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Preview: West Brom (v) Villa – #avfc #wba
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A "must win" against local rivals. What could possibly go wrong?
In a half decade of seemingly relentless "must win" fixtures, this absolutely has to count as the most important. Arguably the rational amongst us have accepted a long anticipated fate, the optimistic (mathematicians?) might raise a dispute.
Despite our position we go into the game in slightly better shape [by our standards]. A four game unbeaten 'run', albeit two fixtures versus Wycombe, represents a change from otherwise horrendous form. The victory in the league against Palace was deserved & we were unlucky to only get a point against Leicester.
So, matters are marginally less disastrous on the pitch than a few weeks ago, but it would be ill advised to refer to it as progress.
A win is essential if we are to keep pace with sides around us who are now beginning to muster a revival. Our efforts, compounded by our record breaking early season form, are further hindered by the current lack of new faces.
Whilst there is a debate to be had as to who would come, at what cost and if there's any point, the fact is that our nearest rivals are at least trying to recruit. At the time of writing, we are currently the exception. The suggestion is that we have already resigned ourselves to relegation, our inaction all but confirms it.
In terms of form there is little to pick between the sides. We have improved marginally, picking up 6 points from 6. Albion have secured just a point more over the same period. It is middling, lower to middle table form all round.
The more telling fact is that West Brom's home form is their strength, having won 3 of their last 6. Our away form by contrast tells the full story, with just two points taken from 24 available in the last 6 games. The four defeats in that period have also each come by two clear goals.
So, a difficult outlook, when we can least afford it.
Still, there are signs of encouragement. Ayew looks potent, Kozak is being included & Veretout's growing into a decent player. If Garde can keep the defence settled, judge Richards' best role & give the centre halves some protection, we may have a fighting chance.
Equally crucial is our attacking set up.
Garde is ultra conservation, but we are now at the point of no return.
A solitary striker makes sense in different circumstances, but the logical approach has to be a partnership of Ayew & Kozak. Gestede, despite scoring the equaliser against Leicester just hasn't shown enough to warrant consideration for me. Indeed, his inept performance against League 2 Wycombe in both fixtures underlines this fact.
What of Albion?
I sit firmly in the camp that Pulis and his approach serves a purpose, but ultimately will leave a club desperate for more. As such, I am glad that he isn't boss of Villa. It might seem absurd given our plight, but I simply couldn't tolerate survival on the terms he lays down. Albion are better off for having him, they certainly won't go down, but they're going absolutely no further than he's taken them already.
They will undoubtedly be out for victory with their points tally stagnating and having never quite recovered from being turned over twice in a week by Villa last season. Revenge is a dish served cold, & in our experience, repeatedly.
West Brom are a strange team. Efficient without standout figures. They also don't have an obvious goalscorer. Also the dressing room has to deal with baggage in the form of Berahino. It is the dictionary definition Pulis side, set up not to lose and to just about get themselves over the finishing line. It's certainly not pretty, but if surviving is your objective [and we should know], it's pretty effective.
Prediction Corner
If by some miracle we can iron out the defensive frailties, I can just about see an upset, but only by the slimmest of nail biting margins:
1-0 Villa, with Ayew to score.
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Fast paced action on the court described the play of the sixth grade girls at work in the championship basketball tournament game at Valley Catholic School. Lots of shots while working out the jitters produced a 4-4 score at the end of the first quarter.
Lots of traveling on both teams caused multiple turnovers. Missed layups was another theme. Good free throw shooting and well taught fundamentals will evolve into some great teams as these girls develop skills and mature.
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Why False Positive Results Are Harmful to Scientific Research?
Scientific Transparency
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Who are We Researching for?
If research is conducted in the name of discovery and improving human wellbeing, shouldn't the benchmark for 'successful' research incorporate the same criteria? If the results tell us something new and contribute to an improved condition, shouldn't that warrant attention?
As logical as that may seem, the reality is very different. What warrants attention in academic publishing, is not only the persistent fascination with the 'new', but that the 'new' be as counter-intuitive as possible. If a study was released with data suggesting that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) was suddenly good for you, and the authors suggested that it should be added to your daily dietary intake immediately, journals would be clamoring for the right to publish the results because they would be counter-intuitive to everything we currently understand about the effects of high fructose corn syrup.
What Is a False Positive in Scientific Research?
In medical research, a false positive is a test result that gives an erroneous indication that a disease or condition is present when it isn't. For example, this problem has beset mammography results for decades, resulting in thousands of unnecessary biopsies.
A false positive in scientific research is therefore a scenario when there is statistically significant evidence for something that isn't real. The key to such a result is the creation of a hypothesis that challenges a commonly accepted question in a different and unusual way. In the HFCS example above, follow-on research would be expected to examine just how unhealthy the ingredient can be in our diets. However, the chances of getting that research funded and published would be a lot lower than if you developed a hypothesis that HFCS actually has health benefits. You can imagine some enthusiasm on the part of the food processing industry in that study.
All that is required is careful attention to the methodology – the sample population, a hypothesis that only tests for one condition, the data collected, and the subsequent statistical analysis of that data to generate a counter-intuitive false positive result — and you have the makings of a groundbreaking study.
The Pressure to Be Different
Increasing competitive pressures are turning 'publish or perish' into an even tougher expectation to 'publish groundbreaking work or perish.' This, in turn, is directing research away from follow-on extrapolation studies to further expand on the broader potential of new discoveries, towards studies that are expected to be astounding right out of the gate. There's no doubt that such discoveries are possible and often genuinely made, but the harder that researchers are expected to pursue counter-intuitive results as the golden ticket to publication, the greater the risk that increasingly scarce research funds will be wasted on fruitless journeys.
Much Harm Done!
As long as future research is directly influenced by the results of past research, false positives will continue to do harm. There will always be a place for counter-intuitive research to investigate something in a completely different way and from a totally different direction, but such research has to be grounded in a solid hypothesis. Without it, we run the risk of inspiring future researchers to undertake investigations into results that were wrong to begin with.
The subsequent failure to replicate the results of the original study (assuming they were given full access to the data) might cast a shadow over the original study, but probably not enough to force a retraction. Over time, research databases will become polluted with questionable research, some disconcerting replication data (assuming those studies ever get published) and future researchers will be unable to separate the good from the bad.
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BMO Financial Group donates $125,000 to give struggling students at NSCC an extra boost
February 12, 2019 – Media Release
Dartmouth, NS – A donation of $125,000 from BMO Financial Group to Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) will help students who need extra support to overcome financial hurdles.
Details of the new BMO Change Maker Bursary program were revealed this morning at the Akerley Campus in Dartmouth. The donation is part of Make Way – The Campaign for NSCC, a major fundraising initiative aimed at supporting students on their NSCC journey.
"Thanks to the Make Way Campaign, we have many bursaries based on financial need available to students. In fact, most awards at NSCC are focused on providing access to opportunity," says Don Bureaux, NSCC President.
"But for some students that initial boost isn't enough. They are grateful, but still struggling financially to stay in their programs and make ends meet. I'm delighted for those students that BMO Financial Group is making a gift aimed at helping them past those obstacles."
The BMO Change Maker Bursary will help 12 students annually, over five years, at NSCC campuses across Nova Scotia. Beginning this spring, the fund will provide $2,000 bursaries to assist students who have already received some financial aid but need additional help to continue their NSCC journey. It will allow the most financially challenged students to offset the majority of their tuition expenses.
"At BMO Financial Group, we have a proud 200-year legacy of making tomorrow better. And we know one direct route to a better tomorrow is keeping students in school," says Lynda Taylor, Regional President, Atlantic, Personal & Business Banking.
"We're excited that The BMO Change Maker Bursary will help NSCC students continue on their path to rewarding careers and empower them to become community contributors."
About Make Way – The Campaign for NSCC
Make Way is NSCC's most ambitious campaign to date, opening doors to education by raising $25 million to help students succeed. Through the generosity of donors, partners and sponsors, we are supporting students with scholarships, bursaries and urgent aid, as well as innovative learning, leading-edge instructional equipment and centres of expertise. Make Way is helping secure a strong future by investing in those who will propel Nova Scotia forward.
About Nova Scotia Community College
NSCC is committed to building Nova Scotia's economy and quality of life through education and innovation, transforming Nova Scotia one learner at a time. Serving the province through a network of 13 campuses, the College offers 130 plus programs in five academic schools — Access, Business, IT & Creative Industries, Health & Human Services, and Trades & Technology — reflecting labour market needs and opportunities in Nova Scotia. NSCC's primary goal: student success. In an annual survey of its graduates, the College has found 87% are employed, most in their field of choice, with 93% of those employed living and working in Nova Scotia.
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Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider -- the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $774 billion as of October 31, 2018, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers, and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.
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So we are currently in Barbados (I'm sure having a GRAND OL' TIME) and these pictures are a few months old, but they will NOT disappoint!!
Some folks say his ears are too big, but I think they are JUST RIGHT!
He looks a little tipsy here, don't you think?


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This is from FunKidsLive. It looks like a great chapter book series for reluctant boy readers. NERDS (which stands for National Espionage, Rescue and Defense Society) is a new book series by Michael Buckley. I send this to my Mom Friend with a reluctant boy reader and she confirmed: yes, we own this and yes, we love this.
Then when I was at the Scholastic Book Fair Fundraiser at my elementary school, I noticed it there too. Isn't it funny that once you know about something, you start to see it everywhere?! The clincher for me was when my 5th grader, NOT a boy and NOT a reluctant reader, kept bugging me to get her this book. So there you have it. It's a clever chapter book series with a hook. Now that you know about it, try to avoid seeing it everywhere you go!
Combining the excitement of international espionage and the awkwardness of primary school, NERDS, is a terrific new series from best-selling author Michael Buckley.
The series features five unpopular students who run a spy network from inside their school. And, with the help of cutting-edge science, these characters are pretty unique! There is the paste-eater who can stick to walls, the asthmatic who can blow up like a puffer fish and loads more characters that you will absolutely love!
Working as a team, these geeky yet special students become the latest members of an elite organization whose origins are shrouded in mystery and have included such members as Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Tubman and Bill Gates.
The latest incarnation of NERDS must battle an array of James Bond–style villains, each with an evil plan more diabolical than the last.
This September, NERDS is back with the second book, NERDS: M is for Mama's Boy, in the series with more sinister villains, crazier schemes and the nerdiest group of superheroes around!
In this second outing for the junior school super spies, Duncan Dewey, codename "Gluestick", leads the adventures. This time the group must fight a very unlikely villain – he still lives with his Mum. In other words, it's the NERDS against a nerd!
Click on image of book to view at Amazon.
I like this review. I know what to recommend to my friends with kids in this age group.


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Олга Луковић-Пјановић (Негришори, област Драгачево, подно планине Јелице, 7. април 1920 — Београд, 1. април 1998) је била српски и француски лингвиста.

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Завршила је гимназију у Чачку, а затим је била примљена у Дом краљице Марије у Београду.

Током Другог светског рата била је у логору у Немачкој. Након рата је радила као спикер на Радију Загреб. Убрзо је дипломирала на Филолошком факултету Универзитета у Београду на одсеку за класичне језике.

У Паризу је докторирала на Сорбони 1969. године, са дисертацијом "Правда код Есхила и Софокла".

Поред матерњег српског језика, познавала је још девет језика: старогрчки, латински, француски, немачки, руски, енглески, пољски, италијански и шпански језик.

Постала је позната након објављивања књиге "Срби... народ најстарији" у којој је довела у везу српски са страним и античким језицима. За присталице српске аутохтонистичке историјске школе ради се о капиталном делу, док га званична историографија потпуно одбацује као ненаучно и псеудоисториографско дело.

Доживела је мождани удар током турнеје по српској дијаспори у САД, након чега се вратила у Париз где је наставила са истраживањима, али није више могла да говори.

Удавала се два пута, за Братољуба Клаића, хрватског лингвисту и члана Хрватског државног уреда за језик за време Другог светског рата и Цветка Пјановића, четничког официра.

Референце

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 Српска дијаспора : о делима Олге Луковић-Пјановић
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Рођени 1920.
Умрли 1998.
Лучанци
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A powerful bomb shook central Beirut Friday morning, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more. Among the dead was Mohammed B. Chattah, a former Lebanese finance minister and ambassador to the United States who was a vocal critic of the government in neighboring Syria and its ally, the Lebanese militia and political party Hezbollah.
It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Chattah was the intended target of the car bomb, nor was there an immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which was reminiscent of a string of unsolved bombings that have targeted anti-Syrian politicians over the past decade.


My Back Pages is a series that explores our relationships with the music we grew up with. Poison is the subject of this installment.
It started with a cassette tape, boom box and roller skates. I was 10 and a chronic snooper/stealer of my brother's things. I set out to roller skate in our laundry room and, since CDs were hardly the "latest thing" yet, I pilfered a cassette tape that would seriously rock my world for the next 20-plus years.
The skates were white with purple wheels, the boom box was huge, fitting right in with the fact that it was 1987, and the tape was decidedly more colorful thanks to the makeup worn by the four men on the cover.
From the first drum thump on "Cry Tough" to the final notes of "Let Me Go to the Show," I fell in love with Bret Michaels, his blue eyes and Poison through "Look What the Cat Dragged In." It was a love affair that continued well into my 30s and finally dissipated when Michaels became reality-show fodder.
But this is about the music. Maybe Poison didn't make prolific music that would change the world like the Beatles or Nirvana, but for this 10-year-old who soon turned into a teenager, Poison's music spoke to me like nothing else had up to that point.
Hair metal as a whole became a huge part of life in our house, especially considering that my beloved older brother was and still is a lifelong general in the Kiss Army – so much so he has long since sported two huge Gene Simmons tattoos. Luckily, our mom loved the music just as much as we did, so she wholeheartedly supported us turning our stereos to 11.
I was the girl who drew Poison logos to precise perfection (and still can) on her book covers at her Catholic grade school, plus those of Guns N' Roses, Skid Row, L.A. Guns, Kiss, Motley Crue and Slaughter. I went from painting pristine watercolors in art class to drawing skulls, all the while being totally, maniacally obsessed with Poison.
I had 127 posters of Bret and the boys on my walls, and the pushpin holes are still there in my room at my parents' house, like a badge of honor for the teenage girl I used to be.
Poison's third album, "Flesh & Blood" was, and still is, my favorite of the band's albums. Something happened to me listening to that album: I became even more affected by the music I was hearing and the lyrics I read in the liner notes. Music became an integral part of my life, something I would use from there on out to tell the story of my life.
"Flesh & Blood" was released in June 1990; I can still to this day remember going to Gallery of Sound in Dallas, Pa. to buy it. The album would soon spend the next several months on repeat in my stereo. "Something to Believe In" was an early favorite; I loved how timeless and sad the song is. A few months later, I saw its video for the first time sitting on the sofa at my grandmother's house trying to come to terms with my beloved Pop-Pop's death. Suddenly, "Something to Believe In" became so much more than just a song. It became a coping tool that still makes me tear up when I hear it.
My brother took me to my first Poison show at the Kingston Armory in 1991, with Slaughter as the opening act. I remember being so excited that I could have passed out. Thanks to our dad having sweet hookups, we had balcony seats right above the stage, and I know I screamed just as loud as all those girls at Shea Stadium who saw the Beatles.
Over the next 20 years, 14 more Poison shows followed, a fact I am unabashedly proud of. I saw the band numerous times in Northeastern Pennsylvania, in California twice when my brother moved there, once in Charlotte, N.C., when he came back to the East Coast, as well as once in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Like any good fan girl, I joined Bret's fan club and got to meet him in 2002 after a show at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pa. After telling him how meaningful "Something to Believe In" was to me, he wrote, "To Nikki, here's something to believe in. Love, Bret" on my "Flesh & Blood" CD cover, so it's no surprise there are tears in my eyes in the picture taken moments after.
I was able to interview Bret as a wet-behind-the-ears journalist a few years later when the band celebrated its 20th anniversary with a summer tour, and it was a dream come true to marry my passion for writing with the band that instilled my passion for music. Everything came full circle when I got to meet him on that tour, and he posed for another picture and signed my story.
People may scoff at '80s hair bands these days, but I will defend it until the day I die because those were the sounds that shaped me into the person I am today. Come hell or high water, Poison is and will always be my musical happy place.


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The Arts for Justice exhibition addresses the compelling theme of human trafficking and modern day slavery through various art forms.
Displaying a range of poetry, fine art, short film and photography by artists from all over the world, the exhibition seeks to educate, inspire and empower us to understand the scale of human trafficking and what we can do to end it.
On display will be various depictions of the types of trafficking as well as the stories of victims' experiences: both stories of reality and rescue.
This exhibition is part of a wider project of AFJ Ministries to tour art around the globe, spread awareness, share hope and empower artists to use their talents to fight global injustice.


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Officer Elections - Spring 2022
Officer Election of ACM@UIOWA - Spring 2022
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President Mitchell Hermon Maneesh John Gokul Thangavel Gautam Sharda Carter Tams
Vice President Maneesh John Gokul Thangavel Gautam Sharda Carter Tams Ilya Tataurov
Secretary-Treasurer Andy Chen Gokul Thangavel Gautam Sharda Carter Tams Ilya Tataurov
Events Chair Debashish Koirala Gokul Thangavel Carter Tams Ilya Tataurov
Webmaster Maneesh John Gokul Thangavel Carter Tams Ilya Tataurov
Nominations close on Sunday, May 1st at 11:59PM CDT.
Voting will be held via an online form that will be sent to each official member's email on Thursday, May 5th with the deadline to vote being Thursday, May 12th at 11:59PM . Results will be announced no later than Friday, May 13th.
Election Protocol
Approved by the ACM@UIOWA Officers on Wednesday, May 4th, 2021.
Annual Election - NEED TO KNOW DETAILS
WHEN: Thursday, May 5th through Thursday, May 12th at 11:59PM.
WHERE: Online via form sent by email
WHAT: Elections for the five ACM@UIOWA officer positions: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Events Chair. These are year-long positions, and will be held from Fall 2022 - Spring 2023. More info can be found in the ACM@UIOWA Constitution. More information on the positions can be found here.
WHO CAN RUN: All students that are official members of ACM@UIOWA are eligible to run in the election.
Note: The ACM@UIOWA Constitution allows for a unanimous veto by current Officers of any nomination for President. This can be appealed to the Chapter Sponsor, who can override it if deemed cruel or vindictive. All other nominations are fair game to eligible candidates.
HOW TO RUN: A nomination form will be sent via email. It is possible to run for multiple positions. Nomination Form: https://forms.gle/2CyxnhHf2dwScwue8
WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE: All CS and CSE students that are official members of ACM@UIOWA.
VOTING: ACM@UIOWA will be utilizing instant-runoff elections, which involves ranking candidates in order of preference. The process mimics a series of runoff elections, with the bottom candidate being removed each time. All ballots will be secret.
WINNING: Following the process of instant-runoff elections, the first candidate to reach 50%+1 of votes cast in a round of voting will be declared the winner.
For a simple answer, you can stop reading here, but there are some complications we need to cover in case they come up.
ROUNDS OF VOTING: Votes for all positions being voted on will be cast simultaneously, and when voting closes, tallied simultaneously. The first round of voting will involve all positions, by default. Once the final results are calculated, the results for all positions - including any voting redistribution - will be publicly announced simultaneously. All Winners will either accept/decline their positions. Any positions which are yet unfilled at the end of the round, will proceed to a new round involving simultaneous re-tallying, which will include special conditions based on the nature of the re-tally (see: Special Results)
SPECIAL RESULT - CANDIDATE WINS MULTIPLE POSITIONS: If a candidate wins multiple positions, they will be allowed to accept whichever position they wish to fill, but will not (purposefully) be informed of the consequences (i.e. who will win the other position in their stead). For elections they won but did not accept, the instant runoff procedure will be re-run, but with a redistribution of their votes in the first round. For elections they lost, their votes will only be redistributed if the procedure has to be re-run because of another Special Result (i.e. once someone "wins" and "accepts" a position, they cannot unwin it).
SPECIAL RESULT - TIE: In the event of a tie, the final two candidates will be re-voted on. If the tie persists a second time, the President will cast, change, or rescind their vote (depending if they voted or did not) based on the advice of their Officers, effectively deciding the election.
SPECIAL RESULT - CANDIDATE DECLINES: If a candidate declines the position they won, their votes will be redistributed in a new round of instant runoff procedure.
IN THE EVENT OF VACANCIES FOLLOWING THE ANNUAL ELECTION: Nominations for a Special Election will open immediately, and eligibility will be extended to all who achieve ACM@UIOWA Member status by the day of the election. Voting eligibility will likewise be extended. If such a scenario arises, more details will be promulgated by the day following the regular election.


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Sanergy: Solving the Sanitation Crisis, One Toilet at a Time
In this third installment of our Inventing Green series, we follow up on an earlier article about Sanergy with an in-depth look at the company's sustainable approach to addressing the global sanitation crisis. Read previous Inventing Green profiles of Helix Steel and Drinkwell.
Worldwide, 4.1 billion people lack access to hygienic sanitation. One billion of those people live in urban slums, and that number is poised to double to two billion in fifteen years, putting further strain on crowded cities. This "sanitation crisis," which contaminates waterways, food supplies, and local roads, can lead to life-threatening infections.
David Auerbach and two classmates studying at MIT Sloan saw the problem, but they also identified an opportunity in the global sanitation crisis. In 2011, they founded Sanergy to improve lives and health outcomes in slums with a viable, sustainable franchise model that gives residents access to clean, high-quality Fresh Life toilets.
"We decided to provide a non-sewered approach to solve the sanitation challenge, and provide equivalent services to sewers," Auerbach says. "We safely contain, transport, and then treat the waste, and finally convert it into valuable end products."
Auerbach said VentureWell's E-Team financial support was crucial at that early juncture. "There are very few supporters out there willing to help university students make new things," he said. E-Team coursework also helped guide them through key startup challenges: How do you attract entrepreneurs? How do you generate demand?
Sanergy embarked on a test pilot in Nairobi, Kenya, which has eight million slum residents. Many residents use unsanitary options such as "flying toilets" (defecating into plastic bags that are then tossed onto the streets) and pit latrines that release untreated human waste into the environment.
As a differentiator from other local toilet operators, Sanergy collects waste on a regular basis. Staff members are trained to remove and replace filled waste cartridges. Because many informal settlements are only accessible via narrow, unpaved roads, employees use wheelbarrows or handcarts to service communities that are often overlooked.
The company now has a network of over 1,100 toilets within two large slums, serving 50,000 people every day with safe sanitation, and employing 250 people. What's more, Sanergy's entire life-cycle is sustainable, from manufacturing toilets with domestic materials to converting waste to fertilizer—all while local operators share in the profit.
Sanergy's website says: "It is insufficient to simply provide clean toilets; where the waste goes after is just as important. We are committed to cleaning up informal settlements through professional, hygienic waste collection services, and then ensuring that waste is treated properly."
A Truly Green Business
"Our whole business is very green," Auerbach says. Sanergy converts about 5,000 tons of waste every year to organic fertilizer and insect-based animal feed.
At a centralized facility, Sanergy employees co-compost the waste with sawdust, other carbon sources and pathogen-eliminating micro-organisms. After the compost matures, it becomes fertilizer that the company tests by third party to meet World Health Organization standards.
"Basically, it's similar to how you might compost in your backyard, but at an industrial scale," Auerbach says.
Sanergy sells the fertilizer to about 700 farmers, who report a 30 percent increase in crop yields. Farmers typically must purchase expensive, imported, synthetic fertilizers that risk leaching chemicals into their fields and food.
"Our organic fertilizer is safe and nutrient-rich, which helps address food security challenges," Auerbach says. "It's also a domestically produced fertilizer, which is also really important for reducing dependence on imports and the associated transport, and tariff costs that come with that."
To make the animal feed, Sanergy raises a colony of Black Soldier Flies, whose larvae or maggots eat organic matter before they're boiled and sun-dried. The end product is 50% protein, and provides a sustainable alternative to Omena, the leading, low-quality animal-based protein used in East Africa. Omena is made from fish harvested from Lake Victoria, and contains other fillers like sand and shells, putting the biodiversity of the lake at risk and resulting in poor animal growth.
Auerbach says it was important for the company to create an integrated sanitation value chain. "There was no one guaranteeing that the waste was being collected, or that the waste was then going to be treated," he says. "We recognized that if we were able to integrate it, that would be the only way that we could guarantee that we were solving the sanitation challenge."
The Franchise Model
Sanergy targeted a franchise model to quickly scale their business, launching with a commercial model. Commercial entrepreneurs signed franchise agreements to operate Fresh Life toilets near their businesses, schools, and offices. Yet, commercial toilets were limited by certain hours and by distance.
Auerbach says his team soon realized they wanted to move deeper into communities, establishing Fresh Life toilets where people live. Slum residents often have to walk long distances to access a pit latrine, often incurring safety risks to use the bathroom at night. Studies such as Amnesty International's reveal that women in Nairobi risk sexual assault or rape to reach a bathroom that is more than 100 meters away.
Three years ago, Sanergy developed a residential franchise model. "That was a big change for us," he says. "It meant we were really meeting the demand of what residents of urban slums are looking for, which is a toilet that was as close as possible to where they were living and that they were getting 24/7 access to."
Fresh Life operators pay to join Sanergy's network, which provides them with the toilets, daily collection services, and community branding efforts. In return, operators commit to keeping toilets safe, clean, open, and well stocked with toilet paper, soap, and sawdust. There are currently 500 Fresh Life Operators. Nearly half of the operators run the toilets as commercial entities, earning about $1,000 a year per toilet. Kenya's GDP per capita is $1,376.
"People are gaining access to clean, safe sanitation for the first time and that's really been quite transformative for the community," Auerbach says.
Looking to the Future, Staying Humble
In Nairobi, Sanergy is running test pilots to clean up and convert existing pit latrines into Fresh Life toilets, working closely with latrine operators to establish a mutually profitable model. Worldwide, Sanergy is eyeing other cities and countries around the world—and they're hoping to entice governments to partner with them.
"There's about 1,000 cities in Sub Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America that are facing the same challenges of heavily crowded urban informal settlements and governments that are straining to invest in the traditional solutions," Auerbach says. "What we're working on now is how do we get governments and municipalities to pay for our non-sewered solutions? We see that as a way to scale."
Auerbach says starting small in just one city was key, and he urges other innovators to do the same. "We often hear about students who are trying to do a pilot in five different countries or even five different cities in the same country," he says. "It's just so hard to get just one working pilot off the ground."
Sustainable innovators inherently face two large hurdles: changing the world for the better and generating a profit. Auerbach has sage advice about remaining humble and keeping an open mind.
"[Innovators] are solving big, intractable social problems," he says. "The notion that you alone have the answer, I think, is overly ambitious. Make sure you're listening to the community that you serve. If you don't treat them like customers and you become so sure that your product or service is correct in the way that it is, I think you're often setting yourself up for an unhappy ending."
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I've been studying through Isaiah this week and already just in chapter 1, I have been overwhelmed at our God.
Those names of God that I listed yesterday—that you listed yesterday—could go on and on.
But what amazes me is that we can know Him. We- sinful, rebellious creation- were called into His family to be His daughters & His bride- to know Him.
And not know Him like we know our postman.
We get to know Him in the most intimate, beautiful, & close way.
The beauty and majesty of Christmas is that Jesus came down to earth to be with us, to save us, to rescue us. He wanted us. He- the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Creator; the Holy One of Israel came down to earth to be with us. To redeem us by His justice and righteousness, that we can know Him through repentance. To know Him and be known by Him.
He invites us into a deep, intimate relationship with Him.
So whether you have never entered into relationship with Jesus, or you have but haven't been so vulnerable with Him lately- He's waiting. He's right here. Wanting you. Inviting you in. Pursuing you.
Come be with Jesus. He is all in all. Worthy of all. Let Him hold your heart and be your Lord today & forevermore.
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Quarterly filing and payment is required if an employer has withheld with respect to a municipality $2,399 or less in the immediately preceding calendar year, or $200 or less for each month in the immediately preceding calendar quarter. The due date for Quarterly filers is the 15th day of the month following the end of the quarter.
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Poly maker Daqo presents a blockbusting set of figures
Profits and revenues were down in a year which saw average selling prices slump – especially after the turbulence in the Chinese market – but the company's hell-for-leather dash for production capacity expansion and aggressive cost cutting mitigated the ill effects. And there is more to come in the year ahead.
March 13, 2019 Max Hall
The world will see an awful lot more polysilicon produced this year if Daqo gets its way.
Image: Daqo New Energy
Chinese polysilicon giant Daqo New Energy has reaffirmed its commitment to a huge production capacity expansion strategy in its unaudited figures for the final three months of last year and for the full-year 2018 figures.
But the Chongqing-based poly maker hinted this year's ambitious capital spending plans would make for one final push – for the time being at least – with CEO Longgen Zhang stating in his remarks on the figures, "the pace of new capacity expansion within the polysilicon industry will smooth out".
Not just yet though, with Daqo confirming a five-year, RMB400 million ($59.6 million) capital project loan and a RMB50 million working capital credit line from the state-owned Bank of China was secured last month, as part of an RMB830 million borrowings warchest to build the company a 70,000 MT production capacity by this time next year.
And the figures released by the poly maker today spelled out why such an expansionary approach could pay off. The CEO said the global oversupply of PV modules caused by the decision of the Chinese government to reduce public subsidies for solar at the end of May drove down prices so far it spurred overseas markets so that prices have now "achieved equilibrium again".
Falling prices – and costs
Polysilicon average selling prices are still falling – from $10.79/kg in Q3 to $9.69 in Q4 – and the 5/31 policy shock hit revenue and profit figures compared with the numbers posted at the end of 2017, during the Chinese solar boom. Revenue fell from $119 million in 2017 to $75.6 million, gross profit slumped from $68.1 million to just $16.9 million, year on year, and net income retreated from $57.7 million to $17.1 million.
But with Daqo shaving a full dollar per kilogram off its production costs – from $8.94/kg in Q3 to $7.94 – and reaping the rewards of the early stages of its production ramp-up to make and ship record volumes of product, the impact of the price retreat was minimized.
The manufacturer, which sold off its wafer making operation in September, produced some 7,301 MT of poly in the final three months of 2018, up from 4,734 MT in the previous reporting period. Sales volumes to customers other than its former wafer business rose from 6,199 MT to 7,030 MT, quarter-on quarter, and similar figures are expected in the full year stats. Daqo expects to have produced 23,351 MT in 2018, up from 20,200 at the height of the Chinese boom in 2017, with non wafer unit sales up from 17,950 MT to 22,521 MT.
The company was paying $9.40 to produce each kilo of product during 2017 but Daqo predicts the economies of scale it will enjoy this year will see the production cost retreat even further, to around $7.50/kg. With the phase 3B production expansion project in Xinjiang completed three months early and operating at full capacity in November, Daqo is about to start a three-and-half-month drive to upgrade older chemical vapor deposition (CVD) furnaces that will add another 5,000 MT of annual capacity.
The upgrade project, said Daqo, means it expects to manufacture only 7,600-7,800 MT of poly in the next quarter – down from the 8,500-8,700 MT it expects to have made in this three-month period – but it will then have a 35,000 MT annual production capacity… until that doubles with the completion of the mammoth Phase 4A project.
Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the Daqo update is the rabbit the company appears to have pulled out of the hat concerning its balance sheet, with total borrowing having actually fallen, from $185.2 million at the end of 2017 to $172 million. That Q4 figure had risen from the $165.3 million posted at the end of Q3 last year but nevertheless demonstrates that aggressive expansion appears to be paying off.
Small wonder the outlook for this year was full of optimism, with Daqo predicting demand will return in China in the second half of the year as the nation installs 40-45 GW of an anticipated 120-140 GW of new solar capacity worldwide.
Max Hall
Max worked for pv magazine between 2012 and 2015 on a part-time basis and returned to the fold full-time in July 2018. An old-school print journalist, he has also worked in environmental consultancy, education, local government, infrastructure, aerospace, forensic science and sport.
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I spent some of my holiday time preparing my bullet journal for 2018 and thought I would make a final spread in my 2017 journal looking back on the year.
My depression and anxiety were a bit worse overall this year compared to last, but in spite of that it was a good year.
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Pick of the Week: Charulata
On the 100th birth anniversary of the great Satyajit Ray, whose cinematic sensibilities and oeuvre have transcend borders and time, we revisit his poetic masterpiece Charulata.
Based on Rabindranath Tagore's novella Nastanirh (The Broken Nest), Satyajit Ray's Charulata is probably one of the finest films ever made and, his personal favourite. He famously once said that this was a film he would make the exact same way, if given a chance to do so again; it had the least number of defects, according to him.
Madhabi Mukherjee stars in and as Charulata, the intelligent, educated and beautiful, albeit bored wife of Bhupati, a product of the Bengal renaissance and owner of The Sentinel newspaper, in which he unabashedly calls out the unfair policies of the British in India. Bhupati has very little time for his wife, but he loves her dearly and encourages her pursuit of her artistic talents, writing in particular, enabling it to flourish. When Bhupati's cousin Amal arrives, having just completed his graduation in literature, it's like a breath of fresh air and companionship for the lonely Charu, who slowly begins to fall for him.
Charu's loneliness is brilliantly established by Ray in the opening sequence of the film. There's a sense of stagnation as she moves around; we see her looking out the window at the world, but we never see her go outside. We see her giving orders and speaking to characters, but we don't see the characters. Ray makes great use of negative space, framing the camera around Charu in a way that establishes the emptiness of the house and her surroundings towering over her, as an undisputed fact. In the first 6 minutes of the film, the director establishes its tone of how placid and monotonous her life is, despite its backdrop of aristocracy and opulence.
Charu and Amal (essayed to perfection by Soumitra Chatterjee) are of the same age and are more friends than brother and sister-in-law, having mutual respect and admiration for each other. Bhupati entrusts the fruition of Charu's literary talents to Amal, because of which they end up spending the entire day together while Bhupati focuses on his printing press. Ray brings in the symbols of a forbidden relationship at various stages in the film, but the object that stands out most (and which made it to the film's poster), is the pair of binoculars.
Charu uses the binoculars to look more closely at the outside world, a world that once she might have been connected to and a part of, but is now totally alienated from. In a scene, her husband walks past her without even acknowledging her presence, and in one of the most memorable shots of the film, she uses the binoculars to look at him, telling us that even as his wife, she's still an outsider peeking into his life.
The camera movements change and become more rapid with Amal's entry, because not only is he jovial, but his presence makes Charu come alive. There are a lot of dramatic movements which convey her restlessness and energy bubbling up in the house, of which we see a release in the scene when she's gently swinging and Amal lies on the grass, reading.
The excellent production design coupled with memorable compositions by Ray himself (Ami Chini Go Chini Tomare, sung by the legend Kishore Kumar is a personal favourite), infuse a dreamlike quality to the film which transports us to the 19th century without losing the film's sense of timelessness. Words fall short when one tries to capture the cinematic elegance and beauty of Charulata, and the only way to preserve its ethereal, sophisticated simplicity and do it justice, is by dipping ourselves in it with as many viewings as possible.
Now streaming on MUBI and Zee5.
Satyajit Ray, considered one of Indian cinema's most important filmmakers, was born on 2nd May 1921 in Kolkata. He was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves, giving us masterpieces such as the Apu Trilogy, Devi, Aranyer Din Ratri, Nayak and Shatranj Ke Khiladi. Ray directed 36 films in total and received many awards in his film career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a Golden Bear and 2 Silver Bears at the Berlinale, and many others at international film festivals and ceremonies, including an Academy Honorary Award in 1992. The Government of India also honoured him with the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, in 1992.
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Azeez Ojulari, Leonard Williams out of Giants practice
Josh Alper
The Giants have not laid out their full plans for playing starters on Sunday against the Eagles, but it seems unlikely they'll be playing any starters they feel will benefit from extended rest before the Wild Card round.
A win, loss or tie leaves the Giants in the No. 6 seed in the NFC and Thursday's injury report offers a few suggestions of who might not be in the mix this weekend.
Edge rusher Azeez Ojulari (ankle) and defensive end Leonard Williams (neck) were both out of practice. Ojulari was questionable with the injury last weekend and only played seven snaps against the Colts, so he'd seem to qualify as a player who would benefit from that time off.
Center Jon Feliciano (back) was limited after being out of practice Wednesday and cornerback Adoree' Jackson (knee) was limited for the second straight day. Jackson has not played since Week 11.
Azeez Ojulari, Leonard Williams out of Giants practice originally appeared on Pro Football Talk
Bengals at Chiefs: Predictions, picks and odds for AFC championship
Predictions and picks for the AFC championship between the Cincinnati Bengals and Kansas City Chiefs.
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So I must say that I have physically felt better in the last few months than I have in a very long time. I mentioned here a few weeks ago that I have adjusted my eating habits over the last few months. My adjustments have yielded some lost pounds, more energy, healthier skin, better sleep - the whole nine. It's quite wonderful.
My first adjustment was drinking this smoothie. I have had this smoothie almost every morning for breakfast since the beginning of March. March is a super busy month for me work-wise, so I was simply looking for ways to keep my energy up. I have several friends who swear by smoothies for breakfast, so I upgraded my blender to a Vitamix and started researching smoothies. I settled with a version of this smoothie and haven't looked back. I ADORE IT! The banana and almond milk make it really creamy and the berries make it ever-so-slightly sweet. I promise you can't taste the spinach at all! Starting my day off with this encouraged me to stay on track with my other meals during the day and it still does. I am so thankful I found it! I have shared the recipe with many of my friends and have made it for house guests and they all love it.
There are days when I just dump a little of every vegetable or fruit I have in the fridge and add water or almond milk. It's never disappointed me in terms of the texture or flavor of anything I've made. It can blend things that are hard in texture to something so incredibly smooth that one would have no clue what it was beforehand. It makes it so easy and fun, I might add, to include more fruits and vegetables in your diet.
I purchased mine at Bed Bath & Beyond and used the 20% off coupon, which makes it cheaper than the same one on Amazon.
I can vouch for the greatness of this smoothie first hand. YUMMY and I want to make one right now. Still need to go to the store to gather all the goodness. One the list for later today!
Yum! And so healthy! Love it!
This is one of my favorite smoothies too (though I use greek yogurt many mornings for a little ka-pow)!
I love smoothies and really need to make them more at home. Whatever you are doing is working because the last picture I saw of you, you looked FABULOUS!
It looks so yummy, I really love a healthy smoothy and a good blender is a must! I've heard great things about the Vitamix too!
Looks DELICIOUS!!! Thanks for the recipe! I was all pumped last month takign my smoothies .... then it fizzled (as well as my energy level, EEK), so thanks for the delicious reminder!


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What's your excuse for not prioritizing a healthy dinner 90 percent of the time?
•A well deserved cheat night out with booze!
This was definitely the case when I asked the 8 am class yesterday morning what they ate for dinner the night before. Now I'm certainly not trying to guilt trip our athletes for a less than stellar dinner choice, and I'm definitely all for allowing yourself some cheat meals; however, if it's a trend in your life—if more often than not you don't eat a good dinner—then it might be time to consider why you frequently make that choice, and how to fix it.
Jesse admitted he had peanut butter on toast the night before (this appears to fall into the "too lazy to cook" category), while Ki got stuck in a lecture and ended up eating half a cricket bar and an apple for dinner (likely this falls into the lack of organization and planning category). Again, this isn't a guilt trip, but if pb on toast and cricket bars are happening for dinner more often than not, then consider a new approach.
Food prepping sounds daunting, but once you get into it, you'll realize what an effective use of your time it actually is.
I know what you're thinking: "Turkey is the most boring meat on the face of the planet! How are you going to get through all that turkey??"
First, I cut some turkey off the bone and turned it into a turkey salad that can be eaten cold (about 4 lunches ish). In it, I added some bacon, homemade mayonaise (egg yolks, olive oil, coconut oil, dijon mustard, lime juice, salt and pepper), as well as crisp celery, roasted pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries and green olives.
After I took the meat off the bird, I boiled the carcass and made turkey and wild rice soup (sauteed onions, garlic, paresely and celery, added broth from turkey and tons of turkey that then slow cooked into the evening, as well as wild rice, slow cooked red cabbage that had been going in my slow cooker for four hours, and salt and pepper). I now have probably 20 portions of turkey and wild rice soup, most of which I froze.
Yes, turkey can get bland and boring on its own, but a little sausage spices it up nicely. This concoction (which I have about 6 to 8 meals of and is also freezable) also has yams (not yet added in the picture) and slow-cooked red cabbage, for a perfectly balanced meal of protein, carbs and fat.
So basically 32 meals in about 3 hours of my time... Easy, peazy, breazy, and better than pb on toast!


CAMDEN - Authorities released frantic 911 calls Friday from a neighbor reacting to a deadly attack on two stepsisters in Collingswood.
Meanwhile, the man accused of killing Colleen Brownell, 48, and Alysia McCloskey, 41, had a brief appearance in state Superior Court, Camden.
The suspect, 44-year-old Mark Lyczak of Medford, also is accused of critically wounding a third woman during the Dec. 30 attack.
In three 911 calls, neighbors can be heard shouting, screaming and sobbing as a horrifying scene unfolded on a dead-end road decorated for the holidays.
"My neighbor's sister is face down on the porch right now," said another caller, who identified herself as Tamara Hobbs.
Later, she exclaimed after apparently getting more information from neighbors on the 100 block of East Narberth Terrace.
All of the callers pleaded for police and ambulances to rush to the scene, with dispatchers replying they were on their way.
"Please hurry!" said Sena. "He's inside the house and so are they!"
A third neighbor, Gerald Griffin, said the assailant shouted threats from the porch at one point.
"He's yelling, telling us we're all dead," said Griffin.
Authorities allege Lyczak fatally stabbed McCloskey on the porch of her home, then killed Brownell in the living room.
He is also accused of stabbing a third woman, who survived the 5 p.m. attack. Police responding to the 911 calls found Lyczak sitting on the third woman, according to a probable cause statement for his arrest. She was hospitalized in critical condition.
Brownell had recently moved in with McCloskey in an effort to get away from Lyczak, her former boyfriend, according to friends. She had obtained a final restraining order in July that barred Lyczak from contacting her.
At Friday's court hearing, about 40 people watched as Lyczak was led into a Camden courtroom for a detention hearing.
But Lyczak appeared for less than a minute before Superior Court Judge Edward McBride Jr.
After speaking briefly to public defender Meg Butler, Lyczak was escorted from the courtroom.
After conferring privately with Assistant Camden County Prosecutor Christine Shah, Butler requested a two-week adjournment from McBride. The judge approved the delay, noting Lyczak will remain in Camden County Jail.
Butler and Shah declined to comment after the hearing.
The woman who survived the attack has been described as a friend of Lyczak. She has been identified only as a 44-year-old resident of Burlington County.
Friends said McCloskey had two teenage sons and Brownell had one son.
Several friends of Brownell at the hearing said they would press for tougher restrictions on people under restraining orders. They noted several men who appeared prior to Lyczak left under orders to stay away from victims of alleged domestic violence.
"We only really want to talk about domestic violence," said Lynn Carpenter, who attended Camden Catholic High School with Brownell. She called for passage of legislation that would allow electronic monitoring of people accused of domestic violence offenses.
Carpenter and three other friends from Camden Catholic's Class of 1987 wore photographs of Brownell to the hearing.
"We were with her last week," said a solemn Kelly Martinovitch.
She noted a smiling Brownell had been photographed during that gathering as she shared a couch with Martinovitch's dogs. Brownell posted the picture to her Facebook page on Christmas Eve, asking, "How did I get so lucky?"


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More Bad Beer From S&Ps David Beers
Posted on August 7, 2011 by admin | 10 comments
By Marshall Auerback
Like the horrible aftertaste that comes from throwing up the contents of one's stomach after a night of binge drinking, the ratings agencies have reared their ugly heads again. David Beers, head of S&P's government debt rating unit, announced Friday night that S&P has downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time, from AAA to AA. It's a sham: S&P's whole analytical framework reflects ignorance about modern money. If the US government, Treasury, and the Federal Reserve, capitulate to this outrageous act of economic extortion, it will effectively be sanctioning a beer hall putsch by the rentier class.
Justifying its decision, Standard and Poor said "political brinkmanship" in the debate over the debt had made the U.S. government's ability to manage its finances "less stable, less effective and less predictable." It said the bipartisan agreement reached this week to find at least $2.1 trillion in budget savings "fell short" of what was necessary to tame the nation's debt over time and predicted that leaders would not be likely to achieve more savings in the future.
"It's always possible the rating will come back, but we don't think it's coming back anytime soon," said Beers.
Of course, the response from Treasury was equally inane:
"A judgment flawed by a $2 trillion error speaks for itself," a Treasury spokesman said last Friday.
$2 trillion, $4 trillion, who cares if the S&P is math-challenged? It's irrelevant! The notion that the US can arbitrarily summon up the ability to register $4 trillion in "savings" demanded by Standard & Poor as the price for upholding America's AAA rating is nonsensical, as it ignores the impact that the withdrawal of income will have on the overall economy and, by extension, the size of the government deficits that the ratings agencies regularly decry. An ex post outcome is never guaranteed by an ex ante action undertaken by government. In other words, it's not a number that can be controlled by the actions of political hacks in DC, so it's truly pointless debating whether S&P screwed up on its calculations or not. And in their ideological zeal to demonize public debt and budget deficits, all of the ratings agencies are by definition relying on more private sector debt to drive growth, given that this is the only way to replace the government spending withdrawn. How did that work out for us in the last decade?
Treasury would have been on stronger ground if it had simply pointed out the sterling historic track record of the ratings agencies. Recall how well the S&P (along with Moody's and Fitch) covered themselves with glory during the housing bubble, rating toxic subprime junk as AAA rated paper. Not only were the agencies politically corrupted by virtue of their incestuous ties to Wall Street, but criminally incompetent as well. Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism gives a perfect illustration of the latter:
The biggest proof of criminal incompetence was their downgrades of RMBS versus CDOs made pretty much entirely of the same RMBS. They started downgrading RMBS en masse in July 2007. They didn't start marking down CDOs until six month later, and the process took another six months. Yet it should have been impossible to downgrade the RMBS and not the CDOs at the same time. The downgrades were based on the failures of the underlying loans. You can't have it show up in one product and not the other.
And S&P continues to screw up MBS ratings in the wake of heightened scrutiny (see here).
Credit ratings are based on ability to pay and willingness to pay. And, as Alan Greenspan explained in 1997, a sovereign issuer always has the ability to pay:
[A] government cannot become insolvent with respect to obligations in its own currency. A fiat money system, like the ones we have today, can produce such claims without limit.
Whether it chooses to make those payments is another matter. But that's a matter of politics, not economics.
To be fair to Mr. Beers, his agency did specifically cite the political brinkmanship of a number of US Congressmen, who seemed far too inclined to contemplate the option of default as a means of securing greater spending cuts on the part of the US government. But that wasn't the full story. S&P placed particular emphasis on the size of the cuts, implicitly suggesting that larger cuts would have superseded the political questions. That's intellectual dishonesty at its worst.
Here are a few questions the S&P ought to have considered before it issued its debt downgrade:
Is government spending so high that it is competing with private sector spending plans? Certainly not – substantial amounts of plant and equipment remain idle, unemployment remains at depression like levels, and there is ample capacity for firms to expand if they want to do so. Businesses, however, are constrained by inadequate demand for their output, a phenomenon which would become even worse if the US were to follow the prescribed level of cuts advocated by S&P to retain its AAA rating with these economic blackmailers. That is a real cost (and it also drives those "horrible" government deficits higher, as tax revenues plunge and social welfare expenditures via the automatic stabilizers rise).
Is government issuing so much debt that it is causing interest rates to skyrocket? Not in the slightest. Rates have actually gone NEGATIVE in term yields under 12 months over the past few weeks (so much for the notion that the end of QE2 would drive rates sky-high). We have a deflation problem, not inflation. Widespread austerity of the sort now advocated by the S&P is destroying economic growth and the claims by politicians and economists that we would enjoy a "fiscal contraction expansion" if only the government stopped "crowding out" the private sector are now being revealed as bogus propaganda. And the political dysfunction that Mr. Beers describes could have easily been avoided through a number of options, which would not have left the country in the hands of irrational deficit terrorists. As Joe Firestone notes:
Treasury can cease issuing long-term bonds, and sell only three-month bonds. Three-month bond interest rates are generally controlled by overnight rates for bank reserves, and overnight rates can be driven down to near zero by flooding the banks with excess reserves. That's basically how the Japanese keep their bond interest rates near zero, and that's how we can do the same.
Firestone is right: A sovereign government like the US only sells securities in order to drain excess reserves to hit its interest rate target. It could always choose to simply leave excess reserves in the banking system, in which case the overnight rate would fall toward whatever rate the central bank offers to pay commercial banks for excess overnight reserves.
Even with our existing legal constraints (predicated on a now non-existent gold standard system in which we are forced to sell bonds before Treasury spends), Treasury/Fed have other tools to counteract the alleged effect of this downgrade. Mr. Bernanke can simply call up the NY Fed and gives Mr. Dudley instructions to buy all the 10-year UST on offer to keep the US 10 year at, say 2.5%. It is an open market operation, which the Fed performs all the time. And the banks cannot lend out these reserves, so it's not inflationary (see here for more explanation). Then, as Rob Parenteau and I have noted before, every time some so-called "bond market vigilante" tries to push it above 2.5% by shorting Treasuries, the Fed can slam their face into the concrete by having the open market desk buy the hell out of UST until the 10 year yield is back to 2.5%. Burn Fido enough times, yank his chain enough times, and like the Dog Whisperer, he gets it and stops.
Think this can't be done if the ratings agencies downgrade the US?
Japan is a perfect illustration of how little these downgrades impact borrowing rates for a sovereign government (thanks to Bill Mitchell): In November 1998, the day after the Japanese Government announced a large-scale fiscal stimulus to its ailing economy, Moody's Investors Service began the first of a series of downgradings of the Japanese Government's yen-denominated bonds, by taking the Aaa (triple A) rating away. The next major Moody's downgrade occurred on September 8, 2000.
Then, in December 2001, Moody's further downgraded the Japan Governments yen-denominated bond rating to Aa3 from Aa2. On May 31, 2002, Moody's Investors Service cut Japan's long-term credit rating by a further two grades to A2, or below that given to Botswana, Chile and Hungary. This at a time when the Japanese economy was then almost 1,000 times the size of Botswana's, had the world's largest foreign reserves, $446 billion; the world's largest domestic savings, $11.4 trillion; and about $1 trillion in overseas investments.
In a statement at the time, Moody's said that its decision "reflects the conclusion that the Japanese government's current and anticipated economic policies will be insufficient to prevent continued deterioration in Japan's domestic debt position … Japan's general government indebtedness, however measured, will approach levels unprecedented in the postwar era in the developed world, and as such Japan will be entering 'uncharted territory'."
"Uncharted territory" – well, the last time anybody looked, the Japanese government was still comfortably issuing 10-year government debt at around 1%. That Japan's debt is largely domestically held is irrelevant: the denomination of the debt, NOT the debt holder is the key consideration.
There are only two sectors to issue bonds to, the domestic private and international. US and Japan are on opposite ends of the spectrum, with the US issuing a lot to the latter (though still more domestically in fact), and Japan issuing a lot to the former. The interesting thing is that this hasn't mattered at all in the determination of rates–the key difference affecting relative interest rates between the US/Japan and, say, the periphery countries of the euro zone, has been the nature of the monetary system–the US/Japan are currency issuers under flexible foreign exchange, whilst the member states of the European Monetary Union are not. As Scott Fullwiler indicated to me in a recent email exchange, "For the former, rates follow monetary policy; for the latter, rates follow markets' perceptions of default risk. This is why for the former credit rating downgrades are complete monetary non-events, like QE. Note further that if the int'l sector were to stop buying US debt, this just means that the US trade balance improves and the breakdown of government debt sales starts to look more like Japan's."
To argue otherwise is to ignore the actual causation of the transaction, which is that China exports something to the US in exchange for dollars, and then that money goes into their checking account at the Federal Reserve. It's called a reserve account because it's the Federal Reserve, and they give it a fancy name. But in reality it is a checking account, just like you or I use. Now China has 3 choices with what they can do with the money in their checking account. They could spend it and buy real assets in the US, which would be great for our economy, or they can put it into another currency (say, euros), in which case the dollar declines, which enhances our export position, or they can put it in another account at the Federal Reserve called a Treasury security, which is nothing more than a savings account. In other words, the bond purchase, if it occurs, comes at the end of the transaction and actually 'funds' nothing.
Economist Warren Mosler has noted on numerous occasions that China and others buy US Treasury securities primarily to support the dollar versus their own currencies, and thereby drive exports to the US, and not because they are looking for safe investments per se. That is, it's a consequence of their drive for 'competitiveness' and their desire to net save in US dollars. It takes two to tango. And with no Treasury securities China would be forced to buy state debt, corporate debt, euro debt (say, Greek bonds?), equities, etc. which is highly problematic for them for a variety of reasons.
A final question for Mr. Beers: Is government spending so high that the dollar is crashing in international exchange markets? No. Certainly the dollar has its ups and downs — we've got a floating exchange rate and it is supposed to go up and down. So let's assume that our dollar falls because China no longer wishes to net save in greenbacks. In fact, this has been occurring over the past several months and the bond market has gone up during this period. If this were to go on long enough, the ultimate impact would be that our external balances improve significantly (as does the likely desire of foreigners to accumulate cheap US assets via FDI), because our exports increase, which means the current account deficit goes down and less bonds are available for China to 'fund' us".
Now that's not the way I would go as a growth strategy, as it entails a "race to the bottom" as far as wages go. Moreover, if budget deficits are not allowed to grow large enough to enable private domestic agents reduce their overall debt levels, then the economy will remain mired in its stagnant state. With austerity being pursued everywhere it is a fool's hope to think that net exports are going to swing enough to save the day. But from a straight sectoral balances point of view, IF we did export more, these increased exports would mitigate the ability of countries like Japan or China to net save in our currency. By definition, this would also correspondingly reduce their holdings in US Treasuries.
Floating rates float. This is not synonymous with economic and financial degeneracy, as our economic moralists, or the gold bugs seem to imply. Over the past 10 years, the Australian dollar has fluctuated between 50 cents to $1.08 against the greenback. The last time I looked Australia was still surviving and thriving. One can also consider the more extreme case of Russia in 1998, during which its entire financial system imploded and the ruble lost two thirds of its external value against the dollar. Yet the currency itself did not "evaporate" and the ruble remains Russia's currency unit of account today.
It is questionable how much of this deficit austerianism is ideological and how much is really a misunderstanding (an "innocent fraud" in the words of John Kenneth Galbraith). Governments around the world have been led to believe that they need to issue bonds and collect taxes to finance government spending, and that good policies should be judged by their ability to enforce fiscal austerity. Mainstream economists and ratings agencies such as S&P have guided policymakers into imposing artificial constraints on fiscal policy and government finances, such as issuing bonds when running deficits, debt ceilings, forbidding the central bank to directly buy treasury debt, allowing the markets to set interest rates on government bonds, etc. While last Friday's downgrade per se probably won't do much, if anything, to interest rates, growth, and employment, ratings agencies like the S&P reinforce the current deflationary state of affairs because their perverse rating actions simply reinforce efforts for further substantial deficit reduction and a balanced budget amendment. Ironically, if the siren songs of "sound finance" are followed, we will get exactly the outcome now predicted by the likes of Michelle Bachmann: the US WILL become like Greece.
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Fuld-Gilad-Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence
The Fuld-Gilad-Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence is an educational organization bringing professional training to the field of competitive intelligence (CI).[1] Established in 1996, the Academy has expanded its training to thousands of managers from 58 countries and six continents at its campuses in Cambridge, MA and Brussels, Belgium. The Academy is the only CI-dedicated institution to be externally accredited by the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET).[2]
It grants the Competitive Intelligence Professional (CIP) certification based on a 9-course program, including a course in ethics and a pioneering course in business war gaming.[3][4] To be certified, managers must complete the required coursework and pass a certification exam. To accommodate managers whose main interest is in using CI tools and managers working as CI professionals, the Academy offers two levels of certification: a basic CIP-I, and an advanced CIP-II. The Academy is currently the largest training institute in its field.[5]
Competitive Intelligence Standards
On March, 2011, the board of the professional association in the field of competitive intelligence- SCIP (Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals) voted to adopt the Academy's CIP program as its official global certification program to help create standards in the field of strategic and competitive intelligence. The certification was renamed SCIP-CIP certificate conferred by ACI.[6]
The history of the Academy tracks closely the history of the field of competitive intelligence which has risen in importance during the 1980s with the increase in global competitive pressures and the spread of Internet search engines which made information more accessible. In 1986, the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) was founded in Washington, DC to serve as the professional association for academics, practitioners and consultants in CI. During the next decade, organizations experimented in acquiring and using CI with little discipline and no consistent results. For example, as a survey by the Academy showed, one of CI's main objectives, avoiding strategic surprises, was not being accomplished in many large companies.[7] Three early developers of the Society banded together to create a standard of training and performance in the field. They were: Leonard Fuld, whose book, Competitor Intelligence, was the first best seller on the subject,[8] Ben Gilad, whose book The Business Intelligence System created the benchmark for setting up a corporate CI function,[9] and Jan Herring who was the founding director of the first competitive intelligence function created in 1982 at Motorola Corp.[10] Together with the growth of SCIP, the creation of the Academy accelerated greatly the formalization and acceptance of CI functions and positions across global companies, with some estimating that 97% of Fortune 500 corporations today have at least one CI analyst in each of their larger business units.[11]
As the field continued to evolve, several organizations in recent years have joined the Academy in offering training programs in competitive intelligence, mostly as an extension of other degree programs, among them Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies in PA (an extension of a government intelligence program), Simmons College in MA (part of Library and Information studies), and the University of Denver in CO (part of a graduate degree in information management). Other programs include the Ecole de Guerre Economique in France and Institute for Competitive Intelligence in Germany. Entry level courses are also offered by the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.
The functional distribution of the Academy's alumni body covers managers and professionals from competitive and market intelligence functions, marketing, market research, business development, strategic planning, research scientists and development engineers. Though the typical trainee is a manager at a Global Fortune 500 company, past participants included some unusual representatives from the Catholic Church, various governments' defense agencies, farmer cooperatives, national economic development boards, and a Cabinet Minister.
Leonard M. Fuld [1]
Michael Sandman, B.S. (Clark University), MA, M.B.A. (Cornell University) [2]
Helen Rothberg, Ph.D., MPhil. (City University of New York), MBA (City University of New York at Baruch College), associate professor at Marist College School of Management
Jan Herring, BSc. (University of Missouri) [3]
Ashish Nanda, A.M.(Harvard University), Ph.D.(Harvard Business School), associate professor at the Harvard Law School [4]
Jules Schwartz, Ph.D. (Harvard Business School), former dean and a professor emeritus of Boston University School of Management, former faculty member Wharton School [5]
Ben Gilad, former strategy professor at Rutgers University School of Management [6]
Jay Paap, Ph.D.(MIT Sloan), has held faculty positions at Sloan and Indiana University [7]
Dan Mulligan, M.A. (USMA Westpoint), Assistant Professor at the Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies [8]
The Academy's advisory board includes executives from US-based Intel, Procter and Gamble, Genentech, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Microsoft, Fidelity and Wyeth corporations, as well as Europe-based Shell, Roche, TetraPak and Orange, and Mexico-based Cemex.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080603222503/http://www.scip.org/Publications/CIMagIssueDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=1988 2. Herring, Jan P. Measuring the Effectiveness of Competitive Intelligence: Assessing & Communicating CI's Value to Your Organization. Virginia: Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, 1996. 3. Fuld, Leonard, Competitor Intelligence: How to get it, how to use it. NY: Wiley, 1985. 4. Gilad, Ben and Tamar Gilad, The Business Intelligence System. NY: American Management Association, 1988. 5. www.academyci.com 6. Matthew Boyle, "The Prying Game: A little knowledge is a dangerous…weapon. No wonder competitive intelligence schools are on the rise." Fortune Magazine, Advisor/Careers, 17 September 2001, Vol. 144, (5), p. 235. 7. Allan Hall, "Military moves on the corporate battlefield", The Evening Standard, 8 May, 2002. 8. Dale Buss, "Berlitz for the boss", Chief Executive, 1 December 2001, p. 38. 9. George S. Day and Paul J.H. Schoemaker, "Scanning the Periphery", Harvard Business Review, November 2005, p. 135.
^"CI Education Issue". Archived from the original on 3 June 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
^The Academy's web site
^Allan Hall, "Military moves on the corporate battlefield", The Evening Standard, 8 May 2002
^Dale Buss, "Berlitz for the boss", Chief Executive, 1 December 2001, p. 38
^"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
^http://info.intelligencecareers.com/index.php/2011/03/22/2011-06-1324-certification-in-competitive-intelligence-boston-massachusetts/[permanent dead link]
^George S. Day and Paul J.H. Schoemaker, "Scanning the Periphery", Harvard Business Review, November 2005, p. 135.
^Fuld, Leonard, Competitor Intelligence: How to get it, how to use it. NY: Wiley, 1985. ISBN 978-0471809678
^Gilad, Ben and Tamar Gilad, The Business Intelligence System. NY: American Management Association, 1988
^Herring, Jan P. Measuring the Effectiveness of Competitive Intelligence: Assessing & Communicating CI's Value to Your Organization. Virginia: Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, 1996
^Matthew Boyle, "The Prying Game: A little knowledge is a dangerous…weapon. No wonder competitive intelligence schools are on the rise." Fortune Magazine, Advisor/Careers, 17 September 2001, Vol. 144, (5), p. 235.
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