DC FanDome 2021: What to know about DC's virtual spotlight of Black Adam, The Batman, Peacemaker, Aquaman 2 & more
August 31, 2021, 8:46 AM ET
By Josh Weiss
Credit: DC/Warner Bros.
You knew this one was coming, folks. After sitting out Comic-Con@Home for the second year in a row — at least in terms of major reveals — DC and Warner Bros. have confirmed the official return of their virtual (not to mention global) DC FanDome event dedicated to comics, television, film, video games, and more.
The second annual edition of FanDome is scheduled to take place Saturday, Oct. 16 at 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST. It'll be free to stream right here with closed captioning available in 12 different languages. In addition to its central website, FanDome will also host live-streams on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. A virtual experience for younger audiences — DC Kids FanDome — will run concurrently with the main lineup of programming in the "Hall of Heroes."
Just like last year, DC and WB are pulling out all the stops with sneak peeks for highly-anticipated titles Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam, Matt Reeves' The Batman, James Wan's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Ezra Miller's standalone Flash movie, James Gunn's Peacemaker TV series coming to HBO Max, Ava DuVernay's DMZ, Doom Patrol Season 3, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, DC League of Super-Pets, The CW's Naomi, and Legends of Tomorrow (celebrating 100 episodes).
"DC FanDome 2020 was a first-of-its kind global virtual fan experience and showcased every aspect of the DC Universe with unprecedented scale and access. This year, we're taking everything that people loved about DC FanDome and supercharging it to super-serve fans with even more exclusive first-looks, breaking news, in-depth interviews and insight from the stars and creative teams of their favorite DC content," Ann Sarnoff, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group, said in a statement.
Credit: Warner Bros. / DC
Other titles and events on the docket include:
Batman: Caped Crusader
Batman: Fear State
the Batman/Fortnite comic crossover
Batwheels
Black Manta
Catwoman: Hunted
Stargirl Season 3
The Flash Season 8
Harley Quinn Season 3
Update on the Milestone Universe
Supergirl's sixth and final season
Superman & Lois Season 2
Sweet Tooth Season 2
Young Justice: Phantoms
Wonder Woman Historia
Wonderful Women of the World
In the run-up to Oct. 16, DC Universe Infinite (formerly the DC Universe streaming platform) will make over 300 comics and graphic novels available to read at no extra cost — just so long as folks register with the service.
Shazam: Fury of the Gods


Inside Bitcoins New Year Press Release
by Ruben Alexander
Inside Bitcoins Conference and Expo in Las Vegas drew over 1,500 attendees from all over the world. The show was 15 times the size of the inaugural Inside Bitcoins Conference in NYC in July 2013. Mediabistro has a bright and ambitious future planned for Inside Bitcoins events and will be taking the conference on a world tour in 2014 with stops in Germany, Hong Kong, London, and New York City among other locations.
Inside Bitcoins is unique because it the only event to cover the origins, features, value propositions, and future impact of the first decentralized digital currency across all verticals and industries. Beyond banking, also examined is Bitcoin's history in gaming and its impact on global liquidity for casinos. Inside Bitcoins brings together the entrepreneurs and visionaries who are leading the charge into the future of money to share their successes, their failures and help spark new ideas along the way.
Governmental regulation of cryptocurrencies, financial tech, bitcoin mining, new business models, and the rapidly changing landscape of Bitcoin is all part of the discussion here.
River Financial Joins Hawaii's Digital Currency Innovation Lab
Visit Media Bistro's Inside Bitcoin Berlin website for more information about their next conference.
Inside Bitcoin Press Release
Ruben Alexander
The Bitcoin community has shown me that nothing can stop a group of people who are passionate in their beliefs. In our case, we believe everyone in the world deserves the right to financial freedom. My goal is to make sure everyone can see that this Bitcoin movement has the power to change the world for the better through every story we publish. Before working with Bitcoin Magazine I was involved in freelance writing, illustration, renders, making electronic music, and 3d print designs (http://www.behance.net/urbenz). I'm also a married dude and a father of 2 who loves to have fun with his family, cook, and travel. Contact me by shooting a message to: ruben [at] bitcoinmagazine.com
Ruben Alexander January 2, 2014
The Second Order Effects Of Bitcoin: Digitization, Decentralization And Deflation
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Wings defenseman Jonathan Ericsson suffering from back spasms
By Joe YerdonOct 9, 2010, 3:35 AM EDT
While the Red Wings' season got off to a hot start with a 4-0 win over Anaheim, it didn't come without some worry. Defenseman Jonathan Ericsson left the game in the first period with back spasms and will miss Saturday's game in Chicago. The Wings will have to call on rookie defenseman Jakub Kindl to take Ericsson's place in the lineup.
Ericsson's absence provides Kindl with a big opportunity to make a name for himself as Ericsson's play suffered last season, and while he showed slight improvement in training camp it's not as if he's irreplaceable in the lineup as the team's sixth defenseman. Kindl won a spot on the Wings roster out of training camp, beating out Derek Meech for the position.
(Photo: Claus Andersen – Getty Images)


Program Verification Techniques for Understanding Security Properties of Software
Lead Research Organisation: University College London
Department Name: Computer Science
This proposal aims to develop automatic program verification methods that help security engineers to understand software that they have not written themselves. The engineer will be able to make sophisticated queries about resource requirements and temporal behaviour of code, such as about memory safety, privileges, or information flow. Our methods will even support synthesis of behavioural properties for the engineer: rather than make a closed-world assumption, where the complete program and physical computing device are known, our tools will discover logical descriptions of execution environments (preconditons, protocols, invariants, etc.) that pinpoint the assumptions necessary for code safety or those that trigger violations. Such tools would aid engineers by, for example, advising where to concentrate effort when looking for critical security breaches. They would also suggest where to place effort in hardening an application. Finally, by using strong analysis techniques based on verification, guarantees of security properties could be obtained, as well as flaws discovered.
Towards realising this vision we have assembled a team whoseexperience ranges from program verification research on logics and algorithms to systems security research involving new operating system primitives and software structuring principles that achieve robust security goals.
The work on this proposal will have potential for impact into the industry and the public sector.
We have links into Microsoft, both into static analysis research and into the security division on the product side. The London-based SME Monoidics ltd markets a static analysis tool which would be well placed to be influenced by the theoretical work and analysis prototypes done in this project. We also have a longstanding collaboration with Google on Native Client (NaCl), which securely runs untrusted native code downloaded from the Internet within the Chrome web browser.
These specific connections provide viable avenues for industrial impact of the results of this project. More generally,
static analysis is gaining more attention in industry as time goes on. Major players in avionics, consumer electronics, and the automotive and defence industries use static analysis for bug-catching in-house. Thus, if this project were to achieve its aims there would appear to be opportunity for further industrial impact in the mid- to long-term (.e., 5-10 years and out).
In the public sector, the mere fact of GCHQ's support for the Research Institute in Automatic Program Analysis and Verification indicates interest, and potential for impact. The UK Government has made clear that they view cybersecurity as important, from the Cabinet Office Cybersecurity Strategy document in 2009, through to a parliamentary briefing note "Cybersecurity in the UK" in 2011, to the Cybersecurity Challenge launched in 2012. Generally speaking, as far as the public sector goes, work under this RI call will likely have more avenues for impact into the public sector than static analysis work has had before.
Oct 13 - Apr 17
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Peter O'Hearn
Brad Nelson Karp
Info. & commun. Technol. (100%)
Fundamentals of Computing (100%)
University College London, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
Mozilla Research (Collaboration)
University of California, San Diego, United States (Collaboration)
Google (Collaboration)
Peter O'Hearn (Principal Investigator)
Brad Nelson Karp (Principal Investigator)
Mark James Handley (Co-Investigator)
Juan Antonio Navarro Perez (Co-Investigator)
Byron Cook (Co-Investigator)
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Brockschmidt M (2016) Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Chen H (2014) Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Cook B (2014) Faster Temporal Reasoning for Infinite-State Programs in Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design 2014 (FMCAD 2014)
Cook B (2014) Disproving Termination with Overapproximation in Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design 2014 (FMCAD 2014)
Cook B (2015) Computer Aided Verification
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Stefan D (2014) Protecting Users by Confining JavaScript with COWL in Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2014)
Description Today's web developers cobble together JavaScript code from libraries and other web applications written by potentially malicious third parties. The threat to web users' privacy is severe: unbeknownst to either a web application's user or its developer, malicious code included in the application may leak the user's sensitive data to unauthorised third parties. With our collaborators at Mozilla, Google, Stanford, and UCSD, we have designed and built Confinement with Origin Web Labels (COWL), a confinement system for modern web browsers that prevents malicious JavaScript code in web applications from exfiltrating such sensitive data. COWL strengthens privacy for users while also increasing flexibility for application developers: its approach to confinement enables the creation of featureful web applications (e.g., third-party mashups) that are disallowed in the status-quo web.
We have produced implementations of COWL for the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chromium web browsers, and released the former as open source. We have demonstrated the applicability of COWL to a wide range of web applications. We have taken a major first step toward the adoption of COWL in mainstream web browsers by standardising COWL with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body for the web; the First Public Working Draft (FPWD) of COWL was released in October 2015, and our standardisation efforts with the W3C continue. COWL also appeared in USENIX OSDI 2014, the co-premier venue (with ACM SOSP) for computer systems research.
Vulnerabilities in modern server-side applications that give rise to sensitive data disclosures arise when programmers make errors: e.g., forgetting to sanitise input from the remote user before executing a dangerous operation with that input, or forgetting to include the appropriate access control check before sending access-controlled data to a remote user. We have designed and built G8, a run-time policy system for the popular Node.js JavaScript development framework for server-side applications. By enforcing security invariants at runtime, G8 blocks unsafe operations and unauthorised disclosures of sensitive information that would otherwise have resulted from programmer errors.
We have produced an implementation of G8 for the Node.js development environment that augments the V8 JavaScript runtime to enforce labeled information flow control-based policies. We have demonstrated that G8 successfully prevents exploits of vulnerabilities in popular server-side Node.js applications, such as the etherpad collaborative text editor.
To understand whether or not software may exhibit a specific dangerous (or desirable) behaviour, formal proof of invariants that hold in all the software's possible executions is invaluable. We have devised new formal program analyses and built tools that implement these analyses for real-world program source code.
We have produced analyses and tools that, e.g., prove when an event may happen infinitely often in the future of a program's execution; prove whether fairness is achieved in the execution of a program with infinite branching; and disprove termination of a program through overapproximation.
Exploitation Route COWL may be deployed in mainstream web browsers, for use by the world's web users; our activity to standardise COWL is ongoing.
G8 may be used to secure Node.js server-side applications against attacks that disclose sensitive information to unauthorised parties.
Our program analyses may be used by researchers and practitioners alike to determine whether real-world software exhibits desired security properties.
Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)
Description Our work on COWL (for web privacy) has led to the creation of a draft standard (First Public Working Draft) with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body that standardises how the web works (and thus the features included in web browsers, servers, and sites). This standardisation process, which is ongoing at this writing, may eventually lead to the incorporation of COWL into widely used web browsers (e.g., Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome), and thus to widespread use of COWL to improve privacy for web users.
Sector Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)
Impact Types Economic
Description GCHQ Business Continuity Proposal
Funding ID 4196846
Organisation Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
Description UCL-Stanford Collaboration on Web Browser Security
Department Research at Google
PI Contribution Collaborated on the design of new privacy techniques for web browsers. Contributed to the research problem definition, design of the privacy techniques, selection of test-case applications, design of experimental evaluation, and writing up of the research in peer-reviewed publications.
Collaborator Contribution Same as the contributions our research team has made; we are equal collaborators on all aspects of the research.
Impact HotOS 2013 paper, Toward Principled Browser Security OSDI 2014 paper, Protecting Users by Confining JavaScript with COWL
Organisation Mozilla Research
Country Global
Description UCL-UCSD collaboration on web security and privacy
Organisation University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Department Department of Computer Science and Engineering
PI Contribution Ongoing design extensions and improvements to the COWL (Confinement with Origin Web Labels) system for web privacy.
Collaborator Contribution Ongoing design extensions and improvements to the COWL (Confinement with Origin Web Labels) system for web privacy.
Impact Not multi-disciplinary; all within Computer Science. No outputs yet.
Title COWL Confinement Systems for Web Browsers
Description Implementations of a confinement system to protect users' privacy in the Google Chromium and Mozilla Firefox web browsers.
Impact Early thus far, but press coverage about the code release and research project: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/07/boffins_build_cowl_web_privacy_system_to_cut_malware_off_at_the_knees/ http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/06/cowl-web-privacy/ http://www.networkworld.com/article/2691741/microsoft-subnet/researchers-unveil-cowl-a-new-system-to-protect-surfers-privacy.html
URL http://cowl.ws
Description Invited talk at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Results and Impact Received an invitation to give a talk at Microsoft Research in Redmond in the USA on my work on the COWL web browser privacy project. Delivered a 90 minute-long talk (including Q&A) on the design and implementation of the system to influential researchers at Microsoft, including people involved with web security-related products and research at Microsoft.
URL http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=244746&r=1
Description Presentation on Browser Privacy to UK Cyber Security Research Conference 2014
Primary Audience Policymakers/parliamentarians
Results and Impact Presentation led to questions and interest from representatives of the UK government (GCHQ, BIS, OCSIA).
James Quinault, CBE, the head of OCSIA in the UK government, initiated the meeting by citing my research on COWL (the subject of my presentation) as an example of the sort of world-leading technical work on security and privacy that the UK excels at.
After my talk, two representatives from GCHQ asked if I would visit their site and give a longer technical talk on my research on web browser privacy.


Kim Kardashian to 'try' for third child with Kanye West
The couple are already parents to daughter North and son Saint.
Kim Kardashian (R) and Kanye West attend the Harper's Bazaar Icons party on September 9, 2016. The reality star discusses the possibility of another pregnancy in a preview for Sunday's episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." File Photo by Andrea Hanks/UPI | License Photo
Kim Kardashian (L) and Kanye West attend the MTV Video Music Awards on August 28, 2016. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Kim Kardashian attends the Vogue 100 gala on May 23, 2016. File Photo by Paul Treadway/UPI | License Photo
March 27 (UPI) -- Kim Kardashian says she wants to "try" for a third child with husband Kanye West.
The 36-year-old reality discusses the possibility of another, high-risk pregnancy in a preview for the April 2 episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
"I'm going to try to have one more baby," Kardashian tells mom Kris Jenner and sisters Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian in the clip.
"I want my kids to have siblings, but the doctors don't feel like it's safe for me," she adds in a confessional shot.
Kardashian already shares 3-year-old daughter North and 15-month-old son Saint with West. She previously considered using a surrogate for a third child after doctors told her another pregnancy might be dangerous.
"Using a surrogate is not an unreasonable option," a fertility specialist told the star in Season 12. "If our goal is to grow your family like you want to, then a surrogate makes sense."
Kardashian had preeclampsia during her first pregnancy and experienced placenta accreta -- a condition where the placenta remains attached to the uterus -- after giving birth to North. She also had complications while pregnant with Saint.
Keeping Up with the Kardashians returned for a 13th season this month. Kardashian opened up about her Paris robbery for the first time on last week's episode, saying she expected to be raped and killed during the October incident.
Rob Kardashian says he 'can't wait' for Dream's first word Kim Kardashian says she expected to be raped during Paris robbery Jon Gosselin to perform as stripper in New Jersey 'Pirates of the Caribbean 5': Javier Bardem swears revenge in new trailer
'Godzilla vs. Kong' to debut March 26
Liv Tyler reunites with children after battling COVID-19
Taylor Swift's 'Evermore' tops U.S. album chart
John Legend, Bruce Springsteen to perform during Biden inauguration special
Kaley Cuoco mourns the death of dog Norman
Celebrity splits of 2020


Agency Insight
5 Networking Mistakes to Try to Avoid
Networking can bring about anxiety and stress for anyone. But love it or hate it, networking plays a key role in job growth. Here's how to avoid committing five common networking blunders that could potentially impact your professional image.
1. Card Blasting and Collecting
Handing out cards left and right, and racking up a stack in return, can come across as disingenuous. The point of networking isn't simply collecting contacts. Rather, the value lies in making connections with people and discovering how you can benefit each other's career paths.
2. An Inauthentic Approach
You've probably heard the advice to "just be yourself" throughout your life but this holds true in the business world, as well.
When you're networking, you want to put your best foot forward – but you must do it authentically. Instead of exaggerating or boasting, let your experience and knowledge shine through naturally. You'll come across as confident and someone who's worth getting to know.
3. Overworking the Room
When you're at a networking event, it's all too easy to fall into the trap of trying to connect with as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. It's a given that you want to grow your network sooner rather than later. But talking to everyone for a few minutes might not allow for the creation of deeper, meaningful connections that lie at the heart of successful networking.
Rather than trying to speak with everyone for a short period of time, take a deeper dive with fewer people. Focus your efforts on those that can teach you and with whom you can build mutually beneficial relationships.
4. The Hard Sell
When you're attending a networking event, it's fine to talk about your business or your successes. However, keep in mind that a "hard sell" approach may not be appreciated or effective.
An aggressive or pushy approach may backfire, turning off potential prospects. Your goal should lie in marketing, rather than selling, yourself.
What's the difference? When you're selling, your focus is on yourself and your accomplishments. When you're marketing, you're making an effort to learn about your audience and best understand how you can offer value to them.
5. Not Minding Your Manners
At its core, networking is a social activity. Manners matter, and a polite demeanor can go a long way toward establishing trust.
Avoid interrupting or talking over people
Pay attention and really listen during conversations, rather than looking around the room to identify your next target
Resist the temptation to "hide" by playing on your phone
Don't ask for a business referral from someone you've just met
Approach people with a "giving" rather than "taking" mindset
Don't hijack conversations by talking only about yourself
Remember to use common courtesy – say thank you and express appreciation that others have taken the time to interact
It's easy to make networking mistakes, but an awareness of these common mistakes will help you enjoy an effective, successful networking experience.


People v. Butera, 23 A.D.3d 1066 (NY Ct. App. 2005)
State: Federal
PEOPLE v. BUTERA
23 A.D.3d 1066 (2005)
803 N.Y.S.2d 856
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent,
CALOGERO BUTERA, Appellant.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Fourth Department.
Present — Hurlbutt, J.P., Scudder, Gorski, Smith and Lawton, JJ.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
On appeal from a judgment convicting him after a jury trial of murder in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.25 [1]), defendant contends that he met his burden of establishing the affirmative defense of extreme emotional disturbance by a preponderance of the evidence (see generally People v. Roche,98 N.Y.2d 70, 75 [2002]), and thus that his conviction of murder should be reduced to manslaughter in the first degree. We reject that contention. It is undisputed that defendant had been diagnosed with a delusional disorder, paranoid type, and he testified at trial that he believed that the victim was a threat to him and to his family. Although defendant thereby arguably established that his conduct was influenced by an extreme emotional disturbance, we nevertheless conclude that the jury was entitled to find that defendant failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the "emotional disturbance was supported by a reasonable explanation or excuse" (id.at 76). According to the evidence presented at trial, the victim was dating defendant's estranged wife, and it is undisputed that there had been a prior physical altercation between the two men. Furthermore, moments before the shooting, the victim had sworn at defendant and had flicked a cigarette at him. Thus, the jury was entitled to find that defendant killed the victim as a result of "malevolence rather than an understandable
[ 23 A.D.3d 1068 ]
human response deserving of mercy" (People v. Casassa,49 N.Y.2d 668, 680-681 [1980],cert denied 449 U.S. 842 [1980]).
We reject the further contention of defendant that the People failed to meet their burden of disproving his justification defense. Defendant testified at trial that the victim approached him and that he observed the outline of a gun in the victim's pocket. According to defendant's trial testimony, the victim threatened to use the gun and defendant therefore shot the victim in self-defense. The record establishes, however, that no gun was found on the victim's person or in proximity to the victim. In evaluating a justification defense, a jury must determine whether the defendant "actually believed that deadly force was necessary … [and must] assess the reasonableness of defendant's belief that he was in deadly peril by judging the situation from the point of view of defendant as though [the jury was] actually in his place" (People v. Wesley,76 N.Y.2d 555, 559-560 [1990]; see People v. Goetz,68 N.Y.2d 96, 114-115 [1986]; see generally People v. Stokes,19 A.D.3d 1069 [2005], lv denied5 N.Y.3d 795 [2005]). Even assuming, arguendo, that the jury found that defendant believed that deadly force was necessary, we conclude that the jury was entitled to find that defendant's belief was not reasonable. We further conclude that the verdict is not against the weight of the evidence (see generally People v. Bleakley,69 N.Y.2d 490, 495 [1987]).
We reject defendant's further contention that Supreme Court erred in admitting an autopsy photograph in evidence. The photograph depicted the victim's face, including the gunshot wound to the victim's left eye. The photograph thus was probative of the calculated manner of the shooting and therefore was admissible for the purpose of rebutting the affirmative defense of extreme emotional disturbance and disproving the defense of justification (see generally People v. Wood,79 N.Y.2d 958, 960 [1992]; People v. Stevens,76 N.Y.2d 833, 835-836 [1990]). Contrary to defendant's contention, the fact that the original autopsy photograph is not included in the record on appeal does not require reversal. Although we agree with defendant that the photograph has "`substantial importance'" with respect to his contention that the photograph was unduly prejudicial (People v. Yavru-Sakuk,98 N.Y.2d 56, 60 [2002]), the record on appeal contains a black-and-white photocopy of the photograph, and we conclude that the loss of the original color photograph does not "preclude[] meaningful appellate review" (id.; see People v. Jackson,98 N.Y.2d 555, 560 [2002]). Even assuming, arguendo, that defendant's contentions in the pro se supplemental brief
are preserved for our review, we conclude that they are without merit. The sentence is not unduly harsh or severe.
By Andrew Branca| 2012-12-20T11:21:36+00:00	December 20th, 2012|0 Comments


Comedian Joey Bishop, last of Sinatra's Rat Pack, dead at 89
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joey Bishop, the stone-faced comedian who found success in nightclubs, television and movies but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack, has died at 89.
He was the group's last surviving member. Peter Lawford died in 1984, Sammy Davis Jr. in 1990, Dean Martin in 1995, and Sinatra in 1998.
Bishop died Wednesday night of multiple causes at his home in Newport Beach, publicist and longtime friend Warren Cowan said Thursday.
The Rat Pack became a show business sensation in the early 1960s, appearing at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in shows that combined music and comedy in a seemingly chaotic manner.
Reviewers often claimed that Bishop played a minor role, but Sinatra knew otherwise. He termed the comedian "the Hub of the Big Wheel," with Bishop coming up with some of the best one-liners and beginning many jokes with his favorite phrase, "Son of a gun!"
The quintet lived it up whenever members were free of their own commitments. They appeared together in such films as "Ocean's Eleven" and "Sergeants 3" and proudly gave honorary membership to a certain fun-loving politician from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, at whose inauguration gala Bishop served as master of ceremonies.
The Rat Pack faded after Kennedy's assassination, but the late 1990s brought a renaissance, with the group depicted in an HBO movie and portrayed by imitators in Las Vegas and elsewhere. The movie "Ocean's Eleven" was even remade in 2003 with George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the lead roles.
Bishop defended his fellow performers' rowdy reputations in a 1998 interview.
"Are we remembered as being drunk and chasing broads?" he asked. "I never saw Frank, Dean, Sammy or Peter drunk during performances. That was only a gag. And do you believe these guys had to chase broads? They had to chase 'em away."
Bishop's comedic schooling came from vaudeville, burlesque and nightclubs.
Skipping his last high school semester in Philadelphia, he formed a music and comedy act with two other boys, and they played clubs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They called themselves the Bishop Brothers, borrowing the name from their driver, Glenn Bishop.
Joseph Abraham Gottlieb would eventually adopt Joey Bishop as his stage name.
When his partners got drafted, Bishop went to work as a single, playing his first solo date in Cleveland at the well-named El Dumpo.
During these early years he developed his style: laid-back drollery, with surprise throwaway lines.
After 3 1/2 years in the Army, Bishop resumed his career in 1945. Within five years he was earning $1,000 a week at New York's Latin Quarter. Sinatra saw him there one night and hired him as opening act.
While most members of the Sinatra entourage treated the great man gingerly, Bishop had no inhibitions. He would tell audiences that the group's leader hadn't ignored him: "He spoke to me backstage; he told me 'Get out of the way."'
When Sinatra almost drowned filming a movie scene in Hawaii, Bishop wired him: "I thought you could walk on water."
Born in New York's borough of the Bronx, Bishop was the youngest of five children of two immigrants from Eastern Europe.
When he was 3 months old the family moved to South Philadelphia, where he attended public schools. He recalled being an indifferent student, once remarking, "In kindergarten, I flunked sand pile."
In 1941 Bishop married Sylvia Ruzga and, despite the rigors of a show business career, the marriage survived until her death in 1999.
Bishop, who had one son, Larry, spent his retirement years on the upscale Lido Isle in Southern California's Newport Bay.
— Associated Press Writer Bob Thomas contributed to this report.


How To Make Detroit Zip Sauce?
Creates 3/4 cup of sauce.
Butter, unsalted, 8 tablespoons
Worcestershire sauce, half a cup
2 teaspoons freshly minced rosemary
1 teaspoon fresh thyme minced
1/2 kosher salt spoon
0.5 teaspoons of pepper
In a small saucepan over medium heat, bring all the ingredients to a barely boil while whisking continuously. When ready to serve, remove from heat and cover to maintain warmth.
From what is zip sauce made?
Many refer to it as a dipping sauce. Some people call it a buttery, salty coating. The wonderful sauce known as Zip Sauce is the perfect accompaniment to steaks, soups, seafood, and even vegetables, according to foodies of all stripes.
For those who are unfamiliar, Zip Sauce is one of the mysteries that help Detroit become known for its cuisine and illustrious restaurateurs. There is debate over what ingredients are used in Zip Sauce, who made the best version, and how to make it at home, just like there is debate over who belonged to the Purple Gang or what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.
Like SpongeBob's Krabby Patty, the true formula for Zip Sauce is a closely-kept secret. However, all culinary geniuses use a few common components. Most people claim that Zip Sauce is made up of a mixture of butter, beef base, Worcestershire sauce, occasionally mustard, and a variety of spices, including garlic, thyme, rosemary, salt, and pepper.
Mario Lelli, who started an upscale Italian restaurant along Woodward Avenue in 1939, is the first person in the history of Zip Sauce. According to the legend, northern Italian cuisine were king at Lelli's restaurant. However, it was their steaks and renowned Zip Sauce that made it a household brand.
Is Zip sauce a specialty of Michigan?
The 1940s saw the creation of Zip Sauce in the Detroit, Michigan, kitchen of Lelli's Inn, an Italian eatery. Because the butter-based steak sauce was so well received by guests, word of it quickly traveled, and soon imitation sauces started to appear at nearby restaurants.
Today, due to entrepreneur chef Michael Esshaki, Zip Sauce can be purchased in bottles both offline and online in Detroit. But this Zip-Style Sauce is a great substitute if you're looking for a homemade version that will enhance any roast beef cut.
Aside from the fresh thyme and rosemary's aromatic taste, the nicest thing about Cook's Country's rendition is how easy it is to prepare. You can make the ideal side dish for roast beef in just one step, combining all the ingredients in a matter of minutes.
Does zip sauce require cooling off?
Stir the melted butter into the first four ingredients, which have been combined. After that, add everything else and gently reheat for about a minute. Avoid overcooking it. Use it within a few weeks and store it in the refrigerator in a jar with a tight lid.
To use, create the sauce by combining a little over 1/4 cup of this sauce with a little under 1/4 cup of the steak drippings. (creates roughly 2/3 cup).
What ingredients are in demi-glace sauce?
Demi-glace is a tremendously rich, thick sauce that is created by simmering red wine or Espagnole sauce and brown stock (traditionally produced from veal or beef) until they have the consistency of practically syrup.
It frequently serves as the sole sauce in traditional recipes or serves as the foundation for other sauces. Chefs adore incorporating it into their dishes and soups because it adds such a rich depth of flavor. It is a really useful tool for a chef to have on hand.
Is Demi-Glace the same as gravy?
Simple no is the response. When making gravy, a roux is used to thicken the stock. To mask the flavor that the flour imparts, a substantial amount of seasoning is needed. Demi-glace is essentially concentrated stock that thickens by removing the water and enhancing the naturally meaty flavor.
How long is zip sauce still edible after being opened?
Once the sauce has cooled to room temperature, it should be stored in an airtight container or placed in a zip-top bag. can be kept for up to five days in the refrigerator.
Describe zip pasta.
Cream, zip sauce, chicken, mushrooms, carrots, and fresh basil are mixed with thick rigatoni noodles. Together, the heavy cream and zing sauce produced a flavor that was satisfyingly thick and savory—far too delicious to share.
How long can homemade sauce be kept?
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It is simple and affordable to increase the yield if you plan to manufacture your own sauces, whether they are barbeque, classic marinara, or something else. Fortunately, freezing sauces is a simple process. The majority of sauces, including tomato-based sauces, meat sauces, and even bechamel and creamy alfredo sauces, freeze nicely. One of the simplest ways to preserve freshly produced sauces in your kitchen is to freeze them. Determine specifics like how long your sauce will survive, how to avoid freezer burn, and the best way for thawing before you fill your freezer with Sunday gravy. If you want to freeze sauces safely and effectively, whether you are meal planning or just trying to preserve leftover sauces, follow these guidelines.
Best Practices for Storing and Freezing
Once your sauce is prepared, the first thing to do is to securely cool it. An already-prepared sauce that is room temperature can be put into storage right away, but a hot or warm sauce should never be put straight into the freezer since you run the danger of boosting the freezer's internal temperature. According to food safety regulations, food should be cooled to an interior temperature of 120 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit within the first two hours, and 70 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit within the first four. Simply let your sauce out at room temperature for up to two hours, then put it in the refrigerator to cool. The alternative is to put the sauce in a container and then submerge the whole thing in a big bowl of ice water. To hasten the cooling process, stir the sauce every now and then. Your sauces can then be properly stored and frozen once they have cooled.
Selecting the right kind and size of container is the next step. Avoid storing sauces or any other food products in glass containers because they may break if the food inside expands during freezing. Use freezer bags, Tupperware, or plastic containers as an alternative. Instead of freezing large batches, portion your sauces according to how you will use them once they have thawed. If you only need a little sauce, pour it into an ice cube tray or snack-size freezer bags. This will not only save waste and free up room in your freezer, but it will also make reheating individual servings much simpler. Simply remove as much surplus air as you can, or choose a container that is so compact that there is little room for air to flow, to prevent freezer burn.
How Long Will Sauce Last in the Freezer?
In your refrigerator, homemade sauces will normally remain fresh for 3 to 4 days. These same sauces can be safely frozen and kept for up to 6 months. It's crucial to remember that after six months, your sauces may still be safe to eat, but the flavors may have changed and you run a higher risk of freezer burn.
How to Defrost Sauces?
The best way to defrost sauces is to let them slowly defrost in the fridge. It takes some time, but it will guarantee that the temperature of your meal is safe. Put the sauce container in a big bowl in your sink for a quicker solution. To thaw the container, pour cold water over it. Note: This approach should not be used with hot water as it may cause the meal to become unsafely hot.
It's also crucial to remember that different sauces will thaw differently from one another. For instance, a cheese- or cream-based sauce like bechamel may split or break once it has thawed. When reheating, simply whisk the sauce again to make sure it is not broken. In order to lower the danger of foodborne germs, it is preferable to defrost meat-containing sauces in the refrigerator before reheating them to at least 165 degrees F.
Although emulsified sauces, such as mayonnaise or homemade vinaigrette, can be frozen with outstanding thawing outcomes, they shouldn't be since it's practically hard to thaw them correctly and restore the sauce to its original texture and flavor.
Is outdated steak sauce still edible?
How long does opened steak sauce last? The precise response mostly depends on the storage conditions; to extend the shelf life of opened steak sauce, keep it refrigerated and always well covered.
How long will a bottle of opened steak sauce keep in the fridge? Continuously refrigerated steak sauce often retains its peak quality for two years.
Is it safe to use unsealed steak sauce after the "expiration date"? Yes, as long as it has been properly stored, the bottle is undamaged, and there are no signs of spoilage (see below). Commercially bottled steak sauce will frequently have a "Best By," "Best if Used By," "Best Before," or "Best When Used By" date; however, this is not a safety date; rather, it is the manufacturer's prediction of how long the steak sauce will stay at its best.
After that, the steak sauce's texture, color, or flavor may change, but if it has been kept consistently chilled, the bottle is undamaged, and there are no signs of spoilage, it will typically still be safe to eat. The storage time indicated for opened steak sauce is only for best quality; after that, it may lose some of its original flavor or color (see below).
How can you determine whether steak sauce that has been opened is rotten or bad? The best method is to smell and inspect the steak sauce; if it starts to have an off flavor, smell, or appearance, or if mold starts to grow, it should be thrown out.
What is the shelf life of homemade cheese sauce?
Cheese sauce can be prepared in advance and kept in the refrigerator for two to five days. To prevent burning, reheat it in a saucepan over low heat.
Is demi-glace merely a topping?
Defining what demi-glace isn't is almost always simpler than defining it. It isn't au juice, it's not pan dripping gravy, and it's not typically something prepared in a tiny quantity to go with a single meal. In essence, it is a brown stock that has been simmered for a long time and has been reduced, coupled with Espagnole sauce, one of the traditional mother sauces of French cooking. The traditional demi-glace is produced with veal, but it can also be made with beef or chicken; in these cases, the variation is known as a beef demi-glace or a chicken demi-glace, respectively. The word "demi," which means "half," denotes a 50/50 mixture of the Espagnole sauce and the reduced stock (glace).
Demi-glace is a sauce that can be used as a seasoning for soups, stews, and other sauces in addition to serving as a meat complement.
Demi-glace is both traditional and contemporary. No matter what kind of meat is utilized, the stock is essentially a bone stock. At least one day of low heat simmering is required, and many recipes call for two or three days. Bone stocks date back to a time when food was prepared over a fire in a fireplace or fire pit, where a boiling soup or stock was frequently kept on the heat. When real nose-to-tail feeding was practiced, the stock was boiled not only to remove the meat from the bones but also to utilize the bones' own nutritional value and ability to thicken the liquid.
Tomatoes, a product of the New World and a component of Espagnole sauce, are the modern contribution to demi-glace.
Professional French chefs who anticipated spending several hours in the kitchen made demi-glace and espagnoli sauce. The same could not be said for individuals who prepare meals for themselves, and the lengthy preparation time for demi-glace prevented it from gaining popularity among affluent home cooks. Instead, throughout the years, a wide variety of prepared stocks and brown sauces have crowded shop shelves, but none of them perfectly replicate the flavor of demi-glace. There is some evidence that the tide may be shifting in favor of real demi-glace due to the resurgence of nose-to-tail eating and the growth of serious home chefs.


Roger Ebert December 07, 1990
Clint Eastwood's new film, "The Rookie," plays like an anthology of stuff that has worked before in action pictures. It's jammed with material and the budget was obviously large, but somehow not much pays off. It's all there on the screen, but lifeless.
The title alerts us to the possibility that this will not be a work of dazzling originality. How many other movies have used the same premise, about a veteran cop whose partner is killed, and who then gets paired up with a greenhorn rookie, who has to be taught the rules of the street? The screenplay by Boaz Yakin and Scott Spiegel torturously tries to devise new angles (this time the kid comes from a rich family but wants to be a cop because he blames himself for his brother's death). But the characterization is paper-thin, and not helped by Charlie Sheen's low energy and absent-minded performance.
Eastwood is dependable in the movie, as always, but some of his trademarks seem more affected than usual. He likes to use a dialogue catchphrase in his action pictures, and sometimes that's fun, but after "Make my day," his "Got a light?" seems anticlimactic.
In the movie, he's a veteran auto theft detective who's on the trail of a big-time chop-shop operator (Raul Julia) whose sidekick is a machine-gun-wielding sexpot (Sonia Braga). Eastwood has a personal vendetta against the crook, and so of course we get the obligatory scene where his superior officer pulls him off the case.
We know the drill: The cop will wage a private war no matter what his orders are, and the rookie will come along for the ride. The movie contains a lot of big action scenes, including a spectacular chase, some sensational car stunts, and one barroom brawl too many.
But none of the characters really comes alive in any interesting way. Sheen keeps a poker face and laconic voice through much of the movie, and doesn't generate the kind of vigor and intensity the role needs; a more nervous actor might have been a better choice.
And what's the deal with Raul Julia and Sonia Braga, as the chop-shop tycoon and what appears to be his mistress? They're given hardly any dialogue together that isn't flat and functional, and there's no chemistry between them - not even jealousy from Julia when he sees a videotape of Braga having sex with Eastwood. Action movies rise and fall on the strength of their villains, and "Rookie" fills two potentially interesting roles with good actors and then gives them little to do.
That leaves the stunts and special effects. There are some good ones, including a chase down an expressway, with Eastwood driving his car right up the loading ramp of a semi auto-carrier. But other moments raise questions. It's quite a stunt, all right, when Eastwood and Sheen race a sports car through a factory wall just before the factory explodes, but does Eastwood really have to shout "Fasten your seatbelt!" as the car is in mid-air and the rest of the screen is filled with flames? It's a neat twist on "North by Northwest" to have Eastwood and Sheen pursued by an airplane on the ground - but what about that final shoot-out in the airport terminal, which goes on forever without seeming to draw the attention of cops or security guards? What "The Rookie" feels like is an assembly of scenes that were not attached to characters we can care about. The dialogue is wooden, or artificial, or self-consciously cute. Most of the characters are not given even perfunctory development. Plausibility is an early casualty. And although "Got a light?" has already entered into the nation's vocabulary, this time I don't think Eastwood is going to be able to claim credit for it.
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
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How Tim Cook Makes and Spends his Money?
Tim Cook is worth an estimated $625 million.
As the CEO of Apple,
he's the first openly gay CEO in the Fortune 500.
And in 2018, Apple became the first US startup ever to be worth $1 trillion.
But compared to his counterparts in the tech world,
his net worth is pretty relatively moderate.
Google founder and Alphabet CEO, Larry Page, is worth $53 billion.
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is worth just under $70 billion.
And Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos is the first person in modern history to
accumulate a fortune north of $100 billion.
Tim Cook doesn't lead a luxurious lifestyle and has said,
"I like to be reminded of where I came from,
putting myself in acceptable surroundings helps me do that."
History of Promotion
The Alabama native had a humble start in life as the son of a shipyard worker and pharmacy employee.
When he was promoted as Apple's CEO in 2011, his base salary was $900,000,
and has risen to $3 million in 2017.
He also receives a cash incentive based on the company's performance, which pushed his total pay for
2017 to over $12 million.
Main source of cook's wealth
His net worth consists mainly of
$622 million worth of Apple's stock and options,
he has collected since becoming CEO.
And $3.4 million of Nike stock options he gets as a
member of Nike's board of directors.
How does Apple's leader spend his fortune?
Quite differently than other CEOs of tech giants.
In 2012, he bought a 2,400 square foot home in Palo Alto,
for $1.9 million, the median cost of
a home in Palo Alto in 2018 is $3.3 million.
And his frugality doesn't stop at the housing market.
He reportedly buys his underwear
at Nordstrom's semi-annual sale.
Tim Cook does splurge when it comes to
donating to good causes, a philosophy that differs from that
of his predecessor, who lacked a record of public giving.
He encourages his employees to give and
has led Apple into many philanthropic endeavors.
In 2011, he instated a company-wide,
nonprofit donation matching program.
Over the past 10 years,
Apple has contributed $130 million to
help RED fight AIDS.
$100 million to advance diversity in tech,
through President Barack Obama's ConnectED initiative.
$50 million to hospitals and more.
Cook practices what he preaches, too.
He's donated to civil rights efforts.
And in 2018, he donated more than 23,000 shares of
his Apple stock, valued at just under $5 million to
an undisclosed charity.
He also regularly makes campaign donations.
He's hosted fundraisers for
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
And in 2016, he donated $236,000
to the Hillary Victory Fund.
Cook's altruism even applies to his future financial plans.
He intends to use his wealth to
put his nephew through college.
And upon his death, he plans to
give away all his money to good causes.
He told Fortune magazine, "You want to be the
pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change."
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Dark Souls 3 Beaten by Someone Only Using Their Feet
Where do they go from here?
By Alex Newhouse on June 8, 2016 at 11:50AM PDT
Dark Souls III is a hard game. For most players, it's really hard. But as always, there are those people who just want to make a challenge even more challenging. As a result, we get people beating Dark Souls games with Rock Band controllers, with Donkey Kong bongo drums, and in twenty minutes.
But now, YouTube user Celesterian Games has beaten all of the Dark Souls 3 bosses using only his feet.
Honestly, I'm not sure how he pulls it off. There are entirely too many buttons on the PlayStation 4 controller he uses for feet to be able to respond quickly enough to play it, but he has managed to do it. In the video above, you can watch him beat the final bosses in the game.
He also simultaneously filmed himself playing it with his feet, so you can see for yourself that the accomplishment is real.
Devoted players have beaten Dark Souls games in a variety of creative ways, including one person who completed Dark Souls 3 without leveling up, rolling, or blocking. Another player used only voice commands to get through the first Dark Souls game.
For all of you players who haven't managed to master the art of playing games with your feet, Dark Souls 3 is still fun to play normally. Publisher Bandai Namco announced last month that the game has sold 3 million copies and it got an 8/10 from GameSpot. Critic Mike Mahardy wrote, "There are a few stumbles along the way, but in the end, Dark Souls III is well worth the riveting climb." You can read our full review here.
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Florida home furnishing retailer miami may have to shut down because of safety concerns
Florida home furnishing retailer mondo was ordered to close after the company's online sales portal received an influx of complaints about customers getting into dangerous situations.
According to a letter from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, mondo's online marketplace had nearly 1,400 complaints about people getting into situations where they "were unable to safely enter or leave their home due to personal or personal injury."
The company was forced to suspend sales and temporarily shut down its website in order to address the issues.
The company is now working with the Department of Consumer Protection and the Florida Emergency Management Agency to review its policies and procedures and determine how it can implement safety protocols for future events.
While mondo will be allowed to reopen, it will have to make a few changes, including limiting the number of people it can sell its furniture at a time and reducing the number it will allow to buy items.
It will also be forced to reduce the number people it will offer online shopping.
"We are taking this matter seriously and have put in place safety protocols to prevent any future safety issues," a spokesperson for mondo told The Miami Herald.
Mondo, which has more than 1,300 stores in Florida, has been operating under a temporary restraining order since April, but has faced backlash for its safety protocols and its failure to implement them.
The temporary restraining orders prohibit businesses from selling items from outside the state, and prohibit sales of items from stores outside the Florida mainland.
It also bans businesses from offering discounts for customers who pay in cash or credit cards, and restricts the amount of products that can be sold for any reason.
In September, the company issued a safety advisory that it is "working with the Florida Public Safety Commission to further assess the company and its practices, and to identify any areas of concern."
According to the Florida Daily News, monda's safety concerns are not the only ones with which the company is grappling.
According to the paper, it was also ordered to hire more safety inspectors for its online marketplace and to limit sales of its products in the state.
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FTSE 100 slides on weak factory data, bank dividend halt
By Sruthi Shankar and Devik Jain
1 April 2020, 3:23 am ·3-min read
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(Reuters) - London's stock markets tumbled on Wednesday as banking shares dived after suspending dividend payments, while plunging factory activity in Britain and elsewhere underlined the severe economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Shares of Barclays <BARC.L>, HSBC <HSBA.L>, Lloyds Banking Group <LLOY.L>, Royal Bank of Scotland <RBS.L> and Standard Chartered <STAN.L> dropped between 5% and 12%, dragging the FTSE 100 <.FTSE> lower by 3.8%.
The lenders said on Tuesday they would halt dividends, bowing to pressure from the regulator, to save their capital as a buffer against potential losses from the virus outbreak.
"We worry that the move undermines confidence in the regulatory framework and raises cost of capital," BofA Global Research's Rohith Chandra-Rajan wrote in a client note, adding he expected no payouts from domestic UK banks until 2021.
Commodity miner Glencore <GLEN.L> fell 3.7% as it delayed its $2.6 billion dividend pay out for this year and said there could be material disruption to production due to the coronavirus.
The FTSE 100 recorded its worst quarter since 1987 on Tuesday amid growing evidence of pain for businesses and economic growth from the pandemic that led to a 27% increase in the number of deaths in Britain on Tuesday.
Despite policymakers injecting trillions of dollars into the global economy, the blue-chip index is down about 29% from its Jan. 17 peak, while an index of mid-cap shares <.FTMC> are more than 34% below all-time highs.
Factory activity data from the UK echoed that of Asia and Europe, with output from Britain's manufacturing sector in March shrinking at the fastest pace since the euro zone debt crisis.
Wall Street also dropped as data showed new factory orders slumped to an 11-year low last month, adding to woes after U.S. President Donald Trump warned the country faced a tough two weeks ahead in its battle against the coronavirus. [.N]
"What the market really wants to see is the number of cases and deaths starting to come down in Europe and the United States and the impact of the lockdown on companies," said Roland Kaloyan, head of European equity strategy at Societe Generale.
"It is not so well known. Two-thirds of European companies have not changed or withdrawn guidance."
Companies listed on the pan-European STOXX 600 <.STOXX> are expected to report a 21.9% decline in earnings in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data, down from a 14.9% drop forecast the week before.
Oil major BP Plc <BP.L> fell 3.1% after rating agency Moody's cut its outlook to "negative". The company also slashed its 2020 spending plan by 25% and will reduce output from its U.S. shale oil and gas business in the wake of a collapse in oil prices.
Online car market place Auto Trader <AUTOA.L> dropped 11% after saying it would sell new shares worth 5% of its capital to shore up its finances and liquidity position.
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JPMorgan's New Singapore Home Struggles to Find Tenants
(Bloomberg) -- Three years ago, it was touted as a development that would rejuvenate Singapore's central business district. But an upcoming building in the city-state could have fallen victim to the pandemic, which has upended the office market as work from home remains a long-term arrangement for some companies.CapitaSpring, a 51-floor integrated development with JPMorgan Chase & Co. as an anchor tenant, has only managed to secure about 38% out of 647,000 square feet (62,600 square meters) of net lettable area. That's low considering it's 75% completed. Typically at that stage, buildings would have leased out more than half of their space.And in another sign that the health crisis has hit the commercial property sector, CapitaSpring's completion has been pushed back to the second half of the year from the first half. It's the only premium Grade A office development in the city's central business district that's scheduled to finish this year.CapitaLand Ltd., which jointly owns the building with CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust and Mitsubishi Estate Co., said that after including leases which are in advanced negotiations, the development is on track to get more than 60% commitments by completion. To date, committed office tenants are mainly from the legal as well as the banking and financial services sectors, CapitaLand said in a statement on Tuesday. About 10% of the office space in the building is set aside for flexible workspace. JPMorgan became its first anchor office tenant in 2018, and the bank will take up seven floors.The setback reflects how the pandemic has battered Singapore's commercial property sector. While tech behemoths are expanding, banks such as Citigroup Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. are cutting back office space in part due to the success of working from home, with such arrangements potentially to be long term.Rents FallPrime grade office rents in the Raffles Place and Marina Bay precincts contracted about 10% in 2020, according to Knight Frank. Early termination of spaces continued to rise in the fourth quarter of last year to an estimated 330,000 square feet from 260,000 square feet in the third quarter.And the prospects aren't bright this year. Knight Frank expects office rents in the city-state to decline by around 5% in 2021 before bottoming out and recovering next year, it said in a quarterly report published on Monday. That's not taking into account if new virus strains could result in subsequent lockdowns. The property consultancy firm foresees lower net new demand for office space given that some companies have adopted a rotational remote working approach."The rethinking of traditional office space usage in an age of flexible work arrangements, and the casualties of the Covid-19 pandemic as the government withdraws business support measures, will likely add to contractionary pressures for office space," Knight Frank said in its report.DBS Group Holdings Ltd. and United Overseas Bank Ltd., two of Singapore's largest banks, have allowed employees to work remotely on a permanent basis, part of the major work-culture changes triggered by the pandemic.In contrast to the office sector, Singapore's residential housing market is holding up. Home sales rose the most in six months in December, signaling the market has weathered the recession. Authorities may be considering another round of measures to cool residential prices, according to market analysts.(Updates with flexible workspace reference in the fifth paragraph)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
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(Bloomberg) -- Gold steadied as investors awaited commentary from Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen on the dollar and stimulus when she testifies on Capitol Hill a day ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration as president.Yellen's Senate confirmation hearing is likely to feature foreign-exchange policy, and will also serve as the first congressional forum where lawmakers will vet Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan, parts of which have already drawn opposition. Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported Yellen is expected to affirm the U.S.'s commitment to market-determined exchange rates."No doubt Yellen will lean to the dovish side when it comes to any comments on fiscal policy," said John Feeney, business development manager at Guardian Vaults, a Sydney-based bullion dealer. "Depending on how convincing that will be, we could see gold react positively, but the question would be how much the market has priced that in already."Bullion has fallen about 3% this year as benchmark Treasury yields and the greenback climbed on forecasts that coronavirus vaccines and stimulus packages will aid the economic recovery. In Asian trade on Tuesday, a gauge of the currency slipped after climbing over the past two weeks."Gold, along with other commodities, are all in a wait-and-watch mode for more clarity in possible policy changes under the Biden administration," said Madhavi Mehta, an analyst at Kotak Securities Ltd. "A bigger fiscal stimulus package and a market driven approach on the U.S. dollar has been factored in but there are lots of uncertain factors such as tax hikes and U.S.-China relations. Meanwhile, there is also wariness about the impact of higher stimulus and the improving U.S. economic outlook on inflation as well as interest rate hike expectations."Spot gold declined 0.1% to $1,839.70 an ounce at 5:01 a.m. in London, after rising 0.7% on Monday. Silver fell, while palladium and platinum gained. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index dropped 0.1%.Traders are also monitoring President Donald Trump's last full day in office, when he may issue a slew of pardons. Biden's swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday will come amid an unprecedented level of security given the still-simmering threats of violence in Washington.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
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Polk County Schools Closed Thursday, Friday
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Polk County officials announced that public schools will be closed Thursday, Oct. 6, and Friday, Oct. 7 because of Hurricane Matthew.
Polk County is the only Tampa Bay area school district so far announce it will close schools.
Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency for the entire state, and Polk, Sumter, and Highlands Counties are under a Tropical Storm warning.
Scott also closed state offices in 26 counties on Thursday and Friday, including Polk and Highlands.
Jason Geary, a spokesperson for Polk County Schools, said the school buildings need to be available for those who evacuate.
"Some of our schools are going to be serving as shelters for those who are more directly impacted by Hurricane Matthew. We also anticipate that there could be some significant wind and other weather conditions."
In addition, school sports and activities scheduled for those days are being rescheduled, and in some cases, canceled. After school activities and evening adult classes are also being cancelled on those days.
Geary said parents will be kept in the loop through automated phone calls.
They can also check Polk Schools' website, and Facebook and Twitter pages for updates.
The decision to close is not binding to charter and private schools, so parents should contact them directly for more information.
We'll post additional closures here as they're announced.
Polk County Shelters:
- Alta Vista Elementary, 801 Scenic Highway in Haines City
- Ridge Community High, 500 Orchid Drive in Davenport
- Spook Hill Elementary, 321 Dr. J. A. Wiltshire Ave E. in Lake Wales
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And so onto the final Champions League group game. We're already through with a 100% record from the first five games so can afford to take it easy in this one. It's not quite a dead rubber as Milan could still join us in the knockouts if they beat us and Porto and Atletico cancel one another out. I can only imagine the level of shithousery likely to be on display in that one. Porto, like Wolves, regularly tried to disrupt our rhythm at Anfield with their players hitting the deck and needing treatment for bugger all. And Atletico are Atletico. It's a bit weird to think that the two coaches Conceicao and Simeone were both key figures in the Lazio team that won Serie A under Eriksson in 2000. Anyway (and I realise it's odd to ask for these): Tactical know-how. Heart. Effort. Luck. Accuracy. Skill. Tenacity. Supremacy. Urgency. Poise. Purpose. Effervescence. Resolve. I don't ask for much. We've only faced the Italian giants on 3 previous occasions, all in this competition, and 2 of which were in the biggest club game on the planet. The group game at Anfield back in September was, barring a mad last 10 minutes of the first half, a comfortably dominant performance from the Reds. The 3-2 scoreline didn't reflect the gulf between the sides. A closer game was the Champions League final in Athens in May 2007. Unlike in Istanbul two years earlier, we were the better side for the most part. However, we lacked a cutting edge and Milan's centre back pairing of Nesta and Maldini coped pretty comfortably whenever we got anywhere near the penalty area. I think Rafa made a mistake starting with Zenden and Pennant as part of the 3 alongside Gerrard in our 4-2-3-1. We needed something more unorthodox to get Gerrard more involved in the final third. Crouchie up top would have been a handful, especially with Dirk's workrate and knack for getting into goalscoring positions alongside him. Maybe even the pace and ability to drag defenders away that Bellamy possessed could have proved fruitful. Pennant didn't have a bad game, but he was ultimately ineffective because our set up was totally unsuited to what brought the best out of him back then. Milan seemed to have learned from their Istanbul and were much cagier in both set-up and approach. Instead of 2 strikers (Shevchenko and Crespo in 2005) and 2 attacking midfielders (Seedorf and Kaka), he opted to start with Inzaghi up front with Kaka just behind, and Seedorf playing more of a 'Gini' role. The midfield was shored up with the defensive-minded Ambrosini. A first half of very few chances ended with Milan going in at half time a goal to the good. A mistimed challenge by Xabi on Kaka on the edge of the area presented Pirlo with a chance to have a shot at Pepe Reina's goal. The free kick wasn't great but it took a hefty deflection off Inzaghi's arm to wrong-foot the Spaniard. Stevie had a very good chance early in the second half but his low effort was well saved by Dida. As the half wore on and Milan's defence remained stubborn, Rafa decided to go for broke and replaced Masch who up to then had shackled Kaka pretty well. Soon afterwards, the Brazilian found space and played a pass into Inzaghi's run. The Italian rounded the keeper and rolled the ball into the net from a narrow angle for 2-0. With only minutes to go, Dirk buried a header past Dida and suddenly as the game entered stoppage time, Milan were twitching. Crouchie hammered an effort at goal that Dida did well to save. Any chance of completing the comeback was killed off by the ref who decided not to play the allotted stoppage time and blew early. Twat. Milan had got their revenge. It's doubly galling because they'd initially been booted out of the competition for their part in the Calciopoli scandal of 2006. Rafa's post-game frustration spilled over as he went on and on about the need to act quickly and decisively when negotiating transfers. It was obvious that he was frustrated at being unable to bring in his first choice players because we had a habit of faffing about and low-balling. That summer he would grow a goatee and take on a more divisive persona, moving away from the friendlier figure of his first couple of years at Anfield. May 2007 saw Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow return for the third instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. At World's End saw the main characters return alongside him for another high seas adventure. A bit like the Austin Powers series, the POTC sequels were heavy on cameos but failed to capture what made the original so brilliant. It's a trend with loads of films where the original worked brilliantly but everything was overblown when they decided to do sequels. Curse of the Black Pearl had been somewhat of a surprise hit in 2003 but it got everything right and had something for everyone. Depp had always played quirky characters in more low-key fare but that was when he went mainstream. It remains hugely entertaining nearly 20 years on. At World's End is merely alright like the rest of the series, and not a patch on the first film. It's not even close. I don't imagine Klopp will want to take the game at the San Siro lightly, but at the same time even he must know that there isn't much reward for winning millions of pounds after a Champions League group game win when you've already topped your group, if there is a distinct possibility that key players will pick up an injury that affects the team's chances of success. It seems obvious to go with a second string for this one, and give game time to the likes of Keeva, Big Nat, Tsimi, Tyler and Taki. If Bobby is able to take the field, he might be worth a go too. If not, then Div should certainly be involved. Whatever the line-up, use it as an opportunity to show the boss you should be considered for a regular place. Whatever the circumstances, at least try to get the job done.
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Going back to the drawing board
In the new year The Future Perfect Company will be changing. Gone will be the shop and instead the emphasis will shift to "Designing for the Future". And here's why.
When I opened the shop 6 years ago, it was an attempt to focus on the ageing market. I was in my late 40s and after a legal career in the City was wanting another challenge. I didn't have far to look. Around me my family and friends' lives were changing in ways we had not expected. Whilst we had anticipated our older family members' deaths, many of us had not expected their longer lives. Suddenly many of us were becoming carers for our older family members and whereas our parents might have been responsible for one older parent, suddenly our more complicated extended families were populated by multiple older relatives. And yet our own children were still at home and dependent.
Alongside these juggling acts, we were becoming aware of our own longevity. Pension ages were pushed back, working lives extended. The prospect of an affluent retirement became a pipe dream for many.
So what to do? With a passion for good design, my initial thought was to identify and make available products which could not only "make life easier" (the promise of all assistive products at that time), but also celebrate and enrich these newly found later years.
Six years ago design for ageing was in its formative years. To use a commuting analogy, the train had left the station just about but was still chugging slowly through the outer suburbs with many stops and starts. Much of the rolling stock was dull and uninspiring but the occasional express train rushed by enough times to revive flagging spirits.
When I started The Future Perfect Company the aim was to gather together all the best examples of well designed products available and sell brands such as OXO Good Grips, Healthy Back Bags, Alex lamps as well as commission new products such as the beautiful double handled mugs and teapots made for us by online dating ukraine. At the time this was a pretty revolutionary idea with the market in its infancy. Six years on, there are now some great companies retailing the best of product design for ageing such as cook together date, Designed2Enable, Active Minds and The AbleLabel.
Elicia Oliver-Knox
At the same time as running the shop, I have been working on a project called "Designing for the Future" which encourages students to consider the challenges of ageing. Working with the University of Brighton and the College of Richard Collyers, hundreds of students have had exposure to the design challenges posed by an ageing population and produced models, prototypes and drawings of a huge range of products and services to explore, assist and celebrate later life. We have built a network of older users, tutors, industry experts, students as well as early stage designers whom we have supported and encouraged such as Chloe Meineck whose compelling Music Memory Box has its origins in "Designing for the Future".
So with the retail side being amply catered for by others, we are going to refocus our efforts on supporting the creative people behind the new ideas and design thinking which will enrich and transform our later lives. We also have a couple more projects in the pipeline.
We are always looking for supporters and sponsors to join our "Designing for the Future" network. Please contact philippa@www.thefutureperfectcompany.com for more information.
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Nicotine Tob Res. 2016 May;18(5):647-53. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntv193. Epub 2015 Sep 18.
Vaping as a Catalyst for Smoking? An Initial Model on the Initiation of Electronic Cigarette Use and the Transition to Tobacco Smoking Among Adolescents.
Schneider S1, Diehl K2.
Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine (MIPH), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany Sven.Schneider@medma.uni-heidelberg.de.
Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine (MIPH), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
The popularity of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) among adolescents is growing worldwide. A more accurate model than the much discussed but inadequate Gateway Hypothesis is needed to explain some adolescents' initial preference for e-cigarettes over tobacco cigarettes, as well as any transition from e-cigarettes to tobacco smoking. Our aim was to summarize the diffuse fear that adolescents will be indirectly encouraged to begin smoking tobacco via the use of e-cigarettes and to systematize the disparate causal hypotheses used thus far in relevant literature.
We summarized the vague and fragmented hypotheses formulated thus far in literature on both trajectories from abstinence to e-cigarette use and from there to tobacco smoking into a set of empirically testable hypotheses and organized them into a comprehensive model.
Our results indicate that the perceived health risks, specific product characteristics (such as taste, price and inconspicuous use), and higher levels of acceptance among peers and others potentially make e-cigarettes initially more attractive to adolescents than tobacco cigarettes. Later, increasing familiarity with nicotine could lead to the reevaluation of both electronic and tobacco cigarettes and subsequently to a potential transition to tobacco smoking. The suggested "catalyst model" takes variations in the nicotine content of e-cigarettes as well as the dual use of different substances into account.
Our model provides causal hypotheses for the initiation of e-cigarette use and for the potential transition to tobacco smoking which, after being tested in empirical studies, could lead to the formulation of concrete recommendations for healthcare intervention and prevention measures.
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Give Me Love (Give Me #1) by Kate McCarthy
By Jen in Bookland - April 11, 2016
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Evie Jamieson, a former wild child, is not only a headstrong, smart-mouthed trouble magnet, she is also a lead singer with a plan. That plan involves relocating her band, including her two best friends guitarist Henry and band manager Mac, to Sydney to kick off their dreams of hitting the big time.
Jared Valentine is the older brother of Evie's best friend Mac and also the man determined to make Evie his. They strike up a long distance friendship which suits Evie because she's determined to avoid the distraction of love, not only because it doesn't fit in with her plan but because twice in the past it has left her for dead. Moving to Sydney however, has put her directly in Jared's path and he has decided it's the perfect opportunity to make his play.
Unfortunately Jared, co-owner in a business that 'consults' in dangerous hostage and kidnapping situations, makes an enemy who's determined to enact revenge. When this enemy puts Evie in his sights, Jared not only has a fight on his hands to make her his own, but also to keep her alive.
Is accepting the love he's so desperate to give worth the risk to both her heart...and her life?
Give Me Love was felt like it was trying to be a few different books, but didn't really succeed at any of them. It starts off as a romance, Jared trying to win Evie over and get her to admit she has feeling for him. That worked okay, but Evie could be frustrating. I didn't really understand why she was so adamant about keeping away from Jared. Sure when she was young and acting out she made two really bad decisions with guy and she got hurt, but they were bad people. Jared is not. She is best friends with his sister who keeps trying to push Evie to give him a chance. Mac, the best friend, knows all about Evie's past, so she should know if Jared was a jerk like the other guys. I don't know. It was just...I didn't understand. So you got your heart broken twice you are just going to give up? Date "safe" guys who she likes, but not really like that.
When Evie first met Jared she was instantly drawn to him, and that hasn't changed since then. She used to live a plane ride away, but as this book opens she is going to be moving to the same town as him. How will she ever keep him from hurting her? Annoying. She obviously really likes him and he her so why not see what happens? She was really frustrating to read and I didn't like her much.
Then suddenly she decides okay, we are doing this, and then it is like they are living together right away. Okay, way to move like lightning speed. Fine, but the book is not even halfway over yet. So what is the rest of the story? Well some not so good suspense story. Someone is after Evie to hurt her because Jared and crew where there when bad guys brother got killed or something. It was a bit ridiculous in the way it played out. I just...it didn't seem realistic especially if Jared and crew had a company where their job was hunting down bad guys and such. They just can't find this one, he keeps causing trouble and getting away. It was a bit too unrealistic and underdeveloped I think. If it would have been the main focus of the story with Jared and Evie falling in love at the same time it might have worked. As it was it felt like two different books neither of which I really loved.
There are a lot of characters in this story and it can be hard to keep everyone straight, especially with all of the nicknames. I think my biggest issues, the thing I liked the least, was that they all felt very immature. All the names they called each other and such I didn't really like. I felt like I wanted to tell them all to grow up already. That and the "retard" name calling is not cool.
Oh and there is plenty of extra drama added for no reason. Like ton of guys getting thrown at Evie that make Jared freak out that she is cheating and stuff. By the end I got to the point where it was like really? This is what we are doing now? Why not throw in a few more things just for fun? It was all a bit much.
I did like that Evie was the female lead singer in the rock band. I don't see too many books where it is a female rock star as the lead. But overall it was not my favorite read.
Rating: ★ ★
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Liberaltarianism: Back the Future
Here are the sort of political/economic thinkers whose substantive views I find most congenial: Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, James M. Buchanan. If I tell most highly-educated people that these are the thinkers whose views of desirable institutions are most like mine, they might infer that I am some kind of rabid libertarian ideologue. But when I actually defend something like the arguments for an economic safety net each of these giants of libertarian thought actually set forth, lots of libertarians accuse me of not really being libertarian at all. And many liberals act surprised, as if I'm being saucily iconoclastic by wandering so far off the reservation. I can tell them that Hayek was actually in favor of a guaranteed minimum income and that Friedman basically invented the idea behind the EITC, but they'll still think I'm some kind of congenial squish. But what I am is a market liberal just like Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan — the same intellectual role models who make me a rabid libertarian ideologue. So, which is it?
Frankly, "liberaltarianism" and "progressive fusionism" don't really amount to much beyond what Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan thought anyway. So the fusionism here isn't really a fusion of anything. It's just seeing our way back to a pre-existing economically literate political liberalism.
Here's my conjecture about why this now looks more like an attractive position than it might have a few years back.
The 20th century libertarian-conservative alliance was based on anti-communism/socialism. The reasonable, sophisticated consequentialist pragmatism of the great 20th century market liberals seemed an insufficient bulwark against the slippery slope from the liberal, capitalist welfare state to full-on illiberal, totalitarian socialism. (Indeed, Hayek himself made the slippery slope argument powerfully, though unsoundly.) So there was a good deal of motivation for radical anti-socialists to coordinate around strongly categorical prohibitions against state coercion.
Misean economics, disinfected of the open-minded empirical consequentialism of Mises' Liberalism, and filtered through Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard's peculiar views of rights and coercion delivers a powerfully moralized brief for capitalism that calls into question even taxation for the purpose of financing genuine public goods. That Rothbardians and Randians have wasted so much time fighting with each other on the question of the minimal state versus anarcho-capitalism obscures their unity on a rights-based bulwark against the slide from the welfare state to socialism. Sadly, "libertarianism" has become identified rather strongly with this ideology — an ideology some of the thinkers most strongly identified with libertarianism, like Hayek and Friedman, never shared.
The death of socialism as a viable competitor to the liberal-capitalist welfare state makes continued slippery-slope-to-socialism thinking look densely anachronistic. Other liberal welfare states, like the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, etc., have moved in a rather more market-liberal direction, becoming rather less of a soft-socialist middle-ground between the American model and full-on economic socialism. The question these days is whether the U.S. will have the good sense to adopt more rational market-based old-age pension policies, like Sweden or Australia, or lower corporate tax rates to a level more in line with the rest of the wealthy world. Slightly higher personal tax rates and slightly more redistribution is a possibility, but a slide into socialism just isn't on the table. In this context, the negative income tax looks much less like a dangerous concession to the world-historical forces of evil.
Meanwhile, with the obsolescence of the anti-communist alliance with conservatives, many libertarians have sloughed off much of their previously tactically useful sympathy for socially conservative initiatives. Freed to be full-on social liberals, many libertarians are left sensing a much deeper cultural affinity for the left than the right. And this leads naturally to seeing more clearly their ideological affinities with welfare liberals. And then you read thinkers like Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan, and you think: Oh, yes. This is extremely sensible. And now that the welfare-liberal elite has become rather more economically literate and is no longer sighing over five year plans, there is no reason to think they cannot find this sensible, too.
So that's where I'm at. An old-fashioned market liberal who thinks Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan get it right, and who thinks Rawlsian welfare liberals should be able to recognize themselves in these thinkers.
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Concerns mount over credit flow
The extra yield investors require to own investment-grade corporate bonds, instead of Treasurys, had risen past 150 basis points to reach the widest spread in two years at the end of June, according to Bloomberg data. The spread is raising concern of disruption in credit flow, a factor the Federal Reserve needs to weigh when considering raising interest rates.
The S&P 500's worst H1 in more than 50 years
By the end of the June, the S&P 500 had fallen 20.6% since the beginning of the year, marking the biggest decline for the first half of the year since 1970, with other major indexes also falling in June and in the second quarter. This does not necessarily indicate a torrid H2, S&P Dow Jones Indices analysts say, noting little historical correlation in S&P 500 performance between H1 and H2.
Are we in a recession? Wells Fargo says yes
Speculation of when a recession will occur is over because the US is already in one, according to the Wells Fargo Investment Institute. The investment-strategy unit cites forecasts of rising unemployment, deterioration of consumer sentiment and fewer discretionary purchases as shoppers focus on food and other basic needs.
The recession dichotomy
If the US is in or near a recession, it doesn't look like any other on record: Economic output is declining, but so is the unemployment rate. Demand for workers remains strong, and labor is scarce, with even pessimistic economists seeing only a modest job downturn in coming months. "We are going to have a very unusual conflict between the employment numbers and the output numbers for a while," says Northwestern University economics professor Robert Gordon.
Companies walk post-Roe tightrope
Companies are carefully approaching a response to the Supreme Court's overturn of Roe v. Wade, with some avoiding public statements and others, such as Amazon, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, announcing financial support for travel and medical expenses incurred by employees. Even if companies aren't rushing to speak publicly, they likely are "readying their internal policies and practices to mitigate the harm," says Jen Stark of consultancy BSR, and expanded sick leave and travel stipends likely are "the new floor for large employers."
EY's massive cheating scandal and record $100M fine
EY will pay $100 million, the largest fine levied against an auditing firm by the Securities and Exchange Commission, to settle accusations that hundreds of auditors cheated on ethics exams to keep or obtain professional licenses and that the firm failed to stop the cheating. The SEC said EY misled investigators, withheld evidence and violated public accounting rules, with SEC Enforcement Director Gurbir Grewal stating: "It's simply outrageous that the very professionals responsible for catching cheating by clients cheated on ethics exams of all things."
Will inflation become entrenched?
Minutes from the Federal Reserve suggest policymakers were concerned during a June meeting that "elevated inflation could become entrenched if the public began to question the resolve" of the Fed's response. The policymakers indicated "an even more restrictive stance could be appropriate if elevated inflation pressures were to persist."
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Amitabh cites health reasons for missing ICC, ACC meetings
Choudhary remains a director on the ICC and ACC Board; a Supreme Court order of April 17, 2017 allowed him to attend the ICC meetings.
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MUMBAI 29 September, 2019 20:54 IST
The Committee of Administrators (CoA) had show caused Choudhary for his absence at the two meetings and observed that his "conduct left the BCCI unrepresented in the meetings and exposed the organisation to considerable risk." - PTI
The BCCI's acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary has cited health and visa-related issues for not attending the International Cricket Council's annual conference in London last July and the Asian Cricket Council meeting in Bangkok in the first week of September. Choudhary is a director in the ICC and ACC Executive Boards.
The Committee of Administrators (CoA) had show caused Choudhary for his absence at the two meetings and observed that his "conduct left the BCCI unrepresented in the meetings and exposed the organisation to considerable risk."
Five more associations become BCCI compliant
The Committee of Administrators (CoA) has approved the constitutions/ bylaws of Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh. This is in addition to the constitutions of 18 BCCI member associations it had approved before.
The CoA had told the Supreme Court on September 20 that only three to four associations have to amend their constitutions in terms with the BCCI's.
The CoA has set October 4 as the deadline for all the BCCI member associations to conduct its election. The BCCI election officer has also issued an advisory stating that associations have to nominate its representative for the BCCI AGM/election on or before October 4.
The CoA requested the ICC to allow the BCCI's CEO Rahul Johri as an alternate director, but it was turned down. Johri, though, was allowed to attend the ICC Board meeting as an observer.
Choudhary remains a director on the ICC and ACC Board; a Supreme Court order of April 17, 2017 allowed him to attend the ICC meetings. The same order also named Johri to attend the ICC Chief Executives meeting.
The next quarterly meeting of the ICC is to be held in Dubai from Oct. 12 to 14 and Choudhary is expected to travel to the UAE. But Vinod Rai, the head of CoA, said that all decisions related to Dubai meeting will be taken at the CoA meeting in New Delhi on Oct. 1.
The BCCI will get a chance to nominate a new representative (director) to the ICC and ACC at its Annual General Meeting here on Oct. 23.
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