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You, too, can shock an SMU student
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Some morning when I won't bother anyone, I'm going to take a picture of my clock when I wake up. 3:59 AM. Almost regular enough to set your watch by—except no one needs a watch with all of our electronic gadgets showing the exact time. How does that happen? How do my computer, my iPad, and my phone all know exactly the same time? One of the mysteries of the digital age that—if I ponder it longer than it's taken me to type this sentence—can drive me to distraction.
My neurologist told me once that as I get older the symptoms of TLE would "soften." That was his word. "Soften." I have no clue. The only thing that has changed over the years is that actual seizures are almost a thing of the past. Your seizures couldn't withstand the massive doses of Carbatrol I take, either. Oh, right—you don't have seizures.
Maybe you do. Perhaps I'm the one with the normal-firing synapses and all of you are really living in constant seizures. That would explain a lot. Consider John Boehner. Perhaps his problem is the massive misfirings in his temporal lobe, misfirings he thinks are normal, and he's glad I take Carbatrol to make my brain like his. Glad as long as I pay for it myself because his wife has hundreds of shares of Shire? Who knows? Makes as much sense as any other theory I know.
But the TLE symptom that has not gone away? I'm in pretty much full hypergraphic mode this morning. It used to scare me or piss me off which, of course, only made things worse. Now I simply write and write and write and write, and who knows what might dribble off the ends of my fingers.
On a morning when I thought of something to write about the day before (or even when I woke up in the night ready to write and took an Ambien instead) it's not so much a problem. But on a day like today when I simply have to write and have nothing in mind, it's a pain in the ass.
In fact, I did have an idea last night, but I can't write about my students and put it out here to zoom around in the Ethernet for all of eternity (apparently).
I can tell one little harmless student anecdote. This week is conference week—we suspend classes and I meet with students individually to try to help them make sense out of the essay they're writing (the person who is writing this is going to help someone write something sensible? There you see the entire problem with our educational system). I have sixty twenty-minute conferences in one week. No wonder I'm in full swing this morning.
They're writing about the rhetorical means of the Gettysburg Address. Seems a little like having a picnic lunch at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier at Arlington. The word "desecration" almost comes to mind. I've suggested to most of them that they should see the movie Lincoln. Really, it's a great movie and passably accurate historically. One kid said when I asked if he'd seen it, "My grandfather told me it was boring."
Well, now. Let's unpack that sentence.
My grandfather. And just what kind of man is his grandfather? First his age. If the kid is 19 (he's what we used to call a "Freshman"—now they have much fancier non-sexist names) he was born when his father was, say, 23 (married just out of college), that's a total of 42. So if his father was born when his father was 23, that makes the grandfather 65. I'm older than his grandfather. Yikes! What am I doing in that office, anyway?
So his grandfather is either 1) not a movie buff, 2) an old man who likes "Terminator" movies, 3) not a history buff, 4) from Texas and has little use for Lincoln, or 5) a grandfather who understands the great chasm between generations.
Those possibilities pretty much unpack the rest of the statement. There's no way to tell without meeting the grandfather. I don't want to do that because he's obviously an old straight white man, and they are a dime a dozen. He's old. I'm in the prime of my career. Enough said. Except that I do have quite a few straight friends.
So I told the student the story of my being one degree of separation away from Abraham Lincoln. He was pretty amazed—not that I have a real personal reason to be so caught up in studying Lincoln, but that it was possible I could be that old. That's not what he said, but I could, as they say, see the wheels turning.
Now we come to the end of this little exercise in slowing my mind down. Or not. Is there a point here? That study of rhetorical means? Anyone who knows the Gettysburg Address knows the metaphor of "conceived in liberty" and "new birth of freedom." What lofty language. Our nation came to be in the fervor of liberty. So, I ask my classes, what is the metaphor, really? Blank stares.
"What's the semen for the conception of America?"
That's how you shock a bunch of college kids.
And probably you, too. Mr. Rarefied Lincoln couldn't possibly have meant that.
And I say President Lincoln understood liberty in an earthy, primal way John Boehner and the Tea Party cannot even imagine.


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Finance – September 30, 2014
The committee continues with its annual pre-budget consultations, where Canadians are invited to share their priorities for the federal budget. The following witnesses offer their recommendations during the first part of the meeting : Jim Mann (Alzheimer Society of Canada), Roberta Jamieson (Indspire), Graham Carr (Mitacs), Bruce Ireland (Neurological Health Charities Canada), and Ann Decter (YWCA Canada).
In the second part of the meeting, MPs hear about the priorities of these groups: David T. Barnard (Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada), Travis Gordon (Canadian Alliance of Student Associations), Chris Simpson (Canadian Medical Association), Martha Friendly (Childcare Resource and Research Unit), and Victoria Nolan (Canadian National Institute for the Blind). (September 30, 2014)

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'I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem.' 'And I went out by night, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down.' 'Then said I, Come and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.' . 'So built we the wall.' 'We made our prayer unto God.' 'We laboured on the work.' 'And so the wall was finished.'--Nehemiah, ii. [(1) The First Lesson for S. Augustine's Day according to the Old Lectionary.]
'What I want you to notice as new, since Christianity began to act on society, as unprecedented, as characteristic, is the power of recovery which appears in society in the Christian centuries.'--DEAN CHURCH's Gifts of Civilization, p. 202.
WITH the publication of this remarkable letter we enter on the fourth, the present period in the history of S. Augustine's. According to all reasonable calculation, according to all laws of probability, it was bound to pass away and be no more seen. But in the providence of God this was otherwise ordered; and if [38/39] the story of the origin and glory of the Abbey, and of its decay and desolation, is striking, still more so is the story of its restoration.
To whom is the restoration due? It is due to three men, each remarkable in his way, each distinguished for the good work he has done for the Church of his birth.
The first is the writer of the letter just quoted. The second is the late Right Hon. A. J. B. Beresford Hope, then Member for Maidstone. Born on the 25th of January, 1820, he was educated at Harrow, where he obtained a scholarship and prizes, and thence proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he gained in 1840 the English and Latin Declamation prizes, and in 1841 obtained the Member's prize for a Latin essay. [(1) He took his M.A. in 1844; Hon. LL.D., 1864; Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford, 1848; Hon. LL.D. of Dublin, 1881; Hon. LL.D. of Washington and Lee University, and the University of South Tennessee, U.S.A.] In the library of the famous mansion, which his father built at Deepdene, in Surrey, the author of Coningsby wrote that famous novel; and it might have been expected that the son would have devoted himself solely to the parliamentary career for which he was so eminently adapted, and the patronage of art for which he became afterwards so famous. But already he had shown traces of the influence of [39/40] the religious revival which had begun to affect the English Church. At Kilndown, near Bedgebury Park, which came to him through his mother, the wife of Marshal Beresford, the church was a meagre, barn-like building. This, when only eighteen years of age, [(1) MS. letter from the present Vicar of Kilndown, the Rev. H. Harrison.] he changed into one worthy, so far as human hands could make it, of a House of God, erecting in it a new altar, and filling it throughout with painted windows.
The letter of Robert Brett fell under his eye in the autumn of 1843, and, as he himself said on one occasion, 'Much as I was struck with the letter, it is very possible that it might have run off like a drop of water, had it not been for a strange and providential accident. I had engaged myself to pay my first visit to Canterbury the very week after that letter had appeared describing the terrible condition of the ruins. The visit was paid. Archdeacon Lyall showed me over the Cathedral, and when I said I should like to see the ruins of S. Augustine's, of which I had read, he answered, "If you want to see them, I will take you. But you will be very much disappointed. They are miserable things. They are not worth a visit"' However, he went. He saw the noble gateway, the brewery vat, the ragged and disreputable [40/41] public-house, the tangled garden and skittle-ground, the grotto-like recesses of ancient date called 'cloisters,' the high pieces of wall painted black for target practice, the ruined foundation of Æthelbert's Romanesque tower. [(1) A. B. H. in the Archæologia Cantiana, vol. iv.] He saw and made up his mind, keeping his intention, like a wise man, to himself. He returned to London and directed his lawyer to negotiate for the purchase of the ruins, of which he was eventually allowed to become the purchaser at a somewhat reduced rate of payment, as it was believed the unknown buyer was seeking the building to promote the brewers' legitimate trade. [(2) 'He showed me the gateway, and the beerhouse which stood on the site of this hall. I said, "Thank you," and kept my intentions to myself. When I got to town I drove off to my lawyer and said, "Mr. Walker, some old premises at Canterbury are for sale, and I mean to buy them." My lawyer sent some one to the sale, and they were bought; the sellers being in the comfortable belief that they would be kept in the orthodox trade.'--Speech of Mr. Beresford Hope in the College Hall, S. Peter's Day, 1883.] But before he completed the purchase he had to get three private Acts of Parliament passed, and at length the site was actually made over to him.
But now there is a third and quite as remarkable a man to come upon the scene.
This was the Rev. Edward Coleridge, younger son of Colonel James Coleridge, of Heath Court, [41/42] Ottery S. Mary, in the county of Devon. He was considerably older than Mr. Beresford Hope, having been born on May 11, 1800. He was educated at Eton, where Dr. Pusey and Dr. Jelf were in the same form with him. He took his degree as a Member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1822, and was afterwards elected Fellow of Exeter. In 1824 he was appointed an assistant master in his old school, being the first instance of an Oxford man nominated to a mastership at Eton. [(1) Amongst Edward Coleridge's pupils were the younger Hallam, Archdeacon Balston, Lord Justice Cotton, Goldwin Smith, Bishop Patteson, Sir Stafford Northcote, Sir George Rickards, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, and Dean Goulburn.] He was assistant master at Eton from 1824 to 1850, and lower master from that date till 1857, when he became Fellow of Eton, and Vicar of Mapledurham. As lower master he marvellously improved that part of the school, raising its numbers eight or ten fold, [(2) See next paragraph] and might have been [42/43] known to the world only by his success in the scholastic profession, famous for his zeal, his energy, his power of sympathy, and 'an absolute transparency of character which never pretended to know more than he really did know.' But in the providence of God other influences were brought to bear upon him. Amongst these are to be placed that of his sister, Lady Patteson; of Mr. Justice Patteson, a sound Churchman of the old school, thoroughly devout and scrupulous in observance, ruling his family and his household on a principle felt throughout; of the late Bishop Selwyn, whom he styles 'my most dear of all dear friends;' and finally of Bishop Broughton, who became in 1836 the first Bishop of Sydney. Through these, and especially the last-named Bishop, his whole soul was filled with the idea of doing all in his power for the spread of the Colonial Church. Not only did he assemble at his own house at Eton the forty guests who greeted the newly-consecrated Bishop Selwyn; not only did he accompany him, before he sailed, from Eton to Exeter and from Exeter to Plymouth; not only did he watch for and pick up the last pebble on which the Bishop set his foot before going on board the ship, as the last reminiscence of that 'friend of friends,' and then stand a long while watching on the Hoe as the ship spread her sails and glided away in the [43/44] distance, but he set himself with characteristic energy to supply Bishop Broughton's longing for a Missionary Training College in England.
[Footnote (2) from above: With the help of Chapman and Wilder he substituted as a lesson on Sunday mornings the Greek Testament for Virgil or Juvenal. See Maxwell Lyte's Eton College, p. 370: 'No one who does not recollect the traditions of the School in the first quarter of the century can believe the weight of the earthly mass that Atlas had to bear; and if James Chapman was the Atlas, Edward Coleridge was the Hercules, and so "Hercule supposito sidera fulcit Atlas." I often used to think in later days of J. H. Newman's sermon on S. Peter and S. Andrew, and compare Chapman to the latter and Edward Coleridge to the former.'--C. J. A., in the Guardian, May 30, 1883]
At a time when missionary zeal was rare, and rarest of all in our public schools, he seemed to be consumed by it as with a fire. In the midst of the harassing duties of a Master at Eton, with a house full of pupils, and with the additional cares of church work at Windsor for which he had volunteered, he devoted himself with untiring energy to his design. 'Tenax propositi,' he went straight on with his project, and suffered neither frequent discouragements, nor manifold misconceptions, nor adverse insinuations, to divert him from his purpose. Circular followed circular, all written in his own hand. The first, a private one, to elicit the opinions of competent persons; a second addressed to personal friends asking for promises of help; a third, laying his views before the Masters of Colleges at the Universities and the Heads of Public Schools, suggesting that they should not only aid him with donations, but fit scholars for training. Replies poured in from all quarters. From the Bishops, who in various degrees expressed their warm approval of his design; from Whewell, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; from Tait, then Head Master of Rugby; from William Wordsworth, the Poet Laureate; from [44/45] Keble; from Lonsdale, the Principal of King's College, London; from Pinder of Wells, and many others; and before long he had obtained a numerously signed list of ample donations and promises of help. 'Instant in season and out of season,' he stirred, roused, in some cases shamed, men into sharing some portion of his own enthusiasm. Liberal as he was himself in giving, even to a fault, he did not shrink from laying his demands on all sorts and conditions of men with fearless importunity. [(1) See next paragraph] Whenever he knew a man he pressed his plans upon him. Whenever he heard of a man and did not know him, but thought him likely to be helpful, he introduced himself to him.
[Footnote (1) from above: ' I can contribute,' writes Bishop Hobhouse, 'one anecdote lately brought to my memory by a friend who witnessed the fact in Parker's bookshop, Oxford. "Mr. Parker, you will send me this set of books," pointing to a row; "Mr. Hobhouse wishes to give them to," I forget what, "Diocesan Library." Mr. H., though standing by, had been quite unconsulted. This will show how freely he commanded contributions from the young Eton men whom he had influenced.' 'I remember the way,' said Sir Stafford Northcote, 'in which he sent us round his first prospectus, with his printed papers enclosed in an envelope, on the leaf of which were inserted some such words as these, "If you value the spiritual interests of the Colonies and love Edward Coleridge, co-operate." I remember one of my friends saying, "Well, I do not know that I care much about the spiritual condition of the Colonies" (it was a shocking thing to say, and he must have been rather a reprobate), "but I do love Edward Coleridge."'--Speech at S. Augustine's, S. Peter's Day, 1883.]
Hitherto he had been working in the dark. [45/46] Communications and inquiries were set on foot respecting Oxford, Salisbury, and Southwell. One proposed one place, and another another. At length there came tidings of the purchase of the ruins of the Abbey of S. Augustine by Mr. Beresford Hope. Instantly Edward Coleridge saw his opportunity. [(1) 'His elements of success were the combination of a clear idea of what he wanted; consistency, not to say obstinacy, and unwearying energy in following it out. The machinery which worked this was admirable. A singularly handsome and attractive presence; a fine voice; a great versatility of transition from the gravest to the most playful and simple ready eloquence; and added to this much shrewdness and discernment of character.'--Mr. Beresford Hope, in MS. letter.] He was fired by the associations of the place. He lost not a moment. 'He made my acquaintance,' says Mr. Beresford Hope, 'by seeking me out, and when I got the site he wrote and asked me if I meant it for him. I answered fairly that I could not tell. I held out hopes, but could not say positively whether the site was adapted for the purpose, or whether a Missionary College was the best destination for it. A few months' reflection, however, convinced me that it was so. Thenceforward the two undertakings became united, and then the vague scheme of devoting the site to the needs of a Missionary College became the grand one of restoring the old house of S. Peter, S. Paul, and [46/47] S. Augustine, to the same missionary objects for which it was first founded.' [(1) From the speech of Mr. Beresford Hope on the day of the consecration of the chapel. See Twenty-five Years, p. 31.]
The joy of Edward Coleridge was unbounded at seeing his idea taking shape in a way he never could have anticipated. He wrote at once to Bishop Broughton in Australia, and the Bishop in reply writes: 'I had no sleep last night for thinking of the news, and you will find some reason for thinking that I dream of it by day. Indeed I hope it makes me thankful as well as thoughtful.' On the second day of his Easter vacation, 1845, Edward Coleridge spent a morning in surveying the excavations made by Mr. Hope. This brought on a severe attack of erysipelas in the head, which, to use his own words, 'deprived him for a full week of the use of mind, sight, and body.' But nothing damped his ardour. Returning to Eton he was soon at his familiar labours. 'I see him now,' writes one who was under him in these days, 'opening his letters at the breakfast-table, with their heavy cheques and promises of help, having ordinarily enough to astonish us boys.' He allowed nothing to impede his energy or weaken his determination. Unmoved by the sinister sneers and opposition of those whom he describes 'as clean gone mad in [47/48] affirming everything sinful and untrue which the Church of England holds in common with that of Rome,' he laboured on in conjunction with his friend Mr. Hope. While Newman was despairing, the two were planning, consulting, holding interviews with Archbishop Howley, and watching with eager interest the carrying out of the designs of the eminent architect, Mr. Butterfield, for the erection of a building which should be, to use the words of the venerable Bishop of Fredericton, 'no motley collection of ill-assorted plagiarisms but a positive creation, a real thing which may be said to be like nothing else, and yet like everything else, in Christian art.'
As month followed month the fabric gradually rose, with the Chapel, the Hall, the house for the Warden, the Fellows' buildings, and the rooms for the students. It was thought they could be accommodated in their new home in 1846. Then Whitsuntide, 1847, was named. But the solidity of the buildings, and the furnishing and laying on of water, coupled with the extreme severity and length of the winter of that year, rendered delay necessary. 'I always endeavour,' writes Edward Coleridge, 'as far as my ardent, hopeful, go-ahead temperament will allow me, to remember that consolatory saying of good Mr. Bowdler to me, when complaining somewhat of one who checked me [48/49] in the outset about the College, "Ah, my dear friend, you cannot conceive how great a privilege it is to wait."' At length Thursday, the feast of S. Peter, 1848, was definitely fixed upon, with a close regard to the appropriateness of the day for this revival of the old religious house of S. Peter, S. Paul, and S. Augustine.
The previous Sunday had witnessed the furious outbreak of the revolution at Paris and the murder of Archbishop Affre. A peaceful contrast was the scene in which our own Archbishop Sumner [(1) Archbishop Howley died February 2, 1848.] now took a prominent part. Canterbury was crowded on the Wednesday evening, and there was great difficulty in getting beds at any price, although the principal parties concerned in the ceremonial did not arrive till Thursday morning. A special train, which left London at five a.m., [(2) The Queen's concert having been unluckily fixed for the 29th of June, the Archbishop himself proposed the early train on the 29th.] brought the Archbishop, Mr. Beresford Hope, and many friends to Canterbury. At eight o'clock those who had been invited assembled in the dining-hall, and the Chapel bell was rung by one [(3) The Lady Mildred Beresford Hope, sister of the present Premier, the Marquis of Salisbury.] who was born on the 24th October, 1822, the [49/50] very day that the act of vandalism described above brought the majestic ruins of S. Æthelbert's Tower with a crash to the ground, and who, as the wife of Mr. Beresford Hope, by her 'devotion, wisdom, toilsomeness, charity, and courage, was her husband's right hand in carrying on his great work.' [(1) Speech of Mr. Beresford Hope on S. Peter's Day,1883.] About nine o'clock the procession entered the chapel in the following order:--
The service of consecration then commenced, and before the day was over the great design of Beresford Hope and Edward Coleridge had been accomplished. During the morning there was much and continued [50/51] rain, but whilst the Holy Eucharist was celebrated, the sun broke forth, lighting up the Chapel with its rays, falling in bright gladness on the crowd of devoted worshippers kneeling on the bare pavement [(1) Mr. Beresford Hope himself knelt by the side of Mr. Henry Tritton.] in the centre of the Chapel. [(2) See next paragraph] About noon there was service at the Cathedral, where the Archbishop preached the consecration sermon, choosing for his text Eph. iii, 10, 'To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God.' At three o'clock upwards of twelve hundred guests sat down to luncheon in the Museum and Cloisters of the College, and throngs of visitors roamed over the quadrangle and inspected the various buildings, while many repaired to Evensong at the Cathedral. Thus this memorable day came to an end, and the Chapel of the Missionary College of S. Augustine, itself the Guesten Chapel of the old house, restored and lengthened, had been rededicated to the worship of God, and the ancient monastery had been made ready to do once more 'its first works.'
[Footnote (2) above: The offertory in the Chapel itself amounted to 508l. 9s. 10d.; the collection at the Cathedral to 429l 13s. 10s., making with 50l. sent in on the following day a total of 988l. 3s. 8d. The following plan of [51n/52n] S. Augustine's College Chapel, as occupied on the day of Consecration, gives a list of those present:
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Hierarchical Condition Category
Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding is a risk adjustment method used by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). HCC is used to identify patients with serious illnesses and chronic conditions and assign those patients a Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) score. CMS then uses risk adjustment to account for differences in beneficiary-level risk factors that can affect outcomes and cost to enable more accurate comparisons across providers and practices for programs like the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
HCC separates different illnesses and chronic condition diagnoses into categories that represent conditions with similar cost patterns. There are over 68,000 ICD-10 codes. Of those, more than 9,000 codes map to the 79 Hierarchical Condition Categories currently active in the risk adjustment model. Each diagnosis code is assigned a weight. When reported, the code's weight is added to the patient's RAF score. The sicker the patient, the higher the RAF score. CMS uses these RAF scores to predict health care costs for the following year. A patient's RAF resets annually, so each HCC code must be reported on a claim once each calendar year for CMS to recognize that the patient still has the condition.
CMS also requires proper documentation in the patient's medical record for each reported diagnosis. HCC documentation requires a face-to-face visit, documentation of the condition and its status, the provider's assessment, and a treatment plan. An easy way to remember what must be documented for HCC coding is the acronym MEAT.
- Monitor – document the signs, symptoms, and disease progression or regression
- Evaluate – document test results, medication effectiveness, and response to treatment
- Address – document tests that were ordered, discussions with the patient, record review and counseling
- Treat – document medication, therapies, and other modalities
HCC coding is a useful and important tool for providers. It ensures an accurate picture of overall patient health and ensures proper risk adjustment for evaluation measures such as the MIPS Cost Category. The more detail CMS has on a patient population, the better the reflection on a provider's cost score will be.
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Even if we put all of the health benefits garlic provides aside, we're still left with that unique aroma and taste that enrich all kinds of dishes.
Garlic is a vegetable rich in potent medicinal properties as well as essential nutrients. It is low in calories and high in selenium, vitamin C, manganese, calcium and potassium.
However you'll only be able to reap its health benefits if you consume organic garlic. While we're at organic garlic, did you know you can easily grow it at home without using dangerous chemicals?
For starters, we're going to mention some of the best health benefits of garlic:
Cardiovascular health
When garlic is added to food, it prevents the accumulation of fat in the body and helps the body to deal with it better. In this way, it reduces the risk of stroke and heart disease. Moreover, it also helps in the case of high blood pressure and reduced hypertension by up to 8%.
Immune system
Garlic is a real superfood when it comes to the strengthening of the immune system. Studies have shown that the consumption of a daily garlic supplement lowers the risk of flu and colds by a whopping 63%. Moreover, it is incredibly effective in the case of Staph infections, and also accelerates the treatment of ear infections.
In additional to being a super-food, garlic is also super easy to grow.
All you need to do is follow these simply 5 steps:
1. Break up the garlic bulb into cloves and bury them a couple inches deep in loose, damp soil.
2. Make sure you keep the pointed side of the clove facing upwards.
3. When your garlic sprouts, make sure to give them water when the topsoil feels dry but be sure to not overwater – garlic tends to not need too much water.
4. You should fertilize the plants in spring, water when the soil is really dry an inch below the surface. Furthermore, make sure you remove any flowers that grow.
5. You should pull the green leaves of the plant as soon as they are 5 or 6. If you want, you can eat the harvest right away, or you can store them for later. Therefore, you need to clean them well, and then hang them in a dry, cool and well-ventilated place.
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August 3, 2018
JLL strengthened its retail platform with the addition of industry expert Steve Schwartz, who joins the firm as a SVP from RKF. The 15-year CRE veteran will be based in the company's corporate Chicago headquarters, where he will partner closely with the firm's Midwest retail team.
JLL's Dan Ryan says, "We're very excited to have Steve join the JLL team, especially given the growing strength of our Chicago retail platform. Adding Steve and his extensive retail experience to our team will provide tremendous value to our clients throughout the region."
Schwartz was responsible for both landlord and tenant representation at RKF. During his career, he has completed sale and lease transactions valued at more than $200 million, worked on several high-profile leases for Chicago flagship locations, such as Steak 48 and Liberty Travel, and helped bring several national retailers to Chicago, including Current Elliott.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Curated by Ming Tiampo and Alexandra Munroe
FOR THE GROUP that officially called itself the Gutai Art Association, being one step ahead was always something of a fine art. Founded in 1954 by Jirō Yoshihara, a painter who urged his younger colleagues to "create things that have never been done before," the Gutai group, until its dissolution after Yoshihara's death in 1972, produced an extraordinary range of works encompassing performances, paintings, sculptures, outdoor installations, experimental films, and even wearables (as vividly exemplified by Atsuko Tanaka's iconic Electric Dress, 1956/1986). And though they were based in the sleepy hamlet of Ashiya, well outside the bounds of the Tokyo art establishment, Gutai never lost sight of other nations' artistic developments, becoming the first
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Eberhard & Co watches: a new brand on Orologi&Dintorni
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The Manufacture d'Horlogerie Eberhard & Co born in 1887 and start producing at first pocket chronograph watches and then, from 1919, chronograph wristwatch. From 1939 starts the production of an innovative watch with the double timing.
About 10 years later, Eberhard presents the first Extra-fort watch, symbol prototype of the next twenty years. In this period born the first models of women watches. Over the years the brand establishes itself as a leader in the market of luxury watches for aviators, for navigation and sports watches.
Eberhard Chrono 4 Watch
The peculiar characteristic of Eberhard Chrono 4 luxury watch is the layout of his chronograph counters. Number 4, indeed, refers to the particular disposition of his small dials.
Chrono 4 watch case has a diameter of 40 mm, in the anniversary version Chrono 4 130 of 42 mm, in the Chrono 4 Grande Taille version of 43 mm and in the Chrono 4 Geant version 46 mm for a thickness of 14 mm. This Eberhard watch is water resistant to 200 metres.
Eberhard Scafograf Watch
In the middle of the last century born the Scafograf watches collection, for those who are keen on sea and diving. the watches of this collection have different water resistance to a maximum of 1000 metres.
These diving watches have a very resistant steel case and a stainless steel or rubber strap.
Scafograf GMT is a steel automatic watch, with a steel bezel with ceramic insert, rotatable and bidirectional. This Eberhard diving watch is water resistant to 100 m.
Eberhard Extra-fort Watch
It is one of the collections more brand representative, which has by now a lot of different models as Extra-Fort Automatic and Extra-Fort Grande Taille.
All the models have dials with Roman numbers applique. The bigger case, made of steel, is in the Grande Taille model (41 mm in diameter). The strap is made of stainless steel or crocodile leather. /p>
Eberhard 8 jours Watch
The peculiarity of 8 jours Eberhard watch, started in 1997, is that it needs to be winded up just every 8 days. This Eberhard luxury watch has his Grand Taille version too, the Eberhard watches series with bigger cases.This Eberhard luxury watch has his Grand Taille version too, the Eberhard watches series with bigger cases.
The movement is obviously the same in every model, because of its particular characteristic. The dial has Roman or Arabic numbers and the strap is made of crocodile leather or stainless steel, but the strap of Grande Taille version is always in crocodile leather.
Eberhard Champion V Watch
Champion V is the Eberhard sports watches collection. This Eberhard watch has a case of 42,80 mm of diameter and a 14,45 mm of thickness.
The vintage style of this watch is the result of the dial with baton markers; the hands, regardless of the colour, are always red.


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During the rise of feminism, who wears the pants in your house identified the decision maker of the house. In the last decade, there has been a subtle coup. This key position has been usurped by the generation Y and generation T (T for toddlers).
Think about it – aren't all our decisions are based on what works best for the kids? Be it location of home, outings, vacation destinations and sometimes even the friends and family we want to associate with.
And the biggest factor on the list is 'What will baba or baby eat?' In all the years that I have been a mom, I have yet to come across one parent who was happy with the way the kids ate.
Considering the rise of obesity in young India, one is puzzled about the fact that if half the kids are malnourished and the other half are too fussy to eat anything, who is really getting obese? I don't know about the nation but I definitely want to know!
Now many of you will immediately want to enlighten me with the reality of junk food in our lives and how the kids are eating so much of it. If that's true, how come we parents are sitting back and letting our kids get away with it?
Would we allow them to indulge in poison or drugs "only once a week" or "if they finish their homework"? The reality is that we are tired – tired of fighting, comparing and struggling all the time and have made peace with the statement: At least they have eaten something.
So what do we do to overcome the main issue of healthy eating? Packaged foods and juices are not viable alternatives. Like charity this battle too has to begin at home. I am all for adapting the strategy of C.R.E.A.T. This is the use of Camouflage, Reasoning, Engaging and Tastier food. Let's commit to feeding our kids healthier food. Folks, it's time to start wearing the pants again – it's a worthy cause.
P.S. – My teenager, who is monitoring me right now, does not agree with any of this. She is trying to convince me that parents are the ones who take all calls. The debate is open, we may be taking the calls but who is complying?
– Shabnam Mehra
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A Burgundy Box meal is devoid of chemicals, preservatives, additives or artificial ingredients. Across cuisines, meal options make for great experiences for adults and children alike.
Burgundy Box's latest offering is the Zero Grocery range. Home-style daily meal kits delivered meal-wise to you with freshly chopped and prepped ingredients every day. All you need to do is just spend 10-15 minutes to finish the dish (cook the way you like it or follow our recipe). Make food hot and fresh so it's ready just when you need it. All you need available at home is your preferred oil, salt, pepper and chilli powder – everything comes ready in a Zero Grocery bag.
Zero Grocery has designed its service to teach users new recipes, save them prep time and also reduce unnecessary waste of ingredients.
Subscription kits for kids are available via a simple subscription plan (5/6/7 day), and delivered daily between 4 and 6 pm to your doorstep. Everyday brings a new dish – with vegetarian and non-vegetarian options – paranthas, burgers, pasta, roti cups and much more.
Zero Grocery kits are priced ₹600 onwards.
In particular most of these dishes are packed with superfoods and vegetables that kids would normally turn up their nose at! Burgundy Box uses everyday ingredients like beetroot, pumpkin, doodhi, spinach, in disguised forms.
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Telstra launches startup accelerator in Singapore; 10 startups to be recruited from region
TELSTRA-BACKED startup accelerator, muru-D, which was launched on Wednesday, will open, in May, applications for 10 technology startups from across South-east Asia to be recruited for the inaugural six-month accelerator programme, which begins in August.
The successful startups will receive S$40,000 in seed capital, space in muru-D Singapore's central business district office, and introductions to world-class mentors, coaches and investors.
Said Annie Parker, co-founder at muru-D: "With its fast-developing startup ecosystem, pro-business policies and access to local capital, Singapore offers entrepreneurs a tremendous launch pad into Southeast Asia, which has a burgeoning population of more than 600 million people and GDP in excess of S$2.4 trillion. muru-D will help accelerate technology innovation throughout Southeast Asia and we look forward to, not only attracting the best digital talent but, critically, creating the right conditions for their long-term success."
muru-D Singapore will be headed by Joseph Ziegler, entrepreneur-in-residence, and Jamie Camidge, head of strategic partnerships and alliances. Mr Ziegler has more than 20 years' experience in building and exiting startups around the globe, while Mr Camidge is an experienced corporate strategy executive at Telstra.
The 10 successful applicants from across South-east Asia will be announced in August, following a pan-Asian roadshow throughout May and June, designed to attract the region's best digital talent.
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A LADY knows when it's time to leave. But Hillary Rodham Clinton is a different kind of dame.
Appropriately, she held what should have been her final campaign appearance in a stifling, windowless bunker – a gymnasium, actually – two floors below street level at Baruch College.
After a while, I hallucinated that cyanide capsules were falling from the ceiling.
Instead, she gave us Hillarus Interruptus.
"I will not be making any decisions tonight," sayeth Hillary. That said it all.
After all, it's all about Hillary. Hillary! It always was.
She took the stage in a frisky, royal-blue, silk pantsuit. Her hair was freshly trimmed. She knew she held the country, and her party, by the short hairs. The way she always liked it!
Just 300 supporters, and an equal number of reporters, showed. The cash bar did a brisk business, as the shindig began to resemble a wake.
I saw two women hug. Then came the tears.
When Hillary finally rose beside ball-and-chain Bill and a beaming Chelsea, she started playing with our heads, like a kitten with string.
"I want to begin by congratulating Sen. Obama and his supporters," she began. Congratulate?
"Whatever!" I heard a woman cry. "Boo!" said another. "Shhhhhh!" said a third.
For weeks, the door has been poised to smack Hillary on the backside, ending White House dreams that have bordered on the pathological.
But yesterday, Hillary turned semantically unglued, hanging by her frayed fingernails to her campaign, while hinting that she wants to be vice president.
In a turn of phrase reminiscent of her husband's idiotic sexual denial in a deposition about Monica Lewinsky ("It depends on what the definition of 'is' is"), Hillary's camp argued all day over the definition of the "c" word – "concede," that is.
The Associated Press was reporting throughout the day that Hillary "will concede that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination."
Last night, however, she never uttered the word, never recognized that Obama is, in fact, the party's nominee.
I used to feel sorry for Hillary. Now I don't.
"It has been an honor to contest these primaries" with Obama, she teased. And still, she won't leave.
The presidency was going to be Hillary's consolation prize for putting up with her reckless, hound-dog husband. But that was not good enough a reason to make someone a contender for the highest office in the land.
The fat lady is singing, but Hillary can't hear.
I've warmed up to Hillary in recent months, if only because I believe Obama is too leftist, too tax-crazy and lacks the substance to be president.
Now, my choice is plain: John McCain for president.
If only Hillary will get out of the way.


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For the 2019-2020 academic year, I am a member at the Institute for Advanced Study. I am also a member of the Michigan Center for Single-Cell Data Analytics.
You can find my CV here, updated November 2018.
My research projects are in statistical signal processing, matrix factorization, and optimization, particularly dealing with large and messy data. I have worked in the areas of online algorithms, non-convex formulations for matrix factorization, compressed sensing and matrix completion, and inference with missing data. I have applied my work to problems in computer vision, environmental sensing, recommender systems, power networks, network inference, and sensor networks. My interests are theoretical, however, my favorite mathematical problems are motivated by fascinating and important engineering problems.


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An authority's public transport strategy.
This paper investigates the place of utility cycling (cycling as a means of transport rather than as a sport or leisure activity) under urban modernism in the UK. In many western contexts the dominant feature of urban modernism was its emphasis on accommodating private vehicles to the neglect of other forms of mobility. The result was the production of a 'car-system' with significant change to urban and rural environments.
The Mayor has asked Transport for London to put the Healthy Streets Approach at the heart of its decision making. Set out in 'Healthy Streets for London', this approach is a system of policies and strategies to help Londoners use cars less and walk, cycle and use public transport more often.
To achieve this it is important to plan a longer-term and coherent cycle network across London in a way that will complement walking and public transport priorities. This document provides a robust, analytical framework to help do this.
This week's Good Facility is a cycle path in the Dutch countryside, between Delft and Zoetermeer in South Holland.
Author's Foreword: Cycling on the Cusp of Greatness
I, like most professional transport planners, providers and researchers of my generation, have grown up thinking that cycling, though worthy, is of small significance compared with the great questions of cars,traffic and public transport, or the universal significance of walking.
Too many people in the UK feel they have no choice but to travel in ways that are dangerous, unhealthy, polluting and costly, not just to their own wallets but also to the public purse. Urgent action is required to address Britain's chronic levels of obesity, heart disease, air pollution and congestion if we are to catch up with other countries in the developed world.
Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike lanes and paths, innovative bike sharing programs, and the sheer fun of riding. City Cycling offers a guide to this urban cycling renaissance, with the goal of promoting cycling as sustainable urban transportation available to everyone.
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London has a long way to go to achieve the Mayor's objective of a cycling revolution. Only 2 per cent of journeys in London are made by bicycle. This falls short of other UK cities like Bristol, Cambridge and Hull, and it is significantly less than the Netherlands – where 26 per cent of journeys are made by bicycle – and Copenhagen, which sees 36 per cent of work and study-related trips cycled.
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The vast open spaces of social media can seem like a free-for-all when it comes to sharing tidbits about your life and offering your thoughts about everything from current events to what you ate for dinner. But what you share on social media can have lasting effects—not all of them good—so it pays to exercise caution.
That said, don't shy away from using social media in your job search. The trick is to share on social media in a smart way, making sure to post honest and above-board information, and leaving out extraneous details and minutiae that don't serve you in your search for work.
If you're looking for a job, check out these suggestions about what not to share on social media:
Complaints About Your Current Job or Employer
Don't use social media as a platform to air your grievances about your current job or an immediate past job. Refrain from complaining about a specific job or supervisor by name. Laying out your issues in such a public forum shows a decided lack of discretion and disregard for confidentiality that, chances are, won't sit well with potential future employers.
Silly or Outrageous "Likes" and Opinions
To be sure, job seekers need to be on social media, and have every right under the First Amendment to voice their thoughts on politics, religion, and other hot-button issues. But keep in mind the possible repercussions of your heartfelt thoughts with future employers. In other words, you may be perfectly comfortable—or even feel it's to your advantage—to make your opinions known. But do so in a thoughtful way that demonstrates you've given serious consideration to your words, as opposed to ranting.
Current Work-Related Plans or Projects
Here's a big no-no: being "loose-lipped" with details about confidential or proprietary projects you may be working on for your current employer, or about work assignments that you were involved with in the past. Sharing details on social media about competitive projects isn't just a matter of poor judgment, it may also get you into legal hot water.
Frequent Status Updates
If you want to project a sense of stability that future employers may find reassuring, do your best to keep from updating your status at the drop of a hat. Letting the world know about every change in your personal—and professional—status may come across as, well, a bit flaky. Figure out whether you're OK with that, or if you'd be better off not offering it all up on a platter for public consumption.
"Risque" Personal or Recreational Pursuits
Here's where you may greatly benefit by protecting your privacy in choosing what—and what not—to share on social media. Protect yourself and your privacy, and don't assume that baring your soul on social media will be received with open arms by current or potential employers.
Compromising Photos and Indiscriminate Tagging
It's fairly obvious to say you may want to stay away from posting photos of yourself chugging a bottle of alcohol or in heavy-duty party mode. You also may want to think twice about "tagging" acquaintances in photos where people may be captured in a less-than-flattering light. Just as you want to protect your own privacy, you don't want to be "tagged" in a photo posted by someone else that may prove detrimental to your job search efforts.
Home Address and Phone Numbers
If you're in serious job search mode, you certainly want to get your name and credentials out in the marketplace to boost your chances as you search for flexible jobs. But you don't want to broadcast your personal information to the world at large. Keeping your personal information off social media platforms will keep you safer not only in your job search, but in your personal life as well.
Readers, do you have tips about what not to share on social media while job searching? Share them with us below!
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FX KOs 'Lights Out'
FX said it will not be making a second season of Lights Out, the drama about a champion boxer making a comeback.
The series and star Holt McCallany received good reviews, but did not draw the ratings FX needs in primetime for its original shows. The failure of Lights Out follows the cancelation of Terriers, which also ran only a single season.
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Financial Times
Nato accuses Russia of 'weaponising' immigrants
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Nato's top commander accused Russia and the Syrian regime on Tuesday of "weaponising" immigration by using bombs aimed at civilians to deliberately cause large flows of refugees and challenge European political resolve. General Philip Breedlove ...
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Europe's daily refugee flood hides terrorists, and Russia, Assad fueling flow: top NATO brassThe Japan Times
Russia, Syria using refugees to overwhelm Europe, says US generalSydney Morning Herald
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One of Russia's looniest far-right ideologues endorses Donald Trump
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The FBI's tips web portal, created in the wake of 9/11, receives about 1,300 tips a day.
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Judge who ruled for Apple shreds government for using a 227-year-old law to access people's smartphones
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Apple's fight in a California federal court over the FBI's attempts to unlock an iPhone received a boost from a similar case decided on Monday in a Brooklyn courtroom. In the more high-profile California battle, the FBI, citing a 227-year-old law ...
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Apple, the FBI, and the Internet of Things: Your whole house is open to attack
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The unfolding showdown between Apple and the FBI is almost invariably depicted in terms of the security and privacy of your smartphone. That's a huge mistake. What really hangs in the balance is the security of every modern device in your house — your ...
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Congressman Suggests FBI Is Taking Advantage of San Bernardino Tragedy to Push Agenda
The Intercept
A leading House Democrat expressed serious concern on Tuesday that the FBI is exploiting the ISIS-inspired massacre of 14 people in San Bernardino to sidestep Congress on the encryption debate. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., said it was troubling "that in ...
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Super Tuesday States, Poll Closingsby firstname.lastname@example.com (VOA News)
Voters are participating in primaries and caucuses in at least 11 states and one U.S. territory Tuesday, with billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump expected to dominate the Republican field and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the Democratic contests. Here is a list of Super Tuesday states and poll-closing times: Alabama: Polls close at 8 p.m. EST (0100 GMT) Alaska: Polls close at 12 a.m. EST (0500 GMT) Arkansas: Polls close at 8:30 p.m. EST (0130 GMT) Colorado:...
Bolivian President Evo Morales takes legal action to see the son he thought had died in 2007, but says he now believes the child is dead.
There are the videos of crying and singing children, the photographs of public employees holding placards, and a human rights ombudsman's argument that allowing him to resign as Chechnya's leader would violate the rights of the long-troubled Caucasus region's residents.
Such is the strange state of politics in Chechnya, where Ramzan Kadyrov's oversized presence as the Caucasus republic's leader may or may not be coming to an end, amid cascading concerns about whether the Kremlin has given him too much free rein to rebuild the war-ravaged Russian region and quash the long-running insurgency that has plagued Moscow since the Soviet collapse.
The bearded, gruff-talking former rebel's term as leader formally ends next month. Given his singular dominance of the region's politics for the past nine years -- and the relative calm that has taken hold there -- most observers of the region expected him to be a shoo-in to stay on.
Last month, however, Kadyrov said in a radio interview that he had no desire to continue as leader. On February 27, he explained his reasoning further, saying "my time has passed."
"For Kadyrov, this is the peak," he told the Russian channel NTV.
In the days since, however, a public campaign calling on him to stay in power has taken off, with hints of endorsement or even involvement by government officials. That, in turn, has stoked speculation that Kadyrov's resignation may be anything but.
The day after Kadyrov's announcement, a group calling itself the Civic Forum of the Chechen Republic released a statement saying "society sees no alternative to [Kadyrov] and there can be no talk of successors." The statement was published on the official website of the Chechen administration.
A day later, the region's top human rights official, Nurdi Nukhazhiyev, posted a similar announcement. The dark irony wasn't lost on human rights activists who have documented rampant rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, political assassinations, and collective punishment for relatives of insurgents, during Kadyrov's tenure.
"The refusal of Kadyrov [to stay on as leader] would be a massive violation of the rights of [Chechen] citizens," Nukhazhiyev wrote.
And then there were the videos and photographs circulating on social networking and chat sites like Whatsapp and Instagram, featuring children singing Kadyrov's praises and, in one case, begging him to stay.
On Instagram -- which Kadyrov has used liberally both to promote himself and issue various edicts and announcements -- a Russian-language hashtag that translates as "Ramzan Don't Go" had received more than 6,600 different posts as of March 1.
"The strength of Ramzan Kadyrov, Ramzan Kadyrov is cool. We in Chechnya are all patriots. Cheer for us," sang a boy in one Instagram video.
TRANSLATION: A woman is heard asking "What don't you want?" The crying boy answers "I don't want him to go." The woman asks "Who is going?" The boy answers sobbing "Ramzan Akhmadovich." The woman replies "Well, tell him."
TRANSLATION: The children are chanting "Ramzan Don't Go!
TRANSLATION: The women are holding up a sign saying, "Ramzan Don't Go!
Kadyrov, 39, all but inherited the post following the assassination of his father, Akhmad, in 2004. He also inherited a Kremlin strategy that came to be known Chechenization, which turned Chechen paramilitaries into Moscow's proxy fighters, taking the lead in battling the separatist rebels and Islamic radicals in the second Chechen war that began in 2000.
Kadyrov's forces gained a reputation for brutality and have been accused of torturing people and abducting relatives of suspected insurgents, or even burning down houses.
But the Kremlin strategy also included showering Chechnya with money, to help rebuild the capital Grozny and the countryside, which in places resembled devastated battlefield and war zones.
Now the Grozny cityscape is adorned with glass-and-steel skyscrapers, street lamps, and manicured pedestrian walkways, and is home to the largest mosque in Europe -- a reconstruction that Kadyrov has largely claimed credit for.
But Kadyrov has also become a lightning rod in recent months. He has taunted Russia's beleaguered opposition activists, called some traitors, and issued thinly veiled threats against them.
Kadyrov has also called for defying, or even shooting, federal law enforcement forces should any of them enter Chechen territory without his knowledge.
The resignation interview came on the same day that tens of thousands of people marched through Moscow's streets to mark the anniversary of the killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. He was gunned down on a bridge just meters from the Kremlin walls, and one of those now under arrest is a top commander in a paramilitary unit close to Kadyrov.
In another Instagram post on February 28, Kadyrov appeared to leave the door open for staying on, noting that, under Russian election law, President Vladimir Putin must first select a slate of candidates from which voters can choose a local leader.
"With full responsibility, I must emphasize that I will fulfill any decision of the President of the Russian Federation, any order," he wrote.
"There isn't a clear replacement for him. There is international pressure that points to him as an obvious bad guy, the links to the Nemtsov murders, that gets picked up, so maybe there's an effort to distance the Putin regime from all that, and have him step down," said Olga Oliker, director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"On the other hand, Kadyrov has been Putin's guy in Chechnya," added Oliker, author of Russia's Chechen Wars 1994-2000: Lessons From Urban Combat.
"Who replaces him? What credibility he has, comes from his dad. So who comes next? Does it fall apart?" Oliker asked. "Does anyone in Moscow really know what's going on in Chechnya?"
"Who replaces him? What credibility he has, comes from his dad. So who comes next? Does it fall apart?" Oliker asked. "Does anyone in Moscow really know what's going on in Chechnya?"
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Terrorists, Criminals Hidden Among Refugees Flooding Europeby email@example.com (RFE/RL)
WASHINGTON -- NATO's top commander said the massive influx of refugees into Europe is providing cover for terrorists and criminals and that poses increasing danger for an attack.
U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove also told a Senate committee on March 1 that Russia's military campaign in Syria -- now in its six month -- has "wildly exacerbated the problem" of refugees fleeing the civil war there.
He accused Moscow and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of using migration as a weapon to overwhelm European support structures and break European unity.
"This criminality, the terrorists, and the returning foreign fighters are clearly a daily part of the refugee flow in Europe," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
He said Syria's use of barrel bombs have no military purpose and are aimed at terrorizing Syrian citizens to make them refugees and turn them into problems for other countries.
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Netwealth, AdviserNETgain, Lonsec lauded by financial advisers
RESEARCH by Adviser Ratings has found financial advisers are highly dissatisfied with major incumbent technology vendors – although they rate Netwealth, AdviserNETgain and Lonsec highly.
"Technology and investment research providers to financial advisers are on notice to better serve their clients." Adviser Ratings, managing director Angus Woods said. "Our survey clearly shows a high level of dissatisfaction with many technology players, at a time when advisers are facing other cost pressures, particularly in the areas of education and compliance.
"Advisers are looking for more technological and phone support from platforms and planning software to free up their time and provide compliant end-to-end solutions to achieve this. In addition, with increased adviser mobility between licensees and the growth in social media, advisers are becoming more influenced by their peers' opinion when selecting a new platform or software solution."
It was no wonder major incumbent providers that previously drove the market for financial advisers – particularly the 'Big Six' of AMP, IOOF and the banks – were very much on the outer in this survey.
Netwealth was the favoured administration platform for investment functionality, with Hub24, CFS FirstChoice, CFS FirstWrap and Macquarie Wrap rounding out the top five of 17.
Netwealth was also the favoured platform for insurance functionality, with Hub24, Praemium, BT Panorama and BT Wrap rounding out the top five of 15.
AdviserNETgain was found to have the most satisfied advisers in the financial planning software space, although it was on limited licensee coverage.
Lonsec edged out Morningstar for the most satisfied advisers in the research space, according to Adviser Ratings.
There was an extraordinary movement of advisers between licensees in the last three years, especially out of the institutional space, with a 43 percent increase in the number of small licensees.
"The challenge is understanding where advisers are going and servicing a greater volume of advice firms," Mr Woods said. "It is not just about building a better technology solution but strengthening relationships with key decision makers in these practices who are increasingly looking for 'plug-and-play' software choices.
"AMP and the banks could often afford to have technology support staff on the ground, resulting in a 'sticky' adviser for the incumbent technology providers. There are now over 8000 practices in Australia with less than five advisers, so it is just not feasible to have this support model in place" Mr Woods said.
In assessing satisfaction levels of advisers, Adviser Ratings used a widely-known customer experience metric, the Net Promoter Score (NPS). NPS measures the loyalty of a user to a particular provider's product or service.
Other qualitative questions were overlaid, including fees, provider support, adviser reporting, platform functionality, robustness of research and ease of use to help understand the reasoning behind these scores.
"With most providers where functionality or features were fairly even, we found the level of service and knowledge and helpfulness of its staff, was the most important feature when coming up with their score," Mr Woods said. "We then split these responses by licensee and geographic area to determine which type of advisers are better serviced."
With Adviser Ratings forecasting a significant acceleration of adviser movements and a continued shift into self-licensing, it opens the door to new players.
"With satisfaction and loyalty rates at such low levels and with advisers moving to practices where technology providers don't have a strong influencing relationship, incoming players like Intelliflo and Advice Intelligence will present a real challenge to the market leaders, IRESS and Temenos," Mr Woods said.
"We are seeing this in the $800 billion platform space with the emergence of Netwealth and Hub 24. Swiss-based Avaloq recently announced its intention to tackle this area. Frustrated advisers will soon have more choice. It is up to the incumbents to see if they are ready for the challenge."
The Financial Advice Landscape report is said to be the most comprehensive snapshot of the financial advice industry and provides a unique view of the advice ecosystem in 59 regions across Australia. The report incorporates Adviser Ratings' proprietary data, census data, and results from an online survey conducted in Nov-Dec 2017 responded to by 1,103 financial advisers.


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Translate frontispiece into Spanish
1An illustration facing the title page of a book.
- 'Passerotti's Self-Portrait with Skeleton, Ecorche and Nudes, early 1580s (Warsaw University Library), is presumed to have been drawn as the frontispiece for his book.'
- 'The first illustration was a colour frontispiece entitled 'Chemical Industry, Upheld by Pure Science, Sustains the Production of Man's Necessities.''
- 'The frontispiece to Hokusai's Illustrated Manual on Coloring of 1848 shows a fanatical painter holding five brushes in feet, hands, and mouth, all at work painting.'
- 'As a frontispiece, the book reproduces a plate by Albrecht Durer from his 1498 Apocalypse of Saint John, in which the picture of a book prefigures millennial revelations.'
- 'As a child, Henriette posed for her father's illustration for the frontispiece.'
- 'The trophies and insets painted in the vertical margins of the Soane frontispiece and title page may refer to those duties.'
- 'In some ways, the writhing full-page illustrations are relief to the genre-scene frontispieces.'
- 'The images in the 15 black-and-white photographs, measuring roughly 24 x 20 inches in the original, are difficult to make out in their reproduction as the book's frontispiece.'
- 'Yet the double-page spread of frontispiece and title page for Konstantin Biebl's collection of poems, With a Ship Importing Tea and Coffee, would have been a winner in the Bauhaus.'
- 'Indeed, a photograph of Pinka posing as Flush in a Victorian interior serves as the book's frontispiece.'
- 'Inside I found a frontispiece of the sort once sees in books of fairy tales - it depicts a boy and his dog at the gates of something like a castle.'
- 'Edwards's painting appeared twice, showcased as frontispiece and chapter illustration.'
- 'Owning a photograph of the queen or of your party leader gave a new, direct form of association with national life, and many cheap biographies had real photographs mounted as frontispieces to suggest an intimate relationship.'
- 'Known for hiring some of the best artists of the day to illustrate his publications, Bell provided each volume with fine engravings, including frontispieces of contemporary actors and actresses.'
- 'Moreover, the identification of the now celebrated and no longer pseudonymous writer with his text was emphasized by an engraved frontispiece which reproduced the head and shoulders of Daniel Maclise's recent portrait of him.'
- 'This example, an oration delivered in a Jesuit school, was later printed with a frontispiece representing its visual equivalent.'
- 'The frontispiece is a photograph of the oldest woman in the world and her son, Bulgarian peasants.'
- 'The sisters saw that I was much taken by the book as a handsome period curiosity; also that I was intrigued by the frontispiece engraving of Connop, aged eleven.'
- 'I have pasted over the frontispiece a drawing of Yeats by the Senior Yeats which this edition does not reprint from The Trembling of the Veil.'
- 'Images are from the frontispiece to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein.'
The principal face of a building.
- 'The image shows a campus with lush green lawns, classical architecture and a brick frontispiece displaying a sign that reads 'State College'.'
- 'It came with a frontispiece showing damage caused by fascist artillery to the Goya Foundation.'
- 'It was a low, flat building with arched windows and a central balcony and square frontispiece, with the post office occupying one wing.'
- 'The first was a low, flat building with arched windows and a central balcony and square frontispiece.'
- 2.1A decorated entrance.'The frontispieces for the first three parts of The New Foundling Hospital for Wit are catalogued, respectively, no.s 4244, 4200, and 4245.'
- 2.2A pediment over a door or window.'In the lower half of the frontispiece, the Muses adorn the monument with attributes of their respective arts.'
Late 16th century (in frontispiece (sense 2)): from French frontispice or late Latin frontispicium 'facade', from Latin frons, front- 'front' + specere 'to look'. The change in the ending (early in the word's history) was by association with piece.
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. – Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi stood in the team's Scottsdale Stadium dugout on Thursday afternoon and spoke confidently of the club's starting pitching.
After San Francisco's rotation was ravaged by injuries in 2018, a deep collection of potential starters has emerged this spring.
"We've talked about the need to get to eight or nine or 10 guys to get through the 162-game season," Zaidi said during an interview with reporters. "We really feel like we've been able to lengthen out our starting pitching depth in a way that should serve us well during the year."
One night later, two key pieces of that depth were on display as left-handers Drew Pomeranz and Derek Holland each threw four scoreless innings in the Giants' 2-0 win against the Indians at Goodyear Ballpark on Friday.
"Both were really good today, commanded the strike zone well with all their pitches," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
Last season, the Giants used 10 different starting pitchers as they limped to a 73-89 record. Madison Bumgarner, Johnny Cueto, and Jeff Samardzija all missed significant time with injuries, while only rookie right-hander Dereck Rodriguez finished the year with a winning record of the team's seven players with at least 10 starts.
But this spring has given the Giants reason to be optimistic again. Even with Cueto on the disabled list after Tommy John surgery, Bumgarner and Samardzija have looked healthy and thrown well, while Pomeranz and Holland appear capable of filling important middle-rotation roles.
Pomeranz started Friday and allowed only one hit and one walk while punching out four.
"I probably could have gotten a few more strikeouts in there," Pomeranz said. "But I was really trying to throw strikes and not walk guys."
Holland was sharp too, giving up just three hits and fanning three others after relieving Pomeranz to begin the fifth. By the time Pomeranz exited the game, made it back to the clubhouse, and checked his phone, "Derek was already through two innings in like five minutes," he laughed.
Holland, 32, recorded a 3.57 earned-runs average last year while making a team-high 30 starts. Meanwhile, Pomeranz, 30, signed with the Giants this offseason and has been reunited with pitching coach Curt Young, whom the veteran pitcher worked with during a two-year stint with the Oakland A's in 2014-15.
"He's a very calming person," Pomeranz said of Young, who is entering his second season with the Giants. "He's so chill. He just lets you do your thing, get back to the things that make you good."
Plenty of Young's other pitchers are in the mix for the rotation too. Rodriguez has a 3.86 ERA in 4 ⅔ innings this spring and is slated to start Saturday's game against the Chicago Cubs. Meanwhile, right-hander Tyler Beede is having one of the best camps of any Giants pitcher with a 1.29 ERA across a team-high seven innings.
Even Chris Stratton and Andrew Suarez, who were among the club's top three in strikeouts last season, are in the thick of the race despite struggling this spring, each with ERAs above 7.00.
"Our rotation is solid," Pomeranz said. "I think the pitching is a strong suit here."
Even before Pomeranz's and Holland's dueling dominant performances Friday, Zaidi also found plenty with the Giants' pitching to be happy about on Thursday. In his first season with the organization, the club appears to be developing a dependable group on the mound and shoring up a critical weak spot from a season ago.
"Certainly on that side," he said of the team's pitching, "things are in great shape."
– The Giants traded catcher Cameron Rupp to the Detroit Tigers for cash considerations on Thursday. Rupp, a former third-round draft pick of Philadelphia, had signed with the Giants in January and was a non-roster invitee in camp this spring, where he was batting 3 for 10 with two doubles and two RBIs. Rupp last appeared in the majors in 2017 with the Phillies, the last of his five-year stint with that organization.
– Giants catcher Stephen Vogt, a non-roster invitee this camp, has still yet to catch a Cactus League game as he continues to recover from serious shoulder surgery last season. While Vogt has swung the bat well this spring – he went 2 for 2 on Friday and is batting .500 during camp – his throws aren't yet strong enough to suit up behind the plate.
Bochy was unsure Friday if Vogt will able to do any catching in games this spring. "That's a tough one right now," he said. "It's getting better, he's throwing. I think we'll know here in the next 10 days or so."