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Remember the S&L Bailout? John McCain Hopes You Don't
This afternoon, John McCain joined in a summit with his rival Barack Obama and President George W. Bush, after "suspending" his campaign and rushing back to Washington to help rescue the American economy. As pundits and the public argue over whether this is the patriotic act of a true statesman or the desperate stunt of a political operator, McCain hopes they will forget what it really is for him: pure deja vu. McCain has already been here and done this, back in the roaring eighties, when he was in the thick of another financial meltdown that yielded a huge government bailout—and the worst scandal of his own political career.
The savings and loan crisis developed along lines remarkably similar to the current sub-prime crisis: A flurry of deregulation gave S&Ls the capabilities of major commercial banks without the corresponding oversight and regulation. S&Ls proceeded to make high-risk investments, including thousands of unsound mortgages during a housing boom. The government looked away—until the bottom fell out and the S&Ls started to fall like dominoes. Then it stepped in with a bailout of then-unprecedented levels, which added to ballooning deficits and ushered in years of recession.
When the S&L scandal unfolded, Barack Obama was working as a community organizer in Chicago, and George W. Bush was busy running a series of failed oil ventures and managing his baseball team in Texas. But John McCain was already in Congress—and in the S&L mess up to his neck.
The story of McCain's hinky financial dealings is told by Stephen Pizzo, Mary Fricker, and Paul Muolo, in their excellent book on the scandal, Inside Job. As they describe it, one day in 1987, Senator Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) asked Ed Gray, head of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (and a former press aide to Ronald Reagan) to stop by his Washington office. When Gray arrived he was unexpectedly was ushered into a meeting attended not only by DeConcini but also by Senators John McCain, John Glenn (D-Ohio), and Alan Cranston (D-Calif.).
All of these men had received substantial campaign contributions from Charles Keating, the colorful California developer (and anti-porn crusader) who owned American Continental Corporation and its subsidiary, Lincoln Savings and Loan. From 1982 through 1987, McCain had received $112,000. All four could also claim Keating as a constituent: Lincoln Savings was headquartered in California, and ACC was incorporated in Ohio and headquartered in Phoenix.
At the time, Keating's operations were under investigation for questionable dealings and there was widespread suspicion in Congress that Gray's Home Loan Bank Board might end up seizing them.
The four got right to the point: Why were Gray's examiners in San Francisco giving Keating such a hard time? It was noted that Lincoln, which had 24 branches, had started off making a lot of home loans—then suddenly stopped making them. "What do you want?" Gray asked.
DeConcini offered a deal: We'll assure you that they'll make more home loans and get into the basic business of home lending if you do something —you have to withdraw the equity risk regulations. These regulations required S&Ls involved in direct lending to set aside additional cash reserves in case there were big losses.
Gray was taken aback. Here he was facing four senators trying to negotiate business with him on behalf of a savings and loan that was in a regulatory procedure. Everyone in and out of government in Washington knows that politicians are not permitted to interfere with the regulatory process—though of course, they often do.
Gray refused to make deals, telling the senators if they had more questions to talk to the president of the San Francisco Federal Home Loan Bank Board. And sure enough, a few days later DeConcini asked the San Francisco officials to come to Washington to discuss "the Lincoln problem." Gathered at DeConcini's office were McCain, Glenn, Cranston, and Michigan Democrat Don Riegle from the Senate Banking Committee. At this meeting, Jim Cirona, the San Francisco FHLBB president, was confronted by DeConcini, who said the federal bank regulators were out to get Keating. Then McCain, apparently trying to be cute, said, "ACC is a big employer and important to the local economy….I wouldn't want any special favors for them…I don't want any part of our conversation to be improper."
But since the whole thing was improper, McCain proceeded in his unctuous way to suggest the regulators' examination of Keating's operations was taking too long. Maybe things would work better if there were "voluntary" instead of mandatory guidelines, he suggested.
At first incredulous at being put in this position by the senators, Cirona's team finally lost it, and told them they were sending a criminal referral on Lincoln to the Justice Department. This appeared to have a sobering effect, and the meeting ended. The San Francisco officials recommended that the government take control of Lincoln to stop its unsound lending practices, but it stayed in business for two more years—long enough to push high-risk investments on thousands of elderly investors, who lost their life savings when ACC finally went under in 1989. One member of the House Banking Committee, which investigated Lincoln, called it "a legal bank robbery."
After the scandal broke, Keating said to reporters: "One question, among many raised in recent weeks, had to do with whether my financial support in any way influenced several political figures to take up my cause. I want to say in the most forceful way I can: I certainly hope so."
But McCain initially insisted, "I have done this kind of thing many, many times" for various constituents, and compared what he'd done for Keating's firms to "helping the little lady who didn't get her Social Security." Later–echoing the language, but not the tone, of his coy quips in the meeting with the FHLBB–he would admit that "The appearance of it was wrong. It's a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do."
The senators who had defended the miscreants became briefly notorious as the "Keating Five," implicated in influence peddling as part of one of the most crooked ripoffs in modern history. Three of them ended their political careers, but McCain and Glenn escaped with a scolding from the Senate Ethics Committee for "poor judgment," and emerged relatively unscathed.
The scandal, never well understood by the public, seems to have been quickly forgotten. And astonishingly, it has thus far failed to gain much traction in the presidential election, in spite of the striking parallels between then and now. So twenty years later, a once scandal-ridden John McCain leads the charge up Capitol Hill to defend the American public from what he calls the "villains" of Wall Street.


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Inaugural Top Ten Event in Toronto August 4 2011 for the Stephen Lewis Foundation
Stellar line-up for Top Ten Event
Jake Gold, Kelly Carlson round out 10 speakers for inaugural event
Thursday, August 4, 2011 at the Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto
Toronto, ON – Stuart Knight is pleased to announce the final list of speakers and their topics for the first-ever Top Ten Event. Taking place on Thursday, August 4 at the Isabel Bader Theatre, this unique event will inspire, educate and entertain while raising money and awareness for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, an organization that supports grassroots projects turning the tide of AIDS in Africa.
The 10 inspiring Canadians taking part in the Top Ten Event are (alphabetically by last name):
• Kelly Carlson (actress Nip/Tuck): on Manifesting Your Life
• Donna Dooher (chef, cookbook author and owner of Mildred's Temple Kitchen): on Food
• Jake Gold (CEO, The Management Trust; EVP, Entertainment Business Affairs; Canadian Idol judge): on the Music Industry
• Rex Harrington (Artist-in-Residence at the National Ballet of Canada and guest judge on So You Think You Can Dance Canada - pictured): on Partnerships
• George Kourounis (storm chaser and host of OLN's Angry Planet): on Your Comfort Zone
• Dr. Samantha Nutt (founder of War Child Canada): on Making a Difference
• Lisa Ray (international performer and philanthropist - pictured below): on Accepting Life
• Bruce Poon Tip (founder of GAP Adventures): on Adventure
• Shevaun Voisin (founder of Motivated Magazine): on the Power of Audacity
• W. Brett Wilson (entrepreneur, philanthropist and host of Risky Business):on Success
Cameras will film the evening as part of Risky Business, a new television series hosted by Wilson that will begin airing on Monday, September 12 on the Slice Network.
• Tickets retail for $40 or $60 and are available now at www.eventbrite.com.
About Stuart Knight:
Stuart Knight is an entrepreneur, actor, entertainer, writer and producer. He graduated from the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. Since establishing his company, Knight has written, produced and starred in shows that have been seen by more than one million people across North America. Each year, he travels the country giving inspirational speeches and workshops, and has shared the stage with such notable names as Pamela Wallin, Robin Sharma and Jenny McCarthy. He has a new book titled You Should Have Asked – the Art of Powerful Conversation.
About The Stephen Lewis Foundation:
The Stephen Lewis Foundation (SLF) supports community-level organizations that are turning the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa by providing care and support to women, children orphaned by AIDS, grandmothers, and people living with HIV and AIDS. Since 2003, the SLF has funded more than 700 initiatives with 300 community-based organizations in the 15 African countries hardest hit by the pandemic.
• Twitter: @stephenlewisfdn
• Facebook: The Stephen Lewis Foundation
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The vShield Endpoint drivers are renamed as Guest Introspection Drivers and two of these drivers, NSX File Introspection Driver (vsepflt.sys) and NSX Network Introspection Driver (vnetflt.sys), can be installed separately now. This allows you to install the file driver without installing the network driver.
If you've been using custom automated installations of the VMware Tools like me then you might have to adjust the installer command for newer tools versions.


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No Time for a Trade War
Apr 6, 2010 Joseph E. Stiglitz
The battle over China's exchange rate is heating up again, with the US Treasury soon to assess whether China is a "currency manipulator." But the concept itself is flawed – all governments take actions that directly or indirectly affect the exchange rate – and China's multilateral trade surplus is significantly smaller than that of Saudi Arabia or the combined total for Japan and Germany.
NEW YORK – The battle with the United States over China's exchange rate continues. When the Great Recession began, many worried that protectionism would rear its ugly head. True, G-20 leaders promised that they had learned the lessons of the Great Depression. But 17 of the G-20's members introduced protectionist measures just months after the first summit in November 2008. The "Buy American" provision in the United States' stimulus bill got the most attention. Still, protectionism was contained, partly due to the World Trade Organization.
Continuing economic weakness in the advanced economies risks a new round of protectionism. In America, for example, more than one in six workers who would like a full-time job can't find one.
These were among the risks associated with America's insufficient stimulus, which was designed to placate members of Congress as much as it was to revive the economy. With soaring deficits, a second stimulus appears unlikely, and, with monetary policy at its limits and inflation hawks being barely kept at bay, there is little hope of help from that department, either. So protectionism is taking pride of place.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, is Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute and a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank. His most recent book is People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent.
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Popillia graueri är en skalbaggsart som beskrevs av Friedrich Ohaus 1914.

Popillia graueri ingår i släktet Popillia och familjen Rutelidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Q: How to add custom field to certificate using openssl I'm trying to create certificates for internal use. I'm the CA and I would like to have an additional field in my client certificates so that when I generate a certificate for a client, it will hold some specific data in that field.
I read the following article and another article and I understand that I can do that with x509 v3 format by generating an oid for each field, and then use it with the -extfile parameter when creating the public key
so I took the deafult /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf config file and uncomment one of the mentioned fields:
[ new_oids ]
testoid1 = 1.2.3.4

Then I generate all the certificates by the following:
openssl genrsa -aes256 -out ca-key.pem 4096
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca-key.pem -sha256 -out ca.pem -config openssl.cnf
openssl genrsa -out key.pem 4096
openssl req -subj '/CN=client' -new -key key.pem -out client.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -sha256 -in client.csr -CA ca.pem -CAkey ca-key.pem  -CAcreateserial -out cert.pem -extfile extfile.cnf

Where extfile.cnf content is:
1.2.3.4 = Something

I get:
Error Loading extension section default
140218200073872:error:22097082:X509 V3 routines:DO_EXT_NCONF:unknown extension name:v3_conf.c:125:
140218200073872:error:22098080:X509 V3 routines:X509V3_EXT_nconf:error in extension:v3_conf.c:95:name=1.2.3.4, value=Something
unable to write 'random state'

Documentation in this topic is lacking. Can someone walk me through it and explain how it can be done?

A: In order to add a custom field, first create a config file:
[req]
req_extensions = v3_req

[v3_req]
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8=ASN1:UTF8String:Something

Then, create the CSR:
openssl req [params] -out mycsr.csr -config myconfig.cnf

Then, Create the certificate:
openssl x509 -req -sha256 -in mycsr.csr [params] -out mycert.pem -extfile myconfig.cnf -extensions v3_req

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As anyone who reads this blog knows, I'm not doing a great job these days of posting here. Life, ya know?
And yet…I just looked at my blog stats and there are hits for pretty much every single day. Not tons. But close to as many as I used to get when I blogged daily. I think it's because at this point I have 400+ posts up and they pop up enough in search terms that I get a little traffic.
It's the benefit of having posted so much so early.
I can assure you that my "for readers" blog does not show that same pattern. I never had that steady series of posts on it when it started, so I never gained momentum that allowed the blog to move forward without me.
Interestingly, I'm seeing the same on the short stories. Not a ton of sales (not by any means), but sales. With no real promotion behind it. They're out there and people are just kind of stumbling upon them. Which works for now.
Since self-pubbing I have made money off of my writing every single month.
I think both of those are an argument in favor of putting in some heavy effort up front. Whether that's blogging or writing and subbing a bunch of short stories or writing a novel and subbing it to a bunch of agents/editors.
Whatever it is, put in that effort up front and it'll help to carry you through the slow points.
For now, I'm still not writing. I'm doing lots of thinking about a couple of novel ideas, but I have yet to sit down and start typing. I'm okay with that. Writing is what I do for my soul, not my paycheck.
I don't feel blocked so much as on pause, but I thought I'd share a good post on writer's block by Hayden Trenholm.
So the first thing I would say to those of you who find they no longer are writing as much as they did or they want, examine your life. Do you have a new job or has your existing one become busier or more interesting. New relationship? New baby in the house? New city to learn? You probably have enough on your plate without beating yourself up about not writing. So quit it. Enjoy the other creative aspects of living and come back to writing when you are ready.
So, yes. This. Right now my life is demanding my attention. New project, new(ish) city, long hours, puppy that is only getting older every day (but really does give me plenty of time to write because she likes to sleep for hours on end…) That all means that in my free time I don't want to write right now.
But for a few months.
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Siren signs U.S. public sector OEM partnership with Elastic
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
Combined technologies provide pioneering investigative intelligence capabilities.
GALWAY, IRELAND, May 13, 2020 – Siren, the investigative intelligence platform, today announced it had signed an OEM partnership with Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC) ("Elastic"), the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack. Under the agreement, Siren will embed the commercial distribution of Elasticsearch into its platform to provide a unique solution for organizations and institutions within the US Federal marketspace, backed up and supported by Elastic for ultimate end-to-end platform resilience and stability which are core in mission-critical applications.
John Randles, CEO of Siren, said: "Our relationship with Elastic is driven by client demand and reflects the appeal of each solution to the Law Enforcement and Intelligence communities in particular. The demand for investigative intelligence and large-scale interconnected data analysis is accelerating rapidly. Our platform, combined with Elasticsearch, uniquely enables this in real-time at a scale that government organizations require. In addition, we see great potential for the combined solutions in providing state of the art link analysis capabilities and real-time correlations to the cyber domain."
"Combining the power of Elasticsearch with the Siren platform ensures that customers have an integrated and supported solution from the point of data ingestion through the investigative analysis and workflow process," said George Young, Vice President, U.S. Public Sector at Elastic. "We are aligned with Siren's mission and leadership and are thrilled to build a partnership that will put the power of its investigative intelligence platform into the hands of organizations addressing some of the world's most important challenges."
The combined Siren and Elastic solution
"Siren – Semantic Information Retrieval Engine – is an investigative platform which was conceived from the start to leverage the best of Search Engine technology, while augmenting it for investigative users with technology like ontologies and link analysis," continued Randles. "Thanks to Elasticsearch being open source, we were able to start Siren and reach the current extraordinary level of interest from high-end investigative customers. It's extremely significant to partner with Elastic now and be able to provide the best of the joint commercial offerings in a single package."
Siren extends the native Elasticsearch capabilities via a plugin which can perform real-time big data correlations (joins) within Elasticsearch clusters, a critical capability for the Analyst community in the Federal Government. Based on this core technology Siren also provides:
Knowledge Graph concepts, driven by a user-defined associative data model – powering explorative associative data navigation and link analysis
Support for advanced graph/map/timeline fusions, custom
Support for real-time unstructured and noisy content analysis with topic clustering, NLP, Entity Resolution
Support for "on demand" data integration with Web Service interfaces and custom scriptable workflows
Fusion of Elasticsearch data with that in other backends, with support for dozens of different backends, also with no ETL requirements.
For Investigative Intelligence, Siren's strongly configurable NLP can extract locations, events, dates, amounts, sentiment, and salience (prominence). In conjunction with Elasticsearch, Siren can be used to identify and relate callers from different areas and times, find connections at scale between indices, and conduct before/after event investigations at scale – must have features for moving-target investigations. Interactive correlations enable free-form investigations and allow users to ask powerful questions.
For Elasticsearch users, Siren's AI-driven Entity Resolution (ER) capabilities enables real-time (no recalculation required) fuzzy matching on records at a billion-record scale. It provides users with the ability to recognize that records across different tables and data sources, using different schemas and different languages, are in fact talking about the same entity (for example, person or company). Siren ER is capable of "self-correcting" previous statements as new information arrives.
Elasticsearch, part of the Elastic Stack, is a distributed, open source search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured. The Elastic Stack is a set of open source tools for data ingestion, enrichment, storage, analysis, and visualization that are known for speed, scale, and interoperability. Siren can be used across industries to build enhanced Elasticsearch-based applications for mission-critical use cases in Cybersecurity, Fraud and Financial Crime, and Investigative Intelligence and Law Enforcement.
About Siren
Siren provides the leading Investigative Intelligence platform to some of the world's largest and most complex organizations for Investigative Intelligence on their data. Rooted in academic R&D in information retrieval, distributed computing and knowledge representation, the Siren platform provides integrated investigative intelligence combining previously disconnected capability of search, business intelligence, link analysis and big data operational logging and alerting.
Among Siren awards are Technology Innovation of the Year and the Irish Startup of the Year (Ireland's National Tech Excellence awards). For more information, visit www.siren.io or write to us.
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Cameron Slater as the 4th Journalist of the Apocalypse - why I resigned from Truth
"Dare I say it, Bomber has resigned from The Truth = Slater has improved the MSM already"
That was Jane Clifton's tweet yesterday. For all those years on top of Murray McCully, I would have expected something funnier.
When Joe Lose and I first spoke in April about doing a left wing-right wing column in the revamp of The Truth once he became editor, I first suggested to him getting Slater on board. My hope was that some honest money in Slater's pocket would end his reliance on evil PR spin doctors that saw him breach so many ethical standards when he published the personal work employment history of a wharf worker who had the temerity to protest against his employer.
Slater's email response to me on April 13th to the idea was his usual caustic self...
When I say get fucked, I mean get fucked.
...charmer isn't he? As I understand it, Slater went on to make veiled threats to the editor about going over his head to the owner to have me dumped in preference of himself.
Looks like he has kept his word.
I shouldn't have been surprised I suppose, Slater had one month earlier sent me a slightly bizarre email making all sorts of threats about line crossing based on some self created hysterical reading of his depression in words of mine critical of his delusion to use his condition as an excuse while attacking people.
I had called him the wolf that cries boy when he does that. Apparently that was enough to have 'crossed the line'.
Working alongside Cam is one thing, working for him requires far too many decontamination showers. I couldn't work for a man who purposely promoted an interview with Jim Anderton that was edited on purpose to look like Jim had said an earthquake would be the only thing that could cost him the election. I couldn't work for a man who was calling for Cornelius Arie Smith to be gut shot for looting before his Aspergers was made public. I couldn't work for a man with such a hysterical hatred of Unions that he willingly published the personal details of an employee to point score.
Oh and let's not forget his claim that Chris Carter's decade old dead mother was using a taxpayer funded cell phone.
No, I couldn't work for Christian Family man and gun fetishist Cameron Slater. He's not a journalist, he's a far right hate merchant whose blog borders on hate speech. He fluffs his page view numbers with biblical quotes and gun porn while waving his proGay marriage flag around to hold the high ground on an issue more to confound and blunt his opponents attacks on him than any real personal values of equality.
So once I heard he had gerrymandered his ascension to editor, I decided to leave. So did Ross Meurant.
That's a personal choice, no reflection on what Joe Lose had tried to do to restart the paper. As one of NZs only independent newspapers for 125 years, The Truth's overwhelmingly blue collar male 30+ audience are the exact readers Labour and the left should be appealing to. Joe was doing an amazing job of bringing some real issues to the table for his readers during his time as editor. His desire to appeal to his readers better angels was admirable, but apparently not enough, which leads to Slater as editor.
It'll be more popular than Mary Poppins musical tickets for single women in their 30s. What many of the detractors on the Standard fail to appreciate is that Slater is one of the best propagandists in NZ today. His ability to twist issues and appeal to people's worst natures while pretending to be their best nature is an art that he is the undisputed king of.
He will make the Truth relevant again, he'll slice through the MSM with a laser. He'll make them look tired and irrelevant, Slater will weaponize that newspaper and start a very unique movement.
You have to hand it to the Crows, those boys like to make money and in Slater they have found an editor who will manage to whip the NZ public up with all the speed of a Don Brash Orewa speech. He will take their 16 000 circulation and boost that with a 24 hour online news presence to dizzying heights.
He will have an impact as corrosive as Satan's sperm and it will surprise many how successful he will be. Expect vicious personalized attacks, union bashing, Maori bashing, leftie bashing, pro gun nonsense, worship of Judith Collins, climate change denial, etc etc etc, he will inject a toxin into the public discourse that will be as addictive as it is destructive.
When Mike Hosking can get away with such blatant racism on ZB to an educated audience, imagine what Slater can do with an uneducated one?
The only thing that could trip Slater up is the fine line of defamation. Online bloggers can get away with a lot, in a newspaper the law is far more crushing. If Slater can manage to remain as editor until 2014, you would have to say Key had a better chance of winning. By then, Slater will have generated a reader base both vast and ugly. If he can't control himself however, he will end the Truth in one hell of a defamation case.
The Standard write Slater off as a joke, I think that is a terrible under-appraisal of the rampage he can now cause. Fascinating times ahead.
posted by Bomber @ 7:23 am 15 comments
At 1/11/12 8:46 am, Chris Trotter said...
All the more reason to have stayed on board, Bomber.
Cameron Slater may be somewhat less refined than the Jane Cliftons and John Roughans of this world, but he offers very little that is substantially different from the MSM's fare.
Does the daily press, radio and television beat up on unionists and demonise beneficiaries? Yes. Does it promote capitalism and denigrate the Left? Yes.
And yet, we're happy to write for it and appear on electronic media shows.
If Truth really does reach working-class readers, and Mr Slater is at all interested in presenting a range of opinions (which is simply basic editorial common sense) then the Left should be in there boots and all.
You should have stayed, Bomber. If Mr Slater had sacked you - well that would have been a sign that everything his critics say about him is true. But, I suspect he'd have been too shrewd to have handed his opponents such a large stick to beat him with so early in the piece.
You've made it easy for him, Bomber.
At 1/11/12 10:26 am, Tim Selwyn said...
Heard Slater had been appointed editor yesterday and - after laughing - immediately thought of your column: how long?. Then thought about someone like him now throwing stones from the inside of the glasshouse and how long that could possibly last. Probably the right thing to do for the owners to shake things up, but I can't see someone with Slater's personality type lasting very long in what is essentially still a part of the mainstream media.
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/cameron-slater-named-truth-editor-promises-overhaul-ck-131562
NBR reporting Josie Pagani will do the left column!? WTF? It's supposed to be LEFT. Didn't take long to make the first mistake.
Not sure how his internet strategy will work on a news basis and how that will fit in with his blog - would be best to stick to porn if the Truth wants to get its online audience up... as it were.
Chris: You appear to have overstated Mr Slater's shrewdness. He's been quoted in the NBR link above:
""He quit before I could cut him," Mr Slater told NBR ONLINE last night."
At 1/11/12 10:41 am, Magpie said...
I'd say you dodged a bullet either way. Slater's personality/ego will be his undoing, sooner rather than later.
At 1/11/12 12:47 pm, Paul said...
Im with you Bomber, I cant stand Jane Clifton, if she want to see crap in the MSM she only needs to look at her own weekly column in the Listener and also Guyon Aspinnner.
At 1/11/12 12:48 pm, Frank said...
Slater as an editor of a MSM newspaper?
This will not end well.
I suspect he'll struggle for the first year or two (if he lasts that long). With National in power, targetting the Parliamentary Opposition will be a futile act.
http://fmacskasy.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/nz-truth-cameron-style/
At 1/11/12 2:09 pm, Tim said...
If they'd REALLY wanted to revive Truth, there are still a couple of Bryants around, either of them better placed than a slater (or a slug). Incidentally, one has far more journalistic experience than a piss-ugly Cameron
At 1/11/12 2:52 pm, Anonymous said...
More Goebbelsian garbage in the MSM. My utmost pity goes out to the trees sacrificed to print the nonsensical ravings of this lunatic and co.
At 1/11/12 3:33 pm, adam said...
Shame, you could have asked for a 90 day trial. Imagine Slater not being able to edit you as he wants for 90 days and 89 nights.
Silly question - but he looks more and more like David Grey as he gets older??
At 1/11/12 5:10 pm, Barnsley Bill said...
We have printed this post and it will be framed and put up in the office.
Haters be hating
At 2/11/12 9:08 am, countryboy said...
Pondering Slater is as futile and pointless as oiling a squeaky door hinge on the sinking Titanic . We are well gone I'm afraid . Slater is just going to put yet another bullet in the dead body . Slater is the turd that just won't flush .
I also have to say that on an instinctual level I feel just that little more vulnerable knowing that Bomber has left , thus Slater has won . No matter the speculation of Slater being his own undoing , he will certainly appeal to the soulless and the simple minded and I'm fearful for what that will mean for us all .
Our society has become toxic , sickly and synthetic . I'm out of here for the sake of my mental health or whats left of it .
It's been emotional ...
At 2/11/12 8:53 pm, Frank said...
@ Barnsley Bill
Doubleplusgood!! Thoughtcrime will not be tolerated. The Thoughtpolice are on their way to take Bomber to the Ministry of Truth.
One way or another, Bill, Bomber will come to love Dear Leader.
At 5/11/12 12:55 am, paul scott said...
The fact is Slater did a good interview on 'Nation" I think with Brian Edwards and Bill Ralston and God he slayed them. Not just in a alpha sort of way, also intellectually. well almost.
Television changes everything, this was mainstream coverage and he Slater won hands down.
If he persecutes people unfairly well we can take up our arms against him. He already says he will mention one 'dead case dad a week' in the truth. Depends how many enemies he feels safe with, and what we can do if riled enough. He might say 'when I say fuck you' but these are poof words at the end of the line
@ Paul, I concur he presented well on "The Nation", but I think Edwards and Ralston held their own fairly well against him... (and vice versa)
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@matchingProducts = Batch.find(:all,
                               :conditions => 'product.name LIKE ?', "%#{search}%",
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As you can see, Product is a nested attribute of Batch, but I want to find a batch based on Product.name.

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Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: McKay on 04/08/2014 00:02:58
Title: Two low energy photons for one high energy photon in fluorescence possible?
Post by: McKay on 04/08/2014 00:02:58
I understand fluorescent materials, in normal lightning conditions, look brighter than other materials because they not only reflect their characteristic color directly, but also convert higher energy photons to its characteristic color, right? And since 1 and a fraction of a photon cant be emitted, then the fraction gets dissipated as heat, right?
But what about cases where the incident radiation is actually twice (or more) as energetic as the materials characteristic color? Do the materials emit two (or more) photons [plus the fraction thats left as heat] or emit just one photon and rest as heat? Or some materials do one and some the other?
Title: Re: Two low energy photons for one high energy photon in fluorescence possible?
Post by: alancalverd on 18/05/2019 11:15:04
Yes. That is how we observe x-rays, either by direct fluorescence, by trapping fluorescent photons in a photographic film, or by trapping or counting cascade electrons in a solid. But some materials such as graphite simply convert the photon energy into heat, which provides the primary standard measurement of x-ray dose.
Post by: evan_au on 19/05/2019 08:17:52
Yes, that's one of the traditional ways of producing a pair of entangled photons for one incoming photon.
- It produces photon pairs whose energy sums to the incoming photon energy
- Unfortunately, the process is not very efficient
- Even more unfortunately, there is am even smaller fraction of these pairs which are entangled.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_parametric_down-conversion
Post by: Bored chemist on 19/05/2019 09:58:56
Strictly speaking, scintillation, the mechanism by which light is produced from x rays hitting matter, isn't fluorescence.
It's most commonly recombination.
The x ray tears electrons off the material and as those electrons get back to where they belong, they emit light.
There's also this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auger_effect
In fluorescence stricto sensu, the molecule holds together during the process and no free electrons are involved.
So fluorescence should be restricted to nonionising radiation. Neat pedantry, but you won't get far in a radiology trade exhibition if you tell every manufacturer that they are lying!
However it does, presumably, apply to fluorescent lighting where the mercury UV spectrum excites all sorts of electron mechanisms in zinc compounds, and in Seventies discos where your sweaty nylon shirt lit up with the residues of Daz.
Now that's got me thinking. The Residues of Daz could be a prog rock band, or the hideout of the interstellar resistance movement after a cosmic war. What to pick up next - guitar or word processor?
Using the right words isn't considered "pedantry" in science. By all means get it wrong at a trade exhibition; but don't call it fluorescence in a science exam.
Some, but not all, of the light from fluorescent lights is actually fluorescence. Quite a bit is phosphorescence.
That's why that coating inside the lamp is called a phosphor...
As indeed is the stuff inside a fluoroscope!


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Q: Choose precision current source mosfet and opamp I am working on simple precision current source figure below, I need figure out how to choose correct Opamp and Mosfet to have most accurate result (Linear).
So how do I calculate (or choose) Opamp and Mosfet requirement , to be able to get 1nA to 1uA.

 Green Is current and Red is input voltage
The R1 value could be change (Iout = Vin/R1) but I am more interested on linearity and choosing correct Opamp and Mosfet.
Vin = 0-3V variable (From DAC)

A: The load circuit is probably a PRT or BJT for measuring temperature. Thus you don't want to drive the long leads to the sensor and back to the inverting input of the op-amp, it will oscillate. By using a MOSFET, you decouple the feed back making it stabile. The op-amp is easy. The hard part is finding a MOSFET with very low leakage over temperature. A low Vth is typically 0.45V @ 250uA. Remember, we want the MOSFET in the saturated region (Vds > Vgs). So what's happening at 10nA? We don't know, no specs are given at that low of a current. The BJT will have a very low Beta at that current level and thus will be very inaccurate. The sense resistor has iC+iB, so the load current will be iB less than iC. The required accuracy for a DT-670 silicon temperature sensor is 10uA +/- 0.1% (My problem). Also 10Meg ohms requires, clean boards with no contamination.


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Politics on the small screen: Brexit according to James Graham and Benedict Cumberbatch
Written by Caroline Frost on 7 January 2019 in Culture
How Graham dealt with the 2016 referendum battle - and having a global superstar portraying Dominic Cummings.
For any screen writer, it's a delightfully sticky problem to be confronted with: what happens when you're intent on creating a completely fair, unbiased depiction of real-life events, pitting one side against another and giving them rich, equal coverage, but then a charismatic Hollywood star goes and bags one of the lead roles. Surely, if this were ever a level playing field, it just tipped onto a slope?
Add to that the context of a generation-defining, nation-splitting decision whose wounds will continue to be felt for years to come, and the stakes are unprecedently high for a dramatist – which could explain why James Graham, author of 'Brexit: The Uncivil War', has decided to leave it to the audience.
The lead role in his drama of campaign strategist Dominic Cummings is taken by Benedict Cumberbatch, and fans will be able to draw a clear line to this – the shambolic style, the forensic mind, the lonely, brilliant mutterings - from the actor's previous outings as Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Hawking, even Julian Assange. Rumours abound that Remainer Cumberbatch wanted some 'darker lines' for his protagonist, although by all accounts he found Cummings perfectly appealing when they spent the evening together. But in the final edit, solution-seeker or snake oil salesman? Apparently, it is we who will decide.
"What I hope it does is ask the question, is this man a genius or is he a fraud?" James Graham nimbly proffers in chat with Total Politics. "I hope the audience can answer it. I take your point though, that if you get somebody as cerebral, articulate and interesting to watch as Benedict Cumberbatch, the suggestion becomes that he's your hero, that you root for him. But that's the risk you have to take.
"On the other hand, he brings pain and empathy and compassion to it, and I think often people in the political sphere aren't humanised when it comes to dramatic representations of them, so that's the trade-off."
Of Dominic Cummings himself, James Graham remains more circumspect, only saying, "I spent time with him, I found myself personally quite impressed by him, but I still don't know.
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If the jury's still out on Cummings, what's all too clear here is the chaos in both camps in the months and weeks leading up to June 2016. Recreated on screen are those key moments we've come to associate with the story, Cummings' reveal of the big red bus with the memorable if misleading NHS banner, as well as the apparent brainstorming that went into the Leave campaign's defining three-word mantra.
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"I tried to be fair and open-minded," says Graham of his rogue Leavers and their cowboy antics. "But I do confess to having less sympathy towards their end of the spectrum, because of the damage they've done – that kind of politicking I find very ugly."
Equally bulbous and bumbling on screen are Messrs Gove and Johnson, played by actors Oliver Maltman and Richard Goulding.
"There's a great tradition in British art of using satire and caricature as a weapon, reflects Graham. "It brings these people down off their pedestal and to our level, but they are also faintly ridiculous.
"Plus, if you think of someone like Boris Johnson, it does seem sometimes as they though they're affecting a fictional character, depicting themselves as vaguely 'pastichy'. I'm not sure I believe Boris Johnson is really that character he presents himself to be on television and interviews. It seems a construct, so I think that gives us some latitude with the characters they've created for themselves."
Graham admits his often wry tone gave him some sleepless nights before Christmas, as it seemed the nation was getting angrier each day about how its leaders were conducting the whole affair.
"I was waking up in cold sweats, thinking we'd gone too light, we'd gone too comic. It seemed the nation felt quite angry and upset about the path we were being led down, whether you were Leave or Remain.
"That worried me, how to pitch the tone in a way that could be helpful. I want this drama, I don't want it to divide and infuriate, although I think it can provoke, and that's its job. I want it to be a cathartic experience, a common ground for people to gather, reflect and say, 'Oh that's interesting that you think this.' It may be naïve, but that's what I wish for."
More serious are the issues of campaign manipulation whose ripples continue to this day. In fact, long before it went to air, this drama had its critics. Journalist Carole Cadwalladr expressed her fear, anger in fact, that it could disrupt any future criminal trial on the subject of her own longterm focus, Cambridge Analytica. Others simply said it was too soon.
"In a way, I expected it," says Graham now. "People feel very strongly, many are pained and very scared by the outcome of this, and they're entitled to have a strong emotional response. I was disappointed by the tone. If there's one thing we can agree on, it's that discussions around Brexit aren't always the most civil and helpful and nuanced, and I don't think people listen. I was disappointed by the conjecture and predictions, the feeling of bad faith about what the drama would do.
"There was this narrative of cynical opportunism, my commercial exploitation of this event. That's not where I come from. I come from a stage background, where your obligation is to put the world around you on stage and make sense of it, difficult as that may be. Now it's on television and there's a big star in, it's become a cynical exercise did upset me but you try not to take it personally." Despite this, Graham warms to his theme. "I'm not sure I'm going to be earning millions of dollars, moving to LA and sitting by a pool because of everything I made out of a Channel 4 Brexit drama."
In fact, although the drama is deliberately time-proofed by its focus on the events leading up to the referendum and closes its curtains very soon after that dramatic night, we do see a bunch of nameless men punching data into keyboards, and coming up with intimate algorithms for targeted social media advertising – a clear nod to tech company Aggregate IQ.
And it's clear in talking to him that for James Graham, these issues tax him as much as anyone. "It's one of the most important conversations that we're not really having. There's a danger in how we present data and views," he says.
"I don't want to accidentally stray into conspiracy theory. There's no part of me believes in one singular Bond villain living in a lair in a volcano, pulling levers and manipulating how we think. I don't think that's true.
"I think there's an accident of technological advancement which means these platforms are now the places we conduct our political discourse, and they are by definition intuitive, and I worry about how the tradition of advertising which has always existed, but the sophistication of these tools is such that we need a conversation about whether we want our politics sold to us in the same way as a holiday or a fancy shoe.
"Maybe it's fine, I have no idea, but I do think the technology has leapt ahead of our understanding of it. To be honest, my biggest fear for the future is less about the power of these weapons, but how we are using them as the electorate, as citizens. It's changing our behaviour, it's changing how we speak to each other, how we listen and how we project, and by definition, lack any real empathy. We all know how cruel political conversation has become online, and I don't know how you fix that, how you reengineer them for more compassion and understanding, when they're almost designed to give you a microphone, to put you on 'broadcast' rather than 'receive'."
For James Graham, finding time to do both in this heady political era is a challenge he didn't see coming: "When I first started writing in this type of territory 10 or 12 years ago, theatre about the political process wasn't terribly fashionable. There seemed to be a consensus that domestic politics wasn't particularly revelatory or divisive, the one big issue dominating art and drama then was the Iraq War, so I could never have imagined this.
"I thought I'd have to reach back into the distant past to get my material, and now I'm scrabbling around every single day to gather all these Easter eggs and saying, 'What do I do to make sense of it?'"
'Brexit: The Uncivil War' is on Monday 7th January, 9pm, Channel 4.
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Circle U.
What is Circle U.?
Circle U. is a network of research-intensive universities from across Europe which embraces the European identity in all its diversity and its openness to the world. Circle U.'s members are the University of Vienna, Aarhus University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Université Paris Cité, University of Belgrade, UCLouvain, University of Oslo, King's College London and the University of Pisa. The University of Vienna shares a relationship of trust and a commitment to a common vision for Circle U.'s future with these universities, which makes an excellent foundation for future collaboration. The University of Vienna already has many cooperation activities with these universities, which will now be expanded significantly within the framework of Circle U. Circle U. is one of 41 university alliances which were founded in recent years as part of the European Union's "European Universities Initiative", which was initiated by President Macron.
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Usually, our first association with 'summer' is holidays, but an even better way of spending your summer is by networking, exploring, meeting new...
Prof. Vincent Blondel elected as new President of Circle U.
At the General Assembly held on 18 November 2022 at the Université Paris Cité, Vincent Blondel, Rector of the University of Louvain, was elected as...
The Vienna Circle exhibition opens in Belgrade
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ERIA
A new project to boost the research and innovation dimension of our alliance. On 1st September 2021, the project Circle U. ERIA (Empowering Research and Innovation Actions) was officially launched. ERIA will strengthen the Research and Innovation dimensions of Circle U. by supporting pilot activities in its Knowledge Hubs and empowering its early-career researchers.
What does Circle U. mean for the University of Vienna?
Membership of a European University Alliance opens up new horizons for study, research and international cooperation.
Climate change, democracy and global health
Circle U. currently has three thematic priorities which are central to the prosperity and sustainability of today's society: climate change, democracy and global health. Students, academic staff, administrative staff and external stakeholders work together in "Knowledge Hubs" on teaching, research and innovation in these areas. The Circle U. universities are developing new joint research-based courses, seminars and summer schools on these three topics, which will be implemented using innovative pedagogical approaches.
A network of Academic Chairs at all Circle U. universities has a leading role in Circle U. Academic Chairs are responsible for developing the three thematic priorities and driving them forward by means of innovative courses, seminars and summer schools. The University of Vienna is pleased to announce that Prof. Sabine Pahl, Professor of Urban and Environmental Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology (Climate Change) and Prof. Dorothee Bohle, Professor of Comparative Politics at the Faculty of Social Sciences (Democracy), have been nominated as Academic Chairs at the University of Vienna.
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Since October 2020, Elena Furthmayr has been a student at the University of Vienna, studying law at the Juridicum in Vienna. She is now in the second of three sections of law school. She became a member of the VSStÖ (Socialist Student Association in Austria) and started working at the Students Union at the University of Vienna in January 2022. As part of the Office for Sustainability and International Affairs, Elena is responsible for the international part of this office. She works with requests from students, especially regarding Erasmus+ (Incoming and Outgoing) and other opportunities for students to study abroad or for foreign students to study in Austria. Furthermore, she now especially works with and for the Circle U. Alliance and the Circle U. Student Union (CUSU).
Maria Yoveska is currently studying a Master's program in International Business Administration at the University of Vienna with focus on International Marketing and International Business. She graduated from the Bachelor's program in International Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business with a focus on International Marketing Management and Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Since November 2021, she has worked as a freelance researcher for the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) on research projects for the European Commission and the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw). She is writing her master thesis at the Chair of International Business supervised by professor Dr. Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki. Since September 2020, she has been a member of the student party GRAS (green and alternative students) and represents the students' rights in the Austrian Students' Union as a mandatary in the University of Vienna's student parliament.
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Circle U. aims to create an inclusive European campus that facilitates and promotes the mobility of students, academic staff and administrative staff, whether physically, virtually or through "blended learning". Students, academic staff and administrative staff will have more opportunities to gain international experience at other Circle U. universities and also to network virtually with members of other Circle U. universities.
Circle U. Work Packages
Circle U.'s tasks have been divided into seven Work Packages (WPs). Until the end of 2023, the University of Vienna is primarily participating in WP1, WP2, WP3 and WP5.
WP 1: General Management and Coordination
WP 3: Circle U. Academic Chair Programme
WP 2: Creating an Inclusive European University Ecosystem
WP 5: Socially-engaged Education and Research
Katy Burgess
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Project owner and representative on the Management Board: Vice-Rector Manuela Baccarini
Academic Chairs: Prof. Sabine Pahl and Prof. Dorothee Bohle
Co-leads: Katy Burgess and Viki Menczel
How can I find out more?
For more information and opportunities to get involved, please visit the Circle U. website or contact the International Office at the University of Vienna.
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The University of Vienna has been a member of the European University Alliance Circle U. since November 2021.


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Xiaomi said it lost 7 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) in the first quarter, on revenue of 34.4 billion yuan, due to one-off accounting charges. Excluding those charges, the company reported a profit of 1.7 billion yuan, boosted by an 88% rise in smartphone sales during the quarter.
Read:China finalizes stock listing rules to pave way for Xiaomi and Alibaba
Beijing-headquartered Xiaomi detailed its first-quarter results in paperwork filed with Chinese regulators, paving the way for the company to list its shares in mainland China alongside a listing in Hong Kong.
One of China's biggest and best-known smartphone companies, Xiaomi's forthcoming IPO is widely expected to be the largest of the year. The company has mounted an aggressive push overseas in the lead-up to the highly anticipated offering, which is expected to raise about $10 billion and give the company a market value of about $70 billion.
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In the 1920s, radio was a new phenomenon, much like the internet today, no one really understood the power of this new advertising medium. No one other than Bulova that was, who, continuing in their rich culture as pioneers and innovators, created the very first radio commercial in 1926, "At the tone, it's 8 P.M., B-U-L-O-V-A, Bulova watch time".
Bulova have always been a company, driven towards scientific and technical advances, helping mankind to achieve new limits with the aid of their inventions. So it was no surprise to the nation when, in 1926, Ard� Bulova, son of the founder, Joseph Bulova, offered a prize of $1,000 for the first pilot to successfully make a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh's epic flight from New York to Paris, won the prize. Bulova, already convinced of his likely success, were able to distribute 5,000 Lone Eagle watches, complete with pictures of Lindberg, the very next day in Paris. Over the next three years they sold nearly 50,000 of these commemorative watches. It was also in 1927 that Bulova Watch Corporation went public on the American Stock Exchange, giving all Americans an opportunity to share in its success.
In 1928, Bulova introduced the first clock radios to the world. Now America could wake up to their favorite radio station and set their watches to Bulova watch time.
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By 1944, a quarter of all radio advertising was being used to encourage Americans to invest in War Bonds and Stamps and so the familiar Bulova radio commercial was adapted to the statement "B-U-L-O-V-A, Bulova Watch Time, Time to Buy United States War Bonds and Stamps."
After America won the war in 1945, Arde Bulova, in memory of his father, founded the Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking. The school was established in order to help teach disabled veterans the skills of watch making. The graduates of this school were assured employment through over 1,500 positions being made available by jewelers all across America. The school was entirely funded by the Bulova Foundation.
Throughout the history of time, the search for standard time and the development of time zones across America, was never more important than is was for the early railroads. It was in 1883, that the railroads first introduced the idea of having a standard time with time zones, but it took until 1918, and the introduction of the Standard Time Act, for their recommendations to become law. The railroad personnel always needed to carry the most accurate timepieces of the day and were still using pocket watches in the early sixties. It was in 1962 that the Railroad Commission certified the Bulovar Accutron watch as the first wristwatch to ever be approved for use by the railroad, thus documenting the great achievement of the Bulova company.
During that year, Bulova won the world's first design competition for solid-state digital watches at the Prix de la Ville de Geneve watch-styling competition, the world's most prestigious international watch-styling competition. Bulova also won two of the three honorable mentions awarded at the competition.
Bulova became a full subsidiary of the Loews Corporation in 1979, assuring it the support and capital required to compete in the ever more demanding world of time technology and development. The company continued to record firsts in innovation when it unveiled the world's thinnest wall clock, the Bulova Dimension, in 1983. The depth of the clock measured just 5/8th of an inch. In 1986, Bulova began to create another new category in timepieces when it released the first miniature clock. The popularity and collect ability of these clocks has grown rapidly with Bulova again leading the market with entire classifications of themed groupings and limited edition pieces.
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Gibson Fay-LeBlanc is poet who lives in Portland. Deep Water: Maine Poems is produced in collaboration with the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Poem copyright © 2015 Steve Luttrell. It appeared originally in "Plumb Line" (North Atlantic Books, 2015) and appears here by permission of the author. For an archive of poems, go to www.pressherald.com/tag/deep-water.