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IBM on Friday announced a definitive agreement to acquire the software portfolio of Star Analytics, a privately held business analytics company headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The combination of IBM and Star Analytics software is expected to further advance IBM's business analytics initiatives, allowing organizations to gain faster access and real-time insight into specialized data sources.
Star Analytics software helps to automatically integrate essential information, reporting applications, and business intelligence tools across their enterprises, on premises or from cloud computing environments. The software removes typical custom coding for specialized sources and eliminates manual processes.
"IBM sees an enormous opportunity for our clients to apply Star Analytics to the information they have stored in their financial applications and to then easily access it within their IBM performance management and business intelligence solutions," said Leslie Rachan, general manager of IBM Business Analytics, in a statement.
"Star Analytics software allows organizations to move critical analytics source data at will and use it regardless of which application they need to use it with, providing both flexibility and accessibility," said Quinlan Eddy, CEO of Star Analytics, in the statement. "As part of IBM, we can now bring our technologies to a broader range of clients to help them uncover new, untapped growth opportunities."
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text: In parallel with the political campaign season comes aviation's annual rite of spring: the battle over user fees. No sooner than did the Obama administration's proposed budget come off the press than my inbox filled with a half dozen press releases from the alphabets decrying users fees. By now, I think they can just change the date and leave the rest of the prose intact from last year's release. Welcome to the center of the universe of your own special interest group.The Obama administration is proposing a $100 per flight fee for aircraft that operate on flight plans in controlled airspace, with an exemption for piston aircraft. This proposed fee is in keeping with the administration's fairness in taxation and, by another name, it's just a tax-the-rich ploy aimed at operators of business jets. Everyone knows it's more political window dressing than good public policy. It might play well in the hustings with the freckled-necked masses who saw their 401Ks tanked by the financial meltdown, remembering as they do how many banks operate bizjets.Setting aside the politics, are user fees ever justified? Why do we squeal when they're broached? The citizenry shells out for all kinds of user fees, for toll roads and bridges, for entrance to state and national parks, for license plate fees, for corporate filing. The list is long if not endless. The argument that aviation is unique because fuel taxes fund the system is bogus. Road fuel taxes fund roads, too. So this isn't a matter of whether there should be a bar at all, but where to put it. You can argue that user fees are discriminatory and depressive, but so is paying $12 to cross the George Washington Bridge.For me, the principle at stake on this particular user fee is creeping government intrusion but, more important, just flat out inefficiency in how government services are delivered, especially by the FAA. Who can make a convincing argument that the FAA spends the money it already gets wisely and that more revenue is justified? No show of hands there, I guess. If I had confidence that the agency spent its money prudently, I might be less knee-jerk myself on user fees. (See this week's story story on FAA performance on the next big boondoggle that has a 50-50 chance of running off the rails: NextGen.)Having said all this, I'll concede that it can be trying to be a member in good standing of the aviation special interest group because the standard refrain of any special interest group is…don't cut our funding, cut someone else's because we are…special. Exhibit A is the Air Line Pilot's Association opposing the proposed cuts of $36 million from the air marshal program and another $13 million from the Federal Flight Deck Officer program. Both are worthy programs, I'm sure. But the reason these things became so inflated by government dollars in the first place is that we allow ourselves to succumb to the perpetual grip of 9/11 fear. Good people have used and continue to use this fear to maintain the budget momentum that sustains their little fiefdoms, which are necessarily more important than the other guys' fiefdoms.There are also proposed cuts in airport capital programs which we in GA are likely to argue shouldn't be touched. But I question how necessary and cost effective some of these improvements really are. In GA, we tend to never see an airport project we don't like and one that isn't for the greater good of aviation. It seems as though that AIP money is there for the asking.For Exhibit B, I'd submit our neighboring airport, Charlotte County, which has proven unusually adept in navigating the government grant business. Several readers of this blog have pointed out that this airport, best described as semi-sleepy, now has a 12-story control tower worthy of a busy metro airport. It's the highest point in the county and probably one of the highest in Florida. State and local funds went into it, but the feds are paying the contract to run it. The airport also got a couple of million bucks for ramp improvements in hopes of attracting an airline or two in an overserved market where Sarasota and Fort Myers are struggling to stay competitive.I'm of two minds about this. It's a good example of government investment in basic aviation infrastructure that in fact spurs growth. At Charlotte County, there are already short-term gains, despite the critics. Traffic and enplanements are up and the local government claims measureable economic benefits. All good.But the airlines serving Charlotte County-Allegiant and Direct Air-are the sort of carriers that tend to come and go like the weather, jumping from one market to the next looking for a way to make profits on cheap seats. (Direct Air, for instance, used to be in St. Pete, but pulled out to go elsewhere.) Some cities just want the service so badly, they're willing to spend anything to have someone come in and provide it. But any airline flying seats around for $59 is automatically suspect in my book.In normal times, I'm all for this sort local/federal government spending on infrastructure. It's smart business and smart government. Build it and they will come writ large. But these aren't normal times. As a nation, we are spending far more than we take in, the Congress won't raise taxes nor will it nor the administration nor any of a million special interests, support meaningful budget cuts. The Senate hasn't passed a budget in nearly three years. At some point, this irrational idiocy is going to have to end, probably from the grassroots up, not the other way around. (I'm sure you've heard something like this: "Well, it's just $2 million. If we don't get it, someone else will.)Call me crazy, but for my piece of the pie, I'd slash federal spending by a fixed percentage across the board. Everyone and everything takes a hit. Pick a number: 2 percent this year, 5 percent next year. Rinse, repeat. If that means I won't be landing on an improved runway for five years, so be it. If any of us think we're going to solve our larger fiscal problems without giving up something, we're suffering a kind of collective dementia that's normal for Greece but in the U.S., exceptional, even for special interests.In tomorrow's blog, I'll discuss one aspect of this in our own little corner of the universe: How the FAA's Aeronav division may be missing an opportunity to actually save us and the government some money.


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The prevalence of pre-diabetes – higher than normal blood glucose levels – has tripled within the space of 8 years in England, reveals research published in the online journal BMJ Open.
More than a third of adults in England now have pre-diabetes, the findings suggest, with those who are disadvantaged and of black and minority ethnicity disproportionately affected. If nothing is done to halt this trend, the country faces a steep rise in the prevalence of diabetes, as up to one in 10 of those with pre-diabetes will progress to diabetes every year, warn the authors.
They base their findings on an analysis of data collected for the representative Health Survey for England for the years 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2011 and those participants who had provided a blood sample. In all, the data covered more than 20, 000 people.
Pre-diabetes was classified as a glycated haemoglobin – a measure of blood glucose control – of between 5.7% and 6.4%. Diabetes is usually classified as a glycated haemoglobin of 6.5%.
Analysis of the data showed that the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes rose from 3.55% in 2003 to 5.59% in 2011. But the rise in the prevalence of pre-diabetes was much greater. This rose from 11.6% to 35.3% between 2003 and 2011. Older age, overweight, obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol were all associated with pre-diabetes risk.
By 2011, half the survey participants (50.6%) who were overweight with a BMI of more than 25, and aged at least 40, had pre-diabetes. There was no gender difference in rates.
Those living in some of the most deprived areas of the country were more likely to have pre-diabetes in 2003 and 2006, but this association was no longer significant by 2009 and 2011.
But after taking account of age, sex, ethnicity, BMI and high blood pressure, people who lived in the second most economically deprived areas of the country were 45% more likely to have diabetes by 2011.
Although diabetes is associated with more complications than its precursor condition, people with pre-diabetes are still at risk of vascular, kidney, and eye problems, the authors point out.
They admit that the data don't reveal whether any of the survey participants had been screened or treated for their condition, and while this does not alter the prevalence figures, it could affect the policy implications, they say.
Nevertheless, they describe the rise in the proportion of adults who meet the criteria for pre-diabetes as "extremely rapid," and conclude: "In the absence of concerted and effective efforts to reduce risk, the number of people with diabetes is likely to rise steeply in coming years."


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The 17th biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting, co-sponsored by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), The Oceanography Society (TOS), and the American Geophysical Union (AGU), will be held at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu from 23-28 February 2014. The Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) is an important venue for scientific exchange across broad marine science disciplines. Sessions will include all aspects of oceanography, especially multidisciplinary topics, as well as presentations that reflect new and emerging research on the global ocean and society, including science education, outreach and public policy. The OSM originated in 1982 as a joint effort between AGU and ASLO, TOS joined as a regular co-sponsor in 2004.
Increasing evidence of multiple human impacts on the oceans makes this is a critical time for the largest international assembly of ocean scientists, engineers, students, educators, policy makers, and other stake holders to gather and share their results on research, application of research, and education. What better place to hold the meeting than an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where there is emphasis on mauka to makai (ridge to reef) connection, the ultimate in ecosystem-based management; where there is interest in combining traditional knowledge with science-based understanding; where islands are in threat of disappearing from sea level rise; and where East and West can easily meet? Throughout their history, Hawaiians have demonstrated a thorough understanding of sustainability with an approach to land and water use that allowed them to self-sustain nearly one million islanders. Today they build on that heritage with innovations in science and clean energy. Hawaii is a place where interdependence and sustainability are both historic and necessary.
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Today was the final day of the Carefree Fine Arts and Wine Festival… until January. And March. That's right, I'll be back here three times a year! My new job kicks ass!
To bid a fond adieu to the wonderful city of Carefree, we woke up at 6am and headed to the festival to get good parking so I could move the van as soon as the show wrapped and not have to risk running down fellow artists in the desperate attempt to get packed as soon as possible. Since we'd arrived so early, we got to enjoy a leisurely breakfast on the patio.


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Buckminster is distributed as a set of fairly fine-grained features. Each feature provides some specific support and it is up to you to configure your installation for your own needs.
The update manager, with its tree structure, might encourage you to install all features by simply checking the top check-box. When installing Buckminster this is a really bad idea since some features are mutually exclusive and others are likely to bring you no benefit at all.
This is an overview of the optional features. All features will require the installation of the org.eclipse.buckminster.core.feature and some features will add additional requirements.
This feature provides CVS support on top of the org.eclipse.team.cvs plugin that is provided with the Eclipse platform.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK--MARCH 21, 2012--Tracy Martin, left center, and Sybrina Martin, right, the parents of Trayvon Martin, take part in a rally in Union Park in New York City on March 21, 2012., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Murder trial begins in earnest in Florida's Trayvon Martin case
1:05am EDT
By Tom Brown and Barbara Liston
SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - The murder trial of George Zimmerman, whose fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin triggered nationwide protests last year, begins in earnest on Monday in a Florida courtroom.
Opening statements from lawyers outlining the basic facts in the case, and what they believe the evidence will show, are set to begin at 9 a.m. EDT.
This follows two weeks of jury selection which ended last week with a panel of six female jurors chosen to decide Zimmerman's fate. Due to blanket media coverage the judge ordered the jury sequestered for the duration of the trial.
Zimmerman, who is 29 and part Hispanic, was the neighborhood watch captain in a gated community in Sanford at the time of the killing on February 26, 2012. He has pleaded innocent to the charge of second-degree murder and could face life imprisonment if convicted.
Martin, 17, was a student at a Miami-area high school and a guest of one of the homeowners in the Retreat at Twin Lakes community. He was walking back to the residence after buying snacks at a nearby convenience store when he was shot in the chest during a confrontation with Zimmerman.
Because Sanford police initially failed to arrest Zimmerman, on grounds that he acted in self-defense, many saw the killing as an example of second-class treatment of black victims in the U.S. criminal justice system.
That set off civil rights rallies and cries of injustice across the United States throughout much of last year. It also threw a spotlight on gun use and Florida's controversial self-defense laws.
Much of what happened during Martin's fatal encounter with Zimmerman is still a mystery. Neighbors who witnessed the scuffle and the fatal shot, albeit on a rainy night, are expected to testify.
Zimmerman claims Martin was the aggressor, but Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda, who is the lead prosecutor, says the younger man would be alive today had he not been profiled by Zimmerman as "a real suspicious guy."
Setting the stage for a possible fiery opening to the trial, presiding Seminole County Judge Debra Nelson overruled objections from the defense last week and said prosecutors could use such inflammatory terms as "vigilante" and "wannabe cop" in referring to Zimmerman.
She also ruled that prosecutors could say Zimmerman "profiled" Martin and "confronted" him, language suggesting that he initiated the altercation that led to Martin's death.
There is a high bar for the prosecution in a case that will center on Florida's aggressive self-defense laws, however. Under Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which was approved in 2005 and has since been copied by about 30 other states, people fearing for their lives can use deadly force without having to retreat from a confrontation, even when it is possible.
In instructions on "justifiable use of deadly force," that Nelson read to potential jurors last week, she noted that anyone in fear of grievous bodily harm or death is entitled to shoot and kill an assailant rather than back down.
"The danger facing the defendant need not have been actual," Nelson said, suggesting that mere perception of "danger" was enough to make it reality.
"If the defendant was not engaged in an unlawful activity, and was attacked in any place where he had a right to be, he had no duty to retreat and a right to stand his ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if he reasonably believed that it was necessary do so," Nelson said.
(Writing by Tom Brown; editing by David Adams and Jackie Frank)


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When most people think of the ASP business model, they envision virtual hands-off technology run from a distant data center with little or no human involvement. While virtuality is a great benefit of ASPs, a hosted solution that does not take into consideration basic human customer needs will probably end up alienating the users. All other things being equal, then, ASPs will tend to differentiate themselves on the "soft" disciplines involved in hosting applications: customer service and technical support. The ASP business model and technology infrastructure are quite complex, and making the solution work smoothly requires a lot of behind-the-scenes support from ASP staff. That said, though, the complexities of supporting an ASP solution should never seem complex to the customer.
Here are some basic elements of customer service and technical support that you should be aware of. Observing how well an ASP addresses them should help you get the best service from your provider. But bear in mind that customer service and technical support are an ongoing process, not a one-time event. If you monitor these elements early in your tenure with an ASP and then fail to check up on them periodically, you may find service deteriorating and not know why.
Up-front Customer Service
1. ASP customer service starts as soon as you log onto the ASP's Web page or call its Sales department to inquire about leasing an application. If you are inquiring about pricing and deployment time, and it's not clearly conveyed by the Web site or the sales rep, then that shortcoming may be indicative of the service your hosted application will receive later.


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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
RIP Mike Ruppert
20 comments:
- onething said...
- Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 5:46:00 PM EDT
- Rhisiart Gwilym said...
Desperate sadness today at this news. A true warrior, suffering great grief at what is happening.
A true, good man. - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 5:51:00 PM EDT
- dex3703 said...
RIP for a noble man who always followed what he believed was the truth to its most awful conclusions. Crossing the Rubicon was a transformative read. When I was a kid, Carl Sagan and Madeline L'Engle expanded my mind in wild new dimensions. Ruppert repeated this feat as an adult, taking me to darker conclusions. I'm grateful for his sharing, dark as it is.
dex3703.wordpress.com - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 7:29:00 PM EDT
- Glomerol said...
Mike, I will redouble my efforts for you and the rest of us in turning this ship around.
Much love, sorrow and peace to you and those you left behind.
~ Caelan MacIntyre - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 7:31:00 PM EDT
- Carlo E. Fromaggio said...
Although I did not follow him and remember hearing him being interviewed on late night AM radio decades ago, I was very sad upon hearing the news of his death.
Respectfully, I'm curious about the circumstances. Working in hospitals it's almost common to see a male of his race and approximate age, choose that route of exit.
Condolences to his family, loved ones, friends and listeners. - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 8:04:00 PM EDT
- Michael J. Petro said...
I am so sorry that he had that level of pain, and that he carried it mostly alone.
A big loss.
- Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 9:10:00 PM EDT
- michigan native said...
Sad. Here is a tribute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWXbKOAHANQ.
- Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 9:13:00 PM EDT
- Joy said...
Mike gave me "The Map" in Crossing the Rubicon in 2004. It changed my life. I chose to leave the US, settled in a remote land where I am now a citizen. It is 2014 all over, and nowhere is perfect. But, I will be forever grateful to Mike for revealing the hard truths behind the headlines. Godspeed, Mike
- Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 10:49:00 PM EDT
- Lee Grove said...
All things considered, I, too, find myself surprisingly sad that Mike is no longer with us--though he, just as everyone we encounter on our paths, will be some part of who we all are; a larger part for some of us.
I think that in the end, many of his impassioned monologues and diatribes will largely be proven prescient and accurate... And if that is the case, it seems the only reasonable approach to the situation is to live for the moment, regardless of how that looks to those who would perpetuate the status quo to infinity.
He will be missed. - Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 11:07:00 PM EDT
- Unknown said...
COLLAPSE (Michael's last words on the theatrical movie trailer) "…you have to believe, not hope, not pray, that there's a way out of it, and you're going to find it." My takeaway from this tragic news is: do as Michael says, not as Michael does.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 3:23:00 AM EDT
- BonRobi said...
Sometimes you don't know how much you had come to care about someone until this happens. I was a long time listener of his weekly radiocast, and I mean from the days he started it years ago, and caught it almost every week, usually by download later. I saw right off how gifted he was and what a valuable message he brought each week and through his well crafted books. You couldn't help but like him. He could go off on ego tangents but his overall empathetic, sincere, and kind nature won many folks as solid fans. You felt he was very grounded as "one of us".
I called in once to ask a question about UFOs (his father and mine were both air force pilots and both had seen UFOs) and when I finally got through my wife ripped out the headphone jack to hear it herself and immediately awful feedback started with the cell phone. As I desperately tried to find the jack under the desk it turned into a drawn out comedy of errors with Mike patiently saying "you need to turn your radio down" and finally I ran into the kitchen. A lesser man would have just hung upon this moron who could not manage to even turn his radio down.
We folks who were long time listeners witnessed his highs and lows. His depths of emotion could be profound and I told my wife I thought he would eventually take his own life. Even as he evolved to a different message, more towards spirituality and beyond collapse oriented issues, I still tuned in because he was just fun to listen to. He always spoke like he was right there having a conversation with you personally. And some of his insights were priceless. His ability to trace the big picture perspective, yet present it for the guy on the street to get his head around, was a gift.
This is a big loss to society and a tragedy that the pain finally drove him away. I suspect his recent inner journeys gave him confidence he was going to a better place..... I sure hope so. Booze wasn't his thing but, man..... this makes me want to go have my own private mini-wake for the man. I will miss his weekly presence immensely. He began addressing his weekly radio audience as "his family" towards the end and long time listeners believed it too. Truly: RIP Mike and vaya con dios. - Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 8:58:00 AM EDT
- Jacob Gittes said...
A good, thoughtful man. His passing reminds us that many many creative, insightful people are overwhelmed by their own gifts or perceptions. The list of artists, thinkers, and scientists who opt out as he has is long.
In Godspeed, Michael. I was glad to have briefly met you. - Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 10:14:00 AM EDT
- Unknown said...
It shows that anyone who dares to tread down this road needs some sort of spiritual practice. For example--don't get mad--being a member of a spiritual community like a church. Something. Someone can't just be a smart. There has to be some process in their life to protect them from suicide. Michael Ruppert wasn't the only one. Gary Webb committed suicide before him. Michael Ruppert and Gary Webb worked together on the CIA/crack cocaine scandal in 1996. Gary Webb was the reporter from the San Jose Mercury News who resurrected the old story from the Reagan administration. One has to figure out how to remain happy and healthy in the midst of the insanity.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 12:41:00 PM EDT
- Robo said...
Thanks for passing the word. Mike's Rubicon was a wake up call for me.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 12:42:00 PM EDT
- Unknown said...
One should not take life too seriously, I mean what you read in the news or global events or corruption and such like. Say you lived in latin America or Africa or somewhere where corruption and so on is normal, everday life and brutal military takeovers are commonplace. People focus on family life, their own culture and what-not. Maybe this ideal of an ex-policeman and US patriot of all his ideals going wrong is what gets someone going down. Perhaps his generation went through this thing. In my generation the ideals never got built up(Xer). It was cynicism from the start so personal life is everything. Perhaps his tragedy is a general thing of a generation. He just felt it more as he was caught in the middle of it due to his profession and saw what really happened, the dark side of corrupted idealism.
One should start with spirituality from an earlier age. As another commenter said Ruppert was only more into spiritual stuff later. I got into that seriously around 30. Perhaps being under such stress as author and public figure (newsletter,etc.) is too much and a dramatic exit is easier than just slowly declining into obscurity. It is a shame that actually nothing much changed which he fought for. Things just get worse with imperial expansion and expansion of wealth to the few. But seeing everything negatively is bad for the soul. So that when you focus on yourself, gardening and taking a walk, prayer and such then turn off all media and play cards or chess for example with friends then none of the nonsense matters. Doing Tai Chi for example calms one or listening to or playing music. Life meaning has to as concrete as possible and not abstract. I work physically and when I do a good job and feel my body flexible, strong and sleep well then I am satisfied. The news is a hobby. Chasing ghosts of bad guys will get us nowhere. Snowden knew well enough to escape to Moscow or he would have gone down. Otherwise he would have had to keep quiet and quit his job and maybe drown in alcohol the disappointment at betrayal of the populace by his govt. away. At any rate every generation has theri crisis of conscience in the system.
The current Ukraine crisis is a sort of crisis for me and my family as Isee only lies in the so-called free press. I suppose Mike Ruppert felt that way all the time as he understood "the system" intimately. Most of just accept life as it is and could care less, like zoo animals, as long as we are fed. You only notice the contradictions as in the Matrix film when you fallinto a particualr hole where you get trapped. Some people got a house loan that blew up in 2008 and they probably turned against the system then. Millions of students will be caught in debt and see the American Dream as a scam.
Rome fell and then spirituality became the big thing. Everyone saw taht they themselves were to blame, not some "other" corrupt people. We are corrupt wanting it all to go on as it has done, always bigger and better: "progress". When it stops then we will only have ourelves to blame and to help each other. RIP Mike. - Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 4:48:00 AM EDT
- yvesT said...
Shit !
He was very articulate with a broad focus, and the collapse doc clearly remains one pointing to most of the interrelationship.
RIP Mike - Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 7:23:00 AM EDT
- Razer said...
"John Michael Greer @ The Archdruid Report, with a macabre thought for "Baby Boomers" this American Spring (Parentheses mine):
"The only question that still remains to be settled is how many of the people who are awake to the imminence of (industrial society collapse) crisis will rise to the challenge, and how many will fail to do so.
The suicide of peak oil writer Mike Ruppert two days ago puts a bit of additional emphasis on that last point. I never met Ruppert (also the author of "Crossing the Rubicon" an early exhaustive study of the World Trade Center Attack, and more importantly, it's root causations), though we corresponded back in the days when his "From The Wilderness" website was one of the few places on the internet that paid any attention at all to peak oil, and I don't claim to know what personal demons drove him to put a bullet through his brain.
Over the last eight years, though, as the project of this blog has brought me into contact with more and more people who are grappling with the predicament of our time, I've met a great many people whose plans for dealing with a postpeak world amount to much the same thing. Some of them are quite forthright about it, which at least has the virtue of honesty. Rather more of them conceal the starkness of that choice behind a variety of convenient evasions, the insistence that we're all going to die soon anyway being far and away the most popular of these just now.
I admit to a certain macabre curiosity about how that will play out in the years ahead. I've suspected for a while now, for example, that the baby boomers will manage one final mediagenic fad on the way out, and the generation that marked its childhood with coonskin caps and hula hoops and its puberty with love beads and Beatlemania will finish with a fad for suicide parties, in which attendees reminisce to the sound of the tunes they loved in high school, then wash down pills with vodka and help each other tie plastic bags over their heads…"
Greer's post, the End of Employment
I would add, Regarding Mass suicides, by the children of Baby Boomers in this case. When I worked at a local coffee shop a few years ago with a counter staff of UCSC students, EVERY ONE OF THEM over the four years I worked there had at least one friend who had committed suicide in their still-short lives.
In Japan, group suicides among teens has become all the rage.
The children… are they "Canaries in the mineshaft"? Or the first outcropping of industrial age self-annihilation? - Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 3:29:00 PM EDT
- de amateureconoom said...
Mike felt more like family because of his common war for truth. I feel very sad about this.
My soul and his are very related.
See you on the other side. - Sunday, April 20, 2014 at 5:13:00 AM EDT
- Unknown said...
What a shock!.I was about to download the lifeboat hour it's bloody tragic.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 7:14:00 AM EDT
- mm said...
He seemed to me like a guy who had the courage to really, really give a shit.
RIP Mike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgj6q-x5yOI - Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 4:55:00 PM EDT


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Taylor Swift's 'Midnights' Release Literally Broke Spotify
What would a Taylor Swift album release without a few records broken? How about a broken streaming service?
Swift dropped her 10th studio album, Midnights, at midnight last night, resulting in fans rushing to various streaming platforms to hear the 13-track album. As a result of the large amount of very sudden traffic, it appears Spotify briefly crashed for many listeners.
According to Downdetector.com, Spotify saw a massive global outage at midnight ET Friday (Oct. 21), which just so happens to be the exact time Swift dropped the album.
Prior to the album's release, one Twitter user and Swift fan actually predicted Spotify would crash due to Swift's album release.
"now wtf we do if Spotify crashes," Twitter user @folkloreroads tweeted at 3PM ET Thursday (Oct. 20), nine hours before Midnights dropped.
Indeed, they were right on the money.
"STOP U PREDICTED IT," another Twitter user replied to them.
During the brief Spotify outage, Swift fans shared their reactions on social media, with many expressing their frustration. Some fans panicked as they tried to figure out how to stream the newly-released album from the "Anti-Hero" singer.
However, the Spotify crash only appears to have lasted a few minutes, and not all users were affected.
See hilarious reactions to Spotify's (thankfully temporary) Taylor Swift crash last night:


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100 g cane sugar 100 g chestnut puree
50 ml orange juice
zest of 1 orange
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon ground anise
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50 g buckwheat flour
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50 ml milk
75 g dark chocolate
Preaheat the oven to 180°C. Beat butter with sugar until fluffy. Beat in the chestnut puree, orange juice and zest, vanilla extract, anise and the egg yolks. Peel pears and cut in about half a centimeter sized cubes. Sift chestnut and buckwheat flour among the baking powder on top of the batter and stir until it is mixed well. Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks and fold it into the batter. Finally stir in the pear and pour batter onto a 18 cm round baking form. Bake cake for 40-50 minutes. For the glaze melt all the ingredients over low heat and stir until it is well mixed. Pour it over the cold cake and decorate with coarsly chopped hazelnut.


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Not yet, but it is only a matter of time. Although it is always hard to know with certainty what the results might be in a particular court case, it is well established that when a court is asked to decide a new issue, for example, obligations to provide accessible websites, it will look to earlier cases that have raised similar issues. In the case of web accessibility, a court will look to the legal standards established and defenses allowed under §504 and the ADA for similar postsecondary obligations, such as the duty to provide auxiliary aids (for example, sign language interpreters, readers, or hardware or software needed by people with disabilities to access information technology) or modifications to a particular course. The legal obligation in the case of websites is to provide equal access to the information contained on the websites and to "effectively communicate" that information to the user. However, like other duties under §504 and ADA, the postsecondary institution does not need to meet this obligation if doing so results in a fundamental alteration to the nature of the program and/or creates an "undue burden."
"Undue burden" has been interpreted in many court decisions as actions that require substantial effort or cost. Therefore, it would seem likely that a court would not require a postsecondary institution to provide web access if the institution could successfully argue that to do so created an "undue burden." As mentioned, there are no court cases yet interpreting postsecondary institutions obligations concerning web accessibility, but OCR has stated in a complaint resolution letter that when a postsecondary institution selects software programs and/or hardware equipment that are not accessible to people with disabilities, "the subsequent substantial expense of providing access is not generally regarded as an 'undue burden' when such cost could have been significantly reduced by considering the issue of accessibility at the time of the initial selection." (OCR 09-97-2002.RES) Although we must acknowledge the limitations of drawing conclusions or making predictions based on resolution agreements, in the absence of judicial precedent, it is arguable that a court would adapt this reasoning and dismiss the "undue burden" defense proffered by a postsecondary institution.
Institutions found to be discriminating against individuals with disabilities because the information contained on their websites was inaccessible under the ADA could be required to pay for redesigning websites as well as incurring the costs of "effectively communicating" website content to individuals. It is much less expensive to design and implement an accessible website from the beginning than to retool it later. Designing accessible websites can be thought of as an insurance policy that protects against future costs incurred by not adequately meeting the needs of students, employees and the community.


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Former 'The Voice' Singer Jordan Pruitt Files Sex Abuse Lawsuit Against Nashville Executive
Jordan Pruitt, who had an active career as a teen pop singer before a stint on TV's The Voice, has filed suit against the Nashville manager who she says sexually abused her when she was a teenager under his tutelage.
Pruitt, now 28, has filed suit against Nashville producer, songwriter and manager Keith Thomas, who has extensive credits in country and Christian music. According to People, Pruitt's filing alleges that beginning when she was an aspiring 14-year-old singing star, Thomas — who served as her mentor, producer and manager — subjected her to sexual abuse that lasted nearly two years.
Pruitt signed with Disney's Hollywood Records in 2005 and worked with Thomas on an EP. Her filing says Thomas controlled virtually every aspect of her career, including "the bookings, studio sessions, tour schedules, public relations schedules and media requests," and as time went on, he began to groom her for abuse by making hurtful comments about Pruitt's "weight, looks, voice, songwriting ability, maturity and intelligence." She says that "beating-down process" was followed by "incredible showering of attention, compliments, flirting touching and assurances that Thomas 'loved'" her.
According to Pruitt's lawsuit, the alleged abuse began when she was 14 and kept on until just before she turned 16. Variety reports that it started as kissing and oral sex and progressed to Thomas taking her virginity. Pruitt says the alleged abuse took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on sound stages at the Warner Bros. lot, in artists' trailers, in hotel rooms and parked cars, and Thomas — who, she says, had worked hard to gain her mother's trust — told her "their love was a secret."
On one occasion, Pruitt claims, Thomas "drugged and anally penetrated" her.
Pruitt released her debut single, "Outside Looking In," in 2006, and though she was never a mainstream star, she would go on to release two albums and a string of singles and tour with acts including Demi Lovato, the Jonas Brothers, the Cheetah Girls, the Plain White Tees and more. Her early succees cooled over the next several years.
In 2012, at the age of 21, Pruitt auditioned for the third season of The Voice, where she competed on Christina Aguilera's team. After her run on the show was over, she announced via Twitter that she was going to pursue a country music career. In 2017, she anounced that she was retiring from music and from show business. In 2018, in a lengthy Facebook post, Pruitt revealed that she had suffered molestation as a teenager, though she did not give details at the time.
Pruitt filed her lawsuit under a pseudonym in early August, then re-filed under her own name on Friday (Aug. 30). She turned to social media to share her story on Tuesday (Sept. 3), writing, "3 weeks ago as 'Jane Doe' I filed a lawsuit against my molester and those who enabled him. No more Jane Doe. I am Jordan Pruitt."
Thomas began his Nashville career as a songwriter signed to Ronnie Milsap's publishing company. His long list of credits includes Amy Grant, Selena, Vanessa Williams, Deana Carter and many more hits across pop, country and Christian music. He has worked on multiple No. 1 hits and is a Grammy winner. He founded a company called Levosia Entertainment in 2005; according to his website, Levosia has "an emphasis on developing young undiscovered talent."
Pruitt's lawsuit names Thomas and Levosia, as well as Hollywood Records and its parent company, the Walt Disney Co., who she accuses of encouraging her to work with Thomas "unsupervised" even though they should have known he was an alleged abuser.
"Jordan Pruitt, like far too many child stars, was exploited by the very people who should have been protecting her," her attorney, Keith Davidson, tells People. "Jordan's innocence was robbed from her as she was systematically groomed, molested and controlled by a predator employed by Disney, a company that sells happiness to children. Disney had a duty to protect Jordan from Keith Thomas and failed at every step."
"Unfortunately, these large companies are primarily concerned with sales, money and charts," Pruitt says in a statement to Variety. "Too often they fall short of protecting the young talent that they are 'supposed' to be caretakers for. Time and time again we see people in positions of power fail us. I couldn't be more disappointed in how Disney treats their underage talent like cash cows."
"I am standing up and speaking out not only for myself, but for the countless victims across the world, who have never been given the opportunity for justice," Pruitt adds. "It is extremely taboo for anyone to speak about sexual abuse, misconduct and exploitation of minors in the ordinarily conservative and genteel South. Over and above decorum, many fear the repercussions of coming forward for example (getting blacklisted from the industry, losing work, having YOUR reputation tarnished). Too many victims, coming forward feel shameful. Even though the #metoo movement has been very powerful for many, there is still much work that needs to be done. No one should ever be punished for telling the truth and seeking justice, period."
Neither Disney nor Hollywood Records have commented on Pruitt's suit. Thomas referred Variety to his attorney, who did not respond to a request for comment. Taste of Country reached out to a representative for Thomas' Levosia Entertainment and had not heard back at publication time.
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Found two disabled people who voted Nat. One is a beneficiary who just loves Paula Bennett. The other is retail worker, non unionised, who does long shifts standing, never gets two consecutive days off, and is still on the minimum wage after 10 years. Voted for Key and Nat electorate candidate because he liked Key ('he has done a good job'). Knew very little about any policy. Was a bit shocked when I told him about the Nats first up legislation to lose legislated tea breaks.
tussock, in reply to
The seats are meaningless. The gain is the Green voters being better with the tactical split this time. They lost a bunch of seats to National by splitting the candidate vote in 2011, not this time. Well, Central Auckland, never mind.
Jack Harrison, in reply to
I'm being told how I should feel rather than actually feeling it.
Do you want to feel poverty. It can be arranged.
Yamis, in reply to
I honestly can't see any good reason to have published polls like that during the election.
It's probably a bit like band wagon sports fans suddenly deciding they are a fan of a team that just happens to win a lot (purely coincidental of course ;) ).
BenWilson, in reply to
Do you want to feel poverty. It can be arranged.
More poverty, you mean? I actually hit my last dollar last Friday.
No, thanks.
Jack Harrison, in reply to
That's a feeling, not a good feeling.
SteveH, in reply to
As soon as Labour does that, it is saying "we are not one of the big two mainstream parties, alongside National, but just one of a bunch of parties on the 'progressive' side of politics".
But that's the reality of the situation as far as I can see. Perhaps not "one of a bunch", but certainly it seems highly unlikely that they will ever be in a position to govern alone. It's time to acknowledge that fact. A swing to the left that would help Labour will also help the Greens. Labour have been ignoring the Greens for more than a decade, hoping they would go away. They haven't, and won't unless they self-destruct somehow. They're not some puppet party like ACT or United Future being kept a float to game the system. If Labour thinks the way forward is to continue to pretend they are the only significant party on the left then good luck to them, but they have no chance.
Personally I believe climate change is the most significant issue the world has faced since the second world war. I have voted Green purely on this issue and I will continue to vote Green at least until another party makes it the top priority. This election climate change got zero attention. The One News Vote Compass didn't even have a question about it for fuck's sake. That makes me very angry.
Not entirely sure this is the thread for it.... But I have this broad theory about left-wing vs. right-wing political theory...
It seems to me, from an entirely shallow and unscientific analysis, that right-wing policy is generally built around "common sense" - they ideas at the core of much right-wing policy are predicated of simple common sense thinking. From things like lowering tax to privatisation, from minimum wage and employment relations...
The ideas they express just make sense when they're outlined... Reduce taxes, because we are better at spending our money than the government... Privatise things because companies will be motivated to be more efficient by the lure of profit... Raising minimum wage will mean companies lay off staff... Make it easier for companies to hire and fire people so they can be more efficient and flexible...
All those things are simple and seem intuitive. You hear someone like Jamie Whyte or Colin Craig express those ideas and there's a definitive "well, of course" sensation...
On the other hand, left-wing ideas seem, in general, to be more complicated and sometimes unintuitive...
It seems that left-wing parties have a much harder task in clearly explaining and justifying their policies in the face of the right-wing common sense ideas. And, frankly, they don't seem very good at it.
This is only something that's really occurred to me in the last few weeks, but in seeing the campaigning from the right (especially Conservatives, where every policy outline ended with some variation on "it's just common sense") it really looks like they know how to make this work for them.
barnaclebarnes, in reply to
I'm wondering if the Greens ran truly independent what their party vote would be? There a lot of Blue/Green would be voters out there. How many votes would they pick up from National voters and how many would they loose from Labour? Has anybody done the sums on this? More than one National voter I have spoken with would have voted Green if they had not ruled out working with National.
If the Greens are ever to become an equal or better to National/Labour they can't "me to" onto Labour. They shouldn't settle for third place.
James Littlewood*, in reply to
I'd like to agree. But I think Downbeat dan and Peter Cox are closer. Turnout was stronger than previous election. One party won by a ton. One party got hammered, and a million people stayed home.
Pretty obvious which party failed to motivate its voters.
Dylan Reeve, in reply to
More than one National voter I have spoken with would have voted Green if they had not ruled out working with National.
Didn't the Green's specifically not rule out working with National?
Not sure how independent they can be when they clearly have a financial policy outlook that is quite far from National's.
Edit: The Greens could work with National... But then, oh no, five days later, no way!
Bart Janssen, in reply to
I honestly can't see any good reason to have published polls like that during the election.
Only gain is for the media that can spend several pages/minutes discussing the poll instead of policy.
BenWilson, in reply to
It seems that left-wing parties have a much harder task in clearly explaining and justifying their policies in the face of the right-wing common sense ideas. And, frankly, they don't seem very good at it.
Yes, evidenced based explanations are a lot harder than gotchas. What goes up, must come down, right? So space travel is impossible and that's just common sense. No wonder Colin Craig believes that.
tussock, in reply to
Also, National finds itself torn apart by factionalism when its poll rating falls below 35%. When it is above 35%, these factions strangely disappear. I suspect something like that is true in all major political parties. Labour never seemed to have any factions 1999-2008, for example.
Chicken and egg. If you don't show any factionalism, you are presenting a vision everyone can live with, and you get over 35%. It's the same for the minor parties, when they bicker and divide it fucks them up.
It's a game a bit more complicated than that. Also turn out was poor, That's what they're saying.
You can't win by a ton because its a measure of weight. They won with 48% of the vote. 45% and other arrangements , they may have lost. Not a ton.
Everyone gets itchy after a loss.
BenWilson, in reply to
I'm wondering if the Greens ran truly independent what their party vote would be? There a lot of Blue/Green would be voters out there. How many votes would they pick up from National voters and how many would they loose from Labour? Has anybody done the sums on this? More than one National voter I have spoken with would have voted Green if they had not ruled out working with National.
If there was a credible leftist alternative to the Greens this would make perfect sense. That almost happened. They'd have lost my vote, but could just as easily pitch for some free market person who still thinks the market will save the planet, and no actual total support would have been lost, and we'd be all round happy. They could be environmentalists rather than half-socialists, and actual socialists would have somewhere to go. All finished now.
tussock, in reply to
The ideas [the right] express just make sense when they're outlined
No. That's their presentation, not their fact. The problem for the left is our policies are true and based on evidence, and thus complex, while the right's policies are terrible and hateful and based on lies, and thus very simple.
So the left keeps trying to explain why they're correct, and the right just says "the sky is orange" without blinking and moves on. You do a thousand pages of detailed costings unlike anyone else but you're the "loony Greens" so no one even notices. Simple lies repeated often beat complex reality every single time.
Seriously, the National party has openly said that cutting people's wages is a great way to increase people's wages. Up is down for those people, they just say it with unbridled confidence.
Labours campaign was too diverse and complicated by all the policy they had to defend whereas I can't think of a single Nat policy. They were marketed more like a brand of soap or detergent an almost meaningless we're better than the others wrapped around "that nice Mr Key".
I would have had three main planks, build more houses, we've done it before and it helped John Key get where he is today.
A higher minimum pay to get people off welfare by paying them properly policy.
Attack the Nats continually on there economic mismanagement with the Country in debt to the tune of 88 billion and they want to cut taxes and make your kids pay for it later, are they mad?
Stay ruthlessly on message. -
James Littlewood*, in reply to
Like Winston you mean? Yeah, it's appealing, ain't it. I know that when National came in in 2008 everyone was queuing up to hang out with them. The Maori Party went ahead with it. The Greens look at that and don't see any reason to follow suit.
Since then, National has become a basket case from the Greens perspective. There's nothing much there they can work with. And so I believe them when they say, guys, it ain't gonna happen.
That said, I know for a fact there are national defectors who go Green but would never go Labour. But they have to know theyre defecting.
Rob Muldoon won an election with the bamboozle of a rugby tour. Politics is a hard read but too complicated for many. Education is trying to fix this, politics need to be understood as a core programme of our nation.
Dylan Reeve, in reply to
No. That's their presentation, not their fact.
But the point is that their ideas, whether right or wrong, are simple and intuitive. They just make sense.
Complex but well evidenced alternatives aren't a great counter to that. Look at Jamie Whyte's argument against raising the minimum wage in the Campbell Live minor leaders dinner... It makes sense that raising the cost of something (human labour) will reduce demand (jobs) for that thing. The reality is that it doesn't, but that isn't intuitive so in that discussion it's too hard to present the alternative point of view.
I think that broadly holds true of a lot of right wing policy, and I'm not sure how you combat something like that... Because the alternative is complex.
tussock, in reply to
More than one National voter I have spoken with would have voted Green if they had not ruled out working with National.
People really need to go read the Green party's core principles. The four pillars.
* Ecological wisdom
* Social justice
* Grassroots democracy
* NonviolenceThey're not kidding. It's not about posturing for them, they are honest brokers, if you want to get vote they're not getting you need to move yourself because they will not shift. They have never shifted. The fucking Values party was the same thing before you were born. They will still be the same after we are all dead.
They can work on their messaging and presentation, they can't give up devolution of power and social justice to hunt National votes. It can't happen. If anyone wants to hunt National votes, it has to be Labour. They've got the credibility for that from the 80's, not to mention the 90's.
Katharine Moody, in reply to
It's a stuffed isthmus.
Couldn't agree more. I blame planners. I'm a planner but don't practice it, aside from voluntary/advocacy work. And I love that aspect of the work.
SteveH, in reply to
Look at Jamie Whyte's argument against raising the minimum wage in the Campbell Live minor leaders dinner… It makes sense that raising the cost of something (human labour) will reduce demand (jobs) for that thing. The reality is that it doesn't, but that isn't intuitive so in that discussion it's too hard to present the alternative point of view.
There's a pretty easy counter for that particular example. If the minimum wage is not a living wage then those people on minimum wage need to be topped up with benefits. Thus a lower (or no) minimum wage is in fact corporate welfare. I thought you were against corporate welfare Dr Whyte?
tussock, in reply to
It makes sense that raising the cost of something (human labour) will reduce demand (jobs) for that thing.
There is no evidence for that. It's bullshit. Johnny Walker Black Label. Chicken Nuggets. Diamonds. You charge like it's worth a lot, people buy more of them. I don't know where you want to go with this. We could say it "just makes sense" that people with more money in their pocket will spend more money. That high wages for matching productivity grows the economy. That demand is driven by the wallets of the people who work for someone. That low wages destroy training and job security incentives and result in lower productivity to match the reduced wage.
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Five trends that shaped real estate in 2022
In a year of transformation, a few stand-out areas will have lasting impacts
The last few years changed how we work, challenged supply chains, rallied companies behind sustainability goals, and pushed once niche real estate markets into the mainstream.
While 2022 was slated to be another year of transformation, not everything unfolded exactly as expected. The inability of global central banks to quickly tame inflation caught some off guard, as did a deeper rooting of hybrid work patterns. Sustainability initiatives and the technology adaptation continued apace, although companies shifted priorities towards cost savings toward the end of the year.
Because what comes next is always based on what happened before, let's dig into the trends that left their mark on real estate in 2022.
Hybrid work remains
Wavering predictions about what defines the office were solidified in 2022. Despite a creeping return to the office, hybrid work remained a sturdy feature of corporate life and has become a non-negotiable component of the new "social contract" that employees seek.
A JLL survey revealed 77% of company leaders believe offering remote work is critical to attracting and retaining talent. And more than half of those surveyed planned to incorporate remote working for all employees by 2025.
The sweeping changes to when and where employees work have already brought about renewed interest in flexible workspaces rooted in hotel-like amenities and reframed the purpose of the physical office as a place of collaboration.
"What people realized during the pandemic is that they can execute the work from home as well," JLL Global President and CEO Christian Ulbrich told Yahoo Finance Live in August. "Just to do your work, that's not a reason to come back into the office. It's about collaboration. It's about innovation. And so, you have to create an environment which is more attractive in the office than to work from somewhere else."
Sustainability: we're not doing enough
Proposed regulations and pressure from key players, such as investors and employees, made sustainability a top priority for business leaders in 2022. The year saw business leaders setting clear net zero dates, building owners partnering with tenants to track data better, and efforts made to phase out gas and diesel from buildings.
However, if one thing is clear following COP27, the world's most important annual climate conference, it's that the built environment still has work to be done to be a part of a net zero future. Although more companies are making commitments to decarbonize their real estate, it's yet to translate into tangible action, says Nidhi Baiswar, Senior Director – Global Sustainability and Climate Leadership, JLL.
COP27 talks stressed the need for retrofitting older buildings to become more energy efficient, embedding measures such as green lease clauses early on so that new construction doesn't undermine energy-saving measures, and using evidence-based climate action plans to protect communities, infrastructure, and buildings from extreme weather events, higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and biodiversity loss.
"Put simply, we are not doing enough," Baiswar says. "The proof will be in the next 12 months when there's a stock take on what governments and corporates have actually achieved - not just what they say they will."
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Macroeconomic worries hit investment
As inflation rose higher in 2022, central banks raised interest rates at the most forceful pace in over a decade. By November, the U.S. central bank had brought benchmark interest rate to a target range of 3.74% - 4%, the highest since early 2008.
Investors grew cautious . According to JLL data, global direct investment in real estate during the third quarter was US$234 billion, a drop of 24% from the same period last year.
"Many investors remain cautious and are delaying decision-making," says Sean Coghlan, global head of capital markets research and strategy at JLL. "In most markets across the globe, repricing of transactions is now common, and a prolonged period of price discovery is impacting investment conditions."
There were sectors that broke from the pack. For instance, investment in retail and hotels rose 19% and 7%, respectively, in the third quarter.
Niche to mainstream
The global pandemic accelerated many real estate market trends that have been developing incrementally in recent years. For example, once niche sectors like data centers and life sciences moved closer to the mainstream.
While less than what was seen during the peak of 2021, a still historically high $21.5 billion was doled out to life science startups through August 2022 and social media and hyperscale market expansions led exponential growth in the data center sector.
The trend doesn't appear to be reversing any time soon. JLL's 2022 Lab Sciences Lab Real Estate Outlook found the industry is better positioned than most because of its countercyclical drivers.
In turn, developers took innovative approaches to keep up with the rapidly evolving sector, including financing, and the sector itself move out of clusters into parts of town often more synonymous with financial services.
"Large city office landlords are opening their door to life sciences companies and institutions, who are in turn in search of one key attribute: talent," explains Alistair Meadows, JLL's head of Life Sciences, Capital Markets EMEA. "It's the main motivation."
For the data center sector, JLL data states that significant hyperscale investment globally, an unprecedented amount of capital is being invested in data center space. Through the first half of 2022, M&A activity was steady, and deals exceeded $24 billion.
"The combination of increased hyperscale demand and longer lead times to deliver power in scale has resulted in an extraordinary amount of pre-leasing commitments across the country," said Carl Beardsley, Senior Director, JLL Capital Markets. "The long-term investment opportunity remains attractive as the world's data needs continue to grow exponentially, limited only by power and land availability to scale further."
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Tech addresses challenge areas
Whether it is managing supply chains, collecting and analyzing data to reach climate and ESG goals, or adjusting to a hybrid work model, 2022 saw an increased demand for technology solutions in commercial real estate.
The year saw PropTech become widely adopted in part because of the rapid transition over to remote work. And bundled technology quickly rose to the top of the list of what tenants wanted from landlords. AI software to help with tasks ranging from analyzing building functions to organizing tasks rose in popularity.
Even the metaverse rose up the agenda, with over half of companies planning to introduce immersive technologies and virtual reality by 2025, according to a survey conducted by JLL. Companies facing a raft of issues around collaboration, productivity, employee wellness and talent retention are also looking at the metaverse as a potential solution – with big firms like Accenture, JPMorgan, and Deloitte already in the space.
"From the way we play games, shop and even exercise, immersive experiences are making their way into our lives," says Sam Lavers, Director of Global Alliances at JLL Technologies (JLLT). "I think it's just a matter of time until we're regularly working in the metaverse."
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In the small town of Shirley, Vermont, five strangers gather in a community center to embark on a unique journey together in a creative drama class for adults. In this room the audience is taken on a transcendent journey through the mundane into the profound. "Absorbing, unblinking and sharply funny!" – New York Times. Directed by Brian Robert Harris.


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5 Things You Didn't Know: AK-47
Guns have always been a fascinating topic in America. From who's using them to what model, make and brand they are, guns have become a staple in our modern society. Now, whether that's a sad or thrilling fact, we've decided to let our readers in on some interesting facts about one of America's most loved (and hated) assault rifles: the AK-47.
With a new book on the market entitled AK-47: The Story of the People's Gun, Michael Hodges is an expert on this particular weapon, and we got Hodges to let us in on a few little-known facts about the AK-47 while researching his work.
1- The inventor of the AK-47 did not profit from the gun
Although by some estimates there are 100 million AK-47-style assault rifles in circulation around the world, the gun's inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, did not become rich (unlike Eugene Stoner, the inventor of the American M16 assault rifle, who died a wealthy man). Communist states had no patents, and until its collapse in 1991, Kalashnikov was simply an employee of the Soviet Union. "I invented a weapon to save the motherland, to save the state from fascism," he said. "My career has been dedicated to my country."
Despite that country awarding him the Hero of Socialist Labor medal and many other accolades, this particular Socialist hero, who just happened to change the world, started life as an enemy of the Soviet Union. Kalashnikov narrowly escaped being shot by Stalin's special police after his family was denounced as Kulaks in 1932, and exiled to Siberia. Kalashnikov escaped again when a Panzer shell blew him from his tank in 1941, as the Soviets fought desperately to halt the Nazi advance on Moscow.
2- The AK-47 is the perfect weapon for children
The AK-47 can be stripped in under a minute and cleaned quickly in almost any climatic condition. Even if it isn't cleaned, an AK-47 is still more likely to fire than any of its rivals given similar treatment on the battlefield. With only eight moving parts the AK-47 is cheap to manufacture and easy to use — so easy in fact that children can be taught how to properly handle this weapon in a single hour. Sudanese child soldier Emmanuel Jal picked up his first AK-47 when he was 9 years old. A fully loaded AK-47 weighs four kilograms: "I don't know how I lifted the AK when I was tired. It was so heavy," he remembers. "We only had a few AKs but we weren't scared, it was like a game with toy guns. When the fighting starts you can put the gun down and run away, or pull the trigger. Once you've done that you are hooked; it makes you think that no one can touch you. Once you've fired an AK-47 you become brave."
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Flowery Language: Does it really make your writing more beautiful?
Former Writing and Learning Peer Deeya B. returns with another post to help you do well in your writing courses this semester.
In this post, Deeya debunks myths about "flowery language' and the value of such language in academic writing.
As Deeya explains, flowery language occurs when elaborate words are substituted for simple ones and longer sentences are used to try to convey multiple ideas. However, flowery language often backfires and makes students sound less confident in their understanding of a subject.
In this post, Deeya will explain more about what flowery language is, why students choose to use it, and why it often has the reverse of the intended outcome.


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VANCOUVER -- When British Columbians went to the polls last time, it was a very different situation.
No masks, no physical distancing, no bringing a pen from home.
The provincial election on May 9, 2017, eventually brought the end of the Christy Clark government, but it was an unusual situation.
Clark's Liberals didn't get a majority, but won the most seats, meaning she stayed on as premier and delivered a throne speech.
But the government was defeated in a confidence motion. At the same time, negotiations were held, and the Greens opted to back the New Democrats, leading to an NDP government after an invitation from the lieutenant governor, which allowed the party to rule as a minority.
It was not until mid-July that NDP Leader John Horgan actually became premier.
Prior to the election three years ago, the BC Liberals had governed the province since 2001.
This year, voters will decide their next leader during a pandemic.
A snap election was called in late September, with Horgan arguing it was necessary and safe to do so.
But the risk of spreading COVID-19 means Election Day will look different. Voters are asked to wear masks, keep their distance from others and follow other protocols in place at polling stations, and hundreds of thousands have requested packages allowing them to vote by mail instead of in person.
- CTVNewsVancouver.ca's election hub: Resources, headlines and more
- From the pandemic to the economy, here are key issues ahead of this year's vote
- Want to vote by mail this year? Here's how
Ahead of the Oct. 24 vote, CTVNewsVancouver.ca is looking back at what happened last time.
For example, among the ridings with the highest margins of victory are Peace River North and South, where Liberals Dan Davies and Mike Bernier won 47 and 52 percentage points, respectively.
The NDP's Melanie Mark was among those with the widest margins at 48 percentage points, and about two-thirds of the total vote in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant.
Narrower victories include in the Courtenay-Comox riding, where the NDP's Ronna-Rae Leonard eked out a win with a margin of just 0.4 percentage points.
Then-Green leader Andrew Weaver was marked on nearly half the ballots in Oak Bay-Gordon Head, and won the riding with a margin of victory of 28.45 points.
More than half the voters in the riding of Christy Clark, then leader of the Liberals, voted for the former premier. She won with a margin of 33.7 points.
Horgan, still at the helm of the NDP in 2020, won his seat with a margin of 26.65 percentage points, and about half the vote.
Click through the map to view more margins of victory, as well as voter turnout, top four candidates in each riding last time around, and how many electors live in each riding.
If the map isn't loading for you, or you'd like to view it in a larger size, tap here to view a full-screen version.
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There are incredible transformations happening across industries through the application of AI. We have a front row seat with customers who are successfully digitizing core business processes and creating more engaging and personalized customer experiences. With Microsoft's AI platform, Azure AI, our vision continues to center on helping our customers innovate with purpose, using productive, enterprise-scale, secure solutions. This vision is made stronger by recent partnerships like our investment in OpenAI to develop a hardware and software platform that extends Microsoft Azure capabilities in large-scale AI systems.
Today, through a number of AI innovations, we continue making it easier for organizations to adopt and apply AI in a way that meets their needs, where ever they are in their AI journey. Product updates include new capabilities in Microsoft Azure Machine Learning that boost the productivity of developers and data scientists of all skill levels, new innovations in Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services and Microsoft Azure Bot Service to simplify the creation of AI apps and agents, and new enhancements to Azure Cognitive Search to enable the development of knowledge mining applications.
Tremendous customer momentum
We are humbled by the tremendous adoption of Azure AI. Organizations large and small have adopted Azure AI solutions to deploy AI at scale and build with confidence knowing that they own and control their data. With our proven AI technologies, customers like Novartis, Humana, and UPS, as well as others across sectors like manufacturing, retail, aerospace, and animal conservation are deploying Azure AI services to drive meaningful outcomes with AI at scale.
We're pleased to share that Azure AI now has more than 20,000 active paying customers – and more than 85 percent of Fortune 100 companies have used Azure AI in the last 12 months. In addition, Azure AI customers run over 1 million machine learning experiments per month, use Azure Cognitive Search to process over 6 billion documents per day, run over 5 billion cognitive services transactions per month, and process over 1 billion bot messages per month.
Accelerating machine learning adoption
Our new Microsoft Azure Machine Learning capabilities including the new machine learning designer, automated machine learning enhancements and built-in notebooks are designed to meet the needs of data scientists and developers of all skill levels. New machine learning operations (MLOps) capabilities help data-science and IT teams better collaborate and increase the pace of model deployment with more governance and control. We continue to invest in open ecosystems with support for R and availability of ONNX Runtime 1.0 which simplifies the process of optimizing machine learning models to run a variety of chipsets. You can get started for free with Azure Machine Learning today.
Customers like Schneider Electric are using Azure Machine Learning to significantly minimize worker risk, save time, and lower costs. By leveraging the automated machine learning capabilities within Azure Machine Learning, Schneider Electric reduced the process of identifying the right models for predictive maintenance, from one month to one day.
"All the data scientists on our team enjoy using Azure Machine Learning service. Why? Because it's fully interoperable with all the other tools they use in their day-to-day work, no extra training is needed, and they get more done faster now." —Matthieu Boujonnier: Analytics Application Architect and Data Scientist, Schneider Electric
Lexmark is using Azure Machine Learning to glean valuable insights from the data it collects from millions of IoT-enabled printers and make more informed business decisions.
"Our Connected Field Service takes data from our Lexmark IoT Hub, augmented by Azure Machine Learning, and feeds information into Dynamics 365, so we can make predictive diagnostics for individual machines and alert service technicians to be ready."—Brad Clay, Senior Vice President, Chief Information and Compliance Officer, Lexmark International
The wildlife crime team from Africa's Peace Parks Foundation (PPF), in partnership with the South African conservation agency Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, is using Azure Machine Learning to monitor and prevent rhino poaching.
Simplifying the development of intelligent apps and agents
Azure Cognitive Services are a comprehensive set of domain-specific, ready-to-use, AI models. Today, we are announcing the general availability of a new Azure Cognitive Service called Personalizer, the industry's first AI service based on reinforcement learning. Personalizer allows businesses to create rich customer interactions by prioritizing the most relevant content and experiences in each customer interaction. New Speech service capabilities are available in preview, including Custom Neural Voice which enables customers to create branded voices using deep neural networks, and the ability to use Office 365 data to automatically create optimized custom speech models. Updates to Text Analytics include the ability to detect and extract personally identifiable information in documents and expanded entity type support for more than 100 named entity types. A new Bot Framework Composer helps simplify the creation of bots through a graphical user interface. You can get started for free with Cognitive Services and Bot Service.
Customers like the European aerospace manufacturer, Airbus, are using Azure Cognitive Services to provide predictive maintenance for mixed aircraft fleets:
"Innovation has always been a driving force at Airbus. Using Anomaly Detector, an Azure Cognitive Service, we can solve some aircraft predictive maintenance use cases more easily." —Peter Weckesser, Digital Transformation Officer, Defence and Space, Airbus
Spotify is making it easier for anyone to create podcasts with their Soundtrap for Storytellers application. Using Speech Service, Spotify is helping content creators streamline the entire podcast editing process by auto-transcribing podcasters' audio tracks and allowing them to edit directly within the transcribed document.
In hospitality, Caesars Entertainment, which operates brands including Harrah's, Caesars, and Horseshoe, is using Azure Bot Service to deploy a text message bot to answer users' questions.
In the insurance sector, Nationwide has built a bot, NOVA, that handles 25,000 interactions per month using Azure bot service. Currently available to customers via Nationwide's Login and Claims websites, NOVA makes it easier for customers to submit loss claims for processing, address frequently asked questions, and grant password resets, while freeing up call center agents to focus on more complex asks.
Uncovering latent insights from content with knowledge mining
Azure Cognitive Search, formerly known as Azure Search, is the only cloud search service with built-in AI capabilities that enables you to discover patterns and relationships in your content, understand the sentiment, extract key phrases and more. Updates to Azure Cognitive Search, including new data connectors, additional built-in AI skills, and expanded region availability, make it easier for enterprises to build knowledge mining applications that ingest, enrich, and search structured and unstructured information, influencing better business decisions. You can get started for free with Azure Cognitive Search.
The Atlantic is using Azure AI to catalog and preserve 160 years of published history. Leveraging Azure Cognitive Search, the publication is transitioning from hard copy to a digital system where its archives can be explored by the public as well as used as a resource for writers to build connections between stories and enrich their content.
Archive360, an intelligent information management solution provider, uses Azure Cognitive Search to enable their customers to ask complex questions of petabyte-sized archive datasets both quickly and cost-effectively.
"By using Azure Cognitive Search to provide customers with the search performance and simplicity they need, we can deliver deeper data insights than ever before."—Tibi Popp, Chief Technology Officer, Archive 360
autoTRADER.ca, which serves more than 5 million Canadians monthly in the market for a new or used car, has been using Azure Cognitive Search to launch new growth opportunities including a dealer-to-dealer auction site, as well as plans to replace their old search engine with a more cost-effective, scalable, improved search experience for their consumer marketplace.
"Azure Cognitive Search enabled us to launch the dealer auction site. We couldn't have been able to do it otherwise, and we're really excited about using Azure Cognitive Search for the marketplace. It gives us an opportunity to provide better and better services to our customers with instant, seamless experiences across all devices."—Allen Wales: Vice President of Technology, autoTRADER.ca
While we're pleased to see start-ups to enterprise companies adopting Azure AI, we remain focused on addressing barriers that hinder companies' ability to take advantage of all the benefits of AI.
Stay tuned for more updates in the coming months, we'll have some exciting things to share. In the meantime, we look forward to helping you and your company explore how you can tackle your hardest business problems with the power of Microsoft's AI platform, Azure AI. Get started with a free trial of Azure AI today.
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Maximize Your Harvest This Season
- horticulturist and gardening expertMarch 3, 2018
Increase your garden's productivity even when space, time and energy are limited says gardening expert Melinda Myers. "It's simple and effective,"said Myers as she shared the following planting, maintenance and harvesting techniques for a more bountiful harvest this season.
Maximize your planting space with wide rows.
Leave just enough room for plants to reach their maximum size. Make wide rows, 4 to 5 feet wide, so you can reach all plants for maintenance and harvest. Minimizing walkways means more planting space.
Try inter-planting.
Grow short season crops like lettuce and radishes between long season crops like cabbage, tomatoes and peppers. The short season crops will be ready to harvest when the long season crops are reaching mature size. You'll double your harvest and grow more vegetables, not weeds between your longer season plants.
Grow more plants per row with succession planting.
Start the season with cool season vegetables like lettuce and spinach. Once these are harvested and temperatures warm replace with beans and onions. Harvest these and plant a fall crop of radishes or lettuce.
When you use these intensive planting techniques, be sure to incorporate a low nitrogen slow release fertilizer, like Milorganite®, at the start of the season. Then add a mid-season nutrient boost if needed. The slow release nitrogen won't burn even during the hot dry weather of summer. Plus, it won't interfere with flowering or fruiting.
Go vertical.
Train vine crops up decorative or functional trellises and supports. You'll not only save space, but you will also reduce disease problems and increase the harvest. Growing cucumbers and melons increase light penetration and air flow, reducing the risk of fungal diseases. Pole beans are much easier to harvest and produce an additional picking. Secure large fruited vegetables like melons to the trellis with a cloth sling. Be sure to plant vegetables in containers if in-ground space is limited. A 5-gallon bucket or comparable size container is perfect for a tomato. Peppers and eggplants will thrive in a bit smaller pot. Grow vine crops in containers and allow them to crawl over the deck or patio instead of valuable gardening space.
Mix flowers and herbs in with your vegetables.
You'll increase the beauty while adding additional fragrance to the pot.
Harvest often and at the proper time.
Zucchini and other summer squash should be picked when 6 to 8 inches long or in the case of patty pan squash it reaches 3 inches in diameter. The flavor is better than those baseball bat size zucchini and you'll have plenty to eat and share. Harvest your head of cabbage when firm and full size. Leave the bottom leaves and roots intact. Soon you will have 4 or 5 smaller heads to harvest and enjoy.
With a bit of planning and creativity you can find ways to increase the enjoyment and harvest in any size garden.


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Make a well in the center and add oil and warm water. Stir to combine with a wooden spoon.
On a lightly floured surface, need until the consistency of dough. More water may be needed.
Roll into 10 small balls; cover with a damp towel and leave for 30 minutes.
Rolll as thin as possible. Heat a dry skillet to medium-high heat. Cook for 3 minutes on one side; flip and heat for 1 minute more.
Top with taco fixings or butter, cinnamon and sugar for a sweet treat.