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August 2021 Partner News Round-up
Partner News Round-Up
A collection of campaign stories captured and curated by Linksbridge SPC
Côte d'Ivoire launched an Ebola vaccination campaign on August 16 for high-risk populations—including health workers and first responders—in Abidjan, just two days after declaring an outbreak. Vaccine doses secured by WHO to fight the filovirus in neighboring Guinea earlier this year were quickly sent to Côte d'Ivoire, including 2,000 doses of Merck's rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine for a "ring strategy" deployment and 3,000 doses of J&J's product to be used to boost preventative vaccination in areas not experiencing active transmission. WHO
Madagascar launched a national malaria bed net distribution campaign on August 24, aiming to deliver over 15 million long-lasting insecticide-treated nets in 101 districts, protecting over 22 million people. Madagascar MoH
Spotlight on Covid-19 Campaigns
India is racing to stave off a third wave of infections as it continues the world's largest Covid-19 vaccination drive, aiming to inoculate its entire population by the end of the year. The country has administered more than 600 million doses since January, and for the past month, has given on average 5.3 million jabs a day—far less than the estimated 10 million-plus daily doses needed to meet its end 2021 goal. About 57,000 centers, mostly state-run, are offering shots, but people can also pay for doses at private facilities. BBC
Countries are considering mixing and matching different vaccines for second doses or booster shots in response to supply delays and safety concerns that have slowed Covid-19 vaccination campaigns. On August 1, Cambodia began to offer a booster shot of AstraZeneca's vaccine for people fully inoculated with Sinovac's and vice versa. Turkey, in mid-August, started to allow people vaccinated with Sinovac's jab to receive an additional Pfizer-made dose as the country looks to ease residents' travel to countries that have not approved the Chinese product. And Indonesia is considering offering a third booster dose to healthcare workers immunized with Sinovac's vaccine, since thousands of them are testing positive for Covid-19. Reuters
Several Nigerian states conducted a coordinated polio outbreak response campaign July 31-August 4 to curtail the spread of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDP2). Kano state reached 3,297,347 children under age 5 with novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) drops, and Abia state vaccinated 1,077,562 children in 10,934 communities from 17 local government areas (LGAs). WHO Nigeria; WHO Nigeria
Nigeria's Bauchi state conducted the first part of a reactive oral cholera vaccination campaign in July, in a bid to curb the ongoing outbreak that has affected 19 of the 20 LGAs. The five-day exercise (which ended July 28) administered OCV drops to 710,212 people age 1 and above. WHO Nigeria
Gambia is "preparing for at least two massive supplementary polio vaccination rounds" in response to a recent polio outbreak. Each campaign round will target 382,908 children under age 5, aiming to vaccinate all under-5 children in Gambia. The country declared a public health emergency on August 18 after two cases of poliovirus type 2 were found in environmental sewage samples in Banjul and Kotu. The Voice; Africanews
Local Campaigns
Pakistan's polio subnational immunization days event kicked off on August 2, aiming to reach more than 23.6 million children in 68 districts of all four provinces. Approximately 179,000 health workers will go house-to-house to administer the vaccinations. The beginning of the campaign was marked with several instances of violence, with police officers assigned to protect polio vaccination teams killed or wounded in the Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and South Waziristan districts. Pakistan MoH; AP News
India's Jharkhand state ran a mass drug administration (MDA) drive against filariasis August 23-27, targeting 17.8 million people in 12 districts. 11 districts (Chatra, Dumka, East Singhbhum, Garhwa, Giridih, Godda, Hazaribag, Khunti, Lohardaga, Ranchi, West Singhbhum) distributed the two-drug regimen of diethylcarbamazine citrate and albendazole (DA), and the district of Simdega (as part of a pilot project) dispensed a triple-drug regimen of ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine citrate, and albendazole (IDA). The Telegraph; Times of India
Ghana is conducting its biannual mass drug administration campaign against onchocerciasis August 23-September 3, targeting 4,740,039 people in 66 endemic districts across 13 regions (Ahafo, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Eastern, North East, Northern, Oti, Savannah, Upper East, Upper West, Western, and Western North.) Ghana Health Service; Graphic Online
Sierra Leone kicked off a subnational polio immunization drive August 27, targeting 520,000 children under age 5 with nOPV drops. During the four-day mop-up campaign, frontline health workers went house-to-house in the Tonkolili, Western Area Urban, and Western Area Rural districts. WHO Sierra Leone
Uganda's National Medical Stores (NMS) ran a yellow fever vaccination drive for people ages 9 months to 59 years at the Mayor's Gardens in Katabi, Entebbe from August 19-30. The fixed site drew an estimated 40,000 residents from Entebbe and the nearby suburbs, with the campaign extended from August 23 to August 30 due to high demand. PML Daily
Uganda plans to run a nationwide polio immunization campaign in October and December, with health workers going house-to-house to reach all children age 5 and under. The government declared a public health emergency on August 17, following confirmation of positive cVDPV2 environmental samples from Kampala. Uganda MoH
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched a measles vaccination campaign in the Jebel Marra region in South Darfur, Sudan earlier in August. MSF aims to vaccinate 95% of children ages 9 months-15 years against measles, as well as administer vitamin A supplements, across six strategic locations across South Jebel Marra: Tore, Dilli, Koya, Tale/Motor, Torung Tonga and Gulangbang. Due to the local political situation, the isolated and mountainous area has not been accessible for routine national immunization campaigns for many years. MSF


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Q: Average speed of train Distance between two stations $A$ and $B$ is $778$km. A train covers the journey from $A$ to $B$ at a uniform speed of $84$km per hour and returns back to $A$ with a uniform speed of $56$km per hour. Find the average speed of the train during the whole journey?
The correct answer is:

Let distance between $A$ and $B$ be $x$
Time taken for travelling from $A$ to $B$ is $\frac{x}{84}$
Time taken for travelling from $B$ to $A$ is $\frac{x}{56}$
Total distance travelled is $x+x=2x$
Total time taken is $\frac{x}{84}+\frac{x}{56}$
Average speed is $67.2$

I know speed is distace/time and
I dont know if it may sound stupid but
what i thought of was
$$avg=\frac{\text{speed}_1+\text{speed}_2}{2} \tag{This is how we calculate average}$$
$$\frac{84+56}{2}=70$$
why is it giving wrong answer?
Also do I need to revise my physics concepts or maths or both?

A: An average speed is a ratio of a distance travelled to a travelling time.
An average distance in the first pass is $v_1 = s/t_1$ and an average speed in the returning pass on the same distance is $v_2 = s/t_2$.
The average speed on the whole travel is a total distance to total time used:
$$v=\frac{s+s}{t_1+t_2}$$
which results in:
$$v = \frac 2{\frac{t_1+t_2}s}
=\frac 2{\frac {t_1} s+\frac {t_2} s}=\frac 2{\frac 1{v_1}+\frac 1{v_2}}$$

A: The formula for the average speed is:  $Average Speed= \frac{Total Distance}{Total Time}$
To obtain the total distance you simply add the distances. $778+778$.
Then, you must obtain the total time.
That's where the "Time taken for travelling from B to A" in your solution comes in.
Since you have the average speed in kilometers per hour, if you divide the total speed by the average speed, you will find out how many hours it took to travel that distance, so:
$\frac{778}{56} = 13.89$ and $\frac{778}{84}=9.26$
Adding the total hours and using the average speed formula, you obtain: $Average Speed = \frac{1556}{23.15}=67.2$
In your answer you simply took the average of the speed averages, but not the average speed for the journey.
So, you added $56=\frac{778}{13.89}$ and $84=\frac{778}{9.26}$
$\frac{778}{13.89}+\frac{778}{9.26} = \frac{778*13.89 + 778*9.26}{13.89*9.26} = \frac{18010.7}{128.6214} = 140$
Then, dividing it by $2$, you obtained 70.
What you should have done was simply adding: $\frac{778+778}{13.89+9.26} = \frac{1556}{23.15} = 67.2$

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Towards a General Strike from Below
Submitted by Khawaga on Jun 29 2018 19:33
Autonomous Revolutionary Nordic Alliance's call for a strike from below against the Swedish government's move to restrict the right to strike
1733: The Slave Rebellion of St.John
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 15 2017 23:48
The island of St.John was a Danish colony, in 1733 a group of Akwamu slaves rebelled and successfully captured the island and held it for several months. However their plan was to replace the Danish as masters of the island and to keep the non Akwamu Africans as slaves. As a result many slaves actively sided with the colonial powers that eventually defeated the Akwamu.
Appeal on behalf on an oppressed human variety - Kurt Hiller
Classic speech against gay oppression written by Kurt Hiller for the Second International Congress for Sexual Reform in Copenhagen in 1928, which was translated by the Marxist cell within the Gay Liberation Front and published in 1970.
International Council Correspondence Volume 1, Number 12
The Volume 1, Number 12 (October 1935) issue of International Council Correspondence.
A biographical sketch of Edgar Bauer (1820-1886)
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From cyber vigilantes to corporate thugs: Hackers back up employers in union conflict
Submitted by ronan on Jul 24 2012 21:58
The owners of Restaurant Vejlegaarden in Vejle in Denmark have received support from an unlikely quarter as hackers from across the world have organised to attack the restaurant's opponents in a union conflict. Anonymous have issued a statement distancing themselves from the hack (see comments below).
Carlsberg workers walk off job to retain right to drink beer at work
Submitted by Chilli Sauce on Apr 9 2010 09:09
On April 8 2010, 800 Carlsberg factory workers walked off the job after new management policies tighten restrictions on beer drinking at work. Carlsberg's truck drivers have followed in sympathy.
1998: Danish private sector strike
Submitted by Alex... on Jan 27 2008 22:22
A short history of the massive private sector strike that gripped Denmark for 10 days in 1998. Although ending after negotiations between the government and union leaders left workers demands largely unmet, the strike, involving about 10% of the Danish population was nonetheless a spectacular show of workers' strength.
Denmark: wildcat strike by cabin crew
Submitted by jef costello on Apr 25 2007 09:39
Wildcat action by 1600 air hostesses and stewards working for the airline SAS has led to the cancellation of 104 flights in and out of the Danish capital, Copenhagen.
Denmark: Cabin crews wildcat strike grounds flights
Submitted by Steven. on Mar 23 2007 15:17
More news on airline SAS in Denmark, which was forced to cancel 90 flights after cabin crews walked out in a dispute over pay.
Content about events and workers' struggles in Denmark.

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President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday admitted that Zanu PF was drawing huge crowds at rallies by bussing people, moving door-to-door and luring participants with T-shirts and other goodies.
Addressing members of the Noah Taguta-led Johane Marange apostolic church at Mafararikwa in Marange, Mnangagwa said he had never seen such a huge crowd gathered freely without being coerced or lured by goodies.
"I have never seen such a gathering in my entire life, a huge gathering of people who have freely come here on their own," he said.
"When we hold our party rallies we normally mobilise people door-to-door, some come to receive T-shirts and so on, but you came freely, I am happy.
The Zanu Pf presidential candidate has been visiting the apostolic sects, especially the Marange community. He was told by Taguta that he would win the elections on July 30.
"A lot of people yearn to have a prophet like Mutumwa Taguta in their midst, I am privileged to have been invited by him," Mnangagwa said.
He promised to assist the church in improving its environment as well as other needs before he pleaded for them to pray for him and for peaceful elections.
Taguta described former president Robert Mugabe as Samson who allowed a Delilah (Grace) to overpower him resulting in his downfall.
In the build-up to the 2013 elections, Mugabe addressed the same gathering and was assured of an election victory by the same cleric.


Organic Coconut Oil is a must for a multitude of reasons. I don't go a single day without using or eating this natural powerhouse. Read: Coconut Oil Continues To Be THE Healthy Choice, written by our Natural Nutrition Advisor, Linda Wolschlager. Enjoy your day!
Coconut oil is a versatile foodstuff and can be added to anything you fancy. It can be fried, roasted, baked or spread. It is less calorific than other oils and butters, and when used as a substitute for these you'll experience a healthier and tastier diet.
First, it's relatively inexpensive – one jar can keep you going for weeks. Second – purity (always look for organic, virgin, raw coconut oil.) Thirdly, organic, virgin, RAW coconut oil is 100% natural and it can keep for up to two years.
Why is it Good to Have Coconut Oil in Your Diet?
One of the most important facts is that the oil contains Lauric Acid (which is also found in a mother's milk). Lauric Acid is anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal.
Coconut oil doesn't go rancid and will last for at least two years.
Coconut oil uses are endless – for the skin, for the hair and nails. This versatile oil has been used in everything from acne treatments to pain relievers and from sunscreen to reducing hairballs in cats.
Are All Coconut Oils Equal?
No. The best coconut oils are organic, virgin cold pressed and raw. It's also best to buy coconut oil that is contained in glass jars, which avoids the possibility of chemicals leeching into the oil.
Other signs of quality include vegetarian, vegan and kosher certification from recognised trade bodies.
So for around the price of a good bottle of wine you can have a versatile and healthy oil as a food staple in your store cupboard, always on call.
Just an FYI, my favorite coconut oil is from Lucy Bee…they have the best stuff!
Courtesy of The Yoga Blog.


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Health Claim Regulation of Probiotics in the USA and the EU: Is There a Middle Way?
The publisher does not permit posting of the pdf. The final published version may be found at http://wageningenacademic.metapress.com/content/pjx211j41654j36n/ (DOI 10.3920?MB2012.0033).
In both the USA and Europe, supermarkets and pharmacies are brimming with probiotics—products containing live micro-organisms claiming they improve health. The availability of these products corresponds to a growing consumer demand for foods that improve or maintain health and wellness. The most persuasive include claims that consumption may confer health benefits. While some of these claims may have merit, others have not been substantiated. For a number of products, claims are based on insufficient research, underpowered studies, or mixed research results, yet individual consumers find that the product is of benefit to them. In attempting to regulate health claims, as distinct from safety, government entities may take positions which represent opposite ends of a philosophical spectrum. On one end of the spectrum they may take a limited approach to regulation relying primarily on the marketplace that respects individual autonomy and assumes a sophisticated consumer and honest sellers; alternatively they may choose substantial regulation based on a belief that consumers need protection from profit-seeking manufacturers. The USA and the European Union have taken two different approaches on this regulatory spectrum.
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Q: Spring pageContext.request.contextPath with Tomcat behind Apache as reverse proxy I run a Spring App on a remote server where is installed a Tomcat Server which give access to my app via https://mydom.com:8080/myapp.
To make my app accessible via https://mydom.com, I installed Apache and configured as reverse proxy.
This is configuration:
<VirtualHost _default_:443>

   SSLEngine On

   SSLCertificateFile /opt/ssl/mydom_com.crt
   SSLCertificateKeyFile /opt/ssl/mydom_com.key
   SSLCertificateChainFile /opt/ssl/mydom_com.ca-bundle

   BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
   SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL

   ServerName mydom.com

   ProxyRequests Off
   ProxyPreserveHost On
   ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/myapp/
   ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8080/myapp/
   ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /myapp /

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Now, I try to use ${pageContext.request.contextPath} in my jsp files to get the right links and resources path.
When I run from IDE it return /myapp, which is good.
When run on mydom.com it return /myapp, which is not good. I need to get an empty string or /.
How I can configure to get right value for ${pageContext.request.contextPath}?

A: Change your mapping from:
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/myapp/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8080/myapp/
ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /myapp /

to:
ProxyPass /myapp/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/myapp/
ProxyPassReverse /myapp/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/myapp/

And all your problems will be solved.
Trying to re-write context paths in the proxying is the #1 cause of insanity in Tomcat administrators. Just don't do it.
If you want your application available on /, then do one of these things:

*

*Re-direct / to /myapp/ and use my re-written mapping above

*Re-name your application from /myapp/ to / on the Tomcat end and fix your mapping to map / -> /
Any other configuration will be an endless cycle of band-aids, fix-ups and band-aids-to-fix-ups that you will have to apply.


1. An Agendashift-based coaching conversation: 60-120 minutes exploring the scope and goals of your Lean-Agile transformation, identifying key organisational objectives, obstacles, and outcomes. Take a mini or full-sized Agendashift assessment on your own as prework or as the focus for conversation.
2. A Transformation Mapping workshop: If you're an internal sponsor, let us help you engage your colleagues in the transformation process, agreeing scope together, debriefing your survey, generating an outline plan, beginning to dig into the detail, getting yourselves organised for success. If you're a practitioner, check out our partner programme – you could soon be using the all Agendashift tools and workshop materials yourself!
3. A longer engagement: Get regular support on site or remotely from an experienced practitioner who has been on journeys like this before, structured to give you the right combination of strategic advice, training, and hands-on coaching.
You can see these as a progression: each step a low-risk way to see what a bigger commitment might look like. The modes of delivery can differ, but the underlying models remain the same – always humane (respectful of where people are today), participatory (engaging people in the process from the outset), and refreshingly non-prescriptive.
Could Agendashift be just what you need? If you think it might, get in touch with us directly or find a partner near you.
In case you missed it: 2016's best bits. Not that we're resting on our Christmas laurels!
Our events calendar now shows Agendashift facilitator days happening every month well into 2017. These 1-day workshops are a great way for practitioners and potential sponsors to experience the Transformation Mapping workshop in a learning environment.
The calendar is somewhat UK-centric at present but we are busy fixing that. Listed already are events planned in Hamburg in February (a 2-day event in which Agendashift combines with Okaloa's Flowlab) and Oslo on April; thank you Susanne and Thorbjørn for hosting these. There are more like this in the pipeline, and get in touch if you'd like to host an event in your city.


Dr. Stanley J. Clark was welcomed into heaven by his savior, Jesus Christ, on November 19, 2018. Stan was born on September 22, 1931. He was the son of Swedish parents, Joe and Nan Clark. His family farmed in the New Gottland Community, McPherson County, Kansas their whole lives.
Stan enjoyed growing up on the farm. His least favorite chore as a child was cleaning out the chicken coop. That was a chore he frequently shared with his brother Charles. In his later years in Baldwin City, this led to a boycott on his part, to eating chicken.
As he grew up, he would ride the family bicycle to town, and hitch a ride home with one of his sisters who would have taken the family car to town for work.
Stan attended McPherson High and graduated with high honors in 1950. He was active in FFA, and a member of Student Council. He was Prom King his senior year.
Following in his older brother Maurice's footsteps, Stan attended Kansas State University. He was in the ROTC program during this time, and graduated in 1954 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force.
Stan met the love of his life while at KSU, Diana Kay Kientz. After a short courtship, they married, June 1st, 1958. Their deep love lasted a lifetime, as their 60 years of marriage, were built on their deep and abiding faith in Jesus Christ. Their testament of love continued through the last three years of Stan's life which were spent at Baldwin Care Center.
After graduation, he went to work for three months at John Deere, before going into the Air Force for three years. He served most of his time at Bryan Air Force Base, Texas, where he was an installation engineer. After leaving the Air Force as a captain, he returned to K-State to get his masters in Agricultural Engineering, which he completed in 1959.
By the time he got the call to come back to KSU to teach in 1966, Stan had also completed his doctorate in ag engineering at Purdue University and was a research engineer at Colorado State University. He continued to research and teach at KSU for 30 years. The last nine years, he was department head, and served on the faculty senate.
Although he enjoyed teaching, his real love was for research and getting grants to enable the department to do this. The energy crisis of 1973, prompted extensive testing of soybean esters as a viable diesel fuel source. Economics kept soybean oil from entering the diesel fuel market, but the research done by their department was invaluable.
His second major career accomplishment was getting a name change to the department in 1994. They changed the department name to ag technology management. This provided name recognition. They also added several programs, food and environmental engineering which opened up the field to more women.
Stan was a world traveler. He served as international consultant for agricultural engineering affairs in the Philippines, Egypt, Nigeria and India. He made many trips abroad for this purpose.
A highlight of his career was a sabbatical summer in 1970 when he worked along with other engineers at NASA, to design a space vehicle that traveled on the moon.
Stan was preceded in death by his parents and siblings, Maurice Clark, Lucille Abell, Laurine Soderstrom, Fern Malm and Anna Mae Ledy and a great granddaughter, Joanna Barber.
Survivors include his devoted wife Diana of the home, five daughters and sons-in-laws. Marvette and Lonnie Ralston, Baldwin City, Kansas, Christie and Steve Barber, Nacogdoches, Texas, Angelia and Bob Bennie, Lincoln, Nebraska, Cynthia and Jim Lowry, St. George, Kansas, Michelle Clark, Baldwin City, Kansas.
Fourteen grandchildren; Heather Staab, Derek Ralston, Holly Rickner, Jason Barber, Allison Hayes, Ashton Barber, Jake Bennie, Jessica Hahn, Sadie Collet, Sam Bennie, Roni Bradley, Jimmy Lowry, Joey Lowry, and Grace Lowry.
Eleven great grandchildren; Trenton Reamer, Dayton Staab, Elin Staab, Kristen Bradley, Ezekiel Bradley, Genevieve Bradley, Catherine Bradley, Oaklee Rickner, Caroline Hayes, Anne Collet, Luke Barber.
The funeral will be held 11:00 am on Saturday, November 24 at New Gottland Covenant Church, 1700 Pawnee Rd., Rural McPherson with Pastor Richard Austin officiating. Burial will be in New Gottland Cemetery. Visitation will be at the church,from 9:00 a.m. until the time of the service.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Lighthouse Baptist Church of Baldwin, or to Gideons International. Memorial contributions may sent in care of Crick-Christians Funeral Home, 103 N. Washington, Lindsborg, KS 67456.


It can be tough to find the mutations responsible for turning a normal cell cancerous. By the time a tumor has been diagnosed and analyzed, its cells have undergone many, many rounds of DNA replication and division - likely accumulating mutations all the while. But oncogenes (mutated versions of normal genes often associated with cell division) have been identified as the smoking gun in many cancers, some are viewed as attractive targets for cancer therapies because their effects on cell growth appear so pervasive.
In 2000, Alizadeh showed that cancer cells from patients with diffuse B-cell lymphoma fall into two subsets when categorized by their gene expression profiles. One, the germinal center B-cell like (or GCB-like) subset has a much better prognosis than the other, which more closely resembles the gene profile seen in activated B-cells (ABC-like). But the basis of the prognostic differences between the two groups has not been known.
In the new study, which was published this week in Nature Communications (subscription required), Alizadeh and Green investigate the role of an oncogene called Bcl6 in diffuse B cell lymphoma. Their research suggests that, in at least one of the subcategories of this type of lymphoma, the reliance on the Bcl6 oncogene is limited to very early stages of development, before the cells themselves had completely matured.
This work adds to growing evidence that the two subtypes of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, which have very different clinical outcomes, may in fact be two genetically distinct diseases. There were also a number of surprises in this project. In particular, the notion that expression of an oncogene for a limited period in a stem cell is capable of reprogramming those cells towards becoming cancer at a later stage of development is a completely new paradigm. Now we have to ask ourselves whether we should be thinking differently about how lymphoma, and maybe cancer in general, evolves.
The results from this study clearly illustrate that, if cancers can result via "hit-and-run" oncogenesis, oncogenes that initiate tumor formation might be dispensable for tumor cell survival and/or tumor progression. In this context, mutations that activate oncogenes would have a driving role in the tumorigenic process, but may act as passenger mutations thereafter, or may have a secondary role in evolved tumor cell clones. This may provide an explanation for the failure of some modern targeted therapies to clear tumor progenitor cells, despite being effective agents against evolved tumor cells. As a consequence, targeted treatment strategies may need to be altered to accommodate combinations of agents that target oncogenic pathways that are active at both the early and late stages of tumor development.
Their research was conducted in collaboration with researchers in the laboratory of Isidro Sanchez-Garcia, MD, PhD at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca in Spain.


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Courts, Lawyering, Politics	 April 13, 2019 April 12, 2019
Federal Judge Attacks Trump As Adopting The Same Rhetoric and Tactics As The KKK
There is a controversy out of the University of Virginia where federal Judge Carlton Reeves gave a scathing speech against President Donald Trump — likening his conduct to that of the Kl Klux Klan and segregationists from the Jim Crow period. The speech (accepting an award) raising troubling issues about Reeves engaging in political speech in violation of core judicial ethical rules.
A U.S. District Court Judge of the Southern District of Mississippi, Reeves is an Obama appointee from 2010. He was receiving the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law at the University of Virginia and gave a 16-page speech with 130 footnotes.
In the speech, Reeves takes thinly veiled swipes at Trump, using his unmistakable tweets to make historical comparative points:
"When politicians attack courts as 'dangerous,' 'political,' and guilty of 'egregious overreach,' you can hear the Klan's lawyers, assailing officers of the court across the South. When leaders chastise people for merely 'using the courts,' you can hear the Citizens Council, hammering up the names of black petitioners in Yazoo City."
I have previously denounced those same attacks by Trump on the courts. However, I am a legal commentator, not a sitting federal judge. Thus, the issue is not the merits but the messenger.
The most basic canons of judicial ethics dictate that judges avoid political activities and positions:
A judge shall uphold and promote the independence, integrity, and impartiality of the judiciary, and shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety.
A judge shall conduct the judge's personal and extrajudicial activities to minimize the risk of conflict with the obligations of judicial office.
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Most judges would not give such a speech that ventured so deeply into the political debate. Reeves had justifiable anger over Trump's attacks — a view shared privately with me by many judges. However, Reeves made the comments publicly:
"When the powerful accuse courts of 'opening up our country to potential terrorists,' you can hear the Southern Manifesto's authors, smearing the judiciary for simply upholding the rights of black folk. When lawmakers say 'we should get rid of judges,' you can hear segregationist Senators, writing bills to strip courts of their power."
While some may cite the recent statement of Chief Justice John Roberts to show that judges cannot be expected to remain silent in the face of acts on the courts. I do not agree. I previously wrote about the Roberts controversy. First, and foremost, Roberts' statement was essentially one line confined to the rejecting the notion of Democratic and Republican judges. Reeves went far beyond that.
Second, this was a speech at a public event that addressed objections to the conduct and comments of a sitting president. Reeves clearly was denouncing the President's views and rhetoric.
Finally, Reeves tied the President's comments directly to threats and insults directed at himself personally:
"I know, because I am there. The proof is in my mailbox. In countless letters of hatred I've been called 'piece of garbage,' 'an arrogant pompous piece of s…, 'a disgrace,' an 'asshole…(who) will burn in hell,' and the 'embodiment of Satan himself.'"
He also ventured into judicial appointments — again an area of politics that most judge avoid: "Justice (Sonia) Sotomayor was originally a George H.W. Bush appointee. And the last Republican administration confirmed 24 black judges," Reeves said. "This administration has confirmed one."
The controversy is disappointing given Reeve's moving personal story. Reeves was the first in his family to attend a four-year college. He graduated in 1986 magna cum laude from Jackson State University and then attended the University of Virginia School of Law as a Ritter Scholar. When Reeves was a teenager, he cleaned the office of Judge William Henry Barbour, Jr.
The comments are, in my view, clearly inappropriate for a sitting federal judge. It is the price that must be paid for an Article III lifetime appointment as a federal judge. Judges must accept that their political views must remain private and their activities strictly apolitical. That standard was not met in this instance.
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While businesses bemoan the labor shortage, economists appear unconcerned. Is there really a talent crunch, or is it just that talent professionals need to learn what a "normal" labor market is like?
Many businesses are feeling the pinch. They just can't find the workers they need—top newspapers are documenting the pain of business executives.1 Think tanks are assembling panel programs on the "skills shortage". And Deloitte economists are hearing from several clients that they don't seem to be able to find the right talent.
And yet . . . many economists are surprisingly blasé about the problem.
In fact, many economists' social media feeds erupted with applause a few months ago, when Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari responded to a question about the labor shortage by saying, "If you're not raising wages, then it just sounds like whining."
What's the difference? Why are economists so dismissive of business concerns?
Remember the third week of introductory microeconomics? The professor was showing you how the supply/demand framework worked, explaining that a shortage is the point where demand is greater than supply. The professor told the story of how the shortage leads to rising prices . . . until the amount demanded falls, the amount supplied rises, and the market reaches equilibrium. So to an economist, "shortage" is almost synonymous with "rising prices."
The problem is, the price of labor in the United States isn't rising. Figure 1 shows two measures of wages.
The first measure is the Employment Cost Index (ECI). The ECI is a broad measure of compensation (including money wages and most benefits). During the 2002–2007 recovery, the ECI grew at an average annual rate of 3.4 percent.2 During the current recovery, from 2009 to the most recent available data, the ECI has grown just 2.0 percent. Compensation growth has been slightly faster in the past couple of years, but at 2.3 percent is still substantially below the growth rate of the previous recovery—even though the inflation rate has been about the same.
The second measure is the cost of one unit (hour, if you like) of labor. The unit labor cost measure adjusts compensation costs for the growth of labor productivity. If labor is scarce, then the cost of a unit of labor should be rising, even when adjusted for slower productivity growth. In fact, unit labor costs have been falling in the past few quarters! In the previous recovery, unit labor costs rose 1.1 percent. During the current recovery, unit labor costs have risen at an annual average rate of just 0.7 percent per year.
The evidence is clear: Compensation is, at best, stagnant. It's hard to argue that there's a shortage when prices aren't rising. It's a pretty fundamental economic insight, which is why we teach the relationship to first-year students early in their introductory course.
One response to this is that, while overall wages aren't going up, they may be going up in certain sectors. And that may be true—but it's not actually relevant. It's not relevant because, in a dynamic economy, some wages will be rising as some are falling. Those signals are necessary to convince workers to change jobs and careers. As long as overall wages are stagnant, there is no general labor market shortage, even if shortages and surpluses in specific occupations require appropriate wage adjustment. And, yes, it may require some additional compensation to get workers to change occupations or industries. But that's how markets work. The higher cost of labor in some markets (and the pain of business leaders in those markets) is a feature, not a bug, of a healthy market economy.
Now, we economists may enjoy hearing a Fed president speak plainly about the problem. But there is a reason why business executives see a problem, and not just the normal operations of the market economy. For most people, the definition of "normal" is based on our past experience—and that can be misleading in this case. Because the labor market has not been "normal" for most of the recent past.
What's "normal"? To an economist, "normal" would imply that the market is in equilibrium—that demand and supply are roughly balanced. When that happens, the price (in the labor market, that's the wage) is stable. To create a measure of "normal," economists find the unemployment rate at which the real wages are stable. This unemployment rate is sometimes called the "natural" unemployment rate or the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU). (Trust economists to come up with a snappy name.) It's not zero because some people are unemployed in equilibrium—because they don't have necessary skills, because they live in locations that don't have high labor demand, or because they quit without immediately finding new jobs (perhaps to move to a new location or change occupations).
Figure 2 shows a well-regarded estimate of the market equilibrium rate compared to the actual unemployment rate. For the past 20 years, the actual unemployment rate has been at or below the equilibrium unemployment rate only 35 percent of the time. For almost two-thirds of this period—whenever the actual unemployment rate is above the market equilibrium rate—the labor market has been out of equilibrium. The supply of labor has been greater than the amount demanded.
That sounds abstract. In the real job market, it means that for much of the past 20 years, businesses have become used to a buyers' market for labor. HR departments received hundreds of resumes for job openings. Potential workers got used to applying for jobs for which they are "overqualified" and hiring executives became used to having an abundance of qualified candidates to choose from. Further, many businesses have needed to use arbitrary methods to sort the overabundance of candidates. These range from computer screens to unnecessary qualifications.3 So what if a few qualified applicants don't understand how to create job applications that will get through the computer screen? Plenty will make it through. That's been a reasonable hiring strategy for much of the past 20 years.
But it's not an effective strategy when the job market is in equilibrium. An equilibrium job market means that businesses won't always find the perfect candidate (just as the candidate may not find the perfect job). It means that successful businesses will become more flexible about job qualifications.4 It means that many successful businesses will consider additional training and other methods to widen the pool of applicants. And it means that talent executives who are serious about finding good applicants are revisiting job requirements such as location and flexibility in working hours to be sure that their organizations have access to a wide talent pool.
The good news is that many US businesses are doing these things. We know that because those businesses have found an average of 170,000 additional workers to hire each month in 2016 and 2017—when the growth of the population of labor force age (16 to 64 years) has been just 50,000. And they are doing so without needing to raise wages. That's not the sign of a labor shortage; it's the sign of a healthy labor market that is creating the jobs that US workers want and need.
There can be a very important lesson for hiring companies here. Successful companies typically aren't "whining." They are figuring out how to operate in a competitive labor market. They are doing so without letting labor costs go up, by simply being smarter about how they pursue and keep talent. Companies that aren't competitive in the labor market will likely increasingly fall behind, the same way that companies that aren't competitive in their product space will typically lose market share. Blaming the state of the labor market for a company's flawed personnel strategy is about as productive as blaming consumers for disliking the latest tech gadget.
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Q: Minimizing the Schatten 1-norm over symmetric matrices. Let $X$ be an $n \times n$ Hermitian matrix, it follows that we can write $X=A+iB$ where $A$ is symmetric and $B$ is skew-symmetric. Let $S$ be the set of $n \times n$ symmetric matrices and define the Schatten $1$-norm (also known as trace norm) as $\lVert M \rVert_1=\sum_j \sigma_j(M)$, where $
\sigma_j(M)$ are the singular values of $M$. To measure how close $X$ is to the subspace of symmetric the matrices, we can define the distance measure
$$ D(X) = \min_{Y\in S} \lVert X-Y \rVert_1 .$$
Expanding $X$ into symmetric and skew-symmetric parts, we get that
$$D(X)= \min_{Y\in S} \lVert (A-Y)+iB \rVert_1$$
From this it seems intuitively that the minimum occurs when $Y=A$, in which case $D(X)=\lVert B\rVert_1$ is simply the $1$-norm of the imaginary part of $X$. How would one show that this quantity is minimized for $A=Y$?

A: Edit: It seems that I let myself get carried away by specifics, and as a consequence completely missed the bigger picture. My old answer is kept at the bottom for historical purposes. Let it be a reminder to all — including myself — that accepted answers on this site can occasionally be clumsy, needlessly complicated, or potentially even incorrect (though the latter doesn't seem to apply here).
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New answer — much shorter and more general:
We present the result in a much more general setting (which is probably closer to your intuition).

Definition. Let $X$ be a complex vector space. A complex conjugation is a conjugate-linear map $f : X \to X$ which is equal to its own inverse, in other words:

*

*For all $x,y\in X$ and $\lambda,\mu \in \mathbb{C}$ we have $f(\lambda x + \mu y) = \overline\lambda f(x) + \overline \mu f(y)$;

*For all $x\in X$ we have $f(f(x)) = x$.

  Instead of $f$ we usually write $\bar{\ }\, : X \to X$. The conjugate of an element $x\in X$ is written $\overline x$. We say that $x$ is real if $\overline x = x$ holds. Every $x\in X$ can be uniquely expressed as $x = a + ib$ with $a$ and $b$ real. These $a$ and $b$ are given by $a = \text{Re}(x) := \tfrac{1}{2}(x + \overline x)$ and $b = \text{Im}(x) := \tfrac{1}{2i}(x - \overline x)$. The set of real elements of $X$ forms an $\mathbb{R}$-subspace (but not a $\mathbb{C}$-subspace!), which we denote by $\text{Re}(X)$.
If $(X,\lVert\:\cdot\:\rVert)$ is a normed space, then a complex conjugation $\bar{\ }\, : X \to X$ defines an isometry (of the underlying metric space) if and only if $\lVert \overline x\rVert = \lVert x\rVert$ holds for all $x\in X$.
Proposition. Let $(X,\lVert\:\cdot\:\rVert)$ be a complex normed space and let $\bar{\ }\, : X \to X$ be an isometric complex conjugation. Then for any $x\in X$ and $y\in\text{Re}(X)$ we have
  $$ \lVert x - y\rVert \: \geq \: \lVert x - \text{Re}(x)\rVert. $$
Proof. Write $x = a + ib$ with $a,b\in\text{Re}(X)$, given explicitly by $a := \text{Re}(x)$ and $b := \text{Im}(x)$. The result follows from a simple application of the triangle inequality:

Indeed, we have
  \begin{align}
\hspace{-35mm}2\lVert x - \text{Re}(x)\rVert \: = \: \lVert 2ib\rVert \: &= \: \lVert (a + ib) - y \: + \: y - (a - ib)\rVert\\[1ex]
&\leq \: \lVert (a + ib) - y \rVert + \lVert y - (a - ib)\rVert\\[1ex]
&= \: \lVert (a + ib) - y\rVert + \lVert (a - ib) - y\rVert\\[1ex]
&= \: \lVert (a + ib) - y\rVert + \big\lVert \, \overline{(a + ib) - y} \, \big\rVert\tag*{(since $a,b,y\in\text{Re}(X)$)}\\[1ex]
&= \: 2\lVert (a + ib) - y\rVert\tag*{(since $\bar{\ }\,$ is isometric)}\\[1ex]
&= \: 2\lVert x - y\rVert.\tag*{$\blacksquare$}
\end{align}

Now all that remains is to show that the entry-wise complex conjugation $\bar{\ }\, : M_n(\mathbb{C}) \to M_n(\mathbb{C})$ preserves the trace norm. This is not so hard to do. For arbitrary matrices $A,B \in M_n(\mathbb{C})$ we have $\overline{AB} = \overline A \, \overline B$ and $\overline{A}^* = \overline{A^*}$, hence
$$ \overline{A}^*\,\overline A \: = \: \overline{A^*A}. $$
Now it is easy to see that $\overline{|A|}$ is a positive semidefinite square root of $\overline{A^*A}$, so it follows that $\overline{|A|} = |\,\overline A\,|$ holds. Finally, we find
$$ \lVert \overline A\rVert_1 \: = \: \text{tr}\big(\big|\,\overline A\,\big|\big) \: = \: \text{tr}\left(\overline{|A|}\right) \: = \: \overline{\text{tr}(|A|)} \: = \: \overline{\lVert A\rVert_1} \: = \: \lVert A\rVert_1. $$
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In summary: the entire result follows essentially from one application of the triangle inequality.
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Old answer — needlessly complicated:
Your intuition is correct, but it's not particularly easy to prove this. We will need quite a few facts about the trace norm. Let $\mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ denote the algebra of $n\times n$ complex matrices, and let $\lVert \:\cdot\: \rVert_\infty : \mathbb{C}^{n\times n} \to \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$ denote the operator norm (also know as the Schatten $\infty$-norm).

Proposition 1 ("non-commutative Hölder inequality", case $p = 1$ and $q = \infty$). For any $X,Y\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ we have $\lVert XY\rVert_1 \leq \lVert X\rVert_1\cdot \lVert Y\rVert_\infty$.
Proof. See your favourite textbook on Schatten norms. (The only references I can produce at this time are books in functional analysis and operator theory, which are likely to be inappropriate due to being way too advanced.)

Proposition 2. For any $X\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ we have $|\text{tr}(X)| \leq \lVert X\rVert_1$.
Proof. Use this question and the triangle inequality.

Proposition 3. For any $X\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ there exists a unitary $U\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ such that $|X| = UX$.
Proof. This is (equivalent to) the polar decomposition.

Corollary 4. For any $X\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ we have
  $$\lVert X\rVert_1 = \max_{\substack{Y \in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}\\\lVert Y \rVert_\infty \leq 1}} |\text{tr}(XY)|. $$
  Furthermore, there exists some $U\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ with $\lVert U\rVert_\infty = 1$ such that $\lVert X\rVert_1 = \text{tr}(XU)$ holds (note the omission of the absolute value).
Proof. By propositions 1 & 2, any $Y\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ with $\lVert Y\rVert_\infty \leq 1$ satisfies
  $$ |\text{tr}(XY)| \leq \lVert XY\rVert_1 \leq \lVert X\rVert_1\cdot \lVert Y\rVert_\infty \leq \lVert X\rVert_1. $$
  By proposition 3, there is some unitary $U\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ such that $|X| = UX$ holds. Note that we have $\lVert U \rVert_\infty = 1$ since $U$ is unitary. Now we have $\lVert X\rVert_1 = \text{tr}(|X|) = \text{tr}(UX) = \text{tr}(XU)$.

Now that we have all the ingredients, let's get on with the exercise at hand. Recall that we have $X = A + iB$ with $A$ real symmetric and $B$ real skew-symmetric, and we want to find a real symmetric matrix $Y$ minimising the distance $\lVert X - Y\rVert_1$.
Assume without loss of generality that $A = 0$ holds, so that we have $X = iB$. We prove that the minimum occurs at $Y = 0$. Choose some $U \in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ satisfying $\lVert U\rVert_\infty \leq 1$ as well as $\lVert X\rVert_1 = \text{tr}(XU)$. Now we have
$$ \text{tr}(XU) = \text{tr}\big((XU)^T\big) = \text{tr}\big(U^TX^T\big) = -\text{tr}\big(U^TX\big) = -\text{tr}\big(XU^T\big), $$
so we may assume without loss of generality that $U$ is skew-symmetric (replace $U$ by $\tfrac{1}{2}(U - U^T)$, if neccesary, then the properties $\lVert U\rVert_\infty \leq 1$ and $\lVert X\rVert_1 = \text{tr}(XU)$ still hold).
Now let $Y$ be an arbitrary real symmetric matrix, then we have
$$ \text{tr}(YU) = \text{tr}\big((YU)^T\big) = \text{tr}\big(U^TY^T\big) = \text{tr}\big(U^TY\big) = -\text{tr}(UY) = -\text{tr}(YU), $$
hence $\text{tr}(YU) = 0$. As a result, by corollary 4 we have
$$ \lVert X - Y\rVert_1 \geq \big|\text{tr}\big((X - Y)U\big)\big| = |\text{tr}(XU) - \text{tr}(YU)| = \big|\lVert X\rVert_1 - 0\big| = \lVert X\rVert_1, $$
which proves the result.

Closing remarks:

*

*It might be true that we can always choose a skew-symmetric unitary $U$ in the polar decomposition of a skew-symmetric self-adjoint matrix; I'm not entirely sure about that. In any case, proving that seemed like a hassle, so I decided on the above workaround.

*Note that we didn't really use that $Y$ was real, only that it was symmetric. As such, it seems that the result extends to the minimisation problem over all complex symmetric matrices. (Come to think of it, we didn't really use that $B$ was real either...)

*The minimum is not always unique. If $n$ is even, then the spectrum of $X$ is of the form $\{-\lambda_1,\lambda_1,-\lambda_2,\lambda_2,\ldots\}$ with $0 \leq \lambda_1 \leq \lambda_2 \leq \cdots$. If we have $\mu\in\mathbb{R}$ and $0 < |\mu| \leq \lambda_1$, then $Y = \mu I$ is also at minimal distance. After all, half of the eigenvalues are moved closer to zero and half are moved away from zero, so the sum of their absolute values remains the same.

*The same result holds if we replace the trace norm by the Hilbert–Schmidt norm $\lVert \:\cdot\: \rVert_2$ (also known as the Schatten 2-norm), and the proof is much easier in this case. I'll leave this as an exercise. ;-)

A: If the distance is measured using the Frobenius norm then the problem is almost trivial. (This post works through the exercise that Josse suggested at the end of his answer)
Use a real symmetric matrix $A=A^T$ and a real skew-symmetric matrix $B=-B^T$
to construct the hermitian matrix
$$\eqalign{
X &= A + iB \quad\implies\quad
X = X^H,\quad X^T = X^* \\
}$$
Use an unconstrained matrix $U\in{\mathbb C}^{n\times n}$ to construct the complex symmetric matrix
$$\eqalign{
Y &= {\rm Sym}(U) \doteq \tfrac 12(U+U^T) \quad\implies\quad
Y = Y^T,\quad Y^H = Y^* \\
}$$
Calculate the gradient of the objective with respect to $U$
$$\eqalign{
\phi &= \big\|X-Y\big\|_F^2 \;=\; (X-Y)^*&:(X-Y)  \\
d\phi &= (Y-X)^*:dY &\quad+\; conj \\
 &= (Y-X)^*:{\rm Sym}(dU) &\quad+\; conj \\
 &= {\rm Sym}(Y-X)^*:dU &\quad+\; conj \\
 &= (Y-\tfrac 12(X+X^*))^*:dU &\quad+\; conj \\
 &= (Y-{\cal Re}(X))^*:dU &\quad+\; conj \\
\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial U} &= (Y-{\cal Re}(X))^* \quad&
\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial U^*} = Y-{\cal Re}(X) \\
}$$
where "+ $conj\,$" denotes the complex conjugate of the first half of the expression.
Anyway, setting either gradient to zero yields
$$\eqalign{
Y &= {\cal Re}(X) = A \\
}$$

In the above, a colon is used to denote the trace product, i.e.
$$\eqalign{
A:B &= {\rm tr}(A^TB) = \sum_{i=1}^m\sum_{j=1}^n A_{ij}B_{ij} \;=\; B:A \\
X^*:X &= {\rm tr}(X^HX) \;\doteq\; \big\|X\big\|_F^2 \\
}$$
It is interesting that the result obtained using the Frobenius norm is apparently the same as a much more difficult derivation involving the Nuclear norm.


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Sponsors: Representatives Entenman, Orwall, Mosbrucker, Valdez, Goodman, Slatter, Riccelli, Ryu, Blake, Wylie, Irwin, Appleton, Jinkins, Doglio, Stanford, Leavitt and Walen.
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Under the warrantless arrest statute, an officer must or may make a warrantless arrest and take a person into custody, pending release on bail, personal recognizance, or court order, in certain situations. Among other circumstances, an officer must make a warrantless arrest when the officer has probable cause to believe that a listed protective order has been issued that restrains a person, the restrained person knows about the order, and the restrained person has violated certain terms of the order restraining the person from acts or threats of violence, or from going to or remaining within certain locations.
Provisions in the statutes governing no-contact orders entered in Promoting Prostitution and Trafficking cases provide that violators are subject to arrest upon violation of the order. However, these orders are not included in the list of orders in the general warrantless arrest statute, which outlines the circumstances under which mandatory warrantless arrest for violation of a protective order is required.
No-contact orders entered in Promoting Prostitution and Trafficking cases are included in the list of orders to which the warrantless arrest statute applies.
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Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) a Buy on Healthy Earnings Growth
Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE:TD) is one of the 761 companies in the GICS Financials sector, and a constituent of the 342 company Banks GICS industry group within this sector. TD's market value is $107.9 billion which places it in the top 10% of its industry group. The ranking for TD by Portfolio Grader places it 86 among the 342 companies in this industry group, putting it in the second quartile; in the top half of the sector with a ranking of 203 among the 761 companies in the sector, and number 1,297 in the nearly 5,000 company Portfolio Grader universe.
Strong Earnings Growth Keep Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) a Buy
Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE:TD) is ranked as a Buy using the methodology of Louis Navellier for investing and his Portfolio Grader stock evaluator. This represents no change from the previous week and is the same ranking TD has had from Portfolio Grader for the last month.
Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) a Buy on Robust Earnings Visibility
Currently, Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE:TD) has a Buy using Louis Navellier's investing system and his Portfolio Grader stock evaluator. This represents no change from the previous week and is the same ranking TD has had from Portfolio Grader for the last month.
Earnings Momentum Make Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) a Buy
By Portfolio Grader	 Nov 7, 2017
The current recommendation of Buy for Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE:TD) has been derived by using the methodology for investing of Louis Navellier and his Portfolio Grader stock evaluator. This represents no change from the previous week and is the same ranking TD has had from Portfolio Grader for the last month.
Toronto-Dominion Bank's (TD) Solid Earnings Momentum Makes it a Buy
By Portfolio Grader	 Oct 24, 2017
Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE:TD) is one of the 770 companies in the GICS Financials sector, and a constituent of the 346 company Banks GICS industry group within this sector. TD's market value is $105.0 billion which falls in the top 10% of its industry group. Currently, the stock's Portfolio Grader ranking places it 74 among the 346 companies in this industry group, giving it a well above-average position; in the top quartile of the sector with a ranking of 162 among the 770 companies in the sector, and number 826 in the nearly 5,000 company Portfolio Grader universe.
Buy Rating on Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) Shares Kept
Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE:TD) is ranked as a Buy using the Portfolio Grader stock evaluator of Louis Navellier, which incorporates his investing methodology. The current Portfolio Grader recommendation on the shares has been in place for 3 months.
Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) Stock Pops on Q3 Earnings Beat
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Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) Q2 Earnings Jump 22% Fueled by Strong Retail and Investment Banking
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Moscow never exports weapons to regions where they "may cause the destabilization of the situation," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
Commenting on the reports that Moscow has sold S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Azerbaijan, Lavrov noted that it was necessary to go to the root of the problem. "The essence is that it is an issue of defensive armaments that are exported in compliance with international agreements," he told Armenian Public Television on August 18.
"The S-300 is a defensive weapon intended to defend a territory against a rocket attack," the minister said, Interfax reported. However, there are opinions that "if any country gets S-300s, this will destabilize the situation," he noted.
According to Lavrov, the S-300 missile systems have become a certain "alarm symbol." Speaking about them, media and analysts have mentioned Azerbaijan, as well as Iran was discussed earlier, Lavrov added. Similar "panic opinions" have been expressed about other countries too, he noted.
Moscow has been delaying the deliveries of S-300s to Iran since 2007. The new UN Security Council's sanctions against Tehran would block the supplies, Russian officials said in June. However, Moscow has not yet cancelled the contract with Tehran.
In July, Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport denied media reports that the company had sold S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Azerbaijan.
Russia is supporting a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Lavrov said. Moscow would side with any possible solution that would suit both countries, he stressed.
At the same time, Russia and Armenia will extend the presence of a Russian military base in Armenia during the visit of President Dmitry Medvedev to that country on August 19-20. The original 1995 treaty was set for 25 years, but now it will be valid for 49 years, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said on August 18. Russia will also help Armenia "acquire weapons and modern military hardware," he told Rossiya 24 TV channel.
Lavrov noted that there were no plans to change the function of the Russian military base in Armenia. The key point of signing a new protocol to the treaty is "to have a time perspective, long-term planning," the minister said. "All the other duties performed by the Russian military base in Armenia remain invariable," he added.


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I frequently see negative comments about women, divorce, custody, child support and related topics online. These comments are usually things like "courts favor women," "women waste all the child support on themselves," "women cheat men out of their money," "women use kids as pawns," "women use false accusations," and things like that. The other day, I saw a woman comment that female narcissists are worse because they use the kids as pawns in divorces. First of all, ALL narcissists are bad and use the children as pawns. Second of all, I swear women are the worst bullies of other women.
The reality is, none of those comments represent the typical woman. In fact, they don't even represent most women. All of them can be debunked with statistics. However, those false stereotypes are widely accepted. They are used to further bully women who are trying to protect their kids from abusers. They contribute to the nonsense claim of "parental alienation" that so many abusers use when the protective parent tries to keep the children safe. They mean that many women are not getting a fair amount of child support. They mean that judges favor men in custody battles and women are pegged as using children as pawns when they are really trying to protect. They mean that a woman has to fight harder in a custody battle than an abusive man does because judges are often trying to give more men custody to even out this "unfair advantage" that women supposedly have.
"According to DivorcePeers.com, the majority of child custody cases are not decided by the courts.
So to start, many men automatically give their ex-wives custody. There is no animosity and they all feel that is best. There isn't some man hating judge giving away kids to manipulative women.
As for the child support, I think the huge majority of us can say we struggle and we are not living it up with the child support we get. There are studies about this too. They show that even when men pay support, they end up better off because they aren't missing work and promotions to take care of the kids. Women who get divorced take a financial hit for years. Is it worth it? Of course. But we can't deny that our bosses are mad when we call off to stay home with a sick child or when we can't put in that 80 hour week because we want to see our kids.
Narcissists ruin lives. Abusers ruin lives. Courts love abusers.
Courts are not favoring women, and when custody battles go to court, men are more likely to win. Women aren't making up false accusations to wrangle custody in manipulative ways. Women aren't getting rich on child support. These horrible people do exist, but they are a teeny tiny portion of women. If people continue to stereotype all women with these ideas that women are sly and manipulative, it is dangerous, and adds to the horrible family court atmosphere that favors abusers. When you make comments saying women are using kids as pawns, you are usually wrong, but you are contributing to the bigger picture that harms abused women and their children.


Some of the reports have the same header / footer. None of the reports have the same body.
The body component is generated by taking a parameter which stores the data that needs to be displayed. The type for the parameter varies for each report.
What is the best way to represent the above using a design pattern. I have considered using a factory but am having difficulties with the body section as each report takes different parameters.
Is it an option to create a type (class) that contains the available options? Can you provide some more details about the parameters?
Create an IReportData and an IReportGenerator. Use factory to get proper instance of IReportGenerator, and pass proper instance of IReportData to the IReportGenerator you just got.
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Tim Burton And 'The Addams Family' Is Winning Combo For Netflix
by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, November 18, 2022
Director Tim Burton applies the same panache he is known for in his movies to a new take on "The Addams Family" coming to Netflix next week.
This time, America's favorite kooky, spooky and altogether "ooky" family is seen through the eyes of one of them -- Gomez and Morticia Addams' goth teenage daughter Wednesday.
"Wednesday" happens to be the title of this eight-episode series that is premiering on a Wednesday.
In this new interpretation of Addams family dynamics, Wednesday (played by Jenna Ortega, photo above) is the central figure.
In many ways, she is a typical teen cast in the same mold from which TV tends to portray them in myriad shows. She is strong-willed, rebellious and vocally judgmental about everyone she meets.
She is an habitual frowner who is at that stage in her teenage life when she despises both of her parents but reserves a special hatred for her mother.
In Episode One of "Wednesday," she is sent to a unique private boarding school for paranormal misfits after she commits a particularly heinous act of revenge against some high school bullies in defense of her pudgy brother Pugsley.
The school is called Nevermore Academy. It is located in a remote woodland in a gothic Victorian building that is larger, but in some ways similar to the well-known Addams family home seen in the original Charles Addams cartoons, the 1960s TV show and subsequent movies.
Episode One has her acclimating to her new surroundings in which she makes more enemies than friends.
In subsequent episodes, she will emerge as a teenage sleuth who will assign herself the task of investigating some local mysteries that just might interlock.
The show is good news for "Addams Family" enthusiasts. In Episode One, featured characters include Gomez and Morticia (played by Luis Guzman and Catherine Zeta-Jones), Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez), butler/chauffeur Lurch (George Burcea) and Thing, the severed hand who resided in a box on the old "Addams Family" but in this show has freer range.
Uncle Fester turns up later in the series, played by Fred Armisen. There is no sign of shaggy Cousin Itt, however, in any of the Netflix press materials.
But appearances by Wednesday's famous relatives are intermittent in the series in order to keep the spotlight squarely on her. Petite Jenna Ortega, 20, more than manages to carry her portion of the show, which amounts to about 90% of it.
Also lending support in the cast are Christina Ricci in the role of a dorm supervisor and Gwendoline Christie as the principal of Nevermore.
Ricci played Wednesday Addams in two Addams Family movies in 1991 and '93 when she was 11 and 13, respectively.
Christie gained international fame in the standout role of the rugged warrior Brienne of Tarth in "Game of Thrones."
"Wednesday" was co-created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who are also showrunners, executive producers and writers.
But if there is a marquee name behind the scenes of "Wednesday," then it is Tim Burton, who is one of only a few directors in movies today whose name on a movie is as potent as the stars who headline it.
His movies include "Beetlejuice," "Edward Scissorhands," "Mars Attacks!," "Ed Wood," "Sleepy Hollow," "Dark Shadows" and many more.
He directs all eight of the "Wednesday" episodes. That alone should draw audiences. The show itself will then retain them.
"Wednesday" starts streaming on Wednesday (November 23) on Netflix.
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ADAM BUCKMAN, TV columnist, MediaPost
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UPS lacks free cash flow today -- but that could soon change.
Shares of shipping giant United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS) are up 22% off their lows of earlier this year -- but still lagging the S&P 500 by more than 10 percentage points over the past year. Can UPS maintain its momentum and pull itself out of its funk? That may depend in large part on how quickly investors believe UPS can return to free-cash-flow positive status, as one Wall Street analyst opines in an upgrade covered on TheFly.com this morning.
Early this morning, investment banker Raymond James announced it's upgrading UPS two notches -- all the way from market perform to strong buy -- with a price target of $150 a share. Raymond James' reasoning: Although UPS may not be generating positive free cash flow today, a combination of factors, properly implemented, promise to yield annual cash profits on the order of $8 billion per year by as early as 2021.
This is a bold prediction. According to analysts surveyed by S&P Global Market Intelligence, the consensus on Wall Street is that UPS won't hit $8 billion in positive free cash flow before 2022 at the earliest, and probably not even then.
That being said, most analysts do agree that UPS will resume generating at least some free cash flow, and perhaps as early as this year. That would be good news for shareholders -- if the analysts are correct.
UPS, you see, turned free-cash-flow negative last year. After a full decade of never having to spend more than $3 billion on capital investment in a given year (and some years, spending much less than that), last year, UPS suddenly doubled its rate of capital investment in a bid to upgrade its facilities and improve its efficiency to deal with the surge of just-in-time ordering among its e-commerce customers.
In 2017, the company spent $5.2 billion on capital investment, or about 3.5 times more than the $1.5 billion it generated in cash from operations. The surge in spending late in the year means that, over the trailing 12 months, UPS remains free cash flow-negative to this day.
In even worse news for investors, UPS management warned that it would need to invest "between $6.5 billion and $7 billion" in capex in 2018, and then keep on spending at levels approaching 10% of revenue for "the next few years." When you consider that UPS hasn't generated positive cash from operations in excess of $6.5 billion since 2015, this implies the company will have trouble generating any positive free cash flow at all until its capital investment plan has run its course.
That's what went wrong. Now here's what could go right: According to Raymond James, implementation of UPS' "Smart Logistics Network" is costing a lot now, but the heightened capital spending required to build it will eventually ramp back down just as it ramped up in 2017. Perhaps more importantly, once fully implemented, this network should help to save UPS about $225 million worth of annual "operating penalties." The analyst further expects UPS to be spending less on discretionary pension contributions come 2020.
With a lighter financial load, Raymond James projects that two years from now, UPS could be generating $8 billion or more in positive free cash flow annually -- more cash profit than it's ever made before.
So what would that mean for investors?
Assuming Raymond James is right, then with $8 billion in annual cash profit, UPS stock at its current $106 billion market capitalization is trading for just 13.5 times 2020 free cash flow. What's more, if you take UPS' dividend yield of 3%, and assume a modest long-term growth rate of 10% or so, then this should make UPS stock fairly valued if it succeeds in generating $8 billion in annual free cash flow (that's assuming the stock sells for the same price in 2020 as it does today, though).
That being said, I cannot say I'm completely comfortable investing at a set price for UPS stock today in anticipation of profits that might or might not roll in more than two years from now. With all due respect to Raymond James and its optimism, for the time being I have to say that I consider UPS more of a hold than a buy.


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Gary Janetti talks Truman Capote, Sally Rooney, and more of his literary obsessions
By David Canfield October 22, 2019 at 08:30 AM EDT
Gary Janetti / Do You Mind If I Cancel?
Credit: Courtesy Gary Janetti; Flatiron Books
TV writer and Instagram sensation Gary Janetti is now a published author. Do You Mind If I Cancel?, the debut book from the Emmy nominee (Will and Grace), hit shelves this week, boasting an appeal similar to beloved essayists like David Sedaris. The book covers Janetti's coming of age as a young gay man in New York, from his dreams of starring in a soap opera to his struggles in landing a job pre-internet. Advance praise has come from the likes of Crazy Rich Asians mastermind Kevin Kwan and No. 1 best-selling Daisy Jones and the Six author Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Ahead of the book's publication, EW quizzed Janetti on his literary obsessions. Read on for his literary crush, his favorite childhood read, and much more.
My favorite books as a child: Salem's Lot, by Stephen King and Mommy Dearest, by Christina Crawford. I loved to be frightened and I loved fabulous women screaming at children. I still do.
The book that cemented me as a writer: The World According to Garp, by John Irving. I read it when I was 13. I knew I wanted to do that, whatever that was.
The last book that made me laugh: Normal People, by Sally Rooney. I love her.
The last book that made me cry: Same book.
The book I've read over and over: David Copperfield, by [Charles] Dickens. It's perfect. (I read it twice, I don't know if that counts as over and over but it's really f—ing long.)
Movie adaptation of book I've loved: Atonement, by Ian McEwan, and the film directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley (gorgeous) and James McAvoy (gorgeous). I love the book and the movie equally. That never happens.
Credit: Alex Bailey/Focus Features
Book people might be surprised to learn I love: Watership Down, by Richard Adams. I don't know if they'd be surprised, but I still think about Hazel and Fiver 40 years after I've read it.
A book I pretended to have read but I haven't: Remembrance of Things Past, by Proust. I've read the first part, which is over a thousand pages, so I feel like I can say I've read all of it.
My literary crush: Truman Capote, the same person wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood! Runner up: Flannery O' Connor: Read A Good Man is Hard to Find now.)
My literary hero: David Copperfield and Celie, from The Color Purple. (Runner up: Holden Caulfield.)
What I'm reading right now: Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin. His writing is like a living thing. I love him.
The book that changed my life: All of them.
If I could read one genre, it'd be…: Anything where a young person from a lower-middle-class background (preferably British) befriends a wealthy classmate and ends up spending a lot of time with the wealthy classmate's family (expensive trips, summers abroad, lawn parties, etc.) getting seduced by this new life and becoming part of their world —- only to find out that they will never, ultimately, be accepted as one of them. See The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst, as a flawless example of this genre that doesn't technically have a name but I am obsessed with.
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A hastily-arranged airport rendezvous Tuesday ended with an announcement from President Donald Trump's administration that the state of Florida is "off the table" for new offshore oil drilling, a declaration that brought both relief and protests of election-year politics.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott met with U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke at the airport in Tallahassee Tuesday afternoon. Both men emerged 20 minutes later to face waiting reporters, who had an hour's notice of the meeting.
"As a result of our interest in making sure that there's no drilling here, Florida will be taken off the table," Scott said.
Zinke said the decision was a culmination of multiple meetings between Scott and Trump administration officials.
"Florida is obviously unique," Zinke said. "For Floridians, we are not drilling off the coast of Florida, and clearly the governor has expressed that it's important."
The airport meeting came five days after the Trump administration made the controversial announcement that it would open a massive area to offshore oil exploration. Four days before the drilling announcement, Scott and Trump had a New Year's Eve lunch at Mar-a-Lago, the president's estate in Palm Beach.
Thursday's drilling declaration immediately brought howls of protest from governors as far north as New Jersey and included Scott, a Trump supporter who is strongly considering running for the U.S. Senate this year against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.
In a statement Tuesday, Nelson acknowledged the obvious political implications of Tuesday's announcement. He called it a "political stunt."
"I have spent my entire life fighting to keep oil rigs away from our coasts. But now, suddenly, Secretary Zinke announces plans to drill off Florida's coast and four days later agrees to 'take Florida off the table?' I don't believe it,' Nelson said. "This is a political stunt orchestrated by the Trump administration to help Rick Scott, who has wanted to drill off Florida's coast his entire career. We shouldn't be playing politics with the future of Florida."
Zinke cited coastal damage from Hurricane Irma in September and the ongoing problems with pollution around Lake Okeechobee as factors in the administration's decision, which comes at the start of what is certain to be a raucous and volatile election year in Florida.
A former member of Congress from Montana, Zinke said Scott's lobbying was central to the decision, and he gave what sounded like an endorsement of the two-term governor.
"You have a tremendous governor," Zinke said. "He says exactly what he means. Florida is well-served."
Scott, a Republican, is entering his eighth and final year as governor, and as he ponders a possible U.S. Senate candidacy, he's making the environment a top priority.
Scott's proposed budget includes hundreds of millions of dollars for Everglades restoration, park improvements and springs protection, and he has personally lobbied President Trump for federal money to make repairs to the long-neglected Herbert Hoover Dike at Lake Okeechobee.
Scott was vilified by environmentalists in his first term for proposing profit-making ventures in award-winning state parks and budget cuts in the Department of Environmental Protection and at the state's five regional water management districts.
Asked why it makes sense for the federal government to prohibit drilling off the coast of Pensacola but to permit it 20 miles away off the coast of Alabama, Zinke said: "Because the great state of Florida has expressed, and the governor has expressed, a desire not to drill."
As Scott and Zinke ended a seven-minute press conference, reporters asked whether politics played any part in Tuesday's announcement, but the two kept walking and there was no response.
Shortly after the drilling announcement last week, Scott tweeted that he was seeking a meeting as soon as possible with Zinke, citing "the crucial need to remove Florida from consideration" — which is what appeared to happen Tuesday.
The Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) distributed information to congressional staff members this week that showed that of every coastal state that was asked to submit official comments on the drilling proposal in July, Florida was the only state that expressed "no position."
Scott's office on Tuesday produced an Aug. 17 letter from the state DEP expressing its concerns about "safety and environmental protection" surrounding any oil and gas exploration. But the letter did not expressly oppose the drilling proposal.
Scott's Department of State, which manages historical resources, also sent a letter that said the agency had "concerns about potential adverse impacts to significant archaeological resources," but also did not register opposition.
Florida's long, fragile coastline and ecosystem has always made drilling "the third rail" of politics in the Sunshine State — an issue lethal to anyone who supports it.
As drafted, the new five-year drilling plan could open new areas of oil and gas exploration off the East Coast from Florida to Maine, where drilling has been blocked for decades. Dozens of environmental groups denounced the proposal.
Had Tuesday's Florida declaration not happened, Scott could have been forced to endure campaign TV ads showing monstrous oil derricks and drilling platforms superimposed over the pristine emerald green beaches of Panama City and Destin — an area critical to Scott's political fate.
Offshore drilling was the cause of one of the most catastrophic environmental disasters in U.S. history, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.
Late Tuesday, Scott's office issued a press release headlined: "Gov. Scott fought to protect Florida's coastline."


Microsoft has announced plans to offer subsidised cloud computing courses to thousands of Australian public sector workers.
The company expects to train 800 APS staff and partners over the next three months, and a total of 5,000 by 2020.
The nine module course is targeted at all skill levels and will be delivered by Microsoft training partners DDLS, New Horizons and Advanced Training in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide.
The courses unsurprisingly will focus on Microsoft's cloud platform Azure, and will cover "everything from integrating on-premise core infrastructure with Microsoft Azure, to operationalising cloud analytics solutions with Microsoft Azure" the company said.
Participants – which as well as APS staff will include government partners, solutions/systems integrators and independent software vendors – will leave the course being able to move, transform and analyse data, design and deployment skills for end-to-end solutions, and the ability to monitor and troubleshoot in the cloud. The course aligns with the government's Secure Cloud Strategy, released by the government's Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) in February.
"This training promises organisational agility, better delivery of services and faster insights from government data, which will help transform the Australian public sector by providing a better experience for citizens," said Steven Worrall, managing director, Microsoft Australia.
"Migrating from legacy platforms to the cloud is not trivial, so the specialised program we have put together will equip public sector developers and system engineers with cloud-ready skills to design and build digital solutions and deliver their agency transformation initiatives," he added.
The announcement follows criticism from former CEO of the Digital Transformation Office Paul Shetler that the government had degraded its internal IT skills with years of outsourcing.
"Years of outsourcing to contractors and integrators have progressively deskilled the public service to the point that it lacks the digital and commercial skills needed to deliver services that citizens expect," he wrote in a submission to the Senate Committee on Digital Delivery of Government Services held last month.
"Government urgently needs to conduct capacity and capability planning for the future public service," he added in the statement, co-authored by former senior digital advisor Jordan Hatch and former digital marketplace head Catherine Thompson.
The Community and Public Sector Union have also been calling on government to improve the digital skills of the sector, pointing to a census of APS staff taken in 2015 found that 35 per cent had received no formal digital skills training at work.
Worrall added that Microsoft's commitment would complement efforts from the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) and the Digital Transformation Agency to improve the digital capability of the APS.
The APSC confirmed to sister publication Computerworld Australia earlier this month that it was rolling out a "program of capability initiatives" over the next three years with the DTA "to ensure the APS is better skilled to support the digital transformation of government".
"As part of this, APS agencies will be able to access quality assured training to develop digital specialist skills, sourced through the digital marketplace. A Digital Transformation Leadership program will be designed and delivered. The intent is to equip senior managers to lead the cultural and system change required for digital transformation across the APS," an APSC spokesperson said.
Kevin Noonan, chief analyst for worldwide government practice at technology research firm Ovum, says Microsoft's announcement is ambitious but welcome.
"It will be an ambitious goal to train 5000 individuals by 2020, but a necessary one. As the pressure for change continues to grow, it is simply not enough to address the transformation of our legacy systems, without concurrently addressing the legacy processes and legacy thinking," he said.
"The need for a comprehensive approach is clear, but its practical implementation is not so easy," he said, adding that the subsidy would be "welcome news for cash-strapped public sector agencies".
The announcement is part of a bid to establish Azure as the go-to cloud provider in the public sector. In August the company announced two new hyperscale cloud regions in Canberra, to be located within Canberra Data Centres (CDC).
The new regions – due to launch in the first half of this year – will initially offer core Azure services, with plans to expand the offering. Microsoft expects the regions will be able to service data classified at the Protected level and for the services to eventually be added to the Australian Signals Directorate's Certified Cloud Services List.


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