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On August 15, 2022, the Jackson County Board of Supervisors adopted the Redistricting boundaries of Supervisor, Election Commissioner, Justice Court Judges, and Constable Districts. The boundaries will take effect January 1, 2023.
Background: As a result of the 2020 Census, redistricting is required in accordance with applicable state and federal law. The redistricting plan shall comply with the U.S. Constitution, the Mississippi Constitution, and applicable state and federal law, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The plan shall also contain contiguous districts within +/- 5% deviation from the ideal district population. The JC Board of Supervisors adopted redistricting criteria on Feb. 22, 2022, held a Work Session on May 16, 2022, and a Public Hearing on June 29, 2022.
The public hearing gave the public an opportunity to review and comment on the redistricting process. Based on comments made by residents during the public hearing and through an online form, some revisions were made to the Board of Supervisors' proposed map .
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On 28 September 2017, the European Parliament Employment and Social Affairs Committee (EMPL) will vote on an initiative by Spanish MEP Javi Lopez (S&D) on combating inequalities as a lever to boost job creation and growth.
Contrary to what this initiative assumes, income inequality has remained stable in the EU since the 2008-2009 Great Recession. In several Member States, such as Austria, Belgium, France, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands and the UK, the Gini coefficient of disposable income decreased between 2008 and 2015.
The idea that mandatory minimum wage floors can help foster cohesion and reduce poverty is also unsupported by evidence. Increasing labour market regulation tends to act as a barrier to entry, worsens jobs prospects for the young and discourages entrepreneurship.


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United Airlines: Visualizing the Numbers Behind the Crisis
Jeff Desjardins
The people in Pepsi's marketing and PR departments must be relieved, because the internet's viral outrage is finally being channeled in a different direction.
This time the fury is targeted towards United Airlines – a brand that is in full-blown crisis mode after a bloodied passenger was forcibly dragged off a plane, and millions of people witnessed videos of the incident being spread over social media.
Two days into the crisis, here are some charts that will help give context around what happened, as well as the potential effect on the United brand itself.
Damage Done?
First, let's take a look at what's happened to United's stock price since the incident:
While some public relations crises have minimal effects on the long-term financial performance of companies, this market reaction is an interesting gauge to consider.
The stock's lowest point today was -4.3% below the open, which is equal to a nearly $1 billion loss in market capitalization. At that point, it was speculated that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which owns 9% of all outstanding shares of United Continental Holdings Inc., could lose up to $87 million.
The market clearly saw the crisis as creating risk around United's fundamental business, but the stock has mostly recovered since those intraday lows. That said, if there are reports of top line revenue being affected because of boycotts or other issues, then the incident's impact on the stock price could easily re-surface.
Social Media Blowback
With today's interconnected world, a public relations crisis can start with one tweet. Here's the snowball effect in brand mentions of United that occurred on April 10th:
Courtesy of: Brandwatch
Here's another look. This time, it's a comparison of mentions over the last 21 days.
Yes, it's only been about two weeks since United's last PR crisis, called #LeggingsGate. As you can see, however, the most recent disaster is many times worse in terms of mentions.
With millions of references to the United Airlines brand occurring on social media, here is the split between positive and negative sentiment as of April 10th::
Denied Boarding Rates
But how big of a problem is making passengers deboard a plane, in the first place?
The next chart shows denied boarding rates, inclusive of voluntary and involuntary activity, from January to September 2016:
Data: U.S. Dept of Transportation
United and Delta are the two worst offenders here, with denied boarding rates that are worse than American, Virgin, Alaska, JetBlue, or Southwest.
Lastly, here's the same figures, except contrasting voluntary vs. involuntary denied boarding rates from January to September 2016:
Southwest and ExpressJet lead the way with the most involuntary denied boardings, and United Airlines is in the middle of the pack. However, in terms of voluntary denied boardings, United and Delta have much higher rates than other major airlines such as American or Virgin.
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What was on investors' minds in 2022? Discover the top Google searches and how the dominant trends played out in portfolios.
Jenna Ross
Pernia Jamshed
Published January 24, 2023 • Updated January 24, 2023 •
The following content is sponsored by New York Life Investments
It was a turbulent year for the markets in 2022, with geopolitical conflict, rising prices, and the labor market playing key roles. Which stories captured investors' attention the most?
This infographic from New York Life Investments outlines the top Google searches related to investing in 2022, and offers a closer look at some of the trends.
Top Google Searches: Year in Review
We picked some of the top economic and investing stories that saw peak search interest in the U.S. each month, according to Google Trends.
Month of Peak Interest
January Great Resignation
February Russian Stock Market
March Oil Price
April Housing Bubble
May Value Investing
June Bitcoin
July Recession
August Inflation
September US Dollar
October OPEC
November Layoffs
December Interest Rate Forecast
Data based on exact searches in the U.S. from December 26, 2021 to December 18, 2022.
Let's look at each quarter in more detail, to see how these top Google searches were related to activity in the economy and investors' portfolios.
The start of the year was marked by U.S. workers quitting their jobs in record numbers, and the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war. For instance, the price of crude oil skyrocketed after the war caused supply uncertainties. Early March's peak of $125 per barrel was a 13-year high.
Closing Price of WTI Crude Oil
(USD/Barrel)
January 2, 2022 $76
March 3, 2022 $125
December 29, 2022 $80
While crude oil lost nearly all its gains by year-end, the energy sector in general performed well. In fact, the S&P 500 Energy Index gained 57% over the year compared to the S&P 500's 19% loss.
The second quarter of 2022 saw abnormal house price growth, renewed interest in value investing, and a bitcoin crash. In particular, value investing performed much better than growth investing over the course of the year.
Price Return in 2022
S&P 500 Value Index -7.4%
S&P 500 Growth Index -30.1%
Value stocks have typically outperformed during periods of rising rates, and 2022 was no exception.
The third quarter was defined by worries about a recession and inflation, along with interest in the rising U.S. dollar. In fact, the U.S. dollar gained against nearly every major currency.
USD Appreciation Against Currency
(Dec 31 2020-Sep 30 2022)
Japanese Yen 40.1%
Chinese Yuan 9.2%
Euro 25.1%
Canadian Dollar 7.2%
British Pound 22.0%
Australian Dollar 18.1%
Higher interest rates made the U.S. dollar more attractive to investors, since it meant they would get a higher return on their fixed income investments.
The end of the year was dominated by OPEC cutting oil production, high layoffs in the tech sector, and curiosity about the future of interest rates. The Federal Reserve's December 2022 economic projections offer clues about the trajectory of the policy rate.
Longer Run
Minimum Projection 4.9% 3.1% 2.4% 2.3%
Median Projection 5.1% 4.1% 3.1% 2.5%
Maximum Projection 5.6% 5.6% 5.6% 3.3%
The Federal Reserve expects interest rates to peak in 2023, with rates to remain elevated above pre-pandemic levels for the foreseeable future.
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After a year of volatility across asset classes, economic uncertainty remains. Which themes will become investors' top Google searches in 2023?
Find out how New York Life Investments can help you make sense of market trends.
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We received some very sad news yesterday evening. Our founding Principal, Mr John Curran died tragically in South Africa. In recent years he was the Director of Education at Mellon Educate, a non-profit organisation, where he has worked tirelessly to renovate schools and improve the standard of education for those less fortunate in townships in South Africa.
John was Principal of the Good Shepherd National School from 1989 -2005. An innovative educator, John's vision and enthusiasm still influence our ethos and can be seen at work throughout our school today. We are proud to continue the work he began here in 1989.
We know that many of you share our fond memories of John. He will be sadly missed by parents, staff, past pupils and all those in the wider Good Shepherd school community.
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Our thoughts and prayers are with John's family at this incredibly difficult time.
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This year 27 submissions were accepted as full papers and 13 as short reports. More than 100 researchers and practitioners from academia, libraries and industry participated in the conference.
For the third time conference was collocated with Russian Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP). This annual event summarizes the independent evaluation of text retrieval systems during a year (this initiative is similar to TREC, SUMMAC or CLEF).
Another interesting collocated workshop was organized by Yandex (company running well-known Russian Web information retrieval system) In 2004 - 2005 the Yandex company has established a stipend to support a scientific researches in the areas related to Web. The results of these research projects were reported at this collocated workshop.
Thanks to the activity of Andreas Rauber, a liaison between ECDL and RCDL has been established, including exchange of PC members of the respective conferences in 2005.


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Katie Couric to Guest-host 'Good Morning America'
Katie Couric, renowned American journalist and author, is going to guest-host "Good Morning America". Couric primarily serves as special correspondent for ABC News and actively contributes to "ABC World News", "Nightline", "20/20", "Good Morning America", "This Week" and primetime news specials.
ABC revealed the exciting news about Katie taking over as a guest host on "Good Morning America" on Thursday. Katie Couric is actually substituting for Robin Roberts, who is currently on a holiday for a week. She will appear on the show with George Stephanopoulos.
Prior to this, Katie has been a popular host for "Today", a show that has received good ratings ever since it started in 1995. According to Neilson, "Today's" ratings have been on top every week since it started airing and this number totals up to 850.
"Good Morning America" is pacing towards this milestone. Although it seemed quite daunting initially, it has come closer and last week the ABC show was only 137,000 viewers behind "Today". This was the closest the two shows have been since 2008. According to Tom Cibrowski, senior executive producer in charge of "Good Morning America", "This has been one of the longest marathons of all time." He further said, "There will eventually be a time when the No. 1 spot turns over. We strive every day to take over the No. 1 position. We never stop working on that."
The reason why there is so much hype about her guest appearance on the show is that she has been associated with a leading network for almost 15 years. The golden era of "Today" and NBC might help boost rating for "Good Morning America" as well.
The closest "GMA" came to "Today" was in the spring of 2005. This was when NBC fired the "Today" show executive producer and Jim Bell took the responsibility of managing the show. Tom Cibrowski is pretty confident that Katie's inclusion in the team will be extremely beneficial for the show. He said, "You kind of wait for these times in morning television, when you get a team together that clicks." He further said, "We have a team that is on fire. We have the big `C.' We have the chemistry now."


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SARS bleed senior management staff
Over the past few months several of SARS' senior staff members have either resigned or been suspended. The concern is how this could affect the public, as well as ongoing investigations that have been carried out by some of these officials.
SARS claims that their operations have not been affected by the recent loss of staff. Marc Sevitz, a director at TaxTim concurs: "As far as we are aware, there have not been any delays, other than the usual bureaucratic hold ups and we shouldn't expect there to be any, especially so close to budget day."
However, some believe that the cause behind these resignations and suspensions need to be further investigated, and that it may affect staff morale, which could in the long run affect their work.
Further investigation
In a statement released this week, DA shadow minister of finance Dr Dion George has said that the DA will be writing to President Jacob Zuma to request that he institutes a Judicial Commission of Inquiry in accordance with section 84(2)(f) of the Constitution in order to investigate the current administrative disorder and the alleged political removal of senior staff that has been taking place at SARS.
Many of these suspensions or resignations have allegedly been the result of disciplinary action relating to supposed wrongdoings committed by one of the SARS units, who apparently carried out sensitive investigations. These investigations include a probe into the ANC's tax bill, as well as a probe into the President's tax bill.
George added: "Given Parliament's agenda at the moment it is highly unlikely that it will hear and proceed with the matter expeditiously. Therefore, given the seriousness of this matter and the implications this will undoubtedly have for high-profile investigations, we believe an independent judicial probe is necessary if this matter is to be handled with the speed and attention it deserves."
According to George, he has contacted several people and made several attempts to get information on the current situation at SARS with regards to these sensitive investigations, to which he has not yet had any responses.
He said: "This raises more questions than answers, and as the body responsible for the effective administration of taxpayers' money it should be above reproach. The DA is committed to ensuring that all state institutions are completely independent and free from political interference. In order to do so, a Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the matter is required."
Recent resignations and suspensions
According Sevitz, SARS is such a large organisation, the recent suspensions and resignations should not affect it. However, he adds that it is disturbing that many of the people who have left are senior management.
"Whilst it is true that the recent spate of resignations and suspensions at SARS is undoubtedly disturbing, we have to remember that SARS is a very large agency employing thousands of people and employees leaving ideally should not affect the day to day operations. However given that it's most senior leaders have left, many being responsible for the innovation we have seen over the last few years, there will be question marks as to how quickly they can be replaced and will SARS' innovation be delayed," said Sevitz.
The most recent resignation of executive in charge of enforcement and investigations Johann van Loggerenberg has many wondering what will happen to the investigations that are currently underway.
In a press release on Wednesday last week, SARS confirmed that van Loggerenberg had resigned with immediate effect. It said: "SARS has accepted his resignation and hereby confirms that the parting of ways was amicable and agreed to be in the best interests of SARS."
Van Loggerenberg worked for SARS for over 16 years. At the time of his resignation was overseeing several investigations, including one into Radovan Krejcir, a Czech businessman and fugitive who is currently on trial for several crimes, including murder.
According to reports, the units that were overseen by van Loggerenberg are currently in a state of disorder, with one having been disbanded, while the unit head of the other having been removed.
The investigations that van Loggerenberg oversaw included:
A tax inquiry into Jen Chih "Robert" Huang, who has alleged ties to President Zuma's nephew Khulubuse Zuma.
An investigation into alleged gangster Mark Lifman, who supposedly attend a function for the African National Congress (ANC) as a VIP guest last year.
Luther Lebelo, the SARS executive for employee relations said: "The resignation of Mr Johann van Loggerenberg will not have a significant impact on current SARS investigations. Effectively, Van Loggerenberg has been out of his position – either on Special Leave or on suspension - since around May 2014 when allegations of impropriety were reported to SARS. A formal and official hand-over and updated project plans was implemented before Mr Van Loggerenberg went on Special Leave."
He adds that the cases have been successfully handed over. "[There] is an established institutionalised operating system in enforcement which will make transition of roles between managers seamless in case of any eventuality, including suspensions. All managers and technical teams responsible for the projects at different levels remain in place and that ensures stability and continuity of operations."
Reshuffling at SARS
On Friday 30 January, anticorruption and security head Clifford Collings resigned, following two other resignations by senior staff since December 2014, chief operating officer Barry Hore and his deputy Jerome Frey. With three other senior staff members, deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay, head of strategic planning and risk Peter Richer and special adviser to Pillay, Yolisa Pikie, being suspended.
According to Lebelo, as no individual is solely responsible for an investigation or project, all SARS systems will continue to run as planned. SARS has appointed new officials to act in the positions of those who have resigned or been suspended.
"SARS operations to support the execution of its mandate – to collect all revenues due to the State – continues with the rest of more than 14 000 employees," added Lebelo.
Patrick Moeng will be acting as executive in charge of enforcement and investigations until the end of February 2015. Lebelo said that all normal human resource processes will be followed when filling the position permanently.
Sevitz believes that these resignations and suspensions may lead to older investigations being reopened as there has been so much media coverage on this in recent months.
"We may see some of the older bigger cases that were settled, being reopened as there is not a bigger spotlight on negotiated settlements due to the role played by many of the suspended officials. The public shouldn't be concerned and unfortunately SARS continue collecting taxes with as much gusto as it has ever done. The biggest concern would be staff morale which may hamper the day to day running of SARS, so let's hope this get dealt with quickly," adds Sevitz.
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on't you hate those moments when you are standing in front of a mirror in a clothing store's fitting room, trying on a new outfit, with multiple thoughts rushing through your head: Is this still in fashion? Where will I wear this? Can I afford it?
Despair no more. Stitch Fix, a popular online subscription and personal shopping service, promises to spare its customers from the drama of shopping by matching each person with a personal stylist who selects clothing and accessories based on the individual's size, style and budget. How can a stylist, who does not personally know you, manage to successfully curate your wardrobe?
The secret sauce is the algorithms, which are at the core of the company's business model and do everything from drive the clothing selections to assign human stylists to optimize production and logistics. As a personal style service "that evolves with your tastes, needs and lifestyle," Stitch Fix benefits from algorithms on a daily, customer-by-customer basis. It's one thing to fill a clothing order for a client but quite another to do the heavy lifting and decision making for them.
In this article, Eric Colson, Stitch Fix's chief algorithms officer, takes us on an algorithms tour, explaining how the fickle business of fashion runs like a smooth machine when driven by algorithms.
What exactly is an algorithm? It's a set of instructions, with the simplest one being an if-then formula. For example, if I push the number 12 button in the elevator, it will take me to the 12th floor. If I send a customer a blue dress, she will certainly like it. Well, not so fast. Such simple algorithms, called sorting algorithms, are not enough in fashion or business at large.
This is why Stitch Fix uses much more complex and nuanced formulas for its algorithms, with the machines trying to figure out the relative likelihood that a particular client will like a certain piece of clothing. While the company does not publicly disclose all the types of algorithms it uses, some of these formulas are collaborative filtering problems (e.g., those who have liked what you have liked have also liked…). The company also uses mixed-effects modeling algorithms, which incorporate longitudinal data into complex statistical models, allowing Stitch Fix to get a sense of how fashion tastes are evolving over time, both for individual customers and for its customer base as a whole.
Of course, no matter how many formulas are at work, there can never be certainty that the customer will like and buy the algorithm-selected item of clothing. But the more information algorithms have about client preferences, the more likely they are to eliminate uncertainty and make a perfect choice.
At the core of a well-functioning algorithm is a proprietary set of data. At Stitch Fix, the first data set comes from the customers themselves, who fill out an in-depth profile when joining.
Questions range from fundamentals (height and weight), to taste and preferences (do you like your shirts tucked or untucked?), to personal traits (are you a risk taker?) and lifestyle (are you a new mom?).
The second set of data is about merchandise. It ranges from measurements (about 30 points of measure for a men's shirt), styles (bohemian, chic) and material (does it wrinkle easily? does it need to be dry-cleaned?). Each item of clothing is tagged multiple times with match scores from different algorithms derived from client preferences, and then ranked.
Having the data from both sides, a set of machine learning algorithms can match a client to the best-suited merchandise. These algorithms figure out how much each characteristic matters to a particular person, and how to trade off one for the other (e.g., a new mom probably does not want to buy casual clothes made from fabrics that need to be dry-cleaned).
How can a stylist, who does not personally know you, manage to successfully curate your wardrobe?
As time goes by, algorithms learn from actual customers, both individual and in aggregate, how to think about clothes. This is possible thanks to the feedback data collected from customers, which is transmitted back to the algorithms so that they can see how their decisions worked in real life—and use this information to constantly improve their decision-making formulas (machine learning).
"Feedback data is the most valuable data set for us, our secret sauce, and unique to us," says Colson. Traditional retailers may never know why a customer walked out of the store without buying anything, and thus don't know what to fix to make the customer happier next time. Stitch Fix asks its customers many questions about their interactions with clothes, trying to understand the reasons for buying or not buying.
"The copacetic relationship we have with our clients only works if they get value from us. There's no 'selling' here—only relevancy," says Colson.
Of course, it's not always obvious which questions to ask to discover the most critical factors in buying clothes. Yet Stitch Fix captures such material information with text boxes in which customers can record their comments. Natural language processing of these comments can then point to new clusters of characteristics that become part of algorithms. For example, a comment from a client read, "I was happy because I could wear this garment to the park and then to an outdoor wedding," which points to the importance of having casual clothes that can be worn to formal occasions. Colson points out that a vast majority of Stitch Fix algorithm capabilities, which are significant for business outcomes, are conceived by the data science team.
No matter how good the customer experience, it won't do a company any good if it is not delivered profitably. "Algorithms bring efficiencies that make us more profitable, and we have implemented them pervasively throughout the company," says Colson. Here are a few other ways algorithms are driving Stitch Fix's business forward.
Ultimately, at Stitch Fix, it is a human stylist who finalizes the clothing selections and even writes a personal note describing how the client might accessorize the items for a particular occasion and how to pair them with other clothing in his or her closet.
Humans are more heterogeneous than machines. The machines are all the same. But human stylists are going to be better suited to some clients than to others. To pair the right stylists with the right customers, Stitch Fix calculates a match score between each available stylist and each client who's requested a shipment. This match score is a complex function of the history between that client and stylist (if any), and the affinities between the client's stated and latent style preferences and those of the stylist. By playing matchmaker, Stitch Fix connects clients with the styles—and the stylists—they love.
The costs of transportation can also eat deeply into many retailers' profits, as items travel to different pickup and delivery locations across the country. At Stitch Fix, algorithms calculate a cost function for each warehouse based on a combination of its location relative to the client and how well the inventories in the various warehouses match the client's needs, thus cutting down on unnecessary transportation costs.
The fashion industry has been built around the persona of a creative and often fickle designer, whose inspiration gives us new styles every year. Just seeing the designer's name on a tag can command hundreds of dollars. But do we always feel that these new styles are designed for us?
At Stitch Fix, algorithms help design new styles that are tailored for particular client segments that tend to be underserved by other brands. Designer algorithms use the same mechanisms to develop new styles as mother nature does in evolution by natural selection: recombining attributes from existing styles and possibly mutating them slightly, then testing for "fitness" (customer feedback on similar styles).
Well, almost the same. If it was operating exactly like nature, random recombinations and mutations would be thrown out there to live or die. Stitch Fix wants as many of its creations as possible to live. That's why the company takes steps that mother nature doesn't and is somewhat pickier about what makes it into its inventory. After highlighting a variety of attributes that have a high probability of love, Stitch Fix works with its human designers to vet and refine this collection, and ultimately produce the next generation of styles.
So don't be surprised if the next time you pick up a clothing item, the tag says that the designer is: The Algorithm.
Stitch Fix is a prime example of how companies can find unique ways to leverage algorithms. And by building its entire business model around algorithms, it has made itself an attractive place for data scientists to work. Of course, all this requires an investment of time, money and brainpower—but the payoff is worth it. Companies that neglect this investment, or delay too long, may one day watch their business model unravel.


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Shifting sands and sea change: How can our seaside towns respond to the productivity challenge?
Lucie Bailey 03 Jul 2019
With the summer holiday season just around the corner, coastal towns up and down the country will be hoping the sun comes out to tempt the great British public to the seaside. It can be easy to forget that many of these coastal communities are in desperate need of regeneration and economic revitalisation, suffering from ongoing decline of their core industries such as domestic tourism, fishing, shipbuilding and port activities, and the challenges of seasonality. Their location on the periphery of the country places them on the periphery of the economy, creating a host of socio-economic problems and in turn, barriers to economic prosperity for their communities. The recent publication of a House of Lords Select Committee report on "the future of seaside towns" provides a timely reminder of the scale and complexity of this challenge, and sets out a series of recommendations for how seaside towns can once again become prosperous and desirable places to live and visit. Reflecting the different stages of evolution of these places, the UK's seaside economy is far from uniform. Some locations, like Bournemouth and Brighton on the south coast, have benefitted from a model of reinvention that is not available to all. Meanwhile, many smaller coastal towns have seen their unique selling point diminish. Their sense of isolation has left small town, seaside communities overlooked and facing profound economic and social challenges. Blackpool for instance, which tops the seaside destination 'leader board' in terms of visitor nights, faces some of the most acute deprivation in the country. The national imperative to drive up productivity and earning power of people across the country – as set out in the government's Industrial Strategy – provides a further incentive and pertinent backdrop to the Select Committee's recommendations. Last week saw the publication of a new Tourism Sector Deal setting out how the government will work in partnership with the tourism industry to boost productivity, develop skills and support destinations to enhance their visitor offer. It begs the question: how can Britain's seaside towns respond to the UK's productivity challenge and contribute towards national prosperity? The development of Local Industrial Strategies provides the most immediate opportunity for ensuring that the needs of coastal areas are better reflected in local plans to drive economic development, with most well underway via Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and Combined Authorities. Framed in context of the Industrial Strategy's five foundations of productivity (ideas, people, infrastructure, business environment and place), there seem to be a number of key areas of opportunity to boost the economic prosperity of our seaside towns: Economic diversification: coastal communities increasingly need to recognise, promote and support diversification of their economies where a sole reliance on tourism is no longer a viable option. Much can be learned from places like Folkestone in Kent, where a new Creative Quarter has been delivered through a regeneration strategy based on the arts, the creative industries, and education. Transport connectivity: is holding back many coastal communities and hindering the realisation of their economic potential. Sub-optimal connections (such as inadequate rail connections and road access via single lane carriageways) can limit the potential for investment in economic diversification, and improvements to transport will be vital in supporting further economic development in isolated coastal communities quite literally at 'the end of the line'. The forthcoming Shared Prosperity Fund is likely to provide a key source of funding in this regard, alongside the next round of the Coastal Communities Fund. Digital infrastructure: improved digital connectivity presents a significant opportunity to overcome the challenges of peripherality in coastal areas, and would help existing businesses, encourage new businesses, and enable people to work more flexibly from home to achieve the all-important work-life balance; a core part of the offer. Skills and aspirations: limited access to education, in particular to further education (FE) and higher education (HE) institutions, is severely restricting opportunities, denting aspirations for young people in some coastal areas and having a direct knock-on impact on local economic productivity and growth. Recognising that there is never going to be a 'bricks-and-mortar offering' of HE in every coastal town, this might necessitate greater scope for flexible access both to FE and HE, such as online, part-time and distance learning. Maximising unique assets: what makes coastal communities different is their unique asset: the coastal and marine environment that surrounds them. Seaside towns that have been most successful at reinventing themselves are those that have identified their own special character and USP. Key to this is a long-term, place-based vision that is supported by local leaders and grounded in each town's unique assets, whether this be a combination of inherent geography, history, geology and ecology, or created features, such as attractions and culture. Examples of such assets include a university arts centre in Aberystwyth, The Stade historic fishing area in Hastings and a specialist university for the creative industries in Falmouth. The Stade historic fishing beach in Hastings, East Sussex Some of our recent work in the Lichfields economics team has focused on the huge growth potential of our seaside economies and making the case for targeted investment in infrastructure and associated projects to unlock this potential; in locations such as Gosport, Worthing, Southend-on-Sea and Eastbourne. With around half of all LEPs comprising coastal or estuarine areas, it will be interesting to see whether Local Industrial Strategies are embraced as an opportunity for renewed focus on addressing the skills gaps, low wage economies and aspiration challenges faced by many coastal communities. Whether by drawing on existing assets (such as historic infrastructure) or technologies of the future (such as emerging green industries that harness wind and wave power), it's time for our much-loved seaside towns to play a more meaningful role in the UK's plan to drive innovation and growth across the country.
How can placemakers help to reduce loneliness?
Helen Ashby-Ridgway 21 Jun 2019
Last week was Loneliness Awareness Week, a week established by the Marmalade Trust to raise awareness of loneliness and social isolation, to reduce the stigma of loneliness and to help people connect. This will be its third year and the movement is growing. This isn't surprising when studies have shown that in the UK more than 9 million people always or often feel lonely[1]. The Costa Book Award winning novel Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine was written by its author Gail Honeyman after she had read an article on the subject of loneliness which reported on an interview with a young lady who said she would come home from work on a Friday and then wouldn't speak to anyone again until Monday morning. Such a situation seems incredibly sad but worse yet, extensive research shows that loneliness poses a number of risks to physical and mental health, including: Increased risk of developing coronary heart disease and stroke (Valtorta et al, 2016), Increased risk of high blood pressure (Hawkley et al, 2010) Greater risk of cognitive decline (James et al, 2011) Higher risk of the onset of disability (Lund et al, 2010) More prone to depression (Cacioppo et al, 2006) (Green et al, 1992) Predictive of suicide in older age (O'Connell et al, 2004); and, One study concludes that lonely people have a 64% increased chance of developing clinical dementia (Holwerda et al, 2012). Some of the studies are more worrying. Not long ago a stark headline was being carried by a number of newspapers. A meta study (a study of studies) of some 3.4 million people by Professor of Psychology Julianne Holt-Lunstad and her research team[2] had concluded that weak social connection has the same risk of death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Moreover, according the findings it doesn't matter whether the loneliness is perceived or actual the risk to health remains the same[3].The NHS 'Behind the Headlines' critique of this particular study concluded that the research 'provided some evidence that the isolation was causing ill health, rather than the other way round, but we can't be certain[4]'. Whether or not this particular headline is as troubling as it appears the remaining evidence that suggests that loneliness and social isolation can have adverse impacts upon our health and well-being and upon the UK economy. Research reported by the Co-op suggests that loneliness costs UK employers £2.5 billion per year. Causes of loneliness The causes of loneliness are not surprising. They include but are not limited to: Changes in day-to-day routines (such as retirement), A lack of or loss of friends (such as through bereavement or divorce), Restricted mobility, cognitive and sensory impairment or other causes of poor physical health (which then create a vicious circle), Financial limitations (limiting ability to participate in activities), Personal characteristics (such as age, stage in life, ethnicity, sexual orientation); and, Neighbourhood characteristics (such as a lack of amenity, layout of streets, crime). Loneliness is not only restricted to those who are alone or are of a particular age group. "Young or old, loneliness does not discriminate" said the late Jo Cox MP who, with her colleague Seema Kennedy MP, set up a cross-party Loneliness Commission in 2016. Source: ONS analysis of Community Life Survey August 2016 – March 2017 Creating spaces that reduce social isolation National and many local planning policies seek to ensure that developments create healthy and safe communities. Many of the recent call to action publications by a variety of respected organisations, charities and commissions focus on a wide range of measures to improve loneliness and to reduce social isolation. However, not as much has been written in these documents about how the built environment can contribute to tackling its causes. As place makers we can help to create places that encourage social connection and to create spaces that people want to use and are able to use that are safe and secure and that are accessible to all. These are just a selection of ways that creating spaces and places can help to increase both formal and informal social interaction which may in turn help to reduce loneliness: Making dementia-friendly spaces that are designed to encourage people out of their homes, with connections and routes that are accessible and safe (The RTPI has published practice advice on this); Ensuring that amenities and facilities are in walking distance and the routes to these places are safe, legible and encourage more people to use them; Delivering a range of places for leisure activities and where people can meet - from community halls to bowling greens, and from public squares to public footpaths; Including facilities for physical activity such as formal parks and informal open spaces, playgrounds for children where parents can mingle, as well as allotments for all ages; Ensuring that the spaces to meet are safe, with excellent natural surveillance through active frontages and well-considered layouts; Creating jobs and educational opportunities with further enhancements by creating dedicated indoor and outdoor spaces for people to meet during lunch breaks (rather than eating a sandwich at a desk); and, Places for cultural activities through formal and informal spaces such as heritage assets, coastal paths and outdoor theatres. Understanding why places and spaces are important in helping to combat loneliness is a good starting point. Indeed, many of the measures are integral to high quality urban design decisions but can be easily missed although our experience, from working on health impact assessments for a number of projects, is that the measures can be simple and often not costly. Whilst we cannot solve the factors causing loneliness entirely, placemakers can be part of a range of measures that help. [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-commits-to-government-wide-drive-to-tackle-loneliness [2] https://www.aging.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SCA_Holt_04_27_17.pdf [3] https://www.ahsw.org.uk/userfiles/Research/Perspectives%20on%20Psychological%20Science-2015-Holt-Lunstad-227-37.pdf [4] https://www.nhs.uk/news/mental-health/loneliness-increases-risk-of-premature-death/


Welcome to our first-ever Pondering Policy! My name is Daniel Lee. I am a Level 3 Magic Judge from Los Angeles, California, and an avid Storm player. My goal with these articles is to take the various updates to the Comprehensive Rules (CR), Magic Tournament Rules (MTR), and Infraction Procedure Guide (IPG) and distill them into a format that is helpful to our Storm-playing community. Since there were some high-impact changes over the last year, we will start with a couple of catch-up articles. The Comprehensive Rules and the tournament policy documents are updated with every major set release, so we will cover the updates for Dominaria and Core Set 2019 in this article. The rules and policy documents referenced are housed here.
It is fairly common knowledge that life total changes need to be tracked and announced, every single time they change. If not, then you should know that, at Competitive and Professional RELs, life total changes do need to be tracked and all changes need to be announced. Until this update, life totals were the only piece of in-game information that needed this treatment, so we didn't have a special name for it. With the addition of City's Blessing in Rivals of Ixalan, it suddenly became clear that unending continuous effects could benefit from the same requirements. Thus, Status Information was born! This includes life totals, counters on players (such as Poison and Experience counters), and continuous effects like City's Blessing and being the Monarch.
What it means for us: The cards Palace Sentinels and Palace Jailer have enters-the-battlefield triggers that can be missed if your opponent does not acknowledge them in any way. They need to do so before they take any other action. If they immediately go their End Step to draw their card for being the Monarch, that may be good enough for them to have acknowledged the trigger. However, they have a responsibility to announce when they become the Monarch, since becoming the Monarch is Status Information and needs to be pointed out when that changes. Similarly, if one of your Goblin tokens deals combat damage to your opponent while they are the Monarch, you must immediately acknowledge the trigger that makes you the Monarch, or you could miss it.
Also, you should ALWAYS be tracking and announcing life total changes. ALWAYS.
There is a small but vocal community that loves putting their lands closer to their opponents than their creatures are. The rules mandated lands-in-back for matches on coverage a few years ago, but this update expanded that mandate to all Competitive and Professional REL events. If your opponent puts their lands in front and you don't want them to do that, the rules are now on your side!
What it means for us: This mandatory placement also restricts where you can group things like artifact mana and creature-lands. If your opponent puts their Dryad Arbor with their lands and not with their creatures, a judge will back you up if you tell your opponent to fix it. If that Dryad Arbor misplacement causes you to make a bad attack (and you recognize it right away), a judge should be willing to reverse that attack.
Previously, proxies were only allowed when a card that was legal at the start of a tournament had become illegal through gameplay-inflicted damage. Then, and only then, could the Head Judge issue a proxy. Even then, that proxy would only be good for that one tournament. Then Kess, Dissident Mage came along and ruined everything, as dissidents are known to do. Kess, Dissident Mage is only available in foil. So, in certain situations, these could become marked when compared to the rest of your deck, and no non-foil option exists to replace them. Situations such as this (and, notably, Nexus of Fate) now permit the Head Judge of an event to issue proxies for these foil-only cards.
What it means for us: If your opponent plays a proxy Kess, Dissident Mage or Nexus of Fate , you have the right to see the physical card. They need to keep the real copies nearby to verify that they have them (think of the proxies like checklist cards). Someone may try to play with a proxy instead of having the real card. It's a long-shot cheat, but cheaters prey on the non-vigilant.
The rules governing how and when players can shortcut any sort of lengthy loop were moved from the very-strict Comprehensive Rules to the much-more-flexible Magic Tournament Rules. They were also expanded to include loops that span multiple turns.
What it means for us: Not much. The really interesting update to the loop rules happened with Guilds of Ravnica, so we'll dive into that more in the next article.
It's a common mistake for players to perform their Untap and Draw steps out of order. The Infraction Procedure Guide is very prescriptive in what it allows judges to do to fix games. Judges were allowing people to untap even when they've forgotten to do so, and that was technically outside of policy. That has been fixed.
What it means for us: You are even more likely to be allowed to untap your permanents if you forget to do so at the start of your turn. Make sure you're calling a judge before that turn is over! No, there's no angle to shoot here. You can't partially untap, float mana, then ask a judge to untap everything. That looks very suspicious and judges are smarter than that. We, as players, want advantages because we know the rules better, not because we break rules.
That does it for our first Pondering Policy! We will spend another article catching up to the present (with the Guilds of Ravnica and Ravnica Allegiance updates), then we'll release them ASAP following a new set release, starting with War of the Spark.
If you have any Storm-relevant rules or policy questions, feel free to send them my way through email, Twitter, or Facebook. I'll keep a running list of the most common ones for a Rules FAQ article later down the road. Until next time, Storm fair and Storm fun!
Daniel has been playing Magic since Invasion and fell in love with the Storm mechanic the moment it was printed. He plays (or has played) Desire Storm in Extended, Solidarity and TES in Legacy, Ascension and Gifts Storm in Modern, Paradoxical Storm in Vintage, and is currently building Sprout Storm in Pauper. He certified as a Magic Judge in 2004, and is an active Level 3 in USA MagicFests, particularly on the West coast. He holds a BA in Mathematics and currently teaches Math at a high school.


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Jean Aristide Lambert, né le  à Issoudun et mort le  à Paris, était un germaniste et écrivain français.

Biographie
Jean Aristide Lambert, 3e enfant de Aristide Auguste Lambert et Charlotte Suzanne Gaignault, naît le  à Issoudun. Élève au collège Honoré-de-Balzac d'Issoudun, Lambert entre ensuite au lycée Henri-IV, puis part étudier deux ans à Berlin. Pendant l'Occupation, il est à Marseille où il côtoie, entre autres, Jean Ballard, Simone Weil, Gabriel Bertin, Émile Danoën et Gabrielle Neumann au siège de la revue Les Cahiers du Sud. Collaborateur à La Nouvelle Revue française, il épouse Catherine, la fille d'André Gide, en 1946. À partir de 1956, il part aux États-Unis où il enseigne et tient des conférences.

Lambert traduit Thomas Mann, Heinz von Cramer, Patrick White, William Gaddis, William Humphrey, Lesley Blanch, (dont sa biographie de Pierre Loti, Seghers, 1986). De larges fragments de son journal de la guerre et de ses années d'après-guerre dans le cercle familial de Gide ont été publiés par les soins de Pascal Mercier dans le Bulletin des amis d'André Gide et l'intégralité de son Journal de  à  est consultable en ligne.

Lambert meurt le  dans le .

Œuvres
 L'Art de la fugue (1945)
 Avril ou l'enfant sage (1950)
 Les Vacances du cœur (1951)
 Un voyageur des deux mondes. Essai sur l'œuvre d'Henri Bosco (1951)
 Lettres d'une autre Allemagne 1937-1938 (1953)
 Tobolio (1956)
 Remarques sur l'œuvre de Jean Schlumberger (1942)
 Gide familier (1958)
 Le Plaisir de voir (1958)
 Histoire véritable (1979)
 Correspondance André Gide - Dorothy Bussy, 3 tomes (1979-1982)

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Germaniste français
Écrivain français du XXe siècle
Naissance en décembre 1914
Naissance à Issoudun
Décès en août 1999
Décès dans le 12e arrondissement de Paris
Décès à 84 ans

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Truls Mørk
The Norwegian national Truls Mørk began by taking lessons from his father. He later continued his studies with Frans Helmerson, Heinrich Schiff and Natalia Shakhowskaya. At the start of his career he won various competitions, including the International Tchaikovsky Competition (1982), the Cassado Cello Competition in Florence (1983) and the Naumberg Competition in New York (1986).
Truls Mørk frequently performs with the world's leading orchestras, such as the Orchestre de Paris, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has also played with well-known conductors, such as Myung-Whun Chung, Mariss Jansons, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano and Christoph Eschenbach. Truls Mørk gives regular cello recitals in the major concert halls and best known festivals worldwide. A determined champion of contemporary music, he has taken part in more than 30 premiere performances.
The list of Truls Mørk's recordings is impressive. It comprises many of the great cello concertos for labels such as Virgin Classic, EMI and Deutsche Grammophon, recordings that have won many international awards – Gramophone, Grammy, MIDEM and ECHO Klassik. His most recent recordings are of concertos by Shostakovich with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko and works by Massenet with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Neeme Järvi.
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Q: Iterating and modifying a Pandas Dataframe or groupby object I'm new to Pandas and am working with a multi-index data set of the form (made from groupby):
Name
    Year
        Month
             Day
                DataA   DataB   SpeciesName   SpeciesValue
                  A       B         Name1        Value1
                  A       B         Name2        Value2
                  A       B         Name3        Value3

For every group (unique Name, Year, Month, Day) only the final two columns have a distinct value the rest of the columns are identical. I want to make each group contain a single row. The row will have the SpeciesName value as the column title and the SpeciesValue value as the entry. For instance, the result of the group above should be:
Name
    Year
        Month
             Day
                DataA     DataB     Name1     Name2     Name3
                  A         B       Value1    Value2    Value3

How would I go about this? Iterate through the dataframe or groupby object and create a new dataframe with the structure I want or is there a better way?

A: Okay, use set_index and unstack then reset_index:
df = pd.DataFrame({'Name':['Blake']*3,'Year':[2017]*3,
                  'Month':[1]*3,
                  'Day':[15]*3,
                  'DataA':['A']*3,
                  'DataB':['B']*3,
                  'SpeciesName':['Name1','Name2','Name3'],
                  'SpeciesValue':['Value1','Value2','Value3']})

df = df.set_index(['Name','Year','Month','Day'])

df

Sample input dataframe:
                     DataA DataB SpeciesName SpeciesValue
Name  Year Month Day
Blake 2017 1     15      A     B       Name1       Value1
                 15      A     B       Name2       Value2
                 15      A     B       Name3       Value3

Now, let's reshape the dataframe:
df_out = df.set_index(['DataA','DataB','SpeciesName'],append=True)['SpeciesValue']\
  .unstack()\
  .reset_index(level=[-1,-2])

print(df_out)

Output:
SpeciesName          DataA DataB   Name1   Name2   Name3
Name  Year Month Day
Blake 2017 1     15      A     B  Value1  Value2  Value3

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"The Holocaust in Soviet-Occupied Territory: New Discoveries"
"Der Khorbm in Sovyetishe-Okupirte Gebitn: Naye Antdekungen"
A Lecture with Professor Anna Shternshis
November 4, 2018. Tamari Hall, Lipa Green Centre, Toronto.
In her lecture, Professor Shternshis discusses her discovery of previously unknown material in Russian archives unsealed after 70 years about the Holocaust in Soviet-occupied territory. Most intriguing is the Yiddish music created by women and children in Soviet Central Asia, as well as in German-occupied Ukraine.
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