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The Austin American-Statesman on Wednesday reported Mark Conditt described homosexuality is "not natural" in a blog post in which he argued against nuptials for gays and lesbians.
"Just look at the male and female bodies," wrote Conditt, according to the newspaper. "They are obviously designed to couple. The natural design is apparent. It is not natural to couple male with male and female with female. It would be like trying to fit two screws together and to nuts together and then say, 'See, it's natural for them to go together.'"
The Austin American-Statesman reported Conditt was 17-years-old when he wrote the posts in 2012 for a U.S. government class at a local community college.
Authorities say Conditt, 23, was behind the series of bombings that killed two people and left several others injured.
Anthony House died on March 2 when a package bomb that had been left on his doorstep exploded. Draylen Mason, a 17-year-old high school senior, was killed on March 12 when a device detonated at his home.
Another package exploded at a FedEx facility outside of San Antonio on Tuesday.
Authorities said Conditt early Wednesday blew himself up as a SWAT team approached his car that was parked outside a hotel in the Austin suburb of Round Rock. The Associated Press reported federal authorities on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Conditt in connection with the bombings.
Meghan Stabler, a transgender rights activist, lives in Round Rock. She told the Washington Blade on Wednesday in an email that she is "glad this nightmare of terror is over."

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One of the things I like most about working at Facebook is the ability to launch products that are (almost) immediately used by millions of people.Unlike a three-guys-in-a-garage startup, we don't have the luxury of scaling out infrastructure to keep pace with user growth; when your feature's userbase will go from 0 to 70 million practically overnight, scalability has to be baked in from the start.For Facebook Chat, we rolled our own subsystem for logging chat messages (in C ) as well as an epoll-driven web server (in Erlang) that holds online users' conversations in-memory and serves the long-polled HTTP requests.Both subsystems are clustered and partitioned for reliability and efficient failover. In short, because the problem domain fits Erlang like a glove.The naive implementation of sending a notification to all friends whenever a user comes online or goes offline has a worst case cost of O(average friendlist size * peak users * churn rate) messages/second, where churn rate is the frequency with which users come online and go offline, in events/second.
It is rather keeping each online user aware of the online-idle-offline states of their friends, so that conversations can begin.Surfacing connected users' idleness greatly enhances the chat user experience but further compounds the problem of keeping presence information up-to-date.Each Facebook Chat user now needs to be notified whenever one of his/her friends (a) takes an action such as sending a chat message or loads a Facebook page (if tracking idleness via a last-active timestamp) or (b) transitions between idleness states (if representing idleness as a state machine with states like "idle-for-1-minute", "idle-for-2-minutes", "idle-for-5-minutes", "idle-for-10-minutes", etc.).Com o Go To Meeting, reduzimos drasticamente nossas viagens e passamos a atender uma carteira maior de clientes.Conseguimos trabalhar com clientes de qualquer lugar do mundo como se eles estivessem aqui pertinho.


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Sharon Howson, Assistant Manager at Mary and Joseph House, explains how the Manchester care home achieved the rating of Outstanding in all five areas — Safe, Caring, Responsive, Effective and Well-led — in their recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection.
Mary and Joseph House is leading the way in residential care. The care home in Ancoats, Manchester is part of The Joseph Cox Charity and has been awarded an overall Outstanding rating by the CQC in a recent report, making it one of only four in the UK — and the only care home in Manchester — to hold the status in all five areas of inspection.
Mary and Joseph House has become a role model in its approach to "partnership care", working with residents to facilitate their rehabilitation through meaningful activities and tailored care programmes to suit the needs of the individual.
Home to 41 gentlemen aged between 40 and 80 years old, Mary and Joseph House is part of The Joseph Cox Charity which was founded in 1963 as a result of concerns raised for the welfare of homeless men in Manchester. Now chaired by Joseph's son, John Cox, the charity opened Mary and Joseph House in 1993 to address the increasing demand for residential facilities equipped to deal with alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD) or Korsakoff's Syndrome. A voluntary Management Committee is responsible to the trustees of the charity and oversees the continued work.
What makes Mary and Joseph House Outstanding?
We have values-based recruitment policies and our residents are involved in selecting the staff that will support them by being part of the interview process. With new staff, we follow a robust induction model that gives staff the skills and confidence to carry out their role and responsibilities effectively so that people have their needs met and experience a good quality of life. All our existing staff have completed the Care Certificate including new starters.
Our staff are all highly trained and have a high level of skills, knowledge and experience, and we maintain a high ratio of staff to residents to keep people safe and meet their needs.
Residents and staff are actively encouraged to raise concerns, and we hold monthly resident meetings, chaired by the residents and minuted. Dignity in care, concerns and complaints are all featured on the agenda. Regular feedback is requested from staff and residents through questionnaires as part of our quality assurance programme.
The management at Mary and Joseph House encourages staff to become champions and currently we have staff champions in Dignity, Dementia, Food and Nutrition, and Infection Control. All the champions are knowledgeable and share information about their area of expertise with residents and staff.
We hold twice-weekly best practice meetings with all staff to encourage creative thinking in relation to people's safety. Handovers are carried out twice per day and we use innovative technology to manage individual risks, such as epilepsy bed sensors, personal alarms and nurse calls.
We carry out regular quality assurance audits and also infection control, fire, health and safety, buildings, COSHH, and information governance risk assessments. We have a contingency plan in place to address unexpected hazards.
We regularly collect feedback about the effectiveness of the care, treatment and support provided to our residents. The following is a quote from a friends and family questionnaire:
Perfection personified. I have worked for the NHS for the past 28 years and I have never had the pleasure of visiting such an Outstanding residential home. (My husband's) social worker from the hospital was reduced to tears by the warmth, care and compassion shown by the staff to all residents. I truly believe that Mary & Joseph House should be the benchmark that all care homes should aspire to.
We continuously sustain outstanding practice through regular learning and development opportunities. The home has received recognised accreditation since 2009 as an "Investor in People" organisation. Staff have regular supervision with their manager to discuss their role as well as an annual appraisal. At the twice-weekly best practice meetings, staff share positive outcomes and reflective practice.
Mary and Joseph House has a homely welcoming environment where the décor and design are of a high standard. Residents experience outstanding care and support that means they have a meaningful life and promotes their wellbeing. Links with health services are excellent, residents feel comfortable discussing their health needs and are provided with understandable information ensuring they can make informed choices and have access to healthcare that is of a high standard.
We are a community and there are areas where residents can meet and socialise safely, reducing isolation and increasing residents' sense of being part of the community. We provide innovative technology to enhance the lives of the residents; there is free Wi-Fi throughout the home, residents can be supported individually or in a small group to use a tablet promoting freedom, independence and wellbeing. If residents have Wi-Fi access in their rooms they can read the news, find out what is happening in their local community and across the world. Skype and FaceTime enable residents to keep in contact with family and friends at minimal cost.
Residents are cared for by long-term competent staff that know them well and have a good understanding of their physical and mental health. Staff are committed at all times to treating residents with kindness, showing empathy and compassion, dignity and respect by responding to residents needs in a caring and compassionate way.
We have a high ratio of staff to residents which allows staff to spend time building trusting relationships. Residents, families, health professionals and other visitors to the home consistently provide positive comments about the caring attitude of the staff.
Residents are encouraged to work in partnership with staff to undertake daily household tasks such as cleaning their rooms or preparing the dining room. Residents' opinions are sought about the décor of the house and garden providing them with a sense of self-worth and reinforcing that their opinions are valued.
Care plan reviews are carried out every month with our residents, to look at what is working and what doesn't work, and what might need to change. Every resident has a one-page profile at the front of their care plan as a starting point to gathering person-centred information; helping care and support workers to get to know the person they are supporting as an individual — not just a list of needs or conditions. We include:
"What is important to them" — embracing the important people, places, possessions, rituals, routines, faith culture, interests, hobbies, work, etc which makes the person who they are
"How they want to be supported" — what kind of support is really helpful for the person; what they want and need
"What others like and admire about them".
As well as having highly trained and motivated staff that seek to make recovery a reality, the residents at Mary and Joseph House are also involved themselves in taking part in training workshops such as first aid, infection control, fire safety, and equality and diversity.
At Mary and Joseph House care is responsive to residents' needs; residents are asked about what is important to them and receive care and support in accordance with their preferences. To quote from a visiting healthcare professional's questionnaire: "The quality of care residents receive is outstanding."
Residents are supported by well-trained competent staff who make sure that the views of the resident are known, respected and acted on. Changes in need are responded to promptly and communicated to all staff, allowing residents to have as much choice, control and independence as possible. Residents who suffer mental health distress are involved in creating a wellness recovery action plan (WRAP) so that they can, with support, identify their own strengths, understand their own triggers to illness and be active participants in their own good mental health. The person, not the organisation, leads and controls the process.
Residents who are disabled receive the reasonable adjustments that equalities legislation says they should receive. We also use assistive technology: residents who suffer from seizures have a "seizure pad" on their bed that alerts staff immediately through a phone. Staff can then stay with the resident and ensure their safety until the seizure is over, this can often prevent the need for an ambulance to be called.
Mary and Joseph House has excellent links within the local community which allows residents access to education as well as social and leisure activities.
Transition between services is properly planned and residents are supported through the process. We have a robust discharge policy in place to ensure that the transition is as smooth as possible for residents, providing them with key information and support. We have had excellent success with residents moving on to more independent living and some residents have even returned to the home as volunteers and paid employees.
Mary and Joseph House has a robust quality assurance and service improvement system in place helping to drive continuous improvement. All staff are involved in creating our business plan, consistently putting our vision and values into practice, and focusing on safety and the other key issues. We carry out regular questionnaires with residents, families, staff and visitors. We actively seek out and act on the views of staff, listening to what they tell us. We have recently looked at staff wellbeing with regard to shift patterns on the rota while ensuring the rota meets the needs of our residents and business.
The management team also promote best practice at twice-weekly meetings with all staff. The home manager attends registered managers' network meetings which are supported by a representative from Skills for Care and are a source of rich information. We keep ourselves up to date with new research and sector specific guidance around best practice in leadership by using information from Croner-i Care Home Management and Skills for Care.
At Mary and Joseph House, the registered manager and supportive management team have the required experience, qualifications and skills, including knowledge of the regulations, inspiring staff to provide a quality service to our residents and meet our legal obligations. The management team lead by example and promote an open and transparent culture, where staff have the confidence to challenge poor practice and raise concerns, knowing they will be fully supported and all concerns will be investigated fully.
There is a strong emphasis on continually striving to improve. The management team encourages the staff to develop and to drive improvement; care workers and housekeeping staff have been empowered to look for risks, and find innovative and creative ways to work with residents around positive risk taking. All of our staff have signed up to make the Social Care Commitment.
Our vision and values are person-centred. Managers help staff to understand why values matter and how they fit into their day-to-day work, encouraging them to take responsibility for upholding positive workplace values. Staff understand their roles and are innovative and motivated. It is imperative that our staff experience a positive workplace culture because it gives all our staff an identity, a sense of belonging, an ambition to do their very best and to work with others to make a difference to the lives of the people we support. Our staff do really feel valued and proud of the organisation and the people they work with.
The report from the CQC reflects the hard work and commitment of the whole team at Mary and Joseph House. Here is a quote from Debbie Westhead, Deputy Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care in the North:
"From the moment we arrived we found an open atmosphere, where people living there were free to move around as they wished, access the internet on provided equipment and contact friends and relatives. The home was well designed to facilitate this way of living.
"The attitude of the registered manager and staff was truly inspiring. They all strived for excellence, and continually reflected on how they could make the service better.
"We saw that people were treated as individuals, with care plans tailored individually by staff that knew them well and understood how to support them to maximise their potential and achieve their goals.
"The whole team should be very proud of the service they are providing."
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Sophia Hutchins is speaking out about her relationship with close friend and business partner Caitlyn Jenner.
"We were never romantically involved," Hutchins, 23, said in a recent interview with The New York Times. She and Jenner, 70, live together in Malibu and frequently accompany each other to events, but both have previously said their relationship is platonic.
When asked why she believes their close relationship has sparked dating rumors, Hutchins replied: "Because we weren't addressing it. I don't feel a need to address my sex life, quite frankly, unless I want to."
Hutchins also told the Times that she is currently dating a 30-year-old man who is a Harvard graduate and currently works on Wall Street.
Elsewhere in the interview, Hutchins shared that she is Jenner's manager, a role that used to belong to Jenner's ex-wife Kris Jenner.
"I saw nobody was managing her, and there were all these people taking massive advantage," Hutchins told the Times. "And I was saying, 'Caitlyn, if I don't step in here and start managing you, you're going to go broke.' "
Jenner declined to be interviewed for the Times article, but told the newspaper in a statement: "Over the last few years, Sophia has been my best friend, family and confidant. She is one of the top minds in her field. Her value in my life is undeniable. The sky is the limit with her entrepreneurial spirit."
RELATED: Caitlyn Jenner & Sophia Hutchins Reunite After I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here Elimination
Last week, Jenner reunited with Hutchins after being voted off of the British reality series I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
"Just got out of the jungle and actually getting hair and makeup done, and boy do I need it — haven't had it in weeks," Jenner said in an Instagram Story post following the elimination. "But, when I came out of the jungle, had a lot of friends there, but I had a big surprise when I got to the hotel."
"Sophia's here! Yay!" Jenner added with a cheer, while shifting the camera to show Hutchins.
Hutchins and Jenner have previously said their relationship is platonic. Hutchins transitioned in college and cited Jenner as an inspiration to her university newspaper.
"I wouldn't describe it as a romantic relationship," Hutchins explained last year during an interview on The Hidden Truth with Jim Breslo. "I would describe our relationship as we're partners — we're business partners."
RELATED: Sophia Hutchins Says Thanksgiving 'Is Going to Be Different This Year' Without Caitlyn Jenner
Jenner also addressed the relationship rumors last year, telling Variety that the two are "very close."
"We do a lot of things together. We're kind of inseparable," Jenner said of Hutchins. "We're the best of friends."


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Since it has been snowing I have been sewing. All the circles for the big quilt are done. Now must cut out the interstitial pieces and join them together. Pounce was too lazy to move and so is helping in a quick display:
Something starting with H found the carcass of the grouse that was not-too-successfully hidden under the tens of bushels large raked pile of chaff from the lawn and threw it around until finding some other smell more interesting. It is up high in wild cherry tree branches now, like an Indian burial. Except the crows may find it there.
This morning the gray-green background of hills covered with pines and cloud below, a bright mild face of spring sun peeping from her gray cloud scarves above served as backdrop and illumination for the dropping air dance of a host of shining snow sparkles. A happy dog ran back and forth in the diamond shimmers; dead brown remains numerous small markers of last summer poked up from the white and crystal speckled snow. How is it that such simple sights enlarge my heart to bursting for their beauty?


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Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has consistently made the case for friendship and dialogue with India, and that attitude has not changed after Narendra Modi's re-election. On Friday, Prime Minister Khan made yet again another offer of dialogue with India to resolve contentious issues. In a letter to Indian Prime Minister Modi, Imran Khan congratulated him for his victory in the Indian elections, and offered a pathway for negotiation and dialogue on the issues of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, terrorism, to restore peace in the region and to address the problems confronting the people of the two countries. Foreign Office Spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal confirmed that the Prime Minister had sent a fresh letter to Mr Modi and stated that Islamabad was ready to hold fresh round of talks with New Delhi, if India complied so.
This approach of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government's, that of peace and conciliation with India, has been clear even as Pakistan suffered the most hostile relations it ever had with our giant neighbours. Khan's steadfastness towards peace and negotiation must be admired and credited as a huge factor towards de-escalating the tensions that arose after the Pulwama attack. To remain calm in the face of constant hate-mongering on the part of the Indian establishment and media, and then to emerge victorious out of it on the international stage, is no easy feat and our government's foreign policy during the incident, and its commitment to peace afterwards, is commend worthy.
Yet this does not mean we should lose practical oversight and misjudge the ground realities that exist. There is a notion that now that the Indian elections are over, Modi will soften his anti-Pakistan rhetoric and take the offer of dialogue that we are extending. Yet evidence and history shows that to hold those expectations would be foolish. Modi's government has shown time and time again that they are more than willing to snub any peace talks. Just now, in response to Dr Muhammad Faisal stating that India and Pakistan might hold negotiations over Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting, the External Affairs Ministry of India firmly dispelled the notion by announcing that there was no bilateral meeting planned between the prime ministers of Pakistan and India during the summit.
Thus, while ambitions of peace and friendship are noble, in international relations, realism must prevail. While we should always leave the door open for peace, we should not leave our house completely unguarded either.


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Yuri Kofner, head, Eurasian sector, CCEIS, HSE toop part in a joint workshop of the Working Group "Common Economic Space from Lisbon to Vladivostok" (L2V) and IIASA project "Challenges and opportunities of economic integration within a wider European and Eurasian space", that took place at IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria on October 30, 2017.
L2V joins leading German companies interested in developing economic-trade relations with Russia, the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and other post-Soviet states. Ulf Schneider, managing partner of the consulting company SCHNEIDER GROUP, was elected the co-chairman of the business association.
Representatives of the German business circles visited IIASA to exchange experiences, consider interim steps to create a common economic space from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and also to discuss possible cooperation between both organizations to achieve this goal.
The IIASA scientists presented to the German entrepreneurs the results of three applied research, which are of direct interest to the European business community: 1. EU – EAEU: foreign direct investment; 2. Trans-Eurasian transport corridors; 3. EU – EAEU: aligning TBT and SPS policies. The international research project "Challenges and opportunities of economic integration within a wider European and Eurasian space" is conducted by the IIASA in cooperation with the Eurasian Development Bank, the Eurasian Economic Commission and the European Commission.
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Conversely, the L2V Working Group also presented their task force studies on matters, concerning technical regulations, customs/logistics and visa simplification between the EU and the EAEU.
During the joint workshop the report "IIASA High-level consultation meeting on Eurasian Economic Integration" (2017) was presented.


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Saturday July 15 2017
Veteran Kenyan athletes have asked the government to consider paying them a monthly stipend as a way of appreciation their service to the nation and putting the country on the world map.
The former athletes led by Wilson Kiprugut said the country had forgotten them despite their exploits in the world of athletics in the early years of independence and after.
"We love Kenya and that is why we opted to remain patriotic to our country despite the little token we are given as motivation. Athletes have been doing very well and to stop them from switching the citizenship to other countries we must reward them," Kiprugut said.
The 76-year-old Kiprugut said most retired athletes continued to live in poverty despite being world champion record holders. Young athletes need to be motivated if Kenya wants to continue being top in the world.
"We have very many energetic young Kenyans who can still change the face of the sport in the country but this can only be achieved if the government is committed to help them," he added.
The former Kenya Defence Forces officer lamented that despite athletes preparing hard to participate in international events, some sports officials are busy frustrating them by even denying them tickets to the championship.
He asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to ensure that athletes are well protected because they are the ones marketing Kenya to the rest of the world.


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SINGAPORE - A specialist agency will look out for suspicious betting patterns during Southeast Asia's Suzuki Cup in a move aimed at stamping out potential match-fixing.
Swiss-based data company Sportradar will monitor all 18 matches and hold workshops for tournament officials, following an agreement with the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF).
The eight-team tournament, held every two years, is currently underway in Singapore and Hanoi, two of the countries in Southeast Asia that have had problems with match-fixing and corruption.
"We are not blind to the dangers that match-fixing and manipulation poses," AFF general secretary Azzuddin Ahmad said in a statement.
"Together with the best monitoring system available, we will be vigilant, precisely so that our fans don't have to be." Vietnam has endured a series of corruption scandals, notably in 2007 when a group of players was convicted for fixing an international at the Southeast Asian Games two years earlier.
In July, a Singapore court sentenced nightclub owner Eric Ding to three years in prison for providing prostitutes to three Lebanese football referees in an attempt to rig matches.
And last week the Singapore High Court refused a plea from businessman Dan Tan, who is accused of masterminding an international betting ring, to end his detention without trial which began last year.
"The players and fans will make this (Suzuki Cup) a magic tournament - we will do all we can to keep it honest," said Oscar Brodkin, Sportradar's senior manager in Asia.


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"We move through time, we live time, we are creatures of time. Photography retrieves for us small shards of time, and we should relish our astonishment at this fact. " Estelle Jussim 1989 (1)
Sometime, around seventy five years ago, a photographer took a picture of a young man outside a tent in the Western Dessert in Egypt. We can assume that the photographer was male, of a similar age as his subject and also in the RAF; we know nothing of his camera or process. The subject, my father, appears to be dressed to go somewhere, perhaps on leave; his boots are polished, his uniform ironed, his tie neatly knotted; not the normal day-to-day dress of desert warfare.
This photograph, like countless others, was taken by one service man of another during WWII. To the photographer and his subject it might have recorded a friendship forged during a conflict that had taken them to another continent to fight at a time in their life when my generation were getting married, buying our first home, planning families and talking our first steps on the career ladder.
This photograph is primarily viewed in the context of time, in fact it is inseparable from time. When it was taken the photographer opened the shutter of his camera for a fraction of a second, 1/60th or 1/125th, in any case less than the blink of an eye but in doing so he fixed this tiny moment in time so conclusively that I can view it a lifetime later. Over the intervening years the image has faded and will keep fading until it disappears from the paper, the scanned version may last longer or less, we cannot tell but, a conservative estimate would be that, in total, it will last at least a hundred years, at 1/60th second that is a relationship of 189,216,000,000:1 in terms the time it will be available for viewing and the moment in time it represents (i). Even now the lapsed time since it was taken has been long enough for the subject, the first generation, to survive the war, marry, have children, forge a successful career, retire, spend time with his three grandchildren and die. Two of his grandchildren, the third generation, have children of their own and, even if the photo fades in twenty five year's time, it will quite probably be available to view by a fifth generation.
John Berger believes that every photograph contains two messages; firstly it communicates something about an event and secondly transmits a message concerning what he calls "a shock of discontinuity" (2:p.88). In this instance that second message is created by the seventy-five year gap between the moment he stood outside his tent and the "present moment of looking"(2:p.89). Berger makes the point that we are so used to looking at photographs that we rarely register what he refers to as "this abyss"; he also refers, across all of his writings, to the ambiguous nature of a photograph, his theories of how we view and understand photographs are built on the foundation of this ambiguity.
It is well exemplified here; the independent viewer will analyse and read the event captured, their interpretation will be personal, contextual and, depending on their knowledge of modern history, may or may not bear some similarity to my reading; they will note different details, might find a particular point of interest that resonates or achieves Barthes' status as a punctum and they might read various sociopolitical messages connected to WWII, imperialism, white men's wars fought in Africa, the perilous state of men's military tailoring in the 1940's or the prevalence of smokers in the armed forces. Inherent ambiguity is proven because all and non of these meanings and many others are available simultaneously and change over time so none of them can be truly embedded in the image, the image is merely an appearance of an event detached from any specific meaning that the viewer might assign to it.
There is an equal measure of ambiguity in Berger's second message; the degree to which we are impacted by his shock of discontinuity varies depending on our relationship with the specific subject – a family member, a named airman in the desert, or just a WWII airman combined with the subject matter – the war in the Western Desert or the RAF in WWII. For the direct descendent of the subject Berger suggests that there is a "discontinuity created by absence or death" caused by the confirmation of the subject's existence as a young man making his absence now more poignant. There may be a nearly equal shock of discontinuity for the close relative or friend of any airman lost in WWII. Berger argues that the viewer to whom the subject is a stranger does not read the message of discontinuity but Keith Robert's work with the wartime archive of a Liverpool based photographer (3) and Marianne Hirsh's writings on post memory (4) suggest that this argument is too simplistic.
Roberts refers to Svetlana Boym's (3:p.2) comparisons of Reflective Nostalgia which is concerned with historical and individual time and Restorative Notalgia which evokes a national past; in the context of this first photograph I am influenced by the discontinuity of time at an individual or personal level, my nostalgia is therefore decidedly reflective. If this photograph was of any other service man in a similar location and at a similar point in history my nostalgic reaction would more likely be restorative, remembering the history of WWII and my families and nation's role in it. These two forms of nostalgia are not mutually exclusive, in practice the viewer may experience a little of both especially when the subject is seen as an example of an RAF airman as opposed to an individual.
If photography and time are accepted as being inseparable perhaps memory could be the third point in a triangle of fundamental relationships. Photographs have become synonymous with the keeping of memories, David Bates states that:
"Photography has not only changed the means through which we individually recollect and remember things, but it has also completely transformed the entire social relations of any collective or social memory" (5:p.231).
In essence, our individual memories are woven together by our access to family archives, traditionally in albums but now more often on-line or on personal tablets whilst our view of history is framed by photographs of events both great and small published in books or on-line or held in public physical or electronic archives.
Marianne Hirsh is primarily concerned with the memories of the holocaust but her theories regarding post memory are relevant in a much wider context. Hirsh has recognised that as part of the generation whose parents were holocaust survivors she has no direct memories of the event but that the inherited stories of the tragedy are so traumatic and have been passed on verbally or visually in film and photographs so effectively that second and subsequent generations feel deeply connected and need to call this connection a memory. To differentiate between direct memory and this received memory Hirsh uses the term post memory. She explains:
"Post memory's connection to the past is not actually mediated by recall but by imagination, investment, projection and creation." (4)
Hirst highlights the role that photographs play, not just in the commemoration of the holocaust, but in the shaping of the our memories and understanding of the past. Through his work on the Hardman archive (6) Roberts has recognised that portraits of unknown soldiers not only trigger:
"Individual memories but shared public forms of memory which can contribute to the ultimate shaping of collective or social and cultural history."
I want to introduce a second photograph at this point because the subject matter is similar, the moment in time not far removed from fig. 1 and because there is a loose relationship between the subjects but mostly because it is of German not allied troops. After the battle of El Alamein my father found a camera in a destroyed German tank. He had the film developed and this photograph, presumably taken whilst the German soldiers were trooping is one of the found prints. We know that the soldiers are part of Rommel's Afrika Corp because of their cap badge, we can deduce that they are going to war based on the equipment arranged on the quayside. We know from history that after a series of victories these men would eventually be part of an vanquished army, statistically we can assume that some of the soldiers shown here died in battle. I include it here as a counterpoint to the first photograph and to explore whether my reaction to it is fundamentally altered because of the nationality of the subjects.
I have restorative nostalgia for the events that precede and follow this photograph, memories that are triggered by post memory of British history; beyond this I have reflective nostalgia for the era; my Mother and Grandmother survived the Blitz, my Father served in the Battle of Britain as well as the North African campaigns, I had an Uncle on the arctic convoys and another in the SIS serving with the French Resistance, an Aunt drove an Ambulance in the Blitz, my Grandfather was on fire watch; my family's memories of the war years were vividly described during my childhood, they are part of my own memories.
The question is whether the switch from the "righteous" defender to the "unrighteous" aggressor invokes a different reading and triggers different memories. I believe the answer lies in the time elapsed, in 1942 this photograph would probably have evoked feelings of anger and possibly racial hatred; in 1943 after El Alamein perhaps feelings of superiority, along the lines of the jeers a football crowd offers the fans of their defeated opponents; but now in 2016 whilst I am conscious of the hateful swastika and everything it symbolises I only see young men despatched by their politicians to fight a foreign war. I also wonder how a German of my generation reads these two photographs, I cannot presume the answer but it seems reasonable to assume that their reaction would be different.
In each of these portraits the subject connects with the camera in a direct gaze, they look through the camera and seventy five years later make eye contact with the viewer. Depending on our relationship with the two men, our nationality, cultural background, family history and the point in time at which we look at the images the memories it triggers will vary. Both photographs are ambiguous, neither contains a fixed meaning nor are they inhabited by any memories but they are powerful mechanisms for the generation of both and as such the archival photograph plays a fundamental role in the shaping of personal and social history.
In researching this topic I became aware of contemporary photographers who have specifically explored the idea of post memory. Lorrie Novak is an example of a Jewish photographer who is trying to rationalise her own history and post memories of the holocaust. She is interest in "how we come to know the world and ourselves through photographs" (7)
Past lives is is a projected collage that combines images of Ethel Rosenberg, the children of Izieu who were deported by the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie to be executed in a concentration camp and Novak hugging her mother. For Novak this image represents her relationship with post memory of the holocaust "I become the recipient of the weight of my cultural past"; the photograph was widely published and became a symbol of Barbie's crimes at the time of his trial in 1987.
Even for the non-Jewish viewer it evokes strong emotions, the horror of beautiful children murdered in the name of a perverted political doctrine, of wasted lives and the long term effects on subsequent generations. I cannot begin to imagine the emotional impact of this work on the descendent of a holocaust survivor. At a time when anti-semitism is back in the news (was it ever out of it?) and vocal minorities continue to use racial or religious identity as an excuse for mass murder that only falls short of genocide through lack of resource, Novak's work is a timely reminder of the consequences of hatred.
Notes on Text
(i) This is not an original idea. John Berger uses the same calculation to discuss a photograph in Understanding a Photograph (8:p52)
(1) Battye, Greg (2014) Photography, Narrative, Time: Imaging our Forensic Imagination. Bristol: Intellect
(2) Berger, John & Mohr, Jean (1982) Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography. London: Bloomsbury
(5) Bates, David (2016) Photography: The Key Concepts (second edition) London: Bloomsbury
(8) Berger, John (2013) Understanding a Photograph (Kindle Edition) London: Penguin Classics
(3) Roberts, Keith W. (2015) There/Then : Here/Now Photographic Archival Intervention within the Edward Chambre Hardman Portraiture Collection (accessed at Academia 5.5.16) – https://www.academia.edu/12049291/There_Then_Here_Now_-_Photographic_Archival_Intervention_within_the_Edward_Chambre_Hardman_Portraiture_Collection_1923-1963
(4) Hirsh, Marianne (?) The Generation of Post Memory (accessed at North Seattle University 5.5.16) – http://facweb.northseattle.edu/cscheuer/Winter%202012/Engl%20102%20Culture/Readings/Hirsch%20Postmemory.pdf
(6) Hardman, Edward Chambre (1923 – 1963) The Hardman Archive (accessed at Hardman Portrait 7.5.16) – http://hardmanportrait.format.com/untitled-gallery
(7) Novak, Lorie (2005) Fragments and Past Lives (accessed at the photographer's website 5.5.16) – http://www.lorienovak.com/pdfs/Novak_Fragments_PastLives.pdf


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KIEV, April 28. /TASS/. Ukraine's Oschadbank has begun confiscating the frozen financial assets belonging to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and his associates with their subsequent transfer to the country's state budget, the press service of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) reported on Friday.
"According to the ruling of the court of the last resort, the assets of Yanukovich and his team - $1.5 bln - have been arrested and are to be transferred to the state budget. Ukraine's Prosecutor-General Yury Lutsenko and NSDC Secretary Alexander Turchinov have just visited Oschadbank with this (court) decision," the Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper reported citing the NSDC.
According to the council, "these funds are being transferred to state budget accounts."
Yanukovich's defense attorneys earlier filed a lawsuit demanding to refute media reports, which said that the former Ukrainian president had accounts in the state-run Oschadbank with the frozen $1.5 bln.
Earlier reports said that, in addition to the blocked Ukrainian bank accounts, the ex-president's Swiss assets had been frozen as well. In December 2016, some media reports said that 70 million francs ($69.3 mln) that belonged to Yanukovich and his son Alexander had been blocked. Switzerland's Federal Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that the accounts belonging to Yanukovich's entourage had been frozen explaining that the move is applicable to the former Ukrainian president and some individuals from his entourage.
For its part, Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP, a top London law firm, which represents the interests of the Yanukovich family, denied reports that the Ukrainian ex-president has bank accounts in Switzerland.
In late January 2015, Ukraine's State Financial Monitoring Service blocked $1.42 bln on the accounts of non-resident companies allegedly linked to Yanukovich and his entourage.


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LINGAYEN – A veteran politician whose stint in public office started in the late 1950s, assailed the Pangasinan governor for calling him a 'wretched ape-faced handicapped old man.'
Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) Chairman Amadito Perez Jr., told supporters of Nationalist People's Coalition's gubernatorial aspirant Mark O. Cojuangco and vice gubernatorial bet Mark Roy Macanlalay, said he got the ire of exiting Governor Amado T. Espino Jr. after he (Perez) said Espino did not implement any project in the fifth distrct.
Espino is running for the fifth cogressional district seat against incumbent Rep. Kimi Cojuangco. His son Amado Espino III is running for governor against former fifth district Rep. Mark Cojuangco.
Perez said: "Nag punta doon iyong mag –ama sa distrito. Sabi nila iyang pa pilay-pilay na hukluban na matanda na iyan nakiki-alam pa sa pulitika na kamukhang tsonggo. Sabi ko totoo iyan, nagbabaston ako dahil hukluban na. Pero hindi dapat tignan ang physical na itsura ng isang tao.
"May baston na ako ngayon. Sabi ko sa mga kaibigan ko na ang ikatatlong paa ko ay gawa sa bakal," he said.
Perez cited the fate of former Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza who tremendously lost to the older Espino in the 2013 governorship race.
"Alam ninyo kung bakit ganoon lang kalayo ang diperensiya ni Governor Espino at ni Braganza ng halalan ng nakaraan? Dahil amay kwandad Pangasinan walay ibubulsa ton tilay, walay ibubulsa ton banyas. Amom data nga malas naguyod mo idyay malas nga ibulbulsam nga banyas ket sisigurado nga naabak ka (Why that huge difference in the voting tabulation between Espino and Braganza? Because as what the Pangasinenses say Braganza kept a lizard in his pants' pocket thus a misfortune because he carried a lizard that caused his loss)," he said in a mixed Pangasinan and Ilocano's dialects.
Perez said Cojuangco was not corrupt. He said when they were both a congressman, a jueteng (illegal number game) financier came to Cojuangco and asked for his protection for half-a-million peso a month.
"Dahil si Congressman Mark Cojuangco ay hindi anak ng jueteng. Oo totoo iyan dahil ilang beses na may kilala ako na nagpapalaro na binibigyan ng kalahating milyon buwan-buwan si Congressman Cojuangco. Natatandaan ko pa iyan tinangihan niya. Pinagalitan niya pa iyong tao," Perez said as the people gave Cojuangco a rousing applause for his integrity.
Ever since the son of business tycoon Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco became a congressman, Perez said, he never saw Mark asked for S.O.P (euphemism for financial cut) in government projects in his district.
"Sinabi niya sa kontraktor kung ano iyang ibibigay mo na porsiyento idagdag mo na diyan sa proyekto. Ganyan ka linis po ang ating kandidatung governor!".
Perez also regaled the crowd how naughty was a colleague in Congress who told him how to stop aging.
He said Abono Partylist Congressman Conrado Estrella, then a regular congressman, advised him to look for pretty women to take care of him especially after work.
"Tanungin ninyo si Congressman Estrella mahigit singkuwenta na iyan, pero parang biente otso lang dahil maraming nag aalaga sa kanya," by pointing to the solon who was seated near Cojuangco at the chairs in stage of the public plaza here.
"Nakasabay ko sa Congress iyan. Sabi niya ang unang tinuro niya sa akin. Manong, para huwag ka tumanda, maghanap ka ng mag-aalaga sa iyo. Sabi ko natatakot ako sa misis ko. Kamukha ni Mark…" he continued as the hoi polloi applauded.
Perez, a rumored Don Juan, said he out rightly dismissed Estrella's suggestion because he feared the brunt of his wife.
"To tell you the truth, I feared my wife because I am just like Mark Cojuangco who is a one man woman".
He joked that in a fiesta he pulled out Cojuangco from the presence of beauty contestants especially if his wife was there looking.
He said the gubernatorial bet is a faithful husband who has no children with otheer women.
"Sisiguruhin ko sa inyo na si Mark walang second crop iyan," he said.
AIR POWER DISPLAY. Philippine civilians and military officials mill last April 9 around the various combat aircraft of the United States, Philippines, and Australia at the static display at Clark Air Base in Pampanga. The combat planes and surface to surface rockets HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) were used in the March 18 to April 22 Balikatan (military exercise) 2016. MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
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- "This place is about to get cold!"
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Mr. Freeze was an enemy of Batman. Cold in appearance and personality, he decided to put all of Gotham on ice as well as avenge himself on Batman whom he blamed for his condition.
Dr. Schivel (first name unknown) was a criminal scientist who during a fight with Batman was exposed to a solution of instant freeze, which turned him in to the diabolical Mr. Freeze. Now unable to live in an environment warmer then fifty-degrees below zero without the aid of a refrigerated suit, he sought revenge on Batman for his condition. In keeping with his new theme, Mr. Freeze began stealing finest diamonds, "ice" to him, in the city. After two clashes with Batman and Robin he successfully used his Freeze Gun to freeze them solid. It was only quick emergency care that saved the pair.
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- Nippy (portrayed by Guy Way) - Mr. Freeze's henchman.
- Moe (portrayed by Roy Sickner) - Mr. Freeze's henchman.
- Kolevator (portrayed by John Zaremba) - Mr. Freeze's henchman.
- Phony Batmen - Mr, Freeze's henchman.
- Phony Mr Freezes - Mr. Freeze's henchman.
- Shivers (portrayed by Nicky Blair) - Mr. Freeze's henchman.
- Frosty (portayed by Tom McDonough and H.M. Wynant) - Mr. Freeze's henchman.
- Glacia Glaze (portrayed by Leslie Parrish) - A female ice skater who assisted Mr. Freeze in capturing Professor Isaacson. Her real name is Emma Strunk.
- Chillblaine - Mr. Freeze's henchman.
- Nora Fries (Mentioned Only)
- "Waiters, clear your trays and fill them up with real goodies...wild! (Green Ice, 1966)
- "You, a glacier? Darling Miss Iceland, never." (Green Ice, 1966)
- "Enough amusement for now...and so you don't do anything foolish like following us...everybody into the pool, please" (Green Ice, 1966)
- "Batman, but--but you were supposed to be a famous frostie freezie by now!" (Deep Freeze, 1966)
- "Inhuman? Demon? Wild! Why don't you join me in my frozen frigid world? Perhaps you would like to be the best iceman at our wedding? You and Robin!" (Deep Freeze, 1966)
- "What's the matter? First the commentator said the stock market went kaput and now the TV set went kaput." (Deep Freeze, 1966)
Season 1
Season 2
Behind the scenes
Like Catwoman, Freeze was played by three different actors, George Sanders, Otto Preminger and Eli Wallach and the character's appearance would vary without explanation.
- Unlike most villains of the Dozier series, this Freeze didn't bother with a standard death trap, but instead basically "just shot them" with his Freezing Gun. He admits he did want to toy with them longer, but was willing to finish them off if they forced him.
- Many years later the name of Dr Schivel would be changed to Dr. Victor Fries by Paul Dini in the Batman: The Animated Series episode Heart of Ice.
- Preminger's appearance was the basis of the Batman '66 comic version and nearly all merchandise, as his portrayal is the most compatible with the modern perception of the character.
- Preminger is the only version of the character that has red hair.
- George Sanders was briefly married to another actor who portrayed a Batman foe on the show, Zsa Zsa Gabor, who played the villainess Minerva.
- Adam West called Preminger "despicable" in his in his autobiography "Back to the Batcave".
- Alan Napier, who played Alfred in the series, recalled Otto Preminger in an interview: "I had worked before 'Batman' with Awful Otto Preminger in 'Forever Amber' as the English expert and dialogue director. Otto got me mad because if anyone dried up on a close-up, he would say, 'Why don't you concentrate?' Then he comes on the set of 'Batman'. Instead of looking six foot tall, as I thought, he looks five foot tall, because it is now my territory and he is playing Mr. Freeze. It happens that I was on the set while he was doing a series of close-up's. And in everyone of them Otto dried up and it was only because of the gentleman built into my nature that I didn't say: 'Otto, why don't you concentrate?'"


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Here's How to Upload Long-Form Content to Instagram's New IGTV Platform
It looks like vertical video is here to stay.
Instagram just introduced IGTV, an all-new tool giving users the option to upload long-form vertical videos. IGTV is available within the standard Instagram app as well as its own standalone app for both iOS and Android. The good news? You can now upload videos easily via your desktop. Let's take a closer look at the specifics.
Getting Set up
To upload a video you'll first need to create an IGTV channel, which is quite easy. In fact, Instagram gives you three different ways to start your channel—via the Instagram app, the IGTV app, or on Instagram's website. Simply follow the onscreen instructions to get everything finalized.
Just as with setting up your channel, you can upload videos via the mobile apps or directly on Instagram's website. The web upload feature is particularly cool, as uploading videos via a desktop prior to IGTV was quite difficult. Now it's as simple as going to your profile, clicking on the IGTV tab and selecting Upload.
IGTV has a handful of cool features, including custom thumbnail uploads, the ability to save drafts, share to Facebook, and view insights. The real selling point is the fact that users can now upload long-form videos, up to an hour in length. But again, these videos must be vertical. While this might rub some people the wrong way, Instagram argues that IGTV is built for "how you actually use your phone." And according to them, that is fullscreen and vertical. Sorry, Glove and Boots.
What do you think? Will you go with the vertical flow? Either way, here are the tech specs for video uploads. If you'd rather not tinker with the settings, I have two IGTV export presets available for Adobe Premiere Pro users. For more information on Instagram's IGTV, go here.
Tech Specs
- Video Format
- Length
- 15 seconds - 10 minutes for smaller accounts
- 15 seconds - 1 hour for larger accounts and verified accounts
- Aspect Ratio
- Vertical Videos Only
- Minimum aspect ratio - 4:5
- Maximum aspect ratio - 9:16
- File Size
- Maximum file size for videos less than 10 minutes - 650MB
- Maximum file size for videos up to 60 minutes - 5.4GB
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To clarify, for most users, there is a 10-minute limit.
Large accounts and verified members are the only ones who can upload up to 1 hour.
June 21, 2018 at 4:31PM
It said 10 minute time limit in the video not 1 hour.
June 21, 2018 at 5:02PM, Edited June 21, 5:02PM
No mention of monetization.
No revenue-sharing in the ads that are sure to come.
What y'all think? I believe Facebook never committed to paying for content put on that platform either.
June 21, 2018 at 5:37PM
Vertical video is fine for shorter clips, but I find it starts to feel claustrophobic after a while... like wearing blinkers to block peripheral vision.
Our eyes are side-by-side, so it's natural for us to see wider than taller (for most people it's roughly a lumpy 5:3 oval). However, we're also lazy, lazy animals, so it's more convenient to hold your phone in one hand.
Personally, I think phone manufacturers *should* have used multi-aspect sensors, and kept the video orientated horizontally, even if the phone is held vertically.
However... they didn't... so lets see how much traction this gets!
June 22, 2018 at 5:50AM
I equate statements like yours with people who are locked in old ways... you know... dinosaurs :)
June 23, 2018 at 12:54PM
I'm very excited about the prospect of vertical video. It throws a wrench in so many of the techniques we take for granted.
How do you frame a close up? How do you shoot a dinner table scene? How do you block an action sequence?
It's a gimmick that I doubt will take on, but any opportunity to play with the form is a good one.
June 22, 2018 at 8:53AM
I'm not sure if I'm crazy or not, but you can just upload a video sideways, right?
So if you rotate your phone, you get 16:9 video in landscape... Anyone?
June 23, 2018 at 5:04PM, Edited June 23, 5:04PM


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A Christmas movie with a queer love story is coming your way.
Based on the best-selling book by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow follows a group of high school seniors whose friendships and love lives collide after a snowstorm hits their small town on Christmas Eve.
Netflix promises "a stranded pop star, a stolen keg, a squad of competitive dancers, mysterious woman covered in tin foil and an epic party at the local Waffle Town" in the festive movie's enticing synopsis.
It stars Isabela Merced (Dora and the Lost City of Gold), Shameik Moore (The Get Down), Odeya Rush (Ladybird), Mitchell Hope (Descendants), Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Jacob Batalon (Spider-Man: Homecoming), and Joan Cusack.
The movie will also feature a same-sex romance between two characters played by Liv Hewson (Santa Clarita Diet) and YouTube star Anna Akana. Even better, both actors are queer in real life – Liv is non-binary and gay, while Anna is bisexual.
"That girl and I had a thing," says Liv's character in the trailer. "Have you ever been with someone and you stay up until like 4am just talking about everything, and you're like I can't believe I get to exist at the same time as you?"
Speaking about the movie to GayStarNews earlier this year, Liv said: "There are several different love stories and holiday tales and I get to play a lesbian, which is great. Lesbians have Christmas too!"
Watch the trailer for Let It Snow here or below.
Let It Snow will be available to stream on Netflix from 8 November, 2019.
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Financial Time's reporter Demetri Sevastopulo discusses how big corporations such as General Electric, Walmart and Apple are taking a stand against this religious freedom" laws because of the discrimination it causes against gays. This law is also effecting the 2016 presidential Republican candidates campaigns by making them answer a question they would rather have avoided to talk about this early. For more information please read the full story here.
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Youth World Championships in Morocco
First results have fallen! TIBHAR sponsored players Tristan Flore and Alexandre Robinot of the French National Team won bronze in team.
Team from Japan was stronger but defeated against latter Chinese team in Finals.
The girls' team from Romania with TIBHAR player Bernadette Szocs won bronze also. Singles and doubles are yet to come and we wish our players good luck!


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barbaz wrote:pegasus41 wrote:actually i think this may be pertinent to the dashlane issue; what is "45872"?
Inquiring dashlane users may need an equivalent instead of the global allow all 127.0.0.1
No such equivalent AFAIK. Based on the console messages posted earlier, Dashlane appears to use random ports with no obvious pattern.
ok, i think i finally get it. that "45872" is a static port used by the other password pgm while dashlane uses random ports.
i have learned a lot from this thread - thanks.


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IEX Group Inc. made headlines this summer when the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the alternative trading system operator's proposal to become a new national stock exchange, making it the 13th U.S. stock exchange. But here's a party trick: can you name the other 12?
Sure, we all know of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, but what about the other 10? It can be a bit of a trick question since, sure, Nasdaq is an exchange, but Nasdaq OMX Group is an exchange operator with multiple stock and options exchanges under its helm. And Nasdaq isn't the only operator with multiple balls in the air.
Just between the Nasdaq and NYSE families, you can get to six of the 13 U.S. stock exchanges out there, with each group counting three different stock exchanges. Then there are four other U.S. stock exchanges owned by a different company, Bats Global Markets. Add two other independent exchanges — the Chicago Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange — and the total comes to 12. The newest to the group, IEX, makes 13. (There are also several U.S.-based options exchanges, but let's stick to stocks for now, shall we?)
The number of exchanges today is remarkable, especially when you consider that the New York Stock Exchange was one of the only national players in town for more than a century, competing mostly with only a handful of regional exchanges. So, how did we come to this point?
Nasdaq emerged on the scene in the 1970s as the first major national competitor to the New York Stock Exchange, but it started out as an automated quotation system. And even then, NYSE and Nasdaq were the only national players in the game for years to come.
It wasn't until the Securities and Exchange Commission introduced new regulation in 2005 that competition among exchanges really took off.
We know the history of U.S. stock exchanges is long and complicated, but here we'll guide you through some highlights in this tangled tale, starting with the two largest U.S. exchange groups.
The New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Arca and NYSE MKT
One of the largest stock exchanges by trading volume, the New York Stock Exchange can trace its roots all the way back to 1792, when two dozen brokers met under a Buttonwood tree in lower Manhattan and signed an agreement to trade securities on commission.
In 1817, the stockbrokers of New York operating under the Buttonwood Agreement adopted some key changes and reorganized as the New York Stock and Exchange Board, giving birth to the storied exchange. Just a few decades later in 1865, the exchange moved into its present location at 11 Wall Street. (For more, check out our slideshow.)
By 1886, NYSE reached a major milestone: 1 million shares traded in a single day. Today, daily trading volume on the NYSE typically exceeds one billion shares, with much of the trading focused on shares of large and medium-sized companies. Though most trading today is done electronically, one of the most enduring images of Wall Street is that of traders crowding the NYSE's chaotic, bustling floor.
The push toward electronic trading was part of what prompted the NYSE in 2005 to acquire a rival: the Archipelago Exchange, a fully electronic exchange focused on new and fast-growing companies, which had been operating on a national level since 2001. The Archipelago Exchange was renamed NYSE Arca, and continues to operate under that name today.
Not long after the Archipelago deal, the NYSE joined forces with another competitor — one with a history nearly as long as its own: the American Stock Exchange.
The American Stock Exchange got its unofficial start in the first half of the 19th century, with so-called "curbstone brokers" — brokers who, like the NYSE's original founders, traded outside, on specific streets in lower Manhattan and eventually formed what was later called the New York Curb Market. In 1953, the market, which had moved indoors decades earlier, renamed itself the American Stock Exchange.
In 2008, the two historic stock exchanges moved under one umbrella when the NYSE's then-parent company, NYSE Euronext, acquired the American Stock Exchange. The American Stock Exchange was later renamed NYSE MKT and, in contrast to the NYSE, generally focuses on trading in small companies.
Today, all three national stock exchanges — along with several other futures and options exchanges — are owned by the Intercontinental Exchange, a global markets operator.
The Nasdaq, Nasdaq BX and Nasdaq PSX
In 1971, the National Association of Securities Dealers, or NASD, aimed to revolutionize trading with the introduction of a computerized quotation system, which it named the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, or more colloquially, Nasdaq. Nasdaq was the world's first electronic stock market with quotes on more than 2,500 over-the-counter stocks.
NASD, a self-regulatory organization and a predecessor to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), founded Nasdaq but began the process of separating from its trading arm some 30 years later, in 2000 to put the marketplace on more even footing with other trading platforms, including the NYSE.
As part of this process, Nasdaq applied for SEC approval to register as a national securities exchange, which was granted in 2006. The following year, it merged with a European exchange operator, and a new parent company for the Nasdaq, called NASDAQ OMX group, was born.
Though the Nasdaq is far younger than the NYSE, it has two small sister markets that can claim greater historical gravitas.
In 2007, Nasdaq acquired the Boston Stock Exchange, and the following year, the exchange group expanded further under the new name Nasdaq OMX, by acquiring the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Both markets had the distinction of being among the nation's oldest regional exchanges, with the Philadelphia exchange founded in 1790, before the NYSE, and the Boston exchange launched in 1834.
Today, the Boston exchange is known as Nasdaq BX, while the Philadelphia Stock Exchange evolved into two separate markets — an options exchange known as Nasdaq PHLX and a separate stock exchange, launched in 2010, called Nasdaq PSX. Both exchanges are much smaller than the namesake Nasdaq, and offer different pricing and incentives for traders.
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My favorite season is autumn when the leaves change colors, the air is brisk and there's still a chance for a bright sunny day with cool evenings. Apples, pumpkins and spice dominate baking and coffees and soups and stews are welcome warm additions to our meals. On my morning walks, the leaves crunch and swirl about, the squirrels are busy hiding acorns, and there's an urgency to walk faster in order to get back home where there's a pot of soup waiting to be made. This Beef and Barley soup is one of our favorites and goes together quickly. It can be made with ground beef or with left over sliced beef from Sunday's roast. My hubby prefers it with the ground beef.
Beef & Barley Soup
- 2 cups onion minced
- 1 cup carrots, peeled and chopped
- 1 cup celery, chopped fine
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 pound ground sirloin
- 2 cloves garlic, finely minced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 3 quarts beef stock
- 1 pound button mushrooms, sliced thinly and chopped
- 1 large bay leaf
- 1 cup pearl barley
- Chopped parsley for garnish
- In a large stockpot, heat olive oil over medium low heat and add onions, celery and carrots. Stir together and cook vegetables to make a mirepoix.
- Mirepoix (pronunciation is meer-PWAH) uses a very gentle slow cooking process using oil or butter to bring out the best flavors of the vegetables without sautéing. The object is to slowly cook the onions, carrots and celery to sweeten rather than caramelize or brown. The mixture traditionally is 2 parts onion, 1 part celery and 1 part carrot. If I have extra time and feel like a little extra chopping, when making a mirepoix to start a recipe, I usually double or triple the batch. Then I can make two or more kinds of soup or stew or freeze the extras in small quantities for making a quick pot of soup at a later time. It is far more efficient to make a large batch, freeze it in small quantities to make smaller batches of soup more quickly. The again, I sometimes just make several types of soup or stew and freeze the soup in small batches. Just depends on how much freezer space is available.
- Continue to sweat another 7 to 10 minutes or till vegetables are tender and translucent. Remove mirepoix from pan reserving oil in the pan.
- In the same stockpot, brown the ground beef over medium high heat. Just before the meat is browned, add the minced garlic and continue browning for another 2 – 3 minutes.
- Drain most of the oil from sauteing the meat. Then, season with salt and pepper and add chopped mushrooms stirring to combine.
- Add reserved mirepoix, beef stock and bay leaf, bring to boil, cover, turn heat down and simmer for 30 minutes. You can add more or less beef stock depending on how thin you prefer your soup.
- Once mushrooms are thoroughly cooked about 10-15 minutes, add barley and continue simmering for about 30 minutes or till barley is tender.
- Remove bay leaf and serve. Serve with some crusty bread and a salad.
- Enjoy!
NOTE: If you need to feed a large group, the recipe doubles or triples quite nicely. Just be sure your stock pot is large enough.
This soup freezes well so make a large batch and put some away for later.
Another way to stretch this soup is to pan roast diced potatoes and add to the soup. Just peel and dice potatoes, toss with a little olive oil, salt and pepper, spread out on a rimmed baking sheet and roast in a 425F degree oven for about 20 minutes or till the potatoes are golden brown. Add to soup, stir and heat through for about 5-7 minutes. Adding the potatoes gives the soup additional flavor and stretches it to feed an additional 2 or 3 people depending on how many potatoes you add. Roasted potatoes hold together better in the soup and give a better flavor.


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Glenville secures $80,000 for Alplaus sidewalks
GLENVILLE -- The town of Glenville has secured $80,000 that it plans to use for construction of sidewalks in the hamlet of Alplaus, where Alplaus Avenue has no accommodations for pedestrians.
The money, a host community benefit to be paid by Champlain Hudson Power Express Inc., is coming after a push by Alplaus residents that has helped secure town and Schenectady County approvals for a hamlet preservation plan developed by residents.
"This is great news," said Maurice "Bud" Watson, president of the Alplaus Residents' Association. "This is 30 years in the making. The neighborhood has been asking for this for a long time."
The Town Board on Wednesday approved the agreement under which the Champlain-Hudson project will pay the town $80,000 in compensation for allowing a 1,000-megawatt, direct-current underground transmission cable to be buried in railroad rights-of-way along a 5.9-mile route through the town, from Ballston to Rotterdam. The route will cross Alplaus Avenue where CP Rail tracks run west of Alplaus.
Town Supervisor Chris Koetzle said the sidewalks will further a town plan to expand off-road bike and pedestrian amenities. "There's a lot of good benefit to this, and we're just happy we were able to secure this funding."
Actual sidewalk construction won't happen until 2020 or later, but Koetzle said the town can start working with the county on the engineering and easement details needed to build sidewalks on the county road.
The Champlain Hudson Power Express is a plan, in development for a number of years, to bring large volumes of direct-current power from hydroelectric facilities in Quebec to the New York City area. With nearly all regulatory approvals in place, the company hopes to start construction in 2020, with completion estimated for 2024.
The town is expected to get its payment after the corporation gets an estimated $3 billion in construction financing, estimated to be in another nine to 18 months, Koetzle said.
Koetzle said he doesn't expect the $80,000 to be enough money for a complete sidewalk project and the town may look to the county for help.
He called it a critical link in the town's plans to provide off-road interlinks throughout the town.
"It's another piece in the whole townwide trail system," Koetzle said. "It connects Maple Avenue to Saratoga County and beyond."
Residents are seeking sidewalks as part of the Alplaus hamlet plan, which both the Town Board and earlier this week, the Schenectady County Legislature, have said they support.
The residents' Alplaus Hamlet Plan calls for county and town help with issues like speeding enforcement on Alplaus Avenue and building wider shoulders or sidewalks to increase pedestrian safety. The larger goal of the plan is to preserve the character of the hamlet, which Watson termed "Americana."
In large part, the residents' efforts to control their own destiny stems from public debate in 2016-2017, when a high-density development was proposed along the Mohawk River frontage just south of the settled area, on an industrial brownfield site and a marina. Those plans were ultimately withdrawn in the face of residents' criticism, but it spurred discussion among residents about wanting to offer their own vision for the future.
Watson, for the residents' association, had praise for Koetzle and county officials who have worked with the residents, including County Legislator Tom Constantine, former legislator (now county manager) Rory Fluman, and County Attorney Chris Gardner.
"This is an opportunity for the town and county to show what great things can happen when everyone works together," Watson said.
Reach Gazette reporter Stephen Williams at 518-395-3086, [email protected] or @gazettesteve on Twitter.


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Coming June 7th, the next big update to the GTA Online experience is set to hit our PCs and consoles.
Further Adventures in Finance and Felony, the next step in your GTA Online journey to becoming a crime kingpin, this new update gives players even more control over the city of Los Santos. Once the update goes live, they will be able to become the CEO of their own criminal empire, and begin buying and selling contraband to rake in all those dollar bills. Run your enterprise from your new high-rise office, manage your warehouses full of illegal goodies, all while doing battle with rivals and the police over control of the criminal underworld.
Success means access to rare items, and rare items means higher profits. As with all GTA Online updates, this one will come with a whole host of new features, weapons and vehicles, such as the Pegassi Reaper, a shiny new super car to spend all your ill-gotten gains on. That being said, it's great to see more additions coming to the ambitious GTA Online, still without any extra charge, (excluding the mountains of cash Rockstar has definitely made selling cash cards). An official trailer is expected next week, so in the mean time let us know what you think! Are you still playing GTA Online? Are you excited for this new update? Tell us in the comments! We'll be sure to share that trailer with you al when it hits the web, so stay tuned!


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