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Survival Story: How One COVID-19 Long Hauler Works to Increase COVID Vaccinations in Black Communities
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(WIB) – Antoinette Patterson didn't think boarding a plane on February 29, 2020, would impact her life the way that it did. She couldn't have imagined she would face the fight of her life after her plane landed safely on the ground.
Now, two years and a global pandemic later, she's telling her story.
"I am a COVID survivor. I am a COVID long hauler — but I am here because of God's goodness, his grace, and his mercy," Patterson recently told listeners at a vaccine clinic in Baton Rouge, La. "My COVID story began around March 8, 2020. I was one of the very first in the country, and one of the first in Louisiana, to be diagnosed with COVID-19."
Patterson shared that while COVID did cross her mind during that time, the virus did not seem to be of concern. Upon returning to Louisiana, Patterson experienced fatigue and a fever and made the decision to visit an urgent care clinic. There, she requested a COVID test — but tests weren't widely available in the United States. It wasn't until 13 days later that Patterson was tested for COVID.
"I am one of those people that had a positive COVID diagnosis for over 3 weeks," said Patterson. "While I had COVID, I began to experience many different illnesses. COVID attacked my heart, and it also attacked my mind."
Patterson said she could literally feel the virus moving through her body as it attacked her organs.
"The biggest part was my heart was malfunctioning. I was put on a heart monitor," she said. "I had to be monitored by telephone by my cardiologist. At any moment, I could into heart failure. They did not know what was going on with my heart. My heart palpitated so quickly that even touching my chest was very sensitive. I passed out twice and almost died."
The road to recovery was both a physical and a spiritual battle for Patterson, who credits much of her healing to her faith in God.
"I don't want anyone to take COVID lightly because I not only had COVID, but I also became a COVID long hauler. Every day from March 8, 2020, to January 30, 2021, I was sick," said Patterson. "My prayer began to be 'God, please don't let me die.' I pushed and I moved on and I did all those things that seem to be normal in the sight of man. But I knew it was the supernatural strength in God that I was still alive because many days I was very very, very ill. It affected my family. It put my family in worry. At the time that I had COVID, there was no vaccine."
Patterson, who has received the vaccine, is now using her testimony to encourage others to also get the shot.
"Some people say COVID isn't that serious. It's okay, you'll have a minor sniffle, you'll just have a cold. That's not true for everyone," she said. "Do not take it lightly. While some only had the sniffles and a headache and fatigue, some people have died that you know, and I know. We want to prevent death, that's why we're here today. We want you to be an advocate for life today. How can you be an advocate for life? Get vaccinated."
COVID vaccines are free and available for those ages 5 and older. To find a vaccine site, search vaccines.gov, text your ZIP code to 438829, or call 1-800-232-0233 to find locations near you.
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NJBIA > Coronavirus > Guidance Offered for Tracking Employees' Time While Working from Home
Guidance Offered for Tracking Employees' Time While Working from Home
Aug25,2020
With telework arrangements expanding in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) today issued Field Assistance Bulletin 2020-5 to clarify an employer's obligation to track the number of hours of compensable work performed by employees who are teleworking or otherwise working away from premises controlled by their employers.
In a telework or remote work arrangement, the question of the employer's obligation to track hours actually worked for which the employee was not scheduled may often arise. While the guidance issued today responds directly to needs created by new telework or remote work arrangements that arose in response to the coronavirus, it also applies to other telework or remote work arrangements.
"Due to the coronavirus pandemic, more Americans are teleworking and working variable schedules than ever before to balance their jobs with a myriad of family obligations, such as remote learning for their children and many others. This has presented unique challenges to employers with regard to how to track work time accurately," said Wage and Hour Division Administrator Cheryl Stanton. "Today's guidance is one more tool the Wage and Hour Division is putting forward to ensure that workers are paid all the wages they have earned, and that employers have all the tools they need as they navigate what may, for many, be uncharted waters of managing remote workers."
Today's guidance reaffirms that an employer is required to pay its employees for all hours worked, including work not requested but allowed and work performed at home. If the employer knows or has reason to believe that an employee is performing work, the time must be counted as hours worked. Confusion over when an employer "has reason to believe that work is being performed," may be exacerbated by the increasing frequency of telework and remote work arrangements since the Department last issued interpretive rules in 1961.
Read Field Assistance Bulletin 2020-5.
The Wage and Hour Division provides additional information on common issues employers and employees face when responding to the coronavirus, such as its effects on wages and hours worked under the Fair Labor Standards Act, paid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, and paid sick and expanded family and medical leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. Learn more about these issues.
For more information about the laws enforced by the Wage and Hour Division, call 866-4US-WAGE, or visit www.dol.gov/agencies/whd. Download WHD's timesheet app.
The mission of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.
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Cyber attacks on drilling control systems can cause enormous harm to people, the environment and equipment. The drilling process cannot simply stop if such an event is detected. Further, it's possible that the response to a cyber attack can even worsen the situation. These guidelines, the only guidance specifically for drilling operations, draws from international standards to provide a means to assess the risk to drilling rigs from cyber attacks. Developed under the auspices of the IADC Cybersecurity Subcommittee.
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b 1974 Prato, Italy. Lives and works in Berlin.
Received her education at several art institutions in Florence and Pistoia, Italy.
From 2002 onwards she has worked as an independent artist.
In her work she explores the human body with the following reasoning; Bardazzi feels that what makes people beautiful is what makes them stand out from others, essentially what makes the unique.


ContentHave You Taken Advantage of this Key Tax Break for 2018?
Section 179 of the IRS tax code allows businesses to deduct the full purchase price of qualifying equipment and software purchased or financed during the tax year. Section 179 isn't a new tax credit, but it changes pretty frequently and can be difficult to keep track of. It was created to encourage small businesses to spend and invest in themselves, and 70 percent of small business owners plan to take advantage of it this year.
This year, the total deduction amount has been increased to $1,000,000 with a total investment limit of $2.5 million. This is double the amount offered last year, and the highest it has ever been. Because Section 179 is adjusted so often, there is no guarantee that these benefits will last. Those planning on making equipment purchases should take full advantage of this tax deduction while it's still available.
For example, a plumber who spent $50,000 on new drain cleaning equipment can use Section 179 to write off the entire purchase price for the current tax year. If he's in the 35 percent tax bracket, he'll get $17,500 back in his pocket. In years past, when he bought qualifying equipment for his business, he could only write it off a little at a time through depreciation.
Tip: Remember, all businesses are unique. Talk to a tax professional or accountant before making any decisions.
Timeframe. In order to qualify for the 2018 Section 179 tax credit, a purchase must be made and put into use between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2018.
Amount of business use. Any purchases made must be used for business purposes over 50 percent of the time. Equipment that is used entirely for business purposes is eligible for a full price deduction. To calculate your deduction for purchases that are also used outside of your business, multiply the original cost by the percentage of business use. For example, the deduction for a $1,000 computer that's used 70 percent for business and 30 percent for personal use would be $700.
Used purchases. Any equipment that's new to the business owner can qualify; this includes used equipment as long as it was purchased from the previous owner in 2018.
Tip: Curious about your potential deduction? Take a look at all of your qualifying business purchases and simply calculate your potential deduction.
When figuring out the best time to purchase new equipment for your business, take its tax implications into consideration. That new drain cable machine you've been eyeing could help decrease your total tax burden, while helping you sustain and grow your business. The purchases you're putting off until next year may make more financial sense this year. Ready to check out some equipment for your plumbing and drain cleaning business? Shop now.


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AI transcription sucks (here's the workaround)
A $60M bet that automation with human oversight is a recipe for near-perfect speech-to-text.
By Greg Nichols for Robotics | December 2, 2020 -- 12:00 GMT (04:00 PST) | Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Verbit gets support for its AI-driven transcript technology
I've searched for a reliable way to autonomously transcribe natural speech for years. I'm a journalist, and I often have hours of taped interviews with sources around the globe to transcribe. For now, I'm still paying for people-powered transcription services.
Speech to text has been a huge challenge for AI developers, and it's a puzzle that's being closely watched in a variety of industries. The technology has implications far beyond quoting sources; human-machine interfaces in fields like robotics, autonomous vehicles, and personal computing will benefit from computers that can accurately interpret natural speech.
Transcription, then, is a kind of technological entry point, a straightforward market need that can help spur development of a technology that will have broad resonance and incalculable implications for how we interact with machines.
"Like nearly every market segment, the education, legal, and media and entertainment industries have had to quickly move to a remote environment," says Jai Das, Managing Director and President at Sapphire Ventures. "As a result, the need for AI-driven, real-time and accurate transcription services has skyrocketed."
The problem is natural contextual speech, along with accents and dialects, has made the quest for AI-driven transcription quixotic to date. So what do you do when there's a ripe market for a technology but the capability just isn't there yet?
Well, you improvise and use the tools at your disposal while pouring money into technology development.
That's the strategy of an innovative transcription and captioning solution called Verbit, which utilizes an in-house, AI-based technology, along with an army of human overseers, to transform live and recorded video and audio into nearly perfect captions and transcripts for the higher education, legal, media, and enterprise industries.
"Verbit combines the speed and low cost of Automatic Speech Recognition technology with the accuracy of human transcription to solve this massive problem for companies and organizations in these markets," says Das, whose venture firm recently led Verbit's $60 million Series C. Total funding for Verbit now tops $100 million.
Verbit's model uses cutting edge transcription technology technology, which filters out background noises and echoes and recognizes things like domain specific terms. The acoustic, linguistic, and contextual data is then thoroughly checked by Verbit's human transcribers, who maintain quality assurance by editing and reviewing the material and incorporating customer-supplied notes, guidelines, and more. I've often been delighted when human transcribers I work with include little contextual notes about spellings and usage in their transcriptions.
I like this strategy a lot. Verbit can tap into a huge need among major enterprise players -- namely, the need for real-time transcription -- with a core technology that's good but not yet perfect. The hybrid human-machine model enables the company to go to market with a high-quality product while continuing to invest in development. Despite dystopian nightmares of robots stealing jobs, that's the way automation is going to infiltrate the enterprise in the foreseeable future: by joining forces with humans rather than displacing them outright.
According to a company statement, Verbit will use this latest investment round to further fuel its significant growth by continuing to innovate its data-driven product capabilities and increase the number of languages it supports.
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if you put linseed oil on steel, and heat it, just like seasoning an iron frying pan, the first couple layers are straw, then it goes a mottled gold/brown before darkening to black.
I would certainly think that smiths figured out thousands of years ago that burning different organic substances onto hot iron caused it to acquire a protective and decorative patina, but I cannot find any surviving examples or descriptions of the process from Europe before the sixteenth century. I have sources for polishing, tinning, covering with cloth or leather, painting iron, and gilding copper in the later middle ages.
Anyone who makes or commissions reproductions has to chose when to go with "they could have done X" and when to go with "the following texts and surviving pieces show that they sometimes did Y." Personally, I would want evidence that they treated plate that way before I speculated that they did the same for mail which is constantly rubbing on itself.
A few people have asked if there could be lower grade maille, I think there could be. An apprentice needs to learn somehow, thus he will screw up some rings. The material worth being so high, why not add them to a low quality shirt at the bottom row? this shouldn't really affect the usability but it should lower the price and in some views, the quality.
Posted: Sun 13 May, 2018 7:28 pm Post subject: Re: "Riveted" does not equal "Historical"
Would wedge-rivetted mail have all these historical advantages that you're mentioned, or was it lower quality?
Posted: Mon 14 May, 2018 5:22 am Post subject: Re: "Riveted" does not equal "Historical"
I'm not sure that I understand the question. Modern Indian wedge-riveted mail uses rectangular holes. Historical wedge-riveted mail used ovoid holes. Rectangular holes makes the link easier to tear and so makes it less able to resist weapons.


The herbivory has been recorded according to the BACCARA protocol of 2010. It means that, whenever available, 12 leaves per sappling have been assessed (twenty in 2009) and the different feeding guilds have been assessed. Whenever possible, 6 leaves where assessed in the upper canopy part and 6 leaves in the lowest canopy part, 3 leaves at the terminal part of the branch and 3 leaves at the basal part of the branch ("young_old" variable).
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Here's Our Rant About Bank of America Corporation (BAC)
by Ethane Eddington
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC) went down by -1.22% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $35.72. The company's stock price has collected 2.57% of gains in the last five trading sessions. MarketWatch.com reported 18 hours ago that Bank of America Corp. stock falls Friday, underperforms market
Is It Worth Investing in Bank of America Corporation (NYSE :BAC) Right Now?
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC) scored a price-to-earnings ratio above its average ratio, recording 12.01 x from its present earnings ratio. Plus, the 36-month beta value for BAC is at 1.58. Opinions of the stock are interesting as 15 analysts out of 27 who provided ratings for Bank of America Corporation declared the stock was a "buy," while 1 rated the stock as "overweight," 11 rated it as "hold," and 0 as "sell."
The average price from analysts is $28.82, which is $4.39 above the current price. BAC currently public float of 8.66B and currently shorts hold a 0.77% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of BAC was 59.60M shares.
BAC's Market Performance
BAC stocks went up by 2.57% for the week, with a monthly drop of -3.68% and a quarterly performance of -8.47%, while its annual performance rate touched -26.84%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 3.16% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 2.70% for Bank of America Corporation. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is 0.07% for BAC stocks with a simple moving average of -3.76% for the last 200 days.
Analysts' Opinion of BAC
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for BAC stocks, with Deutsche Bank repeating the rating for BAC by listing it as a "Buy." The predicted price for BAC in the upcoming period, according to Deutsche Bank is $29 based on the research report published on September 03rd of the current year 2020.
DA Davidson, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see BAC reach a price target of $25, previously predicting the price at $27. The rating they have provided for BAC stocks is "Neutral" according to the report published on July 09th, 2020.
BAC Trading at -1.54% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought BAC to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -31.94% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 2.70%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 3.16%, as shares sank -4.14% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -6.68% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, BAC rose by +2.57%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -27.52% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $24.24. In addition, Bank of America Corporation saw -30.98% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at BAC starting from BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/, who purchase 5 shares at the price of $14.70 back on Dec 29. After this action, BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ now owns 5 shares of Bank of America Corporation, valued at $74 using the latest closing price.
BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/, the 10% Owner of Bank of America Corporation, purchase 3 shares at $14.70 during a trade that took place back on Dec 21, which means that BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ is holding 3 shares at $44 based on the most recent closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for BAC
+29.45 for the present operating margin
The net margin for Bank of America Corporation stands at +24.14. The total capital return value is set at 4.76, while invested capital returns managed to touch 5.80. Equity return is now at value 9.30, with 0.90 for asset returns.
Based on Bank of America Corporation (BAC), the company's capital structure generated 166.26 points at debt to equity in total, while total debt to capital is 62.44. Total debt to assets is 18.01, with long-term debt to equity ratio resting at 93.13. Finally, the long-term debt to capital ratio is 31.89.
When we switch over and look at the enterrpise to sales, we see a ratio of 6.74, with the company's debt to enterprise value settled at 0.57. The liquidity ratio also appears to be rather interesting for investors as it stands at 1.02.
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Africa Rise and Shine
By: Jim Ovia
Narrated by: David Applefield
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Professionals & Academics
4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (27 ratings)
China's Second Continent
How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
By: Howard W. French
Narrated by: Don Hagen
An exciting, hugely revealing account of China's burgeoning presence in Africa - a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. A prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa, Howard French is uniquely positioned to tell the story of China in Africa. Through meticulous on-the-ground reporting, French crafts a layered investigation of astonishing depth and breadth.
He knows Both Africa and China
By Malick Tchakpedeou on 12-01-16
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the West and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the repercussions of European colonialism in Africa remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
A Superb must read for everyone
By Ronald on 04-16-19
By: Walter Rodney, and others
Risk and Return: A Journey of Entrepreneurship and Self-Discovery in Africa
By: Yomi Jemibewon
Narrated by: Ayo Owodunni
Risk and Return is the story of one man's return to Africa - a journey that begins with a search for self-fulfillment, which then evolves into an entrepreneurial adventure filled with tribulations, triumphs, and many life lessons that will keep listeners engaged from start to finish. In a casual conversational voice, the author, Yomi Jemibewon, gives an honest, often hilarious and sometimes sobering account of what it feels like to chase a dream under highly uncertain circumstances.
Loved this book
By AS on 10-03-20
Africa's Business Revolution
How to Succeed in the World's Next Big Growth Market
By: Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, Georges Desvaux
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Africa's Business Revolution provides the inside story on business in Africa and its future growth prospects and helps executives understand and seize the opportunities for building profitable, sustainable enterprises.
Great Insights to Doing Business in Africa
By mcleansibanda on 01-31-21
By: Acha Leke, and others
Success in Africa
CEO Insights from a Continent on the Rise
By: Jonathan Berman
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
With twenty years of experience in frontier markets, including a decade working in Africa, author Jonathan Berman engages with top business leaders on the vast opportunities and challenges of the continent. Success in Africa pushes past the headlines on Africa's growth to answer the questions often asked by companies and investors: Who do I work with there and what drives them? How do I deal with government? What about war, disease, and poverty? What about China? How do I win?
Only introductory, but very compelling
By Nils Berglund on 09-29-18
The Looting Machine
Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
By: Tom Burgis
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals, and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China, and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 percent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 percent of the world's population, its share of global manufacturing stood in 2011 exactly where it stood in 2000: at 1 percent.
Frightening, Fascinating, Fatiguing
Why Sell Tacos in Africa?
16 Life-Changing Business Strategies You Can Use Anywhere, from the Man Who Turned $400 into $200 Million
By: Paul Oberschneider
Narrated by: Peter Noble, Paul Oberschneider
In 1992, I landed in Estonia with $400 in my pocket. There, I discovered a truth that changed my life and the way I conducted business: You can make a lot of money as an entrepreneur by moving decisively in blue-sky markets - markets where you face very little competition and the tide can carry you to riches. Over the next decade and a half, I built a portfolio of businesses worth $200 million. Now, I want to share the paths that led me to success, passing on my knowledge to you.
A soft 4
By Matthieu on 08-13-20
The Fortunes of Africa
A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
By: Martin Meredith
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
A sweeping history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.
VAST & WELL RESEARCHED
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The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Important themes, with blind spots
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By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
Stealth War
How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
By: Robert Spalding
Narrated by: Ray Porter
The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America's national security, but the real danger lies farther east. While those in power have been distracted and disorderly, China has waged a six-front war on America's economy, military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure - and they're winning. It's almost too late to undo the shocking, though nearly invisible, victories of the Chinese. In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West.
A General with a backbone loaded with truth "woke"
By Jason on 10-01-19
The Dragon's Gift
The Real Story of China in Africa
By: Deborah Brautigam
Narrated by: Pam Ward
In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. But China's tradition of secrecy about its aid fueled rumors and speculation, making it difficult to gauge the risks and opportunities provided by China's growing embrace. This well-timed book, by one of the world's leading experts, provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas. Deborah Brautigam tackles the myths and realities, explaining what the Chinese are doing, how they do it, how much aid they give, and how it all fits into their "going global" strategy.
If you love Economic Aid this is your book
By Bradley on 06-05-20
The Prosperity Paradox
How Innovation Can Lift Nations out of Poverty
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, Karen Dillon
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator's Dilemma and the New York Times best-seller How Will You Measure Your Life, and coauthors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity and offers a groundbreaking solution for true and lasting change.
I enjoyed this book more than I thought I will.
By Arkady Fenev on 01-24-19
By: Clayton M. Christensen, and others
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
By: Josh Kaufman
Narrated by: Josh Kaufman
Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume. The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges.
Not an MBA, But A Damn Decent Experience.
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
By: Jason Stearns
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason K. Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it.
First book I've found that explains DRC
The Fate of Africa
A History of the Continent Since Independence
Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
Martin Meredith has revised this classic history to incorporate important recent developments, including the Darfur crisis in Sudan, Robert Mugabe's continued destructive rule in Zimbabwe, controversies over Western aid and exploitation of Africa's resources, the growing importance and influence of China, and the democratic movement roiling the North African countries of Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan.
Incredibly wide-ranging
By Jason Cherniak on 12-25-16
Dead Aid
Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
By: Dambisa Moyo, Niall Ferguson - foreword
A national best-seller, Dead Aid unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined - and millions continue to suffer. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Dambisa Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing the development of the world's poorest countries.
By Anthony Nana Kwamu on 04-13-21
By: Dambisa Moyo, and others
China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
By: Kai-Fu Lee
Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.
Compelled to listen at 2x speed
By ML on 09-26-18
Out-Innovate
How Global Entrepreneurs - from Delhi to Detroit - Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley
By: Alexandre Lazarow
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Alexandre Lazarow
As venture capitalist Alexandre Lazarow shows in this insightful and instructive book, this Silicon Valley "gospel" is due for a refresh - and it comes from what he calls the "frontier", the growing constellation of startup ecosystems, outside of the Valley and other major economic centers, that now stretches across the globe. The frontier is a truly different world where startups often must cope with political or economic instability and lack of infrastructure, and where there might be little or no access to angel investors, venture capitalists, or experienced employee pools.
Great material for SF and Frontier entrepreneurs!
By Brett Fulmer on 04-15-20
The road to success is rarely linear and never easy. But with courage, hard work, perseverance, and dedication to duty, Jim Ovia, founder and chairman of Zenith Bank, proves we can achieve the unthinkable.
Jim has been called the Godfather of Banking by Forbes Africa. And this should be no surprise. In a time of tension between military and civilian regimes, periods of incredible economic instability, and a decaying infrastructure, Jim founded Zenith Bank in Nigeria. Under Jim's leadership, what started with $4 million in shareholders' funds, grew into one of Africa's largest banks, an internationally recognized institution with more than $16 billion in assets. His story is a living testament to his message that success results when we act with courage and dare to try.
Africa, Rise and Shine is part-memoir, part-inspirational business guide, reminding entrepreneurs and investors around the world of this valuable lesson : you must never allow the perceptions of others impact your own vision of what is possible for the future.
Veuillez noter : ce livre audio est en anglais
©2018 Jim Ovia / Forbes Books (P)2019 Hardigan
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"Jim Ovia's entrepreneurial flair demystifies Africa. 'Africa Rise and Shine' shows his meteoric rise from humble beginnings to building a formidable bank. This is a wonderful African success story."
-- Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group, Investor and Philanthropist
"Jim Ovia has been my personal friend and trusted banker over the last twenty-five years. Africa Rise and Shine lays bare the secrets to Zenith Bank's success from one of Nigeria's most respected businessmen. Jim's inspirational tale of success against all the odds is an important lesson of how adversity can always be surmounted. His principles of doing business can be applied globally as demonstrated by Zenith Bank's London Stock Exchange listing. This book is an essential read for anyone that wants to do business in Africa."
Aliko Dangote, GCON, Founder and President, Dangote Group of Companies
What listeners say about Africa Rise and Shine
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Life changing stories
Very glad I got to finish this book, got the hard copy to highlight the important points and they are many... As aspiring social entrepreneur.. for the many lesson learned thank you from the bottom of my heart... Thanks for showing us its possible...
Excellent book.
Very good read.
Narration was apt.
Expecting another read from Jim Ovia. Discipline for Youths.
EXTREMELY INFORMATIVE
Best way to start the year. Jim Ovia outlined the steps that every entrepreneur willing to succeed in Africa should take. A great Listen. Highly inspirational.
ELIJAH OTOR
Thanks, Jim, for sharing your story and knowledge.
This will help this younger generation.
I am inspired by it.
Henry E Okelue
This is History
Jim brought to my knowledge how and why a lot of things in Nigeria today came into being. The part of the role he played in pioneering the internet in Nigeria was very illuminating.
Akintunde Felix
Every Africa business leaders should write more so younger generations can learn, Thank you Jim for sharing this part of your life and so much more.
A Bold move and a Generous insight
In a Country where it is unusual for Great Business men to write Books giving useful advise to upcoming generations and budding Entrepreneurs, Jim Ovia has set the pace for other Accomplished Business Men in his ilk to provide generous insight into what has made them and their businesses successful. This book comes highly recommended...
IF HE COULD DO IT, I CAN TOO
The narration was cool and solemn.
Picking up the book, I thought too learn more about the struggles of starting a bank from ground zero and making it one of the most profitable on the continent but I learnt that and I learnt a lot more about starting a business generally.
ovbioba
Once i started, couldnt stop until i was done
Interesting and relevant lessons in Entrepreneurship from Jim.
David did a great job with the narration.
Thoroughly enjoyed it!


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J.J. Adams: No rest for the weary winners as Whitecaps travel to Orlando
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Updated: April 19, 2019 12:11 PM PDT
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The Whitecaps barely got any sleep after their massive first win of the season over league-leading LAFC, as they hopped aboard a flight — or two — to Orlando on Thursday morning ahead of Saturday morning's game.
Marc Dos Santos is still sleepless, but at least he has a win now.
The Vancouver Whitecaps' coach and his team got off the schneid Wednesday with an improbable 1-0 win over a previously undefeated LAFC team that had scored a record number of goals coming into the game at B.C. Place Stadium.
But an early wake-up call to head to the airport, for the start of their 10-hour, 5,300-kilometre, two-leg flight to Orlando for Saturday's Major League Soccer nooner against the Lions didn't leave a lot of time to unwind. And not that he would have, anyways.
"No, I had a tough time sleeping. I have a problem with games, right?" said Dos Santos. "I connect very quick with the next game.
"Did I enjoy, a lot, the win? A little bit. My head started, last night, thinking about Orlando. That's just who I am and how I'm made."
It was the first time this season the Caps had taken all three points in a game, with four losses and two ties up to that point. The pressure had been building, both internally and externally, to get a victory, and it came against the team Dos Santos used to work for as an assistant coach.
There was more weariness than jubilation in the locker-room after the game, but the satisfaction that things finally went their way.
"It's good for the confidence of the team," said goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau, who made three tough saves to record his second shutout of the season.
"Now it's about building momentum. We celebrated after the game because it was deserved, we'd worked hard since the beginning of the season and it hasn't been easy as well, in terms of results. So it was a small relief.
"Now it's a quick turnaround, getting on the plane … and it's about momentum building as of now."
Vancouver Whitecaps FC goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau celebrates his team's first Major League Soccer win of the season Wednesday at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver. The Whitecaps hope to make it two in a row when they play Saturday in Orlando City. Gerry Kahrmann / Postmedia News
LISTEN: We talk about another storming week of football. We talk Whitecaps versus Chicago and then discuss the massive three points earned over LAFC. As always, we review the huge Champions League games of the week. There are some great games to discuss and, yet again, VAR was the star of the show.
The Caps face an Orlando team that has seen the same inconsistency in results, starting the season with two consecutive draws and a loss before alternating winning and losing the past four games. The Lions have conceded 13 goals this year — the most in the East — but they aren't giving them up at the same pace that resulted in a record 74 goals against last season.
"They look more dynamic going forward, and a little more stable at the back, but they have their issues as well, and hopefully we can exploit those," said right back Scott Sutter.
"I've been looking forward to this one. It will definitely be an emotional one," added the affable defender, who played for Orlando for two years before signing in Vancouver for this season.
Former Caps' goalkeeper Brian Rowe will likely be between the wickets for Orlando, having started all seven games and making a league-best 24 saves while allowing 13 goals.
Orlando's preferred formation with a three-man backline bracketed by two wingbacks will mean a lot of running for Vancouver's outside players, and with it coming a little over 48 hours after their last game — and second in a week — fatigue is a serious factor.
"First, we need to see how we recover," said Dos Santos, whose team will arrive in Florida around midnight.
"We need to try and put the best setup on the field to have as fresh a team as we can, because it's important against Orlando to hold players like Dom Dwyer, Nani … they are an experienced team.
"It's going to be a tough game away and a long travel. The key is to make sure we recover well in the next few days."
And they'll have to do it with a minimum of on-field prep and making sure they don't lose focus after the big win over L.A.
"On the field, it's impossible to prepare tactically because we don't train today, and tomorrow is the day before the game, where a lot of guys are still recovering. So you can't do anything tactically that really helps the team," said Dos Santos, who will instead rely on a few comprehensive video sessions.
"Orlando is a tough team in Orlando. Especially if you think about the travel factor.
"I've got to know more and more in the past two months the maturity level of the players here; these are players who never put their head down. They were mature when things were not good.
"They were mature yesterday with the win. I think it will be quite easy to have them focused on the Orlando game and how hard it is going to be to play there and get a result."
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Q&A: Elvis Mitchell (pt. 1)
Many thanks to photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders for permission to post the portrait above.
I've been a fan of Elvis Mitchell's journalism for 20 years. His 1987 Eddie Murphy cover story for Interview magazine, for example, is a lifetime keeper.
A multimedia cultural commentator par excellence, Elvis hosts a weekly radio show in Los Angeles ("The Treatment" on KCRW), and come September he'll have an interview show on Turner Classic Movies called "Under the Influence with Elvis Mitchell."
He has had a lot of cool jobs. From 2000 to 2004, Elvis was a film critic for the New York Times. He's been a visiting lecturer at Harvard. Even the jobs he almost had are way cooler than most people's jobs, like when he had a standing offer to join the writing staff of "Saturday Night Live."
When I sat down for dinner and conversation with him last December, Elvis had spent the day with Quentin Tarantino and David Chute recording a DVD commentary track for "Five Fingers of Death."
Elvis Mitchell is one of the hippest dudes I know. When I walked into the restaurant, Elvis was in there smoking a cigar. I thought they shot people for that in L.A. Elvis said it was cool. "They know me here."
DAVID MILLS: Let's talk about growing up in Detroit. What kind of neighborhood did you grow up in? What did your folks do for a living?
ELVIS MITCHELL: I grew up in what Elvis Presley called "the ghitto." We were really poor. My dad worked two full-time jobs, and my mom raised nine kids.
I actually wrote a piece for the [New York] Times about working my dad's jobs. He worked at a dairy plant during the day and a laundry at night. And I worked his jobs. This is how shallow I was: I was late for one of the jobs because a valet parker couldn't find my car at the hotel. A different experience than my father had.
MILLS: (laughs) Okay. In the era you grew up in, did Detroit feel like the capital of Black America?
MITCHELL: It felt like the capital of so many things, because people tend to think of Detroit as just Motown but so much stuff grew out of Detroit.
When I was a kid was when George Clinton and P-Funk were just starting to kick it off. We would go to these shows, me and my friends, and it would be, like, four black kids and a bunch of white kids from Toronto.
MILLS: Seeing Funkadelic?
MITCHELL: Yeah, seeing Funkadelic. Because in those days, white people went to rock-'n'-roll shows and black people went to R&B shows. …
It was also a great jazz city. Detroit's the home of electronica. Detroit's where Iggy Pop – basically punk started in Detroit. Almost every major musical movement post-World-War-II got a toehold or started in Detroit, with the exception of rap. I don't care what Chicago says, house started in Detroit, end of conversation, thank you.
Motown was kind of the corporate music of that time, because there was so much other great music going on around it. One of the oldest jazz clubs in the country, Baker's Keyboard Lounge, is still active in Detroit.
I saw Richard Pryor as a kid because my uncle had a club in Detroit. We sat in and watched Richard Pryor come out. Watching him walk onto the stage was like what I imagine it must have been like watching Marlon Brando when he was onstage. I mean, he had this enormous physical presence. He was just wired.
So we were sitting there, my uncle said to me and my cousin, "Sit here, drink your Cokes and don't say a word. Shut up." Place was full of pimps – big rabbit-fur hats, big coats hanging off of them, really ugly hookers sitting around at these tables. And Pryor comes out and he just started pacing back and forth.
Finally, after – I'm not kidding – about four minutes of not saying anything, just walking back and forth, he looks up at one of these tables and goes, "Damn, y'all got some ugly hoes in Detroit. I wouldn't fuck her with your mama's dick."
And the bartender covered his mouth. I was too shocked to laugh. And all you heard in the place was the sound of knives and straight razors and guns being dropped on the tables. All I thought was: "How'm I gonna tell my mother that I'm at this place that she hates – my uncle's place – where a man was shot?" Because I knew they were gonna kill him.
Within minutes, he turned it back on himself and talked about his own desperation, and he had them eating out of the palm of his hand. He started by going after them, and then made it about him. It was an incredible thing to see because it was the first time I was ever aware of seeing a performer who could pull people into whatever psychological state he was going through. Which made him different from any comedian I've seen before or since.
MILLS: Were you a movie fan all along?
MITCHELL: Always a movie fan. Detroit was for a long time a test market. For example, when I was in college I got to see the version of "Blade Runner" without narration, because they tested it there. Sam Fuller's "White Dog" – the only theater it ever played in the United States was in Detroit. So it was a great city to see movies in.
It was a great place to be entertained, because it was a working-class city. People who work that hard wanted to really let off some steam at the end of the workday.
MILLS: Were you always a writer? Or did that start in college?
MITCHELL: Writing was what I ended up doing instead of going to law school. I had this really interesting experience where I started school [at Wayne State University] on a theater scholarship, and hated being around college actors so much that I dropped out of school after two years. If there's anybody more pretentious than college actors, they don't speak English. It was really just kind of mortifying.
MILLS: You acted? Which plays did you do?
MITCHELL: We did this really interesting version of "Henry IV, Part 1" where the professors set it up as if it were gangs in Detroit. It was really an incredible way to do this, and it instilled in me this kind of love of Shakespeare, the military plays.
And also the only Shakespeare play that's really about a black character, which is "Titus Andronicus." Not "Othello," but "Titus Andronicus." The first person I ever met who really sort of got that was Julie Taymor, who did the movie "Titus" and dealt with that.
We staged a version of "Native Son" that must have been the tackiest play ever done. There was supposed to be a rat onstage, and we had somebody pulling a fur hat across the stage. People burst out laughing.
I probably wasn't temperamentally suited for it. I get too impatient so I lost interest, and I quit school. I went back after being out of school for six months and not wanting to go work in an auto plant. 'Cause I knew that I was basically too shallow to be a real working man for a living.
So I went back to college. I was in philosophy for a while, which was both pretentious and depressing. I was always taking English classes, and had a couple of professors who really encouraged me.
I had a revelatory experience when I was in college. Pauline Kael came to speak. She was on a local TV show, and she was going to go do a radio show. I knew the producer of the show so I thought, "I'm just going to go over there and watch her speak live."
I showed up at this station and she was sitting in the lobby by herself. I sat down next to her and we just started talking.
Then they said, "Okay, Miss Kael, you're on." And she grabbed me by the arm to take me with her. I said, "I'm not on the show with you." She said, "I know. Just come with me." And that began my friendship with her, and that was probably key to me being a writer. She was the first person outside of my family who had any real confidence in me as a writer.
MILLS: Wow. I wanted to ask you about her because I first met you through [Washington Post critics] Hal Hinson and Lloyd Rose. Pauline Kael is famous for having had this "circle." And I never got to the bottom of what it was about. Was it a cult of personality? Was it just a group of friends?
MITCHELL: It was probably both of those things. A lot of people sort of looked to her as both an idol and a mother figure. But I had a very healthy relationship with my parents so I didn't need another mother. So I looked at her as being a friend.
The thing about Pauline was, if you didn't want to know what she thought, "Don't ask me," because she would tell you. And she was brutal. I remember one of the first times I'd sent her something, I was in college, and I called her up. And three hours later she was still telling me what was wrong with it. I was thinking: "I'm paying money for this phone call!"
But she was incredibly generous to me as a friend. And really sort of made me think that there was a place for me outside of Detroit. One of the reasons I left Detroit was that she wrote me a letter of recommendation when I graduated from school to take to the Detroit Free Press. And they wouldn't hire me.
So I thought: "If I can't get hired with a letter from the film critic of the New Yorker – the most famous film critic in the United States, and arguably in the world – it's time for me to leave." And I did.
Subsequently I came to L.A. and started getting work out here almost immediately.
MILLS: As a critic?
MITCHELL: As a critic, yeah. I was originally writing about television because at that point, when I came out here, everybody was a film critic. But TV was going through a really exciting period in those days [the 1980s].
So I started doing that, and got hired at the old L.A. Herald-Examiner, then got hired at Rolling Stone, then got hired at Spin. I've gotten really lucky just by virtue of being here.
On the other hand, if I had gotten a job at the Detroit Free Press, I would probably still be there.
[TO BE CONTINUED]
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Reel Fanatic said...
Great interviewer .. though there are a lot of great movie reviewers out there, Mr. Mitchell is my favorite .. He just manages to be a man of the people and still keep is discerning tastes perfectly
Thanks for commenting, Keith. As much as I miss him in the NYTimes, I think he belongs on TV. I love his personal style and his interviewing technique.
I miss getting to read his reviews every week. It was just fun watching the associations his brain would make. From his review of Pirates of the Caribbean:
Gargling his consonants before spitting them out, Mr. Depp's pirate suggests a man who has spent either a great deal of time with Keith Richards after a tour of the Rebel Yell factory, or a man who has spent a great deal of time watching Mike Myers do his Keith Richards impression. Either way, festooned with dreadlocks and braids in his hair and beard, and wearing enough industrial-strength mascara to indicate that Captain Jack was probably influenced by another King of the Wild Frontier — Adam Ant — Mr. Depp offers a ratty, bedeviled turn that keeps the picture in motion during that extended period when there's not much plot involved.
But when this protracted state of narrative lassitude suddenly shifts, "Pirates" brings in enough story line for several movies. And in the words of Bart Simpson, it takes a knife-wielding maniac to show us the way.
Adam: The term "mash-up" is becoming a cliche, but in that review you cited, Elvis shows what a mash-up is all about.
justjudith said...
great interview. especially the part about his college days. it sounds as if he just stumbled into a great career and lots of people do. i try to tell the students i work with that if you're talented, it'll work out. can't wait for part II.


Carol Ann Johnson, 81, passed away peacefully and surrounded by family on Monday, March 4, 2019 in Sandpoint, Idaho. Private family services will be held.
Carol was born on June 4, 1937 in Scofield, UT to John and Caroline Bezyack. She graduated from East Carbon High School in 1955 and married Ervin Rasmussen in Utah in 1956. They had three children together; daughter Brenda and sons Jon and Jeff. They later divorced and she married Jim Johnson in Ogden in 1973, having one son; Jimmy.
A lover of music of all kinds, she enjoyed playing the accordion, especially polkas, piano, and singing with The Choraleers of Fairfield Ca. She also held an equal love of the arts and doing arts and crafts, especially with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She took up drawing at an early age, along with writing poetry, oil painting, and crocheting throughout her life. She shared her love and gift of art in the North Idaho area as a face painter for children in foster care and at numerous community events. Additionally, volunteering as one of the Friends of the Library during their local Lego competitions in Sandpoint, ID.
Carol earned her Associates degree from Solano Community College in Fairfield, CA. She then worked as a medical transcriptionist for Dr. Cedar and for the Napa State Hospital prior to retiring. In 1992 she moved to North Idaho to be closer to family, eventually settling in Sandpoint.
She is survived by her daughter Bren (Dave) Hamilton of Newport, WA; three sons Jon (Elena) Johnson of Santa Rosa, CA, Jeff (Lara) Johnson of Spring, TX, and Jimmy (Sarah) Johnson of St. Augustine, FL; one brother Robert (Babs) Bezyack of Ogden, UT; nine grandchildren; fifteen great grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brother Bill Bezyack and great grandson Ezekiel.
Memorial donations may be made to Alzheimer's Research on her behalf.


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Littlewood Fencing is now set to offer customers an even wider choice of quality fencing and agricultural equipment after linking up with leading industry brand Ritchie Agricultural.
Established more than a century ago, 'Ritchie' offer a wide range of farming implements and equipment including solutions for livestock handling & care, grassland maintenance as well as yard equipment and machinery.
As the approved supply partner for the South East region, Littlewood Fencing now offer all 'Ritchie' products from cattle crushes, stock cubes and feeding units to yard scrapers, bailers and accumulators.
We are delighted to have been asked to supply such a great range of quality equipment, which will complement our own range of timber gates and fencing and allow us to offer a complete service for our customers.
Busy sheep farmers, be they hobby farmers or top professionals, should be utilising a Ritchie Combi Clamp to help them manage their sheep more efficiently.
A large foot treadle allows the operator freedom of movement whilst restraining the animal for treatment.
The Combi Clamp width is fully adjustable to suit different sizes of sheep.
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Easy use for dagging, drenching, vaccinating and tagging.
Can be set-up for left or right-hand operation.
Self-contained and moveable from site to site, the Stock Cube unfolds to provide a freestanding stock pen with a curved sweep area within the cube and a secondary gate for the handler to work safely behind the penned stock.
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Can transport up to 20 x 2.5m (8') cattle hurdles including pins.
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Easy access to and from the holding area.
Operator is behind the cattle and sweep gate whilst in operation.
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As well as the products listed above, we can supply an array of feeders, animal management products, gates and farming essentials.
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The counted cross stitch kit contains 14 count cloudy blue Zweigart Aida, pre-sorted stranded cottons, heart sequins, lace, needles, clear stitch diagram and instructions.
Finished size 26 by 26cm.
This design uses full cross stitches, a few fractionals, back stitch and four French knots.


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Manages the supply chain and movement of raw materials, packaging, bulk, finished products and Point of Sale. Everything that comes in and goes out of the factory.
Working with complex pieces requires a team of several glassworkers, in a choreography of precisely timed movements.
Look after the inner and outer packaging making sure the product is safe, easy to use and attractive to the consumer.
Manufactures the bulk and often oversees the filling and packing of the bottles.
They transfer products from manufacturing to the retailers to ensure the stores are fully stocked with products on their shelves. Responsibilities include planning delivery timetables, ensuring stores have enough stock, over seeing the ordering, manufacturing, packing and delivery of shipments of products.
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Why Bitcoin's Run Took Another Break Today
By Howard Smith – Oct 27, 2021 at 3:28PM
Bitcoin hit a new high last week, but its decline from that peak accelerated today.
Comments from Robinhood likely spurred the selling.
CRYPTO: BTC
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Uniswap were among the cryptocurrencies turning negative this week after a strong October run.
A week ago, Bitcoin's (BTC 0.84%) wild ride brought the cryptocurrency to an all-time high price of more than $66,000 per coin. That culminated a three-week run that saw gains of more than 60%. Ethereum (ETH 0.25%) similarly soared about 75% in that time period. Uniswap (UNI 3.06%), the Ethereum-based decentralized exchange, also has been on the upswing. But those gains have reversed course, and as of 2:15 p.m. EDT today, each were down as follows:
Bitcoin was down 5.1%;
Ethereum was down 5.4%; and
Uniswap was down 10.75%.
The run to Bitcoin's new high came as cryptocurrency investors anticipated the launch of the first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) last week. Once ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF launched, though, it seems investors began selling on the news. There was another catalyst for today's drops, however.
Some of the enthusiasm for the first Bitcoin EFT was tempered when popular Bitcoin supporter Mark Cuban told CNBC he wouldn't be investing in it. Cuban said he would simply rather buy it directly. That in itself, of course, wouldn't really limit any interest in Bitcoin. And the cryptocurrency also got some added publicity earlier this week when football legend Tom Brady said during ESPN's Monday Night Football broadcast that he had given the fan who returned his 600th touchdown football a Bitcoin token as partial reward.
But in addition to some potential profit-taking after hitting the new high, a quarterly earnings report likely triggered today's overall drop in crypto assets. Last night, Robinhood Markets, the trading platform popular with retail investors, released a disappointing third-quarter financial report.
Robinhood missed analyst expectations for both revenue and its net loss estimates, and much of the blame pointed to slower cryptocurrency trading. Revenue from cryptocurrency trades soared year over year to $51 million. But that marked a significant sequential drop below second-quarter cryptocurrency trading revenue of $233 million.
Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev pointed to several things to explain the drop. But one concerning item was the regulatory uncertainty of the sector. In the conference call for investors, he said, "The regulatory environment in terms of new coins and lending products and crypto is uncertain and evolving."
Much of the cryptocurrency interest has been based on momentum over the past year. Mark Cuban or Elon Musk makes a comment and traders flock to buy the next day, or so it seems. So with uncertainty comes fear. Robinhood's CFO added that looking ahead, revenue from cryptocurrency trading is very difficult to predict.
Those comments, along with the significant decline in Robinhood's related revenue, are likely what pushed the cryptocurrency sector down today. Investors in the space should be used to volatility, however, and there is very likely much more to come.
Howard Smith has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Bitcoin and Ethereum. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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On a Wartime Anniversary, China Steps Up Its Anti-Japan PR Campaign
A woman reads from an inscription on the Marco Polo bridge, or Lugouqiao, in west Beijing on Sept. 3, 2013.
Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images
By Hannah Beech
On the evening of July 7, 1937, and into the next day, Japanese soldiers began making their way across the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing, beginning a ruthless eight-year occupation that ceased only with imperial Japan's defeat at the end of World War II. As far as anniversaries go, 77 may not be a particularly iconic number. But the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, announced that it would be conducting rare live coverage of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident commemoration.
First up in the morning was a "grand gathering" at the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Beijing, which was attended by China's President Xi Jinping. "We firmly take the path of peaceful development and safeguard world peace," said Xi in a speech, according to Xinhua, the Chinese state media agency. "History is history and facts are facts. Nobody can change history and facts. Anyone who intends to deny, distort or beautify history will not find agreement among Chinese people and people of all other countries." Xi also unveiled what Xinhua called an "anti-Japan war sculpture."
The generous coverage of the 77th Marco Polo Bridge Incident anniversary appears to be part of an effort by the ruling Chinese Communist Party to highlight Japan's brutal wartime past, at a time when geopolitical tensions between the two Asian powers are simmering. Last week, Japan's hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushed through a controversial reinterpretation of Japan's pacifist constitution that allows the nation to engage militarily in order to defend its allies should they come under attack. The notion is known as collective self-defense.
Abe's administration also issued a report last month that reviewed the process by which a 1993 Japanese government statement was made apologizing for the systematic sexual enslavement of Asian women by the Japanese military. While the review did not result in any overturning of the Kono Statement, just the fact that a reappraisal was conducted enraged both the Chinese and South Korean governments, who have accused Abe and his conservative cohorts of diminishing Japan's wartime abuses.
Amid a territorial spat over uninhabited isles in the East China Sea, a July 7 Xinhua editorial on Japan opined, "War is hell, but there are always devils who try to spark war and trample peace under foot." (The editorial did also concede that "Japanese people are respected for their diligence and energy-saving awareness.")
Last week, the Chinese State Archives Administration announced that it would begin releasing confessions by Japanese who were convicted as war criminals by China's Supreme People's Court. The full texts of the 45 confessions are being released daily online. China is also applying to UNESCO to have documents related to the Nanjing Massacre and Chinese comfort women (as the women forced to sexually service Japanese soldiers are called) added to the Memory of the World Register — a move that has gained popular support on Chinese social media. Earlier this year, China's rubber-stamp parliament designated Dec. 13 as a national remembrance day for the Nanjing Massacre.
Earlier this year, I visited Nanjing to tour the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, which ensures that the six-week slaughter that began in late 1937 is not forgotten. The museum welcomes 6 million visitors a year with a permanent exhibition called "A Human Holocaust." Photos and videos show women disemboweled after they were raped, along with piles of Chinese corpses. A vast graveyard of pebbles represents the lives stolen by Japanese soldiers.
Museum director Zhu Chengshan was scathing in his appraisal of Japan's Prime Minister Abe, whose grandfather directed industrialization efforts in Manchuria, the northeastern Chinese region that Japan turned into a puppet regime and where imperial soldiers carried out horrific crimes, including biochemical experiments on civilians. "Japan has consistently denied its mistakes and says it loves peace but [these are] empty words," Zhu said. "A lot of serious criminals were let go and some became the Prime Minister of Japan, like Abe's grandfather. Abe is taking Japan to the right but there is not just one Abe. There are many other people in Japan like him."
But Chen Guixiang, 91, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, was more forgiving. She recalled, through tears, how her grandmother was murdered by Japanese soldiers. Fearful of being raped or killed, Chen, then 14, hid in a hole for three months, her legs atrophying from the confined space. She shared museum director Zhu's antipathy toward Abe but didn't hold an entire nation accountable. "I think the Japanese government was pro-war and evil," Chen said, "but the Japanese people are good."
After we talked, Chen shuffled out of the museum, past massive sculptures representing anguished figures brutalized by Japanese soldiers. The number 300,000, which China estimates as the death toll of the military rampage, is emblazoned repeatedly on an outdoor wall of shame. On July 7, People's Daily posted a picture of this wall on its home page. The day before, a new website was launched to publicize the Nanjing Massacre, a joint effort by the Memorial Hall and official news agency Xinhua. Those who visit the website will be able to light virtual candles to honor the massacre's victims, so they will never be forgotten.
— With reporting by Chengcheng Jiang / Nanjing


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Move Over, Goat Yoga. Alaskans Now Have Reindeer Yoga
KTOO | By Ravenna Koenig
A reindeer calf scratches its head with its hoof. Their ability to move their bodies into extreme positions was one of the reasons owner Jane Atkinson thought that reindeer would be a good fit for a yoga class.
If you want to incorporate quality time with animals into your yoga practice, you have a lot of options these days. There's puppy yoga, cat yoga, and perhaps the most famous — goat yoga.
Now, in Fairbanks, Alaska, there's a new offering: a yoga class with fauna particular to the cold northern climes of the subarctic. Reindeer.
In a grassy pen at the Running Reindeer Ranch, adult and baby reindeer are milling around — grazing, nosing curiously at water bottles, and pawing yoga mats as people shake them out for class.
The air is buzzing with mosquitoes, and the sky is threatening rain, but a good two dozen or so people have shown up for this petting zoo and exercise experience.
"I've wanted to do goat yoga, but this is like one step up," says Tarah Hoxsie, one of the attendees. "This is like the ultimate, OK. So while everybody's doing goat yoga in the lower 48, we're doing reindeer yoga, which is way cooler."
The reindeer yoga class is a brand new offering for the ranch — it's only the third class. They usually give natural history walking tours with the animals.
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A reindeer stands in front of participants at the start of the yoga class.
Jane Atkinson, one of the owners, does yoga herself. She thinks that reindeer are particularly well-suited to it. They're twisty creatures — especially in the springtime when their antlers are growing and itchy, and they scratch them with their back hooves.
"So you'll see the reindeer getting into these amazing poses," she says, "and it's like wow ... look at this little yoga move that they do!"
One of Atkinson's employees at the ranch, Elsa Janney, happens to also be a yoga instructor.
She starts the class with a safety talk — things like, don't touch the reindeer's sensitive antlers because it could hurt them.
From there, much of the class follows a typical yoga class script. But there is some extra stuff mixed in, like what Janney says after she asks the class to pay attention to the sounds around them.
"Reindeer make a click when they walk," she says. "That is a ligament connected to two different ankle bones. That is unique to both caribou and reindeer."
At the start of class, most of the reindeer are standing up or slowly wandering around the mats.
But as the class goes on, one by one they all lie down. Rocket, an elegant male reindeer, spreads out between the first and second rows and spends most of the class making a soft, breathy, grunting sound — like snoring.
Rocket the reindeer takes a rest during a yoga class at Running Reindeer Ranch in Fairbanks, Alaska.
The whole thing is pretty surreal. There's a lot of giggling. Especially when one of the reindeer relieves itself on the grass.
After class, Beth Ann Chase says she didn't really mind sharing her mat with Rocket the lounging reindeer.
"It was awesome. It was super cool," she says. "I could hear him snoring the whole time that I was doing it. ... It definitely brought me to like, a peaceful place."
And Diana Saverin says that trying to maintain focus was part of the workout.
"As the rain came down, the mosquitoes buzzed, and the reindeer snored, it was like, can you stay with your breath?" she says, laughing. "It's good hard work."
Plus, all the participants now have some kind of animal yoga bragging rights.
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I mean. Just look at this face. How can you resist a face like that?
Just one of the reasons I love my neighborhood: a quick snapshot of a stranger's dog turned into an hours-long wine & conversation session with some of the coolest folks in the 'hood, at our new local wine bar. And it all started with this adorable pup. Good work bringing folks together, Honey Bear!


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Q: How to find similar elements of string I have stucked with a simple task and don't understand how to make the decision about it. There is one condition - do not use regular expressions. The task is to write a function that counts similar elements of a string so if we have dddmmmmccccaaamm, the function returns d3m4c4a3m2. Firstly I thought about converting string to array and using filter method but it is the wrong way. Now I think to find the first element of the array and compare it with each element in the loop, but don't know what to do next.
Please note, that my question doesn't match Count the number of occurrences of a character in a string in Javascript

function countFig(str) {
  let arr = str.split('');
  let newArr = [];
  let a = arr[0];
  let sum = 0;
  for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; ++i) {
    if ((i = arr.indexOf(a, i)) === -1) break;
    newArr.push(i); // here Im stucked
  }
  return newArr
}
console.log(countFig('dddmmmmccccaaamm'))

A: You could reduce each character and keep track of previous and count. You can initialize your reducer with the first character and increment the count each time you see consecutive occurrences.
If you run into a character that differs from the previous, reset the count, set the last to the curr, and append to the result.
I added the \b (backspace escape character) to the end of the array so that it can finish reducing the final sequence of characters. Left-over characters would be thrown away at the end. Now we can return the result portion of the reduction.

const countFig = (str) =>
  (([head, ...tail]) =>
    tail.reduce((acc, curr) =>
      curr === acc.last
        ? { ...acc, count: acc.count + 1 }
        : {
            ...acc,
            result: acc.result + acc.last + (acc.count + 1),
            last: curr,
            count: 0
          },
    {
      last: head,
      count: 0,
      result: ''
    }))
  ([...str.split(''), '\b']).result;

console.log(countFig('dddmmmmccccaaamm')); // d3m4c4a3m2
console.log(countFig('abbcccd'));          // a1b2c3d1

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