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An article published in the 2008 volume (Issue 4) of the European Journal of International Law by Thomas Schultz has been awarded the 2010 Jubilee Prize of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and the Social Sciences (see here as well). The Jubilee Prize is awarded each year to the best article, across the humanities and social sciences, published by a young swiss researcher. The prize winning article is titled "Carving up the Internet: Jurisdiction, Legal Orders, and the Private/Public International Law Interface". In the article Thomas Schulz argues that:
The Internet is caught between old forces of local territorialism and new forces characteristic of global economies. As a result, this article maintains that it may end up being carved or fragmented into discrete legal spheres. This development contradicts with the hitherto traditional vision of the Internet as a paradigmatic example of a borderless world of global transnationalism. This fragmentation is taking two forms: one vertical which reflects concerns of public policy and the protection of local values, the other horizontal which is driven by the rationale of commercial efficiency. The former (vertical), if not understood and handled properly, may lead to an informational impoverishment of the Internet. One response to this risk resides in new configurations of the appropriate jurisdictional bases for assertions of state power. I argue in favour of a double standard of jurisdiction for the regulation of Internet content: one, based on the principle of targeting, used to sanction behaviour, the other, an incarnation of the effects doctrine, used to prevent actions and fulfil the cathartic function of law. The latter (horizontal) form of fragmentation should lead us to rethink certain aspects of the concept of law, in particular with regard to legal pluralism, and to discover new places where law is to be found.
Our congratulations to Thomas Shultz who is currently Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Private International Law, Faculty of Law, Univeristy of Geneva. He is also the Executive Director of the Geneva Masters in International Dispute Settlement, organized jointly by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Development and the University of Geneva.


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Whenever we go away as a family, Eddy always challenges me to pack lightly and I must admit that most of the time I miserably fail at this seemingly easy task. However, although I can't speak for my own packing this time, I was very impressed with how easily I managed to get all of Noah's things into one little suitcase!
I spotted this last year in Cath Kidston and really wanted it, but I waited for it to come into the sales which it did recently at our local outlet. It's a really versatile little suitcase in a traditional style which makes it all the more adorable. You can use it for stowing away toys or anything you like really- Noah enjoys having it out on his bedroom floor with all his toys surrounding him!
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The 21-year-old actress slipped into a super seductive leather bralet and matching skin-tight skirt as she supported her TOWIE man.
Dan Osborne was declared number five in Attitude's Hot 100 list at the magazine's bash last night.
The inked reality star was nestled among the likes of Zayn Malik, Ryan Gosling and forgotten X Factor star Shayne Ward made and appearance in the sexiest men poll – which was topped by Olympic diver Tom Daley.
We caught up with Jac, who plays Lauren Branning in the BBC show, who seemed thrilled to have the fanciable fella on her arm.
She said: "He managed to make the top five!
"That's cool as he was up against David Beckham and Zac Efron so y'know…"
When Daily Star Online quizzed the brunette beauty who'd make her list of gorgeous guys, she didn't hesitate to name her beau.
"Dan Osborne, number one obviously!"
"Tom Hardy, Leonardo DiCaprio… hmm that's about it."
With taste like that if her relationship with James Lock's mate doesn't work out she'll have to relocate to Hollywood to find romance.
It looks as though the soap babe may have a bit of healthy competition on her hands.
Glamour girl Chloe Goodman was also at the bash and she made it clear the Essex lad was top of her list.
She said: "Ooh Dan Osborne, he's good looking."
But Ms Jossa needn't fret, as Chloe added: "If we're talking reality wise I'd also have to add Lewis Bloor and I can't forget ex-TOWIE Mark Wright.
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Exactly 15 years after Mathematica's initial release, Wolfram Research has released Mathematica 5.0 ($1,880 direct). The new version of this high-end mathematical package has one major focus: an overhaul of the engine for numerical computation. There are also changes in some symbolic elements and enhancements of Mathematica's ability to communicate with other programs.
From its start, Mathematica has been a multifaceted powerhouse with symbolic and numeric calculation abilities, superb graphics, and the capability to produce technical documents. But its core has always been its symbolic engine, with arbitrary-precision real arithmetic, exact rational arithmetic, and computer algebra.
That core requires overhead, however, and this led to Mathematica's excelling at symbolic calculation but being only good, not great, at numeric calculation. MatLab, specifically, has always occupied the top position for number-crunching excellence. Wolfram Research clearly intends this new version of Mathematica to compete with MatLab in that area.
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Anyhoo, when I don't feel good about myself I tend to skip the makeup and not make any effort with my 'do, just slap some product in it after the old shower and run out the door with it wet. Not that there is a thing wrong with being natural. I'm just aware that is how I behave when I am not valuing myself as much as I should. Sooo..... Sunday I treated myself! Nothing extravagant, just some drugstore/Wally products. But I got new foundation, powder, mascara and a new tool for my 'do!
The foundation is a liquid mineral foundation by Maybelline. Unless I go high-end, the foundations light enough for my winter-pale skin usually is way too pink. But there are a ton of shades with this foundation so I found one that worked without making me look too pink!
The powder is another mineral product, Physician's Formula Mineral Powder, in translucent:
The mascara is one I always see in magazines as a great buy at a low price; a never-fail oldie but goodie: Maybelline Great Lash:
And last but not least, the tool for my 'do. Mine is silver, not blue, and it was only $23... I can't figure out how this one is different from the one I bought so I'm including a pic of it, too. I've tried it once already and it cut my drying time in half, probably because it cuts out the whole 'dryer in one hand, round brush in the other' routine:
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Welcome to Hip Hop 2000 where there is very little time to say a whole lot. All that rushing about to drop an extra album, or rearranging one's whole format to fit in with their supposed "Karmic Rebirth" is dead. But there was one who came in `99 named Genius bearing the same lyrical prowess that Liquid Swords utilized to take a slew of heads with one fell swing. In fact, when the research was completed it was discovered that this impenetrable individual had direct ties to the now infamous WU Dynasty. So we went Beneath The Surface where the light of day cannot penetrate. Where this mysterious GZA purportedly blindfolds and hog-ties Duck MC's if only to torture them with his Shine before beheadal with PHONETIC INTELLECTGZA:
The way your recorder looks makes me feel like it's a Press Conference. I feel like I'm in a radio station!KRON:
Alright, so let's go beneath the surface. From "Labels" to "Publicity" what's the science with the intro singles from each album like that?GZA:
I guess just a coincidence. The "Publicity" song is like a "Labels" song. I got the idea from Timbo King. He's from Royal Fam which is part of Wu. And one day I was in the studio when I saw one line he had that said some shit with like three magazines in it. And I was like, "Damn, that shit is soundin' kinda slick." But all along people had been comin' up to me sayin', "You should do a "Labels II", or "You should do "Labels" over". And I always thought it was a corny idea. You had many people do different songs like, similar songs. Like they might do a song and name a whole bunch of girls. Or they might do a song and name a whole buncha designer shit. That's how "Labels" was. You know, Biggie did the R&B females, which was a Classic. So I didn't think I could really do that again until I came across that idea. So I decided, and I thought it would be the fattest shit to put out first for the DJ's to let `em spin. It was catchy, you know? And we just went for it. So that's how that came about.KRON:
Was this new album a work in progress? Like, picking up from Liquid Swords? Or was it a work in progress from say, Wu Tang Forever?GZA:
I would say from all of them. One just leads into the other. For instance, every time you do an album you always flash back to whatever came before it. `Cause we always compare `em like that. Like when we did Wu Forever we'd be like, "Ahhh, this shit… It gotta be able to top 36 Chambers!" So everything is a work in progress from anything you really do because you always go back and compare it, or try to do better, or just as good. Like a lotta people Loved the Liquid Swords album. It did well on a low. It's like with me and Raekwon's albums, either of those are one of the albums they speak about all the time. So we always try to go in and do better, or just as good.KRON:
Well I have to say that when we did the photo shoot for the Ghost Cover that you hold, we were at the Hit Factory listening to a track that he did with your verse first. And then there was Meth and RaeGZA:
And quite possibly Masta Killa.GZA:
(To Arabian Knight) That's that track.KRON:
Ghost wouldn't divulge the name of it either. When I asked the title, his response was "It's just between me & my Niggaz right now". But the point is, that off the three or four joints we've heard from Ghost, one or two sound really dusty like maybe before 36 Chambers style.GZA:
Was that the track that I was on?KRON:
Well, not that one. You were on another one of his. And I'm sayin', do you have any of those old dusty, before the 36 Chambers tracks on your album?GZA:
Thought wise, yea. I would say that because sometimes ideas can come from a long, long, long time ago. But musically, no. Nothin'. All these beats is fresh. Not even a year old. Some of them is just two months old. Some of them came to me while I was in the studio. I wouldn't say any of the shit on there is dusty like it was a track that I didn't get a chance to use, and I decided to use it. If we do, we do; it's all good. But we haven't done that on this album. Everything is fresh.
It seems like everything you put your fingers on as the Wu Collective, whether it's dusty and old or fresh and new, makes for classic material. And I also wanted to add on to that to that and ask you as far as the production work outside of RZA, who I heard or understand only did one track on the album. Who else is putting in work?GZA:
Arabian Knight. That's this Brother right here. He did about 5 tracks. And Allah Mathematics. He's the DJ for us and he did the Wu Logo. Math did about 5 to 6 tracks. And Inspectah Deck did 1 and RZA did 1. It's still Family. It's all Fam.KRON:
These Brothas (Animal & Mathologist) pointed out on the Wu Tang Forever album that there was a verse on one of the joints that was repeated from your first solo album. I would like to ask, was there a meaning behind that or was it deliberate?GZA:
Which verse was that?KRON:
[To Animal & Mathologist] Well, here we go Guys, you're on Interview Blast!ANIMAL::
I don't know, our Homie says it was a verse from Words From The Genius album.GZA:
What did I use from there? I don't know. You gotta flash me.KRON:
OK, let's move it on. Keep it movin'.GZA:
I don't think I ever used… Oh, you know what? Nah, I don't think I ever used anything from off my album. Maybe a line or two, or a word. Maybe I used one line. But verse? I don't think I've taken anything off… I mean, that's on a whole `nother label though. I'm not even tryin' to go into those chambers. They did re-release that album after I dropped my second one. And they put a new cover on it and tried to fool people to sell the shit. But ain't nobody go for it. This time they might just on the strength of how popular this shit is. They might have to go back and be like, "We got to get his first shit!"NEXT PAGE >>


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Sometimes I feel like such a fraud of a beauty blogger, because as much as I love make-up, my go-to look is definitely not a high maintenance/heavy one. I much prefer the lighter, natural look. This does make me feel guilty as I feel I should be using more products!
But at the end of the day, if you find a look you're happy with – you have to stick with it! This is the perfect example of my natural look make-up – which, by the way does still use a fair amount of product. Including my current foundation love which is Estee Lauder Double Wear – not one known for it's light and natural finish but one I've made work for me and absolutely adore.
|Tshirt- Topshop| Cardigan – Primark| Necklace – Primark| Watch – Michael Kors MK5315
To use Estee Lauder Double Wear* and still get a natural finish I have two tricks, one I always use and one I only use if I need an extra boost for some glow.
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As for other make-up, I keep it simple. Filling in brows for a little for definition (using Accessorize brow pencil in shade 01) plus a bit of MAC Brow Gel to fix. Touch of blusher – here I'm wearing Benefit Coralista, my all time blusher favourite. Layers and layers of mascara – currently loving Clinique High Impact Mascara*. It's not their latest, but it has a great fluffy but not huge brush and is amazing for applying multiple layers without clumps. Bottom lashes is of course Clinique Bottom Lash – it's an essential and a touch of Bare Minerals Concealer where needed. Done!
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The The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD), known as Credit CARD Act, is a federal legislation passed to facilitate credit card reform by establishing fair practices and transparency to the extension of credit offered to consumers.
The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009[1] was passed on May 22, 2009 and came into effect February 22,2010.[2] It established fair practices and transparency to the extension of credit offered to consumers in an attempt at federal credit card reform in the U.S.
The CARD Act protects consumers by requiring credit card issuers to adhere to stricter disclosure requirements about the terms of the account. It also places limitations on issuers' actual practices. The Act prevents unfair increases in interest rates and changes in terms; prohibits exorbitant and unnecessary fees; requires fairness in application and timing of card payments; protects the rights of financially responsible credit card users; provides enhanced disclosures of card terms and conditions; strengthens oversight of credit card industry practices; and, promotes financial literacy.[3]
Small businesses were not included in the regulations to protect consumers as there was uncertainity as to how the regulation would affect credit price and availability of credit to small businesses. [4]
Provisions of CARD Act
- Credit card issuers must give a minimum of 45 days notice to card holders before raising interest rates or making other significant changes in the terms of their credit agreement. This provision went into effect in August 2009 and was created to allow consumers to cancel their before any interest rate increases go into effect on their accounts.[5]
- If the credit card company instituted a grace period, the CARD requires that the grace period extend to 3 weeks (21 days) after the statement is mailed.
- Limitations on circumstances under which credit card companies can increase interest rates. [6]
- Establishing regular practices related to payment due date and processing. For example credit card companies cannot change due dates between billing cycles, leading to late fees and must accept payments received by 5:00pm on the due date, rather than an arbitrary time.
- No fees for payments made online, by telephone, or by other means. [7]
- Limitations on solicitation and credit card issuance to individuals under 21 years.
- Forbids practice of declining value of credit card gift cards and hidden fees for cards not used within a period of time. Gift cards now have a five-year life span.
Criticisms of CARD Act
The CARD Act received criticism for lack of any provisions capping interest rates.
- ↑ http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.111hr627
- ↑ http://knowledgebase.findlaw.com/kb/2010/Jan/59137.html
- ↑ http://www.bankcardfinder.com/credit-articles/credit-card-bill-of-rights.html
- ↑ http://blogs.findlaw.com/free_enterprise/2010/06/federal-reserve-discusses-card-act-credit-card-reform.html
- ↑ http://knowledgebase.findlaw.com/kb/2010/Jan/59137.html
- ↑ http://knowledgebase.findlaw.com/kb/2010/Jan/59137.html
- ↑ http://knowledgebase.findlaw.com/kb/2010/Jan/59137.html
External Links
- Federal Reserve Discusses CARD Act, Credit Card Reform
- Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009
- Federal Reserve: New Credit Card Rules
- FTC: Credit Cards & Consumer Loans
- New Consumer Credit Card Protections
- A Proposal for Reining In Credit Card Fees
- Fed Issues New Credit Card Regulations to Protect Consumers: New Rules Offer Important Safeguards to Limit Penalty Fees But Don't Go Far Enough to Roll Back Unfair Interest Rate Hikes
Related Resources on FindLaw
- First Part of New Credit Card Laws Take Effect
- CARD Act Part 2: Key Credit Card Reform Takes Effect
- CARD Act Move-Up: Credit Card Reform May Come Early
- Federal Reserve Discusses CARD Act, Credit Card Reform
- Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights: Senate Nixes 15% Interest Rate Cap
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At 92-66, the Red Sox have entered the postseason as AL East champions for the first time since 2013. Against Toronto, the Red Sox are 8-8 overall and 3-4 at home. Boston has leaned on journeyman David Ortiz this year, and he's been happy to oblige. Despite announcing his impending retirement at the end of 2016 prior to the season, Ortiz is hitting .319 with 37 homers and 124 RBI's, and has been supported by talented young hitters like Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts. The Red Sox have alway been talented offensively, but their starting rotation has made all the difference this season. Hurlers such as David Price, Rick Porcello, and Drew Pomeranz have Boston on the fast track to a deep playoff run this October.
At 87-71, the Blue Jays trail the Sox, but currently hold the first AL wild card even though they lost to the Orioles recently, who are sitting pretty at 86-72. In order to keep this highly coveted position, they'll have to succeed at Fenway this weekend. Just like Boston, Toronto's pitching staff has catapulted them to an elite status this year. Marcus Stroman, Marco Estrada, J.A. Happ, and Aaron Sanchez are rounding out one of the most well-balanced rotations in the entire MLB. At the same time, power hitters like Josh Donaldson, Edwin Encarnacion, and Michael Saunders have provided the offensive pop for this potent lineup.
Sports.net's view
The polarizing Clay Buchholz will make the start for Boston on Sunday. After almost being cut from the team earlier this year, Buchholz has rebounded to once again cement himself as a permanent member of the rotation. Not only that, but he's won three of his last four starts and allowed more than three runs just once in his last 18 appearances. In two starts against Toronto, Buchholz is 1-0 with six runs allowed in 11 and two-thirds innings.
Aaron Sanchez has enjoyed a much more consistent season in 2016, though he's had his own share of controversy. Seeing as this is his first year as a full-time starter, Sanchez was expected to follow an innings limit. However, he's since surpassed that limit and is still making starts, even with the addition of Francisco Liriano. He's just 2-1 in his last seven starts, but is 13-2 on the year with a 3.12 ERA. Boston has proved to be a nemesis of Sanchez, scoring 10 runs in 17 and a third innings off the youngster.
- Sports.net's top tip: Though the Blue Jays hold the pitching advantage in this one, it's probably not wise to bet against the Red Sox at home in such a crucial divisional game. Boston wins 9-4.


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4. dot the side with white nail polish
5.i didnt have any nail polish brushes with me that day so i used an ink pen to draw those laces.
6.Fianlly top coat then Finish
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That looks awesome, Helen :D
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i think you were inspired from julie's youtube channel, i saw that design there
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These really are great. I'm interested in how you did them, share.ReplyDelete
They way you tell it, it almost sounds easy! I'm going to have to try it...the hardest will be finding the paper.ReplyDelete
That is so awesome! I love this, I'll have to try it out sometime :)ReplyDelete
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think I'm gonna copy it next time I'll be wearing a corset ;P
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That was all fine, however its now 6 and she just left her house (she lives across town) and she has called twice. The first time, was to see if another friend could come too (she a member to the club so atleast I don't have to waste my other pass on a stranger) and the second call was to see if I knew if the club could give her hubby a day pass so he could be there too. OK enough is FREAKIN enough. I'm starting to feel used and under appreciated (SP?)
I mean I totaly don't mind letting her use one of my guess passes, and I'm sort of ok with her friend joining us (who knows maybe I could make another friend here in Vegas) but her husband? Cut the freakin chain and spend some time without him. He's an ok guy, and I get along with him, but he kind of pissed me off when I needed some help after Steven's accident. He didn't want to leave the house to give me and my sone a ride home from the hospital. I guess soap operas are more important (in some alternate universe maybe) GRRRRRRRRRRR I just pissed because now I have to choose between going to the gym and being here to put my son to bed (a ritual that I have never missed a night in his life) (&^&$%($$^&(&^$ This sucks. -Cat
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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock fulfills his wager, does the 'Ray Lewis' dance
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock pulls out the stops fulfilling a wager with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake made before the NFL divisional playoff game between the Denver Broncos and Baltimore Ravens on Jan. 13.
Hancock's wager was delayed when he injured himself at the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo, but on Tuesday he sent out the video via an e-mail from his office.
The video shows the mayor's staff in a meeting around a table when Hancock walks in, reads the newspaper about Denver's loss and tosses it in the garbage. Then the music starts, Nelly's "Hot in Herre." And Hancock, on a rug, starts the pre-game dance made famous by Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis.
"Good luck, Ray Ray," Hancock shouts to the camera at the end of the dance, referring to Sunday's Super Bowl game between the Ravens and San Francisco 49ers.
Hancock sits down with his stoic staff and says, "Now, let's get to work."
Under the terms of the wager, Hancock also sent a box of dry aged "cowboy cut" rib eye steaks from Lombardi Brothers Meats to Rawlings-Blake.
Mayor spokeswoman Amber Miller said all of the production was done "in-house," using a video crew from the city's own Channel 8.


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El Galeón Stars in "Crossbones" on NBC
Just as the Spanish galleons of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were attacked by pirates because they transported passengers and rich merchandise, the replica galleon docked in Saint Augustine and managed by the Nao Victoria Foundation has become the interpreter of a new pirate drama called Crossbones on the American television network NBC.
Filmed on location in Puerto Rico and aboard the Spanish replica ship, El Galeón, The first installment of Crossbones premiered on Friday, May 31, 2014. Watch the series preview here and catch it every Friday on NBC at 10 p.m. eastern/9 p.m. central.
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Storage administrators are struggling to identify their storage resources and utilize those resources to their best potential. Storage resource management (SRM) tools have emerged to help administrators understand their evolving storage landscape, optimize utilization and performance, automate some of the most routine and error-prone management processes, and make informed decisions about future storage expenditures. This article explains the essential concepts of SRM tools, highlights notable SRM products and offers a series of helpful acquisition and implementation guidelines.
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StorageScope from EMC Corp. provides monitoring and reporting features within the ControlCenter family of SRM tools. This translates to improved storage utilization and performance, though Goodwin questions the level of multivendor support available in the product. "I've heard mixed reviews from that in the user community," Goodwin says. "If you are an EMC-centric shop, then StorageScope is probably a pretty good application. If you're an IBM or Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) shop, then you might want to consider one of the other tools."
HP's StorageEssentials SRM tool is based on software originally acquired from AppIQ Inc., but Goodwin points out the product's strong use of interface standards and broad heterogeneous support, including storage area network (SAN), network attached storage (NAS) and direct attached storage (DAS) products across HP, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hitachi Data Systems Inc. (HDS) platforms. "It supports a larger heterogeneous environment largely because it is SMI-S based, which is supported by all the big vendors in the industry," Goodwin says.
Storage Manager from Softek Storage Solutions Corp. is primarily a reporting tool, offering a complete view of data and the storage infrastructure, as well as task automation, like auto discovery and data profiling -- all from a single console. Goodwin acknowledges that Storage Manager indeed offers solid heterogeneity for disk-based platforms but notes a lack of support for tape as an important disadvantage.
Selecting the right product
SRM tools are readily available, but they can vary dramatically in complexity and feature sets. Before selecting a tool, understand the information and reporting capabilities needed by your own organization, and verify that the tool provides compatibility across the current storage infrastructure. Once you narrow the field, a few potential candidates can be thoroughly tested in-house. Analysts suggest the following points that can help you identify the best product for your own production environment.
Identify the tool's suitability to the environment. An SRM tool absolutely must support the servers, storage platforms, switches and applications used in the infrastructure. If not, the tool cannot access potentially important parts of the infrastructure. This can restrict the tool's ability to automate key tasks, and lower the accuracy and quality of its analytical results -- it's simply less useful. An SRM tool should also bring automation to the environment, allowing fewer IT staff to effectively manage more storage. "In 2000, an average IT organization would manage approximately 2 terabytes (TB) of storage per administrator, where today that number is more like 15 TB per administrator," Goodwin says. "You have to make your people more and more efficient, and that's what SRM does."
Understand how data is collected. Analysts recommend selecting "agentless" SRM tools that adhere to SMI-S standards. Tools that are based upon agents require software installations on each server or other device being queried or controlled. This intrusive technique imposes more software maintenance demands on administrators and can potentially open the door to security threats through the agent software. The additional burden of agent software can also impinge on system performance -- sometimes resulting in artificially low performance results.
Look for key features or functions. Not only must a tool be suited to the environment, the tool must also provide the environment with a feature set that meets the organization's needs. For example, when an SRM tool is intended to analyze storage utilization, features like chargeback functionality and integration with the company's billing application can become exceptionally important. "If you have, for example, a huge tape environment -- tens of thousands of tapes -- and that's one of your primary cost areas and points of concern, then you'll want an SRM package that addresses it," Goodwin says. "Not all of them do."
Consider whether the tool is deployable. Some SRM tools are quite powerful but require a small army to implement. Other tools lack the "push" functionality to keep agents and applets updated throughout the infrastructure, and this wastes valuable time by forcing a manual installation on each platform. Tools that are difficult to implement or use will probably not be used consistently, if at all, compromising the tool's value right from the start. "It needs to be very unintrusive," Schulz says. "Ideally it should be able to plug in, and you should be able to unplug it. It shouldn't ingrain itself into your environment."
Consider the reporting functionality. SRM tools typically offer a rich selection of depth and format options, but the options should be conducive to the business. For example, a storage administrator should not need to program the SRM tool to deliver reports -- a tool with a standard library of report formats will probably be used more frequently. Report delivery is also an important consideration. "The fact that it has 'umpteen-hundred' [sic] different kinds of reports is not necessarily helpful. How are those reports delivered?" Goodwin says. "Can that [report] information be pushed to the user, or does the user have to go dig it out?"
Evaluate support for specific applications. Storage allocation and utilization based on specific applications (e.g., databases) are important aspects of storage management, so an SRM tool should offer clear management and reporting detail for mission-critical applications.
Best practices for implementation
SRM tools are deployed to gather and report on important information, but not all of that information is necessarily "good news." If you simply use SRM to see what is doing well, the tool's true value is diminished. Regardless of how you intend to utilize SRM, analysts remind administrators to focus on reality -- pay attention to the "bad news" and use that to recommend important storage improvements. Other well-grounded policies can help smooth any SRM implementation issues.
Start small and build out. The time and effort needed to build out a comprehensive SRM practice can be extremely challenging, and SRM tool deployments are underutilized, and even abandoned, because administrators are simply overwhelmed. Analysts suggest starting small with SRM -- gaining experience and building a series of successful efforts as deployment expands. "Do your pilot, become familiar with it [the tool], use it to discover. Learn what you have, learn how it's being used," Schulz says. "Establish what is normal and what is not abnormal."
Establish naming conventions. SRM tool results can be difficult to interpret because the designations used for switches, servers, logical unit numbers (LUN) and other network items are often inconsistent -- as devices are added and replaced, their names are frequently assigned indiscriminately. Analysts suggest revisiting the device naming scheme for your infrastructure and adopting conventions that make device identification more intuitive.
Limit initial reporting. Another way to develop skill with SRM is to start with simplified reporting -- don't let the SRM tool swamp you with excessive information. "Simplify the amount of data and the key stats you want utilization reports on," Babineau says. Once the SRM tool is used regularly, expand the reporting and refine the detail levels to meet specific administrative needs.
Implement security measures. SRM tools are often used simply for monitoring purposes, but many tools include provisioning, backup, replication and other advanced management features that can have a profound impact on the storage infrastructure. Once an SRM tool is deployed and configured, administrators should make the effort to implement user authentication and security measures to guard sensitive setups and prevent unauthorized resource changes. "If you're going to be making changes and adjustments, look into change control and change management tools as well," Schulz says.
Verify change discovery and reporting. Any SRM tool should be able to adapt to changes as they occur in the environment, so be sure to evaluate the tool to see how it adjusts. "As you add additional storage resources, how does the SRM application keep up with those changes in the infrastructure?" Goodwin says. "Is it automatic? Is it discovered? Is it immediately managed? And so on." Knowing exactly how the SRM tool adapts to changes will influence your change management and reporting processes. ***


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In a recent profile of John McCain, in the Times Magazine, Mark Leibovich writes:
Friends of McCain's say that his loss in '08, and the ridicule he suffered in the wake of it, was traumatizing in itself. "John has had two defining events in his life," Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, told me. "The first was his imprisonment, and the second was his failure to win the presidency."
McCain was held in a North Vietnamese prison camp for more than five and a half years, undergoing torture and solitary confinement. Coburn is not equating that experience with an election loss—the pain and anguish of politics being less than that of war—but it does seem possible that crushing imprisonment and a very public defeat could be traumatic in similar ways. How would it feel to hold yourself up before every citizen and be repudiated or passed over by a healthy majority of them? There may be no starker referendum on an individual's character and professional fitness in America than a Presidential election.
"I have looked, by the way, at what happens to anybody in this country who loses as the nominee of their party. They become a loser for life, all right? That's it. It's over."
This is Mitt Romney, speaking at a fund-raiser in a scene from the new documentary "Mitt," directed by Greg Whiteley, which began streaming Friday afternoon, on Netflix. Whiteley followed Romney, his family, and his advisers over the course of six years, spanning two failed Presidential campaigns. As he speaks, Romney puts his hand to his head, the thumb and index finger forming the letter L. (Then, just to remind you that this is Romney, his ad lib turns oddly mean, as he notes that "Mike Dukakis can't get a job mowing lawns.") Romney said plenty of odd things during the campaign, and here he drifts into hyperbole. Yet, notice the implication—that losing the office equates to a kind of death, one that is not just political. The pain may be intertwined with the level of ego necessary for a person even to consider running for President. All the same, we recognize some truth in his verdict, mostly because Romney himself seems to believe it. He is, essentially, foreshadowing his own future.
Many reviews of "Mitt" have noted its humanizing effect on Romney: he is revealed to be thoughtful and gracious and, in scenes with his family, funny and self-aware. There are even murmurings that such a portrait, had it been released before the election, would have helped him to shed his reputation as an ambitious automaton and to forge a closer connection to voters. Maybe he would have won. But, in the heat of a campaign, the documentary would have been greeted differently, as a purely political object—mined for ready clues to his political positions, spun predictably by supporters and detractors. What did the fact that he listened to "This American Life" or quoted "O Brother Where Art Thou?" or attempted to iron his clothes while wearing them say about his ability to be the President? Surely his handlers wouldn't have wanted anyone hearing him call himself "the flipping Mormon" or noting, rather bitterly, that he may have been a "flawed candidate." But there is not much utility in a retrospective gaffe; seen now, the documentary is more intriguing for its general tone, which is one of pathos and quiet regret.
In this way, "Mitt" is a spiritual cousin to a little-seen documentary about another failed Presidential candidate. In 2000, the director Spike Jonze, at the request of Al Gore's campaign, made a thirteen-minute video about the candidate, intimately and informally shot, with a jumpy hand-held camera, when Gore was at his home in Tennessee and on vacation with his family. It was shown at the Democratic National Convention that summer, but not in prime time. It is partly a traditional campaign video: Gore talks about improving manufacturing and schools and speaks about the empathy he feels for Americans struggling to improve their lives. But, mostly, it is about Gore's personality. The candidate appears, wearing a green polo shirt and a pair of loose-fitting jeans. Jonze joins him and his daughter in a limousine. Among Gore's first words onscreen: "Do you know what these are?" he asks, pointing at a canvas bag. "Gas masks." He laughs and notes that he is forced to travel everywhere with them.
It is an odd and funny collection of scenes. Gore goes to visit his mother. He says grace. He and his family debate which movies they should watch that night. Gore leads a minor seminar on the merits of their various choices—a near parody of his public persona. At one point, Gore shows Jonze some of the objects on his walls. There is a photo of him dressed as a convincing version of Frankenstein's monster for Halloween. He shows a framed list of pros and cons that his daughter had written down when Gore was considering running for President the first time, in 1988. Pros: "Wants to do it. Good chance." Cons: "Would not be here a lot. Would not like to have Social Security around all the time." He grins at the malapropism. (In "Mitt," Romney's family has similar discussions, weighing the merits of running and expressing ambivalence about campaigning and even about the prospect of winning: one of Romney's daughters-in-law, Jen, points out that the worst thing about running for President is that you might actually have to be the President. "Who'd want to do that?")
Despite its freewheeling sensibility, the Jonze video is structured around a central premise, which is that Gore has been pegged as aloof and has struggled to connect with voters. "I'm a little more reserved than a lot of people I know in politics," he says. "But trying to break through that, that's probably the most frustrating thing." Gore and his wife at the time, Tipper, describe how they first met, back when they were teen-agers:
"I was smitten. It was love at first sight," he says.
"He was handsome, and had a serious look about him, and also he was considerate and would ask me questions about myself."
"Was I a little stiff?"
"You weren't stiff at all."
They kiss, and then Tipper adds, "And, you know, you're not now."
This was all an attempt, too late in the campaign, to counter the image of Gore as a robotic wonk, in contrast to Bush, the affable everyman. Seen later, it takes on a different character. Al and Tipper Gore are divorced. The George W. Bush Administration played out like a bad dream. The scenes in which Gore talks about his early antipathy toward politics, and the shadow his senator father cast over his life, take on greater resonance, offering keys to understanding why he lost. (Romney shares his own self-doubts in "Mitt." In an early scene, in 2006, Tagg Romney mentions his grandfather George's advice about entering politics: "Don't do it.") The hope that we see in the Gore family's eyes as it weathers the final months of a Presidential campaign becomes almost tragic.
The emotional power of both the Jonze footage and Whiteley's documentary comes from knowing what the figures onscreen don't, which is that all the effort and personal exposure will end in failure. They more easily win our sympathy, along with a new kind of attention. One of the paradoxes of Presidential campaigns is that candidates can become more fascinating after they lose than when they were still in the running. In an odd way, we can imagine more what it would feel like to be the President than we can the Presidential runner-up. We've seen the television shows and the movies. We know what the Oval Office looks like, even if we've never been there. More important, we see the President every day, doing the familiar things required of the office. The greater mystery, and so the greater narrative drama, lies in the afterlife of the losers.
Some recent losers have simply returned to their other political duties, as when John Kerry and McCain went on being senators. They're not the ones we want to see. We are eager, at least for a while, for a glimpse of those who wake up on the day after the election with nothing to do. We stare at images of them: of Gore, after 2000, having gained weight and grown a beard; Romney, in the days after the election, filling his car with gas or gleefully riding on a minor roller coaster at Disneyland. (This month, he was seen attempting the "Gangnam Style" dance at a conference for young Mormons.) We may even worry about these Presidential losers and feel a newfound protectiveness. Having rejected them as political candidates, we owe them a final square appraisal as people.


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Number of discs: 3
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The Russian government takes this as an excuse to prolong their occupation of Norway. A gas production facility is attacked, temporarily delaying the EU production target, Occupied Season 1 and killing many Russian workers. Tensions further increase as unexplained events occur at the Norwegian–Russian border and a Russian naval fleet exercises off the coast of northern Norway. Berg asks the EU to protect Norway's sovereignty, but the EU fails to act decisively.The series of escalating complications begins when a member of the Royal Guard unsuccessfully attempts to assassinate the Russian ambassador, Irina Sidorova. Then a Russian agent is the victim of a hit-and-run and the Russian government demands that Norway extrajudicially extradite the driver, a suspected Chechen terrorist. The hit-and-run was an accident rather than a deliberate attack, Occupied Season 1 DVD but the driver commits suicide rather than being transferred to Russia. An insurgent group, Fritt Norge (Free Norway), emerges, and attacks police headquarters.
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Laurie started with the practice in 1998 and has been a registered dental hygienist since 1986, practicing both in general dentistry as well as periodontics.
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Committee Opinion Number 777, April 2019
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 592, April 2014)
ABSTRACT: Sexual violence continues to be a major public health problem affecting millions of adults and children in the United States. Medical consequences of sexual assault include sexually transmitted infections; mental health conditions, including posttraumatic stress disorder; and risk of unintended pregnancy in reproductive-aged survivors of sexual assault. Obstetrician–gynecologists and other women's health care providers play a key role in the evaluation and management of sexual assault survivors and should screen routinely for a history of sexual assault. When sexual violence is iden...
Statement of Policy (Approved by the Executive Board February 2014) (Reaffirmed February 2019), February 2019
The impact of gun violence on the health and safety of women is of great concern to obstetrician– gynecologists. Women disproportionately experience intimate partner violence, and the presence of firearms within those relationships is a key risk factor for intimate partner homicide. Homicide is the second leading cause of injury-related deaths among pregnant and postpartum women, and the majority of these homicides are carried out with firearms.
Committee Opinion Number 761, January 2019
(Replaces Committee Opinion No. 559, April 2013)
ABSTRACT: The incidence of cesarean delivery on maternal request and its contribution to the overall increase in the cesarean delivery rate are not well known, but it is estimated that 2.5% of all births in the United States are cesarean delivery on maternal request. Cesarean delivery on maternal request is not a well-recognized clinical entity. The available information that compared the risks and benefits of cesarean delivery on maternal request and planned vaginal delivery does not provide the basis for a recommendation for either mode of delivery. When a woman desires a cesarean delivery ...
Committee Opinion Number 749, August 2018
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 574, September 2013
ABSTRACT: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reaffirms its support of unrestricted access to legal marriage for all adults. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists believes that no matter how a child comes into a family, all children and parents deserve equitable protections and access to available resources to maximize the health of that family unit. Obstetrician–gynecologists should recognize the diversity in parenting desires that exists in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and gender nonconforming communities and should...
Committee Opinion Number 748, August 2018
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 639, September 2015)(Reaffirmed 2019)
ABSTRACT: Information from vital records is critical to identify and quantify health-related issues and to measure progress toward quality improvement and public health goals. In particular, maternal and infant mortality serve as important indicators of the nation's health, thereby influencing policy development, funding of programs and research, and measures of health care quality. Accurate and timely documentation of births and deaths is essential to high-quality vital statistics. This Committee Opinion describes the process by which births, maternal deaths, and fetal deaths are registered;...
Committee Opinion Number 707, July 2017
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 542, November 2012)(Reaffirmed 2019)
ABSTRACT: Emergency contraception refers to contraceptive methods used to prevent pregnancy in the first few days after unprotected intercourse, sexual assault, or contraceptive failure. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first dedicated product for emergency contraception in 1998, numerous barriers to emergency contraception remain. The purpose of this Committee Opinion is to examine barriers to the use of emergency contraception, emphasize the importance of increasing access, and review new methods of emergency contraception and limitations in efficacy in special po...
Committee Opinion Number 681, December 2016
(Replaces Committee Opinion No. 520, March 2012) (Reaffirmed 2019)
ABSTRACT: Adverse outcomes, preventable or otherwise, are a reality of medical care. Most importantly, adverse events affect patients, but they also affect health care practitioners. Disclosing information about adverse events has benefits for the patient and the physician and, ideally, strengthens the patient–physician relationship and promotes trust. Studies show that after an adverse outcome, patients expect and want timely and full disclosure of the event, an acknowledgment of responsibility, an understanding of what happened, expressions of sympathy, and a discussion of what is being don...
Committee Opinion Number 665, June 2016
(Reaffirmed 2018)
ABSTRACT: Considerable uncertainty exists about what constitutes appropriate levels of protection for adolescents as research participants and about the need for parental permission. The ethical principles that govern research include respect for individuals, beneficence, and justice, as articulated in the Belmont Report. Researchers should be familiar with and adhere to current federal regulations 45 C.F.R. § 46, and federal and state laws that affect research with minors. Investigators should understand the importance of caregiver permission—and ethically appropriate situations in which to ...
Committee Opinion Number 664, June 2016
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 321, November 2005)
ABSTRACT: One of the most challenging scenarios in obstetric care occurs when a pregnant patient refuses recommended medical treatment that aims to support her well-being, her fetus's well-being, or both. In such circumstances, the obstetrician–gynecologist's ethical obligation to safeguard the pregnant woman's autonomy may conflict with the ethical desire to optimize the health of the fetus. Forced compliance—the alternative to respecting a patient's refusal of treatment—raises profoundly important issues about patient rights, respect for autonomy, violations of bodily integrity, power diffe...
Committee Opinion Number 649, December 2015
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 317, October 2005) (Reaffirmed 2018)
ABSTRACT: Projections suggest that people of color will represent most of the U.S. population by 2050, and yet significant racial and ethnic disparities persist in women's health and health care. Although socioeconomic status accounts for some of these disparities, factors at the patient, practitioner, and health care system levels contribute to existing and evolving disparities in women's health outcomes. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is committed to the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in the health and health care of women and encourages obstetrician–g...
Committee Opinion Number 646, November 2015
(Replaces Committee Opinion No. 307, December 2004and Committee Opinion No. 377, September 2007) (Reaffirmed 2018)
ABSTRACT: Inclusion of women in research studies is necessary for valid inferences about health and disease in women. The generalization of results from trials conducted in men may yield erroneous conclusions that fail to account for the biologic differences between men and women. Although significant changes in research design and practice have led to an increase in the proportion of women included in research trials, knowledge gaps remain because of a continued lack of inclusion of women, especially those who are pregnant, in premarketing research trials. This document provides a historical...
Committee Opinion Number 633, June 2015
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 422, December 2008) (Reaffirmed 2018)
ABSTRACT: Alcohol abuse and other substance use disorders are major, often underdiagnosed health problems for women, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, and have resulting high costs for individuals and society. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, defines substance use disorder as a pathologic pattern of behaviors related to the use of any of 10 separate classes of substances, including alcohol and licit and illicit substances. In order to optimize care of patients with substance use disorder, obstetrician–gynecologists are encou...
Committee Opinion Number 627, March 2015
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 425, January 2009, Reaffirmed 2019)
ABSTRACT: Unauthorized (undocumented) immigrants are less likely than other residents of the United States to have health insurance. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has long supported a basic health care package for all women living within the United States without regard to their country of origin or documentation. Providing access to quality health care for unauthorized immigrants and their children, who often were born in the United States and have U.S. citizenship, is essential to improving the nation's public health.
Committee Opinion Number 625, March 2015
(Reaffirmed 2019)
ABSTRACT: Women with dense breasts have a modestly increased risk of breast cancer and experience reduced sensitivity of mammography to detect breast cancer. However, evidence is lacking to advocate for additional testing until there are clinically validated data that indicate improved screening outcomes. Currently, screening mammography remains the most useful tool for breast cancer detection and consistently has demonstrated a reduction in breast cancer mortality. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists does not recommend routine use of alternative or adjunctive tests to scr...
Committee Opinion Number 617, January 2015
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 403, April 2008) (Reaffirmed 2018)
ABSTRACT: Obstetrician–gynecologists care for women throughout their lifespans and are in an ideal position to have ongoing discussions with healthy patients about their values and wishes regarding future care and to encourage them to complete an advance directive for health care. In addition, situations may arise in which obstetrician–gynecologists need to participate in end-of-life care. When end-of-life decisions need to be made while a woman is pregnant, the level of ethical complexity often is increased. The purpose of this Committee Opinion is to discuss ethical issues related to end-of...
Committee Opinion Number 613, November 2014
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 424, January 2009) (Reaffirmed 2019)
ABSTRACT: Safe, legal abortion is a necessary component of women's health care. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists supports the availability of high-quality reproductive health services for all women and is committed to improving access to abortion. Access to abortion is threatened by state and federal government restrictions, limitations on public funding for abortion services and training, stigma, violence against abortion providers, and a dearth of abortion providers. Legislative restrictions fundamentally interfere with the patient-provider relationship and decrease a...
Committee Opinion Number 612, November 2014
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 424, January 2009) (Reaffirmed 2019)
ABSTRACT: Access to safe abortion hinges upon the availability of trained abortion providers. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists supports education for students in health care fields as well as clinical training for residents and advanced practice clinicians in abortion care in order to increase the availability of trained abortion providers. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists supports the expansion of abortion education and an increase in the number and types of trained abortion providers in order to ensure women's access to safe abortions. Integrate...
Statement of Policy (Reaffirmed July 2014), July 2014
The problem of perinatal transmission of HIV infection was first appreciated in 1982. In 1991, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended a policy of routine counseling and offering testing (with specific informed consent) for HIV infection to all pregnant women. Since 1991, there have been major advances in the treatment of HIV infection, including demonstration in 1994 of the efficacy of zidovudine to reduce perinatal transmission. The U.S. Public Health Service subsequently issued guidelines for use of zidovudine to reduce perinatal transmission and for counseling and voluntary testing fo...
Committee Opinion Number 599, May 2014
ABSTRACT: Confidentiality concerns are heightened during adolescence, and these concerns can be a critical barrier to adolescents in receiving appropriate health care. Health care providers caring for minors should be aware of federal and state laws that affect confidentiality. State statutes on the rights of minors to consent to health care services vary by state, and health care providers should be familiar with the regulations that apply to their practice. Parents and adolescents should be informed, both separately and together, that the information each of them shares with the health care...
Committee Opinion Number 586, February 2014
(Replaces Committee Opinion Number 429, March 2009) (Reaffirmed 2018)
ABSTRACT: Rural women experience poorer health outcomes and have less access to health care than urban women. Many rural areas have limited numbers of health care providers, especially women's health providers. Rural America is heterogeneous where problems vary depending on the region and state. Health care professionals should be aware of this issue and advocate for reducing health disparities in rural women.
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Along with the constantly diminishing number of the magnates of capital, who usurp and monopolize all advantages of this process of transformation, grows the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation; but with this too grows the revolt of the working-class, a class always increasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist production itself, The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production. Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.
And yet the Long Depression that accompanied the Gilded Age didn't bring it.
The Great Depression didn't bring it.
Two decades of bursting bubbles and Great Reset haven't yet brought it.
But David M. Kotz, in The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism, today's Book Review No. 7, thinks about how to bring it. Think a shorter Capital, starting with the market-friendly reforms that accompanied the failures of the Great Society and the European welfare states rather than with the primitive accumulation, and, after a look at the internal contradictions unleashed by those reforms, it concludes with suggestions about what comes next. We're past the simple dialectic in which a socialism replaces capitalism. Page 181: "The social structure of accumulation theory argues that every structural crisis is followed by major institutional restructuring." (There are books that can be written about what sorts of restructurings are futile reforms and what revolutionary transformations are sectarian, but Mr Kotz, mercifully, doesn't go there.)
He concludes, however, with the observation that This Time It's Different. Not quite integument-bursts-asunder different, but different enough that people might be receptive to "social democratic capitalism" (it differs from "Western Europe" but read the book) or to "democratic participatory planned socialism" (the details are fuzzy; there are emergence possibilities I grapple with here) as possibilities. Mr Kotz concludes, likely correctly, that the getting there "cannot be predicted."
(Cross-posted to Cold Spring Shops.)