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Has 2020 really been real? Or are we all living in a computer simulation? – Daily Maverick

Posted: November 15, 2020 at 9:53 am

In a damning sign of the times, one of the most profound things anyone has recently told me was intended as a joke.

We were discussing philosopher Nick Bostroms paper Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? Bostrom argues that one of three propositions must be true: either (1) most posthuman civilisations go extinct; or (2) most posthuman civilisations are not interested in running computer simulations of their ancestral history; or (3) we are living in a computer simulation.

Despite popular interpretations of his argument, it is worthwhile noting that Bostrom does not argue that (3) is the case. Actually, Bostrom explicitly states that given the dark forest of our current ignorance, it seems sensible to apportion ones credence roughly evenly between (1), (2), and (3). In other words, there is about a one-third chance that we are living in a computer simulation.

An implicit assumption in Bostroms paper is that the only kind of evidence that would justify a reapportionment of probabilities is what our own civilisation ends up doing. For instance, if we end up developing technology so dangerous that a slight slip-up might cause our extinction, it seems sensible to add credence to the extinction scenario. Bostroms probability distribution accordingly relies on the assumption that we are, in fact, stuck in a dark forest of ignorance; that there is currently no evidence to suggest that one or the other eventuality is any more probable than any other.

Which gets me back to the joke. Its profundity lay in the observation that we already have evidence that suggests one eventuality over the other: the 2016 election of Donald Trump. According to my interlocutor, it provides compelling evidence that option (3) must be the case.

The implied argument, as I understood it, was a kind of reductio ad absurdum: for suppose that we are actually living in base reality. If so, then a man who has appeared as a wrestler on WWE and has joked about grabbing women by their genitals could never be elected to the highest office of the most powerful country on Earth (nor would someone who did a cameo on Gossip Girl be tasked with brokering peace in the Middle East). Such plot twists are the preserve of badly written soap operas.

As a minimal definitional requirement, the real world should be written well. In base reality, there is a real risk that a mistake at the highest levels of government say,accidental nuclear war or a failure to take climate change seriously could result inhuman extinction. It seems a reasonable expectation, therefore, that the world wont write itself into a corner. (If this is right, incidentally, then Bostrom was wrong to assume that the extinction scenario and the simulation scenario are statistically independent: an increase in the probability of extinction leads to an increase in our credence of simulation).

But Trump was elected to the Presidency of the United States, and Jared Kushner was tasked with brokering peace in the Middle East. The former star of The Apprentice becomes President of the United States: a plot twist worthy of M Night Shyamalan.

When I first heard this quip, I did not take it to be a serious argument. But events have a way of catching up to perceptions. In June 2016 the United Kingdom, against all expert advice, voted to leave the European Union. And the same argument that has been applied to the election of Trump can be applied mutatis mutandis to Brexit: if we were living in base reality, then people would not vote to leave the most prosperous single market on Earth. Prudent conservatism would win out, and the people would listen to what the experts told them. But then, on 23 June 2016, Britons did vote to do just that.

And then, of course, the world went ahead and well and truly jumped the shark. Covid-19 is manifestly a badly written piece of plot contrivance. Who could believe that a virus, less than a single micron in diameter, could thwart all the ingenuity of humankind, thereby collapsing the global economic system? If anything is, then Covid-19 is evidence that God, the great computer scientist in the sky, grew tired of their simulation and, like the gamer who, bored of the way the game is meant to be played, started experimenting with the physics engine and discovered that it is utterly broken.

Trump, Brexit, Covid-19: what unites all these is that they would not have happened had the world been a rational (read: physical) place. A cinema-goer, watching all of this, might be expected to walk out in protest: yes, Mx Screenwriter, Trump being elected once was a good gag you really got me good but very nearly twice!? Your fictional world has lost all plausibility.

There is another interpretation of these events, though I leave it to the reader to decide whether it is a better one. They have happened not because the world is not real, but because we treat it as if it isnt. Humans are deeply and dangerously nonchalant. We decide who or what to vote for not as expressions of deep political ideals, nor even of naked and rational self-interest, but often of irate contempt. What else can explain the 2016 election of Trump but hatred of elites, of Hillary Clinton, of liberals, Mexicans, Chinese, of most insidiously of all expertise itself?

The same is true, of course, of Brexit: Britons were not motivated by economic self-interest (for, if they were, they would surely have listened to the experts who near-unanimously agreed that it would leave them poorer off), but by disdain of European bureaucrats, Polish immigrants, and, again, of elites.

It would be folly, of course, to ascribe exactly the same psychological factors to Covid-19. But there is nonetheless a psychological explanation for our failure to deal with it: we think that the world conforms to our perceptions of it. In the modern world, this is more or less an acceptable form of belief: our ontology has expanded to include stock markets, the economy, and the limited liability corporation. The problem is that humans are not discerning, and we assume that the rules that apply to non-physical entities apply to physical ones as well. Covid-19, to our surprise, cannot be defeated by just not thinking about it.

The election of Joe Biden, then, should be celebrated for one simple reason: reality feels real again. DM

Quentin du Plessis holds degrees in Social Science and Law from the University of Cape Town and is currently working as a teaching and research assistant in the departments of private law and philosophy at UCT. In 2018, he was one of the winners of the South African Law Reform Commissions legal essay writing competition.

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Futureshock: Herbie Hancock and the Body Politics of Pop – PopMatters

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Futureshock Herbie Hancock

Columbia

August 1983

"Rockit" by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of pop. But besides reaching the Billboard #1 dance hit that summer, it broke a number of other thresholds as well. Hancock's single was the first by a black artist to be aired on MTVaside, that is from Michael Jackson. Jackson occupied a very different space in the Hall of American pop along with a personal narrative of race and body arising from a rare medical condition.

Hancock's "'Rockit" on MTV, on the other hand, was a calculated use of pop to reconfigure the racialised body in the music industry's designations.

"Rockit"'s significance lies in the convergence of new intersectionalities of the body that arose in the eighties. This writing draws them together so that masculinity from black subculture and radical feminist theory from academia entwine in a new body politics that goes beyond the human. That is, the futureshock of the body that awaits us (to paraphrase the 1983 album Futureshock that "Rockit" is a part of).

Robot Pipe by Thor_Deichmann (Pixabay License / Pixabay)

An expansive narration of the making of the "Rockit" sound track comes from journalist, musician, and filmmaker S.h. Fernando Jr., in his article, "How Herbie Hancock Crafted a Hip-Hop Classic". We get to know the circumstance and serendipity that takes Hancock and his jazz mingling with blues and funk into a recording session with turntable artist Grandmixer D.ST, bass guitarist and producer Bill Laswell, and synth/drum machine programmer Michael Beinhorn. Out of this session, an hour and a half at El Dorado Studios at Hollywood, the track emerges.

It personifies Laswell's concept of "collision music", whereby artists from different genres come together to try it on; and it meshed well with Hancock's rejection of anything predictable, to be willing to work blind, to avoid what he calls the "butter notes" as his mentor Miles Davis advised. Yet this could be read in many ways. On that recording session at El Dorado, Fernando Jr. writes, "Dave [Jerden, the sound engineer] told me Herbie came up to him and was like, 'This is cool, isn't it?' 'Cause he just had no idea at all. To me, it felt like a case of when you got nothin', you got nothin' to lose."

Fernando Jr. further recounts how the song got its first public airing: "As soon as the song was mixed, they left for the airport with a reference copy on cassette. "We had some time to kill," Laswell recalls, "so I said let's stop at this speaker store. And we went inside and wanted to hear some different speakers. The guy in the store was going to play some bullshit rock stuff, so I said, 'Here, play this. I want to hear how this sounds.' And it was 'Rockit.'" Laswell cranked up the volume. "When we played it," he says, "there were all these kids from the neighborhood, and they gathered around us, and they're like, 'What the fuck is this?!' I looked at D, and I was like, 'That's a hit record.'"

This is how one hit single came to present the new soloist of the pop world: the scratch artist with only the turntable as an instrument. Hancock had stumbled upon hip-hop and scratching barely a year before, through Malcolm Mclaren's 1982 song, "Buffalo gals". The Sex Pistols producer took the hip-hop scratch out of the Black "hood" and subculture into the white mainstream. The transition has a story from its producer Trevor Horn. Given Mclaren's compulsion to produce a cover of "Buffalo Gals" from Piute Pete's 1940s-era Square Dances album, Horn asked him, "Why don't we do a rapping scratching version of 'Buffalo Gals'?" So they flew over the hip-hop crew The World's Famous Supreme Team from the Bronx to London, whose response was, "Nah, we can't do that that's Ku Klux Klan shit. That's what the Ku Klux Klan dance to."

But then we learn how music, race, politics, and aesthetics came to be churned around in the hip-hop mill. And that in time led to Hancock's "Rockit" to open up a new age of the body in pop. Key to this was the "Rockit" video without which the sound track may never have found the airtime. Fernando Jr quotes Bill Laswell saying, "I don't think Sony/Columbia would have released it if not for the video. They totally didn't get it."

MTV did not show work by Black artists at the time, so Hancock went for self-erasure. "I don't want it to look like a 'black guy' video", he recounts saying in his autobiography Possibilities. So indeed in the "Rockit" video, Hancock was to be seen, dowsed in blue filter, in very brief snippets on a portable TV screen with his synthesizer. The voice, meanwhile, is overridden by a vocoder to synthesize it. Hancock had exorcised the black association of the body. In its place were macabre white mannequins, droids jerking their way through the scratch mix.

A classically trained jazz pianist who spent five years as part of Miles Davis Quintet (196368), Hancock is also a practising Buddhist who chants "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo" for an hour each day. Ideas about transcending the body could be as much a consideration as the erasure of the body in the "Rockit" video. Such ideas connect the strands of Eastern karmic philosophy of freeing the body from the wheel of life and representation to a Western civilizational thread of the body as taboo--from the Garden of Eden to Plato's "the body is the tomb of the soul".

Yet between erasure and transcendence lay contemporary re-workings of who are we and what we are between man and machine, race and gender. And therein lies the significance of "Rockit" that takes us to the way the whole terrain of body politics was changing in the mid-'80s. Body politics allows us to intersect hip-hop and its black male gang-culture with radicalizing white feminist discourse coming out of academia. Through these we understand how pop came to enter a brand new age, its cyborg age.

Cyborg is a '60s term for a hybrid being, a hybrid of machine and organism. Donna Haraway, a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at UCL declared in 1985 that we are now all cyborgs. Her Cyborg Manifesto first published in The Socialist Review writes, "By the late 20th century, our time, a mythic time, we are all . fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs."

For Haraway our ontology, our politics now belongs to the cyborg. The cyborg anthropologist Amber Case helps explain why this requires a new understanding of ourselves with the way we are now tooled up, clicking on screens and obsessively pressing buttons, etc.. The political space this comes to beget between biological essentialism and the cyborg hybrid is what we are left grappling with.

In Haraway's manifesto, the cyborg is to free us from the pre-determined male authored world. The cyborg, she writes, "is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, post-modern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code." For this undertaking she suggests, "we must never again connect as parts to wholes, as marked beings incorporated into unmarked ones, as unitary and complementary subjects. We must have agency or agencies - without defended subjects." By the latter, Haraway of course meant the "man, that is, the author of a cosmos called history".

Yet this where the world of hip-hop with its techno-synthesis, its scratchy beats, its bodily rawness of rap and b-breaking enters the age of new intersectionalism, ironically, by its essentialism. An essentialism rooted in the only way hip-hop could come to be--all black all male. There are no shortage of accounts on how hip-hop started in south Bronx house parties in the late '70s as narrated in New York Public Radio. Others pin it down to a specific party on a specific date. Aaron Millar in National Geographic writes it as such:

"On 11 August 1973, at a house party on 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, in the Bronx, hip hop was born. DJ Kool Herc threw a party for his sister, Cindy, in the rec room of their apartment block. It was the first time all the elements of hip hop culture came together: breakdancing, graffiti artists, DJs and an MC."

It took a few years before the hip-hop house party came downtown to Manhattan. Grandmaster Flash with 'The Message' (1982) gave us the defining anthem. The house party was how the American shadow self also took the licence using hip-hop to intervene in the public domain in new ways.

How the tenor of street culture changed is storyboarded in films like Stan Lathan's Beat Street (1984). The underground everywhere from Paris to Palestine had a new voice through rap. But the further hip-hop sound went, the further it loosened from its transgressions (of the body and sound).

The real explosion was hip-hop's appropriation into pop consumerism with the different elements of hip-hop freely scattered into global space. We see that clearly in an alt-hip hop sample like M|A|R|R|S's "Pump up the Volume" (1987) from the East London acid house scene. The homage to its roots is clear, Yo all you homeboys out in 'Bronx, this one's for you but it's a male techno-capitalist cyborg, Rhythmatic, systematic world control extrapolating out into the entire universe.

In the passage of a hip-hop decade before the days of the internet we came to see how the narrative of the body fused with the meta-narratives of capitalism and individualism through technology. It's a process that popular culture, in particular music, embodies transparently, if to also remind us how the body remains as the battlefield; the battlefield that we fight over as much as we run from. How the escapist dimensions of a cyborg body by which we are liberated from the gendered racialised biological body in turn creates a counter politics through another body.

This came through Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry's "Zombie Manifesto" of 2008 as a direct critique of Haraway's manifesto. The zombie originates from Haitian folklore, the dead slave body that comes alive to haunt its master. But it also reminds us of the slave master who then used the zombie to dissuade the slave in the plantation from suicide (so as to escape the treadmill of its slavery). The double bind here is that it applies as much to the enslaved as the free. The zombie manifesto transposes this onto the American dream and the treadmill of modern everyday consumerism. This is why the zombie cut so deep into the common psyche with films like George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) followed by Dan O'Bannon's Return of the Living Dead (1985) that invoke the underlying repressions of the American dream.

The zombie manifesto refers us to Frankfurt School theorists Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), which suggests that the individual, the hallowed subject of modern life, is a fiction. A fiction conjured by an economic structure to ensure greater domination. "What Horkheimer and Adorno and others illustrate is that the illusory separation of subject and object, the fata morgana [sublime mirage] of individualism, keeps happy the camp of zombiesthe slaves to capitalism who are merely deluded into thinking that they are free." In this delusion of free subjecthood and consumption as the means of fulfilment only the commodity fetish animates (subjectivises) life. At the same time, it objectifies the human subject. What remains is the living dead, the zombie who renders irrelevant the difference between the subject and object. The zombie thus counters Haraway's cyborg, its claims to transcend the subject/object divide.

Screengrab from "Rockit" video

This conflict of the body as cyborg or as zombie comes to act out in a sublime way in "Rockit". The video depends largely on the work of the English conceptual artist, Jim Whiting - a nomadic outsider with little time either for the art world or for state patronage. With the documentary series, South of Watford (1986), Nigel Miller delves into Whiting's working language: the recycled assemblages from scrapyards as the dead matter of consumer culture that comes to find a second life. We see convulsing legs, wanking men, insecure pervs all writhing in agitated clothing, each one cobbled out of salvaged objects brought back to life from the scrapheap.

A decade later Whiting went on to set up Bimbotown a varit club in Leipzigk which the critic Julian Spalding describes: "the extraordinary creation of one extraordinary mind, human beings hunt and are hunted, drink and devour, fuck and get fucked, kick and get their kicks, all amid bucketfuls of laughter." Whiting's creations tell us how the discarded re-patched conveys who we are and what we are. He suffered from rickets as a child; thus it is not surprising that Whiting's creations use frailties and weaknesses to make us all the more human.

Whiting shows us the dissonance between how we shape technology and how technology shapes us. His figures in "Rockit" use the sound track to open up the conflicts of the body in the road to come. They signal battles of the body yet to be framed. Between the cyborg transhumanists who believe science and technology will alter the human condition (for the better) transforming us into the "post-human" and the zombie, the living dead who warns that "we can get posthuman only at the death of the subject", is not a new subject. The zombie is the post(mortem) human who returns. It returns us to our biological body the body that in its everyday dies an untold number of deaths in its own denial forced by the modern configurations of gendered and racialised society.

This is what hip-hop in its raw essence released from the ghetto party only to be appropriated, co-opted by capital. The double fate of its subversion now tells us that we are bodies in a chain gang. That we are programmed, propelled by the need to perpetually consume. Never mind the PR images of cyber fantasies, Elon Musk's Space X and so forth--they are only for our consumption. We do not go to the future; we are taken to it.

Yet if we can learn from seeing "Rockit" anew, it is in how Herbie Hancock slipped the body through the race filters with a naivet that comes from his belief in chance. As he says in Possibilities, "We all have the natural human tendency to take the safe route--to do the thing we know will work rather than taking a chance." The video returns us to the ambition of Haraway's manifesto to re-hash all of the permutations of our future body politics: "self/other, mind/body, culture/nature, male/female, civilized/primitive, reality/appearance, whole/part, agent/resource, maker/made, active/passive, right/wrong, truth/illusion, total/partial, God/man...".

Who decides how these permutations will intersect to create our future selves? In a future that opens as a game of chance, we may yet not be ordained as cyborgs to become zombies bound to the wheel of capital turned by the same old hand of Enlightenment white and patriarchal technology. But by the agency of chance, we can escape the clutches of that grip, to smuggle ourselves out piece by piece. Where to and how we get there is the futureshock of the body that awaits us.

Works Cited

Case, Amber. "We Are All Cyborgs Now". TED Talk. January 2011.

Fernando Jr., S.h. "How Herbie Hancock Crafted a Hip-Hop Classic". Medium. 21 April 2015.

Hancock, Herbie. "Hancock on Music Theory". YouTube. 27 July 2019.

Hancock, Herbie. Herbie Hancock: Possibilities. Viking. August 2005.

Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century". Socialist Review. 1985.

Horkheimer, Max and Adorno, Theodor, Dialectic of Enlightenment. Wikipedia.

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TMS students recognized as Blazers of the Quarter – The Torrington Telegram

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TORRINGTON Six Torrington Middle School (TMS) students were recognized among their peers as Blazers of the Quarter on Monday, Nov. 9, in the TMS library.

TMS Principal Marv Haiman, teachers Kelli Johnson, Robb Nicolay, Terra Ochsner and Kelsey Walker presented certificates to sixth-grader Brendan Bogaczyk, seventh-graders Haley Defoe and Brooklyn Asmus and eighth-graders Madison Copenbarger and Ivy Palfy for their honorable behavior shown throughout the first quarter of the school year.

One student, TMS sixth-grader Carter Groene, was absent due to illness, but was recognized during the ceremony.

Student of the quarter has to do with you being great representatives of what our school is all about, and our school is about two things: respect and responsibility, Haiman explained.

Teachers at TMS were tasked with choosing students who exemplified the ethos of the school.

They didnt select you because you were the best student in the grade; its not about being the best, Haiman said. Its about demonstrating the qualities that we think are important. In other words, walking the talk and being very respectful and very responsible.

Haiman told the students there were three reasons why people do what they do; they try to stay out of trouble, do something because it benefits them or do something because it is good for other people.

You folks have been selected because you are good for other people; youre good role models, Haiman said.

Haiman showed the students framed pictures of them and told them the pictures would be displayed in a display case at the school.

The ceremony was attended by the recognized students and their families.

TMS teachers Kelli Johnson, Robb Nicolay, Terra Ochsner and Kelsey Walker read the nomination letter for each student and presented them with a certificate.

Haiman told attendees the school had decided to refrain from holding large assemblies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This small assembly was the first group assembly of the year.

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Greenbrook TMS Reports Third Quarter Financial Results With Continued Resilient Performance Through the COVID-19 Pandemic, Announces Spravato Pilot…

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Greenbrook TMS Inc. (TSX: GTMS) ("Greenbrook" or the "Company"), today announced its third quarter 2020 ("Q3 2020") operational and financial results. All values in this news release are in United States dollars, unless otherwise stated.

THIRD QUARTER 2020 FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Quarterly revenue increased by 42% to $12.0 million, up $3.5 million from the third quarter of fiscal 2019 ("Q3 2019"), representing our second highest quarterly revenue results to date.

Revenue for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020 ("YTD 2020") increased by 43% to $33.2 million, up $10.1 million from the nine-month period ended September 30, 2019 ("YTD 2019").

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, quarterly revenue increased by 23%, up $2.2 million from the second quarter of fiscal 2020 ("Q2 2020").

Quarterly regional operating income increased by 26% to $1.0 million, up $0.2 million from Q3 2019; however, YTD 2020 regional operating income decreased by 38% to $1.5 million, representing a decrease of $0.9 million from YTD 2019.

Added one active TMS Center during Q3 2020, with an additional 11 TMS Centers in development, bringing the total Company network to 125 TMS Centers, representing an increase of 18% as compared to Q3 2019.

Bill Leonard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenbrook commented:

"In Q3 2020, we proudly announce our second highest quarterly revenue results since our inception and a return to strong regional operating income, despite the challenging operating environment imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. We continued to experience record monthly highs in new patient starts throughout Q3 2020, highlighting the essential need for TMS therapy during these challenging times. We believe these record monthly highs will support a continued strong upward trend into the fourth quarter of 2020."

Greenbrook also announced today that it has signed a non-binding term sheet with a third-party lender in respect of a secured term loan facility in an aggregate amount of up to $30 million. Completion of the proposed financing remains subject to customary conditions, including completion of customary due diligence and negotiation of definitive documentation; however, there can be no assurances that the financing will be completed on the terms set forth in the non-binding term sheet, or at all. Further details regarding the terms of such proposed financing will be provided if and when a definitive loan agreement has been entered into between the parties.

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SELECTED THIRD QUARTER FINANCIAL AND OPERATING RESULTS (1)

(US$)

Q3 2020(unaudited)

Q3 2019(unaudited)

YTD 2020(unaudited)

YTD 2019(unaudited)

Total revenue

12,006,570

8,459,103

33,215,627

23,148,860

Regional operating income

967,584

770,813

1,482,182

2,399,979

Loss before income taxes

(7,667,755)

(3,365,014)

(21,643,193)

(8,846,208)

Loss for the period and comprehensive loss

(7,667,755)

(3,365,014)

(21,643,193)

(8,846,208)

Loss attributable to the common shareholders of Greenbrook

(7,636,132)

(3,431,009)

(21,271,910)

(8,875,523)

Net loss per share (basic and diluted)

(0.11)

(0.06)

(0.34)

(0.17)

________Notes:

(1)

Please note that additional selected consolidated financial information can be found at the end of this press release.

As at September 30,

As at December 31,

(unaudited)

2020

2019

Number of active TMS Centers(1)

114

102

Number of TMS Centers-in-development(2)

Total TMS Centers

125

106

119

Number of management regions

Number of TMS Devices installed

191

164

178

Number of regional personnel

286

253

273

Number of shared-services / corporate personnel(3)

Number of TMS providers(4)

113

102

109

Number of consultations performed

7,718

5,560

8,039

Number of patient starts

4,017

2,888

4,080

Number of TMS treatments performed

141,584

104,096

155,343

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Based on large secular trends, these long-term stocks to buy should have an extended pathway to profitability.Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN)Disney (NYSE:DIS)Costco (NASDAQ:COST)PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL)Ford (NYSE:F)Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA)Brookfield Renewable Partners (NYSE:BEP)Finally, a word of advice thats not financially related. Nothing is as bad as it seems nor is it as great as it seems. Besides, if Biden wants to make his stay in the White House last longer than four years, hes got some compromising to do. Therefore, approach these long-term stocks to buy agnostically.Long-Term Stocks to Buy: Amazon (AMZN)Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.comUnder ordinary circumstances, the concept of Amazon being a leading candidate among long-term stocks to buy is almost sacrosanct. For one thing, you can look at the incredible resilience of AMZN stock over the years. Despite many bumps and bruises, against all manners of accusations of antitrust behaviors, the e-commerce giant has continued to forge ahead. Its the disrupter that is often the bane of small businesses, yet its our disrupter.Recently, though, Amazons status as the pinnacle of capitalistic success has put it in hot water. Sure, the companys CEO Jeff Bezos may have clashed with President Trump. Its no secret who Bezos supports. But just because Biden is in office doesnt mean its clear skies ahead for AMZN stock. No, Biden must answer to the Democrats. Traditionally, the left has championed workers causes, including unionization, which isnt favorable to Amazon.com.So, does that mean investors should axe Amazon from their list of long-term stocks to buy? Not at all. Indeed, when you look at the growing prominence of e-commerce, Amazon plays a pivotal role. No matter whos calling the shots, AMZN will remain a force to be reckoned with.Disney (DIS)Source: chrisdorney.Shutterstock.comAlthough the cruise ship and airliner industries arguably represent the face of suffering from the novel coronavirus, Disney has been one of the most deeply impacted names among long-term stocks. After all, people travel from all over the world to attend its vast theme park empire. In addition, the disruption to Hollywood hurt Disneys pocket badly, making DIS stock a questionable investment.Therefore, its no surprise that encouraging developments from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) on the coronavirus vaccine front gave the Magic Kingdom a much-needed boost. Should a vaccine provide a viable solution, high-contact businesses could once again flourish, particularly from pent-up demand. Further, the return of theme parks is going to be vital for many local economies as Disney was forced to lay off tens of thousands of employees.But should the coronavirus worsen or an even scarier proposition, another pandemic arises in the near future Disney has unlocked the key to its potential success. From the companys Star Wars franchise was derived The Mandalorian, which has been a runaway success. But not many lay observers know that the production team filmed half the scenes in an ultra-advanced semicircular LED-based studio, which allows for real-time visualization thats far superior to greenscreen technology.7 Battery Stocks That Hold the Keys to Next-Gen InnovationsIn addition to the actors benefit, this LED system allows Disney to film in its own cocoon, sheltered from the outside world. That means the company can produce content even during a severe pandemic, which is a huge catalyst for DIS stock.Costco (COST)Source: ilzesgimene / Shutterstock.comDuring the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, millions of Americans rushed to their local Costco stores to pile up on the essentials. Cynically, the demand was great for the warehouse retailer on one hand because the company experienced Black Friday-like crowds every day. Of course, not all Costco members abided by the mitigation protocols, which made for interesting viewing on social media.Now, the U.S. is again making Covid-19-related headlines for all the wrong reasons. Recently, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that on Nov. 6, new daily infections hit just under 133,000 cases. At time of writing, the seven-day moving average has breached the 100,000 case level. That is simply wild, which suggests that we could see greater demand for COST stock.However, Im not interested in Costco simply as a play on the pandemic. While the numbers look bad, there is an argument to be made that people are getting used to the crisis. Further, with Biden at the White House, its possible that more folks will take the health crisis seriously.No, my interest in COST stock is that the underlying company caters to the well off. If we have a K-shaped recovery, this is one of the names that should belong in your list of long-term stocks to buy.PayPal (PYPL)Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.comAnother company among long-term stocks that has direct exposure to the Covid-19 pandemic, PayPal has seen its profile rise as people added one more reason to avoid cash: potentially, handling physical money could result in higher risk for coronavirus transmission. To be clear, we dont know precisely how long the coronavirus sticks to surfaces such as paper money.However, this is more of a common-sense approach. Cash is germ friendly so unless were Scrooge McDuck, we shouldnt be handling it too often. Still, this is just a one-dimensional factor for PYPL stock.I say this because whether were dealing with a pandemic or not, society is increasingly becoming cashless. Sure, there is the odd cash-only business that is still viable, such as your neighborhood pizzeria. But with digitalization comes multiple contactless payment options. At a certain point, youd imagine that such business luddites will eventually go out of business if they dont adapt.10 Cheap Stocks to Buy in November Under $10Further, PYPL stock is a compelling opportunity because of how the underlying company addresses the unbanked and underbanked communities. Lack of access to the financial system is a detriment to our connected ecosystem. Thus, PayPal is doing some social good by helping to even the playing field.Ford (F)Source: Proxima Studio / Shutterstock.comPrior to the election when the opinion polls showed Biden having a consistent lead over President Trump, many investors had the same idea regarding long-term stocks to buy: pivot to companies that have strong clean energy implications. For many, that meant piling into electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA). To be sure, TSLA has absolutely dominated the markets. But in my view, this dominance also leaves the door open for Ford.True, American car companies have been languishing for years. However, Ford made a strong push to EVs with the Mustang Mach-E. Granted, automotive enthusiasts didnt care for an SUV wearing the iconic Mustang badge. Still, demographic and consumer trends indicated that two-door pony cars were on their last legs. For F stock, the electric SUV just made business sense.Over the long run, I believe Ford can capture significant market share from Tesla. After all, Ford is a car company first. Theyve been in the business for a long time and understand what motivates the automotive market. Further, the Ford dealership and service center empire is vast, providing superior support for customers. If you love contrarian thinking, you may want to give F stock a good look.Nvidia (NVDA)Source: Steve Lagreca / Shutterstock.comOne of the true no-brainer investments among long-term stocks, Nvidia offers extensive exposure to relevant markets. First and foremost, the company is renowned for its advanced graphics processors, powering some of the most groundbreaking video game systems.For those that are not familiar with the industry, video games have transitioned from niche consumer segment into a mainstream giant. As the coronavirus disruption demonstrated, games are no longer just for entertainment purposes. For example, racing simulators help Formula 1 drivers acclimate to tracks with which theyre not familiar. That has been even more crucial this year due to global shutdowns of live sporting events.Additionally, Nvidia powers the future through various artificial intelligence and deep learning technologies. An area of increasing competitiveness is autonomous driving. With so many players, its difficult to know which one will emerge victorious. But the underlying platforms will require advanced processors, which should boost demand for NVDA stock.7 Penny Stocks That Are Ready to Take OffFinally, connectivity solutions will pave the way for smart city infrastructures. Again, Nvidia finds itself as one of the leaders in this space, a market which will likely only grow in importance. Therefore, if youre not worried about day-to-day price swings, keep NVDA stock in your drawer.Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEP)Source: IgorGolovniov / Shutterstock.comJoe Biden is hardly what you would call a perfect candidate. Although he has proven himself to be mentally fit, at his age, cobwebs have inevitably developed. And theyve come out at some inopportune times. For instance, during the second and last presidential debate, President Trump hit him hard on his confused stance on fracking and other environmental issues.Nevertheless, as I mentioned earlier, Biden must answer to the Democrats. Consistently, the party has pushed issues such as addressing climate change. Therefore, one of the logical long-term stocks to buy is Brookfield Renewable Partners. Clearly, Biden would not be popular within his own party if he broke rank and decided to go all fossil fuel on everybody.Not surprisingly, BEP stock has put on a tremendous performance this year, gaining nearly 58% year-to-date. Further, the raging wildfires we suffered this year raises the importance of sustainability, which should bolster Brookfield.But I dont see BEP stock as being a catalyst levered exclusively to Democrats. The reality is that younger people care deeply about the environment. Therefore, the next generation of Republican leaders cant afford to alienate whole swathes of voters. Ultimately, thats great news for Brookfield and other sustainability oriented companies.On the date of publication, Josh Enomoto held a long position in F stock.A former senior business analyst for Sony Electronics, Josh Enomoto has helped broker major contracts with Fortune Global 500 companies. Over the past several years, he has delivered unique, critical insights for the investment markets, as well as various other industries including legal, construction management, and healthcare.More From InvestorPlaceWhy Everyone Is Investing in 5G All WRONGTop Stock Picker Reveals His Next 1,000% WinnerRadical New Battery Could Dismantle Oil MarketsThe post 7 Long-Term Stocks to Buy with the Election Behind Us appeared first on InvestorPlace.

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Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Atlanta-based broker Freight Scouts is using Descartes cloud-based transportation management and load tracking visibility solution to modernize its operations. With the Descartes Aljex transportation management system (TMS), fully integrated with real-time load tracking visibility solution Descartes MacroPoint, Freight Scouts is streamlining the transportation of truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) freight for its own brokerage customers, and for shipments originating from fulfillment centers managed by its parent company, PBD Worldwide.

We are building a technology environment that makes it easier to deliver on our promise of Exceptional Service Every Time, said Jan Jones, VP/General Manager, Freight Scouts. The Descartes solution gives us a cloud-based, brokerage-focused TMS used to determine the most efficient transport option for our customers, and an automated tool for load tracking so we always know the status and location of our customers shipments. Our team loves how the integrated solution eliminates the headaches from our day-to-day operations and helps us to improve performance, minimize penalties, and keep our customers satisfied.

Descartes cloud-based solutions for freight brokers provide end-to-end capabilities that enable companies to deliver better customer service, enhance operational performance and maximize margin. The Descartes Aljex TMS automates and streamlines daily freight broker activities to boost operational efficiency, including order entry, lane rate comparison, covering loads, rate confirmation, carrier acceptance, dispatching and electronic data interchange (EDI). Through integration with Descartes MacroPoint, freight brokers also gain real-time visibility into load status by replacing time-consuming and ineffective manual check calls with automated status updates from carriers, which enhances service levels for shipper customers.

Were pleased to help Freight Scouts better manage the lifecycle of shipments from order creation through execution using Descartes transportation solutions, said Dan Cicerchi, Vice President and General Manager, Transportation Management at Descartes. By automating the many complex tasks performed by freight brokers, Descartes technology helps brokerages to cover more loads, increase visibility, move freight faster and source new carriers more effectively.

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Tenino Middle School Honored as AVID ‘Site of Distinction’ for Showing Marked Improvement in Past Three Years – Centralia Chronicle

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When Tenino Middle School Principal John Neal took over in 2016 the school was performing below the state average and was designated by OSPI as a focus school. Neal said he was determined to improve the school.

Neal and Tenino Middle School Assistant Principal Teresa Jackson wanted to provide students with a more impactful learning experience and improve the school overall so they presented the AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) program to the school board as the engine for instructional improvement, Neal said.

My goal was to transform instruction, systems, and expectations at TMS to reflect our goal of becoming one of the best schools in the state, Neal said.

In 2017, the school board voted to invest in the AVID program and teachers began learning new teaching techniques and ways to keeps students engaged and excited about learning. Neal said that AVID is an international framework, originally designed to help at-risk students get to college but it shifted to being a framework around schoolwide instruction.

We were really excited when the school board was able to sponsor this because its not cheap, but its really rewarding to see the investment pay off. Its something that the district recognizes is important, Neal said.

There are 362 sites in Washington state that are AVID schools and Tenino Middle School was one of 12 to receive the honor of being named a Site of Distinction this year.

Its a pretty big deal. Weve been an AVID school for three years and we first had to work to become certified and then to be labeled as a site of distinction in only three years its a pretty cool thing for us and its something that we used to really turn our school around, Neal said.

Neal said that some of the top qualities the AVID program provides the schools are college and career readiness, academic language for teachers, and overall organizational skills. The AVID program provides common instructional strategies built around WICOR (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading) which have been implemented schoolwide.

We saw the need here for something that would really push our teachers to be the best that they can be and luckily with our results here it migrated to the high school and we would be starting at the elementary school this year if it werent for COVID, Neal said.

Neal said that they are now losing fewer students to neighboring districts and have been focusing on shifting the negative perceptions around Tenino schools. He said that the school now has higher expectations for students and makes sure teachers are providing the needed support.

Were proud of that because it wasnt always that way, he said.

The staff attends a four-day AVID training during the summer to learn how to implement effective teaching strategies in the classroom. A representative from AVID does a walk-through of the school twice a year to assess how well the program is working and a group of Tenino Middle School teachers conduct a walkthrough of all of the classrooms once a month to make sure everyone is on track.

Weve received so much positive feedback from the AVID team and to couple that with the improved results of our standardized testing its just a different school and thats what we set out to do. Its remarkable how fast we were able to do it, Neal said.

Jackson said that she has seen a shift in the way students view the possibilities after graduation since implementing the AVID program. She said the middle schoolers have had the chance to visit colleges in the region including the University of Washington and the University of Oregon.

A lot of them havent ever left Tenino. We took them to Olympia and a lot of them had never seen the Capitol building. Theyre having a lot of ah-ha moments, Jackson said. Students really have a sense of accomplishment and pride.

Looking toward the future, Neal said the school will continue working to implement district-wide language about what effective instruction looks like and work toward being recognized as a Site of Distinction on a national level. For now, Jackson and Neal said they are waiting to receive the AVID School of Distinction banner to display their accomplishment to students, staff and the community.

In small towns, theres a large sense of pride around schools because this is who we are and its something that, traditionally a lot of that focus is around sports and athletics. This gives us something to really latch onto around the academic piece of school and be proud of, Neal said.

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WATERLOO, Ontario, Nov. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq: DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Atlanta-based broker Freight Scouts is using Descartes cloud-based transportation management and load tracking visibility solution to modernize its operations. With the Descartes Aljex transportation management system (TMS), fully integrated with real-time load tracking visibility solution Descartes MacroPoint, Freight Scouts is streamlining the transportation of truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) freight for its own brokerage customers, and for shipments originating from fulfillment centers managed by its parent company, PBD Worldwide.

Were pleased to help Freight Scouts better manage the lifecycle of shipments from order creation through execution using Descartes transportation solutions, said Dan Cicerchi, Vice President and General Manager, Transportation Management at Descartes. By automating the many complex tasks performed by freight brokers, Descartes technology helps brokerages to cover more loads, increase visibility, movefreightfaster and source new carriers more effectively.

About Freight Scouts

As the non-asset transportation brokerage division of PBD Worldwide, Freight Scouts provides brokerage services for eCommerce companies, retailers, publishers, and essential commodity shippers. Freight Scouts focuses on delivering exceptional freight solutions for clients for Truckload, Less-than-Truckload, and parcel shipping. For more information, visit http://www.freightscouts.com.

About Descartes

Descartes (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG) is the global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, performance and security of logistics-intensive businesses. Customers use our modular, software-as-a-service solutions to route, schedule, track and measure delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay transportation invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in the world's largest, collaborative multimodal logistics community. Our headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners around the world. Learn more atwww.descartes.com, and connect with us onLinkedInandTwitter.

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By offering predictability and ensuring consistently high service levels, dedicated fleets enable organizations to grow relationships with their most valuable customers while protecting against volatility in the open freight market.

Yet, many organizations have become resigned to the idea that these benefits come at the expense of a certain degree of inefficiency in terms of empty miles, low driver productivity and reduced flexibility.

That may have been true in the past but is no longer the case. Advances in transportation technology have enabled best practices to minimize the inefficiencies that add to the cost of maintaining a dedicated fleet. If youre unsatisfied with the performance of your fleet or considering investing in dedicated capacity, here are five ways to make sure you get the most out of your investment.

Just because your company has a transportation management system (TMS) it doesnt mean it is the right solution for managing your fleet. The specific functionality required to optimize a dedicated fleet is very different than that required to manage transportation flow through third-party carriers.

At DHL Supply Chain, weve evaluated the various TMS platforms on the market and concluded that a best-of-breed approach is essential to optimizing both managed transportation and dedicated fleets. A TMS optimized for freight flow just doesnt have the necessary functionality in critical areas such as driver utilization and route planning.

In addition to providing sophisticated route planning and driver management capabilities, a fleet management platform also provides better insight into fleet performance and enables more informed decisions about how and when to scale the fleet. By integrating the two systems you get the benefits of a single platform, enabling, for example, the flexibility to use third-party carriers to handle seasonal overflow in dedicated fleet capacity or redeploying capacity between operations.

One of the biggest challenges many organizations face when seeking to optimize their dedicated fleets is getting comfortable with dynamic route planning. Its always going to be simpler to manage static routes, but, in this case, the added complexity adds value. Static routes contribute to underutilized capacity and drivers.

This can be a difficult change for organizations to navigate without the right digital tools and a partner with experience implementing dynamic routing for dedicated fleets. At DHL, we find the most powerful argument for making this change is to show the savings that can be achieved through software-enabled dynamic route planning compared to the current static routes.

As mentioned earlier, integrating dedicated fleet and managed transportation platforms can create value and achieve flexibility across the two operations. Theres also significant value to be realized by ensuring integration between warehouse and transportation services.

If youre just starting to implement a dedicated fleet solution, youll need to work closely with the warehouse operations manager to determine the impact of the dedicated routes on warehouse processes.

Even if youve been operating a dedicated fleet for years, there are often opportunities to reduce costs by taking a holistic view of transportation and warehousing. For example, when we are engaged as a warehouse and transportation partner, we can often eliminate some routes by consolidating multiple orders onto one truck. The less you look at transportation and warehousing as distinct operations and begin to see them as part of the same flow of materials, the more opportunities youll find to eliminate inefficiencies.

End-to-end visibility has become expected across all modes of transportation today but can be more difficult to achieve than many organizations expect. If youre new to dedicated fleet management, youll need to equip your fleet with a telematics solution as the bare minimum. Integrating geo-fencing into your visibility solution can also be valuable in closing gaps that can occur at delivery destinations.

The next step is to bring data across managed transportation, dedicated fleet and warehousing operations into a single platform to make that data more usable for your organization and your customers. At DHL, we do this through our MySupplyChain platform.

Minimizing empty miles is another example of how increased sophistication in dedicated fleet management adds value. Filling trucks that would otherwise be traveling emptywhether at the beginning, middle or end of their routerequires both art and science.

The science is dynamically matching capacity to available loads in close proximity to the capacity. We do this through a proprietary algorithm we created specifically for this purpose. The art is matching capacity with compatible loads. There are a number of variables to consider, and we rely on transportation experts, working with our algorithm, to ensure compatibility.

Its not a simple process, but the value is significant. You probably have a good idea of how many miles your fleet is traveling empty each week. Now, imagine if you could reduce that by 25% - 50% and how that would impact supply chain costs and business profitability.

Dedicated fleets used to be a relatively simple, but inefficient solution for serving high-value customers. Today, there are a number of opportunities to optimize the performance and cost efficiency of dedicated capacity, but those opportunities come with increased complexity. This increases the importance of working with a partner that has deep transportation and warehousing expertise and is at the forefront of using technology to optimize supply chain operations.

To learn more about DHL Transport Solutions and how we think beyond todays shipment for our customers, visit: http://app.supplychain.dhl.com/e/er?s=1897772577&lid=6254

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Has 2020 really been real? Or are we all living in a computer simulation? – Daily Maverick

Futureshock: Herbie Hancock and the Body Politics of Pop – PopMatters

TMS students recognized as Blazers of the Quarter – The Torrington Telegram

Greenbrook TMS Reports Third Quarter Financial Results With Continued Resilient Performance Through the COVID-19 Pandemic, Announces Spravato Pilot…

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Freight Scouts Transforms Broker Operations with Descartes’ Cloud-based Solution – DC Velocity

EDAP TMS SA to Announce Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results on November 18, 2020 – Yahoo Finance

Tenino Middle School Honored as AVID ‘Site of Distinction’ for Showing Marked Improvement in Past Three Years – Centralia Chronicle

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