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PARIS, FRANCE–Canada's vast territory is graced with the full range of potential energy sources, from wind, solar and wave power to hydro, fossil fuels and uranium, used for nuclear power. Some see this as an enviable position: many of the world's nations are without the resources to make energy sovereignty possible. However, Canada – like the rest of the world – must come to grips with the dire combination of global warming and dwindling oil reserves.
In the face of this crisis, the nuclear industry has been quick to position itself as the energy source of the future. Its claims are that nuclear power produces virtually no carbon emissions and that incidents like Chernobyl are a thing of the Soviet past. The nuclear industry is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance, with some 35 reactors under construction in 12 countries.
Crude and The Nuclear Comeback are two documentaries from Down Under that explore the nature of oil and nuclear energy, and the role that each play in our society, today and in the future. Both films are essential viewing for anyone uneasy about the fate of our fragile planet.
The Nuclear Comeback, by Justin Pemberton
75 minutes
(Documentary, New Zealand)
If there's something that big business excels at, it is turning a crisis into an opportunity. In this vein, the nuclear industry has been back in the spotlight recently as a self-proclaimed panacea to global warming and peak oil.
In The Nuclear Comeback, filmmaker Justin Pemberton explores the question of whether nuclear power can indeed chart the path to a low carbon future. His quest is earnest. The filmmaker finds himself in some of the gloomiest places in the world: a ghost town on the edge of the Chernobyl power plant's red zone, in the depths of Sweden's nuclear waste storage facility some 50 meters below the Baltic Sea, and inside the bowels of an inoperative power station in the UK that will take approximately 120 years to dismantle.
Pemberton also manages to dig up Bruno Comby, a French environmentalist who is pro-nuclear, which is apparently an aberration. France is an exceptional case when it comes to nuclear power: 80 per cent of its electricity comes from this source.
It is one thing to read about the various arguments for and against nuclear power, but it is quite another to be taken on a tour of the facilities that host – in one way or another – some of the most radioactive and lethal substances on the planet. This is the film's greatest virtue; the buzzing of a massive control panel is as unnerving as the sight of a couple of lone Ukrainian engineers smoking in the radioactive control room of the abandoned Chernobyl plant.
While the ground covered in the 53 minute version of the film is vast, the question of mining for uranium – the mineral that fuels nuclear reactors – is under-explored in the film, as it is in mainstream press.
The nuclear industry's comeback is perhaps best assessed by an expert from The New Scientist, who is interviewed in the film, as he asks if we are jumping "out of the carbon frying pan and into the plutonium fire."
Crude - The Incredible Journey of Oil by Dr. Richard Smith
89 minutes
(Documentary, Australia)
It would be a mistake to see Crude expecting classified documents of the wars in the Middle East to be revealed. That said, Crude is a refreshing departure from the geopolitical innuendo that monopolizes much of the talk around one of the world's most primeval, powerful and coveted substances.
For many of us, a history lesson in oil might seem to begin sometime around the middle of the 19th century, when the first hand powered rig unleashed the genie in the bottle.
Using striking animations of dinosaurs that could compete with a Spielberg blockbuster, Crude walks us through the greenhouse climatic conditions of the Jurassic era that allowed the formation of oil in the first place. The film makes the case that oil is essentially a concentration of millions of years of ancient sunlight.
Fast forward to modern times. Oil has been unleashed and the dense energy of this liquid sunlight now powers civilization. From the cars we drive to the food we eat, oil is ubiquitous.
Even newborns are drenched in oil from their first moments of life. "Newborn babies slide from their mothers into petro-plastic-gloved hands, are swaddled in petro-polyester blankets, and are hurried off to be warmed by oil-burning heaters," observes author Sonia Shah.
According to the many of the experts interviewed in the film, oil is peaking now. The 95-year-old retired oil pioneer will have seen the rise and fall of an oil civilization in his lifetime. In less than a century and a half, millions of years of evolution have been burned up, ushering in the climatic conditions that enabled its creation.
The film brings out the tragic beauty of this paradox, despite the obvious implications for humanity.
While the documentary remains somewhat conventional in its approach, it is in its content – which is fundamental to our understanding of life as we know it – that this documentary is at once novel and essential.
Carolyn Lebel is a Canadian freelance journalist based in Paris.
fantastic movie...but where can a copy be bought for a reasonable $...it listed at around 400$ by the distrib....no joke... any info appreciated...thanks, ... bob shaw
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In the thaw the knitted garden grew. We buried our jumpers in the ground with a strand protruding above the surface. During the night the lice crawled up the strands so that in the cold morning there were white clumps on the ground like cauliflowers. Stamping on them deloused the jumpers.
HAUNTING images of life in a labour camp fill Herta Müller's most recent novel, Everything I Possess I Carry with Me. Müller's inventive use of language makes her work tricky to translate but an English version of the opening chapter is available and a full translation will be published next year. It is a compelling work woven from secrets and suppressed history.
The novel was published in Germany two months before Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October last year. It is a milestone: where Müller's earlier works were strongly autobiographical books of prose, poetry and collages using words and pictures, Everything I Possess I Carry with Me works on a broader canvas, covering the full life span of its male protagonist.
Müller was born in a German enclave in rural Romania in 1953. As a child she heard "stolen conversations" about the recent past without understanding anything but the fear they expressed. Eventually she learnt that her mother, along with many others, had been deported to the Soviet Union in 1945 after the Red Army reached Romania and the country's pro-German fascist leadership was overthrown. Secret Order 7161 of the USSR State Defence Committee demanded that all able-bodied German males aged seventeen to forty-five and all females aged eighteen to thirty would be rounded up to help rebuild the Soviet Union.
The German Romanian deportees were sent to labour camps in the coal-mining regions of the Ukraine. Most were there for five years in dire conditions, and many died. (Müller's grandmother disclosed that Herta had been named after her mother's best friend who died of starvation in the camp.) The entire deportation episode was a taboo subject in Romania under the Stalinist Ceausescu regime, spoken about only in whispers.
Müller's novel brings this suppressed history to life in a bold and unique manner. There are echoes of mass deportations to Auschwitz and Siberia – the deportees are packed into cattle trucks, tyrannised by the camp guards, shaved and reduced to skin and bone – but Müller keeps these echoes to a minimum. The German Romanians were not deported to wholesale death and Müller points to the complicity of the community in supporting Hitler.
She uses a single first-person narrator, Leo Auberg, to describe the deportation and the labour camp with the intensity and singularity of a soliloquy. The seventeen-year-old Auberg was already living a half-hidden life as a homosexual when he was transported into the wholly hidden world of the camp, "outside of time and of ourselves."
Auberg's narrative describes the transformation of people into objects. He talks about being subjugated to his shovel: his role is simply to make it operate; he is controlled by the cement and the coal he shovels. "I am an ordinary Russian object," he thinks as he returns to the barracks at night.
Above all he is the object of hunger. Hunger hovers over him in the form of the "hunger angel," which torments him but is also a guardian spirit whose presence at least means that he hasn't filled his stomach by eating sand or cement as some other prisoners do. The hunger angel takes over his existence and quickens his breath. "The hunger angel puts my cheeks on his chin. He makes my breath heave. The in and out of breath is a delirium."
The German title Atemschaukel – literally, "breath swing" – refers to that strained breathing. Leo contracts this condition in the camp and it never lets him go. He tells his story sixty years after being released from the camp and leaving Romania for Austria, but he still finds that his breath shudders when memories carry him back to the camp. The past is like a poison that is permanently within him. He remains isolated through to the end of the novel and refers in the last sentence to "a sort of distance in me."
Auberg is based on the German Romanian poet Oskar Pastior, who was one of the deportees. During his time in the camp Pastior put himself at great peril by making notes about life there in a book he assembled out of scraps of cement bags. Pastior and Müller began talking about his experiences in 2001, and in 2004 they visited the remains of the labour complex together. When Pastior died suddenly in 2006 he left Müller with books full of notes, detailed descriptions of camp life and telling images.
In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung last month Müller talked about how Pastior's memories welled up in their discussions. "Remembering was a need, an urgency in him," she said. "The almost monstrous precision of the images of the camp dwelled for years in his head. Finally he could concede that the camp hung on in his head. He really wanted this misery to be described at last."
BUT THERE was something that Pastior hid from Müller. After being released from the camp he took up studies in Bucharest, where he was denounced for writing seven anti-Soviet poems about the camp and for being homosexual. In 1961, to avoid arrest, he succumbed to the Romanian secret police, the notorious Securitate, and was an informer until his defection in 1968. This fact became known only in September 2010 when Pastior's secret police file, under the cover name of "Otto Stein," was identified by a historian.
It's not surprising that this revelation, eighteen months after the publication of the novel, shocked Müller. The tyranny of repression in Romania and the surveillance carried out by the Securitate are major themes in her work, and she had suffered years of harassment before she and her husband Richard Wagner were permitted to leave for West Berlin in 1987. The news of his collaboration, she told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, was a "box around the ears." But after the initial shock, she added, she had realised that if Pastior were still alive she would hug him and encourage him to talk and write about his life as Otto Stein.
The exposure of Pastior's secret past resonates eerily with Müller's aim, in Everything I Possess I Carry with Me, of bringing secrets and the suppressed past to the surface. It is a reminder of how the full history of the Soviet labour camps is still being uncovered.
The work of the 1970 Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn told the world about the injustices and the appalling conditions in the gulags. We know about the extent of the gulag system and the millions of people subjected to it from histories such as Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps. Müller focuses on the hidden history of the German Romanians in the labour camps and on the experience of an individual whose experiences there shaped his life. The five years Auberg spent in the camp dominate the rest of his life. Years after his return from the camp he says that his dreams continue to deport him back there. He relives his deportation repeatedly, each repeat scarring him more deeply. He recounts how one night his dreams deported him seven times to the camp and the seventh time is the worst because the camp is abandoned and there is no purpose to his being there. "No one wants me here and I am definitely not permitted to leave."
Müller's novel is a compelling narrative that penetrates the anonymity of mass deportation. She brings an unknown past into the open and preserves it. Everything I Possess I Carry with Me is not to be forgotten. •


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There were two stories for why China allowed the value of its currency to fall beginning on Tuesday, one of which makes the government look shortsighted and the other farsighted: It is looking to boost its export sector to combat a weakening economy or it is trying to liberalize its financial system as it ascends the global financial stage.
[Reposted from The New York Times | Neil Irwin | August 12, 2015]
After Wednesday's events, the shortsighted, export-boost story is looking like the more powerful explanation of what China is up to.
The renminbi fell 1.6 percent against the dollar Wednesday after a 1.8 percent drop Tuesday. That amounts to an exceptionally steep two-day move in the exchange rate between the world's largest economies.
There were signs the sell-off went beyond even what the Chinese officials themselves had hoped for. The People's Bank of China issued a statement that "currently there is no basis for persistent depreciation" of the currency. Some traders report they see evidence the central bank is buying yuan to stem the declines.
The initial reaction out of the United States to the original liberalization of exchange rates Tuesday went in two directions. One was to shout "currency war," arguing that China was engaging in a desperate measure to try to achieve some temporary economic gain at the expense of its rivals through currency devaluation. See, for example, the comments of Senator Chuck Schumer, a longtime critic of China's currency practices.
In some of the halls of power in Washington, the reaction was more one of cautious optimism. The International Monetary Fund and United States Treasury adopted a wait-and-see view of the move. They have both been pushing China to liberalize its exchange rate policy so that it adapts more to market forces, and they were, it seemed, getting what they wanted.
(For a particularly sophisticated version of this argument, read this article by Nicholas Lardy, the China expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, who made arguments in line with the I.M.F. view; the Twitter feed of his boss, Adam Posen, is more skeptical.)
The fact that the sharp drop continued for a second day makes more plausible the idea that China is primarily motivated by a desire to advantage its exporters against competitors across Asia and beyond.
The more abrupt a move the government allows, the more the devaluation looks of a piece with China's frantic efforts to prop up its stock market earlier this summer — a short-term, desperation solution to a pressing problem.
Contrast that with the moves the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank took at various points in the last few years to loosen monetary policy and spur higher domestic inflation and growth. They have been controversial, and no doubt resulted in devaluations of their respective currencies, but the actions were carefully telegraphed, thoughtfully explained and explicitly aimed at domestic conditions rather than manipulating exchange rates.
The Chinese central bank's move, by contrast, came as a complete surprise. It was accompanied by only vague official communication and appears to be narrowly targeted at the exchange rate. And because the Chinese central bank is not independent from its government, it's impossible to know whether politicians or technocrats are really pulling the strings on the policy.
The book is not written on China's new currency policies; after all, they're only two days old. But if the sell-off continues the way it did Wednesday, the blowback to China's actions and talk of "currency wars" will only get louder, and the voices of praise for its move toward liberalization softer.
Taking place against a backdrop of sluggish global growth, a United States presidential campaign season that is getting underway and a Chinese economy that just might be in real trouble, that will make for an interesting autumn in international finance.


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India ops of sports good players Nike, Reebok, Adidas are still in red
Brands are facing losses even as brands like Levis, UCB and Zara have turned profitable
Brands are facing losses even as brands like Levis, UCB and Zara have turned profitable
Top global sports goods players - Nike, Reebok and Adidas - are still in the red in India even as brands like Levis, UCB and Zara have turned profitable. While Zara has been profitable in India for at least four years, Levi's and United Colors of Benetton (UCB) despite being in the black, are dealing with accumulated losses.
German sports goods maker Puma, which has emerged as the top global lifestyle brand here in terms of revenues (Rs 878 crore) and Spanish clothing brand Zara (Rs 720 crore) are two leading global brands that do not have accumulated losses, according to regulatory filings.
Puma follows calendar year for reporting business numbers, while most of the other brands such as Benetton, Adidas and Zara follow April-to-March financial year. Adidas, with sales of around Rs 805 crore in FY15, has accumulated losses of around Rs 68 crore, while Reebok, which is owned by it, has accumulated losses of around Rs 2,198 crore with sales of around Rs 332 crore in FY15.
"The high accumulated loss situation is primarily due to issues Reebok India faced in 2012. Post that, the company has taken steps to correct its business practices and build a sustainable model based on robust fundamentals," the company said.
Nike with sales of around Rs 804 crore in FY15, has piled up accumulated losses of around Rs 541 crore, up from around Rs 439 crore in FY14, according to the US firm's latest filing with the Registrar of Companies. UCB, with sales of around Rs 719 crore, has accumulated losses of around Rs 84 crore and Levi's with sales of around Rs 634 crore has accumulated losses of around Rs 93 crore in FY15. Both companies made profits in the current year of around Rs 47 crore and Rs 11 crore respectively.
"Although we have reported accumulated losses in 2015 owing to past investments for expansion, for the past five years, we have been reporting profits, and enhanced financial health year on year," said Sundeep Chugh, CEO of Benetton India.
Sanjay Purohit, MD for South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh), Levi Strauss said: "If you compare performance as per RoC filings for FY14-15 along with FY13-14, our revenues grew by 9% and operating profit grew by 184%. We have delivered an exceptional performance in the last two years."


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We discussed about the comparisons between Pella vs Andersen windows in our previous article. There, we pointed out that, while both manufacturers do produce vinyl windows, fibrex is actually a proprietary material of Andersen. Therefore, fibrex can only be used by Andersen and those who have been granted permission by Andersen. Fibrex windows, unsurprisingly, are only available in the Andersen brand. Now, you are probably wondering how good those fibrex windows actually are. Are they more expensive than vinyl windows? Are they really better than vinyl windows?
We will try to answer those questions below. Let us see what advantages and disadvantages that each of the two options offers. Depending on your needs, you will probably prefer either fibrex or vinyl windows.
What is Vinyl?
Vinyl is a synthetic material made from polyvinyl chloride or other related polymers. It is the world's third most produced synthetic plastic polymer. There are actually two types of vinyl. The softer one is more flexible due to the addition of plasticizers, used for plumbing, electrical insulation, phonograph records, imitation leather, and rubber replacement. The rigid one is typically used in construction for pipes, doors, and windows.
Vinyl was invented to be a cheap yet durable industry material. Therefore, it is not surprising that vinyl windows are generally very affordable and budget-friendly.
What is Fibrex?
Fibrex is a proprietary composite material of Andersen. It is claimed by the company to be twice as strong as vinyl. It is said that it won't fade, flake, peel, or blister. Fibrex windows are unique to Andersen, available in the 100 Series, A-Series, and Renewal by Andersen.
Fibrex is composed of 40% wood fiber, acquired from recycled Ponderosa pine wood products, and 60% vinyl. Of course, it was initially developed to make Andersen's operation more efficient. By reusing the sawdust obtained from their wood window production. Some of the vinyl is also acquired from the company's own production, but the rest of the vinyl requirement is also acquired from other suppliers.
One of the people's concerns about wood is rot. However, you don't need to worry about that with fibrex because the wood fibers are completely surrounded and coated with vinyl. Without exposure to the elements, the wood fibers will not rot.
Fibrex vs. Vinyl Windows: Strength and Durability
Andersen's marketing of fibrex is technically honest. However, perhaps like any other marketing campaign, the marketing of fibrex by Andersen is very ambitious. It gives an impression as if fibrex is incredibly superior to vinyl, and skeptical customers may actually shy away from such ambitious marketing. Nevertheless, there are indeed several advantages offered by fibrex windows.
The first advantage that fibrex windows offer is indeed the greater strength. The company says that fibrex is twice as strong as vinyl, and that is true in terms of compressive strength. Fibrex windows are less likely to break, as they are able to withstand greater impacts and pressures. Due to the increased strength, a fibrex window can have a slimmer frame, allowing more sunlight to come in. Vinyl windows, on the other hand, are reasonably durable, but may break upon an incredibly heavy impact or pressure.
One of the factors to consider when installing a window is the thermal expansion. The windows may expand when exposed to higher temperature levels. The thermal expansion may cause pressure and possibly break the window is there is not enough room. On the other hand, creating too much room makes the installation loose. Choosing a material that has a low thermal expansion is better. Of course, fibrex has a lower thermal expansion rate (1.6) than vinyl (4.0), making it able to tolerate higher temperature levels without breaking.
Fibrex vs. Vinyl Windows: Environmental Concerns
The second advantage of fibrex is that it is quite an environment-friendly material. This is because it is made from recycled materials, though it may also use virgin vinyl. On the other hand, vinyl alone is a synthetic material. Any product that is made from recycled waste products can be considered eco-friendly due to keeping away contaminants from the earth and the atmosphere.
Fibrex vs. Vinyl Windows: Heat Insulation
When choosing a window, you have to consider how much heat insulation that you need. If you use an air conditioner to heat the air during the winter, a window with bad insulation may cause the heat to leak out. Thus, the air conditioner will have to work harder. This drives up the electricity bill.
Fibrex may seem like a good material for heat insulation, as it claims to be nearly 700 times better than aluminum in reducing heating and cooling bills. The statement is true. But comparing fibrex to aluminum is an invalid argument because aluminum is basically a heat conductor in the first place. If you compare it to vinyl, however, they have more-or-less similar insulating properties.
Additionally, when exposed to high heat, vinyl windows – especially those with darker colors – are prone to sagging and bowing. Andersen claims that fibrex windows are better than vinyl windows in resisting heat distortion so that they do not sag or bow as easily. Technically, that is true. However, the difference is 'marginal'. The temperature threshold of vinyl is 163-degree Fahrenheit, whereas fibrex's is 173-degree Fahrenheit. Despite the ten-degree difference, both are still below the distortion starting point of 180-degree Fahrenheit.
Fibrex vs. Vinyl Windows: Price
Finally, fibrex windows are indeed significantly more expensive than vinyl windows. The price difference can be as large as three times. Why does a window made from recycled materials cost so much? Probably because it is a proprietary material. Nevertheless, a fibrex window usually comes with a ten-year warranty, but high quality vinyl windows are also available with such warranties.
If you are an environmentally conscious person, you probably won't mind spending extra bucks for an eco-friendly alternative. Thus, fibrex windows can be great. After all, fibrex windows are indeed stronger and more durable than vinyl windows, so they possibly will last longer as well. However, in terms of heat insulation and heat resistance, fibrex windows are just about as good as vinyl windows.


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enceladus5 (Jun 6, 2010 at 10:30 AM):
Fantastic shots of Enceladus'geysers.It is no wonder you won the Carl Sagan Award.Thus far the Cassini mission has been worth every penny.Thanks for delivering us these wonderful images.
carolyn (CICLOPS) (Jun 5, 2010 at 6:17 PM):
Everyone: Thank you SO much for your congratulations and lovely thoughts on the Sagan Award. I am happy and moved beyond words. It is quite an honor and means the world to me...both the award and your warm wishes. Love to all of you!
Red_dragon (Jun 1, 2010 at 6:55 AM):
Congratulations on winning the Carl Sagan award!. You deserved it.
AWESOME image.
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tish (May 31, 2010 at 8:06 AM):
Hey Congratulations, Carolyn! Ann D had some nice words for you. We love you , too.
Hey when are we going to see some new ISS movieclips?
Love the Moons in motion.
Celebrating "Saturnalia" here at Kopernik,
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I think we're seeing the shadow of the moon cast on the plumes. AMAZING!
Lee (May 28, 2010 at 2:40 PM):
I'm with stowaway: Wow!
Congratulations for winning the Carl Sagan Award too.
stowaway (May 23, 2010 at 3:36 PM):
I have to admit I am a little confused about exactly what I am seeing in this image. Maybe the viewing geometry could be explained a little. Where is the terminator, the limb, the horizon, the Sun? The black portion at the bottom almost appears to be a separate object with the surface of Enceladus receding above it.
mipsandbips (May 19, 2010 at 9:16 PM):
A close encounter? These images are incredible!
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After a tumultuous week which concluded with President Trump declaring a national emergency in response to novel coronavirus concerns, companies have been enacting their business continuity plans and instructing their employees to work remotely, some for the first time. As a company who has enabled remote-work since our founding, we wanted to share how we make certain our people work remotely in the most effective and secure manner. We offer these lessons learned to help those mitigating these disruptions and challenges.
How We Do Business Securely
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Our employees work from home but also work where our clients need them. This means we understand how to work securely from home, our office, and our clients' offices. In normal circumstances, these include hotels, sky clubs, coffee shops. If you have questions or concerns, we can help.
Cloud-Based Availability
We help companies securely migrate to the cloud and it's been our home since the beginning. Everything we utilize for internal operations and client-facing business is cloud-based – allowing Trility to seamlessly operate from anywhere with no disruption. Cloud security and reliability are a No. 1 priority to us. With the majority of breaches in 2019 due to cloud storage misconfigurations, we must continue to be diligent and never compromise when it comes to security.
Secure Device Management
As businesses transition to work from home, reinforce device management policies, and determine if they are secure enough. Our team is geographically distributed across the country. As a best-practice, consider some of these approaches we use:
- Hard drives must have full disk encryption
- Screens must be locked when you are away from the keyboard
- Screens must be set to auto-lock after five minutes if you are away from the keyboard and forget to lock
- Do not store customer data locally to the laptop
- Don't attach your laptop to insecure public wireless networks – every time it is available, use VPN
- Use modern operating systems and tools and keep them current at all times
Lines of Communication
The days of operational 8-5 hours are gone. Maintain several lines of communication in order to meet the needs of clients, partners, and employees. We use Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Confluence, JIRA, GSuite (Google Productivity Suite), and several more to align with our client's preferred use of communication. Find one that works for your business.
- Have dynamic communication tools to serve as a foundation for most written communications. This is preferably not email.
- Use communication tools that allow for one-to-one, group, team, and enterprise-wide communications through various channels – video and voice-capable ones are ideal.
- Provide a stream of news and updates to employees throughout the organization.
- Integrate the communication tool via APIs to your various productivity tools like your project management, ERP, CRM, or issue tracking systems.
- For dynamic document collaboration, use cloud-based tools with traceable version control.
Redundant Systems
No one person or location holds information, and backups are always in place. Whether it's a person, a process, or line of code, we have systems and backups for completing work and documentation is always provided because we never want our clients handcuffed to us.
Start Simple. Then Automate. And Always Be Secure.
Under normal circumstances, we help companies defend or extend their market share in an era of rapid disruption by simplifying, automating, and securing each iteration. The era of disruption has been disrupted. We are here to help.
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For those wanting to defend or extend their market share in an era of rapid disruption, Trility simplifies, automates, and secures the journey and has a proven history of reliable delivery results. Headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, with teams in Omaha, Neb., and Chicago, Ill., our people live everywhere and work where needed to help clients navigate their business evolution with certainty.


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Sustainable Building Services Cited Again for Industry Best Practice
Last year, Sustainable Building Services (UK) Ltd earned itself a mention in a major governmental report into energy efficiency measures in the social housing sector. Now, just less than 12 months later, SBS has again featured as an exemplar of industry best practice.
In 2017, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy commissioned a new report designed to inform future decisions about the funding of energy efficiency schemes. The report was produced by University College London (UCL), Bartlett School Of Environment, Energy & Resources (BSEER), with support from Cambridge Architectural Research. Entitled "Understanding Best Practice in Deploying External Solid-Wall Insulation in the UK", the 96 page report makes numerous references to work carried out by SBS. In particular, it cites its work with Nottingham City Homes and Permarock. All three organisations were interviewed at length earlier in the year by researchers who wanted to identify the most effective approaches to area-based 'mass deployments' of solid wall insulation systems.
The executive summary of the report notes that: "The roll-out of external wall insulation to solid walls can bring about significant emissions reductions from the building sector and make a significant impact on household energy consumption... Mass deployment and roll-out of energy efficient retrofit through area-based approaches has been increasingly seen to be a key method to delivering high quality and cost-effective installations. In this context of area-based approaches, we have studied mass deployment 'exemplar' housing retrofit schemes in five different towns and cities across the UK to identify, analyse and assess best-practice lessons."
It also notes that "examples of Best-Practice were often identified in cases where the installation of EWI was viewed not as a measure but as a construction project where appropriate management principles were applied in planning, resourcing and implementation."
A detailed review of the Nottingham City Homes / SBS scheme begins on page 62, which points to a number of important best-practice examples. With regard to quality, it noted:
- Installation delays were minimized by careful stock management in a local warehouse
- Site works were minimised by preparing individual house packs with products cut to fit before delivery.
- Phased implementation allowed continuous worker employment and maximum value from training, which was delivered locally.
- Custom products were needed to satisfy planner requirements on particular details.
With regard to costs and impacts, it noted that the SBS scheme delivered a number of important advantages:
- Costs were de-risked by agreeing the design in advance of setting the price.
- Maintenance was included in the overall costing and designs were chosen to minimise maintenance.
- Indicative cost from one area, benefitting from considerable economies of scale, was estimated at around £6,500 per house, including enabling works.
- Private owners were offered exactly the same measures as tenants.
- A fixed price offer based on the property's archetype was determined for private owners (on average £2300). This allowed installers to be able to quote price 'on the doorstep' and interest free loans were made available.
The report also points to the value of effective collaboration, saying: "One key factor in this project was teamwork – all stakeholders including clients, contractors and residents were involved from start to finish. Early contact between contractors and client helped to build trust. Resources were committed from both sides even before contracts were signed. Detailed design decisions were made before the price was set, so it was not necessary to make compromises later to fit the budget. The designers worked closely with planners to agree detailed design issues."
It also states: "There were full time PermaRock technicians on site at all times to advise and oversee installation work. All completed work was signed off by PermaRock and SBS. Where E.ON was providing grant funding through the Energy Company Obligation, E.ON inspectors were also part of the inspection regime."
The researchers also pointed to continuity of work as a key factor in reducing costs. It recorded that "the work was done in phases, with each new development overlapping with the previous one. This meant that personnel and infrastructure could be transferred straight from one job to another, thus minimising waste of resources. At the peak, with three developments overlapping, there were 100-120 workers employed."
One interesting conclusion later in the report was that short-termism in funding has a detrimental effect on cost effectiveness and quality. Researchers found that "in a grant funding-based environment, the processes which hampered cost efficient delivery were largely due to the inconsistent short-term nature of the funding schemes themselves. These funding models were largely considered to not support the adequate planning periods needed to achieve the high quality installations (such as the Nottingham case study.)" It also suggested that piecemeal funding tended not to "enable more widespread uptake" or to "maintain the supply chains required to achieve cost efficiency."
Later, the report concludes that "short term funding is not conducive to sustaining the market, maintaining job security and retaining knowledge and resources within the contractors/councils."
Bearing in mind that this report is intended to steer government policy in the future, it is notable that the authors seem to favour the funding and support of intensive location-based schemes, rather than national funding schemes that have no geographical focus.
In its 'Findings and Conclusions' section, it notes that: "The main method to achieving significant economies of scale is by having a large cohort which could be taken as a package to procurement. This is probably more viable in situations where a large group of properties was under the same owner ship and co-located to some extent... In addition, EWI interventions should, ideally, take place alongside other performance-improvement construction works (such as window and boiler replacement). This integration between the installation of different measures can result not only in a healthier and better building, but also in a potentially cheaper outcome overall."
Responding on behalf of SB, company chair Derek Horrocks said: "We and our key supply chain partners have developed very efficient, quality-focused procedures over a period of many years, so it's great to see independent experts taking note. This isn't the first time that our work has been presented as an example of best practice, and we're determined that it won't be the last."


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- The largest homes currently on the market in the US range from 32,000 to 70,000 square feet.
- We teamed up with Zillow to take a look at the largest homes for sale, from a historic Virginia manor to a recently renovated Bel Air mansion.
The 25 largest homes for sale in the United States, ranked
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The largest home for sale in the US is a whopping 70,000-square-foot abandoned Philadelphia mansion. To offer some context, that about 15,000 square feet larger than the White House.
We teamed up with Zillow to look at the largest homes currently on the US housing market, including Red Sox owner John Henry's Florida vacation home and Cher's former Beverly Hills estate . Other luxury properties in the top 25 range from a historic Virginia manor to a recently renovated Bel Air mansion with room to park 80 cars.
Read more : There are too many multimillion-dollar mansions for sale in Los Angeles, and real-estate agents are going to extreme lengths to get them off the market
Many of these homes have been on the market for years, as luxury homes have become hard to sell . Previous reporting from Business Insider's Lina Batarags shows that customized houses like many of the country's largest are hard to sell as they include extremely personalized features that do not appeal to every buyer.
Keep reading for a look at the largest homes for sale in the US:
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- The Greenwich Village townhouse where the late Malcolm Forbes threw extravagant parties for CEOs and celebs just sold for $20 million take a look inside.
- Photo reveal: A $34 million San Francisco mansion billed as a 'wellness home' has a sauna, yoga studio, and filtration system that changes all the air in the house every 2 hours. Take a look inside.
- The 13 biggest mistakes people make when buying a home, according to real-estate agents
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White nationalist Richard Spencer to noisy Florida protesters: You didn't shut me down
University of Florida and local authorities brace for speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer.
Students and other audience members heavily booed white nationalist Richard Spencer on Thursday as he gave a speech at the University of Florida, where the atmosphere was tense but mostly peaceful as police in riot gear kept watch.
"We represent a new white America," said one speaker who came onstage to introduce Spencer.
"Black lives matter," student protesters responded. "Black lives matter! Black lives matter!"
Later, Spencer's supporters, some of whom filled the front rows of the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, chanted back: "You will not replace us!"
"Go home, Spencer!" protesters intoned after Spencer began speaking.
"You are trying to stifle our free speech," Spencer said as the crowd continuously booed and chanted through his speech, in which he recited his ideas about the "ideal" of a white nation.
Police and media helicopters circled over the area Thursday as hundreds of protesters marched in opposition to Spencer's appearance. Demonstrators were met by a blockade of police wearing riot gear.
"From what I've learned, this guy just preaches hate," said one of the marchers, LaMonte Kendrick, 22, of Gainesville. "What he says doesn't make sense. It's like the '60s or something. Gainesville's already had enough hate and racism in its history."
Spencer's last major public appearance with other white nationalists ended with a deadly riot in Charlottesville, Va., in August.
Spencer gained national prominence in recent years for his support of President Trump and for his views calling for a separate nation for white people. The apparent resurgence in white nationalism in the United States has sparked anti-supremacists to mobilize with their own efforts, including nonviolent demonstrations and pressure campaigns on companies providing services to white nationalists and sometimes violent attacks intended to drive them out of public spaces.
Spencer has turned his sights to public universities, where 1st Amendment protections of free speech limit officials' ability to deny Spencer a platform. Officials at the Florida college have confirmed they've spent roughly $500,000 on security for the event, and police from around Florida gathered in Gainesville to assist local police.
About 700 free tickets were available for the event and were supposed to be distributed outside the venue on a first-come, first-served basis, according to Spencer's website, AltRight.com. Weapons were banned from the event, along with a wide range of other items, including water bottles, masks, shields and hats.
"Everyone is welcome at #SpenceratUF," Spencer tweeted before the event Thursday. "This is going to be an important dialogue for the entire community."
Police corralled protesters into a single line outside the venue and turned away attendees for various reasons, including a military veteran who walked with a cane, which was deemed a potential weapon. One woman said she was denied entry by Spencer's supporters at the gate because she was with an African American man. Some journalists with cameras and notebooks were denied access but were allowed entry without those items.
Inside the auditorium, a group of Spencer's supporters sat close to the stage, while the audience of protesters sat toward the back, separated from Spencer and his proponents by rows of empty seats and a cordon of police.
Spencer initially protested the boos as suppression of his speech but later began taking questions from audience members who variously asked why he hadn't left yet or how he could form a white ethno-state without performing violent ethnic cleansing. Many in the audience protested by standing during his speech and holding up their fists, the symbol of black power.
One questioner who introduced himself as a son of immigrants told Spencer he was disappointed with the crowd's protests, saying he wanted to engage in a dialogue.
Another introduced herself as a "beautiful brown woman" of Egyptian and Puerto Rican descent. She thanked Spencer for coming, and asked, "How did it feel to get punched in the face on camera?"
The student was referring to a viral video of Spencer being struck by an anti-fascist in Washington, D.C., on the day of Trump's inauguration. Her question drew a cheer from the crowd.
"It hurt," Spencer said. "Yeah, it hurts when someone punches you in the face. Is that a real question?"
Spencer added: "What's the point of such a question? Are you threatening me with violence? … Do you all want to get your hands dirty? Are you really willing to do something like that, or do you just want to shout self-righteously?"
The woman's question was the final one during Spencer's 90-minute appearance. He thanked the crowd for coming, and to protesters, he said: "You think that you shut me down? Well, you didn't. You actually even failed at your own game. … The world is not going to be proud of you."
Spencer left campus shortly afterward as the audience filed out.
Outside the venue, where hundreds of protesters gathered, small scuffles broke out when one man with swastikas on his shirt walked through the center of the crowd, seeming to relish the startled and appalled reactions of protesters. He was escorted away after someone punched him in the face, according to reporters on the scene.
Only one arrest appeared to take place before Spencer's appearance. Police said a security guard, hired by a media outlet covering the event, had illegally brought a gun on campus.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for Alachua County on Monday, saying in his executive order that a "threat of a potential emergency is imminent," and that law enforcement must defend "public safety and security will be safeguarded and critical infrastructure, and public and private property will be protected."
The measures, which came at the request of Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell, are not in response to any specific threats, according to the sheriff's and governor's offices.
University officials announced that most classes would meet as normal Thursday. The school asked students to boycott Spencer, whose views university President W. Kent Fuchs has described as "repugnant."
White nationalist Richard Spencer, who popularized the term "alt-right," speaks at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Florida in Gainesville on Thursday.(Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
People react as white nationalist Richard Spencer speaks in Gainesville, Fla. Spencer was frequently met with protest chants.(Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
Protesters chant and hold signs at the site of a planned speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer on the University of Florida campus on Thursday.(Brian Blanco / Getty Images)
Richard Spencer initially protested the boos and chants as suppression of his speech, but later began taking questions from audience members, who variously asked him why he hadn't left yet or how he could form a white ethno-state without performing violent ethnic cleansing.(Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
Police monitor the scene as protesters gather near the site of a speech by a white nationalist on Thursday.(Brian Blanco / Getty Images)
A man stands on a Nazi flag and an Antifa flag near the site of a planned speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville.(Brian Blanco / Getty Images)
Protesters hold a rally ahead of white nationalist Richard Spencer's speech at the University of Florida.(Jason Dearen / Associated Press)
Sam Hyde of Houston, who was wearing a Nazi SS pin on his shirt, talks to the media before the speech by a white nationalist.(Ricardo Ramirez-Buxeda / Orlando Sentinel)
A man protests a scheduled speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida in Gainesville.(Ricardo Ramirez-Buxeda / Orlando Sentinel)
Police monitor the site of a planned speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida on Thursday.(Brian Blanco / Getty Images)
White nationalist Richard Spencer is joined onstage by controversial talk radio host Mike Enoch, left.(Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
Police on a nearby rooftop monitor the scene at the site of the speech on the University of Florida campus.(Brian Blanco / Getty Images)
Police check the bags of journalists entering the site of the Richard Spencer event.(Brian Blanco / Getty Images)
A group calling itself "No Nazis at UF" planned to stage a protest outside the event. About 3,000 people indicated on Facebook they planned to participate. Students also staged a sit-in at a student senate meeting earlier in the week.
The neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer urged Spencer supporters who couldn't get tickets to carry out "flash mobs" throughout the city, including at a Jewish center, a black culture center and the Gainesville Sun newspaper, though as Spencer gave his speech, no such events appeared to have taken place.
"The point is to confuse the situation and to create public attention, to make it feel like the entire city is taken over by our guys," wrote site editor Andrew Anglin, who also urged followers to dress normally, leave signs or flags in their cars and not bring weapons.
The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors hate groups, warned about attending the event.
"This type of activity is dangerous. We are working with local officials to ensure everyone's safety," the group tweeted. "We encourage people to avoid this event all together. Showing up will only play into their hands."
Los Angeles Times staff writer Pearce reported from Los Angeles and special correspondent Neuhaus from Gainesville, Fla. The Orlando Sentinel contributed to this report.
Matt Pearce is a national reporter for The Times. Follow him on Twitter at @mattdpearce.
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Students and friars offer a blessing before a meal at Mt. Irenaeus, a Franciscan mountain community near campus.
University Ministries welcomes students of all religious affiliations to participate in a variety of opportunities for spiritual growth, service learning, social action and community building.
Your hub for service-learning, whether it's feeding the hungry, befriending a child, or visiting with a senior citizen. Be a leader in service to others.
The resident friars of this Franciscan community near campus welcome all to relax, hike, garden, sit and talk, or share a home-cooked meal. A special ministry, a special place.
We invite all into the life of the Catholic Church, with liturgical programs, sacraments, worship experiences and opportunities for spiritual growth.
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Calipari confirms UK's Bahamas tour against national teams
University of Kentucky coach John Calipari wants to keep details "under the hat," but on an ESPN podcast Monday he did confirm the Wildcats will take a foreign tour this summer in the Bahamas.
Caliapari said UK will play six national teams, many of which contain current NBA players, this August. In conjunction with the trip — Division I teams are allowed to take them once every four years — the Wildcats will get 10 extra practices.
"We are going to practice, get something out of it, but we're going against national teams we should not beat," he said. "We should go 0-6."
The rest Calipari is getting "squared away" before announcing a schedule.
UK last played out of the country during the summer of 2010. That trip, a three-game excursion to Canada, preceded the 2011 Final Four run.
• Though Calipari expects returning center Willie Cauley-Stein healthy before the start of this season, he told ESPN the rising junior will likely sit out games on the Bahamas trip.
"Will he work out some?" Calipari asked. "Maybe."
Cauley-Stein underwent surgery in April following an ankle injury suffered during the NCAA tournament.
Though players haven't returned to campus, Calipari noted that Cauley-Stein is likely still wearing a walking boot. He's expected to be cleared sometime in August.
Leaving Cauley-Stein out during the Bahamas trip would minimize risk of re-injury and, Calipari said, "gives us a chance for these young guys to go out" and play.
• Calipari showed up to SEC Spring Meetings last week himself with a hobble. It's been about a month since his hip surgery, and the coach said he just recently stopped walking with a cane.
"I'm good. I'm four weeks in," he told ESPN. "I'll tell you what it did: It made me slow down. I had to take three weeks in Florida and rested for the first time in like seven years where I had to sleep some."
Calipari then joked that during his time off, he read many books — the first of them one called "Players First." You can find that in stores now from author John Calipari.
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Education for the incarcerated
"Incarceration is supposed to be about rehabilitating those who may have lost their way in the past," Mr. Cuomo said. "And it's time that we get back to embracing that principle as a society."
Cuomo to Give Colleges $7 Million for Courses in Prisons, NY Times
How to get affluent white families to send their kids to local public schools
Market the schools to realtors.
This School District Asked Real-Estate Agents To Help Rekindle Its Reputation, NPR
Aren't we all Americans?
'Rethink who is the curriculum, who is the teaching, centered on?' Souto-Manning said."
…'I wanted to get away from that story of the people in power," said Salas, who works at P.S. 75 on the Upper West Side. 'Story acting is a culturally relevant teaching tool because it helps students develop empathy and understand multiple perspectives.'
This Chalkbeat story, which paints "culturally relevant" teaching in glowing terms, gave me pause. Some of the suggestions made in the piece, such as knowing your student's backgrounds and experiences or how to pronounce their names correctly, are just simply common sense. One would certainly hope that your son's teacher knows his name and who he is as a person and treats him with respect and provides him with individualized attention. That this doesn't happen in all classrooms speaks more to the quality of our ed preparation and people that are coming into the profession than a problem with curriculum.
The idea that we need to rethink our curricula to center them more on specific populations of students seems questionable to me for two reasons.
One is that this progressive rethinking of curriculum has been going on for a long time now. So take a look at actual curricula used in NYC schools and tell me how it's not developing student understanding of multiple perspectives. Avoid vague platitudes and let's talk actual content.
For example, one of the teachers mentioned in the pieces gives an example of a lesson on Christopher Columbus that challenges the "story of the people in power." Yet if you examine the NYC social studies scope and sequence, which one would assume this teacher should be drawing from, here is the essential question for European exploration and colonization:
"How do issues of power, wealth and morality influence exploration and colonization?"
Such a question hardly seems to close off multiple perspectives on the topic. Arguably, therefore, this teacher is simply paying heed to teaching history the way curricular guidelines ask her to teach it.
Second reason is that I see the fundamental problem with our education system, especially in regards to integration and diversity, to be exactly the reverse as what is laid out by the notion of "culturally relevant" curriculum. The problem, as I see it, is that we don't spend more time laying out what it means to be an American citizen, and the common values and principles we all share. And this problem is further compounded by the utter lack of coherency and consistency in the way we teach any content.
What New York City students learned about Christopher Columbus when their own classroom was 'discovered', Chalkbeat NY
This teacher argues that teaching to the textbook can still be more relevant–and more effective
"I've learned how to leverage my understanding of my students WHILE implementing a curriculum designed by someone else."
Teaching From a Textbook Makes My Class More Student-Centered, EdWeek
Speaking of curriculum. Florida conservatives craft a law to allow anyone to challenge school textbooks
"'We found [school books] to be full of political indoctrination, religious indoctrination, revisionist history and distorting our founding values and principles, even a significant quantity of pornography,' he says.
The pornography, Flaugh says, was in literature and novels such as Angela's Ashes, A Clockwork Orange and books by author Toni Morrison, which were in school libraries or on summer reading lists."
Uh, dude, that's not pornography. Has he ever read literature before? It's not like Lady Chatterly's Lover is being recommended for summer reading. . .
(While we're on the topic, here's an op-ed from the Lemony Snicket author arguing that boys need to be given books that have more sex in order to pique their interest: Want Boys to Read? Easy. Give Them Books About Sex., NY Times)
"He found more than 80 places where he believes the textbook was wrong or showed bias, beginning with the cover. Its subtitle is 'Our Democracy.'
'We're not a democracy, we're a constitutional republic,' Flaugh says."
Actually, both of these assertions are problematic. We're a democratic republic. Flaugh needs to read Federalist paper #10.
In any case, this law is a whole lot of sound and fury that will lead to nothing, except maybe some further fragmentation and incoherency in curriculum in Fla. What the Florida Citizen's Alliance fails to recognize is that few schools and districts utilize any given set of textbooks anymore. Like I said before, the overriding principle of the U.S. school system is its complete lack of coherency. Most districts and schools use some amalgamation of books, resources, and materials supplied by various vendors or individual teachers.
New Florida Law Lets Residents Challenge School Textbooks, NPR
Tim Shanahan on when to teach decoding and when to scaffold grade-level texts
A pervasive problem teachers face in teaching literacy are the increasing gaps between students' reading abilities and the complexity and difficulty of the texts they are supposed to read at grade-level.
Shanahan provides some useful advice for teachers on this core issue:
"It doesn't make sense to me to try to scaffold over any appreciable distance when a youngster is trying to figure out how to decode basic text. With those kids, I would teach phonics, I would engage them in reading easy texts, and I would read the seventh-grade texts to them with all of the scaffolding needed to keep their heads in the game about the ideas in those texts.
If it is the former of those queries—the one about scaffolding a great distance, like 6 or 7 grade levels, then I have a different answer for you. In fact, it is possible to scaffold that kind of distance, as long as the readers aren't beginners. I'm saying that It is possible to scaffold the reading of an eighth-grade book for a student who now can only read at second-grade level, and there are benefits to doing this (though I'm certainly not claiming it to be an easy way to go)."
Scaffolding the Reading of Seventh-Grade English Learners: How Much is too Much?, Shanahan on Literacy
This chart on violence and bullying in schools is no surprise to anyone who has attended or worked in a middle school
What Bullying Looks Like in Today's Classrooms: 3 New Charts That Explain Changes in School Violence, The 74
Smart piece from a Republican senator on the need for teens to engage in hard work
"…meaningful work for kids is less about any particular task than the habits the hours teach. The effort involved and the struggles, once overcome, become the scar tissue of future character."
What to do with the kids this summer? Put 'em to work., NY Times


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On the road to Halls Harbour, north of Kentville, is a delightful landmark in our cultural landscape. Known locally as the "concrete house with the deer in the yard," this unique property is surrounded by concrete lawn sculptures of deer, a mountain lion, giant mushrooms, and other fanciful figures and furniture.
Inside, the house is as it was built: every surface lovingly fashioned from cement and finished smooth with paint.
A decorative instinct is evident from mantle to newel post, from chimney to dovecote—the impression is of a magical, sculpted cottage, tailor-made for an uncommon individual.


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Jeremy Hobson: News this morning that Bob Diamond, the former head of Barclay's bank has given up $30 million in bonuses after resigning over that interest rate rigging scandal. And the scandal has brought up the issue — yet again — of whether current regulations on the financial industry are adequate.
And that's where we'll start with Juli Niemann, analyst at Smith Moore and Company in St. Louis. Good morning.
Juli Niemann: Good morning, Jeremy.
Hobson: Well Juli, what do you think is the lesson of this interest rate scandal?
Niemann: Probably the biggest thing is that we're trying to find something that nobody really understands how it works. — top executives, CEOs, the SEC, everybody in the trading areas, Congress — nobody knows and understands exactly how this is done. It's all the kids in the trading playpen who know how to do it. There are big bonuses; they get these big bonuses so they don't want to go somewhere else. All management knows is that we're making 35 percent on this kind of swap or these trades. And that's a huge profit margin — great for the banks, but it always means the buyer's getting hosed.
Hobson: But of course, this new law — the Dodd Frank financial reform law — is going into effect slowly, and many businesses and financial firms are saying: this is going to make things even more complicated.
Niemann: Well, it's an attempt at getting some disclosure here; basically trying to qualify what is and what is not part of gambling. You know, you have to think of it this way: the bank is the utility, the trading operations and underwriting, and trading is a casino. You've got to separate the two out. They're not ready to do that yet, so instead they're going to have a huge number of new rules that probably even more people don't understand within the industry.
Hobson: Juli Niemann, analyst with Smith Moore and Company, thanks as always.
Niemann: You bet.


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SMO — A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. has declined to review an FAA ruling that determined City Hall is barred from enforcing a ban, passed by the City Council in 2008, prohibiting class C and D jets from landing at the Santa Monica Airport.
The ruling, issued on Friday, was the latest blow to local officials' attempt to bar larger private jets from using the facility. Since at least 2002, Santa Monica officials have favored limiting runway access to only smaller class A and B aircraft, arguing larger jets pose a safety hazard because SMO lacks a sufficient buffer zone between the end of its runway and homes in surrounding neighborhoods.
Some homes are just 300 feet away from the 5,000-foot landing strip.
"I am disappointed by the D.C. circuit's decision, but I am not surprised," said City Attorney Marsha Moutrie. "The city fought this case long and hard. I believe staff and outside counsel did good work and mounted a strong defense of the ordinance. But, in the end, the substantial deference that the courts afford to agency decisions drove the result."
Mayor Richard Bloom said a decision about whether to appeal the ruling had not yet been reached.
"From the perspective of residents, this result adds to their concerns and will likely provoke more cries for airport closure," he said.
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said the agency "was, and remains, confident in [its] legal position."
The decision from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found no reason to overturn an FAA decision that Santa Monica officials could not ban certain types of jets from SMO because of obligations City Hall took on under the terms of a federal grant it received from the FAA in 1994.
The grant agreement included a condition that stated SMO must make its facilities available "on fair and reasonable terms and without unjust discrimination, to all types, kinds and classes of aeronautical uses" for 20 years from when the funds were spent.
Under the grant terms, City Hall could, however, prohibit classes of airplanes from using the airport "if such action is necessary for the safe operation of the airport or necessary to serve the civil aviation needs of the public."
First before FAA administrators, and then in federal court, City Hall has argued the class C and D jet ban was a necessary safety regulation. The FAA has maintained the ban violates terms of the grant agreement.
In front of the appeals court, lawyers for City Hall sought to convince the panel of judges that the FAA's rejection of its ban was "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with the law."
In siding with the FAA, the judges cited the "highly deferential standard of review" in cases where a federal agency's administrative finding is at issue, noting that "this court presumes agency actions to be valid."
The unanimous opinion also cited case law to justify the court's right to "uphold a decision [by a federal agency] of less than ideal clarity if the agency's path may be reasonably discerned."
Gregor on Friday said the FAA is prepared to help Santa Monica pay for installing an "engineered material arresting system," otherwise known as collapsible concrete, designed to slow down planes that are in danger of overshooting the runway to address safety concerns.
It's an offer City Hall has rejected before and is likely to reject again, since accepting FAA funds would probably mean extending the obligation to operate the airport.


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Hustle bag charges wirelessly to boost batteries on iPhones, other handsets
Wireless charging is gathering momentum even if some of the most popular phones don't yet support it. An Indiegogo project for the Hustle bag makes it easier to add wireless charging to your life while also acting as a second battery for your iPhone(s aapl), Android(s goog) handset, or other device that can charge through a USB port.
Hustle is actually a line of bags and accessories for men and women: Styles include a wallet, a clutch and a larger bag and are built with leather.
Each has a battery tucked inside that can be charged when the bag or accessory is placed on the included wireless charging mat. Both the bag and the mat use the Qi wireless charging standard, so you can use the mat to charge any device that supports Qi charging.
The new Nexus 7 tablet, Nexus 4 phone and Samsung Galaxy S 4 all use this standard, for example.
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The bags have a 4250mAh capacity battery, which should be enough to recharge a smartphone two to four times, depending on the model.
The project has already reached its $35,000 funding goal and has a new stretch goal of $50,000. The clutch and wallet bags are $139 now while the larger bag is still available for an early bird $159 price. All bags include the wireless charging pad.
I like the concept here because of its simplicity. With your phone or tablet in the bag, the device's battery can always be topped off during the day. When you get home, you simply drop the Hustle on its charging pad to recharge the internal battery. The charging mat has an additional USB port that can be used to recharge your handset as well.
One downside is having to keep your phone in the bag to recharge it so you can't see incoming calls or messages. But hey, that's what your smartwatch is for, right?


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Zavod VOZIM (DRIVing, Institute for innovative education)
Ambassadors of Zavod VOZIM visited cities across Slovenia and distributed heroic guerrilla material on the terraces of the bars immediately after the re-opening (bars were closed due to COVID-19 restrictions).
Encouraging data show that in Slovenia, the mortality rate due to alcohol-related traffic incidents in the group of young drivers between the ages of 18 and 24 has decreased by 60%, which shows that young people are on the right track. Such a positive result was encouraged by the VOZIM Institute to plan future activities.
Zavod VOZIM, Institute for Innovative Education with its initiative Heroes drive in pajamas works very consciously to encourage young people to change their attitude towards drunk driving and strive to be safe and responsible drivers.
Women & Child Welfare Society
A Nation Wide Campaign Helmet India Coalition, TRAXS: New Delhi with Women & Child Welfare Society(WCWS): Cuttack & Jageswari Jubal Sangha(JJS), Nimapada: Puri at: Nimapada,District: Puri.Mrs. Minati Bindhani,General Secretary of WCWS and Mr. Nakul Chandra Swain bites on "Let's Break Up With The Fake And Sub-Standard Helmets"'Na Banega, Na Bikega, Na Pehna Jaayega Fake aur sub standard Helmet'
(No fabrication, No Sale, No Fake and Sub-Standard Helmets will be Worn)DNA Why are helmets without ISI mark dangerous to your life:
National Road Safety Month 2021 Observed by Women & Child Welfare Society: Cuttack with Commissionrate Police, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack, Other NGOs at Cuttack & Puri districts of Odisha state [India],Details in Road Safety Report:2020-21 https://online.fliphtml5.com/xanlw/bxkm/#p=1
The Croatian Automobile Club (HAK) continuously promotes 10 golden rules in traffic by carrying out a whole range of promotional activities.
Since 2016 HAK hosts an annual competition for the production of short films on this topic with the aim of promoting creativity amongst under-24s.
This year, 33 films were submitted, and the following authors were awarded:-
Roads of Mazovia Foundation
Tiago Jorge won a Renault Captur in the 2021 Mokotów Bike Rally. The lucky coupon was drawn by the Mayor of Mokotow District Krzysztof Skolimowski. The event was powered by the FIA Road Safety Grant Programme and Mokotow District Found.


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€10 million for regional trade finance operations
Erste Bank Croatia is joining the Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in order to boost local and regional trade. The EBRD will provide Erste Bank Croatia with a €10 million limit to issue guarantees to confirming banks, thereby taking the political and commercial payment risk of transactions undertaken by the bank, and to provide cash loans to fund trade-related advances for the purpose of pre-export, post-import and local distribution of imported goods.
Trade finance plays an increasingly important role in fostering economic ties. Erste Bank Croatia has been appointed by its parent bank Erste Group to become the regional competence centre for the trade finance operations of Erste subsidiaries in the region thanks to its track record in trade finance. As the regional trade finance hub, Erste Bank Croatia will support the trade finance operations of other Erste subsidiaries by pooling financial and human resources.
The EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme, established in 1999, aims to promote foreign trade to, from and among the EBRD countries of operations and offers a range of products to facilitate this trade. Through the programme the EBRD also strengthens the ability of local banks to provide trade financing and to give small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the support they need to increase their access to import and export trade.
Vedrana Jelušić Kašić, EBRD Director for Croatia, said: "We are pleased to welcome Erste Bank Croatia to our pioneering Trade Facilitation Programme. Over the years the TFP has reached a total transaction value of over €12.0 billion and we are confident that our new partnership will lead to further expansion. This will also be good news for Croatia and the region, as closer trade ties mean stronger economic development."
Erste Bank Croatia board member Boris Centner added: "We are extremely pleased to be able to continue our cooperation with the EBRD through the Trade Facilitation Programme, having previously worked together on the provision of credit lines for SMEs. What makes this framework arrangement particularly important for us is the fact that through it we have become Erste Group regional coordinator for trade and export finance in the following countries: Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and, of course, Croatia. We see it as recognition of our professionalism and expertise, as well as of our achievements so far. The funds from this programme will primarily be used to back the export projects of our clients, which is important as exports have significant potential to boost the economic growth of Croatia. It is our strategy this year to put a very strong emphasis on backing and financing this segment of the economy."
The EBRD has worked in Croatia since the country's independence and has invested more than €3.1 billion in over 170 projects to date. The Bank's activities include all areas of the economy and are especially strong in the infrastructure, corporate, financial institutions and energy sectors.


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I'll admit, this post is well overdue.
But the data I am showing you data is research backed proof that the listing sites don't yet control the organic search market as much as you think.
Or, to be completely honest, as much as I thought.
Let's dive in.
Examining 100 Of The Most Popular Vacation Rental Markets
I've had the great pleasure of attending over a dozen conferences for in the short term and vacation rental management space since 2014. During the past four years, I'm often asked if it's possible to "outrank the big guys" in Google.
My response has always been "yes" because not only have I seen clients do it, I've probably looked at more SERPs for vacation rental searches than anyone else on the planet. I see it all the time: local companies can (and do) get better search rankings than HomeAway, VRBO and Airbnb.
All. The. Time.
Until recently, I never thought enough of that comment to do some actual data-backed research.
My goal with this research was simple: scrape the top 10 Google.com search results in 100 of the most popular vacation rental markets in the US. Then, analyze the top 10 search results and show what percentage of vacation rental markets had any website not named HomeAway, Airbnb or VRBO ranking on the first page of Google. Finally, analyze how often any of the big three vacation rental sites were in the top 3 of the organic search results (the ones that get the most traffic).
Note: I didn't research any Google AdWords (soon to be Google Ads) results: only organic.
All data was pulled early July 2018 from Ahrefs and was analyzed in Excel and Google Sheets. The charts below are from Semrush which has a longer tracked history of estimated organic search traffic going back to 2010.
The results were surprising to me.
The Big Winner In Search: VRBO
After reviewing the 1,081 line data file, the numbers were clear: VRBO is the clear winner in organic search rankings.
- Ranks in the first page of Google for 94% of the markets analyzed.
- Takes the first organic slot (ranking #1) a whopping 24% of the time.
- 64% of the time, VRBO is in the top 3 search results.
Upside And Upstarting: Airbnb
- Only 5% of the top markets had Airbnb in the top 3 of the search results, and Airbnb had zero #1 rankings in Google for vacation rental searches.
- However, 79% of the top vacation rental markets had Airbnb on the first page of the search results. They're not at the top yet, but they're consistently showing on the first page of Google.
- In urban markets, Airbnb had nearly double the search volume of vacation rentals + the name of the city with searches like Airbnb + the name of the city. In other words, Airbnb doesn't need to rank to get traffic in markets like New York City: they get branded searches that outpace generic rental searches.
Organic Search Issues Abound: HomeAway's Crashing Results
- HomeAway struggled, showing only in 2% of the markets in the top 3 of the search results.
- Overall, HomeAway has just 6 first-page rankings in Google of the 100 top markets analyzed.
- The 10th spot (last organic search result on the first page) was the most common HomeAway ranking across these vacation rental destinations. They're just barely hanging onto the first page of Google in these markets. Sneeze and they'll be on page 2.
While the top 100 search markets represent a good amount of keyword search volume, all of these listing sites rank for tens of thousands of destinations (and millions of keywords). This is not a comprehensive analysis of each site on the whole and their organic search performance but rather a snapshot into 100 of the most highly searched markets.
Is There Traffic Out There For Local Managers In Vacation Rental Searches?
Yes, there is. Competing with the big sites isn't easy: I hope that no one has told you differently. But, while the big sites in vacation rentals are often showing on the first page of Google, out of 10 links there's still many local and regional managers getting lots of organic search traffic.
It's fair to say that there will be big sites on the first page of Google for every vacation rental search, but not all opportunity is lost. Ranking in the top 5 or ideally the top 3 for vacation rental and short-term rental searches in your market will yield legitimate, high-quality traffic.
Best of all? It's quite attainable.


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As the country was sinking into its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years, Security and Exchange Commission employees and contractors cruised porn sites and viewed sexually explicit pictures using government computers, an SEC investigation obtained by CNN showed.
"During the past five years, the SEC OIG (Office of Inspector General) substantiated that 33 SEC employees and or contractors violated Commission rules and policies, as well as the government-wide Standards of Ethical Conduct, by viewing pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive images using government computer resources and official time," said a summary of the investigation by the inspector general's office.
More than half of the workers made between $99,000 – $223,000. All the cases took place over the past five years.
"It is nothing short of disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at pornography than taking action to help stave off the events that brought our nation's economy to the brink of collapse," said Rep. Darrell Issa. The Republican is a ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
"This stunning report should make everyone question the wisdom of moving forward with plans to give regulators like the SEC even more widespread authority," he said. "Inexplicably, rather than exercise its existing regulatory enforcement authority, SEC officials were preoccupied with other distractions."
When will these overpaid government employees be terminated for cause?
Why aren't these sites blocked from those computers to start with??? I can't think of any major company -not- blocking sites like this in order to prevent exactly that from happening. The government -should- know better.. lol sheesh!
The collapse of our economy is happening at the hands of the very fools trusted to protect it. The names of each SEC employee should be revealed for the nation to see, and they should be fired. As taxpayers, we should have that choice to do so.
OMG!!! I'm laughing and outraged at the same time....talk about mixed feelings.
It's kind of scary when they take a story like this and attempt to tie it in to current political hot topics, like further Banking regulations. So these people needed a little relief...sure it shouldn't be on company time on company equipment, but it has NOTHING to do with whether or not the SEC functioned properly. People actually buy this level of propaganda here?
This is really old news!
The timing of this report is very interesting.
As an independent I find Rep. Darrell Issa's comments disturbing.
DId Rep. Darrell Issa ever think that most of these problems happened under the supervision of SEC commission chair Chris Cox, a former California GOP congressman and Bush appointee? This is the guy who sat on the Federal Housing Finance Oversight Board, which advises the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency with respect to overall strategies and policies regarding the safety and soundness the housing market.
He failed miserably. Now we know why.
So now in 2010 GOP leader is going to criticize changes that will fix an agency that was gutted by the previous administration?
The past 5 years??
So this began when the Republicans were in power...BIG SURPRISE.
It would've been stopped sooner if It weren't so unbelievable. Thank god someone is finally investigating this and wall street reform...thank you President Obama!!
33 in 5 years with thousands of employees. Talk about an over statement. And this just in as everyone is talking about financial regulations, how convenient. CNN is slipping...
Government is just an place where people can pick up a pay check to do nothing but push paper around and around and around. What's new?
If I'm not mistaken, didn't Richard Steel, RNC Chairman, and other GOPer's spend RNC funds at a strip club entertaining fortune 500 corporate sponsors?
Those involved should be fired, no questions asked.
The logic of Rep. Darrell Issa does not pan out. There are personnel issues, and they should be addressed regardless of what the organization does. But that does not mean that the SEC shouldn't regulate the financial industry. Whatever dysfunction the SEC has is irrelevant to the fact that there are unregulated financial instruments, and perverse reverse incentives in the financial system that are destabilizing to the economy.
In other words, fire the perverts and implement effective financial reform. We should do both and neither interferes with the other.
There is nothing 'stunning' about this report. 33 folks in a 60 month period?....they were hardly spending more time surfing porn than doing their jobs. Sensationalist reporting.....nothing more... Move along, there's nothing to see here... I used to work for the fed in network security and monitoring.....these sorts of incidents are routine....the always will be....human nature is fairly consistent over time.....read a history book...
Once again the GOP simply miss the mark. The fact that their was no regulation and that Bush himself argued for this made it so the SEC had very little to do and absolutely all the time in the world.


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Salazar Honors Choctaw Historian
Terry D. Cole, the first tribal historic preservation officer for the Choctaw Nation, was recently honored by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar with an annual Secretary of the Interior Historic Preservation Award.
"Award winners are individuals whose contributions surpass the expected scope of their positions, and whose creativity and expertise have significantly fostered the overall goals of the National Historic Preservation Act," read a statement from Department of the Interior.
Cole established the To Bridge a Gap conference in 2002, which facilitates communication between Native nations and the U.S. Forest Service, and he recently completed a class in archaeological law enforcement to become a certified crime scene investigator. According to an article in Native American Times, he learned what is needed to prosecute violators of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979, which was enacted to protect archaeological resources on public and tribal lands.
A graduate of Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Cole has worked for the Choctaw Nation for over a decade.
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Other winners included Michael Leventhal in the Certified Local Government Category, Scott B. Sheperd, III in the Federal Preservation Office Category and Ruth L. Pierpont in the State Historic Preservation Office Category.