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Policies to support economic and environmental goals at farm and regional scales: Outcomes for rice farmers in Southern India depend on their resource endowment
Improving water use and nitrogen efficiencies is of overall importance to society at large - to conserve scarce water resources and prevent environmental pollution. Efficient cultivation practices for rice which had no yield penalty were not adopted by farmers because of the open access to water free of charge. Well-chosen combinations of policy measures are thus needed to stimulate adoption of new cultivation practices. We developed a multi-objective linear programming (MGLP) model to explore the impact of: (i) modified rice cultivation including water-saving irrigation on farm profit; (ii) water pricing and water quota government policies on adoption of modified rice cultivation by farmers; (iii) a combination of (i) and (ii) to achieve the objectives of both farmers and society at large, and (iv) to study the trade-offs between income, water and nitrogen use. The analysis was carried out on four rice-based farm types for the state of Tamil Nadu, South India. Model results showed that observed farm profit of all four farm types could be increased using current practices simply by optimizing land use for specific crops. Adoption of modified rice cultivation further increased farm profit. Water-saving practices were selected only when water pricing was introduced. Farm profits were reduced even at low water prices but were compensated by farmers through adoption of modified rice cultivation. The combination of policies that stimulate adoption of modified rice cultivation was effective in achieving both increased farm income and water savings. The required water prices differed across farm types and seasons and impacted poor resource-endowed farmers the most. Providing water quotas could protect the poor resource-endowed farmers. The model helped to identify the optimal water price and water quota for each farm type to achieve both the objectives of farmers and society at large. Opportunities for reducing water use and avoiding environmental pollution at acceptable profits are available for all farm types, but need to be tailored to the farmers' resource endowments.
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Is there a way to have the unsubscribe link point to our application's privacy settings. We interact with CM for all our subscriptions via the API to add/remove subscribers based on their privacy settings. It seems only natural then when they decide they no longer want emails to go there and change it so the change happens on both systems at once, and not just at CM's side of things.
The other option is syncing our subscription lists we keep internally with those on CM but that seems like such a disconnect, especially if one of our users unsubscribes via a CM email and then, before the sync runs, sees they are still "subscribed" according to our site.
Hey mrpunkin, welcome to the forums. There is actually an easy way for you to sync unsubscribes with your own database as they happen. Check out this quick tutorial for the details:
That seems great Dave.... The question I have though is can we use other custom fields in the url? We host our app across multiple domains so sending them back to the right domain (which is included in the custom fields for a subscriber list and each subscriber). If email is the only option available to our unsubscribe url then we won't be able to control it though our website the way we want. Please let me know.
Edit: I think this is still doing the wrong thing. We don't want to have them change it on our end AFTER being unsubscribed on your end because the page we send them to is a list of subscriptions, which they would just be un-subscribing from one of many and doing the same work again over. What we would like is to bypass your unsubscribe link altogether and just insert our own that links back to our website. That way all subscriptions are controlled ONLY through our UI. Let me know if this can be done.
Hi Bryan,
It's actually a requirement of Campaign Monitor that you do use our unsubscribe link. So you will need to work with that process, where they are unsubscribed first at Campaign Monitor and then you can sync it back.
The API is probably your best bet, because in the method Dave mentioned you can only use the [email]tag. Perhaps a process of checking unsubscribes via the API before you send a campaign?
thanks for the response. I'll have to find a way to do it. The thing that is just crummy is we have a visual representation of which lists they subscribe to (used to be all internal, but now we use CM for some of it) on their privacy page and I don't want that to ever reflect different data post-unsubscribe. The alternative then is to sync that subscription / user for each in the list when the profile page loads, which is just taxing having to call another service for that info... but if its the only way we can do it then it's what we will have to do.
Could you not set the unsubscribe confirmation page to a script on your server that will just delete the email address passed in the URL ( http://email@example.com ) and then have this forward to your reporting page which be that point should be up to date?
Just a thought. Best of luck.
Let us know how you get round this.
Hi, I agree with the above post. You should be able to do everything on the unsubscribe page and do a redirect to the page you are showing your clients. This is the way we do quite a bit of stuff. Alternatively, you could embed some ajax in the unsubscribe page and it would not have any redirects showing.
I would like to do exactly what mrpunkin describes but it seems there is no real work-around for this. I only see one option – but it's an ugly one – which is setting the unsubscribe text to a dot and hiding this dot with CSS (white text on white background) and adding your own unsubscribe link. I understand this is against the rules of CM, but I think it's necessary that a newsletter is highly integrated with its online application. I understand that dropping the unsubscribe link would create room for abuse, but maybe a manual verification process (with a small fee) could be introduced to make it work? Or fake (and hidden?) verification users in each list so the people from CM can do random tests to see whether the unsubscribe links works?
If you just want to unsubscribe a user from your own app/database then in Campaign Monitor set the unsubscribe confirmation page to the page you would like displayed on your server and include the email address as a URL param.
For example set your confirmation page to be:
http://www.your-site.com/confirm_unsubscribe.php?emailaddress=[email]Then on this page include your php (or whatever language you prefer) code to run an SQL query which will delete the appropriate details from your DB.
$email_to_be_deleted = $_GET['emailaddress'];
$sql = "DELETE FROM table_name
WHERE 'email' = $email_to_be_deleted";
do the rest of my function...
Hope this helps
I have the same issue.
I'm trying to design a central subscriber management system for large corporate who uses lot's of different email marketing systems and has lots of different lists across lots of different business units. In the process I'd like to get them using mailbuild in one of their business units.
Where possible (e.g. mailbuild) users subscriptions would be sync'd via the API ...otherwise (for other email systems) we'd still be able to centralise subscription statuses at the company level. It is imperative that this company meets Australia's anti-spam legislation - which I understand must provide the user the opportunity to easily unsubscribe from all of that organisations email marketing activities. However, our goal is to make sure the subscribers are aware of their actions and give them the opportunity to unsubscribe from only some business units/areas of interest ...rather than all of them without realising.
This is pretty lo-fi but I was thinking of tailoring the unsubscribe instructions to try and simply encourage subscribers to use our list management interface rather than the mandatory mailbuild unsubscribe. e.g.
(more prominent)
Change your ACME subscriptions at http://email.acme.com
(less prominent)
...or unsubscribe from all ACME emails
We'd then use the API to do the unsubscribing.
I assume that is acceptable to freshviews polices?
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The combined performance of the P.V. Junior and Senior High School Spring Band Concert held everyone's attention this year as the performance started off with the presentation of the American Flag by the P.V. JROTC under the direction of Aric Shubeck, Carmen Caruso, Becky Doerr, Matt Shutter, and Chelsea Digiglio.
After welcoming remarks by PVHS principal Joseph Gunnels, the concert started with the Junior Band performance, directed by Joseph Ogozlaek. The band included Mama Mia and other favorites.
The Elementary Instrumental Ensembles performed "Chorale No. 2" with Abby Haas, Danielle Hudicka, Kaitlin GIles, Delana Nalesnik and director Karen Grebousky. The second number were the drummers doing a number to "Can O-Thunk" with Grebousky, Graceanne Weng, Anthony Tucillo, and Brenna Karnish.
The high school band, directed by Mark Christ, played a selection of tunes while performers, Gabrielle Booker, Kayla Melber, and Courtney Lazar sang "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy". Booker then sang "Need you Now".
Director Christ announced that band members from 10th., 11th., and 12th. grades will be receiving certificates from the 2010 Tri-M Music Honor Society as inductees.
The combined junior and senior bands performed "Thriller" with three dancers to end the show.


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Earlier this year, Inquidia announced Inquidia Reflex℠, a set of best practices for Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) to ensure consistent and quality delivery of PDI projects. Among these best practices are several related to logging enabling engineering and operations to understand what is happening when a transformation is executed, including:
Parent level jobs should always log the parameters they are using to the log. This enables operations to see the values that were used when running the job, settings that would otherwise be invisible.
Job logs should be stored so that the operations can use them to review job results and perform necessary troubleshooting. When possible the log or a pointer to the log should be included in failure notification systems.
Pentaho Data Integration is a powerful tool, and both of these best practices can be accomplished out the box. The writing parameter to a log best practice can be accomplished through the use of a write to log step. However, anytime parameters are added, this step must be manually updated. Including the log on failure notifications can be accomplished through result files, but this requires multiple steps, forces the inclusion of the entire log, and does not enable you to filter for only the error messages.
This is why Inquidia Labs developed the newly released Log Helper plugin for Pentaho Data Integration. This plugin is a set of 5 steps to make these and other logging needs easier and faster to implement while reducing associated maintenance. These steps include:
Write Variables to Log Job Entry - This job entry gets all of the variables or parameters that are defined in your environment and writes the name and value to the log. It includes filters to choose between parameters and all variables. The job entry also contains a regex filter on the variable names.
Write Variables to Log Step - Same as the Write Variables to Log Job Entry, but it works in transformations.
Send Log to Variable Job Entry - This job entry will get the job's log and add it to a variable. The variable can then be used in notifications allowing you to include the actual log on email, Slack, or other notification channels. This job entry includes configurable limits on the number of log lines and log levels.
Write Result Rows to Log Job Entry - Result rows are a concept in Pentaho used to pass data between jobs and transformations. This job entry allows you to see these rows by writing them to the log, something that would normally require a sub-transformation.
Write Result Files to Log Job Entry - PDI maintains a list in memory of files that were touched as part of a job. This job entry writes these result file names to the log.
Inquidia Labs is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Log Helper Plugin on GitHub here and via the Pentaho Marketplace.


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Holiday Inn Express STOKE ON TRENT
Great hotel, very pleased!
Good value
Great value accommodation.
We stayed in a family room with a double bed, a sofa bed and a cot so it was a tight squeeze but for the price we paid it was great value especially with a lovely breakfast included.
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Location is very convenient, fairly easy to find.
Reception staff very friendly and welcoming.
Rooms comfortable, clean and well planned with plenty of sockets for charging various devices.
The beds, though, are fantastic. I slept like a log.
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Only problem we had was that the beds were not too comfortable, but apart from that it was a good stay.
When we set the sofa bed up there was no room for the cot so it was a very tight.
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Dear Dale Groves,
Thank you for your staying with us and writing us a review. I am glad to see that you have rated the cleanliness and service to be high. However, I am sorry to see that your stay was negatively affected by the size of the room and we would like to apologize for that. Feedback like this gives us the opportunity to improve our services and facilities where it is needed.
Once again, we thank you again for your review and I hope to have an opportunity of welcoming you back again soon and see the improvements made.
Dianne L.
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Altona towers mini break
Fab friendly staff from arrival to departure.
Brilliant room providing comfortable beds, fresh towels an excellent shower plus regularly topped up tea/coffee and a hairdryer/iron. It was a bit further than the 11 miles stated from Alton towers though the drive was quite scenic. There is a bar and snack shop in the hotel and the breakfast was very enjoyable with cereals/fruit/yog/croissants/muffins/toast etc
aswell as beans/scrambled egg and sauages. There is a harvester right next door which came in handy for an evening meal which for 3 of us with drinks was less than £50. Our only issue whilst staying there were a couple of other guests who thought that waking everyone else up at 4am with their laughing and screaming was acceptable and another whose child was knocking on the wrong door (ours) at 6am after leaving his room alone. These however are no fault of the hotel.
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Dear j cummings,
Thank you for taking the time to express your thoughts and concerns. it is nice to know that our room accommodations and breakfast selection suited your expectations. However, please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused by the noise from other guests.
Despite this mishap, we do hope you'd consider us again for your lodging needs should your travels bring you back to the area.
Kind Regards,
Pam G
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Overnight stay
We arrived very late and the person on reception was most helpful - thank you.
The rooms were great. Next morning everyone commented on the comfy beds and good showers. Breakfast was as expected of a buffet style meal
Very happy with our stay
Thank you
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Clean, fresh and reasonable with helpful friendly staff
Good accommodation with air conditioning (needed as close to busy main roads); twin room with large single beds; decent shower room; free wi-fi.
Limited channels on TV. Staff on reception also seem to have to keep breakfast area clean, which was sometimes more than they could manage during busy periods. Unfortunately, the designated smokers' area is at front door of hotel - would be much better if it was located away from the entrance.
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Great family hotel
Two families travelling together.
Staff were great. Rooms were easiky accesable. Great mix of people
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Algeria shuts down internet and Facebook as protest mounts
Internet providers were shut down and Facebook accounts deleted across Algeria on Saturday as thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators were arrested in violent street demonstrations.
By Nabila Ramdani
12 Feb 2011
Plastic bullets and tear gas were used to try and disperse large crowds in major cities and towns, with 30,000 riot police taking to the streets in Algiers alone.
There were also reports of journalists being targeted by state-sponsored thugs to stop reports of the disturbances being broadcast to the outside world.
But it was the government attack on the internet which was of particular significance to those calling for an end to President Abdelaziz Boutifleka's repressive regime.
Protesters mobilising through the internet were largely credited with bringing about revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia.
"The government doesn't want us forming crowds through the internet," said Rachid Salem, of Co-ordination for Democratic Change in Algeria.
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|From: Anton van Straaten (anton at appsolutions.com)
Date: Thu Jun 22 14:09:08 EDT 2006
Ivanyi Peter wrote: > (It used to be a teaching exercise in LISP, how to write > LISP in LISP. > I thought I could do something similar in Scheme.) One of the classic examples of that teaching exercise is the metacircular evaluator in SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node76.html It implements a Scheme-like language, but tweaking it to fit whatever definition you have in mind for "Lisp" shouldn't be difficult, as long as you're thinking in terms of "toy" implementations. Of course, if you want something more serious, Matthias has already posted a link. Also, if your goal is to integrate more closely into PLT somehow, then Matthias' link will be more useful. BTW, in your original example, you're right, it looks as though the usual result of (current-eval) is an evaluation procedure which calls itself recursively, and doesn't use current-eval. IOW, current-eval provides you with a way to replace the current evaluator, by overriding its top-level entry-point, but doesn't give you a way to extend or selectively override the built-in evaluator. Unless there's some other PLT trick to let you do that, your obvious choices are either to write an interpreter along the lines of the SICP example above (and similar to your pseudocode), or use something like the approach Jos Koot suggested, where you write a module language and override internal PLT operations like #%top to change the behavior of things like variable access. Anton
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By Willie Krischke — January 15, 2011
If the U.S. Government ever, for some crazy reason, wants to make a movie about life in Guatanamo Bay, Danny Boyle ought to be the first director they call. What a filmography: first Boyle make heroin addiction look pretty sweet. Then he made being a homeless orphan in one of the world's poorest countries look terribly fun and exciting. Now, with "127 hours," he makes Aaron Ralston's story about getting pinned down by a boulder for 5 days and then hacking his arm off to survive seem like a nice way to take some time and reflect on one's life direction and goals.
Everyone knows the story by now, as Ralston was on every morning, afternoon, and late night talk show after he published his book a few years ago. It hardly seems like the kind of book that would make a good movie. But "127 Hours" never drags or feels boring – even when it seems like it should, maybe, a little. I mean, the guy spent 5 days in isolation, pinned down by a rock. Shouldn't we feel the passage of time, the growing sense of desperation, at least a little bit? But Boyle goes to great lengths to keep things moving. There are split screens, Nalgene-cams, dream sequences, memories, hallucinations, fake talk shows, thumping techno music; every trick in the director's book(except sex and car crashes, and we almost get those, too) to keep the audience attention from wandering for a second is in heavy use here.
It's entertaining. It's fun. It's a certain kind of virtuoso directing. And definite kudos to James Franco — it's not easy being the only actor on the screen for 98% of a film, but he pulls it off nicely. But "127 hours" isn't very deep, or moving, and while it might get all the facts right, it's hard to believe that it's truthful. Aaron Ralston's actual experience must have been quite different, without Danny Boyle around to spice things up.


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What's new in this release?
The long awaited version of Aspose.Cells for .NET 7.3.1 has been released. In this release, we have made some valuable enhancements to the advanced conditional formatting types of Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 file formats that were not supported in the product. Moreover, Microsoft Excel 2010's advanced data validation is now supported. We have also supported data filters in Pivot Tables. We have made several enhancements regarding data series and markers for charts. The auto-shapes rendering in output HTML has also been enhanced. As well as all this, we have fixed a number of bugs and handled exceptions regarding Excel to PDF feature in the latest release. The formula calculation engine is further improved and we enhanced it to make it more robust and efficient. We have also fixed a few issues regarding certain formulas. A few issues in the web based grid control provided by Aspose.Cells for .NET that affected grouping data and formatting are now fixed. We also fixed an issue regarding other browsers, for example Firefox. This release includes few enhanced features and plenty of bug fixes as listed below
Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.
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Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Cells for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Cells for performing different tasks like the followings.
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- Street-scorching V-8 power
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- Fit and finish
- Standard all-wheel drive
- Otherworldly price tag
- Cramped rear seats (Cabriolet)
- What, no folding hardtop?
The 2008 Audi RS4 sedan and cabriolet bring rocketlike power and price tags to the otherwise humble A4 lineup.
The most powerful compacts in its lineup, the 2008 Audi RS4 lineup includes a sedan and a cabriolet model, both fitted with a 420-horsepower V-8 engine and a choice of six-speed automatic or manual transmissions. Performance is exotic-car fast; a 60-mph sprint takes less than 5.5 seconds, but fuel economy suffers predictably at 12/19 mpg for the Cabriolet.
The Audi V-8 is a thrilling choice, but it no longer makes the RS4 sedan the fastest vehicle in its class. That title goes to either the Lexus IS-F or the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG, with BMW's M3 running not far behind. Unlike the first two but like the BMW, the Audi RS4 also comes in Cabriolet trim—at a huge price premium over even the $70,000 RS4 sedan.
Both versions begin life as rather sedate shapes, but with the right massage, they get some visual teeth. In either the ragtop (yep, the RS4 Cabriolet has a canvas roof, not a folding hardtop like the cheapest Pontiac G6 has) or the sedan, the RS4 gets deft cosmetic touches inside and out that make it look tuned, but not tweaked. One package offers 19-inch wheels and piano-black interior trim, on top of Audi's classy, well-screwed-together dash; another installs red leather on the seats and stitching on the shifter and steering wheel.
Driver and front passenger will be comfortable for hours in either the sedan or convertible, thanks to well-bolstered sport seats. But while the sedan has decent head- and legroom, the Cabriolet's rear seats are more for occasional use. The sedan's smallish trunk gets trimmed back even more in the Cabriolet and probably won't carry luggage for four.
The top itself, while fabric, is a nicely executed piece. It takes a little more than 20 seconds to raise or lower, and it insulates the cabin from harsh road noise. Inside you'll find a navi-gation system, Sirius Satellite Radio, and Bluetooth connectivity standard.
Pricing is stratospheric. The 2008 Audi RS4 sedan hovers just below $70,000 base, while the Cabriolet checks in north of $84,000 once you factor in gas-guzzler taxes and destina-tion charges. Of course, for that much money, you'd expect more than just a muscle car, and you'd be right. The Audi RS4 Cabriolet is a near-exotic in performance and in price.
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One of Australia's most successful artists has slammed a scheme that pays artists a royalty every time their artwork is sold.
The 2011 Archibald Prize winner, Ben Quilty, said the resale royalty scheme was benefiting ''rich white artists'' at the expense of others.
''I open great big fat cheques and, although I like fat cheques, one of the most important reasons the scheme was formed was to support indigenous artists,'' he said.
However, the arts sector is divided over resale royalties.
Quilty, also a trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW, said the scheme, which may be scrapped by the federal government, had damaged the secondary art market while failing to benefit the artists most in need.
''The truth is the top artists make all the money at the complete disadvantage of the emerging market,'' he said.
Introduced by the Rudd government in 2009, the resale royalty scheme pays artists 5 per cent of the sale price when works are resold for more than $1000. It was designed to give artists a share of the rising value of their work, with indigenous artists singled out as major potential beneficiaries of the program. Similar schemes operate in several countries including France, where the vast majority of resale royalties flow to the estates of a few artists.
A review of the scheme launched in July received more than 70 submissions. The review is with Arts Minister George Brandis, who told the ABC before last year's federal election: ''The Coalition has long been sceptical about the resale royalty scheme, which, even years after it was introduced, has still failed to provide economic benefits to artists as much as it has cost the Commonwealth.''
Senator Brandis said the government had not decided whether it should be scrapped .
Art auctioneer Damian Hackett said the scheme was commercially unviable and propped up by the taxpayer. He also queried statistics provided by the Copyright Agency, which administers the scheme. Its figures to February indicate artists or their beneficiaries had been paid $2.28 million under the scheme, which had cost $2.2 million.
Leading indigenous art dealer Adrian Newstead said: ''None of this money will ever go into community development or address indigenous disadvantage.''
A petition calling for the retention of artists' royalties has attracted close to 4000 signatures since it was set up by the National Association for the Visual Arts last month.
But Quilty said the scheme punished collectors who backed young artists. ''Collectors are now aware that, if they buy an emerging artist, they will have to pay money back in decades' time - whether that purchase has been a good investment or not.''


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For 14 years, the Gold Club has been the destination of choice for a restless segment of the city's huge convention business, clusters of boisterous men footloose in the city and eager to spend those precious evenings away from home in the company of nude dancers and expensive cigars. Shuttle buses to the club leave regularly from the city's best hotels.
Starting next week, however, the city's more adventurous tourists may just as well ask their concierge to direct them to the federal courthouse downtown, where arguments in the Gold Club racketeering trial will begin after 18 months of legal preparation.
For pure salaciousness and dark intrigue, the trial is likely to rival anything that goes on in the private back rooms of the club itself.
Over most of the summer, federal prosecutors will try to prove that the club was a cash conduit to the Gambino organized-crime family of New York, which they say provided protection in exchange. The club and its owner, Steven E. Kaplan, overcharged and double-billed the credit cards of unsuspecting customers, according to a federal grand-jury indictment issued in November 1999, adding to the unreported income of Mr. Kaplan and the Gambino family.
And most provocatively, the government charged that the club's dancers were ordered by their employers to provide sexual services to a long list of professional athletes and other celebrities whose presence at the club helped raise its profile. In one example of what the grand jury called organized prostitution, the indictment said the club flew several of its dancers to Charleston, S.C., in the spring of 1997 to perform a ''lesbian sex show'' and have sex with members of a professional basketball team.Continue reading the main story
Lawyers involved in the case say the government's witness list is likely to include professional athletes like Patrick Ewing, Dennis Rodman, Terrell Davis and Jamal Anderson, among many others. None of the athletes are charged with a crime -- no money is alleged to have changed hands in the sexual transactions -- but last month Judge Willis E. Hunt Jr. of United States District Court ruled that testimony regarding sexual activity at the club was admissible whether or not it constituted prostitution. The ruling all but guaranteed that the witness list would resemble a box score or a gossip column, supplemented by dancers who may identify their private clientele.
Another possible witness is John A. Gotti, who federal investigators say was the acting head of the Gambino family after his father, John J. Gotti, was imprisoned for life, and before he himself was imprisoned in 1999 for racketeering and extortion. The younger Mr. Gotti, who prosecutors said was a friend of Mr. Kaplan's, was transferred from upstate New York to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta on April 25, but prosecutors will not confirm that they intend to call him as a witness.
The seven defendants in this initial trial from the indictment -- who include Mr. Kaplan, several colleagues and an Atlanta police officer -- have pleaded not guilty and hired some of the city's best-known and most ferocious defense lawyers. The defense team said the government had built its case on untrustworthy criminals and denied any ties to organized crime. On Monday, the lawyers began asking potential jurors their opinions about prostitution and the HBO show ''The Sopranos,'' and Judge Hunt has already suggested that testimony could continue through Labor Day.
A Mafia-themed trial like this one, commonplace in the Northeast, is a novelty in Atlanta, never an underworld hotbed. It has generated enormous local interest, with newspaper and television accounts of every legal move. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Web site offers to e-mail readers regular trial updates.) A doorman at the club said the publicity had significantly increased business, and the seven lawyers involved do not seem to mind the attention.
''In 20 years of practicing here, I can't think of any case in Atlanta that's ever involved New York Mafia allegations,'' said Donald F. Samuel, a prominent local defense lawyer who is representing Larry Gleit of Dix Hills, N.Y., the club's financial officer. ''It's not a typical Georgia case. Of course, my client and Kaplan are just nice Jewish boys from Long Island.''
The case has also shed light on Atlanta's growing distinction as a capital of the nude-dancing industry. The city's 22 ''gentlemen's clubs'' rival in number only those of Miami and Houston, thriving on Atlanta's convention business and its political tolerance. While Northeastern cities have struggled to restrict sex businesses, the industry has grown unfettered in many Bible Belt areas, and Atlanta is by far the largest city that allows alcohol to be served in bars where full nudity takes place.
''Yes, God bless them for that,'' said Don Waitt, publisher of Exotic Dancer magazine, an industry publication. ''And it's got good weather. A lot of dancers don't want to live in places like Milwaukee.''
With few other major attractions to entertain them, conventioneers in the city descend on the clubs each evening in taxicabs and shuttle vans, dropping tens of millions of dollars a year into the city's economy. At the Gold Club, a hulking black structure in Midtown with two gold lions by the door alongside a somewhat more menacing security staff, limousines and expensive cars pull up to the valet parking entrance in an unending stream. While other clubs have developed a more blue-collar clientele, the Gold Club has worked to attract celebrities from the worlds of sports and entertainment, hoping that lesser-known dance enthusiasts would follow. Much of the trial will be devoted to describing just how important such business was.
''It's sort of like the Studio 54 effect,'' a former employee of Mr. Kaplan's told the grand jury, according to a transcript obtained by The Journal-Constitution. ''The more the word went out on the street, the more people wanted to come to your club.''Continue reading the main story


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Researchers in southern China, who traced the virus that causes SARS to the endangered civet cat, said SARS anti-bodies had been found in traders of wild animals who did not develop the symptoms of the disease.
Researchers found SARS anti-bodies in five traders of wild animals, but none of them developed any symptoms of SARS, He Yaqing, deputy director of the Shenzhen Centre for Disease Control, told Saturday's Yangcheng Evening News.
The findings suggest that the form of the coronavirus that is suspected to have jumped from either the civet cat or the raccoon dog to humans was actually less lethal than the SARS coronavirus transmitted between humans that has gone on to kill at least 696 and infected more than 8000 worldwide.
After jumping from the animals, the virus must have undergone changes that made it more lethal to humans, the researcher said.
"The survey of wild animal traders with SARS anti-bodies shows that these traders once had SARS and, while curing themselves without showing any clear symptoms, were infected recessively," the report said.
The report did not say how many traders were tested for SARS anti-bodies, nor was it clear if the traders were a source of transmission of the global epidemic.
However, the researcher said the traders were not infectious after they had recovered.
Of the five traders, four worked with rabbits, cats and other wild animals, while one worked with poultry and other wild birds, the report said.
Researchers have long suspected that a new strain of the coronavirus, long known as a cause of the common cold, was the behind the SARS epidemic.
On Friday they announced a nearly 100 per cent similarity between the SARS coronavirus and that found in civet cats and raccoons.
Meanwhile Hong Kong plans to collect faeces from civic cats to test them for SARS following scientists' discovery of the virus in the weasel-like animal eaten by some Chinese, officials said.
People in the territory are reportedly abandoning their house cats following research that may link the SARS outbreak to civets. Civets are not true cats, but they look like them.
People started taking their pet cats to grooming shops and leaving them, an animal cruelty society official was quoted yesterday as saying.
Cat owners left fake phone numbers and never returned to pick up their pets, according to a South China Morning Post report that quoted Dr Pauline Taylor, acting executive director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
No one was available for comment at the SPCA when an AP reporter phoned yesterday.
Hong Kong researchers said on Friday they had found the virus in civet cats in China's Guangdong province, which neighbours Hong Kong, and they believed SARS jumped from the animals to humans.
Conservation workers in Hong Kong will collect faeces samples left by the mainly nocturnal creatures in the wild and have them tested for the virus, said Susanna Ho, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department.
As a precaution, Hong Kong announced on Saturday it would temporarily ban the import of civet meat and officials warned people to stay away from the few civet cats living there in the wild.
SARS has killed 266 and sickened 1724 in Hong Kong, but the outbreak there appears to have been brought under control. The World Health Organisation on Friday lifted an advisory that people stay away from Hong Kong.
On Saturday, authorities reported no new infections for the first time since starting to compile statistics in March.
People have started shedding their surgical masks and resuming normal activity.
And Singapore was culling stray cats as part of a nationwide cleanup campaign sparked by the SARS crisis, a spokesman said at the weekend.
However, the authorities denied they were hunting stray cats out of fear that they caused SARS.
The culling is part of an overall hygiene campaign launched on May 6 in response to the SARS outbreak, said an official of Singapore's food and animal control authority, on customary condition of anonymity.
The flu-like disease has killed 31 people and infected 206 people in the city state.
Authorities estimate that more than 80,000 stray cats roam the island of 4 million people, the food and animal control authority said in a statement.
The government has "intensified culling of stray cats in their estates, especially at food centres, markets and areas affected by cat nuisance problems", the statement said.
Officials began the crackdown on stray cats on Thursday and killed 55 cats in the first two days of the campaign, the spokesman said.
The cats are being taken to the agency's main animal control centre, where they are euthanised, the spokesman said.
Animal rights groups have said they are disappointed that cats are being killed and have asked the government to reconsider the campaign.
"We regret that the government has decided upon such extreme measures," Lynn Yeo, president of Singapore's Cat Welfare Society was quoted as telling The Straits Times.
The hygiene campaign is part of Singapore's efforts to persuade the World Health Organisation and other countries that it has brought the SARS outbreak under control.
SARS has battered Singapore's economy. Visitor numbers fell 67 per cent last month from a year earlier and the government has slashed its economic growth forecast to 0.5 per cent to 2.5 per cent from 2 per cent to 5 per cent.
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BUSINESSES and local people have been left counting the cost of one of the windiest and wettest winters on record.
Tourism, farming and even clubs and societies have been affected by heavy rainfall and winds of up to 70mph which have battered the area and caused losses totalling thousands of pounds.
A Cumbria County Council spokeswoman said the authority is 'still counting' the damage caused to roads by severe weather.
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Westmorland experienced 67 per cent more rainfall than is 'usual' for the time of year, with a total of 315.5mm over the month.
Rivers have become swollen and fields across north Lancashire and south Cumbria have been turned into lakes.
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"There are people are still trying to get out and about walking although not as many," he said.
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"I just hope tourists realise this isn't typical of the area!"
However, several people have said the rain is 'not a problem'.
"We actually get more people here on bad weather days," said Jeanette Edgar, of the Lakeland Arts Trust, which runs Blackwell.
Nigel Wilkinson, managing director of Windermere Lake Cruises admitted the company had lost thousands through cancelled sailings.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 (Reuters) - CIMB Group Holdings Bhd , Southeast Asia's fifth-largest lender by assets, posted a 4.5 percent decline in fourth-quarter net profit, dragged down by a weaker performance in its investment segment and costs related to acquisitions.
Malaysia's second-largest bank said in a statement on Monday that net profit for the quarter ended on Dec. 31 was 1.08 billion ringgit ($348.22 million).
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"My son's sacrifice will not go in vain. I am willing to sacrifice more sons to get the demands of my community fulfilled," said Shivcharan Gurjar, father of one Ramvir who died in Tuesday's clashes.
"Villagers from nearby areas are providing supplies in the absence of any state assistance. The police firing proves the intolerance of the government. A peaceful protest was turned into a bloody battle," Shivcharan said.
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Russell Martin made a mistake when he turned down the Yankees' three-year offer this past spring, baseball insiders say.
The Yankees went against club policy, which is to wait for free agency to re-sign players, and instead offered Martin a three-year deal worth about $20 million as Martin headed into his walk year. However, talks broke apart, quite likely in part because that deal began to look low. The catching market improved markedly when Cardinals star Yadier Molina signed a $75-million, five-year deal. Molina was also heading into his walk year.
Then Miguel Montero, the Diamondbacks star catcher, signed a $60-million, five year deal. Like the other two, Montero also was heading into his free-agent season.
While Martin is no Molina, $20 million or so looked light at that time compared to $75 million. Or even $60 million.
However, three rival GMs surveyed this week suggested they believe Martin may now have to settle for a one-year deal following a season in which he has struggled offensively. Martin has stepped it up lately and is up to .209, with 16 home runs, but the batting average would be a career low.
There is a paucity of quality catching so Martin could still surprise the GMs and squeeze out a multiyear deal, but their guess was that he'd likely wind up with a one-year deal, perhaps in the neighborhood of the $7.5 million he makes this year.
The Yankees have several good catching prospects, but offering Martin a three-year deal suggests they question how soon any of their prospects will be ready to step in. J.R. Murphy and Gary Sanchez are the best of the Yankees' catching kids. The Yankees still will be looking for a catcher. Perhaps they could re-sign Martin. but there's almost no chance they offer him the same deal again.


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Taliban proposes prisoner exchange
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban proposed a deal in which they would free a U.S. soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their most senior operatives at Guantanamo Bay, while Afghan President Hamid Karzai eased his opposition on Thursday to joining planned peace talks.
The idea of releasing these Taliban prisoners has been controversial. U.S. negotiators hope they would join the peace process but fear they might simply return to the battlefield, and Karzai once scuttled a similar deal partly because he believed the Americans were usurping his authority.
The proposal to trade Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for the Taliban detainees was made by senior Taliban spokesman Shaheen Suhail in response to a question during a phone interview with The Associated Press from the militants' newly opened political office in Doha, the capital of the gulf nation of Qatar.
The prisoner exchange is the first item on the Taliban's agenda before even starting peace talks with the United States, said Suhail, a top Taliban figure who served as first secretary at the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, before the Taliban government's ouster in 2001.
"First has to be the release of detainees," Suhail said on Thursday when asked about Bergdahl. "Yes. It would be an exchange. Then step by step, we want to build bridges of confidence to go forward."
The Obama administration was noncommittal about the proposal, which it said it had expected the Taliban to make.
"We've been very clear on our feelings about Sgt. Bergdahl and the need for him to be released," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. "We have not made a decision to ... transfer any Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay, but we anticipate, as I've said, that the Taliban will all raise this issue."
Bergdahl, 27, of Hailey, Idaho, is the only known American soldier held captive from the Afghan war. He disappeared from his base on June 30, 2009, and is believed to be held in Pakistan.
Suhail said Bergdahl "is, as far as I know, in good condition."
Donna Thibedeau-Eddy, who has spent the past few days at the Idaho home of the soldier's parents, Bob and Jani Bergdahl, said the family was hopeful.
"I was with his mom and dad this morning when they got the news of the exchange offer. They were ecstatic," said Thibedeau-Eddy.
While there have been talks before, Bob Bergdahl is putting more faith and hope into the latest developments because it appears the Taliban are taking the initiative, Thibedeau-Eddy said.
The reconciliation process with the Taliban — considered by most as the only way to end the nearly 12-year war — has been a long and bumpy one.
The United States began secret talks with the militants more than two years ago in off-and-on discussions that lasted for several months.
The two sides discussed prisoner exchanges, and for a brief time, it appeared that the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners would be released and sent to Qatar.
But Karzai, furious that he had not been told of the talks in advance, demanded that the Taliban operatives be returned to Afghanistan rather than Qatar.


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GPLv.3: 'A Great Improvement' After an unprecedented drafting process, users can modify the free software on their personal and household devices and extend compatibility with other free software licenses.
Congress Says Homeland Security Has Insufficient 'Exit' Plan The Government Accountability Office says it could take up to a decade to find a practical way to implement biometric exit capabilities at land ports of exit.
Visa Gets More Personal With Data Visa plans to roll out new, highly customized incentive and reward programs based on more detailed consumer information, including data on purchases, buying habits, and retailer loyalty.
GPLv3 Emerges After Long Debate, Opposition Muted One of the early adopters of GPL 3 will be the Samba Server project, which supplies file translation code between Linux and Windows.
Can Microsoft Office Front-End Your Business Processes? Microsoft is set to kick off an Office-for-business-processes strategy, focusing on composite apps called Office Business Applications, or OBAs, starting next month.
E-Mail Attacks Target Business Executives Top-level business executives, including CEOs, presidents, CIOs, and CFOs, are being directly targeted by e-mails containing malicious Trojans.
White House Sets Single Security Configuration For Windows Computers A White House mandate to conform to one security configuration on Windows XP and Windows Vista systems should "radically reduce" vulnerabilities.
Mobile WiMax Commercial Launch Planned For Northeast Region In August Horizon Wi-Fi, a well-financed startup, has installed towers in nine Northeast cities and is testing the service in each city with initial users.
The Enterprise Content Management - SOA Divide In the content management world, I sense something of a backlash brewing against SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), but I wonder how real it is. With most Fortune 2000 firms already way down the SOA path, there seems to be no turning back. At the enterprise architecture level, there is no Plan B. So the issue for me is not whether SOA is the way forward for ECM, but rather how seriously some of the ECM vendors are embracing it.
IBM Introduces Corporate Search Product The upgraded version of OmniFind Enterprise Edition indexes more than 30 types of enterprise content and 200 file types.
Get Ready For A Hacker Smackdown A showdown is brewing between two sets of security researchers over whether virtualization-based rootkits are detectable in a system or not.
Ajax Tools May Power Web Apps For iPhone The developer blogger community is speculating that a handful of Ajax tools may emerge as the only entry for third parties to the iPhone, via the Safari browser window.
LogMeIn To Launch Remote Support Software For Smartphones A preview is available next month initially for the Palm Treo 700w/wx.
Making Work More Like EVE Online IBM ponders how enterprises can be rewired to be more like games, particularly massively multiplayer online games like fantasy-themed World of Warcraft.
Windows Vista Makes Limited Impact On PC Sales, Analysts Reveal Unless Microsoft became much more aggressive in its marketing efforts, Vista's market impact was not expected to change in the future, Gartner reports.
IBM Turns To Microsoft For Midmarket Cluster Server The two companies partner to offer smaller companies high-performance computer hardware and software.
Nasscom Points To Small Indian Companies As Potential H-1B Visa Abusers The organization, which represents large Indian outsourcing firms, says companies involved in fraud or abuse should "be dealt with in the strictest possible manner," and it offered to help in that regard.
Verizon Wireless Tries To Counter iPhone Frenzy With Store Stunt Verizon said its stores and kiosks will stay open until 9 p.m. Friday so customers can 'test drive' and purchase any of its 18 multimedia music devices.
Webroot Offers Tips For Keeping Kids Safe Online Security company offers parents safety tips, along with a free handbook with a glossary of terms and ideas for keeping children safe online.
Google Offers Cash For Gadgets The catch is that the cash is available only to those with gadgets already garnering 250,000 page views per week or more.
'Push' E-Mail Service For iPhone Pops Up Visto's Mobile product includes support for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino.
The iPhone's Achilles' Heel: AT&T's Slow Edge Network The Edge network can be painfully slow; it generally operates at between 75 and 135 Kbps.
Get Real About Marketing Performance Management Nick Sharp, a VP and general manager at WebTrends, recently wrote a piece for mycustomer.com entitled "Web Analytics is dead!" The gist of the article is that Web marketers should not look at Web analytics data in a vacuum, but rather, use it to drive campaigns and solutions. No disagreement with the premise... but then I came across the term term "Marketing Performance Management." What is MPM exactly?
HP Pretexting Charges Dismissed A judge dismissed all remaining charges at a hearing Thursday morning, during which defendants presented proof that they had completed community service they agreed to in March.
Linspire's Michael Robertson: Why I Love MP3 Music Lockers But Hate DRM The MP3.com and Linspire founder talks about his current ventures AnywhereCD and SIPphone, and why he thinks the Symbian-powered Nokia platform beats the iPhone hands down.
Why Apple-Style Secrecy Won't Work For Microsoft One of the hallmarks of Apple's current cachet, along with pure stylishness, is its secrecy. Products don't get announced until very close to release date, features sometimes even later, and Apple's public relations department isn't exactly the most open. Apple's caginess certainly breeds intrigue, but it wouldn't work as a corporate policy at a place like Microsoft.
Don't Get Greedy: Only Two iPhones To A Customer Apple says customers buying the iPhone through one of its 164 retail stores in the U.S. will be limited to two on a first come, first served basis.
Final Version Of GPLv3 To Be Released Friday The new version of the General Public License comes after 18 months of drafts, meetings, feedback, disagreements, and revisions.
GM, Boeing Faced Uphill Battle To Reach Global Identity Management Managers from two multinational companies share their tips on connecting employees, parts suppliers, other business partners, and outsourced software developers.
Intel Offers Tools, Cables For Building High-Performance Computers The company revealed its Cluster Ready program and Connects Cables products at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.
IPhone Net Searches Surge Before Launch The most popular queries for iPhone focused on price, reviews, news, and the release date, with price queries accounting for 4.23% of all U.S. iPhone searches.
Google Helps Nonprofits Conquer Google Earth The project also includes online forums to enhance communications and connect interested users of Google Earth with experienced developers.
Microsoft Ports Main Web Site To Windows Server 2008 Web security firm Netcraft says Microsoft.com has been switched to the former Longhorn, still in beta.
ISYS Enterprise Search Is Integrated In Microsoft's SharePoint The search vendor says users can take full advantage of ISYS:web 8 features without leaving their SharePoint portals.
PacificNet To Sell TiVo In China TiVo products and services would be distributed in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other major cities through PacificNet's subsidiary iMobile.
Microsoft Plans E-Mail, IM, Blog, And Photo Sharing Suite The common theme for the Windows Live suite is that all of its apps combine a rich Windows client application with Internet services that add power to those apps.
IT Workforce Transformation Shakes Up Insurance Firm For The Better U.K.-based Norwich Union called on IBM to help define job roles and assess the skills, talents, and training needed to reshape the company's IT organization.
Google And Yahoo Add Photo Features The two search engines upgrade their respective online photo services to give consumers a more integrated experience.
Enterprise 2.0 Won't Fix 'Broken E-mail Culture' I'm still thinking about last week's Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, which ranks as the most exciting and thought-provoking event I've attended thus far this year... Blogs, wikis, text messaging, presence awareness and all things social networking received a lot of attention... but rich Internet applications, Ajax, mashups, SOA, SaaS and composite applications are also a big part of the Enterprise 2.0 mix.
MIT Researchers' Computer Model Pinpoints Multiple Genes In Disease Process The computer model called NetworKIN pores through existing research data to pinpoint protein networks that control cellular function.
Universities, Businesses Agree On Guidelines For IP, Shared Research Team announces a new set of guidelines that will continue to encourage research sharing, while adding licensing terms and conditions.
Trojan Horse Hidden In 'Yes & No' Animated Video Sophos reports that a malware writer is taking advantage of a popular animation that people have been e-mailing to friends for years.
Two Plead Guilty To Selling $6 Million Of Counterfeit Software On eBay Each defendant faces up to five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, and three years of supervised release. They're slated to be sentenced in November.
ThinkFree Finds An Office Software 'Sweet Spot' Between Microsoft And Google ThinkFree is picking up some Microsoft Office users who don't want to move to Microsoft Office 2007, says ThinkFree chief executive T. J. Kang.
Are You Ready for (Google) Location Intelligence? Google is offering its mapping capabilities as a potential source of enterprise-class business intelligence in the area of location intelligence. Google has made its Google Maps for the Enterprise available at a low cost while providing telephone and e-mail support. The challenge for you is to decide whether this offering can meet your enterprise needs.
How To Crash Windows Vista In 10 Seconds Or Less Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is a mighty paradox. On the one hand, it's more robust and feature-rich than any of its predecessors. For the most part, it's also more secure and is immune to many pretty sophisticated takedown attempts. But it's got one nasty Achilles' Heel, which'll enable you to crash the OS in under 10 seconds.
Gates' Legacy Also Transforms A City After reading the articles on Bill Gates' legacy by my colleagues John Foley and John Soat, I have to add an aspect that they left out: the profound reshaping of Seattle that was a direct result of Microsoft's ascendance. Has any individual (well, pair of individuals, since you have to count Paul Allen in this calculation) ever had a more profound effect on a large American city?
Meet The People Waiting In Line For An iPhone A small group of people began forming a line in New York City on Monday to ensure they'll be among the first to get their hands on an Apple iPhone.
Will The iPhone Support Microsoft Exchange? For much of the last six months, bloggers and reporters operated under the assumption that the iPhone would not support major enterprise platforms like BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Microsoft Exchange. That may change tomorrow, though, if Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley is correct. According to her the iPhone will support Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.
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Chief Executive's Introduction
The world in which the Treasury operates changed markedly in 2008/09, and the face of the Treasury has changed with it. In the past year we have had to call on all our strengths as the Government's lead advisor on economic and financial issues, demonstrate public sector leadership as a Central Agency (alongside the State Services Commission (SSC) and Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)) and take on important new operational roles.
In 2008/09, New Zealand was in the midst of the most difficult economic conditions we have experienced in generations as a deep, synchronised, global recession coincided with our own protracted domestic recession. That has meant facing challenges and thinking about some issues in new ways.
In the political environment, a change of government has led to new priorities and different performance expectations. Ministers are looking for the Treasury to take a lead in improving public sector performance - acting as a catalyst for sector-wide change as well as being an effective deliverer of services ourselves.
These developments in the economic and political landscape reinforce the importance of the longstanding core of work the Treasury undertakes to lift economic growth and raise living standards. Demands for practical economic advice and robust forecasts are stronger than ever. It is critical that we continue to advise effectively on policies and strategies that matter for New Zealand's long-term economic performance. We need to help maintain a stable and sustainable economy during the most unstable conditions for decades. We also have to keep driving public sector performance that reflects fiscal reality and delivers on the Government's objectives for smarter, better public services for less.
2008/09 Developments and Challenges
In addition to this longer-term work, a number of developments within the Treasury during the year serve as examples of just some of the ways we are addressing formidable economic challenges and focusing on the Government's priorities.
Among the most pressing issues as the global economic and financial crisis unfolded was the need to maintain depositors' confidence in New Zealand's financial sector, and to ensure the sector continues to have access to funding. Since October 2008 the Treasury has administered the Crown Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme[1], a role which involves assessing and approving financial institutions, monitoring compliance with the Scheme and ensuring eligible depositors receive their entitlements if the guarantee is called on. The Treasury also administers the Wholesale Funding Guarantee Facility[2], which was put in place to facilitate improved access to international funding markets for New Zealand's investment-grade financial institutions. The retail and wholesale guarantee schemes represent substantial new operational areas of work for us.
Another way New Zealand responded to the crisis was to expand our assistance to New Zealand exporters. After private trade credit insurers reduced their line of cover (making it harder for many of our exporters to continue trade in some countries), the New Zealand Export Credit Office (NZECO) introduced a short-term trade credit guarantee in February 2009. Owing to strong demand, the facility for the short-term trade credit guarantee has risen from $50 million to $150 million. The financial crisis has also generated greater interest from exporters in a range of other NZECO products.
Complementing our immediate responses to the global downturn were other developments during 2008/09 that have bolstered the Treasury's role in helping position New Zealand to come out of the recession with higher productivity and stronger economic growth.
Among the Government's objectives is for New Zealand's infrastructure to be a means to permanently lift the sustainable growth rate of the economy, through increased productivity and improved management of Crown assets. The National Infrastructure Unit was established within the Treasury to take a national overview of the Government's infrastructure priorities - providing cross-government coordination, planning and expertise. The Unit is assisting the Government to produce its first 20-year National Infrastructure Plan with the intention thereafter of updating this every three years. This will present a high-level view of the state of New Zealand's infrastructure and include a stock-take of existing infrastructure and anticipated future requirements. The Plan will help Ministers, agencies, local government and the private sector identify needs and prioritise investments to lift growth.
In mid-2008 the Government took decisions to strengthen the regulatory management system, and put in place a more strategic approach to managing the impact of regulation on economic performance. From November 2008, the Treasury took on three new roles. First, all proposals with regulatory implications are referred to the Treasury for possible scrutiny. The Treasury's Regulatory Impact Analysis Team (RIAT) is responsible for independent assessment of regulatory impact analyses and statements for proposals likely to have a significant impact on economic growth. Second, the Treasury is tasked with advising the Government on a prioritised regulatory review programme and coordinating across government agencies to deliver on this programme. The third main area is strategic coordination of the regulatory quality system, including recommending improvements to the system and Cabinet and parliamentary processes related to regulations and regulatory reform.
Lifting our Performance
Current circumstances make it more important than ever that our longstanding work and new responsibilities are performed to the highest standards. We aim to strengthen our performance across all of our activities, both because of, and in the face of, a rapidly-changing economic environment. I believe the Treasury has responded well to the challenges so far. Our successes during 2008/09 have reaffirmed the steps we have taken in recent years to focus on results and operate more flexibly and nimbly. We need to continue down this track, as there is always more we can do to sharpen our performance. In particular, we have to ensure we can continue to respond to the leadership role demanded of the Treasury as a Central Agency, and ensure we are well placed to help form and inform public debate on major economic and State sector issues.
Looking Ahead
The Treasury has great quality staff with which to meet the priorities of the Government, the demands of the economy and the aims of the organisation. It is imperative that we make the most of the skills and expertise of our people as we take on challenges and opportunities over the coming year. Most notably, we will be marshalling our efforts to achieve results in some key areas: the financial crisis, medium-term economic strategy, State sector performance, infrastructure, regulatory reform, macroeconomic stability, the Crown balance sheet, debt management and organisational performance.
I would like to thank all staff for their hard work and dedication in 2008/09 and their continuing commitment and professionalism in the year ahead.
John Whitehead
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Celebrating the end of the snow droughtTuesday, February 3rd, 2015
While some folks back east may have been mightily inconvenienced by recent snows, here in Alaska most people like to see a little snow in the winter. This winter many of us have seen very little. Here in Haines, one of the snowiest sea level towns anywhere, things were looking pretty brown until last week, when we got almost a foot of nice light snow. You could almost hear the relief around town, as folks got back into the swing of snow removal, or dusted off their skis. My family did both, plus made a batch of snow ice cream. (Never made snow ice cream? Strangely, as a meteorologist, Alaskan, skier, etc, I'd not even heard of it for my first 20-some years in Alaska! I was going do a whole post on snow ice cream but discovered it's not the novelty I thought it was…just Google it.) (more…)


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