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Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is becoming more technology-driven and will invest 5% of its incremental corpus in equities because of competition from the National Pension System(NPS). And to ensure subscribers do not use the EPF as a savings bank account, it has put a cap on the amount of final withdrawal pre-retirement. K K Jalan, Central Provident Fund Commissioner, in an interview with Surya Sarathi Ray and Saikat Neogi says, for the first time since 1976 an actuarial evaluation of Employee’s Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme (EDLI) has found that the collection is more than the outgo, which would enable EPFO to enhance the quantum of insurance to 30 times the monthly wage as against 24 times now to the insured’s nominated beneficiary in the event of death due to natural causes, illness or accident. Edited excerpts:
What are the various measures that you plan to undertake so that subscribers of EPF do not switch to NPS?
We in EPFO are not greatly concerned about subscribers switching to NPS. We are concerned about better implementation of EPF, EPS and Employee’s Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme (EDLI) schemes. These must improve, must be technology-driven and to a greater extent, should be online. I am in favour of competition if it is fair and just. This will encourage our employees to perform better. There are two things which have been raised: perhaps NPS is giving better returns and it is giving better services. I would like to assure you that EPFO services are getting better and with the introduction of universal account number (UAN) and PF online, we will be able to match the services with the best. Secondly, on the returns front, if we compare the returns in previous year, we have not done bad at all.
If you see the NPS returns vis-a-vis returns on EPF of 2009-2014, leaving aside the equity part which has started rising in the last one year, you would find that EPFO subscribers have gained 20% more in EPF as compared with NPS. Fortunately, the Central Board has also decided to invest in equity and the return gap due to equity will also be reduced. While EPF is exempt-exempt-exempt in taxation, NPS is exempt-exempt-tax, which makes a major difference.
Will investing just 5% of the incremental corpus in equities be enough to generate higher returns in the long-term?
We are starting with 5%, and we have a window available where we can go up to 15%. If we do better with 5%, then we will definitely go up to 15%. We do not have a deadline to reach the 15% level. We have taken a decision to invest in equities after a long time, and when one takes a decision for the first time, it is quite natural to experience and evaluate and then take the next phase of the decision.
What are the various measures you are taking to improve services and give better returns to subscribers?
As far as services are concerned, we are investing more in technology. We have three major stakeholders—employers, employees and pensioners. Employers can register themselves online, deposit their contribution online and they do not have to send any hard copy. For employees, we are capturing the data online by making UAN mandatory. Pensioners get their money on the first working day of the month in their bank account. We have lot of improvements to make such as centralising the data base, centralising the pension services and other improvements which are in the offing. Our services are reasonably good now, and people are not showing any dissatisfaction with our services. On returns, we will strive to give better returns by investing the money at the earliest after we receive it.
We must maintain our accounts properly and invest the money in proper instruments. Most importantly, the stability and security of the funds is very important. So, risk-taking cannot be wild as far as pension fund is concerned. EPFO has a history of more than six decades and we are investing the money in less than 24 hours. We have to get more instruments to invest and the markets should also have an appetite to absorb that much money. Our quantum of funds is increasing and we need to be aware of the investment horizon. That is a new challenge. So, we will have to plan and execute the investments with due diligence.
Does EPFO have any plan to enhance the insurance benefits under the EDLI?
For the first time after 1976, an actuarial evaluation of EDLI has been done and the report does indicate that we can give more benefit to EDLI subscribers. The report says that our collection is more than the outgo; so, we can think of better returns to subscribers. We will discuss, deliberate and then decide on the quantum of enhancement of the insurance. There are various numbers—it may be 30 times the monthly wage as against 24 times now. There are various options that the actuarial have given to us and we are evaluating all of them.
Initially, the equity investment will be done through the ETF route. Which are the fund houses which will look into the corpus?
We are still in a deciding phase. The Finance Investment Audit Committee has met and they decided about the SBI Mutual Fund. However, the final decision is yet to be taken. We are quite comfortable with SBI and have association with them for the past 40-50 years. They presently handle almost 35% of our portfolio. Also, SBI has handled 100% of our portfolio for more than 20 years and they are the sole banker for the EPFO. Moreover, out of the four portfolio managers, the returns of SBI have been the best.
Employees will not be able to withdraw more than 75% of their accumulated provident fund before reaching the retirement age of 58 years. Do you think measures like putting a penalty on premature withdrawal is a better idea?
No, we do not want to put any penalty on premature withdrawal. It is a provident fund and not savings bank account and full withdrawal before retirement goes against the tenets of a provident fund. Earlier, our services were not good and people had fears as to where the money was going. That was a challenge. Now, we have taken care of that challenge and can instil confidence in subscribers that their money is safe. So, people can treat their provident fund account the way it should be treated. If one withdraws the full amount every time, then where is the use of UAN? No country in world allows full withdrawal before retirement. Even the media should highlight that point that full withdrawal should not be allowed.
What is the level of deficit in EPS as of now?
The latest actuarial calculation as on March 31, 2014, the deficit has come down to R7,000 crore in EPS. Even this deficit is not fully accurate as we do not have full data of the employees. Once we get full data, then a much better position will emerge. If we are successful in full implementation of the UAN, then we can get the accurate data.
How do you plan to address the issue of unclaimed amount with EPFO?
Of the total collection of around, R10 lakh crore, the unclaimed amount will be R30,000 crore. So, it is not an alarming figure. There was a rule in EPFO, where one had to deposit six-months money in advance and take the EPF code. So, we had six-months money in an unknown person’s name; so, naturally, that money will become unclaimed.
Some of the unclaimed money is because of some rules in the past. As on July 10, 2015, about 2.68 crore accounts have less than Rs 500, including interest, and the total amount in such accounts close to Rs 800 crore. Of the total 15 crore account holders, there are 8.5 crore inoperative accounts and of that, 2.68 crore have less than Rs 500 and the average amount per account is Rs 300. Perhaps we will have to think of such accounts. In the past, the Central Board of Trustees did instruct us to amalgamate such accounts.

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I read an article in the Financial Times earlier this week (September 23, 2023) -…
Australia is already heading the charge back into the neo-liberal macroeconomic policy orthodoxy, which caused the financial crisis that has seen millions of jobs shed and poverty rates sky-rocket around the world. Next Tuesday, the central bank will surely increase its target rate of interest again because it is worried about the inflation genie escaping again. When actually did we last have an inflation problem anyway? The problem with this strategy is two-fold. First, it is highly unlikely that monetary policy does effectively operate as a counter-stabilising force. It has distributional effects clearly which punish low income earners but they not the cohort driving the housing prices, for example. Second, it forces fiscal policy to play a passive role so there will be even greater pressure on the government to start winding back the fiscal stimulus. More pain ahead on both fronts.
Tony Joe White has a great song – Taking the Midnight Train:
Taking the midnight train
Taking the midnight train
I can’t stand this pain
Just can’t stand this pain
To have somebody hurt me for no reason
for no cause, for no cause ….
That is what I think about monetary policy … it just hurts the poor and has no defensible reason behind it.
The increased discussion in recent days about the likely direction of interest rates next week follows yesterday’s ABS CPI data which revealed that all measures of inflation are easing. But that isn’t going to be good enough for the RBA, who believe that their actions have no long-run negative impacts on employment or output.
News Limited Senior Economics writer, Michael Stutchbury opened his commentary this morning with the following:
INFLATION is easing. But not fast enough for the Reserve Bank, which is set to lift its official interest rate again … [next] … Tuesday. Another 25-basis-point rise … would be aimed at the central bank’s stubbornly high measure of underlying inflation.
The ABS headline rate was a very low 1.3 per cent per annum while the so-called core inflation rate was 3.5 per annum. For those who are unfamiliar with the distinction between core and headline inflation estimates here is a brief explanation.
The CPI is a relative cost measure of a chosen basket of goods and services that capital city households purchase. It has around 100,000 goods and services included across 11 categories and 90 expenditure classes. The latter are weighted by their importance in the households’ budgets. Periodic revisions are made to the basket to reflect changing patterns of consumption.
The headline inflation rate is the change in the CPI measure. Sometimes seasonal events influence the headline inflation rate so that the impact of a good or service may increase/decrease the inflation rate even though there is no intrinsic change in value. Seasonal booms and busts in food commodities is an example.
The RBA publishes what it calls the core inflation rate which attempts to expunge these “volatile factors” and present an underlying inflation rate. The resulting series published by the ABS are referred to as the trimmed mean and weighted median.
The differences between the two are as follows. The trimmed mean is computed as: (a) order the percentage changes in all CPI classes by relative magnitude; (b) exclude the top and bottom 15 per cent of classes; and (c) create a weighted average of the remaining 70 per cent. The weighted median is then derived as the price change that is in the middle of the 70 per cent centred observations.
When you hear the measure “core inflation” it is usually referring to the average of the trimmed mean and weighted median.
Here is a good introduction to some of these concepts although the underlying understandings of how the monetary system operates are flawed.
The following graph shows the evolution of the two inflation measures in addition to the NAB inflation expectations series since June 2003. All series are expressed in annual changes. You can see that the inflationary process is not being driven by inflation expectations and the downturn has firmly brought the spike in inflation at the top of the commodities boom back to low levels.
It doesn’t look like an inflation breakout is around the corner any time soon.
Further, there are a number of problems with the derivation of core inflation measures which I will not go into in this blog. While the way the RBA derives its estimates is comprehensible (that is, relatively easy to understand) is remains arbitrary. Why trim the bottom and top 30 per cent? Where did that threshold come from?
However, the more technical methods of estimating the underlying price movements rely on fairly incomprehensible signal processing techniques (that is, difficult for the public to understand) and also usually impose theoretical concepts such as long-run neutrality on the models that generate the estimation equations. This, of-course, is the ultimate neo-liberal myth (the real sector is not affected by nominal changes in prices) and essentially assumes away unemployment.
Why is the core rate even mentioned in the public debate? Because it is the rate that the RBA uses to assess its monetary policy. Under its misguided inflation-targeting approach it considers a core inflation between 2 and 3 per cent to be acceptable. So even though the estimate of core inflation is falling it remains above 3 per cent and with the RBA convinced the recession is over it claims it has to start hiking rates again.
However, one of the leading commercial banks argued today that the RBA was starting to hike rates far too early. They said:
… further interest rate rises could be a setback for the nation’s fragile economy, calling on the Reserve Bank to wait until after Christmas before it pushes ahead with its tightening policy.
I note further negative commentary this afternoon from the housing industry lobby who rightfully point out that the so-called impending housing price bubble is not likely to happen and the recent upward movements in housing prices has been driven by the first-home buyers grant (part of the fiscal stimulus package), which is now being withdrawn (not before time) by the Government.
There is also tension among central bankers forming around the world about whether inflation targeting provides them with an excessively narrow policy ambit given that it failed to help them see the financial crisis coming which has devastated employment in many countries.
It is interesting to reflect on a speech made by the Bank of England Governor Mervyn King to the Lord Mayor’s Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London on June 17, 2009. King essentially indicated that the crisis had forced the Bank to broaden its concept of monetary policy. King said, in part, that:
As activity returns to more normal levels, the outlook for inflation will pick up. And it is the outlook for inflation that will guide decisions on the pace and timing of a withdrawal of monetary stimulus … Inflation targeting is a necessary but not sufficient condition for stability in the economy as a whole. When a policy is necessary but not sufficient, the answer is not to abandon, but to augment, it. Indeed, the overarching lesson from this crisis is that the authorities lacked sufficient policy instruments to take effective actions.
I don’t think inflation targeting is necessary at all – see the blog – Inflation targeting spells bad fiscal policy – for more discussion on this. But the Bank of England Governor is now signalling that he thinks monetary policy should go beyond the narrow ambit of inflation targeting because as he notes “Setting bank rate to maintain price stability was successful in itself, but did not prevent a recession induced by a financial crisis”.
So what is the RBA likely to do?
News Limited writer David Uren said the following this morning:
… many market analysts believe the Reserve Bank is likely to aim for a 50-basis-point move – the biggest increase in cash rates since February 2000 – in an effort to get on top of inflation before it gets out of control.
It is clear that the quarterly rises have been rising over the last year. But this has to be assessed in the light of the major jump in electricity, gas and water prices in the current month’s data. These increases are not on-going and so the spurt in inflation in the last quarter is unlikely to reflect the underlying trends.
There is also external factors that need to be considered. Our interest rates are well above those of Britain, the US, Canada and Japan and this puts upward pressure on our exchange rate.
There are two impacts. First, imported price inflation is reduced but the exchange rate reduces the competitiveness of the traded-goods sector. This points to one of the problems of inflation-targeting in an open economy. When the “fight is on” there is always upwards pressure on the exchange rate.
From a modern monetary theory (MMT) perspective this is no real issue because it just means that imports are cheaper. Within MMT we consider exports to be a cost and imports to be a benefit. Some people might think that this implies we should be using our exported goods and services ourselves and only send them abroad when we want to derive foreign exchange to purchase imports.
For Australia, the argument is less applicable given the majority of our exports are mining and agricultural products which are of less use to us, especially given our lack of an industrial base. This applies less to the agricultural goods, of-course. However, significant proportions of those are meat products and the vegetarian camp within MMT (me!) would not want those products diverted to home markets!
However, the point is that declining international competitiveness makes imports cheaper and frees labour up from the pressured export sectors to work elsewhere in the non-traded goods sector.
But from the mainstream perspective, the rising appreciation is surely a problem. They probably construct their argument in terms of a re-emergence of the commodities boom, which will boost demand via net exports and then promote inflationary impulses into the domestic economy.
This is what the RBA Governor said last year at a Treasury Seminar Series (March 11, 2008):
Looking across the economy more generally, we can all see that the main external event of recent years is the rise in the terms of trade, which is obviously completely exogenous as far as Australia is concerned. But higher resource prices generate additional income, which then affects demand for goods and services at home. That is expansionary, and puts pressure on prices for non traded goods and services. Even though monetary policy cannot stop the initial shock – of course we cannot stop the Chinese demand for resources – we can, and should, seek to condition the economy’s subsequent response to that shock, rather than simply letting domestic overheating go unchecked. Tighter policy will dampen domestic demand and contain the pick up in non traded prices as well as raising the exchange rate, which makes imports cheaper, exports less competitive and fosters a move of productive resources into the parts of the economy where more production is needed. That is an appropriate form of adjustment to such a shock, particularly if the shock is likely to be fairly persistent.
This argument is fairly unconvincing given that the most recent boom was occurring while the non-mining regions of Australia, particularly NSW was undergoing a major slowdown even before the financial crisis hit.
The following graph shows the scatter with annual changes in the RBA commodity price index (horizontal axis) and the annual CPI inflation rate (vertical axis) since September 1983 (so before inflation targeting). It is hard to detect a very systematic relationship between the two. The RBA might argue that that is because their policies have intervened, which is not disputable from an examination of the graph alone.
Whichever way you twist yesterday’s CPI figures, I find it hard to see an inflation outbreak looming.
The RBA touts the notion of a neutral inflation rate (which we have critically assessed . It will not publicly state what its estimates of the “neutral rate” is but the previous Governor indicated it was between 5 and 6 percent.
The estimates are typically derived from models which assume long-run monetary neutrality – a patently false scenario. This is just an assertion that parades as credible theory. It has about as much rigour as the NAIRU concept – which means there is no rigour – just made up stuff.
The other thing I dislike about central bankers who make policy which impacts on our lives but refuse to disclose the basis of those decisions is that it is inherently undemocratic. They are not elected. We (the people) are not in a position where we can force them to take responsibility for their decisions. At least we can chuck out the national government every 3 years.
Anyway, assuming they think the neutral rate is between 5 and 6 per cent, then the logic of their position is that until they get to that monetary policy is still expansionary. At present, the target rate is 3.25 per cent, so they have a way to go before they consider monetary policy to be neutral.
This brings into relief the nonsensical characterisation of what they think they are doing. If inflation pressures are mounting then they will just mount more slowly but still escalate if you believe their logic until rates are above 6 per cent or so. What model of inflationary pressures do they have which tells them that the breakout will
It cannot be based on the behaviour of price expectations which according to the graph are not going anyway at present. This was always their argument that they would need to signal a sequence of rate rises into the future to bring expectations down. That is not a factor at present.
So they must think that aggregate demand is going to have to be stalled in about 15-18 months (given it will take them that long I suspect to get back to 6 per cent). But then they must thing the output gap will be closed by then.
With 14 per cent of our labour resources currently underutilised and capital utilisation rates below 70 per cent, they must be banking on a very rapid recovery to think GDP growth will be anywhere near potential by the end of that period.
Many commentators are arguing that rates have to rise because housing is now booming. Apart from the fact that using monetary policy is not a good way to target an boom in the price of a specific asset class (see this blog for a discussion on that topic), there is clearly mixed evidence on the housing front.
Additional information from the Housing Industry Association published today shows an easing (4.5 fall) in new home sales. This was predictable given that the first home buyers grant scheme is started being wound back as noted above. I think the fiscal withdrawal from this market will have ongoing dampening effects.
Why should we be concerned?
While unemployment is hovering around 5.8 per cent at present, the trend in total hours worked remains negative. The following graph is taken from the ABS Labour Force data and shows total monthly hours worked since January 2008 (one month before the low-point unemployment rate in the last growth cycle was achieved). I just extrapolated the average growth rate for the preceding two years out to September 2009 (red line). The thin black line is the simple trend regression line for the actual time series which is shown in blue.
Male working hours have dropped by 2.3 per cent on the April 2008 peak, whereas female hours are down by 0.3 per cent. In total hours have dropped by 1.5 per cent. If you express this in terms of full-time equivalent (40 hour per week jobs) the decline is equal to 137 thousand male jobs, 12 thousand female jobs and 148 thousand total jobs that have been deleted from the Australian economy. This stands in contrast to the net changes in measured employment in persons over the same period of
-3.9 thousand male jobs, plus 29.6 thousand female jobs giving a net total increase in employment of 25.7 thousand.
This is why I have termed this recession the underemployment downturn in Australia. It has been characterised by a major adjustment in hours worked rather than persons unemployed.
However the point is clear – things are still looking very bad in the labour market. The worst affected are the lowest paid workers. Any rise in interest rates will further damage their living standards.
The uncertainty about how monetary policy works and the questionable distributional assumptions that are relied on in the modelling all suggest to me that it is a poor counter-stabilisation vehicle. But, moreover, the concept of counter-stabilisation was perverted under the neo-liberal ideology to mean inflation stability and sacrifice real growth and employment in pursuit of price level stability.
In that sense, while rising interest rates are unlikely to dent the growth much in the immediate future they will immediately damage the poorer workers. Further, given the past record of the RBA rates will rise to the point of threatening the viability of the household sector which is still carrying unsustainable levels of debt.
Further, there will be increased pressures on fiscal policy to contract to “support the inflation fight” and that will further weaken our recovery and undermine our growth potential. Lower productivity and lower real wages growth has accompanied the inflation targeting period as has persistent labour underutilisation.
It is one of those con jobs that the mainstream of my profession have inflicted on the innocents – all of us. We will look back on this period of history with aghast – “how stupid those humans were in those days” will be the topic at the dinner table.
Digression – 40 years today …
I was a teenager listening to Then Play On (Fleetwood Mac), Blues from Laurel Canyon (John Mayall), Electric Ladyland (Jimi Hendrix), Bitches Brew (Miles Davis) and Led Zeppelin One.
I was playing in a band called Simon Black (from memory).
And the first packet switching message was sent between remote computers at 10.30 on October 29 (today). This was performed on the Cold War inspired ARPANET and was sent between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in Northern California by a graduate student.
The login attempt failed – only the L and O letters were transmitted. But later that day the transmission succeeded and what we know as the Internet was born.


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BROOKLYN (CN) - A jury found New York City police officer Peter Liang guilty of manslaughter on Thursday night for fatally shooting Akai Gurley, an unarmed father whose death became a symbol of police brutality here.
Gurley's family released a statement late Friday morning, saying they have come "one step closer in getting justice for Akai."
"Nobody deserved to die like Akai did, and no verdict in this world can heal our heartache or pain in losing Akai," the family said.
Gurley's death on Nov. 20, 2014, triggered a groundswell of protests in the city amid the similarly timed announcements that grand juries in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., had refused to indict police officers who killed unarmed black men.
The shooting occurred in a stairwell of East Harlem's Louis H. Pink Houses where Liang and his partner Shaun Landau were on a routine patrol.
When the officers took the elevator to the top floor to inspect the rooftop, Liang entered the eighth-floor landing with a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other.
Liang said that he heard a sound three stories below him when he accidentally fired. The bullet ricocheted off the wall, and tore into Gurley's heart and liver.
Prosecutors said the rookie cop broke regulations by taking his gun out to begin with and callously worried about losing his job when he could have spent time saving his victim's life.
Liang insists that he did not initially know he hit anybody, but he acknowledged that he did not radio in the incident, check Gurley's pulse or perform CPR once he did learn.
Help came only after Gurley's friend Melissa Butler asked a neighbor to call 911, in a harrowing recording played for the jury early in the trial.
A 12-person jury, eight of whom were white, with three Latinos and one black person, reached a verdict after a little more than a day after deliberations.
CAAAV, an advocacy group whose name is short for Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, has been a steady fixture at trial, supporting the Gurley family.
Breaking with many in their community by rebuking Liang, CAAV has emphasized that the problems of police brutality do not end with one Chinese officer.
"Though he was found guilty, the Akai Gurley's family will never be able to see, feel, touch or talk to Akai again," the group said in a Facebook post after the ruling. "We stand behind the Gurley family and all families fighting to end impunity of all police officers who unjustly take the lives of members of our families."
With a protest planned for Friday evening, the family demanded that the NYPD fire Liang's partner Landau without pay and pension.
"There are many more police officers who need to be held accountable, and we hope this case will send a message to all NYPD officers and police departments around the country and around the world that they can't kill and get away with it anymore," the family said Friday morning. "Peter Liang's partner Officer Shaun Landau should not have been given immunity also should be fired for letting Akai lay there to die."
Mere hours after this statement, the NYPD confirmed that it fired Landau.
The NYPD should also end their controversial "vertical patrol" program that brought police to the Pink Houses on the day of the shooting, and the city should redirect the money for 1,400 new police officers to pay for houses and community centers, the family said.
They will demonstrate outside 1 Police Plaza today at 5 p.m.
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Reid blasts century to give GT XI huge win
Kaieteur News article.
Georgetown, Guyana - An attacking century by Rawl Reid handed GT XI a mammoth 132-run victory over Shakir XI in a 20-over softball contest sponsored by Super Star XI played recently at Thirst Park.
Reid hammered twelve sixes and five fours in scoring 102; he shared in a second wicket stand of 87 with Patrick Khan who made 28, and a further 108 for the third wicket with Oslyn Batson 29 as GT XI rattled up 292-3 in 20 overs, batting first.
Shakir XI threatened somewhat, before they were bowled out for 160 in 19 overs. Mohamed Ahamad led with 38, Fazil Khan scored 22 and Ashmead Bacchus 20. Khan claimed 4-25 and Sheldon Perch 3-20. Reid was given the man of the match award and GT XI took home a trophy.
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Agatha Christie Tommy & Tuppence The Clergyman's Daughter the Red House (v5)
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A woman inherits a large house from her old aunt, but she has no means of maintaining it. She must take in lodgers to make ends meet, but, unfortunately, the house seems to be inhabited by poltergeists. This makes it rather hard to retain tenants. Tommy and Tuppence investigate.
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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray says Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change lacks strategic vision because its secretary general Tendai Biti has more than a full-time job as Minister of Finance and has insufficient time to devote to his party job.
In a cable just released by Wikileaks which he dispatched on 17 December 2009 shortly after meeting Biti, Ray said Biti was impressive in his exposition of current political and economic dynamics.
“While Tsvangirai may be the most popular politician in Zimbabwe and the spiritual head of the MDC-T, Biti is head and shoulders above anyone else in the party in his analysis and strategic view,” he said.
“But he has more than a full-time job as Minister of Finance and has insufficient time to devote to his other job as MDC-T Secretary General. In this regard, it continues to be obvious that the MDC lacks strategic vision.
“With “disengagement’ from ZANU-PF in November, MDC-T played its only trump card and it has no Plan B if ZANU-PF refuses to make concessions on the GPA.”
Biti had just trashed the just-ended Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front congress which had seen Mugabe re-elected president with John Nkomo as second vice-president.
Biti described the congress as a “charade of mendacity”.
“An 86-year-old man swearing in a 75-year-old man is a disaster,” he said.
Biti said Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was sidelined by the Congress, had more support within the party than Joice Mujuru. But Mujuru had more support than Mnangagwa nationally, and both were “unelectable” in a national presidential election.
Newly elevated Party Chairman Simon Moyo “couldn’t win an election in a bar.”
But Biti was not celebrating the disarray in ZANU-PF and said instead: “I think we’re in trouble” because while the leadership vacuum persists, it would be even more difficult for Mugabe to abide by the terms of last year’s Global Political Agreement.
The political paralysis within ZANU-PF created conditions for “military opportunism”, he added.
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¶2. (C) ZANU-PF is a party in disarray, according to Minister
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As a consequence, Mugabe will find it more difficult to
comply with the Global Political Agreement (GPA) and a window
is opened for the military. The MDC recognizes the
importance of security sector reform but does not yet have a
plan for engaging with the military. GPA negotiations are
deadlocked. The current South African team is a marked
improvement on the former Mbeki team, but is naive and does
not clearly understand ZANU-PF. If the MDC cannot make
progress in resolving GPA issues, it will appeal to SADC to
create a framework for elections.
¶3. (C) The U.S. should adopt a more strategic and flexible
policy toward Zimbabwe. The MDC is making progress and the
U.S. should recognize this. Adjustment of sanctions and
indirect budgetary support are suggested responses.
¶4. (C) Revenues are up and should cover recurrent expenses.
Biti hopes to avoid using special drawing rights for
investment programs, but this would be made easier by donor
commitments to fund infrastructure projects. Reserve Bank
of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono is increasingly unpopular
within ZANU-PF. While his departure may not be imminent, he
more likely to go than Attorney General Johannes Tomana. END
¶5. (SBU) The Ambassador called on Biti on December 16 at the
Ministry of Finance.
“I THINK WE’RE IN TROUBLE”
¶6. (C) The Ambassador initiated the meeting by asking Biti
generally how he viewed the current situation. Biti
responded by first addressing last week’s ZANU-PF Congress,
which he described as a “charade of mendacity.” The party
was unable to resolve the internal struggle over succession.
Referring to the selection of John Nkomo as a party
vice-president, Biti said, “An 86-year-old man swearing in a
75-year-old man is a disaster.” Since there were no proper
elections to senior party posts, “Lots of people in the
provinces have huge axes to grind.” Emmerson Mnangagwa, who
was sidelined by the Congress, had more support within the
party than Joice Mujuru. But Mujuru had more support than
Mnangagwa nationally, and both were “unelectable” in a
national presidential election. Newly elevated Party
Chairman Simon Moyo “couldn’t win an election in a bar.”
¶7. (C) Far from celebrating the disarray within Mugabe’s
party, Biti said, “I think we’re in trouble.” While the
leadership vacuum persists, it would be even more difficult
for Mugabe to abide by the terms of last year’s Global
Political Agreement (GPA). Even worse, the political
paralysis within ZANU-PF created conditions for “military
opportunism.” Biti said it was no accident that senior
military figures were visible participants in the party
No Plan for Security Sector Reform
QNo Plan for Security Sector Reform
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¶8. (C) Biti acknowledged the importance of security sector
reform, particularly a plan to marginalize the securocrats.
It was more important to deal with them, in his opinion, than
with Mugabe. “We are negotiating with the wrong people,”
Biti said. Freedom from prosecution and financial security
were essential if the top-level securocrats were to step
down. He said some efforts had been made by MDC-T to speak
with them, but he admitted MDC-T had no strategic plan for
engagement. We asked whether, in light of the fact that
MDC-T had no liberation war veterans to serve as
interlocutors with the ZANU-PF generals, the South African
negotiators could undertake this task. Biti demurred. The
South Africans did not sufficiently understand the
political-military dynamic in Zimbabwe. MDC-T would have to
find a way of dealing directly with the securocrats.
DEADLOCK IN GPA TALKS
¶9. (C) Biti (one of the MDC-T negotiators) said negotiations
between ZANU-PF and the MDC factions were deadlocked on key
issues. Nearly two weeks after the December 5 deadline set
by leaders of the Southern African Development Community
(SADC), the parties had not found a way forward on Mugabe’s
unilateral appointments of the Attorney General and Reserve
Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Mugabe’s refusal to make Roy
Bennett a deputy minister, and appointment of MDC candidates
as provincial governors. Each of these issues had been part
of the SADC-brokered settlement that brought the MDC into
Mugabe’s government, but “Mugabe doesn’t want to implement
the agreement,” Biti said. He added, “We need to bring these
negotiations to an end as soon as possible. I’m tired.”
¶10. (C) If the parties cannot resolve the deadlock through
the current SADC Troika mediation led by South African
President Jacob Zuma, Biti said the next step should be a
SADC summit that creates a framework for new elections. SADC
would need to make provisions for security and also
explicitly address the prospect of an election leading to a
transfer of power. With or without SADC, Biti added, the way
forward must include “black and white” deadlines on
constitutional reform and preparations for elections. (NOTE:
GPA principals Mugabe, Tsvangirai, and Mutambara are set to
meet on December 21 in Harare to announce progress; Biti
thought the only item resolved by then would be the
membership of commissions. END NOTE.)
¶11. (C) Biti said the team of facilitators Zuma sent to the
negotiations was “a breath of fresh air.” The new South
African team was a big improvement over Thabo Mbeki’s
representatives, whom Biti described as “conniving little
idiots” who were frequently spotted having private
discussions with ZANU-PF officials and MDC-M negotiator
Welshman Ncube. The new team was “forthright,” Biti said,
but “they still have a lot of naivete, especially Lindiwe
Zulu” (Zuma’s international relations advisor), and do not
clearly understand ZANU-PF and how to deal with it.
“WAIT AND SEE” SANCTIONS WON’T WORK
¶12. (C) As in previous meetings, Biti said he hoped the USG
Q12. (C) As in previous meetings, Biti said he hoped the USG
could adjust elements of its sanctions regime for Zimbabwe.
Restoration of voting rights at the International Monetary
Fund would be a positive step. Biti also argued that some
state-owned enterprises should no longer be listed as
specially designated nationals (SDNs) prohibited from doing
business with the U.S. Biti specifically mentioned ZB Bank
and Agribank as clear cases for de-listing. Other entities
worthy of consideration were Zisco, Zimre Holdings, Scotfin,
Industrial Development Corporation, and Intermarket Holdings.
Biti said he would supply us with the rationale for
delisting, looking at the control of these entities, who has
beneficial interests, and their impact on the economy. He
would also furnish names of any other entities he thought
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should be delisted.
¶13. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Post recognizes OFAC has classified
information on the entities listed above which cannot be
shared with Biti. Nevertheless, we would appreciate
receiving this information so that we can better understand
the rationale for their listing and we can develop
information that would be useful in deciding whether, at an
appropriate time, they should be considered for delisting.
END ACTION REQUEST.
¶14. (C) Biti said the U.S. should adopt a more strategic and
realistic (read flexible) approach toward Zimbabwe. Views in
Washington were driven by headlines that perpetuated the
image of a vile dictatorship. “We are chipping away at the
dictatorship, but that doesn’t get headlines.” Despite the
deadlock over outstanding GPA issues, Biti continued, there
had been “sufficient” progress with ZANU-PF to warrant a
response from the USG. Biti said the U.S. should use
sanctions strategically to recognize the progress that had
been made. Additionally, the U.S. should provide indirect
budget support by looking at areas where assistance could be
provided without directing funds through the government.
REVENUE UP, GONO MIGHT BE OUT
¶15. (C) Biti said the latest revenue figures showed receipts
in October had reached US$132 million, well above the
US$90-million plateau for monthly revenue in the middle of
the year. He thought it was likely that by March monthly
receipts would reach US$150 million. While this level of
revenue would take Biti beyond the annual target in his 2010
budget (Ref A), he had already given thought to where there
would be cuts in the event of a shortfall: revenue would
certainly cover recurrent expenditures, including wages, but
some parts of the investment program might have to be
postponed. Biti said that even though his budget speech
identified Zimbabwe’s balance of special drawing rights at
the International Monetary Fund as a source of financing, he
still hoped to avoid using it. This would be easier to do,
he added, if donors could make commitments to fund
¶16. (C) Biti sounded pessimistic on prospects for early
passage of a central bank reform law that is now with the
Senate. Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono had “bought most
of the Senate,” so further action on the legislation might
take time. But Biti said Gono was increasingly out of favor
with ZANU-PF. His departure from the bank might not be
imminent, but Gono was more likely to go than Attorney
General Johannes Tomana. Biti said he had been disappointed
by the relaxed attitude bankers had taken on Gono’s
misappropriation of banks’ reserves (Ref B), which he termed
“theft” comparable to a lawyer stealing from a trust fund.
Given what Biti considered egregious conduct, we asked why he
had not made more of it. He replied he had raised it with
the principals but had received no response. He speculated
that Tsvangirai might be disinterested because of his
relationship with Gono — they are both Karanga from the same
¶17. (C) As usual, Biti was impressive in his exposition of
Q17. (C) As usual, Biti was impressive in his exposition of
current political and economic dynamics. While Tsvangirai
may be the most popular politician in Zimbabwe and the
spiritual head of the MDC-T, Biti is head and shoulders above
anyone else in the party in his analysis and strategic view.
But he has more than a full-time job as Minister of Finance
and has insufficient time to devote to his other job as MDC-T
¶18. (C) In this regard, it continues to be obvious that the
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MDC lacks strategic vision. With “disengagement” from
ZANU-PF in November, MDC-T played its only trump card and it
has no Plan B if ZANU-PF refuses to make concessions on the
GPA. Biti suggests a SADC Summit to plan for elections, but
SADC cannot impose elections, and elections will not take
place before 2013 (provided for in the current constitution)
unless Mugabe agrees. END COMMENT.


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What In The World Is Chiropractic?
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2. These are often the body’s immune sytem working; often annoying and don’t make us feel good; they tell us something has changed in our body (for example: a runny nose)
4. These come off the spinal cord and go to every part of the body; a part ofthe nervous system
6. A cause of subluxation; it can be physical, emotional or toxic
10. It protects your brain
11. Person who performs chiropractic adjustments
12. Another word for skull
14. State of the body when it is out of balance.
15. These take pictures of your body’s insides
17. The term chiropractors use for a misalignment of vertebrae
18. The system that controls all the functions of the body.
1. These make up parts of the skeleton
3. A state of being when your body is functioning at its fullest (not just the absence of dis-ease)
5. Master control center of the body.
6. It extends from the brain through the spine.
7. This is a frame for your body (and a symbol of Halloween)
8. What a chiropractor gives a patient to remove subluxations
9. A bone of the spine
12. Smallest building blocks of the body
13. These move your body around
16. What makes your body bend

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Sunday, September 21, 2014
Read These 6 Warnings Before You Update Your iPhone or iPad to iOS 8
If your answer is an instinctive, “Heck, yeah; I’m in!” then read our guide and get going.
If you’re the more cautious type, take heed of these warnings:
Warning 1: It takes a lot of space (temporarily).
While the operating system itself is about a 1-gigabyte download (which is pretty big), your device needs even more breathing room to perform the update. Reports vary, but on an iPad 3, for example, you need at least 5.8 GB of free space. The update will not happen if you have less than that. On an iPad mini with Retina Display, one warning said 6.9 GB.
That may mean you’ll have to delete a lot of music, videos, or apps before you can update. If you have a 16 GB device, the winnowing process might make you cry. Hint: Look at your video files first.
You don’t have to sacrifice all that room for good; it’s just a playground for the installer during the surgery. Once the upgrade is complete, iOS 8 will let you use that space you freed up for your apps and files again.
One moment while I unload some videos.
Warning 2: It’s slow to update (for now).
On iOS 8’s birthday — today — there are millions of people trying to get the update simultaneously. That’s a lot of data coming out of Apple’s servers, and you won’t get the full-speed transfer you might see if you wait until the lines die down. Give the update some time.
That’s not good. Eventually I was forced to give up on this (see next screenshot) and got the file in about 40 minutes through my desktop computer.
If you really can’t wait, you’ll have better luck if you can do the update via iTunes on your Mac or PC, with your device connected to the computer. As of Wednesday, it looks like a 30- to 50-minute download for the update file that way. Downloading the update file over WiFi to your iPhone or iPad generally takes longer. This morning, at the office where I work, the update app was projecting between five and seven hours to download. And then, after two hours, it gave up.


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Yannick Nevet-Seguin conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in a semi-staged performance of Puccini’s TOSCA, following previous showings of Solomon, St. Mathew’s Passion, and West Side Story. As one guest remarked, “it brought opera to a new height.”
Act I-Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle ended with a grim spot light on Baritone Ambrogio Maestri. He towered above the Orchestra. Extending out in the center of the conductor’s circle was a dark stature with a feeling of empowerment. Maestri as Baron Scarpia represented unconstrained legalism in the hands of a daring patriarchal character.
Act II -Palazzo Farnese began with a beautiful aria by Jennifer Rowley. Tosca is a celebrated singer in the story and fights to keep Cesare Angelotti, played by Richard Bernstein, free from the gallows. This sounds strikingly familiar to the real protest that is happening outside the Kimmel Center, by people angry that the Orchestra is visiting Israel this summer (protestors interrupted Saturday night’s performance). But it is the painter, played by Yusif Eyvazov, who was tortured by the greater powers. A parody at a minimal expense accompanied the music of Puccini with opening and closing of windows to a cultural reality.
The director’s notes in the program mentions windows to the soul in the west, and Shakespeare’s language used what he knew; universally the eye of heaven was out like a candle light at night. Rowley touches the soul. Singers above the stage, condensed the set to adapt to the sheet music and enhance the soulful sound of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
From the poem, “The Rape of Lucrece” by William Shakespeare, to Puccini’s TOSCA, classic art constantly asking audiences to address egocentric politics. At a time when everybody has an opinion, music as a cultural mission makes a difference in a way that critically reshapes peace in our minds.
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A typical swimming pool has a number of major components including a basin, a motorized pump, a water filter, drains, return lines, and plumbing piping connecting these components. Chlorine is often the sanitizing agent used in swimming pools, and given the corrosive nature of chlorine, PVC plastic is usually the material of choice for swimming pool plumbing and piping. The water in a pool must be sanitized and have debris strained out of it.
Although in-ground pools appear to be solid and unmovable, they are actually more like a boat. With an increase of ground water, the pool could actually float up out of the ground. For this reason, most in-ground pools come equipped with a hydrostatic pressure relief valve which equalizes the pressure inside the pool with the surrounding soil and ground water, preventing a floating action which could cause substantial damage to the basin.


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so. Place them in light, sandy soil, and cover them with a hand-glass.
Towards the end of September
they may be planted out in beds or potted
off in rich, light loam. In either case they must not be planted too
deeply. The crust of the soil should be level with the collar of the
plant. If the pots are put into a frame the plants will require very
little water during winter, but as much air should be given as is
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The rules of American democracy say every president may install his own team of like-minded people in the government -- even at a place like the Justice Department, which is at its root a law-enforcement agency and not a campaign branch office. But the Bush administration seems to be losing sight of the fact that the rules also say the majority party of the moment may not use its powers to strip citizens of their rights, politicize the judicial system or rig the election process to keep itself in office.
There are sections of the Justice Department that are supposed to be dedicated to enforcing the laws that protect the rights of all Americans, not just Republican officeholders and the people who give them money. The Civil Rights Division, for example, has enforced anti-discrimination laws, including the sacred Voting Rights Act, since the 1960's, under more Republican presidents than Democratic presidents.
But The Washington Post's Dan Eggen reported last week that the Justice Department has been suppressing for nearly two years a 73-page memo in which six lawyers and two analysts in the voting rights section, including the group's chief lawyer, unanimously concluded that the Texas redistricting plan of 2003 illegally diluted the votes of blacks and Hispanics in order to ensure a Republican majority in the state's Congressional delegation. That plan was shoved through the Texas State Legislature by Representative Tom DeLay, who abused his federal position in doing so and is now facing criminal charges over how money was raised to support the redistricting.
The Post said the lawyers charged with analyzing voting rights violations were overruled by political appointees, and ordered not to discuss the case. The Justice Department then approved the Texas plan, which had been under review because the voting law requires states with a history of discriminatory election practices to get electoral map changes approved in advance.
This outrageous case is only one way in which the Justice Department under John Ashcroft and now Alberto Gonzales has abused its law-enforcement mandate in the service of the Republican majority. Last month, the Post reported that political appointees also overruled voting rights lawyers who rejected a Georgia law requiring that voters without a picture ID buy one for $20 -- at offices that were set up in only 59 of the state's 159 counties. The Justice Department falsely claimed that the decision to O.K. the law -- which was little more than a modern-day version of a poll tax aimed at reducing turnout among poor minorities -- was made with the concurrence of the career lawyers. A federal court later struck down the law, properly.
And this was well after the appointment of Mr. Gonzales, who promised to make civil rights enforcement one of his priorities when he moved to Justice from the White House.Continue reading the main story
President Bush's attorneys general have systematically gutted the civil rights division, driving out the career lawyers and shifting the division's focus from civil rights enforcement to deportations, other immigration matters and human smuggling. The Post said the administration has filed only three lawsuits regarding discrimination in voting. All came this year, and the first accused a majority-black district in Mississippi of discriminating against white voters.
The administration's abuse of its narrow electoral majority extends to other areas. Mr. DeLay's requirement that lobbying firms contribute only to Republicans and hire his loyalists comes to mind.
Mr. Bush and his team don't understand that they merely hold the current majority in a system designed to bring periodic changes in the governing party and to protect the rights and values of the minority party. The idea that the winners should trash the system to make sure the democratic process ended with them was discredited back around the time of the Bolsheviks.Continue reading the main story


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- Honour Roll
From the time of her graduation from the University of Melbourne Dr Lloyd-Green had a distinguished medical career at hospitals, including the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Royal Children's Hospital and the Royal Women's Hospital, but most notably the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital. There she was Medical Superintendent (1939-41), Honorary Gynaecologist (1945-69), Dean of the Clinical School (1964-65), and Honorary Consultant (1969-85).
Her status in her profession can be measured in part by the fact that she was the first woman to be a fellow of the Australian Medical Association (1969) and is a Fellow of both the Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Obstetricians. During this long and busy period of active practice Lorna found time to participate in a major way in organisations that were fighting to advance the social health and the educational and professional status of women, both in medicine and in the wider community.
In advancing the educational and professional status of women, she served as President of the Victorian Women Graduates Association (1951-52) and then as President of the Victorian Womens' Medical Society in 1948; Vice-President of the Australian Federation of Medical Women (1950-54 and 1962-65); Vice-President of the Medical Women's International Association (1958-68) and President (1962-65), being made a Member of Honour of that organisation in 1972. In 1970 she chaired the Congress of the Medical Women's International Association held in Melbourne.
Lorna's achievements set a wonderful example of the way in which women can adapt their lives and continue to serve the community after retirement from their initial career. Throughout her medical practice Lorna maintained her skills as a pianist; in 1989 she commenced a new role as Music Therapist at the Bethlehem Hospital.
In that year she was scheduled to speak at the Annual Dinner of the Australian Federation of University Women - Victoria on 'Music as Therapy for the Terminally-ill'. On the morning of that occasion she had to have exploratory surgery on her throat. It was assumed she would have to cancel her engagement for the Dinner. But Lorna is a remarkably determined and courageous woman. She attended the Dinner and fascinated and inspired her audience with an account of how her work is capable of extending the boundaries of medical practice, bringing a measure of relief and positive acceptance to patients who are at the stage when medicine's power to cure is exhausted.
Lorna's long history of service has made a difference in the lives of many Victorians.

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Find a local dog walker who can take your pup out for the day. Every Woof dog walker is a true dog lover and a large number have previously owned a dog themselves but whatever reason can’t have one of their own. If you have a busy week ahead and are thinking “if only there was someone to walk my dog” – Woof can help.

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In this paper, an application of genetic-embedded fuzzy systems is proposed to solve a hydroelectric generation scheduling problem. In the proposed approach, the system was fuzzified with respect to objectives and constraints. A genetic algorithm (GA) was included to further enhance the process of tuning membership functions. By using this approach, membership mappings for important parameters can be optimally adjusted and as a result, the computational performance is improved. The proposed approach has been tested on Taiwan Power System (Taipower) through the utility data. Test results have demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach for the applications.
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MONO w/ Holy Sons at The Ballroom
April 29, 2017 @ 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM
MONO w/ Holy Sons
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The Tokyo, Japan based 4 piece Instrumental Rock band MONO was originally formed in 1999. Their unique approach of blending orchestral arrangements and shoegaze guitar noise in their music has been held in extremely high regard; so much so, that the band’s musicianship can no longer be sustained by Rock music alone and was praised by British Musical Magazine NME as “This is music for the Gods”. One of the most monumental live memories of the band was a special set of shows with 23-piece orchestra in New York, Tokyo, London and Melbourne. Their annual world tour consists of around 150 shows. The band has now visited over 50 countries and proudly holds the stake of being one of the most internationally successful bands in Japan. Among their fans, they are revered as one of the best live bands in Rock. After releasing 9 successful albums including a live album with New York orchestra, the band received the highly regarded award “The Marshall Hawkins Awards: Best Musical Score – Featurette” from the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema for their collaborative short film “Where We Begin” in 2015. Now in 2016, the band has finished recording their 9th album with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio, Chicago. The album is set for an Autumn 2016 release.
Following on from last year’s deluxe reissue of Partisan Records’ very first release, Decline of The West, Emil Amos is back for his 13th record as Holy Sons. Also a member of seminal west coast experimental rockers Om and Grails, Amos has has teamed up with the perfect producer, John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile, Phosphorescent, Sonic Youth), to steer the ship toward a purity of sound and vision that has eluded him in the past.
In Emil’s own words:
“In The Garden is essentially John Agnello and I out at Water Music in Hoboken, New Jersey carving out the sound of a classic 70’s record if it had been made by a band with all its players being very focused in the hey-day of their career… but we ‘faked’ that vibe using one player. That’s basically what I learned 4-tracking in the 90’s… how to replicate live-sounding recordings where a band is reacting and playing off of each other in real-time.”
“This album was originally aesthetically based on the joy of pulling out old 70’s American & British songwriting LPs at night while you’re pounding whiskeys by the fireplace. The way those albums look and feel like a lost pillar of classicism. The drums are so round and close they sound like you could eat them …and there’s that feeling of pure pleasure you get from hearing guitar solos that were done in one take and slightly flawed vocal harmonies recorded on the fly before Pro Tools existed. It came from a lust after that time when mixes and the relationship between all the instruments breathed beautifully at the height of analog equipment.”
In The Garden is Holy Sons in its most potent, crystalline form. It is Amos’ statement album thus far, his flawless song cycle. Once it sees the light of day, it seems an impossibility that he will continue to have the luxury of hanging out on the fringe.


bbc – More than 110 million Chinese-made condoms have been seized in Ghana after laboratory tests revealed they were faulty, Ghanaian officials have said. “There are holes in them and… the condoms burst easily,” a Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) spokesman told the BBC. The condoms were being distributed free as part of an HIV/Aids prevention campaign by the Ghana Health Service. About 200 million of the faulty condoms are believed to have been imported into the country. The BBC's Sammy Darko in the capital, Accra, says the condom packaging is silvery white with a red Aids ribbon incorporated into the design and the words “Be Safe” also in red. Thomas Amedzro, head of drug enforcement at the FDA, said the condoms had been imported via Kenya from a Chinese manufacturer. All imported condoms are supposed to be tested by the FDA before distribution, he said. “Somehow there was a lapse; the batches of the condoms were not submitted as duly required for the appropriate testing to be conducted,” he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme. Anybody using them could be “exposed to sexually transmitted infections or be saddled with unwanted pregnancies”, Mr Amedzro said. “You may not be able to see the holes with your naked eye but when you look at it under the microscope you can see holes,” he said. They were also not adequately lubricated, the FDA said.
Hundreds of millions of hole-filled unlubricated Chinese-sized condoms being used in Ghana? Maybe the worst condom exchange in the history of prophylactics. China just out-Chinaing itself on this one.
Somehow it all seems like a ruse by the Chinese in an attempt to uncover ancient African huge penis secrets while destroying these people's third-world society. It's not Ghana's fault your country is filled with smog and thimble cocks, China. Extra small dry microscopic hole condom sabotage is some weak, childish jealousy shit. Grow up.


How do I request that a County road be oiled for dust control?
Contact, visit, or send your written request to the
Public Works department. If a traffic count shows high road usage or you
have a medical condition justification, then the road will be oiled at
no cost to the property owners. All other requests must be submitted by
the property owners and will be charged at a cost of $0.78 per linear
How do I request a road to be upgraded to asphalt?
The property owners must submit a written request to:
700 A. Wilmeth Road
McKinney, TX 75069.
How do I obtain a permit to install a driveway culvert?
Contact Development Services at 972-548-5585.
Who handles illegal dumpsite complaints?
Contact Deputy Josh Mounger in the Collin County Sheriff's Office at 972-547-5350.
Who maintains Farm to Market and State Highways?
Texas Department of Transportation at 972-542-2461.
Who do I call for Flood Plain information?
Please call Development Services at 972-548-3727.
What is the standard right-of-way distance requirement on County roads?
The Collin County standard right-of-way distance requirement for most county roads
is 60 feet, usually 30 feet each side of the existing centerline of the road.
County roads on the Commissioners Court approved Thoroughfare Plan require
larger and varied distances than just the standard 60 feet.
To obtain Right-of-Way information regarding upgrade
projects on Collin County maintained roads contact:
Right-of-Way Coordinator - 972-548-3740.


Cooper and Tibby Roehl are rescued springer spaniels, who came to live with their loving adoptive parents, John and Diane Roehl, near Estes Park, 3.5 years ago. John explains that Tibby, 5, and Cooper, 7.5 years old, are inseparable, and were adopted together, as a "pack of two." Ultimately, that pack of twoness worked to save them, he said. The duo of doggies are diggers and runners.
Cooper and Tibby have often escaped from their fenced yard, eight miles south of Estes Park on Highway 7, for adventures that lasted about 15 minutes to 2 hours. They have always returned -- except on Nov. 9, when they manaaged to roam 3.5 miles down Highway 7, for 8 days.
Roehl said he built a $4,000 fence for the yard, but the boisterous boys defeated that and got out. He added a $1,000 reinforcement, and they found a way under and around that, too.
"They go crazy over critters," he said, "and they found out they could squeeze out."
On Friday, Nov. 9, at 11 a.m., they squeezed out for an adventure that easily could've been their last. They left in the morning -- without bandana or lunch pail on a pole -- and had not returned by dark.
On Monday morning, Roehl's sister, who lives nearby the Roehls and works at Rocky Mountain Pharmacy, talked to a woman at the pharmacy, who said she thought she'd seen the dogs in an area near Eagle Plume's over the weekend.
"I went there and used my dog whistle. I drove up the road to Pierson Park. I looked all day Tuesday, Wednesday I worked, Thursday I volunteered and went out a little bit on Friday. I told everyone. We put up posters. I talked to a young couple in the Allenspark area and they said they'd keep an eye out for them. Eagle Plume's became a clearinghouse (for information)," Roehl said.
Accepting the sad idea a week later that their dear animal companions might be gone forever, the Roehls decided to go to a Denver shelter to look at rescue springer spaniels available for adoption.
Roehl said he mentioned his lost dogs at a meeting he attended in Sterling on Saturday. The people prayed that the dogs were not in pain or afraid.
"Then, we pull up to our house on Saturday and my sister comes out and says, 'They're in the house,'" Roehl said. "We called Boyd Williams (one of the hunters who rescued the canines) and got the story from him."
Sunday, Roehl went to Allenspark and joyfully wrote the word "Found" on all the flyers he'd placed -- at the community center, Distant Harbors, the post office and the fire station, among other places. Then, he went down to Big Owl Road and found the couple who said they'd watch for the dogs.
"They were ecstatic," he said. "My sense was that the whole Allenspark community was aware and supportive of the situation. There's a wonderful sense of community. This is a miracle happy ending."
How did it all happen?
Roehl said, "I've had a number of dogs before, but these two are the most likely to survive in the wild, something like this. They're great predators. They've killed a large mole and vole in the yard. They're very fit and lean. They play-fight twice a day. They're the pack of two. If there had only been the one of them, he probably wouldn't have eaten anything and been picked off by a coyote in 8 days."
As it was, Tibby lost 10 pounds and Cooper lost 8, but they're happy at home now, without any lasting effects.
Roehl said the meeting he attended in Sterling on Saturday, Nov. 10, was for the Kairos Prison Ministry Advisory Council.
"It's a powerful ministry," he said.
Roehl said he had been bummed out for the whole week the boys disappeared, and on the day of the meeting, it was overcast and he was in a down mood. There was a two-hour reunion with 21 prisoners inside the walls, followed by a meeting of the advisory council, outside the walls. Prayers were offered for the boys.
"Riding back home, when we were halfway there, I had this feeling of peace and contentment," Roehl said. "After awhile, I just envisioned or imagined us driving up to the house, opening the door and seeing the dogs through the glass. But for my sister warning me, that's what happened. They were tired, but happy. Boyd told me he had the feeling these guys weren't coming back (after he found them). He was of the opinion that was going to be their last night."
Williams, of Estes Park, who found the dogs together with his son, Dave, of Longmont, said, "We were happy to find the owners of the dogs. They're nice dogs. I don't know how they made it 8 days."
Williams reported that he and his son were driving by the Allenspark area on the way to a hunting trip, when they spotted Copper and Tibby lying side by side, inert. One of the dogs seemed aggressive and was barking and growling. He thought there might be something wrong, but the hunters continued on their trip.
After thinking about the situation awhile, Williams said he worried that maybe the dogs' owner might've suffered a heart attack in the woods and fallen, leaving the dogs. He decided if the dogs were gone, when he and his son came back, everything was probably all right and there was nothing to worry about. However, when the Williams returned in about 1.5 hours, the dogs were lying in exactly the same spot.
Williams fished a piece of an old candy bar out of his pocket and enticed the dogs with it. They gobbled it up, he said. Next, he threw a cracker to each one. That allowed him to get closer. He was able to hand each a cracker, finally, and to pet their heads.
"I saw their collars, where they were from and who they belonged to," he said.
The dogs attempted to get up, but were too stiff, he said. They couldn't step onto the running board of the Williams' truck, so the hunters picked them up and lifted them inside
"They were really stiff," Williams said. "But we were tickled to death. We were glad they were still healthy, and that their owner wasn't down."
The dogs must've found water, but they were really hungry and dry, he said. The Williams' took care of Copper and Tibby and headed out searching for the Roehls. That turned out to be an adventure, too, Williams said, laughing. His son has a cell phone with GPS, but the hunters "read the dumb thing backwards. We were hunting all over and didn't find the street...We reversed our strategy and got to the Twin Sisters Trailhead. We went up there and found the house. Nobody was home."
Keeping the dogs, they went back down the road, then returned several hours later. Roehl's sister's house was nearby, and someone was home. The Williams' knocked on her door.
"She was delighted to see the dogs," Williams said. "She put them in a pen. We were glad we could help them."
Williams said he comes from a family of dog lovers, and had to put a 13-year-old chocolate lab down companion down last year.
"It's an amazing thing these dogs could go for 8 days (in the wild)," he said.
Roehl said the boys' triumphal return was 8 days, to the hour, that they disappeared. He says they have been getting chicken and nice goodies and lots of hugs, since their reappearance. The veterinarian checked them out Tuesday and said they are fine.
"The appetite is the best barometer," Roehl said. "And they're fine and hungry."
He intends to strengthen the fencing in the yard with heavy logs and rocks, but said the dogs may be smart enough to learn to climb over. If that happens, he hopes they will not run as far.
He calls the Williams' "angels with guns." He was "freaking out" when he spoke to them on the phone, because he was so happy.
"Happy Thanksgiving to you and to everyone," Roehl said. "My fond hope is that the boys stay home, with reinforced fencing and our keeping an eye on them."
Roehl, who has lived in this area for 10 years, praised the "love of animals and pets in this community" and said the rover boys are "getting lots of hugs."In a letter to the editor in today's Trail-Gazette, Roehl expresses his profound gratitude to those who helped. When the Williams' "found our dogs lying side by side, Tibby was so exhausted he could barely raise his head and the men did not think the dogs would have lived through the night. It was eight days to the hour since the dogs had run. Copper and Tibby are skinny and tired and their paws are sore, but they are otherwise fine. Incidentally, Boyd is the uncle of Gary Williams of the Trevarton Ranch, which is near where the dogs were found. Our profound gratitude goes out to Eagle Plume's, the Allenspark community and those who were watching for our beloved companions and to the Williams, who Diane calls "angels with guns." We are truly thankful this season."
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DALLAS, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Clasma Events announced today that the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) will join GridWeek's advisory board as one of 12 major partners. The nonprofit and government entities comprising this group work together collaboratively to ensure a robust conference agenda that covers the most pressing industry issues and opportunities.
"Utility commissioners play an important role in how Smart Grid evolves, and NARUC is pleased to become a part of the collaborative process that helps shape GridWeek's agenda," said NARUC President Tony Clark of North Dakota. "We also hope to encourage broad regulatory participation in GridWeek discussions during this critical time in the evolution and modernization of our grid."
GridWeek is the only event with a proven history of attracting the complete diversity of global Smart Grid stakeholders to define strategies for energy business, policy, and solutions and help set the agenda for grid advancement.
Now in its fifth year, GridWeek provides the opportunity for utilities, policymakers, regulators, technology companies, and non-profit organizations to participate in game-changing discussions, network with industry thought leaders, and identify business opportunities, while helping navigate the way forward for the Smart Grid industry.
GridWeek 2011 will focus on "The Way Forward," addressing strategies for energy business, policy, and solutions. Each day will tackle a major topic: Looking Forward, Strategic Solutions, and State of Deployments.
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New Delhi: This is a paradox of sorts. Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif's downfall will be a reason fpr worry in India. But why is that so?
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz has submitted fake documents and misled the Supreme Court, the joint investigation team which probed the Panamagate graft case against her family has alleged.This means that days ahead are going to be tough for Nawaz Sharif. This probability has left India restless.
On Monday, the six-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that probed the Sharif family's business dealings found that his family was living beyond the known means of income and recommended launching a corruption case
In its report submitted to the apex court, the JIT recommended that a corruption case should be filed against Sharif and his sons Hassan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz, as well as daughter Maryam, under the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) ordinance 1999
It also accused that Maryam provided the probe team "fake/falsified documents", which is a criminal offence under Pakistan laws
It is an additional charge against her besides having "assets disproportionate and beyond means of known sources of income"
Maryam is the real and ultimate beneficial owner of the Avenfield apartments. She never declared the ownership of these overseas properties, submitted fake documents and misled the Supreme Court, the JIT said in its report
"It has been proved beyond doubt that Ms Maryam Safdar had been the owner of Avenfield properties,? the JIT stated, adding that the documents submitted by the respondents are "fake and manipulated"
The JIT sent what was presented by Maryam as 'original documents' to the Radley Forensic Document Laboratory in London for examination. After the forensic examination, the laboratory's expert Robert W Radley stated that he identified the type font used to produce both certified declaration as 'Calibri'
Maryam, 43, is being groomed to succeed her father and the charges may seriously impede her ambitions.
However, her fate is closely tied with that of her father who along with the two sons and daughter may face formal corruption case.
Last year, the Panama Papers revealed that three of Prime Minister Sharif's children owned offshore companies and assets not shown on his family's wealth statement. The assets in question include four expensive flats in Park Lane, London
Now if SC actually decides to implement the report then Nawaz Sharif's departure is inevitable. This will have security implications in India too. The change of regime in Islamabad will have new players which may be even worse for Indian interests.
Job of governance and foreign policy matters may be with the army brass in Rawalpindi. This will bring military in the frontline and this in no way suits the Indian interests.
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This is element three of a multipart collection of content articles relating to proposed anti-gambling legislation. In this write-up, I keep on the discussion of the causes claimed to make this legislation essential, and the facts that exist in the genuine entire world, like the Jack Abramoff relationship and the addictive character of on-line gambling.
The legislators are striving to safeguard us from something, or are they? The total issue would seem a little complicated to say the the very least.
As described in preceding articles, the Residence, and the Senate, are once once more thinking about the concern of “Online Gambling”. Charges have been submitted by Congressmen Goodlatte and Leach, and also by Senator Kyl.
The invoice becoming set forward by Rep. Goodlatte, The World wide web Gambling Prohibition Act, has the stated intention of updating the Wire Act to outlaw all varieties of on the internet gambling, to make it unlawful for a gambling company to accept credit score and digital transfers, and to drive ISPs and Common Carriers to block access to gambling relevant websites at the ask for of law enforcement.
Just as does Rep. Goodlatte, Sen. Kyl, in his invoice, Prohibition on Funding of Unlawful Web Gambling, makes it illegal for gambling firms to settle for credit rating playing cards, digital transfers, checks and other forms of payment for the objective on placing illegal bets, but his bill does not deal with those that spot bets.
The invoice submitted by Rep. Leach, The Illegal Web Gambling Enforcement Act, is fundamentally a copy of the invoice submitted by Sen. Kyl. It focuses on preventing gambling firms from accepting credit rating cards, electronic transfers, checks, and other payments, and like the Kyl monthly bill helps make no adjustments to what is at present legal, or unlawful.
In a estimate from Goodlatte we have “Jack Abramoff’s overall disregard for the legislative method has authorized Net gambling to proceed flourishing into what is now a twelve billion-greenback company which not only hurts men and women and their people but makes the economic climate experience by draining billions of bucks from the United States and serves as a automobile for cash laundering.”
There are numerous interesting details here.
Initial of all, we have a little misdirection about Jack Abramoff and his disregard for the legislative method. This remark, and other individuals that have been produced, follow the logic that 1) Jack Abramoff was opposed to these expenses, 2) Jack Abramoff was corrupt, three) to steer clear of getting associated with corruption you should vote for these expenses. This is of training course absurd. If we adopted this logic to the intense, we must go back and void any expenses that Abramoff supported, and enact any bills that he opposed, regardless of the articles of the bill. Laws should be passed, or not, primarily based on the merits of the proposed laws, not based mostly on the reputation of a single specific.
As effectively, when Jack Abramoff opposed prior charges, he did so on behalf of his client eLottery, attempting to get the sale of lottery tickets in excess of the world wide web excluded from the legislation. Ironically, the protections he was searching for are included in this new bill, given that state operate lotteries would be excluded. Jack Abramoff as a result would almost certainly help this legislation given that it gives him what he was hunting for. That does not stop Goodlatte and other people from making use of Abramoff’s recent disgrace as a implies to make their invoice seem much better, thus generating it not just an anti-gambling bill, but somehow an ant-corruption invoice as nicely, whilst at the same time fulfilling Abramoff and his client.
Next, is his assertion that on the web gambling “hurts individuals and their family members”. I presume that what he is referring to right here is dilemma gambling. Let’s established the document straight. Only a little proportion of gamblers grow to be issue gamblers, not a tiny share of the inhabitants, but only a tiny share of gamblers.
In addition, Goodlatte would have you imagine that Web gambling is a lot more addictive than casino gambling. Sen. Kyl has gone so much as to contact on the internet gambling “the crack cocaine of gambling”, attributing the quotation to some un-named researcher. To the contrary, researchers have shown that gambling on the Web is no a lot more addictive than gambling in a on line casino. As a make a difference of simple fact, digital gambling machines, found in casinos and race tracks all more than the nation are a lot more addictive than on-line gambling.
In research by N. Dowling, D. Smith and T. Thomas at the Faculty of Wellness Sciences, RMIT College, Bundoora, Australia “There is a standard see that digital gaming is the most ‘addictive’ sort of gambling, in that it contributes a lot more to creating problem gambling than any other gambling action. As such, electronic gaming devices have been referred to as the ‘crack-cocaine’ of gambling”.
As to Sen. Kyls claim about “crack cocaine”, estimates at consist of “Cultural busybodies have prolonged recognized that in post this-is-your-brain-on-medication The us, the ideal way to get consideration for a pet result in is to examine it to some scourge that currently scares the bejesus out of The usa”. And “In the course of the 1980s and ’90s, it was a small distinct. Then, a troubling new trend wasn’t officially on the community radar until a person dubbed it “the new crack cocaine.” And “On his Vice Squad weblog, College of Chicago Professor Jim Leitzel notes that a Google research finds authorities declaring slot machines (The New York Times Journal), online video slots (the Canadian Press) and casinos (Madison Funds Instances) the “crack cocaine of gambling,” respectively. Leitzel’s research also found that spam e mail is “the crack cocaine of marketing” (Sarasota, Fla. Herald Tribune), and that cybersex is a kind of sexual “spirtual crack cocaine” (Concentrate on the Loved ones)”.
As we can see, calling anything the “crack cocaine” has become a meaningless metaphor, exhibiting only that the individual generating the statement feels it is important. But then we understood that Rep. Goodlatte, Rep. Leach and Sen. www.milkbet.com felt that the problem was critical or they wouldn’t have introduced the proposed laws forward.
In the subsequent post, I will continue protection of the issues elevated by politicians who are from on the web gambling, and provide a different viewpoint to their rhetoric, masking the “drain on the economy” caused by on-line gambling, and the idea of income laundering.

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It was a small question that would have big impact: could the Huntsville Public School (HPS) playground be made accessible so that every student could use it? That question raised last year by some of the school’s then-grade 6 students led to a frenzy of fundraising activity, with school staff and parents jumping on board to help out.
They’ve come a long way. So far, the Huntsville Public School (HPS) accessible playground project has raised about $300,000, including matching funds contributed by the Trillium Lakelands District School Board (TLDSB), putting them within reach of their $377,000 goal.
It was a $40,000 donation made today by the Rotary Club of Huntsville and which will be matched by TLDSB that got them to the $300,000 mark.
“We are extremely pleased to be here,” said Rotarian Lea Barker at a cheque presentation to the school. “We looked at (the information) we had been given and said ‘this is a great community project that we need to get involved in’.”
Rotary Club of Huntsville President Kim O’Grady made the cheque donation to teacher Kerri-Lynne Knappett amid loud cheers from HPS students.
An emotional Knappett told the assembled students and staff, “What I love the most about today is that you guys can see that you as kids can come up with one seed of an idea and have it grow into the most beautiful flower I could have ever imagined. I am so proud and grateful for all of you.” Knappett also thanked the Rotary Club for their donation.
“With work in kind from the community, if we had to put this (playground) up tomorrow, we’d be in pretty good shape. (This donation) takes a huge load off financially,” said Knappett. “I wasn’t expecting something nearly so generous.”
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Welcome back to Collect Them All!
Horror fans… Unite!!!
On this episode, we had the opportunity to go on a bit of a “field trip”, if you will….taking the show on the road out to Syracuse, NY to visit with our friend Matt Sampere. Matt is one of the biggest collectors of horror/slasher film memorabilia we’ve ever met, so we just knew we had to get him on the show. Photos probably don’t do it justice…but check out some of what he has! Nightmare On Elm Street, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Pumpkinhead, Jaws, The Walking Dead, Hellraiser, Trick Or Treat…I mean the list could go on and on. If it has to do with horror films, he probably owns it. From action figures and Halloween masks, to autographed photos and posters, Matt’s basement has been transformed into his own personal museum. We sit down and talk with him about his collection, horror films, his music (yes, he is in a band as well), and even his plans to direct his own horror film.
Later in the show, we travel back to the Garage Bar to give our final thoughts about this incredible collection!
Music for this episode has been provided by Matt’s band “Sampere”. Their new album will be out very shortly… make sure you stop by their Facebook page and find out how to order your copy!
Also, thanks as always to our friends in Sophistafunk for providing theme music to the show. Make sure to visit their page, and give them a like!