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Matrixport Launches Institutional NFT Custody Services
Blogging June 30, 2022 HK 0
Singapore-based digital asset manager Matrixport announced in a Sunday press release that it would now be providing institutional custody services for NFTs through its Cactus Custody service.
The digital asset manager with over $10 billion in assets under management says that with this service, institutions would be able to store and manage their digital collectibles safely. In addition, Matrixport says users can control access and interactions their digital collectibles have with NFT marketplaces, smart contracts, and other GameFi or Web 3-related platforms.
According to Matrixport, these features would help reduce the risk of hacks and phishing scams. Additionally, users can choose between Warm or Cold NFT storage with varying security guarantees.
"Matrixport continues to evolve its offerings in-line with market needs. As use cases for NFTs expand and mature, investors are seeking out best-in-class protection for these valuable digital assets against malicious actors. Cactus Custody™ is stepping up with the infrastructure and tools to provide our clients with peace of mind," said Matrixport COO Cynthia Wu.
NFTs have now garnered significant interest as they take center stage in Web3 and metaverse developments that promise to revolutionize the internet. Consequently, they have also received significant interest from institutions, with many now creating community NFT projects to get closer to their customer base.
However, it is worth noting that the explosion of interest and value in the digital space has also caught the attention of fraudsters. In Q1 2022 alone, $52 million has been lost to NFT hacks compared to $7 million in total in 2021.
Hackers and scammers have, on numerous occasions, targeted Discord servers of multiple NFT communities to launch fake minting campaigns. In addition, Twitter phishing scams have also become more popular, with scammers purchasing compromised verified accounts to promote fraudulent NFT minting and giveaway campaigns.
As reported by ZyCrypto on June 5th, hackers were able to make off with over $360,000 worth of NFTs after compromising the Discord server of the Bored Apes Yacht Club. Consequently, security is a big concern for those in the NFT space.
Thailand Bans Use Of Crypto As A Means Of Payment…
El Salvador 'Buys The Bitcoin Dip', Splashes Over $15 Million
Meta Reports A $3.67 Billion Loss In Its Metaverse Division,


Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. By the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written the novels that would assure him of literary immortality; he had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was 'a happy man' and in good health - yet life had lost its meaning. In this poignant confessional fragment, he records a period of his life when he began to turn away from fiction and aesthetics, and to search instead for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss, but giving bliss on earth'.
Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born in 1828 and educated privately. He studied Oriental languages and Law at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus in 1851. He served during the Crimean War and after the defence of Sebastopol wrote The Sebastopol Sketches, which established his reputation. He continued to write while developing educational projects, writing War and Peace and Anna Karenina between 1865 and 1876. A Confession marked an outward change in his life and works: he became an extreme rationalist and moralist, and his theories led to his excommunication from the Russian Holy Synod in 1901. He died in 1910.
Jane Kentish is a lecturer in Byzantine and early Russian History and Art at the University of Sussex.


This One Owner 2012 Ford F-250 Super Duty Crew Cab Lariat has a 6.7L V8 Turbo Diesel engine with an automatic transmission and only 62k miles. A powerful 4×4 truck like this only deserves to look good with modifications like a new ProComp 2.5 inch leveling kit, new 35×12.5×17 Toyo Open Country A/T wrapped over Procomp Axis wheels and a 50 gallon fuel tank. Factory features don't fall short like a bedliner, running boards, back up Camera and sensors to make parking this beast a breeze, tow package, front dual power and ventilating and heating seats, Leather throughout, power group including folding mirrors, pedal adjustment, Microsoft Sync, Bluetooth and dual digital climate control. Our Ford just went through a complete 151 point inspection by a licensed California repair shop and is ready to hit the road! This truck is ready for its next owner, come test drive it today!


1924 Births in the Parish of Dirleton in the County of Eath Lothian.
Angus Davidson was born October Eleventh 1924 at 9 H. 40 M. A.M. at Police Station House, Gullane. He was a son of Angus Davidson, Police Constable, and Jessie Strickland Davidson M.S. Scott; married 1908: October 14th, Edinburgh.
Registered: 1924 October 31st at Dirleton; James Grant, Registrar.
2008 Deaths East Refrewshire. District 650, Entry 44.
Angus Davidson, Detective Chief Superintendent of Police (retired), died January Twelfth 2008, 10:55 hourse at Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow G42, 9TY.
Angus, Age 83 years, Widowed, was born 11 October 1924, lived at 7 Rowand Avenue, Giffnock G46 7PE.
He died of Cardiogenic Shock and Myocardial Infarction as certified by John Byrne.
Spouse was Isobel Graham Blair, District Nurse.
His parents were Angus Davidson, Police Constable (deceased) and Jessie Strickland Scott (MS) or Davidson (deceased).
Informant: Shona S Wyte, daughter, of 14 Orchard Drive, Giffnock G46 7NR.


The Fraser Coast Region is among the jewels of Queensland.
While most people immediately think of world-renowned Fraser Island, our stunning beaches, or magnificent national parks, our CBD is set to become a great place for doing business!
Recently, the Fraser Coast Regional Council launched a new masterplan for the redevelopment of the Hervey Bay business district. The plan has been developed to guide the growth and improvement of the CBD over the next 15-20 years.
The plan envisions that by the year 2035, the Hervey Bay CBD will be an attractive and vibrant centre. It will attract business and investment that will contribute to the prosperity of the region as a whole.
The plan accommodates a variety of uses and activities, all set within a walkable and green public area. The new CBD will be the region's primary destination for commercial enterprise, cultural activities, education and training facilities, social recreation and shopping.
The plan seeks to create a casual, yet sophisticated, area that's connected to the foreshore and complimentary to other town centres across the region.
The plan also includes improvements to parklands, a luxury hotel and an 'Eat Street' precinct with outdoor-style eateries.
After a number of years of planning, in October 2018, the local council gave the green light for the development of the first stage of the town centre revamp, including the new administration centre, which is currently out for tender.
The revitalisation of Hervey Bay's CBD will give a further boost to economic activity and generate greater interest in living in the local area.
The recent $25 million development of "The Springs" housing estate has already shown that demand for real estate in the Fraser Coast Region is strong, with over half the properties already sold.
The key to making a CBD an integral part of driving economic growth, is to make them places where people can meet with ease, whether for business or pleasure.
Associate Professor Matthew Burke from Griffith University says CBDs need to be walkable as this influences the way business is conducted. The more people meet and work in cafes and shared workplaces, the more local economies flourish as growth is dependent on sharing ideas and information.
Hervey Bay's new CBD at Pialba incorporates the elements needed to be a successful business centre, all of which should boost the local economy and help drive real estate prices higher.
If you're thinking of buying property in Hervey Bay or the surrounding region, speak to us at Mitchells Realty. We have properties to suit every buyer and budget.
With the new, revitalised CBD and greater economic activity coming to the region, now's a great time to look at buying property in Hervey Bay!


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Kylie Jenner reveals insecurities over post-baby body on KUWTK
Sun Oct 28, 2018 at 8:30pm ET
By Shaunee Flowers
Kylie Jenner has a hard time at the photo shoot because she's not comfortable with her body. Pic credit: E!
Most of last year, Keeping Up With The Kardashians fans were trying to figure out if Kylie Jenner was really pregnant. Now, Stormi Webster is here and she's a total doll but like many other women, Kylie just isn't feeling all that confident when it comes time to shoot a revealing campaign with her sisters.
In the latest KUWTK sneak peek, Kylie Jenner can be seen wearing a long black robe over a sports bra and high waisted Calvin Klein underwear as the KarJenner sisters get ready for a Calvin Klein photo shoot. Kylie begins to complain about how nothing fits her after recently giving birth (despite the fact that she looks fabulous!)
The whole KarJenner clan is there as many should recall from photos from this campaign. And despite all of them assuring Kylie that she looks incredible, she still just doesn't feel comfortable.
Khloe Kardashian, who is still very pregnant during the scene, tries to lend a hand and help Kylie to feel better about herself. Khloe comments on Kylie's belly button, mentioning that it's back to normal again but Kylie says it still looks weird to her.
"This is gonna be, kinda of, my first photo shoot after Stormi and doing my first few fittings and getting back into it," Kylie says in the confessional. "It's kind of hard and discouraging."
Khloe tries again to make Kylie feel better, exclaiming that she currently weighs 198 pounds. Of course, she was also full term pregnant when she said it and looks incredible herself. But sadly, Khloe's attempt to help Kylie feel better didn't really work.
This isn't the last time we see Kylie Jenner opining about her post-baby body in the upcoming episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians either.
In another scene, we see Kylie and Kim sorting through racks of clothing in Kylie's closet. She tells her big sister that nothing fits anymore as they decide what to toss and what to keep.
Again, Kylie is complaining that she's never going to be the same again and has decided to get rid of everything that doesn't fit. She says, "I'm getting rid of stuff that I just feel like is never going to fit me. I know I'm not going to fit into a 25 jean ever again."
As Kim sorts through Kylie's clothes, she remarks that she is looking for a few gems for herself in all the mess. After all, that's only fair since Kylie used to swipe her clothes and wear them all the time.
Kim also complimented Kylie, telling her that she actually looks really skinny. Then she offered up the best advice that she could to help her little sister — she told Kylie to put on two pairs of shapewear and get out of the house!
It looks like much of the upcoming episode will be dealing with Kylie Jenner's body issues after having baby Stormi.
Keeping Up With The Kardashians airs on Sundays at 9/8c on E!
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Teachers know that a child's spelling skills are built on their reading ability: this seems to be a natural progression. That's why each of the Froggy Match-it app's eleven levels has been designed with three games that progress logically from reading to spelling. The first game requires accurate reading to match words and pictures. The second one develops this and involves children placing given letters, left to right, to make words for pictures. In the third game the child has to spell words for the pictures using an on-screen keyboard.


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Fairphone 3+ Review: A Sustainable Phone Worth Using?
By Michael Grothaus
In a world of mass production, extensive waste and often unfair pay for those who produce our favourite pieces of technology, it's refreshing to see a company battle all three issues with a consumer product that the world would actually consider using. Enter the Fairphone 3+, the latest modular and sustainable phone to Fairphone's catalog.
Thanks to our friends at box.co.uk we've been able to get our hands on this latest device ahead of it's official release.
The World's Most Sustainable Phone...
Fairphone 3+
From £425 SIM-Free
The phone delivers a smartphone experience and it does so without any glaring omissions that would make you feel like you've compromised greatly. You get all of this while knowing you've helped the world through buying a more environmentally friendly phone that features a modular design, allowing for upgrades to keep your phone feeling fresh, saving you from spending more money on a new phone and saving the world from more technological waste.
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Unboxing your latest phone can be a very exciting experience, however unboxing the Fairphone 3 Plus is far from an experience and intentionally so. Fairphone pride themselves on a simplistic and un-wasteful presentation, which is exactly what's delivered here. Inside the box you'll find no headphones, no stickers, no charger or even a charging cable, instead just the phone itself and a screwdriver to help you maintain and upgrade your device. Fairphone's whole ethos is sustainability and the reduction of waste, so items like cables and plugs which you'll most likely have already are omitted from the packaging, leaving you with the bare essentials.
Moving away from the semi-transparent look and feel of the previous iteration, the new matte black finish provides a sleek look that while not mind-blowing, does the job and offers mass appeal.
The screen does feature some relatively large bezels top and bottom by today's standards, even when compared with low to mid-range alternatives, but this is a small price to pay for what the phone truly represents.
The Fairphone 3+ features a 3,040mAh removable lithium Ion which will more than deliver throughout the day. It's capacity is comparible with that of an iPhone 11 for example, so you'll no doubt need to charge your phone on the night, but it will last you most of the day with regular use. That being said, the beauty of this device and it's modular design is that you can always carry around a spare battery to swap in should you run out, something which isn't possible with the majority of smartphones in 2020.
While only boasting a single camera set-ups on the front and rear, the impressive megapixel counts do go some way to make up for this lack of camera diversity. The Fairphone's rear camera boast a whopping 48MP snapper with a f/1.7 lens, while the front facing selfie camera comes with 16MP and a f/2.0 lens, both of which deliver some surprisingly strong results.
While impressive these numbers aren't everything, with a lot of modern day mid-rangers to high-end smartphones utilising less megapixels but combining their cameras with hidden software magic to create truly professional-looking pictures. The Fairphone doesn't really match up here, but they wide range of camera options including time-lapse, Slow-Motion, Video, Photo, Portrait and Pro modes definitely deliver and make the camera one of the best features about this new phone.
Ports and Features
The Fairphone 3+ comes with a variety of ports and features including a louspeaker, headphone jack, USB-C charging port and a fingerprint reader on the rear of the device. All work well in our testing and make the phone extremely usable on a day to day basis, however we did find the placement of the fingerprint reader a little high. It's not so high that it's hard to use, but it did feel higher than where our finger would naturally sit on the back, so maybe something to consider for the Fairphone 4 when that's released.
Chipset and Operating System
Running a vanilla Android 10 operating system, the Fairphone 3+ delivers a clean and smooth experience and when combined with it's Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 chip, it will run extremely well for the target user operating the phone for day to day use.
We never had any issues in our testing and found the phone to be extremely responsive and quick when browsing the web, watching YouTube videos and alike, however any power-users out there with a conscience may want to look elsewhere as this Qualcomm chip has been surpassed some years ago.
How much does the Fairphone 3+ cost?
Not the cheapest by any means but not the most expensive device you can buy either, the Fairphone 3+ will cost you £425 upon release, which when compared with some of the mid-range options from the likes of Xiaomi and even Samsung may seem a touch poorer value, but that is the price of sustainability and equality.
When is the Fairphone 3+ released?
The Fairphone 3+ will be released across Europe on September 14th 2020, with Fairphone already taking pre-orders on their newly announced device.
You can pre-order the Fairphone 3+ in the UK here at Box.co.uk who have a wide range of sim-free phones available.
Should you buy the Fairphone 3+? Well if you're reading this article you must be interested and with good reason. The phone delivers a smartphone experience and it does so without any glaring omissions that would make you feel like you've compromised greatly. You get all of this while knowing you've helped the world through buying a more environmentally friendly phone that features a modular design, allowing for upgrades to keep your phone feeling fresh, saving you from spending more money on a new phone and saving the world from more technological waste.
So in summary we applaud Fairphone for it's stance here and for making a truly usable smartphone that delivers on the brand's and their customer's morality. It won't be everyone which is a shame, but for those looking to make a difference, there's no better time to adopt.
Michael Grothaus
Apple expert and novelist, Michael Grothaus has been covering tech on KnowYourMobile for the best part of 10 years. Prior to this, he worked at Apple. And before that, he was a film journalist. Michael is a published author; his book Epiphany Jones was voted as one of the best novels about Hollywood by Entertainment Weekly. Michael is also a writer at other publications including VICE and Fast Company.


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The Oppositional Culture Theory
Paul C. Mocombe and Carol Tomlin
Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass. Within the class dualism of capitalist social relations, blacks throughout the Diaspora attempt to exist in the world. Furthermore, blacks must construct their identities and be in the world by choosing between the discursive practices of the Protestant and capitalist ideology of the black Protestant bourgeoisie, or the beliefs of the black underclass, which appear to dismiss these practices as 'acting-white' (John Ogbu's term). Presently, the practical consciousness (constituted as hip-hop culture) of the black underclass, supported by finance capital, have dominated the American and global social structure, and one of its (dys)functions is the black/white achievement gap, which is a global phenomenon emanating from black America and affecting blacks around the globe. Although the histories of blacks in America and in Great Britain are fundamentally different, Mocombe and Tomlin argue in this work that during the age of globalization, the social functions of the dominating black consciousness (hip-hop culture) coming out of America are the locus of causality for the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain. Tomlin highlights this problematic by analyzing effective strategies employed by high achieving blacks in Great Britain, and Mocombe does the same through an analysis of an effective reading curriculum in an American inner-city after-school program.
University Press of America
978-0-7618-5013-7 • Paperback • October 2010 • $41.99 • (£27.95)
978-0-7618-5014-4 • eBook • October 2010 • $39.50 • (£24.95)
Subjects: Education / General, Political Science / International Relations / General, Social Science / Anthropology / General, Social Science / Minority Studies, Social Science / Sociology / General
Paul C. Mocombe is president/CEO of The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc., and assistant professor of sociology and philosophy at West Virginia State University. A social theorist interested in the application of social theory to contemporary issues such as race, class, and capitalism (globalization), he is the author of several books including The Liberal Black Protestant Heterosexual Bourgeois Male: From W.E.B. Du Bois to Barack Obama, The Soul-less Souls of Black Folk: A Sociological Reconsideration of Black Consciousness as Du Boisian Double Consciousness, and Education in Globalization.
Carol Tomlin has teaching experiences both nationally and internationally. She is senior lecturer/assistant professor at the University of Wolverhampton and was awarded one of the University's Learning and Teaching Rewarding Excellence Awards (2005). Tomlin has a research background in the language and education. She is the author of Black Language Style is Sacred and Secular Contexts and The Urban Teacher Programme at Wheelock College in Boston Massachusetts: Models of Recruitment, Retention and Teacher Preparation, and is co-author of Writing Performances of African Heritage Students in two Urban Cities: Birmingham; England and Kingston.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Chapter I. Introduction
Chapter 3 Chapter II. The "Burden of Acting White" Hypothesis
Chapter 4 Chapter III. Factors and Conditions that Affect the Achievenment Levels of High Attaining Black Students: A Case Study of Two Urban Secondary Schools in the UK
Chapter 5 Chapter IV. The Effects of the Restructuring of Language in the Inner City
Chapter 6 Chapter V. The Dysfuction of "bling bling": Black Consciousness and Black Achievement in the Age of Globalization
Chapter 7 References Cited


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This Is How India's Renowned Motivational Speaker, Sandeep Maheshwari Earns Money
His journey conveys, if you have a never-give-up attitude, it is possible to achieve personal success and bring a change in others' lives.
"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated." – Maya Angelou.
Everyone has their own share of difficulties in life.
And many look upon motivational speakers to overcome these.
But are these speakers worth your time and money?
We can motivate a person who has failed miserably in life only when we have gone through the same darkness and came out victorious.
And in today's time, while many have genuine expertise in the field, most of them are practicing it without the credentials it mandates.
But India has a gem who is a guide, a mentor, a role model, and a youth icon.
He is motivating the young minds like no one before through his motivational life-changing seminars, free of cost!
This is not all.
He is also the founder and CEO of ImagesBazaar, the most extensive collection of Indian stock images.
And he is none other than Sandeep Maheshwari.
People of India, especially the youth, love and adore him.
Because he is making their life 'aasaan' by helping them to believe in themselves.
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Life Threw Many Challenges on Him
What would a teenage boy do if his father gifts him a scooter?
He would go on countless outings with his friends; would definitely try to impress his crush and ask her for a coffee date.
Oops, too filmy?!
Haha, Gotcha!
But Sandeep had a unique plan.
Hats off to his financial planning skills and business mindset, he rented his scooter to his friend so that he could take his girlfriend for outings.
What was the rent, you may ask.
It was Rs. 50 per hour.
And that's how he sorted his pocket money at 13.
But soon, life started getting harder for Sandeep.
His family's aluminium business collapsed, and this forced him to win the bread for his family.
He tried to ease the financial issues by working in many firms, from a marketing agency to manufacturing and marketing domestic products.
Because of these commitments, he couldn't continue his graduation.
Entry Into Modelling World
At 19, Sandeep began his career as a model.
But he witnessed the darker side of the glamour world, which was full of harassment and exploitation. This made Sandeep upset, and he stopped working as a model.
But he didn't leave the modelling world.
He found an opportunity to provide the solution and help the aspiring models reach their goals.
He started working as a freelance photographer. This helped many aspiring models to have their professional photographs done before going for any auditions.
And in a few years, he set up his portfolio-making company named Mash Audio Visuals Pvt. Ltd.
In 2002, he founded a company along with his 3 friends, but even that couldn't run for long.
He didn't even take this failure to his heart as well.
And in the very next year, he turned into an author, publishing a marketing book. And again, tried his luck in entrepreneurship by starting the consultancy firm.
But failure was not in a mood to leave Sandeep's side, as he failed yet again!
He had no choice but to return to the world of photography, where he could earn decent money.
He could have easily lost faith in himself for failing in every venture he tried. He could have felt miserable to go back to where he had started his journey.
But he didn't let that happen; instead, he thought, "Why can't I create something remarkable with the opportunity that I have now?"
And that's it.
In the same year, Sandeep clicked over 10,000 shots of 122 models.
And do you know how long did this take for Sandeep?
It was just 10 hours and 45 minutes! And you know what, he was accredited with
Guinness world record to his name.
Sandeep stood like a rock, faced all the challenges, and never let failure win over him. And finally, failure had to accept that Sandeep was not among the ones who would give up on their dreams easily.
And in 2006, Sandeep launched ImagesBazaar.
Sandeep had an igniting desire to bring the aspiring models and the glamorous world closer.
Since theImagesBazaar was not a big setup, Sandeep started multi-tasking by working as a photographer, counselor, and tele-caller.
Presently, ImagesBazaar has over a million Indian images and over 7000 clients from 45 countries.
Why ImagesBazaar And How Does It Make Money?
Source: https://www.imagesbazaar.com
Back in the early 2000s, a lot of hard work had to be put up by the advertising agencies and had to face many problems.
It included consulting the models, making agreements, conducting shoots, editing, and publishing the images in the advertisements. All these processes would cost the companies a fortune.
And then, ImagesBazaarcame to the rescue of these companies.
It had images of many models, eliminating the need for advertising companies to conduct a professional photoshoot for models.
And this way, Sandeep single-handedly brought this change in the modelling world. It became the reason behind the launch of countless aspiring models as well.
Now you may ask how Sandeep markets his website.
Well, he doesn't have to, because few reports have published that ImagesBazaar gets 150K traffic every month, out of which 99% is organic!
Even if the smaller fraction of traffic gets converted into purchases, it would definitely generate immense revenue for Sandeep. And in 2010, ImagesBazaar had a turnover of Rs. 10 crores.
Well, now, we guess you have found the answer to, how India's renowned motivational speaker earns money?
ImagesBazaar also provides professional and want-to-be professional photographers with an opportunity to showcase their skills and earn money.
All they have to do is put up images on the site. ImagesBazaar has a fixed price for the photos, depending on the dimension.
If any client purchases the image, the owner earns money.
What about the ImagesBazaar?
It earns a fixed commission on each purchase of the image.
So, it is a win-win situation for the photographer, ImagesBazaar, and its client.
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Is He Earning From Live Sessions and YouTube?
Apart from being an entrepreneur, Sandeep also offers life-changing inspirational live sessions and has a YouTube channel.
So you must have scratched your head, thinking how much Sandeep would earn from the live sessions.
The answer is zero!
Shocked?
You would be even more shocked and inspired after knowing his thought process behind this decision.
He doesn't want any financial barrier between his live sessions and the one who wants to bring changes in their lives.
He hasn't monetized his YouTube channel as well, and the reason is just mind-blowing.
He believes that if he monetizes his channel, many ads will run in between the videos. And, that would disconnect his viewers from understanding the concept of the video.
This ultimately would deprive his viewers of the benefits they would receive, by watching it entirely with no interruptions.
He also expressed that, if at least a small fraction of his viewers get inspired, and bring changes in their own and in others' lives, there would be definitely a better world tomorrow.
He is an outstanding personality who wishes nothing but the best for society and the world through his motivational speeches.
We at TBM Desk hope Sandeep Maheswari won't stop his mission of bringing a ray of hope and light in people's lives.
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In my last article, I discussed the "image" of bowls or to be more accurate the "misconstrued image" of bowls. As I stated, it is my intention through this column to rectify that image in the coming months.
However, this edition I thought I would let you know just how successful the bowlers on our small island of Tenerife have become and how it all came about.
Around 11 years ago, a bowling green, then called Winter Gardens bowling, opened. It started with some small tournaments and over the following three months or so, a nucleus of bowlers formed and they started Teide Bowling Club. Some of those initial players had played bowls in the UK but many more had never played bowls before.
Over the years, the club grew and became stronger and stronger. Throughout the years, the growing membership came from people who come to Tenerife for the autumn/winter, established residents of Tenerife and new arrivals who had decided to retire in Tenerife. Again, some were established bowlers but equally some were complete beginners. The beginners were supported and developed by other members of the club and by the coaching programme that has been developed over the years by qualified coaches.
In 2009, Winter Gardens Bowling was "bought" by father and daughter, Norman Gardner and Julie Lincoln, who have built upon what Winter Gardens had developed and turned it into a truly international-class bowling complex, adding to and improving the bowling green itself and developing a very popular a la carte restaurant (Rendezvous Restaurant) and bar/bistro (Rendezvous Bar and Bistro).
Aside from "structural improvements", working with Teide Bowling Club, Tenerife Green Bowls have developed and improved the coaching side of things, improved the playing surface, organised and developed more diverse bowling activities to offer everyone one from the total beginner to the well-established bowler.
Over the years, in my small part, I have got a big kick out of helping players develop, particularly those who started out as complete beginners and are now established bowlers themselves. Until last year (May 2012) all the success, however, had been, in the main, restricted locally. In May 2012, however, that began to change – BIG TIME!
That year, four players, long established players and members of Teide B.C. entered and played in the Spanish National Championships. It was the first time ever that anyone from Teide B.C. had ever played in the Nationals. At the first attempt, Bob Booton got to the semi finals of the Singles, Bob and myself go to the Quarter Finals of the Quarter Finals of the Pairs, Robert Cathcart and Norman Gardner got to the last 16 of the pairs. All four got to the quarter finals of the rinks and Robert, Norman and myself got to the quarter final of the triples. At a first attempt, that was not bad going in any one's book. On a personal level, I went to the Championships hoping to win something but my real wish was "to get noticed" by the Spanish National team. I succeeded in that when I was invited for a trial for the National team.
As a coach and as match secretary of Teide B.C. all of the above was great and I believed we as a club could do even better. My beliefs were to be eclipsed.
Next time I will tell you just how much they were eclipsed and how a few bowlers from our wee island in the Atlantic achieved so much more than they themselves could have believed possible.


Fuguecoin (FC) is a new alternative crypto currency using a new Fugue256 algorithm that launched yesterday as a CPU only coin and there is already a GPU miner available. If you want to give the coin a go and try the sph-sgminer with support for Fuguecoin we have compiled a windows binary that you can download and use (source). The coin is with uncertain future now that it is no longer a CPU only coin, though there is only one pool that apparently has some issues (we could not connect to it), so you will have to try and solo mine with the wallet. Also there are still no exchanges for this new crypto, so it is up to you to decide if you should give it some time or no… we are not going to. Below you can download the modified version of sgminer with Fuguecoin support for mining on GPU under Windows.


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Q: Solve $[\frac{x^2-x+1}{2}]=\frac{x-1}{3}$ How can one solve the equation :
$[\frac{x^2-x+1}{2}]=\frac{x-1}{3}$ ?
Such that $[x]$ is the integer part of $x$.
By definition :
$[\frac{x^2-x+1}{2}]<=\frac{x^2-x+1}{2}<[\frac{x^2-x+1}{2}]+1$.
So :
$\frac{x-1}{3}<=\frac{x^2-x+1}{2}<\frac{x-1}{3}+1$.
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$\frac{x-1}{3}<=\frac{x^2-x+1}{2}$ <=> $3x^2-5x+5>0$.
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$\frac{x^2-x+1}{2}<\frac{x-3}{2}+1$ <=> $3x^2-5x-1<0$.
How can I solve the system ?

A: The key is to recognize that the left hand side is, by definition of the floor function, an integer, so the right hand side must also be an integer, and hence we must have $x=3k+1$ for some $k\in\mathbb{Z}$.  This gives (on doing a little algebra)
$${x^2-x+1\over2}={3k(3k+1)\over2}+{1\over2}$$
Note that $2$ divides either $k$ or $3k+1$, so $3k(3k+1)/2$ in an integer for any $k$, hence
$$\big\lfloor{x^2-x+1\over2}\big\rfloor={3k(3k+1)\over2}$$
Thus the equation to solve (for integer $k$) is
$${3k(3k+1)\over2}=k$$
But the only integer solution is $k=0$, since $k\not=0$ implies $3(3k+1)=2$.  So $x=1$ is the only real solution to the original equation.

A: Write the original equation as:
$$\left\lfloor\frac{x^2-x+1}{2}\right\rfloor=\frac{x-1}{3} \tag{1}$$
By definition of the floor function, both sides of the equation must be integers, i.e. $x\in\mathbb{Z}$. So then $x^2-x+1$ is an odd integer, whether $x$ is even or odd. Therefore
$$\left\lfloor\frac{x^2-x+1}{2}\right\rfloor=\frac{x^2-x+1}{2}-\frac{1}{2}=\frac{x^2-x}{2}$$
Substituting back into (1):
$$\frac{x^2-x}{2}=\frac{x-1}{3} \implies \frac{x(x-1)}{2}=\frac{x-1}{3} \implies x=\tfrac{2}{3}\text{ or }x=1$$
Of these $x=1$ is the only integer potential solution, and checking against (1) shows that it is a solution to the original equation.

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The library is affiliated with the Department of Music at Olavskvartalet. The library works closely with the specialist environments and the library's collections are developed in accordance with the subjects that are offered at the institute.
Notes, books, journals, music (CD, LP, streaming), DVDs and streaming.
Listening room, reading room, movie and music players, printer, scanner, copier.


Urban Sketchers Seattle: Another Friday afternoon at the Gage Academy.
Another Friday afternoon at the Gage Academy.
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Only you, Steve!! - only you would draw all the stuff and subjects surrounding the figure in a life-drawing class, as well as the figure!! I LOVE it!! So nicely done!


Flood Communications/News Channel Nebraska is looking for a highly motivated and creative self-starter willing to work hard to develop new business. Successful candidate will develop a prospect base through networking, phone calls and personal contacts; create professional proposals for follow-up meetings; work closely with other station departments; display a caring attitude toward their clients and their business; keep a positive attitude and open mind to learn new ways of attaining business and other duties as requested.
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First, it ensures that air quality is not significantly degraded from the addition of new and modified sources such as factories, industrial boilers and power plants. In areas with unhealthy air, NSR assures that new emissions do not slow progress toward cleaner air. In areas with clean air, especially pristine areas like national parks, NSR assures that new emissions do not significantly worsen air quality.


Ayse Dizioglu Koyluoglu created Contemplate Kitchen in 2017 to offer her unique take on healing food with carefully chosen recipes and ingredients.
She is a baker and chef trained at Natural Gourmet Institute for Health & Culinary Arts, Culinary Institute of America, Food Therapy with Annemarie Colbin, and Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
In her former venture, Ayse owned and operated Polka Dot Cake Studio, a specialty cakes destination in West Village in New York. She also brings her innovative approach to plant-based baking with small sized artsy cakes, and delightful tarts and cookies to Contemplate Kitchen.


Mentioning RAF Fairford and Webcams in the same column may have been a mistake, as my Web journal is now being 'bombed' by Google searches by people looking for real-time footage of B52's coming and going between here and Baghdad. I'm sorry to disappoint them and the media, as there is, to my knowledge, no live footage being streamed from the end of the runway there.
The Gulf region must be expecting some semblance of normality and even peace to return by the end of next month because I'm invited to keynote two conferences in the region in May, one being the 9th GCC eGovernment Conference in Dubai, the other, a similar IT-focused invitation from the government of Bahrain. As a courtesy, I informed No10 on Friday and it might be fair to say that as far as they are concerned it's a little difficult to see beyond the shock and awe at this time.
Ironically, there's real opportunity for British companies who might wish to risk doing business in the region. The Emirates have projects underway in both the private and public sectors that make the UK look as if it is wearing lead boots at times and Iraq has a minimal IT and Internet infrastructure, which represents a significant development, challenge for the companies that will be tasked with re-building that society post Saddam Hussein.
But Britain has a problem and not a political one either. Countries like Bahrain and even Iran want our assistance with technology or eGovernment programmes. The trouble, I discovered last year, is we don't know how to help and there's very little interest or investment available from the DTI in raw IT. I raised this concern with the outgoing head of the DTI, Sir David Wright and its possibly true to say that in Britain, we understand big engineering projects and selling weapons but we have very little grasp of how IT can be deployed as an export, other than outsourcing the jobs of the protesting BT staff in my home town to India for $30 a month.
There are some encouraging signs this week, the war with Iraq might be the catalyst that jump-starts the moribund tech-sector and improves market confidence enough for businesses to start releasing some of the budgets that the prevailing uncertainty has had them firmly sitting upon. As a Middle-east analyst, I can tell you that the region will never be quite the same again and I can't predict what the longer-term consequences of this invasion will be on the Arab world.
What I can tell you, with the invitations I have received to the region in May as evidence, is that there are real opportunities for UK IT companies in the Gulf who are prepared to look for them. While the Arab world is generically hostile to war with Iraq, there remains a close connection to Britain as a friend and a favoured trading partner and in the coming months there will be many opportunities to reinforce and re-build that friendship again.


Il Palazzo has an ancient history lasting for 80 years and it has seen three generations of succession to devote his time to agriculture. Banelli's bought the entire estate, including the Mediaeval Borough, in the 40's.
What today looks like the Estate Il Palazzo has been over the years a stopping point for travelers, because of its location along the ancient Via Ariminensis or Salt Road which connected Rome to Rimini. Later it was a source of employment for the inhabitants of the area. The company was divided into four farms where four patriarchal families of 55 people lived and worked. Around the 60's the industrial development absorbed agricultural workers and turned them into workers causing the exodus from the countryside. This also happened to our company, which became depopulated between 1965 and 1970.
Since 1971 Banelli's has started managing the company and hiring wage laborers.
In 1976 the two owners Mrs. Anna Maria Banelli and her husband Primo began to restore the hamlet of the Estate recovering its original architectural value and at the same time devoting to the farmhouse. There were important land improvements such as the irrigation systems, an artificial reservoir to collect rainwater to be used to irrigate crops during the summer.
All this has improved and maintained steady income, focusing on the expansion of new more profitable. crops Here is the implementation of the most modern olive groves and vineyards. In 2005 a very modern cellar was realized in the farm, where ancient materials such as brick and stone come together in harmony with a cutting-edge wine-making technology.
Over 105 acres, the property stands on a high hill 300-400 meters above sea level. In the center part there is the medieval hamlet with the swimming – pool, the farmhouse surrounded by 35 hectares of vineyards, 6,000 olive trees, woods and arable land.


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Family Offices Turn Focus Away from Office Towers and Toward Industrial
Even as industry insiders noted the possibility of new challenges to the U.S. industrial real estate market recently, came the news that Pontegadea Inmobiliaria, the family investment company of Zara owner Amancio Ortega, struck deals to acquire seven U.S. distribution facilities for nearly $1 billion. The deals fit in with a larger pattern of family office investors switching their focus from office properties to logistics facilities.
"The bullishness of industrial as an asset class is highly attractive to high-net-worth, family office and institutional investors, and it continues to grow in investment capital at the expense of other sectors, especially office," says San Francisco-based Al Pontius, senior vice president, national director for office, industrial and healthcare at real estate services firm Marcus & Millichap.
Traditionally, family offices favored office towers, especially those that were located in the central business districts (CBDs) of core U.S. cities, Pontius notes. That was partly because those types of properties allowed investors to deploy large sums of capital in a single transaction, adds Philadelphia-based Adrian Ponsen, national director, U.S. industrial market analysis, at real estate data firm CoStar Group.
However, the increase in companies adopting more friendly policies towards remote work has weakened many investors' long-term outlook for office leasing. "In response, many institutions are shifting capital that would have previously gone into office properties to industrial assets instead, which have seen their leasing prospects improve dramatically as a result of the surge in e-commerce spending that accompanied the pandemic," Ponsen notes.
High demand from tenants, low vacancy rates and healthy rent growth continue to make the industrial sector an appealing investment option, but amid significantly higher interest rates, the deals aren't as lucrative as they were six months ago, when cap rates were compressing and interest rates were low, notes Pontius. Since then, rent acceleration has slowed and cap rates are expanding.
According to Spanish newspaper El Pais, Pontegadea paid $137.6 million for a one-million-sq.-ft. distribution center in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, for example, which the seller of the asset acquired in May 2019 for $61.8 million. Pontegadea likely won't be raising rents at the property anytime soon, as the tenant, Nestle, has six years left on its lease. That doesn't mean, however, that Pontegadea is "late to the party" because expectations for growth in rents and values still exist, according to Pontius. The difference is that industrial values just won't be doubling every few years under current market conditions.
Due to the higher interest rates, cap rates are expanding on most real estate assets, with the exception of those with short-term leases, as new owners will be able to raise rents to market in the near-term. Still, Pontius stresses that values and cap rates will vary widely based on each property's unique composition and location.
All of the logistics assets acquired by Pontegadea are massive facilities containing one to two million sq. ft., with long-term leases to quality tenants, including Amazon, FedEx TJX, Home Depot, Marshalls and Nestle, and located in Texas, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee markets.
Prior to the pandemic, Pontegadea's U.S. acquisition representative, Miami-based Ponte Gadia Compass, invested mostly in office assets in core U.S. markets, and to a lesser extent, in hotels and retail. In fact, from 2016 to 2019, Pontegadea invested $2.5 billion in U.S. office assets—among them, two Seattle office blocks leased to Amazon acquired for $740 million and two office buildings in Miami that cost Ortega nearly $887 million. Now the firm is diversifying into other sectors.
El Pais notes that logistics real estate is just one of the diversification strategies Ortega has implemented since the office, hotel and retail sectors went south. For example, Pontegadea recently acquired a 64-floor luxury apartment building in New York City for $500 million. The firm also recently invested in alternative industrial sectors in Spain, a 40 percent share of Telxius Telecom, Spanish telecom operator Telefonica's telecommunications infrastructure arm for €378.8.
Source: "Family Offices Turn Focus Away from Office Towers and Toward Industrial"


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Front Page - Friday, April 20, 2018
Supreme Court clarifies the retroactive application of new rules in criminal case
The Tennessee Supreme Court clarified when a new legal ruling issued after a criminal trial should be applied to a case retroactively and what standards an appellate court should apply to decide whether the new rule affords a defendant relief.
These issues were presented in Christopher Minor's appeal of his convictions of felony murder, aggravated robbery and other charges, including seven counts of violating the criminal gang offense statute and his sentence of more than 60 years in prison for his participation in a robbery and murder in Madison County.
Minor did not challenge the constitutionality of the criminal gang offense statute in the trial court, but while his case was pending on appeal, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals declared the criminal gang offense statute unconstitutional in another case - State v. Bonds.
Minor then attacked the constitutionality of the statute in his own appeal, relying on Bonds. The Court of Criminal Appeals denied Minor relief, explaining that he had failed to raise the issue in the trial court and was not entitled to the benefit of the ruling in Bonds issued after his trial. The Supreme Court agreed to hear Minor's case and reversed.
The Supreme Court held that a new rule applies retroactively to all criminal cases pending on direct appeal when the rule is announced. New rules still apply to pending appeals, even if a defendant failed to raise the issue to which the new rule relates in the trial court.
However, defendants who raise the issue for the first time on appeal must satisfy the five criteria of the plain error doctrine to obtain relief. Minor easily satisfied four of the five criteria. The hotly contested issue was whether Minor had established that his convictions and sentences under the criminal gang offense statute amounted to breach of a clear and unequivocal rule of law.
The State argued that Minor failed to satisfy this criterion because it focuses on the law at trial and Bonds was issued after Minor's trial. On the other hand, Minor argued that appellate courts should apply the law at the time of appeal when answering this question, and based on that law, he satisfied the criterion.
After discussing three decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States - Olano, Johnson and Henderson - the Tennessee Supreme Court concluded that the circumstances of Minor's appeal closely mirror those of Johnson.
In Johnson, the law changed between the time of trial and the time of appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court held that under such circumstances, an appellate court must reference the law existing at the time of appeal when determining if a clear and unequivocal rule of law was breached.
As in Johnson, the Tennessee Supreme Court concluded the law had changed between the time of Minor's trial and appeal, so the law at the time of his appeal, as stated in Bonds, controlled.
Because the appeal could be resolved by applying Johnson, the Tennessee Supreme Court found it unnecessary to adopt or reject the more recent Henderson decision, holding that appellate courts must always reference the law at the time of appeal when applying the plain error doctrine.
Applying Johnson, the Tennessee Supreme Court concluded that Minor had satisfied the five criteria necessary for plain error relief, vacated his convictions and enhanced sentences under the criminal gang offense statute and remanded his case to the trial court for resentencing.
Justice Sharon G. Lee filed a separate concurring opinion. Although Justice Lee agreed with the result the Court reached in Minor, she would have gone one step farther and adopted Henderson as the law in Tennessee.
Justice Lee opined that Henderson, requiring appellate courts to reference the law at the time of appeal when determining if a clear and unequivocal rule of law has been breached, is consistent with longstanding principles of appellate review, the fairness function of the plain error doctrine, and the text and purpose of the plain error doctrine in Tennessee.
Source: Tennessee Supreme Court


This creamy, low fat pork recipe is bursting with flavour and delicious. So indulgent and so tasty, serve this with some fluffy rice to make a delicious, filling meal.
Lightly coat saucepan with low fat cooking spray, add mushrooms, cook over med heat until juices have evaporated, approx 7 min.
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Whisk in the soft cheese and wholegrain mustard, remove from heat.
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The word Maya evokes an ancient civilization with pyramids, hieroglyphics, and a unique culture that was vibrant during precolonization time. No one fully understands how it was erected or how it collapsed around the 1500s. This fascinating culture is well alive among the Maya descents. Every year, thousands of tourists try to understand this past, explore the ruins left behind with intense curiosity and attempt to interpret the intelligence and the infrastructure of that time. People are enchanted to appreciate the ruins of that past civilization, known to be rich in knowledge, especially in sciences and mathematics. Today, two Maya descendents and one outsider join their motivation to present this book to young readers, parents and teachers interested to introduce children to the Maya civilization. May this book serve as an introduction to create curiosity, interest and appreciation for a world that has left a rich legacy for new generations to come.


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Konstantinos Fytopoulos was born in 1964 in Katerini, having lived part of his childhood in Munich, Germany. He returned to Greece in 1977 and graduated from the University of Thessaloniki Medical School in 1990. Within the context of his specialization in Psychiatry, he has worked at the Papanikolaou Hospital University Neurological Clinic, the Neurological Clinic of the 2nd IKA hospital, the Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki, the AHEPA Hospital University Psychiatric Clinic and the Mental Health Centre of Sykies.
As part of his rural service practice, he worked at the rural centres of Sfendami and Makrygialos in Pieria and the Astypalea Regional Health Centre in the Dodecanese. He graduated from the Hellenic Homeopathic Medical Society (H.H.M.S.) Homeopathic School in 1989, broadening his studies with the training program of G. Vythoulkas, as well as with frequent trips to Mumbai and Berlin. He has taught at the School of Homeopathy H.H.M.S. in Thessaloniki since 1993, as of 2007, presenting the course, "Homeopathy, Psychotherapy and expansion of consciousness" at the University of the Aegean, within the context of postgraduate work in Homeopathy.
He is trained in Jungian Depth Psychoanalysis, Cognitive analytic psychotherapy and experiential group psychotherapy. Since 1998, he has studied and participated in "Responsibility-centric Experiential Psychotherapy" workshops led by the psychologist and author, "Filotheos Faros". He has studied the self-awareness and therapoitic use of Theatre in Toronto and Berlin. He has presented and published numerous articles and works in journals and at medical conferences.
He is involved with Stanislav Grof's "Transpersonal Psychology" community and practiice "Holotropic Breathwork" since 2011, and is a certified coach of HeartMath institute.
He practices and is involved with Yoga and methods of inner growth and expansion of consciousness since 1987. He works as a Homeopath, Psychotherapist and Psychiatrist, as of 2002 organizing and coordinating self-awareness experiential workshops in the Olympos region and throughout Greece.
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Jean Evans
stated on November 25, 2018 in a tweet:
"Constituents now face reality that all their personal issues will be made public" under Clean Missouri.
Privacy Issues
By Ryan Hanrahan December 6, 2018
Jean Evans overstates Clean Missouri effects on emails
Missourians overwhelmingly supported Amendment 1, also known as Clean Missouri, in the November election.
The amendment includes changing processes for redistricting, capping campaign contributions and establishing limits on lobbyist gifts.
But one particular issue has become controversial among lawmakers after the amendment's passage. The bill requires that legislative records and proceedings now be open to the public, meaning that all state legislators will now be subject to the Missouri Sunshine Law.
Several Missouri lawmakers have since brought up concerns with the limitations, or lack thereof, of what will have to be made public if a Sunshine Law request is made of them.
"Constituents now face the reality that all their personal issues will be made public," State Rep. Jean Evans said on Twitter.
Later in her Twitter thread, she makes clear that she believes her constituents have lost privacy when sending her emails.
We decided to take a look.
What does the law say?
When we reached out to Evans, she directed us to information given to members of the House of Representatives by Chief Clerk and Administrator Dana Rademan Miller.
It isn't a legal opinion, but rather resources that members could use if they received a request under the Sunshine Law. It did, however, provide some clarity on the language and enforcement of the amendment.
In short, state legislators will now become subject to the Sunshine Law and become the custodian, or keeper, of their own records under Amendment 1.
Claire McCaskill
stated on August 21, 2015 in comments to HBO host Bill Maher
"You wonder why you don't see Rand Paul as much; he's still shopping for his billionaire. He's like the only one who hasn't found a billionaire to fund his super PAC."
By Katherine Knott • October 20, 2015
Governmental bodies in Missouri have been subject to the Sunshine Law, but before the passage of the amendment, individual legislators were not considered to be governmental bodies.
Joseph Martineau, primary First Amendment lawyer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, said that the law essentially applies the same rules to individual legislators that lower public governmental bodies and the legislative branch already followed.
Jean Maneke, a lawyer at the Maneke law group and legal hotline attorney for the Missouri Press Association, said that it is important to note that in the context of Evans' tweet, the law does not specifically say emails, but rather says legislative records (including electronic ones), and that it will be up to each legislator to decide if they classify emails as legislative records.
Where things get most interesting, however, is the provisions listed in the Sunshine Law, section 610.021, that allow for closure of certain records. The section lists 24 provisions, with several that call for the closure of records for situations dealing with identifiable persons, such as welfare cases, nonjudicial mental and physical health proceedings, and personnel records.
Sean Soendker Nicholson, from Yes on 1 for a Clean Missouri, said, "There are rules already in place to protect private information when someone submits a Sunshine Law request to the governor or to their mayor, and those will remain in place for Sunshine Law requests that go into politicians."
Maneke believes, however, that things are far from that simple. She was quick to point out that at this stage, everything is interpretation, as there have been no suits filed for a court to rule on. She said that it will be impossible to know for sure until that occurs, but agrees with Nicholson that some public records are closed under the Sunshine Law, and that could be applicable here as well.
Our ruling
Evans said, "Constituents now face reality that all their personal issues will be made public" under Clean Missouri.
All of them? That's unlikely given that the Sunshine Law contains provisions for the closure of certain public records that are more sensitive. It is hard to say that all personal issues emailed to state legislators will be made public without knowing the content of those communications.
The new law gives legislators more responsibility for determining what is appropriate to release under the law. Evans' warning appears to be a broad overstatement of what could occur because of Clean Missouri.
For these reasons, we rate Evans' statement Mostly False.
Email exchange with State Rep. Jean Evans
Tweet, State Rep. Jean Evans, Nov. 25
Email interview with Sean Soendker Nicholson, Yes on 1 for a CLEAN Missouri
Email exchange with State Rep. Jason Chipman
Email interview with Jean Maneke, lawyer at the Maneke Law Group, L.C.
Email interview with Joseph Martineau, Lewis Rice attorneys
Revisor of Statutes, Sunshine Law, Section 610.021
Clean Missouri Website
Full text, Amendment 1 Missouri
Ballot language, Amendment 1 Missouri
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Missouri "had the largest amount of millennial Democrats running than any other state in the country."
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stated on October 1, 2018 a legislative report mailer:
"The small cell bill is expected to create more than 20,000 jobs and attract $2 billion in capital investment, resulting in nearly $4 billion in economic growth over the next few years."
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Since 2009, "millions of Americans have lost their health care plans."
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Green Bias Cemetery (also called Bias Cemetery) is on Pritchard Rd. off of Corridor G (U.S. Highway 119). It is often confused with another cemetery, the Old Burwell Cemetery (which is also called Green Bias Cemetery) off of Mud River Rd. nearby, also in Turtle Creek.


My first post in 2015 is about Christmas, that I spent with my family in the mountains. Unfortunately we were not lucky enough to have snow, but the festive vibe was still on!
Christmas is a holiday that should be spent among the family and dear ones. If you have them, the rest is just details which do not matter anymore. Joy, love, warm, serenity was what I felt during my Christmas escape to my parents` and it was exactly what I needed!
Our location was in the mountains, in a very special and lovely place. There was so much impressive nature surrounding us, that it would have been a shame not to show you some pictures.
What I wore on the 25th of Christmas: jumper and leggings from New Yorker, a winter jacket from Villa and my mom`s old leather boots which are extremely comfortable and warm!
In my next post I will show you how we partied on NYE!
You look gorgeous and what amazing scenery! Love your coat!
Thanks a lot. Have a great week!
Love that coat. It looks so fluffy and warm. Your sweater is great! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog!


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In this paper we show that in a world where productive investment is allocated according to the CAPM, a fractional reserve banking system that facilitates investing and money creation is not Pareto efficient and leads to excessive productive investment that in turn amplifies future business cycles. These results follow from a model based on CAPM, rational expectations and a linear homogenous production function. The regulatory process should consider going even further than the Volcker rule by restricting bank investments to currency in vault and deposit accounts on the central bank. Nonbank financial institutions should then carry out the risky financial intermediation function and trading now carried out by banks.


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during a practice approach we pass over a train just as we reach decision height on the ILS.
This entry was posted in Cessna Citation and tagged ce560, cessna, cessna citation encore, citation, encore, landing, low pass on August 13, 2012 by James Sorsby.
A Citation II flight from St Louis to Dallas Love. This video includes cockpit and cabin views. The Cessna Citation II or Citation 550 was designed as a Stretched version of the Citation one configured for 8-10 passengers. It first flew in 1977 and competed with the turboprop market as a step up entry level jet. When production had ceased Cessna had built 603 CE-550's. It's powered by two Pratt and Whitney JT15D-4 turbofan engines that generate 2,500 lbs of thrust each. It cruises at 360 kts and has a range of 1,200nm.
This entry was posted in Cessna Citation and tagged aviation airplanes, ce-550, cessna, cessna citation, cessna citation ii, citation 550, citation ii, civil aviation, dal, dallas love airport, general aviation, landing, takeoff on August 7, 2012 by James Sorsby.
landing in a Citation 550 on runway 4R at Chicago Midway airport. Midway is basically a one mile by one mile square set in a heavily populated area south of Chicago. All of the runways have displaced thresholds due to the close proximity of buildings. KMDW is one of the world's busiest general aviation airports. It's a hub for Southwest airlines and the FBO's serve hundreds of corporate jets and private air planes on a daily basis. This Cessna Citation II is landing on runway four right. Of interest is how close houses are to the ends of the runway.
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A Citation 550 departs Spirit of St. Louis airport and Lands at Dallas Love.
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(Newser) – That Coke bottle you were proud to throw in the recycling bin so it could be repurposed into another Coke bottle may actually be … part of a carpet sample in Mumbai. It turns out that a very small percentage of the world's plastic beverage bottles are made out of recycled plastic, with an IBISWorld analyst breaking it down into stark numbers for BuzzFeed: Less than a third of the world's plastic bottles (around 6 billion pounds per year) are recycled, and of that sample, only about 20% is transformed into new plastic bottles. Instead, most of the bottles are sent off to plastics factories in emerging markets, where they're used in textiles such as clothing, bags, and carpeting, and the reason appears to come down to cost. Because new plastic is often crafted out of petroleum, the current low price of oil makes it cheaper to just start from scratch than use recycled materials.
Much of what we "recycle", ends up being trucked and barged offshore, to other countries, where it ends up being picked over or buried, in landfills. Its a scam.


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Wow, what a wonderful day yesterday! The weather cooled down for Debbie + Jeremy's sweet elopement ceremony at Ft. Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth Maine. The pair had an intimate elopement ceremony overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, with their two adorable little ones as their bridal party. Everyone was happy and sharply dressed as they pulled into the park in their limo, and spirits were high. It was an honor for me to capture this sweet union of two families into one. I absolutely loved the sand ceremony they did together as a family, each person filling a bottle with their own color sand, making a beautiful piece of art representative of each individual coming together to be one family unit. I am loving the photos from their elopement, and hope you enjoy this Sneak Peek of this special day!


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Biografia
Stiglitz è nato a Gary, nell'Indiana, da Charlotte e Nathaniel Stiglitz. Dal 1960 al 1963 studia all'Amherst College poi si trasferisce al MIT per il suo quarto anno come undergraduate e in seguito per conseguirvi la laurea. Dal 1965 al 1966 riceve la borsa di studio "Fulbright Fellowship" che gli permette di frequentare l'università di Cambridge. Negli anni successivi insegna al MIT e alla Yale. Nel 1986 contribuisce alla formulazione del Teorema di Greenwald esposto dall'economista Bruce Greenwald.  Attualmente insegna alla "Graduate School of Business" presso la "Columbia University". Dal 3 ottobre 2003 è membro della Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze Sociali. Dal 2005 presiede il "Brooks World Poverty Institute", nella School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester. Fa parte del Complexity Lab in Economics dell'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano.

Stiglitz ha rivestito ruoli rilevanti nella politica economica: ha lavorato nell'amministrazione Clinton come Presidente dei consiglieri economici (1995 – 1997) ed è stato Senior Vice President e Chief Economist (1997 – 2000) presso la Banca Mondiale prima di essere costretto alle dimissioni dal Segretario del Tesoro Lawrence Summers.

Riceve la laurea honoris causa in economia e commercio nell'anno accademico 2003/2004 presso l'Università degli Studi di Bergamo che l'aveva già conferita nel 1979 al suo maestro Franco Modigliani. Il 5 febbraio 2010, nel corso della cerimonia d'inaugurazione dell'anno accademico 2009/2010 della LUISS Guido Carli, gli è stata conferita la laurea honoris causa in economia. Riceve inoltre la laurea honoris causa in economia internazionale e commercio nell'anno accademico 2017/2018 presso l'Università Politecnica delle Marche, a seguito di molteplici conferimenti da parte di diversi atenei, italiani e no.

Nell'anno accademico 2019/2020, presso il Politecnico di Torino, gli viene conferita la laurea honoris causa in ingegneria gestionale.

Attività e pensiero

I contributi di microeconomia
La sua produzione teorica e tecnica si è occupata soprattutto di microeconomia: il contributo più famoso di Stiglitz riguarda lo (screening), una tecnica astuta usata da un agente economico che voglia acquisire informazioni, altrimenti private, da un altro. È per questo contributo alla teoria delle "asimmetrie informative" che ha condiviso il premio Nobel con George A. Akerlof e A. Michael Spence.

In linea con le sue pubblicazioni tecniche Stiglitz è l'autore di Whither Socialism, un libro divulgativo che fornisce un'introduzione alle teorie sul fallimento economico del socialismo nell'Europa dell'est, il ruolo dell'informazione imperfetta nei mercati e le concezioni erronee su quanto sia realmente libero il mercato nel sistema capitalista-liberista.

Le critiche al FMI
Nel 2002 pubblica Globalization and Its Discontents (La globalizzazione e i suoi oppositori, Einaudi) in cui analizza gli errori delle istituzioni economiche internazionali, in particolare quelli del Fondo Monetario Internazionale, nella gestione delle crisi finanziarie che si sono susseguite negli anni 1990 in Russia, nei Paesi del Sud-Est asiatico, in Argentina e altrove. Stiglitz illustra come la risposta del FMI a queste situazioni di crisi sia stata sempre la stessa, basata sulla riduzione delle spese dello Stato unita a una politica monetaria deflazionista e all'apertura dei mercati locali agli investimenti esteri. Queste scelte politiche venivano di fatto imposte ai paesi in crisi, ma non rispondevano alle esigenze delle singole economie e si rivelavano inefficaci o addirittura di ostacolo per il superamento delle crisi.

Stiglitz afferma che il Fondo Monetario Internazionale, perseguendo il cosiddetto "Washington consensus", non protegge le economie più deboli e nemmeno garantisce la stabilità del sistema economico globale, ma fa in realtà gli interessi del suo "maggiore azionista", gli Stati Uniti, a discapito di quelli delle nazioni più povere. Le argomentazioni di Stiglitz sono particolarmente degne di attenzione perché provengono da un economista inserito nelle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali e contribuiscono a spiegare perché la globalizzazione ha generato l'opposizione dei movimenti sociali che hanno organizzato le proteste di Seattle e Genova (fatti del G8 di Genova del luglio 2001).

L'appoggio a Occupy Wall Street
Nel 2011 appoggia e partecipa al movimento Occupy Wall Street.

La critica all'Eurozona
Pur avendo preso ufficialmente le distanze dai movimenti euroscettici di destra o destra identitaria, tra cui Front National e Fratelli d'Italia che in vista delle elezioni europee del 2014 spesso lo citavano come fonte, questo non gli ha impedito di esprimere un'opinione fortemente critica nei confronti dell'euro e di precisare che una valuta comune senza un patto fiscale e uno per le banche di qualità, sinora mai sopraggiunto tanto che il Nobel se ne lamenta tuttora nel 2016, «è un errore economico»; di recente questa sua posizione si è in parte radicalizzata tanto da aver portato Stiglitz a dedicare al tema un apposito libro - The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe (pubblicato in due versioni lievemente diverse con due titoli non identici e con due diversi editori) e a scrivere in un suo recente articolo sul Guardian: «L'euro non è riuscito a realizzare nessuno di questi due obiettivi: prosperità e integrazione politica. Questi obiettivi sono ora più lontani di quanto non lo fossero prima della creazione della zona euro [...] I costi, sia finanziari sia emotivi, di una separazione potrebbero essere molto elevati, ma i costi del restare uniti potrebbero essere anche superiori».

Stiglitz nel libro The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe (agosto 2016) prevede due sole possibili opzioni: o un coraggioso "euro flessibile", ipotesi data per meno probabile per quella che riferisce essere manifesta assenza di solidarietà, o una concordata distruzione dell'euro.

Posizione sul libero scambio
Negli anni 1990 scrisse che "i paesi ricchi del Nord America e dell'Europa dovrebbero eliminare tutte le tariffe e i contingenti sulle merci provenienti dai paesi in via di sviluppo".

Consulenza ai paesi europei
Stiglitz consiglia ai paesi europei di controllare la loro bilancia commerciale con la Germania mediante certificati di importazione/esportazione (misura protezionistica).

Ricordando la teoria keynesiana egli spiega che i disavanzi commerciali sono dannosi: John Maynard Keynes ha sottolineato che i paesi con eccedenze esercitano una "esternalità negativa" sui loro partner commerciali e portano a una domanda aggregata globale debole. Stiglitz scrive: "L'eccedenza della Germania significa che il resto dell'Europa è in deficit e il fatto che questi paesi importano più di quanto esportano contribuisce alla debolezza delle loro economie. Egli ritiene pertanto che i paesi in attivo si stiano arricchendo a scapito dei paesi in deficit e non crede nel principio del vantaggio comparativo (base di libero scambio), che afferma che il deficit commerciale non è importante perché il commercio è reciprocamente vantaggioso.

Inoltre egli ha messo in discussione l'euro che avrebbe causato questo deficit: "Il sistema dell'euro significa che il tasso di cambio della Germania non può aumentare rispetto ad altri membri dell'area dell'euro. Se il tasso di cambio aumentasse, la Germania avrebbe maggiori difficoltà ad esportare e il suo modello economico, basato su forti esportazioni, verrebbe meno. Allo stesso tempo il resto dell'Europa esporterebbe di più, il PIL aumenterebbe e la disoccupazione diminuirebbe."

Consulenza negli USA
Denuncia i tentativi degli Stati Uniti di proteggere o ricreare posti di lavoro altamente remunerativi nel settore manifatturiero attraverso misure protezionistiche. Ha consigliato agli Stati Uniti di perseguire la globalizzazione o il libero scambio, basato sulla teoria del vantaggio comparativo, e di non combattere la deindustrializzazione attraverso le tariffe. Egli scrive che "la storia non può essere invertita" e che "il protezionismo non aiuterà l'economia nel suo complesso". I posti di lavoro saranno distrutti più velocemente di quanto non siano creati: i posti di lavoro netti nel settore manifatturiero potrebbero addirittura essere meno numerosi".

Scrive che la classe media degli Stati Uniti è effettivamente il perdente della globalizzazione e la Cina il vincitore. Egli ritiene che la domanda interna della Cina sia sufficiente per avere una forte crescita e che il commercio estero non sia più necessario. Ma egli difende le eccedenze commerciali della Cina in relazione agli Stati Uniti e crede che la Cina "risponderà con forza e intelligenza" e colpirà gli Stati Uniti "dove fa male economicamente e politicamente" se cercano di proteggere la loro industria.

Opere
 Il ruolo economico dello stato, Il Mulino, 1992.
 Whither Socialism?, MIT Press, 1996.
 Frontiers of Development Economics: The Future in Perspective, a cura di J. Stiglitz, Gerald M. Meier e Nicholas Stern, World Bank, 2000.
 New Ideas About Old Age Security: Toward Sustainable Pension Systems in the 21st Century, a cura di J. Stiglitz e Robert Holzmann, World Bank, 2001.
 In un mondo imperfetto, Donzelli, 2001.
 Principles of Macroeconomics, Third Edition, con Carl E. Walsh, W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.
 The Rebel Within: Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank, a cura di Ha-Joon Chang, Anthem Press, 2002.
 La globalizzazione e i suoi oppositori, traduzione di Daria Cavallini, Einaudi, Torino, 2002.
 Economics, Third Edition, con Carl E. Walsh, W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.
 Peasants Versus City-Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development, con Raaj K. Sah, Oxford University Press, 2002.
 I ruggenti anni Novanta. Lo scandalo della finanza e il futuro dell'economia, collana ET Saggi, traduzione di Daria Cavallini, Giulio Einaudi Editore, Torino, 2004. pp. 333 ISBN 88-06-17651-X.
 La globalizzazione che funziona, traduzione di Daria Cavallini, Einaudi, 2006. ISBN 88-06-18016-9
 Economia e informazione. Autobiografia, scritti e interviste, Datanews, 2006. ISBN 88-7981-296-3
 Verso un nuovo paradigma dell'economia monetaria, con Bruce Greenwald, Vita e Pensiero, 2008.
 Il prezzo della disuguaglianza. Come la società divisa di oggi minaccia il nostro futuro, Einaudi, 2013.
 Bancarotta. L'economia globale in caduta libera Einaudi 2010 e 2013
 La grande frattura. La disuguaglianza e i modi per sconfiggerla, Einaudi, 2016
 The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe, W. W. Norton & Company, 2016
 Invertire la rotta. Disuguaglianza e crescita economica, Laterza, 2018. ISBN 978-885-813073-5.
 La bussola imprecisa. L'etica nel mondo della finanza globalizzata, Castelvecchi, 2018. ISBN 978-88-3282-255-7
 Popolo, Potere e Profitti. Un capitalismo progressista in un'epoca di malcontento,traduzione Maria Lorenza Chiesara,  Einaudi, 2019, ISBN 978 8806 24435 4
 Misurare ciò che conta. Al di là del Pil, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Martine Durand,  Einaudi, 2021, ISBN 9788806249724

Articoli

Note

Voci correlate
 Banca Mondiale
 Debito estero
 Fondo Monetario Internazionale
 Naomi Klein
 Paradosso di Grossman-Stiglitz

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

  Robert Wade, US Hegemony and the World Bank: Stiglitz's firing and Kanbur's resignation, New Left Review'

Antiglobalizzazione
Membri dell'amministrazione Clinton
Laureati honoris causa dell'Università Politecnica delle Marche
Professori dell'Università Yale

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On the Outskirts of a Large Event
HOME, Manchester.
"Do you like surprises?" she asks. "How would I know?" replies Lucian.
The two of them are on a circle of sand, the size of a living room carpet. It's a tropical island or so they say. But how much can we trust what they tell us or even what they reveal to each other? On the face of it, Lucian has suffered a serious head trauma and can remember nothing of who he is. A woman approaches him for his autograph and gradually she begins to tell stories about who he is (or was). I'm not sure if we ever discover the woman's real name, so let's call her the narrator.
Nothing can be taken at face value. Initially it seems Lucian is a celebrity who has been attacked by a thug but then new layers are added to the story and the truthfulness of what he recalls seems fragile.
At first, it has the quality of a game – wordplay, teasing, jokes and even the odd knowing wink to the contrived nature of the situation. "This isn't Shakespeare" Lucian is told, when he suggests a ghostly vision of himself might be his twin.
Set in an oddly barren place, it's an island bereft of tropical greenery, an incongruous white plastic chair the only feature. Five columns of gauze-like fabric enclose the tightly defined performance space and serve as a canvas for Will Monks' moody lighting and intricate projections. The narrator always has one eye on the clock, time is seemingly running out for the characters and potentially for us. In a similar vein, distress signals and the whoosh of incoming tides can be heard in the ominous enveloping soundtrack.
When they notice an iceberg on the ocean, the narrative darkens and Lucian's memories gradually resurface. "We clung to you in difficult times", the narrator tells him. He played a role in a bigger brutal story.
On an island inhabited by sleep-walkers and worried insomniacs, secret plans are hatched under cover of darkness, fleets of boats take to the sea and kingdoms lie trapped beneath sheets of ice. The writing references elements of ancient fables but it's an allegory for our times. A cautionary tale featuring a charismatic politician armed with populist slogans, a climate of fear and a growing sense of insularity and intolerance.
To some extent, when that central thread is pieced together and reaches its merciless conclusion, it feels disappointingly simplistic. However worthy the message, however cleverly conveyed it, it's a broad brush moral saga and Lucian isn't the only person who experiences a heavy-handed bludgeoning. Allusions to other themes, such as the pollution of the planet and competition for scare resources, crop up but are never really developed.
Director Malaika Cunningham's blurry, fractured approach is most effective in considering the impacts of the events on individuals, and how they deal with the consequences. Characters have an elusive quality, they change. The autograph hunter becomes a worried insomniac. A scapegoater finds themselves blamed for the consequences of what they set in motion. How reliable is our narrator? Has Lucian (if that is even his name) chosen to try to forget something too terrible to remember? In the fractured first half, there are a few moments when Lucian is suddenly alone and carries on a conversation with just himself – is the whole thing the imaginings of his guilt-ridden, tortured mind? Are people the product of the stories they choose to tell about themselves?
Writer Joe W's pacey, purposeful script is deliberately lean but finds room for passages of rich imagery and bursts of absurd humour. Nicola Blackwell (Lucian) and Rose Gray (the narrator) steer us expertly through the show's shifting sands – seamlessly managing the many and sudden changes in mood, perspective and dynamics.
This desert island disconcerts – it asks us to sharpen our vision in a world where most people are walking around with their eyes closed. There's a pervading sense of foreboding. Cassandra-like, the narrator warns her fellow islanders, "we are on the outskirts of a large event". Perhaps, it's implied, we are too.
The Bare Project.
Images by Joanna Higson.
Greater Manchester HOME Joe W Malaika Cunningham Manchester On the Outskirts of a Large Event Performance The Bare Project Theatre
The Almighty Sometimes
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