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We have been wandering here and there since that time. Lots of work has been invested in the light-weight Qubes edition for Windows, which, sadly, turned out to be a failure.
We have also done a lot of work in the meantime to polish Qubes R2 and bring it to the state of the final release, which happened earlier this fall.
We have also been heavily researching possibilities of other cool projects based on this flexible new architecture. Some of which you might hear about in the coming months, others turned out to be dead ends.
Today we're finally releasing the Qubes R3 source code to the public. The code builds fine (see here for building instruction), produces install-able ISO, and, if that was not enough, even seems to be working, mostly fine, when installed :)
However, we don't recommend users to switch to it, and we intend this release for developers only, specifically those who would like to start working towards porting of other hypervisors, or other containerization technologies, like LXC, to Qubes R3. I highly recommend these devlopers to discuss what they try to achieve on the qubes-devel mailing list, before they start the actual coding.
Currently the only implemented and supported backend is Xen, of course, specifically the Xen 4.4, currently the latest version. It should be now trivial to switch to future versions as they become available, although, a decision to rush with that might not be such a no-brainer from the security point of view. We should remember that the hypervisor, unlike Linux kernel, is not someting you would like to change every month or so. Ideally we should aim for having a stable version of Xen for desktops that would work for years without needing any updates.
But use of other hypervisors might open up lots of interesting possibilities: imagine e.g. Qubes Live USB edition that has backends for 1) Xen, 2) KVM, and 3) LXC, and choose automatically the most secure one which is still supported on the given laptop.
Major features of the current release, compared to Qubes R2:
- Hypervisor Abstraction Layer for all the core management stack (but still missing for the GUI daemon, see below)
- New implementation of vchan and qrexec. As you might know our original vchan has been rewritten and improved (better performance and flexibility) and included in the upstream Xen starting from v4.2. Now we're switching to this upstream libvchan. Also, qrexec has been slightly rewritten to utilize some new features of this libvchan, which results in much better performance for inter-VM traffic (like a few orders of magnitude better!) Especially important for things such as USB virtualization that we're testing right now (not to be confused with USB controller pass-though).
- Rewrite of some internal code for the core management stack, which includes internal API of the python classes. This should mostly be of no interest to users, and even most developers working on Qubes.
- Initial code for Qubes Admin API and port of Qubes Manager to use it.
- More flexibility to qrexec policy (more on that in a separate post)
- More flexibility to Qubes Admin API (expose it to slelect other VMs)
- Split of Dom0 into (semi-depriviliged) GUI domain and minimal Admin domain. This would be great opportunity to also add the missing HAL support for the GUI daemon.
Also note how all these tasks are independent of the actual hypervisor support, meaning it's perfectly possible for other developers to work on porting other hypervisors to Qubes in the meantime.
The possibilities seems to be endless now. Join us and help us with The Revolution! :)


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Just uploaded a new project to ActiveDen. This is a slideshow that will let you display images and play videos.
You can play video from YouTube, Vimeo or your FLV, F4V, MP4 files.
It can load JPG, SWF and PNG files.
If you want to buy it, please check the image below 😉

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Eurosystem credit assessment framework (ECAF)
Objective: meeting high credit standards
The Eurosystem credit assessment framework (ECAF) mitigates the credit risk of collateral used in monetary policy operations, together with appropriate valuation and risk control measures. The ECAF defines the procedures, rules and techniques which ensure that the Eurosystem requirement of high credit standards for all eligible assets is met.
In addition, the Eurosystem applies greater valuation haircuts to eligible (i.e. high quality) assets which are nevertheless of relatively lower credit quality according to the ECAF, aiming at risk equivalence across all eligible assets.
Drawing on three sources
To assess the credit quality of eligible assets, the Eurosystem takes into account information ‒ ratings or probabilities of default ‒ from credit assessment systems belonging to one of three sources:
- external credit assessment institutions (ECAIs)
- national central banks' in-house credit assessment systems (ICASs)
- counterparties' internal ratings-based (IRB) systems
It is for the Eurosystem to determine whether an issue, issuer, debtor or guarantor fulfils the Eurosystem's credit quality requirements on the basis of any information that it may consider relevant for ensuring the adequate risk protection of the Eurosystem.
Credit assessment source | Credit assessment system / provider | Coverage |
ECAI | DBRS Morningstar | Eligible assets / issuers / debtors / guarantors from EEA or non-EEA G10 countries |
FitchRatings | Eligible assets / issuers / debtors / guarantors from EEA or non-EEA G10 countries | |
Moody's | Eligible assets / issuers / debtors / guarantors from EEA or non-EEA G10 countries | |
Standard & Poor's | Eligible assets / issuers / debtors / guarantors from EEA or non-EEA G10 countries | |
Scope Ratings* |
Eligible assets / issuers / debtors / guarantors from EEA or non-EEA G10 countries |
ICAS | Deutsche Bundesbank | German non-financial corporations |
Central Bank of Ireland | Mortgage-backed promissory notes issued by Irish credit institutions | |
Bank of Greece | Greek non-financial corporations | |
Banco de España | Spanish non-financial corporations | |
Banque de France | French non-financial corporations | |
Banca d'Italia | Italian non-financial corporations | |
Oesterreichische Nationalbank | Austrian non-financial corporations | |
Banco de Portugal | Portuguese non-financial corporations | |
Banka Slovenije | Slovenian non-financial corporations |
* The operational integration of Scope Ratings into the Eurosystem IT infrastructure is ongoing. Therefore, the ratings provided by Scope Ratings are not currently used by the Eurosystem to assess the credit quality of eligible collateral for monetary policy operations, with the usability of these ratings entering into effect at a later date, to be pre-announced on the ECB's website.
Credit quality assessment
Minimum credit quality requirements
Last updated: 10 November 2022
The Eurosystem considers a probability of default over a one-year horizon of up to 0.10% as equivalent to a credit assessment of credit quality step 2 on the Eurosystem's harmonised rating scale, subject to regular review. A probability of default of up to 0.40% is equivalent to step 3. Probabilities of default of up to 1.00% and 1.50% correspond to credit quality steps 4 and 5, respectively.
All assets accepted by the Eurosystem as eligible collateral must meet the minimum requirement of a credit assessment of credit quality step 3 on the Eurosystem's harmonised rating scale (Article 82 of Guideline ECB/2014/60, as amended).
Specific requirements apply to asset-backed securities (ABS) and retail mortgage-backed debt instruments (RMBDs):
- ABS must meet the minimum requirement of credit quality step 2 on the Eurosystem's harmonised rating scale. ABS need to have at least two credit assessments meeting this requirement from any accepted ECAI for the issue (the "second best" rule; Article 82 of Guideline ECB/2014/60, as amended). However, ABS with a second-best rating of at least credit quality step 3 are also eligible for use as collateral if they fulfil certain additional requirements (Article 3 of Guideline ECB/2014/31, as amended);
- RMBDs must have a credit assessment of credit quality step 2 on the Eurosystem's harmonised rating scale.
It is for the Eurosystem to determine whether an issue, issuer, debtor or guarantor fulfils the Eurosystem's credit quality requirements on the basis of any information that it may consider relevant for ensuring the adequate risk protection of the Eurosystem. For example, the Eurosystem may reject assets, limit their mobilisation or use as collateral, or apply supplementary haircuts.
Eurosystem's harmonised rating scale
Accepted credit assessment systems can each use their own individual rating scales and grades. The Eurosystem maps these different grades to a harmonised rating scale in order to make the credit ratings comparable across systems and sources. The table below presents the mapping of the accepted external credit assessment institutions (ECAIs), which is subject to regular review in the ECAF performance monitoring process.
ECAI credit assessment | Credit quality steps | |||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
Short-term | DBRS Morningstar | R-1H, R-1M | R-1L, R-2H, R-2M, R2-L, R-3 | |||
FitchRatings | F1+ | F1, F2, F3 | ||||
Moody's | P-1 | P-2, P-3 | ||||
Standard & Poor's | A-1+, A-1 | A-2, A-3 | ||||
Scope Ratings | S-1+, S-1 | S-2 | ||||
Long-term | DBRS Morningstar | AAA/AAH/AA/AAL | AH/A/AL | BBBH/BBB/BBBL | BBH | BB |
FitchRatings | AAA/AA+/AA/AA- | A+/A/A- | BBB+/BBB/BBB- | BB+ | BB | |
Moody's | Aaa/Aa1/Aa2/Aa3 | A1/A2/A3 | Baa1/Baa2/Baa3 | Ba1 | Ba2 | |
Standard & Poor's | AAA/AA+/AA/AA- | A+/A/A- | BBB+/BBB/BBB- | BB+ | BB | |
Scope Ratings | AAA, AA+, AA, AA- | A+, A, A- | BBB+, BBB, BBB- | BB+ | BB |
Performance monitoring of credit assessment systems
All accepted credit assessment systems are subject to due diligence and a performance monitoring process within the ECAF.
All credit assessment systems are required to send the Eurosystem "static pool data", i.e. a set of data on the universe of the entities (assessed by the credit assessment system) which are eligible for use as collateral in Eurosystem monetary policy operations. Static pool data for credit assessment systems that are mainly used for the credit assessment of non-marketable assets (ICASs and IRBs) are reported to the respective national central bank (NCB) using a template that the NCB sends to the credit assessment system.
Further clarification in particular for ICASs and IRBs on the compilation of the static pool:
External credit assessment institution source (ECAIs)
External credit assessment institutions (ECAIs) are credit rating agencies whose ratings are considered suitable by the Eurosystem for the specific purpose of its monetary policy operations. They must comply with the general acceptance criteria for ECAIs.
General acceptance criteria for ECAIs
- ECAIs must be registered by the European Securities and Markets Authority.
- ECAIs must meet operational criteria and provide relevant coverage so that the ECAF is implemented efficiently. In particular, their credit ratings cannot be used unless information about these ratings is available to the Eurosystem. Information is also needed for comparing and assigning, i.e. mapping, the ratings to the Eurosystem's credit quality steps and for the purposes of the ECAF performance monitoring process.
- ECAIs must comply with the minimum coverage requirements in terms of rated assets, rated issuers and rated volume diversified across the eligible asset classes and euro area countries. The minimum coverage requirements are defined by the Eurosystem and give guidance in the context of the ECAF-acceptance procedure on the provision of relevant coverage.
Once an ECAF-acceptance procedure has been initiated, the Eurosystem will also consider all additional information relevant for risk protection and the efficient implementation of the ECAF, including the criteria and rules for monitoring performance. It is for the Eurosystem to decide whether to accept a rating agency as an ECAI for the purposes of the ECAF on the basis of the information provided and its own due diligence assessment. ECAIs are subject to the ECAF performance monitoring process.
Minimum coverage requirements for ECAIs in the ECAF Q&As on the acceptance of credit rating agencies as external credit assessment institutions under the Eurosystem credit assessment frameworkOperational criteria on covered bond programmes rated by ECAIs
ECAIs must comply with specific operational criteria. In relation to covered bonds, with effect from 1 July 2017, ECAIs must publish new issue reports and quarterly surveillance reports for all rated covered bonds in order to meet the high credit standards of the ECAF (Article 59 and Article 120 of Guideline ECB/2014/60, as amended). For further clarification on these requirements:
Q&As on the Eurosystem's disclosure requirements for covered bond ratingsICASs
In-house credit assessment system source (ICASs)
National central banks may decide to develop their own in-house credit assessment system (ICAS). These systems must be validated by the Eurosystem before they can be used for ECAF purposes. Once accepted for ECAF purposes, ICASs are subject to the ECAF performance monitoring process.
The Eurosystem currently accepts nine credit assessment systems as ICASs, operated by the following national central banks respectively:
- Deutsche Bundesbank;
- Central Bank of Ireland;
- Bank of Greece;
- Banco de España;
- Banque de France;
- Banca d'Italia;
- Oesterreichische Nationalbank;
- Banco de Portugal;
- Banka Slovenije.
Internal ratings-based system source (IRB)
Banks can use an internal ratings-based (IRB) system to calculate the capital requirements for credit risk if the relevant banking supervisor has authorised the IRB system for this purpose in line with the Capital Requirements Regulation.
A Eurosystem counterparty, i.e. a bank, intending to use its authorised IRB system also for ECAF purposes must obtain permission from its home national central bank.
Counterparties using an IRB system for ECAF purposes are subject to the ECAF performance monitoring process.


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by Alexandra Du Toit
(NaturalNews) Cucumbers are the fourth most cultivated vegetable in the world and known to be one of the best foods for your body's overall health, often referred to as a superfood. Cucumbers are often sprayed with pesticides so it is important to buy organic or even better, grow them yourself.
Here are 10 benefits of cucumbers:
1.Quick pick me-up – Cucumbers are a good source of B vitamins. put down your sodas and coffee and eat a cucumber slice.
2. Rehydrates body and replenishes daily vitamins – Cucumbers are 95 percent water, keeping the body hydrated while helping the body eliminate toxins. Cucumbers have most of the vitamins the body needs in a single day. Don't forget to leave the skin on because the skin contains a good amount of vitamin C, about 10 percent of the daily-recommended allowance.
3. Skin and hair care – If you don't like to eat the skin, it can be used for skin irritations and sunburns as aloe would be used. place a slice over puffy eyes and its anti-inflammatory properties help reduce puffiness. The silicon and sulfur in cucumbers help to stimulate hair growth.
4. fight cancers – Cucumber are known to contain lariciresinol, pinoresinol, and secoisolariciresinol. These three lignans have a strong history of research in connection with reduced risk of several cancer types, including breast cancer, ovarian cancer, uterine cancer and prostate cancer.
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9. Cures diabetes, reduces cholesterol and controls blood pressure – Cucumber juice contains a hormone which is needed by the cells of the pancreas for producing insulin which has been found to be beneficial to diabetic patients. Researchers found that a compound called sterols in cucumbers may help reduce cholesterol levels. Cucumbers contain a lot of potassium, magnesium and fiber. These work effectively for regulating blood pressure. This makes cucumbers good for treating both low blood pressure and high blood pressure.
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Why did I just move to NYC? Portland, Oregon continuously surprises me as the place to be for hip and alternative design and music (Musicfest NW is going on there now). Portland-based company Queen Bee Creations just came out with this new line of bags made with sustainable fabrics. They also have some bags made from recycled materials. Everybody really is turning green these days, and I think that's glorious. -Maya the intern.
Even the Queen Bee turned green
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This is Jim Wilkinson's Web site. My business background is in systems engineering project management in the telecommunications industry. I first got involved in Web publishing in 1996, when I project-managed the introduction of our company intranet.
Today, my particular interest is in universal Web access as a publishing medium, including the often-neglected issues of usability and also accessibility for people with disabilities. One aspect of my interest lies in the capability of the Web's Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to transform material for different media (repurpose/reformat/reuse).
Web site accessibility for people with vision, motor or cognitive disabilities is a key issue since the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, as applied to services, came into effect in 2001.
On this site I offer my thoughts and advice on using the Web, including:-
- Staying safe on-line from viruses and fraudsters
- Web browsers and how to set them up
- Fonts (typefaces) including the Web default font
- E-mail software
- Managing junk e-mail (spam)
- Combating viruses
- Web advertising and how to regain control
- Search engines
Where I recommend software, I have no links with the companies that supply it. My advice is based on my own experience and is offered simply to help make your use of the Web faster, cheaper, safer and more effective.
If you find this advice useful or have any comments, please let me know of your experiences.
You can e-mail me at syntactic att syntacticweb dott co dott uk.


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About the Author
Linda Francis Lee is a native Texan now calling New York City home. Linda's writing career began when her article "There Is No Finish Line" was published in her university's quarterly magazine. But she got sidetracked from writing when she started teaching probability and statistics. Later she found her way back to writing, and theAtlanta Journal Constitution called her breakout novel, Blue Waltz, "absolutely stunning."
Now Linda is the author of twenty-one novels that are published in twenty countries around the world. Two of her most recent novels are in development for feature films.
When Linda isn't writing, she loves to run in Central Park and spend time with her husband, family, and friends. She loves to hear from readers.


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Caricature Artists in New York
Kings, queens and other nobles have commissioned portraits of themselves for centuries. Everyone loves seeing their likeness recreated. For a more lighthearted take on this tradition, consider hiring a caricaturist for your next event! Caricature artists will produce colorful cartoon sketches of your guests when you hire them for parties and events in New York. Scroll to the bottom of the page to learn more about the art of caricature.
Digital Caricatures - The Next Big Trend
Have you heard of digital caricatures?
They are a new, innovative way to bring art to your next event.
Traditionally, caricature artists have relied on pen, pencil or other physical media to create works of art.
Now, thanks to the latest technology, many artists have started incorporating computers and tablets into their artistry.
Using a small, portable tablet and an LCD monitor, the artist will draw a live cartoon of their subject (you!) while you watch from your chair. Watch as the image is transferred from the tablet to the computer. The effect is a stunningly-life-like, digitally-rendered portrait. Then, the artist simply prints out the finished product!
Traditional caricature art is still very popular and requires a great deal of skill and talent. Digital ones, however, are a fresh, unique way to entertain your guests. Find expert caricature artists who work with all types of media in New York by using our guide.
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By Rachana Pradhan and Hannah Norman
While developing a rapid test that detects the coronavirus in someone's saliva, Blink Science, a Florida-based startup, heard something startling: The Food and Drug Administration had more than 3,000 emergency use authorization applications and didn't have the resources to get through them.
"We want to try to avoid the EUA quagmire," said Peb Hendrix, the startup's vice president of operations. Its test is still in early development. On the advice of consultants, the company is weighing an alternative route through the FDA to the U.S. market.
"It's just the way our government works," Hendrix said, which is a challenge for businesses that are "anxious to get started and think they've got something that can help."
The U.S. produced covid-19 vaccines in record time, but, nearly two years into the pandemic, consumers have few options for cheap tests that quickly screen for infection, though they are widely available in Europe. Experts say the paucity of tests and their high prices undermine efforts in the U.S. to return to normal life.
Some experts say the FDA's approach to clearing rapid tests has been onerous and overly focused on exceptional accuracy to detect positive results, rather than on what would really benefit people en masse: speedy results. The main use of rapid tests is to screen people so they can safely attend work, school, meetings or gatherings. This screening can then be followed up with a more sensitive, lab-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for diagnosis.
The FDA has authorized just 12 over-the-counter options for rapid tests. But the problems go beyond that agency: The Biden administration recently put $3 billion toward boosting the supply of rapid tests, but public health and industry experts say the government didn't move quickly enough early in the pandemic to support development and manufacturing.
"Should we have had an equivalent of Operation Warp Speed for testing?" asked Mara Aspinall, a co-founder of life sciences fund BlueStone Venture Partners and a board member for OraSure Technologies, which received FDA authorization for an over-the-counter rapid test. "Absolutely. … For too long, people thought of testing as an extra and not the core, and it needs to be thought of as the core."
During the pandemic, the FDA has received more than 4,500 emergency use authorization and related requests for covid tests, according to FDA spokesperson Jim McKinney. The agency says it is prioritizing reviews of at-home and point-of-care tests that can be produced in high volumes. Two recently authorized tests alone could boost availability by as much as 13 million tests a day, McKinney said, adding that it would "efficiently review the submissions that will have the biggest impact on the nation's testing needs."
In addition to the slow pace of approvals, manufacturing bottlenecks created by materials and labor shortages are keeping prices high. Prices of rapid tests range from $14 for a two-pack to well over $50 a test, far from affordable for regular use.
The FDA says it can't move more quickly as it balances ensuring that safe and useful devices reach the marketplace with the urgent need to deliver options for widespread daily testing.
"The FDA carefully weighs the known and potential risks and … benefits of emergency use authorization for COVID-19 diagnostic tests based on sound science," McKinney said in response to questions. But he noted many submissions "are incomplete or contain insufficient information."
Startups said navigating the ins and outs of this regulatory apparatus is daunting. E25Bio of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is developing a low-cost antigen test, which detects covid by identifying proteins called antigens. Since July 2020, the company has repeatedly adjusted its FDA application as the agency updates its recommendations. The requirement that test results be reported directly to federal health authorities has added to delays.
"As a smaller company, we didn't have the capabilities to develop that technology at first," said Bobby Brooke Herrera, co-founder and chief science officer. E25Bio now has a mobile app that verifies results and sends the anonymized data to public health authorities.
Another speed bump: The FDA requires U.S. clinical trials, making the company's data from Latin America unusable.
Herrera hopes to sell the over-the-counter rapid test in the U.S. for less than $5, cheaper than anything currently on the market.
Hendrix said Blink Science is considering a different path to FDA approval. Known as de novo, it can be used to bring novel, low-risk medical devices to market. For now, he said, the company is likely to prioritize approval in developing countries where vaccination rates are much lower than in the U.S.
Steradian Technologies, which hopes to launch a 30-second breath test, says it was told by regulatory consultants and others who ran into snags in the EUA process that it "might not be worth it" because the agency is so backed up, according to Tra Tran, the company's director of development and clinical affairs. The FDA's regular approval process might be the best option.
"We don't have the budget to spend on doing an EUA and then being told, 'Well, actually you wasted six months and hundreds of thousands of dollars,'" she said. "Only certain people have the capital to be able to afford staying in this FDA regulatory process for forever."
The Companies' View
Several public health experts and people in the testing industry said that the Biden administration's recent moves will help supply but that meeting demand will take time.
Australian test-maker Ellume received $232 million in federal funds in February to boost U.S. manufacturing of its rapid at-home test, but the company says its new plant in Frederick, Maryland, won't start production until December. It could eventually manufacture 15 million tests a month.
The FDA authorized Ellume's over-the-counter covid test in December 2020, but the road has been rocky: The company recalled 2.2 million tests in the U.S. because of "higher-than-acceptable false positive" results, the FDA said, and the FDA warned that their use "may cause serious adverse health consequences or death." All came from Ellume's Australian facility.
IHealth Labs, which received FDA authorization Nov. 5 for a test priced at $14 for a two-pack, says that by January it will be able to make 200 million tests a month.
OraSure aims to make 4 million covid tests a month by January and 8 million a month by June. It plans to scale up to 200 million covid tests annually — but not until 2024.
Scott Gleason, OraSure's interim chief financial officer, said the company faces headwinds at its plant in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. "We're having some challenges with hiring enough people to work in our factories to meet the demand," he said. A two-pack has recently retailed between $14 and $24, and that price won't drop anytime soon, Gleason said.
Ellume has faced shortages of swabs, steel for its facility and electronics components for the tests.
The View From the FDA
The FDA has authorized more than 400 covid tests, including at-home options and those processed by a medical provider or a lab. The FDA is still getting more than 100 EUA submissions for covid tests per month, many from overseas. But, McKinney said, the vast majority are not for the type most needed now: tests for over-the-counter use.
The FDA may be reluctant to ease its scrutiny. The pandemic's first-iteration rapid tests, like Abbott Laboratories' ID Now, raised safety and accuracy concerns, and the FDA has sent warning letters to at least six companies selling bogus rapid tests and has issued numerous recalls. Separately, the agency put over 260 tests that detect covid antibodies on a "do not use" list.
"If we did to antigen tests what happened with antibody tests, we would completely destroy the credibility of the test," said Aspinall, the venture capitalist. "As frustrating as this is, I have to respect the FDA for ensuring that we continue to have quality tests."
The agency's review times for covid test EUA applications have improved, according to an assessment by consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Approvals were generally cleared faster than denials. As of March, the median time for the FDA to grant authorization was seven days and 38 days for denials. When the country isn't in a national emergency, getting through the FDA's reviews might take months or years.
Nonetheless, the bottlenecks are felt by Americans trying to keep their employees and families safe.
LabCentral — a biotech co-working facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was part of E25Bio's testing study — requires participating startups to test workers twice a week. That's a costly safety measure for a nonprofit, said Celina Chang, LabCentral's vice president, so it recently bought rapid tests from Germany for $1.50 each. "In order to test people twice a week on a regular basis for months on end," she said, "we need it to be, just the same as anyone, affordable."


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Under certain circumstances, seemingly decent human beings are capable of horrific things.
So it is with Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who parlayed his sound money bona fides into the top post at America's private banking cartel and current issuer of our un-backed currency. In betrayal of his own stated free-market principles, Greenspan spent his tenure at the Fed pumping up financial markets with easy money and enabling runaway government spending commitments.
Today, however, the "maestro" of central banking is playing a very different tune. He's warning against an inevitable crisis resulting from the very policies he helped implement.
Perhaps it's a late-life crisis of conscience. Perhaps he feels guilty. Perhaps at age 90, he just feels free to speak his mind in a way that most current and former Fed officials don't. In any event, Alan Greenspan is very concerned about the legacy he will leave and now seems genuinely worried about the country's financial future.
Greenspan: "We Are in the Very Early Days of a Crisis Which Has Got a Way to Go"
Following the Brexit shock and the market volatility that followed in its aftermath, Greenspan scolded British officials for the "mistake" of allowing the vote to leave the European Union to take place. He predicted more dominos would fall. In an interview with Bloomberg last week he said, "We are in very early days of a crisis which has got a way to go."
It's not surprising to hear Greenspan echo other pro-globalist voices in bemoaning the potential disintegration of the European Union. Central bankers, commercial bankers, governments, and international corporations all have vested interests in pushing for what they call "integration."
Outgoing United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage declared the successful Brexit referendum "a victory for ordinary people" against "multinationals," "big merchant banks," and "big politics."
As global stock markets protested, the gold market surged to new 2016 highs post-Brexit.
The success of Brexit, which defied the predictions of pollsters, may bode well for Donald Trump. His unconventional campaign for the presidency hits on similar anti-globalist, anti-establishment themes.
Meanwhile in Congress, renegade Republican Rep. Thomas Massie is pushing what he calls an "Amexit" from the United Nations. Massie's American Sovereignty Restoration Act (HR 1205) would allow the U.S. to leave the United Nations and cease sending $8 billion per year in "contributions" to the world body.
Anti-establishment politics irks elites in central banking and elsewhere who institutionally prefer the status quo. But what really worries former Fed chair Alan Greenspan isn't the upcoming election or any bill in Congress. It's the $19+ trillion national debt and the trillions more in future spending commitments that are already baked into the cake.
Greenspan: Entitlements Time Bomb "Is What the Election Should Be All About"
The problem, as Greenspan sees it, is the structure of Social Security, Medicare, and other "mandatory" spending programs. Through them, ever growing numbers of people "are entitled to certain expenditures out of the budget without any reference to how it's going to be funded. Where the productivity levels are now, we are lucky to get something even close to two percent annual growth rate. That annual growth rate of two percent is not adequate to finance the existing needs."
Greenspan's prognosis: "I don't know how it's going to resolve, but there's going to be a crisis."
His pessimism stems from the political reality that elected representatives lack the will to address entitlement spending. "Republicans don't want to touch it. Democrats don't want to touch it. They don't even want to talk about. This is what the election should be all about in the United States. You will never hear one word from either side," Greenspan told Bloomberg.
He is right, of course. Even self-described "conservative" Republicans who tout smaller government in principle don't actually vote for it in practice. Mathematically, they can't.
Once you rule out cuts in military and entitlement spending, as most Republicans do, what's left on the table to cut is small potatoes. Going after waste, fraud, and abuse isn't going to stop the bleeding of red ink as millions of Baby Boomers withdraw from the workforce and expect to collect trillions in unfunded benefits that have been promised to them.
The good news (if you're a politician) is that under our monetary system you don't ever have to cut. You don't have to ensure that your promises of future benefits can be met with revenues. You can be as fiscally irresponsible as the Federal Reserve's willingness to expand the currency supply permits you to be. The Fed stands ready to buy up government bonds in unlimited quantities, making a sovereign default practically impossible and enabling the government to borrow at artificially low interest rates.
The government debt bubble is a product of the fiat monetary system. Under a gold standard, Congress would be limited by what it could actually extract from the people in taxes.
Here's what one of the world's most famous economists said recently about gold: "If we went back on the gold standard and we adhered to the actual structure of the gold standard as it existed prior to 1913, we'd be fine. Remember that the period 1870 to 1913 was one of the most aggressive periods economically that we've had in the United States, and that was a golden period of the gold standard."
The self-described "gold bug" economist quoted above is none other than Alan Greenspan!
Yes, the longest-serving chairman of the world's most powerful fiat money establishment.
The same Alan Greenspan who helped both Republican and Democrat administrations drive up the national debt from $2.4 trillion to $8.5 trillion in the years 1987-2006.
The same Alan Greenspan whose implicit open-ended backing of U.S. debt markets helped Congress grow unfunded liabilities by untold trillions more than is even reported in official debt figures.
The same Alan Greenspan who engaged in shocking interventions and currency devaluations, starting with bailing out Long Term Capital Management in 1998 and followed by a blowing up of the tech bubble, and, after its crash, the housing bubble.
Why Did Greenspan Commit His Horrific Monetary "Crimes"?
At last, Greenspan sees the light. Perhaps in private he always did. Before he helmed the Fed, he was known as a free-market advocate who associated with novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand and strongly favored a gold standard. But unlike a Randian hero, Greenspan compromised his principles in his pursuit of power, fame, and social status.
Taken to its extreme, the phenomenon of Greenspan's tenure was akin to the "banality of evil," a concept that came into prominence following Hannah Arendt's book about the Nazi trials. Arendt's thesis, as described by author Edward Herman, was that people who carry out unspeakable crimes aren't necessarily crazy fanatics, but rather "ordinary individuals who simply accept the premises of their state and participate in any ongoing enterprise with the energy of good bureaucrats."
Why did Greenspan play a key role in undermining sound fiscal policies and sound money while he was at the height of his power and influence at the Fed? Why did he do so much to fuel asset bubbles and reckless debt spending? Only Alan Greenspan himself knows for sure, but we're the ones paying the price.


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Seven Tips For A Long And Healthy Life
However great as current clinical innovation may be, it can never save you from the issues brought about by a way of life that is unfortunate. Rather than getting a cutting edge clinical fix for each issue, it is much better to live so that you will scarcely at any point become sick.
An ounce of counteraction is positively better compared to a pound of fix. The following are seven hints on the best way to carry on with a long and sound life. Moreover, the very way of life that assists you with staying away from disease additionally assists you with shedding pounds.
Get Sufficient Activity
In the past individuals needed to involve their actual bodies throughout their typical work. Be that as it may, today somebody might get up, go to work in a vehicle, then plunk down, get up to return home in the vehicle and while showing up at home, plunk down again until the end of the day. In such a daily existence there is no actual work. This actual latency is one of the fundamental explanations behind a large group of infections. Sport, running. strolling and different things should be added to our life in the event that our ordinary work doesn't expect us to truly strive. I
Fall asleep when you feel drowsy
This might sound straightforward, yet many individuals keep awake until late in any event, when their body is letting them know that the time has come to rest. Yoga and Ayurvedic specialists additionally say that dozing in the evening and be dynamic during the day is better. Notwithstanding, individuals, for example, understudies will take espresso and energizers to concentrate until quite a bit later. Others foster the propensity for staying dynamic around evening time and dozing during the day. While we can do this, it in the long run negatively affects wellbeing. Elective wellbeing specialists say that this sort of unnatural living is one of the contributing variables in the causation of malignant growth and different sicknesses
Eat when you feel hungry
This is likewise a basic thought, yet by and by we frequently conflict with the messages of the body. Assuming you eat without much forethought or because of prevailing difficulty at specific time, in any event, when you have no genuine hunger, then you won't process your food appropriately. Sharpness and heartburn start, and this adds to the probability of other more intricate infections flourishing. Having a craving is really an indication of good wellbeing, however in the event that you have no hunger you ought to stand by a little and, eat. (On the off chance that you have no craving even in the wake of anticipating a sensible measure of time, then, at that point, you ought to counsel a specialist since something is off-base.)
4.Fast on a Normal, Deliberate Premise
Assuming you would request that any individual work 365 days out of each year with no rest, they would whine and say that they should have some rest or probably they will separate. Be that as it may, we have never tried to get some information about our stomach related organs which we urge to work a large number of days without a rest. They can't fight the manner in which an individual would to his chief, however they really do give us flags that they can't work relentless. At the point when we overlook those signs regardless constrain them to work, those organs separate. For that reason intermittent fasting is fundamental. Cease from eating for one complete day. This gives a rest to your stomach related organs and furthermore helps in the disposal of squanders from your body. Standard fasting permits an individual to acquire additional time for scholarly or otherworldly pursuits. Fasting isn't so much for loners in a cavern, however is a reasonable practice that anybody can rehearse.
Wash with cool water prior to heading to sleep
As referenced above, appropriate rest is fundamental for the upkeep of wellbeing. On the off chance that you wash your significant engine and tactile organs (hands, arms, eyes, legs, mouth, private parts) before rest utilizing cool water, this will loosen up you and set you up for profound rest.
Perform contemplation consistently
Your body is connected to your brain. Large numbers of the sicknesses of this period are psychosomatic. Stress and nervousness negatively affect our actual wellbeing. Contemplation is a psychological activity which, in addition to other things, permits you to disengage yourself from the concerns of life. Become familiar with a straightforward procedure and do it consistently.
Rise and shine early consistently
Yet again the old precept, "Right on time to bed, ahead of schedule to rise makes an individual solid, well off and savvy." I couldn't say whether it will make you rich, yet it will positively make you sound. Your body needs barely sufficient rest, not to an extreme and not excessively little.
Follow these tips and you can't turn out badly.


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Student Teams and Organizations
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UM::Autonomy's Phoenix navigates into a fourth place finish at the 2024 RoboBoat competition
Collaboration and problem solving led the UM::Autonomy RoboBoat team to fourth place in the automated tasks and first place in the design documentation competition.US solar car places fourth in global competition
After starting last, the University of Michigan team overcame major setbacks in Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.Family Fun Night celebrates the wonders of ECE research, community
The event featured interactive research stations, student team demos, and carnival attractions, including the chance to dunk a professor.MASA achieves liftoff with record-setting rocket
The 20-foot tall Clementine is the largest liquid bipropellant rocket ever built by college students.MRacing smokes competition with their first electric race car
At Formula SAE Michigan, MRacing defended their number one U.S. title and placed second overall.SPARK Electrifies Motorcycle Racing
With their newest electric motorcycle, the student team took second and third place at the American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association Formula Lightning Series competition.U-M team reaches next phase of Amazon Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge
Team SEAGULL, led by doctoral student Yichi Zhang and advised by Prof. Joyce Chai, strives to develop embodied AI agents capable of attending to users' needs, following natural language instructions, collaborating, and continuously improving through interaction.MRover crowned champions of the University Rover Challenge
From autonomously navigating rocky terrain to testing soil for signs of life, the Michigan Mars Rover team bested their competition and took first place at the international competition.Solar car "Aevum" to test solutions ahead of next World Solar Challenge
An unusual two years in the making, the car is equipped with sensors to explore how the team can improve its design further before the 2023 race.U-M Society of Women Engineers honored with top awards at national conference
ECE leaders and members in SWE share their favorite parts of the conference, including taking home three awards for the U-M chapter.Baja Racing wins 1st Place Overall Award at SAE Louisville
In their first competition since the pandemic began, Baja proved they are still among the world's finest, placing top ten in every event out of over 75 competitors.New student team constructs robotic submarine, finishes 4th at international competition
Michigan Robosub built their first autonomous submarine and competed virtually against 54 teams from 12 countries, completing several aquatic tasks.Michigan Electric Racing takes first place at Formula SAE Michigan
The student team overcame a year of pandemic-related challenges and completed a near perfect sweep of the Electric Vehicle Class events.A resilient campus
How engineers are applying their expertise for future planning.
New "Women in ECE" organization provides professional development and community
WECE is a student-run, diversity-focused organization dedicated to the personal and professional growth of those committed to innovation and excellence in electrical and computer engineering fields.
U-M programming teams compete in regional contest; two advance to divisional competition
Despite a delay due to COVID-19, U-M fielded four teams in the annual programming competition.
Undergraduate student teams create two new video games over the summer
The games were conceived and developed by teams of students working remotely during the summer of Covid.
EECS Juneteenth celebration features song, readings, and a proposal for change
In observance of the holiday that marks the end of chattel slavery, faculty, students, and alumni performed music, shared personal stories, and presented a proposal to the EECS chairs for initiatives to enhance diversity and equity and realize systemic equality in the department.
Leland Pierce honored as outstanding student organization advisor
The College of Engineering recognized Pierce with the Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award for his support and commitment to the U-M student chapter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
Optics Society wins Elaine Harden Award from College of Engineering
From outreach programs for local kids to events that bring the U-M Engineering community together, the Optics Society exemplifies leadership and service.
Programming team competes in North American Championship
U-M continues its tradition of competing hard in the world of programming, with its team competing at the ACM-ICPC National Finals.
Building CubeSats to test electrodynamic tethering in space with MiTEE
Mi-TEE (Miniature Tether Electrodynamics Experiment) is a University of Engineering project directed by Prof. Brian Gilchrist that aims to test the tethering technology in space.Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers makes connections, builds relationships at annual convention
At the largest convention for Hispanic STEM students and professionals, U-M students attended career panels and workshops while networking with a variety of big-name companies.
Michigan team competes in Amazon challenge to make AI more engaging
The team of twelve students is one of ten worldwide working to give Amazon's Alexa more human-like conversational skills.
Michigan programming team advances to national finals
Student programmers from Michigan are competing in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, the world's most prestigious student programming competition.
'Electrum' solar car from U-Michigan takes on global competition in Australia
Team bets on revamped electrical system in the outback.
Baja Racing breaks records while leaving the competition in the dust
Breaking the all-time record for highest cumulative season score, the team took home the 1st Place Mike Schmidt Memorial Iron Team Award.
Beyond Apollo 11: U-M ECE's role in advancing space exploration
For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, U-M ECE takes a look back – and a look forward – to how our professors, students, and alums have made their mark on the field.
Building community through clean energy
From Long Beach, CA, to a Nepalese national park and world heritage site, undergrads Ashley Gee and Camille Burke came away with unforgettable experiences and a greater appreciation for how engineering can change the world for the better.
Michigan takes first place at Exoskeleton Competition
The STARX suit helps first-responders bear greater weights and spend less energy.
Michigan Mars Rover Team has best ever finish at the annual University Rover Challenge
MRover placed 7th overall at the annual challenge where rovers use AI to navigate tough terrain while collecting soil samples to practice testing for evidence of life in the universe.
Amateur radio continues to connect the world
U-M's amateur radio club, headquartered in ECE, offers engineering challenges and a chance to network with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and strangers both on the other side of the world and those orbiting it.
Michigan Electric Racing Revs Up
This summer, Michigan Electric Racing will race their first all-electric car in Formula-style competitions they plan to win.
A Spotlight on Optics
The Optics Society at U-M hosted an Industry Spotlight event, which brought academia, industry, and community together to celebrate all things optics and photonics.
Women Engineers lift up next-generation
The Society of Women Engineers took students to the Women Engineers conference, where engineers from diverse backgrounds shared their stories to inspire and encourage young engineers to break barriers and advance the field.
M-Fly's season ends with top-10 finishes, new autonomous plane
This year the team tackled their first autonomous aircraft.
Mars Rover Team tackles major redesign, places in top 10 at competition
This year's model, "Phoebe," received a major design overhaul that gave her a speed boost and new codebase that can be used for years to come.
Exoskeletons compete to boost strength of rescue workers
Five college teams test robotic suits that could enhance humans' abilities.
Installing an alternative on spring break
Students put up solar power systems and learned the local issues of a Native American reservation while on spring break.
Battling drone ships with Anthony Uytingco
Student leads team that programs the future of boats.
Off-roading in sand and snow with Shivani Shah
Student prototypes new transmission for four-wheel fun.
PhD candidate Michael Benson wins another year leading honor society HKN
Michael Benson reelected as student governor for HKN, the national honor society for electrical and computer engineers.
Meet some ECE Solar Car Team members
Meet 3 members of the solar car team: a battery engineer and two race micro systems engineers
Record-breaking second place for Solar Car Team
The national champions celebrate the most successful world race finish in team history.
UM::Autonomy competes with brand new boat design
The UM::Autonomy team brought their latest autonomous boat, called Flying Sloth, to participate in the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Foundation Roboboat competition.
Baja Racing team first to three-peat national championship
The U-M Baja Racing team took first place in the U.S. national competition for the third year in a row, making them the first team to ever three-peat.
New student team builds autonomous vehicles
The University of Michigan Intelligent Ground Vehicle (UMIGV) student team has spent much of its first year organizing and fundraising, and is now building a prototype autonomous vehicle.
MHybrid takes on major design overhaul
The Michigan Hybrid Racing (MHybrid) team took their latest creation to the Formula Hybrid Competition at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in May.
New student exoskeleton team launches prototype
Student team STARX (STrength Augmenting Robotic eXoskeletons) completed its second year, focused on making practical powered exoskeletons that increase the effective strength of the user.
Student hybrid rocket team takes first place at inaugural competition
The Michigan Aeronautical Science Association (MASA) won the first ever Spaceport America Cup, an intercollegiate rocket engineering competition with over 110 teams from colleges and universities in eleven countries.
Engineering students bring education to disadvantaged children in Ecuador
Sam Tenka traveled to Ecuador with the Honors GO team to aid the Street Children Work project.
U-M Optics researchers sponsor Optics and Photonics Industry Snapshot
The Optics and Photonics event showed a thriving industry in SE Michigan
EE sophomore takes on W8UM Amateur Radio Club leadership
Kit Ng becomes president of one of the oldest amateur radio clubs in the US
Liz Dreyer earns an outstanding Collegiate Member Award for years of SWE leadership
Liz Dreyer works with Prof. Steve Rand to understand how a new interaction between light and matter can generate electricity.
Having fun with ECE
The event highlighted the projects and work of several student teams and labs, giving kids and adults alike a chance to see ECE's ingenuity in action.
EECS students Row Blue! to victory
Four EECS students part of the Michigan Men's Rowing team that won their 9th consecutive national championship
Michigan Solar Car defends national title in sweeping victory
The University of Michigan Solar Car team has successfully defended their championship – winning the 2016 American Solar Challenge for the sixth consecutive time.
UM::Autonomy makes a strong finish at RobotBoat Competition
Thurman, this year's UM::Autonomy vessel designed by EECS students, took 6th place in the RoboNation RoboBoat Competition.
Baja wins big
The Baja Racing team, which designs and manufactures a new off-road race vehicle every season, won its second consecutive overall 1st place finish and the Mike Schmidt Memorial Award, the season's highest honor.
MHybrid races on
MHybrid team members took away memorable experiences and have turned a positive eye toward the future – with graduates anticipating new careers.
Student team designs and builds unique new instruments
A team of undergraduates across majors, called Project Music, collaborated to design and build musical instruments. Recently, the team crafted a bass guitar made partially of LEGOS.
ArborHacks formed to increase access to and participation in computer science
The group will hold a once-a-year hackathon for local high school students in addition to other events.
Better gender balance goal of latest MHacks hackathon
MHacks: Refactor, v7 of the nationally-renowned U-M hackathon, drew many more women, underrepresented students and first-timers.
MHacks: Refactor to focus on gender inclusivity and hacker empowerment
This semester the creators are focusing less on numbers and more on the experience.
MHacks 6 Showcased Another Round of Creative Projects
Over 1,300 students were represented at this 36 straight hour event to produce creative and impactful projects.
MHacks Adds New Workshops and Events for 6th Hackathon
This will include seven intro-level workshops and a new event entitled Women@MHacks, which is an 8-hour long event directed towards female engineers.
EECS students make career connections at NSBE conference
55 U-M engineers attended the convention, themed "Reimagining Your Future," and developed vital connections in their field.
Building better RoboBoats: UM::Autonomy takes third at international competition
For this year's competition, UM::Autonomy performed a complete hull redesign, motivated by instability in their previous designs.
ECE students earn CoE Distinguished Leadership Awards
Cheng Zhang and Elizabeth Dreyer are both Ph.D. students in electrical engineering, and Lauren Bilbo is an undergraduate senior majoring in electrical engineering.
HKN students crowned Mr. and Ms. Engineer at the the Engineering Games
The competition raised over $2,000 for the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program.Cameron Polack and BLUElab India – engineering winners
Cameron is intent on using her major to benefit others as directly as possible.
Isabel Martin receives CoE Distinguished Leadership Award
Isabel envisions a future working in the aerospace industry.
Mai Le receives CoE Distinguished Leadership Award
Mai has served as Community Service Co-chair of the Graduate Society of Women Engineers since arriving at Michigan in 2011.
IEEE recognized as Best Student Branch in SE Michigan
"IEEE opens up many doors for students – professionally and socially."
EECS students travel down under for the 2013 World Solar Challenge
The entire team pulled together and finished the race in ninth place, with their morale high.
Top robotic helicopter team sets sights on impossible mission
The International Aerial Robotics competition requires teams to build a flying bot that can self-navigate.
"Spark" races in 2013 Formula Hybrid Racing Competition
The Michigan Hybrid Racing team's Spark took home a 4th place finish.
MAAV student team places first in IARC competition with robotic quadrotor
The MAAV team, which was founded in 2009, was one of only two to successfully maneuver and map the set course with their unmanned aerial vehicle.
Team UM::Autonomy are champions again
The interdisciplinary team went into the competition with a new electrical and vision system, and an advanced control system.
Michigan Hybrid Racing
Listen to Michigan Hybrid Racing team members talk about their work and upcoming competition.
EECS 461 (Embedded Control Systems) and the freescale cup
This was the first year Freescale opened up the competition to U.S. students—teams from U-M, U-M Dearborn, and Penn State competed against teams from Mexico and China.
MRacing Team drives to 2nd overall finish in Formula Student Germany
Taking first place in acceleration and second place in endurance and autocross, this is one of the team's best international finishes to date.
UM: Autonomy's Team takes home 1st Prize
The Autonomous Surface Vehicle Competition is a student robotics competition in which teams race ASVs of their own design through an aquatic obstacle course.
Jacob Oberlin's electronics savvy helps drive MRacing team to a strong finish in Germany
As one of the only non-mechanical engineers on the team, Oberlin was responsible for all of the electrical systems on the vehicle.


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Thai Airways was formed in 1988 with the merger of the domestic carrier Thai Airways Company and Thailands international carrier THAI and is fully owned by the Thai Government. It has grown to flying to over 70 destinations in more than 30 countries worldwide with a fleet of 90 aircraft. It has its base at the new Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok and is a founding member of the Star Alliance. Thai Airways mostly flies in the South East Asian Region but is also dominant in the European routes. Once it operated the longest non-stop flights in the world from Bangkok to New York and Los Angeles but stopped with these flights due to high fuel prices and changed the flights to America into a one-stop service at Seoul (South Korea). Currently it is in the process of an aircraft renewal program and has placed large orders both at Boeing and Airbus. It currently uses the Boeing 747 Jumbojet, Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 and A340. It also placed orders for the new Boeing Dreamliner, the Airbus A350 and for 5 SuperJumbo A380. It is expanding its network with new destinations worldwide but it is feeling the cutthroat competition with AirAsia at its home, one of the reasons of its first operating loss in 2008 after 40 profitable years. It has started a low-cost carrier for the Thai domestic market, Nokair (fully owned) and it started with a regional carrier Thai Smile.
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Oetker Collection Selects Leonardo Technology to Centrally Manage Growing Library of Hotel Digital Assets
Toronto, Canada and Baden-Baden, Germany – August 16th, 2016 – Leonardo Worldwide Corporation today announced that Oetker Collection, the most inspiring selection of masterpiece hotels in the world, has adopted its VScape Digital Asset Management technology to centrally manage an increasing number of high-resolution media assets for its expanding portfolio of one-of-a-kind hotels.
As digital marketing becomes more dependent on visual content, hotel chains are faced with the challenge of managing rapidly increasing amounts of high-resolution digital assets for hotel properties. As a solution to this challenge, Oetker Collection recently adopted the Premium version of Leonardo's VScape Digital Asset Management System – a central, cloud based enterprise software system to centralize, organize and make use of an unlimited number of hotel media assets efficiently, seamlessly and securely. Additionally, VScape provides Oetker Collection direct connectivity to Leonardo's VNetwork, the most extensive visual media syndication network in the global travel industry.
"We know that our target guests are shopping for hotels online and that their booking decisions are heavily influenced by the quality and quantity of hotel images they're seeing. We also know that the demand for hotel images will only increase. With that, we sought out an easy way to manage our growing library of high-resolution media internally and increase the quantity of images displayed on travel websites. Leonardo's VScape was the clear solution for us, as it provides all of the digital asset management and connectivity options we need right now and as we grow," says Laetitia Guy-Debout, Marketing Manager, Oetker Collection.
"We're seeing an influx of hotel groups like Oetker Collection reaching out to us in search of a solution to better organize, manage, share and syndicate thousands of large, high resolution media files for their properties. This is evidence that investing in a complete end-to-end Digital Asset Management System – specifically VScape – is becoming essential for hotel chains. We're confident that Oetker Collection will quickly benefit from increased efficiency and lower costs as a result of subscribing to VScape," says John McAuliffe, Leonardo's President.
About Leonardo
Leonardo Worldwide Corporation is a technology company serving the global hospitality industry. Leonardo provides e-marketers at hotel brands, management companies, hotel properties and travel websites with technology solutions that improve the way they present their hotels online to travel shoppers.
Leonardo's core products include Vizlly, a cloud-based Multi-Channel Digital Marketing System that makes it easy for hotel marketers to create and publish websites, mobile websites, social media apps and digital brochures for third party travel websites; VScape® Digital Asset Management System, an enterprise-level digital asset management and distribution tool that helps hotel chains better source, manage, organize, store, and publish media assets to direct and indirect online channels; and MediaConnect, advanced connectivity for travel websites to access the industry's definitive source of hotel certified visual content.
Key to all products is Leonardo's extensive connectivity. Using Leonardo's VNetwork, the largest travel website network in the global hospitality industry including GDSs, Meta Search sites, OTAs and more, hoteliers can publish their content and stories to millions of travel shoppers all over the world on the channels, devices and platforms they use to shop for hotels online. For more information about Leonardo, visit www.leonardo.com.
About Oetker Collection
Oetker Collection is one of the most inspiring selections of masterpiece hotels in the world. The name 'masterpiece hotels' includes a pledge; a commitment to provide service of the highest quality, every hour of every day. The pearl as a symbol combines singularity, beauty and quality. The individual pearls bind together to form a unique string of pearls.
Each property is one-of-a-kind, reflecting the unique European heritage and sharing the highest levels of service internationally with exceptional and historic architecture & interiors combining with great attention to detail.
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Happy Holidays, one and all! Whether you've opened your presents already or not, dig deep in that stocking, because we've wrapped up a collection of our favorite moments from this past year, just for you! And, no there's no gift receipt, don't even ask.
Bowen Yang Plays Not My Job
Saturday Night Live superstar Bowen Yang is one of the funniest people alive. Though he started as a writer, he had a breakout year in front of the camera this year. To celebrate, we invited him on to play a game about the local news that we called, "Monday-Friday Night Live."
Bluff the Listener
In a never-before-heard Bluff the Listener game, our panelists read three stories about the Christmas traditions of the rich and famous, only one of which is true.
Lindsey Vonn Plays Not My Job
Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn has won just about every championship there is to win, but she's never played our game. Since she's probably used to people screaming "Go, Vonn! Go!" guest host Maz Jobrani decided to ask her three questions about Vincent Van Gogh.
Elizabeth Warren Plays Not My Job
Senator Elizabeth Warren must need a break from Congress. In addition to writing a new book this year, she took the time to swing by our show to play a game that guest host Maz Jobrani called "Senator Warren Peace," three questions about the classic Tolstoy novel
Panel Question
In another never-before-aired moment, panelists Maeve Higgins, Luke Burbank, and Cristela Alonzo answer a question about an advent calendar gone wrong
Symone Plays Not My Job
RuPaul's Drag Race winner Symone has been celebrated as one of the greatest participants in the show's history. And she proves why during her appearance with us. She also plays a game about plumbers we call, "Lip Sync, Meet Fix Sink"
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OPINION: '˜Nottingham prison deaths are tragedies. We should care about prisoners'
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Hide AdTheir names will soon be forgotten, except by the grieving families and some victims of their crimes. But consider this stark statistic: the number of corpses found in one month in this category B unit is the same as the highest number of deaths there over the course of any previous year this century.
The single fact shows the spiralling scale of our prison crisis, each death a damning indictment of state failure. Yet these tragedies are just tip of an iceberg.
Inspectors recorded 199 attacks on staff at this 1,060-capacity prison within a year, along with 457 fights among prisoners and 82 fires. Drugs are rife, causing debt and violence. Education and work was slashed due to spending cuts. Such is the systemic collapse that one inmate had to wear the same clothes every day for three weeks.
Rioting and suicides
Similar problems exist across the country. All indicators are heading in the wrong direction, from the 20 assaults on prison officers each day - including a mob armed with pool balls at Long Lartin last week - through to rising numbers of riots, self-harm incidents and suicides.
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Warnings are coming thick and fast. "The worst we've ever seen," said Andrea Albutt, the Prison Governors Association president, earlier this month. Prisons are 'unacceptably violent and dangerous places' said their chief inspector in his annual report.
Or maybe you heard Dan, released after ten years behind bars in 17 different places, tell Radio 4's Today last week how everything had broken down, from the beds and disgusting cells through to any sense of helping people deal with personal demons. "Your head goes, you just get worse and worse," he said. "You leave prison worse than before you went in."
The immediate solution is simple: hire more staff. Many problems at prisons such as Nottingham are due to staff shortages, the number of officers falling almost one-third after the coalition took office.
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Hide AdThis has, thankfully, been belatedly recognised. Prisons minister Sam Gyimah installed a special team on the ninth floor of the ministry to drive recruitment, leading to a net increase of 868 officers this year despite difficulties of retaining staff amid the chaos and drug-fuelled violence.
Yet a more fundamental issue lies at core of this crisis. England and Wales lock up far too many people - more than any other nation in western Europe. Thanks to the myth that prison works, promoted by politicians trying to look macho, the population behind bars doubled in two decades.
This has caused hideous overcrowding. It is cruel when three in ten inmates have a learning disability or difficulty. And a criminal waste of taxpayers' money when almost half reoffend within one year of release.
Pointless short sentences
Both main parties share guilt in Government. The response to any problem is longer sentences. We have just seen another example of this posturing with maximum sentences for animal cruelty set to rise from six months to five years. This will impact directly on few people and deter no-one. Yet as one justice department insider said, it will lead to more crowded prisons 'since you can't see someone getting a longer sentence for cruelty to a horse than for grevious bodily harm on a human'.
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Hide AdShort sentences especially are pointless since they achieve almost nothing except for disrupting any family or job stability. Recidivism rates actually rise among those serving less than 12 months.
Even Albutt admitted prison is the worst place for someone who is mentally ill while drugs are so widely used some offenders first become addicted behind bars. And once someone goes to jail they are more likely to commit crime.
Political incentives
Politically, there has never been better time to end this farce since the Tories could look compassionate while left-wing Labour should be on board. There are 86,337 inmates in England and Wales. Each one costs £35,000 a year - yet many emerge with problems fuelling criminal behaviour worsened.
Use of community sentences is falling. Yet it is far tougher to force people to confront personal issues than to leave them lying around stoned all day - as well as much cheaper, even if rehabilitation and treatment programmes were made more effective.
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Closer to home, the Scottish Government deserves credit after courageously telling courts to avoid sentences under three months. Now the chief inspector of prisons demands an end to all terms of less than a year. "If you want to reduce crime then you don't send people to prison for a short time," said David Strang, chief inspector of prisons for Scotland and a former chief constable.
No sympathy
These issues are easy to ignore. Prisoners are seen as scumbags, shut out of sight from polite society, even banned from voting. And why waste cash on crooks when hospitals struggle?
Yet we should care, whether on grounds of humanity or purely selfish reasons. For if serving time leaves minds more messed up, addictions intensified and families broken, these people are more likely to burgle your home, mug your mother or beat your son when back on the streets. We must free ourselves from the myth that prison works.


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This Garment Dyed Pocket Tee from Faherty is made from organic cotton and knit with a soft slub texture, then garment-dyed and washed for an everyday softness. With an easy fit that runs true to size, it's perfect on its own or layered under your favorite flannel. It's the basic tee, that's anything but basic.
- Organic cotton knit with a slub texture
- Garment dyed for a sun-faded look
- Washed for extra softness
- Single chest pocket
- Longer cut through the body
- Slightly tighter neckline
- Traditional fit that runs true to size
- We recommend taking your normal size
Materials: 100% cotton
The following measurements are for size medium: Chest: 40" | Sleeve: 16 ½" | Shoulder: 17" | Length: 25 ½"


text: Extremely moisturizing masque elegantly transforms from balm to oil to help restore dry skin. Activated by skin's natural heat, our MeltingPoint Complex delivers a satisfying melting sensation as it penetrates skin's surface layers to deeply nourish and rehydrate. Micro-algae's hydrating properties help soothe and protect skin against the drying effects of pollution. Vitamin-rich, buttery formula delivers intense, lasting hydration for smooth skin. Linoleic Acid nourishes while Vitamin E helps protect against skin-damaging free radicals for healthier-looking skin.