Second, the opinion features one of the Chief’s signature moves: interpreting statutory language narrowly to avoid potential constitutional concerns. Other notable examples in this style include NAMUDNO v. Holder, Bond v. United States, and, of course, NFIB v. Sebelius. And here, the McDonnell opinion shows this feature of Chief Justice Roberts’s jurisprudence in its best light. As discussed below, the due process and federalism concerns with the government’s reading were acute. The narrow interpretation of the bribery statute’s “official act” requirement is consistent with – indeed, it directly follows from – that statute’s text. For example, Congress included in its list of “official acts” such things as “causes,” “suits,” and “proceedings” – a strong indication that the “questions” and “matters” also included within that definition are questions and matters that, like a lawsuit, are specific and concrete and involve the formal exercise of governmental power.


Third, the Chief Justice’s opinion in McDonnell reflects his often-expressed reluctance to hand boundless discretion to federal prosecutors. In Bond, for example, the Chief read the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act narrowly to deny federal prosecutors the discretion “to reach into the kitchen cupboard” and “treat a local assault with a chemical irritant as the deployment of a chemical weapon,” reasoning that such a result would work “a serious reallocation of criminal law enforcement authority between the Federal Government and the States.” And during the oral argument in Yates v. United States, Chief Justice Roberts critiqued the federal government’s application of a statute designed to prevent the destruction of financial records to a local fisherman who had discarded an undersized fish, noting the “extraordinary leverage that the broadest interpretation of this statute would give Federal prosecutors.”


As Justice Jackson memorably put the point, prosecutorial discretion becomes a threat to liberty when its scope is so broad that a prosecutor can “pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted,” freeing him to go after individuals whose only crime is “being attached to the wrong political views


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Labor is today calling on the Government, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) to act as a matter of urgency following new disturbing reports of “get rich quick” practices in private training providers and their agents.


Today’s reports go beyond unscrupulous marketing and recruitment practices with Victorian Government VET Review head Bruce Mackenzie saying 10 per cent of Victorian providers are under investigation for “material breaches of contract”.


Recent evidence to the Senate inquiry into Private Vocational Education and Training Providers demonstrated that the current system is poorly regulated and its regulators may not be fit for purpose.


The activities of these unscrupulous providers are undermining public confidence in our vocational education system. The cost of their activities is being borne by individual students, Australian taxpayers and industries that are being deprived of the skilled workforce they so desperately need.


If the Assistant Education and Training Minister, Senator Simon Birmingham is now admitting that the system is “susceptible to shonks and fraudsters” then why hasn’t the government fixed the flaws in the two years it has been in power?


Unless the Turnbull Government takes decisive action to weed out these highly unethical rorts of VET FEE-HELP the Australian taxpayer will be left paying the bills.


Fairfax media reports today that brokers are paying up to $800 per ‘sign-up’ for door to door salespeople to target vulnerable Australians – in this case two people with intellectual disabilities who reside in a housing commission unit in the regional Victorian town of Euroa.


The recent Senate inquiry heard similar complaints of unethical behaviour since the government announced changes to the VET FEE-HELP scheme in March.


In May the ACCC announced they were investigating this sort of behaviour but to date we have not seen one training provider penalised. While the Minister has argued that his new National Standards will fix the system, it is clear that these measures are insufficient to solve the problem.


In February ASQA confirmed in Senate Estimates it was investigating 23 providers but to date there have been no reports of training providers being penalised.


It is now time for the ACCC and ASQA to stamp out these practices and send a strong message to the sector that this conduct is unacceptable.


The Turnbull Government must act to weed out these unscrupulous providers from the industry, manage the cost of the Higher Education Loan Program and ensure the current regulator is fit for purpose.<|endoftext|>Note how each comma replaces a column divider and each line signifies another row. Note also that the first or “header” row is used to define the type of data that will follow and the manner in which it is delimited. When commas are used to separate values in a load file, it’s called (not surprisingly) a “comma separated values” or CSV file. CSV files are just one example of standard forms used for load files. More commonly, load files adhere to formats compatible with the Concordance and Summation review tools. Concordance load files typically use the file extension DAT and the þ¶þ characters as delimiters, e.g.:


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Mask the Saitou can appear in the battle game of the visual novel when at least one character route is finished (excluding Rin). For this to happen, Riki must obtain the first rank in the battle game before Yuiko Kurugaya joins the Little Busters. If these conditions are fulfilled, and Riki reaches rank 1 once again, Mask the Saitou will appear in the battle rankings. As long as Riki is ranked 1, when he chooses to wander, Mask the Saitou will challenge characters just above him in the ranking, until he reaches rank 2 or 3, in which case he will challenge Riki. If he defeats Riki he will just disappear, but if Riki manages to defeat him, a special scene will be unlocked after the battle.


Mask the Saitou is one of the strongest opponents in the game - much stronger than the other characters. So unless Riki is very lucky, he must increase his stats by training, obtaining items and completing character routes in the game, so he can defeat Mask the Saitou. The "School Revolution Watch" is a very useful item against Mask the Saitou, which will decrease all his stats by 50. This item can be obtained by trading with the first person that got defeated by Mask the Saitou.


It is possible for Mask the Saitou to be defeated, even by the girls. Especially Kudryavka Noumi is known to be able to defeat him, because her dogs still pose a threat to him.


The name Saitou is a recurring joke in Key media. Angels Beats has Fishing Saitou. Charlotte has Flying Saitou. Clannad also has a Saitou.


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In his book Becoming a Coaching Leader, Daniel Harkavy wants to provide leaders within an organization the opportunity to become great coaches. It doesn’t matter your title, manager, director or VP, you are already a coach so why not become a great one? In order to develop and grow those employees around you, Harkavy gives more than the what and why but more of the how to become a coaching leader. The entire book encompasses the coaching sessions his business would provide you if you hired his group to come to your organization. This book allows you to transform both your personal as well as professional life along with that of your team.


"A Coach comes in and helps them to see even more possibilities ... helps them make additional changes that will enable them to benefit even more ... ask the right questions and clarify and recall their conviction ... [which] will assist them to change their habits so that they can become even more successful and purposeful."


Harkavy sees the role of a coach as being a combination of multiple roles, each with different abilities and strengths. The ‘coach’ is not just resigned to a singular skillset of counselor or teacher or trainer or consultant or mentor or coach. Instead, he believes the skills enjoyed by each of these roles needs to be encompassed within a great coach. Sometime you are one, sometimes you are another, so it is important to have all the skills necessary to support and grow your clients or team members.


So, what makes a GREAT coach? According to Harkavy, great coaches have mastered the following eight core competencies:


Accountability – which enables a coach to provide the necessary follow-up and encouragement in order to help people achieve what they want to accomplish.


Uses systems effectively – tracking is essential in coaching, so having the ‘right’ system for accountability, for note taking, for follow up, for encouragement is imperative.


Communication – the ability to listen, to question and to envision and then to communicate in a clear, concise way to the client what needs to be done.


Self-discipline – consistency in the coach’s behaviour as well as the client’s is imperative in order for the client to succeed. “Our convictions drive our disciplines.”


Vision oriented – the coach needs to have the ability to see what a client can become as well as the qualities, abilities and experiences that will enable success.


Leadership – for Harkavy, great coaches are great leaders. People must be willing to follow you to be successful.


When Harkavy contrasts good coaches and great coaches, it all comes down to great coaches providing opportunity for what can be and leading people “boldly and positively into the future.” I loved his idea to coach with passion in order to have more successes!


"While some good undoubtedly comes from goal setting, I much prefer life planning. When you choose life planning, you understand that every decision you make will enable you to either increase or decrease your net worth – not in dollars and cents alone, but in every part of your existence."


This idea differed the most from other coaching books I have read. Here Harkavy speaks to the need to assess where you are in life right now and what are the most important aspects. He then has you write a vision for each area along with strategies to increase “your net worth in each area”. These areas may include your life with your partner, your children, and your health – whatever matters to you. Harkavy suggests you spend a minimum of eight hours doing this particular exercise. This is to be done without anyone else around, not while you are answering emails or drafting proposals. This is solid ‘thought’ time. He has walked away from business clients who didn’t want to start here and instead wanted to dive into the ‘business’ planning side of things.


After completing your life plan, you start to schedule time to follow through on the strategies you have identified to help you with each aspect of your life. You are to use your life plan to form the bones of next week’s schedule [see insight #2]. And this life plan is not a secret – share it with those around you, for both support as well as affirmation of what is important to you.


"If you don't identify your top priorities and schedule your day around them, at the end of the day you'll always find yourself using leftover space to cram in what you consider important. And you know the worst thing? That's usually exhaustion time."


This partly relates to insight #1. As a coach, once you have identified the important parts of your life—and that does include the work aspect—set up your day for success. One of Harkavy’s suggestions is to know your hourly wage; are you working on something that should be done by someone in your pay scale or should it be passed on to someone else while you work on more important work? People will put lots of demands on your time; you need to decide which things require your attention.


Harkavy quotes the legendary coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Tom Landry, who once said, “A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear and has you see what you don’t want to see, so that you can be who you’ve always known you could be.”


Each chapter ends with a summary of all the key benefits of implementing the ideas and strategies previously discussed in the chapter, which allows the reader a straight forward, to-do list for execution. The benefits are divided into those for your team members, as well as your organization or company as well as how the skills will help you as an individual. Often the reinforcement of multiple benefits for a variety of stakeholders is part of the drive to make the necessary changes in our habits to go from good to great. This book will have a positive impact for both team members, the company as a whole and the coach leading his people into impactful change!


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The 25-year-old Foakes, meanwhile, averages 40 in first-class cricket but is an excellent wicketkeeper in his own right - a skill that will come into focus in this Test, because England have fielded a trio of spinners, with left-arm spinner Jack Leach joining legspinner Adil Rashid and offspinner Moeen Ali. Leach, 27, is playing his second Test, his first having come against New Zealand, in Christchurch earlier this year.


named after a rich white bankrupt wasteland in southern california named after peg bundy's (married with children) hometown, a poor white trash wasteland


the father of the movie head co-wrote the screenplays for star wars: episode vi  return of the jedi and raiders of the lost ark, a movie about indiana jones, a man who hates nazis the father of the site head kinda looks like an ewok and (allegedly) hates communists


a high school guidance counselor accidentally sends in the wrong transcript to a college under the name of an over-achieving high schooler over-achieving high schoolers work on sending in the right transcripts to colleges


cast includes tom hanks' son colin and jack black, a wild and crazy jew who spends a lot of the movie half-naked and steals the show whenever he pops up staff includes the son of a man in the entertainment industry and a wild and crazy jew who spends a lot of time half-naked and steals the show whenever he pops up


features cameos by chevy chase, kevin kline, garry marshall, harold ramis, ben stiller, and lily tomlin features cameos by tony fader, bob may, jeremy royal, and jon wilcox


I've seen both "county" projects and it's a tough call, but I'm-a give it to WC. Most of Orange County's funny moments were shown in the preview and Jack Black playing Jack Black can only do so much. Remember, this time last year, Jack Black playing Jack Black couldn't save that haha funny classic Saving Silverman. Oh and the OC ending sucks ass.


re: mark bowden's true account of an elite team of u.s. delta force soldiers that was shot down and rescued during the 1993 american intervention in somalia


jon says: it's soooooo fuckin' good. jerry bruckheimer and ridley scott basically take the opening sequence in saving private ryan, transport it to africa, and stretch it out to make a full-length movie. i'm talkin' 144 exhausting minutes of reflective testosterone-saturated violence, unrelenting and graphic yet thoughtful at the same time


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1256977 e Dias, was good. He has been in the Marxist movement for more than 40 years and has a lot of experience, which was revealed in his report.”


Asked about the US invasion of Iraq, he said: “We oppose the US invasion of Iraq. There are no weapons of mass destruction in that country. It was invented by Washington to invade Iraq. It is only to grab the oil. Now I know that in America also there are a lot of attacks against the masses and democratic rights are being curtailed.”


Another student told us: “Tomorrow I am sitting for my exam. It is a difficult exam. All my friends are studying. But I have understood many issues by attending this meeting. Internationalism is an essential thing. The working masses in all countries face the same problems, whether in big capitalist countries like the US or in countries like India.


“I want to see a socialist society. Social equality is also essential. That is why I came to the meeting. Though I am sitting for the exam tomorrow, I am glad that I attended the meeting. I will attend any meeting you organise. You speak very differently from all the others.


“I learnt a lot about politics and socialism. Before coming here, I thought all parties were corrupt and that there was no way out of the present crisis. Now I know that there is an alternative to the present society which is creating great misery for the ordinary masses.”<|endoftext|>But risk of Wales losing some funding in a no-deal scenario now reduced after change in Treasury policy announced just days before Auditor General report publication


We’ve launched an Apprenticeship Programme and are on the hunt for three people to join our Financial Audit team.


Adrian Crompton has taken over the reins as Auditor General for Wales, succeeding Huw Vaughan Thomas who retired last week.


The Auditor General, Huw Vaughan Thomas, has written a valedictory letter to the Chair of the National Assembly for Wales’ Public Accounts Committee.


Our latest guide looks at how public services are funded in Wales, how budgets are set and how the public bodies report on their performance


Despite positive feedback from patients, staffing problems and poor morale are putting services under pressure


The Auditor General for Wales and Wales Audit Office successfully delivered the broad programme of work laid out in our Annual Plan for 2017-18.


The Auditor General for Wales has today published a report into the Welsh Government’s relationship with Pinewood.


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Somerset County Council has outlined six major transport schemes designed to improve the county's road and rail network between now and 2020


Improvements to the A358 and two of Somerset's busiest railway stations could be on the cards over the next two years.


Somerset County Council has outlined six major transport schemes designed to improve the county's road and rail network between now and 2020.


Taunton will see the benefits of four out of six schemes, while Bridgwater will see improvements to its railway facilities and the point where the A38 and A39 meet.


This is in addition to the planned upgrade to Junction 25 of the M5, which is set to begin at the end of 2018, and ongoing projects such as the work on Yeovil's western corridor and Bridgwater's new Colley Lane Southern Access Road.


The station is managed by Great Western Railway (GWR) and handles more than 344,000 passengers per year, according to the Office of Rail and Road.


Improvements will be made to the car parking facilities and its links to other public transport (e.g. buses), and the station will undergo a "public realm enhancement" to tidy up its appearance.


GWR will deliver the scheme at a cost of £1.2M , with £800,000 coming from the Department for Transport and the remaining £400,000 from EDF Energy as part of its Hinkley Point mitigation funding.


This busy junction is where the A38 Bristol Road meets the A39 Bath Road, not far from the town's rugby club.


To improve the flow of traffic into the town centre and nearby retail parks, the junction's layout will be amended and new traffic signals will be put in place.


The council has not confirmed the precise cost, but has stated that it will be funded by contributions from housing developers, with the details due to go out to public consultation later in the year


Creech Castle is a busy junction in Taunton where the A358 meets the A38 heading to the new development at Monkton Heathfield.


More lanes will be added to increase the roads' capacity and improve traffic flow, along with new pedestrian and cycle crossings, and a new cycle bridge on the A38.


Under the current proposals, traffic heading east will no longer be able to turn right at the crossroads onto Bridgwater Road South, towards the Premier Inn and Beefeater restaurant.


The scheme is being funded by developer contributions and the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), with the latter providing £6.4M.


The council is working with Taunton Deane Borough Council to improve the town centre by taking traffic away from the main shopping areas.


The public were consulted in 2017 on plans to close East Street to all traffic except buses and cyclists, to close Hammet Street to vehicles during the day, and to pedestrianise St James Street between North Street and Lower Middle Street.


The borough council - which is funding the scheme - is now creating a revised proposal, with further public consultation likely in the near-future


The Rowbarton Gyratory straddles the railway line, comprising Kingston Road, Staplegrove Road, Station Road and a section of the A358.


The existing traffic lights are "reaching the end of their design life" and more capacity is needed in light of planning permission for 1,600 new homes in Staplegrove being granted.


The council intends to made it more usable for pedestrians and cyclists, as well as creating more room for vehicles.


More than 1.4 million people use Taunton's station every year, making it the busiest station in the county council's area.


A new 400-space multi-storey car park will be built on the southern side of the railway line, with the main entrance being moved, the forecourt being enhanced and access to other public being improved.


The council predicted in its report that the Taunton rail upgrade could be delivered by "mid-2019" - but the rail operator has said that it could take longer.


A spokesman said: "The scheme to improve the station is at the tendering process and, subject to agreed cost and final designs, it is expected that work could start early next year and will take approximately a year to complete."


These six proposals were agreed at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning (May 2) - but not everyone was happy about Taunton and Bridgwater being singled out.


Councillor Anna Groskop, who represents Wincanton and Bruton, said that she was disappointed that rural routes were not receiving more attention.


She said: "There's a lot of funding for the major towns, but no money for our rural roads. They are becoming more regularly used routes for our lorries."<|endoftext|>Well, folks a lot has happened in the past week and a few days. This season of American Idol is finally over and while it certainly did not end the way we expected. Still, it was great to see Chris back on Idol and it was really nice to see him side by side with the band live, (my thoughts on that are in this edition).


The biggest new is that Chris may be coming to perform live this summer in your area at the - American Idol Concert


I know we were all pretty mad when Chris got voted off and many people including me are pretty sure there were at least some problems with the phone lines on that night. Yet I have seen some Chris fans putting down Taylor in some forums and boards. This is just not right and remember how hacked off we were when bashers accused Chris of stealing Live's version Walk the Line and the bashers that spammed our guest book here at the site.


To blame Taylor is very short sighted and paints a poor image of Chris and his fans. Chris clearly is very happy about the fact that he is now going to


1256978 ’t handle having Lady and Finn, and fitting them in together so he calls on Shelby the Worm, who tells him to have a picnic with both of them, so that they can get to know each other. This completely backfires on Jake, as Finn and Lady become the best of friends and do loads of things without Jake like swooping down to buy free power rings and going to parties in the cloud kingdom. This causes Jake to call on Tiffany. In “Power Animal” Lady makes another cameo appearance as a civilian, and in “Her Parents” Lady calls Jake, worried about what he will make of her parents. She is seen in the title sequence being ridden by Princess Bubblegum. In “What have you done?” Lady Rainicorn and Princess Bubblegum are attacking the Ice King.


We spent our second night moored alongside the idyllic Blackmere Lake, which Roo had been looking forward to photographing. She wasn’t disappointed – the leaves were turning for Autumn, making for some gorgeous pics. They were also falling into the canal by the bucketload, fouling our propeller and slowing our already agonising crawl to the speed at which dinosaur turds fossilize.


Having reached the southernmost point of our journey, we now had to turn the boat around. Canals being somewhat narrow, this can only be accomplished at specific places, called ‘winding holes’. Apparently this is not a place you ‘wind’ like a watch (which would make sense), but rather a place you ‘wind,’ like the stiff breeze that we’d been battling since Llangollen. This one was a semi-circular bite out of the opposite bank, into which we guided our nose. Between the boat’s somewhat delayed reactions and my Dad’s instinct to do exactly the opposite of what was required, I think we turned that boat around by the power of swearing alone.


Then it was a fairly pleasant cruise back towards Trevor. Dad and I were getting much more confident, slipping the boat smoothly beneath the bridges with hardly a bump. The current, which had been against us the whole way down, was STILL against us even now we were going the other way. Friggin’ witchcraft, I swear.


Roo took over, spending several hours at the helm, and steering the boat over one of the two spectacular aqueducts. But she handed it over as the shadow of Chirk tunnel loomed in front of us. Over two centuries old, 420 metres long but less than two-and-a-half metres wide, it’s a dark, dank stretch of stone-shrouded claustrophobia.


We’d had a slight altercation on the way down, when a boat coming towards us seemed to get stuck in this tunnel for over half an hour. Roo had gone to see if they needed help, and got chewed out by a sour old lady who demanded we turn our headlight off because it was blinding her.


“It’s a bloody searchlight because we thought you’d died in there,” was my retort, when her boat finally emerged. Under my breath, of course.


Now, following in her boat-steps, I realised what the problem was. That bastard current was fighting us, and funnelled into this narrow tube of bricks it was going faster than we were. At full-throttle we inched torturously forwards, reaching out to push ourselves hand over hand along on the tunnel roof.


After twenty minutes at full-throttle, the massive diesel engine belching fumes in a very confined space was making us feel sick. And we weren’t even halfway through. There was only one thing for it – I passed the tiller over to Dad, climbed over the railing onto the towpath, and stomped up to the front of the boat. Roo tossed me the mooring rope, I wrapped it around my shoulders, and like a skinny version of Hercules I hauled the boat out of the tunnel.


Our speed increased significantly, as I leant all my weight onto the rope. It was like dragging a dead rhinoceros uphill through thick mud – but it was working.


Readers of my books may remember me mentioning a pair of very expensive sailing gloves I bought for my ill-fated career in yacht delivery. I’ve carried these gloves in my rucksack constantly for the last ten years, in the misguided belief that just having them makes me a sailor. In that decade, I’ve used them precisely once – for climbing a mountain in Borneo. So when we planned a week on a canal boat, those damn gloves were the first thing I packed. But where were they, as I wound the mooring rope around my hands and strained with every fibre of my being to haul the boat along? Still in my bag, damn it!


I didn’t care. It was worth a bit of lost skin to get through that bloody tunnel. I was starting to feel we were going to die of asphyxiation in there. Or possibly boredom. And I have to admit, pulling the 18-tonne boat along by hand did make me feel rather manly.


We found a different pub to moor up by that night. Ironically, after counting our way under more than thirty numbered bridges, this pub – called The Bridge – wasn’t anywhere near one. Instead, it took its name from this view of an aqueduct and a viaduct together – the only one of its kind in the world:


The next day’s highlight was a familiar one. The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct was every bit as spectacular the second time around as it was the first. More so, actually, as everyone was a lot more relaxed by this point; no-one even complained at me for seeing how far out I could lean. Score!


We passed the boat hire company, choosing that precise spot for an embarrassingly high-speed collision with the concrete dock whilst making a 90-degree turn. No-one seemed to notice, so we made our escape up what they had told us was the ‘expert’ section of the canal…


And they weren’t kidding. It narrowed to the point where I could quite easily have jumped across it.


Passing other boats now appeared impossible; it wasn’t, it just involved a fresh change of underwear each time. Literally, credit cards could have been swiped down the gap between us – but this being the ‘expert’ section of the canal, these boat owners all felt confident enough to attempt such a manoeuver at full tilt. Which, granted is only 3 miles an hour, but it still made my balls shrink back into my body a bit the first few times it happened.


And then – when we didn’t think the canal could possibly get any smaller – we hit the narrow bit. Seriously! This was one boat at a time, for half a kilometre – but with no way of knowing if another boat had already entered it from the other direction. Roo jogged off along the towpath, waving an all-clear every few minutes. All I could do was set off into the narrows following her. Even if she got all the way to the end without seeing another boat, by the time she got back to tell me about it, someone else could easily have entered. We thought this was possibly the stupidest system in the world – until Roo met an elderly lady scouting for her own boat. “My husband’s driving,” the lady explained, “and we’ve got our mobile phones. If it’s clear, I’ll call him from the other end.” It was a face-palm moment. We got schooled in modern technology by an octogenarian.


At the end of the canal – literally, where it ended – there was another turning spot. In this case, the ‘winding hole’ was also a private mooring for several boats, the closest of which stuck out in such a way as to give us very little room to manoeuver. This led to a highly-charged debate about how to proceed.


Our stately and triumphant procession back into the boatyard was only marred by a massive collision with the very last bridge of the trip. In full view of the rental company, we looked sheepish – until their engineer boarded, to turn the boat around for docking. He achieved this by bouncing it off every fixed piece of concrete in the yard, with such force that everything fell of the shelves below. It occurred to me at this point that perhaps we’d been a bit too precious with The Henley – it’s owners obviously treated it like a floating battering ram.


And with that, we were done. All limbs still attached… barely… I had a few rope burns, and had narrowly avoided being crushed by a bridge whilst hanging from the side of the boat. We were all partially asphyxiated from the diesel fumes, and knackered from the constant effort.


All we had to do now was unload the microwave, toaster, kettle, a dozen other gadgets we’d been unable to use, and about a tonne of assorted food, clothing and reading material.


“In fact, as holidays, go,” I told Mum, as she struggled to haul our collapsible sofa over the side, “that was the least relaxing holiday since being chased down a train platform by Chinese policemen armed with machine guns.”


(Parts ONE, TWO and THREE of this blog series can be found by clicking on that bit where I just wrote ONE,


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The US government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the US economy in the wake of the financial crisis. But what steps are being taken to address the crisis on a global scale? The worldwide financial crisis is forcing some to rethink the neoliberal policies widely blamed for the financial collapse. We speak with University of Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang, author of Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. [includes rush transcript]


AMY GOODMAN: The US government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the US economy in the wake of the financial crisis. But what steps are being taken to address the crisis on a global scale? On Sunday, the World Bank warned of the first global recession since World War II, with the world economy set to shrink for the first time since the 1940s. The bank also cautioned that the cost of helping poorer nations in crisis would exceed the current financial resources of multilateral lenders. The economic crisis is projected to push around 46 million people into poverty this year.


The financial crisis is forcing some to rethink the neoliberal policies widely blamed for the financial collapse. On Monday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a new international fund to support poorer countries during the global recession. He also acknowledged richer Western nations have often imposed economic policies on poorer countries that they haven’t followed themselves.


PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN: We will work with the World Bank and our G20 partners to build support for a new fund specifically to help the world’s poorest through the downturn. Too often, our responses to past crises have been inadequate or misdirected, promoting economic orthodoxies that we ourselves have not followed and that have condemned the world’s poorest to a deepening crisis of poverty.


Well, my first guest has been among the leading economists to criticize the neoliberal policies imposed on poor nations but not followed by the West. Ha-Joon Chang is an economist at the University of Cambridge specializing in developmental economics. In 2005, he was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. He is author of the books Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective, and his latest is called Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism.


Welcome to Democracy Now!, as you come from, well, Gordon Brown’s country to this one. First, what is your assessment of the situation right now? Warren Buffett has just said that the economy has gone off a cliff.


HA-JOON CHANG: Well, I think we are facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Now, it probably wouldn’t get as bad as the Great Depression, because, unlike in the Great Depression, governments are more willing to intervene with deficit spending and nationalizing financial institutions and giving subsidies to industry and so on, whereas in the 1930s they more kind of adamantly held onto free market doctrines, which they subsequently abandoned, but, I mean, there was a period of time when they just held onto it and lost the opportunity. So I don’t think the impact would not be as severe as what it was in the 1930s, but yes, I mean, there’s no question that this is as big or possibly even bigger a crisis than what we saw in 1929.


HA-JOON CHANG: Yes. Well, basically, the reason why it’s called “neoliberal” is that it’s a successor to nineteenth century classical liberal doctrine. I mean, “liberal” in American usage usually means kind of the left to the center, but in the European usage, “liberal” means basically belief in the free market and private ownership and basically rule of money.


Now, neoliberals have moderated some of the old liberal beliefs. For example, the old liberals actually thought that democracy was bad for capitalism. You know, they thought if you have democracy, poor people vote and create things like income tax, which they have, but, I mean, it actually helped the economy rather than destroyed the economy like the liberals said. So the neoliberals [inaudible] some degree of progressive income tax. The liberals used to be against, for example, having a central bank. The neoliberals actually like the central bank pumping money into the economy when things are going wrong. So it has modified the classical liberal doctrine, but neoliberalism still has, in its core, belief in free market, free trade, deregulated economy and private ownership.


AMY GOODMAN: Do you find it funny that you’re saying — that Gordon Brown is saying what you have been saying for a while —-


AMY GOODMAN: —- talking about the hypocrisy of the West? But explain what that is, what the US has done or what the West has done with poorer countries when they’re in trouble, and then what we do when we’re in trouble.


HA-JOON CHANG: That’s right, yeah. For example, when the developing countries go into financial crises like the rich countries are experiencing today, they were told by the IMF and the World Bank, and ultimately the rich country governments which control these institutions, that they have to cut spending; ideally, they should run budget surplus. They have to raise interest rate to 30, 50, even 80 percent in some countries. And basically, they have to tighten the belt. Now that the rich countries have the financial crisis, they have cut interest rate to practically zero. You know, I mean, when South Korea had its financial crisis back in 1997, the IMF insisted that the country runs budget surplus equivalent to one percent of GDP. This year in the US alone, budget deficit is estimated to be equivalent to something like 12 percent of GDP.


Now, I mean, how do you explain that? I mean, that these policies are not good enough for you? I mean, “We’ll use one set of policy, which we think are the good ones, but you have to use something else.” You know, the American writer Gore Vidal once upon a time famously said that the American economic system is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor, and the international macroeconomic policies have been like that. I mean, it’s what I call monetarism for the poor and Keynesianism for the rich. So when the rich countries have a fall in demand, they think nothing of boosting it up by printing money and increasing government spending; the poor countries shouldn’t do that.


Now, it’s not only the macroeconomic policy where this hypocrisy has a role. For example, the rich countries have been telling the developing countries to adopt free trade and told them, “Look, I mean, all countries in history probably, with the possible exception of Japan, have become richer through free trade. So how do you think that you guys can manage it otherwise?” Well, actually, if you look at the British history, American history, you find that today’s rich countries used protectionism, center, left and right, when they were developing countries. You know, I mean, for about one century, until the Second World War, the United States was actually the most protectionist country in the world. You know, there’s something there when Pat


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I want to share some observations to help motivate you to stay the course for the long haul and get the results you’re looking for–inside and out!


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In trying to get some new routines going after the first of the year, I wasn’t always getting a workout in, but I’ve committed to doing at least 10 minutes of a workout, daily if possible but definitely 4 times each week.


Surprise, surprise! Hip pain is practically gone (if I’d quit sitting cross-legged at the computer that might help!) and not only that, I feel stronger in my lower back and even my knee feels better. I hurt my knee 3 years ago and while it is healed, it WILL let me know when I let my core go or don’t do my moves on a regular basis! Between the knee and the hip, I have two “personal trainers” who won’t let me get by with anything!


Another way consistency “feels” so good is posture. When I am more consistent, even doing 3 moves each day, I am more “body aware” and tend to catch myself when I slouch or totally let my core go in my daily activities. I find myself sitting and standing a bit taller, stretching rib to hip, thinking about that belly button to spine and standing or walking with my weight in my heels. However, when I am not consistent with even doing a few moves each day, I start to lose that “brain-to-body” connection and soon will be slouching around, standing with all my weight on one leg and not in alignment, and wonder why my back/knee/feet/shoulder/whatever hurts!


I often tell my clients that doing workouts/moves consistently helps in their everyday life, and by being more activated in their daily activities, that carries back into their workouts to help them get even more out of them. Body awareness is a really great benefit of consistency!


Not only does it FEEL good it LOOKS great! Better posture automatically makes you look more youthful and energetic–not stooped or hunched over in pain. We typically don’t shuffle along when our core is activated and ribs are up–instead we have a spring in our step! No matter your age, you can look AND feel vibrant and youthful simply by staying consistent with doing 10 minutes of T-Tapp daily to keep your brain and body connected, help the lymphatic system pump and drain more efficiently as well as activate muscles to stay strong for better health and better appearance–that youthful glow from improved cardiovascular function!


Isn’t it amazing? Success breeds success! Once you start being consistent–whether that is a short workout daily, full workouts every other day, doing 3 moves each day or trying to walk daily with T-Tapp techniques, you start feeling better (less aches and pains), your brain is more clear, you stand a bit taller AND you look better. But best of all? You feel better about yourself because you are taking steps to improve your health and each day of consistency adds more zip to your step. You smile with more confidence that “yes you can” do this consistency thing!


Right now I am seeing the chiropractor twice a week, I fell while cleaning the church and have a compressed fracture in my lower back and a piece of bone broke off and lodged in my spine. I also have 2 total knee replacements. Our 85# black lab barreled into me going flat out and the back of my leg hurts so bad some times it hurts to sit in church. I am a mess.


Do you have MORE or TappCore 2? MORE has a seated workout on it and that might be a good place to start for consistency. TappCore 2 is a short seated workout as well. MORE is just a tad slower, pace-wise, and it has other short mini-workouts along with the main workout.<|endoftext|>Gray sheer silk-chiffon scarf with skull-print design. Alexander McQueen scarf has different sized skulls throughout, a skull-patterned border and signature in corner. 100% silk. Dry clean<|endoftext|>Central Dogma -Dna replication, recombination, and repair. central dogma. central dogma. dna replication – process of producing identical copies of original dna strand separation followed by copying of each strand fixed by base-pairing<|endoftext|>Posted on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 04:56PM by Scott McPherson in #H7N9, CIDRAP, Dr. Michael Osterholm, H7N9, bird flu, influenza and infectious diseases, pandemic | Post a Comment


Hat-tip to Valerie Mansuy of France for posting this link on Facebook. Mike is a great guy and one of the world's top infectious disease experts. You may recall his hour-long interview with Oprah in 2006 on H5N1 bird flu.


After lots of reading and learning about SPI and the MCP2515 control registers, it seems that I am able to transmit and receive CAN messages from the ESP8266. Currently I am using the Arduino CAN library for Arduino released by CoryJfowler on GitHub (found from this post on Arduino forum). I have made a few modifications to this library which I need to tidy up and determine whether they are required and will then release my version.


The key to getting this working seemed to be updating the bit timing registers because my board has an 8MHz oscillator rather than the 16MHz ones found on the Seeduino CAN boards


Ensure you are able to both transmit and receive in loopback mode – this will ensure your code is correct


Finally enable ‘normal mode’ to transmit, and use a reliable CAN transmit/receive device to check your messages


the same topics discussed here? I’d really love to be a part of online community where I can get responses from other experienced people that share the same interest.


this project is absolutely great. After I found your page page with google I immediately buyed all parts and I`m now trying to get your brilliant concept run.


SS: I agree, a forum on CAN Bus would be great. It wouldn’t take much to start one but I’m not so sure there would be a lot of interest.


Hi, yes I did look into this and there is no reason why not. There are lots of MQTT examples with the ESP8266


The MQTT idea is EXACTLY what I’m looking to accomplish here! Has anyone had any luck along those lines yet?


“I have made a few modifications to this library which I need to tidy up and determine whether they are required and will then release my version.”


If you take a look at the latest version of the library from Cory, i believe these changes are incorporated.


To be honest, I hadn’t noticed I was, but this was just a quick stab at fetting this working, so wasn’t too worrie about good practices.


Well, small world! I found your site because of your fuel injected Briggs project and I am doing something similar with an old 5hp flathead I picked up recently. Then I seen your CAN topic on the side and it sparked my curiosity. If you weren’t aware, the sub-development version of the library brought out a mode control function and the use of 8MHz, and


1256983  with more dangerous substances is increasingly common as drugs dealers try to increase profits, said Tim Massino, special agent for the Drug Enforcement Agency in Los Angeles. More than a dozen people died in April in Sacramento from ingesting what they thought was the opiate Norco but was laced with deadly fentanyl.


LAPD Capt. Donald Graham said officers are trying to determine the source of this batch and have sent several samples to a crime lab for analysis.


Typically, the chemicals for manufacturing spice come from China to the U.S., where they are processed and packaged, officials said.


Health officials warn that even uncontaminated spice is a hazard, because it's impossible to know what's in it.


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Murray said that using spice is particularly problematic for people on skid row who are on probation. Spice could lead to behavior that could get them arrested and sent back to jail, he said.<|endoftext|>Mayfair Lofts offers one and two bedroom lofts and stands nestled behind the inviting warmth of nineteenth-century evergreens located only minutes from Revolutionary Downtown Spartanburg!<|endoftext|>average cost to paint a bedroom average price to paint a bedroom how much to paint a room photo 1 of 3 average price to paint a bedroom average cost paint bedroom.


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Title Transformative agency as social construction: Overcoming knowledge constraints in science, art and technology


A core problem of social constructivist theories of knowledge is the lack of theoretical clarity about the role of knowledge constraints and how they are overcome in practice, by what type of social agency. Knowledge constraints are both special - rules constituting and/or regulating such distinct intellectual fields as science, art and technology - and general - laws working across the nature/culture divide. In order to sort out this complexity of knowledge constraints in science, we need to start by recognizing the existence of knowledge constraints in the first place. Advance of knowledge is not contingent, as claimed by the Strong Program inaugurated by David Bloor. The latter reduces the problem of knowledge constraints to reputational work. But reputational work is what all humans engage in; this is one reason why networking is so crucial for the human species. Moreover, it requires the special form of communicative competence, talk, which only humans possess. It is also because humans can talk that they have managed to invent the coherent argument, the core of the special constraint that constitutes science, giving it a law-like character. Arguments are both competitive and cooperative at the same time, reputational work contains both elements. This strongly social element of science is missing in Latour's concept of the social. Latour reduces the social (both networking and agency) to naked competition. But the model for this thinking is not sociology, it is literature. As a social construction it possibly reflects the psychological effect of the French system of elite education.


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We have begun a study of the variability of temperature, and the rate of occurrence of extreme events. Extreme events include heat waves, which are expected to become more frequent due both to global warming and to the urban heat island effects. Such an event occurred in Chicago in 1995 and led to an excess of about 750 heat-wave related deaths. Equally important may be the effects that global warming will have on cold waves. City planners need to understand what to expect at both extremes.


Although warming is expected to lead to more heat waves, it is not clear whether the variability – difference between high temperatures and low temperatures – will change. Although some prior studies have suggested that it does, our preliminary work shows that the range of temperature extremes (difference between hottest and coldest days) is remaining remarkably constant, even as the temperature rose over the past 50 years. Memos describing these preliminary results were posted on our website in early 2013. Additional analysis will test these initial conclusions and we expect to be able reduce the error uncertainties and reach stronger conclusions.


We will continue with exploratory data analysis (a statistical method developed by John Tukey), and we will share our results with the public in the forms of memos posted online and of papers submitted to peer reviewed journals.


NEW YORK — April 19, 2018 — Berkery Noyes, an independent mid-market investment bank, today released its Q1 2018 mergers and acquisitions trend report for the Online and Mobile Industry. The report analyzes M&A activity in the Online and Mobile Industry during Q1 2018 and compares it with the past four quarters.


According to Berkery Noyes’ research, transaction volume declined 12 percent in over the past three months. Total deal value rose 56 percent, from $19.5 billion to $30.5 billion. Aggregate volume throughout the past five quarters reached its peak in Q1 2017, whereas value reached its zenith in Q3 2017. Strategic acquirers completed nine of the top ten highest value Online & Mobile deals during the past quarter.


The SaaS & Cloud segment experienced a 17 percent volume decrease in Q1 2018. This followed a six percent gain in Q4 2017. High profile segment transactions in the finance vertical year-to-date included Temenos Group’s announced acquisition of Fidessa, which provides software and services for investment management systems, analytics, and market data that serves both the buy-side and sell-side, for $1.9 billion; Intercontinental Exchange’s acquisition of Virtu Financial’s fixed income trading venue BondPoint for $400 million; Warburg Pincus’ announced acquisition of a majority stake in Fiserv’s lending solutions business for $395 million; and Experian’s announced acquisition of ClearScore, a U.K. based credit data startup, for $385 million.


The number of transactions in the mobile application sector fell 12 percent on a quarterly basis, with a total of 81 acquisitions in Q1 2018. Fashion retailer Nordstrom was a notable related acquirer with the acquisitions of BevyUp, which offers a mobile clienteling app that is used by sales associates to provide customers with a personalized, omnichannel experience; and MessageYes, a platform for e-commerce through mobile messaging. As for the mobile transportation sector, first quarter deals included BMW Group’s acquisition of Parkmobile, a provider of parking payment solutions in the U.S.; Verdane Capital’s majority recapitalization of EasyPark, which also allows users to find, remotely manage, and pay for parking; and Singapore based ride-hailing platform Grab’s acquisition of Uber’s Southeast Asia operations.


E-Content volume improved 33 percent in Q1 2018, which marked a return to its Q3 2017 level. This made it the sector with the largest rise in M&A activity over the past three months. Apple was a notable segment acquirer with the announced acquisition of Texture, a digital magazine platform that is sometimes referred to as the “Netflix of Magazines.”


E-Marketing & Search volume decreased 19 percent


1256984  active internet connection there), your phone service will resume as if it was still in the office. That’s the beauty of bringing your phone system into the cloud. Relocating is also easy with VoIP. Should you ever need to move your business to a new location, it’s very easy to move your phone system along with it. It comes down to a matter of unplugging all of your hardware and simply moving it to your new location.


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Now, let's speak some of the unspokens here. Malasusa's original remark was taken as a slap at the American church, the ELCA, and his second remark comes after an initial (and one imagines polite but firm) discussion with the ELCA's presiding bishop Mark Hanson. The RNS article linked above also includes a journalistically dubious series of comments from Pr. Jaynan Clark (who before her divorce was Jaynan Clark Egland) leader of the anti-ELCA splinter group WordAlone. Clark indulges in characteristic rhetorical excess, by saying "I can't see how anything but the money could be influencing [the ELCT's]the ELCT would be taking position," and that the ELCT would be taking "blood money."


It all looks as though Malasusa is backpedalling rapidly, to keep his church from losing the million bucks per year that the RNS article says the ELCA provides. (We suspect that the number is low. It probably reflects direct aid from one national church to another, and does not include gifts provided by individual synods and congregations.) That is certainly Egland's -- damn, we meant Clark's -- implication.


What Malasusa will probably say, however, is that in fact, the ELCA does not support same-sex marriage. This is true. The ELCA presently supports the blessing of same-sex unions for the purpose of public accountability. This isn't called "marriage" in the official documents, and doesn't require the church to take a position on the matter of how marriage should be defined under either church or civil law. Whether the distinction is important, or will survive a few years of refinement, nobody knows. But at the moment, Malasusa has feasible, if not entirely plausible, deniability.


So here is what we expect Malasusa, having opened his big mouth, will eventually do. He may (1) go the humble route -- "Actually, this is all a big misunderstanding; I was talking about those wretched Swedes, who don't give me nearly as much money as the Americans"; or more likely he will (2) go the self-aggrandizing route, and say "I have conferred with my brother bishop Mark Hanson, and sternly warned him on behalf of all Africa not to do what he doesn't do or plan to do, so now we can be friends again and I can get my million bucks".


We aren't quite sure what Malasusa thought his first comment would accomplish. Did he really imagine that the ELCA would change course in response to his threat not to accept its money? Was he really prepared to simply forgo the fruits of a long and -- crass remarks about money aside -- spiritually fruitful partnership? And if not, where did he think it was all going to wind up, except with his own inevitable clarification-which-is-not-technically-a retraction?


But here's what we do know, at least per the Wall Street Journal: that on last Tuesday, Feldman sold his ExxonMobil stock, worth something less than $15,000. And that Feldman has said, in a letter to the Administrative Office of the US Courts, "that he sold his shares at the opening of the stock market on Tuesday, 'prior to the opening of a court hearing on the spill moratorium case.' "


If true, this would mean that Feldman had removed a potential appearance-of-conflict-of-interest, just a few hours before issuing a judgment. If true. The problem is that the court hearing wasn't held on Tuesday. It was held on Monday.


So, um, which part of his letter is false? We aren't sure, but we expect somebody will figure it out soon enough.


Oh, and here's another point of confusion: How much energy-sector stock does Feldman really own? One of our commenters (and about a million others elsewhere on the Net) place it at something like $15k, which isn't a lot of moolah by the standards of an affluent judge. (By the standards of an impecunious preacher man, it's quite a bundle. But we digress.)


The WSJ piece says that Exxon was the only company "affected" in which Feldman appears to own any stock. But this article lists several others companies in his portfolio whose financial interests might be linked to the fate of BP. We expect that it's a matter of definitions, but still -- the guy has some interest (however slight) in Halliburton, which -- in addition to being profoundly evil for other reasons* -- "provided the failed cement casings on the Deepwater Horizon."


That's what Hope Lutheran Church calls a recent article about its pastor, Tom Brock. And we agree wholeheartedly.


Under Brock's leadership, Hope left the ELCA not long ago, complaining bitterly about its plans to accept the service of gay pastors in committed and publicly accountable same-sex partnerships. A bad move, in our opinion, but one that's not the point here.


The point is that a magazine called Lavender has since discovered that Brock attends a confidential 12-step program for people struggling with their homosexuality. It did this by sending in an undercover reporter, who then reported what happened. In the confidential meetings.


There's a word for this sort of reporting: Unethical. Also cruel, and deceitful. The MinnPost article linked above does a good job of drawing out some of the ethical problems, up to and including the outright hypocrisy of the Lavender staff. Bottom line: they call them "anonymous" for a reason.


Regular readers know that we enjoy publicizing the hypocrisy of those we dislike. (The picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam hangs over out bed like a sacred talisman). But in Brock's case, there is no hypocrisy. Brock wasn't caught soliciting sex in an airport bathroom, or traveling with a companion from "Rentboy.com." He thinks of his own sexual longing as a disorder, and he is seeking help. We may think that he is mistaken, both about the nature of sexuality and about the nature of the Church, but we see nothing in this story which reveals a lack of integrity.


We have no idea. But given what we do know about the judges in the Gulf Coast states, it would not surprise us in the least.


In any event, Judge Feldman has blocked the Obama Administration's proposed 6-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. (Bad decision here). This doesn't necessarily mean that he is corrupt, nor even that he is so blinded by the combination of his personal financial interests and a reflexive support for big corporations, no matter how irresponsibly they behave. Not necessarily.


However, given what little we know about him (degree from Tulane, 27 years on the bench, advisor to the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, lecturer at Cambridge and Princeton) we don't think he's stupid. Which only leaves a couple of other choices.


The guy who tried to blow up his own car in Times Square, and couldn't even do that right, doesn't sound like much of a threat, does he? We only wish that more of the world's bomb-makers were as inept.


And after the fizzled fact, Faizal Shahzad is doing the right thing, so far as his distorted worldview permits, by cooperating with investigators, and pleading guilty in court. Saves everybody a lot of time and money.


Don't get us wrong: he's still a creep. His plea, as reported by the AP, is couched in all the usual self-righteous twaddle: This is war and I'm a soldier; deliberately killing innocents en masse is fine because the US sometimes kills a few by accident; and anyway, all Americans are guilty, because they elect their government. (We are especially amused by that last claim, which effectively exempts many of the world's Muslims from guilt, since they live in despotic autocracies).


But what next? Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum asked him if he understood that he might spend the rest of his life in prison, and he said that he did. Well, duh. Of course he does. And that's the problem -- jail