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Birdy (1984)
By Richard Winters
My Rating: 7 out of 10
4-Word Review: Fly like a bird.
Al (Nicholas Cage) becomes friends with an introverted neighborhood boy (Mathew Modine) nicknamed Birdy due to his fascination with birds. Al begins to follow Birdy around as he collects pigeons and stores them inside an aviary that he has built in his backyard. The two share a strong bond, which is broken when they both get drafted and have to go off to war. Al returns from battle with facial injuries, but Birdy is sent to a mental hospital because after missing in action for a month, he refuses to speak. Al spends time with Birdy trying to get him to talk again, but finds it futile and fears that if he can't get him to talk the Dr's will confine Birdy permanently.
The film is based on the William Wharton novel of the same name that was initially rejected by director Alan Parker as a possible movie because he considered the story to be 'uncinematic', but after the screenplay was commissioned to writers Sandy Kroopf and Jack Behr who were able to restructure the thoughts of the main character from the novel into dialogue and action Parker was then willing to sign on. The result is a interesting drama that manages to have some touching, quirky moments, but it's also quite reminiscent of Brewster McCloud and comes complete with the same winged flying contraption which Birdy uses to fly briefly over a junkyard that Bud Cort also used to fly around the Astrdome in that film.
While both Cage and Modine give excellent performances I found the friendship between the two to be confusing. They had very little in common and why Cage would want to follow Modine around all the time as he collected pigeons, which he himself thought to be kind of 'weird', did not make much sense. Had they both had an interest in birds then it would've worked, but they don't, so what's the bond that keeps them together? Having them portrayed as being gay would've been the solution and at times it seems that is what Birdy is since he shows no interest in women at all and in one amusing scene watches in boredom while Cage has sex with another women on a beach. Cage could've been portrayed as being bi-sexual, or not fully aware of his secret attraction to Birdy, but could later eventually come out and that could help explain why he'd stick with someone that he otherwise found 'kooky'.
Despite the film's length and having some definite slow parts including Cage's 'conversations' with Birdy when he's inside the mental hospital, which are quite static and should've been trimmed, there's still some memorable moments including a scene showing baby canaries hatching out of their eggs. I also like the tracking shot where Birdy imagines himself flying and done from the point-of-view of a bird, which gives one a very authentic feeling/experience of what it would be like and it was shot with a Skycam, at least partially, which is the first time that had ever been used in a movie.
I also enjoyed how the film examines the different dynamics of both Cage's and Birdy's family life and the contrasting personalities of the parents where in Cage's family the father, played by Sandy Baron, was the dominant force while with Birdy it was his mother (Dolores Sage). My only complaint in this area is that there's a running subplot dealing with the fact that Birdy's mother would take all the baseballs that the neighborhood kids would accidentally hit into her backyard and keep them, but no one knew where she hid them. Cage then, years later, asks the Dr's at the hospital to convince the mother to send the hidden balls to Birdy in an effort to get him to talk again and the mother complies, but the scene showing her retrieving the balls is never shown. So much time is spent talking about where she hid the balls that the film should've revealed the hiding place while also showing a tender side to the mother who otherwise came off as being quite cold, so not having this scene at all really hurts the film.
There's also complaints by some viewers and critics about the ending, which some, like critic Leonard Maltin, refer to as a 'gag' ending. For me this wasn't an issue as it offered some much needed levity in what is otherwise a very dramatically heavy film, but I was frustrated that there's no conclusion given to what ultimately happens to the two characters. They're shown trying to escape from the hospital, but never whether they were able to break-free permanently. After spending two hours following these two around the viewer deserves more concrete answers as to their ultimate fate and keeping it so wide-open is a bit of a cop-out/letdown.
Runtime: 2 Hours
Director: Alan Parker
Studio: TriStar Pictures
Available: DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Video, YouTube
Posted in 80's Movies, Buddy Movies, Movies Based on Novels, Movies with a Hospital setting, Movies with Nudity, Quirky, War Movies
Tagged Alan Parker, Entertainment, Matthew Modine, Movies, Nicholas Cage, Review, Sandy Baron
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Imperative Reaction
The Tongue Gesture
Imperative Reaction is an American electro-industrial band, active in the gothic scene since 1996.
The band was founded in 1996 by Ted Phelps and David Andrecht, two former members of the band D.N.A (Digital Neural Assault).
After three years spent searching for their own technical style to suit the tastes of the band members, in 1999 Imperative Reaction released their first album entitled "Eulogy For The Sick Child"; the album was successful in the United States and a few months later it was also distributed in Europe thanks to the record company Zoth Ommog Records. The same year Pendragon, the label that released their first album, was bought by Metropolis Records.
In 2002 Imperative Reaction released Ruined, which contributed a lot to the media attention in the band, and in 2004 the album Redemption marked the shift of the band's style towards a more aggressive imprint, and led Imperative Reaction to embark on numerous tours, also as an opening act for VNV Nation.
From 2000 onwards Imperative Reaction have composed remixes for many artists of the EBM scene such as Assemblage 23, XP8, God Module and Combichrist.
While the first album is more EBM sounding, with their second album Imperative Reaction have outlined their own style, characterized by 4/4 dance rhythms, by full-bodied synth bass lines and at the same melodic tempo that resemble those of Electro house, revolving around scratchy keyboard leads and Phelps' rock voice.
A style often associated with Futurepop, it has also been described as "an Industrial metal reinterpreted by an Electro purist".
At present, Imperative Reaction's lineup consists of Ted Phelps (vocals), Clint Carney (keyboards), Trevor Friedrich (drums), and Adam Vex (keyboards / guitar).
I took pictures of Imperative Reaction at New City Liqwid Lounge in Downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada:
Ted Phelps Ready to Pull Off Live Show
Deliberate Low Shutter Speed Pic of Ted Phelps
Imperative Reaction Frontman Ted Phelps
Imperative Reaction's Synths Operator
Imperative Reaction Attracted Edmonton's Goth Crowd
Imperative Reaction Drummer
Different Color Light on Keyboardist and on Singer
Ted Phelps with Hand Gesture
Singing Ted Phelps
Thus Ted Phelps Performed at New City Liqwid Lounge in Edmonton
Progressive Electro Music Composer Ted Phelps
Ted Phelps Is the Only Original Member of Imperative Reaction
Ted Phelps Leans Toward Fans
Silhouette of Ted Phelps on Stage in Edmonton
Ted Phelps Pushing That Note Out of Throat
Dark Stage Atmosphere During Imperative Reaction Concert
Fan Takes Closeup Picture of Ted Phelps
Concentrated Keyboardist
All Three Live Members of Imperial Reaction on Stage
Live Lineup Keyboard Player
Imperative Reaction Singer and Keyboardist
Ted Phelps Against Yellow Spot Light
Imperative Reaction Backing Vocals
Blue Spot Light on Face of Imperative Reaction Keyboardist
Ted Phelps in Black and White
Published November 28, 2020 By happy
Categorized as Bands Tagged Alberta, Canada, Combichrist, Concert, Edmonton, Electronic, Imperative Reaction, Industrial, Live Music
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// Module:  ActiveObjects
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// Definition of the ActiveStarter class.
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// Copyright (c) 2006-2007, Applied Informatics Software Engineering GmbH.
// and Contributors.
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// SPDX-License-Identifier:	BSL-1.0
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#ifndef Foundation_ActiveStarter_INCLUDED
#define Foundation_ActiveStarter_INCLUDED

#include "Poco/Foundation.h"
#include "Poco/ThreadPool.h"
#include "Poco/ActiveRunnable.h"

namespace Poco {

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{
public:
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	{
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PESCO adding 180 trainees after receiving nearly $2 million grant from state
CFO: 'This is a big deal for the basin, but it's a bigger deal for New Mexico'
Mike Easterling
The Farmington-based company already has filled 12 of the positions.
Another 168 jobs will be filled over the next six months.
The jobs will pay anywhere from $15.56 to $33.75 an hour, and will cover 16 positions.
FARMINGTON — It's only been a few weeks since the New Mexico Economic Development Department announced it was awarding a large grant to Farmington's Process Equipment & Service Company Inc. to fund the creation of dozens of new jobs.
But already the oil and gas-related firm commonly known as PESCO has filled 12 of those positions, with plans in the works to hire 168 more people.
Department officials announced in a Dec. 20 news release that PESCO had been awarded a nearly $2 million grant through the agency's Job Training Incentive Program. A total of six companies were awarded grants in December, but PESCO's award was by far the largest of the more than $2.2 million in grants that were presented.
More:Construction contract awarded for next section of Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project
The jobs will pay anywhere from $15.56 to $33.75 an hour, and will cover 16 positions, include labor and administrative roles, as well as engineering and drafting jobs, according to Linda Rodgers, the company's chief financial officer.
"This is a big deal for the (San Juan) basin, but it's a bigger deal for New Mexico," Rodgers said, noting that PESCO is one of the few companies in the basin that is ramping up its production these days.
Funding:San Juan County seeking $4.1 million in capital outlay funds for three projects
Many of the new employees will be put to work helping PESCO produce hydrogen production skids for an Albuquerque client, as well as some other projects that PESCO has coming online later in the year.
Rodgers said PESCO has been the recipient of JTIP funding before, but never to an extent like this. Craig Curry, the company's employee success manager, said he believes the award validates the approach PESCO has been taking.
"It was a confirmation for me of some of the strategies we're headed down the road toward," Curry said. "We're creating jobs for New Mexico and the region. We have the potential to make a difference for New Mexico."
The program supports the hiring of new trainees at companies so those businesses can continue to grow their presence in New Mexico, according to a news release from the Economic Development Department.
"We are seeing more demand than ever from businesses that want to expand in New Mexico and hire more employees or train existing workers so they can learn new skills for higher salaries," department Secretary Alicia Keyes states in the news release. "Even if it is one or two new employees at a time, JTIP is giving businesses an incentive to invest in their workforce today, so New Mexicans can have a more robust and resilient economic recovery."
JTIP grants were awarded to five other companies throughout New Mexico in December, and a total of 143 grants worth $27.6 million were distributed to 122 companies in the state throughout 2021, the news releases states – money that was used to fund positions for nearly 3,000 trainees.
Rodgers said she believes PESCO's longstanding relationship with the department and its status of being one of the anchors of San Juan County's economy helped seal the deal.
"PESCO has a long history of providing good-paying jobs in the San Juan Basin, and the (EDD) board knew PESCO well," Rodgers said. "I think we had a good story to tell about these jobs and our need to hire and train people pretty quickly for 180 jobs."
Curry and Rodgers said PESCO will not receive the money up front from the state. Instead, as the company hires the trainees, PESCO will document their addition and training, then apply for reinstatement for their salaries from the Economic Development Department.
Curry estimated the hiring for the program would take six months to complete. He said the award also includes a provision rewarding the company for hiring veterans or people who emerge from foster homes, allowing for an extra 5% reimbursement from the state.
"That's where that number creeps up," he said.
Mike Easterling can be reached at 505-564-4610 or measterling@daily-times.com. Support local journalism with a digital subscription.


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Off to notable jobs, academic placements
December graduates from the University of Iowa parlayed their academic and research experiences into prominent jobs in industry or advances into graduate and postgraduate programs.
Richard C. Lewis
Justin Torner and Tim Schoon
A common thread for University of Iowa graduates is how their academic and research experiences enriched their knowledge and propelled them to jobs in industry or graduate and postgraduate programs.
Take Benton Purnell, for instance. The December graduate came to Iowa from the University of Maine, lured by the Iowa's nationally known research into sleep and seizures but also, importantly, by the culture of inclusion and camaraderie in the UI graduate neuroscience program.
Benton Purnell joined the lab of Gordon Buchanan, associate professor in the Department of Neurology, to study a condition called sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), in which people with epilepsy mysteriously die from a seizure while asleep. He will continue investigating SUDEP as a postdoctoral research fellow in neuroscience at Rutgers University, with the goal of becoming a university faculty researcher with his own lab. "From my very early days as a graduate student, Gordon spent a lot of time working with me and also cared about my well-being, cared about my happiness, cared about my long-term goals, and really catered his expectations in accordance with my long-term goals."
"When I interviewed at Iowa, I really thought the atmosphere and the vibe of the program was definitely something I was looking for," says Purnell, who earned a doctorate at Iowa in neuroscience. "I'm a firm believer that you can't go through five to seven years of graduate school in an atmosphere you're not happy with, and that is not conducive to long-term success. That's not something you can grit your teeth through, in my opinion."
Purnell joined the lab of Gordon Buchanan, associate professor in the Department of Neurology and member of the Pappajohn Biomedical Institute, to study a condition called sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), in which people with epilepsy mysteriously die from a seizure while asleep.
He will continue investigating SUDEP as a postdoctoral research fellow in neuroscience at Rutgers University, with the goal of becoming a university faculty researcher with his own lab.
Purnell credits Buchanan and the graduate program with taking the time to hone his non-research skills, such as understanding how to operate a lab, from outlining budgets to managing personnel.
"I think in addition to mentoring me very well in science, Gordon put a lot of emphasis in understanding what's on the other side of the curtain in the life of a career scientist: what it looks like, what the pitfalls are, how to select a future mentor," Purnell says. "From my very early days as a graduate student, Gordon spent a lot of time working with me and also cared about my well-being, cared about my happiness, cared about my long-term goals, and really catered his expectations in accordance with my long-term goals."
Sharon Jensen-Cody's research at Iowa focused on metabolic disorders triggered by obesity and diabetes. She will head to a job with Merck, where she'll investigate nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and finding therapeutics to combat it. She says the training she received at Iowa—in the lab and outside of it—prepared her for her career step. "I feel like I've grown a lot as a scientist in the last five years because I've been able to stand on my own two feet and push my research somewhat independently."
Collaborative research environment makes for perfect career prep
Sharon Jensen-Cody can point to a similar experience at Iowa, one that led to her being hired as a senior scientist in the cardiometabolic division at the American multinational pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co., Inc.
Like Purnell, Jensen-Cody came to Iowa from afar: The Los Angeles-area native graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. She had never heard of Iowa, she says, until Frederick Domann, professor and director of the UI Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, approached her during a poster session at the scientific conference Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science. He urged her to apply.
After the conference, Domann kept in touch and convinced Jensen-Cody to interview at Iowa. She was sold almost immediately.
"It was refreshing to just come to a university where it didn't feel as intense as I thought graduate school would be," Jensen-Cody says. "As I was walking through the labs, most of the principal investigators' doors were open, and you could see them interacting with the graduate students, and the graduate students were interacting with each other. You could feel that collaborative feel, and that was the main thing that drew me here. I knew I was going to spend the next five or six years of my life here. I wanted to be sure it was welcoming, that I would get support and be treated with respect, not as a robot that's just doing experiments."
Jensen-Cody joined the Pappajohn Biomedical Institute lab of Matthew Potthoff, associate professor of neuroscience and pharmacology and director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Molecular Medicine. Her research focused on metabolic disorders triggered by obesity and diabetes; at Merck, she'll investigate nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and finding therapeutics to combat it.
She says the training she received at Iowa—in the lab and outside of it—prepared her for her career step.
"I feel like I've grown a lot as a scientist in the last five years because I've been able to stand on my own two feet and push my research somewhat independently," Jensen-Cody says. "I feel like the training here has really gotten me to the level where I feel I can go to a large company and contribute something."
Loden Henning urges current and future students to capitalize on all the resources Iowa offers. "My biggest takeaway from Iowa is to shoot your shot," Henning says. "I never would have thought getting into SpaceX was realistic, but luckily I wasn't applying from ground zero. I had taken advantage of all the opportunities that came my way at Iowa. Even if it's tiny, I really feel like all opportunities snowball into bigger and better things."
You can't work at SpaceX if you don't aim high
Loden Henning is another December graduate who landed a plum industry job: The Decorah, Iowa, native will work at aerospace manufacturer and launch provider SpaceX.
Henning applied for an internship with the company last summer "on a whim," and his application was accepted. "I was mind-blown that some kid from Iowa could work at a place like SpaceX," the fourth-year industrial engineering major says. "And I guess they liked me enough to keep me around full time!"
Henning graduates with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and a minor in statistics. He also has been working for SpaceX part time as a systems engineer on the supply chain reliability team for the Starlink program, a satellite constellation that will provide internet access to underserved areas. He'll move to Seattle to work for the company full time in January.
Henning says Iowa prepared him well for his career step.
"Our College of Engineering is small, but we're still a Big Ten research institution, so that means there are a ton of opportunities with fewer students to compete for them than other schools might have," Henning says. "For example, I was able to be a teaching assistant and a research assistant in a lab, where I got to run a project while there was no graduate student available."
Henning worked in the Graphical Representation of Knowledge (GROK) Lab, where he examined how effective educational games are for teaching collegiate engineering concepts. He helped create a game that teaches MySQL, a database query language, and tested its effectiveness on cohorts of about 50 students.
Henning urges current and future students to capitalize on all the resources Iowa offers.
"My biggest takeaway from Iowa is to shoot your shot," Henning says. "I never would have thought getting into SpaceX was realistic, but luckily I wasn't applying from ground zero. I had taken advantage of all the opportunities that came my way at Iowa. Even if it's tiny, I really feel like all opportunities snowball into bigger and better things."
Juliana Danesi Ruiz graduates with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering and minors in computer science and mathematics, and will stay at Iowa to pursue a doctoral degree. She credits Iowa with opening her eyes to academic and career opportunities. "If you had asked me four years ago, I would have had no idea that I would be starting my PhD, but all the research experience that Iowa provides to you is exceptional, and every student should take advantage of it."
Passion discovered? Check. Next step: Staying to pursue a PhD
Juliana Danesi Ruiz discovered a passion for robotics in the College of Engineering.
Danesi Ruiz came to Iowa from Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she learned about the university almost by chance at a college fair at her school. She knew wanted to be in the engineering program, but not much beyond that. That changed when she took a robotics class taught by Phillip Deierling, lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Data on recent grads...
Of the Hawkeyes who graduated in the 2018–19 academic year:
96% found a job, continued their education, or are not seeking employment
Their median salary is $50,000
23% chose to continue their education
These are our latest stats and they come from a survey of graduates completed six to seven months after graduation. More about Hawkeye grads and student outcomes is available at the Pomerantz Career Center.
"I was able to gain insights into the robotics fundamentals, the Internet of Things, and Industry 4.0, which are concepts I have used in my internship and research," Danesi Ruiz says.
She joined Deierling's lab, where she has been working to improve the lab component for the robotics class.
"What I feel is most interesting is seeing how a robot can do as much as a human," she says. "Robots have a lot of potential to grow into even smarter machines, and I want to be part of that."
Danesi Ruiz graduates with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering and minors in computer science and mathematics, and will stay at Iowa to pursue a doctoral degree. She credits Iowa with opening her eyes to academic and career opportunities.
"If you had asked me four years ago, I would have had no idea that I would be starting my PhD, but all the research experience that Iowa provides to you is exceptional, and every student should take advantage of it."
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Important Questions About COVID-19 and Cancer, Answered
Several months into the global pandemic, there remain many unknowns about COVID-19 and how it might affect those with cancer. But, experts do have solid advice for some of the worries weighing on the minds of patients and their families.
Here are five common questions Fox Chase Cancer Center physicians were asked about COVID-19 and cancer when they appeared on 6abc Philadelphia Facebook Live.
Q: Does having cancer increase my risk for COVID-19?
A: "Cancer doesn't make you more likely to contract COVID-19; but, depending on your diagnosis and treatment, cancer may affect how your body handles the infection," explained Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA, FACS, Chairman and Professor of the Department of Surgery at Fox Chase. More aggressive cancers and treatments can suppress your immune system, which could make it harder to fight off the virus and increase the chances for complications.
Q: If I contract COVID-19, will cancer make my symptoms worse?
A: "A lot of it depends on the type of cancer and what type of treatment you are receiving," explained Martin Edelman, MD, Chair of the Department of Hematology/Oncology at Fox Chase.
Because COVID-19 is a respiratory infection, it has a very high mortality rate in patients with lung cancer. Patients with hematologic malignancies, blood cancers, acute leukemia, and those undergoing stem cell or bone marrow transplants also seem to have a high risk of severe complications.
But that's not the case across the board. The data suggests that targeted therapies and hormonal therapies, like those often used for breast cancer, don't seem to increase complications from COVID-19, Edelman said.
Q: Should I get treated for cancer right now or is it safer to wait to begin treatment?
A: The decision to pursue or delay treatment needs to be highly individualized. "You have to take the risk of COVID-19 infection in your particular circumstance and compare it to the risk of cancer progression," Uzzo said. This isn't always easy and your oncologist must help you weigh your risk and benefits.
The answer has to do with your cancer diagnosis, age, and overall health. If you're an older adult with cancer that's slow growing and not life-threatening, holding off on treatment may make sense if you are in an area that is experiencing increases in community spread of the virus. But, if you're younger and have an aggressive type of cancer, you shouldn't wait to get treated, Uzzo said.
Q: Should I cancel an existing appointment with my oncologist?
A: "The simple answer is no," Edelman said. If you're actively undergoing treatment, it's crucial to continue going to your scheduled appointments and receiving your treatment on time. And, you can do so safely—Fox Chase has taken extensive measures to keep our center free of COVID-19. "We have not had a single case transmitted within the institution," Edelman said.
It's worth keeping other types of appointments, too, because they can likely be converted to telehealth visits. "If it's a long-term follow-up or an appointment for a treatment that we're not going to make any decision on that day, that can be done remotely, if needed," Edelman said.
Q: What precautions should I take to help protect a loved one undergoing treatment?
A: Follow hygiene rules to a T—and practice physical distancing as much as possible. Wash your hands regularly, wear a mask, and leave essential tasks like food shopping or pharmacy trips for your loved one.
Even though it can be hard, keep your distance from your loved one. "Make sure they know that you appreciate their support and love, but try your best not to have that close physical contact," Uzzo said. "Unfortunately, respiratory viruses spread with close contact."
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A Federal high court in Ikoyi has revoked the bail it granted a former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu in a N7.5 billion fraud trial he is currently facing.
The Judge said; "I have perused the proceedings from court records and I discovered that one of the conditions for granting bail to the 1st defendant, who happens to be Orji Uzor Kalu, is that he should deposit his international passport with the court and the permission must be granted before he can travel outside the country for whatever reason.
"It is clear that the 1st defendant has flouted this order. No one, high or low, rich or poor can disobey a valid order of court and expect such court to show mercy.
"Consequently, the bail granted to the 1st defendant is hereby revoked. It's hereby ordered that the first defendant upon his returning to Nigeria must submit himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with all his travelling documents. EFCC should effect his arrest if he fails to submit himself."
"In line with the neurosurgeon's advice from Germany which stated that the 1st defendant should be on hospital bed rest between ten to twelve months, this case is adjourned to January 23rd, 2019 for trial day today," the judge ruled.


Are individuals random-utility maximizers? Or do individuals have private knowledge of shocks to their utility?
"McFadden (1974) observed that the logit, probit, and similar discrete-choice models have two interpretations. The first interpretation is that of individual random utility. A decisionmaker draws a utility function at random to evaluate a choice situation. The distribution of choices then reflects the distribution of utility, which is the object of econometric investigation. The second interpretation is that of a population of decision makers. Each individual in the population has a deterministic utility function. The distribution of choices in the population reflects the population distribution of preferences. … One interpretation of this game theoretic approach is that the econometrician confronts a population of random-utility maximizers whose decisions are coupled. These models extend the notion of Nash equilibrium to random- utility choice. The other interpretation views an individual's shock as known to the individual but not to others in the population (or to the econometrician). In this interpretation, the Brock-Durlauf model is a Bayes-Nash equilibrium of a game with independent types, where the type of individual i is the pair (x_i, e_i). Information is such that the first component of each player i's type is common knowledge, while the second is known only to player i." — Blume, Brock, Durlauf & Ioannides. 2011. Identification of Social Interactions. Handbook of Social Economics, Volume 1B.
I love it when you say "Nash equilibrium".


I used to watch events in Washington closely, fully believing that news reports and political debates had meaningful impact on the battlefield. I would rage at the mainstream media's bias, roll my eyes in disgust at Democratic politicians who sometimes seemed to be rooting for failure, and viewed "wobbly" conservatives with contempt.
Then, I joined the U.S. Army Reserves, put on the uniform, and (eventually) rolled out on my first mission "outside the wire" in Diyala Province, Iraq . . . where I couldn't read Drudge or Politico and had to focus on a single objective — to defeat the enemy that was trying to kill my brothers in arms and kill me. This is when I learned a startling (but now obvious) reality: once the decision is made to fight, political rhetoric matters as much to the outcome of the war as color commentary matters to the outcome of a boxing match.


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Judgment Days
Revisiting the Great COVID Social Media Scolding
In the early days of the pandemic, it was a justifiable—even natural—impulse to shame the influencers who appeared to flout quarantines while flaunting their wealth. A year later, the pile-on might have said as much about our anxieties as it did their conspicuous existing.
By Kenzie Bryant
Illustration by Vanity Fair. Images from Getty Images.
For a few brief weeks last spring, for once, we didn't really want to hear from celebrities and influencers. Their work, which depends on connecting with others through relatability and authenticity, was ill-equipped to meet the moment. Presenting oneself doing anything that wasn't personal suffering or giving gobs of money to a cause felt tone-deaf at the time—and even those acts could sound tone-deaf. It was a moment for nuance, and social media is famously not a nuanced place. At the time, I wrote a story about a couple such influencers in the midst of running aground to this effect. Topped with an intense headline— "Is This the End of Influencing as We Knew It?"—it drew the attention of the much-followed Instagram account Diet Prada, and more people found out about it from there.
A year feels way too soon to look back at early COVID in the U.S. It seems like such an arbitrary time marker when in fact, it feels like it's been 10 years since last March, and also like it was yesterday. For me, looking back means remembering this story, which still looms large in my memory, though most have probably forgotten it. I've returned to it many times throughout the pandemic, largely to wince, and I started to dread its anniversary specifically, on top of the generalized dread of this March. Still, maybe, right now, when we're not quite out of this thing, but starting to conceive of an end, is the best time to take stock of what happened in order to figure out how to move forward.
This article is part of a series, Our Pandemic Year, that marks the anniversary of the first quarantine orders in the U.S. Read them all here.Arrow
First, a recap of what happened then. Naomi Davis, known in her online form as Taza, and Arielle Charnas of Something Navy, are two influencer moms who were living in New York City. Both were part of the fledgling influencer cohort that began their blogs and then grew their followings on Instagram; both also became avatars for questionable pandemic behavior just as the novel coronavirus was starting to rip through the U.S. and New York City in particular.
On March 17, 2020, Charnas told her followers she felt sick, and then took them along with her as she went to get tested for COVID. It seems quaint in retrospect. Now, reliable tests are one of the main tools for fighting the pandemic that we have. But—call it recent-history overload—it's easy to forget that accessing testing in New York, as well as most of the country, was a difficult, confusing experience and a rare one too. Much like vaccines today, there were criteria for who qualified to get tested, and they were rationed for the most vulnerable populations. A few days prior to Charnas's post, The New York Times published, "One woman in Harlem who wanted to be tested was told by health care workers not to worry about her coronavirus-like symptoms. In Brooklyn, a woman had to wait to get tested until her mother tested positive for the virus. One doctor at a hospital network has turned away patients who probably had the coronavirus because they did not meet the current testing."
Though obviously ill, Charnas didn't appear to qualify for testing. She proceeded to find a doctor who would give her a test, eventually posting the video of her nasal swab. She even tagged him, engaging old influencing best practices in a brave new world. There was a contingent that vocalized frustration with her actions (and many who praised her) after she posted again, noting she tested positive. The point she made in a Notes-app post was one that many have made since: "It is the responsibility of our government office to ensure all Americans can access necessary tests," she wrote.
Around the same time, Davis posted about how she was packing up her family of seven in an R.V. and driving away from the city, which at the time was the nation's COVID hotspot. Many of her followers condemned her, as health experts shared fears that Davis and social media personalities like her might "influence" others into carrying the virus across state lines.
By that time, Charnas, too, was getting out. On March 26, less than two weeks after posting that she had tested positive, she announced on Instagram that she and her family had decamped to the Hamptons, posting a photo of herself looking carefree with arms extended overhead in the air. A thread about Charnas's entire experience, which described commenters getting "big mad," went semi-viral on Twitter, which is how I and so many others first encountered her.
If bypassing testing restrictions rankled online commenters, then the optics of driving a couple hours east—or across the country—was way worse: A stay-at-home order was in place for most New Yorkers, and not just those showing symptoms of the disease.
There's no way to prove with hard data that anyone got the idea to go elsewhere from Davis, Charnas, or anyone else who picked up and left their homes, but many did the same. Getting out of a city during the pandemic was not a difficult idea to come by on one's own. As Kyle Chayka reported in The New Yorker in October, Airbnbs grew scarce over the summer. There was a mass exodus to elsewhere, specifically for longer-term "remote work" getaways outside of urban areas, per the company's own data: Many migrated upstate, up into the Adirondacks. Others chose Vermont's ski destinations, resort towns in Montana and Colorado, lake country in Maine as well as Portland, and Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. Here's one dramatic infographic that animated the exodus from the "richest neighborhoods" in New York from May. It couldn't have been only short-term dalliances elsewhere either; one couldn't both be on the internet and escape news of the robust housing market and scarce inventory.
I can see now that one beat I didn't hit hard enough was that Charnas was putting her own face out there because it was her job to always be posting. She became the poster child of people reaching into their pockets to escape the pandemic, even though she and her husband were already sick. She tried to explain that she was following advice from her doctors and the CDC. For terrified people looking for a visible person to project their anxieties on, none of that mattered.
Recapping all of that brought back visceral memories of that time. My roommates and I were still taking 20 minutes to wipe down all my vegetables every time someone went to the grocery store. It was, remember, the same brief moment when Andrew Cuomo was a source of calm, just because he was taking it seriously on a daily basis while the president contradicted his own health authorities and played down the severity of the virus publicly. It inspired one particularly cursed portmanteau. (No need to repeat it here, but here's a link for posterity.)
If our heroes were too easy to come by, perhaps our villains were too. I didn't enjoy the celebrities and influencers offering up their lives to me in March and April 2020, and I wasn't alone in that feeling. It came across all wrong, appearing boastful yet under the guise of help. Not my life, yet not far away enough to take me out of my life. I was too quick to single out one type of person with one type of job, though, one whose livelihood is largely dependent on posting. Cuomo now looks more like Donald Trump than ever, and we, perhaps, resemble Charnas, Davis, and the rest more than we thought we would.
Davis declined an interview, though she has a book coming out, A Coat of Yellow Paint (subtitle: Moving Through the Noise to Love the Life You Live. She does not address the "noise" of last spring, but she details the work one has to do to live one's life online and survive.) Charnas took me up on my offer. It's been a difficult year for her. She had already parted ways with Nordstrom in order to launch Something Navy as a standalone brand with clothing drops and a retail location in New York. She hired a CEO and they made a plan before having to push the launch back twice due to the coronavirus. Something Navy finally opened in July, though. Charnas said that her followers, the core fans who knew what they were opting into when they followed her, have stuck with her.
I wondered how she felt when she saw other people—normal people, famous people, people people—doing what she got publicly flayed for as the pandemic dragged on and the "stay at home" spring gave way to a pandemic response that varied wildly by region.
"If I were to think too much about that, I would just make myself crazy," Charnas said. "I was following my doctors' and my kids' doctors' recommendations. They were saying to me that, you know, at this point, it's okay for you to go straight to your house in the Hamptons, you're fine to do that. So that's what I did. You know what I mean? So when I saw other people doing that—of course, if you had that opportunity, anyone would take that for their family."
Over the summer and onward, just like influencers and celebrities, regular people had begun to live lives of emphatic desperation online. Suddenly, if I saw some woods or a pool or an ocean or a gorgeous view in the background of a photo or a video, it hit with a heavy thud rather than a pang of aspiration that could be easily dismissed like usual. It wasn't just posts from influencers that kicked off little spirals, it was everyone's posts—those of friends, family, friends of friends, loose acquaintances, my own. I know this isn't a unique feeling (and I also know everyone didn't feel that way). Stella Bugbee, formerly the editor in chief of New York magazine's The Cut, put it beautifully this past December: "This year, it seemed like no matter who you are, whatever you posted, you had a high chance of getting it wrong in some way, because many of the values we've come to expect (and enjoy) on Instagram feel incorrect for this moment: Narcissism, flexing, even the forgivable human cry for validation seem crass in the face of so much social discord."
She wrote this months after the spring, months after a summer that many spent reevaluating their relationship to the country's baked-in injustices. More horrible villains than our original ones, more exacting in their privilege, had become impossible to ignore. The whole world watched a police officer squeeze the life out of George Floyd on film. Officers entered the home of a young woman, Breonna Taylor, and shot her fatally. So many stories like these followed, and meanwhile the state, and in many cases, relatives or friends, revealed their indifference or particular talent in defensive equivocating. It's still crushing.
Even the storyline that Davis and Charnas initially epitomized kept on going until it reached impossible heights. There was Kim Kardashian, for example, and her wild choice to share her enormous, expensive destination birthday party on an island with her hundreds of thousands of followers. There were so, so many parties. "We all got tested and social distanced, of course" became some kind of incantation meant to will judgment away.
Back in spring 2020, some outlets that published stories on their actions suggested that Charnas and Davis weren't the main problem. The problem was much larger; it was systemic, an old story, one you already know. The government was failing to take care of the people who hired them to do so, and in the absence of leadership from elected officials and health advisers people were making their own decisions. Into that void, anger got directed at those who had the gall to post.
"At the end of the day, my intention was just to share what we were going through, just like always. And going forward, I've been more careful about what I post. I definitely think twice now," Charnas told me. "I'm trying to be more sensitive [to what's] going on around me and in the world before I do share anything."
As time went on, it became clear that being an absolutist about COVID precautions was unsustainable at best. At worst, it made people afraid to do certain things—like go to the beach or find a better place to live—that eased mental health burdens and made "safer," more nuanced risk-taking possible. Of course this was hard to see back then. When I first wrote about Charnas last April, I was desperate to know what to do and how to feel about every little thing. More than anything else, I remember guilt. Guilt for health, guilt for home. Guilt for having a job that persisted under the circumstances. Guilt for struggling sometimes to do the one thing I have to do for my job—just write. That's it!—and hoping that I wasn't getting it all wrong. There was so much guilt, and that doesn't translate well online either. Every post on social that didn't transmit guilt felt unrelatable and tone-deaf, and if it did manage to hit that incredibly difficult tone, it was too overwhelming. I didn't want to relate any more.
Influencing, the Job, isn't over, as both Charnas and Davis are a living testament to. The concept of people sharing their lives with followers and, in the process, selling them stuff will likely always be economically viable, in its many iterations, whatever those may be. I do stand by the essence of the piece. Generally speaking, the days of influencers posting straight lifestyle content without a thought to the politics of the moment are over for now—some will obviously and openly not care about it, but that, too, has become a choice. The protests this summer and onward only deepened that feeling. In the meantime, we'll still follow the story lines that those living lives half online provide for us because influencers, like most celebrities and public figures, are our avatars. They help us work out how we feel by putting their choices out there. They allow us to judge them, so that we can judge ourselves, so that we can know how we want to live.
More Stories From Our Pandemic Year
— Revisiting the Great COVID Social Media Scold
— How Tom Hanks Became the Avatar of Our Pandemic Year
— Andrew Cuomo Got His Coronavirus-Celebrity Wish
— For Every Stage of the Pandemic, There Has Been a Celebrity Getting in Trouble for Partying
— After the Year of No Bras, Things Are Looking Up
Kenzie Bryant is a staff writer at Vanity Fair.


The current leadership denied at that time that there was any financial crisis and stated that the union was in a solvent state and that the NEC's planning ensured that it would remain in that state for the future.
Now, only a few short months later we find out that apparently is not the case. Having done too little too late the leadership now cancels the elections that might start to turn this union, around from a parlous condition, on the grounds that we should all be working overtime on DD!
We don't think a membership vote is a distraction from collecting DDs. The reason why the leadership suspended the elections is that they could not be certain of the outcome of those elections. Given that they perceive themselves as vital for the union's well being they have to remain in charge; in particular they have to remain in charge to ensure that the union is taken over by Unite. A different NEC might take heed of conference policy on Unite. A leadership that stops elections (which would mean being bound by the electorate) is almost by definition a leadership that will not be bound by whatever the conference says.
In contrast we do want to be bound by the will of the membership that is why we say 'Let members have a vote'.


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RHS Revs Up for Strong Spring Season
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Rye's spring sports teams are gearing up for strong seasons in track, lacrosse, and golf.
By Melanie Cane and Kevin LaManna
Rye High's spring sports teams are revving up for strong seasons in track, lacrosse, and golf.
Coach Jim Yedowitz looks forward to building upon the good work he started with the winter track squad last season, with an experienced group of well-rounded seniors.
"I am hoping not to jinx myself or my team," Coach Yedowitz said. "I am looking toward this season with great anticipation and high expectations."
The winter track team had tremendous potential but was laid low by illness for most of the season.
At the end of the winter season, the team showed signs of its potential by placing second at the Class B section meet out of 22 teams. Taylor Love won the 1600-meter run. Indoor school shot put record holder Scott Hanley and middle-distance runner Tom Mayo-Smith both missed state berths by very small margins. "It's a sign of good things to come," Coach Yedowitz said.
Others leading the team in middle-distance events are Joey Viger, and Henry Gager.
Aaron Matthias, Thornton Ellis, Colby Ellis, and Russ Hanson lead the team in sprinting and jumping events.
Tyler Breckenridge shines in pole vault and high jump; Ben Lee excels at pole vault, hurdles, and high jump.
Coach Yedowitz said if no one gets injured, "This could be my best team in 35 years of coaching. I am loaded with seniors …who have talent and experience.
Girls' Varsity Lacrosse
After 16 years of coaching girls lacrosse before spending a few years away from the Rye team, Coach Dennis Hurley returns with hopes of winning the league and sectional titles. This season, Rye's heavily stacked roster will be called on to get the job done.
Junior Scarlett Sulliman is joining the Rye squad this year after competing for a few years in Arizona, where she was an All-American. The team's three captains are midfielder Tori Virtue, attackwoman Emma Brinkman, and goalie Maddy Kinker, who will be the starter for her fourth year in a row.
Coach Hurley expressed confidence in the team, pointing out that 19 of 20 players are returning from last season, including eight seniors.
"We hope to at least challenge the league and the section this year,'' Coach Hurley said.
He said Class C competitor Fox Lane also has many returning seniors.
"We have our work cut out for us, but if any team can do it it's our girls," Hurley said.
Boys' Varsity Lacrosse
Coach Brian Dooley and the boys varsity lacrosse team are ready to light up the scoreboards this year with his less-experienced but talented roster.
After a tough loss in the Section 1 Class B quarterfinals last year, the Garnets have some of the stiffest competition in the state against Yorktown, Somers, and John Jay.
Returning players this year include four captains: Greg Stern at attack, as well as Jake Concavage, Drew Davis, and Devon DiPalma at midfield. This foursome makes up the core of the otherwise young and inexperienced but extremely talented squad.
Asked about the team's goal for this season, Coach Dooley said: "We have a young team overall, and it's for that reason we're keeping the goals simple and realistic. As a team I'm hoping we get better every single day, whether it's a practice or a game."
Last season, the Garnets, led by Coach Rich Savage, captured the league title with a perfect record of 13-0. In an unprecedented feat, all six starters qualified for the Sectional tournament. Jen Lee, now the senior captain, won the section title as a junior. Freshman Alexis Hios came in second in the section and eighth grader Frida Henningsson tied for fifth in the section. At the state championship, Jen Lee finished in 17th place and Alexis Hios placed 31st. Luckily for the team, the top three players are returning this season, as are senior Caroline Whelan and sophomore Christina Villani.
The girls started practicing together March 19. Coach Savage said the team is looking forward to defending their league title. Captain Jen Lee said she's excited about "some great new players" joining the team. Her personal goal is to defend her Section 1 title, to return to States for the fourth time and to beat her 17th place finish from last year. Jen has been playing number one on the team since her sophomore year and said she hopes to make the best of her final season.
Last year, the top three starters on the boys' golf team made sectionals. Senior Captain Andrew Gladstone, the top starter, went to sectionals for the third time. No. 2 starter, junior Thomas Henderson, went to sectionals for the first time. A third starter, junior Henry Bailey, qualified for sectionals for a second consecutive year.
This season, those three top starters are joined by sophomore Henry Bailey and eighth grader James McHugh
Other returning players are eighth grader William Gladstone (Andrew's younger brother), sophomore Brad Holzer, senior Justin Uzcategui, and senior Don Tice, all of whom are battling for the No. 6 spot on the team.
Coach Pat Romano is pleased to have the former team intact and says that if the top five boys play up to their abilities and get a solid contribution from the No. 6 spot, "We should be a very tough team to beat."
Last season, the Garnets baseball team won more games than they had in the previous ten years, finishing with a record of 14-5 with the number six seed. The Garnets lost six seniors from last year's team, but their starting pitcher, Willis Robbins, who was responsible for five of those wins, is returning as a senior. Starting pitcher Jeff Dempsey, who had three wins and one save last season, also returns as a senior. Six other players are returning, including senior co-captains Matt DeGraw and Jake Meyerson.
Coach Mike Bruno has recruited nine new players, including two freshmen: shortstop Tim DeGraw and first baseman Ryan Popp. They, as well as sophomore second baseman Griffin Tutun and junior outfielder William Frolich, are the ones to watch. "We have a strong returning nucleus as well as some good new players," Pitcher Dempsey said. "We are in a tough league and are working hard to get ready."
The team's goals are: to beat Harrison, win the league, and win the section.
Their first game (non-league) is April 4 at Rye Neck High School.
Last year's softball team struggled through the entire season, due in large part to both the starting pitcher, senior Erika Becker, and the back-up pitcher, sophomore Alissa Vitiello, being injured for most of the season. This year, both pitchers are healthy. Two other players, junior Laura Thornton-Smith and sophomore Laura-Renee Macri, are also prepared to pitch in a pinch.
In addition to Becker, four other seniors are returning: Emily Severance, Kristen Verille, Courtney Turiano, and Brigid Lonergan. According to left fielder Lonergan, all the seniors have been been playing really well and have improved tremendously since last season.
There are nine other returning players as well as six new recruits. Among the new players, are three freshmen: Amanda Yannett, Emily Antinozzi, and Keira Nemsick.
Coach Alex Tejera hopes the team makes the playoffs and is successful in the post season. "We are looking to get off to a better start than we did last season," he said.
Lonergan added: "The team's goals are to stay healthy, work together, learn from our mistakes and not let errors take us out of the game. We want to go further then we have in the past and earn a softball banner that can be hung in the gym because softball doesn't have one right now."
They start the season April 4 at home against Rye Neck.
Last year's boys' tennis team had a very frustrating and disappointing season, losing many matches 3-4 and finishing the season under .500. Their difficulties were due, in large part, to injuries and having young players who lacked match experience.
Since then, their No. 1 and No. 3 singles players have graduated and in many ways, Coach Sue Dickson feels they are starting from scratch: "So far, the only certain thing is that Grant DeBease, last year's No. 2 singles player, will be 1st singles."
"We're going to have to wait and see if anyone really stands out in the tryout matches," Coach Dickson said.
There are only two seniors on the team, Harrison Janart and Phil Dorn, both of whom played doubles last season. Dorn said, "Athough there are fewer outstanding players this year, the team has more depth this year, especially when it comes to the doubles' teams."
The team begins the season April 3 at home with a non-league match against Mamaroneck High School.
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Stewart Island (New Zealand)
Rakiura
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image by Sam Sampson, contributed by Chrystian Kretowicz, 23 Mar 2008
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Stewart Island at English Wikipedia
I have had a response to my enquiry about the flag of �independent� Stewart Island, the third largest, southern, island of New Zealand. The curator of the Rakiura Museum ("Rakiura" being the Maori name of Stewart Island) has sent me a newspaper cutting about a Declaration of Independence on 31 July 1970. This was part of a fundraising effort to raise NZ$6,000 for a new swimming pool for the Island�s school, by selling 50 cent passports for the newly independent island.
The cutting is accompanied by a black and white photograph of the �independence� ceremony, which includes a member of the IRA (Independent Rakiura Army) holding the new republic�s flag. The flag is described as being blue, green, red and yellow. It is not very clear in the photo, but would seem to be a semicircular �rising sun� in the top 2 quarters, red and yellow, over a green island in a blue sea in the lower 2 quarters. The shape of the island and sea is not clear.
Rakiura means "glowing skies", said to refer to the long twilight experienced at high southern latitudes, or else to the glowing sunsets experienced there. Presumably this inspired the flag�s symbolism (my guess entirely).
The article notes that the fund-raising drive would end (after various planned events) on 28 August [1970] with a radio quiz. I can find no evidence that the flag was used after this promotion. Stewart Island remains an integral part of New Zealand, at least until the next time the school baths need upgrading!
Stuart Park, 17 October 1997
The image was obtained from Sam Sampson,self-appointed beer-loving historian and tour-guide of Rakiura, who did run a very funny (now defunct) website about the island he has loved immensely. He was a participant of the raucous event when the flag of the "Independent Rakiura Army" was unfurled in 1970 in Oban's bar.
The designer of the flag was Peter Goomes, who as recently as 2005 served as a local Councilor of Stewart Island, and in whose possession is the original flag of "Independent" Rakiura.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 23 March 2008


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Model Makers, Metal & Plastic
Also called: Metal Model Maker, Model Builder, Model Maker, Molding Technician
Consumer products are made with many metal and plastic parts. Metal and plastic machine workers set up the machines that produce the parts, and operate them during production. Hundreds of thousands of machine workers in the manufacturing industry work in different phases of production: following blueprints, they set up the machinery to produce the correct product. Machine setters prepare the machines before production and perform test runs of the initial batches, making repairs or adjustments as needed to ensure quality control. Then, operators take over, and may have to load the machine with metal or plastic materials or adjust machine controls during production. They periodically inspect the parts and conduct minor maintenance. At completion, they remove and test finished products, then document production numbers. Metal and plastic machine operators may specialize in a particular type of machine, for example: Computer-controlled machine tool operators operate robots to perform functions on workpieces. Computer numerically controlled machine tool programmers—called CNC workers— develop computer programs to control automated processes. They require more training than other machine workers. Extruding and drawing machine workers push out thermoplastic or metal materials in the form of tubes, rods, or hoses. Cutting, punching, and press machine workers run machines to saw, bend, or straighten materials. Molding, coremaking, and casting machine workers run machines to form metal or thermoplastic parts or products. Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders set up or operate more than one type of cutting or forming machine tool or robot. Manufacturing facilities typically employ machine workers full time, usually in shifts that include evenings, weekends, and frequent overtime. With automation, multiple machines may be controlled at the same time, so workers train on different machines and gain a variety of skills. Because these workers operate powerful, high-speed machines, most usually wear protective equipment, such as safety glasses, earplugs, and steel-toed boots. Respirators are common for those in the plastics industry who work near materials that emit dangerous fumes or dust. Employers prefer to hire candidates with high school education, then train machine operators on the job.
Set up and operate machines, such as lathes, milling and engraving machines, and jig borers to make working models of metal or plastic objects. Includes template makers.
Study blueprints, drawings, and sketches to determine material dimensions, required equipment, and operations sequences.
Inspect and test products to verify conformance to specifications, using precision measuring instruments or circuit testers.
Drill, countersink, and ream holes in parts and assemblies for bolts, screws, and other fasteners, using power tools.
product and service development
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
manufacture and distribution of products
listen and understand what people say
communicate by speaking
Controlled Movement
quickly change the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat
use your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down
Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
CNC Software Mastercam
high school diploma/GED or
certificate after high school
New job opportunities are less likely in the future.
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Printing Press Operators
Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, & Tenders, Wood
Transportation Vehicle, Equipment & Systems Inspectors
Welders, Cutters, & Welder Fitters
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Corporate-Real-Estate-Management (CREM) bzw. betriebliches Immobilienmanagement (im deutschen Sprachgebrauch) bezeichnet die erfolgs- und wertorientierte Beschaffung, Verwaltung und Vermarktung von Immobilien in Unternehmen (), deren Kerngeschäfte keinen immobilienspezifischen Fokus haben (engl. ). Deren Immobilien werden auch betriebliche Immobilien oder Betriebsimmobilien (engl. ) genannt.

Hintergrund
Aufgrund von Umstrukturierungen der Weltwirtschaft steigt der Kapitalbedarf von Unternehmen. Immobilien stellen in diesem Zusammenhang neben Arbeit, Kapital, Technologie und Information eine wichtige Ressource in Hinsicht auf den Finanzierungsbedarf der Unternehmen dar. Von der klassischen Liegenschaftsverwaltung hat sich der Umgang mit dieser Ressource zu einem eigenständigen Unternehmensgeschäftsfeld oder eines "Profit Centers" mit marktnahem Management geändert. Heute wird daher von einem sogenannten Corporate-Real-Estate-Management gesprochen, bei welchem eine Gewinnerzielung bzw. ein Wertbeitrag für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg des Unternehmens im Vordergrund steht. Ein großer Teil von Liegenschaften in Deutschland befindet sich im Eigentum von Unternehmen.

Unter Berücksichtigung der Höhe gebundener Finanzmittel, langfristiger Bindungsdauer und mangelnder Korrekturfähigkeit bei Fehlentscheidungen hat ein aktives und ergebnisorientiertes Management von Unternehmensimmobilien in den letzten Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen. Eine mögliche Herangehensweise ist dabei, dass die Unternehmen die Bewirtschaftung ihrer genutzten Objekte Spezialisten überlassen und ihren Kapitaleinsatz im Immobilienbestand reduzieren, um verstärkt ihren Kernkompetenzen nachgehen zu können. Hierzu werden die unternehmenseigenen immobilienbezogenen Abteilungen ausgegliedert (Outsourcing) oder externe Nachunternehmer beschäftigt (Make or Buy).

Bestandteile

Ein professionelles CREM umfasst alle Bestandteile immobilienwirtschaftlicher Leistungen:
 Immobilien-Lebenszyklus: Entstehung-Nutzung-Verwertung
 Immobilien-Managementprozesse: Beschaffung-Betreuung-Verwertung

Daraus ergeben sich folgende Leistungsebenen für das Corporate Real Estate Management:
 Portfoliomanagement
 Asset-Management
 Property Management
 Gebäudemanagement

Ziele und Nutzen
Ziel ist, die Rentabilität des Unternehmens als Ganzes zu steigern und damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Unternehmenserfolg zu leisten. Das CREM betrachtet Immobilien als Wertobjekte und strategische Ressourcen. Es ermöglicht Unternehmen, folgende strategische Teilziele zu erreichen:
 Erkennung und Realisierung von Wertsteigerungspotentialen
 langfristige Minimierung der Immobilienkosten,
 Vermeidung von ungenutzten, überflüssigen, oder ineffizient genutzten Immobilien,
 Schaffung von Optionen für kosteneffiziente und funktionelle zukünftige Expansionen,
 Vertragsrecht mit möglichst großer Flexibilität und geringstmöglichen Kosten,
 Generierung von Cash Flow,
 Effektive Nutzung von Steuervorteilen,
 Risikoeinschätzung/-vermeidung.

Darüber hinaus gilt es bei neu zu entwickelnden Standorten, ein Optimum aus
 möglichst geringem Leerstand,
 Erweiterungsfähigkeit und
 Flexibilität und Anpassbarkeit an Veränderungen des Unternehmens
zu finden.

Die Herausforderung des CRE-Managements besteht darin, diese Möglichkeiten auszuschöpfen und Gewinne daraus zu realisieren, ohne das Kerngeschäft des Unternehmens zu verändern oder anderweitig zu beeinträchtigen.

Siehe auch
 CAFM
 Integriertes Managementsystem
 Public-Real-Estate-Management
 Real-Estate-Facility-Management

Literatur
 Karl-Werner Schulte, Wolfgang Schäfers (Hrsg.): Handbuch Corporate Real Estate Management. Rudolf Müller, Köln 1998, ISBN 3-481-01100-8.
 Thomas Glatte: Entwicklung betrieblicher Immobilien – Beschaffung & Verwertung von Immobilien im Corporate Real Estate Management Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-05686-5
 Thomas Glatte: The Importance of Corporate Real Estate Management in overall Corporate Strategies Whitepaper, Atlanta, Georgia/USA, 2013
 Andreas Pfnür: Modernes Immobilienmanagement Springer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-540-20395-8
 Alexander May, Friedrich Eschenbaum, Oliver Breitenstein: Projektentwicklung im CRE-Management Springer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-540-63489-4

Immobilienwirtschaft

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Peggle Blast on the App Store
Peggle Ipad
Inspire the world to play
This game embodies everything that I hate about the mobile games industry. The game is a unique take on combining breakout, pinball, and pachinko. We loved Popcap's game on the iPhone.
Below this you'll find an instant-replay button. If you're a fan of Nintendo's Advance Wars series, this is going to be right up your alley. On the left side of the screen is your Ball-O-Tron.
Turn-based play and the complex rules take getting used to, but an impressive tutorial and hints will help newcomers get on their feet before taking on online challengers. Throughout this mode you will gain special powers, for a certain amount of turns, which will ultimately help you complete each level. If you beat them you have to wait for hours to move on. You've reached Extreme Fever dude! Big eats small, and the more you move, the more mass you cast off.
True, the virtual joystick control is less than ideal and we would have liked to have seen more statistics, as well as a franchise you can only play through a single season at this point. The game starts by presenting you with a playing board of pegs, which light up. Duel Mode The last mode in Peggle, Duel mode lets you compete against a friend or computer. Some updates and upgrades may change the way we record usage data and metrics, or change data stored on your device.
Forget what you know about matching games. When this line comes into contact with a peg, or several pegs, the angle line is distorted to show you which path your ball will ball will fly, once released.
This is a great example of the App Store economy in action. Above this you have the fire button. You don't lose a life then.
Moving left, inwards from the right-hand side of the screen you'll next find your fever meter. Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! For additional information about the iWin Toolbar for Pogo click here. Not in this version anyway. Face off against friends or the computer in Duel mode.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It's a fascinating miniature arcade experience with plenty of levels.
Board games make a lot more sense on a larger screen like the iPad's. It's something we keep repeating again and again, but the iPad is simply a fantastic platform for digital board games.
Already a classic board game in its own right, the iPhone adaptation of this tile-based strategy game was one of the most beautifully executed in the App Store. It's meant to be, we're sure of it. Win big and experience over-the-top reward moments, enhanced by a majestically dynamic Hello Pegglers! Note that if the developer provides the product or not, this does not impact the review or score.
You can rotate a scroll wheel or just tap the screen to aim, ideally threading through ubiquitous blue pegs to hit multiple orange pegs with each shot, using carefully planned ricochets. The second bug found was one pointed out to me by a friend who also happens to have the game.
And, the price can't be beat. Puerto Rico is the latest port of a classic, expensive board game many people are likely unfamiliar with. This can be aimed in any direction and emits a faint line of angle which will help you to decide on your next move. We apologize for any inconvenience. So how did PopCap fair when bringing the title to iPhone?
If weird, trancelike music rhythm games with a Japanese flair excite you, then look no further. The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited.
Weve made some behind-the-scenes enhancements to make sure every shot flies smoothly. Family Sharing With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
We can't even tell you how many times we've played through this game and its dozens of challenges. New mini games and modes round out the standard levels. By installing this game, you consent to its installation and the installation of any game updates or upgrades released through your platform.
This game is very fun and challenging, with a fair amount of replay value from challenges. Pop orange pegs to reach the explosive joy of Extreme Fever.
Coming soon - update that will add all the great Peggle music that you've been asking for! This game may cost more than many games in the App Store, but if you like casual arcade games with lots of repeat play value, prema katha telugu movie mp3 songs Peggle is still a great deal. Unlock Challenge mode and prove that you have become a Peggle Master.
Click here to review our site terms of use. From it's quirky loading phrases, to it's cute, pretty up-lifting graphics, this game is a feel-good game from the outset. Peggle is based on a seemingly simple, but yet very clever and highly addictive concept. The only thing I hate about the game is the adverts. For anyone who hasn't played Peggle Where have you been, in a hole?
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