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Negative Interest Rates Are Coming
It is as inevitable as tomorrow's sunrise — or a politician's lie.
Yes, we can already observe the celestial bodies veering into alignment… as if guided by the unseen hands of the conspiring gods:
Negative interest rates are coming to these United States. Depend on it.
Today the European Central Bank (ECB) trimmed one of its key interest rates 10 basis points — to negative 0.5%.
It is almost certainly the first of several shavings ahead.
How deeply will rates run before scraping bottom?
The calculation involves delicate intricacies we claim no competence to determine.
But we are confident they will plumb the deepest deeps of possibility.
And no man is an island, as wrote poet John Donne. Nor is the United States an island.
Soon or late, negative rates will swim the ocean… and break upon these pristine shores.
Even the moistureless, cataracted and half-blind eyes of Alan Greenspan can spot them coming:
You're seeing it pretty much throughout the world. It's only a matter of time before it's more in the United States.
And now the American president is standing upon the beach, facing out and holding up a beacon of light…
Trump: Negative Interest Rate Guy?
"[The Fed] should get our interest rates down to ZERO, or less."
Or less?
The president has previously styled himself a "low-interest-rate guy." Is he now a negative interest rate guy?
This morning's ECB rate cut naturally reminded Mr. Trump of his own central bank's failings — by his lights at least.
He took the occasion to dig his thumb in Jerome Powell's eye, and twist plenty hard:
European Central Bank, acting quickly, Cuts Rates 10 Basis Points. They are trying, and succeeding, in depreciating the Euro against the VERY strong Dollar, hurting U.S. exports…. And the Fed sits, and sits, and sits.
But the ECB gave Trump an additional reason to fume and rage at Federal Reserve inertia…
Not only did the ECB cut rates today. It further announced it is having another go at quantitative easing…
The ECB Comes Out With All Guns Blazing
Beginning in November, it will purchase 20 billion euros ($22 billion) of bonds each and every month.
For how long?
"For as long as necessary," in the bank's own telling.
Just so. And "as long as necessary" can be quite a stretch of time.
The eurozone's core inflation rate runs under half the ECB's 2% target.
And years and years of previous ECB quantitative easing failed to rouse the snoozing European economy — which presently verges upon a slumbering recession.
As reports our Nomi Prins:
Eurozone economic growth during the second quarter of 2019 was just half what it was during the first quarter. One major reason is that Germany's economy contracted by 0.1% during the quarter. Trade activity has also declined. Recent Eurostat data indicate that the eurozone's GDP grew by just 0.2% in the second quarter, compared with 0.4% in the first. That's given the backdrop of Brexit uncertainty and global trade wars.
More drops in German industrial orders for July were reported last week, and have increased the possibility of a recession for the third quarter… Trade slowed during the quarter as well; imports grew less than in the first quarter and exports were flat after a 0.9% growth in the previous quarter.
Given the success of previous QE, here is when you can expect upcoming QE to end — in our judicious and exacting estimate:
When the wolf lies down with the lamb, when the leopard lies down with the goat, when the Prince of Darkness lays down his rebellious arms… and goes running into the arms of God.
Only then will the upcoming bout of QE end. It will accomplish little else but inflating existing asset bubbles.
But put these concerns to one side for the moment.
How Long Until the Federal Reserve Is Back to QE?
These days the world's major central banks are bound together hand and foot.
How long can the ECB go at QE before the Federal Reserve goes into its own?
The United States economy runs ahead of Europe's — and much of the world's. But it merely walks tall among the dwarves.
Second-quarter U.S. GDP growth came in at 2%. But the Federal Reserve's New York command center has downgraded its Q3 forecast from 1.8%… to 1.5%.
Even the chronically optimistic Atlanta Fed's GDPNow estimate has third-quarter growth at 1.9%.
What about the fourth quarter?
David Rosenberg, chief economist at investment firm Gluskin Sheff has his binoculars out:
I've been in the business for 35 years, and I don't remember a time where uncertainty was at such an extreme level — and that covers a lot of nail-biting periods. The U.S. economy is going to slow down perceptibly. I would suggest no growth in the fourth quarter. People are going to be surprised by it. It will either be recession or stagnation.
The Federal Reserve will be on hand with additional rate cuts — and yes, quantitative easing before long.
But as the ECB's quantitative easing will fall short of the glory… the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing will fall short of the glory.
That is when central banks will lose all remaining rags of credibility.
And that is why we expect the next recession cure — disaster, that is — will not be monetary.
It will be fiscal.
Get Ready for Modern Monetary Theory
As we have written before:
The cries will go out…
"QE for Wall Street did nothing for the economy. The time for QE for Main Street has come."
The authorities will take to their helicopters, hover over Main… and begin shoveling money out the side.
The throngs below will haul it all in. They will proceed to go spreeing through the stores. The resulting delirium will give the economy a wild jolt.
That is the theory… as far as it runs.
It in part explains the loudening shouts for Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).
Its drummers claim it can invigorate the wilting American economy.
They further claim it can fund ambitious social programs — all without raids upon the taxpayer.
And if interest rates are shackled down, without blasting the deficit. The printing press will supply the money.
But as we have argued prior, MMT is the eternal quest for the free lunch… water into wine… something for nothing.
And that world has no existence.
MMT would likely yield a gorgeous inflation. But the economic growth it promises… would be a promise broken.
It will join the broken promise of monetary policy.
But not until we are treated to negative interest rates, more quantitative easing… and whatever remaining articles the central banks hold in their trick bags.
Brian Maher
Managing editor, The Daily Reckoning


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Special to the Mirror-Spectator
BERLIN — Will the German Bundestag ever make up its mind about the genocide? This is the question raised last October when the news broke that the government coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats (CDU-CSU/SPD) had agreed to put the issue on the back burner, for an undetermined period of time. The reason, clearly, was Berlin's concerns not to endanger negotiations with Turkey regarding the refugee crisis that is destabilizing German politics and threatening the European Union with internal strife if not dissolution. My view at the time (Armenian Mirror-Spectator, "Recognition, Realpolitik and the Ravages of War" October 22) was that the genocide resolution could wait, if necessary, but that it was urgent for German political leaders, eager to fight the root cause of the refugee crisis, to acknowledge the nefarious role played by Erdogan's Turkey in the Syrian war. I argued that, however vital in managing refugee flows, Turkey was itself part of the problem, by virtue of its support for the so-called Islamic State. Unless that issue came to the fore, hopes to deal with the refugee crisis merely through negotiations would be in vain.
Last week, the question was raised again and in a forceful manner, when the opposition Green Party forced debate on a resolution in the Bundestag, demanding recognition of the genocide. The lengthy discussion that followed Green Party leader Cem Özdemir's presentation ended in a highly unusual fashion: Özdemir withdrew the resolution on condition the government parties pledged to reach a vote on the issue by April 24 of the current year, a condition they accepted and sealed with a handshake. What had happened?
Parliamentary Democracy and Realpolitik
The resolution the Green Party hoped to put to a vote was a text based on an earlier all-party resolution, which the Green party had revised last fall in collaboration with experts from the coalition parties, CDU-CSU and SPD. In presenting the motion, Özdemir recalled that all parties had agreed on April 25, 2015 that what the Ottoman Turkish government had perpetrated against the Armenians was genocide. He also recalled that a hundred years ago the German parliamentarians had debated the issue, and then, as now, Realpolitik had won the day; Imperial Germany, an ally to Ottoman Turkey in the war, had explicitly admitted it would do all to keep its alliance, even if that meant the elimination of the Armenians. Özdemir said that the current government, in its plea to postpone the issue so as not to anger Erdogan, was guilty of "cynical Realpolitik," and criticized it for allowing a foreign government to set the agenda in Berlin. For this reason, his party was presenting the resolution as its own initiative and calling for a vote. In closing, he quoted a letter sent him by Archbishop Karekin Bekjian, Primate, Diocese of the Armenian Church in Germany, who wrote that the aim was truth and recognition; the church leader pointed to the discussion process ongoing in Turkish civil society and urged German legislators to send a signal supporting this. Recognition of the genocide would signify the beginning of a democratic process.


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2021 Academy Awards nominations:
Livestream of 2021 Academy Awards nominations How to watch it?
Finally, Academy Awards 2020 is making its comeback. After several cancellations and postponing Academy Awards will take place on April 25th 2021. But before that it's time for Nominations. Nominees will be announced on 15th March, via livestream. Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas will announce the deserving candidate. So, let's take a look on where to livestream this Nominations, timings and other details of This much awaited Award this year.
How to livestream Academy Awards 2021 Nominations ?
Academy Awards 2021 will recognize best movie between 1st January 2020 to 28th February 2021. Awards Ceremonies World Wide are affected by COVID but Quality of Great movies remained constant. There are several Great movies through out the year and There are several predictions as well. List will finally reveal in Few hours.
You can livestream 2021 Academy Awards nominations on official Oscar websites Oscar, several Social media platform like Twitter, Facebook Instagram will also stream it live. And if you have cable T.V you can watch it on ABC's Good Morning America.
Also Read :2021 Kids Choice Awards: The Complete Winners List
Academy Awards 2021 Timings :
So, Now we know where to stream it but what will be the timing that Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas will appear on screen.
Nominations will start at 8:19 am ET, there will be total of 23 categories of Nominations To be announced. Set Reminder at 8:19 and don't forget to Tune in for this Much anticipated awards Nominations.
Movies That can get several Nominations This Year:
This Year we had great movies, we didn't Got a chance to visit Theatres but Entertainment ultimately became our lifesavers last year. So the list is long but movies that are expected to make a big impact on 2021 Academy Awards nominations are
- "Nomadland,"
- "Minari,
- The Trial of the Chicago 7,"
- "Mank,"
- "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,"
- "Promising Young Woman,"
- "One Night in Miami,"
- "Judas and the Black Messiah."
What are your thoughts on Nominations, tell us in Comments.
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- Academy Awards 2021 will recognize best movie between 1st January 2020 to 28th February 2021.
- Nominations will be out on 15th March via livestream.
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Latitude: 51.6664 / 51°39'59"N
Longitude: -4.7915 / 4°47'29"W
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OS Northings: 200096
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Mapcode National: GBR GC.B43H
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Entry Name: Bier Hill Round Barrows
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Source: Cadw
Source ID: 3533
Cadw Legacy ID: PE470
Schedule Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Category: Round barrow
Period: Prehistoric
County: Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro)
Community: St. Florence
Traditional County: Pembrokeshire
The monument comprises the remains of a group of five barrows situated along a ridge at Bier Hier and which date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The westernmost barrow measures 20m in diameter and is 0.3m high, the western barrow measures 30m in diameter and is c 1m high, the central barrow measures 30m in diameter and is 1.4m high, the eastern barrow measures 30m in diameter and is c 0.4m high whilst the the easternmost barrow is 30m in diameter and c 1.0m high. Apart from the westernmost the other barrows were investigated between 1851 and 1856 when variously human remains, pottery and flints were recovered.
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How to 'ACE' geographical expansion in Europe
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Geographical expansion into Europe
Typically, Biotech companies focus their limited resources on either the US market or their market of origin. A critical first step for global expansion is the entry into Europe, which accounts for over 20 percent of the global pharmaceutical market. Europe however is a complex market with separate national healthcare systems and reimbursement processes.
Business success in such a complex environment involves going beyond traditional thinking about geographical expansion, and requires a clear understanding of the unique requirements from a development, manufacturing, distribution, commercial and operational perspective.
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- Establish presence: Choose the best route to establish a presence in Europe successfully, which could be either via a partnership or licensing route, or via the company choosing to go alone
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Before making a decision on which go-to-market route to follow, it is important to understand what is required to launch products in Europe e.g. without a partner, including the 'must-haves' for commercialisation in the European market, associated costs, required investment for business activities (such as running marketing campaigns) and hiring FTEs. It is also crucial to consider all the organisational functions in the business and determine what contribution should be required from each when it comes to the build-up of the European operation. For that purpose, Biotech executives should ask themselves the following questions:


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Moderated by MNS President Prof. Dr. Ahmad Ismail, the panellists will be from MNS past presidents, Tan Sri Dr. Salleh Mohd Nor (MNS Senior Advisor, MNS President 1978 – 2006, 2008 – 2010), Mohd Khan Momin Khan (former Director-General of PERHILITAN, MNS President 1975 – 1978) and Dr. Francis S. P. Ng (former Deputy Director-General of FRIM, MNS President 1974 – 1975).
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The Heart of the Great Gatsby Essay
"The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his own Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God– a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that — and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty" (The Great Gatsby Summary." Shmoop: Homework Help, Teacher Resources, Test Prep. N.p., n.d).
This quote above is one of the strongest and most relevant for me all throughout the book. For me, this is an implication of how Nick finally exposes Gatsby's life's background and history that will soon lead readers to understand why he has become such a person that he is described as a character in the book. One element used to portray this meaning would be the comparison done between Gatsby and Jesus Christ, being the son of God which pointed to Gatsby's creation of his own identity.
An analysis of which would be that the author, Scott Fitzgerald was influenced by a nineteenth century book I also have read, which is entitled "The Life of Jesus" by Ernest Renan. This book presented Jesus Christ as a being who decided to stand up to what he really is, which is the son of God despite knowing that if he did, he will be brought to ruins by refusing to recognize the reality that denied his self-conception. Renan here associates Jesus to be faithful to the dream he created in himself but contemptuous towards the truth that crushes him, which is a very appropriate and consistent description of Gatsby as he was one who was willing to give up everything to win the trust of people and social position if it means winning Daisy, the girl he fell in love with ("SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Character List." SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides. N.p., n.d).
According to some articles, Fitzgerald admired the works of Renan and drew a lot of influence from it in developing his metaphors. However, though the comparison between Gatsby and Jesus is not really a very significant theme in "The Great Gatsby", it is indeed very helpful in establishing how Gatsby is able to transform himself into the person that he wanted himself to be that was latched from his youthful ideals despite all the challenges he had to go through in society. Indeed, Jay Gatsby was portrayed as being a mysterious character in book. This for me is a symbolism of exploring the real deity of Jesus Christ, one that we need to understand personally first before we get to know the goodness and love He is willing to give. Just like Gatsby, he is the protagonist of the novel. However, this is not immediately realized in the early part of the book because of the fact that he was that person who was a happy go lucky guy, with an unclear background of where he came from, and most especially had a mysterious business of how he made his fortune. However, in the latter part of the book, one realizes that he had to go through all the sacrifices such as succumbing to criminal activity to make a fortune to be able to win Daisy. Just like God, he needed to die and live with sinners on earth and be one with all of us to be able to save us through His genuine love.
From all these said, one could conclude that Gatsby's personality as a person is greatly similar to the American dream which is basically to pursue the idea of happiness. Americans are known to be people who would go for what they want and would not really mind whether the road they have to pave is rocky or would cost them so much. Today, Americans admit that they are physical, mental, emotional, moral, financial, and political slobs ("The American Dream." The American Dream. N.p., n.d). They are addicted to shopping, food, and just about any pleasure that they crave for. Comparing this kind of attitude with Gatsby, he was one who threw parties every Saturday nights and spent to treat people with the money that he got from illegal means, though not to satisfy himself but in fact to satisfy the goal to getting everyone on his side to get to his love, Daisy.
Another character that reflects this would be that of Nick Carraway which is the novel's narrator. He is a young man from Minnesota who was educated in Yale and goes to New York to learn about bond business and later on moves to West Egg, an area of Long Island that is home to the newly rich ("SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Character List." SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides. N.p., n.d.). This is another character that reflects the American Dream mindset of people who always wants to get ahead and have more than what they are being given.
"That's my Middle West . . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. (SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Important Quotations Explained." SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides. N.p., n.d.). This is another important quote that I got from the novel which places a clear distinction of how Americans see the East as compared to the West. The East is described as a place with a fast-paced lifestyle, corrupt parties, collapsing moral values, and always in the look out for the pursuit of wealth, while the West is associated with more traditional moral values. Here, Nick realizes that the setting of each character influences their behavior and value choices as a reaction to culture they are surrounded with. Just like Gatsby who was from the West, he was led to succumb to crushing his moral values and embrace the Eastern lifestyle just to be able to reach his impractical dream which a lot of people in America today can relate to, while others still do not realize. In understanding this background of Gatsby's life and at the same time his heart's desires, one would be able to slowly unfold the mystery of Gatsby's character which is sometimes confusing and unreasonable. A large part of why he sacrificed his moral values for his dream was because of the fact that he was surrounded with a narcissistic society that made him a middle-aged man who totally let himself go because of desperation. He became a deeply flawed man whose distinct optimism transformed his dreams into reality even when it means justifying the means to reach an end.
Gatsby at the same time is representative of some American national character. This is reflected in another quote from the novel: "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Important Quotations Explained." SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides. N.p., n.d.). For me, this is one way of Nick trying to reminisce the significance of the past events that led people where they are now in the future, being represented by the green light. Here, he emphasizes on the struggle of human beings to achieve their dreams even though it will entail them to transcend and recreate the past that they so treasure that includes moral values and principles they just let go of to be able to get a glimpse of what it would feel like to have one's dream come true. This analysis could be likened to Gatsby who, though have a good foundation of his character, having grown in the West, he recreated himself to fit into the demands of the society in the East just so he could get Daisy.
Just like Gatsby and many American national leaders today, there are a lot of people who lose optimism because of the past failures and frustrations. These past experiences become their basis now of the ideas that they form in their mind. What makes this dangerous for society is that the negative experiences in the past makes people pessimists in hoping for good to still thrive, thus, resorting to the bad because everyone is doing it or perhaps because nothing good ever comes out from another good. Thus, it is not a surprise that there are a lot of issues of theft, corruption, crime, fraud, and a lot more.
To sum it all up, this quote would be best to look into. "He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself." ("SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Important Quotations Explained." SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides. N.p., n.d.). This is a quote from the novel that Nick described Gatsby with. He was that guy who did not only use his appearance to get himself what he wanted but at the same time paired it with a character that was the bait for the sweet-toothed society. His charisma allowed him to act out certain roles that certain cliques of society would appreciate. Likening this to American society again, you would see that a lot of people now treasure connections and power more than knowledge and the truth. This is because of the fact that people are becoming more practical and money-driven that wherever they could get the instant benefit, they would easily go for it even when it requires them to do evil. Indeed, principles can now be bought through simple manipulations where the more one gives, the more you can get.
- "The Great Gatsby Summary." Shmoop: Homework Help, Teacher Resources, Test Prep. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2012. http://www.shmoop.com/great-gatsby/summary.html.
- "SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Character List." SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2012. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/characters.html.
- "The American Dream." The American Dream. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2012. http://endoftheamericandream.com/
- "SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Important Quotations Explained." SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2012. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/quotes.html#explanation4.


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The Master and the Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
To be honest, I've never given much thought to my brain and its workings. I'd quit biology after Secondary 2 because the next part of the syllabus involved earthworms and their innards. If not for the terrible patches of deep white matter hyperintensities on my brain scans, I'd have been quite comfortable being ignorant about the workings of those globs of grey matter inside my skull.
To me, the brain was a sort of CPU that regulated my body's automatic functions and made it possible for me to sort through my sense perceptions, store them in some meaningful fashion and then retrieve them when I needed to plan or analyze something. Like all machines, it would work less efficiently over time. And then, there would be the day that it would not, and I'd be dead. Nothing else needed to be said. Or asked.
The reality of vascular damage and the gradual dementia, however, raised urgent questions:
- What had happened and why?
- If I couldn't improve the situation, how could I at least stabilize it?
- And if things did fall apart, what would be left of the walk and talk and thoughts that the brain had been orchestrating inside this embodied 'me'? I wouldn't be dead, but then what?
It was time to learn more. Hence, The Master and the Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist.
For a neophyte, Iain McGilchrist's The Master and the Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World is a dive into the deep end. The book's thesis is that the hemispherical differences in brain function matters. We are determined by how we see the world, and how we are affects the world we interact with. As such it's important to understand how each of the two brain hemispheres function, and then, to consider how the dominance of one over the other may have affected society.
As the author is a psychiatrist, writer and former literary scholar, he draws on neuroscience to explain how the two hemispheres of the brain work in functional opposition to each other. and then goes on to demonstrate his case through a review of Western cultural history.
I found the first quarter of the book instructive and well worth reading.
This is the part that references the results of imaging and case studies on the functional outcomes of patients with brain damage to illustrate the different ways in which the two hemispheres of the brain process, record, store and express our lived experiences. I learnt that the widely accepted generalization that logic and language are processed in the left brain and images and emotions in the right, is too crude. Each hemisphere is involved in everything. The point is that they do it differently. Left brain processes are focused and outcome driven. The left brain categorizes facts and creates representations. It wants to argue and present these representations The right brain looks at the overall terrain, paying attention to what is new and outside its usual frame of reference. It will record experiences and create metaphors. It is silent, but in it's silence is a knowing which the left brain would do well to acknowledge.
Many of McGilchrist's critics have found the linkages drawn from the data tenuous, and his description of brain functions/processes/modes/systems muddy. Perhaps. I lack the context or knowledge to make any kind of assessment. However, I thought it was a pretty useful working hypothesis to use when thinking of how I might be thinking and what I might be missing by ignoring the silences behind my usual brain chatter.
The rest of the book can be skimmed or totally skipped. This is where McGilchrist anthropomorphizes the two hemispheres to demonstrate that the left brain has a tendency to dominate and how this is not good through a review Western cultural history from 600 BCE. Turning left and right brains into warring characters is unnecessary as all the points about the functioning of the two hemispheres have already been made in the first quarter of the book. As for the historical review . . . the author's critics are right that the conclusions are rather sweeping. I left with the impression - So okay . . . The guy knows a lot, but rather like the left brain which he tends to criticize, he has a tendency to confabulate.
I'm definitely in two minds (hahah!) about posting this review.
In left brain cost-benefit analysis terms, I really didn't get the value expected from the time I spent on the tome. But my big picture right brain does like exploring new territory. And I've been thrilled to be introduced to the treasures of my usually silenced right brain. So, here goes . . .
I'm pressing the publish button.
What would you do if you had a reading experience like this?
And would you still read this book after my review?
Audrey Chin is an award-winning Singaporean writer whose work explores the intersections of culture, faith and gender. She believes in the imponderables including love, god and ghosts AND she's an omnivore when it comes to books.
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Posted by Barbara Sternfield
As we usher in the New Year, and I pause to reflect on the year gone by, I am reminded how privileged I am to lead Shabbat services in non-sectarian nursing homes and assisted living facilities for frail Jewish elders.
Every Friday, I pack my Shabbat bag with delicious challah, a Kiddush cup for reciting the blessing over the wine, Shabbat candles, and prayer booklets designed by JF&CS Jewish Healing Connections to lead Shabbat services in a variety of facilities. In serving elders who typically feel isolated and marginalized, I serve as a meaningful representative and bridge to the Jewish community and to their cultural heritage.
For nearly 18 years I have been blessed to do this sacred work as part of the award-winning Nursing Home/Assisted Living Shabbat and Holiday Program through Jewish Healing Connections. Our program has reached more than 1,000 Jewish residents (as well as non-Jews seeking spiritual sustenance and connection) in more than 20 facilities, enabling them to gather in shared prayer, uplifting song, and inspirational readings. The spiritual experience of being together in community touches a place of familiarity and comfort and reinforces a sense of belonging. For some, it's the only time they gather with other Jewish residents. How fortunate I am to share the sacred rituals and texts of our tradition with this special community of elders.
Over the years, my passion for this work increased with my own personal search for deeper Jewish learning. A number of years ago, I began a regular practice of Torah learning. As I grew more comfortable with weekly study, I began to feel more comfortable teaching what I had learned every week. Incorporating the insights of a "word of Torah" connected us all to the awesome wisdom of our ancestors.
At JF&CS, we are highly committed to receiving feedback regarding the quality and effectiveness of our programs. Since most elders I serve are unable to respond to a written survey, at the close of 2013 I decided to ask them to share with me what the program means to them. Here are some of their comments:
"Every time I see you, it reinforces that I'm Jewish."
"It's the only time I get together with other Jews."
"The service is very enhancing…it's so nice when you come."
"I would crawl to come to this service."
"It fills a need in me to attend Shabbat services."
"When I pray, I feel calm; it centers my week.
And from the elders who live in an Alzheimer's facility:
"It reminds us of our Judaism."
"It's all we have left of religion."
"You give of yourself to us."
"It helps remind us of our origins."
"It's very important to us."
"We are the remnants of the Jewish religion."
I'm so glad I asked; I always learn so much from their collective wisdom. And from these responses we glean that they know they are not alone; they are remembered by a caring Jewish community.
Barbara Sternfield, MA has worked with older adults in the Jewish community for more than 30 years. For the past 18 years, she has been a program specialist for Jewish Healing Connections (JHC). She has been leading Shabbat and holiday celebrations since the inception of the award-winning Nursing Home/Assisted Living Shabbat and Holiday Program that received its initial funding from the Lenny Zakim Fund. She also facilitates the JHC bereavement support groups.


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Ghana midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang Badu has rejected reports linking him to English Premier League new boys Huddersfield Town from Italian Serie A side Udinese Calcio ahead of the new season.
The 26-year-old, who has spent seven seasons with the Zebras since joining from Asante Kotoko, has become a major target for several clubs after admitting he will relish a change of environment.
The reports intensified last week when he was rumoured to have met Huddersfield's top hierarchy after playing a part in Udinese's 2-1 victory over the English club in a pre-season friendly.
"It is not true. I'm not joining Huddersfield Town," Badu told Starr Sports.
"I don't have any offer from Huddersfield. I am just here (in Austria) with Udinese for the pre-season tour [ahead of the Serie A]," he added.
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Badu was reported to have met with Birmingham City manager Harry Redknapp last week but nothing filtered out of their meeting.
The defensive midfielder boasts of 76 appearances and 10 goals with Ghana since making his debut in 2008.


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Precision Higgs physics at the LHC
The Higgs boson in the Standard Model is not only the last
particle to be discovered (essentially triggering the construction of
the LHC), it is also unique in many ways. One of its exciting aspects
is that for all Standard Model particles the couplings to the Higgs
boson are fixed - they have to be proportinal to the particle's mass.
Any deviation from this structure points to physics beyond the
Standard Model, including predictions of new and unknown physical
Higgs physics at the LHC offers two unique opportunities to test
the Standard Model. First, the Higgs potential is one of very few
windows to couple new particles to the Standard Model without spoiling
renormalizability. This effect is called the Higgs portal and would
appear as a uniform modification of all Higgs coupling. Second, two of
the Higgs work horses at the LHC, the Higgs couplings to gluons and to
photons, do not exist at tree level. Both operators are induced
through quantum effects. In the Standard Model, they are dominated by
effects from the top quark and the W boson, with some contributions
from the bottom quark and the tau lepton. New particles which either
get their mass through the Higgs mechanism or appear in the scalar
Higgs potential will be observable in these two couplings.
SFitter is our general tool to connect physics models with a large
number of parameters with a correspondingly large number of
measurements. Do not call it `fitting tool', because there is so much
more it can (and should) do. For instance, it unfolds the many
correlated ways the different Higgs couplings affect the observed
counting rates in the different LHC channels. This includes correlated
statistical, systematic, and theory uncertainties. The SFitter output
is a global log-likelihood map plus a detailed local study of its
The theory framework we are using for our analysis is inspired by
effective field theory. In the so-called Higgs effective theory (HEFT)
we allow for modified Higgs interactions without accounting for the
gauge structure of the Standard Model. This way we arrive at a setup
essentially identical to the original Higgs couplings
modifications. Alternatively, we can embed the Higgs field in weak
doublets and link Higgs and weak boson signatures in the Standard
Model effective theory (SMEFT). In both cases we can determing the
coupling modifications or Wilson coefficients with SFitter.
This homepage collects Fitter results on the Higgs sector. As the
theorists on the SFitter project we (Anke Biekötter, Ilaria Brivio,
Sebastian Bruggisser, Anja Butter, Juan
Gonzalez-Fraile, Michael Rauch, and me) would like to thank our ATLAS
collaborators Remi Lafaye and Dirk Zerwas as well as our CMS
collaborator Markus Klute for the great collaboration. Some of the
material shown below is made by theorists for theorists, i.e. it might
include published but preliminary experimental results. If you use any
of the results shown here, please refer to the paper where the
corresponding official result is published and to this website as the
actual source.
If you are interested in talking to us or in collaborating with us,
please drop us an email.
Comparison of Profile likelihood vs marginalization for the Run II legacy analysis (2022) We compare profiling and marginalization of nuisance parameters and of Wilson coefficients using the same dataset and the same fully exclusive likelihood. We find that localized downward fluctuations in kinematic distributions lead to different results from the two setups, because of the complex correlations required to accomodate such an underfluctuation. | |
Comparison of global SMEFT and model analyses based on Run II (2021) We perform a global analysis of LHC and electroweak precision data to derive limits based on a SMEFT analysis combined with one-loop matching and compare them to limits from a direct analysis. We find that the choice of matching scale adds a sizeable theory uncertainty to this analysis. We also find that it is not guaranteed that transformed SMEFT limits are competitive with specific model searches over the model parameter space. | |
Top legacy of Run II (2019) in terms of the SMEFT Lagrangian We apply the usual SFitter analysis to NLO predictions from MadGraph for the top sector, including top pair production, single top production, top pair production in association with weak bosons, and top decays. Leading constraints come again from differential distributions. For meaningful limits on 4-fermion operators it is crucial that we include dimension-6 squared terms, leading to compact blind directions. | |
SFitter-Higgs and gauge legacy of Run II (2018) in terms of the SMEFT Lagrangian We include gauge boson pair production as well as electroweak precision data in a combined analysis of the dimension-6 Lagrangian. Leading constraints come from differential distributions in gauge boson pair production and in associated Higgs production. For Higgs-top and triple gluon couplings we quote the leading constraints after checking that their effect on the Higgs analysis is suppressed. | |
SFitter-Higgs and gauge projection for a 27 TeV hadron collider (2018) We combine an extrapolation of the Run I legacy with new results for Higgs pair production and invisible Higgs decays. For the latter we account for the full set of SMEFT operators. | |
SFitter-Higgs projection of Higgs couplings measurements at future Higgs factories (2017) This is an update of our earlier ILC analysis, now including a circular setup. We use the non-linear HEFT or coupling modifications to avoid assumptions on the custodial symmetry, which are built into the dimension-6 SMEFT Lagrangian. It's the eternal battle between linear and circular, energy and luminosity... | |
SFitter-Higgs and gauge legacy of Run I (2016) in terms of the SMEFT Lagrangian In addition to the full available set of Higgs results at 7 TeV and 8 TeV we also include gauge boson pair production in a combined analysis of the dimension-6 Lagrangian. This way we combine Higgs precision physics with anomalous triple gauge couplings in the appropriate framework. The combination of anomalous gauge coupling measurements is our own, and we show how LHC has passed LEP in terms of precision on the corresponding Wilson coefficients. Adding triple gauge couplings to Higgs measurements removes most of the challenging correlations between limits on different Wilson coefficients. | |
SFitter-Higgs legacy of Run I (2015) in terms of the HEFT Lagrangian For the full Run I data set we show how the results of the Higgs couplings analysis can be translated into Wilson coefficients of the non-linear HEFT Lagrangian. This study is not published separately and can be viewed as a simple addendum to the Higgs legacy paper. | |
SFitter-Higgs legacy of Run I (2015) in terms of modified Higgs couplings and the SMEFT Lagrangian We include the full available set of 7 TeV and 8 TeV results and analyse both Lagrangians using the same data. In addition to the usual total rate measurements we for the first time include invisible Higgs decays. For the SMEFT analysis we include some kinematic distributions, as well as off-shell Higgs production. | |
SFitter-Higgs update after Moriond and Aspen 2013 and two-Higgs-doublet model analysis The result includes the new di-photon rate by CMS. As usual, in additional to the universal coupling modification, the second and third entries show the results for a universal gauge boson and fermion coupling. To the right we show the ratio of couplings extracted from data. The paper also gives a detailed analysis for two-Higgs-doublet models. | |
Sfitter-Higgs projection of Higgs coupling measurements at a high-luminosity LHC and a LC Higgs factory The LHC analysis includes a full extrapolation of all experimental and theoretical uncertainties, including the appropriate likelihood treatment of flat theory uncertainties. We also show the crucial combination of LHC and LC measurements for example for the effective Higgs-photon coupling. Note that the main advantage of a linear collider, the actual measurement of the total Higgs width, does not enter this figure. | |
SFitter-Higgs update, based on 2011 (7 TeV) and 2012 (8 TeV) data as published after ICHEP 2012 For the first time, it includes all tree level Higgs couplings and an additional variable coupling of the Higgs boson to two photons (light blue). In additional to the universal coupling modification, the second and third entries show the results for a universal gauge boson and fermion coupling. | |
Projections included in the same publication, based on 2011 data (7 TeV) as published after Moriond 2012 For all scenarios we show the expected measurements, i.e. assuming measurements of the Standard Model central values but with proper error bars. As a direct measurement of the bottom Yukawa couplings we include the boosted VH analysis as estimated in the ATLAS full simulation alaysis. | |
First SFitter-Higgs publication, based on 2011 data (7 TeV) as published after Moriond 2012 It includes the different tree level Higgs couplings as well as some ratios. The first entry corresponds to a universal form factor modification of all Higgs couplings. The three sets correspond to expected measurements (red), observed measurements (dark blue), and observed measurements with equal W and Z couplings (light blue). | |
SFitter-Higgs setup, from 2009 using assumed LHC data We present the SFitter structure, the basic ingredients of our error analysis, the physics assumptions behind the modified Higgs couplings, and a comparison of a likelihood vs Bayesian approach. |
related SFitter publications | |
Extended analysis including the 750 GeV anomaly | |
Link between the Fermi-LAT galactic center access and invisible Higgs decays | |
SFitter setup (SUSY) | |
Further reading | |
Higgs and QCD lecture notes |


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Three idiosyncratic players, drummer Kate Gentile, guitarist and banjoist Brandon Seabrook, and pianist Matt Mitchell came together at Spectrum for an interesting set of music. All three musicians are composers and each contributed pieces to this collective unit. The ways that the three fit together in different ways throughout the night was the driving narrative of the music. All three figures have been doing game-changing work on the New York scene over the past decade.
The opening piece, "Theoretical Muscle," felt like three square objects colliding at rapid speed, dismembering into fractured puzzle pieces, and then being reassembled back into shapes different than the original with the splinters and fragments rearranged in a new formation. By the conclusion of the piece, they were fully integrated, with the various textures and colors of their sounds thoroughly mixed together.
The third piece, "The Agnostic and Spastic," featured interesting synchronicity of parallel sounds and ideas like one might notice similar yet varied currents in the flow of a rushing river. The forces of cohesion and variation coexisted within a certain kind of tension, though each player evolved the piece to take different shapes and a full range of scintillating colors.
The fourth piece explored synchronized high-speed repetition and flow with slightly less intricate action as the previous piece, but with more of an emerging beat. Gentile's off-kilter rhythms kept the entire piece destabilized with possibility while Seabrook and Mitchell carried out a fascinating duet, like two fire dancers, moving in flashing colors: Seabrook cutting with jagged, fierce sounds while Mitchell moved nimbly around with his own counter.
Check out Spectrum for a heavy dose of Brooklyn's cutting edge music.


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Beginning this fall semester, students interested in the Truck Technician Training program in OSU Institute of Technology's School of Diesel & Heavy Equipment won't have to find a sponsoring dealership or company before enrolling in the program.
The new non-sponsored student track will launch when fall classes begin on Sept. 6.
The program, which was originally sponsored solely by MHC Kenworth, changed to the Truck Technician Training program two years ago opening it up to student sponsorships from other trucking companies.
But finding sponsoring dealerships and companies is getting tougher, despite the growing need for technicians.
The sponsored student track has students alternating between spending eight weeks on the OSUIT campus in classes and workshop labs and then eight weeks gaining real-world experience and training at their sponsoring company.
With the non-sponsored student track, students will spent four full semesters on the OSUIT campus and then spend the last semester on internship with a truck dealership or company.
David Ingle, truck technician instructor, said student sponsorships are becoming less attractive to trucking companies precisely because of the great need for technicians.
Staffs at these companies are already stretched thin and asking employees to stop their work and take on the training and overseeing of interns every eight weeks is too much for them, Ingle said.
"We're trying to fill the void, but the companies don't want to do a sponsorship; they just want to hire someone after they've completed the training and graduated," he said.
Terryl Lindsey, dean of the School of Diesel & Heavy Equipment, said he and Ingle have been working on this non-sponsored student track for about a year and a half.
"This will enable us to start a semester with 40 students instead of 20," Lindsey said. The sponsored and non-sponsored students will both learn the same curriculum but will be in different classes on different schedules. "My challenge will be making sure I don't double schedule a class."
And if the non-sponsored student track is a success, it could mean some help for Ingle.
"If we can get this going well, I can possibly add one or two more instructors over time," Lindsey said.
With a sponsorship, students are essentially guaranteed a job after graduation at their sponsoring company, but Ingle said he isn't concerned about non-sponsored students finding work after they earn their degree.
"We're not worried about them finding a job. There are so many companies that are ready to hire employees," he said.
For more information about the Truck Technician Training program, contact David Ingle at email@example.com.


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There are many initiatives aimed at encouraging women to enter male-dominated fields such as technology, engineering and finance, yet we hear very little about balancing professions that skew heavily female.
According to Statistics Canada, female health-care and social-assistance employees outnumbered their male colleagues nearly four and a half to one. The agency also found that 84 per cent of elementary and kindergarten teachers and 96 per cent of early childhood educators in 2016 were female. Furthermore, while Statistics Canada doesn't track gender balance in the human resources profession, the American Bureau of Labor Statistics found that more than 70 per cent of the industry was female in 2018.
With so much emphasis on the value of bringing more women into professions such as engineering, why is there no discussion about balancing vocations dominated by women, such as HR? Does it stand to reason that those fields would benefit similarly, given greater gender balance?
"I personally have not heard of a push or concern for wanting to attract more males to the HR field," said Beverly Somers, the principal consultant at New Brunswick-based SMART Human Resource Solutions Inc. "I'd say businesses in general are conscious of the balance of gender, but the HR field hasn't been singled out specifically as needing to be more balanced."
Ms. Somers believes calls for gender balance in human resources have been few and far between because the abundance of female employees helps balance the overall work force of companies. "It seamlessly adds to the balance of gender in the corporate world by naturally allowing for more females to move into management and executive level positions," she said.
Ms. Somers adds that the industry may gradually move toward a greater balance, due to some changes in the role of human resources professionals. While the industry was once heavily focused on people-management and relationship building, it is evolving to require different skills. Consequently, more men may be attracted.
"The HR function is believed to be primarily focused on relationship development and engagement, and therefore seems to appeal more to women," she said. "The role and perception of HR is actually changing, and so too may the gender ratio. Future HR professionals will need to demonstrate strong technical and analytical skills and business acumen."
Meantime, the education field shows no sign of mitigating the heavily skewed ratio of women to men.
"Our current work force in B.C. is roughly 80 to 85 per cent female, and that percentage is increasing, because the teachers education programs in the province have an even higher proportion of women," said Glen Hansman, president of the B.C. Teachers Federation.
While Mr. Hansman is adamant that the quality of education provided by teachers is the same no matter a teacher's gender, he feels it is important for students to interact with adults that are more representative of the population. He also fears that the fewer male teachers there are in a school, the less likely it is for male students to consider pursuing teaching -- further perpetuating the divide.
"Representation matters, and we're going to continue to have this phenomenon in education where the work force is markedly different in terms of demographics to the student population because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy," he said.
Despite these concerns, however, Mr. Hansman says he is not aware of any organized effort aimed at further balancing the gender gap.
"In B.C., there's no system-wide conversation, let alone a strategy being tried to attract more men into the teacher education programs and into the work force," he said.
That conversation is taking place in the Canadian nursing industry, and it may even be having an impact, but progress has been slow. In 2001, about 5 per cent of nurses were male, compared with about 8 per cent in 2017, according to the Canadian Nurses Association.
"There's lots of talk happening now about how do we improve the situation in terms of getting more men interested as well as creating good learning environments to support men, and changing the way people look at participation in the profession," explained Peter Kellett, a University of Lethbridge assistant professor whose research focuses on the gender divide in nursing.
For example, the American Assembly of Men in Nursing (AAMN) launched a campaign aimed at increasing male enrolment in nursing to 20 per cent by the year 2020, but reaching that goal seems unlikely, Mr. Kellett says. Among failed efforts to encourage more male participation, he points to a 2013 Oregon Centre for Nursing campaign, titled "Are you man enough to be a nurse?"
"You will certainly see, in any literature or recruitment materials, that there's a lot more representation of men in images, and more diversity in general," he said.
Mr. Kellett believes progress will be minimal until the industry addresses root causes of gender imbalance. They range from the lack of visibility of male nurses in the media, to the industry's failure to present the career as a viable option to young men in high school, to long-standing stereotypes.
"So many people, when they hear the word 'nurse,' they just think of the woman in a white uniform," he said.
He adds that it's no coincidence these strategies are similar to those currently being employed in male-dominated industries looking to increase female participation.
The difference? In tech, engineering and finance, the amount of new initiatives, investments and efforts aimed at balancing the gender divide is far greater.