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CEO and founder Joe McCartney talks about anticipating client needs and making difficult, but necessary, shifts.

The award for MSP of the Year works a little differently from the other special 501 awards. These shops demonstrate a willingness to take risks and pivot when necessary. They exhibit a deep familiarity with the MSP market and willingness to consider a business model evolution. These two characteristics are critical to channel companies looking to stay ahead of the curve, and Pioneer-360 has them in spades.

These special awards are part of the 2020 MSP 501. We narrowed the field of contenders down to three finalists that we feel represent the modern channel and display excellence in business efficiency and business model innovation.

This essentially means these folks have the nimbleness to pivot to meet industry trends, the guts to make risky moves today to position the business for tomorrow and the discipline to structure operations to achieve maximum efficiency in service delivery.

We sat down with CEO and founder Joe McCartney to chat about Pioneer-360s business model evolution, and how the company has weathered the roller coaster that has been 2020.

For starters, the pioneering provider has a pretty robust business model. Its a model it has grown and evolved to reflect industry dynamics, customer needs and emerging tech trends.

Pioneer-360s Joe McCartney

In the last several years, we have seen a push for companies needing more security and more structural organization for IT compliances, said McCartney. Once we started to truly understand compliance, we realized that there was a gap of doing best practices versus security versus compliance. These are not always synonymous, but when orchestrated together and properly, efficiency and stability increase along with overall security.

Many of Pioneer-360s clients are heavily steeped in regulatory compliance. Previous MSPs had somewhat glossed over this aspect. It was here that Pioneer-360 saw a wedge in the door.

Many of our clients are compliance/regulated to the highest degree, which of course creates a bit of a headache, said McCartney. Many of the organizations we entered into a contract with their previous MSPs were doing the IT, but kept clear of the regulatory and compliance aspect. That puts the true IT burden on the back of the client, which is not what you want. We recognized this as an opportunity and jumped on it.

Pioneer-360 was able to anticipate its clients needs before the regulatory changes occurred, and was able to implement them before their audits. They did this by creating what Pioneer calls The Calm.

Anyone can do the IT portion, but if youre not tackling the other headaches that IT creates, youre not advancing your organization forward, McCartney continued. We are currently working toward our Soc2 Type 2 certification, understanding that we are an extension of our clients. Based on recent breaches by large scale MSPs, the auditors are only a click away from knocking on our doors, so our goal is to get ahead of that.

Its not always easy to see the writing on the wall when it comes to evolving ones business model. Pioneer-360 saw the need to evolve about five years ago with the advent of cryptocurrency.

About five years ago, our eyes were opened to the true evolution and growth of crypto and its devastating effects on business, said McCartney. We basically took the stance of, if this happens to us (our clients) we would not survive the fallout. So we dug in, fortified our stack, re-engineered our internal infrastructure and took best practices to heart. Those practices led us to create an internal team called SAT, Pioneer-360s situational awareness team. SATs sole mission is to organize, gather, create, distribute and train clients on how to be safe from cybercrimes not only in the office, but personally.

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The recent release of the PlayStation 5 by electronics giant Sony has sparked plenty of excitement all over the world, with millions of fans across different countries looking forward to playing a range of new titles.

But how far has the PlayStation series of consoles come since its debut? Here we will explore each of the hugely successful PlayStation consoles and how they transformed the world of gaming.

The original PlayStation was Sonys first attempt at designing and launching a video games console, and it could not have been more successful commercially, critically, and culturally. Far outselling its main competitor the Nintendo 64 (the PlayStation had initially been designed as a collaboration between Sony and the more established company Nintendo, who then pulled out of the deal), the PS One was the first video games console to sell over 100 million units and marked the industrys transition from cartridges to compact discs. Not to mention, titles like the Crash Bandicoot and Gran Turismo series enthralled an entire generation of gamers.

The successor to the PlayStation took what made it so special and made it even better. With greatly enhanced graphics and a huge library of beloved titles in series like Grand Theft Auto, Pro Evolution Soccer, Ratchet and Clank, and Jak and Daxter, the PlayStation 2 is too many gamers the high watermark of the gaming art form. Not to mention, it was backwards-compatible with PS One games, and could also play DVDs and audio CDs!

Despite intense competition from Segas Dreamcast, Nintendos GameCube, and Microsofts Xbox, the PS2 became the best-selling video games console of all time, a title that it still holds at the time of writing!

The PS3 added a few new features, as well as a significant improvement in graphics. As well as the ability to play Blu-Ray discs as well as DVDs/CDs, the PS3 also took advantage of improved Wi-Fi connections to release the PlayStation Network, a social gaming service. Its web browser and video and music streaming apps were also a breakthrough, making it the first PlayStation console to function as a complete home entertainment system. Users could watch videos on YouTube, check out sites like Unibet slots, listen to music, and then load up exclusives like the Resistance series!

With an advanced APU chip from AMD, the PS4 took processing power to new heights, outperforming its main rival the Xbox One. Alongside this, the console offered 4K video capabilities, Remote Play via the handheld PS Vita Console, and a huge range of independent video game titles. The transition from mere games console to a full home entertainment system was now complete with the PS4.

The PlayStation 5, released just last month, is available in both a Digital Edition, for downloads only, and a full version that allows for physical discs. The AMD GPU is ground-breaking, and the new controller design is stylish and rich in features. There arent too many games available yet, but the console certainly looks promising!

Sony has also released handheld consoles alongside its flagship home consoles. 2004s PlayStation Portable (PSP) and 2011s PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) were successful and compatible via Wi-Fi Connection to their respective home consoles!

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One of the primary and major responsibilities of a local government is to provide children with adequate educational opportunities. In 1698, the purpose of schooling was to teach children to read, write and cypher, which later was referred to as the three Rs: reading, riting (writing) and rithmetic (arithmetic).

The beginning of schools in Groton can be traced back to within a few years of the towns establishment in 1705. In Charles R. Starks book Groton, Conn. 1705-1905, it is relayed that in May 1706, when Grotons first school master, John Barnard, was engaged to teach children, he did so at several houses including the house of Samuel Avery until a schoolhouse was built.

As a point of interest, the Samuel Avery house was the Hive of the Averys homestead on Poquonnock Road, where the present Avery Memorial Park is located.

Back in the 1700s, it was common practice for towns to build their schools near their meeting house, which was almost always the common church. Although it cannot be officially documented, Grotons first school was, in all likelihood, built near the first meeting hall which stood in the vicinity of what was called the Four Corners in Center Groton.

For all intents and purposes, it was referred to as the schoolhouse.

As Groton developed, large numbers of settlers established small villages located throughout the town. Often times, due to the long distances between these villages and the Center Groton schoolhouse, many families found it almost infeasible and impractical to send their children to the towns one schoolhouse.

It then became necessary for the town and its villages to build additional schoolhouses within their communities to provide their children with an appropriate formal education. These newly established facilities became known as school societies or district schools.

For the most part, they were small wooden one- or two-room schools; however, a few had two floors.

The schools would provide instructions to children in grades 1 through 8 and classes were in session for 36 weeks, with both winter and summer sessions. Because there was no high school in Groton until 1929, it was necessary for those students who desired to continue their education beyond the eighth grade to enroll at high schools in other towns in New London County, including Bulkeley High School, Chapman Technological High School and Williams Memorial Institute in New London, Norwich Free Academy, and Stonington High School.

The dramatic increase in funding necessary for the building and upkeep of these new school facilities, as well as providing teachers, was very difficult and impacting to the residents.

The history of providing funding for schools, not only in Groton, but throughout the state, is extremely convoluted and is too lengthy to include in this article. However, laws passed from the late 1700s through the mid-1850s did provide assistance.

The laws also required the establishment of dedicated school committees to control and oversee the school(s) in each district.

In a report provided by district committees dated Jan. 1, 1860, it was learned that there were a total of 11 school districts in Groton.

The districts were identified as: 1, Groton Bank (the northern portion of the City of Groton); 2, Lane (commonly known as Skunk Lane in Pleasant Valley); 3, Center (Center Groton); 4, Burnetts (Burnetts Corner); 5, Mystic; 6, Upper Noank (between the top of Fort Hill and Noank village); 7, Pequonnock [sic] (the area encompassing what today is Poquonnock Bridge); 8, Shinnicossett [sic] (Shennecossett also known as Eastern Point in the southern portion of the City of Groton); 9, Flanders (the area between Mystic and Poquonnock); 10, Old Field (West Mystic); and 11, Noank.

As a point of interest, the total number of children attending all of the district schools in Groton was 1,103 in 1860, 1,289 in 1870, 1,112 in 1890 and 1,156 in 1900.

In 1941, the district school system was discarded, and all of the schools were consolidated and placed under the supervision of the Town of Groton. An elected Board of Education was also established to have overall control of all of Grotons public schools.

It should be noted that the Robert E. Fitch High School, built in 1929, was the last school built by and during the district school period of control.

From the beginning of World War II in 1939, and continuing through the mid 1950s, Grotons population doubled in size. Along with this dramatic growth in population came a large increase in the number of children attending Groton schools.

The surge in school attendance placed such an enormous strain on the school system that it became necessary for Groton to both build new schools and add additions to several existing schools.

During the period of 1944 through 1954, five new elementary schools were built, including Fort Hill, Poquonnock Bridge, Claude Chester, S.B. Butler and William Seely. Also, in the early 1940s, major additions were made to the Eastern Point and Pleasant Valley schools.

In the early 1950s, in an effort to cope with projected large increases in high school students, Groton elected to build a new campus style Fitch [Senior] High School at the top of Fort Hill. At about the same time, the Board of Education established a new mid-level, or junior high school program which would be comprised of seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students, who had been high school freshmen.

The new junior high program necessitated converting the old Fitch High School into a junior high and also building a new junior high school, West Side Junior High.

Then, in 1989, a decision was made to convert the junior high schools into a new middle school program wherein these schools would only be attended by students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grade. Ninth-grade students would again attend the high school.

The middle school program necessitated converting Carl Cutler Elementary School into the third middle school.

In 2012, after a decision was made to close Fitch Middle School, students programmed to attend that school attended either West Side or Cutler.

In September of this year, the new Groton Middle School opened, eliminating the need for Cutler and West Side. New elementary schools are presently being built on the sites of these former schools.

Throughout the years, several other elementary schools have been built at various locations in Groton, including Groton Heights, Colonel Ledyard, William Trail, Noank, Charles Barnum, Freeman Hathaway, Mary Morrison, Northeast Academy and Catherine Kolnaski.

Groton has, in the past, and continues to place priority on providing its student population with the most up-to-date and cost-efficient schools. These schools, along with their professional and dedicated teaching staff, are what make Groton an attractive place to live.

Kevin Trejo and Arnold Crossman contributed to this article.

Jim Streeter is the historian for the town of Groton.

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Whether designed computationally or uncovered in activity screening, enzymes repurposed for biocatalysis rarely start at the peak of proficiency. However, directed evolution can in some cases increase catalytic efficiency of a poor enzyme by many orders of magnitude. Otten et al. used a suite of biochemical techniques to investigate the origins of rate enhancement in a previously evolved model enzyme. Two conformational states are present in the initial, computationally designed enzyme, but only one is active. Shifting the population toward the active state is one factor in increasing catalytic efficiency during evolution. Single mutations do not greatly increase activity, but the synergistic combination of just two out of 17 substitutions can provide most of the rate enhancement seen in the final, evolved enzyme.

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The advent of biocatalysts designed computationally and optimized by laboratory evolution provides an opportunity to explore molecular strategies for augmenting catalytic function. Applying a suite of nuclear magnetic resonance, crystallography, and stopped-flow techniques to an enzyme designed for an elementary proton transfer reaction, we show how directed evolution gradually altered the conformational ensemble of the protein scaffold to populate a narrow, highly active conformational ensemble and accelerate this transformation by nearly nine orders of magnitude. Mutations acquired during optimization enabled global conformational changes, including high-energy backbone rearrangements, that cooperatively organized the catalytic base and oxyanion stabilizer, thus perfecting transition-state stabilization. The development of protein catalysts for many chemical transformations could be facilitated by explicitly sampling conformational substates during design and specifically stabilizing productive substates over all unproductive conformations.

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With Australia's infrastructure landscape evolving, steps are being taken to integrate Mobility as a Service (Maas) into our existing transport system.

Key takeouts

There are many and varied benefits expected to flow from a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) style approach to mobility. Therefore, it is unsurprising that a number of private and public entities have already started taking steps to integrate it into our existing transport system.

In July of last year, Uber and Transport for NSW announced an unprecedented partnership. The Uber app was updated to display dynamic public transport information, including routes, real-time schedules, pricing and walking directions, as well as the usual 'UberX' and 'Pool' options. Transport for New South Wales also announced that its trip planner included taxi and rideshare options including Ola, Ingogo and Cars on Demand, in addition to usual public transport options.

A future with MaaS will require physical and digital infrastructure to undergo transformation to permit the use of autonomous and electric vehicles, as well as other innovative modes of transportation.

How does Australia's physical infrastructure need to evolve?

Our physical and digital infrastructure will need to undergo a transformation.

Paving the way for autonomous and electric vehicles

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been credited with driving the adoption of MaaS, as they are expected to reduce the burden on riders, decrease transportation costs, and increase safety on roads. Electric vehicles (EVs) are similarly seen as being intrinsically linked to the future of MaaS. In fact, EVs have even inspired the creation of a purely electric version of MaaS referred to as 'eMaaS' or 'Electric Mobility as a Service'. A number of changes to Australia's physical infrastructure are required before AVs and EVs can be implemented in earnest.

EVs require installation of charging stations along transit corridors throughout Australia. This would not be an unprecedented move, noting that the Queensland Government has rolled out the world's longest EV superhighway in a single state. This will soon be superseded, as in November 2020, Western Australia released its Electric Vehicle Strategy. This will facilitate the creation of an even longer EV charging infrastructure network from Perth to Kununurra in the North, Esperance in the South, and Kalgoorlie in the East.

AVs will need vehicle-to-vehicle and 'smart infrastructure' technology sensors installed in roads, signs and other associated infrastructure. Roads, in particular road markings, would need to be maintained in top condition to ensure that they can be recognised by the AVs. Drone technology should play a part here, with their ability to project live feeds to maintenance crews.

Sensors installed in smart infrastructure can serve a second purpose by collecting data, allowing analysts to predict maintenance problems before they occur. This would be similar to the sensors and analytics that are currently being used to provide the same service on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Connecting with ease

In a MaaS world, customers need accessible and safe intermodal interchange centres to transfer between various modes of transport. We could arrive by rideshare, then transfer to a scooter, and then board a train.

Much like our current metro systems, there are opportunities for interchange points to become shopping, dining and entertainment precincts. This could reduce the 'friction' that often comes with changing between modes of transport.

Growing our green infrastructure

COVID is accelerating the increase in the use of active transport, such as bikes and scooters. As a result, shared pedestrian and cycle paths are becoming crowded and unsafe.

Active transportation requires governments to invest in innovative, safety-focused solutions. This is already happening in a number of States. Brisbane City Council has revealed plans to build 5 new green bridges across Brisbane. The Queensland Government is also investing in veloways in strategic locations, to minimise the safety risk that comes with overcrowded pathways. Sydney is playing catch-up by installing a number of temporary bike lanes.

To take the concept a step further, future active transport infrastructure options may include elevated, enclosed and climate controlled paths installed over or under existing pedestrian paths and bikeways.

Is Australia's digital infrastructure capable of supporting a MaaS system?

Our digital infrastructure has several challenges to overcome for MaaS to reach its full potential.

5G Internet: the real deal, or just a fling?

A true MaaS ecosystem demands a lot from the internet: fast networks and ease of connectivity. A functioning 5G network is just part of the answer.

While a 5G network will be more than sufficient to grow the MaaS system, it may be the case that a transformational innovation in internet delivery is required. This may be needed to sustain a MaaS system in a 'Future City' traversed by interconnected and perhaps autonomous modes of transport.

Consistent access to internet in the 6th largest country

In a country the size of Australia, it comes as no surprise that establishing and maintaining reliable internet coverage, particularly in remote areas, can be a challenge. Given that 3G networks remain the only option in some locations, it may be some time before a 5G network capable of sustaining a full MaaS system is rolled out across Australia.

Despite or perhaps because of the challenges along the way, the journey towards MaaS as the future of transport in Australia promises to be almost as exciting as the destination.

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Back in 1996, a Microsoft engineer by the name of Gurdeep Singh-Pall developed the Peer-to-Peer Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). The goal was to use IP addresses to switch network packets and offer employees a secure and private means of connecting to their organizations intranet. It was a watershed moment that would instigate the advent of VPN technology.

In its beginning stages, when the VPN was employed by professional users to work remotely, the majority of systems and applications were used within the company data center. Consider Microsoft Exchange, for example. To use the platform, individuals were required to use a Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) or a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) client to access their emails. This meant users also had to be on the VPN network, unless they had significant security holes in their firewalls. However, in 2003, a new connection protocol termed RPC over HTTPS emerged, which allowed a client to connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server through an SSL-secured channel on the internet; thus, eliminating the need for a VPN and eventually, enabling the Outlook Anywhere model.

Today, we find ourselves in the age of cloud computing and the way in which we access applications, email or otherwise, has been further revolutionised. All of our files, applications etc. can be hosted by a third-party server and made available through the internet. Returning to the email example, rather than having to set up an Exchange Server on the company server to host and manage emails, this can now be done on the Cloud through Office 365. In other words, we are seeing most productivity applications becoming webified.

In light of this, some sceptics have begun to question the relevance of VPNs at all. They may have been useful in offering secure access to data when we had a clear and defined network perimeter, but these lines have blurred considerably with cloud computing and the employment of software as a service (SaaS) tools. Add to this the recent surge in remote working, and many would go as far as declaring VPNs all but dead. Yet, such a blanket statement fails to recognize that VPNs are simply evolving and what we are seeing is a change in how they are used and who is using them. The remote worker VPN may have become redundant but in a number of other situations, they are still the best way of securing internet traffic.

One such situation is in the connection between an organizations cloud environment and on-premise systems.

Formerly, secure channels created by traditional VPNs might have been compromised as a result of an end-user falling victim to a phishing attack or the like. Lack of network segmentation would then allow bad actors to navigate across to critical infrastructure. In this use-case, however, the VPN creates a safeguarded tunnel through which data can be transferred and it is integrated with the cloud infrastructure. This means employees can safely access data without ever seeing its implementation, while organizations gain granular control of user-access.

Access to data and services are limited based on a range of criteria from job role and location, to the type of network used and the data being retrieved. In this way, this adapted form of VPN is critical to meeting the tenets of Zero Trust Architecture. Nevertheless, organizations should ensure that the VPN never terminates at the heart of the data center as this places too much trust on the origination point.

Whether to enable an employee to utilize programs located on their office desktop or to have IT support step in and troubleshoot technical issues, remote administration sessions are indispensable; particularly, during this years mass experiment with remote working. Unfortunately, running such sessions puts a target on ones back if not done securely and if ports are left exposed. Attackers will undoubtedly be quick to take advantage of this easy pathway to unrestricted control of a device, from mouse and keyboard to everything on screen.

As such, it is pivotal that a VPN is employed to fortify these sessions. More importantly, this should be paired with strong authentication. As earlier mentioned, there are security limitations when an employee is involved in the implementation of a VPN. All it takes is one mis-click of a phishing link, inviting an unsuspecting user to share their credentials. Once a bad actor has captured login details, it wont be long before they connect to the VPN and the network in general. Therefore, multi-factor authentication is critical. Even if a users credentials are compromised, cybercriminals would be hard-pressed to get past a second security check; be it a one-time, time-sensitive password sent to a separate device or the use of biometrics. Above all else though, default credentials should be immediately removed. It may appear obvious, but it is regrettably, a common mistake that has been frequently leveraged by cybercriminals.

Alongside strong authentication, organizations should adopt behavioral analytics as well, bringing us to our third use-case.

The popularity of VPNs has boomed outside of the working environment and into everyday life, as the general consumer population begins to understand the risks of using unsecure networks. With a VPN, users can encrypt their traffic and secure it across unprotected hops, or trips that data packets make from a router to another point in the network. This prevents users from falling victim to an Evil Twin Wi-Fi attack, for example, whereby a fraudulent Wi-Fi access point is manipulated to snoop through the users traffic. In this way, allowing users to safely perform tasks such as accessing their bank account from a local coffee shop.

From an organizational point of view, security teams should be keeping an attentive eye on user behavior during VPN sessions. While strong authentication is important, it does not highlight when credentials may be misused or if the business is facing an insider threat. Monitoring behavior will help businesses to detect suspicious behavior and proactively respond to minimize the damage. With these audits, organizations can better protect their intellectual property as well as general operations.

The VPN continues to be valuable in a number of ways. It can support organizations in securing the movement of data between on-premise systems and the Cloud, it safeguards remote administration sessions, and it enables consumers to encrypt their internet traffic regardless of the Wi-Fi they log into. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of a VPN is dependent on three key factors. Firstly, the VPN should never terminate in a data center. Strong authentication as well behavioral analytics should also be applied alongside. We need to ensure that admin VPNs are correctly configured and assume that anyone and everyone is a potential threat, whether they possess the encryption keys or not. Skepticism here is our best defense.

Dan Conrad, field strategist, One Identity

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Frances second national lockdown of 2020 ended today (December 15), despite the target of fewer than an average of 5,000 daily Covid-19 cases not being reached.

The below image shows the evolution of cases in France since May.

When the second lockdown was introduced at the end of October, over 50,000 cases of the virus were being recorded every day.

That number has now significantly dropped, but remains higher than the target of 5,000, set by President Emmanuel Macron on November 24 as a stipulation for the lockdown to end.

The country is still regularly recording figures of over 10,000 per day.

Due to the target not being reached, the government has introduced stricter post-lockdown measures than planned.

A curfew has now come into effect, beginning at 20:00 rather than 21:00 as initially stated.

There will be an exemption to the curfew on December 24 only, allowing families and friends to celebrate Christmas together. There will be no exemption on December 31, as was initially stated.

Cinemas, theatres, museums and casinos, which were supposed to re-open, remain closed. The government has said this rule will be reviewed on January 7, 2021.

Covid France: What you can (and cannot) do from December 15

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Easy-look graph: The evolution of Covid-19 cases in France - The Connexion

Not much is known about Nikes Evolution of Icons pack, but after quite a few reveals, we can confidently say that each new entry will feature the same logo-heavy insole and multicolored tongue label. This upcoming Air Max 90, which joins the collection with the aforementioned details, serves as further proof, though it also brings along some overt nods to its own star-studded roster of past colorways.

Starting at the sole, one will quickly notice the homage to the iconic Infrared especially considering that the scheme was brought back not too long ago. Up front, below an orange-tinted embroidered check, the tread hues a Hyper Royal, its usage an obvious nod to the release of the very same name. Elsewhere, at the suede and mesh construction of the upper, grey and white neutrals escort the referential bits of color: specifically, the Laser Blue of the Swoosh and the neon Volt at the heel tab and topmost eye stay.

Grab a detailed look at this tour of AM90 history here and expect to find at Nike.com and possibly a few select retailers very soon.

In other news, the KITH Nike Air Force 1 New York lands tomorrow.

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The Evolution Of Icons Welcomes The Nike Air Max 90 - Sneaker News

Torrential thanks to our partners Harvard Law School and The Wharton School for organizing this conference, and to the Federal Reserve staff who have played a key role. And an equally huge thanks to all of the moderators and panelists who are participating in today's event and to all of you who are tuning in. I have very much enjoyed the discussion so far, and I hope that the conference will encourage both more and a wider variety of academic work on bank supervision.

In many respects, the focus of today's conference on bank supervision, rather than regulation, and the relatively recent efflorescence of scholarly attention to that topic, are welcome new developments. In other respects, however, the question of the proper scope of bank supervision is not a new topic at all. In going through some family papers recently, I came across thiscri de coeurfrom one Elton Hall, president of a small bank in Victor, Idaho, as quoted in the Teton Valley News in November, 1921:

The government has so governed [my] bank that [I] no longer knew who owned it. I am inspected, examined and re-examined, informed, required, restrained, and commanded. . . . I am supposed to be an inexhaustible supply of money . . . , and because I will not sell all I have and go out and beg, borrow, or steal money to give away, I have been cussed, discussed, boycotted, talked to, talked about, lied to, lied about, held up, hung up, robbed and nearly drained, and the only reason I am clinging to life is to see what in hell is coming off next.

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Sasha Banks is a trailblazer who is always looking to achieve the impossible. The list of whats seemingly impossible to accomplish in WWE should not include a sequel to 2018s women-only Evolution pay-per-view, but weve been waiting for more than three years with nothing to show for it.

Unlike Evolution, there has never been a Queen of the Ring tournament in WWE, and its well beyond time that WWE figures out how to make that happen too.

Naturally, Sasha Banks has big ambitions to turn both of these dreams into reality. During an interview that was posted on ProSieben MAXXs Instagram, The Boss explains that her booking plans for Evolution 2 could include some Queen of the Ring tournament matches:

A Queen of the Ring tournament on a whole pay-per-view for itself would be really freakin cool. But Ive been waiting for Evolution 2 for a very long time. So maybe we can do that first, and maybe we can [start matches] at Evolution 2 for the Queen of the Ring tournament. Maybe something like that can happen.

Its one thing to fantasy book a wrestling event, but the hard part is turning that idea into reality. Thats why Banks is appealing to you, dear reader, to do your part to bring Evolution 2 and a Queen of the Ring tourney to life:

But thats up to you. You guys have to tweet Vince [McMahon]...make sure you keep on tweeting him so we can have that in 2021.

There you go Cagesiders, its that straightforward. Start tweeting at Vince and maybe we can see the talented women in WWE make history again on pay-per-view in 2021.

Do you think WWE is going to deliver on one or both of these landmark events next year?

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Sasha Banks explains how you can make Evolution 2 and Queen of the Ring happen in 2021 - Cageside Seats