Friday, July 31, 2020
Dr David Thomas: Born in the Hour of Victory: Cranbrook School, 1918-1993
| May no lie in word or deed, no underhand deceit, no sham, no idle boasting, no arrogant self-praise find expression in our lives, but a love of truth, goodness and sincerity by which the humblest among us in age or rank may add to the character and glory of the School. |
| (The Reverend F.T. Perkins, 23 July, 1918) |
Visualizing COVID-19’s Impact on Travel Worldwide
‘The world
wins at that struggle’: Mike Pezzullo on embracing uncertainty
TRAVEL BAGS PACKED? Rapidly
redeploying teams and utilising their capabilities across the APS is now the
‘permanent way of operating’ for the post-pandemic world, according to the
Home Affairs secretary.
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TRAVEL BAGS PACKED? Rapidly redeploying teams and utilising their capabilities across the APS is now the ‘permanent way of operating’ for the post-pandemic world, according to the Home Affairs secretary. |
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LOCAL GONGS: Local government minister Mark Coulton congratulated the nine winners, noting that more than 100 applications were submitted across all award categories this year. |
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Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force New Yorker
We’re Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades Pro Publica
Live Lightening Map of the world
Visualizing COVID-19’s Impact on Travel Worldwide - Washington Post – “Travel is one of the clearest ways to show how the coronavirus has disrupted the world. This globe shows the disappearance of flights over a five-month period, as covid-19 emerged in China and restrictions on global travel began to take hold…The pandemic has impacted global travel like no other event in history: By spring, every country in the world had thrown up some sort of entry restriction, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization. In April, international air passenger travel fell to levels not seen since the 1970s…”
Live Lightening Map of the COVID world
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: 18 of the world’s 20 most monitored cities are in China.
Chinese Tycoon Denounced Xi Jinping. Now He Faces Prosecution.
China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled an outspoken and prominent property tycoon who denounced the country’s authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping, paving the way for his criminal prosecution and escalating its efforts to quash dissent among the elite.
The party announced the expulsion of the tycoon, Ren Zhiqiang, late Thursday, and said that it had seized his assets for “serious violations of discipline and law” that included the possession of golf club memberships. Officials also took aim at Mr. Ren’s family, accusing him of “colluding with his children to accumulate wealth without restraint.”
The moves against Mr. Ren, 69, appeared designed to send a chill over the country’s entrepreneurs and other business leaders and demonstrate the party’s resolve to use him as an example to show that no one was above its demands of unflinching political loyalty.
From “to get rich is glorious” to “colluding with his children to accumulate wealth without restraint” in one generation.
NIST study finds that masks defeat most facial recognition algorithms
The Unspotted Issue in an Audit; Ethics and Crimes In an ABA Tax Section Court Procedure Virtual meeting on Wednesday, there was a one-hour discussion of ethical issues
The FT has a headline, just out: As they note: Gold soared to an all-time high and the dollar weakened to a multiyear low as
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Scott Dyreng (Duke), Fabio Gaertner (Wisconsin), Jeffrey Hoopes (North Carolina) & Mary Vernon (Wisconsin), The Effect of U.S. Tax Reform on the Tax Burdens of U.S. Domestic and Multinational Corporations:
We quantify the net effect of recent U.S. tax reform on the tax rates of public U.S. corporations and find they decreased by 7.5 to 11.4 percentage points on average following tax reform.