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Merkel and the Euro Is Germany's Finance Minister Going Rogue?
He used to be regarded as Germany's safest pair of hands when it comes to the euro crisis. Now, criticism of Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is growing within the government parties. Some believe that Schäuble wants to exploit the crisis to push through his vision of a United States of Europe. By SPIEGEL Staff.
A pall of silence fell over the German parliament as Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble went up to the lectern last Thursday. The debate over the expansion of the euro backstop fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), had already been going on for over an hour. Previous speakers addressing the Bundestag had tried their hand at a number of different roles. Schäuble's predecessor in office, Peer Steinbrück of the left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD), had tried to present himself as a European statesman, whereas Rainer Brüderle, the parliamentary floor leader for the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP), had vehemently attacked the opposition.
Now, it was the turn of Schäuble, a member of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He feigned the honest broker who tries to mediate between the parliament's legitimate demand to have a say in such important matters and the exigencies of international political crises. "No one here sees this as an easy decision," he said. The question at hand, he continued, is whether politicians are capable of "controlling these developments."
The government, it seems, is certainly able to exercise control, at least when it comes to maintaining discipline within its own ranks. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Peter Altmaier, the conservatives' parliamentary secretary, exchanged congratulatory text messages after winning the key Bundestag vote on the euro bailout fund: "Our efforts paid off."
Two things became clear at the end of last week -- a week that many pundits had prematurely predicted would spell the end of the center-right coalition of the CDU, its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union and the FDP. First, the government can rely on its own parliamentary majority to push through euro bailout legislation -- at least for the time being. Second, Merkel's finance minister, of all people, has sown doubt about the government's crisis management. In the days running up to the vote, Schäuble needlessly fueled a debate over expanding the euro backstop fund, and his comments sparked renewed tensions within the coalition.
Keeping His Cards Close to His Chest
FDP parliamentarians have long been convinced that the finance minister is not playing with an open hand, and that he would prefer to force them out of the coalition. But there has also been an increasing amount of discontent over Schäuble among the ranks of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. Quite a number of his fellow conservatives accuse him of undermining their rights as parliamentarians and forging agreements on a European level that he largely keeps under wraps at home. The CSU even suspects that the finance minister is paving the way for a European super-state, something that the Bavarians strongly oppose.
This criticism is directed at one of the last political heavyweights in Merkel's cabinet. For months now, Schäuble has topped the opinion polls as one of Germany's most popular ministers. No one else on the nationwide political scene enjoys such high regard, even across party lines. The Germans believe that if anyone can steer the country through the perils of the euro crisis, it's Schäuble, with his extensive experience in political maneuvering. The veteran party and parliamentary group leader stands at the twilight of his career and doesn't have to prove anything to anyone anymore -- and is not aspiring to any position.
This makes him a formidable figure, but it also feeds his longstanding tendency toward arrogance and his penchant for political intrigues. Many conservative parliamentarians, regardless of their position on the common currency, feel as if they are being treated with contempt. His statements made during the euro crisis have rarely been unequivocal; he always leaves himself a way out. Not only does this confuse his political friends and foes, it also flusters the financial world, with its propensity for panic.
Many German politicians are also insinuating that he has a hidden agenda. They fear that one of the last fully committed supporters of the European project is taking advantage of the crisis to advance his dream of a United States of Europe -- at almost any price. Even the chancellor is sometimes annoyed by the finance minister's moves.
Pithy German Wisdom
Schäuble's antics last week were a perfect example of his modus operandi. It began with business as usual. At the fall meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington, the finance minister used quaint German phrases to broach the topic of the crisis in the euro zone. Referring to the fact that every country in the monetary zone is first and foremost responsible for the soundness of its own finances, he recited a quotation by Goethe: "Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."
Schäuble finds himself irresistible at such moments. He is not bothered by the fact that foreigners and representatives of the international media who he is addressing have no idea what to make of such Teutonic pearls of wisdom.
To make matters worse, Schäuble often doesn't even adhere to his own admonishing axioms. "Silence is golden," he decreed in Washington, a reference to the need to avoid panicking markets with loose talk. But then he heedlessly allowed himself to be drawn into a dangerous debate over whether the EFSF could get a banking license and leverage its assets to borrow even more money from the European Central Bank (ECB).
Most of his German predecessors in office would have rejected such notions with indignation and referred to Germany's traumatic experiences during the 20th century, when governments printed money to finance public expenditure, causing the value of the currency to plummet.
Merkel Intervenes
Not once, however, did Schäuble clearly reject the proposals, which had been spearheaded by his American counterpart, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Instead, he talked about alternatives to a banking license, which would make it possible to achieve similar leverage effects. Schäuble did not exactly say just what these alternatives might be, but he did mention that Berlin is considering bringing forward the launch of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the permanent bailout fund for the euro zone, from 2013 to 2012.
In addition to being imprudent, Schäuble's comments showed bad timing. Ironically, during the very week in which the coalition was struggling for a parliamentary majority to extend the reach of the euro backstop fund, Schäuble was publicly contemplating yet another reform of the initiative.
German Vice Chancellor Philipp Rösler, the leader of the FDP, is appalled. "Granting a banking license to the European bailout fund would be the wrong approach," he says, adding that such a step could be interpreted as a sign "that the finance minister has been given a license to print money."
It took an intervention by the chancellor herself to clear up the matter. She informed Schäuble that there would be no solution that involved integrating the ECB.
- Part 1: Is Germany's Finance Minister Going Rogue?
- Part 2: Concealing His True Intentions


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The Hong Kong Police Force 170th Anniversary Exhibition will be held at the former Wan Chai Police Station on three consecutive weekends - May 31, June 1, 7, 8, 14 and 15 from 10am to 6pm.
It features police uniforms and equipment from different eras, and awards handed out to commend force members for serving the community. The former Wan Chai Police Station report room and the officers' mess have been restored to their original condition.
Vintage and serving police motorcycles are displayed at the compound for photo-taking and the Police Band will perform at the venue.
Big Head in Green 大頭綠衣
Big Head in Green is a nick name of Hong Kong Policemen at the early stages. The name resembles their outfit. We had a brief chat with this 'Big Head', he was a retired policeman, used to serve in a special armed force at the Airport. He even showed us some brilliant photos of his golden days.
Police motorbikes at various stages. The one below is the current model.
I don't seem to see these traffic pagoda for many years. Now we can remember this from our childhood and pretend to be a traffic police.
There were many volunteer tour guides. The one standing behind the traffic pagoda.
There were also performance from the Police Band.
Free post cards and souvenirs on sale.
Hong Kong Police 170th Year

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The austere workroom from the 1910s home of the modernist composer Charles Ives in West Redding, Conn., has been transported to Manhattan, complete with pencil shavings, tattered bulletin board postings and a secret stash of alcohol bottles.
His grandson, Charles Ives Tyler, donated the room's contents to the American Academy of Arts and Letters after selling the Connecticut property. The interior has been reassembled to look as it did before Ives's death in 1954, alongside a corridor displaying Ives scores and memorabilia. The new galleries, in Washington Heights, will be open to the public Thursday through April 12 during the academy's Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts.
Bottles of bitters that Ives was not supposed to drink, because he had diabetes, are tucked into a bookshelf beside his century-old upright piano, which has been rid of its resident mice. In the pencil sharpener on the mantelpiece, the pile of shavings speaks of a cantankerous, isolated genius who kept editing his scores.
Other objects include a faded wooden "Ball Field" sign, a souvenir from Yale, where he played football as an undergraduate in the 1890s. A score for one of his eerily dissonant pieces, "The Unanswered Question," is on a music stand.
Similarly enigmatic text fragments are all around. A tobacco tin is labeled "Revelation." Ives's taste in books ran to "Dwellers in Arcady" and "The Problem of Human Life."
Clippings and programs that Ives had pinned and layered on a pair of doors were sent to the Manhattan paper conservator Andrea Pitsch for gentle rinsing and stabilizing. When they arrived, Ms. Pitsch said in an interview, "They were like potato chips, dark brown potato chips."
The room was an atmospheric place to work, even for the experts who dismantled and reconstructed it. Robert V. Strada and Richard Ward Baxter, historic building restoration specialists from Amagansett, N.Y., took apart the components in Connecticut while listening to "The Unanswered Question," a series of drawn-out violin notes interrupted by unpredictable brass and woodwind blasts.
Collectors of medieval art in the early 1900s vied for English alabaster sculptures torn out of churches during the Reformation. Dealers' inventory in the early 20th century was reliably authentic, partly because prices until recently were modest.
"The rewards for a faker wouldn't be sufficiently high to justify it," Paul Williamson, the keeper of sculpture, metalwork, ceramics and glass at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, said in an interview.
"Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture From the Victoria and Albert Museum," a show of saint statues and tableaus carved between 1370 and 1520, opens next Friday at the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan. Most of its 60 pieces were gifts in the 1940s from Walter Leo Hildburgh, a wealthy American expat inventor in London. He collected widely and wrote about finds like Japanese carved ivory gourd amulets and German waffle irons.
He lived near the Victoria and Albert and donated artifacts and archives to numerous other institutions, including the British Museum, Columbia University's library and the American Museum of Natural History. "He didn't spend any money on himself at all," Dr. Williamson said.
Mr. Hildburgh was apparently drawn to alabaster scenes of martyrdom and gore. In the New York show, an altarpiece fragment found in a Norfolk village shows a Roman soldier pulling intestines out of St. Erasmus. St. Edmund is portrayed punctured by 11 arrows from Danish soldiers.
The show's catalog (from Art Services International) explains how the stone was quarried in English Midlands pits. Carvers sanded and filed it into somewhat standardized forms. Records from the 1490s show that one artisan was owed money for 58 heads of John the Baptist. By the 1600s, the stone supplies had largely run out, although some nodules still protrude here and there.
Inspired by the Victoria and Albert exhibition, which has been touring the United States since 2010, scholars are collaborating on an essay collection, "Alabaster Sculpture in Late Medieval England: New Directions in Scholarship" (Western Michigan University Press/Medieval Institute Publications). Topics include variations on doomsday scenes and decapitation.
Through March 17, the London dealer Sam Fogg is displaying five English alabaster saints (priced in the mid-six figures for the set) at the Richard L. Feigen & Company gallery in Manhattan, in the show "Wonders of the Medieval World." The statues were carved in the 1460s for a Spanish merchant's chapel. His descendants sold them through Sotheby's in London in 2012 for about $234,000.
The martyred saints are depicted carrying the tools of their own deaths. St. Apollonia holds a pair of tongs used to pull out her teeth. St. Catherine has the wheel that she was tied to and the sword that beheaded her.


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I haven't posted in a few days, but that doesn't mean I have been lazy!
Last week I was presented with this story.
I was ready to jump in my car and go, but decided to slow down since I am always too excited to follow up on these things.
I contacted the reporter, Matthew Earle and he gave me the witness's phone number. I spoke with Mr. Harison briefly and he apologized for making such a big to do about the "howling" he heard in the woods.
Upon further investigation on his part, he discovered that the sound was actually mechanical in nature, and was emanating from a nearby property that was under construction. It seems an air compressor was the culprit.
Mr. Harrison was slightly embarrassed and stated that it explains why the noise was heard mostly during the day.
Have a great day folks! Remember, don't JUMP to conclusions! :)
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We saw 6% degrowth in aluminium demand from 7% growth in Q1: Satish Pai, Hindalco
For aluminium in auto, we are predicting a 10% CAGR over next 5 years
Hindalco logs 28% decline in Q1 net; key takeaways
Revenue dropped 4 per cent to Rs 29,972 crore from Rs 31,078 crore posted in the correspon...
Hindalco posts 28% YoY fall in Q1 profit at Rs 1,063 crore
Revenue for the quarter ended June 2019 fell 4 per cent YoY to Rs 29,972 crore fro...
Britannia Industries' profit missed Street estimates: Key takeaways
Adjusted net profit grew 3 per cent YoY to Rs 267 crore.
Motherson Sumi slips 9% post Q1 results
Brokerage firm Nomura maintained 'Buy' rating on the stock with a target price of Rs 156.
Exide Q1 net up 7% at Rs 224 crore
For the year ended March 31, 2019, the company's net profit was up by 26.34 % at Rs 844 crore and net turnover by 15.26 % at Rs 10,588 crore.
ICICI Bank Q1 results today: NII may grow 20%, asset quality likely to remain stable
Slippages may largely flow from the existing stress pool, said brokerages.
EIH Q1 profit hit by slowdown, high GST
EIH, which comes under The Oberoi Group, said it has Rs 84.5 crore dues from Jet Airways.
Britannia Q1 results: Profit may jump 12-15%, margin may see marginal improvement
Nirmal Bang Securities sees 15.3 per cent profit and 13.1 per cent sales growth.
Suzlon Energy Q1 loss narrows to Rs 337 crore
Total income dropped to Rs 851.09 crore compared with Rs 1,289.94 crore a year ago.
JK Tyre slips 16% post Q1 results
It had reported a net profit of Rs 64.13 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.
UPL slips 4% post Q1 results; should you buy?
Sharekhan downgraded the stock to 'Hold' with a revised price target of Rs 656.
Spencer's Retail Q1 profit drops 58% to Rs 93 lakh
Spencer's Retail also announced the appointment of Kumar Tanmay as its new chief financial officer.
Jio Q1 net profit up 46% on year; ARPU falls to Rs122
Increased data usage helped Jio offset the impact of a continued drop in average revenue per user (ARPU).
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" Up to 30% increase in players' lifetime value following the introduction of Vivo Live dealer games."
" Live Casino attracts new categories of players and high rollers more than any other product."
" Excellent results in re-activation of lapsed customers using introduction of Live casino."
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Cheyenne Mountain State Park
CityROCK Colorado Springs
CityROCK offers a giant 43' climbing gym, massive bouldering area, jam crack, and rappel cave. Top-out bouldering, kid's climbing area, Tyrolean traverse, and slack lines in a friendly, customer oriented atmosphere.
Colorado College
Colorado College possesses a remarkable number of athletic facilities to serve the on-campus community and outside events based on availability. These facilities include: two football/soccer/lacrosse fields, tennis courts, track field, sports center, basketball court and swimming pool.
Colorado Springs City Auditorium
Colorado Springs Event Center
Colorado Springs Sports Corp
Dedicated to attracting, creating and supporting regional sport organizations and events.
Colorado Springs Switchbacks Football Club
Please visit our website for more information about hosting your event at Switchbacks Stadium.
Cottonwood Creek Complex
Facilities include: three baseball/fast-pitch softball fields, four soccer fields, tennis courts, in-line hockey cort, disc golf course, walking and running paths.
El Pomar Youth Sports Park
The park is made up of 18 playing fields covering 58 acres. Nine baseball/softball fields. Eight natural grass soccer/lacrosse fields. One championship size artificial turf field. Seven Station Batting Cage. In-Line Hockey Rink.
Garden of the Gods Park
This beautfiul park has five miles of trails for mountain biking, hiking or horseback riding. All one-way roads in the park have paved bike lanes.
Memorial Park
Memorial Park is a centrally located community park with sports facilities, including an indoor and outdoor pool, a recreation center, trails and Prospect Lake. Facilities include three baseball/fast-pitch softball fields, 15 football/soccer fields, 12 tennis courts, a skateboard park and much more.
Palmer Park & Off-Leash Dog Park
Facilities at Palmer Park include two baseball/fast-pitch softball fields, a football/soccer field, 25 miles of trails (hiking, jogging, equestrian), and three volleyball courts.
Rocky Mountain Vibes
The ballpark facility with event/meeting space is available for rent for a variety of events: concerts, corporate functions, other sporting events, parking lot events, etc.
Skateboard Park in Memorial Park
The 40,000 square foot competition-size skate park was professionally designed and constructed. Located in Memorial Park, the facility hosts events for incline skaters, skateboarders and BMX bikers.
The Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs
The Broadmoor World Arena is the premier sports and entertainment venue in the Pikes Peak region. It has 8,000 spectator seats, is the home to Colorado College Ice Hockey, and has the flexibility to host basketball, rodeo, concerts and a variety of events.
U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs
U.S.A. Wrestling
USA Wrestling is the National Governing Body for Olympic Wrestling.
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One of the complaints we hear most often from Central Sterile Processing Departments is that there are too many instruments to clean and not enough time. Surgeries are delayed, instruments pass through unclean and SPD workers get frustrated. Too much responsibility falls on this department to have them feeling this way. This is what it looks like when technicians don't have proper time and tools to properly clean each instrument.
1.) Flush and Brush Station
The daVinci instruments used in robotic surgeries do phenomenal things but they also create a lot of hassle for technicians. Instruments get lost, they are hard to clean and difficult to keep altogether. This station from Midbrook Medical sits in the base of the sink and helps technicians keep track of what has been scrubbed already and prevents instruments from contaminating each other. Read More
2.) Recipe Baskets
These recipe baskets were designed to help central sterile processing techinican's ability to efficiently follow the Instructions for Use to reprocess full recipe sets of da Vinci Robotic Surgery. Instruments can be transferred from the Flush and Brush Station to the recipe baskets for the Midbrook Ultrasonic Bath. Like the Flush and Brush Station, the baskets are designed to keep surgical sets together during reprocessing allowing CSPD Technicians to reprocess recipe sets for each surgical procedure in a more efficient manner.
3.) The Tempest Surgical Instrument Washer
One of the reasons the Tempest is on the list is because of its automation. With the push of a button the lid comes down and runs a programmable cycle to bring repeatable results. This instrument washer uses a combination of high-powered, tested, and proven washing actions: ultrasonics, enzymatic soaks, agitation, exterior and interior sprays, and air injection bubble cavitation stream. The instruments are cleaned effectively far surpassing AAMI standards. Just think of what you could accomplish in SPD during this automated 30 minute cleaning cycle.
4,) The UV Flash
Sometimes accidents happen, even in hospitals. What happens when instruments get dropped? Well the good news is that problem can be solved. In 60 seconds. The UV Flash uses UVC light to disinfect objects. All bacteria on the surface of an object will be eliminated by using this station.
5.) Less Repeat (O.K. I know this isnt a product but it's true!)
Since you're using the Tempest surgical instrument washer, instruments are being cleaned more effectivly. Since more clean instruments are making their way into the hands of surgeons, less unclean instruments are making the trip back to sterile processing. Sometimes instruments come out of SPD with bio-burden on them so visable that surgeons send them back before even using them. This creates more work for technicians that is really unnecessary. If you do things right the first time, you won't have to do it again. At least until after the surgery….


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No credit score checks no fax payday loans are just like a scheme about which usually everything clear by the name
This kind of scheme will be launched in which personal loans with regard to bad credit are getting accepted without any file work minus any documentation work. And you may get the loan amount on a single day because these are the payday loans. You may accomplish all your immediate cash needs without any type of hurdle if you apply for this particular scheme.
One of the most common errors among bad credit mortgage seekers is applying for each loan that they find. If you choose this, you are basically making certain the only loan that you will be capable to qualify for will end up being a money advance. There are a time and a location for cash advances, but this short article is assuming that you are interested in a personal loan for bad credit.
For those who do not have money of their own the ultimate way to arrange for money is to take those online cheap personal loans. On-line cheap personal loans are financial loans which any borrower may take regardless of the fact if provides any security to offer or even in many cases does not have any protection to offer. So both the guaranteed and unsecured loan choices are available to him.
Usually, it is seen that many of the people claim personal loans for bad credit to be scam only because they couldn't acquire them. However, do they stand properly at their end? Definitely not! Most of the people consider that will as the suffix bad credit score is associated with these financial loans, they are available for all of those which hold bad credit history. Even though it is true to some extent, but the truth is that all the lenders prefer to cope with people who are good at their credit score behavior, not a ranking. Here, it is also noteworthy that will poor credit rating and habits are two different aspects.
Online lenders make buying personal loans non-stressful and effective
Take advantage of the free loan equipment that many online lenders provide. You can quickly figure out what type of month-to-month repayment schedule will work for a person.
Now for the lenders, have you been thinking that you can't trust individuals with bad credit standing? I can't fault you with that. But I would also like you to realize that these people (the people with bad credit score standing) are once people having a very good credit standing. It simply happened that they'd obtained no luck at this time. Generally, the main thing that contributes to the particular abruptly change in credit history is the unwise decision. Therefore for those who still have a good credit history, be sure you always make your very best decision before doing something so you'll not end up trying to get personal loans.
Furthermore, quick personal loans are simple enough to get as well. What the person has to to do is fill an application form and provide the required documents. Make sure that they are so as and wait for the money to come home.


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Aaron Miller's Minnesota platform
Different people pursue elected office for different reasons. For some, it's a passion for the issues. For others, it's the family business. Many politicians talk about hearing "a calling" for public service.
In Minnesota last week, Republican Aaron Miller was a surprise victor in the race to take on Rep. Tim Walz (D) this year, and after securing the nomination, Miller talked a bit about why he's running. He mentioned, for example, that he wants to reduce the deficit and repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would be tricky, since repealing the ACA would make the deficit go up quite a bit.
But as the Mankato Free Press noted, that's not the only thing driving Miller's candidacy.
He also called for more religious freedoms. He repeated his story about his daughter returning home from school because evolution was being taught in her class. He said the teacher admitted to not believing in the scientific theory to his daughter but told her that the government forced him to teach the lesson."We should decide what is taught in our schools, not Washington D.C.," Miller said.Miller has declined to provide any more information to verify his story.
As Tim Murphy noted, this wasn't the first time Miller, a hospital account manager and Iraq War veteran, "recounted this tale – it's a staple of his stump speech."
And for a variety of reasons, that's a real shame.
First, if Miller's daughter's science teacher doesn't believe in modern biology, and admits as much to his or her science class, Miller might want to have a chat with the local school board.
Second, if Miller believes federal policymakers in Washington are responsible for dictating curricula in Mankato, Minn., he's been misinformed about the basics of educational policymaking. In reality, Minnesotans decide what's taught in Minnesota's public schools. Those who intend to go to Congress to help shut down federally mandated science classes are likely to be disappointed.
And finally, it is the 21st century. Complaining about science in science classes just doesn't seem like a compelling rationale for a congressional candidacy.
Looking ahead, Miller is running in a very competitive district – President Obama carried it in 2012 by just one percentage point – though most consider Walz the favorite to win re-election.


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(Washington, D.C.) It is November 9, 2016. The U.S. Presidential election has been decided. America has awakened to a time in our history that seems unthinkable to half the citizens of our great country and consequently stunned the world. The Republican candidate who never missed an opportunity to divide, demean and discourage those who have admirably served our country in all walks of life has been elected to the most powerful position of the free world. The candidate who has never served or shown to work for the betterment of our neighborhoods, communities, or joined hearts with the disadvantaged people of our country, persuaded the majority of voting Americans that he actually cared about them.
In the days ahead we as Americans will have the responsibility to move forward. But it won't necessarily be easy. In the hours of reflection that we face as we look to the future, we can be heartened by the fact that our country has always made it through difficult times throughout our young history. Although it may be impossible to understand in the moment, God is always working and refining us as individuals and as a country.
How could it have happened? Our present culture of leaving God out the equation has surely helped define what has happened…the unthinkable. We can pray to heal ourselves and then zero in on our strategy to include working to restore our country to encompass the love and goodness that God intended for us.
We will overcome this setback. The Russian interference will be brought out into the sunlight. The criminality and collusion with the Russian government will be revealed in due time. There can be no question that this election was undermined and influenced by Russia and certain members of the Trump campaign, including Donald Trump.
We will move onward and upward continually for the greater good and seek not to allow darkness to eclipse the light…but rather for light to reveal it. With God's grace we will find the humility, grace and wisdom to overcome any force who would seek to divide us as an inclusive, loving people and country. Anyone who would seek to divide the citizens, and undermine the American media cannot be trusted. We, as sisters and brothers brought together at this time in history, will overcome this chapter in history.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has inspired millions and given insight in times of uncertainty. His life and words serve as always to enlighten us:
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Fear (Respect) of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. ~Psalm 111:10
"There is no pit so deep that God's Love is not deeper still."-Corrie Ten Boom
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01-06: Recognition of Local Rights for Achieving Conservation Goals
The Tenure Gap And Its Influence On Socio-ecological Conditions
1University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States of America; 2University of Washington, United States of America; 3The Nature Conservancy, United States of America; 4McGill University, Canada
Land Titles and Agricultural Intensification at Forest Margins in Indonesia
Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany
The emergence of Conservation Units in the Western Amazon: the case of Extractive Reserves of Acre
Universidade federal do Acre, Brazil
Participatory Mapping As a Tool and Approach to Define Traditional User Rights of Forest Land
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Purpose and Concepts
The purposes of this brief note are two-fold: first, to establish, by country, the extent to which public sector borrowing contributed to the rise in public debt over the period since 2008; and, second, to draw some policy inferences.
The two indicative fiscal parameters used in this analysis are:
Borrowing = general government primary net borrowing.
Public debt = general government net debt.
This note draws a distinction between budget deficits and the financing of budget deficits.
When private and aggregate demand are depressed then budget deficits are often desirable — and necessary if (monetary) policy interest rates are already at zero bound — as a means to stimulate domestic demand and economic activity. In those contexts budget deficits can be totally appropriate, as they allow governments to inject more money into the economy than they take out.
However, concerns about budget deficits can arise in cases where public debt is already high and 'conventional' government bond sales are used to finance the budget deficits. That method of financing raises interest rates and increases the already high level of public debt. These concerns have driven European governments to adopt 'austerity' policies. Unfortunately, austerity policies generally depress incomes, demand, tax revenues and output: they increase welfare and unemployment benefit payments, and, through all those channels, increase rather than lower the public debt burden. Austerity policies cannot be relied upon to lower interest rates.
Relevant Fiscal Parameters
The indicative fiscal parameters relied upon in this note — the cumulative increase in general government primary net borrowing between 2008 and 2012 and the increase in net debt between 2007 and 2012 — are reported in Table 1.
The estimates in Table 1 suggest that the on-going use of new government bond issuance as the means to finance on-going budget deficits generally (except for Italy) accounted for between 35 per cent and 100 per cent of the increase in general government net debt of various governments between 2007 and 2012. The estimates, because of technical definitional limitations, represent broad orders of magnitude only.
- In the case of Ireland, for example, had the budget deficits not been financed by issuing new government bonds then, ceteris paribus, the level of net public debt in 2012 would have been 40 per cent of GDP rather than 102 per cent.
- In the case of Japan, had resort not been made to new bond financing of budget deficits then the level of net public debt would have been 93 per cent of GDP in 2012 rather than 134 per cent.
- For the UK, the level of net public debt could have been 51 per cent of GDP in 2012, rather than 83 per cent.
Economic Policy Implications
The general policy implication that can be deduced from the above information is that the public debt crisis may have largely been avoided if governments had financed their increased budget deficits during the crisis by using new money creation (overt money financing) instead of new bond financing.
- The failure of advisers, governments and international institutions to recommend new money financing during the crisis should be of considerable concern to the profession, and to the unemployed.
To the extent that future on-going budget deficits will arise, as is expected in some countries, there is still a case for considering overt money financing. In respect of monetary policy, overt money financing (creating new money and channelling it through net government spending to low income people, infrastructure and the unemployed) could replace the ineffective and wasteful quantitative easing policy as a means to stimulate economic activity. Quantitative easing finances banks and speculators; creates asset price bubbles; distorts risk pricing and resource allocation; causes competitive devaluations and currency wars; and results in reversals and financial distress on exiting the policy. Quantitative easing has no direct positive impact on consumer prices as predicated by the central banks of Japan and the United States.
Fiscal multipliers and marginal propensities to consume ordinary goods and services would be relatively larger under overt money financing than under quantitative easing/new bond financing of budget deficits. Overt money financing offers the most powerful combination of monetary and fiscal policies to combat the dual problems of recessions/depressions and high public debt.
Concerns about any potential inflation threat are misplaced. Under overt money financing the sole purpose of the new money is to finance the initial round of stimulus through the budget: once that stimulus is delivered the new money can be withdrawn from the economy (sterilised), if liquidity is adequate. In any event, inflation — whether demand-pull or cost-push — would only come to the fore when the economy is much closer to full employment. Governments could legislate ahead of events to limit the extent of new money financing if that would placate any inflation fears in the community.
In cases where public debt is already excessive overt money creation could potentially be used to pay down the debt to acceptable levels.
Based on the above simple comparisons, it could reasonably be concluded that one key lesson for the future, based on the experience of the past six years, would be that as a substantial public debt problem emerges in the context of an economic contraction and/or a financial crisis then the desired policy response would be to run substantial fiscal deficits financed by new money. This approach would provide needed economic stimulus without raising interest rates, public debt or inflation. Importantly, present and future taxpayers, including those in Northern European countries, would not be burdened, as is likely under the current approach.
The case for overt money financing of budget deficits has been enunciated and analysed by Abba Lerner ('Functional Finance and the Federal Debt', Social Research, 1943); Milton Friedman ('A Monetary and Fiscal Framework for Economic Stability', June, 1948); Ben Bernanke (Remarks before the National Economists Club, 2002); Max Corden, 'The theory of the fiscal stimulus: How will a debt-financed stimulus affect the future', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 26, Issue 1; Richard Wood ('Delivering economic stimulus, addressing rising public debt and avoiding inflation', Journal of Financial Economic Policy, April 2012 and How to Solve the European Economic Crisis: Challenging orthodoxy and creating new policy paradigms, Amazon Books); Biagio Bossone ('Time for the Eurozone to shift gear: Issuing euros to finance new spending', VoxEu, 8 April 2013 and 'Italy, Europe: Please do something!', EconoMonitor, 19 April 2013); Willem Buiter and E. Rahbari ( 'What more can central banks do to stimulate the economy', Citi, 9 May, 2012); Anatole Kaletsky ('Suddenly QE for the people seems possible', Reuters, 9 August, 2012); Samuel Brittan, 'UK needs to talk about helicopters', 12 October 2012; Martin Wolf ('Britain does not have to accept stagnation', 18 October 2012); McCulley and Pozar ('Helicopter money: or how I stopped worrying and love fiscal-monetary cooperation', Global Society of Fellow, 7 January 2013) and Lord Adair Turner ('Debt, Money and Mephistopheles: how to get out of this mess', Cass Business School Lecture, 6 February 2013).
The case for monetisation of debt has recently been advocated by Pierre Paris and Charles Wyplosz ('To end the debt crisis, bury the debt forever', Vox, 6 August 2013).
An approach to overcoming the constraints of Article 123 of the Lisbon Treaty, which precludes borrowing by governments from central banks to finance public spending, can be found in Biagio Bossone and Richard Wood, 'Overt Money Financing of Fiscal Deficits: Navigating Article 123 of the Lisbon Treaty', EconoMonitor, 22 July, 2013.


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I was also attracted to the the skills you can learn from blogging; writing, photography, design, coding, social media and so much more. Four years later I can't believe how much it has changed my life.
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Remove ISP Liability from the Criminal Procedure Reform Bill
The attempt to make ISPs (Internet Service Providers) criminally liable for their users' breach of name suppression orders is unjust and unworkable.
The Criminal Procedure (Reform and Minimisation) Bill is an omnibus bill that makes significant changes to the New Zealand criminal justice system. In its attempt to reform and streamline, it weakens the right to a jury trial, takes away the right to silence and forces defendants to help the Police make the case against them.
It also changes the law around name suppression. While we support the attempt to make name suppression harder to get, we have serious concerns about the attempt to make ISPs liable for breaches of name suppression online. Read section 216 of the proposed law and then consider some of these questions:
"ISP" is defined to include people who provide Internet as well as anyone who hosts material on a website.
Q. Why do they use the term "ISP" when the definition very clearly shows that anyone who runs a website will be classed as an ISP?
The ISP/website owner is liable to a fine of up to $100,000 if they have 'reason to believe' that some material on that website breaches a suppression order.
Q. Is an anonymous email adequate reason to believe? What about email from a stranger? A customer? A lawyer?
Q. Does this mean that the ISP/website owner has a duty to monitor news media to find out what information has been suppressed?
Q. Does this mean that the ISP/website owner must actively monitor user-created content (such as forums) to check for suppressed material?
There is no way to find out what information is suppressed.
Q. If you were about to publish something about a court case and you wanted to know if any of it was suppressed, how would you find out?
Q. If the courts than change the order how will the ISP/website owner know to undelete the material?
Some people have suggesting fixing the bill by creating a register of suppression orders.
Q. Who would be allowed to have access to this register of suppressed information?
Q. If all ISPs/website owners might be liable won't they all need access to the list? In which case won't everyone who wants to know who was charged just register as a website owner?
The ISP/website owner can protect themselves from liability by deleting the material or blocking access to it.
Q. If you were an ISP/website owner and someone accused one of your users of breaching a name suppression order and you were going to be criminally liable if you made the wrong call... what would you do?
Q. Can an article that includes clues to the information breach a suppression order? How much legal training does the average ISP worker or website owner receive?
Q. How is an ISP meant to delete a comment from a customer's online forum when it might not even have an account on that forum software? Do they have to take down the entire site?
Q. How is an ISP meant to remove an article from a customer's server they host when they might not even have access to administer the server? Do they have to shutdown the server thereby possibly taking down many websites?
Q. If an ISP/website owner disconnects a customer server, are they liable for damages caused to the customer's business?
There is no penalty for falsely claiming that information is suppressed.
Q. If you were charged in court and refused name suppression, what's to stop you sending takedown notices to ISPs saying that you were granted suppression and they need to remove your name from the article?
Q. How would an ISP know if this person was telling the truth or not?
The law has no effect on material hosted overseas.
Q. What's to stop someone creating suppressednames.blogspot.com and anonymously posting suppressed information there, where the NZ courts couldn't do anything about it?
Q. Is there any point removing suppressed information considering that it will have already gone out to Twitter, RSS feed readers, the Google cache and other places?
Drop ISP liability from the Bill
We think the proposed law is both technically and legally ridiculous.
- It is unacceptable to force ISPs and website owners to make complex legal decisions about the actions of others at the threat of 6 months jail or a $100,000 fine if they get it wrong.
- It is unacceptable that this Bill will mean that anyone can claim that some information is suppressed and that there is no way for the liable person to check.
We recommend that section 216 of the Criminal Procedure Reform Bill be deleted in its entirety. The ease of publishing in the Internet age may mean that it's already too late for suppression orders, but as the conviction of Cameron "Whaleoil" Slater shows, current law already provides sufficient protection for the current regime.
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Development of the idea I briefly raised at the seminar.
If you know – or think you know – the defendant in the hearing in question was Sam Brown, you enter that name and other basic details such as the date and place of the hearing into the register inquiry system.
The system hashes "Sam Brown" into a human-meaningless code and looks for that field in the keys on the database; then it matches any other fields you entered and returns the reply:
"name known in the context of this hearing, but suppressed";
"name known in this context; no suppression order";
"name not known in this context: are you sure the other details you entered are correct?"
"name not known at all".
Only the opaque code, not the name "Sam Brown", is stored in the database, so this deters casual exploration.
People will, of course, be able to launch wild guesses as to a defendant's identity but this can be deterred by limiting the number of tries permitted.
Not a perfect scheme but better than nothing. Suggestions for improvement welcome.
I might be missing something, but I don't see how that helps.
It doesn't matter how the name is stored in the database. If you can enter "Sam Brown" and get a "Yes/No" answer on suppression, doesn't that allow for causal exploration?
I was thinking of a curious person who wants to know the identity of the defendant in a particular hearing and has no prior knowledge. If the register contained all fields explicitly, they would simply look up the date and time of the hearing and obtain the name.
With the scheme I outline, such an inquiry would not yield the information, but a journalist or blogger who knows the name and merely wants to check whether a suppression order exists would be able to get an answer.
Of course there is a middle case, where someone has a good idea what the name is and will be able to confirm their guess; but encoding the name will at least stop some casual inquirers.
Does this mean that the ISP/website owner must actively monitor user-created content (such as forums) to check for suppressed material?
No! The complainant needs to inform the ISP of a breach. This is undertaken with a take down notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). You can learn about it here if your work is infringed upon:
The whole reason for this is to protect people in the fastest way possible. However there is one major flaw, the expectation that ISP's undertake a workload that is fraught with legal claims and technical practicality. Unfortunately this is the fastest way to enforce a legal right.
How is an ISP meant to delete a comment from a customer's online forum when it might not even have an account on that forum software? Do they have to take down the entire site?
The ISP should have software for editing sites. If you know what you're doing you can remove the item within the code. If editing is not achievable because of various code structures, the page should be removed.
There is no penalty for falsely claiming that information is suppressed.
But there is a penalty for a false take down notice.
How would an ISP know if this person was telling the truth or not?
Good judgment.
Is there any point removing suppressed information considering that it will have already gone out to Twitter, RSS feed readers, the Google cache and other places?
The law states that a cache must not occur. Theoretically all further reproduction of the item must be taken down as well.
It is unacceptable to force ISPs and website owners to make complex legal decisions about the actions of others at the threat of 6 months jail or a $100,000 fine if they get it wrong.
I agree that the penalties are rather extreme, however there needs to be a practical way of protecting your works quickly and effectively. Perhaps the person undertaking any infringing could be liable for additional costs the ISP might incur. Unfortunately if there's no liability, there is no incentive to act.
Great information about ISP liability. They must be responsible in securing their customers. Thanks also for the FAQ's.
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The Formula E all-electric motor racing series has retained Little Dot Studios as its digital partner agency for a further two years.
The new deal will see Little Dot Studios' role expanded to include social media management across all platforms. The company will work alongside Formula E's newly appointed influencer agency Goat, PR firm CSM, and Iris Worldwide, which provides brand consultancy and social lifestyle content for the championship.
Little Dot Studios has been Formula E's digital partner since 2015. The announcement comes shortly after the news that Swiss technology company ABB will become the title sponsor of Formula E, making the series the first FIA-sanctioned single-seater championship to have a title partner.
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11.00am - Drove out to the nearest service center.
11.20am - Reached service center, to found out that they no longer service ASUS products. The kind man behind the counter told me that I need to go to the biggest digital mall in the heart of Kuala Lumpur (which is about 1 hour drive from home, factoring in traffic) for the next nearest service center. I have no choice, so I left to drive into the city.
12.20pm - Reached the mall, found the service center and got a queue number. Decided to walk around and check out computer prices while I'm there, and there was a long queue at the service center.
1.10pm - Handed my laptop over to the guy behind the counter, he agrees that it sounds like a motherboard problem, but cannot give me a quote (not even an estimation) for the repairs. I'll have to wait for their emails for the repair quote. Estimate will take 1-2 weeks before I can get my laptop back.
Now... my laptop is my only computer, without it, it will be very extremely inconvenient for me to run my online biz. So at this moment, I am seriously considering getting a new desktop in the mall, since I'm already there anyway and I seldom get to go there. I have been considering it for the past 2 months as well because my laptop is already over 3 years old. So here begins my journey on finding the right desktop!
2.30pm - After inquiring prices, specs and opinions in over 5 shops, I finally found one that I like. I like the sales guy too because he showed appreciation to my trusty laptop. :) I'll have to wait for 1.5 hours for them to put it together though, so I paid the deposit and decided to go hunt for food.
2.50pm - Reached a fairly well known food court a few blocks away on foot, and had delicious pork ribs curry noodles.
3.30pm - Finished my meal and decided to venture into the Isetan market just next to the food court, they have a large variety of interesting import goods. Brought parmesan cheese and some dark chocolate bars, yumyum!
4.00pm - Time to head back!
4.20pm - Got back to the mall, collected my new computer but realized that I have lost my parking ticket, oh no!! I ended up paying a fine for it. (5x times the price of the parking!!)
6.00pm - Reached home and I'm all beat, but am excited about putting my shiny new computer together and started clearing up space for it.
7.00pm - Am finally done setting the PC up! Phew~ that was tiring. Spent a little bit more time checking online stuff.
7.20pm - Refreshing shower and dinner!
9.00pm - Drives off to friend's house to pick up the bubble mailers that we ordered and just arrived.
10.00pm - Reached home and started to relax, make tea and type this post.
What a heck of a way to start my journey!!