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Are viewers bowled over?
by Simon Ward
Player tracking, in-depth analysis and the packaging of matches have been among the most distinctive elements in the television production of this year's Cricket World Cup.
With pre-tournament estimates of one billion viewers worldwide, the Men's Cricket World Cup taking place in England and Wales is set to be one of the most-watched events of the year, and the various companies involved in the production have been striving to ensure it is as innovative and inclusive as possible.
The six-and-a-half-week, 10-team, 48-match one-day international tournament is being delivered by ICC TV, an arm of the International Cricket Council responsible for host production, with the support of various service, equipment and technology partners.
The partners are led by Sunset+Vine, the UK-based TV sports production and media company, which has been the ICC's main collaborator in this field since the live production was taken in-house four years ago, and has now been retained for major events through to 2023.
S+V is well-versed in cricket, with ongoing relationships in the sport with the England and Wales Cricket Board, Lord's Cricket Ground in London, the Caribbean Premier League and UK commercial broadcaster Channel 5, and is producing rival Channel 4's highlights of the World Cup, recalling the much-reminisced-over relationship with the network covering live cricket in England from 1999 to 2005.
However, serving and providing the world feed for the ICC differs from working with an individual broadcaster, a situation in which a production company would expect to take the lead.
England play Australia at Lord's in the Men's Cricket World Cup
Speaking to Sportcal at the England vs Australia group match at Lord's, Huw Bevan, S+V's head of cricket and the executive producer of ICC TV, says: "I think there are a number of fundamental differences between the service we're providing here and were we to do it elsewhere.
"By definition, it's an ICC event, so they're our client, and we're following their guidelines and we're following their preferences. They are commissioning us so they clearly have KPIs that they want us to address in a style of production, which is under their management.
"We work with them, we advise them, and sometimes we try to coerce them to go in different directions. But ultimately they're the decision-maker."
Bevan has been overseeing the World Cup offering, supported by Gavin Scovell, as lead director, and Joanna Lowndes Lumb, as head of production, driving an operation of 500 staff from around the world, including four core production crews and five engineering teams, which have been moving between the 11 venues.
NEP Broadcast Solutions, the Singapore-based company, has been responsible for the provision of equipment, with the flyaway set-ups including portacabins for the world feed, engineering, VT, audio, production, graphics, ball-tracking, analysis and editing.
An outside broadcast truck has been employed for the most remote grounds, namely Taunton in south-west England and Durham in the north-east, while ICC TV highlights packages have been produced at S+V's base in west London.
Each match has been covered by a minimum of 32 cameras, including eight ultra-motion Hawk-Eye cameras, front and reverse view stump cameras, a Spidercam on a line above the ground and a drone camera and a ground-level Buggy Cam both provided by Batcam.
Additional cameras have been deployed at high-profile games such as India vs Pakistan and England vs Australia, and there will be similar enhancements for the final at Lord's on 14 July.
While S+V has been responsible for the world feed, featuring well-recognised commentators (largely ex-cricketers) and delivered to international broadcasters covering more than 200 territories, Star India, the ICC's global broadcast partner, and Sky, the UK's pay-television operator and foremost cricket broadcaster, have had their own trucks and teams at matches.
"They [Star and Sky] take the world feed from us and customise it, that's the easiest way to describe it," says Bevan. "But that's done on a match-by-match basis. In some cases, they would not touch it, for others they will customise it, for example they'll have additional cameras, sometimes they'll have their own additional commentary. In Star's case they have multiple commentaries [in different languages], some of which comes from site and some of which comes from Mumbai."
S+V's output is supported by other now established ICC technology partners including AE Graphics, which has rolled out a new look and feel for scores and statistics at the World Cup, and Hawk-Eye whose ball-tracking system is used in cricket's decision review system.
There are also new tools such as player tracking, courtesy of ChyronHego, the broadcast graphics company, enabling names to be put to fielders, 360-degree replays via Piero, the sports graphics specialist, which are being operated by Hawk-Eye, and allow multiple camera feeds to be combined in a single video, and an in-depth data analytics system from cricket intelligence provider CricViz.
Player tracking technology from ChyronHego
Ajesh Ramachandran, ICC TV executive producer and senior manager for broadcast, claims that the governing body is using the 2019 Cricket World Cup, its flagship competition, to showcase technology and appeal to new audiences, and that the plans have been up to three years in the making.
Speaking at the Lord's Media Centre, he says: "In this event we've obviously stressed a lot the new technologies. For us at the ICC it was very important to create a sort of visual signature, something different, which adds to the game at the same time.
"Sunset+Vine are obviously a production company with solid experience on the cricket front, but we needed to enhance that with technology… After every event we do a lot of focus group studies in our key markets to see what's working and what's not working.
"One of the things that repeatedly came back to us was because the demographic of the viewership is changing so quickly, and so many younger viewers are starting to watch cricket, you have to cater for that audience… which is why we look at these visual differentiators, things that are very similar to what we're seeing in video games.
"An event like the Cricket World Cup attracts quite a bit of casual viewership… so this is the chance to grow that audience as well. We try to make the graphical proposition as simple as possible and easy to understand, and the commentators have picked up on that really well."
However, Ramachandran is at pains to stress that the technology should be seen as an add-on, rather than distract from what takes place on the field, saying: "Our production philosophy has been geared towards explaining the why rather than just the what, and all our technological innovations come from that editorial idea and support that."
On Piero, which is familiar in TV soccer analysis, but is being employed in cricket for the first time, he points out it has been possible to combine high and low camera angles, and produce detailed replays within 10 minutes.
"You can freeze the action and play it out as a replay," says Ramachandran. "Or you can paint over, magnify and put tags and graphics on it. It is used in studio productions a lot."
"We've wanted to tell stories across 100 overs"
Huw Bevan, executive producer of ICC TV
Asked what he feels have been the most successful innovations at the tournament, Bevan says: "The feedback we've had on player tracking in particular has been very, very pleasing. It took a little bit of time to get it operationally working as we wanted to. But after the tournament proper got under way and people got used to it, I think it's really been a big value-add because it's brought the cricket field to life in a way that has not been possible before."
He adds: "The [level of] analysis has been another area that has been very much welcome. We've wanted to tell stories across 100 overs. I feel that perhaps people have focused in the past in a general sense on cricket analysis, maybe in their pre-game shows, their mid-game shows and post-game, but with less emphasis during the game.
"We've essentially created a dedicated analysis team with specialists. One of our producers for example is [ex-cricketer] Simon Hughes who is known as 'The Analyst'. They have deep-level expertise in the game and work with commentators to select different parts of the match they want to focus on…
"If the game is very exciting, you won't need as much analysis by definition. But in those periods when maybe there's a lull, there's an opportunity for us to do more storytelling from an analytical perspective."
Bevan also emphasises the ICC TV presentation of the matches at the World Cup, saying: "The other thing that has been quite well received has been the packaging we've done to highlight the heroes of the game, and the rivalries. We've brought in some additional edit capability that maybe has not been utilised before in live broadcast.
"I think that's made our production look quite glossy, and it's given us a standard to our styling, which I think has been quite eye-catching, and which obviously we wanted to achieve in the same way that graphics can look and move and be very dynamic, including various data sets."
A notable absentee at the tournament has been ultra high definition TV coverage, which was offered, for 10 games, including the semi-finals and final, at the last World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2015.
Ramachandran cites a lack of demand by the time of a self-imposed deadline of the end of last year, saying: "There was a little bit of interest from the UK to be fair, and possibly a little bit of interest from Australia but, beyond that, in the countries where the big numbers are, we really didn't get anything.
"It [UHD] would have been an incremental sort of production because our fundamental principles would have been the same… The way our media rights work is divided is Star Sports is our global licensee and they sub-license to various networks around the world, like Sky in the UK, so consolidated if there had been enough demand, that holds true for the future as well.
"Whenever there are enough [UHD set-top] boxes in the world and there is demand and hunger for that sort of technology, we can do it again. We did it in 2015, and thought about it in 2019 but the demand just wasn't enough."
Nonetheless, with the future in mind, the ICC is keen to leave a production legacy in place from this year's tournament, which could enhance TV coverage of future events such as The Hundred, the new youth-focused short-format competition being introduced in England and Wales next year.
Ramachandran says: "We've set up Spidercam [at many of the grounds] so that even if local licensees and production houses don't really do it… the venues now have an idea of what needs to be done and how some of the technologies work.
"There's only one network [Sky] that's been broadcasting [cricket] here for a long time and what that network does is known to all the venues and a lot of the stakeholders in cricket. It's nice for them to have someone like us come in and have a lot of different technology in their grounds."
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Title: "Secularism," the Celestial City and the Revolutionary Left
Author: Khaled Satour
Topics: critique, France, Islam, leftism, racism, religion
Source: Retrieved on December 21, 2009 from news.infoshop.org
Notes: by Khaled Satour, May 20, 2005
Translated from French by SonofTomJoad, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Khaled Satour
"Secularism," the Celestial City and the Revolutionary Left
The Left, including organizations calling for revolution, are making a chorus of complaints in response to the Call by the Natives of the Republic. On May 4 the Anarchist Federation published a text stating that the Call "marginalizes and further imprisons the concerned populations," that it "ethnicizes social problems" and "makes divisions according to national origin." Along with Lutte Ouvrière and part of the LCR [LO and LCR are Trotskyist — Translator], the Anarchist Federation has confirmed that organizations on the Left are distinguishable from the dominant discourse only in their rhetoric. Basically, they repeat the same clichés. Inspired by republican dogma, they evoke "the internal regulation" of bourgeois democracy that Marx described a century and a half ago: between the political community and civil society, people lead "a double existence, celestial and terrestrial." Therefore, in society, they want to impose traditional frameworks in which struggles must be contained (limited to a private preserve). It is of little importance to them that the methods of domination evolve. It is of little importance, for example, that the Call of the Natives demands responses to specific forms of exclusion based on a common denominator in order to act (with the participation of the social sectors it recognizes in its analysis). As soon as that action breaks from struggles led "together" with the guardianship and support of a censored and guaranteed theme, it becomes "communitarianism." There's the paternalism of yore.
The Anarchist Federation's equation on the relationship between colonized peoples and the peoples of the colonizing countries is significant in this regard because it was the same position expressed 60 years ago by the French Communist Party on the Algerian question and was completely repudiated by the empirical facts. Barely updated for new circumstances, it indeed seems to suggest that racism and exclusion are no longer more damaging to their direct victims than to the French people as a whole. Furthermore, as far as citizenship is concerned, these organizations claim their battle is a secular one concerned primarily with disarming religious and ideological hegemonies by putting in place a concrete principal of separation. But what they reproach in the Call is indeed the fact that it challenges the republic of souls, the dogma of the new city of God in which citizens pure of spirit must rid themselves of all social substance (the meticulously considered theory of the supposedly public, "secular" school system a new invention to justify prohibiting the veil). The Call of the Natives opposes the March 2004 law on the veil, and that opposition is unpardonable. Therefore, while brutally imposing the pretended "universal" norm on a category of the population, primarily working-class immigrants, who are attacked relentlessly with no other "justification" than paranoia, this law has had the effect of reducing opportunities for citizenship, despite the official mythology of a welcoming and solidaric Republic. It thus does violence to a consciousness already subjected to the cruelty of discrimination and exclusion. It is not enough to invoke integrationist delusions to make this reality disappear: the wearing of the veil, considered from all possible perspectives is, above all and implacably, sociological behaviour.
Does the revolutionary Left fear this invasion of social reality into public space? In this business about the law on religious symbols, it is significant that these organizations of the Left have not re-established the discussion in appropriate terms: the issue to discuss is not whether one is for or against the veil, but whether or not to be against a law showing so dramatically the repressive character of the State. And the anti-authoritarian attitude of the Left should be to oppose the law, not speak out with conviction against the veil. If in certain cases, wearing the veil signifies the domination of the young woman within her family, is it the vocation of the revolutionary Left to contribute to the accumulated forms of domination used against high school students denied their right to education? The problem of what position to take on religion remains. While the atheist credo is legitimate, compulsively reaffirming that fact everywhere serves a little too opportunely the extreme-Right's strategy of substituting its racist theories on Islam. Atheism looks more honourable because it targets obscurantism, religious oppression or the opium of the masses, allowing the organization of a wide political arena with the good republican consciousness of all. It even permits prettier denunciations of racism and Le Pen. But thus ennobled, it still targets the same people as the National Front, which knows full well that its monopoly has deteriorated.
Whatever our personal religious convictions and prejudices, we cannot accept that one religion and its adherents alone provoke such a passionate rejection in the coalition of such a large number of civic and political tendencies. We reaffirm that the Call of the Natives of the Republic, including its position on the veil, must be supported as a legitimate initiative among all other social protests, even in the face of opposition from some revolutionary Left organizations that have appointed themselves the new guardians posted at the two levels of the bourgeois city, along with the liberals and social-liberals, charged with keeping the heterodox challengers out of Babylon and the heretics out of Jerusalem.

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Q: Programmatically created window does not show up as correct size This is my code in the applicationDidFinishLaunching function,
    // Create window
NSWindow *window = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect:NSMakeRect(0, 0, 400, 300)
    styleMask:(NSTitledWindowMask | NSClosableWindowMask | NSMiniaturizableWindowMask | NSResizableWindowMask)
                                                      backing:NSBackingStoreBuffered defer:NO];

//Create gl view
NSRect frame = [window contentRectForFrameRect:[window frame]];
MyOpenGLView *glView = [[MyOpenGLView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];

[window setContentView:glView];
[window makeFirstResponder:glView];

// Show up
[window makeKeyAndOrderFront:self];

The application builds and runs. But when it runs, the window seems to be full screen. In other words, I get the name of the application on the top left and nothing else on screen changes. Its like an empty window the size of my screen. Why does this happen and how can I fix it?
Additional information: initWithFrame function in MyOpenGLView class,
self = [super initWithFrame:frameRect];
[self myInit];
return self;

A: I'm going to guess you're using Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) and not manual reference counting. To review, here's your code:
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)notification {

    NSWindow *window = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect:
    NSMakeRect(0, 0, 400, 300) styleMask:(NSTitledWindowMask | NSClosableWindowMask |
 NSMiniaturizableWindowMask | NSResizableWindowMask)
                     backing:NSBackingStoreBuffered defer:NO];

    //Create gl view
    NSRect frame = [window contentRectForFrameRect:[window frame]];
    MyOpenGLView *glView = [[MyOpenGLView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];

    [window setContentView:glView];
    [window makeFirstResponder:glView];

    // Show up
    [window makeKeyAndOrderFront:self];

}

Under ARC, the NSWindow you create here in this method only lasts as long as the method. In other words, it will be created, shown for a split second (if even at all) and then will immediately be deallocated and removed from the screen. In order to make it persist, you should define it as an instance variable. For example:
MDAppController.h:
  @interface MDAppController : NSObject

  @property (nonatomic, strong) NSWindow *window;

  @end

MDAppController.m:
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)notification {

     self.window = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect:
                      NSMakeRect(0, 0, 400, 300)
                   styleMask:(NSTitledWindowMask | NSClosableWindowMask |
            NSMiniaturizableWindowMask | NSResizableWindowMask)
                     backing:NSBackingStoreBuffered defer:NO];
   // or
   // _window = ....

   // ....
   // Show up
   [self.window makeKeyAndOrderFront:self];
   // or
   // [_window makeKeyAndOrderFront:self];
}

Here, you're setting the instance variable window to the NSWindow you create and since that ivar is defined as strong, it will persist after that method returns.

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New Book Announcement: 'Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes?: Monetary Policy & the Next Depression', Clarity Press, July 2017, by Dr. Jack Rasmus
July 6, 2017 by jackrasmus
My most recent book will be published this month, entitled "Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes?: Monetary Policy & the Next Depression".
Here's the TABLE OF CONTENTS, MAIN THEMES, and SYNOPSIS of the book with an expanded description of table of contents. Check out this blog and my website for ordering information this coming weekend. For more information in the meantime, check out the publisher, Clarity Press, website at:
http://www.claritypress.com/RasmusIII.html
Chapter 1: Problems & Contradictions of Central Banking
Chapter 2: A Brief History of Central Banking
Chapter 3: The US Federal Reserve Bank: Origins & Toxic Legacies
Chapter 4: Greenspan's Bank: The 'Typhon' Monster Released
Chapter 5: Bernanke's Bank: Greenspan's 'Put' On Steroids
Chapter 6: The Bank of Japan: Harbinger of Things That Came
Chapter 7: The European Central Bank under German Hegemony
Chapter 8: The Bank of England's Last Hurrah: From QE to Brexit
Chapter 9: The People's Bank of China Chases Its Shadows
Chapter 10: Yellen's Bank: From Taper Tantrums to Trump Trade
Chapter 11: Why Central Banks Fail
Conclusion: Revolutionizing Central Banking in the Public Interest:
Embedding Change via Constitutional Amendment
MAIN THEMES:
Theme #1: Central banks of the advanced economies—despite having been assigned by their respective economic and political elites the role of primary economic policy institution—have failed since 2008 to achieve their major objectives of long run stabilization of their banking systems or the restoration of pre-2008 economic growth.
Theme #2: The decades of central liquidity injections since the 1970s, that produced the 2008-09 crisis in the first place, then became the central banks' solution to that crisis; that same liquidity solution, 2009-2016, has become the cause of the next crisis, as tens of trillions of dollars of even more liquidity-enabled debt has since 2008 been piled on the original trillions before 2008.
Theme #3: Central banks' function of lender of last resort, in the past designed to provide excess liquidity in instances of banking crises, has in the 21st century been transformed into a new function: the subsidization of the private banking system by means of constant central bank excess liquidity. The private banking system today has become addicted to, and increasingly dependent upon, significant continuing infusions of liquidity by central banks.
Theme #4: Central banks have failed to evolve apace with the rapid transformations of the global private capitalist banking system. Structural change in the global financial system, the continuing fragility of banking systems, and excess levels of debt and leveraging mean that interest rates post-2016 cannot be raised very much, and central banks' balance sheets cannot be reduced to any significant extent, without provoking a widespread credit crisis throughout the private banking system.
Theme #5: Central banks must undergo fundamental restructuring and change. That restructuring must include the democratization of decision making and a redirecting of central banks toward a greater direct service in the public interest. New functions, new targets and new tools will be required.
SYNOPSIS with Expanded Chapters Descriptions:
Central banks emerged from the 2007-09 crisis as the primary economic policy institutions in the advanced economies. Tasked not only with stabilizing the banking system during the worst financial crisis since the great depression, central banks were given the additional task as well of restoring economic growth to pre-crisis historical levels. Fiscal policy as government spending and public investment was relegated to a minor role at best; at worst, and more frequently than not, recast as fiscal austerity rolling back government spending and investment.
The banking systems in the advanced economies—and indeed throughout the global economy—were temporarily stabilized after 2009 but only to a degree, and at a cost of tens of trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, yen and other currencies. Cumulative QEs alone amounted to nearly $15 trillion central bank investor and bank bailouts. Nevertheless, deep pockets of banking weakness and fragility still remain a decade after the 2008-09. Non-Performing bank loans in the advanced economies still exceed $10 trillion. Pre-2008 private and corporate debt has been only transferred to central banks' balance sheets, not eliminated. Post 2008 private business debt has again been allowed to accelerate by tens of trillions in dollars and other major currencies. Meanwhile, household and government debt levels have continued to climb, while the ability to service that debt with wage income growth and tax revenue has stagnated or declined.
With their massive liquidity injections, the central banks have been the original enablers of the unprecedented past—and continuing—debt escalation, and are thus ultimately responsible for its consequences. Nor have central they fared any better with regard to their other mission of restoring real economic growth to pre-crisis levels. Rates of growth in GDP have lagged significantly from pre-crisis levels, and in some regions—like Europe and Japan—have stagnated or worse over the long term. Global real investment, productivity and even trade have meanwhile all slowed under the hegemony of global central bank policy regimes since 2008.
The central banks' decades-long, chronic injections of liquidity into the global private banking system since the 1970s enabled the record levels of debt and leveraged borrowing in the ensuing decades, culminating in the financial crash of 2008-09. The same central banks provided even greater magnitudes liquidity to bailout their banking systems—initially the US and UK in 2008-09, then Europe after 2010, and more recently Japan and China. The bailout and liquidity continued for nine years.
The book then considers the question: why central banks of the advanced economies have been fueling the massive liquidity binge since the 1970s while failing to restore real economic growth since 2008? It concludes the following combination of forces and developments have been responsible:
•	The collapse of the Bretton Woods International Monetary System in 1973 and central role assigned to central banks to stabilize currencies and economies
•	The ascent of Neoliberal policies in the US-UK after 1978 and their adopted by others
•	Deregulation of international money capital flows in the 1980s and accompanying domestic financial deregulation
•	Rapid and radical restructuring of global financial institutions, markets, and products
•	Rise and growing political influence of a new global finance capital elite
•	Economic elites' shift to fiscal austerity and elevation of monetary policy as primary
•	Unprecedented rapid technological changes transforming the very nature of money and credit and its effects on liquidity, debt, and financial markets' contagion
•	Growing frequency and magnitudes of financial instability events globally and consequent more frequent recessions and slower growth
•	Increasing demands on central banks to expand their lender of last resort function, and the bailout of banks and financial systems, while assuming primary responsibility for generating real economic growth
EXPANDED CHAPTER DESCRIPTIONS:
In Chapter One the point is raised that these new forces have led to growing contradictions between the central banks and the broader global capitalist banking system. Several of the more fundamental contradictions are listed and briefly described in the chapter, to be returned to for further consideration later at the end of the book under the subject of why central banks have been failing to achieve their broad objectives as well as their basic functions and targets.
Chapter Two describes the evolution of central banking over the past two centuries, as well as evolution of central banks' functions, targets and monetary policy tools. The point is made that the evolution of central banking since the late 20th century has increasingly failed to keep up with the more rapid restructuring and change in the global private banking system. Falling further behind the curve of global capitalist change, central banks' consequently have been further failing to adequately perform their primary functions of money supply management, bank supervision, and lender of last resort; have failed to attain their price level and other targets; and their monetary tools have deteriorated in terms of effectiveness in performing those functions and attaining those targets.
In the core chapters Three through Ten of the book describe the evolution of monetary policies of each of the advanced economy central banks in turn—and to what extent each central bank performed its primary functions, attained its declared targets, and how effective have been its tools—whether traditional or the more recently experimental like quantitative easing (QE), zero bound rates (ZIRP), negative rates (NIRP), forward guidance and other innovations.
In chapters Three to Five special consideration is given to the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, from its origins in 1913 to the present. Chapter Three describes how the Fed was created and run by the private banks directly from 1913 to 1935, enabling the financial asset bubbles of the 1920s that burst in the great depression that followed; how the Fed failed miserably to manage the money supply, adequately supervise the banks, and failed to function as lender of last resort during the first four years of the depression, 1929-1933.
Chapter Four describes how the Roosevelt reforms of 1933-35 were insufficient to prevent indirect private banker interests hegemony over the Fed over the long run; how those interests came to dominate the Fed once again during the period 1951 to 1986; and how the Fed under its chair, Alan Greenspan, 1986-2006, came progressively to elevate central bank monetary policy over government fiscal spending. Chapter Four describes how US central bank policy of massive liquidity injections became a norm under Greenspan's 20 year tenure, and how Greenspan's liquidity 'put' in turn accelerated debt and levering, thus contributing to a series of US and global asset bubbles from the late 1980s to 2006 that culminated in the housing and derivatives great credit bubble and crash of 2007-09.
Chapter Five addresses the Fed under chair, Ben Bernanke, and describes how his policies were a continuation of Greenspan's until the 2008 crash, at which time Bernanke's Bank became Greenspan 'on steroids' so far as central bank liquidity and interest rate policies are concerned. The chapter debunks Greenspan notions of 'conundrums' and Bernanke's 'global savings gluts' that were proposed to explain away the failure of Fed policies, and explains why Fed policy has been to always assiduously avoid interceding to prevent financial asset price bubbles. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the Bernanke Fed, 2006-2014, as to what extent it achieved or not its primary functions and targets. Detailed considered is given to the Bernanke bank's innovations in new monetary policy tools like QE and ZIRP, which are then critiqued for their effectiveness and unanticipated consequences.
Chapters Six through Nine consider in turn the evolution and performance of the other major central banks, including the Bank of Japan (BOJ), European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of England (BOE), and the People's Bank of China (PBOC), respectively. Addressing the period from roughly 1990 to the present, the chapters describe the evolution of central banking functions of money supply management, bank supervision, and lender of last resort for each of the central banks, as well as evolution in terms of the targets and the monetary tools they employed. Special attention is given to QE, ZIRP and NIRP programs and tools in Japan and Europe and why price targeting has failed so miserably in both nonetheless, despite trillions of euros and yen liquidity injections by their central banks. Why fiscal austerity has been the most extreme in both, and in the UK, and why growth rates have stagnated or slipped in and out of recession. Chapter Thirteen on China considers the unique case of the PBOC and China's equally unique banking structure, as well as its contrary policies of fiscal stimulus as government spending and investment. Nevertheless, it is argued China and its PBOC have after 2011 increasingly resorted to massive liquidity injections accompanying that fiscal stimulus, with the result of business and household debt exploding by 210% and more than $20 trillion since 2007.
Chapter Ten returns to the US central bank, the Fed, under the chair of Janet Yellen since 2014. Yellen Fed policies through 2016 are described as the extension of the Bernanke Fed in terms of functions, targets and tools. How the Yellen Fed has performed in those terms is examined. Special challenges faced by the Yellen Fed are discussed, including raising interest rates from near zero, the effects of sell off of the Fed's balance sheet, how to supervise the banks in an environment of renewed financial regulation rollbacks, how to maintain central bank monetary policy hegemony amongst growing calls for fiscal infrastructure government spending, and how to prepare new tools for the next financial crisis and bank bailouts.
Chapter Eleven returns to broader themes associated with the failings and challenges confronting central banking in the 21st century. The chapter revisits and summarizes the reasons why central banks have been failing with regard to functions, targets and tools effectiveness. Official excuses for that failure are critiqued and rejected. Alternative reasons are offered, including the declining effects of interest rates on investment, the relative shift to financial asset investing at the expense of real investment, failure of central banks to intervene and prevent financial asset bubbles, the purposeful fragmentation of bank supervision across regulatory institutions, mismanagement of the money supply, monetary tools ineffectiveness and contradictions, and central bankers' continuing adherence to ideological notions of the mid-20th century that no longer hold true in the 21st—like the Taylor Rule, Phillips curves, and, in the case of ZIRP and NIRP, the idea that the cost of borrowing is what first and foremost determines investment.
The Concluding Chapter raises the question: what reforms and restructuring of central banks' decision making processes, tools, targets, functions, as well as their very mission and objectives, are necessary if central banks are to become useful institutions for society in general? Central banks, as currently structured, have failed to keep pace with the more rapid restructuring and change in the private capitalist banking system. Contradictions have arisen in the gap that unbalanced evolution has created. Failure of performance in turn has been the consequence of failure to restructure and to evolve in tandem with the private banking system.
A Constitutional Amendment is therefore proposed, along with 20 articles of Enabling Legislation, to restructure the US Fed by democratizing its decision making and redirecting it to serve in the broader public interest, and not just the interests of the private banking system. The amendment and legislation defines a new mission and general goals for the Fed—as well as new targets, tools and new functions—to create a new kind of public interest Federal Reserve for the 21st century.
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While the capitalist system has undergone numerous restructurings throughout its history, capitalist elites purpose in restructuring has remained the same: to restore and/or extend their hegemony. The current restructuring, operative since 1978, is called Neoliberalism. The book examines Neoliberalism as both an Idea and an historical practice composed of a particular mix of fiscal-monetary-trade-industrial policies that began with the latest US capitalist restructuring in the late 1970s, continuing to evolve to this day. The book further explains the deeper material forces giving rise to - as well as now undermining - the Neoliberal policy regime, with special focus given to the crisis of Neoliberalism in the wake of the 2008-09 global crash, Obama's failure to resurrect it, and Trump's current doomed effort to restore it in a new, more aggressive form. Evidence why Neoliberalism is destroying US Democracy concludes the book's analysis.
Describes how US federal governments, often in cooperation with the largest US private banks, introduced and expanded central banking functions from 1781 through the creation of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Based on an analysis of the evolution of the US banking system - from pre-1781, through the 1787 US Constitutional Convention, Congressional debates on Hamilton's reports to Congress, the rise and fall of the 1st and 2nd Banks of the United States, and through the long period of the National Banking System form 1862-1913, the book shows how central banking in the US evolved out of the private banking system, and how following the financial crash of 1907 big New York banks pushed through Congress the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, creating a central bank which they then managed for their interests.
(Click on image) CENTRAL BANKERS is a comprehensive critique of central banks' policies in the 21st century, explaining why the massive injections of free money to the banking system since the 1970s enabled the creation of excess corporate debt that has led to financial bubbles and repeated crises. The book addresses the growing contradictions of central banking, why they are failing in their functions, targets and tools, and proposes a radical democratization and restructuring to transform them to serve the public interest and not the private banks.
(Click on image) LOOTING GREECE, A New Financial Imperialism Emerges. This book - Reveals clearly who calls the shots in the Eurozone—the hardliners, not the remnants and political residue of what was once European social democracy, - Follows the negotiations in their excruciating detail as the Troika tightens the screws from 2009 to the present, - Shows how Europe's financial elite enriches itself on Greek debt, privatizations and financial manipulations, turning Greece into an Economic Protectorate.
(Click on image): This book offers a new approach to explaining why mainstream economic analyses have repeatedly failed and why fiscal and monetary policies have been incapable of producing a sustained recovery. It explains why the global economy is slowing long term and becoming more unstable, why policies to date have largely failed the trend, and why the next crisis may therefore prove even worse than that of 2008-09.
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(Click on image) Obama's Economy: Recovery for the Few, explains how the weakest and most lopsided economic recovery since 1947 has been the direct outcome of failed economic policies of the Obama administration and US Federal Reserve bank since February 2009. Includes a detailed 'alternative program' in the final chapter. Includes the book, a video DVD presentation, and 66-slide PPT slideshow.
(Click on image) Obama's Economy: Recovery for the Few, explains how the weakest and most lopsided economic recovery since 1947 has been the direct outcome of failed economic policies of the Obama administration and US Federal Reserve bank since February 2009. Includes a detailed 'alternative program' in the final chapter.
(Click on image) A theoretical analysis, with historical case examples, of origins, causes and future evolution of the recent--and continuing--economic crisis in the U.S. and global economy. Includes predictions in 2009 of the inevitable failure of Obama policies and more serious crisis to come, 2013-15.
(Click on image) Seven specific reasons why economic recovery under Obama since 2009 has failed for all but the wealthiest few and largest corporations. The book spells out eight specific areas as an Alternative Economic Recovery Program.
(Click on image) The War At Home: The Corporate Offensive From Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, is a 534 page, extensively researched, nonfiction book that describes the evolution of corporate-government policies from 1980 to 2005 that have shifted more than a $1 trillion dollars a year, every year, from 90 million American middle and working class households to the wealthiest 10% and corporations.
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SLEEPY HOLLOW: What are the cast members doing in between seasons?
Here is a fun little tidbit. A feature film that will be shooting the spring in South Carolina titled Things You Missed While You Were Gone will be starring Sleepy Hollow's Lyndie Greenwood, Shane West (A Walk to Remember) Jena Malone and others. It's the story of a young woman named June. Her lover has just passed away and in her grief she takes his 8mm camera and decides to travel across the country to California to make a movie for him. This is coming from Radar Pictures and will be directed by Nina Ljeti.
ORLANDO JONES
DEADLINE REPORTS Orlando Jones and his Drive-By Entertainment partner Noam Dromi have optioned the rights to cult deprogrammer Ted Patrick's story. Jones and Dromi will write the screenplay as a starring vehicle for Jones. They will produce the feature with docu filmmaker Tracy Funches. Prominent in the 1970s, Patrick was known as the "father of deprogramming" and seen as savior to many parents who had seemingly lost their children to cults. Since he has no plans to uproot his family, I suppose he will be writing that screenplay from his downtown home here in Wilmywood. READ MORE NOW
John Noble plays the lead in this upcoming feature Holt in which in 1967, the Cold War. In the days before his mysterious disappearance, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt struggles to quell RED hysteria by wrestling power from an overzealous spy-master within his own government. This project is curretnly in pre-production. This thriller is due out in October.
KATIA WINTER
INDIEWIRE reports that around the same time she was "digging into the role of Katrina Crane, powerful witch and wife to Ichabod (Tom Mison), she got the opportunity to play a supporting role in Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups, which premieres at the Berlin Film Festival this weekend. Winter wasn't sure if she had made the final cut of "Knight of Cups," but she still was able to tell Indiewire about what it was like to improvise with Christian Bale, the fun of working with Malick, what's been frustrating about playing a damsel in distress on Sleepy Hollow (as opposed to a character in her own right) and whether she knows for sure if she'll be back for a potential Season 3." So, off to Berlin perhaps? READ MORE NOW
John Noble, Katia Winter, Lyndie Greenwood, Orlando Jones, Sleepy Holow
THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 09/22/2014 Battlecreek, Paper Towns, Sleepy Hollow, Yellow Footprints and more
We might have just one more production to hit Wilmywood before our current film incentives ends. Rumor has it, the feature film, Battlecreek, is coming to Wilmington. If this is indeed true, we would be hosting the gorgeous Hayden Christiansen who is taking the lead as well as the Oscar winning actress, Melissa Leo (The Fighter, Prisoners). They came into Wilmington to scout the area last week. Now there are mixed rumors going around. Some say it will be in just Wilmington, others say it will be filming in Jackson, MS and Wilmington. But there is the possibility that they just shoot in Mississippi. They are looking at a start date of October 20th. Offices would open the first week of October if they do come here. We shall see!
Battlecreek is the story of a gifted young painter (Hayden Christiansen) with a rare skin disorder who lives in an economically depressed Southern American town. Due to his affliction, he must live his life at night. When a young woman being chased by her own demons stumbles into town, their blossoming romance compels him to challenge his provocative, overbearing mother (Melissa Leo) and break free of the lies that have bound them together for years. Battlecreek is about reconciling the past and finding your future.
Producing is Connie Hoy. Directing is Alison Eastwood, which I believe is Clint Eastwood's neice? Hopefully it is more than just a rumor. More details to come soon.
As @SHollowSource puts it, #SleepyHolla!! Sleepy Hollow / Under the Dome viewing party is tonight at the Browncoat at 111 Grace St Downtown, Wilmington.
Sleepy premieres at 9pm on FOX and Dome's finale is at 10pm on CBS.
Sleepy Hollow star Lyndie Greenwood sits down with HuffPost Live at 3:30pm to talk about season two of the hit fantasy drama, which returns September 22 on Fox. HERE'S THE LINK
Yellow Footprints is to begin production here in Wilmington. Local lady Casey Mako will direct this coming of age female military film, about a young woman who strives to be a Marine and fight on the front lines in a position traditionally held only by men.
Taryn Terrell (WWE, The Campaign, Old Boy), has signed on to play the role of Sarah, a girl with a heart of gold who has suffered unimaginable loss, and finds a physical and mental strength to move on in her own life and inspire the will of others to believe they can do whatever they set their minds to.
The cast will be predominantly female and will feature Christy Berlane, (New Comic Day), and young new comer Hayley Heffernan, (30 Rock, Vera, 846).
Produced and co-written by Nick Dash and co-written by Monica Bellais, production is expected to begin in early October. Dash is a former Marine, is inspired to honor and tell a positive story regarding female Marines, ripped straight from the headlines, now that legislation has been approved for females to fight equally on the front lines with their male counterparts. Dash plans to employ homeless veterans in various extra roles in this film to bring awareness to the issue of homelessness and our beloved veterans.
Cara Delevingne has been added to the cast of Paper Towns which shoots in Charlotte, NC this fall. She will take on the role of Margo Roth Spiegelman opposite of Nat Wolff. Paper Towns is expected to begin production in November with offices projected to open at the end of September.
Tusk was shot in the Charlotte area and stars Justin Long, Michael Parks, Haley Joel Osment, and Genesis Rodriguez. It's NOW in 640 theaters. The movie follows Wallace (Justin Long), a journalist on a mission. He finds the story of a lifetime in Mr. Howe (Michael Parks), a worldwide adventurer with amazing tales and a curious penchant for walruses.
ICYMI: Kevin Smith discusses the crazy dark comedy and talks about shooting in NC.
REGISTER TO VOTE: If you have not yet registered to vote, you must do so NO LATER THAN October 10, 2014 by 5pm or you will NOT be able to vote in the General Elections on November 4, 2014.
ABSENTEE VOTING BY MAIL: Absentee voting by mail begins September 5,2014 and runs through October 28, 2014
EARLY VOTING (ONE STOP) PERIOD: October 23, 2014 – November 1, 2014
LIST OF WHO VOTED FOR AND AGAINST FILM: NCGA_FilmmakersVotingGuide_2014
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That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you tomorrow morning (unless something breaks) and every weekday morning we do "What's Up in Wilmywood" at 7:30am & 8:30am LIVE on Sunny 104.5. And on Thursdays during Cape Fear CW's Primetime News at 10! Got Scoop? Email me: sheila_brothers@yahoo.com. Or message me on Wilmywood's FB or on Twitter. You can also just post your comments below! Until then, that's a wrap!!
Alison Eastwood, Battlecreek, Cara Delevingne, Christy Berlane, Haley Joel Osment, Hayden Christiansen, Hayley Heffernan, Justin Long, Kevin Smith, Lyndie Greenwood, Melissa Leo, Michael Parks, Nat Wolff, Paper Towns, Sleepy Hollow, Taryn Terrell, Tusk, Under the Dome, Yellow Footprints
THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 08/20/2014 – Orlando Jones does Ice Bucket Challenge with a twist, Locations, Win a trip to LA
Our Domie, Stephen King is taking on the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS.
The Sleepy Hollow gang is also ready to freeze for the great cause. Neil Jackson, Lyndie Greenwood and John Noble got in on the action.
Orlando Jones has accepted the challenge as well, but with a twist. In the wake of the disruption, sadness and violence breaking out in Ferguson, MO over the death of the unarmed teen, Michael Brown, Orlando blends the two in his own way. Good job Mr. Jones.
Sleepy Hollow is back downtown creeping through the Nutt St. alleyway.
Secrets & Lies is shooting on Chestnut St.
How did Under the Dome do in the ratings Monday night? It stayed flat with a 1.5 (A18-49) and they gathered 7.3M viewers. Last week, UTD has 6.9M viewers, so up in that regard. Is it enough for 3rd season pickup? Yes. They were #1 in viewers for the night and they have gained viewers for four straight weeks.
REMINDER: The Remaining, has been adapted into a graphic novel by Kingstone Comics, a Leesburg Christian comic book publisher. It will be available in retail stores this Friday.
ICYMI: How would you like to head to the West Coast in September, hang with the stars of The Remaining and snag an autographed copy of the script? Well, you can do just that! You could win a 3 days and 2 night trip which includes: hotel, rental car, meals, and all the fun! ENTER NOW
FILM INCENTIVES UPDATE: This is gonna sound strange, well, hell these past 4 months have been beyond strange, but as long as HB1224 fails, film as we know it, is not dead. Even if they adjourn sine die, our legislators can get called backed in and the dialogue continues and the film conversation can begin once again. I know what you're thinking, we are losing productions everyday this crap goes on. True. It drives me crazy, too. But looking into the future, this is the best we got at the moment. Yesterday, the House didn't pass 1224, but it could come back to the table today.
The General Assembly Schedule at the present moment is:
Rules Committee: 10am
House: 11am
Senate: 4pm
I know it's a long exhausting fight, trust me! LOL. But it is not over.
REMINDER: Anyone who benefits from the NC Film Industry, please gather with us @ Battleship Park on Sat. August 23rd 2014@ 4:00pm.
They will be documenting the residents and families of Southeastern North Carolina with a massive group photograph of all those who will be affected by the loss of the Film Incentives. Brownie Harris will be the fab photog. RSVP NOW
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The Longest Ride receives big welcome from Elkin, NC.
What can NC attract with the $10 Million Film Grant?
THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 08/18/2014 Under the Dome Sneak Peek, Sleepy Hollow goes clubbin', The Longest Ride wrap party details
VIDEO: Elkin, NC and The Longest Ride
Film Incentives: Wanna see who got what from the NC Dept of Rev?
ALS, Film Incentives, Ice Bucket Challenge, John Noble, Lyndie Greenwood, Neil Jackson, Orlando Jones, Ratings, Secrets and Lies, Sleepy Hollow, Stephen King, Under the Dome
THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 06/06/2014 Alan Alda, Wilmywood Birthdays, Meet Guy Harvey and Eriq LaSalle and more.
Happy Friday Wilmywood! It's been a great week and let's keep it that way! Here we go!
Under the Dome is everywhere today including 2 sound stages, Creecy Ave, One Tree Hill Way, Wellesley Place, Chestnut St., and they also head to Currie today.
Did you miss it? Actor/Director/Author Eriq LaSalle joined me on the Sunny Morning Show this week and of course I had write all about him for my weekly Community article for EW.com. READ NOW!
While he is here to direct episode 10 of Under the Dome, don't forget you can meet him for yourself next weekend! He will be doing a book signing and reading, Saturday, June 14th at 3pm at Mayfaire's Barnes & Noble. It's for the soon to be released book 2 of 5 in his Martyr Maker Series, Laws of Wrath. And like I say in the article, if you love James Patterson's Alex Cross series, you will LOVE this one, too. Make sure you tweet some Wilmywood welcomes to Eriq today!
Can we please give a HUGE happy birthday to the fabulous Lyndie Greenwood! Make sure to tweet her some love today! She will be celebrating as the Sleepy folks work on episode 3 of the new season! Sleepy Hollow is on Forest Hills Drive today.
More birthday kudos go to Michael Cera who was here just a couple of months ago for FX's How and Why. He turns 26 today! Hopefully they will be heading back to WIlmywood soon!
And finally huge birthday hugs to our fabulous Max Steel leading lady, Ana Villafane who played Sophia Gardner in the flick which will be released in January 2015. She turns 25 today! Give her some mad birthday tweets!
HEADS UP: Our beloved Joey aka Katie Holmes, will be on Rachel Ray today! Make sure to check her out!
SATURDAY: For those who are in love with the Guy Harvey clothing line, he will be in Wilmywood TOMORROW! You can meet him at the Belk at Independence Mall from Noon to 2pm. Plus they are doing TONS of giveaways!
ICYMI: Alan Alda had been added to the fabulous cast of The Longest Ride. Alan will play the injured man, Ira, with the hot Jack Huston playing his younger self in the flashbacks. If you remember Alan was here in 1989 for Betsy's Wedding starring Molly Ringwald. Welcome to Wilmywood Alan!
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Perry's Emporium has the exclusive NC Film Pendants in stock now! They also ship everywhere, so call them to order one or stop by and pick one up! Price: $39.95 Located at 2520 Independence Blvd in Wilmington 910-392-6721 They are open Tues – Sat: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm. I am wearing mine proudly!
LOOKING FOR THOSE FILM=JOBS STICKERS? Sunrise Broadcasting has a few. Feel free to stop by and grab one while they last at 25 N. Kerr Ave. (near the intersection of Market and Kerr across from the new Walgreens). Offices are open 8:30am-5:30pm M-F.
WE GOT MORE! Last time, they flew out of here in 24 hours! Thanks to Jed and the gang over at Image Monster, you can now pick up these fab stickers at the Sunrise Broadcasting, too! Film=Jobs folks! Spread the word!
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THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 06/03/2014 Brian K Vaughan leaves Under the Dome, Sleepy Hollow premiere date and more.
Wilmington, N.C.: Small city behind big TV shows [EW
That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you Monday morning (unless something breaks) and every weekday morning we do "What's Up in Wilmywood" at 7:30am & 8:30am LIVE on Sunny 104.5. And on Thursdays during Cape Fear CW's Primetime News at 10! Got Scoop? Email me: sheila_brothers@yahoo.com. Or message me on Wilmywood's FB or on Twitter. You can also just post your comments below! Until then, that's a wrap!!
Alan Alda, Ana Villafane, Eriq LaSalle, Guy Harvey, Katie Holmes, Lyndie Greenwood, Michael Cera, Sleepy Hollow, The Longest Ride, Under the Dome
2014 NC Film Rally: Afterglow
Wow! What an wonderful time we had yesterday at the amazing NC Film Rally. You are incredible! Thank you so much for attending. Thank you also to the Wilmington Film Commission and the NC Production Alliance for coming together to organize this event. Although some media is claiming "hundreds" showed up, we surpassed 1,000 in attendance. Our AMAZING volunteers were signing folks up, so we have a count. A HUGE thank you for all those who took the time to help yesterday! Although we did indeed ROAR all the way to Raleigh, it's not over yet!
There is so much more to do! Please send a message or phone call to our governor as well as Sharon Decker and ask them to to please HELP us! Here's the deets:
PAT MCCRORY
PAT.MCCRORY@NC.GOV
Twitter: @PatMcCroryNC
SHARON DECKER
SHARON.DECKER@NCCOMMERCE.COM
Now as for the Anti-Rally protest…
Baaaahahahahahahaha!!!! 'Nuff said.
James Van Der Beek speaks up for NC Film
Rachelle LeFevre speaks up for NC Film
One Tree Hill's Hilarie Burton speaks up for NC Film
Here's some great photo's from the event courtesy from Kevin Conte, David Pascua, Rusty Burrows, Tamara Norman, David-Alexander Coley and Christine Poppe White. Click on pics to enlarge.
Alexander Koch, Colin Ford, Film=Jobs, Lyndie Greenwood, NC FIlm Incentives, NC Film Rally
THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 04/09/2014 Search continues for Shannon Rippy, another Sparks flick, Lifetime, How and Why, HGTV, Dinner with the Stars
Happy Hump Day my Wilmywood peeps! Oh boy, as if last week wasn't enough info to keep us 5 crews deep for the year, we got more intel coming in about new projects and some fun tidbits of those that are here.
First off, Under the Dome is shooting in Burgaw today. Have a great shoot my film peeps!
Now, let's get right to it, my favorite thing to write about. It's time for Rumors from the Lot!!
Now, having one Nicholas Sparks flick in Wilmywood is pretty awesome, but what if there were two? Well, there might just be. According to my sources, Nicholas Sparks is looking for a triple play, but not in book order. The Best of Me (2010 Novel, shooting in New Orleans now), The Longest Ride (2013 Novel, pre-production in Wilmington now) and now the latest rumors from the lot say he is jumping back a good 7 years to bring The Choice (2007 Novel, currently in development) to the big screen. And word has it, Wilmywood is high on their list when it comes to a production home.
Sparks however isn't the only one sniffing around. My sources are telling me that Lifetime has been giving Wilmywood a wink and a nod as a possible hub for one of their projects. Which one? Well, I can speculate, however, I'd rather not jump the gun on that quite yet.
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As we gear for the highly anticipated pilot, How and Why from FX, get ready for quite a cast. So far we know John Hawkes, Michael Cera, Julia Sarah Stone, Sally Hawkins, and Catherine Keener have signed on. But we can expect to hear more casting news. From what I hear, it's going to be quite a large cast. Oh and FYI, we will be welcoming into town the one and only Charlie Kauffman next week!
Bolden! is set to open offices in Rocky Point on April 21st. I am hearing Atlanta as well as Wilmywood again. Though I don't yet know which city they will be filming first. As far as who will replace Anthony Mackie is yet to be made public.
DINNER WITH THE STARS! Saturday May 3rd @ CFCC Union Station. Have dinner with the stars and send a cop to college! Let's help out our awesome Wilmington Police Department during this AWESOME charity event including dinner, a raffle, and some rockin good time with the stars including Sleepy Hollow's Orlando Jones and Lyndie Greenwood, Sydney Penny, Peter Jurasik, Justin Barnhill, Nina Repeta and more!! GET DETAILS NOW
HGTV's House Hunters is coming to Wilmywood this weekend! They will be filming around town during the Azalea Festival Garden tour. They will be on Clairidge Rd. and Magnolia Dr., and all over town for one of their episodes.
REMINDER: The Biggest Loser Season 16 is holding auditions this Saturday in Charlotte and we are giving away FRONT OF THE LINE passes. Just email me:sheila@1045sunnyfm.com and give me your story. Short, sweet and to the point and we will pick the front of the line winners THIS Thursday. Put "The Biggest Loser" in the subject line. Casting Director Erica Landon joined me yesterday. She gives you the inside scoop on the audition process, what you can expect and some tips for a great audition. LISTEN TO INTERVIEW WITH Casting Director Erica Landon Click on The Biggest Loser pic for all the audition details!
The search for film industry friend Shannon Rippy continues. They searched all day yesterday, knocking on doors and posting flyers. If you can help, their last facebook post stated, "There are flyers and a sign-in sheet at Delphino Dos (5 Water St. Harper's Rest.) Please get flyers at your convenience and continue to spread the word. If anyone has any pertinent information, please call the Wilmington Police Dept. @ 910-343-3600. Talk with employers and employees of the downtown establishments and also the people walking in the downtown area."
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The County of Lecce was a semi-independent Italo-Norman entity in Apulia, in south-eastern Italy, which existed from 1055 until 1463. Its capital was at the city of Lecce, and it was bounded by the territories of Brindisi to the north, Oria and Nardò to the west, and Soleto and Otranto to the south.

The county was founded by the Normans after their conquest of Apulia in the 1050s. Several Norman monarchs held their court at Lecce, and Tancred of Hauteville, who was Count of Lecce from 1149 to 1194, was born here. His daughter Elvira Maria Albina married Walter III of Brienne, whose family held the duchy of Lecce in the following centuries. In 1384 Mary of Enghien, a granddaughter of  Isabella of Brienne, became Countess of Lecce. When she married Raimondo Orsini del Balzo, Count of Soleto and (from 1393 to 1406) Prince of Taranto, all of the Salento was united into one of the largest fiefdoms in the Kingdom of Naples and Italy. Raimondo improved the administration of the county and the city.

After his death, the county went to his son, Giovanni Antonio Orsini Del Balzo, who had also inherited the Principality of Taranto in 1420. At his death in 1463, Ferdinand I of Naples named himself as the heir to Giovanni Antonio's rich legacy, annexing the county to the royal estates of the Kingdom of Naples.

States and territories disestablished in 1463
States and territories established in 1055
Medieval Apulia
Lecce
Norman conquest of southern Italy

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Happy International Jaguar Day—Help Save the Big Cats
November 29, 2020 by Lynn Walford
International Jaguar Day, marked each year on November 29, recognizes the magnificence of the jaguar and the need to protect it from extinction. Today, Jaguar North America, LLC announced its efforts to help raise awareness for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to protect this mighty big cat of the Americas.
Sir William Lyons, the co-founder of Jaguar Cars once said, "The car is the closest thing we will ever create to something that is alive," and the brand is showing gratitude to the fight to save the animal that embodies the fierce speed, power, agility, and beauty of its vehicles.
"We are touched by the work of the Wildlife Conservation Society to protect the jaguar and all threatened species around the world from extinction and want to help raise awareness with our fans for their noble efforts," said Stuart Schorr, Vice President, Communications, Jaguar Land Rover North America.
"At WCS, we welcome the support of Jaguar Land Rover behind our efforts to protect and recover the jaguar which faces many threats including habitat loss, poaching and illegal trade," said Joe Walston, WCS Executive Vice President of WCS Global Conservation Programs. "We have long-term jaguar programs on the ground in 13 range countries. Jaguar populations at WCS sites are growing steadily, averaging a 6.1% increase per year. WCS has been working at these sites for years, in some cases, decades. It takes time for jaguars to recover, and our new results demonstrate that persistence pays off. We look forward to working with Jaguar Land Rover to generate support behind these ongoing efforts."
For decades, WCS has worked to protect the jaguar, to ensure these big cats continue to roam the savannas, grasslands, and rainforests of the Americas. WCS's model to save the jaguar is based on three core elements: securing large, well-protected areas as inviolate refuges for jaguars and their prey; ensuring connectivity between those areas for jaguars to roam; and cooperating with human communities in shared landscapes to help meet the needs of people while also improving the situation for jaguars and other wildlife.
The global population of the jaguar is declining and has disappeared from almost half of its original distribution, including becoming extinct in El Salvador and Uruguay. With the goal of ensuring healthy jaguar populations thrive across a diversity of habitats, WCS works with many partners and biologists across multiple biomes to counter the threats facing the jaguar and supports the long-term recovery of the largest great cat in the Americas.
Jaguar is fully engaged with sustainability initiatives and social concerns, with continuous involvement in environmental and community programs. Driven by sustainability, the brand champions new materials that deliver improved environmental credentials, both in use and supply, with transparent sourcing key to selecting the right materials. The all-electric I-PACE, the first battery-electric performance SUV from the Jaguar brand, is offered with eco-friendly materials, including recycled aluminum. Its bold proportions are a direct result of the architecture that underpin I-PACE and advanced electric drivetrain. Jaguar is committed to Destination Zero: a future with zero emissions, zero accidents and zero congestion. In addition to I-PACE, globally all new Jaguar vehicles will offer an electrified powertrain option.
To support the efforts of Jaguar and WCS to help save jaguars on this International Jaguar Day, each brand will issue a call to action on Giving Tuesday (Dec 1), following Thanksgiving, to make a contribution to WCS on its website here: https://www.wcs.org/international-jaguar-day
WCS protects jaguars in 13 countries.
WCS safeguards jaguars across a land area roughly the size of California.
WCS has been working at these sites for years and, in some cases, decades.
WCS uses a holistic approach, not only protecting jaguars where they are but also working to bring them home to their former range.
WCS is building out an ambitious landscape-scale program in the Southwest Borderlands and Northern Mexico that seeks to lay the foundation for rewilding the endangered and emblematic jaguar and protecting, reconnecting, and restoring the waterways, forest, and grassland habitats required to sustain and nurture these once abundant icons of the southwest.
Based on 2020 research, jaguar populations are growing steadily at WCS sites, averaging a 6.1% increase per year.
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David is the Director, Digital, for Global News.
He was a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University (2012), the first digital journalist in Canada selected for this honor. David is the co-author of Breaking News: Mastering the Art of Disruption in Journalism, a Nieman Reports e-book that he co-wrote with world-renowned innovation expert and Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen and Forum for Growth and Innovation Fellow, James Allworth.
David began his career at ABC's Nightline, the flagship current affairs program, then anchored by Ted Koppel, in Washington D.C. He began working at Global News in 2003, where he served in increasingly senior production roles helping to create and produce several of the station's leading news programs and special events.
In 2009, David co-created the GlobalNews.ca network.


According to data recently compiled by Houston-based consulting firm PDR Corp, a strong positive culture can enhance employee engagement by 30 percent, resulting in up to a 19 percent increase in operating income and a 28 percent increase in earnings growth. In order to see these results, however, the company's leaders must be intentional about fostering a culture that fits their organizational goals and strategy. As margins shrink, customers grow more demanding, and competition creeps in from outside the industry, leveraging your bank's cultural potential could be the best tool you have to increase your competitive advantage.
Driven in large part by Silicon Valley's tech start-ups, the predominant perception of "company culture" today consists of foosball tables, smoothie bars, and endless after-hours entertainment—but those are superficial perks, not culture. "Company culture is the intangible, but very real, feeling or vibe of an organization," explained Carver Smith, partner, Baker Tilly Search & Staffing. "It's what employees experience, which may or may not be in line with a company's stated values." That disconnect between what the company says it values and what employees experience occurs most often when leadership ignores their organization's culture. "Culture either happens by design or by default," explained Steve Jones, leadership coach and consultant and a keynote speaker at the recent WBA BOLT Leadership Summit. "You're either intentional—talking about it and growing and improving it—or it just happens." Odds are, a 'culture by default' is not optimized for your institution's goals.
One of the most important benefits of being intentional about your bank's culture is also a prerequisite for the success of that culture. When assessing their company culture, the most valuable question for management to ask isn't "do we have a great culture?" but rather "does our culture fit our strategy?". They must be aligned in order for either one to be successful. "Culture eats strategy for lunch," said Mark Mohr, president/CEO, First Bank Financial Centre, Oconomowoc. "We can't successfully execute our strategy without a positive culture." Doug Gordon, president and CEO, WaterStone Bank, Wauwatosa, agreed. "You might be a great CEO in strategy, but you can't create the culture necessary to execute those strategies from behind a desk," he said. Both FBFC and WaterStone Bank have been awarded a "Top Workplace" by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for nine consecutive years, a feat only 18 companies have achieved. The Journal Sentinel compiles the list based on employee surveys, so this terrific achievement demonstrates the positive impact of culture at each institution.
Related to achieving strategic goals, another benefit of a healthy, well-aligned company culture is a measurable positive impact on profitability. That comes, at least in part, from employees feeling empowered to push one another to perform better. "In really strong cultures, psychological safety allows employees to hold one another accountable to meet the standards of the organization," said Jones. "That's when companies really thrive." Gordon says he considers the bank's 50 percent efficiency ratio—which measures better than their peers—a sign that they're heading in the right direction. "Profitability and the success of the bank are an indicator that our culture is working," he explained, noting that WaterStone's leadership make sure employees understand they are the bank's priority. "We stress that employees come first, customers come second, and shareholders third," Gordon continued. "If we have competent, invested employees, they'll provide excellent customer service, which then leads to profits for shareholders."
Finally, culture can be a powerful tool in your HR department's arsenal with respect to recruitment and retention of top-performers. "Culture is everything when it comes to attracting and retaining quality professionals," said Jones. The primary reason is because employees who enjoy their work are more likely to actively promote opportunities to their networks. "A great culture creates employee advocacy," said Mohr. "Much of our recruiting is referrals from existing employees, and to me that's a high compliment." The key is for bank management to be strategic about forming their culture based on the kind of employee the bank needs in order to meet its goals. "Banks need to play to their strengths and determine what type of personality they really need," Smith advised. "They should ask themselves, 'do we have the culture that would appeal to our target employee?'." When a company achieves alignment between culture and the type of professionals it needs to recruit, that's where turnover drops and engagement rises, and profits along with it.
When leveraging culture as a recruitment tool, it's important for management to follow through—that is, hire for culture as much as use it to attract quality candidates. "People want to work with people they get along with, so you should hire people who fit your culture," said Gordon. "When we're recruiting, we're looking for the most qualified candidate who fits, not necessarily just the most qualified."
"Listen, observe, and above all, lead by example," Smith advised. "Leaders drive the culture," Jones agreed. "Culture starts with the leaders' vision and everyone understanding that the leaders care about the people within the culture. After that, everyone down to the bottom has to understand that they own it every day." In order for any culture shift to happen, the people at the top must make it a daily priority. "I look at creating a culture where our people feel valued and can succeed as one of my most important jobs," said Mohr.
One of the most effective ways to identify and build an organizational culture is to open up communication channels. Both Gordon and Mohr say they meet with employees on a regular basis to solicit feedback and facilitate discussion specifically about the bank's culture. "I visit all of our branches at least once a month to hear what everyone has to say, because my vision might be different from what they see," said Gordon. Sometimes, a different vision can be a good thing. "So many good ideas have come from employee suggestions," Mohr said. "They're really participating in improvements we're making."
"Culture is not static in any way, shape, or form," said Gordon. Whether it's reacting to exit interviews or making changes based on employee surveys, the bank's culture must be mutable. As part of that, management must be willing to make cultural adjustments as the workforce becomes more diverse. "Embrace all aspects of diversity and realize culture is not a one-size-fits-all solution," Smith advised. "Understand the differences in people as individuals, not as buckets to be 'dealt with' as is often the case with generational differences."
To make culture changes as smooth as possible, as the culture at the institution shifts, bank leadership must ensure that no employee feels left behind. "You might ostracize some staff unless you help them see the benefits of the changed culture," Smith cautioned. "Make them a part of the change management exercise, not a victim of it." He advises weighing the risk of losing those employees against the value the new culture will create. "Culture comes down to an organization's shared vision and value systems, language, and beliefs," said Jones. "It's ultimately about getting everyone to move in the same direction."
* Smith credits his friend Will Ruch, owner of marketing firm Versant, with this idea.
Baker Tilly is a WBA Silver Associate Member.


It took over a year, but Lindon and I finally finished Love & Respect. You might wonder why in the world it took us so long? Well, we read it out loud…together. HUH? WHAT?
We're laughing as we imagine the confusion you might be experiencing right now.


Priyanka Chopra breaks silence on The Cut's racist article: Won't disturb my happy place by reacting to it – A piece carried by New York Magazine's The cut, titled 'Is Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas' Love for Real?' drew severe backlash from celebrities and netizens on Wednesday for its sexist and racist content. It accused Priyanka of trapping Nick Jonas into a fraudulent relationship and being a 'global scam artist'.
The publication had to issue an apology and also take down the article after people around the globe expressed their shock and disappointment at the writer's unexplained hatred towards Priyanka. "An earlier story about Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas did not meet our standards. We've removed it and apologize," The Cut tweeted.
Nick and Priyanka got married at Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur. On December 1, they had a Christian wedding, and on December 2, they had a Hindu wedding ceremony. Priyanka is expected to host a grand reception in Mumbai for her industry friends in coming days.


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FID steht für:
 Fachinformationsdienste für die Wissenschaft, ein Förderprogramm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
 FIDE, Weltschachbund – Kürzel für Spieler, die nicht für eine Nation spielen
 Firmendirektversicherung, Durchführungsweg der betrieblichen Altersversorgung, siehe Direktversicherung
 Federation for Information and Documentation, bis 2002 bestehende Institution zur Vernetzung und Verfügbarmachung von bibliothekarischem Wissen
 Flächenidentifikator, Kennzeichnung eines Feldstücks in einer Feldstückskarte
 Flammenionisationsdetektor, ein Detektor für organische Verbindungen, der überwiegend in Verbindung mit Gaschromatographen (GC) eingesetzt wird
 Fall-ID in Ärzteberichten
 Forschungsinstitut für Fragen des Donauraumes, Vorgänger des Instituts für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa
 free induction decay (freier Induktionszerfall) in der Kernspinresonanzspektroskopie/-tomographie

Fid steht für:
 Fid, Werkzeug der Seilmacher, siehe Spleiß

Siehe auch:
 The Fid, Berg im Grahamland, Antarktika
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