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Located in the middle of a bull paddock approximately 50 minutes south east of Tamworth sits an off-grid home inspired by the iconic Akubra hat. The inspiration transpired at the first meeting of architect Alexander Symes and his clients on their farm. The client had selected somewhere quite specific as the site for their new home, a slice of the land with amazing 360 degree views. One of the key challenges for this project was immediately apparent: how to create a low energy, thermally comfortable home that celebrated these views. It was at this point Symes asked his client for his Akubra. Placing it upside down, Symes explained the concept for the Upside Down Akubra House: a single large-scale roof, reminiscent of the brim of the legendary hat, overhanging the house below. At 2.5 times the size of the building's footprint, the roof would block out the summer sun, yet let in the winter sun to warm the central thermal mass that would form the spine of the home. It would also catch rainwater to run the house, all with a functional home underneath celebrating views in every direction. The building generates and stores all its own energy, and collects enough water to run the house and treat its own waste. Living off-grid is not a new concept, but necessary in this remote location with its extreme weather conditions. The off-grid features start at the carport, which stands 4.5 metres at its tallest point and covers an area of 80 square metres. The entry to the home is also where you'll find the single 450 millimetre diameter gutter that collects all rainwater from the 560 square metre roof. The water is channeled to a single point, then free falls into to a simple concrete trough. A first glimpse of how the house has been nestled into the unique natural surrounds is revealed at the air lock front door. The air lock is made up of two three-metre tall Blackbutt timber framed glass doors, providing a clear view to the grove of native eucalypts. This brings the natural environment into the house, blurring the lines between the inside and out - an important theme throughout the house. The home then opens up into the open plan study, living and dining areas. The central spine of the building houses the utility and service rooms, leading to an open plan kitchen which flows seamlessly to the large bluestone patio. This creates outdoor rooms that extend the inside out, providing additional opportunities to feel connected to the land. The west wing of the house contains the modest bedrooms, which have a low window-to- wall ratio to provide privacy and improve the thermal performance of these spaces in the harsh western sun. The client's brief was for a robust and practical house, so taking cues from simple, practical rural buildings, the dwelling has a metal, timber and concrete material palette. Symes describes the house as "dematerialised", with exposed joinery and concrete walls. The floor is polished concrete with an aggregate that reflects the warm colours of the land and the greens of the bush. Integrated in the floor is in-slab hydronic heating and cooling, which is powered by onsite renewables. To further manage the extreme temperatures during the year, the facade and roof are highly insulated and sealed with a high-performance water permeable membrane. To provide fresh air to all the rooms without losing or gaining unwanted heat, the ceiling void is fitted with a heat recovery ventilation unit which circulates fresh air to each room and is fitted with a heat exchanger, reducing energy losses. The Upside Down Akubra House successfully responds to the extreme climatic conditions, has a light touch on the landscape, harnesses natures energy for sufficiency, and connects to the surrounds on which it stands.
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Architectural design inspired by an iconic Aussie hat
HATS OFF: The Upside Down Akubra House was designed by architect Alexander Symes. Photos by Barton Taylor. Produced with BowerBird.
Located in the middle of a bull paddock approximately 50 minutes south east of Tamworth sits an off-grid home inspired by the iconic Akubra hat.
The inspiration transpired at the first meeting of architect Alexander Symes and his clients on their farm. The client had selected somewhere quite specific as the site for their new home, a slice of the land with amazing 360 degree views. One of the key challenges for this project was immediately apparent: how to create a low energy, thermally comfortable home that celebrated these views.
It was at this point Symes asked his client for his Akubra. Placing it upside down, Symes explained the concept for the Upside Down Akubra House: a single large-scale roof, reminiscent of the brim of the legendary hat, overhanging the house below. At 2.5 times the size of the building's footprint, the roof would block out the summer sun, yet let in the winter sun to warm the central thermal mass that would form the spine of the home. It would also catch rainwater to run the house, all with a functional home underneath celebrating views in every direction.
The building generates and stores all its own energy, and collects enough water to run the house and treat its own waste. Living off-grid is not a new concept, but necessary in this remote location with its extreme weather conditions. The off-grid features start at the carport, which stands 4.5 metres at its tallest point and covers an area of 80 square metres. The entry to the home is also where you'll find the single 450 millimetre diameter gutter that collects all rainwater from the 560 square metre roof. The water is channeled to a single point, then free falls into to a simple concrete trough.
A first glimpse of how the house has been nestled into the unique natural surrounds is revealed at the air lock front door. The air lock is made up of two three-metre tall Blackbutt timber framed glass doors, providing a clear view to the grove of native eucalypts. This brings the natural environment into the house, blurring the lines between the inside and out - an important theme throughout the house.
The home then opens up into the open plan study, living and dining areas. The central spine of the building houses the utility and service rooms, leading to an open plan kitchen which flows seamlessly to the large bluestone patio. This creates outdoor rooms that extend the inside out, providing additional opportunities to feel connected to the land.
The west wing of the house contains the modest bedrooms, which have a low window-to- wall ratio to provide privacy and improve the thermal performance of these spaces in the harsh western sun.
The client's brief was for a robust and practical house, so taking cues from simple, practical rural buildings, the dwelling has a metal, timber and concrete material palette. Symes describes the house as "dematerialised", with exposed joinery and concrete walls. The floor is polished concrete with an aggregate that reflects the warm colours of the land and the greens of the bush. Integrated in the floor is in-slab hydronic heating and cooling, which is powered by onsite renewables.
To further manage the extreme temperatures during the year, the facade and roof are highly insulated and sealed with a high-performance water permeable membrane. To provide fresh air to all the rooms without losing or gaining unwanted heat, the ceiling void is fitted with a heat recovery ventilation unit which circulates fresh air to each room and is fitted with a heat exchanger, reducing energy losses.
The Upside Down Akubra House successfully responds to the extreme climatic conditions, has a light touch on the landscape, harnesses natures energy for sufficiency, and connects to the surrounds on which it stands.
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Healthwatch Oxfordshire hails latest efforts to reduced patient discharge delays
Healthwatch Oxfordshire has praised the latest efforts to reduce the number of people stuck in hospital classed as 'delayed transfers of care'.
Delayed transfers of care (or DTOC) occur when a patient is ready to be discharged but must remain in hospital because the next stage of care is not in place. This could be the lack of a care home place or adequate support at home.
At the end of last week – 8th July – 88 people were waiting to leave hospital because they needed to move back home or into a care home, but the care was not available. Whereas last year at the same time there were 167 people waiting to leave hospital.
Rosalind Pearce, Executive Director, Healthwatch Oxfordshire, said: "Congratulations to all staff in hospitals and social care who are working so hard to make sure that elderly people are being looked after in the most appropriate way.
"This is a real 'good news' story which shows what can be achieved when organisations such as the NHS and county council work more closely together.
"Healthwatch Oxfordshire would be interested to know more details of how they have achieved this, so that the lessons learned here can be shared with other parts of the country experiencing similar problems with delayed transfers of care.
"Health and care providers in Oxfordshire should be shouting loud and proud about how they have achieved this. We look forward to the day when no one is stuck in hospital."
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Police responded to a call for help at 903 W Fox st. An officer asked Willa Crow what was going on and she said " nothing". But when they asked Wayne Stevens he said- He and Willa seen each other sexually that afternoon and then Crow showed up at his place later. She was totally naked and carrying a shovel. She used the shovel to break his window and then started hitting him with it. He also said that he gave her some clothes but after getting dressed she started biting and scratching him.
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Econ Extra Credit with David Brancaccio
In the COVID-19 economy, unintended consequences play a part in policymaking
David Brancaccio and Erika Soderstrom Apr 23, 2020
https://www.marketplace.org/2020/04/23/covid-19-antibody-testing-unintended-consequences/
FDA deregulation of COVID-19 antibody tests has led to a false sense of security for some, an unintended consequence of the move. Al Bello/Getty Images
This is part of our "Econ Extra Credit" project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core Econ together with our listeners.
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You can clearly see the role of the government in the economy in the news stories this week about the 90 or so firms now producing tests for COVID-19 antibodies to see if you had it and recovered.
It's becoming clear that some of those tests have high failure rates, and after the Food and Drug Administration deregulated this in March, it's getting stricter again now.
Deregulation possibly leading to tests that give a false sense of security would be an unintended consequence, something economists obsess about.
"A policy is better the more of these unintended consequences it takes into account before the policy is administered," said Homa Zarghamee, an economics professor at Barnard College who advises Core Econ, the publisher of the open-source economics textbook "Marketplace Morning Report" host David Brancaccio is reading with listeners.
"Even then, there are still unintended consequences, insofar as there are unanticipated effects that might occur."
The following is an edited transcript of the conversation between Zarghamee and Brancaccio.
David Brancaccio: One example is, remember the Reagan-era war on drugs: The idea was to use the military to stop the supply. But there was a big unintended consequence.
Homa Zarghamee: The interesting unintended consequence there was that while the program was arguably successful in reducing the quantity of drugs, because the increase in price was disproportionately large, the total revenues of the cartels increased. And that meant that they had more money to reinvest into their operations. And so there were all these unintended consequences having to do with that policy.
Brancaccio: Also playing out in current events here, we have this lockdown in parts of the United States: sheltering in place, huge economic cost, but a huge public health benefit. And still, some unanticipated benefits and some unanticipated, terrible costs.
Zarghamee: Exactly. So some of the costs are very, kind of, clear. There's a fallen economic activity in GDP, there's a rise in unemployment. But then there are some that are less anticipated, like the rise in domestic violence that's been charted in a number of U.S. cities. In terms of positive consequences, I mean, one can look at car accidents.
Brancaccio: In California, the rate of accidents has been cut in half since the shelter in place. I saw data from China that carbon dioxide, linked to climate change, down 25% when they had to shut their economy down.
Zarghamee: Exactly. So some of these unintended consequences again, they're not the objectives of the policy, but they're having these beneficial effects as well. So in addition to that, there's been a fall in crime rates in many U.S. cities. And this, kind of, now famous fact that March was the first March in years that there hasn't been a school shooting.
Brancaccio: But still, policymakers have to continue to figure out ways to think about the wider consequences of this traumatic policy. There was a group of eminent people at Johns Hopkins, who are wrestling with this, and they're all for the lockdown because it saves lives. But they also point out that while the virus is lethal, so is poverty and economists want us to take that into account.
Zarghamee: Yeah, exactly. I mean, these unintended consequences, they can be anticipated and clearly the government did anticipate this to some extent, in its pairing the staying at home policy with the congressional package and other fiscal and monetary policies. And then, as far as poverty rates are concerned, then you can kind of look across countries at policies that are aimed more specifically at dealing with poverty and ones that are aimed more specifically at trying to help businesses.
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New date set for Coventry game
Wanderers' League 1 fixture away to Coventry City will take place at St Andrews (Birmingham) on Tuesday 24th March 2020, k.o;. 7.45pm.
Tickets on sale: Coventry (A, 24/03)
Wycombe visit St Andrews on Tuesday 24th March (k.o. 7.45pm).
Tickets for Wycombe's League 1 match at Coventry City (to be played at Birmingham's St Andrews Stadium) are now on sale.
Wanderers have received an initial allocation of 600 tickets in the GML Merrick Stand, with more available on request. Tickets will be available to purchase on arrival at no extra cost.
Please note that this match will NOT be shown live on iFollow in the UK & Ireland; home clubs are given the option of whether or not to permit live streaming of midweek fixtures which are rearranged from an original date, and Coventry have opted not to make this game available.
Prices are:
Head to tickets.wwfc.com to book your seats.
*Away tickets made available for collection can be picked up from Adams Park until 12pm on the day of the game, or from the home club's stadium from 6.15pm.
1) Select the Coventry vs Wycombe fixture
2) Choose collection* or postage, and hit 'Place Your Order'
3) Select the ticket types and quantities you wish to purchase, and hit 'Please continue'
4) Continue through the next steps to confirm your order, input your personal details, and make the payment
5) Once your payment is complete, you'll receive a receipt with a QR code, but this is NOT your ticket. For all away fixtures, you'll need a traditional paper ticket, which you can receive by post, or collect it (see point 3 above)
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The 10 Best Albums of January 2022
Featuring FKA twigs, Earl Sweatshirt, Anaïs Mitchell and more
By Paste Staff | January 31, 2022 | 2:00pm
Photos by Roxy Lee, Ryosuke Tanzawa, Jay Sansone Music Lists Best Albums
The music world has gotten off to a dramatic start in 2022, from Neil Young pulling his catalog off Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan's podcast to basically everything about the When We Were Young festival. Paste Music has been keeping its collective eye on the ball through it all, following along with January's new releases and hand-selecting our top 10, from FKA twigs' debut mixtape and Earl Sweatshirt's pandemic record to Anaïs Mitchell's first solo album in almost a decade. Take a long look at—and listen to—our complete list of January 2022's best albums below.
Listen to our Best Albums of January 2022 playlist on Spotify here.
Amber Mark: Three Dimensions Deep
Amber Mark's debut album Three Dimensions Deep is being released at a strangely auspicious time, in light of Damon Albarn's recent ill-considered claim that Taylor Swift "doesn't write her own songs," saying that "there's a big difference between a songwriter and a songwriter who co-writes." Besides the obvious sexism at play, Albarn (and others like him) overlook the fruitfulness of collaboration and the wider scope that can be achieved when artists work together, rather than indulging in possibly navel-gazing solo notions. While a handful of songs are written by Mark alone ("Most Men," "On & On," "Darkside" and "Event Horizon"), Three Dimensions Deep is all the more impressive for its cohesion in sound and message despite the number of collaborators at play, including Jeff Gitelman (Anderson .Paak, The Weeknd, Jorja Smith) and Julian Bunetta (One Direction, Leona Lewis, Jason Derulo). The 17-track record is divided into three acts-without, withheld and within—and draws a considerable amount of inspiration from Mark's recent interest in astrophysics. The sultry R&B album's most profound moments emerge when the New York-based singer searches for deeper meaning within herself and others. As she said in a press release, "I can only go as deep as the third dimension as that's how we see the world, but what about when you start looking to the universe within for answers." —Clare Martin
Anaïs Mitchell: Anaïs Mitchell
Anaïs Mitchell is seemingly always busy. A serial collaborator, Mitchell has spent the last decade-plus either wrapped in the world of Hadestown — the Greek myth-inspired musical she wrote and later adapted for a concept album before it ascended to a hit run on Broadway in 2019 — singing in folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman, or collaborating with the likes of Big Red Machine and others. But it's been a while since we've heard Mitchell singing new music all on her own. Enter the new self-titled record from Mitchell, who last released a proper solo album nearly a decade ago. Anaïs Mitchell finds the accomplished singer/songwriter slowing down, not only in these 10 lovely new songs, but also in her life itself. When COVID-19 first erupted in the U.S., Mitchell left New York City for her grandparents' old house on the family farm in Vermont and welcomed her second child shortly after. There, she says in the album's press notes, an "unprecedented stillness" took over, and with it a newfound ease as a narrator. —Ellen Johnson
Anxious: Little Green House
Connecticut-based emo band Anxious have had a major few years, releasing a critically acclaimed string of EPs that they've now finally followed up with the release of their full-length debut album. Little Green House gives them even more space to experiment with the melodic, and often anthemic, take on post-hardcore that the band have become known for. Navigating between harsh, guitar-driven bangers and dream-pop-influenced tracks like closer "You When You're Gone" with ease, the band still inject bittersweet lyricism and earnest performances into everything they do. The infectious combination of grit and heart solidifies Anxious' spot as an up-and-coming band to follow. —Elise Soutar
Cloakroom: Dissolution Wave
Northwest Indiana quartet Cloakroom are marking their 10th year as a band with Dissolution Wave, their first new album since 2017's Time Well. They envision the record as "a space western in which an act of theoretical physics—the dissolution wave—wipes out all of humanity's existing art and abstract thought. In order to keep the world spinning on its axis, songsmiths must fill the ether with their compositions." If that sounds especially heady, it's supposed to be: As vocalist/guitarist Doyle Martin explains in a statement, "We lost a couple of close friends over the course of writing this record. Dreaming up another world felt easier to digest than the real nitty-gritty we're immersed in every day." Cloakroom have a sound to match their escapist ambitions, equal parts space-rock, heavy shoegaze and post-hardcore, with Martin's murmurs as the only anchor to solid ground. Like the best of Hum and Ride, this record is hypnotic and immersive, its towering guitars and high-concept songwriting like a doorway to a waking dream. —Scott Russell
Earl Sweatshirt: SICK!
SICK! maintains Earl Sweatshirt's slowly revealing demeanor, but gives us some of the most clearheaded raps of his career. On "2010," he talks about his relationship with his mom ("'03, momma rockin' Liz Claiborne / Had her stressin' up the wall playin' Mary J. songs / Rainy day came, couldn't rinse the stains off"), UCLA Law Professor Cheryl Harris, alluding to the drug and behavioral problems he had that year as Odd Future was blowing up. Backed by Black Noi$e's potent production, which sounds like walking on gravelly sand at the beach, "Visions" features some of the most upfront lyricism we've ever heard from Earl, with him telling us, "I just be weary of self." Being Earl Sweatshirt isn't just protecting yourself from the public, but also being self-conscious because of your own inner demons and pain. —Jayson Buford
FKA twigs: CAPRISONGS
"I made you a mixtape because when I feel you, I feel me," FKA twigs casually remarks on "ride the dragon," the opening track on her debut mixtape CAPRISONGS. The singer's first foray into the classic format is off-putting at first, since she is one of music's most progressive pop personalities. Twigs' most recent album, 2019's MAGDALENE, was quite the dramatic statement, with religious allusions wrapped tightly in ethereal and operatic vocals, then placed against stirring instrumentation. It felt like at any moment, her voice could shatter like glass and the song would be all the better for it. On CAPRISONGS, the turmoil she carries is palpable, but her disposition is different. There are theatrics, but twigs replaces overwhelming intensity with playfulness and self-awareness. It's the most confident she's ever been. —Candace McDuffie
Katie Dey: Forever Music
Melbourne-based "computer musician" Katie Dey runs the entire gamut of electronic pop on Forever Music, her Bandcamp-exclusive follow-up to 2020's Mydata (and 2021 remix record Urdata). Dey's vocals and lyrics are intertwined in continuous transformation: On gripping opener "unfurl," she coos over a bouncy synth figure, "i take my medicine / twice daily so that i stay / pretty girl pretty girl," only to later lament in layered voices, "so hard to be kind / so hard to be girls / pretty girls pretty / evil fucking world." Dey builds a crystal castle of pulsing bass, hyper-pop pixelations of sound, digital strings and much more, and populates it with her fearless songwriting: "if you ever want my heart / all you have to do is ask / and when eventually i'm gone / you can listen to this song," she sings on the title track, music made to last. —Scott Russell
Kids On a Crime Spree: Fall In Love, Not In Line
Bay Area noise-pop trio Kids on a Crime Spree released their debut record We Love You So Bad in 2011, toeing the line between EP and album at just eight tracks. More than a decade later, singer/songwriter Mario Hernandez, guitarist Bill Evans and drummer Becky Barron returned with their first proper full-length, Fall in Love Not in Line. Written and recorded in Hernandez's Oakland home studio, the album's analog textures lend it a sense of timeless intimacy and simplicity; meanwhile, the trio juggle '60s vocal harmonies and fuzzed-out guitars with sunny ease, and not a track over three minutes. Kids on a Crime Spree's comeback album is a noise-pop gem, and the ideal antidote to a dreary day. —Scott Russell
The Weeknd: Dawn FM
After Hours set expectations for The Weeknd. How was Abel Tesfaye going to follow up what was, arguably, one of the best side-twos on a pop record in recent memory? When it dropped, the world had only recently gone to shit, and I approached the songs looking for something revolutionary in its lyricism. But now, there's something displeasurable about mining for immediate profundity in a world where nothing can quite contextualize the hell we're living in. And as we are about to hit the second anniversary of the pandemic, I realize that I, and so many others, just ache to experience joy, to share community through goodness and remember what it felt like to dance into writhing bodies as weightless as they were distant. Dawn FM's story works by avoiding risk and never getting tangled up in itself, taking over as Tesfaye's best lyrical performance yet. But instrumentally and technically, it's a near-perfect record; the sexiest hour of songs in years, released during a moment where artists are doing their best to track albums with urgent commentary. Dawn FM's urgency doesn't come by way of Tesfaye fashioning a song that teleports us to a specific moment in the pandemic, but rather in how he momentarily transports us out of it. —Matt Mitchell
Yard Act: The Overload
If we all must fall victims to the ceaseless malaise that is our slowly unfolding apocalypse, it's at least fortunate that our misery is soundtracked by the quirked-up observers in the current U.K. post-punk scene. Dubbed "The Post-Brexit New Wave," groups like Squid, Black Country, New Road, and Dry Cleaning have proven themselves compelling cultural narrators, capturing the essence of our entropy through their bluntly disorienting lyrics and often deadpan, ironic styles. Enter Yard Act. A little bit Sleaford Mods, a helping of The Fall and a dash of Pulp, the group craft smart vignettes of modern life with a confident, witty delivery across their debut full-length, The Overload. Be it as someone recently flush with cash observing their own transformation at the hand of wealth, or a football captain whose life was washed away in a sea of disinterest, the sharp observations of vocalist James Smith contort everyday melancholy into a charming self-portrait—functioning like a reminder of the absurdities and pitfalls of life that define and unite us in the human condition. —Jason Friedman
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An infection by a microorganism or virus that normally does not cause disease but becomes pathogenic when the body's immune system is impaired, as in AIDS patients.
Noun 1. opportunistic infection - any infection caused by a microorganism that does not normally cause disease in humans; occurs in persons with abnormally functioning immune systems (as AIDS patients or transplant patients receiving immunosuppressive drugs)
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Among them 35% of the death in this group of people were due to Respiratory causes, closely followed by Hepatic causes constituting 27%, Central nervous system involvement excluding TBM constitute 14%, other opportunistic infections were 7%, Haematological causes were 4%, Gastrointestinal 4%, Renal causes were 3%, Cardiovascular 2%, other systemic infections 2% and Miscellaneous causes of death were 2% (Table 1) (Figure 1).
Retrospective analysis of causes of death in HIV infected patients in Imphal, Manipur, North Eastern part of India
The patient was positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but he had no history of opportunistic infections. He recalled no specific tick or insect bite, and he denied any knowledge of contact with rabbits or rabbit meat, the primary vectors in zoonotic transmission.
Tularemia of the head and neck: A possible sign of bioterrorism. (Original Article)
Opportunistic Infections (OIs] and associated complications account for a considerable proportion of mortality in such patients.
Study of changes in opportunistic infections after one year of antiretroviral therapy in HIV infected patients in a Tertiary Care Centre in North Bengal
Tuberculosis (37.09%) was the most common laboratory documented opportunistic infection observed in our study [4,14,15] followed by candidiasis (3.22%) and TBM (1.6%).
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Desmond Jones
Review in Issue 5-4 | Winter 1993
I first saw Cotillard two years ago, when they were, for me, the hit of the Mime Festival.
They epitomise a certain kind of performance, which is built up of little games. Such performances are awfully (in both senses of the word) common (in both senses of the word). They are nearly always superficial, a lot of visual gags being milked one after the other, stitched together with a relatively tenuous storyline.
It is the visual equivalent of the stand-up comic – lots of jokes (the games they play are rarely serious) that have very little connection and don't lead anywhere.
This is Pogo-Stick Theatre. Jumping up and down on the same spot, with no development of plot or character except along the flimsiest of lines. At the end, you may, or may not have a few laughs. But the experience is not memorable.
It is a formula for which there will always be an audience – though not, I suspect, the same audience.
But Cotillard are the best. Physically highly skilled, with great energy, style and intelligence.
Their set-pieces – there are 15-20 of them – are attacked with wit and imagination, and a lot of them stick in the memory: the get-fit dance, the game with the doors, the dead body, the perspective boardroom table.
The scene was set in the waiting room of a personal manager where four prospective employees for the same Job compete for supremacy. Not an original idea (in the 1991 Mime Festival there were three shows on the same theme), but an excellent vehicle for an enormously talented company.
Companies like Brouhaha and Talking Pictures have a lot to learn from Cotillard if they wish to continue in this undemanding style of theatre.
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Sequoia Capital's Jim Goetz invested in the North Carolina-born 3D printing startup that would go on to become the venture capital firm's latest "unicorn" after seeing the technology in action—demonstrated by the high school student who helped build the prototype printer.
Carbon3D's technology can 3D print in minutes what takes hours with currently available technology. The company calls its process "continuous liquid interface production," or CLIP, and the technology holds potential for automotive manufacturing, Hollywood special effects, and medical applications. But two years ago, CLIP was just an idea at a startup in Chapel Hill, NC. Alex Ermoshkin, the company's chief technology officer and co-founder, built the first CLIP printer with his son Nikita, then a 16-year-old Chapel Hill High student. The device piqued the attention of Sequoia, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm whose track record of investments in startups that topped valuations of $1 billion includes Stripe, Airbnb, and Dropbox. When Carbon3D got the opportunity to pitch to Sequoia, it was the younger Ermoshkin—one of the patent holders on the technology and a co-author on a published scientific article about the 3D printing process—who demoed the device to Sequoia partner Goetz.
Goetz invested in Carbon3D, which now operates from Redwood City, CA. In August, Google Ventures led a $100 million Series C round that pushed Carbon3D's valuation into unicorn territory. On Wednesday, two years after the Sand Hill Road VC met the budding engineer from Chapel Hill High, Goetz was again face to face with Nikita Ermoshkin. This time it was on stage for a keynote at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development's Tech Venture Conference in Raleigh, NC. There he spoke with visible admiration for the ingenuity of the younger Ermoshkin, whose handiwork introduced Sequoia to new possibilities in technology.
"We weren't thinking about 3D printing until we met all of you," he said.
Goetz addressed a packed ballroom at the Raleigh Convention Center in a wide-ranging discussion that covered education, entrepreneurship, diversity in technology, and North Carolina's position as a tech hub. He conceded that despite the high visibility achieved by many Sequoia portfolio companies, the firm has historically been media shy. Even on stage before an audience of 1,000 registered conference attendees, Goetz preferred to turn the spotlight on entrepreneurs.
Sequoia was the first and only investor in mobile messaging service WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) last year in a deal valued at up to $19 billion. But rather than talking about the investment and the sale (the single largest exit of a venture backed company in history) Goetz shifted the discussion to WhatsApp CEO and co-founder Jan Koum. An immigrant from the Ukraine, Koum had moved to Mountain View, CA, as a teenager with his mother and grandmother. His father remained in the Ukraine.
To Koum, WhatsApp was never about making money. It was a means for immigrants to stay in contact with their families, Goetz said. Koum distrusted venture capitalists. Later on, when Facebook bid for the startup, he was reluctant to accept. Goetz recalled driving with Koum around Mountain View and often passing by the same social security office. Koum revealed that it was the same office where he and his mother, who later died of cancer, had picked up food stamps. When Koum finally agreed to the Facebook offer, he signed the paperwork at that office where he had waited with his mother so many times. "He wanted her to be part of what he built," Goetz said.
Goetz expressed support for immigration as a way to boost entrepreneurship. Immigrants, he said, are inherent risk takers—an important quality in entrepreneurs. He noted that as a teenager Koum had left his homeland and his father. Goetz believes that Koum's work was driven in part by his immigrant experience. "I think it's an important part of the engine that drives tech and I hope we never close our doors to immigrants," Goetz said.
Beyond welcoming immigrants, Goetz said that tech companies need to do better in recruiting and hiring women, calling the current gender imbalance in the tech sector "a deep personal frustration." Pointing to Sequoia portfolio company Stripe, he notes that the company's aim for 50/50 gender balance helps recruit a better and broader pool of candidates. Goetz added that the aim for gender balance must extend to investment firms, because diverse perspectives inform investment decisions. Sequoia passed on investing in Pinterest because no one at the firm could identify with the concept of "pinning." "I'm certain if we had a woman on the team, she would have driven a different outcome," he said.
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'Fall in Line or Rework Alliance': Behind AIADMK's Threat to BJP
What does this mean for the AIADMK-BJP alliance and is this a sign of friction between the two parties?
Smitha TK
Published: 28 Dec 2020, 4:49 PM IST
In a veiled attack at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Tamil Nadu's ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) said that it does not need a 'national party as an ally if it is going to dictate terms.
On 27 December, during the first leg of the party's campaign trail for the upcoming 2021 Assembly elections, AIADMK MP KP Munusamy, who is also the deputy coordinator for the state elections, hinted that BJP should accept that AIADMK is the senior partner, endorse the CM candidature of Palaniswami or the saffron party may reconsider its electoral options for the 2021 polls.
What does this mean for the AIADMK-BJP alliance and is this a sign of fissures in the party? The Quint breaks it down for you.
Why AIADMK Chose EPS As CM Candidate & Can He Win Against DMK?
"Whether national or regional parties come in, the government will be headed by the AIADMK," said KP Munusamy.
"There is no scope for a coalition government and there is no need for it. If any party comes to us with that intention, I urge you to rethink."
KP Munusamy, AIADMK MP
Kamal Haasan's Take on Alliances With Rajinikanth And Owaisi in TN
He made it clear that BJP cannot succeed independently in Tamil Nadu and was very much dependent on AIADMK.
The BJP doesn't have an MLA or an MP in the state and after being in power for nine years, the AIADMK government faces anti-incumbency.
Kamal Haasan Is 'Spoiling' Families Through 'Bigg Boss': TN CM EPS
'No National Party Can Make a Dent in TN:' AIADMK
Munusamy explained how the state has been home to Dravidian parties for decades since 1967 and no national party has managed to make even a dent.
After the death of Annadurai in 1969, M Karunanidhi became chief minister and in 1972 he expelled MG Ramachandran (MGR) from the party. In October 1972, MGR floated the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (ADMK) which was later renamed as the AIADMK.
"Since 1967 when Anna (CN Annadurai, founder, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam- DMK) formed the government, Dravidian rule has ensured that no national party can enter Tamil Nadu," said Munusamy.
In the past few years, the MP has several times endorsed EPS as the candidate and emphasised on how AIADMK enjoys popularity of its own and is not dependent on BJP for survival, which is the case for the saffron party in the Dravidian state.
This is AIADMK's first Assembly election in the absence of MGR and his successor J Jayalalithaa.
"Some national parties and opportunists are saying that Dravidian rule spoiled the state," he said.
Tamil Nadu's socio-political landscape was nurtured by the Dravidian movement, which was built on the ethos of Tamil culture, language and valour and hence the state was entirely different from the rest of the country, he added.
Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam refrained from commenting on the alliance, instead attacked the opposition DMK leader MK Stalin.
Power Sharing Issues May Crop up
Political analysts told The Quint that though BJP is the big boss, they need the AIADMK to gain entry into the state.
"BJP has been helping out AIADMK for the past few years and was definitely instrumental in certain key political decisions that resulted in EPS and OPS taking over the reins of the party. They had an upper hand but now, it is a game of politics. The BJP needs to factor in demands by AIADMK as they cannot go running to the opposition. AIADMK is their sole option," said an analyst on the condition of anonymity.
"AIADMK needs BJP to comply with their terms. BJP is not against the alliance. It was EPS and OPS who had openly welcomed BJP but when it comes to seat sharing and power sharing, there will be issues. It is no longer an Amma or MGR party, it is only an EPS-OPS party and BJP needs to negotiate well."
Ravindran, Political Analyst
Several social media users have claimed that BJP is also considering breaking away from the AIADMK alliance, forming a separate front with Rajinikanth's party or negotiate for a better bargain deal for a cabinet berth if AIADMK retained power.
Some observers also suggested that this could be shadow-boxing to ensure that AIADMK's isn't seen being subservient to the BJP, a point that the Opposition is likely to highlight.
Ravindran told that while the BJP-AIADMK tie-up is sealed, it will face many hiccups, and as for Rajinikanth, he has a surprise in store that will be revealed in a few days.
Tamil Nadu: Can Rajinikanth Be BJP's Superstar? Suspense Continues
'No Controversy:' BJP
BJP partnered with the ruling AIADMK government for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and since then their alliance has been sealed.
The saffron party's state unit has maintained all along that the CM nominee of the NDA in Tamil Nadu would be decided and announced by the BJP's national leadership. They have in the past opposed Dravidian politics, and showed tendencies of separatism, but off late the saffron party has not been targeting the AIADMK on the ground of Dravidian ideology.
BJP's former national secretary H Raja told reporters in Kanyakumari on Sunday that there was no problem between the two parties. "It's a procedural issue," said H Raja. "BJP is a national party so the parliamentary board will make decisions and announce it. There is no controversy; it has been made into a controversy."
Why Rajini-Kamal On Screen Bond May Not Translate Into Politics
The two Dravidian parties are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to campaigning. While Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami has started his campaign tour in the Kongu region and will then proceed to all the regions including Cauvery Delta region, where DMK has more clout.
While DMK's Stalin is busy conducting meetings via Zoom, the Chief Minister visited almost 30 districts to review the COVID-19 related work and has been listing the "achievements" of the past two tenures.
Unveiling DMK & AIADMK's Brand Makeover this 2021 Election Season


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Q: How can i check for an existence of duplicate value in mysql using perl and through an error message on the same page? use CGI;
use strict;
use DBI();
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

print "content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n\n";
my $q     = new CGI;
my $name  = $q->param('name');
my $email = $q->param('email');

print $q->header;
#connect to database.
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=test;host=localhost","root",
                       "mukesh", {'RaiseError' => 1});

eval { $dbh->do("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS emp (name VARCHAR(20), email VARCHAR(50) UNIQUE NOT NULL)") };
print "creating table emp failed: $@" if $@;
print "
";
$dbh->do("INSERT INTO emp(name,email) values('$name','$email')");

my $sql = qq/select * from emp order by name/;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die "Can't prepare $sql:$dbh->errstrn";
my $rv  = $sth->execute() or die "can't execute the query: $sth->errstrn";
while (my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
    print join(", ",@row),"
";
}
$sth->finish();
$dbh->disconnect();

print "
Total no of records : $rv";
if ($rv>=1){
    print "
Record has been successfully updated !!!
";
} else {
    print "
Error!!while inserting record
";
    exit;
}

When I submit the html form for the same value of email address i am redirected to another
page with the following error:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Software error:

DBD::mysql::db do failed: Duplicate entry 'rajesh@gmail.com' for key 'email' at C:/Apache2/cgi-bin/connectivity.cgi line 27.

1) I dont want this error to be displayed,instead i want to display my own message if email address already exists.something like "email id already exists please enter a new id"
2) after the above problem is solved, i want it to be displayed on the same page where
i am submitting the form.
this line seems to be failing for duplicate entry
$dbh->do("INSERT INTO emp(name,email) values('$name','$email')");

A: As others have said you can test to see if the email already exists but what happens if someone submits your form and it gets to the insert after another copy of your code has already tested the email does not exist. It would be better to simply catch this condition by wrapping your insert in an eval (as you already have RaiseError enabled) and testing err and state afterwards to see if the error was a duplicate entry.
eval {
  $dbh->do("INSERT INTO emp(name,email) values(?,?)", undef, $name, $email);
};
if ($@) {
  # you might want to use state instead of err but you did not show us the state
  if ($dbh->err =~ /Duplicate entry/) {
    # already registered
  } else {
    # report what is in $@ - it is a different error
  }
}

BTW, as you have RaiseError enabled you do not need to keep checking the returns (your "or die") from various DBI methods - they will die automatically if they fail and as PrintError defaults to 1, as you have found they will print the error.
One last thing, the fat comma (=>) automatically stringifies the thing to the left so "{'RaiseError' => 1}" can be written "{RaiseError => 1}".

A: To handle this you could check if the email address already exists.
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM emp WHERE email = ?");
$sth->execute($email);
my $rows = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref();
$sth->finish();

if ($rows->[0] == 0) {
    # Insert your email address
} else {
    # Show an error message
}

And as amon pointed out you should always use Placeholders for your statements.

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Angry Fans Vow To Boycott 'The Voice' Following Kelly Clarkson's Exit: 'No Kelly, No 'Voice' For Me'
Kelly Clarkson; Photo by: Greg Gayne/NBC
The Voice will return for its 22nd season this fall and after an eight-season run, Kelly Clarkson will not be returning to the coaches' panel.
The news was revealed over the weekend when the popular singing competition unveiled the coaches for the upcoming season.
A post shared by NBC's The Voice (@nbcthevoice)
Joining coaches Blake Shelton and John Legend will be Camila Cabello, who is replacing Clarkson, while Gwen Stefani will make her return to The Voice in place of Ariana Grande.
Ahead of the announcement, Clarkson hosted a live Q&A via The Kelly Clarkson Show's account where she hinted that a few changes would be coming to her life and career.
Kelly Clarkson; Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC
"I've decided this year there's just [going to] be a couple changes for me that I can't say here," Clarson told viewers. "But there are a couple things happening. I've been able to make more time just for me and my kiddos and still be able to work. Just where we can get away on weekends and really do some fun stuff with my kids."
Clarkson continued: "'Cause they only want to hang out with you for so long and that's now so I gotta take advantage of that … I'm excited to have more time with them. I mean I have a ton of time in the morning but I don't know, I'm selfish. They're fun."
A post shared by The Kelly Clarkson Show (@kellyclarksonshow)
Following the major The Voice shakeup, fans took to social media to express their thoughts on Clarkson's exit from the show. Some social media users even vowed to boycott the show now that Clarkson isn't on it.
"Guess I'll be skipping a season. No Kelly, No Voice for me. I do need to catch up on reading," wrote one Twitter user, while another said, "No offense to the other coaches and producers, but Kelly Clarkson was the sole reason I watched The Voice."
Other Tweets read, "Sorry guys I'm not watching til Kelly comes back:/ good luck on this season," and "I started watching The Voice when Kelly started. Time for a pause."
Kelly Clarkson, Ariana Grande, Blake Shelton, John Legend; Photo by NBC The Voice
There were dozens of other Tweets and social media comments with fans expressing their disappointment over Clarkson's absence. Others also agreed that she deserves to take a break.
Well my day just got bad because I just found out that @kellyclarkson isn't coming back to judge @NBCTheVoice in the fall… 😢😭😭 My favorite judge is gone and I'm unwell about it! #TheVoice #Bullshit #Sad
— heathheathlyly (@heathheathlyly2) May 16, 2022
"I heard that Kelly won't be returning to The Voice, the reason would be: she wants to take a vacation and spend more time with her kids, which is fair, since she's worked a lot the last few years," one fan pointed out.
Another wrote, They'll see some major ratings drop for sure then they'll realized that Kelly is the heart of the show. I respect & love Kelly for taking well deserved time off.The woman has been busting her ass off. I'll watch her somewhere else just not the voice. It's no for me dowg."
Kelly Clarkson appeared on eight consecutive seasons of The Voice and Team Kelly won four seasons of the show.
On top of hosting The Kelly Clarkson Show, the Texas native is also the host of NBC's American Song Contest.
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class NavBarPresenter
  include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
  include ApplicationHelper

  attr_reader :url_scope, :user

  def initialize(url_scope, user)
    @url_scope = url_scope
    @user = user
  end

  def active_css_class(effective_url_scope)
    url_scope == effective_url_scope ? 'active' : ''
  end

  def nav_bar_brand_url
    root_path
  end

  def nav_bar_title
    if user_logged_in?
      "#{TOURNAMENT_NAME} #{I18n.t('your_tips')}"
    else
      get_title
    end
  end

  def user_position
    @position ||= begin
      result = Users::Top3AndOwnPosition.call(user_id: user.id)
      result.own_position
    end
  end

  def nav_ranking_info
    "Platz #{user_position} mit #{user.points} Punkten"
  end

  def nav_bar_item_presenters
    nav_bar_item_configurations.map{ |item_config|
      nav_bar_item_presenter(item_config)
    }
  end

  def user_logged_in?
    user.present?
  end

  private

  def nav_bar_item_presenter(config)
    NavBarItemPresenter.new(config[:link_icon_prefix],
                            config[:link_icon],
                            config[:link_text],
                            config[:link_url],
                            config[:css_class])
  end

  def nav_bar_item_configurations
    result = []
    if user_logged_in?
      result += [
        {link_icon_prefix: 'fas',
         link_icon: 'rocket',
         link_text: I18n.t('bonus'),
         link_url: edit_bonus_path,
         css_class: active_css_class(URL_SCOPES[:bonus])}
      ]
      result += [
        {link_icon_prefix: 'fas',
         link_icon: 'list-ol',
         link_text: I18n.t('ranking'),
         link_url: rankings_path,
         css_class: active_css_class(URL_SCOPES[:ranking])}
      ]
      result += [
        {link_icon_prefix: 'far',
         link_icon: 'comments',
         link_text: I18n.t('notice'),
         link_url: notes_path,
         css_class: active_css_class(URL_SCOPES[:notes])}
      ]
      result += [
        {link_icon_prefix: 'fas',
         link_icon: 'angle-double-right',
         link_text: I18n.t('comparetips'),
         link_url: compare_tips_path,
         css_class: active_css_class(URL_SCOPES[:comparetips])}
      ]
    end

    result += [{link_icon_prefix: 'far',
                link_icon: 'question-circle',
                link_text: nil,
                link_url: help_path,
                css_class: active_css_class(URL_SCOPES[:help])}]

    if user_logged_in?
      result +=  [{link_icon_prefix: 'fas',
                   link_icon: 'sign-out-alt',
                   link_text: I18n.t(:sign_out),
                   link_url: logout_path,
                   css_class: active_css_class(URL_SCOPES[:user])
                  }]
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    result
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end

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The European Tribune is a forum for thoughtful dialogue of European and international issues. You are invited to post comments and your own articles.
Please REGISTER to post.
Welcome to European Tribune. It's gone a bit quiet around here these days, but it's still going.
Peculiar US presidential elections
by das monde Thu Jun 2nd, 2016 at 10:00:01 AM EST
As all political junkies know, the US president is elected not directly by a citizen vote but by the Electoral College - an archaic original compromise of the Founding Fathers and States. (Yes, we will have a powerful President, but the States will be influential in its election.) There were four presidential elections when the popular vote was different from the elected president: 1824, 1876, 1888 and 2000. Besides, the first few elections were confused by the issue of Vice-Presidency (especially in 1796 and 1800), leading to the more specific 12th Amendment.
The most bizarre elections were in 1824 and 1876, by far. They were also influential or highly educative. If you thought that the 2000 election was a steal...
Frontpaged - Frank Schnittger
Read more... (22 comments, 950 words in story)
Yap essence of money
by das monde Fri Jun 26th, 2015 at 04:10:02 AM EST
This is almost a lazy quote diary, except my primary inspired source is in Dutch. So this is a sketchy translation, with a few quotes in English from elsewhere.
Yap is a small island of just 100 km2, some 1500 km to the east of Philippines. Until the end of the 19th century, it was one of the most isolated and disregarded islands on Earth. In 1903, an American anthropologist visited the island for two months. Soon he published a lively book on Yap's social hierarchy, religion and... the most remarkable economy. What can be amazing about the economy based on fish, coconuts and sea cucumbers? Well, John Maynard Keynes was impressed in his early years.
The money system on Yap is really jaw dropping. A damn heavy, hard currency...
for centuries, the main form of currency on this tiny Micronesian island was stones. Very large stones. Looking like Claes Oldenburg sculptures of oversized bagels, the stones -- or rai, as they're called -- can stand as high as ten feet and weigh several tons each.
While these carved stones may not look like big bucks to an outsider, some have enough value to purchase a new house.
How old are we?
by das monde Sat Dec 27th, 2014 at 02:42:14 AM EST
As we got a little interested in the age distribution of readers of this blog, I follow the Swedish royal suggestion to bring up a poll. Please contribute in making this survey representative.
And let's discuss, whether we should take on a mission to attract a batch of younger readers, or expand all age groups.
Let's have more respondents - afew
How right the Keynesians are gonna be?
by das monde Mon Nov 3rd, 2014 at 11:28:53 AM EST
I was writing a comment to the diary "LQD: How Depressingly Right We Have Been", but the quotation became substantially long even abbreviated. Hence this diary.
There was another recent diary, on Krugman's argument about GDP growth and limiting carbon emissions. A couple of Krugman's posts sparked steady reaction from the Post Carbon Institute and such. I noticed an ongoing series of articles from one blog, particularly. It mixed edgy enmity towards Krugman and liberals with eventually some relevant line of thought.
Sufficient Liberal Stories -- The Krugman Function Part 4 -- Transition Milwaukee
On the face of it, Paul Krugman appears entirely confident in the future of the American way of life and the growth of a globally inclusive economy. He is similarly confident in our ability to address climate change by running that economy on renewable energy.
This needs two significant qualifications. First, it is unclear whether this is what Krugman hopes, or what he expects [...] Second, Krugman's optimism is clearly dependent on the ability of political liberals to get wrong-headed, fuzzy-thinking conservatives out of the way [...]
Read more... (59 comments, 1438 words in story)
Humans and hierarchy
by das monde Sun Jun 15th, 2014 at 09:49:41 AM EST
There was a brief incomplete discussion the other week here on macho dominance, hierarchy enforcement, power dynamics. I had lived pretty ignorant of social status games for long - but recently I realized that hierarchy interactions, instincts and emotions have to be taken seriously. Let me shake similarly your rational onlooker premises about power and human nature.
Read more... (132 comments, 1226 words in story)
LQD: French Intellectual Melancholia
by das monde Mon Dec 30th, 2013 at 05:16:35 AM EST
The Economist has a provoking article in the Christmas issue on French noir moods. It should stir some discussion here.
ONE of the most perplexing questions of the early 21st century is this: how can the French, who invented joie de vivre, the three-tier cheese trolley and Dior's jaunty New Look, be so resolutely miserable? [...] polls suggest that the French are more depressed than Ugandans or Uzbekistanis, and more pessimistic about their country's future than Albanians or Iraqis ....
[...] Le Monde ran three pages under the title "Liberté, Égalité, Morosité", in a bid to decode its fellow countrymen's "persistent melancholy". France, it turns out, has the highest suicide rate in western Europe after Belgium and Switzerland. An American psychiatric study showed that, among ten rich countries, the French were the most likely to have a "major depressive episode" at some point in their life. Even the French language seems to be particularly well stocked -- morosité, tristesse, malheur, chagrin, malaise, ennui, mélancolie, anomie, désespoir -- with negativity.
front-paged by afew
LQD: Future like Jakarta?
by das monde Tue Jul 23rd, 2013 at 07:27:03 AM EST
From an article at Counterpunch, by Andre Cltchek:
If you take a train in Jakarta, be warned: the images that would unwind behind your windows could be too disturbing to bear for someone who is not a war correspondent or a medical doctor [...]
Jakarta, the capital city of the country hailed by the Western mainstream media as `democratic', `tolerant' and `the largest economy in Southeast Asia' is actually a place where majority of the population has absolutely no control over its future. At closer look it becomes evident that the city is stuck with the social indicators that are more common in the Sub-Saharan Africa than in East Asia. And the place is increasingly violent and intolerant towards religious and national minorities as well as those who are demanding social justice...
Read more... (4 comments, 987 words in story)
Lithuanian election 2012-II, briefly
by das monde Mon Oct 29th, 2012 at 04:43:12 AM EST
Lithuania had the second round of Seimas elections yesterday: run-off voting in individual constituencies. The Social Democrats had won 22 seats yesterday, and will be the largest party in the new parliament.
The first round voting took part and was discussed two weeks ago. The voter activity was much lower yesterday: 35.86%, down from 52.93% on October 14.
List vote
in Seimas
Prior run-off
Votes Share Total = Oct 14+Oct 28 Likely+toss-up+underdog
Social Democrats 251,610 18.37% 38 = 15+1+22 9+13+6
The Homeland Union 206,590 15.08% 33 = 13+20 9+22+4
Darbo Partija 271,520 19.82% 29 = 17+1+11 5+18+12
Order And Justice 100,120 7.31% 11 = 6+5 2+4+1
The Liberal Movement 117,476 8.57% 10 = 7+3 2+4+0
The Polish minority party 79,840 5.83% 8 = 5+1+2 2+4+0
Drąsos Kelias 109,448 7.99% 7 = 7+0 0+4+5
The Peasants & Green Union 53,141 3.88% 1 = 0+1 0+2+0
The Center-Liberals 28,263 2.06% 0 = 0+0 0+0+2
Independents - - 3 = 0+3 2+1+1
One constituency has no representative yet, because first round results there were declared invalid.
Darbo Partija was under pressure from numerous voter buy-off reports.
Lithuanian election 2012
Lithuania [elected] a new parliament (Seimas) [yesterday]. 70 members are elected in a proportional party voting (with 5% barrier), and 71 members are elected in local constituencies (with runoff voting 2 weeks later, in districts where no one got 50% of votes).
The election 4 years ago produced a shaky-looking coalition of the serious Homeland Union (the conservatives and Christian-democrats), two liberal parties, and a new populist Rising Nation party of a TV star. The populist party disintegrated after one year; it was swallowed mostly by the Center-liberal party. The coalition survived the whole term however, despite shifts in the coalition, the economic crisis, boosted emigration, austerity measures, and such joys.
frontpaged with minor edits, results in comments - Nomad
Whishful gallop Gangnam style
by das monde Fri Aug 24th, 2012 at 02:35:46 AM EST
A big Youtube sensation this summer has been the music video "Gangnam style" by the Korean rapper PSY.
He is not a usual K-pop act, being 34 and chubby. But he likes to entertain, and now he became the first Korean pop artist to break through in the US.
So first, enjoy:
Surplusses and taxation
by das monde Sat Jan 21st, 2012 at 05:43:52 AM EST
I was going to respond to a discussion on taxation in the Inequality diary - but my piece got long enough for this diary.
Rather than talk about earned versus unearned income, I suggest to think about taxation of surplus capture (or appropriation). Bear with me.
The basic story in the economy theory is how labour and capital (material and financial) and real estate (land and accommodation) cooperate nicely to produce more wealth. The big problem which is sometimes abused but more often vulgarly ignored is distribution of the newly produced wealth.
Classical economists broadly agreed that generally labor is at the most disadvantageous position, as its wages depend on labor market competition and bargaining power, not ion the surplus produced. We are returning to the times when labor rewards are disgustingly skimpy indeed.
Sure, some highly skilled labor is still richly rewarded, sometimes out of proportion to produced value - think of football (and other sports) star contracts that did turned out delusional. But generally, the impact of globalization was harsh on labor wages.
LQD: Growth, debt, and the World Bank
The recent article of Archdruid Report references this article
Growth, debt, and the World Bank
by Herman Daly
It offers a straight perspective of the gears turning the world in the last decades:
When I was in graduate school in economics in the early 1960s we were taught that capital was the limiting factor in growth and development. Just inject capital into the economy and it would grow [....] Capital was magic stuff, but scarce. It all seemed convincing at the time.
Many years later when I worked for the World Bank it was evident that capital was no longer the limiting factor, if indeed it ever had been. Trillions of dollars of capital was circling the globe looking for projects in which to become invested so it could grow. The World Bank understood that the limiting factor was what they called "bankable projects" -- concrete investments that could embody abstract financial capital and make its value grow at an acceptable rate, usually ten percent per annum or more, doubling every seven years.
Right, this is well visible in recently liberated economies. Quite a few services and infrastructures are abandoned as not yielding enough for "decent" living.
Propaganda of the class war
by das monde Mon Aug 15th, 2011 at 09:15:37 PM EST
Without much preface, I will turn here on two articles currently top-headlined at "Asia Times". The authors are Spengler (David P. Goldman) and Chan Akya. The economic commentary of these regular contributors was timely interesting in 2008. But by now their insight and argumentation are reduced to simplistic "National Review"-lite anti-liberal chatter.
Fukushima trouble headlines
by das monde Thu Mar 31st, 2011 at 04:08:42 AM EST
Disheartening developments at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants continue, as nuclear elements take on their own course. Is it getting too late for human responsibility?
IAEA Confirms Very High Levels of Contamination Far From Reactors
Today the IAEA has finally confirmed what some analysts have suspected for days: that the concentration per area of long-lived cesium-137 (Cs-137) is extremely high as far as tens of kilometers from the release site at Fukushima Dai-Ichi, and in fact would trigger compulsory evacuation under IAEA guidelines.
The IAEA is reporting that measured soil concentrations of Cs-137 as far away as Iitate Village, 40 kilometers northwest of Fukushima-Dai-Ichi, correspond to deposition levels of up to 3.7 megabecquerels per square meter (MBq/sq. m). This is far higher than previous IAEA reports of values of Cs-137 deposition, and comparable to the total beta-gamma measurements reported previously by IAEA and mentioned on this blog.
This should be compared with the deposition level that triggered compulsory relocation in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident: the level set in 1990 by the Soviet Union was 1.48 MBq/sq. m.
Read more... (348 comments, 891 words in story)
Was the Euro outright an anti-labour project?
by das monde Mon Dec 13th, 2010 at 07:23:50 PM EST
This is from a Bloomberg Businessweek article Can the Euro Survive?:
It's been known for years -- centuries, really -- that monetary unions are hard to hold together [....] As theorized by Robert A. Mundell, the Nobel Prize-winning economist at Columbia University, a monetary union can't survive without something very close to political union, including free mobility of labor to nations where jobs are more available, flexible wages, a tax system that transfers funds from the winners to the losers, and strict rules preventing members from running up big budget deficits.
Now that we know what "free mobility" and "flexible wages" mean: If these neoliberal components are indeed vital for monetary unions, what was the hope for labouring masses? It was actually "third way" Europe's labourists and socialdemocrats who did the final push for euro. Did they already think along the same theory?!
Why Printing Money Makes Sense
by das monde Wed Oct 13th, 2010 at 07:51:04 AM EST
Dean Baker, one of the economists that foresaw the US housing bubble and the financial crisis, wrote an article with the same title, "Why Printing Money Makes Sense", in the Guardian:
For the tens of millions of people who are unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking for work altogether, we are in a crisis. The economy is an absolute disaster, ruining their lives and also jeopardising the futures of their children and grandchildren.
But that is not the way that the people paid to contemplate economic policy in Washington see things. This gang is busy congratulating themselves because things could have been worse. They point out that if they had been even more incompetent that we could be in a second Great Depression with unemployment staying in the double digits for a decade.
Instead of worrying about the millions of unemployed workers today, they are worried about their deficit projections for the years 2018, 2020 or even 2025. This crew, which could not even see the $8tn housing bubble that was about to wreck the economy, wants the whole country to genuflect before their projections of deficits for 10-15 years into the future ....
Bond markets and pythons
by das monde Tue Mar 16th, 2010 at 12:18:22 PM EST
Reading a NY Times review of Michael Lewis's new book "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" on the few winners of the financial crisis, I was struck by the following quote from the book:
An investor who went from the stock market to the bond market was like a small, furry creature raised on an island without predators removed to a pit full of pythons.
That it one of the most picturesque descriptions of predator vs prey environments I saw. How extreme is the bond market, really? What are the global populations of bond pythons and wannabe furry animals? Aren't bond traders those investors who fatefully evaluate fiscal policies and set credit terms for all governments? I recall the following quote of Bill Clinton's top advisor:
I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everyone.
Does anyone here have experience in that ecosystem?
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The simplest money model you can buy
by das monde Mon Nov 16th, 2009 at 05:47:25 AM EST
I intended to write this diary not long after the publication of famed Paul Krugman's article "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?", and my review of Nial Ferguson's book "The Ascent of Money". But my schedule drifted away to excitements of job related projects. So here it is at last...
There is this passage in Krugman's article:
I like to explain the essence of Keynesian economics with a true story that also serves as a parable, a small-scale version of the messes that can afflict entire economies. Consider the travails of the Capitol Hill Baby-Sitting Co-op.
This co-op, whose problems were recounted in a 1977 article in The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, was an association of about 150 young couples who agreed to help one another by baby-sitting for one another's children when parents wanted a night out. To ensure that every couple did its fair share of baby-sitting, the co-op introduced a form of scrip: coupons made out of heavy pieces of paper, each entitling the bearer to one half-hour of sitting time. Initially, members received 20 coupons on joining and were required to return the same amount on departing the group.
Unfortunately, it turned out that the co-op's members, on average, wanted to hold a reserve of more than 20 coupons, perhaps, in case they should want to go out several times in a row. As a result, relatively few people wanted to spend their scrip and go out, while many wanted to baby-sit so they could add to their hoard. But since baby-sitting opportunities arise only when someone goes out for the night, this meant that baby-sitting jobs were hard to find, which made members of the co-op even more reluctant to go out, making baby-sitting jobs even scarcer...
In short, the co-op fell into a recession.
Is Dow Jones a big bubble?
by das monde Tue Sep 1st, 2009 at 06:32:46 AM EST
I did the exercise of downloading Dow Jones IA historical data from Yahoo Finance pages, and plotted the weekly closing DJIA values:
I thought that I saw these graphs, but I am struck by the overall shape. The right-hand side of the picture looks completely different from the "lethargic" middle and left parts. What kind of common parameters of economic goodness or random walk could fit the whole graph?
We can recognize that the Great Depression recovery was long, or that there was a mysterious deflation in the 1970s. But the growth rates since the 1980s do not look like anything of the previous 50 years.
Diary rescue: orginally posted August 20 - Nomad
Ascent of Money
This is a review of Niall Ferguson's book
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World.
The same story is put into televised series. The author is a contentious historian, known also for two volumes The House of Rothschild, and for the touch apologetic Empire study. Recently he got involved in a debate with Krugman and others over Obama's economic policies.
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