Bepress and SSRN are pleased to announce a joint pilot to explore integration between their two platforms. The four-month pilot launches today with the participation of Columbia Law School's Arthur W. Diamond Law Library and University of Georgia School of Law's Library.
"We are incredibly excited to launch this project," stated Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Managing Director at bepress. "It is the first step in our vision to work together with others in the Elsevier ecosystem in order to better support our community with their open access initiatives." Columbia Law School Library Director Kent McKeever noted, "this is exactly the kind of synergy that I was hoping to see now that both products are under the Elsevier umbrella." With Elsevier's acquisition of bepress in August 2017, both platforms are now part of the Elsevier portfolio.
One goal of the pilot is to support open access initiatives by helping libraries quickly populate their institutional repositories. SSRN and bepress will explore ways to easily transfer research articles, enabling this scholarship to become part of an institution's open access collections. "Integrating these two platforms will reduce some of the hurdles to making law faculties' scholarship freely available through open access," states Carol Watson, Director of the Law Library at the University of Georgia.
The pilot also tests potential benefits for authors. Bankier states, "we believe that authors should be able to get credit for their readership, regardless of whether an article is downloaded from bepress's Digital Commons or SSRN." As Watson puts it, the integration will lead to a "more accurate assessment of the true impact of their legal scholarship" by harnessing the discovery power that is at the heart of both platforms. SSRN and bepress are leading names in the law scholarship, with thousands of authors and readers who interact with both platforms; as such, the pilot has the potential to have a significant impact in the law sector.
Gregg Gordon, the Managing Director for SSRN, notes, "we look forward to the results of this work; if our community finds this kind of integration with institutional repositories valuable, and if the pilot is replicable at scale, we will explore expanding pilots with other institutional repository platforms beyond Digital Commons."
Bepress and SSRN are pleased to announce a joint pilot to explore integration between their two platforms. The four-month pilot launches today with the participation of Columbia Law School's Arthur W. Diamond Law Library and University of Georgia School of Law's Library. Both bepress and SSRN are eager to explore potential solutions to the obstacles that professional schools and their libraries face in promoting their open access scholarship. The initial pilot offers one possible model for demonstrating the increased reach of legal scholarship when work is available through an open access repository as well as a specialized network of peers, by simplifying population of and aggregating research impact from both platforms.
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Vietnam kicks off 1M-ton LNG terminal to ease energy thirst
The Hanoitimes - Once operational in 2022, the terminal will serve the operations of Nhon Trach Power Plants 3 and 4 with capacity of 600 MW each, and supply LNG for a number of customers.
State-run PetroVietnam Gas JSC Corporation (PV GAS) on October 28 kicked off the construction of an LNG terminal with capacity of one million metric tons (mt) per year, which is scheduled for completion in 2022.
Thi Vai LNG Terminal, which is designed to have annual capacity of 3 million mt for the second phase slated for 2023, is one of at least two new LNG import facilities, making an important contribution in implementing the task of ensuring national energy security and stabilizing the LPG market in the country.
South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp and PetroVietnam Technical Services Corp are engineering, procurement and construction contractors for the terminal following a contract awarded in June.
Costing an investment of US$285 million for the first phase, the terminal will include 180,000 cubic meters (m3) storage facility and accommodate ships carrying freight up to 85,000 tons.
Once operational in 2022, the terminal will serve the operations of Nhon Trach Power Plants 3 and 4 with capacity of 600 MW each, supply LNG for a number of customers and partly feed the country's LNG thirst, helping ease demand for energy of the southeast region.
Thi Vai terminal is an important link in the chain, continuously operating in Bach Ho and Nam Con Son gas pipeline, with the capacity of 45% of total LPG storage capacity in the country.
Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) – the national oil company, through its gas arm PV Gas, supplies natural gas to meet 30% of Vietnam's electricity demand and 70% of its fertilizer needs.
In 2014, PV Gas signed two LNG sale and purchase agreements with Russia's Gazprom Marketing & Trading and Anglo Dutch Shell for deliveries into Thi Vai LNG Terminal. This was followed by two preliminary LNG supply agreements with Virginia-based AES Group and Alaska Gasline Development Corp in November 2017.
Vietnam held 24.7 trillion cubic feet of proved natural gas reserves at the end of 2016, up from 6.8 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in 2011, of which half was located in the northern deep-water areas of the Song Hong basin, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), S&P Global Platts reported.
It currently does not import any natural gas despite growing gas demand for power generation in southern Vietnam and it produced 375 billion cubic feet of dry natural gas in 2016, which was fully consumed domestically, the EIA said citing official data.
Hanoi keens on boosting key industrial products
Central Bank steps up efforts to address US tag of currency manipulation
Vietnam imports over 53,000 live pigs since early 2021
Vietnam seeks Germany's support for digital transformation in manufacturing
Hanoi's shophouse records new prices
Vietnam railway estimates a loss of US$139 million equity due to Covid-19
Vietnam's legal reform efforts contribute to positive GDP growth: VCCI
Vietnam ships first batch of rice in 2021

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I am trying to back up my 3 banks of user voices from my Motif XS rack to computer.
I found these instructions (below) for how to do it with the editor. Everything goes well until after the data has been transmitted to the computer. When I try to 'go to file" and save, there is no dialogue box to enter a name and save the X1E file.
Is there something I should be doing BEFORE starting the process?
Also, can I make an .X0V file?
If you want the Computer to have your custom VOICES, you must do the following.
This will create a .X1E file that will be back up of your USER VOICES and the current (one) program - that means if you were in MULTI mode when you created this file, the current MULTI will be stored but so to will all the USER Voices, and your Favorites List.
While I have a Motif XS and XF, I don't have a Rack XS. However, I installed the Yamaha Editor for the Rack XS as standalone under Windows XP. Just by opening the Editor I can click on "File", then on "Save" on the drop-down, and a dialog box opens.
Which computer platform and OS version are you using? Which version of the Editor did you install?
I suggest uninstalling version 1.66 and installing 1.67, then see if the problem is resolved.


A Legendary Performer Volume 4 is a compilation album featuring unreleased material except one. It was the last in a series of albums that began with Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1 in 1974, and the first since Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 3 in 1979. As with its predecessors, this album contained previously unreleased (as of 1983) recordings by Presley, with the exception of one track that had previously appeared in the Elvis Aron Presley box set in 1980.
This album marked the first official (i.e. RCA-sanctioned release) of the version of "When it Rains, It Really Pours" that Presley recorded in November 1955 at Sun Records. Also included was an alternate version of his 1958 hit, "One Night" entitled "One Night of Sin" which featured raunchier lyrics than the version RCA released in the 1950s. A much-bootlegged song cut from the soundtrack of Presley's 1962 film Girls! Girls! Girls!, "Plantation Rock" is included as well, as is "The Lady Loves Me", a previously unreleased duet between Presley and Ann-Margret which had been featured in the 1964 film, Viva Las Vegas but never released by RCA until this album. Also making its album-debut in this release is Elvis' remake of the song "Swing Down, Sweet Chariot", a rerecording from his 1960 Gospel LP, His Hand In Mine. This new rendition was featured in the 1969 movie "The Trouble With Girls". Plus, there is an alternate take of "Wooden Heart", a song from the film G.I. Blues, which has a false start due to Elvis messing up part of the lyrics and subsequently laughing.
At the time of the album's release, the origin of two informal recordings released here for the first time: "I'm Beginning to Forget You" and a cover of Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa" was marked as unknown, with the notation that the two recordings had been discovered at Graceland, Presley's mansion. Later, it was learned that the two recordings were among a number that Presley made informally in April 1959 while he was stationed in Germany. This collection is rounded off by a quartet of live performances: a previously unissued performance of "That's All Right" from the 1968 NBC Comeback Special, a 1969 Las Vegas outtake performance of "Are You Lonesome Tonight" in which Elvis begins laughing during the song (this is the album's sole previously released track, having appeared in the 1980 Elvis Aron Presley box set), and two performances from a 1972 appearance at Madison Square Garden in New York City (later reissued as part of the album An Afternoon in the Garden). An excerpt from a 1956 interview recording rounds out the collection.
Rear Cover : Song titles. In brackets RCA statement about this Legendary Performer collections of Elvis Presley. Catalogue number & Printed in U.S.A. bottom right.
Side A : Volume IV top under Elvis.
Side B : Volume IV top under Elvis.
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Would you like to bring the gift of Christmas into a child's life? If so, East Tennessee State University Little Bucs could use your help!
With the holidays about to be in full swing, there are still about 15 little bucs who need a sponsor for the ETSU angel tree program.
According to the ETSU website, Little Buccaneers Early Childhood Laboratory Program is open to children of students enrolled at ETSU. Little Bucs is a 3-Star rated child care facility which serves children ages 3 months to 5 years.
The angel tree program, which is now in its seventh year at ETSU, provides gifts for children whose families cannot afford them.
"Every holiday season Little Buccaneers organizes an Angel Tree for our student-families. If you would like to help a family this year, please select an angel from the Holiday Angel Tree," an event description from 2015 of the little buc angel tree states.
Those wishing to choose an angel can check out the angel tree in the little bucs area of Warf-Pickel Hall located on the ETSU campus. Here, the little angels are shown on the tree and can be selected.
Donations, which are asked to be unwrapped, may also be delivered to Warf-Pickel Hall. Though no date has yet to be set for the end of donations accepted, the end of November to early December has been the deadline in the past years.
For any student wanting to have their child become a little buc, a completed application, a non-refundable registration fee of $5 and a copy of your class schedule are required to be considered for an opening.
For more information about Little Bucs, you can go to their website at http://www.etsu.edu/coe/child/littlebucs/default.php.
Those wishing to know more about the Little Buc angel tree and become a sponsor, please contact Beth Huber at 423-439-7549 or at huber@mail.etsu.edu.


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Old Mystic é uma Região censo-designada localizada no estado americano de Connecticut, no Condado de New London.

Demografia
Segundo o censo americano de 2000, a sua população era de 3205 habitantes.

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
11,4 km², dos quais 11,1 km² cobertos por terra e 0,3 km² cobertos por água. Old Mystic localiza-se a aproximadamente 19 m acima do nível do mar.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 12 km ao redor de Old Mystic.

Ligações externas

Cidades de Connecticut

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Isle of Man Walking Guide
Isle of Man Walks
33 miles long by 13 miles wide, the Isle of Man is a must for all countryside lovers with its many different landscapes and breathtaking scenery. It is said that every type of landscape found in the British Isles can also be found on the Island: layered cliffs, purple mountains, gorse clad valley slopes, sandy beaches and woodland glens. Walkers can enjoy unspoilt coastal and hillside footpaths.
As June arrives the Isle of Man begins to settle the weather calms and the Famous TT races finishes. The Island is left with hillsides that are bright with gorse and the burgeoning purple of heather to come, woodlands and glens are filled with birdsong. An through the crisp clean air the spectacular sights of the mountains of southern Scotland, the English Lake District, the Mountains of Mourne in Northern Ireland and those of the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales there for all to admire.
The Isle of Man offers a glimpse into history that few places in the world can display. The cultural influences for the Island originate from the indigenous Celtic peoples. The Vikings arrived in the Island around 800 AD and the fusion of cultures took place which is still evident in the archaeology that can be seen while exploring the island. Visitors are invited to step back some 10,000 years and retrace "The Story of Mann" which is brought to life by a series of open air sites and museums.
The Isle of Man walking scene is ideal for beginners or leisure walkers right up too the advanced experience rambler. With walks or circular trails that can only take a few hours or less, to conquering 95 miles of coastal footpath or striving to reach the summit of Snaefell (2036 feet), the highest point in the Isle of Man.
For more information on this area visit the
official web site for Isle of Man
Regional Walking Guides
A full list of "Where to Walk" Walking Guides can be found at List of Regional Walking Guides.
Cicerone Books
Cicerone Press offer a range of books and eBooks offering guides to all the popular walking areas and long-distance trails in Britain and overseas. Their illustrated guides feature walks, information and maps to help you make the most of the outdoors. Explore Cicerone's Catalogue


English versionStudyGRADUATEEngineering Programme "diplôme d'ingénieur"
At Centrale Nantes we firmly believe that engineers must bring unique perspective. That is why we offer advanced technical and scientific education, which remains broad and multi-disciplinary in nature. Our graduates are able to place these scientific subjects in a global context, taking full account of societal and environmental concerns. Drawing upon 1) the priorities defined nationally with regard to industrial policy, and 2) our strong and targeted ambitions for innovation, Centrale Nantes has designed its curriculum around six key societal challenges.
Students follow two distinct specialisations, in their second and third years respectively. Students completing both years 2 and 3 will advance their knowledge in two distinct disciplines commensurate with their career development plans.
They choose from the more than 20 specialisations below focused on these six key challenges combined with a cross-disciplinary approach to research and innovation.
An additional specialisation is open to third year students only: Doctorate.
In addition to their chosen specialisation in their final year, students choose a professional option which focuses on a particular sector of activity or function. Each option comprises 136 hours of courses including project work within the relevant field.
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A People Map of the US
What does it look like when city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia'ed resident?
by Matthew Daniels, Russell Goldenberg via The Pudding on May 29, 2019
Data for this story were collected and processed using the Wikipedia API. The period of collection was from July, 2015–May, 2019, from English Wikipedia. It was inspired in part by this map.
Similar themes in an earlier era
Illustrated Maps of New York Through the Ages
A selection of illustrated maps of New York spanning six centuries.
by Katherine Harmon via The Paris Review on June 14, 2018
The World According to the 1580s
A newly digitized map offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization.
by Benjamin Breen on April 17, 2019
How Women Mapped the Upheaval of 19th Century America
The second part in a series exploring little-seen contributions to cartography.
by Laura Bliss via CityLab on March 23, 2016
John L. Sullivan Fights America
In 1883, heavy-weight boxing champion John L. Sullivan embarked on a tour of the country that would make him a sports superstar.
by Christopher Klein via The Public Domain Review on April 30, 2014
Republicans Think Celebrities Can Win Them the Black Vote. They're Wrong.
Kanye West won't win Trump black support. But it will cost West his.
by Leah Wright Rigueur via Made by History on May 10, 2018
When Walt Whitman Was Dying, It Was Front-Page News — For Months
After the beloved poet caught a chill in December 1891, The Times kept a literary bedside vigil until his death on March 26, 1892.
by Tina Jordan via New York Times on December 18, 2018
The TV That Created Donald Trump
Rewatching "The Apprentice," the show that made his Presidency possible.
by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on July 31, 2017
40% of Wikipedia Is Under Threat from Deletionists
"Deletionists" are rapidly removing content from Wikiedpia; often, the lost material is created by those who struggle to be heard.
by Andrea James via BoingBoing on February 16, 2017
Plug in Your Address to See How It's Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years
You can hone in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian Period and the present.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on February 15, 2019
Hunting for the Ancient Lost Farms of North America
2,000 years ago, people domesticated these plants. Now they're wild weeds. What happened?
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How Maps Reveal, and Conceal, History
What one scholar learned from writing an American history consisting of 100 maps.
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The Forced Migration of Enslaved People
An interactive set of maps and narratives of the forced migration of approximately 850,000 enslaved people from 1810-1860.
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The modern internet has come a long way.
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Russians Were Once Banned From a Third of the U.S.
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Crypto Credits
Buy, Sell, Trade & Exchange on the Blockchain
ByAuthor NewsPosted on July 14, 2019 July 14, 2019
Japan To Investigate Facebook's Libra — Z6 Mag
Financial officials of Japan are looking into the impact of Facebook's newly announced cryptocurrency venture, Libra.
According to sources, Japan will begin to investigate the impacts of cryptocurrencies, especially Libra, on the financial market regarding monetary policies and financial regulation, as well as, its effect on the global banking system.
The investigation was said to be conducted in anticipation of the G7 Finance Minister Meeting that will be held in France next week. Japanese financial delegation in the G7 meeting includes a working group currently consists of representatives from the Bank of Japan, the Ministry of Finance, and the Financial Services Agency.
The multiple agency finance committee is expected to focus on cryptocurrencies and Libra concerning regulation, monetary policy, tax, and payment settlements. They first met earlier this week to discuss their plans regarding the growing prominence of blockchain technology and crypt-based money.
France and Japan are especially keen to find out how central banks from around the world can make sure that currencies like Libra are properly regulated. Japan hopes to expand its current working group to involve regulators from other countries to come up with coherent policies.
Libra, Facebook's digital coin
A few weeks ago, Facebook launched its own digital money, and it has made ambitious promises. The company said that "Libra is a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people."
Three things make Libra different from other cryptocurrencies that are already existing including bitcoin as Facebook said: It is built on a secure, scalable, and reliable blockchain; it is backed by a reserve of assets designed to give it intrinsic value; the independent Libra Association governs it tasked with evolving the ecosystem.
"The Libra currency is built on the "Libra Blockchain." Because it is intended to address a global audience, the software that implements the Libra Blockchain is open source — designed so that anyone can build on it, and billions of people can depend on it for their financial needs. With the proliferation of smartphones and wireless data, increasingly more people will be online and able to access Libra through these new services. To enable the Libra ecosystem to achieve this vision over time, the blockchain has been built from the ground up to prioritize scalability, security, efficiency in storage and throughput, and future adaptability," reads their official announcement.
However, amidst global campaign launched by Facebook to build credibility for Libra, many analysts and government officials have expressed their concerns regarding how the new digital coin would impact global economics as well as raised trouble over Facebook's reputation concerning data security.
Governments raised concern over Facebook's Libra
European officials have also expressed concern regarding Libra, citing that the system, if widely adopted, could shake the global economy and rival national banks. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire sent a letter to officials from the G7 and International Monetary Fund calling for a group to examine Libra's impact on the global financial system. Le Maire said that Libra must not become a "sovereign currency," while a German politician noted Facebook's potential to become a "shadow bank" to the global financial system.
American lawmakers also have their eyes on the recent project of Facebook. US Representative Maxine Waters, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, asked Facebook to halt work on the unit it answers questions about privacy and security.
Only yesterday, President Donald Trump said that he is not a "fan" of cryptocurrencies, asserted that America has only one currency, criticized bitcoin, as well as told Facebook that they need a banking charter if they want to launch their newly announced crypto-based money called Libra.
Trump said cryptocurrencies are not money, and "Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity."
"If Facebook and other companies want to become a bank, they must seek a new Banking Charter and become subject to all Banking Regulations," said the president.
According to the President, the dollar is the only currency in America, and Libra, among other cryptocurrencies, are not "real money."
"We have only one real currency in the USA, and it is stronger than ever, both dependable and reliable. It is by far the most dominant currency anywhere in the World, and it will always stay that way. It is called the United States Dollar!" Trump said in a tweet.
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Lesson On How to Look Like a Pompous Ass, Bitcoin Style
Crypto Ponzi Scheme operator's house burnt down
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India's Jail Term for Crypto Usage
BitMEX Owner Awards $60K Grant to Bitcoin Developer Michael Ford
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Brazil Authorities to Adapt Cross-Sector Regulations to React to Digital Transformation
ByAuthor NewsPosted on July 16, 2019
On July 12, 2019, Tokyo-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint promptly suspended its services after noticing an error in the outgoing funds transfer system. Soon, an official announcement followed, revealing that the trading platform had lost around 3.5 billion yen (roughly $32 million) as a result of a security breach. The exchange's administration has managed to find a portion of the missing funds since the initial announcement was published. Nevertheless, the security breach seems to continue the streak of hacks targeting Japan-based exchanges.
Details of the hack
According to the breakdown of the hack published by Bitpoint's parent firm, Remixpoint Inc., Bitcoin (BTC) accounted for the highest share of total losses. The total amount of stolen BTC (1,225) is worth over 15 billion yen (just over $138 million). Further, over 28 million XRP (10 billion yen, or $92 million) and 11,169 ETH (3.3 billion yen, or $30 million were…
Companies continue to invest millions in blockchain — Here's why
Mackenzie Garrity – Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
By 2022, blockchain investment across all industries is anticipated to hit $12.4 billion, according to research firm IDC and cited by Reuters.
For the past 10…
Facebook Stresses Libra's Compliance With FinCEN at Senate Hearing
David Marcus, head of Facebook's crypto wallet Calibra, stressed Facebook's intent to be compliant with the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in distributing the Libra stablecoin. As a Cointelegraph correspondent reports on July 16, Marcus delivered his comments at the ongoing hearing on Facebook's Libra with the Banking Committee of the U.S. Senate.
Addressing the issues of money laundering and terrorism financing, Senator Cortez Mastro asked Marcus how Facebook is going to ensure that the platform is not being used for such purposes. Marcus responded that "this is something that I care about deeply, personally." Marcus added that the company will have an Anti-Money Laundering program, reiterating Facebook's commitment to FinCEN.
Marcus stated that "Calibra will be affordable and accessible and also safe and secure" and will comply with FinCEN and state regulation. According to Marcus, Libra Corporation will still register with FinCEN despite the…
Blockchain consortium R3 has partnered with Brazilian fintech company Banco Maré to launch a stock exchange for investing in technology firms.
Banco Maré, a blockchain-powered digital bank focused on financial inclusion, intends to build a tokenized stock exchange offering investments in technology companies with "social impact," Cointelegraph Brazil reports July 16.
The new R3 technology-backed platform, provisionally named BVM12, will purportedly open a new funding source for technology startups, as well as enable individual investors to generate dividends from investments in new technologies, the report notes.
Rio de Janeiro-based Banco Maré has reportedly conducted its first informal consultations with the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission, and is reportedly planning to make an official request to the agency in August 2019.
Banco Maré CEO Alexander Albuquerque claimed that the new venture aims to democratize risky investment and bring the low-income public to the stock market.
Earlier in June, Cointelegraph reported that the…
Is There a Future for Privacy Coins in the United States? » The Merkle Hash
Cryptocurrencies which provides users with privacy and anonymity are often looked down upon by politicians and other officials. Especially in the US, privacy coins such as Monero and ZCash might face an uphill battle in the future. The most recent White House press conference only confirms these currencies are designed for criminals and no one else.
The Stigmas Remain
For quite some time now, the term "privacy coins" is associated with illegal activity on the internet and in the real world. This is primarily because of the privacy and anonymity features these currencies tend to provide to its users. In the case of Monero, for example, it is impossible to determine who owns how many coins, or who is sending and receiving transactions. This makes it a thorn in the side of government officials and financial experts, as they only see the negative side of this…
'I like bitcoin,' says House GOP leader McCarthy, hits Facebook Libra
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told CNBC on Tuesday that he likes the decentralized nature and the security of bitcoin.
"I like bitcoin" and the security of the blockchain ledger technology behind cryptocurrencies, the California Republican said, as he criticized Facebook's plans for a Libra digital coin ahead of hearings on Capitol Hill this week.
Libra will be pegged to a basket of government-backed money, compared with bitcoin, which is highly volatile in price and derives value from factors including its ability to enable instantaneous, anonymous, global payments and as an investment.
Nobody controls bitcoin.
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Microsoft, Novartis Team on AI-based Therapies
October 2, 2019 by George Leopold
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis is teaming with Microsoft on a medical AI effort aimed at developing new data-driven techniques for drug discovery and development of specific therapies.
The multi-year alliance announced this week would establish an AI innovation lab the drug maker would use to uncover new drug designs, cell and gene therapies as well as "personalized" therapies for macular degeneration.
The partners said their collaboration would seek to connect the drug maker's broad data sets with Microsoft's AI technologies with the goal of creating new AI models and drug and therapy applications.
Among the areas to be explored are computational-intensive life sciences projects ranging from generative chemistry to scaling cell and gene therapies, the partners said Tuesday (Oct. 1).
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Novartis (NYSE: NVS) also said they would collaborate on development next-generation AI platforms to support broader utilization of the technology across the drug maker's operations. Along with an undisclosed funding commitment, the AI effort includes technology, tools and subject-matter experts.
Joint research facilities will be located at the main Novartis campus in Basel, its Global Service Center in Dublin, Ireland, and at Microsoft Research Lab in the U.K.
"Pairing our deep knowledge of human biology and medicine with Microsoft's leading expertise in AI could transform the way we discover and develop medicines," Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan said in announcing the AI partnership.
The collaboration will "take advantage of advanced Microsoft AI technology combined with Novartis' deep life sciences expertise to find new ways to address the challenges underlying every phase of drug development – including research, clinical trials, manufacturing, operations and finance," Peter Lee, Microsoft Healthcare's corporate vice president, added in a blog post.
Other efforts to blend AI with drug discovery have so far fallen short. In April, for example, IBM (NYSE: IBM) ended sales of its Watson AI software used by pharmaceutical firms for new drug discovery.
In response to reports, IBM said at the time it remained "committed to its continued success for our clients currently using the technology. We are focusing our resources within Watson Health to double down on the adjacent field of clinical development where we see an even greater market need for our data and AI capabilities."
Nevertheless, a healthcare executive told Datanami "cynicism is growing in healthcare about the applicability of AI [and machine learning] to solve clinical diagnostic problems."
Novartis and Microsoft may have taken the lesson, narrowing their AI efforts to specific applications like "personalized" therapies rather than broad drug discovery efforts. Those initiatives often require years of clinical trials and a complex drug approval process before they hit the market.
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About the author: George Leopold
George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).
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How Does a Service Mesh Impact Your Cloud Costs? A FinOps Perspective
What Is a Service Mesh?
A service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer for microservices-based applications that makes communication between service instances flexible, reliable, and fast. It provides features such as traffic management, service discovery, load balancing, and security. It typically uses a sidecar proxy for each service instance to handle communication between service instances and to provide these features. Examples of service meshes include Istio, Linkerd, and Envoy.
How a Service Mesh Works
A service mesh is typically implemented as a distributed set of proxies that are deployed alongside application code, and it is responsible for traffic management, service discovery, load balancing, and security.
The data plane of a service mesh is the set of proxies deployed alongside the application code. These proxies are responsible for handling the actual traffic between service instances, and they use the configuration provided by the control plane to make routing decisions.
The control plane of a service mesh is the management component responsible for configuring and maintaining the proxies in the data plane. The control plane communicates with the proxies in the data plane to propagate configuration changes and gather telemetry data. Here are the control plane's main areas of responsibility:
Service Registry: The control plane keeps a list (registry) of available services and endpoints and makes it accessible to proxies. It requires querying an underlying infrastructure scheduling system, such as Kubernetes, for a list of the available services.
Sidecar Proxy Configuration: The control plane keeps policies and mesh-wide configurations that proxies use to properly perform their functions.
Here are the main functions performed by service mesh proxies:
Service Discovery: An instance that needs to interact with another service must find (discover) a healthy and available instance, typically by performing a DNS lookup. Container orchestration frameworks usually keep a list of instances available to receive requests, providing the interface for DNS queries.
Load Balancing: Orchestration frameworks typically provide Layer 4 load balancing, while a service mesh can implement more sophisticated Layer 7 load balancing that utilizes advanced algorithms and powerful traffic management.
Authentication and Authorization: A service mesh can authorize and authenticate the various requests made from within the application and externally, sending validated requests to instances.
Observability: Most service mesh frameworks offer insights into services' health and behavior. The control plane collects and aggregates telemetry data from component interactions to assess service health, using factors such as distributed tracing, access logs, traffic, and latency.
What Is FinOps?
FinOps (short for "Financial Operations") is a set of practices, principles, and tools designed to optimize and manage the cost, usage, and performance of cloud infrastructure and services. It is a cross-functional approach that brings together the traditional silos of finance, operations, and development teams to better understand, manage, and optimize the costs associated with cloud infrastructure and services.
The main goal of FinOps is to enable organizations to use cloud services in a way that is financially efficient, operationally sound, and aligned with the business objectives. This is achieved by implementing a set of best practices that help organizations to track, optimize, and forecast their cloud costs, as well as to automate the processes of provisioning, scaling, and retiring cloud resources.
FinOps practices include cost management, usage optimization, forecasting, budgeting, and chargeback. FinOps also includes the use of various tools such as cost optimization, cost visualization, and rightsizing tools to help organizations to better manage their cloud costs.
How Service Mesh Impact Your Cloud Costs
Service meshes have the potential to impact cloud costs in several ways. Here are some of the main pros and cons:
Improved Resource Utilization: Service meshes provide features such as load balancing, service discovery, and traffic management, which can help to improve the utilization of cloud resources. This can result in cost savings by reducing the need to over-provision resources.
Better Visibility and Control: Service meshes provide detailed observability and control over the communication between service instances, which can help to identify and resolve issues that may be impacting the performance and cost of cloud services.
Reduced Costs for Security and Compliance: Service meshes can provide security and compliance features, such as authentication and encryption, that can help to reduce the need for additional security and compliance services.
Additional Resource Requirements: Service meshes introduce an additional layer of infrastructure and require additional resources to operate, such as sidecar proxies and a control plane. These resources may increase the overall cost of running cloud services.
Complexity: Service meshes can add complexity to the architecture and management of cloud services, which may increase the costs of operating and maintaining cloud services.
Lack of Standardization: Service meshes are relatively new and there is a lack of standardization among different service mesh implementations, which can make it difficult to compare costs and to switch between different service meshes.
In conclusion, service meshes are a powerful tool for improving the communication and management of microservices in cloud environments. They provide features such as traffic management, service discovery, load balancing, and security that can help to improve the utilization of cloud resources and provide better visibility and control over cloud services.
However, service meshes also come with additional resource requirements and complexity that can impact cloud costs. As such, implementing a service mesh requires careful consideration of the specific needs of the organization and the costs and benefits of doing so.
From a FinOps perspective, service meshes can be a valuable tool for managing and optimizing cloud costs, but organizations should be mindful of the additional resource requirements and complexity associated with these solutions.
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Presence, Economy of Force and Scalability: The New Amphibious Task Force
By Robbin Laird
The USMC is considered the nation's crisis management force.
But with the rise of new authoritarian powers, peer-to-peer maneuvering and conflict are now a clear part of crisis management.
The good news is that the evolution of the USN-USMC team at sea has evolved over the pst decade, and now the amphibious task force piece of crisis management is a key element bringing presence, economy of force, scalability and lethality to the operational force.
Prior to the coming of the Osprey, the amphibious force was operating within a 200 square mile box. The Amphibious Ready Group-Marine Expeditionary Unit could engage in the high end fight only with the presence of the carrier task force or USAF support.
This all changed with the Osprey.
Now the Marines could operate at much greater distance and the ARG-MEU evolved to operate over a much wider area.
Within the first decade of the change, the three ship ARG-MEU began to be part of different land-based operations, and the C2 side of the operation became a bit confused and muddled from the standpoint of the amphibious task force itself.
With the coming of the F-35B to the amphibious force, now the crisis management force had a high end asset able to provide tip of the spear ISR, C2 and weapons to the fight.
We have seen this with the first deployed F-35B enabled amphibious task force which has just returned from the Middle East this year.
The deployment marked the first combat sorties by the F-35B multi-mission jet, flown by the Wake Island Avengers of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211 from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz. Missions included support to ground forces in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
The amphibious force operated in three geographic regions during the deployment, mostly in the U.S. 7th Fleet and 5th Fleet – and Anchorage also traveled to the Mediterranean to support U.S. 6th Fleet operations and train with the Italian military.
"The 13th MEU provided support to Operation Inherent Resolve and Operation Freedom's Sentinel while simultaneously supporting maritime security and theater security cooperation events in the U.S. 5th Fleet and 6th Fleet areas of operations," Col. Chandler Nelms, the 13th MEU commander, said in a news release. "Our dynamic operations demonstrated the flexibility of the amphibious task force….."
The F-35B squadron is part of the 13th MEU's air combat element led by Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 166 (Reinforced).
The 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines led the Battalion Landing Team 3/1 as the MEU's ground combat element, and Combat Logistics Battalion 13 served as its logistics element. The Essex ARG includes includes the Blackjacks of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 21 and detachments from Assault Craft Unit 5, Naval Beach Group 1, Beachmaster Unit 1, Fleet Surgical Team 3 and Tactical Air Control Squadron 11….
PEARL HARBOR (Feb. 18, 2019) F-35B Lightning II sit on the flight deck while Sailors and Marines prepare to man the rails of Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) as it pulls into Pearl Harbor during a deployment of Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). The Essex ARG/MEU team is a strong and flexible force equipped and scalable to respond to any crisis ranging from humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to contingency operations. The Essex ARG and 13th MEU is the first continental United States Navy/Marine Corps team to deploy with the F-35B. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matthew Freeman/Released)
The following is the March 1, 2019 release from U.S. 3rd Fleet.
Essex Amphibious Ready Group Returns from Deployment
By Third Fleet Public Affairs
SAN DIEGO (NNS) — Sailors and Marines of the Essex (LHD 2) Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) returned to their homeport of San Diego, following a successful deployment to the Indo-Pacific, Middle East, Mediterranean, and Horn of Africa regions, March 1.
More than 4,500 sailors and Marines of the Essex ARG and embarked 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conducted maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in support of regional security, stability, and the free flow of maritime commerce.
"This deployment was a great example of dynamic force employment," said Capt. Gerald Olin, commander, Amphibious Squadron (PHIBRON) 1. "We were successful on our deployment because we operated the way we trained. Our team was manned, trained and equipped successfully so that we were able to meet mission requirements in every fleet."
During the ARG/MEU's deployment, the ships conducted subject matter exchanges and important theater security cooperation exercises with regional partners in 5th, 6th and 7th fleets as well as participated in military operations.
"Our dynamic Blue-Green team performed admirably and their accomplishments speak wonders to the resolve, resiliency and incredible sacrifice the Sailors, Marines, and their families made to make this a successful deployment," said Olin. "I am proud to have been part of this deployment with this team, and after such a successful deployment, I know our Sailors and Marines, as well as their friends and families, are excited to be home."
Essex is comprised of amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23), and amphibious dock landing ship USS Rushmore (LSD 47). Embarked commands include "Blackjacks" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC-21), Assault Craft Unit 5, Naval Beach Group 1, Beachmaster Unit 1, Fleet Surgical Team 3, and Tactical Air Control Squadron 11.
13th MEU is commanded by Col. Chandler Nelms and consists of the Command Element, the Aviation Combat Element comprised of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 166 (Reinforced), Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211, the Ground Combat Element comprised of Battalion Landing Team 3/1 (Reinforced), and the Logistics Combat Element comprised of Combat Logistics Battalion 13.
The end of this deployment is uniquely significant, as it was the inaugural combat deployment of the Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II.
"The Essex was embarked with the next generation of air assets," said Olin. "The full integration of the Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II drastically enhanced the ARG/MEU lethality and proved to be a credible strike and defense capability. The MV-22 provided the range and cargo capacity to maintain critical logistical lines of effort to maintain continued support of operations. This Essex deployment perfectly demonstrated the promising future of aviation for the ARG/MEU teams."
Throughout deployment, the ARG/MEU participated in a variety of exercises with multi-national partners throughout the Indo-Pacific, Mediterranean, and Middle East regions, which strengthened partnerships and increased combat readiness, amphibious and crisis-response capabilities, and communication between U.S. and partner nation forces.
In the western Pacific, sailors and Marines worked with militaries during bilateral Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training exercises with Malaysia and Indonesia. Simultaneously, sailors and Marines of the Anchorage worked with the military of Sri Lanka to bolster regional partnerships.
In the Middle East, the team participated in exercises with a variety of partners during bilateral engagements such as Eastern Maverick 19 with Qatar and the Theater Amphibious Combat Rehearsal, which was conducted in Djibouti.
"Our Sailors and Marines did an absolutely fantastic job this deployment," said Capt. Brian Mutty, commanding officer of Essex. "It was impressive to watch the Navy/Marine Corps teams execute every mission we were tasked with. During Theater Amphibious Combat Rehearsal and Eastern Maverick, the coordination between the Navy-Marine Corps team effectively projected power from the sea and ashore. Furthermore, the ship provided direct combat support for Operations Inherent Resolve and Freedom's Sentinel."
As Rushmore and Essex conducted operations in the Middle East, Anchorage represented the ARG/MEU team as they operated in the Mediterranean Sea. The steadfast and formidable presence of Anchorage and the 13th MEU decisively advanced stability and security objectives in the region.
"Our ARG/MEU team operated across two geographic combatant commands simultaneously supporting multiple operations, exercises and subject matter expert exchanges," said Capt. Dennis Jacko, commanding officer of Anchorage. "The inherent flexibility of the ARG/MEU is what makes our team so valuable to theater commanders, and the robust capability of the LPD 17 Class to execute independent operations provides a force multiplier in every ARG."
13th MEU, Essex ARG Return Home, Ending First F-35B Combat Deployment
The new capabilities of the new amphibious group was demonstrated during this deployment as well.
In an article by Alex Lockie published on September 11, 2018, the role of the amphibious task force off of Syria was highlighted and the force would not be playing this role without the F-35B onboard.
A U.S. Marine Corps aircraft carrier full of F-35B stealth jets showed up in the Middle East after Russia threatened U.S. forces in Syria in the latest military buildup between the world's two greatest nuclear powers.
Russia sailed a small armada to the Mediterranean sea in August as its prepares with its ally, Syria, an offensive against the last rebel stronghold in the country after predicting a chemical weapons attack that it prematurely blamed on U.S.-aligned forces.
Until recently, the U.S. had no capital ships and just one or two destroyers in the Mediterranean, but the USS Essex, a small, flat-deck aircraft carrier used to launch U.S. Marine Corps F-35B stealth jets that can take off almost vertically, just arrived off the horn of Africa, USNI News reports.
Though the Essex remains on the opposite side of the Suez Canal from Russia's ships in the Mediterranean, it's a quick-moving ship. Additionally, the F-35Bs can fly about 550 miles out from the ship in stealth configurations that make them hard to detect for enemy defenses.
Direct combat between Russia and the U.S. remains unlikely, as both sides work together to avoid accidental conflict and neither side seems willing to escalate a fight over Syria into a massive war.
But Syria has hosted the world's liveliest air defense and battlespace for years. Missile fires have taken down Israeli, Syrian, and Russian jets over the course of the war. Syria has seen the combat debut of the F-35 and the first U.S. air-to-air kill between manned aircraft since 1999.
The F-35Bs aboard the Essex will train on a variety of missions near the Red Sea, such as how to provide close air support for Marine units optimized to take beaches, or how to respond to an attack.
"Our primary mission is crisis response… being current and absolutely ready for anything the geographic combatant commander needs us to do while we are here," Col. Chandler Nelms, commander of the military expeditionary unit aboard the Essex told USNI.
Gidget Fuentes in an article published on February 27, 2019 by USNI News highlighted the new roles for the amphibious task force which the deployment is presaging.
The Marine Corps is slowly replacing its aging fleet of AV-8B Harrier attack aircraft with the fifth-generation fighter that boasts suites of advanced avionics, navigation, communications and weapons systems that added a wide range of new capabilities to the Essex ARG.
"It's got the short-takeoff capability of the Harrier, the speed and payload of a (F/A-18) Hornet, and it's got the forcible entry options that stealth technologies give us," Nelms said.
"Because of its air-to-air capability and its sensors for air-to-ground capabilities, it also provides a new dynamic for the ARG commander, for the commodore, while we're out conducting blue-water operations or littoral operations or defending the ARG. … On its first deployment, it was kept very busy."
"[It] increases battlespace awareness with data fusion and the ability to share information with the ships and the ships' combat control system," Capt. Gerald Olin, Amphibious Squadron 1 commander and Essex ARG/MEU commodore, told USNI News from Essex. "So it's really an extension of our sensors, and it also brings to the table a greater increased lethality than what we had with previous generation aircraft…"
The aircraft and its integration with the ship and integration with the mission exceed my expectations," Lt. Col. Kyle Shoop, who commands VMFA-211, told USNI News. "Just in our time with 5th Fleet, we supported over 50 days of combat for over 1,200 flight hours … didn't drop a single line of FRAG or combat support."
At times, the jets flew off Essex for long missions, "and we kept employing ordnance in both theaters," Shoop said, referring to Afghanistan for Operation Freedom Sentinel and Syria and Iraq for Operation Inherent Resolve.
"The jet itself proved to be very reliable. Throughout that whole time period, Marines did a great job keeping it serviceable," he said. "We were gone away from the ship for an extreme amount of time – a lot of times over five, six hours away from the ship – and they'd turn them around that night to fly again the next day. So that went really well."
The F-35B performed "like we expected," Shoop added. "Some of the sensors onboard would do better than, say, a Harrier would through adverse weather or things like that. So it proved to be pretty versatile…"
The addition of the F-35B also gave commanders an aircraft capable of helping defend the amphibious task force. Its onboard systems provided a data link so "we could communicate with and incorporate into our defensive posture," said Olin, whose career includes operational deployments with carrier strike groups.
"That's kind of the model I'm used to. We were able to emulate that, to some extent, here on the Essex ARG by using the F-35 for deck-launched interceptor support, defensive counter-air, anti-surface warfare type of missions. So that was a really great addition to the package here, above what we and I had experienced with the AV-8 Harrier on the last deployment."
"I think we have already proven that the [F-35B] is reliable and that it integrates well on the amphibious shipping," Nelms said. "So the next step now is just continue to develop the tactics, the techniques, the procedures of how we fight with that. We got a really good look at that on this deployment, and I think there's a lot more to be explored in the future."
The articles cited above discuss the recently returned ARG-MEU force which deployed with the F-35 for the first time.
It is clear that the multi-domain aircraft is at the heart of changing the ARG-MEU for a launch point for helo or Osprey enabled forces and providing a high end capability integrated into the insertion force.
But we have argued for many years, the F-35 is an enabler but you will not get full value from the aircraft, not the global fleet unless you change the entire approach and put into operation new technologies and capabilities which enabled what we initially called the honeycomb force and what we know use, the more widely used term, the kill web.
For the ARG-MEU what this has meant that a significant cluster of innovations is changing the nature of it s capabilities and making a key element for crisis management against peer authoritarian powers.
First has been the maturation of the Osprey.
Second has been building a new class of amphibious ships which can make significantly greater advantage of Marine Aviation as the enabler for the assault or insertion force.
The USS America is a whole new class of ships which has three decks and an ability to support aviation in a way that the two deck large deck amphibs simply can not.
Third has been the significant emphasis of the Marines on shaping a digital interoperable force, one which can reshape the nature of distributed operations.
Fourth has been the sun-setting of the Prowler EW aircraft and focusing on tron warfare built into the operational force.
Fifth has been adding new ships to the task force, some from the Military Sealift Command and working through ways to add capabilities to the task force as a crisis unfolds.
Sixth is training for operating in contested environments and dealing with degraded C2 and here the F-35 can provide key capabilities as a crisis might evolve.
Seventh is the ability to put the new G/ATOR system ashore which can provide the ashore insertion force with significant new reachback capabilities or scalability.
Eighth is the ability to work interoperability between the F-35 and land and sea missile defense systems.
Integration with Aegis provides a significant and rapid asset which can affect the battlespace rapidly.
(Not to put fine a point on this, we already anticipated this in 2011 when this article was written:
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2012/january/long-reach-aegis)
And with the Marines latest artillery pieces being linked ashore or afloat, the Marines are working towards what they see as a more integrated kill web farce.
Again, one that can provide presence as the task force enters an area of interest but one which has the capability to add task force elements from ground, sea or air elements within connectivity reach.
Ninth the coming additions to Marine Corps Aviation are conceived of in terms of adding new capabilities to a kill-web enabled amphibious task force.
The new CH-53k is not an E; it has combat systems onboard which change the nature of what a heavy lift helicopter can bring to the fight and can deal with contingencies requiring an augmented ground maneuver force.
Tenth any new unmanned system to be added to the force is seen to contribute to the kill web evolution and if it becomes more a speed bump rather than a contributor, then the Marines will wait until they get the kind of unmanned systems they are looking for.
(See my chapter on the USMC in the new book, One Nation Under Drones.)
Eleventh the force can operate and be sustained from the seabase.
This means that mobile basing is inherent to the force, something which the F-35B can do ashore or afloat.
This means as well as directed energy weapons enter the force, they can be placed on the asset most ready to support it, namely a ship with enough power to operate these systems.
In short, the F-35B has been an enabler of a significant change to the amphibious task force.
But its full value will become expanded or realized only as the task force itself evolves.
With the significant evolution of the amphibious task force into one which can provide presence, economy of force and scalability through the kill web to other Army, Navy or Air Force assets or through the F-35 global fleet through rapid allied augmentations, the USN-USMC team is at the heart of reshaping the kind of crisis management capability crucial to deal with the authoritarian peer competitors we are now confronting globally.
The featured photo:
F-35B Lightning IIs with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211, the Wake Island Avengers, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), fly past Wake Island during a regularly scheduled deployment of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 13th MEU, August 1, 2018.
The Essex ARG/MEU team is a strong, flexible, responsive and consistent force deployed to the 7th fleet area of operations to support regional stability, reassure partners and allies and maintain a presence ready to respond to any crisis from humanitarian assistance to contingency operations.
The Essex ARG and 13th MEU is the first continental United States Navy/Marine Corps team to deploy with the F-35B Lightning.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Francisco J. Diaz Jr.)
We wrote about this coming development in our 2013 book on Pacific strategy.
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Jerusalem Post Blog Home Looking Forward
Are We Just Spinning Our Wheels?
By HARRY ZEITLIN
Published: SEPTEMBER 6, 2015 11:51
Albert Einstein was a brilliant theoretical physicist and mathematician, but that doesn't deify his every pronouncement. His too-often repeated statement that "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result" is refuted by the common wisdom, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again".
Although it was always pretty much a foregone conclusion that the recent Iran Capitulation Agreement will stand, many dedicated people, including some I tremendously respect, invested an enormous amount of time, money and energy trying to generate the support to defeat it. Were they wasting their time? Is "merely" rallying the troops worth the efforts? Was there ever a chance for success?
As Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur approach and we prepare to invest significant time, effort and emotion in prayer, don't we all know from the start that we'll sin over and over again in this new year? Our prayers and intentions for Tshuvah (mending our ways) are doomed to fail, so are we merely displaying symptoms of insanity?
I've been blessed to call many world-class musicians my friends. When I ask them if they've ever, even once, played a piece of music "perfectly", everyone points out exactly where they missed an exact pitch, a precise moment, an aimed-for timbre of color. In all the years that I enjoyed a reputation as one of the premier black-and-white photo-printers, my eye would instantly travel to every point on a final print that I didn't tickle into the "right" tonality.
Before the Shaliach Tzibur (prayer leader) chants Kol Nidre, perhaps the keystone to the entire Yom Kippur service, he proclaims in the name of both the heavenly and the earthly courts, אָֽנוּ מַתִּירִין לְהִתְפַּלֵּל עִם הָעֲבַרְיָנִים (Anu Matirim L'Hitpalel Im HaAvaryanim), "We are permitted (actually, we're mandated) to pray with sinners". This is not, as some current fads might interpret it, a declaration of inclusion. Rather, it's a recognition that even with immense effort, each of us is, and once again will be, significantly less than perfect.
Are we thus wasting our many hours, attention span and patience in prayer? I'm not impressed with the apologetic that "we'd be even worse if we didn't". However, repeated, serious, sincere and strenuous effort, even if unsuccessful this time, is a necessary step in itself towards that ultimate outcome we all pray for: both ourselves and our world made whole, redeemed and, finally, existing at our full potentials. Rabbi Tarfon in Avot 2:17 (אבות ב:טז) famously teaches, לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמוֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה (Lo Alecha MaMalacha Li'Gmar, V'lo Ata Ben Chorin LiBatel Mimena) "It's not up to you to complete the work, but you are not free to do nothing".
It is only through the continuous, combined, necessarily incomplete attempts and efforts of each and every one of us Avaryanim, sinners, both this year and in all coming years, that we will sufficiently refine ourselves and bring our world to its ultimate fullness.
Tizku l'Shanim Rabot, may we all earn an everlasting future. Shana Tova.
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Music to Watch Girls By... listen along to The Darling Girls by Emma Burstall
The Darling Girls begins with the funeral of Leo Bruck, a world-famous conductor, and a man whose life was inevitably steeped in music. Victoria, his partner of more than twenty years and mother of his two children, believes that Leo listened only to classical music. Indeed, she herself was once a professional cellist.
For the funeral she chooses one of his own recordings, Mozart's beautiful 'Requiem in D minor', followed by Bach's moving 'Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe' ('I stand with one Foot in the Grave').
But there are two other women in Leo's life. Cat knows that, in her company at least, Leo enjoyed an eclectic mix of contemporary music, including Lily Allen, Coldplay, Amy Winehouse and Green Day. Meanwhile Maddy, mother of his third child, shared Leo's love of Berg's brutal and uncompromising 'Wozzeck', as well as Roby Lakatos, the extraordinary and scorching 'Devil's Fiddler'. This playlist follows the musical tastes of a character living three different lives - it made for some varied choices.
During my research for The Darling Girls, I interviewed the renowned conductor Paul Goodwin. He described the extraordinary, peripatetic lives that many conductors lead and kindly shared with me some of his own, personal musical favourites. I think it's fair to say that he's interested in music of all kinds, though in some genres and composers rather more than others.
To a lesser extent perhaps, music has always been important to me too. I often play something quietly in the background when I'm in my study writing. I find it soothing and it gets me in the zone. The only problem with selecting sounds for a book is the huge number of options, particularly as Leo's taste was so wide-ranging.
When I watch the film or play of a book I've loved, I'm rarely completely satisfied with the choice of actors. (One recent exception was a wonderful stage adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch at the Orange Tree theatre in Richmond, South West London, close to where I live. To my surprise and delight, Dorothea and Casaubon were spot on!)
Music, too, is highly personal. Sometimes I find that a soundtrack distracts from what I'm watching. Either it's too loud, inappropriate-seeming or just plain annoying and over the top. At other times it beautifully complements the mood and enhances the atmosphere, just as it should.
Choosing the right music felt to me a little like trying to find the perfect actor to play a particular character in one of my books. I realise that you can't please everyone because we all have our own, often quite fixed, ideas of how a fictional person might appear and sound.
But I trust that I've manage to capture at least some of the ambience that I've tried to convey at certain key moments in The Darling Girls: grief, anger, optimism, despair, longing, excitement – and pure uncomplicated joy. I think that Leo and his 'Darling Girls' would have approved of my choices – and I hope you do too.
Emma Burstall is the author of The Darling Girls, out now in eBook and paperback.
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THE DARLING GIRLS, BY EMMA BURSTALL
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1. Chapter One: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem in D minor.
2. Chapter One: Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata no 156 'Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe'
3. Chapter Two: Lily Allen – Who'd Have Known.
4. Chapter Three: Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.2 in C Minor 'Resurrection'. Movement I.
5. Chapter Six: Nina Simone – I Put a Spell on You.
6. Chapter Ten: Coldplay – Paradise.
7. Chapter Ten: Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
8. Chapter Nineteen: Shirley Bassey - Cry Me a River.
9. Chapter Twenty Two: Berg's Wozzeck. Finale.
10. Chapter Twenty Five: Johann Sebastian Bach. 6 Suites a Violincello solo senza Basso. Suite No 1 in G. Prelude.
11. Chapter Twenty Five: Roby Lakatos – Hungarian Dance No 5.
12. Chapter Twenty Eight: Bill Withers - Ain't no Sunshine When You're Gone.
13. Chapter Thirty: Aretha Franklin - I'm Sitting on Top of The World.
14. Chapter Thirty: Lou Reed - Perfect Day.
15. Chapter Thirty: Neil Young – Only Love Can Break Your Heart.
16. Chapter Thirty One: Passenger – Let Her Go.
17. Chapter Thirty Two: Billie Holiday – The Very Thought of You.
18. Chapter Thirty Three: Fairground Attraction – Perfect.


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Summer Lecture Series Continues
Democracy: The Constitution, The Courts and The People
Upcoming Talks:
Tuesday, July 16 th , 7 p.m
"Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court"
Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Professor of Law,
Tuesday, August 6 th , 7 p.m
"Saving America Once Again - Comparing
the Tea Party and the anti-Trump Resistance"
Theda Skocpol, Professor of Government and
Sociology, Harvard
The series is sponsored by Acadia Senior College,
Jesup Memorial Library, and the League of Women Voters
All lectures will be at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor.
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Criterion Theater, Bar Harbor
Oceans are a sonic symphony. Sound is essential to the survival and prosperity of marine life.
But man-made ocean noise is threatening this fragile world. "Sonic Sea" is about protecting life in our waters from the destructive effects of oceanic noise pollution.
A panel discussion, moderated by Steven Katona, will follow the 60-minute documentary. Acadia Senior College is sponsoring this event and offering the film to the community free of charge - all are invited!
Welcome New Board Members and Officers!
The Annual General Meeting was held on Wednesday, June 5th at the Neighborhood House in Northeast Harbor. Nat Fenton recognized and thanked outgoing board members Dan Poteet and Charles Stanhope. Nat also recognized retiring Curriculum Committee editor Larry Martin, and thanked him for his dedication as a committee member, former board member and long-time instructor.
Andy Cline reported on ASC's finances and was happy to convey that the college is fiscally sound. Jim Clunan presented the board candidates and nominations for officers. Members present elected four new board members and the slate of officers. The evening concluded with a potluck supper.
Read the minutes of the Annual General Meeting
2019 - 2020 Officers
Linda Dunn, President
Michael Hastings, Vice President
Andy Cline, Treasurer
Ann Caswell, Secretary
New Board Members
Candy Emlen was Director of Marketing & Sales for a small commuter airline in Pennsylvania before moving to Mount Desert Island in 1983. She and her husband Jay operated Mount Desert Travel for three years. In 1989 Candy began working for the Southwest Harbor Public Library as the Children's Librarian, and in 2002 she was promoted to Director. She retired in 2018, but continues to volunteer for the Library.
Michael Hastings graduated from Bowdoin College. He was a Congressional staff member for Representative and later Senator Bill Cohen and Senator George Mitchell through 1984, when he took a position to manage activities for Catholic Relief Services in Africa until 1991. Returning to Maine, he served as the director of an organization that promotes research on sustainable aquaculture, and was Director of Sponsored Programs at the University of Maine where he was also adjunct faculty in the Maine Business School. [Mike was previously appointed to finish out a vacant term, and formally elected to his first full term at the meeting.]
Sheila Kirby was a senior economist at RAND, a nonprofit think tank, for over 30 years. She served as a Senior Fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago from 2012 to 2017. Her two primary research fields were education and defense, publishing extensively in both of those areas. Sheila held a joint appointment as an adjunct professor of economics and public policy at the George Washington University where she taught at the graduate level for 25 years. She volunteers with the League of Women Voters and Friends in Action and enjoys hiking, reading, cooking, music, plays and telling stories to her grandchildren.
Jane Reynolds attended the University of Massachusetts where she received a BS in Nursing. She worked in many areas of health care before finally focusing on surgical nursing and later obtained an RN First Assistant Certification. Jane retired after 40 years of practice and moved to MDI with her husband, Jim, in 2001.
Rockland Field Trip Recap
Thirty-two ASC members enjoyed a visit to the Owls Head Transportation Museum and the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland. It was a gorgeous spring day, sunny and quite warm on the mid-coast, perfect for visiting museums and exploring this artsy little city... Read the article and see more photos here.
Photos (clockwise from upper left): Nat Fenton, Donna Reis, Ann Caswell, Linda Dunn
Thank you to everyone who donated during our spring appeal, ensuring a strong finish to our fiscal year!
We work hard to keep our programming affordable to all, but you may not know that approximately one-third of our budget depends on gifts from donors like you. The remaining income is from membership and course fees.
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The sprinter runs at top speed, with an all-out burst of energy, heart pounding and legs pumping to beat the wind to the finish line. Exhausted, lungs bursting at the end, the racer collapses and rests. He will sprint again. Later.
The long distance runner cannot sprint—the course is too long. He must learn a different set of skills; he must know how to pace himself, to select those moments in which to push harder and faster, when to ease into the regular run for maintenance.
Life is not a sprint. It is a long distance race.
Too many people are pushing themselves at top sprinting speed every day, every week, year after year. They don't pace themselves. They don't take a break to recover after a big push to meet a deadline—instead a new deadline takes its place and a new sprint begins. The project gets finished but another project stands urgently behind that one. And another. And another. The sales quota, when met, gets raised. Like a meal rushed to its conclusion, the achievement is gulped untasted. Burnout of mind and body arrives after too many sprints in a row.
When was your last vacation? When was your last three-day weekend? What day of the week is your "Do Nothing Day"?
Are you trying to sprint long distance?
Today's guest blog is a wonderful piece on accountability by my friend and relationship coach, Curt Gorlick. He outlines pertinent questions to ask yourself, and stresses the importance of choosing the right people to help you on your way.
Accountability is one of the most overlooked and undervalued pieces of the puzzle to achieving personal and business goals. Without accountability many things in your life would not be present. In fact, lack of accountability could be the biggest reason why you don't currently have what you want in life.
When you choose the wrong person to be accountable to it is counter-productive and a waste of precious time and money. Here are some examples of choosing the wrong person to keep you accountable.
1. Someone who is toxic to you.
2. Someone you do not admire or look up to.
3. Someone who doesn't believe you can achieve the goals you're seeking.
4. Someone who is not committed to your end results.
5. Someone who does not know how to keep you on track.
6. Someone who buys into your excuses for not having done the work you promised to do.
On the flip side of the coin, choosing the right people will turn your life and business around. Here are some examples of choosing the right accountability person for you.
1. Someone who believes you can do whatever you commit to.
2. Someone who has an interest in your success.
3. Someone who you will look up to and appreciate.
4. Someone who is an expert in the area you're looking to success in.
5. Someone who knows how to keep you focused and on track.
6. Someone who knows how to shift your current mindset to one that will get you where you want to go.
7. Someone who you made a financial investment in.
It's all about the choices you make in life. These choices will either keep you stuck or move you to where you want to be.
Look at some of the impacts of poor choices.
• The growing number of people getting divorced.
• Those who stay in bad relationships because they give up on themselves.
• Solo-preneurs, home base business and small business owners who are stressed out and overwhelmed because they have a mindset that they have to do everything by themselves.
Life is short, my friends. If you're spinning your wheels and losing sleep at night worrying about all the "what ifs," this information is coming to you at a good time.
1. Start looking after yourself first. Remember, it starts at the top.
2. Don't confuse looking after yourself first with meaning you are on your own. Instead, it means changing your focus and mindset to realize that there is a great deal of support available to you. You just need to ask for it.
3. Discover how you learn and process information. Do you learn by reading or listening to people? Do you take action once you get the information you need, or do you require someone else to make you accountable for the things you say you want? A lot of people don't consider this crucial step. It is very important to know who and what will keep you on the right track to get the life you want.
4. Be aware of who you ask to help you to get what you want and make you accountable for your actions. Consider your focus. Is it in your personal or business life? Do you ask people because they are your friends or family members? Who do you want your accountability partners to be? Choose wisely.
5. Want to speed up your results? Then team up with someone who already has what you want to achieve.
Being accountable is vitally important to success in anything you want to accomplish. Whether you're looking to find what makes you happy, have better relationships, create your balanced life, or grow your business, being accountable to someone is of utmost importance.
When you start your quest to become the person you want to be, how do you stay on the right track? Who will be on your side to cheer you on? Who are you accountable to now? How is that working?