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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
by Antony Loewenstein
Published 1 Sep 2015

Stand and Fight,” New Statesman, November 4, 2010. 38Emma de Vita, “‘Failure Is Never an Option’—Ruby McGregor-Smith, CEO of Mitie,” Management Today, July 1, 2014. 39Clare Sambrook, “Fail and Prosper: How Privatisation Really Works,” Open Democracy, March 6, 2014, at opendemocracy.net. 40Phil Miller, “‘Care & Custody’: Mitie’s Detention Centre Contracts,” Corporate Watch, September 1, 2014, at corporatewatch.org. 41Jamie Doward, “Children ‘Kept from Parents’ at Centre for Failed Asylum Seekers,” Guardian, April 27, 2014. 42“HM Inspector of Prisons Exposes Deputy Prime Minister’s Fabrication to have Ended Detention of Children,” Medical Justice, October 25, 2012, at medicaljustice.org.uk. 43Karen McVeigh, “Pregnant Woman at Yarl’s Wood Denied Hospital Scan Despite Baby Scare,” Guardian, October 8, 2010. 44Simon Cox, “Whistleblower’s Concerns over Safety at Yarl’s Wood,” BBC Radio 4, File on 4, June 24, 2014. 45Mark Townsend, “Serco, the Observer and a Hunt for the Truth about Yarl’s Wood Asylum Centre,” Guardian, May 18, 2014. 46Karen McVeigh, “Yarl’s Wood Detainees ‘Paid 50p an Hour,’” Guardian, January 3, 2011. 47Phil Miller, “True Scale of Captive Migrant Labour Revealed,” Corporate Watch, August 22, 2014; Phil Miller, “Detained Migrants Slam Low Pay,” Corporate Watch, December 22, 2014, both at corporatewatch.org. 48“Mental Health in Immigration Detention Action Group: Initial Report,” Medical Justice, press release, December 17, 2013, at medicaljustice.org.uk. 49“Detained and Denied: The Clinical Care of Immigration Detainees Living with HIV,” Medical Justice, press release, March 22, 2011, at medicaljustice.org.uk. 50“Expecting Change: The Case for Ending the Detention of Pregnant Women,” Medical Justice, press release, July 23, 2013, at medicaljustice.org.uk. 51“‘The Second Torture’: The Immigration Detention of Torture Survivors,” Medical Justice, press release, May 22, 2012, at medicaljustice.org.uk. 52Haroon Siddique, “G4S Ordered to Pay 6,000 Pounds to Elderly Disabled Man over Hospital Handcuffs,” Guardian, September 25, 2014. 53Rajeev Syal and Solomon Hughes, “New ‘Revolving Door’ Row as G4S Hires Ex-Mandarins,” Guardian, December 26, 2010. 54Paul Lewis and Matthew Taylor, “G4S Security Firm Was Warned of Lethal Risk to Refused Asylum Seekers,” Guardian, February 8, 2011. 55Owen Bowcott, Paul Lewis, and Matthew Taylor, “G4S Security Guards Accused over Restraint of Colombian Deportee,” Guardian, October 21, 2010; Robert Verkaik, “A Disturbing Insight into G4S’s Tactics,” Independent, October 30, 2010. 56Robert Booth and Matthew Taylor, “Jimmy Mubenga’s Widow Shocked as Security Guards Cleared of Manslaughter,” Guardian, December 17, 2014. 57Simon Hattenstone and Eric Allison, “G4S, the Company with No Convictions—But Does It Have Blood on Its Hands?”

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Although the 2013 Home Office committee had elicited admissions from officials that it was not sensible to grant housing contracts to organizations with no experience running them, the contracts had already been signed, and G4S had no fear of losing them. As elsewhere, unaccountability functioned as a core value of disaster capitalism. We later drove a short distance to another G4S property. It was a three-story building with nine tenants, in better condition and tidier than the first. An Iranian man, Bozorg, said his housemate had cleaned the place for Ramadan. There was a G4S sign in the entrance hall that read: “This house has now been professionally cleaned: Please keep it clean and tidy at all times.” The G4S “House Rules” read like a prison manual for good behavior.

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Britain started privatizing asylum housing, the Home Office giving most of the contracts to G4S and Serco. There was a plan to “nationalize providers,” and the country was divided into separate territories for the purpose—and Yorkshire was allocated to G4S. Asylum housing was only for those waiting for an outcome of their asylum claim, but many others were homeless. Grayson recalled a 2012 public meeting about the proposed plan at which a Zimbabwean man said: “I don’t want a prison guard as my landlord. I’ve seen G4S in South Africa.” The G4S-run Angel Lodge in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, situated in the grounds of Wakefield prison, was dirty because the company would not pay for better services.

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On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp
by Paul Graham
Published 8 Sep 1993

However, information known at compile-time is always a factor worth considering, even if you choose not to take advantage of it. (nthmost 2 nums) expands into: (let ((#:g7 nums)) (unless (< (length #:g7) 3) (let ((#:g6 (pop #:g7))) (setq #:g1 #:g6)) (let ((#:g5 (pop #:g7))) (if (> #:g5 #:g1) (setq #:g2 #:g1 #:g1 #:g5) (setq #:g2 #:g5))) (let ((#:g4 (pop #:g7))) (if (> #:g4 #:g1) (setq #:g3 #:g2 #:g2 #:g1 #:g1 #:g4) (if (> #:g4 #:g2) (setq #:g3 #:g2 #:g2 #:g4) (setq #:g3 #:g4)))) (dolist (#:g8 #:g7) (if (> #:g8 #:g1) (setq #:g3 #:g2 #:g2 #:g1 #:g1 #:g8) (if (> #:g8 #:g2) (setq #:g3 #:g2 #:g2 #:g8) (if (> #:g8 #:g3) (setq #:g3 #:g8) nil)))) #:g3)) Figure 13.4: Expansion of nthmost. 13.2 Bezier Curves Example Like the with- macro (Section 11.2), the macro for computation at compile-time is more likely to be written for a specific application than as a general-purpose utility.

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The third(28) and fifth values are another temporary variable and the form that will return the original value of the generalized variable. Since we want to add 1 to this value, we wrap the latter in a call to 1+: (let* ((#:g4 a) (#:g5 (incf i)) (#:g6 (1+ (aref #:g4 #:g5)))) ...) Finally, the fourth value returned by get-setf-method is the assignment that must be made within the scope of the new bindings: (let* ((#:g4 a) (#:g5 (incf i)) (#:g6 (1+ (aref #:g4 #:g5)))) (system:set-aref #:g6 #:g4 #:g5)) More often than not, this form will refer to internal functions which are not part of Common Lisp. Usually setf masks the presence of these functions, but they have to exist somewhere.

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If just one parameter is given, both degenerate to dolist: > (do-tuples/o (x) '(a b c) (princ x)) ABC NIL > (do-tuples/c (x) '(a b c) (princ x)) ABC NIL (defmacro do-tuples/o (parms source &body body) (if parms (let ((src (gensym))) `(prog ((,src ,source)) (mapc #'(lambda ,parms ,@body) ,@(map0-n #'(lambda (n) `(nthcdr ,n ,src)) (1- (length parms)))))))) (defmacro do-tuples/c (parms source &body body) (if parms (with-gensyms (src rest bodfn) (let ((len (length parms))) `(let ((,src ,source)) (when (nthcdr ,(1- len) ,src) (labels ((,bodfn ,parms ,@body)) (do ((,rest ,src (cdr ,rest))) ((not (nthcdr ,(1- len) ,rest)) ,@(mapcar #'(lambda (args) `(,bodfn ,@args)) (dt-args len rest src)) nil) (,bodfn ,@(map1-n #'(lambda (n) `(nth ,(1- n) ,rest)) len)))))))))) (defun dt-args (len rest src) (map0-n #'(lambda (m) (map1-n #'(lambda (n) (let ((x (+ m n))) (if (>= x len) `(nth ,(- x len) ,src) `(nth ,(1- x) ,rest)))) len)) (- len 2))) Figure 11.8: Macros for iteration by subsequences. (do-tuples/c (x y z) '(a b c d) (princ (list x y z))) expands into: (let ((#:g2 '(a b c d))) (when (nthcdr 2 #:g2) (labels ((#:g4 (x y z) (princ (list x y z)))) (do ((#:g3 #:g2 (cdr #:g3))) ((not (nthcdr 2 #:g3)) (#:g4 (nth 0 #:g3) (nth 1 #:g3) (nth 0 #:g2)) (#:g4 (nth 1 #:g3) (nth 0 #:g2) (nth 1 #:g2)) nil) (#:g4 (nth 0 #:g3) (nth 1 #:g3) (nth 2 #:g3)))))) Figure 11.9: Expansion of a call to do-tuples/c. The definition of do-tuples/c is more complex than that of do-tuples/o, because it has to wrap around on reaching the end of the list.

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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
by Grace Blakeley
Published 11 Mar 2024

Braverman argued that capitalism “completely transforms technology.” 140. G4S, “Our History,” accessed July 9, 2023, https://www.g4s.com/who-we-are/our-history. 141. Adam Taylor, “How the Plan to Privatize London’s Olympic Security Turned into a Disaster,” Insider, July 18, 2012, https://www.businessinsider.com/g4s-olympic-security-disaster-2012-7?r=US&IR=T. 142. Matthew Taylor and Robert Booth, “G4S Guards Found Not Guilty of Manslaughter of Jimmy Mubenga,” The Guardian, December 16, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/16/g4s-guards-found-not-guilty-manslaughter-jimmy-mubenga. 143. “Jimmy Mubenga,” 4Front Project, accessed July 9, 2023, https://www.4frontproject.org/jimmy-mubenga. 144.

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Alison Holt, “What I Saw When I Went Undercover,” BBC News, September 4, 2017, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/g4s_brook_house_immigration_removal_centre_undercover. 151. Mattha Busby, “G4S to Leave Immigration Sector after Brook House Scandal,” The Guardian, September 24, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/24/g4s-to-leave-immigration-sector-after-brook-house-scandal. 152. Tom Sanderson, “G4S Uses ‘Unacceptable’ Force on Pregnant Detainee at UK Family Detention Centre,” openDemocracy, October 24, 2012, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/g4s-uses-unacceptable-force-on-pregnant-detainee-at-uk-family-detention-ce/. 153. Ruth Hopkins, “South African Prisoners Sue G4S over Torture Claims,” The Guardian, February 13, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/13/south-african-prisoners-sue-g4s-over-torture-claims. 154.

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Ruth Hopkins, “South African Prisoners Sue G4S over Torture Claims,” The Guardian, February 13, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/13/south-african-prisoners-sue-g4s-over-torture-claims. 154. Kevin Rawlinson, “Private Firms ‘Are Using Detained Immigrants as Cheap Labour,’ ” The Guardian, August 22, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/22/immigrants-cheap-labour-detention-centres-g4s-serco. 155. Yeganeh Torbati and Mica Rosenberg, “Orlando Shooter Was Employee of Global Security Firm G4S,” Reuters, June 14, 2016, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting-g4s-idUSKCN0Z02QS. 156. Crouch, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism. 157. As Joshua Barkan argues in Corporate Sovereignty, “Corporate power should be rethought as a mode of political sovereignty.” 158.

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Vassal State
by Angus Hanton
Published 25 Mar 2024

id=United-Kingdom-Aerospace. 24 ‘Aerospace & defense’, CA.gov [website], https://business.ca.gov/industries/aerospace-and-defense/. 25 ‘Aircraft projects (cancellation) HC deb 13 April 1965 vol 710 cc1171–297’, Parliament.uk [website], https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1965/apr/13/aircraft-projects-cancellation. 26 Quoted in David Dimbleby and David Reynolds, An Ocean Apart: The Relationship between Britain and America in the Twentieth Century (New York: Random House, 1988). 27 ‘Brake Bros’, Wikipedia [website], https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_Bros. 28 Aditya Chakrabortty, ‘How Boots went rogue’, Guardian (13 April 2016), https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/13/how-boots-went-rogue. 29 Robert Booth and Nick Hopkins, ‘Olympic security chaos: depth of G4S security crisis revealed’, Guardian (13 July 2012), https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/jul/12/london-2012-g4s-security-crisis. 30 Alan Travis, ‘G4S faces fraud investigation over tagging contracts’, Guardian (12 July 2013), https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/11/g4s-investigated-overcharging-millions-pounds. 31 Jamie Grierson and Jessica Elgot, ‘Failings at Birmingham Prison reflect broader crisis, MOJ is warned’, Guardian (20 August 2018), https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/20/failings-of-hmp-birmingham-reflect-broader-prison-crisis-moj-warned. 32 ‘Riot officers enter HMP Birmingham amid disturbances’, BBC News [website] (16 December 2016), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-38341924. 33 ‘The worst ever prison’, InsideTime [website] (31 August 2018), https://insidetime.org/the-worst-ever-prison/. 34 Joanna Partridge, ‘G4S agrees to £3.8bn takeover by US rival Allied Universal’, Guardian (8 December 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/08/g4s-agrees-to-38bn-takeover-by-us-rival-allied-universal. 35 Calum Rosie, ‘Private prisons have shown a lax approach to human rights’, EachOther [website] (26 April 2021), https://eachother.org.uk/private-prisons-have-shown-a-lax-approach-to-human-rights/. 36 For HS2, see also Ailie MacAdam, ‘It’s all about the people’, Transport Times (September 2014), https://www.bechtel.com/getmedia/f805ed68-8315-446f-aa96-4912e97c810e/bechtel-its-all-about-the-people-times-hs2-sept-14. 37 ‘Number of satellites in orbit by major country as of April 30, 2022’, Statista [website], https://www.statista.com/statistics/264472/number-of-satellites-in-orbit-by-operating-country/. 38 Cristina Gallardo, ‘UK scraps Brexit alternative to EU’s Galileo satellite system’, Politico [website] (24 September 2020), https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-scraps-plan-to-build-global-satellite-navigation-system-to-replace-galileo/. 39 For Lord Young’s review, see ‘Government procurement in the United Kingdom’, Wikipedia [website], https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_procurement_in_the_United_Kingdom.

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Some people asked how prison privatisation could continue. G4S said it ‘welcomed’ the development as an opportunity to ‘urgently address’ the various problems.33 It retained the contract to run Birmingham Prison and has since been awarded dozens of other significant government contracts. In 2021, the company (which had been listed in London and Copenhagen) was taken over by Allied Universal.34 It is now part of a US private prisons empire with 750,000 employees, headquartered in both Pennsylvania and California. You might hope that the US owners will improve G4S’s services – the British government certainly does: in May 2023 G4S won a significant five-year contract to provide security services to the Foreign Office, where it took over the employment of 300 staff members.

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It has, however, had many unintended downsides: because so much is pre-processed, children do not see the activity of cooking and food preparation in school life, more packaging is needed, the link between food and seasons is lost, and, of course, the profits flow to Texas, where the company’s strategic decisions are also made. Prisons, office management and events The British and London-based company G4S came to public prominence with the 2012 Olympics, for which the company won a contract for £284 million to provide 13,700 security guards. However, just 14 days before the opening they only had 4,000 lined up. One of the trainees, an ex-policeman, described the recruitment process as ‘an utter farce’, and another former policeman pulled out because, he said, it was ‘totally chaotic’.29 In another controversy, G4S were discovered to be overcharging for the tagging of criminals; it was also found that they had been collecting fees for tagging prisoners who were already back in prison and even for some who had died.30 G4S executives admitted their wrongdoing and paid back £109 million to the government.

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Lonely Planet Pocket Florence (Travel Guide)
by Planet, Lonely , Maxwell, Virginia and Williams, Nicola
Published 31 Dec 2013

Santa Maria Top Sights Basilica di Santa Maria Novella G2 Sights 1 Museo Marino Marini G4 2 Chiesa di Santa Trìnita H5 3 Chiesa d'Ognissanti F4 4 Ponte Santa Trìnita H5 5 Parco delle Cascine A1 Eating 6 Mariano H5 7 L'Osteria di Giovanni G4 8 Il Latini G4 Drinking 9 Sei Divino F4 10 Caffè Giacosa H4 11 Space Club F3 Entertainment 12 Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino B2 Shopping 13 Letizia Fiorini G4 14 Mio Concept G4 15 Dolce Forte F3 16 Grevi H4 17 Aprosio & Co G4 18 Desii Lab G4 19 Alessandro Gherardeschi G4 20 Alberto Cozzi G5 21 Le Gare 24 F4 22 Loretta Caponi H3 Top Sights Basilica di Santa Maria Novella Offline map, G2 www.chiesasantamarianovella.it Piazza di Santa Maria Novella 18 adult/reduced €5/3 9am-5.30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-5.30pm Fri, 9am-5pm Sat, 1-5pm Sun This monastery complex, fronted by the striking marble facade of its basilica, hides romantic church cloisters and a stunning frescoed chapel behind its monumental walls.

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Watch the sun set over the city from Piazzale Michelangelo ( Click here ) and make your way to Le Volpi e l’Uva ( Click here ) for a pre-dinner drink. From here, the perennially popular restaurants and lounge bars of the Oltrano are only a short walk away. For a local’s day in Boboli & San Miniato al Monte, Click here . Boboli Top Sights Palazzo Pitti C2 Sights 1 Basilica di San Miniato al Monte G4 2 Museo di Storia Naturale - Zoologia La Specola B2 3 Chiesa di Santa Felicità D1 4 Forte di Belvedere D3 5 Porta San Niccolò G2 Eating 6 Da Ruggero A5 7 Enoteca Fuori Porta F2 Drinking 8 Le Volpi e l'Uva D1 9 Open Bar D1 10 Zoé F2 11 James Joyce H2 Shopping 12 Alessandro Dari E2 13 Lorenzo Villoresi E2 Top Sights Palazzo Pitti Offline map, C2 www.polomuseale.firenze.it Piazza dei Pitti adult/EU 18-25/EU child & senior Ticket 3 €11.50/5.75/free 8.15am-6.05pm Tue-Sun Wealthy banker Luca Pitti commissioned Brunelleschi to design this huge palace in 1457, but by the time it was completed the family fortunes were on the wane and they were forced to sell it to arch-rivals, the Medicis.

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The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It
by Owen Jones
Published 3 Sep 2014

In 2012, Lincolnshire police signed a £200 million contract with G4S, leaving half its civilian force under the control of the company. Towards the end of 2013, Avon and Somerset Police put their custody suites and prisoner-transport services up to tender, with five companies, including G4S, competing to take them over. Until the G4S Olympics debacle led them to abandon it, the West Midlands and Surrey police forces had invited a bid worth £1.5 billion from the company, which would have left private security companies patrolling the streets and investigating crimes. But there are good reasons to believe that the head of G4S, David Taylor-Smith, was right when in June 2012 he suggested private companies would be in control of large swathes of the police within five years.

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In February 2011, David Cameron announced that what he described as the ‘state monopoly’ of public services was over. Everything was now up for grabs. From the justice system to defence, the running of all services was now to be opened up to profiteering companies such as G4S, Serco and Sodexo. Mountains of taxpayer-provided cash awaited them. Around half of G4S’s profits in Britain came from government contracts. In 2012, £4 billion of taxpayers’ money was shovelled into the accounts of the biggest private contractors: Serco, G4S, Atos and Capita. It led to a damning assessment from the National Audit Office, which Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, summed up: this outsourcing, she concluded, had created ‘quasi-monopolies’ in the public sector, the ‘inhibiting of whistleblowers’, the trapping of taxpayers into lengthy contracts, and a ‘number of contracts that are not subject to proper competition’.

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With London due to host the Olympics in 2012, the opportunities for profit were certainly sizeable. G4S was made the official ‘security services provider’ for the games, charged with providing 10,000 security personnel to ensure their smooth running in a deal worth £100 million. Long before Olympic hype was in full swing, it was clear that the taxpayer stood to haemorrhage money to G4S. By the end of 2011 their management fee had soared from £7.3 million to a whopping £60 million, the bulk of it for the firm’s ‘programme management office’. On the eve of the Olympics, G4S announced that it would not be able to provide the numbers of security personnel promised.

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My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture
by Guy Branum
Published 29 Jul 2018

When you can tell your show is about to be canceled, start stealing office supplies. Everyone else is losing their job, too, so they won’t notice. I learned to be a functional, competent little writer at G4. My last job there was as head writer of X-Play, a video game review show that had sketches in it. The hosts, Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb, were funny, kind, and knew more about video games than nearly anyone on the staff. The fanboys of G4, who would grow up to become the trolls who gave us Gamergate, cut their teeth challenging the “real gamer” status of Adam and Morgan. This was ridiculous. I was the one who knew nothing about video games.

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I worked on that show for two years, and I might have stayed longer if it hadn’t become clear that I was no longer welcome on-camera. See, the whole time I was at G4, I was doing bit parts in sketches. It was fun and meant I occasionally got recognized by nerds on the street. Over time, the nice bosses who’d hired me went away and were replaced by men in their fifties desperately trying to pander to men in their early twenties. They wanted boobs and dudes wearing leather wrist cuffs. To them, having a bald fat gay guy on-camera seemed somewhat at odds with G4’s purpose. I stopped getting cast in stuff. I felt a little shallow for being mad that I wasn’t getting to be on-camera, but fundamentally, I felt like the executives didn’t trust me anymore.

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Comcast3 In January 2004, I began my professional writing career as an Associate Online Producer at TechTV. If two things defined the viewership of TechTV, it was that, one, they were extremely technically knowledgeable about the subjects that were discussed on the network, and, two, they were male. Five months into my employment, TechTV was purchased by G4, I was moved down to Los Angeles, and these facts became even truer. My faggy, political, video game–ignorant comedic voice wasn’t an obvious fit for these Axe body spray–saturated networks. The people who hired me loved me and thought I was funny, but that didn’t assuage my fear. On my first day of the job, as on my first day at every writing job since, I’ve understood exactly why I wasn’t a perfect writer for the show, then tried to do everything I could to try to turn myself into that.

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Top 10 Maui, Molokai and Lanai
by Bonnie Friedman
Published 16 Feb 2004

JOSEPH‘S CHURCH Mamalu Bay ‘Alen ui 6 L…na‘i ‘A Shipwreck Beach PO Polihua Beach L IH au Federation Camp UA TR C h AIL an n e AT RAI L l Garden of the Gods Pu‘u Mahana 4714ft Kane Pu‘u Forest Preserve Gulc h EN 430 OL UH UA RD K≥‘ele Nanohoa Is MU NRO TR AI Lana‘i City L Keone Bay K HW Y KA l… wa L…na‘ihale Luahiwa 3370ft Petroglyphs P≥ka‘i i Basin Naha UP I LI RD M…kole Point 440 Pacific Ocean L≥p… RD P… Lana‘i ~ Airport 440 ELE AU MAL A P A U M¡N Ki‘el Bay Kaumalapau Harbor Ke≥muku l a P Ha uo K A‘ u‘ La M¡NELE BAY RESORT Hulopo‘e Bay Kaunol« 4 8 miles g M…nele Bay 0 km 4 8 iluaBay Kea Beach N…hiku HA NA H I GH W ~ Wai‘…napanapa State Park w ak oe lle H…na Airport KAHANU GARDENS Gu y h Ka m Va r ea a St Ku hiw Pi‘ilanihale Heiau 360 lc DE AY Kawa i p a p a G ulc Pailoa Bay Kainalimu Bay h H…na Cultural Center H…na Bay Kau‘iki Hill H…na M o om o o n u i G u l ch Wa iho 31 ‘i Va l Park ‘O h Gu HI G lc HW Koali AY M«‘olea Wailua Pepeiaolepo Bay KEY NI h WAIMOKU FALLS K…ki‘o Pu‘uiki Keawa Bay H…‘≥‘« WAILUA FALLS e‘o Kipahulu Valley ll ey Hoku‘ula H…moa H…moa Beach MAKAHIKU FALLS PI ‘I LA K≤pahulu Lighthouse Country Park Kipahulu Mokulau Huialoha Church Lelekea Bay Palapala Ho‘omau Church a Ch … h…h nn Top 10 place of interest Other place of interest Papaloa Bay ~ Domestic airport g Ferry port el Highway Main road Minor road Track Park boundary 3 miles 0 km 3 6 Summit ha in a UE AV A O AN IP L 37 AY AD 370 PA WE ST Alexander and Baldwin Sugar Museum HA NS EN R O AD AN IS Pu’unænæ 380 SP HONOA PI’ILANI OL HI GHWAY PA E KE HALEA KALA HW RO E U EN HA ME HA ME NU UE VE EN UE KA IG 36 V ∞ A EN R OAD WA KEA AVEN UE W AIALE Kanaha Pond State Bird Sanctuary A ∞N Kahului Park ¡N H EN TH AV U H ’UN Maui Memorial Park AV AN EL IH IK O RO ULE AD 2000 1000 Maui, Moloka‘i & L…na‘i Index Bailey House Museum Federation Camp Garden of Eden Arboretum Garden of the Gods H…lawa Valley H…lena H…li‘imaile H…m…kua Polo H…moa H…na H…na Cultural Center Ha‘ik« Hale Pa‘i Haleakal… National Park Hawai‘i Nature Center Ho‘okipa Ho‘olehua Hoku‘ula Honok≥hau Honok≥wai Honokahua Honolua Huelo Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary ‘§ao Valley State Park K«‘au K≤hei K≥‘ele K…‘anapali K…ki‘o Kæ≥kea Kahakuloa Kahana Kahikinui Ranch Kahului Kailua Kala‘e Kalama‘ula Kalaupapa 350 MOK K≠ Waikap« WA HIG I HI HWA G Y H W AD A RO Y H Maui Tropical Plantation LE Y E U H P S O PA HIGHWA A VENU Kahului A S OUT H P 30 Hoaloha Park Maui Arts and Cultural Center KA’AHUMANU Ka’ahumanu Church Wailuku Public Library Wailuku Kahului Harbor Y KANALOA AD R A VE A M LO ST 32 T S TREE Keopuolani Park UT N War Memorial Park SO T TS MAI E ET WE R KE Bailey House Museum STR EA L RO AR NM n M IL Kahului Harbor Park CH KA E AI NU IN o n Tourist information D ST RE Other sight ET EA UI B ‘§a Top10 sight LON am re St HEKILI KEY Pauk«kalo Haleki’i/ Pihana Heiau HUL 330 Paukukalo Park KA HIG HWA Y Wailuku & Kahului N2 L1 J3 K1 D5 A6 F3 F2 L5 L4 L4 G2 C3 J5 D3 F2 B5 L4 C1 B2 C1 C1 H3 E4 D3 F2 E4 L2 B2 L5 F5 D2 C2 H6 P2 J3 C5 B6 C5 yards 0 meters Kalaupapa National Historical Park Kalawao Kalua‘aha Kaluako‘i Kama‘ole Kamal≥ Kanahena Kanaio Kapalua Kaunakakai Kaunol« Kaup≥ Kaupakulua Kawela Ke‘anae Ke≥muku Ke…lia Pond Keawakapu Keawala‘i Keka‘a Keoneoio Kepaniwai Park Kipahulu Kipahulu Valley Koali Kokomo Kualapu‘u Kuiaha Kula Lahaina Lahainaluna Lana‘i City Launiupoko Luahiwa Petroglyphs M«‘olea M…‘alaea M…kena Makawao Malaihi Maui Arts and Cultural Center Maui Ocean Center 1000 C5 C5 D6 A5 E5 D6 E6 G6 C1 C6 L3 J6 H3 C6 J3 M2 E4 E5 E5 B2 E6 D3 K5 K5 L5 G3 C5 G2 G4 C3 C3 L2 C3 L2 L5 D4 E5 G3 D2 P1 D4 2000 Maunalei Arboretum C1 Maunaloa A6 Mo‘omomi B5 Mo‘omomi Nature Preserve B5 Mokulau K5 Moloka‘i Musuem and Cultural Center C5 Moloka'i Forest Reserve C6 N…hiku K3 N…k…lele Point D1 Naha M2 Napili C2 Nu‘u J6 Olinda H4 Olowalu C4 ªma‘opio G4 P…´ia F2 P…palaua D4 Pa‘uwela G2 Pi‘ilanihale Heiau K4 Pu‘u o H≥k« Ranch E5 Pu‘uiki L5 Pu‘unænæ Q3 Pu‘uohala E3 Puka‘auhuhu J6 Pukalani F3 Pukoo D6 Puleh« G4 Spreckelsville F3 Tedeschi Winery F5 ‘Ualapu‘e D6 Ulumalu H3 ‘Ulupalakua Ranch F5 Upper P…´ia F3 Wai‘…napanapa State Park L4 Waiakoa G4 Waiehu E2 Waihe‘e D2 Waikap« N3 Wailea E5 Wailua J3 Wailuku N2 Waiohuli G5 EYEWITNESS TOP 10 TRAVEL GUIDES TOP10 MAUI MOLOKA‘I & LANA‘I Whether you are traveling first class or on a limited budget, this Eyewitness Top 10 guide will lead you straight to the very best Maui, Moloka‘i and L…na‘i have to offer. • Dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 beaches and golf courses to the Top 10 restaurants, shops, and spots for watersports - provide the insider knowledge every visitor needs.

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With three bedrooms, it can easily sleep six, and the cottage has all the amenities a family could want, including a washer/dryer, a barbecue, and a fridge that is replenished daily with breakfast goodies. d 44 Pea Pl., Kula • Map G4 • 808 283 7733 • $$ Bloom House & Bloom Cottage A three-bedroom house and a two-bedroom cottage just a garden walk away form a perfect partnership for a large family or group of friends. Both are extremely well equipped and tastefully decorated. A little traffic noise by day and chilly at night, so the fireplaces come in handy. d 229 Kula Hwy. • Map G4 • 808 579 8282 • www.hookipa. com • $$ Hale Ho’okipa Inn Olinda Country Cottages & Inn Near the top of Olinda above Makawao town, this is a special little romantic hideaway.

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Sun Yat-sen, the first president of the Republic of China, stands in this small park in Keokea. His brother, Sun Mei, was one of the many Chinese immigrants who settled in this area, and the doctor hid his family here with him during the Chinese Revolution of 1911. The park occupies around 6,000 acres of land that once belonged to his brother. d Map G4 Tedeschi Winery Free daily tours and tastings are held at Tedeschi, Maui’s only winery. Established in 1974, Tedeschi produces sparkling, red, and blush wines, along with its most famous product, a sweet pineapple wine called Maui Blanc. d Map F5 • 9am–5pm daily • Free tours at 10:30am & 1:30pm • www.mauiwine.com ‘Ulupalakua Ranch Ship captain James Makee established the ranch in 1856 and built a house for his large family, cisterns to capture water, a sugar mill to generate income, and a cottage for his frequent guest, King Kal…kaua.

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Lonely Planet Pocket Berlin
by Lonely Planet and Andrea Schulte-Peevers
Published 31 Aug 2012

Reichstag Unter Linden Top Sights Brandenburg Gate & Pariser Platz D3 Holocaust Memorial D4 Reichstag & Government Quarter C2 Sights 1 Gendarmenmarkt G4 2 Deutsches Historisches Museum H3 3 Tränenpalast F2 4 Bebelplatz G3 5 Neue Wache H3 6 Hitler's Bunker D4 7 Emil Nolde Museum G4 8 Friedrichswerdersche Kirche H4 9 Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin G3 10 Humboldt Universität G3 Eating 11 Fischers Fritz G4 12 Uma D4 13 Borchardt F4 14 Cookies Cream F3 15 Augustiner am Gendarmenmarkt G4 16 ChaChã F5 17 Ishin F3 Drinking Cookies (see 14) 18 Bebel Bar G3 19 Tausend E2 20 Felix D4 21 Tadschikische Teestube H3 22 Berliner Republik F2 Entertainment 23 Admiralspalast F2 24 Berliner Ensemble E1 25 Haus der Kulturen der Welt A2 26 Konzerthaus Berlin G4 27 Staatsoper Unter den Linden G3 Shopping 28 Dussmann – Das Kulturkaufhaus F3 29 Fassbender & Rausch G5 30 Friedrichstadtpassagen F4 Top Sights Reichstag & Government Quarter Offline map www.bundestag.de Platz der Republik 1 admission free 8am-midnight, last lift 11pm U-Bahn Bundestag, Brandenburger Tor; 100 The nexus of German political power snuggles neatly into the Spreebogen, a horseshoe-shaped bend in the Spree River.

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Wrap up the evening with a fat glass of Bordeaux at Place Clichy (Click here) or cocktails at Süss war Gestern (Click here). Friedrichshain Top Sights East Side Gallery C4 Sights 1 Karl-Marx-Allee E1 Eating 2 Schwarzer Hahn G3 3 Spätzle & Knödel G3 4 Michelberger D5 5 Lemon Leaf F3 6 Bürgeramt F3 Drinking 7 Hops & Barley G3 8 Kptn A Müller F3 9 Place Clichy E3 10 Süss War Gestern G4 11 Strandgut Berlin B4 12 Berghain/Panorama Bar C3 13 ://about blank G5 14 Zum Schmutzigen Hobby F4 15 Himmelreich F3 16 Monster Ronson's Ichiban Karaoke D4 Entertainment 17 Astra Kulturhaus E4 Shopping 18 Flohmarkt am Boxhagener Platz F3 19 Mondos Arts G1 Top Sights East Side Gallery Offline map www.eastsidegallery-berlin.de Mühlenstrasse btwn Oberbaumbrücke & Ostbahnhof admission free 24hr U-/S-Bahn Warschauer Strasse; S-Bahn Ostbahnhof The year was 1989.

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Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
by Maya Goodfellow
Published 5 Nov 2019

Support for people was ‘pretty much annihilated’, putting more pressure on organisations like WERS. Though these private companies claim to take housing quality into account, there is a growing body evidence to the contrary. In 2016, G4S – a company that paid no corporation tax in 2012, the same year it was given the contract – was fined £5.6 million for the low standard of the asylum housing it provided in 2013/14. In Middlesbrough, when G4S inspected housing provided by Jomast – a company G4S subcontracts to – they found urgent defects in 14 per cent of properties. Later, Home Office inspections found urgent defects in 91 per cent of properties. Jomast was reported to be taking £8 million from the taxpayer.19 As asylum seekers were being sent to live in squalid conditions, the government was still handing millions of pounds’ worth of contracts to the private housing providers.

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But the disorientation that comes with being shipped off to an area you don’t know can be made even worse if you get to your new home only to find it damp, rotting or infested with insects, mice and rats.15 In 2012, estimated to amount to £620 million, six contracts shifted housing provision into the hands of three private companies, G4S, Serco and Clearel. It wasn’t ever apparent what qualifications the first two had to be given this responsibility; only Clearel had any experience of providing housing.16 When the new housing providers were announced, security firm G4S was probably best known for having been involved in the death of forty-six-year-old Jimmy Mubenga when, in 2010, three of the company’s guards restrained him on board a flight to Angola.

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Sixty-five racist texts found on two of the guards’ phones weren’t shown to the jury; defence lawyers argued they would ‘release an unpredictable cloud of prejudice’. But a coroner’s report that had been written three years after Jimmy’s death said the texts were ‘not evidence of a couple of “rotten apples”’ but seemed to ‘evidence a more pervasive racism within G4S’.18 By the time the report was released, G4S had already been given the asylum housing contract. Before the switch went ahead, a mix of local authorities, housing associations and private contractors had been responsible for the accommodation of asylum seekers. Cross says the shift away from local authorities was ‘very obvious’ and the private sector offered much lower cost contracts, but that came with ‘absolute pairing down in the contracts’.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina
by Tim. Clancy
Published 15 Mar 2022

Metropolis is one of Sarajevo’s most popular downtown eateries, offering b/fast, great salads, choose-your-own-sauce dishes & mouth-watering cakes & ice cream. You should visit here at least once during your stay. $ Pirpa [Click here G4] Čobanija 2; 033 208 183, 033 223 552; 24hrs Mon–Sat. Some would argue that Pirpa has the best doner in the city. The kebabs and falafel are definitely tasty. It’s one of the few all-night venues to keep the hungry night owls happy. It’s the Sarajevan equivalent to a midnight fish & chip shop. Cheap & tasty. $ Snogu [Click here G4] Čobanija 4; m 062 501 378; @snogu.sarajevo; 07.00–midnight daily. As the name itself indicates – ‘while standing’ – this is a great street wok bar for grabbing a bite on the go when you have no time to enjoy a long meal.

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Part of the building is dedicated to serving pizzas. Entrance is usually free. Music tends towards turbo-folk & popular romantica acts. OTHER PRACTICALITIES University Clinical Centre [Click here G4] Trnovac bb; 035 303 500; w ukctuzla.ba Gradske Apoteke [Click here B1] Albina i Franje Herljevića 3; 035 280 784; 24hrs Police station [Click here D3] Turalibegova bb; 035 270 555 Main Post Office [Click here G4] Aleja Alije Izetbegovića 29; 035 308 144; 07.00–20.00 Mon–Fri, 07.00–15.00 Sat Sparkasse Bank [Click here B1] Slatina 5. ATM. WHAT TO SEE AND DO The downside is that Tuzla once actually had more in the way of museums.

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The owner, Mladen, demands the same high-quality cuisine for his customers that he enjoys for himself. The man knows & enjoys his food – so will you. There are 2 buildings next to one another: one is a bar with high-quality snacks; the other is a sit-down restaurant. $$–$$$ Dos Hermanos [Click here G4] Radićeva 4; m 062 927 921; e info@doshermanos.ba; w doshermanos.ba; 07.00–23.00 daily. One of the smartest new restaurants in Sarajevo, this impressive Argentinian steakhouse can be found among the handful of eateries along Radićeva. From its design to the offerings on its menu like dry-aged steak & wasabi tenderloin, this is one culinary treat we’re glad has finally arrived. $$–$$$ Fiori [Click here C1] Antuna Hangija 67; 033 217 265; e fiorisarajevo@gmail.com; 11.00–23.00 Mon–Sat.

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Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest
by Lonely Planet

Gassy Jack StatueMONUMENT (map Google map; Maple Tree Sq, Gastown; g4) It’s amusing to think that Vancouver’s favorite statue is a testament to the virtues of drink. At least that’s one interpretation of the John ‘Gassy Jack’ Deighton bronze, perched atop a whiskey barrel here in Maple Tree Sq. Erected in 1970, it recalls the time when Deighton arrived here in 1867 and built a pub, triggering a ramshackle development that ultimately became Vancouver. 1Kitsilano & University of British Columbia Arbutus GreenwayPARK (www.vancouver.ca/parks; W 6th Ave & Fir St, Kitsilano; c; g4) A former disused urban rail line that’s being transformed by the city into a cool linear park, this 8.5km-long flora-fringed walking and cycling route is already paved and open to the public.

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Sophie’s Cosmic CafeDINER$$ (%604-732-6810; www.sophiescosmiccafe.com; 2095 W 4th Ave, Kitsilano; mains $14-19; h8am-2:30pm Mon & Tue, 8am-8pm Wed-Sun; Wc; g4) Slide between the oversized knife and fork flanking the entrance and you’ll find one of Vancouver’s best retro-look diners, its kitsch-lined walls studded with everything from Village People albums to Charlie’s Angels lunch boxes. Burgers and huge milkshakes dominate the menu, but breakfast (try the bulging Spanish omelet) is the best reason to snag a booth. Expect weekend queues. Bishop’sNORTHWESTERN US$$$ (%604-738-2025; www.bishopsonline.com; 2183 W 4th Ave, Kitsilano; mains $36-45; h5:30-11pm; g4) Behind its anonymous exterior, Bishop’s pioneered West Coast ‘locavore’ dining long before the farm-to-table movement arrived.

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They host a farmers market and occasional art shows, and are home to the Oregon Historical Society museum and the excellent Portland Art Museum. At the southern end of the South Park Blocks is Portland State University (map Google map; 1825 SW Broadway), the city’s largest university. Salmon Street Springs FountainFOUNTAIN (map Google map; 1000 SW Naito Pkwy; g4, 10, 14, 15, 30) This photo-friendly fountain, on Salmon St near the river, cycles through computer-generated patterns. On hot days kids (and adults) take turns plunging through the jets. Portland BuildingLANDMARK (map Google map; cnr SW 5th Ave & SW Main St) This controversial 15-story building (1982) was designed by Michael Graves and catapulted the postmodern architect to celebrity status.

Top 10 Greek Islands
by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Published 17 Jan 2011

Agía Paraskeví, which has the ﬁnest gilded iconostasis screens on the island. d Map G4 Beach & Navágio This stunning beach is often called Shipwreck Bay because of a freighter that sits partially buried in the sand in this sheltered cove. d Near Volímes • Map G4 * Anafonítria Zákynthos’ patron saint, d Plateía Solomóu, Zákynthos Town • Map H4 • 26950 42714 • Open 8:30am–3pm Tue–Sun • Adm St Dionýsios, was a monk at the 14th-century monastery of Panagía Anafonítria, located in this sleepy mountain village. Caves £ Blue These caves have amazing d Near Volímes • Map G4 sculpted rock formations and caverns, surrounded by a sapphire blue sea.

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(in the UK) travelspecialsales@ uk.dk.com (in Canada) DK Special Sales at general@tourmaline.ca (in Australia) business.development@ pearson.com.au 191 Selected Map Index Selected Map Index 192 Agía Marína Agia Triada Agiásos Ágios Efstrátios Alónissos Ammopí Amníssos Amorgós Anáﬁ Anafonítria Andíkýthira Andímilos Andíparos Andípaxi Andípsara Ándissa Andítílos Ándros Ándros Town Angístri Anidro Áno Méra Áno Sagrí Antimácheia Apeíranthos Apéri Apóllon Argos Argostóli Arkása Armathiá Armenistís Asklepieíon Asklipeió Aspronisi Astypálea Avgónyma Benítses Bourtzi Chalkí Chaniá Chryssí Corfu Corfu Town Crete Delos Despotikó Diá Día Diafáni Dokós Donoússa Dragonáda Dýo Adélﬁa Égina Égina Town Elafónissos Émbona Ereíkoussa Erínia Ermoúpoli Évvia Firá Fiskárdo Folégandros Foúrni Gávdopula Gávdos Gioúra Glinádo Glóssa Górtys Gyáros Halkída Híos Híos Town Hóra Ikaría Imerovígli L1 E6 R2 E2 N1 Y6 E6 F4 F5 G4 D5 D4 E4 B2 E3 Q2 G5 M4 N4 J2 E5 P6 R5 X2 R5 X5 S4 M1 G3 X6 W6 F4 Y1 U5 T2 F5 K5 B5 K3 R5 D6 F6 B4 A2 E6 E4 E4 G3 E6 Y4 D4 F4 F6 N1 L1 K1 C5 U5 A1 P2 N6 M2 U2 G2 E5 F4 D6 D6 N1 Q5 M1 E6 M5 M3 F3 L5 F5 F4 U2 Inoússes Íos Irákleia Irákleio Itháki Kalamos Kalloní Kálymnos Kamári Kámeiros Kardámena Kárpathos Kassiópi Kássos Kastro Kéa Kefalloniá Kéfalos Kerí Kéros Kímolos Kinera Kithros Komiakí Kos Kos Town Koufonísi Koufoníssi Kými Kypséli Kyrá Panagía Kýthira Kýthnos Lefkáda Lefkáda Town Lefkimmi Lefkós Léros Lésvos Límnos Líndos Lipsí Lipsí Town Lixouri Lourdáta Loutrá Edipsoú Madouri Maherádo Malia Mantamádos Mastichári Meganíssi Melinádo Menetés Mesagrós Mestá Méthanna Methanon Mílos Míthymna (Mólyvos) Moní Monólithos Mýkonos Mýkonos Town Mýrtos Mytilíni Town Náxos Náxos Town Néa Kaméni Níssyros Ochthoniá Oía Olýmbi Ólympos Othonoí Óthos Pahiá Ráhi Palaia Kaméni Palaiokastró L4 E5 E4 E6 H2 H1 R2 W1 W2 U4 X2 X5 B4 W6 M1 E4 G2 W2 H4 E4 E4 E1 H2 R4 W2 Y1 S6 F6 N3 K1 N1 C5 E4 G1 G1 B6 X5 F4 F2 E1 U5 F4 F4 G3 G3 D2 H1 H4 E6 R1 X2 H1 H4 X6 L1 K6 K3 K2 D5 R1 K2 T5 P6 P6 E6 S2 E4 Q4 U2 X3 N3 T1 K6 X4 A1 X5 L2 T2 P6 Paleó Pýlí Paleohóra Paleókastro Pároikia Páros Patitíri Pátmos Paxí Paximádia Pélekas Pérdika Peristéra Petaloúdes Pétra Pigádia Pipéri Plati Póros Póros Town Psará Psérimos Psíra Pýrgi Réthymno Rhodes Salamína Salamína Town Sámi Sámos Samothráki Santoríni Sérifos Sidári Sífnos Síkinos Skála Skála Kameírou Skantzoúra Skiáthos Skiáthos Town Skópelos Skópelos Town Skorpídi Skorpiós Skýros Skýros Town Spárti Spétses Spétses Town Spetsoúla Spinalonga Stení Strofades Sykaminiá Sými Sými Town Sýros Thássos Thássos Town Thirassía Tigáki Tílos Tínos Tínos Town Trikéri Tsougriá Valáxa Velopoúla Volímes Volissós Vrontádos Ýdra Ýdra Town Yérakas Zákynthos Zákynthos Town X2 L1 G3 E4 E4 N1 F4 B2 E6 A5 K2 N1 U4 R1 Y6 P1 X1 L3 K3 E3 X1 F6 K6 E6 U5 D3 D3 G3 F4 E1 E5 E4 A4 E4 E5 H3 T5 N2 M1 M1 M1 M1 H1 H1 P2 P2 H1 D4 D4 D4 F6 N3 B4 R1 G5 G5 M6 E1 E1 T2 X1 G5 N5 N5 D4 M1 P2 D4 G4 K4 L5 D4 D4 D2 G4 H4

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Other attractions include Píso Aetós, believed to be the site of Odysseus’s palace, and the pretty Fríkes harbour. d Map H2 island with high mountains clothed in cypress trees and some stunning beaches, the most famous of which are Navágio (see p74) and Laganás bay in the south. Its bustling capital, Zákynthos Town, was rebuilt to its original Venetian look and layout after being destroyed in the 1953 earthquake. Places to visit include the beautiful Blue Caves (see p36), where the sea has eroded the rocks into caverns. d Map G4 Venetian-style arcade, Zákynthos Town ) Andípaxi Lying to Paxí’s south is the small satellite island of Andípaxi, with a population of less than 60 permanent inhabitants. It is a haven of clear turquoise waters and golden beaches, including Vríka beach, nestled in a sheltered cove, and nearby Voutoúmi beach.

Rome
by Lonely Planet

Don’t Miss… ➡ Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi ➡ Chiesa di Sant’Agnese in Agone ➡ Palazzo Pamphilj Practicalities ➡ Offline map ➡ Corso del Rinascimento Centro Storico North Top Sights Chiesa del GesùG6 Chiesa di San Luigi dei FrancesiE4 Museo Nazionale Romano: Palazzo AltempsE3 Palazzo e Galleria Doria PamphiljH5 Pantheon F4 Piazza Navona E4 Sights 1 Arco degli Acetari D6 2 Arco Farnese C7 3 Area Sacra F6 Basilica di San Lorenzo in Damaso (see 30) 4 Campo de' Fiori D6 5 Cat Sanctuary F7 6 Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista dei FiorentiniA4 7 Chiesa di San Lorenzo in LucinaG1 8 Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pace & Chiostro del Bramante D4 9 Chiesa di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva G5 10 Chiesa di Sant'Agnese in Agone D4 11 Chiesa di Sant'Agostino E3 12 Chiesa di Sant'Andrea della ValleE6 13 Chiesa di Sant'Eligio degli Orefici B6 14 Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di LoyolaH4 15 Chiesa di Sant'lvo alla SapienzaE5 16 Chiesa Nuova C4 17 Colonna di Marco Aurelio H3 18 Elefantino F5 19 Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi E4 20 Fontana del Moro E5 21 Fontana del Nettuno E4 Galleria Spada (see 37) 22 Largo di Torre Argentina F6 23 Museo Barracco di Scultura AnticaD6 24 Museo Criminologico B5 25 Museo di Roma D5 26 Museo Nazionale Romano: Crypta BalbiG7 27 Obelisk G3 28 Oratorio dei Filippini C4 29 Palazzo Chigi H3 30 Palazzo della Cancelleria D5 31 Palazzo della Sapienza E5 32 Palazzo di MontecitorioG3 33 Palazzo Farnese C7 34 Palazzo MadamaE4 35 Palazzo Nardini C4 36 Palazzo PamphiljD5 37 Palazzo Spada D7 38 Pasquino D5 39 Piè di Marmo G5 40 Stadio di Domiziano D3 41 Tempio di Adriano G4 42 Torre dell'Orologio C4 Eating 43 Alfredo e Ada B4 44Antico Forno RoscioliE7 45 Armando Al Pantheon F4 46 Baffetto 2 D6 47 Campana E2 Campo de' Fiori (see 4) 48 Casa Bleve E5 49Casa CoppelleF3 Chiostro del Bramante Caffè(see 8) 50 Cul de Sac D5 51 Da Francesco C4 52 Da Tonino C4 53 Ditirambo D6 54 Enoteca Corsi G6 55 Filetti di Baccalà E7 56 Fiocco di Neve F4 57Forno di Campo de' FioriD6 58 Gelateria del Teatro C3 59 Gelateria Giolitti F3 60 Gino G2 61 Grappolo d'Oro D6 62 Green T G5 63II BacaroF3 64La Cantina di Ninco NancoF4 65 La Focaccia D4 66 La Rosetta F4 67 Les Affiches D5 68 Lilli D3 69 Lo Zozzone D4 70 Maccheroni F3 71 Matricianella G1 72 Obikà F2 73 Obikà D6 74 Osteria Ar Galletto D6 75 Osteria dell'Ingegno G4 76 Osteria Sostegno F4 77 Pizzeria al Leoncino G1 78 Pizzeria da Baffetto C5 79 Pizzeria la Montecarlo D5 80 Renato e Luisa F6 81 Ristorante Settimio F4 82Roman KitchenH5 83 San Crispino F4 84Sergio alla GrotteD7 85 Zazà E4 Drinking & Nightlife 86 Bar della Pace D4 87 Barnum Cafe C5 88 Caffè Farnese D6 89 Caffè Sant'Eustachio F5 90 Caffè Tazza d'Oro G4 91 Ciampini G1 92 Circus C4 93 Etablì C4 94 Femme D6 95 Gran Caffè la Caffettiera H4 96II GoccettoB5 97 La Maison D4 98 L'Angolo Divino D7 99 Salotto 42 G4 100 Vineria Reggio D6 Entertainment 101English Theatre of Rome at Teatro L'ArciliutoD4 102 Teatro Argentina F6 103 Teatro dell'Orologio C4 104 Teatro Valle E5 Shopping 105 Ai Monasteri E3 106 Al Sogno E3 107 Alberta Gloves G6 108 Aldo Fefè F3 109Anniable GamarelliF5 110 Arsenale C5 111 AS Roma Store H3 112 Bartolucci G4 113 Bertè E5 114 Casali B3 115 Città del Sole E3 116 Comics Bazar B5 117Confetteria Moriondo & GariglioG5 118 Cuadros Roma C4 119DaDADAD7 120 Davide Cenci F3 121 De Sanctis G4 122 Feltrinelli F6 123GhezziF6 124Ibiz - Artigianato in CuoioE7 125 Le Tele di Carlotta D3 126 Libreria del Viaggiatore C6 127 Loco D6 128 Luna & L'Altra D5 129 Mondello Ottica C5 130 Nardecchia D4 131 Officina Profumo Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella E4 132Omeri & CeciliaC5 133 Posto Italiano E7 134 Rachele D6 135 Retrò C4 136 Sciù Scià F5 137 Spazio Sette F7 138Statuaria – Arte SacraF5 139 Stilo Fetti G4 140 Tartarughe G5 141 Tempi Moderni C5 142 Vestiti Usati Cinzia C5 143 ZouZou D5 Sleeping 144 Albergo AbruzziF4 145 Albergo del SoleE6 146 Argentina ResidenzaF6 147 Casa di Santa BrigidaC6 148 Hotel Campo de' FioriD6 149 Hotel Due TorriE2 150 Hotel MimosaF5 151 Hotel NavonaE5 152 Hotel Teatro di PompeoE6 153 Relais Palazzo TavernaC3 154 Residenza ZanardelliD3 155 Teatropace 33D4 Centro Storico South Sights 1 Area Archeologica del Teatro di Marcello e del Portico d'OttaviaF2 2 Chiesa di San Bartolomeo E4 3 Chiesa di San Nicola in CarcereF3 4 Fontana del Mascherone A1 5 Fontana delle Tartarughe E1 6 Museo Ebraico di RomaE2 7 Palazzo Cenci D2 8 Ponte Rotto F4 9 Teatro di Marcello F2 Eating 10 Alberto Pica D2 11 Boccione E1 12 Giggetto 2 F2 13Giggetto al Portico d'OttaviaE2 14 La Dolceroma E2 15La Taverna degli AmiciF1 16 L'Arte del Pane E1 17 Piperno D2 18 Sora Lella E3 19 Sora Margherita E2 20 Vecchia Roma F1 21Vineria Roscioli SalumeriaD1 Drinking & Nightlife 22 Bartaruga E1 23 Open Baladin D1 Entertainment 24 Rialtosantambrogio E1 Shopping 25 Borini C1 26 Ethic D1 27 Leone Limentani E2 Sleeping 28 Casa BanzoC1 Centro Storico Eating | Drinking & Nightlife | Entertainment | Shopping Sights Bound by the River Tiber and Via del Corso, the (historic centre) is made for aimless wandering.

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Don’t Miss… ➡ Facade mosaics ➡ 13th-century Cavallini mosaics in the apse ➡ Ancient Roman granite columns Practicalities ➡ Offline map ➡ 06 581 48 02 ➡ Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere ➡ 7.30am-9pm ➡ or Viale di Trastevere Trastevere & Gianicolo Top Sights Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere H5 Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere E4 Villa Farnesina D2 Sights 1 Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi a RipaF6 2 Chiesa di San Pietro in MontorioD4 3 Elleffe F4 4 Fontana dell'Aqua PaolaC4 5 Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo CorsiniD2 6 Garibaldi MonumentB2 7 Museo di Roma in Trastevere E3 8 Orto Botanico D2 9 Piazza Santa Maria in TrastevereE4 10 Porta Settimiana D2 Tempietto di Bramante(see 2) 11 Villa Doria Pamphilj A5 Eating 12 Artigiano Innocenti G4 13 Bir & Fud E2 14 Da Augusto E3 15 Da Enzo H5 16 Da Lucia D3 17 Da Olindo D3 18 Dar Poeta E3 19 Fior di Luna F4 20 Forno la Renella F3 21 Glass Hostaria E3 22 La Botticella E3 23 La Gensola H4 24 Le Mani in Pasta H5 25 Panattoni G4 26 Paris F4 27 Piazza San CosimatoE5 28 Pizzeria Ivo F4 29 Sisini F5 30 Sora Mirella Caffè H4 31 Valzani F3 Drinking & Nightlife 32 Bar le Cinque E3 33 Bar San Calisto F4 34 Big Star D5 35 Freni e Frizioni E3 36 Gianicolo 150 B2 37 II BarettoD5 38 La Meschita E3 39 Libreria del Cinema F4 40 Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fà E2 41 Ombre Rosse E3 Entertainment 42 Alcazar F5 43 Anfiteatro del Tasso B1 44 Big Mama F6 45 Lettere Caffè Gallery F6 46 Nuovo Sacher F7 47 Teatro Vascello B7 Shopping 48 Almost Corner Bookshop E3 49 Bibli F4 50 La Cravatta su Misura H5 51 Officina della Carta E2 52 Porta Portese G7 53 Roma-Store F4 54 Scala Quattorodici E3 Sleeping Arco del Lauro(see 59) 55 Buonanotte GaribaldiD2 56 Donna Camilla SavelliD3 57 Hotel Santa MariaE3 58 La Foresteria Orsa MaggioreD1 59 Residenza Arco de' TolomeiH4 60 Residenza Santa MariaF4 61 Villa della FonteE3 Trastevere & Gianicolo Eating | Drinking & Nightlife | Entertainment | Shopping Sights Trastevere is dotted with exquisite churches, but some of its most wonderful sights are picturesque glimpses down narrow, ochre-and-orange-shaded lanes that will make you catch your breath.

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Top 10 Venice
by Gillian Price
Published 21 Feb 2011

Sottoportego Madonna Pope Alexander III took refuge here in 1177, in ﬂight from Emperor Barbarossa. d Sant’ Aponal, S Polo • Map D3 Shrine @ Gondolier’s A 1583 Madonna greets boats approaching the bridge. d Ponte della Paglia, S Marco • Map R5 Nova £ Corte Painted images over a Venice’s Top 10 Designed by Longhena in 1630, it has a spacious, light-ﬁlled interior, while the altar houses a precious Byzantine icon. Dramatic works by Titian and Tintoretto can be appreciated in the sacristy. lace-trimmed mantlepiece. d Castello • Map G4 Passageway $ Covered The Virgin’s protection has been implored here against plague and enemy attacks. d Calle Zorzi, Castello • Map F4 Grande della % Scuola Misericordia Carvings of laden boats invoke protection for the ferries, which set out from here. d Cannaregio • Map D2 de Ca’ Sarasina ^ Corte Shrine dating back to the 1600s in memory of the dead.

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F4 • Open Apr–Oct: 9:30am–12:30pm, 3:30–6:30pm Tue–Sun (closed public hols & Sun pm in winter) • Admission charge d Piazza Baldassare Galuppi, Burano • Map H1 • Open Apr–Oct: 10am–5pm; Nov–Mar: 10am–4pm Wed–Mon • Admission charge Storico Navale & Museo Watercraft galore are on display at this museum, but the highlight is the replica of the Doge’s ceremonial barge Bucintoro, richly decorated with allegorical statues. Venice’s Top 10 is the lacemaking island of Burano and this precious display of more than 200 rare lace items, documenting a 500-year history. d Calle dei Furlani, Castello 3259 • Map d Campo S Biagio, Castello 2148 • Map G4 • Open 8:45am–1:30pm Mon–Fri, (to 1pm Sat) • Admission charge Pesaro * Ca’ Galleria d’Arte Moderna Studio with a Fruit Bowl (1942), Raoul Dufy, Ca’ Pesaro A Baroque triumph of a palace whose interior, in contrast, accommodates works Museo dell’Istituto by leading European 19th- and Ellenico 20th- century masters such as A rich if small collection of Marc Chagall and Gustave Klimt. 14th–18th-century Byzantine d Fondamenta Ca’ Pesaro, S Croce icons is on display. ) d Ponte dei Greci, Castello 3412 • Map F4 • Open 9am–5pm daily (closed public hols) • Admission charge 2076 • Map N1 • Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sun (closed 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec) • Admission charge 5$ $ &$032 6$1*,$&202 '(// 25,2 ,(6 &+ ' )0 12 &$03,(//2 '(/&$621 9$ &$032 '3(6&+(5,$ &$032 6$1 &$66,$12 &$032'(, 6$17,$32672/, 11 &$032 6$1 0$5,1$ 9$ &$032 6$132/2 9 6 * 5,9 $ / ' ( 9 ,1 6$/ ,2 82 9( 0XUDQR %XUDQR &$032 6*,867,1$ &032 60$5,$ )25026$ &$032' &(/(67,$ &DVWHOOR 58 5$ %( ,8 ) & )5 ( == 3,$==$ 6$ 10$5& 2 ( 5 ,$ ,0 $5 $1 1 , 1 ,$ &$032 6$19,'$/ &$032 '&$5,7$ *$ ; ;, $5 , %5 & / $5 $' $ % &$032 6$172 67()$12 6$/ ' * 5( ( , 6 $ / & , $ 1 72 6 $ ) 6DQ0DUFR &$032 6$1 )$17,1 ,$ )) (5 ,8 5& 63 &$032 6$1/8&$ &$032 0$1,1 * 0( *$ OEF &$032 6$17ŝ$1*(/2 'RUVRGXUR 1 / (, SB ( ' MF B OB & $ &$032 6$1%$51$%$ 6$ &$032 ')5$5, &$032 6 52&&2 &$032 6$1720$ 5* 1 &$0326$17, *,29$11, (3$2/2 ,2 6DQ3ROR &$032 6$167,1 7$ &$0326 0$5,$129$ , & '$ 338 && ,1( 67 & ' &$ &$032 6$167$( 6DQWD&URFH &$032 6$1=$&&$5,$ &$032 $56(1$/( =2 $BOB M F E J &$032 '(//$6$/87( &$032 %$1',(5$ (0252 5 , 9 $ '(*/, 6 & + , $ 9 2 1 , ZBSET NFUSFT 4BO &$032 6%,$*,2 .B SDP 41 Venice’s Top 10 Left Ca’ d’Oro Centre Ca’ Foscari Right Ca’ Dario Venice Palaces Palace !

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d Ruga Giuffa, Castello 4920 • Map F3 @ A normal grocery store at Pastificio Le Spighe ﬁrst sight, this hive of industry produces a marvellous range of homemade pasta and stocks gourmet olive oils and olive paste. delle Fate * Corte Ultra-modern footwear and zany accessories in the shape of bags, jewellery and garments for the young. d Salizzada S Lio, Castello d Via Garibaldi, Castello 1341 • Map G4 5690 • Map E3 Mâché £ Papier One of the few authentic Magica ( Lanterna A toy and gadget shop where mask shops in town. It also sells beautiful ceramics. d Calle Lunga Santa Maria Formosa, Castello 5175 • Map R3 you can browse among starstudded umbrellas and “magic lantern” lamps with a procession of shadow ﬁgures. d Calle delle Bande, Castello 5379 • Map E3 $ Tempting gifts in the shape Il Papiro of marbled paper-covered boxes, greeting cards and writing paper with artistic letterheads. d Calle delle Bande, Castello 5275 • Map E4 % Inviting boudoir ﬁlled with an Anticlea Antiquariato Zanella ) Giovanna A must for all serious shoppers – zany handmade shoes in a fabulous range of incredible designs.

The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithms
by Donald E. Knuth
Published 1 Jan 1974

Consider representing the Data Table in sequential locations with just two links for each item: PREV (as in the text); SCOPE (a link to the last elementary item in this group). We have SCOPE(P) = P if and only if NODE(P) represents an elementary item. For example, the Data Table of E) would be replaced by PREV SCOPE PREV SCOPE PREV SCOPE Al: A G4 F3: A G4 B5: B3 B5 B3: A D7 G4: A G4 C5: C7 G9 C7: A C7 HI: A G9 E9: E3 E9 D7: A D7 F5: F3 G8 D9: D7 D9 E3: A E3 G8: G4 G8 G9: G8 G9 (Compare with E) of Section 2.3.3.) Notice that NODE(P) is part of the tree below NODE(Q) if and only if Q < P < SCOPE(Q). Design an algorithm that performs the function of Algorithm B when the Data Table has this format. > 13. [24] Give an algorithm to substitute for Algorithm A when the Data Table is to have the format shown in exercise 12. > 14. [28] Give an algorithm to substitute for Algorithm C when the Data Table has the format shown in exercise 12. 15. [25] (David S.

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Note the flexibility in choice of level numbers that is allowed by the COBOL rules; the left structure in D) is completely equivalent to 1 A 2 B 3 C 3 D 2 E 2 F 3 G because level numbers do not have to be sequential. 428 INFORMATION STRUCTURES 2.4 Symbol Table LINK Data Table PREV PARENT NAME CHILD SIB A: B: C: D: E: F: G: H: Al B5 C5 D9 E9 F5 G9 HI Empty boxes indicate additional information not relevant here A A A A A A A A F3 G4 B3 C7 E3 D7 G8 A Al B3 B3 Al Al F3 A HI F5 HI HI C5 C5 C5 A B C D E F G H F G B C E D G B3 C7 A A A G4 A F5 G8 A A E9 A A A HI E3 D7 A F3 A A A B5 A C5 A D9 G9 A E) Al: B3? C7: D7: E3: F3: G4: HI: F5: G8: C5: E9: D9: G9: Some sequences of level numbers are illegal, however; for example, if the level number of D in D) were changed to " (in either place) we would have a meaningless data configuration, violating the rule that all items of a group must have the same number.

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Cohen and Nicolau have analyzed four of these approaches in ACM Trans. Prog. Languages and Systems 5 A983), 532-553.] 34. Let TOP = rll, Q = rI2, P = rI3, k = rI4, SIZE(P) = rI5. Assume further that A = 0, and LINK(O) ^ 0 to simplify step G4. Step Gl is omitted. 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 U 15 16 11 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 21 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 31 38 LINK INFO SIZE T G2 G3 G4 1H G5 1H G6 G6A G8 EQU EQU EQU EQU LD1 LD2 ST2 STZ ENT3 LD1 J1Z LD4 J4Z INC3 DEC4 LD2 LDA JANZ ST1 ENT1 JMP ENT2 ST2 ENT3 JMP ST2 INC2 INC3 LDA LD5 JAZ J5NZ LD1 LDA STA ST2 ENT3 JMP 4:5 0:3 1:2 3:3 USE AVAIL 0,1(LINK) 0,2(LINK) 0,1 0,1(LINK) G5 0,3(T) G3 1 1 0,3(LINK) 0,2(LINK) IB 0,2(LINK) 0,2 IB 1 0,3 1 G6 0,3(LINK) 0,5 0,5 0,3(LINK) 0,3(SIZE) G7 IB USE 0,1(LINK) USE AVAIL 1 G8P a a a a a a a a a + a + a 1 1 1 1 + + + a + b b b b b — — — 1 1 1 1 a a a + c c + 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 b 1 1 1 1 + 1 + 1 1 G2.

San Francisco
by Lonely Planet

Pedal boats, row boats and bikes are available at the 1946 boathouse ( 415-752-0347; per hr paddleboats/canoes/rowboats $24/20/19, tandem bikes $15, bikes $8; rentals 10am-4pm) . Golden Gate Park & The Avenues Top Sights California Academy of Sciences G4 Conservatory of Flowers H4 Golden Gate Park E4 Japanese Tea Garden F4 MH de Young Museum G4 San Francisco Botanical Garden F5 Stow Lake F4 Sights 1 AIDS Memorial Grove H4 2 Bison PaddockC4 3 Camera Obscura A3 4 Children's Playground H4 Cliff House(see 3) 5 Columbarium H3 6 Dahlia Garden H4 7 Legion of Honor B2 8 Lincoln Park B1 9 McLaren Lodge H4 10 Ocean Beach A5 11 Shakespeare Garden G4 12 Sutro Baths A2 13 Windmills A4 Eating 14 AzizaE2 15 B Star Bar H2 16 Burma Superstar G2 17 First Korean Market G2 18 Genki G2 19 Halu G2 20 House of Bagels F2 21 Kabuto F2 22 NamuG3 23 Nanking Road Bistro G5 Outerlands (see 38) 24 PPQ Dungeness Island E2 25 San Tung G5 26 Spices G2 27 Sunrise Deli E5 28 Thanh Long B6 29 Ton Kiang Restaurant E2 30 Underdog F5 31 Wing Lee G2 32 Yum Yum Fish E5 Drinking & Nightlife 540 Club (see 31) 33 Beach ChaletA4 34 Bitter End G2 35 Hollow F5 36 Social G5 37 Trad'r Sam's D2 38 Trouble CoffeeB6 Entertainment 39 Balboa Theater C3 40 Plough & the Stars H2 Shopping General Store (see 38) 41 Green Apple Books G2 42 Mollusk B5 Park Life(see 40) Seedstore (see 18) 43 Wishbone G5 Sports & Activities 44 Circus Center Trapeze H5 45 Flycasting Club C4 46 Golden Gate Municipal Golf Course B4 47 Golden Gate Park Bike & Skate G3 48 Lawn Bowling Club H4 49 Lincoln Park Golf Course C2 50 Lindy in the ParkG4 51 San Francisco Disc GolfD4 52 San Francisco Model Yacht ClubC4 53 Wheel Fun Rentals F4 Sleeping 54Seal Rock InnA3 Golden Gate Park & the Avenues Eating | Drinking & Nightlife | Entertainment | Shopping | Sports & Activities Sights Populist millionaire Adolph Sutro built a public railway in the 1890s to transport Downtown tenement-dwellers to breezy Ocean Beach.

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Don’t Miss… ➡ Balmy Alley ➡ Clarion Alley ➡ Maestrapeace ➡ Chris Ware’s mural at 826 Valencia ➡ Digital Mural Project at Galería de la Raza Practicalities ➡ Offline map ➡ 24th St btwn Mission & Potrero; Valencia St btwn 17th & 20th Sts ➡ admission free ➡ 24th St Mission or 16th St Mission The Mission & Potrero Hill Top Sights 24th StD5 Valencia StB3 Sights 1 826 Valencia B3 2 Ampersand International ArtsH3 3 Balmy Alley C5 4 California College of the ArtsF1 5 Clarion Alley B2 6 Creativity Explored A2 7 Eleanor Harwood GalleryD5 8 Galería de la Raza D5 9 Guerrero GalleryD3 10 Incline GalleryB3 11 Mission Dolores A2 12 Mission Dolores Park A3 13 Ratio 3 B1 14 Root DivisionC2 15 Southern Exposure D3 16 Women's Building B3 Eating 17 Bi-Rite A3 18 Bi-Rite Creamery A3 19CommonwealthB3 20 Corner B2 21DelfinaA3 22 Duc Loi B3 23 Foreign Cinema B4 24 Humphry Slocombe D5 25 Ichi Sushi B7 26La TaqueriaB5 27 Locanda B2 28MaverickB2 29Mission Beach CafeA1 30Mission ChineseB3 31Mission PieB5 32 Mitchell's Ice Cream B7 33 Mr & Mrs Miscellaneous H4 34Mr PolloB5 35 Old Jerusalem B6 36 Pancho Villa B2 Range (see 87) 37 Tartine A3 38 Udupi Palace B4 Drinking & Nightlife 39 Atlas Cafe D3 40 Beretta B4 41 Borderlands B3 42 Doc's Clock B4 43 El Rio B6 44ElixirB2 45 Heart B5 46 Homestead C3 47 Latin American Club B4 48 Lexington Club B3 49 Medjool Sky Terrace B4 50 Mighty E1 51 Phone Booth C4 52 Ritual Coffee Roasters B4 53 Thee Parkside F2 54 Truck C1 Entertainment 55 Amnesia B3 56 Bottom of the Hill F2 57 Brava Theater D5 58 Cafe Cocomo G2 59 Dance Mission B5 60 Elbo Room B3 61Intersection for the ArtsB2 62 Jewish Theater D2 63 Little Baobab B3 64 Make-Out Room B4 65 Marsh B4 66Oberlin Dance CollectiveC2 67 Red Poppy Art House C4 68 Roccapulco Supper Club B6 69Roxie CinemaB2 70 Savanna Jazz B5 71 SUB-Mission B2 72 Verdi Club D2 Shopping 73 Accident & Artifact B1 74Adobe Books & Backroom GalleryA2 75 Aquarius Records B4 76 Black & Blue Tattoo A2 77Candystore CollectiveA2 78 Community Thrift B2 79 Dema B4 80 Fabric8 B4 81 Good Vibrations B2 82Gravel & GoldB4 83Mission SkateboardsC5 84 Mission Statement B3 85 Needles & Pens A2 86 NooWorks B1 87 Paxton Gate B3 88 Room 4 B3 89SCRAPF7 90 Sunhee Moon A2 91 Voyager B1 Sports & Activities 92 18 Reasons A3 93Bakar Fitness & Recreation CenterG1 94 Metronome Dance Collective E2 95Mission Cultural Center for Latino ArtsB5 96Potrero del Sol/La Raza SkateparkE5 97San Francisco Center for the BookE2 98 Yoga Tree B5 Sleeping 99Inn San FranciscoC3 SoMa Top Sights San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtF3 Sights 1 AT&T ParkH5 Baer Ridgway(see 3) 2 California Historical Society Museum E3 3 Cartoon Art Museum E3 4 Catharine Clark GalleryF3 5 Children's Creativity Museum E3 6 Contemporary Jewish MuseumE3 7 Crown Point PressF3 8 Electric WorksC5 9 Federal Building C5 10 Jack London's BirthplaceG4 11 Museum of Craft & Folk Art E3 12 Museum of the African DiasporaE3 13 South Park G4 14 WPA Murals at Rincon Annex Post OfficeG1 Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts(see 15) 15 Yerba Buena Gardens E3 Eating 16BenuF3 17 Boulevard G1 18 Butler & the Chef G4 Citizen's Band(see 32) 19 Heaven's Dog C5 20 Juhu Beach Club C6 21 Rainbow Grocery C7 22 Sentinel E2 23 Split Pea Seduction D4 24 Tropisueño E3 25 Tu Lan D4 26 Zero Zero E4 Drinking & Nightlife 27 1015 Folsom D5 28 111 Minna F2 29 83 Proof F2 Bar Agricole(see 36) 30BloodhoundD6 31 Butter C7 32 Cat Club D6 33 City Beer Store & Tasting Room D5 34 Club Six D4 35 Dada F2 36 DNA Lounge C7 37 EndUp E5 38 Harlot F2 39 Hole in the Wall C6 40 House of Shields E2 41 Kok Bar C6 42 Lone Star Saloon C6 43 Powerhouse C6 44 RN74 F1 45 Shine C6 46 Sightglass Coffee D5 47 Stud D6 48TempleF2 49Terroir Natural Wine MerchantD5 50 Waterbar H2 51ZeitgeistA7 Entertainment 52 AMC Loews Metreon 16 E3 53 AsiaSF C6 54 Blow Buddies E5 55 Brainwash D5 56 Hotel Utah Saloon F4 57 Mezzanine D4 58 Slim's C7 Shopping 59BranchD6 60 Gama-Go D6 61 General Bead C5 62 Goodwill 'As Is' Shop B6 63 Isda & Co Outlet G4 64 Jeremy's G4 65Madame S & Mr S LeatherD6 66 San Francisco Flower Mart E6 67 SFMOMA Museum Store E3 Sports & Activities 68 City Kayak H4 69 Embarcadero YMCA G1 Spinnaker Sailing (see 68) 70Yerba Buena Ice Skating & BowlingF3 Sleeping 71Americania HotelD5 72Best Western Carriage InnD5 73Good HotelC5 74Harbor Court HotelG1 75Hotel VitaleG1 76Mosser HotelE3 77St Regis HotelE3 78W HotelF3 The Mission, SoMa & Potrero Hill Eating | Drinking & Nightlife | Entertainment | Shopping | Sports & Activities Sights The Mission is a crossroads of contradictions, and at its heart is Mission St, San Francisco’s faded ‘miracle mile’ of deco cinemas now occupied by 99¢ stores and shady characters, surrounded by colorful murals and trend-setting restaurants.

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San Francisco
by Lonely Planet

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Discover Great Britain
by Lonely Planet
Published 22 Aug 2012

Big Ben, clock tower of the Houses of Parliament PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVID TOMLINSON / LONELY PLANET IMAGES © London Telephone code 020 / pop 7.51 million / area 609 sq miles Central London Top Sights Big Ben E6 Buckingham Palace A6 Houses of Parliament E7 London EyeF5 National GalleryD4 National Portrait GalleryD3 Trafalgar Square D4 Westminster Abbey D7 Sights 1 Churchill Museum & Cabinet War Rooms D6 2 Covent Garden E2 3 Nelson's Column D4 4Royal MewsA7 5 Sea Life F6 Sleeping 6 Brown's Hotel A3 7 Hazlitt's C2 Eating 8 Arbutus C1 9 Fernandez & Wells B2 10 Great Queen Street E1 11 HK Diner C3 12 National Dining Rooms D4 13 Sacred B2 14 Sacred E2 15 Veeraswamy B3 Drinking 16 Candy Bar C1 17 Friendly Society C2 18 G-A-Y BarC2 19G-A-Y LateD1 20 Gordon's Wine Bar E4 21 Jewel Covent GardenE3 22Jewel Piccadilly CircusC3 23 Lamb & Flag E2 24 Village C2 Entertainment 25 Donmar Warehouse E2 26G-A-Y Club @ HeavenE4 27 National Theatre G4 28 Old Vic H6 Purcell Room (see 29) 29 Queen Elizabeth Hall G4 30 Ronnie Scott's C2 31 Royal Festival Hall G4 32 Royal Opera House E2 33 Southbank Centre G4 34 tkts D3 Shopping 35 Fortnum & Mason B4 36 HMV B1 37 Liberty B2 38 Topshop Oxford Circus A1 Sights Westminster & St James’s Purposefully positioned outside the old City (London’s fiercely independent burghers preferred to keep the monarch and parliament at arm’s length), Westminster has been the centre of the nation’s political power for nearly a millennium.

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Hyde Park & Kensington Top Sights Natural History MuseumE3 Science MuseumE3 Victoria & Albert MuseumE3 Sights 1 Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain E2 2 Hyde Park E2 3 Speaker's Corner F1 4 Westminster Cathedral G3 Sleeping 5 B&B Belgravia G3 6 Gore E3 7 Lime Tree Hotel G3 8 Luna Simone Hotel G4 9 Vicarage Private Hotel D2 10 Windermere Hotel G4 Eating 11 Gordon Ramsay F4 12 Locanda Locatelli F1 13 Made in Italy E4 14 Tom's Kitchen E4 15 Wild Honey G1 Drinking 16 Galvin at Windows G2 Entertainment 17 Royal Albert Hall E3 18 Royal Court Theatre F3 Shopping 19 Gray'sG1 20 Harrods F3 21 Harvey Nichols F2 22 Portobello Road Market C1 23 Selfridges F1 Victoria & Albert Museum Museum Offline map Google map (V&A; ; www.vam.ac.uk; Cromwell Rd SW7; 10am-5.45pm Sat-Thu, to 10pm Fri; South Kensington) A vast, rambling and wonderful museum of decorative art and design, the V&A is part of Prince Albert’s legacy to Londoners in the wake of the Great Exhibition.

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Oxford Top Sights Ashmolean MuseumC2 Bodleian Library D3 Christ Church CollegeD4 Magdalen College F3 Radcliffe Camera D3 Sheldonian Theatre D2 Sights 1All Souls CollegeD3 2Brasenose CollegeD3 3Bridge of SighsD2 4 Christ Church CathedralD4 5Corpus Christi CollegeD4 6 Exeter CollegeD3 7 Merton College E3 8 New College E2 9Oxford Castle UnlockedC3 10 Oxford Covered Market D3 11St Edmund HallE3 12Trinity CollegeD2 13University Church of St Mary the VirginD3 Activities, Courses & Tours 14 Blackwell D2 Sleeping 15 Buttery Hotel C3 16 Old Parsonage Hotel C1 Eating 17 Door 74 G4 18 Georgina's D3 19 Jericho Café B1 20 Quod D3 Vaults (see 13) Drinking 21 Eagle & Child C2 22 Raoul’s C1 23 Turf Tavern D2 Sights Magdalen College College Offline map Google map (www.magd.ox.ac.uk; High St; adult/child £4.50/3.50; 1-6pm) Set amid 40 hectares of lawns, woodlands, river walks and deer park, Magdalen ( mawd -len) is one of the wealthiest and most beautiful of Oxford’s colleges.

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Value of Everything: An Antidote to Chaos The
by Mariana Mazzucato
Published 25 Apr 2018

Projects funded under the NPD model are therefore still significantly more expensive than they would be if they were paid for by direct public borrowing.58 A recent study by the New Economics Foundation found, for example, that between 1998 and 2015 the Scottish government would have saved a total of £26 billion if the projects financed through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and NonProfit Dividend (NPD) schemes had instead been funded directly through a Scottish public investment bank.59 As we have seen, outsourcing often increases costs and is a form of monopoly. Social Enterprise UK, which promotes organizations such as the Big Issue, Cafedirect and the Eden Project, has referred to the oligopoly of outsourcing providers as the ‘Shadow State'. Capita, G4S and Serco continue to win contracts in both the UK and US, even though they have all been fined for improper management.60 In 2016, for example, an investigative article revealed that G4S has been fined for at least 100 breaches of prison contracts between 2010 and 2016, including ‘failure to achieve search targets, smuggling of contraband items, failure of security procedures, serious cases of “concerted indiscipline”, hostage taking, and roof climbing.

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Marx, K., Theories of Surplus Value (vol. 4 of Capital), Part I (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1863). Marx, K., Capital, vol. 1 (London: Penguin Classics, 2004). Marx, K., Capital, vol. 3 (London: Penguin Classics, 1992). Marx, K. and Engels, F., The Communist Manifesto (1848; London: Penguin Classics, 2010). Mason, R., ‘G4S fined 100 times since 2010 for breaching prison contracts', the Guardian, 15 April 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/15/g4s-fined-100-times- since-2010-prison-contracts Mazzoleni, R. and Nelson, R., ‘The benefit and costs of strong patent protection: A contribution to the current debate', Research Policy, 27 (1998), pp. 273-84. Mazzucato, M., The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs.

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Turning to PFIs in this way has been called ‘pseudoprivatization', because the private firms receive their income not from clients in the ‘market' but from government through a guaranteed profit margin. An outsourcing contract is in effect a type of monopoly which locks the government in as the sole customer. In the UK, moreover, the degree of competition between providers of outsourcing services is questionable: only a handful, dominated by Capita, G4S and Serco, account for most the contracts.44 The aim of PFI financing is to share costs and remove from the government's balance sheet the debt associated with large projects such as hospitals; however, it can be costly for the public sector because projects are financed with private debt and equity, which is significantly more expensive than public borrowing.

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Learning SPARQL
by Bob Ducharme
Published 15 Jul 2011

This next update request has a WHERE clause that looks for triples with a predicate of dm:tag and an object of “five” or “six”. It then inserts copies of these triples into a new d:g4 graph. # filename: ex344.ru PREFIX d: <http://learningsparql.com/ns/data#> PREFIX dm: <http://learningsparql.com/ns/demo#> INSERT { GRAPH d:g4 { ?s dm:tag "five", "six" . } } USING d:g2 WHERE { ?s dm:tag "five" . ?s dm:tag "six" . } After running it, run the ex332.rq List All Triples SELECT query, and you’ll see that the two triples inserted into graph d:g4 both have subjects of d:x. Although the default graph has triples that match the WHERE clause’s patterns (the ones that you inserted with update request ex343.ru), the USING keyword specifically tells the SPARQL processor to look in the d:g2 graph for triples that match those patterns, so those are the ones that got copied to d:g4.

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Although the default graph has triples that match the WHERE clause’s patterns (the ones that you inserted with update request ex343.ru), the USING keyword specifically tells the SPARQL processor to look in the d:g2 graph for triples that match those patterns, so those are the ones that got copied to d:g4. If the USING keyword in an update request is like FROM in a SELECT query, then USING NAMED is like FROM NAMED: it specifies a graph that will be referenced by name. If the ex344.ru graph had said USING NAMED instead of just USING, the query processor wouldn’t have found those triples in the d:g2 graph unless the name was explicitly included in the WHERE clause, like this: # filename: ex345.ru PREFIX d: <http://learningsparql.com/ns/data#> PREFIX dm: <http://learningsparql.com/ns/demo#> WITH d:g4 INSERT { ?s dm:tag "five" . ?s dm:tag "six" . } USING NAMED d:g2 WHERE { GRAPH d:g2 { ?

Cuba Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Centro Habana Top Sights 1 Malecón F2 Sights 2Asociación Cultural Yoruba de CubaG6 3 Capitolio Nacional G5 4 Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta H1 5 Escuela Nacional de Ballet G3 6 Fuente de la India G6 7 Gran Teatro de la Habana G5 8 Hotel Inglaterra G5 9Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de JesúsD7 10 Memorial a los Estudiantes de Medicina H2 11 Monumento a Antonio Maceo B3 12 Museo Lezama Lima G3 13 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Arte Universal) G5 14 Palacio de los Matrimonios G4 15 Palacio Velasco H2 16 Parque Central Around G5 17 Parque de la Fraternidad G6 18 Parque de los Enamorados G2 19 Real Fábrica de Tabacos Partagás G6 20 Statue of General Máximo Gómez H2 21 Statue of José Martí G5 22 Teatro Fausto G3 23 Torreón de San Lázaro B3 Activities, Courses Tours 24 Centro Andaluz G4 25Centro Hispano Americano de CulturaG2 26 Teatro América F4 Sleeping 27 Casa 1932 E3 28 Casa 1940 E3 29 Casa Amada D4 30 Casa de Lourdes José F3 31Dulce Hostal – Dulce María GonzálezF5 32 Esther Cardoso F4 33 Eumelia Aurelio G3 34 Hostal Peregrino G3 35 Hotel Caribbean G3 36 Hotel Deauville F3 37Hotel Iberostar Parque CentralG4 Hotel Inglaterra (see 8) 38 Hotel Lincoln F4 39 Hotel Park View G3 40 Hotel Saratoga G6 41 Hotel Sevilla G3 42 Hotel Telégrafo G4 43 Hotel Terral D3 44 Lourdes Cervantes A3 Eating 45 Almacenes Ultra F6 46 Café Neruda E3 47 Casa Miglis D4 48 Castropol F2 49 Chi Tack Tong E6 50 Flor de Loto D6 51 Infanta Cafetería A2 52 La Época F4 53 Los Gijones G4 54 Los Nardos G6 55 Paladar la Guarida D4 56 Pastelería Francesa G4 57 Restaurante Tien-Tan E6 58 San Cristóbal E5 59 Supermercado Isla de Cuba G7 Drinking Nightlife 60 Prado Animas G4 61 Prado No 12 G2 62 Sloppy Joe's G4 Entertainment 63 Callejón de Hamel B4 64 Cine Actualidades H4 65 Cine Infanta A5 66 Cine Payret G5 67 Cinecito G5 Gran Teatro de la Habana (see 7) 68 Kid Chocolate G5 69La Casa de la Música Centro HabanaF4 Teatro América (see 26) Teatro Fausto (see 22) Shopping 70Area de Vendedores por Cuenta PropiaG7 71 El Bulevar F5 72 Galería la Acacia G5 73 La Manzana de Gómez G4 74 Librería Luis Rogelio Nogueras F5 75 Plaza Carlos III B7 Real Fábrica de Tabacos Partagás (see 19) Real Fábrica de Tabacos Partagás HISTORIC BUILDING (Industria No 520, btwn Barcelona Dragones; tours CUC$10; tours every 15min 9-10:15am noon-1:30pm) One of Havana’s oldest and most famous cigar factories, the landmark neoclassical Real Fábrica de Tabacos Partagás was founded in 1845 by Spaniard Jaime Partagás.

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Santiago de Cuba Top Sights 1 Cuartel Moncada D3 2 Museo de la Lucha Clandestina B5 Sights 3 Bacardí Rum Factory B3 4 Casa del Caribe H3 5 Casa Museo de Frank y Josué País C3 6 Clock Tower A4 7Fidel Castro HouseB5 8Fountain of Martí and Abel SantamaríaD3 9Moncada MuseumD3 10 Museo de la Imagen G4 11Museo-Casa Natal de Antonio MaceoB3 12 Padre Pico steps B5 13 Palacio de Justicia D3 14 Palacio de Pioneros G3 15 Parque Alameda A4 16 Parque Histórico Abel Santamaría D3 Activities, Courses Tours 17 Ballet Folklórico Cutumba D5 18 Casa del Caribe H3 Sleeping 19 Caridad Leyna Martínez H4 20 Casa Colonial 'Maruchi' C3 21 Casa Lola B3 22 Casa Marcos E3 23 Hotel las Américas F3 24 Meliá Santiago de Cuba F3 25 Villa Gaviota H3 Eating 26 El Barracón E4 27 Jardín de los Enramadas B4 28 La Arboleda D4 29 La Fortaleza G3 30 Madrileño G4 31 Municipal Market B4 32 Paladar Salón Tropical G5 33 Restaurante España D4 34 Restaurante Zunzún G3 Ristorante Italiano la Fontana (see 24) Drinking Nightlife Barrita de Ron Havana Club (see 3) 35 Club Nautico A4 Entertainment Ballet Folklórico Cutumba (see 17) 36 Casa de las Tradiciones B5 37 Departamento de Focos Culturales de la Dirección Municipal de Cuba C3 38Estadio de Béisbol Guillermón MoncadaF2 39 Foco Cultural el Tivolí B5 40 Foco Cultural Tumba Francesa C3 Santiago Café (see 24) 41 Teatro José María Heredia E1 42 Teatro Martí C3 43 Wamby Bolera F4 Shopping 44Centro de Negocios AlamedaA4 45 La Maison G4 Sights 1 Casco Histórico Parque Céspedes PARK OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP If there’s an archetype for romantic Cuban street life, Parque Céspedes is it.

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Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
by Brett Christophers
Published 17 Nov 2020

In 2013, the National Audit Office undertook a fascinating analysis of the public-sector contracts held by what were at the time four of the biggest contractors to the state – Atos, Capita, G4S and Serco; such contracts accounted for a minimum of around a third (Capita) and a maximum of around two-thirds (Serco) of these companies’ UK revenues. The NAO analysis found that their contracts with the UK public sector ranged from one to forty years in length, the average length of the public-sector contracts in each operator’s portfolio ranging from five years (Atos) to twelve (G4S). The average value of such contracts up for renewal in each one’s portfolio ranged from £54 million to £164 million.43 At around the same time, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) examined contracts to the public sector specifically for outsourced IT, finding an average contract duration of seven-and-a-half years, rising to just over nine years when weighted for per-annum contract value, which tended to increase with contract length.44 More recently, the Institute for Government carried out a study of contracts across the whole public sector, looking at all contract types (not just IT) and all types of contractors (not just the biggest).

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In consequence, they were underinvesting in services, and offenders were ‘not receiving the right support to help them address their needs’.104 In view of this underinvestment – which the report described as ‘a situation of [the Ministry of Justice’s] own making’ – the Ministry had provided the CRCs with over £300 million in additional public funding without receiving any additional service commitments.105 When Working Links, which ran three CRCs, collapsed in early 2019, Helen Warrell described ‘a company crumbling under the financial strain of three lossmaking contracts, managing ex-offenders so poorly that public safety was in jeopardy’.106 Also in jeopardy, yet again, was the public purse: terminating the twenty-one CRC contracts early, as the justice secretary announced in 2018 he would do, will, according to the National Audit Office, have cost taxpayers at least an extra £170 million.107 Indeed, it would not be going too far to suggest that, over the past decade or so, the entire realm of UK public-sector outsourcing has been in turmoil, to the extent that, in documenting some of the many ‘fiascos’ to have afflicted the sector, the Economist joked in 2018 that ‘everyone has their favourite’: G4S won the contract to provide security for the Olympic games in London in 2012, but failed to rustle up enough personnel, so 3,500 troops had to be deployed just before the opening ceremony. G4S was the culprit again, together with Serco, when in 2014 the two companies were found to have overcharged for the electronic tagging of offenders on parole, some of whom had already died.108 The sector’s tribulations and attendant negative externalities are certainly not only a consequence of suicide bidding.

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Furthermore, when the Ministry of Justice announced in the same year (and around the same time as Hutton’s ‘death knell’ announcement) that Birmingham prison was being returned to public-sector control only halfway through a disastrous G4S contract, it was notable – but little remarked – that the prisons minister, Rory Stewart, made a point of emphasizing that this was explicitly not the end of the government’s strategy of outsourcing prison management. ‘We need to be absolutely clear’, Stewart stated, ‘that we still believe in a mixed economy of providers with some of our private prisons among the best performing in the country. G4S itself is running excellent prisons at Altcourse and Oakwood, and this Government believes passionately that private providers should continue to play a crucial role in our system.’139 That the government still passionately believed in public-sector outsourcing, not just in the prisons sector but more generally, hardly required spelling out.

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The Linux kernel primer: a top-down approach for x86 and PowerPC architectures
by Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez , Gordon Fischer and Steven Smolski
Published 15 Nov 2005

To find out if a system is using the I/O APIC architecture, enter the following on the command line: lkp:~# cat /proc/interrupts If you see I/O-APIC listed, it is in use. Otherwise, you see XT-PIC, which means it is using the 8259 type architecture. The PowerPC interrupt controllers for the Power Mac G4 and G5 are integrated into the Key Largo and K2 I/O controllers. Entering this on the command line: lkp:~# cat /proc/interrupts on a G4 machine yields OpenPIC, which is an Open Programmable Interrupt Controller standard initiated by AMD and Cyrix in 1995 for multiprocessor systems. MPIC is the IBM implementation of OpenPIC, and is used in several of their CHRP designs.

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For PPC, we explore the code associated with the Power Mac. The PPC implementation of init_IRQ() is in arch/ppc/kernel/irq.c. Depending on the particular hardware configuration, init_IRQ() calls one of several routines to initialize the PIC. For a Power Mac configuration, the function pmac_pic_init() in arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_pic.c is called for the G3, G4, and G5 I/O controllers. This is a hardware-specific routine that tries to identify the type of I/O controller and set it up appropriately. In this example, the PIC is part of the I/O controller device. The process for interrupt initialization is similar to x86, with the minor difference being the system timer is not started in the PPC version of init_IRQ(), but rather in the time_init() function, which is covered later in this section.

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[5] See AMD chipset datasheets for the 8000 series: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,30_118_6291_4886,00.html. Figure 5.3. AMD HyperTransport Apple, using the PowerPC, has a proprietary design called the Universal Motherboard Architecture (UMA). UMA's goal is to use the same chipset across all Mac systems. The G4 chipset includes the "UniNorth memory controller and PCI bus bridge" as a Northbridge and the "Key Largo I/O and disk-device controller" as a Southbridge. The UniNorth supports SDRAM, Ethernet, and AGP. The Key Largo Southbridge, connected to the UniNorth by a PCI-to-PCI bridge, supports the ATA busses, USB, wireless LAN (WLAN), and sound.

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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, From Home Renovations to Space Exploration
by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
Published 16 Feb 2023

Even Steve Jobs committed this error after insisting on the opposite: that projects have to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. The most notorious example was Apple’s Power Mac G4 Cube computer. Released in 2000, the G4 was a translucent cube that even today looks gorgeously futuristic. It had no power switch. You just waved your hand, and it turned on. So cool. So Steve Jobs. And that was the problem. The G4 had not been designed by looking at who Apple’s customers were and what would serve them best. Its combination of cost, capabilities, and aesthetics was molded by Steve Jobs’s passions, and impressive as the machine was, it was an awkward fit for customers. The G4 flopped, and Apple scrapped it a year later at great cost.10 But “work backwards” also fails when planners aren’t compelled to nail down what’s in that final flowchart box on the right and forced to think from right to left.

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ref1 Ireland, ref1 Iron Law of Megaprojects, ref1, ref2 iterations (see planning) Ive, Jony, ref1 James Webb Space Telescope, ref1, ref2 Japan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 Jaws (movie), ref1, ref2 Jay-Z, ref1 Jobs, Steve, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 Johnson, Lyndon B., ref1 Jørgensen, Hans Lauritz, ref1, ref2 Judaism, ref1 Justice, US Department of, ref1 Kahneman, Daniel, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9 Kazan, Elia, ref1, ref2 Kennedy, John F., ref1 King Kong, ref1 Kissinger, Henry, ref1 Klein, Gary, ref1, ref2 Kmart, ref1 Kramer, Eddie, ref1, ref2, ref3 kurtosis, ref1 LaGuardia Airport, New York, ref1 Lamb, William, ref1, ref2 large numbers, law of, ref1 Larsen, Henning, ref1 Lasko, Jim, ref1, ref2 Last Movie, The (movie), ref1 Lawrence of Arabia (movie), ref1 lean startup model, ref1 Lean Startup, The (Ries), ref1, ref2 Led Zeppelin, ref1 Lego, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 Lennon, John, ref1 Levi Strauss, ref1 Levinson, Marc, ref1 Levy, 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Public Library, ref1, ref2 New York Review of Books, The, ref1 New York Times, The, ref1, ref2, ref3 New Yorker, The, ref1 Newsday, ref1 Newsom, Gavin, ref1 Newton, Isaac, ref1 NIMBY (not in my back yard), ref1 No Time to Die (movie), ref1 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, ref1 normal distribution (Gaussian), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 Norway, ref1, ref2 Nouvel, Jean, ref1 nuclear power, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13 Nuclear Regulation Authority, Japan, ref1 Obamacare, ref1 offshore wind farms, ref1, ref2 oil and gas projects, ref1, ref2, ref3 old project data, ref1 Olympic Fish, Barcelona, ref1 Olympic Games, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12 one-building architect, ref1, ref2 one of those, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), ref1 opportunity costs, ref1 optimism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development 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Advances in Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms: Proceedings of the Agi Workshop 2006
by Ben Goertzel and Pei Wang
Published 1 Jan 2007

Thus, a good strategy would be for the system to learn implications such as Implication (G3 AND G4) G2 <.9> where • • G3 = find more eggs than Bill G4 = find more eggs than Bob (which would be the case e.g. if Bill and Bob were generally the fastest egg-finders in the bunch.) Once this implication has been learned, the FeasibilityUpdating MindAgent has to notice it (which it will do, since it looks for potentially useful implications implying currently important goals), and then make feasibility evaluations regarding G3 and G4. A little inference will tell it that G3 and G4 are probably both more feasible (lower-cost) to achieve than G2, information that may then be recorded in the feasibility structures attached to these Atoms.

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A little inference will tell it that G3 and G4 are probably both more feasible (lower-cost) to achieve than G2, information that may then be recorded in the feasibility structures attached to these Atoms. Then, the GoalAttentionAllocation MindAgent will cause G2 to issue RFS’s to G3 and G4; and the GoalBasedSchemaSelection MindAgent will quite likely select G3 and G4 to generate schemata to be placed in the ActiveSchemaPool. 5.5. Map Formation in the Understanding of Self and Others Recall that one of the above inferences assumes the system has learned a notion of Agent that encompasses both itself and the other agents in the game. It’s fair to assume that this abstraction has been learned prior to the system being able to grapple with a B.

Discover Kaua'i Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Hanapepe Recreation Center ( 335-3731; 4451 Puolo Rd) Kalaheo Neighborhood Center ( 332-9770; 4480 Papalina Rd) Kapa'a Neighborhood Center ( 822-1931; 4491 Kou St) Kilauea Neighborhood Center ( 828-1421; 2460 Keneke St) Kaua'i Activities Activities, Courses & Tours Acid Drop's (see 35) 1 Ahukini Landing G5 2 Anahola Beach Park H2 Awa‘awapuhi Trail (see 48) 3 ‘Anini Beach Park F1 BK's (see 35) 4 Brennecke's Beach F7 Brennecke’s Ledge (see 4) Center's (see 35) 5 Donkey Beach H3 6 Ha‘ena Beach Park D1 7 Hanalei Bay E1 8 Hanalei River E2 9 Harbor Ledges E7 10 Hule'ia National Wildlife Refuge G6 11 Hule‘ia River G5 Ice Box (see 4) 12 Kalalau Beach C2 13 Kalalau Trail D2 14 Kalapaki Beach G5 15 Kalihiwai Stream F1 16 Kapa‘a Beach Park H3 17 Kaua'i Lagoons Golf Club G5 18 Ke Ala Hele Makalae H3 19 Kealia Beach H3 20 Ke‘e Beach D1 Kekaha Beach Park (see 21) 21 Kikiaola Small Boat Harbor B5 22 Koke‘e State Park C3 23 Koloa Landing E7 24 Kuilau Ridge Trail F4 25 Kukuiolono Golf Course E6 26 Lydgate Beach Park G4 27 Maha‘ulepu Beach F6 28 Makua (Tunnels) Beach D1 29 Mana Crack A4 30 Moalepe Trail G3 Nawiliwili Small Boat Harbor (see 14) 31 Na Pali Coast State Park C2 32 Nounou Mountain Trails G4 Nu‘alolo Trail (see 22) 33 Pakalas (Infinities) C6 Pihea Trail (see 22) 34 Po‘ipu Bay Golf Course F6 35 Po‘ipu Beach Park F7 36 Po‘ipu Beach F7 37 Port Allen D6 38 Powerline Trail F2 Running Waters Beach (see 14) 39 Salt Pond Beach Park C6 Sheraton Caverns (see 36) 40 Shipwreck Beach F7 41 St Regis Princeville Golf Club E1 42 Stone House E7 Tunnels (see 28) Tortugas/Nukumoi Point (see 35) 43 Turtle Bluff/General Store E7 Unreals (see 2) 44 Wailua Bay G4 45 Wailua Municipal Golf Course G4 46 Wailua River G4 47 Waimea Canyon Dr C4 48 Waimea Canyon State Park C4 49 Waita Reservoir F6 Sleeping 50 Hanalei (Black Pot) Beach Park E1 51 Hanama'ulu Beach Park G5 52 Lucy Wright Beach Park C6 Golf Kaua'i has only nine golf courses, but there’s something for every taste and budget.

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Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation
by Grace Blakeley
Published 9 Sep 2019

It’s Time to Change Them”, OpenDemocracy, 18 January. https://www.opendemocracy. net/neweconomics/pfi-privatisation-national-accounting-rules-encourage-destructive-decisions-time-change/ 23 This account draws on: Crouch (2009); Davis, A. and Walsh, C. (2016) “The Role of the State in the Financialization of the UK Economy”, Political Studies, vol. 64 24 This account draws on: Blakeley, G. (2018b) “Carillion’s Missing Millions”, Red Pepper, 19 January. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/carillions-missing-millions/; Blakeley, G. (2018c) “The Problem with Outsourcing Is Not Carillion but the Market Itself”, New Statesman, 1 February. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2018/02/problem-outsourcing-not-carillion-market-itself 25 See, e.g., Blakeley (2018c); Blakeley, G (2019) “Interserve’s Collapse Shows the UK’s Outsourcing Model Is Broken”, New Statesman, 20 March. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/03/interserve-s-collapse-shows-uks-outsourcing-model-broken 26 Booth, R. and Hopkins, N. (2012) “London 2012 Olympics: G4S Failures Prompt Further Military Deployment”, Guardian, 24 July. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/24/london-2012-olympics-g4s-military 27 Rawlinson, K. (2014) “Private Firms ‘Are Using Detained Immigrants as Cheap Labour’”, Guardian, 22 August. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/22/immigrants-cheap-labour-detention-centres-g4s-serco 28 Benjamin, J. (2018) “Capita Don’t Just Provide a Few Services, They Seem Practically to Run Entire Councils”, Independent, 31 January. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/capita-carillion-outsourcing-local-authorities-councils-barnet-northamtonpshire-a8188006.html 29 United Nations (2018) “World Altered by ‘Neoliberal’ Outsourcing of Public Services to Private Sector, Third Committee Experts Stress, amid Calls for Better Rights Protection”, Minutes of Seventy Third Session, 25 & 26 September, GA/SHC/4239. https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/gashc4239.doc.htm 30 See, e.g., Burnham, P. (2002) “New Labour and the Politics of Depoliticization”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 3 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-856X.00054 31 This account draws on: Tooze, A. (2015) “Notes on the Global Condition: Of Bond Vigilantes, Central Bankers and the Crisis, 2008-2017”.https://adamtooze.com/2017/11/07/notes-global-conditionbond-vigilantes-central-bankers-crisis-2008-2017/; Panitch and Gindin (2013); Streeck, W. (2013), “The Politics of Public Debt: Neoliberalism, Capitalist Development, and the Restructuring of the State”, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Discussion Paper 13/7; Streek, W. (2015) “The Rise of the European Consolidation State”, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Discussion Paper 15/1; Hager, S. (2016) Public Debt, Power, and Inequality: The Making of a Modern Debt State, USA: University of California Press 32 This account draws on: Tooze (2015) and Birch, J. (2015) “The Many Lives of François Mitterrand”, Jacobin, 19 August. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/francois-mitterrand-socialist-party-common-program-communist-pcf-1981-elections-austerity/ 33 This account draws on: Panitch and Gindin (2013); Davis and Walsh (2016); Burnham (2002); Mair, P. (2013) Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy, London: Verso; Streeck (2014); Rodrik, D. (2018) “The Double Threat to Liberal Democracy”, Project Syndicate. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/double-threat-to-liberaldemocracy-by-dani-rodrik-2018-02?

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There are arguments for outsourcing government projects when procurement is done well and includes, for example, commitments to use companies with unionised workforces and with high environmental standards. But today, outsourcing is mostly dominated by a few big firms delivering low-quality services whilst skimming money off the top for shareholders and executives. G4S managed the security for the London Olympic Games so badly that the government was forced to bring in the army to support them.26 Serco operates some of the UK’s most brutal detention centres and has even been accused of using inmates as cheap labour.27 Capita is known for gouging many of the UK’s local authorities by delivering low-quality services at eye-watering prices.28 These outsourcing oligopolies have their tentacles spread all over the spending of the British state, from schools and hospitals, to prisons and detention centres.

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Learning SPARQL
by Bob Ducharme
Published 22 Jul 2011

Because of the USING keyword, it looks in graph dg:g2 for these triples. It then inserts copies of these triples into a new d:g4 graph: # filename: ex344.ru PREFIX d: <http://learningsparql.com/ns/data#> PREFIX dm: <http://learningsparql.com/ns/demo#> INSERT { GRAPH d:g4 { ?s dm:tag "five", "six" . } } USING d:g2 WHERE { ?s dm:tag "five" . ?s dm:tag "six" . } After running it, run the ex332.rq List All Triples SELECT query, and you’ll see that the two triples inserted into graph d:g4 both have subjects of d:x. Although the default graph has triples that match the WHERE clause’s patterns (the ones with a subject of d:w that you inserted with update request ex343.ru), the USING keyword specifically told the SPARQL processor to look in the d:g2 graph for triples that matched those patterns, so those are the ones that got copied to d:g4.

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Although the default graph has triples that match the WHERE clause’s patterns (the ones with a subject of d:w that you inserted with update request ex343.ru), the USING keyword specifically told the SPARQL processor to look in the d:g2 graph for triples that matched those patterns, so those are the ones that got copied to d:g4. If the USING keyword in an update request is like FROM in a SELECT query, then USING NAMED is like FROM NAMED: it specifies a graph that will be referenced by name. If the ex344.ru update request had said USING NAMED instead of just USING, the query processor wouldn’t have found those triples in the d:g2 graph unless the name was explicitly included in the WHERE clause, like this: # filename: ex345.ru PREFIX d: <http://learningsparql.com/ns/data#> PREFIX dm: <http://learningsparql.com/ns/demo#> INSERT { GRAPH d:g4 { ?s dm:tag "five", "six" . } } USING NAMED d:g2 WHERE { GRAPH d:g2 { ?

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia
Published 9 Feb 2021

One of the sickest symptoms of neoliberal capitalist states is the subcontracting of incarceration to private companies. Seventy-five percent of immigration detainees in the US are now incarcerated in facilities operated by private companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic, and 9.7 percent of federal immigration enforcement budgets fund the private sector.29 G4S is one of the world’s largest security companies and private sector employers. Its violent tentacles extend throughout Australia, Israel, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US, and it operates in these countries’ inner-city prisons, immigrant detention centers, youth incarceration facilities, and torture camps holding political prisoners.

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As a result of their constant and courageous confrontations, detainees have won essential reforms, including improved healthcare access, phone use, closure of detention centers like Christmas Island and Manus Island, an end to the detention of children on Nauru through the Kids Off Nauru campaign, and a seventy-million-dollar settlement for detainees at Nauru to be paid by the Australian government and contractors such as G4S and Broadspectrum. Australia’s refugee and migrant solidarity movements are some of the most active migrant justice movements worldwide. There are hundreds of local solidarity collectives and national refugee support organizations, regular protests bring thousands of people onto the streets, and large-scale campaigns across the country coordinate to free detainees.

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See also Nazis; See also Hindutva Azov movement and, 169–170 eco-fascism, 102, 207–210 far-right terrorism and, 9 frontier, 22 in Bolivia, 218 in the Philippines, 178–180 neofascism, xvii, 219 FBI, 54, 57, 58, 80 Federal Bureau of Prisons, 54 Federici, Silvia, 72, 144 Felli, Romain, 206 Ferguson, Susan, 139 Fernquest, Jon, 179 Fidesz, 183, 185 Fight for $15, 201 Fiji, 138 Filipino Women’s Organization, 165 Filipinx people, 22, 35, 146, 154, 165–166, 214 Finland, 186 Finmecannica, 125 First Anglo-Burmese War, 191 Five Country Conference, 92 Fletcher, Bill Jr., 199 Flinders Island, 96 Florida, 135, 208 Floyd, George, 5, 36 Foreign Domestic Movement, 165 Foreigners Tribunal, 190 Fort Dimanche, 47 Fortress Europe, 4, 92, 107–108, 110, 116, 122, 125–126, 219 Fort Sill, 21–22 Foster, Kesi, 84 Fourteenth Amendment, 28 France, 109, 118, 133 Calais, 105–106 colonialism of, 124, 192, 194 far right in, 212 Gilets Noirs in, 124, 215 Haiti and, 46–47 Islamophobia in, 188 Rassemblement National in, 170, 183–185 Franco, Marielle, 183 Frederiksen, Mette, 184 Freedom Party, 183, 185, 199 French Revolution, 46 Friedman, Thomas, 132 Frontex, 108, 112, 115, 120 Front National. See Rassemblement National in Fugitive Slave Act, 23, 29 G G4S, 81, 103 G5 Sahel Cross-Border Joint Force, 109 G7, 209 Gabon, 71 Gaddafi, Muammar, 116–117, 121 Gadsden Purchase, 77 Galeano, Eduardo, 63, 212 Galeano, Subcomandante, 169 The Gambia, 106, 112, 120 García Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc, 81 Garcia, Luiz Antônio Nabhan, 181 Gardner, Andrew, 147 Gaza Strip, 57, 69 Genbao Ge, 156 gender, 4, 39, 139, 195, 207, 213, 215 absconding and, 8, 147, 154 Afghan women, 56 anti-Chinese sentiment and, 32, 34 caretaking work and, xix, 8 colonialism and, 72 criminalization and, 118 domestic violence and, xv, 20 EPZs and, 63–66 far right and, 9, 14, 189 femicide, xvi, 45, 51 immigrant detention and, 81 in Brazil, 181 incarceration of women, 53, 83 Indigenous women and two-spirit people, 24–25, 27, 50–51 in refugee camps, 114 Islam and, 160, 174, 188, 190 kafala system and, 153–154 land grabs and, 71–72 mass shooters and, 170 neoliberalism and, 64–65 patriarchy, xvi–xviii racial class formation and, 6, 10, 40, 137, 140 racial warfare and, 60 reproductive rights and, 99 SAWP and, 158–159, 163 service economy and, 200 sexual harassment and, 155 sexual violence and, 81, 91, 99, 110, 114, 120, 126, 135, 152, 153, 155, 164, 175 sex work and, 32, 34, 47, 118, 138, 142, 205 social reproduction and, 139, 141–144, 164–166, 201 sterilization abuse and, 34 TERFs and, 170 violence and, 122, 138, 170 war on drugs and, 42–43 welfare reform and, 53 General Dynamics, 82 De Genova, Nicholas, 6, 132 GEO Group, 38, 81 Germany, 109, 115–116, 122, 132–133, 198 Aufstehen in, 14 colonialism of, 93, 97, 124 contemporary far right in, 8, 170, 183–184, 188 EU and, 106 Nazi, 160 Vishwa Hindu Parishad in, 175 Geronimo, 21, 26 Getachew, Adom, 213 Ghana, 7, 91, 131–132 Gilchrist, Jim, 58 Giles, Wenona, 68 Gilets Noirs, 124, 215 Gillard, Julia, 100 Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 10, 78, 83 Gilroy, Paul, 123, 172 Global Compact for Migration, 133 Global North, 143, 220 Global South, 64, 143, 146, 207, 219 Global Witness, 97 Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria, 53 Golden Dawn, 113, 183–185 Golden Eagle Farms, 162–164 Goldstein, Alexis, 34 Golwalkar, M.

Pocket London Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Shoreditch (Click here) also makes a fine alternative for an entertaining and memorable evening out in London. St Pauls Top Sights St Paul's Cathedral C3 Tower of London H5 Sights 1 Museum of London C2 2 Tower Bridge H5 3 All Hallows-by-the-Tower G4 4 Monument E4 5 St Olave G4 6 St Stephen Walbrook E3 7 Trinity Square Gardens G4 8 Lloyd's of London F3 9 Bank of England Museum E3 10 Mansion House E3 Eating Sauterelle (see 14) 11 Sweeting's D3 12 Café Below D3 13 City Càphê D3 14 Royal Exchange Grand Café & Bar E3 15 Bar Battu D3 16 Wine Library H4 Drinking 17 Vertigo 42 F2 18 Black Friar B4 19 Counting House F3 20 Ye Olde Watling D3 21 Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese A3 Entertainment 22 Barbican D1 Shopping 23 Smithfield Market B1 Top Sights St Paul’s Cathedral Offline map www.stpauls.co.uk St Paul’s Churchyard EC4 adult/child £14.50/5.50 8.30am-4.30pm Mon-Sat, last admission 4pm St Paul’s Towering over Ludgate Hill, in a superb position that has been a place of worship for over 1400 years, St Paul’s Cathedral is one of London’s most majestic structures.

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Top 10 San Diego
by Pamela Barrus and Dk Publishing
Published 2 Jan 2007

The best view of the bridge, especially during Christmas, is from the 163 Freeway below. d Map K1 Towering surfboards stand in tribute to the surf gods. d Map E3 • Imperial Beach Pier Woman of Tehuantepec A 1,200-lb (544-kg) piece of limestone is sculpted into an Indian woman. d Map L2 • House of Hospitality Sun God A fiberglass bird stretches its wings atop a 15-ft (5-m) concrete arch. d Map B1 Paper Vortex A paper airplane is artfully transformed into an Origami crane. d Map C5 • San Diego International Airport Homecoming A bronze sculpture depicts a sailor, wife, and child in a joyous homecoming embrace. d Map G4 • Navy Pier, Harbor Drive 45 San Diego’s Top 10 Left Balboa Park’s Alcázar Garden Right Ellen Browning Scripps Park Gardens & Nature Reserves Balboa Park This landmark destination and heart of San Diego offers an array of superb activities. Visit its gardens and museums for inspiration, to play sports, or to watch a concert.

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Price Categories $ $$ $$$ $$$$ $$$$$ For a three course meal for one with half a bottle of wine (or equivalent meal), taxes and extra charges. under $20 $20–$40 $40–$55 $55–$80 over $80 Places to Eat Star of the Sea Dine in style at this restaurant suspended over the water on the Embarcadero. Seafood classics are imaginative. d Map G4 • 1360 N. Harbor Dr • (619) 232-7408 • $$$$ Dakota Grill & Spirits Exceptional Californian and Southwestern food. Wood-fired pizzas and rib-eye steaks are prepared in an open kitchen. d Map K4 • 901 5th Ave • (619) 234-5554 • $$$ Karl Strauss’ Brewery & Restaurant Try the outstanding burgers, blackened salmon, or baby back ribs.

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To find out more, please contact: (in the United Kingdom) – Sarah.Burgess@dk.com or Special Sales, Dorling Kindersley Limited, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL; (in the United States) – Special Markets Department, DK Publishing, Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. 127 Index Selected Street Index 128 1st Avenue 1st Street 2nd Avenue 3rd Avenue 3rd Street 4th Avenue 4th Street 5th Avenue 6th Avenue 7th Avenue 8th Avenue 9th Avenue 10th Avenue 11th Avenue 12th Avenue 13th Street 14th Street 15th Street 16th Street 17th Street 19th Street 20th Street 21st Street 22nd Street 23rd Street 24th Street 30th Street 47th Street 54th Street A Street Adams Avenue Aero Drive Alameda Boulevard Alameda Drive Altamirano Way Ampudia Street Ardath Road Arguello Street Arista Drive Ash Street Avenue de la Playa B Street Balboa Avenue Balboa Drive Bandini Street Barnett Avenue Beech Street Brant Street Broadway C Street Cabrillo Freeway Cabrillo Memorial Drive California Street Calle de la Plata Calle del Oro Caminito Centro Canon Street Catalina Boulevard Cedar Street Chatsworth Boulevard Clairemont Drive Clairemont Mesa Boulevard Coast Boulevard College Avenue Collwood Boulevard Columbia Street Commercial Street Conde Street Congress Street Convention Way Country Club Drive Crespo Drive Curlew Street Cuvier Street Date Street J3 C5 J3 J3 C6 J3 C6 K3 K3 K5 K5 K5 K5 K5 L5 L4 L4 L4 L4 L4 M5 M5 M5 M5 M4 M5 D5 E5 E4 K4 D4 D3 C6 Q6 P5 P5 Q2 Q6 P5 K3 Q2 K4 B3 K1 Q6 B4 K3 J2 H4 K4 K2 A5 H3 Q2 Q1 M3 B5 A5 H3 B5 C3 B2 N2 E3 E4 H2 M6 P6 P6 J6 P3 P3 H1 N3 H3 Diamond Street A3 Division Street E6 Draper Avenue N3 Drury Avenue N3 E Street K4 El Cajon Boulevard D4 El Paseo Dorado P2 El Paseo Grande Q2 El Prado K1 Eldine Drive E4 Elm Street J3 Euclid Avenue E6 F Street H5 Fairmount Avenue E4 Fay Avenue A3 Fern Street D5 Fir Street H3 Florida Drive M2 Fort Stockton Drive Q5 Friars Road P4 Front Street J3 G Street H5 Garnet Avenue A3 Genesee Avenue B1 Gilman Drive B2 Girard Avenue N3 Glorietta Boulevard C6 Governor Drive B2 Grand Avenue B3 Grape Street J2 Harbor Drive G4 Harney Street P6 Hawthorn Street J2 Herschel Avenue P2 Hickory Street Q5 High Avenue P3 Highland Avenue E6 Hillside Drive Q3 Hortensia Street P6 Hotel Circle North Q4 Hotel Circle South Q4 Imperial Avenue L6 India Street H2 Ingelside Street Q6 Island Avenue K5 Ivanhoe Avenue P2 Ivy Street J2 J Street L5 Jackson Street P5 Jacob Dekema Freeway C1 Jefferson Street P6 Juan Street P5 Juniper Street J2 K Street L6 Kalmia Street J2 Kearsarge Road P3 Kettner Boulevard H5 Kurtz Street N6 L Street L6 La Jolla Boulevard N3 La Jolla Shores Drive Q1 Lake Murray Boulevard F3 Laurel Street J1 Lemon Grove Avenue F5 Linda Vista Road C4 Linwood Street Q6 Logan Avenue E6 Main Street D6 Maple Street J1 Marilouise Way P5 Marina Park Way J6 Market Street K5 Martin Luther King Jr.

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The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society
by Charles Handy
Published 12 Mar 2015

But there often comes a point where bigger is too big, where the economies of scale bring less obvious psychological and social disadvantages, creating organisations that seem too big to be managed sensibly and effectively. A case in point is G4S. Originally an amalgamation of two Danish and British security companies, it went on a buying spree in 2008, acquiring over a dozen companies, and has now ended up with more than 620,000 employees, making it the third largest private-sector employer in the world after Walmart and Foxconn in China. Both of the latter are closely focused on either retailing or manufacturing but G4S has spread its wings far wider, operating a range of security and associated services for governments and others in more than 125 different countries, effectively doing the jobs that governments don’t want to do.

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That may be no bad thing. Size breeds inhumanity, reducing individuals to mere human resources, costs in the account books. In the lower regions of these vast armies one can feel like a very small cog in a huge machine. At their worst they can be prisons for the human soul. The likes of Walmart and G4S have a huge headcount but are actually collections of small organisations, not the conglomerations of old, massed behind the factory gates. Other large organisations, my old oil company included, are gradually going federal although they don’t necessarily call it that, aiming to be big where it matters and small where they can in order to keep it human and flexible.

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Guide to business modelling
by John Tennent , Graham Friend and Economist Group
Published 15 Dec 2005

In addition, row 5 links to the earlier inflation forecast in the range UK_inflation_index. It is assumed that the inflation forecast relates to the UK. Relative range names have been created for the previous period’s inflation index and for the previous period’s exchange rate: Previous_US_inflation_index Previous_period_exchange_rate For example, in cell G4, the Previous_US_inflation_index is set equal to cell ⫽‘Exchange Rate Workings’!F4 in the “Refers to:” section of the Define Name dialog box and the $ signs have been removed. In cell G6, the Previous_period_exchange_rate is set equal to cell ⫽‘Exchange Rate Workings’!F6. 82 9. MACROECONOMIC FACTORS Chart 9.17 Exchange rate workings The exchange rate calculation involves adjusting the previous period’s exchange rate by the ratio of the proportionate change in the US inflation index and the proportionate change in the UK inflation index.

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The calculation is shown below: Current US inflation index Previous US inflation index Previous period’s exchange rate ⫻ Current UK inflation index Previous UK inflation index Chart 9.18 Exchange rate workings code Row US$ inflation index UK inflation index Exchange rate US$/GBP Calculation ⫽IF(Year⫽1, Exchange_rate_input_US_ inflation_index_start_point*(1⫹ Exchange_rate_input_US_inflation _rate),Previous_US_inflation_index* (1⫹Exchange_rate_input_US_ inflation_rate)) ⫽UK_inflation_index ⫽IF(Year⫽1, Exchange_rate_input_initial_ exchange_rate,IF(Exchange_Rate_ input_manual_exchange_rate_ entry⫽“”,Previous_period_ Actual calculation ⫽IF(FALSE,100*(1⫹2%), 104.04*(1⫹2%)) Answer 106.12 108.13 ⫽IF(FALSE,1.6, IF(FALSE,1,5883⫻ ((106.12/104.04)/ (108.13/106.09)), no entry)) 108.13 1.5896 exchange_rate*((G4/F4)/(G5/F5)), Exchange_rate_input_manual_ exchange_rate_entry)) The results of the exchange-rate forecast are presented in the graph in Chart 9.19. Exchange rates 83 Chart 9.19 $/£ exchange rate forecast POPULATION Definition and uses The definition of population is usually straightforward – it is the number of people in a country.

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Range names are indicated in column B, and relative references have been created for the previous year with the range name Last_year and also for the previous period’s closing balance with the name Previous_closing_balance. In the case of Previous_closing_balance, the relative reference could be created in G4 and should refer to F8, the previous period’s closing balance. For the purposes of the example, inputs such as the first year, the opening cash balance, the cash movement for the period and the interest rate are included on the same sheet as the workings. In a full model these inputs would be drawn from the workings and input sheets created elsewhere in the model.

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Simulations
by Jean Baudrillard
Published 15 Jan 1983

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Are Chief Executives Overpaid?
by Deborah Hargreaves
Published 29 Nov 2018

At the beginning of 2017, Mr Corbyn said ‘A 20:1 ratio means someone earning the living wage, just over £16,000 a year, would permit an executive to be earning nearly £350,000. It cannot be right if companies are getting public money that can be creamed off by a few at the top.’4 This would mean huge pay cuts for those leading outsourcing companies such as Capita and G4S who run security services and other public functions. The boss of private security firm G4S was paid £4.8 million in 2016, and Andy Parker, who ran Capita until he stepped down in September 2017, received £2.4 million the same year, while the average wage in the UK remains £28,000. In the light of this, Mr Corbyn’s ratio is a stretch for most companies.

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Symmetry and the Monster
by Ronan, Mark
Published 14 Sep 2006

In a leather-bound tome called the Vortragsbuch (Book of Talks) he wrote a report, the first publicly available mention of the Monster: There appear to be simple groups [symmetry atoms] of the following sizes: G1: 241·313·56·72·11·13·17·19·23·31·47 G2: 215·310·53·72·13·19·31 G3: 214·36·56·7·11·19 G4: 246·320·59·76·112·133·17·19·23·29·31·41·47·59·71 . . . The sizes of G2, G3, G4 were determined by Conway, Harada and Thompson. In this quotation G1 denotes Fischer’s Baby Monster, and G4 the Monster; G2 was later named after Thompson, and G3 after Harada and Norton, in honour of those who did most of the calculations on them. Having the size of the Monster was essential before working out its character table.

Pocket New York City Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
Published 27 Sep 2012

Or, you can catch some laughs at comedy headquarters like the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (Click here) or the Comedy Cellar (Click here). For a local’s day in Chelsea, Click here. Greenwich Village, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District Top Sights The High Line C3 Sights 1 Washington Square Park F4 2 Chelsea Market C3 3 New York University G4 4 Astor Place G4 5 Pier 45 C5 6 Grace Church G4 7 Chelsea Art Museum B2 8 Chelsea Hotel E1 9 Chelsea Piers Complex B2 10 Forbes Collection F3 11 Downtown Boathouse D5 New York Trapeze School (see 11) Eating 12 RedFarm D4 13 Tartine D4 14 Cookshop C2 15 Le Grainne C2 16 Tomoe F5 17 Billy's Bakery D2 18 Spotted Pig D4 19 Minetta Tavern F5 20 Café Cluny D4 21 Taïm E4 22 Tertulia E4 23 Barbuto C4 24 Joe's Pizza E5 25 Souen G3 26 Co D1 Drinking 27 Little Branch E5 28 Marie's Crisis E4 29 Art Bar D3 30 Vin Sur Vingt E3 31 Bathtub Gin D2 32 Vol de Nuit F4 33 Boom Boom Room C3 Le Bain (see 33) 34 Kettle of Fish E4 35 124 Old Rabbit Club F5 36 Julius Bar E4 37 G Lounge E2 38 Barracuda E1 39 Cubbyhole D3 40 Rawhide D2 Entertainment 41 Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre D1 42 Comedy Cellar F5 43 Sleep No More B1 44 Village Vanguard E4 45 Blue Note F5 46 Cherry Lane Theater E5 47 Angelika Film Center G5 48 Smalls Jazz Club E4 Duplex (see 34) 49 IFC Center E5 50 Le Poisson Rouge F5 51 Magnet Theater D1 52 Atlantic Theater Company D2 53 Kitchen C2 Shopping 54 Barneys Co-op D2 55 Yoyamart D3 56 Strand Book Store G3 57 Printed Matter C2 Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks (see 36) 58 Three Lives & Company E4 59 The Bathroom E4 60 Jeffrey New York C3 Greenwich Letterpress (see 34) 61 Marc by Marc Jacobs D4 62 Stella McCartney C3 63 Nasty Pig D2 64 Forbidden Planet G3 65 Abracadabra F2 66 192 Books C2 Top Sights The High Line www.thehighline.org Gansevoort St 7am-7pm L, A/C/E to 14th St-8th Ave, C/E to 23rd St-8th Ave, M11 to Washington St, M11, M14 to 9th Ave, M34 to 10th Ave In the early 1900s, the area around western Chelsea was the largest industrial section of Manhattan and a set of elevated tracks were created to move freight off the cluttered streets below.

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Lonely Planet Pocket Nice and Monaco 3 3rd Ed
by Lonely Planet
Published 15 Apr 2024

Don’t miss the delectable bouchées aux olives, soft and crispy bite-sized bits of olive-studded cheesy dough, or pompe à l’huile, a semisweet roll flavoured with olive oil and orange blossoms. (%06 23 91 33 86; www.facebook.com/Mamabakernice; 13 rue de Lépante; items from €2; h7am-2pm & 3-7pm Mon-Fri, 7am-6pm Sat; g4 to Toselli) 1Flaveur GASTRONOMY €€€ map Google map Run by brothers Gaël and Mickaël Tourteau, this small restaurant has big culinary ambitions (and a second Michelin star as of 2018). In a Zen dining room with bold fabrics and wooden platters artfully arranged on the walls, it’s a haute-cuisine temple, with dishes dressed in foams, creams, reductions and snows, and presented with the precision of museum exhibits.

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Five free-range felines roam about the tables, seeking the right lap to sit in, yawning on plush pedestals or climbing the tree branch overhead. Meanwhile, humans sip hot beverages and nibble on bagels and cake. It’s all squeaky clean, without a flea in sight. (%09 51 51 26 50; www.laronronnerie.fr; 4 rue de Lépante; h11.30am-6pm Tue-Sat; g4 to Sasserno) Entertainment 1La Cave Romagnan LIVE MUSIC map Google map Most days of the week, this place is simply a neighbourhood hang-out where locals gather for wine and conversation. But the real highlight is its Saturday-evening series of jazz performances. (%07 69 54 08 06; http://caveromagnan.free.fr; 22 rue d’Angleterre; h10.30am-2pm & 5-9pm Mon-Fri, to 10pm Sat; j1 to Gare Thiers) 1Cinéma Rialto CINEMA map Google map Undubbed films, with French subtitles.

Lonely Planet Ireland
by Lonely Planet

Australian Embassy ( GOOGLE MAP ; %01-664 5300; www.ireland.embassy.gov.au; Fitzwilton House, 7th fl, Wilton Tce, Dublin 2; h8.30am-4.30pm Mon-Fri; g37 from city centre) Canadian Embassy ( GOOGLE MAP ; %01-234 4000; www.canada.ie; 7-8 Wilton Tce, Dublin 2; h9am-1pm & 2-4.30pm; g37 from city centre) Dutch Embassy ( GOOGLE MAP ; %01-269 3444; www.netherlandsandyou.nl/your-country-and-the-netherlands/ireland; 160 Merrion Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4; h8.30am-12.30pm & 1.45-4pm Mon-Fri; g4, 7, 8 from city centre) Dutch Consulate ( GOOGLE MAP ; %028-9077 9088; 14-16 West Bank Rd, c/o All-Route Shipping Ltd; h9am-1pm & 2-4.30pm Mon-Fri; gMount Vernon House) in Belfast French Embassy ( GOOGLE MAP ; %01-277 5000; www.ambafrance-ie.org; 66 Fitzwilliam Lane, Dublin 2; h9-10am & noon-4pm Mon-Fri; g46A from city centre) German Embassy ( GOOGLE MAP ; %01-269 3011; www.dublin.diplo.de; 31 Trimleston Ave, Booterstown, Blackrock, Co Dublin; h8am-5pm Mon-Thu, to 2pm Fri, consular service 9am-noon Mon, Tue & Fri, 8.30-11.30am & 2-4pm Wed; dBooterstown) Italian Embassy ( GOOGLE MAP ; %01-660 1744; www.ambdublino.esteri.it/Ambasciata_Dublino; 63-65 Northumberland Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4; h10am-12.40pm Mon, Wed & Fri, 1.20-3.40pm Tue & Thu; g4, 7, 63, 84 from city centre) UK Embassy ( GOOGLE MAP ; %01-205 3700; www.gov.uk; 29 Merrion Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4; h9am-5pm Mon-Fri; g4, 7, 8 from city centre) US Embassy ( GOOGLE MAP ; %01-630 6200; http://ie.usembassy.gov/embassy; 42 Elgin Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin; g4, 7, 8 from city centre) US Consulate ( GOOGLE MAP ; %028-9038 6100; https://uk.usembassy.gov/embassy-consulates/belfast; Danesfort House, 223 Stranmillis Rd; h8.30am-5pm Mon-Fri; gBroomhill Pk) in Belfast Food Booking ahead is recommended in cities and larger towns; same-day reservations are usually fine except for top-end restaurants – book those two weeks in advance.

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The museum has three sister museums throughout the country: the stuffed beasts of the Museum of Natural History, the decorative arts section at Collins Barracks, and a country life museum in County Mayo, on Ireland’s west coast. oNational GalleryMUSEUM ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.nationalgallery.ie; W Merrion Sq; h9.15am-5.30pm Mon-Wed, Fri & Sat, to 8.30pm Thu, 11am-5.30pm Sun; g4, 7, 8, 46A from city centre)F A magnificent Caravaggio and a breathtaking collection of works by Jack B Yeats – William Butler's younger brother – are the main reasons to visit the National Gallery, but not the only ones. Its excellent collection is strong in Irish art, and there are also high-quality collections of every major European school of painting.

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To avail of the free Aircoach transfer to and from the airport, order the card online so you have it when you land. Otherwise it's available from any Discover Ireland Dublin Tourism Centre. Southside National Print MuseumMUSEUM ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %01-660 3770; www.nationalprintmuseum.ie; Haddington Rd, Garrison Chapel, Beggar’s Bush; adult/concession €3.50/2; h9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 2-5pm Sat & Sun; g4, 7 from city centre, dGrand Canal Dock, Lansdowne Rd) You don’t have to be into printing to enjoy this quirky little museum, where personalised guided tours (11.30am daily and 2.30pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) are offered in a delightfully casual and compelling way. A video looks at the history of printing in Ireland and then you wander through the various (still working) antique presses amid the smell of ink and metal.

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The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
by James Rickards
Published 15 Nov 2016

This was the understanding reached among the United States, China, Japan, and the Eurozone on the sidelines of the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central banks in Shanghai on February 26, 2016. Those four G20 members comprise two-thirds of global GDP and make up a de facto G4 inside the G20. The problem confronted by the G4 in Shanghai was that growth in China and the United States was slowing dangerously, and global growth was weakened by that slowdown. Structural reforms were stalled by political gridlock. Fiscal policy was constrained by already excessive debt. Monetary policy was increasingly ineffective, even counterproductive.

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With structural reform, fiscal stimulus, and monetary ease off the table, the only stimulus channel left was a return to the currency wars. A cheaper yuan gives a temporary lift to China even if it comes at the expense of its trading partners. China devalued unilaterally in August and December 2015. Both times U.S. stock markets crashed in the aftermath. The G4 needed to find a way to cheapen the yuan without destabilizing the U.S. stock market. The solution was to maintain the peg between the yuan and the dollar, then devalue the dollar. The yuan gets cheaper relative to the euro and yen, while the yuan-dollar peg is unchanged. This meant that Japan and Europe would suffer a stronger currency and a trade disadvantage.

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Now it was out of time. A new cheap-yuan, cheap-dollar phase was about to commence. The world’s two largest economies—China and the United States—needed help. This was the essence of the Shanghai Accord. The challenge for analysts is that initially there was not a shred of evidence to prove the accord. The G4 meeting was conducted in secret and no explicit press releases or other information was shared. Analysts scoffed at the idea of a Shanghai Accord. Prominent foreign exchange expert Marc Chandler of Brown Brothers Harriman, writing about the Shanghai Accord, said, “Conspiracy theories have run amok.”

Discover Greece Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

The tower’s new interactive museum presents the city’s history through several levels of cool multimedia displays (designed by Apple). Thessaloniki Sights 1 Arch of Galerius G4 2 Atatürk's HouseH3 3 Church of Agios Dimitrios E1 4 Jewish Museum of ThessalonikiC3 5 Palace of Galerius F5 6 Roman AgoraE2 7 Rotunda of Galerius G4 8 Thessaloniki Museum of Photography A4 9 White TowerF7 Sleeping 10 Daios E6 11 Le Palace Hotel C3 12 Rent Rooms Thessaloniki H4 Eating 13 Agapitos F4 14 Dore Zythos F7 15 Hatzis G4 16 Kokkinos Fournos G3 17 Molyvos C2 18 Molyvos Ethnik C2 19 Panellinion A3 20 Paparouna C2 21 To Etsi F7 22 Trigona Elenidis F6 Drinking 23 Beerstore C4 24 Kafe Nikis 35 D5 25 Kafenai F7 26 Loxias F5 27 Partizan Bar C2 28 Spiti MouB1 Entertainment 29 National Theatre of Northern GreeceF7 Shopping 30 Georgiadis F4 PALACE, ARCH & ROTUNDA OF GALERIUS Historic Area Three major Roman monuments associated with the early-4th-century Emperor Galerius spill across Egnatia at Plateia Navarinou.

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Central Athens Top Sights Acropolis C5 Acropolis MuseumD7 Ancient Agora B3 Monastiraki Flea Market B3 Odeon of Herodes AtticusB6 Plateia SyntagmatosG3 Temple of Olympian ZeusF6 Sights 1Agios Nikolaos RangavasD5 2AsclepionC6 3Church of Sotira LykodimouG4 4 Church of the Holy ApostlesB4 5ErechtheionC5 6 Hellenic Children's Museum E5 7 Museum of Greek Children's Art F4 8 National Gardens G4 9ParthenonC5 10PropylaiaB5 11Stoa of Attalos & Agora MuseumB3 12Temple of Athena NikeB5 13Temple of HephaestusA3 14 Theatre of Dionysos D6 15 Turkish Baths D4 16Zappieo GardensF5 Activities, Courses & Tours 17 Athens Happy Train F3 18 CitySightseeing Athens F3 Sleeping 19 Athens Gate E7 20 Electra Palace E4 21 Hera Hotel D8 22 Hotel Phaedra E5 23 Magna Grecia D3 24 NEW F4 Eating 25 Ariston F2 26 Café Avyssinia B2 27 Kostas D2 28 Mani Mani D8 29 Palia Taverna tou Psara D4 30Pure BlissE2 31 Tzitzikas & Mermingas F3 Drinking 32 Brettos E5 33MelinaD4 34Zonar'sG2 Entertainment 35Perivoli Tou OuranouE6 Shopping 36 Amorgos F4 37 Compendium F4 38 Greece Is For Lovers C7 39 Melissinos Art C2 40 Olgianna Melissinos B2 The quiet residential neighbourhoods Makrygianni and Koukaki, south of the Acropolis, around the new Acropolis Museum, are refreshingly untouristy.

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
by Kevin Mitnick
Published 14 Aug 2011

Me in my pre-hacking days, around age nine, when my hobby was performing magic tricks (Shelly Jaffe) Me at age twenty-one, with my mother in Stockton, California, 1984 With bride Bonnie Vitello at our wedding reception, June 1987 My hacking partner Lewis De Payne, around the time he and I first met Justin Petersen, aka Eric Heinz, 1992 (Virgil Kasperavicius) Justin Petersen aka Eric Heinz while working as an FBI informant trying to gather evidence against me, 1992 (Count Zero aka John Lester) The Soundex, or driver’s license image, that I obtained of Eric Heinz while he was tailing me The Kinko’s location in Studio City, California, that the DMV investigators chased me from on Christmas Eve, 1992 The cash register building housing the Denver law firm where I worked; in the foreground is the apartment building where I lived (Nick Arnott) In Denver while on the run, April 1993, age twenty-nine The apartment in Seattle where I was raided by the Secret Service and Seattle police, 1994 (Shellee Hale) Mug shot on the day of capture, February 15, 1995, Raleigh, North Carolina My prison ID card from Lompoc FCI, subject of international press after eBay yanked the item for violating “community standards,” vastly raising interest—and raising the value to $4,000 Demonstration by my supporters outside the Miramax offices in 1998 protesting the depiction of me in their feature film Takedown (Emmanuel Goldstein, 2600 magazine) Alex Kasperavicius posting a “Free Kevin” sticker at the Mobil gas station across the street from the Metropolitan Detention Center on my thirty-fifth birthday, August 6, 1998 (Emmanuel Goldstein, 2600 magazine) Holding up a bumper sticker from inside the Metropolitan Detention Center’s inmate law library, in Los Angeles, to a crowd of “Free Kevin” supporters outside, on my thirty-fifth birthday (Emmanuel Goldstein, 2600 magazine) In Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution visiting room, 1999, age thirty-six The day I was released from Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution, January 21, 2000, age thirty-six (Emmanuel Goldstein, 2600 magazine) Gift wrapping on the PowerBook G4 Steve Wozniak gave me in front of television cameras to celebrate the end of my supervised release, January 2003 (Alan Luckow) Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, me, and Emmanuel Goldstein (founder of 2600 magazine) on the television show The Screen Savers, celebrating the end of my supervised release, making me a completely free man: January 20, 2003, age thirty-nine (Courtesy of G4 TV) Boys will be boys: me before cyberspace (Author’s personal collection) CONTENTS Front Cover Image Welcome Dedication Foreword by Steve Wozniak Prologue PART ONE: The Making of a Hacker 1 Rough Start 2 Just Visiting 3 Original Sin 4 Escape Artist 5 All Your Phone Lines Belong to Me 6 Will Hack for Love 7 Hitched in Haste 8 Lex Luthor 9 The Kevin Mitnick Discount Plan 10 Mystery Hacker PART TWO: Eric 11 Foul Play 12 You Can Never Hide 13 The Wiretapper 14 You Tap Me, I Tap You 15 “How the Fuck Did You Get That?”

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On the show with me were Eric Corley, who had headed up the “Free Kevin” movement and repeatedly proved himself to be my staunchest supporter, and Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple, who had become one of my closest friends. They both came on to “help” me navigate online after so many years away. As a surprise, the Woz presented me with a brand-new Apple PowerBook G4 wrapped in paper covered with a funny cartoon of a guy trying to reach a computer with a stick through the bars of his jail cell. In many ways, getting that laptop from the father of the personal computer was the moment I knew my life was finally starting to turn around. It has now been eleven years since I walked out of prison.

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I wish to thank my childhood hero Steve Wozniak for spending his valuable time in penning the foreword for my memoir. This is the second foreword that Steve has graciously written for me. The first one was published in The Art of Deception (Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2002). I’ll never forget that “getting off supervised release” gift you gave me on The Screen Savers show—a brand-new PowerBook G4. It was an amazing gift that left a smile on my face for months. I always look forward to hanging out with Steve during our travels. We both try to visit the Hard Rock Café in every foreign country we visit and collect the T-shirts. Thank you, Steve, for being such a great friend. And of course, I have to thank my former girlfriend Darci Wood for all her love, support, and devotion in the time we were together.

Lonely Planet France
by Lonely Planet Publications
Published 31 Mar 2013

It gets its name from the fortified walls that once enclosed much of the quarter, including the medieval abbey and ducal castle, both long since dismantled. Limoges Top Sights Cathédrale St-Étienne G4 Église St-Michel des Lions C2 Musée des Beaux ArtsG4 Musée National Adrien DubouchéA1 Sights 1 Aquarium du Limousin D4 Chapelle Saint-Aurélien (see 19) 2 Cité des Métiers et des Arts G4 Cour du Temple (see 13) 3 Crypt of St Martial D2 4 Jardin de l'Évêché G4 5 Maison de la Boucherie C4 6Musée de la RésistanceF3 7 Pavillon du Verdurier D3 8 Rue de la Boucherie C3 Sleeping 9 Hôtel de la Paix E2 10 Hôtel Jeanne d'Arc F1 Eating 11 Chez Alphonse C3 Chez François (see 12) 12 Halles Centrales C3 13 La Parenthèse D3 14 L'Amphitryon C4 15 Le 27 D4 Le Bistrot d'Olivier (see 12) 16 Les Petits Ventres C4 17PlanetalisD2 Drinking 18L'Amicale des Parachutistes BelgesD4 19 Le Duc Étienne C4 Entertainment 20 Cinéma Lido F1 21 Grand Écran B1 22 Le Tabernacle D4 Rue de la Boucherie HISTORIC STREET Offline map Google map Just off place St-Aurélien, the pedestrianised rue de la Boucherie – so named because of the butchers’ shops that lined the street in the Middle Ages – contains many of the city’s most attractive medieval half-timbered houses.

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E5 Sleeping 16 Allô Logement Temporaire B6 17 Cosmos Hôtel F4 18 Hi Matic G8 19 Hôtel Beaumarchais D5 20 Hôtel Daval E8 21 Hôtel du 7e Art C8 22 Hôtel du Nord – Le Pari Vélo C2 23 Hôtel du Petit Moulin C5 24Hôtel Jeanne d'ArcC7 25 Hôtel Les Jardins du Marais E6 26Le Citizen HotelD1 27 Le Pavillon de la Reine D7 28Maison Internationale de la Jeunesse et des ÉtudiantsC8 29 MIJE Le Fauconnier C8 30 MIJE Maubuisson B7 31 République Hôtel C3 Eating 32 Au Passage E5 33 Bofinger D8 34 Breizh Café C6 35 Chez Marianne B7 36 Derrière A4 37 L'As du Felafel B7 38 Le Chateaubriand E3 39 Le Clown Bar D5 40Le DauphinE3 41 Le Nôtre D8 42 Le Petit Bofinger D8 43 Le Petit Marché D7 44Le Verre VoléC1 45 Marché aux Enfants Rouges C5 46 Marché Bastille E8 47 Nanashi C5 48 Pink Flamingo C6 49 Pink Flamingo D1 50 Pozzetto B7 51 Rose Bakery C5 52SeptimeG8 53 Soya Cantine BIO E3 Drinking 54 3w Kafé B7 55 Café Charbon G4 56 Café Chéri(e) F1 57 Café La Fusée A5 58 Chez Prune D2 59Hôtel du NordD1 60 La Fée Verte G7 61L'AtmosphèreC1 62 Le Barav C4 63 Le Loir dans La Théière C7 64 Le Progrès D5 65 Le Tango B4 66 Open Café B6 67 Panic Room D5 68 Scream Club D3 69 Zéro Zéro D6 Entertainment 70 La Scène Bastille F8 71 Le Balajo E8 72 Le Nouveau Casino G4 Shopping 73 Le Studio des Parfums B7 74 Maison Georges Larnicol C7 75 Marché Belleville G2 76 Mariage Frères B7 77 Merci D6 78 Trésor B7 79 Tumbleweed D7 80 Un Chien dans le Marais B7 Centre Pompidou ART MUSEUM Offline map Google map ( 01 44 78 12 33; www.centrepompidou.fr; place Georges Pompidou, 1er; museum, exhibitions & panorama adult/child €13/free; 11am-9pm Wed-Mon; Rambuteau) Former French President Georges Pompidou wanted an ultracontemporary artistic hub, and he got it: competition-winning architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers effectively designed the building inside out, with utilitarian features such as plumbing, pipes, air vents and electrical cables forming part of the external façade, freeing up the interior space for exhibitions and events.

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Strasbourg Top Sights Cathédrale Notre-Dame F2 Grande Île E2 Musée d'Art Moderne et ContemporainA4 Petite France C3 Sights 1 Barrage Vauban B3 2 Maison Kammerzell F2 3 Musée Alsacien F4 4Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-DameF3 5 Musée Historique F3 6 Palais Rohan G3 7 Place Gutenberg E3 8 Ponts Couverts C3 Activities, Courses & Tours 9 Batorama G3 Sleeping 10 Cour du Corbeau G4 11 Hôtel Au Cerf d'Or F4 12 Hôtel du Dragon E4 13 Hôtel Gutenberg E3 14 Hôtel Hannong D2 15 Hôtel Le Colmar B1 16 Hôtel Régent Petite France C3 17 Hôtel Suisse G3 18 Le Kléber Hôtel D1 19 Romantik Hôtel Beaucour F4 Eating 20 Au Coin des Pucelles G1 21 Au Crocodile E2 22 Au Petit Tonnelier F3 23Bistrot et ChocolatG3 24Farmers' MarketG3 25 Kobus F3 26 La Cambuse D3 27 La Cloche à Fromage E3 28 La Cloche à Fromage Boutique F3 29 La Tinta C3 30 L'Assiette du Vin E3 31 Le Gavroche G4 32 Le Stras' D3 33 Maison des Tanneurs C3 34Poêles de CarottesC2 35 Umami D3 Drinking 36 Académie de la Bière B2 37 Bar Exils E3 Jeannette et les Cycleux (see 27) Entertainment 38 Boutique Culture F2 39 Fnac Billetterie D2 40 L'Artichaut C2 Le Seven (see 27) 41 Odyssée E2 Shopping 42 Christian E1 43 Coco LM F2 44 Mireille Oster D3 Grande Île HISTORIC QUARTER Offline map Google map ( Langstross) History seeps through the twisting lanes and cafe-rimmed plazas of Grande Île, Strasbourg’s Unesco World Heritage–listed island bordered by the River Ill.

The Art of Computer Programming
by Donald Ervin Knuth
Published 15 Jan 2001

Set j < 1, s <- 0, and set C0UNT[r] <- 0 for 0 < r < t. G2. [Set r zero.] Set r <- 0. G3. [a < Uj < /??] Increase j by 1. If Uj > a and Uj < C, go to step G5. G4. [Increase r.] Increase r by one, and return to step G3. G5. [Record the gap length.] (A gap of length r has now been found.) If r > t, increase C0UNT[t] by one, otherwise increase C0UNT[r] by one. G6. [n gaps found?] Increase s by one. If s < n, return to step G2. | 3.3.2 EMPIRICAL TESTS 63 Gl. Initialize G2. Set r zero ^G3. G4. Increase r No G6. n gaps found? j<- Yes G5. Record the gap length Yes Fig. 6. Gathering data for the gap test. (Algorithms for the "coupon-collector's test" and the "run test" are similar.)

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(The indices z, j, k in our discussion will run from 0 to n — 1 instead of from 1 to n.) It is convenient to transpose the 4.6.4 EVALUATION OF POLYNOMIALS 513 tensor, for if Tijk = Ukj the individual layers of (T^fc) for k = 0, 1, 2, ..., n — 1 are simply given by the matrices / P P2 ... Pn-\ G4) The first rows of the matrices in G4) are respectively the unit vectors A,0,0,..., 0), @,1,0,..., 0), @,0,1,..., 0), ..., @,0,0,..., 1), hence a linear combination X)fc=o vkPk will be the zero matrix if and only if the coefficients Vk are all zero. Furthermore, most of these linear combinations are actually non- singular matrices, for we have n-l (wo,Wl,... ,wn-i) Y] vkPk = @,0,... ,0) if and only if v(u)w(u) = 0 (modulo p(u)), fc=0 where v(u) = vo + v±u -\ \- vn-1un~1 and w(u) = w0 + Wiu -\ h ^-iu".

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More precisely, the stipulation that we have p-digit numbers means that bpf is an integer, and that -bp < bpf < bp. B) The term "floating binary" implies that b = 2, "floating decimal" implies b = 10, etc. Using excess-50 floating decimal numbers with 8 digits, we can write, for example, Avogadro's number N = G4, +.60225200); Planck's constant h = B4, +.66256000). The two components e and / of a floating point number are called the exponent and the fraction parts, respectively. (Other names are occasionally used for this purpose, notably "characteristic" and "mantissa"; but it is an abuse of terminology to call the fraction part a mantissa, since that term has quite a different meaning in connection with logarithms.

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Lonely Planet Best of Hawaii
by Lonely Planet

Waikiki 1Sights 1 Ala Wai Canal D1 2 Duke Kahanamoku Statue E4 3 Fort DeRussy Beach B3 4 Hawaii Army Museum B3 5 Honolulu Zoo F5 6 Kahaloa & Ulukou Beaches D4 7 Kahanamoku Beach A2 8 Kapi‘olani Regional Park F6 9 Kapiʻolani Beach Park E6 10 King David Kalakaua Statue C2 11 Kuhio Beach Park E4 12 Moana Surfrider Hotel D4 13 Princess Kaiulani Statue E3 14 Queen Kapi‘olani Statue F6 15 Queen’s Surf Beach E5 16 Royal Hawaiian Hotel C3 17 Storyteller Statue C2 18 Surfer on a Wave Statue E5 19 Waikiki Aquarium F6 20 Wizard Stones of Kapaemahu D4 2Activities, Courses & Tours 21 Abhasa Spa C3 22 Ala Wai Golf Course F3 23 AquaZone E5 24 Diamond Head Surfboards H3 25 Hiking Hawaii B1 26 Holokai Catamaran B3 27 Maitaʻi Catamaran C3 28 Na Hoku II Catamaran D4 29 Na Hoʻola Spa D4 30 Snorkel Bob’s H3 31 Spa Khakara C3 7Shopping 32 Angels by the Sea E4 33 Art on the Zoo Fence F5 34 Bailey’s Antiques & Aloha Shirts G4 35 Fighting Eel D3 36 Island Paddler G3 37 Malie Organics C3 38 Na Lima Mili Hulu Noʻeau G2 39 Rebecca Beach D3 40 Ukulele PuaPua C3 5Eating 41 Azure C4 42 Blue Ocean E4 43 Da Hawaiian Poke Company H2 44 Diamond Head Market & Grill H5 45 Haili’s Hawaiian Foods G2 46 Hawaii Sushi H6 47 Hawaii’s Favorite Kitchens G4 48 Hy’s Steakhouse E4 49 Kaiwa C3 50 La Mer C3 51 Leonard’s H1 52 Lovin’ Oven E3 53 MAC 24/7 E4 54 Mahina & Sun’s D2 55 Marukame Udon D3 56 Musubi Cafe Iyasume E4 57 Ono Seafood H2 58 Orchids C3 59 Pau Hana Market C3 60 Pioneer Saloon H6 61 Rainbow Drive-In G4 62 Ramen Nakamura C2 63 Roy’s Waikiki C3 Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar (see 23) 64 Tonkatsu Ginza Bairin C3 65 Veranda D4 66 Wada H3 67 Waiola Shave Ice H2 6Drinking & Nightlife 68 Bacchus Waikiki D2 Beach Bar (see 65) 69 Cuckoo Coconuts D3 70 Duke’s Waikiki D4 71 Fusion Waikiki D3 72 Gorilla in the Cafe C3 73 Hula’s Bar & Lei Stand E5 74 In Between C2 75 Lulu’s Waikiki E5 76 Maui Brewing Co D3 77 RumFire C3 78 Tapa’s Restaurant & Lanai Bar D2 79 Wang Chung’s E4 3Entertainment 80 ʻAha ʻAina D3 Beach Bar (see 65) 81 Hilton Hawaiian Village Fireworks A2 82 House Without a Key C3 83 Kani Ka Pila Grille B3 84 Kuhio Beach Torchlighting & Hula Show E4 85 Royal Hawaiian Band F6 86 Tapa Bar A2 87 Waikiki Starlight Luau A2 1Sights Yes, the beach is the main sight, but Waikiki also has historic hotels, evocative public art, amazing artifacts of Hawaiian history and even a zoo and an aquarium.

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Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
by Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato
Published 31 Jul 2016

Perhaps most important, what the public authority customer buys is not the substantive service involved, but the terms of the outsourcing contract. Although a large number of firms is engaged in this business across the whole range of public services being traded, the market is dominated by a small number of very large players. In the UK, over recent years, three firms—G4S, Capita and Serco—have come to account for a very large part of the government outsourcing market.7 A small number of purchasers in public authorities faces a small number of suppliers. These are therefore oligopolistic markets. An indicator that the market is not working well is the fact that large firms have continued to win new contracts even after having been fined for dereliction of duty with some of their existing ones.8 Significantly evoking the phrase used about the giant banks that had to be rescued during the financial crisis, one analysis of their operations has suggested that the firms involved in winning contracts to run British public services have become ‘too big to fail’.9 That is, they have become so central to providing Britain’s public services and infrastructure that if they were to leave the market there would be a crisis of collapsing provision.

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An indicator that the market is not working well is the fact that large firms have continued to win new contracts even after having been fined for dereliction of duty with some of their existing ones.8 Significantly evoking the phrase used about the giant banks that had to be rescued during the financial crisis, one analysis of their operations has suggested that the firms involved in winning contracts to run British public services have become ‘too big to fail’.9 That is, they have become so central to providing Britain’s public services and infrastructure that if they were to leave the market there would be a crisis of collapsing provision. The observation that these major firms are found across a wide range of disparate activities is also significant. Both G4S and Serco started as contractors for public infrastructure projects in defence and security, but are today involved in schools and care services. Another major player, Amey, started in road building, but is now found right across the range of public administration. That firms so successfully win contracts across fields where they had no past track record or prior professional knowledge is explained by the fact that their core business is not a particular field of activity in which they have expertise, but knowing how to win government contracts: how to bid, and how to develop contacts with officials and politicians.

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Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
by Mckenzie Funk
Published 22 Jan 2014

In Britain, most of the prisons were run by private contractors such as the Serco Group, the MITIE Group, and especially G4S, the world’s second-largest private employer, after Walmart, and the source of a scandal at the 2012 London Olympics: Its guards were so poorly trained that the British army had to be called in to replace them. The contractors carried out deportations, too, escorting shackled Nigerians or Angolans or Bangladeshis on a coach-class flight home. Outside the EU, G4S ran Australia’s refugee detention system until another scandal, this one involving children sewing their lips shut during hunger strikes.

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Aamodt, Jim, 102 abiotic stress tolerance, 246–47 Acciona, 167 acid rain, 271 activation energy, 63 Acuña, René, 129 adaptation, 10, 111–12, 210–12, 222–23, 229–32, 267 Aedes aegypti mosquito, 235–36, 237 breeding places, 238, 239 genetically modified OX513A, 236, 239–40, 242, 247, 250–53 producing sterility in, 241–44 spraying, 239–40 Aedes albopictus mosquito, 236, 244, 250 Affordable H2Ousing, 227 Africa: deportations to, 174 refugees from, 172–75, 180–84, 191 African Agricultural Technology Foundation, 245 Agcapita, 153 agriculture: increased growing days, 21, 64, 152, 153 land for, 137, 139–59 and salinity, 195, 198 and water, 87, 90, 148, 205 Agrifirma, 153 Aguas de Barcelona, 21–22 AIG (American International Group), 98, 99, 103–5, 109, 110, 113, 115 alarm fatigue, 52 Alaska: and Arctic claims, 32, 36 endangered villages in, 19, 65 and lease sale, 49, 53, 55–57, 286–87 and oil, 46, 48–49 water contracts in, 122 Alaska Gas Pipeline Project, 46 albedo, 21, 262, 266 Al-Faisal, Prince Mohamed, 122 Algodones Dunes, 126, 128 All-American Canal, 125–29, 130, 167, 264 All-Assam Students Union (AASU), 190, 191, 206 Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), 215–16, 226 Al Maktoum, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, 227 Alphey, Luke, 241–44, 250–53 Alps, melting glaciers in, 65–66, 79–83, 86 American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 267, 276, 279 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 232 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 243 Andermatt, Switzerland, 80 Anderson, Terry, 132–33 Angus and Ross, 73 Anopheles gambiae mosquito, 247 Anthropocene epoch, 5, 252 Aquaterra, 222 aqueducts, 125 Aqueous, 124 aquifers, 205 Arad, Elisha, 89–91 Arcadis, 229, 230–31, 233–34 Arctic: development plans for, 45–46, 47 melting sea ice in, 21, 32, 35, 45, 47, 48, 56, 64–66, 77–78, 118, 194, 203, 284, 287–88 national claims on, 32, 35–37, 38 new shipping lanes in, 16–18, 25–26, 31–32, 54, 284 and petroleum, 16, 31, 32–33, 47, 286 Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, 46 Arctic Council, 194 Arctic Frontiers conference, 45–47 Arctic Ocean, and Law of the Sea, 36 Argentina, land deals in, 153 ARIS (Automatic Rice Imaging System), 248–49 Aristotle, 66 Arrhenius, Svante, 5 Ashkelon, Israel, 88–91 Assam, 189–92, 205–6 Assam Movement, 206 Athabasca tar sands, 21, 52, 58, 263–64 Atkin, Carl, 152, 154 Atmocean, 273 Aurora Flight Sciences, 269 Australia: drought in, 88, 92, 101, 119, 132, 133, 135, 144, 152, 203, 221, 261 Number 1 Rabbit-Proof Fence, 177 water markets in, 132, 133–37 Austria, melting glaciers in, 79–81 Ayles Ice Shelf, 19–20 Baffin Bay, 63 Bahama Islands, 64, 220 Ballou, Rip, 245 Bangladesh, 189–213 border fence, 190–92, 206–9, 212–13 borders of, 191 crops grown in, 195 cyclones in, 196 and flooding, 64, 192, 196–97, 199, 203, 233, 280 foreign aid to, 212 and India, 167, 190–92, 197, 204–9, 210, 212 population growth in, 204, 209 poverty of, 191 refugees from, 191, 204, 206–12 and war games, 203–4 water salinity in, 195, 198 Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), 198–99 Bar, Etan, 92–93, 119 Barbon, Nicholas, 112–14 Barents Sea, 37, 53 BASF, 246–47, 249–50 Bashir, Omar, 147, 149 Bay of Bengal, 191, 195, 196 Beatrix, queen of Netherlands, 229 Beaufort Sea, 36, 48, 49 Beckett, Margaret, 20 Ben-Gurion, David, 84, 87 Bentham, Jeremy, 50–51, 52, 58–59 Bidwells, 152 Bikini Atoll, 216 biofuels, 52, 59 biotechnology, 249–50 Blaauw, Robert Jan, 45, 47–49 Black, George, 210 Black Angel fjord, 73, 74, 77–78 Black Earth Farming, 153 BlackRock, 153 Blue Sky Water Partners, 134 Boeing, 269 Borlaug, Norman, 249 BP, 43, 104, 230 BRAC, 210 Brahmaputra River, 189–90, 193, 195, 196, 199 Brazil: and land deals, 140, 144, 153 and mosquitoes, 243 Brock, Stan, 103 Buffett, Warren, 263 Buiter, Willem, 118, 121 Buoyant Foundation Project, 231 Buriganga River, 197–98 Burma, border of, 191 Bush, George W., 29, 55 Busuttil, Simon, 171–74 Byers, Michael, 24, 25, 26–27, 128 Cain, James P., 71 Caldeira, Ken, 265, 266, 268, 272, 273, 275 Cal Fire, 102 California: drought in, 100 fires in, 97–107 insurance in, 108–9 water for, 125, 127–28, 130 Cambodia, and land deals, 144 Cameroon, and land deals, 144 Campbell-Purdie, Wendy, 163, 177 Canada: and Arctic claims, 32 and Arctic traffic control, 25 First Nations tribes, 153 increased growing days in, 21, 152, 153 Inuit in, 67–68 and Kyoto Protocol, 21 and Law of the Sea, 36 and natural gas, 22 and Northwest Passage, 15–19, 25–27, 32 sovereignty of, 15–19, 27, 67 tar sands in, 21, 52, 58, 263–64 and U.S. cooperation, 26 water in, 24–25 Canary Islands, 164, 165, 168, 172 Cancún Climate Change Conference (2010), 10 Cantwell, Maria, 255–59 cap-and-trade system, 44, 45, 59 Cape York Peninsula, 136 carbon dioxide emissions: and CCS, 49–51, 53, 58, 59 cutting, 7, 10, 217 and lawsuits, 110 levels of, 5, 32, 52, 92, 199, 210 and melting sea ice, 45 and plant growth, 21 sources of, 52, 191, 204–5 trading scheme, 151–52, 212 Carteret Islands, 64, 65 Cassar, Joseph, 181 Cato Institute, 133 Causeway Water Fund, 134 Cayman Islands, 243–44 CCS (carbon capture and storage), 49–51, 53, 58, 59 Center for a New American Security, 203–4 Center for Naval Analysis, 30 Centra Technology, 204 CH2M Hill, 123 Chacaltaya glacier, 80 Chaffey, George, 125 Chernobyl, 260 Cherrapunji, 213 Chevron, 63, 65 Chilingarov, Artur, 35, 36, 37 China: cloud seeding in, 87–88, 260 energy demands of, 47, 50 floods in, 119 Great Wall of, 176–77 and Greenland, 72 and land deals, 144 megadams in, 195 and Northwest Passage, 31 rivers diverted in, 87 water shortages in, 144, 152 Chowdhury, Atiqul Islam (Atique), 197–202, 205, 209 Chubb insurance, 103 Chukchi Sea, 36, 48, 285–87 Lease Sale 193: 49, 55–57, 286–87 Church, John, 194 CIA, 72, 268 Citigroup, 118, 121 Climatic Consequences: Investment Implications of a Changing Climate, 21 Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, 238 Clean Air Act, 271 Climate Change Vulnerability Index, 205, 222 Climate Corporation, 109 climate lawsuits, 65, 110, 218, 263 climate refugee law, 219 climate remediation, 266–69 cloud seeding: and hurricane modification, 110, 260 and rainmaking, 87–88, 92, 259–61 and rain prevention, 260 and snowmaking, 261 and solar radiation management, 266 Club of Rome, Limits to Growth, 3 coal, sources of, 32, 46, 52 COAST, 197, 210 Colbert Report, The, 203 Coles, Terry, 108 Colorado River, 86, 117–18, 121, 125–26, 131 Colorado River Compact (1922), 125 Columbia Law School, island nations conference, 215–21 ConocoPhillips, 45, 46, 57, 65 continental shelf, 32, 36 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (2009), 10, 68, 110, 217, 226, 266, 274 Corrections Corporation of America, 174 Credit Suisse, 118, 120 CropDesign, 249–50 Cyclone Aila, 196, 201 Cyclone Sidr, 196, 200, 201–3 Cypress Mountain, Canada, 85 Daffern, Tim, 74–75 Davidge, Ric, 124 Dead Sea, 90 Deepwater Horizon, 55 Delta Works, 221 dengue fever, 217, 235–43, 244, 250 Dengue Vaccine Initiative, 245 Denmark: and Arctic claims, 32 and Greenland, 36, 61, 67–68, 70–71, 73 and Law of the Sea, 36 desalination, 58, 83, 84, 85, 88–91, 122, 167, 221 desertification, 131, 146, 162–63, 167, 233 Deutsche Bank, 5 “The Investment Climate Is Changing” event, 1–3 investment funds of, 2, 3, 88, 153, 245 Devon Island, 17, 23, 27–29, 33–35, 39–40 Dickerson, John, 118, 119–21, 129–33 DiGiovanna, Chief Sam, 97–107, 110–11, 114, 115–16 Dircke, Piet, 229, 231, 232, 233 directional drilling, 48 Disney, Walt, 259 Doyle, Michael, 238–41 drought, 118, 144, 203 and cloud seeding, 261 and desalination, 88, 221 and desertification, 131, 167 engineering solutions for, 86, 92–93 and fires, 100, 101–2 and food crisis, 133 and food prices, 152 and sale of water rights, 131–36 and volcanoes, 279–80 Dubai, coastline of, 227 Dubner, Stephen, 275 Duncan, Sara, 247 Duoyuan Global Water, 3 Dutch Docklands, 225–28 DynCorp International, 102 Ecofin fund, 134 Egede, Hans, 67 Egypt: famine in, 280 farmland in, 147–48 Ellesmere Island, 19, 32, 36 Emergent Asset Management, 153–54 Emma Maersk, 233 Endangered Species Act, 46 energy independence, 52 energy sources, 47–48, 50–52, 58 Enewetak Atoll, 220 Enlightenment, 86 Enoksen, Hans, 71 Eqecat, 108 Ethiopia: Blue Nile in, 148 food aid to, 148 and land deals, 140, 144, 148 European Border Surveillance System, 167 Exercise Frozen Beaver, 17 extinction, 208, 252 ExxonMobil, 45, 63, 65, 104, 267 Exxon Valdez, 123, 278 F&C Global Climate Opportunities Fund, 4, 108 Farakka Barrage, India, 195 Farmers Insurance, 103, 104–6, 115 Feinstein, Dianne, 127 FEMA, 238 fire, 99–102 Great Fire of London, 112, 114 and insurance, 98, 102–10, 114 Firebreak Spray Systems, 102–4, 105, 109, 275 firefighting, public vs. for-profit, 97-107, 111–12, 114–15 FireIce gel, 103 Fireman’s Fund, 103 Fireprotec, 103 fishing: in Greenland, 63–64, 68 in Senegal, 165–66 and small island states, 218–19 Fleming, James, Fixing the Sky, 260 Floating Proverb, 227 FloodBreak, 233 food crisis, 133, 140, 144, 146, 201, 210 food prices, 52, 58, 144, 152, 161, 201 forests: deforestation, 58 and parasitic larvae, 101 and wildfire, 101–2 fossil fuels, 47, 52 fracking, 131–32 Francis, Pope, 172 Franco, Francisco, 167 Franklin, Benjamin, 266, 280 Friends of the Earth, 66, 240 Friis, Janus, 109 Frontex, 167, 171, 173–74 Fulton, Mark, 2–3 Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER), 268, 269 futurism, 43, 58–59 G4S, 174 Gabriel, Peter, 43 Gadet, Peter, 150–51, 157, 159 Gadhafi, Moammar, 171, 173, 183 Galahad Gold, 153 gambusia (fish), 238 Ganges (Padma) River, 195, 196, 199 Gates, Bill, 244–45, 256, 263, 268, 269, 275 Gates Foundation, 244–45, 247, 256, 257 GelTech fire retardant, 103 genetic modification (GM): abiotic stress tolerance, 246–47 crops, 3, 199, 210, 243, 246–50, 252 mosquitoes, 236–45, 247, 250–53 opponents of, 246 patents on, 246 production facilities, 248–53 reengineering humans, 252 RIDL, 242–44 suicide genes, 236 genomics, 247 geoengineering, 30, 258–59, 262–81 Gerrard, Michael, 215, 217 Gershonowitz, Yitzhak, 92, 93 GEUS, 69–71, 73, 74 Ghoramara Island, 19 Gingrich, Newt, 267 glacier melt, 65–66, 79–83, 86, 87, 205 GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), 245 Gobi Desert, 176–77 Golden Valley Fire Suppression, 103 Goldman Sachs, 118, 145, 234 Goodell, Jeff, How to Cool the Planet, 268 Gore, Al, 2, 146 An Inconvenient Truth, 5, 21, 118, 119 Grayback Forestry (GFP Enterprises), 102 Great Green Wall, 162–64, 167–71, 175–79, 184–86 Greece, 101, 173 Greenberg, Maurice “Hank,” 113, 143 greenhouse gases: accounting for, 20, 44 and CCS, 49–51, 53, 58, 59 Kyoto Protocol on, 21, 44 threat of, 32, 45, 47, 51 Greenland, 61–78 and climate change profitability, 62, 74, 76 and Denmark, 36, 61, 67–68, 70–71, 73 fish in, 63–64, 68 land rising in, 66, 77–78 melting ice cap of, 64–66, 77, 194, 284 Niaqornat meeting, 75–77 petroleum and minerals in, 63, 72–75, 76, 154 and self-governance, 62–64, 66–67, 68, 71–72, 77, 78, 122, 154, 216 Thule Air Base in, 72 Greenlandic language, 63 Greenland Minerals and Energy, 73 Greenland Sustainable Mineral and Petroleum Development Conference, 72–73 Greenpeace, 57 Green Revolution, 249 Greenstar, 228 Gurdjieff, Georges, 41 Hadley cell, 131, 194 Hall, Nick, 73 Hammerfest, Norway, 53–55 Hammond, Aleqa, 71 Hansen, James, 5 Hans Island, 17, 22, 24, 34, 36, 217 Hanson, Ann Meekitjuk, 23 Harman, Willis, 43 Harper, Stephen, 17, 21, 58 Heffernan, Bill, 136–37 Heilberg, Phil, 139–51, 152, 154–59 Himalayas, glacier melt in, 86 Holland America Line, 229, 230 Hollis, Leo, 112 Homestead Acts, 129–30 Hoover Institution, 258 Hoque, Enamul, 189–91, 200, 205–9, 212 Horner, Jack, 270 Horsfall, Sophie, 4 Howard, John, 136 Hudson Institute, 42 Hudson Resources, 73 Human Rights Watch, 149, 192 hurricanes: Hurricane Andrew, 108 Hurricane Ivan, 239 Hurricane Katrina, 108, 222, 238 Hurricane King, 260 Hurricane Sandy, 215, 219, 232, 233–34, 284, 287 and insurance, 4, 98, 108, 110, 238 and ocean temperatures, 196 research into, 110 suppression of, 260, 273–75 and windborne debris, 231 hydrogen energy, 58 hydropower, 64, 86 hyperbolic discounting, 7 IBM, 230 ice albedo feedback effect, 21 Iceberg Transport International Ltd., 122 Iceland: volcanic eruptions in, 280 water from, 122 IDE (Israel Desalination Enterprises), 82–85, 88–89 All Weather Snowmaker, 81–82, 85 creation of, 84 IID (Imperial Irrigation District), 126 India: and Bangladesh, 167, 190–92, 197, 204–9, 210, 212 Border Security Force (BSF), 192–93, 207–9 carbon emissions of, 191, 204–5 drought in, 280 energy demands of, 47, 50 and land deals, 144, 162 and melting glaciers, 66, 205 and refugees, 191, 204, 206–10 Indian Ocean, rising waters of, 194 Indonesia, and land deals, 144 Inherent Land Quality Assessment, 152 insurance: and climate change, 4, 98, 99, 107–10 FEMA/flood, 238 and fire, 98, 102–10, 114 and hurricanes, 4, 98, 108, 110, 238 policies dropped, 108, 238 rate hikes, 108 reinsurance, 108–10 windstorm, 238 Intellectual Ventures (IV), 256–57, 260, 261–65, 266, 268, 270–74, 278–79, 280 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2, 20, 66, 194, 266, 267, 276 International Food Policy Research Institute, 146 International Organization for Migration (IOM), 210, 219 Inuit: Canadian and U.S. treatment of, 67–68 and climate change, 23–24 lawsuit of, 110 and Northwest Passage, 17, 23, 33–34 Inupiat Eskimos, 55, 56, 285 investment opportunities, 2–4, 21–22, 88, 118–21, 151–54, 263–64, 269 island nations, disappearing, 64–65, 215–21, 226 islands, artificial, 217, 225–28 Israel: cloud seeding in, 92 desalination in, 84, 88–91, 221 and IDE, 82, 84, 88–89 and immigrants, 167 water technology in, 91–93 Italy: borders of, 66, 85 immigrants to, 173–74 Jacob, Klaus, 219 Jarch Capital, 143, 148–49, 150 JASONs, 268–69 Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), 180 John Deere, 22 Jordan River, 87, 90 Joseph, Doctor, 156–57 Kahn, Herman, 42 Karimov, Islam, 143 Kazakhstan, and land deals, 144, 152 Kennedy, Don, 65 Kenya: drought in, 149 and land deals, 144 Keynes, John Maynard, 6 Key West, 236–38, 240–41, 243, 250 Khosla, Vinod, 109 Kiewit Corporation, 264 Kiir, Salva, 140–41, 154 Kiribati (Gilbert Islands), 64, 65, 220, 226 Kissinger, Henry A., 25 Kitzbühel, Austria, 80 Kleist, Mininnguaq (Minik), 62–64, 66–69, 71, 75–78, 194, 216 Knights of Malta, 179 Koch brothers, 104, 133 Koonin, Steve, 268–69 Korea, and land deals, 144 Kulluk, 48, 216, 286–87 Kuwait, and land deals, 144 Kyl, Jon, 127 Kyoto Protocol (1997), 21, 44, 50, 53, 54, 212, 267 Lake Havasu, 117 Landkom, 153 Langmuir, Irving, 259 Latham, John, 266, 269, 275 Law of the Sea treaty, 31–32 Article 76 submissions under, 36–37 and island states, 217, 218, 220 Levitt, Steven, 275 Liao, S.

Lonely Planet Pocket San Francisco
by Lonely Planet and Alison Bing
Published 31 Aug 2012

Golden Gate Park & the Avenues Top Sights California Academy of Sciences G3 MH de Young Memorial Museum F3 Sights 1 Legion of Honor B1 2 Ocean Beach A4 3 Strybing Arboretum & Botanical Gardens F4 4 Japanese Tea Garden F3 5 Conservatory of Flowers G3 6 Stow Lake E4 7 Lincoln Park B1 8 Sutro Baths A2 Eating 9 Aziza E2 10 Namu G2 11 Outerlands B5 12 Ton Kiang E2 13 Kabuto F2 14 Spruce H1 15 Thanh Long B5 16 Spices G2 17 Halu G2 18 Genki G1 Drinking 19 Beach Chalet Brewery A4 20 Hollow F4 21 Trouble Coffee B5 22 540 Club G2 23 Social G4 24 Bitter End G2 25 Trad'r Sam's D2 Entertainment 26 Plough & Stars G2 27 Bridge Theater H2 28 Four Star Theatre D2 Shopping 29 Park Life G2 30 Mollusk B5 31 General Store B5 32 Green Apple G2 33 Wishbone G4 34 Seedstore G2 Top Sights California Academy of Sciences Offline map www.calacademy.org 55 Music Concourse Dr, inside Golden Gate Park adult/child $29.95/24.95 9:30am-5pm Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm Sat 9th Ave Leave it to San Francisco to dedicate a glorious four-story monument entirely to freaks of nature.

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Lonely Planet Florence & Tuscany
by Lonely Planet , Virginia Maxwell and Nicola Williams
Published 1 Dec 2013

The Duomo & Santa Maria Novella Top Sights 1 Battistero di San Giovanni F3 2 Corridoio Vasariano F7 3 Duomo H3 4 Grande Museo del Duomo H2 5 Palazzo Vecchio G6 6 Ponte Vecchio E7 7 Uffizi Gallery G7 Sights 8 Basilica di San Lorenzo F1 9Basilica di Santa Maria Novella - EntranceC2 10Basilica e Chiostri Monumentali di Santa Maria NovellaC1 11 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana F1 12 Cappella dei Magi G1 13 Cappelle Medicee E1 14Chiesa dei Santissimi ApostoliD6 15 Chiesa di San Gaetano D3 16 Chiesa di Santa Margherita H4 17 Chiesa di Santa Trìnita D5 18 Chiesa d'Ognissanti A3 19 Chiesa e Museo di OrsanmicheleF5 Fontana di Nettuno (see 30) 20 Gucci Museo H6 21Il PorcellinoF6 22 Museo Casa di Dante H4 23 Museo di Palazzo Davanzati E5 24 Museo Marino Marini C4 25 Museo Salvatore Ferragamo D6 26 Palazzo Antinori D3 27 Palazzo Medici-Riccardi G1 28 Palazzo Strozzi D4 29 Piazza della Repubblica F4 30 Piazza della Signoria G6 31 Torre dei Marsili D7 32 Via de' Tornabuoni D4 Activities, Courses & Tours 33 ArtViva E5 34 Florence Town G5 35 Italy by Segway G5 Sleeping 36 Academy Hostel G2 37 Antica Torre di Via de' Tornabuoni 1D6 38 Hotel Cestelli D6 39 Hotel Davanzati E5 40 Hotel L'O C2 41 Hotel Perseo F2 42 Hotel Scoti D5 43 Hotel Torre Guelfa E6 44 Palazzo Magnani Feroni A6 45 Palazzo Vecchietti E4 Eating 46 Cantinetta dei Verrazzano G5 47 Da Vinattieri H4 48 Grom G3 49 I Due Fratellini G5 50 Il Latini C4 51 Il Ristoro E7 52 Il Santo Bevitore A6 53 'Ino F7 54 La Canova di Gustavino G5 55 La Carraia A6 56 L'Antico Trippaio G4 57 L'Osteria di Giovanni B4 58 Mariano D5 59 Momoyama A6 60 Obikà D4 61 Olio & Convivium C7 62 Osteria Il Buongustai G5 63 Tic Toc G4 64 Trattoria Camillo C7 Drinking & Nightlife 65 Caffè Concerto Paszkowski F4 66 Caffè Giacosa D4 67 Caffè Rivoire F6 68 Colle Bereto E4 69 Coquinarius G3 70 Cuculia A7 71 Fiaschetteria Nuvoli F3 72 GilliF4 Gucci Museo Caffè (see 20) 73 Il Santino B6 74 La Terrazza F7 75 La Terrazza F4 76 Le Renaissance Café D4 77 Procacci D4 78 Sei Divino A4 79 Slowly E5 Entertainment 80 Blop Club H6 81 La Cité A6 82 Space Club A2 83 YAB E5 Shopping 84 A Piedi Nudi nel Parco H4 85 Alberto Cozzi C5 86 Alessandro Gherardeschi B5 Angela Caputi (see 43) 87 Aprosio & Co C4 88 Desii Lab C4 89 Dolce Forte B2 90 Fabriano Boutique G4 91 Francesco da Firenze A6 92 Grevi D4 93 Gucci D4 94 La Bottega dell'Olio E6 95 Le Gare 24 A4 96 Letizia Fiorini C5 97 Loretta Caponi D3 98Mercato de San LorenzoF1 99 Mercato Nuovo F5 100 Mio Concept C4 101 Obsequium D7 102 Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria NovellaB2 103 Patrizia Pepe E4 104 Pineider G5 Uffizi Gallery ART MUSEUM MAP GOOGLE MAP (www.polomuseale.firenze.it; Piazzale degli Uffizi 6; adult/reduced €6.50/3.25; 8.15am-6.50pm Tue-Sun) The jewel in Florence’s crown, the Uffizi fills the vast U-shaped Palazzo degli Uffizi.

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Oltrarno & Boboli Top Sights 1 Basilica di Santo Spirito C2 2 Cappella Brancacci A1 3 Giardino di Boboli E3 4 Palazzo Pitti D3 Sights 5 Appartamenti Reali D3 6 Basilica di Santa Maria del Carmine A1 7 Casa Guidi C3 8 Cenacolo di Santo Spirito C2 9 Chiesa di Santa Felicità E2 10 Forte di Belvedere F4 11 Galleria d'Arte Moderna D3 12 Galleria del Costume D3 13 Galleria PalatinaD3 14 Giardino Bardini G3 15 Giardino Torrigiani A4 16 Grotta del Buontalenti E2 17 Museo degli Argenti D2 18 Museo delle Porcellane E5 19 Museo di Storia Naturale - Zoologia La SpecolaB3 20 Museo Galileo F1 21 Museo Roberto Capucci G4 22 Palazzo de' Mozzi G3 23 Torre de' Belfredelli D1 24 Via de' Bardi G2 Activities, Courses & Tours 25 In Tavola C2 Sleeping 26 Hostel Santa Monaca A1 27 Hotel La Scaletta D2 28 Palazzo Guadagni Hotel B2 Eating 29 Gustapanino C2 30 Gustapizza C2 31 Il Magazzino D1 32 La Casalinga C2 33 Tamerò C2 34 Trattoria 4 Leoni D2 Drinking & Nightlife 35 Dolce Vita A1 36 Le Volpi e l'Uva E2 37 Open Bar E1 38 Vivanda B1 39 Volume C2 40 Zoé H3 Shopping 41 Alessandro Dari H3 42 Casini Firenze D2 43 Giulio Giannini e Figlio D2 44 Lorenzo Villoresi G3 45 Madova E1 Ponte Vecchio BRIDGE MAP GOOGLE MAP The first documentation of a stone bridge here, at the narrowest crossing point along the entire length of the Arno, dates from 972.

Top 10 Prague
by Schwinke, Theodore.

Although locals might not agree, the tour is more fun than it sounds (see p37). recalls the Red Army’s liberation of Prague in 1945: a grateful resistance ﬁghter greets a Soviet footsoldier with a bunch of lilac and a, presumably brotherly, kiss. It’s one of the few pro-Soviet monuments still standing in Prague. d Vrchlického sady • Map G4 Museum of Communism 49 Prague’s Top 10 Left Poster, Wax Museum Praha Right National Marionette Theatre Eccentric Prague of Torture ! Museum Instruments If you can’t quite grasp how these grisly instruments work, the helpful illustrations should make their operation painfully clear. More than 60 implements of pain from all over Europe are on display, accompanied by explanations in four languages. d Křižovnické námětí 1 • Map J4 • Open 10am–10pm daily (to 8pm in winter) • Adm Museum Praha £ Wax Bohemia’s great ﬁgures all come together in one happy community here, with lifelike waxwork representations of Franz Kafka, Rudolf II and The Good Soldier Švejk, making for a wonderful stroll through Czech history.

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Its aim is to make art more accessible to the general public by striving to establish a relationship between the two. d Národní třída 30 • Map L6 • Open 1–7pm Mon, 1–6pm Tue–Sun £ Postage Stamp Museum Philatelists’ mouths water over this one. Its exhibitions illustrate the colourful history of postage stamps in the Czech Republic and Europe. Sells commemorative sheets and graphic works too. d Nové mlýny 2 • Map G4 • Open 9am–noon, 1–5pm Tue–Sun • Adm of the $ Museum City of Prague Visitors can explore 19th-century Prague with Antonín Langweil’s scaled replica of the city. d Na 110 Museum * National Palaeontology, mineralogy and a host of other “ologies”. The museum’s collections are scattered throughout the country, but the Wenceslas Square ediﬁce is a cultural artifact in its own right (see p36). d Václavské náměstí 68 • Map G5 • Open Oct–Apr: 9am–5pm daily; May–Sep: 10am–6pm (closed ﬁrst Tue of month) • Adm Museum ( Police The museum documents the police’s efforts with engaging exhibits, such as an interactive crime scene. d Ke Karlovu 1 • Map Poříčí 52 • Map P3 • Open 9am–6pm Tue–Sun • Adm G6 • Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sun • Adm Museum % Mucha Art Nouveau artist Alfons Museum ) Dvořák This Baroque palace houses Mucha is a national hero.

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
by Robert C. Martin
Published 1 Jan 2007

Args: The Rough Draft So I Stopped On Incrementalism String Arguments Conclusion Chapter 15: JUnit Internals The JUnit Framework Conclusion Chapter 16: Refactoring SerialDate First, Make It Work Then Make It Right Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 17: Smells and Heuristics Comments C1: Inappropriate Information C2: Obsolete Comment C3: Redundant Comment C4: Poorly Written Comment C5: Commented-Out Code Environment E1: Build Requires More Than One Step E2: Tests Require More Than One Step Functions F1: Too Many Arguments F2: Output Arguments F3: Flag Arguments F4: Dead Function General G1: Multiple Languages in One Source File G2: Obvious Behavior Is Unimplemented G3: Incorrect Behavior at the Boundaries G4: Overridden Safeties G5: Duplication G6: Code at Wrong Level of Abstraction G7: Base Classes Depending on Their Derivatives G8: Too Much Information G9: Dead Code G10: Vertical Separation G11: Inconsistency G12: Clutter G13: Artificial Coupling G14: Feature Envy G15: Selector Arguments G16: Obscured Intent G17: Misplaced Responsibility G18: Inappropriate Static G19: Use Explanatory Variables G20: Function Names Should Say What They Do G21: Understand the Algorithm G22: Make Logical Dependencies Physical G23: Prefer Polymorphism to If/Else or Switch/Case G24: Follow Standard Conventions G25: Replace Magic Numbers with Named Constants G26: Be Precise G27: Structure over Convention G28: Encapsulate Conditionals G29: Avoid Negative Conditionals G30: Functions Should Do One Thing G31: Hidden Temporal Couplings G32: Don’t Be Arbitrary G33: Encapsulate Boundary Conditions G34: Functions Should Descend Only One Level of Abstraction G35: Keep Configurable Data at High Levels G36: Avoid Transitive Navigation Java J1: Avoid Long Import Lists by Using Wildcards J2: Don’t Inherit Constants J3: Constants versus Enums Names N1: Choose Descriptive Names N2: Choose Names at the Appropriate Level of Abstraction N3: Use Standard Nomenclature Where Possible N4: Unambiguous Names N5: Use Long Names for Long Scopes N6: Avoid Encodings N7: Names Should Describe Side-Effects.

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If you don’t declare the serialVersionUID variable, then the compiler automatically generates one for you, and it will be different every time you make a change to the module. I know that all the documents recommend manual control of this variable, but it seems to me that automatic control of serialization is a lot safer [G4]. After all, I’d much rather debug an InvalidClassException than the odd behavior that would ensue if I forgot to change the serialVersionUID. So I’m going to delete the variable—at least for the time being.2 2. Several of the reviewers of this text have taken exception to this decision. They contend that in an open source framework it is better to assert manual control over the serial ID so that minor changes to the software don’t cause old serialized dates to be invalid.

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Developers often write functions that they think will work, and then trust their intuition rather than going to the effort to prove that their code works in all the corner and boundary cases. There is no replacement for due diligence. Every boundary condition, every corner case, every quirk and exception represents something that can confound an elegant and intuitive algorithm. Don’t rely on your intuition. Look for every boundary condition and write a test for it. G4: Overridden Safeties Chernobyl melted down because the plant manager overrode each of the safety mechanisms one by one. The safeties were making it inconvenient to run an experiment. The result was that the experiment did not get run, and the world saw it’s first major civilian nuclear catastrophe.

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Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism
by Richard Brooks
Published 23 Apr 2018

The worldwide chairman of RBS’s auditor Deloitte until 2007, William Parrett, moved swiftly onto the board of Swiss bank UBS to run its audit committee. The firm’s UK senior partner and Parrett’s successor internationally until 2011, John Connolly, became chairman of controversial outsourced public service provider G4S. He in turn was succeeded as Deloitte worldwide chairman by Steve Almond, the lead auditor on Royal Bank of Scotland between 2005 and 2009. PwC’s British leader in the years up to and after the Northern Rock collapse, Kieran Poynter, retired in 2008 and glided into the boardrooms of British American Tobacco and the holding company for British Airways.

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The companies that benefit from the consultants’ advice to government bodies by providing the duly outsourced services certainly appreciate the importance of the Big Four. The former lead UK partners of Deloitte (John Connolly) and PwC (Sir Ian Powell) are now chairmen of two of the largest outsourced public service providers, G4S and Capita respectively. When the latter announced its catch in 2016, it was struggling with badly performing public service contracts and a tumbling share price. Powell, it reassured shareholders, had ‘led PwC’s interactions with the UK government and other public sector organizations’.45 His contacts both in Whitehall and in the accountancy firm advising it clearly made him the man to have at the helm.

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INDEX Abadie, Richard, 189 Aberdeen, Scotland, 48, 70 ABN Amro, 138 Accenture, 71, 256, 272 Accounting Establishment, The, 80 accounting standards, 73, 123–5 aconter, 2 Adelphia, 109, 264 Adidas, 220 Airbus, 214–19 Aislabie, John, 40 algebra, 21, 33, 38 Almond, Steve, 139–40, 148 alumni system, 17 Amazon, 170, 171, 178 American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 61 American International Group (AIG), 133–5, 144, 145, 148 American Steel and Wire Company, 55 Andersen, Arthur Edward, 72–4, 75, 77, 78 Anglo Irish Bank, 144 Anne, queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 39 antitrust laws, 59, 61, 75 Antwerp, 36 Appleby, 247 Applegarth, Adam, 126 Appleton, Robert, 225 Arabic mathematics, 3, 21–2 ArcelorMittal, 171 Arthur Andersen & Co., 72–4, 75, 77–8, 81, 97, 102–8, 112–13, 188 auditing, 4, 72–4, 85, 97, 102–8, 109, 117 collapse (2002), 5, 7, 11, 90, 108, 110, 121 and computing, 77–8 consultancy, 77–8, 79, 81, 103 and Enron, 4, 7, 11, 74, 102–8, 113, 117 global operations, 234 and HIH, 240 and Labour Party, 184, 188 and Lincoln Savings and Loan, 85 ‘One Firm’ philosophy, 74, 275 and subprime mortgages, 112–13, 116 and Sunbeam, 97 and United States Steel, 62 and WorldCom, 109, 110 Arthur Young & Co., 63, 71, 85–7 asset-backed securities (ABS), 121 Associated Electrical Industries, 66 Aston Martin, 2 AT&T, 109 Atchison, Jack, 85–6 Atlantic Ocean, 39 Atter, Lewis, 197–8 Audit Company of Illinois, 72 auditing, 2, 5, 6, 10–16, 68–9, 79–80, 259–61, 276, 280–84 1960s ‘Go-Go’ era, 63–5, 67 1980s deregulation era, 85–91 1990s/2000s ‘numbers game’ era, 95–110, 114 2007–8 financial crisis, 4, 13–14, 17, 18, 90, 111–50, 210, 241, 256–9, 265 2010s post-crisis era, 259–61 Barnier proposals (2010), 253–5, 280 Davey committee (1894), 52 and class action, 92 Companies Act (1900), 52 competing on price, 79 compulsory rotation, 5 and consultancy, 82, 97–8 and corruption, 211–32 and deregulation, 85–7 expectations gap’, 65, 257 global operations, 235–46 and Joint Stock Companies Acts (1844, 1856), 47, 50 and Levitt, 96–8, 104 limited companies, 13 limited liability, 91–5, 114 Lincoln Savings and Loan, 85–6 Maxwell, 87–8 Medici system, 27 New York Stock Exchange, 55 public, 280–82 and Railway Regulation Act (1844), 45–7 Australia, 48, 51, 127, 170, 240 Avignon, France, 29 Avis Rent-a-Car, 59 Ayrshire, Scotland, 42 Babbage, Charles, 70 BAE Systems, 213–14, 219 Bagley, Gaenor, 268–71 Bahamas, 222, 236 Bain & Co., 263 Bainbridge, Guy, 141 Bank of America, 118 Bank of Credit and Commerce International, 91 Bank of England, 38, 91, 126, 273 Bank of Scotland, 140 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, 230–31 Bankia, 241 Banking Act (1879), 51 bankruptcy, 30, 45, 46, 49, 50–51 Barclays, 6, 121, 149, 256, 258 Baring Brothers, 92 Barkley, Alben, 58 Barlow, Ian, 181, 182 Barlow Clowes, 89–90, 136, 209 Barnes, David, 258–9, 276, 277 Barnier, Michel, 253–5, 280 Bass, Carl, 105–7 BCCI, 136 Bear Stearns, 121, 139, 145 Belfield, Gary, 192, 193 Benci, Giovanni, 27, 28, 29, 31 Bennett, Robert, 161 Berkshire Hathaway, 135 Bettel, Xavier, 170 Bevis, Herman, 62 Big Bang (1986), 156 Big Eight, 62, 80, 81, 82, 86, 87, 89, 136, 235, 283–4 Big Five, 95, 97, 236 Big Four, 2, 5–21, 110, 114, 283–4 alumni system, 17 auditing, see under auditing business advisory, 114 charity, 16–17 client relationship partners, 12 compulsory rotation, 5 consultancy, 6, 10–12, 114, 183–210, 261–7 and corruption, 211–32 cyber-security, 272–3 export earnings, 6 federal structure, 7–8 and financial crisis (2008), 111–50 global operations, 235–52 governments, advice to, 6, 180, 183–210, 248–50 growth, 9, 10 integrated reporting, 18 key performance indicators, 12 mark-to-model, 124 and media, 7 partners, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16 professional services, 11 recruits, 14–15 revolving door, 206–8, 272 and scandals, 7–8 and securitization, 121–3 tax avoidance, 156–82, 246–8 thought leadership, 12 Big Short, 112 Big Six, 81, 91–3, 95, 235, 236 Big Three, 110, 161 bills of exchange, 25, 26 Birmingham, West Midlands, 43 Bischoff, Winfried, 209 Black, Conrad, 154–5 Black, William, 60–62 Blackbeard (Edward Teach), 39 Blair, Anthony ‘Tony’, 184, 188, 191, 213 Blatter, Joseph ‘Sepp’, 221, 222, 225–8 BLIPS (Bond Linked Issue Premium Structures), 159–62, 181 Blockbuster, 106 Blunt, John, 39, 44 Board of Trade, 45 Book of Disquiet (Pessoa), 1 Book-keeping Methodiz’d (Mair), 53 Booz & Co., 264 Boston Consulting, 191 Boulton, Matthew, 43 Bower, Marvin, 75 Boy Scouts of America, 149 Bradford & Bingley, 141–2, 149 Brazil, 220, 238, 239, 242–3, 246 Breedon, Richard, 154 Brexit, 195, 203–4, 273 bribery, 211–28, 240 BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), 238 Bristol, England, 49 Britannia Building Society, 142 British Academy, 111–12 British Aerospace, 212–14, 219 British Airways, 148 British American Tobacco, 148 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 169, 197, 220 British Empire, 233 British Home Stores (BHS), 260–61 British Virgin Islands, 213, 220, 246 Britnell, Mark, 192–3, 208 Brown, Gordon, 157, 184, 185, 186, 196 Bruges, 31 BT, 149 Bubble Act (1720), 44 Budgetary Control (McKinsey), 74–5 Buffett, Warren, 63, 135 Building Public Trust Awards, 256 Bureau d’Imposition Sociétés VI, 168 Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, US Navy, 77 Burgundy, Duchy of (1032–1477), 31 Bush, George Walker, 98, 114, 145, 253 Bush, Tim, 126, 127, 147 Butler, Stephen, 181 Byrne, Liam, 184 Byzantine Empire (285–1453), 21 Cabinet Office, 200, 201 Cable & Wireless, 215 Caesar, John, 54, 55, 56 Calcutta, India, 233 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 194 Cambridge University, 55, 268 Cameron, David, 192, 195, 203 Campaign Against the Arms Trade, 265 Canada, 246 Canary Wharf, London, 256 Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, 37 Capita, 201–2 capital, 3 Carell, Steve, 112 Caribbean Football Union, 221, 223, 224, 225 Carnegie, Andrew, 55, 71 Carter, Arthur, 58 Cash Investigation, 168, 171 Caterpillar, 178 Catholic Church, 3, 24–5, 26, 29, 34, 38 Cattles plc., 142 Causey, Rick, 104 Cayman Islands, 104, 164, 214, 239, 246, 247 Celanese, 60 Celler–Kefauver Act (1950), 59, 61 Celluloid Corporation, 60 certified public accountants, 53 CFO, 101, 109 Chaplin, Charlie, 71 Chappell, Dominic, 260 Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 31 chartered accountancy, 14, 16, 45, 47–8, 49, 53 Chelsea Flower Show, 200 Chicago School, 84–5, 183 Chicago Sun-Times, 154 Chicago, Illinois, 54, 72–4, 101, 105 child labour, 44 China, 17, 111, 204, 238, 243–5, 251–2, 272, 274 China Integrated Energy, 244 Chirac, Jacques, 127 Christianity, 3, 24–5, 26, 34, 35, 38 Catholicism, 3, 24–5, 26, 29, 34, 38 Protestantism, 3, 42, 43 Christoffels, Jan Ympyn, 36 Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 41 Circle Health, 194 Citigroup, 149, 258 City of Glasgow Bank, 51, 147 City of London, 46, 49, 156, 249 Civil Rights Movement, 64 Claridges, London, 122 Clarke, Charles, 207 class-action lawsuits, 64–5, 92 Cleese, John, 15 climate change, 18 CloseMore University, 115 Clowes, Peter, 88–90, 91, 136, 209 Co-operative Bank, 142, 149, 150 Cohen, Manuel ‘Manny’, 80 Cold War, 95 Cole, Margaret, 208 Colin, Bernard, 173 collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), 120–21, 129–30, 133, 136–40, 265 Collier-Keywood, Richard, 182 Collins, Simon, ix, 11, 204, 218, 255–9, 264–7, 276, 277–8, 279 Colombia, 229 colonialism, 37 Comey, James, 161 commercial-mortgage-backed security (CMBS), 121 common accounting standards, 73, 123–5 common law, 39 Companies Act 1862: 51 1900: 52 1929: 58 1948: 66 1989: 93 compulsory rotation, 5 computing, 77–8 Comroad, 240 conflicts of interest, 18, 60, 82, 91, 98, 187, 254–5 Arthur Andersen & Co., 73–4, 78, 105, 277 and Barnier proposals, 254–5 in China, 274 and data, 271 Deloitte, 241 KPMG, 202, 228 Price Waterhouse & Co., 73, 277 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), 143 and Sarbanes–Oxley Act (2002), 122 Connolly, John, 89–90, 136, 137, 139, 146, 148, 150, 201 Conservative Party, 95, 185, 186 consultancy, 6, 10–12, 69, 70–83, 97, 114, 183–210, 261–7, 284–5 Continental Baking, 59 Continental Bank, 101 convergence, 123 Cook, Martin, 16 ‘cooking the books’, 36 Cooper, Cynthia, 109 Cooper, William and Arthur, 49 Coopers & Lybrand, 49, 56, 65, 87–8, 95, 185, 216 Coopers Brothers, 87 Copeland, James, 239 Corbyn, Jeremy, 201 Cornwall, England, 43 corruption, 211–32, 240 cost accounting, 42–4, 70–71, 76 cost–profit calculus, 3 Cotswolds, England, 26 Countrywide Financial Corporation, 48, 118, 257 Court of Appeal, 211 credit default swaps (CDSs), 120, 122, 134–5 credit rating agencies, 130, 149 Cruickshank, David, 166 Crystal Park, Luxembourg, 170 Cuba, 239 Cuomo, Andrew, 133 currency swaps, 156–7 cyber-security, 272–3 Daily Mirror, 88 Daniel, Vincent, 112–13 Dante, 33 Dassler, Horst, 220 Datini, Francesco di Marco, 25 Davey, Horace, Baron Davey, 52 Davos, see World Economic Forum Defoe, Daniel, 38 DeLany, Clarence Martin, 72 Delaware, United States, 8, 57, 92, 236, 284 Deloitte, 2, 5, 8, 12–13, 82, 90, 98, 276, 277 and Adelphia, 109 and bankers’ bonuses, 158 and Bankia, 241 in Brazil, 242–3 Brexit memo (2017), 195, 203 charity, 16–17 in China, 244, 251–2 client relationship partners, 12–13 cyber-security, 272 and Deutsche Bank, 158 dot after name, 12 and Duke Energy, 109 and Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, 145 Global Impact Report, 17 global operations, 236 and Gol, 242–3 government, advice to, 187, 189, 190, 191, 193, 194 and GPT, 216 and Hong Kong protests (2014), 251–2 and House of Lords committee (2010), 146 integrated reporting, 18 Journey Declaration, 275 and National Health Service (NHS), 193, 194 and Parmalat, 239, 243 and private finance initiative (PFI), 187, 189, 190, 191, 203 and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), 145 revolving door, 207, 208 and Royal Ahold, 238–9 and Royal Bank of Scotland, 47, 90, 136–40, 142, 147, 241, 259 and securitization, 121 and Standard Chartered Bank, 230 and tax avoidance, 157, 158, 166, 203 and technology, 271 and thrifts, 87 and World Economic Forum, 18 Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, 89 Deloitte, William Welch, 46–7, 49, 158 Deloitte & Touche, 89, 91, 136–40 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, 239 Deltour, Antoine, 166–8, 171, 173–4, 175, 175 Democratic Party, 58, 80, 159 Deng Xiaoping, 243 Department for Business, UK, 201 Department for Exiting the EU, 204 Department of Health, UK, 188, 191, 192 Department of Justice, US, 144, 161, 223 deregulation, 84, 85, 95, 112, 163, 273–4 derivatives, 117, 119–23, 125, 129–31, 133–40, 148, 265 Desmond, Dermot, 163 Deutsche Bank, 158, 166, 258 Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft, 235 Devon, England, 73 Dickinson, Arthur, 55, 62, 73, 82 DiPiazza, Sam, 242 dirty pooling, 63 discrezione, 26, 29 Disney, 171 Dissenters, 43 dividends, 31, 39, 45 Donovan, John, 116–17 Doty, James, 260 ‘Double Irish’ scheme, 164 double-entry bookkeeping, 3–4, 6, 18, 22–41, 42–4, 96 Bank of England, 38 and Catholicism, 24–5, 26, 29, 34 Christoffels, 36 East India Company, 37 Goethe, 235 Japan, 235 Medicis, 26–32, 36 Pacioli, 32–6, 100, 124 and Protestantism, 42 Royal African Company, 37 South Sea Company, 39–41, 42 Washington, 53 Watt, 42–3, 44 Wedgwood, 43, 44 Dow Jones, 5, 95 Drucker, Jesse, 164, 165 drug trafficking, 229, 231 Dublin, Ireland, 163 Duke Energy, 109 Duncan, David, 103–4, 105, 106, 107, 108 Duranton International Ltd, 214 EADS, 216 East India Company, 37 Economist, The, 67, 238 EDF (Électricité de France), 205 Edinburgh, Scotland, 54 Edinburgh Society of Accountants, 47 Edison, Thomas, 55 Edward IV, king of England, 30 Edward VII, king of the United Kingdom, 68 Egypt, 21 Einzelunterschrift, 221 Eisenhower, Dwight, 76 Eisman, Steve, 112 Electronic Data Systems, 82 Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom, 111–12 Elkind, Peter, 101 Ellis, Kevin, 256, 258 Enfield rifles, 71 England Bank of England, 38 East India Company, 37 Royal African Company, 37 slave trade, 37 Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), 30 woollen industry, 26, 30 see also United Kingdom Ennis, Jessica, 196 Enron, 16, 40, 99–108, 110, 130, 186, 190, 209, 221, 240, 261, 264 and Arthur Andersen & Co., 4, 7, 11, 74, 102–8, 113, 117 and consultancy arms, sale of, 262 and mark-to-market, 99–102, 113 and regulation, 6, 10, 122, 162, 222, 274, 279 Ernst & Ernst, 63, 71, 87 Ernst & Whinney, 86, 87 Ernst & Young, 2, 56, 91, 97, 132–3, 148–9 alumni system, 17 and Anglo Irish Bank, 144 Arthur Andersen structured finance purchase (2002), 121 ‘Building a Better Working World’, 12 and Civil Service Awards, 200 and Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, 145 global operations, 236 government, advice to, 180, 187, 199, 202 and HealthSouth, 109 and Hong Kong protests (2014), 251–2 integrated reporting, 18 in Japan, 240–41 and Lehman Brothers, 12, 13, 132–3, 145, 148–9 and limited liability partnerships, 94, 95 and Lincoln Savings and Loan, 86–7 mark-to-model, 124 Panama Papers scandal (2016), 247 and private finance initiative (PFI), 187 and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), 144–5 ‘Quality in Everything We Do’, 12 revolving door, 206, 207, 208 and securitization, 121 and Sino-Forest, 244 Tate sponsorship, 16 and tax avoidance, 7, 156–7, 162, 180, 182, 246, 247 tax policy development team, 180, 199 thought leadership, 12 and VAT avoidance, 7 and Warner, 224 Weinberger’s leadership, 17–18 and World Economic Forum, 17 European Central Bank, 10 European Commission, 170, 253–5, 268, 280 European Union (EU), 168, 170, 203, 253–5 eurozone, 273 Evans, Jonathan, 207 Evening Standard, 256 Everson, Mark, 159 executive pay, 76 ‘expectations gap’, 65, 257 ‘Eye of the Tiger’ (Survivor), 103 Facebook, 164 fair value, 123–5, 126 Fairhead, Rona, 230 Faisaliah Tower, Riyadh, 217 Falcon 900 jets, 100–101 Farah, Mohamed ‘Mo’, 196 Farrar, Michael, 208 Fastow, Andrew, 101–3, 104–5, 108, 109 Federal National Mortgage Association (‘Fannie Mae’), 118–19, 145, 257 Federal Reserve, 122, 133 Federal Trade Commission, 79 Fiat, 170 Fibonacci, Leonardo, 21–2, 32 FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), 219–28 Fife, Scotland, 48 Financial Conduct Authority, 140, 149, 281 financial crisis (2007–8), x, 4, 7, 10, 13–14, 18, 111–50, 210, 253, 256–9, 265 American International Group bailout, 133–5, 144, 145, 148 Anglo Irish Bank bailout, 144 Bear Stearns bailout, 139, 145 and China, 111 Fannie Mae crisis, 118–19, 145, 257 HBOS bailout, x, 140–41, 142–3, 149, 257 Lehman Brothers collapse, 12, 13, 92, 131–3, 138, 144, 145, 148–9 and IAS39 rules, 123–5, 126, 127, 147 and mark-to-market, 129–31 New Century Financial Corporation collapse, 115–18, 257 Northern Rock collapse, 125–9, 142–3, 148 Royal Bank of Scotland bailout, 47, 136–40, 142, 241 and securitization, 119–23, 129–31, 133–40, 265 and subprime mortgages, x, 10, 36, 48, 111–22, 126, 130, 133, 136, 142, 274 Washington Mutual collapse, 145 Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, 134, 135, 144, 145 Financial Reporting Council, 138, 142, 144, 149, 182, 209–10, 213–14, 259, 261 Financial Services Authority, 127, 128, 137, 138, 140 Financial Times, 17, 94, 169, 275 Finland, 246 First World War (1914–18), 71 Flint, Douglas, 229 FLIP (Foreign Leveraged Investment Program), 159, 162, 181 Florence, Republic of (1115–1532), 16, 21, 25, 26–32 Flynn, Timothy, 149 Ford, 71, 181 Ford, Henry, 71 Fortune, 62 fossil fuels, 18 Foul! (Jennings), 224 Foxley, Ian, 214, 216 France, 31, 46, 89, 127, 171–7, 204, 205 Franklin, Benjamin, 53 Friedman, Milton, 84 FTSE100 Index, 5, 14, 90, 125 FTSE350 Index, 259 Fuld, Richard ‘Dick’, 132 Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft, 189 G4S, 148, 201 Galbraith, John Kenneth, 14, 57, 263 Galbraith, Thomas, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, 208 Galilei, Galileo, 22 Gap, 163 Gauke, David, 179 Gazprom, 236, 237 GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), 272 General Electric, 5–6, 55, 78, 154 General Electric Company (GEC), 66 General Motors, 57 General Survey Outline, 75 generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), 109 Geneva, Switzerland, 27, 29, 178 geometry, 21, 33 Germany, 220, 233–4, 235, 240, 247, 251 Gilbert, William Schwenck, 52 Gilby, Nicholas, 215 Gladstone, William, 45, 47, 50 Glasgow, Scotland, 45, 48 City of Glasgow Bank, 51, 147 Institute of Accountants and Actuaries, 47 University of Glasgow, 136 Glass–Steagall Act (1933), 60 GlaxoSmithKline, 163, 167, 169 Glickauf, Joseph, 77–8 ‘Go-Go’ years (1960s), 59, 62, 65, 67 Goerdeler, Reinhard, ix, 235, 240 von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 235 Gol, 242–3 Goldman Sachs, 121, 134–5, 139, 148, 157 Goldsmith, James, 66, 86 goodwill, 60–61 Goodwin, Fred, 136, 137, 139 Google, 164, 165, 178, 271 Gordhan, Pravin, 250 Gordon Riots (1780), 38 Gordon, Andrew, 218 Gosling, Richard, 202 GPT, 214–19 Gramegna, Pierre, 170 Great Crash and Depression (1929–39), 14, 57–8, 59–60, 66, 73, 75, 80, 118 Great Northern Railway, 46 Great Western Railway, 46 Green, Philip, 260 Greenspan, Alan, 122 Greenwich Capital Markets Inc., 136 Griffith-Jones, John, 146, 149, 150 Grigsby, John, 39, 40–41 Grondona, Julio, 225, 227 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, ix–x, x, 277–8 Guardian, 170, 213 Gupta, Atul, 250 Haddrill, Stephen, 143, 209, 210 Halet, Raphaël, 171–7, 176, 181 Halet, Sophie, 172, 173 Halifax, 140 Hamersley, Michael, 161 Hamilton, Lewis, 7 Hamilton, Robert, 70 Hanson, Walter, 64 Harley, Robert, 39 Harris, Steven, 264 Hartnett, David, 166, 207 Harvard University, 57, 75, 99 Haskins & Sells, 56, 58 Haskins, Charles Waldo, 56 Haughey, Charles, 163 Haute Comité de la Place Financière, 171 Havelange, João, 220, 221 HBOS, x, 13, 140–41, 142–3, 149, 150, 257 Healey, Denis, 184 HealthSouth, 109 hedge funds, 113, 115 hedging, 99 Heineken, 246 Heintz, Guy, 175 Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), 179, 182 Hewitt, Patricia, 184 Hexham General Hospital, Northumbria, 191 HIH, 240 Hinchingbrooke hospital, Cambridgeshire, 193 Hinkley Point, Somerset, 204–6 Hippocratic oath, 276 Hodge, Margaret, 178 Hollinger, 154–5 Holocaust, 4 Holyland, William Hopkins, 49 Home Office, 201 Hong Kong, 240, 251–2 Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, 219, 224 House of Commons, 68 House of Lords, 68, 92, 93, 143, 146–7 Houston, Texas, 99–108 HS2, 197–9, 266 HSBC, 166, 215, 229–30, 231, 256 Hudson, George, 44–5 humanism, 28 Hungary, 213 hypothetical future value, 100 IBM, 82, 272 Iceland, 127 ICI, 69 IKEA, 166 Illinois, United States, 54, 72–4 Imperial College, London, 197 Imperial Tobacco, 202 income tax, 46, 67, 153 Income Tax Act (1842), 46 India, 233, 238, 242, 245, 249 Industrial Revolution, 18, 42–7 Inferno (Dante), 33 inflation, 85 Inglis, John, 78–9 Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), 49, 52, 93, 210 integrated reporting, 18 interest rates, 85 Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 159, 160 International Accounting Congress (1938), 234 International Accounting Standards Board, 123–5, 126, 127, 147 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, 169, 230, 247 International Financial Services Centre, 163 International Fiscal Association, 245 International Integrated Reporting Council, 18 International Monetary Fund (IMF), 273 International Sport & Leisure (ISL), 220–21, 222 Internet, 95 Introduction to Merchandise (Hamilton), 70 Iran, 230 Iraq, 225, 240 Ireland, 127, 143–4, 163–5 Isle of Man, 247–8 Issuers’ and Investors’ Summit on CDOs/Credit Derivatives (2006), 121 Istace, Vinciane, 173 Italy, 3, 16, 21–2, 24–36, 37, 239 ITT Corporation, 59, 61 Ivy League, 68 J.

Egypt Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Regardless of your travelling style, the Red Sea never fails to impress and is one of the top highlights of any trip to Egypt. Diving the Red Sea Dive Sites 1 Alternatives E6 2 Amphoras F6 3 Bells G4 4 Big Brother C5 Blue Hole (see 3) 5 Bluff Point E6 Canyon (see 8) 6 Daedalus C7 7 Dunraven E6 8 Eel Garden G4 9 El Kaf B6 10 El Qadim B5 11 Elphinstone B6 12 Gabr el-Bint F5 13 Gardens F6 14 Giftun Islands E7 15 Gordon Reef F6 16 Gota Abu Ramada D7 17 Hamada C8 18 Islands F5 19 Jackfish Alley F6 20 Jackson Reef F6 Jolanda Reef (see 35) Kingston (see 33) Little Brother (see 4) 21 Panorama Reef B4 22 Ras Mumlach G4 23 Ras Shaitan G3 24 Ras UmSid F6 25 Ras Za’atir F6 26 Rocky Island D8 27 SalemExpress B5 28 Sataya (Dolphin Reef) D8 29 Sha’ab Abu Nuhas E6 30 Sha’ab al-Erg E6 31 Sha’ab Samadai C7 32 Sha’ab Sharm C7 33 Shag Rock D5 34 Shark Observatory F6 35 Shark Reef E6 36 Sinker G3 37 Siyul Kebira E6 38 Small Crack E6 Stingray Station (see 1) 39 Thistlegorm D5 40 Thomas Reef F6 41 Tower F6 Turtle Bay (see 2) 42 Umm Qamar E7 43 Umm Sid F5 44 Zabargad Island D8 When to Dive The Red Sea can be dived year-round, though diving conditions are at their peak during the summer months of July to September.

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Mohandiseen, Agouza & Zamalek Sights Cario Marriot(see 5) Gezira Arts Centre(see 1) 1 Museum of Islamic Ceramics G6 Activities, Courses & Tours 2 Atlas Zamalek Hotel C6 3 Nabila Hotel C5 4 Samia Allouba Dance & Fitness Centre A7 Sleeping 5 Cairo Marriott H6 6 Golden Tulip Flamenco Hotel F3 7 Hotel Longchamps F4 8 Mayfair Hotel G5 Eating 9 Abou El Sid H5 10 Abu Ammar al-Suri A7 11 Alfa Market F4 12 Al-Omda C6 13At-Tabei ad-DumyatiB7 14BarakaG5 15 Cedars A6 16 Didos Al Dente F2 17 Five Bells F3 La Bodega (see 31) 18 La Mezzaluna G5 19 La Taverna F4 20 L'Aubergine G5 21 Maison Thomas H5 22Makani (Mohandeseen)A7 23Makani (Zamalek)G5 24 Mandarine Koueider G4 25 Nawab G2 26 Sekem G4 Drinking 27 Arabica G3 28 Cilantro E4 Cilantro (see 21) 29 Deals H5 Drinkies (see 31) 30 Garden Café H6 31 La Bodega H5 32 Sequoia G1 33 Simonds G5 34 Wel3a G5 Entertainment 35 Cairo Jazz Club D4 36El Sawy Culture WheelE4 37 National Circus E5 38 Nile Maxim H6 Shopping 39 Balady F4 40 Dina Maghawry G5 41 Diwan H5 42Fair Trade EgyptH5 43 Home & Beyond F4 44 Loft G5 45 Mix & Match H5 46 Mix & Match G6 47 Mobaco G4 48 Mom & Me F4 49 Mounaya Gallery G2 Nomad (see 5) 50 Nomad H7 51 Nostalgia H6 52 Orange Square F3 53 Sami Amin F4 54 Wady Craft Shop H6 Information 55British Council & LibraryE6 56Danish EmbassyG6 57Experience EgyptC5 58German EmbassyF7 59Irish EmbassyG4 60Istituto Italiano di CulturaG6 61Lebanese EmbassyF4 62Libyan EmbassyF5 63Lovely BazaarF3 64Netherlands EmbassyG5 65Netherlands-Flemish InstituteG6 66Spanish EmbassyG4 Cairo Marriott Luxury Hotel $$$ ( 2728 3000; www.marriott.com/caieg; 16 Sharia Saray al-Gezira; r from US$219; ) Historic atmosphere is thick in the the lobby and other public areas, which all occupy a 19th-century palace.

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Lonely Planet Central Asia (Travel Guide)
by Lonely Planet , Stephen Lioy , Anna Kaminski , Bradley Mayhew and Jenny Walker
Published 1 Jun 2018

East of Nurzhol Bulvar The new city’s axis continues east across the Ishim River behind the Ak Orda, where there are two of Astana's biggest attractions: the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation and National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as the squat Palace of Independence (Dvorets Nezavisimosti; MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %7172 70 03 89; www.indepalace.kz; Tauelsizdik; tours 500T; h10am-6pm Tue-Sun; g4, 14, 21), worth a visit for its huge scale model of how Astana is planned to look in 2030. In between the three is the 91m Kazak Yeli Monument (Kazakh Country Monument; MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Prospekt Tauelsyzdyk; g4, 14, 21), intended to symbolise the historic destiny of Kazakhstan's people, and just behind it the lens-shaped Shabyt Art Palace ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Prospekt Tauelsyzdyk; g14, 21), currently an arts university. Just north of the square is the Hazrat Sultan Mosque ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Tauelsizdik; hsunrise-sunset; g4, 14, 19, 40), boasting Kazakhstan's largest dome as well as beautifully marbled interiors.

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A taxi from town costs around 200som. 7Shopping Bishkek has the country’s best collection of souvenirs and handicrafts, though you might find individual items cheaper at their source (notably shyrdak – felt carpets with appliquéd coloured panels – in Kochkor and Issyk-Köl's South Shore). The city's major markets are Osh Bazaar; and Dordoi Bazaar ( GOOGLE MAP ; Kodjevennaya 16; h9am-4pm; g4, minibus 191, 230, 233, 234). Shopping centres include the big, glitzy Bishkek Park ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %(0)312-691111; http://bishkekpark.kg; Kiev 148; h10am-10pm) and Tash Rabat ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %(0)772-022293; www.tashrabat.kg; Gorky 1; h10am-10pm) and Soviet-era TsUM department store. Outdoor Equipment Alpinist Gear ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %(0)555-311882; Gorky 86; h9am-6pm Mon-Sat) For outfitting climbing parties.

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Don't miss the Golden Hall, which houses several thousand Bronze Age ornaments from the famed 'Golden Man' (a national symbol of Kazakhstan) – a 3rd- or 4th-century warrior whose gold-clad remains were uncovered in 1969. oPalace of Peace & ReconciliationARCHITECTURE (Dvorets Mira i Soglasya; MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %7172 74 47 44; Tauelsizdik; tours adult/child 500/300T; htours every 30min, 10am-7.30pm, to 6pm Oct-Apr; g4, 14, 21, 29, 40) This beautiful glass-and-steel pyramid was opened in 2006 as the home for the triennial Congress of World and Traditional Religions, hosted by Kazakhstan. The 30-minute tour (English-speaking guides available) shows you a 1350-seat opera hall, the 3rd-floor atrium where the congress was held, and the apex conference room with windows filled with stained-glass doves (by British artist Brian Clarke).

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Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
by Peter Fleming
Published 14 Jun 2015

Their organized disorganization is obviously designed to induce a certain type of anxiety in the prisoner, a Kafkaesque state of mind that continuously anticipates an arrival that never eventuates. However, the tagged prisoner is emotionally tortured, not as the land-surveyor K. was by a mystically inscrutable Castle, but by a private firm called Securicor (now G4S) which had successfully bid for the governmental contract: Day 2: As I enjoy a nice relaxing bath, the telephone rings. It’s the Securicor monitoring centre in Manchester, asking if I am at home. Either the bath water obscured the signal, or I was out of range. They say they will send someone round to investigate.

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capitalism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 General Motors plant (Michigan) ref1 Goffee, R. ref1 Goldman Sachs ref1 The Good Soldier Svejk (Hasek) ref1 Gordon, D. ref1 Gorz, A. ref1, ref2 Graeber, D. ref1 Groundhog Day (Ramis) ref1 Guattari, F. ref1, ref2, ref3 on criticism/criticality ref1 and de-subjectification ref1 language ref1, ref2 Gujarat NRE ref1 Gulf of Mexico oil spill (2010) ref1 Hamper, B. ref1 Hanlon, G. ref1 Hardt, M. ref1 Hart, A. ref1 Harvard Business Review (HBR) ref1 Harvey, D. ref1, ref2 Hayek, F. ref1, ref2, ref3 health and safety ref1, ref2 ‘Help to Buy’ support scheme ref1 Hirschhorn, N. ref1 Hodgkinson, T. ref1 holiday policy ref1 Houellebecq, Michel ref1, ref2, ref3 human capital ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 human relations movement ref1 Human Resource Management (HRM) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 humour ref1 ‘I, Job’ function ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 and biopower ref1, ref2 and death drive ref1, ref2 as escape into work ref1 and illness ref1, ref2, ref3 resisting ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 see also escape; totality refusal see also work, as all-encompassing; working hours illegal immigrants, deportations ref1 illness ref1, ref2 collective ref1, ref2 see also Social Patients’ Collective as desirable experience ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 of managers ref1, ref2 and productive power ref1, ref2 as weapon against capitalism ref1 ‘immersion room’ exercise ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 imperceptibility ref1 see also invisibility incentivization ref1 indexation process ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 informality and authoritarianism ref1, ref2 see also deformalization insecurity ref1 Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) ref1, ref2, ref3 invisibility ref1, ref2 ‘Invisible Committee’ ref1, ref2 Italian autonomist thought ref1, ref2 Jameson, F. ref1 Jones, G. ref1 Junjie, Li ref1 Kamp, A. ref1 Kein Mensch ist illegal ref1 Kellaway, L. ref1 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) ref1 Keynes, J.M. ref1, ref2 Khrushchev, Nikita ref1, ref2 Kim, Jonathan ref1 King, Stephen ref1 ‘Kitchen Debate’ ref1 Kramer, M. ref1, ref2 labour unions ref1 dissolution of ref1, ref2 language, evolution of ref1 Larkin, P. ref1 Latour, B. ref1, ref2 Laval, C. ref1, ref2 Lazzarato, M. ref1, ref2 leaders backgrounds ref1 remuneration and bonuses ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 see also managers Lefebvre, H. ref1 Leidner, R. ref1 Lewin, D. ref1 liberation management ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 life itself, enlisting ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 lines of flight ref1, ref2 Lordon, F. ref1, ref2, ref3 Lucas, R. ref1, ref2 Lukács, G. ref1 Lynch, R. ref1 McChesney, R. ref1 McGregor, D. ref1 management ref1, ref2 and class function ref1, ref2 as co-ordination ref1 and inducement of willing obedience ref1, ref2 information deficit ref1 and power ref1, ref2 self-justification rituals ref1 as transferable skill ref1, ref2 managerialism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 and abandonment ideology ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 and boundary management ref1 and conflict-seeking behaviour ref1 division between managers and managed ref1, ref2 general principles of ref1 and leadership ref1 profligate management function ref1 refusing ref1 and securitization ref1 as self-referential abstraction ref1 managers as abandonment enablers ref1, ref2 and deformalization ref1 and engagement of workers ref1, ref2 lack of practical experience ref1 overwork ref1, ref2 see also leaders Marcuse, H. ref1 Market Basket supermarket chain ref1 Marx, K. ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 Maslow, A. ref1 Matten, D. ref1 meat consumption ref1 Meek, J. ref1 Meyerson, D. ref1 Michelli, J. ref1 Miller, W.I. ref1 Mitchell, David ref1 mobile technology ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 Modafinil ref1, ref2 Monaghan, A. ref1 money ref1, ref2 see also accumulation Mooney, G. ref1 Moore, A.E. ref1 Moore, Michael ref1, ref2 music industry ref1 Naidoo, Kumi ref1 NASA ref1 Natali, Vincenzo ref1 Negri, A. ref1, ref2 neoliberal capitalism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 and bureaucracy ref1 and ideal worker ref1, ref2 and non-work time ref1, ref2 and paranoia ref1, ref2 resisting ref1, ref2 see also post-labour strategy and threat of abandonment ref1, ref2 and truth telling ref1, ref2, ref3 neoliberalism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 and class relations ref1, ref2, ref3 and disciplinary power ref1 and human-capital theory ref1 and impossibility ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 and micro-fascism ref1 and reign of technocrats ref1 role of state ref1 and truth telling ref1, ref2 and worker engagement ref1, ref2, ref3 Nestlé ref1 New Public Management ref1, ref2 New Zealand, and capitalist deregulation ref1 New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) ref1 Newman, Maurice ref1 Nietzsche, Friedrich ref1, ref2 Nixon, Richard ref1, ref2 Nyhan, B. ref1 obsession ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8 Onionhead program ref1 overcoding ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 The Pain Journal (Flanagan) ref1, ref2, ref3 paranoia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 overwork/paranoia complex ref1, ref2 Paris Commune ref1, ref2 Parkinson’s Law ref1 Parnet, C. ref1 Parsons, T. ref1 Peep Show (TV comedy) ref1 pensions ref1, ref2 personnel management ref1 see also Human Resource Management Peters, T. ref1 Philip Morris ref1 Pike River Coal mine (New Zealand) ref1 Pollack, Sydney ref1 Pook, L. ref1 Porter, M. ref1, ref2 post-labour strategy, recommendations ref1 postmodernism ref1, ref2, ref3 power ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 and truth telling ref1 Prasad, M. ref1 Price, S. ref1 private companies, transferring to public hands ref1 privatization ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 profit maximization ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 quantitative easing ref1 Rand, Ayn ref1 rationalization ref1, ref2, ref3 Reifler, J. ref1 reserve army of the unemployed ref1 Ressler, C. ref1 results-only work environment (ROWE) ref1, ref2, ref3 Rimbaud, A. ref1 Rio+20 Earth Summit (2012) ref1 ‘riot grrrl’ bands ref1 rituals of truth and reconciliation ref1 Roberts, J. ref1 Roger Award ref1 Roger and Me (Moore) ref1 Rosenblatt, R. ref1 Ross, A. ref1, ref2 Ross, K. ref1 Rudd, Kevin ref1 ruling class fear of work-free world ref1, ref2 and paranoia ref1, ref2 Sade, Marquis de ref1 Sallaz, J. ref1 Saurashtra Fuels ref1 Scarry, E. ref1 Securicor (G4S) ref1 Segarra, Carmen ref1 self-abnegation ref1 self-employment ref1 self-management ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 self-preservation ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 self-sufficiency ref1, ref2, ref3 shareholder capitalism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 shift work ref1, ref2 see also working hours Shragai, N. ref1 sleep and circadian rhythms ref1 as form of resistance ref1 working in ref1, ref2, ref3 smart drugs ref1, ref2 Smith, Roger ref1 smoking and addiction ref1 dangers of ref1, ref2 scientific research ref1 sociability ref1, ref2 ‘the social’ ref1, ref2 social factory ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 and structure of work ref1 social media ref1 Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission ref1 Social Patients’ Collective (SPK) ref1, ref2, ref3 social surplus (commons) ref1, ref2, ref3 socialism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 Sontag, S. ref1 Spicer, A. ref1 stakeholder management ref1, ref2 Starbucks ref1 state, theory of ref1 subcontracting ref1, ref2, ref3 subsidization ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 suicide as act of refusal ref1 Freud’s definition ref1 work-related ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 surplus labour ref1, ref2 surplus living wage ref1 ‘tagged’ employees ref1 ‘tagged’ prisoner ref1 Tally, Richard ref1 taxation ref1, ref2, ref3 Taylor, F.W. ref1 Taylor, S. ref1 Taylorism ref1 technological progress, and emancipation from labour ref1 Thatcher, Margaret ref1 Thatcherism ref1 They Shoot Horses Don’t They?

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Built on a Lie: The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England’s Money
by Owen Walker
Published 4 Mar 2021

‘Mr Woodford is the finest fund manager of his generation, in my view, and his funds are held by thousands of private investors. The implications of the announcement are therefore huge,’ surmised Hargreaves’s Dampier at the time. Woodford’s influence on the market was evident as several of his biggest holdings – BAE Systems, Capita, Drax Group, G4S, Imperial Tobacco, Rentokil Initial, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline – all suffered hits to their share prices as investors speculated that if clients withdrew their money from Woodford’s funds en masse, they would be forced to sell down their stakes in the businesses. Shares in Edinburgh Investment Trust, a small listed vehicle that Woodford also managed, shed 10 per cent.

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Bell Bell, Sir John 133 Benevolent AI 132, 150, 153, 156, 164–5, 166, 167, 194, 196, 218 best-buy lists 16, 159–60, 161, 170, 173, 177, 181, 192, 202, 213–14 Bestinvest 90, 161, 214 Big Bang deregulation, City of London (1986) 27 Bilton, Anton 8, 151, 165, 188 biomass 75, 80, 84 biotech industry 68–73, 121–3, 131–2, 135, 144, 154, 184, 224 see also individual company names Black, Conrad 47 Black Monday market crash (1987) 30, 36 BlackRock 190, 198, 203, 206 Block, Carson 194 Bloomberg 131 Bolton, Anthony 41, 68 Brady, Charles 50, 52, 53, 54–5, 56, 58, 60 Brennan, David 73 Brewin Dolphin 90 Brexit 2, 3, 6, 136–7, 163–4, 175, 206, 209 British American Tobacco 26, 44, 82, 119, 136 British Biotech 68–9 British Gas 27, 28, 81 British Telecom 27, 83, 119, 132 Broadgate Mainland 97, 110, 111 Brown, Gordon 17 Brown, Scott 130 Brunt, Peter 172–3 BTG Management Services 131 Buffett, Warren 23, 111, 131, 216 Burford Capital 178, 194 Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee, Parliament 77 Cable, Vince 14, 77, 181 Cameron, David 14, 17, 133 Capita 2, 90, 102, 119, 122, 144 Capita Asset Services 102–3, 108–9, 141, 148, 151 see also Link Fund Solutions Capital Economics 137 Carney, Mark 176, 185, 187–8, 205, 208, 210 Carrick Therapeutics 162 Causer, Paul 60 Cell Medica 162 Cenkos 71, 122 Centrica 81 CGNU 53 Channel Islands Stock Exchange 151 Charles Stanley Direct 155, 214 Chase Bank 53 Chatfeild-Roberts, John 112–13, 145–6 Chelsea Financial Services 90 China Construction Bank 206 Chu, Steven 84 Circassia Pharmaceuticals 130, 135–6, 178, 196 Citicorp 53 Citizens and Southern Bank 50 City of London 7, 22, 23, 27, 31, 32, 35, 37, 48, 57, 70, 71, 110, 113, 121–2, 138, 185, 203, 205, 224 Big Bang (1986) 27–9 Black Monday (1987) 30, 36 electronic trading introduced 27 Financial Services Act (1986) 28 Citywire 98, 144–5, 166, 224 Clarke, Ken 17 Clarke, Simon 186 coalition government, UK (2005–10) 77, 81 Cofunds 113–14 Conservative Party 22, 25, 26, 28, 29, 45, 50, 81, 180, 181, 186, 205, 206, 212 Cornick, Roger 34, 38, 39, 44, 50, 51 Crazy Bear, Stadhampton 116, 156 Croft, Andrew 215 Cunningham, Raymond 59 Daily Mirror 24 Daily Telegraph 18, 94, 110, 111 Dale, Simon 105–6, 108, 113, 121 Dampier, Mark 212 dotcom bubble, keeps faith with Woodford during 52 Equity Income and Income Focus removal from Hargreaves Lansdowne Wealth 150 list and 177 Hargreaves Lansdowne addition of Woodford IM to Wealth 150 list, endorsement of 115 Hargreaves Lansdowne discounted deal with Woodford IM and 114 Hargreaves Lansdowne, joins 15–16 Invesco Perpetual and 57, 68, 90 press investigate role in Woodford downfall 180–81 reservations about Woodford’s investment performance while still recommending funds 159–61, 164, 170–71, 202, 213, 215 Sanlam report and 83 sells shares in Hargreaves Lansdowne in days leading up to Equity Income suspension 171, 180–81, 202, 213 Treasury Select Committee investigation of Hargreaves Lansdowne and 213 visits headquarters of Woodford IM 124–5 wealth 180 ‘Woodford groupie’ 42 Darden, Thomas 127–8 Davies, Gareth 133 Davies, Peter 146 Day, Philip 155 Deer, Will 2, 5, 7, 8, 94, 105–6, 107, 108, 121, 170, 189 Deloitte 98 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 133 Diageo 136 disposition effect 150 Dominion 22–3, 24, 26 dotcom bubble/crash (1997–2003) 51–2, 56, 64, 74, 77, 136, 145, 216, 220 Drax Group 90 Dubens, Peter 92, 93 Duff & Phelps 126, 140–41, 163, 194 Duffield, John 58 Duke of York (Prince Andrew) 50 EADS 73 Eagle Star 26, 28, 205 Eagle Star Asset Management 28–31, 205 Edinburgh Investment Trust 83, 90 Elizabeth II, Queen 49, 76, 82 Elphicke, Charlie 187 Emba 125 Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat) 128 Ennis Lad (horse) 148 Equity & Law 35 Equity Income fund see Woodford IM e-Therapeutics 72, 120 euro 80 European Medicines Evaluation Agency 69 European Union 3, 129, 136–7, 175, 206 Eve Sleep 123, 178 Evofem 123–4, 190 Farrow, Paul 94, 110, 111 Ferguson, Iain 155 Fidelity Investments 41, 68, 97, 106–8 financial advisers, independent see independent financial advisers (IFAs) Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) 7, 88–9, 93, 94–5, 197, 198, 202–3 Arch Cru affair and 102–3 Bailey and see Bailey, Andrew belated attempts at showing control of Woodford situation 204–5 best-buy lists and 187, 214 Brexit referendum and 209–10 Capita, imposes as ACD on Woodford IM 208, 210–11 central database to monitor when funds suspend trading, lack of 209 Equity Income fund breach of trash ratio limit on unquoted holdings and 149–52, 209, 210, 211 Equity Income fund International Stock Exchange (Guernsey) listings and 151, 165–7, 171, 180, 186, 209, 210, 211 Equity Income fund suspension, investigation into 185–6, 187, 195, 204–5, 208, 209, 210–11 Hamilton and Smith departures from Woodford IM and 127, 209 Hargreaves Lansdowne best-buy lists, investigates 187 Invesco Perpetual, investigation into 88–9, 93, 112, 208 Link, monthly discussions with over liquidity in Equity Income fund 152, 163, 165–7 Link, outsources regulatory oversight to 208–9 Link, probe into role in Woodford downfall 195 London Capital & Finance collapse and 185, 208 Patient Capital equity swaps with Equity Income and 163 Provident Financial investigation 143 report into the series of suspensions of UK property funds immediately following the Brexit referendum 209–10 Treasury Select Committee investigates role in Woodford downfall 183, 185–7, 195, 209, 210, 213 Woodford IM collapse, overview of role in 208–12 Woodford IM launch and 94–6, 98, 99–103, 108–9, 112, 127, 129 Woodford IM valuation process and 140–41 financial crisis (2008) 4, 12, 63–4, 74, 77, 79, 102, 136, 175, 216, 220 Financial Services Act (1986) 28 Financial Services Authority (FSA) 89 Financial Times 7, 23, 34, 47, 68, 69, 72, 77, 86, 99, 110, 117, 130, 147, 158, 163, 164, 173–4, 177, 181, 192, 193, 196, 200, 202, 203, 207, 209, 214 First Allianz 26 Flanagan, Martin 61, 78, 87 Food and Drug Administration, US 143 Foreign & Colonial 22, 53 4D Pharma 144 Franklin Templeton 61 Fraser-Jones, Mitchell 94 FTI Consulting 190 FTSE All-Share Index 56, 74, 131, 139, 140l, 153, 168 100 13, 15, 30, 36, 63, 73, 81, 119, 134, 143, 177, 1987, 213 250 80, 162, 190, 196 fund supermarkets (investment platforms) 9, 14–15, 16, 107–8, 113–14, 147, 153, 159, 161, 177, 179, 181, 183, 212 see also individual fund supermarket names Fundscape 214 FundsNetwork 107 Gardhouse, Lee 113, 160, 170, 171, 212, 213 Genomics and Mission Therapeutics 150 G4S 90 Gigaclear 125, 153 GlaxoSmithKline 21, 47–8, 82, 90, 119, 132 Glaxo Wellcome 47 Glitnir 3–4 Goldman Sachs 68 Grant Thornton 179 Green, Paul 94 Griffiths, George 19 Grote, Daniel 166, 224 Guernsey stock exchange see International Stock Exchange (Guernsey) Halo-Source 144 Hamilton, Nick 61, 93–4, 95, 96, 98, 101, 103, 117, 125–6, 127, 134, 209 Hammond, Philip 17, 134 Hargreaves Lansdown 9, 151, 153, 204 best-buy lists 16, 159–60, 161, 170, 173, 177–8, 179, 181, 183, 187, 192, 202, 213–14 Dampier and see Dampier, Mark discount negotiated with Woodford IM for clients of 114, 182–3, 192, 212, 214 dotcom bubble, keeps faith with Woodford during 52 Equity Income fund, customers trapped in 186, 191–2, 202, 212–14 FCA investigate 183, 187, 204, 214 Income Focus fund, drops from multi-manager range 201–2 Invesco Perpetual and 57, 68, 83, 88, 90 Newman reaction to questions raised by representatives of 148, 170 origins of 15, 213 platform fees, waives 179 press investigate failings of 180–81 reservations about Woodford’s performance within while still recommending investment 159–61, 163, 166, 170–71, 173, 180–81, 213 Sanlam report and 83 share price hit by suspension of Equity Income 177–8, 180, 202 shares sold by Dampier and Gardhouse in days leading up to Equity Income suspension 171, 180–81, 202, 213 Treasury Select Committee investigates 182–3, 186, 187, 191–2, 213 unquoted holdings in Woodford funds, concerns over 159, 160–61, 163, 166, 170–71 Wealth 50 best-buy list, Equity Income and Income Focus removed from 177 Wealth 150 list, adds Equity Income fund to 114–15 Wealth Shortlist 214 Woodford IM, early backing for 107, 113, 114–15, 120, 124–5, 134 Woodford IM, unhealthily intertwined with 159–61, 212 Hargreaves, Peter 15, 212 Harris, Steven 130, 196 Heartwood Wealth Managers 90 hedge funds 56, 59, 92, 143, 146, 182, 185, 188, 194 Helphire 81 Henderson 97 Heritable 3–4 Heseltine, Michael 50 Heywood, Sir Jeremy 133 High Pay Centre 139 Hill, Chris 181, 182–3, 191–2 Hirsch, Glyn 165, 188 Hiscock, Fred 10–11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 220–221 Hiscox 106 Hobbs, David 114 Hodges, Paul 43 Hogwood, Nick 190 Horizon Discovery 188 Host Capital 101 House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee 69, 141 HSBC 63 Hymans Robertson 106 IHS Markit 194 Immunocore 166, 184, 206 Imperial College London 70, 130 Imperial Innovations 70, 119, 133, 135, 144 Imperial Tobacco 82–3, 90, 119, 136, 143, 167 Income Focus fund see Woodford IM income funds 36–7, 39–40, 60, 63 see also individual income fund names Independent/Independent on Sunday 47, 83, 124–5 independent financial advisers (IFAs) 10, 15, 16, 197–8 Arch Cru scandal and 102 dotcom bubble, lose faith with Woodford during 51, 52 Equity Income fund launch and 120 Invesco Perpetual and 54, 56–7, 60, 67, 74, 78, 79, 82, 83, 90, 97–8, 216 Perpetual and 34, 35, 39, 42–3, 44–5 Sanlam report and 82, 83 saver and, relationship between 9, 11–13 star fund managers and 42, 54–5 Woodford downfall, role in 180–81, 215–16 Woodford IM investment team, question due diligence of 135 Woodford IM launch and 96, 101, 104, 105, 107, 110, 119 Woodford’s ardent following of 43, 74, 216 see also Dampier, Mark Industrial Heat 127–8, 156, 165, 167, 194–5, 204 in-specie transfer 174 institutional investors 4, 76, 106, 147, 172, 219 Interactive Investor 192 International Stock Exchange (Guernsey) 6, 151, 165–7, 171, 180, 186, 188, 194, 209, 210, 211, 218, 224 cancels listings of Woodford IM holdings 194 FCA and Woodford IM listings on 151, 165–7, 171, 180, 186, 209, 210, 211 Link oversight of Woodford IM listings on 151, 165–7, 211 listings of previously unquoted Woodford IM holdings 6, 151, 165–7, 171, 180, 186 suspends listings of Woodford IM holdings 167, 171, 180, 186, 188, 194, 209, 211 Invesco 51, 54–5, 56, 58–60, 62–3, 67 Invesco Perpetual 4–5, 13, 54–91, 100, 116, 119, 120, 123, 124, 131, 140, 150–51, 178, 205, 214, 215, 216, 217, 219 American management, Woodford clashes with 78–80 birth of/Invesco Perpetual merger 54–8 Financial Conduct Authority investigates rule violations at 88–90, 93, 94, 112, 208 financial crisis and 63–4 Kent County Council investment in 4–5, 8, 106 Leadsom at 65–6, 78 Newman at 66–8, 79, 80, 85–7 private or unquoted companies, Woodford develops appetite for stakes in 71–3, 83–5, 87, 94, 96, 126 Sanlam report and 82–3 SJP and 83–4, 85–6, 88, 90–91, 103–5, 111–12, 115, 214–15 Woodford departs 13, 78, 86–91, 92, 93, 94, 97–8, 99, 101, 103–4, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111–13, 115, 142, 191 Woodford interest in small, science-based companies 68–71 Woodford IM launch and 112–13 Woodford private interventions and public outbursts while at 73–4, 80–82 Woodford team at 61–3, 65–7, 78–80, 94, 146, 153, 161, 189 Investment Association 153, 177 investment sector 16–17, 55, 114–15, 176, 224 Investors Chronicle 33 IP Group 70, 133, 146–7 ISAs 40, 49, 51, 51, 108, 115 Jenkin, Bernard 65 Jobs, Laurene Powell 128, 204 JPMorgan 53, 115 Jupiter 57, 58, 97, 112–13, 145, 146, 147 Kay, John 77 Kay Review 77–8, 81 Kent County Council 1–9, 86, 106, 169, 173–4, 182, 183–4, 187, 189, 211–12 Kier 174–5, 178, 179 King, Ian 73–4 Labour Party 24, 26, 49, 81, 202 Ladbrokes 33 Lamacraft, Paul 94, 116, 123 Lamacraft, Ross 94, 184 Lamacraft, Stephen 94, 98, 116, 123 Lamb, David 104, 142–3, 173, 178 Lamont, Norman 17 Landsbanki 3–4 Langan’s Brasserie, Mayfair 115 Lansdowne Partners 146, 147 Lansdown, Stephen 15, 151 Lawson, Nigel 17, 26, 28, 40 Leadsom, Andrea 65–6, 78 Legal & General 113–14 Legg Mason’s Capital Market Value Trust 41 Lehman Brothers 64 Le Poidevin, Fiona 180 Link Fund Solutions 152, 156, 192 Equity Income and Patient Capital asset swap deals and 162–3, 211 Equity Income investors, fees charged to 179 Equity Income, plans to replace Woodford as manager of 189–90 Equity Income, suspends trading in 8–9, 174–5, 176–7, 182, 184, 188, 194, 195, 196–7, 211, 212 Equity Income, winds down and lines up PJT and BlackRock to sell assets 197–9, 200, 201, 203, 206–7, 218–19 FCA investigation into suspension of Equity Income and 185, 186, 187, 195, 204–5, 208, 209, 210–11 FCA monthly discussions with over liquidity of Equity Income fund 152, 165–7 Income Focus fund, hands over to Standard Life Aberdeen 205 Income Focus fund, suspends trading in 201–2 Industrial Heat, valuation of 194–5, 204 International Stock Exchange (Guernsey), Woodford IM investment listings and 151, 165–7, 211 Patient Capital board orders to revalue unquoted assets 184, 194–5, 204 Project Oak (plan to package up unquoted Equity Income holdings and sell them) 185, 195 see also Capita Lloyds Bank 63 local authority pension funds 1–9, 86, 106, 169, 173–4, 182, 183–4, 187, 189, 211–12 London Business School 25 London Capital & Finance 185, 208 Lynch, Peter 41 Mackie, Terry 202 Magellan fund 41 Maidenhead Grammar School 19–21, 25, 219 Maidenhead RFC 25 Major, John 17 Makin, Louise 130–31 M&G 49, 52, 100, 153 Marimastat 69 market timing scandal 59–60, 90 Maxwell, Robert 24–5, 55 May, Theresa 65, 134 McDonnell, John 202–3 McGlashan, Scott 35, 57 Medoff, Marshall 84–5 Mercer 106 Mercury Asset Management 61 Merrill Lynch 53 Midl, Karl 174, 175, 189, 190, 197, 198 Miliband, Ed 81–2 Millar, Andrew 68–9 Miller, Bill 41 Mirror Group Newspapers 24, 55 Mishcon de Reya 93 mis-selling scandals 15 Morgan, John Pierpont 115 see also JPMorgan Morgan, Nicky 180, 181, 182–3, 186–7, 191, 192 Morningstar 88, 172–3 Mullen, Mark 191 Mustoe, Nick 78–9, 87 Myners, Paul 138–9 Neptune 97 New Labour 49 Newman, Craig 66–7, 79, 80, 85–7, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98–9, 106, 113, 114, 116, 117, 121, 126–7, 134, 137, 138, 159, 170, 189, 211, 217 bonuses, decision to scrap within Woodford IM and 138, 139 character 66–7, 126, 148 childhood 66–7 comeback plans 206, 219 direct relationship with investors in Equity Income fund, envisages 147–8 Invesco Perpetual career 66–7, 79, 80, 85–7 money, obsession with 66–7, 139, 182 Oakley and 93 pay/dividend payments 139, 142, 154–5, 168, 193–4, 201, 207–8, 217 property projects 154–5, 193 Rudd and 181–2 sales staff bonuses and 121 Smith/Hamilton warnings over Woodford investments, reaction to 125, 126, 127 suspension of Equity Income fund and 195, 196, 197 ‘violent transparency’, commitment to 119, 150, 152, 182 winding down of Equity Income fund and 197, 198, 200, 205 Woodford departure from Invesco Perpetual and 79, 80, 85–7 Woodford, ingratiates himself with 67–8 Woodford IM origins/launch and 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 103, 104, 106, 108–9, 113, 114, 116, 117–18, 119 Woodford Patient Capital Trust and 129–30 NewRiver Reit 163, 167, 178, 188 New Star 58 Newton 57 NEX exchange 164 Nexeon 130–31 N.

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Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
by Alan Rusbridger
Published 14 Oct 2018

Lewis again used Twitter the following year to investigate the death of an Angolan refugee, Jimmy Mubenga, on a British Airways flight on which he was being forcibly deported. The traditional instinct of reporters was not to let anyone else know in advance you’re on a particular story. Lewis inverted that – and was rewarded by passengers on the plane who gave him eyewitness accounts of how Mubenga had been suffocated by security guards working for G4S.6 Lewis – along with his colleague Matthew Taylor – was again at the heart of the Guardian’s coverage of the riots that broke out in England in the summer of 2011. It was a week of chaos, flames, protests, looting and disorder in towns and cities across England. By the end of the week, five people had died and more than 1,500 had been arrested.

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A reasoned case for the power of ‘open information’ had been advanced in 2004 by the author James Surowiecki in his book The Wisdom of Crowds; see Bibliography. 5. An inquest found he had been unlawfully killed. The policeman who struck him was found not guilty after the jury deliberated for four days. He was dismissed from the police for ‘gross misconduct’ towards Tomlinson, and for using ‘excessive and unlawful force’. 6. Three G4S security guards were cleared of his manslaughter in 2014. Deportation escorts were subsequently trained in safer restraint methods. 7. The Guardian teamed up with the London School of Economics to examine the causes and effects of the riots, in an empirical study supported by the Open Society and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. 8.

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What Would Google Do?
by Jeff Jarvis
Published 15 Feb 2009

Anybody who’s any good can aspire to be a monarch of any or many media. They may not be as big as Stern, Jon Stewart, or Steven Spielberg. But in a post-blockbuster, small-is-the-new-big economy, they don’t have to be. Now fast-forward to 2005, when geek-show host Kevin Rose left TechTV after his network merged with G4, a game channel. Instead of getting another job at another network, Rose started his own networks, because he could. First he created Digg, a collaborative news service where users suggest stories and then vote on them to create the community’s front page. It attracts more than 25 million users a month.

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See Do It Ourselves Direct2Dell, 17 directory assistance, 78 distributed thinking, 36–39, 126–27 distribution, 123, 134 doctors, 203 Doerr, John, 165 Do It Ourselves (DIO), 207 domain registration, 170 DonorsChoose.org, 196–97 DoubleClick, 5 Dubner, Stephen J., 75 Dunbar number, 232 eBay, 160 JetBlue and, 184 Skype and, 31 Wal-Mart v., 54–55 Edelman, Richard, 223 education, 104, 210–17 Edwards, D’Wayne, 112 Elberse, Anita, 63 Electronic Frontier Foundation, 239 energy, 162–65 entertainment, 130–36 Entertainment Weekly, 112–13 environment, 126, 162–63 Epicurious.com, 154, 179 Epstein, Daniel A., 148 e-readers, 139–40 Estrada, Joseph, 106 ethics of privacy, 232–33 of publicness, 45 of transparency, 97 Etsy, 31, 160 European Union, 35 Everyblock, 34 Everything’s Miscellaneous (Weinberger), 82, 137 evil, 99–102 Evslin, Tom, 30–31 exhibitionism, 234 The Experimental Witch (Coelho), 142–43 experimentation, 217 eyeballs, clicks v., 66 Facebook, 4, 20–21, 48, 126 automobile industry and, 173–74 Causes application, 196–97 Google and, 101 government and, 220–21 mistakes and, 94–95 as platform, 34–35 politics and, 51 trust and, 85–86 Fake, Caterina, 45, 89 FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), 220 fashion, 103–4, 180 Fast Company, 15 Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 131, 166, 219 Federated, 55 financial meltdown of 2008, 69 First Amendment, 237 Flickr, 21, 45 communities and, 50 customer input and, 89–90 Flixwagon.com, 105 FoodBlogBlog, 155 forgiveness, 232 fragmentation, 63, 65 fraud, 205–6 Freakonomics (Levitt & Dubner), 75 free book publishing and, 141 as business model, 76–80 Freedom of Information Act, 218 Fresh Direct, 179 Friedman, Jane, 141–42 Friedman, Thomas, 165 friendships, 231–32 G4, 132 Galant, Debra, 127 Garfield, Bob, 150–51, 167–68 Gawker Media, 55, 92 Generation Google, 7, 231 GetSatisfaction.com, 47 gift economy, 59–63 Glam, 29–30 Gmail, 6, 78–79, 168–69 Godin, Seth, 57, 204–5 Gonzo Marketing (Locke), 149–50 Google ambitions of, 121 antitrust inquiry of, 100 customer service and, 170 economy, 68–69 embedding, 6 Facebook and, 101 fooling, 43 growth of, 69 home page, 115 Justice Department investigation of, 6 links and, 27 media revenue plan, 143–44 platforms of, 33 success of, 5–6 Google Analytics, 33 Google Apps, 168 Google Calendar, 33, 168 Google Checkout, 198 Google Docs, 33, 168 Google Groups, 33 Google Health, 200–201 Googlejuice, 42–45 New York Times and, 78 Vaynerchuk and, 158 Google Maps, 33–34, 168 embedding, 6 real estate and, 188 Google News, 39, 94, 126 Google.org, 162–65 Gore, Al, 163, 217 government, 217–21 Gross, Bill, 175, 193–94 growth, 31–32 Haass, Richard, 237 hacking, 201–2 Haque, Umair, 64, 74, 101–2, 237 Hatt, Bertil, 204 health care, 199–203, 208 Heiferman, Scott, 206–7 Here Comes Everybody (Shirky), 50, 60, 151, 237 Heyward, Andrew, 37 Holovaty, Adrian, 34 Holtzbrinck, 193 home pages, 115 honesty, 95–97 Hot, Flat, and Crowded (Friedman, T.), 165 Hourihan, Meg, 25 Huack, Peter, 37 Huffington, Ariana, 124 Hughes, Chris, 51 Hulu, 135 Hunter, Dick, 18–19 Icerocket, 15, 20 ICQ, 31–32 Idealab, 175, 193 Ideas platform, 62 IdeaStorm, 17 identity, 233–34 business, 80–81 Ikea, 140 incubators, 193 Indeed.com, 39 inefficiency, 74, 128–29 InnoCentive, 113–14 innovation, 111–14 cash flow v., 110 newspapers and, 129–30 Institute for the Future of the Book, 138 insurance, 203–9 interestingness, 89–90 iPhone, 51 “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”

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The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
by Mariana Mazzucato
Published 1 Jan 2011

The increasing percentage of public services, across the globe, that are being ‘outsourced’ to the private sector, is usually done using precisely this ‘efficiency’ argument. Yet a proper look at the real cost savings that such outsourcing provides – especially taking into account the lack of ‘quality control’ and absurd costs that ensue – is almost never carried out. The recent scandal where the security for London’s 2012 Olympics was outsourced to a company called G4S, which then failed due to utter incompetence to deliver, meant that the British Army was called in to provide security during the Olympics. While the managers of the company were ‘reprimanded’ the company today is still making profits and outsourcing remains on the rise. Examples where outsourcing is resisted, such as the BBC’s choice to build the Internet platform for its broadcasting, the iPlayer, in-house has meant that it has been able to keep the BBC a dynamic innovative organization, that continues to attract top talent, retaining its high market share in both radio and TV – what public broadcasters in other countries can only dream of.

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SBIR funding to 80, 188 EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) 150 equitable growth 13, 177, 185 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) 101 ‘European Paradox’ 53 European Union: approach to green initiatives 124; ‘Big State’ behind innovation in 166; feed-in tariffs in 153; ‘fiscal compact’ of 42, 197; green transition targets in 115n2; gross R&D spending as percentage of GDP 43; growth producing spending in 196; investment in renewable energy 120, 121; public sectors in 17–18; R&D targets of 41; weaknesses of countries in 52–3 Evans, Peter 4 Evergreen Solar 151–2, 162 Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, An (Nelson and Winter) 34–5 ‘evolutionary theory’ of production 34–5 ‘exogenous growth theory’ 34 externalities 4, 7, 21, 168; see also Apple Fadell, Tony 100n8; see also Apple Fairchild Semiconductor 76 fast Fourier transform (FDT) algorithm 109 feed-in tariffs: in energy technology 114; in European markets 153; German 122, 138, 149, 156; policy changes in 125n7; UK 124 Fert, Albert 96 Fiegerman, Seth 171n3 finance firms 182 financialization 25–8 FingerWorks 103 Finland 120n4, 121, 190 First Solar (formerly Solar Cells Inc.) 128–9, 151, 159–60; see also green industrial revolution Fiscal Investment Loan Program (Japan) 40 flat panel display (FPD) industry 106 Florida, Richard 107 Forbes on WuxiSuntech 153 ‘Fordist’ model of production in 38–9 Foxconn 170–71 France 61, 120, 120n4, 121 Freeman, Chris 193 Fuchs, Erica 133 Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computing Research 63 G4S, security company 16 game theory 36 GDP, balance in categories of 30 Gedser turbine 145 Genentech Inc. 57, 69, 81 General Electric (GE) 125, 137, 147–8, 160–61, 174n5 general purpose technologies (GPTs) 62, 83 Genzyme 81, 181 Germany: feed-in tariffs 122, 138, 149, 156; government energy R&D spending 121; green revolution in 115n2, 116, 120, 122; long-term support provided by 158; public R&D spending in 61, 144–6; solar resources of 144; State investment bank 190; systems of innovation in 37; wind energy and R&D projects in 144–6, 149, 156 Ghosh, Shikhar 127 giant magnetoresistance (GMR) 96–7 GlaxoSmithKline 66–7, 82 Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) 138–9 Goldwind 149 Goodenough, John B. 108 Google 20, 174–5 government energy R&D spending 121, 121 GPS (global positioning system) 105, 105n12 Great Transformation, The (Polanyi) 194–5 Greece, R&D/GDP 52 Green, Martin 152 green industrial revolution: ARPA-E 133–5; ‘carbon lock-in’ 117; China’s ‘green’ 5 year plan 122–4; climate change 117, 123, 135; development banks funding of 139–40, 139n14; DoE role in 132–3; Economist on 16; financial commitment for 116; funding of 116–19; global new investment in renewable energy 120; government energy R&D spending 121; government support to 114–15, 119, 129, 141–2; hurdles to 138, 156, 160; leaders in 11–12, 126; national approaches to 119–22; ‘No More Solyndras Act’ 130–31n12; patient capital 138–40; policies impacting 113–15, 119; pushing green development 136–7; renewable energy credits (RECs) 115n1; smart grid technology in 115, 118; sustainability 117, 119, 123; UK’s approach to 124–6; US approach to 126–35; venture capital in 127–9, 128n9; venture capital subsectors in 128; see also clean technology; solar power; wind power Green Investment Bank 125n7 Gronet, Chris 151 growth: economy-wide 62; effect of venture capital on 49; of firms and R&D benefit 44; firm size relationship to 45–6; ‘inclusive’ 167, 183, 195; inequality and 31, 54, 177; innovation as key source of 9, 177; measures of 33; myths about innovation and 10; national debt relationship to 18; ‘smart’ 167, 183; and technology 33–4; theories of 33–4; variables important for 18; see also equitable growth Grünberg, Peter 96, 97 Grunwald, Michael 113, 136 Haltiwanger, J 45 Hamilton, Alexander 73 Hanwha Group 157 hard disk drives (HDD) 96–7, 109 Harrison, Brian 154 Harrod, Roy F. 33 Haslam, Karen 171n3 Heymann, Matthias 145 Hoffman Electronics 150, 150n4 Hopkins, Matt 129n10, 160 House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee 125 Hsieh, Chang-Tai 46 HTTP/HTML 103–5, 109 Hughes, Alan 45 Hurst, Samuel 101 IBM 50, 97, 104, 107 ‘iGesture Numpad’ 103 Ill Fares the Land (Judt) 1 Immelt, Jeffrey 126 income-contingent loans and equity 189–90 income distribution 30n1 India 45–6, 120 industrial policy: challenges to 13; decentralized 78; in ‘rebalancing’ of economies 27; recent US history of 10, 21; redistributive tools needed in 167; State led 40; see also ‘picking winners’ inequality: as debilitating economic issue 177; growth impacted by 31; reducing 166, 186; shareholders as source of 183; tax cut impact on 54 information and communications technology (ICT) 50, 118 Information Processing Techniques Office (DARPA’s) 76 Innovalight 158 innovation: collective character of 183–7, 193; ‘culture’ of 87; as cumulative 167, 187; Death Valley stage of 47, 48, 122; development banks fostering 139–40; development of 3, 41–2; and distribution 186; economic growth driven by 9; firms resisting pressure for 77; global process of 155; government support for 31; in Japan 37–8; macro models on 44; myths about 10, 22; myths of R&D being about 44; ‘open innovation’ model of 25, 27; patent increase relationship to 50–51; process in energy technology 114; Schumpeterian innovation economics 5; State as a force in 5, 166; State leading in risky 62–4; stock market speculation and 49–50; tax policy impact on 51; threatened in US 24; undermining of in US 53, 183, 187; US 24; see also ‘systems of innovation’ approach innovation ecosystems: cumulative innovation curve in 167–8; open systems 193; socioeconomic prosperity dependence on 179; symbiotic vs. parasitic 23–5, 155, 162–3, 179; types of 2; see also actors ‘innovation fund’ 189 innovation networks 36, 40 innovation policy 22–3, 44, 46, 54, 167 Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, An (Smith) 1; see also ‘Invisible Hand’ Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) 51–2 institutional change, assessment of 36 integrated circuits 98, 98n6 Intel 130n11 intellectual property protection 110 intellectual property rights 174 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) 5 Internet: Apple’s use of 109; commercialization of 22; DARPA’s role in 76; and HTTP/HTML 103–5, 109; origin of 63; public funding behind 105 interventionist policy 83 investment returns, social vs. private 3–4 ‘Invisible Hand’ 30 iOS mobile operating system 89–90 iPad 102, 105, 109, 111n14 iPhone 101–3, 105–6, 109 iPlayer 16 iPod 95–6, 100–102, 105, 109, 110 Ireland 120n4, 121, 121 IRS 529 plans 111, 111n15 Italy 17, 39, 41, 52, 121 Jacobs 149 Janeway, William H. 49–50 Japan: Apple entering market of 110; computer electronics competition by 97, 98, 98n7, 106–7; economic growth of 37–8; finance system coordination by 40; flat panel display (FPD) industry of 106; government energy R&D spending 121; lithium-ion battery perfection by 108; MITI 37–8, 40; public R&D spending in 61; systems of innovation in vs.

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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Published 20 Jan 2014

IBM’s Watson draws on a plethora of clever algorithms, but it would be uncompetitive without computer hardware that is about one hundred times more powerful than Deep Blue, its chess-playing predecessor that beat the human world champion, Garry Kasparov, in a 1997 match. Speech recognition applications like Siri require lots of computing power, which became available on mobile phones like Apple’s iPhone 4S (the first phone that came with Siri installed). The iPhone 4S was about as powerful, in fact, as Apple’s top-of-the-line Powerbook G4 laptop had been a decade earlier. As all of these innovations show, exponential progress allows technology to keep racing ahead and makes science fiction reality in the second half of the chessboard. Not Just for Computers Anymore: The Spread of Moore’s Law Another comparison across computer generations highlights not only the power of Moore’s Law but also its wide reach.

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The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain
by Polly Toynbee and David Walker
Published 3 Mar 2020

Asylum-seekers had been dispersed on the cheap, which meant they ended up in places with spare housing, most of which were already deprived. Many of the 1,500 asylum-seekers placed on Teesside ended up living in the Gresham area of Middlesbrough, which was already highly mixed, partly because that was where the company to which the outsourcer G4S subcontracted its commitments to the Home Office owned property. ‘Look how many they send to Rotherham. They don’t put them in Kent, do they?’ said Andy Birks, the butcher. What disturbed that town most were the Romanians and the Slovakians. ‘I can tell you that the Asians round here – very good people, been here a long time – they feel the same about those East Europeans as we do.

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The Howard League for Penal Reform, together with the Sainsbury Foundation, persuaded chief constables to send children elsewhere, keeping most of them out of the criminal justice system, which they otherwise risked flitting in and out of for life. The numbers of young people locked up had fallen, but the Independent Monitoring Board condemned the staff shortages, lockdown and violence at the young offenders’ institution at Cookham Wood. Cost-related lapses were also recorded at the Medway Secure Training Centre, run by the contractor G4S. Prison inspectors reported disturbingly high levels of self-inflicted harm, which were increasing year on year. By 2019 – we have seen this pattern before – the Elastoplast was being unrolled and staff recruitment had begun for youth offender institutions, but going nowhere near replacing the 25 per cent of staff lost.

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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
by Tom Vanderbilt
Published 5 Jan 2021

At home, besieged by my “ugly” noises and gripes about mucus, my wife burst out, “Couldn’t you have taken up model-ship building or something?” Still, I was making progress. I was hitting notes more regularly. I was hitting more notes, stealing into tenor territory. I could suddenly pull off a G4 (when Art Garfunkel, toward the end of “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” sings, “I will ease your MIND,” he’s G4). There was a new confidence. I would slyly bring up some impossible-seeming challenge, like the E5 in A-ha’s “Take On Me” (“in a day or twoooooo”). How does he do that? (There were long YouTube videos with tips.) Danielle would assure me that someday I’d hit it—without hurting myself.

Lonely Planet Greek Islands
by Lonely Planet , Alexis Averbuck , Michael S Clark , Des Hannigan , Victoria Kyriakopoulos and Korina Miller
Published 31 Mar 2012

Syntagma, Plaka & Monastiraki Top Sights Acropolis B6 Ancient Agora A3 Monastiraki Flea Market A2 Odeon of Herodes Atticus B6 Plateia Syntagmatos H2 Roman Agora C4 Sights 1 Agios Nikolaos Rangavas D5 2 Areopagus Hill A5 3 Cathedral E3 4 Centre of Folk Art & Tradition F5 5 Church of Agia Ekaterini F6 6 Church of Agios Eleftherios E3 7 Church of Kapnikarea D2 8 Church of Sotira Lykodimou G4 9 Greek Folk Art Museum F5 10 Greek Folk Art Museum: Man & Tools B4 11 Hadrian's Library B3 12 Hellenic Children's Museum F5 13 Jewish Museum G5 14 Kanellopoulos Museum B5 15 Lysikrates Monument E6 16 Museum of Greek Children's Art F4 17 Museum of Greek Popular Instruments C3 18 Museum of Traditional Greek Ceramics B2 19 National Gardens H4 20 National Historical Museum G1 21 Numismatic Museum H1 22Roman BathsG5 23 Six DOGS C1 24 Taf A2 25 Tower of the Winds C4 26 Turkish Baths C4 27Zappieo GardensG6 Activities, Courses & Tours 28 Athens Happy Train G2 29 CHAT G4 30 CitySightseeing Athens G3 Sleeping 31 Acropolis House Pension F4 32 Adonis Hotel F4 33 Adrian Hotel D3 34 Arethusa Hotel G3 35 Athens Cypria Hotel F2 36 Athens Style B1 37 Central Hotel F3 38 Electra Palace F4 39 Hotel Achilleas F1 40 Hotel Grande Bretagne H2 41 Hotel Hermes F3 42 Hotel Phaedra E6 43 John's Place F3 44Magna GreciaE2 45NEWG4 46 Niki Hotel G4 47 Plaka Hotel D2 48 Student & Travellers' Inn F5 49 Tempi Hotel C1 Eating 50 Ariston G2 51Café AvyssiniaA2 52 Filema E2 53 Glykis F5 54 Kostas D1 55 Lena's Bio G3 56 Mono E3 57 Ouzou Melathron A2 58 Palia Taverna tou Psara D4 59 Paradosiako F4 60 Platanos D4 61Pure BlissE1 62Tzitzikas & MermingasG3 63 Vizantino F5 Drinking 64 42 G1 65 Baba Au Rum E1 66 Bartessera E1 67 Booze D1 68 Brettos E6 69 Galaxy Bar G1 70 Magaze C1 71 Melina D4 72 Seven Jokers G1 73 Toy F1 74 Zonar's H1 Entertainment 75 Cine Paris E5 76 Mostrou D4 77Palea Plakiotiki Taverna StamatopoulosD4 78 Pallas H1 79 Perivoli Tou Ouranou F6 Shopping 80 Amorgos F4 81 Centre of Hellenic Tradition C2 82 Compendium F4 83 Eleftheroudakis G3 84 John Samuelin A2 85 Melissinos Art B1 86 Olgianna Melissinos A2 87 Public G2 SOUTHEAST OF THE ACROPOLIS Temple of Olympian Zeus LANDMARK, RUINS Offline map Google map ( 210 922 6330; adult/child €2/free, free with Acropolis pass; 8am-8pm Apr-Oct, 8.30am-3pm Nov-Mar; Syntagma) You can’t miss this striking marvel, smack in the centre of Athens.

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The museum is housed in the old Parliament building at Plateia Kolokotroni, where Prime Minister Theodoros Deligiannis was assassinated on the steps in 1905. Psyrri, Omonia & Exarhia Top Sights Varvakios Agora (Athens Central Market)D5 Sights 1 AMP B4 2 Athens Academy G5 3 Athens University G4 4 Church of Agii Theodori E5 5 City of Athens Museum F6 6 National Library G4 7 Rebecca Camhi Gallery A3 Activities, Courses & Tours 8 Hellenic Cultural Centre D1 Sleeping 9 Athens Easy Access Hostel D2 10 Baby Grand Hotel D3 11 EP16 B5 12 Fresh Hotel D4 13 Hotel Attalos C6 14 Hotel Cecil D6 15 Hotel Exarchion G1 16 Melia E1 Eating 17Diporto AgorasC5 18 Doris E6 19 Food Company H1 20Fruit & Vegetable MarketD5 21HytraB6 22 Ivis B7 23 Kimatothrafstis H2 24Meat & Fish MarketD5 25 Papandreou D5 26 Rozalia H1 27 Taverna tou Psyrri C6 28 Telis B5 29YiantesH1 Drinking 30 Alexandrino H1 31 Circus H3 32 Fidelio B6 33 Floral H1 34 Gin Joint F6 35 Ginger Ale G1 36 Higgs D4 37 Mo Better G1 38 Second Skin B6 39 Thirio B6 40 Vox H1 Entertainment 41 AN Club G1 42 Apollon & Attikon F6 43 Astor F5 44 Asty F5 45 Hellenic Festival Box Office F5 46 Ideal F3 47 Kavouras G1 48 Olympia Theatre G3 49 Paliogramofono B6 50Stoa AthanatonD5 51 Ticket House F4 Shopping 52 Anavasi F4 53 Eleftheroudakis G6 54 Metropolis Music E2 55 Road Editions H3 56 To Pantopoleion E5 57 Xylouris F5 Numismatic Museum COIN MUSEUM Offline map Google map ( 210 363 2057; www.nma.gr; Panepistimiou 12, Syntagma; adult/child €3/free; 8.30am-3pm Tue-Sun; Syntagma) This magnificent neoclassical mansion is worth a visit, even if you have little interest in coins.

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Croatia
by Anja Mutic and Vesna Maric
Published 1 Apr 2013

Split Activities, Courses & Tours 1Stairway to Marjan HillB2 Sleeping 2 Beach Hostel Split E3 3 Hotel Park E4 4 Tchaikovsky Hostel C1 5 Villa Baguc B1 6 Villa Varoš B2 Eating 7 Boban G3 Bruna (see 3) 8 Kadena G4 9 Kod Fife B2 10 Kod Joze D1 11 Konoba Matejuška B2 12 Makrovega B1 13 Pimpinella G3 14 Šperun B2 Drinking 15 Vidilica A2 16 Žbirac E4 Entertainment Egoist (see 17) 17 Hedonist G4 18 Imperium D3 Kino Bačvice (see 21) 19 Mediteranium F4 20 O'Hara F4 21 Tropic Club E4 Diocletian’s Palace HISTORICAL CENTRE Offline map Google map Facing the harbour, Diocletian’s Palace is one of the most imposing Roman ruins in existence and the place you’ll spend most of your time while in Split.

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Zagreb Top Sights City Museum D1 Dolac Market E3 Lotrščak Tower C3 Museum Mimara B5 Museum of Broken Relationships C3 Trg Josipa Jelačića D3 Sights 1 Archaeological Museum E4 2 Art Pavilion E6 3 Arts & Crafts Museum B5 4 Banski Dvori C2 5 Botanical Garden C7 6 Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary E3 7 Croatian Museum of Naïve Art C2 8 Croatian Natural History Museum C1 9 Equestrian Statue E3 10 Ethnographic Museum B5 11 Funicular Railway C3 12 Galerija Klovićevi Dvori D2 13 Galerija Nova D4 14 Gallery of Modern Art E5 15 Jesuit Church of St Catherine D3 16 Meštrović Atelier C1 17 Sabor D2 18 St Mark's Church C2 19 Statue of Dora D2 20 Stone Gate E3 21 Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters E5 22 Technical Museum A7 Activities, Courses & Tours 23Sports & Recreational Centre ŠalataG2 Sleeping 24 Arcotel Allegra G6 25 Esplanade Zagreb Hotel D6 26 Evistas F6 27 Fulir Hostel D3 28 Hobo Bear Hostel A4 29 Hostel Day and Night G5 30 Hostel Nokturno E3 31 Hotel Central E6 32 Hotel Dubrovnik D3 33 Hotel Jadran G3 34 Hotel Jägerhorn C3 35 Omladinski Hostel E6 36 Palace Hotel E5 37 Palmers Lodge Hostel Zagreb F6 38 Shappy Hostel C4 39 Taban Hostel D1 Eating 40 Agava D2 41 Amfora D3 42 Baltazar E1 43 Boban D4 44 Čušpajz D4 45 Didov San C1 46 Dinara D4 47 Ivica i Marica D1 48 Kaptolska Klet E3 49KarijolaG3 50 Konoba Čiho F5 51 Lari & Penati E6 52 Mali Bar G3 Nokturno (see 30) 53 Pingvin D4 54 Pod Gričkim Topom C3 55 Prasac C2 56 Rubelj D3 57 Stari Fijaker 900 C3 58 Tip Top C4 59 Trilogija D2 60 Vallis Aurea C3 61 Vincek C3 62 Vinodol D4 Zinfandel's (see 25) Drinking 63 Bacchus E6 64 Booksa G4 65 Bulldog D4 66 Cafe u Dvorištu C6 67CicaD2 68 Eli's Cafe A3 69 Funk D2 70 Hemingway C5 71 Kino Europa D4 72 Klub Kino Grič E4 73 Kolaž E4 74 Lemon D4 75 Melin D2 76 Palainovka D1 77 Pivnica Medvedgrad B3 78 Stross C3 79 Tri Praščića C5 80 Velvet B3 81 Vimpi C4 Entertainment 82 Croatian National Theatre B5 83 Hotpot E5 84 Koncertna Direkcija Zagreb G5 85 KSET B7 86 Pepermint C3 87 Purgeraj E2 88 Rush Club F4 89Vatroslav Lisinski Concert HallE8 90 Vip Club E3 91 Zagrebačko Kazalište Mladih D4 Shopping 92 Antiques Market A3 93 Aromatica E3 94 Bornstein E1 95 Croata D3 96 I-GLE B3 97 Nama D3 98 Natura Croatica D4 99 Profil Megastore D4 100 Prostor C3 UPPER TOWN Museum of Broken Relationships MUSEUM Offline map Google map (http://brokenships.com; Ćirilometodska 2; adult/concession 25/20KN; 9am-10.30pm Jun–mid-Oct, 9am-9pm mid-Oct–May) Explore mementos that remain after a relationship ends at Zagreb’s quirkiest museum.

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Utopias: A Brief History From Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities
by Howard P. Segal
Published 20 May 2012

Collins, “The Cancer You Can Beat,” Parade, June 20, 2010, 8, 10. 57 See Sally McGrane, “Social Norms: Online Dating and Genetics,” Time, 173 (June 29, 2009), 47. 58 Scott Kirsner, “Innovation Economy: Kiva, The Warehouse Robot Company,” Boston Sunday Globe, November 28, 2010, G1, G4; and Carolyn Y. Johnson, “Robots May Furnish Lesson in Human Trust,” Boston Globe, July 15, 2010, A1, A6. See also Peter W. Singer, “The Unmanned Mission,” Fortune, 161 (March 1, 2010), S2; Associated Press, “Robot Performs Wedding Ceremony in Tokyo,” Boston Globe, May 17, 2010, A3; and Kirsner, “You, Robot,” Boston Sunday Globe, May 30, 2010, G1, G4. Interestingly, Ramo has recently argued that robots could and should replace humans as much as possible in future space landings on Mars and elsewhere.

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A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner
by Chris Atkins
Published 6 Feb 2020

It does now mean that I’m indebted to the hardest dealer on Trinity. 20 December Martyn and I are delivering canteen on G Wing. We’ve now perfected our ‘bang and run’ technique, in which an officer opens the door, Martyn tosses in the bags, and I mark the name off the list. Like an Italian sports car, this process maximises speed at the expense of reliability. I realise, too late, that the guy in G4-24 has now moved to another pad, so we go back to retrieve his groceries. The cell is now occupied by one of the many tramps who’ve been admitted over the festive period. They’ve usually deliberately committed a minor offence just to get a roof over their heads and some food. This lucky vagrant clearly thought Christmas had come early when we accidentally lobbed someone else’s canteen order at his feet.

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It reminds me of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, where the contagion from toxic loans swiftly infected the entire economy. The landings descend into uproar, and Martyn and I retreat from the field of battle. Hours later, I gingerly return to deliver the visit slips. G Wing is still reeling from the recent economic crash, and dozens of inmates have been trying to exact retribution on the occupant of G4-24. I can’t resist peeping in through the observation panel. The tramp has come up with a canny strategy to prevent anybody demolishing his cell, and has smashed everything up first. The bed, desk, sink and loo are in pieces, and water gushes from a broken pipe. He sits in the middle of this devastation grinning like Satan himself.

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Advances in Financial Machine Learning
by Marcos Lopez de Prado
Published 2 Feb 2018

Each group forms part of φ[6, 2] = 5 testing sets, therefore this train/test split scheme allows us to compute 5 backtest paths. Figure 12.1 Paths generated for φ[6, 2] = 5 Figure 12.2 shows the assignment of each tested group to one backtest path. For example, path 1 is the result of combining the forecasts from (G1, S1), (G2, S1), (G3, S2), (G4, S3), (G5, S4) and (G6, S5). Path 2 is the result of combining forecasts from (G1, S2), (G2, S6), (G3, S6), (G4, S7), (G5, S8) and (G6, S9), and so on. Figure 12.2 Assignment of testing groups to each of the 5 paths These paths are generated by training the classifier on a portion θ = 1 − k/N of the data for each combination. Although it is theoretically possible to train on a portion θ < 1/2, in practice we will assume that k ≤ N/2.

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The City
by Tony Norfield

Even where the ‘privatisation’ of formerly state-owned industries and services has occurred – which capitalist governments claim will promote competition and efficiency – the result has been that the state has sold most of the shares to, or given the contract to, one of a very small number of major private corporations. One of these, the UK’s G4S, the world’s largest security company, operating in 125 countries, has distinguished itself both through the abuse and death of prisoners in its custody, and by screwing up operations at the UK 2012 Olympics so badly that the police and the army had to step in. Any concern a particular state might have about market domination in the domestic sphere obviously does not extend to the operations of its own companies in the international market.

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Gupta, Partha Sarathi 1975, Imperialism and the British Labour Movement, 1914–1964, London: Macmillan Press Newsinger, John 2006, The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire, London: Bookmarks Index Page numbers in bold refer to charts, page numbers in italic refer to charts. 1 per cent, the 76, 102 ABN AMRO 51 ABP 82 Acland, Richard 32 advances 78 Afghanistan 220 Amsterdam 51 Anglo-American euromarkets 40–4 Anglo-American financial relationships 21, 27–8, 36, 59 transition, post-1945 29–30 Anheuser Busch InBev 121 anti-monopoly policies 119–20 Apple 77, 118, 118–19, 121–2, 155 Arab-Israeli War, 1973 55 Asian financial crisis, 1997–98 101, 166–7 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) 18, 226 asset managers 80–1 austerity 152, 219 Australia 31, 58, 60, 109, 206, 226 automobile production 121 Aviva 82 Bahamas, the 209 balance of payments 187, 188, 200, 203, 207 balance of power 52 bank deposits 93 Bank for International Settlements (BIS) 108, 191, 192, 214 bank loans, international 66 Bank of America 125 Bank of America International xi Bank of England 44, 47, 56–7, 62, 64, 99–100, 116, 158–9, 173 Bank of Japan 157–8 banking capital 136 banks American 132–3, 193 American fragmentation 40 American regulation 36 assets 4, 85, 122–3, 141–4, 143, 214 borrowing 206–8 broking activity 80 business 79–80 Chinese 225–6 City of London trade 45 clients 79 creation of revenue-earning assets 137, 137–8 credit creation 83–5, 86, 104 dealing revenues 146 dealing spreads 191 derivative assets 140–1 Eurodollar deposits in American 41–2 existing loan assets 140 financial assets 139–47, 143 financial power 92 financial services revenues 191–7, 192, 194, 196 fines 79–80 foreign exchange deals 79 foreign exchange turnover 193–5, 194 fund buy backs 198 Hilferding’s analysis 92–5 interest-bearing capital advances 79–80 international assets 108 international business volume 192–3 Islamic 221 lending 142–4, 208–10 leverage ratios 131–4, 133, 134, 138 liabilities 108, 141, 141–4, 143 monopoly position 139 net interest income 138 networks 205–6 offshore operations 208–9 private 116 reserve requirements 40 role of 9, 136 short-term money-market instrument assets 144 start-ups 139 transaction volume 134–5 UK 4, 116, 134, 191–7, 192, 194, 196, 206–10, 214 UK assets and liabilities 141–4, 143 unsecured loans between 46 Banque de France 100 Barclays Bank 4 Barclays Global Investors 125 Barclays-Lehman deal, 2008 125 Barclays plc 123, 125 Bayly, Christopher 30 beer production 121 Belgium 1 Berkshire Hathaway 81–2 Berlin Wall, fall of 63 Bevan, Aneurin 32 Big Bang, the xi, 7, 54, 66–70 BlackRock 80, 125 Blair, Tony 64, 112 bond markets 49, 146 bond ownership 102, 144, 146 bond securities, characteristics 86 booms 104 borrowed money 78 borrowing banks 206–8 bond-market 146 interest rates 146 repo 46 risk 130 UK 201–2, 204–5 UK bank 206–8 BP plc 3, 111–12, 114, 190 Brazil 18, 106, 107, 222 Bretton Woods world monetary system 10, 26–7, 29, 31, 39 break up of 16, 52, 53, 66 BRICS 222–3 British Empire 23–6, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30–3, 52, 105 brokers 68, 80, 96, 99 Browne, John 112 Brown, Gordon 210 Brunei 220 Bündchen, Gisele 164–5 Bundesbank 57, 62 Burn, Gary 43, 74 Bush, George W. xii busts 104 Cameron, David 211, 220–1 Canada 4, 31, 60, 66 capital access to foreign 68 accumulation 19, 149 and financial securities 89–90 and imperialism 19–20 interest-bearing 77–8 manufacturing 43 money-dealing 79 organic composition of 148–9 ownership 93 parasitism 228 productive 90 capitalism crisis 12, 215 and finance 76 financial mechanism of 9 and financial system 8–9 global 4 and monopoly 100 moribund 159–60 and the rate of profit 147–50 and the state 111–15 UK 44–7, 49 capitalist business 74 capitalist market system, and finance xiii capitalist power 86 capitalist production 9 rate of profit measurement 153 capital movement, national controls on 51 capital values, destruction of 151–2 Carlsberg 121 Carney, Mark 213–14 cash flows, financial securities 88 Cayman Islands, the 209, 211 central banks 5, 47, 83, 85, 116 CHAPS 84 Chesnais, François 19–20 Chicago 37, 42, 185, 195 China 2, 15, 171 automobile production 121 bad debt 224 banks 225–6 challenge of 222 challenge to America 17–18 currency trading 225–6 cyber attacks 18 equity market capitalisation and turnover 181, 182 export prices 224–5 FDI 107–8 financial services exports 176–7 foreign direct investments 18 foreign exchange reserves 167, 224 foreign exchange trading 109 FX swap arrangements 225 GDP 106, 106–7, 224 growing financial role 73 military spending 109 millionaires 99 mobile phones 122 New Development Bank funding 18, 222–3 rise of 18, 221–7 and Russia 223 security threat 18 status 110, 111 stock exchange prices 182 stock exchanges 18 US dollar-denominated debt 18, 221 wages 155 China Mobile 222 China Resources Snow Breweries 121 Churchill, Winston 60 as Chancellor of the Exchequer 23, 24–6 Iron Curtain speech 29 ‘City–Bank of England–Treasury’ nexus 54 City bonuses 211 City of London 37, 228 advantages 37, 40, 47, 49–50, 52 casino analogy xii Chinese currency trading 225–6 competitiveness 68 deregulation xii, 7 development 44–7 domination 194–5 earnings 49 and economic policy 8 euromarket 44–5, 47–51 European rivals 46–7, 51 expansion 40 financial system 37–40 geographical scope 37 Gowan’s analysis 11–12 growth 44–5 international reach 4 international role 47–51, 73–4 market 45 networks 205–6 operations 185–212 Panitch and Gindin’s analysis 15 relationship with America 73 role xii–xiii, 45, 49, 69 status 28, 35, 50, 185, 206, 210–11 strength 99–100 Clinton, Bill 122 Clinton, Hillary 18 clipping coupons 97–8 Cold War, the 37 Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDOs) 90, 140 colonial marketing boards 32 commercial capitalists 76 commodities, circulation of 78 Common Agricultural Policy 58 communism, threat of 30 Competition Commission 119–20 constructive parasitism 213–14 cooperation 16, 28 corporate control 183 corporations headquarters 114–15 nationality 111–13 stock market listings 113 cost of living 155 costs 77 Court of Justice, European Union 216 credit bubble 156 credit creation 21, 76, 150–1 banks 83–5, 86, 104 currency dealing costs 162 seigniorage 163–6 and trade 162–3 current account balance, UK 188–90, 189, 190 current account deficit, UK 200, 202, 211, 217 current account deficit, USA 167–8 current account surplus, UK 33, 34, 69 cyber attacks 18 Czech Republic 10 Darling, Alistair 125 dealing costs 162 dealing revenues 146 dealing room screens xi dealing spreads 191 debt crisis 151–2 Deepwater Horizon oil spill 190 de Gaulle, Charles 34, 47 Dell 77 Denmark 1 deregulation 45, 54, 65–70 derivatives 140–1 dealing in 142 definition 141 money-market 141 over-the-counter 185, 195, 196 derivatives markets 135 Deutsche Bank 215 Dollar–Wall Street Regime 12 domestic politics, economics and 217–19 Dubai 172 Dublin, International Financial Services Centre 178 earnings, City of London 49 Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) 59–61 advantages 63 five conditions for membership 64 threat to UK financial power 64–5 UK opt-outs 61–4 Economic Consequences of Mr Churchill, The (Keynes) 23–4 Economic Consequences of the Peace, The (Keynes) 23 economic crises 151–2 economic growth 53, 60–1 economic influence 3 economic output 106 economic policy 8 economic power 101 concentration of 91–2 financial privileges of 7 and financial securities 85–92 global 3–6 hierarchy of 97 manifestation of 88–92 UK 2 economic privilege 104 economic relationships, in global capitalism 4 economics, domestic politics and 217–19 economic system, dysfunctional 8 elevators and escalators 121 employment, financial sector 186 End of History thesis 15–16 English language, role of 37 equity capital, valuation 179 equity markets 179–81, 181–3 capitalisation and turnover 181–3, 181 equity securities 86 eurobonds 41, 47–8 euro crisis, 2010 62, 65 eurocurrency bonds 49 eurodollars 40–1, 43, 48 euro financial system 72–3 euromarkets 28, 40, 51, 52, 66 Anglo-American 40–4 City of London 44–5, 47–51 definition 40 growth 40, 42, 43 interest 41 operation 40–1 origins 42–3 regulation 40–1 scale 43 UK earnings 43–4 European Central Bank (ECB) 64, 65, 72, 100, 159, 173 European Commission 162 European Economic Community (EEC) 33, 34, 57–8 European Free Trade Association (EFTA) 34 European integration 58 European Monetary System 67 European Union 16–17, 21, 54 anti-monopoly policies 120–1 Court of Justice 216 financial policy 69–70 financial services sector integration 72–3 GDP 70 UK membership referendum 218–19 UK opt-outs 61–2 euro system 57 euro, the 162–3, 164, 165, 166 status 72–3, 109 exchange controls, abolition of 54, 66–7 exchange rates 156, 163 Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) 57, 62 existing loan assets 140 exorbitant privilege 166–9 Facebook 5, 91 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation charge (US) 41 Federal Reserve System (US) 40 fictitious capital 87, 88, 90, 91, 183 ownership 92 pricing 147 and securities prices 145 as wealth 147 fictitious deposits 83 finance access to 6 and capitalism 76 and capitalist market system xiii definition 5 and imperialism 8–10 and power 7–8 role of 161 finance capital 92–5 finance ministries 5 financial account, UK 197–200, 199 balance of payments 200 flows 198–9, 199 surplus 199 financial aristocracy 90, 96 financial assets banks 139–47, 143 ownership of 102–3 and profit 137 financial capitalists 78 financial crises 6, 10, 19, 101–2 America and 12 causes 147–8 and profit and profitability 135 financial crisis, 2007–8 20, 65, 72, 132, 134, 154, 157–8, 168, 198, 214 financial dealing 76 financial excess 154 financial institutions, and money-capitalists 76–7 financial market shares 70–3, 71 financial markets, state policy 65–70 financial operations xiii financial parasitism 95–7, 227–8 financial policy American 11, 65–6, 67–8 European Union 69–70 Japanese 67 UK 14, 65–70 financial power 101, 109 American 6, 11–12, 14–15, 55, 170–3, 183 banks 92 EMU threat to 64–5 global 3–6 individuals 90–1 UK 2, 3, 64–5 financial prices 8 financial privilege 7, 22 financial revenues 144–6 financial scandals 216 financial sector 5 employment 186, 213–14 scale 4, 213–14 tax revenues 186 financial sector capitalists 91 financial securities 21, 104 as assets 91–2 and capital accumulation 89–90, 139–40, 179 cash flows 88 cash value 89 characteristics 86 creditors 88–9 and economic power 85–92 markets 89 price 87–8, 145–6, 147 price currency 181 role of 76 and surplus value 144–6 value xi, 87–8 financial services exports 173–9, 175 financial services revenues 190–7, 192, 194, 196 Financial Stability Board 214 financial system 4, 4–5, 20, 104, 227 and capitalism 8–9 growth 75–6 hierarchy 6, 105–11, 111 and imperialism 8–10 state regulation 115–16 Financial Times xii, 75, 214 Top 500 global corporations 3 financialisation 20 First World War 23–6, 29 fixed assets, and profit 137 floating-rate notes 48 Ford Motor Company 5 Ford Motor Credit 5 foreign currency risk 168 foreign direct investment (FDI) American 3, 42 Chinese 18 outward 107–8 and status 107–8 UK 3, 66, 200, 205 foreign exchange deals, banks 79 foreign exchange (FX) market 71, 72, 193–5, 194 foreign exchange trading 108–9, 123 foreign investment revenues 9–10, 22, 189–90 foreign operations, expanding 101 foreign securities 47–8 Fox Broadcasting Company 113 France 2, 4, 13, 63, 93 China policy 226 FDI 107 GDP 106, 107 international banking index 108 international banking position 192, 192 Keynesianism in one country 67 military spending 109 monetary policy 67 seigniorage 165 trade pattern 60–1, 61 Frankfurt 51, 64, 72 free market 13, 15–16 FTSE 100 113 Fukuyama, Francis 15–16 functioning capitalists 77–8 G4S 120 GDP Chinese 224 European Union 70 and status 106 UK 4, 106, 107, 155–6 GE Capital 5 General Electric 5 General Motors 121 Gent, Chris 180 Germany 2, 4, 63, 66, 94–5, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111 China policy 226 domination 64 equity market capitalisation and turnover 181, 182 GDP 106, 107 Hilferding’s analysis 93–95 international banking share 71, 71 reunification 62, 63 seigniorage 165 status 54 trade pattern 60–1, 61 GIC 177 Gindin, Sam 14–17, 18 Glass-Steagall legislation 36 Glencore 122 global capitalism, economic relationships in 4 global finance 2 globalisation 13, 114 global market trading, location 49 global system, centre of gravity 73–4 global value chains 118 Goldman Sachs 161, 222 gold prices 39 gold standard 23–6, 54 Google 5 government debt 87, 89 governments, financial role 5 government spending, cuts 59 Gowan, Peter, The Global Gamble 11–12 Greece 65, 72, 101, 151 greed 148 Group of 5, the 68 Group of 7, the 70, 71 Harper, Tim 30 Harvey, David 19 Healey, Denis 58–9 Heath, Edward 57–8 hedge funds 12, 81, 131 Heineken 121 Helleiner, Eric 12–14, 70 Hilferding, Rudolf 136 Finance Capital 92–5 Holcim 75 Hong Kong 18, 176–7, 206, 209 household debt 103 Howe, Geoffrey 66 HSBC 3–4, 225 idiocy 148 Iksil, Bruno 135–6 imperialism 5–6, 160, 161–84 American 12, 14–15, 166–9 and capital 19–20 currency 162–6 definition 117–18 domination network 21 economic definition 116–17 economic mechanism 117–21 equity markets 179–83 exorbitant privilege 166–9 and finance 8–10 financial power 170–3 financial services exports 173–9, 175 Lenin’s analysis 117–18 methods 117, 118 and monopoly 100, 117–21 parasitism of 97–9 power 126 predatory 19 and the state 119 UK 7–8, 186, 228 imports 155 India 18, 30, 222 GDP 106, 107, 224 individuals, financial power 90–1 Indonesia 101 inflation, 1970s 58 inflation rates 132, 164 innovation 135–6 insurance companies 81–2, 99 insurance premiums 81–2 insurance revenues 191 intellectual property rights 126 interbank market 46 interbank payments, value 84 interbank payment systems 84 interest and interest rates 78, 88, 130, 132, 138, 142 American 168 bond-market borrowing 146 derivatives turnover 195, 196 ERM fiasco 62 euromarkets 41 and profit 156–7 UK 203 interest-bearing capital 77–8 bank advances 79–80 dealing in 79–80 division of labour 99 Lenin’s analysis 98–9 Marx on 95–7 parasitism 95–7 Interest Equalisation Tax (US) 39–40, 48 international banking index 108 international banking share 50, 70–1, 71 international community 117 international companies 112 international finance, drivers 51 international financial revenues, UK 10 International Financial Services Centre, Dublin 178 international financial transactions 98 international investment position, UK 200–1, 201 International Monetary Fund 14, 19, 27, 29, 56, 58–9, 73, 101, 164, 223 investment, advance of money 86–7 investment mandates 80 investment returns 131 Iran 59, 113, 172 Iraq, invasion of, 2003 7, 220 Ireland 4, 178, 205 Islamic bonds 220–1 Islamic finance 22, 219–21 Islamic Finance Task Force 221 Italy 4, 106, 107, 226 Japan 2, 4, 15, 38, 93, 163, 167 equity market capitalisation and turnover 181, 182 financial crisis 71 financial policy 67 foreign exchange trading 109 GDP 106, 107 international banking index 108 international banking share 50–1, 71, 71 Offshore Market 67 seigniorage 165 threat of 29 zaibatsu 94 jobbers 68 Johnson Controls 121 JP Morgan Chase 135–6 Juncker, Jean-Claude 175 Kennedy, John F. 34 Keynesianism in one country 67 Keynes, John Maynard 23–4, 30, 35 labour exploitation of 74 international division of 99 surplus 149 labour costs 98, 118–19, 155 Labour Party Conference, 1956 32 Tanzanian groundnut scheme 32 Lafarge 75 Lafont, Bruno 75 Lear Corporation 121 Lee, Jennie 32 legal tender 115 Lehman Brothers 125, 210 lender of last resort 116 Lend-Lease policy 29 Lenin, V.

I Feel Bad About My Neck
by Nora Ephron
Published 31 Jul 2006

If you forgot to buy parsley, it takes only a couple of minutes to run out and get it. This is good, because I often forget to buy parsley. 4. I live at my desk. It’s eighty-four inches long and twenty-eight inches high, a custom height to avoid computer-related ailments like carpal tunnel syndrome. My desk is painted white. My computer is a Power Mac G4, and I spend most of the day and half the night at it. Only yesterday, while surfing the net, I discovered that there’s an expression for what I am—a mouse potato. It means someone who’s as connected to her computer as couch potatoes are to their television sets. My favorite thing about my desk is that it has a huge drawer on the lower left side that contains a monster wastebasket.

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The Mathematics of Banking and Finance
by Dennis W. Cox and Michael A. A. Cox
Published 30 Apr 2006

To achieve this start by defining gk (i; t1 , . . . , tk ) to be the minimum route from town i to the chosen destination, say A, passing through the k remaining towns t1 , . . . , tk in any order. The process is conducted by successively calculating the set of values corresponding to g1 , g2 , g3 and then finally g4 . Using forward recursion the successive terms are set out in Tables 19.8, 19.9 and 19.10. In Table 19.8, di j is the distance between towns i and j. For example, g1 (C; B) is the distance of the route from C via the one branch (B) to return home (A). Table 19.8 First-order terms g1 (C; B) = dCB + dBA = 11 g1 (B; C) = dBC + dCA = 13 g1 (B; D) = dBD + dDA = 22 g1 (B; E) = dBE + dEA = 25 g1 (D; B) = dDB + dBA = 18 g1 (D; C) = dDC + dCA = 15 g1 (C; D) = dCD + dDA = 17 g1 (C; E) = dCE + dEA = 18 g1 (E; B) = dEB + dBA = 17 g1 (E; C) = dEC + dCA = 12 g1 (E; D) = dED + dDA = 15 g1 (D; E) = dDE + dEA = 19 Dynamic Programming 187 Table 19.9 Second-order terms Sequence g2 (D; CB) = min(dDC g2 (E; CB) = min(dEC g2 (C; DB) = min(dCD g2 (E; DB) = min(dED g2 (C; EB) = min(dCE g2 (D; EB) = min(dDE g2 (B; CD) = min(dBD g2 (E; DC) = min(dED g2 (B; EC) = min(dBE g2 (D; EC) = min(dDE g2 (B; ED) = min(dBE g2 (C; ED) = min(dCE + g1 (C; B)* , dDB + g1 (C; B)* , dEB + g1 (D; B)* , dCB + g1 (D; B)* , dEB + g1 (E; B)* , dCB + g1 (E; B)* , dDB + g1 (D; C)* , dBC + g1 (D; C)* , dEC + g1 (E; C)* , dBC + g1 (E; C)* , dDC + g1 (E; D)* , dBD + g1 (E; D)* , dCD + g1 (B; C)) = 19 + g1 (B; C)) = 16 + g1 (B; D)) = 26 + g1 (B; D)) = 24 + g1(B; E)) = 22 + g1 (B; E)) = 23 + g1 (C; D)) = 23 + g1 (C; D)) = 21 + g1 (C; E)) = 24 + g1 (C; E)) = 18 + g1 (D; E)) = 27 + g1 (D; E)) = 20 D →C →B E →C →B C →D →B E →D →B C →E →B D →E →B B →C →D E →D →C B →E →C D →E →C B →E →D C →E →D Table 19.10 Third-order terms Sequence g3 (E; DCB) = min(dED + g2 (D; CB)* , dEC + g2 (C; DB), dEB + g2 (B; CD)) = 25 g3 (D; ECB) = min(dDE + g2 (E; CB)* , dDC + g2 (C; EB), dDB + g2 (B; EC)) = 22 g3 (C; EDB) = min(dCE + g2 (E; DB)* , dCD + g2 (D; EB), dCB + g2 (B; ED)) = 29 g3 (B; CED) = min(dBE + g2 (E; DC)* , dBD + g2 (D; EC), dBC + g2 (C; ED)) = 26 E →D→C →B D →E→C →B C →E→D →B B →C→E →D In Tables 19.9 and 19.10 the selected route in each case has been denoted by an asterisk (* ) and the optimum selection being recorded in the final column.

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For example, g2 (D; CB) is the distance of the route from D via the two branches C and B (in any order) to return home (A). If C had been chosen as the second branch, then the remaining distance is g1 (C; B). That is, the distance from C via B to reach A. Finally for the fourth-order terms are calculated: g4 (A; DECB) = min(dAE + g3 (E; DCB), dAD + g3 (D; ECB)* , dAC + g3 (C; EDB), dAB + g3 (B; CED)* ) = 31 The desired route is either A →D →E →C →B →A or A →B →C →E →D →A, one simply being the reverse of the other. 20 Decision Theory 20.1 INTRODUCTION Throughout business, directors, managers and employees are required to make a series of decisions.

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How to Run a Government: So That Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
by Michael Barber
Published 12 Mar 2015

Dame Tessa Jowell, the politician who oversaw the London Olympics from concept to delivery, was a master of building these relationships. The 2012 Games were a huge triumph as everyone knows, but even here there were setbacks. The most visible was not long before the Games when the company G4S admitted it had not been able to recruit sufficient security people for all the venues. The military stepped in (and loved it), and all went well. When I asked Tessa to reflect on this experience, she said she wished now that they had embedded a senior civil servant inside G4S from the start so that communication would have been constant, and nasty surprises, such as the one the country got, would have been avoided. Relationships again.

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The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
by Secret Barrister
Published 1 Jul 2018

Because hours before the third hearing was due to be called on, police officers belatedly knocked at the proffered address, only to be turned away by an irate elderly lady, who had no knowledge of or connection to any Albanian street gangs, but a despairing familiarity with her address being given by their members to unwitting courts. But for the judge’s largesse in allowing us a final opportunity to do what we should have done months earlier, the defendants would have been bailed, no doubt never to be seen again, and a little old lady would have had to spend yet another evening explaining to G4S security staff why they couldn’t install electronic monitoring equipment in her bungalow. We got lucky. It is not always so. Other judges would have lost patience, and rightly so. Too often, it seems, these are ‘just’ bail apps. In an age of straitened police resources, they’re simply not a priority.

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I ask whether the prison sentence in a hypothetical scenario is ‘enough’ or ‘too much’, as if the inquiry ends once our vengeance is sated by the quotient of punishment. Those are the terms of our public debate. And I should know better. I’ve been in the court prison cell when mentally ill clients, who have just been imprisoned for serious, nasty offences, have been smashing their heads against the cell walls, howling as hordes of G4S officers rush in to tackle them to the ground ‘For Their Own Safety’. It is clear that the only thing that their incarceration will do is satisfy our need for punishment, when so much more is required. Our national fetish has seen the England and Wales prison population soar by 90 per cent since 1990, standing at 85,500.26 We imprison people at a higher rate (146 per 100,000) than anywhere in Western Europe.

Mining of Massive Datasets
by Jure Leskovec , Anand Rajaraman and Jeffrey David Ullman
Published 13 Nov 2014

Since we already observed that the competitive ratio is no more than 1/2, we now conclude the ratio is exactly 1/2. 8.3.4Exercises for Section 8.3 EXERCISE 8.3.1Define the graph Gn to have the 2n nodes a0, a1, . . . , an−1, b0, b1, . . . , bn−1 and the following edges. Each node ai, for i = 0, 1, . . . , n − 1, is connected to the nodes bj and bk, where j = 2i mod n and k = (2i + 1) mod n For instance, the graph G4 has the following edges: (a0, b0), (a0, b1), (a1, b2), (a1, b3), (a2, b0), (a2, b1), (a3, b2), and (a3, b3). (a)Find a perfect matching for G4. (b)Find a perfect matching for G5. !! (c)Prove that for every n, Gn has a perfect matching. ! EXERCISE 8.3.2How many perfect matchings do the graphs G4 and G5 of Exercise 8.3.1 have? ! EXERCISE 8.3.3Whether or not the greedy algorithm gives us a perfect matching for the graph of Fig. 8.1 depends on the order in which we consider the edges.

The Art of Computer Programming: Sorting and Searching
by Donald Ervin Knuth
Published 15 Jan 1998

-a, 0 or 0 -)-B(S). 466 62 63 64 65 66 61 68 69 10 11 12 13 74 15 16 11 18 19 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 81 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 91 98 99 100 101 SEARCHING A8L A7R A9R A8R 8H A10 Tl T2 6H 7H DONE LDX STX LDX STX ST4 JMP J2N J2Z ENT1 LD2 J2P LD1 LDX STX ST3 LD2 LDX STX LDX STX LDX STX ST4 STZ CMP4 JNE ST1 JMP ST1 JMP CON CON CON CON ENTX STX LDX INCX STX EQU T2,2 0,3(B) O.l(RLINK) O,4(LLINK) O.l(RLINK) 8F DONE • 6F 0,3 0,3(B) A8R 0,3(LLINK) O.KRLINK) 0,3(LLINK) O.KRLINK) O,1(B) T2,2 0,4(B) T1.2 0,3(B) O.l(LLINK) 0,4(RLINK) O.l(LLINK) O,1(B) 0,5(RLINK) *+3 0,5(RLINK) DONE 0,5(LLINK) DONE +1 0 0 -1 +1 0,4(B) HEAD(LLINK) 1 HEAD(LLINK) * HI HI Gl Gl Gl Gl U2 G2 + J2 G2 G2 G2 H2 HI HI H2 H2 H2 H2 H2 H2 G2 G2 G2 G G G G3 G3 G4 G4 J2 J J J J 1-5 0, 0, or a -»¦ B(R). A8. Single rotation. LINK(o.S) «- LINK(-o.P). LINK(-o.P) «-S. Join up with the other branch Exit if rI2 = -a. Jump if B(S) was zero. P «-R. rI2«-B(R). To A8 if rI2 = a. A9. Double rotation. LINK (a,P <-LINK(-a,R)) ->LINK(-o,R). LINK (a, P) -e-R. rI2 -e-B(P). -a, 0 or 0 -)-B(S). 0, 0, or a -)-B(R).

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Consider the following algorithm, which operates on reverse plane partitions of a given shape and constructs another array of numbers qij having the same shape: Gl. [Initialize.] Set ql3 <- 0 for 1 < j < n{ and 1 < i < n[. Then set j <- 1. G2. [Find nonzero cell.] If pn>j > 0, set i «— n'j, k <- j, and go on to step G3. Otherwise if j < m, increase j by 1 and repeat this step. Otherwise stop (the p array is now zero). G3. [Decrease p.] Decrease pik by 1. G4. [Move up or right.] If i > 1 and P(i-i)k > Pik, decrease i by 1 and return to G3. Otherwise if k < ni, increase A; by 1 and return to G3. G5. [Increase q.} Increase qij by 1 and return to G2. | Prove that this construction defines a one-to-one correspondence between reverse plane partitions of m and solutions of the equation m = where the numbers hij are the hook lengths of the shape, by designing an algorithm that recomputes the p's from the g's. 36.

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(At this point we have the basic condition WT(Pi_i) > WT(Pi+i) for 1 < i < t; C1) in other words, the weights in the working array are -descending.") Per- Perform Subroutine C below, zero or more times, until WT(Pt_i) > Wj. Then set t «- t + 1 and Pt «- Xj. G3. [Finish phase 1.] Perform Subroutine C zero or more times, until t = 1. G4. [Do phase 2.] (Now Pi = X2n is the root of a binary tree, and WT(Pi) = Wq + - ¦ ¦+wn.) Set Ik to the distance of node X& from node Pi, for 0 < k < n. (See exercise 43. An example is shown in Fig. 18, where level numbers appear at the right of each node.) G5. [Do phase 3.] By changing the links of Xn+i, ..., X2n, construct a new binary tree having the same level numbers /&, but with the leaf nodes in symmetric order Xq, ..., Xn.

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Pocket Milan & the Lakes
by Lonely Planet and Paula Hardy
Published 2 Jan 2013

Quadrilatero d’Oro & Giardini Pubblici Top Sights Museo Poldi-PezzoliB5 Sights 1 Casa Museo Boschi-di Stefano F2 2 Giardini Pubblici D3 3 Museo Bagatti Valsecchi C4 4 Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea D3 5 Museo Civico di Storia Naturale D3 6 Spazio Oberdan E3 7 E'SPA at Gianfranco Ferré C4 8 Spiga 8 Spa at Hotel Baglioni D4 Eating 9 Il Teatro C4 10 Trattoria Temperanza 'Da Abele' H1 11 Lon Fon D2 12 Joia D2 13 Pizzeria Spontini G1 Drinking 14 Pandenus E2 15 HClub E3 16 La Belle Aurore G4 17 Torrefazione II Caffè Ambrosiano F2 18 L'Elephante F3 19 Bar Basso H2 20 Armani Privé B4 Shopping 21 Aspesi C5 22 Car Shoe D5 23 Casadei C5 24 Driade C4 25 Etro C5 26 Gallo B4 27 Habits Culti D4 28 Pellini B4 29 Sermoneta C4 Top Sights Museo Poldi-Pezzoli Offline map Google map 02 79 48 89 www.museopoldipezzoli.it Via Alessandro Manzoni 12 adult/reduced €9/6 10am-6pm Wed-Mon Montenapoleone Having inherited his vast fortune at the age of 24, Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli also inherited his mother’s love of art.

Paint Your Town Red
by Matthew Brown
Published 14 Jun 2021

“Insourcing” services back into local authority control has therefore become a central tenet of community wealth-building in order to democratise control of local economies. In Preston, this expanded beyond council-owned services to other anchor institutions, including Labour’s Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw’s decision to bring custody suites in-house and out of the control of outsourcing giant G4S. Between 2016 and 2018, at least 220 local government contracts were brought back into council control, and in 2019 the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) confirmed that 77% of UK councils planned to bring services back in-house. Insourcing and remunicipalisation is also a global trend; the Transnational Institute identified more than 1,400 cases of remunicipalisation or municipalisation involving over 2,400 cities in 58 countries in recent years.

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Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase
by Duff McDonald
Published 5 Oct 2009

The deal nearly came apart when Dimon discovered some $60 million in severance agreements for Primerica’s executives in the event of a sale. Further due diligence revealed that amount to be $90 million. After raging about the excessiveness of it all, Weill engaged in a startling display of hypocrisy by agreeing to the majority of the payouts when Tsai threw in a $20 million private jet, a Gulfstream G4, as part of the sale. Dimon eventually decided that a fair price was one share of Commercial Credit stock and $7 in cash for each share of Primerica, giving the deal a value of $1.7 billion. After a flurry of further negotiations and board presentations, the sale was announced on August 29, 1988. Every single person involved on the Commercial Credit side would go on to give the 32-year-old Dimon primary credit for structuring the transaction.

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On August 24, Hurricane Andrew pounded Florida and exposed the already weak Travelers to a welter of new claims. That gave Weill and Dimon the chance to put the screws to Budd, extracting more control—27 percent of the company and four, not two, board seats—for $722 million. Still stinging from his $90 million payout to Tsai’s team (the gift of the G4 notwithstanding), Weill also demanded that the executives on Budd’s team give up their golden parachutes. On September 20, the deal was announced, along with 3,500 job cuts. In December, both Weill and Dimon were named directors at Travelers. Bob Lipp was sent to Hartford as an emissary of Primerica.

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Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
by Harold James
Published 15 Jan 2023

In a turn of phrase that became famous, Federal Reserve Governor Jeremy Stein explained that money got into all the cracks.78 It did not look as precisely targeted as fiscal action, where the identification of beneficiaries prompted a pushback. However, exactly that feature proved to be the long-term problem: filling the cracks meant pushing up asset prices, and that of course also had redistributional consequences, both domestically and internationally. The central banks of what was sometimes called the G4—the United States, the Eurozone, Japan, and Britain—started to act in very similar ways: but there was no need for explicit coordination (see Figure 6.2). Instead, the Fed set a particular model, derived from Japanese responses to that country’s early-2000s malaise, that could in turn just be imitated in other parts of the world, including Japan.

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See also Great Famine (1840s) Favre, Jules, 36 Federal Reserve, 22, 167, 176, 182, 230, 231–233, 245, 252, 279 Feer-Herzog, Carl, 56 –57 Ferguson, Niall, 220 Feynman, Richard, 260 Field, Alex, 163, 164 financial innovation, 8, 15, 126, 289–290, 291–292; capital controls, 157–158; joint stock corporations, 26, 313; offshore capital markets, 185 First World War, 20, 83, 84; cost of, 95 –105; scarcity in, 16, 18, 85 –95 Fisher, Irving, 130, 139, 241 Fisher, Richard, 249–250 Flandreau, Marc, 56 Ford, Gerald, 177 Fordism, 166 France, 36, 133, 220; financial crisis, 33 –34; First World War, 94, 100; Global Financial Crisis, 223; grain imports, 26; Great Depression (1929–1933), 139, 140, 142; inflation in, 172, 176 Francqui, Emile, 129 Fried, Ferdinand, 121 Frieden, Tom, 293 Friedman, John, 304 Friedman, Milton, 22, 176, 189, 190, 192–193, 194 –195, 203, 246, 297; Capitalism and Freedom, 197; “The Methodology of Positive Economics,” 194; Monetary History of the United States, 148, 196 –197, 239; Presidential Address to the American Economics Association, 194 –196 Froman, Michael, 226 Fuld, Richard, 209 Furman, Jason, 218, 302 G4, 230 G7, 261 G20 summits: London, 223 –226; Pittsburgh, 226 –227; Seoul, 227–229; Washington, 222 Galeen, Heinrich, 85 Gallarotti, Giulio, 57 Geithner, Timothy, 228 –229 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 161 George, David Lloyd, 99 Germany, 54, 55, 166, 176, 180 –181, 229, 309; Deutsche Bundesbank, 176 –177; financial crisis in, 34; First World War, 86, 87, 88 –89, 90 –93, 100 –104; food shortages in, 90 –93; Global Financial Crisis, 223; Great Depression (1929–1934), 124, 134, 136 –138, 142; hyperinflation, 83 –84, 106 –109; inflation in, 28, 172, 176, 181; stock market crash (1873), 58, 63; Weimar Republic, 84, 107 Gertler, Mark, 240 Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 176 Gladstone, William Ewart, 30, 79 Glagau, Otto, 65 Glass, Carter, 139 Global Financial Crisis (2007–2008), 3, 15, 22–23, 205 –256; bank bailouts, 213, 218, 247; causes of, 205, 206; debt as cause of fiscal unsustainability, 215 –219; debt crisis, 212–213; economic nationalism, 236 –238; monetary policy, 230 –236; multilateral responses, 221–230 Godley, Wynne, 13, 175 gold standard, 30, 47, 55, 56, 133 –134, 170 Goldin, Ian, 2 Goldschmidt, Jakob, 132, 137 Goltz, Bogomil, 54 Goodwin, Fred, 223, 252 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 109 Gordon, Robert, 163, 164 Gossen, Hermann Heinrich, 73 –74 Gouraud, Charles, 38 Graham, Benjamin, 126 Grant, Ulysses S., 67 Great Depression (1870s), 21, 52–82; currency convertibility, 68; euphoria prior to, 52–55; literary representations of, 68 –71; monetary systems and, 55 –57; railroad stocks, 62–67; stock market crash (1873), 52, 58, 59–62 Great Depression (1929–1933), 13, 15, 16, 121–166; Black Thursday, 127; exuberance preceding, 124 –132; financial stress, 132–139; globalization pause, 154 –166; international rescue, 139–143; policy-making in, 122–124 Great Famine (1840s), 15, 19, 21, 26 –34; disease in, 27; financial crisis, 28 –29, 31–34; food crisis, 27–28; government reform after, 35 –37; inequities in, 27–28; literary representations of, 40 –42; nation-building in, 36, 39; revolt and, 34; speculation in, 30; trade crisis, 31–33 Great Inflation (1919–1923), 105 –110; political disintegration and, 108 –109; social values and, 108 Great Inflation (1970s), 15, 16 –17, 19, 20, 22, 167–204; conquering inflation, 188 –204; growth and productivity, 170 –188 Great Lockdown (2020 –2022), 19, 23, 257–306, 310, 314 –315; analysis of, 293–306; competence and control elevated, 281–293; disease and economic link, 261–274; globalization and, 257–258; inequalities in, 274 –281, 314; nationalism in, 4, 271, 273; shortages in, 18, 257, 268 –273; solidarity in, 258 –259; spread of Covid-19, 261–263; vaccine availability, 275; vaccine development, 259, 260, 265 –266 Great Men theory, 9–10 Great Recession.

Israel & the Palestinian Territories Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Located in one of Jerusalem’s prettiest neighbourhoods (a 1.5km walk to the Old City), it has 28 rooms, a roof terrace, a garden and a strictly kosher dining room where a daily breakfast and Shabbat lunch and dinner are served. Arcadia Ba'MoshavaHOTEL ( GOOGLE MAP ; %02-542 3000; www.arcadiahotels.co.il; 13 Yehoshua bin-Nun St; s/d midweek US$240/270, weekend US$270/300; aiW; g4, 18, 21) Opened in 2014 after a major restoration, this hotel occupies a gorgeous Arab-style villa dating from 1935. 'Ba'Moshava' means 'in the Colony' and its location in a residential street off the Emek Refa’im shopping and entertainment strip is excellent. Rooms are smallish, but that won't matter, as you'll spend most of your time in the elegant lounge or leafy garden.

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The food is good rather than great, but the surrounds are comfortable, there's an excellent wine list and service is attentive. German Colony There are plenty of chain cafes and burger joints along Emek Refa’im St, but no restaurants of note. AdomMEDITERRANEAN ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %02-624 6242; First Station, 4 David Remez St; salads 46-52NIS, mains 62-128NIS; hnoon-midnight Sun-Fri, noon-4.30pm & 6pm-midnight Sat; g4, 18, 21) If you can overlook the inadequecies of its service, this bustling place in the Old Jerusalem Train Station is a decent option for lunch or dinner. The outdoor terrace and indoor bar and dining area are equally popular with its cashed-up regulars, who tend to order the burger or a salad. It's particularly busy on Shabbat.

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Mike's PlacePUB ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %054 799 1220; www.mikesplacebars.com; 33 Jaffa Rd; h11am-late, closed Shabbat; jJaffa Center) There's nothing secret about Mike's well-honed formula for success: Guinness, open-mic nights, live rock bands and sport on the big screen. At the top of the Rivlin St bar strip, it has an indoor area plus a few outdoor tables that offer excellent people-watching opportunities. German Colony CoffeemillCAFE ( GOOGLE MAP ; %02-566 1665; 23 Emek Refa’im St; h7am-midnight Sun-Thu, to 3pm Fri; g4, 18, 21) Decorated with covers of the New Yorker and with wooden drawers full of an exotic array of coffee beans, this bohemian-flavoured cafe is a good place for cake and a shot of caffeine. LGBT JERUSALEM Owing to Jerusalem’s religious nature, the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender scene is much more subdued than its Tel Aviv equivalent.

Southwest USA Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

PHOENIX At first glance, Downtown Phoenix appears to be all buttoned-up business and bureaucracy (the state capitol is here), but there’s actually plenty of partying going on in its cultural venues, sports stadiums, bars and restaurants. There’s even a small alternative art scene. Phoenix Top Sights Desert Botanical Garden G4 Heard Museum C4 Pueblo Grande Museum & Archaeological Park E5 Sights 1'A' Mountain G5 2ASU Art Museum G6 3Gammage Auditorium G6 4Hall of Flame F5 5Mill Avenue G6 6Phoenix Zoo F5 Splash Playground (see 7) 7Tempe Beach Park G5 8Tempe Center for the Arts G5 Activities, Courses & Tours 9Piestewa Peak/Dreamy Draw Recreation Area D1 Tempe Town Lake Boat Rentals (see 7) Sleeping 10Aloft Phoenix-Airport E5 11Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa D2 12Best Western Inn of Tempe G5 13Clarendon Hotel B3 14FireSky Resort & Spa G3 15Hermosa Inn E2 16Royal Palms Resort & Spa F3 17Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain F2 Eating 18Barrio Café C4 19Chelsea's Kitchen E2 20Da Vang B3 21Dick's Hideaway C2 22Durant's C4 23Essence F6 24Noca D2 25Pane Bianco C3 26Pita Jungle G6 27Tee Pee Mexican Food E3 Drinking Edge Bar (see 17) 28Four Peaks Brewing Company G6 Lux Coffeebar (see 25) 29Postino Winecafé Arcadia E3 30Vig E3 Entertainment 31Char's Has the Blues B3 32Phoenix Theatre C4 33Rhythm Room C3 Shopping 34Biltmore Fashion Park D2 35Borgata G2 36Garden Shop at the Desert Botanical Garden G4 37Heard Museum Shop C4 Heard Museum MUSEUM (602-252-8848; www.heard.org; 2301 N Central Ave; adult/child 6-12/student/senior $15/7.50/7.50/13.50; 9:30am-5pm Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm Sun; ) This extraordinary museum is a magical mystery tour through the history, life, arts and culture of Native American tribes in the Southwest.

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Phoenix Top Sights Desert Botanical Garden G4 Heard Museum C4 Pueblo Grande Museum & Archaeological Park E5 Sights 1'A' Mountain G5 2ASU Art Museum G6 3Gammage Auditorium G6 4Hall of Flame F5 5Mill Avenue G6 6Phoenix Zoo F5 Splash Playground (see 7) 7Tempe Beach Park G5 8Tempe Center for the Arts G5 Activities, Courses & Tours 9Piestewa Peak/Dreamy Draw Recreation Area D1 Tempe Town Lake Boat Rentals (see 7) Sleeping 10Aloft Phoenix-Airport E5 11Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa D2 12Best Western Inn of Tempe G5 13Clarendon Hotel B3 14FireSky Resort & Spa G3 15Hermosa Inn E2 16Royal Palms Resort & Spa F3 17Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain F2 Eating 18Barrio Café C4 19Chelsea's Kitchen E2 20Da Vang B3 21Dick's Hideaway C2 22Durant's C4 23Essence F6 24Noca D2 25Pane Bianco C3 26Pita Jungle G6 27Tee Pee Mexican Food E3 Drinking Edge Bar (see 17) 28Four Peaks Brewing Company G6 Lux Coffeebar (see 25) 29Postino Winecafé Arcadia E3 30Vig E3 Entertainment 31Char's Has the Blues B3 32Phoenix Theatre C4 33Rhythm Room C3 Shopping 34Biltmore Fashion Park D2 35Borgata G2 36Garden Shop at the Desert Botanical Garden G4 37Heard Museum Shop C4 Heard Museum MUSEUM (602-252-8848; www.heard.org; 2301 N Central Ave; adult/child 6-12/student/senior $15/7.50/7.50/13.50; 9:30am-5pm Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm Sun; ) This extraordinary museum is a magical mystery tour through the history, life, arts and culture of Native American tribes in the Southwest.

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Downtown Santa Fe Top Sights Georgia O'Keeffe Museum D2 Loretto Chapel F4 St Francis Cathedral F3 Sights 1 78th St Gallery H4 2 Absolute Nirvana Spa & Tea Room H3 Avanyu Spa (see 28) 3 Economos/Hampton Galleries H5 4 Gerald Peters Gallery G5 LewAllen Gallery (see 29) Marc Navarro Gallery (see 3) Morning Star Gallery (see 58) 5 Museum of Contemporary Native Arts F3 6 Nedra Matteucci Galleries G6 7 New Mexico History Museum E2 8 New Mexico Museum of Art E2 9 Palace of the Governors F2 10 San Miguel Mission F5 Santa Fe Clay (see 16) 11 Santuario de Guadalupe C3 12 Shiprock F3 13 SITE Santa Fe A6 Tai Gallery (see 39) Activities, Courses & Tours 14 High Desert Angler C5 15 Sangre de Cristo Mountain Works B4 16 Santa Fe Clay A5 17 Santa Fe School of Cooking E3 18 Santa Fe Southern Railway B4 Sleeping 19 El Paradero C5 20 Garrett's Desert Inn F4 21 Hotel St Francis E3 22 Inn & Spa at Loretto F4 23 Inn of the Anasazi F2 24 Inn of the Five Graces E4 25 Inn of the Governors D4 26 Inn on the Alameda G4 27 La Fonda F3 28 La Posada de Santa Fe H3 29 Sage Inn A6 Eating 30 Cafe Pasqual's E3 31 Cleopatra Cafe C4 32 Cowgirl Hall of Fame C3 33 Coyote Café E3 34 Del Churro Saloon E4 35 Flying Star Café A5 French Pastry Shop (see 27) 36 Guadalupe Cafe E5 37 Il Vicino D2 Raaga (see 38) 38 Ristra B3 39 Santa Fe Farmers Market A5 40 SantaCafé F1 41 Shed F3 42 Tia Sophia's D2 43 Tomasita's B4 44 Zia Diner B4 Drinking 45 Aztec Café C3 Bell Tower Bar (see 27) 46 Dragon Room Bar F5 47 Evangelo's E3 48 Marble Brewery Tap Room E3 49 Ore House E3 50 Second St Brewery A5 Entertainment 51 Lensic Performing ArtsTheatre D2 52 Santa Fe Playhouse E4 Santa Fe Symphony (see 51) 53 Vanessie of Santa Fe C2 Shopping 54 Garcia Street Books H6 55 Kowboyz B5 56 Nambé Foundry Outlet E3 57 Nambé Foundry Outlet G5 58 Nathalie H5 59 Seret & Sons D3 60 Travel Bug G4 While you’re here in one of the top-rated cultural towns in the United States, plan tospend time in some of the city’s museums.

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The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge
by Faisal Islam
Published 28 Aug 2013

In central Nicosia the first victims were the elderly, many of whom had never had to use a cash machine before. The mood on the island was febrile, if not yet panicked. Ordinary Cypriots queued at ATMs for money replenished once a day by the nation’s new emergency service: security vans full of euros run by British contractor G4S. On the streets, Cypriots were broadly consistent in their view as to who was to blame: Germany. Germany, they insisted, was trying to drive Russian deposits off the island, with the intention of gaining primacy in the race for Cyprus’s abundant gas reserves. Before the parliamentary vote, protestors surrounded the German embassy and tore down the German flag.

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It said: ‘Movement of currency up to one thousand euro per passenger only.’ And this applied even to passengers flying within the EU. It was just one of a number of decrees restricting the movement of currency in and out of bank accounts, cash machines and off the island. Meanwhile, fanning out from the Central Bank in Nicosia, G4S security vans sped across the island, shadowed by police cars. Their task? To deliver the cash before the reopening of bank branches at noon. In Larnaca there were queues of two or three dozen people waiting outside each branch. It was an orderly affair. At a BoC branch, names of clients had been placed on a list in arrival order, enabling people to sit in the shade of a nearby tree.

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Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
by Brad Feld
Published 8 Oct 2012

I was blown away by the idea and started my campaign to move Iceland toward a startup culture, what I now call Startup Iceland. Startup Iceland’s mission is to build a sustainable startup ecosystem. One piece in that ecosystem is a mentorship-driven accelerator. It took a lot of convincing to bring the two different incubators, a bank, and a bunch of mentors together. The result was Startup Reykjavik (http://startuprev.com/g4), an accelerator established in April 2012 that is part of the Global Accelerator Network. The next piece in the puzzle was to build bridges to big markets. The only way that I thought we could achieve this in scale was to do an annual conference focused on entrepreneurship, making the participation and presenters really relevant so entrepreneurs around the world could come to Iceland and meet the local startups.

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Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy
by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
Published 4 Sep 2013

When their son, Felix, showed symptoms of child-onset diabetes, they did what they knew best: They started collecting every bit of data they could on Felix’s eating, exercise and behavior. The two also researched the most advanced technology for managing the disease. They opted for a wireless OmniPod Insulin Pump that would work with a wireless Dexcom G4 Platinum continuous glucose monitoring system. The system, says Ming, is ten times more precise than a standard measuring and dosing system—it automatically adjusts to changes in blood sugar levels. They also purchased a Basis watch, which they strapped around Felix’s ankle. (His wrists were too small.)

Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery
by Andrew Greenway,Ben Terrett,Mike Bracken,Tom Loosemore
Published 18 Jun 2018

In paying companies to design and deliver public services, governments then passed on the responsibility – and therefore the risk – to them. This is intellectually satisfying, and not necessarily wrong; outsourcing can work well, especially in the business world. For government, however, practice sometimes fails to follow the theory. As the public outcry over the behaviour of outsourcers shows – G4S’s provision of London 2012’s Olympic security and IBM’s spectacular 16,000% overspend on Queensland’s health department payroll services,34 to pick two examples – it doesn’t matter if a company contractually carries the can. The fallout still ultimately falls on the ministers. In recent months, the UK’s experience with the collapse of outsourcing firm Carillion has put the issue firmly back on the political agenda.

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The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Published 5 Mar 2019

Almost everywhere, transportation, communication, education, prisons, policing and even emergency services are being spun off wholly or in part from the public sector and provided instead by market actors. Only the armed forces remain a state monopoly, and here only up to a point, given the rise of private security multinationals such as the notorious G4S and Blackwater (rebranded as Academi since 2011). The handful of social democratic and liberal parties that still defend public healthcare and public education do so while making vague assertions that “government has a role to play” or that “government can be a force for good.” But they don’t really say why; and in any case, this is making a case more for the state, rather than for planning per se, even though “the state” and “planning” are far from synonymous.

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Data Mining in Time Series Databases
by Mark Last , Abraham Kandel and Horst Bunke
Published 24 Jun 2004

Let graph Ĝ = (V̂ , Ê, ŵE ) be deﬁned as follows: V̂ = {u|u ∈ V ∧ C(u) > n/2}, Ê = {(u, v)|u, v ∈ V̂ }, Gi ŵE (u, v) = median{wE (u, v)|i = 1, . . . , n}. i Then it can be proven that graph Ĝ is a median of sequence S under d2 [33]. G1: G2: 0 Fig. 1. 1 2 1 2 Two graphs (G1 , G2 ). 3 Classiﬁcation and Detection of Abnormal Events in Time Series of Graphs G1 : 0 1 2 G2 : 0 1 2 G3 : 1 2 G4 : 1 2 3 3 G5 : 0 1 2 3 G6 : 0 1 2 3 G7 : 0 1 2 3 G8 : 0 1 2 1 2 G9 : Fig. 2. 137 3 All possible medians of the sequence (G1 , G2 ) from Fig. 1. Comparing the median graph construction procedure for d1 with the one for d2 , we notice that the former is a special case of the latter, constraining edge weights to assume only binary values.

Sweden Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Södermalm The Södermalm district is only a 15-minute walk or quick subway ride from Viking Line boats and Centralstationen; it's also the most happening section of Stockholm and is your best bet for interesting budget or midrange accommodation. oLångholmen Hotell & VandrarhemHOSTEL, HOTEL€ ( GOOGLE MAP ; %08-720 85 00; www.langholmen.com; Långholmsmuren 20, Långholmen; dm from 290kr, cell with bath s/d from 650/810kr, hotel r from 1095kr; pniW; g4, 40, 77, 94 Högalidsgatan, dHornstull, g54 Bergsunds strand) Guests at this hotel-hostel, in a former prison on Långholmen island, sleep on bunks in a cell, with either shared or private baths (it's much nicer than that sounds; there's a playful vibe throughout). There's laundry service, a good guest kitchen, excellent breakfast, a restaurant serving meals all day June to August, and a popular Långholmen bathing spot a towel flick away.

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Norrbottens MuseumMUSEUM ( GOOGLE MAP ; %0920-24 35 02; http://norrbottensmuseum.se; Storgatan 2; h10am-4pm Mon-Fri, noon-4pm Sat & Sun; c)F Besides the extensive displays on the history of Norrbotten, Norrbottens Museum is worth a visit for the Sami section alone, with its engrossing collection of photos, tools, and dioramas depicting traditional reindeer-herding Sami life, as well as a nomad tent for kids. The little ones will love the recreated 19th-century playrooms. Teknikens HusMUSEUM ( GOOGLE MAP ; www.teknikenshus.se; University Campus; adult/under 4yr 70kr/free; h10am-4pm mid-Jun–Aug; c; g4, 5) Curious minds of all ages will love the gigantic educational playground that is Teknikens Hus, within the university campus 4km north of town. The museum has hands-on exhibitions about everything from hot-air balloons and rocket launching to the aurora borealis. Take bus 4 or 5 to Universitetsentrén.

Beyond Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Advanced Guide to Building Muscle, Staying Lean, and Getting Strong
by Michael Matthews
Published 15 Jun 2014

Dubbelhuis, Mariëtte Ackermans, Cora F. Jonkers-Schuitema, Eric Fliers, Hans P. Sauerwein, Johannes M. Aerts, and Mireille J. Serlie. “Intermittent fasting does not affect whole-body glucose, lipid, or protein metabolism.” The American journal of clinical nutrition 90, no. 5 (2009): 1244-1251. 194. http://www.acnp.org/g4/gn401000064/ch064.html 195. Cahill Jr, Geprge F. “Starvation in man.” The New England journal of medicine 282, no. 12 (1970): 668- 196. Bilsborough, Shane, and Neil Mann. “A review of issues of dietary protein intake in humans.” International journal of sport nutrition and exercise metabolism 16, no. 2 (2006): 129. 197.

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The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--And How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
by Paul Collier
Published 10 May 2010

Further, much of the climate change agenda can be handled at the level of the European Union rather than in each of the 27 member countries. In aggregate the EU is a very large economy, far too large to regard itself as having the potential to free-ride. Similarly, Japan is a large economy and has a long record of behaving as a responsible global citizen. So far we have the G4—the United States, China, the EU, and Japan—with incentives to behave responsibly. In view of its enormous size I will add India to this group of the responsible nations; it, too, is simply too large to free-ride. To date Indian governments have been a little reluctant to step up to the responsibility implied by their country’s size, but they will likely come to terms with its global role and responsibilities.

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists
by Joan Smith
Published 5 Apr 2019

He was desperate to join the police, an ambition that was thwarted when he was thrown out of a training academy after threatening to bring a gun on to the campus. He had a work history of minimum-wage jobs in shops and fast-food outlets before he got a job – which came with a gun and the uniform he longed for – with the security company G4S, in 2007. Mateen’s history is an almost parodic version of a man undergoing a masculinity crisis, bulking himself up with steroids and claiming non-existent links to terrorist organisations while trying to get jobs in law enforcement. It would not be surprising if he wrestled with his sexual orientation and tried to mask it through a parade of heterosexual relationships, inevitably adding domestic violence to his record of impulsive and disturbed behaviour.

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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
by Aaron Bastani
Published 10 Jun 2019

How else can you explain the rationale behind a company funded by government contracts that, when it collapses, punishes workers and rewards the casino economy of financial speculation? Carillion’s economic function, particularly after 2010, would have failed to make sense in any other era. With the imposition of austerity, however, it had a vital role to play as it – along with similar companies such as Serco, Sodexo, Capita and G4S – distributed downward pressure on wages while Britain became the world’s second-largest outsourcing market. With the imperative being to push through public sector cuts, particularly in local government, while demonstrating the superiority of the private sector, these companies played a critical role in transferring hundreds of thousands of jobs while paying workers less.

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Art of Learning
by Josh Waitzkin
Published 7 May 2007

During chess tournaments, players notate their games as they go along. The chessboard is seen as a grid, with vertical ranks running a–h from left to right, and the horizontal files running 1–8, up from white’s perspective. After each move, a chess player will write down, for example, Bg4 or Qh5, meaning Bishop moves to g4 or Queen moves to h5. Usually notation is kept on a sheet with a carbon copy beneath, which allows public and private records of all chess games to be saved. For a number of years, when notating my games, I had also written down how long I thought on each move. This had the purpose of helping me manage my time usage, but after my first session with Dave, it also led to the discovery of a very interesting pattern.

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Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
by Christopher Steiner
Published 29 Aug 2012

Brown now knew that the chord included George Martin, who, as he often did in other Beatles’ songs of that era, doubled on the piano while the band stuck to its core instruments. Brown’s algorithmic analysis turned up the real notes that Harrison had played on his Rickenbacker: A2, A3, D3, D4, G3, G4, C4, C4. This collection in no way resembles any of the sheet music floating about the world, which we now know was erroneously instructing people how to play this most classic of chords. Lennon hit a loud C5 on his six-string and Martin played D3, F3, D5, G5, E6 on the piano. With that knowledge, Harrison’s 2001 Web chat remark becomes all the more clearer: “It is F with a G on top (on the 12-string) . . . but you’ll have to ask Paul about the bass note to get the proper story.”

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Losing Control: The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity
by Stephen D. King
Published 14 Jun 2010

The G20 includes the G8 members – the US, Japan, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Canada and Russia – alongside Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey and the European Union as a whole. At the time of writing, pressure was mounting for the creation of a G4 including the US, the Eurozone, China and Japan, thereby leaving out in the cold the UK, Russia, Canada, Brazil and India, amongst others. 15. T. Fleming, The Louisiana Purchase (John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 2003). CHAPTER 3: THE PLEASURES AND PERILS OF TRADE 1. Audi’s UK strapline, ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’, literally means ‘Advancement through technology’. 2.

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The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
by Kevin Dutton
Published 15 Oct 2012

Nowhere near it, in fact. Rather, it excels at rehashing other people’s ideas. It wasn’t the first outfit to introduce a personal computer (IBM). Nor was it the first to introduce a smartphone (Nokia). Indeed, when it has gone down the innovation road, it’s often screwed up. Anyone remember the Newton or the Power Mac G4 Cube? But what Jobs did bring to the table was style. Sophistication. And timeless, technological charm. He rolled out the red carpet for consumers, from living rooms, offices, design studios, film sets—you name it—right to the doors of Apple stores the world over. Mental Toughness Apple’s setbacks along the road to world domination (indeed, they were on the verge of going down the drain in the early days) serve as a cogent reminder of the pitfalls and stumbling blocks that await all of us in life.

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Radicalized
by Cory Doctorow
Published 19 Mar 2019

Word got around, and two of the guards fritzed the cameras on his door, knocked at it like it was a routine callout, and then bulled their way in, tied him and his kids up, and got all of it. More than ten million dollars in anonymous, convertible wealth. The guards disappeared off the face of the earth, and G4S, who supplied them, brought in heavy lawyers and insurance underwriters and PIs who started hinting heavily that Patel was in on the robbery. It was ugly. It got worse when Patel blew his brains out. He was heavily leveraged and had just lost his life’s savings. To be honest, Martin was surprised he didn’t take his wife and kids with him.

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Blood, Sweat, and Tea: Real-Life Adventures in an Inner-City Ambulance
by Tom Reynolds
Published 1 Apr 2008

This will either be very boring or immensely interesting–your choice. Ambulances run out of dedicated stations, we don’t share stations with the Fire Service. In fact, some years ago, when it was suggested the idea was shot down as we would be disturbing the firecrews’ sleep throughout the night. Each station has it’s own call-sign ‘Kl’, ‘J2’, ‘G4’ for example, then each ambo has a suffix that is attached to this, so one ambulance running out of station J2 would be called J201, while another would be J207. The stations are spaced approximately 5-6 miles apart, and you mainly service the area surrounding the station; however, with interhospital transfers and other irregularities you can quite easily find yourself across the other side of London.

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JPod
by Douglas Coupland
Published 30 Apr 2007

Her phone rang and I went off in search of more 3-D clip art cas-des. By three-thirty I was able to squeak out of the building on the pretext of buying Honey Nut Cheerios. Mom was in the kitchen, drinking tea and reading the Province. "Hello, dear. You're wearing... rags." "It's the new look." We went into Dad's den, where Mom had a G4 all set to go. The spreadsheet problem seemed easy to fix. "I think you just have some fields crossed. Which part is giving you the biggest problem?" "I'm trying to track THC counts, along with the genetic ancestry of the plants." "I see what it is—genetics are logarithmic, whereas potency counts aren't."

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All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work
by Joanna Biggs
Published 8 Apr 2015

Southwark Crown Court is a huge brown brick cube on the south bank of the Thames, punched with small brown square windows: inside, there is lino, glass reinforced by wire mesh and dark wood. In Court Two the judge sits below a coat of arms with barristers in front of him and a jury to his left. The accused sit behind the lawyers, in a glass box guarded by G4S contractors. You can hear them before they arrive, as doors slam and keys clink. The clerk is flipping between his court list and a crossword. Last to enter is the jury: one member has faux daisies pinned into her hair; another turns and looks at the defendants for the entire time she’s in court. The judge asks the foreman to stand up and give us his verdict.

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Beyond Diversification: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Asset Allocation
by Sebastien Page
Published 4 Nov 2020

Select a return from the risk-off regime only when the random number draw is 0.05 or below. Otherwise, select a normal regime return. Suppose normal regime returns are in column E, risk-off regime returns are in column F, and the RAND() is in column G. Also, suppose the simulation starts on row 4. Here is the formula: =IF(G4<0.05,F4,E4) The simulated return distribution that includes regime shifts (fourth column) has a skewness of –1.65 and a kurtosis of 12.6. It’s extremely fat tailed, even though it was generated from two normal distributions (again, normal + normal = nonnormal). In that context, extreme losses represented by 6-, 7-, or more sigma events aren’t expected to be as rare as “once in the history of the universe” or other such claims.

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Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System
by Colin Yeo;
Published 15 Feb 2020

Moran et al., ‘Mental health morbidity among people subject to immigration detention in the UK: A feasibility study’, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences (2018), vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 628–37. 10 Mary Bosworth, ‘Affect and Authority in Immigration Detention’, available at: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:497bf576-d284-4869-a29f-9b70eb1f7197/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=Mary%2BBosworth%252C%2BAuthority%2Band%2Baffect%2Bin%2Bimmigration%2Bdetention.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article. The names used by Bosworth are pseudonyms. 11 ‘G4S: “What I saw when I went undercover”’, BBC News, 4 September 2017. 12 ‘Detained forever? Foreign prisoners and indefinite detention’, Free Movement, 7 March 2011. 13 R (Hardial Singh) v Governor of Durham Prison [1983] EWHC 1 (QB). 14 Asylum Information Database, available at: https://www.asylumineurope.org/reports 15 Directive 2008/115/EC. 16 Detention tables, ‘Table dt_14_q: Top 20 longest lengths of detention of people in detention by sex’, Home Office Immigration Statistics. 17 Bosworth, Inside Immigration Detention, pp. 43–4. 18 Ibid., p. 3. 19 Ibid., pp. 13–14. 20 Oakington closed in 2010 and The Cedars, Dover, Haslar, Campsfield and The Verne have all closed in recent years. 21 ‘Profile: Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre’, The Guardian, 15 February 2002. 22 ‘Immigration detention: Fourteenth Report of Session 2017–19’, cited in Home Affairs Committee, 12 March 2019, p. 7. 23 ‘Annual Report and Accounts 2018–19’, Home Office, 6 June 2019. 24 R (Gureckis) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWHC 3298 (Admin). 25 ‘The effectiveness and impact of immigration detention casework: A joint thematic review by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’, 2012, available at: https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/04/immigration-detention-casework-2012.pdf 26 M. von Werthern, K.

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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture
by Harold Goldberg
Published 5 Apr 2011

But games that are artful from start to finish are few and far between because, as in the mainstream comics world, game makers are often mired in arrested development. It’s difficult to find an M-rated game (for those over seventeen only) without giant-titted, Frank Frazetta–like women drawn by artists who spend months working on applications to make breasts wiggle as they do in real life. Bloggers and even G4 TV’s witty “X-Play” have compiled long stories on the history of breast physics in videogames. A handful of underground artists have indeed used games to espouse their popular art on a higher plane. Artist Mary Flanagan reprogrammed the software from Unreal Tournament 2003 to make Domestic, a memoirlike tale of her father being trapped in the family’s house during a fire.

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The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save It
by Stuart Maconie
Published 5 Mar 2020

The privatised utilities are felt to be in a different category: they are public services. But there is a widespread view that demanding profit targets have overridden public service obligations. And the public is right.’ In August 2018, the government had to step in to take control of Birmingham’s Winson Green prison from the private company G4S after inspectors found it in ‘an appalling state’ with widespread violence, drug use and negligible discipline or control exercised by terrified staff. This state of affairs culminated in riots. Humiliatingly for the privateers, it had been the first prison to be given over to the private sector in 2011.

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Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron
by John Preston
Published 9 Feb 2021

Maxwell’s increasing pickiness took even George Wheeler aback. ‘Even if he saw a grey eyebrow, he would go berserk.’ Any qualms Andrea may have had about being on the receiving end of Maxwell’s attentions seemed to have disappeared – for the time being at least. When the two of them travelled together on his new Gulfstream G4 private jet, she would sit opposite him with her feet tucked beneath his thighs. On transatlantic flights, they would even lie down together on the plane’s divan bed. As far as Simon Grigg was concerned, ‘it was clear that he was in love with her, and she was in love with him. Although Andrea had this cool exterior, there was an insecurity to her; she was a very private girl.

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The Elements of Statistical Learning (Springer Series in Statistics)
by Trevor Hastie , Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman
Published 25 Aug 2009

This is pursued in Exercise 12.6, and the resulting algorithm is presented here. We create an N × K indicator response matrix Y from the responses gi , such that yik = 1 if gi = k, otherwise yik = 0. For a five-class problem Y might look like the following: 12.5 Flexible Discriminant Analysis g1 = 2 g2 = 1 g3 = 1 g4 = 5 g5 = 4 .. . gN = 3 C1 0  1   1   0   0     0 C2 1 0 0 0 0 0 C3 0 0 0 0 0 .. . 1 C4 0 0 0 0 1 0 445 C5  0 0   0   1   0     0 Here are the computational steps: 1. Multivariate nonparametric regression. Fit a multiresponse, adaptive nonparametric regression of Y on X, giving fitted values Ŷ.

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It turns out that this is not the case if linear operators are used for the optimal scoring regression. The enlarged indicator Y matrix collapses in this case to a blurred response matrix Z, which is intuitively pleasing. For example, suppose there are K = 3 classes, and Rk = 3 subclasses per class. Then Z might be 12.7 Mixture Discriminant Analysis g1 g2 g3 g4 g5 .. . gN c11 0  0.9   0.1   0   0    =3 0 =2 =1 =1 =3 =2  c12 0 0.1 0.8 0 0 c13 0 0.0 0.1 0 0 c21 0.3 0 0 0 0.7 .. . c22 0.5 0 0 0 0.1 c23 0.2 0 0 0 0.2 c31 0 0 0 0.5 0 c32 0 0 0 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.1 c33  0 0   0   0.1  , 0     0.8 451 (12.63) where the entries in a class-k row correspond to W (ckr |x, gi ).

Lonely Planet Best of Spain
by Lonely Planet
Published 1 Nov 2016

Central Barcelona 1 Sights 1 Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu A5 2 Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar G3 3 Domus de Sant Honorat D4 4 Gran Teatre del Liceu C5 5 La Capella A5 6 La Catedral D3 7 La Rambla C5 8 Mercat de la Boqueria B4 9 Mercat de Santa Caterina F1 10 Mosaïc de Miró C5 11 Museu d’Història de Barcelona E3 12 Museu Frederic Marès E3 13 Museu Picasso G2 14 Palau Güell C6 15 Plaça del Rei E3 16 Plaça Reial D5 2 Activities, Courses & Tours 17 Runner Bean Tours A4 7 Shopping Cereria Subirà (see 11) 18 El Rei de la Màgia F2 19 Herboristeria del Rei D5 20 Vila Viniteca G4 5 Eating 21 Bar Pinotxo B4 22 Bormuth H2 23 Cafè de l’Acadèmia F4 24 Cal Pep H3 25 Casa Delfín H2 26 El Atril F1 27 Els Quatre Gats C2 28 La Vinateria del Call D4 29 Xurreria D4 6 Drinking & Nightlife 30 Boadas A2 31 Caelum C3 32 Cafè de l’Òpera C5 33 Can Paixano H4 34 El Born Bar H3 35 Ginger F4 36 Guzzo H2 37 Juanra Falces H2 38 La Cerveteca F4 39 La Vinya del Senyor G3 40 L’Ascensor E4 41 Mudanzas H3 42 Ocaña D6 43 Rubí G3 44 Salterio D4 45 Sor Rita G5 3 Entertainment 46 Gran Teatre del Liceu C5 47 Sala Tarantos D6 1 Sights 1 La Rambla & Barri Gòtic La Rambla, Barcelona’s most famous pedestrian strip, is always a hive of activity, with buskers, peddlers, tourists and con artists (watch out!)

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Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy
by Iain Martin
Published 11 Sep 2013

Another American non-executive, Charles ‘Bud’ Koch, the former boss of Charter One, has stepped back from finance. Colin Buchan stood down from the RBS board in 2011. Investment banker Joe MacHale left the RBS board in May 2013, the last of the group who were there in 2008. John Connolly, the former boss of Deloitte, RBS’s auditor, stepped down and became chairman of G4S just in time for the security group’s difficulties over its failure to hire sufficient numbers of staff to fulfill its contracts for the London Olympics. Victor Hong, the risk manager man who actually resigned from Greenwich on a point of principle, disputing the marking of CDOs, is now a consultant on risk management and regulation.

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The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future
by Laurence C. Smith
Published 22 Sep 2010

Troy, “Observed Changes of Pan-Arctic Cold-Season Minimum Monthly River Discharge,” Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.888/1748-9326 /4/2/024011. 286 L. C. Smith et al., “Rising Minimum Daily Flows in Northern Eurasian Rivers: A Growing Influence of Groundwater in the High-Latitude Hydrologic Cycle,” Journal of Geophysical Research 112, G4, (2007): G04S47. 287 Ice caps are large glacier masses on land. Unlike Antarctica, a continent buried beneath mile-thick glaciers and surrounded by oceans, the Arctic is an ocean surrounded by continents. It is thinly covered with just one to two meters of seasonally frozen ocean water called “sea ice.” 288 The Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, which convenes each December in San Francisco, California. 289 The Arctic Ocean freezes over completely in winter but partially opens in summer.

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Statistics hacks
by Bruce Frey
Published 9 May 2006

Where It Doesn't Work Benford's law is less likely to apply in data sets with insufficient variability or data sets that are nonrandomly selected. For example, computer files sizes approximately follow Benford's law, but only if no restriction is placed on the type of files selected. To illustrate this, I found the frequencies of the first digit of the file sizes on an Apple PowerBook G4. The results shown in Figure 6-3 and Table 6-11 exhibit the Benford's law pattern. Figure 6-3. Computer files that follow Benford's law Table Computer files that approximately follow Benford's law First nonzero digitRelative frequency for first digit of 660,172 computer filesProbability according to Benford's law 1 0.277 0.301 2 0.181 0.176 3 0.144 0.125 4 0.107 0.097 5 0.076 0.079 6 0.067 0.067 7 0.054 0.058 8 0.054 0.051 9 0.041 0.046 Although the results shown in Figure 6-3 and Table 6-11 are based on 660,172 files, Table 6-12 demonstrates that a sample size of 600 is large enough to exhibit the Benford's law pattern (albeit not as well as the larger sample), provided the sample of files is random.

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Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain
by Robert Verkaik
Published 14 Apr 2018

Should the human-rights bar prove insurmountable perhaps we should consider turning all our schools into fee-paying private institutions, issuing the poorest pupils with school vouchers which they could spend at Eton, Harrow and Winchester or any school they chose. By sending everyone to public schools run by companies like Capita and G4, no one would unfairly benefit from a privileged education and the taxpayer would save tens of billions of pounds a year in funding primary and secondary schools. Privatising all schools would, at a stroke, neutralise the elitist appeal of the public school. After all, the reason why the rich and powerful patronise them with their business is partly because 93 per cent of the population can’t afford to.

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The Defence of the Realm
by Christopher Andrew
Published 2 Aug 2010

As a political refugee from Tsarist Russia in pre-war Britain, Klishko had been employed as a technical translator by the armaments firm Vickers, and had been suspected by Scotland Yard of arms smuggling to Russian revolutionaries.27 A Vickers manager reported at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution that Klishko was ‘very friendly with the notorious Lenin’ and had ‘the most extreme Leninite views’.28 The head of the Russian section (G4), Captain Maurice Bray, one of MI5’s Russian speakers (‘recreations: shooting and golf’), concluded in July 1918 that Klishko was the ‘most dangerous Bolshevik here’.29 He was interned in August and subsequently deported, before returning to London in May 1920 with the Russian Trade Delegation. Once back in London he was kept under inadequate surveillance.

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The decrypts are in TNA HW 12/332; copies of many of them are in HLRO Lloyd George MSS. 26 Andrew, Secret Service, pp. 377, 384–8, 394. 27 H1 summary of reports on Klishko from 1 September 1915 to 9 September 1918, TNA KV 2/1411. 28 ‘Nicholas Klyshko’ [sic], 21 Feb. 1918, TNA KV 2/1410. 29 Report by M. W. Bray (G4), 11 July 1918, TNA KV 2/1411. Bray served in MI5 from May 1917 to January 1919; Security Service Archives. 30 ‘Clandestine Activities of William Norman Ewer 1919–1929’, September 1949, p. 1, TNA KV 2/1016, s. 1101a. 31 On SIS operations against Soviet Russia in the 1920s, see Jeffery, Official History of the Secret Intelligence Service, part II. 32 Andrew, Secret Service, pp. 398–400. 33 Note by A.

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‘Bert’ 367, 368 Ewart, Sir John Spencer 10–11, 19, 20, 24, 29–30 Ewer, William Norman 145, 152–4, 156, 157–9 F Branch/Division 84, 236, 268, 281, 325, 551, 558, 561, 600, 622–3, 647, 648–9, 681, 683, 745; F1 408, 611, 664; FIA 332, 527–8, 529, 530, 660, 664, 673; FIB 604; FIC 332, 668; F2 561, 656; F2A 274, 278; F2C 277, 332, 561; F3 611, 615, 684; F4 402, 408, 498; F5 619, 622, 684, 700, 740–41; F8 700; see also Appendix 3 Falber, Reuben 386, 418 Falklands conflict (1982) 697, 755, 757 ‘false flag’ technique 167, 583 Farrell, Maire´ad 739, 740, 741–3, 744–5 Fascism: Italy 105, 124, 191, 193, 197; internment of British Fascists 192, 194, 227, 230–31, 235; Spain 259, 260; and labour unrest 595; see also British Union of Fascists Faux, Julian 607, 613, 619, 751 FBI (US Federal Bureau of Investigation): pre-war 210; and VENONA project 366, 372–3, 377; and atom spies 386–7, 389, 390; involvement in investigations into alleged Soviet penetration of security services 509, 514; Irish Republican investigations 697, 749–50; categorization of double agents’ motives 713 Ferguson, Victor 94, 96, 99 ‘fifth column’ fears: wartime 223–4, 225, 227, 228, 229–30, 859–50; Cold War 400, 405 Findlay, Mansfeldt de Carbonnel 86, 89 ‘Finney, Jim’ (IIB agent) 123, 149, 152 First United States Army Group (FUSAG) 284, 299, 305, 309 First World War: outbreak 50, 53–4; spy mania 53–5, 81, 223; Western Front 55, 73, 91, 96, 98–9, 104, 105, 106, 108, 861; opposition to 66, 94–5, 99, 101–4, 106; battle of Jutland 72; naval operations 72, 463; sabotage operations 75, 77, 78–9, 852; Eastern Front 77, 98; conscription 94–5; Caporetto 104; Amiens 106; Armistice 106; demobilization 140; Holt-Wilson on 187 Fischer Williams, Jenifer (later Hart) 375, 538–9, 540 Fisher, Sir Warren 119, 120, 136–7, 203, 218–19, 227 FLAVIUS, Operation 739–45 Fletcher, Yvonne 701, 702 Floud, Bernard 538–41 FLUENCY (joint Security Service–SIS working party) 510–12, 515–18, 521, 634 Foot, Sir Hugh 464, 465 Foot, Michael 166, 418, 464, 578, 638, 663 FOOT, Operation (1971 expulsion of Soviet intelligence personnel) 565–7, 571–3, 574–5, 576, 579, 586, 732, 859 Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) 481, 552–3, 566, 701, 724 Foreign Office 25, 35, 119, 174–5, 207, 208–9, 244, 246, 263–5, 268, 279, 393–4, 407, 410, 421, 425, 495, 496–7, 533, 854 FORTITUDE, Operation 296–8, 299–300, 310, 855 Foulkes, Frank 410, 411, 529, 530 FOXHUNTER, Operation 463 France: Triple Entente 8; Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) 11, 12; pre-First World War German intelligence in 52, 66; liaison with British intelligence 71, 137, 185; First World War 80, 98–9, 101; post-First World War threat 117; French Communist Party (PCF) 161; Nazi occupation 205, 222, 223, 230, 298; Allied invasion 284, 296–7, 304–10; decolonization 442; Suez crisis 445, 473; reaction to FOOT 574–5; terrorist attacks in 691, 692; PIRA bases in 699, 772; Islamist terrorism 802; see also DST Franco, Francisco 260, 267 Frazer, John 409, 410 Freeman, John 410, 446, 529, 530 Frolik, Josef 535, 541–3, 707 Fryers, Robert ‘Rab’ 777, 784–5, 855 Fuchs, Klaus: investigation, interrogation and confession 334, 371, 385–6, 858, 853; conviction and imprisonment 345, 377, 386–7; and Gouzenko defection 346; identified through VENONA decrypts 375, 376, 377, 384–5; case causes crisis in Special Relationship 386–7, 390; run by female GRU controller 550, 580; links with Melita Norwood 580 Fulton Report (1968) 338 Furnival Jones, Sir Martin (‘FJ’): recruited to MI5 219; on Masterman 317–18; appointed DG (1965) 328; background and character 328, 332; introduction of new career structure 332; management style 338, 547; and Philby case 432, 435; stationing of SLOs in Africa 469, 471; and phasing out of SLOs 481; and Portland spy-ring 485, 486; and Blake case 489; and investigations of Mitchell and Hollis 506–7, 515, 516, 517–18, 520; and FLUENCY working party 511–12, 515; and Golitsyn and Angleton’s conspiracy theories 513, 515, 516; and Wigg 524–5; industrial subversion investigations 528, 529, 588, 590–91, 594–6; and D-Notice affair 531; advises Marcia Williams’s removal 533; and Callaghan 534–6; and Thorpe affair 534; review of protective security 537, 607; and Blake escape and defection 538; and Floud and Owen cases 539, 542; Heath’s dislike of 547, 587; retirement (1972) 547; appointment of successor 547–8; and FOOT 567, 574; and Arab terrorism 601–2; and Northern Ireland 602–3, 604, 607, 618 FX Branch 560, 647, 683, 700, 702, 734, 745–6 G Branch 84, 93, 94, 745–6, 772, 805, 818; G1 95–6, 97; G4 145; see also Appendix 3 Gaitskell, Hugh 412, 416, 418–19, 526, 847–8, 853 Gallacher, Willie 148, 166, 278, 381, 404 Gandhi, Indira 446, 736–7 Gannon, Donal 795–7 Garby-Czerniawski, Roman (double agent BRUTUS) 298–9, 300, 309, 312, 316 Gardiner, Gerald, Baron 410, 525 Gardner, Meredith 366, 376, 423, 431, 433–4 GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters): collaboration with American A(F)SA 366, 372–3; VENONA project 366, 372, 378, 434; at Eastcote 428; Prime case 578–9, 712–13, 754, 756; counter-proliferation role 788 Gee, Ethel ‘Bunty’ 485, 487 General Strike (1926) 125–6 George V, King 146, 179 George VI, King 297, 310, 416, 856 German Communist Party (KPD) 188, 189–90 German embassy (London) 195–7, 199, 853 Germany, Imperial: pre-war espionage and invasion threat 3, 7–21, 30–52, 861; navy 8, 55, 64, 162; Meldewesen system 30; wartime espionage and sabotage attempts 66–80, 861–2; wartime subversion 86–7, 90–92, 94, 99–100, 101–3, 106–7, 852; Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) 104; Treaty of Versailles (1919) 186, 195, 198, 852 Germany, Weimar 117, 186–8, 198, 852 Germany, Nazi: anti-Semitism 7, 189–90; Hitler’s rise 188–9; violence and repression 188–9, 190; concentration camps 189, 352, 364; rearmament 195; and Rhineland 198; annexation of Austria 200; threat to Czechoslovakia 200, 202, 207–8; pre-war espionage 210–11, 212–13; invasion of Poland 213; invasion of France and Low Countries 222, 223; planned invasion of Britain 230–31, 235, 250, 257–9, 858; invasion of Soviet Union 273, 292 Germany, post-war see East Germany; West Germany Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) 451–4, 468, 470–71, 859 Gibraltar: DSO 138, 220; Burgess goes wild in 422; attempted PIRA terrorist attack (1988) 739–45, 748 Glad, Tör (double agent JEFF) 292 Glading, Percy 137, 167, 179, 180–82, 183, 854 Gladstone, Hugh 62, 63, 64, 84 Glasgow 41, 139, 246, 254, 448, 653, 654; pub bombings (1979) 654; organized crime 790; terrorist attack on airport (2007) 836 GOLD, Operation 490 Goleniewski, Michal 484–5, 487, 488, 511 Golitsyn, Anatoli: intelligence on Cambridge Five 378, 435, 438, 439; defection 435, 503, 504; paranoia and exaggeration 439, 503, 504, 516; Vassall case 492; and Hollis and Mitchell 503–4, 507, 511, 512–13, 516, 518, 519; limitations of his evidence 503, 504; temporary move to Britain 504, 505, 506; and Sino-Soviet split 512–14; and CAZAB investigations 514–15 Gollan, John 402–3, 404, 410, 528, 592 Good Friday Agreement (1998) 782, 798 Gorbachev, Mikhail 680, 723, 725 Gordievsky, Oleg: posting to London 348, 708–12; identification of ELLI 348–9; on Pontecorvo 390; and identification of Fifth Man 440–41, 707–6; identification of Bob Edwards as KGB agent 527, 710–11, 711–12; on Jack Jones 536, 589, 657, 710–11; on KGB contacts with anti-nuclear movement 674–5; on funding of NUM 679; on Libyan terrorism 701; on Soviet fear of nuclear attack 709, 722–3, 861, 860; and Thatcher 709, 720, 725, 727, 730; succeeds Titov 710–11; and Hollis investigations 712; and Bettaney 714–18, 721; and Guk’s expulsion from London 724–5; appointed London resident designate 724–6; exposure and defection 726–7, 730; on Mikardo 758 Gordon Walker, Patrick 345, 412–13, 415, 416, 480, 526 Gorsky, Anatoli 184, 269, 272, 280 Gouzenko, Igor 282, 339–2, 343–49, 380, 431–2, 434 Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS): SIS control of 120; decrypts of Soviet ciphers 143–4, 146, 147, 154–5, 175–7, 178, 261; and ARCOS affair 156; surveillance of employees 158; decrypts of German ciphers 248, 253, 254, 300, 305, 855; relocation to Bletchley Park 248; Churchill’s interest in 287, 856; and Palestine intercept station 353; see also GCHQ; ISOS; ULTRA Government War Book 194, 404, 406, 859 Grant, Ted 660, 661, 682 Graves, Karl 40–41, 42–4, 50, 70 Gray, Olga 179–82, 183, 220–21, 401, 854 Green, Oliver 277, 281 Greene, Sir Hugh 396 Greenhill, Sir Denis, 565, 571, 572 Gregory, Ivor (Soviet agent ACE) 579, 582–3, 585 Grey, Sir Edward 37, 86, 89 Grieve, John 796, 855 Grist, Evelyn 274, 334–5 Grivas, George 462–5 Gromyko, Andrei 553, 566, 567, 573 Grosse, Heinrich 39–40, 42 GRU (Soviet military intelligence): pre-war anti-Western imperialist operations 161; wartime espionage 280, 374, 378–9; Canadian spy-ring 339–41, 344–49; messages decrypted by VENONA 378; growth of London residency in 1960s 491, 565–7; mass expulsion of London personnel (Operation FOOT) 565, 567, 571–3, 574–5, 732, 859; Operation RYAN 709, 722–3, 861; expulsion of agents following Gordievsky defection 727, 730, 736; policy on visas for 732–3 Guantánamo Bay 825 Guk, Arkadi 710, 714–17, 718, 719, 723–5, 732 H Branch 84, 779–80; H2 section see Registry; see also Appendix 3 Haddad, Wadi 60, 601, 605, 607 Hague, The 80, 651; SIS mission 200–201, 212–13, 241–2, 244–5, 246 Hahn, John 67, 68 Hain, Peter 641–2, 942 Haines, Joe 629, 631, 633, 634 Haldane, Maldwyn Makgill 59, 60, 63 Haldane, Richard Burdon, 1st Viscount 14–15, 19–20, 39, 54, 59 Halifax, E.

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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
by Peter Van-Roy and Seif Haridi
Published 15 Feb 2004

Together the three laboratories formed the Mozart Consortium with its neutral Web site http://www.mozart-oz.org so that the work would not be tied down to a single institution. This book was written using LATEX 2ε , ﬂex, xﬁg, xv, vi/vim, emacs, and Mozart, ﬁrst on a Dell Latitude with Red Hat Linux and KDE, and then on an Apple Macintosh PowerBook G4 with Mac OS X and X11. The screenshots were taken on a Sun workstation running Solaris. The ﬁrst author thanks the Walloon Region of Belgium for their generous support of the Oz/Mozart work at UCL in the PIRATES and MILOS projects. Final comments We have tried to make this book useful both as a textbook and as a reference.

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The function NewQueue returns a new queue Q, which is a record queue(put:PutProc get:GetProc) that contains two procedures, one for inserting an element in the queue and one for fetching an element from the queue. The queue is implemented with two ports. The use of dataﬂow variables makes the queue insensitive to the relative arrival order of Q.get and Q.put requests. For example, the Q.get requests 5. Using a prerelease of Mozart 1.3.0 on a PowerPC processor at 1 GHz (PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X), the rate is about 300000 asynchronous method calls per second. 380 Message-Passing Concurrency fun {NewQueue} Given GivePort={NewPort Given} Taken TakePort={NewPort Taken} in Given=Taken queue(put:proc {$ X} {Send GivePort X} end get:proc {$ X} {Send TakePort X} end) end Figure 5.17: Queue (naive version with ports).

Foundation's Edge
by Isaac Asimov
Published 28 Dec 2010

He reached out and slapped the other’s shoulder with an avuncular flourish. After a pause Trevize said, “Gaia-S is a single star or, if it has a companion, that companion is much farther away from it than we are at the present moment and it is, at best, a red dwarf, which means we need not be concerned with it. Gaia-S is a G4 star, which means it is perfectly capable of having a habitable planet, and that’s good. If it were an A or an M, we would have to turn around and leave right now.” Pelorat said, “I may be only a mythologist, but couldn’t we have determined the spectral class of Gaia-S from Sayshell?” “We could and we did, Janov, but it never hurts to check at closer quarters.

Canary Islands Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Puerto de la Cruz Sights 1 Ayuntamiento F1 2 Casa de la Aduana E1 3 Casa Iriarte E2 4 Castillo de San Felipe A3 Ermita de San Juan (see 6) 5 Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia F2 6 Iglesia de San Francisco E2 7 Museo Arqueológico D2 8 Risco Belle Aquatic Gardens F4 9 Sitio Litre Garden G4 10 Torreon de Ventoso E3 Activities, Courses & Tours 11 El Cardumen B4 12 Mountain Bike Active C3 Sleeping 13 Hotel Monopol E2 14 Hotel Tigaiga D2 15 Pensión Los Geranios D2 Eating 16 El Limón F2 17 La Papaya D2 18 La Rosa di Bari C2 19 Meson Los Gemelos D3 20 Rancho Grande F2 21 Restaurante Mil Sabores D1 22 Restaurante Rustico F2 23 Tapas Arcón E3 Drinking 24 Colours Café D2 25 Ebano Café F2 Entertainment 26 Salsa Bar G2 Southeast of the museum is the lively Plaza Charco (Puddle Plaza), which acquired its name because it used to flood from the sea every time there was a heavy storm (thankfully, no more).

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The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
by James Rickards
Published 7 Apr 2014

China waited over six years, from late 2002 to early 2009, before publicly announcing its last increase in official reserves. If China repeats that tempo, the next update to the gold reserve figures can be expected in 2015. Even these estimates based on known mining output and known imports must be qualified by the fact that certain gold imports to China are completely unreported. A senior manager of G4S, one of the world’s leading secure logistics firms, recently revealed to a gold industry executive that he had personally transported gold into China by land through central Asian mountain passes at the head of a column of People’s Liberation Army tanks and armored transport vehicles. This gold was in the form of the 400-ounce “good delivery” bars favored by central banks rather than the smaller one-kilo bars imported through regular channels and favored by retail investors.

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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
by Jane McGonigal
Published 20 Jan 2011

BitMob, August 25, 2009. http://bitmob.com/index.php/mobfeed/foldinghome-distributed-computing.html. 15 Pietzsch, Joachim. “The Importance of Protein Folding.” Horizon Symposia: Connecting Science to Life, online project of the journal Nature. http://www.nature.com/horizon/proteinfolding/background/importance.html. 16 McElroy, Griffin. “Joystiq Set to Overtake G4 in Folding@home Leaderboards Tonight.” Joystiq, February 8, 2010. http://playstation.joystiq.com/tag/folding@home; and Stella, Shiva. “Sony Updates Folding@home for PS3 Folks Trying to Save the World.” Game Bump, December 19, 2007. http://www.gamebump.com/go/sony_updates_folding_home_for_ps3_folks_trying_to_save_the_world. 17 Stasick, Ed.

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The Profiteers
by Sally Denton

“The fact that”: Eric Schlosser, “Break-In at Y-12: How a Handful of Pacifists and Nuns Exposed the Vulnerability of America’s Nuclear-Weapons Sites,” New Yorker, March 9, 2015. At the time of Sister Megan’s break-in at Y-12 during the summer of 2012, Wackenhut Services, Inc. was responsible for security at the site. A onetime American company, Wackenhut had been acquired by a Group 4 Falck, a British company. G4S, as it was called, was the third-largest private employer in the world, operating private prisons, defending American embassies, and providing security at rock concerts. In July 2014 a consortium headed by Bechtel and Lockheed Martin took over as the operator of Y-12. As of March 2015, Sister Megan was incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where, at eighty-five years old, she was serving out her sentence for her intrusion at Y-12.

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Lonely Planet Barcelona
by Isabella Noble and Regis St Louis
Published 15 Nov 2022

A short stroll northeast down the Camí del Mar pedestrian trail leads to another inspiring viewpoint at the 2Jardins del Mirador (map, G5; www.barcelona.cat; Carretera de Montjuïc h10am-sunset) F, opposite the Mirador cable car station. Immediately downhill, 3Plaça de la Sardana (map, G5; Carrer de Montjuïc; g150) is decorated with a sculpture of people engaged in the classic Catalan folk dance after which the square is named. To its left lie the charming landscaped 4Jardins de Joan Brossa (map, G4; www.barcelona.cat; Plaça de la Sardana; h10am-sunset) F, with fine views from the site of a former amusement park, now covered in Mediterranean species from cypresses, cedars and pines to olive trees and large-fan palms. Take a break at nearby tapas bar 5Salts Montjuïc. Head west and cross Carrer dels Tarongers to the painstakingly laid out 6Jardins de Mossèn Cinto de Verdaguer (map, F5; www.barcelona.cat; Avinguda de Miramar 30; h10am-sunset; g55, 150) F, with tulips, water lilies and lotus flowers.

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Why We Can't Afford the Rich
by Andrew Sayer
Published 6 Nov 2014

Evidently a global plutocrats’ forum is seen as an appropriate setting for them; at least business interests will be represented. (Well, plutocrat politicians are there anyway, so why not make global diplomacy come to them?) And business has major interests in wars, particularly resource wars, as was so clear in Halliburton’s, G4S’s and other companies’ involvement in the Iraq war. Meanwhile, the governed are kept at bay through massive security. Noam Chomsky contrasts the WEF with the alternative World Social Forum: The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term ‘globalization’ to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental.

The Cigarette: A Political History
by Sarah Milov
Published 1 Oct 2019

Kornegay, “Remarks—TI Spring Meeting,” 1974, Philip Morris Records, UCSF Library, https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/ytgc0107. 135. “Smoking Ban Has Berkeley Residents Smoldering,” Chicago Tribune, August 21, 1977. 136. Francis Ward, “Chicago Antismoking Law: Smokers Court Punishes Public Puffers,” Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1976, G4. Although African-American men smoked at higher rates than white men—55 percent versus 42 percent in 1974—behavioral discrepancies could not account for the demography of smokers’ court. See “Smoking and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General: Appendix: Cigarette Smoking in the United States, 1950–1978” (U.S.

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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R. Barber
Published 1 Jan 2007

Addiction itself is commodity based: no addiction therapy without web-based health sites and self-help books and novel medications aimed at depression or bipolarity or anorexia or the latest illness of the week that can be associated with addiction. To need and to shop become synonyms: “I Shop, Therefore I Am,” wails April Lane Benson, editor of the self-consciously Cartesian takeoff subtitled “Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self.”52 Apple computers are thus being sold under the slogan “What G4 are you?” And even Porsche is blurring the boundaries between consumer choice and what sounds like addiction: “Suddenly the line between want and need seems so arbitrary” runs the tag line for Porsche’s new Cayman S (a car also featured in the television series The Sopranos), followed by this afterthought: “Priorities give way to pure desire.”

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More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws
by John R. Lott
Published 15 May 2010

Five hours later, her ex-boyfriend attacked her outside her house. She shot him dead. The county prosecutor decided not to prosecute Latta for either the selfdefense homicide or the illegal gun. (Quoted from David B. Kopel, “Guns and Crime: Does Restricting Firearms Really Reduce Violence?” San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9, 1993, p. G4.) For another example where a woman’s ability to defend herself would have been impaired by a waiting period, see “Waiting Period Law Might Have Cost Mother’s Life,” USA Today, May 27, 1994, p. 10A. 388 | N OT E S TO PA G E S 9 4 – 1 0 7 43. Quoted in David Armstrong, “Cities’ Crime Moves to Suburbs,” Boston Globe, May 19, 1997, pp. 1 and B6.

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Lonely Planet Switzerland
by Lonely Planet

The journey takes 30 minutes each way. 4Sleeping & Eating Anonymous chain hotels reign supreme in Winterthur, but there are a few notable exceptions. Cheap restaurants are clustered along Neumarkt, offering a wide array of different ethnic cuisines. Depot 195HOSTEL€ ( GOOGLE MAP ; %052 203 13 63; www.depot195.ch; Lagerplatz 4; dm/s/d/f Sfr36-41/99/129/194; pW; g4, 11 to Wylandbrücke) A shining example of Winterthur’s urban regeneration, this hip hostel takes shelter in a born-again factory. Backpackers are in their element here, with cool digs with exposed brick and wood floors, a common room, roof terrace and bike rental (Sfr7 per day). Breakfast costs an extra Sfr10.

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The Gun
by C. J. Chivers
Published 12 Oct 2010

Prepared by Lieutenant Colonel Robert C. Engle, Project Manager Staff Officer, Rifles. 96. Personal communication to author by Paul A. Benke. 97. Lewis Sorley, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam (Harcourt Books, 1999), p. 164. 98. “Memorandum for Army Chief of Staff, G4, Fact Finding Visit to 199th Infantry Brigade,” March 28, 1968, by Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Semmler, Chief, PM Rifles, Vietnam Field Office. 99. Personal communication to author from Jack Beavers. 100. Contents of tape recording received from K. Ito and J. Fitzgerald, September 27, 1968. 101.

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Write Great Code, Volume 2
by Randall Hyde
Published 6 Aug 2012

Here is a list of the command-line options that MSVC++ provides to control optimization: -OPTIMIZATION- /O1 minimize space /Op[-] improve floating-pt consistency /O2 maximize speed /Os favor code space /Oa assume no aliasing /Ot favor code speed /Ob<n> inline expansion (default n=0) /Ow assume cross-function aliasing /Od disable optimizations (default) /Ox maximum opts. (/Ogityb1 /Gs) /Og enable global optimization /Oy[-] enable frame pointer omission /Oi enable intrinsic functions -CODE GENERATION- /G3 optimize for 80386 /Gy separate functions for linker /G4 optimize for 80486 /Ge force stack checking for all funcs /G5 optimize for Pentium /Gs[num] disable stack checking calls /G6 optimize for Pentium Pro /Gh enable hook function call /GB optimize for blended model (default) /GR[-] enable C++ RTTI /Gd __cdecl calling convention /GX[-] enable C++ EH (same as /EHsc) /Gr __fastcall calling convention /Gi[-] enable incremental compilation /Gz __stdcall calling convention /Gm[-] enable minimal rebuild /GA optimize for Windows application /EHs enable synchronous C++ EH /GD optimize for Windows DLL /EHa enable asynchronous C++ EH /Gf enable string pooling /EHc extern "C" defaults to nothrow /GF enable read-only string pooling /QIfdiv[-] enable Pentium FDIV fix /GZ enable runtime debug checks /QI0f[-] enable Pentium 0x0f fix GCC has a comparable, though much longer list, that you can view by specifying -v --help on the GCC command line.

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My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
by Kevin Smith
Published 24 Sep 2007

I give him back his laptop and jump online on my desk-top, hell-bent on buying a downloadable version of Virtual PC for Mac (UB isn’t a Mac-friendly site) so that I, too, can become part of the poker action. Problem is, I can’t find anyone selling it for instant download. My only option is to head over to the Mac Store, but I dare not attempt it, lest Jen rip my head off for trying to do something other than getting ready for the Poetry Event. I IM Matt Potter who’s got Virtual PC on the G4 desk-top I bought him last year in exchange for editing the Tea Party doc, so he uploads a copy to our server site. While it’s downloading, I’m playing at the site on Mewes’s laptop. Jen comes in to the office to tell me it’s time to get showered and ready for the Poetry Event. After two warnings, I do so, and air-dry at the desk-top while I pull together some notes for each speaker’s intro, as well as some opening remarks.

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Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
by Antti Ilmanen
Published 4 Apr 2011

Realized and expected inflation series share similar contours—the postwar mountain shape (the 1960s’ and 1970s’ uptrend and the 1980s’ and 1990s’ downtrend). Before 1978 no forecasts of long-term inflation are available so I use one-year-ahead inflation forecasts or time series estimates by Fed researchers instead. Figure 9.9. Expected 10-year real yield scatterplotted on expected long-term inflation rates for G4 markets, 1983–2009. Sources: Bloomberg, Haver Analytics, Blue Chip Economic Indicators, Consensus Economics. • Inflation uncertainty. Realized time series volatility of inflation and bond yields likewise show a peak around 1980 and later fall sharply. More relevant measures include option-based implied volatility, dispersion among many forecasters, and self-reported inflation uncertainty (individual forecasters’ wide probability density)

Lonely Planet Norway
by Lonely Planet

VitensenteretMUSEUM ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.vitensenteret.com; Kongens gate 1; adult/child/family 95/50/330kr; h10am-5pm Mon-Fri, 11am-5pm Sat & Sun late Jun–mid-Aug, 10am-4pm Mon-Fri, 11am-5pm Sat & Sun rest of year; c) Children especially will enjoy the hands-on experiments at this practical, active centre with over 150 models to choose from. Ringve Music MuseumMUSEUM ( GOOGLE MAP ; %73 87 02 80; www.ringve.no; Lade Allé 60; adult/child 120kr/free; h10am-5pm May-Aug, 11am-4pm Tue-Sun Sep-Apr; g3, g4) The Ringve Museum is Norway's national museum for music and musical instruments. The Russian-born owner was a devoted collector of rare and antique musical instruments, which students demonstrate. You can also browse the old barn with its rich collection of instruments from around the world. The botanic gardens, set within the surrounding 18th-century estate, are a quiet green setting for a stroll.

Spain
by Lonely Planet Publications and Damien Simonis
Published 14 May 1997

Less well known, but just as rewarding, are Valencia’s Els Ports area (Click here), and the Sierra de Cazorla (Click here) and Sierra de Grazalema (Click here) in Andalucía. To walk in mountain villages, the classic spot is Las Alpujarras (Click here), near the Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada in Andalucía. Galicia has some interesting possibilities, including the Camino Real (PR-G4; Click here) in the monastery-laden natural paradise of A Ribeira Sacra. The Pyrenean foothills in Navarra offer superb village-to-village hiking, in particular around the oh-so-pretty Valle del Baztán (Click here). * * * With an average altitude of 660m, Spain is the second-highest country in Europe, after Switzerland

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Ourense to A Teixera Take the wide OU-536 highway about 15km east of Ourense to Tarreirigo to pick up the OU-0509, a winding country land that meanders through moss-laden forests. Veer right at the sign for Luintra and the first stop, the Mosteiro de San Pedro de Rocas, a monastery whose 6th-century chapel was hewn out of the mountainside. You can’t enter, but the wide gates let you see inside. The monastery is located along the beautiful Camino Real (Royal Path; aka PR-G4), a 9km/two-hour circuit that loops around the area. Back on the highway, continue towards Luintra and veer right on the OU-0508 towards the Benedictine Mosteiro San Estevo (opposite) now a Parador Hotel. Though a monastery may have stood here as early as the 6th century, the mammoth construction you see today dates to the 12th century and was greatly modified through the years, with three magnificent cloisters (one Romanesque, one Gothic, one Renaissance) and an 18th-century baroque facade.

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Lonely Planet China (Travel Guide)
by Lonely Planet and Shawn Low
Published 1 Apr 2015

Taishan International Youth HostelHOSTEL (Taishan Guoji Qingnian Lushe MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %628 5196; 65 Tongtian Jie; dm ¥50-70, s & d ¥188; aiW; g1, 4, 7, 8, 17) Tai’an’s first youth hostel has clean spartan rooms with pine furnishings and old propaganda posters. Bike rental, free laundry and a bar on the 4th floor make this a pleasant experience. Look for the pair of arches just off Tongtian Jie. Discounts get rooms down to ¥128. Yuzuo HotelHOTEL (Yuzuo Binguan MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %826 9999; www.yuzuo.cn; 50 Daimiao Beilu; s & d ¥780, ste ¥1680; aW; g4, 6) This pretty hotel next to the Dai Temple’s north gate was purposely kept to two storeys out of respect for its neighbour. Deluxe rooms are decked out imperial style; cheaper rooms are rather ordinary. The attached bakery and restaurants serve Taoist food (12 courses ¥168 per person). Discounts of 50% make this a good deal.

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The wall outside, often said to be a section of Macau's old city walls, in fact belonged to the former St Paul’s College located at the ruins. Ox WarehouseARTS CENTRE (Armazem de Boi MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %2853 0026; http://oxwarehouse.blogspot.com; cnr Avenida do Coronel Mesquita & Avenida do Almirante Lacerda; hnoon-7pm Wed-Mon; g4, 5, 25, 26A, 33) This atmospheric former slaughterhouse is run by a nonprofit that hosts contemporary exhibitions, workshops and performances by local and visiting artists. Much of the work is engagingly experiential. Even if nothing's on, the architecture of the old buildings here makes it worthwhile to come for a peek.

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
by Stephen Hawking
Published 28 Mar 2007

It is easy to prove that if r is a biquadratic residue of 8n + 1, the value of the expression 1/r (mod. 8n + 1) will also be such a residue. So all biquadratic residues can be distributed into classes just as we distributed quadratic residues in article 109, and the rest of the demonstration proceeds in almost the same way as it did there. III. Let g4 ≡ −1, and h the value of the expression 1/g (mod. 8n + 1). Then we will have (g ± h)2 = g2 + h2 ± 2gh ≡ g2 + h2 ± 2 (because gh ≡ 1). But g4 ≡ −1 and so − h2 ≡ g4h2 ≡ g2. Thus g2 + h2 ≡ 0 and (g ± h)2 ≡ ±2; i.e. both +2 and −2 are quadric residues 8n + 1. Q.E.D. 116. From what precedes we can easily deduce the following general rule: +2 is a residue of any number that cannot be divided by 4 or by any prime of the form 8n + 3 or 8n + 5, and a nonresidue of all others (e.g. of all numbers of the forms 8n + 3, 8n + 5 whether they are prime or composite); −2 is a residue of any number that cannot be divided by 4 or by any prime of the form 8n + 5 or 8n + 7, and a nonresidue of all others.

Hawaii
by Jeff Campbell
Published 4 Nov 2009

Also choose from a smattering of homemade desserts – perfect for picnic lunches to take to the beach. Hanalei Dolphin Fish Market (826-6113; 5-5016 Kuhio Hwy; lunches $12-14; sushi rolls $10-14; 10am-7pm) Grab your poke and plate lunches here. Kalypso Island Bar & Grill (826-9700; www.kalypsokauai.com; G4-5156 Kuhio Hwy; mains $12-30; 11am-9pm) Ambience and sincere, attentive service make the ‘Hawaiian’ pub fare (aloha, coconut shrimp!) easier to take. Postcards Café (826-1191; www.postcardscafé.com; 5-5075 Kuhio Hwy; mains $18-27; 6-9pm) Postcards has a cottagelike ambience and its pupu platter is worth a try, with taro fritters, seafood rockets, summer rolls and seared ahi.

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The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
by William D. Cohan
Published 25 Dec 2015

and he says, 'Well, Michel's got a plane.' So then it starts unfolding." After the July 2000 crash of the Concorde outside of Paris, where 113 people died--resulting in the suspension of Concorde travel and an unfounded rumor that Felix, then the ambassador, was on that flight--Michel had arranged to lease a Gulfstream jet, a G4. Michel, of course, needed to easily get back and forth from New York, Paris, and London, and with the Concorde no longer reliably available, he joined the ranks of the other billionaires with their own private jets. After September 11, in the same way that Osama bin Laden's family members were allowed to return on a private jet to Saudi Arabia from the United States, Michel's wife was permitted to fly on September 13 to Paris from New York on Michel's jet.

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Post Wall: Rebuilding the World After 1989
by Kristina Spohr
Published 23 Sep 2019

TNA UK PREM 19/2945 cover note – Powell to Wicks (Treasury) 31.7.1990: Houston Economic Summit + Record of the Heads Discussion (Monday 9.7.1990) pp. 1–34 here esp. pp. 1–3 Back to text 175. R. W. Apple Jr ‘US Pushes to End Farming Subsidies’ NYT 10.7.1990. See GHWBPL Memcon of Bush–Delors talks 8.7.1990 Astro-Arena Houston pp. 1–5 esp p. 4. Bush and Delors (as well as the European G4) also quibbled over the role of the EBRD in the assessment of the Soviet economic reform programme before offering any further financial assistance. Generally while in Bush’s words ‘it is impossible for the US to loan money to USSR at this time’, the Europeans were much less reluctant to refuse aid.