[原文]W3Mail 1.0.2 through 1.0.5 with server side scripting (SSI) enabled in the attachments directory does not properly restrict the types of files that can be uploaded as attachments, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending code in MIME attachments, then requesting the attachments.
Unless indexing for the MIME attachments directory is disabled it is possible to browse the MIME attachments directory and read arbitrary attachments. Prior to release 1.0.3, W3Mail did not correctly clean up the MIME directory, leaving the attachments there even after the user whom they belonged to has logged out. In versions 1.0.3 and more recent, providing the user correctly logs out their attachments will be removed. Note that the attachments will remain as with 1.0.3 and lower releases if the user simply closes the window rather than using the correct logout link.
By sending a MIME attachment executable by the web server from the MIME attachments directory to an POP3 account accessed from the W3Mail web based POP3 client remote access as the webserver user can in theory be achieved, if the user to whom the mail is sent opens the malicious email (and thus creates the attachments within the MIME attachments directory for the lifetime explained in part 1). Whilst the attachment exists, the potential intruder can request it via their browser and therefore have it exected by the web server. The attachment must be sent as a none text MIME type in order for the malicious code to correctly be created. This part of the vulnerability will work even when directory indexing is turned off for the MIME attachments directory since attachments are created with their original name.
This vulnerability can also be exploited on attachments being sent from W3Mail, although in this case the affect is reduced in versions from 1.0.3 onwards which clean the attachments directory after the mail has been sent minimizing the potential time for any attack.
Upgrade to version 1.0.7 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.


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Phil Robertson has said some things in the past that not everyone agrees with. Because of this, he’s been met with opposition and protests over the years.
Source: Humboldt Republican Women But he’s still around. To see what he’s overcome, here are four times people have protested against Phil.
The praying man is a hated man.
Source: Sporting News
Phil once had the opportunity to pray before the Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. It was an honest, simple prayer.
“I pray Father that we put a Jesus-Man in the White House,” he said. “Help us do that and help us all to repent, to do what is right, to love you more and to love each other. In the name of Jesus I pray, amen.”
And the media jumped on him. Here are a few examples…
- Deadspin called him an “unapologetic bigot.”
- The Associated Press said NASCAR was “clouding its image with politics.”
- The Orlando Sentinel said, “NASCAR doesn’t need Phil Robertson’s prayers.”
The rainbow-colored crowds.
Phil was scheduled to speak at an event in Montana, but a group of folks with rainbow flags and handwritten signs was there to meet him. And they were not there to get his autograph.
They were protesting his “deeply homophobic comments,” as stated by Emily Withnall, the leader of the protest. This was about Phil’s comments in GQ from 2013.
What the crowd did not know was that Phil was trying to help raise funds for the Adult and Teen Challenge, an organization that helps women with substance-abuse issues.
Reverend vs. duck commander.
Rev. Jesse Jackson (Source: TIME.com)
After Phil’s comments in GQ had gone public, the Rev. Jesse Jackson held a press conference to express his disappointment in and disagreement with Phil.
“At least the bus driver, who ordered Rosa Parks to surrender her seat to a white person, was following state law,” Jackson said. “Robertson’s statements were uttered freely and openly without cover of the law, within a context of what he seemed to believe was ‘white privilege.’”
However, Phil had clarified his original statements in GQ.
“I don’t worry too much about people hating or insulting me,” he told Us Weekly. “I’m a sinful man, and I’ve made a lot of mistakes. People have reason to hate me.”
A&E and the GQ incident
source: The Huffington Post
Speaking of GQ, this is the biggest controversy Phil has faced. In 2013, A&E suspended Phil for stating publicly his beliefs about homosexuality, which he believes line up with the Bible.
“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there,” Phil told GQ magazine. “Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.”

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"In Kelo, the Court held that while government may not take one's property for the sole benefit of another private party..."
Constitutional limits on the government's power to take property for use by private entities for the public purpose of economic revitalization have been the subject of much debate in New York. The state has struggled to define itself in the wake of the Supreme Court's controversial 2005 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London, which sparked a national debate about the eminent domain power.
In Kelo, the Court held that while government may not take one's property for the sole benefit of another private party, it may do so for the public purpose of economic revitalization. The ruling deferred to the City's taking of private property for inclusion in its redevelopment plan, hoping to revitalize its depressed economy.
The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment of the Federal Constitution mandates "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without compensation." Kelo says that where a legislature adopts a comprehensive economic plan it determines will create jobs, increase revenues and revitalize a depressed area, the project serves a public purpose and qualifies as a permissible public use under the Takings Clause.
An outraged public ridiculed Kelo as a gross violation of property rights for the benefit of large corporations at the expense of individual property owners. Since the ruling, 43 states have taken legislative action limiting the use of eminent domain. New York, however, has been criticized for failing to take similar action.
Condemnation in New York
Under New York's Eminent Domain Procedure Law, the State must first conduct a public hearing and determine that a taking would serve a public purpose so as to qualify as a public use. Next, the State must provide the property owner with just compensation for property taken. Each step is subject to judicial review.
Historically, it is extremely difficult for affected property owners to challenge a finding of public necessity to prevent a taking. Courts generally defer to a legislative prerogative, and vague definitions of public purpose can be used to justify most seizures. The courts have scrutinized economic revitalization as a justifiable cause for seizure, however, property owners have challenged the power of the Empire State Development Corp. (ESDC) to force the sale of private property.
The ESDC, the state's development arm, can force the sale of property either for a civic purpose or to eradicate urban blight - amorphously defined as substandard and insanitary. Two recent decisions closely examined the ESDC's involvement with private development projects in the name of economic revitalization.
Atlantic Yards Project
In Goldstein v. NYS Urban Development Corp., the Court of Appeals upheld the ESDC's taking of private properties in Brooklyn for inclusion in a 22-acre mixed-use development project known as the Atlantic Yards. The project includes a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets and 16 commercial and residential high-rise towers.
The ESDC relied upon studies finding that the area was blighted and warranted condemnation for development. The Court noted that the removal of blight is a sanctioned predicate for the exercise of eminent domain and rejected the challenge to the blight findings, accepting as reliable the comprehensive studies supporting the ESDC's determinations.
The Court said it must defer to what is the legislature's prerogative and may intervene only where no reasonable basis exists, which was not the case in Goldstein. The dissent invited close scrutiny of blight findings, arguing that the courts give too much deference to the self-serving determinations of the ESDC.
Columbia University Expansion
Meanwhile, in Kaur v. NYS Urban Development Corp., the Appellate Division rejected as unconstitutional the ESDC's takings to assist Columbia University in building a satellite campus in the Manhattenville area of West Harlem. The court denounced the ESDC's blight determination as mere sophistry that was concocted years after Columbia developed its plans. Citing a conflict of interest, the Court chastised the ESDC for hiring Columbia's own planning consultant to conduct the blight study.
The Court declared that as a private, elite institution, Columbia could not claim a civic purpose to its expansion sufficient to meet the public use standards. That the University was the sole beneficiary of the project is reason alone to invalidate the taking, the Court wrote, especially because the alleged public benefit is incrementally incidental to the private benefits of the project.
The State appealed and it remains to be seen how the Court of Appeals harmonizes the Appellate Division's aggressive Kaur approach with its own deferential Goldstein holding. The rights of property owners throughout the state hang in the balance.


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Finding New Opportunities in RTD Coffee
I’m not really a ready-to-drink consumer, either tea or coffee. Apparently, I’m in the minority as the $14.4 billion United States coffee market is driven by ready-to-drink beverages and pod sales.
The Mintel Group projects that the market will reach around $18 billion by 2023. Ready-to-drink (RTD) remains a fast-growing category due to continued innovation coming from a variety of brands and broad consumer appeal. In fact, 2017 saw the greatest number of RTD coffee launches, and over half of those RTD coffee launches were cold brew. Another plus for the coffee market, the London-based global intelligence firm finds that RTD is an “also” beverage. That is, it is not the first coffee beverage, it’s an “add on.”
Starbucks introduced bottled Frappuccinos in 1996 with Pepsico. “It was not the first RTD coffee product, but it was really the first mainstream one,” said Caleb Bryant, senior beverages analyst, Mintel, who presented during the National Coffee Association (US) webinar, “What’s Brewing in RTD Coffee 2018?” He noted that the market did not really start expanding until the mid-2000s, with an explosion in coffee innovation coming in the mid-2010s.
RTD coffee appeals to a wide range of consumers, which is contributing to its growth. There has been an increase in cold coffee consumption by Gen Xers, but the primary consumers are young people. Bryant said younger consumers enter the coffee market through cold, flavourful coffee drinks. Data shows Generation Z or the iGen is starting to drink coffee at a younger age — even younger than millennials. “Younger consumers’ coffee preferences will change as they grow older,” he explained, so, it’s important for brands to target these consumers early and establish brand loyalty but follow them through their coffee lifestyle.
On a side note, according to Mintel, foodservice-brand RTD coffees such as coffee shop RTDs (Peet’s Coffee, Starbucks, McCafé, Stumptown, etc) are the most frequently purchased.
The future for RTD coffee remains strong as there are occasions for RTD coffees to break into new whitespaces. “Consumers are primarily buying RTD coffees for refreshment and as a treat (cold so refreshing on a hot day, a treat because they’re flavoured),” said Bryant. “Marketers can try to position them as a snack and as hydration.”
Cold brew remains a key area of opportunity as Mintel reports that 16% of respondents prefer cold brew to other iced coffee beverages. Beverage blurring is affecting all categories, including coffee –especially cold brew – and these “hybrid” drinks satisfy unique occasions. “Most have lower caffeine content than regular RTD coffees and are often sparkling,” said Bryant offering Blue Island Coffee’s Organic Kombucha Maca Cold Brew Espresso as an example along with Keeper’s Citrus Sparkling Coffee, Rise Brewing Co’s Nitro Blood Orange Cold Brew, Stumptown’s Honey Lemon Cold Brew Coffee, and Upfruit’s Ginger Hibiscus Sparkling Coffee.
Of course, for consumers, taste is still the leading indicator of quality. RTD drinkers are interested in unique flavour experiences. “Vanilla, chocolate and hazelnut are still the most popular but there are opportunities to engage third-wave consumers,” said Bryant. He pointed to alcohol as a flavour noting that alcohol flavours are an alternative to overly sweet coffees. Examples include Starbucks Gin Barrel Aged Cold Brew and Dark Matter Coffee’s Barrel Aged Series. He added that coffee mocktails may also provide inspiration for flavour innovation.
Floral flavours are trending in alcoholic and non-alcoholic categories and can be used in coffee beverages as well, such as a rose or lavender latte.
Bryant shared that RTD coffee brands can also appeal to third-wave consumers through feel-good claims. RTD coffees that focus on sustainability, are environmentally friendly, engage in ethical sourcing, “give back,” are organic (Chameleon Organic Cold Brew Coffee with Organic Whole Milk is an example), are Fairtrade and/or Rainforest Alliance-certified or non-GMO, will attract third-wave coffee drinkers.
Functional RTD coffee is yet another opportunity for brands, which can differentiate themselves through health claims. Consumers are looking for coffees that offer a multitude of functional benefits such as anti-oxidants, anti-inflammatory, low sugar, added protein, added probiotics, promoting brain health, as well as low caffeine and high caffeine. “There is a disconnect as many consumers are interested in RTD coffees that help them relax but many also want high caffeine,” said Bryant. Examples include Stok Espresso Creamed Protein Coffee, High Brew Cold Brew + Protein Coffee, Coffee Blenders Lean Weight Wellness Cold Brew, and Wond’er Fuel Coconut Oil Cold Brew Coffee.
RTD coffee drinkers crave innovation and there are many new areas where RTD coffee brands can find inspiration and innovate — and innovation leads to increased consumption, and in turn, increased revenues and market growth.


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SSAB has concluded discussions with Tata Steel over the possible acquisition of the IJmuiden steelworks. After deeper analysis following talks that began last November, SSAB says there were limited possibilities to include the Dutch works into its strategic framework.
“We have carefully evaluated Tata Steel IJmuiden and have concluded that an acquisition would be difficult for technical reasons,” SSAB chief executive Martin Lindqvist says in a note seen by Kallanish. “We cannot be sufficiently certain that we could implement our industrial plan with the preferred technical solutions as quickly as we would wish. We cannot align Tata Steel Ijmuiden with our sustainability strategy in the way desired.”
“The synergies that we saw in the transaction would not fully justify the costs and investments required for our desired transformation. This means that overall, the transaction would not meet our financial expectations,” he adds.
The possible purchase of IJmuiden was driven by SSAB customers’ desire for a strong supplier of a broad range of fossil-free steel, the Swedish steelmaker observes. “Through an expanded range of steel products, which in the long term can be converted to fossil-free products, SSAB can become a more comprehensive supplier of fossil-free steel to existing and new customers in key segments,” it continues. “This has also been about creating synergies between existing operations in the Nordics and in IJmuiden and getting closer to the European market.”
The group’s goal is to be the first in the world, in 2026, to supply fossil-free steel to market and to be a fossil-free company by 2045. “We are continuously on the lookout for possibilities to invest and step up the pace of this transition,” Lindqvist concludes.
Tata Steel is expected to continue looking for an investor into IJmuiden after it commenced in November the separation of the Tata Steel Netherlands and Tata Steel UK businesses. The firm has said it will concentrate investment in its Indian operations going forward. It meanwhile remains in talks with the UK government to secure the long-term future of the Port Talbot steelworks.


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It wouldn’t be ‘tis the season of Luke Cage without some Sweet Christmas songs. Marvel has released Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s dynamic track, “Bulletproof Love” (featuring Method Man), but the thirst has not been quenched. We need a full soundtrack.
The Netflix series has been widely praised for its story, acting, and how it treats its supporting characters. However, some of its biggest critical acclaim has come from its music. It’s clear the series has taken its time to cultivate a gorgeous hip-hop soundtrack, drawing on the spirit of its Harlem setting with classic artists and newer talent. Plus, all of the episode titles are named after songs by early hip-hop group Gang Starr.

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Vegetarianism is a growing trend in America today, and it has been for some time. In some other countries, vegetarianism is the norm, and eating meat is seen as the “trend!” If you are a caregiver or a home care aide, though, you might want to think twice about switching your loved one to an all-vegetarian diet.
Aside from the fact that seniors need a lot of protein in their diets to stay healthy, strong, and at a proper weight, there are also many other factors that may make vegetarianism risky. Here are a list of some of the problems that come along with vegetarianism, along with some ways you can work around them.
- Choking hazards – Seniors often have a more difficult time chewing and swallowing than their younger counterparts. Luckily, though, this problem can be avoided by the caregiver simply cooking vegetables until they are very soft to make them easier to chew and swallow. Cutting them into very small, bite-sized pieces can also be helpful, because these don’t require as much chewing, and are less likely to get caught in the throat.
- Not enough protein – As mentioned above, getting the right amount of protein in your diet can be tough if you are a vegetarian. Lean meats are often the best choice for this, but if your loved one wants to be a vegetarian, they can get their protein from other sources, such as seeds, nuts, beans, legumes, and whole grains. A lack of protein in the diet can cause a lack of energy (as well as a lot of other problems), so make sure that your loved one is getting enough of it.
- Unbalanced diet – In addition to protein, seniors need to ingest a certain amount of calories and nutrients. They can get these nutrients from vegetables, but it is very tempting to try to fill up on empty calories by eating too many sweets. An unbalanced diet can lead to a whole host of health problems like diabetes, high blood sugar, obesity, and heart disease, so it is important to make sure that your loved one’s diet includes pieces from every food group included in it. Vegetables aren’t always the most filling dish, so make sure to include some whole grains as well. These provide calories without all the added sugars and fats that come with junk food, which is usually used as a filler because people are too hungry after eating such a light meal.
There is no rule that says that vegetarian diets are not a great choice for seniors. In fact, it could help them to lose weight in a healthy way. However, it is imperative that you keep the above issues in mind as a caregiver or home care aide, because what seems like a healthy lifestyle actually has a lot of possible holes in it. Many elderly men and women enjoy a full, rich array of food as vegetarians, but others who don’t do enough research or have enough variety don’t get the full effect of a vegetarian lifestyle. It is up to you as the caregiver or home care aide to make sure that your loved one’s diet is not just healthy, but safe and filling as well!


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Oppo F11 Pro is a phone that comes with a lot of features that are designed to make it a great choice for those who are looking for a new phone. One of the most notable features of the Oppo F11 Pro is its water-resistance. This feature allows the phone to be submerged in water for up to 30 minutes without suffering any damage.
Oppo F11 Pro is a smartphone that was released in March 2019. It is available in two colors, Thunder Black and Aurora Green. The Oppo F11 Pro has a 6.5-inch display with a resolution of 1080×2340 pixels and an aspect ratio of 19.5:9.
It is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio P70 processor and it comes with 6GB of RAM. The phone has 128GB of internal storage which can be expanded up to 256GB via a microSD card. As for the cameras, the Oppo F11 Pro has a dual rear camera setup that includes a 48-megapixel primary sensor with an f/1.79 aperture and a 5-megapixel secondary sensor with an f/2.4 aperture.
On the front, there is a 16-megapixel selfie camera with an f/2.0 aperture.
Is My Oppo Phone Waterproof?
If you’re wondering if your Oppo phone is waterproof, the answer is unfortunately no. While Oppo phones are designed to be water-resistant, they are not waterproof and should not be submerged in water. If you accidentally drop your phone in water, make sure to dry it off as soon as possible to prevent any damage.
What is Special in Oppo F11 Pro?
Oppo F11 Pro is one of the latest smartphones in the market with some amazing features. It has a 6.5-inch full HD+ display with a resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels and an aspect ratio of 19:9. The phone is powered by a MediaTek Helio P70 octa-core processor and it comes with 6GB of RAM.
The Oppo F11 Pro has 128GB of internal storage which can be expanded up to 256GB via microSD card. In terms of camera, the Oppo F11 Pro sports a dual rear camera setup which includes a 48MP primary sensor with f/1.79 aperture and a 5MP secondary sensor with f/2.4 aperture. On the front, there is a 16MP selfie camera with f/2.0 aperture.
How Long Does Oppo F11 Pro Last?
Assuming you are talking about the battery life of the Oppo F11 Pro, it can last up to 15 hours on a single charge. However, this will vary depending on how you use the phone and what apps you have installed. For example, if you use power-hungry apps or play lots of games on your phone, the battery will drain faster.
Does Oppo F11 Pro Support 4G+?
Yes, the Oppo F11 Pro supports 4G+. This is because the phone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor, which supports LTE Cat.12/13 speeds of up to 600Mbps downlink and 150Mbps uplink.
OPPO F11 PRO WATER TEST
Oppo F21 Pro is Waterproof Or Not
Oppo F21 Pro is a new smartphone that was released in 2020. It is a successor to the Oppo F11 Pro and it features a waterdrop notch display. The device is powered by the MediaTek Helio P70 chipset and it has 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage.
The Oppo F21 Pro also has a triple camera setup on the back which consists of a 48 MP primary sensor, an 8 MP ultrawide sensor, and a 2 MP depth sensor. The phone runs on Android 9.0 Pie with ColorOS 6.0 skinned on top and it is backed by a 4000 mAh battery. As for connectivity, the Oppo F21 Pro has 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS/ A-GPS, USB Type-C, and 3.5mm headphone jack options.
Now coming to the main question that everyone wants to know – Is the Oppo F21 Pro waterproof? Well, unfortunately, the answer is no; the Oppo F21 Pro is not waterproof or water-resistant in any way whatsoever. This means that if you accidentally drop your phone in water or get caught in rain with it, there’s a very high chance that your phone will be damaged beyond repair.
So if you’re looking for a waterproof smartphone, you’ll have to look elsewhere; but if you don’t mind taking precautions with your phone around water bodies, then the Oppo F21 Pro should serve you just fine!
Is Oppo F11 Good for Gaming
It is no secret that mobile gaming has become increasingly popular in recent years. With the release of new and improved smartphones, mobile gaming has only become more accessible to gamers around the world. So, is the Oppo F11 good for gaming?
Let’s take a look. The Oppo F11 comes equipped with a MediaTek Helio P70 octa-core processor and 6GB of RAM. This makes it one of the most powerful smartphones on the market and gives it the ability to handle even the most demanding mobile games without any issues.
Additionally, the phone features a large 6.53-inch display which is perfect for gaming. The screen also has an impressive 90Hz refresh rate which means that games will look smooth and fluid on the Oppo F11. In terms of battery life, the Oppo F11 boasts a massive 4,000mAh battery which should be more than enough to get you through even the longest gaming sessions.
And if you do happen to run out of juice,oppos fast charging technology can get you back up and running in no time at all. So, there you have it – everything you need to know about whether or not the Oppo F11 is good for gaming. If you’re looking for a powerful smartphone with great features that will allow you to enjoy your favourite mobile games without any problems, then this is definitely the phone for you!
Oppo F11 Pro Price
OPPO F11 Pro is one of the latest smartphones from OPPO. It has a 6.5-inch full HD+ display with a resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels and an aspect ratio of 19:5:9. The smartphone is powered by a MediaTek Helio P70 processor and it comes with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage.
In terms of cameras, the OPPO F11 Pro features a dual rear camera setup that includes a 48-megapixel primary sensor and a 5-megapixel secondary sensor. On the front, there is a 16-megapixel selfie camera. The smartphone runs on Android 9 Pie operating system and it is backed by a 4000mAh battery.
As for the price, the OPPO F11 Pro is priced at Rs 25,990 in India.
Oppo R15 Pro
Oppo R15 Pro is a high-end smartphone from the Chinese manufacturer Oppo. It was announced on March 23, 2018, and released on April 1, 2018. The Oppo R15 Pro is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor and has 6 GB of RAM.
The phone has 128 GB of internal storage which can be expanded via microSD card. The Oppo R15 Pro sports a dual rear camera setup with 16 MP and 20 MP sensors. It also has a 20 MP front-facing camera.
The phone runs on Android 8.1 Oreo operating system with Oppo’s custom UI layer on top.
No, the Oppo F11 Pro is not waterproof. However, it is water resistant and can withstand splashes and accidental drops in water.


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Catching up with post-holiday stuff has slowed me down, but I finished John Kay’s new book, [amazon_link id=”B00UJD8AS2″ target=”_blank” ]Other People’s Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?[/amazon_link] on a flight back from his native Edinburgh yesterday. It is characteristically excellent, drawing the main threads out of the complexities of modern financial history and the post-crisis consequences, and writing with beautiful clarity and style. It’s up there with John Lanchester’s [amazon_link id=”014104571X” target=”_blank” ]Whoops![/amazon_link] as a guide to understanding what has happened in finance. I agreed with every word. I don’t suppose he’d want the job, but it would be marvellous if we could put John in as Chancellor to sort things out.
[amazon_image id=”B00UJD8AS2″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Other People’s Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?[/amazon_image]
The book tells the story of the financialisation of the British and global economies in its first section, and the transition from relationship-based financial services focused on customers and the real economy to transactional and trading-based financial entities.This progressive shift in behaviour, values and institutions affected the whole of the corporate sector. The book offers a telling contrast between the 1987 and 1994 annual reports of ICI:
“ICI aims to be the world’s leading chemical company, servicing customers internationally through the innovative and responsible application of chemistry and related science. Through achievement of our aim we will enhance the wealth and well-being of our shareholders, our employees, our customers and the communities which we serve and in which we operate.”
“Our objective is to maximise value for our shareholders by focusing on businesses where we have market leadership, a technological edge and a world competitive cost base.”
This has happened across the whole of the business sector throughout the west. It’s tragic. Risk taking at the expense of others, bonus culture, income inequality, short termism, declining business investment, overly-detailed regulation having utterly adverse consequences, and the taxpayer still in line to prop up the whole edifice if – or rather when – the financial sector gets hit by another tail risk it can’t cope with. As Kay underlines, and as [amazon_link id=”B00HZ634AU” target=”_blank” ]Admati and Hellwig[/amazon_link] pointed out so clearly, and even Alan Greenspan now admits, the banks have far, far too little equity capital and too much leverage. The summary here of Deutsche Bank’s balance sheet is terrifying.
The book is particularly clear about the inadequacy of banks’ current levels of shareholder capital vs debt on their balance sheets, and the nonsense of the Basel risk weightings, and banks’ claiming they can achieve 15% return on equity – always done by reducing the amount of equity in the denominator. Kay writes: “Return on equity is an inappropriate performance metric for any company, but especially for a bank; and it is bizarre that its use should have been championed by people who profess particular expertise in financial and risk management.” Bizarre, or perhaps just cynical.
So what to do about it? Especially as financial markets start displaying the kind of declines that could, potentially, wipe out a frail bank’s mimimal equity? The book has good answers. Kay starts with a set of principles for reform, including shorter chains of intermediation before the final customers, more focused and specialist financial institutions, a prioritisation and demonstration that the financial institution has its clients’ interests at heart (hello, Goldman Sachs), criminal and civil penalities applied to individuals (not fines on institutions), simpler regulation. Above all, politicians should abandon the illusion that the finance sector is special compared to other sectors of business. After all, the numbers don’t make sense; it has certainly not contributed as much to the economy as is claimed, and is not financing industry or serving the needs of investors.
In detail, the book favours structural remedies, not more and more regulation of behaviour – that is an arms race between banks and regulators that the former, with their ability to extract vast rents and hire lawyers/lobbyists will always win. Kay sees ring fencing of retail activities from investment banking as a ‘first step’. I agree: the too-big-to-fail-subsidy will always be too big for as long as there are any links. There needs to be a structural separation, and deposit guarantees only for utility retail/small business banking. He also puts great weight on individual civil and criminal responsibility.
Towards the end of the book comes one of many eye-popping quotations from Goldmans executives:
Sen C Levin (D, Michigan): When you heard that your employees in these emails and looking at these deals said, “God, what a shitty deal!)… do you feel anything?
Mr D.A.Viniar (CFO, Goldman Sachs): I think that is very unfortunate to have on email.
No wonder Kay concludes: “The finance sector of modern western economies is too large.” Spot on. It takes too many of the best graduates, distorts pay across the corporate sector, fails to innovate on behalf of its customers, and exposes taxpayers to unsupportable risks. Financial conglomerates need to be broken up, banks need to hold much higher levels of equity capital.
Financialisation has even damaged unfairly the standing of the role of markets (and economics): “The intellectual misconception behind the thought that prosperity might be enhanced by trade in baseball cards has been associated with an economic model that misunderstands the (important) role that markets play in enabling complex modern economies to manage information,” Kay writes. Prices are important signals – just not the prices on the trading room screens.
Shrinking the finance sector takes the book in its final pages to the influence of money and lobbying on politics. Which politicians are going to serve the people instead of the masters of the universe? Unfortunately I haven’t heard even the Labour leadership candidate my Tory best friend has renamed “The Gift that Keeps on Giving” addressing this. As for the American system, utterly bought by big money, beyond hope.
Meanwhile, I hope lots of people will read [amazon_link id=”B00UJD8AS2″ target=”_blank” ]Other People’s Money[/amazon_link] and then send it on to their elected representative with suitable passages highlighted, saying – if you want my vote next time, act on this.

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An icy view of Chip's House and Meet Chip when it's not covered in tarps
Chip's House and Meet Chip
January 25, 1959
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After you walk
through Chip's house, you'll be able to queue up for her Movie Shed in the former servants' quarters. There you can stumble on Chip repeatedly taping a scene from her latest film, "The Banned Concert". Be sure to smile and say "oil"!
- If traveling with teens , they'll want to go on this attraction and sing along.
- During selected "Magic Tables," Disneyland celebrities are able to visit this attraction more than an hour before more important people.
- Minimum height 49".
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INEOS Styrolution Group GmbH announces execution of Supplemental Indenture
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Sunnis have been pushed out by the war. The new Syria is smaller, in ruins and more sectarian.
A NEW Syria is emerging from the rubble of war. In Homs, which Syrians once dubbed the “capital of the revolution” against President Bashar al-Assad, the Muslim quarter and commercial district still lie in ruins, but the Christian quarter is reviving. Churches have been lavishly restored; a large crucifix hangs over the main street. “Groom of Heaven”, proclaims a billboard featuring a photo of a Christian soldier killed in the seven-year conflict. In their sermons, Orthodox patriarchs praise Mr Assad for saving one of the world’s oldest Christian communities.
Homs, like all of the cities recaptured by the government, now belongs mostly to Syria’s victorious minorities: Christians, Shias and Alawites (an esoteric offshoot of Shia Islam from which Mr Assad hails). These groups banded together against the rebels, who are nearly all Sunni, and chased them out of the cities. Sunni civilians, once a large majority, followed. More than half of the country’s population of 22m has been displaced—6.5m inside Syria and over 6m abroad. Most are Sunnis.
The authorities seem intent on maintaining the new demography. Four years after the government regained Homs, residents still need a security clearance to return and rebuild their homes. Few Sunnis get one. Those that do have little money to restart their lives. Some attend Christian mass, hoping for charity or a visa to the West from bishops with foreign connections. Even these Sunnis fall under suspicion. “We lived so well before,” says a Christian teacher in Homs. “But how can you live with a neighbour who overnight called you a kafir (infidel)?”
Even in areas less touched by the war, Syria is changing. The old city of Damascus, Syria’s capital, is an architectural testament to Sunni Islam. But the Iranian-backed Shia militias that fight for Mr Assad have expanded the city’s Shia quarter into Sunni and Jewish areas. Portraits of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah, a Lebanese Shia militia, hang from Sunni mosques. Advertisements for Shia pilgrimages line the walls. In the capital’s new cafés revellers barely notice the jets overhead, bombing rebel-held suburbs. “I love those sounds,” says a Christian woman who works for the UN. Like other regime loyalists, she wants to see the “terrorists” punished.
Mr Assad’s men captured the last rebel strongholds around Damascus in May. He now controls Syria’s spine, from Aleppo in the north to Damascus in the south—what French colonisers once called la Syrie utile (useful Syria). The rebels are confined to pockets along the southern and northern borders (see map). Lately the government has attacked them in the south-western province of Deraa.
A prize of ruins
The regime is in a celebratory mood. Though thinly spread, it has survived the war largely intact. Government departments are functioning. In areas that remained under Mr Assad’s control, electricity and water supplies are more reliable than in much of the Middle East. Officials predict that next year’s natural-gas production will surpass pre-war levels. The National Museum in Damascus, which locked up its prized antiquities for protection, is preparing to reopen to the public. The railway from Damascus to Aleppo might resume operations this summer.
To mark national day on April 17th, the ancient citadel of Aleppo hosted a festival for the first time since the war began. Martial bands, dancing girls, children’s choirs and a Swiss opera singer (of Syrian origin) crowded onto the stage. “God, Syria and Bashar alone,” roared the flag-waving crowd, as video screens showed the battle to retake the city. Below the citadel, the ruins stretch to the horizon.
Mr Assad (pictured) has been winning the war by garrisoning city centres, then shooting outward into rebel-held suburbs. On the highway from Damascus to Aleppo, towns and villages lie desolate. A new stratum of dead cities has joined the ones from Roman times. The regime has neither the money nor the manpower to rebuild. Before the war Syria’s economic growth approached double digits and annual GDP was $60bn. Now the economy is shrinking; GDP was $12bn last year. Estimates of the cost of reconstruction run to $250bn.
Syrians are experienced construction workers. When Lebanon’s civil war ended in 1990, they helped rebuild Beirut. But no such workforce is available today. In Damascus University’s civil-engineering department, two-thirds of the lecturers have fled. “The best were first to go,” says one who stayed behind. Students followed them. Those that remain have taken to speaking Araglish, a hotch-potch of Arabic and English, as many plan futures abroad.
Traffic flows lightly along once-jammed roads in Aleppo, despite the checkpoints. Its pre-war population of 3.2m has shrunk to under 2m. Other cities have also emptied out. Men left first, many fleeing the draft and their likely dispatch to the front. As in Europe after the first world war, Syria’s workforce is now dominated by women. They account for over three-quarters of the staff in the religious-affairs ministry, a hitherto male preserve, says the minister. There are female plumbers, taxi-drivers and bartenders.
Millions of Syrians who stayed behind have been maimed or traumatised. Almost everyone your correspondent spoke to had buried a close relative. Psychologists warn of societal breakdown. As the war separates families, divorce rates soar. More children are begging in the streets. When the jihadists retreat, liquor stores are the first to reopen.
Mr Assad, though, seems focused less on recovery than rewarding loyalists with property left behind by Sunnis. He has distributed thousands of empty homes to Shia militiamen. “Terrorists should forfeit their assets,” says a Christian businesswoman, who was given a plush café that belonged to the family of a Sunni defector. A new decree, called Law 10, legitimises the government’s seizure of such assets. Title-holders will forfeit their property if they fail to re-register it, a tough task for the millions who have fled the country.
A Palestinian-like problem
The measure has yet to be implemented, but refugees compare it to Israel’s absentees’ property laws, which allow the government to take the property of Palestinian refugees. Syrian officials, of course, bridle at such comparisons. The ruling Baath party claims to represent all of Syria’s religions and sects. The country has been led by Alawites since 1966, but Sunnis held senior positions in government, the armed forces and business. Even today many Sunnis prefer Mr Assad’s secular rule to that of Islamist rebels.
But since pro-democracy protests erupted in March 2011, Syrians detect a more sectarian approach to policymaking. The first demonstrations attracted hundreds of thousands of people of different faiths. So the regime stoked sectarian tensions to divide the opposition. Sunnis, it warned, really wanted winner-take-all majoritarianism. Jihadists were released from prison in order to taint the uprising. As the government turned violent, so did the protesters. Sunni states, such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, provided them with arms, cash and preachers. Hardliners pushed aside moderates. By the end of 2011, the protests had degenerated into a sectarian civil war.
Early on, minorities lowered their profile to avoid being targeted. Women donned headscarves. Non-Muslim businessmen bowed to demands from Sunni employees for prayer rooms. But as the war swung their way, minorities regained their confidence. Alawite soldiers now flex arms tattooed with Imam Ali, whom they consider the first imam after the Prophet Muhammad (Sunnis see things differently). Christian women in Aleppo show their cleavage. “We would never ask about someone’s religion,” says an official in Damascus. “Sorry to say, we now do.”
The country’s chief mufti is a Sunni, but there are fewer Sunnis serving in top posts since the revolution. Last summer Mr Assad replaced the Sunni speaker of parliament with a Christian. In January he broke with tradition by appointing an Alawite, instead of a Sunni, as defence minister.
Officially the government welcomes the return of displaced Syrians, regardless of their religion or sect. “Those whose hands are not stained with blood will be forgiven,” says a Sunni minister. Around 21,000 families have returned to Homs in the last two years, according to its governor, Talal al-Barazi. But across the country, the number of displaced Syrians is rising. Already this year 920,000 people have left their homes, says the UN. Another 45,000 have fled the recent fighting in Deraa. Millions more may follow if the regime tries to retake other rebel enclaves.
When the regime took Ghouta, in eastern Damascus, earlier this year its 400,000 residents were given a choice between leaving for rebel-held areas in the north or accepting a government offer of shelter. The latter was a euphemism for internment. Tens of thousands remain “captured” in camps, says the UN. “We swapped a large prison for a smaller one,” says Hamdan, who lives with his family in a camp in Adra, on the edge of Ghouta. They sleep under a tarpaulin in a schoolyard with two other families. Armed guards stand at the gates, penning more than 5,000 people inside.
The head of the camp, a Christian officer, says inmates can leave once their security clearance is processed, but he does not know how long that will take. Returning home requires a second vetting. Trapped and powerless, Hamdan worries that the regime or its supporters will steal his harvest—and then his land. Refugees fear that they will be locked out of their homeland altogether. “We’re the new Palestinians,” says Taher Qabar, one of 350,000 Syrians camped in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
Some argue that Mr Assad, with fewer Sunnis to fear, may relax his repressive rule. Ministers in Damascus insist that change is inevitable. They point to a change in the constitution made in 2012 that nominally allows for multiparty politics. There are a few hopeful signs. Local associations, once banned, offer vocational training to the displaced. State media remain Orwellian, but the internet is unrestricted and social-media apps allow for unfettered communication. Students in cafés openly criticise the regime. Why doesn’t Mr Assad send his son, Hafez, to the front, sneers a student who has failed his university exams to prolong his studies and avoid conscription.
A decade ago Mr Assad toyed with infitah (liberalisation), only for Sunni extremists to build huge mosques from which to spout their hate-speech, say his advisers. He is loth to repeat the mistake. Portraits of the president, appearing to listen keenly with a slightly oversized ear, now line Syria’s roads and hang in most offices and shops. Checkpoints, introduced as a counter-insurgency measure, control movement as never before. Men under the age of 42 are told to hand over cash or be sent to the front. So rife are the levies that diplomats speak of a “checkpoint economy”.
Having resisted pressure to compromise when he was losing, Mr Assad sees no reason to make concessions now. He has torpedoed proposals for a political process, promoted by UN mediators and his Russian allies, that would include the Sunni opposition. At talks in Sochi in January he diluted plans for a constitutional committee, insisting that it be only consultative and based in Damascus. His advisers use the buzzwords of “reconciliation” and “amnesty” as euphemisms for surrender and security checks. He has yet to outline a plan for reconstruction.
War, who is it good for?
Mr Assad appears to be growing tired of his allies. Iran has resisted Russia’s call for foreign forces to leave Syria. It refuses to relinquish command of 80,000 foreign Shia militiamen. Skirmishes between the militias and Syrian troops have resulted in scores of deaths, according to researchers at King’s College in London. Having defeated Sunni Islamists, army officers say they have no wish to succumb to Shia ones. Alawites, in particular, flinch at Shia evangelising. “We don’t pray, don’t fast [during Ramadan] and drink alcohol,” says one.
But Mr Assad still needs his backers. Though he rules most of the population, about 40% of Syria’s territory lies beyond his control. Foreign powers dominate the border areas, blocking trade corridors and the regime’s access to oilfields. In the north-west, Turkish forces provide some protection for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a group linked to al-Qaeda, and other Sunni rebels. American and French officers oversee a Kurdish-led force east of the Euphrates river. Sunni rebels abutting the Golan Heights offer Israel and Jordan a buffer. In theory the territory is classified as a “de-escalation zone”. But violence in the zone is escalating again.
New offensives by the regime risk pulling foreign powers deeper into the conflict. Turkey, Israel and America have drawn red lines around the rebels under their protection. Continuing Iranian operations in Syria “would be the end of [Mr Assad], his regime”, said Yuval Steinitz, a minister in Israel, which has bombed Iranian bases in the country. Israel may be giving the regime a green light in Deraa, in order to keep the Iranians out of the area.
There could be worse options than war for Mr Assad. More fighting would create fresh opportunities to reward loyalists and tilt Syria’s demography to his liking. Neighbours, such as Jordan and Lebanon, and European countries might indulge the dictator rather than face a fresh wave of refugees. Above all, war delays the day Mr Assad has to face the question of how he plans to rebuild the country that he has so wantonly destroyed.


DMA'S discuss their "modern rock record" How Many Dreams?
30 March 2023, 20:31 | Updated: 31 March 2023, 19:52
DMA'S talk new album How Many Dreams?
The Aussie trio spoke to Radio X's Dan O'Connell about their fourth studio album, how they fell in love with dance music and their Glasto hopes.
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The record - which includes the singles Everybody's Saying Thursday's The Weekend and Fading Like A Picture - sees the Aussie outfit experiment even more with the dance genre, but the band still consider the album a "modern rock record".
Asked if they discovered dance later in life, Took replied: "That was late for me. The first time I really understood dance music is when were were playing Lowlands (Festival) and we got to stick around and there was like 40,000 Dutch people who were listening to Underworld.
"I just remember going, 'Oh my god' and it just clicked at that point."
Frontman O'Dell added: "I've been into dance music for a long time because I played drums and that was my first instrument, so I listened to a lot of electronic stuff.
"I remembered when I first started getting into music festivals it was always dance festivals and I guess that's how the DMA'S work. It's all our influences mixed together. I guess that's what's created our sound."
"Even though we have incorporated more dancey elements into this record, I would still call it a modern rock record," interjected Took. "And that's one of the differences of a modern rock record today. It's got those kind of modern techniques they used to make it."
Watch our interview with the outfit above.
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The Aussie band are on their second home-turf, where they're about to embark on dates across the UK, which include a huge show at the Wembley OVO Arena next month.
However, there's still one big gig they're not sure if they've landed this year; Glastonbury Festival. And despite wanting to go back, the band recalled their first time playing the festival was anything but glamorous as they had to push their own van out of the mud.
O'Dell recalled: "We played it once before and we got stuck in the mud".
"Yeah, we were like the secret act or whatever they do on the Thursday," added Took. "And we were coming in and our tour manager bought us gum boots (wellies)."
Lead drummer Matt Mason laughed: "We thought it was going to be this iconic experience and we were pushing our sprinter van in the mud with these Wellingtons on and we were like, 'let's get the F out of here".
"It'd be epic to play it again,"added O'Dell.


Auckland Council has unveiled the artist’s impressions of a groundbreaking new work of public art set to transform a utilitarian underpass at the northern end of Myers Park into an interactive experience of light and sound.
Auckland’s favourite mid-year festival, Elemental AKL returns this July with a sensational season of curated experiences celebrating the unique culture, cuisine, and creativity of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Auckland Council’s Public Art team and Development Programme Office have worked side by side with artist Graham Tipene (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei) and his team of talented mana whenua creatives and Warren and Mahoney architects to create an extraordinary artwork; unique in New Zealand, if not the world.
Regional Arts and Culture Grant funding has been allocated to support Tāmaki Makaurau's arts sector.
The opening of Kākano Art Gallery in Henderson Town Centre is a dream come true and a culmination of years of work.
This production explores the challenges and complexities of motherhood.
Pasifika theatre collective Pacific Underground revisits Dawn Raids 25 years on.
Vaughan Williams’ vision of the English countryside brings NZ violinist Amalia Hall back to the APO.
Kathryn Moorhead has selected music to display that divine combination, flute and harp.
Fast-rising British conductor Alpesh Chauhan leads the APO in a cracker of a programme.
Bach Musica NZ presents Durufle Requiem, Tolnay Symphony 2019 (world premiere) and Piazzolla Adios Nonino & Escolaso.
A funny, astute and unmissable new play from Auckland Theatre Company.


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Marketers are obsessed with "Return On Investment", or ROI, the practice of measuring advertising effectiveness by the amount of sales generated by dollar spent. Well, it seems that the FBI just raised the bar on the ROI concept.
The Bureau has been chasing "Whitey" Bulger, head of the Irish Mob in Boston, who is wanted for 19 homocides. Bulger was the inspiration for the Jack Nicholson's role in Martin Scorsese's movie "The Departed". Bulger became a fugitive 16 years ago. and despite being a perennial feature on the FBI's "10 Most Wanted" list, attempts to locate him turned out to be futile.
This week the FBI changed tactics and came up with an ingenious solution. It created a commercial and started airing it on Tuesday in 14 U.S. cities. The commercial aimed at getting information not about Bulger, but about Catherine Greig, Bulger's longtime girlfriend.
Greig is known to have loved beauty salons, and underwent numerous plastic surgeries, including breast implants, a nose job and face lift. She had worked as a dental hygienist and was known to be obsessively attentive to her teeth, getting them cleaned every 30 days. The FBI posted an ad in the American Dental Association’s newsletter asking dentists if they have treated Bulger or Greig.
The 30-second announcement aired on shows that appeal to women, such as The View, Ellen and Dr. Oz, targeting female viewers around the same age as Greig, now 60, who might have seen Greig in a beauty salon. The campaign to find Greig will also included digital billboards in New York's Time Square and ads and other information on social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
The FBI also offered an award of $100,000 for any information leading to Greig's whereabouts.
So what kind of ROI did the FBI get?
Within 24 the FBI had a tip that led to the arrest of Catherine Greig and with her, "Whitey" Bulger, in Santa Monica, proving once again that advertising works.
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WE ARE AFSCME.
THE UNION THAT NEVER QUITS.
NEW AFSCME CONTRACT
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Members of AFSCME — the largest union of public service workers in state government — have voted to ratify a new contract negotiated with the administration of Governor JB Pritzker.
Voting was conducted between June 12 and 21 at more than 400 worksite meetings statewide, where union members had the opportunity to review the agreement’s terms and ask questions before casting a ballot.
The new contract comes after months of negotiations between AFSCME and the Pritzker administration — and nearly four years of conflict with former governor Bruce Rauner, who walked out on contract talks in January 2016 and refused to even meet with the union bargaining committee for the rest of his term in office. Instead Rauner had tried to unilaterally impose his extreme demands — including doubling employee health care costs and wiping out safeguards against privatization schemes — but was stopped by the courts.
“The Rauner era was one of hostility to working people and chaos in state government. AFSCME members got through it by standing together and refusing to be bullied,” AFSCME Council 31 Executive Director Roberta Lynch said. “Now state employees have a fair contract and, in Governor Pritzker, an employer who respects their voice and values their work.”
The new agreement takes effect immediately and runs through June 30, 2023. The previous contract had been slated to expire at the end of June 2015.
In recognition of their continued diligence during Rauner’s tenure — when he froze their pay and illegally prevented employees from progressing through the pay plan for four years— state workers will initially receive a stipend of $625 for each of the past four years worked. General pay increases will follow in January 2020 (1.5%), July 2020 (2.1%), July 2021 and July 2022 (both 3.95%). State employees have received no general increase since July 2014.
Employee premiums and out-of-pocket costs in the state group health insurance plan will increase. Although specific employee contributions vary by type of health plan and salary levels, premiums will go up each January by a composite $13 per month for individuals and $18 per month for families. This maintains Illinois’s standing in the middle ranks of state employee health plans nationally.
Among other provisions, the new contract strengthens employee protections against excessive forced overtime, expands maternity and paternity leave, creates a new labor-management body to reduce the threat of violence in the workplace and improve worker safety, preserves accountability standards for privatization proposals and creates new protections to safeguard employees’ private information.
The agreement was ratified by an overwhelming majority of union members voting. “The big margin reflects how ready state workers are for the return of sanity and responsible governance in the wake of Bruce Rauner’s relentless attacks,” Lynch said. “Public service workers in state government clearly believe this contract is fair for all.”
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 31 represents nearly 40,000 state employees who protect kids from abuse and neglect, care for veterans and people with disabilities, keep prisons safe, maintain state parks, help struggling families and provide countless other vital public services in communities across the state.
AUGUST 22, 2019 — Council 31 Executive Director Roberta Lynch and Governor JB Pritzker signed the new AFSCME state contract surrounded by more than 200 members of the union bargaining committee. The contract is in effect through June 30, 2023.

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LOS ANGELES — For college basketball coaches, N.C.A.A. tournament preparation extends beyond white boards and practices and game strategy. This advance work is less about their preferred style of play and more about their preferred style of dress.
The custom suits. The lucky ties. The hair product. This is where fast breaks meet fashion forward. Or backward. Or sideways.
It happens several times each game, when the camera pans toward the sideline, and there, amid fans clad in their team colors and players dressed in their uniforms, stands the one guy who is dressed up. While N.F.L. coaches can make famous a hooded sweatshirt, and baseball managers wear uniforms to sit in dugouts, college basketball is all about the suits. And the mousse.
This can create a first impression or reinforce an existing one — and not always in a good way.
Jeff Halmos of the men’s design firm Shipley & Halmos is a college basketball fan. His firm was nominated for the GQ/CFDA Best New Designer Award in 2009.
“Coaches wear suits because that’s what they do, because no one has ever bucked the trend,” he said in a telephone interview. “They follow suit. I’m all for it. I’m not a big fan of the Bill Belichick fashion style, looking like you just rolled out of bed. I don’t think that’s cool. You don’t have to go all Craig Sager with it, but it helps to look good.”
Sager, of course, is the sideline reporter known for his colorful ensembles and one tie that resembles an N.C.A.A. tournament bracket. Most coaches, Halmos said, tend to follow a style patterned after Pat Riley when he coached. He wore suits that looked as if they came straight out of fashion magazines. They suited his personality, added to his aura.
If Halmos were to rank coaches according to their style preferences, he said Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Harvard’s Tommy Amaker, Florida’s Billy Donovan and Villanova’s Jay Wright would receive top-seed consideration. At least on game day, there is not a sweater vest or track suit among them.
Now, when it comes to the N.C.A.A. tournament, the sideline can sometimes resemble a red carpet. Most coaches like to say they put little thought into what they will wear, or how they will wear it. Yet almost all look perfectly coiffed once the cameras turn on.
“I’m an old-school Louisiana country boy,” said Southern’s Roman Banks, whose team lost to Gonzaga in the Round of 64. “Two-button, three-button coats. Basic shirts and ties. Nothing that would draw attention to myself.”
He added: “I’ve heard about some of those other guys. The expensive haircuts. The tanning.”
It is always the other guys. Always.
Often, the fashion statements made by coaches reveal as much about their superstitions as their preference for Armani. Before Bruce Pearl became an ESPN analyst, he always wore suspenders underneath his suit jacket. A booster had told him a long time ago he needed to wear something to distinguish himself. The suspenders worked, but “the only time anyone saw them was when I took my jacket off,” Pearl said. “I only took my jacket off when I was mad at the officials, which was about half the time.”
Pearl also wore a certain tie only until he lost in it. The same went for Bucknell’s Dave Paulsen and North Carolina A&T’s Cy Alexander, who shelved each suit he lost in throughout the season.
“I didn’t pay a ton of attention to my wardrobe,” Pearl said. “But my kids did: ‘Dad, that suit is so old!’ ”
Some coaches are required to wear a suit and tie, like Donovan at Florida. That is one of the Gators’ policies. The hair product is his own undertaking, not part of the contract. Not that Donovan follows that policy throughout the game.
“I take my jacket off before the game ever starts,” he said. “It doesn’t make any difference to me. If it was up to me, I wouldn’t wear a suit and tie. But once the game starts, you don’t even realize what you have on.”
Last year, during the tournament, Esquire listed the best-dressed coaches, along with some of their least favorites. Krzyzewski was named the best dressed, like something out of a high school yearbook, because as the magazine wrote, he “kinda looks like he just stepped off the set of ‘Mad Men.’ ”
Amaker also made the list, for his use of “patterns and turtlenecks (and not in a Bob Huggins kind of way).”
So did Wright, “maybe the only coach in America from whom you would actually want to steal a suit or two.”
Louisville’s Rick Pitino, with his penchant for white suits, was drummed by Esquire “because there will only ever be one Colonel Sanders” and “Pitino too often wants to steal the show from his players.”
Mike Anderson of Arkansas was given an “A for effort” for his bow tie, which he reportedly wore to raise cancer awareness, but also a “C for circus clown.”
The magazine wished Donovan kept his jackets on.
Halmos provided a general list of bad style ideas for coaches. He said they often wore suits at least one size too large for them, baggy shorts for the suits set. He said they too often forced their university colors into their wardrobe (see: Williams, Roy). And he drew the line at wearing sneakers, unless the sole purpose of doing so was for charity.
“That’s something I’m not cool with,” Halmos said. “There are guys who are super into fashion who wear a suit with Vans or Nike trainers, whatever the trend is. Coaches are not those guys. Don’t go halfway.”
Should a coach follow these instructions, Halmos said, they would send the right message to the families of potential recruits. Another unintended beneficiary: assistant coaches. Donovan received hand-me-downs from Pitino, much as he passes his old suits on to his staff.
Tad Boyle, the coach at Colorado, played for Larry Brown, a man “who loved clothes” and “enjoys shopping.” Boyle never saw Brown wear the same suit twice, and every suit he did wear was pressed, sharp and clean. Alas, when Brown handed down old suits to his assistant, they went to Mark Turgeon, who was closer in size to Brown.
“He was so lucky,” Boyle said.
The N.C.A.A. tournament resumes Thursday, and in the interim, college coaches did their own version of “GTL” from the reality show “Jersey Shore.” That would be gym (as in basketball), tan (as in tanning bed) and lather (as in hair product). Some of their teams would even reflect their fashion sense: the smooth look of Kansas’ Bill Self, the classic style of Krzyzewski, Pitino’s outlandish duds.
Not everyone, though, would find time.
“I actually needed to get a haircut,” Valparaiso’s Bryce Drew said before his team was bounced from the tournament last week. “But I didn’t have time to do it.”
Sure, Coach. That is what they all say.


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I thought it would be interesting to participate in this week’s Monday Prompt from Big Tent Poetry. This week is a Wordle, seen below, and I took the liberty of working to get all of the words into my poem. I’ve noted how many of my poems have those dark endings, so despite seeing despair in all of the words of the Wordle, I took it as a challenge to end on a happy note. Here is the Come One, Come All with other entries.
Happiness from the Darkness
I immerse myself in the heaviness,
The oppressive, heavy, wet blanket.
I wish to squeeze all of it gone,
To send it back to the basement.
But it won’t go away and medicines
Are disloyal and topple in the darkness.
I feel hoarse as I beg for the blanket to
Vanish, to go away, taking my ropes.
The engine of God’s spiritual gifts
Is far more swift than the medicine.
The blanket shall vanish in the face of God,
The performance of spirit shall reign.
I need only a slight amount of time, stillness,
Listening, waiting for passage, waiting for God.


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The final touches still need to be put on the building, but the data centre in Eastern Switzerland (Rechenzentrum Ostschweiz) is now offering its full range of services to customers. With LEXO GmbH, an IT company from Speicherschwendi in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, the data centre in the St.GallenBodenseeArea already has its first customer.
“For us, technology is like the air we breathe. I would describe us as ‘technical nerds’, and as such we are very proud to be the first to move into Switzerland’s most modern data centre,” said LEXO CEO Marcus Fleuti.
“The move went off without a hitch. Our servers are installed, everything runs perfectly and very fast. In retrospect, I can say that the entire cooperation with those in charge was absolutely professional, courteous and uncomplicated.”
Christoph Baumgärtner, project manager of the data centre, calls LEXO GmbH’s move a “highlight”.
“On this day we all became aware of what and how much had been achieved up to this point. With tremendous dedication and high expertise, a team of around 200 internal and external specialists created something here that we can all be proud of,” Baumgärtner said.
Other companies are expected to move their servers into the data centre into the near future.


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One of the crimes which most angers the community is also one of the most common, Domestic and Family Violence (DFV). I recently spoke with Louise Castle, the DFV Workplace Charter Project Officer at the South West Sydney Legal Centre about the prevalence and fallout of DFV. She shocked me with some horrifying facts and statistics
According to Louise ‘We have a domestic and family violence crisis in Australia; 1 woman is killed every week by a current or former partner. Domestic and family violence can take a variety of different forms, not just physical violence, there can be emotional, financial, sexual or other kinds of violence that people experience’. How bad is the problem?
Louise painted a very grim picture of domestic violence ‘Australia is at a crisis point in the issue of Domestic and Family Violence’. Some startling figures:
- 1 woman is killed every 5 days in Australia.
- 1/4 of women have experienced physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner.
- Campbelltown LGA has the second highest rate of Domestic & Family Violence (DFV) in Sydney (after Blacktown).
- Campbelltown Police were called out 2,100 times to DFV incidents in the first 6 months of this year.
Louise went on to say. ‘The statistics are particularly bad in the Macarthur region, with one of the highest rates of domestic violence in Sydney. In the Camden local area: domestic violence assaults, intimidation, stalking and harassment have increased over 40% since 2016-17. In the first 6 months of this year, local police made 80 referrals each week to the Macarthur Women’s Domestic Court Advocacy Service for victims of domestic and family violence’.
How is this an issue for businesses?
Domestic and family violence follows into the workplace, not only through the physical and emotional scars but at times actually occurs in the workplace.. I was confronted with some more startling figures:
- 60% of victims are currently in paid employment.
- 20% say the violence continues into the workplace (stalking, abusive texts, calls, etc).
- Relocation and accessing support takes time and money, on average it costs a victim $18,000 to flee domestic violence, that is why it is particularly important for workplaces to offer flexible work and reliable income.
- Workplaces offer a network of support separate from the perpetrator.
Louise went on to say ‘Domestic and Family Violence is a serious workplace health and safety issue and often involves employees needing to take leave to attend court, move house or change their children’s schools. All of which not only has a high cost for the victim but also to their place of work, in terms of loss of productivity’.
The DFV Workplace Charter
In 2016 the South Western Sydney Alliance was formed. One of the priorities is getting businesses to adopt the newly formed Domestic and Family Violence Workplace Charter. Businesses can take an initiative on the issue by creating supportive workplaces where victims feel safe to disclose, seek help and won’t be at risk of losing their job while they leave the violence.
A growing number of businesses across South West Sydney who are joining the DFV Workplace Charter formed by the South West Sydney DFV Alliance. It is currently working across 5 LGAs: Bankstown, Fairfield, Liverpool, Campbelltown, & Camden as these have some of the highest DV rates in Sydney.
Louise pointed out ‘It will take a whole-of-community response to address this issue, of which businesses can play a key role’. She also added ‘Where workplaces have a range of strategies to promote positive workplaces, employees can return to work and remain at work while they seek assistance’.
“It will take a whole-of-community response to address this issue, of which businesses can play a key role”
Do businesses get help?
The alliance understands that culture starts from the top, and as such see the importance of workplaces starting the conversation before employees who are victims will feel safe enough to disclose and seek support.
Louise stressed that there is help for businesses to join the charter. ‘Businesses who adopt the South Western Sydney Domestic and Family Violence Workplace Charter are given a resource pack including a list of local services for South West Sydney, an overview of how to support a staff member experiencing DFV, and a template HR Policy for disclosure and a safety plan’.
This is a massive problem that needs to be tackled by the whole community. While it may be good business to help employees through difficulties, as good corporate citizens businesses can play a very positive role in dealing with this problem. I would encourage all employers to consider joining the workplace charter.


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Sharing this great post – a lot of us can relate 🙂
This is the first in an occasional series of blogs about my experience of identifying as autistic, and general autism issues.
I wanted to start blogging because I crossed a bridge last week. I became someone who is not just wondering about autism, but thinks, feels and behaves as an autistic person. Because I am autistic I now understand why a lot of things that were difficult in the past and have caused problems, and I am beginning to find strategies to deal with them.
I first began to suspect I was autistic earlier this year. I have always had a sense of isolation, and being a little different from other people. I have been conscious that others see me as a little strange, hard to pigeonhole, distant, aloof, arrogant, lacking in emotional intelligence. I am quite highly introvert, and suffer from high levels of social anxiety. Never able to…
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Sea&Sea has officially announced their housing for the Canon EOS 7D Mark II. It is compatible with the company’s internal YS converter and its control levers have been re-designed for better ergonomics. It has two fiber-optic bulkheads as well as the option of Nikonos and HDMI connections.
The MSX-7DMKII is available now at a U.S.A. retail price of $3,599.95.
SEA&SEA Announces MDX-7DMKII Housing
For underwater photographers, the best just got better with the release of the MDX-7DMKII underwater housing for the Canon EOS 7D Mark II Digital SLR Camera.
The precision engineered housing is fully-featured and allows for operation of the 7D Mark II camera’s essential controls. The MDX-7DMKII is compatible with SEA&SEA’s signature Internal Optical YS Converter which offers a host of advantages for the photographers who want to capture the perfect image.
- Optical YS Converter compatible.
- Ergonomically re-designed levers.
- Diopter adjustment dial.
- Luminescent buttons.
- Movable Focus and Zoom gear.
- Two (2) fiber-optic cable sockets.
- One (1) N-Type (2-pin) connector and one (1) HDMI accessory port.
- Two (2) sacrificial zinc diodes (front and rear).
- Compatible with optional VF45 and VF180 view finders.
- Built-in leak detector sensor.
- Body: Corrosion-resistant aluminum alloy (machined).
- Grip: Corrosion-resistant die-cast aluminum alloy.
- Depth rating: 100m / 330ft.
Dimension (WxHxD): 341x198x142mm/13.4x7.8x5.6inch
Weight: Approx. 3,000g / 105.8oz (housing only)
- Compatible with SEA&SEA Strobes, Sea Arm 8, and Fiber-Optic Cable II.
Available Early March 2015
About SEA&SEA: Founded in 1972, SEA&SEA is the leading manufacturer of advanced underwater imaging technology. SEA&SEA offers a variety of housings, strobes and accessories manufactured with the latest technology and ergonomic considerations. SEA&SEA products are distributed within the United States by TUSA. Visit www.seaandsea.com for more information.


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Artist/Author: Leslie Hill, Helen Paris | Reference: P4190 | ISBN: 978-1789384710 | Type: Publication
This book is packed with thoughtful exercises distilled from twenty-five years of interdisciplinary artist workshops and teaching devising and performance making at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Created and curated by Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, artists who work internationally at the interface of academia and professional practice, this collection provides exercises for devising, composing, and editing original works.
Editor: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre | Reference: P4177 | ISBN: 978-1-7775101-0-7 | Type: Publication
Canada’s longest-running new works festival is a hotbed of experimentation, where artists explore new possibilities in theatre, dance, music, and performance art.
In 2021, Rhubarb proposes an alternative: the creation of a physical performative publication that attempts to capture the energy of Rhubarb and, perhaps, recreate the live performance experience itself.
Over 20 artists respond to the prompt to bring performances to the page, with some projects published in the festival publication itself, and other interventions performed on the book after printing. Contributions range from colouring pages to a fever-dream drag performance; from a meal to music inspired by the turning of a page; and from choreographic scores to unearthed histories, real or imagined.

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