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He's not your normal artist. He pulled himself from obscurity using the Soundcloud Platform to gain a legion of followers and (hopefully) change the paradigm for future artists. He riffs on the themes of desire, self-reliance, and determination dissing on the corruption he recognizes in society as he blazes new musical trails.


To mark this month's changing of the clocks, signalling the arrival of British Summer time, this is a re-transmission of songs and stories about Light Answering the questions: Why do we change the clocks? How does blue light help old ladies mow the lawn? What happens when the shipping forecast goes wrong? Spoken contributions from Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski, Ken Nordine, Chris in the morning, Dylan Thomas and Marilyn Monroe. Featuring stories and poems from The Karavan Ensemble show 'Anima'.
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People do more than stare in NW Scotland...they talk in hushed voices when you enter post offices on remote islands too....so I sympathise.
Glad to see you are still getting plenty of waders up there.
Was fortunate to get down to Fukuoka this weekend and managed 27 species of wader in a day.
Highlights were the three or four Spoon-billed Sandpipers I saw for about a minute. A lifer and totally weird little bird. Managed a Japan tick too in the shape of 2 Little Stints.
Managed to see some Broad-billed Sands too, about 10 or more, as well as 500 Red-necked Stints. Other good waders (i.e. scarce)..2 Ringed Plover, 3 Knot, 3 Ruff and perhaps most pleasing of all as i don't see them in this part of Japan too often, around 60 Sanderling and 4-5 Turnstone.
Thaflight shot of the Night Heron is half decent. Do they stay the winter up there? I have never seen in Hokkaido, so they must be at teir northern limit in Hakodate.
f*&k 'em is what I say. Narrow minded a*holes in my opinion. Anyway, nice pics once again. So not much dumped up you way after the typhoon? Pity. Hirobirder connected with Spoon-billed Sand in Hakata Bay (Fukuoka) on Saturday....I'll say nothing.
Hi Minnsy. 27 species of wader in a day is amazing especially considering the quality of some of the species you saw.
Night Herons are actually fairly common around here and I've seen them at several locations in SW Hokkaido. They appear to be summer vistors although some were around last winter (which was very mild as you no doubt remember).


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a dog kept to guard property.
a watchful guardian: a self-appointed watchdog of the public morals.
of, relating to, or characteristic of a watchdog.
organized or functioning as a watchful guardian, especially against illegal or unethical conduct: a watchdog group in the legislature.
verb (used with object), watch·dogged, watch·dog·ging.
to watch carefully, especially so as to detect illegal or unethical conduct.
He charged his trusted advisor Yitzhak Molcho to act as a watchdog to prevent any progress.
According to the watchdog group, this systemic abuse has led to hundreds of political prisoners being detained across the country.
One watchdog group reported shortages of ballots, technical problems, and ballot stuffing.
The familiar notion of the press as a watchdog for government only arose much later.
Thankfully, a watchdog group of unskewers at the Science Media Centre examined the actual facts.
The grim brute, like the watchdog of the old mythology, has three heads, and each gaping for honey cakes.
In the hush of midnight he could hear the watchdog bark, distant and vague, from the far opposite shore of the Hudson.
His instinct was merely to remain there, like a watchdog, and never take his eyes off her till the time came for him to spring.
It was Stephen the Watchdog who looked in over the half-door to give this piece of information.
Yet, such is the nature of dogs and men, the watchdog was never more numerous nor more alert than today.
c.1600, from watch (v.) + dog (n.). Figurative sense is attested from 1845.


What if Mary knew her son, born in a manger in Bethlehem, would unleash upon the world the greatest power it had ever known, the greatest power there is? What if that is what Mary saw in her child's eyes, the power of the love of God? Is it possible that is what Mary saw: the power of the love of God?
I think anyone who has ever looked into the face of a newborn infant knows the answer. So, in light of that contemplate this: What does the child see when he or she looks back at us? Consider the bond that is made and the manner by which the love is shared as the parent gazes upon a child, and the child gazes upon a parent.
So here is the question: What does that love look like as it lingers throughout a person's life? I wonder, might that lingering love look like the unseen hope that Paul writes about in his letter to the Romans? Might the presence of the power of love look like hope unseen, waiting to be unleashed upon the world?
Hope is imagining a future that looks different than the present, and when I imagine this future I see things…like a new car, or paying off my mortgage, or the recovery of my daughter from a knee injury. These are things that I can see, and I think they are good things to hope for. So what the heck is Paul talking about when he claims we should hope for things that are unseen?
So in my confusion I took my question to God in prayer. It is what I do, not because I'm a priest, but because God is here and near, and always available. Prayer is super easy, anyway. It requires just sitting down and asking God. So I do it a lot, because it is actually helpful. Sometimes I get clear insights; sometimes my mind just wanders around, and that's OK. In this case it just wandered around.
It went to a story I heard years ago about a man in New Orleans named John Keller.
Before I tell you about John Keller, I want to tell you something I suspect about John Keller: that there was a moment in time when he was an infant, held in the arms of his mother, held in the arms of his grandmother, that the power of the love of God was alive and electric, galvanized in their gaze, and it formed within John an unseen hope that lingered until it was unleashed.
John is a survivor of Hurricane Katrina. You may remember that big storm 10 years ago. I watched it on TV from Beverly Hills, as it ripped through Louisiana, and devastated New Orleans. It looked bad, and it was bad. The word hopeless came to mind particularly as images of the Super Dome streamed into my living room.
John Keller saw that Super Dome. He kayaked there from his apartment at The American Can. It got its name because it was a factory before it was an apartment building; owned, you guessed it, by The American Can Company. John Keller grew up in New Orleans and had returned there after serving in the Marines. He is veteran of the Iraq War.
John was at home the night Katrina hit. It was fierce. After the storm subsided and the levies broke and the water evened out John found a kayak and rowed to his mom's house 9 miles away. It was flooded; she was gone, and he assumed she was safe.
While he was out and about he saw utter destruction; and bodies floating in the water. He rowed to the Super Dome; it seemed a hopeless mess, so he returned to The American Can. Things weren't all that good there either. Some hoodlums came by and John and others chased them away. It helped that John was 6'8" and a solid 250 pounds.
For three days they all hung out and waited for the water to recede, but it remained. As time passed things got complicated. Some unsavory neighbors moved in. Some racial tensions flared. The young people hung out on the roof and watched the helicopters drop food and water on buildings nearby.
It was terribly hot. John got a fire extinguisher and wrote on the roof of The American Can: H2O and MRE's, but the helicopters kept flying by. Tuesday passed, there was no help. Wednesday passed, there was no help. Things were growing hopeless. There were many old people in the building. There were many people in wheelchairs in the building.
They turned to John. He was a natural leader and a trained military man, but he didn't want to lead. He didn't want the responsibility. And yet that love lingered, unseen hope stirred, the power of God pushed and prodded, and John found himself in a conversation with his Lord. It wasn't the first time. John knew God-that introduction had been made by his mother and his grandmother, the women who held him as an infant and shared the gaze of the power of the love of God. And that love lingered.
John sat there with the old people and the crippled people. He could have left, but he didn't. He sat there watching hopelessness set in. Food was scarce, water in short supply. Many people were running out of their medications. And it was hot, it was New Orleans hot.
And on that day the power of the love of God was unleashed anew in the life of John Keller. It was Thursday, four days after Katrina hit, and John Keller stepped up. First he put a stop of racial divisions there were happening. Then he took stock of the situation. It is what he was trained to do as a US Marine. He discerned the pattern of the helicopters, and what he saw broke his heart. Still he asked all of the able bodied men to bring all of the white people up to the roof. And he asked all of the black people, himself included, to hide from the helicopter sight lines. They did.
Within 15 minutes, after three days of nothing, within 15 minutes, a helicopter set two wheels down on the roof of The American Can.
John stepped out to meet the crew chief, and said, "Lance Corporal John Keller reporting for duty, Sir" 15 minutes after that they had their first drop of food and water. Then the helicopter started lifting people off the roof, but at a rate of 6 per hour, John knew it was too slow. 244 people needed evacuation; 170 of them urgently.
So John found two boats and hotwired them. And with the help of the other young men he carried all of the old people and all of the people in wheelchairs down to the boats, and ferried them to a dry spot where the helicopters could take them to safety. On that day John Keller loved 244 people to safety.
John placed his hope in the unseen, and that unleashed within him the power of the love of God. You know, I never heard if John's grandmother was OK. He never said in any of the interviews that I saw because I suspect the covenant that John made with God was not really about a quid pro quo, it was about love, the love that John saw in the faces of all of those people God providentially set him in relationship with at The American Can.
What he saw is what his mother saw, and his grandmother saw. It is what we have seen. It is what Mary saw… God's love, the most powerful force in the world. And it is what God sees in us as God gazes back.
Jesus is God gazing back at us. Jesus came so we could see what the love of God looks like face to face, person to person, parent to child, child to parent.
Jesus makes it possible for us to see the unseen hope that lingers in our lives, and lingers in the lives of those we love, and lingers in the lives of those we meet along the way. This love is real, alive and lingering in us because God set it there. We can see it, and when we do, it unleashes in us the power of the love of God. It doesn't have to be as big as it was for John Keller, maybe thousand little ways is more your style. Maybe love leaks out in smiles, and open doors, and kind comments. Maybe it leaks out as a listening ear, or a meal to a sick friend.
It doesn't really matter. What matters is that we know where to look to see the eyes of God gazing back at us. That is what we celebrate today in the birth of Jesus.
Jesus is where our gaze meets the reality that there is nothing more powerful than the love of God.


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Home Equity Funds Continued to Receive Net Inflows for the 3rd Consecutive Month in May
Equity Funds Continued to Receive Net Inflows for the 3rd Consecutive Month in May
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AJPosted on June 14, 2021 June 14, 2021
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AMFI,
equity funds,
The second wave of COVID-19 and volatility induced in the markets have not impacted the equity funds inflow. As per the data released by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI), May 2021 saw equity funds recording a net inflow of Rs 10,082 crore, their highest since February 2020.
The net inflows are attributable to the investors showing confidence in markets despite the unprecedented developments, which did not influence the markets as they did in March and April last year. The assets under management (AUM) touched Rs 33.05 lakh core as of 31 May 2021. It was Rs 32.37 lakh crore in the previous month.
On the other hand, debt funds witnessed a net outflow of Rs 44,512 crore last month. Liquid funds were under pressure, and they saw a net outflow of Rs 45,447.36 crore. Hybrid or balanced mutual fund schemes saw a net inflow of Rs 6,217.30 in May 2021, with arbitrage funds leading the pack with a net inflow of Rs 4,520.88 crore.
To help the markets' cause, the most recent announcement concerning quarterly results and GDP/growth numbers were favourable. Also, the investor sentiment is positive, and more and more investors are flocking to invest in equity markets lately. In fact, over 14 million new Demat accounts were opened in FY 21.
With the number of new COVID-19 infections falling daily, we may not be far from seeing most businesses and industries being allowed to resume their operations. Also, the vaccination drive will have a significant say in this and will have a bearing on the markets.
With some states already beginning to ease lockdown restrictions, we can expect positive developments in the markets in the days to come. In particular, with Mumbai and New Delhi, the most important cities in the country, recording less than 1,000 cases in recent days is a big boost for markets.
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VIII. Undergraduate Degree Regulations and Procedures
Academic Review Sub-Committee Procedures
The Academic Review Sub-Committee of each program committee meets three times each semester as follows:
after the third day of the add period.
after the twentieth class day.
after the last day of exams.
Refer to Section III--Schedule of Dates., for the submission deadlines for each of these meetings.
A request for academic consideration should be made by the student to the Academic Review Sub-Committee during, or immediately after, the semester to which it refers. If a student is appealing a required to withdraw decision, the student should submit the "Request for Academic Consideration" form by the first deadline of the next semester.
The Academic Review Sub-Committee will consider requests for academic consideration with regard to:
Course results (e.g. late drop of a course(s) with or without failure, deferred or supplemental privileges, credit status).
Meeting the continuation of studies requirements (e.g. probationary status).
Meeting the graduation requirements.
All requests are to be made in writing, preferably type-written, on the "Request for Academic Consideration" form available from Undergraduate Program Services, Office of Registrarial Services, or the program counsellor. Request forms must be accompanied by relevant supporting documentation. Requests that are inadequately documented or that lack clarity will not be dealt with but will be returned to the student. The student should meet with the program counsellor for advice on the preparation and submission of requests for academic consideration.
When the form is complete, the student should retain a copy along with copies of all documentation submitted. The form, with the original documentation attached, should be submitted to the student's program counsellor or to Undergraduate Program Services, Office of Registrarial Services.
The Associate Registrar, Undergraduate Program Services, or designate, shall prepare the agenda for each meeting of the Academic Review Sub-Committee, maintain a record of the sub-committee's decisions and immediately inform each student in writing as to the disposition of the request.
An appeal of an Academic Review Sub-Committee's decision may be submitted to the Senate Committee on Student Petitions within 90 days of the decision. Students who are appealing the decision of an Academic Review Sub-Committee for denial of probationary status will not be allowed to attend classes pending the outcome of the petition.
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Join us for a panel discussion with the leaders of Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry and Will Counties.
WTS Greater Chicago is proud to bring together the transportation agency leaders of Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry and Will counties for a panel discussion on each county's unique transportation challenges and how the region can work together to achieve an improved transportation network. Each county faces similar, but distinct, challenges related to mobility, congestion, livability and funding. Providing a framework for addressing some of these challenges is CMAP's GO TO 2040 plan, which is the first comprehensive regional plan for metropolitan Chicago in more than 100 years. The panel will be moderated by Randy Blankenhorn, Executive Director of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, who brings his regional perspective to the discussion.
This program will begin at 11:45 AM to ensure we have ample time for an informative panel discussion. Registration will begin at 11:15 AM.
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Reclaiming satire in The Fence magazine
by Steve Watson in June 2019
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"Satire is an interesting weapon, but it's been co-opted by the establishment." Freddie Marsh is one of the editors of The Fence, the satirical magazine that launched in London earlier this year. Frustrated by Brexit and Donald Trump, but also keen to comment on wider contemporary culture, the young team wants to produce a produce a print magazine for a millennial readership.
They started with an issue zero and then rushed out their Brexit issue in March, in time for what they (and everyone else) expected to be the date when Britain left the EU. Of course that didn't come to pass, so Freddie and his team decided to take their time with their next issue, and the first full, properly realised issue of The Fence is due to hit shelves in early July.
In this conversation Freddie explains why he and his fellow founders were inspired to produce a new satirical magazine, why it's important that politics is just one part of what they cover, and why The Fence needed to exist in print. If you enjoy this one, remember we've got lots of other conversations with independent magazine makers ready for you to uncover in our archives on Soundcloud and iTunes. And of course if you follow us while you're there, we'll be able to deliver next week's episode to you as soon as it's ready.
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Are We Serious About Valuing Older Workers? Lessons From Robert de Niro
Helen Rosethorn
Partner at global brand and marketing consultancy, Prophet
21/03/2016 12:48pm GMT | Updated March 22, 2017
On a recent flight over to the US I watched the 2015 movie 'The Intern' - not Oscar winning stuff but a tongue in cheek reminder of what embracing multiple generations in the workplace actually means.
Now if you haven't seen the movie, here's a quick summary: Robert de Niro plays 70 year old widower Ben. Bored with retirement and lonely, he gets himself a job as a "senior intern" in a rapidly growing and hugely successful online women's fashion retail start-up called About the Fit . He is assigned to work with the ambitious, "working all hours" female founder, Jules, played by Anne Hathaway - oh yes she is a working mum, with a cute daughter looked after by a "stay at home" Dad.
Every stereotype of the hi-tech start-up was in there - riding bikes in the office, constant VC pressure - along with every stereotype of the high flying working mum - including the "neglected" husband who has an affair. However, fundamental to the plot was that the "old ways" that the charming and wise hero Robert de Niro brought to the unstructured style of Anne Hathaway and her business, generated change and positive results. Whilst Ben's "ways" were initially seen as quirky, aka "old fashioned", the bright young things fell in love with and benefited from him. It wasn't just wisdom generated from tenure and experience - but the style of interaction that came with it. Whilst everything was frantic around him he demonstrated that a different way could be just as, if not more, successful. OK - it was fiction - but not without some real grains of truth.
Last year Virgin hit the headlines when they ran a Corporate Day across their organisation where everyone had to come to work suited and booted, social media usage was curtailed, flexible hours were dropped and all employees had to be at work from 9am to 5.30pm. Whilst there was a charitable purpose to the day, it was also heralded as an exercise to celebrate how lucky Virgin employees were not to work in a xxx corporate environment. I initially thought this was a really great idea, but now find myself asking if this is really embracing diversity in the workplace? In 'The Intern' Ben wanted to come to work in his suit and tie - and, despite some initial questioning from his new work colleagues, he stuck with it because for him that was important. Of course millenials are searching for a new working context - but does that mean we should assume everyone else in the enterprise is happy with permanent dress down, meetings on bean bags and unlimited holiday? Does managing multiple generations in the workplace mean it's everyone over 40 who needs to get comfortable with a working world designed to suit their younger colleagues? 'The Intern' plot demonstrates the danger of any "one size fits all" approach to cultural understanding and management. Yes, a successful culture has core foundational elements such as values and symbols; but as many start-up stories reveal, when a culture becomes a cult growth stalls - there are too many "mini me's" rather than an environment that can embrace difference to catalyse improvement and innovation.
There is one final element to 'The Intern' story which really does deserve attention - and that is the question of opening the door for people who want to keep building their careers way past 50. The "lost generations" research published in 2015 by BITC showed that of the 3.3 million economically inactive people in the UK aged between 50 and 64, 1 million had been made "involuntarily workless" - pushed out of their previous job through a combination of redundancy, ill health or early retirement. How many of these felt that the world around them at work was changing in a way that they struggled to feel they belonged to; that their ways and approaches had continuing value?
Good on About the Fit for launching a senior intern program - if only more (real-life) organisations would consider the value of bringing retirees or "older workers" in general back into the workplace. Barclays, of course, in the UK notably launched an Over 50s Training Program at the start of 2015 which garnered huge coverage in the press but not much since then. The BITC research showed that supporting greater workforce participation for "older workers" makes economic sense. It suggested that an uplift equivalent to 5.6% of UK GDP could be achieved if the economic participation rates of those aged 50 to 64 matched those in their 30s and 40s. And the research also quashed views that this would result in squeezing out opportunities for their younger colleagues.
There were some great comedy moments during Robert de Niro's intern interview - as they realised their stock questions were somewhat out of place - "Where do you want to be in ten years' time?" for example. However, joking aside, organisations do need to stand back and ask themselves just how well they are doing on age diversity. Whilst age discrimination legislation is catching up around the world - with the US having the longest standing protection - the UK clearly has some way to go. Of course, managing the value that all generations can bring to the world of work is not just about complying with legislation - it's about an inclusive mind-set. Well done to BITC for launching an award in 2015 to recognise organisations who are championing this. I am proud to be a judge of this prestigious and ground-breaking award again this year.
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The Internal Audit Manager oversees the Internal Audit Unit, Statewide recovery audit and assists with assessment of internal control and compliance. The Audit Unit also provides the State Controller the technical skill sets needed to perform reviews on compliance with statutes, fiscal rules, applicable Federal requirements, generally accepted accounting principles, and provides related advisory services to State entities.
The Internal Audit Unit assists the State Controller in providing oversight of the State's financial operations as delegated. The Unit also provides guidance on internal control, application of risk assessment tools, and other areas discussed in the resources links provided below. Additionally, the Unit conducts training on internal control and compliance and performs related reviews at state entities upon request. Please contact the Internal Audit Unit if you would like our assistance in the above described functional areas.
The Audit Unit also oversees and coordinates the performance of recovery audits to identify and recover overpayments resulting from improper payments made by State entities to vendors. Under 24-30-203.5, C.R.S., the Office of the State Controller contracts for recovery audits every three years. The Audit Unit is responsible for summarizing the results of the recovery audits and providing a report to the General Assembly. The most current OSC summary of recovery audit results, as well as the contractor-prepared report, can be found at the below.


An amazing new intitaive IVUGER launched recently to help increase the visibility of underrepresented groups in energy research. Ms Ana Laranjeira from the Centre for Environmental Policy is one of the organisers and we asked her to tell us more about IVUGER and the launch event.
On the 29 November the Increasing Visibility of Underrepresented Groups in Energy Research (IVUGER) hosted their first-ever event. Its aim was to establish the first network of women working on heat decarbonisation and bring them together to meet and provide mentoring opportunities from females from academia, industry and policy.
On the day about 30 women working in the broad field of decarbonisation of energy, from different regions, nationalities, disciplines, and varying career stages, got together to network and learn from one another.
Dr Miao Guo, EPSRC Research Fellow, Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London.
The participants got to hear about their professional journeys so far, and their top tips for how to excel in this competitive sector. The speakers then took on the role of 'On-the day Mentor' , and gathered in groups with the participants for a small group Q&A session.
All of this is aligned with IVUGER's vision of creating a strong network of innovative and diverse women, and to provide them with the space and resources to establish long-term, meaningful collaborations in the topic of decarbonisation of heat.
In fact, collaboration was the main focus of the afternoon with a unique Collaborations Skills for Researchers Workshop, led by Caroline Broad. During this activity, participants got to learn more about their individual way of working and communicating, as well as getting to know the other participants better.
The session allowed them to start building the foundations for potential collaborations, as well as how to use one's individual attributes to successfully cooperate with others – all crucial elements to IVUGER's future plans.
And what are the next steps for the IVUGER network?
IVUGER will act as a central hub for academics, policy-makers and industry to source collaborators who work in industrial and domestic heat decarbonisation. But for that to happen, the work must start now.
In our bid to bring about proactive solutions to increase the visibility of women in energy, IVUGER's second event will be a Writing Retreat in which groups of early-career female researchers will get the opportunity to prepare a proposal for seed funding which we will award (up to £12,000) to the most novel, innovative and impactful projects in decarbonisation of heat.
Events like these, and the incredible cooperation of all of the participants, are the building blocks to the future we're aiming for – one in which females are no longer an underrepresented group in the energy sector, but fully acknowledged for their work and professional capabilities.
Registration for the Writing Retreat will begin in January 2019. For more information please contact Ana Laranjeira at amg4517@ic.ac.uk.
IVUGER is part of the UKERC Whole Systems Networking Fund and is led by Dr Zoe Harris and Dr Gbemi Oluleye.


With the exception of brief volatility caused by Tether (USDT), Bitcoin has made a name for itself as a stable asset in recent months – what could shift the status quo?
As 2018 rolls on, investors are eyeing multiple possible catalysts that could send prices soaring across cryptocurrency markets.
The desire is real; since mid-September, Bitcoin 00 managed to beat Nasdaq's volatility record to form an unusually safe haven.
Leading the way are institutional traders, their accompanying billions of dollars and an increasingly formalized stance on the industry from US regulators.
It's not secret that the long-awaited opening up of crypto to Wall Street is about to go live. While investors had a taste of the effect last December with the first Bitcoin futures contracts, few major products have hit the market in the meantime.
Now, Intercontinental Exchange looks set to kick off a domino effect of Bitcoin investment products, confirming plans to launch its Bakkt physical Bitcoin futures December 12 (subject to getting the nod from regulators).
In the offing are also competitors Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup, all of which claim to be responding to customer demand for crypto.
Fidelity Investments, announcing its own entry this month, focused on solving the issue of regulated custody, an achievement Galaxy Digital's Mike Novogratz has publicly acclaimed.
Despite the round of rejections Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) received from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August, the matter is far from settled.
A mediation process continued this week after applicants met with the regulator to discuss concerns – and in the case of VanEck, explain that these were no longer areas of contention in their offering.
A green light for ETFs to begin trading would spark a price increase, commentators have long claimed, but such an eventuality is only expected next year at the earliest.
Beyond speculative market activity, the underlying health of Bitcoin has only increased during its lengthy price climbdown from last December's all-time highs amid a record high network hashrate, which market analyst Max Keiser says is followed by price.
Dedicated research on the topic has concluded that while there remains some room for more downside in the short term, the network is ready to sustain a U-turn.
It's sentiment shared by analysts such as Tom Lee, who this week suggested it was unlikely that prices would fall below a "floor" of $6000.
"Where can the surprise take place? I know a lot of people think Bitcoin's price will collapse to $3000," he told Bloomberg.
What do you think about factors to make Bitcoin hit new highs? Let us know in the comments below!
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When you copy a formula, Excel adjusts the formula's cell references when you paste it to a different location.
earlier — but this isn't always desirable.
1. Select cell A1 and press F2 to activate edit mode.
Or you can drag the mouse to select the entire formula.
for formulas that are a single line.
3. Choose Home ⇒ Clipboard ⇒ Copy (or press Ctrl+C).
This copies the selected text to the Clipboard.
4. Press Esc to end edit mode.
6. Press F2, for edit mode.
7. Choose Home ⇒ Clipboard ⇒ Paste (or press Ctrl+V), followed by Enter.
This operation pastes an exact copy of the formula text into cell A2.
the available techniques to copy the selection to the Clipboard. You can then paste the text to another cell.
them to a new cell. This is because you copy the formulas as text, not as actual formulas.
Another technique for making an exact copy of a formula is to edit the formula and remove its initial equal sign.
formula and the copied formula by inserting the initial equal sign.
convert them to values. You can use the Home ⇒ Clipboard ⇒ Paste ⇒ Values command to do this.
2. Choose Home ⇒ Clipboard ⇒ Copy (or press Ctrl+C).
3. Choose Home ⇒ Clipboard ⇒ Paste ⇒ Values (V).


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Dubai's DP world seeks to transform trade in Africa
By Albert Nangara on November 27, 2022 Industry and Trade
DP World Luanda offers customers the use of a new digital tool for monitoring and managing the cargo sent to the Multiusos Terminal. Named Cargoes Flow, it was developed by the technological team of the DP World Group and allows you to monitor the shipment and arrival of orders in real time. At the same time, it allows customers to manage delays and the expectations of suppliers to whom the cargo is intended and, consequently, minimize the resulting financial losses. [Photo/ Ver Angola]
Africa's trading environment and infrastructure are modernising as fast as the opportunities are presenting themselves.
DP World seeks to transform trade in Africa partly through investing heavily in the digital infrastructure to help Africa keep up with demand.
DP World also rolled in tools to reduce container vessel waiting times at some ports from five days to a matter of hours, which is particularly valuable for traders of perishable goods, and those taking advantage of the enormous e-commerce market in Africa
Have you ever asked yourself "why is Africa important to the world?"
Africa is important because the continent is rich in natural resources ranging from arable land, water, oil, natural gas, minerals, forests and wildlife. The continent also holds a huge proportion of the world's natural resources, both renewables and non-renewables. But that is not the only reasons, the continent is important today because of its contribution to global trade leveraging on the resources she has.
But African trade is nothing new. Let us look at the short history of African trade. According to an article by African Business published on October 1, 2021, the very earliest evidence of African trade is described by Herodotus (c. 484-425BC) who wrote of the trade across the Sahara; a trade recorded in rock paintings dating from 10,000BC.
The rock paintings represent mules and horse-drawn wheeled carts that show that salt, ivory, animal skins and slaves were the major items traded northwards while manufactured goods such as pottery, glass and metalwork were traded southwards.
A trade caravan traveling in Africa. Ghana played an important role in early trans-Sahara trade. [Photo/ Newsela]
Further, the introduction of the technology that allowed humanity to move en-masse – from hunter-gatherer nomadic societies to a settled, agrarian lifestyle – was the adoption of the plough, first to north-east Africa (probably from near-east Asia) that also stimulated trade as surplus harvests were bartered.
Agriculture also boomed along the Nile Valley. Though often overshadowed by its Egyptian neighbours to the north, the Kingdom of Kush, just north of Khartoum stood as a regional power in Africa for over a thousand years. The Nubian empire reached its peak in the second millennium BC, when it ruled over a vast swathe of territory along the Nile River in what is now Sudan, building more than 200 pyramids.
The pre-colonial era saw a number of powerful civilizations rise and fall in Africa, from Carthage in the north to Great Zimbabwe in the south, and in West Africa the Songhai, Ghana and Mali empires.
Today Africa is famed for exporting its rich minerals across the world, population growth and rising per capita incomes also making Africa a potential for imports.
But Africa's trading environment and infrastructure are modernising as fast as the opportunities are presenting themselves according to DP World. Dubai's DP world seeks to transform trade in Africa.
This includes inter-bank operability programmes and truck booking platforms, which have seen a reduction in vast cash payments at ports, better scheduling, and availability of inland transport providers.
The company also introduced CARGOES to the region, with an aim to bring greater value to customers and governments. With CARGOES, traders can also access essential information regarding bookings for their freight. In a few simple steps, they can see how long it will take a product to travel from the factory floor to the customer's door – and what the cost will be. This enables everyone along the supply chain to book and pay safely to transport their goods – all from their phone.
Operating digitally is not just beneficial for traders – it also alleviates the pressure on regulators. Digital platforms, like CARGOES Customs, provide visibility, meaning customs officials can immediately see what is being transported, where it has come from, where it has stopped along the way, and the end destination. They can see if all the necessary documentation has been completed and if the relevant import and customs duties have been paid. These factors speed up the import and export process, reducing potential bottlenecks and delays at borders.
Previously cargo tracking, invoicing, payments, and vehicle booking would take weeks. The varied terrain and diverse travel and weather conditions in Africa, create an unreliability in the transportation industry, owing to the high probability of unforeseen conditions. Even when the packaging and drops are conducted on schedule, the transportation industry is often challenged by delays.
Traffic congestions, multiple checkpoints, and toll stations add to the woes. This translates into the Logistics companies losing out on a lot of time and money. In a nutshell, even after taking into consideration extra delays, more unforeseen delays cannot be ruled out.
Another major challenge is storage. The unfortunate plight of pitiable warehousing facilities in Africa is no secret. Cargos incur immense damage owing to pest-infested warehouses, damage due to leakages, lack of proper storage space, and much more. This is most predominant in case of low margin goods and cargo. Also, the Governments use the big warehouses to store grains, leaving very little space for cargo storage.
Read: DP World expands its logistics and supply chain offering in Africa
DP World also rolled in tools to enable enterprises to collaborate with local customs and banking institutions to roll out immediate payments to customers and introduce tracking services for trucking companies. This reduces container vessel waiting times at some ports from five days to a matter of hours, which is particularly valuable for traders of perishable goods, and those taking advantage of the enormous e-commerce market in Africa (which is projected to reach revenues of US$43 billion this year).
E-commerce revenue in Africa in 2017 to 2025(in million U.S. dollars). [Photo/ Statista]
With smartphones and internet technologies becoming increasingly accessible in Africa, the continent has become a lucrative market for the e-commerce industry.
During 2020, the revenue generated by online shopping in Africa was estimated to be around US$27.97 billion, an increase of over US$6 billion since 2019.
In 2022, the African e-commerce industry is predicted to produce US$33.3 billion in revenue, following an increase of 19 per cent. Next year, the industry will grow by 14.7 per cent to US$ 38.2 billion. According to estimates made by Statista, the e-commerce revenue in Africa will keep increasing between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, the whole e-commerce sector in Africa might reach a value of over US$46.1 billion.
Africa is shaping up to be the next hotbed for internet-based businesses and DP World sees that. As smartphones and the internet become more prevalent in African countries, the population has started to shift towards online shopping.
Read: Dubai's DP World further extends its footprint in Africa
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Albert Nangara
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require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper')

describe Constellation::UserInterface do

  before(:each) do
    @message    = "Hi!"
    Constellation::UserInterface.unmute!
  end

  describe ".mute!" do
    it "should set @@muted to true" do
      Constellation::UserInterface.__send__("class_variable_set", "@@muted", false)
      Constellation::UserInterface.mute!
      Constellation::UserInterface.__send__("class_variable_get", "@@muted").should be_true
    end
  end

  describe ".unmute!" do
    it "should set @@muted to false" do
      Constellation::UserInterface.__send__("class_variable_set", "@@muted", true)
      Constellation::UserInterface.unmute!
      Constellation::UserInterface.__send__("class_variable_get", "@@muted").should be_false
    end
  end

  describe ".inform" do
    it "should print a not colored message" do
      Constellation::UserInterface.should_receive(:put).with(@message, nil, {})
      Constellation::UserInterface.inform(@message)
    end
  end

  describe ".confirm" do
    it "should print a green message" do
      Constellation::UserInterface.should_receive(:put).with(@message, :green, {})
      Constellation::UserInterface.confirm(@message)
    end
  end

  describe ".warn" do
    it "should print a yellow message" do
      Constellation::UserInterface.should_receive(:put).with(@message, :yellow, {})
      Constellation::UserInterface.warn(@message)
    end
  end

  describe ".error" do
    it "should print a red message" do
      Constellation::UserInterface.should_receive(:put).with(@message, :red, {})
      Constellation::UserInterface.error(@message)
    end
  end

  describe ".put" do
    before(:each) do
      @thor_shell = Constellation::UserInterface.__send__("class_variable_get", "@@shell")
    end

    context "given the UI is muted" do
      before(:each) do
        Constellation::UserInterface.mute!
      end

      it "should not put anything" do
        @thor_shell.should_not_receive(:say)
        Constellation::UserInterface.put(@message, nil, :prepend_newline => true)
      end
    end

    context "given the UI is not muted" do
      before(:each) do
        Constellation::UserInterface.unmute!
      end

      context "given a newline should get prepended" do
        it "should put two messages" do
          @thor_shell.should_receive(:say).twice
          Constellation::UserInterface.put(@message, nil, :prepend_newline => true)
        end
      end

      context "given a newline should not get prepended" do
        it "should put one message" do
          @thor_shell.should_receive(:say).once
          Constellation::UserInterface.put(@message, nil, :prepend_newline => false)
        end
      end
    end
  end

end


"I had to reinvent myself."
"I can do this" is on the lips and in the mind of every successful man and woman who launches a business. Some take the experience of working for others for years and start up in the same field. Some bravely adopt the phrase after suffering the trauma of job loss. Others simply decide that the time is finally right to follow their dream, not just find a job.
Northwest Indiana is full of successful small business people whose faith in themselves and work ethic pay dividends in economic self-sufficiency and personal gratification. We salute some here.
People told him he was crazy when he opened a fine dining restaurant in a strip mall in the heart of Portage, a city known more for its steel mills than pepper mills. But Ted Zych decided to trust his crazy ideas and opened his popular 50-seat eatery in July 2009.
It offers a locally grown, seasonal menu that features free-range chickens, bison, line-caught fish, grass-fed beef and as much organic food as possible while still keeping the pricing affordable. "Good, healthy food is not a fad," he says.
The strip-mall rent was reasonable and the building had a kitchen from a former tenant, so although Ted and his wife Jennifer (a 50-50 owner) spent everything they had, they didn't have to go into debt.
He found another construction job, but also enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Chicago, traveling three hours five nights a week for classes. He graduated at the top of his class and earned the President's Award.
A short unpaid externship was required by the program and Zych arranged his with Nicole Bissonnette, chef and owner of Bistro 157 in Valparaiso. He was then hired on and learned how the restaurant and catering business was run.
In business only a year and only 33, Zych is already talking expansion. "My goal is in the next few years to open a second and third restaurant," he says, with St. John the second location in 2011. He's also mulling over whether to expand Abstract Cafe into adjoining space.
Five years ago, Tracy Freeze moved her successful medical-practice management company from Michigan to Burns Harbor, then moved it again to Chesterton in 2009. She has been on the move in many ways since she began managing a psychiatrist's office in Traverse City, Mich., in 1993.
When she needed to leave that job in 1995 to move to southwest Michigan due to her husband's job, she was asked a question that changed her life. Would she keep on working on a consultant basis? Yes! Her desk and file cabinet went with her.
She still has that first client—and that desk. But thanks to hard work and the growing trend toward outsourcing she now serves 31 medical professionals in six states, handling their reimbursement, financial and office management needs with four full-time and two part-time employees. Distance is not a problem. She's had a client in Florida for two years that she's never met in person.
Always striving to make the physicians' practices more efficient, Freeze developed a program called Pay My Provider, allowing patients to pay their bills online 24/7 to keep the cash flowing.
Her husband, Jeffrey, has been involved in the business part-time from the start, while making his own career changes, first as an investment advisor, then in the automotive industry where his job evaporated with 24 hours' notice in 2009. The time was right for him to come onboard full-time and he runs the day-to-day business as vice president of operations.
For eight years, Hector Cornejo made the daily commute from Merrillville to his job on the north side of Chicago, working for a granite company. When his "I can do this" moment came in 1996, he decided to set up a one-man operation in his garage and became the first marble and granite business in the area.
"You have to work hard at something you love," he says. "If you work at it, the rewards will come." In October 2009 he celebrated the grand opening of his new 20,000-square-foot building on U.S. 30. It's not only a very tangible sign of his success, but its high visibility has attracted even more business.
Starting out, Cornejo did everything, from fabricating to cutting to installing. He didn't have the money to buy all the tools his workers use today, but he made do. A year later he built a 1,000-square-foot pole barn on his property to expand his work area, had two employees, and his wife, Gloria, joined the business to do the accounting and billing.
He taught her how to handle the pricing for bids and she remains in charge of these areas today as vice president. Growth meant a move to an existing building on U.S. 30 in a shop five times larger and the decision was made to focus on wholesale business, now 80 percent of sales.
While new housing construction is down, remodeling of existing homes is up, says Cornejo, which enables Momax to maintain 24 employees and keep his four crews busy with installations. He estimates sales this year will be $3 million.
The company earned the 2009 Best of Merrillville Award from the U.S. Commerce Association, which recognizes outstanding local businesses around the country.
Sometimes ideas need to percolate for decades before they begin to pick up steam through the right partnerships, technology and timing. The Land of PurFUNple, a 3D online video game for youngsters ages 5 to 9, is the result of 20-plus years of percolation.
It's the first product of newly formed Click Bug Studios in Valparaiso. The company has four principals: Cindi Blandford, president; Ray Shingler, director of product development/operations; John Carpenter, director of media; and Joe Ubben, director of sales and marketing.
Blandford and Shingler work full-time out of their homes; Carpenter and Ubben are part-timers while working other jobs. Carpenter owns a recording studio in Hammond and writes and performs the music for the site, www.purfunple.com.
The full-court press to get the product to market began earlier this year when Shingler, 50, was laid off from his job designing Web sites for Fortune 500 clients at a Chicago firm. "I had to reinvent myself," he says.
He also reinvented a video game he worked on years ago, one that was based on a bedtime story his old friend Blandford wrote to teach her children about tolerance and prejudice. It became a 3D experience.
It takes place in a land where the pig prince, Pigston, decrees that all things must be purple, and the heroine, Penelope, resists. "Finally the delivery platform and the Web and broadband access and what kids want to do online created this perfect storm," he says.
The immediate focus is raising $250,000 in seed money to get the microsite up by October, let kids hang out for free and let it spread organically while capturing data on its use and growth to lure an additional $700,000 from investors to roll out a commercial site for subscribers.
Click Bug Studios is the first Indiana production studio developing a virtual world for kids online, Shingler says. In fact, it's the only 3D game aimed at the age group. A key player in the kids' market is Club Penguin (in 2D), which was acquired by Disney in 2007 for $700 million. Looking at that number, it's easy to see why the company's goal is a potential movie deal or an acquisition once PurFUNple reaches 250,000 users.
The word "service" is often found in retailer's ads, but nowadays shoppers tend to find it wanting. L.R. Men's Clothier & Tuxedos surprises.
When was the last time a clothing store kept your size and preferences on a card for reference, delivered to your office, or let you take a few shirts home to see which one matched your wife's outfit?
L.R. aims to stand out in the service department, but also wants to differentiate itself from the mall stores in merchandise.
Born and raised in LaPorte, VanSchoyck remembers when there were four or five men's stores in town. Now there's only L.R. Her knack for retailing and pleasing the customer developed while working at Droege's in LaPorte, a local institution for 75 years.
She worked there for 13 years before it announced it would close in December 2006. "I was at a crossroads," she says. But almost overnight, after hearing that a chain tuxedo store might locate in the area, she decided to seek financing to start her own men's store with tux shop. She knew LaPorte couldn't support two.
VanSchoyck used to say, "Oh yeah," when she heard people say, "Find your passion and you'll be happy." Now she knows what they're talking about.


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Google Expands Chat Capacity
By: Nicholas Kolakowski | March 04, 2009
Google continues to make internal inroads with its chat application, expanding it from Gmail to iGoogle. As the enterprise becomes more decentralized, with people working from multiple locations on common projects, solutions such as chat are becoming a more vital aspect of workday life - and many IT companies' overall strategy.
Google announced on its official blog that it was expanding its instant-messaging system from Gmail to iGoogle, which allows users to create customizable start pages.
iGoogle is Google's competitor to services, such as Yahoo's My Yahoo, that also allow start-page personalization.
Users will be able to chat with those who don't have a Gmail address, provided they invite the non-Gmailer as a chat buddy, and the non-Gmailer signs up for iGoogle. With more people on its subscriber rolls, of course, Google broaden the number of eyes for its targeted advertising.
As with many newly introduced Google features, the company is still working out the latest kinks to this newest addition.
"We ask for your patience as we work through them," Rhett Robinson, a Google Talk Engineer, wrote on a company blog site. "Here at Google, it's common practice for us to involve our users as early possible so we can make sure we get it right."
Google's instant messaging system was the recent target of phishers looking to trick users into giving up information. TinyURL eventually blacklisted the phishing Web site, called ViddyHo, that was asking users to input their Gmail usernames and passwords.
Expanding Google's chat capability into new realms allows the company to offer a more powerful messaging and collaboration tool, which is a useful feature for the enterprise. Most recently, Gmail extended its communications-tool reach by allowing users to send text messages from their accounts to a contact's mobile device.
IT companies such as Dell have also been experimenting - with varying degrees of success - with using Twitter as an enterprise-based messaging-and-collaboration tool.
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As part of their second semester curriculum after Confirmation, eighth grade religious education students participated in the Poverty Project, which is designed to give them a greater understanding and empathy for individuals in this country and around the world who struggle to provide even the basic necessities of housing and food for their families. The culmination of the project is the Hunger Banquet which was held on April 9, the last class of the 2013/2014 religious education year. Before the banquet, students were randomly issued meal tickets. Some tickets were for a fine restaurant-quality experience including a multi-course meal, linen tablecloth, flowers, and a wait staff. Other students were served a cafeteria-style meal with that style food, plastic cutlery/dishes and placemats. The last unfortunate group received only bread and water and had to sit on the floor to eat. This evening hopefully impressed upon the students the disparity of resources and experiences around the world. The students also received their Confirmation certificates and a blessing from their catechists at the end of the event. Below are pictures from the banquet.


The mission of the Tissue Analysis Core is the development, optimization and application of cutting-edge imaging assays for the analysis of human and nonhuman primate (NHP) tissues in support of VRC goals.
A comprehensive tissue analysis requires the application of complementary technologies allowing for the characterization of phenotype, localization, function and molecular signatures of cells under investigation. Merging cutting-edge technologies like multidimensional imaging, multiparameter flow cytometry and deep sequencing allows for the generation of "imaging signatures" that could provide information about viral persistence in specific tissue areas-sanctuaries and assist in the discovery of biomarkers for disease progression and interventional strategies with specific immunotherapies and vaccines.
live imaging and v) TIRF microscopy (C).
Several analytical tools (Imaris, Voloom, Histo-cytometry platform and in house developed algorithms) are used for the quantitative analysis of the obtained imaging objects.
Dr. Petrovas has been working in the field of HIV/SIV pathogenesis for more than 15 years. He obtained his Ph.D. in immunology studying anti-phospholipid antibodies in autoimmunity and HIV at the School of Medicine, National University of Athens, Greece. He pursued post-doctoral work at the Department of Biochemistry, Boston University and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University before he joined the Immunology Laboratory at VRC in 2005. His previous work focused on the mechanisms mediating the "exhaustion" of SIV/HIV- specific CD8 T cells and he was the first to describe PD-1 as a mediator of SIV/HIV-specific CD8 T cell survival. More recently, his research has been focused on the dynamics of CD4 and CD8 T cells at tissue level and particularly in the lymph node follicles in HIV and SIV infection. His work was the first to describe the phenotype, localization, molecular profile and dynamics of Tfh CD4 T cells in acute and chronic SIV infection. Currently, he is characterizing the dynamics of tissue immune cells in HIV/SIV and cancer and developing tools to understand the interplay between inflammation, adaptive immunity and tissue antigens.
Eirini Moysi, Suresh Pallikkuth, Leslie R De Armas, Louis E Gonzalez, David Ambrozak, Varghese George, Rajendra Pahwa, David Huddleston, Richard A. Koup, Constantinos Petrovas and Savita Pahwa, "Multidimensional single cell imaging analysis reveals the impact of follicular dynamics in vaccine-specific B-cell responses in HIV cART donors", Journal of Clinical Investigation (in press) (co-senior author).
S. Ferrando-Martinez, E. Moysi, A. Pegu, S. Andrews, D. Ambrozak, A.B. McDermott, M. Paiardini, G.N. Pavlakis, J Brenchley, J.R. Mascola, Constantinos Petrovas and R.A. Koup "Accumulation of follicular CD8+ T cells in pathogenic SIV infection", Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2018 Apr 16. (co-senior author).
Jacob D. Estes, Roger LeGrand, Constantinos Petrovas, "Visualizing the Immune System: Providing Key Insights into HIV/SIV Infections", Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 Mar 2;9:423.
Donato Amodio, Giulia Macchiarulo, Salvatore Rocca, Nicola Cotugno, Paolo Rossi, Richard Koup, Paolo Palma and Costantinos Petrovas, "Quantitative Multiplexed Imaging Analysis Reveals a Strong Association between Immunogen-Specific B Cell Responses and Tonsillar Germinal Center Immune Dynamics in Children after Influenza Vaccination." Journal of Immunology, 2017 Dec 13.
Constantinos Petrovas, Sara Ferrando-Martinez, Michael Y Gerner, Joseph P Casazza, Amarendra Pegu, Arik Cooper, Jason Hataye, Sarah Andrews, David Ambrozak, Perla M Del Río Estrada, Eli Boritz, Robert Paris, Eirini Moysi, Kristin L Boswell, Ezequiel Ruiz-Mateos, Ilias Vagios, Manuel Leal, Yuria Ablanedo-Terrazas, Amaranta Rivero, Luz Alicia Gonzalez-Hernandez, Adrian B McDermott, Gustavo Reyes-Teran, Fernando Docobo, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Daniel C Douek, Michael R Betts, Ronald N Germain, John R Mascola and Richard A Koup "Follicular CD8 T cells accumulate in HIV infection and can kill infected cells in vitro via bispecific antibodies." Science Translational Medicine, 2017 Jan 18;9(373).


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Padres To Restart Contract Talks With Maybin
By Zach Links | December 24, 2011 at 10:21pm CDT
The Padres will restart contract extension talks with Cameron Maybin in January, two sources told Dan Hayes of the North County Times. GM Josh Byrnes and representatives for the 24-year-old recently had a "broad" discussion about a deal for Maybin, but no offer was made according to a source.
Back in September, the Padres and the center fielder seemed to have mutual interest in working out an extension. Maybin enjoyed a breakout year in 2011, hitting .264/.323/.393 with nine homers in 568 plate appearances. In the youngster's first 100+ game season, he posted a UZR/150 of 11.6 in center field.
Maybin is on track for arbitration eligibility after the 2012 season and free agency after the 2015 season. It's difficult to find a strong comparable for Maybin but Ben Nicholson-Smith has suggested that Jose Tabata might be the best point of reference currently available. Tabata's deal with the Pirates will pay him $11.5MM for his three remaining years of arbitration eligibility.
Cameron Maybin San Diego Padres
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TDKnies
Doesn't look like he'll ever hit anywhere near what people were hoping for back when he was a hyped prospect (that speaks mostly towards the high expectations), but with D like that he's still a very valuable player as long as his hitting can stay in line with what he did last year.
That .294/.349/.457 away line last year would look nice in CF for any team in MLB
johnnycomelately9
Possibly but for sure the 40 sb would.
whats a contact extension?
vtadave
That's called a "typo". Lighten up. Pretty sure you knew what he meant.
in that case someone should tell whoever wrote this that spell check is a writer's best friend
ilikeike29
spell check wouldn't change that…
InLeylandWeTrust
"Contact" is still a word, so it wouldn't catch that. You lose.
elscorcho the marlin
If you want to get picky, you should have written "'what's' a contact extension?". How does that grab you?
What's not what's' and no period after quotations.
southpawryno
You need the period at the end, the words within the quotations are not part of the sentence, only a phrase, so the question mark does not signal the end of the sentence. So you do need the period (which is outside the quotations).
I believe that is incorrect. It should end in the quotation because it is at the end of the sentence and is dictated inside the quotations.
jigokusabre
You're going to complain about proper spelling and not even bother to capitalize the first word of your sentence? Fail.
Michael Yu
Maybin: "I'll stay with the Friars for $2 million/ 7 years, if you guys just promise to bring in the fences next year."
Moorad: "LOL HELL NO"
Garfinkel: "By the way, don't call us the Friars."
nats2012
I like Maybin, good move for the Padres if they get it done.
padresfuture
Yes, CF is a very important position at Petco Park. Maybin has a chance to be a very good starting CF for years to come.
He does, I think he has all star talent, and he is made for CF in that park. He fits in nicely with that great minor league system you guys got.
AmericanMovieFan
I don't get this…. He's good enough to keep a roster spot but not good enough to make any real money- why's he in a rush? Why not be patient and see if he develops more. Right now I don't really see him completing a deal for more than 4 years/$16MM. Now, while that would make him very comfortable financially, I bet he'd miss out on $10-15MM or more (much more) if he actually developed into a top tier prospect the way he was predicted to a few years ago. Anyway, if I was Maybin I wouldn't do it.
Mario Saavedra
What if his bat never develops? What if his D goes down? 16MM sure is a lot more than nothing. That's the discount one takes in order to get security.
Fred_G_Sanford
i would test him…
if he accepts the contract extension that means he doesnt have any faith that he will turn out to be anything more than a girly man baseball player so i would trade him to another team.
if he turns down the contract extension that means he knows he is going to get better
are you suggesting that A Gone didn't have faith in his skills when he was signed to a home discount contract and we were able to keep him in a Padres uniform for 16M/4 years?
Maybin is not Adrian but he fits Petco playing style. I would love to see him sign for 4 or 5 years with the Pads.
johnsilver
It's not like they don't already have someone in the system who is exactly like him at high A ball already who could take his place and not take a millions of dollar gamble on someone who has yet to fulfill any expectations yet with the bat.
Raymond Fuentes is only 20 years old, probably a couple of years away and they can well afford to go year to year if they want before risking 10m plus on this guy.. That would be a huge crap shoot. especially after watched him and his lost approach at the plate he had with the Fish eery chance they gave him.
A prime candidate for sophomore jinx with the Padres IMO.
SanDiego got a lot of people back in that Gonzalez deal who should pay dividends, fuentes may be the furthest away at High A ball but he is a legit CF with excellent speed and a good glove. Boston didn't take him in the 1st round back in '09 for nothing.
Dynasty22
I'm not sure how four players, now 3, is a lot. Not to mention one doesn't have a place to play, one is in high A+ and one seems to just be overrated.
16 million dollars over 4 years would mean he'd need to be less than a one WAR player, which is very easy to do
jmag043
His stats don't really warrant big salaries in arbitration. Why waste money locking him up when there's a good chance he could regress offensively?
sdsuphilip
because there is a much better chance he improves even more and becomes more expensive
Maybe they should sign his cousin, Aaron Maybin.
"Maybin enjoyed a breakout year in 2011, hitting .264/.323/.393 with nine homers in 568 plate appearances."
Could have fooled me.
Petco is ridiculous Maybin had a .357 road wOBA, and a .291 Home wOBA.
what is joba's woba?
Not sure that second tier AL relievers have a Weighted On Base Average
bigpat
Not sure he was being serious…
Yeah a 24 year old that put up a 294/349/457/806 line away from petco while stealing 40 bases and playing amazing defense not much….
muskyfish
Lock the kid up….. even if his bat fails to develop further, so what? His defense and ability to shred the base paths are exactly the sort of playmaking ability you want once SD's stockpiling of prospects start to pay off. Plus, even with some minor improvement, you are talking about a guy who adds 12-15 HRs to his other attributes. Not bad for a kid in his mid-20s, playing half his games in that park, as a plus-defensive CF.
James Scheuerman
Make him rich! Love that guy. He's good peoples.
Beersy
I know there is no loyalty in sports, but Maybin should at least sign one team friendly/setting him up for life contract before he leaves San Diego for greener pastures. He never seemed to be given a fair shake in Florida and San Diego right from the start said he was their guy. His skill set fit Petco perfectly and I wish the Padres had another one of him to play in right.
And to answer the question of why the Padres would want to sign Maybin long term, instead of going year to year? It is because they need to show their youngsters that the Padres don't just want to be a stepping stone for the big spenders in the League. They need to show that they are willing to build and keep a winner on the field and from what I saw last year, Maybin is a good kid and will grow into a leader for all the kids coming up in the near future.
Joe Gorski
.264 and nine homeruns is a breakout year? LOL Guy is a bust plain and simple. Nothing but a fourth outfielder on any other team
Nothing but a .290 hitter with 15-20 homeruns, 100 runs scored, 70 RBI and GG defense on any other team. Just my opinion.
briankoke
So many dumb comments I don't even know where to start.
Look at what he did away from the hardest hitters park in baseball.
Look at his defense.
Lock this kid up ASAP.
Well, most people look at a player and judge him by hastily looking at simple statistics (like his average and homeruns) and make the assumption that he can't hit, without taking into account his home ball park, room for growth offensively because of his age, or any sabrmetrics. They're just retarded people you can't argue with.
Personally, even as a Diamondbacks fan, I think Maybin could easily be the face of the padres franchise for years.
Amish_willy
I've been saying it for a while now (guess since May 1st) that Maybin is the perfect CF for Petco, and the best one they've had since they opened their park. No knock on Dave Roberts or Mike Cameron, but both of them were vet's on the latter portion of their careers when they arrived.
Petco REALLY REALLY sucks when it comes to looking at Padres offensive stats. That said there are a couple players that have raked in Petco, at a tune far better then what they did on the road. Nick Hundley and Scott Hairston statistically loved hitting at Petco. The park factor for RH in the homerun dept is 95, and both those guys are dead-pull types. Maybin likes to go to center so he's not going to exploit the home park like those others. By far the most fun player to watch on the team at this point. Others have their moments, but even when Maybin isn't hot with the bat, he's usually making a play that will get you yelling, due to the uncontrolable excitement. He looks like a fuq'n gazelle out there.
A five year deal would lock up his 20's, tack on a club friendly option and we could be in business. Curious what his peak year for the Padres could look like… 40 2b's, 12 3b's, 15 hr's, 50 sb??? 5/22-24m with a 10m option, think that would be a win-win. We get two years of FA control, Maybin gets a lot of money still four years from free agency and after his first full season.
Great news. I would call the Padres FO a bunch of blind mules if they did not try to work something out with Maybin. Something about people that are always happy and smiling, think they make the better investments in a number of ways.


I love when I speak with colleagues who walk their talk. I met my new friend and colleague, British networking expert Andy Lopata at (where else?)….a networking event!:) Back in December at the Global Speakers Summit's opening reception we grabbed a few quiet minutes to gab about how introverts can effectively navigate these types of meet and greets. Andy is a business networking guru with a giving mindset. He gave me the stage and didn't make the discussion about him (one of the first rules of effective networking).
Take a look at our short dialogue here.
He is simply passionate about the benefits of networking and shares many tools though his website and speaking, training and coaching programs.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Andy Lopata, introvert, jennifer kahnweiler, the introverted networker on February 9, 2014 by Jennifer Kahnweiler.


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Tahoe Resources' Former Security Manager Turns Fugitive
December 1, 2015 / tahoetrial
(Guatemala City/Ottawa/Tatamagouche) On Monday, plaintiffs in the criminal case against Tahoe Resources' former security manager, Alberto Rotondo, were informed that he had escaped police custody. Rotondo is accused of having ordered private security guards to attack peaceful protestors outside the Escobal mine in southeastern Guatemala on April 27, 2013, wounding seven men.
"This demonstrates that the Guatemalan justice system, especially the National Civil Police, still suffers from high levels of corruption and influence peddling. The police failed to implement the judge's order to ensure constant police supervision of Rotondo, now turned fugitive," remarked Rafael Maldonado, Director of the Center for Environmental, Social and Legal Action (CALAS).
"The Public Prosecutor, however, acted professionally, immediately calling for the international capture of Tahoe Resources' ex-security manager."
Rotondo, an ex-military officer from Peru, was arrested on April 30, 2013 at Guatemala's international airport while attempting to flee the country, but was granted house arrest. He was indicted on charges of causing serious and minor bodily harm to four of the seven men injured in the attack, as well as for obstruction of justice; crimes that could lead to up to 28 years in prison. The trial is set to begin January 20, 2016.
During the last two and a half years, the Public Prosecutor has twice appealed the decision to grant Rotondo house arrest, finally winning the appeal in October 2015. The decision was in process late last week when the judge requested to see Rotondo and found him missing. This was reported to CALAS on Monday.
"Rotondo's escape puts justice further out of reach for these seven men, coming as it does on the heels of the British Columbia Supreme Court's decision to decline jurisdiction over a civil lawsuit that these same men filed against Tahoe Resources for its role in the April 2013 violence," comments Jen Moore for MiningWatch Canada.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Laura Gerow ruled that the case against Tahoe Resources should be heard in Guatemala, saying it would be inconvenient to hear the case in Canada.
"Justice Gerow ignored the fact that Tahoe Resources' management has failed to show up to court in Guatemala when summoned for another legal case, just one indication of the tremendous power imbalances these men are up against in trying to sue a transnational corporation," states Jackie McVicar for the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network.
Since receiving its exploration license in 2011 without the consent of the local community, Tahoe Resources' Escobal mine has been mired in conflict, and subsequent judicial proceedings. Over 50,000 people have voted against the mine's operations and its expansion in the area. In response to peaceful protest, the company and the Guatemalan government have used repression, criminalization, and militarization to try to silence peaceful resistance to mining activities in the area, including the violent attack in April 2013, for which Rotondo is accused.
Jen Moore, Latin America Program Coordinator, jen(at)miningwatch.ca, (613) 569-3439
Jackie McVicar, Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network, btsguatemala(at)gmail.com (902) 324-2584
Megan Whelan, Network in Solidarity with the Peoples of Guatemala (NISGUA), (510) 763-1403, megan(at)nisgua.org
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