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What would Ed Miliband actually do as prime minister? In Brighton this week, the Labour leader offered his first serious answer to a question that's going to be asked again and again in the 20-month countdown to the next general election. In doing so, he also tackled a question that's dogged him since the crash: what's Labour for when there's no money left? Mr Miliband's answer is that he will lean harder on the private sector to deliver public-policy objectives. Take his injunction to housebuilders and other investors in land to do less hoarding and more house construction. His announcement of higher corporation tax, with the cash given to small businesses. The forcing of companies to take on British apprentices. Biggest of all, there was the proposed freeze in energy prices.
The result was that on Wednesday morning a speech by an opposition leader made eight out of the nine front pages of the national papers. The interest is justified: it's taken three years, but Mr Miliband has graduated from generalities about predatory capitalism to vague, albeit winningly cheeky, rhetoric about a "one-nation Labour party" to at last showing voters who fits into this nation. And who doesn't: namely, multinationals that don't invest in Britain or that don't play fair (with rip-off prices).
The problem is not that these strictures outrage some supposedly natural laws of economics. To argue that, as jittery Conservatives and even Labour's meddlesome Lord Mandelson have tried, is to display an ignorance of economic terms such as "market failure" and "imperfect competition". It's also to close one's eyes to the brokenness of the retail energy market, with the big six firms happy to greet rises in wholesale prices by jacking up household bills, yet almost never dropping them when prices fall. Besides, it's a funny old world when George Osborne's multibillion-pound bung to housebuilders and estate agents, otherwise known as Help to Buy, is capitalism, but taking money from energy firms is summoning the ghost of Lenin.
A more serious problem is practical: these standards are ethical more than they are technical and will be tough to enforce. How does one legislate according to whether things smell right and if the public is riled up? Thorniest of all will be dealing with the political fallout. For now, it can't do a Labour leader much harm to cross swords with the CBI and the energy giants – not when polls show that the majority of voters feel "energy companies treat people with contempt". Similarly, the Conservatives can have hardly been helped by the Treasury's decision yesterday to fight in court for British investment bankers to get bigger bonuses.
The risk is, after Lord Mandelson's intervention, that this becomes another story about Labour infighting. In any case, as Harold Wilson could have told his current successor, temporary price controls do not an economic strategy make. Mr Miliband now has to counter the accusation always levelled at social democrats: that they know how to spend money, but not how to make it. To counter this, Labour should do two things. The first is rhetorical, which is to stress that the party wants to attack certain antisocial behaviours by companies, rather than industries. The second is to do with industrial policy: how can the party encourage good behaviour?
This last point has been a problem for Labour, partly because all main parties now talk so much about the virtues of industrial policy that they all sound the same. Labour badly needs a distinctive offer. It should consider cutting taxes for those companies which source and make more in the UK. Ed Balls should cut national insurance contributions for companies that recruit workers and keep them for more than a couple of years. And Chuka Umunna should think about how to use the nationalised banks to channel credit to strategic industries and regions. Mr Miliband made a satisfactory splash this week. Now he and his team need to keep putting in the effort and the hard thinking.


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The 2014 licensing round was organised by the ANH, which has made public all the bids submitted. The Put-30 Exploration and Production Contract was signed between Talisman Colombia and the ANH on 10th September, 2014.
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Angels slip past RangersMay 15, 2011 - 3:58 AM Arlington, TX (Sports Network) - Maicer Izturis' go-ahead RBI single in the ninth inning led the Angels past the Rangers, 3-2, in the second contest of a three-game series.
Alberto Callaspo doubled twice and drove in two runs for Los Angeles, which had dropped the opener of this set, 4-1. Scott Downs (1-0) earned the win in relief of Dan Haren, who limited the Rangers to two runs on six hits in 7 2/3 innings.
Darren Oliver (1-4) gave up the deciding run to take the loss, which dropped the Rangers to 4-8 in May.
Oliver took the mound with the game knotted, 2-2, and gave up a leadoff single to Jeff Mathis, who moved to second on a sacrifice bunt. A groundout to short kept Mathis at second base, but Bobby Abreu worked a walk to extend the inning.
Izturis followed by lacing a single to left, plating Mathis. Jordan Walden then worked a 1-2-3 bottom half for his seventh save.
"I got to give those guys credit for the way they battled and came back," said Rangers manager Ron Washington. "We tied the ballgame up and we had the guy in there that we wanted in there at the time, and they got him. You know, they beat us."
Adrian Beltre's RBI single in the second inning staked Texas starter Derek Holland to an early edge. Holland gave up the lead on RBI doubles by Callaspo in the fourth and sixth, but those were the only runs he allowed.
In six full innings, Holland surrendered six hits, walked three, and struck out four.
The Angels held the 2-1 lead until the eighth, when Ian Kinsler doubled with two away, ending Haren's outing. Fernando Rodney then entered and immediately gave up a single to Michael Young, plating Kinsler for a 2-2 game.
Downs came in to get the final out of the inning.
"The team bounced back and scored a run and we won the game. So I'll sleep good tonight. Those are the real tough ones when you come out on the wrong end of those," said Haren.
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There were fans running through the streets of downtown Long Beach this afternoon, blowing vuvuzelas like they were in Polokwane, South Africa. They wore Dos Santos, Marquez, Fernandez and Blanco El Tri jerseys because, yes, Mexico just beat France in the World Cup, 2-0.
Much was made of the England vs. U.S. match-up last week, partly for our "special relationship," but also for our long and sometimes bloody shared history: the Colonies, the Tea Party (not that Tea Party) the Revolutionary War, etc., etc. And really, the same could've been done for the Mexico vs. France match. Cinco de Mayo? A celebration of Mexico beating the French--albeit, in a battle, with guns and whatnot. And Mexico spent a number of years under French military rule. So with the Cinco de Mayo history and contemporary celebrations (read: drinking) in mind, the soccer game on TV and a Dueling Dishes post to write, the only logical thing to do was to crack open a few of each nation's most popular beer--Kronenbourg 1664 for France, Corona for Mexico--for a match up of the people's beer to go along side the people's game.
Beer is the most obvious crossover between sports and food, but its unfortunate there doesn't exist a more exciting culinary match-up from these two countries. Baguettes vs. bolillos? And for all of the gourmet lonchera madness going around, the Franco-Mexican truck selling duck fat tamales stuffed with pork confit--carnitas by another name--and steamed in fig leaves, has yet to materialize. How I'd love to see the Arellano diatribe that would certainly incite though . . . And I've developed a hunch that margaritas might actually be a Franco-Mexican relic--Triple Sec!--but I don't dare go any further down that path than I already have.
So, yes: beer. France's Kronenbourg brewery, located in Strausbourg, holds a mass of the country's beer market share--as much as 40% of sales nationwide are of the brewery's pale lager, 1664. Without a doubt, there were many a pint of 1664 slammed down against a zinc bar top across the country as frustrated Frechmen watched Les Bleus fall. 1664 tastes like you would expect a massively popular beer to: slightly bland, innocuous, not exactly brimming with flavor. Taking a sip of my bottle, my girlfriend--a devout Francophile--declared that it tasted just like American beer, which sums up its pros and cons just about completely.
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Claimers get their due
They get very little fanfare the rest of year, but on Saturday claimers have their day in the sun in the fourth annual Claiming Crown at Philadelphia Park.
The Claiming Crown is a series of six races, worth a total of $550,000.
The race conditions are similar to those of a starter allowance. To be eligible, horses must have run at a specified level or below within the year prior to the event. Performance points earned in races determine which horses are selected to participate in the Claiming Crown.
On Tuesday, 53 horses entered the Claiming Crown races, down from 72 horses last year.
All races are for 3-year-olds and up. The Glass Slipper is for fillies and mares.
The richest Claiming Crown race, the $150,000 Jewel, drew nine horses, including Truly a Judge, a California shipper and the 2-1 morning-line favorite.
The one grass race - the $125,000 Emerald - drew 10 horses, including the New York-based Nowrass, a winner of two turf races at Belmont Park this summer.
The likely favorite in the $100,000 Rapid Transit, which drew nine sprinters, is Brown Eyed Major, a winner of his last four starts.
The $75,000 Glass Slipper drew nine fillies and mares, including the Scott Lake-trained Final Dispersal, who is 6 for 7 this year.
A pair of $50,000 races, the Iron Horse and Express, round out the Claiming Crown.
The Claiming Crown is sponsored by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association.
The first three Claiming Crowns were run at Canterbury Park in Minnesota. Canterbury is scheduled to host the event in 2003, 2005, and 2007, with other tracks hosting it in alternate years through 2008.
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Philadelphia Park management is hoping the Claiming Crown serves as the perfect lead-in for the biggest day of the year at the track, Pennsylvania Derby Day on Monday.
The $500,000 Pennsylvania Derby, a Grade 3 stakes, is expected to attract, among others, Blue Grass and Florida Derby winner Harlan's Holiday and Ohio Derby winner and Haskell runner-up Magic Weisner.
Hal Handel, the chief executive officer at Philadelphia Park, said the addition of the Claiming Crown during the holiday weekend could draw attention to the Pennsylvania Derby.
"It sets up the Labor Day weekend and sometimes that's hard for a small track to do," Handel said. "Labor Day is a funny time with the NFL and school starting. People's attention turn this weekend. The idea is to create a [weekend] event out of it."
Handel said another perk to hosting the Claiming Crown is that out-of-town horsemen will have the opportunity to view the massive renovations to Philly Park's grandstand, which was completed 18 months ago at the cost of approximately $8.5 million.
"It's a nice calling card for us," Handel said.
Home sweet home, kind of
You might think that trainer Scott Lake is ecstatic that the Claiming Crown is in his own back yard this year, but that's not entirely true. Lake, who brought horses to Canterbury for the first three runnings of the Claiming Crown, enjoyed his busman's holiday.
"It's nice to have it somewhere else," said Lake, who maintains a 44-string at Philadelphia Park and is the second-leading trainer in the country in number of wins. "I loved it there. The people at Canterbury treated everybody fantastic and it got me away for a week, without having to explain where I was going."
Lake, who has four horses entered on Saturday, has won five Claiming Crown races.
Still going strong
Sir Echo, the senior citizen in the Claiming Crown at age 11, also is the leading money earner among Claiming Crown entrants with $426,921. Sir Echo, based at Philadelphia Park, makes his 73rd start in the Emerald.
The gelding was claimed for $35,000 from his last race, which he won by 5 3/4 lengths at Monmouth Park on Aug. 14, by trainer John Zimmerman and Tradewinds Stable.