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September 2011
From People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" to U.S. News and World Report's "Best Graduate Schools" rankings, publications have taken the risk of having jeers directed their way for trying to determine the best of anything. But with Frost & Sullivan giving us guidance as to what it sees as the top academic and research institutions doing stem cell work, we got their take of the "best of the best" in various categories.
Here, in no particular order, we present the top five in academia in North America, as chosen by Frost & Sullivan.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Researchers here work with many different types of stem cellsanimal, placental, adult, embryonic, cancer and induced pluripotent (iPS)but Dr. Eva Feldman, a Russell N. DeJong professor of neurology and the director of the Taubman Institute at the University of Michigan (U-M), says the institution is especially strong in its work with embryonic and neuroprogenitor stem cells, and is now beginning to do extensive work with iPS cell lines.
She describes the stem cell research budget at the school as "in the tens of millions" and adds, "the University of Michigan has committed $2 million to the Taubman Institute's Consortium for Stem Cell Therapies, our core facility for the derivation of embryonic stem cell and iPS cell lines. But there are many scientists across the university who are also doing vital work with stem cells."
The goals of U-M's stem cell research are very much translational in nature, seeking to use what is learned about the cells in the lab to create new treatments for patients.
"We use stem cells to study the biology and progression of diseases, such as ALS, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis and others," Feldman says. "We are applying that knowledge in the field of regenerative medicine, implanting stem cells to protect and restore damaged tissues. We are also studying the biology of cancer stem cells and developing new therapies to limit their growth. Finally, we use stem cells for drug testing."
Among the key researchers for U-M are Feldman herself, who focuses on regenerative medicine in neurological diseases; Dr. Gary Smith, with expertise in human embryonic stem cell derivation; and Dr. Max Wicha, who is well known for his cancer stem cell biology skills.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, N.C.
An important early discovery here was identifying the early-stage, organ-specific adult stem cells (progenitor cells) that can be multiplied outside the body and used to engineer functional tissue, which led to the world's first tissue-engineered organa bladder. Another significant discovery was in 2007, when researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) reported identifying a new source of stem cellsthe amniotic fluid that surrounds the developing fetus and the placenta, or afterbirth.
The focus of Wake Forest's stem cell work is in developing cell therapies, using stem cells to engineer tissues and organs and exploring biomaterials or small molecules that can be injected or implanted in the body to recruit stem cells to the site of an injury or damage to promote healing from within.
"The goal of all of our work at the institute is to develop new therapies to improve patients' lives," says Dr. Anthony Atala, director of WFIRM. "Cells are the basis of regenerative medicine and are vital to what we do."
The institution works with most types of stem cells, including those from bone marrow, fat and skin (induced pluripotent stem cells), and also with the amnion-derived cells discovered by WFIRM scientists, says Karen Richardson, Wake Forest's senior communications manager, who says the stem cell budget is approximately $40 million a year.
"We continue to explore new sources of stem cells," she notes. "For example, we recently determined that multipotent stem cells can be routinely isolated from normal human urine."
Harvard Medical School
While Frost & Sullivan singled out the medical school specifically, stem cell research is more broad than that, handled under the umbrella of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), which Harvard calls the "largest collaborative of its kind a gathering place for a whole community of scientists and clinical experts in stem cell science seeking to bring new treatments to the clinic, and new life to patients with a wide range of chronic illnesses."
The HSCI includes not only various health organizations and departments within the school, but also the law school, business school, divinity school and others, with the recognition that "stem cell research is a challenge that involves areas of expertise not encompassed in any one discipline, department or school. Most importantly, basic biology must interface with medical expertise if the promise of this field is to be fully realized." Harvard describes the approach as a "new business model of a virtual R&D network."
Harvard has developed a portfolio approach to stem cell-related scientific research funding, with seed grants for about 10 early-stage projects per year; core facilities, which range from shared equipment centers to a drug screening and a reprogramming center; and disease programs, which encompass multi-lab programs tackling key questions in selected disease areas.
Among the considerations in this research area are: the importance of the connection between clinical and basic research that is driven by a real clinical need; the need for a nonprofit organization to respond to unmet medical needs in markets that are too small for companies to address; and the use of Harvard's Center for Human Cell Therapy as the coordinating mechanism and leveraged resource for the HSCI when entering the clinic, negotiating with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and planning trials.
City of Hope's Beckman Research Institute
Duarte, Calif.
With such facilities and operations as its Center for Biomedicine & Genetics, which was designed and built specifically to produce biological molecules and cellsincluding stems cellsto federally mandated standards for use as therapies, City of Hope has drawn in tens of millions of dollars of funding from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and from such organizations as the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which recently awarded City of Hope an $8.6 million contract to facilitate stem cell research from laboratory to clinical study this five-year contract is the first from the NHLBI to focus on development and manufacturing of stem cell therapies.
"This prestigious contract recognizes our unique stem cell research and manufacturing capabilities," said Dr. Michael A. Friedman, president and CEO of City of Hope and director of the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center at the time of the NHLBI announcement.
Notably, Friedman was this year reappointed to a second, six-year term on the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee, the governing board for CIRM.
The Beckman Research Institute, while highlighted by Frost & Sullivan as a stem cell leader, is not devoted solely to stem cells, though such research informs much of its work. The first of only five Beckman Research Institutes established by funding from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the City of Hope institute is responsible for "fundamentally expanding the world's understanding of how biology affects diseases such as cancer, HIV/AIDS and diabetes."
University of Southern California
Los Angeles
The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at the Keck School of Medicine, which is located at the University of Southern California (USC), was founded in 2006 with a mission to take discoveries in stem cell research "from our laboratories and apply them in therapeutic focus areas founded on outstanding clinical research programs at the Keck School."
Therapeutic areas of interest include ophthalmology, liver disease, diabetes, cardiovascular medicine, oncology and hematology.
In 2010, the center began the next phase of its program development thanks to a gift from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and funding from CIRM, which resulted in the opening of USC's new $80 million facility called the Eli & Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Stem Cell Research & Regenerative Medicine. That facility now houses 11 research teams and four core laboratories and is envisioned by USC as becoming a hub for the development of regenerative medicine in the Los Angeles region.
The Eli and Edythe Broad Center's four core labs are: the Stem Cell Core Facility, which maintains and distributes quality-controlled stocks of a large number of embryonic stem cell lines, conducts training in human embryonic stem cell culture and develops and validate new protocols for stem cell growth and manipulation; the Flow Cytometry Core Laboratory, which provides researchers with access to instruments that enable them to sort stem cell populations into subgroups; the Imaging Core Facility, which enables scientists to take high-resolution pictures of stem cells to better identify molecules and structures within cells and to trace the fate of cells as they migrate, divide and differentiate within tissues; and the High Throughput Screening Facility, an operation aimed at discovering small, drug-like molecules that interact to modulate signaling pathways that control stem cell behavior.
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Henderson Alvarez Throws No-Hitter
I still don't know what I saw with Henderson Alvarez's no-hitter. If it were in a movie, I would leave the theater complaining that it wasn't believable. Last place Marlins against first place Tigers on the last day of the regular season, Justin Verlander on the hill, 0-0 ball game, with Alvarez watching from the on-deck circle and it was a walk-off wild pitch. Even typing it out, it looks like a crazy person would think of that. Baseball is just the weirdest, greatest game there is.
Yes! @Marlins walk if off! Former #BlueJays Henderson Alvarez gets the NO HITTER! Unbelievable game! Why does baseball have to end? #Marlins— April Whitzman (@Alleycat17) September 29, 2013


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VMWare co-founder Diane Greene left the company today as it announced it would undershoot its full year revenue targets.
VMWare chairman Joe Tucci said in a statement that former Microsoft exec Paul Maritz would take the helm of the firm. Tucci also thanked Greene for her contributions and wished her "every success in the future".
The firm bolted a paragraph onto the end of the statement explaining it would announce its Q2 results on July 22 and that: "While VMWare is not updating guidance for Q2, we expect revenues for the full year of 2008 to be modestly below the previous guidance of 50 per cent growth over 2007."
We'll stick our necks out and say this suggests the company may have met its Q2 targets, but not without a struggle, and has a bad, bad feeling about the next couple of quarters.
Significantly, Greene did not contribute to the statement, which suggests she has personally taken the fall for the guidance markdown.
Wall St clearly wasn't reassured by today's statement, VMWare's shares were down by a quarter at time of writing to a shade under $40, a far cry from the $120 plus they were trading for last Autumn.
As for Maritz, he spent 14 years at Microsoft, leaving the firm in 2000. In 2004, he founded Pi Corp which focused on cloud computing solutions for personal information management. Pi was acquired by sometime VMWare parent EMC earlier this year, and Maritz became head of the firm's Cloud Division. ®


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In the wake of Thursday's storms, Lincoln residents are reminded to take their private tree debris to the City Transfer Station at 5101 N. 48th St. City Parks and Recreation Forestry Division personnel will only pick up limbs and branches that have fallen from trees planted in the public right-of-way between the sidewalk and curb. Private tree debris is the responsibility of the property owner.
The City Transfer Station is open the following hours:
Regular disposal charges and fees apply. To avoid an extra charge, residents are advised to "tarp and tie" their load. For more information, visit the City website at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: landfill).
Residents also can continue hauling tree debris to Hofeling Enterprises, 2200 S. Folsom Court. Hofeling Enterprises is open from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. There is a $10 fee for a pickup or trailer load.
The City Forestry Office is acting on all messages left on the Forestry Office voice mail. Calls are being recorded with names and residences added to the list for service. The public's patience and understanding is greatly appreciated as Forestry staff continues the cleanup effort that began with the August 6 storms.


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Won't you please come to tea
With the rustling wind
And yellow, red, falling leaves?
And when you leave,
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A beautiful flower
Or butterfly pendant.
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The tea will be cooling
In the night wind.
With Love,
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Alumni Involved in Creating "We Are The World" Web Site
Michael Lehmkuhl, Augustana class of '97, and Stefan Hartwig, class of '99, partners at the Sioux Falls web development firm Electric Pulp, recently built the new "We Are The World" web site that premiered during the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
Dr. Harry Thompson Named CWS Executive Director
Augustana President Rob Oliver has appointed Dr. Harry Thompson executive director of the Center for Western Studies (CWS). He succeeds Dr. Arthur Huseboe, who became director emeritus on July 31, 2009.
Brad Salem Resigns as Football Coach; Aldrich Named Successor
Football coach Brad Salem has resigned to take a position at Michigan State, coaching the running backs for the Spartans. Salem compiled a 31-26 record in five seasons as Vikings head coach. Defensive coordinator Mike Aldrich will succeed Salem.
Lindsey Olson, Hannah Miller Peace Prize Forum Scholars
Augustana students Lindsey Olson (Luverne, MN) and Hannah Miller (Mankato, MN) have been selected as 2010 Peace Prize Forum Scholars. Olson and Miller will be introduced at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Forum to be held March 5-6 at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minn.
Spring Enrollment Exceeds Budget Expectations; Retention High
The Registrar's Office released enrollment figures today that exceed projected budget numbers for the 2010 spring semester. Augustana began the 2010 spring semester on February 4 with a head count of 1,700 students, the fifth straight year for spring semester enrollment growth.
Dr. Rick Davis, Associate Academic Dean, Dies at Age 52
Dr. Rick Davis, who had served as Augustana's Associate Academic Dean since June 2005, died Tuesday, February 16, after an eight-month battle with brain cancer. A memorial service will be held Saturday, Feb. 20, at Spirit of Peace United Church of Christ in Sioux Falls.
Faith Fest 2010: Fighting World Hunger
Seventy high school youth from around the region participated in Faith Fest 2010 at Augustana on Saturday, February 13. Participants and Augustana volunteers packed 15,608 meals at Kids Against Hunger, preparing enough food to feed 36 people for a year.
Council for Exceptional Children Honors Augustana Senior
Augustana senior Kelsey Erickson is the recipient of the 2010 Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Graduation Award-Undergraduate. Erickson will receive a certificate of recognition and a cash award at the CEC Convention & Expo in Nashville, Tenn.
French Club Selling Beads to Support Rwanda Project
Members of Augustana's French Club, Le Cercle Français, will be selling Mardi Gras beads February 15 and 16, with proceeds going to Project Akilah, a new leadership school in Rwanda. Monique Schmidt, class of 1998, is the program director for The Akilah Institute.
Augustana Improv Group Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Formed in 2000 by Augustana Theatre professor Dr. Julia Bennett, Brand Name Improv (BNi) offers quality, audience friendly performance at the College and in the region as well as coursework, workshops, and celebrations of the art and craft of improvisation.


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The new selectman, Bob Sterndale, was sworn in on March 18, along with three of the incumbents re-elected at Town Meeting.
Town Clerk and Tax Collector Kitty Cornwell will continue in that post; Debbie Ahlstrom as treasurer; and Betsy Renshaw, library trustee. Sterndale then took his new position at the table and all three selectmen heard a presentation by the Madbury representatives on the Oyster River Sustainability Committee, Karen Larson and Barry Kaplan, relative to the progress made by this group since its inception two years ago.
The Sustainability Committee is made up of four subcommittees: food and garden; facilities and procurement; transportation; and educational outreach. Their goal is to introduce sustainability into current procedures at all levels of the school district operations.
The selectmen had issues with the fiscal accountability aspects of a committee which has such a broad reach.
Kaplan and Larson agreed that this is crucial, with Larson commenting that "There is enormous pressure for fiscal responsibility."
Jim and Nancy Kach dropped in since Nancy wanted to find out how the selectmen feel about Madbury's representative to the school board's being elected by all three towns of the school cooperative. She feels that each town should elect its own rep, with the three towns electing the four at-large reps.
The selectmen agreed that it might seem fairer to do it Nancy's way but that the present system was accepted at the district's formation and that they didn't know how/if such a change as she suggests could be implemented. They challenged her to find out.
As is customary at their first meeting after Town Meeting, the selectmen re-organized. Bruce Hodsdon will be the chairman this year and he will serve as the board's representative to the Planning Board. Jay Moriarty will continue as Road Agent and the board's liaison with the Police Department and the Lamprey Regional Cooperative (solid waste disposal). Sterndale will work with the Water Resources Board and the Recreation Commission.
Since she offered (earlier) to continue to represent the town on the Health Coalition, former selectman Joan Sundberg was appointed to so do.
A public meeting with School Superintendent James Morse is scheduled for April 1; details later.
Dog tags for 2013 are now available at Town Hall. To avoid penalties, dog tags should be had or renewed by May 1. Dog licenses are $9, but for spayed or neutered dogs, $6. A current rabies certificate needs to be presented. For previously licensed dogs, renewal can be done by mail : send the Town Clerk a check and a self-addressed, stamped (45 cents) envelope. Those who need an email reminder, email to firstname.lastname@example.com and in the subject line type "Dog License."
The themed basket raffle benefited the library by $1,030. The drawing right after Town Meeting found most of the winners on hand, ready to take home their prizes.
The winners were Karen Oshima, Ken Heald, Kitty Cornwell, Doug Hoff, Lorraine Morong, Betsy Renshaw, Kathy O'Shea, Gil Morong, and Elizabeth Desjardins.
The Friends of Madbury Library expressed their thanks to the partici[pants, to those who donated baskets, and to the Moderator of the Town Meeting, Richard Houghton, who allowed the sale to take place on Town Meeting Day.
Library Director Susan Morong reported to the FOML at their March 14 meeting that plans are un deerway for the library's Summer Reading Program, themed "Digging Into Reading."
Meanwhile, programs are on-going. On March 28 at 10:15 a.m. Oyster River Parents and Preschoolers will visit the library for a tour and storytime. Since, according to the Library Director, preschoolers habitually are curious about what happens when books are returned in the outside bin and when books are checked out, these "behind the scenes" activities will be included in the tour.
Those interested in playing or learning to play chess need to register with the library. Chess is on tap each Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m.
According to the Library Director, one of the most popular services is downloadable eBooks and audiobooks. To get started, you need to have a Madbury Public Library car barcode number. Then you visit www.madburylibrary.org and look for the link "click to download audiobooks & eBooks," on the left side of the page.
The pass to the Children's Museum in Dover has been renewed by the FOML. The library also has a pass to the Seacoast Science Center (which offers free admission). Passes to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Boston Children's Museum are shared with Durham and can be reserved online. The pass to the Boston
Museum of Science is shared with Lee and can be reserved by phone (659-2626).
On March 28, Maundy Thursday, there will be a service of Tenebrae and The Last Supper at the Madbury Church, beginning at 7 p.m.
On March 31, Easter Sunday, a Sunrise Service will begin at 6:30 a.m. at the Kingman Farm on Route 155. An Easter Breakfast will follow in the church at 7:15, and there will be the Easter Sunday Celebration at 10 a.m. followed by an Easter egg hunt.


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NASCAR champ Stewart kills dirt-track driver, no charges pending
Authorities in New York state said that they had found no evidence of criminal behavior and that Stewart, a tempestuous racer and one of the highest-paid drivers in NASCAR, was cooperating with investigations into Saturday night's death.
Earlier in the day, the 43-year-old Stewart withdrew from Sunday's high-profile NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Watkins Glen, New York, but only after a storm of criticism on social media when a team official told reporters that Stewart was proceeding with "business as usual."
Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero said no evidence of criminal intent had been found in the death of driver Kevin Ward Jr., 20.
"At this very moment, there are no facts in hand that would substantiate or support a criminal charge, or indicate criminal intent on the part of any individual," Povero told a news conference.
In the low-stakes race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park, about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Rochester, Stewart appeared to have clipped Ward's car and caused it to spin out of the race, according to videos posted online.
Ward, of Port Leyden, New York, stepped out of his car and onto the track as he seemed to gesture at Stewart, a three-time NASCAR champion, before he was struck and killed, according to the videos.
The crash occurred on a dimly lit section of track and the race was under a yellow flag, or caution, Povero said.
Ward was pronounced dead at a hospital. WSYR-TV in Syracuse reported that Ward's family was at the track at the time of the crash.
"There aren't words to describe the sadness I feel about the accident that took the life of Kevin Ward Jr.," Stewart said in a statement.
Stewart, of Columbus, Indiana, is NASCAR's fourth-highest paid driver, with an estimated $17.3 million in earnings this year, according to Forbes.
His sponsors include Bass Pro Shops, Mobil 1, Coca-Cola and Chevrolet. Stewart co-owns Stewart-Hass Racing, a four-car outfit whose drivers include female standout Danica Patrick.
A.J. Allmendinger, the winner of Sunday's NASCAR event, offered condolences to the Ward family.
"We are racing with heavy hearts today," he said on the ESPN television network.
Ricky Craven, an ESPN analyst and former NASCAR Cup driver, said on ESPN he thought a rule was needed that a driver would be penalized if he or she left a car before a security crew arrived.
He added that there was a 50-50 chance that Stewart would compete next week at NASCAR's Pure Michigan 400.
NASCAR, which was not involved in the Saturday race, endorsed Stewart's withdrawal from the Watkins Glen race. It said in a statement that it was monitoring the situation.
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the sanctioning body for one the most popular sports in the United States. It oversees more than 1,200 races that are broadcast in more than 150 countries and in 20 languages.
More Fortune 500 companies participate in NASCAR than any other sport, according to the racing body.
Stewart began his career on dirt tracks and enjoys going back to his roots, despite the modest pay compared with the NASCAR circuit.
Stewart has occasionally gotten into fights with other drivers, including a shoving match with Joey Logano at the Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Fontana, California, last year.
Among his most celebrated accomplishments was racing in 2001 in the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the same day. He is the only driver to complete all 1,100 miles (1,800 km) in what is known in racing circles as Double Duty.
Stewart was involved in an accident at Canandaigua in July 2013 that injured another driver. (Reuters)


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NLCS Game 5: Zack Greinke first in line as Dodgers try to match Giants' 2012 comeback
As odd as this sounds, the Los Angeles Dodgers need Zack Greinke to channel his inner Barry Zito if the NLCS has any chance of heading back to St. Louis for Game 6.
And not Zito, circa 2002 when he won the AL Cy Young Award for the Oakland Athletics. They need Greinke to be the Zito who pitched the game of his San Francisco Giants life last October, when the Giants found themselves in exactly the same situation the Dodgers are in right now — trailing the St. Louis Cardinals three games to one in the best-of-seven NLCS.
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In that contest, Zito threw 7 2/3 shutout innings at Busch Stadium, allowing just six hits and a walk while striking out six. It was the signature performance of his oft-disappointing time with the Giants, with whom he spent seven years after signing a $126 million deal in December 2006. After that game, of course, the Giants won the final two games of the NLCS and then swept the Detroit Tigers in the World Series.
Greinke, who is at the end of Season 1 of the six-year, $147 million deal he signed last December, would love to duplicate his highly paid contemporary's performance on baseball's big stage. The biggest difference between the two: If Greinke pulls off the gem, nobody will be stunned. Or really even surprised.
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Greinke has been great for the Dodgers, and he pitched very well in Game 1, striking out 10 Cardinals and allowing just four hits and two runs in eight innings. In Zito's previous start last October, he failed to make it out of the third inning against the Reds in the NLDS.
But Greinke gives the Dodgers hope for an extended life. And if they survive Wednesday afternoon's contest, they'll return to St. Louis for a Game 6, where a fully rested Clayton Kershaw will start for Los Angeles. And if they survive that game, Hyun-Jin Ryu, who blanked the Cardinals for seven innings in Game 3, will start in Game 7.
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So, hope remains, if Greinke can channel Zito as the first domino.
"The best thought I have is I've got one of the best pitchers in baseball pitching tomorrow," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said during his postgame press conference Tuesday. "If we come out here tomorrow and play well and get a win, I've probably got the best pitcher in baseball pitching the next day, and Ryu hasn't been too bad."
Plus, y'know, the rival Giants just pulled off the improbable feat last October.
In the final three games of that NLCS, the Cardinals scored just one run against San Francisco pitching, on 19 hits. In the first three games of this NLCS—against Greinke, Kershaw and Ryu—they scored just four runs.
When a team has pitching like that, anything is possible.
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An anonymous group of south London students have chosen GCSE results day to stage a protest about school exclusions, by replacing posters on the Northern line.
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Governments and corporations are increasingly concerned about environmental protection, and have consequently implemented stringent regulations and adopted best practices. In addition, global economic growth is leading to shortages of many natural resources and driving up their costs. This presents the recycling industry with major challenges as well as opportunities.
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Flexible cash rent leases helped Iowa grower Curt Hansen ride out the farm crisis of the 1980s. Today, flexible leases are helping him manage risk.
Volatile crop prices and high input costs are making it hard to set a fair fixed cash rent, says Steven Johnson, Iowa State University Extension. So a growing number of landowners and farmers are turning to flexible cash rent leases, which adjust automatically as yields and prices fluctuate.
There are many types of "flex" leases, but most provide for a minimum or base rent payment, plus a bonus payment if gross revenues exceed a specified level. This arrangement allows the owner and renter to share risks and rewards, Johnson says.
In the current economic climate, "a flexible cash farm lease will likely be fairer to both the landowner and the tenant," Johnson says. If prices or yields are below normal, the tenant pays less rent. If yields or prices are higher than expected, the landowner shares the additional income.
However, setting the base rent and agreeing on revenue calculations and bonuses can be quite a challenge, says Kevin Dhuyvetter, Kansas State University Extension. Still, says Hansen, who is a landlord as well as a renter, "I believe the concept is very good, especially in volatile times like we're going through now."
Hansen and his son raise corn and soybeans on 2,700 acres near Baxter, in central Iowa. Hansen also owns the 160-acre farm he grew up on in north-central Iowa. This year, he and the farm operator, a close family friend, decided to try a flexible cash rent lease.
"We established a base rent that we thought was reasonable," Hansen says. "It's a bit lower than the going cash rent." Hansen will receive 35% of any gross revenues over $800/acre for corn and 40% of revenues over $600/ acre for soybeans.
To calculate gross revenues, Hansen and his tenant use the USDA average county yields for Franklin County, multiplied by the Farm Service Agency (FSA) average posted county price from Oct. 15 to Dec. 15. "We picked that time frame because it's usually the lowest price of the year" and does not reflect crop storage costs, Hansen says. He spent a lot of time trying out different combinations of price, yield and input costs, and concluded that the flex lease "is fair to both parties."
Joe Hutchinson, a retired banker and farmland investor from West Des Moines, IA, has had a similar arrangement with his renter for the last two seasons. "I think it's the way to go," says Hutchinson, who doesn't object to taking on more risk in exchange for upside potential.
The lease on his 300-acre farm calls for a guaranteed base rent, due in two installments on April 15 and Dec. 15. Hutchinson receives 35% of any gross revenue over $600/acre. The $600 bonus trigger point reflects average production costs, including the base rent expense, he says.
Farm revenue is calculated using the USDA average county yields and posted county prices. Hutchinson likes using public data because it avoids potential disputes over farm-level yield numbers. And on his highly productive land, which typically outperforms the county average, the lease is "very fair," he says.
Flexible cash rent leases require farmers and owners to agree in advance on how yields and prices will be determined, says Kent Thiesse, vice-president of MinnStar Bank in Lake Crystal, MN.
Like Hutchinson and Hansen, you can use average county yields, although those numbers aren't available until the following spring, which delays the final rent settlement, Thiesse says. And individual farms may vary a lot from the countywide average.
As an alternative, you could use actual farm-level crop yields. These can be determined through combine yield monitors or weigh wagons, elevator scale tickets or storage bin capacity. Yield numbers should be corrected to a specified moisture level, he notes. The certified yield and acreage data required for farms enrolled in the new ACRE program could do double duty for gross revenue calculations, Johnson says.
To establish a crop price, Thiesse suggests using your local elevator price on one or more set dates, or the average of several harvest delivery bids at one or more local markets. Spell out the dates and locations in the lease, he says.
Your local FSA posted county price is another good way to set the crop value, Thiesse says. "It's easy to get, consistent and based on hard data." Another plus: the prices are adjusted monthly, "so there's less variability. That gives the numbers a lot of credibility," he says.
The thorniest aspect of flexible cash rental agreements is setting the base rent and the amount of revenue needed to trigger a bonus payment, says Jim Jensen, Iowa State University Extension farm management field specialist.
In theory, flexible cash rent should adjust both up and down, but in practice, the base rent is usually the minimum rent paid, he says. So, "the base should be set so risk is truly shared. As production costs go up, you need to lower the base rent so the landlord is sharing the risk."
Likewise, the closer the base rent is to the going rate for fixed cash rent, the more revenue is needed to trigger a bonus payment, Kansas' Dhuyvetter says.
Last December, Joe Hutchinson and his tenant renegotiated the base rent for their 2009 flex lease after crop prices fell and fuel and fertilizer costs shot up. "The original guaranteed base rent was too high," Hutchinson says. "It wouldn't cash flow, so we lowered it."
Thiesse suggests using current crop-production budgets and five-year historical average yields as the starting point for base rent and bonus negotiations. Crop insurance parameters could be another starting point, Dhuyvetter says.
Dhuyvetter encourages farmers to consider a flexible cash rent lease. But he warns that the devil is in the details.
"It's more complicated than doing a fixed rent contract or a traditional one-third/two-thirds share rent contract." In fact, most people he talks to end up sticking with a traditional lease.
"I do think we're going to see more flexible cash leases, but they don't fit every situation. Landlords are different and their needs are different, so this is not for everybody," he says.
Risks and rewards are shared by tenant and landowner.
Rent adjusts when yields or prices fluctuate.
Landowner does not have to be involved in production or marketing decisions.
Farm program payments don't have to be shared with landowner.
Because the rent adjusts automatically to changing conditions, multi-year leases are feasible — an advantage to the grower when making fertilizer, tillage and machinery decisions.
Works well with the ACRE program in providing FSA data for the annual planted acres and certified farm yield.
Next Page: FSA RULE CHANGE SPURS INTEREST IN FLEXIBLE LEASES
Flexible cash rent leases are still uncommon, but a USDA rule change is likely to encourage wider use.
In Iowa, flexible leases make up only about 12% of all cash farm leases, says Ann Johanns, Iowa State University Extension program specialist. But interest in flex leases is up sharply, she says, and farm management experts are fielding more questions about them. That's partly because of a recent change in FSA rules, says Kent Thiesse, vice-president of MinnStar Bank in Lake Crystal, MN. Rental agreements that provide for a guaranteed base plus a bonus are now considered cash rent leases, rather than crop-share leases.
This means USDA farm program payments no longer have to be shared between the farmer and the landlord — a provision that had stifled innovation, Thiesse says. The rule change "has opened the door to creative flexible lease agreements."
Flexible cash rent leases that adjust the rent based on yield alone or price alone can increase the farm operator's risk in some years, cautions Jim Jensen, Iowa State University Extension farm management field specialist.
This could happen with leases that flex for price only, in years when prices are high but yields are low; or with leases that flex for yield only, when yields are high but prices are low, he says. Growers with these types of flex leases should use additional risk-management tools, such as crop revenue insurance, Jensen says.
Baxter, IA, farmers Curt and Brock Hansen have a flexible lease with one of their eight landlords. This lease, which Curt first negotiated during the 1980s farm crisis, flexes for crop prices only. The landowner receives a payment based on a fixed number of bushels per acre. The bushel value is set by averaging crop prices for six pre-set dates over a six-month period.
The rent isn't due until December — a cash flow advantage for the Hansens and evidence of their long, trusting relationship with the landowner. The terms set a minimum and maximum rent, which "protects us both" by keeping rent within a desirable range, Curt Hansen says.
As with a fixed cash rent lease, though, the Hansens bear all the yield risk. To offset that risk, Curt says, "I hedge with crop insurance and I forward market."


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Pat Aulisio and pals threw another sweet small press event recently where Pat also exhibited drawings, comics and a sculptural construction in the middle of the floor. I was able to pick up a few items in a brief time there. It looked like a great, packed and tightly curated little event. From Pat I grabbed The Greater Good (co-authored with Josh Bayer) and Stoner Alien:
At another table I was able to get these beautiful books from Lale Westvind (scans are of two covers and one interior spread):
And some newish Mickey Z stuff which was also on her table:
And there was a table with some young people from the Fleisher Art Memorial's teen classes (I think?), who were selling some prints and comics and stuff. I grabbed a cute comics zine about a cat who finds some wintery holiday happiness:
My only beef? Someone's gotta tell these youngsters that a DIY comics zine made from one double sided photocopy sheet and two staples usually runs cheaper than four bucks! On the other hand, was it a fundraiser? I don't know. If so, I'm an ass for bringing that up. But you can't blame me since I'm now old as dirt and losing my faculties. Young people: you are the future.


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And here we thought the dumbest thing to happen since Melky tested positive for taking testosterone was that Melky and his crew had cooked up a fake website to try to prove his innocence. Pshaw. Melky has not been charged with a crime, but that's of no concern to ESPN baseball analyst/sheriff Rick Sutcliffe, who went on Dave Rothenberg's show on ESPN radio in New York this afternoon to say some ignorant crap:
"You know, it makes you mad. First of all, this guy is over here in the United States on a working visa. He broke the law. What's he doing still here? I mean, forget the 50-game suspension from baseball and whether he can come back if they make the players [sic] or not. Why's he still here? That visa should be taken away, and he should not be allowed to play over here again, or work over here again, in my opinion."
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Torii Hunter, Tigers get win over sloppy Red Sox
DETROIT -- Avisail Garcia lifted a fly ball to right field, Daniel Nava drifted back to make the play -- and then a sloppy game swung in Detroit's favor for good.
Nava appeared to have the ball in his glove, but when it came free second base umpire Mike DiMuro ruled there was no catch. That was the first of two Boston errors that helped the Tigers score three runs in the eighth inning en route to a 7-5 victory over the Red Sox on Sunday.
"Sometimes it's your day, sometimes it isn't," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said.
Justin Verlander struggled again for Detroit, but the Tigers rallied to win when Boston made a complete mess of the last few innings. The Red Sox allowed Detroit to tie the game at 4 in the seventh on a hit batter with the bases loaded -- and then in the eighth, they gave up three runs on one hit.
Boston was convinced afterward that DiMuro had gotten the game's key call wrong.
"I know I made the catch," Nava said. "Sometimes calls go your way, sometimes they don't."
Nava, in right because Shane Victorino left the game with lower back tightness, went back toward the wall and tried to make an awkward-looking basket catch. A replay showed he might have lost the ball while transferring it from his glove to his throwing hand.
"To have a catch, you have to have complete control and voluntary release," said crew chief Ted Barrett, the third base umpire. "(DiMuro) had him with control, but did not have the voluntary release. When he flipped the ball out of his glove, he never got it into his hand. That's not voluntary release."
Boston manager John Farrell was ejected for arguing the call.
"When you spend the rest of the game in the clubhouse, you probably have a difference of opinion," Farrell said. "Clearly, the call was missed. He caught it, he went to transfer to his throwing hand, dropped it at that point."
Garcia ended up on second, and Bryan Holaday's bunt also worked out nicely for Detroit when pitcher Andrew Miller (0-2) threw wildly to first for another error, putting runners at first and third with nobody out in a tie game.
Austin Jackson walked, and Alex Wilson came on and allowed Torii Hunter's sacrifice fly that gave the Tigers a 5-4 lead. Miguel Cabrera was intentionally walked, and Prince Fielder hit a two-run single off Craig Breslow.
Joaquin Benoit (2-0) got the final four outs for the Tigers, although he allowed a run in the ninth.
The Tigers were fortunate just to tie it in the seventh. After Jackson's leadoff single, Hunter hit a line drive that second baseman Dustin Pedroia dropped. It appeared the Red Sox might get a double play out of it, because Hunter was slow getting out of the batter's box, but Jackson retreated to first.
Pedroia threw to first, retiring Hunter while Jackson was still standing on the base. When Boston retired Hunter, it meant Jackson was no longer forced to second, so he remained safely at first.
Cabrera and Fielder followed with singles to load the bases, and after Victor Martinez struck out, Jhonny Peralta was hit by a pitch to tie it at 4.
The Red Sox took a 4-3 lead in the fourth on Victorino's run-scoring groundout.
Verlander allowed four runs and seven hits in five innings. He walked three and struck out four, and his ERA went up to 3.90. It was the second straight start in which he lasted only five innings.
"That's sports. There's ups and downs. Nobody's at the peak of their game forever," Verlander said. "I'll get back there. I will. It's just, like I said, finding that click -- finding that rhythm."
Detroit led 2-0 after the first inning, but Verlander gave up two runs in the second.
The Tigers scored a run in the bottom of the second, but Verlander again couldn't hold the lead. Pedroia reached on an infield single, and David Ortiz's single put runners on first and third. Mike Napoli's grounder tied the game at 3.
Boston starter Felix Doubront was in trouble at the start, walking the first two Detroit hitters and then allowing Cabrera's double that bounced over the wall in center field for the slugger's 75th RBI of the year.
Fielder's RBI groundout made it 2-0, but Jacoby Ellsbury made a nice sliding catch in center on Peralta's drive for the third out, preventing any more scoring.
Detroit loaded the bases for Hunter with two outs in the fourth, but Victorino made a nice catch and held on while slamming into the wall in foul ground in right.
Boston is giving Andrew Bailey a break from closing after he lost Thursday's game at Detroit in the ninth inning. He came on with a one-run lead in the seventh Sunday but allowed singles to Jackson and Cabrera before giving way to Miller.
Detroit's bullpen has also been maligned this year, but Drew Smyly pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings before Benoit finished.
Fielder was Detroit's designated hitter, leaving Martinez to make a rare appearance at first base. Martinez made a nice play in the sixth, diving to his left to knock down Ellsbury's grounder, then flipping the ball backward to Smyly, who covered for the 3-1 putout.
Hunter made a tumbling catch in right for the last out of the game.
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Boston did not put LHP Franklin Morales on the DL after he exited Saturday night's game with discomfort in his throwing shoulder. Farrell said Morales would be evaluated thoroughly on Monday. ... Both teams are off Monday. Boston returns home and sends RHP Ryan Dempster (4-8) to the mound against Colorado RHP Juan Nicasio (4-3) on Tuesday night. Detroit's homestand continues Tuesday night. Tigers RHP Rick Porcello (4-4) faces LHP C.J. Wilson (6-5) of the Los Angeles Angels.
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AP Source: Arizona fines Dockett `6 figures'
Arizona defensive tackle Darnell Dockett has received a "six-figure" fine from the Cardinals for his behavior in the waning seconds in a 7-6 loss to the New York Jets on Sunday, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed Friday.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the punishment had not been made public. The exact size of the fine was not known and it was uncertain whether the punishment would impact Dockett's participation Sunday in Seattle.
Dockett refused to go along with a coach's directive to allow the Jets to score late in the game so the Cardinals could get the ball back and go for the tying touchdown.
He indicated in a tweet Friday night that he was appealing through the players' union.
"Thank God for the (at)nflpa," Dockett wrote, "that's all I got to say... I ain't got no worries."
The fine first was reported by XTRA-AM 910 sports talk show host and Cardinals reporter Mike Jurecki.
The punishment stems from a directive from the coaching staff to allow the Jets to score when they had the ball deep in Arizona territory in the final minutes. Dockett refused and got into a heated on-field argument with safety Kerry Rhodes about it.
The issue became moot when the Jets' Shonn Greene purposely downed the ball at the Arizona 1 and ran out the clock.
Defensive coordinator Ray Horton told reporters Friday that he was the one who suggested to coach Ken Whisenhunt that the Jets be allowed to score. Whisenhunt has declined to discuss the situation, calling it an internal matter.
The emotional confrontation between Dockett and Rhodes came as the team headed toward its eighth consecutive loss. The prospects that the team would score in the final seconds with no timeouts were obviously dim, because it was one of the Cardinals' worst offensive performances in franchise history. With Ryan Lindley making his second start, the Cardinals tied a franchise low with five first downs and were 0 for 15 on third-down conversions.
Whisenhunt refused to replace Lindley with John Skelton, who was benched three games earlier. But Skelton will return as starter against the Seahawks.
Dockett said earlier this week he had apologized to Rhodes and the two had agreed to move on. But Dockett emphatically said he had never quit in a game and never would.
"It's something that I don't believe in, something that I didn't understand," Dockett said then. "It was frustrating at the time. At the end of the day, I am never, never going to lay down and quit. I've been playing football for over 20 years. I've given this organization, I've given Florida State, I've given my high school everything I've got. I love the game. I play with passion and I'll never quit."
The emotional, 6-foot-4, 290-pound, 31-year-old lineman is in his ninth NFL season, all with Arizona. He made the Pro Bowl in 2007 and 2009.
He earns $3.4 million this year on a contract that runs through 2015.
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Next in line like Northern Ireland Railways or East Coast Main line may we hope....?
They brought back LNER back into national ownership it ran at profit for years. It was so successful the tories fell over themselves to privatise it again.....and it failed again.
This is great news 👏
DfT is already making it clear that as it gets control it's coming after staff wages and Ts & Cs... Then it wants to increase (yes INCREASE) fares to lower the cost of rail to taxpayers. It has said that the current measures already end the ability of train companies to run special offers with reduced fares etc. This is what is coming - congratulations BBBR - it's what you've been calling for.
One day this scabrous bunch shits will realise that railways cannot be run at a profit and without considerable investment. What it does is vastly improve air quality, save a fortune on roads and greatly reduce the carbon footprint. The cost to the NHS, Police and Emergency services will be hugely reduced. Funny how to them money spent on roads is called investment and on a nationalised rail system it's called subsidy.
Great news for Welsh passengers and another sign of a progressive government in Wales.
I was going to say I'd be happy with the RENFE or SNCF model here but I see they've just flogged off SNCF and in Spain Sanchez of all people is going ahead with the PP scheme to do the same in spite of warnings citing Major. It seems they don't learn .
My office is next to the main GWR line to London, almost every train that comes past is virtually empty, it is unfair to expect the tax payer many of whom never use a train to fund this. There will be huge cuts and huge fare rises.
I experienced it and your memory is playing you tricks if you think that what we have now is better, it wasn't perfect but at least the carriages were clean and the toilets functioned!
Everything should be re nationalised with no payouts to shareholders !
Paying shareholders profits for passengers but owning the tracks and infrastructure is one of the biggest con jobs in modern history. Foriegn national rail operations owning the franchises and using the income to subsidise their own passengers is the second. If the British Media wasn't owned by Conservative Party donors, perhaps this would be newsworthy?
Yeah, because BR under public ownership was so great, what could go wrong? #RoseTintedSpectacles
Good for our Welsh Assembly
This reminds me of a comment made by an old British Rail employee who I asked if they still did specials to Blackpool for the lights. His reply was; no, they were too popular, so they stopped them!
Wales leading the way. 👍
Bring back british rail and run the railways for the people not share holders
I remember British Rail with the dirty carriages and disgusting toilets!
That what we want 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💙💙
Make sure cant be sold off again
Finally! Some good news!
We are the only European country that treats its transport system as a profit making machine for private companies !
I use it. Lots or promises by Aviva and TFW, unfulfilled especially on new rolling stock. Old rolling stock and old system.
Sounds good
Ste Moran Richard Bagguley
'Ticket sales have plummeted.' but strangely 'Up to 8% of trains [are] overcrowded'.-
1 month ago
"Ministers today ended rail franchising after 24 years as the first step in bringing Britain's fragmented network back together" says the Department for Transport 🚉 A big step for Bring Back British Rail, but we won't rest until we've ended rail privatisation altogether ✊ ...
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I wonder if new train investments under privatisation have now proved to be a costly disaster with fall in passenger numbers in the wake of COVID 19 . If this is it, it might be a similar case with the Modernisation Plan, Beechingisation and National Traction Plan. A recent case could mean large number of under-utilised IEPs being stored after only around three years service.
i wonder just how much this totally unsuccessful privatisation has cost taxpayers over the years........
the infrastructure company is already dividing itself under the guise of putting passengers first splitting itself into what resembles the original BR regions - of course the chairman of said infrastructure company comes from a non railway background and will be doing the bidding of his masters at westminster - nobody from a truly railway background doesnt put passengers first no matter what company they work for.
What I am hoping for, at the very least, is something akin to ITA powers. That are right across, the nation. Here in Essex, all the towns. That are at end of branch lines, have more or less doubled in size. Therefore, the services need to be doubled in frequency.
Bailing out their chums with public money. Again.
Let's have a truly joined up system with all parts of the system under one organisation unless it's Serco
Let's have that lovely blue back. Seriously though, the privatised rail network and that dreadful Railtrack were an absolute failure.
The redundancies have already started . Anybody who thinks this is good news or some kind of victory is sadly deluded . The decsion take today is not a reaction to a failed venture it's purely down to the pandemic. As predicated they tried to bury It into todays news but unfortunately it will be all to obvious in a few weeks when the hatchet falls on many many jobs around the country there will little the unions can do to stop it as there will be a severe lack of public support and of course ot as much disruption can be caused with the new way of working and travel not recommended. So you got what you wanted but the outcome wont be what we needed . RIP the railway of 2020.
A single unified system even if there was private sector delivery is a compromise I would settle for if we have to keep privatisation.
It's been an unnecessarily complex mess from the start.
Why should public money fund their failure any more than it has!
And now get rid off South Western Failure and Abellio.
I cautiously welcome this news, let's see what they come up with. Bring Back BR!
Hopefully no compensation for shareholders
I'll be buying 'Private Eye' to find out the whole story. I don't trust the media to give us what is really happening, and in fact I don't really think we get the whole story for the railway press.
Keep fighting Ellie, because we're not really there yet.
Unfortunately, I don't quite believe it. I'm pretty sure they will carry on giving huge sums of taxpayers money to private firms. Which I wouldn't mind, except they never get a value for money, and they just license the firms to rip off me, the passenger . However I'm now getting my revenge as I work from home. And I have no intention of paying those people any of my hard earned money directly ever again.
Money spaffed on the line.
Good! XX
Bringing back a monolith like BR is not realistic. But placing infrastructure; operations and rolling stock under one roof is vital. Incentives to renew and replace rolling stock in a 15 year rolling time frame, starting with the not-fit-for-purpose stock -Pacers etc. - keep open access services, to provide some competition and give the Train Companies incentives to reopen closed branches where possible.
Can't help but feel this is an exercise in bullshit. The tories and the Blairites are both obsessed with privatisations and will just change the name not the policy.
Without taking action against the spiv hedge fund and bank owned ROSCOS it will have little meaning.
Soon as they've used public money to patch it up they'll be flogging it off to their city mates - who will then have free rein to run it into the ground while lining their pockets for another 10-20 yrs before it needs "rescuing" by taxpayers again. We ARE the magic money tree for the 1%
The word is concession contracts in which HMG take all the risk or profit and the operator runs the service. It jerks the cost of capital (rolling stock) off the government's books as that remains the property of the train leasing companies. This is as near a nationalisation as you're going to get as Network Rail remains state owned.
Not a chance I'm afraid just imagine the big boys missing out of their big fat bonuses and the dividends
"Ministers are ready to seize control of the railways after more than a quarter of a century of private ownership" reports today's The Telegraph. Look out for Grant Shapps' announcement this week. It's time to stop the bailouts and #TakeBackOurTrains 🚉 weownit.org.uk/take-back-our-trains ...
Franchises to be scrapped as lockdown rail costs riseGrant Shapps is expected to make an announcement in days on a long-term solution to a troubled industry
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somehow I am thinking this is too good tobe true. Usually the Tories only adopt the wording of Labour policies not the intent! e.g. community care sounds good so close all the special schools, etc. etc. but then don't fund the actual care in the community! So watch this space!
I hope ministers don't actually try to run the railways - with this bunch of incompetents that would lead to chaos.
If a Tory is doing it, you can be sure it will be to further one of their principles: they're making hay out of it one way or other at public expense.
jesus. When are people going to learn? The Tories NEVER govern in the national interest. A quick look at who funds the party should tell you everything. I'd stake the house that when the final details are published this move will prove to be nothing more than a revised way of loading their mates' pockets.
Seeing this government makes a big thing of patriotism, how about a suitably patriotic name for the new setup, such as...er.... British Railways?
They have control. It's just funded differently and allows them to start to make the cutbacks. Read it and weep.
Privatisation of BR has been a costly failure. I remember when Stagecoach was awarded the franchise for South West Trains and what a laugh, they choose to make surplus to requirements of 70 train drivers, it caused so many cancellations of services and other problems.
More likely franchisees are queuing up to hand back their franchises. And with no franchise agreements there are no performance targets to hit, so why even try and get the things functional? Commuting, in election terms, is somewhere near the bottom of the list and we can tell this because the discussion is always about whether it will be an "above inflation fare increase" or a "below inflation fare increase". Quality and value really don't feature.
The ultimate Tory U-Turn! 41 years of social lies. economic lies, lies about socialism and lies about the lies, they really are a shower of shit, but I fear the damage elsewhere is already done!
who will they get to run it all? The "government" have sacked or redeployed to brexit roles all the civil servants that knew how to run a railway......
The story about the whole network in England being nationalized in all but name isn't new - RAIL were talking about it in their 12-AUG-2020 edition. The DfT are getting fed up with carrying trains full of air, rather than people. Problem comes in that there will be loads of services and routes cut to make the whole thing pay, enough to making Beeching "look like an aperitif ". Be careful what you wish for in these crazy days.
Only so they can sell them off again to get an injection of cash once this is over.
just another selservative con job, bailed out by the taxpayer, and sold off later to their mates.
Notice BBBR just linked to the report . No usful comment as is the normal . I suspect they see this as some kind of victory but this couldnt be further from their vision of a BR of 1985
If so, does this not prove once and for all, that dogmatic privatisation and resultant fragmentation of what are "natural monopolies", will always ultimately fail.
Just wait till they start cutting duplicated services on routes where more than one operator compete against each other. I can see huge redundancies
That's the way to do it, when the money runs out, nationalise the railways. !947 revisited.
I wonder whether that will include Manchester Metrolink, the pilot scheme for railway privatisation
Where's the money coming from? Watch it be fare increases leading to lower demand, service cuts, less staff and more unemployment. Far better to scrap HS2 and admit demand isn't there as the way things are going we won't be travelling in vast numbers for a long while yet. Tories all about ruining the UK whilst watching their bank balance grow!
should never hav been privatised , nor the us industry
Make British Rail Great Again?🤔
Fabulous news, let's get back to running an integrated network that is ran for passengers not profit.
Pay wall. Imagine having to pay for the privilege of knowing how the Tories are going to wreck us....again..... Apparently, only people with money are to be educated. #GTTO of all ilks
It still won't be proper public ownership the services will still be operated by private companies but hey it is a step in the right direction
A quick Google of the phrase "rail franchises to be scrapped" shows headlines saying almost exactly the same thing about an announcement "in days" in Feb 2020, Dec 2019, October 2019, April 2019, May 2018...
Shocking to see FirstGroup awarded this massive bailout to run Great Western Railway. Why should we subsidise their profits until at least 26 June 2021? 💰💸 Grant Shapps & Rishi Sunak must #TakeBackOurTrains to save money and improve services in the long-term 👉 bringbackbritishrail.org/takebackourtrains ...
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I think the DoT have more pressing matters to deal with than taking over GWR. Must be considering nationalising BA, Easyjet and BAA at least.
Tory owned, tory bastards!
My bum, she is sore. No more please, Tories, no more ...
I do not agree with Nationalisation as a whole BUT national infrastructure, obviously including the railways, should not have been privatised. The railways should be bought into public ownership especially given the amount of taxpayers money given to them.
Similar situation on the - unnecessarily - new South Western Railways, and absolutely no policing of masks!
More bailouts for the ailing privatised rail structures ? It now reminds me of the 1970s when the car industry's British Leyland and Chrysler Europe was being bailed out too.
It what i call the Tories looking after their own.
There useless, when other TOC's have been brought back in to government control, why should they be made a special case
expropriate. No compensation. Why buy what you already own......
Brown envelopes all round?
It's hardly privately run if it needs bailouts. Ridiculous concept.
The tories will do anything to prevent it being re-nationialised, after all they created this mess in the first place back in 1997.
Its not a bail out as such, the government will pay the bills and take the revenue, Worst will get a small fee for managing thectrain services on the governments behalf, its effectively nationalised as are all the other franchises. If the Joris and his chums hadnt have stepped in the trains would have stopped running months ago.
need a unified system that talks to each other
Left wing whining about the Tories again.just like the moaning unions. If only that prick Corbyn would have won eh. We would all be ok then. And Dianne Abbott in charge of national security. The railway would have been shut months ago if the government hadn't stepped in
3 months ago
Private rail companies stand to make £500 million from coronavirus bailouts 💰💸 Today we joined our friends at RMT, We Own It & the Association of British Commuters in writing to every MP in the country to demand they act to bring railways back into public ownership now. Read our #TakeBackOurTrains letter 📝👉 bit.ly/3eNgshqResearch reveals that private rail companies stand to make £500 Million from Coronavirus bailouts while passengers and rail unions call for nationalisation.
Britain's private rail companies stand to make almost £500 million in profits over the next 12 months according to new research by rail union RMT, amid widespread speculation that the government is about to extend its Emergency Measures Agreements.
Analysis of ministerial answers to questions in Parliament indicate that the government's Emergency Measures Agreements (EMAs) will see the government hand over around £231 million in operating profits to the train operating companies over a 12 month period. The train operating companies are currently lobbying the government to extend the agreements for a further 18 months. These same agreements also entail the government 'picking up the tab' in full for the lease charges that would be paid by the train operating companies to the rolling stock companies, the 'ROSCOs'. Analysis of the ROSCOs' accounts shows that in the last year, they made profits of £241 million. If the government renews the EMAs and continues to bail out the train operating companies, we could see around £500 million in desperately needed public funds leaking out of the railways into private profit.
Groups representing passengers and rail workers have written to MPs from across the political spectrum calling on them to demand proper scrutiny of any government decision on the EMAs and urging them to support nationalisation of the network to stop the scandalous profiteering at public expense. The letter, sent on behalf of rail unions and passenger groups, says that Britain needs a safe, affordable and accessible railway to support public transport and decarbonisation and that every penny of public money should be used to invest in a recovery plan that will get badly needed rail services back on track rather than leaking out into private profit.
RMT Senior Assistant General Secretary Mick Lynch said;
"We desperately need a properly funded rail network to play its crucial role in fighting climate change and to keep the lifeblood of our economy flowing. Now more than ever we need every penny of public money invested in building a safe, affordable, accessible railway, not leeched out of the system by a small group of big businesses with a consistent record of failure."
Ellen Lees, campaigns officer at We Own It said:
"If the government continues to pursue bailouts of the rail industry, they'll once again be ignoring the reality that's staring them straight in the face. No matter how many times they try to prop up a failing system, the private rail companies will always come crawling back cap in hand for more cash.
"It's time we ended this farce. Instead of funnelling millions into the pockets of private companies, we should bring our railways into public hands – so they can work for people and the planet, not for private profit."
Emily Yates, Co-Founder of the Association of British Commuters said;
"Passenger trust is more important than ever, but it has been severely damaged by years of crisis on the railways. Public ownership is now the only way to restore this trust, and start building the integrated, efficient and accountable system we deserve."
Ellie Harrison, Founder, Bring Back British Rail said;
"Privatised rail has never worked. 'Natural monopolies' like our railways need to be centrally co-ordinated and run for the public good. Now the coronavirus crisis has laid bare this simple truth. Public transport is an essential public service to get our key workers to their jobs. We must stop the bailouts to failing private rail companies, and seize this opportunity to 'take back our trains' for good." ...
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Making a profit out of illness and death is just plain sick and uncaring greed. As usual, Profit before People, money matters, people don't. Tory mantra.
Parasites. 🤬
They are on their way to be renationalised. But keep the pressure on.
Is this Ellie Harrison the TV :Presenter?. Ask her how much better the Rail Service is from her local station in the Cotswolds to London since de-nationalisation.
RMT are too busy worrying about black lives matter and whining about tories to worry about the railway
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What Groovy Can Do For You
Depending on your background and experience, you are probably interested in different features of Groovy. It is unlikely that anyone will require every aspect of Groovy in their day-to-day work, just as no one uses the whole of the mammoth framework provided by the Java standard libraries. To get a clear idea of why Groovy was developed and what drives its design see our earlier article, Your Way to Groovy.
This section presents interesting Groovy features and areas of applicability for Java professionals, script programmers, and pragmatic, extreme, and agile programmers.
We recognize that developers rarely have just one role within their jobs and may well have to take on each of these identities in turn. However, it is helpful to focus on how Groovy helps in the kinds of situations typically associated with each role.
Groovy for Java professionals
If you consider yourself a Java professional, you probably have years of experience in Java programming. You know all the important parts of the Java Runtime API and most likely the APIs of a lot of additional Java packages.
But-be honest-there are times when you cannot leverage this knowledge, such as when faced with an everyday task like recursively searching through all files below the current directory. If you're like us, programming such an ad-hoc task in Java is just too much effort.
But as you will learn in this book, with Groovy you can quickly open the console and type
groovy -e "new File('.').eachFileRecurse { println it }"
to print all filenames recursively.
Even if Java had an eachFileRecurse method and a matching FileListener interface, you would still need to explicitly create a class, declare a main method, save the code as a file, and compile it, and only then could you run it. For the sake of comparison, let's see what the Java code would look like, assuming the existence of an appropriate eachFileRecurse method:
Notice how the intent of the code (printing each file) is obscured by the scaffolding code Java requires you to write in order to end up with a complete program.
Besides command-line availability and code beauty, Groovy allows you to bring dynamic behavior to Java applications, such as through expressing business rules, allowing smart configurations, or even implementing domain specific languages.
You have the options of using static or dynamic types and working with precompiled code or plain Groovy source code with on-demand compiling. As a developer, you can decide where and when you want to put your solution "in stone" and where it needs to be flexible. With Groovy, you have the choice.
This should give you enough safeguards to feel comfortable incorporating Groovy into your projects so you can benefit from its features.
Groovy for script programmers
As a script programmer, you may have worked in Perl, Ruby, Python, or other dynamic (non-scripting) languages such as Smalltalk, Lisp, or Dylan.
But the Java platform has an undeniable market share, and it's fairly common that folks like you work with the Java language to make a living. Corporate clients often run a Java standard platform (e.g. J2EE), allowing nothing but Java to be developed and deployed in production. You have no chance of getting your ultraslick scripting solution in there, so you bite the bullet, roll up your sleeves, and dig through endless piles of Java code, thinking all day, "If I only had [your language here], I could replace this whole method with a single line!" We confess to having experienced this kind of frustration.
Groovy can give you relief and bring back the fun of programming by providing advanced language features where you need them: in your daily work. By allowing you to call methods on anything, pass blocks of code around for immediate or later execution, augment existing library code with your own specialized semantics, and use a host of other powerful features, Groovy lets you express yourself clearly and achieve miracles with little code.
Just sneak the groovy-all-*.jar file into your project's classpath, and you're there.
Today, software development is seldom a solitary activity, and your teammates (and your boss) need to know what you are doing with Groovy and what Groovy is about. This book aims to be a device you can pass along to others so they can learn, too. (Of course, if you can't bear the thought of parting with it, you can tell them to buy their own copies. We won't mind.)
Groovy for pragmatic programmers, extremos, and agilists
If you fall into this category, you probably already have an overloaded bookshelf, a board full of index cards with tasks, and an automated test suite that threatens to turn red at a moment's notice. The next iteration release is close, and there is anything but time to think about Groovy. Even uttering the word makes your pair-programming mate start questioning your state of mind.
One thing that we've learned about being pragmatic, extreme, or agile is that every now and then you have to step back, relax, and assess whether your tools are still sharp enough to cut smoothly. Despite the ever-pressing project schedules, you need to sharpen the saw regularly. In software terms, that means having the knowledge and resources needed and using the right methodology, tools, technologies, and languages for the task at hand.
Groovy will be an invaluable tool in your box for all automation tasks that you are likely to have in your projects. These range from simple build automation, continuous integration, and reporting, up to automated documentation, shipment, and installation. The Groovy automation support leverages the power of existing solutions such as Ant and Maven, while providing a simple and concise language means to control them. Groovy even helps with testing, both at the unit and functional levels, helping us test-driven folks feel right at home.
Hardly any school of programmers applies as much rigor and pays as much attention as we do when it comes to self-describing, intention-revealing code. We feel an almost physical need to remove duplication while striving for simpler solutions. This is where Groovy can help tremendously.
Before Groovy, I (Dierk) used other scripting languages (preferably Ruby) to
sketch some design ideas, do a spike-a programming experiment to assess the
feasibility of a task-and run a functional prototype. The downside was that I was
never sure if what I was writing would also work in Java. Worse, in the end I had
the work of porting it over or redoing it from scratch. With Groovy, I can do all
the exploration work directly on my target platform.
Recently, Guillaume and I did a spike on prime number disassembly.¹ We started with a small Groovy solution that did the job cleanly but not efficiently. Using Groovy's interception capabilities, we unit-tested the solution and counted the number of operations. Because the code was clean, it was a breeze to optimize the solution and decrease the operation count. It would have been much more difficult to recognize the optimization potential in Java code. The final result can be used from Java as it stands, and although we certainly still have the option of porting the optimized solution to plain Java, which would give us another performance gain, we can defer the decision until the need arises.
The seamless interplay of Groovy and Java opens two dimensions of optimizing code: using Java for code that needs to be optimized for runtime performance, and using Groovy for code that needs to be optimized for flexibility and readability.
Along with all these tangible benefits, there is value in learning Groovy for its own sake. It will open your mind to new solutions, helping you to perceive new concepts when developing software, whichever language you use.
No matter what kind of programmer you are, we hope you are now eager to get some Groovy code under your fingers.
Running Groovy
First, we need to introduce you to the tools you'll be using to run and optionally compile Groovy code. If you want to try these out as you read, you'll need to have Groovy installed, of course.
There are three commands to execute Groovy code and scripts, as shown in Table 1. Each of the three different mechanisms of running Groovy is demonstrated in the following sections with examples and screenshots. Groovy can also be "run" like any ordinary Java program, as you will see in the section "Running a compiled Groovy script with Java", and there also is a special integration with Ant that is explained in the section "Compiling and running with Ant". Table 1 Commands to execute Groovy
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This article was originally published on February 2, 2007