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Can Obama Finally Fix American Manufacturing?
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By Zachary A Goldfarb, The Washington Post
As he campaigns for reelection, President Obama has embraced soaring political rhetoric, pledging to harness the ingenuity of America "to bring manufacturing back." In beat-up factory towns across the land, he has promoted a vision to rebuild manufacturing after decades of shuttered plants and vanishing middle class jobs.
But he wasn't always so sure. Three years ago, confronting the issue in an Oval Office debate, Obama was less of the chest-thumping politician he is today. Vice President Biden led a group of advisers who were making the case for an ambitious plan to reverse the industry's long decline.
Obama had witnessed the devastation of lost factory jobs from his earliest days as a community activist in Chicago and felt in his gut that there must be some way to help, but the president, a policy wonk and onetime professor, also wanted to know what the research showed. "There's a narrative that countries have to make things to be successful," Obama said to his economic advisers. "What's the evidence?"
His economists, top academics from schools like Harvard and MIT, replied that there wasn't much evidence. In fact, they argued, manufacturing represented relatively few jobs in the nation's economy. And governments had terrible records of investing in specific industries, anyway. The advisers, on both sides of the debate, looked to the president for resolution.
"It's a draw," Obama said, failing to resolve the split within his team — or even within his own mind. Today, Obama has settled that conflict in favor of manufacturing, a decision explained by politics, economics and the president's trust in his own instincts, according to interviews with more than 30 current and former Obama advisers and others who've worked with the White House on manufacturing.
As he mulled whether to adopt policies to try to reverse manufacturing's long decline, critics said, Obama risked allowing even more jobs to go overseas. The vast majority of manufacturing jobs lost in the recession have not come back — and today there are still fewer jobs in the sector than when Obama took office. But now Obama is a man on a mission, pursuing major tax breaks for manufacturers, loans to help sell manufactured goods overseas, tougher trade enforcement to protect U.S. industries from foreign competition, investments in clean energy, high-tech manufacturing clusters and a range of other policies.
Obama has rallied in part because of pressure from his own party to find good-paying jobs for millions of factory workers, who sense that their economic future is slipping, or has slipped, away. He has followed recent economic evidence that has led him to believe that it is important — and feasible — for the government to take steps to revive manufacturing. But he has also listened more closely to his political instincts, rejecting the view of many economists, including several on his team, that manufacturing doesn't have an especially dynamic role to play in the nation's economy. People who work closely with him say Obama has followed an impulse that the government must try to protect manufacturing workers — people who make things.
"As the issue has been surfaced," said Ron Bloom, Obama's former top manufacturing adviser, "the president's core values have had a chance to come out and I think you see them now."
Even so, as happens in any election year, the president's rhetoric is a step ahead of his policy. He hasn't declared specific national goals for restoring manufacturing to the place it once was or launched a race-to-the-moon-like government program. Not that it would be easy. Global, decades-long forces haven take a massive toll on American manufacturing, and there are few signs they will abate. And the nation's strained finances – and paralyzed politics – limit what government can do to help.
The president's embrace of manufacturing comes during a campaign in which his rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, has also pledged to rebuild the sector. Obama's strategists see political gain in the relentless focus on manufacturing, drawing a contrast with Romney's background as someone who financially invested in industrial companies but never ran one, and his criticism of the auto bailout.
But Obama has his own vulnerabilities. Romney and Republicans say there is already an example of Obama's manufacturing policy at work — the "green jobs" program that benefited political donors and lobbyists, such as the backers of the failed solar energy company Solyndra.
A LONG SLIDE
Manufacturing, long a source of high wage jobs, has been shrinking as a portion of the economy for 45 years, from representing more than a quarter of economic activity to just 12 percent today, a decline that helps explain the nation's anxiety about the future of the middle class.
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The slide is the result of many factors, including dwindling union membership and automated factory technology, but largely reflects the rise of low-wage jobs overseas. In the past decade, fueled in large part by open trade with China, factories have shed millions of jobs. The policies of presidents of both parties have over the years been shaped by the widely held view among economists that manufacturing's decline — like agriculture before it — was inevitable and even beneficial for American consumers, who snapped up inexpensive products made overseas.
As someone who began his career organizing jobless factory workers, Obama came to office with a view that more should be done to protect these communities, but he wasn't sure exactly what was possible. "I cannot wish away the sometimes competing demands of economic security and competitiveness," he wrote as a senator. Faced with an economic crisis, he deployed federal stimulus money to jolt a domestic clean energy industry to life. And months later, Obama pumped tens of billions of dollars into General Motors and Chrysler to save them.
His economic advisers were not always fully comfortable with these actions, which involved a profound government intervention in the private market, but agreed that clean energy had broad benefits to society and the collapse of America's auto industry in the midst of a deep recession would have been catastrophic.
The view of Lawrence Summers, a Harvard economist and one of Obama's top economic advisers, was best captured in an e-mail he wrote to an outside investor about the administration's loan to Solyndra. "I relate well to your view that gov is a crappy vc," Summers wrote, referring to venture capitalist. "But suppose we think there are all kinds of externalities to renewable investments. What should we do?"
Beyond responding to crises, the question was whether Obama would try to do something more transformational: rebuild manufacturing in America. To many inside and outside the White House, the answer during the first half of Obama's term was no.
SENSE OF URGENCY
In spring 2010, before a series of meetings with China's leadership, Obama gathered with his topic economic advisers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for a private briefing with outside experts.
One of the first speakers was Clyde Prestowitz, an old Washington hand and policy adviser to the semiconductor giant Intel. He had long advocated government investment in manufacturing and a hard line with China, which essentially makes it cheaper for companies to operate there through subsidies. "As a fellow Kama'aina," Prestowitz recalled telling Obama, using the Hawaiian word for "child of the land," "one of the problems is we're losing jobs we're good at."
That caught Obama's attention. Prestowitz described how Intel was on the verge of opening its first high-tech semiconductor fabrication plant in China. Intel wasn't looking for cheap labor, he said, but was pressured by Chinese leaders, who tended to offer free land, low taxes and other incentives. "What do you think we should do?" Obama asked.
"We need to match the incentives and the urgency," Prestowitz said.
After the meeting drifted to other speakers and topics, Obama brought it back with a staccato of questions: "Why can't we make batteries in America? Why can't we make fast trains? Why we can't make windmills?"
Prestowitz recalled being struck by the fierceness of the president's questions but also wondering why more was not being done to answer them. As an outsider, his guess was that Obama's economic advisers hadn't made it a priority. "My impression was, hey, this is the real president and he's got red-blooded American instincts," Prestowitz said. "But it's not his area of expertise and he's got all his advisers here — and they are smothering his instincts."
A POLICY SPLIT
Prestowitz's assessment hinted at a divide within the White House that was getting in the way of a more ambitious manufacturing plan. One camp, led by Biden and Bloom, represented Obama's political instincts, his sense that something had to be done to help manufacturing workers. Biden "has a very tangible, gut understanding of the importance of manufacturing to the communities across the nation," said Jared Bernstein, Biden's former chief economic adviser. These advisers channeled the views of labor unions and Democratic politicians who saw in manufacturing a way to show workers how government was protecting their jobs.
They wanted more subsidies, to refurbish old factories and turn them into production facilities for electric car batteries and wind power turbines, and more aggressive trade sanctions against China. But then there were Obama's economic advisers — famous academics such as Summers and Christine Romer and financial policymakers such as Timothy F. Geithner — and their faith was in conventional economic theory.
And that meant a preference for unfettered trade. One adviser had written a study defending the importance of offshoring.
And if the government was handing out subsidies to manufacturers, the aides worried that those with the best lobbyists would get them — rather than firms with the best business prospects. More than that, the economists viewed manufacturing as a bit of a distraction, with unemployment still high and fewer than 1 in 10 of the nation's jobs in the industry.
'WE CAN DO IT'
Obama had tapped Bloom, who had spent his career working with displaced steelworkers and other factory hands, to sketch out a manufacturing plan. But in an office outside the White House gates and lacking any real authority, Bloom had struggled to gain traction. "I just found that I wasn't able to get space for it," he recalled.
A year ago, Obama and Bloom sat in the presidential limo winding south toward a manufacturing event in Alexandria. On that ride, Obama made clear that he wanted an ambitious manufacturing strategy. He "wanted this change in administration focus to be real," Bloom said.
In the limo, Obama looked at Bloom and asked, "Why is Germany so successful at running a high-wage manufacturing sector?" The country's culture, Bloom responded. It has a long tradition of job training programs integrated into the fabric of German society. And the country's banks have made a top priority of financing manufacturers. "Why can't we do this?" the president demanded.
Bloom said there are things the United States could do: subsidize research and development, build stronger relationships between universities and companies, better enforce trade laws. The president could use the bully pulpit more, too.
Obama then did something unusual for the professor-president. He offered a view from his gut. "If they can do it," he said, "we can do it."
The president was not just taking a leap of faith as he began to push his team to build a manufacturing plan. He was making a considered judgment, influenced both by political calculation and emerging economic evidence. From centrist Democrats in the House like Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) to old-fashioned liberals in the Senate like Sherrod Brown (Ohio), the president had faced intense pressure to promote domestic manufacturing. Hoyer's motto, "Make it in America," even made it into one of Obama's speeches.
Obama's political advisers reviewed polling data showing the popularity of manufacturing. And, of course, it had special appeal in swing states in the Midwest.
Beyond politics, Obama based his thinking of new economic research and data. Research showed how unfettered free trade with China had led to fewer jobs and lower wages in the United States and outsourcing was depriving the nation of the know-how, production facilities and skilled workforce that is necessary to build the high-tech products of the future.
But he also saw signs that the United States might be able to reverse these trends. China's low-cost advantages were beginning to wane. The auto industry, and manufacturing overall, had started to bounce back after recession lows. Academic research suggested that manufacturing had unique benefits that "spill over," leading to better paying and more secure jobs and benefiting companies down the supply chain. Manufacturing was the one area where business and labor leaders alike agreed progress could be made. "He certainly feels that his economic instinct that there could be a resurgence in manufacturing has been increasingly validated," said Gene Sperling, a Michigan native with a soft spot for manufacturing who replaced Summers as Obama's top economic adviser.
A BUILDING BLOCK
In his State of the Union address earlier this year, Obama invoked manufacturing 15 times — on earlier occasions, he had never mentioned it more than three times — and called it the building block of his economic vision.
Still, the strategy has skeptics. Romer, Obama's former top economist, wrote an op-ed saying the president's case isn't "completely convincing." In an interview, she said it is right for the White House to ask whether manufacturing has special benefits, but said the evidence it cites is "inconclusive." While manufacturing is enjoying a modest rebound from a slide in the recession that was unusually swift, it's not clear the growth will be sustained. Last month, after growing since the end of the recession, the nation's manufacturing activity suddenly started to contract.
What's more, as a result of international competition, wages for many factory jobs are under immense pressure not to rise. And while China might be paying its workers more, U.S. wages are still many multiples of what laborers are paid there. Sperling said the president is optimistic, but understands not every job is coming back. "He doesn't want to over-promise by suggesting we can protect every job from global competition," he said. Still, on the campaign trail lately, Obama has been raising a lot of hopes.
"I bet on American manufacturing," the president said in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday. "What's happening in the auto industry can happen in other industries, and I'm running to make sure it does. I want high-tech manufacturing to take root in places like Cedar Rapids and Newton and Des Moines."
And not just in those places, according to his stump speeches. Obama has said manufacturing can come charging back across Ohio — in Youngstown, Cleveland and Columbus. There's great promise, too, in Pittsburgh, Detroit and Baltimore. And across this land, from Richmond and Charlotte to Chicago and Denver — all places where he's said manufacturing should see a renaissance.
This article originally appeared in The Washington Post.
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Google Blog: A twist in the tale of the Italian Quirinale Palace. "The Quirinale Palace in Rome is one of the world's most renowned heritage sites. Once home to popes it has been the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic since 1946. However, using the words of said President, Sergio Mattarella, the Quirinale Palace is also the 'Home of All Italians'. This is due to its importance for Italian political and institutional life, as well as its incomparable artistic and cultural heritage, representing the genius and creativity of Italians. Google is proud to join forces with the office of the Italian Head of the State to invite everyone — Italians and people from all over the world — to make this place their home."
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h is the height at which the ladders cross (1 meter).
a = (w × h) / y.
y = (h × x) / (x - h).
w = sqrt(22 - x2) = sqrt(4 - x2).
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José Santos León (* 26. April 1961 in Concepción, Chile) ist ein ehemaliger chilenischer Jockey.

José Santos bestritt seine ersten Pferderennen im Club Hípico de Concepción in seiner Heimat Chile. Damit trat er in die Fußstapfen seines Vaters und drei seiner Brüder. 1981 zog er in die Vereinigten Staaten, wo er von 1986 bis 1989 vier Jahre in Folge der Jockey mit den größten Geldgewinnen war. 1988 gewann er den Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey, 1999 bekam er den George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award und 2003 gewann er auf Funny Cide das Kentucky Derby und das Preakness Stakes. Im Jahre 2007 wurde er in die Hall of Fame des amerikanischen Reitsports aufgenommen.

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Company law specialists Erskine may be petite in size but its barristers tackle some cumbersome legal problems in the corporate field.
Erskine's in a class of its own when it comes to company law. The sleek Chancery Lane set sits above the rest of the crowd in the Chambers UK rankings, and its stellar reputation for all things big business sees it win instructions from big City law firms like Freshfields, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells and Skadden.
"The majority of work we handle encompasses our core areas of corporate and corporate insolvency law in both the UK and overseas," senior clerk Chris Reade tells us. "We also do quite a lot of work in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong." (Reade is one half of the senior clerk team, working alongside counterpart Mark Swallow.) Insolvency cases range from the small to billion-dollar spats: four members of Erskine represented the liquidator of Russia's Mezhprombank to maintain a $2 billion freezing order secured against banker Sergei Pugachev (who previously had close links to President Putin) in long-running proceedings against the Russian oligarch, who was accused of misappropriating $2 billion from the bank.
"Solicitors don't always realise we also handle big commercial cases and have strength in restructuring and insolvency."
Erskine's barristers also take on a significant amount of non-contentious advisory work on corporate and financial transactions. Of late, two members advised on the £47 billion acquisition of British Gas by Royal Dutch Shell (with one member acting for each of the parties). Another member advised on the £81 billion proposed takeover of SABMiller by fellow brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev, who in turn got help from two other Erskine tenants.
About a quarter of the set's work revolves around commercial litigation. It encompasses some very high-value cases, including the largest ever fraud case to appear before the English courts: two members are advising Kazakhstan's BTA Bank during a $6 billion fraud dispute with the son of its former chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov. Members also recently acted for Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk in a high-profile breach of contract bust-up with fellow businessmen Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Ihor Kolomoyskyi.
At the end of every seat each supervisor fills out a report on their pupil's progress. While pupils don't get to see these, they do get a six-month check-in with the head of the pupillage committee. The tenancy decision takes place at the nine-month mark; it takes into account every piece of work a pupil has produced and supervisors' reports. Every member of chambers gets a vote. "The simple test is to ask, 'Are they good enough?'" head of pupillage Ben Griffiths tells us. "We want to see someone who is producing consistently excellent work." In 2018 the set retained one of its two pupils as tenants.
Erskine takes up to two pupils per year. "We don't make any offers unless we think the candidate has a real prospect of tenancy," head of the pupillage committee Ben Griffiths says. In practice this meant the set had one pupil in 2014/15, none in 2015/16, one in 2016/17 and two in 2017/18. Getting a foot in the door involves navigating an application form and two rounds of interviews. Chambers aims to see around 12 people for the first interview; candidates are tasked with reading a short case for 20 minutes before being quizzed by two members of chambers. Our sources described this experience as "reasonably testing but not a complete grilling." There are also questions about your CV and past experiences.
Barristers and clerks are on first-name terms and afternoon tea is "good fun, though we've had the same biscuits for about 50 years. You're encouraged to go once a week and although you can use it to run points past people it's generally not a chat about the law." Having a natter isn't just restricted for when the biscuit tin comes out: "Members are encouraged to go into each other's offices and speak with people. And the more senior tenants make time for you," one recent joiner told us. "I'd get bored just staying in my room; the good thing about being a small chambers is that everyone knows each other and that makes this a nice place to work." Mid-week drinks take place intermittently and the firm throws two Christmas parties every year – one's a formal do to which other halves are invited, the other a more casual affair for junior tenants and the clerks.
If you're applying to this set bear in mind that some of the work members do here is giving advice on corporate transactions.
Erskine Chambers is widely recognised as the leading specialist company law set. We have particular expertise in litigation and advisory work in the fields of company law, restructuring and insolvency, financial services and commercial dispute resolution. Much of our work is international and members regularly carry out work involving the Channel Islands, Cayman, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States.
Erskine specialises in company law disputes and advice on corporate transactions, including: mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, corporate governance, shareholder disputes, joint venture disputes and technical company litigation. The work is often complex, high-profile and market-sensitive. A large proportion of our work is litigation at the intersection of company, commercial and insolvency law, including high-value contractual disputes, and civil fraud and asset recovery. We have a strong reputation for both insolvency litigation and corporate restructuring.
We consider candidates with both law and non-law degrees. Approximately half of our recent junior tenants did not read law at university. It is not a prerequisite to have studied company or insolvency law, although candidates who are able to demonstrate some interest in chambers' core practice areas are preferred.
We offer up to two pupillages each year. We have designed our pupillage to provide both an introduction to Erskine's specialist areas and some more general training for commercial/chancery work. Pupils generally sit with four pupil supervisors during the course of the year, and pupil supervisors are selected to ensure that pupils have an opportunity to gain experience in all of Chambers' core practice areas.
We offer both funded and unfunded mini-pupillages. As our work is specialised, we generally offer mini-pupillages only to candidates who are in their final year studying law at university or who are undertaking the GDL. It is not a prerequisite for applying for pupillage to have undertaken a mini-pupillage in chambers, although we encourage those with an interest in pupillage here to apply for a mini-pupillage.
Erskine offers up to two 12-month pupillages each year, each carrying an award of £65,000. Up to £20,000 of the award may be drawn in advance for the BPTC or other postgraduate legal study at the discretion of Chambers.


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Justin Bieber and Marilyn Manson's Feud Has Been Resolved
"Honestly I totally thought we hit it off."
by Melissa Minton
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Justin Bieber sparked an unexpected feud with Marilyn Manson after allegedly using an unauthorized pic of the Prince of Darkness on a T-shirt. What ensued was a colorful recounting of the tale to Consequence of Sound, in which Manson claims that Bieber said he "made Marilyn relevant again." But now, at long last, it seems that the two have patched things up, much for the better of humanity.
Manson went on Howard Stern's radio show on Tuesday to clear the air. The rocker said Bieber reached out to him with the very Bieber-like opening line, "Bro, it's Bieber." Manson then handed his phone over to Stern, who proceeded to enact a dramatic reading of the subsequent messages the musicians exchanged. Bieber's outreach went something like, "What's up with this article? I thought we had a pretty pleasant interaction. Also if anything wasn't squared away with the t-shirts I'm so sorry. Anyway, regardless, it kinda stung seeing that I came off as an a–hole or even was an a–hole. I'm sorry."
To his credit, Manson was just as kind in return. He said, "That was exaggerated. You were just being you. No beef here." Bieber continued apologetically, "Honestly I thought we totally hit it off. Again, my bad. If I was an a–hole that wasn't my intention. Just want you to know that." Manson then calls fake news on the whole thing. "We are cool," he said. "People just made that shirt stuff into a fake feud. Let's turn it upside down and f— the press and do something together. It'll be the best. And don't apologize. You weren't an a–hole. They asked if you were and I sort of agreed. I wasn't out to get you. If you want I'll try to avoid more questions today on Stern. I won't sh-t talk you on Stern." (To be clear, Manson actually said he was a piece of s—, but let bygones be bygones, right?)
And there you have it. Manson even kept his word and laid off Bieber on Howard Stern. Now perhaps Manson will give Biebs a goth makeover as an act of their newfound good will?
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Younger members, a new executive director, more hands-on programs — changes are propelling the Darien/Norwalk YWCA in a new direction.
In this world of spin, the YWCA of Darien/Norwalk is the real deal, a catalyst for the kind of camaraderie that makes larger goals possible. The strategy is deceptively simple: Let social programs for the local membership raise funds to support more far-reaching good works.
While potluck suppers, wine-and-cheese parties, gourmet clubs, playgroups and Lego camp might seem like a somewhat lightweight agenda, the YWCA's social agenda attracts the new generation of young people in town, generating the volunteers and the dollars necessary to run community programs that fulfill its dual mission: to empower women and eliminate racism. Friendships, skillfully encouraged, breed tremendous energy.
"Never underestimate the value of volunteer woman-hours," says outgoing Executive Director Rita Shaughnessy, who is retiring this month at age sixty-one. She passes the baton to a noticeably younger board of directors; seven of the eleven women are in their early to mid-thirties. "Our paid staff consists of an executive director, a program director, a secretary and a receptionist." That frees up most of the money raised to go straight to programs that address a variety of women's issues within the communities of Darien and Norwalk. Board members aside, more than 100 women volunteer every year to fill "take-charge" positions running a long list of activities and planning the major fundraisers. Still other volunteers sign up to do whatever is required.
The Darien branch of the oldest and largest multicultural women's movement in the world is fueled by female power. Stepping inside the venerable white colonial on Old Kings Highway North feels like coming home. In every detail the message communicated is "Welcome!" Its subtext, however, is change.
At a series of recent leadership strategy sessions, discussion revolved around ways to bring the YW effectively into the twenty-first century, combining the best of the old with new ideas. "A redesign of the website is already in progress, as are plans for updating computer technology to meet the standards of the YW's thirty-something new members," says board president Kristin Calve. E-vites and text messaging may be joining e-mail as the preferred communications tools. There might even be a Facebook Welcome Page in the works. "Thousands of organizations," Kristin says, "are using Facebook because it's a great way to connect their membership."
The various community assistance programs are also being reviewed, as are suggestions for more dialogue within the community with regard to race relations. "We've been approached by the Urban League of Southern Connecticut about collaborating with them and with the Community Fund of Darien on a presentation about issues like white privilege and race versus class," Kristin says. "But I want to go beyond us just being talked at." One goal is to encourage YW members to become directly involved in Norwalk and Stamford programs on a person-to-person basis. "I see the future as pretty much a blank slate on which we can be proactive and innovative," she says. "We're going to identify the best new ideas and run with them."
While members range from single or divorced to married or married-with-children, the YW's family-inclusive policies make joining "a no-brainer" for young mothers. "Some are stay-at-home moms," Rita says, "and others have active professional careers."
Over the past six or seven years, reflecting what has been perceived as a younger town demographic (the most recent census was in 2000), most YW newcomers are parents of preschoolers and infants. "These are bright women, very well educated, many of them coming from really high-powered careers. Their generation brings the kind of professional experience which will benefit the YW as it moves into the twenty-first century," Rita says. "I am very excited about the leadership that we now have in place. It's one reason I decided the time was right for me to retire."
On a typical weekday morning, animated conversation and laughter set the stage for scheduled activities; young moms are everywhere. Some arrive with their children for Toddler Time. Others are taking a much-needed break from mothering to enjoy a ballet-stretch class or attend a planning session for an upcoming fundraiser. As the board of directors' president, Kristin stays in direct touch with as many members as possible. At age thirty-five, this mother of a four-year-old, a toddler and a baby daughter looks remarkably unfrazzled.
"It's our three dogs that will put me over the top," Kristin jokes. When she moved to town four years ago, even though her husband Joe was born and raised here and his parents are still active in the community, she needed to establish her own circle of friends. "Everyone said to join the YW's Newcomers Club," she says. "I checked it out and signed up immediately."
The next year, in her first board position, as recording secretary, she saw that her input was valued and that further involvement could be an opportunity not just to socialize but to use professional skills developed during a ten-year career in media. "I saw I could be creative," she says. "I did not have to do things the way my predecessors had done them."
Incoming Newcomers Club president Kerrie Langeveld, age thirty-two, who moved to Darien five years ago from Manhattan, was manager of an operations group at Goldman Sachs. She stopped working after she had her first child, who is now three years old. "New York to Darien is pretty much the typical migration," she says. "After the birth of my daughter, I got that YWCA letter in the mail and the timing was just right."
She began by helping with the spring fundraiser, which supports the YWCA's community service programs (the 2008 event was the Champagne Gala). "I've done this event for the past three years and also helped with other activities," she says. "Then I was asked to head up the Newcomers Club."
Of the YWCA's 694 active members, 171 who joined within the last three years are active in the Newcomers Club, which offers a variety of social options for members and their children. "It can be daunting not to know anybody," Kerrie says. "I remember feeling so nervous and uncomfortable at first; I like the idea of helping other women get over that hump, and I am full of good ideas." If some of those ideas are slightly out-of-the-box, it won't be a problem — this YW welcomes creative thinkers.
To some extent, attracting the necessary leaders is a matter of hitting the right woman with the right job at the right time. "If twenty women show up at a presentation related to our New Directions program," Kerrie says, "and only five choose to become involved, that's an excellent result because those will be five extremely motivated women."
Kristin points out that one of the challenges facing the YWCA right now is getting qualified people on the board of directors and elsewhere. In the past, people were moved up largely based on their contributions related to managing social functions. "But in today's world," she says, "running this kind of organization is much more complex; professional skills are absolutely necessary."
For example, Yakut Akman, age fifty, born and raised in Turkey, is currently finance chairman on the board of directors. An executive at Citicorp, she was invited by Rita Shaughnessy to accept an available position three years ago. "My children were in college," she says. "It was time for me to give back to the community."
Regarding the YW's investment portfolio, she felt things were being handled in an "excessively ladylike" manner. "There were plenty of smart women in prior generations," she says, "but they didn't have the necessary financial background." She describes an initial meeting with the YW's male investment advisor as "a rude awakening" for the gentleman in charge. "He was talking with a woman who understood business," she says. "I brought up questions which challenged the existing portfolio." The changes made have resulted in much better returns on the monies invested.
Yakut describes her involvement with the YWCA as being particularly rewarding given the fact that she is a Muslim in a town where most residents are white and Protestant. "I've met some great people here," she says, "but coming to Darien from London was a huge culture shock."
Cath Highton, age forty-four, a native of England and cochairman of the YW's International Club, can relate. "This town can feel a bit disconnected from the rest of the world," she says. Still, Cath has been impressed by how willing residents are to get involved in matters that have been demonstrated to be important. "People's minds are open," she says, "but we need to get the word out; we have to make sure they get it on their to-do list."
As for working with the YW's new generation of thirty- somethings, Cath appreciates the technological options they've brought with them. "Sign-up sheets, for example, have now been replaced almost 100 percent by e-mail," she says, "which is much more efficient." Both Cath and Yakut consider the mix of age groups to be a definite plus. "Each decade has different perspectives," Cath says. "There's so much we can learn from each other."
Stay-at-home mom Alison Glasband, age thirty, is quick to agree. "I just joined this past January and have found the variety of ages to be very stimulating," she says. "At events we are all connected because we share the same goals. Regardless of age, there are a lot of very cool women involved in the YW."
Of course it helps that Alison's demographic — young moms who chose to give up substantial careers in order to raise a family — is so well represented. "It's difficult to suddenly be staying at home interacting only with a fourteen-month-old baby," she says, "when you were used to being out in the business world." Rather than remaining isolated, Alison has met other moms at the YW who made similar decisions. "We speak the same language," she says.
Alison looks forward to using skills developed during her career in human resources by becoming involved with the YW's community service programs. "For one thing, I know I have to focus on something other than babies' bodily functions," she says ruefully. "And I like the idea of helping other women. My friends and I all want lives that include something additional to mothering."
Jocelyn Graseck, age thirty-two and mother of a twenty-month-old and a newborn baby, agrees. Two years ago she gave up her job as a marketing director at MTV Network, electing instead to raise a family. "That's the right choice for me," she says, pointing out that women of her generation were given a much larger sense of possibility than their mothers were. "My mom was told she could be either a teacher, a nurse or secretary."
Jocelyn notes a similarity in her decision to stay at home to build the same kind of family her mom did. "My mom joined the YW thirty years ago when I was a baby; the women she met became lifetime friends," she says. "I always wanted a life like hers, which is why I came back to Darien. The challenge is to make that life fit the person I've become."
This year Jocelyn will be organizing the wine-and-cheese gatherings with two of her friends. "We're going to have so much fun," she says. "I think it's awesome to pick up the phone and invite somebody to a party just the way somebody once invited me." The difference between volunteering and working at a job, she notes, is the freedom to choose exactly how much she wants to do.
"Right now, in a weird way," she says, "the YW is helping me out. I don't know what I would do on Thursdays without my son's playgroup, where he is so happy and all the other moms have become my close friends. Later on, when he's a bit older, I see myself getting involved in a much larger way. I want to help others the way I am being helped."
Meanwhile, a search committee is interviewing candidates for the YW's new executive director. Rita Shaughnessy looks forward to offering support during the transition. Her advice to her successor? "Get to know the leadership of other nonprofits in town and in the area," she says. "Local directors are a real resource. We are each other's best sounding boards because we deal with many of the same concerns."
Effective September 30 Rita will begin to fulfill a promise she made to her husband to help administratively with his rapidly growing psychology practice. "Actually, I plan to be an active volunteer, both for the YW and elsewhere," she says. "We moved to Stratford two years ago, but I never really had a chance to take a good look around. I like the idea of being a volunteer. Hey, I've reaped the benefits; now it's time to return the favor."
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Residents of Scotland will have a chance to decide whether to remain part of the United Kingdom in a historic referendum vote Thursday, which is in stark contrast with the opposition Hong Kong faces as it seeks greater democracy from Beijing.
People officially resident in Scotland will vote in a referendum to decide whether to split from the U.K. and the events leading up to the vote have been peaceful, with both sides exercising reason rather than force to appeal to voters.
London is promising greater autonomy and sustained levels of state funding to woo Scotland instead of intimidation, which guarantees amity whatever the referendum results will be.
In contrast, Hong Kong faces opposition from Beijing in its attempt to seek a greater say in the 2017 leadership vote for the territory's chief executive.
Hong Kong's fight for universal suffrage has been branded as an anti-China movement or a campaign for independence, which, if necessary, critics say, could be used by Beijing as an excuse for putting Hong Kong under martial law.
The number of Hong Kong residents seeing themselves as Chinese nationals is on the decline, while an increasing number of them say they are nostalgic about the days as a former British colony.
Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, proposed political reform before its handover to China in 1997, which marked a big step forward for Hong Kong toward democracy.
However, just 17 years after Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule, Beijing nipped democracy in the bud and went against its formula of "one country, two systems" adopted in dealing with Hong Kong.


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I live in the South and occasionally wear a pink shirt, but I've always wondered what color tie goes best with it. Does the color of the suit matter?
So many colors go well with a pink shirt, I almost don't know where to start, but how about green? Next on my list would probably be navy and brown. Orange is hard but not impossible; red is. I'd probably never wear a pink shirt with a black suit. There's something about black that just cries out for white.


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ARC Future Fellow, Professor Michael Breadmore, who is based at the University of Tasmania, has spent his research career working to simplify and speed up the analysis of chemical and biological samples, with an increasing emphasis on miniaturisation.
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App for police reports
Australia would benefit from an app or website for reporting parking and traffic violations (Singapore has such a website) and rating drivers. It would make police work easier, and the greater probability of getting caught would deter illegal parking and dangerous driving. To prevent frivolous reports from overloading the system, people should make the report under their own name, which requires proving their identity to get an account on the app. Proving identity online is easy in countries with a national ID system like Estonia, but may require more red tape in Australia.
The app should allow uploading proof of the violation, for example a photo of an illegally parked vehicle or a dashcam video of someone's dangerous driving. There should also be an option of uploading a signed statutory declaration describing the crime. In summary, the app should make it as easy as possible to prosecute a violator, so it should follow legal procedure and standards of evidence as much as possible.
The current system of calling the police non-emergency number to report small infringements is slow and cumbersome. For example if the answerer of the call does not understand the address, or the problem does not have a clear address (e.g. a car parked in the middle of a nature park), then it takes time and frustration to explain the place at which the law is being broken. An app could easily solve the address issue by allowing automatic location tracking. The current system of reporting by phone also has no way for a caller to provide evidence that someone is breaking the law.
Privacy laws in Australia are sometimes unreasonably strict. Even emergency services cannot see the location of the mobile phone from which they receive a call (https://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/emergency-call-service-faq-i-acma) Such draconian privacy laws may prevent the uploading of proofs of violations, e.g. photos of illegally parked vehicles. Statutory declarations testifying to someone's lawbreaking probably do not infringe on the lawbreaker's privacy, so do not bring legal trouble to the person reporting the violation. Uploading declarations could be used as a first step to make the app useful for prosecution.
The app could also allow positive feedback, i.e. praising polite drivers. If this feedback is verifiable, because the users of the app have proved their identity, then a person applying for a driving job (bus, taxi, lorry) could use a good rating on the app to prove being a safe driver. This would be a selling point in the job interview.
Philosophically, policing anything means that the community agrees to impose punishments for certain behaviours. This sanctioning may be delegated to specialised workers like police officers, judges, prison wardens. The app for reporting violations could be used for distributed policing instead, meaning that anyone in the community can use the app to check the past feedback on others who they interact with. Then the community members can respond in the interaction according to the feedback they see, for example avoid trusting someone with who has been repeatedly reported for lawbreaking. Such a verifiable feedback system then rewards good past behaviour and punishes the breaking of social norms.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged automation, computer, crime, law, society on 2018-10-25 by sanhei.
"Relative to opportunity" evaluation and anti-discrimination laws
Most countries have some anti-discrimination laws, requiring employers to pay people with different productivities equally, or to give someone who took parental leave their job back after they return. One reason why unequally productive people are paid equally is evaluation "relative to opportunity", i.e. the bar for a promotion or a raise is lower for someone from a historically disadvantaged group or who has family responsibilities. Suppose that there is a consensus in society for supporting certain groups. Why might the cost of this support be placed only on specific employers, namely those who employ the target group? Why doesn't the support take the form of direct subsidies from the government to the target group, financed by taxing all employers equally?
An explanation from political economy is as follows. Clever people in society or government want to pay a larger subsidy to high-income members of the target group, perhaps because the clever people are themselves high-income and belong to the target group. However, the majority of voters would not like high-income people getting a bigger subsidy. So the clever people disguise the subsidy as something that looks equal, namely every member of the target group gets the same duration of parental leave, the same guarantee of their job back at the end of leave, the same privileges and special treatment for promotions and raises. The value of these guarantees and privileges is greater for higher-paying jobs. For example, a promotion from a high-paying job usually gives a bigger salary increase than from a low-paying job. A guarantee of getting a high-paying job back after parental leave is worth more than a guaranteed low-paid job. Thus the support provided to the high-income members of the target group is more valuable.
Further, productivity at a high-income job is typically more responsive to the employee's human capital, and the skills deteriorate faster. A truck driver who has not driven for some years retains a greater fraction of driving ability than a surgeon retains from surgical technique after not operating for the same number of years. The productivity difference between an employee returning from parental leave and someone continuously employed is on average greater for higher-paying jobs. So the cost to an employer of keeping a job for a returning employee instead of hiring a new person is greater if the job is higher-paid. The subsidy to the high-income members of the target group thus costs more per person.
Income is positively correlated with intelligence, so the smart members of the target group are likely the wealthy members who benefit from this kind of unequal subsidy. They are likely to vote and campaign in favour of the unequal support, instead of an equal cash subsidy for everyone. The less smart members of the target group who lose from an unequal subsidy (compared to an equal one) are less likely to understand that they lose. This makes them abstain from opposing the unequal subsidy.
In effect, the smart members of the target group redistribute a baseline-equal subsidy from the less smart (and less wealthy) to themselves, at the social cost of losing some efficiency in the economy. Keeping a job for someone when a more productive potential hire is available means losing the difference in the productivities of the two people. Such efficiency losses are typical of re-distributive policies that are not cash transfers.
In principle, the cost of the current policies could still be equally distributed between employers by taxing them all and subsidising those who employ the target group. Or equivalently, taxing only those who don't employ the target group. However, to equalise the cost to employers, the firms employing highly-paid members of the target group must be compensated more than the ones employing low-paid members. The differential compensation to firms would call attention to the unequal support that people with different incomes are receiving, thus weakening the disguise of the subsidy. The clever people want to avoid that, so do not campaign for equalising the costs of anti-discrimination laws across employers.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged being and seeming, economic theory, law, political economy, society, taxes on 2018-03-04 by sanhei.
Would a protest influence you?
Help, a politician I don't like is in power! I should do something about it. But what? I know! I will join a protest – this is something. Now I can feel good about myself for having done something. And post on social media how I opposed evil so effectively. I am a socially conscious, altrustic person.
On a more serious note, one way to evaluate whether a given protest could change the situation is to put yourself in the position of the target audience. If your favourite politician was in power, would this protest change your support for said politician? If you were the politician in power, would you change your policy when many opponents use this protest against it?
Even if the answer is no, a protest may still have some effect, because it may change the preferences of the swing voters. The "no" may come from deeply ideological people, whereas more open-minded folks may conform to the herd. If they see many people opposed to something, they may start to oppose it too.
On the other hand, a protest may have the opposite effect to the one intended. It may harden ideological positions and increase polarisation. If the majority is weakly in favour of a policy, then protests against it may strengthen the support of the majority for it, leading to greater turnout and more yes-votes.
From an economic viewpoint, marching on the street with signs, chanting slogans or commenting on social media has no direct impact on politicians or most voters. The exception is those who are stuck in a traffic jam when a protest closes a street. Rational agents should not pay attention to protests which do not affect them (such activism is "cheap talk" in economic jargon, or at best "money burning").
Real people may be swayed by the opinion of a large crowd. However, a form of protest that has an objective impact on people's lives is likely to influence people more, because it affects them via both the opinion of the crowd and the direct impact. Both the belief shift and the hardening of the opposition are probably greater.
There are many illegal means of directly affecting the population, but also some legal forms of protest with objective impact. Economic protest is boycotting certain countries, firms or goods, refusing to work for the regime, and moving elsewhere ("voting with one's feet"), and is usually legal. The objective impact is that if enough intelligent and hardworking people shift their spending and taxpaying elsewhere, then the regime will be in fiscal trouble. If this does not change the policy of the leadership, then at least the lack of money will make the program harder to carry out.
There is a larger personal cost for economic protest than for cheap talk. One has to give up certain goods, or pay more, or experience the hassle of moving residence. This is why most people who threaten to boycott a firm or leave a country do not end up doing so. The threats are just another form of cheap talk, which can be posted on social media to impress other cheap talkers.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged democracy, economics, law, politics, protest on 2017-03-18 by sanhei.
Organ trade restrictions
Trade in human body parts is mostly forbidden, although donations without compensation or for "coverage of reasonable costs" are allowed. One reason is that trade creates the incentive for criminals to harvest organs against people's will. In the worst case, a young and healthy person is killed to get all their marketable body parts. Another problem is that stupid people may sell their organs voluntarily and later regret it.
The dangers differ depending on how damaging the removal of the organ is. Trade in hearts encourages killing more than trade in donor blood, although even for blood a victim can be drained completely if the price is high enough. For criminals, the complexity of organ removal and how fast it needs to be delivered to the recipient also matter. It would make sense for the restrictions and punishments to correspond to the danger of organ robbery and the associated damage.
The one tissue type currently transferred between people for which organ robbery and overdonation seem nonissues is sperm. Forcing someone to donate against their will is possible, but causes no permanent damage (in my medically ignorant opinion). Too frequent donations lower the quality (number of cells per unit of volume) in a detectable way, which would make most robbed sperm unmarketable. Yet payment for donor sperm is still forbidden in Australia (Human Tissue Act 1982) and many other countries. This may be a knee-jerk extension of the laws against trade in human organs, or there may be some reason I have missed.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged crime, incentives, law, social norm, society on 2016-07-31 by sanhei.
Of bicycle bells
In Australia, it is compulsory to have a bell or horn on a bike to warn other road users. This seems strange, because when cycling, hands are in use, but the mouth is not. So it would make sense to use the mouth to produce sounds, leaving the hands for steering. Perhaps a better law would require cyclists to be able to produce the bell or horn sound, giving them the choice of whether to use their mouth or a device for this.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged bicycle, law on 2015-08-26 by sanhei.


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Editor's Picks: 2019 Contemporary Classical Albums
With the year and the decade coming to a close, it's time for everyone's "Best of" lists. Recognizing that this practice is highly subjective, I've once again opted to call my list of 2019 contemporary classical albums "Editor's Picks" instead of the "best" of anything. This is not to diminish the quality of the projects highlighted below, but rather to acknowledge that my personal feelings of course influence the process of boiling a year's worth of releases down to a highlight reel.
When I took the editorial helm of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN in 2017, I made a conscious decision to use this space to advocate for racial and gender equity and to create a platform for those who have been historically marginalized in classical music. This guides all of my editorial decision-making, and the albums I am singling out this year reflect these editorial priorities.
I released my first end of the year "Editor's Picks" list in 2018, and it's fascinating to see the differences that naturally occurred in my 2019 picks. Last year, multi-composer projects stole my heart and remained in my ears, but this year, solo albums largely reigned supreme. In no particular order, here are the 2019 contemporary classical albums that I believe are deserving of your time and your attention.
Because Patterns – Isaac Schankler
Because Patterns (Aerocade Music) is dedicated to the electroacoustic works of L.A.-based composer Isaac Schankler performed by the Ray-Kallay Duo (pianists Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay), bassist Scott Worthington, violinist Sakura Tsai, and pianist Nadia Shpachenko. Schankler is Assistant Professor of Music at Cal Poly Pomona in addition to their practice as a composer, accordionist, and electronic musician.
Schankler's voice on Because Patterns proves to be highly episodic, allowing the listener to live in each distinct sound world for just the right amount of time before gently ushering us into the next unique sonic space (Because Patterns/Deep State). Featuring electronics that begin as a mere foil for acoustic sound, yet eventually rise to the role of equal partner (Mobile I) alongside lush, nostalgic piano writing (Future Feelings), this album displays Schankler's versatility in electroacoustic composition.
Because Patterns by Isaac Schankler
Eleanor Alberga String Quartets 1, 2, & 3
Eleanor Alberga – String Quartets 1, 2, & 3 (Navona Records) features Ensemble Arcadiana (Thomas Bowes, Jacqueline Shave, Oscar Perks, Andres Kaljuste, and Jonathan Swensen) performing the complete collection of string quartets by British-Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga. With large commissions from the BBC Proms and The Royal Opera under her belt, this album brings us into the more intimate world of Alberga's chamber music output.
Alberga's String Quartet No. 1 (1993) and String Quartet No. 2 (1994) sizzle with rhythmic vitality and meander with serene lyricism. While an infectious energetic angularity permeates the first two quartets, her String Quartet No. 3 (2001) exhibits a more restrained and complex character, though flecks of the vivacity from her earlier quartets occasionally glimmer through. Ensemble Arcadiana gives committed performances throughout and makes a strong case for Alberga's permanent inclusion in the string quartet canon.
Elegies for Theremin & Voice – Carolina Eyck
Released in the centennial year of the invention of the theremin, German-Sorbian performer-composer Carolina Eyck's Elegies for Theremin & Voice (Butterscotch Records) includes 10 newly-composed works specifically for the LP format. Dedicated to her friend Wiebke and her uncle Mercin, the album explores themes of mortality and loss while demonstrating Eyck's unmatched theremin technique and keen compositional ear.
While some of Eyck's Elegies exhibit the expected somber and reflective character of the genre, others are almost celebratory in nature. Throughout the album, the voice and the theremin are brilliantly set in both harmonious polyphonic counterpoint ("Uncle") and stark, direct opposition (Duet I & II). Eyck's savvy use of wordless vocalizations and mastery of the theremin allow the haunting, voice-like instrument to seamlessly weave between blending into the acoustic vocal textures and shining forth as a worthy solo instrument.
Fanm d'Ayiti – Nathalie Joachim
Fanm d'Ayiti (New Amsterdam) is the debut solo album from Haitian-American flutist, composer, and vocalist Nathalie Joachim. Performing on vocals, flute, and electronics, Joachim is joined by the Chicago-based Spektral Quartet (Clara Lyon, Maeve Feinberg, Doyle Armbrust, and Russell Rolen). Translating to "Women of Haiti" in English, Fanm d'Ayiti features arrangements of traditional Haitian songs and songs from famed Haitian vocalist Emerante de Pradines alongside original music by Joachim and recorded interviews.
Nominated for a GRAMMY award in the Best World Music Album category, Fanm d'Ayiti is one of the most personal and genuine albums released this year. The album ranges from delightfully off-kilter ostinati accompanying the girl's choir from her family's village of Dantan ("Alléluia" from Suite pour Dantan) to stripped down unaccompanied vocals (Lamizè Pa Dous) to the voices of influential women professing, "Have faith in yourself and keep going…don't ever feel inferior." Part ethnomusicological exploration and part personal discovery, Fanm d'Ayiti is an absolute triumph.
Fanm d'Ayiti by Nathalie Joachim
in the garden – Anaïs Maviel
in the garden (Gold Bolus Recordings) is a recorded live performance by New York-based vocalist, percussionist, composer, writer, and community facilitator Anaïs Maviel from the 2018 OBEY Convention in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her work operates at the intersection of music, visual art, dance, theater, and performance art, and she is a 2019 Van Lier Fellow.
Featuring Maviel on voice, kamele n'goni, lyra, surdo, singing bowl, and piano, in the garden demonstrates an incredible array of instrumental and vocal timbres. The often minimalist accompaniment highlights Maviel's text declaration, which is microtonal yet direct, strained yet uninhibited, stuttering and fried yet assured ("i am you" and "in the garden"). On the tracks with no text, Maviel creates evocative landscapes that reward deep and repeated listening (including the aptly titled "listening"). As a live recording, in the garden draws us closer to Maviel's practice and provides an intimacy that is difficult to replicate in the recording studio.
in the garden by anaïs maviel
Oor – TAK Ensemble
With the release of their third album Oor, the New York-based TAK Ensemble (Laura Cocks, flute; Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet; Charlotte Mundy, voice; Marina Kifferstein, violin; and Ellery Trafford, percussion) marked the launch of their new label TAK editions. While TAK's first two releases were portrait albums of works by a single composer (Taylor Brook and Mario Diaz de Leon), Oor takes a multi-composer approach, featuring six works written primarily for the ensemble by Tyshawn Sorey, Erin Gee, Natacha Diels, David Bird, Ann Cleare, and Ashkan Behzadi.
As one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music, TAK's command of the performance theatrics necessary in this genre shines even on a recording. Jam-packed with wild instrumental pyrotechnics (Sorey's Ornations) alongside clever moments of vocal fry imitating bow overpressure (Gee's Mouthpiece 28), a violin harmonic gliss tailing the accelerated whoosh of a whispered crescendo (Behzadi's Az Hoosh mi..), and letter names of notes sung on the incorrect pitches (Diels' The Colors Don't Match), TAK and their composer collaborators have developed one of the most distinct and eclectic releases of the year.
Oor by TAK
Pleasure Island – Tim Parkinson
Pleasure Island marks British experimental composer Tim Parkinson's debut on the Slip imprint. Featuring Parkinson on keyboards, stylophones, drums, percussion, midi, electronics, sounds, and vocals, he is joined by Dawn Bothwell, Suze Whaites, Laurie Tompkins, and Francesca Fargion on additional vocals to create a choir of the absurd at the mercy of dangerously catchy minimalist electronics.
The beauty of Pleasure Island is Parkinson's ability to transform crude and discarded objects into something magical. Layered vocal lines render text incomprehensible over frenetic drumming and Atari-like interjections that transform into Christmas carols ("Beginning Middle End"), innocuously sinister elevator music accompanies unenthused and approximate vocal groans until stabs of lo-fi electronics break down the door ("Skip"), and hypnotic glitchy loops take us for a ride on a broken down carousel of junky sounds.
Pleasure Island by Tim Parkinson
South of the Circle – Siggi String Quartet
South of the Circle is the debut album from Siggi String Quartet (Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, violin; Helga Þóra Björgvinsdóttir, violin; Þórunn Ósk Marínósdóttir, viola; and Sigurður Bjarki Gunnarsson, cello). On this Sono Luminus release, the Reykjavik-based quartet presents five works by Icelandic composers Daníel Bjarnason, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Mamiko Dís Ragnarsdóttir, Haukur Tómasson, and Siggi's own Una Sveinbjarnardóttir.
The works on South of the Circle range from expansive landscapes (Stillshot) to jubilant minimalism (Nebraska) to miniatures that capture the idiosyncrasies of each instrument (Opacity). When putting together a multi-composer project such as South of the Circle, credit often goes to the ensemble for commissioning an album's worth of new music. However, while not all of the pieces on this album were written explicitly for them, Siggi String Quartet proves here that the art of curation is just as important as the act of commissioning.
Tachitipo – Zosha Di Castri
Tachitipo (New Focus Recordings) marks the debut release from Canadian composer, pianist, and sound artist Zosha Di Castri, featuring chamber and solo works performed by Ekmeles, Talea Ensemble, JACK Quartet, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, and pianist Julia Den Boer. The album also includes a special bonus video track of percussionist Diego Espinosa Cruz Gonzalez performing how many bodies have we to pass through, a work he co-composed with Di Castri.
Tachitipo has a little bit of everything—vocal ensemble music that is at once contemporary and reminiscent of the past (The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named), the sounds of a manual typewriter realized through piano and percussion (Tachitipo), and a constantly shifting string quartet that pushes the synchrony capabilities of a chamber ensemble (Quartet No. 1). Tachitipo is not easy listening, but those up for the challenge will find satisfaction in venturing outside of conventional formal boundaries to uncover the motivic and timbral through-lines that unify each work.
Zosha Di Castri: Tachitipo by Zosha Di Castri
Teenages – Qasim Naqvi
Teenages is the most recent release from Pakistani-American composer and drummer Qasim Naqvi on the experimental Erased Tapes label. Dedicated entirely to works written for an analog modular synthesizer that he built over the span of two years, Teenages is Naqvi's first non-soundtrack solo album, with previous releases spanning music for film, dance, and theatre in addition to several releases with his trio Dawn of Midi.
To me, the most captivating thing about modular synth is the patient, kaleidoscopic transformations that take their time in revealing themselves. On Teenages, this is apparent in the gentle unfurling of the overtone series from a single fundamental pitch ("Intermission"), the additive process of layering complex polyrhythms ("Palace Workers"), and the throbbing drones that blossom into complete harmonies ("Artilect"). The album culminates in the eponymous "Teenages," an almost symphonic work of 18 minutes that builds on the concepts from the significantly shorter previous tracks and explores the full capabilities of this custom-built instrument. Teenages is a highly succesful solo album and a welcome addition to Naqvi's discography.
Teenages by Qasim Naqvi
Aerocade MusicAnais MavielAnn CleareAshkan BehzadiBecause PatternsButterscotch RecordsCarolina EyckDaniel BjarnasonDavid BirdDiego Espinosa Cruz GonzálezEkmelesEleanor AlbergaElegies for Theremin & VoiceEnsemble ArcadianaErased TapesErin GeeFanm d'AyitiGold Bolus RecordingsHaukur Tómassonin the gardenIsaac SchanklerJACK QuartetJulia Den boerMamiko Dís RagnarsdóttirNadia ShpachenkoNatacha DielsNathalie JoachimNavona RecordsNew AmsterdamNew Focus RecordingsOorPleasure IslandQasim NaqviRay-Kallay DuoSakura TsaiScott WorthingtonSiggi String QuartetSlipSono LuminusSouth of the CircleSpektral QuartetTachitipoTAK EditionsTAK EnsembleTalea EnsembleTeenagesthe International Contemporary EnsembleTim ParkinsonTyshawn SoreyUna SveinbjarnardóttirValgeir SigurðssonYarn/WireZosha Di Castri
Amanda Cook is an editor, writer, and arts administrator living in Boston. She is editor-in-chief of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
This week: concerts in New York (December 9, 2019 – December 15, 2019)
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Q: CFG: Why is this grammar ambiguous? The grammar is as follows.
S -> SS' | a | b
S' -> a | b

The way I understand it, derivations from this grammar will be like SS'S'S'S'... (0 or more S'), where each S or S' will generate a or b.
Can someone provide an example that shows this grammar is ambiguous? (The solution says it is.)

A: It isn't ambiguous.  Your analysis is correct.
Here's a mechanical check of your grammar (reshaped for our tool):
S = S Sprime ;
S = a ;
S = b ;
Sprime = a ;
Sprime = b ;

Execution of tool:
C:\DMS\Domains\DMSStringGrammar\Tools\ParserGenerator>run ParserGenerator.P0B -interactive C:\
DMS GLR Parser Generator 2.4.1
Copyright (C) 1997-2018 Semantic Designs, Inc.
Opening C:\temp\Example.bnf
*** EOF seen
<<<Rule Collection Completed>>>
NTokens = 5 NRules = 5
LR(1) Parser Generator -- Find Follow and SLR Lookahead sets
Computing MemberSets for Nonterminal Tokens...

What next? ambiguities 100
Print results where (<CR> defaults to console)?
Default paper width: 80
How wide should the printout be (<CR> selects default)?
*** Search for ambiguities to depth 100

Nonterminal < Sprime > is not ambiguous
*** Search for ambiguities to depth 1; trying 2 rule pairs...
*** Search for ambiguities to depth 2; trying 2 rule pairs...
*** Search for ambiguities to depth 3; trying 2 rule pairs...
*** Search for ambiguities to depth 4; trying 2 rule pairs...
Nonterminal < S > is not ambiguous [modulo rule derivation loops]

*** 0 ambiguities found ***
*** All ambiguities in grammar detected ***

This tool is rather overkill for grammar with two nonterminals.   But when somebody gives a set of 200 nonterminals it is much harder to do by hand.
(For theorists: this tool obviously can't decide this for all grammars.
It uses a recursive iterative deepening search in the space of nonterminal expansions to look of duplicate/ambiguous expansions.  That's works pretty well in pratice).

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@Imperious Leader : Please, stop making yourself look like an a$$. Â The ONLY one who appears to be a "Troll" here is you with the childish inflammatory PUBLIC messages; Â And to top it off you're making the entire forum reak to the rest of the gaming community by pulling this kind of garbage.
I used to have a modicum of respect for you. That is gone at this point.
Let's face it IL. Â You continually replying to these messages in this manner makes you look just as bad (if not worse). Â None of these replies have ANYTHING to do with the topic(s) at hand.
Feeding trolls (or supposed trolls) is bad, k?
If you ask me, I think you did a pretty darn good job on that modification to make a Japanese tank into an Italian tank! Maybe just trim the barrel back a tiny little bit and once you've painted them I don't think it'll even be readily noticable that it was modded!
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My color is a little off.


New Vitae Wellness and Recovery was honored to to sponsor a blood donation drive on September 11th, 2017 that commemorated the efforts of local First Responders and benefitted Miller-Keystone Blood Center. Mike Buser, a New Vitae Wellness and Recovery employee and the Safety Officer of Quakertown's 8705 Fire Police, was on-hand for the drive with one of the unit's specialized fire vehicles. During the event, those who donated blood had the opportunity to see the vehicle and hear more about the amazing work of local first responders.
Those who donated also had the opportunity to learn how their blood could be used to help others in an emergency. For each donation, up to three individuals' lives may be saved. We are very proud to be able to assist our local community in a time of need!
All of the individuals who donated were entered to win a prize of dinner and a movie for two people. Special congratulations to Brianna Norton for being the day's winner! Following the event, New Vitae Wellness and Recovery will be donating two radios to Quakertown's 8705 Fire Police for their continued service to our community.
Special thanks to everyone who donated blood and to everyone who assisted with the day's events, including Jennifer Leatherman and Mike Buser! We look forward to hosting another drive in the future!


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Smart homes – get your application in!
The SmartHomes scheme is offering a grant (no repayment required) of up to £6000 for energy efficiency upgrades to your home – exactly the kinds of upgrades we've been encouraging to make your home more comfortable and kinder on the environment.
This scheme is available only in north London, thanks to special funding from DECC (the Department for Energy and Climate Change). It's open to residents of Haringey, Camden, Islington, Hackney, Waltham Forest and Enfield, and is being organised jointly by those boroughs.
It was a complex scheme to set up, and to be honest, the process was a bit cumbersome and slow for the first homeowners who decided to start the application process. However, the teams involved have been streamlining and improving the way it works. We've been doing our bit, along with other groups, to provide feedback to the scheme, which could potentially be a model for other parts of the country.
As ever, our small print applies – this information is provided in good faith and does not constitute a recommendation by any of the organisations or individuals participating in 21stCenturyHomes activities. Like many other local organisations, we are receiving some funding from SmartHomes to cover the costs of the information sessions/activities we are providing to support this council-led initiative.
I would like to make an application. What should I do next?