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Target Price Accuracy
This study analyzes the accuracy of forecasted target prices within analysts' reports. We compute a measure for target price forecast accuracy that evaluates the ability of analysts to exactly forecast the exante (unknown) 12-month stock price. Furthermore, we determine factors that explain this accuracy. Target price accuracy is negatively related to analyst-specific optimism and stock-specific risk (measured by volatility and price-to-book ratio). However, target price accuracy is positively related to the level of detail of each report, company size and the reputation of the investment bank. The potential conflicts of interests between an analyst and a covered company do not bias forecast accuracy.
Keywordstarget prices forecast accuracy financial report security analysis efficient capital markets financial analysts conflicts of interest analyst report equity analysis forecast deviation information content
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This article discusses solution architecture for leveraging WebSphere Application Server 9 Intelligent management capability with VMWare offering on IBM Cloud to help customer deliver robust scalable and highly available Infrastructure with WebSphere and IBM Cloud. This architecture could be useful in scenarios where customer already has a VMWare Infrastructure in their data centers and want to expand their capacity without buying additional hardware Infrastructure by leveraging IBM Cloud's VMWare offering. This scenario constitutes to the case of capacity expansion for both VMWare and Application Infrastructure. A VMware Infrastructure environment provides additional management capabilities that help optimize the infrastructure resources used by both WebSphere applications and other application types in an enterprise data center. IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment delivers world-class clustering and near-continuous availability, with advanced performance and management capabilities for mission-critical applications. Before designing such Infrastructure, one should check for network latency and opt for the nearest IBM Cloud data center. Â
Intelligent Management
Intelligent management is one of the key capabilities of WebSphere Application Server which comprises of Application Placement Controller, Automatic Request Flow Management, and Health Management are known as HA Managed items. Intelligent management also helps dynamically create server Instances based on predefined SLA's such as CPU, Memory utilization and request load etc. This feature is referred to as dynamic clustering. Prior to this we use to have static clustering where in customer use to define fixed number of application server instances to be part of their cluster and have to manually Increase these Instances as and when need arises. Through dynamic clustering customers can define initial instances and scale out instances in admin console or through scripts.
As be seen in the above diagram initial WAS infrastructure is started with two instances and as predefined SLA preaches the instances scale out as per defined policies. Â The overall end-end architecture is as below. The IBM HTTP Server Plugin comes with ODR capabilities and hence one can Intelligently route requests directly through HTTP Server to dynamic cluster.
VMWare on IBM Cloud
The IBM Cloud for VMware Solution offerings enable existing VMware virtualized datacenter clients to extend into the IBM Cloud or to house cloud native applications. This permits use cases like capacity expansion into the cloud (and contraction when not needed), migration to the cloud, disaster recovery to the cloud, backup into the cloud and the ability to stand up a dedicated cloud environment for development, testing, training, lab or production.
The IBM Cloud for VMware solutions provide automation to deploy VMware technology components in IBM Cloud datacenters across the globe. The offerings in this solutions portfolio include the following VMware vSphere products within an automated deployed and configured cluster:Â
- VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF): vSphere ESXi, Platform Services Controller (PSC), vCenter Server Appliance, SDDC Manager, NSX, and vSAN.
- VMware vCenter Server (VCS): vSphere ESXi, Platform Services Controller (PSC), vCenter Server Appliance, NSX, and optionally vSAN
With VMWare cloud foundation one can manage complete VMWare Infrastructure – On-Premise or on  Cloud through a single console i.e one will have single VCenter server to manage multiple Infrastructures and this adds to one of the key advantages to WebSphere Infrastructure which we will discuss further in this article.
WebSphere with VMWare
WAS 9 currently supports VMWare Infrastructure 3 platform. To configure Intelligent Management to work with VMware Infrastructure 3 platforms, you must configure security so that the servers can communicate with each other and configure custom properties on your deployment manager to define the vCenter or ESX servers. Â The Intelligent Management configuration depends on VMware configuration with the following three below mentioned scenarios:
- If using only ESX servers, WAS must be configured enough of the individual servers to make Intelligent Management aware of the physical servers and virtual machines in the environment.
- If using a vCenter server to manage the VMWare environment, one can connect to the vCenter server, which establishes communication with all of the virtual machines and servers that the vCenter server manages. One do not need to connect to each ESX server. If a vCenter is available, the best practice is to connect to the vCenter server instead of each ESX server.
- If running multiple vCenter servers with a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) to provide high availability, you can configure the key stores and custom properties for each vCenter server.
Enhanced portability option for VMware clients to take better advantage of the speed of the cloud and economics by enabling them to easily extend their existing workloads, as they are, from their on-premises, software-defined data center (SDDC) to the cloud. The solution takes advantage of jointly designed architecture by VMware and IBM to automatically provision pre-configured VMware SDDC environments, which consist of VMware vSphere, NSX, and Virtual SAN on the IBM Cloud. The VMware SDDC environment allows customers to deploy workloads into this hybrid cloud environment without modification because of common security and networking models that are based on VMware.
This article focuses on scenario 2 where VCenter server on IBM Cloud is being leveraged to manage complete VMWare Infrastructure. Â This configuration is supported on Solaris Operating Environment on Intel hardware, Windows, or Linux x86 operating systems.
VMWare DRS
VMware Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS), part of VMware Infrastructure, dynamically allocates and balances computing capacity across a collection of hardware resources aggregated into logical resource pools. VMware DRS continuously monitors utilization across resource pools and intelligently allocates available resources among the virtual machines based on pre-defined rules that reflect business needs and changing priorities.
VMWare DRS is part of VMWare VMotions service.
Scaling WebSphere Application Infrastructure - Burst into the Cloud
WebSphere virtual machines runs on VMWare Hypervisor called ESX which is deployed on Indivisual servers in customer's data center or on cloud. In the event of all VMware ESX hosts being fully utilized, and where predefined service level agreements cannot be met, an additional ESX host (Cloud etc) can be added to your VMware Infrastructure environment to provide a larger resource pool to handle the extra load. VMware DRS will automatically allocate additional resources from the newly added ESX host instance by placing virtual machines among the physical servers. You can set WebSphere Application Server to recognize these virtual machines automatically and, in turn, route workloads to them trough initial configurations mentioned earlier. Intelligent Management can contact VMware through Web services to keep note of these scale out machines. One needs to configure this communication in the administrative console by creating cell-wide custom properties.
The WebSphere nodes on IBM Cloud are federated to deployment manager(Dmgr) on customer DC. Â
North South Traffic Flow
North-South traffic flow comprises of data movement from Internet to WebSphere Infrastructure. In this use case customer can leverage is on premise load balancer for traffic management or F5 load balancer which comes with VMWare offering. Customer can also opt for citrix netscaler offering on IBM Cloud if required. Here we will focus on F5 load balancer.
F5 Load Balancer with WebSphere Infrastructure
F5 load balancer can optimize IBM WebSphere at many layers: in front of the IBM HTTP Servers, between HTTP Servers and WebSphere Application Servers, or to eliminate the HTTP layer altogether. By configuring the BIG-IP LTM system within the WebSphere infrastructure F5 provides a number of benefits, including simplification of the infrastructure, L4-L7 load balancing, application level health monitoring, SSL offload and intelligent load balancing. While high availability remains the central goal of BIG-IP LTM, reducing complexity in an another complex environment allows organizations to spend more time on the important aspects of the architecture such as application delivery, intelligent reporting, and gathering granular statistics from the environment. IBM offers F5 load balancer with its VMWare offering. Details could be found here:
Key Advantages of F5
- Reduces the complexity of WebSphere deployments, including removing the need for an additional HTTP layer.
- Ensures application health by determining the availability of a specific application based on the URI being requested and the port used by the application.
- Enables better visibility through analytics and provides a granular understanding of how many sessions are established to each WebSphere Application server and the ability to limit these sessions using various metrics.
- Reduces the load on the WebSphere servers by taking on the following tasks:
- SSL processing: the BIG-IP system terminates SSL requests at the front end and delivers    HTTP requests to the backend.
- TCP optimizations: the BIG-IP system reduces the number of requests to the servers using HTTP Request and Content caching.
- Connection pooling: The One Connect feature on the BIG-IP system reduces the number of server-side connections that a server must open by using existing server-side connections for multiple new client-side requests.
F5 Licensing with VMWare on IBM Cloud
The following licensing options are available for BIG-IP VEs with VMWare Cloud Foundation and VCenter offerings on IBM Cloud:
Good: This offer leverages the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) VE, operating as a full-proxy architecture, to provide intelligent local traffic management, complete SSL traffic visibility, and analytics and health monitoring to ensure application servers are always available to your users.
Better: This offer is built on the benefits of the Good option, with the addition of BIG-IP DNS™, BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager™ (AFM), and BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager™ (AM) modules. It delivers global traffic management services, application performance optimization, and advanced network firewall and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation capabilities.
Best: In addition to the Good and Better offers, BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ (ASM) provides comprehensive application protection against L7 DDoS, Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top 10 threats and common application vulnerabilities. BIG-IP Access Policy Manager™ (APM) offers users secure, simplified access to applications located anywhere within a multi-cloud environment, incorporating features such as SSO (Single Sign-On) and MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication).
Architetcure with F5
Customer firewall is being used for further protection between F5 and WAS Infrastructure in his DC. The communication between customer DC and IBM Cloud private network is through IPSec or Direct-Link connectivity which logically
Leveraging Cloud burst capabilities through VMWare on IBM Cloud customers can securely leverage capacity of IBM Cloud data centers to bring down the cost, time and effort they would otherwise requires procurement, installation and configuration of additional hardware in their data center. VMWare on IBM Cloud helps build centralized managed seamless integrated hybrid Infrastructure to meet such capacity requirements.

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Eco-Waste Coalition (1) today accused the Metro Manila Development
Authority (MMDA) and some Metro Manila mayors of insincerity and
hypocrisy in solving the garbage problem, after the group literally
bared the unsegregated and stinking trash of key metropolitan
officials before media cameras.
In a press conference, the coalition exposed the mixed and
smelly rubbish which the group earlier took from the residence of
Pasay City Mayor Peewee Trinidad, the neighborhood of MMDA Chair
Benjamin Abalos, and from the city hall of Manila Mayor Lito
Atienza, to draw attention to the blatant violations and
non-implementation by government officials of Republic Act 9003 or
the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.
The coalition blamed the local government executives for failing
to avert the garbage crisis in the metropolis, highlighting the
hypocrisy of the same officials who are first to complain about
trash but are not even doing anything in their own backyard to
manage the problem effectively. Worse, the group believes that the
MMDA and the mayors are willfully sabotaging RA 9003 given their
lax and almost apathetic execution of waste prevention strategies
in their areas and their persistent reliance on high-priced
back-end disposal schemes like landfills and incinerators.
"No wonder we have a garbage crisis. The officials who are
supposed to implement the law are guilty of violating it
themselves. Declaring a state of emergency when you are not doing
anything to prevent the problem from escalating, is the height of
hypocrisy. The current calamity is the product of lazy and
incompetent governance, bolstered by these officials' persistent
fondness for quick and questionable fixes," said Von Hernandez,
convenor of the Eco-Waste Coalition and Campaign Manager for
Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
RA 9003, the first law signed by President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo, mandates the segregation of garbage at source,
the separate collection of discards and gives preferential
treatment to the construction of material recovery facilities over
open dumps and landfills. The law also seeks to spur the
development of markets for recyclable materials and prohibition on
non-environmentally acceptable packaging. The law specifically
requires local government units to execute the said waste
prevention strategies.
"After allowing the problem to fester, these officials have
succeeded in creating a situation in which they now hope to
bamboozle the public into accepting costly and unjust solutions to
this predicament. Unfortunately, because of their incompetence and
their failure to implement the law, other communities who will end
up receiving Metro Manila's trash are bound to suffer," said
Greenpeace Toxics Campaigner Francis de la Cruz.
Greenpeace also decried attempts by some Metro mayors and their
allies in Congress to lift the ban on waste incineration in the
Clean Air Act, stressing that the ban should not be used as another
scapegoat for the government's failure to address the waste crisis
"Contrary to the propaganda of the incinerator pushers, burning
will not make waste magically disappear. Aside from trapping our
local and national governments into inflexible and tremendously
costly economic schemes, incineration will exacerbate the problem
by encouraging the generation of more waste and by transforming it
into a deadly air pollution menace," added de la Cruz.
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by Congress to the implementation of the Ecological Solid Waste
Management Act as further proof of the government's
short-sightedness and lack of political will to see real solutions
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Watch the video below courtesy of Media Matters.
He thanked a bunch of people at the end but MSNBC President Phil Griffin was a notable absence in that list. Of course there will be plenty of speculation that this is directly related to the Comcast NBC merger. For what its worth Comcast last year had said that they were committed to letting "Keith Olbermann be Keith Olbermann."
NBC announced its new schedule via a press release.
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo was a guest on the show tonight and was shocked about the termination.
The Olbermann exit comes exactly one year since Air America shut down.
Where does Olbermann go next? Will he end up at CNN and replace Parker/Spitzer? I don't have any loyalty towards Ed Schultz or Lawrence O'Donnell at this time. CNN would be stupid not to try and land him at this point right?
I will follow Olbermann wherever it is that he ends up but for now I will continue to follow him on twitter. I'll post some more thoughts on this in the coming days as more news become public.
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Glad to see your books have not penetrated into my league yet. We snapped the ball to the blocking back and the tail back faked like there was a low snap and he ran to the strong side. They replace a defensive tackle with a corner. Coaching enables me to stay involved with the sport I love and the life lessons we learn about teamwork and effort and attention to detail are immeasurable. It also allows for ten offensive players to block, unlike in a conventional running play, in which the quarterback is usually not involved after delivering the ball to a running back.
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Lawn Chair The lawn chair for snapping tryouts and practice worked great. They are still sometimes used in goal-line situations. One formation at this age was definitely a plus. The extra corner is often called a nickelback. Play with the Northern Florida conferce spring football.
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We were the only team in this age group to use the shot-gun snap. Do you have Defensive play books also? Although I had played football as a youth I was not prepared to coach until I finished your books. If offenses grew wise to the drop back, the ends could pass rush instead. Certain college programs, muslim dating nyc such as the University of Hawaii and Texas Tech still use it as their primary formation.
But if you want some good information about our success let me fill ya in. This play relies on good faking by the tailback and the wingback. We run a direct snap offense and are looking to go under center, but keep our smash mouth approach. Respectfully, Lewis Whipple. The only problem was the full size lawn chair was too tall.
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When our blocking backs did their job the play always worked. In this formation, one back the fullback lines up behind the quarterback. Still, this list of formations covers enough of the basics that almost every formation can be considered a variant of the ones listed below.
If there is a man head up on him he is the most dangerous man. The first play in the book is the off-tackle play. Again I want to thank you for helping us achieve this goal.
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The second is by converting the ends of a wide tackle six to safeties the defensive ends of a wide tackle six already have pass defense responsibilities. The next season, my son and I move up a level, and so do a bunch of the players from our previous years team. The power, dating another bottom misdirection and pass options of the system make our team very hard for defenses to stop.
The Pistol formation adds the dimension of a running game with the halfback being in a singleback position. The modern descendant of the Single Wing. If you want to any other feedback to your single wing we used give me a ring. The wing reverse was only effective when defenses shifted somewhat to our unbalanced line. In this variation, there is only one wing back, with the other back lined up next to the fullback on the opposite side from the wing back.


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"Every time I cross a dark area or a deserted road, it reminds me of that day… every time I read about another rape, it reminds me of that day… sometimes while crossing such a spot, I feel like she's still in the hospital, alive. It hurts me, scares me," says Singh, seated in the living room of her Dwarka house. The family of four moved to this house in 2013.
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She, however, sees a glimmer of hope in the women who are fighting back, and families that are not quiet anymore. "Before December 2012, fewer women spoke up… I see their voices getting louder now. That's the noticeable change I have seen in the last five years," she says. As she recalls the last conversation with her daughter in the hospital, days before she died, Singh fixes the maroon bindi on her forehead.
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He spoke not merely for the dependent world but for the entire humanity. It teaches in a plain and logical manner what should be done in the world in preparation for a comfortable life in the Hereafter. Among the various manifestations of violence one could name alarming disparities in incomes, overdevelopment and underdevelopment, denial of basic needs, corruption, criminalization, communalism and consumerism.
Islam is attractive to non-Muslims because of its universal Message. As it seems, Judaism and Christianity have failed them, and turning towards Islam became their refuge.
Read them haply you may be guided. The unease and distrust of their own senses experienced by the expedition members becomes a metaphoric representation of the distrust the reader feels when reading weird literature. The discovery that radiation both caused and cured cancer brought up an intense debate about whether using this kind of science on humans was a viable option.
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Act 2, Scene 5
The narrative began with Act 1, scene 1 on April 10, 2013.
To access all scenes, scroll to blog archive at the bottom of the page.
The glass doors facing the street are open, to catch the cooler evening air. We hear the shuffle of feet as tourists and locals stroll in quiet conversation and occasional laughter, snapping photos with everything from cell phones to expensive SLRs with impressive lenses. Nothing moves on nearby canals. A few tables in front of the restaurant are now occupied as are all of those inside. This has become a comfortable, now bustling room full of pleasantly tired and appreciative diners. Each of those in our little group seems entranced by the colourful dishes around the table, the mouth-watering aromas of the seafood and fish dishes and their seasoning. While all are enjoying the excellent food and wine, conversation returns to issues in the arts.
Diego, I can't tell you what a thrill it is to be sitting with you and Pablo, having dinner together. And since we are somehow magically in a way, together, there is a question I simply have to ask; I hope you don't mind. It's one that scholars and artists have been wrestling with for, what ... centuries? (Picasso nods and grunts his agreement as he works lobster from its shell). The question is about the painting we call Las Meninas – you referred to it in your inventory of the king's collection as La Familia. Well, I think it's safe to say that people have been seriously analyzing the painting since its creation ... the Baroque painter, Luca Giordano, for example – funny, the Italians called him Fa Presto, because he worked with such speed – he definitely saw the painting as a masterpiece. I suppose he may have been particularly interested, having studied under your friend, Ribera. He must have wondered about the painting's structure just as we do today, unless you explained it to him personally on one of your visits here, that is. Maybe you can settle this for us once and for all.
Las Meninas, Diego Velazquez, 1656
I'm referring to the image of the royal couple, the one hanging discreetly on the far wall to the left of the doorway where your cousin, I think, stands on the stairs. The image could, I suppose, be a double portrait, but the general consensus is that it's a mirror. The question is whether you are at work on a huge portrait of the king and queen who stand in front of you, and it follows, in our space – the viewers' space; or are you working on a portrait of the child and the king and queen are in the studio, watching you work as Philip often did, and they are simply curious and interested? OR, are you at work on this painting itself? And still more ... it could be a self portrait. What are you painting? That's really the question.
Velazquez (smiling broadly, a fork in one hand, a piece of bread in the other)
Well, you are correct about its being a mirror - the image on the back wall, that is. It is flattering that my work has attracted such attention over all these years. Pablo, does this interest you? What is your guess about this question that David asks?


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^^. Maybe I just need to rig up a lid for mine....
^^. Maybe I just need to rig up a lid for mine....
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
I just use the plastic separator pan with the slots in the bottom. Works fine if the media doesn't pack in the cases.
I sift the media into a large round cookie tin.
Same deal on wet tumbling.
I want to get the soot and dirt off for the sake of mechanical function through dies and gun.
I stopped caring about showroom shiny brass a long time ago
Same deal with primer pocket cleaning. It may have an application, but not in ammo bulk loaded on a cheap progressive press.
Schrödinger's Gat - The logical paradox which posits that a firearm, stored safe in the home, is at the same time On The Streets
I have the Frankford separator that functions identically to the rcbs unit, and since I have an air compressor anyway I also grab handfuls of casings at a time and give them a quick once over with the blow gun after separation.
Respect the gun, but do not fear it.
We switched as the cases are so much cleaner and the primer pocket and inside of the case in particular.
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Orientation at SVA offers students the opportunity to meet faculty, staff and other students before classes begin. It also helps acclimate new students to the SVA campus, community and NYC. Pictures from Spring and Fall 2019 Orientation events can be viewed in the slide show above.
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Zipline and Dine takes guests soaring through the sky and climbing through the trees with a chef-curated meal awaiting at the end of the adventure. Take in a bird's eye view of the USNWC as you fly on the Center's longest zipline, spanning 1,625 feet before traversing a series of ropes bridges and platforms, and zipping 1,100 feet back down to Hawk Island. After a short hike back to River's Edge, you'll be greeted with a three course meal with new culinary creations being featured each week.
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Denny Roy, a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center, writes at The Diplomat that the crux of the tensions between the U.S. and China is a contest for power in the Asia-Pacific region. The squabbling over competing sovereignty claims of this or that island chain in the East and South China Seas, he writes, is peripheral to the real battle for regional hegemony.
A Chinese sphere of influence here would require the eviction of American strategic leadership, including U.S. military bases and alliances in Japan and South Korea, U.S. "regional policeman" duties, and most of the security cooperation between America and friends in the region that now occurs. Washington is not ready to give up this role, seeing a strong presence in the western Pacific rim and the ability to shape regional affairs as crucial to American security.
A basic problem, then, is that Beijing wants a sphere of influence, while Washington is not willing to accede it.
I'm reminded of the stark choice put forth in Noam Chomsky's 2003 book Hegemony or Survival. Relying on official documents, Chomsky warned that it is dangerous that "the declared intention of the most powerful state in history [is] to maintain its hegemony through the threat or use of military force, the dimension of power in which it reigns supreme."
In the official rhetoric of the National Security Strategy, "Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States.
One well-known international affairs specialist, John Ikenberry, describes the declaration as a "grand strategy [that] begins with a fundamental commitment to maintaining a unipolar world in which the United States has no peer competitor," a condition that is to be "permanent [so] that no state or coalition could ever challenge [the U.S.] as global leader, protector, and enforcer."
Ikenberry went on to say this quest for permanent hegemony threatens to "leave the world more dangerous and divided – and the United States less secure." America's current defense posture in Asia – to back all of China's neighboring rivals in an attempt to curb China's regional ambitions – is at once an attempt to implement this hegemonic grand strategy and a threat to peace.
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As I've written, maintaining global hegemony does ordinary Americans little good. Such an exclusive hold on power in the sphere of international relations is greatly beneficial to political elites and the wealthy entities to which they are closely tied, but not much for the general population. Given this, the question of whether we prefer maintaining hegemony to "all-out conflict" in the Asia-Pacific is pertinent. We can either continue to risk catastrophic conflict between two of the world's most powerful states, or, as Roy puts it, "accede" to China's regional ambitions which, after all, mirror America's own regional ambitions when it was a rising power.


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The Delhi University on Thursday announced its first cut-off list for admission to undergraduate courses.
The cut off list includes colleges like Hindu, Hans Raj, SRCC, LSR, Kirori Mal and Ramjas among others.
The cut off percentage for B.Com (Hons) course in Sri Ram College of Commerce in the general category is 98.5% which saw an increase of .75% from last year.
In Kirori Mal College, cut off for popular courses like English (Hons), Economics (Hons) and B.Com (Hons) are above 97%.
Cut offs for courses in Hans Raj College has seen marginal increase of .5% including Economics (Hons).
In the science stream, the highest cut off is for Physics (Hons) at Hindu College for 98.33 %.
Delhi College of Arts and Commerce has the highest cut off of 98.5% for the undergraduate course of Honours in journalism.
For Psychology, the highest cut off this year has been fixed by Lady Sri Ram College at 98.75%.
For Arts courses, the highest cut off stands at 99% for Political Science at Hindu College.
According to the admission rules, applicants need to study the cut-off list, select courses and colleges on the university website, get a print of the admission slip and approach the respective colleges with the required documents.