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1. The "Prey Demo" competition ("Competition") is open to persons aged 18 years or over who are residents of the United Kingdom ("Entrant Country") except employees, agents, contractors or consultants of the Promoter (as defined below) and their immediate families, the Promoter's associated companies and anyone else professionally connected with the Competition ("Entrants").
2. The Competition is open for entries on 27th April 2017 at 10.00 (BST) ("Opening Date") and closes on 27th April 2017 at 23.59 (BST) ("Closing Date"). The period from the Opening Date to and including the Closing Date shall be referred to as the "Competition Period".
3. The Competition is free to enter and no purchase of any kind is necessary but Entrants must own or have access to a PlayStation® 4. By entering the Competition, Entrants accept and will be bound by these terms and conditions ("Terms") as well as the General Rules (click here).
4. To enter the Competition, Entrants must complete the following steps during the Competition Period:
a) if they do not already have a Sony Entertainment Network ("SEN") account (previously known as PlayStation®Network account), create one using their PlayStation® system or by visiting http://eu.playstation.com/registration/;
b) download the demo for the PlayStation®4 Prey game on the PlayStation®Store ("Game");[LF1]
c) play the Game;
d) press the SHARE button to capture a video clip ("Video Clip") and upload it to Twitter tagging @PlayStationUK and using the hashtag #PreyForPro (for more details on how to upload a video clip to Twitter with the PlayStation®4 click here).
5. Registration for PlayStation™Network ("PSN") is subject to acceptance of the PSN Terms of Service and User Agreement and PSN Privacy Policy. (http://eu.playstation.com/legal/).
6. Each Entrant may only submit one (1) entry and will only be eligible to win one (1) Prize (as defined below).
7. Each Entrant must adhere to the General Rules and in particular, to sections 6 and 7. In addition, entries must not contain any:
a) pornography, nudity, or sexually explicit imagery;
b) abusive, offensive or hateful imagery or language;
c) harassing or defamatory content;
d) content that compromises the privacy or safety of yourself or others;
e) content that demeans a particular gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, ethnicity or nationality;
f) violent or dangerous behaviour; and/or
g) spam, advertising or other commercial activities.
8. Each Entrant grants to the Promoter a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use entries for promotional purposes and for all the purposes related to the Competition, across all media including any online platforms under the Promoter's control.
9. All entries must be completely original so as not to breach any third party copyright. The Promoter accepts no liability if Entrants ignore these Terms and each Entrant agrees to fully indemnify the Promoter against any claims by any third party arising from any breach of these Terms.
10. There will be one (1) winner ("Winner"). The Winner will be selected by a Most Valued PlayStationer "MVP" (as defined on the PlayStation Forum) and one (1) or more employees of the Promoter based upon the originality and creativity of the Video Clip. The decision of the judges is final.
11. The Promoter shall notify the Winner by Private Message ("PM") on Twitter, of their selection within two (2) weeks of the Closing Date.
12. In order to claim their Prize (as defined below), the Winner must respond appropriately to the Promoter's PM within one (1) week from the date of the Promoter's notification PM, and provide their full name, postal address and date of birth.
13. The Winner will win one (1) Jet Black 1TB PlayStation®4 Pro system with a total approximate value of £349.99 GBP ("Winner Prize").
14. The Promoter will use reasonable endeavours to send by registered post, the Winner Prize to the Winner within four (4) weeks of receiving a Winner's details.
15. In these Terms, "Prize" shall mean a Winner Prize.
16. Prizes must be taken as stated and may not be deferred. There will be no cash alternatives; however the Promoter reserves the right to substitute any Prize with a prize of a similar value.
17. The Promoter cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any problem which may result in any Competition entry or other correspondence being lost or not being properly registered.
18. In the event of a dispute, the Promoter's decision is final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
19. The Promoter reserves the right to cancel the Competition or amend these Terms at any stage, if deemed necessary in its opinion or if circumstances arise outside its control.
20. If the Prize is found to be ineffective, faulty or damaged upon receipt, the Promoter must be notified in writing within seven (7) days of receipt, otherwise the Prize will be deemed to be accepted as received. This does not affect the Winner's statutory rights (if any).
21. The Winner agrees to take part in any reasonable publicity required by the Promoter.
22. If there is any reason to believe that there has been a breach of these Terms or incorrect, illegible, fraudulent or other invalid or improper information has been provided, the Promoter may in its sole discretion refuse to process an entry or fulfill any Prize awarded. If an Entrant fails to comply with clauses 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 [LF2] or uses multiple accounts to enter, they will be excluded from the Competition and their entry will be declared void.
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25. General Rules apply to the Competition. Please click here to view the General Rules.
26. The "Promoter" is: Sony Interactive Entertainment UK Limited, 10 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7LP United Kingdom.
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Yesterday YouTube got a lot of coverage of its new licensing deal for hundreds of movies from Paramount because separately, the studio's parent company, Viacom, has been involved in a bitter copyright litigation with YouTube for years. While it's noteworthy that the parties are able to do business despite suing each other, the bigger questions here are whether YouTube's initiative to rent Hollywood movies makes sense and can succeed?
Back in November, when YouTube announced a licensing deal with Disney, I wrote that YouTube could be poised to disrupt online movie rentals. In fairness, "disrupting" anything requires that there's enough critical mass to begin with, and with online movie rentals, that's barely the case. Using IHS data, by my calculations, the U.S. online movie rental market probably totaled a measly $200 million or so in 2011, tiny by any standard (note that Apple's iTunes has about 66% market share as well). As subscription rental services like Netflix have soared in popularity, viewers have shown little love for one-time movie rentals (or purchases for that matter).
My belief that YouTube could potentially shake things up and grow the market was primarily based on the company's willingness to offer deeply discounted $.99 promotional rentals. Underscoring the power of low pricing, late last fall, ALL of YouTube's top 10 rentals were $.99 specials. I reasoned that if YouTube committed to this strategy (which guaranteed a loss on each rental given Hollywood's pricing), it could jumpstart the business and gain a footing compared to iTunes, Amazon and other incumbents.
Flash forward to today however, and the $.99 promotional approach appears to be gone. In fact, YouTube's rental pricing is in line with other outlets - for example, its pricing for 4 of the Paramount titles touted in YouTube's post yesterday, Hugo, The Godfather, Transformers and Ferris Bueller's Day Off - is comparable to Amazon's.
Without a pricing advantage, I'm hard-pressed to see how YouTube's movie rentals will get much traction. The reality is that consumers are faced with numerous choices for movie rentals these days, which has commoditized the business. Plus, Netflix's experience shows that viewers are gravitating toward watching immersive TV series online, not movies. Meanwhile, Hollywood continues insisting on its absurdly restrictive 24-hour rental period limitation which hampers the user experience, thus dampening demand. Last but not least, YouTube and others will get no help from Hollywood's marketing machine; rather the industry is focused on making its new UltraViolet standard a household name to offset sagging DVD sales.
Online movie rentals are a small business, with limited growth prospects. As such, it's unclear to me why YouTube is trying to break in, unless Google views it as a relatively easy add-on outlet to Google Play (until recently Android Market), the content and app store meant to support its burgeoning device business. YouTube has formidable strengths: a 40%-45% market share of all online video viewing, a new $100 million original content initiative and an innovative ad model. These feel like the areas YouTube should be emphasizing, as it benefits from Google's near-limitless resources. Unless I'm missing something big, it seem there's little to be gained for YouTube in the online movie rentals space.
Categories: Aggregators, FIlms, Studios

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Palisades Park, NJ – July 13, 2017 – FLiFLi will be launching a new Indiegogo campaign on July 17 to promote its newest product, the FLiFLi LifeBattery AIR. It is a new AC battery that can be used to power up all sorts of devices while having more than enough space for energy without taking up more physical space than needed.
This portable AC battery uses a Premium 18650 Lithium-ion battery setup. It has a capacity of 27,200mAh. The eight 3,400mAh batteries linked together inside the battery help to keep it functional and active. This offers enough energy to fully charge up all sorts of portable devices. It even has enough power to fully charge up an Apple Macbook of up to 12 inches in size twice.
One of the most important features of this product is that it comes with three outputs. It uses AC 110v, USB Type A and USB Type C ports. This ensures that the battery can link up to a variety of devices. The battery itself can also link up to a proper USB connection to ensure that it will get enough energy ready to charge up more devices.
The Quick Charge 3.0 setup on the battery ensures that it will power up devices quickly. People can even use their devices attached to the battery while they are being charged. A sensor can also be used to analyze the battery level. An automatic power control feature is also included on the battery to ensure that it shuts off when it is not charging anything.
It is all made with a slim body that is 2.5cm thick and weighs about 1.6 pounds. It is a compact model that is easy to carry anywhere. The battery also comes with a limited one-year warranty,
FLiFLi is offering an Indiegogo campaign on the Life Battery AIR. The campaign will help to raise funds for getting different types of functions handled for making the product. Donors can also get one of these batteries when it is ready for the public although that will vary based on the total pledge that a person makes to the Indiegogo campaign.
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In January of the coming year cPanel will be deprecating a system called EasyApache 3 in support of their new EasyApache 4 version. This deprecation of an older version for the newer version comes with some caveats. Microtronix has put off this much-needed upgrading as long as we can since cPanel is deprecating EA3 in January, if we do not upgrade ... Read More »
Quick update for all our OpenVZ customers. We have just updated all our OpenVZ templates for OS installs. We now have available the following new OpenVZ templates for install onto your VPS in addition to the ones already available: - Ubuntu 15.04 x86_64- Ubuntu 15.10 x86_64- Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64- Suse 13.2 x86_64- Fedora 21 x86_64- Fedora 22 ... Read More »
Microtronix is proud to announce we now offer full Bitcoin based subscriptions available to all customer's effective immediately! The new Bitcoin subscription interface works for any customer at all, regardless of current payment method or if you've ever paid us with Bitcoins!How does it work you ask? Simple. Simply login to the client billing ... Read More »
Happy New Year to all Microtronix customers! We wish you all the best in your new year business endevours and those to come!Microtronix has some great news about new billing options that we now offer and the great services in store for this next year.Credit Card ProcessingIf you paid by credit card and had your card stored for future billing, you ... Read More »
Microtronix is pleased to announce we now offer a new Looking Glass for network testing against our Chicago VPS network. Before we only offered Looking Glass in Florida, but Chicago is now online and ready to be tested by customer!
Microtronix is pleased to announce we have updated our WHMCS billing system so that any orders that come through using Bitcoin as the payment method will "not" be checked for fraud anymore using any Fraud prevention system. We have had to implement fraud prevention measures for orders using credit cards as if we don't our prices will have to ... Read More »
As some of you may have noticed yesterday our shared hosting servers had a major upgrade. We had been running PHP 5.2 for quite some time for the backwards compatability of our customers and some older sites. For instance most Joomla's 1.5 and before and most Wordpresses from a couple years ago still have to have PHP 5.2 to run.Unfortunately ... Read More »
Microtronix is now offering multiple renewal intervals for it's OpenVZ VPS line. We now not only offer our standard monthly billing option but we also now offer every 3 months, 6 months or 12 months as a billing option for OpenVZ VPS units. We are hoping to also offer these same billing time frames for Xen units shortly.
Microtronix is now offering Credit Card payments through the Stripe API system! For those that do not like using Paypal or Google Checkout for any reason we offer you to try out Stripe for CC processing.https://www.stripe.comStripe also allows you to setup AUTOMATIC recurring payments using your valid Credit Card.Please NOTE: ABSOLUTELY ZERO ... Read More »
Yesterday Thu. the 1st of Nov. 2012 at around 5 PM Chicago time our datacenter was hit with a massive DDoS attack which was then followed by a brute force Solus API hack attempt. The DDoS took us offline just long enough to let our defense down, after which they hit full force with an API brute force on Solus. The sole purpose of this attack was ... Read More »
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Since 2004, the YAM Development Team accepts donations to support their development on YAM. This was mainly established to fight against the shrinking motivation and amount of developers actively working on the future of YAM. By supporting our development team with financial donations we hope to attract other developers and give our developers an additional motivation to work on the future of YAM. To divide the amount of donated money fairly through all developers, we will use the following procedure:
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In any other city, the neoclassic facade of this former royal palace would stop you like a heart attack. But this is Barcelona, where buildings by Antoni Gaudí seem to dot every third corner, and the Hotel Claris is just another noble structure, beautiful but boilerplate. The lobby, however, is an eyeful.
A melange of the futuristic, the modern and the ancient, the lobby makes you wonder if you've stepped into a museum. Fourth-century mosaics of some unnamed mythological creatures gaze out over its cold, white marble floors. An elevator slithers silently through a weird portholed shaft. Just as you expect to see a maze of red velvet ropes meandering toward the next exhibit, a lounge in the corner grabs your eye. Its beige furniture looks inviting. Its soft lighting and red carpet inject the lobby with warmth, slowly melting away your cool first impression. By the time you reach the reception desk you know this is a first-rate hotel where comfort is every bit as important as beauty.
The Claris is the jewel of the Derby Hotels, a six-property group owned by Jordi Clos, a Barcelona businessman and art collector. After a five-year construction project that rivaled Gaudí's epic--and unfinished--Templo Expiatori de le Sagrada Familia 10 blocks to the east, the Claris opened in 1992.
Form is Clos' passion, but nowhere does it supersede function. Rooms--there are 80 doubles, four singles and 36 suites of varying size--are large and plush, with parqueted wood cabinetry, leather couches and chairs, and deep purple bedding and drapes. Each space is decorated with unique pieces from Clos' collection and furnished with first-rate electronic equipment. One corner may be dominated by a piece of fifth-century sculpture from Burma, the other by a Bang & Olufsen hi-fi with CD player. Bathrooms are enormous and ultramodern; many have whirlpools.
Barcelona is home to eight Michelin-starred restaurants, but if you don't feel like venturing out the Claris offers three dining options. On the first floor is a traditional grand restaurant that specializes in country cuisine from Ampurda, a region in northwest Catalonia. On a recent night the chef was serving griddled skate with leeks and tomato jam, marinated quail with vegetables and dried nuts, and stewed rabbit with pearl onions, among other rich and rural fare. If you're in the mood for something more intimate--and decidedly more decadent--try Beluga, a tiny eatery that serves caviar, foie gras, salmon tartare and sirloin carpaccio. The Barbacoa Claris, a casual restaurant on the seventh-floor terrace, is open from June to September.
If the sun shines during your stay, a rooftop pool will tempt you; if the weather's nasty, an Egyptian museum on the second floor may beckon. Resist. Barcelona is its own museum, and the Claris' location in the Eixample district puts you amidst the crowning achievements of Modernism, the city's golden architectural age of the late nineteenth century. Treasures by Gaudí, Domenech i Montaner and Puig i Cadafalch are within walking distance.
So are treasures by Cohiba and Montecristo. Tabacs Crivillé, a small tobacconist owned by a charming woman named Mireia Pajes, is a five-minute stroll away. In addition to the usual array of Spanish favorites (the brands above, Fonseca and Sancho Panza, to name a few), you may be able to snag some Vegas Robainas, the new Cuban brand launched in Madrid in June and available exclusively in Spain through the end of the year. Try the Unicos, a brawny torpedo that earned a 91 rating in the August Marvin Shanken's Cigar Insider, the monthly newsletter published by M. Shanken Communications Inc.
The details of the Hotel Claris are no exception to the Barcelonan rule that everything be designed, not simply made. Lighting a smoke in the lobby bar--the hotel keeps a humidor stocked with Cohibas, Partagas and Montecristos--you can't help but notice that even the matchbox was subjected to the same keen design eye that surveyed the rest of the Claris. There seems to be no detail too minor to escape Jordi Clos' aesthetic obsession.
Brendan Vaughan is the manager of Cigar Aficionado Online and the assistant editor of Marvin Shanken's Cigar Insider.
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Phone (34-3) 487 62 62; fax (34-3) 215 79 70
Rates Single, US$176 (27,300 pesetas). Double, US$220 (34,100
pesetas). Junior suite, US$252 (39,000 pesetas). Duplex, US$271
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Homemade Wood-Floor Cleaner
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If you have wood floors, then you know that keeping them clean and glowing can be a challenge. From streaky cleaners to ones that leave a waxy buildup, finding the perfect cleaner for your hardwood floors that isn't harsh or filled with chemicals can be costly. Instead, toss together this eco-friendly homemade wood-floor cleaner that will wash your floors for only pennies. Spray directly on wood floors, make the cleaner in a bucket, or pour over cotton clothes to make reusable floor wipes. Plus, this floor cleaner isn't harsh on hardwoods and cleans without leaving unwanted streaks or waxy residue.
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CAREY v. WESTINGHOUSE CORP.(1964)
Petitioner union (IUE) and respondent employer entered into a collective bargaining agreement covering workers at several plants including one where the dispute here involved occurred. The agreement states that the employer recognizes IUE and its locals as exclusive bargaining representatives for each of those units for which IUE or its locals have been certified by the National Labor Relations Board as the exclusive bargaining representative; and the agreement lists among those units for which IUE has been certified a unit of "all production and maintenance employees" at the plant where the controversy arose, "but excluding all salaried technical . . . employees." The agreement also contains a grievance procedure for the use of arbitration in case of unresolved disputes, including those involving the "interpretation, application or claimed violation" of the agreement. IUE filed a grievance asserting that certain employees in the engineering laboratory at the plant in question, represented by another union which had been certified as the exclusive bargaining representative for a unit of "all salaried, technical" employees, excluding "all production and maintenance" employees, were performing production and maintenance work. The employer refused to arbitrate on the ground that the controversy presented a representation matter for the National Labor Relations Board. IUE petitioned a New York state court for an order compelling arbitration. Held: Whether the dispute be considered one involving work assignment or one concerning representation, it is not within the exclusive jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board, and there is no barrier to use of the arbitration procedure. Pp. 263-273.
11 N. Y. 2d 452, 184 N. E. 2d 298, reversed.
Benjamin C. Sigal argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were David S. Davidson and Isadore Katz. [375 U.S. 261, 262]
John F. Hunt, Jr. argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was James F. Smith.
Solicitor General Cox, by special leave of Court, argued the cause for the United States, as amicus curiae, urging reversal. With him on the brief were Arnold Ordman, Dominick L. Manoli and Norton J. Come.
MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.
The petitioner union (IUE) and respondent employer (Westinghouse) entered into a collective bargaining agreement covering workers at several plants including one where the present dispute occurred. The agreement states that Westinghouse recognizes IUE and its locals as exclusive bargaining representatives for each of those units for which IUE or its locals have been certified by the National Labor Relations Board as the exclusive bargaining representative; and the agreement lists among those units for which IUE has been certified a unit of "all production and maintenance employees" at the plant where the controversy arose, "but excluding all salaried technical . . . employees." The agreement also contains a grievance procedure for the use of arbitration in case of unresolved disputes, including those involving the "interpretation, application or claimed violation" of the agreement.
IUE filed a grievance asserting that certain employees in the engineering laboratory at the plant in question, represented by another union, Federation, which had been certified as the exclusive bargaining representative for a unit of "all salaried, technical" employees, excluding "all production and maintenance" employees, were performing production and maintenance work. Westinghouse refused to arbitrate on the ground that the controversy presented a representation matter for the National Labor [375 U.S. 261, 263] Relations Board. IUE petitioned the Supreme Court of New York for an order compelling arbitration. That court refused. The Appellate Division affirmed, one judge dissenting, 15 App. Div. 2d 7, 221 N. Y. S. 2d 303. The Court of Appeals affirmed, one judge dissenting, holding that the matter was within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Board since it involved a definition of bargaining units. 11 N. Y. 2d 452, 230 N. Y. S. 2d 703. The case is here on certiorari. 372 U.S. 957 .
We have here a so-called "jurisdictional" dispute involving two unions and the employer. But the term "jurisdictional" is not a word of a single meaning. In the setting of the present case this "jurisdictional" dispute could be one of two different, though related, species: either - (1) a controversy as to whether certain work should be performed by workers in one bargaining unit or those in another; or (2) a controversy as to which union should represent the employees doing particular work. If this controversy is considered to be the former, the National Labor Relations Act (61 Stat. 136, 73 Stat. 519, 29 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) does not purport to cover all phases and stages of it. While 8 (b) (4) (D) makes it an unfair labor practice for a union to strike to get an employer to assign work to a particular group of employees rather than to another, 1 the Act does not deal with the controversy anterior to a strike nor provide any machinery for resolving such a dispute absent a strike. The Act and its remedies for "jurisdictional" controversies of that nature come into play only by a strike or a threat of a [375 U.S. 261, 264] strike. Such conduct gives the Board authority under 10 (k) to resolve the dispute. 2
Are we to assume that the regulatory scheme contains a hiatus, allowing no recourse to arbitration over work assignments between two unions but forcing the controversy into the strike stage before a remedy before the Board is available? The Board, as admonished by 10 (k), 3 has often given effect to private agreements to settle disputes of this character; 4 and that is in accord [375 U.S. 261, 265] with the purpose as stated even by the minority spokesman in Congress 5 - "that full opportunity is given the parties to reach a voluntary accommodation without governmental intervention if they so desire." 93 Cong. Rec. 4035; 2 Leg. Hist. L. M. R. A. (1947) 1046. And see Labor Board v. Radio Engineers, 364 U.S. 573, 577 .
As Judge Fuld, dissenting below, said: "The underlying objective of the national labor laws is to promote collective bargaining agreements and to help give substance to such agreements through the arbitration process." 11 N. Y. 2d 452, 458, 230 N. Y. S. 2d 703, 706.
Grievance arbitration is one method of settling disputes over work assignments; and it is commonly used, we are told. To be sure, only one of the two unions involved in the controversy has moved the state courts to compel arbitration. So unless the other union intervenes, an adjudication of the arbiter might not put an end to the dispute. Yet the arbitration may as a practical matter end the controversy or put into movement forces that will resolve it. The case in its present posture is analogous to Whitehouse v. Illinois Central R. Co., 349 U.S. 366 , where a railroad and two unions were disputing a jurisdictional matter, when the National Railroad Adjustment Board served notice on the railroad and one [375 U.S. 261, 266] union of its assumption of jurisdiction. The railroad, not being able to have notice served on the other union, sued in the courts for relief. We adopted a hands-off policy, saying, "Railroad's resort to the courts has preceded any award, and one may be rendered which could occasion no possible injury to it." Id., at 373.
Since 10 (k) not only tolerates but actively encourages voluntary settlements of work assignment controversies between unions, we conclude that grievance procedures pursued to arbitration further the policies of the Act.
What we have said so far treats the case as if the grievance involves only a work assignment dispute. If, however, the controversy be a representational one, involving the duty of an employer to bargain collectively with the representative of the employees as provided in 8 (a) (5), 6 further considerations are necessary. Such a charge, made by a union against the employer, would, if proved, be an unfair labor practice, as 8 (a) (5) expressly [375 U.S. 261, 267] states. Or the unions instead of filing such a charge might petition the Board under 9 (c) (1) to obtain a clarification of the certificates they already have from the Board; and the employer might do the same.
Thus in Kennametal, Inc., 132 N. L. R. B. 194, a union was certified to represent "production and maintenance employees" excluding, among others, "technical" and "laboratory" employees. It filed a motion for clarification of its certificates, contending that certain employees in the laboratory were "an accretion to the existing certified production and maintenance unit and are not embraced in the classification of laboratory employees excluded from the established unit." Id., at 196-197. The employer contended that the laboratory operation in question was still in the research and development stage. The Board found that some of the employees in question were performing production rather than experimental laboratory work and constituted an accretion to the existing unit; and it clarified the certification by specifically including those employees in the production and maintenance unit. What a union can do, an employer can do, as evidenced by numerous Board decisions. See Western Cartridge Co., 134 N. L. R. B. 67; Blaw-Knox Co., 135 [375 U.S. 261, 268] N. L. R. B. 862; Lumber & Millwork Industry Labor Committee, 136 N. L. R. B. 1083.
If this is truly a representation case, either IUE or Westinghouse can move to have the certificate clarified. But the existence of a remedy before the Board for an unfair labor practice does not bar individual employees from seeking damages for breach of a collective bargaining agreement in a state court, as we held in Smith v. Evening News Assn., 371 U.S. 195 . We think the same policy considerations are applicable here; and that a suit either in the federal courts, as provided by 301 (a) of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 156, 29 U.S.C. 185 (a); Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills, 353 U.S. 448 ), or before such state tribunals as are authorized to act (Charles Dowd Box Co. v. Courtney, 368 U.S. 502 ; Teamsters Local v. Lucas Flour Co., 369 U.S. 95 ) is proper, even though an alternative remedy before the Board is available, which, if invoked by the employer, will protect him.
The policy considerations behind Smith v. Evening News Assn., supra, are highlighted here by reason of the blurred line that often exists between work assignment disputes and controversies over which of two or more unions is the appropriate bargaining unit. It may be claimed that A and B, to whom work is assigned as "technical" employees, are in fact "production and maintenance" employees; and if that charge is made and sustained the Board, under the decisions already noted, clarifies the certificate. But IUE may claim that when the work was assigned to A and B, the collective agreement was violated because "production and maintenance" employees, not "technical" employees, were entitled to it. As noted, the Board clarifies certificates where a certified union seeks to represent additional employees; but it will not entertain a motion to clarify a certificate where the union merely seeks additional work for employees already [375 U.S. 261, 269] within its unit. See General Aniline & Film Corp., 89 N. L. R. B. 467; American Broadcasting Co., 112 N. L. R. B. 605; Employing Plasterers Assn., 118 N. L. R. B. 17. The Board's description of the line between the two types of cases is as follows:
If by the time the dispute reaches the Board, arbitration has already taken place, the Board shows deference to the arbitral award, 7 provided the procedure was [375 U.S. 261, 271] a fair one and the results were not repugnant to the Act. 8 As the Board recently stated:
Should the Board disagree with the arbiter, by ruling, for example, that the employees involved in the controversy are members of one bargaining unit or another, the Board's ruling would, of course, take precedence; and if the employer's action had been in accord with that ruling, it would not be liable for damages under 301. But that is not peculiar to the present type of controversy. Arbitral awards construing a seniority provision (Carey v. General Electric Co., 315 F.2d 499, 509-510), or awards concerning unfair labor practices, may later end up in conflict with Board rulings. See International Association of Machinists, 116 N. L. R. B. 645; Monsanto Chemical Co., 97 N. L. R. B. 517. Yet, as we held in Smith v. Evening News Assn., supra, the possibility of conflict is no barrier to resort to a tribunal other than the Board.
However the dispute be considered - whether one involving work assignment or one concerning representation - we see no barrier to use of the arbitration procedure. If it is a work assignment dispute, arbitration conveniently fills a gap and avoids the necessity of a strike to bring the matter to the Board. If it is a representation matter, resort to arbitration may have a pervasive, curative effect even though one union is not a party.
By allowing the dispute to go to arbitration its fragmentation is avoided to a substantial extent; and those conciliatory measures which Congress deemed vital to "industrial peace" (Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills, supra, at 455) and which may be dispositive of the entire dispute, are encouraged. The superior authority of the Board may be invoked at any time. Meanwhile the therapy of arbitration is brought to bear in a complicated and troubled area.
[ Footnote 2 ] Section 10 (k) provides: "Whenever it is charged that any person has engaged in an unfair labor practice within the meaning of paragraph (4) (D) of section 8 (b), the Board is empowered and directed to hear and determine the dispute out of which such unfair labor practice shall have arisen, unless, within ten days after notice that such charge has been filed, the parties to such dispute submit to the Board satisfactory evidence that they have adjusted, or agreed upon methods for the voluntary adjustment of, the dispute. Upon compliance by the parties to the dispute with the decision of the Board or upon such voluntary adjustment of the dispute, such charge shall be dismissed." 29 U.S.C. 160 (k).
[ Footnote 3 ] Section 10 (k), supra, note 2, provides that the Board shall determine the dispute, ". . . unless . . . the parties to such dispute submit to the Board satisfactory evidence that they have adjusted, or agreed upon methods for the voluntary adjustment of, the dispute."
[ Footnote 4 ] See United Brotherhood of Carpenters, 96 N. L. R. B. 1045; Wood, Wire & Metal Lathers Union, 119 N. L. R. B. 1345; Millwrights Local 1102, 121 N. L. R. B. 101, 106-107; Ironworkers Local No. 708, 137 N. L. R. B. 1753, 1757. Section 201 of the Labor Management [375 U.S. 261, 265] Relations Act of 1947 declares the national policy to be the use of governmental facilities for conciliation, mediation, and voluntary arbitration of disputes between employers and employees. 61 Stat. 152, 29 U.S.C. 171 (b). Section 203 (d) provides: "Final adjustment by a method agreed upon by the parties is hereby declared to be the desirable method for settlement of grievance disputes arising over the application or interpretation of an existing collective-bargaining agreement. The Service is directed to make its conciliation and mediation services available in the settlement of such grievance disputes only as a last resort and in exceptional cases." 61 Stat. 154, 29 U.S.C. 173 (d).
[ Footnote 5 ] Senator Murray of Montana. And see S. Rep. No. 105, 80th Cong., 1st Sess., p. 27, 1 Leg. Hist. L. M. R. A. (1947) 433.
[ Footnote 6 ] Section 8 (a) (5) provides, "It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer - . . . to refuse to bargain collectively with the representatives of his employees, subject to the provisions of section 9 (a)." 29 U.S.C. 158 (a) (5). Section 9 (a) provides that the representatives shall be chosen by the majority of employees "in a unit appropriate" for collective bargaining. 29 U.S.C. 159 (a). Section 9 (b) gives the Board authority to determine what unit is the appropriate one - "the employer unit, craft unit, plant unit, or subdivision thereof." 29 U.S.C. 159 (b). Section 9 (c) (1) provides: "Whenever a petition shall have been filed, in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Board - "(A) by an employee or group of employees or any individual or labor organization acting in their behalf alleging that a substantial number of employees (i) wish to be represented for collective bargaining and that their employer declines to recognize their representative as the representative defined in section 9 (a), or (ii) assert that the individual or labor organization, which has been certified or is [375 U.S. 261, 267] being currently recognized by their employer as the bargaining representative, is no longer a representative as defined in section 9 (a); or "(B) by an employer, alleging that one or more individuals or labor organizations have presented to him a claim to be recognized as the representative defined in section 9 (a); the Board shall investigate such petition and if it has reasonable cause to believe that a question of representation affecting commerce exists shall provide for an appropriate hearing upon due notice. Such hearing may be conducted by an officer or employee of the regional office, who shall not make any recommendations with respect thereto. If the Board finds upon the record of such hearing that such a question of representation exists, it shall direct an election by secret ballot and shall certify the results thereof." 29 U.S.C. 159 (c) (1).
[ Footnote 7 ] See, e. g., Raley's, Inc., 143 N. L. R. B. 256, 258-259: "In the recently decided International Harvester Company case, a majority of the Board indicated that it would give `hospitable acceptance to the arbitral process' in order `to promote industrial peace and stability by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining.' Relying on various statutory provisions, particularly Section 203 (d) of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, and on decisions of the United States Supreme Court which recognize arbitration as `an instrument of national labor policy for composing contractual differences,' the Board concluded that it would withhold its undoubted authority to adjudicate unfair labor practice charges and give effect to arbitration awards involving the same subject matter `unless it clearly appears that the arbitration proceedings were tainted by fraud, collusion, or serious procedural irregularities or that the award was clearly repugnant to the purposes and policies of the Act.' While it is true that International Harvester, as well as other cases in which the Board honored arbitration awards, involved unfair labor practice proceedings, we believe that the same considerations which moved the Board to honor arbitration awards in unfair labor practice cases are equally persuasive to a similar acceptance of the arbitral process in a representation proceeding such as the instant one. Thus, where, as here, a question of contract interpretation is in issue, and the parties thereto have set up in their agreement arbitration machinery for the settlement of disputes arising under the contract, and an award has already been rendered which meets Board requirements applicable to arbitration awards, we think that it would further the underlying objectives of the Act to promote industrial peace and stability to give effect thereto. It is true, of course, that under Section 9 of the Act the Board is empowered to decide questions concerning representation. However, this authority to decide questions concerning representation does not preclude the Board in a proper case from considering an arbitration award in determining whether such a question exists."
[ Footnote 8 ] Monsanto Chemical Co., 97 N. L. R. B. 517; Wertheimer Stores Corp., 107 N. L. R. B. 1434. [375 U.S. 261, 273]
MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, concurring.
I join the Court's opinion with a brief comment. As is recognized by all, neither position in this case is without its difficulties. Lacking a clear-cut command in the statute itself, the choice in substance lies between a course which would altogether preclude any attempt at resolving disputes of this kind by arbitration, and one which at worst will expose those concerned to the hazard of duplicative proceedings. The undesirable consequences of the first alternative are inevitable, those of the second conjectural. As between the two, I think the Court at this early stage of experience in this area rightly chooses the latter.
MR. JUSTICE BLACK, with whom MR. JUSTICE CLARK joins, dissenting.
The International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE), of which petitioner is president, and another union, the Federation, each have collective bargaining contracts with and are certified bargaining agents for employees of the respondent, Westinghouse Electric Corporation. IUE's contract covers "all production and maintenance" employees, but not "salaried technical" employees. Federation's contract covers "all salaried, technical" employees but not "production and maintenance" employees. IUE demanded that Westinghouse stop permitting a number of Federation employees to do certain work, claiming that what they were doing was "production and maintenance" work and that therefore IUE's members, not Federation's were entitled to these jobs. Westinghouse refused to make the change, whereupon IUE, instead of filing an appropriate proceeding to have the dispute decided by the National Labor Relations Board (as I understand the Court to hold that it could have done), called on Westinghouse to arbitrate the dispute [375 U.S. 261, 274] with IUE. This demand rested on a provision of the IUE-Westinghouse contract agreeing to arbitration of grievances growing out of the "interpretation, application or claimed violation" of the contract. Westinghouse resisted arbitration, contending that the dispute ought to be resolved by the National Labor Relations Board, and the Court of Appeals of New York, agreeing with Westinghouse, refused to compel Westinghouse to arbitrate. 1
I agree with the New York court and would affirm its judgment. Stripped of obscurantist arguments, this controversy is a plain, garden-variety jurisdictional dispute between two unions. The Court today holds, however, that the National Labor Relations Act not only permits but compels Westinghouse to arbitrate the dispute with only one of the two warring unions. Such an arbitration could not, of course, bring about the "final and binding arbitration of grievance[s] and disputes" that the Court says contributes to the congressional objectives in passing the Labor Act. Unless all the salutary safeguards of due process of law are to be dissipated and obliterated to further the cause of arbitration, the rights of employees belonging to the Federation should not, for "policy considerations," be sacrificed by an arbitration award in proceedings between IUE and Westinghouse alone. Although I do not find the Court's opinion so clear on the point as I would like, I infer that it is not holding that this misnamed "award" would be completely final and binding on the Federation and its members. What the Court does plainly hold, however - that "the weight of the arbitration award is likely to be considerable, if the Board is later required to rule on phases of the same dispute" - seems only a trifle less offensive to established due process concepts. And this means, I suppose, that this same award, ex parte as to Federation, must be given [375 U.S. 261, 275] the same or greater weight in any judicial review of the Board's final order involving the same "phases of the same dispute."
Moreover, the Court holds that suits for damages can be filed against the employer in state courts or federal courts under 301 of the Taft-Hartley Act, 29 U.S.C. 185, for the "unfair labor practice" of failing to bargain with the right union when two unions are engaged in a jurisdictional dispute. The employer, caught in that jurisdictional dispute, is ordinarily in a helpless position. He is trapped in a cross-fire between two unions. All he can do is guess as to which union's members he will be required by an arbitrator, the Labor Board, or a court to assign to the disputed jobs. If he happens to guess wrong, he is liable to be mulcted in damages. I assume it would be equally difficult for him to prophesy what award an arbitrator, the Labor Board, or a judge will make as to guess how big a verdict a court or a jury would give against him. It must be remembered that the employer cannot make a choice which will be binding on either an arbitrator, the Board, or a court. The Court's holding, thus subjecting an employer to damages when he has done nothing wrong, seems to me contrary to the National Labor Relations Act as well as to the basic principles of common everyday justice.
The result of all this is that the National Labor Relations Board, the agency created by Congress finally to settle labor disputes in the interest of industrial peace, is to be supplanted in part by so-called arbitration which in its very nature cannot achieve a final adjustment of those disputes. One of the main evils it had been hoped the Labor Act would abate was jurisdictional disputes between unions over which union members would do certain work. 2 [375 U.S. 261, 276] The Board can make final settlements of such disputes. Arbitration between some but not all the parties cannot. I fear that the Court's recently announced leanings to treat arbitration as an almost sure and certain solvent of all labor troubles has been carried so far in this case as unnecessarily to bring about great confusion and to delay final and binding settlements of jurisdictional disputes by the Labor Board, the agency which I think Congress intended to do that very job.
I would affirm.
[ Footnote 1 ] 11 N. Y. 2d 452, 184 N. E. 2d 298, 230 N. Y. S. 2d 703.
[ Footnote 2 ] See Labor Board v. Radio & Television Broadcast Engineers Union, 364 U.S. 573 ; cf. Order of Railway Conductors v. Pitney, 326 U.S. 561, 567 . [375 U.S. 261, 277]


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125-130 days. Nicely savoyed cabbage with finely blistered outer leaves, dark green external color and yellow interior. Tall, upright habit, Round 26-5.5 lb/1.2-2.5 kg compact and dense heads. Frost hardy. Pkt. contains 100 seeds.
125-130 days. Nicely savoyed cabbage with finely blistered outer leaves, dark green external color and yellow interior. Tall, upright habit, Round 26-5.5 lb/1.2-2.5 kg compact and dense heads. Frost hardy. Pkt. contains 100 seeds.
MIDSEASON & LATE CABBAGE - for market or processing
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FERTILIZE sandy soil with 5-20-20 @ 650 lbs/293 kg per acre, worked into the soil before transplanting or seeding. Side dress lightly, with the same when transplanting, or plants from a direct seeding are established - and once or twice again 4 weeks apart, during cultivation.
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CULTIVATION: Deep cultivation will cause root injury and growth check. Cultivate as shallow as possible.
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The Syfy channel sets its sights high this summer as they plan the release of a new series, "Haven". Based on the Stephen King novella "The Colorado Kid", a tale of a FBI agent visiting Haven, Maine to discover that the entire town is an enclave that serves as refuge for people suffering from supernatural abilities. The show will star Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant and Eric Balfour.


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I personally agree 99% with the Historical facts and Chinese linguistics that mention that both Cantonese and Hakka dialects are descendants of the original Han Chinese and that both Cantonese and Hakka preserve Middle Chinese [Sui, Tang and Song Dynasty Chinese] the most compared to other Chinese dialects.
When i mention Cantonese, i do not mean Guangzhou Cantonese [Standard Cantonese], but all Cantonese dialects like Taishanese, Zhongshanese, etc. Most Cantonese variants preserve the "i" vowel like the word 你 [Ni], 四 [Si], 十 [Sip], etc, except for Guangzhou Cantonese that evolved from i -> ei Example Ni -> Nei, Si -> Sei, Gwok Ki -> Gwok Kei (國旗).
I will use Taishanese as the representative of Cantonese, because it preserves the vowels better. Hakka and Taishanese both are similar in 3 ways:
1) They preserve alot of the old Chinese vocabulary words that are also found in Sino-Influenced languages like Japanese, Korean and to a lesser extent Vietnamese[there are a few words that are similar from my observation compared to korean and japanese]. Words like Ngit Bon (Japanese say Nip Pon) = 日本, Gai (Japanese say Gai) = 街
, Sai (Japanese say Sai) = 西, Ngi (Japanese say Ni) = 二, Ngin (Japanese say Nin or Jin/Korean say In) = 人, Nam (Korean say Nam) = 南 or 男, Sam (Korean say Sam) = 三, Hee (Korean say Hee) = 氣, Fi Gi (Korean say Fi Gi) = 飛機, Gim (Korean say Gim or Kim) = 金 and so on.
2) Both Taishanese and Hakka preserve the initial and final consonant. Both preserve the initial consonant Ng- (Example: Ngin = Person, Ngowt = Moon, Ngit = Day, Ng = 5, etc) and Final consonant -t, -m, -k, -p [Example: Yit[-t] = 一, Sam[-m] = 三, Luk[-k] = 六, Sip[-p] = 十].
3) Both Taishanese and Hakka preserve the "i" vowel. Example: Ni [你], Si [四], Mi Gok [美國], Sing Ki [星期], Gwok Ki [國旗], Pi Fu [皮膚], etc.
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India - Open For Business says Barrons
Thanks to the prospects of a Modi led Govt, the global media and US media has started talking about India again after 4 years in a positive context.
In 2008, Narendra Modi sent a text message to Indian mogul Ratan Tata asking him to abandon plans to build his new Nano mini-car at a site in West Bengal, where the project was stymied by red tape and farmer riots. Modi proposed that Tata move the plant construction to Gujarat, the Indian state where Modi was chief minister. Tata agreed, and the first part of his complex was up and operating in Gujarat in less than two years, an extraordinary feat in India.
This and many similar business-friendly initiatives helped Modi turn Gujarat into a fast-growing industrial powerhouse during his 13 years at the helm, following China's model of heavy infrastructure spending on roads, ports, and electric-power generation that, along with generous subsidies, has attracted many modern plants -- and attention. "So many things work properly in Gujarat that it hardly feels like India," noted a newsweekly a few years ago.
The hope is that Modi, 63, can put his pluck and powers of persuasion to work for all of India as its new prime minister. He and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, are the odds-on favorites to win the national election, which will wind up in the second week of May. Their victory would end 10 years of increasingly feckless rule by the Gandhi family-led Congress Party, which has failed to realize India's vast economic potential. Modi's main opponent for prime minister is Rahul Gandhi.
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Back in 2006-08, India was mentioned in the same breath as China as one of the globe's most exciting emerging-market growth stories. The gross domestic products of both countries were growing at or near double-digit rates. It was the heyday of the BRIC conceit, that magical lineup of Brazil, Russia, India, and China -- nations destined for economic greatness by dint of their immense resources and increasing embrace of free-market principles.
In India's case, the dream hasn't come true. GDP growth has flagged to less than 5%, while consumer inflation runs above 8% -- in all, a nasty potpourri of stagflation. Last summer, capital flight decimated India's foreign reserves and drove the rupee down 20% in value to a low of 69 rupees to the dollar.
India is unlikely to catch up to China, despite the fact that both in 1990 had similar-size economies. Nowadays, China's GDP is more than four times larger than India's roughly $2 trillion. But, under Modi's energetic, investment-driven leadership, India could start to narrow the gap and transform both its economy and its markets.
THE BJP, OVER THE YEARS, has been more reformist than the Congress Party. And in Modi -- despite controversy he has generated for his alleged involvement in an anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat and his ties to big businesses -- the BJP has a standard-bearer with a sterling record in economic development.
Modi's governance style flies in the face of Indian tradition, which has featured backroom business deals in exchange for kickbacks to circumvent the prospect of endless bureaucratic delays. Bidding on government contracts in Gujarat is done on the Internet, not over tea. Modi also has embraced privatization of key sectors like ports, water, and power, which is unusual in most of India's 28 state governments and in Delhi, where a dreamy Congress Party's predilection for socialism still holds sway despite the ideology's many failures in India since independence in 1947.
In recent years, Gujarat has been compared to Guangdong Province, the spearhead of China's economic revival. Since Modi took control, Gujarat has consistently led the nation in GDP growth, accounting for some 16% of India's total industrial output and 22% of its exports, despite having just 5% of the nation's population.
Optimism over India's economic prospects has also been fired by the hard-nosed monetary policies of the head of India's central bank (the Reserve Bank of India, or RBI), Raghuram Rajan. He's an inflation hawk, having raised policy rates three times since he assumed his post in September of last year.
For too long, Indian politicians have allowed inflation and, more importantly, inflationary expectations to wax, rationalizing that they are the natural byproduct of an emerging nation's pursuit of growth. But instead of basing monetary policy on the more forgiving wholesale inflation rate (currently 5.7%), the traditional RBI target, Rajan is paying more attention to consumer inflation, which last month was reported at 8.3%. Already since his appointment, the rupee has strengthened from 68 to about 60 to the dollar, and India's foreign-currency reserves have risen markedly as a result of his policies, giving the nation more of a buffer against a repeat of last summer's capital-flight crisis.
Rajan would be retained by the BJP because of his formidable international stature. He boasts a substantial pedigree, serving as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2006. Barron's readers got to know him subsequently when he was a popular author and finance professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Rajan foresaw the arrival of the global financial crisis in the middle of the past decade and laid out a pragmatic restructuring strategy to guard against a repeat of the seize-up
Can Modi and Rajan rewrite India's economic story? Perhaps, according to analyst Udith Sikand of Gavekal Dragonomics, who follows India closely from Hong Kong. In a report titled "An Indian Counter-Revolution," Sikand likens Modi to Ronald Reagan as the onetime California governor came to power, inheriting raging inflation, slow growth, and years of budget deficits in 1981. Sikand says Modi even indulges in Reaganesque rhetorical gambits like "government has no business to do business" and "minimum government, maximum governance." Rajan, of course, could be a new Paul Volcker, the Federal Reserve chief whom Reagan retained when he came into office and who was able to finally slay U.S. inflation by brutal monetary tightening. "If Modi and Rajan are successful in packing the one-two punch that Reagan and Volcker did in the early '80s, the implications for growth and long-term investment returns for India are really explosive," says Sikand.
THE BULL THESIS on India is already beginning to play out. Foreign investor money that fled the always bipolar Indian stock market last summer has returned this year with a vengeance, to the tune of $5 billion. The S&P BSE Sensex Index of major Indian stocks has jumped 10% since last September when Modi became the BJP's prime minister candidate. It's now trading near all-time highs.
Of course, it's what happens with the dynamic duo in charge that matters most for the nation's economic growth and, of course, Indian stock prices. Ruchir Sharma, chief of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and author of the well-received emerging-market tome Breakout Nations, thinks India has a real chance to surprise many observers on the upside. "Look, it would take massive restructuring for India to catch up to China, and that's likely beyond India's current capability," says Sharma. "But India has some advantages over China -- India operates off a much lower economic base and has far fewer credit problems -- that give it a 50-50 chance of surprising on the upside."
One bull on India is David Nadel, who manages The Royce Funds' $54 million International Smaller-Companies fund (ticker: RYGSX) and is Royce's international research director. As implied by the name, Nadel fancies smaller and mid-cap stocks in India, impressed by the number of companies in that sector that are both shareholder friendly and notching gaudy returns on capital and equity of 20% or more. They also haven't rebounded to record highs, as have the 30 big-cap stocks in the Sensex Index, with the S&P BSE Small-Cap index still some 46% below its 2008 peak. (For more on Nadel's picks, see "Where to Invest in India").
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Dynamic Duo? Raghuram Rajan, top, governor of India's central bank, has been praised for his strong anti-inflation policies, while prime ministerial front-runner Narendra Modi made his native state a leader in GDP growth.
Beyond the chances of fundamental reform coming, Nadel is counting on other secular changes in the years ahead. It's a familiar if somewhat overlooked list. A rapidly growing middle class and the world's third-largest economy based on purchasing power parity are just two of them. "In eight years, India will have as many households with disposable income of $10,000 or more as the U.S. or the euro zone," Nadel tells Barron's. "And the nation is rapidly integrating into the global economy in such fields as pharmaceuticals (half of the world's FDA-approved pharmaceutical facilities are in India) and high-value-added information technology."
To be sure, some 70% of India's population is still trapped in rural areas and missing out on the productivity revolution that China has experienced by moving population from the farms to urban-area factory floors. But, Nadel contends, a "rural revolution" is taking place, which has seen incomes in India's dusty nondescript villages and towns rise smartly in recent years. This is a result of various government food and fertilizer-subsidy programs and an ambitious government make-work project guaranteeing poor rural residents 100 days of annual guaranteed wages. The result of all this is that rural land values have risen markedly, giving the poor population that owns land a jump in wealth.
The upside is likely to be a surge in consumption per capita in both goods and discretionary services like health care and private education, according to Nadel. He cites a 2012 International Monetary Fund report showing that as of 2011, India had the lowest private consumption rate per capita among the world's 10 most populous countries, trailing even Pakistan, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
"You have to just look at the uptake in mobile-phone adoption in India, where subscriptions have jumped from practically zero at the beginning of the millennium to over 900 million, to see the potential," he points out. According to a local Indian brokerage-house report, the penetration rate for cars, computers, laptops, and air conditioners is less than 5%, and for refrigerators, washing machines, and motorbikes, below 15%. (See chart).
India's laggard economic performance since independence in 1947 can largely be laid at the feet of the state's founder and leader Jawaharlal Nehru and his descendants, who have dominated politics through the National Congress Party for most of the 67 years since. The charismatic Nehru, a well-meaning socialist, embraced some of the worst alternatives to free-market development, including avid nationalization of industry, incompetent Soviet-style central planning, fortress protectionism, and stifling bureaucracy.
Until a spasm of reform in 1991, a system contemptuously known as the License Raj reigned supreme, under which private businesses had to run a formidable gauntlet to be licensed and then were subject to strict regulatory oversight of the goods they produced, the markets they served, and the wages and personnel decisions they made. The regime resulted in prodigious red tape and corruption, both of which bedevil India to this day.
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, Modi promised voters cheaper goods and 100 new "smart cities" loaded with the latest technology, to start to bridge the yawning wealth gap between cities and rural areas. The BJP election manifesto also trumpeted big plans to improve India's ramshackle intercity roadway system and creaky railroads by introducing bullet trains.
But significant obstacles face the Modi-BJP reform plans. It remains to be seen exactly how the elections turn out, and whether the BJP to reach a majority will have to form a coalition with MPs from states that have their own self-serving, parochial agendas.
Likewise, state-government wrangling over land-acquisition issues has accounted for about 55% of the nation's delayed capital projects that would constitute some 5% of India's GDP, according to a recent JPMorgan report by Sajjid Chinoy and Toshi Jain. Most notoriously, it took Korean steel giant Posco (PKX) nine years to gain approval to build a $12.5 billion steel complex in Orissa state, while ArcelorMittal (MT) scrapped similar plans to put up an $8.5 billion steel mill in the same state last year. Clearly, the License Raj lives on in a country starved for investment spending.
Finally, tight money policies and a central-government budget deficit -- estimated for the recently completed fiscal year (ended on March 31) at 4.6% of GDP -- won't give Modi much immediate opportunity to ramp up stimulus spending. Unless the budget deficit that peaked in fiscal 2010 at 6.5% keeps contracting, credit-rating agencies have threatened to drop India's sovereign debt to junk status.
Still, Modi and the BJP do have some wiggle room on reforms. The JPMorgan analysts expect them to revamp India's power sector, chronically subject to grid crashes and electricity interruptions, through deregulation of pricing. The BJP likewise seems open to increasing foreign ownership in industries like defense and insurance.
Government revenue should improve if the long-stalled goods and service tax is implemented, replacing a hodge-podge of value-added central and state government sales taxes. Finally, a Modi administration would rein in the growth of various India-wide subsidies for everything from fertilizer and food for the rural poor to gas- and diesel-fuel prices. The food-subsidy program has been particularly problematic, according to Gavekal's Sikand, because rather than helping the 300 million or so of India's population who clearly need the support, it entitles about 750 million folks to food subsidies at the expense of the government exchequer.
MODI AND RAJAN make a somewhat incongruous pair atop the Indian economy. Rajan, the son of an Indian diplomat, had a worldly and cosmopolitan upbringing. He's emphatically an upper-crust Brahmin, educated at posh schools in India and boasting a Ph.D. in Management from MIT in the U.S.
Modi, on the other hand, is an anomaly for the upper reaches of Indian power structure. He didn't have much schooling and, as a teenager, ran a tea stall for his father near a railroad station in a town in Gujarat. His rise to eminence began in his youth when he joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist paramilitary organization that ultimately was absorbed into the BJP. A mesmerizing speaker and adept organizer, Modi quickly rose through the ranks of the RSS and later the BJP.
His stock in trade were anti-Muslim harangues, which made him controversial among the secular, urban elite. Yet, if truth be told, their disdain for Modi might also have arisen from his lower-caste origins.
But controversy over his hypersectarian views continues to dog him. Much of it stems from a bloody anti-Muslim riot that occurred in Gujarat in 2002, in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were slaughtered in a three-day rampage in response to the incineration of a train in the city of Godhra that killed 59 Hindu pilgrims and activists. Modi had become Gujarat's chief minister just months before the riot.
Though Indian courts absolved him of complicity, many observers claim the investigations were a whitewash. Among other things, they point to the fact that Modi subsequently appointed a gynecologist as his minister of women and child development who was later convicted of murder in the riots. She received a 28-year jail sentence.
In recent years and during the campaign, Modi has toned down his hypernationalistic rhetoric, preferring to focus on reform and the economic renewal of India that will uplift the lot of Hindus and Muslims alike. Nonetheless, both the U.S. and European Union have refused to grant him diplomatic visas, though in the case of the EU, that boycott has recently been lifted.
Likewise, Modi was accused during the campaign of cozying up to Indian billionaires like Gautam Adani with sweetheart land deals and large subsidies to spur development in Gujarat. But the charges seem to have gained little purchase in light of several megacorruption scandals that have dogged the Congress Party in recent years. more
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abdicated his duty as CM in 1990 & fled to safe haven of London, leaving
minorities vulnerable. 7 lac displaced Kashmiri Pandits thank Narendra Modi
for exposing Farooq Abdullah's secularism.
Thank U Narendra Modi for speaking the truth about the genocide of Kashmiri
Pandits by Farooq Abdullah.
Instead of telling those voting for Modi to drown, Dr.Abdullah should look
at himself & his family to see how they ruined J&K. Farooq Abdullah played
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Farooq Abdullah, most inefficient CM ever. Farooq Abdullah as CM was so
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remained silent when posters were pasted outside our homes to leave
Kashmir. Farooq Abdullah remained silent when the Wandhama massacre
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Farooq Abdullah - the man who co-founded JKLF to wage war against India
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Budgets reveal priorities and politics, and never is this more true than when the budget needs to be cut. The importance of Staten Island voters to a Republican mayor was therefore evident on June 8 when Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced $90 million in budget restorations. Keeping the fourth boat on the Staten Island ferry in service during rush hour was one of nine restorations proposed by the mayor. This budget cut would have saved $2.4 million annually by reducing the ferry schedule from every 15 minutes to every 20 minutes.
Other cuts proposed in the mayor's budget show how the city's current budget woes are likely to affect New Yorkers' daily lives. The budget details also show how budgets can drive transportation policy in ways both good and bad.
Winners and Losers
The mayor proposed to cut the city Department of Transportation's budget by about $50 million, or about $48 million after the ferry restoration. Under the mayor's proposals, fewer streets would be re-surfaced by city crews, saving $7.2 million. This is the biggest single cut in the transportation department budget.
Smaller cuts would eliminate East River bridge necklace lighting ($75,000 savings) and fire callbox lights maintenance ($472 million savings) and reduce bridge preventive maintenance ($1.34 million savings).
Some "cuts" are really improvements, however. A prime example is $4.9 million in maintenance and electricity savings resulting from switching traffic signals to Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Not only do LEDs save money but they are brighter and far more visible.
Another example is an increase of $4 million in revenue from expanding the commercial parking program, which the Department of Transportation says will improve traffic flow. In the current program in Midtown Manhattan, trucks and other commercial vehicles are charged escalating parking rates to encourage short stays and thus free up parking for the next driver making a delivery.
Other items listed as budget cuts are actually ways to dip into the citizenry's pockets a bit deeper. For example, cutting subsidies to privately operated bus companies will save $8 million and result in express bus fares rising from $3 to $4, keeping in line with the fare increase by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority..
Some of the mayor's proposed cuts are simply catching up to reality. The mayor proposes to save $324,000 from the elimination of vehicle transport on the Staten Island ferry, which were in fact eliminated after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Beyond the transportation department budget, the mayor proposes to raise $65 million a year for the next three years through the sale of 900 new taxicab medallion licenses (300 a year). Whether environmental constraints will prevent the city from issuing the full 900 remains to be seen, but the first 300 is probably a safe bet. This initiative is not only good news for the budget but good news for taxi riders, who have had a notably hard time finding a cab even with the recession. This is a case of the budget driving good policy.
All of these figures pale in comparison with one of the biggest and vaguest items in the mayoral budget, $200 million in "regional transportation initiatives." About one-half this savings could come from the MTA taking over the seven city-subsidized private bus companies that serve eastern Queens and parts of the other boroughs. The city and Metropolitan Transportation Authority have discussed the MTA taking over the lines and assuming at least some portion of the financial responsibility. Officials said at a State Assembly hearing on June 4 that the framework for a deal should be completed by June 30.
Many complexities need to be resolved, including who will foot the bill for bus service, putting in doubt whether a deal will be made any time soon. If a deal is made, it might be good news for not only the cty budget but also riders on the private lines, who have had to put up with years of substandard service. It might be bad news for the MTA' current riders, however, who may have to shoulder the $100 million or more cost through future fare increases.
According to the New York Post , the mayor' budget also envisions additional cuts in the city's subsidy to the MTA, which again, could result in transit service reductions or quicken the next fare increase.
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Some other possible cuts were averted when the State Legislature and City Council approved $700 million in higher taxes. The most visible cuts in the mayor's "doomsday" budget included eliminating the elderly and disabled fare subsidy to the MTA and private bus lines, increasing the fare on private bus lines to $2, cuts in service on the private bus lines, reductions in street maintenance, cleaning and pothole repairs, cutting Staten Island ferry service from half-hour to hourly on nights and weekends, and a 50 percent cut in the city's subsidy to the MTA for van service for persons with disabilities.
Bruce Schaller is Principal of Schaller Consulting, which provides research and analysis to government, business and non-profit groups seeking to identify and meet customer needs in the transportation sector. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University.


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From treasured furniture and vintage clothing down to sentimental trinkets, it is all too easy to accumulate possessions that clutter up your home. Periodically taking the time to organise your belongings will ensure your home reflects your changing interests and tastes. Follow these tips for a serene, clean living space.
The first step to reorganising your home is to clear away anything you no longer want or need – from dresses that have gone years unworn to toys that your children have outgrown. British textiles designer William Morris famously said "have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful", and his words are as just as relevant today. Remove, recycle or donate items that no longer fit this criteria.
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While displaying select items like family crests and ornate china can bring character and warmth to a room, designating storage for other possessions will keep your interior neat and spacious. Install discreet cupboards and utilise any underused spaces, such as basements and attics. Ensure everything has its own place and create order by labelling or colour-coding each section.
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VADNAIS HEIGHTS, MINN. -- Vista Technologies LLC plans to more than triple the size of its operations with the purchase of a two-building, 56,000-square-foot complex in Stillwater, Minn., that formerly housed the operations of UFE Inc.
"We've done some internal growing. Now it is time to expand externally," said Dan Mishek, managing partner of Vadnais Heights, Minn.-based VistaTek, in a telephone interview.
He said VistaTek has boosted its certifications such as ISO 9001:2008 and UL in recent years, and its 15,000-square-foot facility is getting cramped.
The company is planning an 18-mile move to Stillwater, where it will refurbish the UFE complex, which has been closed since 2009, he said. VistaTek plans to occupy the building by July.
The company was started in 1996 as Vista Technologies by Jim and Lorinda Mishek. It is now owned by their children, Dan and Allen, and Jennifer Sutherland, and uses the name VistaTek.
The two buildings — with 48,000 and 8,000 square feet of space — were used for injection molding before, so they offer a strong base to work with, Dan Mishek said. VistaTek will redo the floors, paint the walls, update the lighting and add a heating and cooling system.
VistaTek is adding a Milltronics high-speed milling machine, as well as three Arburg injection molding machines. When the facility is up and running, it will have seven presses, with clamping forces up to 220 tons.
"Ideally we would like to have them delivered to Stilllwater and bring them online so there is no downtime during the move," said Mishek, noting that once the new machinery is running, it will allow a controlled move from Vadnais Heights.
He said all 26 employees are expected to make the move and they are already looking to hire six more workers. The company worked with Stillwater officials and gained a five-year tax incremental financing agreement for $250,000. It does require that the company maintain 35 employees.
Mishak said that sales are rising this year in both mold making and molding. He said the company has been successful in offering quick-turn tools in 1-3 weeks and production tools in 2-3 weeks.
The extra room will boost its ability to handle an increasing workload.