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Dinny Corcoran hopes to rediscover scoring touch as Bohemians host Dublin rivals St Pat's
The striker is returning refreshed after the LOI break
By Owen Cowzer
29 Jun 2018, 6:00
DINNY CORCORAN hopes that the summer break can help him find his shooting boots.
In 2017, hitman Corcoran scored 15 of Bohemians' 36 goals.
Corcoran celebrates a goal against St Pat's last seasonCredit: Sportsfile
But he has struggled this year, bagging just three as the Gypsies look nervously over their shoulder at the relegation zone.
And as the league resumes tonight after the summer break with Bohs hosting St Pat's, Corcoran is hoping that the resumption brings better luck.
Corcoran, 29, said: "It's something I'm looking to change after the break. Without sounding big-headed, my goals were very important last year to pick up a few results.
"But this year, it's not happening and maybe that's part of the reason why we're down there.
Corcoran applauds Bohemians fans
"I haven't really been coming away from games saying I'm missing chances. I haven't really been getting chances.
"Confidence is a big part for me and last year, I started off with five goals in my first five games and I was up and running.
"You go into the next game thinking, 'I'm going to score.'
"At the moment my confidence is a bit low and I just need to keep working away. It's down to me. I've to create my own luck and start putting them away.
"I've only myself to blame for the lack of goals this season."
Boss Keith Long is supportive, as Corcoran has regularly started.
And, while stressing it is not an excuse, the striker struggled for fitness earlier this year.
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Corcoran added: "I picked up a groin injury in pre-season and basically missed out on the whole of pre-season.
"It wasn't right for the first six or seven matches and I was in and out of the team and wasn't training properly.
"But that's all behind me now so I'm not using it as an excuse."
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Bottenberg (2004) points out: "Tooth bleaching is not just a simple cosmetic operation. It is important to diagnose correctly the cause of the staining or discoloration, to establish a prognosis whether the stain can be removed or not, to give the patient a complete clinical examination in order to establish other oral health problems be they related or not to the discoloration, and to counsel the patient about the best way of treating or not treating this esthetical problem." "Before bleaching is performed, defective restorations should be replaced. All tooth and restoration surfaces must be thoroughly cleaned and adequate oral hygiene instruction are to be given to the patient.
Hydrogen peroxide has well-known irritation, in higher concentration even corrosion, potential (esp. mucus membranes). Danger of irritation in the oral cavity and gastric tract if swallowed. Mucosal irritation is commonly observed as a side effect in clinical studies and consumer complaints.
Conditions such as pre-existing tissue injury or the concurrent use of alcohol and/or tobacco while using tooth whiteners may also exacerbate their toxic effects. Hydrogen peroxide, even at concentrations as low as 3%, may be especially harmful to oral tissues if they have been previously injured (Rees and Orth, 1986). Therefore, particular care should be taken in administering bleaching agents to patients with gingivitis, periodontal disease, or pre-existing gingival lesions, and to those using alcohol and tobacco (Tipton et al., 1995). This mixed exposure may be of concern since smokers are likely candidates for tooth bleaching.
Ulceration of gastric mucosa was observed in rats 1 hour after gavage with a dose corresponding to 5.4 mg/kg bw of hydrogen peroxide while no effects were found at 1.8 mg/kg bw of hydrogen peroxide. The ratio between the "no effect level" in rats and the dose after use of mouth-rinses containing 0.1% hydrogen peroxide and tooth whitening products containing 6% hydrogen peroxide are low. In relation to this it should be noted that in the case of gel strips, it has been reported that the user occasionally may swallow the strip. This will result in an exposure of about 12 mg hydrogen peroxide. In several of these cases, consumers reported minor gastrointestinal symptoms.
Clinical studies have mostly been designed to assess efficiency of external tooth-bleaching and the risk of adverse effects has not been the main focus in these studies. In the clinical studies published on tooth-bleaching that address adverse effects, the number of participants were small and many studies did not have control groups. This is considered inadequate, since for a case-reference study that should detect a doubling of the risk for an adverse effect occurring at a level of 1:1000 in the reference group, the study group must have at least 1000 people, and for detection of a 10% increase in the risk, more than 10.000 people must be enrolled in the study (Dahl and Pallesen, 2003). Although the first articles on night guard bleaching with hydrogen or carbamide peroxide were published nearly 20 years ago, and the these products have been in the market place for many years in some countries, there have so far been no systematic epidemiological studies to assess possible long term effects. It is also of concern that only one 28-day study has been reported with adolescents (12 – 18 years old). Therefore, a number of potential adverse effects of external tooth-bleaching cannot be assessed as this time.
Tobacco use and alcohol abuse are the main risk factors for cancer in the oral cavity (IARC, 1988, 2004, 2007). Since hydrogen peroxide can act as a promoter, it may increase the risk of oral cancer in persons that already have an elevated risk due to tobacco use, alcohol abuse, or genetic predisposition. The risk may further increase with repeated exposure to tooth whiteners. Based on a case report, it has been suggested that users of tooth whiteners should be further studied with regard to oral cancer (Burningham et al., 2004).
All bleaching materials demonstrate diffusion of hydrogen peroxide through dentin. Few investigators have addressed the possible pathophysiological effects on oral and pulpal tissues from long-term treatment. The dental pulp is vulnerable through exposed dentin in patients with gingival retraction, attrition, cervical abrasion, and leaking restorations, and the gingiva may be exposed directly to hydrogen peroxide gels during treatment. Significant amounts of hydrogen peroxide diffuse through dentin after application of carbamide peroxide and hydrogen peroxide-based bleaching agents (Hanks et al., 1993).
The bleaching procedure produces a transient reduction on the bond strengths of enamel and dentin immediately following bleaching. Because of the transient reduction in bond strength, dentists should delay restoration placement for periods of one to two weeks after bleaching to ensure sufficient bond strength and retention on teeth.
Data from laboratory studies documented increased mercury release from dental amalgams exposed to carbamide peroxide solutions for periods ranging from 8 hrs to 14-28 days. The amount mercury released varied with type of amalgam and type of bleaching agent and ranged from 4 to 30 times higher in saline controls. However, the clinical significance of the loss of mercury from amalgam is unclear. It is concluded that bleaching of teeth containing amalgam restoration should be approached with caution (Swift and Perdigao, 1998).


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ah, but if you look at image #113 (in which i smash myself in the head with a lunch box), and take into consideration the amount of rum in my blood, is it not reasonable to assume that image #114 is the dramatic conclusion of a rather intense performance art piece? ACTING!
Although I have not been able to look at them all yet, those are some of the most accurate New Year's pictures I have seen yet. I especially love the attention to detail is some of them. The obviously intentional blurring seems just like drunk vision. Good work.
I didn't realize how close New Yaer's ended up to Festivus. There were definitely feats of strength. I can't recall an airing of greivances though.
Also I totally can't recall exactly what was going on in most of those pictures. I don't recall dancing, and yet there appears to be at least one picture where I seem to be attempting a dance. I am not counting the "mercy dance" pictures with Schaus. That was clearly part of the feats fo strength and therefore not dancing.
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Q: PHP link not appearing I am trying to have the text "Facebook" to be a clickable link but for some reason it will not appear on the front-end.
Snippet of Code:
function friend_contact() {

$healthcard = get_field('healthcard');
$facebook = get_field('facebook');
$phone = get_field('phone');
$fax   = get_field('fax');
$email = get_field('email');

$post_info = '';

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    $post_info .= ' Download Contact';
}

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}

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}

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var_dump($facebook);
var_dump(get_field('facebook'));

genesis_markup( array(
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', $post_info ),
    'xhtml' => sprintf( '
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', $post_info ),
) );
}

Results of Dump:
string(21) "https://www.yahoo.com" string(21) "https://www.yahoo.com"

Alternative Code With ['url']:
if (isset($facebook) && isset($healthcard['url']) {
    $post_info .= ' | ';
}

if (isset($facebook)) {
    $post_info .= ' Facebook';
    }

I think the root of the problem is with the code bit, ['url']
Thank you in advance

A: You echo your string with single quotes, thus it won't process the variable. That looks like it's between double quotes, but that is part of your string. So either make it
$post_info .= ' Facebook';

or reverse the quotes.
$post_info .= " Facebook";

Edit: as to what's the better way, is another discussion. As long as you're consistent.

A: It seems that you missed a closing parenthesis in the following line:

if (isset($facebook['url']) && isset($healthcard['url']) {

Your code should look like this:
if ( isset($facebook['url']) && isset($healthcard['url']) ) {

Also the $facebook variable is a string so $facebook['url'] is not valid and isset($facebook['url']) returns always false. So replace everything with $facebook without the brackets part.
If $healthcard is also a string and not an array then you should also replace $healthcard['url'] with $healthcard.

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30 Years of Fair Hill International
Posted by Editor | Oct 17, 2018 | International Competitions Archives, Latest News | 0 |
From the first Fair Hill International win by Karen Lende (now O'Connor) to last year's victory by Canadian Selena O'Hanlon, FHI has hosted fierce and top-notch international competition. The team working behind the scenes at FHI each year brings together high quality competition as well as a great spectator experience complete with demonstrations, vendors and food! This year's special anniversary year celebrates 30 years of FHI at the Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area in Elkton, October 18-21.
Why Fair Hill
When the Chesterland Horse Trials was losing its home at the Davidson farm near Unionville, PA, organizers started searching the surrounding areas for somewhere to move the area's biggest fall event. Chesterland's organizer John Ryan pointed out that many didn't want the event to leave Pennsylvania, but Fair Hill looked like the best location for an event of that scale. It had varied terrain and enough room for all three phases in a fairly centralized location.
Just a few of FHI's First Family: Fran Loftus, Sally Ike and Judy Thayer
The State of Maryland purchased the land now known as the Fair Hill Natural Resources Management from the expansive William duPont, Jr., estate in 1974. The preserve spreads out across 5,633 acres. The first FHI in 1989 used up much more space than the current version as the early events still used the long format of eventing with roads and tracks. Cross-country day started and ended near the fair grounds and used the steeplechase course, Saw Mill fields and many of the areas used for the current cross-country courses.
For that first event, Ryan reached out to course designer Michael Tucker of Great Britain about coming out to Maryland to check out the location, and the rest is history. Ryan, Trish Gilbert and a few others from the first FHI team met Tucker at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. When Tucker got a look at Fair Hill, "he loved it," Ryan stated. Fran Loftus, also part of that first FHI team, said of Tucker, "he really got us going and was able to help keep us going."
According to Ryan, it is the cross-country course that makes FHI Fair Hill. "This course is unique compared to what is happening at other venues in the states," he said. "The use of the natural terrain is what makes Fair Hill special. It is a true cross-country course."
Tucker told The Equiery in a 2013 interview, "This really is the most exciting piece of cross-country that I've even been able to design on." At the time of FHI's 25th anniversary, Tucker, who passed away in January of this year, reminisced,"I remember we were beating away the bushes to find everything we needed and then the challenge was linking it all together."
Current FHI course designer Derek di Grazia said in that same 2013 article, "The thing about Fair Hill that you appreciate after riding it is how much the terrain affects the horses." Before becoming FHI's course designer in 2000, di Grazia had competed several times there and won aboard Our Busby in 1991. That same year, Eric Bull, also a top event rider, became FHI's official course builder. Ryan believes it is FHI's cross-country course that makes competitors come back to FHI year after year. "Phillip and Boyd and riders of that level have said it over and over again… If you get around Fair Hill, you are ready for a four star," he said.
Show jumping for the first Fair Hill International was placed at the Fair Grounds and held in a grass arena. Pictured is show jump steward Richard Lamb at the 1989 FHI.
That first FHI team was a mix of Chesterland organizers, local pony club organizers and trainers who already were familiar with the Fair Hill grounds.Nearly all were purely volunteers with a passion for eventing. John Ryan. Trish Gilbert. Fran Loftus. Bodgie Reed. Michael Tucker. Judy Thayer. Diane Trefry. Charles Colgen. Mary Coldren. Rupert Rossetti. Derek di Grazia. Eric Bull. Sally Ike. The list goes on and on. Trying to generate any sort of list of the first FHI family is next to impossible. So many people, so many volunteers. So little time!
"It's a big family," said this year's competition manager and long-time show secretary Mary Coldren. "The family. That's what has made Fair Hill so successful for so long." Coldren's first exposure to FHI was as the official "mower of the tracks," she said with a laugh. "I was a student of Judy Thayer's and all her students volunteered at Fair Hill. I was the one on the tractor with the bat-wing mower out there grooming the courses."
The Foreman, owned by Ann Jones and ridden by Olympian Phillip Dutton, is the only horse to have won the CCI3* at FHI more than once.
Later, Coldren became treasurer for a few years and then sat on the Board of Directors before becoming FHI's event secretary and stable manager. "I remember the years when stabling was grouped by the Davidson tent, the Dutton tent and the O'Connor tent," she remarked, commenting on the way competitors liked to be stabled together. This year, Coldren has fallen into the competition manager role. "They needed someone who knew all the players to step into the role and I just seemed like the logical fit," she said.
The pair won in 2004 and 2007.
"It really is a whole family affair," Loftus said. "Mowing and weed-whacking, painting jumps…." When asked about that very first FHI, Loftus stated, "I was very amazed how it all came together. What was just fields and woods and hedges turned into a magnificent course." Loftus started out as organizing show jumping and manned the in-gate at times. Over the years she has also run the horse inspections and been a VIP shuttle driver. "That is a lot of fun! You meet a lot of interesting people driving the shuttles," she stated.
But Loftus is best known for her paintings of the cross-country fences that illustrate each year's courses in the FHI program. "Its really interesting to talk with the course designers and walk around the courses with them while they are setting fences. I've learned a lot about the sport just from doing those paintings," she said.
Bodgie Reed runs the dressage phase, but like so many others on the FHI team, does so much more than that, pointed out that "there are a lot of people who the spectators don't even see getting the rings set and changed quickly." Because all three phases of competition use the main arena at FHI, Reed said the dressage rings get set up typically the Sunday before the event, are taken down as soon as the last rider finishes on Friday and then the cross-country jumps are moved out of the way and all of show jumping is set up well into dark on Saturday. "And then we take it all down right after the event is done on Sunday!" she added.
Over the last 30 years, FHI has evolved in many ways. From being a fall three-day event before there were "stars" to becoming the official U.S. Eventing Association Fall Three-Star and Two-Star Championships, one thing has remained the same… top quality international competition.
For a time, FHI weekend not only hosted the CCI3* but also an international Combined Driving Championship. "Those were great years with course designers from both sports having to work together to intertwine their courses," Reed said. Driving was dropped in 2008 due to lack on entries but promptly replaced with a CCI2* championship that filled quickly.
Before there was a CCI2* championship during FHI week, there was Combined Driving Event championships with CCI3* and CDE courses overlapping in places like at the Chesapeake Water where the drivers went through a water hazard on the right of the bridge while the eventers jumped the water complex on the left.
In 2003, FHI hosted the eventing portion of the Pan American Games. "That probably is the most memorable Fair Hill for me," said Loftus of the 2003 event. "We had driving, endurance and eventing all running over the same week. It was truly an international experience." That year, di Grazia had already set the CCI3* courses before the Pan American announcement had been made so he went back to create options for the Pan American riders at many of the complexes. "We wanted to make it a little different from the regular three-star and wanted to have as many teams as possible make it to show jumping so that many countries were represented," he said. Reed added, "I remember all the international riders having a grand time! They seemed to really enjoy their time here and had a blast."
To celebrate 30 years of top class eventing, this year FHI is raising the bar even higher. There is a new Select Event Group sponsor tent replacing the old VIP tent on the top of the hill overlooking the arena. The new viewing area is a fully enclosed glass structure complete with a floor. "It's very fancy! Lots of glass and a floor so people are not walking on wet grass" said Reed.
After cross-country concludes on Saturday, the new enclosure will be the site of the official FHI 30th Anniversary party. Tickets are open to everyone and the emcee of the evening will be the legendary Jimmy Wofford. "We have lots of special guests planning on attending and it really will be a way to mingle with the past and present stars of eventing," Loftus said.
Also new this year is a new electronic score board in the main arena throughout the competition. Competitors will be treated to new and improved stabling that consists of covered pods of stalls versus big tents. There will be a special Volunteer Tent set next to the main arena. "We want to honor all the volunteers that work so hard to put this event on," said Loftus. "The tent will be a great place for them to take a break, eat some food and watch the competition.
The general format for competition remains the same this year with the first horse inspection on Wednesday afternoon. Dressage for the CCI2*, CCI3* and Young Event Horse Championship (4- and 5-year-olds) takes place on Thursday with the dressage for the CCIs wrapping up on Friday, while the YEH horses jump across the road in the Saw Mill.
A "Night with the Stars" 30th anniversary party will be held on Saturday, October 20 with Jimmy Wofford as the official emcee.
Saturday is the big cross-country day with the CCI2* riders hitting the course first, then a lunch break followed by the CCI3* riders. In addition to plenty of competition, Saturday spectators will be treated to the Kids' Corner, live performances by the Juggling Hoffmans and the Magical Illusions of Kyle and Kelly, Dog Agility demonstrations, the Chincoteague Pony Drill Team and Frisbee Dogs.
Sunday wraps up the CCI competition with the final horse inspection and show jumping phase. This year, Mark Donavan joins the FHI team as the show jumping course designer. Long-time course designer Sally Ike has "aged out" due to FEI rules on the maximum age of international officials.
The Vendor Village with plenty of shopping and food options will be open throughout the week. There are also many other food option areas spread out throughout the grounds for cross-country day.
Visit The Equiery on cross-country day!
Finally, don't forget to visit The Equiery on Saturday at our annual tailgate. Great viewing from spot B1 right at the start of the main galloping lane.
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Q: Garbage collection async methods I just noticed something really strange with regards to garbage collection.
The WeakRef method collects the object as expected while the async method reports that the object is still alive even though we have forced a garbage collection. Any ideas why ?
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        WeakRef();
        WeakRefAsync().Wait();
    }

    private static void WeakRef()
    {
        var foo = new Foo();
        WeakReference fooRef = new WeakReference(foo);
        foo = null;
        GC.Collect();
        Debug.Assert(!fooRef.IsAlive);
    }

    private static async Task WeakRefAsync()
    {
        var foo = new Foo();
        WeakReference fooRef = new WeakReference(foo);
        foo = null;
        GC.Collect();
        Debug.Assert(!fooRef.IsAlive);
    }
}

public class Foo
{

}

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The WeakRef method collects the object as expected

There's no reason to expect that. Trying in Linqpad, it doesn't happen in a debug build, for example, though other valid compilations of both debug and release builds could have either behaviour.
Between the compiler and the jitter, they are free to optimise out the null-assignment (nothing uses foo after it, after all) in which case the GC could still see the thread as having a reference to the object and not collect it. Conversely, if there was no assignment of foo = null they'd be free to realise that foo isn't used any more and re-use the memory or register that had been holding it to hold fooRef (or indeed for something else entirely) and collect foo.
So, since both with and without the foo = null it's valid for the GC to see foo as either rooted or not rooted, we can reasonably expect either behaviour.
Still, the behaviour seen is a reasonable expectation as to what would probably happen, but that it's not guaranteed is worth pointing out.
Okay, that aside, let's look at what actually happens here.
The state-machine produced by the async method is a struct with fields corresponding to the locals in the source.
So the code:
var foo = new Foo();
WeakReference fooRef = new WeakReference(foo);
foo = null;
GC.Collect();

Is a bit like:
this.foo = new Foo();
this.fooRef = new WeakReference(foo);
this.foo = null;
GC.Collect();

But field accesses always have something going on locally. So in that regard it's almost like:
var temp0 = new Foo();
this.foo = temp0;
var temp1 = new WeakReference(foo);
this.fooRef = temp1;
var temp2 = null;
this.foo = temp2;
GC.Collect();

And temp0 hasn't been nulled, so the GC finds the Foo as rooted.
Two interesting variants of your code are:
var foo = new Foo();
WeakReference fooRef = new WeakReference(foo);
foo = null;
await Task.Delay(0);
GC.Collect();

And:
var foo = new Foo();
WeakReference fooRef = new WeakReference(foo);
foo = null;
await Task.Delay(1);
GC.Collect();

When I ran it (again, reasonable differences in how the memory/registers for locals is dealt with could result in different outcomes) the first has the same behaviour of your example, because while it calls into another Task method and awaits it, that method returns a completed task so the await immediately moves onto the next thing within the same underlying method call, which is the GC.Collect().
The second has the behaviour of seeing the Foo collected, because the await returns at that point and then the state-machine has its MoveNext() method called again roughly a millisecond later. Since it's a new call to the behind-the-scenes method, there's no local reference to the Foo so the GC can indeed collect it.
Incidentally, it's also possible that one day the compiler will not produce fields for those locals that don't live across await boundaries, which would be an optimisation that would still produce correct behaviour. If that was to happen then your two methods would become much more similar in underlying behaviour and hence more likely to be similar in observed behaviour.


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From a marketing stand point it be great, from a design standpoint.. not so much. First there is the problem of the underlying code. With Sims 2 it was easy for the reasons listed already... It was simple, the code was revolutionary, it was the first part of the game. Spore is an ENTIRELY different beast. You have to take into account that alot of the game is designed to be like nothing (and everything) else. The editor is a completely new beast all together (the Sims 2 Editor was an advanced Sims 1 Editor.. nothing completely groundbreaking) and it's also dependant on the underlying code... if you release the underlying code you have the risk of being ripped off... if everything is procedural... What's good for Marketing is not always what's best for the game.
Spore is NOT like Sims 2 because I am actually LOOKING FORWARD to Spore... I loathe the Sim games.. and I own most of them.. so it's my right to loathe them (they are a good way to kill time and mostly my brother and mom played them).
In a way, I hope they don't release a demo unless the demo is fully functional and operational. If they cut down on things like creature part choices, casual gamers trying it out might not realize the full potential of the engine and label it as some far distant sequil to E.V.O or something.
Sinc you don't get a second chance at making first impressions, I'd rather the full game be the first hands-on experiance the world gets.
My rationale behind this is that the more people involved, the richer the online database.
Thats what I said before. Some people would just get the demo and say, "I don't even need the game now."
casual gamers trying it out might not realize the full potential of the engine and label it as some far distant sequil to E.V.O or something.
Casual gamers don't know what E.V.O is.
But I believe everyone gets the point by now... as much as we all want a demo... it's not a good idea and isn't very plausible.. however I bet that they'll probably be "open beta testing" in order to populate User Creations and to fully test their servers and it's also possible that the media sections of most game news sites will be filled with info before release... this is one of those games that they have to market through content since the premise is entirely human controlled.
Hmm... at the very least.. I would like to see this.
Yeah by then they should be getting the pre-release limited creature editor ready for the public.
They will probably do that because Will says in another video that he likes giving the public content creation tools before releasing games to have an established community when the games out. In this case it would probably to be to fill out the disks database.
My guess is, if they do release an editor, and I don't think they will, that they would just either limit you to microscopic and/or limit the number of generations you can do. I doubt there would be an advanced creature editor because that would skip to much of the game. The only way I can see them releasing that is via a beta.
Yeah, but Will Wright did say he likes doing that.
I bet it would only allow you to make things people wouldn't normally wan't to make, like little non-meat eaters like the hoppers in the GDC demo or the gelly-fish like things he swims up too. Maybe plants too since I don't think there will be alot of plants initially since you don't get that editor untill later in the game.
since all content represents hours of work the smart thing to do would be to release the editor and make the content made pre-release available in the final game.
If you remember correctly, Will himself said that computer created creatures would be very easy to implement, and it wouldn't take any time at all for a computer to create them.
I want to mess around with the editor!
interesting, could the computer generate varisations on your creature?
or generate a preditor for one creature with the prey of that creature as an ancestor?
Yeah they would probably look like random things put together.
I think that the computer would be used to slightly modify creatures pulled off the net to make them more suit your planet.
if the computer didnt have to display a whole world then it could simulate variations on a proceduraly evolved creature untill it met certain goals.
Computer builings would not be as hard as you think. It would just have to follow a set of predetermined rules.
As for the creatures, it would probably be set to make creatures to maximize a certain skill set or mutiple ones. Then it would just make a bunch of things that are better at that then th other ones.
Reminds me of the Galapagos islands Darwin went to, he saw a whole ecology with specialized birds descended from the same ancestor.
Since will is focused on balanced ecologies a mutation generator is a great idea.
Then you can have variations on a species all around your world, that's more like how the real world works.
I can't wait to see polar bear and black bear, variations to my pet animal.


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With terror activities at a low ebb: Some semblance of normality as movies, sports & tourists return to Valley
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In 2022, youths joining militancy in the Valley were 99 compared to 136 in 2021 and three districts of Kashmir reported zero recruitment.
The face of terrorism in the Valley is changing. Instead of joining the ranks of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), militants these days are working in "modules" and are being radicalised "online". Infact, according to additional DGP (Kashmir Zone) Vijay Kumar, "there is no radical structure like earlier when militant groups had a central command and commander-in-chief followed by district-level and local-level commanders. They are working in small modules." In 2022, youths joining militancy in the Valley were 99 compared to 136 in 2021 and three districts of Kashmir reported zero recruitment.
As both Centre and the UT administration try to wean youths away from militancy and bring in a new order of "good governance", power corridors are abuzz with talk of "youth engagement", "self-employment", "investment proposals", "sports infrastructure", "saturation of central schemes", "uptick in tourism", surge of "self help groups" and "women empowerment."
On August 5, 2019, Article 370 was abrogated and J&K was bifurcated into two UTs. The J&K government has taken up many development projects since then but feels that the biggest challenge is to win the "narrative war". According to J&K police, 206 law and order incidents were reported between August 5, 2019 and November 2022 compared to 555 before that.
Will Jammu and Kashmir be able to sustain this new normal? After decades of insurgency and state-sponsored terrorism, it has been only two years since the Valley is witnessing an influx of tourists, investment proposals and fewer suspension of internet services. In 2022, the Valley recorded over 1.4 crore visitors with more than 1 crore of them visiting the Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu. After the uproar over targeted killing of Kashmiri Pandits and migrants this year, police have stepped up vigil at places where Kashmir Pandits reside. CRPF and the Army are on the alert near industries where migrant labourers work. The owners of these industries have been asked to take extra precaution and instal CCTVs on their premises, they added.
Since October 2021, the UT administration has granted permissions for 180 films, songs, documentaries and OTT shooting. After the film policy was tweaked in August last year, it was mandatory to provide security arrangements "free of cost" to enable filmmakers complete their shooting. As per the policy, permission to shoot includes police clearance, which has to be granted within a month of receiving the application. The security team is specially trained to handle film shoots. A J&K administration official told Sunday ET that most of these shooting permits were for low-budget films. But recently Bollywood actor Vicky Kausal was in Kashmir for Megha Gulzar' Sam Bahadur. The film also starts Fatima Sana Sheikh and Sanya Malhotra. Officials said earlier Emraan Hashmi shot for his upcoming film Ground Zero. Film shooting permission is mainly given in Pahalgam, Gulmarg, Srinagar, Bhaderwah and Jammu.
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Not many in the Valley talk about the revocation of Article 370 but are keenly observing the Election Commission's (EC) decisions. Elections were last held in 2014 and since 2018, after the BJP withdrew support from Mehbooba Mufti's PDP, the state has been under central rule. The EC recently published the revised electoral rolls following the delimitation exercise, which resulted in the addition of seven new assembly constituencies in the UT. Six of these were added to the Jammu division and one to Kashmir division. Following the additions, Kashmir region now has 47 assembly seats and Jammu has 43. The EC is yet to announce elections.
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As per the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), unemployment rate in November 2022 was 23.9% in J&K, one of the highest in India. Due to marginal presence of the private sector, the government becomes the main source of jobs. Abida Ashraf (25), who runs a women self-help group in Pulwama, says the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) under the Ministry of Rural Development, started in 2015, has "empowered" women. From 400 SHGs, Pulwama has 2,450 now but she is "uncertain" about the future. "We help unemployed boys and girls but the government should ensure honorarium to such community mobilisers and ensure financial support," Abida said.
Owais Yaqoob (25), who trains boys and girls in martial arts in Pulwama, said the "environment has changed" since 2019 but government "initiatives" to open sports clubs, upgrade stadiums, engage youths, do not ensure employment for youths. Yaqoob recently became the first fighter from Kashmir to win a contract from Matrix fight night but feels "not many facilities" are available for sportspersons.
Mudashir Muzafer was recruited as Rehbar-i-Khel (sports teachers) in 2019 but, he along with 2,474 teachers across J&K, are demanding the seven-year probation period to be reduced to five. "We are responsible for imparting skills and motivating youths to join sports. We used to receive Rs 3,000 per month during the first two years which was increased to Rs 4,000 in the third year. We have made a representation before the LG and administration to reduce the probation period from 7 to 5 years," Muzafer said, speaking on behalf of All J&K Rehbar-i-Khel teachers forum.
Faisal Wagnoo (23) from Srinagar is the football captain of his team, Downtown Heroes FC. Wagnoo says sports clubs are meant to engage "youth energy" so that they do not take "path of violence." According to the J&K administration, every panchayat is required to set up sports clubs and they have earmarked playing fields.
However, J&K chief secretary Arun Mehta says the new industrial policy will bring '75,000 cr that will generate more than 2 lakh jobs. A total of 5 lakh jobs will be generated by the industry and agriculture, said Mehta. On government jobs, the UT administration said it has organised the "largest-ever recruitment drive" and no interviews are conducted up to level 5. From 2019 till November 2022, 29,813 recruitments were carried out. "During the current year, 1,087 gazetted and 4,436 non-gazetted vacancies have been referred to recruiting agencies, 3,175 class-IV vacancies have also been identified," the official added (See BOX).
IT INDUSTRY AND SECURITY
Internet was suspended on August 5, 2019 and was restored after 18 months in February 2021. Many young entrepreneurs had to either to move out or shut their operations. "The crime rate in J&K is the lowest in the country. The Valley has skilled manpower and the IT industry will bounce back and grow here. We are moving to more normalcy," added the top official.
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This is the view from Next Level Camp apartments. It's beachfront on the best beach on the island (IMHO). This is how it looks every morning – not too hard to motivate for training.
Getting bikes set-up for a great week of training.
The group is heading out from Alcudia, heading towards Arta`.
Not the worst place to get a flat. The scenery is pretty spectacular everywhere on the island.
On the way up to Lluc.
Gudio had the chance to try out a POC TT helmet. He looks pretty fast!
Our UK distributor, Pailgap, and PowerTap invited some key customers and coaches down to enjoy some great riding for a week. We presented the new PowerTap GS hub and everyone got a chance to have a good PowerTap experience by riding either the GS Enve 3.4 wheels, 46mm carbon wheels, or Alloy wheels paired to the Joule GPS. Campe attendees included: Blair Morgan from Paligap, the PowerTap distributor in the UK. Nick Brown from Nick Brown Coaching, Tristan Natolie from Evans Cycles, Daniel Kogan from Sigma Sport, Matt Clinton from cyclepowermeters.com, Andy Watson from Velotive, and Seamus Brennen from Global Cycles in Carlow.
This group showed their strength on the big ride of the week: a 150km including 3000m of climbing. Matt Clinton from Cyclepowermeters.com set a Strava record for the climb on Sa Calobra at 29 minutes. An impressive feat since the best climbers in the world can climb it in 22-23 minutes, so that was cool to see. We also filmed the Sa Calobra climb to create a CycleOps Virtual Training route, which will soon be available for download.
Nick Brown, Blair Morgan, and Calyton Goldsmith pose for a quick shot.
On the road to Lluc.
The crew at the bottom of Sa Calobra.
Tristan Natolie is ready to roll out for another day of riding in perfect weather.
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Everyone had the chance to give the new GS hub a go.


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Photos of Cagli
Modifications: blurred text of document left of arm for potential privacy concerns. Massimo Pompili checks the messages on his mobile device near Cagli, Italy, city hall, July 6, 2013. (Photo illustration by Agneta E. Murnan / Gonzaga in Cagli)
Massimo Pompili stands near the restoration site of one of the oldest structures in Cagli, Italy, at the base of Convento Cappuccini, July 6, 2013 (Photo by Agneta E. Murnan / Gonzaga in Cagli).
Massimo Pompili steps off the edge of a water control facility set into the hills of Cagli, Italy, July 6, 2013 (Photo by Agneta E. Murnan).
Massimo Pompili stands at the site of the first drinking water supply to Cagli, Italy, July 6, 2013 (Photo by Agneta E. Murnan / Gonzaga in Cagli).
Massimo Pompili (right) laughs with a fellow Caglese in Cagli, Italy, July 6, 2013 (Photo by Agneta E. Murnan / Gonzaga in Cagli).
Massimo Pompili points to the indentation of stone steps in the Cagli, Italy, city hall, July 6, 2013. The steps have been worn low in spots by foot traffic over the course of centuries (Photo by Agneta E. Murnan / Gonzaga in Cagli).
Massimo Pompili walks through a newly renovated, open foyer in the Cagli, Italy, city hall, July 6, 2013 (Photo by Agneta E. Murnan / Gonzaga in Cagli).
Massimo Pompili steps behind his desk in his office at the Cagli, Italy, city hall on July 4, 2013 (Photo by Agneta E. Murnan / Gonzaga in Cagli).
Massimo Pompili looks out from a window in the city hall of Cagli, Italy, July 4, 2013 (Photo by Agneta E. Murnan / Gonzaga in Cagli).
Bruno Nucci: Art & Imagination Nurtured by Nature
Posted on Jun 24, 2013 by Stefanie Burger
Just off the cozy piazza in Cagli, Italy, sits a true gem. Nestled between Pizzeria La Focaccia and Banca Marche is Krysos Gioielli (gold jewelry), a shop filled with so much beauty that King Midas himself would think he was in heaven. Just beyond the displays of precious jewels is a workshop of imagination where Bruno Nucci creates his handmade jewelry.
Bruno grew up in Cagli where he attended art school before traveling to Florence for advanced education. While studying in Florence, he discovered a passion for metalworking and began creating art with gold and precious metals. For a brief period, Bruno traveled throughout Italy, studying and apprenticing in jewelry and metal work in cities such as Rome before returning to Cagli and opening Krysos Gioielli in 1989.
For nearly 25 years, Bruno has been creating exquisiteexex and one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry, completely by hand. The storefront display in his shop is immaculate and visually inviting. Behind a small glass window is a room where design photos are stacked on top of a large safe. Chisels and hammers are strewn about on a workbench, and blowtorches are stored safely in their holsters. This is the space where moments of inception become moments of artistic mastery.
Two machines within the shop are rarely used. Bruno and his son, Alessandro, do most of the work by hand. Foils, chains, pendants, rings. Details are chiseled, stamped and smoothed. To maximize their rich resources, the duo recycles the precious metals removed during the creative process. Anything from stone slivers to metal dust and fragments are collected and used in future projects.
Bruno is inspired by the land, the creatures that occupy it, and the natural splendor that each detail of the seasons conveys throughout the Marche region. He claims that he works only six days a week, but each Sunday, on his day off, he takes walks throughout the surrounding area with his wife, Katia. On these walks he finds inspiration for his next masterpiece. As he finds beauty in the details, he finds another way to immortalize the inimitable nature within the Marche region of Italy.
His focal points are not always what a typical jeweler would consider regal or beautiful, yet each piece within the collection is visually breathtaking. The beetle, invasive and dark within its natural habitat, shines brightly in the jewelry cases. The golden creature illuminates the storefront with stunning details in sky blue. The movement of the golden beetle mirrors its natural traits, folding where vertebrae would bend.
Bruno uses each piece to tell a story by allowing customers to see the world through his eyes and imagination. His quality is high, and his Italian artistry is traditionally mind blowing. Filled with creations that pay special homage to the distinctive attributes of Cagli life, the cases of Bruno's shop line the walls. They include delicate lighting and lush displays. Krysos jewelry is available exclusively in Cagli and attracts visitors from Germany, Holland, and around the world.
Bruno says that he loves his work. "I love creating original pieces from my imagination, things that others cannot create and that people cannot find anywhere but in Cagli," he says.
The glory of Krysos has not come without challenge. In 2006, an explosion in a nearby building left Bruno – his body and his business – in need of much repair. The time after the explosion is a testament to the passion and dedication Bruno and his family feel for the business that serves as their livelihood. After only one month, a forever-scarred Bruno returned to work in a temporary, tent-like area, and his love for his own talent has continued to grow.
Even after Bruno retires, the store's future will remain bright. Over the years, Alessandro has watched his father's artistry and has developed his own love for the business that he will eventually take over. Together, this father and son will continue to create wearable masterpieces for years to come.
Bruno Nucci works with fire to create a unique wearable metal element. Photo by Stefanie Burger/Gonzaga in Cagli.
Fire in Bruno's work shop alters metal elements. Photo by Stefanie Burger/Gonzaga in Cagli
Bruno Nucci looks at his wife Katia while she glances at friends passing in the Piazza outside. Photo by Stefanie Burger/ Gonzaga in Cagli.
Chisels are filed in their place within Bruno & Alessandro's workshop. Photo by Stefanie Burger/ Gonzaga in Cagli.
One of Bruno's many nature inspired pieces sits under a spot light in the store front of Krysos. Photo by Stefanie Burger/ Gonzaga in Cagli.
Alessandro and Bruno Nucci; Father and son design team at Krysos. Photo by Stefanie Burger/Gonzaga in Cagli.
Bruno's son Alessandro works on his next peice by chiseling a small fish detail. Photo by Stefanie Burger/ Gonzaga in Cagli.


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Q&A with DonorsChoose
They're helping teachers find classroom funding in the midst of a global pandemic. See what their CX team had to say about customer service in times of crisis.
This year, teachers have been working harder than ever to support their students as they navigate distance learning in the midst of a global pandemic.
Meanwhile, the customer support team at DonorsChoose, a platform that connects teachers with funding for classroom projects, is supporting those teachers and learning on the fly as they navigate continued uncertainty around schools and reopening plans.
We chatted via Slack with Dan Blum, Director of Customer Support Analytics at DonorsChoose, about how a flexible approach to customer service has allowed them to focus on the most important requests during this difficult time.
Read on for the full conversation, and if you like what you learn, join our Startup Central Slack Community for more conversations like this.
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Make your support software work for you. Take full advantage of ticket fields, tags, and workflows to make your process as smooth as possible. Research shows that successful startups use 2.8 times as many workflow tools compared to their counterparts.
Balance current and future needs. Troubleshoot your most urgent problems today, but don't neglect the future. You should still be thinking about long-term plans, even in a crisis.
Prioritize the most important messages. New challenges can shift your priorities—and that's OK. Understand who your most important customers are, what their needs are, and how you can help them.
Full Q&A with DonorsChoose
Greg (Zendesk): Tell us about DonorsChoose, what do you do, what does the team look like?
Dan (DonorsChoose): At DonorsChoose, our mission is to get teachers connected with the classroom materials they need for their students. We were founded 20 years ago by a teacher who was copying books page by page on a Xerox machine, because his classroom didn't have enough copies of a book for every student to read. He thought that if more folks knew exactly how much teachers like him were going without, they'd be motivated to help.
Since the year 2000, we've brought more than a billion dollars of resources to teachers at three quarters of the nation's public schools, rallying teachers to tell the world what they need, connecting them with companies, foundations, and individual donors who are compelled by those needs, and then shipping notebooks, pencils, laptops, and lab equipment straight to a teacher's classroom door.
Greg (Zendesk): Walk me through your initial needs with Zendesk and some of the things you did, to set up for growth?
We were focused on scaling and looking for customer-focused software, and we wanted a company that was growing as we were growing.
Greg (Zendesk): At what point did you notice that it was time to start making some edits to your workflows?
Dan (DonorsChoose): As we've started to grow, we have had a few iterations of our customer support team. We used to be silo'd based on operational function, but now we're consolidated into one team. Zendesk has been flexible enough to adapt to each of our models since we've used it.
Greg (Zendesk): In terms of your workflows and overall set up, what would you have done differently or wished you'd known looking back at when you first implemented Zendesk?
Dan (DonorsChoose): I think we would have incorporated a tagging or taxonomy system immediately. Tags were used inconsistently by different teams so analytics were really challenging for years. Recently we revamped our customer issue taxonomy and incorporated it into Zendesk, so we have much stronger data now and moving forward.
Greg (Zendesk): Cut to 2020, COVID times, schools have been remote for so many months, talk me through the pivot that was made, as a business, to adapt to the changing landscape of education?
Dan Blum (DonorsChoose): It's been a wild year, as it has for everyone. The moment when COVID hit and schools began to close, that threatened the fundamental value that we provide to our teachers. We ship materials to schools. It's what we do, it's what our site is built upon. And in this moment, learning wasn't happening in schools anymore.
So, we did three things:
We focused on the now, making fast changes to our operations to make sure no teacher was having a box of materials appear at a closed school.
We focused on the future, scoping out the long-term adjustments to our model we'd need to take during months of uncertainty when some schools would be open and others closed, with potentially those changes happening rapidly and in a way that's hard to predict.
And finally, we focused on the next week.
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Greg (Zendesk): What are some things you'll keep, post-COVID?
Dan (DonorsChoose): Prioritization! The number of teachers using our site has understandably dropped this year. So we've been prioritizing inquiries from new teachers and teachers who are posting projects. That way we're helping more teachers get through the funnel faster.
Thriving in uncertainty
With Zendesk for customer service, DonorsChoose was able to keep supporting teachers when schools shut down and the world changed forever.
Thriving in uncertainty requires investment, preparedness, and above all else, flexibility. No one knows what will happen next, but we do know that the world will keep changing.
Now is the time to listen, learn, and plan for the future:
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Patomak In The News
Patomak CEO's take on the Treasury capital markets report: a positive step toward reform, some weaknesses still need to be addressed
The Department of Treasury's newly released 220-page report on reforming capital markets regulation should give investors, consumers, workers, small businesses, and the financial industry alike reason for optimism. After eight years of anemic economic growth, due largely to increased barriers to small business financing and accelerating regulatory complexity, the report sets forth a pragmatic approach to improving capital formation, expanding investor choice, and simplifying regulations.
The report was issued in response to a February Executive Order that requires Treasury to identify policies that could advance, or conflict with, the President's "Core Principles" on financial regulation. These Core Principles include making regulation efficient, empowering American investors, ending taxpayer-funded bailouts, and improving the regulatory process. The report's recommendations regarding expanding access to capital, securitization, and regulatory processes neatly align with the President's objectives. Implementing many of these policies would fuel economic growth. Although the report's recommendations on derivatives and equity market structure also largely go in the right direction, some are misguided or rather weak and need to be better supported or re-worked altogether. Unfortunately, the report's section on so-called "financial market utilities" (FMUs) accepts failed regulatory approaches that are antithetical to the Core Principles. Despite shortcomings, overall, the report offers a positive and needed direction for reform.
Moving forward, Treasury has more work to do to determine how best to overhaul U.S. financial markets polices that conflict with the President's Core Principles. For example, Dodd-Frank's Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) has virtually unchecked power to designate FMUs and other nonbank financial institutions (such as insurance companies and asset managers) as "systemically important" – an anti-competitive and costly "too-big-to-fail" label that brings about moral hazard and adds next to nothing to make the financial system more "stable." Another of Dodd-Frank's controversial provisions that conflicts with the President's Core Principles is Orderly Liquidation Authority (OLA), which enables taxpayer bailouts of financial firms and is hardly orderly – its extrajudicial process places nonbank resolution in the hands of a bank regulator and its "single point of entry" strategy is based on unworkable assumptions.
Hopefully, needed reforms related to these issues will be endorsed in upcoming Treasury reports on asset management, insurance, FSOC, and OLA. Treasury should announce that it will drop its ongoing appeal of the strong March 2016 MetLife v. FSOC court ruling that limits one of FSOC's sweeping designation powers. The decision to appeal is a holdover policy stance from the Obama Administration and many, such as Sen. Toomey (R-PA), have urged Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to call the lawyers off. Treasury should also endorse Congress's effort to rein in FSOC's full suite of designation powers and end taxpayer-funded OLA bailouts. In the meantime, Treasury should overhaul guardrails on FSOC's designation powers to require thorough ex ante economic analyses and do away with firm-specific designation.
An overview of some of the capital market report's most positive components, and of policy areas still requiring Treasury's attention, are listed below.
Expanding access to capital. Treasury appropriately recognizes the huge decline in public companies and initial public offerings (IPOs) since the 1990s, and makes clear how shrinking access to public markets has harmed the general public. The report is right to call for policies that will improve the vitality of and access to capital markets, such as: (i) developing policy responses to the harmful market effects of anti-competitive proxy advisory firms; (ii) revising the $2,000 holding requirement for shareholder proposals; (iii) allowing dispute resolution between companies and shareholders via arbitration; (iv) expanding the accredited investor threshold; (v) enabling Exchange Act reporting companies to be Regulation A eligible; and (vi) implementing reforms to improve the market for Tier 2 offerings, such as increasing the offering limit to $75 million. The report also appropriately reinforces the importance of the materiality standard for corporate disclosures and recommends repealing provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that require the disclosure of immaterial information related to conflict minerals, mine safety, resource extraction, and CEO pay ratios.
Market structure. Friday's report illustrates how the SEC's 2005 Regulation NMS increased market complexity and harmed transparency – as Commissioner Cynthia Glassman and I warned would occur when we voted against the rule. Ill-defined broker best execution obligations and outdated regulations related to market data have resulted in substantial economic inefficiencies and distortions, with few benefits to show. The report rightly calls upon the SEC to consider amending Regulation NMS to increase competition. It also encourages a number of positive Regulation ATS reforms, including the elimination of unnecessary public disclosures of confidential information and the simplification of disclosures. To further improve market structure, Treasury makes the rather timid recommendation that the SEC "consider amending the Order Protection Rule to give protected quote status only to registered national securities exchanges that offer meaningful liquidity and opportunities for price improvement." Such a Solomonic step would require continued discretionary line-drawing by the SEC, picking winners and losers, instead of an approach that would depart from the dirigiste philosophy of Regulation NMS by injecting more "market" into the capital markets. The current equities marketplace, which has benefited so much from technological innovation, is still subject to byzantine SEC rules, such as the system of "protected quotations," which has led to atomization of the equities market, a dizzying array of order types, and inefficiencies for institutional trading and price discovery.
Securitization. Treasury is right to call upon the SEC to simplify and improve the disclosure and reporting process for registered securitizations. It also appropriately advocates for regulators to "issue a broad qualified exemption for [collateralized loan obligation (CLO)] risk retention." In 2013, CLOs provided nearly $300 billion in U.S. business financing, although issuances have declined in recent years due in part to regulatory pressures. Compared to mortgage-backed securitizations, CLOs performed quite well during the financial crisis, and are inherently less-risky given exposure only to senior, secured commercial loans. To alleviate unnecessary burdens on corporate borrowing, it makes sense for Treasury to recommend an exemption from Dodd-Frank's risk retention standards for CLO managers who select loans that meet "qualified" standards set forth by regulators. Treasury also notes the impediments to securitization caused by bank regulators' Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), which precludes non-agency securitized products from being treated as Highly Qualified Liquid Assets (HQLA). However, rather than call for small tweaks to HQLA calculations, Treasury should reassess the efficacy of ill-conceived and costly Basel III bank liquidity regulations, and consider leading a push to abandon the LCR and its cousin the Net Stable Funding Ratio.
Derivatives. Similarly, Friday's report explains how, thanks to Basel III, U.S. bank rules inappropriately measure derivatives exposures through a so-called "current exposure method" (CEM), which over-estimates risk through prohibiting notional value measurements and requiring other overly-blunt approaches. Treasury is right to call for a more realistic approach to derivatives risk so that the CEM's severe harm to derivatives market liquidity can be reversed; as the report explains, liquid derivatives markets are vitally important to the real economy. Treasury also appropriately recommends that the swap dealer de minimis registration threshold not fall below $8 billion. Moving forward, the CFTC should use swap data to make sure that this threshold is appropriately set. Treasury is also right to urge the SEC and CFTC to allow financial firms to comply with non-U.S. regulations in lieu of nearly-identical U.S. rules – poor CFTC cross-border coordination unnecessarily increased regulatory costs during the Obama years. Overall, the report's derivatives-related recommendations go in the right direction, although some do not go far enough or are misguided. The report asks banking regulators to "consider providing" an exemption from certain initial margin requirements for uncleared swaps, which stem from costly Dodd-Frank rules and misguided international agreements. Instead, it should have called for stronger action, as these requirements discourage the utilization of uncleared swaps that can enable more precise risk management than standardized products. Most troubling, the report endorses unnecessary and inappropriate CFTC efforts to limit traders' positions in certain commodities. The CFTC's authority to do so was expanded by Dodd-Frank, but it is not required to act on this power, and its past attempt to do so was vacated in federal court. Indeed, as a leading derivatives markets economist explains, there is "no compelling theoretical or empirical case for limits on speculative derivatives positions." The CFTC's quest to define "excessive speculation" for purposes of this rule has wasted taxpayer resources.
Financial market utilities. Needed policy reforms regarding FMUs are missing from Treasury's capital markets report. It does not question the efficacy of the process by which the FSOC – a multi-regulator council created by Dodd-Frank – designates FMUs as "systemically important," thus implicitly labeling these firms as "too-big-to-fail," reducing competitiveness, and providing designated FMUs with access to Federal Reserve bailouts. Instead, Friday's report calls on the Federal Reserve to explore reasons to expand Federal Reserve Bank account access for certain FMUs. The report also does not challenge the involvement of the FDIC in resolving FMUs through Dodd-Frank's OLA, which as mentioned above, can force taxpayers to foot the bill for financial company bailouts. Hopefully, these stances are not signs of things to come in future Treasury reports on FSOC, OLA, and other areas of the financial system. Moving forward, Treasury should promote market stability by working to undo past FMU designations and reining in FSOC's sweeping designation powers. Likewise, Treasury should endorse the Financial CHOICE Act's plan to end FSOC designations, as well as its bankruptcy-oriented approach to resolving large, complex financial firms as a fairer, more effective replacement for OLA. In the meantime, Treasury should announce that it will charge a hefty penalty rate for obligations it purchases pursuant to OLA, in order to make sure taxpayers are not left on the hook.
Regulatory processes. Treasury calls for sensible reforms to regulatory processes at the CFTC and SEC to curb excessive regulation-by-guidance and improve the quality of economic analyses produced during the rulemaking process. Reasonable policies endorsed by the Report include recommending that the CFTC and SEC: (i) enhance their use of cost-benefit analysis; (ii) avoid imposing new requirements via non-rulemaking processes such as no-action letters, interpretations, and other forms of guidance; (iii) conduct regular periodic, holistic reviews of the costs and benefits of existing regulations; and (iv) review existing guidance to determine potential sources of regulatory uncertainty and compliance costs. Similarly, what is good for the goose should be good for the gander: Treasury should require that the Financial Stability Oversight Council use rigorous enhanced economic analyses to inform its actions, and work to ensure that financial agencies – such as the Fed – with poor records of conducting economic analyses implement Treasury's June 2017 recommendation to produce thorough ex ante cost-benefit analyses for major rulemakings.
Overall, despite some weaknesses, Treasury's capital markets report is a welcome and substantial step towards undoing eight years of damage to capital formation and access caused during the past eight years by a mismanaged SEC, an unpredictable CFTC, and a misguided and unaccountable Federal Reserve.
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