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As reported last week (and advanced this week on the Atlantic Yards Report), the Nets, Yankees, Mets and NYC are lobbying the IRS to keep open a loophole that would allow the weathly sports team to reap the rewards of triple tax exempt bonds.
Today a co-signed letter was sent to New York's federal representatives urging them to make sure that are no more giveaways for sports facilities, facilities which bring no economic benefit to the public but clear, lucrative benefits to the teams' owners.
The letter concludes: Rather than bending the rules for wealthy private interests, we need to ensure that public dollars are wisely invested in projects that will benefit all New Yorkers.
As you are aware, the New York Yankees are building a new stadium across the street from their current home in the Bronx. The project is being supported with significant subsidies including $943 million in tax free bonds. Good Jobs New York has done extensive research on the Yankee stadium project – estimating taxpayer subsidies for the project at $800 million - including a concise report "Insider Baseball" that is available on its website at: www.goodjobsny.org/inside_baseball_preview.htm.
Now, it has become known that the Yankees are seeking an additional $350 million in tax free bonds, and that New York City officials have confirmed they are seeking support from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that would allow the New York City Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to issue triple tax exempt bonds on behalf of this project and others like the proposed Brooklyn Nets Arena.
The New York City Independent Budget Office estimates that the proposed $350 million in bonds for the Yankees would cost city, state and federal taxpayers $83 million. With cost overruns for the promised replacement parkland (the new Yankee stadium is being built on what were once Macombs and parts of Mullaly Parks) taxpayers are already paying more than was originally stated. It is unclear what the taxpayer contribution for tax free bonds for the Brooklyn Arena would be, but the larger Brooklyn Atlantic Yards project has already received about $300 million in direct subsidies.
In 2006 the Bloomberg Administration successfully lobbied the IRS to grant a special ruling stating that tax-free bonds issued by the IDA for new Yankees and Mets baseball stadiums could be repaid using PILOTs (payments in lieu of taxes). Many tax experts believe that is in direct contradiction to the intention of the 1986 Tax Reform Act –championed by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan - which explicitly stated that bonds sold for future sports construction projects would be taxable. The Act left a loophole, however, allowing tax-free bonds to be issued if 90% or more of the debt would be repaid from generally applicable taxes.
IRS regulations state that tax-free bonds may be repaid with PILOTs only if the PILOTs sufficiently resemble generally applicable taxes. Since the teams would not be subject to property tax payments because the Yankee and Mets stadiums are on city owned property, we argue that the PILOTs are a special charge - levied for the sole purpose of repaying bonds - and do not resemble generally applicable taxes. Shortly after the special ruling, the IRS sought to clarify its regulations by proposing changes that would require PILOT payments to be commensurate with actual tax payments based on current assessments.
We ask that you clearly communicate to the Treasury Department and the IRS that its regulations should be clarified to ensure that in the future no sports facilities will be eligible to receive federal tax exempt financing. The issues involved are laid out carefully in a May 2008 letter by Rep. Dennis Kucinich available at http://domesticpolicy.oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=2014.
Please let us know your views on this matter and if you have questions that we can help you with. You may contact Bettina Damiani of Good Jobs New York at 212.721.7996 or Bettina(@)goodjobsfirst.org. Rather than bending the rules for wealthy private interests, we need to ensure that public dollars are wisely invested in projects that will benefit all New Yorkers. | {
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Since the beginning of war, over 7.2 million refugees – the vast majority of them children and women – have fled across Europe. Facing immediate challenges accessing basic services, refugee children and young people will also experience the long-term impacts of the war as they start to rebuild their lives and recover from the suffering they endured.
Stand By Me is a ground-breaking partnership, which sees The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award in the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia partner with UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, on a two-year project to provide vital support to young people who have been displaced or impacted by the war in Ukraine.
Working in collaboration with UNICEF, the Stand By Me programme will leverage the Award's framework for non-formal education and learning as a tool for community cohesion. It will enable displaced young Ukrainians to continue their studies and prepare for work and for life, whilst also offering crucial moral and peer support via a young Czech, Slovak or Romanian buddy over a two-year period.
The partnership will align UNICEF's operational expertise in humanitarian crises with the existing infrastructure and presence of the Award, allowing Stand By Me to be rolled out quickly and efficiently across the three countries.
The Award in the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia initiated the scheme to facilitate communication and mitigate the impact of the war in Ukraine on young people. The partnership will enable young people in these host countries, to support their peers as they flee war-torn Ukraine. It aims to help them to integrate them into schools, communities and society.
UNICEF is pleased to work together with young people and build partnerships with the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award and other active youth organizations that are dedicated to empowering and mobilizing young people," said Philippe Cory, Deputy Regional Director of the UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office. "Working together with international, national and municipal partners and with young Ukrainians and host communities in Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic the "Stand by Me" programme will build the skills, competence and confidence of youth, as well as bridges of understanding and solidarity among young people across Europe.
Philippe Cory
Deputy Regional Director of the UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office
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Q: SQL Filtrar relacion muchos a muchos según varios valores sobre el mismo campo tengo las tablas personas, materias y personas_materias con una relacion muchos a muchos.
Necesito hacer un query para seleccionar personas que estan en dos materias diferentes.
Ejemplo de lo que he probado
SELECT *
FROM persona p
JOIN personas_materias pm1 ON p.id = pm1.idPersona
JOIN materia m1 ON pm1.idMateria = m1.id AND m1.nombre = 'INGLES'
JOIN personas_materias pm2 ON p.id = pm2.idPersona
JOIN materia m2 ON pm2.idMateria = m2.id AND m2.nombre = 'MATEMATICA'
Pero lo estoy plantenado mal porque no funciona. Me podrían guiar un poco?
Muchas gracias
A: Prueba esta consulta
SELECT
materia.nombre as Materia materia.nombre as Persona
FROM
materia m
INNER JOIN personas_materias pm ON m.id = pm.idMateria
INNER JOIN persona p ON p.id = pm.idPersona
en caso que quieras agregar una condición solo tienes que agregar un where a la consulta
SELECT
materia.nombre as Materia materia.nombre as Persona
FROM
materia m
INNER JOIN personas_materias pm ON m.id = pm.idMateria
INNER JOIN persona p ON p.id = pm.idPersona
WHERE
m.nombre = "MATEMATICA"
A: he replicado tu modelo y estos son los datos de prueba con los que he trabajado:
Tabla de materias con los siguientes datos:
Tabla de Usuarios con los siguientes datos:
Le he asignado 3 materias al usuario con id 1
Y finalmente con un inner simple, he capturado los datos de todos los usuarios en la tabla de relación. Claro, aquí puedes hacer los where que necesites, pero los inner que necesitas son los que están en la siguiente query:
Saludos!
A: Tienes diferentes maneras de realizar esta consulta. La primera es utilizando JOIN y la segunda SUBQUERIES. De lo que entiendo, necesitas obtener una lista de personas que están matriculadas en INGLES y MATEMATICAS. Si esto es correcto, te envío las siguientes consultas:
1. JOIN: utilizando JOIN, los registros se multiplicarán por la cantidad de materias que tenga una persona. Es decir, si John Doe está matriculado en 2 materias, aparecerá 2 veces. Si Jane Doe esta en 4 materias, aparecerá 4 veces.
SELECT *
FROM persona p
JOIN personas_materias pm1 ON p.id = pm1.idPersona
JOIN materia m1 ON pm1.idMateria = m1.id AND m1.nombre IN ('INGLES', 'MATEMATICA')
SELECT *
FROM persona p
JOIN personas_materias pm1 ON p.id = pm1.idPersona
JOIN materia m1 ON pm1.idMateria = m1.id
WHERE m1.nombre IN ('INGLES', 'MATEMATICA')
2. SUBQUERIES: Con subqueries y la condición EXISTS te permitirá mostrar los registros de la tabla persona que cumplan con la condición del subquery.
SELECT *
FROM persona p
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT 1 FROM personas_materias pm1
JOIN materia m1 ON pm1.idMateria = m1.id
WHERE pm1.idPerson = p.id AND m1.nombre IN ('INGLES', 'MATEMATICA')
)
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Latest coronavirus updates as Treasury commissions capital gains tax review
It comes after the Office for Budget Responsibility warned the UK economy might not recover until 2024
Max ChannonLive and Trending Editor
George ThorpeRegional Content Editor
A capital gains tax (CGT) review has been commission by the Treasury as Chancellor Rishi Sunak attempts to find a way of paying back the billions spent to support the UK's economy during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) has been asked by the chancellor to look at how CGT - which is applied on profits on homes and other assets - is currently applied.
It comes after the Office for Budget Responsibility said measures that have been implemented by the Government during the COVID-19 pandemic to help the UK's economy would see an "unprecedented peacetime rise in borrowing" this year, escalating to between 13% and 21% of GDP and reaching up to £322 billion.
The fiscal watchdog also said that the economy in the UK might not recover until 2024.
This is a breaking news blog and updates will appear at the end of this article.
However, the Treasury said there is no truth in the suggest that the CGT review will be used to raise taxes and pin the borrowing bill on the wealthy.
A Treasury spokeswoman said: "It is standard practice to keep taxes under review.
"Over the last few years the OTS has reviewed most of the major tax regimes apart from CGT, and a review of CGT will now complete its review of all the major taxes.
"There is no expectation or plans for policy changes as a result."
Scroll down for updates.
Cancer Research UK to cut jobs and research spend 18:42
Confusion over sandwich shop mask use after Gove seen without face covering 18:41
Chancellor warns of 'tough choices ahead' as he refuses to discuss tax rises 18:40
Pubs to remain closed in Ireland until August 10 18:39
Nando's, KFC, McDonalds, Wetherspons and Pret a Manger cut prices 17:32
Cancer Research UK to cut jobs and research spend
The UK's biggest cancer charity is to make "significant" reductions to the amount it spends on research and cut jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Cancer Research UK said that its planned research spend over the next four to five years needs to reduce by £150 million.
And it also announced plans to cut almost a quarter of its jobs, with up to 345 redundancies over the next six months.
The charity has projected a £300 million loss of fundraising income over the next three years, including £160 million in this year alone.
In a statement the charity released details of its plan to "rebuild and adapt".
But it said that its research spend over the next four to five years will now be £250 million – a cut of £150 million from what it had planned.
Michelle Mitchell, chief executive at Cancer Research UK said: "We're living through a global crisis unlike any other and, as it's unfolded, it's become clear that there'll be a huge economic impact for years to come.
"As the world's leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research, we must always focus on delivering our pioneering work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
"We made some very difficult decisions early on to mitigate the impact on our work; we moved all of our staff to 80% pay, furloughed 60% of staff, and cut £44 million from our research. But it is with a heavy heart that I can confirm we will have to reduce the size of our workforce, and make significant cuts to our research spend, as a result of the situation we find ourselves in.
"With such a significant shortfall in income, we cannot afford to keep spending at the same levels. But that doesn't make those decisions any easier.
"We're keeping our dedicated, hard-working staff up to date on developments as we have them, and their professionalism throughout this period has been hugely appreciated.
"I am confident that through our world-leading research, information and influencing, we will continue to make transformative steps in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
"This plan sets the direction for a new phase in the life of Cancer Research UK and will help us respond to the changed world, quicker than we've ever done before. We will emerge a streamlined charity, but still with a resolute drive for impact. Together, we will still beat cancer and realise our ambition to improve cancer survival to three in four by 2034."
In June, some of Britain's leading medical research charities issued warnings that research into some of the UK's deadliest diseases is being "devastated" by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) warned that medical research is being hampered by the economic challenges posed by coronavirus.
Many charities have described huge losses in income as they warned that research efforts could be impacted for years to come.
The AMRC has called for the Government to commit to a matched funding agreement to put the sector on stable footing.
In the first year it is calling for a cash boost of £310 million.
Confusion over sandwich shop mask use after Gove seen without face covering
Downing Street has contradicted Matt Hancock on whether face coverings will be compulsory in sandwich shops after he defended Cabinet colleague Michael Gove's maskless purchase in Pret A Manger.
The Health Secretary said coverings would need to be worn in shops when the law is enforced to tackle the coronavirus spread in England from July 24.
But No 10 later said there would be an exemption for takeaway purchases.
The contradiction came after senior Cabinet Office minister Mr Gove, who had earlier sparked confusion by suggesting face coverings would not be compulsory, was photographed uncovered in Pret A Manger despite insisting it was "basic good manners" to wear a mask.
It was in stark contrast to International Development Secretary Liz Truss, who minutes earlier had left the same shop in Westminster wearing a blue covering.
Questioned over who was correct, Mr Hancock told Sky News: "You do need to wear a face mask in Pret because Pret is a shop.
"If there's table service, it is not necessary to have a mask. But in any shop, you do need a mask. So, if you're going up to the counter in Pret to buy takeaway that is a shop … but if you go to your local pub you can't go to the bar."
But Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official spokesman later gave an alternative explanation.
"We will be publishing the full guidance shortly but my understanding is that it wouldn't be mandatory if you went in, for example, to a sandwich shop in order to get a takeaway to wear a face covering," he said.
"It is mandatory … we are talking about supermarkets and other shops rather than food shops."
Mr Hancock had defended Mr Gove by saying that the photographs were taken "before I announced the change in policy to the House of Commons" on Tuesday afternoon.
However, the pictures were taken on Tuesday morning, after the policy was announced in a press release to journalists.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who was previously criticised for not wearing a face covering during a visit to Wagamama, later came down on the side of wearing masks in Pret when he posted an image of himself during a well-covered visit to the sandwich chain.
The law change announced in the Commons on Tuesday afternoon came after a period of confusion, which Labour seized on as "days of ministerial muddle".
On Friday, Mr Johnson said the Government was looking at "stricter" rules.
But on Sunday Mr Gove said he did not believe face coverings should be mandatory and that it was better to "trust people's common sense", adding that it was "basic good manners" to cover up in shops.
However, the Cabinet disagreement was won by those in favour of masks, and failure to wear face coverings in shops in England can be punished with a £100 fine from July 24.
Shadow health minister Justin Madders said the Government's position was "hopeless".
"We have had mixed messages from Government all week and it seems that once again they are making it up as they go along," he said.
"We need clear and consistent messages about when the wearing of a face covering will be compulsory, not attempts at redefining what a shop is.
"Public safety and confidence are key to preventing a second wave and the Government need to raise their game in ensuring that everyone knows when the wearing of a mask is required."
Chancellor warns of 'tough choices ahead' as he refuses to discuss tax rises
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has refused to confirm whether tax rises will be implemented to pay for Covid-19 borrowing but warned that "tough choices" lay ahead for the country.
Mr Sunak's decision to ask the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) to review capital gains tax sparked speculation that he was preparing to raise the asset tax as the Government seeks to rebuild public finances following the collapse of economic activity during the coronavirus lockdown.
Giving evidence to the Commons Treasury Committee on Wednesday, the Number 11 incumbent said it was "business-as-usual practice" for the Treasury to analyse how the tax system was functioning.
But the former local government minister confirmed that "tough choices" would have to be made as the Government looks to pay back borrowing, which the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted could reach up to £322 billion this year.
Mr Sunak said: "I say this clearly to any journalist I speak to, any colleague – I'm going to give the same answer, which is I'm just not going to comment on future fiscal policy and people should not then infer, 'Ah, you didn't rule this out or you do rule this in'.
"We of course look at everything all the time, that's what we do.
"In terms of what does that mean for spending and taxes, those are decisions that will have to wait until we get to Budgets but there are tough choices ahead, that is clear.
"We have an ambition to deliver upon our priorities and the promises we made, we've been through hopefully this once-in-a-lifetime episode, it has had an enormous impact on our economy, on jobs, our public finances and that means there are tough choices to come.
"It is difficult for us to go into more detail than that."
Mr Sunak said there would need to be a conversation about how public services are funded in the wake of the crisis.
Responding to a comment from fellow Tory MP Steve Baker that some economic experts thought the UK had reached its "taxable capacity," the Chancellor said: "We want public services, we have expectations on the Government to provide certain things and we have to look at how we are going to fund these things and we must have that conversation in the round.
"We can't choose to only talk about one side of it without having reference to the other.
"I hope we can, both with the country and with colleagues, have a sensible conversation about all these things in the round as we confront some of the tough choices that are coming our way over the next few months."
During the two-hour session Mr Sunak, who was pictured wearing a face covering while buying lunch from a Pret A Manger before the committee hearing, said he wanted to restore public finances to a "sustainable footing" over the "medium term" following the pandemic.
He also said government bailouts for individual companies impacted by the downturn should be "exceptionally rare".
It comes after Virgin Atlantic unveiled a £1.2 billion bailout package on Tuesday involving only private funds.
"The bar for that kind of intervention is very high," he said.
The Cabinet minister apologised to those workers who had not been eligible for furlough or self-employed support during the lockdown but said it was time to "focus on the future" and that the Treasury "could not introduce new schemes".
Campaigners, who say three million people have been denied financial support, delivered a petition to Mr Sunak's office on Wednesday calling for assistance to prevent businesses from collapsing.
Pubs to remain closed in Ireland until August 10
Pubs in Ireland that do not serve food are set to remain closed until August 10.
Currently only bars that provide a substantial meal are allowed to sell alcohol with it.
Ministers are expected to delay plans to fully reopen the industry from next week over concerns about the number of young people who have contracted Covid-19.
Face coverings are also set to be made mandatory in shops following Wednesday evening's Cabinet meeting.
Medics have expressed concern about the number of coronavirus cases in recent weeks as lockdown eases.
Monday was supposed to mark the next stage of Ireland's road map out of social distancing restrictions which have paralysed life since March.
Dr Ronan Glynn, acting chief medical officer at the Department of Health, said: "We are at a sensitive stage in the pandemic – this requires caution and collective effort to hold firm and keep the virus suppressed in the community."
Two more people have died with Covid-19 in Ireland, the National Public Health Emergency Team said, bringing the total to 1,748.
As of midnight on Tuesday, the health system had been notified of 14 more confirmed cases.
On Wednesday, Irish police said the vast majority of licensed premises had been found to be in compliance with regulations and licensing laws.
In 37 individual cases – including 26 during the weekend of July 3-5 – officers found potential breaches of health regulations or licensing laws even after providing premises with the opportunity to rectify the situation.
In all these cases, gardai found customers consuming alcohol, but no evidence of food also being consumed and no evidence of receipts to show food had been sold.
John Twomey, deputy commissioner in charge of policing and security, said: "The continued high level of compliance among licensed premises is very welcome.
"However, there remains a minority who are putting their employees, their customers and their local community at risk of getting Covid-19."
Nando's, KFC, McDonalds, Wetherspons and Pret a Manger cut prices
McDonald's, Nando's, KFC, Wetherspoons and Pret A Manger are among food chains planning price cuts for customers as £4.1 billion of VAT cuts come into force.
The Government has slashed VAT on hot meals, accommodation and attractions from 20% to 5% for the next six months.
However, not all hospitality firms are expected to pass the full benefit of the tax cut on to customers, after taking a severe hit from the coronavirus crisis.
Food chains to cut prices as £4bn VAT cuts come into force
McDonald's, Nando's and Pret A Manger and KFC are among food chains planning price cuts for customers as £4.1 billion of VAT cuts come into force.
Downing Street said "we want businesses to pass on the benefit to customers if they can", but that it is ultimately the decision for firms themselves.
Bernard Donoghue, director of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (Alva), told the BBC he expects the cut will go towards helping venues "repair their finances as opposed to being passed on to customers".
The Treasury estimates that households could save £160 a year as a result of the changes.
Last week, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the cut, which will remain in force until January 12, alongside plans to give people a 50% discount, up to £10 per head, to eat out in restaurants in August.
Pret A Manger said the price of its coffee will be cut from Wednesday following the VAT change, with the price of hot food to be cut from Friday.
The high street chain said the price of a takeaway latte will fall 35p to £2.40 as a result of the tax break.
Pret is one of a number of under-pressure chains to announce hundreds of job cuts to mitigate the impact of lockdown on its operations.
McDonald's said it is recommending a cut in the price of popular items on its menu and meal deals to its franchisees.
It said it intends to reduce the price of Happy Meals by 30p and breakfast meals by 50p, with price cuts also recommended for Big Macs, Quarter Pounders and McNuggets.
Rival KFC said it will reduce the price of sharing buckets by £1 and slash the cost of certain "fan favourites" by 50p.
Nando's said it will pass on "100% of the benefits" from the tax break to its customers, helping to reduce the price of a quarter chicken by 55p.
The VAT cut does not apply to cold takeaway food, such as sandwiches or salads, and alcoholic drinks.
Pub chain Wetherspoons said it will use the tax cut on hot food and cold drinks to help fund lower prices on some of its most popular beers.
However, it was fiercely criticised by beer industry leaders, who said the move was "misleading".
A joint statement by Tom Stainer, chief executive of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra), and James Calder, chief executive of the Society for Independent Brewers (Siba), said: "Like all pubs, Wetherspoon will not be able to benefit from a VAT reduction on beer sales and it is disappointing to see them potentially mislead customers into believing cheaper beer prices are as a direct result of the Chancellor's measures."
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official spokesman said: "We want businesses to pass on the benefit to customers if they can, and almost four-fifths of businesses said they did so in 2008.
"But we recognise that many of these businesses have been closed and without income for months, and decisions on prices are ultimately for businesses rather than the Government."
Independent inquiry into Covid-19 will take place, promises Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson has pledged there will be an independent inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Prime Minister told MPs it will "certainly" happen in the future - but said he does not believe now is the right time.
No new coronavirus hospital deaths in Devon and Cornwall for 13th day running
No new COVID-19 coronavirus related deaths have been reported in hospitals in Devon or Cornwall for the 13th day running.
However, sadly, 22 deaths have been reported at hospitals elsewhere in England - with one of these occurring in the South West region. Yesterday, 26 deaths were reported in English hospitals.
PM: 'Every reasonable step' being taken to prepare for second coronavirus spike
Face coverings will have to be worn in shops in England for the "foreseeable future" as part of the Government's efforts to prevent a second wave of coronavirus.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said there is no end date for the requirement to wear coverings as Boris Johnson insisted that the NHS Test and Trace operation to contain the spread of the virus is "as good as or better than" any other system in the world.
The Prime Minister was challenged about preparations for a second wave following the publication of a report commissioned by Government advisers warning that there could be 120,000 hospital deaths in a "reasonable worst-case scenario" if the disease rebounds in winter.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Johnson is "kidding no-one" by claiming the Test and Trace operation had been a "stunning success".
The report from the Academy of Medical Sciences, commissioned by the Government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, says action must be taken now to mitigate the potential for a second peak of Covid-19, including scaling up the Test and Trace system.
At Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: "Our Test and Trace system is as good as or better than any other system in the world and, yes, it will play a vital part in ensuring that we do not have a second spike this winter."
Some 144,000 people had self-isolated as a result of being contacted by NHS Test and Trace, he said.
Asked if he had read the scientists' findings, Mr Johnson said he was "aware of the report" and claimed the Government was taking "every reasonable step" to prepare the country to cope with a possible second spike in cases.
The Prime Minister accused the Labour leader of "endlessly knocking the confidence of the people of this country" by criticising the Government's actions.
Sir Keir said the percentage of people contacted and asked to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace had gone down since it was launched.
"It's perfectly possible to support track and trace and point out the problems," he told the Prime Minister.
"Standing up every week and saying it's a 'stunning success' is kidding no-one – that isn't giving people confidence in the system.
"They would want a Prime Minister who stands up and says 'There are problems and this is what I'm going to do about them' – not this rhetoric about 'stunning success' when it's obviously not true."
At Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson also committed to an "independent inquiry" into the handling of the pandemic, but said now is not the "right moment" for it.
But Downing Street was unable to give any further details about the nature of the independent inquiry when pressed on whether it will be judge-led, when it will begin or whether it will be under the 2005 Inquiries Act.
Instead, a No 10 spokesman said: "It's an independent inquiry. I haven't got any more detail for you on how it would work. We will set that out in due course."
Earlier, Mr Hancock defended the move to make face coverings compulsory in England's shops from July 24, despite resistance from some Tories.
There have also been warnings that the move will deter shoppers just as high streets are reopening with the easing of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
However, Mr Hancock insisted the wearing of face coverings in shops and on public transport is essential to prevent the virus getting out of control again.
"People will have to wear masks in shops and on public transport and in the NHS for the foreseeable future," he told BBC Breakfast.
"The virus exists only to multiply and, without any measures, we know that each person infects another two to three people so we do have to have these measures in place, even though the number of cases are really low, to keep a grip on the virus."
But the Health Secretary denied reports that he is planning to extend the requirement to offices.
"That isn't going to happen and the reason is in offices you tend to spend a lot of time with the same people," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"Where the mask benefits is from you spreading the disease to other people when you have relatively short interactions with lots of different people."
Mr Hancock also played down reports that the Government is preparing to raise capital gains tax (CGT) as it seeks to rebuild the public finances following the collapse of economic activity during the lockdown.
Speculation that Chancellor Rishi Sunak is preparing the ground for a CGT increase – putting the cost of the outbreak on the better-off – was sparked by the disclosure that he had ordered the Office for Tax Simplification to carry out a review of the tax.
However, Mr Hancock told Sky News: "As far as I understand, there is no proposal and the Chancellor is not looking at tax changes now.
"We've just had the summer economic statement and apparently reviews like this are normal all of the time and not connected to any decision one way or the other."
The Treasury said it is "standard practice" to keep all taxes under review.
A spokesman said: "There is no expectation or plans for policy changes as a result."
Face masks in shops: 'Phone police as last resort', shop workers told
Shop workers have been told they can call the police "as a last resort" if customers do not comply with a new rule on wearing face masks.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs that anyone failing to comply with the order in England could face a fine of up to £100.
The wearing of face coverings will be made mandatory in shops from July 24.
Compliance with coronavirus quarantine rules 'incredibly high'
Compliance with coronavirus quarantine measures by people travelling in and out of the UK has been "incredibly high", the Home Secretary said.
Priti Patel told MPs 383,000 spot checks were carried out between June 6 and July 12 and the compliance rate was 99.9%.
Speaking to the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday, she said the majority of the checks were carried out at the border.
Shona Dunn, second permanent secretary to the Home Office, added that as of last week around 20% of those were follow-up checks on people who have come into the country which were carried out by Public Health England.
Last week, it emerged not a single person had been fined by police in England and Wales for breaching the quarantine rules after arriving from abroad up until June 22.
The figures came as the measures for people returning to or visiting the UK from a list of countries, including popular holiday destinations, were relaxed.
Many Covid-19 treatment trials too small and often politicised, warns expert
Many clinical trials to find a treatment for Covid-19 are too small to show definitive results and can end up being politicised, an expert scientific adviser to the Government has warned.
Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, said the clinical community needs to take "a harsh look at ourselves", with more than a third of trials enrolling fewer than 100 patients.
Speaking at a weekly Chatham House briefing on the pandemic, he said that, while the UK's Recovery trial – the world's largest randomised clinical trial of potential Covid-19 treatments – and the World Health Organisation's Solidarity trial, which had recruited nearly 5,500 patients as of the beginning of July, have been done "at scale", many other trials are too small.
He said statements made by politicians in relation to drugs, which ended up not being true, had, in his opinion, "delayed and slowed down our progress in developing treatments".
Sir Jeremy said: "I think there are 1,200 clinical trials currently in place around the world, of which 16% are looking at chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine. That doesn't make any organised sense."
Last month, Oxford University's Recovery trial stopped enrolling participants to its hydroxychloroquine arm after concluding that it showed no clinical benefit.
US President Donald Trump has previously spoken publicly about taking hydroxychloroquine despite having no symptoms of Covid-19.
Sir Jeremy said: "Many of the trials, and I think here the clinical community does need to take a harsh look at ourselves, many of the trials are too small.
"I think 40% will enrol less than 100 patients. It's very unlikely in less than 100 patients you're going to provide definitive evidence of the efficacy and safety of a treatment.
"You have to do things at scale as Recovery and Solidarity have done, and small trials will often be unhelpful, and will often be politicised as we have seen in this epidemic, where politicians sadly made statements about certain drugs which proved not to be true and I think delayed and slowed down our progress in developing treatments."
Sir Jeremy, who is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), also warned against "nationalism" when it comes to treatments and a vaccine.
He said the pandemic will affect all of us "until every country manages to steer a way through it", adding: "So there's no point being nationalistic, there's no point saying 'I've got my vaccine in America and nobody else will have it', because that won't work, and it won't actually protect Americans.
"Vaccine nationalism, therapeutic nationalism, has no place in enlightened self-interest, and they have to be seen as global public goods."
Asked about vaccine hopes, he said: "A lot will depend on whether there is actual natural immunity to this infection or not, and can we replicate that with a vaccine."
He added that he would be optimistic, and that, while the first generation of vaccines may not produce the "perfect" inoculation, he thinks there will be "protection, certainly for a period of time that would allow the world to come out of this initial first wave".
Coronavirus outbreaks far more likely in large care homes, study suggests
Outbreaks of coronavirus are up to 20 times more likely in large care homes, according to research.
The NHS Lothian and Edinburgh University study looked at 189 care homes in the health board area and found 70 (37%) of them had experienced a Covid-19 outbreak.
In homes with fewer than 20 residents, the chance of an outbreak was 5%.
But in facilities with 60 to 80 residents, the likelihood rose to between 83% and 100%, according to analysis first reported in The Guardian.
The report suggests creating "bubbles" within homes could help with infection control.
It states: "Although care home size cannot be altered without losing places for existing residents, there may be potential to create discrete units within care homes where smaller numbers of staff and residents are effectively cohorted to create self-contained units.
"Such efforts will be complicated by individual care home built environment, and will be difficult to sustain without rapid outside support during any large Covid-19 outbreak when staff illness and absence may risk compromising safe care.
"Additional measures to respond to new outbreaks of Covid-19 will also be required, including maintaining high provision of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), better support for infection control, ensuring self-isolation and active surveillance of residents and staff to ensure early detection of outbreaks and ongoing transmission, and staffing support for care homes with many staff absent."
There have been more than 55,000 deaths in the UK where Covid-19 has been mentioned on the death certificate, including suspected cases, with nearly 40% of these (21,678) care home residents.
The new report says the impact of Covid-19 is concentrated in a small number of care homes with "repeated or sustained" outbreaks.
It warns that as many care homes for older people and virtually all other facilities do not yet appear to have had an outbreak, there is "considerable risk" of further outbreaks and a large number of deaths in care homes if the incidence of Covid-19 in the community increases again.
It states: "Allowing families and friends to visit residents again is important for quality of life, but needs to be balanced against the need to shield residents of care homes in areas where community incidence is high or increasing.
"Early detection of outbreaks through regular testing, reliable PPE supply, support for infection control, and measures to ensure safe staffing are all likely to be needed to contain the size of established outbreaks."
Royal Navy changes way it trains because of coronavirus
The Royal Navy has changed the way it trains sailors after they leave Phase 1 basic training at HMS Raleigh in Torpoint in Cornwall.
The first groups of newly trained sailors have now been put through their paces in a bespoke course, created to counteract the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their training.
A Royal Navy spokesperson said: "All have recently finished basic training at HMS Raleigh and would usually move straight to their respective Phase 2 training establishments, such as HMS Collingwood for Warfare training and HMS Sultan for Marine Engineering.
"Sustaining every trainee's transition from a civilian to military way of life has been the objective whilst various Phase 2 courses are temporarily suspended."
Significant reduction of virus before lockdown eased, study finds
The rate of coronavirus infection in England was significantly reduced in the month before lockdown restrictions were lifted, a new study has found.
According to the new research from Imperial College London, the rate of infection throughout the country was halving every eight to nine days during May.
There were on average 13 positive cases for every 10,000 people, with an overall reproduction number of 0.57 – lower than previously reported.
For the study, researchers tested more than 120,000 volunteers aged over five across the country for Covid-19.
About 69% of those who tested positive reported no symptoms on the day of the test or the previous week, though they may have developed symptoms later.
Steven Riley, professor of infectious disease dynamics at Imperial College London, said: "The relatively low R value – even towards the end of May – suggests the lockdown was effective in the community.
"I think that it emphasised that our level of adherence in the UK, and the overall average behaviour, was very effective at reducing transmission of the virus.
"That was an open question in my mind before we started the study.
"We knew it had been effective early on from all the other data streams, but as prevalence went lower it wasn't clear that we were still really doing a good job of limiting transmission, and we really were."
The report provides an insight into who was infected with the virus between May 1 and June 1, comparing geography, age, sex, ethnicity, key worker status and symptoms.
Beyond the diminished rate of infection, the research found young adults aged 18 to 24 were more likely to test positive than other age groups.
People of Asian ethnicity were also more likely to test positive than those of white ethnicity, while people working in care homes were at greater risk of being infected during lockdown than the general population.
The report also showed anyone who had recent contact with a known Covid-19 case was 24 times more likely to test positive than those with no such contact, emphasising the importance of contact tracing in keeping the spread of the virus under control.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the study is crucial to the country's ongoing battle with coronavirus.
"This ambitious testing programme will help us better understand the spread of the virus to date, predict how it may spread in the future and inform our response to the pandemic," he said.
"It shows the impact our national lockdown efforts have had and demonstrates that we have taken the right actions at the right time.
"As a country we have made great strides towards beating this virus but we mustn't take our foot off the pedal, and such studies will be vital as we continue to fight this virus."
The study, which has been upscaled and repeated for June, will now undergo peer review before a final report is published.
Plans are currently underway for a second large-scale study, which will use antibody tests to determine how much of the general public has been infected with Covid-19 in the past.
Matt Hancock shakes head and shrugs when quizzed on Dominic Cummings
Matt Hancock shook his head and shrugged when Lorraine Kelly said public confidence and trust in the government had "been eroded" following the alleged breaking of rules by senior officials.
The Health Secretary was appearing on the ITV show to clear up some confusion around new rules which will make it mandatory for people in England to wear face masks in shops from July 24.
Questioning the Health Secretary, Lorraine said: "You wanted to give people more confidence, so that they can shop safely and obviously, protect shop workers, that's terribly important."
Matt Hancock was nodding and agreeing with the ITV presenter, before Lorraine said: "But to feel confident, you have to have trust.
"Would you accept that, over this time, trust has eroded and that's because of lack of clarity, that's because senior figures, we know what happened with Dominic Cummings and other..."
Before Lorraine was able to finish her question, the Health Secretary winced as he shook his head frantically.
UK set for 'incomplete V-shaped' economic recovery, warns Bank rate-setter
The UK economy is set for an "incomplete V-shaped" recovery from the coronavirus crisis as consumer caution and soaring unemployment is set to hinder the bounce-back, a Bank of England policymaker has warned.
In a webinar speech, Bank interest rate-setter Silvana Tenreyro predicted an "interrupted" V-shaped recovery as an initial rebound in activity loses steam towards the end of the year.
She said the first quarterly growth rebound will come between July and September as lockdown restrictions ease further, with data already pointing to a sharp pick-up in purchases held back due to enforced closures.
But she warned: "This will be interrupted by continued risk aversion and voluntary social distancing in some sectors, remaining restrictions on activities in others, and in general by higher unemployment."
She said the recovery is expected to flatten out markedly at the end of the year as rising joblessness leads to falling consumer spending, while many people may still opt to socially distance despite easing restrictions.
She said: "I expect voluntary social distancing to continue to drag on consumption in sectors where the perceived risk of spreading Covid-19 remains high, such as hospitality and travel.
"Recent survey data suggests a majority of people would still be uncomfortable going to indoor restaurants or cinemas, for example."
Her comments follow official data on Tuesday showing that gross domestic product (GDP) grew by a meagre 1.8% in May, leading to warnings of a slower and more protracted recovery.
Economists are now forecasting a fall of up to 20% in GDP between April and June, though activity is set to rebound more strongly in the third quarter.
Ms Tenreyro signalled that she is ready to push for more economy-boosting action, having voted with the majority of the Monetary Policy Committee for another £100 billion of quantitative easing (QE) in June.
But she warned that the impact of the Bank's £745 billion QE bond-buying programme may start to wane, given mounting expectations for negative interest rates.
Fellow rate-setter Andy Haldane, the Bank's chief economist, recently described the shape of the recovery as "so far, so V", but warned over the risk of mass unemployment.
The UK's fiscal watchdog said on Tuesday that Britain's economy may not fully recover until 2024 and is facing an unemployment rate surging potentially as high as 13% from just under 4% now.
The Office for Budget Responsibility said the economy could shrink by as much as 14.3% in 2020 in a worst-case scenario and would still plunge by 10.6% in even its most optimistic projection.
'Rising tide' of infections in Blackburn coronavirus outbreak
Blackburn is facing a "rising tide" of coronavirus cases, centred on its large Asian community.
The Lancashire town brought in extra restrictions on Tuesday and Professor Dominic Harrison, the local authority's director of public health, said the population of 148,000 people was facing a spike in cases in certain areas of the community.
He warned the town had two weeks to get the numbers down before lockdown measures are reversed.
Prof Harrison, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, said: "What we are seeing from looking at the postcode data of those cases is, in the last couple of weeks, is a single case being infected, then going back to a household and all that household becoming infected.
VAT cut comes in today
Plenty of items are set to get cheaper today as new VAT cuts come into place.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the cuts during his 'mini-budget' in order to 'get the sectors moving and protect jobs'.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Sunak said the plan would help protect livelihoods after the economy contracted by 25 per cent in just two months due to Covid-19.
The Full list of things that are set to get cheaper can be read here
Latest Greece coronavirus scare could bring new restrictions for UK holidaymakers
More than 100 tourists in Greece have tested positive for coronavirus since the country reopened its borders.
It is now feared that lockdown restrictions could be reintroduced after the recent surge in infections of the deadly virus.
The country and its islands reopened its borders to tourists on July 1 and the spike in infections has followed.
Just 3,672 active cases of coronavirus had been recorded in the country but since borders were reopened, more than 100 visitors have reported positive tests.
Captain Sir Tom Moore to be knighted
Fundraising hero Captain Sir Tom Moore is to be knighted by the Queen in his own unique personal open-air ceremony at Windsor Castle on Friday.
The 100-year-old Second World War veteran will travel to the historic Berkshire royal residence with members of his family for the special outdoor investiture.
Captain Sir Tom raised almost £33 million for health service charities by walking laps of his Bedfordshire garden.
He won the hearts of the nation for his determination after originally setting out to raise just £1,000.
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Quarantine measures compliance 'incredibly high'
Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs compliance with coronavirus quarantine measures by people travelling in and out of the UK has been "incredibly high".
She told the Commons Home Affairs Committee 383,000 spot checks were carried out between June 6 and July 12 and the compliance rate was 99.9%.
The majority of the checks were carried out at the border, she said.
Shona Dunn, second permanent secretary to the Home Office, said as of last week around 20% of those were follow-up checks on people who have come into the country. They were carried out by Public Health England.
Home Secretary, Priti Patel (Image: Julian Hamilton/Mirrorpix)
Video shows Banksy spraying tube train with coronavirus face mask message
Street artist Banksy has posted a video showing him covering the inside of a London Underground carriage with graffiti with messages about the spread of coronavirus..
But Transport for London (TfL) say the artwork inside the train carriage has already been removed by them.
The mysterious artist shared the clip, which shows him getting onto the tube train and spraying his signature rats sneezing, on Instagram, reports BristolLive.
Wear a mask or face the consequences, Devon and Cornwall shoppers warned
From the end of next week, shoppers will have to wear a face mask - or risk a fine.
The Government yesterday announced that face coverings would become mandatory inside shops from Friday, July 24, with a maximum £100 fine for non-compliance.
Environment Secretary George Eustice, the MP for Camborne and Redruth, said retailers and police must both play a role in enforcing the use of face coverings, after police warned that the law would be unenforceable.
Mr Eustice defended the delay in introducing the measure to combat the spread of coronavirus as the UK relaxes the lockdown.
He said the mandatory use of face masks in England would apply to "all shops", but not pubs and restaurants.
Steve Hughes, Plymouth City Centre manager, said: "We'll be asking visitors to the city centre to comply – please wear a face covering when you go into shops. But you don't need to to do when you're just wandering around outside.
"From day one our priority has been to make the city centre as safe and welcoming as possible for visitors and shoppers. We are open for business and more shops are opening all the time."
Health Sec welcomes extra measures introduced in Blackburn
Health Secretary Matt Hancock welcomed the extra measures introduced in Blackburn with Darwen to tackle coronavirus in the Lancashire town.
He told BBC Breakfast: "On Blackburn, I think that the council there are doing a fantastic job.
"There is a higher rate of COVIDin Blackburn than the average across the country, it's not as high as in Leicester. We've gone in and are supporting them, working with them, for instance put in much more testing. And then they've taken these steps locally and I applaud that.
"This is exactly the sort of local action we want to see."
Health Secretary Matt Hancock
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New face mask rules 'should apply to offices,' health and safety experts say
The government has announced that wearing a face covering will be mandatory in shops and supermarkets in England from Friday, July 24.
But National Health and Safety company Protecting.co.uk is making calls for anyone working in a public or private setting should be made to wear a face mask.
Since May 11, government guidance has advised the public to wear face coverings in enclosed public spaces, where they may come into contact with people they wouldn't usually meet.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wearing a face mask, during a visit to the headquarters of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
'Perfect storm' of rising fuel poverty and winter wave of coronavirus warned of
Hundreds of thousands more households could struggle to pay energy bills as a result of the coronavirus pandemic without more action to make homes warmer, it has been warned.
More than 200,000 households in England are set to fall into fuel poverty as the economy struggles to recover from lockdown, a coalition of experts, campaign groups and associations, local authorities and unions have warned.
With more people in cold homes they cannot afford to heat, putting them at greater risk of respiratory infections, a potential wave of COVID-19 in winter could be catastrophic for individuals and the health service, they said.
The End Fuel Poverty Coalition is warning of a "perfect storm" of cold homes, high winter fuel bills and COVID-19 hitting the NHS in winter.
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Heathrow introduces UV cleaning robots
Ultraviolet (UV) cleaning robots are being deployed at Heathrow as the airport tries to encourage passengers to return to air travel.
The airport said the machines use UV rays to kill viruses and bacteria at night.
It is also using UV technology to continuously disinfect moving handrails, and coating surfaces such as security trays, lift buttons and trolley handles with a material providing long-lasting anti-viral protection.
Around 100 airport workers are being retrained to serve as hygiene technicians to boost cleaning and answer passenger queries on the methods being used.
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The defendants conspired to perform unnecessary procedures and use unnecessary physical restraints upon children in order to fraudulently obtain extra compensation.
At least 300,000 children may have been treated improperly.
Medicaid-eligible children would have an appointment for a routine check-up and cleaning with Defendants' clinics. They would be given x-rays, a cleaning and then the dentist would evaluate the child's mouth.
The x-rays were often unnecessary, taken incorrectly, taken by employees not licensed to operate the x-ray machine, and/or unreadable or even blank.
Parents/guardians were then brought to a consultation room where they were told that their child needed extensive work including, pulpotomies and steel crowns.
Parents were pressured to sign consent forms immediately so that the extensive procedures could be done the same day as the initial consultation. Defendants thought that if the patients left the building, the might obtain a second opinion about the need for additional procedures and might not return.
FORBA also encouraged its clinics to use of a "papoose board" to immobilize the children, regardless of whether or not restraint was necessary.
Parents were not permitted to observe their children's' treatment.
FORBA's clinics were ordered to clean the children as much as possible before sending them back to their parents, including washing their clothes so that the parents would not find out that the children had urinated or vomited on themselves.
The FORBA story may be the most egregious patient abuse ever reported. To date, FORBA has agreed to pay $36.8 million to settle three government actions that alleged fraudulent Medicaid billings. The unnecessary work included multiple stainless steel caps and and as many as 16 pulpotomies ("baby root canals") given in one sitting. ABC-TV's "20/20" has vividly demonstrated the abuse to which many of the children were subjected. At least 15 dentists who worked for FORBA have been disciplined, but many more should be. Dental Watch has a detailed report.
Prosecution of whistleblower nurses fails. An attempt to prosecute two nurses who complained that a doctor was trying to sell herbal products to his hospital clinic patients has failed. [Barrett S. Outrageous whistleblower prosecution fails. Quackwatch, Feb 11, 2010] In a bizarre case that has drawn national attention, Anne Mitchell and Vickilyn Galle were charged with "misuse of official information," which is a third-degree felony under Texas law. The nurses, who worked at Winkler County Memorial Hospital had complained that Rolando G. Arafiles, M.D. was trying to sell herbal products to patients whom he had seen at his hospital's clinic. In April 2009, the Board notified Arafiles that he was being investigated and asked for several medical records. After receiving the board's notice, Arafiles asked his local sheriff to find out who had made the complaint. The nurses had complained anonymously, but information supplied by the board enabled the sheriff to figure out who they were. Subsequently, even though federal laws protect whistleblowers, the hospital fired the nurses and the district attorney was able to persuade a grand jury to indict them. The Texas Medical Board and the American Nurses Association complained that the prosecution is improper. Mitchell and Galle have filed suit in federal court alleging not only illegal retaliation for patient advocacy activities, but also civil rights and due process violations. The defendants include Winkler County, the hospital administrator, Arafiles, the district attorney, the county attorney, and the sheriff. Their suit also alleges that Arafiles was the sheriff's doctor and that they were associates in the herbal business. Last month, the prosecutor dropped the charges against Galle with no public explanation. This week, after a 4-day trial, a jury took just one hour to acquit Mitchell. [Sack K. Whistle-blowing nurse is acquitted in Texas. New York Times, Feb 11, 2010] The nurses' civil suit continues.
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'''
Multi-thread Cache system
LICENSE MIT @2017 Ivan LAusuch <[email protected]>
API Test
'''
import unittest
import json
import requests
PATH = "http://localhost:8000/api/"
def checkInList(result, item):
js = json.loads(result)
if js["status"] != 'ok':
return False
return item in js["data"]
def checkError(result):
js = json.loads(result)
return js["status"] == 'error'
class Ut_serverTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
pass
def tearDown(self):
pass
def test_000_api_up(self):
r = requests.get(PATH + '')
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
def test_001_set(self):
r = requests.post(PATH + 'bank/bank1/entry/entry1',
headers={"Content-Type": "text / plain"},
data="value 1")
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
def test_002_get(self):
r = requests.get(PATH + 'bank/bank1/entry/entry1')
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
r = r.json()
self.assertEqual(r["status"], "ok")
self.assertEqual(r["data"], "value 1")
def test_003_keys(self):
r = requests.post(PATH + 'bank/bank1/entry/entry1',
headers={"Content-Type": "text / plain"},
data="value 1")
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
r = requests.post(PATH + 'bank/bank1/entry/entry2',
headers={"Content-Type": "text / plain"},
data="value 2")
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
r = requests.get(PATH + 'bank/bank1/entries')
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
r = r.json()
self.assertEqual(r["status"], "ok")
self.assertIn("entry1", r["data"])
self.assertIn("entry2", r["data"])
def test_004_clear_bank(self):
r = requests.put(PATH + 'bank/bank1?operation=reset')
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
r = requests.get(PATH + 'bank/bank1/entries')
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
r = r.json()
self.assertEqual(r["status"], "ok")
self.assertNotIn("entry1", r["data"])
self.assertNotIn("entry2", r["data"])
def test_005_banks(self):
r = requests.post(PATH + 'bank/bank1/entry/entry1',
headers={"Content-Type": "text / plain"},
data="value 1")
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
r = requests.post(PATH + 'bank/bank2/entry/entry1',
headers={"Content-Type": "text / plain"},
data="value 1")
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
r = requests.get(PATH + 'banks')
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
r = r.json()
self.assertEqual(r["status"], "ok")
self.assertIn("bank1", r["data"])
self.assertIn("bank2", r["data"])
def test_005_error_get_unknownEntry(self):
r = requests.get(PATH + 'bank/bank1/entry/unknownEntry')
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 400)
def test_006_error_get_unknownBank(self):
r = requests.get(PATH + 'bank/unknownBank/entry/unknownEntry')
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 400)
def test_007_entries_unkwnowBank(self):
r = requests.get(PATH + 'bank/unknownBank/entries')
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
def test_008_get(self):
r = requests.post(PATH + 'bank/bankNumbers/entry/entry1',
headers={"Content-Type": "text / plain"},
data="1")
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
r = requests.put(PATH + 'bank/bankNumbers/entry/entry1?operation=incr&value=1')
self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
r = r.json()
self.assertEqual(r["status"], "ok")
self.assertEqual(r["data"], 2.0)
r = requests.put(PATH + 'bank/bankNumbers/entry/entry1?operation=incr&value=a')
self.assertNotEqual(r.status_code, 200)
if __name__ == '__main__':
print("It is going to check an api running on {}".format(PATH))
unittest.main()
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Mark Waid Explains How Thor Can Lift Mjolnir, But No One Else Can (Again)
Posted by Rich Johnston February 7, 2018 Comment
Professor Jim Kakalios is the Taylor Distinguished Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota who wrote The Materials Science of the Avengers for Hollywood Chemistry, a collection of essays published in 2014 by the American Chemical Society, as to why Thor could pick up Mjolnir but no one else could.
For Wired, he expanded further, referring to a certain scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron:
When Tony Stark tries to lift Mjolnir using his Iron Man glove, he exerts a large upward force, greater than its weight, and yet the hammer remains at rest. So where does the additional downward force come from? One can only conclude that a unique property of uru metal is that, under the proper stimulus, it can emit large quantities of gravitons. On Earth, these fundamental particles have not been experimentally confirmed to exist, but as stipulated, the Asgardians are ahead of us scientifically. Gravitons are conjectured to transmit the gravitational force, and if an object emits additional gravitons, it is equivalent to increasing its mass. Thus, when an "unworthy" person applies an upward force, the uru metal increases the hammer's weight to exactly cancel this lift, and the hammer remains unmoved. When Tony and Rhodey simultaneously exert a larger upward force, the emission rate of gravitons increases, to again neutralize their efforts. The greater weight will not damage the tabletop, as only enough gravitons are emitted to balance out all upward forces, to keep the hammer stationary. Once the lifting force is stopped, the excess graviton emission also ceases.
This then got picked up by the comics themselves, citing the professor. As he stated:
I shared this information with Mark Waid, the writer at the time of Marvel Comics' The Indestructible Hulk, at the start of a storyline where the Hulk would have an adventure with Thor. In The Indestructible Hulk #8, the question of whether or not the Hulk could lift Mjolnir arose, and no less a scientific authority than physicist Bruce Banner (the Hulk's alter ego) provides peer-review and approval of my "graviton emission proposal," as shown here:
Well, in today's Avengers #679, to explain how Metal Master in Avengers #678 could move Mjolnir, Waid has gone back to the well for why no none but Thor can lift the hammer. No mention of Professor Jim Kakalios this time, so I thought we'd provide it.
Okay. The science of Thor's magic hammer, taken in part from all the research I did for that Thor/Hulk crossover I did a few years back with Walt Simonson: Uru metal was forged in fiery pits by dwarven blacksmiths. Based upon its observed properties–that it is nigh-indestructible, cannot be lifted by anyone except if they be as worthy as Thor and always returns to his hand–there can be only one explanation: "Uru metal" must actually be an exotic form of matter that can be induced to emit gravitons. Gravitons are particles (theoretically predicted but, unlike the Higgs boson, still not experimentally confirmed) that mediate the force of gravity, just like photons transmit the force of electromagnetism. While we are unable to forge Uru metal on Earth, the dwarven blacksmiths, being as advanced compared to us as we are to our early ancestors, could craft a hammer whose properties seem like magic to us. Being able to change the rate of emission and absorption of gravitons is equivalent to being able to change an object's mass and even shape it. If a person whom the hammer has determined to be unworthy attempts to lift the hammer, thanks to Odin's enchantment, the Uru metal will dramatically increase the rate of graviton emission. This will result in an exponential increase in the gravitational attraction between the Earth and the hammer, such that it cannot be budged. When Thor grips Mjolnir's handle, the "identity recognition enchantment; if you will, causes the graviton emission to cease, and the hammer resumes its normal weight.
Though, of course, it's her hand right now… for a few more months at least!
(Last Updated February 7, 2018 12:47 pm )
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In a state where economic, energy and environmental concerns grow more intensely intertwined, the assertive environmental nonprofit group NC WARN is working with the conservative nonprofit John Locke Foundation to sponsor two public forums calling for increased competition in the electricity market.
The collaboration comes amid rapid changes in the U.S. electricity marketplace. NC WARN and the Locke Foundation agree that a more competitive market would help North Carolina electricity customers benefit from those changes.
The organizations today announced that they will explore these issues in a pair of public forums on February 26 and March 20. Both events will run from 4:30 to 6:30pm at Raleigh's Brownstone Inn.
The forums will be moderated by former NC Supreme Court Justice Robert Orr, and will feature panel discussions involving business and consumer advocates about the impacts on customers of the Duke Energy monopoly.
Although the Locke Foundation and NC WARN diverge on many issues, they converge on support for increased electricity competition and the problems associated with so-called Construction Work in Progress rules. CWIP forces electric customers to pay the bills for construction of new power plants, even if those plants never come on line.
North Carolina is headquarters to Duke Energy – which claims to be the world's largest corporate power company. Recent polling shows that North Carolina voters across the political spectrum overwhelmingly dislike being held captive in a monopoly electricity market that guarantees Duke a large profit for building power plants and raising rates.
NC WARN believes ratepayers lose and the state economy suffers if Duke Energy is allowed to continue that business model while protected against competition that would create downward pressure on prices.
The forums will explore why Duke is allowed to fence off North Carolina from changes underway across the U.S. power industry, which is moving away from construction of giant power plants and toward smaller-scale, on-site generation by businesses and homeowners using natural gas, solar and other technologies.
Power industry leaders including Duke's former CEO Jim Rogers warn that monopoly utilities risk extinction if they don't evolve alongside market trends. NC WARN says competition and distributed generation seem destined to move past Duke's monopolistic blockade in North Carolina. The group asks, how much pain will ratepayers and the state economy be forced to suffer along the way?
Meanwhile, the monopoly rate shocks will surge if Duke succeeds in forcing captive North Carolina customers to absorb the well-proven financial risks of trying to build nuclear power plants. CWIP, or "advance payment" legislation is already hammering Georgia and South Carolina – and Florida, where customers are being forced to pay $1.5 billion for a Levy County nuclear plant Duke Energy cancelled even before construction began.
Duke has publicly insisted that it will not attempt to build nuclear plants in the Carolinas unless North Carolina's legislature passes such legislation. | {
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Q: How to exclude css on from last element of li I have the following css operating on my navbar elements
.nav-link:after {
content: "|";
font-weight:700;
color:#5E7B65;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-left: 5px;
}
running on the following html:
<ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto mr-auto">
<li class="nav-item active">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">aaa <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">bbb</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">ccc</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">ddd</a>
</li>
</ul>
How do i make it so it does not effect the last element
A: You can use the selector :not(:last-child) that applies the css to all elements except
the last one
.nav-link:not(:last-child):after {
content: "|";
font-weight:700;
color:#5E7B65;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-left: 5px;
}
A: .nav-link:not(:last-child):after
A: This is what you're looking for:
.nav-item:not(:last-child) .nav-link::after {
content: "|";
font-weight: 700;
color: #5E7B65;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-left: 5px;
}
<ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto mr-auto">
<li class="nav-item active">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">aaa <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">bbb</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
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<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">ddd</a>
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Because you need the last parent item of .nav-link, since your nav-item elements are wrapped in a container, you can use the :not pseudo selector to select all of the .nav-item elements except for the last one, and then style the child nav-link element.
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Data were obtained from 14 independent REG systems in seven different locations, all in the US or Europe. The combined result yielded a Chisquare of 23.9 with 14 degrees of freedom and a corresponding probability of .047. Although this outcome is not highly significant, the effect size is approximately nine times as large as that found in related laboratory experiments. For more detail, see the electronic journal of parapsychology, eJAP . | {
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City of Amory » #AmoryProud » Our History
A Rich History
In 1887, officials of the Kansas City, Memphis, and Birmingham Railroad called for the survey of a railroad right-of-way connecting Birmingham, Alabama, and Memphis, Tennessee. Locating a point halfway between the two cities, the officials determined to start a town at that point named AMORY in honor of Mr. Harcourt Amory of Boston, Massachusetts. A town was platted with streets running parallel and perpendicular to the railroad track. To this day, this area is known as the Railroad Subdivision. In November of 1887, lots for businesses and residences were sold at auction, an event which attracted from near and far.
Three miles west of the new town was a once-flourishing river town, Cotton Gin Port, the oldest town in Northeast Mississippi. At the close of the American Revolution, frontiersmen from the East and Southeast had fought their way into the area and established that town on the banks of the river where river trade and agriculture attracted additional settlers.
Long before the coming of the white man, the Chickasaw Indians had established a village there on the banks of the Tombigbee River. Legend tells us that when the cotton gin was invented, President George Washington offered a gift to the Indians of a cotton gin, hoping to encourage the Indians in the direction of peaceful farming rather than warfare. The story goes that although the Indians did not like the cotton gin and proceeded to burn it, they did like the idea of the present and, as a matter of fact, were peaceful and friendly as they co-existed with the early settlers on the rich land and bartered for commodities from the boats coming up the river from Mobile. In 1837 these Indians were driven westward from the land by the government. Fifty years, a time that included the Civil War, passed. Having lost the Indian population and having lost many men to the war, the remaining population packed up and moved to the new town of Amory. Houses were put on logs and literally rolled into the new town or were dismantled and reassembled at the new location.
In the early years, the streets were muddy and pine poles were sometimes laid across to provide passage. Newcomers arriving on the train would step onto a wooden platform surrounded by mud and water. Wagons, buggies, or horses would approach to transport them, since foot travel was hazardous. Soon boardwalks were built. The Christian Church building had been moved from Cotton Gin Port and Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians organized early churches. A few businesses were established including five saloons.
A landowner named Tubb plotted streets running north and south, east and west. Where these streets meet the railroad division streets, there are now in north Amory many angular intersections. In the early years a woman taught a small school in Tubb Town, while a man taught a class in a small storehouse. Soon a small frame schoolhouse was erected. A hotel, general stores, a drugstore, a grocery, hardware and furniture stores, a bank, sawmills, cotton gins, and a compress were among the first establishments. Brick walks replaced board- walks, then graveled and graded streets appeared. Artesian wells were on almost every street. A doctor was among the earliest settlers.
In 1904 an electric light plant was installed. A water filtration plan was built. The frame school was followed by a brick one which burned in 1914 but was rebuilt. In 1916 Gilmore Sanitarium, one of the first hospitals in this part of the state, was constructed.
Amory Today
The citizens of Amory today enjoy wide paved, tree-lined streets, a refurbished downtown with canopied walks, several additional business areas, new subdivisions, several school buildings, over twenty churches, a progressive hospital with dozens of doctors, several manufacturing facilities, parks, community organizations, a museum located in the original hospital building, two golf courses, a library, two community centers, and numerous ball fields.
The early history of the town is commemorated each spring with a Railroad Festival and an old train engine, the Frisco Park Steam Engine, is on display in the downtown park.
While passenger service is no longer available, the Frisco Railroad operates in Amory along with the smaller Mississippian Railway. The Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway has brought water traffic and barges through Amory Lock and Dam.
With a population of approximately 8,500, the town acts as a host for the many guests of a benefit concert designed to raise money for scholarships, a project called Entertainment for Education. Along with the many nationally known stars, in 1998, the town welcomed His Royal Highness, Prince Edward, for whom these historical notes were compiled, based on papers from the Amory Regional Museum and local folklore.
Source: Courtesy of The Old Place Bed and Breakfast and written by Mary Lib Frances & Norman James
Recently a book has been published with great historical pictures of Amory and our citizens. You can purchase your copy today at the Amory Regional Museum: | {
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National Fleet Products loading ramps offer low-cost alternative to hydraulic lifts
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The ramps are engineered to stow vertically inside rear- and side-access doors and take up approximately 8.5 inches of depth when folded and locked. With their built-in spring-assist feature and side handles, they require about 20 pounds of force and about five seconds to unfold or be folded back into their low-profile vertical storage position.
The ramps incorporate a swivel-action mechanism that enables them to swing 90 degrees in and out like a door, allowing users to have vehicle access when the ramp is not in use. Vehicle-specific mounting plates are available for all major platform makes and models, and installation can take about two hours to complete.
The ramps come in two-panel configurations in lengths of between 98 and 128 inches, and three-panel configurations in lengths of up to 16 feet. The ramp ends have rollers and adjustable flaps that can accommodate a wide variety of surface angles and textures.
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Wooley Officially Named La. Commissioner of Insurance
Robert Wooley has officially dropped the "acting" from his title and is now Louisiana's Commissioner of Insurance. Louisiana Constitution Article IV, Section 16 provides that Wooley, as the Department's first assistant, fill the vacancy created by Commissioner Jim Brown. Brown resigned on April 8, 2003.
"I have been in charge of the Department of Insurance for nearly two and a half years now so the new title is really just a formality," said Wooley. "The terrific staff I have at the Department will continue to do the great job they've been doing, and I will continue the hard work I started the day I became acting Commissioner."
One of Wooley's chief concerns is the availability and affordability of
health insurance. He has partnered with the Department of Health and Hospitals on the LaChoice pilot program. "The Department of Insurance developed LaChoice to help reduce the cost of private health insurance for small employers. It's our goal with LaChoice to help make employer-sponsored health insurance readily available and more affordable for Louisiana's workers," Wooley said.
The Commissioner is also focused on encouraging more homeowners insurers to do business in Louisiana, particularly along the coast. "As I've said so many times before, the number of companies writing below Interstate 10 has dwindled to just a handful since Hurricane Andrew more than 10 years ago. We are now starting to see more companies apply with the Department to write homeowners insurance in coastal Louisiana, and that's very encouraging," said Wooley. "Increased competition makes for a healthier marketplace, and that means good news for consumers."
Wooley was the Chief Deputy Insurance Commissioner when he took over as acting Commissioner in October 2000.
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You join me from Hamburg in Germany, where I'm travelling for work. But due to the wonders of Wi-Fi, I'm pleased to be able to present you with another set of great posts by our super SCBWI bloggers!
Although thinking about language translation is an important part of my day job, I'd never considered the complexities of translating hand-drawn lettering. So thank you Loretta Schauer, for an instructive post for Big Little Tales, all about lettering for picture books and what illustrators need to consider before starting work. After reading this, I wouldn't want to be the person who has to translate the illustration-heavy Tom Gates books into other languages!
The Edge have been featuring a range of writing tips from various SCBWI authors over the last few weeks, mostly aimed at beginning writers. Both Dave Cousins and Katie Dale present theirs in the form of videos, while Miriam Halahmy has written a more conventional post this week, all about the benefits of taking a short break from writing to recharge your creative batteries.
Katie Dale's tip about listening to other people's conversations leads me nicely into a post from Sam Zuppardi. Sam has invented a new drawing game that he calls Eavesdropped.
I'm pleased to see that, following the Ten-Minute Time Machine and her recent Blog Break interview, Candy Gourlay has continued to excavate the past. Her most recent find is a post written for another (now defunct) blog back in 2011. As a debut author, Candy discovered that she was suddenly being photographed all the time and even asked to appear on TV - was she ready for her close up?
Finally, Larisa Villar Hauser clearly learnt a lot at the London Book Fair this year, because she's still blogging about it. Her latest post demystifies the process of crowdfunding, and is really useful reading if you're thinking of taking a jump into this market to fund a new project.
Another nice collection of posts, Nick. Have fun in Germany and thanks for listing me!
Interesting post from Loretta. Why did the t-shirt lettering have to be in black? I love all the circus type, I can't imagine it would work any other way. Such a cute character too! | {
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Q: Coupled vs Decoupled backend-frontend I have an asp.net website project that uses APIs as a back-end, i need to totally decouple my front-end from my back-end apis, so I have created one RESTful service in my back-end project and now i want to consume it in the front-end. I assume i have two solutions:
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*Build my model only in the back-end, and add reference to the front-end, to avoid re-writing the same model in the front-end again. (Coupled)
*Build two exact models in both back-end and front-end. (Decoupled)
Pros:
Solution 1)
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*Avoids re-writing the same model in the front-end again.
*Forces updating front-end model once back-end changes (otherwise build error)
Solution 2)
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*Helps decoupling my front-end from the back-end.
*Will avoid build errors if back-end model changes. (Front-end exceptions)
Please advise which approach is better design, and if you have suggestions please share.
A: This depends on your speed of change for both backend and front-end and how well your tooling supports it, but there is a reason why in most cases people just use two models.
(That reason is that it is very hard to get this right and it reduces your agility enormously.)
A: Usually you will not want the same model in the front-end as in the back-end:
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*Decoupling is good. There's no reason to have your front end coupled in any way to your back end.
*Your data is naturally structured differently in the front end vs. the back end.
*You may eventually have multiple front-end apps using the same back end.
*A particular front-end may consume a different (set of) back ends
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Government Agrees to reform the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 to deliver on Programme for Government commitment
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD today (Tuesday) secured Cabinet approval to reform the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 to legislate for an improved and modernised industrial relations framework that will provide more clarity for employers and more effectiveness for workers.
This reform continues Minister Bruton's wider modernisation agenda in the enterprise area which has seen a significant overhaul of policy, agencies and legislation over the last three years.
When enacted, this legislation will mark the fulfilment of an important commitment in the Programme for Government. It will provide a clear and balanced mechanism by which the fairness of the employment conditions of workers in their totality can be assessed where collective bargaining does not take place. It will provide clarity and certainty for employers in managing their workplaces over the years ahead.
The Minister acknowledged the contributions of key actors from both sides of industry to date who, he said, have come to these discussions with well-articulated positions of what they would like to see in terms of an outcome. The Minister will continue to consult with stakeholders in drafting the Heads of Bill.
The proposals are derived from a lengthy consultation process involving extensive engagement with stakeholders with a view to arriving at broadly acceptable proposals that will operate effectively in practice.
The main provisions include:
· a definition of what constitutes "collective bargaining"
· provisions to help the Labour Court identify if internal bargaining bodies are genuinely independent of their employer
· bringing clarity to the requirements to be met by a Trade Union advancing a claim under the Act
· setting out policies and principles for the Labour Court to follow when assessing those workers' terms and conditions, including the sustainability of the employers business in the long-term
· new provisions to ensure cases dealt with are ones where the numbers of workers are not insignificant
· provisions to ensure remuneration, terms and conditions are looked at in their totality
· provisions to limit the frequency of reassessment of the same issues
· an explicit prohibition on the use by employers of inducements (financial or otherwise) designed specifically to have staff forego collective representation by a trade union
· enhanced protection for workers who may feel that they are being victimised for exercising their rights in this regard by way of interim relief in the case of dismissal
[See notes to editors for further detail on specific measures].
Minister Bruton said: "In developing these proposals, I have been keen to respect the positions of both sides of industry. They will retain our voluntary system of industrial relations, but also ensure that workers have confidence that, where there is no collective bargaining, they have an effective system that ensures they can air problems about remuneration, terms and conditions and have these determined based on those in similar companies and not be victimised for doing so".
The Minister concluded by saying that he is confident that the legislation when enacted will be framed in such a way as to fit our constitutional, social and economic traditions, our international obligations, and to ensure continued success in attracting investment into our economy and support Irish companies to grow.
Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock TD, said: "In agreeing this reform of our industrial relations legislation this Government has delivered on its commitment to people at work once again. I am confident that this legislation will not only restore the rights contained in the original 2001/2004 Industrial Relations Acts, but will be an improvement on that legislation and will ensure that all workers who do not have a collective voice in their company will have a transparent, fair and effective means of having their terms and conditions assessed. I want to pay tribute to all those who participated in a spirit of cooperation in reaching this point in the process, from both the employer and the union side".
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Press Office, ph. 631 2200 or [email protected]
Programme for Government, Ryanair and ILO
The proposals for legislation are in fulfilment of the Programme for Government Commitment to "reform the current law on employees' right to engage in collective bargaining (the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001), so as to ensure compliance by the State with recent judgments of the European Court of Human Rights". In addition, the ILO, in 2012 issued its report in response to a complaint referred to it by ICTU and IMPACT arising from the 2007 Ryanair Supreme Court judgment. As part of the Government's response to the ILO Report, it indicated that these matters would be addressed in the context of the Programme for Government commitment.
The proposals respect Ireland's voluntary IR system but ensure that where an employer chooses not to engage in collective bargaining either with a trade union or an internal 'excepted body' the 2001 Act will be remediated to ensure there is an effective means for a union, on behalf of members in that employment, to have disputed remuneration, terms and conditions assessed against relevant comparators and determined by the Labour Court if necessary.
It will also ensure that if an employer chooses to collectively bargain with an internal 'excepted body', as opposed to a union, that body must pass tests as regards its independence.
Provisions are included to ensure the Act is used appropriately. There are provisions to ensure cases dealt with are ones where the numbers of workers are not insignificant; provisions to ensure elements of remuneration, terms and conditions are not challenged without regard for the totality of remuneration, terms and conditions; provisions to manage the frequency of reassessment of the same issues.
Additional protection by way of interim relief is proposed where a union member, identified in the course of use of the process under the Act, is to be dismissed. A number of further related matters are to be dealt with such as clarifying inducement to forego collective bargaining rights is prohibited in accordance with the ECHR Wilson case. Some time frames will be extended under the Code of Practice on Voluntary Dispute Resolution to enhance the opportunity to resolve the matters at issue voluntarily.
Specific Provisions
Definition of Collective Bargaining
In the Ryanair case, the Supreme Court found that the Labour Court cannot conclude that a trade dispute is in existence without first establishing that collective bargaining is in place and that internal machinery (if any) for resolving the perceived problem has been exhausted. In looking at how the case had been progressed, the Supreme Court found that the Labour Court had erred in law in its construction of the relevant provisions of the 2001 Act and the hearing of the case had been procedurally flawed.
As there was no definition of collective bargaining in the Act, as part of the decision, the Supreme Court found that the Labour Court was in error in utilising the "industrial relations" concept of collective bargaining and that instead, an ordinary, dictionary definition should apply. To address this lacuna the following definition will apply for the purposes of the Industrial Relations Act 2001 (as amended).
For the purposes of this Act, collective bargaining comprises voluntary engagements or negotiations between any employer or employers' organisation on the one hand and a trade union of workers or excepted body on the other, with the object of reaching agreement regarding working conditions or terms of employment or non-employment of workers.
Excepted Body
Under industrial relations legislation it is not lawful for a body to bargain collectively unless it has a negotiation licence (e.g. a trade union of employers or employees). The Trade Union Act 1941, in introducing "excepted bodies", provided for a situation where both employer and employees in an individual firm wanted to negotiate terms and conditions in a situation where the employer or employees would not be acting illegally for not having a negotiation licence under that Act.
It is not proposed to amend the definition of excepted body other than, for the purposes of the 2001 Act (as amended) to reflect the concept of voluntary negotiations or engagements as contained in the collective bargaining definition above.
However, the legislation will address the status of the "excepted body" insofar as ensuring that it is genuinely free of employer influence in terms of negotiating and agreeing on wages or other conditions of employment. The following legislative provision will address this:
In determining if the body is an excepted body within the meaning of the 2001/2004 Acts the (Labour) Court shall have regard to the extent to which the body is independent and not under the domination and control of the employer or trade union of employers with which it engages or negotiates, in terms of its establishment, functioning and administration. In this regard, the Court shall take into account;
a. The manner of election of employees,
b. The frequency of elections of employees,
c. Any financing or resourcing of the body beyond de minimus logistical support, and
d. The length of time the body has been in existence and any prior collective bargaining between the employer and the body.
Remove Right of Access for Excepted Bodies
Given that excepted bodies, by their nature, are involved in collective bargaining as defined above, they will no longer have a right of access under the Act. This in effect means that it will be a matter for a trade union alone to initiate the processes under the legislation.
Establishing Trade Dispute and Access to Labour Court
While restoring and improving the operation of the Acts, it is recognised that the processes under this legislation are not appropriate to disputes involving very small numbers of workers. For this reason the legislation will ensure that the Court shall decline to conduct an investigation of a trade dispute under the Act where it is satisfied that, in the context of the dispute, the number of workers party to the trade dispute is insignificant.
To avoid a situation arising where, in the context of the totality of terms and conditions having been recently assessed by the Labour Court it is proposed that, other than in exceptional circumstances, the Labour Court shall not admit an application by a group, grade, or category of worker to which the trade disputes applies where the Court has made a recommendation or determination in relation to the same group, grade or category of worker in respect of the same employer in the previous 18 months.
Initiating Process
For the purpose of initiating a process of establishing the position when referring the matter to the Labour Court the following process will apply:
A statement made under the Statutory Declarations Act 1938 by the General Secretary or equivalent of the trade(s) unions concerned, setting out the number of its members and period of membership in the group, grade or category to which the trade dispute refers and who are party to the trade dispute, shall be admissible in evidence without further proof.
This brings clarity to the process and obviates the need for protracted procedures early in the process and removes the need for workers to be identified at an early stage.
Proof that Collective Bargaining with an Excepted Body is Taking Place
In the course of the consultations there was all party agreement thatbringing further clarity to the above process could help avoid lengthy and potentially acrimonious hearings at the Labour Court. The following provision will assist in this regard:
Where an employer asserts to the Labour Court that it is the practice of the employer to engage in collective bargaining with an excepted body in respect of the grade, group or category of workers concerned, it is a matter for the employer to satisfy the Labour Court that this is the case.
Labour Court: Policies and Principles in Context of Establishing Terms and Conditions
Related decisions of the High and Supreme Courts indicated that further guidance to the Court was needed by way of primary legislation in terms of what the Court should take into account when looking at terms and conditions of the workers party to the trade dispute. Accordingly, the legislation will specify that:
When examining the terms and conditions of any employer the Labour Court will take into account:
• the totality of remuneration and of terms and conditions of employment, and
• comparators (both internal and external), where available, which will comprise both unionised and non-unionised employers.
In addition, in making any recommendation or determination under this Act, the Labour Court shall have regard to the sustainability of the employer's business in the long-term.
Inducements
Having regard to recent judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, the legislation will remove any doubt as to Ireland's full compliance with the Wilson judgment as regards inducement of workers to relinquish trade union representation.
Accordingly, the Code of Practice on Victimisation (Declaration) Order 2004 (S.I. No. 139 of 2004) will be amended to explicitly prohibit such inducements.
Victimisation of Workers in Context of 2001 Act (as amended)
The legislation will enhance protection for victimisation of individuals who are victimised as a result of invoking through the trade union, or acting as witness, comparator for the provisions of the 2001/2004 acts will be incorporated in the legislative changes proposed.
This protection will be provided by way of allowing interim relief to be applied for in the Circuit Court in circumstances where a dismissal is being challenged on the grounds of unfairness arising from an individual believing that he/she is being victimised as a result of invoking through the trade union, or acting as witness, comparator for the provisions of the 2001/2004 Acts.
Where such relief is granted the case itself will be dealt with by the Adjudicator arm of the Workplace Relations Commission that is to be established in the near future.
"Victimisation" in Context of Ongoing Employment Relationship
In many cases "victimisation" does not result in employment termination; it may witness reduced access to particular work, training opportunities, shift work, overtime etc.
Remediating the ongoing and/or proven victimisation where the employment relationship has not been terminated will be dealt with in the context of enhanced and more robust enforcement of the current sections 9, 10 and 13 of the IR Act 2004.
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The most fun and frustrating people to talk to are creationists — "Young Earth Creationists" to be more precise. These are the people (around 50% of Americans) who think that the Earth is only about 6,000 years old because the bible says so.
It takes a huge load of ignorance, lack of common sense, and pure gullibility to believe this, so it's a little scary to be around people who are so ignorant of their surroundings and ignorant of basic science.
They claim that all of the scientists around the world are part of a huge anti-Christian conspiracy to "hide the truth". That's the only way they can explain the mountains of evidence showing the Earth to be much older, such as radio-carbon dating, fossil, sediment tests, and so on. Many very different scientific tests from many countries on many types of materials all show the same result — but the conspiracy theory says scientists are lying. The funny part about this is that religious people fully trust those SAME scientists when they create drugs, medical procedures, computers, internet, and phones. That's a pretty odd, specific, and pointless "conspiracy". | {
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Baby Natasha was photographed at 3 weeks old. She was such a beautiful newborn and she slept through the shoot! Here are some of her beautiful photos.
I got to take photos of this gorgeous family at the beautiful resort they were staying at! The family was so sweet and they all were so close. I had such a great time at this shoot!
The Taunt family is hilarious and I LOVE them!!!! Kaili is their daughter, and she has TONS of personality! I have never seen a toddler with such a sense of humor! This shoot was so fun and Kaili is an absolute doll!! | {
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Russia Blasts UK's 'Propaganda War' at UN
Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia called the British nerve agent claims 'theater of the absurd.'
During a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told his colleagues the United Kingdom is engaged in a "propaganda war" against his country.
As the world was pondering how everyone who came in contact with a supposedly incurable nerve agent was suddenly getting better, the world body was demanding Russia admit that it was responsible for the poisoning of former double agent Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia last month. Nebenzia called Thursday's emergency Security Council session a "theater of the absurd."
"I don't even know how to comment on this. It's some sort of the theater of the absurd. You could have come up with better fake story?
"Why did we have to wait eight years and decided to [attack the Skripals] two weeks before the elections and several weeks before the World Cup? Why did we release him from the country in the first place? Why do that in extremely public and dangerous fashion?"
Nebenzia blasted the UK's official narrative, which has crumbled since it was first introduction due to lack of evidence. He then directed his attack on Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who he said had made "absurd and immoral" claims about Russia and President Vladimir Putin.
Outside observers believe the rapidly unraveling situation points to the impending end of Prime Minister Theresa May's government. Meanwhile, the UK's allies in the West continue to ratchet up tensions beyond Cold War levels.
The Russian ambassador warned the UK and the West they were "playing with fire" and they "will be sorry" if they continue to force the Russian Novichok narrative.
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Q: something's wrong with my algorithm that I can't figure out in a while loop in C. Solving a problem in cs50 credit: Luhn's algorithm Update: I already figured out what's wrong, it's the function of adding the digits together. Some also pointed out how some parts of this code is unnecessary so I deleted it and it definitely helped! I was able to point out the problem more easily. Thank you guyss, appreciate it
I'm trying to figure out what I did wrong in the first step of the credit problem in CS50. Im trying to create a program that implements the Luhn algorithm. I already figured out how to add every other digit starting from the least significant one. But I have a problem in the part of multiplying every other digit by 2, and adding the digits of the products together individually. I first decided to do an array but I tried to do now a while loop since someone suggested it can be solved thru a loop. When I type in the credit number 4003600000000014, it returns the value of 24 instead of 13. I cant figure out the logical error, and ive already tried to solve it for hours. Would definitely appreciate your help!
#include <stdio.h>
#include <cs50.h>
int sum_digits(int number2);
int get_number_digits(long x);
int times_two(int x);
int main(void) {
//Prompt for input
long number = get_long("Card Number: \n");
//initialize number to two different variables for [1. multiplying by
//2, adding the products]
//[2. adding every other digit]
long number2 = number;
long number3 = number;
//Calculate checksum
//Multiply digits by 2 alternately starting from the tens place, then
//add the digit of the products NOTE: edit loop, something is wrong
long remainderr2, currentnumber2, product, initialsum;
currentnumber2 = number3 / 10;
number3 = currentnumber2;
int finalsum = 0;
while (currentnumber2 > 0)
{
number3 = currentnumber2;
remainderr2 = currentnumber2 % 10;
product = times_two(remainderr2);
initialsum = sum_digits(product);
finalsum = finalsum + initialsum;
currentnumber2 = currentnumber2 / 10;
currentnumber2 = currentnumber2 / 10;
}
printf("%ld", finalfinalsum);
}
//Function that adds the digits of a number
int sum_digits(int number2) {
int secondstep, remainderr, currentnumber, sum;
currentnumber = number2;
secondstep = 0;
while (number2 > 0) {
number2 = currentnumber;
sum = 0 + secondstep;
remainderr = currentnumber % 10;
secondstep = sum + remainderr;
currentnumber = number2 / 10;
}
return sum;
}
//Function that multiplies int by 2
int times_two(int x) {
x = x * 2;
return x;
}
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From the safety of being known by God and growing in understanding of ourselves, we are in a better position to know others. If our goal is to love others effectively, it stands to reason that we must first understand them. Three qualities help us most when attempting to understand and love others—humility, curiosity, and openness.
I Peter 5:3 commands us to value others above ourselves in a spirit of humility. Humble people do not think of themselves as better than others. They are not arrogant, conceited, or proud.
Closely aligned with humility is respect. A humble person is respectful in word and deed. Peter underscores this kind of attitude when he commands believers to always "give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect . . . " (I Peter 3:15b).
They're willing to be wrong.
They make time for curiosity.
They don't let past hurts affect their future.
Cultivating openness towards others means receptiveness to their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. It involves understanding, acceptance, and responsiveness.
Openness also means not making assumptions and hearing people out completely. It means maintaining a nonjudgmental attitude and showing genuine interest. As believers, our fear may be that nonjudgmental openness will lead to, at best, an abandonment of discernment and, at worst, possible agreement with sin. This is a false understanding of godly openness.
We must understand the difference between "discernment/good judgment" and "being judgmental." Discernment means to correctly observe the truth, yet how we respond to insight is critical. We can choose to respond with godly wisdom (good judgment includes compassion as well accountability) or we can choose to be judgmental. A judgmental attitude interjects self-righteousness and pride into the situation, poisoning the good that discernment offers.
What kind of reaction does the word humility produce in you? Do you think of yourself as a humble person?
The opposite of humility is pride. Proverbs 13:10 says, "Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice." What does this scripture say that humble people do?
1 Peter 5:5 says, In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble." Based on this scripture, is humility an option as a Christian?
I Peter 3:15-16 says, "But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander." How do humble people talk?
Quick self-check: When conversing with people, how curious are you about them?
Strive to remain open to whatever transpires — without assuming, categorizing, judging or reacting. Ask more questions and listen with care . . . next time you converse with someone, make it your goal to learn as much about that person and his or her perspectives as you can. Instead of trading quips and reactions, give the person you are talking to space and time to really flesh out his or her ideas. Then prompt him or her to talk more with brief follow-up questions like "And then what happened?" or "Why did you think that?" Consider every conversation an opportunity to discover something truly interesting and thought-provoking.
One of the times it is most difficult to remain curious is when strong emotions begin to rise during conflict. Choosing to be curious first before expressing our own point of view may calme such situations. It also helps to ask for more information, or ask for specific examples, especially if it's about our own behavior. As you express your view, maintaining the attitude, and verbally affirming that the other person may also have a point is equally important.
From the above tips, write out an area you hope to improve as you interact with others.
Openness requires that we maintain a nonjudgmental stance. Matthew 7:2 says, "For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Luke 6:37 says, "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven." What do these scriptures say about being judgmental?
Lord, teach me how to love others through humble, open acceptance. Help me understand the difference between "being judgmental" and "practicing discernment with wisdom." Make me teachable so that I may gain the skills needed to effectively love the people you bring into my life. | {
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How to evaluate a picture book idea.
As you can see from previous posts I have been stalking picture book authors and publishers trying to find out how to break into this tricky market. The most important thing I have learned is: the idea is king.
And I have lots of ideas. So which are the best ones? Which should I spend time developing?
So here are a list of questions – a sort of check list I've developed – to help evaluate picture book ideas.
Hope this helps. It's helped me.
1) Are the characters original and appealing?
How could you build in: idiosyncrasies, a distinct voice, actions, and memorable appearance. Turn norms/cliches on their head e.g. a misunderstood (friendly) crocodile. Make them stand out from the crowd.
2) Is there a clear theme?
Often this is a childhood emotion or experience, something that universally resonates with children and their parents.
3) How will the characters/concept appeal to young children?
What are they going to take away from the story at the end? Why will they read it again?
4) THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: Search on Amazon and see if someone else has come up with the idea already!
5a) What is the problem/hook? This should be in the first or second spread.
5c) What is the resolution? The main character must resolve the problem themselves.
6) How will the reader/listener participate in the story?
E.g. page turns, flaps, pullouts, touch, suspense, anticipation, irony, rhyme, singing, repetition, actions, spot what's missing, find something, counting, humour.
7) Series potential or stand-alone?
9) Why will it appeal to parents?
10) Will it appeal to teachers?
11) Will it appeal to digital publishers?
13) Sit in the children's department of a big book store and imagine your book concept on the shelf. Does it stand up to the competition?
14) Are there any publishers that are a good style/tonal fit for your story. Study their books! | {
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Claudine Doury invites us to go back to meet the people she photographed twenty years ago along the Amur River. "By finding Nanaï and Ulche families, I would like to be able to testify at the same time of the passage of time on these families met then, but also changes that could have occurred on a larger scale on these vulnerable people."
The portrait of these populations will redefine the contours of a territory that bears the traces of its history and to measure the changes taking place on these lands on the border of China.
By documenting the lives of these families, Claudine Doury seeks to make recognize, despite their fragility, the permanence of these cultures while questioning the destiny of these peoples.
Claudine Doury approaches in her work the notions of memory, transition and passage, especially around adolescence and travel. This quest has led her to Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, to discover little-studied peoples. In her "Siberian Peoples" series, which won the 1999 Leica Oscar Barnack Award and the World Press Award, she immortalized the culture and customs of isolated and vulnerable populations. In 2004, she received the Niépce prize for all of her work. Her photographs, exhibited in France and abroad, are in various public and private collections. Member of the VU agency, she is represented by La Galerie Particulière (Paris, Brussels).
The "Académie des Beaux-Arts" is one of the five academies that constitute the "Institut de France". It encourages the artistic creation in all its forms and watch over the French cultural heritage. It aims at supporting creation by organizing contests, giving prizes, financing artist residencies and granting artistic projects and events in France and abroad. Advisory body to the public authorities, the academy has been founded with a multidisciplinary approach, gathering fifty-nine members divided into eight artistic sections. | {
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This Madison floor plan by Lennar offers the space and luxury you're looking for! Just built last year and immaculately well-kept, it's too easy to see why this home is such a gem. Beautiful white-washed brick adorns this home and invites you in from the moment you set eyes on it! 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a 3 car garage, a huge living space, granite counter tops, and high ceilings are just some of the amazing features this home has to offer. With a very open concept floor plan, you'll get seamless transitions between dining and entertaining, while maintaining the integrity of each space. With carpet only in the bedrooms, common areas are easy to keep clean. Covered front porch and back patio. Schedule an appointment to see this lovely home today! Measurements are approximate; buyer to verify.
Directions: Take Stan Schlueter To Bunny Trail, Turn Right On Cottonpatch. Turn Right On Great Divide, Then Left On Endicott. House Is On The Right. | {
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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at the European Council in Brussels on October 18, 2018. European Union leaders meet for a summit focused on migration and internal security, after reviewing the state of the Brexit negotiations with Britain.
(AFP) - Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed Thursday that Britain would consider extending the transition period after Brexit for a few months if needed to agree a new trade deal with the EU. | {
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Lileth is a singer/songwriter who was born and raised in the DC/NoVa area.
She was classically trained at a young age and over time, her music has evolved to blend indie, pop, and electronic. She clings to darker, sweeter, haunting tones (similarly to Billie Eilish and Lana Del Rey) and aims to give her listeners chills.
Growing up in the richly diverse artistic hub of DC, she has been able to draw inspiration from many different music styles and art forms, which has helped to develop her unique sound. | {
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Use filters below to find your dream home in Daniel Island, South Carolina. You can narrow your search by price, square feet, number of bed- and bathrooms. Matt O'Neill real estate agents are the top-rated local experts in Daniel Island, SC area, they can answer all your questions about the properties, neighborhoods, schools, and the newest listings for sale in Daniel Island. Find the house that fits your needs! | {
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Venture Capital World Summit is an international multi-event for businesses looking for investment and investors to connect, it is a global community for investors and investees. The 2019 World Series starts in Europe in Paris on the 24 April 2019, followed by Brussels, New York, Toronto, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin, London, Cardiff and Silicon Valley. Designed for Scale-ups looking for Series A investments. #VCWS2019. | {
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We All Can be the Winner when we Learn to Accept Losing.
In life it is not always can get successful improvements or winnings, it can be ups and downs as the graph of stock market.
To hope for victories over adversity and that we can not always predict, but we can estimate it ourselves.
A good judgement or calculation on our chance can determine the difference , but there is nothing certain in life, even odds calculations may be different.
So if we are only willing to win, it is also possible for us to lose, because when there are no losses can be made, it's also impossible to gain.
Only those who dare to take a risk are ready to be responsible for the loss, as they continue with their positive sense when there is an earlier opportunity arrive for them to make profits.
An investment today on both financially and personality will brings risks with it, due the changes in the business world and humanity.
Lose will give us the lessons to be able to gain acceptance in order to improve our strategy from mistakes.
Accept the opportunity to lose and this will increases the chances to win, so let's make a winning deal by increasing our circle of possibilities.
Winning or losing is a part of life, no one can be a permanent winner.
Winning or losing is a part of life is the key. Thanks for sharing your wishes for a better life. Have a wonderful blessed day!
Not everything that falters falls on . Thanks you so much my dear Jan .
its so true, the title.. We can all be winners when we accept losing. I believe losing is a stepping stone to getting closer to winning. Every time we face a loss, it is to be taken as lesson to going ahead on our path of winning. | {
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Kremin Kremenchuk vs FC Cherkashchyna on 2019/11/16
Kremin Kremenchuk
3 : 1 11 : 2 0 : 0 2 : 0 -0.5,-1.0 / 3.0 / -
FC Cherkashchyna
Kremin Kremenchuk vs FC Cherkashchyna
Ukraine Cup 19/08/27 23:00 FC Cherkashchyna 1 : 2 Kremin Kremenchuk 0 : 0U 0.0 / 3.0 / -
Ukraine Persha Liga 19/08/10 22:59 FC Cherkashchyna 2 : 2 Kremin Kremenchuk 0 : 2O 0.0 / 2.75 / -
The match of Kremin Kremenchuk vs FC Cherkashchyna in Ukraine Persha Liga is started at 2019-11-16 19:01. For this match, the initial Asian Handicap is Kremin Kremenchuk-0.5,-1.0; The initial Goals Odds is 3.0. Totally, Kremin Kremenchuk and FC Cherkashchyna fought for 2 times before. Over Goals occurred for 1 times and Over Corners occurred for 0 times. Kremin Kremenchuk got 1 win, 1 draw and 0 lost with 4 Goals For and 3 Goals Against.
For the last 15 matches, Kremin Kremenchuk got 2 win, 11 lost and 2 draw with 21 Goals For and 37 Goals Against. The average of Goals For is 1.4 per match and the average of Goals Against is 2.5 per match. The rate of Over Goals is 70%; The rate of Handicap Win is 43%; The rate of win is 13%; The average of corners is 4.1 per match and the rate of Over Corners is -.
For the last 15 matches, FC Cherkashchyna got 1 win, 12 lost and 2 draw with 12 Goals For and 34 Goals Against. The average of Goals For is 0.8 per match and the average of Goals Against is 2.3 per match. The rate of Over Goals is 73%; The rate of Handicap Win is 33%; The rate of win is 7%; The average of corners is 4.5 per match and the rate of Over Corners is -.
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Ukraine Persha Liga 19/11/15 20:34 FC Rukh Lviv 1 : 0 FC Metalist 1925 0 : 0U -0.5 / 2.25 / -
Ukraine Persha Liga 19/11/10 20:02 FC Cherkashchyna 1 : 2 Obolon Brovar Kiev 0 : 1D +1.25 / 2.5 / -
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Ukraine Persha Liga 19/11/09 20:01 Hirnyk-Sport Horishni .. 3 : 0 Chernomorets Odessa 1 : 0H 0.0 / 2.25 / -
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Ukraine Persha Liga 19/11/09 00:31 Metalurg Zaporizhya 2 : 1 Kremin Kremenchuk 0 : 1D 0.0 / 2.5 / -
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Six Years . . .
Time continues to fly swiftly by. I still visit that bench, although not quite as often. Another year has passed without opening that box. Perhaps next year I will have the strength and courage to do so.
Your brother grows and thrives, so vibrantly, he seems to glow from within. At times, I like to think that he carries not only his own brightness, but yours as well. Maybe it is just a reflection, a trick of the light, I can't help but think of both of you when I catch a certain twinkle in his eye or the sun shines down on his shoulders.
Though we shared only a few precious moments with you in this world, they are some the most precious I hold in my heart. On this day you gave me the gift of motherhood, a gift I will cherish forever. Happy 6th birthday, Mary and Christopher. We love you so. | {
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Pets are increasingly influencing their owners' housing decisions
By Cynthia Henry, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Christopher Hsieh walks his dog Petunia in Philadelphia. Sidewalks and proximity to parks are two amenities that pet owners seek when they decide where to live.
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Hannah Wood, a work-from-home product manager for a health care company, would like to relocate to Philadelphia to live near her mother, but she's struggling to find a place that will welcome her roommate, Lea, a 55-pound mixed breed dog.
Wood initially had hoped to buy a house, but the current competitive market has her searching for a rental, and landlords often limit the size and breed of dog.
"Many only accept dogs up to 15 or 20 pounds, which excludes like 60% of all breeds," she said. "It's been a struggle to find a place without a lot of restrictions."
Pets are increasingly affecting their owners' real estate choices, whether it's the neighborhood they choose, the home they buy or rent, or how they arrange and decorate their space. A 2020 Realtor.com survey found that a majority of pet owners consider their animals' needs before making a home purchase. Of the 2,000 survey participants, 61% were dog owners, 45% owned cats, 12% fish and 9% birds.
About half of U.S. households have pets, according to the census bureau, and in 2020, owners spent on average $1,201 on dogs and $687 on cats, according to Statistica, a provider of consumer and market data.
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Pet owners tend to buy larger homes with more bedrooms, Zillow reported in October. Buyers with at least one pet are more likely to choose a home larger than 3,000 square feet, and about a third purchased a home with four bedrooms or more, compared to a quarter of buyers without pets.
"For me and many people in my generation, (my dog) is my child, where I spend my time and money," said Wood, who's 42 and single. "It's time for real estate companies to understand it's how we live."
What pet owners want
An ideal home for Wood — who would like to move to Philadelphia by January — would be a mid-rise or smaller building with adjacent green space, a nearby park, and a space to wash Lea after a muddy walk.
Wood has lived in several very pet-friendly cities, including Portland, Ore., where dog biscuits were available at her building's front desk, and her current home, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where "dogs are allowed everywhere — restaurants, the post office."
"I literally just saw someone walking a cat in a baby carriage," she said.
Philadelphia, with 23.62% of rentals classified as pet-friendly, ranked 28th in a "Lets for Pets" list of 50 U.S. cities compiled in October by All About Cats, which offers expertise on feline behavior and health. New York was first with 66.45% welcoming rentals.
In West Philadelphia, competition is fierce in old Victorians for ground level apartments with easy access to fenced-in yards, said Lindsay Johnston with Common Ground Realtors in University City, where "a dog is very much a part of the social life."
He sees the same dog owners walking the same loop every day, morning and evening. They also take advantage of the park and designated dog parks nearby.
Before buying or renting, pet owners should check for homeowner association or building restrictions on number or type of pets and whether they need to be spayed or neutered. Beyond enough space for their pet, the National Association of Realtors says owners often seek a fenced yard; sidewalks; easy-to-clean, durable flooring; mud room/wash area; dog door; animal pool/outdoor water feature; or a cat litter closet.
"If you have the option," Johnston said, "get your pet after you buy or rent, in case you don't get the square footage or other things you want."
When Mindy Rhodes and John Braxton were house-hunting six years ago, they wanted a quiet, old house with enough acreage for her horse, Spike, whom she had been boarding. She thought the search would take several years, but they spotted an internet listing for a property in suburban West Chester, Pennsylvania, with "just enough land to bring my horse home."
Because horses are happier in a herd, she soon acquired two donkeys, Mama and Mia, to keep Spike company. She also has three dogs, two cats, two rabbits, four chickens in a coop, and a duck named Lucy, who wears a diaper when she comes inside ("I don't know whether I'd do that again," Rhodes said).
She deemed cats the easiest, because they're resilient and adaptable to their surroundings. "People train dogs," Rhodes said. "Cats train people."
Rhodes' animals enjoy having the run of her three acres, as well as a spot by the fire, she said. "It's a luxury not to have to walk the dogs."
Pet-friendly design
Having a dedicated space for pets is a major consideration when organizing a home, according to almost a quarter of the 1,000 adults surveyed last summer by the residential mortgage division of Ally Bank.
"For us, dogs are family, so it was just a natural part of the design process to consider them," said Kirstin McGowan, of Mechanicsville, Pa., who has two yellow Labrador retrievers, Milly and Bentley.
During a recent remodel, she and her husband, Sean, added a built-in shelf for the dogs' bowls "because there's nothing more annoying than tripping over them in a tight kitchen," she said.
The McGowans put in hardwood floors and use washable rugs for easier cleaning and have multiple dog beds indoors and out. Because the dogs tend to dig, the couple built a stone patio and limited landscaping to trees in their fenced back yard.
They're in the process of adding a mudroom/laundry room and considering building in dog crates there. And they recently upgraded to a king-size bed for more room to cuddle in the morning with their two young daughters, Charlotte and Eleanor, and the dogs.
What sellers should do
Certain pet-friendly features can contribute to a higher sale price or faster-than-expected sale, according to a Zillow report on 2020 home sales. Homes that advertise a doghouse in their listing description can sell for 3% more than expected, Zillow found, while homes advertising a fenced backyard or a dog run can sell up to five days faster.
When it comes to in-person showings, however, sellers should erase any sign of a pet, especially cat odors, Johnston advised. "You'll lose 99% of the market if you can't remove the smell."
Sellers should repair anything damaged by a pet, have the home professionally cleaned, replace carpeting, and/or refinish floors. During showings, they should stow all toys, bowls and beds, and remove the pet from the house.
These 10 houseplants are safe for your pet
Keeping pets safe while adding beauty
One way to watch over your furry friends is to choose pet-friendly houseplants for your home.
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While houseplants have the ability to bring life to a room and purify the air, a drawback is that many houseplants are toxic to animals. Here are 10 plants that add beauty to your home without worry.
First, keep in mind that while many plants are technically safe for cats and dogs, it's best to eliminate temptation and place all houseplants out of reach. This will prevent possible tummy aches and digestive problems in your pets. If a pet ever does ingest a plant, make sure to watch them closely for signs of a negative reaction. Just because a plant is nontoxic for cats and dogs doesn't mean ingesting it will make them feel good.
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Want pet-safe houseplants with blooms? Look no further than African violet. This versatile, hardworking houseplant is right at home with your pets. It comes in a range of purple hues, and it's low maintenance and thrives without bright light.
The variegated gray-and-green leaves of this plant make it an attractive option for the home. It's one of many great easy-care houseplants safe for pets.
Unlike their dangerous holiday counterpart amaryllis, Christmas cacti are not poisonous for pets like cats and dogs. The cactus may cause intestinal discomfort if ingested, but overall it's a safer choice than many other festive plants.
Friendship plant
This plant is named for the ease with which it can be divided and shared—so if you happen to receive such a gift, rest assured it's safe for your cats and dogs. But beware, pets may be especially drawn to the fuzzy, crinkly leaves.
Certain kinds of herbs
Indoor herb gardens are an easy, fun way to add fresh flavor to your cooking. But not all herbs are created equal when it comes to pet safety. Standards like lavender and oregano are off-limits, but pets are fine around basil, sage and thyme.
This quirky plant has blooms that resemble tubes of lipstick, and is safe for cats and dogs alike. A native of the tropics, it thrives in bright light and loves being outside in the warmer months.
This is the perfect solution for pet owners looking to add a small tree indoors. Safe for cats and dogs, it's also great for green-thumb beginners.
Polka dot plant
This plant is perfect for adding a fun splash of pattern to miniature gardens, terrariums, mixed containers and more. Available in colors such as white and pink, it's as versatile as it is whimsical.
Topping out at 6 to 8 inches, this plant is ideal for small spaces such as bookshelves and end tables. Its red, cream and green leaves curl up at night, giving it its name. What's more, it's one of the easiest houseplants you can grow.
Some succulents
Many of the most popular succulents — including hens and chicks, echeveria and rosettes — aren't problematic. However, with so many varieties on the market, it's best to research each individual plant.
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Pinewood Starr ABC are a hit with the Army
The A1-sponsored Pinewood Starr squad enjoyed a magnificent opportunity last week; a training camp at the state-of-the-art British Army Boxing Headquarters in Aldershot.
Pinewood's boxers and trainers at the state-of-the-art Army training facilities in Aldershot.
The chance came about as a result of links forged with a member of the Army coaching staff, Craig McEvoy, during his time at REME Arborfield.
Les Stevens, Pinewood's head coach, explained how the two teams joined forces.
"Pinewood first linked up with the REME Boxing Team at Arborfield in 1980," he said.
"Back then, Dougie Devlin was the soldier running the team, helped by Rodney De Meyer, a friend of mine.
"Our civilian boxers and their soldier boys would spar together to help their development.
"Sadly, those links were broken in the late 1980s when Rodney died and Dougie was posted abroad.
"Two years ago, we got back in touch with Dougie and were invited to meet the new army team at Arborfield, headed by Craig McEvoy.
"We got on well with Craig and history repeated itself as our boys started to train together again.
"Craig's ability as a coach has been recognised with his recent appointment to the coaching staff on the main British Army Team at Aldershot.
"It's typical of Craig as a man that rather than forget us, he gave us the opportunity to benefit from his new posting and allowed us to train with him."
Craig McEvoy was similarly praising of his Pinewood counterparts.
"Les and his team treated us well on the REME team at Arborfield, providing our novice boxers with good, controlled sparring," said McEvoy.
"I am now in a privileged position as part of the full-time British Army Team and I wanted to repay the Pinewood boys and maintain our partnership with them.
"The Army wants to play its part in community life by helping young people to achieve their potential and our partnership with local boxing clubs such as Pinewood enables us to do that."
The Army Boxing Gym is a modern facility with three competition rings and every piece of boxing training equipment an aspiring fighter could wish for.
Outside of the ABA headquarters in Sheffield, it is the best equipped boxing centre in the UK.
John Frankham, Pinewood's junior coach, thought the visit was invaluable.
"It was a wonderful experience for our boys to work out there and it motivated them to aim high," said the charismatic trainer.
"It gave our young lads a great buzz."
The visit, however, was not a one off.
Sam Smith, Pinewood's three-time national champion, has already returned for sparring with some of the Army Team's biggest and best boxers. Sam's coach, Les Stevens said: "Sam has missed out on quality sparring these last few years and these workouts with top fighters will improve his timing and make him better prepared for the real thing." | {
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Lisa Marie Presley to be laid to rest at Graceland Reuters via biedexmarkets.com
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Singer Lisa Marie Presley will be laid to rest at Graceland, the Memphis mansion she inherited from her father Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock 'n' Roll," a representative for her daughter said on Friday.
Presley died on Thursday at the age of 54 after being rushed to a Los Angeles area hospital after reportedly suffering cardiac arrest at her home.
Two days earlier, she had appeared with her mother Priscilla Presley at the Golden Globe Awards, where actor Austin Butler won the best actor award for portraying her father in the film "Elvis" and paid tribute to the two women by saying "I love you, forever."
"Lisa Marie's final resting place will be at Graceland, next to her beloved son Ben," said a representative for her daughter Riley Keough, an actress.
Benjamin Keough died in 2020 at age 27, a death ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles County coroner. Lisa Marie Presley remembered her son in an essay for People magazine earlier this year that she posted on Instagram, calling herself "destroyed" by his death.
As the only daughter of Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie became the owner of her father's Graceland mansion, a popular tourist attraction in the city. She was nine years old when Elvis died there of heart failure in August 1977 at the age of 42.
Elvis Presley and other members of his family are buried at Graceland's Meditation Garden.
Tributes to Lisa Marie Presley continued to pour in on Friday.
"Over the last year, the entire Elvis movie family and I have felt the privilege of Lisa Marie's kind embrace," "Elvis" director Baz Luhrmann said on Instagram. "Her sudden, shocking loss has devastated people all around the world."
In the celebrity spotlight since her birth, Lisa Marie's own music career began with a 2003 debut album "To Whom It May Concern." It was followed by 2005's "Now What," and both hit the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart. A third album, "Storm and Grace," was released in 2012. Singer Billy Idol posted a picture of them together on Twitter and said she had been "very loving 2 me" and that "in Memphis in the 90's she gave me a viewing of the private sections of Graceland which was very special."
Lisa Marie Presley is survived by her mother, daughter Riley Keough, 33, and 14-year-old twin daughters Harper and Finley Lockwood.
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Movie Review : 'What To Expect When You Are Expecting' (** Two Stars)
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(By Savneet Kachru) Staying true to its title "What to Expect When You're Expecting" offers everything you could expect from a movie that has pregnancy as its central theme. It has all the ingredients required in a movie like this.
Director Kirk Jones gives an elaborate description from conception-to-delivery and it involves five couples in the process. They take cues from a medical manual on pregnancy In the process they go through with issues like fertility, libido, adoption, miscarriage and several others.
Actor Cameron Diaz plays Julia and she meets a guy named Evan played by Matthew Morrison. They find it difficult to strike a balance between their professional career and the responsibilities that arise out of parenthood.
Wendy played by Elizabeth Banks facing fertility issues decides to go for IVF after years of failing to conceive. Jennifer Lopez plays the third character, looking for adoption in Ethiopia.
Then there is a younger couple played by Anna Kendrick and Chace Crawford Marco who are grappling with the issue of unwanted pregnancy. After a point the movie gets repetitive and attention gets diverted.
You will find the jokes turn stale after a point. Relating to these characters is not easy. Cameron Diaz doesn't look convincing in her role as she may be sporting a baby bump but her body structure belies pregnancy.
A word of caution to female viewers, do not take your boyfriends, partners or husbands to this movie. This is a chick-flick and stays like that till the end. Your male company would be bore to death if manages to stay in his seat till the end.
'What to expect when you are expecting' is very laboured in its approach. Director Kirk Jones could not come up with anything new to spice up the movie. It gives you a feeling as if you watching a docudrama on pregnancy.
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Lay long, being a bitter, cold, frosty day, the frost being now grown old, and the Thames covered with ice. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy. At noon to the 'Change a little, where Mr. James Houblon and I walked a good while speaking of our ill condition in not being able to set out a fleet (we doubt) this year, and the certain ill effect that must bring, which is lamentable. Home to dinner, where the best powdered goose that ever I eat. Then to the office again, and to Sir W. Batten's to examine the Commission going down to Portsmouth to examine witnesses about our prizes, of which God give a good issue! and then to the office again, where late, and so home, my eyes sore. To supper and to bed.
Up, I, and walked to White Hall to attend the Duke of York, as usual. My wife up, and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frost-bite themselves. I find the Court full of great apprehensions of the French, who have certainly shipped landsmen, great numbers, at Brest; and most of our people here guess his design for Ireland. We have orders to send all the ships we can possible to the Downes. God have mercy on us! for we can send forth no ships without men, nor will men go without money, every day bringing us news of new mutinies among the seamen; so that our condition is like to be very miserable. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there met all the Houblons, who do laugh at this discourse of the French, and say they are verily of opinion it is nothing but to send to their plantation in the West Indys, and that we at Court do blow up a design of invading us, only to make the Parliament make more haste in the money matters, and perhaps it may be so, but I do not believe we have any such plot in our heads. After them, I, with several people, among others Mr. George Montagu, whom I have not seen long, he mighty kind. He tells me all is like to go ill, the King displeasing the House of Commons by evading their Bill for examining Accounts, and putting it into a Commission, though therein he hath left out Coventry and I and named all the rest the Parliament named, and all country Lords, not one Courtier: this do not please them. He tells me he finds the enmity almost over for my Lord Sandwich, and that now all is upon the Vice-Chamberlain, who bears up well and stands upon his vindication, which he seems to like well, and the others do construe well also. Thence up to the Painted Chamber, and there heard a conference between the House of Lords and Commons about the Wine Patent; which I was exceeding glad to be at, because of my hearing exceeding good discourses, but especially from the Commons; among others, Mr. Swinfen, and a young man, one Sir Thomas Meres: and do outdo the Lords infinitely. So down to the Hall and to the Rose Taverne, while Doll Lane come to me, and we did 'biber a good deal de vino, et je did give elle twelve soldis para comprare elle some gans' for a new anno's gift … Thence to the Hall again, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to the Temple, and there 'light and eat a bit at an ordinary by, and then alone to the King's House, and there saw "The Custome of the Country," the second time of its being acted, wherein Knipp does the Widow well; but, of all the plays that ever I did see, the worst-having neither plot, language, nor anything in the earth that is acceptable; only Knipp sings a little song admirably. But fully the worst play that ever I saw or I believe shall see. So away home, much displeased for the loss of so much time, and disobliging my wife by being there without her. So, by link, walked home, it being mighty cold but dry, yet bad walking because very slippery with the frost and treading. Home and to my chamber to set down my journal, and then to thinking upon establishing my vows against the next year, and so to supper and to bed.
Up, and seeing things put in order for a dinner at my house to-day, I to the office awhile, and about noon home, and there saw all things in good order. Anon comes our company; my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Pen, his lady, and Pegg, and her servant, Mr. Lowther, my Lady Batten (Sir W. Batten being forced to dine at Sir R. Ford's, being invited), Mr. Turner and his wife. Here I had good room for ten, and no more would my table have held well, had Sir J. Minnes, who was fallen lame, and his sister, and niece, and Sir W. Batten come, which was a great content to me to be without them. I did make them all gaze to see themselves served so nobly in plate, and a neat dinner, indeed, though but of seven dishes. Mighty merry I was and made them all, and they mightily pleased. My Lord Bruncker went away after dinner to the ticket-office, the rest staid, only my Lady Batten home, her ague-fit coming on her at table. The rest merry, and to cards, and then to sing and talk, and at night to sup, and then to cards; and, last of all, to have a flaggon of ale and apples, drunk out of a wood cupp,1 as a Christmas draught, made all merry; and they full of admiration at my plate, particularly my flaggons (which, indeed, are noble), and so late home, all with great mirth and satisfaction to them, as I thought, and to myself to see all I have and do so much outdo for neatness and plenty anything done by any of them. They gone, I to bed, much pleased, and do observe Mr. Lowther to be a pretty gentleman, and, I think, too good for Peg; and, by the way, Peg Pen seems mightily to be kind to me, and I believe by her father's advice, who is also himself so; but I believe not a little troubled to see my plenty, and was much troubled to hear the song I sung, "The New Droll" — it touching him home. So to bed.
At the office all the morning, thinking at noon to have been taken home, and my wife (according to appointment yesterday), by my Lord Bruncker, to dinner and then to a play, but he had forgot it, at which I was glad, being glad of avoyding the occasion of inviting him again, and being forced to invite his doxy, Mrs. Williams. So home, and took a small snap of victuals, and away, with my wife, to the Duke's house, and there saw "Mustapha," a most excellent play for words and design as ever I did see. I had seen it before but forgot it, so it was wholly new to me, which is the pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory. Home, and a little to the office, and then to bed, where I lay with much pain in my head most of the night, and very unquiet, partly by my drinking before I went out too great a draught of sack, and partly my eyes being still very sore.
(Lord's day). Up pretty well in the morning, and then to church, where a dull doctor, a stranger, made a dull sermon. Then home, and Betty Michell and her husband come by invitation to dine with us, and, she I find the same as ever (which I was afraid of the contrary) … Here come also Mr. Howe to dine with me, and we had a good dinner and good merry discourse with much pleasure, I enjoying myself mightily to have friends at my table. After dinner young Michell and I, it being an excellent frosty day to walk, did walk out, he showing me the baker's house in Pudding Lane, where the late great fire begun; and thence all along Thames Street, where I did view several places, and so up by London Wall, by Blackfriars, to Ludgate; and thence to Bridewell, which I find to have been heretofore an extraordinary good house, and a fine coming to it, before the house by the bridge was built; and so to look about St. Bride's church and my father's house, and so walked home, and there supped together, and then Michell and Betty home, and I to my closet, there to read and agree upon my vows for next year, and so to bed and slept mighty well.
Lay long in bed. Then up and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon (my wife being gone to Westminster) I with my Lord Bruncker by coach as far as the Temple, in the way he telling me that my Lady Denham is at last dead. Some suspect her poisoned, but it will be best known when her body is opened, which will be to-day, she dying yesterday morning. The Duke of York is troubled for her; but hath declared he will never have another public mistress again; which I shall be glad of, and would the King would do the like. He tells me how the Parliament is grown so jealous of the King's being unfayre to them in the business of the Bill for examining Accounts, Irish Bill, and the business of the Papists, that they will not pass the business for money till they see themselves secure that those Bills will pass; which they do observe the Court to keep off till all the Bills come together, that the King may accept what he pleases, and what he pleases to reject, which will undo all our business and the kingdom too. He tells me how Mr. Henry Howard, of Norfolke, hath given our Royal Society all his grandfather's library: which noble gift they value at 1000l.; and gives them accommodation to meet in at his house, Arundell House, they being now disturbed at Gresham College. Thence 'lighting at the Temple to the ordinary hard by and eat a bit of meat, and then by coach to fetch my wife from her brother's, and thence to the Duke's house, and saw "Macbeth," which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable. So home, it being the last play now I am to see till a fortnight hence, I being from the last night entered into my vowes for the year coming on. Here I met with the good newes of Hogg's bringing in two prizes more to Plymouth, which if they prove but any part of them, I hope, at least, we shall be no losers by them. So home from the office, to write over fair my vowes for this year, and then to supper, and to bed. In great peace of mind having now done it, and brought myself into order again and a resolution of keeping it, and having entered my journall to this night, so to bed, my eyes failing me with writing.
Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen in a hackney-coach to White Hall, the way being most horribly bad upon the breaking up of the frost, so as not to be passed almost. There did our usual [business] with the Duke of York, and here I do hear, by my Lord Bruncker, that for certain Sir W. Coventry hath resigned his place of Commissioner; which I believe he hath done upon good grounds of security to himself, from all the blame which must attend our office this next year; but I fear the King will suffer by it. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there to the conference of the Houses about the word "Nuisance,"1 which the Commons would have, and the Lords will not, in the Irish Bill. The Commons do it professedly to prevent the King's dispensing with it; which Sir Robert Howard and others did expressly repeat often: viz., "the King nor any King ever could do any thing which was hurtful to their people." Now the Lords did argue, that it was an ill precedent, and that which will ever hereafter be used as a way of preventing the King's dispensation with acts; and therefore rather advise to pass the Bill without that word, and let it go, accompanied with a petition, to the King, that he will not dispense with it; this being a more civil way to the King. They answered well, that this do imply that the King should pass their Bill, and yet with design to dispense with it; which is to suppose the King guilty of abusing them. And more, they produce precedents for it; namely, that against new buildings and about leather, wherein the word "Nuisance" is used to the purpose: and further, that they do not rob the King of any right he ever had, for he never had a power to do hurt to his people, nor would exercise it; and therefore there is no danger, in the passing this Bill, of imposing on his prerogative; and concluded, that they think they ought to do this, so as the people may really have the benefit of it when it is passed, for never any people could expect so reasonably to be indulged something from a King, they having already given him so much money, and are likely to give more. Thus they broke up, both adhering to their opinions; but the Commons seemed much more full of judgment and reason than the Lords. Then the Commons made their Report to the Lords of their vote, that their Lordships' proceedings in the Bill for examining Accounts were unparliamentary; they having, while a Bill was sent up to them from the Commons about the business, petitioned his Majesty that he would do the same thing by his Commission. They did give their reasons: viz., that it had no precedent; that the King ought not to be informed of anything passing in the Houses till it comes to a Bill; that it will wholly break off all correspondence between the two Houses, and in the issue wholly infringe the very use and being of Parliaments. Having left their arguments with the Lords they all broke up, and I by coach to the ordinary by the Temple, and there dined alone on a rabbit, and read a book I brought home from Mrs. Michell's, of the proceedings of the Parliament in the 3rd and 4th year of the late King, a very good book for speeches and for arguments of law. Thence to Faythorne, and bought a head or two; one of them my Lord of Ormond's, the best I ever saw, and then to Arundell House, where first the Royall Society meet, by the favour of Mr. Harry Howard, who was there, and has given us his grandfather's library, a noble gift, and a noble favour and undertaking it is for him to make his house the seat for this college. Here was an experiment shown about improving the use of powder for creating of force in winding up of springs and other uses of great worth. And here was a great meeting of worthy noble persons; but my Lord Bruncker, who pretended to make a congratulatory speech upon their coming hither, and in thanks to Mr. Howard, do it in the worst manner in the world, being the worst speaker, so as I do wonder at his parts and the unhappiness of his speaking. Thence home by coach and to the office, and then home to supper, Mercer and her sister there, and to cards, and then to bed. Mr. Cowling did this day in the House-lobby tell me of the many complaints among people against Mr. Townsend in the Wardrobe, and advises me to think of my Lord Sandwich's concernment there under his care. He did also tell me upon my demanding it, that he do believe there are some things on foot for a peace between France and us, but that we shall be foiled in it.
Up, being troubled at my being found abed a-days by all sorts of people, I having got a trick of sitting up later than I need, never supping, or very seldom, before 12 at night. Then to the office, there busy all the morning, and among other things comes Sir W. Warren and walked with me awhile, whose discourse I love, he being a very wise man and full of good counsel, and his own practices for wisdom much to be observed, and among other things he tells me how he is fallen in with my Lord Bruncker, who has promised him most particular inward friendship and yet not to appear at the board to do so, and he tells me how my Lord Bruncker should take notice of the two flaggons he saw at my house at dinner, at my late feast, and merrily, yet I know enviously, said, I could not come honestly by them. This I am glad to hear, though vexed to see his ignoble soul, but I shall beware of him, and yet it is fit he should see I am no mean fellow, but can live in the world, and have something. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office with my people and very busy, and did dispatch to my great satisfaction abundance of business, and do resolve, by the grace of God, to stick to it till I have cleared my heart of most things wherein I am in arrear in public and private matters. At night, home to supper and to bed. This day ill news of my father's being very ill of his old grief the rupture, which troubles me.
Up, still lying long in bed; then to the office, where sat very long. Then home to dinner, and so to the office again, mighty busy, and did to the joy of my soul dispatch much business, which do make my heart light, and will enable me to recover all the ground I have lost (if I have by my late minding my pleasures lost any) and assert myself. So home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme," a pretty book, and so to bed.
(Lord's day). Up, and to church, where young Lowther come to church with Sir W. Pen and his Lady and daughter, and my wife tells me that either they are married or the match is quite perfected, which I am apt to believe, because all the peoples' eyes in the church were much fixed upon them. At noon sent for Mercer, who dined with us, and very merry, and so I, after dinner, walked to the Old Swan, thinking to have got a boat to White Hall, but could not, nor was there anybody at home at Michell's, where I thought to have sat with her … So home, to church, a dull sermon, and then home at my chamber all the evening. So to supper and to bed.
Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office busy also till very late, my heart joyed with the effects of my following my business, by easing my head of cares, and so home to supper and to bed.
(Lord's day). Up betimes and down to the Old Swan, there called on Michell and his wife, which in her night linen appeared as pretty almost as ever to my thinking I saw woman. Here I drank some burnt brandy. They shewed me their house, which, poor people, they have built, and is very pretty. I invited them to dine with me, and so away to White Hall to Sir W. Coventry, with whom I have not been alone a good while, and very kind he is, and tells me how the business is now ordered by order of council for my Lord Bruncker to assist Sir J. Minnes in all matters of accounts relating to the Treasurer, and Sir W. Pen in all matters relating to the victuallers' and pursers' accounts, which I am very glad of, and the more for that I think it will not do me any hurt at all. Other discourse, much especially about the heat the House was in yesterday about the ill management of the Navy, which I was sorry to hear; though I think they were well answered, both by Sir G. Carteret and [Sir] W. Coventry, as he informs me the substance of their speeches. Having done with him, home mightily satisfied with my being with him, and coming home I to church, and there, beyond expectation, find our seat, and all the church crammed, by twice as many people as used to be: and to my great joy find Mr. Frampton in the pulpit; so to my great joy I hear him preach, and I think the best sermon, for goodness and oratory, without affectation or study, that ever I heard in my life. The truth is, he preaches the most like an apostle that ever I heard man; and it was much the best time that ever I spent in my life at church. His text, Ecclesiastes xi., verse 8th — the words, "But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity." He done, I home, and there Michell and his wife, and we dined and mighty merry, I mightily taken more and more with her. After dinner I with my brother away by water to White Hall, and there walked in the Parke, and a little to my Lord Chancellor's, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr. Brisband, with whom good discourse, to White Hall towards night, and there he did lend me "The Third Advice to a Paynter," a bitter satyre upon the service of the Duke of Albemarle the last year. I took it home with me, and will copy it, having the former, being also mightily pleased with it. So after reading it, I to Sir W. Pen to discourse a little with him about the business of our prizes, and so home to supper and to bed.
Up betimes, and with, Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] R. Ford, by coach to the Swede's Resident's in the Piatza, to discourse with him about two of our prizes, wherein he puts in his concernment as for his countrymen. We had no satisfaction, nor did give him any, but I find him a cunning fellow. He lives in one of the great houses there, but ill- furnished; and come to us out of bed in his furred mittens and furred cap. Thence to Exeter House to the Doctors Commons, and there with our Proctors to Dr. Walker, who was not very well, but, however, did hear our matters, and after a dull seeming hearing of them read, did discourse most understandingly of them, as well as ever I heard man, telling us all our grounds of pretence to the prize would do no good, and made it appear but thus, and thus, it may be, but yet did give us but little reason to expect it would prove, which troubled us, but I was mightily taken to hear his manner of discourse. Thence with them to Westminster Hall, they setting me down at White Hall, where I missed of finding Sir G. Carteret, up to the Lords' House, and there come mighty seasonably to hear the Solicitor about my Lord Buckingham's pretence to the title of Lord Rosse. Mr. Atturny Montagu is also a good man, and so is old Sir P. Ball; but the Solicitor and Scroggs after him are excellent men. Here spoke with my Lord Bellasses about getting some money for Tangier, which he doubts we shall not be able to do out of the Poll Bill, it being so strictly tied for the Navy. He tells me the Lords have passed the Bill for the accounts with some little amendments. So down to the Hall, and thence with our company to Exeter House, and then did the business I have said before, we doing nothing the first time of going, it being too early. At home find Lovett, to whom I did give my Lady Castlemayne's head to do. He is talking of going into Spayne to get money by his art, but I doubt he will do no good, he being a man of an unsettled head. Thence by water down to Deptford, the first time I have been by water a great while, and there did some little business and walked home, and there come into my company three drunken seamen, but one especially, who told me such stories, calling me Captain, as made me mighty merry, and they would leap and skip, and kiss what mayds they met all the way. I did at first give them money to drink, lest they should know who I was, and so become troublesome to me. Parted at Redriffe, and there home and to the office, where did much business, and then to Sir W. Batten's, where [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] R. Ford, and I to hear a proposition [Sir] R. Ford was to acquaint us with from the Swedes Embassador, in manner of saying, that for money he might be got to our side and relinquish the trouble he may give us. Sir W. Pen did make a long simple declaration of his resolution to give nothing to deceive any poor man of what was his right by law, but ended in doing whatever any body else would, and we did commission Sir R. Ford to give promise of not beyond 350l. to him and his Secretary, in case they did not oppose us in the Phoenix (the net profits of which, as [Sir] R. Ford cast up before us, the Admiral's tenths, and ship's thirds, and other charges all cleared, will amount to 3,000l.) and that we did gain her. [Sir] R. Ford did pray for a curse upon his family, if he was privy to anything more than he told us (which I believe he is a knave in), yet we all concluded him the most fit man for it and very honest, and so left it wholly to him to manage as he pleased. Thence to the office a little while longer, and so home, where W. Hewer's mother was, and Mrs. Turner, our neighbour, and supped with us. His mother a well-favoured old little woman, and a good woman, I believe. After we had supped, and merry, we parted late, Mrs. Turner having staid behind to talk a little about her lodgings, which now my Lord Bruncker upon Sir W. Coventry's surrendering do claim, but I cannot think he will come to live in them so as to need to put them out. She gone, we to bed all. This night, at supper, comes from Sir W. Coventry the Order of Councill for my Lord Bruncker to do all the Comptroller's part relating to the Treasurer's accounts, and Sir W. Pen, all relating to the Victualler's, and Sir J. Minnes to do the rest. This, I hope, will do much better for the King than now, and, I think, will give neither of them ground to over-top me, as I feared they would; which pleases me mightily. This evening, Mr. Wren and Captain Cocke called upon me at the office, and there told me how the House was in better temper to-day, and hath passed the Bill for the remainder of the money, but not to be passed finally till they have done some other things which they will have passed with it; wherein they are very open, what their meaning is, which was but doubted before, for they do in all respects doubt the King's pleasing them.
Lay pretty long, then to the office, where Lord Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes and I did meet, and sat private all the morning about dividing the Controller's work according to the late order of Council, between them two and Sir W. Pen, and it troubled me to see the poor honest man, Sir J. Minnes, troubled at it, and yet the King's work cannot be done without it. It was at last friendlily ended, and so up and home to dinner with my wife. This afternoon I saw the Poll Bill, now printed; wherein I do fear I shall be very deeply concerned, being to be taxed for all my offices, and then for my money that I have, and my title, as well as my head. It is a very great tax; but yet I do think it is so perplexed, it will hardly ever be collected duly. The late invention of Sir G. Downing's is continued of bringing all the money into the Exchequer; and Sir G. Carteret's three pence is turned for all the money of this act into but a penny per pound, which I am sorry for. After dinner to the office again, where Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W. Pen and I met to talk again about the Controller's office, and there [Sir] W. Pen would have a piece of the great office cut out to make an office for him, which I opposed to the making him very angry, but I think I shall carry it against him, and then I care not. So a little troubled at this fray, I away by coach with my wife, and left her at the New Exchange, and I to my Lord Chancellor's, and then back, taking up my wife to my Lord Bellasses, and there spoke with Mr. Moone, who tells me that the peace between us and Spayne is, as he hears, concluded on, which I should be glad of, and so home, and after a little at my office, home to finish my journall for yesterday and to-day, and then a little supper and to bed. This day the House hath passed the Bill for the Assessment, which I am glad of; and also our little Bill, for giving any one of us in the office the power of justice of peace, is done as I would have it.
Up, and at the office. Sat all the morning, where among other things I did the first unkind [thing] that ever I did design to Sir W. Warren, but I did it now to some purpose, to make him sensible how little any man's friendship shall avail him if he wants money. I perceive he do nowadays court much my Lord Bruncker's favour, who never did any man much courtesy at the board, nor ever will be able, at least so much as myself. Besides, my Lord would do him a kindness in concurrence with me, but he would have the danger of the thing to be done lie upon me, if there be any danger in it (in drawing up a letter to Sir W. Warren's advantage), which I do not like, nor will endure. I was, I confess, very angry, and will venture the loss of Sir W. Warren's kindnesses rather than he shall have any man's friendship in greater esteem than mine. At noon home to dinner, and after dinner to the office again, and there all the afternoon, and at night poor Mrs. Turner come and walked in the garden for my advice about her husband and her relating to my Lord Bruncker's late proceedings with them. I do give her the best I can, but yet can lay aside some ends of my own in what advice I do give her. So she being gone I to make an end of my letters, and so home to supper and to bed, Balty lodging here with my brother, he being newly returned from mustering in the river.
(Lord's day). Up betimes, and leaving my wife to go by coach to hear Mr. Frampton preach, which I had a mighty desire she should, I down to the Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily; and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other disappointed of my own boat) to White Hall, and so with them to Westminster, Sir W. Coventry, Bruncker and I all the morning together discoursing of the office business, and glad of the Controller's business being likely to be put into better order than formerly, and did discourse of many good things, but especially of having something done to bringing the Surveyor's matters into order also. Thence I up to the King's closet, and there heard a good Anthem, and discoursed with several people here about business, among others with Lord Bellasses, and so from one to another after sermon till the King had almost dined, and then home with Sir G. Carteret and dined with him, being mightily ashamed of my not having seen my Lady Jemimah so long, and my wife not at all yet since she come, but she shall soon do it. I thence to Sir Philip Warwicke, by appointment, to meet Lord Bellasses, and up to his chamber, but find him unwilling to discourse of business on Sundays; so did not enlarge, but took leave, and went down and sat in a low room, reading Erasmus "de scribendis epistolis," a very good book, especially one letter of advice to a courtier most true and good, which made me once resolve to tear out the two leaves that it was writ in, but I forebore it. By and by comes Lord Bellasses, and then he and I up again to Sir P. Warwicke and had much discourse of our Tangier business, but no hopes of getting any money. Thence I through the garden into the Park, and there met with Roger Pepys, and he and I to walk in the Pell Mell. I find by him that the House of Parliament continues full of ill humours, and he seems to dislike those that are troublesome more than needs, and do say how, in their late Poll Bill, which cost so much time, the yeomanry, and indeed two-thirds of the nation, are left out to be taxed, that there is not effectual provision enough made for collecting of the money; and then, that after a man his goods are distrained and sold, and the overplus returned, I am to have ten days to make my complaints of being over-rated if there be cause, when my goods are sold, and that is too late. These things they are resolved to look into again, and mend them before they rise, which they expect at furthest on Thursday next. Here we met with Mr. May, and he and we to talk of several things, of building, and such like matters; and so walked to White Hall, and there I shewed my cozen Roger the Duchesse of York sitting in state, while her own mother stands by her; he had a desire, and I shewed him my Lady Castlemayne, whom he approves to be very handsome, and wonders that she cannot be as good within as she is fair without. Her little black boy came by him; and, a dog being in his way, the little boy called to the dog: "Pox of this dog!" — "Now," says he, blessing himself, "would I whip this child till the blood come, if it were my child!" and I believe he would. But he do by no means like the liberty of the Court, and did come with expectation of finding them playing at cards to-night, though Sunday; for such stories he is told, but how true I know not.1 After walking up and down the Court with him, it being now dark and past six at night, I walked to the Swan in the Palace yard and there with much ado did get a waterman, and so I sent for the Michells, and they come, and their father Howlett and his wife with them, and there we drank, and so into the boat, poor Betty's head aching. We home by water, a fine moonshine and warm night, it having been also a very summer's day for warmth. I did get her hand to me under my cloak … So there we parted at their house, and he walked almost home with me, and then I home and to supper, and to read a little and to bed. My wife tells me Mr. Frampton is gone to sea, and so she lost her labour to-day in thinking to hear him preach, which I am sorry for.
Up to the office all the morning, where Sir W. Pen and I look much askewe one upon another, though afterward business made us speak friendly enough, but yet we hate one another. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office, where all the afternoon expecting Mr. Gawden to come for some money I am to pay him, but he comes not, which makes me think he is considering whether it be necessary to make the present he hath promised, it being possible this alteration in the Controller's duty may make my place in the Victualling unnecessary, so that I am a little troubled at it. Busy till late at night at the office, and Sir W. Batten come to me, and tells me that there is newes upon the Exchange to-day, that my Lord Sandwich's coach and the French Embassador's at Madrid, meeting and contending for the way, they shot my Lord's postilion and another man dead; and that we have killed 25 of theirs, and that my Lord is well. How true this is I cannot tell, there being no newes of it at all at Court, as I am told late by one come thence, so that I hope it is not so. By and by comes Mrs. Turner to me, to make her complaint of her sad usage she receives from my Lord Bruncker, that he thinks much she hath not already got another house, though he himself hath employed her night and day ever since his first mention of the matter, to make part of her house ready for him, as he ordered, and promised she should stay till she had fitted herself; by which and what discourse I do remember he had of the business before Sir W. Coventry on Sunday last I perceive he is a rotten- hearted, false man as any else I know, even as Sir W. Pen himself, and, therefore, I must beware of him accordingly, and I hope I shall. I did pity the woman with all my heart, and gave her the best council I could; and so, falling to other discourse, I made her laugh and merry, as sad as she came to me; so that I perceive no passion in a woman can be lasting long; and so parted and I home, and there teaching my girle Barker part of my song "It is decreed," which she will sing prettily, and so after supper to bed. | {
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Mongabay Series: Indonesian Forests, Indonesian Palm Oil
'Empty pocket season': Dayak women farmers grapple with the impacts of oil palm plantations
by Tessa Toumbourou on 20 August 2018
The village of Long Bentuk in Indonesian Borneo is almost completely surrounded by oil palm estates run by large companies.
While the impacts of being enclaved by oil palm has affected all people in the community, the effect on women has been particularly adverse.
A recent commitment by Indonesia's environment and forestry minister may see a greater role for women in land-use decisions across the country.
"When oil palm was given out by the district head I didn't accept it. I am still angry at the oil palm companies," says Monica Mensea. At 83, Mensea is the oldest woman in her village of Long Bentuk, a Dayak Medang indigenous community in East Kalimantan, a province in Indonesian Borneo. Though her body is weakening and her brown eyes are cloudy with cataracts, Mensea's mind is as sharp as ever. For nearly 20 years she led her community as the kepala adat (customary head) of Long Bentuk, in the administrative district of East Kutai. Despite her firm stance against converting land to industrial oil palm, today a corporate-run estate abuts her village's land, where her community's ancestral forest once stood. New pest infestations, oil palm plantations and climate change are all affecting local livelihoods and food availability. Women are suffering the most, through increased workloads and food shortages.
Oil palm explodes
Oil palm plantations have expanded voraciously in Indonesia, increasing by 4,500 square kilometers (1,740 square miles) per year from 1995 to 2015. Kahar Al Bahri, an activist with the Mining Advocacy Network, an NGO with a strong presence in East Kalimantan, is concerned that determination of land-use allocations pays little attention to natural features, such as rivers, or the land claims of local communities. "Almost all permits issued in East Kalimantan are in blocks or grids," Kahar said. "Companies just request the blocks they want to become their plantations."
Converting landscapes to oil palm has extensive implications for the lives and livelihoods of land-dependent people who live in and around company concessions. Proponents of industrial oil palm emphasize its development benefits for rural areas. Last year, Awang Faroek Ishak, the outgoing governor of East Kalimantan (soon to be replaced by the recently elected Isran Noor, who was the East Kutai district head from 2009 to 2015), said in an interview that "palm oil is a development solution, as companies are able to offer — through corporate sustainable responsibility programs — roads and schools and health clinics."
Yet in the East Kutai subdistrict of Busang, where Long Bentuk and five other villages are located, these programs have not emerged. Busang is not an anomaly — a recent study assessing the development contribution of oil palm indicates that even plantations certified to the highest industry standard, that awarded by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, have not led to a decrease in rural poverty, and that the number of healthcare facilities per capita declined between 2000 and 2014 in regions where oil palm has proliferated. While oil palm companies have been present in Busang for over a decade, still no state road connects to the city of Samarinda, where the nearest market, hospital, university and other services are located. The only access is through an endless timber plantation: a bone-rattling nine-hour drive through spindly acacia trees growing in uniform lines.
Vehicles ply the road to Busang in East Kalimantan province. Image by Tessa Toumbourou for Mongabay.
Indonesia's 2001 decentralization laws gave local governments the authority to greenlight oil palm, logging and mining operations. This new power was not matched with support or the budget to ensure that companies delivered development contributions. Benefit arrangements are actually left to companies to forge with local communities. Without government oversight to ensure that companies acquire land in a way that is not coercive — or that any negotiations are conducted at all — communities are vulnerable to strategies taken up by the private sector to pressure them to release land. Local communities' capacity to determine how their land is used, and to ensure that negotiations reflect all the preferences and concerns of social groups, is limited. Increasingly, communities find that, even where they refuse to release land, as with the community of Long Bentuk, companies go around them, leaving their village residential and farming land in place but surrounded by plantations.
Permitting oil palm
In late January 2006, just weeks before he was to leave office, the then district head of East Kutai signed off on four oil palm companies' early-stage land-use permits for most of Long Bentuk's land. The permits were issued one after the other, four days in a row. The four companies lead back to two main business groups: the Teladan Prima Group and the Triputra Group. In Indonesia, larger companies create a number of smaller subsidiaries to get around laws that prohibit any single company from operating concessions larger than 200 square kilometers (77 square miles).
In Long Bentuk, it wasn't until local residents discovered workers cutting trees in their ancestral forest that they realized their land had been issued permits for oil palm, according to Wang Beng, a Dayak Medang elder from Long Bentuk. A long struggle against the oil palm companies ensued over the subsequent decade. The Dayak Medang villagers tried every strategy they could, rallying their community to protest the land clearing, reporting to the district government and law enforcement agencies, and eventually traveling to Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, to report to national authorities. The companies' continued pressure brought previously mutually agreed borders between villages into dispute.
"When the company first came, we knew the impacts would be bad, but the neighboring villages accepted, so now we are encircled by oil palm," said Mensea, the former long-serving kepala adat. This strategy of enclaving communities who refuse to release land is frequently taken by oil palm companies: Residents are left in place with just enough land for current generations to continue farming, at least in the short term.
Young oil palm trees grow where the Long Bentuk community's ancestral forest once stood. Image by Tessa Toumbourou for Mongabay.
'Empty pocket season'
The Dayak Medang community of Long Bentuk resides along the lowland basin of the Kelinjau River, a sub-branch of the larger Mahakam, a powerful river that winds its way through East Kalimantan. Swidden rice is a main livelihood staple, supplemented by cocoa, banana, rubber, durian and rambutan, as well as sengon and ulin hardwood trees for timber. "Rice is very important; it's our breath," Mensea said. "If there wasn't swidden what would we eat?" Its importance as a food source is reflected in Dayak Medang culture: Children were traditionally named after the point in the swidden cycle at which they were born. Until the arrival of oil palm, Long Bentuk farmers had what they felt was infinite land available to them; they'd clear and carefully burn small plots, enough to sustain their households. Up to five years ago, one kaleng of rice seeds, a measure of 17 kilograms or 37 pounds, planted on a 1-hectare plot, about 2.5 acres, would yield an average of around 1.8 tons of rice, enough to last a family for two years, if not more. Some farmers reported boom years with yields of up to 5 tons of rice.
Today, industrial oil palm plantations have replaced much of the village's ancestral forest. The impacts from the loss of the ecological services that forests once provided undermine yields of swidden rice as well as cocoa, fruit and other cash crops. "Less forest means there is less habitat for squirrels, pigs, monkeys and birds and they are hungry and eat swidden rice," said Margareta, a local farmer (the names of some of the women in this story have been changed). Forests also provided medicine, materials for weaving and building, and a food-security buffer against environmental shocks, such as drought or fire, that affect swidden plots. The loss of the "insurance" that these forests provided threatens food security, health and cultural practices. "This is crisis season, empty pocket season," is a common refrain in the village.
Survival strategies
While the impacts of being enclaved by oil palm affects all people in a community, the effect on women is particularly adverse. Last October, I found farmer Lina sitting on the porch of her home, a single-room house on stilts. She was cutting lids off a pile of used plastic cups she'd collected from a waste heap behind the village government office to use for weaving. "They must have had an important meeting today, there's lots of cups," she said. The meeting, we learned later, was an information session held by a new oil palm company looking to establish a plantation across a portion of the village's land. Few people in the village knew the meeting was being held; invitations were hand delivered to neighborhood chiefs, heads of farmers groups and religious leaders on the morning of the meeting — after most people had left to tend their fields for the day. Lina once wove intricate and durable baskets from rattan that her husband collected while hunting in nearby forests. With forests now converted to oil palm, rattan is increasingly difficult to find. Lina is adapting to weaving with plastic instead.
She weaves baskets in the evenings after a long day of working in her swidden rice plot, fishing and maintaining her family's cocoa and banana garden. It's tiring work, but her family needs the extra income she can make from selling baskets to buy food. A recent flood destroyed her swidden rice crop and vegetable garden, and drowned the chickens they were raising. "The flooding is certainly worse since the oil palm began upstream," Lina observed. Where the forest floor previously absorbed the region's heavy rains, the conversion of forests upstream of the village means that more water now washes into the rivers, and the silt from erosion has thickened the riverbed, making it shallower and prone to frequent flooding. "When it rains, because the oil palm companies are on higher land than us here, the chemicals are carried down to here," she said. "At first the river was clear, we'd drink from it. Now we don't know what's carried in the water downstream." River fish, a main protein source, are also less abundant. "We used to get fish very quickly. Now it takes hours of waiting, and we need to use worms."
The arrival of oil palm plantations has put a price on land, turning it into a finite resource. Where in the past households could easily find an unused plot to plant rice, doing so today costs money most farmers don't have. "There's less land, but yields are lower so we need more land," Lina said. "Plus, there's less money to buy what we used to be able to grow, like vegetables." Many people are having to use swidden plots more frequently than they would prefer, resulting in less fertile, weed-prone soil. While all farmers are feeling the impacts, it is the role of women to ensure a household has enough to eat. Weeding swidden plots is now more time-consuming, but necessary to ensure that the weeds don't choke out the rice. Lina's neighbor, Leng, said she thought oil palm "brings only negative impacts. Before there was oil palm, when we finished harvest we could relax in the village. We could gather and dance hudoq [a traditional thanksgiving celebration], cook together. Now the yield from swidden has reduced, and people here have to work in their swidden more."
Cross-section of an oil palm fruitlet in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.
Weeding swidden takes up the time the women used to spend maintaining their cocoa and banana plots. A recent infestation of cocoa pod borer and black pod borer, both insect pests, has made cocoa, a once low-intensity crop requiring relatively little labor, more intensive to maintain, as infected trees must be diligently pruned, fertilized and weeded to maintain yield. The increased prevalence of flooding and changes to the water table from oil palm upstream also has an impact, according to Darwis, the village's main cocoa buyer. "Cocoa has reduced massively since oil palm moved in," he said. "Now we are only getting 5 tons a month (from a total of 200 tons a month), making this a reduction of [more than] 95 percent."
Infected cocoa also takes more effort to process. Where healthy cocoa seeds come loose from their pods easily, infested cocoa seeds are sticky and harder to remove. I sat with Karina, a Dayak Medang woman in her 50s, as she separated out cocoa seeds. "If the fruit is healthy it shouldn't need this much work," she said. "Now they are sticky like this, we must do it by hand. The more diseased fruit takes longer to loosen."
Where in the past the women could balance both swidden and cash crops, today many are having to choose one increasingly time-intensive crop over the other. "If we don't look after cocoa properly it doesn't fruit, but if we don't manage our swidden then we don't have rice to eat. It's a hard trade-off," said Leng.
Many women predicted that releasing land to industrial plantations would result in a significant loss of control over their food and income source. Leng preferred to hold on to her land. "When the oil palm company came here we said no, we don't want to work for someone else, in the hot sun," she said. "Working swidden rice we are our own boss, we go out in the morning then come home when we need to. The yield we get we can sell or keep." Other women shared this view, that their priority was to control their income from the land — and that by relinquishing it to the oil palm companies they'd lose this ability. They knew from communities nearby they would not have access to paid work in plantations, even if they wanted it, because companies deem women over 40 too old to perform strenuous maintenance work. "The tiring work is crippling, going up and down hills carrying heavy sacks of fertilizer. We'd send them broke," Leng said of her preference to continue farming rather than see her customary land released to companies. Many were also cautious that the local village administration wasn't effective enough to ensure that any benefits agreed on in exchange for land would end up distributed equitably. Without a robust agreement, they couldn't be sure the benefits from palm oil would outweigh the impacts to their livelihoods.
In 2017, no women had formal roles on the village administration in Long Bentuk. This made it hard for women to share their voice, said Agnes, a farmer and schoolteacher in Long Bentuk. "Women don't have a formal representative on the village administration, which means that women aren't invited to meetings," she said. "If we aren't invited then we don't go to meetings. Women feel they can't be in formal administrative positions if they are not capable or trained." Just as no women have formal administrative roles, no women are neighborhood heads in the village. Agnes is one of the few people in the community with a post-high school degree, and is often called on to act as a spokesperson for women in the village. She would like more women take on leadership roles. "We tried to encourage women to nominate themselves as neighborhood heads; we called women to put themselves forward but none wanted to. No women were confident in themselves."
The lack of women's engagement in formal public discussions is not due to their disinterest, says the minister of the minority Christian congregation, Mary. She observed that while there are no limitations on women participating in formal decision-making, they often feel hesitant to share their views in village discussions. "They aren't confident to give their opinion in formal spaces," she said. But their silence in public forums did not mean they had no preferences for land use and development, Mary said. "When they are outside, after meetings are finished, it's always bustling with women talking about what was discussed, and what they thought of it. I say to them, why didn't you say that in the meeting? Maybe they don't have self-confidence, or feel scared of being wrong, or saying the wrong thing," Mary said. "Or," she added, "perhaps they are pessimistic that they won't be listened to."
Studies from other parts of Indonesia have observed similar factors that limit women's representation in formal village-level discussions, including cultural or traditional conventions, norms and taboos, and women's household and care responsibilities that often leave them with less time during the day to attend formal meetings. While there is now parity between levels of education for young women and men, a gap persists between women and men aged 30 and above, widening with older age groups. The effect of being uneducated is significantly larger for women, influencing their ability to fulfill literacy requirements that may be required to participate in formal bodies, and relatedly diminishes women's confidence in their ability to articulate problems. Often invitations are only extended to men who are viewed to be heads of households.
A recent commitment by Indonesia's environment and forestry minister, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, may see a greater role for women in land-use decisions. In March 2018, Siti pledged to include a requirement for a gender impact assessment to be conducted as part of environmental impact assessments that must be undertaken by companies before any development projects, including oil palm plantations, can be issued a full license to operate. The minister's commitment reflects a growing recognition that large-scale industrial plantations have uneven social impacts, with women disproportionately experiencing negative impacts including loss of control over sources of food and income, compounded by difficulties accessing social benefits. Such safeguards go some of the way to giving women in rural Indonesia greater decision-making powers over the land on which their livelihoods depend. If implemented, it could go some way to ensuring that the full implications of a development project for social inequalities and food security are considered, and to ensure that land acquisition is based on truly informed consent.
Tessa Toumbourou is a researcher and writer with a focus on environment and development issues in Indonesia.
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25 knots breeze, 20 knots speed , Telefonica was on a hurry to join Cape Town and probably a beer in terrace. And they won !
Congratulations to skipper of Telefonica Iker Martinez and crew. Iker Martinez and crew mate Xabi Fernandez are well known in South Brittany after comig to train with Vendée Globe super-heroe Michel Desjoyeaux before last Barcelona World Race.
Congratulations also to Juan Kouyoumdjian, the designer of Telefonica, already winner of the two las editions of Volvo Ocean Race. It seems that his talent is still there, which is good to know as Groupama Sailing Team are sharing the same designer.
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Can I start this blog post with a confession? I let myself go during wedding season. I manage work/life balance very poorly, and one of the first things to go is caring well for my body. Ironically, it's the very thing that enables me to do flowers, so I finally wised up to start taking care of it. I know I'm not alone in my struggle with this but over the years I have found some tips to combat my neglectful ways. If you can relate, I hope you find some hope that you are not alone and that healthy habits are possible!
Disclaimer: I am a florist and obviously not a doctor, so this is not medical advice in any way, shape or form. This article is my experience and opinion based on my journey. Please seek professional medical advice (preferably from a good naturopathic doctor) on what your body needs to keep you well during wedding season!
For starters, drink water. As you know, we work really, really hard and have a physically demanding job. I am usually focused on the task at hand, and that often means staying hydrated feels pretty unimportant. The real deal is that dehydration is a serious problem and it happens more often than we think. If you feel thirsty, it's a good sign that you are already pushing it and you need to get hydrated. The best way to do this with is room temperature water and bonus points if you add some liquid minerals or a little sea salt to get you back to normal.
Do you workout? If you do, hooray! If you don't, keep reading. My thought for many years has been that my job feels like a crazy workout so why bother? The problem is that even though our job requires that we bend, twist and lift, we aren't building real strength with short bursts of activity. In fact, the movements we make can often cause problems such as strain on our wrists, hands, and arms by repetitive motion. We can develop or aggravate back, hip and leg problems with standing on hard surfaces all day and lifting heavy items.
I'll share a quick story. I did a lot of freelance work last year, and it would often take me to cities two hours away from home. I started noticing a pattern where I would do a wedding setup and the next day I would be incredibly sore. My amazing chiropractor finally asked me about my work patterns and told me "Amy, you have to move after you move." This might be basic information to you, but this was radical to me. It wasn't that I couldn't handle the intensity of wedding installs, but the problem was going from intense activity to sitting for two hours in the car and then being sedentary again when I got home.
Setting up a wedding is often like an intense workout and moving afterward is cool-off time for the body. You can choose any quick "cool down" exercise but what has worked best for me is immediately after a setup, I take a short brisk walk, and a do a few simple squats. I do this before I get in the car and again when I get home. I also do some very quick and straightforward neck, wrist and shoulder stretches as those always take a beating as well. Admittedly I don't work out during wedding season, but these small additions to my routine have made a huge difference. If you are comfortable with chiropractic care, I highly recommend finding a good one. I have used chiropractic care my whole adult life, and it has been essential in keeping my body well on and off wedding season.
I am the first to admit that during wedding season all of my good intentions with clean eating go right out the window. I find myself reaching for whatever is quick and will give me energy. This reality usually means carbs, sugar, and caffeine. I still too often turn to quick foods that cause more harm than good but here are some tips that have helped me attempt to make better choices.
Just to repeat, I am obviously not a doctor or a nutritionist, but I have an excellent naturopathic doctor who has helped me put some great practices into place regarding eating for energy. First, eat a good breakfast! I know this is not new, but I have finally learned that what I eat for breakfast makes a huge difference and sets me up for energy throughout the whole day. Do your best to ditch the grains (i.e. cereals, oatmeal, bagels, breakfast sandwiches, breakfast burritos, etc.) unless you go without the carbs. These are good to avoid because they are a form of quick energy that metabolizes into sugar in the body, so you get a spike of energy but then a hard crash.
Instead, eat a combination of protein, a healthy fat and a good carb. This power-packed combo provides tons of slow burning energy that is sustained for hours. A quick example of this is a smoothie with almond milk, grass fed Bulletproof collagen protein powder, a capful of Bulletproof MCT or XCT oil and some frozen fruits and/or veggies. I make a large one in the morning and save some to drink later for a snack. This works brilliantly when I need a boost and helps me ward off cravings for caffeine and sugar. For snacks, I stick with beef jerky, sweet potato chips, and bulletproof protein bars to keep me going.
Most importantly, to keep doing what we love (flowers!) we have to take care of ourselves if we don't make it a priority, it won't happen. We are the only ones that can improve these areas — so whatever you do, do something!
Amy Nicole Floral engages in the art of storytelling by creating stylish, abundant, thoughtful floral designs for unique celebrations including weddings, events and workshops. Her commercial and editorial work includes floral styling for photoshoots and campaigns of all sizes.
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Superbells Cherry Star Calibrachoa. Photo from Proven Winners.
My garden is built around perennials, and I would recommend that strategy to anyone. But this year I vow to use more annuals.
Yes, perennials are great because they stay in your garden year after year–you don't have to spend money buying them every year. Plus, they tend to spread. You can start with a small garden and expand it from year to year.
The problem with perennials is that while the plants are there all year, the blossoms come and go. My garden looks great in spring when I have many plants in bloom, including narcissus, forget-me-nots, allium, columbine and chives (chives are a tangy herb, but they also get a beautiful flower in spring).
Lobularia in basket. Photo from Proven Winners.
Then there tends to be a lag as I wait for tiger lilies and black-eyed Susans and hostas to bloom later in the summer.
One answer is to try to find perennials to fill in that gap, and I'm working on that. Another answer is to use annuals.
But before we go any further, let me explain how I'm using the terms perennial and annual. If something comes back on its own every year in Western New York (even if the plant dies and reseeds itself), I'm referring to it as a perennial. If you have to go out and buy a new specimen of the plant every year, or you have to start it yourself from seed, I'm referring to it as an annual. These definitions differ from the botanical definitions.
Lobularia in the ground. Photo from Proven Winners.
boxes, deck boxes and planters. If you place annuals in pots that are small enough to be moved, the container can be placed wherever you need color at that time. You have a broader range of plants to choose from when you add annuals to the mix of plants in your garden.
In this article, we'll look at some annuals that do well in sun in Buffalo-area gardens. These suggestions were provided by the staff at Lockwood's Greenhouses, 4484 Clark Street, Hamburg, NY 14075. This list includes some new annuals as well as tried-and-true annuals.
Angelonia Angelface dark violet. Photo from Proven Winners.
A new color of calibrachoa, Superbells Cherry Star from Proven Winners, looks great in containers, said Jill Kisker, grower at Lockwood's.
Long, trailing branches will cascade over the side of hanging baskets and spread out in flower beds. Abundant, small petunia-like flowers appear all season and into fall.
It's heat tolerant and low maintenance– no deadheading is necessary. It attracts hummingbirds and other birds.
Serena lavender pink angelonia. Photo from Ball Horticultural Company.
Lobularia was a big hit last year, and Kisker expects it to be popular this year as well.
It's a hanging alyssum that gets big and full. It can grow in a big, round ball. Steve Lockwood, owner of Lockwood's, noted that lobularia can drape down as much as three or four feet. It also trails nicely when planted in the ground. It comes only in white.
It will flower from spring, into summer–and beyond! Kisker said they had a plant that made it through to the middle of December last year.
"It's fragrant, too, which is nice," Lockwood added.
It does take a lot of water, but it won't look ratty in the middle of summer as some plants do.
"It's a good all-around plant," Kisker said.
Angelonia is a flower that doesn't get used enough, Kisker said. It flowers all summer, likes heat and is a good, reliable plant.
AngelMist spreading pink angelonia. Photo from Ball Horticultural Company.
Because it looks like a snapdragon, it's often referred to as a summer snapdragon, Lockwood noted. It comes in pinks, purples and whites.
There are several varieties. The Angelface series from Proven Winners is 18-24 inches tall. A shorter variety is Serena, which grows about 12 inches tall. A spreading variety is AngelMist from Ball Horticultural Company.
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If I plant Agapanthus in gallon pots in Buffalo now, will they be in bloom by late July?
It is hard to say if the Agapanthus will bloom at all the first year you pot them up. They bloom better when the roots are constricted in the pot and sometimes take a couple years to flower. It also depends on the size and age of the plants. You may have luck if they are already larger, mature plants. | {
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LILAS: An Illustrated History of the Golden Ages of Cebuano Cinema
By Paul Douglas Grant and Misha Boris Anissimov
"How do we write a history of a cinema that is, for the most part, materially lost and impossible to see today? This remarkable book on Cebuano cinema shows us how to do it: with vivid documentation, combined with lively storytelling, rigorous research, personal reminiscences, and pertinent theorizing. This boo weaves together a history that is all at once entertaining, cultural, political, and poignant. It brings Cebuano cinema alive on the page, and makes a persuasive case for its importance."
-Professor Adrian Martin, Monash University
On a distant island 800 kilometers from Manila, determined and defiant Cebuanos dared to challenge the dominant Tagalog film industry with a cinema all their own. This is the first published book on how they almost succeeded. This work primarily addresses the two productive periods of Cebuano film production, roughly corresponding to the 1950's and 1970's. While numerous published writings exist on the history of the dominant Tagalog cinema out of Manila, the authors hope to shed light on a little known, forgotten piece of Philippine film history which existed, sporadically thrived, and intermittently negotiated and confronted the dominant Tagalog film industry from the north. At the root of this cultural rivalry between Cebuanos and Tagalogs was the imposed primacy of Tagalog as national (and cinematic) language upon a very large population of Cebuano speakers. Cebuano actors and filmmakers have a history of being co-opted by the Manila entertainment industry, however this has always remained an uneasy alliance supported by economic realities at the expense of cultural identity. The book introduces the reader to Cebuano stars such as Mat Ranillo, Gloria Sevilla, Bert Nombrado, Rosita Fernandez, Virgie Solis, Caridad Sanchez, Esterlina, Chanda Romero, Justo C. Justo, and pioneering directors such as Piux Kabahar, Fernando Alfon, Saturnino Villarino, Eugene Labella, Joe Macachor as well as numerous others who toiled to make Cebuano films, in spite of insurmountable odds.
With almost no films left from this history, the book also provides a Relics section for a rare glimpse of what two Cebuano films could have been like: a text serialization of the film Batul of Mactan (1974) and a comic serialization of Ang Medalyon nga Bulawan (1974). Accepted film historical discourse has tended to place the blame of the failure in establishing a Cebuano film industry on "imperial Manila". The authors hope to expand the debate and introduce the reader to the numerous cultural negotiations and interdependencies that paint a picture far more complex, nuanced, and at times, scandalous.
PAUL DOUGLAS GRANT is Professor of Cinema Studies and Co-Chair of Research at the School of Architecture, Fine Arts and Design, University of San Carlos, Philippines, and the author of Cinema Militant – Political Filmmaking & May 1968. He is also the translator of Serge Daney's Postcards from the Cinema.
MISHA BORIS ANISSIMOV is a lecturer and co-founder of the Cinema program at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines. He served as the first program Cinema Coordinator and was the founding editor of the Sinekultura Film Journal. He holds an M.A. in Cinema Studies from the institution.
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11-7 with a lethal stretch upcoming. So far Pistons have beat who they were supposed to beat and played close the teams they should play close. I was a staunch SVG defender, but Casey has already proved to be a marked improvement.
If the pistons get to November with above a .500 record then they are a serious threat for a 4-6 seed in the East.
Stanley Johnson has been playing a little better the past few games. Still consider him a bust at this point but at least there's a glimmer of promise. I give Casey credit on using the younger guys better.
The Pistons are interested in Markelle Fultz.
I'd be willing to take a gamble. He is likely a bust but if he did reach his potential it would be huge. This team is stuck in mediocrity. It's impossible to go out and get another star. May as well take a shot at a diamond in the rough. If it doesn't work out no big deal.
Blake a Point power forward and running offense isn't the answer..
Blake has actually been incredible so far this year. I still hate his contract and don't really agree with the trade, but it's not his fault on the court why the Pistons are mediocre. We really do have one of the best front lines in the NBA. Where I do blame Blake is we don't have any cap space to go out and get the outside shooting that we need. We need a PG, SG, and SF.... Wing players especially are so important. Now that we have Kennard back hopefully they can develop him into something. We need the Kennard that showed up against Philly (even though it was a loss). If he can shoot like that it will greatly help this team. Not saying I expect him to average 28ppg obviously. But if he can hit 4 threes and get us 15-18 that would really change things.
as much as i want to see it happen, i just don't think it will.
Is it because he's had one good week? I like him. He's a decent player for his contract. But he really should be coming off the bench for a team that could contend.
It's more that he shot 45% from 3 last year while being one of the only off the ball offensive threats the team had. his game reminds me of a 3point oriented rip.
Anybody ready to blow this thing up yet? This stuck in mediocrity thing is really making the team hard to even follow anymore. It's bad move after bad move. New coach, same result. The roster just isn't there. This is a players league. The Pistons don't have the players. Stanley Johnson still isn't getting it done. We need a PG. Not sure what we have with Kennard yet. Drafting at 12-15 just isn't going to get it done.
Apparently the Pistons are interested in Mike Conley. I'm not sure who they could send to Memphis to take on that contract. Clearly he's an upgrade over Reggie Jackson. Might even be able to possibly make an all-star game in the East. That would probably move the Pistons up to about a 5 seed. They still aren't better than the Bucks, Celtics, Raptors, or 76ers. And that's assuming they somehow manage to keep Drummond and Griffin. They still really need help on the wings. Not sure how they could address that. Especially if they are going to give up draft picks potentially.
Well, one Reggie is out. I think there will be one more on the move eventually. Probably not this season, but in the future. Svi is a good shooter and on contract so he can't take off for warmer weather. Might be a win/win for both teams.
Marc J. Spears: The Lakers have agreed in principle to trade guard Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk and a second round draft pick to the Pistons for guard Reggie Bullock, a source said.
Apparently the Pistons are trading Stanley Johnson for Thon Maker too. It appears they are going to try to blow things up a bit. Not that maker is a replacement for Drummond, but I could see them trying to move that contract now. Start from scratch. I wouldn't mind a youth movement. I would at least be interested again. Kennard should get more PT with Bullock with the Lakers now. Could very well develop some young guys and tank for actual high lottery picks for once rather than going for the later lottery ones lol.
We're sitting at the 10th worst record in the NBA. If Detroit lost a few more games and could somehow get some luck with the ping pong balls could you imagine what it would do for the team if Cam Reddish fell to the Pistons? Haven't had a solid wing in years. That would be huge. Obviously they can't just go get one in free agency. Rookie contract that could make an impact could turn things right around.
incredibly small sample size, but has been playing really well of late. frustrating thing about the pistons is that either everybody shines or nobody does. reggie, drummond, and luke have all looked great the last six weeks. they all looked like garbage the six weeks before.
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Music Videos – Hello Asia!
iKON has dropped the music video for their comeback title track "Love Scenario," from their second album "Return", which is available now!
"Don't Wanna Cry" With Seventeen's New Comeback!
Five months after their last title song "붐붐 (BOOM BOOM)", Seventeen has released their 4th mini album, coming back with "울고 싶지 않아 (DON'T WANNA CRY)"! | {
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In a city that has become wealthy thanks to the production and trade of silk, the society begins to engage in culture with the opening of a library, the creation of a circle of intellectuals "Accademia degli Agiati" and the construction of a theater, the first in Trentino, opened around 1780. After some adjustments and restorations for new security standards, the theater - whose construction is inspired by the Veronese philharmonic theater – with its 400 seats, hosts a significant number of theatrical, musical and dance shows annually.
Planned by the architect Mario Botta, the building's centre of gravity is the large glass and steel dome above the central access piazza to the Museum. The roof maintains a constant dialogue with light and covers an area of 1,300 square metres, is 25 metres high and has a diameter of 40 metres, exactly the same as the Pantheon in Rome. For the facades, Mario Botta chose a yellow stone of Vicenza to blend in with the 18th-century setting of the avenue in front, corso Bettini. A guided tour to the exhibition "Magical realism" and a Networking Gala-Dinner in the museum are included in the Inn4Mech's schedule.
This majestic building from the 18th century, now occupied by the Faculty of Cognitive Sciences of the University of Trento, is also located in Corso Bettini. It was called the "Palace of Education" because for the citizens of Rovereto it has always been a place for schools. Walking through the entrance you access a large lobby with a staircase in the background. There is also an inner courtyard with balloons and covered with crystal plates. The Aula Magna, often used by the population for cultural events, is adorned with beautiful decorations.
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Are You Using This Essential Risk Management Tool?
Strategic risk management is the process of identifying, analyzing, and controlling uncertainties that keep an organization from achieving its objectives. Of the many tools available to increase your strategic risk intelligence—such as a root-cause analysis or a workflow diagram—one is especially useful. It's simple but often overlooked: the humble dictionary.
I happen to really like dictionaries. In my school years, you could find me in a corner of the playground reading books during recess. My passion wasn't just a fascination with words. The truth is, I had trouble figuring people out. As an INTP, I found it helpful to research words that didn't make sense, and this gave me the confidence to relate to people of all backgrounds.
I believe most business problems occur when leaders are unwilling or unable to see "blind spots" in their organization, which is why my clients get a "Give-It-To-Me-Straight" approach. Facing problems head-on allows us to see unpleasant truths that are barriers to success. But before we can jump into "fix-it mode," it's essential to know exactly what the problem is. And to do this, we need to agree on the meaning behind words.
A dictionary is an alphabetized set of terms that describes the spelling, pronunciation, and meanings of referenced words.
If you travel internationally, you'll know how it feels to know the right words, yet remain totally confused. Simply using correct words in the correct order does not guarantee comprehension. And if there's no shared understanding, communication did not take place.
$125 million Mars Climate Orbiter disaster, when NASA failed to clarify the unit of measurement; scientists used pound-seconds to calculate the Orbiter's entry on Mars, while the craft was programmed with Newton-seconds.
Errors are less likely to occur when we agree on the context (what's happening), usage (how words are formed and expressed), and meaning (intended significance) of the situation. To reduce the chance of unknowns, we can start by agreeing on which terms are essential and then defining those.
Organizations with high risk intelligence make sure all terms and concepts originate from one primary source. In IT, a data dictionary goes a step further: it describes defines the content, format, and structure of a set of data; the relationships between each element; and rules by which access is controlled. For example, I once worked in a database which had a field for "Name" and another for "Last Name." This led to a lot of confusion: Is "Name" a first name only, or should it contain the full given name? Is it duplicated from another field? The more clearly you define your words, the less frustration you'll have later on.
The best time to define terms is at the beginning of a process. Many organizations have silos of information; each department has their own definition for the same words. This can result in embarrassment or even worse. I recall during one healthcare meeting, our IT specialist was discussing "Old timer's disease" instead of "Alzheimer's disease," and "Lasix" (a diuretic) rather than "Lasik" (laser eye surgery). Although mispronunciations may sound funny at the time, communication errors add up to billions of dollars in damage. The best approach is to clarify everything early on.
A dictionary doesn't have to be complex. It doesn't even have to be professionally printed and bound. In fact, one of my clients developed a list of the commonly used words in his industry and printed out a rough draft. When he showed the list to his staff at their weekly meeting, he was shocked by the positive response. Every employees wanted a copy, and several suggested new terms to add. Rather than a "boring list of words," this process gave the company more clarity, a practical team-building tool, and became a reference point for future discussions.
First, consider terms that are used most often with your customers, internally in day-to-day operations, and in the industry at large. If you want, this can begin as a brain-storming session at your next staff meeting.
Research what each word means in commonly accepted standards; use online dictionaries, industry publications, and your internal corporate reference materials.
Consider the context, usage, and meaning of each word (what is implied, how it is delivered, what the next step should be), and create a definition that best describes the meaning of the word for the most people possible.
Review the draft definitions with your team, and create a final version.
Publish the dictionary in an easily accessible format.
Share the terms and definitions at staff meetings, in marketing materials, on your website, and in conversations with clients.
Finally, update your dictionary regularly, add new terms as they emerge, and alert your team so they can adjust their own reference materials.
It's a good idea to review your dictionary every few months, and continue to involve your staff and management team in future "definition projects" such as Policies and Procedures, Workflow Diagramming, and Job Descriptions.
You can see an example of an organizational dictionary here on my website.
I used all the steps above and continue to update it regularly. Have fun storming the castle!
In my next few posts, I'll discuss The Two Precursors of Meaning and an Overview of the 5 Types of Strategic Risk.
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Grace LaConte is a Strategic Risk Expert who helps executive leaders find and fix organizational vulnerabilities. Using her experience as a Risk Officer and Director in healthcare and technology companies, Grace shares a refreshingly honest approach to uncovering hidden risk opportunities. Learn more at http://laconteconsulting.com, or connect with her on Twitter @lacontestrategy.. | {
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Omnichannel marketing is a reality. Providing shoppers with a consistent view of the same product across channels is essential to building consumer confidence and trust. If either is broken, consider it a lost opportunity. Its not uncommon to view the same product on two or more marketplaces and to spot inconsistent product detail information. It may seem small but variances in material or weight can make a difference to the buyer.
Clean consistent data across all product channels is a must. In a crowded eco-system of thousands of products and different systems to help manage them it is all too tempting to use something like an ERP and begin using it as a central source of truth. This can lead to many other processes that get bolted on the add data or vex it into a different form depending on the channel – mobile, web, print, etc. With each one of those comes another process or system of responsibility. This is where maintaining a single view of the product gets skewed and managing this data becomes impossible.
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A PIM (Product Information Management) is a system designed to centralize your product marketing data, ease maintenance of that data and ensure the right products and respective information makes it in to the proper channel to be consumed. It is essential in system architecture for product focused marketing to help stream line process, consolidate collateral and improve overall data quality and management.
In the end, having a PIM can be a game changer but only when combined with quality data that is complete and meaningful to your consumers.
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3) Being a huge maple syrup fan, I was ecstatic to discover Archer Farms cinnamon-infused maple syrup. The ingredients? 100% pure maple syrup and a cinnamon stick. Yum. It's waffles for dinner tonight!
Oh, I'll have to see if mine has Kiehls. I was glad to see they had a few Bumble & Bumble products and picked up some hair lotion last time I was in.
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Ah! I do miss Target. It's one of my favourite stops on trips to the States.
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Nithyananda and his many controversies
Updated : November 22, 2019 18:42 IST
Swami Nithyananda is a self-styled godman who runs a number of ashrams across the country and heads the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, a religious organisation which he founded. According to a video available on his website, Nithyananda attained 'enlightenment' at the age of 12. (Source: nithyananda.org)
A statue of Nithyananda. The video on his website introduces him as a spiritual leader of Hinduism and claims that he runs centres in 47 countries. Nithyananda has been booked after a couple from Tamil Nadu moved the Gujarat High Court, alleging their children were being held in illegal confinement at his ashram in Ahmedabad. (Source: nithyananda.org)
This is not the first time that Nithyananda has landed into a controversy. In 2010, a video of Nithyananda had surfaced on local news channels wherein he was purportedly shown engaging in sexual acts with a Tamil actress. He had defended himself at the time saying he was merely 'practising the shavasana' and that he was impotent. (Source: File Photo)
A case was filed against him in Bangalore. He was finally arrested from Himachal Pradesh's Solan district on April 21, 2010. Nithyananda was, however, let off on bail. Two years later, though, he landed again in soup when a US-based woman claimed that Nithyananda had abused her for five years. (Source: Express Archive)
A statue of Nithyananda. On Monday, an FIR was lodged against Nithyananda and two of his followers at an Ahmedabad-based ashram for allegedly abducting, confining and torturing two minors and a 19-year-old woman. Following this, the Gujarat High Court had issued notices to Nithyananda and the state government on a habeas corpus petition filed by the father of the women. (Source: nithyananda.org)
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Persian poet 'Saadi' statue unveiled in China's Nanjing
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) –The statue of famous and prominent Iranian poet "Saadi Shirazi was recently installed and unveiled in the International Friendship Park of Nanjing in China, the city that has inked a sisterhood agreement with Shiraz.
The unveiling ceremony was held with the participation of the Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Shanghai province Ramezan Parvaz and also some of the local Chinese officials.
The Chinese Ambassador to Iran Chang Hua recently published pictures of the unveiling of the ceremony of prominent Iranian Poet Saadi in Nanjing city and wrote on his Twitter page that Saadi statue as presented by Shiraz Municipality was unveiled in Nanjing International Friendship Park. It is a matter of pleasure to see the continuous strengthening of cultural exchanges between the two countries.
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namespace testing {
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MockFileStream(base::PlatformFile file, int flags)
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virtual int64 Available() OVERRIDE;
virtual int Read(char* buf,
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virtual int64 Truncate(int64 bytes) OVERRIDE;
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void clear_forced_error() { forced_error_ = net::OK; }
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Congress punts hard payroll tax work to 2012
Richard Cowan, Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law a two-month payroll tax cut extension on Friday, capping a year of fierce partisan combat over taxes and spending that will resume in January and play heavily in the 2012 elections.
The Senate and the House of Representatives, by voice votes in chambers nearly emptied for the holidays, passed a $33 billion (21 billion pounds) bill to keep the payroll tax rate at 4.2 percent through February. It had been scheduled to increase on January 1 to 6.2 percent. Obama swiftly signed the bill.
"We have a lot more work to do," the president said at the White House. "This continues to be a make-or-break moment for the middle class ... There are going to be some important debates next year."
Obama heads to vacation in Hawaii with an important political win in his portfolio after he and fellow Democrats prevailed in the message war by backing lower taxes for middle-class Americans in the midst of a fragile economic recovery.
The battle took a toll on House Republicans led by Speaker John Boehner, who were forced to make an embarrassing retreat and agree to a short-term deal Thursday after getting hit by critics on all sides, include their colleagues in the Senate.
The temporary fix lets lawmakers lower the curtain, for now, on a year of political deadlock that in the end produced only a series of inconclusive truces. The fiscal policy debate is set to rage straight through the 2012 election season and beyond.
While Congress is on a long winter break now and does not return to full swing until late January, newly appointed negotiators are expected to begin work soon on figuring out how to pay for extending the payroll tax cut through 2012.
Republicans have sought a continued freeze on federal worker pay and cuts in Medicare benefits for the wealthy. Democrats have rejected both ideas while proposing a surtax on the wealthy to cover the extension's cost. Republicans reject this.
Both sides have been open to cutting federal workers' pension benefits. There also were last-minute Senate negotiations last week on possibly ending some tax breaks for the wealthy, such as a small one involving corporate jets.
Obama: "make or break moment" for middle class
Timeline: Speaker Boehner's tax cut reversal
Minutes after the bipartisan deal was passed by Congress, the bickering that has come to dominate Capitol Hill resumed.
Republican Representative Tom Price, a leader of House conservatives, immediately criticized the short-term extension, calling it a "two-month punt" and saying it would not have been needed if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, and Obama had "been willing to do their job today."
'NOTHING OFF THE TABLE'
In a sign that the battle is far from over, Reid signaled that Democrats could renew their push for a surtax on wealthier Americans. Democrats had dropped that demand during the year-end negotiations that produced the two-month deal.
"There is nothing off the table," he said.
Obama scored a victory in the payroll tax struggle over Tea Party conservatives in the House who tried to block the two-month extension. They backed down on Thursday in the face of bipartisan criticism, but they are not going away.
Representative Tim Huelskamp, a first-term Republican, said on CNN that he was disappointed with Republican leadership caving in to pressure and accepting the two-month deal.
Next year could be a rough one for Boehner, the top House Republican, said Norm Ornstein, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
Boehner spent 2011 having to negotiate with many of his own party members on just about every major piece of legislation.
President Obama signs the payroll tax cut extension in the Oval Office of the White House, December 23, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Now that House Republicans have had to go along with Democrats in the payroll tax debate, "the idea that this group of angry Tea Party Republicans, who feel betrayed, now will go along or that Boehner will be more capable of defying them is a little bit wrong-headed," Ornstein said.
Meanwhile, Democrats might be emboldened, believing "they've learned to play poker," he added.
Patrick Griffin, associate director Of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, said House Republicans "overplayed their hand. How they interpret that lesson will be very interesting."
Any edge conferred on Democrats might be short-lived, however. The 2012 election cycle is just set to kick off with the Iowa Republican presidential caucus on January 3 and a long road lies ahead until voters go to the polls in November.
The payroll tax funds the Social Security retirement pension system. If it had been allowed to rise, the increase would have hit the wallets of 160 million working Americans.
The $33 billion needed to pay for the two-month extension will be raised by increasing fees charged by housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for guaranteeing mortgages.
Analysts said the fee hike, which investors will likely pass along to borrowers, could raise financing costs for mortgages, but probably not enough to slow a housing market recovery.
Unemployment benefits set to expire soon were extended as well, while cuts in payments to doctors who treat patients in the government-backed Medicare health insurance program for the elderly were postponed, under the bill signed by Obama.
Also included in it was a Republican initiative aiming to force the administration into fast approval of an oil pipeline opposed by environmentalists and many Democrats. The provision gives Obama 60 days to either approve TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Gulf of Mexico facilities in Texas, or declare it not in the national interest.
Obama wants more time to evaluate the environmental impact of routing the pipeline through sensitive areas of Nebraska. The White House has said that if pushed for a decision within 60 days, the administration would be forced to reject the project.
House Speaker John Boehner departs after announcing an agreement on the extension of the payroll tax holiday during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol, December 22, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Not extending the payroll tax cut, analysts warned, could have jeopardized the recovery, even risking another recession.
The modest two-month fix drew fire from some businesses that said it will complicate payroll processing and tax planning.
The payroll situation "could get more confusing," said Robert Gard, an accountant with Gard and LaFreniere LLC in Alpharetta, Georgia. If the tax is not extended at the end of February, businesses will need to reprogram software, he said.
Reporting by Richard Cowan, Rachelle Younglai, Patrick Temple-West, Margaret Chadbourn and Ayesha Raschoe. Writing by Kevin Drawbaugh; editing by Mary Milliken | {
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Q: MongoDB Schema Design - Real-time Chat I'm starting a project which I think will be particularly suited to MongoDB due to the speed and scalability it affords.
The module I'm currently interested in is to do with real-time chat. If I was to do this in a traditional RDBMS I'd split it out into:
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*Channel (A channel has many users)
*User (A user has one channel but many messages)
*Message (A message has a user)
The the purpose of this use case, I'd like to assume that there will be typically 5 channels active at one time, each handling at most 5 messages per second.
Specific queries that need to be fast:
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*Fetch new messages (based on an bookmark, time stamp maybe, or an incrementing counter?)
*Post a message to a channel
*Verify that a user can post in a channel
Bearing in mind that the document limit with MongoDB is 4mb, how would you go about designing the schema? What would yours look like? Are there any gotchas I should watch out for?
A: Why use mongo for a messaging system? No matter how fast the static store is (and mongo is very fast), whether mongo or db, to mimic a message queue your going to have to use some kind of polling, which is not very scalable or efficient. Granted you're not doing anything terribly intense, but why not just use the right tool for the right job? Use a messaging system like Rabbit or ActiveMQ.
If you must use mongo (maybe you just want to play around with it and this project is a good chance to do that?) I imagine you'll have a collection for users (where each user object has a list of the queues that user listens to). For messages, you could have a collection for each queue, but then you'd have to poll each queue you're interested in for messages. Better would be to have a single collection as a queue, as it's easy in mongo to do "in" queries on a single collection, so it'd be easy to do things like "get all messages newer than X in any queues where queue.name in list [a,b,c]".
You might also consider setting up your collection as a mongo capped collection, which just means that you tell mongo when you set up the collection that your collection should only hold X number of bytes, or X number of items. Adding additional items has First-In, First-Out behavior which is pretty much ideal for a message queue. But again, it's not really a messaging system.
A: I used Redis, NGINX & PHP-FPM for my chat project. Not super elegant, but it does the trick. There are a few pieces to the puzzle.
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*There is a very simple PHP script that receives client commands and puts them in one massive LIST. It also checks all room LISTs and the users private LIST to see if there are messages it must deliver. This is polled by a client written in jQuery & it's done every few seconds.
*There is a command line PHP script that operates server side in an infinite loop, 20 times per second, which checks this list and then processes these commands. The script handles who is in what room and permissions in the scripts memory, this info is not stored in Redis.
*Redis has a LIST for each room & a LIST for each user which operates as a private queue. It also has multiple counters for each room the user is in. If the users counter is less than the total messages in the room, then it gets the difference and sends it to the user.
I haven't been able to stress test this solution, but at least from my basic benchmarking it could probably handle many thousands of messages per second. There is also the opportunity to port this over to something like Node.js to increase performance. Redis is also maturing and has some interesting features like Pub/Subscribe commands, which might be of interest, that would possibly remove the polling on the server side possibly.
I looked into Comet based solutions, but many of them were complicated, poorly documented or would require me learning an entirely new language(e.g. Jetty->Java, APE->C),etc... Also delivery and going through proxies can sometimes be an issue with Comet. So that is why I've stuck with polling.
I imagine you could do something similar with MongoDB. A collection per room, a collection per user & then a collection which maintains counters. You'll still need to write a back-end daemon or script to handle manging where these messages go. You could also use MongoDB's "limited collections", which keeps the documents sorted & also automatically clears old messages out, but that could be complicated in maintaining proper counters.
A: 1) ape-project.org
2) http://code.google.com/p/redis/
3) after you're through all this - you can dumb data into mongodb for logging and store consistent data (users, channels) as well
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Two of the world's most widely used content management system (CMS) programs, Drupal and WordPress, contain critical flaws that need to be patched immediately.
Popular open source CMS platform Drupal on Tuesday warned admins to set aside time on Wednesday February 20 to review whether their systems were affected by a "highly critical" bug that affects 8.5.x and 8.6.x of the software.
The project has warned admins to "reserve time" on the date between 1800 to 2200 UTC (London time) to check whether an immediate update was necessary.
Drupal has now released updates now to address the bug, which is due to some file types not properly sanitizing data from RESTful web services. This can lead to arbitrary PHP code execution, it warns.
Admins should immediately upgrade to each branch's fixed versions, which are Drupal 8.6.10 and Drupal 8.5.11. Several third-party modules are also affected and need to updated after Drupal core is updated.
Updates should be applied but until they are it can be mitigated by disabling all web services modules or disallowing PUT/PATCH/POST requests to web services resources.
Though Drupal hasn't released details about the bug yet, its definition of highly critical — its most severe category of vulnerability — include "remote exploitable vulnerabilities that can compromise the system", typically without user interaction.
Drupal is the third most popular CMS and accounts for about 4 percent of websites, according to Web Technology Surveys data.
The project notes that Drupal 7 websites do not require a core update, but some modules (the website equivalent to browser extensions) may be affected. The affected modules will be revealed on Wednesday on its security advisory page alongside the security releases.
The most recent "highly critical" Drupal flaw, CVE-2018-7602, was disclosed in April and within two months was exploited to force affected systems to mine cryptocurrency.
Drupal's forthcoming advisory is scheduled to be published at 5am Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). Mitigations will be detailed in the advisory.
Admins managing WordPress websites using WordPress version 5.0.0 and below are also being urged to apply the latest security updates, WordPress version 5.0.1, released in December.
Researchers at German firm Ripstech today published details of a remote code execution bug in WordPress core.
WordPress is by far the most popular web CMS so even a small percentage of websites that haven't installed the latest security update could offer criminals plenty to work with.
WordPress's December security update effectively defanged remote attacks against this flaw in WordPress core for sites that did actually update.
However, Ripstech today warned that "any WordPress site with a plugin installed that incorrectly handles Post Meta entries can make exploitation still possible" and it says that it has seen millions of active plugin installations do the same mistake in past reviews.
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There were some significant results in the Premier League across Saturday and Sunday, many which could have huge implications on the rest of the season.
Watford got one over former manager Marco Silva at Vicarage Road, Burnley continued their Tom Heaton-inspired revival at Brighton and Manchester City defeated Chelsea 6-0 at the Etihad Stadium.
However, perhaps the most significant result came at St. Mary's where Cardiff City upset Southampton in a six-pointer at the bottom of the table, winning 2-1 on the road in a huge victory for the Bluebirds.
It now means that Neil Warnock's team have taken six points off the Saints in the Premier League this season via two one-goal victories, something which could prove to be extremely poignant come the end of the campaign.
Few gave Cardiff a chance at the start of the Premier League season, with the Welsh side placed as the early favourites to be relegated from the top flight after minimal transfer activity over the summer.
Warnock would admit it himself that they are currently punching well above their weight, with teams above and below them having greater wage and transfer budgets, but the team have never lacked effort.
Before a ball was kicked, Cardiff were 8/13 on to go down this season and most pre-season Premier League table predictions saw them finishing in 20th. However, that almost certainly won't be the case now with both Huddersfield and Fulham – barring something remarkable – looking destined to finish beneath them.
Now, Cardiff are best-priced at 10/11 to be relegated this term, moving to 1/1 with Bet365 to stay up after winning 2-1 on the south coast. The result has also seen Southampton move to 5/1 to go down at the end of the season, having gone into the weekend as far out as 12/1 to go down.
Burnley winning 3-1 on the road against Brighton certainly wasn't the result Cardiff were hoping for on Saturday night, but will be more than happy with the fact that their fate is now in their own hands.
Cardiff are currently 16th in the Premier League table on 25 points, with Southampton now 18th on 24 points after the defeat. 17th-placed Newcastle face Wolves at Molineux on Monday night.
Brighton's defeat against Burnley has now seen them drop to within three points of the relegation zone and are certainly a team to include in this relegation dogfight, as are 13th-placed Crystal Palace who are also only three points off the bottom three.
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People-orientated solutions needed in future industrial parks
By Minh Huong
Tuesday, Nov 30, 2021 15:35
The children of workers in the Long Hau kindergarten. — Photo courtesy of the firm
The disruption caused by the pandemic to production in industrial parks (IPs) and export processing zones (EPZs) is leading some to suggest a radical overhaul in the way in which these areas operate in the future.
Experts said the practical application of more people-orientated models of work will help factories in IPs and EPZs across the country, enhancing productivity competitiveness, saving costs and protecting the environment.
Hoang Quang Phong, vice chairman of the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), quoted data from the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) when saying: "Viet Nam has 575 IPs and EPZs in 61 provinces and cities."
Phong added that they are home to thousands of local and international businesses from 122 countries and territories around the world.
However, many of these bases lack social infrastructure meaning they are failing to meet the needs of workers and the development of businesses.
Phong said: "Most industrial parks mainly focus on building and developing infrastructure for production and focusing on profits, focussing on economic benefits without paying due attention to the development of social infrastructure for workers."
He mentioned: "While workers have not yet settled down, it could affect the quality of labour and the economic, production and business development on the whole."
As an example of how settling down could help, Long Hau IP in Long An Province was highlighted as one of the top enterprises in Asia for its people-focused model.
Tran Hong Son, general director of Long Hau JSC, told Viet Nam News: "The application of a customer-oriented approach has made Long Hau one of the few IPs in the country that is highly appreciated by prestigious domestic and foreign organisations for business performance."
Next to HCM City and connecting other provinces along the National Highway 50, the 500 ha IP in Long Hau Commune does not follow the traditional IP model of other factories, but built itself as a close circle encompassing all the necessary infrastructure.
The IP includes a customs office, a standard wastewater treatment plant, a fire-fighting station, police station, service centre, polyclinic, kindergarten, convenience supermarket and a residential area with a capacity of more than 6,000 people.
The IP is home to 200 domestic and international firms, many of which have their headquarters and factories at the IP.
Son added, "We spent 33 per cent of the land fund to build public works as we want to make everything done in our IP."
Son said that they provided accommodation for workers, helping them to contribute to the success of the firm. During the pandemic, the isolated accommodation helped reduce the risk of the virus spreading to the community.
With such facilities, Long Hau IP is ready to offer favourable conditions to welcome a wave of new investment, production and business transformation of domestic and foreign enterprises to Long An.
On November 25 the IP launched a conference with their Korean partners, inviting them to stay with its IP in Da Nang as the production hub of Viet Nam.
As another example, late last year, Nam Cau Kien IP in Hai Phong City opened the so-called 'Kyousei-no-niwa' Garden, a Japanese garden that covers 30,000 sq.m, using water directly treated from a wastewater treatment plant in the park.
The IP not only produces commodities but has all the typical features of an eco-park. Its production chains are circular from input to output through reuse, refurbishment and recycling of solid wastes and wastewater.
While experts said such facilities have met the basic requirements of a circular economy, which keeps products and materials in use for as long as possible to get the maximum value, chairman of the IP, Phan Hong Diep, said the IP model aimed at creating a symbiotic association between the economy, environment and society to achieve the final goal of an increase in sustainable natural resources flows.
In the future, the Ministry of Construction (MoC) said it would coordinate with the relevant ministries and branches to study and potentially amend the Housing Law 2014 on the investment and construction of housing for workers in IPs and EZPs. Any amendments will be submitted to the National Assembly.
Ha Quang Hung, deputy director of the Department of Housing and Real Estate Market Management, told local media: "The investment in social housing development, especially housing for workers in IPs, is a necessary solution to restore production and economy after the pandemic."
In addition, MoC proposed that the provincial People's Committee must arrange accommodation for at least 50 per cent of workers in IPs.
The Government of Viet Nam considers the construction and development of industrial parks and economic zones a major policy to encourage socio-economic development. Recently, several regulations on IPs and EZs have been issued, amended and supplemented to improve the operational efficiency of these real estate facilities.
Decree No. 82 in 2018, on the management of IPs and EZ, has created a relatively complete legal basis to support enterprises in building and maintaining new real estate projects.
The National Assembly has also adopted the national land-use master plan for 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, and a five-year land-use plan for 2021-2025. By 2030, the total land area of industrial property will rise by an additional 120,000ha. In 2021-2025, the designated land area for industrial real estate will increase by 62,000ha.— VNS
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The FTC should address how (and whether) it assesses causation as it looks to define "informational injury"
Geoffrey Manne & Kristian Stout — 8 November 2017
The FTC will hold an "Informational Injury Workshop" in December "to examine consumer injury in the context of privacy and data security." Defining the scope of cognizable harm that may result from the unauthorized use or third-party hacking of consumer information is, to be sure, a crucial inquiry, particularly as ever-more information is stored digitally. But the Commission — rightly — is aiming at more than mere definition. As it notes, the ultimate objective of the workshop is to address questions like:
How do businesses evaluate the benefits, costs, and risks of collecting and using information in light of potential injuries? How do they make tradeoffs? How do they assess the risks of different kinds of data breach? What market and legal incentives do they face, and how do these incentives affect their decisions?
How do consumers perceive and evaluate the benefits, costs, and risks of sharing information in light of potential injuries? What obstacles do they face in conducting such an evaluation? How do they evaluate tradeoffs?
Understanding how businesses and consumers assess the risk and cost "when information about [consumers] is misused," and how they conform their conduct to that risk, entails understanding not only the scope of the potential harm, but also the extent to which conduct affects the risk of harm. This, in turn, requires an understanding of the FTC's approach to evaluating liability under Section 5 of the FTC Act.
The problem, as we discuss in comments submitted by the International Center for Law & Economics to the FTC for the workshop, is that the Commission's current approach troublingly mixes the required separate analyses of risk and harm, with little elucidation of either.
The core of the problem arises from the Commission's reliance on what it calls a "reasonableness" standard for its evaluation of data security. By its nature, a standard that assigns liability for only unreasonable conduct should incorporate concepts resembling those of a common law negligence analysis — e.g., establishing a standard of due care, determining causation, evaluating the costs of and benefits of conduct that would mitigate the risk of harm, etc. Unfortunately, the Commission's approach to reasonableness diverges from the rigor of a negligence analysis. In fact, as it has developed, it operates more like a strict liability regime in which largely inscrutable prosecutorial discretion determines which conduct, which firms, and which outcomes will give rise to liability.
Most troublingly, coupled with the Commission's untenably lax (read: virtually nonexistent) evidentiary standards, the extremely liberal notion of causation embodied in its "reasonableness" approach means that the mere storage of personal information, even absent any data breach, could amount to an unfair practice under the Act — clearly not a "reasonable" result.
The notion that a breach itself can constitute injury will, we hope, be taken up during the workshop. But even if injury is limited to a particular type of breach — say, one in which sensitive, personal information is exposed to a wide swath of people — unless the Commission's definition of what it means for conduct to be "likely to cause" harm is fixed, it will virtually always be the case that storage of personal information could conceivably lead to the kind of breach that constitutes injury. In other words, better defining the scope of injury does little to cabin the scope of the agency's discretion when conduct creating any risk of that injury is actionable.
Our comments elaborate on these issues, as well as providing our thoughts on how the subjective nature of informational injuries can fit into Section 5, with a particular focus on the problem of assessing informational injury given evolving social context, and the need for appropriately assessing benefits in any cost-benefit analysis of conduct leading to informational injury.
ICLE's full comments are available here.
The comments draw upon our article, When 'Reasonable' Isn't: The FTC's Standard-Less Data Security Standard, forthcoming in the Journal of Law, Economics and Policy.
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Speaking at events next week on privacy/data security and merger enforcement
Geoffrey Manne — 31 May 2017
I'll be participating in two excellent antitrust/consumer protection events next week in DC, both of which may be of interest to our readers:
5th Annual Public Policy Conference on the Law & Economics of Privacy and Data Security
hosted by the GMU Law & Economics Center's Program on Economics & Privacy, in partnership with the Future of Privacy Forum, and the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy.
Conference Description:
Data flows are central to an increasingly large share of the economy. A wide array of products and business models—from the sharing economy and artificial intelligence to autonomous vehicles and embedded medical devices—rely on personal data. Consequently, privacy regulation leaves a large economic footprint. As with any regulatory enterprise, the key to sound data policy is striking a balance between competing interests and norms that leaves consumers better off; finding an approach that addresses privacy concerns, but also supports the benefits of technology is an increasingly complex challenge. Not only is technology continuously advancing, but individual attitudes, expectations, and participation vary greatly. New ideas and approaches to privacy must be identified and developed at the same pace and with the same focus as the technologies they address.
This year's symposium will include panels on Unfairness under Section 5: Unpacking "Substantial Injury", Conceptualizing the Benefits and Costs from Data Flows, and The Law and Economics of Data Security.
I will be presenting a draft paper, co-authored with Kristian Stout, on the FTC's reasonableness standard in data security cases following the Commission decision in LabMD, entitled, When "Reasonable" Isn't: The FTC's Standard-less Data Security Standard.
Conference Details:
at George Mason University, Founders Hall (next door to the Law School)
3351 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201
View the full agenda here
The State of Antitrust Enforcement
hosted by the Federalist Society.
Panel Description:
Antitrust policy during much of the Obama Administration was a continuation of the Bush Administration's minimal involvement in the market. However, at the end of President Obama's term, there was a significant pivot to investigations and blocks of high profile mergers such as Halliburton-Baker Hughes, Comcast-Time Warner Cable, Staples-Office Depot, Sysco-US Foods, and Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna. How will or should the new Administration analyze proposed mergers, including certain high profile deals like Walgreens-Rite Aid, AT&T-Time Warner, Inc., and DraftKings-FanDuel?
Join us for a lively luncheon panel discussion that will cover these topics and the anticipated future of antitrust enforcement.
Albert A. Foer, Founder and Senior Fellow, American Antitrust Institute
Profesor Geoffrey A. Manne, Executive Director, International Center for Law & Economics
Honorable Joshua D. Wright, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Moderator: Honorable Ronald A. Cass, Dean Emeritus, Boston University School of Law and President, Cass & Associates, PC
Panel Details:
at the National Press Club, MWL Conference Rooms
529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20045
Hope to see everyone at both events!
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FTC v Amazon: With every victory in court the FTC loses a little more
Geoffrey Manne — 27 April 2016
Yesterday a federal district court in Washington state granted the FTC's motion for summary judgment against Amazon in FTC v. Amazon — the case alleging unfair trade practices in Amazon's design of the in-app purchases interface for apps available in its mobile app store. The headlines score the decision as a loss for Amazon, and the FTC, of course, claims victory. But the court also granted Amazon's motion for partial summary judgment on a significant aspect of the case, and the Commission's win may be decidedly pyrrhic.
While the district court (very wrongly, in my view) essentially followed the FTC in deciding that a well-designed user experience doesn't count as a consumer benefit for assessing substantial harm under the FTC Act, it rejected the Commission's request for a permanent injunction against Amazon. It also called into question the FTC's calculation of monetary damages. These last two may be huge.
The FTC may have "won" the case, but it's becoming increasingly apparent why it doesn't want to take these cases to trial. First in Wyndham, and now in Amazon, courts have begun to chip away at the FTC's expansive Section 5 discretion, even while handing the agency nominal victories.
The FTC largely escapes judicial oversight in cases like these because its targets almost always settle (Amazon is a rare exception). These settlements — consent orders — typically impose detailed 20-year injunctions and give the FTC ongoing oversight of the companies' conduct for the same period. The agency has wielded the threat of these consent orders as a powerful tool to micromanage tech companies, and it currently has at least one consent order in place with Twitter, Google, Apple, Facebook and several others.
As I wrote in a WSJ op-ed on these troubling consent orders:
The FTC prefers consent orders because they extend the commission's authority with little judicial oversight, but they are too blunt an instrument for regulating a technology company. For the next 20 years, if the FTC decides that Google's product design or billing practices don't provide "express, informed consent," the FTC could declare Google in violation of the new consent decree. The FTC could then impose huge penalties—tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars—without establishing that any consumer had actually been harmed.
Yesterday's decision makes that outcome less likely. Companies will be much less willing to succumb to the FTC's 20-year oversight demands if they know that courts may refuse the FTC's injunction request and accept companies' own, independent and market-driven efforts to address consumer concerns — without any special regulatory micromanagement.
In the same vein, while the court did find that Amazon was liable for repayment of unauthorized charges made without "express, informed authorization," it also found the FTC's monetary damages calculation questionable and asked for further briefing on the appropriate amount. If, as seems likely, it ultimately refuses to simply accept the FTC's damages claims, that, too, will take some of the wind out of the FTC's sails. Other companies have settled with the FTC and agreed to 20-year consent decrees in part, presumably, because of the threat of excessive damages if they litigate. That, too, is now less likely to happen.
Collectively, these holdings should help to force the FTC to better target its complaints to cases of still-ongoing and truly-harmful practices — the things the FTC Act was really meant to address, like actual fraud. Tech companies trying to navigate ever-changing competitive waters by carefully constructing their user interfaces and payment mechanisms (among other things) shouldn't be treated the same way as fraudulent phishing scams.
The court's other key holding is problematic, however. In essence, the court, like the FTC, seems to believe that regulators are better than companies' product managers, designers and engineers at designing app-store user interfaces:
[A] clear and conspicuous disclaimer regarding in-app purchases and request for authorization on the front-end of a customer's process could actually prove to… be more seamless than the somewhat unpredictable password prompt formulas rolled out by Amazon.
Never mind that Amazon has undoubtedly spent tremendous resources researching and designing the user experience in its app store. And never mind that — as Amazon is certainly aware — a consumer's experience of a product is make-or-break in the cut-throat world of online commerce, advertising and search (just ask Jet).
Instead, for the court (and the FTC), the imagined mechanism of "affirmatively seeking a customer's authorized consent to a charge" is all benefit and no cost. Whatever design decisions may have informed the way Amazon decided to seek consent are either irrelevant, or else the user-experience benefits they confer are negligible.
As I've written previously:
Amazon has built its entire business around the "1-click" concept — which consumers love — and implemented a host of notification and security processes hewing as much as possible to that design choice, but nevertheless taking account of the sorts of issues raised by in-app purchases. Moreover — and perhaps most significantly — it has implemented an innovative and comprehensive parental control regime (including the ability to turn off all in-app purchases) — Kindle Free Time — that arguably goes well beyond anything the FTC required in its Apple consent order.
Amazon is not abdicating its obligation to act fairly under the FTC Act and to ensure that users are protected from unauthorized charges. It's just doing so in ways that also take account of the costs such protections may impose — particularly, in this case, on the majority of Amazon customers who didn't and wouldn't suffer such unauthorized charges.
Amazon began offering Kindle Free Time in 2012 as an innovative solution to a problem — children's access to apps and in-app purchases — that affects only a small subset of Amazon's customers. To dismiss that effort without considering that Amazon might have made a perfectly reasonable judgment that balanced consumer protection and product design disregards the cost-benefit balancing required by Section 5 of the FTC Act.
Moreover, the FTC Act imposes liability for harm only when they are not "reasonably avoidable." Kindle Free Time is an outstanding example of an innovative mechanism that allows consumers at risk of unauthorized purchases by children to "reasonably avoid" harm. The court's and the FTC's disregard for it is inconsistent with the statute.
The court's willingness to reinforce the FTC's blackboard design "expertise" (such as it is) to second guess user-interface and other design decisions made by firms competing in real markets is unfortunate. But there's a significant silver lining. By reining in the FTC's discretion to go after these companies as if they were common fraudsters, the court has given consumers an important victory. After all, it is consumers who otherwise bear the costs (both directly and as a result of reduced risk-taking and innovation) of the FTC's largely unchecked ability to extract excessive concessions from its enforcement targets.
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Voting Now Open for 2016 Concurrences Writing Awards
Alden Abbott — 29 January 2016
I urge Truth on the Market readers to signal their preferences and help select the 2016 antitrust writing awards bestowed by the prestigious competition law and policy journal, Concurrences. (See here for the 2015 winners.)
Readers and a Steering Committee vote for their favorite articles among those nominated, which results in a short list of finalists (two per category). The Concurrences Board then votes for the award-winning articles from the shortlist. (See here for detailed rules.)
Readers can now vote online until February 15 for their favorite articles at http://awards.concurrences.com/.
Among the nominees are three excellent papers written by former FTC Commissioner Joshua D. Wright (including one written with Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg) and one paper co-authored by Professor Thom Lambert and me (the four articles fall into three separate categories so you can vote for at least three of them):
Academic Article IP Category: Douglas H. Ginsburg, Koren W. Wong-Ervin, and Joshua D. Wright, Product Hopping and the Limits of Antitrust: The Danger of Micromanaging Innovation, http://awards.concurrences.com/articles-awards/academic-articles-awards/article/product-hopping-and-the-limits-of-antitrust-the-danger-of-micromanaging.
Academic Article General Antitrust Category: Joshua D. Wright & Angela Diveley, Unfair Methods of Competition after the 2015 Commission Statement, http://awards.concurrences.com/articles-awards/academic-articles-awards/article/unfair-methods-of-competition-after-the-2015-commission-statement.
Academic Article Unilateral Conduct Category: Derek Moore & Joshua D. Wright, Conditional Discounts and the Law of Exclusive Dealing, http://awards.concurrences.com/articles-awards/academic-articles-awards/article/conditional-discounts-and-the-law-of-exclusive-dealing.
Academic Article General Antitrust Category: Thomas A. Lambert and Alden F. Abbott, Recognizing the Limits of Antitrust: The Roberts Court Versus the Enforcement Agencies, http://jcle.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/09/14/joclec.nhv020.abstract and http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2596660 (downloadable version).
All four of these articles break new ground in important areas of antitrust law and policy.
(Full disclosure: Wright and Ginsburg are professors at George Mason Law School. I am on the adjunct faculty at that fine institution and Wong-Ervin is Director of George Mason Law School's Global Antitrust Institute.)
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FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright gets his competiton enforcement guidelines
Geoffrey Manne — 13 August 2015
Today, for the first time in its 100-year history, the FTC issued enforcement guidelines for cases brought by the agency under the Unfair Methods of Competition ("UMC") provisions of Section 5 of the FTC Act.
The Statement of Enforcement Principles represents a significant victory for Commissioner Joshua Wright, who has been a tireless advocate for defining and limiting the scope of the Commission's UMC authority since before his appointment to the FTC in 2013.
As we've noted many times before here at TOTM (including in our UMC Guidelines Blog Symposium), FTC enforcement principles for UMC actions have been in desperate need of clarification. Without any UMC standards, the FTC has been free to leverage its costly adjudication process into settlements (or short-term victories) and businesses have been left in the dark as to what what sorts of conduct might trigger enforcement. Through a series of unadjudicated settlements, UMC unfairness doctrine (such as it is) has remained largely within the province of FTC discretion and without judicial oversight. As a result, and either by design or by accident, UMC never developed a body of law encompassing well-defined goals or principles like antitrust's consumer welfare standard.
Commissioner Wright has long been at the forefront of the battle to rein in the FTC's discretion in this area and to promote the rule of law. Soon after joining the Commission, he called for Section 5 guidelines that would constrain UMC enforcement to further consumer welfare, tied to the economically informed analysis of competitive effects developed in antitrust law.
Today's UMC Statement embodies the essential elements of Commissioner Wright's proposal. Under the new guidelines:
The Commission will make UMC enforcement decisions based on traditional antitrust principles, including the consumer welfare standard;
Only conduct that would violate the antitrust rule of reason will give rise to enforcement, and the Commission will not bring UMC cases without evidence demonstrating that harm to competition outweighs any efficiency or business justifications for the conduct at issue; and
The Commission commits to the principle that it is more appropriate to bring cases under the antitrust laws than under Section 5 when the conduct at issue could give rise to a cause of action under the antitrust laws. Notably, this doesn't mean that the agency gets to use UMC when it thinks it might lose under the Sherman or Clayton Acts; rather, it means UMC is meant only to be a gap-filler, to be used when the antitrust statutes don't apply at all.
Yes, the Statement is a compromise. For instance, there is no safe harbor from UMC enforcement if any cognizable efficiencies are demonstrated, as Commissioner Wright initially proposed.
But by enshrining antitrust law's consumer welfare standard in future UMC caselaw, by obligating the Commission to assess conduct within the framework of the well-established antitrust rule of reason, and by prioritizing antitrust over UMC when both might apply, the Statement brings UMC law into the world of modern antitrust analysis. This is a huge achievement.
It's also a huge achievement that a Statement like this one would be introduced by Chairwoman Ramirez. As recently as last year, Ramirez had resisted efforts to impose constraints on the FTC's UMC enforcement discretion. In a 2014 speech Ramirez said:
I have expressed concern about recent proposals to formulate guidance to try to codify our unfair methods principles for the first time in the Commission's 100 year history. While I don't object to guidance in theory, I am less interested in prescribing our future enforcement actions than in describing our broad enforcement principles revealed in our recent precedent.
The "recent precedent" that Ramirez referred to is precisely the set of cases applying UMC to reach antitrust-relevant conduct that led to Commissioner Wright's efforts. The common law of consent decrees that make up the precedent Ramirez refers to, of course, are not legally binding and provide little more than regurgitated causes of action.
But today, under Congressional pressure and pressure from within the agency led by Commissioner Wright, Chairwoman Ramirez and the other two Democratic commissioners voted for the Statement.
Competitive Effects Analysis Under the Statement
As Commissioner Ohlhausen argues in her dissenting statement, the UMC Statement doesn't remove all enforcement discretion from the Commission — after all, enforcement principles, like standards in law generally, have fuzzy boundaries.
But what Commissioner Ohlhausen seems to miss is that, by invoking antitrust principles, the rule of reason and competitive effects analysis, the Statement incorporates by reference 125 years of antitrust law and economics. The Statement itself need not go into excessive detail when, with only a few words, it brings modern antitrust jurisprudence embodied in cases like Trinko, Leegin, and Brooke Group into UMC law.
Under the new rule of reason approach for UMC, the FTC will condemn conduct only when it causes or is likely to cause "harm to competition or the competitive process, taking into account any associated cognizable efficiencies and business justifications." In other words, the evidence must demonstrate net harm to consumers before the FTC can take action. That's a significant constraint.
As noted above, Commissioner Wright originally proposed a safe harbor from FTC UMC enforcement whenever cognizable efficiencies are present. The Statement's balancing test is thus a compromise. But it's not really a big move from Commissioner Wright's initial position.
Commissioner Wright's original proposal tied the safe harbor to "cognizable" efficiencies, which is an exacting standard. As Commissioner Wright noted in his Blog Symposium post on the subject:
[T]he efficiencies screen I offer intentionally leverages the Commission's considerable expertise in identifying the presence of cognizable efficiencies in the merger context and explicitly ties the analysis to the well-developed framework offered in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. As any antitrust practitioner can attest, the Commission does not credit "cognizable efficiencies" lightly and requires a rigorous showing that the claimed efficiencies are merger-specific, verifiable, and not derived from an anticompetitive reduction in output or service. Fears that the efficiencies screen in the Section 5 context would immunize patently anticompetitive conduct because a firm nakedly asserts cost savings arising from the conduct without evidence supporting its claim are unwarranted. Under this strict standard, the FTC would almost certainly have no trouble demonstrating no cognizable efficiencies exist in Dan's "blowing up of the competitor's factory" example because the very act of sabotage amounts to an anticompetitive reduction in output.
The difference between the safe harbor approach and the balancing approach embodied in the Statement is largely a function of administrative economy. Before, the proposal would have caused the FTC to err on the side of false negatives, possibly forbearing from bringing some number of welfare-enhancing cases in exchange for a more certain reduction in false positives. Now, there is greater chance of false positives.
But the real effect is that more cases will be litigated because, in the end, both versions would require some degree of antitrust-like competitive effects analysis. Under the Statement, if procompetitive efficiencies outweigh anticompetitive harms, the defendant still wins (and the FTC is to avoid enforcement). Under the original proposal fewer actions might be brought, but those that are brought would surely settle. So one likely outcome of choosing a balancing test over the safe harbor is that more close cases will go to court to be sorted out. Whether this is a net improvement over the safe harbor depends on whether the social costs of increased litigation and error are offset by a reduction in false negatives — as well as the more robust development of the public good of legal case law.
Reduced FTC Discretion Under the Statement
The other important benefit of the Statement is that it commits the FTC to a regime that reduces its discretion.
Chairwoman Ramirez and former Chairman Leibowitz — among others — have embraced a broader role for Section 5, particularly in order to avoid the judicial limits on antitrust actions arising out of recent Supreme Court cases like Trinko, Leegin, Brooke Group, Linkline, Weyerhaeuser and Credit Suisse.
For instance, as former Chairman Leibowitz said in 2008:
[T]he Commission should not be tied to the more technical definitions of consumer harm that limit applications of the Sherman Act when we are looking at pure Section 5 violations.
And this was no idle threat. Recent FTC cases, including Intel, N-Data, Google (Motorola), and Bosch, could all have been brought under the Sherman Act, but were brought — and settled — as Section 5 cases instead. Under the new Statement, all four would likely be Sherman Act cases.
There's little doubt that, left unfettered, Section 5 UMC actions would only have grown in scope. Former Chairman Leibowitz, in his concurring opinion in Rambus, described UMC as
a flexible and powerful Congressional mandate to protect competition from unreasonable restraints, whether long-since recognized or newly discovered, that violate the antitrust laws, constitute incipient violations of those laws, or contravene those laws' fundamental policies.
Both Leibowitz and former Commissioner Tom Rosch (again, among others) often repeated their views that Section 5 permitted much the same actions as were available under Section 2 — but without the annoyance of those pesky, economically sensible, judicial limitations. (Although, in fairness, Leibowitz also once commented that it would not "be wise to use the broader [Section 5] authority whenever we think we can't win an antitrust case, as a sort of 'fallback.'")
In fact, there is a long and unfortunate trend of FTC commissioners and other officials asserting some sort of "public enforcement exception" to the judicial limits on Sherman Act cases. As then Deputy Director for Antitrust in the Bureau of Economics, Howard Shelanski, told Congress in 2010:
The Commission believes that its authority to prevent "unfair methods of competition" through Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act enables the agency to pursue conduct that it cannot reach under the Sherman Act, and thus avoid the potential strictures of Trinko.
In this instance, and from the context (followed as it is by a request for Congress to actually exempt the agency from Trinko and Credit Suisse!), it seems that "reach" means "win."
Still others have gone even further. Tom Rosch, for example, has suggested that the FTC should challenge Patent Assertion Entities under Section 5 merely because "we have a gut feeling" that the conduct violates the Act and it may not be actionable under Section 2.
Even more egregious, Steve Salop and Jon Baker advocate using Section 5 to implement their preferred social policies — in this case to reduce income inequality. Such expansionist views, as Joe Sims recently reminded TOTM readers, hearken back to the troubled FTC of the 1970s:
Remember [former FTC Chairman] Mike Pertschuck saying that Section 5 could possibly be used to enforce compliance with desirable energy policies or environmental requirements, or to attack actions that, in the opinion of the FTC majority, impeded desirable employment programs or were inconsistent with the nation's "democratic, political and social ideals." The two speeches he delivered on this subject in 1977 were the beginning of the end for increased Section 5 enforcement in that era, since virtually everyone who heard or read them said: "Whoa! Is this really what we want the FTC to be doing?"
Apparently, for some, it is — even today. But don't forget: This was the era in which Congress actually briefly shuttered the FTC for refusing to recognize limits on its discretion, as Howard Beales reminds us:
The breadth, overreaching, and lack of focus in the FTC's ambitious rulemaking agenda outraged many in business, Congress, and the media. Even the Washington Post editorialized that the FTC had become the "National Nanny." Most significantly, these concerns reverberated in Congress. At one point, Congress refused to provide the necessary funding, and simply shut down the FTC for several days…. So great were the concerns that Congress did not reauthorize the FTC for fourteen years. Thus chastened, the Commission abandoned most of its rulemaking initiatives, and began to re-examine unfairness to develop a focused, injury-based test to evaluate practices that were allegedly unfair.
A truly significant effect of the Policy Statement will be to neutralize the effort to use UMC to make an end-run around antitrust jurisprudence in order to pursue non-economic goals. It will now be a necessary condition of a UMC enforcement action to prove a contravention of fundamental antitrust policies (i.e., consumer welfare), rather than whatever three commissioners happen to agree is a desirable goal. And the Statement puts the brakes on efforts to pursue antitrust cases under Section 5 by expressing a clear policy preference at the FTC to bring such cases under the antitrust laws.
Commissioner Ohlhausen's objects that
the fact that this policy statement requires some harm to competition does little to constrain the Commission, as every Section 5 theory pursued in the last 45 years, no matter how controversial or convoluted, can be and has been couched in terms of protecting competition and/or consumers.
That may be true, but the same could be said of every Section 2 case, as well. Commissioner Ohlhausen seems to be dismissing the fact that the Statement effectively incorporates by reference the last 45 years of antitrust law, too. Nothing will incentivize enforcement targets to challenge the FTC in court — or incentivize the FTC itself to forbear from enforcement — like the ability to argue Trinko, Leegin and their ilk. Antitrust law isn't perfect, of course, but making UMC law coextensive with modern antitrust law is about as much as we could ever reasonably hope for. And the Statement basically just gave UMC defendants blanket license to add a string of "See Areeda & Hovenkamp" cites to every case the FTC brings. We should count that as a huge win.
Commissioner Ohlhausen also laments the brevity and purported vagueness of the Statement, claiming that
No interpretation of the policy statement by a single Commissioner, no matter how thoughtful, will bind this or any future Commission to greater limits on Section 5 UMC enforcement than what is in this exceedingly brief, highly general statement.
But, in the end, it isn't necessarily the Commissioners' self-restraint upon which the Statement relies; it's the courts' (and defendants') ability to take the obvious implications of the Statement seriously and read current antitrust precedent into future UMC cases. If every future UMC case is adjudicated like a Sherman or Clayton Act case, the Statement will have been a resounding success.
Arguably no FTC commissioner has been as successful in influencing FTC policy as a minority commissioner — over sustained opposition, and in a way that constrains the agency so significantly — as has Commissioner Wright today.
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Joshua Wright, Martin Gaynor and Past FTC Officials to Speak at ICLE Event on Apple and Amazon Cases
Geoffrey Manne — 28 July 2014
The Federal Trade Commission's recent enforcement actions against Amazon and Apple raise important questions about the FTC's consumer protection practices, especially its use of economics. How does the Commission weigh the costs and benefits of its enforcement decisions? How does the agency employ economic analysis in digital consumer protection cases generally?
Join the International Center for Law and Economics and TechFreedom on Thursday, July 31 at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for a lunch and panel discussion on these important issues, featuring FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Economics Martin Gaynor, and several former FTC officials. RSVP here.
Commissioner Wright will present a keynote address discussing his dissent in Apple and his approach to applying economics in consumer protection cases generally.
Geoffrey Manne, Executive Director of ICLE, will briefly discuss his recent paper on the role of economics in the FTC's consumer protection enforcement. Berin Szoka, TechFreedom President, will moderate a panel discussion featuring:
Martin Gaynor, Director, FTC Bureau of Economics
David Balto, Fmr. Deputy Assistant Director for Policy & Coordination, FTC Bureau of Competition
Howard Beales, Fmr. Director, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection
James Cooper, Fmr. Acting Director & Fmr. Deputy Director, FTC Office of Policy Planning
Pauline Ippolito, Fmr. Acting Director & Fmr. Deputy Director, FTC Bureau of Economics
The FTC recently issued a complaint and consent order against Apple, alleging its in-app purchasing design doesn't meet the Commission's standards of fairness. The action and resulting settlement drew a forceful dissent from Commissioner Wright, and sparked a discussion among the Commissioners about balancing economic harms and benefits in Section 5 unfairness jurisprudence. More recently, the FTC brought a similar action against Amazon, which is now pending in federal district court because Amazon refused to settle.
The "FTC: Technology and Reform" project brings together a unique collection of experts on the law, economics, and technology of competition and consumer protection to consider challenges facing the FTC in general, and especially regarding its regulation of technology. The Project's initial report, released in December 2013, identified critical questions facing the agency, Congress, and the courts about the FTC's future, and proposed a framework for addressing them.
The event will be live streamed here beginning at 12:15pm. Join the conversation on Twitter with the #FTCReform hashtag.
11:45 am – 12:15 pm — Lunch and registration
12:15 pm – 2:00 pm — Keynote address, paper presentation & panel discussion
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company – Rehearsal Hall
641 D St NW
Questions? – Email [email protected]. RSVP here.
See ICLE's and TechFreedom's other work on FTC reform, including:
Geoffrey Manne's Congressional testimony on the the FTC@100
Op-ed by Berin Szoka and Geoffrey Manne, "The Second Century of the Federal Trade Commission"
Two posts by Geoffrey Manne on the FTC's Amazon Complaint, here and here.
About The International Center for Law and Economics:
The International Center for Law and Economics is a non-profit, non-partisan research center aimed at fostering rigorous policy analysis and evidence-based regulation.
About TechFreedom:
TechFreedom is a non-profit, non-partisan technology policy think tank. We work to chart a path forward for policymakers towards a bright future where technology enhances freedom, and freedom enhances technology.
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The FTC's in-app purchasing complaint against Amazon reflects its flawed, per se approach to unfairness
Today the FTC filed its complaint in federal district court in Washington against Amazon, alleging that the company's in-app purchasing system permits children to make in-app purchases without parental "informed consent" constituting an "unfair practice" under Section 5 of the FTC Act.
As I noted in my previous post on the case, in bringing this case the Commission is doubling down on the rule it introduced in Apple that effectively converts the balancing of harms and benefits required under Section 5 of the FTC Act to a per se rule that deems certain practices to be unfair regardless of countervailing benefits. Similarly, it is attempting to extend the informed consent standard it created in Apple that essentially maintains that only specific, identified practices (essentially, distinct notification at the time of purchase or opening of purchase window, requiring entry of a password to proceed) are permissible under the Act.
Such a standard is inconsistent with the statute, however. The FTC's approach forecloses the ability of companies like Amazon to engage in meaningful design decisions and disregards their judgment about which user interface designs will, on balance, benefit consumers. The FTC Act does not empower the Commission to disregard the consumer benefits of practices that simply fail to mimic the FTC's preconceived design preferences. While that sort of approach might be defensible in the face of manifestly harmful practices like cramming, it is wholly inappropriate in the context of app stores like Amazon's that spend considerable resources to design every aspect of their interaction with consumers—and that seek to attract, not to defraud, consumers.
Today's complaint occasions a few more observations:
Amazon has a very strong case. Under Section 5 of the FTC Act, the Commission will have to prevail on all three elements required to prove unfairness under Section 5: that there is substantial injury, that consumers can't reasonably avoid the injury and that any countervailing benefits don't outweigh the injury. But, consistent with its complaint and consent order in Apple, the Amazon complaint focuses almost entirely on only the first of these. While that may have been enough to induce Apple to settle out of court, the FTC will actually have to make out a case on reasonable avoidance and countervailing benefits at trial. It's not at all clear that the agency will be able to do so on the facts alleged here.
On reasonable avoidance, over and above Amazon's general procedures that limit unwanted in-app purchases, the FTC will have a tough time showing that Amazon's Kindle Free Time doesn't provide parents with more than enough ability to avoid injury. In fact, the complaint doesn't mention Free Time at all.
Among other things, the complaint asserts that Amazon knew about issues with in-app purchasing by December of 2011 and claims that "[n]ot until June 2014 did Amazon change its in-app charge framework to obtain account holders' informed consent for in-app charges on its newer mobile devices." But Kindle Free Time was introduced in September of 2012. While four FTC Commissioners may believe that Free Time isn't a sufficient response to the alleged problem, it is clearly a readily available, free and effective (read: reasonable) mechanism for parents to avoid the alleged harms. It may not be what the design mavens at the FTC would have chosen to do, but it seems certain that avoiding unauthorized in-app purchases by children was part of what motivated Amazon's decision to create and offer Free Time.
On countervailing benefits, as Commissioner Wright discussed in detail in his dissent from the Apple consent order, the Commission seems to think that it can simply assert that there are no countervailing benefits to Amazon's design choices around in-app purchases. Here the complaint doesn't mention 1-Click at all, which is core to Amazon's user interface design and essential to evaluating the balance of harms and benefits required by the statute.
Even if it can show that Amazon's in-app purchase practices caused harm, the Commission will still have to demonstrate that Amazon's conscious efforts to minimize the steps required to make purchases doesn't benefit consumers on balance. In Apple, the FTC majority essentially (and improperly) valued these sorts of user-interface benefits at zero. It implicitly does so again here, but a court will require more than such an assertion.
Given these lapses, there is even a chance that the complaint will be thrown out on a motion to dismiss. It's a high bar, but if the court agrees that there are insufficient facts in the complaint to make out a plausible case on all three elements, Amazon could well prevail on a motion to dismiss. The FTC's approach in the Apple consent order effectively maintains that the agency can disregard reasonable avoidance and countervailing benefits in contravention of the statute. By following the same approach here in actual litigation, the FTC may well meet resistance from the courts, which have not yet so cavalierly dispensed with the statute's requirements.
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The FTC doubles down on its egregious product design enforcement with a threatened suit against Amazon.com
Geoffrey Manne — 2 July 2014
The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Amazon is getting — and fighting — the "Apple treatment" from the FTC for its design of its in-app purchases:
Amazon.com Inc. is bucking a request from the Federal Trade Commission that it tighten its policies for purchases made by children while using mobile applications.
In a letter to the FTC Tuesday, Amazon said it was prepared to "defend our approach in court," rather than agree to fines and additional record keeping and disclosure requirements over the next 20 years, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
According to the documents, Amazon is facing a potential lawsuit by the FTC, which wants the Seattle retailer to accept terms similar to those that Apple Inc. agreed to earlier this year regarding so-called in-app purchases.
From what I can tell, the Commission has voted to issue a complaint, and Amazon has informed the Commission that it will not accept its proposed settlement.
I am thrilled that Amazon seems to have decided to fight the latest effort by a majority of the FTC to bring every large tech company under 20-year consent decree. I should say: I'm disappointed in the FTC, sorry for Amazon, but thrilled for consumers and the free marketplace that Amazon is choosing to fight rather than acquiesce.
As I wrote earlier this year about the FTC's case against Apple in testimony before the House Commerce Committee:
What's particularly notable about the Apple case – and presumably will be in future technology enforcement actions predicated on unfairness – is the unique relevance of the attributes of the conduct at issue to its product. Unlike past, allegedly similar, cases, Apple's conduct was not aimed at deceiving consumers, nor was it incidental to its product offering. But by challenging the practice, particularly without the balancing of harms required by Section 5, the FTC majority failed to act with restraint and substituted its own judgment, not about some manifestly despicable conduct, but about the very design of Apple's products. This is the sort of area where regulatory humility is more — not less — important.
In failing to observe common sense limits in Apple, the FTC set a dangerous precedent that, given the agency's enormous regulatory scope and the nature of technologically advanced products, could cause significant harm to consumers.
Here that failure is even more egregious. Amazon has built its entire business around the "1-click" concept — which consumers love — and implemented a host of notification and security processes hewing as much as possible to that design choice, but nevertheless taking account of the sorts of issues raised by in-app purchases. Moreover — and perhaps most significantly — it has implemented an innovative and comprehensive parental control regime (including the ability to turn off all in-app purchases) — Kindle Free Time — that arguably goes well beyond anything the FTC required in its Apple consent order. I use Kindle Free Time with my kids and have repeatedly claimed to anyone who will listen that it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Other consumers must feel similarly. Finally, regardless of all of that, Amazon has nevertheless voluntarily implemented additional notification procedures intended to comply with the Apple settlement, even though it didn't apply to Amazon.
If the FTC asserts, in the face of all of that, that it's own vision of what "appropriate" in-app purchase protections must look like is the only one that suffices to meet the standard required by Section 5's Unfairness language, it is either being egregiously disingenuous, horrifically vain, just plain obtuse, or some combination of the three.
As I wrote in my testimony:
The application of Section 5's "unfair acts and practices" prong (the statute at issue in Apple) is circumscribed by Section 45(n) of the FTC Act, which, among other things, proscribes enforcement where injury is "not outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or to competition."
And as Commissioner Wright noted in his dissent in the Apple case,
[T]he Commission effectively rejects an analysis of tradeoffs between the benefits of additional guidance and potential harm to some consumers or to competition from mandating guidance…. I respectfully disagree. These assumptions adopt too cramped a view of consumer benefits under the Unfairness Statement and, without more rigorous analysis to justify their application, are insufficient to establish the Commission's burden.
We won't know until we see the complaint whether the FTC has failed to undertake the balancing it neglected to perform in Apple and that it is required to perform under the statute. But it's hard to believe that it could mount a case against Amazon in light of the facts if it did perform such a balancing. There's no question that Amazon has implemented conscious and consumer-welfare-enhancing design choices here. The FTC's effort to nevertheless mandate a different design (and put Amazon under a 20 year consent decree) based on a claim that Amazon's choices impose greater harms than benefits on consumers seems manifestly unsupportable.
Such a claim almost certainly represents an abuse of the agency's discretion, and I expect Amazon to trounce the FTC if this case goes to trial.
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Adam Mossoff's Senate Testimony on PAEs, Demand Letters and Patent Litigation
Adam Mossoff — 15 November 2013
Below is the text of my oral testimony to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance Subcommittee, at its November 7, 2013 hearing on "Demand Letters and Consumer Protection: Examining Deceptive Practices by Patent Assertion Entities." Information on the hearing is here, including an archived webcast of the hearing. My much longer and more indepth written testimony is here.
Please note that I am incorrectly identified on the hearing website as speaking on behalf of the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP). In fact, I was invited to testify soley in my personal capacity as a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, given my academic research into the history of the patent system and the role of licensing and commercialization in the distribution of patented innovation. I spoke for neither George Mason University nor CPIP, and thus I am solely responsible for the content of my research and remarks.
Chairman McCaskill, Ranking Member Heller, and Members of the Subcommittee:
Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you today.
There certainly are bad actors, deceptive demand letters, and frivolous litigation in the patent system. The important question, though, is whether there is a systemic problem requiring further systemic revisions to the patent system. There is no answer to this question, and this is the case for three reasons.
Harm to Innovation
First, the calls to rush to enact systemic revisions to the patent system are being made without established evidence there is in fact systemic harm to innovation, let alone any harm to the consumers that Section 5 authorizes the FTC to protect. As the Government Accountability Office found in its August 2013 report on patent litigation, the frequently-cited studies claiming harms are actually "nonrandom and nongeneralizable," which means they are unscientific and unreliable.
These anecdotal reports and unreliable studies do not prove there is a systemic problem requiring a systemic revision to patent licensing practices.
Of even greater concern is that the many changes to the patent system Congress is considering, incl. extending the FTC's authority over demand letters, would impose serious costs on real innovators and thus do actual harm to America's innovation economy and job growth.
From Charles Goodyear and Thomas Edison in the nineteenth century to IBM and Microsoft today, patent licensing has been essential in bringing patented innovation to the marketplace, creating economic growth and a flourishing society. But expanding FTC authority to regulate requests for licensing royalties under vague evidentiary and legal standards only weakens patents and create costly uncertainty.
This will hamper America's innovation economy—causing reduced economic growth, lost jobs, and reduced standards of living for everyone, incl. the consumers the FTC is charged to protect.
Existing Tools
Second, the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and courts have long had the legal tools to weed out bad patents and punish bad actors, and these tools were massively expanded just two years ago with the enactment of the America Invents Act.
This is important because the real concern with demand letters is that the underlying patents are invalid.
No one denies that owners of valid patents have the right to license their property or to sue infringers, or that patent owners can even make patent licensing their sole business model, as did Charles Goodyear and Elias Howe in the mid-nineteenth century.
There are too many of these tools to discuss in my brief remarks, but to name just a few: recipients of demand letters can sue patent owners in courts through declaratory judgment actions and invalidate bad patents. And the PTO now has four separate programs dedicated solely to weeding out bad patents.
For those who lack the knowledge or resources to access these legal tools, there are now numerous legal clinics, law firms and policy organizations that actively offer assistance.
Again, further systemic changes to the patent system are unwarranted because there are existing legal tools with established legal standards to address the bad actors and their bad patents.
If Congress enacts a law this year, then it should secure full funding for the PTO. Weakening patents and creating more uncertainties in the licensing process is not the solution.
Lastly, Congress is being driven to revise the patent system on the basis of rhetoric and anecdote instead of objective evidence and reasoned explanations. While there are bad actors in the patent system, terms like PAE or patent troll constantly shift in meaning. These terms have been used to cover anyone who licenses patents, including universities, startups, companies that engage in R&D, and many others.
Classic American innovators in the nineteenth century like Thomas Edison, Charles Goodyear, and Elias Howe would be called PAEs or patent trolls today. In fact, they and other patent owners made royalty demands against thousands of end users.
Congress should exercise restraint when it is being asked to enact systemic legislative or regulatory changes on the basis of pejorative labels that would lead us to condemn or discriminate against classic innovators like Edison who have contributed immensely to America's innovation economy.
In conclusion, the benefits or costs of patent licensing to the innovation economy is an important empirical and policy question, but systemic changes to the patent system should not be based on rhetoric, anecdotes, invalid studies, and incorrect claims about the historical and economic significance of patent licensing
As former PTO Director David Kappos stated last week in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee: "we are reworking the greatest innovation engine the world has ever known, almost instantly after it has just been significantly overhauled. If there were ever a case where caution is called for, this is it."
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Commissioner Wright Responds to Section 5 Symposium
Josh Wright — 2 August 2013
Joshua Wright is a Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission
I'd like to thank Geoff and Thom for organizing this symposium and creating a forum for an open and frank exchange of ideas about the FTC's unfair methods of competition authority under Section 5. In offering my own views in a concrete proposed Policy Statement and speech earlier this summer, I hoped to encourage just such a discussion about how the Commission can define its authority to prosecute unfair methods of competition in a way that both strengthens the agency's ability to target anticompetitive conduct and provides much needed guidance to the business community. During the course of this symposium, I have enjoyed reading the many thoughtful posts providing feedback on my specific proposal, as well as offering other views on how guidance and limits can be imposed on the Commission's unfair methods of competition authority. Through this marketplace of ideas, I believe the Commission can develop a consensus position and finally accomplish the long overdue task of articulating its views on the application of the agency's signature competition statute. As this symposium comes to a close, I'd like to make a couple quick observations and respond to a few specific comments about my proposal.
There Exists a Vast Area of Agreement on Section 5
Although conventional wisdom may suggest it will be impossible to reach any meaningful consensus with respect to Section 5, this symposium demonstrates that there actually already exists a vast area of agreement on the subject. In fact, it appears safe to draw at least two broad conclusions from the contributions that have been offered as part of this symposium.
First, an overwhelming majority of commentators believe that we need guidance on the scope of the FTC's unfair methods of competition authority. This is not surprising. The absence of meaningful limiting principles distinguishing lawful conduct from unlawful conduct under Section 5 and the breadth of the Commission's authority to prosecute unfair methods of competition creates significant uncertainty among the business community. Moreover, without a coherent framework for applying Section 5, the Commission cannot possibly hope to fulfill Congress's vision that Section 5 would play a key role in helping the FTC leverage its unique research and reporting functions to develop evidence-based competition policy.
Second, there is near unanimity that the FTC should challenge only conduct as an unfair method of competition if it results in "harm to competition" as the phrase is understood under the traditional federal antitrust laws. Harm to competition is a concept that is readily understandable and has been deeply embedded into antitrust jurisprudence. Incorporating this concept would require that any conduct challenged under Section 5 must both harm the competitive process and harm consumers. Under this approach, the FTC should not consider non-economic factors, such as whether the practice harms small business or whether it violates public morals, in deciding whether to prosecute conduct as an unfair method of competition. This is a simple commitment, but one that is not currently enshrined in the law. By tethering the definition of unfair methods of competition to modern economics and to the understanding of competitive harm articulated in contemporary antitrust jurisprudence, we would ensure Section 5 enforcement focuses upon conduct that actually is anticompetitive.
While it is not surprising that commentators offering a diverse set of perspectives on the appropriate scope of the FTC's unfair methods of competition authority would agree on these two points, I think it is important to note that this consensus covers much of the Section 5 debate while leaving some room for debate on the margins as to how the FTC can best use its unfair methods of competition authority to complement its mission of protecting competition.
Some Clarifications Regarding My Proposed Policy Statement
In the spirit of furthering the debate along those margins, I also briefly would like to correct the record, or at least provide some clarification, on a few aspects of my proposed Policy Statement.
First, contrary to David Balto's suggestion, my proposed Policy Statement acknowledges the fact that Congress envisioned Section 5 to be an incipiency statute. Indeed, the first element of my proposed definition of unfair methods of competition requires the FTC to show that the act or practice in question "harms or is likely to harm competition significantly." In fact, it is by prosecuting practices that have not yet resulted in harm to competition, but are likely to result in anticompetitive effects if allowed to continue, that my definition reaches "invitations to collude." Paul Denis raises an interesting question about how the FTC should assess the likelihood of harm to competition, and suggests doing so using an expected value test. My proposed policy statement does just that by requiring the FTC to assess both the magnitude and probability of the competitive harm when determining whether a practice that has not yet harmed competition, but potentially is likely to, is an unfair method of competition under Section 5. Where the probability of competitive harm is smaller, the Commission should not find an unfair method of competition without reason to believe the conduct poses a substantial harm. Moreover, by requiring the FTC to show that the conduct in question results in "harm to competition" as that phrase is understood under the traditional federal antitrust laws, my proposal also incorporates all the temporal elements of harm discussed in the antitrust case law and therefore puts the Commission on the same footing as the courts.
Second, both Dan Crane and Marina Lao have suggested that the efficiencies screen I have proposed results in a null (or very small) set of cases because there is virtually no conduct for which some efficiencies cannot be claimed. This suggestion stems from an apparent misunderstanding of the efficiencies screen. What these comments fail to recognize is that the efficiencies screen I offer intentionally leverages the Commission's considerable expertise in identifying the presence of cognizable efficiencies in the merger context and explicitly ties the analysis to the well-developed framework offered in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. As any antitrust practitioner can attest, the Commission does not credit "cognizable efficiencies" lightly and requires a rigorous showing that the claimed efficiencies are merger-specific, verifiable, and not derived from an anticompetitive reduction in output or service. Fears that the efficiencies screen in the Section 5 context would immunize patently anticompetitive conduct because a firm nakedly asserts cost savings arising from the conduct without evidence supporting its claim are unwarranted. Under this strict standard, the FTC would almost certainly have no trouble demonstrating no cognizable efficiencies exist in Dan's "blowing up of the competitor's factory" example because the very act of sabotage amounts to an anticompetitive reduction in output.
Third, Marina Lao further argues that permitting the FTC to challenge conduct as an unfair method of competition only when there are no cognizable efficiencies is too strict a standard and that it would be better to allow the agency to balance the harms against the efficiencies. The current formulation of the Commission's unfair methods of competition enforcement has proven unworkable in large part because it lacks clear boundaries and is both malleable and ambiguous. In my view, in order to make Section 5 a meaningful statute, and one that can contribute productively to the Commission's competition enforcement mission as envisioned by Congress, the Commission must first confine its unfair methods of competition authority to those areas where it can leverage its unique institutional capabilities to target the conduct most harmful to consumers. This in no way requires the Commission to let anticompetitive conduct run rampant. Where the FTC identifies and wants to challenge conduct with both harms and benefits, it is fully capable of doing so successfully in federal court under the traditional antitrust laws.
I cannot think of a contribution the Commission can make to the FTC's competition mission that is more important than issuing a Policy Statement articulating the appropriate application of Section 5. I look forward to continuing to exchange ideas with those both inside and outside the agency regarding how the Commission can provide guidance about its unfair methods of competition authority. Thank you once again to Truth on the Market for organizing and hosting this symposium and to the many participants for their thoughtful contributions.
*The views expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of the Commission or any other Commissioner.
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Geoffrey Manne on the Importance of Sensible Guidance for UMC Enforcement
Geoffrey Manne — 1 August 2013
Geoffrey Manne is Lecturer in Law at Lewis & Clark Law School and Executive Director of the International Center for Law & Economics
Josh and Maureen are to be commended for their important contributions to the discussion over the proper scope of the FTC's Section 5 enforcement authority. I have commented extensively on UMC and Section 5, Josh's statement, and particularly the problems if UMC enforcement against the use of injunctions to enforce FRAND-encumbered SEPs before (see, for example, here, here and here). I'd like to highlight here a couple of the most important issues from among these comments along with a couple of additional ones.
First, there is really no sensible disagreement over Josh's harm to competition prong. And to the extent there is disagreement over the proper role for efficiencies, given the existence of compelling arguments that we don't need Section 5 at all (see, e.g., Joe Sims and James Cooper), what might have seemed like a radical position in Josh's statement that the FTC enforce UMC only where no efficiencies exist, Josh's position is actually something of a middle ground. In any case, the first prong of Josh's statement (the harm to competition requirement) really should attract unanimity, as it essentially has here today, and all of the FTC's commissioners should come out and say so, even if debate persists over the second prong. This alone would provide an enormous amount of certainty and sense to the FTC's UMC enforcement decisions.
Second, sensible, predictable guidance is essential. In her recent speech, echoing the fundamental issue laid out so well in Josh's statement and elaborated on in his accompanying speech, Maureen notes that:
For many decades, the Commission's exercise of its UMC authority has launched the agency into a sea of uncertainty, much like the agency weathered when using its unfairness authority in the consumer protection area in the 1970s. In issuing our 1980 statement on the concept of "unfair acts or practices" under our consumer protection authority, the Commission acknowledged the uncertainty that had surrounded the concept of unfairness, admitting that "this uncertainty has been honestly troublesome for some businesses and some members of the legal profession." This characterization just as aptly describes the state of our UMC authority today.
It seems uncontroversial that some guidance is required, and a pseudo-common law of un-adjudicated settlements lacking any doctrinal analysis simply doesn't provide sufficient grounds to separate the fair from the unfair. (What follows is drawn from our amicus brief in the Wyndham case).
The FTC's current approach to UMC enforcement denies companies "a reasonable opportunity to know what is prohibited" and thus follow the law. The FTC has previously suggested that its settlements and Congressional testimony offers all the guidance a company would need—see, e.g., here and here, where Chairwoman Ramirez noted that
Section 5 of the FTC Act has been developed over time, case-by-case, in the manner of common law. These precedents provide the Commission and the business community with important guidance regarding the appropriate scope and use of the FTC's Section 5 authority.
But settlements (and testimony summarizing them) do not in any way constrain the FTC's subsequent enforcement decisions; they cannot alone be the basis by which the FTC provides guidance on its UMC authority because, unlike published guidelines, they do not purport to lay out general enforcement principles and are not recognized as doing so by courts and the business community. It is impossible to imagine a court faulting the FTC for failure to adhere to a previous settlement, particularly because settlements are not readily generalizable and bind only the parties who agree to them. As we put it in our Wyndham amicus brief:
Even setting aside this basic legal principle, the gradual accretion of these unadjudicated settlements does not solve the vagueness problem: Where guidelines provide cumulative analysis of previous enforcement decisions to establish general principles, these settlements are devoid of doctrinal analysis and offer little more than an infinite regress of unadjudicated assertions.
Rulemaking is generally preferable to case-by-case adjudication as a way to develop agency-enforced law because rulemaking both reduces vagueness and constrains the mischief that unconstrained agency actions may cause. As the Court noted in SEC v. Chenery Corp.,
The function of filling in the interstices of [a statute] should be performed, as much as possible, through this quasi-legislative promulgation of rules to be applied in the future.
Without Article III court decisions developing binding legal principles ,and with no other meaningful form of guidance from the FTC, the law will remain unconstitutionally vague. And the FTC's approach to enforcement also allows the FTC to act both arbitrarily and discriminatorily—backed by the costly threat of the CID process and Part III adjudication. This means the company faces two practically certain defeats—before the administrative law judge and then the full Commission, each a public relations disaster. The FTC appears to be perfectly willing to use negative media to encourage settlements: The House Oversight Committee is currently investigating whether a series of leaks by FTC staff to media last year were intended to pressure Google to settle the FTC's antitrust investigation into the company's business practices.
Third, if the FTC doesn't act to constrain itself, the courts or Congress will do so, and may do more damage to the FTC's authority than any self-imposed constraints would.
The power to determine whether the practices of almost any American business are "unfair" methods of competition (particularly if UMC retains the broad reach Tim Wu outlines in his post) makes the FTC uniquely powerful. This power, if it is to be used sensibly, allows the FTC to protect consumers from truly harmful business practices not covered by the FTC's general consumer protection authority. But without effective enforcement of clear limiting principles, this power may be stretched beyond what Congress intended.
In 1964, the Commission began using its unfairness power to ban business practices that it determined offended "public policy." Emboldened by vague Supreme Court dicta from Sperry & Hutchinson comparing the agency to a "court of equity," the Commission set upon a series of rulemakings and enforcement actions so sweeping that the Washington Post dubbed the agency the "National Nanny." The FTC's actions eventually prompted Congress to briefly shut down the agency to reinforce the point that it had not intended the agency to operate with such expansive authority. The FTC survived as an institution only because, in 1980, it (unanimously) issued a Policy Statement on Unfairness laying out basic limiting principles to constrain its power and assuring Congress that these principles would be further developed over time—principles that Congress then codified in Section 5(n) of the FTC Act.
And for a time, the Commission used its unfairness power sparingly and carefully, largely out of fear of reawakening Congressional furor. Back in 1980, the FTC itself declared that
The task of identifying unfair trade practices was therefore assigned to the Commission, subject to judicial review, in the expectation that the underlying criteria would evolve and develop over time.
Yet we know little more today than we did in 1980 about how the FTC analyzes each prong of Section 5.
Moreover, courts may not support enforcement given this ambiguity, and in our Wyndham brief we supported Wyndham's motion to dismiss for exactly this reason (and that was brought under the Commission's unfairness authority where it even has some guidelines). As we wrote:
Since the problem is a lack of judicial adjudication, it might seem counter-intuitive that the court should dismiss the FTC's suit on the pleadings. But this is precisely the form of adjudication required: The FTC needs to be told that its complaints do not meet the minimum standards required to establish a violation of Section 5 because otherwise there is little reason to think that the FTC's complaints will not continue to be the Commission's primary means of building law (what amounts to "non-law law"). But even if the FTC re-files its unadjudicated complaint to explain its analysis of the prongs of the Unfairness Doctrine, it will not have solved yet another fundamental problem: its failure to provide Wyndham with sufficient guidance ex ante as to what "reasonable" data security practices would be.
The same could be said of the FTC's UMC enforcement. Section 5(n) applies to UMC, and states that:
The Commission shall have no authority under this section or section 57a of this title to declare unlawful an act or practice on the grounds that such act or practice is unfair unless the act or practice causes or is likely to cause substantial injury to consumers which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves and not outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or to competition. In determining whether an act or practice is unfair, the Commission may consider established public policies as evidence to be considered with all other evidence. Such public policy considerations may not serve as a primary basis for such determination.
Finally, applying this to FRAND-encumbered SEPs, as I have previously discussed, is problematic. As Kobayashi and Wright note in discussing the N-Data case,
[T]he truth is that there was little chance the FTC could have prevailed under the more rigorous Section 2 standard that anchors the liability rule to a demanding standard requiring proof of both exclusionary conduct and competitive harm. One must either accept the proposition that the FTC sought Section 5 liability precisely because there was no evidence of consumer harm or that the FTC believed there was evidence of consumer harm but elected to file the Complaint based only upon the Section 5 theory to encourage an expansive application of that Section, a position several Commissioners joining the Majority Statement have taken in recent years. Neither of these interpretations offers much evidence that N-Data is sound as a matter of prosecutorial discretion or antitrust policy.
None of the FTC's SEP cases has offered anything approaching proof of consumer harm, and this is where any sensible limiting principles must begin—as just about everyone here today seems to agree. Moreover, even if they did adduce evidence of harm, the often-ignored problem of reverse holdup raises precisely the concern about over-enforcement that Josh's "no efficiencies" prong is meant to address. Holdup may raise consumer prices (although the FTC has not presented evidence of this), but reverse holdup may do as much or more damage.
The use of injunctions to enforce SEPs increases innovation, the willingness to license generally and the willingness to enter into FRAND commitments in particular–all to the likely benefit of consumer welfare. If the FTC interprets its UMC authority in a way that constrains the ability of patent holders to effectively police their patent rights, then less innovation would be expected–to the detriment of consumers as well as businesses. An unfettered UMC authority will systematically curtail these benefits, quite possibly without countervailing positive effects.
And as I noted in a post yesterday, these costs are real. Innovative technology companies are responding to the current SEP enforcement environment exactly as we would expect them to: by avoiding the otherwise-consumer-welfare enhancing standardization process entirely—as statements made at a recent event demonstrate:
Because of the current atmosphere, Lukander said, Nokia has stepped back from the standardisation process, electing either not to join certain standard-setting organisations (SSOs) or not to contribute certain technologies to these organisations.
Section 5 is a particularly problematic piece of this, and sensible limits like those Josh proposes would go a long way toward mitigating the problem—without removing enforcement authority in the face of real competitive harm, which remains available under the Sherman Act.
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James Cooper on a Sensible Limit to the FTC's Section 5 Authority
totmauthor — 1 August 2013
James Cooper is Director, Research and Policy at the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law
In this posting, I sketch out a sensible limitation to the FTC's Section 5 authority. This domain should be narrow, focusing only on harmful conduct that but for the application of Section 5 would remain un-remedied.
As a threshold matter, the FTC explicitly should renounce its reliance on early Section 5 case law like S&H and Brown Shoe and write from a clean slate. No serious antitrust enforcer today would consider challenging the conduct at issue in these cases, yet, in each of its recent standard-setting cases, the Commission dutifully invokes the language in S&H and Brown Shoe like a sacred talisman that will conjure the authority to act beyond the "letter and spirit of the antitrust laws." This dicta, however, comes from seriously outmoded cases. For example, S&H upheld the Commission's challenge to the practice of preventing unauthorized green-stamp exchanges, and cited approvingly a Section 5 decision from 1934 that condemned the practice of selling penny candy to children in "break and take" packs, because "it tempted children to gamble and compelled those who would successful compete with Keppel to abandon their scruples by similarly tempting children."[1] Brown Shoe and S&H were decided in the era of Schwinn and Utah Pie. Sherman Act case law has moved light years in the direction of economic literacy since then, and the Commission should recognize that had the Supreme Court entertained Section 5 case in the past forty years, precedents like S&H and Brown Shoe likely would have met fates similar to these outmoded cases.
Second, the FTC should not use Section 5 when the conduct at issue is reachable under the Sherman or Clayton Acts. Section 5 should never be used as a trump card to reduce the Commission's burden to show a practice is harmful to consumers. If the Commission cannot carry its burden under the Sherman Act, then presumably the conduct is not likely to be a threat to competition.
Third, the Commission must explain how consumers would benefit from expansion of the antitrust laws beyond the current Sherman Act limits. Again, merely because there is old Supreme Court language blessing an expansive Section 5 does not ipso facto convert Section 5 enforcement beyond the Sherman Act into a welfare-enhancing exercise. Accordingly, demonstrable consumer harm must be a necessary condition for invoking Section 5 against a particular practice.
Further, to mitigate the possibility of errors, and hence the probability that FTC action is welfare enhancing, the practice in question should be one that is unlikely to generate cognizable efficiencies. Thus the FTC should limit itself to the type of conduct that would be subject to per se or a "quick look" condemnation – the type of conduct that can be assessed without an elaborate inquiry into market characteristics. It should avoid using Section 5 to challenge conduct that would require complex balancing.
How would such a standard treat the FTC's portfolio of Section 5 cases? First, ITCs involving small firms would remain. This conduct is not reachable under Sherman Act and is likely to generate substantial consumer harm. At the same time, the risk of deterring beneficial conduct is minimal, although as one moves from private solicitations to engage in price fixing or market allocation towards public communications and unilateral conduct, the calculus changes. Relatedly, involving information sharing seems sensible to retain as well. Like ITCs, this conduct is not reachable under the Sherman Act (assuming sufficiently low market shares), poses a significant threat to competition, and it is hard to justify on efficiency grounds. Of course, the Sherman Section 1 can reach agreements among competitors to exchange competitively sensitive information, so this genre of cases should be limited to instances where an agreement cannot be shown. Further, as in the ITC case, the FTC needs to tread carefully as the conduct moves further from direct and private exchanges of future competitive actions toward unilateral public announcements of current and past price and output decisions. Bolstering the case for the use of Section 5 in these cases is that both ITCs and information sharing cases fall under the broad rubric of incipient harms. Legislative history and subsequent Supreme pronouncements suggest that Congress intended Section 5 to concern itself with incipiency – a concern lacking in the Sherman Act.
The FTC should abandon its use of Section 5 to reach breaches of FRAND commitments. Although policies that encourage participation in standard setting are likely to be beneficial to consumers, it is not evident that Section 5 is the best – or even a good – vehicle to address these issues. That hold-up may result in a higher end price for consumers is insufficient to justify use of Section 5. There are a host of institutions arguably better suited than the FTC to handle these policy issues, including Article III courts, the ITC, the Patent & Trademark Office, Congress, and self-regulatory bodies. As Commissioner Ohlhausen remarked in her dissent in Bosch, the FTC appears to lack "regulatory humility when it usurps the resolution of FRAND disputes from these other fora.
Finally, deceptive conduct in business-to-business relationships – such as that alleged in Intel or Dell– should be left out of the portfolio entirely. To the extent that deception gives rise to, or helps maintain, monopoly power, it is reachable under Sherman Section 2. Otherwise, deception should be left to the domain of contract law or business torts. Further, these practices should not be challenged under UDAP, which should be confined to deception that directly involves consumers.
[1] S&H, 405 U.S. at 242-43 (quoting FTC v. R.F. Keppel & Bro., Inc., 291 U.S. 304 (1934)).
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Whatever the reason may be, you need to look for ways to ensure that the application gets accepted the next time you apply for a business loan. Through this article, you will get to know about things you need to do after your application for a loan gets rejected. Read on to know more about them.
The law requires all lenders to convey the acceptance or rejection of a loan through a written notice. The reasons for rejection need to be clearly specified too. You need to go through the letter and study it in detail. Knowing the reason for rejection helps you in improving it so that you can focus your efforts to strike it off.
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January 13, 2021 - SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday joined a coalition of 11 attorneys general in securing a multistate settlement against a deceptive veteran charity, Healing Heroes Network, Inc. (Healing Heroes), and its former directors, Stacey Spiegel, Allan Spiegel and Neal Spiegel. The settlement resolves allegations that the former directors engaged in deceptive charitable solicitations, falsely claiming that 100 percent of the organization's donations went towards helping veterans. Healing Heroes and its former directors will pay $95,000 in restitution towards a legitimate tax-exempt charitable organization to ensure that veterans receive the donations that they are entitled to.
"Healing Heroes grossly misled donors into believing that 100 percent of their charitable donations would help a veteran in need. That couldn't be further from the truth." said Attorney General Becerra. "Today's settlement sheds light on deceptive charities and serves as a reminder to all – always do your research and ask questions before making a charitable donation."
Healing Heroes, a Florida-based non-profit, was formed in 2008 to provide therapy, services, and assistance to veterans. A multistate investigation revealed that the charity engaged in deceptive sweepstakes mailers and telephone solicitations, promising to use donations to help wounded veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan receive medical treatments that the Department of Veterans Affairs did not readily provide. Additionally, it was found that in 2016 and 2017 Healing Heroes falsely claimed on social media that 100 percent of the donations that it received went towards helping veterans. The investigation uncovered that from 2015 until its dissolution in late 2017, Healing Heroes only spent an average of 16 percent of its gross annual revenue on charitable programs, spending the remainder on internet ad placements and professional fundraisers. For example, in California the fundraisers sent out on average 3,800 direct mailers per month to the state's residents, grossing $874,000 total, with Healing Heroes netting only $87,400 to $131,000, while the rest went towards fundraising expenses.
Under the terms of the settlement, Healing Heroes and its former directors must:
Pay $95,000 to a veterans charity whose mission matches the representations made by Healing Heroes when they were soliciting donations from the public;
Agree to pay $400,000 in monetary relief in the event that the defendants violate any terms of the settlement agreement;
Permanently cease operations and restrain from all charitable solicitations; and
For five years from the effective date of the settlement, Stacey J. Spiegel, Neal A. Spiegal, and Allan M. Spiegel are banned from overseeing, managing, or soliciting charitable contributions for any nonprofit organization.
In California, the Attorney General has primary responsibility for supervising charities and professional fundraisers who solicit on their behalf. The California Department of Justice investigates the loss and misuse of charitable assets, fraudulent and misleading solicitation practices, improper reporting practices and other breaches of fiduciary duty. Charities are required to register and file annual financial reports with the Attorney General's Registry of Charitable Trusts.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra is committed to protecting the generous donations of Californians. In July 2020, he announced a lawsuit against the animal rescue charity, Little Love Rescue, for misleading donors and unlawfully soliciting donations. That same month, he announced a $7 million settlement against the Lithuanian Assistance Foundation resolving allegations that the organization's officers and directors improperly transferred charitable assets to members of the board, their relatives, and employees. In May 2019, Attorney General Becerra and the Federal Trade Commission secured a $1.8 million settlement against Help the Vets, Inc. for misleading donors about its cause and defrauding donors out of millions of dollars in donations. Among other actions, he reached a multistate settlement with VietNow National Headquarters, Inc., a charity that falsely claimed to help veterans; and he sued two bogus charities, Wounded Warriors Support Group and Central Coast Equine Rescue and Retirement, for pocketing the proceeds of charity raffles that were supposed to benefit veterans.
In securing the settlement, Attorney General Becerra joins the attorneys general of Maryland, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Washington.
A copy of the stipulation for entry of judgment is available here. A copy of the complaint is available here.
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On Thursday, the US State Department announced the imposition of Visa restrictions to others eight officials from Cuba, whose identities have not been revealed, For the arrest and prosecution of people who participated in the 11 July protests.
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mbondiett, thank you so much for the link, I am blown away by this community.
I'm taking it all in a little at a time. I feel like each small step you gain in trading is composed of many, many smaller pieces that each take time to develop.
The advice you are getting from everyone is generally good. However, I detect that you may be becoming overwhelmed. You are getting a lot of suggestions that don't necessarily fit into an organized trading plan. there are many ways to trade and the goal is to find your own way. In your initial post you seem to have been trading with your "gut". please stop this. it is the surest way to lose money.
Trade only sim until you have a coherent plan that makes money! I saw one of your posts that seemed to say that u make $50 on one trade and lose $100 on the next. Please stop trading NOW, if this is the case. Trading is a business! you shouldn't be trading for "fun" or excitement or because you hate your day job. You trade to make money, pure and simple.
Last, it takes a long time to become consistently profitable. the traders i know who have done it are fanatics. they eat breath and sleep trading. If you are not ready for this type of commitment, quit now while you haven't (i presume) lost a lot of money.
LISTEN to this! This is gold.
I'm basically in the same position as you at the moment - only I'm not trading. I've used the past 4 months to research everything about day trading and what markets you can trade (I thought day trading was buying and selling stocks only basically). My research has given me a good idea of which market, that suits me. And what kind of trading style that fits me as well. I'm not even at the stage of sim, so I can only speak for a theoretical standpoint.
As soon as anyone tells you, you should use this indicator or that indicator - take a note. But leave it at that. It wont help you, if you dont understand, what it actually means or how it works.
I, for instance, are leaning towards scalping and order flow. Using the order book in the DOM to analyze what happens in the market in real time. There's thousands of ways to interpret that data, but I have an idea of an "edge"/setup I would like to pursue and make that work, before I go on and add anything else.
Many indicators are so-called "lagging" indicators. They are based on events in the market, that have already taken place. For me, personally, that doesn't seem super valuable.
If there's something I've learned in the past 4 months, it's that the money you keep, are more important than the money you earn. So stop trading until you have figured that out.
Find a method/edge/indicator or whatever suits you and make that work. Then you can build on to that. Do a lot of research! I would say "track your performance", but this post seems like a product of that, so..
This is my opinion and experience (if you can argue I have any), but I hope it was useful. I was fortunate enough to have someone teach me a great deal and answer all my questions on the fly, so I know, how much it can mean.
Thank you for the kind response, @piilgard!
I agree with most of what you say, it is very good advice!
I don't have many regrets about my first attempt at live-trading before discovering this site. I spent about a month struggling, I didn't lose too much, just enough to create a good challenge to try and reach positive P/L by end-of-year. And if I don't achieve this its not a big deal, I'll get there next year. From tracking my progress I estimate about 20-30 trades under good expectancy would make me turn profitable or at least close. 30 trades just so happens to be the number of trades I like to focus on to test or tweak a strategy. Long enough to get a decent sample but not so many trades that I am not expanding my experience with new ideas.
If I regret anything its that in hind-sight, it was hard to tell how long to spend in live-trading to understand what I needed to work on and go back to sim to work on it. It was hard to tell if I was just shaking off the nervousness of first going live, I didn't know what that sample-size should be so I spent a few too many weeks kind of grinding around that didn't add much value. I would say you should know rather quickly, it is not just nerves, and that those nerves will only complicate matters.
I have seen glimpses of how this can work long-term. Keep losses set to a known value you are comfortable with, track expectancy till your sample-size is big enough that you trust it. Keep focusing on small trades that are well-within your comfort zone and then new trading opportunities begin to "appear" that you didn't notice before. I used to see only zero-to-one opportunity in the morning and it would take everything I had to focus and keep my cool and then I was done once that trade was over. Now I notice maybe 1-3 of those nice friendly setups a day though my screen-time isn't much due to work. I think this pattern-recognition improves and our endurance for handling these multiple trades improves as we gain experience.
I went back to live for my previous 30-trade cycle and had results consistent with sim-trading expectancy over the course of my first five trades. I preemptively cut it off to go back to sim because I could tell I wasn't as fearless as in sim, so i consider that a short but successful excursion into live-trading. I learned what I needed to work on very quickly and earned a slight positive P/L from those 5 trades. Very small steps to keep an eye on the future and what the ultimate goal is. The goal for me is to incrementally match sim- to live- trading and be able to do this confidently and successfully over the long-term. I think I have to manage my impatient side of my personality, the one that thinks its ready all the time. I do this by pushing my learning aggressively and trying harder in sim-trading. When I am ready I will try another small excursion into live-trading. If I am ready I am ready, if not I will go back to sim to improve.
Question for you, piilgard, Why do you think you are not ready for sim-trading? I think you should get started with it!
Overnight High 2721.50 reTested of 2722.25 WED's Low, it's Double Top and failed Break-out to new High; therefore, Gap players pushed down to fill it and retested Overnight Low 2700.50 at end of day.
I now know what your post means. I understand what these GapFill players were doing, and the market context that I was lacking at the time. I wouldn't go long in this scenario now in fact. I really found your help beneficial because the fibonacci-retracements/extensions unlocked the "bigger picture" of market awareness.
this has been an excellent resource. A lot of the progress I've made can be tied back to something in one of these videos, so thank you again!
0) Did this seem like a reasonable trading opportunity?
1) I am getting squeezed a lot these days between tight stop-losses and volatile price-oscillations, one thought I've had is cutting my allowed number of losing trades in half and doubling my stop-loss width on the trades I make...that actually may have helped here, time will tell.
2) What types of set-up strategy could I have used to time this better? Did I just see something in random market noise that wasn't really there? I am not using many technical indicators or stuff like DOM (I don't think my platform even has DOM tools, I've looked). I've tried setting up Bollinger-Bands with Fast Stochastic Oscillator and things like that but it just seemed to add noise without benefit. I don't think they would have helped here but I am a beginner so I am probably wrong on many layers.
Any help is appreciated, apologies for any typos and inability to post links, etc.
I am sure many have given you advice in this thread and sent you off in all sorts of directions. Before you go off and start trying to learn order-flow, fibo analysis or whatever else, first understand how this trade fits in with your level of understanding of the market and how you currently read and understand the market. Before adding new tools to your tool set, you should try to understand where this trade fits into your trading framework and your method for analysing the markets.
The screenshot you posted is not particularly helpful to me, which is not necessarily your fault, but what time frame is the chart you are looking at (looks like a LTF chart, maybe even 1M)?
Let me give you a walk through of how I was taught to read the chart/market.
I note that whilst you tried to buy a pullback of a relatively strong move early in the day, we were coming into the next area of support lost on the higher time-frames.
This might look really busy to you, but if you look at the white arrows you will see the level we have hit - the level we gained for the most recent significant high before we sold off, as well as the target for that level - the last un-tested swing-low we gained for this pop on the 8H chart, which is the other white arrow. If you study this closely, you will notice all these levels have something in common from where I have drawn them.
So if this is a 2H, a target should be the last swing low that took us up to test, although we need to be careful - particularly in a strongly up-trending market, we might not make it that low before popping hard again. I will leave you to mark that out and work out mechanically where you would expect the market to target.
So here we have clearly distributed into this 2H/4H level on the 15M - one might refer to it as a double top - and fallen back to the last swing low on the 2H/4H. You will also note we even got a 5 point smack from the tested 4H I mentioned earlier, before continuing higher to test levels above 2814-2816.
What is unfortunate here - at least for your trade - is if you had entered a trade following a similar pattern you had found on the 1M time frame a few hours earlier, you would have probably ended up coming away with a few points in your back pocket. This is the issue with trading patterns without having HTF context, it can really screw with your thinking and reading of the market as one becomes disheartened at being stopped out once again without understanding why it worked last time but not this time etc.
Hopefully that provides a bit of a fuller picture from a chart reading perspective utilising multiple time frames to determine where we are in the trend and how I was taught to read the market - this is not to say you should learn this approach and not some other approach, you should do what makes you feel comfortable. My main goal here is to demonstrate to you how one might analyse the market from HTF to LTF to determine entries, exits and potential targets and my view on why your trade did not work out this time.
This sounds like me when I was young and foolish. Spending $250 a month on esignal and market delta when I had a $7000 account.
Needless to say my returns were pretty bad when eating 40% annually on software and data.
"It is just the cost of doing business" my young foolish self would have said. When in reality it was just that I had lost perspective that the goal is to make money and compound my account over time. Not waste it on cool looking data visualizations.
This sounds like me when I was young and foolish.
Not sure, if you're calling me and my plan young and foolish, but I don't think your failure in your early trading career, can or should be projected onto me.
A quick 2c reaction. It seems you were looking for a 2nd leg entry long from what could seem to be a new uptrend.
2) current price action - as a trend is usually defined by higher highs and higher lows usually in alternate sequence for a long trend and viceversa for short. Where you tried to go long could likely be too early , as there were no successive lower lows and lower highs at that point. (nor had price reached the previous swing low red bar with tail in order to start a possible overall range behavior. ) So you may have wanted to wait for a new pa pattern that could indicate interest to return long. Such as a double bottom or at least one set of higher highs and higher lows which alternately could look like a reverse "heads and shoulders". Other ideas warning against a long taken at your point, could be the previous long move already had "two legs" and the top bar was an "exhaustion" type forming a resistance point for now. And big moves and reactions often can occur with "two legs" or two parts. The retracement also could be considered a reaction to a failed breakout long of a long tilted range, so then it became a reaction breakout short and a failure to return to within the range, thus continuing another leg down as a successful breakout short. There are several "schools" of ta thought but generally the same ideas as to what defines trends and patterns so I can only suggest having some of these patterns and pa ideas in mind learned from whichever source, and more screen time seeing it unfold.
A lot of these ideas have some free intro webinars by guests and vendors here on future.io Fairly cheap material could be books on amazon such as Brooks, Dalton's "Mind over Markets", or Mack's PA. Also some sites have free info sometimes summarized and indexed. a couple examples: http://thepatternsite.com/ , https://brookstradingcourse.com/price-action/10-best-price-action-trading-patterns/ Ok, good luck, hope it helps.
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Everyone has had to find their OWN way in this business, and there are NO shortcuts; you are going to have to put a lot of days trading sim as things start to sink in.
Boy, I can sure identify your approach. Educate yourself to the hilt to enhance the probability of success. Yeah, that was my (MO) mindset my whole life and it works great in almost every field of endeavor. And that will be a big plus for you in the future for sure. But..... the point others are making and I concur, is that you need to set up a trading platform as soon as possible and start trading on a sim account. The first hurdle you are going to have to overcome is familiarity with the platform operation and setup. It will take quite a while just to be able to execute trades without execution errors to begin with, especially under pressure like in a fast moving market, or unexpected spikes etc. If you have to learn this trading real money you are going to regret it.
As was mentioned above, Learn Price Action First. Without this understanding all the indicators and oscillators will be worth next to nothing. From my experience all the credible trainers who are selling systems will almost always make the statement that they still defer to price action as confirmation of entry/exit decisions.
I don't have a lot of familiarity with all of the available platforms, their cost, or the lowest cost data feeds, but you should consider spending time making that decision immediately.
I tried a few demos and ended up settling on Ninja Trader after it was suggested to me by a professional trader that I have known for years. It is free although the free version will not allow you to set profit target or a stop loss. But it is a really good platform with excellent analytics etc. You can even record or download daily tick data to trade after hours or on weekends to practice if you have a day job. They will also provide free data but it is end of day, not live data.
For live data feeds for futures through the Ninja Trader Brokerage is only $7 per month. However, if you do not make at least trade 1 trade during the month they will charge you a $25 inactive account fee. So, the total cost to you is $32 per month to trade the demo account for as long as you like. Another however, is that they require $1,000 to open an account. You do not have to maintain that balance and they will just deduct the $32 per month for your data feed.
Anyway, I didn't mean to blabber on like this but I did not know about this FIO community when I started and it could have saved me at least 6 months of doing exactly what you are now doing before I started getting some real traction.
Best of luck to you and DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED! You are undertaking the most difficult challenge that I know of. You are working towards competing with some of the smartest people on this planet, not to mention the struggle against the institutional program traders, the algo systems written by mathematic PHDs etc. | {
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Agus rud eile Nov 14, 2022 11:42:27 GMT
Post by glengael on Nov 14, 2022 11:42:27 GMT
Well now, that's an interesting stat. Crokes only beat them once so. In recent years, Nemo seem to fall away once they win out in Cork.
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Agus rud eile Nov 14, 2022 13:17:06 GMT via mobile
Post by hurlingman on Nov 14, 2022 13:17:06 GMT
Nov 14, 2022 11:42:27 GMT glengael said:
I think it was the only time a Kerry club beat them.
wideball
Post by wideball on Nov 14, 2022 15:59:13 GMT
Nov 11, 2022 19:09:18 GMT thehermit said:
Nov 11, 2022 12:59:40 GMT veteran said:
Went to Pairc Ui Chaoimh last evening to participate in history. Munster had a fine win. Strange experience. Very loud tannoy, loud music , pyrotechnics, razzmatazz wall to wall. We are becoming annoyingly Americanized. Sadly , Croke Park is going that way as well.
Years ago there was a detective series on TV based In New York known as Dragnet. When the boys on the ground reported to their superior they often tended to be a bit long winded and he reined them in by saying " give me the facts, nothing but the facts " . My plea when I go to a game is, " give me the match, nothing but the match" .
I think I prefer to watch rugby on TV because the commentator /co-commentator will usually tell you what is happening in the scrums , why penalties and yellow cards etc are being awards. Left to my own devices last evening I was totally in the dark. That detracted from my enjoyment. Also this silence for place kicking? Too civilized for me. Look, it is not a night out at the opera or the theatre.
Atmosphere? Not within a hundred miles of say Kerry/Dublin or Kerry/Galway.
Well Veteran, good to know there's another member of the Red Army around here. You read my mind exactly, the atmosphere was so odd wasn't it?? Couldn't get over it. 41k and barely a roar, the Fields of Athnery petered out rather pathetically after only 1 or 2 verses.
So strange, maybe it was just a lot of day-trippers
I was in attendence myself and have to agree, there was a lot of day-trippers. Hard to beat Thomond for atmosphere and I can't think of any game with a better atmosphere than Toulouse in the Aviva last year so perhaps the atmosphere was always going to come up short. PUC seems to be a fine stadium now, pity it will hardly ever get a full house. Do Cork county finals get played in PUC?
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Agus rud eile Nov 14, 2022 21:55:49 GMT kerrybhoy06 likes this
Post by thehermit on Nov 14, 2022 21:55:49 GMT
'Clifford factor' helps push Kerry GAA profits close to €1million': Commercial income and renegotiated sponsorship agreements rose from €354,000 in 2021 to €773,000 this year. Part of that has been the runaway success of the official Kerry GAA store
Good to see the accounts in the green anyway.
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Post by pintpleasejohn on Nov 14, 2022 21:57:16 GMT
Would anybody have eamonn fitzmaurice's article on DC for the Examiner today? TIA
Agus rud eile Nov 15, 2022 0:27:50 GMT
Post by Ballyfireside on Nov 15, 2022 0:27:50 GMT
'Clifford factor' helps push Kerry GAA profits close to €1 million
Commercial income and renegotiated sponsorship agreements rose from €354,000 in 2021 to €773,000 this year. Part of that has been the runaway success of the official Kerry GAA store
AN All-Ireland title, the David Clifford factor and the end of Covid restrictions all helped push Kerry GAA profits close to one million euros in the past financial year, the county's annual convention will hear next week.
Treasurer Tom Keane reports a strong financial rebound, despite spending close to €1.45m on inter-county teams, with the senior footballers accounting for close to €850,000.
However, that drive to a 38th All-Ireland SFC title in July - a first in eight years - helped drive commercial growth for Kerry GAA, with a significant bounce in sales for Kerry gear and support for the Board's Win A House campaign. Having stellar talents such as David Clifford and Seanie O'Shea was also a factor in driving commercial and sports ware sales.
Commercial income and renegotiated sponsorship agreements rose from €354,000 in 2021 to €773,000 this year. Part of that has been the runaway success of the official Kerry GAA store in Killarney, which has delivered a net return for Kerry GAA of around €200,000. Royalties from Kerry sportswear surged from €133,000 to €547,000, due in no small part to having a number of the country's best know players driving interest inside and outside the county.
Treasurer Tom Keane said: "The key to this growth has been the impressive sales of team wear, including our new jersey which was released in January. The new jersey returned to a more traditional look with the whole design centered on the iconic Kerry crest."
The Win a House in Killarney draw netted €286,000 with Mr Keane revealing they sold over 9,300 tickets. "We are happy with the figure," he said.
The Treasurer said he was pleased that whenever money was required to be spent on Kerry teams, the board was not found wanting. Overall profits of just under €1m has risen from €505,000 in 2021.
"The end to the pandemic meant, in financial terms, that we saw a welcome return to fundraisers and alongside the positive upturn in merchandise sales of official Kerry GAA gear, has helped us reach very strong position at year's end."
The biggest profit areas were in gate receipts and live streaming income. Keane revealed that the cumulative figure just shy of €900,000 is a significant jump on the 2021 return of €226,000, even if accounting periods mean there is also income from late 2021 Championships.
On the thorny issue of cashless entrance to games, the Kerry treasurer said: "I acknowledge this did cause some concern for some really genuine and loyal supporters, and the provision of cash payment outlets on a limited basis did help. We are only one of three counties that provide a cash stile, but it will be a decision for the new executive if it will operate in 2023 as nationally, the policy is online only."
Kerry's divvy out from Croke Park for Championship, League and provincial games doubled from €362,000 in 2021 to €671,000 this year.
The total for team training expenses came to €1.445m, with both senior teams reaching the latter end of their respective All-Ireland championships. The minor and U20 footballers both reached All-Ireland semi-finals. The figure for training the Kerry senior footballers is €523,534, but extra expenditure on meals, accommodation, equipment and medical will bring that figure to around €850,000, Mr Keane estimated.
He also revealed Monday that work has already begun on the purchase of 7.5 acres adjoining the Centre of Excellence at Currans with a view to the development of the faciliity, most notably a 4G all-weather pitch.
Nov 14, 2022 15:59:13 GMT wideball said:
Must be the commentary then because TV was an amazing experience, add in the local factor and overall it was on a par with vs S Africa IMHO.
Agus rud eile Nov 16, 2022 8:15:25 GMT via mobile mg72 likes this
Post by Mickmack on Nov 16, 2022 8:15:25 GMT
Fascinating insight into the level of 'realtime' information being fed to the Kerry Manager during a big game.
www.gaa.ie/football/news/jc-o-shea-the-man-crunching-kerry-football-s-numbers/
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Agus rud eile Nov 16, 2022 17:13:17 GMT glengael likes this
Post by veteran on Nov 16, 2022 17:13:17 GMT
I notice that Kevin Walsh has been appointed coach to the Cork footballers.
Interesting development.
www.rte.ie/sport/football/2022/1116/1336564-donegal-skipper-michael-murphy-announces-retirement/
Agus rud eile Nov 16, 2022 19:14:04 GMT via mobile john4 likes this
Michael Murphy just announced retirement from inter county ball.
What a player... Class act
Agus rud eile Nov 16, 2022 19:14:07 GMT john4 likes this
A sad day for Donegal and all lovers of Gaelic football in general. What a baller. If they two of him in his pomp Jimmy would have won a lot more than 1 title!
Nov 16, 2022 19:14:04 GMT horsebox77 said:
A truly great footballer. A player I really enjoyed watching. He will be missed by many. A giant amongst men. Hope Michael has a great retirement.
I always rated Cleary and felt he was overlooked on too many occasions post his success with the U21's.
Cork will be inns better place with Cleary at the helm and he is surrounding himself with very astute and learned people on the sideline
This in turn boosts Kerry as we need a viable challenge in Munster, it's all aces as bar the smash and grab of 2020 it's been all one way traffic.
Agus rud eile Nov 17, 2022 8:10:26 GMT via mobile
Post by hurlingman on Nov 17, 2022 8:10:26 GMT
An interesting stat. When he became Donegal captain in 2011 they had won 5 Ulster titles. By the time he'd retired he'd captained them to 5 titles.
Nov 17, 2022 8:10:26 GMT hurlingman said:
in fairness, there is more to them than just him, they probably overall have had the best crop of players in their history, over the last 10-12 years, top quality players all over the pitch.
2014 he never turned up for them in AI final and we still were only the width of a post in the last minute from a draw.
That early goal vs Mayo in their AI final victory in '12 had him as a natural leader as well as captain at the age of 22, all a full 20 years after their '92 breakthrough - then 5 Ulsters, doubling Donegal's take of both Cups.
Probably the best ever team just preceded the Murphy era, the '2 suits of clothes' brigade and maybe that's why they didn't realise their potential.
In fairness Mike did turn up in '14 but so too did a certain reconditioned, souped up, AO'M - what they had in common proved decisive on the day and Murphy wasn't helped by Éamonn's tactical homework nor the ref's view that the doctor was entitled to a dose of his own medicine. Dgal were favourites and maybe believed they just had to, well turn up, but never Michael - he was the central plank, turning up everywhere and anywhere.
There were many days, maybe moments, when he alone was worth the gate money.
He and maybe with the help of McGuinness may have tipped the balance back to GAA vs soccer in Dgal, in the Letterkenny anyway I think.
Having studied him a bit, what I noticed was that once he collected the ball, say typically having dropped back to defence, the team then, maybe even unaware, appeared to change form, reformed, took a new shape - Murphy has it now so we revert to our default plan; and so drove on, charged forward, him laying it off, interlinking, often nudging the scoreboard at the end of a movement he initiated. Once the penny dropped here with me it was awesome to watch, anticipating, will it or won't it happen, how many times will we see it today, vs Mayo in Ballybofey was classic - it was great traditional football and purist Mayo was conductive to such, well purist skill.
There is an air of secrecy about where things are now - is Carr 'a front?' Was Bonar the same?
I think Mike needs a break but then 'bird in the hand' - he has a strong powerbase in the camp, maybe he holds the balance of power, ala Jackie Healy-Rae Snr scenario!
I'm not so sure he will stop rallying the troops and where such a role leads is anyone's guess. I'll keep my own notions to myself thank you, in case I am right - don't want to add to the plight of an already uninformed, maybe confused, supporter community.
So well done Mike and thanks for the ceoil, it was sweet and intriguing, and a lot more.
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Agus rud eile Nov 18, 2022 16:55:02 GMT via mobile givehimaball likes this
Post by Jo90 on Nov 18, 2022 16:55:02 GMT
I believe it was the first time supporters wearing red have left the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh in a happy mood!
Be jazus but the bulls out of that world cup gang - 'we are all one tribe' - such contradiction, if we were there wouldn't be a tribe let alone tribes.
Thank God for the small mercies we have in tribal GAA land - it would be so uncharacteristic of our own tribesmen to drop the chins though as MOM might say, there's always wan!
Still I hope our Arab neighbours can recover the situation to do justice to mankind as he endeavours to excel on a world stage.
Sean Kelly was right though - FIFA should return the bribes.
The concern must be how a major decision will be dealt with and the first day didn't look so great - there latchicos have been known to call the team off the field if they disagree with the ref. Can you just imagine wan of 'em gettin a right crack of hurley, better still the hook end up the skirt - no need to call 'em off, the poor hoors would be driven into the middle of next week!
Reminds of a statement for them complaining that horse ownership didn't even begin to stack up as a business - hey sheiks, 'tis a sport and yer winning the derby is like what we call a bad wake! Take a leaf out of our Bosco's book - win a donkey derby and the beer flows out the door!
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hoganstand.com/Article/Index/325781
New York set to return to senior hurling next year. Interesting to note a big Kerry connection involved. Richie Hartnett is the manager and Eamonn Fitzgerald is also involved.
Sad to see Michael Murphy go. He was a leader for Donegal long before he was captain. How many of the 2012 team are still involved I wonder at inter county level? What is Jim McGuinness at these days?
Coaching underage with Derry FC, think he's there U20? manager.
Anthony Molloy said they couldn't afford not to appoint Jim for a second stint and while TCB apparently met him, Jim says he is waiting for the right opportunity and it looks like his focus is on soccer. How effective would he be without 'the system' and which isn't so pretty on a CV these days.
Lyster good on RTE tonight, good debate on pooling sponsorship.
Shane Dowling ran out of steam a bit but meanwhile the seeds of 'the best to never win a Celtic Cross' remain in fertile ground.
Agus rud eile Dec 2, 2022 9:41:02 GMT sullyschoice likes this
Post by glengael on Dec 2, 2022 9:41:02 GMT
www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2022/12/01/what-we-are-witnessing-with-david-clifford-is-a-once-in-a-generation-reaction-to-a-phenomenal-talent/
A lovely article on the man himself.
Agus rud eile Dec 3, 2022 10:25:42 GMT
Post by Ballyfireside on Dec 3, 2022 10:25:42 GMT
WOW, a good wan here, extended but be patient, explains things behind closed doors, well worth the ride!
Trusting others, getting into players' heads and not resting on your laurels – Jack O'Connor reflects on Kerry glory
The four-time All-Ireland-winning manager explains how he has been a different man during his third coming in the Kingdom - showing more courage to let others do their jobs
Jack O'Connor admits he reacts well when he has calm people around him, as if he was in need of some sort of balance that Diarmuid Murphy and Mike Quirke – his Kerry selectors this year and paragons of serenity – could bring.
Yet the irony is that in his third coming as the county's senior manager, he has never projected a calmer presence in the position himself. Jack III is altogether different than the two previous versions.
By his own admission, the obsession, even the abruptness of old that he acknowledges was once there, has subsided. He's much more relaxed about what blows in from the outside and even what swirls around within Kerry.
How else could he have countenanced bringing Paddy Tally, from Tyrone of all places, on board as the team's coach in the first place if he was worried about the local decibel levels?
The man who once portrayed himself as an outsider is very much on the inside now. Kerry's port in a storm who got the ship to shore after a turbulent few years in Dublin's slipstream. O'Connor may not have the All-Ireland medals but he has the gravitas to match most collections.
The enjoyment derived from a fourth All-Ireland title as manager this summer past perhaps surpassed anything of the previous wins.
Maybe it was the distance since their last, eight years, and the relief that all of Kerry would have felt. Or just his own state of mind.
All the towns visited left their impression that week but Kenmare on the Wednesday after the All-Ireland final looms largest now in the memory.
They met at the golf club on the outskirts of town and walked in behind a band. Beautiful summer's evening, huge crowds, smiling faces. Bliss.
"Experiences like that stay with you and hopefully (they are) ones that drive the players on to want more of it. That's when Kerry shows a fervour and feeling for football that is hard to match. It was all just great fun this year," he says.
He's different and the job is different too. Delegation was an imperative compared to his previous stints. And in that respect, going to Kildare for two years helped. Thus, he was happy to let Quirke, Murphy, Tally and others get on with it.
"Last time, I was doing a lot of stuff, whereas now, I'm overseeing others doing the work, now and again putting my own stamp on it if I could.
"Having the courage to let other people at it, that's the trick, to pick good people (Quirke and Tally are previous inter-county managers, Murphy has a raft of experience under O'Connor and Eamonn Fitzmaurice) and give them the autonomy to do the job. But at the same time, there has to be some of your own stamp on it. Otherwise, what's the point?"
What hasn't changed is his knack for pragmatism, recognising a problem and finding solutions to fix it.
There should be something more complex to how Kerry planted their flag at the top again in 2022 but there isn't really, he insists now. Kerry's problem this time last year was just that they were conceding too many goals.
"Kerry were very close, no question about it. But in the two, what you would call big games the year before, the Tyrone semi-final and the league game against Dublin – they'd be seen as the big hitters – seven goals were conceded. That had to be our starting point. That couldn't go on. You can't be involved in shoot-outs. Now there is no question that Kerry can win shoot-outs because we have firepower. But it's a high-risk strategy.
"I was fairly certain that Paddy would bring a structure to the team when we didn't have the ball which was very important, a structure that we didn't have before. We still wanted to maintain our own traditions of playing good football when we have the ball but without the ball, I thought Kerry were lacking a bit of structure, a bit of organisation."
Retirement from teaching gave him time to communicate more and to travel the county and sit, often for up to an hour, with each of the players they had in mind for the squad.
"You wouldn't be meeting much more than one player a day, two max," he recalls. "And from my neck of the woods I'd have to drive an hour, an hour-and-a-half to meet most of them because we're out on the Iveragh Peninsula and a good bit from anywhere. So that takes a bit of time and energy. It's not just a cursory conversation. You were really trying to get into the players' heads and listen to what they have to say. And listen more than talk to them."
It was on that circuit that the seed for one of the ideas to make themselves harder to beat was sown. In Templenoe, Tadhg Morley made it clear how hungry and driven he would be in the new order.
"I'd have known that Tadhg was very frustrated with the way the year before had gone for him. He had a stop-start season. Just things didn't run for him.
"I'd have listened to him to hear what he thought his strengths were and we came to the conclusion that Kerry needed an organiser at centre-back anyway. Tadhg is a good man to talk, a good leader, a young man who had to grow up quickly. He lost his father when he was young himself in an accident so he would have matured quickly and become a leader in his own life.
"We felt that defence needs that type of an orchestrator and that other players would benefit from that and grow from that. And that was proven by the way that Jason Foley flourished.
"The whole of the management would have an input into this, but I would have made them aware that this was the way that Tadhg was feeling. The value of communicating with players was really brought home to me this year.
"If there was a player going through a sticky patch I'd certainly go and meet them and just get inside their head and see what was going on.
"A player like Graham O'Sullivan, he'd be from my own club (Dromid Pearses). It was his fourth year in the set-up but he still hadn't made the breakthrough. I would have had a couple of long conversations and told him what I feel he needed to do to drive on and listen to what he felt was holding him back. That's invaluable, then you have a good starting point that you know what's going on rather than depending on instinct."
Morley performed the role of sweeper/organiser to a tee and ended with a first All-Star, O'Sullivan wasn't too far behind him. They road-tested their new systems through the league and derived much from the scenarios that would play out later that summer.
Dublin in Tralee and Armagh in the Athletic Grounds were signature wins, but for O'Connor, the evening they beat Mayo in Tralee had arguably more significance than any.
"That was probably the game that gave me most satisfaction because, with 10 minutes to go, Mayo had drawn level with a hurricane behind them and we didn't seem to be catching any breaks. We dug in and worked the last move, very much like the Dublin game in the championship, we drew a free and pointed it. That felt at the time like a big win, a game we referred back to.
"Games you win that you just as easily could have lost. They are the games you draw upon. You can be talking until the cows come home but unless you have the evidence that you can win tight games, then the players will find it difficult to see how they can."
It became a common refrain through the season for them and manifested spectacularly to their benefit in the All-Ireland semi-final.
"That was one of the benefits of bringing in Tony Griffin (as performance coach), to work on the resilience and belief of the lads. Paddy and the rest of us would be big into that as well, not doing anything crazy, just sticking to the plan.
"You'd have to give huge credit that day to the likes of Shane Ryan, the other defenders like Brian Ó Beaglaoich and a few of them that showed very hard for those kick-outs.
"When a team has momentum like Dublin had that day, the last thing you want to do is bate it out to the middle of the field and put it up for grabs. So it was crucial. The best way of taking the sting out of a game is to get your hands on the ball and if you have it you are controlling it. I thought that showed a lot of mettle and a lot of nerve. It was obviously crucial.
"Even Paul Murphy having the nerve to kick a 40-yard pass. Others might have kept the ball and see out the last few seconds.
"In the overall context I thought we deserved to win the game but we could quite as easily have lost it," he says, notwithstanding Seán O'Shea's "kick for the ages" that had so many variables, from fatigue, to wind, to pressure, potentially against him.
As Kerry manager through the different phases, he's now had two of the greatest forwards of all time on his watch. The one common denominator between Colm Cooper then and David Clifford now, he says, is that neither needed to be coached.
"In fact you would be using them to coach the lads around them. I never had to give directions to 'Gooch'. I'd be picking his brains looking for ideas myself. It's the same with David now, sure the great players are a couple of steps ahead."
In the minutes after the All-Ireland final O'Connor even went down to the Hill end to stand at the spot where Clifford had kicked that crucial free to put them ahead late on – the first of four points that saw them home – just to appreciate what he faced.
"I often wonder how the whole razzmatazz around him doesn't affect him, but he has a remarkable temperament, a very stable lad, just has the ability to put on the blinkers when it matters and blot out all the outside stuff.
"I've seen plenty of defenders trying to get inside his head and try to upset him but it only seems to make him better.
"We used to say down here in south Kerry that the last thing you do with Declan O'Sullivan was aggravate him because he only really got going then. It's like that with David.
"I would have even seen in club games, he might be beaten to the ball and fellas would start talking to him and I'd say to someone beside me, 'he's after making a big mistake there'. A bit like (Pádraig) O'Hora in the league final."
The split season has suited him, allowing sufficient down time to park everything before the rush.
The one downside? Two weeks is not enough time to incorporate everything in the lead-up to an All-Ireland final. A problem he appreciates and with time so precious it will fall on deaf ears, but still, there are promotional obligations to live up to too.
"It's too intense. You're talking about amateur people and there is a lot to do in the preparation of an All-Ireland final. We had a press day four days after the Dublin game and they are full-on, I must have done 20-odd different interviews that day. That's a lot of interviews packed into three hours. People are trying to publicise the game and we all have an obligation to play our part in that, but, by the end of it I didn't know whether I was speaking English or Irish!
"And then you have the whole thing around organising suits and accommodation. It's just very intense for a two-week turnaround. I would say three weeks would be ideal. But maybe the time isn't there."
It's four-and-a-half months on and the loose ends from last season are being tied up as a new season begins to appear on the horizon. Last weekend, four sets of medals were presented. This weekend they set off on their team holiday to Dubai and Mauritius. At least most of them will.
For a few, the never-ending season trundles on with the Fossa, Rathmore and Kerins O'Rahillys players still engaged in their respective Munster club championships. For Kerry's management, it's an obvious concern with a view to next year.
David Clifford's next game will be his 32nd this year, for brother Paudie it will be his 30th. Some, wrongly, attribute this to the split season but, as O'Connor points out, there are three championships in Kerry, most other counties have just one. Once they are winning, the games just keep coming.
"Local championship can be as attritional as anything because it is usually played in bad weather. It's great for developing players, but for the county player it can be tough going, something that will have to be monitored going into next year.
"Of course it does concern me," he says. "We could have anything up to seven or eight players going into next year with significant enough injuries. We could be relatively experimental in the early rounds of the league."
For all his calmness and the enjoyment derived from All-Ireland No 4, there's an edginess again to embrace what's coming.
He's had both hips 'done' at the same time in the off season and the challenge of a first successful All-Ireland defence as manager now awaits.
"Tom Brady was once asked what his favourite Super Bowl win was and his reply was 'the next one'. In Kerry, you don't get to rest on your laurels."
Last Edit: Dec 3, 2022 10:27:09 GMT by Ballyfireside
Agus rud eile Dec 3, 2022 11:46:20 GMT via mobile Ballyfireside likes this
Post by thehermit on Dec 3, 2022 11:46:20 GMT
Bally a Donegal friend sent me this on: Kerry v Donegal first round of 1984 Centenary Cup in Ballybofee,April 1984:
Agus rud eile Dec 3, 2022 18:29:29 GMT via mobile
Post by horsebox77 on Dec 3, 2022 18:29:29 GMT
At brilliant Hermit, there are some cracking old games on utube funnily enough most involve northern opposition.
The full 85 semi vs Monaghan is there, along with the U21 final and final replay of 1987 vs Donegal.
The Munster Final of 76 - full game is also there.
There is a 1982 or 83 league game too vs Armagh in what looks like a club ground.. picture jumps now and again but still nostalgic viewing.
You down and heading to Bally tmw? The County C'ship Winning Minor panel is being introduced to the crowd at HT - the proper way to do it as opposed to the pro-Emmetts fiasco that happened in the square when Sam arrived
kerryexile
Whether you believe that you can, or that you can't, you are right anyway.
Agus rud eile Dec 4, 2022 0:20:28 GMT
Post by kerryexile on Dec 4, 2022 0:20:28 GMT
Dec 3, 2022 10:25:42 GMT Ballyfireside said:
Jack O'Connor admits he reacts well when he has calm people around him, as if he was in need of some sort of balance that Diarmuid Murphy and Mike Quirke – his Kerry selectors this year and paragons of serenity – could bring............
Thanks for posting that Bally.
Jack is mellowing with the years. | {
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[MobilePRwire] – Inspired by the popular reality TV shows, Auction Wars: Storage King on iOS puts you in the shoes of a professional auction buyer. Given its no.1 position in many charts around the world, this update provides even more content and brand new features that players can enjoy.
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While not exactly a huge problem, one of the things that Google Maps could stand to be improved upon was its placement of Google Assistant, where before it was too obvious and could be considered slightly distracting. However that seems to have changed in a recent update which has made Google Assistant's presence in Maps more discreet.
This was initially spotted by Redditor raddacle (via 9to5Google) who shared screenshots of the new Google Assistant in Maps. As you can see in the screenshots above, Google Assistant is now more discreet and compact. This was initially announced at Google I/O earlier this year, and it seems that it is now rolling out to users as we speak, or at least to some of them.
In addition to a more discreet Google Assistant, raddacle has also noted some other changes to Google Maps, where phone calls no longer open up the dialer which means that the call starts immediately in the background. This means that users won't need to switch back to Google Maps whenever they receive a phone call which can add to the distraction.
We're not sure which devices are primed to receive the changes, but raddacle claims to be running a stock Pixel 2 XL without any beta apps, so we imagine that other Android users can expect these changes soon enough.
Filed in Cellphones. Read more about Google, Google Assistant and Google Maps. | {
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Keeping the grip is essential, no matter what you do. If you go for drag racing, time attack or even drifting. Traction means control, full control means that you can use the full potential of your car. There are many, if not countless, ways to improve a cars handling.
It starts with the tires and goes from there actually through the whole car. But for this time we will settle with the next best part after the tires, the coilovers. My car already was equipped with a tein HA suspension when it arrived from japan. Not knowing that, it was a nice surprise. When I decided to rebuild the car I made the plans to take a closer look on the coilovers as well. After all they were more than ten years old.
As you might have seen in the header image. The tein coilovers were in a pretty bad condition. Further more the shock test showed that two shocks were bleeding. Unfortunately tein was not able to deliver replacement parts.
Almost settling with the idea to test a low budget coilover set fortune smiled on me and I was able to lay my hands on a used R33 GTR aragosta Track coilover set.
Albeit being in used condition too, the price was so ridiculously low that I can put that into refurbishment. To this point I had already dismembered the tein coilovers which now had to share its place with the new shiny aragosta parts. The r33 shocks are two inches shorter than the r34 ones. Technicaly they will fit, but the ride height might be a "little bit" low.
Ignoring the HKS clutch you might notice the oldschool cusco front camber arms. While they only give a certain influence on camber we will take a closer look on them – and the reasons I preffere those – next time. | {
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Badger Shield Negative Pressure Isolation Head Box
University of Wisconsin-Madison Makerspace
Wendt Commons - Main Floor, 215 N Randall Ave
https://making.engr.wisc.edu/
This is a negative pressure isolation head box.
Also known as the Badger Box, this is a chamber that is placed around the hospitalized patient's head to contain flashing droplets and airborne particles/viruses. The box also has four "hand holes", through which medical personnel can access the patient's face using pre-installed gloves, without having to remove the box from the patient's head. The head box is designed as a single use, single patient item. The head box design and manufacturing guidance has been published as open source, freely available documentation, such that those in need can manufacture boxes themselves. The boxes are also available through the Makerspace.
"This product design and specifications are being provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Surgery, Dr. Hau Le, the UW-Madison College of Engineering, in collaboration with Sector 67 as a free service to the community during this public health emergency. This product has not been cleared for medical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The product should only be used during the declared COVID-19 public health emergency if FDA cleared or approved products are unavailable."
Countries where available: The Badger Shield Negative Pressure Isolation Head Box is an open source, freely available design Price range: Free
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Steve Blamires (born 1955) is a researcher and historian in the field of Neopaganism, Celtic spirituality, and folklore, and the author of three books in these fields.
Early life
Born in Ayr on the west coast of Scotland, he studied the western mystery tradition for twelve years with Gareth Knight, then directed his studies to Celtic subjects. He and his now ex-wife Helen Star founded "Wandering Angus," a Celtic resource and educational center in Washington State. He now lives in Beacon, New York.
Involvement in Celtic traditions and studies
Blamires is an authority on Celtic traditions, and represented the Celtic peoples at the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions. In 1986 he founded the Celtic Research and Folklore Society in Scotland, and wrote and edited the CRFS journal Seanchas. He has worked with Tibetan Buddhist monks to make Holy Isle, Firth of Clyde, Scotland, a place of spiritual retreat for people of all beliefs. He is a member of the Company of Hawkwood and a co-founder of the Company of Avalon. He also teaches an overview of Celtic Culture through Peninsula College.
He helped establish the Highland Clearances Memorial Fund in 1996, and has since helped facilitate events to generate funds to commemorate the tragedy of the Highland Clearances.
William Sharp / Fiona MacLeod
Blamires is an authority on the life and work of William Sharp, AKA the Scottish poet, writer and mystic Fiona MacLeod. He published a biography of William Sharp in 2008 entitled The Little Book of the Great Enchantment.
Travels
He has traveled extensively on all seven continents, has circumnavigated the globe, and visited over fifty countries. He is an authority on the Celtic, Viking and Inuit peoples, and has an extensive knowledge of the society, culture and history of Ireland, Scotland, Iceland and Greenland. He is a Royal Yachting Association licensed Zodiac driver, and has worked as an expedition leader for Lindblad Expeditions and the National Geographic Society since 2002.
Bibliography
1992 - The Irish Celtic Magical Tradition: Ancient Wisdom of the Battle of Moytura (Thorsons Pub)
1994 - Glamoury: Magic of the Celtic Green World - (Llewellyn Publications) (reissued as Magic of the Celtic Otherworlds - Irish History, Lore & Rituals)
1995 - Celtic Tree Mysteries: Secrets of the Ogham (Llewellyn Publications)
2008 - The Little Book of the Great Enchantment" A Biography of William Sharp (RJ Stewart Publications)
Reviews
Review of Glamoury: Magic of the Celtic Green Worlds by Jennifer Martin
Notes
Articles
"The Five Invasions of Ireland" http://www.aislingmagazine.com/AislingMagazine/articles/TAM24/TheFive.html
"The Highland Clearances: An Introduction" http://www.rfs.scotshome.com/An_Introduction_to_the_highland_clearances.html
"Glastonbury Talk September 1st 2007" http://www.companyofavalon.net/steve_blamires%20address.htm
"Remembering Forgotten Simplicities" http://www.llewellynjournal.com/article/328
External links
http://www.companyofavalon.net/people.htm
http://www.rjstewart.net/other-authors.htm
Living people
1955 births
Scottish non-fiction writers
Scottish occult writers
20th-century Scottish historians
Historians of the British Isles
21st-century Scottish historians
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Review — FEVER AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE LAND OF MOBUTU by Peter Loan
Fever! and other stories from The Land of Mobutu
Peter Loan (Staff— CD Zaire 1976–79; Washington)
$9.99 (paperback), $5.99 (Kindle)
Reviewed D.W. Jefferson (El Salvador 1974-76 and Costa Rica 1976-77)
Peter Loan served as a Peace Corps administrative officer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as Zaire) in the mid to late 1970s. This collection of short stories is based on his experiences there. "Land of Mobutu" in the title is a reference to President Mobutu who was in power in the time period in which these stories are set.
The author doesn't say, but it seems obvious to me that all of these stories are based on real situations with the names and surrounding facts changed just enough to avoid embarrassment of the participants, lawsuits, and in one case, potential trouble with superiors in the US foreign service
The title story, "Fever", involves a PCV who first becomes a hero by braving Ebola to assist a medical team from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), but later is found to also be a thief, stealing lab equipment, volunteer possessions and cash. The Zaire Peace Corps Health Program Director has to handle the whole situation, including sending the PCV home.
We PCVs often believe that Peace Corps staff lead very mundane lives, certainly compared to ourselves, but as Mr. Loan's stories reveal, they too have days when life becomes more challenging and exciting!
In my own case, I will always be grateful for the quick response of El Salvador Peace Corps Agriculture Program Director Francisco "Chico" Rodriguez, who rescued me from potentially being arrested and hauled off to jail after a minor traffic accident!
These stories are well written and entertaining. I encourage you to read them and hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
D.W. Jefferson was a Peace Corps agriculture volunteer in El Salvador (1974-76) and Costa Rica (1976-77). A blog about his Peace Corps years is at: http://dwjefferson.blogspot.com He is currently retired from a career in computer software engineering. | {
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