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Which EU country spends more on alcohol
The average indicator of “alcohol consumption” in the European Union was 1.6%. And most of all efforts were made by Estonia.
The share of expenses for alcohol of an average Estonian household is 5.2%, and this is the largest indicator in the EU, Eurostat reported.
There are also many connoisseurs of strong drinks in Latvia (4.9%), Lithuania (4%), Poland (3.5%), the Czech Republic (3.3%), Hungary (3%) and Finland (2.8%). Note that these figures are higher than the average European spending on alcohol.
The least willing to spend money on alcohol in Spain (0.8%), Italy and Greece (0.9%).


Orlando, FL — In the latest of the back and forth comments between the Florida governor and the White House, Gov. Ron DeSantis did not hold back on Joe Biden and Biden’s memory issues.
Biden attempted to make a snarky remark when asked about Ron DeSantis and he said “Governor who?” Reporters asked DeSantis about Biden’s comment to which he laughed.
He then responded that it is not surprising that Biden has forgotten about him, but what else has Biden forgot about. He went on to start naming things that Biden has forgotten.
He mentioned the southern border crisis, which continues to be ignored by Democrats and mainstream media. Multiple stories in the past week have come out about the continued border crossing of illegal immigrants into the country.
He said that Biden has forgotten about inflation that is taking money out of the budgets of Americans each week. Americans continue to pay more for consumer goods, thanks to Joe Biden’s inflation and economy.
He continued that Biden has forgotten about those fighting for freedom in Cuba, as Biden has quickly moved on from the topic. We continue to see Cuba blame America for their issues when the real issue is the lack of freedom for the nation.
In perhaps the strongest statement yet, he then said that Biden has forgotten about the Constitution. He blasted him for his extension of the eviction moratorium.
DeSantis continued that he is the governor who is protecting parents and their right to choose what is best for their kids. This comes after the White House said if he was not going to protect the people of his state to get out of the way.
Even as the White House and mainstream media attack him, he continues to stand for the parent’s right to choose. He continues to stand for freedom.
He continued that he is protecting Florida’s jobs and businesses by not allowing the federal government to lock the state down again. He said that he answers to the people of Florida, not bureaucrats in Washington.
DeSantis is not going to back down from Joe Biden and the Democrats. He has proved that he is a strong conservative leader and will protect the people of Florida, no matter what type of snarky comments that the radical left wants to throw at him.
Perhaps Joe Biden should read up on Ron DeSantis because the governor is not holding back and is standing his ground. Perhaps Joe Biden should see the threat that DeSantis is. Not that he is a threat to our country, like Biden, but rather a threat to the Marxist agenda of the radical left.
DeSantis: “I’m not surprised that Biden doesn’t remember me . . . The question is what else has he forgotten?” pic.twitter.com/uO3yy12Hbj
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) August 6, 2021
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June 3, 2013
BLOOMINGTON, Ill.— Illinois Wesleyan University is set to host its 13th annual Cello
Camp June 23-July 6 as part of the IWU Summer Music Program.
The program, which is open to dedicated cellists of junior high and high school age
from across the United States, will open with a faculty performance on Sunday, June
23 at 7:30 p.m. in Westbrook Auditorium of Presser Hall (1210 Park St., Bloomington).
Faculty for the cello camp will include:
- Ian Maksin – principal, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, recording artist
- Christa Saeger – Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra
- Serafim Smigelskiy – Internationaly acclaimed soloist, principal cellist
- Richard Hirschl – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Dana Woolard Hughlett – IWU Professor of Cello and Chamber Music
- Nina Gordon – IWU Professor of Cello and Chamber Music; founder and director of the
The two weeks will consist of cello study and daily activities will range from private
cello lessons and master classes along with rehearsals and performances. Participants
will be able to experience other activities, which include singing, international
dance, tennis and swimming. Throughout the camp, students will have several opportunities
to showcase their talents to the public. Student concerts will be held on Sunday,
June 16 at 4 p.m. and Saturday, June 22 at 1 p.m.
The camp will close with the 19th annual Midwest Cello Celebration on Saturday, July
6 at 1 p.m. in Westbrook Auditorium. All performances are free and open to the public.
For additional information go to www.iwu.edu/music/k12/camp.html or contact Professor Nina Gordon via email at email@example.com or by phone at (309) 556-3828.
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In Minsk’s October Square, hope begins at Kilometer Zero
KLAIPĖDA, Lithuania (Mennonite Mission Network) – Editor’s note: In early March, the formerly Soviet-occupied country of Belarus made headlines briefly when its controversial president, Alexander Lukashenko, was re-elected in what many say was a corrupt election. Thousands of protesters poured into Oktabrskaya Square in the capital city of Minsk over several days in a peaceful protest. Riot police were sent in to quell the protest, and many of the protesters were imprisoned.
The European Union has publicly condemned the election and the ensuing police violence, banning Lukashenko and 30 of his top aides from the 25-nation bloc.
Following the protests, a theology student at Lithuania Christian College, whose friend was arrested, reflected on the events.
This is her story.
A poet speaks
Strength is known in the hands, without tears songs are blithe,
Desirous of glory, chests quiver,
In their books a new law, with pens of sun-scythes,
New people are writing forever.
~ Yanka Kupala, 1913
“I just love Minsk at night!” I told my grandmother authoritatively on a ride along the main street on a cold December evening. She only smiled at me, a naïve seven-year-old, who was captivated by the magnificence of the tall buildings completely covered with snow, the broadness of the unusually crowded streets, and the light that was surrounding us from every corner and every side, so that it seemed like it was still daytime. I was always a quiet child, but that evening I was especially quiet, trying to notice and examine every detail of what I was about to encounter for the first time in my life.
“This is us,” Grandma said and took me by the hand in order to help me off the bus. All of a sudden, I found myself surrounded by what seemed like a sea of people — with eyes full of joy and excitement about the upcoming celebration. It was New Year’s Eve and people kept rushing into the welcoming October square, which seemed to have become stretchable in order to host all of us. When I reflect on this evening today, I smile to myself because of how much I have changed. No longer am I ready to jump up and down when I see crowds of people in the October square. In fact, most of the time I’m tempted to take the metro and lock myself into my comfortable apartment — away from this overwhelmingly large sea (or sometimes, ocean) of people. But that night, on Dec. 31, 1993, I was willing to dive deep into this sea, with all its newness, excitement, and happiness.
Little did I know back then that this place wasn’t always as happy as it seemed that night. Back in the 1950s and up until 1961, it hosted a 10-meter-tall statue of Joseph Stalin right in the middle of it. This was after the city of Minsk and everything in it had been completely wiped out by the Nazis in the Second World War, and after it was rebuilt anew by the hands of simple Belarussian citizens who were required by the government to work 15 extra hours a month in order to accomplish that.
Little did I know back then that my pure childish joy and faith would not keep the square from losing its happiness once again in the future. At seven, I did not know and could not imagine that right there, in the middle of the square, one of my closest friends, Zhenia, and over 300 other people would be harassed, beaten, gassed and arrested for setting up a tent camp in order to protest the falsified presidential election results on March 19, 2006.
Zhenia tells me that her personal revolution took place right there — in the middle of the square, in the tent camp. According to the official reports, it lasted from March 20 to March 23, 2006. In Zhenia's heart, it is still taking place. In my head, none of these events quite make sense just yet. How did the square go from being a warm and welcoming place in my New Year's Eve memory to being so cold, arrogant and hostile during the unfair arrests that took place just a few weeks ago?
The October square has a long and complicated history. It has seen more joys and injustices than, perhaps, any living person. It is there that people get arrested and beaten for taking part in a peaceful protest or even for merely trying to bring the protesters some hot tea. It is there that thousands upon thousands of Belarussians gather annually to celebrate and mark numerous important events in our history, among which are victory over the Nazis in Word War II and our Independence Day. It is there that our newly “re-elected” president had his illegitimate inauguration on April 8. And so, the question of whether or not we really are free still hangs heavily in the air upon the square and upon all of Belarus ...
There are two main buildings in the October square, one of which is the “Palace of the Republic.” As citizens of Minsk, we are proud of it. However, it was there that the police were hiding on the night of March 23, preparing to arrest hundreds of peaceful protesters. There is a McDonald’s within about 150 meters from the square. It was that McDonald’s that wouldn’t sell food to the protesters and started closing earlier in the days of the demonstrations. There is also a large, quality screen on the edge of the square. However, all that it broadcasts is the corrupt national television, completely controlled by the government. I have yet to figure out if Belarus is really free. It seems like it isn’t. Not yet.
There is one more important element to the square, however. A small monument only about half-a-meter above the ground that marks the zero kilometer. We refer to it as simply “Kilometer Zero.” Engraved into it are words of some of our most important poets, people who fought for justice and liberty, just as we are today, and distances to other capitals of Europe. Among all of the pretentious sights and marvelously designed buildings, I find this sight to be one of the most encouraging in all of Minsk. To me, “Kilometer Zero” signifies the beginning of something new — a new history, a new mentality, a new and liberated country of Belarus.
Writing a new history is never easy. But it is worth the effort. If the October square could talk, I am sure, it would tell us great stories — of life and death, grace and punishment, joy and sorrow, love and hatred, freedom and imprisonment, and most importantly, hope.
Suzanna Krivulskaya is a theology student from Belarus at Lithuania Christian College. LCC is a Christian liberal-arts college dedicated to providing a university education in an international learning community that transforms people for servant leadership. Currently a half-dozen Mennonite Mission Network representatives serve at the college in teaching, administrative and fund-raising roles.


Hospice staff with Havering Mayor Cllr John Mylod
The past year has brought about unprecedented changes and challenges but what has never changed is the compassion and care Saint Francis Hospice has been giving to local people for 37 years.
On Friday 23rd July, the Hospice in Havering-atte-Bower celebrated its 37th birthday by presenting Long Service Awards to staff from across the charity who have served between 5 and 35 years.
This was followed by the burial of a time capsule in the Hospice grounds.
The capsule was purchased from prize money our Child and Family Therapist Emily Gray was awarded by the Jack Petchey Foundation for her outstanding work supporting bereaved children.
Photos of staff, volunteers and supporters, information about our services, a face mask, a copy of the Scoop – our staff and volunteer newsletter for 23rd July were placed inside, along with photos and writing by bereaved children under the care of Emily and fellow Child and Family Therapist Stella Christou.
“It is important for the children to have their work included into the capsule so their voice and experience of lockdown is shared,” said Emily.
“The pandemic impacted greatly on all of us and for children who were already grieving the loss of a loved one, they were experiencing even more loss during the pandemic.
“Not having the distraction of school and not being able to be with friends brought about feelings of confusion and anxiety for many children.
“Being able to express themselves and being heard during this time has been vital for young people.
“In the future, when the capsule is opened, we are hoping that people can learn more and learn from young peoples’ experience of loss during the pandemic.”
This was the second time capsule was buried at the Hospice. It will be placed alongside the time capsule interred in 2001 by our former chaplain Rev. Stephen Henwood and former Havering Mayor Maisie Whitelock. It included information about the Hospice’s history and work, along with a nurse’s uniform and a syringe driver.
Pam Court, Chief Executive Officer at the Hospice, said, “Today is a very special day in the Hospice’s history and it is our opportunity to thank everyone who has supported the Hospice and enabled us to be there for local people who need our experienced care.
“When the time capsule is opened in years to come, it will give people an insight into what life was like at Saint Francis Hospice in 2020/2021.
“The Covid-19 pandemic brought unprecedented changes, challenges and a funding crisis that no one could ever have foreseen.
“Yet despite everything, we have continued to reach out to care and support more people than ever.”
The Hospice also invited supporters to a virtual thank you evening where Medical Director Dr Corinna Midgley gave an update on a year through COVID-19 and how the Hospice has managed to deal with a global pandemic and a rise in need for its services.
Patron Sir Trevor Brooking spoke about why he supports the charity and Tina Briden, spoke about how the Hospice helped her and her family.
Pam also told supporters that with their support, Saint Francis will continue to look forward and be there to provide care and support to local people in the years to come.


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Denise Van Dorn, Behavioral Health physician practice operations manager
"The second was worse than the first, and although not horrible, it was enough to cause me to disclose my reaction and get invited to the private VIP injection room at the Sedgwick County Health Department," she says, which is a quiet place with chairs and a bed, bottled water and Benadryl.
Van Dorn, practice manager for Ascension Medical Group Via Christi’s Behavioral Health clinic, also got to spend time with an Ascension colleague who spends her days off helping Sedgwick County care for those getting the COVID vaccine.
But she wants others to know why, given her history, that she chose to get the booster and would do it again, despite it making her feel weak for the three days following.
First, she did it for herself, as a healthcare worker who has a medical condition that makes her more susceptible to the virus.
"I am also over the age of 45 and do not want to be part of the 95% of people in my age group who have a greater risk of dying from COVID if unvaccinated," Van Dorn says, noting that a breakthrough case is much better than potentially becoming a "long hauler" who suffers long-term effects from contracting the virus. "No vaccine is 100%, but I like my odds."
Second, she did it for her family and friends, a group that includes those who have medical conditions that put them at risk of contracting the virus, are too young to receive the vaccine or who have died or long haulers.
Finally, she did it for her Ascension family.
"I feel strongly that I need to do my part to make sure our associates, patients and families feel safe and protected from exposure to COVID-19," she says.
In fact, she says the only thing she would change is her timing.
"I thought I would be down for a couple of days at the most and then back in action," Van Dorn says. Instead, she was still unwell on Monday and couldn't be there to help train a new associate on her first day.
While it worked out because her team stepped in, "I would recommend scheduling your injection when you have a few slow days; just in case."
Van Dorn's parting words of advice:
"Get educated, talk to your primary care provider if you have concerns, and make the best decision for you regarding the COVID vaccine. Think about your loved ones who are at risk and who would miss your sparkle if you weren't around.
“Stay safe, wash your hands and wear your mask. After all, no vaccine is 100%."

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What’s flat, floats on water, and converts sunlight into energy?
A lily pad - which Singapore’s newly-announced floating solar photovoltaic (PV) cell test bed will mimic in action when it becomes operational by the end of the year.
Ten different solar energy or PV systems and a variety of flotation devices have been installed for this one-hectare pilot project that bobs along the surface of Tengeh Reservoir in Tuas in the west of Singapore.
The test bed is meant to uncover which is the most cost-effective and efficient PV cell technology for use in Singapore, and the environmental impact of floating PVs on the island’s water bodies. It will also test to see if the performance of the solar panels will improve due to the cooling effect of the water.
The first of its kind in the world for the range of flotation systems and PV technologies on trial, it is the centrepiece of a study led by the Economic Development Board and national water agency PUB, and managed by the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS).
A 20 kilowatt peak roof-top system has been built nearby as a control.
Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Masagos Zulkifli, unveiled the project at the joint opening ceremony of this year’s Asia Clean Energy Summit and Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference held at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre last week.
The introduction of the floating test bed goes hand in hand with Singapore’s SolarNova Programme, launched in 2014 to raise solar generation capacity to 350 megawatt peak by 2020.
“If this pilot successfully establishes the economic viability and environmental sustainability of floating solar PV systems, Singapore will explore the large-scale deployment of these systems,” he said.
In his opening address, Masagos added that sustainability should not be considered as an alternative or a trade-off to economic development. “Rather, the pursuit of clean and renewable energy development is a venture into greater opportunities and growth, and also a necessary step into the new green era.”
The test bed currently has a capacity of about one megawatt peak. A megawatt peak is a unit of measure used specifically for solar power.
At the end of the first phase of testing, two of the best-performing PV technologies will be tested on a larger scale during the second phase of the project and deployed for a larger two megawatt peak trial in 2017.
As a country facing land scarcity issues and high population density, Singapore has very little recourse when it comes to generating its own renewable energy. But because it receives sunshine all year round, the country has identified solar energy as the most promising type of renewable energy for its needs.
Dr Thomas Reindl, deputy CEO and cluster director for solar energy systems at SERIS, said floating solar PV systems are trending in regions that have “under-utilised water surfaces available or where land is very expensive”.
While floating PV systems have been installed in countries like Japan and the UK, there have been few studies assessing the technical, economic, and environmental consequences of deploying systems on a large scale, he added.
SERIS’ own floating solar PV monitoring technology will be used to keep track of the performance of the test bed in real-time, and will be useful for offshore floating PV systems in the future.
Goh Chee Kiong, executive director for cleantech at EDB, said: “As a highly dense city state with limited space for solar deployment, Singapore is placing emphasis on building up urban solar capabilities which include floating solar as a key focus area.”
Singapore’s floating PV test bed will serve as reference for companies both local and international to “scale up their technologies for global markets”, added Goh.
The introduction of the floating test bed goes hand in hand with Singapore’s SolarNova Programme, launched in 2014 to raise solar generation capacity to 350 megawatt peak by 2020 from 19 megawatt peak that year. Six thousand public buildings including public housing, schools, police stations, and utility plants will have solar panels fitted on their rooftops under the SolarNova Programme.
Adopting solar technology in energy production will help Singapore to achieve its 2030 carbon mitigation target and strengthen its resilience to climate change.
According to SP PowerGrid, Singapore had 59.5 megawatt peak worth of solar panels installed in 2015.
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Guns, police badge, iPads recovered in burglary bust
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — A routine traffic stop led to the arrests of two suspected busy burglars Sunday night.
A Cottonwood Heights police officer found two people inside a vehicle carrying balloons of heroin and cash, Sgt. Mark Askerlund said.
"And while searching the vehicle, (investigators) recovered a couple of stolen guns, a police officer's badge, more drugs, more cash and a whole grundle of suspected stolen property — laptops, guns, cameras, collectible coins, iPads," Askerlund said.
But police weren't done at that point discovering evidence.
When the two men got to the Salt Lake County Jail, officers there "found more cash and drugs stuffed down their underwear," Askerlund said.
Kristofer Mangum, 31, and Daniel Watson, 36, were arrested for investigation of a number of charges, including drug possession with intent to distribute, illegal possession of a firearm and possession of stolen property.
The badge recovered allegedly belonged to a Unified police officer working in Midvale, Askerlund said. Unified police Monday, however, said they were not aware of any unaccounted for badges out of that area.
Investigators weren't sure Monday where the two handguns were stolen from, or if the suspects actually stole them or got them in a trade for drugs.
In 2011, Mangum took a plea in abeyance for disorderly conduct and was ordered to seek counseling, according to Utah court records.
Last year, Watson was convicted on an amended charge of attempted theft by receiving stolen property, a class A misdemeanor, according to court records. As part of the plea deal in that case, another case involving felony aggravated assault charges were dropped in exchange for his guilty plea in the stolen property case, court records state.
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At Cincinnati Union Bethel, we screen every child in our early childhood education program and a hearing test is part of that screening process. This year, we have two new digital pilot audiometer machines called Maico Pilot Screens, thanks to a grant from The Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati, to help with these tests. Our staff member, Dana, who does the tests, is thrilled.
She gushes about them: Oh, I love them! It's so much simpler because it's like a game.
With the Maico Pilot Screen, Dana doesn't have to spend time teaching the children how to do the test, by telling them to raise their hand when they hear something. A lot of children would forget they are three to five year olds. But this meant Dana had to retest a lot of children. She doesn't have that problem anymore because the tests are now designed as an interactive game, which is much easier for the children.
The new machine is bilingual so when Dana works with the 14% of students who speak Spanish, she doesn't need another staff member to translate; the machine does that work for her. That is another big time-saver. And the machine is portable so Dana can take one with her as she travels between our four preschools.


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· Emerson, W.K. 1964. Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Western Mexico. 20, The Recent mollusks, Gastropoda, Harpidae, Vasidae, and Volutidae. Am.Mus.Novitates, no.2202, 23 p. [available as online PDF - click title]
· Emerson, W. K. and Hughes, R. N. 1988. Harpidae Bronn, 1849 (Gastropoda): Conserved by ICZN. Veliger, 30 (4) : 422-423.
· Rehder, H.A. 1973. Indo-Pacific Mollusca, a monograph of the marine mollusks of the world, No. 16, Harpidae. pp 207-272.
· Walls, J.G. 1980. Conchs, Tibias, and Harps. T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Neptune, NJ, U.S.A, 191 p.

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The paper deals with the nose shape design of high-speed railways to minimize the maximum micropressure wave, which is known to be mainly affected by train speed, train-to-tunnel area ratio, slenderness and shape of train nose, etc. It is advantageous to develop a proper approximate metamodel for replacing the real analysis code in the context of approximate design optimization. The study has adopted a newly introduced regression technique; the central of the paper is to develop and examine the support vector machine (SVM) for use in the sequential approximate optimization process. In the sequential approximate optimization process, Owen's random orthogonal arrays and D-optimal design are used to generate training data for building approximate models. The paper describes how SVM works and how efficiently SVM is compared with an existing Kriging model. As a design result, the present study suggests an optimal nose shape that is an improvement over current design in terms of micropressure wave.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
- Control and Optimization

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Netball Australia has hosted their first virtual version of the Marie Little Shield, a competition for women with an intellectual disability.
The event, which usually takes place in person, was introduced in 2013 and named in honour of disability pioneer Marie Little OAM, recognising her dedication to improving the lives of people with an intellectual disability through the power of netball.
The World Netball Members worked together with their charity partner, The Confident Girls Foundation to move the event online to avoid it being cancelled for a third consecutive year due to the on-going constraints of COVID-19.
Netball Australia Executive General Manager for Strategy, Infrastructure and Inclusion, Tim Klar, was impressed with the organisation of the event, he said: “This unique edition of the Marie Little Shield was a huge success and we’re over the moon that pivoting to the virtual approach has given the athletes from each state and territory the opportunity to connect and enjoy the spirit of the competition from home,”
“It’s always a terrific contest among the participation teams and the benefits of the tournament reach far beyond the court and the time that the teams spend together.
“But in the end, the health and safety of our communities must come first.”
Congratulations to Netball Australia on a successful virtual event.
For more information on the Marie Little Shield, click here


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This is the End opens this Friday in a cinematheque near you—and you can read my review of it right here! And before we get to the video of Danny McBride pissing all over the Portland Real World walls, I'd like to add a couple of notes about the film that I didn't have room for in the print edition:
1) Danny McBride's character should've been played by Michael Cera. I describe how Michael gets the ever-loving shit slapped out of him by Rihanna in the movie—which is one of its greatest scenes—but his grotesque character out-grotesques Danny's character, which is why he should've been given the meatier role. And it would have been 38 percent more funny.
2) I'm kinda tired of bro movies. Don't get me wrong, This is the End is a great bro movie, and very funny nearly all the way through. But when only two women are featured and in very tiny roles, and one of those sequences revolves around an argument of who is NOT going to rape her... well, do you see what I'm driving at? Enough bro movies for awhile, Hollywood.
Otherwise, read my review for more details and then go see it. As one theater-goer said after the movie, "If this movie doesn't get 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, I'm going to kill myself." He REALLY liked it.
Okay. Check out this cross-promotional video of the Real World: Portland and This is the End in which Seth Rogan, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Danny McBride and two Real World: Portland mannequins share a house together and get real. It's funny, but VERY NSFW. Headphones up!

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An unemployed and sometimes homeless security guard charged with strangling the daughter of New York University professors told investigators that he had been jealous because she invited other men but not him to her party, prosecutors said in court papers released yesterday.
Prosecutors said the homeless man, Michael Cordero, 23, made a videotaped statement in which he said that on Aug. 2, the night after the party, he had gone to the apartment in Greenwich Village where his girlfriend, Boitumelo McCallum, 20, was staying.
They argued and he choked her to death, according to prosecutors’ written account of the statement.
Then, as if they were breaking up, he took a pair of dog tags inscribed with their names and put it in one of her hands and wrapped a towel around her body, according to the prosecutors’ account.
Ms. McCallum had given him the dog tags for his birthday, he told investigators.
“He had called her during the party, and could hear that there were men at the party,” the prosecutors’ account says.Continue reading the main story
After his arrest on Aug. 8, Mr. Cordero appealed to the sympathy of a detective, telling him he was an orphan and had had a hard life, according to another document filed by prosecutors yesterday.
He said that he loved Tumi, Ms. McCallum’s nickname, that they “had a special thing, that his life has been hard, that his parents are both dead,” according to the same document.
The details of Mr. Cordero’s statements were released as he pleaded not guilty yesterday to second-degree murder and petty larceny. Ms. McCallum’s parents watched the arraignment, sitting in separate rows of the courtroom. Her mother, Teboho Moja, is a clinical professor of higher education at the Steinhardt School at New York University, and her father is an adjunct professor at the same school.
Mr. Cordero glanced briefly at his pregnant sister, who was sitting opposite Ms. McCallum’s parents, as he entered the courtroom.
Mr. Cordero’s father died two or three years ago and his mother died when he was much younger, his lawyer, Eric Sears, said yesterday. He said Mr. Cordero had been homeless and staying with relatives, often his sister, at the time of Ms. McCallum’s death.
“They belonged to different worlds,” Mr. Sears said. “She was a well-traveled, sophisticated, well-educated young woman. He was a sometimes homeless, orphaned street kid. It just makes you wonder how well we know our children.”
Ms. McCallum was strangled and smothered with a towel in her mother’s Greenwich Village apartment, according to prosecutors. Both parents were in South Africa, the police said at the time.
Friends said Mr. Cordero had met Ms. McCallum while she was a student at the Beacon School, a public high school near Lincoln Center, and he was living in a nearby housing project. She became his confidante, the friends said, and they eventually became romantically involved.
Mr. Cordero was taken into police custody after he slit his wrists on the rooftop of an Upper West Side building where his relatives lived, the police said.
Records show he had two earlier arrests for minor drug offenses.Continue reading the main story


Despite achievements, India's space programme is still struggling with projects targeting rural India, finds out T V JAYAN
Miles to go
For India, space is not the final frontier to be conquered. The country’s performance in solving mundane problems such as poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition may be dismal, but its space programme is soaring high. Its latest achievement: the May 5, 2005, launch of Cartosat-1, a satellite for mapmaking, with a 2.5 metre resolution. The 1,560 kilogramme (kg) Cartosat is the only satellite in the world with two panchromatic cameras positioned so as to measure even the elevation of the terrain mapped, allowing almost instant generation of 3-dimensional maps.
The satellite can map the entire country in just 180 days, providing images clear enough for individual buildings to be identified.
Cartosat is India’s 35th satellite; the first was Aryabhatta, launched in 1975. A satellite has an average life span of 7-12 years depending on its functions.
At present, 15 Indian satellites are in orbit, of which as many as 10 have been launched in the last five years. Simultaneously, India has perfected satellite launch technology — it can now inject a satellite weighing up to 2,000 kg into any orbit. This capability has been used to launch satellites even for other countries such as Germany, Belgium and South Korea. Satellite communication is crucial in this era of digital convergence, which is why the governments in 28 countries invested as much as us$46.3 billion (nearly Rs 2,00,000 crore) in space in 2004, says a report, World Prospects for Government Space Markets 2005, by Euroconsult, a private firm.
With a share of Rs 2,540 crore, India was the seventh biggest investor. In the 2005-2006 Union budget, the allocation for space is 24 per cent more, taking the total figure to Rs 3,148 crore. India has spent Rs 25,660 crore since 1962 on its space programme, according to official figures.
Unlike advanced nations, India spends these funds not just on research, but also on launching satellites for basic telecom and broadcasting services. In the West, private satellite vendors largely provide for such activities . But the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) designs, develops and launches satellites that are used both by state-owned public service providers and private companies. Its mandate also includes launching satellites, such as Edusat and Gramsat, to enable airing programmes targeted at the rural population on subjects such as health, education and agriculture.
Insat and IRS
Cartosat is the latest in the series called the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites. The other series of satellites is the Indian National Satellites (Insat). These two series account for the bulk of the Indian satellites — 10 in IRS and 14 in Insat.
A satellite can either be geo-synchronous or sun-synchronous. The former remains stationary in relation to the earth at an altitude of 36,000 kilometres (km) while the latter is located about 500-1,000 km away and moves as the sun appears to (from earth) every 24 hours. Satellites meant to provide observation data, such as the IRS satellites, are sun-synchronous.
Geo-synchronous satellites are mainly used for communications — receiving/transmitting television, telephone and radio signals. The Insat satellites are in this category. With the first of the series launched in 1983, Insat satellites have been singularly responsible for taking television and telephone to almost 90 per cent of the country. Some also carry instruments to gather meteorological data for use in short- and medium-range weather forecasting, such as to track cyclones.
All geo-synchronous satellites function through devices called transponders, which both receive and send messages in the form of electromagnetic signals. Each transponder tracks signals within a specified frequency range and has a typical capacity of 36 megahertz, which is enough to support as many as 12 digital television channels. At present, India has a total of 143 transponders on its satellites in orbit.
Earlier, the transponders worked mainly within two ranges of frequencies referred to as the s band and the c band. But as the need for point-to-point communications grew, the higher frequency bands such as the k u band (see Glossary) became popular. An increasing number of transponders nowadays are in the k u band, which is the most suitable for direct-to-home (DTH) telecasts and also for the fast-growing closed user group services such as the Very Small Aperture Terminals (V-SATS).
isro transponders were used solely by the department of telecommunications (dot) and the Union ministry of information and broadcasting (i & b), till the Union government adopted a new Satcom Policy in 2000, allowing the private sector access to Insat satellites. Today, 44 of the 143 transponders available with isro are leased out to the private sector — for tv, telecommunications and v-sats.
As many as 13 transponders are with private tv channels, which are demanding more. “We have a heavy demand for dth from Star tv, Sun tv and many other tv channels,” says isro chief G Madhavan Nair.
“The 143 transponders that we have just make both ends meet. If I don’t put three space craft (satellites) on schedule next, everything will come to a halt,” he adds. Anticipating the growing demand, the 10th Five Year Plan has set a target of 235 transponders by 2006-2007.
In the field of telecommunications, the public sector Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited continues to be a major satellite user. The opening up of national long-distance and international long-distance telecommunications to the private sector since the late 1990s also increased satellite usage.
Thanks to technology and policy changes, and falling bandwidth prices, the v-sat segment is poised for a boom. Capable of providing highly-reliable point-to-point communications, even from remote places, v-sat is especially popular among business groups. India has about 45,000 v-sat users, up five times since 2001, according to a recent report of the v-sat Operators Association of India.
As the demand for transponders grew, isro effected a paradigm shift in its strategy — from multi-purpose satellites (a single satellite carrying payloads for communication, broadcasting and meteorological applications) to ones dedicated to a specific area such as Insat-3 b for communications and Insat-3 d (later renamed Kalpana-1) for meteorological applications.
The design for a multi-purpose satellite allows only one solar array, which limits the total power availability. Dedicated telecom satellites, with transponders on high-frequency band such as the k u band, however, require greater on-board power — either another solar array or high-power devices such as the travelling wave tube amplifiers, which require large heat dissipation systems. With either option, the result is an increase in the overall satellite mass. It is predicted by 2005, nearly 50 per cent of the satellites launched will weigh more than 4,000 kg.
“Specific applications have increased manifold. Earlier, expectations from Insat-1 a were not high — it had just meteorological and telecommunication instruments, but now we need exclusive communication satellites. The transponder demand for day-to-day communication process is increasing rapidly,” says Nair. Insat-1 a, the first in the series, weighed a mere 1,200 kg. But Insat–4 a (scheduled for launch later this year) will have 24 transponders (12 each in c band and k u band) and weigh about 3,100 kg.
“We used to have a hand-to-mouth existence but since the last one year there has been a turn around with the launch of Insat-3 e,” says Sridhara Murthy, executive director, Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of isro. The growing demand for space services is reflected in Antrix’s rising annual revenue, which increased from Rs 40 crore to Rs 370 crore over the last five years.
Even though isro’s capacity to build and launch satellites has improved over the years, there have been major slip-ups in the utilisation of these precious, nonrenewable resources. On the other hand, isro officials say India is heading for a transponder shortage. Can India afford underutilisation of a resource whose shortage is imminent?
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It all depends on which era you are talking about.
There are mostly 3 different medieval eras; early, high, and late middle ages.
In Medieval Warfare: A History there is a chapter that talks about it. In the early and partly high middle ages, people were few and only the nobles and the clergy fought in wars.
Those two groups were pretty important and, as time went on, heavily armored and well equiped. In impoverished enviroments it was also better to take ransom, rather than lives. So battles were fought mostly on small scale, and casualties from the battle itself were few. The percentage according to the book (if I am not mistaken it was 5% exactly) was that low for the battle itself - excluding marching deaths, illness, and other factors.
Later on though, during the high and late middle ages, the European war-machine became more sophisticated, population increased, and the middle class arose and took part in non-equestrian battles using pikes and other less glorious but just as effective weapons. This led to large scale battles with more casualties on the ill equiped. So yes, as TomAu and fred2 said, there was a time when war took a great toll.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A political watchdog group says South Carolina House Speaker Bobby Harrell should step down as speaker while an ethics complaint against him is investigated.
The board of the state chapter of Common Cause says Harrell should not remain speaker while authorities examine complaints that he violated ethics rules. The ethics complaint brought by the South Carolina Policy Council was referred to the State Law Enforcement Division last week.
It alleges Harrell violated ethics rules by reimbursing himself $280,000 from his campaign account and by appointing his brother to a commission that nominates judicial candidates. The complaint also alleges Harrell used his position to help his business.
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Watched you on The Voice and was sorely disappointed you lost. I think the ONLY reason was the SONG CHOICE, which was not yours to make. So sad. Simply circumstance. Nothing else!!! Love you two. : )Elenowen responded on 05/21/2011 Next question
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Charlotte Crosby fans have spotted an awkward spelling mistake on the cover of her new book Brand New Me.
The Geordie Shore star was excited to tweet out a photo of her latest book this week after it became available for pre-order.
Fans were quick to point out an awkward mistake on the front cover however…
SO SO SO SO SO SO BUZZING MAN! I'm delighted to announce my second autobiography is here! 😍📚 "A Brand New Me" 🙌🏼☺ I loved every minute of working on my second book my life since the first has been spun round and flipped on it's head. After the rollercoaster ride that was last year! Suffering a devastating ectopic pregnancy and leaving geordie shore and meeting my soulmate 😍👀….my new adventure started! I was reborn A BRAND NEW ME.💃🏼😍 this book is an emotional rollercoaster make sure to have the tissues at the ready, be in store for some abs by the end of it because as always it's outrageous and more personal then ever find out EXACTLY what was going on behind the scenes! ❤ soooooooo excited to start my book tour and come see you all ! 😁😁 it's available NOW on pre order on Amazon! 😁😁😁😁😁
Fans noticed at the bottom of the cover, where it should say the words: ‘Stronger, wiser, outrageous as ever’ the word stronger is actually spelt stonger.
Laughing it off, Charlotte responded by telling fans she hoped the cover of the book hadn’t yet been printed.
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Several school districts in India are being asked to take proactive steps to contain Dengue fever locally as monsoon season approaches.
Former US president Herbert Hoover once described children as the world’s “most valuable resource.”
Now, in some parts of the world, children have become key cogs in the efforts to educate the public on and prevent outbreaks of troubling infectious diseases—and not for the first time.
According to a May 3rd report in the Indian newspaper, The Hindu, several school districts in the Asian country are being asked to take proactive steps to contain Dengue fever locally as monsoon season approaches. The warm, humid weather conditions that characterize monsoon season in the region provide the perfect breeding ground for Dengue vector mosquitoes, and the virus has been the source of public health challenges in many parts of India in the past.
According to The Hindu report, a recent notice sent by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation to schools in its jurisdiction requested that the heads of education institutes (public and private) “nominate nodal teachers to monitor vector-control measures” in the schools. As part of the initiative, schools are required to clean desert coolers (air cooling systems used in warmer climates) at least once a week and ensure they are mopped dry prior to filling (the systems typically use water to generate cool air). In cases in which coolers cannot be emptied, schools are asked to treat the water with one tablespoon of petrol/ kerosene and/or temephos granules (a larvicide commonly used to treat water); cleaning and/or treating the coolers is designed to disrupt the breeding cycle of the Aedes mosquito, which has been linked with Dengue.
In addition, all schools have been asked to give “dengue cards” to all students. The cards are designed as a resource the children can use—with their parents—to perform basic dengue control inspections in their homes, searching for potential mosquito breeding grounds, such as stagnating water and birdcages (birdkeeping is common in much of Asia). Researchers from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak in Malaysia have demonstrated that mosquito larvae can grow in bird feces dropped into birdcage water bowls. Earlier studies found various developmental stages of the Aedes mosquito in the water containers of birdcages.
According to experts, India is not the first country to use schools and children to spearhead these kinds of infection control efforts. “The use of school children to promote campaigns against the Aedes mosquito is a well-established aspect of Dengue outbreak preparedness and response,” said Amesh A. Adalja, MD, FIDSA, FACP, FACEP, Senior Associate, Center for Health Security, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). “In prior US outbreaks, for example, children were enlisted to urge parents to eliminate standing water—a site for the Aedes mosquito to bread. Innovative outreach to children through plays, contests, and cartoon figures were used in both Texas and Florida and should remain a part of Dengue response.”
Brian P. Dunleavy is a medical writer and editor based in New York. His work has appeared in numerous healthcare-related publications. He is the former editor of Infectious Disease Special Edition.

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You see more when you are biking. Friesland has over 2,750 km of bicycle track. Through forests, moors, drifting sand and over the seafront along the Wadden coast, from picturesque villages to historical cities, across waterways by ferry, on islands and straight through nature reserves. Friesland is the Dutch province par excellence for cyclists. Moreover, we have been chosen as the best bicycling province of the Netherlands 3x in a row!
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If there is one place where a lot of bicycling is going on, then that would be on the Wadden Islands. Not only because these places are beautiful locations to go biking – to the beach, along the coast and through forests –, but also because you get there by boat and most people leave their car on the mainland. In fact: cars aren’t even allowed on Vlieland and Schiermonnikoog. So many people go biking instead.
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Miscellaneous: Timers: Countdown Timer Schematics and Circuits
Universal Relay Timer-Switch Electronic Kit
Set this relay-based timer for anywhere from a few seconds to about 15 minutes so that you can time on/off almost anything.
Multi Mode Timer Circuit
This timer kit contains seven different timing modes using only ONE IC and some support components on a single-sided PCB.
Count-Down Timer - Relay Output Switch
Timer kits are an ever popular item with the hobbyist. This uses a 555 timer IC and goes from 8 seconds to 8192 seconds.
Timer Circuits Relay Switches
Timer circuits are handy for many experimenters projects, not to mention the photo lab. This kit has three separate circuits that can be used individually or together. Each circuit has a separate 5 Amp relay. Circuits operate on 9 Volt DC.
An electronic circuit that uses a 556 (Dual timer) IC to produce a two-tone train horn sound effect. Equivalent circuit using two 555 timers (single timers) is given.
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Ahead of 2021/22 Fantasy Premier League going live, Premier League clubs have been revealing the FPL prices of their players.
🚨 #FPL 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗟 🚨— Burnley FC (@BurnleyOfficial) June 20, 2021
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Burnley have teased out the FPL prices of four members of their squad on Twitter.
Clarets forward Chris Wood is priced at £7.0m, goalkeeper Nick Pope will cost £5.5m and defenders James Tarkowski and Ben Mee will both come in at £5.0m


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The police have beat THIS feeling: Two arrested after drug dealers promote themselves with Coca Cola business cards
It's not the real thing!
Students at New York University quickly worked out that business cards with the famous Coca Cola logo weren't advertising a fizzy drink.
Hundreds of the cards were slipped into copies of Village Voice in corner honour boxes at the college dorms in the city.
The cards had been carefully paper clipped to each paper promoting a 24-hour drug delivery service.
Some things aren't better with Coke: One of the business cards the alleged dealers were said to be promoting their drugs delivery service with
All of them had a phone number where students could order their illicit take-out, said police.
On some nights, the dealers got as many as 170 calls for drugs.
But detectives got wise to the scheme after a tip-off from an informant and now the two enterprising drug peddlers accused of orchestrating the ring are behind bars on $1million bail each.
'I have seen loads of Craigslist cases,' said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Laura Ward.
'But I've never seen something as inventive as this. So this is actually something a little different for me,' she added.
As well as the Coca Cola symbol, some cards had a picture of a livery car with the words 'Purple Rain...Up in Smoke'.
The pair had built up a regular clientele of some 200 customers, said city Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly in a joint press release.
Prince would not be pleased: Another of the business cards steals the singer's song title 'Purple Rain', adding the tagline 'Up in smoke'
A four-month investigation revealed that the service delivered marijuana and low-cost but high-grade cocaine to customers' doorsteps, targeting a clientele of university students and the bar crowd in the East Village and Lower East Side.
Thomas 'Biggie' Zenon and Miguel 'G' Guzman, both pleaded not guilty today in Manhattan Supreme Court to multiple counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance.
According to the press release, the delivery service was discovered several months ago after an anonymous tipster reported finding one of the calling cards in a paper.
Undercover officers made a dozen calls to buy cocaine and marijuana from the pair, who turned up with the drugs in their delivery cars.
The biggest two sales were for a half-ounce of cocaine at $1,000 each.
Guzman, 43, of North Bergen, NJ, was arrested last night as he allegedly got ready to make a delivery to a customer on the Upper West Side. He was carrying 16 grams of cocaine, more than $1,600 cash and four cell phones as well as a small stack of the Coca Cola cards.
Zenon, 40, was busted last night inside a restaurant in Washington Heights. Twenty bags of marijuana were found by police inside a coffee thermos in his car, as well as more Purple Rain cards, according to detectives.
Both men have convictions for drug sales dating back from 2003, officials said.
Defence lawyer Barry Weinstein argued that the bail amount was far too high. 'In all these months, they were unable to get an A1 sale out of these guys. These are not giants of industry,' he said.
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We are just hours away from the start of another exciting season of Essex Alliance League football with the summer break feeling as though it gets shorter and shorter each year.
It has been another busy summer for the league’s management with a number of new clubs entering the fray and seeing our league membership swell to five divisions of football. As is the nature of grassroots football however, we are of course always sad to see clubs who leave the league, some on their way up the footballing ladder but others sadly having to close up shop.
Nonetheless, we enter the 2017/18 season in high spirits with sides eager to impress in their early season fixtures. We look ahead to the opening fixtures of the season as we get back underway tomorrow afternoon.
The reigning champions, Jolof Sports, who have seen a number of changes in personnel over the summer will be hoping to start their defence of the title in a positive fashion. They begin their quest with a mouth-watering opening day clash against local rivals, London Cranes, in West Ham.
Another very interesting opening day battle sees two of last season’s mid-table outfits come face to face as newly relocated United London debut at their new Romford home against Leyton Falcons. Both sides have recruited heavily already and shown tremendous signs of improvement with their pre-season results.
Both of the promoted sides are making their Division One debuts tomorrow with Division Two’s champions, Ryan Reserves, facing a tough opening day match-up against a very highly regarded Docklands Albion side. Albion make their league bow having joined from Sunday football and look to have recruited well.
Colebrook Royals Reserves are straight back into the action after a top 2016/17 campaign with the visit of local rivals, Three Colts, to The Grange. Both sides will be keen to build on good seasons last time around with Colts being cup winners in May and Royals having secured runners-up honours in the league.
The action in Division Two sees four opening day matches with promoted Flyers making their divisional bow at home to new side, Newham United Reserves. Flyers have shown some good progress in their pre-season fixtures so far and enter the season in confidence. They meet a newly reformed Newham side with plenty of pedigree and experience.
Another new side in this division are United London’s Reserves who tackle a tricky looking opening day clash at Rainham Working Mens Club in their opening match of the season. Rainham have strengthened their side and go into the match on the back of some top friendly results while United London’s players will clearly be keen to make their impression on the division early doors.
Forest Green are another side who have expanded their horizons this year with the introduction of a reserves side to complement their progressive first team. They start their maiden campaign tomorrow with a trip across the borough to local rivals Lymore Gardens. Lymore are hotly tipped for a decent season this year and have recruited well themselves.
Inter Plaistow begin a new season with renewed enthusiasm as a change in management gives them the opportunity to start afresh. They start their fixture list with the visit of Chingford Athletic Reserves who haven’t held back with trimming their own squad with an array of new signings taking their place in the squad. They’ll be keen to turn a number of high placed finishes into promotion during this campaign.
There are plenty of new teams making their debuts in Division Three this weekend with Frenford A kicking off the action at the Jack Carter Centre against local rivals Kitroom. The latter had a solid first campaign with the league last time out and will hope to get early results on the board against their well-established Frenford opponents making their bow in the competition.
Chigwell are a side that have shown plenty of promise in their pre-season campaign with some good results against sides in and around them and could be one of the dark horses this year. They take on a very experienced and highly regarded Chingford Harriers side in their opening day clash with both sides eager to secure the points.
Completing the division’s fixtures for the weekend, Custom House Community start their maiden Saturday league campaign with a trip to face Old Esthameians Reserves. They have expanded over the summer with the introduction of a Saturday side to complement their existing Sunday set-up. They take on an Old E’s side who finished last season strongly and could be another side challenging for honours this year.
The league’s newest division sees three opening day clashes with Brooks City making their debut with the league at home to Wanstead Warriors. Both sides will want to start their campaigns strongly with Warriors having added to their squad and looking well placed to improve on their first campaign.
A battle of two new clubs to the league sees Dagenham United Reserves playing host to Debden Park on the opening day of the new season at Manor Road. Dagenham’s side looks very well organised and full of experience so it will be an interesting match against a youthful and exuberant Debden Park side who have scored plenty of goals in pre-season.
Completing the action, Avondale Rangers will look to make a fresh start this season with new management and playing personnel down at Roding Road creating an air of promise for a good campaign. They play host to Royal Forest in the opening match who could be one of the contenders for silverware after a solid first season which will have given them plenty of hope.
We wish all of our clubs the very best of luck for the forthcoming football season!


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Once again, hope is rising that the Federal Reserve will take a milder stance on monetary policy. Jim Bianco doesn’t think so. The strategist and President of Bianco Research argues that the era of low inflation and low interest rates is over for good. In an in-depth interview, he explains how to navigate the new environment.
The pattern is all too familiar. Hopes grow for a cooling of inflation, investors speculate on a slightly softer monetary policy, stock prices rise, the Fed intervenes and the market goes down again.
Will it happen again this time after weaker CPI data for the month of October ignited a new rally last week?
For Jim Bianco, the answer is clear. «It looks like inflation might have peaked, but that’s the least important piece of information you can give me,» says the President and founder of Chicago-based investment advisor Bianco Research. «The real question is how far inflation is going to go down on its own,» he adds.
In an in-depth interview with The Market NZZ, which has been slightly edited for clarity, Mr. Bianco explains why he believes inflation will remain at a significantly higher level than before the pandemic. He tells what that means for the Fed’s interest rate policy, which investments promise success under these new market conditions - and why investing is often like tennis.
Mr. Bianco, it looks like consumer price inflation in the US has peaked. Is this the beginning of the end of the massive surge in inflation in the aftermath of the pandemic?
This was only the third time in the last twenty months that the CPI data have come in below expectations. It was a downside surprise, but for most of the time inflation has beaten expectations consistently. So you don’t want to make too big of a deal on month-to-month data, but someone should tell this to the market because it’s making a big deal out of it.
So what’s in store for the markets?
It looks like inflation might have peaked, but that’s the least important piece of information you can give me. It better have peaked, because if we are going to be consistently in an 8% or 9% CPI world, I won’t be employed the next time you want to talk to me, and Zoom might not work. We would be in a world of hurt. The real question is how far inflation is going to go down on its own. Is it going to go down all the way back to 2%? Or does it stop at some higher level?
What do you think?
I think that the long-term average for inflation will probably be closer to 3.5 or 4%. If we go down to 2%, it’s only because we have a bad recession which killed demand, and this would probably be just a cyclical low that only lasts until the economy recovers and inflation moves back up.
What does this mean for investors?
The Federal Reserve likes to say that the neutral level of the Fed funds rate is about half of a percentage point above the inflation rate. So if inflation is going to settle out at 3.5% to 4%, then neutral is 4% to 4.5%. Right now, the Fed funds rate is at 3.75 to 4%, which means we’re still not even at neutral yet. And, if the Fed goes all the way to 5%, which is what the forward market is projecting, monetary policy would be just barely restrictive. In other words, if inflation is going to stay at 3.5% or 4%, the Fed has ways to go with hiking rates in order to bring inflation in. But that’s not the way the market wants to see it.
We’re just about at the one-year anniversary when Fed Chair Jay Powell said it’s time to retire the word «transitory» when talking about inflation. I agree, we should have retired that word, but we never did. The vast majority of people still think that this bulge of inflation was a one-time event around the reopening of the economy. They don’t see inflation as a persistent problem, so they don’t understand why the Fed is being so aggressive. They worry that Powell is going too far and causing a lot of damage. So after he retired the term «transitory», they started producing different words for the same thing: The Fed is going to «pause», the Fed is going to «pivot», and now the Fed is going to «step down» the pace of rate hikes. These terms mean all the same thing: Inflation is transitory, and that continues to be the consensus belief. People want to believe that this nightmare is over, we’re going to go back down to low interest rates, turn on the money printer and have the stock market «moon».
Why do you doubt that and think inflation will remain persistently high?
Every pandemic brings a major change in human behavior. It doesn’t create a new trend, but it accelerates trends. Covid accelerated three trends. The first one is the end of cheap labor because people have a different attitude about life. If you want to get workers, you have to pay up. Secondly, the end of cheap goods. That’s the political strife we’re having with China and Asia. The talk about re-shoring is real, it’s not going to go away. Add to that the end of cheap energy. Bottom line, we no longer have cheap goods, cheap labor and cheap energy which means we no longer have 2% inflation. So even if we still have technology and demographics working in favor of keeping inflation down, inflation is going to be more persistent.
What would have to happen to change your mind?
To get inflation down, we have to restructure the economy. But instead of doing that, we’re wasting time and want to have a debate about it. The historical analogy is probably the end of World War II. When the war ended in September 1945, everybody knew that we were going to transition to a peacetime economy. In 1947, no one was asking for their job back to make fighter planes or tanks, people knew that area was over. During that restructuring process, we had three recessions in ten years, and an episode of 20% inflation, and one of 10% inflation. But right after this process was over, the economy boomed for twenty years.
In 2022, we don’t want to do that. We’re hoping that the supply chain is going to miraculously heal itself, that people are going back to work five days a week in the office, that «things are going back to normal.» But this is it. This is the post-pandemic normal. And just to be clear: It is not dystopian, it is not terrible, but it’s different, and we need an economy that is restructured for this new area.
However, for the markets, everything is currently revolving around the hoped-for pivot in monetary policy. Since the recent setback following Fed Chair Powell’s press conference in early November, stocks have already rallied again. How does the Fed perceive this rally?
Powell couldn’t have been more clear, and I give you two recent examples. When the market was rallying nearly 20% off the June low, he went to Jackson Hole and basically said: I’m just going to keep jamming rates higher and higher until the market goes down. Right after that, the market fell apart. Same message at his press conference after the recent FOMC meeting. When a reporter mistakenly told Powell the market was up, he let off the greatest hits of every hawkish argument you can come up with. So nothing has changed. Powell believes he is going to rein in inflation by creating a reverse wealth effect: Make everybody poor, so we stop spending money.
What does this imply for the next FOMC decision on December 14?
Powell is probably going to be ok with stepping down to a 50 basis points hike in December. But if the S&P 500 blasts through 4000, and is on its way to 4200, it wouldn’t shock me if he flirted with the idea of putting 75 basis points back on the table. So this might be just another bear market rally. It could still last until the end of the year, or it could be over just two days from now.
To bring inflation under control, the Fed has tightened interest rates decisively. Will the members of the FOMC continue to take such a cohesive approach as signs of an economic downturn accumulate?
There are 19 members on the FOMC, and I think the most hawkish member is Jay Powell. Interestingly, the most dovish member, or very close to that, is Vice Chair Lael Brainard. So from a policy standpoint, the Chair and the Vice Chair are as far apart as it can get. As such, you see a lot of discord at the Fed. After the last FOMC meeting, they put the words «cumulative tightening» into the policy statement, and they said that monetary policy affects the economy with «lags». Then, 30 minutes later, Powell completely undid the statement in his press conference. This tells you there is no agreement within the Fed on what they should do. But the way monetary policy works is that the Fed Chair gets what the Fed Chair wants.
Then again, can the Fed really follow through on this tough stance when people are losing their jobs and the housing market is in full collapse?
That’s exactly it: He can talk tough, say he has resolve, and the Fed is going to raise rates until it gets the job done. That’s easy to say when the economy is creating 261,000 jobs a month, initial jobless claims have been in a downtrend for the last five months, and the Atlanta Fed GDPNow tracker signals that we’re on track for 4% growth in Q4. But if you throw up negative job growth, soaring claims, and negative GDP, then it becomes more difficult. So now, you hear mainstream brokerage firms casually predict that the US will be in a recession next year. That’s highly surprising because this used to be the verboten thing you were never allowed to say if you worked as an economist at a big shop on Wall Street. But now, they throw it out like it’s a statement of fact.
How high is the probability of a recession? The yield curve is deeply inverted, which is usually a reliable harbinger of a downturn.
I’m in that camp too, we’re probably going to have a recession. From a signalling standpoint, the yield curve economists like to look at is the ten-year note minus the three-month treasury bill. That yield curve is 8 for 8 in predicting the last eight recessions since the mid-1960s. On average, it inverts about nine months before the recession starts. But importantly, it needs to show a persistent inversion which I define as ten consecutive days in negative territory. This Thursday was day six, so the earliest that this yield curve would be consistently inverted would be next week.
Historically, the Fed raises interest rates until something breaks. At the moment, a lot is breaking in the crypto sector. How great is the threat that the crisis surrounding FTX will spill over into the regular financial markets?
If there is contagion, it might be in the more speculative tech world. It might leak into the VC space or start to show up in some stocks that are perceived to be associated with crypto, like MicroStrategy, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, ARK Invest, Robinhood or Tesla. There is also Silvergate Bank based in San Diego, a traditional lender in the crypto space. So you might see it in various pockets all over the place. But I’m not so sure it will rise to a level where it will kill the Nasdaq or the S&P 500, or cause a risk-off rally in bonds. But the whole «degen» attitude, basically a phrase for degenerate gambler, is definitely gone in the crypto space. And if people don’t know it yet, they are going to learn real fast that it’s gone.
Even apart from the crash in the crypto sector, conditions in financial markets are not easy. How can investors best navigate this challenging environment?
This has been an extraordinarily difficult year for investors. In terms of broad asset classes, there is almost nowhere where you could have gone to hide: You lost money in the stock market, the bond market, emerging markets, crypto, and in most of the alternative markets. The driver of all of that has been inflation. Inflation is the great game changer; it has completely changed the outlook of the economy and the structure of the markets. So I’m not going to sugarcoat this. I think investors must continue to expect a struggling environment.
Where do you see opportunities for promising investments?
The first place you might find some relief in order to make some money is going to be the bond market. As I said earlier, we might see interest rates parallel shift higher to 5%, and by the first quarter we should be pretty close to this point. So if bond prices stop going down and you can get a 5% or 6% coupon in a bond fund, you can make 6%. Maybe prices rally a little bit to make an additional return. But even if they just hold steady, you will still be making money.
And how about stocks?
In the stock market, there will be a secondary opportunity. But we’re only going to have a sustainable, multi-month rally in stocks when the Fed is done with restrictive measures and we feel confident that they are no longer going to fight this market. That’s still ways off, and it might be not until mid-2023 before we see something along these lines.
What is the best way to be positioned until then?
The place where you can make money now is short-term sovereigns. If you buy a T-bill with a nearly 4% yield, you have the safest creditor in the world, the U.S. Treasury, and you will get your money back in a period of months. But make no mistake: The era where the Fed is going to drop rates to 1%, turn on the printing press and we have another «everything rally» where stocks, bonds, crypto, the art market, the housing market and every other asset class goes up big, is over. That era ended because of persistent inflation.
What does this mean for a successful long-term investment strategy?
For many years, I had been one of the biggest critics of actively managed equity portfolios. But not anymore. This might be the environment for the next Peter Lynch to show up. By that I mean don’t wait for the market to go up, but have somebody figure out which stocks to pick. Because if we no longer have cheap goods, cheap energy and cheap labor, there is going to be a lot of alpha in the market. For instance, don’t buy the energy ETF and just wait for all energy stocks to go up. Instead, you buy specific energy companies that will do better than others. The problem is that until 2022, stock picking didn’t matter, because you just had to be in the right sector. So active management is coming back as an art form, but it’s been a long time since we’ve had to be good stock pickers. There might not be many of them out there right now.
What about commodities? Shouldn’t investments in hard assets such as energy, metals or agricultural goods pay off in a persistently inflationary environment?
Yes and no: Yes, commodities and various commodity funds can be a good idea. But prior to the FTX meltdown, the volatility in the commodities markets was even greater than in crypto currencies. So if you think commodities is the place to play, you must be braced that the next thing you know is that you’re down 15% in three days. If you’re comfortable with that then go for it. If not, then you better put a very small weighting in commodities, because this is not a market for the faint of heart. Especially as a European investor, you also have to keep in mind that the dollar can move 2% a day which means that the actual currency adjusted volatility is even higher.
So what’s needed most at the moment are strong nerves?
Investing is a lot like playing tennis. Even if you’re Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal, you only win 55% of the points. It’s a very tough game. And if you watch tennis players, they can be utterly emotionless when they make an unforced error. That’s kind of the way investing works: If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not investing. The key is not to not make mistakes, it’s to recognize that something is a mistake.
What do you mean by that exactly?
In tennis, I have to recognize that I don’t want to hit the ball to the other player’s backhand because it’s too good. I have to figure out something else and adjust. So as an investor in this environment, don’t kick yourself if you’re down. Just like in a tennis match, focus on the next point, the next set. There will be other opportunities, so you want to stay in the game. I just gave you a lot of themes and I’ve broken down a lot of things. Some of that stuff is going to be dead wrong, and some of that is going to be dead right. What I spend my day doing is trying to figure out where I’m wrong and where I’m right. It’s ok to be wrong. Just don’t get pigheaded about it and make it all tied up with your ego that you can’t admit you made a mistake.


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One of the most promising architectures in large-scale quantum information processing is the one based on superconducting electrodynamic (bosonic) qubits. They rely on an elementary device: the Josephson tunnel junction, a tunnel barrier between two superconducting leads, which exhibit nonlinear and non-dissipative behavior. Josephson tunnel junctions are only an example of superconducting weak links, among which are also atomic contacts and semiconducting nanowire weak links. In these other examples, localized, fermionic states, known as Andreev levels, can be addressed. We recently performed their spectroscopy [1-4] and quantum manipulation [5,6].
Here we propose to design, fabricate and measure new hybrid qubits that combine bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom in the quest to realize more robust quantum states.
We are looking for a strongly motivated student having a good understanding of quantum physics. She/he will be integrated in an active research group on quantum electronics and get acquainted with advanced concepts of quantum mechanics and superconductivity. He/she will also learn several experimental techniques: low temperatures, low-noise and microwave measurements, and nanofabrication.
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 L. Tosi, C. Metzger, M. F. Goffman, C. Urbina, H. Pothier, Sunghun Park, A. Levy Yeyati, J. Nygård, P. Krogstrup, “Spin-Orbit Splitting of Andreev States Revealed by Microwave Spectroscopy”, Phys. Rev. X 9, 011010 (2019).
 C. Metzger, Sunghun Park, L. Tosi, C. Janvier, A. A. Reynoso, M. F. Goffman, C. Urbina, A. Levy Yeyati, H. Pothier, “Circuit-QED with phase-biased Josephson weak links”, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 013036 (2021).
 F. J. Matute Cañadas, C. Metzger, Sunghun Park, L. Tosi, P. Krogstrup, J. Nygård, M. F. Goffman, C. Urbina, H. Pothier, A. Levy Yeyati, “Signatures of interactions in the Andreev spectrum of nanowire Josephson junctions”, arXiv:2112.05625
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 C. Meztger, “Spin & charge effects in Andreev Bound States”, PhD thesis (2022)

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