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Philippines accepts EAGA chairmanship, takes lead in pursuing vision for 2025
PHILIPPINE-MALAYSIA TIES Secretary Datu Hj. Abul Khayr Alonto, BIMP-EAGA Philippine signing minister and MinDA chairperson (left) hands over a token of appreciation to Dato Sri Devamany Krishnasamy,deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Department of Malaysia during the closing ceremony of the BIMP-EAGA 20th Ministerial Meeting held recently in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines. More than 300 EAGA representatives convened during the event to discuss priority programs and socioeconomic projects aimed to enhance trade, tourism, and investments within the sub-region.
PUERTO PRINCESA, Palawan – The Philippines assumed the chairmanship of the Brunei Darussalam Indonesia Malaysia the Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) during the 25th Senior Officials meeting (SOM) held recently at the Princesa Garden Island Resort and Spa here in the city.
Philippine Senior Official to the BIMP-EAGA Arturo Boncato Jr. accepted the responsibility from Malaysian Senior Official Dato' Nik Azman Nik Abdul Majid, commencing the yearlong chairmanship of the Philippines to all EAGA-related activities, meetings, and other functions.
The Philippine chairmanship of the sub-region coincides with the country's chairmanship of the ASEAN in 2017, which is also the 50th founding anniversary of the 10-member regional bloc.
"I hope the Philippines will look into the progress with our partners and continue the good relationship that we have managed to establish," said Abdul Majid.
He added that during Malaysia's chairmanship, the draft of the BIMP-EAGA Vision (BEV) 2025 document was completed and shall be formally presented to the EAGA senior officials.
The BEV 2025 serves as the successor document to the BIMP-EAGA Implementation Blueprint 2012-2016. The new document aims to shape EAGA's future as a more relevant sub-grouping that is fully integrated into the ASEAN Economic Community. It supports and complements to the ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together roadmap.
"It is the best roadmap so far in the history of EAGA and it is a privilege for the Philippines to take the lead in pursuing the sub-region's goals in line with the theme to develop a Resilient, Inclusive, Sustainable and Economically Competitive (RISE) BIMP-EAGA by 2025," said Boncato.
Boncato, who is an assistant secretary of the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry added that one of the strengths of this new EAGA framework is that it anchors its goals on the sub-region's baseline data."
"It is a challenge and opportunity for the Philippines to take this chairmanship during the pilot year of the implementation of the BEV 2025," he added.
The 25th SOM is the largest annual gathering of EAGA's high-level officials with almost 300 delegates from the four member countries attending the event to tackle the sub-region's priority programs and socioeconomic projects.
The EAGA officials and ministers also met with development partners such as the Asian Development Bank, Japan, and China to strengthen both administrative and financial collaborations in support to achieving the goals of the sub-region.
A BIMP-EAGA Investment Networking Session was also held alongside the high-level meetings, as a venue to enhance the role of the private sector in spurring development in the sub-region.
The BIMP-EAGA was organized in 1994 as a sub-regional cooperation primarily intended to spur development in the lagging sub-economies of the member countries by enhancing trade, tourism, and investments. Mindanao and Palawan are the two focus areas of the Philippines in the sub-regional grouping. #


Can they host next year?
We know, it's not fair. Why can't this be the opening number?! No offense, Jimmy Kimmel, but we'd love to see Millie Bobby Brown, Caleb McLaughlin, and Gaten Matarazzo host the 68th annual award show. Because look how natural they are up on stage! Look how they feed off each other and take turns with their verses! Look at Millie's RED Valentino gown and how utterly amazing it is. Wouldn't you watch two hours of this? We would. We absolutely would.
Now if only Millie could use Eleven's telekinetic powers to convince the Emmys producers to let them take the reigns. Hey, there's always next year — especially since Stranger Things is coming back for season 2.


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Songs I Love: Love Sick - Beach Bunny
By The Sad King Billy | Songs I Love | 11 Apr 2021
In 2015 Lili Trifilio began Beach Bunny as a solo project and stage name. The project soon expanded to a four-piece band in 2017 adding guitarist Matt Henkles, Johnathan Alvarado on drums, and Aiden Cada on bass. The 2018 release of their EP "Prom Queen" saw the title track explode into a hit as it became a viral trend on TikTok. In 2020 they released their first full length album "Honeymoon" to critical acclaim, with The New York Times and Rolling Stone both placing it on their Best Albums of 2020 list.
The ride for Beach Bunny seems to have been a pretty good one so far and it only looks to be getting better with the release of their most recent EP - "The Blame Game"
The song I present for your consideration today is "Love Sick", a power-pop indie bop. The song is an exploration of the stomach turning ups and downs of falling in love, falling apart, and falling for it all over again. The staccato intro verse sets a playful tone but quickly bursts into a chugging hard-not-to-sing-along-to chorus, sure to please anybody who's felt the sting of love lost.
The sound harkens back to the early days of girl rock when we had bands like No Doubt rocking the scene. If you're a fan that 25-years-ago sound and aesthetic then you'll feel right at home and maybe more than just a little nostalgic.
If you're already a fan of Beach Bunny sound off in the comments and let me know some of your favorite tunes. If there's any other music you'd like me to check out to potentially get it's own "Songs I love" submission feel free to share. I'm always looking for new music.
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Q: Difference between `DETERMINISTIC`, `READS SQL DATA` and `NO SQL` in MySQL functions I have been working in a project where I have to create functions in MySQL. But it's been hard for me to find the proper difference between DETERMINISTIC,  READS SQL DATA and NO SQL.
I also read in one of the posts that DETERMINISTIC has been misused a lot, so I want to have a clear idea before I use them.

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Der SV Berliner Brauereien war ein deutscher Sportverein aus Berlin. Der Club stand in der Tradition der BSG Empor Nordost  sowie der  BSG Berliner Brauereien.

Sektion Fußball
Der SV Berliner Brauereien wurde im Jahr 1949 unter der Bezeichnung BSG Volkseigene Brauereien Berlin  gegründet. 1953 vollzog die Betriebssportgemeinschaft mit dem Einstieg der Sportvereinigung Empor eine Umbenennung in BSG Empor Nordost Berlin, ab 1963 dann in BSG Berliner Brauereien.

Auf sportlicher Ebene fungierte die Berliner Brauerei im Ostberliner Lokalfußball durchweg unterklassig, etwaige Teilnahmen an der Berliner Stadtliga bzw. Bezirksliga Berlin wurden bis 1990 nicht erreicht. Höchste Spielklasse war die viertklassige Bezirksklasse Berlin. Größter Erfolg der Berliner war die Qualifikation zur ersten Hauptrunde des FDGB-Pokals in der Spielzeit 1949/50, welche nach Abschluss der Oberliga-Saison stattfand. Gegen Kjellberg Finsterwalde unterlagen die VE Brauereien Berlin bereits in der Auftaktrunde mit 2:4.

1990 vollzog der Verein eine erneute Umbenennung in SV Berliner Brauereien, dem sich 1997 die VSG Alex 78 anschloss. Zum 1. Juli 2016 wechselte die Sektion Fußball geschlossen zum Berliner TSC, mit dem sich die Brauer das Sportgelände an der Paul-Heyse-Straße teilen.

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Teilnahme FDGB-Pokal: 1949/50

Personen
René Adamczewski

Quellen
 Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
 The Rec.Sport.Soccer
 www.sscbb.de

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Berliner Brauereien Sv
Gegründet 1949
Aufgelöst 2016
Badmintonverein aus Berlin

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Edelen addressed education and state pensions, healthcare, the opioid crisis in Kentucky, renewable energy and the necessity for broadband in Kentucky to make the state more competitive.
Edelen is the third Democrat to join the race. Attorney General Andy Besehar and House Minority Floor leader Rocky Adkins are also running in the May 21 primary. Any future candidates must file before the deadline, which is in three weeks.


For so many years now, hundreds of mental health organizations all over the world come together to spread awareness on Children's Mental Health Week on this month of February.
Many people are wondering why exactly it is so significant to make sure that a child's mental state is in a good shape, well according to the National Association of School Psychologists, children could have a problem with their mental state as well, it is not just for adults.
Children may have a hard time dealing with school stuff and feeling the pressure, or even at home with parents and siblings. Most kids do not exactly share what they are feeling which would make it difficult for their guardians to know that there is something wrong.
Depression, being overwhelmed with academics, social difficulties, are just some of the most common things children have to deal with. Which is why organizations try so hard to educate parents as well as teachers when it comes to identifying the signs of a child having a mental problem.
This year, the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middle herself, is leading a new campaign, wherein it aims to help children be themselves and finding their inner confidence, continue reading to find out more.
Being part of the royal family simply means that you already have the power to try and make the world a better place. Which is exactly what Great Britain's Duchess Kate is trying to do. She launched the newest campaign wherein it aims to help children boost their confidence by being comfortable in their own skin.
This mental health campaign was announced when the Duchess herself recorded a video message for parents and teachers to help build the children's confidence by giving them emotional encouragement so that the children could reach their full potential.
This would also help them do what they love to do, and enhance their talents without feeling shy, pressured or scared that it might not be the right thing to do. This specially-recorded video message by the Duchess is aimed directly at the problem wherein children nowadays are having a hard time boosting their self-esteem especially with the rise of social media.
Together with the charity Place2Be, she is promoting this campaign for the Children's Mental Health Week for this year.
The Duchess of Cambridge even explained on the video how childhood is one of the most important stages in a person's life. It is the stage where a person would mold him or herself on who he or she would become as an adult, which is why it is very significant to be able to feel confident at such an early age.
This is not the very first time that the Duchess is campaigning for the youth, in fact, she has managed to do a lot of charitable work for children's mental health along with her husband, Prince William and her brother-in-law, Prince Harry.
They all have worked together in the Heads Together campaign where the Duchess even mentioned how she is very committed to helping children since it is a person's most vulnerable years.
The Place2Be's campaign that is led by Duchess Kate is called Being Ourselves. With this campaign, children from different schools are then encouraged to not be afraid to be who they want to be and to do what they want to do despite what they see on social media and despite what other people would say. This is to be able to help them boost their self-esteem and to be able to help them become positive images of themselves and not try to become someone else.
The Duchess of Cambridge visited Reach Academy in Feltham to learn about their work with @_place2be. The Duchess heard about the school's belief that communication between home and school is vital, and how they work with parents to give pupils the best possible start in life.
The Duchess filmed this recorded video message just last month when she visited the Reach Academy Feltham, wherein she even talked to some of the children studying there and of course to the teachers and the parents. She also said in the video how some children may have different difficulties compared to others and they may need extra help, but one thing is for sure.
Children need guidance at all times and that includes lots of encouragement and positivity so they could reach their full potential as a person and as a member of the society.


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Oscars 2018 Best Picture Review: Vice
By Jon The Blogcentric on 10 February 2019 | 2 Comments
Amy Adams and Christian Bale play political power-couple Lynne and Dick Cheney in Vice.
As the world becomes more and more confusing, we tend to focus on the things that are right there in front of us. While ignoring the massive forces that actually change and shape our lives. With people working longer and longer hours, for less and less. When we do have free time, the last thing we want is complicated analysis of our government, lobbying, international trade agreements, and tax bills.
You would wonder would a film like Vice work at this time? A film about former US Vice-President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne? A film about politics of the past? Turns out there's more than meets the eye.
The film opens in the White House as the September 11th attacks happen. Instead of talking things out, Dick Cheney gives an immediate order. The film then flashes back to Wyoming in 1963. Dick Cheney and Lynne are married and living in Lynne's parents' house. Dick was originally a student at Yale University but his persistent alcoholism caused him to drop out. He takes work as an electrical lineman, but that doesn't satisfy his in-laws at all. It's after he gets busted by a cop for driving drunk, his second DUI, that Lynne tells Dick to clean up his life. All of this is narrated through a man named Kurt: a typical 'middle-class' American.
Fast forward to 1969; Republican president Richard Nixon is in the White House and Cheney has been hired as an intern. He meets a slimy scheister named Donald Rumsfeld who is Nixon's policy advisor. Cheney works under Rumsfeld's wing and tries to juggle family and political commitments. Cheney also overhears a conversation between Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon about the bombing operation in Cambodia. There, Cheney learns about the true power of the executive branch. Rumsfeld's abrasive attitude has an effect on Cheney as both distance themselves from Nixon. After Nixon resigns in the heat of the Watergate Scandal, both men are promoted: Cheney to Chief Of Staff to the new President Ford and Rumsfeld to Secretary Of Defense. Their jobs only last two years as a Democrat, Jimmy Carter, is elected president.
After leaving the Oval Office in 1977, Dick decides to pursue politics on a state level by running for the seat of House Representative for Wyoming; Wyoming is a state that has only one seat in Congress. Dick's campaign starts on a lackluster note as he delivers an uncharismatic speech. However he soon suffers his first heart attack. While recovering in the hospital, Lynne decides to deliver speeches for him. Her speeches are more winning to the public and it succeeds in helping him to win his House seat.
Then Reagan becomes president in 1980. Cheney is able to provide influence to the agenda promoting conservative pro-business polices like promoting fossil fuels (which puts an end to Carter's goal of more solar power) and also ending news media showing both sides of the issue, which paves the way for one-sided media like Fox News on the right and CNN on the left. In the meantime, Dick and Lynne are shocked to learn that their teenage daughter Mary is a lesbian. Nevertheless Dick agrees to be supportive to her, despite being a right-wing politician.
Dick is promoted to Secretary Of Defense during the tenure of George H. W. Bush and has a pivotal role in the Gulf War of 1991. Also during the time of the senior Bush, Dick meets his son George W. Bush, who's a clumsy nimrod. Dick has desires to be President but after Bill Clinton is elected, he decides to retire from public life to spare the scrutiny for the sake of Mary. Cheney then becomes CEO of Haliburton while Lynne raises golden retrievers and writes books. Then starts an epilogue claiming Cheney lived the rest of his life happy and healthy with his family out of the public eye, then the credits roll.
But wait. That's not really the end of the film. Dick is still CEO of Haliburton, but he meets with George W. Bush who's the Governor of Texas. He wants to run for President for the 2000 Election not because he desires the power to himself, but to please his father. Cheney agrees to be his running mate provided Bush delegates 'mundane' executive responsibilities to him like foreign policy and energy. Things like family values issues, he doesn't want to get involved with for the sake of Mary. Bush is elected president despite a hugely controversial election. On his first day as Vice-President, he learns Rumsfeld is back as Secretary Of Defense, and is still as slimy as he was when they first met. Added to the team of making foreign policy and defense decisions is legal counsel David Addington and Chief Of Staff Scooter Libby.
The film then returns to the 9/11 attacks and when Dick gave the immediate orders. After that, Cheney and Rumsfeld team up over initiating and presiding over the US attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan (which Kurt finds himself a soldier in both those wars). Cheney struggles with his heart attacks as the War Of Terror mounts. Nevertheless he continues through his vice-presidency which includes instituting the Unitary Executive Theory, his role in the Plame Affair, the accidental shooting of Harry Whittington (which he never apologized to him for). His actions are shown to cause thousands of deaths overseas, the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and record-low approval ratings upon leaving office. Rumsfeld is even forced to resign. Nobody likes him in Washington.
However it doesn't end there. Cheney is about to die of heart failure while waiting for a new heart. Just as he says his teary goodbye to Lynne, Liz and Mary, Kurt is killed in an auto accident while jogging. Sure enough, Kurt's heart is the perfect match for Dick's transplant in March 2012. Then Liz runs for the House seat of Wyoming where she announces during a debate her opposition to same-sex marriage. This causes Mary to cease communication with Liz. Liz is now the Rep of Wyoming. At the end, Cheney says to us all he regrets nothing.
When you see one renowned film by a certain director, you are impressed, or interested, with what you see. When you see a second film by that director, you get a better sense of what their film making style is all about. I've seen The Big Short and I was very impressed with what I saw. However, when I saw Vice, I liked what I saw but throughout the film, I was thinking "Okay, I get Adam McKay's filmmaking style." I'll admit throughout the film, I was seeing a lot of elements similar with what I saw in The Big Short. However I saw some new elements in Vice as well. Basically Vice told me more about Adam McKay than it did about the Cheneys. I noticed in both films, Adam likes to toy around with the story. He also likes to include references to the time of the story both in terms of the political landscape and of pop culture moments. Adam even admits that Vice is a 'true story' or as true as it gets since Dick is a private person.
The events in the film are events that are widely known, but are seen through the eyes and imagination of Adam McKay. The characters of the various politicians are also through McKay's eyes, which may explain why they come off as cartoonish. It almost seems like the Cheneys are the only political figures that don't come across as cartoon characters, despite also being portrayed as crazy and conniving. Like is Rumsfeld right? Is the top job of the Vice President to 'wait for the president to die?' The influence of Cheney's decisions and politicking are shown to have a huge presence in American life and politics for many decades and have a huge influence now. Even the reason why Donald Trump became president.
However the biggest standout is having the story of Dick Cheney narrated by Kurt: a fictitious veteran of both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Kurt even narrated while he's dead and his heart is inside Cheney! I think the point of having Kurt, the average American, narrate the story is to show how much Dick's decisions and political influence us Americans. It shows why we get such empty promises in terms of our economy, it shows why the middle-class is shrinking. It also even shows why we're all so frustrated, we turn to dumbed-down entertainment to escape this frustration of American politics in our lives. No matter what serious issues we have to deal with in our lives, we'd rather tune out and watch another Fast And The Furious sequel. Adam demonstrates it all, through Kurt.
Kudos to Adam McKay for delivering another bizarrely-constructed but thought-provoking sad comedy. His direction and writing didn't work as well as it did for The Big Short, but it worked well too and was very entertaining. Christian Bale was excellent as Dick Cheney. He did an excellent job in depicting both the young Dick and the older Dick Cheney too. Amy Adams also did an excellent job in depicting Lynne Cheney throughout the film and as she aged too. The film also showed how Lynne had an impact on some of Dick's choices and how she acquired political influence of her own. Dick knew how to deliver policies and decisions, but didn't know how to make speeches. Lynne knew how to deliver a speech. Amy did a very good job in demonstrating Lynne's political savvy. The most surprising performance came from Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush. He was completely unrecognizable and dead-on! Steve Carell may not have delivered an accurate performance of Donald Rumsfeld but he was dead-on as the slimeball Rumsfeld as seen through McKay's eyes. Also Jesse Plemons was an entertaining scene-stealer as Kurt. Instead of making Kurt look like something ridiculous, he made Kurt work.
Vice is a sad comedy about Dick Cheney and American politics. We both laugh and mourn how all this came to be.
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Oscars 2015 Best Picture Review: The Big Short
The Big Short will make you lose all the respect you have in the banking system, if you're even dumb enough to have any respect for it period.
We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball… What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did.
The Big Short has been the surprise of this year's awards season. It's one of the Oscar entries with the least hype but is somehow coming out on top or pretty close. I decided to find out why.
The film begins in 2005 with Michael Burry, an eccentric hedge fund manager who's socially flawed but very successful at what he does. He's actually an M.D. but decided to go into the financial industry. One day he hears how housing prices have increased in Silicon Valley despite the decrease of jobs. He gets his answer. He finds out that the banks and financial industries are giving out subprime mortgages with big risk to underqualified people. The banks either don't know about this or their too lazy to solve things.
Burry suspects this will lead to the collapse of the American economy within due time. However Burry is also creative. He knows how to 'short' the system by creating by creating a credit default swap market allowing him to bet against the housing market. He goes to the various banks offering megamillions to wager. The banks are willing to accept, feeling Burry will lose and the housing market is secure.
Burry's deal catches the attention of Deutsche Bank trader Jared Vennett, whom the film is mostly scene through his point of view. Vennett hears about it from a banker he dealt with and investigates Burry's claims for himself. Once he learns of the truth that the mortgages are high-risk, poorly-organized, sold-for-big-numbers and practically unsupervised by the banks and lending companies, he gets his own piece of the default swap action of his own.
An accidental phone call from Vennett to hedge fund manager Mark Baum catches Baum's interest. Baum is a good businessman but is tough, cynical and isn't afraid to let people know when something is going wrong. Heck, he was a Doubting Thomas since he was a child. Baum meets up with Vennett and is given a demonstration by Vennett and his assistant through a Jenga blocks set. Vennett demonstrates how the encroaching collapse is being further perpetuated by the sale of CDOs: Collateralized Debt Obligations. These poor loans are given incorrectly high loan ratings from A to AAA and B to BBB due to the dishonesty of the ratings agency. Baum is reluctant and this takes over his mind.
At the same time, Charlie Geller and Jamie Shipley are making their way into Wall Street. The two young Colorado men formed their own investment and trading business in Jamie's garage where the two helped turn $100,000 into $40 million in four year. Now they want to take it to the next level by achieving on Wall Street but despite their promise, they lack the stuff to play with the big guns. At a bank where they failed to get assistance, Geller encountered a paper where he learns of Vennett's attempt to short and they want a piece of the action. However they will need an IDSA and they lack the minimum capital to profit from this. They are able to get what they need from their friend and mentor Ben Rickert: a retired banker who now gardens for a living.
The time after is not business as usual. Burry's story may have gotten a lot of notice but it's also gotten to the ire of his clients. They feel the housing market is very secure and he's wasting their money. Many demand he stop what he's doing but he refuses. He even keeps the percentage increase in his 'shorting' in big red numbers on his whiteboard. Geller and Shipley consult with Rickert on making a future deal. Geller proposes a large amount of money despite Shipley's reluctance.
Baum is frustrated by all this and he enlists two of his workers to check up on the housing situation by driving into neighborhoods. What they see is not pleasant: people with low incomes owning two-storied homes and one home rented out to a low income family by a landlord owing five months on his mortgage which he took out under his dog's name! The landlord himself abandoned his own home to the point an alligator was able to crawl into the swimming pool. In addition, Baum learns of successful mortgage salesman who are going as far as selling mortgages to underqualified immigrants and even giving out NINJA mortgages (NINJA: NO Income No Job no Assests) as well as a banker for a major bank who's willing to let it happen for fear clients will take their business to the competition and get their mortgage there.
Then comes the American Securitization Forum in Las Vegas. Burry isn't there but Vennett and Baum are there together along with Geller, Shipley and Rickert to get their IDSA and their own piece of the default swap. Baum comes across a CDO manager who reveals much to Baum's horror that he's created synthetic CDOs: a chain of large bets on the faulty loans which actually total more money than the actual CDOs. It's there where Baum's business partners convince him to take this on. Geller and Shipley get their IDSA and they find their piece of the action in AA CDOs which have been overlooked by most of the bigwigs. They get their opportunity but they're reminded by Rickert of the immense hurt that will happen to the American public once they win in their gamble. The celebration of the two ends right there.
Returning back to their business expecting the doomsday to happen any day soon, Baum wants to be the one settling the score as he himself tries to get the word out at public meetings. Geller and Shipley try to get the word out to the news but no one from a former college classmate who now works for the Wall Street Journal to Jamie's brother's ex-girlfriend who is a broker to even Charlie's parents believe their doomsday claims. Burry's investors still continue to refute his claims and want to pull out until Burry puts a moratorium on their withdrawals, much to their anger.
The stock market crash of 2008 eventually happens. Burry, Vennett and Baum were right all along. Businesses collapsed, the unemployment rate went up, the homelessness rate skyrocketed, trillions of dollars invested by the American people were lost. Not to mention many countries, especially in Europe, went through their economic crises that still exist today. In addition Burry's investments increased fivefold from his original investment, Vennett made a nifty $77 million and Charlie and Jamie got the big financial break they sought. But no one's smiling. Oh yeah, did I mention that there was no bank reform done and there was only one arrest from this whole mess?
This is a film that gets inside the world financial crisis of today. We should all be angry and outraged with the system for what it did with the people's hard-earned money. We had a banking system that was too laxed and had next to no restrictions in giving out mortgages to people even if they weren't qualified. We had people who saw the eventual doom but opted to get a piece of the action. We had bankers and mortgage dealers who were irresponsible enough to make salesmen of themselves and only care about getting big numbers for bonus checks. We had the bankers, investors and other financial professionals either negligent or ignorant to what's happening. People's hard-earned investments, funds and savings were treated like gambling money by these professionals. In the end, it led to the biggest collapse in the world's economy since the stock market crash of 1928.
The film gives us what we should have to be angry with the system. However the film also does a good job in making a comedy out of it. I myself have come across a lot of situations that have been very nasty or very stressful but also very funny because of the stupidity behind it all. This is the magic of the film. It finds the humor of the stupidity that occurred in the system. While The Wolf Of Wall Street made Wall Street look like a jungle, this film made the banking and loan system look like they treated the system like it was a playground of people's money. The film gives us many characters we find entertaining and funny but also types we just want to give the middle finger to. The film also makes us laugh at the stupidity that's going on while having us leave the theatre infuriated in our afterthoughts.
In the end, the laughter ends and even those that profited big are disheartened. Burry's not celebrating the big returns his investments got. Baum is left with a huge stomach ache and looks like his soul is crushed in the end. Geller and Shipley have possibly the biggest impact as you can see as they're in the abandoned NYSE building and they've lost complete faith in the system.
Another quality of the film is that it helps the average person make sense of a complicated system. The story of how it all happened is a long and complicated story that consists of terms the average person hasn't heard of and exists in a system only those inside can make sense of and understand why it happened. In making this film, they had to make a film that would help the average person make better sense of the banking system and the products and outside products that come with it. Who outside of banking or investing knows what a CDO is or how to 'short' the market when it's doing business or even what an IDSA is? This film helps make sense of these complicated terms and showed how they worked in a business that is supposed to make things work. The vignettes from celebrities giving an explanation or a demonstration of how things worked added to the humor of the film as well as the quality. Even that flashback to the late 1970's of how Lewis Ranieri changed the bank system, and our lives 'more than Michael Jordan, the iPod and YouTube put together' also added to the story and make more sense of the irresponsibility.
I have to say this is an accomplishment for director Adam McKay. Adam is not known for directing serious movies. For the most part, he's most famous for writing and directing Will Ferrell comedies like Anchorman, Talladega Nights and Stepbrothers. This film is a completely different change of pace for him. However he succeeds in directing and co-writing with Charles Randolph an excellent film that's as much a comedy as it is a tragedy.
It's often a wonder why someone would take what is a terrible moment in American history and turn it into a comedy. I guess that's what McKay and Randolph are doing is that they're showing the bizarre stupidity that happened the whole time in a comedic way. They deliver a film that will have you laughing at the ridiculousness of it all and at the same time infuriate you for days or even weeks after leaving the theatre.
McKay and Randolph also succeed in delivering a film that defies convention which is all the better for it. The use of cameos from other people in an attempt to get the audience to understand banking methods and money-making methods adds to the movie. Most people would think something like this would subtract from the quality. Instead it adds. Additional tricks in the film that add to the quality are scenes and moments where the characters stop the drama in their scenes and face us explaining the real story.
Standout performance has to go to Christian Bale as an eccentric businessman whose socially flawed but smart enough to sense a danger and get rich off of it despite his anger. His social reclusiveness as well as his fixation on music adds to the character's dimension. The other big standout from the film was Steve Carell. His character of a man who just can't get the impending doom off his mind and is unapologetically frank but also troubled is another show-stealer. Actually there were a lot of eye catching characters including that from Ryan Gosling as Jared Vennett despite the role not being as complex as Bale's Burry or Carell's Baum. Additional scene stealers include John Magaro and Finn Wittrock as the two young and hungry businessmen who want a piece of the action but have a lot of learning to do. They first come off as the Tweedledee and Tweedledum of the film but it's right at the end you see how much the realities have bit them.
The film doesn't prove much in terms of outside things like a score or cinematography or effects. However the film put together unconventionally worked on so many levels. Besides other unconventional qualities I talked about previously, there's also the added element of showing pictures and film clips of average Americans as they would be the ones paying the hardest price of it all. Even the addition of various news clips and music videos add to the film. The addition of a wide variety of music from hip-hop to rock is another added quality. I feel the film ending with Led Zeppelin's When The Levee Breaks was the right choice because the levee broke here.
The Big Short is one film that will get a lot of people thinking. I may be Canadian but I was shocked at what I was seeing. I too was outraged at how irresponsible the American banking system was and how it appears to have learned nothing from this. I consider myself lucky to be Canadian after seeing this. For all its headaches, the Canadian banking system is a lot more responsible in terms of who it lends its products to and even declines if it feels it has to. However it does have some careless elements of its own. For my own experience, I signed up for a credit card the very first week I was in university while under NINJA status and I still got it. There was another time I was at my bank during company time but a credit card saleswoman wanted me to sign up for a Gold Visa card. Since she wouldn't take no for an answer, I signed up for it hoping she would get off my case. I thought I wouldn't get it since I didn't have the minimum annual income for a Gold card. I got it to my surprise. I'm still unhappy about this. Makes you wonder how and why banks seem to have forgotten their standards. No wonder that British man in a pub said to Rickert: "$100 million? Are you a banker or a drug dealer? Because if you're a banker, you can fuck right off!"
The Big Short will make you angry with the banking system but will also make you laugh at the stupidity as well. It's part drama, part comedy, part history lesson and that is probably what makes it a winner.
Oh yes. Another year of watching all the Best Picture nominees. This makes it the fifteenth year in a row I've done so! Here's to another Oscar year.
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Movie Review: Foxcatcher
John DuPont (Steve Carell) tries to be a wrestling mentor to Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) in Foxcatcher.
Foxcatcher isn't just simply an Olympic story with a tragically bizarre ending. It isn't completely a crime story either. It's about the people involved.
It's 1987. Mark Schultz is an Olympic wrestling champion who's about to do a talk at an elementary school substituting for his brother Dave who was expected to be the talker. The school gives him a small payment for his time. Dave is coach of the wrestling gym married with two small children and trainer of Mark. Although Dave tries to be a good mentor to Mark, you could tell something's eating at him.
One day unsuspectingly, he's greeted by John DuPont, heir to the E.I. DuPont family fortune. He offers to have Mark train at the Team Foxcatcher gym in Pennsylvania he created to promote wrestling. Mark agrees but John also wants Dave to coach. Dave turns it down because he has family commitments miles away. Despite that, Mark continues on with John coaching him even living in a DuPont guest house which John sometimes visits. The training pays off as Mark wins the World Championships later that year. John is even seen as a mentor to Mark and all the other wrestlers at Team Foxcatcher.
However something's not right. John wants the wrestling trophies won by Team Foxcatcher to overtake one shelf of horseracing trophies his family have won over the years. Mark and John develop a friendship to the point John gets Mark to use cocaine. John even mentions his mother paid a boy to be his 'friend' when he was younger. His mother Jean who's part of the DuPont legacy of horseracing is disapproving of his coaching wrestling feeling that it's a 'low' sport. Then one day it happens. While Team Foxcatcher's wrestlers take a day off to watch a Mixed Martial Arts event, John becomes furious especially when Mark insists Dave won't join team Foxcatcher. John tells him he will get Dave by any means necessary.
Dave agrees to Team Foxcatcher where he even moves his wife and family over there. Mark however is going through self-esteem issues with the mental abusiveness of John and moves away to train for the 1988 Olympics. Just before the Olympic trials, John has his mother Jean escorted in her wheelchair to see what John has accomplished. She leaves in disgust after seeing John give his back to one of his students.
At the Olympic trials, you can tell something is bothering Mark. He loses his first match and in response cries, wrecks his room and goes on an eating binge. Dave is alarmed at discovering Mark in his condition in his hotel room and works to get him to lose weight in time for the weigh-in. As Mark competes on, he notices Dave prevent John from speaking to him. Mark wins the Olympic trials but both he and Dave notice John is absent. He returned home as his mother died. Mark lets Dave know he can't stay with John and Team Foxcatcher after the Olympics and asks Dave to leave with him even though John created a promotional video of Team Foxcatcher with Dave asked to do a speech. Mark finishes sixth at the 1988 Olympics where he loses his last match 14-0. As he said, he leaves Team Foxcatcher for home while Dave agrees to remain training Team Foxcatcher in exchange for John giving Mark financial support.
It's 1996. John watches the promotional video with the part of Mark's speech about John. This would pave way to the depiction of the eventual murder. However the film ends showing what happened to Mark shortly after.
It's funny how around Oscar time, it's common to expect that most movies with big Oscar buzz would have some sort of political message or humanistic message. So it was quite natural for me to think that Foxcatcher might be a film with things to say about Olympic athletes or how they're treated in the US. I don't think it was but it did present a unique time in Olympic sport. Many older people remember that until the 80's, you had to be a complete amateur in an Olympic sport. Even if you made a single penny off your sport, you were ineligible to compete at the Olympics. That all changed in the early 80's when the IOC changed its constitution from allowing only 'amateur' athletes to allowing 'eligible' athletes to compete and it would be each sport's respective federation decide who's eligible. There were some sports like track and field, swimming and gymnastics that were the first to make the transition and the pay and sponsorship money was good albeit not the same level it is today. Wrestling was one of the sports to catch on later. In Mark's time, wrestlers could not make a living off their sport unless you were also a coach like Dave. In fact I remember a quote from Olympic gymnast Bart Conner: "The big myth is that Olympic gold medalists can get rich off their gold medal. I know a lot of Olympic champions that are flipping burgers." So it's no wonder that Mark would find sponsorship from John DuPont and the state-of-the-art Team Foxcatcher wrestling gym a welcome relief.
I don't even think it's a statement about rich people in the United States. Sure, John was born into money as the DuPont family have a dynasty going all the way back to the 18th century. Sure, John appears to be spoiled living in the same gigantic mansion in the middle of nowhere as his parents. Sure, John has the money to make his dream of being a great wrestling coach come true. Sure, John had a sheltered childhood where he was the youngest of four and had a 'paid friend' during his childhood. And sure, John has a mother with a superficial attitude as made evident in her comment of wrestling being a 'low sport.' However I don't feel it's about the American rich.
What I do feel the movie is to do about are the people. Yes, it's a crime story but it's also about the people. John appears to be a person who may have been belittled all his life and dreamed of being a successful wrestling coach or manager. He has written successful books on birds but wanted to become successful as a wrestling coach. This is especially hard for him since his family has a tradition of horse racing. Throughout the movie, we get a sense that he felt that something was missing in him. Even after hiring Dave as the coach, we see friction between the two as they're both training and managing Mark. Sure, it's common for two coaches on the same team to have disputes but the disputes make you wonder. In fact that scene where John is watching the video of himself promoting him and his gym just before the shooting may be sending the message he always felt underrespected. Maybe it was because he felt like the misfit of the family. Maybe it was because his family never knew or honored his achievements. We'll never know. There's no question he shows his mental illness, especially at the end, but it's just a wonder if his inferiority complex is what caused him to shoot Dave.
The film is not just about John. It's about Mark too. The 1984 Olympics was of him and Dave winning gold but the time since then was a struggle. Dave was able to marry, become a father and continue as an athlete by coaching at the same time. He was well to do. Mark was the one who struggled. He lived single in a shabby home, he worked a measly job, he received spare cash from school appearances, he was always living in the shadow of Dave. Even though Dave was never the type of brother that would try to make Mark feel inferior, You could tell it was bothering him in that training scene at the beginning where he gives Dave a bad hit. It was easy for him to see John's offer as a breakthrough for him but a struggle as he was trying to create his own identity while Dave and John had coaching disputes over him. It seemed more like a threesome rather than him. Possibly even sensing Dave was becoming the apple of John's eye rather than him. Even after his win of the World Championship, you could tell the whole thing would take a toll on him especially seeing how he had to purge himself at the Olympic trials and struggled to make the team. Eventually it did take its toll right at the Seoul Olympics with his sixth-place finish and the threesome ended there. You can easily understand why when Mark moved out, he wanted to move without turning back.
The highlight of the film was the performance of Steve Carell. In fact even his biggest fans would be surprised to see Steve looking different and acting completely different from the way they've always known Steve to act. He embodied John DuPont well in terms of physicality and his mental illness but he also made us feel John's feelings of inferiority which definitely added to the film. The film also has Channing Tatum's best acting ever. He also embodies the character of Mark well in terms of his desire to succeed and in terms of his insecurities. Although the film focuses more on the characters of Mark and John than on Dave, it's Mark Ruffalo's performance that gives added dimension to a person who is both a coach and a father and tries to do the right thing but ends up an unsuspecting victim in the end. Even supporting performances from Sienna Miller as Dave's wife and Vanessa Redgrave as John's mother were done great despite being less than what they should be.
The directing of Bennett Miller was also impressive as he focused on both the story and insight into the people involved in the story. The script by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman was also good in taking us to the right events even though it did feel slow at times. Even there, I think they were trying to make a murder story that didn't just simply tell of the events but also give us portrayals of the characters. It's not to say they haven't experienced friction about it. There was a story that Mark felt the film made it look like John had a homosexual attraction to him. I didn't notice it. Besides I later learned John was married for the first and only time at 45 and the divorce occurred just before he met Mark.
Foxcatcher is more than a murder story. It's also a portrayal of the people involved in both their desires and their insecurities. Often it did feel more like the film was about who than what.
Posted in: Entertainment - Film and Movies, Movie Reviews: 2014	| Tagged: Bennett, Carell, Channing, Dave, DuPont, Foxcatcher, John, Mark, Miller, murder, Olympic, Ruffalo, Schultz, Steve, Tatum, wrestling
Movie Review: The Way, Way Back
By Jon The Blogcentric on 14 July 2013 | 2 Comments
Sam Rockwell (centre) gives Liam James (right) more than a summer job in The Way, Way Back.
If you've seen The Way, Way Back, I'm sure you'd feel it should be described as a 'summer movie' because it's not only released in the summer but is set in the summer too. But it's not your typical 'summer movie' as it doesn't fit how we interpret the term 'summer movie.' Nevertheless it is worth seeing.
We meet Duncan: a socially-withdrawn 14 year-old heading to upstate New York for the summer with his mother Pam, her boyfriend Trent and his daughter Steph. Trent is quite overbearing on Duncan chastising him about his shyness which doesn't help at all. It's obvious Duncan is not looking forward to this trip, especially since he wants to spend time with his father. At the beach house, the family meet up with Trent's friend, the free-spirited Betty and her family including sullen teen daughter Susanna and young son Peter who Betty often chastises about his 'lazy eye.' Betty wants Duncan to be a play friend for Peter but Duncan is disinterested. He's more interested in daughter Susanna but doesn't know how to talk to her. The place is best describes by Susanna as 'spring break for adults.' Over at the beach house, Trent is the life of the party especially to his long-time friends Betty, Kip and Joan. That makes Duncan feel even more alone.
One day Duncan goes biking to the town on Steph's girlie bike from years ago. He notices a waterslide park: The Water Wizz. Over there he meets the middle-aged man whom one day earlier was playing PacMan at the gas stop and wanted Duncan to keep up the high score. His name is Owen, a carefree easy-going personality, and he runs the Water Wizz. Here he shows Duncan about the Water Wizz with the employees and doing business, teaching him the 'legend' of the park, and even introducing a trio of boys he befriends. He also gets Roddy to show him how he sets up the female sliders to slide.
The experience gets Duncan coming back to the Water Wizz day after day and he even gets a job there. First duty was to stop a breakdancer from stealing the crowd. The breakdancer agrees as long as Duncan shows his stuff. Duncan agrees and he would be known at 'Pop-N-Lock.' Soon he learns from Owen that one doesn't just simply work at the Water Wizz but the workers all share a common bond with each other. Meanwhile people back at the resort are wondering about Duncan and why he's gone biking off so often, including Susanna who's slowly developing an interest in him. Susanna actually follows Duncan one day, determined to find out what he's up to. There she's introduced to the Water Wizz and the two have fun together including Duncan teaching her the 'legend' of the park.
However while things are getting better for Duncan at the Water Wizz, things are getting worse for him and his family at the beach house. Trent and Betty are too carefree in their partying and Kip is oblivious to the whole thing. Meanwhile Trent is undecided about rekindling romantic interests with Joan who wants him back. Little do they know Duncan saw the whole thing. It's at a resort party Trent is hosting at the house where Duncan impulsively blurts out to Trent that he knows what's going on right for all to hear. The party's over for the family. It gets to the point they all can't have a normal dinner together or play a game on a rainy day without some friction. It bears hardest not only on Duncan but on Pam too as she knows the relationship will be over.
Duncan however finds someone to lean on in Owen. Owen reminds him Trent doesn't know Duncan and how great of a kid he is and it's more of Trent's problem. He even offers to cheer him up by inviting him to Lewis' good-bye party. Duncan comes with Peter and they all not only have a good time but Peter develops a new confidence about his lazy eye. Unfortunately the situation between Pam and Trent has gotten to the point that the 'family' has to leave the beach house and return home. This especially shocks Duncan since the people of the Water Wizz make him feel like a somebody although his job is still a secret to his 'family.' Yes, it is a goodbye to the town but not without one last 'moment' with Susanna and a golden last-hurrah at the Water Wizz that you will have to see for yourself.
The film's movie poster advertises coming from the studio that brought out Little Miss Sunshine and Juno. The movie does kind of have the same feel as the two previous movies. Unlike the previous two, this film doesn't seem to have much of a theme or a message to it. But like Juno and Little Miss Sunshine, it shows adults to be the messy ones or the ones who don't have their head on straight. Also like those two movies, it shows that sometimes the kids or teens are the ones who deal with the situation best despite their own flaws. You could tell with the stupidities of Betty getting drunk constantly and Trent's cheating that these adults don't have their head on right. Even the adults' treatment of the children like Betty getting on Peter's case about his lazy eye and Trent's judgment and belittling of Duncan are examples of their stupidity. While Duncan may be sky and Susanna may be unhappy, they're the ones that actually end up being the smarter ones in the end. Another unique thing about the film is that it showed the career-oriented adults to be the ones playing games and doing stupid things that hurt those that matter most to them while the workers at the Water Wizz are the ones that most have it together. Duncan should be fortunate to have bumped into the park by chance. It was the best thing for him.
This is yet another coming-of-age story but it's not yet another. Sure the coming-of-age story has been done at great frequency and some would say this story isn't all that original. What makes this coming-of-age story work is through the character of Duncan. Everyone who's been through the high school years knows a teen boy that is very quiet and is an anti-social loner. Duncan carries those traits in a comical way without poking too much fun at shy teen boys. But what's also unique about Duncan is that he makes his anger and frustrations present. The film succeeds in getting us to feel for Duncan and wanting him to find his place despite Trent's overbearingness. We first think of Owen and the gang at the Water Wizz as overgrown idiots who should get a real job but we soon see them as the friends Duncan needed during his vacation. That's the movie's appeal: the young protagonist and the people that change his life.
Without a doubt, young Canadian actor Liam James was the star of the film. He did an excellent job in portraying a shy anti-social boy very well both emotionally and physically. Great to see a young actor like him do an excellent lead amongst an ensemble cast of established actors. Steve Carell was also good playing a person you just wanted to hate. Toni Collette didn't have that showy of a role but she played it very honestly and added to the story. Sam Rockwell was great in playing a free-spirited middle-aged man. Great character acting also came from Alison Janney and Rob Corddry. AnnaSophia Robb was also very good in playing a young teen girl. Very different from the 'sweet' roles she's been known to play. Also fun to see the writers/directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash in roles in this film. Nat and Jim were writers who teamed up with Alexander Payne for The Descendants. This movie is a great way to show they can hold their own and hold it well. The movie also included a great mix of music both past and current.
Overall The Way, Way Back is a great summer film if you want to get away from your typical summer movie fare. This is a story you'll really enjoy. Also movie fans should go see it if they want to get off the beaten path.
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Following the release of their final album and an epic comeback performance on Saturday Night Live with Dave Chappelle, A Tribe Called Quest is making their way back into the spotlight.
ATCQ released their sixth studio album, We got it from Here… Thank you 4 Your Time mid-November after an 18-year hiatus from their previous album The Love Movement in 1998. Prior to the release of their final album, ATCQ's Phife Dawg passed away in March from complications due to diabetes.
Now, the remaining band mates Q-Tip, Jarobi, and Ali Shaheed have come together to create a music video for their hit song, "We The People," a song that touches on the issues of race, homophobia, and anti-Muslim sentiments. The video displays Q-Tip inside of a control center, performing his verse over an intercom that broadcasts to the outside world.
Phife's verse on the song visually shows an animated sketch of the emcee on the side of a building.
The video also shows people being hypnotized and consumed with what's on their cell phone or tablet, while others are taking to the streets in protests.
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Both emergency room and inpatient visits are more frequent in those with neuromuscular disorders than in those without these disorders.1 According to one study on children with neuromuscular disorders like spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), respiratory symptoms account for more than half of instances where children are taken to the hospital.2 The next most common symptoms associated with hospital visits for these children relate to gastrointestinal issues.
When children with SMA arrive at the emergency room, further hospitalization is required in approximately half the cases.2 When hospitalization is warranted, pneumonia is to blame more than 48 percent of the time. Acute gastritis is the next most frequently cited reason for hospitalization in this set of patients, with about one in five of those hospitalized experiencing acute gastritis.
Scoliosis is another issue that results in hospitalization of children with neuromuscular disorders.3 Compared to those without one of these disorders, those with neuromuscular disorders tend to stay in the hospital longer following scoliosis surgery. Further, this population experiences a higher hospital mortality rate in the case of scoliosis surgery.
One study showed that the most common examinations prescribed when neuromuscular disorder patients enter the emergency room are complete blood count and C-reactive protein and that the most common treatment is intravenous fluid administration.2 Interestingly, despite respiratory difficulties constituting the majority of emergency room visits in neuromuscular disorder patients, tests related to pulmonary function, including chest x-rays, pulse oximetry, and blood gas analysis are ordered relatively infrequently.
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7. Bach JR, Rajaraman R, Ballanger F, et al. Neuromuscular ventilatory insufficiency: effect of home mechanical ventilator use v oxygen therapy on pneumonia and hospitalization rates. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 1998;77(1):8-19.


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Bijan Karimi: Bringing Order to Chaos
"We discuss risk as a concept beyond just the financial exposure… From supporting the community's planned events to planning for the unknown, our job is to both be ready today and to look ahead."
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No one better defines the adage "Find what you love to do and then figure out how to make a living at it" better than Bijan. While he held a successful career in financial services, he also volunteered as a member of the Marin (California) County search and rescue team. Following the events of 9/11, more government funding became available to help local jurisdictions prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. This additional funding for emergency management created an opportunity for Bijan to take his business experience, knowledge of incident management and move full-time into a field that was maturing. Today, he serves as the Assistant Deputy Directory for the Department of Emergency Management in San Francisco and has written a paper, "Strategic Planning for Emergency Managers."
"Applying my business skills and emergency management experience to disaster planning has helped me succeed. I enjoy working with so many different agencies and managing the complex interactions. In the financial sector and especially in emergency management, I like bringing order to chaos." And that order provides resilience to the many people who live and work in San Francisco.
San Francisco encompasses 47 square miles and is home to over 825,000 residents in the evening and more than 1.2 million during the work day. Bijan is part of the department's senior management team and leads hazard and threat analysis while overseeing emergency planning, training and exercise planning, operations, special event planning and grants management. Prior to working in San Francisco, Bijan oversaw the Marin County Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services.
While one eye is always on a possible earthquake, as Securitygoes to press, the Rim Fire in Tuolumne (California) County was threatening the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir which supplies 85 percent of San Francisco's water; fortunately, water has continued to flow to all customers. On other days the department coordinates the city's support to large public events including the SF Pride Parade that draws more than 500,000 participants. Where it gets particular challenging is when 150 Amgen Bike Tour cyclists leave the city and ride over the Golden Gate Bridge while 850 people are in the water for the Alcatraz SharkFest Swim (really) and 44,000 runners are going from one side of the city to the other during the annual Bay to Breakers race all at the same time.
"The fascinating aspect is looking at critical risks that might arise today or in 50 years. We discuss risk as a concept beyond just the financial exposure. We look at emergency management holistically with a strong focus on risk management. What capabilities do we have and which do we need to improve to mitigate threats and hazards? How do we identify and eliminate our vulnerabilities? From supporting the community's planned events to preparing for the unknown, our job is to both be ready today and to look ahead."
"The department avoids fear messaging and focuses on survival to be successful. By being prepared, we remove fear of the unknown and improve resiliency. When we talk to people and share that survival rates in a typical disaster are more than 99 percent and preparation will increase their own resiliency, we get buy-in and proactive behavior. The community is organized to be resilient during an emergency."
Another trend is that the younger generation wants to be more involved, self-sufficient and rely less on government. They may realize that law enforcement, 911 and emergency response are likely to be overwhelmed in a crisis and are making the choice to be prepared.
Bringing such diverse and complex participants together is a challenge and requires strong leadership. Bijan is a fan of the book "The Servant Leader" which teaches that personal (and organizational) success comes from managers supporting the people who work for them. If you make it about you, then the organization suffers.
Bijan remarks that it's necessary to coordinate all of the agencies responsible for the city's overall security mission, saying, "In effect, we help them see the big picture and how they all need to work together. Of course, we have responsibility to do so but not necessarily the authority to enforce.
"Our contribution to the city, community and private sector partners is planning preparing and creating a conduit and process for emergency management in San Francisco. As Mike Tyson famously said, 'Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.' The process of planning is equally if not more important to the actual plan."
From the mayor's office on through, it is vital for leadership to understand how a decision affects risk exposure and security programs. Security has to be in the conversation. If it is left out of decision-making, then bad things can happen. We also work to keep in front of our leaders.
Bijan greatly enjoys the outdoors including biking and trail running. His leadership and participation in search and rescue is both his vocation and hobby, as he is an active member of the Marin County Search and Rescue Team. "I like the connection to the tactical response work, preparing and working with volunteers. And I take pride in developing those who work with me as well as learning from others' strengths and weaknesses."
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import py
from rpython.translator.backendopt.all import backend_optimizations
from rpython.translator.backendopt.all import INLINE_THRESHOLD_FOR_TEST
from rpython.translator.backendopt.support import md5digest
from rpython.translator.backendopt.test.test_malloc import TestMallocRemoval as MallocRemovalTest
from rpython.translator.translator import TranslationContext, graphof
from rpython.flowspace.model import Constant, summary
from rpython.rtyper.llinterp import LLInterpreter
from rpython.rlib.rarithmetic import intmask
from rpython.conftest import option

class A:
    def __init__(self, x, y):
        self.bounds = (x, y)
    def mean(self, percentage=50):
        x, y = self.bounds
        total = x*percentage + y*(100-percentage)
        return total//100

def condition(n):
    return n >= 100

def firstthat(function, condition):
    for n in range(101):
        if condition(function(n)):
            return n
    else:
        return -1

def myfunction(n):
    a = A(117, n)
    return a.mean()

def big():
    """This example should be turned into a simple 'while' loop with no
    malloc nor direct_call by back-end optimizations, given a high enough
    inlining threshold.
    """
    return firstthat(myfunction, condition)

LARGE_THRESHOLD  = 10*INLINE_THRESHOLD_FOR_TEST
HUGE_THRESHOLD  = 100*INLINE_THRESHOLD_FOR_TEST

class TestLLType(object):
    check_malloc_removed = MallocRemovalTest.check_malloc_removed

    def translateopt(self, func, sig, **optflags):
        t = TranslationContext()
        opts = {'translation.list_comprehension_operations': True}
        t.config.set(**opts)
        t.buildannotator().build_types(func, sig)
        t.buildrtyper().specialize()
        if option.view:
            t.view()
        backend_optimizations(t, **optflags)
        if option.view:
            t.view()
        return t

    def test_big(self):
        assert big() == 83

        t = self.translateopt(big, [], inline_threshold=HUGE_THRESHOLD,
                              mallocs=True)

        big_graph = graphof(t, big)
        self.check_malloc_removed(big_graph)

        interp = LLInterpreter(t.rtyper)
        res = interp.eval_graph(big_graph, [])
        assert res == 83

    def test_for_loop(self):
        def f(n):
            total = 0
            for i in range(n):
                total += i
            return total

        t  = self.translateopt(f, [int], mallocs=True)
        # this also checks that the BASE_INLINE_THRESHOLD is enough
        # for 'for' loops

        f_graph = graph = graphof(t, f)
        self.check_malloc_removed(f_graph)

        interp = LLInterpreter(t.rtyper)
        res = interp.eval_graph(f_graph, [11])
        assert res == 55

    def test_premature_death(self):
        import os
        from rpython.annotator.listdef import s_list_of_strings

        inputtypes = [s_list_of_strings]

        def debug(msg):
            os.write(2, "debug: " + msg + '\n')

        def entry_point(argv):
            #debug("entry point starting")
            for arg in argv:
                #debug(" argv -> " + arg)
                r = arg.replace('_', '-')
                #debug(' replaced -> ' + r)
                a = r.lower()
                #debug(" lowered -> " + a)
            return 0

        t  = self.translateopt(entry_point, inputtypes, mallocs=True)

        entry_point_graph = graphof(t, entry_point)

        argv = t.rtyper.getrepr(inputtypes[0]).convert_const(['./pypy-c'])

        interp = LLInterpreter(t.rtyper)
        interp.eval_graph(entry_point_graph, [argv])

    def test_idempotent(self):
        def s(x):
            res = 0
            i = 1
            while i <= x:
                res += i
                i += 1
            return res

        def g(x):
            return s(100) + s(1) + x

        def idempotent(n1, n2):
            c = [i for i in range(n2)]
            return 33 + big() + g(10)

        t  = self.translateopt(idempotent, [int, int],
                               raisingop2direct_call=True,
                               constfold=False)
        #backend_optimizations(t, raisingop2direct_call=True,
        #                      inline_threshold=0, constfold=False)

        digest1 = md5digest(t)

        digest2 = md5digest(t)
        def compare(digest1, digest2):
            diffs = []
            assert digest1.keys() == digest2.keys()
            for name in digest1:
                if digest1[name] != digest2[name]:
                    diffs.append(name)
            assert not diffs

        compare(digest1, digest2)

        #XXX Inlining and constfold are currently non-idempotent.
        #    Maybe they just renames variables but the graph changes in some way.
        backend_optimizations(t, raisingop2direct_call=True,
                              inline_threshold=0, constfold=False)
        digest3 = md5digest(t)
        compare(digest1, digest3)

    def test_bug_inlined_if(self):
        def f(x, flag):
            if flag:
                y = x
            else:
                y = x+1
            return y*5
        def myfunc(x):
            return f(x, False) - f(x, True)

        assert myfunc(10) == 5

        t = self.translateopt(myfunc, [int], inline_threshold=HUGE_THRESHOLD)
        interp = LLInterpreter(t.rtyper)
        res = interp.eval_graph(graphof(t, myfunc), [10])
        assert res == 5

    def test_range_iter(self):
        def fn(start, stop, step):
            res = 0
            if step == 0:
                if stop >= start:
                    r = range(start, stop, 1)
                else:
                    r = range(start, stop, -1)
            else:
                r = range(start, stop, step)
            for i in r:
                res = res * 51 + i
            return res
        t = self.translateopt(fn, [int, int, int], merge_if_blocks=True)
        interp = LLInterpreter(t.rtyper)
        for args in [2, 7, 0], [7, 2, 0], [10, 50, 7], [50, -10, -3]:
            assert interp.eval_graph(graphof(t, fn), args) == intmask(fn(*args))

    def test_constant_diffuse(self):
        def g(x,y):
            if x < 0:
                return 0
            return x + y

        def f(x):
            return g(x,7)+g(x,11)

        t = self.translateopt(f, [int])
        fgraph = graphof(t, f)

        for link in fgraph.iterlinks():
            assert Constant(7) not in link.args
            assert Constant(11) not in link.args

    def test_isinstance(self):
        class A:
            pass
        class B(A):
            pass
        def g(n):
            if n > 10:
                return A()
            else:
                b = B()
                b.value = 321
                return b
        def fn(n):
            x = g(n)
            assert isinstance(x, B)
            return x.value
        t = self.translateopt(fn, [int], really_remove_asserts=True,
                              remove_asserts=True)
        graph = graphof(t, fn)
        assert "direct_call" not in summary(graph)

    def test_list_comp(self):
        def f(n1, n2):
            c = [i for i in range(n2)]
            return 33

        t  = self.translateopt(f, [int, int], inline_threshold=LARGE_THRESHOLD,
                               mallocs=True)

        f_graph = graphof(t, f)
        self.check_malloc_removed(f_graph)

        interp = LLInterpreter(t.rtyper)
        res = interp.eval_graph(f_graph, [11, 22])
        assert res == 33

    def test_secondary_backendopt(self):
        # checks an issue with a newly added graph that calls an
        # already-exception-transformed graph.  This can occur e.g.
        # from a late-seen destructor added by the GC transformer
        # which ends up calling existing code.
        def common(n):
            if n > 5:
                raise ValueError
        def main(n):
            common(n)
        def later(n):
            try:
                common(n)
                return 0
            except ValueError:
                return 1

        t = TranslationContext()
        t.buildannotator().build_types(main, [int])
        t.buildrtyper().specialize()
        exctransformer = t.getexceptiontransformer()
        exctransformer.create_exception_handling(graphof(t, common))
        from rpython.annotator import model as annmodel
        from rpython.rtyper.annlowlevel import MixLevelHelperAnnotator
        annhelper = MixLevelHelperAnnotator(t.rtyper)
        later_graph = annhelper.getgraph(later, [annmodel.SomeInteger()],
                                         annmodel.SomeInteger())
        annhelper.finish()
        annhelper.backend_optimize()
        # ^^^ as the inliner can't handle exception-transformed graphs,
        # this should *not* inline common() into later().
        if option.view:
            later_graph.show()
        common_graph = graphof(t, common)
        found = False
        for block in later_graph.iterblocks():
            for op in block.operations:
                if (op.opname == 'direct_call' and
                    op.args[0].value._obj.graph is common_graph):
                    found = True
        assert found, "cannot find the call (buggily inlined?)"
        from rpython.rtyper.llinterp import LLInterpreter
        llinterp = LLInterpreter(t.rtyper)
        res = llinterp.eval_graph(later_graph, [10])
        assert res == 1

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OT: Big Ten Proposed Eliminating "Sit-Out" Year for Transfers
Thread: OT: Big Ten Proposed Eliminating "Sit-Out" Year for Transfers
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Story Link: https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...ng-out-a-year/
Football and basketball coaches who have been critical of recent changes in the transfer process would have their worst fears realized -- essentially, one-time free agency would be available for all college athletes.
The Big Ten's support of such a proposal indicates a sea change in the transfer debate. The nation's oldest and richest conference sees the issue as one of fairness.
Athletes in only five sports are required to sit for a season when transferring: men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, hockey and football. In the NCAA's 20 other sports, athletes are allowed a one-time. The difference in the two transfer policies is getting harder to rationalize.
The so-called "graduate transfer" era began in 2005 with athletes who had achieved their undergraduate degrees given the ability to transfer without sitting out for their remaining year(s) of eligibility. The increase in graduate transfers has vexed coached concerned with roster management. It has also created an annual market where coaches can improve their teams immediately by getting a game-changing quarterback.
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One of the worries regarding this rule is that by eliminating the "sit out" year, coaches may rent a player and then just recruit over him with some 4 or 5 star guy the following season. In other words, it's not as much in the players best interest as some people think. When you take in a regular transfer, it requires a lot of commitment to that player. You have to spend tons of time developing him during his redshirt season in order to get him better and so on. The coach cannot dispose of him so easily.
I have always believed that if a head coach gets fired, all players on the roster should have the ability to transfer immediately, but that's because the players committed to that coach. This is a different situation. It worries me a bit.
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