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Atlanta Fed shock sounds 'Trumpcession' warning: McGeever

Trump is deliberately tanking the economy and then trying to cover it up with more firings and cooking the books. If no federal economic data is reliable then no one can trust it for things like investments, business decisions, government planning for economic downturn, etc.. This is yet another essential step in the Republican plan to ruin the economy for the benefit of Vladimir Putin and a hand full of Billionaires so rich they benefit if there is stagflation, or even worse deflation.

There is no non-sinister reason to do any of this.

Trump administration disbands two expert panels on economic data

Trump Advisers Want to Strip Public Spending From the GDP Tally. Why It Makes No Sense.

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Now why is trump disbanding the groups that know the economy the best? Is it because he’s about to run us off a cliff?

“WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has disbanded two expert committees that worked with the government to produce economic statistics, potentially affecting the quality of data.

The terminations by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick were effective February 28 and communicated on Tuesday via email to one of the panels, the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC), which assisted with inflation and employment gross domestic product (GDP) data.”

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Ian of Forgotten Weapons interviewing Stephen Petroni of the Foundation for European Societies of Arms Collectors (FESAC).

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Fusion researchers endorse push for pilot power plant in US

The growing sense of urgency around development of fusion technology for energy production in the United States got another boost this week with the release of a community consensus report by a diverse group of researchers from academia, government labs, and industry. High among its recommendations is development of a pilot fusion power plant, an ambitious goal that would be an important step toward an American fusion energy industry.

The report — the first of its kind in almost 20 years and the product of a novel 15-month collaboration process — identifies high-priority scientific needs that can help fill gaps in fusion knowledge and facilitate the drive to making fusion a practical energy source. It will be used by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) as it undertakes a new phase of strategic planning for its Fusion Energy Sciences program, the primary U.S. source of fusion research funding.

If successfully harnessed, fusion would fundamentally change the world’s energy grid by offering safe, abundant, carbon-free electricity production.

Some 300 members of the fusion community hammered out their consensus during three major workshop meetings and hundreds of online working-group sessions, using an anonymous voting process that gave all participants the chance to express themselves freely. The top energy-related priorities include:

development of a shared neutron source facility that can be used for development of critical materials and power plant designs;

continued cultivation of burning plasma physics knowledge through ongoing participation in the international ITER program and expanded public-private collaboration in the United States; and

Immediate pre-conceptual design of a new U.S. tokamak facility, which would begin operation by the end of the decade and support work on power extraction from exhaust heat and plasma sustainment.

Also identified were several “opportunities and research needs” that are broadly applicable across the fusion and plasma fields: use of advanced computing technologies for better understanding and modeling; development of improved plasma diagnostics; enhanced support for public-private partnerships; and embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion, along with development of a more multidisciplinary workforce.

“This is first time in a generation when the fusion community has been called upon to self-organize and figure out its highest priorities for getting from fusion science to fusion energy,” says Bob Mumgaard, chief executive of MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), one of a growing number of private companies pursuing fusion. “How we can get ready, with data, experience, test facilities — the things that are needed to support the science, and eventually an industry.

“The National Academies of Science (NAS) issued a good report [in late 2018], that said we should be bold and do fusion now and create test facilities,” adds Mumgaard. “But this is different because it’s the whole community, coming together in a very transparent grassroots effort to answer questions about what we’re doing, what needs to be done, and what we’re willing to not do. It wasn’t done in a back room but by scientists themselves, and they came out with a plan and priorities — it’s kind of cool.”

Nathan Howard, a research scientist at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was one of seven co-chairs who shared development oversight of the report, which will be used in developing long-range strategic plans for fusion science programs in response to a FESAC request issued in November 2018.

“The American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics took the lead and brought together the seven of us to gather data from the community,” explains Howard. In addition to fusion energy, the effort also generated extensive recommendations for Discovery Plasma Science, a diverse field of more-basic research with impact in astrophysics, high energy density plasma physics, and other disciplines.

One important development along the way was the creation of deeper linkages between the group focused on magnetic-confinement fusion and the one focused on fusion-related materials and technologies.

“It really didn’t make sense for those to be separate,” notes Howard. “The merger occurred naturally during the process and was motivated in part by the NAS burning plasma report, which said the U.S. should pursue building a fusion pilot plant, a reactor that will demonstrate creation of electricity from fusion and a closed fusion fuel cycle. The fusion community adopted construction of a pilot plant as its mission during the process”

While additional plasma research is important to achieving that goal, adds Howard, “the community recognized pretty clearly that we need more emphasis in fusion materials and technology. Where we’re most lacking in the progress towards a power plant is in areas such as design of the blanket [the area surrounding the reactor, used to breed fusion fuel] and fusion-relevant materials.”

Many of the outstanding materials issues are applicable not only to magnetic-confinement fusion, including the tokamak-type reactors that have received the most development attention to date, but also to inertial-confinement and other approaches, which offer different opportunities and challenges.

The report’s official recipient is a FESAC subcommittee chaired by Troy Carter, professor of physics at the University of California at Los Angeles and director of the university’s Basic Plasma Science Facility and Plasma Science and Technology Institute. He praised Howard and the other co-chairs for “working incredibly hard to organize the effort and bring so many people together. The report is very compelling, and the whole community should be commended — this sets an example for future iterations of the process and makes the job of my subcommittee much easier.”

In particular, says Carter, “junior members of the community really stepped up. The co-chairs are junior and mid-career people for the most part, and it’s important that it’s their plan, because given the time scale, they’ll be the ones implementing it.”

Carter notes that, while he knew the concept of driving aggressively toward a pilot plant had support, “I was a bit surprised at how strongly it was embraced in the process. It’s ambitious, and it points us in the direction of using innovation to get fusion energy onto the grid much quicker. There’s still a lot of work to do in core plasma physics, but we’ve also got to get working on materials and other technology, which we’re not putting enough effort towards now. It’s refreshing to see that broad support for changing direction.”

Carter’s group will now incorporate the report’s findings into strategic plans reflecting several budget scenarios it has been given.

“We’ll lay it all out to take advantage of the opportunities in science and push towards the goal of realizing a pilot plant. We’ve got really good information about initiatives and guidance on prioritization,” he says. “But a lot of the initiatives aren’t at the level of conceptual design, so we’ll have to do some work to figure out what they will cost. We have project management experts to work with, and also people from the private side — we have three members connected to private fusion companies, and will also engage other external points of view.”

That process is expected to take about eight months, says Carter, with the results being submitted to FESAC around year end. After a vote, it would become FESAC’s official advice to the Department of Energy. “It’s something a lot of folks in Congress are interested in,” notes Carter.

CFS’s Mumgaard says the report’s delivery could prove to be a key moment for the United States, with the potential to lead to a new fusion policy, Congressional action to support the nascent fusion industry and prepare for power plant licensing and regulation, and ongoing funding that would give academic and national laboratory leaders confidence to hire staff and build infrastructure. “It feels like things are going in the right direction,” he says. “The scientific community has to speak with one voice, and this is the process that creates that voice.”

Fusion researchers endorse push for pilot power plant in US syndicated from https://osmowaterfilters.blogspot.com/

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Société de production cinématographique et audiovisuelle créée en septembre 2017 par Christophe Gougeon et Yann Brolli, dans la continuité du bureau Atopic qui fut, lui, activé en 1998, et dont le projet narratif fut alors d'accomplir, par indiscipline aux genres, un déplacement des langages de la représentation. Axes de culture : la critique esthétique, l’histoire politique, la fiction intime.

  Christophe Gougeon est membre du SPI (Syndicat des Producteurs Indépendants), du C7 (Club du 7 octobre), récemment encore de la Commission Télévision de la Procirep, lecteur pour le Centre National de la Cinématographie (Direction de la Création) et pour les fonds de soutien à la production audiovisuelle et cinématographique des régions Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur et Haute-Normandie, fondateur du label cinématographique Third Home et de la société de distribution cinéma Contre-Allée en 2008 (avec Aurora Films et Ecce Films) dont certaines activités se sont un temps prolongées au sein d’Atopic avec Fabrizio Polpettini. Avait aussi fondé en juin 2009 la société anonyme GroupeGalactica regroupant pour l’audiovisuel industriellement neuf autres producteurs français et intégrera courant 2018 un réseau informel de producteurs internationaux (nom de code TheCircle) dédié à la coproduction de films indépendants. Egalement associé à la société La Bête, aux Editions Filigranes, à l’Atelier d’Edition et Loco Editions.

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Constellation Brands desarrollarán actividades sociales en Cajeme 

Demian Duarte

Con el objetivo de impulsar el desarrollo de Cajeme y la región sur del estado a partir de la inversión de Constellation Brands en la cervecería Modelo de Ciudad Obregón, esa empresa de capital estadounidense firmó un acuerdo con la Fundación del Empresariado Sonorense A.C. (FESAC) para desarrollar de manera conjunta, un portafolio de actividades y programas de responsabilidad…

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FESAC - Avis du comité d’expertise sur l’accord du 28 avril 2016, concernant l’indemnisation chômage des intermittents du spectacle 

FESAC – Avis du comité d’expertise sur l’accord du 28 avril 2016, concernant l’indemnisation chômage des intermittents du spectacle 

Le comité d’expertise, mis en place dans le cadre de la négociation de l’assurance chômage des intermittents du spectacle, vient de rendre son avis.

En cohérence avec les échanges réalisés lors de la négociation, l’accord a été évalué dans une fourchette d’économie allant de 84 à 93 millions d’euros.

Ce chiffrage ne tient compte ni de l’ensemble des mesures en faveur de l’emploi annoncées lors du…

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Plus de 678 nouveaux cas d’expulsion enregistrés en plus des 500 dossiers en voie d’expulsion.

Dans une lettre ouverte signée par les différents présidents des associations membres de la fédération sénégalaise des Associations de consommateurs (FESAC), dont elle est membre, l’Association pour la défense des locataires du Sénégal s’indigne de l’augmentation fulgurante du nombre d’expulsion de locataires avec la pandémie à Covid-19. 

  Ainsi l’ADLS prévient : “Le grand nombre des mesures mises en œuvre au lendemain de la loi d’habilitation et les conséquences néfastes de la COVID-19 viennent encore de frapper les locataires les plus vulnérables. Le vendredi 18 septembre 2020 passé, près de 500 nouveaux dossiers en voie d’expulsion ont été enregistrés au tribunal hors classe de Dakar. 

  Et ce vendredi 23 octobre, hormis la centaine d’anciens cas, 678 nouveaux cas en expulsion sont encore enregistrés”, renseigne la lettre ouverte adressée au  chef de l’État Macky Sall. 

  La dite Association invite le président de la République à se saisir du dossier car, “bon nombre de chefs de famille risquent de passer le « Gamou » dans des conditions difficiles. Si nous avions salué la courageuse mesure de suspension des expulsions durant la loi d’habilitation, nous déplorons tout de même cette vague d’expulsion à laquelle assistons en toute impuissance”, fustigent les membres de l’ADLS, qui dénoncent également le manque de loi d’accompagnement de la loi qui avait permis de ne pas expulser des locataires pendant la période…

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