Some of the biggest corporate borrowers in America are buying back billions of their own debt, as the Federal Reserve plans additional interest-rate hikes.
The government's benchmark rate, used to set the higher rates charged to borrowers, has risen from less than 0.5 percent in 2015, to over 2 percent today, with another hike expected next month.
If companies keep buying back debt instead of borrowing to grow, the trend is likely to slow U.S. economic growth, capping years of higher profits and the impact of this year's Trump tax cuts. But many investors expect earnings and share values will still go up.
In Wilmington, the reorganized DuPont Co., which is scheduled to be spun off by DowDuPont in the spring, said Tuesday it is offering to buy back $6.2 billion of its debt, at premiums of $30 per $1,000 outstanding, on a range of notes and debentures that had been scheduled to mature between next March and 2038. The offer begins Nov. 28 and runs through Dec. 11. DowDuPont shares rose 1.3 percent in early trading to $58.44 just before noon.
DowDuPont expects to pay for the DuPont Co. bonds and other debt with a massive note sale of its own. The company plans to pay down $2 billion in debt at its planned Michigan-based Dow Chemical spin-off; reduce debt by $10 billion at Wilmington-based Corteva Agriscience, the new company formed by Dow and DuPont pesticide and genetically-modified seed businesses (Corteva is also taking on $6 billion in the companies' pension obligations); and finance up to $3 billion in share buybacks. Dow and DuPont will still owe many billions. "This is a process, not a single event," says DuPont spokesman Gregg Schmidt.
In New York, General Electric Corp. said Monday it will sell more assets "with urgency" to reduce the potentially crippling debt load its bosses took on when it was a larger, more profitable company. The company lost $23 billion in the three months ended Sept. 30, cut its dividend, and acknowledged a government probe of its accounting. GE shares, which had lost three-quarters of their value since January, rose 5 percent to $8.40 in Tuesday morning's trading.
GE bonds have been trading "far below par," and credit-default swaps — a kind of investor insurance against bond defaults — have risen to more than 3 percent of bonds' purchase value, with some investors shorting (betting against) GE bonds, Reuters reported. Disappointing investors, GE last year collected less than $3 billion in the sale of its locomotive business, which has plants in Grove City, Pa. and Texas, to a partnership managed by Wabtec Corp. GE CEO Larry Culp has said sales of GE's money-losing power unit and its aviation unit are less likely.
The two industrial powerhouse companies, which have been selling units and cutting costs under shareholder pressure, are buying back their debt as the U.S. Treasury seeks to sell a lot more government debt into world markets. The government has borrowed another $1.2 trillion since President Trump signed Republicans' extensive tax cuts at the end of 2017, despite Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's assurance the tax reform "will pay for itself" over the next 10 years (see Fox News video, especially at 2:30), and expects expanded borrowing next year.
"Who is going to buy $1.3 trillion in new U.S. government debt?" Matt Topley, chief investment officer at Fortis Advisors in King of Prussia, asked clients in his newsletter Tuesday. Topley noted that Asian investors — including Korea and Singapore, as well as China and Japan — have been buying less U.S. government debt recently, just half of last year's rate even as the supply of Treasury bills and notes grows. U.S. investors and buyers elsewhere in the world are still buying.
GE and other companies engaged in buybacks are being prudent in the face of higher Fed interest rates and worries over Trump tariffs that threaten to depress U.S.-China trade. These companies will use proceeds to "lower debt" and reduce their interest-to-income ratios, which "reduces operating profit-margin risk and, by extension, improves return on equity" investment, says Howard A. Trauger, president of the Bond Club of Philadelphia and managing director at Carnegie Investment Counsel.
With Fed rates rising and inflation uncertain in the face of the tariff war, borrowing "can be done at a lower future-cost today," Trauger added. "Otherwise, the debt continues to be a drag on their ratings and operating options."
Rising interest rates reduce corporate demand for debt, noted commercial banking analyst Frederick Cannon in a recent report to clients of Keefe, Bruyette and Woods in New York. U.S. corporations as a group "have a record level of debt already, higher interest rates reduce demand, and the tax cuts improved corporate profitability but had a limited impact on consumer demand," Cannon added.
Banks' Commercial and Industrial loans reported to the FDIC "did move up in the first half of 2018, but growth rates have recently stalled. And, commercial real estate lending is on a downward trajectory."
After a decade of near-record low interest rates, U.S. private debt remains high and rising. "Nonfinancial corporate debt is now approaching 50 percent of Gross Domestic Product," Cannon added, citing Federal Reserve data. Small banks are still recording rising loan volume, but Cannon expects that to "stall out" soon.


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Here Are the 3 New Characters Joining Stranger Things Season 2
Desiree O · Sep 14, 2016
Stranger Things already has us seriously stoked for season two of the spooky series, and we have no doubt that we'll be even more excited as news continues to be released about what we can look forward to (and be freaked out by) next. One thing we do know is that three new characters will be joining the Stranger Things world, and we finally have the deets on who they are.
Next year will bring us nine new episodes that pick up a full year after the first season in the fall of 1984, when the residents think things have calmed, but are very wrong. Series executive producer Shawn Levy told The Hollywood Reporter that in these episodes, which creators saw more as a sequel as opposed to a second season, "There's definitely a handful of really compelling new characters this season, but absolutely servicing the core group first and foremost. Like the show itself, it's multigenerational new characters and really, really intriguing ones."
Three of the new characters are Max and Roman, who will now be series regulars, as well as Billy, who is listed as a potential series regular. Iiiiinteresting.
Max will be a 13-year-old skateboarding girl who exudes confidence despite not quite fitting in with the other girls in the area. She has a "complicated" history with her stepbrother, Billy, an overconfident 17-year-old. With rumors that Billy killed someone at his former school, his violent and unpredictable nature is sure to get him into some serious situations.
Roman is the character that's a little trickier to pin down. Described right now as an adult male or female of any ethnicity, they are someone seeking revenge for a great loss they suffered at an early age. Yeesh.
Though no actors have yet been cast for the three new characters, they are undoubtedly totally sought-after roles that will lend to the intensity of this continuing spooky series. We can't wait to see who nabs 'em and what happens to their (doomed?) characters.
What actors would you love to see on Stranger Things? Tweet us @BritandCo!
(h/t The Hollywood Reporter; photos via Netflix)
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IBM Reorganizes, Debuts New Version of WebSphere
April 27, 2004 2:16 PM PT
Sales growth was slower than expected — and inflated by the depressed dollar overseas — at IBM last quarter. So Big Blue is reorganizing a bit.
"IBM today is a company ready to focus more on opportunities than on threats," said IBM chairman and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano in a speech earlier today at the company's 2004 annual stockholders meeting in Providence, Rhode Island.
IBM has revamped much of its sales and services organizations around 12 vertical industries, and the company has released software with specific functions for the energy, consumer-products and government sectors.
WebSphere Software
Eyeing a niche that could be poised for faster growth, the company is debuting some new services software for its WebSphere line of technologies.
The move comes a bit earlier than some analysts expected but will be supported by an array of new hires and 35,000 field consultants schooled in Web software, Big Blue said.
Palmisano, in his speech to shareholders, detailed how the company has "seized leadership in the high value, innovation space" and identified the business gains that resulted from the initiative.
He also talked about the continuing success — for both clients and the company — of IBM's on-demand computing strategy.
IBM's CEO went on to describe the collaborative process that generated a new set of values for the company and to discuss how those values are playing key roles in the way IBM interacts with its clients and employees.
Today, consulting and IT-services contracts for these projects account for less than 1 percent of IBM's Global Services revenue, according to research by IDC.
However, these projects are worth as much as US$400,000 each.
Sales of WebSphere software rose 24 percent during the first quarter, and overall software sales increased nearly 11 percent to $3.5 billion.
But the 9 percent revenue growth, to $11.1 billion, in the company's Global Services unit was viewed as disappointing. Most of the gain came from a weak U.S. dollar.
The company believes the market for Web services for businesses is worth about $15 billion today and could total $200 billion by 2008.
IBM announced an update to its WebSphere integration server, an application environment designed for software written with the business process execution language (BPEL), and said it will sell consulting services to help customers assess their IT environments and plan to use software written with Web-services specs.
The company also unveiled software and services aimed at the consumer-products, energy-and-utilities and government markets.
Additionally, IBM plans to release a new commerce version of its WebSphere software to help customers connect business processes more effectively with channels outside of their companies.
Multiple Web Services
The WebSphere software relies on the new BPEL, a specification for bringing together multiple Web services as part of an interaction between companies. BEA Systems, IBM and Microsoft a year ago signed on to the BPEL specification — authored by SAP and Siebel Systems — and provided it to the industry standards body Oasis for approval.
IBM's latest release of WebSphere lets developers visually construct workflows written with the specification. During the next two months, IBM plans to launch additional products and services for companies using Web services.
"We are enthusiastic about our prospects for 2004 and beyond. Part of the reason for this is that economic conditions are steadily improving in many nations, including the U.S. We intend to capitalize fully on the rebound," said Palmisano.
"But it is important for you to understand that our enthusiasm isn't because of a cyclical recovery alone," he added. "It's much more fundamental and long-lasting."
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President Zelensky appreciates Rishi Sunak
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The UK announced it would provide Kyiv Challenger 2 tanks, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the country after speaking with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the phone on Saturday.
'Always strong support of the UK is now impermeable and ready for challenges,' Mr. Zelensky wrote. I expressed my gratitude to the Prime Minister for his actions, saying that they would not only make us stronger on the field of war but would also convey the proper message to our allies.
The leaders discussed the condition of Russia's conflict in Ukraine, where repeated Ukrainian wins are driving Russian soldiers back and exacerbating their military and morale problems, according to a No. 10 spokeswoman.
They agreed that now is the time to step up international military and diplomatic assistance for Ukraine.
The Prime Minister also said that the UK wanted to provide more Challenger 2 tanks and artillery systems to Ukraine as part of its increased assistance.
The Polish promise to send a company of Leopard tanks was one such foreign commitment that the Prime Minister and President Zelensky appreciated.
"The Prime Minister emphasized that he and the whole UK Government will be working intensely with international allies to give quickly the type of assistance which would enable Ukraine to exploit their advantage, win this war, and establish a permanent peace," according to the statement.
Britain has now sent Ukraine military tanks for the first time in the conflict, and this will dramatically increase Western help.
The new tanks might help Ukraine reclaim Russian-occupied territory, and they come amid expectations that Zelensky would be able to launch a successful counteroffensive in the early spring.
In a speech to the Lithuanian parliament on Friday, Zelensky said that his nation needed "immediate choices from our whole anti-war alliance," including the provision of tanks.
Additionally, the transfer of the tank squadron might be a crucial step in convincing Germany to provide its much desired Leopard II tanks.
There are more than 2,000 Leopard 2s in Europe, owned by armed forces in 13 other nations, but Berlin must give its approval before any German-made equipment can be transported back to Ukraine.
As part of the increased assistance, Ukraine will get a total of 12 Challenger 2 tanks from the United Kingdom. Four will be dispatched to the nation at first, followed by the deployment of eight more at a later time.
British military equipment's pride and joy, the Challenger 2 tank has been in service for over 25 years. They have a 7.62mm chain gun and a 120mm rifled gun, and they weigh 62.5 tonnes.
The military of Ukraine has previously said that it needs around 300 tanks from allies in order to continue its combat operations and free the nation.
Colonel Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a former commander of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment, has previously said that the employment of western tanks may "tilt the balance" of the battle in favor of Ukraine.
Strategically, he argued, this gives [Russian President Vladimir] Putin a very clear message that nothing is off the table.
The Leopard II and Challenger 2 are contemporary tanks. They are significantly faster, more dependable, and better protected.
Russia stated earlier this week that the arrival of western tanks would not alter the direction of the conflict but would simply "deepen the pain of the Ukrainian people."
In the moment, Russia is reliant on Cold War-era tanks.
But the Leopard II combat tanks, which Germany has not yet given, are at the top of Ukraine's wish list.
Sébastien Lecornu, the minister of the French armed forces, said on Friday that the trucks will be sent to Ukraine "within two months."
Poland and Finland, two other European countries that use Leopard II tanks, have stated their readiness to contribute them, although this needs Germany's consent as the export license holder.
The Challenger 2 and Leopard II were created especially to compete against the same equipment that Ukraine is using.
In an effort to counteract any future Russian meddling in eastern Europe, a squadron of British Challenger 2 tanks has been on tour in Estonia this week. The tanks earlier performed well in the Iraq War in 2003 and the Bosnian War in 1994.
As part of a deal to help Ukraine, the UK handed over 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Poland last year, freeing up space for Poland to move its T-72 tanks from the Soviet period to Ukraine.
Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland, said on Wednesday while visiting the western Ukrainian city of Lviv that a company of Leopard tanks "would be handed over as part of coalition-building." As he continued, "We want it to be a worldwide alliance," he said that he desired that such a move be a part of a larger series of announcements.
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Monday that while the country has no current intentions to transfer Ukraine its Leopard II tanks, such a move "cannot be ruled out" in the future.
Britain is willing to deploy tanks to Ukraine, according to Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who also promised that his country will "continue to develop our assistance" as Kiev gets ready to launch "the next phase of their self-defense."
Labour said that it would back any decision to provide Ukraine Challenger 2 tanks, claiming that doing so would reassure Ukraine.
The shadow defense secretary, John Healey, however, said that "Ministers must go beyond ad hoc declarations and put out a strategy for military, economic, and diplomatic assistance until 2023 and beyond."
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Motivational text messages and counselling boost health of patients with RA
by European League Against Rheumatism
The results of a study presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) showed for the first time that a combination of text messages and individual counselling sessions to motivate patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) to be more active resulted in improved patient-reported clinical outcomes. This type of behavioural intervention was effective at reducing daily sitting time by an average of more than two hours in RA patients, and also reduced their cholesterol levels.
Due to their disease, patients with RA tend to be more sedentary than the general population, which can have serious health consequences, including an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death. In Denmark, 67% of patients with RA do not meet public health recommendations for daily moderate and vigorous physical activity, and similar proportions of physically inactive RA patients are found in Germany (68%) and the United Kingdom (67%). Patients with RA already have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death, partly caused by the chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease itself, and partly by traditional risk factors, such as hyperlipidaemia.
Although exercise is known to have a positive effect on pain and physical functioning in patients with RA, pain often acts as a barrier against maintenance of a physically active lifestyle. A more feasible approach for improving health and well-being in RA patients would therefore be to focus on reducing sedentary behaviour and increasing light intensity activity, rather than solely concentrating on increasing moderate and vigorous physical activity.
"We know that behavioural approaches are effective in reducing sedentary behaviour in healthy populations," , said Miss Tanja Thomsen of the Copenhagen Centre for Arthritis Research, Centre for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Denmark. Our findings support the introduction of behavioural approaches as an effective way to improve the health of rheumatoid arthritis patients, which may also be applicable in other populations with chronic disease and limited mobility," Miss Thomsen added.
75 adult RA patients with a self-reported daily sitting time greater than five hours and Health Assessment Questionnaire score less than 2.5 underwent a 16-week individually tailored, behavioural intervention that included three individual motivational counselling sessions with a health professional and regular text messages aimed at improving motivation to reduce daily sitting time and replacing it with light intensity physical activity. A control group of 75 healthy adult patients matched for other characteristics was encouraged to maintain their usual lifestyle. Daily sitting time was recorded using a wearable activity monitor.
After 16 weeks, there was a significant between-group difference in average daily sitting time in favour of the intervention group of 2.20 hours per day (p<0.0001, with a mean decrease of 1.61 hours per day in the intervention group; an increase of 0.59 hours per day in controls). Secondary outcomes that were also in favour of the intervention group included self-assessment scores of pain, fatigue, physical function and blood measurements of total cholesterol.
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You & Yours expanding to L.A.; owners taking over, updating historic Loma Club
The new operators of The Loma Club golf course, bar and grill at Liberty Station at the fifth hole, with spectacular skyline views, are (from left) Luke Mahoney, Laura Johnson and John Levan. Not pictured is London-based partner, and Luke Mahoney's cousin, Oliver Mahoney.
(Howard Lipin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
The founders of the popular East Village urban distillery will open a second location at The Row DTLA and transform the bar and grill at Liberty Station's 9-hole Loma Club into a trendy clubhouse
By Michele Parente
The owners of the East Village's trendy You & Yours Distilling Co. are branching out, adding a second location in Los Angeles and taking over operations of the historic Loma Club golf course at Liberty Station.
You & Yours founders Laura Johnson and Luke Mahoney and their business partners John Levan and Oliver Mahoney aren't expected to make significant changes to the walking nine-hole, par-3 course, which dates back to the early part of the last century. But starting Jan. 4, the partners will be giving the dated sports pub, rustic, 3,000-square-foot campground-like patio and basic food and drink offerings a hip upgrade.
"We're going to elevate it, make it a proper country club with a modern flair," said Levan, 34, who, as You & Yours' creative director, is responsible for giving the urban distillery its contemporary design and branding.
Standing at the course's fifth hole — which affords a sweeping view of the downtown San Diego skyline, the airport, Coronado Bridge and Mexico — Johnson on Wednesday said that while The Loma Club's approximately 13-acre greens and fairways are known for being "very high-end," the amenities need to be brought up to par.
"Think about the most beautiful country club you have ever been to and add what we've come to be known for: a space that's aesthetically pleasing, that's modern yet accessible, with elevated hospitality," said Johnson, 28, a 2014 graduate of the University of San Diego. "We're going to take what we do best and put our spin on it and do this course justice."
The Loma Club's new operators plan to give the venerable property a hipper, but still accessible, vibe.
Since You & Yours opened in 2017, San Diego's first urban distillery to be headed by a woman has become known as much for its sophisticated, feminine style and trendy vibe as its distinctive craft cocktails and floral, citrusy Sunday gin.
A local and national media darling, You & Yours will be expanding to Los Angeles in late 2020, with a location at The Row DTLA. The revitalized downtown development has dozens of chic shops and eateries, along with office space but lost its high-profile anchor tenant, The Manufactory, just this week. The closing of the 40,000-square-foot restaurant and marketplace was blamed, in part, on meager foot traffic and anemic sales.
While that You & Yours project is still in the permitting stage, The Loma Club partners have already gotten their plans for the clubhouse overhaul past the strict guardians of Liberty Station's historic preservation. On Thursday, they met with their architects to pore over design elements and a time frame for the build out. Work will be done in stages, so as not to disrupt players, said Luke Mahoney, 35, whose London-based cousin, Oliver Mahoney, 34, is also a partner.
Mahoney said the course is popular with everyone from Point Loma residents to couples getting married, local groups holding events and Point Loma High School golfers having regular tournaments there.
"We want The Loma Club to be a destination for everyone," he said, "not just a place to play a quick round and then go have a beer. ... and we want to double down on the ties to the community."
He and Levan have strong ties to the club, golfing there nearly every week. He and Johnson are also Point Loma residents.
Golf is in the foursome's DNA, it seems. Oliver Mahoney is in the golf design business in London and his father is a golf pro. Johnson's brother grew up with dreams of playing professionally.
"We even moved to Florida so he could play," Johnson said. "I didn't play because it was his thing, so this is the perfect one up on him," she said with a good-natured laugh.
The partners are taking over the club's operations from the hospitality firm Good Time Design, known for such bars and taverns as Moonshine Flats and Bub's at the Ballpark. Good Time Design's lease runs out at the end of the month. It had been running The Loma Club since 2014, when it was known as Sail Ho Golf Course. The name dates back to the early 1900s, when it was part of the Naval Training Center. The course underwent a historic renovation, led by local golf architect Cary Bickler, and was reopened for play in 2006.
The industrial chic bar at You & Yours Distilling Co., in downtown San Diego's East Village.
(Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Joe Haeussler, executive vice president of Pendulum Property Partners, the Irvine-based company that owns The Loma Club, cited Luke Mahoney's forward-thinking approach as one reason why the partners were chosen to replace Good Time Design.
"Luke Mahoney, owner of You & Yours, has a track record of being a creative and successful operator of trend-setting hospitality operations in San Diego," he said in an email. "This, coupled with his desire to invest to enhance the experience for golf and the restaurant, was a key factor in the decision. His passion for the course was formed from being a regular golfer at the course over the past few years. We look forward to having Luke and his team step into operation of the course and elevating the overall experience."
Future plans under consideration for The Loma Club include adding a bar near the fifth hole and making the site more wedding-friendly. The club's 12 employees will be kept on, with the group bringing in You & Yours chef Cecilia Valencia to make over the menu to feature classic country club fare with an upscale twist. New dishes will start rolling out in early February and are expected to include gourmet burgers, a contemporary chopped salad and a tricked-out club sandwich. Pop-ups with local chefs are also being planned.
The cocktail program will be upgraded, with San Diego brands represented.
"We're a local provider, and we look forward to highlighting other local providers," Luke Mahoney said.
One change not in the works: adding You & Yours canned cocktails to The Loma Club's bar menu. They're already on there.
You & Yours' canned cocktails.
(Courtesy photo)
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Michele Parente is the Dining, Wine + Lifestyle reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Her areas of expertise include the Valle de Guadalupe wine region, fashion, television, women's issues and coverage of aging, such as the impact of Alzheimer's and dementia and family caregiving. Michele is the former Sunday and features editor, where she oversaw profiles, special projects, such as the Legacy of WWII and in-depth reports on a variety of topics. She joined the U-T in 2003, supervising coverage areas that have included features, fashion, TV, Food, Consumer Health and Arts & Entertainment. Previously, Michele was the assistant features editor at The Oregonian, in Portland, as well as the Portland City Hall reporter. She spent 10 years at New York Newsday as a reporter on the crime, education, state legislature and New York City Hall beats. She was part of a team that won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting. A native New Yorker, Michele received her B.A. in political science and Italian Literature at UC Berkeley. In 1980, she studied at L'Università di Urbino, in Italy. One of her life's goals is to make her way through each of the world's great wine regions.
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Researchers at Leiden University have developed novel palladium, platinum, and gold compounds that may be used as anticancer or antibacterial agents. A family of related ligands can be used in the formulation of the compounds, to tune solubility and activity. The compounds are very stable due to the tetradentate nature of the ligands, coupled with a tetracoordinated (d8) metal center.
While these novel compounds are both simple and cheap to synthesize, they could provide an interesting new alternative for platinum-based anticancer drugs (platinum based drugs such as cisplatin, oxaliplatin and carboplatin already have FDA-approval and are used widely). These new compounds are all the more interesting, because micromolar to nanomolar activities have been observed on cancer cell lines that are resistant to cisplatin.
However the activities are not limited to cancer therapy; applications as an antibacterial agent are also possible. The exact activities of the different compounds depend on the entire compound, while the mode of action depends critically on the nature of the metal.
- The compounds have been synthesized and characterized. In vitro and in vivo (mouse model) experiments have been conducted that have confirmed the high potential of the compounds; in vitro experiments have revealed that the cytotoxicity of some derivatives on human cancer cell lines are among the highest ever reported in the literature, while preliminary in vivo experiments in a mouse model show a decrease in tumor size.
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39-708c. Powers and duties of secretary for children and families; community work experience programs; disbursal of property including food stamps; division of services for the blind; children and youth service program; medical care for needy persons; payment schedules for health care providers; centralized payment of welfare expenditures. (a) The secretary for children and families shall develop state plans, as provided under the federal social security act, whereby the state cooperates with the federal government in its program of assisting the states financially in furnishing assistance and services to eligible individuals. The secretary shall undertake to cooperate with the federal government on any other federal program providing federal financial assistance and services in the field of social welfare not inconsistent with this act. The secretary is not required to develop a state plan for participation or cooperation in all federal social security act programs or other federal programs that are available. The secretary shall also have the power, but is not required, to develop a state plan in regard to assistance and services in which the federal government does not participate.
(b) The secretary shall have the power and duty to determine the general policies relating to all forms of social welfare which are administered or supervised by the secretary and to adopt the rules and regulations therefor.
(c) The secretary shall hire, in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas civil service act, such employees as may be needed, in the judgment of the secretary, to carry out the provisions of this act. The secretary shall advise the governor and the legislature on all social welfare matters covered in this act.
(d) The secretary shall establish and maintain intake offices throughout the state. The secretary may establish and create area offices to coordinate and supervise the administration of the intake offices located within the area. The number and location of intake offices and area offices shall be within the discretion of the secretary. Each intake office shall be open at least 12 hours of each working week on a regularly scheduled basis. The secretary shall supervise all social welfare activities of the intake offices and area offices. The secretary may lease office or business space, but no lease or rental contract shall be for a period to exceed 10 years. A person desiring public assistance, or if the person is incapable or incapacitated, a relative, friend, personal representative or conservator of the person shall make application at the intake office. When it is necessary, employees may take applications elsewhere at any time. The applications shall contain a statement of the amount of property, both personal and real, in which the applicant has an interest and of all income which the applicant may have at the time of the filing of the application and such other information as may be required by the secretary. When a husband and wife are living together the combined income or resources of both shall be considered in determining the eligibility of either or both for assistance unless otherwise prohibited by law. The form of application, the procedure for the determination of eligibility and the amount and kind of assistance or service shall be determined by the secretary.
(e) The secretary shall provide special inservice training for employees of the secretary and may provide the training as a part of the job or at accredited educational institutions.
(f) The secretary shall establish an adequate system of financial records. The secretary shall make annual reports to the governor and shall make any reports required by federal agencies.
(g) The secretary shall sponsor, operate or supervise community work experience programs whereby recipients of assistance shall work out a part or all of their assistance and conserve work skills and develop new skills. The compensation credited to recipients for the programs shall be based upon an hourly rate equal to or in excess of the federal minimum wage hourly rate. The programs shall be administered by the secretary. In the programs, the secretary shall provide protection to the recipient under the workmen's compensation act or shall provide comparable protection and may enter into cooperative arrangements with other public officials and agencies or with private not-for-profit corporations providing assistance to needy persons in developing, subject to the approval of the secretary, the programs under this section.
(h) The secretary may receive, have custody of, protect, administer, disburse, dispose of and account for federal or private commodities, equipment, supplies and any kind of property, including food stamps or coupons, which are given, granted, loaned or advanced to the state of Kansas for social welfare works, and for any other purposes provided for by federal laws or rules and regulations or by private devise, grant or loan, or from corporations organized to act as federal agencies, and to do all things and acts which are necessary or required to perform the functions and carry out the provisions of federal laws, rules and regulations under which such commodities, equipment, supplies and other property may be given, granted, loaned or advanced to the state of Kansas, and to act as an agent of the federal government when designated as an agent, and do and perform all things and acts that may be required by the federal laws or rules and regulations not inconsistent with the act.
(i) The secretary may assist other departments, agencies and institutions of the state and federal government and of other states under interstate agreements, when so requested, by performing services in conformity with the purpose of this act.
(j) The secretary shall have authority to lease real and personal property whenever the property is not available through the state or a political subdivision of the state, for carrying on the functions of the secretary.
(k) All contracts shall be made in the name of the secretary for children and families and in that name the secretary may sue and be sued on such contracts. The grant of authority under this subsection shall not be construed to be a waiver of any rights retained by the state under the 11th amendment to the United States constitution and shall be subject to and shall not supersede the provisions of any appropriations act of this state.
(l) All moneys and property of any kind whatsoever received from the Kansas emergency relief committee or from any other state department or political subdivision of the state shall be used by the secretary in the administration and promotion of social welfare in the state of Kansas. The property may be given, loaned or placed at the disposal of any county, city or state agency engaged in the promotion of social welfare.
(m) The secretary shall prepare annually, at the time and in the form directed by the governor, a budget covering the estimated receipts and expenditures of the secretary for the ensuing year.
(n) The secretary shall have authority to make grants of funds, commodities or other needed property to local units of government under rules and regulations adopted by the secretary for the promotion of social welfare in local units of government.
(o) The secretary shall have authority to sell any property in the secretary's possession received from any source whatsoever for which there is no need or use in the administration or the promotion of social welfare in the state of Kansas.
(p) The secretary shall adopt a seal.
(q) The secretary shall initiate or cooperate with other agencies in developing programs for the prevention of blindness, the restoration of eyesight and the vocational rehabilitation of blind persons and shall establish a division of services for the blind. The secretary may initiate or cooperate with other agencies in developing programs for the prevention and rehabilitation of other handicapped persons.
(r) The secretary shall develop a children and youth service program and shall administer or supervise program activities including the care and protection of children who are deprived, defective, wayward, miscreant, delinquent or children in need of care. The secretary shall cooperate with the federal government through its appropriate agency or instrumentality in establishing, extending and strengthening such services and undertake other services to children authorized by law. Nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any state official, agent or representative, in carrying out any of the provisions of this act, to take charge of any child over the objection of either of the parents of such child or of the person standing in loco parentis to such child except pursuant to a proper court order.
(s) The secretary shall develop plans financed by federal funds or state funds or both for providing medical care for needy persons. The secretary, in developing the plan, may enter into an agreement with an agent or intermediary for the purpose of performing certain functions, including the making of medical payment reviews, determining the amount due the medical vendors from the state in accordance with standards set by the secretary, preparing and certifying to the secretary lists of medical vendors and the amounts due them and other related functions determined by the secretary. The secretary may also provide medical, remedial, preventive or rehabilitative care and services for needy persons by the payment of premiums to the federal social security system for the purchase of supplemental medical insurance benefits as provided by the federal social security act and amendments thereto. Medicaid recipients who were residents of a nursing facility on September 1, 1991, and who subsequently lost eligibility in the period September 1, 1991, through June 30, 1992, due to an increase in income shall be considered to meet the 300% income cap eligibility test.
(t) The secretary shall carry on research and compile statistics relative to the entire social welfare program throughout the state, including all phases of dependency, defectiveness, delinquency and related problems; develop plans in cooperation with other public and private agencies for the prevention as well as treatment of conditions giving rise to social welfare problems.
(u) The secretary may receive grants, gifts, bequests, money or aid of any character whatsoever, for state welfare work. All moneys coming into the hands of the secretary shall be deposited in the state social welfare fund provided for in this act.
(v) The secretary may enter into agreements with other states or the welfare department of other states, in regard to the manner of determining the state of residence in disputed cases, the manner of returning persons to the place of residence and the bearing or sharing of the costs.
(w) The secretary shall perform any other duties and services necessary to carry out the purposes of this act and promote social welfare in the state of Kansas, not inconsistent with the state law.
(x) The secretary shall establish payment schedules for each group of health care providers. Any payment schedules which are a part of the state medicaid plan shall conform to state and federal law. The secretary shall not be required to make any payments under the state medicaid plan which do not meet requirements for state and federal financial participation.
(1) The secretary shall consider budgetary constraints as a factor in establishing payment schedules so long as the result complies with state and federal law.
(2) The secretary shall establish payment schedules for providers of hospital and adult care home services under the medicaid plan that are reasonable and adequate to meet the costs which must be incurred by efficiently and economically operated facilities in order to provide care and services in conformity with applicable state and federal laws, regulations, and quality and safety standards. The secretary shall not be required to establish rates for any such facility that are in excess of the minimum necessary to efficiently and economically meet those standards regardless of any excess costs incurred by any such facility.
(y) The secretary shall maintain a system of centralized payment for all welfare expenditures.
History: L. 1973, ch. 186, § 3; L. 1975, ch. 237, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 159, § 2; L. 1980, ch. 272, § 1; L. 1982, ch. 182, § 132; L. 1983, ch. 143, § 2; L. 1985, ch. 114, § 24; L. 1990, ch. 152, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 322, § 5; L. 1995, ch. 153, § 1; L. 1996, ch. 229, § 104; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 77; July 1.


Bitter Sweet By Montigo Serita Jameson is accustomed to disappointment and hard times. Growing up a ward of the state since the age of three months and having no family, has been no walk in the park. She endures physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her foster parents, but somehow manages to become a college senior with a double major and holds down a job at the police station as a 911 dispatcher. However, her last semester of her senior year has brought about some challenges that only the strong can survive. After meeting the man of her dreams, Shawn Taylor, can she hold it together with all of her issues, to keep him? Shawn Taylor has always been the one to take care of everyone. After the death of his mother and having an absentee father, Shawn is forced into early adulthood at the age of fourteen.
His hero mentality however, pushes him into the wrong lifestyle. Selling drugs for the biggest dealer in Beaumont helps Shawn take care of his elderly grandmother and gets him and his brother Devin through college. Now a struggling photographer and artist, he's offered a job that could get him out of the game. Will it also cost him his family, his new love with Serita, and most of all, his life?


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Patton Oswalt Credits Late Wife's Book for Arrest of 'Golden State Killer'
1:50 PM PDT, April 26, 2018 - Inside Edition Staff
Patton Oswalt has credited his late wife, a true crime author, for the arrest of the notorious "Golden State Killer." Michelle McNamara wrote "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" about the man who authorities say killed 12 people, and raped at least 45 women in the 1970's and 80's. "The book really amped up all the interest in the case," Oswalt told NBC's Seth Meyers. The Sacramento County Sheriff arrested 72-year-old James Joseph DeAngelo Wednesday. InsideEdition.com's Lisa Voyticki has more.


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Renesas Upgrades IoT Platform With New ARM Offerings
Jeff Burt
Semiconductor maker Renesas Electronics is teaming with two other tech vendors on the development of the next generation of its Synergy internet of things platform that is based on ARM's new ARMv8-M chip architecture.
Officials with Renesas, Express Logic and IAR Systems are showcasing the enhanced platform this week at ARM's TechCon 2016 event, demonstrating how technologies from all three companies mesh to offer developers a package of hardware and software they can use to more quickly and securely bring their internet of things (IoT) products to market.
Renesas' announcement comes 16 months after the company first rolled out the Synergy IoT platform, joining a range of other chip makers—including Intel, ARM, Qualcomm and MediaTek—in offering developers the tools they need to create their products and a way for the vendors to gain a greater foothold in the fast-growing IoT space.
It also comes amid a flurry of IoT-related announcements from chip makers, in particular Intel (with its Atom E3900 chip) and ARM (with its new Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 processor designs based on the ARMv8-M architecture as well as a range of other products).
Renesas officials said the ThreadX real-time operating system (RTOS) from Express Logic and IAR's Embedded Workbench software development environment—along with the ARMv8-M architecture and ARM's TrustZone security technology—will form the basis of the next-generation Synergy platform.
"By combining a feature-rich RTOS with powerful embedded development tools and a full hardware and software platform for IoT development with the power and security of ARM's latest cores, Renesas and its partners continue to address the design challenges facing today's IoT developers: time-to-market, security and cost-effective performance," Peter Carbone, vice president of Renesas' Synergy IoT Platform Business Division, said in a statement.
According to Renesas officials, the demonstration at the ARM TechCon show includes a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) subsystem that uses both the Cortex-23 and Cortex-M33 CPUs. IAR's Embedded Workbench was used to port the ThreadX RTOS to the new CPU cores, which enabled the creation of secure and non-secure zones, they said. The new platform will give developers the simplicity and security they need, particularly given the recent news of significant distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks stemming from compromised IoT devices, according to IAR CEO Stefan Skarin.
"As security breaches of connected devices are a real threat these days, we can see that our customers are looking for easy-to-use solutions with strong security features in both hardware and software," Skarin said in a statement.
Renesas is making a concentrated push into the market for connected devices and systems. In September, the company announced it plans to buy Intersil for $3.2 billion, a deal that will grow Renesas' capabilities in the connected car space, which has been an increasing focus for both companies. Renesas executives have been aggressively pivoting in the direction of automotive technology by closing factories and cutting jobs.
Jeffrey Burt has been with eWEEK since 2000, covering an array of areas that includes servers, networking, PCs, processors, converged infrastructure, unified communications and the Internet of things.


I would like to add an artwork to an album which has files saved in .wav format. I know that it is not possible to attach an artwork to a wave file, so I'm trying to add a standalone artwork.jpg file to the album in iTunes.... Although iTunes has a feature for automatically fetching album artwork, there are likely going to be times that you'll still want to add artwork manually to your tracks, especially for more obscure tracks that you've imported from your own collection.
24/01/2017 · If you add album artwork to songs on iTunes it will not be on your iPod and vice versa. Try putting artwork on iTunes songs, deleting the songs from your iPod, and then adding them to …... Many users like to use their own album artwork for their music in iTunes. Some readers have said that when they are trying to add artwork to tracks/albums with iTunes 12, they are unable to do so as the Add Artwork is grayed out and not accessible.
24/07/2014 · Try this. Click on the album folder (music, albums). Right click on the first track, and click "open in windows explorer". Highlight all the album tracks using the shift key, go to properties, and if the "read-only" box is checked, uncheck it, click apply, then OK.... If you purchased music from iTunes store, you will get the complete ID3 information and album cover. But if you get music in other ways, like ripping your own CDs to iTunes, the album art might be missing, meta data might not be there, and your album art could be messed up.
In addition to getting album artwork in iTunes, iTunes Music Cleanup will also delete iTunes duplicates for you. Method 2. Manually Google and Add Missing Album Atrwork in iTunes... 24/07/2014 · Try this. Click on the album folder (music, albums). Right click on the first track, and click "open in windows explorer". Highlight all the album tracks using the shift key, go to properties, and if the "read-only" box is checked, uncheck it, click apply, then OK.
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One reason the Add Artwork button can be grayed out when selecting a song in iTunes and then Get Info, is the file does not have write permissions set.


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Home>Featured Story>Investor solutions in a changing world: Cash flows, scarcity value and sustainability
Investor solutions in a changing world: Cash flows, scarcity value and sustainability
Sarah RundellNovember 2, 2021 | 1.49pm
In a complex investment environment, investors should get back to basics and focus on corporate cash flows, scarcity value and the impact of inflationary pressure on profits. Simplicity will serve investors well in the coming years.
When things get complicated it often helps to try and simplify them. Looking out on today's complex investment landscape investors should focus on the key fundamentals that drive corporate cash flows, profitability and ultimately asset prices over the long term. It requires sight of a company's revenues versus costs, ascertaining if it is producing something other corporates can't and identifying the key profitability drivers in its wider industry.
"At the end of the day, it really comes down to the fact that asset prices are a function of future profit" says Robert Almeida, global investment strategist and portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management in an interview with Top1000funds.com from the firm's Boston headquarters.
"The simpler we can make it, the better off we will be."
Keeping it simple means playing down the importance of trends and avoiding grand predictions. Political insight, a view on GDP or where the next spike in the virus will hit isn't going to help either.
And he warns that the past won't throw any light on the future in a view shared by other strategists like Alliance Bernstein's head of institutional solutions, Inigo Fraser Jenkins, who argues investors are entering new terrain. After decades of low inflation, the characteristics that have underpinned the investment dynamic of the last 30 years are set to change.
"We think that the pandemic has changed the investment environment and the policy framework within which investment decisions are made," says Fraser Jenkins. "Investors are likely to have to get used to a higher level of inflation, and governments may need a higher level of inflation to deal with debt levels. The pendulum will swing away from favouring owners of capital to labour."
In truth, says Almeida, nobody knows what is going to happen and unlike science, finance is not rooted in immutable rules like gravity. Ignore the hubris and concentrate on making as few mistakes as possible.
Deciding what is and isn't material has become more complex. Central banks have intentionally crowded out the purpose of financial markets via extensive asset purchases, leading to significant asset price inflation. Now the pandemic and subsequent recovery make it even more difficult to gage corporate profitability. Strong GDP levels coming out of COVID resulted in double digit corporate revenues and surging stock prices, fuelled by companies ripping out costs.
"Government stimulus, followed by the vaccine, has led to an explosion in economic growth boosting corporate revenues," he says.
Now the picture changed again.
"GDP growth is fading as the stimulus wears off, while old costs are coming back into companies' bottom line," he says, just back from his first business trip since the pandemic – an industry conference in Salt Lake City. Elsewhere, new corporate costs are appearing like the spike in energy prices and secular costs like integrating sustainability.
"If you mix all these things together, plus expectations around cash flows and profits, my worry is things will decelerate faster than what markets expect," says Almeida.
Add in the fact supply chain disruption is proving less transitory, impacting companies in two ways. On one hand it is triggering a negative supply shock, reducing the number of goods companies can put on their shelves and hitting revenues. On the other, bottlenecks are increasing costs like labour and raw material inputs, especially electricity.
"Companies are burning the candle at both ends. Profits are a function of revenues versus costs and in my view, revenue growth is vulnerable while costs are likely to rise," says Almeida.
Solutions in scarcity
Making sense of these myriad cross currents requires investors focus on identifying the factors that will drive corporate profitability going forward. They should pick companies that are offering products and services which people are prepared to pay more for and stocks that can offer different profit streams.
"Scarcity has value," says Almeida, who believes a scarcity value or premium will result in fierce competition for high performing stocks and bonds down the line, surprising investors.
As well as creating winners, the dispersion in risk markets will create losers. Avoid companies that don't have something unique or have derived income from, say, not paying employees properly and now can't raise prices. These companies will underperform in the next cycle, he predicts.
A scarcity value or premium will result in fierce competition for high performing stocks and bonds
It's a sentiment echoed by Jimmy Chang, chief investment officer of Rockefeller's global family office, part of Rockefeller Capital Management which includes both the family office, private wealth management plus Rockefeller Asset Management and Rockefeller Strategic Advisory, responsible for a combined $85 billion of assets.
Chang counsels a similarly cautious approach focused on finding the best quality and most consistent names with the strongest balance sheets as the market's macro backdrop becomes less supportive.
"Our stimulus-driven economy is transitioning to mid-cycle," he says. "While November and December are historically stronger periods of the year for equities, waning fiscal and monetary stimuli coupled with still elevated inflation portend higher volatility after the turning of the calendar to 2022. Such an environment warrants some conservatism, and we believe investors should focus on higher quality stocks with a history of earnings consistency."
Both Chang and Fraser Jenkins think investors should position for higher inflation. While Chang has suggested investors play this with exposure to inflation beneficiaries like financial services and commodities, Fraser Jenkins suggests higher equity exposure, a strategic exposure to the value factor and a reduction in the duration of portfolios. "We also think that investors need to consider using factors alongside traditional asset classes in asset allocation," he suggests.
Sustainability, as well as scarcity, will be the other performance differentiator in the years ahead. Investors will increasingly reduce allocations to companies in their portfolios that don't integrate sustainability. And many companies haven't factored in the cost of the transition, says Almeida.
"Given the level of corporate indebtedness today, ESG strikes me as an underappreciated material risk, particularly by corporate bond investors."
When it comes to making investment decisions, Almeida warns technology holds challenges and opportunities. Sure, investors have more information than ever before. But it requires carefully sifting through and does not equate to knowledge.
"To be clear, reaction time to a data point is not a differentiator. The differentiator is the ability to disregard what isn't material and incorporate what is," he says. "As you take in more data you must decipher what information does, and doesn't, change the investment thesis."
Don't build portfolios based on past trends or try and predict what might happen in the future; views on central bank tapering and interest rate policy are important but shouldn't be central. Rather, bond and equity investors should focus on corporate cash flows, scarcity premiums and the impact of inflationary pressure on profits.
"Profits are a function of revenues versus costs and in my view, revenue growth is vulnerable while costs are likely to rise," he concludes.
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Why private debt is pivotal to Queensland Investment Corporation
Allocations to property, some hedge funds and holding most of its assets in currencies other than sterling, helped Wellcome Trust withstand the impact of last year's simultaneous decline in prices in equities, government bonds and corporate credit on a scale not seen for many years.
It's possible that a traditional 60:40 passive portfolio could get close to a target return of 7-8 per cent this year in a trajectory not seen for the last 12 years, according to Rich Hall, CIO of $65 billion University of Texas endowment.
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A recent OECD report argues that pension funds have a vital role to play in helping finance the COVID recovery in areas like infrastructure and SME investment. Yet it also warns of pension funds' limitations when it comes to investing in illiquid assets, and the risks.


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Q: Cross model update in ASP.NET Core I'm really new to ASP.NET Core so I apologize if this is a silly question, but I've spent so many hours trying to figure this out.
I have 2 models, Teacher and Student. The relationship is one teacher to many students. This is a backend API project and Im working on a PUT method which can update fields in both models simultaneously in one request.
Here's my Teacher class:
public partial class Teacher
{
        public Teacher()
        {
            Students = new HashSet<Student>();
        }

        public int TeacherId { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        ... tons of other properties ...
}

Here's my Student class:
public partial class Student
{
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public int TeacherId { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public virtual Teacher Teacher { get; set; }
}

Here's the controller:
[HttpPut("{id}")]
public async Task<IActionResult> PutTeachers(int id, TeacherViewModel model)
{
    var result = await _service.UpdateAsync(model);
    return Ok(result.Message);
}

(The code above is simplified)
- It takes in a TeacherViewModel which restricts the number of fields to be returned
- I used another class as a service to do the update
Here's the service class:
public class TeacherService
{
        private readonly Repository<Teacher> _repository;

        public TeacherService(DatabaseContextWrapper context)
        {
            _repository = new Repository<Teacher>(context);
        }

        public async Task<ITransactionResult> UpdateAsync(TeacherViewModel model)
        {
            var teacher = _repository.FindAsync(model.TeacherId).Result;

            teacher.TeacherId = model.TeacherId;
            teacher.Name = model.Name;

            teacher.Students.Clear();

            foreach(var student in model.Students)
            {
                teacher.Students
                    .Add(new Student
                    {
                        Id = Student.Id,
                        TeacherId = Student.TeacherId
                        Name = Student.Name
                    });```
            }
        }
}

My reasoning is to add the Student model to the to students under the Teacher model but it doesn't iterate through. If I comment out the clear code, the update will work but it won't cross update. It just simply wont iterate through. I guess I'm pretty lost at this point. Any help would be appreciated!
Edit 1 (Entity relationship configuration)
 modelBuilder.Entity<Student>(entity =>           {
                entity.HasOne(d => d.Teacher)
                    .WithMany(p => p.Students)
                    .HasForeignKey(d => d.TeacherId)
                    .OnDelete(DeleteBehavior.ClientSetNull)
                    .HasConstraintName("FK_Students_Teachers");
            });

This is my configuration

A: Try adding the reverse config to your parents entity:
 modelBuilder.Entity<Teacher>(entity =>
            {
                entity.HasMany(d => d.Students)
                    .WithOne(p => p.Teacher)
                    .HasForeignKey(d => d.TeacherId);
            });

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We Happened to Travel
We Happened to Travel was commissioned by Art on the Underground for their Underline series, in collaboration with the London Sinfonietta and costume designer Jenny Hayton, and alongside works by the artists Giles Round, Liam Gillick, Zineb Sedira and the architectural collective Assemble.
Art on the Underground is London's largest art programme, dedicated to 'maintaining art as a central element of Transport for London's identity'. As the first composer ever commissioned I was invited to make work for 'Underline: Art & Music for the Victoria Line'. In response I created a network of pieces contemplating the Tube as a site of relocation in time and space, the rich possibility for chance encounters, and exploiting the unique ambient qualities of the Underground environment.
The body of work is collectively titled We Happened to Travel, and comprises:
3 Displaced Duets – one each for horn, flute and cello. Collective duration 24′
We Happened to Travel – wind dodectet. Duration 15′
Music for Station Broadcast – recorded marimba. Duration 11′
Sample Set – freely downloadable recordings of the Victoria line.
In Part One of We Happened to Travel performers journey to King's Cross Tube station via the Victoria line, playing as they go. As they converge at their destination, the twelve parts fuse into a single whole. They continue to play as they make their way to the 'stage' (an area of King's Cross) where they perform a multi-movement piece in various configurations of the ensemble, including the full dodectet. This piece is interspersed with the three Displaced Duets.
In each Displaced Duet a solo performer plays live in tandem with a recording of themselves which was made in a different Victoria line location. The duet between the live and recorded performances realises a whole which would be impossible for either element to achieve alone, and does so across a dislocation of space and time. Below is the final video piece of Tim Gill performing the Displaced Duet for Cello.
We Happened to Travel itself reflects on the physical and temporal structures of the Victoria line, expressing the generative potential of journeys and chance encounters. Part One sees eight players travelling the Victoria line along composed routes, performing as they go, their musical material evolving in relation to the environment of their journey. They converge at King's Cross St. Pancras, heralded by four trombones.
In Part Two the eight travelling players and four trombonists join forces to perform a large-scale ensemble work, within which the three Displaced Duets are framed.
Part One is coloured for each player by the specific events of the journey. Their different musical histories then coming to bear on the ensemble performance at King's Cross. The music of Part Two is founded on structures that deploy the complexities of a network – in this case, a network of players.
Music for Station Broadcast is a series of pieces for marimba, recorded to be played as ambient music in Victoria line stations. Many tube stations broadcast music as a regular part of their daily operation, and this part of the project was intended to contribute original works to that repertoire. Unfortunately this part of the project was never fully realised due to production demands in other areas, but one day I would like to return to the idea.
Below is a short documentary of the full We Happened to Travel event.
Sample Set comprises audio samples reorded on the Victoria line, ranging from long, ambient atmospheres to short, percussive sounds, and from the clearly identifiable to the mysterious. It is intended to be listened to, used and appropriated, and can be freely dowloaded without licence from this webpage.
Graphic score drawing for the Sample Set poster, Matt Rogers, 2015
We Happened to Travel, Walthamstow Bus Station decoration, photo by Thierry Bal, 2016


So you've decided you want to pursue a job working for a cruise line. You've considered all the pros and cons of shipboard life, investigated the different types of jobs available, both onshore and off shore, and you've made your decision.
Now it's time to dive into the choppy (yet navigable) waters of cruise line hiring.
Cruise lines receive thousands of applications every week. The desks of personnel managers and department heads are often cluttered with resumes that never get a second look. It's obvious though, that some people get hired. So what makes the difference? We talked to a number of experts in the business and found that hiring practices vary widely among cruise lines. Your chances of getting hired depend a lot on when you apply, your qualifications, current openings, persistence, and timing.
There are a number of things any future cruise ship employee can do to increase the chances of getting a job. Regardless of the differences in hiring methods among cruise lines, job hunting tactics like developing a solid resume, researching the industry, and applying to different employers may increase your chances of landing a job.
education, skills, and professional experience. We suggest pooling the skills you've obtained from other jobs and presenting them on your resume in a way that will appeal to a cruise ship job. For example, if you've had retail job experience this primes you for a position as a gift shop employee. It has also provided you with experience working with people and in providing customer service.
These are areas of your resume that should be stressed when applying for a cruise ship job because it shows you have experience in areas that will benefit the ship.
We recommend listing any hotel or hospitality work you may have had in addition to jobs that relate directly to cruise ship employment. This includes, organizational skills, working with people, customer service, bartending experience, serving experience, working as a host or hostess, and business education. Also focus on a solid work history and professional references. If you are a first time applicant, don't worry.
Some people with no prior cruise ship experience are able to find positions by focusing on skills they've acquired in previous jobs that can be applied to working on a cruise ship.
Another way to improve your chances of working onboard a cruise ship is to apply early and apply often. By preparing yourself and applying to a number of different ships you will increase your chances of procuring a job. Also, don't be discouraged if you can't find a job your first time out. Competition for jobs can be quite fierce. Keep applying is line of work is something you're passionate about!
Cruise ship applicants should also be ready for last minute responses. It isn't uncommon for a cruise line to need staff a week before its ship leaves port. While this gives little time for preparation, dedicated employees jump at the chance.
These tips will help you in your search for cruise ship employment. Remember to prepare yourself by learning all you can about the cruise ship industry before applying. Our pages on specific cruise ship jobs and the cruise industry are a great way to start.
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The American Machinist is an American trade magazine of the international machinery industries and most especially their machining aspects. Published since 1877, it was a McGraw-Hill title for over a century before becoming a Penton title in 1988. In 2013 it transitioned from combined print/online publication to online-only.

History
The journal was founded as a monthly magazine in November 1877 by Horace B. Miller and Jackson Bailey at 96 Fulton Street in New York City. The publication moved to a weekly publication schedule in July 1879.

Fred H. Colvin explained:

In 1888, the editors decided to launch another title, specific to the railroading industry, called Locomotive Engineer. They asked Colvin's father, Henry F. Colvin, to recommend someone to become the new title's editor. He recommended an American Machinist correspondent from Pueblo, Colorado, whose writing he considered to be of good quality. The man was hired, and this introduction to technical publishing was auspicious, because John A. Hill went on to be a cofounder of McGraw-Hill.

American Machinist was published weekly from 1877 to 1960 by various New York City companies, from the original American Machinist Publishing Company, through John A. Hill's Hill Publishing Company, to McGraw-Hill from 1909 onward. From 1968 to 1988, McGraw-Hill issued it biweekly and later monthly, briefly titling it American Machinist & Automated Manufacturing during 1986–88. Starting in 1988 it was published by Penton; in 2013 it transitioned from combined print/online publication to online-only. Penton was acquired by Informa in 2016; Informa sold American Machinist as part of a batch of titles to Endeavor Business Media.

William Harris, a professor emeritus of Middlebury College, summarized that the American Machinist appeared weekly since "after the American Civil War, and was published continuously through the 19th and into the 20th century. This time period spans a very important interval, at the beginning of which new machinery began to appear in response to arms needs arising from the war, and the concept of mass production was invented. Interchangeable parts for military equipment followed immediately, and gave a new sense of what machines could do, in fact what they were going to have to do, as a matter of course in the future."

Long-time editors or coeditors included Frederick A. Halsey and Fred H. Colvin. Other editor-in-chiefs were Fred J. Miller, Leon P. Alford from 1911 to 1917, and John H. Van Deventer from 1917 to 1919.

For decades, American Machinist and several other key trade journals, including the Industrial Press's Machinery (of which Colvin was the founding editor), helped machinists, from machine tool builders and job shop operators to factory hands, to keep abreast of current practice and new developments in a way that they formerly had not. Both editorial offices also issued handbooks for machinists (American Machinists' Handbook and Machinery's Handbook).

In 1969 the American Machinist magazine, under editor-in-chief Anderson Ashburn, was awarded the National Magazine Award, for its special issue, "Will John Garth Make It?" The study of U.S. industry's role in combating unemployment, especially among those that companies might consider unemployable, included Mr. Garth, a 26-year-old high school dropout and parolee.

See also
 American Machinists' Handbook
 Engineering
 Engineering Magazine

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Crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital LP, headed by Mike Novogratz is now ready to begin operations on the Canadian TSX Exchange from 1st August, according to reports. They'll function under Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd., and use the GLXY token.
There was a significant downtrend in the crypto-market earlier in the year, with BTC falling below $6,000 just after its record $20,000 mark breakthrough back in December. Galaxy sold shares at $5 CAD (approx. $3.80 USD) apiece, back in January.
Managing Director of the TSX Exchange, Brady Fletcher told reporters that while the entire required procedure might take a bit more time than "entrepreneurs like Mike would like it to," his Exchange is still excited about the new collaboration and would like to see it work.
According to reports from last week, Galaxy had published its 2018 first-quarterly report. They had lost $150 million, as well as an $85.5 million unrealised loss on digital assets.
Recently, the firm has also started looking into the crypto-lending business, raising funds of about $52.2 million for BlockFi, a company providing corporate and retail loans backed by digital holdings and properties.


A knowledge and personal relationship to the elements is cruical when we walk the pagan path. The elements, air, fire, water and earth are all around us and within us.
In different traditions they are placed in different directions on the Wheel of the Year. On most wheels air is in the east, but for me, in my tradition it is in the north.
It is my belief that there is no right or wrong place for the elements. You will know which Wheel is the right one for you because it will feel natural. That is how I felt when I started learning about the Wheel of Ana when I trained as a Priestess of Avalon.
Air is the element that can not be seen, but is all around as. It is within us as our breath, and is what keeps us alive.
It is connected to the mind, communication, stillness, meditation, inner peace and wisdom.
It is the wind in the trees, and connected to the birds in the sky.
It can be gentle as a breeze or the healing breath in meditation.
It can be as destructive as a hurricane.
And we can experience and call upon the energies of both of those.
When we allow ourselves the time to be still, to connect with our breath, and to find the peace within we can hear the whispers of Goddess.
To connect with air, burn incense, go outside and pay attention to what the wind is doing. Can you feel it against your skin? Can you see it playing with the trees?
Write down what thoughs come to you.
To learn more about the elements and to dive deeper into your connection to Goddess you may want to have a look at my online course Awakening to the elements.
And always, if you have any questions, feel free to contact me via Facebook!


XCOR Aerospace's Lynx space plane is seen here in a rendering. The plane could begin flying passengers as early as later this year.
The private spaceflight company XCOR Aerospace is getting a new CEO.
Representatives with XCOR Aerospace — the company responsible for developing the Lynx space plane — announced today (March 16) that John "Jay" Gibson will lead the commercial spaceflight company. The former CEO, Jeff Greason, will remain with the company as chief technology officer and focus on helping to develop Lynx and other projects, according to XCOR.
The Lynx space plane is designed to carry a pilot and a passenger on a journey to suborbital space and back. The plane could also carry scientific experiments to make use of the flight conditions, including the weightlessness achieved during the 30-minute-flight.
XCOR's first Lynx (called Lynx Mark I) could begin test flights as early as this year. The company is planning to build two more types of Lynx space planes, Mark II and Mark III, as well. The Mark II models are designed to make suborbital flights of up to 60 miles (100 kilometers), up to four times a day, and Mark III should have the ability to launch microsatellites to space, according to XCOR.
Seats to fly on Mark I are currently selling for $95,000, while Mark II seats are on sale for $100,000.
"This year is vital to XCOR's plans," added Greason, who will continue to serve as chairman of the board and will remain a lead voice in space policy and industry circles. "With the commencement of the Lynx flight test program on the horizon, Jay's arrival allows this team to focus on getting Lynx in the air, moving forward on plans for our orbital vehicle, and transitioning XCOR to a more efficient and effective company."
Gibson was previously the assistant secretary of the U.S. Air Force, and most recently, he was senior vice president of global mission support at Beechcraft Corp. in Kansas, XCOR said in a statement.
"I am excited to join this exceptional team at a critical time on the XCOR journey to making space accessible to everyone," Gibson said in the statement. "The potential of commercially reusable rockets and vehicles in both the payload and passenger markets are incredible and are still being defined. This is a rare opportunity to participate in the continuing development of the space industry, and more specifically the success of XCOR, which stands at the forefront of the commercial spaceflight market."
There are other companies hoping for a piece of the suborbital spaceflight market. British billionaire Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is also developing a space plane, called SpaceShipTwo, which could fly space tourists to suborbital space sometime in the future. Seats on SpaceShipTwo are selling for $250,000.
Virgin Galactic recently suffered a tragic spaceflight accident when the company's prototype SpaceShipTwo broke apart in the air, leaving one pilot dead and another seriously injured.