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How to Spot an Exit Scam: 4 Ways to Identify a Phony ICO
Don't let scammers make off with your money.
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Shaun Newsum
CEO of ICO Watchdog
With the global cryptocurrency market now valued at over $250 billion, it's no surprise that bad actors are working to exploit such a lucrative sector of the economy. Fraudsters have stolen nearly $100 million from unsuspecting cryptocoin investors, according to reports.
Related: After Marketing 70 ICOs, I've Witnessed the Most Common Mistakes. Here They Are.
One of the most common grifts is what's known as an exit scam, a process by which sinister entrepreneurs seek investments for an exciting new cryptocurrency, only to make off with investors' funds without ever delivering an initial coin offering (ICO). Earlier this year, a Vietnamese crypto company called Modern Tech stole $660 million from roughly 32,000 people in a single exit scam.
While exit scams are no doubt a major problem the still-nascent crypto market has to contend with, there are several steps investors can take to protect themselves from falling victim to fraudsters. Here are four tips to help you identify and avoid a possible phony ICO:
1. Be wary of unrealistic promises.
In the world of investing, there's no such thing as a sure thing. One way of recognizing a possible scam early on is to take notice of when you're being offered something that sounds too good to be true.
Is someone telling you you'll get a massive return right off the bat, or guaranteeing that you'll turn a profit in the end? That's a pretty good early warning sign that things might not be legit.
Along the same lines, bad faith "token" creators will sometimes claim they've already raised millions of dollars in an attempt to make you feel like you're missing out on a golden opportunity. If this happens, ask to speak to some of the other investors.
Related: Should You Launch an ICO to Raise Money for Your Startup?
2. Vet the personnel.
You'll want to research the key people involved with the ICO. This way, you'll be able to sleep soundly with the knowledge that you're giving your money to a quality team that's capable of delivering the goods.
If an investment opportunity is valid, chances are the ICO team will include several people with cryptocurrency experience, or at least a history of working in finance and/or technology. If the ICO team is two guys who've never managed so much as a company softball team, you may want to look elsewhere.
More sophisticated scammers will fraudulently claim that their ICO is backed by trusted names in the cryptocurrency space. Double-check LinkedIn to make sure that the people who are allegedly working on the project actually list the ICO on their pages. If their profiles don't mention the currency you're about to invest in, that's a pretty big red flag.
3. Look under the hood.
Since exit scams are peddling nothing more than vaporware, ask to see the underlying software that token creators are trying to get you to invest in.
Check GitHub to see if your prospective investment opportunity is listed there, as most crypto projects should be open source. Healthy cryptocurrencies will also usually have a Telegram group where you can ask detailed questions about how the token will function. If all else fails, you can always ask the token creators to show you a prototype.
Related: 5 Signs an Initial Coin Offering Is a Scam
4. Make sure they're following best practices with your money.
Even if everything else seems legitimate, it's crucial to ensure that token creators are handling your investment funds properly.
One major red flag is if your ICO contributions are being sent directly to a trading exchange account on a site like Binance, which lets token creators automatically cash out any funds you've deposited. Essentially, this empowers token creators to take off with your money without any accountability for how your funds are used.
Another thing to watch for is how thoroughly the ICO company vets the money you're investing. Token creators should be following Anti-Money Laundering (AML) procedures to ensure that they're not receiving your money illegally. In addition, you'll also want to make sure that the company requires you to provide identification that allows them to comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) laws.
If the token creators are not following these best practices, then they are not in compliance with the law, and if they're not in compliance with the law, you shouldn't be giving them your money.
While scammers will always exist wherever there's money to be made, this shouldn't deter you from participating in the cryptocurrency market. By taking some precautions, you'll be able to protect yourself from possible crypto fraudsters, which will help you invest with real confidence.


Is it possible that children can be both the best and the worst thing for a marriage? Once children enter the picture, parents often throw themselves into kids' activities with enthusiasm that seems to add depth and interest to the relationship as they see themselves happily engaged in building their perfect family. Over time this kid-centric focus wears on both parents – who have no time for their own social life with other adults, and children – who are overscheduled and unable to entertain themselves without parental involvement. After a decade of playing tag team with kids activities, parents often have grown distant from each other just when their kids begin to see them as an embarrassment and want more social independence. To avoid divorce it may be wiser to ignore your kids and focus on the relationship rather than to focus on your kids and ignore the relationship….or strive for a happy medium!


The Central Library of the University was established in 1911 inside the Administrative Block. The present Central Library building was built in 1978 and in 1996 a new block was added. The covered area of Central Library is 4012.11 Sq. Mtrs.
Resources in Medicine (ERMED-India) Consortium, New Delhi, India Which we able to access 242 high quality online e-journals from five leading Publishers.
The Central Library has a collection of 39353 books, 28180 bound volumes, 2681 Book Bank, 3207 Thesis and 1088 CD's till March 2018 (as per holding shown on KOHA-Library Management Software) and the Central Library Subscribed 180 print-Journals, 993 e-journals, 4108 e-books, 52157 video's and 3836137 image's for the year of 2018.
Library has been automated with 'KOHA' (Library Management Software). Online searching of documents through OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) is available on the computers connected to Central Library LAN via URL searching mode http://172.16.26.35 All the books, journals and thesis are tagged with radio-frequency identification system (RFID) and for its Security to Magnetic Detection Gates have been installed in the Library for ensuring the security of documents. Closed Circuit TV's installation have been done in all wings of the library.
With the efforts of former Vice Chancellor, Prof. Hari Gautam and the then Honorary Librarian Prof Madhu Mati Goel, the renovation of the Central Library was done during the year 2007-10. Today, the reading rooms are attractive and the facade of the library is very pleasant.
In 2014, Prof. Ravi Kant, Vice Chancellor, gave a massive thrust to the library by increasing the library budget many folds. With the goal of updating the library and making it at world-class level, the library purchased a large number of valuable and prestigious books and journals (online and print). A new renovated section of keeping the journals was also commissioned.


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The Palestinian Authority President has called a halt to an aggressive PR attack that was launched against the State of Qatar three weeks ago. Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential decree "prohibiting the official media and spokespersons of the PLO, Palestinian National Authority and Fatah Movement from abusing the Qatari Prince [Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani] and the Qatari government". The PA had launched the media offensive in the wake of the publication of the so-called "Palestine Papers" by Doha-based Al Jazeera Television and Britain's Guardian newspaper.
According to the decree, any response to the leaked documents must now be limited to "refuting allegations and lies" where it is justified by "the PA's desire to maintain good relations with all Arab countries".
The documents exposed the significant concessions made by the PA's negotiators to their Israeli counterparts on matters of national concern to the people of Palestine, such as the right of refugees to return to their land and the status of the Holy City of Jerusalem. Since the publication of the leaks, the Chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, has resigned from his position.
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Markets continue to rally while Washington hits a new low.
Victory for Democrat candidates in the Georgia run-offs has seen the party take de-facto control of the US Senate, with Vice President Harris set to act as the tie-breaker in an evenly divided assembly.
At the time of the November elections, this seemed to represent a relatively unlikely scenario in the eyes of many commentators, yet it appears that the behaviour of outgoing President Trump has only served to rally the Democrat base and drive-up the turnout in blue-leaning districts. With the incoming Biden Administration now having authority over all three branches of the Executive, this has seen investors react to a perceived 'blue wave' by pushing Treasury yields higher and the yield curve steeper.
We would concur with the sentiment that this result should lead to a more fiscally expansive outcome than under a GoP-controlled Senate and have been highlighting upside risks from a more assertive fiscal stance with Yellen at the Treasury for the past couple of months. The ability for the Democrats to control what is debated on the Senate floor should also help to eliminate deadlock, even if we believe that it is unlikely that there will be a push to end the 60-vote filibuster.
In aggregate, we are inclined to look for an additional USD1–2 trillion in fiscal spending in the coming year and this should lift 2021 GDP forecasts. At the same time, we would highlight that despite party unity in their collective disgust at Trump, the Democratic Party remains deeply divided between moderates and liberal progressives – in many respects more divided than is the case for the Republican movement.
Bearing this in mind, we think it is unlikely much of the more expansive or radical aspects of the Biden agenda will see the light of day. For example, policies aimed at increased regulation on the energy sector, banks and big tech are all likely to be watered down in the face of state-level opposition.
We also believe that material tax rises are unlikely and may be unnecessary. Consequently, risk assets have not been greatly perturbed by US political developments in recent days, nor by somewhat higher yields – though this is on the assumption that moves in rates are largely contained by the Federal Reserve not wanting to see a premature tightening of financial conditions when the real economy is still in the midst of dealing with the worst of the pandemic. In this sense, we would rather characterise recent developments as more of a 'blue ripple' than a 'blue wave'.
Vaccines roll out
Newsflow with respect to Covid has become increasingly concerning over the past several weeks, as new variants appear to accelerate the spread of infections and necessitate more draconian lockdown measures in order to contain the virus.
Vaccine deployment is now underway in most developed countries, though logistical and administrative deficiencies mean that there is a building sense of frustration that this is not occurring at a more rapid pace. In a small country like Israel, it has been possible to vaccinate 15% of the population already through a commitment to deliver shots around the clock, seven days a week. However, it does not appear many other countries have adopted the same sense of urgency, though in the days ahead it will be interesting to see whether in countries like the UK, which has approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, this can be accelerated.
Notwithstanding this, it seems that the spike in Covid infections and measures taken to limit this, represent a downside risk to Q1 growth data. From this point of view, we believe that policymakers will remain focused on delivering policy stimulus where they can, in order to support economic output. Consequently, bad news on Covid may be seen as a delay rather than a reversal of reflationary trades. Should risk assets experience a pullback, we suspect that this will be bought, with US investors already talking about the mighty 'J&J put' (Jerome & Janet).
New year, same scenario
In this respect, we feel as if 2021 is starting in a similar fashion to how 2020 finished. The narrative of policy support for the near term and hopes for stronger growth for the long term have created market-friendly conditions over recent months. This would be challenged if policymakers appeared to step back from providing additional support, but this is not even conscionable for the time being. For now, any bad news on the virus will be translated into expectations of further easing and therefore further asset purchases.
By contrast, the one threat which could really change this narrative would be an outcome that suggests that vaccines are not as effective as hoped for, given how dependent the world now is on vaccines as the only effective answer to address the pandemic. Thankfully for now, it appears that this is not a material risk with respect to the English mutation, but there may be a risk of lower vaccine effectiveness with respect to the new strain circulating in South Africa.
Our macro stance remains modestly short duration in US Treasuries and long in corporate and sovereign credit. We remain inclined to realise gains on positions which have worked well and have been trimming long risk in long-dated Italian BTPs over the past week, with periphery spreads at their recent tights. We continue to look for opportunities selectively in new issues and are generally inclined to increase our focus on relative-value positions. We expect material divergence at an issuer and sector level during the months ahead on the back of divergent economic and financial performance.
We continue to believe that the market narrative will remain largely the same for the next couple of months, though following the rally in spreads in the past quarter, any further compression is now likely to be a much slower grind. We expect US yields to rise over the medium term, but the Covid backdrop means that moves may be muted for now.
In FX, we feel this environment should generally see the dollar slightly weaker, though having witnessed a period when the US was seen as a potential underperformer on the back of the spread of the virus across the states, it may now be set for renewed growth outperformance as we move through 2021. This may temper the extent to which the weak dollar trend has further to run.
We believe that the bigger test will come once markets sense they have passed the high watermark for policy accommodation. In the second half of the year, we believe that we may see much stronger growth data on the back of pent-up demand. Although it is unlikely that policy will be tightened anytime soon, the mere fact that there won't be additional easing beyond this point may be enough to trigger a correction.
We wrote at length on the 'K' shaped trajectory in 2020, during which period Wall Street drove higher, even as main street continued to struggle. Later in 2021, this 'K' shape could operate in reverse. Robust growth in the broader economy could coincide with a more challenging landscape for financial assets and we believe that it will be important to have positioned well in advance of this potential turning point. However, for now, the virus may have pushed out this inflection point by a few more months and we believe that the 2020 playbook largely remains intact.
It feels that for many of us, the next few weeks may represent a pretty hard slog with quality of life rather compromised at a time of year when the weather is miserable and the days are short. But sunnier times lie in wait and it seems like we need to stay patient. Trump has now got less than two weeks left to create mischief and hopefully following scenes this week he will think twice before inciting protest and tarnishing his sullied reputation ever further.
Markets remain in Christmas party mode
All's well that ends well (we hope)
Shaping up for a Merry Christmas
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Bishop Gorman players celebrate their win over Palo Verde 74-54 on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, during the NIAA Division I state basketball championship.
Published Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015 | 2 a.m.
Updated Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015 | 12:44 p.m.
The Bishop Gorman High basketball team may be the four-time defending Division I state champion.
But, with multiple unproven players expected to contribute, most feel the Gaels can be beaten this season.
Centennial has one of the nation's best players in Troy Brown Jr. and expects to give Gorman a challenge in the playoffs. But, with the talent in this city, anything can happen.
Last season, for instance, Palo Verde took third in the Northwest League, then got hot at the right time in advancing to the state championship game.
And, in the Division I-A, two-time defending state champion Clark will be tested in the Sunset League by Sierra Vista and Mojave. It might not matter, though, as Desert Pines appears to be the clear-cut favorite to win state.
Buckle up, it should be a wild ride.
While Gorman must replace two McDonald's All-Americans in Chase Jeter and Stephen Zimmerman, the cupboard is far from empty. Zach Collins, a 6-foot-11 Gonzaga signee, should thrive in the starting rotation. Top 2017 recruits Chuck O'Bannon Jr., a 6-foot-5 wing, and 6-foot-4 guard Christian Popoola, give Gorman athleticism on the perimeter and big-game experience. Senior guard/forward Byron Frohnen is one of the team's most improved players and is expected to contribute, and 6-foot-6 sophomore Jamal Bey will be the program's next great recruit. He already has a UNLV scholarship offer.
With junior Troy Brown Jr., one of the top players nationally, leading the charge, some feel Centennial is a big-time threat to dethrone Gorman. The 6-foot-6 guard averaged 16 points, 7.9 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game last season, and can take over a game single-handedly. But he's not the Bulldogs' lone option. Guard Isaiah Banks, also a junior, is quick and athletic, and 6-foot-8 post player Darian Scott has a scholarship offer from Fresno State. Others, such as Roy Sparks and Jake Hutchings, are more than capable of helping Centennial battle Gorman basket for basket.
With some of the best players in the state, Desert Pines is the clear-cut favorite to win the Division I-A state championship. They have two players on the Sun's Super Seven preseason team in junior Capri Uzan at point guard and wing Trevon Abdullah (a UNR commit), and forward Greg Floyd Jr. is a four-star recruit. Also, Jordan Simon, Curtis Stewart and Sierra Vista transfer Randal Grimes give the Jags' plenty of athletic players. Some feel they are the best team in the state regardless of classification.
Clark must replace its backcourt of Colby Jackson and Carter Olsen, who led the Chargers to the past two state championships and past three state title games. Senior guard Keyshaun Webb, who averaged in double figures last season, will combine with senior forward Darius Jackson to give the Chargers a solid one-two punch. And James Bridges, who contributed last season as a freshman, is one of the best sophomores in Las Vegas.
Led by three-year varsity performer Jake DesJardins and physical post player Travis Boman, Coronado is the most experienced team in the Sunrise Region. Last year, the Cougars went undefeated in the Southeast League and should again be the league's top team. The 6-foot-8 DesJardins is part of the Sun's Super Seven preseason team after averaging 11 points and seven rebounds in 2014-15. Kennedy Koehler and Bryce Savoy are other returners expected to have strong seasons.
Durango, who won just seven games last year while breaking in multiple first-time varsity contributors, is expected to contend in the Sunset. They are led by 6-foot-8 Alabama transfer Jason Landman, who is verbally committed to Air Force and can score from the perimeter and close to the basket. Michael Diggins, a 6-foot-5 forward, Chase Ruiz and Demetrius Valdez give Durango plenty of scoring options.
Palo Verde peaked in the playoffs last season, upsetting Centennial in the Sunset Regional semifinals and battling all the way to the state championship game. Guard Taylor Miller, one of the standouts during the postseason run and a Southern Utah signee, averaged 15.5 points per game last season. He's joined by returners Christian Bryant and Ryan Vogelei to give Palo Verde another competitive team.
Canyon Springs graduated most of its top performers from last season's Sunrise Region championship team, and another — guard Channel Banks — transferred to a school in Arizona. But the Pioneers always seem to reload and find other contributors, especially those who fit into the team's fast-paced style of play. Returners such as Darion Jackson, Zaahid Muhammad, Laymon Jackson and Derrick Legardy each possess the athleticism and defensive skills that will again make Canyon Springs a threat in the Sunrise Region.
The past three seasons, Clark and Desert Pines have represented Southern Nevada in the Division I-A state tournament. This year, Sierra Vista could crash the party. The Mountain Lions, led by sophomore standout Maka Ellis, should be one of the most improved teams in Las Vegas. And last year, they weren't bad in falling one game short of the state tournament. The 6-foot-5 Ellis averaged 18 points per game last season as a freshman, and has scholarship offers from New Mexico State and Utah State. Sierra Vista has a strong backcourt with junior Chris McCoy and senior point guard Tanner Lewis.
Foothill, a perennial Southeast League power, will rely on multiple underclassmen this season. But if those players continue to develop, the Falcons will again be a contender in February. That group is led by sophomore guard Marvin Coleman, who averaged 3.4 points per game as a freshman and is much improved. Junior guard Jeron Bodin is consistent on the perimeter, averaging 5.7 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game last season. And big things are expected from both Jonny Rolle and Devon Erb, who both will see a significant pump in minutes.
Mojave is led by senior Daryl Adams and returns several key contributors. ... Bonanza reached the Sunset Regional semifinals in 2015 and returns guard Jamal Logan, who averaged 19.3 points per game. ... Silverado and Liberty are much improved in the Sunrise Region, and Shadow Ridge in the Sunset.


Millions of people around the world rely on Microsoft Outlook to deliver a daily dashboard of their work and personal activities, email, and connections with friends, family, coworkers, and others. For Office 2013, Outlook integrates deeply Microsoft technologies like Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), Hotmail, and Social Connector.
Inline replies. In keeping with the Metro-like simplification ideals that permeate Office 2013, Outlook provides inline replies by default, rather than opening another window.
Navigation bar with Peeks. The Outlook navigation bar has been moved to the bottom off the application window and now provides pop-up "Peek" access to email, calendar, people, and tasks.
People, not contacts. Outlook's contacts module has been renamed to People to make it more consistent with Microsoft's other contacts management solutions. A new People card provides a single view for contacts with multiple accounts.
Windows 8 notifications. Outlook notifications don't just look like Metro notifications on Windows 8, they are Metro notifications, and it integrates right into the Notification settings interface like an actual Metro app.
Hotmail integration. Outlook now natively supports Hotmail accounts, so you no longer need to install the Outlook Connector.
Social Connector integration. Social connectors are now built into Outlook and don't require a separate installation to see updates from users via Facebook, LinkedIn, and other networks.
Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) support. Outlook is now a full EAS client and can accept push updates for email, contacts, calendar accounts.
Site mailboxes. If you're using both SharePoint and Exchange—which you are with an Office 365 account, hint, hint—you can set up a special email folder for everyone on a team; this folder can also contain documents.
Side-by-side deployment. In a first for Outlook, you can install Outlook 2013 side-by-side with a previous version of Outlook.
Weather bar. Answering a frequent user request, Microsoft has added weather updates to Calendar.


This is the second post of our 10 week "Funding Fit" blog series. Read the first tip here!
If you consider this summer's success story of Yo—the messaging app that does nothing but send your friends a text that says "Yo"—it may seem like investors are once again throwing money at any old startup like they did during the 90s tech bubble. Sure, the fact that Yo raised $1.5M seed funding with a $10M valuation might have been a surprise, but their simple product had 2 million app installs and for four days in June ranked the fourth most popular app in the U.S.
What got Yo the $1.5M check was not the idea of sending a "Yo" message to anyone you know, but the fact that 2 million users had interest in this product.
For today's entrepreneurs, the days of a brilliant idea—or, sometimes, a not-so-brilliant one—being enough to garner interest from investors are long gone. Today, even seed investors want to see some kind of proof of concept. That's because it's gotten much cheaper to develop a product—a team of three dedicated co-founders can now build an initial product and build it well. Plus, a lot of entrepreneurs can afford to forgo a paycheck for a year or two, during which time they can tinker away, turning their ideas into a usable product that they can test in the marketplace.
If you are approaching investors with nothing more than an idea, a theory, a "what-if" story, and you're competing against entrepreneurs with a functional product (often with an existing user base and revenues); you're going to be just as successful as poking your potential investors with a Yo message.
Unless you're a serial entrepreneur who has received VC money before, your funding options for a company at the idea stage are virtually non-existent. So if you want to get outside capital in the new year, your funding fitness routine will need to include some heavy lifting in product development.
Sure, you may not have all the bugs worked out. Your product may not yet have all the bells and whistles you envision. Heck, it may not even work on every platform it needs to work on. But you should have something functional that you can demo to potential investors—and that minimum viable product (MVP) should work well enough to showcase key features. When you a starting a company, really think about whom on your co-founding team can execute you idea and build a product. Without a minimum viable product, all you have is an idea.
When you are considering where to focus your product-building efforts, consider which elements will be essential to show your product's unique value proposition to potential investors. What makes your product unique—or even a game-changer in your industry? At the very least, how does your product differ from other competitors and how will it bring additional value to the end user?
Be sure your MVP can sufficiently answer those questions before you start courting investors.
Sometimes your company will be solving a totally unique problem that no other product has ever come close to tackling before. But often your product solves a problem that others have attempted to solve before—just not as effectively as your product will.
While many investors are open to funding a new-and-improved solution, they'll want to see evidence that your product is more than a fancied-up derivative with a few new features. If you want to have the best shot at convincing an investor that your company is worth the risk, create an MVP that includes one or more truly innovative technical facets.
What's your #NewIdea? Let us know @LighterCapital. Get all the 10 tips and join the conversation via #FundingFit!


With authorities working to complete all tests and ensure regulatory compliances, India's first indigenously designed 500-MW fast breeder reactor at Kalpakkam would start nuclear power generation by September, nuclear power officials said.
"We are closely working with Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) to complete all tests and ensure regulatory compliances. We hope to start power generation this September," said P. Chellapandi, chairman and managing director, Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Ltd (BHAVINI).
The project site at Madras Atomic Power Station in Kalpakkam, around 80 km from here, has been undertaken by BHAVINI, the country's second nuclear power plant operator tasked with operating fast breeder reactors.
"The plant is expected to be commissioned this year. Different processes are expected to be over in one or two months. Thereafter, fuel will have to be loaded into the reactor," told Sekhar Basu, a member of Atomic Energy Commission and director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
The prototype fast breeder reactor will use a blend of plutonium and uranium oxide for fuel, called MOX fuel. Chellapandi said the unit would be connected to the southern grid and start feeding power to the tune of 30 percent of its total capacity.
According to Basu, also a director at Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), the second 1,000-MW unit at Kudankulam plant is also expected to be commissioned this year.
The NPCIL has set up two 1,000-MW nuclear power plants at Kudankulam in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu, around 650 km from here. Both units are supplied by Russian company Rosatom. The first unit was connected to the southern grid in December 2014 and is now operating at around 60 percent of its capacity.
Basu said the first unit would be refuelled. One third of fuel pins have to be changed every year. He said the refuelling process is being prolonged since the second unit is yet to go on stream.
According to NPCIL, the second unit at Kudankulam has achieved a physical progress of 98.23 percent as on May 2015.


Is there a way to obtain the specified "label" property for a field from within a field renderer?
field.label and field.metadata.label contain the SFDC label (or the overridden model field value) but not the overridden label text/value from the field editor itself if applicable.
I need to be able to render the label contents in my custom renderer based on what's in the overridden value on the field in the field editor but can't seem to find it available from any property path given the "field" object in the renderer (other field level properties are available).
Possibly I'm just overlooking it. Is this possible with the current version?
field.label is the value that should have this information. This actually works correctly for the table component. I'll put this down as a bug in the field editor component. I think because of this bug, this is not currently possible without parsing the xml of the field editor component yourself. Which would be a total drag.
Like that one huh? :) In all seriousness, the combination of all of these issues has me pretty well stuck on several fronts. Appreciate you guys (expeditiously) reviewing and addressing. Thanks Rob!
This issue is now resolved as of Banzai - Update 7.4, available via Skuid Releases.
Makes sense, thanks again Ben!
It looks like we weren't even sending the help text value, so we'll now be sending that in the options object too (field.options.inlineHelpText). As before, field.label will still contain the text of the field's label (i.e. the merged value). This way, anyone who was depending on that merged value won't get caught off guard, but there will now be a way to get the raw value, if you need it.
We're tracking the issue of the labels not updating on model changes separately, but when we have a fix for that one, we'll let you know. Thanks again!
This is great J, thank you!
This fix is now available from skuid.com/releases in the Rockaway Release.
Tested and confirmed with Skuid 8.8. Thank you!


Arthur Hoffman began the Conference by speaking for a few minutes before lunch about the Leir Center's focus on bubbles and the importance of this research for financial policies. He explained how Mr. Leir left Germany for Luxemburg in 1933 and then left Luxemburg in 1938 for the US where he founded and expanded an international metals business that he sold in 1968. He recognized the markets in the 1960s were experiencing a bubble and thus invested in Treasuries during the 1970s and avoided the collapse in the "nifty fifty". He recognized this as bad time for investors given the collapse in US financial returns.
He would thus probably have recognized the current financial markets as being challenging since the assumptions concerning housing and stock prices and rates of returns have been undermined. This has created challenges for investors and those considering retirement.
Bill Rapp then began the 2d Leir Conference with a recap of the 2011 Conference and the new issues this conference would address related to bubbles and government policy.
1) Most bubbles have been recognized and analyzed specifically after the fact such as the recent financial crisis. The 2011 Leir Bubble Conference sought to develop metrics and methods to recognize them including the different types and stages for Bubbles. In this regard Bubbles were seen as rapid rises in real prices for an asset above its economic value and so not sustainable.
2) Rapid price increases for an asset relative to the general price level attracts speculator interest that further drives up prices. Signals are herding, more market volatility and high optimism. The initial paper by Dr. Chou argued a period of less volatility if the expected price increase was external (or irrational) but a revised paper shows an increase in the volatility of price action if the expected price increase is endogenously based on the price increase from the previous periods.
3) Speculators will in this case drive out value investors. When some speculators start to leave the market the price deceleration can signal a maturing and measurable loss of momentum. Policy makers are reluctant to act early, however, as they see benefits from the perceived economic prosperity while the Public is optimistic and enjoys the false sense of prosperity. Yet the eventual pain can be extreme when the bubble collapses. So there is a public policy need to manage bubbles. The excess optimism can be measured.
4) Some important Bubble types are Financial Bubbles in Stocks, Emerging Markets, Bonds, Real Estate, Commodities and New Technologies.
5) It is important to differentiate bubbles because disruptive technologies can attract risk capital whereas real estate lending booms financed by bank loans are always bad due to the leverage and credit risk involved. The former can avoid a financial crisis such as the Internet whereas the latter generally cannot as seen in the Great Recession. Government Regulations can initiate, manage and avoid some Bubbles since they require an open market system. A change in government objectives regarding home ownership for example played a role in the recent crisis that could have been avoided with more early action by the Fed.
6) Panics and crashes are usually caused when people have borrowed money to buy inflated assets. Therefore policy debate centers on when funding new ventures poses a risk to the inancial system due to banks' exposure and leverage that can wipe out their capital base. Strict laws such as margin limits may work better than regulators.
7) The policy objective is keep the financial system especially banks sound while providing the funds needed to support economic growth and new technologies. Given their leverage banks should not provide risk capital. Rather other intermediaries can and should facilitate this such as brokers, insurance companies, VCs, investment banks, and asset managers. One way to test for this is stress tests that look for any spillover effects on the banks.
8) Part of this analytical and regulatory effort should focus on the assumptions of participants and regulators. That is what may make sense on a micro basis may not when it is done in volume through massive herding effects. Combining growth stocks and risk free assets in a portfolio was a sound financial asset management idea based on history but when it was done in volume by many asset managers it resulted in the "nifty fifty" boom & bust. Subprime mortgage lending may have made sense given stable or rising home prices but when it was done in volume it led to the housing boom and bust with foreclosure as a viable exit strategy actually foreclosed because of the number of homes hitting particular markets at the same time with no buyers due to both a reduction in lenders and potential borrowers.
9) Increased prices that attract speculators may make lenders and regulators feel good and in turn will increase prices further attracting more participants through an interactive feedback. But once money becomes less available and some speculators leave the market, price volatility increases leading to more exits and some price decline or deceleration. This decline then at some point creates a panic and with a true price collapse there is a "crash". Thus price action is the key to understanding a bubble's evolution.
10) In the real world research indicates that News Stories play little role in creating a crash though they will certainly try to explain it after the fact. Rather prices in terms of market timing describe the bubble's development where "Financial Innovations" should be suspect, increased leverage should be suspect, complexity should be suspect, concentrated underpriced risk should be suspect, and pro-cyclical regulation should be suspect.
11) These situations are suspect because they all reflect excessive optimism not only by borrowers but also by lenders and regulators. This three-sided optimism is a bubble cornerstone. But once this over-confidence wanes, the prior greed is overcome by fear, and panic emerges along with loss of confidence, a crash, financial distress, disillusionment and a financial crisis if there is excessive leverage and bank exposure. Ironically this is when the government usually comes in to deal with the aftermath by bailing out the system or prosecuting the inevitable scams and scandals that emerge as the financial tide goes out.
12) Therefore from a policy or regulatory viewpoint there should be a sharp focus on potential banking losses or on other highly leveraged institutions that could impact the national or global financial system. [As discussed elsewhere in these Notes, Dodd-Frank has some of these provisions.] This generally would not include situations where only investor capital is at risk such as the Internet or recent Social Media Bubbles where high margin requirements limit the institutional risk. Conversely one reason the subprime mortgage crisis has been so disastrous is because the asset price risk was borne almost entirely by the banks and this was then extended through low margin derivatives [such as CDS] to the wider global financial system including the foreign exchange markets.
13) Generally regulators must lean against the wind to counter excessive optimism. However due to possible regulatory co-option using strict rules such as margin requirements or exchanges may be more effective than relying on regulators' discretion. Such black-line rules should seek to control optimistic contracting through simplicity and transparency requirements that limit leverage through installments or balloon payments. In addition regulators need to monitor Aggregation Effects that can lead to concentration of credit risk and counterparty credit issues [Dodd-Frank appears to address some of these issues such as forcing certain transactions through exchanges or limiting single counterparty exposure].
14) Finally Ponzi Finance where financial costs are covered by increasing financial exposure must be stopped at an early stage especially when it has adverse foreign exchange and balance of payments effects as explained by Professor Aliber.
15) A more systematic policy approach to managing Bubbles as opposed to the current ad hoc one appears needed because bubbles are based in human behavior and market conditions that incorporate economic risk taking. This risk taking is in turn an important aspect of the growth process. At the same time as Colin Clark has explained and verified statistically and historically capital grows faster than other factors of production and economic activity. Thus at various times there will be an excess supply of capital driving down rates of return. This will lead investors to take on more risk seeking a higher return. New technologies, regulatory changes, etc. can attract this capital leading to bubbles that when they collapse return capital availability and pricing to more normal levels.
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Canti Vaganti creates performances in which live world music, intimate theatre and cabaret come together. The company was founded by the Kateleine van der Maas from the Netherlands and Italian Bruno Gullo, both living in Madrid, Spain.
The roots of the group are in a little village in the south of Holland and in the eternal city of Rome. What a combination. They found each other in Madrid. She had been walking the path of cabaret, experience theatre and intimate theatre. He came from the world music and stand-up comedy, after passing by jazz. Her with her flute, piano en sensible songs; him with his accordion, guitar and tarantella. Both with a glorious voice. A cross pollination. Of music and theatre, of warm and cold, of wood and metal, of doubts and certainty. Of a soft caress and a sure step in the right (or wrong?) direction. Together in search of new sounds, old sounds, new ways of presentation (not interested in representation), of variety, emotion, moments of euphoria and sadness, as life itself. A fertile combination. They look with astonishment at life, but the do not stand still, they lay a road right across hell, or prefer to forget about hell for a moment, and with humour, force and unrestrained energy they dance through life, they surpass it and let themselves be blown down by it… But they will always go on flying, whistling and singing until they ultimately fall down.
The actors/musicians of Canti Vaganti live and work in Madrid where they perform in different companies and bands, sometimes together, usually individually. They both played the leading role in El Secreto from the sensory theatre company Teatro en el Aire, and they created the Intimate Cabaret for the Intimate Theatre Festival at people's homes. Bruno Gullo played and sang during 2014 and 2014 in the most successful theatre show of Spain The Hole. Before, he had been the lead sanger of the band La Malarazza, and he had been travelling all around Spain with his solos Mambo Italiano and Giullare in crisi mistica and with a duo called El Viaje de los tambores. Van der Maas is stable actress of Teatro en el Aire, sings in the choir of Patio Maravillas and writes songs.


If you are a runner/or walker and experiencing continued pain on the top of your foot you may be suffering from a stress fracture. Women seem to be more susceptible to stress fractures of the feet. Factors that predispose women more than men include a history of amenorrhea (lack of menustral cycles), osteopenia of bone, too small of body mass in the legs, and diet that may be too low in calcium.
The most common site of stress fractures that we see in our practice is the metatarsal bones in the foot. Additional factors that can contribute to stress fractures are worn out shoes, speed training, changes in running surfaces, and overtraining. Just this week I was able to diagnose two patients with stress fractures. These two patients actually were not runners but recently went to Disney world and did a tremendous amount of walking in flip flops. The combination of the long distance walking and the wrong shoes caused a hairline fracture in the metatarsal bones of the foot.
Clinically patient that I see will have pain and swelling on the top of the foot for more than two weeks. Initial x-rays may not show a stress reaction of the bone. It can take 10-14 days for a stress fracture to show up on a X-ray. In about three to four weeks bone callus (thickening of the bone) will indicate a healing stress fracture. It takes 6-8 weeks for a stress fracture to heal. We will place patients in a cam walker boot or surgical shoe in order for the bone to properly heal.
To decrease your risk for developing stress fractures replace your shoes every 300-400 miles, try to run on softer surfaces, and increase your calcium intake. You can do low impact exercises such as swimming and biking during the healing phase. It is very important to not run through the pain which can delay the healing time of the fracture.
In conclusion if you are experiencing pain and swelling on the top of the foot and it is not improving in two weeks with rest, ice, and NSAIDS, have it evaluated as soon as possible in order to correctly diagnose your foot condition. This will enable you to return to your chosen athletic activity sooner and not suffer through a chronic injury.


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Angelina Jolie To Get Sex Change
by Niall Browne
– on Aug 14, 2008
With the cash registers still ringing to the tune of $250 million from Wanted, it looks like Angelina Jolie is hot again - at the box office at least!
It would appear that Mrs Brad Pitt has landed a role that could be a potential action franchise starter.
What's so interesting about that?
She will be replacing Tom Cruise in the upcoming movie project Edwin A. Salt!
Read on and all will be explained...
Tom Cruise had been eying the spy-thriller about a CIA agent who must try and clear his name when he is accused of being a Russian spy, but I guess Cruise thought that it was too close to Mission: Impossible for comfort. So technically, Angelina Jolie isn't replacing Tom Cruise - she's taking a role that was offered to him.
Jack Ryan spy-master Phillip Noyce is still on board to direct, but it looks like Kurt Wimmer's script might need a bit of a rewrite and a title change.
Although it seems strange that the lead character in a film would change sex- it's not unusual (insert Tom Jones joke here).
For example: The Jodie Foster role in Flight Plan was originally written for a man, and the Sean Penn role in The Game was intended for Foster. So Jolie is hardly setting a precedent. However she is expected to net a record paycheck for a female star by signing on to the Sony film.
There's no word on when this film is expected, but I'd imagine it'll be a while yet considering that the script may need a bit of re-tooling.
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Israeli Occupation Forces Plow Land near Huwwara Checkpoint
Since the beginning of April 2008, Israeli occupation forces have been carrying out plowing activities in the vicinity of Hiwara checkpoint in an effort to expand it. As of the date of this report, about 15 dunums from the Palestinian village of Burin have been plowed for that purpose. It appears that the plowing is aimed at establishing a parking lot for taxis carrying Palestinians towards the City of Nablus.
Previous plowing attempts were carried out back in March 2007 when Israeli occupation forces plowed 12 dunums from the same village for the purpose of establishing a zone used for unloading, searching and re-loading trucks entering and exiting the City of Nablus. In addition, these forces enlarged the roads leading to the checkpoint and made it between 8 and 12 meters wide while constructing a roundabout at the junction leading to Hiwara military camp, located southeast of the checkpoint. Both plowing events prove the intention of the Israeli occupation to re-enforce its presence in the region for a long time and that the talk about checkpoints removal is nothing but a fog screen used to mislead the international opinion.
Photo 1+2.: The continuing plowing in the vicinity of Hiwara checkpoint.
Hiwara Checkpoint: Source of Continued Palestinian Suffering and Agony
Israeli occupation forces continue to detain and delay Palestinians for long hours on Hiwara checkpoint in addition to imposing strict and complicated procedures on their movement. These procedures include forcing the Palestinians to go through special runways that look like chicken lanes. Each Palestinian going through these lanes is compelled to lift his shirt as a prelude for being thoroughly searched. Only two such lanes are reserved for Palestinians exiting Nablus towards the southern governorates (like Ramallah, Jerusalem and Bethlehem) which compound the traffic jam at the checkpoint. It is widely believed that easing or restricting the movement of the Palestinians at the checkpoint depends largely on the mood of the Israeli soldiers manning it which usually causes an increased agony of the Palestinians wanting to cross it.
Photo 3: An Israeli soldier controlling the access of Palestinians at Hiwara checkpoint.
Photo 4.: Traffic jam at Hiwara checkpoint.
The Child Fahmi Al Dardook: A Victim of Israeli Checkpoints and Siege
A large number of human rights' violations have been recorded at Hiwara checkpoint which included opening Israeli gun fire at Palestinians. The latest such case was the shooting death of the 15-year old boy Fahmi Abdel Jawad Al Dardook, a resident of Ras Al Ein neighborhood in Nablus City. Fahmi was traveling at 6:30 PM on May 17th, 2008 from his house in Nablus towards the city of Ramallah to visit and sleep over at his relatives. As per his age, Fahmi was not issued an ID and he did not know the searching procedure followed at the checkpoint. He also had headphones attached to his mobile phone as normal teenagers do these days. When he arrived at the "chicken lane" at Hiwara checkpoint the metal detector installed at the lane beeped causing the soldiers manning the checkpoint to fire multiple rounds at the child causing him numerous injuries. The shooting was carried out by soldiers standing only 3 meters away from the child. The shooting could have been easily avoided and the death of Fahmi averted given the fact that the room in which he was in is tightly and firmly secured with no possibility of injuring any soldier, even if the child had explosives on him (which he didn't).
In reaction to the killing, occupation soldiers closed down the checkpoints of Hiwara, Aworta, Beit Foreek and Surra. The only checkpoint that remained open was Beit Eba checkpoint which remained functioning as usual. The soldiers, also, carried out a search campaign in a number of houses in the village of Beit Foreek which led Palestinian residents of the village to think that the martyr originated from that village.
Israeli Soldiers Prevented the Palestinian Ambulance from Reaching Fahmi:
The soldiers manning the checkpoint prevented the Palestinian Red Crescent's ambulance from carrying out its duty of saving the injured boy who was left to bleed to death; Fahmi was shot at 7:00 PM and he was reached by the ambulance crew at 11:00 PM !!!. While trying to reach Fahmi after the shooting incident an Israeli solders threw a sound bomb at the Palestinian ambulance while other soldiers threw sound bombs and teargas at Palestinians at the checkpoint attempting to approach Fahmi in an effort to save him. Israeli bomb experts arrived at the scene of the crime at 8:30 PM and used a robot to drag the injured Fahmi over a distance of 12 meters to the middle of the checkpoint. They (The Israeli-controlled robot) shredded Fahmi's clothes in a way that contradicted all of international and human norms.
At around 11:00 PM the so-called Israeli "Civil Administration" called the Palestinian Red Crescent and informed it that Fahmi has died and that the Crescent is allowed to come to the scene and remove his body. However, upon its arrival the ambulance was detained by the Israeli Border Police for 10 minutes under the pretext that the Police needed to check that coordination has already taken place for picking up the body. The Palestinian paramedics found Fahmi's body covered with blood and riddled with bullet holes. They were given a mere 5 minutes to remove the body and Fahmi's torn clothes in a scene that reflects the barbarism and vindictiveness of the Israeli occupation and its soldiers.
It is worth noting here that cruelty and maltreatment of Palestinians at the Hiwara checkpoint has continued since its establishment in 2001. The unprovoked delay of the sick, medics and Palestinian ambulances at the checkpoint led to the death of a large number of Palestinians due to the unethical and inhumane treatment of the Israeli soldiers manning the checkpoint.
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مستوطنة "ألون موريه" تتسبب في تدمير بيئة الريف الشرقي
Israeli Forces Sabotage Water Pipelines in Bardala / Tubas Governorate
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إتلاف وسرقة 150 غرسة حمضيات في قرية جيوس
"سقوط الورقة الاخيرة من الادعاء الاسرائيلي بالديموقراطية"
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Israeli Violations of Palestinian Rights in the Occupied City of Jerusalem – May 2013
A disregard of Human Rights
الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية في القدس المحتلة خلال تشرين ثاني 2013
Israeli settlement Activities in the occupied State of Palestine during the 2nd Quarter of 2019, (October – December) / 2019
Monitoring Report on the Israeli Settlement Activities in the occupied State of Palestine – December 2019
ARIJ Daily Report – Tue, 31st 12 2019
Israel to lead expansion in five settlements in the oPt
Al-Khas and Al Nu'man villages suffocated by the Israeli colonization
The Israeli occupation attempts at Judaizing the Tulkarm archeological site of Deir Samara
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Israeli Authorities Push Construction of New Settlements as Trump Leaves Office
Israeli occupation authorities have made a major last-minute push this week to advance settlement construction in the West Bank, in the twilight hours of the Trump administration, a non-governmental organization said Wednesday. According to Peace Now, a left-wing NGO, the tenders provide for the construction of 2,112 settler units in ...
After exposing the weakness of the Zionist infantry troops, the former IOF ombudsman, Yitzhak Brick, highlighted the inability of the Israeli air force to confront the rocketry threat of Iran and Hezbollah. Brick considered that the Israeli chiefs of staff had failed to address the weaknesses detected in the air ...
The Zionist entity finally acknowledged it has failed in preventing Hezbollah from having precision guided missiles, Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported on Monday. In an article published on Monday, Al-Akhbar's Yahya Dbouk reported, citing Israeli intelligence, that Hezbollah's arsenal of now includes hundreds and not dozens of precision guided missiles. "After ...
Israeli Media Joins Lebanese-Arab Campaign against Al-Qard Al-Hasan Association, Mossad Detecting Depositors' Accounts
The Zionist media outlets joined the Lebanese-Arab campaign against Al-Qard Al-Hassan Association, highlighting the importance of the anti-Hezbollah propaganda with respect to the Zionist enemy. The Israeli media considered that Hezbollah had built a parallel economy, adding that Al-Qard Al-Hasan Association attempts to be an alternative for the banking system ...
Israeli occupation authorities approved plans to expand the US diplomatic presence in the Zionist entity. Israeli media reported that Israeli Deputy Mayor of occupied Al-Quds Fleur Hassan-Nahoum announced Wednesday in a tweet that under a plan approved by Jerusalem Municipal Building and Planning Committee, a new building will be constructed ...
Israeli Overnight Air Raids on Syria Relied on Intelligence Data Provided by Pompeo: Report
The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, discussed with the Zionist Mossad Chief, Yossi Cohen, the recent accusations to Iran of having ties with Al-Qaeda militant groups, according to Israeli circles. The Zionist circles considered that Pompeo's accusations came of context trying to frustrate any of the new President Joe ...
Israeli Occupation Approves Construction of 530 New Settler Units in East Al-Quds
Israeli occupation authorities approved the construction of 530 new settlement units in occupied East Al-Quds (Jerusalem), according to the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation on Wednesday. The new units include the construction of 400 units in the so-called settlement of Gilo and 130 in the so-called settlement of Ramat Shlomo. The ...
Amid the Zionist military alert on border with Lebanon in anticipation of Hezbollah response to the Israeli crime of killing one of the Resistance fighters in an air raid on Syria in 2020, the enemy's army conducted a drill in Moun Hermon which simulates a major rocketry attack on the ...
Zionist Entity to Reopen liaison office in Morocco
The Zionist entity will reopen state's liaison office in Morocco, weeks after the two countries normalized ties, Israeli media reported. Zionist Foreign Ministry has selected David Govrin, who was Israeli ambassador to Egypt from 2016 to 2020, to be the charge d'affaires in Rabat, taking up his position in "the ...
Zionist Entity's Netanyahu Orders Advancement of West Bank Settlements
The Israeli occupation has advanced plans to build 800 new settler units in the occupied West Bank. Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced the move in a statement on Monday, saying the Israeli prime minister has ordered to advance the construction of the settlements. In total, the construction of 800 houses is ...


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Cubbon Park set to get greener
The Department of Horticulture will plant at least 3,000 rare and native trees in Cubbon Park this year. Additionally, several bamboo plants will also be planted by June.
Currently, the department is preparing a list of trees to be sourced for the park. Some of the tree listed out to be added are Naga Sampige or Indian Rose Chestnut, Bakula tree or Mimusops Elengi, Peepal tree, Nagalinga Pushpa tree or Cannonball Tree, Ashoka tree, Khadira tree or Cutch tree and the Indian Bael tree.
Mahantesh Murgod, deputy director of Cubbon Park said, "We will be planting 50-60 new varieties of plants in the park, all native to India. Most of these are not in Cubbon Park right now. We are hoping these new additions will attract a number of butterflies and bird species to the park."
Fountains at three ponds
Three fountains at all the three ponds in Cubbon Park too are being proposed by Mahantesh.
In a two phased project that started off in April, 65 new recharge wells are being dug in Cubbon Park along with rejuvenation of the seven existing wells under the guidance of Friends of Lakes and Biome Environmental Trust. Mahantesh says, "The seven wells in Cubbon Park had dried up but now they have been desilted and cleaned. The three existing ponds in the park too are being cleaned and maintained by the group. I am suggesting that all the three ponds be fitted with water fountains to control mosquitoes and pollution in the areas near them. Since in the ponds, water remains stagnated for months and increases mosquito breading, the water fountains will allow constant circulation and recycling of water."
The construction of recharge wells is a part of the Million Wells Campaign of Biome Environmental Talking to BM, Shubha Ramachandran from Biome Environmental Trust says, "The work is being carried out in two phases and the first phase started in April. First we rejuvenated the 7 wells by desilting them so that water can collect during monsoons and installed water pumps to pump out the ground water. In the second phase we are digging recharge wells. 40 of them have been dug and another 25 will be completed this month." Each recharge well measures 14 feet. The work was also approved by the Department of Horticulture. Each of the well has been covered with meshes and bricks and a cement path has been constructed around the recharge wells to safeguard walkers from stumbling upon them and to avoid collection of plastic waste in them.
The recharge wells will not only help in bringing up the ground water levels but will also mitigate stagnating of water during heavy rainfall in Cubbon Park.


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Gino Vinicio Gentili
Title: Gino Vinicio Gentili
Subject: Villa Romana del Casale
Gino Vinicio Gentili (Osimo, 27 September 1914 - Bologna, 29 July 2006) was an Italian archaeologist.
He earned his degree in Fine Arts and Letters at the University of Rome La Sapienza and graduated in Archaeology at the Italian School of Archaeology in Rome. He earned a Doctorate in Archaeology and in History of Greek and Roman arts, first at the University of Catania and later at the University of Bologna, where he taught Etruscology and ancient Italy's art.
In 1945 he was elected mayor of Osimo. He was also an official in the administration of the Antiquities and Fine Arts of the Ministry of Education and Chief Inspector and Superintendent of Antiquities for Eastern Sicily (1946 to 1963) and for Emilia-Romagna. In 1973 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Civic Merit by the municipality of Osimo "for having paid tribute to the city with the brightest fame acquired in the field of archaeology, and especially for his valuable and irreplaceable contribution to the knowledge of the past in Osimo". In 1979 he retired from his official position, and continued his work in research.
Major works and researches
In 1959-60, Gino Vinicio Gentili excavated a mosaic on the floor of the room, later dubbed the "Chamber of the Ten Maidens", at the Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armerina. Informally called "the bikini girls", the maidens appear in a mosaic artwork which scholars named "Coronation of the Winner". The young women perform sports including weight-lifting, discus throwing, running and ball-games. A woman in a rich dress is depicted with a crown in her hand; one of the maidens holds a palm frond. The Villa in 1997 became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Explorations and archaeological research conducted by Gentili include:
Identification of the great Ionic temple of Syracuse
Researches in the Roman amphitheatre in Syracuse
Discovery of a small Byzantine basilica at Santa Croce Camerina
Exploration of archaic funerary monuments in Syracuse and recovery of the great statue of a "Mother" Kourotrophos in the site of Megara Hyblaea at Augusta
Identification near Mineo of the ancient Sicilian center of Palikè
Early excavations at Naxos, the first Greek colony in Sicily, near Messina
Discovery of a Roman villa of the early Roman Empire in San Biagio di Castroreale Bagni
Researches in the Etruscan town of Marzabotto
Identification of the Etruscan town Spina in the province of Ferrara
Discovery of valuable Roman mosaics in Faenza, Sarsina and Rimini and of remains of Byzantine basilicas in Ravenna.
A series of excavations of prehistoric culture in Verucchio, recovering burial objects of Villanovan culture (8th-7th century B.C.) and others from the Sabellians (5th-4th century circa B.C.). He brought to light an exceptionally well-preserved artifact, the "throne" with scenes relating to the processing of wool, along with finely carved wooden items, now in the Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna.
Gino Vinicio Gentili is the author of essays about his researches at Piazza Armerina, Verucchio, Osimo.
Villa Romana of Casale.(Italian)
Some photos of Villa Romana del Casale
Villa romana del Casale: the "bikini girls"
The "Mother" found in Megara Hyblaea
The wooden "throne" found in Verucchio
An article about the death of Gino Vinicio Gentili ("Giornale di Sicilia",4 August 2006)
An article from "La Repubblica di Palermo", 8 August 2006
Regione Marche: remembering Gino Vinicio Gentili
Comune di Osimo: offering a book in memory of Gino Vinicio Gentili
Municipality of Piazza Armerina instituting a prize in memory of Gino Vinicio Gentili
Archeological Museum of Marzabotto.
Name Gentili, Gino Vinicio
Date of birth 27 September 1914
Date of death 29 July 2006
Sicily, Italy, Mosaic, Province of Enna, Rome


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The Windup ist ein Jazzalbum von Dave Ballou und dessen Band BeepHonk. Die am 27. März 2017 bei einem Konzert im Windup Space, Baltimore, entstandenen Aufnahmen erschienen 2018 auf Clean Feed Records.

Hintergrund
Dave Ballou beschäftigte sich sowohl mit Jazz als auch mit klassischer und barocker Musik. Im Kontext seines Bandprojekts BeepHonk hat seine Arbeit ihre Koordinaten verschoben und ist vom modernen Mainstream zum Klang freier Improvisation und offener Komposition übergegangen, notierte Giuseppe Segala. In der Zeit nach 2000 hatte Ballou zahlreiche Alben für das Label SteepleChase Records veröffentlicht, die für die traditionalistische Linie des Modern Jazz stehen, allerdings verbunden mit einiger Aufmerksamkeit für einige große Experimentatoren, darunter Paul Bley, dem er eine Reihe von Alben gewidmet hat. Seit Mitte der 2010er Jahre hat er mit Solo Trumpet, veröffentlicht 2015 beim Label Clean Feed, und Quadrants for Solo Trumpet (pfMENTUM, 2017) systematisch mit abstrakter und improvisierter Musik experimentiert.

Das BeepHonk-Quartett um Ballou ist seit 2011 aktiv; bereits 2015 entstanden Studioaufnahmen, doch da die Ergebnisse jedoch nicht den Live-Auftritten entsprachen, wurden sie nicht veröffentlicht. Der Trompeter Dave Ballou und seine Band BeepHonk (mit dem Gitarristen Anthony Pirog, dem Bassisten Adam Hopkins und dem Schlagzeuger Mike Kuhl) nahmen das Album live im The Windup Space in Baltimore auf, wo der Bassist Adam Hopkins seit 2011 wöchentliche Konzerte organisierte. Auf seinem Debütalbum kombiniert das Quartett strukturelle Komponenten mit Improvisationen, notierte Glenn Astarita.

Titelliste
 Dave Ballou & BeepHonk: The Windup (Clean Feed CF489CD)
 	Fluffer Nutter (Ballou) 9:23
 	BeepHonk (Hopkins, Pirog, Ballou, Kuhl) 15:23
 	Nice Spot - Another Fool (Ballou) 26:28

Rezeption
Nach Ansicht von Glenn Astarita, der das Album in All About Jazz rezensierte, erlaube die Verwendung von Loops und anderen Effekten  Pirog kontrapunktische Reaktionen und metallische Strukturzusätze zum akustischen Element.

Giuseppe Segala schrieb in der italienischen Ausgabe von All About Jazz, die drei langen Tracks, aus denen sich das Album zusammensetzt, zeigten ein sehr gut abgestimmtes Quartett, das bereit sei, als einzelner Organismus auf die Reize von Individuen zu reagieren, mit einer besonderen Harmonie in den Dribblings zwischen Anthony Pirogs E-Gitarre und Ballous Trompete. Letzterer offenbare seine Klasse ohne Sparsamkeit, die aus einem Ansatz besteht, der Klangpräzision und Phrasenakrobatik kombiniere: eine Abstraktion, die oft auf klaren Strichen und Kontrolle basiert, die es jedoch nicht verachtet,  in der Art von Herb Robertson spröde und raue Klänge zu erzeugen.
"Zwei Tracks entwickeln ihre Abenteuer mit Material, das von Ballou geschrieben wurde, und unterstreichen die Fähigkeit des Quartetts, an der Fragmentierung und Rekonstruktion rhythmisch-melodischer Zellen mit authentischem narrativem Schwung zu arbeiten, auch durch den bemerkenswerten Beitrag von Mike Kuhls artikuliertem Schlagzeug. Die fünfzehn Minuten von "BeepHonk", völlig improvisiert, stammen aus einer intensiven Einführung des Kontrabasses und zeigen immer noch, wie effektiv das Training es schafft, signifikante Szenarien zu erstellen, die reich an Timbre-Stimuli, Handlungen und Abweichungen sind."

Derek Stone schrieb im Free Jazz Blog, The Windup enthalte ebenso  wilde Stellen wie "dunstige Abschnitte der Stille und viele dazwischen"; das Album kombiniere akustische, elektrische und gelegentlich wahnsinnige Effekte (wie Pirogs Gitarreneffekte) und sei eine einzigartige Ergänzung zu Ballous Katalog und ein guter Anfang für BeepHonks Karriere. Das Album sei "eine abwechslungsreiche und faszinierende Mischung aus Improvisation, Komposition und Klanggestaltung, bei der jedes dieser Elemente genau die richtige Menge enthalte, um sicherzustellen, dass alle Arten von Hörern etwas zu schätzen wissen. Insbesondere Ballou und Pirog brächten ein endlos faszinierendes Gefühl des Abenteuers in das Geschehen ein und erkundeten nicht nur eine breite Palette melodischer Pfade, sondern (insbesondere in Pirogs Fall) auch die Grenzen dessen, was sie mit ihren jeweiligen Instrumenten tun können."

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Informationen zum Album bei Clean Feed

Einzelnachweise

Album (Jazz)
Album 2018
Livealbum


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by rebecca willa davis
Although Mandy Lee, the lead singer of MisterWives, studied songwriting and opera at a New York City performing arts high school, her method for penning "Twisted Tongue" was pure rock'n'roll; as she puts it, there was "a lot of whiskey and maybe 50 crumpled up pieces of paper thrown in the trash with lyrics that never made it into the song."
Whatever works, right? Especially considering the end result, a "Forget You"-meets-"Rehab" pop gem with just a hint of New York edge. The trio, who first started making music almost exactly a year ago, have quickly found their stride, pairing Lee's sultry vocals and sharp-as-a-tack lyrics (listen closely to "Twisted Tongue" to hear what we mean) with the musical powerings of Will Hehir and Etienne Bowler. They've got their debut EP, Reflections, slated for release in early January, and "Twisted Tongue" is a good hint of what's to come.
"I wrote the tune a while back and it was never quite captured properly until MisterWives came around and we put our stamp on it--each of us contribute our own personality, allowing the arrangements to be unique. It's too much fun getting to jam on a tune until we get it to the place it needs to be, and can then look at each other knowing it's finally right," explains Lee. You can sense the energy they put into it--by the end of the track, it sounds as if they're about to blow the roof off the studio--and it's completely infectious. Which might explain why Lee recommends listening to it "when you're in a kick-boxing class, kicking ass!"
Or if you just need to hear someone else tell off their ex. As the dynamite frontwoman tells us about the song, "A first heartbreak that had a rude awakening--that was very much needed."
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Existing home sales decline
Prices fall by the largest amount in nearly a year
By Associated Press Oct 25, 2007, 12:06am MDT
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WASHINGTON — Sales of existing homes had a record decline in September while median home prices fell by the largest amount in nearly a year, reflecting deepening problems across the nation in the troubled housing market.
Analysts said the current downturn is already more severe than the housing slump of the 1990s. They predicted that before it is resolved, it will rival the 1980-82 housing slump. Back then, the industry was battered by double-digit mortgage rates and the economy was in a steep recession.
The National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that sales of existing homes fell 8 percent in September. It was the largest decline to show up in records dating to 1999. The seasonally adjusted annual sales rate of 5.04 million existing homes was the slowest pace on record.
The median price — the point at which half the homes sold for more and half for less — fell to $211,700 in September, 4.2 percent lower than the sales price a year ago. It was the biggest price drop since last October and marked the 13th time out of the past 14 months that the year-over-year sales price has decreased.
On Wall Street, investors worried about the fall in home sales and credit-related losses at investment giant Merrill Lynch & Co., a development that raised concerns that the housing plunge is dampening corporate profits even more than expected.
After falling by as much as 200 points, the Dow Jones industrial average got a lift on hopes that all the bad news will make an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve more likely. The Dow finished the day basically unchanged, down 0.98 point at 13,675.25.
Problems in housing worsened in September following a severe credit crunch that hit in August as banks and other lenders tightened standards in the face of soaring mortgage defaults. The market all but dried up for subprime borrowers, those with weak credit histories, and people seeking loans over $417,000.
Many economists said the problems in housing could well last for another year, given record-high levels of unsold new and existing homes.
"The housing market is unraveling," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com. "We are in a steep downturn and the prospects are that it is going to get worse before it gets better."
By region of the country, sales were down 10 percent in the Northeast, 9.9 percent in the West, 7 percent in the Midwest and 6 percent in the South.
The slowdown in sales meant that the inventory of unsold homes rose to 4.4 million units in September. At the September sales pace, it would 10.5 months to eliminate the overhang of unsold homes, a record length of time.
The troubles in housing have been a drag on overall economic growth, increasing worries that the housing slump and related credit market troubles could become so severe that they will push the nation into a recession.
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