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VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich., Jan. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Visteon Corporation announced today that its common stock will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "VC" on Jan. 10, 2011.
"Our listing on the world's most prominent stock exchange is a significant milestone for Visteon," said Donald J. Stebbins, Visteon chairman, chief executive officer and president. "With our strong customer relationships, competitive cost structure, diverse product offering and global footprint, Visteon is well-positioned to deliver long-term shareholder value."
Visteon emerged from bankruptcy under Chapter 11 on Oct. 1, 2010, following a 16-month reorganization process during which the company restructured its capital structure, de-leveraging its balance sheet by more than $2 billion.
Visteon is a leading global automotive supplier that designs, engineers and manufactures innovative climate, electronic, interior and lighting products for vehicle manufacturers. With corporate offices in Van Buren Township, Mich. (U.S.); Shanghai, China; and Chelmsford, UK; the company has facilities in 26 countries and employs approximately 26,500 people. Learn more at www.visteon.com.
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Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Will Be Reimagined As A One-Part Play
Nicole de Souza - Staff Writer • November 10, 2021
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Earlier today, producers confirmed that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be reimagined into a one-part play. Originally a two-part epic, this production will be transformed into a spectacular singular performance. The original two-parter will continue to perform until March 2022. After that, Broadway's new version of the play will make its Australian premiere at the Princess Theatre in May 2022.
Next year, audiences will be able to go on the same Harry Potter journey without worrying about coordinating tickets over two nights. Set 19 years after the books, a whole new generation of young wizards take the stage and go on a phenomenal adventure.
The new one-part play will make its world premiere on Broadway in November 2021. San Francisco and Toronto will also returned to the stage with this new production. Meanwhile, both London and Germany productions will continue with the original two-part format.
"We are incredibly excited that our reimagined production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will open in Melbourne at the Princess Theatre next year," said producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender.
"After exploring a single show experience for North American audiences, it became clear that this new version of our glorious play should be presented for our audiences in Melbourne later next year. The production is set around the same powerful narrative, while delivering all the amazing illusions, stagecraft, and storytelling that have captivated audiences and critics alike."
Original playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany both found reworking the story to be an illuminating process.
"Revisiting the play has been an illuminating process of rediscovery," they said. "We challenged ourselves to find a new way to distill our story in the simplest and most truthful way possible. And together with Steven Hoggett's enchanting movement, Jamie Harrison's astonishing illusions and the entire creative team's shared belief in the magic of pure theatre – we hope to have achieved just that."
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been seen by millions of people worldwide. It holds nine Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Play, and six Tony Awards.
After months of lockdown, this new one-parter will be like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
"The support for the Australian production of Cursed Child since its premiere in 2019, has been overwhelming," said show producers. "The continued backing from our patrons, who have often had to rebook multiple times over the past 18 months has inspired us as theatre makers to ensure we can continue to bring magic and entertain audiences."
The original two-parter will end on March 27 in 2022.
The new one-part play will open at the Princess Theatre in May 2022.
Tickets for the new production will go on sale on Friday November 19. Sign up to the waitlist.
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The Board of Trustees is made up of seven trustees that are elected for rotating three-year terms. When a member's term has expired, elections are held in May annually. Although Board members are elected to numbered positions, trustees represent the District as a whole, not specific geographic areas.
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Notice is hereby given that applications for a place on the Pine Tree I.S.D. Board of Trustees Regular Election ballot may be filed during the following time:
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AACC Applauds Senate for Legislation That Ensures All Patients Have Access to COVID19 Testing
AACC Launches Directory of US Labs Performing COVID19 Testing
AACC Statement on New FDA Guidance That Allows Certified Labs to Perform Coronavirus Testing
AACC Urges Congress to Ensure That All COVID19 Tests Are Covered by Insurance
Families First Coronavirus Response Act Would Prohibit Insurers from Paying for Some COVID19 Tests
New Legislation Jeopardize Patient Access to Medical Tests Echoes Coronavirus Testing Restrictions
When Mothers Receive Fentanyl Epidurals During Labor Fentanyl Can Pass to Their Babies
AACC Press Releases
When Mothers Receive Fentanyl Epidurals During Labor, the Fentanyl Gets Passed on to Their Babies
New findings published in AACC's The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine
Date: MAR.24.2020
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WASHINGTON – Breaking research in AACC's The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine shows that the fentanyl in epidurals can pass on to babies during labor. While the infants in this study did not experience adverse effects from this fentanyl transfer, this information is crucial to ensuring that new mothers don't get falsely accused of fentanyl abuse, which can have dire social repercussions for mother and child.
From 1992 to 2012, the proportion of pregnant women admitted to substance abuse treatment facilities who reported a history of prescription opioid abuse increased from 2% to 28%. This alarming rise has led to a parallel increase in hospitals drug testing mothers and their newborns for opioids, which helps ensure that babies exposed to opioids in utero get prompt treatment for withdrawal symptoms. While some hospitals only drug test mothers and newborns if they suspect the mother of drug abuse, a number of hospitals have begun to test all mothers and babies to prevent discrimination against women from disadvantaged demographics. As these universal drug screening programs become more common, it is critical that laboratory professionals and clinicians have the information they need to interpret drug test results correctly. False positives can have serious consequences—particularly in states like Alabama, where drug use during pregnancy is criminalized and mothers can lose custody of their children and get sent to prison because of it.
Since fentanyl is usually included in epidurals, a team of researchers led by Athena K. Petrides, PhD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, set out to determine whether getting an epidural during labor impacts urine drug test results in newborns. To do this, the researchers performed drug testing on 96 urine samples from newborns whose mothers had no history of fentanyl drug abuse, and 82 of whom had received fentanyl epidurals during labor. One-third of the babies whose mothers received fentanyl epidurals (24 infants total) tested positive for the drug, while all 14 newborns whose mothers did not receive fentanyl epidurals tested negative.
Among the women who received fentanyl epidurals, the researchers found that the likelihood of fentanyl passing on to their babies correlated with the duration and cumulative dose of the epidural. Mothers who received fentanyl for less than 5 hours at a cumulative dose of <100 µg did not have children who tested positive for fentanyl. In contrast, mothers treated for more than 10 hours with a cumulative dose of >100 µg had children with positive fentanyl tests.
"The most important clinical implication of these findings is that a positive neonatal urine fentanyl test result cannot and should not be used to identify fentanyl drug abuse in mothers who receive fentanyl-containing labor analgesia," said Petrides. "Clinicians should interpret positive neonatal fentanyl results in the context of medications administered during labor and delivery. Fentanyl testing on other specimen types, such as meconium and/or cord tissue, should be considered when evaluating prolonged fetal exposure during gestation."
Dedicated to achieving better health through laboratory medicine, AACC brings together more than 50,000 clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists, and business leaders from around the world focused on clinical chemistry, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, translational medicine, lab management, and other areas of progressing laboratory science. Since 1948, AACC has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing programs that advance scientific collaboration, knowledge, expertise, and innovation. For more information, visit www.aacc.org.
Launched by AACC in 2016, The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine (jalm.org) is an international, peer-reviewed publication showcasing the applied research in clinical laboratory science that is driving innovation forward in healthcare.
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Clothing brands and retailers usually do not produce the items they sell but have their products made by a variety of manufacturers that are predominantly located in low-cost countries. As fashion trends are changing at an ever faster pace, the industry is operating at ever higher speeds and demanding quick, flexible and cheap production from its suppliers to keep up. Inherently linked to this operating model is, among others, the risk of precarious workplaces that are incorporated into the supply chain through unauthorised subcontracting arrangements.
This fact sheet addresses the problem of hidden subcontracting in the textile and garment industry. It offers buying companies (clothing brands and retailers) a set of recommendations to minimise the risk of unauthorised subcontracting and to ensure that production is taking place under decent working conditions. This publication is part of a series of fact sheets that SOMO is developing for the WellMade programme.


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UK economy stalls: what will get the engine running?
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Freezing weather in December brought economic growth to a standstill. But even in normal conditions, there are doubts about a private sector 'kickstart' to the recovery.
Was it 'the wrong kind of snow'?
The famous excuse used by railway bosses to explain why the transport system ground to a halt several winters ago, seems to have been wheeled out by those who are currently in charge of the UK economy.
Statistics published this week showed that the last three months of 2010 actually saw a reduction in the amount of economic activity by British businesses. At minus 0.5 per cent, the figure does not yet show that we have fallen back into another recession. But it was a shock to both the government and the Bank of England, who had expected to see recovery continuing.
December was the coldest run-up to Christmas for a century, and the weather put the brakes on many industries; only manufacturing showed an increase in activity of 1.4 per cent. Every other sector shrank back, including services, which should account for three quarters of growth as a whole.
Even without the effects of the snow, output in the fourth quarter of last year would have been 'showing a flattish picture', said officials at the Office for National Statistics, who compile these figures every three months.
That means zero growth, so Britain is not climbing out of the 2008 recession as well as we thought.
Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, warned that the standard of living of millions of Britons would suffer, as job losses and wage freezes depressed incomes while inflation continued to push up prices by as much as 4 or 5 per cent. Separate figures showed one in five graduates is now facing unemployment.
In the House of Commons yesterday, party leaders clashed over the best way forward, and traded blame. Labour's Ed Miliband, the opposition leader, said the government's policy of drastic cuts to public spending was 'hurting but it's not working'.
But David Cameron, the prime minister, insisted he would not change course: 'it will be choppy and it will be difficult, but the worst thing to do would be to ditch your plans on the basis of one quarter's figures.'
The government's economic strategy depends on a balance between cuts to the public sector, which it says must be made to tackle our enormous deficit, with new jobs in a healthy private sector. But these figures show we may not yet be on the road to full recovery.
Trades union leaders are trying to organise strikes to protest against job losses and wage freezes. Is this the right response?
Some people think the only 'real' jobs are in the private sector. Do you agree?
Minus 0.5 per cent of growth sounds like very little: but what is the value of half of one per cent of the UK's GDP in pounds? Research how Britain compares to other countries' growth figures.
Divide up like the House of Commons benches into a government and opposition team, with a leader of each, and hold your own Prime Minister's Questions to debate the economic strategy. The opposition leader gets 6 chances to pin the PM down to a clear answer.
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"Without government interference, business would provide for all of society's needs."
Why did the cold weather affect business?
Transport problems made it difficult for many people to go to work, so some businesses couldn't open for days. Frozen roads and closed airports made it difficult to move goods around. But parts of the economy that shouldn't have been affected also performed badly.
What could help businesses recover now?
Richard Lambert, the outgoing head of the CBI employers' organisation, warned that too much regulation and new policies like a cap on immigration, are holding companies back. He criticised plans to cut regional and local bodies that encourage development and investment.
Aren't the politicians listening to business?
In a speech, Lambert said the coalition government was right to concentrate on cutting government overspending (although some economists agree with Labour's idea of keeping government spending going to stimulate growth). But he said ministers were failing to set a clear growth plan.
The Office for National Statistics explains how Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is measured.
Richard Lambert of the CBI explains why growth is stalling.
Why December 2010's weather was 'truly remarkable'.
Monty Python and the funny side of falling on hard times.
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San Francisco Public Defender speaks at a rally in front of the criminal courthouse.
SAN FRANCISCO —More than 200 public defenders and allies held a "hands up, don't shoot" protest Dec. 18 on the steps of San Francisco's criminal courthouse to show support for racial justice and stand in solidarity with protesters in New York, Ferguson and around the country.
While San Francisco public defenders rallied outside 850 Bryant St., public defenders in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Solano counties staged similar actions at their county courthouses.
Speakers included Cephus Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant and founder of the Oscar Grant Foundation; Deputy Public Defender Chris Hite, co-chair of the San Francisco Public Defender's Racial Justice Committee, which organized the rally; and Yolanda Jackson, executive director of the Bar Association of San Francisco and the executive director of the Justice & Diversity Center.
The Racial Justice Committee was formed in 2013 to address racial disparities in the criminal justice system and to advocate for reform in police detentions and arrests, prosecutorial charging and sentencing. The committee has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Quattrone Center to study the impact of race on the criminal justice system in San Francisco.
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi called for accountability on behalf of victims of racial profiling and police brutality.
Jackson said lawyers will be key to bringing about change.
The Racial Justice Committee is currently working on a plan for police department reform in light of the recent spate of unarmed black men around the country.


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Bateria de diamante é o nome de um conceito de bateria atômica proposto pelo Instituto de Cabot da Universidade de Bristol durante sua palestra anual  realizada em 25 de Novembro de 2016 no Wills Memorial Building. Esta bateria é proposta para funcionar com a radioatividade de blocos de resíduos de grafite (material anteriormente usado como moderador de nêutrons em reatores nucleares) e geraria eletricidade em pequena escala por milhares de anos.

Trata-se de uma bateria betavoltaica que usa carbono-14 (14C) na forma de carbono semelhante a diamante (DLC) como fonte de radiação beta, e DLC de carbono normal adicional para fazer a junção de semicondutores necessário e encapsular o carbono-14.

Protótipos

Atualmente nenhum protótipo conhecido usa 14C como fonte, no entanto existem alguns protótipos que usam níquel-63 (63Ni) como fonte com semicondutores de diamante para conversão de energia que são vistos como um trampolim para um possível protótipo de bateria de diamante 14C.

Protótipo da Universidade de Bristol

Em 2016, pesquisadores da Universidade de Bristol afirmaram ter construído um desses protótipos de 63Ni. No entanto, nenhuma prova foi fornecida. Detalhes sobre o desempenho deste protótipo foram fornecidos. No entanto, eles não são auto-consistentes. Contradizendo outros detalhes e números de desempenho excedem valores teóricos por várias ordens de magnitude.

A partir de seu  FAQ, a potência estimada de uma célula C-14 é de 15 Joules/dia por milhares de anos, que eles comparam com uma pilha AA pesando 20g, e fornecendo 700J/g. Em seguida, alegam que não é possível substituir uma pilha AA por esta tecnologia, que deve ser destinada a aplicações onde uma baixa taxa de descarga por um longo período de tempo é necessária, como microeletrônica, exploração espacial, dispositivos médicos, comunicações do fundo do mar, etc.

Protótipo do Instituto de Física e Tecnologia de Moscou

Em 2018, pesquisadores do Instituto de Física e Tecnologia de Moscou, do Instituto Tecnológico de Novos Materiais de Carbono Super Resistentes e da Universidade Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia MISiS anunciaram um protótipo usando "sanduíches de 63Ni em camadas de 2 mícrons de espessura, entre 200 conversores de diamantes de 10 mícrons. Produziu em sua saída energia de cerca de 1 μW para densidade de energia de 10 μW/cm3. A esses valores, sua densidade energética seria de aproximadamente 3,3 Wh/g ao longo de sua meia-vida de 100 anos, cerca de 10 vezes a das baterias eletroquímicas convencionais. Esta pesquisa foi publicada em Abril de 2018 na revista Diamond and Related Materials.

Carbono-14

Pesquisadores estão tentando melhorar a eficiência e estão focando no uso de radioativos 14C, que é um pequeno contribuinte para a radioatividade dos resíduos radioativos.

14C sofre de decaimento beta, na qual emite uma partícula beta de baixa energia para se tornar nitrogênio-14, que é estável (não radioativo).

6C14 → 7N14 + -1β0

Essas partículas beta, com uma energia média de 50 keV, sofrem colisões inelásticas com outros átomos de carbono, criando assim pares de elétrons-buracos que, em seguida, contribuem para uma corrente elétrica. Isso pode ser reafirmado em termos da teoria de bandas, dizendo que devido à alta energia das partículas beta, elétrons na faixa de valência de carbono saltam para sua faixa de condução, deixando para trás buracos na faixa de valência onde os elétrons estavam presentes anteriormente.

Proposta de produção

Em reatores moderados por grafite, as hastes de controle de urânio físsil são colocadas dentro de blocos de grafite. Esses blocos atuam como um moderador de nêutrons cujo objetivo é diminuir a velocidade dos nêutrons para que as reações em cadeia nuclear possam ocorrer com nêutrons térmicos. Durante seu uso, alguns dos isótopos de carbono não radioativo carbono-12 e carbono-13 em grafite são convertidos em radioativo 14C ao capturar nêutrons. Quando os blocos de grafite são removidos durante o desligamento da estação, sua radioatividade induzida os qualifica como resíduos de baixo nível que requerem descarte seguro.

Pesquisadores da Universidade de Bristol demonstraram que uma grande quantidade de 14C radioativo estava concentrada nas paredes internas dos blocos de grafite. Devido a isso, eles propõem que grande parte dela pode ser efetivamente removida dos blocos. Isso pode ser feito aquecendo-os até o ponto de sublimação de 3915K (3642 °C, 6588 °F) que liberará o carbono em forma gasosa. Depois disso, os blocos serão menos radioativos e possivelmente mais fáceis de descartar com a maioria do 14C radioativo tendo sido extraídos.

Esses pesquisadores propõem que este gás de 14C poderia ser coletado e usado para produzir diamantes sintéticos por um processo conhecido como deposição química em fase vapor usando baixa pressão e temperatura elevada, observando que este diamante seria uma folha fina e não no formato convencional do de um diamante lapidado. O diamante resultante feito de radioativo 14C ainda produziria radiação beta que os pesquisadores afirmam que permitiria que ele fosse usado como uma fonte betavoltaica. Os pesquisadores também afirmam que este diamante seria sanduíche entre diamantes sintéticos não radioativos feitos a partir de 12C, o que bloquearia a radiação da fonte e também seria usado para conversão de energia como semicondutor de diamante em vez de semicondutores convencionais de silício.

Possíveis aplicações

Devido à sua densidade de energia muito baixa, eficiência de conversão e alto custo, um dispositivo betavoltaico de 14C é muito semelhante a outros dispositivos betavoltaicos existentes que são adequados para aplicações de nicho que precisam de muito pouca energia (microwatts) por vários anos em situações onde as baterias convencionais não podem ser substituídas ou recarregadas usando técnicas convencionais de colheita de energia. Devido à sua meia-vida mais longa, os betavoltaicos de 14C podem ter uma vantagem na vida útil quando comparados com outros betavoltaicos usando trítio ou níquel. No entanto, isso provavelmente virá ao custo de uma densidade de energia mais reduzida.

Comercialização

Em Setembro de 2020, Morgan Boardman, um Membro Industrial e Consultor Estratégico do Aspire Diamond Group no South West Nuclear Hub da Universidade de Bristol, foi nomeado para ser o CEO de uma nova empresa chamada Arkenlight, que foi criada explicitamente para comercializar sua tecnologia de bateria de diamante e possivelmente outros dispositivos de radiação nuclear em pesquisa ou desenvolvimento na Universidade de Bristol.

Ver também

 Cadeia carbônica
 Carbono-carbono
 Célula eletroquímica
 Ciclo do carbono
 Fonte energética
 Nanotecnologia do carbono
 Tecnologias emergentes

Ligações externas

Diamante
Pilhas
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The Prince of Wales reassured a bystander about the health of the Queen as he met members of the public in Brixton, London.
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Queen Elizabeth will attend a Remembrance Day Service on Sunday, Buckingham Palace says, adding that she had called off a further planned appearance following recent advice from doctors to rest.
Last month she spent a night in hospital for the first time in years for what the palace called "preliminary investigations" and has been subsequently advised to rest.
The reason for the visit was for an unspecified ailment that is not related to COVID-19.
"The Queen will attend the annual Remembrance Day Service at the Cenotaph on Sunday 14th November," Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Thursday.
"Mindful of her doctors' recent advice, the Queen has decided not to attend the General Synod Service and Opening Session on Tuesday 16th November."
Camera IconBuckingham Palace says the Queen will attend a Remembrance Day Service on Sunday. Credit: AP
The Queen has pulled out of events including the COP26 climate summit as a "sensible precaution" and has been undertaking light duties.
However, the palace said that the world's oldest and longest-reigning monarch had a "firm intention" to be present at the main service of remembrance for veterans.


Just as our American technocracy was ramping up another round of war by remote control in the Middle East, a gully wash of oddly related events swamped the national psyche.
First came the news that an Iraq war vet, apparently suffering from PTSD after two tours of duty, jumped a fence at the White House and managed to get all the way into the East Room. This news led to revelations about a variety of Secret Service lapses that have exposed President Obama and his family to potentially life-threatening risks.
Then, at almost the same time, another freaked-out person, this one a contractor for the Federal Aviation Administration, turned up at work early on a Friday morning and proceeded to set a regional radar facility on fire, crippling air travel across the country.
Finally, after hearing public officials rumble on for days about how Americans have no reason to fear the deadly Ebola virus because of the sophistication of our health care systems, a Liberian national, suffering symptoms, was sent away from a Dallas hospital though he turned himself in for treatment. Two days later he was in serious condition after having come in contact with a number of people, including some children.
All of them are about the breakdown of elaborate systems constructed to control people and the things we do. This is what is meant by technocracy — the notion that society is best run by people with technical expertise, and that solving problems equals finding the right protocols.
Technocrats aren't sure what people are for. They try to get rid of us through automation when they can. Otherwise, they make do with as few of us as seems possible. This is called efficiency.
So soldiers are sent repeatedly into the furnace of war (they volunteered); contractors work without back-up (they're lucky to have jobs); and Emergency Room staff are chronically sleep-deprived (and proud of it).
Now, in light of the abject failure of every one of these supposedly fail-safe systems, we will be told that what's needed is more of the same. More, that is, security. Higher fences, more intrusive background checks, tighter borders. That we might benefit from more people on the job, more humane working conditions and more common sense isn't likely to come up.
These events have also demonstrated the extent to which technocracy has neutered our political leaders. Shots are fired at the president's residence and no one notices. One of the world's busiest airports is virtually closed for several days and all the mayor can do is complain. A hospital fumbles its first Ebola case but the state's governor still brags that there's no better place to deal with such an illness.
The only person who has emerged from all this with even a shred of integrity is Julia Pierson, the now defunct head of the Secret Service. She said she would take responsibility for her agency's failings. That's what everybody says. Except Pierson meant it: she resigned.


AS I write this, I still haven't gotten over the trip to the Balkans, and I'm not referring to jetlag. More of an overdose – a welcome one – of incredible views, exquisite architecture and amazing people!
Although it was officially winter when I visited, a coastal sun-drenched paradise with thousands of dreamy islands dotting the Adriatic Sea running along the Dalmatian coastline greeted me. There is medieval architecture on tap; Gothic, Baroque, Renaissance influence – a history (and architecture) student's dream destination. There were chapels, grand cathedrals, fortresses, buttresses, drawbridges, and more.
The Balkans comprises many individual states (though the composition can change depending on context, and once included Yugoslavia). Not many Malaysians are familiar with Yugoslavia, at least not in the way that we are familiar with London, Paris or Rome.
Yugoslavia broke up in the early 1990s and many have their own take on how it happened. According to our local Slovene guide Andre, the break-up and subsequent civil wars that took place during that time are mind-boggling issues; people still shake their heads in disbelief as to why it happened. Neighbours turned on one another. One minute they were enjoying meals together, and the next they were firing at one another. We drove past shelled out abodes, as some bullet-ridden buildings still stand – grim reminders of the ugliness of human conflict.
One of the many bullet-ridden buildings you would come across in this former war-torn region.
Six countries arose from the ruins of a bruised and battered Yugoslavia – Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia. And in 2008, the Republic of Kosovo broke off from Serbia.
Out of the six (or seven, depending on recognition) nations, I personally felt that Croatia has the lion's share of natural attractions. There are 10 Unesco-listed world heritage sites in Croatia! We managed to visit five of them: the historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian, the Old City of Dubrovnik, Plitvice Lakes National Park, the historic City of Trogir, and the Cathedral of St James in Sibenik – each breathtakingly beautiful in its unique way.
Some of the buildings in the historic city of Trogir (a Unesco-heritage site) have a Venetian influence.
Zadar, also in Croatia, voted the Best European destination for 2016, shimmered in the winter sunlight. Of this city, the famous English film producer Sir Alfred Hitchcock noted that it "has the most beautiful sunset in the world". As a nod to its fame in the sun, along the promenade there is a futuristic-looking solar panel installation aptly named Greeting to the Sun.
Part of the Great Wall of Ston, Croatia.
Interestingly, there is a "European Wall of China" in Croatia – located in a little town named Ston. At 7km long, it's way smaller than the Great Wall of China. The Ston wall was built centuries ago to protect its precious salt pans – the wealth of the region then.
Our final stop was Zagreb, Croatia's capital. After visiting all the amazing towns and Unesco heritage sites, I assumed Zagreb would be just a normal administrative capital. Gladly, I was proven wrong. Gothic-inspired gargoyles adorning the exterior of grand cathedrals fired the fear of God into the hearts of the early worshippers. It was during this brief final walk around the Old Town that the final few bits were pleasantly uncovered.
Gargoyles are a feature in many of the cathedrals in Zagreb.
The interesting and captivating Museum of Broken Relationships.
The Museum of Broken Relationships is something that is the craze among the millennial generation. This uber-modern attraction began as an interesting idea of a young couple that broke up and realised that they had a treasure trove of mementoes left from their broken relationship. Not wanting to just discard the memories, they set up a museum and invited others who had parted ways to contribute their mementoes. There is even an axe on display!
Zagreb is full of surprises and many do lose track of time as they wander around. To help those with wanderlust coursing through their veins, a cannon fires at noon every day. The booming sound cannot be missed from any part of the city. And so no one can give the excuse of having lost track of time.
Our flight home was at 5pm that day. Thanks to the cannon, everyone was on time.
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Bills fans questions focused largely on quarterback to no one's surprise, with injury compromising the position in a big way for the team this season.
The natural focus has been Josh Allen, who returned to the practice setting and has been participating on a limited basis. The question a lot of fans asked was the same one. When Allen is fully healthy, should he play or learn from the sidelines?
CB: Provided he's healthy and has no risk of re-injury, Josh Allen has to play. Among the QB candidates in the draft this past spring, the general consensus among the draftniks, for whatever that's worth, was that he needed the most development going forward.
The fastest way to develop is on the field. So he has to play. I respect the bad habits argument, but I think the pros outweigh the cons.
2 – From @Mikeybeit: Chris, can u see the Bills trying to re-sign any of these Def FAs? K. Williams, J. Phillips and L. Alexander. So we can spend more time addressing the Offensive side of the ball come FA and the draft.
CB: The Kyle decision will probably be up to him in terms of whether he wants to continue his career. Phillips has been a good addition and Alexander is still wreaking havoc as a pass rusher, so I'd expect them to try to re-sign both.
3 – From @paul_dubourt: Do you see us finding enough OL talent this offseason to fix our issues? I get the impression we are without an identity for our OL - athletes vs road graders in the scheme?
CB: There are enough veteran players out there to re-tool this group. The Bills will likely need to use free agency and the draft to get it where they want it. Your identity comment is well founded. When you have an offensive line that has trouble establishing the line of scrimmage week to week it's hard to evaluate what they can execute effectively in terms of scheme.
4 – From @World_Weid: What do you think is the #1 priority in next year's draft? OL, WR, DL something else?
CB: This is hard to predict because offensive line or wide receiver for example, might be positional needs they address in free agency, thereby reducing the priority in pursuing one in the draft pool.
I expect the Bills to be aggressive at those two positions in free agency to acquire a few proven players. That wouldn't preclude them from taking an OL or WR on the first two days, but I think you see where I'm going.
Perhaps the best way to put it is to say as for offseason positional needs, OL, WR, LB, TE, CB, RB could all be addressed, but those top two are must-dos.
Chris Brown shares his thoughts on the top defensive performers this season, the emerging Robert Foster-Josh Allen connection, his favorite Bills player to watch and other topics in this week's mailbag.


ICAEW / Robert Half Career Benchmarking Survey press release titled 'Shattering the glass ceiling' about the gender pay gap.
Robert Half shares the professional hiring climate for the first half of 2011 with hiring trend by region, by sector, and by industry.
Robert Half research reveals London CFOs are more concerned about the cap on non-EU migrant workers compared rest of the UK.


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"The number one selling point for Brandon Business Machines has always been excellent customer service both in sales and service calls.
Our technician always makes us feel like we are top priority and we don't have downtime because we consistently have the same person on our campus who knows our business.
Pricing of course would be a priority too, which I feel has always been competitive.
I have copier/printer companies knocking on my door often and have told them all the reason why I wouldn't change is BBM customer service.
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Give BBM a try—you won't regret it!
We at the Mary and Martha House want to leave a comment on the above and beyond customer service we received from Bryan Taylor. We contacted Bryan in January of LAST year about switching out of our current printing company's contract and he gave us more than needed attention and information at which was not being received from our previous company. We never got the 'pushy salesman' spill, he never made us feel small or pushed into something that we didn't need. He has been honest on our needs and to the point without the BS. We actually didn't switch over to Brandon Business Machines until this month, a year later, and Bryan was just as nice and honest as he could have been. We as a company will recommend him any and every time we hear of someone looking for his services. The tech that he brought out to us was patient and explained everything that was needed and I am sorry I do not have his name. You have a great person on your team representing your company and he should be valued! Thank you again Bryan from all of us at Mary and Martha House!!
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Starfish at the Spring 2019 Faculty Staff Assembly.
Around the perimeter of the Baldwin Gym, decorated tables displayed the range of services available at SUNY Broome during the Faculty Staff Assembly Information Fair.
Some dazzled with decoration, while others were sparse. Starfish, a student success initiative, featured glittering star-shaped lights in a fisherman's net. The Collaborative Online International Learning Initiative shared space with Breaking Ground, the college's literary magazine.
Professor Chris Origer at the Spring 2019 Faculty Staff Assembly.
Services addressed every need: the Crime Victims Assistance Center, the Applied Learning and Career Center, Broome County HEARS (Higher Education Access, Retention and Success), the Binghamton Advantage Program, Shared Governance, Counseling, the Literacy Legacy Project through civic engagement.
All reflected SUNY Broome's present while, on the other side of the room, a timeline of the college's 70-year history bore witness to its past: The five name changes, the construction of its various facilities, the start of academic programs. An empty mascot costume – from an earlier, cherubic-faced version of Stinger, looked on.
What will that timeline include when it continues off the right side of the paper, into an unknown future?
A Faculty Staff Assembly kicks off the start of every semester and establishes a theme, an area of needed focus. The theme for this semester is Reflection and Projection – looking at what SUNY Broome has achieved, and where it needs to go in order to thrive in challenging times.
"We can create the future that we need to have," said Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer Francis Battisti, as he kicked off the event.
SUNY Broome President Kevin E. Drumm speaks at the Spring 2019 Faculty Staff Assembly.
Higher education as whole faces significant challenges. SUNY Broome President Kevin E. Drumm recently received an email alerting him that yet another college is shutting its doors in this country. It's becoming a familiar if sad development, affecting largely small, Liberal Arts-based private colleges. Some top-notch private schools have also been looking at mergers, and are struggling if they lack large endowments, he said.
While SUNY Broome doesn't face that sort of scenario right now, that doesn't mean that community colleges are immune to the winds of change. "We're facing some really major headwinds already," he said.
The region's high school population continues to shrink, with graduating classes expected to contract by 25 percent in just over a decade. The Excelsior scholarship program, while a boon for students, has also increased competition, enticing students to start their education at four-year schools. In terms of fees and other costs, SUNY Broome remains the fiscally prudent choice – but the natural tendency is only to consider the "free tuition" aspect of Excelsior.
Dr. Francis Battisti speaks at the Spring 2019 Faculty Staff Assembly.
Finally, a "hot economy" with a low unemployment rate is affecting college enrollment rates nationwide, as prospective students opt to enter the workforce directly.
"The total number of college-goers shrank during the past two years for the first time in history," Dr. Drumm said.
It's a situation the President calls "Paradise Lost." To regain the future, SUNY Broome must consider what the college's distinct advantages are, as opposed to peer institutions. The college should draw strength from areas it helped pioneer – such as distance learning – and look to foster processes that will help shape the years to come.
The college has a think tank and the "What's Next SUNY Broome?" discussion group exploring these deep issues.
"No more tinkering around the edges. The world is changing too much for that," President Drumm said.
Retention continues to be an area of focus. While retention rates have declined since 2012, they have rebounded by 2 percent points in the last year, although the college remains in the middle of the pack when compared to its SUNY community college peers.
There are many factors behind retention, and more than one solution will be warranted, Dr. Battisti said. "One thing we have to work on is helping people connect with this college at an early point," he said.
While a software solution, Starfish does just that, allowing professors to flag struggling students early in the process to connect them with the help they need. Course pass rates continue to rise for students receiving such flags, he said.
On the student affairs side, the focus is to ensure students stay enrolled and persist, noted Dr. Carol Ross, Vice President for Student Development and Chief Diversity Officer. Connection and engagement are crucial in this area as well, helping students feel welcome and giving them the opportunity to forge lifelong friendships.
To help meet these goals, the former Digital Lounge and Commons in Old Science 106 will be transformed this semester into a Multicultural Resource Center, with its own adjacent classroom. The Digital Lounge will become a Gamers Lounge two doors down in 108.
"Our goal is to increase student comfort, increase persistence, increase academic performance and increase positive engagement with their peers," she said.
The transformation of the DLC isn't the only facilities improvement expected this semester. In the Campus Services Building, the Copy Center will move further back into the building, noted interim Director of Facilities Dave Ligeikis. Its current space will be turned into much-needed rehearsal rooms for the music program, with work anticipated to begin in the next few weeks.
The Crime Victims Assistance Center at the Spring 2019 Faculty Staff Assembly.
Personal care rooms are operational in the Calice Center and the Natural Science Center, and will be added to the Culinary & Event Center, now undergoing renovations in downtown Binghamton. To comply with the new state law, baby changing stations will be provided in both men and women's restrooms.
The Culinary & Event Center is approximately 40 percent complete. Foundation work has been completed and structural steel will be placed starting next week, he said. Bids for approximately $2 million in kitchen equipment are out now. A temporary certificate of occupancy is anticipated in October, with the final in November; the building is anticipated to open for the Spring 2020 semester.
The Stinging Singers a cappella group gave a lovely performance of Ben E. King's "Stand By Me." While a cappella groups are common at four-year schools, they are rare at community colleges, noted Music Coordinator Brenda Dawe. Started by student Anastasia Alexopoulos, the group is performing in the larger community at charity events and other venues.
It was perhaps an appropriate tune for this Faculty Staff Assembly, the last for Dr. Battisti. He is retiring at the end of the semester after a 48-year career at SUNY Broome – or a full half-century, if you count the two years he spent as a student.
"He has had a really extraordinary run here at the college, starting as a student and a student leader, and then getting advanced degrees and coming here to teach," President Drumm said.
Dr. Battisti wasn't always the best student in his youth, he admitted, and started to run into trouble in eighth grade. To keep him focused, his school asked him to become part of its science fair. His project: dissecting a cow eye.
He was selected to go to Broome Technical College to present at the regional fair and ended up standing on the floor of the Baldwin Gym. "I thought I was going to Harvard," he said of his first impression of the college.
He ended up a Hornet himself, and returned a few years later as a counselor – the last hired, after his psychology professor passed away. A deeply rewarding career followed, including the last seven spent in the Administration.


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Australian Energy Minister No Longer A Climate Skeptic, Embarrassed By Former Statements
Reposted from RenewEconomy: Australia's newly appointed Minister for Energy and Resources, Gary Gray, admitted he was once a fierce climate sceptic, but now says he is embarrassed by his former … [Read full article]
Environmental & Climate Science News {Weekly Round-Up}
Top environmental and climate science news of the past week or so.
Climate Skeptic (& Republican) Who Learned the Facts..
I know how frustrating and disheartening it can be discussing climate science and politics with a so-called climate skeptics. I get comments from them on Planetsave daily (although, my guess is a lot of them aren't actually human). Furthermore, though, I've got a good friend who is one. He's caught up on conspiracy theory communities that spout climate change misinformation as some of their conspiracy theories (and don't get me wrong, I believe a number of conspiracy theories, but the idea that thousands of climate scientists around the world are tricking the public for money or to create a "one world government" is not one of them).
Anyway, when I ran across this article on a climate skeptic who came around after actually researching the topic, it gave me a bit of hope for humanity and even some of the most die-hard climate skeptics.
Global Warming Cartoon, Glimpse of the Future
Here's a great cartoon from Matt Bors of The Free Press. Funny, but also sad. h/t Climate Progress Related Cartoons: Fox News Serving Up Climate Skepticism Earth is an Oil-Coal-holic … [Read full article]
Science Under Attack [VIDEOS]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklwzRihv6Y BBC had created a pretty great feature recently, Science Under Attack. "Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust … [Read full article]
Global Warming News of the Week
Here is our latest global warming weekly roundup. A lot of big news this week, but what is to be expected?
The Sunday Times Amazongate Story Retracted (5 months late)
The Sunday Times has just retracted its horrible and misleading Amazongate story, five months after being published. Remember Amazongate? It was a "big" news story that was supposed to show … [Read full article]


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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: The Test Everyone Loves to Hate
September 15, 2016 September 15, 2016 5 minute readby admin
'Myers-Briggs Personality Types are like Zodiac signs for people who think they're too smart to believe in astrology.' – Anonymous
Some years back, I was introduced to MBTI by one of my good friends. When I got the result (which I am definitely not revealing), I didn't know what to think about it. By the time I took the test, I had already encountered hundreds of those 'Find your personality', 'How intelligent are you', 'Are you sensitive', and 'Are you introvert or extrovert' on Facebook in my teens.
If you clicked on this article, there's a chance that you know about MBTI, and must've taken the test. For those unaware, The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. Various sources name different dates as to when the current form of MBTI came into existence, but the basic idea is said to be conceived by Katharine Cook Briggs in late 1910s.
This 93-question test is the most widely used personality test in the world; some two million people answer the questions each year to find out which one of 16 personality types most closely fits them. But the two women who developed the test in 1945 had no formal training in psychology; and there are different views when it comes to the reliability of the test.
If we raise the questions about its validity, I read this on some forum that that no test is scientifically valid. Validity is not an element of a test, but specifically has to do with test score interpretation. That being said, the Myers Briggs is not a scientifically valid personality assessment. However, personality assessments can be validated for specific purposes.
But when it comes to rationality and how much this test is genuine, there are some bigger issues. One of them is decision consistency. Decision consistency is the extent to which pass/fail classifications based on exam scores agree with the decisions that would have been made if the candidates had taken a hypothetical second, parallel form of the same exam. For estimating decision consistency, we use something called coefficient alpha that basically has a reliability value between 0.0 and 1.0. The Myers-Briggs proclaims a reliability of somewhere between 0.75 – 0.85. That's pretty cool because it indicates that if you were to retest, you would get a similar score.
Now, the Myers-Briggs makes additional claims about bucketing individuals into 1 of 16 possible personality types. That means you can shift up or down a few points if you were to retake the test. On any of the four distinct scales means that you may be higher on one scale than another, simply through retaking the test due to measurement error. In fact, one of the papers by David J. Pittenger says that your personality type will change for 50% of individuals simply through retesting. I've personally experienced the same.
One of the other major problems with the test is that even Carl Jung admitted that no one is a pure introvert or pure extrovert, and such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. And it's true. You cannot measure the precise traits of a person by making him answer a few questions; because most people are somewhere in the middle for any one personality traits.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has a lot of things going against it in the world of psychologists. According to many, Myers-Briggs test sells only because it is unequivocally positive. No personality type in its framework is better or worse than any other; each is billed as having unique and constructive strengths. A lot them them consider it bullshit and deluding for this very reason. It is largely disregarded by their community and a heck load of papers have been published containing sections that shun it.
The test has become the gold standard of psychological assessments, used in businesses, government agencies and educational institutions. A lot of companies, colleges and universities use it on their candidates. This is weird because it is pretty easy to fake a personality type when it comes to answering questions.
The flaw here is that MBTI was not designed to be used in the workplace or as anything other than a self-report personality measure. It's only figuratively a test, because it's just a self-report personality measure. It's an assessment which is intended to provide the taker with insights about their personality. The results of the test tell you what you told the machine, and the results can change over time or even on a different day depending on the mood you're in when you take it. The assessment is only going to tell you what you told it to tell you. Nothing more.
In the words of a clinical psychologist, 'It's not the assessment that's shitty, it's the way people overuse and over-rely and over-interpret it as the end-all be-all of personality measures and its implications for workplace performance.'
The MBTI fad is kind of dead by now. But in my country, there are a lot of new people discovering about it; and there are millions of people who haven't taken it yet. The test is not totally bullshit, but it's not something to take seriously either. So, if you took the Myers-Briggs test and got a particular personality type, and were compared to some famous personality or whatever: it's good for entertainment. Don't overthink about it and don't shape your brain according to test results. Every human shows different traits, a lot of moods and a varied range of emotions, because we're supposed to. Your personality is not limited to four letters.
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Daniel Selko	 3 years ago	 /Reply
'Your personality is not limited to four letters.' Best part IMO. I've seen people take the test so seriously that they start to change their whole persona around it.
Spiderpig	 3 years ago	 /Reply
Yessir. I know of a similar someone in my class. used to be a cool guy, changed everything according to MBTI. Now he just keeps comparing himself to famous people who are of his type on Facebook.
/r/psychology hound	 3 years ago	 /Reply
The test is meant for a fun personal assessment. Why don't people get that? It's just for fun.
Levy	 3 years ago	 /Reply
Great post. I've experienced it myself when I took the test twice – the results were different.
AbsoluteName	 3 years ago	 /Reply
MBTI is really similar to astrology. Atleast there are skeptics who know about the truth of astrology. But people defend this by saying oh it's a TEST. it's PROVEN you don't get it. To people who say so: It's NOT scientifically valid, read this article, the sources, or even google for yourself.


Oh ok, thank you for the reply.
After activating Malwarebytes Safe Browsing, I got a warning saying Malwarebytes Safe Browsing Scanner collects all of the text you type, except passwords. This includes personal data such as credit card numbers. It can also collect data about your interactions with this tablet. So am I understanding this right? If I type my Credit Card number thru this tablet, it goes straight to Malewarebytes if the Safe Browsing Scanner is on? Someone tell me I have this wrong. If not, who would want this on their mobile?


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Sotheby's Withdraws Banksy Sculpture From Auction After Another Artist Claims Ownership
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Sotheby's on Tuesday removed Banksy's sculpture The Drinker from an auction of contemporary art amid an entangled ownership row.
Land Owner Burns India Official Alive Over Alleged Property Dispute - Report
Vijaya Reddy, 37, died in a blaze after her office in Abdullapurmet was set on fire on Monday over a dramatically-escalated land dispute. Her driver - who tried to rescue the official - succumbed hours later to his wounds.
Pakistani Prime Minister Says He's 'Disappointed' With International Community's Response on Kashmir
New Delhi (Sputnik): With the standoff between Pakistan and India continuing over New Delhi's decision to scrap Jammu and Kashmir's special quasi-autonomous status, the prime ministers of India and Pakistan are attempting to proffer their respective positions to world leaders on the sidelines of the ongoing UN General Assembly in New York.
US and India to Devise New Mechanism to End Disagreement over Ground Handling Operations - Reports
New Delhi (Sputnik): Three months after the US Department of Transportation barred Air India from performing its ground handling duties at American airports, India's civil aviation ministry has said a new mechanism will soon address Washington's aviation security concerns.
Trump's Desire to Ease Iran Sanction Regime Prompted Bolton's Departure - Report
US President Donald Trump reportedly proposed lifting tough sanctions against Iran as a means of encouraging Tehran to renegotiate the 2015 JCPOA.
Arunachal Lawmaker Alleges Chinese Troops Built Bridge in Indian Territory - Reports
New Delhi (Sputnik): A state legislator has accused Chinese troops of having constructed a wooden footbridge across a rivulet in the country's north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, approximately 60 to 70 km inside Indian territory, media reports said.
Indian, Pakistani Delegates Bitterly Argue over Kashmir in Maldives, Sri Lanka
New Delhi (Sputnik): Pakistan and India seem to be trying to utilise every possible platform available to them to take shots at each other after recent developments taking place in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. The latest venues were in the Maldives and Sri Lanka.
Pakistan Has Insufficient Evidence to Prove Kashmir 'Genocide' - International Court Lawyer
New Delhi (Sputnik): Pakistan lacks sufficient evidence to file a case against India in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over a claim of genocide in Indian-administered Kashmir, a lawyer representing Islamabad said on Tuesday, a media report said.
UNSC Meeting on Kashmir Huge, But Should Have Gone Further - UK Opposition Lawmaker
New Delhi (Sputnik): A week after the British government said it viewed Kashmir as a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan, an opposition lawmaker from Britain has said the UN Security Council (UNSC) still has a role to play in the ongoing dispute.
UK Didn't Back Pakistan or China at UNSC Meeting on Kashmir- Report
New Delhi (Sputnik): The United Kingdom did not back either China or Pakistan during the closed-door UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Kashmir last Friday, according to a media report.
Duterte 'Selling Out' to Beijing in S. China Sea Dispute, Philippine Vice President Says
Earlier, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had warned that any attempt by Manila to drive Chinese vessels out of the disputed zone in the South China Sea could spark a potential war and result in the Philippines' forces being "decimated". .
Japan Approves Removing South Korea From Trade 'White List' - Report
Tokyo earlier imposed restrictions on the export of three chemical materials to South Korea — fluorinated polyimides, photoresist, and hydrogen fluoride — vital for the production of semiconductors and displays.
Japan FM to Summon South Korean Envoy Over WWII Forced Labour - Reports
According to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Seoul has missed a Thursday deadline for responding to Tokyo's request to start a third-party arbitration process over a 20th century labor dispute, NHK reported.
Duterte Urges US 'to Gather All Their Seventh Fleet in Front of' Beijing Amid S. China Sea Dispute
Earlier this month, Duterte warned Washington about the consequences of a possible military conflict with Beijing over the islands of the South China Sea which apart from China are also claimed by seven nations in the region. The US, for its part, conducts so-called "freedom of navigation" missions in the area.
China Reportedly Conducts Missile Tests in South China Sea After Xi, Trump G-20 Talks
China has conducted several anti-ship ballistic missile tests in the South China Sea, two US officials told NBC News Monday.
Jean-Claude Juncker Vows 'Not Soft' Measures On Turkey's 'Unacceptable' Actions Near Cyprus
Turkey has reportedly sent a second ship to drill in waters near Cyprus amid an escalating dispute with the European Union over Ankara's fossil fuel extraction activities in the region. The situation is aggravated by the island's disputed status and the issue of ownership of its natural resources.
Turkish Pilots Grounded From F-35 Training in Arizona - Report
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Moon Reshuffles Gov't As Talks on Colonial Compensation Stall - Reports
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Nike, Adidas Up in Arms Against Trump's Tariffs on 'Made in China' Shoes
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Chinese State Media Reveal Key Points in Sino-US Trade Dispute
Following the end of the latest round of the negotiations between China and the United States in Washington DC, Chinese state-run media outlets reported Saturday about the three main issues that remain in the US-China trade dispute.


This Roman fort, built in the early 2nd century CE during the reign of Emperor Trajan, was rebuilt more than 100 years ago. The 'castellum' stands at the height of the Saalburg Pass in the Taunus low mountain range in the German state of Hesse. With its strong walls, where ca. 600 soldiers lived inside, it watched for ca. 150 years over the ancient frontier of the Roman Empire, the Limes. Several times a year there are Roman Days, where visitors can experience Roman life for themselves a bit.
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June 29-30, 2014, Article
Posted on June 30, 2014 by Thomas Droleskey
June 29, 2014, Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul and the Commemoration of the Sunday within the Octave of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
June 30, 2014: Commemoration of Saint Paul:
A New Sense for a New Faith, part two, took four days to complete, including almost the entirety of Saturday, June 28, 2014, the Feast of Saint Irenaeus, and today, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. As I have other work that needs to be completed during the summer, articles about Jorge, including his most recent interview, will be spaced far between. The Argentine Apostate never knows when to shut up. I, for one, am not going to spend much time until he travels to the Republic of Korea in August.
The current article could have been broken up into three or four separate parts. I chose to continue work on the article without doing so as it is meant to be a comprehensive treatment on certain passages in Sensus fidei in the life of the Church and in the Instrumentum Laboris that has been issued in preparation for the revolutionary work of the forthcoming hootenanny that Jorge will be holding this October that goes by the name of the "extraordinary synod of bishops on the family."
Let met state once again that I realize full well that these articles are "too long" for many people. So be it. I do not write in the "sound bite" or with "bullet points" as I am endeavoring to leave behind a body of work that provide readers with sustained points and primary documentation from papal teaching that transcend the immediacy of any given moment. It is simply my desire to offer up this work to the Throne of the Most Blessed Trinity as the consecrated slave of Christ the King through Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart as some small way to give Him honor and glory and to make some bit of reparation for my many sins. I can tell you this, however: work such as that required for this article is certainly penitential.
Also, I want to inform readers about a very fine post on the Novus Ordo Watch Wire concerning Jorge's having joked about Eve's creation by God out of a rib from Adam's side, a prefiguring of Holy Mother Church being born from the wounded side of the New Adam, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Novus Ordo Watch Wire post correctly points out how Catholics are required to believe the inerrant words of Sacred Scripture, written as they were under the Divine inspiration of God the Holy Ghost, noting the decision of the Pontifical Biblical Commission in 1909 on this point and the teaching contained in Pope Pius XII's Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943.
There is only one thing that I would like to add to the excellent post at Novus Ordo Watch Wire.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, although a vulgar, visceral man of incomparable crudity, may have joked about God's creation of Eve. The denial of Special Creation of Adam and Eve by God, however, is standard fare for the so-called" Biblical scholars of the conciliar revolution. Even some presbyters installed for Motu communities have called the Creation account in The Book of Genesis to be "allegorical." I have heard this taught in a seminary. I have heard in classrooms as a undergraduate at Saint John's University in Jamaica, New York, and I have heard from the lecterns of many formerly Catholic parishes in conciliar captivity.
The denial of Special Creation of Adam and Eve by God is no joke to the Modernists, who are deadly serious about propagating their heretical contention. To deny Special Creation is to get rid of a Catholic's understanding of the dogma of Original Sin as taught by Holy Mother Church and to embrace the biological evolutionism of Charles Darwin in order to justify the theological evolutionism of the likes of the late Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. The entire conciliar revolution is premised upon acceptance of both forms of evolutionism.
Indeed, the then Joseph "Cardinal" Ratzinger explained to us twenty-three years ago, that is, on June 27, 1990, that a way had be found to dismiss the binding nature of the decrees against Modernism and the decisions of the Pontifical Biblical Commission:
1990: The text [of the document Instruction on the Theologian's Ecclesial Vocation] also presents the various types of bonds that rise from the different degrees of magisterial teaching. It affirms – perhaps for the first time with this clarity – that there are decisions of the magisterium that cannot be the last word on the matter as such, but are, in a substantial fixation of the problem, above all an expression of pastoral prudence, a kind of provisional disposition. The nucleus remains valid, but the particulars, which the circumstances of the times influenced, may need further correction.
In this regard, one may think of the declarations of Popes in the last century [19th century] about religious liberty, as well as the anti-Modernist decisions at the beginning of this century, above all, the decisions of the Biblical Commission of the time [on evolutionism]. As a cry of alarm in the face of hasty and superficial adaptations, they will remain fully justified. A personage such as Johann Baptist Metz said, for example, that the Church's anti-Modernist decisions render the great service of preserving her from falling into the liberal-bourgeois world. But in the details of the determinations they contain, they became obsolete after having fulfilled their pastoral mission at their proper time. (Joseph Ratzinger, "Instruction on the Theologian's Ecclesial Vocation," published with the title "Rinnovato dialogo fra Magistero e Teologia," in L'Osservatore Romano, June 27, 1990, p. 6, cited at Card. Ratzinger: The teachings of the Popes against Modernism are obsolete)
Jorge may have told his blasphemous joke. Joseph Ratzinger, though, was completely serious about preparing the way for what labeled on December 22, 2005, as the "hermeneutic of continuity," a subject that has been discussed on this site many, many times now. As I have noted so many times, there is no space between Ratzinger and Bergoglio on matters of substance. Their differences are only on the margins of the conciliar revolution and in matters of style.
Finally, a little rejoinder to Jorge's comment in his interview that Karl Marx "stole his ideas" from Christianity."
The dialectical principle came from Georg Wilhem Friedrich Hegel. Marx adapted this false principle, rejecting Hegel's dialectical idealism in favor of his own dialectical materialism.
Atheism?
Marx's beliefs that man is merely matter without a soul?
Marx's belief that religion was the "opiate of the masses."
Pope Pius XI provides a very good antidote to this in Divini Redemptoris, March 19, 1937:
57. On this point We have already insisted in Our Allocution of May 12th of last year, but We believe it to be a duty of special urgency, Venerable Brethren, to call your attention to it once again. In the beginning Communism showed itself for what it was in all its perversity; but very soon it realized that it was thus alienating the people. It has therefore changed its tactics, and strives to entice the multitudes by trickery of various forms, hiding its real designs behind ideas that in themselves are good and attractive. Thus, aware of the universal desire for peace, the leaders of Communism pretend to be the most zealous promoters and propagandists in the movement for world amity. Yet at the same time they stir up a class-warfare which causes rivers of blood to flow, and, realizing that their system offers no internal guarantee of peace, they have recourse to unlimited armaments. Under various names which do not suggest Communism, they establish organizations and periodicals with the sole purpose of carrying their ideas into quarters otherwise inaccessible. They try perfidiously to worm their way even into professedly Catholic and religious organizations. Again, without receding an inch from their subversive principles, they invite Catholics to collaborate with them in the realm of so-called humanitarianism and charity; and at times even make proposals that are in perfect harmony with the Christian spirit and the doctrine of the Church. Elsewhere they carry their hypocrisy so far as to encourage the belief that Communism, in countries where faith and culture are more strongly entrenched, will assume another and much milder form. It will not interfere with the practice of religion. It will respect liberty of conscience. There are some even who refer to certain changes recently introduced into soviet legislation as a proof that Communism is about to abandon its program of war against God.
58. See to it, Venerable Brethren, that the Faithful do not allow themselves to be deceived! Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever. Those who permit themselves to be deceived into lending their aid towards the triumph of Communism in their own country, will be the first to fall victims of their error. And the greater the antiquity and grandeur of the Christian civilization in the regions where Communism successfully penetrates, so much more devastating will be the hatred displayed by the godless. (Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris, March 19, 1937.)
Jorge Mario Bergoglio has gone so far as to say that he's met Communists who are "good" people because their alleged "love" for the poor. He has called himself a servant of the poor, whose material plight has long been his driving force in life.
Yet it is that Pope Pius XI, while decrying the injustices caused by the liberal economic system of Modernity that helped to spawn Marxism, urged the poor to remain poor in spirit despite their material poverty:
45. But the poor too, in their turn, while engaged, according to the laws of charity and justice, in acquiring the necessities of life and also in bettering their condition, should always remain "poor in spirit,"[29] and hold spiritual goods in higher esteem than earthly property and pleasures. Let them remember that the world will never be able to rid itself of misery, sorrow and tribulation, which are the portion even of those who seem most prosperous. Patience, therefore, is the need of all, that Christian patience which comforts the heart with the divine assurance of eternal happiness. "Be patient, therefore, brethren," we repeat with St. .lames, "until the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, patiently bearing until he receive the early and the later rain. Be you therefore also patient and strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand."[30] Only thus will be fulfilled the consoling promise of the Lord: "Blessed are the poor!" These words are no vain consolation, a promise as empty as those of the Communists. They are the words of life, pregnant with a sovereign reality. They are fully verified here on earth, as well as in eternity. Indeed, how many of the poor, in anticipation of the Kingdom of Heaven already proclaimed their own: "for yours is the Kingdom of Heaven,"[31] find in these words a happiness which so many of the wealthy, uneasy with their riches and ever thirsting for more, look for in vain! (Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris, March 19, 1937.)
Behold the contrast between a true pope and a false one.
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Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey is a Catholic writer and speaker . He is the publisher-editor of Christ or Chaos.com, a site that has featured over 900 articles since the beginning of 2006, many dealing with his embrace of sedevacantism. Hundreds of his articles appeared in The Wanderer, the oldest weekly national Catholic newspaper, between 1992 and 2000. He was a contributor to The Latin Mass: A Journal of Catholic Culture between 2001 and 2003. Droleskey's articles have appeared in the American Life League's Celebrate Life magazine. He also contributed articles to The Remnant and for Catholic Family News. His articles also appeared for two years in The Four Marks. Dr. Droleskey was an adjunct professor of political science at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University between January of 1991 and July of 2003, reprising his association there for a winter intersession course, which was taught between December 28, 2006, and January 11, 2007. He had taught political science around the nation since January of 1974, receiving numerous awards for excellence in teaching. Many of his students have converted to the Catholic Faith. Formerly a pro-life activist, Droleskey was the candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York on the Right to Life Party line in 1986. He was the party's candidate for Supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay in 1997, and he challenged then Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato for the party's senatorial nomination in 1998, receiving over 37% of the primary vote. Droleskey has campaigned for pro-life candidates around the country. He is now retired from all involvement in partisan politics, concentrating instead on the promotion of the Social Reign of Christ the King and of Mary our Immaculate Queen. Dr. Droleskey has lectured extensively around the nation for the past twenty years, driving nearly 1,000,000 miles in the last twenty-five years of his lecturing around the nation. His thirty-six hour lecture program, Living in the Shadow of the Cross, has been given in twenty different venues across the United States. Another lecture program, "To be Catholic from the Womb to the Tomb," was given in eleven different places across the nation. His work is dedicated to the restoration of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition and of the Social Reign of Christ the King. Droleskey is devoted to the establishment of the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ and the Queenship of Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. His first book, Christ in the Voting Booth, was published by Hope of Saint Monica, Inc., 1998. His second book, There Is No Cure for this Condition, was published by Chartres Communications in 2001. G.I.R.M. Warfare (The Traditional Latin Mass versus the General Instruction to the Roman Missal) was published in 2004; Restoring Christ as the King of All Nations, Droleskey's compendium of fifty-three articles about the immutable doctrine of the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ, was published in June of 2005. Three e-books, There Is No Shortcut to Cure This Condition, Conversion in Reverse: How the Ethos of Americanism Converted Catholics and Contributed to the Rise of Conciliarism and Meeting the Mets: A Quirky History of a Quirky Team, have been published in the past four years. The latter book, for which this particular Word Press site was created initially in 2012, is also available in a paperback format. Droleskey served for some years on the Board of Advisers of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. He has served on the boards of the National Association of Private and Independent Catholic Schools and on the board of 100% Pro-Life Pac. He is listed in the 2001-2002 edition of the Marquis Who's Who in America. Droleskey, who was born on November 24, 1951, is married to the former Sharon Collins. Their first child, Lucy Mary Norma, was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on March 27, 2002. A native of Long Island, Droleskey and his family now live in the United States of America.
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On November 13, 2018 the shares of EQT Corporation (NYSE:EQT) fell down by 46%. Yet, as Montley Fool reported, it was just a spinoff of the midstream assets into a separate public company, Equitrans Midstream Corp... FinViz and eoddata.com has completely failed to depict this event properly. Yahoo.Finance and AlphaVantage coped with it but only to some extent. We discuss the problems, caused by such events and sketch some ways to mitigate them.
Yahoo.Finance was somewhat better but as you can readily see, Yahoo overdid it, since not everything (not only the column Ajdusted) was adjusted.
Finally, AlphaVantage was nearly perfect.
We say nearly because although both close and adjusted_close values are correct, we have no info on the kind of adjustment. Indeed, the financial time series are usually adjusted for the dividends and splits but their standard format there is no room for such events!. It shall not be a big problem if you get a "fresh" data from AlphaVantage but if you gather it everyday and put them in your database (as we, ourselves, do) you will have neither proper adjusted_close values, nor can you re-calculate them from close!
1. Split of METRO GROUP to Metro and Ceconomy stocks.
2. Split of E.On to E.On and Uniper.
3. DWS Spin-off from Deutsche Bank .
But what does it mean for your models? Well, normally a portfolio optimization model is sensitive to big price movements. So if you neglect the data cleansing then a blunder a-la Reinhart–Rogoff might await you!
1. Do use several sources of data. It is easy to automatically detect the differences between the data sources (which is always good check) and then you can have a closer look, in particular google what has happened with the stock on the date in question.
2. Take en effort to visually screen the data. It might seem tedious (and it is) but not impossible because our brain normally process images much faster than symbols. For example, Vasily Nekrasov has visually checked more than 3000 stocks by his study of volatility clustering and predictability.
3. Check the sensitivity and robustness of you model, calibrating it with and without suspicious outliers.
4. Try to cooperate with other researches by sharing your cleansed dataset (in future we will probably offer an infrastructure for such sharing).