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The new opening credits escaped my notice in the past two weeks, partially because the screener cut I saw of “Background Check” had the full, original New Girl intro, the first time I’d seen the entire sequence in months. I’m sad it’s gone, and its replacement seems like it’s merely a placeholder, but the old intro was hardly reflective of the show New Girl is today. (Not to mention that it was missing two characters.) Schmidt, Winston, and Nick aren’t the guys derisively scoffing at Jess’ eccentricities anymore—they’re the guys with their own eccentricities, doing their own singing from beneath twee scenery.
I hope Coach’s teacher friends come back. They seem like fun. Ned can be reached via the popular email service Gmail—that’s pronounced like it’s spelled, “Guh-mail”—at therealned8@gmail.com.
If you’re a distributed ledger or blockchain true believer, take a deep breath. And maybe sit down. This won’t be comfortable. Or boring.
One of Australia’s Big Four banks, ANZ, says it’s run ruler over the supposedly transformative technology and, to put it mildly, it’s neither impressed or convinced of the promise of a revolution in trusted transactions is just around the corner.
“Blockchain has been the darling of the tech world for some time and increasingly so over the medium term, perhaps in part pushed by scorned crypto fanatics grasping for some justification of their obsession in the wake of the bitcoin collapse,” argues Maria Bellmas, ANZ Institutional’s associate director, trade and supply chain product.
“Sold as a solution to all of life’s problems, blockchain offers a ton of legitimate solutions for businesses – but raises just as many questions,” Bellmas continues, before delivering one the most compelling reality checks on tech vendor spin and call outs on solutions desperate for a problem.
So, with blockchain vendor hype at an all time high, especially in the financial services sector, ANZ have let loose a big corporate blockchain debunker that navigates, in plain English and good humour, when a daggy old database might do the job just as well as a distributed ledger.
It’s certainly worth a potted tour.
A regular database? Like the one the DBA reckons does that stuff already? These ANZ types really are party poopers, despite their profession of belief in Agile. Someone’s always gotta take a pin to the balloon.
Take this sublime embodiment of negative thinking.
“Blockchain has only been available in recent times and its scalability is yet to be proven. Some databases offered by leading technology providers have been in the market for years and have a proven record of processing millions of transactions per day without failure,” Bellmas says.
Next she’ll be saying it burns to much power and is computationally inefficient.
Of course, ANZ isn’t saying that blockchain is a complete dud, it’s just that its uses might be more specialised than general. And, when there are specialised needs a special technology can crack that nut.
“Don’t peg us as philistines; blockchain is a technology with a huge number of benefits and it is particularly proving useful in the trade finance space,” says Bellmas.
Even so, that’s counterbalanced with this observation.
Bellmas also points to the example “of a global project not using blockchain is the recently announced Trade Information Network (TIN), a transformational trade information exchange hub based on open architecture that acts as a trusted registry of purchase order and invoice flows across the end-to-end supply chain."
It looks like a matter of horses for courses for ANZ, despite its happy clapping on all things agile.
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A Phillipsburg man was indicted by the Warren County grand jury yesterday on charges in the summer burglary of Ingersoll-Dresser Co.
Ronald Talepo, 19, of Elm Avenue, was indicted on burglary and criminal mischief charges. On Aug. 20, 1993, Talepo allegedly broke into a building in the complex in Phillipsburg and caused over $500 in damages to property owned by Service America Corp.
Also indicted was Michael Swank, 24, of Elm Street, Easton, on a burglary charge. On Nov. 22, 1992, in Phillipsburg, he allegedly broke into a car owned by Ricardo Franco.
David Lunger, 24, of S. Main St., Phillipsburg, and Steven Snook, 25, of East Central Avenue, Alpha, were indicted on charges of burglary and theft. On Aug. 17, 1993, they allegedly broke into a vehicle owned by Alfonso Solomita in Hackettstown and stole property worth more than $200.
Leonardo DiCaprio's movie "Shutter Island" is out of 2009 Oscar consideration.
Paramount Pictures has moved Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" from an October release date to February, which takes it out of awards consideration for this year.
Studio chairman and chief executive officer Brad Grey said Friday that the scheduling shift from Oct. 2 to Feb. 19 was an economic decision.
"This is a situation facing every single studio as we all work through the financial pressures associated with the broader downturn," he said.
The anticipated thriller marks the latest pairing of Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio, following "Gangs of New York" (2002), "The Aviator" (2004) and "The Departed" (2006), which won the Academy Award for best picture and earned Scorsese his first directing Oscar. It also stars Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley and Michelle Williams.
Based on a novel by "Mystic River" author Dennis Lehane, "Shutter Island" follows the investigation into the disappearance of a murderess from a mental institution. DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshal in 1954 Boston looking for the woman, who is presumed to have escaped to the remote Shutter Island. His involvement in the case starts to make him question his own sanity.
Grey said the original decision to release the film as part of Paramount's 2009 slate was made during "a very different economic climate" and as a result the company must "adapt to a changing environment." Paramount is a division of Viacom Inc.
"Leonardo DiCaprio is among the most talented actors working today and Martin Scorsese is not just one of the world's most significant filmmakers, but also a personal friend," Grey added in his statement. "Following a highly successful 2009, we have every confidence that 'Shutter Island' is a great anchor to lead off our 2010 slate and the shift in date is the best decision for the film, the studio and ultimately Viacom."
You might have noticed we’re in a crazy news cycle right now, and in these times of political and civil uncertainty, staying on top of breaking news is more important than ever. If you want the most relevant stories delivered to your phone in the shortest possible time, we’ve got the apps for you.
You can pick up news apps of all shapes and sizes for Android and iOS, but here we’ve tried to focus on the candidates that excel in one particular area: breaking news. That means push notifications that surface the stories most relevant to your interests, and delivered as fast as possible.
The number of alerts you get varies depending on how you configure each app, but having carried these apps around for a couple of days, both AP Mobile and News360 are the most consistent for throwing up news stories that are just breaking, with the AP app best for local news stories (if you’ve set local news stories up).
Each of these apps has their merits though, so we’d recommend trying out a few to see which ones work best for your news taste.
Nuzzel scans what your friends on Twitter and Facebook are sharing and uses that as an indicator of what news you might want to hear about. The app’s ability to filter news headlines based on their timeliness as well as their popularity on your social graph is handy.
in general, Nuzzel doesn’t show alerts for as many stories as other apps, but when something big is breaking on Facebook or Twitter, it seems to do the best job at showing the news first. Indeed, the app’s breaking news alerts consistently impressed us with their speed and relevance. Additionally, you can customize the threshold used to trigger a breaking news alert as well as limit the number of push notifications you get a day in the app settings.
You can turn on push notifications for news (and traffic updates and the weather) from inside the app settings, and we’ve seen numerous timely headlines appear while we’ve been using the Google Now launcher that comes on stock Nexus phones. It’s less aggressive on iOS, but you can still configure push alerts on the news you want.
Everyone’s favorite mobile magazine maker is also useful for breaking news alerts too, and you can either tap into the shared knowledge of your social media feeds or rely on Flipboard to ping you regularly based on the topics of your choosing. The app was recently redesigned so flicking through your curated stories works more smoothly than ever.
You don’t get all that much control over which stories prompt alerts and how often they come through, but there’s an impressive level of customization when it comes to the topics that Flipboard pulls together for you, and a host of news sources to pore through. When you’re ready to read something, the interface is hard to beat.
A lot of news outlets pull their stories from the Associated Press wire anyway, so why not go straight to the source? The new organization’s app design won’t win any beauty contests, but when it comes to getting notifications relevant to your interests, the AP is killer.
AP Mobile doesn’t tap into your social feeds and doesn’t even require any kind of registration, so it’s a more straight-up take on the day’s news, sorted into the categories or the parts of the world you specify. Inside the app settings you can set up a ‘quiet time’ when you won’t be buzzed by whatever breaking news story is about to hit the headlines.
One of the more venerable news apps out there, News360 has been treading the beat for a while now, but still comes up with the goods if you’re after fresh, relevant news headlines pushed straight to your phone. It’s one of the best at sifting the genuinely important stories from the rest, and you can go pretty specific in terms of news topics.
News alerts can be switched on or off for certain categories, if you want push notifications on tech news but not sports scores, and there is the option to link your Facebook and Twitter for a more personalized feed, though this isn’t essential. You can like or dislike stories you read too, which means News360 learns more about what you want over time.
Squid is worth checking out for the way it blends standard features like topic selection with more innovative touches, including the option to annotate articles with text and scribbles before sharing them with your contacts. The special reader mode for articles is friendly on the eyes too.
You don’t get much control over the push notifications the app sends out, so you’re relying on the curation you’ve already done inside the app in terms of sources, but we found Squid did a decent job at keeping us up to date with happenings across the world.
All major UK banks are to take part in the most extensive cyber threat exercise in two years to test their ability to survive a sustained online attack.
There is growing international concern about the safety of financial markets in the face of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks.
In September, Scott Borg, chief of the US Cyber Consequences Unit, said he believed manipulation of international financial markets will be the next evolution of cyber crime.
There is a limit to the amount of money criminals can make through theft and credit card fraud, he told a joint session of the ASIS International and(ISC)2 annual congresses in Chicago.
Operation Waking Shark 2 is scheduled for mid-November and will simulate a major cyber attack on the payments and markets systems on which the UK’s financial system depends, according to the Telegraph.
The test is to be monitored by the Bank of England, Treasury and Financial Conduct Authority to assess the ability of the UK’s core financial services providers to withstand cyber attacks.
The first Operation Waking Shark was conducted two years ago under the now defunct Financial Services Authority (FSA).
The latest exercise is designed to test the resilience of UK banks, the stock market and payment providers and identify areas where improvement is needed.
A recent report from the Treasury said the financial system had a number of potential vulnerabilities, reflecting its high degree of interconnectedness, its reliance on centralised market infrastructure, and its sometimes complex legacy IT systems.
In the light of the report, the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has given banks and organisations core to the financial system six months to outline their strategies to protect against potential cyber attacks.
The FPC also said the Bank of England must ensure it is able to operate if its own systems are attacked.
In June, Andrew Haldane, director of financial stability at the Bank of England and FPC member, said cyber attacks were the top risk for UK banks.
Concerns over cyber attacks top even those around the Eurozone crisis and the UK’s banks must do more to protect themselves, Haldane told parliament’s Treasury Select Committee.
In September, Barclays and Santander were targeted by cyber criminals using a keyboard video mouse (KVM) switch to gain remote control of bank computers.
The Santander attempt was foiled, but £1.3m was transferred out of accounts at Barclays before police tracked down the gang.
In May, the scale of the threat was highlighted when US federal authorities charged eight hackers in connection with a $45m pre-paid debit card fraud scheme.
In a similar heist in 2008, a gang took money from cash machines in 49 cities around the world using cloned debit cards.
The thefts stemmed from a data breach at RBS WorldPay, in which hackers stole the personal data of 1.5 million card holders a month earlier.
In July 2012, a Deloitte financial services industry report revealed that nearly a quarter of the world's banks had been hit by security breaches in the preceding 12 months.
Jason Babin can try it again with the Philadelphia Eagles with the same line coach that sparked his journeyman career a year ago.
The defensive end, who has bounced around since flopping as a first-round draft pick by the Houston Texans, has aligned himself with a man he knows he can play for after last season. Babin’s career took off playing for Jim Washburn in Tennessee last season and when the Titans line coach moved to Philly, well, Babin hitched his wagon to him.
[ Litigation ] as a Related Elective for those interested in International Finance : If you expect to handle cross-border investments in some way, whether representing a private client making a direct investment or a quasi-public agency seeking to compete for capital, this course will be useful. It examines the legal framework and the various treaties that apply to foreign investments, particularly in emerging markets. It also evaluates dispute resolution procedures and institutions that may become essential when problems arise in the foreign jurisdiction.
This seminar will investigate legal, economic and political issues impacting foreign investment, including: the role of foreign direct investment in the economic development of poor countries; legal and diplomatic strategies for states in emerging markets to compete for foreign capital; and the implementation of the international investment arbitration treaty regime. We will examine the legal framework for cross-border investment established in bilateral investment treaties, investment provisions of regional or multilateral treaties, customary international law, and the domestic law and regulatory institutions of host nations. Substantive principles, including prohibitions on direct and indirect expropriation, and guarantees of fair and equitable treatment, will be examined in the context of applicable legal instruments. We will consider the challenges associated with the twin goals of mitigating investment risk for investors while also allowing developing states to address urgent public policy concerns. We will also examine and evaluate how effectively treaty-based dispute resolution processes and institutions enable investors and states to effectively resolve disputes. These mechanisms include investor-state arbitration by tribunals convened pursuant to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and other arbitral institutions.
RAWALPINDI, Jan 22: A number of retired chiefs of the army, air force and navy and dozens of former commanders and some retired junior commissioned officers on Tuesday called upon President Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf to step down as head of the state to pave way for complete restoration of democracy in the country.
Organised by what is known as the Pakistan Ex-Servicemen Society, an organisation originally set up for the welfare of retired service personnel, the forum held a meeting at a local hotel to allow the participants to vent their views on the current political situation, with specific reference to Gen Musharraf’s role.
The media was kept away from the meeting and later a four-point resolution issued in the evening, primarily blamed President Musharraf for the prevailing crisis.
The resolution stated that “Gen Pervez Musharraf retired does not represent the unity and the symbol of the Federation as President,” and “he should resign from his office of the president, and this is in the supreme national interest and makes it incumbent on him to step down”.
The resolution also called for setting up, in consultation with political leaders, of impartial, credible and unblemished teams of governments both at the centre and in the provinces, which should enjoy the confidence of the nation to hold elections. An impartial, effective, independent and credible Election Commission be appointed with the approval of all major political parties.
The meeting appreciated the reported orders of the Chief of the Army Staff, Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, to all serving officers to abstain from taking any part in political activities and promoting any politicians or political parties and to confine themselves to their professional duties.
Spearheaded by Lt-Gen (retd) Faiz Ali Chishti, once a key member of Gen Zia-ul-Haq’s martial law regime, the ex-servicemen society has lately been quite active against Gen Musharraf. Tuesday’s gathering was its biggest show so far. It was attended by those who have been known critics of Gen Musharraf mainly because of his support for the US-led war against terror or for his liberal reforms, and also by moderate ex-servicemen who have been opposed to both the former military rulers as well as Gen Musharraf.
The participants included people like former army chief Gen (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg, former ISI chief Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Gul and Lt-Gen Chishti. There also were known moderates like two former air marshals, Asghar Khan and Nur Khan, and Air Chief Marshal (retd) Pervez Mehdi. According to a list issued by the organisers, the participants included Admiral (retd) Karamat Rehman Niazi, Admiral (retd) Iftikhar Ahmad Sirohey, Admiral (retd) Mohammad Sharif, Admiral (retd) Saeed M. Khan, Admiral (retd) Hasan Asif, Admiral (retd) Obaid Sadiq and Lt-Gen (retd) Ali Kuli Khan.
The list also included names of Vice Admiral (retd) Mohammad Fazil Janjua, Vice Admiral (retd) Jawaid Iqbal, Rear Admiral (retd) Javed Iftikhar, Lt-Gen (retd) Jamshed Gulzar, Lt-Gen (retd) K. K. Afridi, Lt-Gen (retd) Talat Masood, Lt.-Gen (retd) Kamal Matin, Lt-Gen (retd) Asad Durrani, Lt-Gen (retd) Zakir Ali Zaidi, Lt-Gen (retd) Aslam Shah, Lt-Gen (retd) Farrukh, Lt-Gen (retd) Qadir Baloch, Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Niaz, Lt-Gen (retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi, Lt-Gen (retd) Ayaz Ahmed, Major-Gen (retd) Saeed-ud-Din Qazi, Major-Gen (retd) Shafiq Ahmed, Major-Gen (retd) S. M. K. Askari, Major-Gen (retd) Islamullah, Major-Gen (retd) Zia-ul-Haq, Major-Gen (retd) Agha Manzoor, Major-Gen (retd) A. A. Zubairi, Major-Gen (retd) Shabbir H. Shah, Major-Gen (retd) Utra, Major-Gen (retd) H. U. K. Niazi; Major-Gen (retd) Arshid; Major-Gen (retd) Afzal Samad, Brig (retd) Tipu Sultan, Brig (retd) Amir Gulistan Janjua, Brig (retd) Nusrat Jahan Saleem and Col (retd) S. K. Tressler.
However, one of the participants told Dawn that the list was flawed as some of the people named as participants were not there. Perhaps the most surprising name in the list was that of former ISI chief Lt-Gen (retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi, who had been key aide of Gen Musharraf and a minister in his government . “He was definitely not there,” said the participant. And after checking with a few other people who had attended the meeting, he said neither Lt-Gen (retd) Farrukh was there, nor was Lt-Gen (retd) Qadir Baloch.
Another participant also confirmed that three people were not there, and though some of the known critics of President Musharraf were there, he said it was possible that a few other names mentioned in the list also did not attend the meeting .
Lt-Gen (retd) Chishti was not available for comment on the anomalies in the list of the participants.
Copy of the resolution delivered to media after the meeting says the extra-ordinary meeting was held on the specific request of members of the society who have been watching the turning events of the recent past with great concern and anguish and felt that they could not remain only bystanders but would like to stand and be counted with all patriots and motivated sections of the society imbued with the spirit of securing the future of the country.
It claimed that over 100 ex-servicemen from all over Pakistan and Azad Kashmir comprising all ranks of the three services actively participated in the deliberations of the extra-ordinary meeting of their Society to analyse the prevailing conditions in the country with a view to determining as to what requires to be done by the ex-servicemen.
Bring your Cardinals, Blues, Mizzou, SLU, MLS and St. Louis sports questions, and talk to Post-Dispatch columnist Ben Frederickson in a live chat starting at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
I think Q remains the wild card.
But no, you are not crazy.
Armstrong said he wanted to see more out of Berube and that he was still being considered as the full-time hire, and he's building an impressive case.
Let's see how it plays out.
Compare it to the Cardinals.
I think they had the right man in Shildt, but I didn't like the rush to name him manager moving forward, not when the team was red-hot when he was the interim.
I was called superstitious for recommending not changing a thing, but now we will never know.
Has anyone who advocates for Carlos Martinez to the bullpen actually ever looked at his stats over the past few years and compared them to other starters in the league? Unless there is an injury concern, it would be an absolute waste to keep him in the bullpen.
As I've said, the best-case scenario for the Cardinals is that Martinez is a prominent piece of the rotation.
That's what the Cardinals want, and it's what Martinez wants, and it's what anyone who wants to see this team at its best should want, because of his value in that role, when he's healthy and on top of his game.
But I'll play devil's advocate in this answer.
First, a reminder of what Martinez did out of the bullpen last season. Lights out. He had a 1.47 ERA while holding opponents to a .177 average. He struck out 19 in 18.1 innings out of the pen and got the save in five of five chances.
When you factor in the first-inning blues Martinez suffers from time to time, the case is not a strong as it once seemed.
No one sane is arguing that Martinez does not have the stuff to be a starter. There is a fair question building that if he cannot be his best as a starter, perhaps he has more value to a team as a force of a closer.
I don't think it's an unfair or unreasonable discussion, at all.
Ben, regarding the proposed pitch clock. I'm not a fan of most of these changes talked about, but further review of this one makes me wonder. Pitcher's nowadays have become statues on the bump trying to "ice" the base runner. This seems more prevalent than the throw over to the base. That seems to be one of the reasons why play seems so stagnant a lot. the pitcher just stands there holding the ball. A pitch clock might help stop icing the runner. At least a throw over to the base is actual action. Your thoughts.