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Reining in the Tycoons
Bank Hapoalim 521 DONT USE.
(photo credit:NATI SHOHAT / FLASH 90)
The last of the tent-dwellers protesting socioeconomic conditions on Tel Aviv's
Rothschild Boulevard were finally evicted in early October. But there was
a palpable sense in the air that with summer fading into autumn, university
classes just around the corner and the first rains in the skies, Israel's summer
of discontent was undergoing a metamorphosis.The mass street marches and
tent encampments have had their run. The natural arena for the next phase of the
struggle for structural economic change, in the eyes of many, will be in the
Knesset, where the mettle of the protest movement will be tested by the
legislative achievements it can attain.The current moment, however, was
one in which various committees were slated to issue reports providing the
government with recommendations for reforms and new directions to be taken in
economic restructuring. Much attention was focused on the Trajtenberg
Committee, commissioned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in response to the
summer protest marches, and which submitted its report on September
26.On September 19 another committee, the Committee on Strengthening
Market Competitiveness, often called in short the "concentration committee"
issued its interim conclusions, marking the start of the committee report
season. The concentration committee was actually established long before the
protest movement but studied one of the central complaints of the protesters,
regarding the concentration of economic power by "tycoons," as Israel's economic
titans are generally termed.The concentration committee's main
recommendation centers on a proposed separation wall between financial and
non-financial holdings by prohibiting large non-financial corporations from
controlling financial institutions. It also calls for reforms in
corporate governance, chiefly through greater minority shareholder participation
in major decisions and increased authority granted to outside corporate
directors, in an effort to weaken the powers currently wielded by Israel's
"economic pyramids."The committee's report was made public at a press
conference attended by Netanyahu, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz and Bank of
Israel Governor Stanley Fischer. The attendees praised the report, promising to
work towards legislative implementation of its recommendations, which they
assured the public would increase competition for the benefit of consumers.
Netanyahu even went so far as to claim that average Israelis would, as a result
of the reforms, pay less "in the supermarket."Haim Shani, the Finance
Ministry's director general, who co-chaired the committee with Eyal Gabai
(director general of the Prime Minister's office between 2009 and this year) was
more cautious, stating that "this won't influence the price of cottage cheese
next week, but the recommendations will have an effect on the business sector in
the longer term."Some observers, however, are less impressed with the
committee's interim report, predicting that the tycoons in the stratospheres of
wealth will make every effort to shake off the latest attempts to confront their
concentration of economic clout."Fighting against economic concentration
is a good thing, but this is too little, too late," says Avia Spivak, professor
of economics at Ben-Gurion University and co-chairman of a committee of
economists associated with the social protest movement. "If the government shies
away from imposing regulation where it is needed, it is not going to see
results." (See "Dental Cleaning vs. Root Canal," page 3.) Others go further,
saying that the proposed changes are too tepid to make a real
difference."Unfortunately the recommendations do not do enough to change
the rules of the game," says Ron Werber, co-founder of the Israel Civic Action
Forum, a non-governmental organization that ran a public campaign last year in
favor of the Sheshinski Committee's recommendations to increase tax rates on
natural resource extraction. (See "Battling for Sunken Treasure," March 14). The
forum intends to conduct a similar campaign calling for legislation to reduce
economic concentration."But the monied interests will be fighting
against even these recommendations. We are preparing for a major battle,
to fight against the erosion of the recommendations. I can promise you things
will get very interesting in this regard in a couple of months."The
appointment of the Committee on Strengthening Market Competitiveness by
Netanyahu's government, nearly a year ago in October 2010, did not occur in a
vacuum.Concern had long been spreading in economic, legal and political
circles that the economy has been undergoing an accelerated trend of economic
concentration, with an emerging small group of families and individuals holding
control of so many diverse corporations in different but interacting industries
that the trend itself could pose a threat to current and future economic growth
– to say nothing of the possibility that concentrated wealth may also give a
coterie of "tycoons" outsized political clout. (See cover story, "The Power of
the Rich," April 11).These concerns were bolstered by several studies
confirming the existence of a wealth concentration trend. A study by Bank of Israel economist Konstantin Kosenko
revealed that half of the banks and insurance companies in the country are
affiliated with only about 20 families, with the same set of families
controlling companies that generate about half of the national Gross Domestic
Product. The OECD also issued warnings based on studies it conducted revealing
that "three-quarters of Israeli-listed companies [of a total of 640] are
controlled by family or individual interests."In addition to the general
phenomenon of economic clout in the hands of relatively few groups and
individuals, the proliferation of pyramid structures has been underscored as
being particularly troubling. The existence of only a small number of major
economic players might be naively explained in the Israeli context by
considering the fact that the economy is a relatively small one on the world
stage that is, moreover, geographically isolated from its main export markets,
but pyramids constitute a deliberate effort by individuals to leverage vast
control with relatively small initial investment. Pyramids are constructed step
by step, when one company purchases a controlling share in another company,
which in turn buys control of yet another company, and so on in a
chain.By strategically clever leveraging, this can be achieved at
relatively small initial expense, with most of the "heavy lifting" conducted by
instructing companies at various pyramidal levels to seek corporate credit for
profitable acquisitions.Moreover, the biggest borrowers in the country
are also the wealthiest individuals. Studies indicate that as of 2009,
six of Israel's biggest business groups had taken one quarter of all credit
extended to businesses in the country. They used this borrowed money to buy
controlling interests in companies, enabling them to appoint both the ranks of
corporate management and a majority of board members. Co-ownership of commercial
companies and financial institutions makes obtaining credit all the easier for
tycoons.Many of the committee's recommendations are intended to deal
with these phenomena, most obviously those involving separation of ownership and
membership in the boards of directors between large corporations and significant
financial companies.A "large non-financial corporation" is defined by
the committee as a company whose annual sales turnover exceeds 8 billion
shekels, or whose total balance sheet figures are greater than 20 billion
shekels, while a significant financial company is one overseeing investments of
50 billion shekels or more.Based on these criteria, several Israeli
tycoons will be directly affected by legislative adoption of this
recommendation: Nohi Dankner, owner of the IDB group, a conglomerate whose
holdings include the Shufersal supermarket chain, the Cellcom mobile telephone
company, and Clal Insurance; Zadik Bino, whose holdings also include both the
Paz Gas energy corporation and the First International Bank of Israel; and
Yitzhak Tshuva, who owns the Delek energy and real estate conglomerate, along
with Phoenix Insurance.The cutoff figures the committee adopted were
based on the size of Israel's economy, with 8 billion shekels for a
non-financial corporation representing 0.5 percent of the country's total
non-financial business sales, and 50 billion shekels in investments for a
financial concern equal to 2.5 percent of the total amount of money that the
public currently has invested. Those numbers, however, have led to an
interesting round of speculation in the financial media as to which tycoons
might find themselves exempt by dint of coming in just under the
wire.For example, how Mozi Wertheimer, who owns both the Mizrahi Tefahot
Bank and Coca-Cola Israel, will be affected is unclear, since Coca-Cola Israel's
annual sales turnover is not in the public domain. The Apax group, which holds
both Psagot Investments and Tnuva, may receive a pass, if Tnuva's annual sales
this year total less than 8 billion – which may happen, ironically, because a
popular protest boycott of Tnuva's cottage cheese, intended to force the company
to lower its prices, cut into its sales figures.The obituary pages may
also play a role in determining the ownership of some companies: the patriarchs
of the Ofer Group, Sammy Ofer and Yuli Ofer, both passed away in recent months.
How their assets are divided among several inheritors will be watched closely to
see if the asset disposition triggers the committee's recommendations.In
addition to the much discussed separation of financial and non-financial
holdings in conglomerates, the committee issued a long list of recommendations.
These include granting greater authorities to members of boards of directors
appointed to guard the public interest; requiring that the opinions of minority
shareholders of publicly traded companies be taken into account in major
decisions, including executive salary terms; regulation over the appointment of
members of boards of directors in subsidiaries by controlling owners of
companies; bolstering the powers of the Antitrust Authority; and requiring the
state to take into account increasing market competition considerations when
selling state assets and resources.The recommendations that the
committee issued on September 19 are only its interim conclusions. The public,
including corporate owners, have been granted several weeks to respond and
submit comments to the committee, after which the final report will be presented
to the government. The government will then be called upon to decide
whether it accepts or rejects the final committee recommendations.Those
provisions the government accepts will become proposed legislation, to be voted
on in the Knesset. Even if the Knesset adopts into law the committee's
recommendations in toto, many of their provisions can be expected to go into
in a gradual manner. For example, the committee recommendations grant corporate
owners four years to decide whether they prefer to hold on to non-financial
companies or financial firms, in cases in which they are forbidden from holding
both.David Gilo, a member of the committee who is also an assistant
professor of law at Tel Aviv University specializing in antitrust law and has
served on the Israel Antitrust Court, is, perhaps unsurprisingly, quite pleased
with the committee's conclusions."The committee recommendations are a
very effective method for dealing with the problem of the pyramids," Gilo tells
The Report. "We were very aware of the problem of companies that are publically
traded but controlling interest is held by only one person, who gains more than
50 percent control over all the companies in the pyramid. This distortion has to
be corrected by returning control to the public shareholders, and that is the
main intent of our recommendations, including those giving minority shareholders
and public directors greater weight in decisions."Gilo rejects
suggestions that imposing taxes on dividends, a tool used in the past in the US
and in Europe to discourage pyramid formation, should have been considered by
the committee. "Our recommendations form a surgical method of uprooting the
pyramid problem. Contending with this by taxing dividends is imprecise and can
have negative side effects."An issue that Gilo has frequently written
and spoken about as harming consumer interests in Israel is that of
conglomerates with significant presence in several markets."That stifles
competition, because a conglomerate facing competition from another conglomerate
in one market can threaten to hit back in another market. That leads to an
equilibrium in which companies refrain from competing, and act in concert like
cartels," he says. "We were very aware of this problem in the committee, and
proposed two ways of contending with it. One is to increase the powers of the
Antitrust Authority and the Antitrust Court to stop this from happening.
Antitrust is very important for fostering competition for the good of consumers.
The second is requiring antitrust review whenever a state asset, resource, or
even contracting job is offered for sale. Considerations of decentralization and
competition will have to be taken into account explicitly, and governments may
be liable to be sued in the Supreme Court, if they do not."Spivak, a former deputy governor of the Bank of Israel, exudes skepticism regarding the
effects that the committee's recommendations will have. "Even if reducing
economic concentration is achieved, that will not mean that the level of
competition, or the price level, will change immediately," he tells The
Report."And although dealing with concentration is important, and is in
the right direction, much more is needed to deal with social
problems."In Spivak's analysis, many of the committee's recommendations,
such as those calling for a separation of ownership of financial and
non-financial companies, will do more for financial stability than increase
competition in the marketplace, which is what ultimately determines consumer
prices. What is missing, he says, is a willingness to impose regulation,
where it is called for, against market activity that hinders competition. "A
government that is serious about this imposes regulations, threatens to impose
regulations, or starts with soft regulation with the message that more
regulation may follow," says Spivak. "A government that never dares to do that
will not get far. And that will not help consumers end the month [with a
positive bank balance]."Werber, at the Israel Civic Action Forum, also
does not hide his disappointment with the committee recommendations, arguing
that they fail to go far enough. "It makes little sense to forbid
cross-ownership of financial and real assets only when a large enough amount of
money is involved," he tells The Report. "Such cross-ownership should be out of
the game no matter how much money is involved. And why wait four years for that
to take effect? Across the line, the recommendations [of the committee] are not
enough. Directors who are public representatives are usually marionettes
of the owners and do not really represent the public interest. There are too
many examples of this for me to even start listing them."Despite his
criticisms, Werber promises that the Israel Civic Action Forum will do its best
to get the recommendations adopted as law, on the grounds that doing so will at
least constitute a start to reducing the power of the tycoons over the economy.
He likes to compare the struggle that he predicts is looming to the fight over
the Sheshinski Committee recommendations last year, during which energy
companies that stood to lose money if the committee recommendations were adopted
as law (which eventually happened) were accused of hiring masses of lobbyists to
place intense pressure on Members of the Knesset to vote down the
recommendations."You can be sure that against the [committee on economic
concentration's] list of recommendations, the monied interests are already
preparing an offensive, hiring lawyers, PR consultants, accountants, whatever
they need," says Werber. He predicts that the fight will be fiercer than last
year's."The Sheshinski saga will repeat itself, but this time with many
more corporations involved [than just the energy companies]," continues Werber.
"They [the tycoons] cannot tolerate having their pyramids toppled, and they will
fight it, as history shows they have always done in the past. God knows what the
legislation will end up looking like when this is over."At times, Werber
seems to be relishing the possibility of public confrontation over the issues
involved. "We are preparing for a major battle, to fight against the erosion of
the recommendations, and to get more recommendations added," says
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Image: Phase contrast showing location of whole cells (Photo courtesy of Prof. C.L. Jaffe, Hebrew University, and of PLOS One).
Image: Presence of Casein Kinase 1 isoform 4 (CK1.4) in Leishmania donovani shown by immunoflourescent staining (red); control staining of nuclei is shown in blue (Photo courtesy of Prof. C.L. Jaffe, Hebrew University, and of PLOS One).
A unique protein kinase (PK) secreted by the human parasite
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Enzymes of the casein kinase 1 (CK1) family are present in all known eukaryotes and are involved in a wide variety of cellular processes. Scientists at the Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School (Jerusalem, Israel) led by Charles Jaffe, professor at the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, investigated the role of CK1 isoform 4, unique to
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Analysis of the LdCK1.4 amino acid sequence identified a putative secretion signal. To determine whether this PK is secreted, a C-terminus FLAG-tagged form, LdCK1.4-FLAG, was constructed and stably overexpressed in L. donovani promastigote-stage cells. LdCK1.4-FLAG or wild-type LdCK1.4 (native, untagged) release by mutant and/or wild-type parasites was monitored by Western blotting with polyclonal anti-LdCK1.4 and anti-FLAG upon transfer to induction buffer. The released PK was clearly observed in cell-free supernatants, peaking at 10 minutes. Differences in kinetics of release, and amounts of enzyme, were observed between mutant and wild type parasites.
LdCK1.4 was localized in fixed dividing-stage promastigotes using antibodies. Intracellular fluorescence was present both as weak diffuse cytoplasmic staining, as well as a strong punctate pattern adjacent to the nucleus and/or kinetoplast (no co-localization with a nuclear staining control was observed). This suggests that CK1.4 may have intracellular, as well as secreted extracellular roles.
Effect of LdCK1.4-FLAG overexpression on parasite growth and differentiation into virulent, metacyclic-stage promastigotes was examined daily. Parasites overexpressing the PK grew significantly faster, noted by day 3, and to higher densities than control cells. Interestingly, the LdCK1.4-FLAG overexpressing mutants differentiated more rapidly in culture, on day 3, into the metacyclic, virulent stage, than the wild-type parasites, as measured by flow cytometry. However, the final percentage of metacyclic parasites in stationary growth-phase cultures, on day 5, was similar in both types of parasites.
The researchers also examined the effect of LdCK1.4 overexpression on parasite virulence. CK1.4 expression increases rapidly during differentiation from the insect promastigote stage to intracellular amastigote stage in the mammalian host. Day 5 stationary phase promastigotes were used to infect mouse macrophages and intracellular amastigote infection was measured 72 hours later. The percentage of infected macrophages was significantly higher (~4.5–fold,
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — On the eve of Election Day, Marylanders for and against expanded gambling are trying to garner support in their favor. Jessica Kartalija has the latest on Question 7.
With just hours until Marylanders head to the polls. Politicians on both sides are hoping to sway voters in their direction.
There's been a multi-million dollar ad campaign for and against Question 7 and now there's a last minute push on both sides hours before voters head to the polls.
At a rally in Baltimore City, supporters tout the initiative as a way to boost education funding.
"That guarantees the money goes toward education. It guarantees the money here in Maryland helps us with our infrastructure," said one supporter.
But opponents say they're bluffing.
"Basically they say this same thing over and over again, that there's going to be more money for schools and they hope you're going to believe it, but I think at this point, most people know that's not the case," said Delegate Heather Mizeur.
If Question 7 passes, it will allow table games in addition to existing slot machines, increase the state-wide cap on the number of slots and permit a sixth casino at National Harbor in Prince George's County.
Slot machines have been permitted here in Maryland since voters passed a gaming law in 2008. If passed, Question 7 would bring Maryland casinos closer in line with those in Atlantic City or Las Vegas.
Question 7 opponents held their final push over the weekend with rallies around the state.
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The bad news is that college football's regular season is almost over. The good news is that this is rivalry week, so we should have some of the best games of the year.
There weren't a lot of big-time games this week, but that didn't mean we couldn't have one big upset and another record-breaking performance.
The Seminoles dodged another bullet, Alabama showed it's still the team to beat in the SEC and Melvin Gordon ran into the record books. Here are the highlights from this week in college football.
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Mississippi State has gone from unranked to No. 1 faster than any team in history. And that's just one of the surprises from this week in college football.
When the previous week's upsets leave Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Baylor and TCU as the biggest storylines in college football, you know it's going to be an interesting weekend.
For the first time in college football history, five of the top eight teams in the AP poll all lost. And that was just the beginning of this week's craziness.
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As it stands today, the Center is the product of the combined efforts of the faculty, students, Sault Ste Marie citizens, the State of Michigan and federal government. Work began in 1972 when what was then the Lake Superior State College Board of Control approved the resolution for the physical education building. After much fundraising, ground was broken on the new building on October 19, 1974 and was completed two years later in the Fall of 1976.
There would later be expansions and updates to the facility, including the $3.2 million expansion to what would become the Clarence "Taffy" Abel Arena, named after the legendary Sault Ste. Marie hockey star and Native American. The Arbuckle Student Activity Center was constructed in 1999 at a cost of $3 million and added to the sports complex multiple indoor courts, track, and a fitness center.
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Food allergy test called 'waste of money'
TORONTO-- Commercial tests that claim to determine whether a person has food allergies, sensitivities or an inability to tolerate certain foods are a waste of money, warns a Toronto allergy specialist, who wrote about the issue in this week's Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Dr. Elana Lavine said she's seeing a stream of people who have undergone the testing or have had it done on their children in the belief that a food allergy might explain other complaints or ailments. The tests are sometimes done in consultation with complementary medicine practitioners, she said.
Lavine said she hasn't been keeping records, but probably sees a couple of patients a month who want help interpreting the findings of the tests.
"I no longer have any preconceptions about the 'type of person' who would fall for this testing because of what I've seen in my community practice," said Lavine, an allergist who splits her time between a private practice and the pediatrics department of Humber River Regional Hospital.
"I have seen well-intentioned, educated, aware people from all walks of life, all levels of education somehow be brought to a mind-set where they feel like this test might be the answer."
"For whatever reason, they're drawn to do a test that seems to promise to unlock secrets and to reveal to them what secret food allergies they have. So I think it's a very appealing concept -- but a totally incorrect one," she said.
The tests, which can cost hundreds of dollars, look for an antibody reaction to a whole range of foods. And when they find a response with an antibody known as immunoglobulin G, or IgG, they characterize that result as unhealthy, suggesting the existence of either a food allergy, an intolerance or a food "sensitivity."
But Lavine said that is a misreading of what an IgG reaction means. Science isn't 100 per cent sure what an IgG response actually signifies, she said, but it is thought to mean that a person has already encountered the proteins in that particular food and may even have developed a tolerance for them.
Recent position papers from European and U.S. allergy and immunology societies have also emphasized that tests looking at IgG or IgG4 antibodies are not appropriate for making a diagnosis of food allergy, she wrote in the journal.
Lavine noted that people who've undergone the testing may receive a multipage report that itemizes problem foods in unusual detail. A person might be told they have a sensitivity to cheddar cheese, cottage cheese and other cheese products.
Lavine said that type of assessment is "inconsistent" with the understanding of food allergy, which identifies potential allergy-inducing components in dairy products, but would not list individual types of cheeses in this way. And some foods listed are actually rarely documented as allergens, such as sugar and yeast.
She also added there is no definition for a food "sensitivity."
A patient with a suspected food allergy -- say someone who has developed hives or experienced difficulty swallowing or breathing after eating a particular food -- would be referred by a primary-care doctor to an allergy specialist.
The allergy specialist would take a history and do a skin test, pricking the skin with a needle that had been dipped in an extract of the suspected allergen to see if a reaction -- redness, itching or swelling -- ensued.
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Johnny Douglas, Basil Butcher, and one of England's most successful captains are all born
One of England's most popular and successful Test captains is born. Instantly successful, too. In his first match in charge, Percy Chapman led England to victory by 289 runs over Australia at The Oval in 1926, a win that regained the Ashes. Chapman was captain when they were retained 4-1 in 1928-29, a series that saw him at his peak. Before drink got the better of him, he was one of the all-time great close fielders (32 catches in 26 Tests) and hit a sparkling century in defeat against Australia at Lord's in 1930. His score of 121 would have been even higher if he hadn't choked on a flying insect!
Birth of the pugnacious Johnny Douglas, who was England's captain when they lost all five Tests in Australia in 1920-21. But English cricket had been decimated by the First World War - and Douglas had had better days Down Under. Back in 1911-12, he took over when Plum Warner fell ill, and led England to a 4-1 victory that regained the Ashes. This after Douglas had helped lose the first Test in Sydney by opening the bowling himself instead of using Sydney Barnes. A few well-chosen words by Warner and Barnes and it didn't happen again. It took someone as strong-willed as Barnes to stand up to Douglas, who had won the Olympic middleweight boxing title in 1908 (beating an Australian in the final). His batting was so slow at times that his initials JWHT were translated as "Johnny Won't Hit Today" - but probably not to his face. He drowned in 1930 while trying to save his father from a sinking ship.
Birth of that wristy and obdurate batsman Basil Butcher, who was an important member of the side that served West Indies so well in the 1960s. He averaged 43.11 and scored seven centuries in Tests, including a superb 209 not out that won the Trent Bridge Test of 1966 after West Indies had trailed by 90 on first innings. He took 5 for 34 with his legspin in Port-of-Spain in 1967-68, but they were his only Test wickets and England won the match.
The end of the longest first-class match played in England (32 hours 17 minutes). Under an agreement between the English and Australian authorities, the final Test of the 1975 series was to be extended to six days if the Ashes were still at stake. They were, but the extra day looked academic when England followed on 341 runs in arrears early on the fourth morning. But anchored by Bob Woolmer's 149, England not only avoided an innings defeat but also managed a draw.
India's first series without Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman (except for one Test in 2010) since 1996. But their opponents, New Zealand, weren't quite up to the task of using it to their advantage. India's next generation of middle-order batsmen stepped up - Cheteshwar Pujara, returning from injury, scored 159 in an innings victory in Hyderabad and Virat Kohli made his second Test hundred, in Bangalore. Offspinner R Ashwin took 12 for 85 - his first ten-wicket match haul and the best figures by an Indian against New Zealand.
Unsung Kent swing bowler Richard Ellison completed figures of 5 for 46 at The Oval to help dismiss Australia for 129 and win the match. England's innings victory clinched the series 3-1 and regained the Ashes. Genial Bernard Thomas retired as England physio after 17 years.
In the NatWest final at Lord's, Somerset avenged their 1967 defeat to Kent by beating the same side to win the trophy for the first time in their history. Although they made only 193 batting first, their bowling was too economical for Kent. Ian Botham took 2 for 29 in his 10 overs, and Joel Garner 2 for only 15 in nine. But Vic Marks was made Man of the Match for his 3 for 30 in 10 overs to go with an innings of 29.
Birth of fast bowler and major cricketing personality Tom Emmett, who played for England in the inaugural Test, in Melbourne in 1876-77, when he bowled 12 overs for only 13 runs but didn't take a wicket. That lack of penetration was reflected in his overall Test career (nine wickets in seven matches) - but as captain of Yorkshire he gave as good as he got in verbal exchanges with WG Grace, which was no mean feat. Emmett described one of his standard deliveries as a "sostenuter" on the basis of "What else would you call it?"
Paul Stirling, a promising Irish batsman, is born. Part of Ireland's team that performed well at the World Twenty20 in England in 2009, Stirling signed a three-year deal with Middlesex in December 2009, where he joined fellow Irish-born batsman Eoin Morgan. In 2010 he made a 134-ball 177 for Ireland against Canada, which remains the highest ODI score made by an Irishman.
Birth of New Zealand left-hander Jackie Mills, whose only Test century was scored on his debut. Against England in Wellington in 1929-30, he scored 117 and put on 276 for the first wicket with the great Stewie Dempster. It's still New Zealand's highest stand for any wicket against England.
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