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Saudi Arabia warns of civil war in Iraq with "unpredictable consequences"
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Saudi Arabia has further fuelled sectarian tensions in the Middle East with comments yesterday by Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal blaming the US-backed Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad for the escalating conflict in Iraq. He warned that the upheaval in Iraq could produce "a civil war with unpredictable consequences for the region."
Speaking at a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah, the foreign minister repeated Saudi accusations that the Iraqi government's "sectarian policies of exclusion" against the country's Sunni Arab minority were responsible for the violence. In a thinly-veiled reference to Iran's Shiite regime, he blamed countries with "bad intentions" toward Iraq of "plots threatening its security, stability, national unity and sense of Arab identity."
The Saudi monarchy has long regarded Iran as its chief regional rival and has fuelled anti-Shiite and anti-Persian animosities in a bid to undermine Tehran's regional influence. It has bitterly opposed the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which it regards as an Iranian stooge, and politically and financially supported its Sunni opponents. Saud al-Faisal reiterated the Saudi demand for "national reconciliation" in Iraq without "foreign interference or outside agendas."
Maliki lashed out on Tuesday against Saudi Arabia, accusing it of supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and allied fighters who have swept south toward Baghdad over the past week, capturing key towns and cities. He declared that Riyadh was "responsible for supporting these groups financially and morally, and for the outcome of that, which includes crimes that may qualify as genocide: the spilling of Iraqi blood, the destruction of Iraqi state institutions and historic and religious sites."
Various Gulf states, also ruled by Sunni monarchies, have joined Saudi Arabia in criticising Baghdad. On Sunday, Qatar's Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah accused the Maliki government of triggering the fighting by marginalising Sunni Arabs, citing its clampdown on Sunni protests in April 2013 and this January. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced yesterday that it was recalling its diplomatic envoy to Iraq for consultations and criticised the Iraqi government's "sectarian policies."
The intensifying Sunni-Shiite antagonisms throughout the region are the direct result of the criminal US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, followed by a decade of American threats and provocations against Iran, and most recently the US-backed regime-change operation against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an Iranian ally.
Washington deliberately fomented sectarian blood-letting in Iraq as a means of propping up its occupation, profoundly destabilising the entire country. In Syria, the US funded and backed anti-Assad militias, and encouraged its Middle Eastern allies, especially Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to do the same. The result is a sectarian civil war in Syria against Assad, who belongs to the Shiite Alawite sect, which has now spilled over the border into Iraq.
The Saudi monarchy has sought to distance itself from the Sunni extremists of ISIS, who were previously linked to Al Qaeda and share that group's hostility to the corrupt Saudi ruling elites. Saudi Arabia has formally banned ISIS, but that does not mean it is not providing support, directly or indirectly.
Riyadh's ambivalent attitude was summed up in the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al Awsat, whose columnist declared last weekend: "Nouri al-Maliki is worse, and more dangerous, than ISIS and [Al] Qaeda."
Saudi Arabia has also been critical of the US decision to call off its air war in Syria last September, as well as Washington's moves toward a rapprochement with Iran. Riyadh is concerned that the latest US-Iranian talks over Iraq could result in joint efforts to prop up the Maliki government in Baghdad. "We need a regional coordination over Iraq, not a US-Iranian dialogue," Saudi analyst Abdel Aziz al-Sagr told Agence France Presse.
Saudi Arabia is not about to break ties with Washington. In April, intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan was removed from his post, apparently over his remarks warning of a "major shift" away from the US following its failure to bomb Syria. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that Saudi Arabia, especially its intelligence services, has stepped up operations inside Iraq, Syria and throughout the Middle East to back a range of Sunni organisations in a bid to undermine Iranian influence.
In a comment entitled "The intrigue lying behind Iraq's jihadist uprising," Stratfor, a think tank with close ties to the US military and intelligence establishment, said regional powers, including Turkey, Iran and the Gulf States, were all pressing their interests in Iraq. In relation to Saudi Arabia, it said "a Persian-American rapprochement is a living nightmare for the Sunni kingdom," making Syria, Lebanon and Iraq "useful proxy battlegrounds."
The Stratfor article noted that while Saudi Arabia might not directly support ISIS, it had close connections with other Iraqi Sunni organisations involved in the fighting. "Most of the Sunni militias and the growing number of Awakening Council (Sunni fighters recruited by the US to battle Al Qaeda in Iraq) defectors joining these militias coordinate directly with the Majlis Thuwar al Anbar (Anbar insurgents' council), which coordinates with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [Syria] on a selective basis. Saudi Arabia's acting intelligence chief, Yousef bin Ali al Adrisis, is believed to be in direct communication with the Majlis Thuwar al Anbar, affording Riyadh the opportunity to influence the shape of the battlefield—and thereby aggravate Iran in a highly sensitive spot."
Previously, ISIS and other anti-Assad militias in Syria received substantial financial support and arms from wealthy Sunni donors in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, to which their governments and the US turned a blind eye. An extensive Brookings Institute report published last December explained that much of this funding passed through Kuwait. "Although it is impossible to quantify the value of private Kuwaiti assistance to [Syrian] rebels, it almost certainly reaches into the hundreds of millions of dollars," it stated. "Donors based in Kuwait have also gathered contributions from elsewhere in the Gulf, where fund raising is more closely regulated ... The US Treasury is aware of this activity and has expressed concern about this flow of private financing. But Western diplomats' and officials' general response has been a collective shrug."
The rapid descent of Iraq toward sectarian civil war is an indictment of the recklessness, barbarism and incoherence of Washington's foreign policy, which has been based above all on the use of military force to prosecute its imperialist interests. In Iraq, the US installed a Shiite regime, putting it at odds with its allies in the Persian Gulf. In Syria, it encouraged Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States to fuel a civil war against Iran's ally, Assad. All of this has created a sectarian tinderbox throughout the Middle East that threatens to drag the region into a bloodbath.
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While the average duration of schooling in countries such as the US, Germany and the UK is around 12 to 13 years, in Ethiopia and Gambia it is still as low as two to three years.
A focus on improving education, reducing labour and product market inflexibility and providing basic infrastructure will be crucial, if EMs are to make the most of the opportunities offered by technology. For those that do, the potential benefits are huge.
Madhur Jha is a senior global economist at Standard Chartered bank. The article was first published on the Standard Chartered blog.


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Morning Star News East Africa Correspondent | Morning Star News | Wednesday, June 9, 2021
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NAIROBI, Kenya, June 9, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A Christian employee's Muslim supervisor sent people to kill him last month in eastern Uganda after he refused to convert to Islam, sources said.
Christians at the funeral of evangelist Fred Isiko, who drove a van for Ashirafu Kasenyi's cargo transport company, said Kasenyi was behind the killing of Isiko on May 22 in Kagumu village, Kibuku District.
On May 23 police arrested a suspect who said Kasenyi had sent him to kill Isiko, sources said. That day Kasenyi was killed when a mob of more than 50 angry residents, most of them members of churches, attacked him.
When Kasenyi on the evening of May 22 called Isiko to meet with him, the Christian known for proclaiming Christ within and outside church walls got friend Francis Maka to accompany him, Maka said.
"When we met Kasenyi, he gave Fred some money to go and buy some meat at Kadama trading center and to bring it back for supper so as to have a business discussion the following day," Maka told Morning Star News. "As we were about to reach the trading center, three people stopped us. They said that they have some information for Fred. So I moved at a distance, and immediately one of them removed a long knife and cut his neck as I fled for my life and reported the incident at Kagumu police post."
Police and hundreds of people converged around Isiko's body early the next morning, he said.
Earlier in the month Isiko secretly recorded a conversation on his phone in which Kasenyi, a Muslim teacher known as a sheikh, threatened to fire him if he refused to convert to Islam, a relative said.
"You need to convert to Islam if you are to remain as my employee," Kasenyi says in the May 7 recording, the relative said. Isiko replies, "I am not going to leave Jesus Christ; better to resign than leave Christianity."
After Isiko was killed, police arrested a suspect who said Kasenyi contracted him and four others to kill Isiko and seven pastors, Maka and others said.
Kibuku police rang Kagumu police ordering them to arrest Kasenyi, but before they could do so community members went to his home and killed him, sources said. They also destroyed his house, gardens and livestock, they said.
Police have arrested just one unidentified suspect in the killing of Kasenyi, sources said. Kasenyi, also known as Kasenyi Jackson, had been a Christian until converting to Islam in 1992.
House Destroyed
Also in Kibuku District, Muslim relatives of a newly believing Christian on May 23 burned down his family's house in Nansyono village.
The attack came after Louis Levi Baula, 46, took his 3-year-old son to a church service on May 2 for healing from seizures and other symptoms.
"Our sheikh had been praying for the child, and we had spent 350,000 Uganda shillings [US$100] given to the sheikh as well as spending a large amount for the treatment of the child in various hospitals, but all in vain," Baula told Morning Star News.
The pastor of the church, unidentified for security reasons, was initially alarmed by the family as they arrived in their Islamic attire, and he directed ushers to question them, Baula said.
"After we explained our troubles and suffering, the pastor prayed for our child, and immediately his restlessness and abnormal behavior stopped," Baula said. "The pastor told us to believe in Jesus. We were then convinced that Jesus had healed our son, and we accepted to be prayed to have Jesus as our Lord and Savior."
Their son was then able to eat food served after the service without the problems he had shown previously, said Baula's wife, Sifah Ainekisha, and the family was convinced that he had been delivered from his torments.
"We went back home but did not tell anyone, except I shared with my mother-in-law about the prayers in church that made my child well, and that we were planning to go back to the church the following Sunday," Ainekisha said. "She kept quiet."
The next Sunday the family attended the worship service and thanked the church for the prayers that healed their son, she said. When they returned home, more than 20 Muslim relatives had gathered outside their home, Baula said.
The relatives began questioning them, and Ainekisha told them that they had taken their son to church for healing prayer, Baula said.
"One called Musitafa slapped her badly and said, 'Allah Akbar [God is greater], be quiet,'" Baula said. "We thought that they were going to kill us, but they only warned us not to attend the church, and the meeting ended."
They did not attend the service the following Sunday, May 16, but that evening the pastor visited and prayed for them, he said. They rose early in the morning of May 23 to attend the church service, returning at 5 p.m. to find three of their goats missing, Baula said.
"A relative named Hamisi told me that Allah had taken the goats," he said. "I was scared by that statement and came back and told my wife."
She told him they must relocate, he said. Their children are ages 10, 6 and 3.
"As we were thinking of where to go, at around 9 p.m. we heard hens making a lot of noise in the kitchen, and when I came out, I saw smoke and flames going up the roof, and I went back and told my wife that we are dying," Baula said. "We picked up our children and went out very fast, and within a short period my brothers, sisters and Muslim neighbors together with an imam arrived. The imam recited the Koran, and then later told my brothers to start destroying the house."
They watched the destruction of their house and all their livestock, he said.
"The imam told us that from today we were no longer one of the family members, that we were kafir [infidels] and that we should leave the homestead immediately to go and look for other infidels," Baula said. "He added that had it not been the law of our state, we would face death, but 'go out of here since you have disobeyed Allah and his messenger.'"
Prohibited from taking anything, they left with only the clothes they were wearing, he said.
The family reported the incident to the chairperson of LC1, Moses Magona, who said that he had received a phone call from one of their relatives that Baula's family had been disowned.
"I received a telephone call from Samuku Kalimu that the whole family has disowned you for leaving Islam but would not kill you – but that if you resist, then they were ready to kill you," Magona told him, according to Baula.
The family has taken refuge in another Christian's home.
"We as a church are afraid because the Muslims might attack our church," the church pastor said. "We have reported the incident to the police post at central ward, Kasasira Town Council."
The assaults were the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.
Uganda's constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one's faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda's population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.
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by J Paul Johnson June 20, 2022, 10:00 pm
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The following contains spoilers for Irma Vep Episode 3, "Dead Man's Escape" (written and directed by Olivier Assayas)
The title of Episode 3 of Olivier Assayas's eight-part limited series for HBO, Irma Vep—"Dead Man's Escape"—feels a little more on point than those of the first two episodes. In this meta-meta commentary on the filmmaking industry and his own experiences in it, Assayas has been using the episode titles from Louis Feuillade's 1915-16 French serial drama Les vampires. The first and second episodes, titled "The Severed Head" and "The Ring that Kills," respectively, seem to refer only to specific moments in Les vampires, an outlandishly melodramatic crime narrative packed with wild concepts (such as, of course, a severed head and a ring that kills, among others). Other than the fact that Irma Vep's characters are remaking Feuillade and re-enacting his scenes, there's so far been little connection between these titles and this current Irma Vep.
Until the end of Episode 3, that is. More on that, to come. In the meantime, "Dead Man's Escape" has a few of its own twists and turns. Drug runs, boozy parties, hangovers, rueful reunions, therapy sessions, surprise revelations, on-set catastrophes, and more.
The episode opens with Mira (Alicia Vikander) hitching a ride from Zoe (Jeanne Balibar) on her scooter, as Zoe is delivering Gottfried (Lars Eidinger) his much-needed crack. While Zoe makes calls on her bluetooth headset, Mira adds the hand gestures—a funny little gag that shows how she loves to perform. When the two catch up to Gottfried, they meet the other members of the Irma Vep crew, including Mira's assistant Regina (Devon Ross), the recent film-school grad and aspiring filmmaker, holding forth on the history of cinema. Prone to argument, Gottfried calls Zoe a "postmodern lesbian"—terms she doesn't deny, but she tosses her drink in his face anyway, much to the group's collective amusement.
The evening ends with a besotted Gottfried puking in the rainy garden, and the next day hangovers abound on set. Mira needs water and has a bit of trouble following the increasingly laborious instructions prescribed by director René Vidal (Vincent Macaigne). While the international star has been gracious and patient up until now, here we begin to see Vidal's methods grate: the instructions here and in a subsequent scene are excessively, nearly obsessively technical and largely without any character motivation or positive feedback—a complaint Edmond (Vincent Lacoste) and others have voiced all along.
Assayas's regularly inserting scenes from Les vampires has become commonplace enough to the series that it's an established pattern, one where Feuillade's scenes are followed by behind-the-scenes coverage of Vidal directing his modern sound version. Cutting from the interior of the train coach to its exterior, a simple box being shaken by crew, disrupts the cinematic illusion and Vidal wants his actors to perform with more "cruelty." We've seen before how the director continuously calls for greater investment from his cast and now things are taking a turn towards the violent.
In a subsequent scene, Vidal wants his stuntwoman to strike Edmond more violently; the actor is unsure but relents, and the two seem to find some mutual common ground. Mira, meanwhile, seems to sigh or eyeroll with each of the director's laborious instructions. The longer she's on set, the less sanguine she seems about the project. What Mira desires—an arthouse project that will enrichen her career artistically if not financially—looks to be at odds with Vidal's increasingly technical direction, lack of character motivation, and obsession with the film's persuasive depictions of cruelty and violence.
Meanwhile, the character of Gottfried—a hulking, puking mess—seems initially so one-note as to have little promise other than comic relief. An interview he gives to the press (not a magazine but a site) demonstrates his impressive lack of filter: he brags about the size of his manhood, expresses hate for Koreans and Mexicans winning awards, and touts his own character Moreno at the expense of others, whom he characterizes as "f*in' amateurs." But he "cleans up well," and his Irma Vep character is indeed an impressive figure.
Gottfried (Las Eidinger) is less than shy about sharing his insights, reactionary as they may be.
Gottfried and Mira, it turns out, share a past. The two have worked together, even if their recollections are hazy, and he has some insight, if bluntly put: "these women all want to eat your pussy," he exclaims. He assumes Regina is Mira's girlfriend. (And minutes earlier Assayas showed Regina taking in an eyeful of Mira disrobing for her shower.) Gottfried gets how Mira got played by Laurie and is clearly wondering if a similar dynamic between Mira and her most recent assistant will play out. Regina is, after all, herself full of ambition, just starting her post-film school career.
Mira doesn't seem to take any of Gottfried's analysis too seriously, even if it all seems pretty acute so far. There's one more relationship for Mira to dissect as she visits another film set, this where her former lover Eamonn (Tom Sterridge) is starring in a sci-fi he characterizes as "Blade Runner without the rain or the neo-noir." The two catch up about their present assignments and reminisce about the past. They broke up, it appears, because of Laurie, and Eamonn has since moved on with just-pregnant famous-singer new-girlfriend Lianna. Even so, there's a touching ruefulness about his and Mira's connection: "We f*cked up," he says. "There's no way back."
Mira doesn't disagree.
During this conversation, Mira admits to feeling "unfocused." It's such an interesting term for an actor to use. The term can connote a general lack of rigor or motivation, but in cinema it refers to the the optimal sharpness or clarity of the subject captured by the camera. A star might expect to be "in focus," but Mira clearly feels, as a consequence of her failed relationships, her unsatisfying stardom, and her uncertainty about her portrayal of Irma Vep, less in focus than ever.
If Mira could use some therapy, it's René whose sessions we are treated to, and there we learn what to my thinking is a fairly major revelation: that decades ago, he made an Irma Vep, a point on which Assayas's series has so far been silent. That Irma Vep he dismisses as "a low-budget indie film" while images of catsuited Maggie Cheung from Assayas's 1996 film flash across the screen. This is a "totally different" project, he tells his therapist, defending his film and his "failed" marriage to star Jade Lee. "I was completely in love with her," he says. "And then it just faded."
His therapist sees right through Vidal's working through his own emotions and desires in film. And of course, Assayas himself married Maggie Cheung following his 1996 Irma Vep, a marriage that lasted some three-and-a-half years. "Just don't be surprised you're waking up with anxiety," she tells him. That René had earlier made an Irma Vep—about an actress cast to play Irma Vep—and that his current project is an Irma Vep remake/adaptation that reshoots scenes directly from Feuillade's 1915-serial—makes this current project of his even more curious and inexplicable.
What exactly is Vidal doing?
Back on set, we see him at work, directing more scenes that place Edmond in peril. First his character is about to be hung: given Vidal's consistent clamoring for more authentic violence and his ongoing issues with the project's insurance, this whole scene looks dangerous and soon enough Edmond is swaying uncontrollably about the set. (He looks a little like this poor woman whose neck got caught on a zip-line ride at an indoor amusement park.) But Vidal and Edmond work out an uneasy truce for the sake of the project.
Edmond (Vincent Lacoste) dangles from a safety harness harness as René (Vincent Macaigne) attempts to assist.
Episode 3 concludes with the scene that speaks most directly to its title, "Dead Man's Escape." For the better part of three episodes Vidal has been directing scenes nearly note-for-note from Feuillade's silent-era original Les vampires. Vidal's is a sound film, in color, with considerable camera movement; Feuillade's was silent, black-and-white, and shot with a predominantly static camera. Yet the scenes are largely the same. That modern-day audiences might expect greater character motivation and reject the original's melodramatic reversals and misdirections seems lost on Vidal, who squees with delight when satisfied and throws childish tantrums when not. His excessively technical directions frustrate his cast, and at every turn his instructions call for more cruelty and violence.
This last scene—like the others, a reshoot of a scene in Feuillade's original—has Edmond's character, hidden in a wicker chest, knocked accidentally down a long flight of concrete stairs. Keep in mind that more than a decade before Feuillade was shooting Les vampires his countryman Georges Méliès had already mastered the trick art of the cut, so that a scene like this could be shot without harm to its actor: first, shoot the character in the wicker chest; then, cut to the closed chest bouncing down the steps; and finally, cut to the the chest again, opening it to reveal the character. It's a simple formula that's been used for well over one hundred years, such is the magic of cinema combined with the logic of editing.
Would such a conventional method suffice for Vidal, who needs his film to be, for some reason, even more authentically violent? His crew warns him of the dangers inherent in the shot, but when the chest tumbles down the concrete stairs, it appears that poor Edmond was in it all along. It's "improv," declares Vidal. The actor is dazed. "Can we go again?" asks the director. The answer is clearly no as Edmond collapses, crew members call for an ambulance, and the camera cranes skyward where Mira-as-Irma in her catsuit guise gazes across the Parisian horizon, as if a plague or spirit over the production.
Edmond (Vincent Lacoste) is dazed after a stunt. Photograph by Carole Bethuel/HBO.
Edmond's careening down the steps is comic enough, as is Vidal's reaction, but the scene speaks to a more serious issue in a post-Rust industry. The lapse of on-set safety measures there cost director of photography Halyna Hutchins her life and seriously injured another. It's not the first such incident: Camera assistant Sarah Jones was killed on the set of Midnight Rider. Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Just recently, Sarah Polley said her life was endangered on the set of Baron Munchausen. Tom Cruise may garner accolades for doing his own stunts, but filmmaking can entail great physical risk, and here fictional director Rene Vidal is clearly putting his actor Edmond at great physical risk.
Is Edmond a dead man? Or will he (and the fictional character he's playing) feature in a "Dead Man's Escape"? Did Assayas play us with the editing and only "suggest" Edmond tumbled down those concrete steps" Will Vidal's production continue despite its increasing endangerment of its cast? Will Mira find focus in her character? Can she find focus in her life, given her failed relationships and the ongoing attention from those around her? Will the ongoing dissension between director and cast culminate in something other than the cohesive fulfillment of a unified aesthetic vision? And for that matter, is Vidal's film a film or a series?
So far Irma Vep—that is, this 2022 HBO series directed by Olivier Assayas—is great fun with plenty to think about. More than merely a spectacle of on-set shenanigans, Assayas is asking us to think through the big questions about the art form, all the while keeping us entertained with his colorful cast of characters and their chaotic relationships.
Episode 4 of Irma Vep, "The Poisoner," airs Monday, June 27, on HBO and HBO Max.
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I found myself immersed deeper into the abyss of PHP editing and Secure File Transferring software tonight than I ever cared to be. The whole immersion stemmed from some random newline characters that were appearing in my PHP files after downloading them through my usual SFTP program (to remain unnamed). Turns out all it took was a reinstall to get things working as expected (I have no idea why), but I didn't find this out until about 3 hours later.
During those 3 hours, I hunted desperately for a good PHP editor to replace my current editor, EditPad Lite, as I thought it was to blame. I don't know why I'd come to such a conclusion when I have been a die hard user of the editor for probably two years now, but I did. My hunt for a good PHP editor only showed me that there really isn't one. The best one I found was called Dev-PHP, but even it felt unstable and lacked a lot of the features I'd expect a good PHP editor to have. For anyone who might be looking for a laundry list of PHP editors to choose from, though, there's a pretty decent one called Keith's PHP Editors.
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So Congress has passed a bill to avoid the tax cliff, hallelujah. This is the way to look at it if you have a pre-Copernican view of politics where Washington is the center of the economic universe. The better way to see it is that the tax bill on the private, productive part of the economy is now coming due for President Obama's first-term spending and re-election.
The Senate-White House compromise grudgingly passed by the House is a Beltway classic: The biggest tax increase in 20 years in return for spending increases, and all spun for political purposes as a "tax cut for the middle class." But taxes on the middle class were only going up on January 1 because the politicians had set it up that way, manufacturing a fake crisis. The politicians now portray themselves as scrambling heroically to save the day by sparing the middle class while raising taxes on small business, investors and the affluent.
The nearby table shows the taxes that are going up this year. The best that can be said is that Senate Republicans managed to moderate the increase in the death tax from what it would have been, and to spare some upper middle-class families from even higher taxes by raising the income threshold for the new 39.6% top rate. But even those families will still see their taxes raised because couples making more than $300,000 will begin to have their deductions and exemptions phased out as their income rises.
The bill also makes most of the tax provisions (including a fix to the Alternative Minimum Tax) permanent, which removes some uncertainty from business and investment decisions. So much for the good, or shall we say the less bad, news.
On the other hand, the tax rate on capital gains will rise to 23.8% (including the 3.8% ObamaCare surtax), the highest rate since 1996, and at a time when business investment is mediocre. This contrasts with countries like Singapore and the Netherlands that compete with the U.S. for capital and have a capital-gains tax rate of zero.
The estate tax deal is a reprieve only compared to the 45% that Mr. Obama wanted and the 55% that would have hit without a deal. Republicans still had to agree to a rate increase to 40% from 35%, and the $5 million exemption is a pittance for 50 years of work and thrift.
After paying a lifetime of taxes on wages and salaries, business and farm profits and capital gains, Americans who save their money rather than spend it get the reward of giving 40% to Uncle Sam. As a political matter, the GOP also gave a big break to Democratic Senators running in 2014 who would have had to defend the 55% rate.
Mr. Obama said on New Year's Eve that he wants to pursue "tax reform" this year, but the Senate-White House bill is a walking repudiation of the concept. It's especially embarrassing that Republicans went along with this, given their 2012 campaign support for fewer loopholes in exchange for lower rates. We trust the CEOs who pushed for these special-interest provisions realize they can kiss goodbye their hopes of reducing the 35% corporate tax rate any time soon.
Keep in mind that this entire exercise was also supposed to promote "deficit reduction." But the bill's special-interest favors give away much of the new tax revenue that Mr. Obama says he wants, and the bill's estimate of $620 billion more revenue over 10 years is probably too high as the rich change their behavior to avoid the higher rates.
In any event, this bill increases spending by at least $30 billion by extending extra jobless benefits for another year. It also postpones for two months the automatic spending cuts that were set to begin this week, so in February we can all witness the delights of another phony showdown that will result in more phony deficit reduction. Maybe they can combine those with a phony debt-limit fight too.
The private economy is growing, so perhaps it can absorb these tax shocks and keep moving. The tailwinds from the housing recovery and oil and gas revolution are helping, and the stock market is rising on a tide of easy money. But the higher rates will make the U.S. less competitive and keep growth slower than it might have been. As we learned in the 1980s and 1990s, faster growth than the anemic Obama recovery is the only real way to reduce deficits.
If there is a silver lining to this fiasco, it is that this may be the high-water mark of Mr. Obama's redistributionist tax agenda. The President has had unusual leverage over Republicans because he just won re-election and because taxes were going to go up even if they did nothing. The GOP wanted to avoid the blame for not sparing the middle class from the higher rates.
But we hope the GOP has learned, after two failed attempts, that Mr. Obama is not someone with whom it can do a "grand bargain." Even as the Senate deal was taking shape, Mr. Obama gave a speech literally taunting Republicans for agreeing to raise tax rates. He also made clear that the price of any future spending cuts or entitlement reform will be another tax increase. He doesn't want to reform government. He wants to expand it and destroy GOP opposition to his agenda in the bargain.
Having been cornered into letting Democrats carry this special-interest slag heap through the House, Speaker John Boehner should from now on cease all backdoor negotiations and pursue regular legislative order. House Republicans should pursue their own agenda and let Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats pursue theirs. Mr. Obama has his tax triumph. Let it be his last.


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Ohio has a message for women- and minority-led startups: Move to the Buckeye State and you have a real shot at getting funding.
Leading the charge is Cleveland-based JumpStart, a nonprofit that invests in young tech firms.
"Part of our focus is to accelerate opportunity for women and minority entrepreneurs in Ohio," said JumpStart CEO Ray Leach. It now wants to expand that mission nationally.
JumpStart has launched a $10 million seed fund that will solely invest in women and minority-led tech startups.
The Focus Fund will invest in about 20 companies in less than three years — ideally young companies with five employees or less. JumpStart will also take equity in the startups, although it would not disclose how much.
Each startup will get $500,000 in funding. The catch: Entrepreneurs will have to move their headquarters to Ohio to score the money.
"We do require them to move Ohio, but they don't have to stay for any particular period of time," said Leach. "Having said this, we believe once they come to Ohio they will not see any need to leave."
Ohio already has some strong pockets of innovation. Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland all have vibrant startup ecosystems, fueled by top-notch accelerators and a growing pool of VC money and angel investors, said Leach.
Healthcare IT, biotech, cleantech and wearables are some of the hottest areas.
"Ohio has invested nearly $500 million in the last five years to advance its entrepreneurial ecosystem," said Leach.
Public-private partnerships, like the JumpStart Focus Fund, are part of that effort.
JumpStart, founded in 2005, has invested in 85 early-stage tech firms in Ohio. 35% of those have women or minority founders.
That amount of diversity in its funding portfolio is unusual, given that 95% of venture capital funding in the U.S. goes to male-led startups, said Leach, who's also a member of the National Venture Capital Association's diversity and inclusion task force.
Leach said the Focus Fund is the largest seed fund of its kind to focus entirely on women and minority-led tech startups. (The state of Ohio is providing half of the investment, while JumpStart will provide the other half.)
JumpStart is moving quickly to find the right firms, and it expects to make the first investment in the next 90 days.
"We know there are great innovators who will bring their expertise, talents and relationships to advance Ohio's entrepreneurial economy," said Leach. "It is also our hope that Ohio will be better recognized as one of the most dynamic entrepreneurial states in the country."
He also hopes that the Focus Fund will set an example for the VC industry as a whole.
"We have a long way to go to embrace diversity in this industry. But you have to start somewhere," he said. "We want to see a ripple effect of what we're doing in Ohio to happen across the country."
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American steel companies are declaring bankruptcy. The steel industry is posting huge losses. President Bush has imposed stiff tariffs on foreign steel. Shipments from foreign suppliers may decrease. We now have fewer steel suppliers to meet a steady demand.
It all adds up to significant increases in the cost of steel for the garage door industry, according to Joel Mazur, managing partner with The Techs of Pittsburgh, one of the steel suppliers for the door and access systems industry.
In the last 20 months, at least four major steel companies, Bethlehem Steel, Geneva Steel, Wheeling-Pittsburgh, and LTV, have joined over 20 other steel related companies in declaring bankruptcy. In addition, most of the industry incurred significant losses in 2001.
"Now, with fewer American players, less production, and high tariffs for foreign steel," says Mazur, "imports will be available, but at more realistic price levels."
With the new tariffs, "the costs will absolutely go up," adds Mazur.
By mid-year of 2002, Mazur believes that garage door and rolling door manufacturers will face steel cost increases of $60 - $80 per ton. By year end, he adds, steel costs could increase as much as $120 - $140 per ton.
"And if there is any increase in demand," warns Mazur, "my current projections could be viewed as conservative."
Since most garage doors are predominantly made of steel, garage door dealers may see cost increases from door manufacturers, especially on steel garage doors.
Another related issue to the current steel crisis is the quality of steel. For several years, steel door manufacturers have enjoyed premium steel (called I.F. steel) at cheaper costs. LTV, however, a major supplier of I.F. steel, may be gone.
"Now, door manufacturers will have to pay the true premium cost for this premium grade of steel," adds Mazur, "and they may have a problem getting that steel." This premium I.F. steel, says Mazur, is typically used for steel skins on sectional doors.
Since the supply of I.F. steel has dwindled, "Door manufacturers may need to learn to run a lower grade of steel through their equipment, such as an FS type B or even a CS type grade," he says.
Either way, it appears that the door industry will be facing higher costs and a volatile market for steel in 2002.


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By Josh Marshall
November 19, 2018 10:20 a.m.
As you know, I'm something of a Facebook skeptic. A Journal article from last night gives me more reason to think the company's future is considerably darker than most people realize. According to Deepa Seetharaman, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is now telling top executives that the company is now "at war" and he needs to run the company accordingly. From the article …
During times of peace, executives can move more slowly and ensure that everybody is on board with key decisions, he said during the June meeting, according to people familiar with the remarks. But with Facebook under siege from lawmakers, investors and angry users, he needed to act more decisively, the people said.
If Facebook is "at war," who exactly is it at war with? According to that passage, it seems like the answer is basically everybody. Regulators, lawmakers, investors, users. This gets to what seems like an essential problem. Facebook has long presented itself as a platform about friendships and community, one that in the nature of things revolves around trust, since that is the glue that binds those two amorphous things together.
Only months ago, Facebook launched a new advertising campaign on its own behalf called "Here Together." The point was to remind everybody what they liked about Facebook before it became synonymous with fake news, Russian information operations, facilitator of ethnic cleansings or semi-genocides and pervasive privacy violations.
You don't have to be a Facebook groupie to see some real truth in this. For many of us the first experience with Facebook was a way you could keep in touch with people you might never have been in touch with again — friends from high school, college, different phases of your life you'd separated from because of a move or a change of a job. You get the idea. This was a real thing about Facebook, all the other shortcomings or schlockiness notwithstanding. Unsurprisingly, Facebook wanted to get back to that, or at least wanted to get back to people thinking of Facebook like that.
Apparently, that didn't take. So now it's "war." "War" I would humbly submit is simply not brand consonant — to use the ad world lingo — with a company that says it's about keeping you in touch with your friends and your grandparents, let alone one that aspires to bring the world together in some sort of high impact kumbaya.
Facebook's core problem is that it was a platform based on trust. I don't mean it acted in a trustworthy way. But it facilitated things that were at core about trust and relationships. So it was in the trust business, regardless of what its corporate culture may actually have been about. Having failed at that and not convinced people it's trustworthy it now seems committed to a corporate version of acting out, going to war with its own stakeholders, whether those are users, investors, the governments of the countries in which it operates. Fundamentally, this is a company at war with itself.
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[02] Massive tail-back toward Lamia as exodus continues
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Saturday had successive meetings with Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis and Education Minister Marietta Yiannakou.
Alogoskoufis made no statements after the meeting, which focused on economic affairs, while Yiannakou said that they had a general discussion on the results of the dialogue on education and her ministry's prospects.
According to the minister, their overall assessment was that the dialogue held was exceedingly constructive, while she stressed that this was the first time that such a in-depth, exhaustive dialogue on these issues had taken place in Greece and this would help society understand what was best for everyone.
Asked to comment on the reactions to the government's plans for revising article 16 of the Constitution so as to allow the foundation of private, non-profit universities in Greece, largely opposed by academics and students themselves, Yiannakou said that this was the exclusive responsibility of Parliament and that MPs would each vote separately and by name.
Regarding press reports concerning the recognition of degrees awarded by foreign university branches or franchised centres operating in Greece - which Greek authorities have so far refused to recognise - Yiannakou said that this was demanded by an EU directive concerning the rights of professionals and has been in effect since 1989.
Meanwhile it was announced on Saturday that the prime minister will be spending Christmas with his family in the northern Greek prefecture of Florina.
Karamanlis will be depart for Thessaloniki on Saturday afternoon on board an Olympic Airlines flight and will then make his way to Florina from Thessaloniki by car.
On the morning of Christmas Eve, Karamanlis will visit the Florina Phileducational Association to hear Christmas carols and will then attend a reception organised in his honour by locals at the "Ligos' Hotel.
Excursionists heading north on the Athens-Lamia highway had to negotiate a 10-kilometre tailback outside Aghios Kostantinos on Saturday, as the record exodus for the Christmas holidays continued, with journey times extended by as much as two or three hours.
Traffic police said they were forced to periodically interrupt traffic going into Athens in order to accommodate the huge volume of traffic heading up from the capital on the northbound lane.
The stretch of road at Aghios Konstantinos is a bottleneck that causes problems whenever traffic is heightened, since recent roadworks have reduced its width to one lane in each direction that comes right after a two- and three-land highway.
In northern Greece, the sunny weather was also driving Thessaloniki residents to the countryside in droves but so far without major problems, while inter-city bus stations said that all bus routes, including additional services, were leaving 100% full. According to KTEL bus station president Christos Lioupas, an estimated 150,000 passengers will be travelling from Thessaloniki to areas throughout Greece over the holiday.
Traffic was also higher than in previous years at Thessaloniki's New Railway Station and at 'Macedonia' airport.
According to authorities, Thursday marked the start of a record exodus for the Christmas period in past years, during which hundreds of thousands of excursionists will be leaving Greece's larger cities during the holidays.
Most of them are travelling to the provinces and abroad. More than 250,000 Greeks will spend Christmas in European capitals, in tourism destinations and exotic islands.
At Athens' "Eleftherios Venizelos" International Airport, from December 22-28 there will be more than 300 extra flights and another equal number is estimated to be made during the New Year period."
However, those who enjoy winter sports and are planning to have a white Christmas in one of the ski centres of Europe and Greece will most probably be disappointed, as the lack of snow is unprecedented for this period.
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The origins of complex life lie in the Neoproterozoic Era, which began 1,000 million years ago. How, why, and when complex life, including multicellularity, evolved on Earth is a critical question in astrobiology because it is our only example of the phenomenon, and enables us to better understand the conditions under which complexity might evolve elsewhere. The two main driving factors in the evolution of complexity are changing ecosystems, and changing environments. Here, I will attempt to untangle the influences of these two critical factors on Neoproterozoic evolution. Predation, and how organisms respond to it, is an important ecological interaction across the tree of life. Much of our understanding of predation focuses on modern metazoa. However, predation is equally important in single-celled eukaryotes (commonly referred to as protists). In the fossil record, we see evidence of protists preying on other protists beginning in the Tonian Period (1000–720 Ma). In addition, the first evidence of eukaryotic biomineralization and the appearance of multiple unmineralized but recalcitrant forms are also seen in the Tonian and Cryogenian (720–635 Ma), potentially indirect evidence of predation. This fossil evidence, coupled with molecular clock analyses, is coincident with multiple metrics that show an increase in the diversity of eukaryotic clades and fossil assemblages. Predation, thus, may have played a critical role in the diversification of eukaryotes and the evolution of protistan armor in the Neoproterozoic Era. However, major environmental changes were also occurring in the Neoproterozoic coincident with this diversification including the changing redox state of the ocean, and two major global glaciation events known as Snowball Earths. I will discuss how these major environmental transitions as well as the rise of eukaryotic predation upon other eukaryotes (eukaryovory) may have played a role in evolutionary innovations including the origins of biomineralization and metazoans.
Light lunch (provided) starts at 12pm; talk starts at 12:30pm.
Planets, Life, and the Universe Lecture Series presentations are also webcast live. Webcasts can be viewed at the STScI webcast site during the scheduled presentation, and can be found afterward in the STScI webcast archive.
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Abortion in Michigan, 1972: This is Your Grandma/Sister/Teacher/Mother/Friend/You
Guest Blogger & Reclaim Supporter, Ellen
I delivered this speech at a rally for choice at Ferndale City Hall, May 21, 2019. I had never spoken before a large group; I am a writer and have no real "public speaking" experience. Frankly, the thought terrifies me. But when I learned of the event organized by Fems of Dems, I reached out because I felt compelled to share this story, at this critical time. With a few days' notice, a crowd of 300 came together with an outpouring of rage—and support. Being in front of the crowd wasn't the difficult part of the experience–it was very meaningful and memorable, despite a shaking leg. I only cried while writing it. I cried a lot.
Were you born before Roe v. Wade? Before January 22, 1973?
I was born in 1969.
In 1972, a very close family member had an abortion. She is now in her late 70s and does not wish to be identified, but gave me permission to share her story.
Who was she? An irresponsible, uneducated girl who didn't know better?
Not at all. She was a young Jewish mother, college educated, happily married with two young children, who attended a synagogue in Oak Park.
And she was taking birth control pills. Her birth control failed.
Although abortion was illegal in Michigan, fortunately, she did not to have to resort to coat hangers and back alleys. Nor did she have to leave the state or country.
Nope. Her own doctor performed the abortion—illegally– in his office.
"One day I'll tell you more about it," she said, a few days ago.
So this is not the scary, dangerous, she-almost-died abortion story. It might even sound mundane. But because it's so ordinary, this story could be your grandmother, or your mother or aunt or sister or friend—or maybe it was you.
What did her husband think, in 1972? Well, he told me over lunch yesterday, he recalls she asked at the time whether he supported her decision, and he said yes. And then he told me, "but I would have preferred not" –that she not have the abortion. Not because he was morally opposed, because he would have opted to have another child.
But she didn't ask. And he didn't offer his opinion on the subject. Never did. Because it wasn't his decision to make, although it would have been his biological child.
Her body, her choice.
Around that time, my close family member volunteered for Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, (CCS) representing 2,000 clergy across the US and Canada. Volunteers took phone calls from women seeking abortions, who would be referred to clergy, who then assisted them in procuring either legal or illegal abortions from medically licensed doctors.
Around that same time, during one of the three attempts for abortion reform in Michigan's state legislature, something remarkable happened in the state Senate–exactly 50 years ago.
Lorraine Beebe, a Republican from Dearborn Heights, told a room full of male senators that she had a therapeutic abortion in 1948 following five miscarriages.
Senator Beebe received a standing ovation. The proposed legislation failed. She wept. The admission destroyed her political career, but she went on to become a pro-choice advocate. Along the way, her family was threatened, her tires were slashed and her house was fire bombed.
But the women of Michigan were not deterred–certainly not my close relative. A ballot initiative was launched. With two young children at home, she collected signatures at Northland Mall to put Proposal B on the ballot. Polls showed abortion rights were leading the opposition, but it didn't come to pass. A very well-organized group of zealots spread their pamphlets and demonstrated with pictures of bloody fetuses at the Ann Arbor Art show that summer. The final push was TV ads aimed at low income and Black women, framing abortion as population control.
The proposal failed miserably.
Two and half months later, with the Supreme Court decision–Roe v Wade–a woman's right to choose, the right to have an abortion, became the law of the land.
I was four years old at the time.
My very close family member had an abortion just months before it was legal.
I have been a feminist from birth and pro-choice before I fully understood human anatomy, I just knew that it meant the right for a woman—any person—to make choices about their own body. Simple as that.
And now, I don't equivocate. Choice is absolute. Women are unique and have abortions for individual reasons at different times in their lives. And none is any less deserving of bodily autonomy. None is deserving of a stranger's judgement.
I've always been a fierce supporter of Planned Parenthood and lately, more so. I attended the House committee hearings on the abortion procedure ban, the D & E–Dilation and Evacuation–which is the medical name, despite the headline-grabbing language used by extremists. I witnessed with horror as the chair of the committee, Rep. Michelle Hoitenga, accused an OB/GYN of having "no credibility." That day, I also witnessed the compassion of Reps. Brenda Carter and Cynthia Johnson.
In the end, misinformation and lies won the day. But it won't in the Governor's office. That's why we elected her.
Months ago, I learned the Planned Parenthood clinic in Livonia was being targeted by protesters, and I was eager to step in. That location does not provide abortion care–not that it matters to them, or me. So I monitor the parking lot, usually alone, to prevent patients from being harassed as they come for their paps or birth control pills or cancer screenings or pregnancy tests. The protesters advertise where they can go for free ultrasounds—their lies are free, too.
They call me a murderer and offer to pray with me. I never respond. No expression. They really hate that.
Once the ringleader lady started saying nasty things about how I must have been raised, about my mother. And that almost got me. Don't mess with my mother.
I was at Northland Family Planning, the one located in Westland, this past Saturday, and that's where the protesters are really are out in force; in the summer I hear 100 can show up on a weekend morning. Independent abortion clinics do not receive government funding and provide the vast majority of abortions. They need your help. If you want to help women in Michigan, write this down: Reclaim Project.
You don't have to defend the clinics. There are many ways to be an activist. Educate your children, family members and friends. Call BS wherever you see it. Support only pro-choice candidates in any way you can.
I'm a single-issue voter, I was raised that way, and I'm proud to say so. Any single-issue voters out there?
VOTE like your life depends on it.
Support vital institutions like Planned Parenthood—that goes without saying. And never forget your independent providers who receive less attention.
As for me, I have never had an abortion. I have never been pregnant and I never wanted children. As a matter of fact, I'm queer. That's beside the point.
These are the issues, for all of us: Bodily autonomy. Privacy. Human dignity.
Here's a word to the opposition, and to anyone in elective office or who wishes to be:
Pay attention. There's a whole lotta women not rallying today. Older than the Baby Boomers. The Silent Generation, like my family member who had an abortion in 1972. Like them, she may be silent in public, but raging at home: sharpening her manicure, and writing checks.
Rage on.
It tears me up every day that Roe may be overturned and abortion criminalized again in her lifetime—in OUR lifetimes. I owe it to her, and all who came before me, and all who soldier alongside me, to fight like hell to never let that day come.
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!
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Join us at Wine and Chocolate! Saturday, February 4, 2017 from noon to 4pm for an afternoon of wine and chocolate tasting, classes, demonstrations, auctions, and fun! This is an annual fundraising event for the Programs and Services of Lake Family Resource Center.


Dating Apps, or as I like to call it, my mom's biggest fear lol, are something that some people just have a hard time grasping. My mother is so apprehensive about dating apps and the fact that I use them, but honestly she is not the only one. A lot of people are just not sure about this whole new way of dating. So what's the point of them?
I thought that dating apps and online dating was just this weird concept. Like I used to not be able to wrap my brain around the fact that people literally would go out on a date with someone that they had never met in person. I also thought of online dating as a last resort, like you only used it because you just weren't meeting anyone, like when you were really desperate. But I have learned that this isn't always the case.
Well my sophomore year of college I had a friend who used Tinder. For those of you who don't know what Tinder is, it is a mobile dating app where you swipe right for yes and left for no on potential matches, If you both swipe right it's a match and then you can message each other (or not) and see where it goes. It also has a ton of other features that I won't even begin to get into lol. But anyway, I saw her using it, and thought what the heck why not? And honestly it turned out to not be that bad. I went on one Tinder date during that sophomore year, because I honestly didn't use it much, and the date was nice and completely normal. After that I decided to give it a try, and I have used it a lot while in Paris.
Online Dating is full of weirdos: Okay weirdos are everywhere not just online. Yes, people do have the tendency to be more...bold(?) on the internet, but you just have to combat that like you would with any weirdo on the street. Actually it's easier on the internet because you can block them or report them to the dating app service.
You Must Be Desperate To Online Date: No I'm not desperate, just keeping my options open. Honestly it's not like I'm living for that next Tinder or Bumble match, I have a life. But honestly, it's just super convenient, especially for me (who is honestly just really really busy!). Like honestly, what busy 20-something has time to sit at a bar and scope out the guys...no one.
It Isn't Safe: This is probably one of the biggest concerns people have when talking about online dating. Personally I think it's pretty safe. Like you have about the same safety as you would if like some guy stopped you in the street, or a bar, or a café. Honestly it's safer because you're swipin' from the comfort of your own bed.
Dating Apps Are Just For Hookups: Okay okay okay, yes people do go on Tinder looking for hookups, but guys you meet IRL could also just be looking for a hookup (trust me on this one). Plus I also know people who have started good relationships from dating apps.
Tinder: So with Tinder, location services are on but it's only used to see who is within the vicinity of you. It just bases it off of miles (km).
Happn: Low-key hated this app it was honestly the worst and the way they used your location was hella creepy. Happn works like this: You can pass someone on the street and they will notify you that you passed someone who had the app at such-and-such place at such-and-such time. Yeah very creepy. I would be like sitting in my apartment and getting notified on Happn because guys would pass by my apartment building. Not my fave and I deleted it immediately.
And to those moms, millennials, or any other readers, don't be worried about this dating app phenomena. Honestly, just have fun and swipe wisely. So go forth and match it up!
Classic Tip: Don't meet your Tinder, Bumble, whatever dates in a private setting...do it in public (I mean unless you're just looking for a hook up, I mean no judgement here). This way you have some control over the situation. Private places can get hella steamy, hella quick. So keep that in mind. Also have fun with it! I know my friends and I always try to make dating apps more entertaining.


When you are looking for 65-Inch 4K OLED TV with Glass TV design, I'm sure that LG OLED65E9PUA and OLED65E8PUA are two choices that crossed on your mind. LG OLED65E9PUA comes as the successor of LG OLED65E9PUA. LG OLED65E9PUA is the 65-Inch screen size option of LG's 2019 E9, while LG OLED65E8PUA comes as 65-Inch screen size option of LG's 2018 E8. As the new model, we expect some improvements in LG OLED65E9PUA. What's the key improvement that we can find in LG OLED65E9PUA? Let's talk about that in this article.
LG OLED65E9PUA comes as the larger screen size option of LG E9. LG E9 comes with Glass TV design that's not only able to deliver excellent picture quality but also looks good when it's wall mounted. LG OLED65E9PUA comes with 4K Upscaler that allows us to enjoy brilliant picture clarity from both of original 4K content sources and non 4K contents that upscaled into near 4K picture quality. Additionally, LG OLED65E9PUA is also completed with Quad Step Noise Reduction and Frequency Based Sharpness Enhancer as its clarity technology. Quad Step Noise Reduction can reduce on-screen noise, while Frequency Based Sharpness Enhancer is able to improve the sharpness of the picture. LG OLED65E9PUA use OLED display that can deliver perfect black and infinite contrast. The contrast is also improved with Ultra Luminance Pro that deliver higher peak brightness and Object Depth Enhancer that can reproduce greater depth on the OLED screen. OLED display is able to deliver wide color spectrum, but LG OLED65E9PUA is also completed with Intense Color, Billion Rich Colors, True Color Accuracy Pro and Advanced Color Enhancer to deliver rich, accurate and natural color details on this TV. To deliver enhanced details and expanded contrast from wide range of HDR content sources, LG OLED65E9PUA support HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision. The color, clarity and contrast of this TV is also optimized by LG α9 Gen 2 Intelligent Processor installed on this TV. WebOS that powered by LG ThinQ AI is installed on this TV to deliver wide range of entertainment from your favorite content providers with fast internet connection from 802.11ac wireless. We can also run additional Smart Apps with the access to LG contents/Apps Store. LG ThinQ AI already supports Google Home and Amazon Alexa so that we can control this TV conveniently with those devices. Magic Remote is included with LG OLED65E9PUA to help you control this TV easily. The sound delivered by the internal speaker system of this TV is quite good with 2.2Ch 40W speaker system that completed with Dolby Atmos installed on this TV.
Let's take a look at the key specs and features of LG OLED65E9PUA and OLED65E8PUA in the table of similarities & differences below. We need to know the specs and features of those two TVs before we can talk more about the key differences between those two 65-Inch 4K OLED TVs.
The table above tells us that there are few differences between LG OLED65E9PUA and OLED65E8PUA. We can find that the key differences between those two TVs come from the color, clarity, contrast and processor version. The first difference of LG OLED65E9PUA and OLED65E8PUA is the additional Advanced Color Enhancer that we can find in LG OLED65E9PUA. Advanced Color Enhancer is able to reproduce more natural color on its screen. The second difference of LG OLED65E9PUA and OLED65E8PUA is Quad Step Noise Reduction and Frequency Based Sharpness Enhancer that installed on LG OLED65E9PUA as its clarity technology. Quad Step Noise Reduction is able to reduce on-screen noise, while Frequency Based Sharpness Enhancer is able to bring sharper details on the TV screen. We can also find another difference in the contrast technology of LG OLED65E9PUA and OLED65E8PUA. LG OLED65E9PUA is completed with Object Depth Enhancer that can reproduce greater depth across on the TV screen. There's also another difference in the version of processor installed on those two TVs. While they both come with LG α9 processor, LG OLED65E9PUA comes with newer Gen 2 version while LG OLED65E8PUA comes with older Gen 1 version. Technically the new Gen 2 is able to deliver better optimization than Gen 1 version although the difference is not that significant.
From the price perspective, we can find that LG OLED65E9PUA as the new model is usually offered at the higher price than LG OLED65E8PUA as the old model. If you are interested to know the price difference between those two 65-Inch 4K OLED TVs, we need to check the price of those two TVs to know their latest price difference since TV prices often change over time.
What's the Key Improvement that We can Find in OLED65E9PUA?
From our discussion about LG OLED65E9PUA and OLED65E8PUA and their key differences, we can find that LG OLED65E9PUA comes with few improvements from LG OLED65E8PUA. LG OLED65E9PUA comes with better clarity as it comes with Quad Step Noise Reduction that can reduce on-screen noise and Frequency Based Sharpness Enhancer that can make the details sharper. It also comes with better color and contrast with Advanced Color Enhancer that deliver more natural picture and Object Depth Enhancer that can reproduce greater depth on the TV screen. We can also find that the LG OLED65E9PUA also comes with the newer version of LG α9 that can deliver better picture optimization. With those improvements, we can get improved picture quality on LG OLED65E9PUA although we should spend higher for that.


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Thinfilm announces organizational changes
Thin Film Electronics ASA, a global leader in NFC (near field communication) mobile marketing and smart packaging solutions, announced several organizational changes that further accelerate the Company's growth in the NFC mobile marketing solutions space.
Tauseef Bashir has been promoted to Chief Sales Officer for Thinfilm and now leads all go-to-market activities globally for the organization. He joined Thinfilm in July of 2016 as EVP Global Sales. Prior to Thinfilm, Mr. Bashir served as Chief Sales Officer for Amazon.com, where he led the global go-to-market strategy for commercialization of the Amazon Speech Cloud Platform and Alexa Software.
Kevin Dodson has been hired as VP Channel Solutions, and reports directly to Mr. Bashir. Mr. Dodson oversees the management of convertor/packaging firms, digital agencies, and other channel partners. He is a veteran strategy, business development, and product management executive with more than 20 years of experience working for early-stage Internet technology companies. Most recently, he was VP of Strategy and Partnerships for Beckon, a data management and analytics SaaS platform for enterprise marketers. Prior to Beckon, Mr. Dodson co-founded two startups - YapMap, a search engine for social content, and In.Vu, a search engine for machine-generated data. He was VP of Product for Quigo Technologies, a contextual ad network (acquired by AOL), and a Sr. Director of Strategy and Analytics for the advertising agency, Razorfish, where he started the digital analytics practice. Prior to his business career, Mr. Dodson spent five years in the US Army. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Thinfilm launched a Global Digital Strategy practice to formalize processes and establish best practices related to customer data within the Thinfilm CNECT(TM) cloud-based platform. Key focus areas include data collection and management, performance benchmarking, campaign execution, omni-channel measurement, and customer analytics/reporting.
Thinfilm also opened a sales office in Germany to further support the Company's growth strategy, address increasing market interest, and expand its reach in the EMEA region.
About Thin Film Electronics ASA
Thinfilm is a leading global provider of NFC mobile marketing solutions that connect physical products to the digital world. The Company's end-to-end solutions offering features hardware, label/packaging integration services, and comprehensive cloud-based management, reporting and analytics. Collectively, these components deliver a powerful 1-to-1 digital marketing platform through which brands of all sizes can connect directly with consumers, all with the simple tap of a smartphone. The resulting disintermediation of search engines, online marketplaces, and social platforms empowers brands to control messaging, enhance consumer dialogue, build loyalty, increase engagement, and drive sales.
Thin Film Electronics ASA is a publicly listed company in Norway with global headquarters in Oslo, Norway; US headquarters in San Jose, California; and offices in Linköping, Sweden; San Francisco; London; Shanghai; and Singapore. For more information, visit www.thinfilm.no.
For more information on Thinfilm please contact:
Bill Cummings
SVP Corporate Communications
Thin Film Electronics ASA
bill.cummings@thinfilm.no
Source: Thinfilm
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