Clifford Gaddy (lead image, left) has never recovered from his 20-year infatuation with Anatoly Chubais and Alexei Kudrin. Neither has Gaddy's boss at Brookings Institution in Washington, Strobe Talbott (right), the regime changer-in-chief at the State Department in the 1990s, when Boris Yeltsin was his man in the Kremlin, and the rest of the country too weak to resist.
If only they ruled Russia today, President Chubais, Prime Minister Kudrin or vice versa, instead of President Vladimir Putin, there could never ever be the Kremlin plot Gaddy and Brookings charged last week for blackmailing United States officials and their allies with something like the Panama Papers. A regime-changing plot like that isn't as preposterous as it sounds — not because Putin thought of it, as Gaddy now claims, but because Gaddy and Talbott used it a good many times themselves in Moscow, and in Belgrade too, until Putin put a stop to them. For lossmaking Brookings, however, putting a stop to Putin's plotting is a desperate advertisement for badly needed funds.
"Are the Russians actually behind the Panama Papers?" is the title of Gaddy's indictment. It isn't an opinion-page piece placed in a newspaper. There's no institutional disclaimer either. It is an official publication of the Brookings think-tank where Gaddy is chief expert on Russia, and Talbott is chief executive.
Gaddy provides no evidence. Instead, he proposes the ancient Roman courtroom trick of casting blame in the direction of motive when the evidence of commission of acts is absent. "The cui bono ["to whose good"] principle connects profits with motives, asking who stands to gain from a certain action. If it's the Russians who win, isn't it possible that they are somehow behind at least part of this story?" — that's another of Gaddy's trick questions, to which he has the ready answer.
RosFinMonitoring's chief, Yury Chikhanchin, who has an economics doctorate like Gaddy and 16 years in the security services, first took charge of the agency in 2008. Four years later, in June 2012, Putin met him publicly, twice, to hand him the cover story, according to Gaddy, for what RFM really does that's different from its US counterpart, the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), headed by Jennifer Shasky Calvery (right).
Putin and Chikhanchin, June 13, 2012. According to Brookings, Putin told Chikhanchin to break into Panamanian offshore company registration files to find the names of influential US government officials and businessmen in order to blackmail them into taking Kremlin orders.
In July 2013 the RFM was exposed in public as Putin's personal spy agency. That was in a publication financed by the Russian state media budget. The author of the disclosure was… Gaddy. One of the secrets Gaddy kept then, and now, is that between 2000 and 2002 Chikhanchin was head of the Currency Control Department at the Finance Ministry. The minister to whom he reported was… Kudrin.
When Cicero called out "cui bono", the Romans in court didn't know what a boomerang was. Without evidence, the Putin plot according to Gaddy is just that. He invites the question – what motive, benefit, or profit can he, Talbott, and Brookings have for attacking the Panama Papers as a Putin blackmail scheme? This isn't a trick question.
According to Gaddy's resume, in the mid-1990s he was "an advisor to the Russian finance ministry and regional governments on issues of fiscal federalism for the U.S. Government's Tax Reform Oversight Project for Russia." Talbott was Under-Secretary of State. The recent release of the transcripts of telephone-calls and meetings at the time between President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveals that Talbott's mandate was to keep Yeltsin in power if possible – and if impossible, build up as his replacement Yegor Gaidar at best, Victor Chernomyrdin at worst. Getting rid of Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov was one of Talbott's regime changes; at the same time as he was plotting the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia. For details, read this.
The second alternate expert on Russia on the Brookings payroll, titled "senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy program", is Robert Kagan. He is the husband of Victoria Nuland, who is in charge of regime-change operations for Russia and Ukraine at the State Department at the moment. For details, click to read.
For the money in the pay packets of Talbott, Gaddy, Hill and Kagan, open page 39 of the 2015 annual report for the current list of Brookings paymasters. The foreign governments giving this cash include the US military allies, Australia (foreign ministry, defence ministry), Canada, UK, Japan, South Korea, Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Norway. To match these countries and governments to the list of names revealed in the Panama Papers, open this. Of the governments appearing on both the Brookings and Panama lists, either directly or through proxies, the most obvious are Qatar, Ukraine, UK, and UAE.
But their wars may be hurting Brookings' bottom-line. The think-tank reports its revenue in 2015 fell from the year before by 11% to $95.6 million, while its operating costs jumped 5% to $104.2 million. Brookings' investment income also suffered, dropping from a positive $38.9 million in 2014 to a negative $22 million in 2015. This means the think-tank is in the red operationally, and needs to raise more donor cash urgently.
Source: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/About/Content/annualreport/2015annualreport.pdf -- page 42.
The need for fresh money is particularly urgent for foreign policy, because Talbott, Gaddy, Hill, Pifer, and Kagan aren't cheap: they consume one-third of the think-tank budget each year. Foreign enemies, not domestic American issues, are what brings home the bacon for Brookings.
Brookings' committee for offshore money-raising is headed by Antoine van Agtmael, an American of Dutch origin. His business is emerging market investment funds; they appear to be based in the UK, and use Ireland for offshore registration; Russia has not been one of his investment targets. The Brookings board is heavy on Americans (3), Spaniards (3), Mexicans (2), Canadians (2), and Israelis (2).
The Panama Papers list of names counts five Israeli oligarchs — Lev Leviev, Idnan Ofer, Teddy Sagi, Dan Gertler, and Beny Steinmetz. There are several Spaniards, including the Spanish duchess, Pilar de Borbon, sister of former King Juan Carlos.
There are no Russian donors to Brookings — only anti-Russian donors. The flushest of them is the Ukrainian oligarch, Victor Pinchuk. He has been providing $200,000 annually to the institution, and he takes a seat on its International Advisory Council. He funds the pro-Kiev, anti-Moscow Ukrainian coverage by former US Ambassador to Ukraine, Steven Pifer, a salaried Brookings Fellow. For more details, including Brookings' and Pifer's refusal to discuss the Pinchuk money, read this. The latest report from Brookings on where its money came from in 2015 identifies Pinchuk as continuing to give in the range of $100,000-$249,000.
Talbott (right) was Pinchuk's guest at the Yalta European Strategy (YES) meeting in Kiev on September 12, 2015. On the left, Ukrainian foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin; centre, James Appathurai, the Canadian spokesman for NATO. Pifer of Brookings has been a regular guest of Pinchuk's at the annual YES convention for years.
Following the Brookings money trail identifies a cui bono motive for Brookings to protect its benefactors, local and foreign, by attacking the Panama Papers in case the money landing in the Brookings till has been laundered from benefactor crimes. The Russian charges that Pinchuk stole more than $200 million from his Rossiya Insurance Company in Moscow suggest something of the sort, though there have been no trials, no convictions. For details of that case, read this.
Brookings almost follows the money trail into the ICIJ, but stops short. Had it gone further, it would have discovered among the financiers of ICIJ and its Washington parent, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), there are George Soros's Open Society Foundations; many of the same American foundations to be found on the Brookings benefactor list; plus proprietors of the media which are publishing the Panama Papers. This cui bono trail runs around the world in a circle. For example, Soros pays money to the ICIJ to receive the Panama Papers, and pays the Mail& Guardian of South Africa to report them.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) also pays into the circle by financing "fact checking", "investigative journalism", and "responsible media" projects in countries where the Panama Papers stories have been amplified, such as the Balkans, Ukraine, Mexico, and the Philippines.
The Brookings attack on the Panama Papers as a Russian plot appeared on April 7, two days before the State Department made these admissions.
The OCCRP reports the US Government and Soros money in the funding section of its website; it omits them both in its history of the organization. As for how accountable the ICIJ is to investigation of its own funds, it isn't. This is what happened when the ICIJ's director, Gerard Ryle, was asked questions about a Russian investigation he had just published with the Guardian in November 2012 – before Ryle cut the telephone line.


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PM Hasina asks officials 'to treat criminals like criminals'
Published: November 26, 2020 16:40:37 | Updated: November 27, 2020 09:28:46
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on officials not to make any exceptions for criminals, regardless of their political affiliation.
She made the call at the closing ceremony of the 116th, 117th and 118th law and administration training courses via video conference from Gonobhaban on Thursday, reports bdnews24.com.
"There are some problems that suddenly come to the fore like rape, then violence against women, teenage gangs... You have to take appropriate action against drugs, terrorism, militancy and corruption. You shouldn't consider anyone's identity... whoever is a criminal should viewed as a criminal," the prime minister said.
"No matter which party he belongs to, he remains a criminal. Therefore, we must properly build our society by taking appropriate action against them as criminals and that is what you should do."
Highlighting the steps taken by the government to improve the living standards of its employees, Hasina continued, "If we want the country to develop then we have to build suitable public servant to keep pace with the rest of the world and ensure that the people are served. That is what you must do as that is your job."
Quoting an excerpt of the Father of the Nation's speech at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan on March 26, 1975, the prime minister urged government officials to treat the poor and underprivileged people with respect and dignity.
"He (Bangabandhu) said, 'The work you do is paid for by the poor farmer, the poor worker... you run your households with that money... Speak to them with respect. They are the owners.'"
"Therefore, don't despise or look down on anyone. People have to be respected as human beings."
Hasina also urged officials to learn more about the life of her father Bangabandhu "because in order to know this country and to develop it, it is essential to know his thoughts and ideas."
The Awami League chief also underscored the steps taken by the government to keep the country's economy afloat and improve the living standards of the people amid the coronavirus epidemic.
Apart from advising everyone to abide by the health rules, Hasina also called on the people to remain vigilant as the outbreak continues.
20 judicial magistrates to be deployed at CCC polls
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Fish production increases by 50pc in 11 years, PM says
Economy proved resilience during pandemic, says PM
Bangladesh logs eight virus deaths, lowest daily count in eight months
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Today I have an overwhelming sadness . Im sure this is not a stranger to anyone on this site. I get so sad all of sudden . I have 4 kids under the age of 12 and they see me crying every day. I try to keep busy but there is only so much I can do before emotions and then fatigue sneak up especially if dealing with accounts and finances and medical and other household "business " stuff. My in laws kept asking when are you depositing the checks from funeral? And they asked it several times even though I told them Im getting to everything I can when I can. I didn't think pressure was necessary or nice. I can get a part of something done then that sadness pit in my stomach hole in my heart aches start to increase then its gets to be too much and I cant see through the thick curtain of tears. I miss my husband so much and this heavy sadness is making each moment difficult right now. Im assuming this just continues on and off and it seems like its a different worse as each day goes by.
Thank you for your thoughts Ray.
Luv4Z, six weeks is still very early. Everything you're feeling is normal. It's very hard in the beginning. If your in-laws are so concerned ask them to come over and help you. It's harder with four children plus everything else you have to deal with. You're allowed to move slowly and take baby steps. Don't let anyone rush you or make you feel guilty. it may be hard to believe but it will slowly get better. Everyone moves at their own pace. Try and get other people to help you. Do what you can when you are able.
It's so very early for you. Like everyone else has said, now is the time for you to have selective hearing. Tune out the folks who say or do dumb things. Most of the time they mean well, however, no one can ever know our sorrow and how it affects us.
Just keep getting up and getting the basics done. Everything else can wait on you. One day you'll feel like doing a little more or you'll want to get "so and so" done. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with the grief process.
Thank you. These last 2 days have been rough. I feel very heavy like a weighted blanket of sadness is over me . Trying to do one foot in front of the other every moment. Was thinking about trying to find a project or hobby to see if would help but on top of everything else figuring out finances medical insurance kids happiness and activity thank you notes I begin to feel fatigue to even think about a hobby. At some point will have to do some kind of work too. Im a speech therapist but I don't think I can go back to working in hospitals and nursing care right now. Spent too much time at Hospital with husband dealing with aides and nurses and drs that didn't seem to know what to do half the time. Im also dealing with starting some kind of investigation against Stelera and dr who prescribed as well as reporting drs that gave poor counseling and ed to what was going on. I think doing that brings up emotions didn't know were there. What the heck to do now? What am I doing? It's lonely scary and stupid. What the he** is this life? Who are we now??


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Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City
14 May 2022 - 6 May 2023
An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition
A new touring exhibition curated by Turner Prize-winning artist and cultural activist Lubaina Himid CBE explores modern city life from a female perspective.
Encouraging visitors to view the city through a woman's eyes, Found Cities, Lost Objects addresses themes ranging from safety and navigation to concepts of belonging and power.
From billboards and advertising posters to public statues and monuments, cities today are saturated with idealised images of women. Together, these depictions communicate subconscious messages about how women are valued, whether they are welcome, and how safe they might feel.
In Found Cities, Lost Objects, Himid brings together a group of works that address these themes, questioning our understanding of the urban environment and encouraging a rediscovery and reclaiming of our cities.
Artists featured include Lisa Milroy, Tai Shani, Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Mona Hatoum, Cornelia Parker, susan pui san lok and Helen Cammock.
TOUR VENUES
14 May - 4 September 2022
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
3 February - 6 May 2023
Southampton City Art Gallery
Measures of Distance (1988)
Mirror - Untitled, September 2015 (2015)
Hannah Starkey
Meteorite Lands on the Millennium Dome (1998)
Cornelia Parker


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Confidential draft IRS memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless president invokes executive privilege
A confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president takes the rare step of asserting executive privilege, according to a copy of the memo obtained by The Washington Post.
The memo contradicts the Trump administration's justification for denying lawmakers' request for President Trump's tax returns, exposing fissures in the executive branch.
Trump has refused to turn over his tax returns but has not invoked executive privilege. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has instead denied the returns by arguing there is no legislative purpose for demanding them.
But according to the IRS memo, which has not been previously reported, the disclosure of tax returns to the committee "is mandatory, requiring the Secretary to disclose returns, and return information, requested by the tax-writing Chairs."
The 10-page document says the law "does not allow the Secretary to exercise discretion in disclosing the information provided the statutory conditions are met" and directly rejects the reason Mnuchin has cited for withholding the information.
"[T]he Secretary's obligation to disclose return and return information would not be affected by the failure of a tax writing committee . . . to state a reason for the request," it says. It adds that the "only basis the agency's refusal to comply with a committee's subpoena would be the invocation of the doctrine of executive privilege."
The memo is the first sign of potential dissent within the administration over its approach to the tax returns issue. The IRS said the memo, titled "Congressional Access to Returns and Return Information," was a draft document written by a lawyer in the Office of Chief Counsel and did not represent the agency's "official position." The memo is stamped "DRAFT," it is not signed, and it does not reference Trump.
The agency says the memo was prepared in the fall. At the time, Democrats were making clear they probably would seek copies of Trump's tax returns under a 1924 law that states that the treasury secretary "shall furnish" tax returns to Congress.
Precisely who wrote the memo and reviewed it could not be learned. The agency says IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig and current chief counsel Michael Desmond, who was confirmed by the Senate in February, were not familiar with it until a Post inquiry this week. The IRS says it was never forwarded to Treasury.
Executive privilege is generally defined as the president's ability to deny requests for information about internal administration talks and deliberations.
On Friday, Mnuchin rejected a subpoena from the House Ways and Means Committee to turn over the tax returns, a move that probably will now lead to a court battle. Mnuchin has criticized the demands as harassment that could be directed against any political enemy, arguing Congress lacks a "legitimate legislative purpose" in seeking the documents.
Breaking with precedent, Trump has refused to provide tax returns, saying without evidence they are under audit.
Mnuchin and other senior staff members never reviewed the IRS memo, according to a Treasury spokesman. But the spokesman said it did not undermine the department's argument that handing over the president's tax returns would run afoul of the Constitution's mandate that information given to Congress must pertain to legislative issues.
The spokesman said the secretary is following a legal analysis from the Justice Department that he "may not produce the requested private tax return information." Both agencies have denied requests for copies of the Justice Department's advice to Treasury.
Some legal experts said the memo provides further evidence that the Trump administration is using shaky legal foundations to withhold the tax returns.
"The memo is clear in its interpretation of the law that the IRS shall furnish this information," said William Lowrance, who served for about two decades as an attorney in the IRS chief counsel's office and reviewed the memo at the request of The Post.
Daniel Hemel, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who also reviewed the memo for The Post, said the document suggests a split over Trump's returns between career staffers at the IRS and political appointees at that agency and the Treasury Department.
"The memo writer's interpretation is that the IRS has no wiggle room on this," Hemel said. "Mnuchin is saying the House Ways and Means Committee has not asserted a legitimate legislative purpose. The memo says they don't have to assert a legitimate legislative purpose — or any purpose at all."
The administration has resisted a range of House inquiries, although a federal judge on Monday ruled the president's accounting firm must turn over his financial records to Congress.
Treasury Department officials said there had been extensive discussions about the tax return issue, with one official saying the issue put the agency in a difficult spot because Trump has predetermined the outcome — and because Mnuchin is a Trump ally who was the finance chair of his 2016 campaign.
"The decision has been made," this official said, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. "Now it's up to us to try to justify it."
Trump has told advisers he will battle the issue to the Supreme Court, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump recently has argued that the tax returns were an issue in the 2016 election but that because he won they should no longer be of concern.
Last week, Mnuchin told a Senate panel that Treasury Department lawyers held an early discussion about disclosing the tax returns long before Democrats officially demanded the documents in April. He did not reveal details of that deliberation or say what, if any, legal memos he had reviewed.
Some legal experts have held that the law is clear in giving Congress the power to compel the provision of the returns. But other former government lawyers, including two who served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, have argued that the law is unconstitutional and could lead to widespread abuses of taxpayer privacy for political aims.
The IRS memo describes how and why Congress has the authority to access tax returns, explaining the origin of the provision and how it has been interpreted over the decades.
It highlights the special powers given to three committees for compelling the release of tax returns: the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, and the Joint Committee on Taxation. Other congressional committees, the memo emphasizes, do not have the same authority.
When it comes to the Ways and Means Committee, the obligation to divulge the returns "would not be affected by the failure" to give a reason for the request. By contrast, other committees "must include a purpose for their request for returns and return information when seeking access," the memo states.
"One potential basis" for refusing the returns, the memo states, would be if the administration invoked the doctrine of executive privilege.
But the IRS memo notes that executive privilege is most often invoked to protect information, such as opinions and recommendations, submitted as part of formulating policies and decisions. It even says the law "might be read to preclude a claim of executive privilege," meaning the law could be interpreted as saying executive privilege cannot be invoked to deny a subpoena.
Earlier this month, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service published a review of Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code that found the code "evinces no substantive limitations" on the Ways and Means Committee's authority to receive the tax returns.
But, the CRS report added, the committee's authority "arguably is subject to the same legal limitations that generally attach to Congress' use of other compulsory investigative tools," including the need to serve some "legislative purpose" and not breach constitutional rights.
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How the Supreme Court Replaced One Injustice With Another
.. During World War II, about 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese descent, including almost 40,000 foreign nationals living on the West Coast, were removed from their homes, forced to forfeit their possessions and then incarcerated on the basis of military orders authorized by the president.
.. The real reason for the government's deplorable treatment of Japanese Americans was not acts of espionage but rather a baseless perception of disloyalty grounded in racial stereotypes
.. When President Trump used questionable evidence to issue executive orders last year banning immigration from predominantly Muslim countries, I heard the same kind of stereotypes that targeted the Japanese-Americans in World War II being used against Muslims.
.. we implored the court to repudiate its decisions in those cases while affirming their greater legacy: Blind deference to the executive branch, even in areas in which the president must wield wide discretion, is incompatible with the protection of fundamental freedoms.
.. But the court's repudiation of the Korematsu decision tells only half the story. Although it correctly rejected the abhorrent race-based relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans, it failed to recognize — and reject — the rationale that led to that infamous decision. In fact, the Supreme Court indicated that the reason it addressed Korematsu was because the dissenting justices noted the "stark parallels between the reasoning of" the two cases.
.. the Supreme Court seemed to repeat the same bad logic of the 1940s decision by rubber stamping the Trump administration's bald assertions that the "immigration travel ban" is justified by national security.
.. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor explained in her dissent
.. By blindly accepting the government's misguided invitation to sanction a discriminatory policy motivated by animosity toward a disfavored group, all in the name of a superficial claim of national security, the court redeploys the same dangerous logic underlying Korematsu and merely replaces one 'gravely wrong' decision with another."
.. The court's decision replaced one injustice with another nearly 75 years later.
Tags: anti-muslim, dissent, fred-korematsu, immigration, japanese-internment, karen-korematsu, muslim-ban, national-security, national-security-assertion, parallels, racism, sonia-sotomayor, stereotypes, supreme-court
Trump wants his 'Space Force' to be 'separate but equal.' Notice anything odd?
Separate but equal" is a segregation-era term — one that most Americans are trying to put behind them, not delightedly apply to the armed forces.
.. Another Trump administration favorite is "law and order," a holdover from Richard M. Nixon's 1968 campaign. Candidate Trump reclaimed it in 2016 and has been repeating the term ever since. It's not about actual law and order, of course (otherwise, something would have to be done about the array of grifters and criminals parading through the White House and Cabinet), but about creating a perception of growing crisis. The purpose of the term is to spawn nightmares of violence and criminality, controllable only from the top down. And it's best applied in a racialized manner —
to "illegals,"
immigrant "animals" and
purveyors of inner-city "American carnage."
.. Which brings us to "America First," the phrase that rolls off Trump's tongue — and Twitter feed — with a gleefulness that belies its distasteful history. That particular slogan rose to prominence around 1915, when President Woodrow Wilson used the phrase to defend American neutrality in World War I. Its nativist undertones lent it credibility as a Ku Klux Klan slogan, and, grounded in nationalism and xenophobia, the phrase was again famously deployed by anti-Semite Charles Lindbergh to advocate for keeping America out of World War II.
.. What Trump's go-to word associations have noticeably in common is that they are all phrases of division, plucked from the uglier chapters of the past century of American history. They are racialized. And they are used to stoke a fear of the other while promoting self-serving — Trump-serving — ways of quashing dissent and asserting authority.
.. Just a day after using "separate but equal," Trump branched out to using shameful episodes in other countries' recent histories to supply the vocabulary for his spur-of-the-moment public statements. In a tweet Tuesday morning, he attempted to lay the family separation policy at the feet of Democrats, saying that "they don't care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13." An outside population "infesting" a nation, like vermin. Where have we heard that before?
.. Trump's flights of language are bizarre but not entirely accidental. This Space Force announcement should remind us that even when our administration talks about the future, we should beware attempts to pull us back into the past.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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Why Marx Was Wrong
On the occasion of Karl Marx's 200th birthday, the co-founder of communism has received more than a few positive reappraisals, even from Western leaders. But those arguing that Marx cannot be blamed for the atrocities that his ideas inspired should reexamine his ideas.
.. For much of the twentieth century, 40% of humanity suffered famines, gulags, censorship, and other forms of repression at the hands of self-proclaimed Marxists.
.. Marx regarded private property as the source of all evil in the emerging capitalist societies of his day. Accordingly, he believed that only by abolishing it could society's class divisions be healed, and a harmonious future ensured.
.. Under communism, his collaborator Friedrich Engels later claimed, the state itself would become unnecessary and "wither away." These assertions were not made as speculation, but rather as scientific claims about what the future held in store.
.. it was all rubbish, and Marx's theory of history – dialectical materialism – has since been proved wrong and dangerous in practically every respect. The great twentieth-century philosopher Karl Popper, one of Marx's strongest critics, rightly called him a "false prophet." And, if more evidence were needed, the countries that embraced capitalism in the twentieth century went on to become democratic, open, and prosperous societies.
By contrast, every regime that has rejected capitalism in the name of Marxism has failed – and not by coincidence or as a result of some unfortunate doctrinal misunderstanding on the part of Marx's followers. By abolishing private ownership and establishing state control of the economy, one not only deprives society of the entrepreneurship needed to propel it forward; one also abolishes freedom itself.
.. Because Marxism treats all contradictions in society as the products of a class struggle that will disappear when private property does, dissent after the establishment of communism is impossible.
By definition, any challenge to the new order must be an illegitimate remnant of the oppressive order that came before.
.. Marx showed almost no interest in people as they actually exist. "Marxism takes little or no account of the fact that people are born and die, that they are men and women, young or old, healthy or sick," he writes. As such, "Evil and suffering, in his eyes, had no meaning except as instruments of liberation; they were purely social facts, not an essential part of the human condition."
.. Xi views China's economic development over the past few decades as "cast iron proof" of Marxism's continued validity.
But, if anything, it is exactly the other way around.
it was the China of pure communism that produced the famine and terror of the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution." Mao's decision to deprive farmers of their land and entrepreneurs of their firms had predictably disastrous results, and the Communist Party of China has since abandoned that doctrinaire approach.
Under Mao's successor, Deng Xiaoping, the CPC launched China's great economic "opening-up." After 1978, it began to restore private ownership and permit entrepreneurship, and the results have been nothing short of spectacular.
.. If China's development is being held back by anything today, it is the remnants of Marxism that are still visible in inefficient state-owned enterprises and the repression of dissent.
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Outsourcing mundane tasks allows leaders to focus their time and energy on building a new enterprise.
By Neil Petch • Nov 21, 2017
You're reading Entrepreneur Middle East, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media.
In the early stages of a new venture it's not unusual for entrepreneurs to multi-task: they can be CEO, CFO, HR manager, IT trouble-shooter, receptionist, and bookkeeper all in a day's work. But in doing so they can waste a huge amount of time on mundane tasks, time which could be better spent on business development, company strategy and attracting new talent. Entrepreneurs often fail to see the cost of using their time unwisely, but they do so at their peril: although resources for direct hires can be tight in the early stages, a whole host of mundane tasks can be affordably outsourced with infinitely better results, allowing leaders to focus their time and energy on the profitable and productive business of building a new enterprise.
Appearances and first impressions
Not only can outsourcing allow you to focus, it can also help create those important (good) first impressions, meaning you will appear professional, legitimate and established from day one. If your website keeps crashing, your email is unreliable, or your phone goes unanswered, how long before prospects conclude that they don't want anything to do with your business?
But what should you be handing off to others, and what exactly helps your venture appear larger and more established than it otherwise might? Here we look at just five functions you can outsource to make you more efficient, and to create a stronger impression of presence, credibility and legitimacy.
1. IT, email and business continuity
Many entrepreneurs regard IT as an area for potential savings, but ultimately the costs of a poorly-performing IT system with only ad-hoc support can be much greater. Downtime is expensive: if your network or website crashes, you can't work. Clients and potential clients may be unable to reach you and your primary branding instrument will be offline.
Industry data from the UK estimates that for an SME with 50 employees, the average cost of downtime is GBP 18,000 per annum with outages resulting in reduced productivity, reputational damage and loss of business. And if you're trying to fix that yourself or with the help of an expensive freelance IT support contractor on an hourly rate, the costs can be high in both time and money.
Email is an important tool in your overall IT system, but its branding potential can only be harnessed with professional email addresses. Tempting as it may be to delay getting your own hosted domain for perceived cost reasons, the real price of relying on personal email in a professional setting is high: a personal email address will make you look unprofessional, part-time, amateur and potentially untrustworthy.
In a 2016 industry poll in the US, 75% of respondents said that a domain-based email address that matched a company's website was an extremely important factor when it came to trusting small businesses. After all, it establishes you as an authority, builds trust and enhances credibility.
According to the survey, 35% said they would be more likely to research a company further if it used a personal email address for business purposes. And what if that research reveals a website that keeps crashing?
By letting somebody else take care of the worries of establishing a website domain and company email, you can dedicate more time to more profitable pursuits. Once you've decided on a suitable domain name, you can leave all your website hosting and email configuration headaches to an expert, letting you get on with your job in the knowledge your systems are supported by a dedicated team 24/7.
Related: Likeability Matters: Why First Impressions Count In Business
2. Brand consistency
Your visual identity can be a client's first encounter with your brand, so the importance of that first impression cannot be underestimated. Creating a DIY logo from a free internet template is likely to have a negative effect on client perception: the limitations of the DIY approach will put similar limitations on your ability to get your ideas and USP across to potential clients. And if your branding struggles to gain traction, so will you.
Your logo and branding are simply too important to take on yourself. Plucking generic clip art from the internet will look cheap, it won't be unique to your venture, and it may cost you brand equity.
As Richard Hooker and Steve Monas note in their book Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible, a good logo will communicate a simple message simply. It doesn't have to be a complex attempt to communicate multiple propositions, nor does it need to be symbolic of deeper truths, but it does have to grow with your business, so consider a logo's suitability across a number of applications. "A logo', say Hooker and Monas, "is like a tattoo on your face: it's more than just an aesthetic of personal choice, it limits your options in the future.' So it's worth considering, for example: will it convey your message in both large and small formats, in both colour and black and white?
By entrusting your entire company branding to a creative and design service, your logo and brand will be assessed from every angle, for every eventuality. This will help build your brand equity and you can relax in the knowledge that brand consistency is looked after across all platforms, from logo design to print and video.
3. Virtual office
Perception is reality. It's common practice in the animal kingdom for certain prey to puff out their chests. They need to look bigger than they actually are to scare off potential predators. In the world of startups, looking small can scare people off.
Businesses need to puff out to attract clients. As Jeff Scheinrock and Matt Richter-Sand state in their book The Agile Startup, "to be taken seriously, you have to look bigger than a couple of hackers in a garage'. To persuade clients to engage you, they need to trust you. According to The Agile Startup, "the name of the game in startupland is to create the impression that you are an established, trustworthy company'. And nothing tells a potential client that you're small quite like an answer-phone message in the middle of the day or a phone that rings out because you're in a meeting.
We've already discussed how leveraging information technology can both brand your venture and lend it an air of credibility. But you can achieve the impression of a larger organisation by outsourcing your receptionist function to a virtual office where outsiders will assume they're all in-house. The right partner in this venture will be able to give you a designated 04 (Dubai) number, answer your calls in your company name and take detailed messages 24/7, so you'll never lose a potential client and you'll build your brand with every call that's answered.
4. Mailing address
The prestige of a physical office, especially one with a prestigious address, leads to customer trust because it legitimizes your operation. If clients can physically mail documents to you –even if they actually end up emailing them to you– they will feel that your venture is sufficiently well-established and well-funded. And what's more, you won't have to send couriers all over the place to collect those documents. A mail service can enable the use of a premium mail address and PO box as well as collection, sorting, notification and storage services.
5. Visa admin and specialized assistance
How much time do you spend dealing with visa administration and the myriad documents needed, along with certified, translated copies of everything from salary certificates to marriage certificates? Is your time better spent on business development, strategy and hiring? With a growing team, you can be drawn into dealing with the time-consuming bureaucracy of your employees' visa complexities, as well as those of their dependants. Working with company formation experts means a dedicated team specializing in visa renewals and amendments, as well as all licensing requirements, is at your disposal. And it frees up your time to do the things that you need to do to run your company.
Does my venture look big in this?
With affordable business support packages available to cover everything from brand consistency to mail collection, outsourcing them to a virtual network of support services dedicated to making sure your venture runs at full capacity 24/7 will offer credibility from day one. You won't have to puff out your chest to look big or established any more– these business support packages can do that for you.
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Neil Petch
Founder and Chairman, Virtugroup
Neil Petch actively assists over 300 entrepreneurs and startups to conceive, plan, and build their businesses on a monthly basis.
After launching Virtuzone as the first private company formation business in the region over 10 years ago, Neil has led the company to set up more than 16,000 businesses, making it the largest, fastest-growing and best-known setup operator in the Middle East.
As the chairman of the holding company, Virtugroup, Neil also leads VirtuVest, an in-house angel investment vehicle; Virtuzone Mainland, a provider of directorship services, corporate sponsorship and facilitator of local Dubai and Abu Dhabi company setups; and Next Generation Equity, a citizenship-by-investment firm. Virtugroup has invested in and supported the growth of multiple companies and delivered passports in over 10 different jurisdictions. Virtugroup also enjoys partnerships with Dubai FDI, the Chamber of Commerce, Dubai Holdings (ARN), VFS, Regus, Etisalat, KPMG, Aramex and Beehive, and has received awards from Arabian Business and Entrepreneur Magazine, among others.
In addition to starting up businesses, Neil has held leadership roles in several companies. He helped establish ITP, the largest media publishing house in the Gulf, which he oversaw growing from two to 600 employees. At ITP, he spearheaded the launch of over 60 digital and print titles, including Time Out, Harper's Bazaar, Arabian Business, Ahlan and Grazia.
As Managing Director of ENG Media, Neil launched the Coast FM radio station and numerous magazines, including MediaWeek. For the last seven years, Neil has also served as Chairman of GMG, the world's first interbank financial brokerage based out of Dubai, with offices in DIFC and London. Due to his extensive knowledge and expertise, Neil has been appointed a member of the 'Ease of Banking' panel organised by the Chamber of Commerce.
Having lived in over a dozen countries and with a career spanning over 25 years in the UAE, Neil has the ability to merge astute cultural insight with fresh thinking, leveraging his seasoned business acumen, intuition and black book to repeatedly bring ideas to living, breathing success stories.
Neil has appeared in BBC (Dubai Dreams) and ITV (Piers Morgan) features on Dubai, as well as programmes on BBC World and Sky. He has participated as a judge on the radio programme Falcons' Lair, an entrepreneurship reality show loosely based on the BBC production Dragons' Den, as well as a similar TV competition hosted by MAD Talks. He now hosts Starting Up on Dubai Eye 103.8FM, the only national weekly show for the startup community in the world's startup capital.
Neil also lends his in-depth market insight to fellow entrepreneurs and helps cultivate Public Private Partnerships as a Task Force Member of the Advisory Council, a coalition of key decision-makers and prominent movers of the UAE business landscape, led by EMIR and the Ministry of Economy.
He is also a regular speaker, panelist, and economic commentator, specialising in the SME sector.
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Inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007, Jim Ross (aka, JR) has been the voice of wrestling for decades. These days JR has added BBQ king to his list of many endeavors. His variety of sauces and seasonings can be found perched on the shelves at Ingles, ready to leap from the turnbuckle and pile drive your taste buds. The recipes you'll find here are some of JR's favorites.


Driverless car startup Cruise Automation, which was acquired by General Motors in 2016, has been focused on rapidly deploying self-driving cars at a large scale. The company believes that when these vehicles are available in large numbers, they will save lives and accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. Cruise recently unveiled the world's first mass-producible car designed to operate without a driver. It has been assembled in a high-volume assembly plant capable of producing 100,000's of vehicles each year.
Created using the collective effort of over 2,000 people, the driverless vehicle has been designed to emulate human driving behavior, without the human mistakes and distractions. It was put through the same rigorous testing processes as most production vehicles and designed to be built on one of GM's high volume assembly lines so that Cruise could learn how to build at scale.
The car has new and fault-tolerant electrical, communication, and actuation systems that are unique to a driverless vehicle. There are backup systems, with backups for the backups, and backups for those systems too. Safety and validation teams have carefully considered plausible failure modes for all critical systems and fed changes back into the design.
This car is actually their 3rd generation self-driving car, but it's the first that meets the redundancy and safety requirements necessary to operate without a driver. In a few weeks, these cars will be a part of a fleet that carries Cruise employees around San Francisco using Cruise's app (for the time being, there will still be a human behind the wheel).
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On University Police Department Sgt. William Smoot's rural property, a new firearms training center will open at the end of the year.
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The Work Connectivity Index is a self-assessment that measures the strength of your relationships at work. It was created by bestselling author Dan Schawbel in consultation with Dr. Kevin Rockmann, Professor of Management, George Mason School of Business.
The WCI Assessment will help you understand the strength of your relationships within your team. After completing this assessment, you will become more self-aware as to how connected or isolated you are from those you currently work with. As a team leader who can administer this assessment to their teammates, you can identify employees who have a higher likelihood of quitting due to isolation and loneliness.


According to updates by the Russian Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK), investigators have "begun deciphering and analyzing" information from the badly damaged flight data recorder, and as of March 20, were attempting to retrieve data from the cockpit voice recorder. The team is also reviewing radar data, crew dispatcher information and weather conditions.
Crowdsourced tracking site FlightRadar24 surveillance data showed that FZ981 had aborted its first approach to Rostov approximately 4.5 hr. after its departure from Dubai.
Data show that the aircraft descended to approximately 1,500 ft. on the Runway 22 instrument landing system (ILS) approach before the abort, well above the minimum descent altitude of 200 ft. above the runway.
It is possible that windshear conditions, which the approach chart states can be "expected on the final" approach to the runway, may have played a role in the unsuccessful approaches.
Wind at the airport was approximately 25 kt. and gusting to 35 kt. or more, but relatively aligned with the runway, reducing the potential for crosswind control issues.
The aircraft climbed to 8,000 ft. and entered a holding pattern for more than 30 min. before climbing further to 15,000 ft. and entering a holding pattern, where it remained for more than 1 hr. before attempting a second ILS approach.
A copy of the air traffic control (ATC) recording, reportedly from the accident aircraft, revealed the crew had called approach controllers multiple times during the holding pattern to discuss whether the visibility and wind conditions were improving.
FlightRadar24 data showed an Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 had tried three times to land at Rostov while the FZ981 was holding, ultimately deciding to fly to an alternate airport. It is not clear why FZ981 did not do the same.
On the ATC recording, voices from the cockpit appear to be calm throughout the second approach, informing the tower controller of a missed approach as the aircraft descended through approximately 1,500 ft., again well above the minimum altitude for the approach.
Soon after, the 737-800 began climbing toward a holding altitude of 8,000 ft., but when passing through approximately 4,000 ft., the nose pointed down and the aircraft entered a steep descent that reached 21,000 ft. per min., according to the FlightRadar24 data.


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We loved Ethiopia! My friends Merianne, Jean, Lisa and I spent nearly two weeks In February doing what is called the Northern Circuit. It's composed of visits to four towns of historic significance – Bahir Dar, Gondar, Axum and Lalibela. We all agreed it was one of our best trips ever.
1) Choose a local company for your travel arrangements.
At our age (we're all in our 50's and 60's), backpacking through Africa is not an option. Instead, we used a tour company, Travel Ethiopia, to make hotel arrangements and provide a guide and driver when we needed them. It's a locally-owned (and, yay, woman-owned) business, which meant their prices were much better than some British companies we contacted in our planning.
Although we adored our guide in Bahir Dar (see previous post), for much of the trip we were simply with a driver/guide, Asrat Eshete. Asrat not only provided all of the information we needed, but he was incredibly attentive to our interests.
This farm family generously invited us in to see their home.
When we said we'd like to see the inside of one of the farm houses outside of Gondar, he pulled off the road, loped across a field and asked a family if we could visit them. Being invited into their two-room house – one room for family, one room for storage and animals – was a highlight of our trip.
2) Spend at least two nights – preferably three – in every town.
If you look at the tour group itineraries, they move often, usually just spending one night in each town. And during that single day, they start early and end late.
An outdoor setting for the traditional coffee ceremony. And the coffee is, not surprisingly, fabulous.
To us, that's exhausting. We took a typical two-week itinerary and stripped it down to five different places, so in a couple of places we spent three nights. It's heaven not to be packing and unpacking.
And don't worry; there's always plenty to do, even if that plenty is just sitting on the back terrace of the hotel having a drink and watching the sunset.
We also specified, as we always do, that we didn't want to stay at hotels that catered especially to Americans. We already know a lot of Americans. We were interested in staying where Africans stay. As it turned out, most of our hotels, while distinctly down-market if they were in the US, were among the best in the towns. And we rarely saw Americans there.
The patio of the Tana Hotel in Bahir Dar at sunset.
3) Tell your guide or driver what you're really interested in.
Although we started with a standard itinerary of the Northern Circuit, we amended it even before we left.
And once we were there, we often ignored what the guidebooks said – and even our established itinerary. Among our group, we were interested in livestock, children and schools, women's centers, and libraries, for instance.
As a result, in Gondar, Merianne noted that it was wedding season and wondered aloud if we could see a wedding. Soon we encountered two men on horseback, dressed in white with sashes across their breasts in the Ethiopian national colors – definitely a sign of a wedding. We followed them down the road. At the church, Asrat went in to ask if we might come in.
Lots of singing and dancing at the wedding.
We missed the ceremony, but loved the singing and dancing that surrounded the wedding party as they left the church. We took lots of pictures of the bride and groom (they wore traditional silver crowns and capes) and their wedding videographer took lots of shots of us.
In Addis, we inquired about commercial greenhouses, knowing that Ethiopia is a big exporter of flowers to Europe. Sure enough, Asrat drove us out of town, through the beautiful alpine-looking Entoto mountains, to visit a collection of greenhouses.
We learned a lot about growing flowers from this agronomist.
An agronomist walked us through the growing flowers and told us all about cultivating freesia and statice for export; it was a highlight of the trip – but definitely not on any tourist itinerary.
Wonderful post, Sheila. Thank you so much. Brings back the memories. I'm going to share it on Facebook.
Ditto to everything that you said. It was a great trip and I can't recommend enough your guidance. Looking forward to Part II.


Nick Dempsey (GBR) continues to lead the Men's Windsurfer competition after another good day on the water, marred only by a 14th place in Race 6. Currently the London 2012 silver medallist leads by a point from the reigning Olympic Champion, Dorian van Rijsselberghe (NED), who has the added benefit of a fifth place as his discard, to Dempsey's 14th. That could be a critical difference later on in the regatta.
It was Flavia Tartaglini's (ITA) turn to rip up the race course in the Women's Windsurfer on day two of competition, the Italian running away with a 1,1,4 scoreline and deposing yesterday's winner, Charline Picon (FRA), from the top of the leaderboard. The French sailor still had a very respectable day in difficult conditions to sit just a point behind the leader.


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With the additional refreshing qualities of peppermint oil, aniseed oil and menthol, these candies are a perfect treat to soothe a dry throat, clear the nose and freshen your breath.
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What we love about the Jeep Wrangler is that it is perhaps the vehicle that most reveals the nature of its driver. No vehicle on the market tells the world more about who you are and what you are all about than a muddy Wrangler at a stop light Monday morning. It is a Jeep that is built for adventure, and it is most often driven by adventurers, but do adventurous people buy Wranglers or do Wranglers make people adventurous? We may never know, but what should really excite you as a prospective buyer in the Waterloo area is the pure amount of customization options that are also available. Sure, you can pick the colour, choose your tires, choose your additions and make the whole thing yours from the floor to the ceiling, but what the Wrangler does that no other car offers is the option to just go doorless. The option to fully, and safely, drive around without the doors on your vehicle is a luxury only, and exclusively, afforded to owners of Wranglers, and it's amazing.
Who do you call to get such an exciting vehicle? Stockie Chrysler. In addition to being Jeep enthusiasts, we are also just the best place to find Jeep Wrangler models in the Waterloo area. Our selection and expertise make us the perfect choice for buyers who are not sure exactly what they are looking for in a metal steed. Our goal is, as always, to work with you while guiding you through every detail right down to where you plan on keeping your doors just in case you will need them later. If you find that, down the road, you have explored the wild world too vigorously and perhaps dealt some damage to this incredible ride, don't hesitate to come back in and talk to our parts and service team. With decades of collective experience under our tool belts, we are prepared to get your beast back into fighting shape in no time at all! No matter what your Jeep Wrangler dreams are, we are here to help you realize them!


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Yovada by trade and yogis by heart, our team consists of genuine yogis who live and breathe the yogic way. Yovada is founded based on our love for yoga and wellness travel. All of our team members have explored the world doing yoga as students and teachers. Having the experience in practicing yoga at some of the most beautiful parts of the world, we also want you to get out there and get your OM on!


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import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.proto.YarnProtos.LocalResourceProto;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.proto.YarnServerNodemanagerRecoveryProtos.DeletionServiceDeleteTaskProto;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.proto.YarnServerNodemanagerRecoveryProtos.LocalizedResourceProto;

public class NMMemoryStateStoreService extends NMStateStoreService {
  private Map<TrackerKey, TrackerState> trackerStates;
  private Map<Integer, DeletionServiceDeleteTaskProto> deleteTasks;

  public NMMemoryStateStoreService() {
    super(NMMemoryStateStoreService.class.getName());
  }

  private LocalResourceTrackerState loadTrackerState(TrackerState ts) {
    LocalResourceTrackerState result = new LocalResourceTrackerState();
    result.localizedResources.addAll(ts.localizedResources.values());
    for (Map.Entry<Path, LocalResourceProto> entry :
         ts.inProgressMap.entrySet()) {
      result.inProgressResources.put(entry.getValue(), entry.getKey());
    }
    return result;
  }

  private TrackerState getTrackerState(TrackerKey key) {
    TrackerState ts = trackerStates.get(key);
    if (ts == null) {
      ts = new TrackerState();
      trackerStates.put(key, ts);
    }
    return ts;
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized RecoveredLocalizationState loadLocalizationState() {
    RecoveredLocalizationState result = new RecoveredLocalizationState();
    for (Map.Entry<TrackerKey, TrackerState> e : trackerStates.entrySet()) {
      TrackerKey tk = e.getKey();
      TrackerState ts = e.getValue();
      // check what kind of tracker state we have and recover appropriately
      // public trackers have user == null
      // private trackers have a valid user but appId == null
      // app-specific trackers have a valid user and valid appId
      if (tk.user == null) {
        result.publicTrackerState = loadTrackerState(ts);
      } else {
        RecoveredUserResources rur = result.userResources.get(tk.user);
        if (rur == null) {
          rur = new RecoveredUserResources();
          result.userResources.put(tk.user, rur);
        }
        if (tk.appId == null) {
          rur.privateTrackerState = loadTrackerState(ts);
        } else {
          rur.appTrackerStates.put(tk.appId, loadTrackerState(ts));
        }
      }
    }
    return result;
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized void startResourceLocalization(String user,
      ApplicationId appId, LocalResourceProto proto, Path localPath) {
    TrackerState ts = getTrackerState(new TrackerKey(user, appId));
    ts.inProgressMap.put(localPath, proto);
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized void finishResourceLocalization(String user,
      ApplicationId appId, LocalizedResourceProto proto) {
    TrackerState ts = getTrackerState(new TrackerKey(user, appId));
    Path localPath = new Path(proto.getLocalPath());
    ts.inProgressMap.remove(localPath);
    ts.localizedResources.put(localPath, proto);
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized void removeLocalizedResource(String user,
      ApplicationId appId, Path localPath) {
    TrackerState ts = trackerStates.get(new TrackerKey(user, appId));
    if (ts != null) {
      ts.inProgressMap.remove(localPath);
      ts.localizedResources.remove(localPath);
    }
  }

  @Override
  protected void initStorage(Configuration conf) {
    trackerStates = new HashMap<TrackerKey, TrackerState>();
    deleteTasks = new HashMap<Integer, DeletionServiceDeleteTaskProto>();
  }

  @Override
  protected void startStorage() {
  }

  @Override
  protected void closeStorage() {
  }

  @Override
  public RecoveredDeletionServiceState loadDeletionServiceState()
      throws IOException {
    RecoveredDeletionServiceState result =
        new RecoveredDeletionServiceState();
    result.tasks = new ArrayList<DeletionServiceDeleteTaskProto>(
        deleteTasks.values());
    return result;
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized void storeDeletionTask(int taskId,
      DeletionServiceDeleteTaskProto taskProto) throws IOException {
    deleteTasks.put(taskId, taskProto);
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized void removeDeletionTask(int taskId) throws IOException {
    deleteTasks.remove(taskId);
  }

  private static class TrackerState {
    Map<Path, LocalResourceProto> inProgressMap =
        new HashMap<Path, LocalResourceProto>();
    Map<Path, LocalizedResourceProto> localizedResources =
        new HashMap<Path, LocalizedResourceProto>();
  }

  private static class TrackerKey {
    String user;
    ApplicationId appId;

    public TrackerKey(String user, ApplicationId appId) {
      this.user = user;
      this.appId = appId;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
      final int prime = 31;
      int result = 1;
      result = prime * result + ((appId == null) ? 0 : appId.hashCode());
      result = prime * result + ((user == null) ? 0 : user.hashCode());
      return result;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
      if (this == obj)
        return true;
      if (obj == null)
        return false;
      if (!(obj instanceof TrackerKey))
        return false;
      TrackerKey other = (TrackerKey) obj;
      if (appId == null) {
        if (other.appId != null)
          return false;
      } else if (!appId.equals(other.appId))
        return false;
      if (user == null) {
        if (other.user != null)
          return false;
      } else if (!user.equals(other.user))
        return false;
      return true;
    }
  }
}

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Meditation on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes was considered as one of his most important work as a modern philosopher. It was here that he revealed his influential reflections and meditations on the role of the mind and body as well as the existence of God. As a great thinker and a mathematician he was able to make connections between philosophy, mathematics and science. He made important realizations and arguments that made philosophers up to this time think about his propositions and philosophy in life. In his writings he was able to awaken thoughts by looking for answer to our most important questions.
Although he was not accurate in all that he tried to prove, he made significant impact to the world of philosophy. Philosophers like Descartes think differently than ordinary man. Like scientist they are inquisitive and offer new ways of thinking that sometimes they tend to twist or reject traditional ideas and interpretations. In his six meditations he gave justifications and explanations to his understanding of the mind, body and God's existence. He gave arguments for his doubts. He dig deep into the nature of the human mind and how for him that the mind was better known than the body.
He investigated about the existence and essence of material things and the nature of God and spirituality. He tried to investigate what is truth from falsity and what is the error behind what he observed. He gave emphasis and distinction between the mind and body. He provided ways on how man can view his existence and the basic structure of the world. Mind vs. Body Most people believed that the mind and body are very much interrelated to one another. There is connection between the mind and body. However in these meditations, the mind and body seemed to be distinct from one another.
It can be said that the mind can control the body and at the same time the mind depends on the body in order to operate and exist. The body with its senses for seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touch provided knowledge of the objects to be perceived by the human mind. The mind is affected by the brain by the signals that it sends. Outside the human body material objects exist while inside the human body the mind can create its own realities and imaginations not necessarily present in the external environment. What the body can perceive is not reliable and not accurate most of the time.
The mind can be easily deceived by these perceptions. The body is limited unlike the mind which is not limited to think and perceive thoughts and ideas. With such comparison one can see that the mind is far greater than the body. The body is divisible, extended and is not capable to think while the mind is indivisible have no extension and is thinking. The mind is not bound by shape and size it can be powerful enough to create. The body is limited by its shape and is dependent on the mind to move. Therefore, the mind is more certainly known than the body. The body becomes the instrument of the mind.
There exist the dualism of mind and body. Is Man Really Distinct From His Body? In the sixth meditation, Descartes argued that the man is distinct from his body. Because he had a distinct idea that the body being merely an extended thing not capable of thinking unlike the mind. Because the body can't think man can exist without the body. Man can imagine that he is not present inside his body. When a man dies man will leave his body just like the spiritual explanation. The body was not permanent and may be destroyed. The mind of a person is somehow trapped inside the body.
The body is a corporeal thing. Since the body and mind are distinct from one another, people can separate the body from within themselves. The sensory perceptions can deceive man. What he perceives with his sense is not enough to say that the idea is correct. What the body sees through the eyes may not be what it should be. The senses may obscure the truth behind things. One might believe that he is awake but when in fact he is dreaming. Is Man Not Distinct From His Body? Mentioned also in the meditations, Descartes considered himself as combination of body and mind.
The body cannot be simply separated. The body becomes the source of various sensory perceptions needed by the mind. There is a union between the mind and a body. The body is important and definitive of its nature. It is where the soul of the man can be found. It is a clear indication that the man exist because he possess his own body. People interact and intermingled, it is what separated man from other bodies outside of his own. The existence and importance of material things is seen everywhere. The corporeal nature has obviously become the subject matter of pure mathematics.
It cannot be easily altered it is exact and we based realities in its existence. By our senses we can perceived other parts of our body like the head, limbs, feet and hands that we considered as essentially part of our whole self. People have their own bodies to distinguish from the others. It belonged to a person and he cannot be simply separated from it. Nature suggests that the sensations are important to identify what is painful from what is pleasurable. It is here that we are able to produce movement and movement is the power of the extended things. Man is very closely related to his own body.


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Q: Gremlin query search by search key across multiple vertex properties I am trying to write a search query where in the input is some search key and the requirement is to search among the vertices where the given input key matches the value of two or more property keys of the vertex. For example assuming that I have user vertices in my graph db with the following property keys:

*

*1) User first name

*2) User last name

*3) User email

Now given a search key 'xyz' I have to search across the user vertices where any of the above three property keys matches the value 'xyz'. This is how I have approached the problem.
g.V.has('ENTITY_TYPE', 'USER').or(_().has('USER_EMAIL' , TEXT.REGEX , '.*xyz.*') , _().has('USER_FNAME' , TEXT.REGEX , '.*xyz.*''USER_EMAIL' , TEXT.REGEX , '.*xyz.*') , _().has('USER_LNAME' , TEXT.REGEX , '.*xyz.*')).dedup();

I have created the required mixed indices (three separate mixed indices) for USER_EMAIL, USER_FNAME and USER_LNAME as follows:
key = m.makePropertyKey("USER_EMAIL").dataType(String.class).make();
m.buildIndex("serachbyemail",Vertex.class).addKey(key).buildMixedIndex("search");

key = m.makePropertyKey("USER_FNAME").dataType(String.class).make();
m.buildIndex("searchbyfname",Vertex.class).addKey(key).buildMixedIndex("search");

key = m.makePropertyKey("USER_LNAME").dataType(String.class).make();
m.buildIndex("typemixed",Vertex.class).addKey(key).buildMixedIndex("search");

This works fine. But I want to know if this is the best approach to this kind of problem? Or is there a better way to do this? Also I am using gremlin java api to write the above query. I am using dedup() to remove the duplicate vertices.

A: The 3 indices won't help to answer your query efficiently. Better create a single index that covers all of the 3 fields (that doesn't mean, that your query has to have a condition for all fields) and issue a direct index query:
Sample graph:
g = TitanFactory.open("conf/titan-cassandra-es.properties")
m = g.getManagementSystem()

user = m.makeVertexLabel("USER").make()
email = m.makePropertyKey("USER_EMAIL").dataType(String.class).make()
fname = m.makePropertyKey("USER_FNAME").dataType(String.class).make()
lname = m.makePropertyKey("USER_LNAME").dataType(String.class).make()

m.buildIndex("users", Vertex.class).addKey(email).addKey(fname).addKey(lname).indexOnly(user).buildMixedIndex("search")
m.commit()

ElementHelper.setProperties(g.addVertexWithLabel("USER"), "USER_EMAIL", "foo@bar.com", "USER_FNAME", "foo", "USER_LNAME", "bar")
ElementHelper.setProperties(g.addVertexWithLabel("USER"), "USER_EMAIL", "foo@xyz.com", "USER_FNAME", "foo", "USER_LNAME", "bar")
ElementHelper.setProperties(g.addVertexWithLabel("USER"), "USER_EMAIL", "abc@bar.com", "USER_FNAME", "foo", "USER_LNAME", "xyz")
ElementHelper.setProperties(g.addVertexWithLabel("USER"), "USER_EMAIL", "foo@baz.com", "USER_FNAME", "xyz", "USER_LNAME", "bar")
ElementHelper.setProperties(g.addVertexWithLabel("USER"), "USER_EMAIL", "xyz@bar.com", "USER_FNAME", "xyz", "USER_LNAME", "xyz")

g.commit()

Direct index query:
gremlin> g.indexQuery("users", 'v."USER_EMAIL":/.*xyz.*/ v."USER_FNAME":/.*xyz.*/ v."USER_LNAME":/.*xyz.*/').vertices()*.getElement()._().map()
==>{USER_FNAME=xyz, USER_LNAME=xyz, USER_EMAIL=xyz@bar.com}
==>{USER_FNAME=xyz, USER_LNAME=bar, USER_EMAIL=foo@baz.com}
==>{USER_FNAME=foo, USER_LNAME=xyz, USER_EMAIL=abc@bar.com}
==>{USER_FNAME=foo, USER_LNAME=bar, USER_EMAIL=foo@xyz.com}

As you can see I also replaced ENTITY_TYPE with a vertex label. The label can help to keep your index as small as possible. If, for example, another type of vertices (e.g. PROFILE) also uses the property USER_EMAIL, it wouldn't make it into the index (if it was created using .indexOnly(user)).

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11/2021:
Applications Due
Marilyn Kioko, MD
Nominated From: University of Washington
Research Site: Kenya
Research Area: Pediatrics
Primary Mentor: Grace John-Stewart
Reduction of Shock-related Mortality in Pediatric Patients in Urban Kenya
Gertrude Children's Hospital (GCH), Kenya's only children's hospital, has a 16 bed pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and 8 satellite clinics located in Nairobi's lowest- income neighborhoods, where children present late requiring varied levels of critical care. Despite abundance of equipment and dedicated staff, PICU admission data from 2010 documents mortality of 12%, 3-4 times the average mortality for all PICUs within the United States. Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), the national referral center in Nairobi, sees comparable volume, with significant influx from rural districts. In 2007, 57,000 children presented to the outpatient department (OPD): 937 died prior to arrival and 151 died within the casualty, a childhood mortality rate of 13.4%. The high mortality rates within 24 hours of admission highlights the detrimental effect of late presentation, inadequate pre-hospital services and inaccessible critical care.
IRB approval was obtained in May 2013 to conduct research within GCH, begun within ICU and introduced in 3 clinics. We propose to expand study sites to KNH's ICU and OPD. Cost-effective resource allocation, efficient resource utilization, timely intervention and transfer to PICU prevents escalation of critical illness, recognizing special populations where management varies from data published in developed nations. The protocol specifies fluid and blood transfusion parameters in severe anemia (Hb<5) malaria, sickle cell and severe malnutrition prone to cardiogenic failure. Within East Africa there is rising concern over aggressive fluid administration in these patient populations. Current data collected from GCH ICU reveals under-resuscitation and prolonged periods of metabolic acidosis, with base deficit ranging from -12.7 to -28 upon admission to ICU. Through education bundle, and high flow oxygen as an alternative to positive pressure ventilation in patients with adequate spontaneous respiration, we address this valid but often overestimated concern. Aim 1. Early Goal-Directed Therapy (EGDT) for shock to reduce mortality a.	Assess current shock management in the study environment b.	Implement and assess efficacy within private vs. public sector sites c.	Assess pre-hospital resuscitation protocol on early (24-hour) mortality Aim 2. Develop locally adapted, internationally accepted acute care curriculum a.	Provider resuscitation training and acute care education b.	Assess retention of knowledge and skill-based training
Research Significance
Shock is a common pathway leading to mortality, as disease progresses from sepsis to severe sepsis, and septic shock. Sepsis, pneumonia, hypothermia, dehydration and malaria are leading diagnoses with most deaths occurring in 24 to 48 hours following admission. Late presentation and inadequate pre-hospital care contribute significantly to mortality, particularly within 24 hours of admission. Limited resources for critical care in Kenya, particularly mechanical ventilation, and regional practice variation necessitate focused training and implementation of appropriate monitoring, aggressive fluid resuscitation, early antibiotics, oxygen delivery and inotropic support. These fundamental steps outlined in the Global Sepsis Initiative have been shown to reduce mortality in a cohort of pediatric patients.
Grace John-Stewart, MD, PhD, MPH
John McGuire, MD
Amelie von Saint Andre-von Arnim, MD
Bhupi Reel, MD
Rashmi Kumar, MD
All publications resulting from the research or research training supported by this award must acknowledge FIC and all co-funders with the following or comparable footnote: This project was supported by NIH Research Training Grant # D43 TW009345 funded by the Fogarty International Center, the NIH Office of the Director Office of AIDS Research, the NIH Office of the Director Office of Research on Women's Health, The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
The content of this website is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the academic institutions affiliated with this program.
© University of Washington, 2021


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