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Posted on August 5, 2012 by Kim Cowen
While preparing for a house move I found the head of my husband's first wife in a box.
When I met my husband he was married. To a woman called Eleanor Crabtree. She'd been part of his life since 2003 – when he invented her. For a few years she was the love of his life and then she became a curse.
The Curse of Eleanor Crabtree is James' short film. It's 10 minutes long and it took him nearly ten years to finish it. Or, one year for every minute of screen time.
He had a real cast and crew when he shot it in Brisbane in the summer of 2003. Then, as the years went by they slowly drifted away leaving James alone – with Eleanor.
She was initially intended to be a calling card for his work as a filmmaker, motion graphic artist and generally skilled geek dude. Soon life took over and the small pieces he showed of Eleanor were enough to land him paid work, and lots of it.
Eleanor became a weekend affair, and then once a month, and then, by the time we met, five years later, she was only ever taken out on holidays.
When we met I was producing short films myself so he talked about her to me a lot. He jokes that that's why he married me – to guarantee himself a producer. He showed me the parts of her that were complete and we made a list of the things that still needed attention.
He had started with 150 visual effects shots on this short 10-minute film. Faced with the enormity of the now-solo venture James, with a little help from a some-what more ruthless producer/wife, scaled it down to 100 and, for the most part, did each and every one himself. He went back to spending weekends and early mornings with Eleanor.
And then the picture was locked. Everything that James could do himself was done. Everything the film was ever going to look like was completed. We just needed sound.
We made a couple of funding applications hoping to get the money to pay a new voice over artist (we had our eye on Hugo) and a post-production sound facility. The money never came.
Then, in 2011, through a paid gig, James met the fellas at Soundwaves, a highly reputable post-production sound facility in Melbourne. They liked him. And they liked Eleanor.
Giving us an extraordinarily generous deal we were able to complete the film out of our own pocket. They hooked us up with the music maestro, Brett Aplin whose Harry Potter-esque score gave us goose-bumps. They even wove some magic on the temporary voice over and voila…as much as we'd have liked Hugo, or Geoffery or Al Pacino, we didn't really need them. Eleanor was done.
Now we had to show her off to the world.
In June this year the wonderful Kathleen McInnis of the Palm Springs International Shorts Festival invited Eleanor to screen at their festival. We were thrilled. Eleanor would have her world premiere in Hollywood's playground.
Two weeks before we were to leave I realised that the trip wouldn't be complete without Eleanor. So I went back to that box, which by now had moved house three times with us, pulled out her head and booked her into a beautician. She had to be shown off.
So the three of us took the 16-hour flight to California's desert and paraded around town as the happy trio we were.
The three of us
While I couldn't be prouder of my husband's achievements, I'm sure glad she's out of that box. Bloody Eleanor. As Diana famously once said, "There were three of us in this marriage, and it was a bit crowded".
The Curse of Eleanor Crabtree is a love story about a woman who cannot die.
You can read more about the film at www.eleanorcrabtree.com.
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Lorinda nee Munson Bryant (1855-1933) was an American author and critic. Her works include: Famous Pictures of Real Boys and Girls (1912), What Sculpture to See in Europe (1914), What Pictures to See in America (1915), American Pictures and Their Painters (1917), Famous Pictures of Real Animals (1918), What Pictures to See in Europe in One Summer (1919), The Children s Book of Celebrated Pictures (1922), Bible Stories in Bible Language (1922), French Pictures and Their Painters (1922), The Children s Book of Celebrated Sculpture (1923), The Children s Book of Celebrated Bridges (1925), The Children s Book of Celebrated Towers (1926), The Children s Book of American Landmarks (1927), The Children s Book of European Landmarks (1928), The Children s Book of Celebrated Legends (1929), The Children s Book of Religious Pictures (1930) and The Children s Book of Animal Pictures (1931).
Read here the storied history of these United States. The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the "mystic chords of memory." They are the symbols that define the essence of the United States, that mark its historic course, and connect its people. The American Patriot's Almanac is a daily source of inspiration and information about the history, heroes, and achievements that sum up what this nation is all about.
A guide to the origins, principles, symbols, and celebration of the African American holiday.
Griswold examines twelve classics of children's literature and determines that each has a concealed wish to "overthrow parents" which makes these classics particularly American.
This is not just another book about Roswell. Rather, it's about the aftermath, the lifetime impact Roswell has had on the families who were forced to live with the suppressed truth and the fear of reprisal from a government sworn to protect them. Parents who were present during the incident may have passed on, but their children know what happened, and they have paid dearly for their knowledge. Included here are stories of tapped phones, government intimidation and attempted brainwashing, and unexplained disappearances. These are stories that force you to think about why the government would go to such lengths to keep these families quiet.
An anthology of American poems, arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems.


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I recently read in Computers are *fast*! by Julia Evans about a comparison between fread() and mmap() suggesting that both calls deliver roughly the same performance. Unfortunately the codes mentioned there and referenced in bytesum.c for fread() and bytesum_mmap.c for mmap() do not really compare the same thing. The first adds size_t, the second adds up uint8_t. My computer showed that these programs do behave differently and therefore give different performance.
The file in question is the Ubuntu ISO-image for the server edition, roughly 564 MB, stored on a classical hard-drive (Seagate 2TB drive). fread() and read() don't make a difference. This demonstrates that the mmap()'ed version needs roughly half the system time (83ms down to 40ms), leading to a reduction of 20% of the total running time (186ms down to 152ms).
The AVI-file is roughly 259 MB. Again, fread() and read() don't differ, but mmap() is roughly 30% faster system-time-wise.
These tests were conducted on a 4.3.3-3-ARCH x86_64 system utilizing an AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core processor running up to 3.1 GHz. gcc used for compiling was 5.3.0.
People love mmap() and other ways to play with the page tables to optimize away a copy operation, and sometimes it is worth it.
HOWEVER, playing games with the virtual memory mapping is very expensive in itself. It has a number of quite real disadvantages that people tend to ignore because memory copying is seen as something very slow, and sometimes optimizing that copy away is seen as an obvious improvment.
quite noticeable setup and teardown costs. And I mean _noticeable_. It's things like following the page tables to unmap everything cleanly. It's the book-keeping for maintaining a list of all the mappings. It's The TLB flush needed after unmapping stuff.
page faulting is expensive. That's how the mapping gets populated, and it's quite slow.
if the data gets re-used over and over again (within a single map operation), or if you can avoid a lot of other logic by just mapping something in, mmap() is just the greatest thing since sliced bread.
This may be a file that you go over many times (the binary image of an executable is the obvious case here – the code jumps all around the place), or a setup where it's just so convenient to map the whole thing in without regard of the actual usage patterns that mmap() just wins. You may have random access patterns, and use mmap() as a way of keeping track of what data you actually needed.
if the data is large, mmap() is a great way to let the system know what it can do with the data-set. The kernel can forget pages as memory pressure forces the system to page stuff out, and then just automatically re-fetch them again.
And the automatic sharing is obviously a case of this..
Again, read() and fread() make no real difference. The difference in system-time between read() and mmap() is 25% (95ms down to 71ms). Compiler was gcc 4.8.4.
With the file on SSD the result is even more fading away to the file stored on hard-disk: running times between read() and mmap() are almost identical, contrary to the result on kernel 4.3.3.
A kernel dependency was also hinted in CPU Usage Time Is Dependant on Load.
and reading the Ubuntu ISO-file from HD reduces real-time by roughly 10% (152ms down to 138ms), and reduces user-time by roughly 15% (110ms down to 93ms). The generated code uses AMD's vpadd, vpsrldq, vpmovsxwd instructions.
When I first started writing ripgrep, I used the memory map approach. It took me a long time to be convinced enough to start down the second path with an intermediate buffer (because neither a CPU profile nor the output of strace ever showed any convincing evidence that memory maps were to blame), but as soon as I had a prototype of (2) working, it was clear that it was much faster than the memory map approach.
With all that said, memory maps aren't all bad. They just happen to be bad for the particular use case of "rapidly open, scan and close memory maps for thousands of small files." For a different use case, like, say, "open this large file and search it once," memory maps turn out to be a boon. We'll see that in action in our single-file benchmarks later.
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"The Soap Opera Is a Hell of an Exciting Form": Norman Lear's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and the 1970s Viewer
Erin Lee Mock
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies (1 September 2013) 28 (2 (83)): 109–149.
...Erin Lee Mock Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (syndicated, 1976 – 77) rightly remains a touchstone for television scholars whose work emphasizes genre, gender, and sexuality, and its creator, Norman Lear, is a critical figure to discussions of the television industry in the 1970s. I argue that the...
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... Hartman, Mary Hartman and the 1970s Viewer. No. 83: pp. 109 – 51 Mimi Thi Nguyen Diasporic Erotic: Love, Loss, and the Copy. No. 82: pp. 69 – 101 John G. Nichols Cinemactivism: Film Reform, Spectatorship, and the Cleveland Cinema Club. No. 84: pp. 33 – 65 Julianne Pidduck The Times...
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Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies (1 September 1999) 14 (3 (42)): 96–123.
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... retooled inside as well as out, with rebuilt, har• dened bodies to encase their radically reconfigured subjectivities, these newly minted "indestructible men" will leave Parris Island, then, not as individual, militarized automatons. Instead, as their drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Lee...
The Face Is a Politics: A Close-Up View of Julie Dash's Illusions
... with that system in the ostensibly empowering finale. For Saidiya V. Hartman and Farah Jasmine Griffin, Ester "is both ven- triloquist and dummy" and "is cast away, like the utterly depleted body of the whore," such that Mignon's "mulatta visibility depends on the erasure or marginalization of...
Photography, the Archive, and the Question of Feminist Form: A Conversation with Zoe Leonard
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... Hilton Als's book The Women and with the work of scholars like Saidiya Hartman who are try- ing to come up with different ways of narrating the past.4 I also think that your art is an incredible spur for us as historians and critics to do the work of finding these subjects and bringing those...
Quality versus Relevance : Feminism, Race, and the Politics of the Sign in 1970s Television
Kirsten Marthe Lentz
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies (1 May 2000) 15 (1 (43)): 45–93.
... Bob Newhart Show (1972–78), and others. Tandem/TAT, headed by Norman Lear, produced All in the Family (1971–79), Good Times (1974–79), The Jeffersons (1975–85), Maude (1972–78), Sanford and Son (1972–77), and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976–77), among...
Skin Deep: Josephine Baker and the Colonial Fetish
Anne Anlin Cheng
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies (1 December 2008) 23 (3 (69)): 35–79.
Humanity Adrift: Race, Materiality, and Allegory in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men
Zahid R. Chaudhary
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies (1 December 2009) 24 (3 (72)): 73–109.
Stripping on the Girl Channel: Lifetime, thirtysomething , and Television Form
Laura Stempel Mumford
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies (1 May 1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 166–191.
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..., can a series designed to run weekly "become" a soap when it is retelecast as a daily off-net- work strip? In most cases, of course, the answer is a straightforward "no." No one would confuse a sitcom, or even a soap parody like Soap and Mary Hartman, Mary...
Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama and Serial Drama, 1946–1970
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... the couple's first child, Tabitha, was born; she also had supernatural powers. A short-lived series based on the character of Tabitha, starring Lisa Hartman, aired on CBS in the late 1970s. UCLA: 5 episodes; 1966; some with commercials. MOB: 3 episodes; 1964 (premiere...
Memory Once Removed: Indirect Memory and Transitive Autobiography in Chantal Akerman's D'Est
Alisa Lebow
... things put on their true—surrealistic— face."16 For Benjamin, the true face of things is not a self-evident truth that can be simply apprehended and preserved. Geoffrey Hartman sums it up thus: "[For Benjamin,] naked truth is on the side of excessive hope and can only be attained by not being...
The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs
George Lipsitz
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies (1 January 1988) 6 (1 (16)): 78–116.
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Pressure Points: Political Psychology, Screen Adaptation, and the Management of Racism in the Case-History Genre
Andrea Slane


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Gratitude, a hidden treasure in social media?
Since Social Media is here to stay a lot of companies are asking their selves: what is the added value of Social Media?
At Media Injection we are always looking for new valuable insights that can help our customers gain insights to improve their business. We already provide insights like sentiment, share of voice and we launched a formula to calculate the Media Value for Social Media.
At this moment we notice that the market is putting more and more resources on engaging with their fans and followers on social media. Customers are complaining and asking questions through social media more and more and people even check if a company is active on Social Media before they buy a product. But what is the added value of answering these questions? Is this a one-time investment or is it possible to create a longstanding relation with a person who had a complaint or a question and actually increase the amount of conversions coming from this person?


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Enterprise View: How Army HQ is going paperless in under a year
By Aaron Boyd
When the new Army Chief of Staff wanted the mountains of paper off his desk, it was up to Lt. Col. (P) Michael Gilligan and his team to find a way to automate headquarters' systems. Little more than a year later, the project is now its own office – Army Enterprise Staff Management Systems, or AESMS – with plans to have all of Army HQ paperless by July.
When was the AESMS office first stood up?
The office was stood up in October 2016, and that was a result of our efforts in implementing a task management solution to the headquarters department of the Army. And in our efforts with HQDA, a lot of the other Army commands and organizations subordinate to HQDA started coming to us seeking similar solutions to what we're providing, and as a result we had to establish a project office to manage all those requirements.
When you set out, what was the problem you were looking to solve?
HQDA identified a capability gap with task management. Prior to us implementing the task management tool for them, they were leveraging a technology-based tracking system; however, they were still using the blue folders to manage all their correspondence, as they were routing them through office to office for the various levels of edits, reviews and concurrences. The capability we're providing them digitizes the entire process from the version control of the documents, editing of the documents, to including digital signatures for the final product.
It eliminates the personnel walking down the hallways and eliminates the stacks of papers. And it provides real-time feedback on exactly where the document is in the process and who actually has it at that time. Senior leaders can look and query that at any time and figure out where things are.
Do the blue folders still exist?
In the end, the blue folders will be phased out. Right now, the plan is for HQDA to be fully operational using the new task management tool by June.
Why didn't you just go with the Pentagon's system?
The product that we're using to meet HQDA's requirements is the task management tool, which is a product of the Accenture Federal Services. We came to that solution based on the requirement that we had to be able to interact with OSD's staff management solution. That was a specified requirement that we had to meet; we couldn't fold on that.
As we were doing our market research at the time, the task management tool was the only commercial off-the-shelf system that was able to interact with CATMS [Correspondence and Task Management System] out of the box.
What functionality will the system have when it reaches full operating capability in July?
By July, the vision end-state on how HQDA staff will be running is that you won't see the folders with the staff action summary sheets on people's desks. It'll all be virtual in their computer and on the network.
So, first, the elimination of all those staffing folders. Secondly, I'm expecting the senior leaders to see efficiencies in the timeliness of actions being processed. Where normally you would have a policy memorandum or a revision to an Army regulation or a memorandum for record being staffed through – that would take several days to a couple weeks for it to go through three different offices – we're hoping to be able to measure that in the number of hours or maybe even the number of days.
And then, obviously, we're going to eliminate a lot of waste, with using a lot of paper and printing out things and whatnot. And, lastly, we'll be able to have a concise archiving process because anything that goes into the system will be archived.
Paperwork management isn't always sexy. How important is this tool?
For me, it's that I can go to bed at night saying, I'm saving the taxpayer and the government money.
At a minimum, it provides a capability, at least right now, within the Army that makes everybody's job more efficient and in some aspects easier to do. Whether that be a simple policy letter or whether it be an Army regulation or revision to doctrine, in some way that has a direct impact to the war fighter.
What is the future of AESMS?
A year from now, I see HQDA running self-sustained as far as working with AESMS and the task management tool. But I also see our interactions with other Army agencies increasing.
Supporting HQDA was just the start of the evolution. I would say that we're going to probably have ten or so additional customers this time next year. Then, five years from now, I see this, hopefully, as a formal enterprise solution for the Army and maybe DoD; maybe not being hosted at ALTESS [Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services] but maybe one of the DoD clouds or in the commercial cloud environment.
What advice do you have for other project managers thinking of starting a new program office?
If you're thinking about it within DoD, as far as trying to develop a solution set to fill in a capability gap, I would say definitely foster relationships with your industry partners because they either already have a solution or they're already thinking about the same solution that you're trying to do. … And, two, when you're dealing with information technology, things are continually evolving, things are always changing, whether it be in the cybersecurity arena or whether it be in computing capacity, computing power or whether it be in software code. ... The more you can leverage your relationship with industry, the more you can be in step with them and in step with the modernization.
About Aaron Boyd
Aaron Boyd is an awarding-winning journalist currently serving as editor of Federal Times — a Washington, D.C. institution covering federal workforce and contracting for more than 50 years — and Fifth Domain — a news and information hub focused on cybersecurity and cyberwar from a civilian, military and international perspective.
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If you're suffering from the winter blues, February is actually a great month for affordable dining out and shrugging off that post-Christmas lethargy.
Whether you're taking advantage of some hot dining deals in New York or testing the Nordics finest fare in Copenhagen, there are plenty of pocket-friendly lunch and dinner deals to be found during various dining weeks.
This month also sees the inaugural edition of The World Restaurant Awards, producing a new list of must-try addresses to add to your bucket list for the year.
And, if you're a young chef aged 30 years or under, it's time to start perfecting your signature dish, as from 4 Feb you can apply to take part in the forthcoming S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2020.
Panacée - MoCo of Montpellier presents Cookbook 19', opening 9 February and closing 12 May. An exhibition exploring the cross over between art and cooking with an impressive line-up of 25 internationally renowned chefs and 20 artists supporting the project.
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Welcome to the first of its kind self-paced course in Title 5 ! First, dispensing with the paid announcements, I would like to note that the course materials were developed under a grant from the Federal 319(b) Program, administered by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and awarded to the Barnstable County Department of Health and the Environment. The idea of the course came from you, Board of Health members and interested individuals at large who, due to busy schedules and a desire to learn the world of on-site septic systems, wanted a pace-yourself way to learn in the comfort of your own home.
As you work your way through the different course modules (there will be six in all), you will be exposed to a variety of aspects of Title 5 from basic components of a Title 5 system, to the myriad of regulations Boards of Health are charged with enforcing. Reference materials used will generally be indicated, as will their availability. The course relies heavily on materials produced by DEP including the "TRAINING MANUAL FOR THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL CODE, TITLE 5", and what has come to be known as the "DeFeo and Wait" report, but you will also be introduced to a wide variety of resource material from different states.
The focus of this course is to teach the principles behind the code, by presenting them in an interesting, and sometimes humorous, way. The primary authors of the course are George Heufelder, Environmental Program Manager for the Barnstable County Department of Health and the Environment, and Susan Rask, who has served in various positions from sanitarian to project assistant with the Department. In addition to working for "County Health" each of these individuals has served as Chair of their local Board of Health (Falmouth and Barnstable respectively) and presently still serve on their Boards. This course is dedicated to those individuals who serve on Boards of Health who in their tenure give countless hours of community service.
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Le Bloc des masses sénégalaises (BMS) est un ancien parti politique sénégalais d'opposition, actif entre 1961 et 1963.

Histoire
Il fut créé en 1961 par Cheikh Anta Diop – le premier des trois partis fondés par lui – pour prendre ses distances à l'égard du régime dirigé par le président Léopold Sédar Senghor et son Premier ministre Mamadou Dia. Boubacar Guèye fait également partie des membres fondateurs.

Le BMS fait campagne pour le « NON » lors du référendum du 3 mars 1963, qui voit le « OUI » l'emporter avec 99,45 % des suffrages.

Le BMS est interdit le  et, parfois au prix d'avantageuses propositions, un certain nombre de ses membres rejoignent l'Union progressiste sénégalaise (UPS) de Senghor qui deviendra le parti unique du Sénégal.

Cheikh Anta Diop fonde bientôt un deuxième parti, le Front national sénégalais (FNS).

Notes

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
  Gerti Hesseling, Histoire politique du Sénégal : institutions, droit et société (traduction Catherine Miginiac), Karthala, 2000, 424 p.
  François Zuccarelli, La vie politique sénégalaise (1940-1988), Paris, CHEAM, 1988

Liens externes

Ancien parti politique au Sénégal
Parti politique fondé en 1961

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A Wichita Falls man reportedly attempted to punch a 13-year-old for not cleaning the house at his request.
Mario Hernandez, 57, is charged charged with injury to a child – a third-degree felony. He was out of the Wichita County Jail Monday afternoon on $5,000 bail.
Around 10:50 p.m. Saturday, Wichita Falls police were sent to an address in the 1600 block of Keeler Ave. to check on the welfare of a 13-year-old girl.
Officers found the girl, who was crying in her bedroom when they arrived at the residence.
The girl said she was upset because Hernandez had struck her twice with a closed fist on the left side of her face.
She claimed she placed both arms in front of her face to block the punches, but she felt pain to her right forearm from the blows. Officers saw a slight redness on the inside of her forearm, which she said was from the punches.
The girl said she had been arguing with Hernandez because he demanded that she clean the entire house.
The mother of the child told officers that Hernandez regularly slapped and punched the girl and described it as abuse.
She said she heard her daughter arguing with Hernandez in the kitchen before what sounded like a punch.
The mother informed officers that Hernandez currently has an open case with Child Protective Services for abuse on the girl.
A CPS caseworker confirmed to officers that Hernandez had an open case in Dallas County. Their notes indicated that Hernandez is in charge of discipline in the house and was stern with the girls.
The caseworker also said Hernandez expects the children to routinely clean the house.
Due to his inability to speak English, the caseworker interviewed Hernandez in Spanish and relayed information to the officer.
Hernandez reportedly told the caseworker that the girl is expected to clean the house and refuses to do so. He also claimed she had recently stole his cigarettes from him and leaves personal hygiene items scattered throughout the house.
He said, through the caseworker, that the argument ensued when he told the girl to clean the house.
Hernandez said he would admit to trying to slap the girl to her left side of her face because of actions, but he believed it was for disciplinary reasons.
According to the officer, there is another girl, 9, that resides at the residence. She informed the officers that Hernandez attempted to slap her sister with an open hand but said the girl blocked it when Hernandez swung at her.
The 9-year-old said it looked like it was more directed toward the victim's shoulder.


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Article: Work cultures in start-ups: Lessons from Silicon Valley
AUTHORJ Jerry Moses
FRIDAY03JUN 2016
Work cultures in start-ups: Lessons from Silicon Valley
While comparing different kinds of work cultures in the Silicon Valley, researchers stumble upon a startling revelation.
In the year 1994, two Stanford faculty members, James N. Baron, and Micheal T. Hannan launched a project called "The Stanford Project on Emerging Companies (SPEC)" – it studied 200 young Silicon valley companies and their founders with the aim of understanding how the founders approached key organizational and HR challenges in their early days – they also studied whether such activities had enduring effects on the companies over the course of seven years.
In the course of their research, they found that founders embraced very different 'mental models' of the ideal organizational form. Their findings were organized under three main dimensions: 1) Attachment – which was geared at understanding the basis of employee attachment –love (sense of belonging and identification), work and money. 2) The basis of coordination and control and 3) selection – the primary method of selecting employees. This exercise formed an "HR blueprint", which in turn led them to typologize five types of work cultures:
Star model: This workplace culture emphasized on selecting employees from elite institutions. Employees work on challenging assignments and there is a reliance on autonomy and professional control. The key HR imperative for star firms is the ability to recruit and select star employees.
Engineering model: The engineering work culture was the most pervasive in the Silicon Valley. Firms that fall into this category have a combination of challenging work and peer group control. And employees were selected for their specific task abilities. In this kind of work culture, HR had to ensure that the hard-working techies are plied with enough caffeine and sugar to keep them energized. In fact, according to the researchers, entrepreneurs of these firms seemed "to view the HR department as the people who buy the beer, chips, and dips".
Commitment model: Often considered traditional and passé, this work culture entails reliance on emotional or familial ties to the organization. And employee selection is based on cultural fit and peer-group control. Key HR imperatives involve fostering a strong culture and ensuring that the new hires fit that culture.
Bureaucracy model: In this work culture, attachment to the work is based on challenging work assignments and/or opportunities for development. Employees are selected based on their qualifications for a particular role and formalized control. Here HR serves as the administrative apparatus intended to promulgate rules and procedures.
Autocratic model: Employment is based on monetary motivations. There is control and coordination through personal oversight and employees are selected to perform pre-specified tasks. In this case, firms tend to do away with HR altogether.
Baron and Hannan found that even in the fast paced high technology world, the founder's employment models exert powerful and enduring effects on the how companies evolve and perform. After comparing the multiple models of work culture, they found a clear differentiator. It wasn't companies with star, engineering or even bureaucratic work cultures that consistently succeeded in the long-term; it was firms with the commitment culture. They found that firms with commitment cultures were the least likely to fail. None of the firms they studied had failed. They were also the fastest to go public and had significantly leaner administrative overheads – measured in terms number of managers and administrative heads.
Reflecting on the research Charles Duhigg in his book "Smarter, Faster, Better" notes that "Employees in commitment firms wasted less time on internal rivalries… Commitment companies tended to know their customers better than other kinds of firms, and as a result, could detect shifts in the market faster...One of the reasons commitment cultures were successful, it seemed, was because a sense of trust emerged among workers, managers, and customers that enticed everyone to work harder and stick together through the setbacks that are inevitable in any industry. Most commitment companies avoided layoffs unless there was no other alternative. They invested heavily in training. There were higher levels of teamwork and psychological safety." The correlation between a long-term association with employees and customers was vital to their success.
However, all was not rosy for commitment firms; they had difficulty scaling-up in some respects because of their emphasis on cultural fit and had other peculiar issues. The Study certainly turns on its head the conventional wisdom about workplace cultures. Read the full paper here.
Topics: Culture, Employee Engagement
J Jerry Moses
J Jerry Moses is a senior content manager at People Matters. He can be reached at jerry.moses@gopeoplematters.com
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After three years in charge of Channel 4's sales team, Jonathan Allan is pretty pleased with how he is doing. Yes, broadcast revenue might have declined by almost 1 per cent in 2013 but, hey, Channel 4 is trying new things.
As his boss, the chief executive, David Abraham, prepares to take the stage in Amsterdam to unveil the future for Channel 4's digital platforms, Allan wants to talk about being first to market with digital products and how brands will be able to leverage the "whole creative power" of Channel 4.
Abraham was mocked for banging on about data on any podium that would have him in the early years. He limits the subject to an aside (and self-deprecating joke) in speeches today. But this morning at IBC2014, Abraham is unveiling Channel 4's next data-led digital phase.
All 4 will bring together all of Channel 4's digital content and services. It will be divided into three sections – on demand, now and on soon – and offer an increasingly personalised experience.
"Creatively and commercially, we are pretty neutral about where people watch Channel 4," Allan explains as he gives Campaign a preview of the new iPad app. "We think it's a disadvantage now to have a separate online brand to your channel brands. All 4 is going to represent the whole of the Channel 4 digital estate. We think that provides a more holistic view of our world."
That world has reached 11.5 million registered viewers, which is comparable to the number of BSkyB homes, and Channel 4 is looking to make better use of the information they provide. Just as Allan's predecessors pioneered selling "efficient low-wastage demographics" in the 90s, 4oD introduced demographic targeting last year. Allan thinks targeted campaigns could account for 50 per cent of those on its video-on-demand service by 2016. Next up, Channel 4 will start to test selling by interests, using viewing data.
Although media agencies are supportive of innovation, some buyers are concerned that Channel 4 can operate in a "bubble" and not take into account what clients are actually asking for. "Channel 4 seems to be reacting to problems on the main channel by innovating the way they sell," Phil Hall, the managing partner and joint head of investment at MediaCom, says. "Channel 4 is reaching out more and more and we welcome this as long as our, and our clients', opinions are taken into account."
To further the creative mission, meanwhile, Channel 4 has hired Charlotte Rowland, the head of ideas at Havas Media, in the new role of creative strategist. Allan says that she has been briefed to lead the creative process across all agency groups and will have responsibility for "creatively inspiring" Channel 4 sales, which handles UKTV, BT Sport and PBS alongside its own channels.
"On those big briefs, either from a financial or creative opportunity point of view, she is going to be the person that will bring the whole power of the people at Horseferry Road, not just on the second floor, to answer briefs, which we think will be quite differentiating," Allan explains.
Rowland is the latest in a long list of hires since Allan joined Channel 4 as the sales director three years ago. His first year in charge was brutal. He replaced an entire layer of management with fresh faces.
Yet, for all that, the biggest change was cultural, Allan says: "We are strategically leading the business more than we ever did. But also we have a far better relationship with commissioning and marketing, we work together really well and are mutually supportive."
Abraham calls Allan "one of the media industry's great talents" and says he has taken to his board position at Channel 4 with "aplomb".
He credits him with "getting the creative and the business side equally well", with building the "best team in the industry" and for being able to "stand up for what Channel 4 represents in the market".
It is in the market where, Allan, a former OMD UK managing director who was always more of a salesman than a traditional buyer, can divide opinion. Yet most agency executives broadly agree that he is doing a good job given the constraints in the core product.
The audience share of Channel 4's main channel is not even treading water, never mind being pulled to safety.
It is laudable that the broadcaster takes risks with programming, but agencies still want reach and cover. Channel 4 is searching for a happy medium, but the buying jury remains out.


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CD8 T Cell May Determine Patient Responses to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Melanoma
Samantha DiGrande
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad institute of MIT and Harvard recently identified specific states of cytotoxic CD8+ T cells that are associated with patient response to checkpoint immunotherapy for melanoma.
The findings, published in Cell, identified specific biomarker proteins associated with these cell states. The data could potentially assist researchers in understanding why checkpoint therapy is not equally effective in all patients and may enable the development of certain tests to determine which patients may respond better to the treatment.
"Checkpoint inhibition therapies have completely changed the way patients with metastatic melanoma are being treated clinically today, and since they were first approved in 2011 they have given new hope to patients who otherwise would have very poor prognosis—an average survival of under a year—and few therapeutic options," said Nir Hacohen, PhD, cosenior author of the study and director of the Center for Cancer Immunology in the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research.
In order to identify factors associated with the success or failure of checkpoint therapy, researchers profiled transcriptomes of 16,291 individual immune cells from 48 tumor samples of patients with melanoma treated with checkpoint inhibitors. Profiling transcriptomes led to the discovery of 2 distinct states of CD8+ T cells defined by clustering and were therefore associated with patient tumor regression or progression.
One transcription factor, TCF7, was visualized within CD8+ T cells and predicted positive clinical outcome in an independent cohort of checkpoint-treated patients. "We also found that tumor-infiltrating CD8 T cells that do not express the genes CD39 and TIM3 were positive for TCF7 and play an important role in tumor eradication in response to anti-PD1 therapy in cellular studies," said Moshe Sade-Feldman, PhD, co-lead author of the MGH Center for Cancer Research.
In a mouse model of melanoma, researchers tested the effects of blocking the action of either one or both of the genes and found that blocking both concurrently reduced tumor size and increased 40-day survival. Combining an inhibitor of CD39 with approved checkpoint inhibitors PD1 or PD1/CTLA4 tripled the percentage of animals surviving at 40 days post-treatment.
Overall, the study demonstrated a strategy for identifying predictors, mechanisms, and targets for enhancing checkpoint immunotherapy. "Our results suggest that increasing the ratio of stem-like-cell memory CD8 T cells to exhausted-like cells may help make checkpoint inhibitors and perhaps other immunotherapies more effective," said Keren Yizhak, PhD, of the Broad Institute and co-lead author of the study.
Sade-Feldman M, Yizhak K, Bjorgaard S, et al. Defining T cell states associated with response to checkpoint immunotherapy in melanoma. [published online November 1, 2018]. Cell. 2018; 175(5): 998-1013.
Men With Advanced Cancers Respond Better Than Women to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Immunotherapy Improves Survival in Metastatic Melanoma


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US Althea Gibson Cup Team Captain Donna Fales blogs from Turkey
Click here for photos from the Super Senior World Team Cup Competition in Antalya, Turkey.
Saturday, Day 6
Althea Gibson Cup Antalya Turkey
America won the Althea Gibson Cup World Team Championships today defeating Germany 2-1. Dori DeVries lost her singles to Renate Castelucci 6-2, 6-4 in a hard fought match. I beat Sigrum Furhamm 6-2, 6-1 to tie the match. Dori and I led the Germans in the doubles 4-2 in the first set when Sigrum took a fall badly injuring her wrist and was forced to default. We were sorry to see the match end that way and particularly to see Sigrum in so much pain. She is the number four seed in the Individual Championships next week and will not be able to play.
We were one of six American teams to win the gold yesterday. Three other American teams took the silver medal. That was certainly the best showing that the US has had in the history of the World Team Championships!
Due to a morning rain delay, the matches did not start until 12:30 PM and the last two deciding doubles matches finished under lights at 7:30 PM. The US Kitty Godfree team lost to the British in three sets and the Men's 60s defeated the Spanish in a third set tiebreaker! What exciting tennis which makes this event so interesting and so much fun!
A nice finish to the day was entering the dining room after the awards ceremony to scattered applause by other competitors and spectators. We were proud to represent America!
Friday, Day 5
Althea Gibson Cup Team Antalya Turkey
Our American team was victorious today against Australia. Dori DeVries defeated
Bobbie Edwards 6-1,6-2. I defeated Nola Collins 6-1, 6-0. The Aussie team of Norma McGhie and Jill Taylor defeated the American duo of Carol Wood and Ria Graham in a tie break first set 7-6(6), then a very close second set 6-4. Carol and Ria were disappointed to lose, but the win will bring the Aussies back for another year. We are now in the finals to play Germany for the gold medal.
All of the American teams are playing for medal tomorrow trying to best the Australian record last year of five gold medals out of seven finals.
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the number of senior players who take up the game later in life and achieve a proficiency that qualifies them for selection to international teams. Three of the four players on the Althea Gibson Cup team did not play tennis until their thirties or later. That is true for 60 % of the players competing in the world team championships. Representing your country is a very special honor in sport. And to see 500 players competing, enjoying themselves and playing the sport at the highest level is awesome.
Thursday, Day 4
The US Althea Gibson Cup team had the day off today while Germany defeated Australia 3-0 in our playoff . Our team elected to visit the Archeology Museum in Antalya which we recommend to any visitor to the area. Lunch was at a Turkish restaurant overlooking the Antalya harbor. The food was delicious and the view of the sea and the mountains was picturesque. There was time for a tour of the Old City and a little shopping before returning to Ali Bey. A day away from the courts has made us eager to take on Australia tomorrow.
The good news upon our return to Ali Bey is that all of the American teams who played today won. So the nine US teams participating in the World Championships will all medal. Now the competition is how many golds.
Wednesday, Day 3
Today was another beautiful day in Antalya with clear skies, moderate temperatures and a balmy breeze. Our US team defeated Switzerland 3-0. Dori DeVries started the ball rolling with a 6-3, 6-0 over Erika Fantini. I defeated Ida Ehrat 6-0, 6-0. Carol Wood and Ria Graham scored a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Swiss Captain Beatrice Wettstein and Ida Ehrat. We are in the playoffs for first, second and third place with Germany and Australia, the defending champions.
The ITF Gala dinner was held tonight outdoors under a beautiful night sky. Over 500 players from 27 different countries are in attendance. The speeches were brief but the music and dancing continued into the night. The setting was spectacular not to be outdone by the fireworks display. The players and guest will long remember this evening.
Donna Fales
Althea Gibson Cup Team Blog 2
Tuesday, Day Two:
Ali Bey Manavgat Turkey
All of the nine US teams won today. We (the Althea Gibson Cup team) defeated Ireland 3 – 0 with all four members of the team participating. Dori DeVries led off with a 6-0, 6-0 win over the number 2 Irish player. I defeated the number one player 6-0, 6-0. Ria Graham making her US Cup debut teamed with veteran Carol Wood to defeat the Iris team 6-3,6-0. Tomorrow we play the Swiss team.
The weather continues to be in the 70s with a slight cloud cover making perfect tennis weather. There is a full afternoon of play after the matches are finished leading to story telling around a very active bar at the tennis courts. With play beginning at 8:00 AM, no one is late for dinner or hanging out at the disco. The ITF has a captive audience with the round robin play format.
Monday, Day one
US Althea Gibson Cup Team Donna Fales Captain
ITF World Team Tennis Championships
Ali Bey Manavgat Antalya Turkey
The 56 red clay courts of Ali Bey are filled with 134 teams, both men and women, competing in the ITF International World Team Championships. The opening ceremony with the teams marching into the stadium in their uniforms behind their country flags provided an array of national colors and a pageantry not seen in regular tournaments.
On the first day of opening play, the sun is shining and the temperature is a dry 75 degrees. The US Althea Gibson Cup Team, captained by Donna Fales with team members Dori DeVries, Carol Wood and Ria Graham is seeded number one. The other four seeds in order are Germany, Great Britain, France and Australia. The 11 teams competing are divided into three robins with the USA, Switzerland and Ireland in the smaller robin. The US team is scheduled to meet Ireland on Tuesday.
Ali Bey is a wonderful venue for the ITF Championships with 56 courts, three restaurants and a beautiful beach on the Mediterranean Sea. Players congregate for dinner renewing old friendships and acquiring new ones. It promises to be a week of fun and good competition.


Another very disturbing piece of news has emerged today, it appears that large amounts of money in the order of billions have been withdrawn from Laiki and Bank of Cyprus during the one week blockade; should this be confirmed the hole in the two banks could be much larger than thought; which in exchange would guarantee a total wipe out of the two banks' deposits.
If the purpose of all this was to punish dirty Russian capitals in Cyprus well it seems it failed miserably.
Despite the closed banks and a lock for payments in the past week, more money flowed out of Cyprus than in previous weeks, Frankfurter experts report.
Prior to the escalation of the crisis in Cyprus accruing on the payment system targetting liabilities of Cypriot central bank to the European Central Bank (ECB) had increased daily at approximately 100 to 200 million euros. In the days after Parliament rejection of the stabilization program, the daily risk has risen to more than double.
Just in the last week so cash assets have been withdrawn from Cyprus in the billions, regardless of the fact the Cypriot central bank had issued a lock.
such as transfers for humanitarian aid reasons and "special payments", which are not defined in detail.
The unusually high outflows from Cyprus in recent days indicates that the central bank of Nicosia has interpreted this capital control rather liberally.
No one knows exactly how much money has left Cyprus' banks, or where it has gone. The two banks at the centre of the crisis - Cyprus Popular Bank, also known as Laiki, and Bank of Cyprus - have units in London which remained open throughout the week and placed no limits on withdrawals. Bank of Cyprus also owns 80 percent of Russia's Uniastrum Bank, which put no restrictions on withdrawals in Russia. Russians were among Cypriot banks' largest depositors.
As reported in my previous post, signals are there already that Cyprus will not be an isolated case and that similar confiscations will be applied to other nations in the Eurozone.
Of course having the luxury of the Eurogroup leader to agree with you and stating it publicly the day after is something unexpected.
Mr. Dijsselbloem, Leader of the Eurogroup and Dutch Finance Minister stated that Cyprus will become the new template for resolving Eurozone banking problems.
Markets did not appreciate the candour of Mr. Dijsselbloem (apparently it is pronounced Diesel-BOOM), his explosive remark did not take long to bring down the markets and put an end to the insane optimism following the Cyprus bailout deal.
A rescue programme agreed for Cyprus on Monday represents a new template for resolving euro zone banking problems and other countries may have to restructure their banking sectors, the head of the region's finance ministers said.
"What we've done last night is what I call pushing back the risks," Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers, told Reuters and the Financial Times hours after the Cyprus deal was struck.
"If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be 'Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about that? What can you do to recapitalise yourself?'. If the bank can't do it, then we'll talk to the shareholders and the bondholders, we'll ask them to contribute in recapitalising the bank, and if necessary the uninsured deposit holders," he said.
After 12 hours of talks with the EU and IMF, Cyprus agreed to shut down its second largest bank, with insured deposits - those below 100,000 euros - moved to the Bank of Cyprus, the country's largest lender. Uninsured deposits, those accounts with more than 100,000 euros, face losses of 4.2 billion euros.
Uninsured depositors in the Bank of Cyprus will have their accounts frozen while the bank is restructured and recapitalised. Any capital that is needed to strengthen the bank will be drawn from accounts above 100,000 euros.
The agreement is what is known as a "bail-in", with shareholders and bondholders in banks forced to bear the costs of the restructuring first, followed by uninsured depositors. Under EU rules, deposits up to 100,000 euros are guaranteed.
It is now officially dangerous to have a big bank account in Europe. In other words being an Uninsured Depositor.
Cyprus is a specific case with exceptional challenges which required the bail-in measures we have agreed upon yesterday.
Macro-economic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.
I'm sure now all the Ininsured Depositors feel very reassured, Thank you sir!
Laiki bank will be fully resolved – it will be split into a good bank and bad bank. The good bank will merge with the Bank of Cyprus (which will also take on Laiki's circa €8bn Emergency Liquidity Assistance – a last-resort funding system outside the usual ECB operations). The bad bank will be wound down over time with all uninsured depositors (over €100,000) taking significant losses (no percentage yet but some could lose all their money above the threshold).
The Bank of Cyprus will be recapitalised using a debt to equity swap and the transfer of assets from Laiki. Uninsured depositors will take large hits in this process – again no percentage but reports suggest up to 40%.
These actions will be taken using the new bank restructuring plan passed in the Cypriot Parliament on Friday. Crucially, no further vote will be needed in the Cypriot parliament since there is no direct deposit levy.
The banks will not receive any of the €10bn bailout money, the entire recapitalisation will be done using the tools outlined above.
Significant capital controls are likely to be in place when banks reopen, creating a risk of Cypriot euros being "localised".
Further tax increases may be included in the detailed plan to be drawn up between the two sides.
Depression for Cyprus: Our Cypriot GDP forecast entails a drop of just over 20% in real GDP by 2017. This forecast had already factored in much what was agreed, but did not account for the additional uncertainty shock generated by the past week's appalling political mess. Risks are clearly on the downside and Cyprus will in all likelihood require additional financial assistance further down the road. Accounting for less than 0.3% of euro area GDP, any downward revision to Cyprus will be barely visible on the euro area aggregate.
Cyprus' position as a financial centre is over. There are few other alternatives for growth. One option that remains is tourism, but with a significantly overvalued currency it is not clear to what extent Cyprus can take advantage of this.
The capital controls will severely hamper liquidity in the economy, while it will be very difficult for the small island to trade with the rest of the world (it is far from self-sufficient, importing almost everything). The collapse in GDP could be anywhere between 5% and 10% this year, depending on how long capital controls are imposed and the resulting collapse in tax revenue could make the government's position worse. There is a strong chance Cyprus could become a zombie economy – reliant on eurozone and ECB funding to function, possibly requiring further bailouts.
Capital controls are severe and could de facto lead to Cyprus being seen as out of the euro. Ultimately, money is no longer fungible between Cyprus and the rest of the Eurozone and, at this point in time, it's hard to argue that a Euro in Cyprus is worth the same as a Euro elsewhere. The real problem though may not be imposing the controls but removing them – Iceland still has capital controls in place, five years after it installed them (despite having the advantage of a devalued currency).
The €10bn bailout will push Cypriot debt to GDP to 140% - if Cypriot GDP falls by just 5% this year, that rises to 148%.
In the meanwhile the bailout deal is already rising anti-Euro sentiments all over the country, one of the most influential voices speaking against the Euro and the EU is the Orthodox Church Leader Archbishop Chrysostomos II who commented on TV that "with the brains in Brussels... the Euro can't last," certainly the fact that the Orthodox Church of Cyprus lost over 100 million euro holdings in the Bank of Cyprus must have contributed to his anger toward the EU and the Cyprus politicians: "those that brought the place into this mess, should sit on the stool. " (blaming the outgoing government, Ministers of Finance, the Central Bank, and the Executive Directors of Banks).
May his prayer be accepted! When the full scale of social devastation inflicted on Cyprus will be apparent a chopping block would be more suitable than a stool!
Cyprus crisis is reaching his climax this weekend but regardless of how it will develop served well in distracting the media and the EU population from the bigger fishes frying in the EU pan, Italy and Spain.
The Minister of Finance and Public Administration, Cristobal Montoro, has advanced on Tuesday that the government will impose a type "moderate" to bank deposits to compensate communities that saw their tax autonomy canceled after the Executive created a state tax 0% rate. This tax on bank deposits, which has nothing to do with Cyprus, does not affect savers but requires credit institutions to pay for that capture deposits.
"The autonomous communities receive timely and therefore financially compensation shall implement a moderate rate in the state tax on bank deposits," said the minister, adding that this kind "will not be much higher than 0%" .
The Minister of Finance has clarified that such "moderate" will have no tax collection effort, "but that these regions serve to offset the revenue loss to see." So, he assured that the amount will correspond to the amount "exact has been undermined by the cancellation of regional taxes".
Subsequently the Spanish Minister of Finance & Public Administration announced a tax or bank levy (probably 0.2%) to be imposed on bank deposits, without details on which deposits will be affected or timing.
In an article on Handelsblatt the chief economist of Commerzbank says: Italy should bring a unique wealth tax.
It is a myth to talk of crisis-strapped states. Even the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and the chief economist of Commerzbank, Joerg Kraemer says the numbers suggest a different view.
Kramer relies on surveys of the European Central Bank. Net financial assets of the Italians are 173 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). This is significantly more than the net financial assets of the Germans, which corresponds to 124 percent of GDP, said Kramer for Handelsblatt Online.
"So it would make sense, in Italy for a one-time property tax levy," suggested the Bank economist. "A tax rate of 15 percent on financial assets would probably be enough to push the Italian government debt to below the critical level of 100 percent of gross domestic product."
In light of the forced levy of Cyprus it is worth reading the following article from September 2011, "The "Muddle Through" Has Failed: BCG Says "There May Be Only Painful Ways Out Of The Crisis", which predicted what is happening now in Europe. The study concludes that such mandatory, coercive wealth tax (aka Levy) is merely the beginning for a world in which there was some $21 trillion in excess debt as of 2009, a number which has since ballooned to over $30 trillion. And with inflation not showing up to inflate away the accumulated debt, Europe is finally moving to Plan B, and is using Cyrprus as its Guinea Pig.
Restructuring the debt overhang in the euro zone would require financing and would be a daunting task. In order to finance controlled restructuring, politicians could well conclude that it was necessary to tax the existing wealth of the private sector. Many politicians would see taxing financial assets as the fairest way of resolving the problem. Taxing existing financial assets would acknowledge one fact: these investments are not as valuable as their owners think, as the debtors (governments, households, and corporations) will be unable to meet their commitments. Exhibit 3 shows the one-time tax on financial assets required to provide the necessary funds for an orderly restructuring.
For most countries, a levy on deposits of 11 to 30 percent would be sufficient to cover the costs of an orderly debt restructuring. Only in Greece, Spain, and Portugal would the burden for the private sector be significantly higher; in Ireland, it would be too high because the financial assets of the Irish people are smaller than the required adjustment of debt levels. This underscores the dimension of the Irish real estate and debt bubble.
Curiously, not even BCG expected the initial shot across the bow to be so bad that everyone, not just those above the €100,000 threshold would be impaired. Alas, that is the sad reality in Europe, where as the chart above shows, a total of €6.1 trillion in additional wealth (confiscation) tax is coming.
Italian debt is up in 2012 to 127 percent of gross domestic product from 120.8 percent a year earlier. As Bloomberg notes, that's the most since 1924, when Mussolini won 64 percent of the popular vote in elections. It seems that austerity is not working at all or has not been addressing the real culprit since spending has risen almost 3% in the last three years and taxes have not kept pace.
The reality is that austerity has been hitting only the soft target of an impoverished salaried middle class which is an easy target but has been largely ignoring the cronies, lobbies and potentates which are still corruptly and voraciously living of rent while stalling any real reform of the country.
"Arte de Portas Abertas" is a public art program that aims in transforming Funchal´s Old town (Zona Velha) into a permanent outdoor art gallery by displaying over 200 works of art, by guest artists, painted on the doors of Rua de Santa Maria.Below some of the highlights of this unique urban art experiment.
Italy is now worse than Spain, its poverty rate has climbed to 28.2%, even though the unemployment rates in the two nations are vastly different (Spain 26% and Italy 11.2%) reasons for such a higher poverty rate despite lower unemployment rates range from higher corruption levels compared to Spain to lack of unemployment benefits in Italy. Hardly surprising then that people voted en masse for Grillo and his MS5 which supports creating a dole system for those unable to find a job.


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Hail Murray: Cardinals stun Bills 32-30 in final seconds
Posted: Nov 15, 2020 / 08:40 PM CST / Updated: Nov 15, 2020 / 09:06 PM CST
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP)DeAndre Hopkins knows that football fans might view his final, winning catch on Sunday as some sort of miracle. Even the players and coaches for the Arizona Cardinals couldn't hide their disbelief when he jumped over three Buffalo defenders and came down with the ball.
But the three-time All-Pro insists there was no magic needed. Just skill.
"Two plus two equals four," Hopkins said in his usual low-key delivery. "Go downfield. Throw it up."
And that's exactly what the Cardinals did. Kyler Murray completed a stunning 43-yard desperation pass to Hopkins with 2 seconds left to lift Arizona to an improbable 32-30 victory over the Bills.
The catch was as sensational as the throw, which was quickly dubbed a "Hail Murray."
The game appeared lost for the Cardinals until Murray rolled out to his left as the seconds ticked off the clock. He flung the ball toward the end zone, where Hopkins was waiting with three Buffalo defenders draped all over him. Somehow, the three-time All-Pro came down with the ball, and the Cardinals started a wild celebration in the end zone.
"Just to get the pass off was incredible," Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury said. "If you watch the play, he is running and dodging and ducking. I didn't think he would get it off. Then to put that kind of incredible loft to give him a chance. From my vantage point I couldn't see much. Just the crowd going crazy."
Josh Allen threw a 21-yard touchdown pass to Stefon Diggs with 34 seconds left that looked like it would win it for the Bills (7-3). But Murray and the Cardinals (6-3, tied for the NFC West lead) ended the Bills' winning streak at three games with the improbable throw and catch.
It was a crazy ending to another entertaining Cardinals game, which usually have come down to the final seconds in recent weeks. Murray threw for 245 yards, one touchdown and one interception. Hopkins had seven catches for 127 yards – and he'll remember the last one for a long, long time.
"It was on three people. They were in position. It was just a better catch by I," Hopkins said.
The Cardinals trailed 23-9 midway through the third quarter but responded with two touchdown drives sandwiched around a field goal to take a 26-23 lead by the beginning of the fourth. Murray, wearing bright yellow cleats, ran for both of the touchdowns, including a 15-yard dash up the middle that gave Arizona its first lead of the day.
"He is playing at a ridiculous level," Kingsbury said. "You have seen it the last few weeks after that first month. Offensively, we have really settled in. Mixing in tempo making great decisions whether it is with his feet, his arm. It is fun to watch."
Allen was having a mediocre game until the late drive that lasted 12 plays and went 73 yards. The quarterback capped the series with a perfect throw to a diving Diggs, who finished with 10 catches for 93 yards. But it wasn't enough for the Bills, who couldn't stop Hopkins in the end zone.
"Yeah, I thought we guarded it pretty well," Bills safety Jordan Poyer said. "We had three people around him . … It's really not a whole lot of anything else to say, just got to find a way to get that ball out of his hands some way, somehow."
Allen completed 32 of 49 passes for 284 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. Cole Beasley had 11 catches for 109 yards and a touchdown.
Buffalo pushed ahead 23-9 when Allen hit Beasley for a 22-yard touchdown after Arizona's Kenyan Drake lost a fumble.
But the Cardinals responded with a nine-play, 85-yard drive that ended with Murray's 1-yard touchdown run. Zane Gonzalez followed with a 45-yard field goal and Murray ran for a 15-yard score for the 26-23 lead.
Allen handed the ball off to Isaiah McKenzie, who then turned and threw it back to the quarterback, who ran 12 yards for Buffalo's opening score. Allen is the 11th Buffalo player to catch a touchdown pass this season, a franchise record.
Tyler Bass added field goals from 58, 55 and 54 yards for a 16-9 halftime lead. The rookie' 54-yarder bounced off the right upright before going through for three points. They were the three longest field goals of his short career.
The Cardinals had a frustrating first half with 206 total yards but zero touchdowns. Gonzalez made field goals from 23, 42 and 21 yards.
CONSISTENT MURRAY
Murray has run for at least one touchdown in five consecutive games to tie a franchise record. He's the first quarterback in the NFL to do it since Green Bay's Tobin Rote in 1956.
Bills: Four players missed the game when put on the reserve/COVID-19 list, including cornerback Josh Norman. … LB A.J. Epenesa left in the first half and was evaluated for a head injury. … CB Dane Jackson (knee) left in the third quarter.
Cardinals: TE Darrell Daniels (ankle) left in the second quarter. … DL Corey Peters was carted off the field in the second quarter with a knee injury. … LB De'Vondre Campbell (calf) left the third quarter.
Bills: The Bills enter their bye week, play again Nov. 29 at home to the Chargers.
Cardinals: travel to Seattle on Thursday night.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was knocked out the divisional-playoff game against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday with a concussion in the third quarter.
Mahomes tucked the ball on a quarterback option with 7:27 left in the third quarter and tried to reach the first-down marker on third-and-1 near midfield. He was brought down hard by Browns linebacker Mack Wilson, who had managed to get ahold of him around his helmet. Mahomes was wobbly when he got up and had to be helped from the field, then was checked briefly in the blue tent on the sideline before jogging into the Kansas City locker room.


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How to Use Metro in Tehran
Tehran Metro is expanding very quickly and has already transformed the way the city moves. Metro and its quick access to different corners of the city has cut journey times by up to an hour. It has also connected Tehran to Karaj and this cross-town trip has saved all commuters of these two cities a lot of time and money.
Five lines criss-cross the entire city and 1000 train carriages carry more than 3 million travelers across the city per day. The fast-expanding metro system in Tehran is well maintained and quite affordable. Peak hours, like everywhere else in the world, is more crowded and subsequently, the services are more frequent. Peak hours may be similar to a Tokyo-style squeeze; however, it carries a heavy load of traffic and saves travelers a lot of time.
When traveling on Tehran Metro, bear in mind that the first and the last carriages are specifically for women. Though, women are free to travel in the rest of carriages.
With 107 stations across the capital city, Tehran Metro has covered the city very well.
How to Buy Metro Tickets
Tehran Metro tickets are available for single trip journey, or two journeys. Obviously, day tickets and multi-day tickets are discounted and logically the longer the ticket is for, the cheaper the tickets.
The first train starts its journey at about 6 am and the last train leaves by 11 pm. Since the majority of the travelers are Iranian and Persian speaker, the announcements are in Persian only. It is recommended that travelers keep an eye on the English maps in carriages.
Metro saves Tehran countless millions of litter of fuel; helps people to avoid serious air pollution and related health costs; and it saves passengers a lot of money on their journeys in congestion zone.
If you intend to use public transport frequently, the municipality released an application on both Android and iOS for travelers to plan their journey by public transport, check bus and metro arrivals, congestion zones, gas stations, hospitals and many more features.
Users pin the beginning and ending point of their journey; the application suggests the best routes between stations and stops, places of interest, addresses. The Android version of Tehran Metro is available for free download from Google Play. It is also available to download for iOS..
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