Armstrong settles $100M fraud suit with U.S.
Lance Armstrong admitted to doping throughout his cycling career during an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday night.
The interview, the first part of which was broadcast Thursday night on the Oprah Winfrey Network, was conducted Monday in Austin, Texas. The second part of it will air Friday night.
Asked by ESPN if he was compensated for the interview, Armstrong said in a text message earlier Thursday, "Absolutely not."
In what was billed as a no-holds-barred question-and-answer session, Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs, which led to him being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life from the sport. The International Olympic Committee also sent a letter to Armstrong on Wednesday night asking him to return his bronze medal from the 2000 Games.
Oprah: Did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance?
Oprah: Was one of those banned substances EPO?
Oprah: Did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance?
Oprah: Did you ever use any other banned substance like testosterone, cortisone or human growth hormone?
Oprah: In all seven of your Tour de France victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope?
Oprah: In your opinion, was it humanly possible to win the Tour de France without doping? Seven times in a row?
Armstrong: Not in my opinion.
Oprah: For 13 years you didn't just deny it, you brazenly and defiantly denied everything you just admitted just now. So why now admit it?
Armstrong: That is the best question. It's the most logical question. ... I don't know that I have a great answer. I will start my answer by saying that this is too late. It's too late for probably most people, and that's my fault. I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times, and as you said, it wasn't as if I just said no and I moved off it.
Oprah: Right, you were defiant. ... You called other people liars.
Armstrong: I understand that. And while I lived through this process, especially the last two years, one year, six months, two, three months, I know the truth. The truth isn't what was out there. The truth isn't what I said, and now it's gone -- this story was so perfect for so long. And I mean that, as I try to take myself out of the situation and I look at it. You overcome the disease, you win the Tour de France seven times. You have a happy marriage, you have children. I mean, it's just this mythic perfect story, and it wasn't true.
Oprah: And that wasn't true.
Armstrong: And that was not true on a lot of levels.
Oprah: Was it hard to live up to that picture that was created?
Armstrong: Impossible. Certainly I'm a flawed character, as I well know, and I couldn't do that. But what we see now and what's out there now.
Oprah: But didn't you help paint that picture?
fault and all the blame here falls on me. But behind that picture and behind that story is momentum. Whether it's fans or whether it's the media or whether it's -- it just gets going. And I lost myself in all of that. I'm sure there would be other people that couldn't handle it, but I certainly couldn't handle it, and I was used to controlling everything in my life. I controlled every outcome in my life.
Oprah: You said to me earlier you don't think it was possible to win without doping?
Armstrong: Not in that generation, and I'm not here to talk about others in that generation. It's been well-documented. I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture, and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for, and that's what something and the sport is now paying the price because of that. So I am sorry for that. I don't think -- I didn't have access to anything else that nobody else did.
and the U.S. Postal Service cycling team pulled off the most, in his words, sophisticated professionalized and successful doping program that the sport has ever seen. Was it?
Armstrong: No. No. And I think he actually said that all of sport has ever seen. Oprah, it wasn't. It definitely was professional, and it was definitely smart, if you can call it that, but it was very conservative, very risk-averse, very aware of what mattered. One race mattered for me. But to say that that program was bigger than the East German doping program in the '70s and '80s? That's not true.
Oprah: What was the culture? Can you explain the culture to us?
acknowledge that and to say I'm sorry for that. The culture was what it was.
Oprah: Was everybody doing it? That's what we've heard. Was everybody doing it?
Armstrong: I didn't know everybody. I didn't live and train with everybody. I didn't race with everybody. I can't say that. There will be people that say that. There will be people that say, 'OK, there are 200 guys on the tour, I can tell you five guys that didn't, and those are the five heroes, and they're right.
conducted their years' long doping scheme.
like a mafia. Back in the day we had code words for certain things, and we had secret phones, secret code words. It was either Poe or Edgar Allen Poe, which was kind of -- that was the code name for EPO.
Oprah: Were you blood doping in Stage 11 of the 2000 Tour (De France)? Stopping at a hotel, Tyler Hamilton said you stopped at a hotel.
Armstrong: I'm confused on the stages, but certainly that was in the middle of the tour.
Oprah: Tyler Hamilton also said there would be times when you all were injecting EPO in a camper or in a tent, and right outside the fans would be outside, and you all would be dumping the syringes in coke cans. Is that true?
Oprah: I'd like you to walk me through it. Were there pill deliveries, and blood in secret refrigerators? How did it work?
long time. ... I viewed it as very simple. I mean, you had things that were oxygen-boosting drugs, for lack of a better word, or way to describe it that were incredibly beneficial for endurance sports, whether it's cycling, or running, or whatever. And that's all you needed. My cocktail, so to speak, was EPO -- but not a lot -- transfusions and testosterone. Which, in a weird way, I almost justified because of my history, obviously, with having testicular cancer and losing, I thought, surely, I'm running low.
Oprah: Were you afraid of getting caught?
Armstrong: No. Drug testing has changed. It's evolved. In the old days they tested at the races. They didn't come to your house. They didn't come to your training camps. They tested you at the race. That's shifted a lot. Now the emphasis of the testing, which is right, is out-of-competition testing.
Oprah: Would you take several days before? You take it and give yourself enough time for it to move through your system?
Armstrong: Yeah, it's a question of scheduling. I know that sounds weird, but two things changed this. The shift to out-of-competition testing and the biological passport. And it really worked. I'm no fan of UCI, but they implemented the bio passport.
Oprah: The 2012 USADA report says expert examination established that the likelihood of Armstrong's blood val use from the 2009 and 2010 Tour De France occurring naturally is less than one-in-a-million. The report went on to say, this is a telling argument consistent with blood doping.
Armstrong: It's the only thing in that whole report that really upset me. Obviously, it upset me. But the accusation and the alleged proof that they say that I doped after my comeback, is not true. The last time I crossed the line, that line, was 2005.
Oprah: So when you placed third in 2009, you did not dope?
Armstrong: Again, the biological passport was in place, and it was.
Oprah: OK, does that include blood transfusions?
Oprah: So you did not do blood transfusions in 2009?
Oprah: You did no doping or blood transfusions in 2010?
Armstrong: 2009 and 2010, those are the two years I did the tour. Absolutely not.
Oprah: So 2005 is the last time?
Oprah: The USADA report stated the evidence is also clear that Armstrong had ultimate control over not only his own personal drug use, which was extensive, but also over the doping culture of his team. Were you the one in charge?
Armstrong: Um, well, I was the top rider. I was the leader of the team. I wasn't the manager, the general manager, the director. ... Look, I was the leader of the team, and the leader of any team leads by example. There was never a direct order or a directive to say you have to do this if you want to do the tour, if you want to be on the team. That never happened. It was a competitive time. We were all grown men. We all made our choices, but there were people on the team that chose not to.
Oprah: Were you a bully?
Armstrong: Yeah, yeah, I was a bully. ... I was a bully in the sense that I tried to control the narrative, and if I didn't like what somebody said, and for whatever reasons in my own head whether I viewed that as somebody being disloyal or a friend turning on you or whatever, I tried to control that. Say that's a lie, they're liars.
Oprah: Is that your nature when somebody says something that you don't like, you go on the attack?
Armstrong: My entire life. My entire life.
Oprah: How important was winning to you? Would you do anything to win at all costs?
Armstrong: Basically, basically. Winning was important. Winning was important. I still like to win, but I view it a little differently now.
Oprah: So you've been quoted as saying we had one goal, one ambition, and that was to win the greatest bike race in the world, and not just to win it once, but to keep on winning it, and to keep on winning it, meant you had to keep on using banned substances to do it?
Armstrong: Yes, but, and I'm not sure that this is an acceptable answer, but that's like saying we have to have air in our tires or we have to have water in our bottles. That was, in my view, part of the job.
Oprah: Are you saying that's how common it was?
Armstrong: Again, my view was that it was. Others will have to attest to that. Again, I don't want to accuse anybody. I don't want to make any excuses for me, but that was my view, and I made those decisions.
Oprah: Are you saying to me that you did not expect or require other top riders, your key guys, to dope in order to reach that team's goal? Would that be your same response today?
Armstrong: My responses on most of these things are going to be different today.
Oprah: You and I both know that fame just magnifies whoever you really are. So if you're a jerk, you're a bigger jerk. If you're a humanitarian, you're a bigger humanitarian. So what was going on with you during that time? What did that do?
now. I am flawed, deeply flawed. I think we all have our flaws, and if the magnifying glass is normally this week, I made it this week because of my actions and because of my words, and because of my attitude, and my defiance, and I'm paying the price for it. And that I deserve this. I don't look around and go, 'Hey, Oprah, hey, I am screwed here.' Were there days early on when I said that? Absolutely. Those days are fewer and fewer and farther and farther between. Listen, I deserve it.
Oprah: What was for you the flaw or flaws that made you willing to risk it all?
Armstrong: I think this just ruthless desire to win. Win at all costs, truly. Serves me well on the bike, served me well during the disease, but the level that it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. Then that defiance, that attitude, that arrogance, you cannot deny it. You watch that clip, that's an arrogant person. I go, look at this arrogant prick. I say that today. It's not good.
Oprah: When you look at (your speech after winning your seventh Tour, in which you call out the skeptics of cycling and seem to rub the win in the faces of those who came out against you) do you feel embarrassed? Do you feel ashamed? Do you feel humble? Tell me what you feel?
Armstrong: I'm definitely embarrassed. Listen, that was the last time I won the Tour de France. That was my last day. I retired immediately after that. That's what you leave with? You can leave with better than that, Lance. That was lame.
Oprah: Was there happiness in winning when you knew that you were taking these banned substances?
Armstrong: There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in. Again, I don't want this issue of performance enhancers to ... again, to me, that was we're going to pump up our tires. We're going to put water in our bottles, and oh, yeah, that too is going to happen. That was it.
Oprah: Was it a big deal to you? Did it feel wrong?
Armstrong: At the time? No.
Oprah: It did not even feel wrong?
Oprah: Did you feel bad about it?
Oprah: Did you feel in any way that you were cheating?
Oprah: You did not feel that you were cheating taking banned drugs?
Armstrong: At the time, no. And I look up, I had this exercise because I kept hearing ... I'm a drug cheat. I'm a cheat. I'm a cheater. And I went in and just looked up the definition of cheat. ... And the definition of cheat is to gain an advantage on a rival or foe that they don't have. I didn't view it that way. I viewed it as a level playing field.
Oprah: But you knew that you were held to a higher standard. You're Lance Armstrong.
Armstrong: I knew that, and of course hindsight is perfect. I know it a thousand times more now. I didn't know what I had. Look at the fallout.
Oprah: What do you mean by you didn't know? I don't think people will understand what you're saying.
Oprah: That's going to be hard for people to believe. When we met a week ago, you said I didn't realize it was this big. I was like, 'How could you not know?' How could you not know it's big? Presidents are calling. You're dating rock stars. Everywhere you go.
Armstrong: You asked me the question, and I said I didn't know, and I didn't. But the important thing is that I'm beginning to understand that, and I'm understanding it not because I see clips and we're talking about this. But I see the anger in people.
Armstrong: And betrayal. ... And it's all there. These are people that supported me, believed in me. Believed me. Not just believed in me, but believed what I was saying. And they have every right to feel betrayed, and it's my fault. ... I will spend the rest of my life -- some people are gone forever. But I'll spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people for the rest of my life.
Oprah: You said time and again in dozens of interviews that you never failed a test. Do you have a different answer today?
Armstrong: No, I mean, I didn't fail a test. Some stuff was retroactively tested.
Armstrong: Technically, yes, then those retroactively, I failed those. But the hundreds and hundreds of tests that I took, I passed them, and I passed them because there was nothing in the system.
Oprah: You made a donation to UCI and you said that that donation was about helping their anti-doping efforts. ... Obviously, it was not. Why did you make that donation?
Armstrong: Because they asked me to. There was no deal -- this is impossible for me to answer this question and have anybody believe it -- it was not in exchange for any cover-up. And, again, I am not a fan of the UCI. I have every incentive to sit here and tell you, yes, that's right. They're all crooked. Are there things that were a little shady? That was not one. They called and said they didn't have a lot of money. I was retired. I had money. They said would you consider a donation, and I said sure.
Oprah: What about the story that Emma O'Reilly tells about the cortisone (which Armstrong tested positive for at the 1999 Tour de France) and you having the cortisone backdated (by a team doctor, who claimed Armstrong needed treatment for saddle sores?) Is that true?
Oprah: This is what doesn't make any sense. When people were saying things ... you would then go on the attack for them. You're suing people, and you know that they're telling the truth. What is that?
Armstrong: It's a major flaw, and it's a guy who expected to get whatever he wanted and to control every outcome. And it's inexcusable. When I say that there are people that will hear this and will never forgive me, I understand that. I do. I have started that process. I think all of this is a process for me. One of the steps of that process is to speak to those people directly, and just say to them that I am sorry, and I was wrong. You were right.
Oprah: Have you called Betsy Andreu (the wife of Armstrong's former teammate, Frankie Andreu, who was one of the first to speak out about Armstrong's doping while visiting him in an Indiana hospital in 1996)?
Oprah: Did she take your call?
Oprah: Was Betsy telling the truth about the Indiana hospital? Overhearing you in 1996?
Armstrong: I'm not going to take that on. I'm laying down on that one.
Armstrong: I'm just not ... I'm going to put that one down. She asked me, and I asked her not to talk about it.
Oprah: Is it well with the two of you? Have you made peace?
Armstrong: Oh, no. ... Because they've been hurt too badly, and a 40-minute conversation isn't enough.
Oprah: If you would go back and look at all the things and tapes that you've said over the years about Betsy.
Oprah: That's one of the things she said.
Oprah: This is what's interesting to me. If a person is accusing you, and they say three things that are true but one of them is out of order and not true, do you then take that to mean the whole thing's not true?
Armstrong: Oh, yeah, that's it. You're out.
Oprah: That's how you operate?
Armstrong: Well, because that's ... three to one wouldn't be accurate. That's a score. ... I know. If they said 10 things and two of them were right and eight of them were false, I figured I had every right to go after them. ... But if one of those things is that Lance Armstrong doped to win the Tour de France, they win. You can't overcome that.
Oprah: Emma O'Reilly, you actually ... I watched the tape several times. You sort of under your breath, but you implied the whore word. You used the whore word. How do you feel about that today?
Armstrong: Not good. ... No, no, I was, I was just on the attack, Oprah. That's just what it ... territory being threatened, team being threatened, reputation being threatened. I'm going to attack.
Oprah: Do you regret now coming back (in 2009)?
Armstrong: We wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't come back.
Oprah: Many people think that the real tipping point was Floyd Landis and his decision to come forward and confess (to doping and allege Armstrong, his former mentor, had done the same).
Armstrong: I'd agree with that. ... I might back it up a little and talk about the comeback. I think the comeback didn't sit well with Floyd.
Oprah: Do you remember where you were when you heard that Floyd, your former teammate, protege, was going to talk?
Armstrong: I was in a hotel room at the Tour of California when actually, Floyd had been sending me these text messages and said, 'I recorded it. I videoed everything. I'm going to put it on YouTube.' And I kept getting these messages, and I'm like finally I said, 'Look, man, do what you got to do, but just leave me alone.' He didn't go that route. He didn't go the YouTube route, but he went to the Wall Street Journal with the story.
Oprah: Did you rebuff it? Would you say that you rebuffed Floyd?
Armstrong: I rebuffed him after he came out. Up until that point, I actually supported him. When he tested positive, I supported him. When he went on trial, I supported him. And even afterwards, I supported him.
Oprah: Did you rebuff him after he was stripped of his tour win (in 2006)?
Armstrong: No. Well, we didn't give him a spot on the team, which he wanted. But that's not necessarily entirely my decision, but if that's a blowoff, yeah. I tried to keep him on 'my team.' Of course you would, because, you know, what others don't.
Oprah: Because he knew what others didn't know, yes?
Armstrong: Right. But to say that I shunned him or I put him out, no, I didn't view it that way. Obviously, I think he did. But I also think he felt like the sport did. He felt like the sport just didn't want to take him back.
Oprah: So that was the tipping point, and your comeback was also a tipping point. Do you regret now coming back?
Armstrong: I do. We wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't come back.
Oprah: You would have gotten away with it?
Armstrong: It's impossible to say. I had much better chances, but I didn't.
Oprah: Did you not always think that this day was coming? Not that you and I would be sitting here, but did you not think that, first of all, third law of motion, what you put out is going to come back. Did you not think that you'd be found out at some point, especially since so many people knew?
Armstrong: Well, I just assumed the stories would continue for a long time. ... This wasn't an issue of news stories or interviews. That's not why we're sitting here. We're sitting here because there was a two-year criminal federal investigation (by the U.S. Department of Justice, a case that was dropped in February by federal prosecutors with no explanation) of me, athletes, everybody involved in the story was called in, subpoenaed, deposed. There is a man with a gun and a badge, and the consequences are serious. ... Then USADA started. Again, with the same, not equal pressure, but similar pressure. Guys were offered deals. Fine, that's the way it works. But that's why this is out. I assumed that the stories and the accusations would continue forever.
Oprah: When the department of justice just dropped that case and nobody knows why, I have to ask you, did you have any influence in that whatsoever?
Armstrong: No, none. ... That's very difficult to influence.
Oprah: When they dropped the case, did you think, now, finally over? Done? Victory?
Armstrong: That's hard to define victory, but I thought I was out of the woods.
Oprah: What was your reaction when you learned that USADA was going to pick up the case (last year) and pursue their own investigation of you (which Armstrong originally filed a lawsuit to block)?
Armstrong: Great question. My reaction was the same that it always had been. You know, coming in on my territory. I'm going to fight back. Oprah, I'd do anything. I'd do anything to go back to that day.
Armstrong: Treated differently in the sense that I wasn't approached at the same time as the other riders, and there were lots of riders that were approached. They approached them and asked them to come in and talk about the culture of cycling and what they did or didn't do. And, of course, with that they were going to be penalized. They gathered all of the subpoenas, and the affidavits and the evidence.
Oprah: Twenty-six people, including 11 of your former teammates, testified.
Armstrong: Then they came to me and said, 'OK, what are you going to do?' To go back to that moment, I would say, 'Guys, give me three days.' I'm going to call -- again, this is in hindsight, I wish I could go do it, but I can't -- 'Let me call some people. Let me call my family. Let me call my mother. Let me call my sponsors. Let me call my foundation and tell them what I'm going to do, and I'll be right there.' I wish I could do that. But I can't.
Oprah: So in the future, you can't take that back, you can't go back there. Will you cooperate with USADA to help them clear up the sport of cycling?
Armstrong: Look, I love cycling. I really do. And I say that knowing that I sound like people will see me as somebody that has disrespected the event, the sport, the color yellow, the jersey. I did.
Oprah: You abused your power.
Armstrong: Yeah. And I disrespected the rules, regardless of what anybody says about the generation, that was my choice. But if we can, and I stand on no moral platform here, certainly not my place to say, 'Hey, guys, let's clean up cycling.' If there was not effort to, if there was a truth and reconciliation commission, again, I can't call for that. I've got no cred. If they have it, and I'm invited, I'll be the first man at the door.
Oprah: When you heard that George Hincapie had been called and testified and had spoken, did you feel that was the last card in this deck of cards? Did you feel that that was the last straw?
Armstrong: Well, my fate was sealed. I think for those people that were my supporters who I'm assuming have left, he was the -- they could have heard anybody say anything, and if George didn't say it, they would say, 'Well, George didn't say it, so I'm sticking with Lance.' I don't fault George at all. There was a lot of pressure with that. But, yeah, listen, George is the most credible voice in all of this.
He did all seven tours. I knew him since I was 16. We practically lived together. We trained together every day. And, for the record, we're still great friends. We still talk once a week. I don't fault George Hincapie. But George knows this story better than anybody.
Information from ESPN.com's Darren Rovell and The Associated Press was used in this report.


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"I found really actually emotional moments in those kinds of things and have been able to reflect on myself through these really over-the-top art forms," said Velour. "And I think drag is a perfect example of that as well, and it's certainly the one that's most right for me as an artist. And I love getting to talk about it all the time while doing the drag. I think that interesting tension between illusion and artifice, and real authenticity is present there all the time. And I love getting to put a spotlight on it, so to speak."
The soundtrack to "Smoke and Mirrors" spans nearly 60 years, utilizing the voices of everyone from Judy Garland to Lana Del Rey to help convey Velour's story.
But there was one number ("the only song I didn't choose for myself," Velour said) that demanded a place of honor in the show: Whitney Houston's "So Emotional."
The Newark native Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee's 1987 classic scored one of the most iconic moments in "Drag Race" herstory when Velour lip-synced it on her way to the crown in the series' Season 9 finale.
It's a moment that's embedded itself in our pop cultural consciousness — Elizabeth Warren, played by Kate McKinnon, re-enacted it complete with wig removal, shower of rose petals and the song itself on the Oct. 12 episode of "Saturday Night Live" — and Velour said she knew from the beginning of conceiving "Smoke and Mirrors" that "So Emotional" had to be part of the show.
"I always wanted to include it in the tour because I knew people would want to see it live, actually," said Velour. "I put myself in an audience's point of view and thought about what they would want to see as well because I think that's my job, as a good entertainer. And then I had fun giving it my own flavor this time around."
Business is booming in the world of drag, with Velour's tour one of a number criss-crossing the country this fall and winter. The "Drag Race" franchise earned 14 Emmy nominations and three wins in 2019, with a 12th season of "RuPaul's Drag Race," a fifth season of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" and the debut of "RuPaul's Celebrity Drag Race" on the way.
Velour's drag revue "Nightgowns," which has played theaters in New York, London and Los Angeles, has been adapted into an eight-part series for streaming service "Quibi," set to debut in 2020.
And while the popularity of drag is not new, Velour said what has changed is the broader cultural context.
"Cross-dressing performance and that kind of humor and fashion has been popular throughout a lot of history, but the kind of new thing is that people are able to be out as queer, gay, trans, nonbinary, etc., outside of the drag," said Velour, who identifies as gender fluid. "We're able to see queer performers instead of just seeing drag as part of mainstream entertainment, and I think we're able to define it a little bit more by our sensibilities, and I think that's why there's a kind of blossoming."
The current wave of passion for drag, and the openness with which performers are expressing their identities, is probably indicative of a societal shift that could signal a more inclusive future, Velour said.
"I hope that it does even more for queer people in life," said Velour. "Like the representation of drag on such a big platform, the enjoyment of drag by so many different kinds of people, maybe that will make space for little nonbinary and queer and gender-fluid kids to be seen as normal. I think it's happening."
Check out this video tour for more on the history of the Paramount Theatre on the Asbury Park Boardwalk:
Sasha Velour's "Smoke and Mirrors"
When: 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12
Where: Merriam Theater, 250 South Broad St., Philadelphia
Tickets: $25 to $150
Info: 215-893-1999 or www.kimmelcenter.org
When: 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15
Where: Paramount Theatre, 1300 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park
Info: apboardwalk.com
Online: For more on "Smoke and Mirrors," including tickets and a full list of tour dates, visit www.smokeandmirrorslive.com.

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Fennel salad - who comes up with things like this?
One of my danish friends gave me a book on salads by Claus Meyer called Salatværksted (Salad workshop). A great book with salads for every season. One of the first I had to try was this Fennel Salad. It's light, crispy and phenomenal with Salmon. What it lacks in color, it has tenfolds in taste.
Wash the fennels, cut it very thin on a mandolin. Put the fennel slices in ice cold water.
Thinly sliced fennel and the dressing.
Mix the ingredients for the dressing, season with salt and pepper.
Drain and wipe the fennels dry with kitchen towel. Mix the fennel with the dressing and season with salt and pepper.


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Bob Litan on Derivatives Reform 2: Regulators Not Mounting Up?
How did the credit card bill of last year sweep through Congress so easy, when more general consumer financial protection and derivatives reforms are stalling? Credit default swaps made the crisis obviously worse, but credit cards didn't appear to play a major role. I'm not the best government watcher, but I do know there was one element to the story that made it easier: the Federal Reserve signaled that it was going to implement those rules through its regulatory discretion. From Reuters May 22nd, 2009: "The [credit card] law largely codifies a set of rules issued by the Federal Reserve last year and puts them into effect in February 2010, five months sooner than the Fed had planned."
Your initial reaction may be that this is a cynical move, that the Federal Reserve was going to do something it should be doing but Congress want to be able to take credit for it. But that's backwards. The Federal Reserve is giving cover and protection to Congress from lobbyists and influential donors to pass a bill that will ultimately tie the hands of the Federal Reserve to commit to this action. They reinforce each other by behaving this way – the law codifies with clear rules a floor of regulation on what the Federal Reserve needs to do, and the Federal Reserve allows Congress to go "what could I do? The Federal Reserve was going to do this anyway" when it comes time to vote (and raise donations).
Bob Litan asks the obvious question in his derivative dealers paper: Why don't the regulators go ahead and get started on regulating credit default swaps and other OTC derivatives, or at least aggressively signal that they will do so if Congress fails or if Congress passes a weak derivatives bill? From the paper (my bold):
As a threshold matter, I argue that the current regulators of derivatives markets…have authority to take a number of measures to ensure meaningful reform, regardless of whether Congress enacts some version of the House or the Dodd bills. I want to be clear: statutory reform remains essential, and generally speaking regulators should wait until Congress finishes its work on reform legislation. But regulators are not powerless even under existing law and should take action if legislative reform fails this year, and possibly in some cases even before.
First…the judicious use of capital charges on trades that are not centrally cleared or exchange traded. The Federal Reserve has this ability now and should use it…Second…regulators could require the exchanges to implement both pre-trade and post-trade transparency…Third, regulators could compel governance reform of ICE Trust…Fourth, regulators can and should impose a series of non-discrimination requirements. …Fifth…if the antitrust authorities find broad abuses by dealers and/or entities they control or they could limit dealers to a minority, non-controlling ownership position.
It is laid out in detail in the paper, but capital charges on non-exchange with clearing traded derivatives, or derivatives that trade in the dark. Pre and post trade transparency. Ownership reviews. And a word the administration needs to get behind if it wants to get serious about reform: antitrust. This sounds exactly like what the best administration package would end up doing, and Litan emphasizes the systemic risk portion but I really want to emphasize the election cover portion of it.
Having the regulators already moving on this would help get something not terrible out of the AG committee. If there's a strong challenge, it gives strength to Congress to say "we really do need to pass serious reforms, the biggest financial players are fighting us hard here." If there isn't, then Congress can say "we really don't have a choice", and can lock in the regulators into doing the right thing.
So why aren't we doing this much more strongly than any current efforts? I don't know. We can go back to then Treasury deputy secretary Larry Summer's testimony from July 30th, 1998 where he argued against regulating the over-the-counter derivatives market in the first place:
As you know, Mr Chairman, the CFTC's recent concept release has been a matter of serious concern, not merely to Treasury but to all those with an interest in the OTC derivatives market. In our view, the Release has cast the shadow of regulatory uncertainty over an otherwise thriving market — raising risks for the stability and competitiveness of American derivative trading. We believe it is quite important that the doubts be eliminated….
In this testimony I have put forward some of the considerations that Treasury believes ought to be kept in mind in approaching a resolution of these issues going forward. But this should not distract from our basic point: that any further clarification of the situation, not to mention any new regulation of this market, ought to come with the legitimacy of a clear legislative mandate from Congress.
Back then it was don't do sensible financial regulation lest we lose international competitiveness argument. The same reason we aren't writing in a leverage requirement.
But look at the second part. I also agree that a legislative mandate would be nice before regulators start to signal and/or actually move on regulating credit default swaps. But without a strong signal that "clarification" of a market that put taxpayers on the hook for $200 billion dollars with AIG is coming one way or the other through the regulatory infrastructure already in place, getting a decent law to move in our money saturated politics is going to be impossible.
I bet Summers gets this now. But does Treasury and the Federal Reserve?
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A timeline of Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler's relationship
Sophie Williams
6 January 2023, 10:46 am ·3-min read
Kaia Gerber & Austin Butler relationship timelineMatt Winkelmeyer/MG22 - Getty Images
Model Kaia Gerber and actor Austin Butler's relationship became a topic of conversation back in December 2021. Sparking dating rumours late that year, the model, 20, and Elvis star, 30, have gone from strength to strength, and have since made numerous public appearances together as a couple.
Before hooking up with Austin, Kaia was linked to Euphoria star, Jacob Elordi, and the pair were together for just over a year. The Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood star was previously in a long-term relationship with fellow actor, Vanessa Hudgens, who he was with for over eight years.
But after more than a year of dating, let's look back at the pair's relationship timeline from their first red carpet to a joint photoshoot...
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Following her split from Elordi, Kaia and Austin sparked romance rumours. The two were spotted together attending a yoga class in LA, and pictures at the time (per Mail Online) showed the couple chatting with each other dressed in sports gear.
That same month, PEOPLE reported that Kaia and Austin were spending some time together ahead of the Christmas period. During this time, a source claimed that the model was enjoying spending time with him, adding: "She seems really happy. All of her friends think he's really cute."
Exclusive photos showed the couple together in a supermarket in LA, with Kaia walking her dog and Austin alongside her. It was reported that he cosied up to her at one point and put his arm around her shoulder.
The new couple spent Valentine's Day together in London and were spotted in Primrose Hill grabbing coffee and pastries. The pair were wrapped up in long coats, with an eyewitness telling E! News that they "looked really happy and very comfortable with one another."
March 22nd 2022
After Paris Fashion Week, Kaia and Austin decided to spend a bit of time mooching around the City of Love. According to snaps from Mail Online, the pair left their Paris hotel both wearing black jackets, and Kaia sporting some dark shades.
After around three months of dating, the couple went public with their relationship and made their first red carpet appearance. They attended W Magazine's annual Best Performances party together ahead of the Oscars and were spotted holding hands.
The magazine also shared a snap later of Austin kissing Kaia's cheek outside of the event.
2022's Met Gala saw the loved-up couple sharing a sweet red carpet moment, too. While they opted to walk the carpet separately, they were reunited at the top of the classic Metropolitan Museum of Art staircase and posed for a romantic shot.
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Kaia attended the 75th Cannes Film Festival alongside Austin, who was premiering his new film, Elvis in which he stars as Elvis Presley. The couple were snapped sharing some sweet moments, including a romantic kiss as the model supported her bf.
Kaia accompanied Austin to a screening of Elvis in New York City. The pair were seen strolling hand in hand as they headed to watch the film.
The 20-year-old model did what she does best and joined her beau (well, kind of) in his photoshoot for VMAN 49's Fall-Winter 2022 issue. Both photos were in black in white and saw the actor posing with his back to the camera. Kaia's arms were seen draped around his neck, and her "I know" wrist tattoo was on display, making it obvious it was her in the shot.
Just before Christmas, the couple was seen running some errands while out in LA, just a few days after Austin hosted Saturday Night Live. Both were dressed in casual attire - Kaia in tight gym pants and shades and Austin in all-black and a baseball cap.
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Alright, who's old enough to remember 'All Your Base Are Belong to Us'? Back in 2001, AYBABTU was one of the first 'internet memes', fads based on creating, sharing and remixing content around a specific idea or theme. Since then we've seen everything from dancing hamsters and leet-speaking cats to Diet Coke+Mentos cocktails and the comeback of the most exciting and dynamic musical genius of recent times.
Digital media and the internet have provided us with easy means to make our own digital content and remix content from other sources. The advent of online communities and social networks has dramatically increased the ease with which we can share this material.
These technological facilities have fuelled our passion for participative fads. Driven by the desire to share rituals, to have a sense of belonging and purpose (however transitory and apparently superficial), we seek out new social content and forms of social play. The speed with which we can discover and exploit novelty has increased with each new form of social technology, compressing the adoption curve until we now move from inception through cool to lame in a matter of weeks if not days.
The integration of creative facility with social connection in digital platforms like facebook, MySpace and flickr allows anyone to spark a social fad that might be picked up and spread to social circles far beyond their own. Some time back it became all the rage to tag inanimate objects as your friends in facebook. More recently flickr and facebook have become home to a plethora of fake album covers created based on a simple random process. If you feel the urge to share a little something of yourself, you might alternately like to upload a photo of the books you keep beside the bed.
The important thing about each of these flash-fads is that not only are they interesting to participate in passively (are people actually still reading Nicholas Negroponte, at bedtime no less?), they are almost as easy to participate in actively. Perhaps the most challenging thing is to identify those things that have not yet climbed to the dizzying heights of fad-dom, and predict which have the qualities that will capture the imaginations of thousands of followers. In a recent glimpse into a facebook profile (hi Greer!), I stumbled across a remixed Mr Men graphic where you can tag each character as one of your friends… I'd never seen it before, but watch this space.
These faddish spaces provide a rich, fertile territory that is reminiscent of Barthes' notion of a 'writerly text', constantly open to interpretation and engagement. It is little wonder, then, that they are so appealing to communications professionals looking for vectors through which to deliver brand meaning. Those who remember cherishing their Coke yoyo will appreciate how powerful a tool these trend-based vectors can be. But what role can (and should) a brand play, in this environment? Where are brands welcome (and even invited), and where will their involvement be perceived as intrusive and unwanted?
There are perhaps three different points that a brand can become involved in a flash-fad, determined by what point the fad is at when the brand engages. Asking which point a brand should become involved is an important question, as different brands have different appetites for innovation. As Grant McCracken discusses in 'Flock and Flow', some brands thrive on the cutting edge of trends, others are more at home with the mass consumption of the late majority. Misunderstanding the nature of a brand, or leaping onto a flash-fad at the wrong point can be detrimental to the image of the brand and its relationship with consumers.
For most brands, the most obvious approach with flash-fads is 'jumping on the bandwagon', getting aboard a fad-in-progress, and riding the wave to mass popularity. The challenge here is timing and brand fit – if you can locate a suitable trend, the window of opportunity is often narrower than marketing departments need to deploy a campaign. More ambitious is creating your own fad, wading into the murky social waters and sparking your own outrageously successful participative trend. History does not record the many (many) failures, but examples like Burger King's Simpsonize Me show that it can be done.
An interestingly post-modern twist is the option of critically re-interpreting (or remixing) a trend that has already moved through the innovation cycle. Public imagination was captured by Improv Everywhere's mass performance happening Frozen Grand Central. The act was clearly the inspiration for the less-than-inspiring promotional stunt for the launch of M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening in Australia. That effort felt derivative, and in every way 'less' than the original. A much more engaging spin was T-Mobile's tongue-in-cheek dance commercial which remixed and responded to the original in an innovative and imaginative way.
With the creative and connective power of digital technology only likely to increase, it seems inevitable that flash-fads will become more common, faster, and more highly refined. The rewards for brand successfully engaging with these trends are real, but they are limited by the difficulty of meshing with unpredictable social mass behaviour, and ultimately by the speed with which such fads will fade from social consciousness.
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Song artist 96 - The Police
This page lists the song chart entries of The Police.A list of the hit albums by The Police is also available. The songs are listed with the most widely successful first.
Trio of Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers.
1 The Police Every Breath You Take 1983 UK 1 - May 1983 (11 weeks), US Billboard 1 - Jun 1983 (22 weeks), US BB 1 of 1983, ARC 1 of 1983 (peak 1 20 weeks), Canada 1 - May 1983 (17 weeks), Eire 1 for 4 weeks - May 1983, Canada RPM 1 for 2 weeks - Jun 1983, Canada 1 of 1983, Springbok 1 - Jul 1983 (22 weeks), Spain 1 for 1 week - Aug 1983, Top Song of 1983 of the Billboard 50th list, US CashBox 2 of 1983, US Radio 2 of 1983 (peak 1 16 weeks), Sweden (alt) 2 - Jun 1983 (28 weeks), Norway 2 - Jun 1983 (15 weeks), nuTsie 2 of 1980s, Grammy in 1983 (Nominated), MTV Video of the year 1984 (Nominated), KROQ 3 of 1983, US Gold (certified by RIAA in Aug 1983), Poland 5 - Jun 1983 (12 weeks), South Africa 5 of 1983, Holland 6 - May 1983 (9 weeks), Switzerland 6 - Jul 1983 (6 weeks), Brazil 7 of 1983, Austria 8 - Aug 1983 (3 months), Belgium 8 - Jun 1983 (7 weeks), Germany 8 - Jun 1983 (4 months), ODK Germany 8 - Jun 1983 (19 weeks) (6 weeks in top 10), France (SNEP) 9 - Sep 1983 (1 month), France 10 - May 1983 (1 week), Australia 10 of 1983, Italy 10 of 1983, Virgin 12, Scrobulate 13 of 80s, DMDB 16 (1983), Billboard 50th song 25, 55th Billboard 100 28 (1983), Billboard100 29, Holland free40 33 of 1983, Europe 33 of the 1980s (1983), Acclaimed 38 (1983), OzNet 38, Japan (Tokyo) 41 - Nov 1988 (3 weeks), RIAA 44, POP 49 of 1983, Poland 68 of all time, TheQ 76, Rolling Stone 84, 90 in 2FM list, Vinyl Surrender 97 (1983), Belgium 110 of all time, WXPN 216, UK Silver (certified by BPI in May 1983), RYM 16 of 1983, BBC Rich Song 8 (songwriter royalties $22.3M), one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500
2 The Police Every Little Thing She Does is Magic 1981 UK 1 - Oct 1981 (13 weeks), Canada 1 - Sep 1981 (14 weeks), Holland 1 - Sep 1981 (13 weeks), Eire 1 for 1 week - Nov 1981, Canada RPM 1 for 1 week - Oct 1981, US Billboard 3 - Sep 1981 (18 weeks), Holland free40 4 of 1981, Belgium 4 - Oct 1981 (10 weeks), France 5 - Nov 1981 (1 week), Norway 5 - Oct 1981 (6 weeks), Record World 8 - 1981, Canada 12 of 1981, Springbok 12 - Jan 1982 (7 weeks), Italy 21 of 1981, ODK Germany 21 - Oct 1981 (18 weeks), KROQ 22 of 1981, US CashBox 35 of 1981, WABC NY 38 of 1982, ARC 42 of 1981 (peak 2 14 weeks), POP 51 of 1981, US Radio 58 of 1981 (peak 3 8 weeks), Scrobulate 59 of new wave, US BB 79 of 1982, WXPN 407, OzNet 436, Acclaimed 2178 (1981), UK Silver (certified by BPI in Nov 1981), RYM 29 of 1981
3 The Police Don't Stand So Close to Me 1980 UK 1 - Sep 1980 (10 weeks), Canada 1 - Oct 1980 (17 weeks), Eire 1 for 2 weeks - Sep 1980, Spain 1 for 1 week - Dec 1980, Holland 3 - Sep 1980 (11 weeks), Springbok 3 - Nov 1980 (12 weeks), UK Gold (certified by BPI in Sep 1980), Belgium 5 - Oct 1980 (11 weeks), France 7 - Oct 1980 (1 week), France (SNEP) 9 - Nov 1980 (1 month), Norway 9 - Nov 1980 (3 weeks), US Billboard 10 - Feb 1981 (18 weeks), Record World 12 - 1981, Sweden (alt) 14 - Oct 1980 (6 weeks), Italy 20 of 1980, ODK Germany 23 - Oct 1980 (18 weeks), Poland 29 - Jan 1987 (5 weeks), POP 30 of 1981, KROQ 36 of 1980, Holland free40 37 of 1980, US CashBox 59 of 1981, Canada 66 of 1980, US Radio 68 of 1981 (peak 10 7 weeks), US BB 71 of 1981, WABC NY 73 of 1981, UKMIX 641, WXPN 862, RYM 92 of 1980
4 The Police De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da 1981 Canada 1 - Nov 1980 (14 weeks), Switzerland 4 - Feb 1981 (9 weeks), Springbok 4 - Feb 1981 (10 weeks), UK Gold (certified by BPI in Jan 1981), UK 5 - Dec 1980 (8 weeks), Belgium 7 - Jan 1981 (5 weeks), Austria 8 - Mar 1981 (2 months), KROQ 8 of 1980, France 9 - Dec 1980 (1 week), US Billboard 10 - Oct 1980 (20 weeks), Holland 11 - Dec 1980 (7 weeks), France (SNEP) 13 - Feb 1981 (1 month), ODK Germany 15 - Jan 1981 (24 weeks), Germany 16 - Jan 1981 (3 months), Record World 18 - 1981, South Africa 19 of 1981, POP 20 of 1981, D.Marsh 26 of 1980, Canada 56 of 1981, US BB 57 of 1981, WABC NY 64 of 1981, Scrobulate 72 of favourite, US Radio 74 of 1981 (peak 10 7 weeks), Holland free40 76 of 1981, US CashBox 96 of 1981, RYM 191 of 1980
5 The Police Message in a Bottle 1979 UK 1 - Sep 1979 (11 weeks), Canada 1 - Nov 1979 (13 weeks), Eire 1 for 1 week - Oct 1979, Holland 2 - Oct 1979 (10 weeks), France (SNEP) 2 - Jan 1980 (3 months), UK Gold (certified by BPI in Oct 1979), France 5 - Nov 1979 (1 week), Springbok 5 - Apr 1980 (14 weeks), Belgium 6 - Oct 1979 (9 weeks), Sweden (alt) 20 - Nov 1979 (2 weeks), RIANZ 21 - Dec 1979 (2 weeks), Holland free40 24 of 1979, Virgin 24, Canada 34 of 1980, ODK Germany 35 - Nov 1979 (23 weeks), Scrobulate 58 of 80s, Europe 70 of the 1970s (1979), US Billboard 74 - Nov 1979 (6 weeks), Italy 80 of 1980, nuTsie 99 of 1970s, Belgium 143 of all time, France (InfoDisc) 190 of the 1970s (peak 3, 24 weeks, 687k sales estimated, 1979), WXPN 546, Acclaimed 733 (1979), OzNet 737, RYM 41 of 1979
6 The Police Roxanne 1979 Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008 (1978), France (SNEP) 5 - Aug 1980 (2 months), France 8 - May 1978 (2 weeks), RIANZ 8 - Jun 1979 (16 weeks), Holland free40 9 of 1979, UK 12 - Apr 1979 (9 weeks), D.Marsh 13 of 1979, Holland 21 - Jun 1979 (6 weeks), nuTsie 26 of 1970s, Europe 31 of the 1970s (1978), US Billboard 32 - Feb 1979 (13 weeks), Virgin 38, Record World 39 - 1979, POP 49 of 1979, Scrobulate 73 of new wave, Belgium 76 of all time, Japan (Tokyo) 84 - May 1995 (4 weeks), Poland 88 of all time, TheQ 91, Acclaimed 226 (1978), WXPN 290, Rolling Stone 388, RYM 48 of 1978, one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500
7 The Police Wrapped Around Your Finger 1983 Poland 1 - Aug 1983 (8 weeks), Eire 1 for 3 weeks - Jul 1983, Spain 1 for 1 week - Oct 1983, France 6 - Sep 1983 (2 weeks), UK 7 - Jul 1983 (9 weeks), US Billboard 8 - Jan 1984 (16 weeks), Canada 8 - Jan 1984 (9 weeks), Norway 9 - Sep 1983 (1 week), Belgium 13 - Aug 1983 (5 weeks), Holland 17 - Aug 1983 (5 weeks), Scrobulate 29 of soft rock, ODK Germany 32 - Aug 1983 (12 weeks), US Radio 81 of 1984 (peak 8 7 weeks), US CashBox 84 of 1984, Holland free40 84 of 1983, US BB 85 of 1984, OzNet 358, RYM 69 of 1983
8 The Police King of Pain 1983 Canada RPM 1 for 1 week - Oct 1983, Canada 2 - Aug 1983 (15 weeks), US Billboard 3 - Aug 1983 (16 weeks), France 10 - Feb 1984 (1 week), UK 17 - Jan 1984 (5 weeks), KROQ 17 of 1983, Belgium 19 - Nov 1983 (2 weeks), Canada 30 of 1983, US CashBox 45 of 1983, US Radio 47 of 1983 (peak 3 9 weeks), ARC 49 of 1983 (peak 2 13 weeks), ODK Germany 57 - Nov 1983 (4 weeks), Scrobulate 76 of good, TheQ 310, OzNet 708, RYM 102 of 1984
9 The Police Walking On the Moon 1979 UK 1 - Dec 1979 (10 weeks), Eire 1 for 1 week - Dec 1979, France (SNEP) 2 - May 1980 (2 months), France 2 - Mar 1980 (2 weeks), UK Gold (certified by BPI in Dec 1979), Holland 9 - Dec 1979 (9 weeks), Belgium 10 - Jan 1980 (7 weeks), Springbok 10 - May 1980 (8 weeks), Holland free40 19 of 1980, Poland 29 - Jan 1998 (11 weeks), Scrobulate 72 of new wave, OzNet 250, France (InfoDisc) 258 of the 1980s (peak 6, 23 weeks, 577k sales estimated, 1979), TheQ 338, Acclaimed 1630 (1979), RYM 90 of 1979
10 The Police Spirits in the Material World 1982 France 4 - Feb 1982 (2 weeks), Canada 5 - Dec 1981 (11 weeks), Holland 6 - Dec 1981 (7 weeks), Belgium 7 - Dec 1981 (7 weeks), US Billboard 11 - Jan 1982 (13 weeks), Record World 11 - 1982, UK 12 - Dec 1981 (8 weeks), Holland free40 38 of 1982, ODK Germany 44 - Jan 1982 (10 weeks), KROQ 57 of 1981, US Radio 83 of 1982 (peak 11 5 weeks), US CashBox 96 of 1982, UK Silver (certified by BPI in Jan 1982), RYM 67 of 1982
11 The Police Can't Stand Losing You 1978 UK 2 - Oct 1978 (16 weeks), France 2 - Nov 1978 (1 week), Holland 9 - Aug 1979 (9 weeks), Belgium 12 - Sep 1979 (6 weeks), Holland free40 18 of 1979, RIANZ 48 - Nov 1979 (2 weeks), UK Silver (certified by BPI in Aug 1979), RYM 51 of 1978
12 The Police Synchronicity II 1983 Canada 15 - Nov 1983 (8 weeks), US Billboard 16 - Nov 1983 (13 weeks), UK 17 - Nov 1983 (4 weeks), KROQ 45 of 1983, US Radio 110 of 1983 (peak 16 5 weeks), RYM 46 of 1983
13 The Police So Lonely 1979 UK 6 - Feb 1980 (10 weeks), Holland free40 10 of 1979, France 10 - Apr 1979 (1 week), Holland 31 - Apr 1979 (4 weeks), Belgium 250 of all time, UK Silver (certified by BPI in Mar 1980), RYM 82 of 1978
14 The Police Invisible Sun 1981 UK 2 - Sep 1981 (8 weeks), France 4 - Oct 1981 (2 weeks), UK Silver (certified by BPI in Sep 1981), RYM 39 of 1981
15 The Police Don't Stand So Close to Me '86 1986 Holland 20 - Oct 1986 (5 weeks), UK 24 - Oct 1986 (4 weeks), US Billboard 46 - Oct 1986 (9 weeks)
16 The Police The Bed's Too Big Without You 1980 France 5 - Mar 1980 (3 weeks), RYM 170 of 1980
17 The Police Bring on the Night 1979 France 6 - Dec 1979 (1 week), RYM 189 of 1979
18 The Police Tea in the Sahara 1983 Poland 7 - Oct 1983 (8 weeks), RYM 102 of 1984
19 The Police Truth Hits Everybody 1980 Scrobulate 93 of live, RYM 170 of 1980
20 The Police Hungry For You (J'aurais Toujours Faim De Toi) 1982 KROQ 12 of 1982
21 The Police Can't Stand Losing You (Live) 1995 UK 27 - May 1995 (2 weeks)
22 The Police Murder By Numbers 1983 Poland 29 - Mar 1984 (4 weeks), RYM 16 of 1983
23 The Police Too Much Information 1982 KROQ 42 of 1982
24 The Police Secret Journey 1982 US Billboard 46 - Apr 1982 (8 weeks)
25 The Police One World (Not Three) 1982 KROQ 58 of 1982
26 The Police One World 1981 KROQ 104 of 1981
27 The Police Canary In A Coalmine 1980 KROQ 61 of 1980
28 The Police Driven to Tears 1980 KROQ 83 of 1980
29 The Police Six Pack 1980 UK 17 - Jun 1980 (4 weeks)
30 The Police Fall Out 1979 UK 47 - Nov 1979 (4 weeks)
31 The Police Once Upon a Daydream 1983 RYM 46 of 1983
32 The Police Someone to Talk To 1983 RYM 69 of 1983
33 The Police Flexible Strategies 1981 RYM 29 of 1981
34 The Police Shambelle 1981 RYM 39 of 1981
35 The Police Peanuts 1978 RYM 48 of 1978
36 The Police Dead End Job 1978 RYM 51 of 1978
37 The Police No Time This Time 1978 RYM 82 of 1978
38 The Police Landlord 1979 RYM 41 of 1979
39 The Police Visions of the Night 1979 RYM 90 of 1979
40 The Police Friends 1980 RYM 92 of 1980
41 The Police A Sermon 1980 RYM 191 of 1980
42 The Police Next to You unknown Scrobulate 95 of best mouth in rock
In addition to the above listed songs The Police also contributed to the following entries:
1 Sting & The Police Roxanne '97 1997 Japan (Tokyo) 11 - Dec 1997 (11 weeks), UK 17 - Dec 1997 (6 weeks), Poland 17 - Nov 1997 (6 weeks), Holland 38 - Nov 1997 (3 weeks), POP 41 of 1998, US Billboard 59 - Dec 1997 (13 weeks)
2 Different Gear & The Police When the World is Running Down 2000 UK 28 - Aug 2000 (3 weeks)
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How did our industry start, what paths did it take to get to where we are, and where is it going. What big problems did programmers encounter in the past? How were they solved? And how do those solutions impact our future? What mistakes have we made as a profession; and how are we going to correct them. In this talk, Uncle Bob describes the history of software, from it's beginnings in 1948 up through the current day; and then beyond. By looking at our past trajectory, we try to plot out where our profession is headed, and what challenges we'll face along the way.
Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) has been a programmer since 1970. He is the Master Craftsman at 8th Light inc, an acclaimed speaker at conferences worldwide, and the author of many books including: The Clean Coder, Clean Code, Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices, and UML for Java Programmers.
Hello everybody ! Today in this tutorial i will show you how to make multiple restaurant with our Eat It App. We will modify our database and make this Server app support Multiple restaurantbackend". So I decided to use Firebase in this tutorial.
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Kunming, Yunnan, China – Kunming is the capital and largest city in Yunnan province China. So I was excited to explore the local market in Kunming and eat as much street food as possible!
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Dumpling – 1 RMB ($0.15) – I saw these dumplings sizzling and hissing and there was no way I could walk by without trying one. Stuffed inside were leek and egg. They were a little on the oily side, but delicious.
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Medicare can help fix the nurse shortage in hospitals
By Linda H. Aiken and Claire M. FaginFeb. 8, 2022
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There's no polite way to say this: The U.S. health care system failed the American people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Unless we admit to the failures — like not having enough nurses in hospitals — we are bound to repeat them.
The U.S. spends considerably more on health care per capita than any other country in the world, with a total bill exceeding $4 trillion in 2020. U.S hospitals alone spent close to $1.3 trillion in 2020 and still failed to employ enough nurses — even before the pandemic — to provide safe and effective care.
In the midst of the pandemic, hospital leaders have blamed everyone but themselves for not having enough nurses. They blamed a national nurse shortage when nursing schools are graduating close to 180,000 new nurses every year, a 250% increase since 2000, suggesting the problem is not supply but objectionable working conditions. They blamed nurses for leaving the profession in droves, even though less than 5% of nurses say they plan to leave nursing — though more than 20% say they intend to leave their hospital jobs. Hospitals blamed supplemental staffing agencies for driving up nurse salaries, even complaining to the Federal Trade Commission and to Congress.
And hospital leaders conveniently overlook the fact that many hospitals furloughed nurses without pay after the first wave of Covid-19, after they had risked their lives to care for tens of thousands of critically ill Americans. Such labor practices do not engender employee loyalty.
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High nurse turnover rates in hospitals do indeed show that nurses are leaving their employers, which gives an exaggerated perception of nurse shortages. These departures are understandable, since 47% of bedside nurses were experiencing high job-related burnout and one-third were dissatisfied with poor working conditions before the pandemic emerged.
But staffing agencies are meeting the need for an organized way to deploy nurses to the hardest-hit places, and without them patient outcomes could be worse. If such agencies did not exist, we would have had to invent them to move nurses nationally during the pandemic.
Other countries are also having problems attracting and retaining nurses. But none have as many nurses as the U.S. does, nor do they spend as much as the U.S. to end up closing in on 900,000 deaths from Covid-19 as we write this; and with families separated from their loved ones when they were sick and dying; nurses, doctors, and other clinicians experiencing life-altering burnout and stress; hospitals rationing care; and emergency departments in chaos.
It is past time for the federal government to step in with strategic and specific interventions to eliminate chronic understaffing and nurse shortages in hospitals permanently, not just during Covid. There's no need for new legislation — the federal government can use its existing authority under Medicare to require safe nursing staffing.
In the federal system of government, the states are responsible for licensing health care facilities and health care providers. However, the deep pockets of hospital interests work against state legislatures passing regulations to assure adequate nurse staffing. In Massachusetts, hospital groups reportedly spent $25 million to defeat a 2018 general ballot initiative to require hospitals to meet standards for safe nurse staffing. No state has successfully passed such standards since California did so in 1999. Under the California regulation, patients in that state's hospitals on average receive three hours a day more nursing care than patients in other states.
Studies in New York and Illinois estimate that minimum hospital nurse staffing standards would save thousands of lives — just among people covered by Medicare — each year. Even so the New York State legislature failed to pass safe patient-to-nurse ratios for hospitals last year after experiencing the brunt of the Covid-19 emergency.
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A recent Harris poll showed that more than 90% of the public want nurse staffing standards in hospitals, but states are not getting it done.
The federal government has a potent policy vehicle to address nurse shortages in hospitals: the rules of Medicare participation. The U.S. Supreme Court just upheld a Covid-19 vaccination mandate for employees in organizations participating in Medicare using this authority. Similarly, in 1964, the federal government succeeded in racially integrating the nation's hospitals almost overnight and without much fanfare by threatening to withhold federal funding in the soon-to-be enacted Medicare program.
The federal government can require hospitals participating in Medicare to adhere to specific quality standards, including safe nurse staffing standards. There is precedent, as Medicare already requires nursing homes receiving Medicare reimbursement to meet a minimum nurse staffing standard. Two decades of research and experience with California's mandated nurse staffing levels offer an excellent guide to setting minimum standards for hospitals participating in Medicare, which is basically all hospitals.
In the U.S. hospitals are big business. It is time to change how they conduct that business. For decades, the hospital industry has failed to voluntarily implement safe nurse staffing and failed to police those hospitals that commonly violate evidence-based staffing norms.
Changes to Medicare can help solve the otherwise intractable problem of nurse understaffing in hospitals. The U.S. has the nurses. Americans deserve their care.
Linda H. Aiken is a registered nurse, a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and a professor in the School of Nursing and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Claire M. Fagin is a registered nurse and a professor and dean emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing.
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You'll have a chance to ask questions and receive individual feedback on your practice. You will be taught uijayi breath and how to correctly use your core muscles during your practice. The extra time will allow you to get a better understanding of how to match your breath with your movement. You'll learn how to adapt poses to suit you and your body.
Going slower means getting stronger! Learn how to make it all feel easier, to balance effort with surrender, holding on to what is helpful and letting go of the rest.
Tailored dance workshops available, learn more.