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Q: Make a new matrix in R considering as reference diagonal of original matrix Hi everybody I am trying to solve a little problem in R creating a new matrix using as reference the diagonal of original matrix. My matrix is alfet, and it has the next form (I add dput() version of alfet in the final part):
         A          B           C            D            E           F
  A 0.79237537 0.01876833 0.005571848 0.0005865103 0.0002932551 0.000000000
  B 0.39622642 0.15723270 0.119496855 0.0503144654 0.0314465409 0.006289308
  C 0.20408163 0.26530612 0.163265306 0.1020408163 0.0204081633 0.081632653
  D 0.03571429 0.00000000 0.035714286 0.3928571429 0.0714285714 0.214285714
  E 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.000000000 0.1111111111 0.3333333333 0.333333333
  F 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.000000000 0.0000000000 0.0000000000 0.901960784

It has six rows and six columns. I want to create a new matrix where considering the elements of diagonal of alfet, each column is set in the first row. For example for second column the value of diagonal is 0.15723270 then this value goes to the first row in the same column and the same thing happens for the next elements that are located after 0.15723270 in the same column. I want to get something like this:
       A          B           C            D            E              F
A  0.79237537  0.1572327  0.163265306  0.3928571429  0.3333333333  0.901960784
B  0.39622642  0.2653061  0.035714286  0.1111111111  0
C  0.20408163  0          0            0
D  0.03571429  0          0
E  0           0
F  0

I don't know if in R there is any function to make this or some advice to build this new matrix. The dput() version of alfet is the next:
structure(c(0.792375366568915, 0.39622641509434, 0.204081632653061,
0.0357142857142857, 0, 0, 0.0187683284457478, 0.157232704402516,
0.26530612244898, 0, 0, 0, 0.00557184750733138, 0.119496855345912,
0.163265306122449, 0.0357142857142857, 0, 0, 0.000586510263929619,
0.050314465408805, 0.102040816326531, 0.392857142857143, 0.111111111111111,
0, 0.000293255131964809, 0.0314465408805031, 0.0204081632653061,
0.0714285714285714, 0.333333333333333, 0, 0, 0.00628930817610063,
0.0816326530612245, 0.214285714285714, 0.333333333333333, 0.901960784313726
), .Dim = c(6L, 6L), .Dimnames = structure(list(c("A", "B", "C",
"D", "E", "F"), c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F")), .Names = c("",
"")))

Many thanks for your help.

A: You can simply call diag on a vector of elements to create an empty matrix with that diagonal. So if you pass the diagonal of alfet to diag you can create a new matrix like so:
> new <- diag(diag(alfet))
> new
          [,1]      [,2]      [,3]      [,4]      [,5]      [,6]
[1,] 0.7923754 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
[2,] 0.0000000 0.1572327 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
[3,] 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.1632653 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
[4,] 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.3928571 0.0000000 0.0000000
[5,] 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.3333333 0.0000000
[6,] 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.9019608

A: Here's an approach:
# create an index for lower triangular (including diagonal)
idx <- lower.tri(alfet, diag = TRUE)
# create an index for replacement
idx2 <- apply(idx, 2, rev)

# create a matrix with zeroes
mat <- matrix(0, nrow = nrow(alfet), ncol = ncol(alfet))

# replace values
mat[idx2] <- alfet[idx]

The result (mat):
           [,1]      [,2]       [,3]      [,4]      [,5]      [,6]
[1,] 0.79237537 0.1572327 0.16326531 0.3928571 0.3333333 0.9019608
[2,] 0.39622642 0.2653061 0.03571429 0.1111111 0.0000000 0.0000000
[3,] 0.20408163 0.0000000 0.00000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
[4,] 0.03571429 0.0000000 0.00000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
[5,] 0.00000000 0.0000000 0.00000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
[6,] 0.00000000 0.0000000 0.00000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000

If you want NAs instead of 0s, you can create a matrix with NAs.
mat <- matrix(NA, nrow = nrow(alfet), ncol = ncol(alfet))
mat[idx2] <- alfet[idx]


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CP: Do you think you honed your sound during live performances and brought that into the studio, or the other way around?
Scott Kirkland: It's probably a combination of both: our musicality come from the music that we love and the stuff that we listened to growing up. We always try to make an effort to take dance music and club music and not mold it to, but bring in things that we love about soul and hip hop and rock and the artists that we grew up listening to. We take our influences and inject them into our music, like a lot of the stuff that we would hear in the late 80s and early 90s, a lot of the techno stuff. We bring all the influences together when we go out and play live. It's something that definitely does shape us, the way the crowd interacts with us. That's kind of a conscious thing that we take with us. Sometimes we'll even comment on a drop that really works and we'll say that maybe we should expand it or add some drums in a section. Those kinds of things happen when we're out on the road.
CP: What do you enjoy more: the studio or playing live?
Scott Kirkland: There is that immediate gratification of the live show and the crowd. We're so into playing that part and making sure everything sounds good that we lose every great moment of the show to the fact that we're into what we're doing. There are moments that you can't replicate anywhere. Those moments would never come if we didn't have the studio time and we didn't have the opportunity to get in there and spend the time we needed to develop our sound. So both are very satisfying in different ways, each one has its high points.
CP: So one feeds off the other?
Scott Kirkland: Definitely. The production aspect of it can be tedious and sometimes very frustrating because it's not always flowing, not every idea is always that great, and sometimes spending so much time and not achieving your goal can be frustrating. Sometimes going out and not doing your best show can be frustrating.
CP: Do you prefer live synths or software synths?
Scott Kirkland: It took us a long time to be comfortable with virtual synths. Initially, when they came out they couldn't come anywhere near the original or giving you that feel of being able to grab a knob and adjust the thing that you want to adjust. They've made great improvements to the sounds of the virtual synth lately. Native Instruments has had some incredible soft synths for quite some time. There's a lot of really good ones that allow us to do a lot of things we can't do, like write modulation. The greatest software synths you wouldn't try to compare it sonically to its counterpart in the analog world. There's this great benefits to having everything in the computer, being able to recall things easily. You're never going to be able to get the sound quality, but a lot of them have come pretty close. This record is a little bit different because we're using a lot of soft synths. In fact I have the Audacity plugin in front of me right now, the mono/poly from Korg, who also has done a great job re-creating some of those classing synths. They're getting better and it's a lot easier to go out on the road. I've talked to a lot of people who've completely left all their analog synths at home in the studio and been very satisfied with they sound they've created with the software synths.
CP: What's your favorite piece of technology?
Scott Kirkland: In the grand scheme of things, we wouldn't know what we'd do without our Macs. But for years we used Digital Performer in our sequencing, and we use pro tools on the audio side. We switched for this album and created everything with pro tools. I'm really digging the direction that Pro Tools has taken in the past few years, and I think we're making a better album because of that.
CP: Who are your biggest influences?
Scott Kirkland: If you were to try to pinpoint a couple of bands, definitely Depeche Mode, and bands that I really started to get into in my early teens. There's a moment in your life where you get attached to certain music and for me it was it was a lot of that synth pop stuff. But I'm also influenced by heavy metal, like Metallica, AC/DC, and Judas Priest for the energy that they created. Listening to some rare funk records, soul artists like Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder and just everything. A great song is a great song. There isn't any particular style that we haven't said, "Wow, this is an amazing song. I wish we could write something like this." Of course the Chemical Brothers as well. They've consistently put out one great record after another and that's something that a lot of artists aspire to do. I can't write something that Radiohead writes or Bill Withers or Public Enemy or anything like that. Those influences come out in whatever you do.
CP: What is appealing about crossing over mediums to video games and movies?
Scott Kirkland: The only thing we've done specifically for a movie was the London score, which was a small budget indie film that came out a couple of years ago, and the theme for the TV show Bones. There's this really cool action shooter game that's coming out, MAG, that we did a piece for. But most of the stuff has existed on an album first. The London thing was good. It was nice getting our feet wet in that style and dealing with the director and producers and trying to come to some creative point where everybody was happy. Our sound works well in all those different environments. It's something about our sound that people gravitate towards in those different environments.
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In last month's newsletter we called for an oversold bounce in soybeans, which turned out to be a correct assumption. However, where we went wrong was underestimating the lack of momentum that the mini-rally would demonstrate.
The fundamental picture in soybeans isn't quite as dismal as that of corn, but the trend is decisively lower and the market is always right. There is still relatively strong demand for soybeans from China and South American supplies are mostly sold out. Additionally, domestic stocks of soybeans are not noticeably large.
The demise of soybean prices has been tied to the global recession but most profoundly by the rally in the U.S. dollar. Should the greenback fall out of favor, bean prices stand to benefit. With that said, beans tend to trade lower from the beginning to middle of December and may see January futures prices as low as $7.00 per bushel before finally triggering the short covering rally in grains that many are hoping for.
Wheat prices have carved out a trading range between just over $6 per bushel and nearly $5 per bushel. However, there doesn't seem to be enough fundamentally supportive news to spark a rally from current levels.
In our opinion, wheat was among the most irrationally impacted commodities in 2007. Hedge fund money poured into the long side of wheat bringing the commodity to levels that were blatantly unsustainable based on fundamental supply and demand. As a result, the market has become highly unpredictable in our eyes.
This can be made evident by the counter-seasonal trade seen throughout the later part of 2008. As you can see in the chart provided, wheat prices spent September and October trading violently lower despite tendencies for higher prices. We are approaching a very bearish time of year in this market, but our confidence has been negated. Downside projections suggest that March wheat could be headed to $4.14 should support near $5.14 fail to hold. I wouldn't recommend taking on excessive risk in this market, but if you are itching to trade you can purchase the December $4.50 puts for about $250.
Crude oil has never been a market for the faint of heart and that continues to be the case. Prices have made an unbelievably quick retreat from its high near $150 per barrel and are now trading at nearly a third of the July peak. It is easy to see why the NYMEX has raised margins in crude oil to nearly $13,000 per contract.
Despite the amount of opportunity provided on the surface (a $100,000 move per contract since July) crude oil and other energy complex futures and options products can be the most challenging markets to trade profitably in. Where there is risk, there is reward and these markets aren't short in either department.
In last month's newsletter, we were calling for a possible short covering rally in crude oil but we now know that was an incorrect speculation. The market has been in perpetual free-fall and that may be the case all the way down to about $49 per barrel, which is where the2007/2008 rally originated from. Should prices fail to hold $49, $40 will likely be seen in short order. If you recall, $40 per barrel was considered to be the ceiling for crude oil for many years; it should now act as a floor.
To the surprise of many the precipitous decline in prices has occurred in the face of OPEC production cuts and can be directly attributed to the global slowdown. Demand has fallen off of the proverbial cliff and traders are fearful to be on the long side of commodities as the market grants very little mercy to those that are wrong.
If you have the margin and the fortitude to trade energy futures I commend you; however, I feel that the average retail trader would be much better off using limited risk option spreads. This can be done through the use of an Iron Butterfly spread (if you are unfamiliar with this strategy, be sure to read about it in the Option Trading e-Book located in the premium content section of DeCarleyTrading.com). If you would like to play the upside or the downside in this market and would like help putting a limited risk spread together, give us a call.
Even more so than Treasuries, gold and silver prices seem to be largely unaffected by what would normally be the largest wave of bullish news in history. Perhaps the flight to quality buying in metals was seen months and even years before the actual economic meltdown. You have likely heard the adage' buy the rumor and sell the fact'; this is the most extreme example of such that I have witnessed.
Plummeting stock prices, the credit market freeze and a global recession were all fundamentally supportive factors in recent months. However, signs of an implosion of inflation (deflation) and a rally in the U.S. dollar offset the bullish fundamentals and have kept precious metals out of favor.
Government action to stave off another depression is long term inflationary; also the U.S. Dollar may be due for a correction lower. These assumptions combined with seasonally supportive tendencies lead us to believe that the metals markets may be finding a temporary low soon. With that said February gold looks to be setting up for another move lower before the rally can occur. If this is the case, we could see prices as low as $670 but this should be considered a buying opportunity for the bulls. Near term resistance lies at $776.
If a year ago you would have told a currency trader that the U.S. dollar would become the flight to quality target in 2008 they would have likely laughed. However, the tides have turned and they have turned quickly. The recent run from all time lows in the Dollar index is similar to the move seen in the early 1980's which came on the heels of a dramatic inflationary period. However, we can't help but feel as though a correction is near.
88.56 looks to be relatively heavy resistance and strong support can be found just under 84. Assuming a break down under 86.30 my models are pointing toward a retest of support and maybe a much larger correction. This may bring the index to levels as low as 79 in the near term.
Seasonal tendencies suggest that the greenback is in store for a significant decline beginning in the third week of November and may extend into the first week of January.
After enjoying a healthy bid vs. the dollar in much of 2007 and 2008 the Euro has finally been forced to live up to its fundamentals. However, as markets often do the re-pricing may have gotten ahead of itself. Although currency markets are known for their ability to trend well, and the trend in the Euro is clearly lower, we favor an upside correction. Our analysis is based on the market being technically oversold in conjunction with seasonally supportive factors.
We believe that the Euro will ultimately be at par with the dollar, but are looking for a digestion to ensue that would bring the value of the Euro back to the 138 area before continuing to make its way lower. Keep in mind that the move may not occur until later in the month. In the meantime, the December Euro should find resistance near 131.80 and support at 123.72.
The British Pound has experienced a brunt of the selling pressure in currencies. Ultimately, the pound seems to be destined for the 2001 low near 138.00. At such levels, bulls may be attracted to the market and aggressive long futures and bullish option spreads may be appropriate.
However, in the meantime the currency is near down trend-line support at 146.70 and may be in store for a minor oversold bounce to 158.46. If you are playing this market with futures, stop orders are a must (despite our overall preference to avoid using stops for risk management). Option players likely shouldn't be willing to sell naked puts beneath a market that has suffered such a sharp drop. However, the December 162 calls can be purchased for about $350.
I'll admit, with prices holding securely below 12 cents the outlook isn't as promising as it once was. Current oversold conditions may lead to a price recovery as high as 13.30 but the longer term horizon seems to be pointing lower. The weekly chart below suggests that after a possible corrective bounce higher, selling could bring prices below 10 cents.
Sugar prices are highly dependent on crude oil in the near term. As mentioned, we expect crude oil to continue lower in the immediate future and in turn we expect the same of sugar. However, seasonal pressures, rising demand in Brazil for ethanol along with declining ethanol stocks could mean that a low is looming.
Historic lows forged in 2001 have been followed by a gradual, but rather erratic, rally. Despite a few quick spikes higher, coffee prices have remained consistently below $1.40 since 1998. The monthly chart suggests that we are near trend line support and another run at the highs may be in the cards. Additionally, the seasonal tendency is for coffee prices to "grind" higher into the month of December.
Keep in mind that there is a strong potential for a retest of $1.10 before the rally ensues and beware of incredible resistance near $1.40. Coffee is a high stakes market, the options are expensive and the futures margins are high. Before entering this market, make sure that you are able to tolerate the risk involved.
Lean hog futures have been confined to a range between 50 and 80 cents since 2003 and the closer that prices get to the 50 cent mark the higher the odds of buyers finally stepping in to stop the "slaughter". With December hogs trading near 55 cents and supportive seasonal tendencies looming the market may be in store for a recovery. Buyers should be patient as the trend is clearly lower and better prices are likely to be seen in the coming sessions. The first level of support will be seen near 53.30 but 50.50 looks to be a likely downside target.
Don't be fooled into assuming that oversold indicators are bullish. The meat markets can and do stay overbought or oversold for extended periods of time. Therefore, it isn't recommended that bulls begin considering aggressive trading strategies at current levels.
Both feeder cattle and live cattle futures forged impressive rallies going into November on anticipated tight supplies. However, calling a bottom may be premature and a retest of the October lows may be underway. A sharp decline in exports and deflationary moves in the grain markets could keep buyers at bay in the near term.
Nonetheless, the seasonal "bottom" in meat prices typically occurs in the middle to end of November. We don't feel as though seasonal tendencies alone will be enough to turn the market around but should the financial markets stabilize the commodity markets may follow suit and cattle prices may benefit considerably.


Ryan Dougherty is a second year PhD student in Social Welfare. He received a BS in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience from the University of Michigan and Master of Social Welfare from UCLA. Throughout his undergraduate career, Ryan coordinated research examining the lived-experiences of people with disabilities. Concurrently, he assisted in research in both experimental psychopathology and pharmacogenomics to examine the cognitive mechanisms of psychotic disorders and effects of prescribed psychotropic drugs. These experiences have motivated Ryan to examine how political and social systems shape the use and experiences of taking psychiatric medications, particularly among people diagnosed with severe mental illnesses in community contexts. Currently, he is pursuing his research through a field-based ethnography in Los Angeles County through the UCLA Center for Social Medicine and Humanities with Drs. Joel Braslow and Philippe Bourgois, and is under the mentorship of Dr. David Cohen in Social Welfare.
Professor Handler's principal areas of research are poverty issues in law and administration, the structure and operation of welfare programs, client-agency relationships and welfare reform. While on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin Law School, he was a senior researcher at the Institute for Research on Poverty and chaired the Governor's Task Force for the Reform of General Relief. He is past president of the Law and Society Association.
A Guggenheim Fellow and former member of the National Academy of Science's Committee on the Status of Black America, he also served as chair of the Academy's Panel on High Risk Youth. Lately, he has been working on the symbolic politics of welfare reform, from a historical perspective as well as dealing with current welfare reform proposals. He also has explored client-agency relationships in the areas of education, health care, worker safety, local government and low-income housing.
Handler, J. and Lucie White (eds.) Hard Labor: Women and Work in the Post-Welfare Era. M.E. Sharpe, (1999).
Handler, J. Down From Bureaucracy: The Ambiguity of Empowerment and Privatization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (1996).
Handler, J. The Poverty of Welfare Reform. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
Sanford M. Jacoby, Distinguished Research Professor, began his career at UCLA after graduating from UC Berkeley with a Ph.D. in economics. In addition to Public Policy, he holds professorial appointments in UCLA's Anderson School of Management and in the Department of History. He is affiliated with interdisciplinary groups at UCLA, such as the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the Center for History and Policy, and the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.
Though trained as an economist, Jacoby values and draws from history, law, and sociology. His research uses comparative, historical and statistical methods to analyze employers, labor market institutions, and international political economy.
Jacoby's first book, Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century (1985, 2004), won the George Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management. His next book, Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal, was published in 1997 and received the Philip Taft Labor History Award. Another book, The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States, was translated into Chinese and Japanese and identified by Nikkei Shinbun as one of the top three books on economics and management published in 2005. He edited two collections: Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Employers (1991) and The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy (1995). He is also the author of over 90 articles in research publications.
Jacoby is co-editor of Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal and serves on the editorial boards of scholarly journals in the United States and abroad. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, Doshisha University, the London School of Economics, the University of Manchester, the University of Tokyo, and Waseda University. He recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship, which is supporting his next book. It analyzes the reaction of labor movements to financialization, focusing on pension fund activism, regulatory efforts, and corporate governance.
He is also working on two other projects, both related to Japan. One is a study of Uber's delayed entry into the Japanese market. The other examines the phenomenon of "black companies," places that engage in exploitative working practices, such as long hours of work.


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SOS Connect unanimous choice to support strategic growth at WSP Solicitors
Having undergone two mergers in recent years followed by Lexcel accreditation, WSP Solicitors has now chosen SOS Connect as part of an IT overhaul to streamline operations.
With around 70 staff, WSP Solicitors is a multi-practice firm with offices in Stroud, Dursley and Nailsworth, in Gloucestershire.
Last year the firm decided to replace its legal software system and in a unanimous decision has chosen SOS Connect, from (SOS), for integrated practice management, case management and customer relationship management.
"As a firm we have been through two mergers, in 2008 and again in 2010," says Peter Mardon, managing partner of WSP Solicitors. "Then after achieving accreditation in the Lexcel practice management standard last year, we felt the time was right to upgrade technology across the firm, to enable us to work more efficiently."
Enhanced usability was an overarching business driver for the firm, so the look and feel of the new system interface was of primary consideration. Legal accounting tools to manage credit control and cash flow were also important. In addition, Outlook integration was a key requirement, along with accessing management information, reports and KPIs.
"We realised that our software system needed replacing and invited three suppliers to come and see us," adds Peter Mardon. "What really swung our decision was the reaction of our partners, all of whom were very impressed by SOS Connect's capabilities."
David McNamara, managing director of SOS, said: "WSP Solicitors has seen some dynamic changes in recent years and understandably saw fit to revisit its IT operations. We are delighted that it has chosen SOS Connect as its legal software partner and the fact that we were the unanimous choice from three vendors makes it even moregratifying."


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This Is Us star Justin Hartley hints at what happens next for Kevin and Madison
"The way that he goes about being a dad is not something that people would expect Kevin to do," says the actor.
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Calling the last hour that viewers spent with Kevin Pearson "eventful" is like calling This Is Us "lightly emotional." In the season 4 finale of NBCs all-the-feels-and-then-some family drama, the shiny, privileged actor confronted his brother over his strong-arming of their ailing mother, Rebecca (Mandy Moore), into an experimental Alzheimer's study. The barbs that were launched from both sides were cruel and penetrating: Randall told Kevin that their father, Jack (Milo Ventimiglia), died ashamed of him, while Kevin told Randall that "the worst thing that ever happened to me was the day they brought you home." In the middle of this developing, two-part fight, Kevin was informed by Kate's friend, Madison (Caitlin Thompson), that their one-night stand had actually left her pregnant. With twins. That's a lot for one man to process — let alone a self-sabotaging-self-centered-turned-self-aware movie star — so let's start with that vicious fight, which surely will leave many psychic scars. How do these brothers come back from that?
"I don't know about the not-coming-back-from, as much as I think it's not coming back to the same place — I think it's like a chemical change," says Harley, who spoke to EW as part of a 92nd Street Y virtual conversation this summer. "Things will never be exactly the way that they were. And I think it had to do with Randall saying to Kevin, 'You're not chasing dad, you're chasing me, you're chasing my shadow. He was disappointed in you. And he died disappointed in you.' And the truth of that is what hurts.' And then Kevin, equally... a jerk, says, 'The worst day of my life was when they brought you home.' And he repeats it. I don't know which one is worse. They're in the toilet together."
While the shattering of that brotherly bond — on top of the materialization of unplanned parenthood — was pure emotional overload for Kevin, it also was a playground for the actor who portrays him. "Gosh, talk about highs and lows and mediums and shock and surprise and horrifying moments, but also life-changing moments," he says. "That was like spinning as an actor. That was fun though. That was good. I was exhausted. I slept well that night."
And how will Kevin sleep as he prepares to become a father, for which he said he was "all-in." Listening to creator Dan Fogelman and Hartley, one gets the sense that Kevin may surprise those around him, as well as the audience. "I think that he'll flip out every once in a while and have a few nervous breaks, but I would imagine he'll take guidance from his mom who can tell him about his dad, and hopefully Uncle Nicky [Griffin Dunne]," he says. "Also just the memories of his father, remembering he had three [kids]. Every time there's something going on with Kevin where he feels a little overwhelmed, he'll have a fond memory of his father and what he did. And then also kind of do it better. I have a teenager, and I look back on how my dad and mom handled us when we were teenagers. Sometimes I'm like, 'I don't know how they did it. I don't even know why they didn't run away.' And then other times I'm like, 'Okay, I get it. I know why I'm feeling this way, but I can present myself in a better way to my daughter. I can do better than my parents did with me.' Hopefully he leans on his experience and his memories of his dad and what his mom can tell him about all that. And also on whoever the woman is that he's with. Hopefully he is smart enough to realize that there are things that that person has to offer that he can't possibly offer, that she could certainly do better."
Could Kevin see Madison as not just parenting partner but also romantic partner? And is he closer to truly letting go of his on-again-off-again ex Sophie (Alexandra Breckenridge), who, they both had to remind themselves, is engaged to someone else. T"here's a plan in one's head about how to go about something," says Hartley. "This is a big thing; this is babies coming into your life. So whatever the plan is, the reality will change [it]. When you're going through that with someone as well, the relationship is going to evolve in a way that you probably didn't expect it to, because they're both going through this for the first time. So they're going to definitely have some moments that are very personal. It'll definitely be different than it is now, where you have one person that's yapping at the other and then the other person is yapping at the other and [they're] making fun of each other — they're friends that get annoyed with each other. That'll definitely be something that we explore in a big way in season 5."
Kevin rode the rollercoaster of love without safety brakes for some time, through recently he seems more committed to settling down — or at least settling on his priorities in life. "A lot of that [tumult] was self-inflicted, but he's also changed and he's grown as a human being," says Hartley. "His approach to his love life and to relationships in general is so different than it was when we met him, or even a couple of years ago. He's slowed down a bit, he's safer, he's more methodical, and he's more practical about things. He takes a little more care, not only of himself, but of other people. I hope that he gets what he wants, and it seems like what he wants is a woman that loves him, with kids. His career is certainly working out. I always say, 'If he gets a f---ing Emmy before I do, I'm going to hang this guy. But he will. You watch. Kevin's gonna walk away with Emmys and Oscars, and I'll be sitting here going, 'Kevin Pearson, you son of a bitch!'
Based on the shelves in Kevin's house in the deep-future flash-forward moments, he may wind up doing that. "Thank God I'm not like competing against this guy for jobs," quips Hartley. "He seems to get anything he wants." Did he want even more kids than the ones currently on the way? The two kids spotted in the future looked rather young, leading some to wonder if those may be different kids than the ones on the way in the present day. "Anything is possible," he says. "That's the question, right? How old is this dude? Is he 50? Is he Santa Claus? We don't know what's going on. That's a possibility." Is it possible that the next flash-forward will reveal Kevin's romantic partner, Madison, Sophie, or someone else? "I hope so. That would be the payoff, right? You want to know who it is — or if it was someone that had changed."
In any case, Hartley drops this clue about Kevin's growth curve. "The way that he goes about being a dad is not something that people would expect Kevin to do," he says. "Or it might even be too daunting for anybody to be able to do. He sets a certain bar and we'll see if he can get there or not. He challenges himself."
That journey begins in the two-hour season 5 premiere, which was delayed in the wake of Hollywood's pandemic shutdown. Both COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter — the biggest headlines of 2020 — will be incorporated into the story this season. "Our show does a very good job of dealing with issues that are very topical," says Hartley. "And some of them are not pleasant. That's what our show does. Sometimes things are too big of a deal to escape from." In the two-part opener, Kevin breaks the pregancy news to at least his sister, (but doesn't seem to tell her the whole story), and he celebrates his 40th birthday at the cabin with his family, but without his brother. "We'll address the fact that Kevin and Randall are not addressing each other, on a birthday," says Hartley. "Whenever you have a strife in the family like that, when there's an estrangement, people aren't talking, it's weird. Especially if you have other family members that are talking to both sides. It's strange. Nobody wants that. So hopefully something happens. I know something happens."
To see exactly what happens, tune in to the season 5 premiere on Tuesday at 9 p.m. Looking for more preview intel? Chrissy Metz also dropped hints about the new season, as did Chris Sullivan. And you might want to hear what Milo Ventimiglia had to say. Susan Kelechi Watson, too. Oh, and Sterling K. Brown. Plus Mandy Moore.
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ST. HELIER, Jersey–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Novocure, a commercial stage oncology company, announced today that its ongoing and future clinical trial designs in lung cancer will be presented at the 16th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC). The WCLC is the world's largest meeting dedicated to lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies, organized by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). The meeting will take place in Denver, Colorado from September 6 to 9, 2015.
METIS – a planned phase III trial of TTFields following stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for 1-10 brain metastases from NSCLC. The METIS trial follows the ongoing COMET phase II pilot trial for 1-5 brain metastases from NSCLC.
TTFields therapy is not approved for the treatment of brain metastases and malignant mesothelioma. In the United States and Japan, TTFields therapy is not approved for the treatment of NSCLC. The safety and effectiveness of TTFields therapy in these indications has not been established.


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IACA is an international organization that empowers professionals
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Excellence. Innovation. Impact.
IACA is an international organization that empowers professionals to make a lasting impact in the fight against corruption.
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IACA at the 10th Anniversary
76 Member States and 4 International Organizations
Countries and Jurisdictions with IACA Alumni
Fighting Against Corruption is a Shared Responsability
Thomas Stelzer, Dean and Executive Secretary of IACA, video message on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the International Anti-Corruption Academy
H.E. Mr. Chae-Hyun Shin, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the International Organizations in Vienna
H.E. Mr. Mikhail Ulyanov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the international organizations in Vienna
H.E. Mr. Ivo Šrámek, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the international organizations in Vienna
H.E. Ms. Manizha Bakhtari, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the international organizations in Vienna
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Statement by H.E. Mr. Kairat Umarov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the International Organizations in Vienna, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the International Anti-Corruption Academy
Video message of H.E.Mr. Peter Mišík, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the UN on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of IACA.
The section will host a collection of excerpts from speeches given in support of IACA over the past 10 years. These voices represent IACA's collective memory and continuing dialogue of ideas.
Alexandra Malina Manea
Through its programmes in general and the MACS in particular, IACA is becoming a key player in the global efforts against corruption. The MACS curriculum reflects well the understanding that corruption needs a multidisciplinary and complex approach. The programme also strongly encourages knowledge exchange not only between the trainer and the students but also between the students themselves. This is particularly valuable because students come from different countries and sectors and I have directly observed how exchanges between them catalyze creative analysis of entrenched problems and they all benefit from exposure to different local settings.
Legal Counsel World Bank, Office of Suspension and Debarment
Meeting so many people different in age, geographical origin and culture but all sharing an unstoppable desire not only to learn about fighting corruption but also to do it in practice, is a privilege for every lecturer. This privilege becomes even greater after recognizing that only a few lessons connect these different people into a homogenous front against the evil of corruption.
Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery
Lloydette Bai-Marrow
The MACS course is a rigorous and intensive programme of study. I was particularly impressed by the breadth of material covered and the highly effective use of practical exercises to embed learning. The students are exposed to teaching of the highest calibre and from a broad spectrum of experts. The MACS class of 2018 were an incredibly diverse group of dedicated and skilled professionals from all over the world. They worked incredibly hard during each Module and would return home exhausted but it was clear to see that this programme was already making a difference to their professional lives. They were all excited and expectant about future opportunities once they had conclude the course. It was a delight and an honour to be part of the teaching faculty on this flagship and premier programme of study.
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The IACA stories project will offer members of the IACA community the opportunity to record, share, and preserve personal stories relating to their experience with the Academy.
Mirte van den Berge
The MACS programme has a solid structure, analysing corruption from all relevant angles. The programme is truly multidisciplinary and offers state of the art insights on fighting corruption through discussions with renowned academics and practitioners. The course has been highly relevant for my career. In my job I benefit a lot from the knowledge and international network I have developed during the MACS programme.
Strategic Analyst / Deputy Head Intelligence Centre, Security and Integrity Management, ABN AMRO Bank.
Bernardo Damm
MACS is a program for people who have a passion about leaving a better world and at the same time people who want to make the most out of life, working and studying at the same time. Being in a classroom with 17 different nationalities is a unique experience by itself. The teachers are passionate about the topics and renowned worldwide. If you want to take the fight seriously, this is the place to be.
Head of the Regulatory Affairs Office, FEMSA Mexico.
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Musa Modoi
IACA is a place where theory meets practice and people from different nations exchange cutting edge perspectives and experiences in anti-corruption. The learning environment is amazing. IACA, and particularly the MACS, is a prism of different approaches – a hub where global anti-corruption practice is interrogated and validated, and new approaches unveiled through critical thought and innovation. When it comes to anti-corruption programmes around the world, I know no better than the MACS.
Advisor, Human Rights and Accountability, Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Uganda.
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Texas U.S. Senate candidates make big final pushes before election day
With just 2 days before election day, Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Beto O'Rourke are making a final, frantic push to voters.
Polls show Cruz with an edge over O'Rourke, and it has supporters on both sides feeling anxious to see what happens Tuesday.
Cruz rallied a room in Fairview in Collin County Sunday night, a Republican stronghold county that has the highest early voter turnout percentage in the state. Nearly half of the county's registered voters cast ballots early.
With two days before the election, both candidates worked hard to get their voters to the polls.
"Maybe they didn't come to this rally, but we know the extreme left is going to show up and if we want to preserve jobs, freedom and security, we gotta make sure common sense Texans show up," said Cruz.
O'Rourke spent his Sunday in Austin and San Antonio, asking his supporters at a park in Austin to give him "every waking moment of [their] life" until election night, making calls and knocking on doors. He did that himself in Dallas and Tarrant counties Saturday, speaking Sunday about the importance of civility during an extremely contentious race.
"We were block walking yesterday in Dallas, knocked on the door of a Ted Cruz supporter, could not have been more kind to me and to Amy. I think that sets the example of the civility, the decency with which we need to treat one another in the world's greatest democracy," he said. "Let's remember that before we are Republicans or Democrats, we're Americans, we're Texans."
Cruz is continuing to spend time in traditionally Conservative parts of Texas, while O'Rourke is hitting Democratic areas, both trying to get out the vote.
Beto will be in Houston, Dallas and El Paso on Monday. Cruz will be in Houston both Monday and Tuesday.


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Jewish Activists Neutralize anti-Jewish Sentiment in Labor Dispute at Hasidic-owned Business
Some workers at the New York institution seem to think all Jews are like the ultra-Orthodox bosses they're battling. But progressive Jewish allies are changing their minds.
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Members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice join employees of B&H Photo Video in New York to protest labor discrimination. Laundry Workers Center
The working conditions that led employees of B&H Photo to seek unionization in the fall and file a discrimination suit in February also had the potential to tip into anti-Semitism.
Satmar Hasidic Jewish family's Brooklyn home vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti
Upstate New York village settles lawsuit alleging voter fraud against Hasidic residents
The muckraking whistleblower of the Jewish Orthodox world bows out
The Manhattan-based company, thought to be the largest independent electronics seller in the United States with 2,000 employees and 5,000 daily visitors, was founded in 1973 by members of the Satmar Hasidic community. Ultra-Orthodox Jews still hold most of the management positions.
Workers say managers apply one set of rules to Jewish employees and another to ethnic minorities. B&H managers "don't understand that we are human beings," Raul Pedraza, a 48-year-old warehouse worker in Brooklyn, told Haaretz. "They treat us like animals, like machines that work and work and work."
As a result, anti-Jewish feelings were percolating among the Latino employees, said Rosanna Rodriguez, codirector of the Laundry Workers Center, a labor training organization.
But progressive Jewish activists have neutralized some of the negative sentiment and combated generalizations of Jews, as B&H workers meet protesters espousing Jewish values on their side of the picket lines.
Members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, a New York City-based social justice organization, and Kolot Chayeinu, a congregation in Brooklyn, joined the protests against B&H in November. Before then, the several hundred Latino workers employed by B&H at its three warehouses "had seen Jewish people only as the oppressors," Rodriguez said.
Following the vote to unionize, members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice attended a party for the workers and their families. "It meant a lot to the workers that we were eating together," said Amanda Altman, a community organizer for the group. "It was a meaningful building of trust between the groups."
(A "cultural exchange," intended for the Jewish and Latino activists to share their perspectives, was postponed by a January blizzard and tentatively rescheduled for May.)
Rabbi Ellen Lippmann of Kolot Chayeinu led a prayer at the first B&H rally and has helped gather congregants to support the warehouse workers and low-wage workers at other businesses. She said her social justice activism was informed by her faith.
"Labor issues are enormous in Jewish teachings," she said, citing specific passages of Torah and rabbinic commentaries. "There's a collective Jewish sense that these issues are crucial to the Jewish experience and worldview."
This is always the case, she said, but it's worse when Jewish bosses treat non-Jewish workers badly. "When many of us see Jews in particular acting in an oppressive way toward their non-Jewish workers, that feels additionally disturbing because my brothers are behaving badly. It's us," she said.
Lippmann added that of course everyone should pay their workers fairly and everyone could find wisdom in Jewish text, "but especially Jews whose way of life hinges on Jewish text." She directed a couple of rhetorical questions to B&H's ultra-Orthodox managers: "You forgot to read that part? Or you're just okay with treating your non-Jewish workers differently?"
The discrimination suit brought against B&H by the U.S. Department of Labor in February isn't the first time the company has been sued by the federal government or workers. Suits over the past decade have charged the company with unequal pay and claimed that it has denied promotions because of gender and ethnicity.
Earlier this year, B&H was also fined for hazardous conditions at its Brooklyn warehouse. Lizabeth Schalet, an attorney representing the warehouse workers and a Kolot Chayenu board member, said a civil lawsuit against B&H may lie in the company's future in addition to the federal lawsuit.
She said "there are two sets of rules" for employees – one for Hispanic workers and one for non-Hispanic workers, which determine how many breaks employees can take and even if they can use a cellphone during the day. B&H managers "have a discriminatory bias against Hispanics," Schalet alleged, saying this sentiment caused them to treat employees differently.
Rabbi Ellen Lippmann of Congregation Kolot Chayeinu, which has helped fight for the rights of Latino B&H warehouse workers.Rabbi Ellen Lippmann (Courtesy)
"There's only so far anyone who's not Hasidic is going to get" professionally at B&H, said a current employee, who is Jewish and did not want to be named for fear of losing his job. "I don't think that's a secret."
Diversity at B&H varies from one department to another, with the sales force the most integrated in terms of race and gender, he said. Just one woman, who is Hasidic, works in upper management, the current employee said.
The company denies these accusations, calling them "far from factual." "Every one of our employees is treated with respect and dignity, no matter of race, religion or gender," said B&H spokesman Henry Posner.
"Our employees are well compensated, offered generous benefits, and they are given 17 paid days off in addition to three weeks' paid vacation. Few companies offer this." As a result, he said, B&H workers tend to stick with the firm for a decent stretch.
But advocates for the workers note that much of the paid time off must be used on Jewish holidays, when B&H is closed, or employees get lower paychecks for that period. In an email, Posner called the allegations "scurrilous narratives" about a store that has kept its operations in New York rather than outsource them overseas.
"We continue to make daily decisions, taking into account first and foremost our dedicated employees and customers, and we will continue to do so," he said.
Asked if B&H management had discussed whether the lawsuits and allegations were rooted in anti-Semitism, Posner wrote back, "no comment."
While progress has been made on the relationship between the Latino workers and their Jewish advocates, work remains to be done on dispelling their impression that being Jewish means being ultra-Orthodox. The workers "look at me very strangely initially when I tell them I'm Jewish," Schalet says.
"Sometimes they say 'no you're not,' and I say 'yes I am.' I've told many of them that I'm Jewish and that my congregation fights against injustices. I want them to understand that not all Jews are like the owners that they're so upset with. It's important that they understand that we're not monolithic, and I think they do."
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Political Violence and the Literary Subject: Salwa Ismail, Solmaz Sharif, and Roger Reeves
@ Pilsen Community Books
Opening Friday, December 3rd, from 11AM - 12PM
Pilsen Community Books is honored to partner with the Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Global Middle East, a research collective and event series co-sponsored by the College of Arts & Letters at Notre Dame University and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies for this event.Register in advance for this reading here.
Salwa Ismail is Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research examines everyday forms of government, urban governance, and governmental violence. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in both Egypt and Syria, enquiring into how mechanisms of government and practices of violence come to be formative of ordinary citizens' political subjectivities. Her book Political Life in Cairo's New Quarters: Encountering the Everyday State (University of Minnesota Press 2006) brings to focus regimes of discipline and control in everyday encounters between citizens and state agents and agencies in various urban spaces such as outdoor markets, streets and alleyways, security checkpoints, and municipality offices. Her recent book The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria (Cambridge University Press 2018) asks how the Asad regime's practices of violence, both in their routine and spectacular forms (e.g. the school, the prison camp), shaped Syrian political subjectivities, and what effect this violence has had at the level of society and the individual.
Roger Reeves's poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, The Nation, Best American Poetry, and The New Yorker, among others. He was awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, two Pushcart Prizes, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a 2013 NEA Fellowship, and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His first book is King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), which won the Larry Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University, the Zacharis Prize from Ploughshares, and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. His second book of poetry, Best Barbarian, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in February of 2022.
Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Look, finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan's Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New York Times, and others. Her work has been recognized with a "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lannan Foundation, and Stanford University. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Arizona State University where she is inaugurating a Poetry for the People program. Her second poetry collection, Customs, will be published by Graywolf Press in March 2022.
This conversation will be moderated by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Director of Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame, and Ernesto Verdeja, Associate Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies.
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of Call Me Zebra, winner of the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award, the John Gardner Fiction Award and longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. She is a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and a Whiting Writers Award Winner. Her novel, Savage Tongues, is forthcoming in 2021. She is the Director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Notre Dame and a Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Ernesto Verdeja is Associate Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at Notre Dame. His research focuses on the causes and prevention of genocide and mass atrocities, as well as on political reconciliation and transitional justice. Ernesto also frequently consults on mass atrocities prevention and early warning with governments and human rights organizations.
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Andrew Kester has been selected as the Director of the Montgomery County Veterans Service Organization (VSO).
Andrew Kester has been selected as the Director of the Montgomery County Veterans Service Organization (VSO). Although Kester was selected for the position on February 5, the process requires approval by the County Commission. Kester was approved by the County Commissioners at tonight's formal county commission meeting. He will begin leading the VSO on February 19.
Kester retired from the U.S. Army as a first sergeant in 2010. After retiring from the military, he began working as an education coordinator and applications trainer for MinXray, INC and most recently worked as an adjunct professor for Graduate Leadership Studies at Western Kentucky University and a radiology staffing manager at QTC Medical Group in Clarksville.
Kester earned his Ed.D in organizational leadership from Western Kentucky University, his M.S. in health education at Touro University, his B.S. in health care management at National American University and his A.A.S. in Medical Imaging at Thomas Edison State College.
"My family has been residing in Montgomery County since 2008. We have a son attending Austin Peay State University and a daughter at Rossview High. We are vested in the success of Montgomery County and I'm looking forward to serving our military veterans. I'm excited about this transition from healthcare to caring for our veterans," said Kester.
"We are confident in our choice for the new VSO Director. He brings extensive military experience to the table and his background in healthcare will be an asset to our veterans," said Montgomery County Mayor Jim Durrett.
The VSO assists veterans in navigating the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs system in applying for a variety of benefits and entitlements. To find out all of the services offered by the Montgomery County VSO visit mcgtn.org/vso or call 553-5173.


IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz with members of the Golani Brigade. The brigade's reconnaissance was heavily involved in Operation Cast Lead. Photo: wiki commons.
A French umbrella Jewish organization, CRIF, is outraged after an exam from the Bichat Hospital Faculty of Medicine at Paris's Diderot University included a question on whether IDF strikes in Gaza can be classified as genocide.
CRIF called the inclusion of the question a blatant anti-Israel move. "It has no place in medical education, much less in a university, and amounts to a violation of the neutrality (demanded of) professor Oberlin," said Richard Prasquier, president of CRIF.
Diderot university officials were concerned because the question was included in a non-compulsory medical exam. Bichat's Dean Benoit Schlemmer expressed his regret for the question.