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Our 10th episode of Absolute Value with NBA Math features Wes Goldberg (All U Can Heat and Locked on Heat) talking with NBA Math Editor in Chief Adam Fromal about the Miami Heat and their second-half surge. Which players have sparked the run? What does the future hold for Hassan Whiteside? Which of the Johnsons has been better, and which will prove superior going forward? Will Miami make the playoffs?
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It's hard to resist beginning any discussion of an Ostgut Ton release — be it a single, album, or mix compilation — without discussing the room from which its artist ostensibly drew his or her inspiration. Berghain, with its veritable pipe organ of Funktion One stacks pushing sweaty air into lofty post-industrial buttresses, is particularly susceptible to this line of thinking. As evidenced by the sandpaper highs and sucker-punch lows adopted by just about anyone who's been at (or looking to get their records to) the club's helm, Berghain begs producers to push its acoustic buttons in extremely particular ways.
Even if Sub:stance, Berghain's Hotflush-fronted bass music showcase, wasn't a reality, there's a better than good chance the potential influence such a space would have on dubstep would make for excellent rhetorical fodder. But forget about the furthering of dubstep's love affair with techno or any grad student grovel about musical and architectural parity in representations of 21st-century urban decay; instead, just think about the sound — bass dropping like an atomic bomb on Westminster, coating Croydon in a thick, deadly dusting of fallout. I haven't had the chance to experience Sub:stance firsthand, and I come to the club night's first mix compilation — compiled by Hotflush mastermind Scuba and released on Ostgut — with the acceptance that a mix is hardly a substitute for the real thing. But Sub:stance, featuring an array of exclusive or unreleased tracks by scene stalwarts and upstarts alike, has enough of the rusty, dread-laden textures we've come to associate with the Berghain to provide a pretty solid approximation of what shape dubstep might take in that space. Through this filter, and in Scuba's dextrous and profoundly able hands, dubstep sounds as bleak, wacky, and creepy as ever.
Beginning with an ambient track, "Light Swells (In Distant Space)," from Hotflush regular Sigha (making his first of four appearances here), Scuba makes it clear from the start that Sub:stance is as concerned with atmosphere as it is sub-bass. When the mix really takes off with the one-two punch of Pangaea's "Sunset Yellow" and Joy Orbison's "The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow," the sudden burst of energy is less a result of getting smacked in the face with bass than the chilly house vibes suggested by the introductory tracks finally opening up enough to fully envelop you.
Once he's grabbed you, he really takes you for a ride. Bouncing you from the insane avant-stepping of Untold, Shortstuff, and the selector himself (in the form of "You Got Me," taken from his breathtaking forthcoming long-player, Triangulation) to the hard-edged, digital-clipping techno of Surgeon and DFRNT (remixed by Scuba) he throws you in about fifty different directions beat-wise. It's in this portion of the mix, though, that Scuba's expert mixing truly pays dividends. Eschewing rewinds and quick cuts for relatively extended, techno-style bleeds, Scuba guides bodies through moods as disparate as they are tense. It's also the moment where the influence of the Berghain really starts to shine through. With its hollow, punchy kick and static-infused cymbals, AQF's "Born And Raised (Version)" could be an MDR B-side. The same could be said for Badawi's "Anlan 7," which briefly simmers up through the glitches and casts impossibly black shadow on the mix. It's Sub:stance's precise midpoint, and Scuba has us at a crossroads, and on the very edge of our seats.
Like Diplo continuing to drop M.I.A.s "Paper Planes" long after you helped your mom load the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack on her iPod, Scuba is probably one of the last DJ's in the world with free reign to play Joy Orbison's sublime yet overexposed "Hyph Mngo." Ironically, our selector (and the man responsible for the track's release) creates an utterly unexpected moment out of one of the most ubiquitous sides in recent dance music history. It's tough to construe "Hyph Mngo" as anything other than a call to place all hands in the air, but Scuba manages to turn that euphoria into something sexy, a tawdry release from all that grinding. The mix gets progressively stranger with a string of peculiar tracks you can't imagine anyone else figuring out how to use, the best of which — Ramadanman's "Tempest" — might be the mix's most musically sublime. From Instra:mental's bona-fide minimal techno banger (?!) "Voyeur" through Joker's prog-dubstep epic "Psychedelic Runway," Scuba's taking us home, but he's managing to keep it rough, sweaty, and surprising right through the final moment. Berghain, Sub:stance seems to suggest, embodies an ideal broader than techno; it's about rawness, breadth, and quality, no matter where in a measure the bass drum happens to thump. Dance music's favorite decommissioned power station just got a whole lot more cavernous.
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I was drinking a wine flight the other night, out at an actual restaurant (Trulucks), thanks to my very helpful in-laws. I was surprised, and delighted, to see how helpful they've actually been, from cleaning dishes to cooking, but much more than that, hanging (and shopping for) blinds, building us a swing for our porch, and dealing with all the feedings and crying and diapers, to the point where Phil and I were actually able to go out, alone. And in being out, and after a glass of wine, I admitted something to Phil.
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This is the penultimate piece in the collection: Ten Short Easy Piano Pieces.
'Heartening and uplifting' - John Lill, CBE
'I am impressed by Charles McCreerys collection of pieces; they are all so different. I think my favourites are Envoi, Antique Song and Canon - I find the counterpoint very appealing…Story is a piece I could easily give to some of my pupils to play. And the Marches work very well…Altogether an album that many young players would be pleased to acquire'- Dr Julia Gasper, LGSM
This piece should sound grand and assertive, as the title implies, but still reasonably legato, rather than thumped. The square triplet brackets above the right hand staff at the opening and elsewhere indicate that the right hand tune, considered in isolation from the left, can be considered as being in 3/4 time for some of its course. If this is born in mind when playing, an effect of cross-rhythm may be created. (To see the same theme treated in 3/4 throughout, see 'Canon' from the same collection.)
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US delay on IS may have cemented Iran's position in Iraq
The Obama administration weakened its hand by delaying its response in Iraq
People fleeing Islamic State fighters in Mosul last June arrive at a checkpoint in Irbil, in northern Iraq. Photograph: Kamal Akrayi/EPA
Iraq's national security adviser Falah Fayadh was in Washington struggling to arrange delivery of US fighter jets to aid the country's fight against a surging Sunni Arab insurgency when the shocking reports began flooding in.
Islamic State, then known as Isis or Isil, had swept through the country's second- largest city, Mosul, and was hurtling toward Baghdad. It was June 10th.
Fayadh rushed back to the Iraqi capital as residents began making plans to flee Baghdad for the south of the country or go abroad. Bank officials feared runs on deposits.
Iraq's Shia-led government pleaded with the US for help. But Washington's reply was chilly. "They said they were studying the matter," says Fayadh, "and hinted that they were not satisfied with the government."
It would be two months before the US came to the aid of Baghdad by launching air strikes to support Iraqi forces defending the capital from Islamic State (IS) advances. Meanwhile, Washington's arch-rival in the region, Iran, began sending weapons, ammunition, crucial intelligence and senior advisers within 48 hours of the Mosul crisis.
"From the first day, we sent a request to the Americans for training and weapons," says Gen Qassem Atta, head of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service. "The US excuse for not sending it [help] was to wait for the new government to be established. We had no choice . . . but to go to Iran. We had to defend ourselves."
Regional powers
But in more than a dozen interviews, Iraqi and Iranian insiders say the Barack Obama administration's decision – to wait and insist on the removal of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki before taking action – strengthened Iran's position in Iraq. The US position, they argue, further enmeshed Iran in its neighbour's vital affairs, deepened ties between the two countries' security institutions and stifled attempts to wean the country from Tehran's grasp.
Questions about the roles of Iran and the US – which announced the deployment of up to 1,500 extra troops last week – in Iraq come at a critical juncture in relations between Washington and Tehran. Officials from the two countries are struggling to forge a deal on the Iranian nuclear programme while coming to an understanding on their shared interest in fighting IS.
The US has dangled the option of more co-operation against the Islamist group in the event of a nuclear deal. But by giving Iran first crack at shaping Iraq's security response to the IS threat, the Obama administration may have weakened its hand.
In the space of a few days Iran reformulated the ultimately failed Iraqi security infrastructure that took Washington nearly nine years and billions of dollars to build. Iran's rapid response may greatly impact the future of Iraq and the nature of the war against IS, now encompassing Iraq, Syria and increasingly ensnaring Lebanon.
Critics argue this will favour Tehran and its allies by further cementing the role of Shia and pro-Iranian militias in the country's security institutions.
"The US didn't move quickly enough to help Iraq while it [IS] was invading Mosul and left other countries to build up their influence," says Nabeal Younes Mohamed, a political science professor and adviser to one of Iraq's leading Sunni politicians. "Iran acted quickly to keep its influence."
US vacuum
Separately Alistair Baskey, a spokesman for the National Security Council, says: "It is important not to overstate the extent to which Iran has influence on Iraq's leaders."
It may be too early to determine the ultimate ramifications of Iran's role in the war against IS. But Baghdad's dependence on Iranian firepower and personnel – including Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Qods Force, Tehran's overseas paramilitary unit – may limit future US policy leverage. It could also further complicate the dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme and the situation in Syria, where the US is avoiding conflict with Bashar al-Assad's Iranian-backed regime.
While Iran's physical footprint in Iraq is likely to be similar to the hundreds or several thousand of advisers the US has authorised to deploy, its reactivation of Shia militias and its role in organising the so-called "popular surge" of volunteers gives Tehran a far more robust force on the ground.
One Iraqi official told Randa Slim, an analyst at the Middle East Institute who travels frequently to Baghdad, that Soleimani was "the commander of the Iraqi armed forces" during the first two weeks after the fall of Mosul. "During that time, while the US was hedging and wondering what to do, Soleimani rushed to the aid of Iraq," she said.
Iran was initially taken aback by the scale and speed of the IS victory in Mosul, and several officials describe ongoing recriminations in Tehran about the failure of the country's vast intelligence networks to predict its encroachment into northwest Iraq.
"Iran's policies in the region are not attached to Soleimani but Iran now needs to cover up its failures," says an Iranian reform-minded political analyst. "Soleimani carries out the policies which are set by [supreme leader] Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "
Iran welcomed the US overthrow of Saddam and the elevation of Shia and Kurdish allies in Iraq. But it has long worried about the threat of Sunni extremists on its borders, and fears IS could destabilise the country.
The phone calls to Baghdad and Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, began on June 10th. "They said if you want, we are ready to help," said Gen Atta, who is among senior Iraqi armed forces officers sceptical of Iran's influence. "In the early days they even offered troops."
White House deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken acknowledged in a recent speech that the Obama administration sought a new government in Baghdad before it began military operations against IS. Otherwise the US faced the prospect of being "perceived as the air force of Maliki, perpetuating his hold on power," he says.
"The departure of Maliki was essential to winning broader support for the campaign. We could not expect Iraqi Kurds or Sunnis or the various neighbouring states to join forces to counter Isil [IS] with an Iraqi government pursuing a blatantly sectarian agenda."
Despite misgivings about Maliki's competence, Iranian officials dispatched Soleimani to Baghdad within two days of the crisis. He also paid an early visit to Masoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and a vocal longtime sceptic of Iranian influence, who warmly thanked Tehran for its support.
"Barzani was always closer to the US and the West, but when the West abandoned him at the beginning of the crisis, of course he moved closer to Iran," says Muthana Amin, a Kurdish member of parliament and member of the Kurdistan Islamic Union.
Robust engagement
Potentially, Soleimani's most significant move was to help the Iraqi government mobilise Shia volunteers to defend the country and support its regular forces. In addition, Iran appears to have resurrected the Shia militias it had trained and which fought US forces after the toppling of Saddam.
"They sent advisers, people to guide, planners, trainers, training the trainers of the popular surge," says Mowafak Rubayie, Iraq's former national security adviser. "They helped in mobilising the Shia militias."
Iranian commandos in battles in northern Iraq were careful to avoid clashes with the US, which would not only weaken Tehran's position in Iraq but also in the nuclear talks. "There is a [war] field understanding between Iran and the US and that is because we must not hit each other by mistake when we are advancing in the field," says Hossein Sheikholeslam, adviser to Iran's parliament.
Iran's most controversial proposal was to cede stretches of mostly Sunni Iraqi territory, such as western Anbar province, to IS, hardening the partition of the country into ethno-sectarian cantons as it had done in Syria. "Some in Iran and some of its friends [in Iraq] believed that this is a bit like Syria," said the senior diplomat.
"The strategy is give up Anbar, keep control of what you have, strengthen it and regroup and fight back later."
The strategy, which appears to be the Iraqi government's game plan, has raised fears that it reflects Iran's policy of focusing almost exclusively on the country's Shia majority.
"Isis [IS] is going to have a long life and will not finish in one or two years because Sunni culture likes the group's behaviour," says Sheikholeslam. Many Iranians credit the regime with behaving more rationally in Iraq compared to Syria, where its insistence on keeping Assad in power has complicated its relations with its neighbours.
Iran's jeopardy
"Iran was like a billionaire which has become a millionaire in Syria and in Iraq," says one reform-minded political analyst in Tehran. "Iran cannot retreat from its support for Bashar [al-Assad] while its fight against Sunni extremists in Syria has expanded to Iraq and hence very close to Iran's borders."
Tehran's early response to the IS incursion promises to shape Iraq's national security framework for years. The Kurds' once-promising attempt to wean themselves off the Islamic Republic's influence by strengthening a partnership with Turkey appears in shambles.
The Shia militias had been mostly dormant since 2010 after Maliki launched a messy war to stamp out forces loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Sadr's forces, now rebranded the Peace Brigades, and other Iranian-backed or trained Shia militias, have reassumed their robust role in Iraq's public life.
The volunteer forces, which many Iraqi officials now want to incorporate into the security services, are potentially an even more fervent force propelling the type of Shia populism advocated by Iran's leaders.
"I think in the long term Iran's role is going to have a negative impact on the Iraqi people," said Nabeal Younes. "We need help at this time, but it doesn't mean we agree on such an influence."
Haider al-Abadi, Iraq's new prime minister, for years critical of Iran's role in the country, has previously accused Tehran of turning Iraq into a battleground in its contest with the US. But hours after finally seating his government and attending a rare meeting with the influential Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Abadi headed to Tehran for one of his first foreign visits as premier.
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President of the Cannes Film Festival Pierre Lescure hailed Iran's rich culture and civilization stressing that Iran cinema enjoys a unique status in the region.
Lescure made the remarks in a meeting on Saturday in Cannes, France, with head of Iran's Cinema Organization Hojatollah Ayoubi who is attending the event.
Lescure expressed satisfaction over the cooperation between Cannes Film Festival and Iran's cinema, IRNA reported.
Ayoubi invited Lescure to pay a visit to Iran.
Visiting Iran would bring him a great opportunity to become more acquainted with Iranian cinema, which "is unique in the region and a cultural powerhouse that cannot be competed with in the Middle East," Lescure said.
Iran participated in Cannes 2016 with two films, 'Inversion' by Behnam Behzadi and 'Salesman' by the Oscar-winning Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi.
Meanwhile, Farhadi's 'The Salesman' collected positive reviews after its screening on May 21.
The two-hour film thematizes on the corrosive power of doubt. Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and his wife Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), forced to leave their building as it is faced with structural damage, move to a friend's (Babak Karimi) vacant apartment. However, one day, Rana is assaulted by a man at home and Emad starts his search to find the perpetrator.
Speaking at a press conference in Cannes, Farhadi said, "I believe 'The Salesman' is a detective movie that can attract all kinds of people, both critics and the public. A major part of the story is enigmatic. In fact, there is no detective in the film but the viewers feel they are detectives themselves".
Almost all the critics praised the great performance by the actors as well as Farhadi's mastery in storytelling.
Alex Billington from FirstShowing.net gave it eight stars out of 10 calling it "a riveting film, practically a mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat". 'The Salesman' is a thoroughly engaging morality tale that proves once again just how talented a storyteller/filmmaker Asghar Farhadi is.
"From the cinematography and lighting, to the production design, the back and forth intelligent dialogue, and the screenwriting that reveals more as you move along, and the two main performances by Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini which are outstanding, it is all so impressive."
Many Layers
The story arouses the viewers' sympathy, making them reflect deeply on different moral issues. "There are so many layers to this film, with questions to ask yourself about every situation and whether you would act/react the same way, and it moves at a steady pace that is never tiresome. It is worthy of appreciation," he said.
John Bleasdale from Cine-vue.com gave the film four stars out of five calling the performances "as superb as audiences have come to expect".
Jasmin Valjas from Theupcoming website gave three stars out of five to the film calling it "an engrossing picture, a noteworthy fusion of family drama and thriller".
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw's gave it three stars. "It is a well-crafted, valuable drama on the theme of revenge and justice. The sheer IQ of Farhadi's film-making makes this very watchable".
Owen Gleiberman, chief film critic of Variety wrote, "it is another finely cut gem of neorealist suspense by Farhadi. The film is beautifully acted by Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidootsi but the great performance here is that of Babak Karimi".
Deborah Young of the Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Asghar Farhadi continues his exploration of the dark side of the soul" in a new story with "a knock-out finale that leaves the viewer tense and breathless". In her review, she said, "the final scenes introduce a new group of characters, among whom Farid Sajjadihosseini is unforgettable".
Ben Croll from TheWrap said the movie "sees the director returning to number of themes and ideas he has explored in his previous films, including male codes of honor, family tensions and the nature of justice. In excavating those themes, he is without rival, and he ably flexes his dramatic muscles here".
Zornitsa Staneva from PopOptiq.com wrote, "'The Salesman' boasts a tightly structured cause-and-effect narrative that keeps an ongoing suspense throughout most of its running time". Hosseini and Alidoosti "deliver a flawless execution".
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Piano Fundraiser For Mondak Heritage Center
We are raising funds for a new piano!
Live music at the MonDak Heritage Center has become an integral part of our programming. Our mission is to engage, educate, and inspire our community by preserving and contributing to the area's arts, culture, and heritage, and hosting live music performances has opened opportunities to meet all of these worthy goals.
Since beginning our live music series in 2007, we have increased the museum's visibility, and increased participation. We have also exposed patrons to musicians and musical styles not otherwise encountered in our area, like Tuvan throat singers from Mongolia, and Gaelic performers. The public has been very supportive of our efforts, and donors have stepped forward and the MonDak is now proud to have a wonderful stage, upgraded lighting and a state of the art sound system. Live music events are the fastest to sell out, and are cited by supporters as some of their favorite programs offered.
It is once again time for supportive donors to have an impact for good at the MonDak. When performing at the MonDak, musicians were utilizing an old upright piano that had once served classroom duty. It has become worn out and no longer holds tune, and several keys no longer work. The last piano tuner that came to work on it recommended replacement, and that has been several years ago.
So, we are selling off all 88 keys from our old broken, and worn out piano. White keys are $50, black keys are $75, and you'll be able to sign your name on any keys you buy. As the keys fill with names, we'll reach our goal amount!
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Buckle up, folks. On January 5, 2019, there's a partial solar eclipse in Capricorn. Solar eclipses are the equivalent of a double new moons, so they bring double the new opportunities, new doors opening, new people and situations. But this one is strange. Look at that chart. The last time we had a solar eclipse at 15 degrees Capricorn was in January 2000. Look back: what was going on in your life then?
Down there in the bottom right-hand corner of the chart – see that cluster? All those planets and points are in Capricorn. The sun and moon there in the middle at 15 degrees Capricorn, with Mercury and Saturn to the left, Pluto on the right. Capricorn is an earth sign governed by Saturn, which represents government, structure, authority. Mercury is about communication, Pluto represents profound transformation. This eclipse looks like a heavy-handed reality check.
Aries: This eclipse falls in your 10th house – career, profession, your public face. You may be saddled with more responsibility. However, you'll be compensated handsomely for it – raise? bonus? coveted perk? – and will rise to the occasion with your usual energetic approach to everything. Jupiter is in brother fire sign Sagittarius on this eclipse day,so the planet of luck and expansion has your back.
Taurus: You may have an opportunity to travel overseas or to work with individuals from other countries. It's also possible the work involves some complex visionary project that requires a contract or some other legal document. Another possibility is that you're accepted into graduate or law school. If you have a sun in Taurus at 10 to 25 degrees, then the eclipse is forming a powerful and beneficial angle to your sun.
Gemini: The eclipse occurs in your 8th house, the weirdest house in the zodiac. It represents the most mundane things – taxes, insurances, mortgages, royalties, inheritances, other people's resources – as well as death, rebirth, spirit contact, everything paranormal. New opportunities may come to you in any of these areas. You get your mortgage, you see your dead father. You get the idea here.
Cancer: This eclipse occurs in your 7th house of partnerships, opposite your sun sign. Even though parts of this eclipse will be a big ouch, something new will occur for you in the area of personal or business partnerships. You find the agent or manager who will further you career. You and your significant other move into together, get engaged. Doors open.
Leo: The focus for you is your daily work and the maintenance of your health, the 6th house. New opportunities may include: joining a new gym, finding a new trainer, starting a new health regimen, a chance to shine in some way.Interestingly, Jupiter is in fellow fire sign Sagittarius, forming a beautiful angle to your sun. Whatever happens will have en element of luck to it, of being in the right place at the right time.
Virgo: If you're single, you may not be for very long. This eclipse takes place in your 5th house of love, romance, creativity, children. You may start a new creative project or take the next step with a current project. If you and your partner have been trying to start a family, this eclipse could be the ticket. If ou have. sun, moon, or rising in Virgo between 10-25 degrees, then you're in a great position to manifest what you desire.
Libra: New opportunities that arrive with this eclipse are connected to home and family. A parent or child may move in or out. If your home is on the market, the right buyer shows up. You may move. Or you may have a chance to build an addition onto your home. However things shake out, Jupiter in Sagittarius forms a beneficial angle to your sun. That means the planet of luck has your back.
Scorpio: Opportunities come in communication, travel, learning and studying, with anything that enhances your conscious mind.You have an opportunity to write that book that has been crawling around in the back of your head. Or you take on a teaching gig, perhaps as a life coach, a social media expert, an intuitive counselor. During this eclipse, you've got lovely Venus in your sign, so she bolsters the opportunities.
Sagittarius: Get ready, Sadge! This eclipse and all those planets in Capricorn fall in your 2nd house of finances, $, personal values. This excess of Capricorn planets can affect you in one of several ways. You may feel panicked about money – or more determined to succeed at whatever you're doing.You may be especially didactic about what you value and insist on doing things in a particular way. With Jupiter still in your sign, be sure to buy a lottery ticket. Or several!
Capricorn: This is your eclipse, Capricorn, particularly if you were born between January 1 -15. This one impacts you in a personal, intimate way, and if you remember to breathe, to pace yourself, the benefits could be substantial. Neptune is in compatible water sign Pisces right now, forming a beneficial angle to the eclipse degree, so your idealism and creativity are highlighted. Your intuition should be exceptional. Embrace the opportunities that come your way. Look for synchronicities that confirm.
Aquarius: The eclipse occurs in that area of your chart that represents the personal unconscious, what's hidden. It brings focus to your own psyche. You may take up meditation, attend a workshop or seminar on self-development. Your dreams could be particularly vivid on and around the time of this eclipse, so pay attention. Take notes. Jupiter forms a beneficial angle to your sun, so you're in good shape.
Pisces: If you have a bunch of wishes bottled up inside you, then it's time to bring them out into the open and prioritize them. This eclipse enables you to start manifesting what you desire. It falls in your 11th house of wishes and dreams. This house also includes networks of friends, people you hang with, people who often share your beliefs. Neptune is also in your sign, heightening your idealism, creativity, and spirituality.
On January 21, there will be a total lunar eclipse in Aquarius. Look for that post on January 20. Visually, it will be a beauty. Astrologically…hmmm…


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The pianist Ruben Dalibaltayan was born in Yerevan, capital city of Armenia. Having begun
his piano studies at an early age, he gave his first solo concert at the age of ten. Only two
years later Ruben Dalibaltayan was to receive significant musical acclaim when he won the
Second prize at the First National Babadjanyan Piano Competition that made it possible for
him to perform Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with the Armenian National Symphony
Orchestra. After completing his studies and receiving a diploma with distinction at the
Specialist Music School for Talented Children, the pianist continued his education at the
Komitas State Conservatoire in Yerevan, studying under the guidance of professor Anahit
Having won two piano awards on the national level, Ruben then travelled to Moscowto continue his studies at the Gnesins' Russian Academy of Music where he received his degree after taking lessons in the class of professor Arthur Berngart. In 1997 Ruben furthered his studies on the postgraduate course at the Moscow State Conservatoire in the class of professor Valery Kastelsky and gained his master's degree in 1999.
During his years of study Ruben Dalibaltayan has won numerous awards atprestigiousinternational piano competitions like the first prize at the Citta diPinerolo International Piano Competition, prizes at Marsala, Calabria,Monopoli, Sulmona, Trani (Italy) and the Second International China Piano Competition (Beijing). In 2001 Ruben was awarded the Gold Medal at the prodigious piano competition called Armenian Legacy. This occasion was particularly important because it was a part of the celebration of 1700 years of Christianity in Armenia. Two years later Ruben won the third prize and Special prize for the best interpretation of the set piece at the Khachaturian International Piano Competition (Armenia). During the same year he also won the second prize and the Public prize at the Second EPTA International Piano Competition Svetislav Stančić in Zagreb (Croatia). Concert tours have taken Ruben to Armenia, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Moldavia,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Montenegro, Switzerland, Portugal and Croatia. As a soloist he has performed with the National Symphony Orchestras of Armenia, Moldavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Kazakhstan and Croatia. Marking an important stage in the artistic career of this pianist is a very dear and personal contact with the legendary pianist Alexis Weissenberg, with whom he became acquainted at master classes taking place in the Swiss town of Engelberg. The maestro rated the musical talent of Ruben Dalibaltayan highly enough to award him the international "Alexis Weissenberg" prize. Since 2000, parallel to his performing career, Ruben has been occupied with pedagogical activities. He has been taking an active part in the musical life of the Balkan states since taking up a post on the piano faculty at the Sarajevo Academy of Music in the year 2000. In 2005 Ruben was invited to become professor of the Zagreb Academy of Music. He is a member of jury of manyntional and international competitions. Also he gives regular master classes across Croatia.
As a part of his creative work Ruben is constantly striving to enrich his already wide repertoire. His repertoire encompasses music from the baroque to the present day. The artist dedicates much of his attention to the work of Franz Liszt, whose key works occupy a prominent place in his repertoire. The pianist also takes great pleasure in performing the works of other Romantic composers together with Debussy and Scriabin, especially his later and less frequently performed pieces. Besides doing solo concerts Ruben Dalibaltayan enjoys participating in many varied chamber ensembles. He also gives recitals with his wife JuliaGubaidullina in the form of piano duo. Ruben is an active member of theSONEMUS organisation (Sarajevo's Organisation for New Music). Year 2008 he founds trio "Amadeus" together with his colegues from Zagreb Music Academy Leonid Sorokow and Kresimir Lazar. The pianist gives special attention to the promotion of the music of Armenian composers, an interesting and original music inseparably linked to the culture of his native country.


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Documentary producer and director Joe Berlinger is old enough to remember multiple "golden ages" of documentaries at the box office. There was the one in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Berlinger's and Bruce Sinofsky's film Brother's Keeper and others, like Hoop Dreamsand The Thin Blue Line, made enough cultural impact—and ensuing controversy over their Oscar snubs for best feature—that the Academy eventually established a documentary branch. And there was the other one in the mid-00s, dominated by penguins and Michael Moore.
Now, we're living through another, driven by the astonishing summer box-office runs of three films: Morgan Neville's Mister Rogers film, Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Focus Features), Julie Cohen and Betsy West's tribute to the Supreme Court justice RBG (Magnolia Pictures/Participant Media), and Tim Wardle's twisty family saga, Three Identical Strangers(Neon). Coming right on their heels was the September release Free Solo(National Geographic Documentary Films), the gripping film by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi about climber Alex Honnold.
And yet, when the Academy Award nominations for best documentary feature are announced on January 22, there is a decent chance that at least one of these films won't be included. With the number of qualifying films continuing to grow—for the 2017 Oscars it was 170, up from 145 the year before—and the documentary branch adding new members, it's become increasingly difficult to know just what the documentary voters are looking for. A year after the heavily promoted but un-nominated Jane Goodall documentary Jane was passed over at the Oscars, can anyone really be confident that Ruth Bader Ginsburg won't be?
Snubs are literally older than the documentary branch itself. Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line, Berlinger and Sinofsky's Brother's Keeper,and, perhaps most notoriously, Steve James's Hoop Dreams were all left out of their respective year's nominations before the Academy founded the documentary branch, in 2001, ensuring that only documentarians vote to determine the nominees, instead of the volunteer-based group of Academy members who had previously voted in the category. "Before," said Berlinger (one of the earliest members of the documentary branch), "it wasn't a fair read, and a very small number of people actually made those decisions."
The documentary-branch rules have changed many times over the years and since the 2012 awards have allowed the entire branch—not just a select committee—to vote on the short list as well as the final nominees. "The good thing was that the committees watched every film that qualified, so there were often unusual choices that popped up on the short list even though they weren't 'popular,' " said Marshall Curry, a documentary-branch member who has been nominated twice. "The bad part of that, though, was that if one or two people on a committee didn't like a film—say, they disliked Michael Moore—they could torpedo a popular film that clearly should have been on the short list. Now the short list rarely includes a big surprise, and it also rarely includes a striking snub. It's more conventional."
But snubs have persisted. The glaring absence from the 2005 Oscar short list was Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man; at the 2011 awards, it was Steve James, again, with The Interrupters. Speaking to The New Yorker in 2012 about the short-list updates, Michael Moore described the category's history of snubbing directors like the Maysles brothers (who were nominated once, for a 1974 short) and Frederick Wiseman "as if Spielberg, Scorsese, and Kubrick had never been nominated for an Oscar." Wiseman, who won an honorary Oscar in 2016, has still never been nominated.
The documentary Oscar has moved far from the days when a series of obliging Holocaust films—three in a four-year span in the late 90s—seemed to win every season. It has been a staging ground for the slow wooing of the Academy by Netflix, which earned its first Oscar nomination in the category at the 2013 awards and its first win at the 2016 event, for the documentary short "The White Helmets." And, like nearly every other branch of the Academy, it became caught up in the Weinstein Company's quest for Oscar dominance; the company won the 2011 Oscar for T. J. Martin and Dan Lindsay's sports documentary, Undefeated,which it had picked up at the SXSW Film Festival.


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❝A short saying oft contains much wisdom.❞
Sophocles (496BC – 406BC)
Our growing selection of quotes on government transport policy, from both the
good guys
and the
bad guys
External references open in new window/tab.
Selected Quote
"This is a bankrupt government of punishment freaks and tax junkies, who see the law-abiding paying public as a lumpen rabble to be persecuted and bled dry — none more so than the poor bloody motorist.
They long ago lost any sense of justice, common sense or proportion.."
Richard Littlejohn
Daily Mail
Quotes pertaining to Government Transport Policy
"Labour's plans to tax and penalise car use are leading Britain into a former Soviet-style regime"
"Labour is using the car as a milch cow in a most dishonest way"
"The [Labour] Government's [anti-car] measures will take away what the car has given — mobility with freedom to travel as and when people please"
"Planned levies, tolls, charges, penalties and electronic speed cameras are, in reality, taxes. They are intended to raise revenue in addition to planned new and existing taxes on motoring"
"Road tolls are threatening disaster, cutting off areas of the country and towns, because it will become too expensive to transport goods... The impact threatens to be very serious...There will be no-go areas"
"Graduated vehicle excise duty ... poses a threat to Jaguar, Bentley, Rolls Royce and Land Rover. If a nation does not have a healthy home market for the cars it produces, it faces a serious situation. How can its economy prosper?"
"Graduated VED is very worrying. It will put the clock back"
"It would be wise of the Government to realise it is facing a tremendous public backlash to its next revenue raising attack on cars and road use. The outlook is alarming"
Professor Garel Rhys
Head of Automotive Economics
Cardiff Business School,
and Parliamentary Adviser on Trade and Industry;
commenting on Tony Blair's anti-car policies.
"We need to get away from the idea that persecuting the motorist is the answer to our environmental problems"
William Hague MP, BBC Radio 4, 2000-11-07
"There are many reasons to shift away from fossil fuels, and we will do so in the next century without legislation, financial incentives, carbon-conservation programs, or the indeterminable yammering of fearmongers. So far as I know, nobody had to ban horse transport in the early twentieth century"
Michael Crichton,
State of Fear
"David Begg is a luddite if he thinks that bus travel is the be-all and end-all of everything."
Mike Whitby
Leader of Birmingham City Council
Birmingham Post
"Current planning policy guidance on new housing is tantamount to a war against cars, forcing us to provide insufficient car parking spaces on new developments. We cannot build double garages or even provide two parking spaces, an absurdity in the context of the two-car needs of most couples and families."
"It means builders are pushed into doing something which they know doesn't work, but nobody is listening. The consultation paper issued by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott on revisions to the PPG3 planning guidelines completely ignore the problem."
Philip Davies
Chief Executive
Linden Homes
"We recently built 46 apartments in the heart of Reading with 26 permitted parking spaces, and the first 26 to sell had their own spaces."
"Under the PPG3 planning guidance note, our customers are supposed to use buses and trai ns - but the transport infrastructure simply doesn't exist to satisfactory standards in most areas."
"In Milton Keynes, we are trying to sell a five-bedroomed house at £400,000-plus with single garage and one parking space - and this specific point makes it difficult to find a buyer. We wanted a double garage and two further spaces, but planners wouldn't hear of it."
Nicholas Smith
Land, Planning and Design Director
Centex UK
"... public opinion polls should not be the sole basis for political decision making ... the results are too dependent on the framing of the question ..."
Timo Seppala
Posiva Oy
in a
debate at the Labour Party Conference
"For much too long received wisdom has been that roads are 'baddies' and railroads are 'buddies', I refuse to sign this absurdity. We must turn the tide of the European transport policy and let Europe free of its politically correct shackles. The dislike of the minority for cars must not blind us to act in a counterproductive way."
Ari Vatanen MEP
"It's one thing to have cameras to detect speeding motorists and those running red lights, but quite another having them looking inside cars and invading people's private space"
Alistair Darling
Transport Secretary
"The government, however, is even more idiotic. It wants us to buy the car, pay the Vat, and the tax, and the tax on the Vat, and the tax on the Vat on the fuel in the tank. And then it wants us to leave it at home and go to work on the bus. We are being governed by window-lickers."
Jeremy Clarkson
The Times
"I suppose that I could go on jumping up and down in the same old rut about motorways, cones and the sad lot of the nation's abused majority, the motorists, but I suppose I've become infected by the classic phlegmatism of the British, and can't be bothered banging on, when I know that neither the Highways Authority nor the Government give a rattling damn, because they know that the 'silent majority' are not called that for nothing. It's minorities that change the world; if you belong to a minority, you're on the pig's back."
Terry Wogan
Musn't Grumble
"The Government is pushing us very hard. They are saying 'you either follow our policy or you don`t get the money'. We are being, in inverted commas, blackmailed."
Roger Jones
Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority
The Times, 2007
"In the last hundred years the car has done more for human freedom, I venture to suggest, than the aeroplane, penicillin, the telephone and the contraceptive pill put together."
Boris Johnson
Life in the Fast Lane
June 2007
"With this unintended act of open government, the disingenuous attitude of ministers towards public fears about a creeping surveillance state is revealed for all to see.
No wonder Douglas Alexander was keen to tone down these proposals since he must know that public resistance to a road-charging scheme will go through the roof if it is based on technology which poses a threat to personal privacy.
The Government appears to be using the London cameras as a Trojan Horse to secure unprecedented access to information on car drivers' movements without full public scrutiny or debate."
Nick Clegg
Lib Dem Home Affairs Spokesman
Evening Standard
"This is a bankrupt government of punishment freaks and tax junkies, who see the law-abiding paying public as a lumpen rabble to be persecuted and bled dry — none more so than the poor bloody motorist.
They long ago lost any sense of justice, common sense or proportion.."
Richard Littlejohn
Daily Mail
"The last good idea to come from Britain was radar!."
Assemblyman Michael Benjamin
New York City Council
Commenting on proposals to introduce congestion charging to New York City.
New York Post
"Australia has become a nanny state, with ridiculous parking and speeding rules."
Mark Webber
Reported by
BBC News 2010-03-29
"Driving laws should be based on sound science, not the results of opinion polls that were, in any case, subject to the way questions were asked."
Malcolm Heymer
Speaking to the House of Commons Transport Committee
Quotes from the bad guys
"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."
Carl Sandburg (1878..1967), Incidentals (1907)
"All decision makers at the local, regional, national and European levels are urged to play their part in changing our culture of mobility"
'The Copenhagen Declaration'
made by 'Car-Free Cities' - the European Commission's anti-car committee
"Car commuters are considered to be the lowest of the low"
Hugh Richards
Highways Agency
in a telephone call with an ABD member
August 1999
"My priority is to get people out of cars and on to public transport"
Charles Kennedy
Liberal Democrat Leader
in his book "The future of politics".
"New (transport) infrastructure needs to be seen as a last resort"
David Begg
now Chairman of the Commission for Integrated Transport.
"I hate cars. If I ever get any powers again I`d ban the lot."
Ken Livingstone
Sunday Times
21 November 1999.
"Our aim is to brainwash a new generation"
George Callaghan
Schools Travel Plan Officer
Stockton On Tees Borough Council
speaking about 'educating' kids on how they should travel to school
"I've lost faith in democracy. Just because the public don't like things doesn't mean they're wrong."
An unnamed, arrogant (and illiterate) 'adviser' to Transport Secretary Alistair Darling commenting on public rejection of Congestion Charging in Edinburgh.
The Guardian
"Sooner or later, whoever is in government, the tax system will have to be used much more boldly to help change the way we travel. That means substantially raising the cost of motoring and flying."
Stephen Joseph
Director of Transport 2000
"Those responsible for 7/7 got to Luton station by car."
"for greater safety and the greater good of society, most people would be prepared to accept a slight reduction of our liberty"
Robert Gifford
Guardian 2006-03-07
"SUV taxes and the extension of SUV-free areas are steps towards stricter limitations on private traffic."
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
Italian Minister of the Environment
TCS Daily 2006-08-08
"Any survey which asks 'Do you support congestion charging' is bound to generate a negative response."
Sir Howard Bernstein
Clerk to the GMPTA /
Manchester City Council Chief Executive
Lancashire Evening Post 2008-08-08
"We have a duty as laid down by Central government to discourage motorists and to encourage the use of public transport."
Keith Wallace,
Team Manager,
Parking Infrastructure,
Community Services Department,
London Borough of Croydon.
In a letter about parking to our Local Co-ordinator for Croydon, January 2009.
Global Warming
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In the 5G/IoT village, the four IRTs involved with the topic – b‹›com, Nanoelec, Saint Exupéry, and SystemX – demonstrated how they are taking on challenges in a world where everything is connected, where networks are programmable, autonomous, secure and efficient to offer more services. b‹›com designs the architecture and develops the Virtual Network Functions and the radio technologies to cope with the surge in transmission rates and proliferation of technologies. Nanoelec works on silicon-based integrated photonic circuits for data centres. IRT Saint Exupéry is willing to foster adoption of satellite to extend the 5G network to non-covered areas, by proposing "virtualized access and network functions" for a seamless integration in telecom operator's networks. The application developed by IRT SystemX provides wireless network slicing functionality, a technique that will allow operators to share a unique 5G network infrastructure between various use cases.
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Kimi ni Todoke Season 2
Type: TV Series
Plot Summary: The continuation of the first season. Sawako Kuronuma and her friends have just begun their second year of high school and they are in the same class together again. To make matters more interesting a male student newly transferred into their class is seated right next to Kuronuma and has taken an interest in her. What hurdles will Sawako and Kazehaya face next?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School, Shoujo, Slice of Life
Released: 2009
Status: Completed
Other name: Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, 君に届け


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AboutA Berlin based artist, who uses Bio Data Sonification or so-called "Bio Feedback" to create imaginary and interactive landscapes through plants.
Conceived as an art installation where he connects and reports the inner state of plants into an interactive and atmospherical journey.
To express this concept, he employs bio data sonification technology, which allows him to measure small electrical currents across the surface of a plant's leaves or human skin, converting these impulses into notes that generate music.
He doesn't control the plant, instead he gives it its own space and time to express its state. Depending on the type of plant, its health, the time of day and season, there may be many different moods displayed. Some hours it may show very little activity (nighttime e.g.) , translated into peaceful yet almost meditative music. During the performance, the plant's life motion may increases on its own, or through the interactions with human bodies. This electric connection between the two entities generates peaks of tension and uctuations in the sound projected into the audience.


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I move to Lakeland in September of 2018.
Right away I found a meeting 1 mile from my
mothers house were I am living. The name of
the group is , "FREEDOM OF CHOICE"…
The group members had welcomed me with open arms
I felt comfortable there within a tight group of
people whom are all from different parts of the states.
in October of 2018 I had became a member of the group and
have missed no more then 5 meetings since I started to attend.
I do my service work by setting up the room, making coffee and
welcoming people with open arms as was with me.
Perry L.
Thank you again for welcoming me into the Lakeland NA Meetings!! Looking forward to moving back to Lakeland in a few weeks.
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News 10th October
*Reflecting an increase in economic activity, indirect tax revenue goes up by 35.8 per cent in first six months of current fiscal.
*G-20 countries including India endorse action plan for transparent global tax regime to curb artificial profit-shifting ways.
*President Pranab Mukherjee leaves on a six-day visit to Jordan, Palestine and Israel this morning.
*Campaigning for first phase of Bihar Assembly elections ends today; polling to take place in 49 constituencies on Monday.
*Gujarat High Court says step parents are not liable to maintain child.
*In a shift its policy in Syria, United States abandons training of rebels and focuses to provide equipments and weapons to select group to fight Islamic State.


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Grandparents are the tits. They tell you stories about the past, make you delicious food, and give the best advice. But if you picture all grandparents as quiet, sweater-loving old people, then you've got them all wrong.
You see, some people get the vanilla/cuddly grandparents that go to bed early every night. And then there are the others. The ones that drink a sh*t ton of booze, go to strip clubs, and are ridiculously horny 24/7. Sound familiar? Congratulations! You've got yourself a bad grandpa.
Bad grandpas are the absolute best. They are the life of any party, and can 100% drink you under the table. These grandpas don't think "damn, I'm old, I should act my age." Instead, these bad ass mofos are thinking "f*ck it, I'm still kicking, ima do me."
So if you've got yourself a bad ass grandpa, appreciate that precious gift, and learn all you can while that legend is still alive and living the dream.


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Sterling Silver bear is sawed by hand. Available in three sizes: 22, 33 or 55 millimeters from head to tail. Each bear pendant is also available with a traditional 18K gold feather which hangs from the same loop as the bear. The sterling chain is adjustable and can be worn at 16, 17 or 18 inches.


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It's been a hot minute since we've heard anything concrete about the future happenings of the Star Wars franchise, and though that might be for the better in the long run, fans and obsessives of the franchise alike have been waiting on (any) word about the behind-the-scenes doings following the beginning of the Rogue One rollout. So, Lawrence Kasdan, one of the most important figures in the making of the franchise, obliged recently, during the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, by talking a little bit about what he knows about the plans to begin shooting the Han Solo movie, which is being overseen by Chris Miller and Phil Lord. This is what he had to say, via Star Wars News Net:
"You know, Chris Miller and Phil Lord are going to direct it…They're great, funny and imaginative and we've had a great time together. My son [Jon] and I wrote the script and Chris and Phil are working on it and they're about to move to London to start shooting in January. And it should be fun."
The fact that we have a seemingly solid start date for one of the most anticipated movies on the docket currently is big enough news, but Kasdan also went on to briefly speak about his involvement in the next two episodes of the Star Wars franchise, being directed by the likes of Rian Johnson and Colin Trevorrow. Here's what he had to say about that:
"I have a little information…[Star Wars Episode 8 Director] Rian [Johnson] is a friend of mine. I'm getting to know Colin Trevorrow, who is going to direct Episode 9, so I feel very involved with it."
This is not entirely surprising news, all things considered, as Kasdan's involvement in The Force Awakens was a sizable part of the success, both critically and fiscally, of that film. Still, these bits of information give us a vague sense of the schedule that will be going down for the Han Solo movie, and whether or not the new Star Wars films will be similar in tone with The Force Awakens. Good news all around, from my perspective.


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I have read lots of things on here about people looking for help with flushing from warmth or heat. This is one of my major triggers. Has anyone really successfully dealt with this? I see ideas/suggestions in other threads, but not really success stories (maybe I'm just missing them!).
If I can stay cool, my baseline redness is pretty good. But the minute I go out in the heat, or into a warmer room, I go red- sometimes VERY red. I just don't get why the medications I'm using for flushing only work to ramp down things in ideal situations, but the moment I get warm, anxious, eat almost anything other than like three foods :P, then I'm red again.
My current regimen for flushing: Clonidine 2 mg patch, mirtazapine 15 mg, and klonopin (up to 2 mg/day).


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The 25-year-old has played five times for the Wallabies and has spent the majority of his professional career playing for the Queensland Reds in Super Rugby.
Also capable of playing at fly-half, Frisby spent four months of last season in the Top 14 with Bordeaux Begles where he made nine appearances and scored one try.
During his time in Australia he racked up 69 points in 66 matches for the Brisbane franchise, including 11 tries, the first of which came on his debut against the Sharks in 2012.
Frisby's versatility made him a key member of the Reds squad and he competed with Will Genia and Quade Cooper for the 9 and 10 jerseys. In 2015 he showed just how versatile he is, spending seven games as his side's starting fly-half due to injury. In 2016 he took over the role as Reds' starting scrum-half and featured in all 15 Super Rugby games.
Frisby won his first cap for Australia against England in the 2016 June Test window and in the same year he went on to play a further four matches for the Wallabies against New Zealand, Wales and England. He was the first-choice scrum-half for Australia U20 at the Junior World Championship in South Africa in 2012.
When not playing Super Rugby he represented Brisbane City in the National Rugby Championship and scored 28 points in 28 appearances. He helped them win their inaugural title in 2014 and was their starting scrum-half throughout their undefeated campaign in 2015.


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Kaiser, L. (2012). Mitigating the Principal - Agent Problem in Delegated Portfolio Management. University of Liechtenstein.
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The principal-agent problem plays a significant role in delegated portfolio management, as many money managers (agents) maximise their personal utility at the cost of the investor (principal). Existing literature has primarily focused on producing optimal contracts, including incentive compensation and monitoring procedures, to contempt the issue of moral hazard. In this study we suggest Bayesian portfolio construction in form of the Black-Litterman model as a way to mitigate moral hazard in delegated portfolio management (DPM). The models natural characteristics offer an intuitive solution to many issues of moral hazard in this specific context. The theoretical results indicate that the application of such a model can indeed reduce many of the outstanding issues of moral hazard in DPM such as agent's overconfidence, large turnover, costly monitoring, excessive risk taking and resurrection. Existing research suggests the implementation of allocation constraints on the agent to reduce moral hazard in DPM, this study was the first to introduce a concrete model and evaluate its potential on theoretical grounds.
- Quantitative Investment Management and Portfolio Optimisation
- PhD-Thesis, March 2011 until February 2015 (finished)
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Everyone loves old doors and windows these days. But sometimes you come across a door that's not old, but it has good lines and it's solid.
This one has been sitting in my garage over a year, bought from a neighbor's yard sale,
but it finally has a purpose.
but it finally has a purpose.
Not sure what to call it, but it has chalkboards and a shelf, so it would make
a good message center or entry piece.
I found an old door knocker that adds character and the saying is an
Emily Dickenson quote, "Dwell in Possibilities", that I really like.
The color is a very pale aqua, though it is hard to tell in the photographs.
I'm really pleased with the outcome and am now looking for it's new home:
kitchen, family room or entry?


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A Letter from Pearl Harbor, 1941
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In the Operation Homecoming section on our website, you can browse essays on writing from authors such as Richard Bausch and Dan Rifenburg, writing samples such as "Star-Fix," Marilyn Nelson's poem about the Tuskegee Airmen, and writing prompts to help you tell your own story. One such prompt instructs, "Think of an unforgettable event in your own life and write about it in detail...If you have an event in mind but don?t know how to begin, just write 'On [date] here?s what happened?,' or, start it as if you were writing a letter to a close friend or family member and go from there."
Though William Czako, a sailor aboard the USS New Orleans during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on this day in 1941, certainly didn't have this prompt in mind during the bombing, this excerpt from a letter to his sister Helen proves what a powerful piece of writing can result just from beginning, "Dear Sis....."
Dear Sis:
It is now 9:05 Sunday morning and we?ve been bombed now for over an hour.? Our anti aircraft guns are yammering and every so often a bomb strikes so close as to rock this ship. Again a bomb. We?re helpless down here in the Forward Engine Room because our main engines are all tore down. We?re trying to get underway if possible. We were just struck by a bomb near the bow. We?re fighting back as much as possible because we have no power to load our guns, no power circuits to fire them. It is all being done by hand?.
We?ve lit off all the boilers that are not out of commission and are trying to get underway so that we will not be altogether helpless by laying alongside the dock and be a stationary target. Those bombs are getting closer---God grant that they do not hit that loaded oil tanker that is lying right across from us. Ten million gallons of fuel oil would bathe this ship in an inferno of fire?. I am on the interior communications telephone and I can hear the various stations screaming orders at one another. A man just brought us our gas masks?. We?ve been struck several times now but fortunately there are no casualties as yet?.
There has been a lull for a few minutes but there they go again. Strangely Sis, I?m not excited but my heart is beating a little faster from all that firing. I know that this is not a drill because the concussion of exploding bombs is jarring the whole ship. I don?t know why I am writing this because if we are hit with a bomb here---they won?t find enough of me and the rest---let alone this letter. I imagine it is to show myself that I can be calm under fire. A few of the boys here are white faced and their voices hushed and choked. They too know that this is no joke or mock battle---but the real stuff?.
Czako survived the attack, went on to fight in the Pacific campaign against the Japanese, and then returned home in 1946.
(Letter from Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters---and One Man?s Search to Find Them (Scribner), edited by Andrew Carroll. Copyright © 2005 Sandra Cook.)


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Joanna Hogg's new movie The Souvenir is refrigerated and mysterious: uncompromising, uningratiating: an artefact in the highest auteur register, but a film that creeps up on you – from behind. There's a challenging absence of obvious readability, particularly with regard to the vital issue of tone. In some ways, it's like a psychological drama without the drama or an ironic satire without the irony – or not much irony anyway. (Perhaps the nearest thing to playfulness is the deadpan announcement over the closing credits that The Souvenir II is on its way — the way they used to trail the upcoming James Bond.)
As with other Hogg films, there is an austere, unemphasised plainness. Closeups are rare. Hogg conducts her dramatic business in a sort of indoor available light, with characters often quite simply going into semi-darkness if they walk away from windows: a look Hogg has contrived in her other films, no matter what cinematographer she is working with. Most distinctively, it is a film about the upper classes, but not in the Downton Abbey style: it is about the upper classes as they actually are, in the dull day-to-day, a social realist movie about posh people. It's as if Hogg has found a contemporary English response to the rhetoric of Antonioni or Visconti.
The setting is the early 80s, and a sweet-natured young film student called Julie – keen on her documentary proposal about working-class communities in Sunderland – lives in a smart flat in London's Knightsbridge, just across from the cupola of Harrods department store. This is evidently a pied-à-terre kept by her extremely grand parents who have a country place in north Norfolk. Her mother sometimes pops in after shopping expeditions, and is always having to "lend" Julie money for her film projects.
Julie is living here with bohemian flatmates, and at boozy, smoky parties the conversation sometimes strays to the subject of Julie's privilege, though in a tolerant vein. But then these friends head off on their travels, leaving her alone in the flat. It is at this stage that the vampirish figure of Anthony makes his appearance: a supercilious, opinionated young man with a chalkstripe suit and a junior position at the Foreign Office. He has an insidious knack of playing on Julie's insecurities, by asking pointedly sceptical, quizzical questions about her work and airily claiming to admire Powell and Pressburger. His seduction technique involves taking her to the Wallace Collection to see Fragonard's painting The Souvenir. It isn't long before this sinister, parasitical figure has moved in, buying Julie erotic lingerie, taking her to Venice, disrupting her film-making plans and upending her life.
In another sort of movie, this would be a black comedy, and it feels like the plot for something by Nancy Mitford, or an early AN Wilson novel such as Wise Virgin or The Sweets of Pimlico. But comedy isn't what's happening. Yet what is happening?
The casting is a challenge: Anthony is played with underplayed arrogance by Tom Burke, and newcomer Honor Swinton Byrne gives a rather graceful and insouciant performance as Julie. She is the daughter of Tilda Swinton (and in fact we last saw Swinton Byrne in Tilda Swinton's short film about her personal friend John Berger, part of a collection of four pieces about the late author and critic, entitled The Seasons in Quincy, in which Berger was shown giving Honor a hair-raising motorbike lesson). And Julie's mother is duly played by Tilda Swinton, unobtrusively aged up as a patrician mamma. Is the film-making some kind of pre-emptive joke about entitlement in the film business? Surely not. It's more a coolly disconcerting overlapping of fact and fiction. And this underlines the weirdness of what unfolds, which has the weightlessness of a dream, a style which reaches its high point when Julie is alone in the flat and it is briefly shaken, to the sound of a detonation – the sound, in fact, of the 1983 IRA Harrods bombing. And then things are eerily back to normal.
Hogg shakes the film out of its trance when Anthony and Julie host a dinner party, attended by Anthony's insufferable film-maker friend: a hilarious cameo for Richard Ayoade, who brayingly announces that it is appalling that Britain, the home of the Stones, the Kinks and the Small Faces, still doesn't do movie musicals. (He doesn't mention the Who, so is maybe not a fan of Tommy.) It is this character who is to make a further announcement about Anthony that reveals the poison cloud gathering over the head of poor, innocent Julie.
Eventually, Julie is to be shown working on a different, more Jarmanesque-looking project, in a more rough-and-ready collaboration with other students. Yet the message is nothing so simplistic as just the need to get over her own well-heeled background. Her family are sympathetically portrayed. Positions of disapproval are not taken. It is a reverie, a daze, a strange spell of numbness – and it lingers in the mind.


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Simon Faghel-Soubeyrand, Tania Lecomte, Antoine Pennou, Frédéric Gosselin; Coarse information drives confusion of perceived emotion in schizophrenia. Journal of Vision 2018;18(10):924. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/18.10.924.
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It is widely accepted that emotion processing is impaired in schizophrenic patients (SPs). It is also believed —although evidence to support this claim remain scarce— that SPs confuse (i.e. mis-categorize) some emotions more than healthy individuals. While previous work using the Bubbles technique (e.g. Lee et al., 2011) has revealed aberrant use of facial information that agrees with emotion processing deficit in SPs, their use of only two facial expressions made it difficult to study the sources of the confusions. Here, we examined this question using Bubbles in a four-facial-expression identification task (happy, fearful, angry, or neutral). We first mapped which parts of the face at different spatial scales were used by SPs, and confirmed and extended previous findings. Second, we computed a confusion matrix over the ~13,000 trials completed by all SPs (N=13). Four mis-categorizations had a proportion of responses significantly higher than what is expected by chance (all chi2>60, Bonferroni-corrected ps< .001), including angry faces confused for neutral faces and fearful faces confused for angry faces. Finally, we revealed the specific facial information that drove SPs to commit these two confusions. We discovered that low-spatial frequency (LSF, i.e. coarse information < 10 cycles per faces) from the mouth area and nose area (i.e. philtrum, nose and nasolabial folds), respectively, led to angry faces being mistaken for neutral faces and to fearful faces being mistaken for angry faces. Previous studies revealed magnocellular system abnormalities in the form of below average LSF sensitivity in SPs (Butler et al., 2009). Our results indicate that the inability to extract useful coarse spatial information from expressive faces underlies the mis-labeling of perceived emotions in SPs.
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