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One of the biggest things holding India back is the over-availability of funds.
Blog Trek, the next generation
Hi! This blog is testament to the fact that the voices in my head are truly out of my control! Rather than going crazy about it, i've decided to channel them constructively!
Monday, July 6, 2015
One of the biggest things holding India back is the over-availability of funds
One of the biggest things holding India back is the over-availability of funds.
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Fwd: While Mumbai was paralyzed with rains, 1000 families build homes
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Friday, July 3, 2015
Rush log #3JUL15
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Fwd: Out of School Survey - 4th July
While there is full support for survey, if the plan to put unerasable
ink on fingers of children "caught" out of school is still on, then
I'd like to point to this PIL filed at Nagpur bench of High Court
regarding the matter. Kindly read the full text of the PIL. Please
keep in mind that the litigants are themselves lifelong champions for
childrens rights and education, including people leading major
alternative education movements like Gandhi's Nai Talim. One major
concern is that even children learning under NIOS or other open
schooling platforms or homeschooling (a recognized form of education
in most countries) or alternative education which don't involved
compulsory daily attendance, will get caught up and marked as being
out of school.
I have included in CC some of the PIL litigants. But requesting you to
resist knee-jerk reaction.
One colleague of mine who isn't connected with any of this and just
found out about the 4th July exercise today, asked me this simple
If it is genuinely felt that putting unerasable black ink mark on
fingers of children will not cause any trauma and is not a negative
thing and is in no way "branding" them in any bad light, then why
don't the authorities invert this exercise and mark all the kids who
are ATTENDING school? This will be much easier to do, as all the
schools are at known locations and so the exercise will not involve
going door to door. Then any child found without the ink can be
detected to be NOT in school. The objective of the survey will be
accomplished, without going through a manhunt type activity. And if
they genuinely believe this inking of children is not a
negative-branding or trauma-causing activity and doesn't violate the
child's rights then there shouldn't be a problem.
Humble request to take out 20 minutes of your precious time, read the
PIL's full text and think deeply and clearly about exactly what we're
trying to do here and if it is truly the ONLY way to do it.
And I absolutely agree with you that this is coming at extremely short
notice : The PIL's next hearing was scheduled for yesterday only and I
have not received updates yet from the litigants of what happened. The
4th July exercise (which is a Maharashtra-wide exercise ordered by GoM
as the GR in the google drive folder will show) should have been
announced at least a few months earlier and there should have been an
open and inclusive HEARING about the matter, inputs from stakeholders
should have been taken before proceeding with it in such a dictatorial
manner. Thanks.
Nikhil [..]
(this was a reply to a broadcast email:)
On 7/2/15, Swadhar Pune [..] wrote:
> Why dont we give this to Radio Mirch and other FM stations
> [..]
> On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:00:16 +0530 ARC - Action for the Rights of Child Pune
> wrote
>>Respected All,
> All of you may be aware of that PMC is conducting survey on a large scale on
> 4th
> July to enroll out of school children in schools. More then 13000 teacher
> will
> participate in this survey. Survey will be conducted at ward level. The
> survey
> will focus on areas like construction sites, footpaths, public places and
> slum
> areas etc.
> PMC Education Board has provided central phone number-020 25534628 to
> receive
> complains/ guide citizens regarding enrollment of out of school children.Â
> In case NGOs/ citizens found any child out of school they can call on the
> number
> provided above to register complain or give information related to school
> enrollment of out of school children.Â
> In case you don';t get expected response from the PMC on the above number
> please
> do contact ARC Coordinators on [..]
( haven't taken permissions from people involved to share their
contacts. If you have further questions them please contact me on
nikhil.js [at] gmail.com )
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
The search for a more human rational explanation of humanity
This article brings out the rift which makes me steer towards being a person who respects emotions and intuition more than the current standards of logic. I identify myself with this guy much, much more than all the "rational" explanations I've heard that describes human beings. In all my travels I've seen that the less "educated" or "modern/sophisticated" a person is, while at the same time still being exposed to the same or more stark realities, the more he/she is likely to be like this guy. This seems to be the default state of human beings.. not what Fraud.. sorry, Freud (:P) predicted.
How is that happening? I think it's because the mainstream explanations of human behaviour have an interference effect : Being taught that human beings are self-maximizing rational selfish beings ends up influencing people to behave that way more. That is, our "passive" sources of knowledge are playing an active interfering role. This really screws the whole objectivity notion of knowledge, and sabotages the "failsafe" of the knowledge establishment (the assumption that they will honestly change their stance when more facts emerge which challenge present assumptions.. honestly I don't see that happening without a serious fight). An influential resource like, say, Wikipedia or Harvard or National Geographic or BBC, if it makes a mistake and portrays an erroneous conclusion as fact, then chances are that they will make it come true and turn the false assumption into reality. Later on there's no way in our present mechanism to prove that they were wrong.
This has implications far beyond the intellectual debates : war, terrorism, economic instability, fortunes of competing sides.. all of these when predicted with enough persuasion, become real even if they initially had no basis in reality. If the world's media propagandizes that a country is full of terrorists, then the actions that follow end up making terrorism more and more prevalent there, which then reinforces that notion, irrespective of what reality was previously. If a country's media continuously predicts a certain side's victory in the next election, then that's precisely what happens even if it wasn't true to begin with. The "placebo" effect is only exposed at the rare times when sufficient numbers of people, or ardent-enough changemakers, see through the prophecy and do something radical, difficult and challenging to violate it. (As we saw in the recent Delhi elections. Now please don't get started with the latter developments.. that's another placebo effect underway that's currently not getting violated! :)
It would be great if anyone who claims themselves to be a rationalist can work on this and bring up an explanation that predicts this side of humanity rather than what is currently predicted by the self-proclaimed rationalists occupying the commanding heights of academia, industry and government. That is, it would be great to see a rational explanation of humanity that acknowledges and factors emotions/values/intuition/faith in, and takes account of their positive effects, rather than taking the conventional and convenient path of censoring them out or dehumanizing/de-existing them.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Ridiculously inconsistent things about the Greece-EU crisis narrative being portrayed to us by the mainstream media
is pointing to something suspicious in the matter:
1. If Greece leaves the EU, it is said that will severely harm the whole EU.
2. If that is true, then that would have put Greece in some commanding
position, from where they can dictate the terms.
3. But instead I see EU, Germany and co. being the commanders and
scolding an entire country and demanding that they pay through their
nose, that they take up "austerity measures" (meaning full-on
multi-generational burdensome taxation on everything that will
directly go out of the country to service debt, not help the country,
and that coupled with near-zero govt support, total slashing of
education, healthcare, poverty-alleviation, pensions, social security
etc.. which will obviously result in systemically induced mass poverty
and starvation and ZERO chances of any real recovery) .. measures that
Germany themselves would never ever impose upon their own citizens.
4. So on one end they're treating the Greeks as their slaves and as beggars,
5. And from the exact same sources describing and in many ways
sanctioning this attitude, I'm also seeing clamours that if Greece
refuses to comply with these basically bullet-swallow demands, and
leaves the EU, then all hell will break lose on Germany and all the EU
members doing the scolding.
6. So WHAT GIVES? With the kind of attitude towards Greece displayed,
one would be expecting the EU to be loudly threatening to KICK Greece
out of the EU and saying they'll be better off without the wretches.
7. On the other hand, if keeping Greece IN was so crucial, then one
would expect the EU/Germany/IMF etc to be not in a commanding, but
rather a grovelling position, begging Greece to not leave, and
agreeing to the demands that Greece is making, or exploring
alternatives at recovering all that debt, like, say, going after
people like the leaders of Goldman Sachs and other private entities
WHO ACTUALLY CAUSED THIS WHOLE MESS instead of extracting tribute from
Greek citizens who had no say in the matter.
8. So whichever way this goes, at least one of the sides should have
been seen threatening to either walk out of EU or kick the other out
of EU. But instead, we're not seeing this at all! And none of all
those ostensible experts in those TV newsrooms is even mentioning this
glaring flaw! It should have been either this or that.. how can there
be neither?
9. The behaviour we're seeing from the EU, is rather that of an Empire
talking down to its Colony. And in such a dialogue, there is always
implicit the ultimatum that the Empire will send in its forces of
death and destruction and lay the colony to waste if the Colony
doesn't comply with the orders. Is this what the EU/Germany/IMF have
in mind? They're definitely behaving that way.. not willing to forgive
and not even willing to let go. That's the attitude of someone who is
possessing you by sheer force. The attitude of an abuser.
10. So in this context, it's of course the most logical thing for
Greece to walk away from this abusive relationship. Why then am I
reading western journalists and leaders ACCUSING Greece's leaders of
'secretly' wanting to do that? That's like a wife beater accusing his
wife of plotting to get away from him. Why wouldn't she want to do
exactly that? What is there to accuse in that? It's something to be
proud of. "Oh, how can do this to your children?" "Oh, how can you do
this to your debt obligation?" Typical victim blaming going on here.
The people of Greece are the VICTIMS of a seriously flawed and
corrupted system of international finance that screwed their country.
They've been bearing all the consequences of this while its architects
remain swimming in luxury.
11. Any country on this planet is perfectly capable of producing
whatever its citizen's basic needs are. All this international trade
started as an EXTRA thing, for extra prosperity related things. Not
for bare essentials. International trade and exchange was never ever
supposed to be something that you'll die without. Why would anyone
bother to get into trade if it involved a 50% chance of death? Why is
it then being accorded that kind of criticality today? So what if
Greece suddenly becomes unable to make any dealings with other
countries? They're not going to die. Then why all the doomsday
apocalyptic narration? If international trade has really come to a
life-threatening state then maybe the time has come to take a call and
progress, with the benefit of decentralized modern technology, to days
of self-sufficiency? Maybe it's wiser to invest in things that
increase self-sufficiency, like education and healthcare and
sustainable agriculture and cottage industries and renewables and
sustainable construction, rather than things like FDI? Why don't we
see any mainstream reporter or "expert" talking about these measures
as the way forward for Greece and others like them? Why is there no
"forward" in their dictionary at all? They seem convinced like
everybody is going to die next week.
12. And of course, in all this we have the near-absolute censorship by
the mainstream media of another European country, Iceland, having done
back in 2008-9 exactly what they say Greece musn't do : Refuse to pay
the debts imposed on them. All hell didn't break lose.. in fact,
Iceland is way better off today than when it was complying with
"international obligations", and its citizens don't have
multi-generational extra taxes to pay just to service the debt that
they, like Greece, had no role and no say in getting. If Iceland got
through nicely, then why is Greece being painted in such a doomsday
scenario? Why is Iceland not even being mentioned by the media when it
is the most recent similar example?
Delhi govt introduces peoples-satisfaction condition on contractor payment
satisfied with the work done.
This itself takes care of a lot of things ;) . And note: while the
"how" is important and must follow in due course, one must never allow
it to come in the way of the "why-not!".
"Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex,
the solutions remain embarrassingly simple."
― Bill Mollison, permaculture pioneer
Monday, June 29, 2015
Why GREXIT should happen! (and WW3 should not)
Why did this author skip mentioning the simple fact that the austerity
(read: robbery) imposed on the citizens of Greece is not of their
making; that is an externalized debt imposed on them by private
profiteers that EU is allowing to get away. The case becomes quite
simple when you acknowledge that fact : it is all the investors' fault
that they blindly trusted frauds for the sake of high interest
returns; they have absolutely no right to extract their investments
from the citizens of a country who have nothing to do with the matter.
The investors who engaged in this risky, greedy behaviour must face
the consequences and lose their investments; it's as simple as that.
There's absolutely no need to involve any governments or citizens in
the matter. If Greece exits the EU, it's because the EU has been
behaving irrationally, irresponsibly, and IMPERIALLY.
And again, why is this author and several like him not at all
mentioning that ICELAND did pretty much the same thing (ie, refuse
imposing someone else's debts on their citizens) and they're much
better off now?
What is being written as a conspiracy/strategy (of exiting the EU), is
actually simple common sense. The conspiracy all this time was to loot
the people of Greece for the debts that private profiteers imposed on
them. Track them down, confiscate their properties, book the ex
government officials who illegally gave govt backing to them. That's
what investors need to do if they really want their money back. Not
loot the citizenry.
More material to dig into:
Also, a shouter for all those who believe cashless is great and all
money should get into banks : Do you have any idea about the
fiat-based currency system, how it generates money out of thin air and
puts a total debt always greater than the total amount of money in
circulation? Do you know that governments are now using banks to
directly take money out of people's accounts, that negative interest
rate is coming, ie, people will be charged for investing their money
with the bank? Do you know that the more money a country keeps in its
over-centralized banks, the more there is available to lend at low
interest to monopoly corporations to further increase their domination
and loot and pollution of the country? Do YOU have any say at all in
who your bank lends your money to? Do you think that you're really
being neutral by remaining blissfully unaware of it? Please do some
research; don't go around blindly advocating what the mainstream says.
Meanwhile, make no mistake about the co-inciding timing : The rise of
ISIS attacks is a clear provocation to more war and occupation in the
middle east ("aa bayl mujhe maar!"), and they're getting more and more
desperate to provoke war. More war is the only way the Western economy
can get out of the economic meltdown that is coming, and the people of
Greece were the ones taking the brunt and staving it off so far. What
a "heavenly" co-incidence, eh? If Greece exits, the warmongers are
going to get even more desperate to start full-scale war ASAP. What's
happening in the ISIS case is a near-perfect allegory to the politics
shown in the Star Wars prequels, and these patterns are common and
have been repeating since decades. Never forget : The funding and
weaponization of ISIS is coming from staunch Western allies who will
never be asked to stop it, for the simple reason that they're only
acting as conduits. You want to really stop terrorism? Then stop
funding it, simple!
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Jeevan Vidya Workshop at Dharwad, Karnataka, October 3-10, 2015.
This is a residential workshop hosted at Dharwad, Karnataka. There is only room for about 30 participants, so please register as early as possible. It is important that you attend the whole workshop from start to finish as each day builds on the previous one.
The Facilitator:
This workshop will be facilitated by Vinish Gupta, who leads the Centre for Holistic Learning. He has been involved with various social and environmental movements in the past. In his youth he spent over a decade as a Buddhist monk, exploring traditional Indian systems of thought and living. His current interests include value education, and design of environmentally sound systems and technologies.
What to bring:
Bring personal clothing, umbrella, water bottle, towel, toiletries, mosquito-net/repellent, and any interesting materials from your organization to share and anything creative that you like to do to share with others.
This event is run on gift culture. Participants are invited to contribute what they can (towards the cost of organising the workshop which is approximately Rs.3500 per person for food and stay); learning scholarships are available to those who need them. And if you can, your additional contribution will help to support other people's participation. No one will be refused due to money constraints.
यह कार्यशाला हिंदी में होगी . (This workshop will be conducted in Hindi).
Participants from Dharwad may contact any of the following to participate:
1. Dr Sanjeev Kulkarni - 9448143100 (7 pm to 9 pm only)
2. Shri Santosh Oswal - 9880139840 (5 pm to 8 pm only)
3. Shri Sanjeevkumar Patil - 9448231960 (Email: firstname.lastname@example.com )
Please note that the workshop is of an integrated nature and has to be attended in its entirety. It may not be attended partially.
Here is how to reach Dharwad. It is ideal for participants to arrive by the evening of the 2nd October itself; they may leave after lunch of 10th October 2015. If you intend to travel by train, please note that train bookings now open 4 months in advance of the travel date, so we advise you not to delay making the necessary bookings!
Best wishes,
Dharwad Sukhi Jeevan Group
धारवाड़ सुखी जीवन समूह ,
द्वारा आयोजित
धारवाड़, कर्णाटक
जीवन विद्या शिविर
3-10 अक्टूबर 2015
शिविर के बारे में:
जीवन विद्या शिविर (करीब 40 घंटे की अवधि की) एक गहरे अध्ययन की प्रक्रिया है, जिसमे जीवन के मौलिक परन्तु प्रायः उपेक्षित पहलुओं पर ध्यान केंद्रित किया जाता है। आपसी सम्बन्ध, शिक्षा, समाज, प्रकृति, लक्ष्य, सफलता आदि पर एक गहरा संवाद होता है जिसके द्वारा प्रतिभागियों को ज़िन्दगी के भिन्न प्रतीत होने वाले पहलुओं के बीच की कड़ियाँ पहचानने व समझने का अवसर मिलता है। कोई प्रवचन या उपदेश नही होता। प्रबोधक द्वारा कुछ प्रस्ताव प्रस्तुत किये जाते हैं, और प्रतिभागियों को उनके आतंरिक विचारों, भयों, सम्भ्राँतियों, आकांक्षाओं आदि को जांचने में सहयोग किया जाता है। क्रमशः ढेर सारी छिपी मान्यताएं उजागर होने लगती हैं और व्यक्ति को ज़िन्दगी के सूक्ष्म ताने बाने का एक नयी स्पष्टता से दर्शन होने लगता है; मानव में सकारात्मक सृजनशक्ति की नयी संभावनाओं का बोध होने लगता है। एक सशक्त चिंतन-यात्रा का शिविर में प्रारम्भ तो होता है पर अंत नही …
यह 8-दिवसीय पूर्णकालिक आवासीय शिविर है। धारवाड़, कर्णाटक में आयोजित इस शिविर में कुल 30 प्रतिभागियों के लिए स्थान हैं, इस लिए पूर्व पंजीकरण करें।
शिविर में पूर्णकालिक प्रतिभागिता अनिवार्य है, आंशिक प्रतिभागिता की अनुमति नही है।
शिविर के दौरान स्वैच्छिक श्रमदान करने का व व्यक्तिगत हुनरों के आदान-प्रदान का भी अवसर रहेगा।
इस शिविर में प्रबोधन श्री विनीश गुप्ता करेंगे। वे लम्बे समय से विभिन्न सामाजिक व पर्यावरणीय अभियानों से जुड़े रहे हैं। करीब दस वर्ष तक वे बौद्ध परंपरा में भिक्षु भी रहे, जिस दौरान उन्हें भारतीय विचारधाराओं व तौर तरीकों को समझने का अवसर मिला।
विनीश को उनके कार्यों में सहयोग मिलता है उनकी पत्नी करुणा मुरारजी से। शिक्षा का मानव संभावनाओं व विकास के साथ सम्बन्ध समझने में लम्बे समय से करुणा की रूचि रही है। अन्य विषय जिनके अध्ययन में वे रूचि रखती हैं: आहार, फ़िल्में, प्रक्रिया/इतिहास विश्लेषण, और सीखने-सिखाने व जीने के सामूहिक तौर तरीके।
साथ लाएं:
निजी वस्त्र, पानी की बोतल, तौलिया, साबुन आदि निजी उपयोग का सामान, आपके संस्था / कार्य से सम्बंधित सामग्री, व कुछ भी रचनात्मक जो आप को दूसरों के साथ करना / बांटना अच्छा लगता है।
यह शिविर 'उपहार संस्कृति' पर आधारित है। यानि इस शिविर के लिए कोई निश्चित अनिवार्य शुल्क नही है। हर प्रतिभागी पर करीब रुपए 3500 का खर्च आता है। जिन्हे आवश्यकता हो उनके लिए छात्रवृत्तियां/सहयोग उपलब्ध हैं। आप अधिक योगदान का सामर्थ्य रखते हों तो आपके योगदान से अन्य लोगों की प्रतिभागिता सुनिश्चित होने में सहयोग रहेगा।
आर्थिक असमर्थता के कारण किसी की प्रतिभागिता बाधित नही होने दी जाएगी।
इस शिविर में भाग लेने के लिए यह ऑनलाइन फॉर्म भरें।
धारवाड़ से प्रतिभागी पंजीकरण हेतु इन से भी संपर्क कर सकते हैं:
धारवाड़ पहुँचने के बारे में जानकारी यहाँ है। उत्तम होगा यदि प्रतिभागी 2 अक्टूबर की शाम तक ही पहुँच पाएं। वे 10 अक्टूबर को दोपहर के भोजन उपरांत वापस लौट सकते हैं। यदि आप रेल से यात्रा करने वाले हैं तो ध्यान रहे कि टिकटें यात्रा तिथि के 4 महीने पूर्व मिलनी शुरू हो जाती हैं, इस लिए अपनी यात्रा की टिकटें बुक करवाने में विलम्ब न करें !
शुभ कामनाएं
धारवाड़ सुखी जीवन समूह
Jeevanshala Trust, "Nagalaxmi",
Hulekal Village, Sirsi-581336. Karnataka. India.
Tel: 08283-240147.
Cell: +91.8762071817
Friday, June 26, 2015
Things you can do in Pune
Education : When simplistic models go against reality
brought up a classical dilemma that I'm sure has been faced by a lot
of educators.
Our simplistic models we use to teach go completely against reality.
And reality is way too difficult for us to teach : we simply cannot
decide where to begin!
So we pick the easier route, and assume that censoring reality is a
good pedagogical strategy to teach students about real-life things as
critical as the money system. What evidence do we have of that? Will
doing so not make them as susceptible to the same issues of regular
economic meltdowns, unpayable debt, consumerism, infinite growth etc
that the current generation faces? Isn't there some possibility that
it was these unreal simplistic teachings that created these problems
to begin with?
What if by being exposed to reality instead, they'll get a far better
understanding of trade and money than the current generation has? What
if they'll become better at handling the next economic recession, if
they know that it's not an unexpected random event but a fundamental
property of the system? What if they'll avoid getting into the
consumerism paradigm and get a lot better at managing their needs and
not become a drain on their or their parents' finances? What if
they'll get better at seeing through things?
Worth a thought, eh? At least, that's how things have been for me.
What I needed was an exposure to various contradictory perspectives,
and the freedom to choose which one to take. Not teaching.
Pointers for a better understanding of economics and related history
system, were not in touch with any historians or anthropologists who
were then making first contact with indigenous people in Americas,
Africa, Asia, Austalia. They didn't bother checking with any of them.
They had no clue about how it actually came around. They merely
speculated, with their understanding of humanity limited to the urban
western humanity that they grew up around.
So the simplistic origins of money that we "know", that are taught in
textbooks and upon which our economic understandings are based .. are
stories created in some people's heads. Not reality. What the
historians and anthropologists have found is extremely different.
Some things emerging from what the historical and anthropological records tell:
Money system did not naturally evolve from barter system. Barter did
not precede money.. it succeeded it where the money-issuing mechanisms
went defunct. Credit systems (ie, keeping accounts of who owes whom
how much) did not succeed money.. they preceded it.
And "gift" economy system, where credit is informalized and made
non-binding and rather left to ethical compulsions and occasionally
forgiven as well as overpaid as per circumstances, seems to have
preceded them all, existing wherever there wasn't a centralized
bureacracy levying taxes/tributes, as well as in parallel with the
other systems as a more day-to-day system of local exchange whereas
money/credit was a periodic once-a-year or one-time-investment types
thing for most of humanity until very recently.
So it's entirely possible that the typical assumptions we have about
people in a village getting confounded with how to exchange eggs,
woodwork, grains and all.. it's possible that that typical story that
we impose onto their lives are merely a reflection of our own flawed,
simplistic and linear understanding of history and humanity.
Two sources that might shine further light in this direction:
http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Debt,_The_First_5000_Years (David Graeber, 2011)
http://charleseisenstein.net/ (Sacred Economics and other books)
Please put in some time to looking them up.. there are plenty of
related audio/video versions too that you can listen to comfortably.
Also, there is a collaboratively created and open-sourced alternative
economics syllabus made and released recently by a network of people
who saw the mainstream syllabus of most top-level economic colleges as
woefully out of date. I've read only the first few pages and it's been
amazing so far. Their tagline is "Teaching economics as if the last
three decades had happened".
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Crowdfunding for OpenStreetMap.org
Researchers cannot access aggregated data using google maps, like say all the traffic lights in a particular area. On OSM they can. Legally, people aren't allowed to use prints or high-res images from google maps in their work.. on OSM there's no such restriction. And, OSM has its data in vector format, which makes it possible for anyone to style maps in their own way, and even go totally creative with it. The default OpenStreetMap might seem a bit too ugly, but look at a few of its various flavours:
http://nikhilvj.techydudes.net/files/leaflet-layers.html (go to layers button on top right)
All the mapping technologies I'm working on are possible because of this non-copyrighted, wikipedia-like user-generated map of the world. The fact that it's all being done on a shoestring budget while its only counterpart must be spending many times that, is pretty amazing.
Note: It seems taking money in INR isn't possible for them. It's UK-based, so best to get a contact of yours in UK/Europe to chip in.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
What the rich are upto
Interesting article:
This week's revelation that the wealthy are purchasing secret hideaways in remote locations in order to escape social upheaval and possible riots is the culmination of Zbigniew Brzezinski's warning that a worldwide "political awakening" is serving to derail the move towards further global centralization of power.
Economist Robert Johnson made headlines at the recent Davos Economic Forum when he revealed that "hedge fund managers all over the world….are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway."
Johnson cited income inequality and the potential for civil unrest and riots as the reason for the panic.
"A lot of wealthy and powerful people are quite afraid right now – they see us on an unstable trajectory," said Johnson. "As the system doesn't have proper resources, as it doesn't represent people, things are getting more and more dangerous as say Ferguson, Missouri brings to bear."
However, Johnson's warning is nothing new – the super rich have been busy securing property in safe heavens for at least five years in anticipation of the next financial collapse.
In 2010, John Malone, billionaire chairman of Liberty Media, announced that he had bought a retreat on the Quebec border as an insurance policy to "have a place to go if things blow up here," adding that he was concerned about the survival of the dollar and whether or not "America (was) going to make it" through the economic crisis.
In 2012, Hollywood director James Cameron also announced his decision to leave America and move his entire family to a 1,067 hectare farm in New Zealand.
The Bush family also purchased 100,000 acres in Paraguay back as far back as 2006.
There are several reasons why the rich are preparing to flee, but the main factor is the rise of income inequality – a factor that Zbigniew Brzezinski blamed for the "global political awakening" that poses a direct threat to the elite's bid to further centralize power.
"For the first time in all of human history mankind is politically awakened – that's a total new reality – it has not been so for most of human history," said Brzezinski during a 2010 Council on Foreign Relations speech in Montreal, adding that the development was borne out of "global inequities, inequalities, lack of respect, exploitation".
Brzezinski made similar comments during a November 2012 speech in Poland, in which he admitted that a worldwide "resistance" movement to "external control" driven by "populist activism" is threatening to derail the move towards a new world order.
The former US National Security Advisor also noted that "persistent and highly motivated populist resistance of politically awakened and historically resentful peoples to external control has proven to be increasingly difficult to suppress."
It is important to note that Brzezinski was not championing this development. In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technotronic Era, the former Obama advisor heralded the arrival of a technotronic era "dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values" under which citizens would be tightly controlled and manipulated.
The likelihood of widespread disenfranchisement and economic turbulence causing civil unrest has also been repeatedly invoked by economist Martin Armstrong, who correctly predicted the 1987 Black Monday crash as well as the 1998 Russian financial collapse.
"It looks more and more like a serious political uprising will erupt by 2016 once the economy turns down. That is the magic ingredient. Turn the economy down and you get civil unrest and revolution," wrote Armstrong.
With distrust in government and leadership in the United States and other western countries continuing to remain near historic lows, the toxic cocktail of increased corruption, social alienation, and lack of community (all contributory factors to the 2011 London riots), will heighten the risk of domestic disorder.
As real wages drop it will also become increasingly harder to pacify younger generations via consumer culture. With religion, family and social mobility all declining in influence, lifestyles built around the acquisition of products will become harder to maintain as the economic environment worsens and the wealth gap widens.
Police brutality and perceived widespread injustice will also lead to more unrest in poorer areas as unfolded in Ferguson, Missouri last year.
While the move on behalf of the wealthy to purchase property in safe heavens by no means signifies a relinquishing of power, it does indicate that the super rich are readying insurance policies in the form of secret getaways in case massive political unrest leads to sustained domestic turmoil.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
[more Earth-specific than India-specific] Campaign to declassify 28 classified pages from 9/11 commission report
Congressman Thomas Massie described the 28 pages as "shocking" and said, "I had to stop every couple pages and…try to rearrange my understanding of history. It challenges you to rethink everything."
And some more:
http://torontohearings.org/ (organized by relatives of the 9/11 victims)
..and a 5 hour film for anyone really interested in looking at the evidence at hand and hearing the counterarguments to the most prominent debunkings: youtube.com/watch?v=O1GCeuSr3Mk
Article: Our Great Saviour's war on Indian Environment
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Kristen Graham
Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. heard City Council clearly - they're skeptical of how the millions they've provided over the past several years have been spent.
Council's concerns were raised anew in the past few weeks, as they consider Mayor Nutter's proposal to hike property taxes to give the schools an additional $105 million. That plan appears dead in the water, with Council officials saying they are more likely to enact a plan that includes a more modest tax hike, coupled with a raise in the Use and Occupancy tax and possibly a jump in parking-lot taxes.
Hite and his team say they've provided every detail Council wants. But the Philadelphia School District chief had an idea: what if the state's top auditor would help give city officials assurances, too?
Kristen Graham
In the face of steep revenue cuts, the city school system is now spending less to educate each student than it has since 2008, and benefits are costing it nearly $8,000 more per teacher than they did three years ago.
Mix lower revenues with rising fixed costs and the result is fewer dollars spent in Philadelphia School District classrooms, an outside analysis of district finances released Thursday found.
Chief Financial Officer Matthew Stanski said the analysis underscored the points officials were trying to make this week to a skeptical, frustrated City Council: they keep coming back for more money year after year because the money they receive isn't enough to cover their fixed costs.
Kristen Graham
A top Nutter administration official Thursday made a pitch to City Council: the mayor's proposed property-tax hike is the clearest way to get city schools the $105 million they desperately need.
"Without additional funding, the schools will have another bleak year," Finance Director Rob Dubow said at a Council hearing.
Mayor Nutter wants a 9.3 percent jump in the city's property-tax rate to generate $105 million for the beleaguered Philadelphia School District, but skeptical Council members have indicated that it's going to be a very hard sell.
Kristen Graham
Another union has a deal with the Philadelphia School District.
The members of Unite Here Local 634, which represents school cafeteria workers and noontime aides, has ratified a four-year contract that contains benefits savings and work-rule changes including a weakening of seniority rights.
The workers - the district's lowest-paid - will actually get pay bumps made possible, officials said, by allowing the district to temporarily stop payments to the union's health and welfare fund. Most workers in the union are part-time, earning $10.88 hourly, or about $8,000 annually.
Kristen Graham
Helen Gym's City Council campaign got early momentum from an endorsement from the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. On Friday, it was bolstered by the effusive support of Randi Weingarten, the president of the national teachers' union.
"If we had more people like Helen in public office, we'd be solving more problems across the United States of America," Weingarten said, standing outside the Philadelphia School District headquarters. "I'm impressed by her passion, by her smarts, by her ability to problem solve."
Weingarten and District Attorney Seth Williams spoke at a late-morning rally for Gym, the longtime public-education activist. Mayoral candidate Jim Kenney stood behind Gym at the event, but did not speak.
Kristen Graham
The Philadelphia School District is exploring outsourcing its health services, officials said Wednesday - a move that might mean privatizing jobs now held by unionized school nurses.
Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said the district, rocked by years of brutal budgets, had to find a way to expand medical services and was seeking to test the waters to see if it might do so through bringing in private providers.
"With the significant cuts that we've made, it's impacted our ability to deliver health services to all children that need those services," Hite said.
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Matthew Stanski, the Philadelphia School District's well-regarded chief financial officer, is leaving the school system, a spokesman confirmed.
Stanski tendered his resignation effective in June, said Fernando Gallard, the spokesman. He is leaving to become supervisor of management, budget and planning for the Montgomery County, Md. school system.
Stanski came to the city from Prince George's County, Md., where he had been CFO there under Superintendent William R. Hite Jr, now Philadelphia's schools chief.
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A seven-judge panel has dismissed a lawsuit filed by school districts, parents, and organizations contending that Pennsylvania's system of education funding is broken.
Commonwealth Court President Judge Dan Pelligrini found that school funding is a legislative issue and not a legal matter.
Parents, including two from the Philadelphia School District, and districts including the William Penn system in Delaware County, filed the suit last fall, saying that state officials had "adopted an irrational school funding system that does not deliver the essential resources students need and discriminates against children based on where they live and the wealth of their communities."


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Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London: SEB Group has reported on hedge funds for the fourth quarter of 2012 and first quarter of 2013. The bank writes: "Almost every strategy continued
its strong fourth quarter
trend, with the exception of
Macro/CTA, which hovered
around zero. There is still
good potential for every
strategy, although the rate of
return will probably not be as
high for the rest of the year."
For the first quarter of 2013, SEB found that hedge funds had already generated a return in line with full-year 2012. "Since the fourth quarter of 2012, the markets have gradually returned to being governed by company and macroeconomic
fundamentals, which has been a good climate for hedge fund managers. Hedge funds as a whole
have had a good start to the year, generating 3.1% during the first quarter, compared to a full-year return
of 3.5% for 2012" SEB writes.
The bank found variation within and between strategies, writing that equity long/short and event driven strategies have benefited most from more "normalised" market conditions,
with gains of over 5% this year. "Meanwhile, Macro/CTA has stayed just above zero, which is lower than we
expected, but there is considerable variation among hedge fund managers."
The firm found that there is still a good potential for every strategy, with more sustained trends that should favour CTA (strategies based on mathematical models), while large global imbalances
create oppor......................
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Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Together with financial advisor LiliAnn Stafford, and financial advisor associate Natalie Engelhardt, Lily Engelhardt, financial advisor, SVP, is part of the Lily Group at Morga
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff on Thursday upheld the two-year prison term against former Goldman Sachs Group director Rajat Gupta and rejected his appeal to dismiss his insider-trading conviction by a New York federal jury in 2012.
The 66-year-old Gupta asked t
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: The strong returns of hedge funds in the first half of 2015 is seen to attract billions of dollars of new money into the industry in the next six months despite some fund managers sustaining losses from the Greek debt problem last June, Peter Laurelli,
This paper was authored by Andrew Beer, founder of Beachhead Capital Management LLC, New York. You can download the full paper here.
A recent note (
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: The founder of a New York-based systematic trading firm, which offers a hybrid between alpha strategies and alternative feta at lower fees, describes his approa
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Mega private equity firm KKR is paying a $30 million settlement to the SEC over 'broken deal' expenses. The charges were announced today by the SEC and included a $10 million penalty. KKR had been in talks with the SEC over settlement of these charges s
In the week ending 26 June, 2015, HFR said that hedge fund launches
totaled 264 in 1Q15, the highest level since 2Q14, bringing the total number of hedge funds globally to 10,149. Gottex Asset has launched its Multi-Asset Growth Fund; Citadel is planning to launch a new equities business bas
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: An emerging CTA manager explains how he runs his strategy, which is based on an index produced by a research firm.
Peter Turk is head of
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Outgoing SEC Commissioner Gallagher is taking on the SEC's role in activist corporate actions on his way out the door. At a recent speech this week, the Commissioner said it is the role of the SEC to ensure proper disclosures and let the role of activists wo
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: The New York City Opera, which is being re-launched at a new venue following bankruptcy, was famously dubbed "The People's Opera" by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at its founding in 1943. While it is awaiting final approval from the bankruptcy court
In the week ending 19 June, 2015, Eurekahedge said that hedge fund assets have increased by US$92 billion in the first five months of 2015, with one-third of this increase coming from new investor allocations. Total industry AUM stands at a record high of US$2.23 trillion.
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Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: NewAlpha Asset Management, the Paris-based global hedge fund incubation and acceleration specialist, announced today a strategic investment with Quest Global Advisors. Gre
Matthias Knab, Opalesque: EY's and The Hedge Fund Journal's biennial survey recognizes 50 female hedge fund industry leaders based on data gathered from interviews with industry experts based in Asia, the US and Europe.
"Women are now managing hundreds of billions of assets across the
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Delegates at the recent Opalesque Frankfurt Roundtable say the "party is over" in infrastructure investing. Is it possible that aspect of 'Germany Inc.' may finally be slo
In the week ending 12 June, 2015, reports claimed that Asia is fast becoming a "sweet spot" for U.S. investors, as U.S. stocks are expected to lose some steam; Japan's tri
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Due to regulatory pressure, most large institutional investors in Germany, especially insurance companies, have between 75 and 85% of their allocation in safe bonds, and eschew riskier investments. Those who could invest in alternatives are too cautious to d
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Some German investors still hesitate when it comes to investing in alternative investments, because such investments are perceived as risky. Participants at the recent Opalesque Ge
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:
New York-based startup Marquart Capital Management, LP, will launch its first product on July 1, 2015. I
By Mark Hulbert: The news media are drawing all the wrong lessons from Meredith Whitneys decision this week to close down her hedge fund.
To be sure, the media are right to point out that Whitney, after a spectacularly correct forecast at the top of the bull market 2007 that banking stocks were
By: John E. Dunn, III, Principal, Oak Point Investments
Given it is now my sixth year representing several world class alternative fixed income fund managers, over this same
timeframe, just about every institutional investors I talk with has a lingering fear that sometime, somewhere interest rat
By: Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners
Commodity trading advisors (CTAs) perception among investors is more divergent than any other major hedge fund strategy. A large percentage of investors view the strategy as smoke and mirrors using black box models that they cannot understand or properly e
This paper was authored by Andrew Beer, founder of Beachhead Capital Management LLC, New York. You can download the full paper here.
There is a strong argument that, on average
This paper was authored by Andrew Beer, founder of Beachhead Capital Management LLC, New York. You can
download the full paper here.
This paper was authored by Andrew Beer, founder of Beachhead Capital Management LLC, New York.
"Of course its true until everyone knows its true."
Famous economist in response to publication of Stocks for the Lo
This article was authored by Ben Hunt of Salient Partners, L.P. as general information only and should not be taken as investment advice.
I spend a lot of my time speaking with investors and financial advisors of all stripes and sizes, and heres what Im hearing, loud and clear. There
This article was authored by Stephen Loosley, Catalyst Development Ltd, a financial regulations and technology advisor in London.
Compression is a technique to reduce gross notional in your OTC book without materially affecting ri
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: An emerging CTA manager explains how he runs his strategy, which is based on an index produced by a research firm.
Peter Turk is head of
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: The founder of a New York-based systematic trading firm, which offers a hybrid between alpha strategies and alternative feta at lower fees, describes his approa
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Glenview Capital Management said it bought an additional 979,482 shares
at Tenet Healthcare Corp valued at $53.80 million, raising its stakes in
the healthcare services company to 15.16%, reported
Graysons hedge funds under scrutiny for possible ethics violations
From Freebeacon.com: Rep. Alan Grayson is finding himself in hot water over managing hedge funds that bear his name, actions that are in possible violation of House ethics rules. Sitting members of Congress are prohibite
From Bloomberg.com: Hedge funds posted losses across strategies last month as uncertainty over whether Greece will remain in the euro sent global stock markets tumbling. Winton Capital Management declined about 3.1 percent in June in its $12.1 billion Winton Futures Fund, leaving it down 1.9 percent
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Long Term Trend: PositiveMonday's Trade: (ASIA): 23,797.81 (- 240)UPDATE: For well over two months we have been specific in pointing to our belief that 23,800 remained an initial critical pivot point. Subsequently, the HS fell well below 23,800 and for six weeks struggled to recover. Three weeks ago, however, the Index appeared to gain footing for the first time since mid- September. As of the past two weeks, all points are bullish. Just be aware of the current formation- It could be the formation of a right shoulder of a Head and Shoulder Top. Key long term support stands at 22,000. A settlement below that point could have major LT bearish implications.


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Former BB&T CEO John Allison to lead Cato Institute
Retired BB&T Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive John Allison has been named head of The Cato Institute, a libertarian group based in Washington, D.C.
Allison, who retired in 2009 after nearly 20 years as the top exec at Winston-Salem-based BB&T (NYSE:BBT), will replace Ed Cane, who will retire.
The move is part of a compromise agreement reached by Cato and its shareholders that would resolve pending lawsuits filed by two shareholders against Cato, its CEO and several of its directors, The Business Journal of the Triad reports.
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My friend Donna and I drove to Holland Michigan on May 1st to see the Tulip festival. It was my first visit. We arrived a day before the festivities (and crowds). Our timing was perfect. We had a wonderful visit seeing the flowers and walking through the town. I hope you enjoy the photos.
Besides beautiful tulips, the city of Holland has planted a huge variety of daffodils, which happen to be my favorite springtime flower. This photo shows the windmill on Windmill Island. This was the last windmill to leave the Netherlands. Windmills are now considered national monuments and cannot leave the country.
The windmill is named De Zwann which is Dutch for "The Swan" or graceful bird. It is a grain mill that was bought from the Netherlands (Vinkel, Brabant) in 1964. It is over 240 years old, and many of the wooden parts are original. Donna and I were able to tour the mill which was very cool. Holland actually has a certified Miller who mills flour in the mill which is no simple task I can assure you.
This photo is taken at a park in downtown Holland. There were rows of blooming tulips to enjoy. The weather was perfect for our visit.
Looks like someone mixed a red tulip in with the purples here. I had to smile when I saw this lone red tulip blooming in all its glory.
I love this color combination of bright pink and yellow. Just looking at these colors makes me happy!
This is an image of the shoreline of Lake Michigan just outside Saugatuck. We are blessed with beautiful shoreline in Michigan. Walking the beach and listening to the waves and wind was the perfect end to the perfect day!


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Perhaps the attack created a sense of urgency in drivers rushing to reach their loved ones. Or perhaps the lead-foots were on their way to John Meiner's Market on Quivira Road to stockpile gasoline at $5.63 a gallon. Either way, it was the camera's busiest day that month.
The camera at 119th and Hawthorne Plaza captures malevolent motorists as they illegally move through the intersection. The photos will not be used to issue tickets; the city is merely conducting a yearlong study. Each month, camera company TransCore is sending Overland Park traffic-engineer Brian Shields photos and data from violations. The first month's numbers indicate that red-light cameras could turn moving violators into cash cows for Overland Park and TransCore, the Arizona contractor that's taking in $63,000 from the Kansas Department of Transportation for the study.
Other states' programs reportedly have reduced traffic infractions and auto accidents, but detractors as diverse as Kansas City civil-libertarian Dick Kurtenbach and congressional Republican Dick Armey fret that George Orwell may have been right about Big Brother. Critics also argue that traffic cameras, which photograph the car and license plate but not the driver, violate a basic tenet of American justice: The burden of proof shifts from the prosecution to automobile owners, who could be ticketed whether they're driving or not.
Cities can generate millions of dollars annually with snapshots of stop-light runners, with companies such as TransCore netting as much as 50 percent of the ticket revenues.
With forty violations a week in September, 119th could prove to be Easy Street for Overland Park and TransCore, but not nearly as lucrative as the intersection at 95th and Quivira. A camera installed there in October "will probably get forty to fifty people running the light per day," Shields says.


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Full disclosure: I'm not a Trekkie. I am a nerd, but my primary nerd-niches are the universes of Dr. Who, Joss Whedon, and the X-Men. I do enjoy Star Trek, but I feel I need to make the distinction, out of respect for all the hard-core Trekkies out there (including my mother). I definitely understand the loyalty and passion of this fandom; a few years ago, I was in a book trailer for "Night of the Living Trekkies," and got some firsthand insight into how much attention must be paid to detail.
With that critical clarification covered, and perhaps a bit of credibility established, let me tell you my favorite thing about Star Trek. Without a doubt, what makes Star Trek a creative beacon for me is the very mission of the starship Enterprise:
"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."
That core mission actually reminds me a lot of playwriting. While there may be fewer aliens (or not, depending), the process of creating a new work for the stage absolutely demands exploring strange new worlds (or strange corners of the world we live in), seeking out new life and new civilizations (perhaps not in outer space, but from outer limits of one sort or another), and boldly going where no one has gone before (hopefully—or at the very least, boldly getting there in some new way).
And yeah. Sometimes it takes five years.
I was reminded of this parallel recently when I attended the reading of a brand new play. It was the first public reading of Gabriel Jason Dean's new play Heartland. Gabriel Jason Dean is one of the two 2014-2015 Downstage Left resident playwrights with Stage Left Theatre; I'm the other lucky writer. During the talkback following the "Heartland" performance, this was the first question posed:
What is the moment when you were most engaged in this play?
In another jolt from the Star Trek universe, I immediately heard Patrick Stewart blaring a command in my head: "Engage!" Then, I focused on "Heartland," and joined in the terrific discussion of Dean's new play. As I took the train home after the reading, that question kept rattling around in my head.
What is the moment when you were most engaged in this play?
Figuring out when I am most engaged with a play as an audience member is one thing. But when am I most engaged in my own work, as a playwright?
Theater is a universe of its own. Its worlds are defined and strengthened by artistic collaboration. And yet, most plays begin in solitude. We writers scratch out an idea, a first scene, the shadow of a character we hope to fully realize. We begin exploring a strange new world, and trying to go where no one has gone before. But getting there is hard.
We need a crew.
I was nervous, and brand-new to Chicago, when I submitted an early, incomplete draft of my play The Bottle Tree to Stage Left Theatre. It was also critical to the success of my mission that I begin bringing others into the process of developing this script. The beauty of playwriting, unlike almost any other form of writing, is the collaborative call of the larger theater world. When a writer has enough scraps of something, the next step in our process is not to just power through and do this whole thing alone. It's to find good partners. Partners willing to engage.
Stage Left Theatre has provided me with partners willing to do just that.
The Bottle Tree asks hard questions, and wrestles with complicated social issues around guns and gun violence. I needed a crew that was committed not only to theater, but also to honest storytelling around compelling topics. I am thankful that Stage Left, with their commitment to meaningful and socially-engaged works, saw my script as a fit for them—because they have certainly been a fit for me.
The Downstage Left residency has been a tremendously collaborative experience. The support and focused attention from the Stage Left team, particularly my director and dramaturg, Amy Szerlong and Annaliese McSweeney, made the development process extremely productive. The public reading provided a valuable opportunity for text exploration, actor insights, and great audience feedback.
That, it turns out, is the moment when I am most engaged in one of my own plays: when I am working with actors, directors, artists, and audiences to bring it to fully realized life.
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For the Bar Staff – overall the bar staff was great, everyone was enjoying their drinks!! However, I feel that they were making them too strong so people were enjoying themselves too much. The Bavarian Inn Lodge charges you for the bar by how much you consume vs. a per person basis. So in this case I feel like I was not getting the most for my money. We went over budget in this area by the end of the night and I felt that there was no way to avoid it. On the upside the staff did follow directions and did help cut my costs towards the end. I did appreciate that.
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