasp victory over the Netherlands in the final at Soccer City.
A game littered with no less than 13 yellow cards and one red is settled by a moment of magic by the Barcelona midfielder after being played in by substitute Cesc Fabregas.
116 minutes: The goal all Spain and most neutrals have been waiting for as Andres Iniesta breaks the deadlock after clever work by Cesc Fabregas. 1-0 Spain. Iniesta is booked for his celebration but that hardly matters now.
115 minutes: Sneijder's free kick takes a double deflection but Spain escape with a goal kick.
110 minutes: Gregory van der Wiel becomes eighth Dutch player to be shown a yellow card.
108 minutes: Heitinga pulls back Iniesta and is the first man to be shown red, hardly surprising after a night of 11 yellow cards. Dutch down to 10 men but Spain waste free kick.
HALF-TIME IN EXTRA TIME: Goalless still. Penalties looming. Fernando Torres comes on for Villa for the final 15 minutes with Spain hoping he can work his magic when it matters.
100 minutes: Navas shot deflected wide by van Bronckhorst and into side netting.
98 minutes: Superb defending from van Bronckhorst keeps out Iniesta just before Dutch make subsitution as De Jong departs to be replaced by Rafael van der Vaart.
96 minutes: End-to-end goalmouth action and from a Dutch corner Joris Mathijsen is nearly an unlikely scorer.
95 minutes: Fabregas could have become super-sub as Iniesta puts him in the clear but Stekelenburg makes a superb save in the Dutch goal.
92 minutes: Strong Spanish appeals for a penalty are waved away by referee Howard Webb.
Extra time starts and we are perhaps 30 minutes away from the agony and uncertainty of penalties.
FULL-TIME: Still goalless and we're heading for extra-time. Both sides have had gilt-edged chances in the second half, with Robben twice denied by Casillas when clean through and Villa and Ramos going close for Spain.
86 minutes: Cesc Fabregas second Spanish subsitution for Alonso in an attacking move by Vicente Del Bosque.
82 minutes: Robben outpaces Puyol who does just enough to hinder his progress and Casillas gathers the ball. Robben is unhappy that he is not awarded a free kick and receives a yellow card. We are into double figures now.
81 minutes: Iniesta nearly squirms his way through but is denied by a last-ditch tackle from the Dutch man of the tournament Sneijder.
77 minutes: Iniesta has been subjected to some tough tackling all night and after another strong challenge from van Bommel extracts a little revenge and sees yellow. Almost losing count now but that's the ninth and apparently an unwanted World Cup record.
76 minutes: A totally unmarked Sergio Ramos meets a corner from just a few meters out and sends it over the crossbar. Everyone's head in hands !
71 minutes: Dutch make first change with Kuyt replaced by flying Eljero Elias.
69 minutes: Spain's best chance of the match quickly follows as Navas crosses for Villa, but sees his effort blocked by Heitinga, who had made the original mistake to let him in.
66 minutes: Perhaps a sign the Dutch are getting on top as Capdevila is forced to trip van Persie and sees yellow.
GRAAAAAAANDE IKEEEEER!!!!!!. is the reaction of the Real Madrid official tweeter.
61 minutes: Golden, golden chance for the Dutch. Robben sent clean through by Sneijder and he must score but for a crucial touch by Spain keeper Casillas who sticks out his right leg to divert the ball for a corner.
60 minutes: First change of the match with Jesus Navas on for Spain in place of Pedro who has faded after a promising start.
55 minutes: Spain hearts in their mouths as Villa left writhing on the floor and John Heitinga goes into the book, number five for the Dutch.
53 minutes: Dutch captain Giovanni Van Bronckhorst marks his final game with a yellow card.
48 minutes: Puyol attacks the ball from a corner and it leaves Joan Capdevila with a chance but he fluffs his volley. Pity.
We're underway in the second half and fingers crossed for some goals and more entertainment to grace a World Cup final.
HALF-TIME: Goalless at the break in the 19th World Cup final which has seen five yellow cards with Nigel De Jong of the Netherlands lucky to still be on the pitch after a reckless challenge on Xabi Alonso.
Spain made the brighter start Sergio Ramos going close twice, but the Dutch finished the half looking a little stronger although winning few friends for their robust approach.
45 minutes: Dutch finish half on a high note as Arjen Robben's shot is tipped away by Casillas.
37 minutes: Pedro sends a shot wide after a promising attack but it's hardly a feast of attacking football.
Half an hour gone and after a promising start the 19th World Cup final is turning into an attritional battle with plenty of fouls, some unpleasant.
That's an outrageous challenge from De Jong. He's lucky to still be on the pitch. Alonso is lucky not to have cracked ribs, tweets a hot-under-the-collar CNN Armchair fan Matt Booth.
How is de Jong not sent off there?? Reckless challenge.. Again..tweets Stuart Holden and as a Premier League player with Bolton he should know.
27 minutes: How is de Jong not sent off there?? Reckless challenge.. Again.. Nigel De Jong takes out Alonso with a chest-high tackle and like van Bommel might have seen red on another day. Reckless.
22 minutes: Now Ramos has gone into the book for a sliding tackle on Kuyt. 2-2 on cards.
21 minutes: Mark van Bommel clatters into Andres Iniesta and is perhaps lucky just to escape with a yellow card.
17 minutes: Wesley Sneijder into action for first time with a low shot which might have tested Iker Casillas who safely gathers.
16 minutes: Spain central defender Carles Puyol joins van Persie in Howard Webb's book.
14 minutes: Further sign of Dutch frustration as Robin van Persie booked for a clumsy tackle.
10 minutes: Ramos waltzes down the Dutch right and sends in a vicious cross shot which is cleared for a corner and in the follow up Xabi Alonso's cross finds David Villa who shoots into the sidenetting.
Looks like the jubilani for the final has gold rings instead of green and red. I wonder if this one works any better? CNN's armchair fan Matt Booth tweets rather cynically !
Seven minutes: First shot of the match for the Dutch - a long-range effort from Dirk Kuyt but Spain look the more menacing side by far.
Four minutes: Spain nearly take an early lead as Sergio Ramos sees his header tipped away by Maarten Stekelenburg.
Teams are out the anthems have been played. Now let's get down to the action.
Nelson Mandela is in the crowd. WOW tweets CNN's Ben Wyatt.
Latest team news: European champions Spain left star striker Fernando Torres on the bench for the World Cup final against Holland as coach Vicente Del Bosque opted for the same starting line-up that beat Germany in the semifinals.
Young Barcelona winger Pedro will play up front again alongside the prolific David Villa.
As expected, the Dutch made two changes to their side from the one that beat Uruguay in their semi-final.
Ajax right-back Gregory van der Wiel and defensive midfielder Nigel de Jong, who both missed the win over Uruguay, returned after serving one-match suspensions.


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Robert Zemeckis interview: Welcome To Marwen, trailers, getting movies made
Robert Zemeckis chats to us about Welcome To Marwen, distilling his films to a trailer, the movie press, and Blockbuster Video...
By Simon Brew | July 17, 2018 |
This doesn't usually happen. Ahead of the release of a new trailer for his next film, Welcome To Marwen, director Robert Zemeckis rang us up in theWest Midlands to talk about the movie. Directors coming out to bat for their film when it's at the trailer stage is very rare, yet alone a filmmaker of Zemeckis' pedigree. And yet Welcome To Marwen looks a terrific, delicate film.
It's based on both a horrific and subsequently heartwarming true story, and the fresh trailer for the film lands later today, and we'll add it here when we get it.
But I wanted to thus talk to Mr Zemeckis about how to shape the promotion for the film, how to get such an unHollywood film made in Hollywood, and the difficulties of getting it through the system.
And you know what? I did.
Before we begin, here's that trailer…
And here's our chat…
I'm intrigued by this, to be able to have a chat about promoting a film, months before it arrives. I'm a trailer avoider as a rule, and I'm curious how hard you find it to get across the tone and feel of your film in a movie trailer?
[Laughs] It's really hard, it's really hard. I have to say that the marketing department and the trailer department – who designed this trailer – did a really great job. And listen, it's an art form that I personally don't understand. So I'm sort of the last person… for a lot of reasons! I'm the one person on the entire Earth with zero objectivity about any of this.
I look at the trailer and I'm astounded. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a negative way, as to what their thinking is, the way to sell a movie. But it's always difficult when you're doing a movie that's first of all original, and secondly deals with very complex emotional things, wrapped in an outrageous fantasy.
Yes, this is a tall order for any marketing department, let me put it that way.
You talked to my colleague when you were promoting The Walk, and one of the conversations you had was about how the sophistication of what we're allowed to see in cinemas has regressed slightly, counter to what we're allowed to see on television. Yet this project from what I can see seems to fly completely contrary to that?
Yes. It is, it is. I am so grateful that I was able to get it made.
What is it that gets that made? I remember interviewing David Fincher about making Benjamin Button once, and he argued that it took the determination of someone pushing a rock up a hill to get that film shot. Is that what it took for you with this?
Yeah. I pushed the rock way up the hill, and then Donna Langley, head of Universal Pictures, helped me push it all the way up. It was her courage, and enthusiasm for the project, that got it made. I mean, you don't see this very often these days, this kind of movie.
Who, then, do you target the film at? Are you aiming for a grown-up adult audience? Or given the themes in the film, do you want a broad audience to see that?
Right. I will tell you that all ages – obviously not really young children – will enjoy this movie. But how it's marketed? Again, that's another whole artform. One of the things that has happened, and I think it's detrimental to movies but it is what it is, the media seems compelled to have to put all films into categories. Back in the day when we used to have… I guess you had Blockbuster Video?
We did! It used to be Ritz, then Blockbuster bought them up!
Well, they never knew which shelf to put my movies on! They didn't know whether it should be on the comedy shelf, the science fiction shelf. They never knew. I always liked that. And this is one of those! You don't know which shelf to put it on. It doesn't detract from the movie one bit, but it is a difficult one. But I believe that males and females, young and old, will enjoy this film.
Appreciating that I'm pulling the trapdoor on myself a little bit, one of my frustrations with modern cinema is that you now have a fairly feral movie press, that's looking to knock things down to a list, or a two-dimensional article, or a quick 200 words, rather than lengthy discourse.
Do you feel that's to the detriment of getting films like Welcome To Marwen made?
100%. 100%. Because the film has to be… not only does the film have to be presented to the audience once it's finished that way, but filmmakers have to pitch movies that way now.
I wrote a longform lookback at Contact once. And every time I push that out, it's evident the huge affection for the film, and how much people want to talk about it. But I remember the narrative around the film's release was box office, how much profit did it make? That narrative has changed since. But do you get that sense from your older movies, and does that give you confidence in choosing what to tackle?
So far, I've always been able to never try to… well, I ask myself two questions when making a film. Is this a movie that I would like to see? And then do I think that anyone else would like to see?. If the answer to both those questions is yes, then I go forward.
Someone said, I think it was Truffaut, that every filmmaker's next movie is a direct reaction to the film they've just made. There may be something of that in there! I don't know. I'm just grateful that I can continue to make movies that are unique, different and are film stories. Stories that are best told in this medium.
With this story, I'm conscious it's based on a documentary that originally told the true story. I'm guessing the documentary was where you encountered it first?
I did, I did. I watched the documentary and I instantly saw the potential of this being a movie, and how I could take everything that was beautiful in the documentary, and expand and present it in a way that could only tell the story like this as a movie. I called Donna Langley the next day after I saw it, and said we have to buy it. We have to make this a movie.
And that was, what, 2013?
Eight years ago! It was a lot of pushing up the hill. A long journey!
I remember when Clint Eastwood made Unforgiven. And one of the stories that he told in interviews was that he had to wait for the film to fit him. That he sat on the script for a decade or so before making the film. He had the tools as a filmmaker to make the story, but wasn't necessarily ready as an individual. Do you find anything like that impacts the kind of stories you want to tell?
Yeah, well everybody changes. Everybody evolves. I'm very fortunate that in my career, I haven't had to tell the same story over and over again. I know that I'm pretty unique in that, and that there are very few of us. I appreciate that personally because I love all films of all genres if they're good. Maybe there's a restlessness in me that's always tried something different.
I do think it's true. I think filmmakers have a project and they put it away until their ready. My favourite… ah, who said this… someone said that the reason a director is attracted to a project is like a love affair. It's like both of you have to be at the same place at the same time, and if one of you is off by a few seconds, you become ships that pass in the night. It's a little bit like that. You can't really grind it down too much.
Humanity is the key thing for me about your films, strong human stories, no matter what technique you're using to tell the story. Is that what you actively look for, as much a writer as a director?
Oh yeah. I've always looked to that. I don't know how to make a film if I don't know what the emotional human journey is. I don't know how to do it. I don't know what to do!
You've been working with an awful lot of actor-directors over your career. Your lead here though is Steve Carell, a hugely versatile actor. What led you to him, and soon did you find him?
Well, he brings everything that I needed for the character to it. He has this what we call everyman quality, but he can also deliver… he doesn't have a typical leading man thing. He's a magnificent actor who brings pathos and emotion to the piece, but he also has this fantastic background in comedy. He can do all the swagger when it's needed. He can make that delicious. He was my first choice, he read the script, and he signed on instantly. It was perfect for me!
One of the reasons I asked that was I was curious if you were specifically looking for someone who could bring comedy to something hugely serious? That it's comedy that makes horrific things in life bearable?
Yeah. Certainly. I also think that one of the things that is missing in current cinema is… filmmakers seem to be terrified to put any kind of comedy in drama. I find that makes the experience entertaining. The great thing about comedy is that it's truth. Nothing is funny if it's not the truth. Comedy is a fantastic tool to use in a story that's deeply emotional.
I find, also going against the current trend, that you're a hugely measured filmmaker when it comes to sound. That you put beats and pauses in your stories. You use silence to real effect. Have you woven that in here too?
I don't really have an answer to that – I'm going to go home and think about that now! [Laughs] I don't pay specific attention to that when I'm making the movie. I sort of feel it.
How close, then, is the film as it stands to the story you discovered eight years ago?
The movie is very much truthfully inspired by the original events, but it's not by any means exactly. The correct phrase would be that the story is inspired by events!
Robert Zemeckis, thank you very much.
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Ackerman & Co. Represents the City of Morrow's Urban Redevelopment Agency in the Sale of a 46,185 SF Business Center
Ackerman SVPs Sean Patrick and Steve Langford broker the sale of the multi-tenant office property located near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
"It was great working with the City of Morrow. We appreciated City Manager Sylvia Redic's results-oriented approach in identifying different options to get this deal done." Sean Patrick, Ackerman & Co
ATLANTA, GA, February 07, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ackerman & Co. has brokered the sale of Morrow Executive Center, a 46,185-square-foot office building located in the heart of the city of Morrow, Ga., south of downtown Atlanta. Senior Vice Presidents Sean Patrick and Steve Langford represented the City's Urban Redevelopment Agency In the sale of the multi-tenant property to a private Atlanta investor. The price was not disclosed.
"We were successful in stabilizing Morrow Executive Center by boosting occupancy, providing the buyer the opportunity to take advantage of additional upside through further lease-up," said Steve Langford.
Added Sean Patrick, "It was great working with the City of Morrow. We appreciated City Manager Sylvia Redic's results-oriented approach in identifying different options to get this deal done."
Located at 1115 Mt. Zion Road and offering a combination of executive suites and general office space, the single-story office building is located less than half a mile from Southlake Mall and gives tenants convenient access to Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, roughly 10 minutes away.
The wide mix of tenants in the building includes MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority), Primerica and numerous professional services firms and medical practices.
About Ackerman & Co.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Ackerman & Co. is a privately held, full-service commercial real estate firm focused on providing quality investment, brokerage, management and development services in the Southeast. The company, founded in 1967, retains an expert team of more than 100 real estate professionals. To date, Ackerman & Co. has developed and acquired more than 37 million square feet of office, medical, industrial, retail and mixed-use space, has nearly 8 million square feet under management and maintains an investment portfolio valued at $1 billion. For more information, visit www.ackermanco.com
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Your quoting is so interesting..love seeing what you ar up to.
Your quilting, above all others, is a peaceful sort of Zen. It's not too busy, not too formal, and just the right amount of whimsical. I aspire to quilt like you, and love your craftsy classes. Thanks for my morning moment of calm!
You expressed this very well, and I'm encouraged also. You are right... being artistic is being vulnerable, and most of us don't like that feeling. Living with it is also describes faith.
My hubby is working this week in Portland, doubtful for the 28, but if that happens, I hope I can go with him and be in your class! How cool that would be!
Well said, everything you said in this post, you said so beautifully and truthfully, and your understanding of going toward the uncertainty and being open is what leads to beauty - in life and art. Your quilts show this trust in the process of life. It's what I love most about art - art teaches us how to live in the uncertainty and trust.
I felt the same way about my quilting. I never thought I would be able to do it but with practice is comes along and I surprise myself with the results that I get.
"Uncertainty becomes beauty" You expressed what artistic quilting means so well Christina. I've been learning about that feeling too, of swimming out too deep and being half frightened / half exhilarated. A bunch of us in the Ad Hoc Improv Group have been discussing how improv quilting makes us feel and so I can relate completely to what you are saying.
I love all your insights- life is about a balance of families, work and self. It's not a out the finishes- it's about the journey I wish I was in Portland to take your class too !!!
I wish I were in Portland ... I love your work and completely identify with your statement that without uncertainty, it doesn't feel like art. Sometimes I feel like making a quilt from someone else's pattern is too predictable. I know how it's going to turn out and because I'm making few decisions, it feels to me more like home deco sewing than making art ... even when the end result is quite beautiful.
I'm glad that you have an outlet for your creativity to balance the rigidness of your job, and I'm glad that you share it with us. I've been feeling a little crumby lately and I think its from not doing anything creative for ages (or at least doing something creative would help balance things).
I love the class! I practiced and planned 2 quilts while watching. It is an awesome way to quilt freehand. The explanations are simplified and invaluable!


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Forza Street is a racing game based on a free-to-play model. Fun comes down to competing in illegal street competitions and getting better and better cars and parts. The game is played using a simplified control system.
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developer: Electric Square / Turn 10 Studios
publisher: Xbox Game Studios / Microsoft Studios
Game mode: single player
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Forza Street is a racing game based on a free-to-play model with microtransactions. This is a spin-off to the Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon series. The game was developed by the British studio Electric Square, a sister company to Studio Gobo, which helped to produce projects such as Disney Infinity and For Honor.
Forza Street focuses on illegal sports car racing in the streets of Miami. The control system is greatly simplified. Players have no control over the steering wheel and only decide when to use the gas, brake, and nitro.
Successful competition unlocks new cars and parts, which in turn allows you to compete in more demanding competitions. The authors have obtained licenses from the largest car manufacturers, so all the machines in the game faithfully reproduce the actual models.
Forza Street offers a variety of challenges. Players can take part in both short races and competitions that take hours to complete. There's also a story mode available that tells the story of an ambitious driver trying to get a high position in the Miami car underworld.
The game has pleasant to one's eye three-dimensional visuals. It's no match for the latest developments in the Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon series, but Forza Street looks good on the eye.
The game is not exactly a new production. Forza Street is a recast version of released in 2019 Miami Street. Apart from changing the brand, the authors have expanded the game content and introduced many improvements. However, the foundations of the game remained the same.
Miami Street
Asphalt Street Storm Racing
age requirements: everyone
graphic card 1 GB GeForce GTX 460 or better
Free-to-play Racing Game Forza Street Launches
news 16 April 2019 12:31
Microsoft Store put up the racing game Forza Street. So far the game is available only on PC, but a mobile version is underway.
The New Forza Might be a Mobile Game
news 04 March 2019 23:04
Brian Ekberg from Turn 10 Studios might have accidentally revealed the new Forza game. If the latest revelations turn out to be true, Forza Street may be coming to mobile platforms.
Free Forza Street Launches on Android and iOS
news 05 May 2020 20:51
Forza Street launched today on mobile devices. For the next month, we will receive valuable gifts for logging in to this free game, especially if we have a Samsung Galaxy.
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Q: Find how many balls in the drawer if conditional probability of selecting two red balls are 3/4 There are $n$ balls in a drawer, of which $7$ are red. If $2$ balls are chosen randomly, then the probability that both are red is $\frac{3}{4}$. Find $n$.
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$P(E|F) = \frac{3}{4}$
$\textit{The number of possible ways there can be two red balls out of 7 balls in the drawer} = P(7,2) = 42$
$P(E \cap F) = \frac{42}{n}$
I'm unable to proceed beyond this. I've arrived at the answer as $56$ by diving $\frac{42}{\frac{3}{4}}$ and it is wrong!

A: IMO you didn't need conditional probability for this, GIVEN that you're selecting both balls at once and not one by one. Then you need to solve $$\frac{\binom{7}{2}}{\binom{n}{2}}=\frac 34$$ or $$\frac{21}{\frac{n(n-1)}{2}}=\frac 34$$ so that $\displaystyle n(n-1)=56$ and $$n=8.$$
Note:$\displaystyle\binom{n}{k}=C(n,k)=\ ^nC_k.$


Apologies for the radio silence over here, folks. It's been a crazy week or so — getting that draft of a chunk of the first chapter of my dissertation "ready" for a departmental colloquium happening later this week, teaching, and even a research trip (which, happily, meant not just super busy days at the archive, but also time spent hanging out with Mick of Much-Adored).
The only pictures I've been taking lately have been of documents, but that doesn't mean I haven't been knitting — and I've got significant progress on my Lilac Wine cowl to prove it. I thought the 1×1 rib of this pattern would be annoying to knit, but instead I'm finding it incredibly soothing. It goes slower than stockinette, of course, but I don't think I mind!
Here it is on a pile of books I should read. (For scale.) I can't believe it is already almost mid-April. More soon!
Which, incidentally, also describes my back pain: floating down in intensity. I've got a massage scheduled for as soon as I'm done teaching tomorrow morning, and that should make it a lot better. Thank you for all of your kind comments. I've been trying to take it easy while still getting my work done. It's going to be another busy week… (I feel like I've been saying that a lot this semester!) Anyway, do you want to see some handspun?
This is Hello Yarn 75% BFL/25% Tussah Silk in Floating Down, spun as singles. I ended up with just over 400 yards of this delicious stuff. What should I make?
We also saw this Great Blue Heron. Boh and Madigan were too busy focusing on all the Canadian Geese to notice.
I got sorrel in my CSA box this week, and sauteed it with butter and onions and leftover rice. It was delicious.
And last night, I made a big batch of Heidi's Millet Fried Rice, from Super Natural Cooking. I'd forgotten how much I like millet — and how much I like this recipe. Basically, you cook the millet, and when that's almost done, you make a super thin egg pancake, by melting butter with some toasted sesame oil in a large pan, beating a couple of eggs as if to make an omelette, and then pouring in the egg. You swirl the eggs around to get a really thin layer, and then fold the eggs over on themselves once they are cooked enough to let you do that. Shortly after that, you remove the egg from the pan, and then stirfry whatever veggies you're using in a super hot pan, and then you add the millet, some soy sauce, and then you slice the egg pancake into strips and add that, too. I topped mine with onion sprouts and some canned roasted red pepper, both from my spring CSA box. I might have eaten this for lunch and dinner today, too.
Also, last night was Earth Hour, and I participated by turning off as much electricity as possible in my home, and lighting some candles to read by. While I believe that lifestyle activism on its own isn't enough, I like doing this, and it is nice to remind myself how much I enjoy turning everything off for awhile. I certainly recognize my own privilege in all of this –and that not everyone has the power to make this choice. Still, this is about mindfulness for me. I didn't really plan ahead, in terms of what I might read, so I was scrambling for something as the official time approached.
I ended up spending part of my hour reading some Mary Oliver poems. The book I'm teaching this week opens with Oliver's "Wild Geese" as the epigraph, which I read to my students on Wednesday. It begins, "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees/ For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting." It was nice to read it by candlelight.
Looks like today's photos are all in pairs. I like it. Also, Happy April!


Aleksandr Shoshin was also a draughts (checkers) player.
Alain C. White learnt the game of chess at 5 and composed his first problem at 11. In 1914 he founded the Good Companions Club, to which all well-known problemists belonged.
A.C. White collected chess problems: at 12 he had inherited a collection of 5000 threemovers and until the 1930s the collection had expanded to over 250,000 problems and was taken over by George Hume.
He was the initiator of the famous Christmas series, not less than 44 volumes published at the rate of one per Christmas and sent free of charge to problemists worldwide. He also wrote "Les mille et un Mats Inverses"(1907); "The Theory of Pawn Promotion" (1912); "Le problème d'échecs" with Georges Renaud in 1924. With New-York banker Frank Altschul he also published 8 beautiful chess problems books (the "Overbook Press" collection, 1941-1945) in limited editions: for instance, "Mansfield's Adventures In Composition -The Art of the Two Move Chess Problem" at 400 copies.
Most of Alain C. White's books can be downloaded from Vaclav Kotesovec's wonderful website.
The introductions of the some of the books of the Christmas Series have been put online by a French enthusiast.
About Alain C.White's nonprofit Foundation and legacy, you may read in the New York Times.
Zugzwang, battery mates, active white King.
Gamage, pin mate, black Pelle move.
Birnov was a direct mate and especially endgame studies composer.
4. Rg1 Bg5 5. Rxg5+ d5+!
Achim Schöneberg is a helpmate and fairy composer. You may remember his Isardam helpmate composed with Manfred Rittirsch - see 1st March or directly on YACPDB.
Alan White's dedication problem to Eaton originally had a much better key 1. e6-e7! (so the above is a "v") with the WR already on d2. The task is impressive, but with the key 1. e7! it would have been a phenomenal problem, in my opinion. I tried though, and even with computer help, my limited abilities could not restore that key. Maybe someone else would like to try to restore White's original intent?
Birnov's study was build on a previous idea shown by Kasparian in 1936.


Members of Car Hill's school orchestra spent the day in Manchester alongside other schools taking part in an innovative in-schools programme, run by Orchestra for All, which supports schools and community groups to run ensembles.
The programme takes place regionally and nationally twice a year and the events offer students the opportunity to form a part of a large scale symphony orchestra. The programme invites pupils to attend regardless of their level of skill or instruments available.
Carr Hill students have been attending the events for a number of years and each time students gain so much from playing with musicians from other schools in a much larger group than they have experienced before. This year, 13 students, from a range of year groups, attended the event and played a range of brass, string and woodwind instruments.


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