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I was thinking by having the failover partner setup in connection string all the jobs should continue to work, but this did not happen.
Mirroring protects the server and the database from failing, not the client. How the client behaves depends upon the client (even when the failover partner is configured correctly). The errors a client raises should be diagnostic.
From BOL http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175484.aspx
If the specified server instance is available and is the current principal server instance, the connection attempt typically succeeds.
If that attempt does not work, the data access provider tries the failover partner name, if available. If either partner name correctly identifies the current principal server, the data access provider normally succeeds in opening the initial connection. On completing this connection, the data access provider downloads the server instance name of the current mirror server. This name is stored in the cache as the failover partner name, overwriting the client-supplied failover partner name, if any. Thereafter, the .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server does not update the failover partner name. In contrast, SQL Server Native Client updates the cache whenever a subsequent connection or connection reset returns a different partner name.
What data provider(s) is/are the SSIS packages using? Could the "Thereafter" sentence explain the errors I imagine the client was raising? What complete & verbatim errors were being raised?


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Arizona State has promoted former New York Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce to sole defensive coordinator.
Pierce served as co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach alongside Marvin Lewis last season, but will now take over as the full-time coordinator. Despite the shuffling, Lewis will remain on staff as special assistant to head coach Herm Edwards.
“I am looking forward to this new challenge and opportunity to be the defensive coordinator at Arizona State,” Pierce said in a statement, via ESPN. “I have learned so much from Coach Lewis and Coach Edwards during my time here and can’t wait to apply that knowledge in this new role. We are excited about the group that we have returning and can’t wait to continue to bring in talented Sun Devils.”
Pierce played nine seasons in the NFL, first with the Washington Redskins (2001-04) before signing with the Giants as a free agent in 2005. He was a Pro Bowler in 2006 and an integral piece of the Giants’ Super Bowl XLII championship team.
In 124 career games, Pierce recorded 691 tackles, nine sacks, 43 passes defensed and seven interceptions.


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Several emails were sent from the same address containing threats against Lapid and her family. According to Walla!, the person who sent the emails was found and given a warning after determining the low threat level.
“The incitement and division are coming - it's terrible and scary,” said Lihi Lapid following a report in Walla regarding the threats.
She further said: “This is another reminder of why we must all find [what unifies and connects us].”
Lapid received an email last month wishing her family would end up “smeared on the road.”
Several days later, another email arrived, cursing the prime minister’s sister.
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Salman Rushdie brushes off call for festival ‘blasphemy’ ban
- by: Amanda Hodge
AN Indian Muslim leader has demanded Salman Rushdie be banned from the country’s biggest literary festival, warning that an invitation to the novelist who endured a fatwa will add “salt to injury”.
The vice-chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband, one of India’s most influential Islamic seminaries, has called on the government to deny the Indian-born writer a visa to attend the Jaipur Literary Festival over the insult caused to Muslims by his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.
“I call upon the Muslim organisations of the country to mount pressure on the centre to withdraw the visa and prevent him visiting India, where community members still feel hurt owing to the anti-Islamic remarks in his writings,” Maulana Abul Qasim Nomani said this week.
“The Muslims cannot pardon him at any cost. If he visits India, it would be adding salt to the injuries of Muslims.”
- Salman Rushdie asked to skip Jaipur Lit fest? (ibnlive.in.com)
- Salman Rushdie’s Jaipur visit under cloud (ibnlive.in.com)
- Salman Rushdie will attend Jaipur festival despite protest (guardian.co.uk)
- Calls to Ban Salman Rushdie from Entering India (newsy.com)
- Cancel Rushdie’s visa: Deoband (thehindu.com)
- Rushdie Laughs Off Threat Of Ban – “I don’t need a visa” (inquisitr.com)
- Salman Rushdie dismisses demands of Islamic group calling for his ban from India (news.nationalpost.com)
- Salman Rushdie’s Expected Visit to India Raises Row (ibtimes.com)


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1. Of what crime are Scroop, Grey, and Cambridge guilty?
2. Who knows of the spy plot?
3. What positions do Scroop, Grey, and Cambridge hold?
4. For whom are the three spying?
5. What is their motive?
6. On what decision does Henry seek their advice?
7. What penalty do the three recommend?
8. How do the men discover that their plot has been discovered?
9. What does Henry mean in saying, “Their cheeks are paper”?
10. What sentence does he impose?
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Transcript | Watch and Wait for Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia
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Hello and welcome to Patient Power. I'm Andrew Schorr. One of the areas we cover on Patient Power is Waldenstrom's, and with us is Dr. James Berenson from Los Angeles in West Hollywood, California who treats myeloma and also Waldenstrom’s. Thanks for being with us, Dr. Berenson. Any update you'd care to give patients about Waldenstrom's now?
Well, I must say Waldenstrom's, as I quote the guy who ran my kid's school and he would talk about education as a smorgasbord of opportunities, and the good news with Waldenstrom's patients, they can respond to all the lymphoma drugs, and they can respond to all the myeloma drugs. So they have huge numbers of possible therapies today. It's so much different then it was a couple of decades ago, and it's a very chronic disease now. My lawyer came to me in ‘91, having been told he would live, but two to three years, and I didn't have a lawyer at the time. And I said, you're hired. And 29 years later, he's my lawyer and he's doing just fine. The problem with Waldenstrom's is it's often over-treated and these patients often get into trouble with side effects from the treatment or it can develop leukemia or pre leukemia from the treatments themselves.
So one has to be careful, and this is a disease that I tend to be much more watch and wait than any other plasma cell dysplasia say, than myeloma, amyloid. We can watch you. We don't need to treat you. And when treatment is done, it's highly effective and for a long period of time and now we have lots of drugs. Pills that can work. Drugs like ibrutinib (Imbruvica) or drugs like venetoclax (Venclexta), or the combination, antibodies we've used effectively as well, rituximab (Rituxan), daratumumab (Darzalex), and then of course, chemotherapy agents and or bortezomib (Velcade), proteasome inhibitors, a lot of different drugs these days can be used for Waldenstrom's quite effectively.
Okay. I think the key for patients is see a specialist who's familiar with Waldenstrom's, and you said don't over-treat.
Yeah. I mean, these people get cooked with it, cook booked into a lot of drugs I don't ever need. I would say most of my patients, I don't even treat it at all. It just wave and talk politics with them. It's a minority that need therapy. And I think that another thing has to be careful on what's the goal of therapy here? Because you're not going to cure them. And so I think keeping their disease at bay is good and you don't necessarily need to change therapy because their numbers have not gotten down to zero on say their M protein or their IGM hasn't gotten to normal. It's okay. They're going to be fine.
Okay. Well that's good news. Very positive. Dr. James Berenson, thank you so much for being with us and giving us your philosophy and the update on Waldenstrom's.
Thank you, Andrew.
All right, Andrew Schorr here. Remember, knowledge can be the best medicine of all and when dealing with Waldenstrom's, see a specialist.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency called on North Korea today to abandon any nuclear weapons program it had and to accept international inspections.
The demand by the agency, the nuclear-monitoring arm of the United Nations, was issued in a resolution of its full 35-member board. It was the board's first meeting since North Korea admitted to an American envoy in October that it was conducting a clandestine program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.
Since then, North Korea has defied requests from the agency and from other groups and governments for more information.
Instead, North Korea declared last month that ''to safeguard our sovereignty and right to exist,'' it regarded itself entitled to have ''powerful military countermeasures, including nuclear weapons.''
Although the agency has issued previous calls for North Korea to accept its inspections, the resolution today was apparently the first time it has explicitly demanded that North Korea scrap its entire nuclear weapons program. But the agency has no enforcement powers beyond reporting violations to the Security Council, and the resolution set no deadline.Continue reading the main story
The statement declared that North Korea's claim that it was entitled to nuclear weapons violated its agreements under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and it urged North Korea ''to give up any nuclear weapons program, expeditiously and in a verifiable manner.''
At a news conference in Vienna, the Atomic Energy Agency's director, Mohamed ElBaradei, said the agency wanted North Korea to ''accept without delay'' the dispatch of a senior team of inspectors to North Korea. He said the resolution of the board of directors was a ''clear message from the international community that North Korea has to honor its international obligations.''
North Korea pursued an aggressive nuclear weapons program in the 1980's and 1990's, which led to a major confrontation with the Clinton administration. Tensions were defused through an ''agreed framework'' negotiated in 1994, under which North Korea agreed to halt the program in exchange for the supply of fuel oil and nuclear generators of a kind less prone to nuclear proliferation from the United States, Japan and South Korea. That agreement has now been suspended.
Early in October, confronted by American intelligence evidence indicating that a secret project was under way, North Korea abruptly acknowledged the program. Why the North Koreans made the admission remains unclear, but one line of speculation is that they hope to use the nuclear capability as a bargaining lever, as they did in 1994.
Although President Bush has included North Korea in an ''axis of evil'' along with Iraq and Iran, his administration has made no concrete steps so far to compel North Korea to dismantle its nuclear program.
The United Nations nuclear agency's inspections inside North Korea have been restricted by the country since 1993, when inspectors reported evidence of noncompliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
North Korea withdrew from the agency, which is charged with policing the treaty, although the country remains bound by the treaty. Since then, the agency has been limited to monitoring North Korea's graphite-moderated reactor as part of the 1994 agreed framework.Continue reading the main story


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FZS 25 comes with a 1 cylinder, 249 cc, Single-Cylinder& SOHC& Air Cooled& 2 Valves& FI Petrol Engine which can generate power and torque. on the other side, TVS Radeon comes with a 1 cylinder, 109 cc, 4 Stroke Duralife Engine Petrol engine which can generate power and torque.
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There are different steps for sea turtle drawing, you just need to follow the steps how to draw a sea turtle:-
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To make sure that the outline be at the correct angle to ensure that the outline is properly placed, draw a horizontal as well as horizontal line on the page in order to draw reference lines. The point where the two lines meet is the place you’ll need to draw the outline.
Step 2 ( How to draw outline of shell? )
In the shape of the shell that you have drawn in the previous step, draw a second outline that follows the shape that the shell has.
The area between the outlines is where precentral, postcentral, as well as marginal scutes are situated.
The vertebral scutes has arranged on the shell by drawing uneven and irregular circular forms that connect within the middle in the center of the shell.
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Repeat the step before on the left edge of the turtle, to make the sea turtle’s shell scutes.
Step 6 ( How to draw a head of the sea turtle? )
Create the head of the sea turtle using an, narrow curve line that runs underneath the shell. If done correctly, it will appear like the sea creature is peering out from its shell.
Step 7 ( How to draw a sea turtle flippers? )
Create Flippers with an curving line that has serrated with a horizontal line on the bottom of each side of the shell.
The flippers of the sea turtle, which allows it to move through the ocean in a fluid manner for extended periods of time.
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Create two lines joined with a jagged diagonal line to create the hind legs of the sea turtle and repeat the process on the opposite portion of the shell, creating two hind legs.
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Here you can see that how the turtle’s sea shell is almost done! All it’s lacking is different colors to complete the design!
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Some species may even have distinct designs on their skin, meaning that they might be more than one color. This provides you with a wide range of options of colors to choose to color your turtle!
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Its easy to draw a sea turtle drawing, you just need to follow the upper steps for best sketch.

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text: Azéma and Arditi are star-crossed lovers. When Arditi is 'resurrected' from a mysterious, fatal collapse, their love is intensified but confounded by his medical and spiritual status: is he a dead man? Has he been resurrected from an afterlife he doesn't believe in? Did he dream it? Cleric friends (Ardant and Dussollier) are enlisted to solve the conundrum, only to find their own beliefs compromised. It's shot in short, oddly stylised scenes, punctuated by mysterious footage of drifting plankton (make of that what you will). Both a discourse on love, life and belief, and a tale of extreme romantic love, it looks to be Resnais' most straightforward film to date. But there's a suspect, often humorous archness about it, to suggest he may be playing one of his biggest intellectual tricks yet.

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Retainers are custom devices that will be given to you after undergoing orthodontic treatment. It is designed to keep your teeth in their place. Wearing retainers can be frustrating but it is better than going through the process of wearing braces all over again.
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In the final debate before the June 23 Democratic primary, candidates for Nita Lowey’s 17th Congressional district seat faced off on a host of issues vital to the district and the nation.
Deftly moderated by News 12 Reporter Tara Rosenblum and BCW Vice President and COO John Ravitz, the candidates covered a lot of ground on the issues during the debate, part of the BCW Political Leadership Series. The seven candidates discussed the repeal of SALT (state and local tax) deduction cap; racial injustice, economic reemergence from coronavirus, energy and the Green New Deal, health and Medicare for All among other issues.
Candidates included Assemblyman and former White Plains Common Council member David Buchwald; New York State Senator and former Clarkstown Town Clerk David Carlucci; educator and a U.S Army combat veteran Asha Castleberry-Hernandez; Former deputy assistant secretary of defense under President Barack Obama Evelyn Farkas; former chairwoman of the national board of NARAL Pro Choice America Foundation Alison Fine; Former Westchester County law department employee and Harvard Law grad Mondaire Jones; Adam Schliefer, a former assistant U.S. attorney in California.
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Several of the Board members have serious conflicts of interest, including fervent desires for the contract to build housing in replacement for Parking Garage 3
For the first time in over a quarter century, the organization designated to manage Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade and Downtown, will have a new Director.
The DTSM Board and Stakeholders together, need to have an open discussion on what the actual job description should be for a replacement.
The Board should not select a search firm until there is basic agreement of the job description. During the interim, a temporary manager can oversee basic operations.
What began as a volunteer business owner organization, and later became one of the first "business improvement districts" funded by property owners, has since become a bloated quasi-City agency.
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The Promenade's business owners now have less of a voice than anytime during its history.
In the January 3, 2022 list of "Business Improvement Districts" published by the LA Business Journal, DTSM is ranked # 1 for having the largest budget of any other improvement district in LA County. Its annual budget is 75% higher than the average of other districts in LA.
The "Programs and Services" DTSM told the LA Business Journal it provides are - - "Clean and safe, marketing and promotions, business development." With just that in mind, DTSM and its staff (many whom have recently quit their jobs and moved on), have failed miserably.
DTSM spends over half its annual budget on high salaries, pensions, contributions to employee life insurance premiums, travel and dining junkets, costly $300,000 studies, and a 3-tiered "Ambassador Program" that is not working.
The outrageous + - $450,000 a month that DTSM pays to an out-of-state organization, Block by Block, to manage the Hospitality, Maintenance and Safety Ambassador Programs, would be better utilized by our Police Chief and his department to fund more foot patrols and security cameras along the Promenade, alleyways and in our Garages.
In comparison, Pasadena has 3 separately-funded "business improvement districts."
Burbank has 2 business improvement districts, and within Downtown LA, there are 10 separate districts.
Each of the other districts is managed by a separate director/manager, and separate group of board members. The result is less City-involvement, more community participation, better service, and Stakeholder funds that are more wisely spent. The alleyways, sidewalks and garages are clean and safe.
The assessments paid by DTSM's business owners have become a subsidy for basic services the City should be funding from property and sales taxes.
The following are items many Stakeholders feel very strongly about - -
1) Board Members on the "search committee" should be identified. Committee members should not remain anonymous.
2) The employment terms should be shared with Stakeholders upon request.
3) The Board, in consultation with Stakeholders, should set the agenda for marketing strategy, promotion and events on the Promenade. And the Manager/Director should listen to the Stakeholders. Not the reverse.
4) Base salary should be commensurate with DTSM's budget. A base annual salary of $250,000 to $350,000 is excessive. The current CEO's annual base salary is 184% more than the average for others holding the same job position in California.
5) The initial employment term should be no longer than 3 years, and extended if there is agreement on good job performance, and if DTSM continues in its format and size.
6) Annual salary increases in the current employment contract are between 3% and 6% These amounts are too high, too frequent, and do not reflect current economic conditions.
7) If for any legitimate legal reason or transgression, the employee is fired, there should be no automatic 3-month pay-out.
8) DTSM should not pay for any employee's life insurance premium. Health insurance for general health, vision and dental are standard. But DTSM has been paying up to $11,000 a year for the CEO's personal life insurance policy.
9) 38 sick days per year, in addition to paid holidays and time off, are excessive, and far beyond what is required by state and federal law
10) DTSM's 403 (b) retirement plan for employees is burdening the organization with future debt that will take years to pay back, even after the employees move on.
11) Reimbursement for meals and personal travel and hotel stays should stop. City commissions and service organizations in Santa Monica have rules addressing this and DTSM should comply with those rules. There are also city and state ethics laws that cover this.
12) Gifts to employees, vendors and others, paid from DTSM's budget, should end.
The DTSM charter expires in several years but may be terminated sooner. Stakeholders need to evaluate if DTSM should be split up so it more fairly and efficiently represents businesses spread across the City. Businesses on the Promenade, 2nd, 4th and 5th Streets, have different concerns than businesses on Lincoln Boulevard.
1) DTSM should add two (2) non-voting Board Members, with same rights as current Members to speak and express their views during Board Meetings. One Member should represent the merchants, and the other should represent property owners. The 2 new Members should be elected by Stakeholders, not appointed by the City.
2) The organization should add committees comprised of Stakeholders and Board Members to address -
a) landscaping and common areas
c) safety concerns
d) selection criteria for street performers
e) special events
3) The Stakeholders should be given a voice in marketing and event planning on the Promenade. The new Manager/Director should adhere to that plan. Not the reverse.
4) The amount of staff should be reduced. We have Stakeholders who want to volunteer their time and be involved.
5) In addition to monthly Board Meetings, there should be regular meetings where Stakeholders can be present and speak directly with the new Director, without a 2-minute restriction on time or subject matter. No more secret meetings pitting one block of Stakeholders against another. The Director should also distribute "minutes" of the monthly Board Meetings, that reflect what was discussed and by whom.
6) Does DTSM need both an advertising firm and a PR agency, and continue paying combined fees of over $150,000 a year?
7) Selection of DTSM Board Members by the City should not be akin to presidential ambassadorships. Appointees should commit to visiting the Promenade on a frequent basis and speaking with Stakeholders.
8) The same rules that apply to appointees of City commissions should apply to DTSM Board Members. No DTSM Board Member should simultaneously occupy a seat on any other City commission.
8) No DTSM Board Member should solicit work from the City or any related agency for any project that benefits them, their companies and/or colleagues.
A BOARD MEMBER SHOULD NOT PLACE THEMSELVES IN THE POSITION OF ANY POTENTIAL INFLUENCE, FINANCIAL GAIN, OR CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
a) Current Board Chair Barry Snell does not own or operate any business in Santa Monica, but still incorrectly refers to himself as a "DTSM Stakeholder". He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Santa Monica College and the Santa Monica-Malibu School Board.
b) Prior Board Chair and current Board Member, Rob Rader, also serves on the Board of Trustees for Santa Monica College.
c) Board Member Tara Barauskas is Executive Director of Community Housing Corp., and submitted proposals for the proposed low cost hosing and homeless development that would replace Parking Garage 3. She also voted in favor of demolishing the same Garage to make way for proposed housing she is lobbying for her firm to manage.
d) Board Member Johannes Van Tilburg is aggressively competing for his team's housing project to replace Parking Garage 3 so his firm can secure the architectural and design jobs.
THESE ARE ONLY A FEW EXAMPLES OF ONGOING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST WITHIN DTSM.
We continue to see some of our prominent retailers giving up on Santa Monica, but expanding elsewhere in LA, because they do not like the current neglect of the Promenade and Downtown Santa Monica. They watch glass storefronts smashed on a regular basis, persons living in the Garage stairwells and dumpster rooms, and damaging the elevators at night. Their customers are uncomfortable and intimidated by the anti-social behavior of the homeless on the Promenade and on the storefronts of their businesses.
Together we must work on the goal of taking meaningful steps so that the 3rd Street Promenade and surrounding Downtown once again become the most desirable, safe and clean destinations for Santa Monica residents and visitors. .
Business and Property Owner / City Supporter
Views expressed here are the opinions of the writer, and may not necessarily reflect the views of individual SMBOA (Santa Monica Bayside Owners Association) or DTSM members


Their sweat and dreams impressed on 12-inch black vinyl discs, members of the rock band Friday Knights are hoping for more than a financial return from their first album.
"Of course it would be nice to be a commercial success," says Larry Heitman, 28, lead singer and songwriter. "But what we really want with the album is acceptance of our original work."
Available in area music stores for more than two months, You're Not A Song, You're An Album isn't busting any charts. In fact, some record store managers couldn't remember when they sold a copy. But the Friday Knights say sales are steady, if slow.
Described by Heitman as the sort of rock album you listen to, rather than dance to, the record is a musical narrative of a young couple's passionate but stormy relationship.
"Like the relationship, the music is constantly changing," says lead guitarist John Pappalardo, 23, of Plantation. "The music has its roots in the traditional rock sound, but you'll hear ballads, hard rock, blues, even a waltz."
Almost by accident, all the music was written by Heitman of Hollywood.
While working full-time as a horse trainer and breeder, Heitman initially set out to write and record only a single song, written in his spare time, as a tribute to a close woman friend.
"Somehow, I'm not quite sure, one song became two, then two became three, and then there was an album," Heitman says.
The band was a kind of afterthought.
"I had to have musicians to record my songs, so I had a referral service send some guys over," he says. "I never intended to start a band, but after we played together, it seemed like the group might have a shot and here we are."
Auditions were held and by October 1986, Heitman had not only enough songs but also enough musicians to record an album.
In addition to Heitman and Pappalardo, the 10-month-old band includes Dave Thompson, 24, of Fort Lauderdale, on bass, and Phillip Kelley, 24, of Tamarac, on drums.
"I've been pounding drums since I was 13. I'm not interested in Top 40; I'm only interested in music with serious roots," Kelley says.
"A lot of commercially successful music today is mindless. The themes are tired, sex, drugs, new clothes, that's not worth playing or listening to."
While Friday Knights likes to downplay financial considerations, the band admits its future rides on revenues from You're Not A Song, You're An Album.
"In order to get the name circulating, Friday Knights played a lot of free gigs," says band manager Percy Harrell of Hollywood. "Now the band is looking for gigs that pay. Everyone would like to be able to play full time, rather than squeeze performances in between regular jobs."
The album, released by Frogleg Productions in Hollywood, cost about $12,000 to record, press and distribute, according to Heitman, who footed the entire bill.
Production of the album did not go off without some hitches. Midway through recording the album, the band found itself at serious odds with the studio and was forced to begin over at a new recording facility.
Heitman is already at work on songs for a second album. This time, he is drawing words and music from his memories of life in Moline, Ill., the factory town where he grew up singing in a church choir.
"My music reflects the hours I spent singing in church. In my mind, rock is just like gospel, only louder," Heitmen says.
Meanwhile, Heitman and the rest of the Friday Knights are playing locally, in bars and at charity bashes and business promotions.
The Friday Knights can be heard on Sundays at Big Daddy's, 2600 Davie Blvd.


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The name Plaxton Expressliner
or National Expressliner
can refer to either of two designs of coach built by Plaxton
for National Express
- The original Expressliner was a Plaxton Paramount III 3500 to National Express specification, easily recognisable from the standard Paramount by having a windowless rear end incorporating the National Express logo.
- The Expressliner II was a continuation of the same concept using the Plaxton Premiere 350 body, which replaced the Paramount.


Rangers made sure they didn’t fall further behind Celtic in the race for the title by thrashing Hamilton 5-0 at the HopeCBD Stadium.
Goals from Ryan Jack, Jermain Defoe, Scott Arfield, James Tavernier and Kyle Lafferty secured a morale-boosting win for Steven Gerrard’s men.
The gap between them and their fierce rivals stays at eight points.
Defoe signed for the Gers from Bournemouth on an 18-month loan during the January transfer window.
The experienced striker netted goal number four for Gerrard’s men yesterday, stepping up in place of Alfredo Morelos.
The goal glut was a timely boost for Rangers who have been struggling to find the way to goal without their influential talisman.
Defoe has scored goals throughout his career and his arrival in the Scottish Premiership is a coup for the Gers.
On yesterday’s performance, he looks like being a big player for the club next season.
The 36-year-old netted the second goal of the afternoon, nodding in a cross from skipper Tavernier.
Following the performance, Gers’ supporters were in buoyant mood over the former England international.
Many took to Twitter and we looked at the best tweets regarding the performance of Defoe…
Heyyyy heyyyyyy baby
I wanna knowwwwwwwww
— Steven egie (@EgertonSteven) February 24, 2019
Don’t know why folk are saying Jermain Defoe and Steven Davis need to step up today.
In my view, Defoe’s had a better start than Davis has. And it’s clear to see Davis is miles off pace.
— Kevin Wakeham (@KWRFC1995) February 16, 2019
JERMAIN DEFOE! Makes no mistake that time! 😍
— Kirsten (@kirsten93_) February 24, 2019
Jermain Defoe doing what he does best! 😎
— 🧡🖤 Stuart Carlisle 🔴⚪ (@Ranger_Red95) February 24, 2019
I mean sure Jermain Defoe but what about Tav’s cross, man. 💙
— Spacegirlgail (@spacegirlgail) February 24, 2019
Jermain Defoe my guy💙💙
— Kenz (@_kenzi_newsome) February 24, 2019
Jermain Defoe….. he scores goals! ⚽💙
— denzil (@DenzilDanter) February 24, 2019
Still can’t believe we have Jermain Defoe 😂
— Nicole Pettigrew (@Nicpettigrewxx) February 24, 2019
Yes. Defoe has scored 4 in 6 since joining.
— Mark (@MJTWinters28) February 25, 2019


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Updated:When it comes to corruption, Mississippi takes the top spot.
The rankings are based on data from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Researchers looked at the number of federal, state, and local public officials convicted of a corruption-related crime from 1976 to 2008.
Mississippi was number one and Tennessee ranked third on the list. The least corrupt state is Oregon.
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Jump onboard a traditional Croatian motor yacht with 25 like-minded travellers and experience Dalmatia! Discover the most spectacular coastline Europe has to offer as you explore tiny islands, secluded coves and swim in the sparkling blue of the Adriatic Sea daily.
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Lounge on the deck chairs, take a splash in the ocean or simply sleep in! Croatia is the perfect place to relax and unwind.

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GUWAHATI, March 18 - Demanding land rights for the indigenous people of Assam, the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Parishad (AJYP) asked the Government to formulate a clear-cut land policy.
�Land right is our birth right. Why has the Government, which came to power vowing to protect the community, land and foundation, failed to provide land pattas to the indigenous people,� questioned AJYP working president Pradeep Kumar Bhuyan here on Friday.
The organisation�s president Kanak Hazarika and general secretary Kanak Chandra Bharali also slammed the new directives issued for obtaining land pattas. �The new directives will infringe on the birthright of the people.
According to the new directives, an applicant will have to give an undertaking that he has no land in the State,� they said, demanding withdrawal of the notification.


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NBA players heard an update on Friday from Commissioner Adam Silver on coronavirus-related issues. Silver reportedly provided many direct conversations, but not much good news.
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski said he obtained the audio of the call between Silver and the leadership of the players' association. In the following article, three items stand out:
– Silver believes the league does not need to decide whether to resume play until June.
– If the game resumes, it will probably take place in a "bubble" environment in a central location after at least three weeks of training camp. Walt Disney World, near Orlando, Florida, and Las Vegas continue to have the most support for being bubble sites. The league aims to hold a full postseason, although it is unclear whether regular season games will be played before that.
– The league is preparing for long-term financial difficulties.
Players already agreed to give up 25% of their wages for this season in the event, the rest will be canceled. More revenue losses would require more rounds of difficult negotiations. Atlético's Shams Charania reported that Silver told players 40% of the league's revenue comes from fans, who may not return to the arenas until a vaccine is developed. Several reports have said that bubble games will not be open to the public.
In a small sign of progress this week, teams were allowed to open their facilities in states where restrictions on staying at home have eased. Players who want to enter can only exercise on their own. Union leadership told Silver that the teams pressured players to attend, for Charania, but Silver agreed with players that the activities are voluntary.


Boeing will likely push delivery of the US Air Force’s first KC-46 air-to-air refueling tanker to early 2018 from this year, as various problems have emerged during flight tests.
In May, KC-46 program manager Mike Gibbons said the first tanker would fly around October 2017 and soon after would be delivered to the Air Force. Boeing had committed to hand over the first 18 operational tankers to the Air Force by February 2018.
However, the tanker has missed flight testing and certification milestone. In addition, Boeing has witnessed instances of the extendable fuel boom scraping against the receiver aircraft, as well as two other category one deficiencies, according to online defense industry magazine Breaking Defense.
At an Air Force Association (AFA) conference near Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Air Force Gen. Carlton Everhart, the head of Air Mobility Command, was quoted as saying that he’s now hoping for first delivery in “early 2018”.
The paint scraping problem — formally known as “undetected contact” — by itself could “possibly” delay the new planes’ arrival at AMC, Gen Everhart said.
The other two deficiencies detailed by Lt. Gen. Bunch, the military deputy for Air Force acquisition, are “HF transmit turning off when we go into the refueling area” and “uncommanded boom extension” which appears to mean that the boom unexpectedly extends after it’s been withdrawn from the other aircraft.
Boeing along with US Air Force and Naval Air Systems Command representatives, recently completed KC-46 tanker electromagnetic testing. This testing evaluates the aircrafts ability to safely operate through electromagnetic fields produced by radars, radio towers and other systems under mission conditions, the company said in a statement Thursday
A new Boeing aerial refueling tanker KC-46A Pegasus is undergoing series of avionics tests in Benefield Anechoic Facility (BAF) to demonstrate that it meets Federal Aviation Administration certification requirements. The company wants the tanker aircraft to meet DOD electromagnetic environmental effects requirements for systems
Boeing has won a $2.1 billion contract from US Air Force for 15 KC-46A tanker aircraft, spare engines and wing air refueling pod kits
Boeing has been awarded a $2.8 billion contract for the acquisition of low-rate initial production (LRIP) of KC-46 tanker aircraft Lots 1 and 2 for the US Air Force
Boeing has been awarded a $101.8 million modification contract for initial common spares and readiness spares packages in support of production aircraft lots 1 and 2 for the KC-46 modernization program
Boeing has been awarded a $7.4 million modification contract for Phase III KC-46 tanker/receiver aerial refueling airplane simulator qualification data collection study
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48 CFR § 42.101 - Contract audit responsibilities.
(a) The auditor is responsible for -
(1) Submitting information and advice to the requesting activity, based on the auditor's analysis of the contractor's financial and accounting records or other related data as to the acceptability of the contractor's incurred and estimated costs;
(2) Reviewing the financial and accounting aspects of the contractor's cost control systems; and
(3) Performing other analyses and reviews that require access to the contractor's financial and accounting records supporting proposed and incurred costs.
(b) Normally, for contractors other than educational institutions and nonprofit organizations, the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) is the responsible Government audit agency. However, there may be instances where an agency other than DCAA desires cognizance of a particular contractor. In those instances, the two agencies shall agree on the most efficient and economical approach to meet contract audit requirements. For educational institutions (defined as institutions of higher education in the OMB Uniform Guidance at 2 CFR part 200, subpart A, and 20 U.S.C. 1001) and nonprofit organizations (as defined in the OMB Uniform Guidance at 2 CFR part 200), audit cognizance will be determined according to the provisions of the OMB Uniform Guidance at 2 CFR part 200, subpart F.

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Hot off the heels of our Tales of Innocence R event is a rerun of last year's iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls collab! And, what's this, a preview for a continuation?
In a surprise turn of events, Bandai Namco's Youtube channel has updated with another preview for this month, focusing on one thing only: A collaboration between THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls and Tales of The Rays! We had a collab with them last year and it was announced recently that the collab would rerun once the last event focusing on Tales of Innocence ended. And so they delivered what they promised, but it turns out simply rerunning the same collab isn't enough. Check out the preview to see what's upcoming!
As shown in the preview, we're getting two new crossover characters from iDOLM@STER. This time we're getting the diminutive Anzu Futaba and the towering Kirari Moroboshi. Their Mirrage Artes are shown in the video, following suit with Haruka and Uzuki's in that they are solo performances on a stage. Also, the end of the video strongly hints towards Leia getting a new Collaborative Mirrage Arte. No mention of when these characters will come, but we're promised it'll happen soon!
Of course, the whole thing is new for those of you who missed last year's Cinderella Girls collab. The two characters we got last time that are returning this time are Ranko Kanzaki and Uzuki Shimamura. The returning featured characters are Velvet, Kohaku and Cheria. The event takes a raid format, with a series of quests to unlock Uzuki followed by a raid to unlock Ranko.
There's also a Free Multi and a Dia Step Up that results in guaranteed Mirrage Artes and 5 star weapons for the two crossover characters. Even if you're not interested, it may be a good idea to take advantage of these deals to get guaranteed powerful artes and characters! There's also new 6th enhancement materials for the idols, further incentivizing participation in the raid to power up the characters further. This is likely the only chance to get these, so be dilligent! The Dates and Times for the event are below.
|THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Collab Part 1||Start Time||End Time|
|Event Quests||May 20th, 14:00 JST||May 31st, 13:59|
|Raid Battle||May 20th, 14:00 JST||May 31st, 13:59|
|Gacha Banner + Step Up Banners||May 20th, 14:00 JST||May 31st, 13:59|
|Ticket Banner||May 20th, 14:00 JST||June 7th, 13:59|
Finally, in the lead up to the release, the official twitter account for Rays tweeted out the concept art for the Tales characters getting collaboration costumes.
— 【公式】テイルズ オブ ザ レイズ (@talesof_therays) May 18, 2020
— 【公式】テイルズ オブ ザ レイズ (@talesof_therays) May 19, 2020
— 【公式】テイルズ オブ ザ レイズ (@talesof_therays) May 20, 2020
That's all for now. Keep an eye out for more news regarding this collaboration soon, and reminder that co-op play is due to come back later this month alongside the new story chapter as well!


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If the aforementioned quote refers to a science fiction film, you can count me in. As it relates to baseball, though, I’m not on board. In a column for FOX Sports Ohio, Hal McCoy uses some dubious statistical comparisons to equate Phillips to Joe Morgan. It’s an otherwise interesting and informative column, but I can’t get past this:
Morgan played seven years for the Cincinnati Reds and Phillips is in his seventh year with the Reds. And so many of their statistics are dead-on similar that it is eerie.
Consider: Joe Morgan hit 152 home runs and Phillips has 150. Joe Morgan had 612 RBI and Phillips has 605. Brandon Phillips has 221 doubles and Morgan had 220. Brandon Phillips has 1,214 hits and Morgan had 1,155.
Consider: Morgan had a career .392 on-base percentage and led the league in the category four times. On ten different occasions, Morgan finished a season with a .400 or better OBP. Phillips has a career average .322 OBP and has never exceeded .353 in a season.
Morgan posted an .800 or better OPS on seven different occasions, going as high as 1.020 in 1976, the second of his back-to-back MVP award-winning seasons. Phillips has gone .800 or better just three times. When you adjust OPS for the quality of the league and for park effects, Morgan’s career average is 132, Phillips is at 97 (the general average is set at 100). Morgan also stole 689 bases in 851 attempts (81%) while Phillips has only stolen 154 in 215 attempts (72%). Phillips certainly has Morgan on defense and even though Baseball Reference credits Phillips at 52 career runs above average defensively and Morgan 48 runs below, Morgan easily wins the WAR battle 100 to 24.
Phillips is a great player and extremely fun to watch, but it is unfair to put him in the same conversation as one of the greatest second basemen ever to play the game of baseball.
The Mets traded centerfielder Curtis Granderson to the Dodgers for cash considerations or a player to be named later, the teams announced late Friday night. Granderson was rumored to be drawing interest from teams earlier in the week, and found a landing place after slashing .256/.360/.721 since the start of the month. In a corresponding move, the Dodgers designated right-hander Dylan Floro for assignment to clear roster space for the outfielder.
As a whole, the 36-year-old’s 2017 campaign has been a tad underwhelming. Granderson entered Saturday batting .228/.334/.481 with 19 home runs and an .815 OPS through 395 PA, and accrued 1.7 fWAR to the 5.1 fWAR he produced during his pennant-winning, MVP-contending season in 2015. Still, with under $4 million remaining on his contract, another 20+ homer season around the corner and the defensive chops to man center field, it looks like a prudent deal for the Dodgers as they continue to bulldoze their way to the playoffs this fall.
The club has yet to outline their plans for Granderson, but his addition to a crowded outfield could displace centerfielder Joc Pederson, who turned in a meager .214/.329/.415 batting line through 292 PA in 2017. It could also have ramifications for fellow veteran Andre Ethier, assuming he’s healthy enough to compete for a starting role when he comes off the 60-day disabled list in September. The Mets, meanwhile, are expected to lean more heavily on rookie outfielder Brandon Nimmo, who’s made just five starts this season after struggling to get consistent playing time on the field.
Indians’ right-hander Corey Kluber was removed from the sixth inning of his start on Friday night, bringing a streak of 14 starts with 8+ strikeouts to an unfortunate end after he sprained his right ankle. Kluber stumbled off the mound while trying to field a base hit from Eric Hosmer and was seen visibly limping as he moved to cover first base. He was allowed to stay in the game for one more batter, but quickly yielded a three-pitch single to Melky Cabrera and left the mound with head athletic trainer James Quinlan.
It was a poor ending to another strong outing by the right-hander, who delivered 5 1/3 innings of one-run, four-strikeout ball and took his 12th win of the season after the Indians amassed a nine-run lead. Postgame comments by Cleveland skipper Terry Francona suggest that Kluber isn’t facing a serious setback after sustaining the sprain, however, and might even be good to go by the time his next start comes around on Wednesday.
While the Royals escaped Friday’s loss without injury, the 10-1 drubbing pushed them 6.5 games back of the division lead and half a game behind the Twins and Angels for the second AL wild card berth. They’ll host a rematch on Saturday at 7:15 ET, with left-hander Jason Vargas set to face off against Indians’ righty Trevor Bauer.


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Written for Daily Hive by Rui Yang Xu, Akshon Esports
Following a nearly three-year hiatus, one of the biggest Super Smash Bros tournaments in Canada is finally making its return.
The Battle of BC 4, hosted by UBC Esports and Galint Gaming, will be making its return June 10-12 to the AMS Student Nest at the UBC campus.
The fourth installment in the Battle of BC tournament series was originally slated to take place in June of 2020 before it was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with many other tournaments worldwide.
On the return of Galint’s flagship event, Battle of BC tournament organizer and Galint founder Kevin Dhir expressed excitement to finally start having major-scale events once again.
“We’re excited to continue raising the bar for esports event experiences, and putting our all towards making Battle of BC not just among the best events in Canada, but in the world,” Dhir said.
The tournament will feature competition for both Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Super Smash Bros. Melee, along with other events, including a basketball side-event. Along with that, it was also confirmed that the tournament would be a gold-tier event for the Smash World Tour, an international circuit for a chance to qualify for the Smash World Tour Championship in December 2022 with a USD $250,000 prize pool.
Past tournaments have featured top players like Leonardo “MkLeo” Lopez Perez, Zain “Zain” Naghmi, and William “Leffen” Hjelte. This year should be no different as many top players are expected to travel and attend. Some top players who have been confirmed to be competing at the event include recent Smash Summit 12 champion Cody “iBDW” Schwab and the #1 player in Japan, Masaya “aMSa” Chikamoto.
With the tournament’s return being long awaited, Dhir hopes to once again show off what makes the region great once again.
“Canada and the Pacific Northwest are often slept on and overshadowed by the United States, but with Battle of BC we have the opportunity to bring the spotlight to our amazing community and our beautiful city to show the world what they’ve been missing out on.”


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Aug 1, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – Over the past few weeks the three companies that make the lion's share of influenza vaccine for customers in the United States have started shipping their first doses for the 2012-13 season.
The vaccines will contain new H3N2 and influenza B components. Some flu vaccine companies are working on quadrivalent vaccines that contain viruses from both influenza B lineages rather than just one, but they are not expected to be available for the 2012-13 flu season.
Flu vaccine makers have projected that they will make up to 149 million doses for the upcoming US flu season.
Yesterday GlaxoSmithKline announced that it has begun shipping its first lots of FluLaval, indicated for people age 18 and older, and Fluarix, approved for those ages 3 and older. The company said in a statement that the first shipments will go to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) distribution centers and to healthcare providers.
Earlier, Sanofi Pasteur and Novartis announced that they had started shipping their first doses—Sanofi on Jul 16 and Novartis on Jul 26.
Sanofi, in its announcement, said the shipments were the first of more than 60 million doses of seasonal flu vaccine it planned to deliver to US healthcare providers this season. The company makes Fluzone, approved for use in people age 6 months and older. Besides standard intramuscular injectable vaccine, Sanofi also makes a high-dose version aimed at adults age 65 and older and an intradermal option for adults ages 18 though 64.
The company said it shipped the first doses to Alaska, Hawaii, and the CDC for use in the Vaccines for Children program. Direct shipments to healthcare providers and vaccine distributors will be ongoing, and healthcare providers who have placed reservations will start receiving their first shipments in August, with orders completed by the end of September, Sanofi said.
Chad Hoover, Sanofi's vice president and chief commercial officer, said in the statement that the company realizes the tall challenge providers have in trying to immunize everyone age 6 months and older before flu season starts. "With the confidence of early vaccine delivery, healthcare providers can start immunizing sooner and commit to scheduling immunization clinics throughout the season," he said.
Novartis's announcement said the company started shipping the first of more than 30 million doses of seasonal flu vaccine to US customers. Its vaccine Fluvirin is approved for people ages 4 and older.
Brent MacGregor, Novartis's president of US vaccines and head of Region North America, said, "The influenza vaccine will arrive in time to help meet a significant public health need and allow healthcare professionals to start administering vaccines in the lead up to the influenza season."
Representatives from the two other companies that make flu vaccine for the US market—MedImmune and CSL—told CIDRAP News recently that they are on track with production.
Melissa Garcia, a spokeswoman for MedImmune, said the company is on schedule with production and shipping of 13 million to 14 million doses of FluMist, indicated for those ages 2 through 49. Deb Wambold, a spokeswoman for Merck, which markets CSL's Afluria vaccine, said the company is on track for meeting its delivery obligations, involving up to 13 million doses for the US market.
Afluria is approved for use in people ages 5 and older, but CDC vaccine advisors have recommended that it not be used in children ages 6 months through 8 years because of increased reports of febrile reactions in this age group. However, the advisors said it can be used if no other age-appropriate vaccine is available for kids those ages who are at increased risk for flu complications.
Last October a meta-analysis published in Lancet Infectious Diseases raised questions about the effectiveness of standard flu vaccines. The strict meta-analysis of high-quality randomized controlled trial placed seasonal flu vaccine efficacy at 59% for adults younger than 65, which was lower than commonly cited 70% to 90% estimates.
Despite this, the authors said existing vaccines are the best weapons for protection against flu and should be used until more effective ones are available.
The timing of the Northern Hemisphere flu season varies, and flu outbreaks can occur as early as October, according to the CDC. Flu activity often peaks in January or later and can continue as late as May. The 2011-12 flu season started unusually late and was mild compared with past seasons.
The CDC recommends that everyone age 6 months and older get a flu vaccine each year.
Jul 16 Sanofi Pasteur press release
Jul 26 Novartis press release
Jul 31 GlaxoSmithKline press release
May 31 CIDRAP News story "Early flu-vaccine production forecast: up to 149 million doses"
CDC 2012-2013 flu season Q and A


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Cell C is pawning off its contract-paying mobile phone customers, worth billions of rand, to Vodacom.
What does this mean for Cell C's fate ?
The Money Show interviewed Duncan McLeod, TechCentral, to make sense of the service provider's latest move.
It's very clear that this business is not going to be a shadow of its former self - it effectively means they're not going to run their own network anymore. There's big stuff happening in Cell C. It's going to be a very different business.— Duncan McLeod, TechCentral
We don't know how much the customers are worth - probably in the billions of rand.
We know that the management team of Blue Label are no longer involved anything to do with Cell C, the board is dealing with Cell C. My guess is that if they can find a way to offload this business, they'll do it.— Duncan McLeod, TechCentral
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Wide paved trail for walking/biking. Right off the main trail there are clearly marked mountain bike trails for beginner/intermediate skill levels. Terrain is hard packed, with some soft/muddy areas, which winds through the trees. Not much sand, which is obviously nice. Would highly recommend, especially if you just want to get a quick (60-90 min) ride in without having to go far.

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Thank you, Universe, for all victories big and small.
Thank you … for this.
Jonatha Brooke is amazing.
She’s got the most beautiful “whoa, my heart has done what her voice just did” voice I’ve ever heard, and she knows how to use it.
And now … they are going to sing … together.
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Brooke also performs duets with Eric Bazilian, Glen Phillips and Keb’ Mo’.
This is better than that one time, when chocolate met peanut butter.
The album is out August 26!
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(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
October 31, 2010
The Stranglehold of Microfinance
OF late microfinance is being viewed as a prime tool in achieving poverty reduction and inclusive growth. Particularly after Grameen Bank fame Mohammd Yunus was bestowed with Nobel Prize, this illusion became widespread resulting in a major spurt in microfinance institutions across the world. The proponents are focusing on turnovers, repayments and profits as the indicators of its success, neglecting the ramifications of microfinance institutions (MFIs) on poverty reduction or inclusive growth. Microfinance as a vehicle of poverty reduction mechanism has its own limitations. At best, it can play only a complimentary role rather than a key role, provided, it is governed under panchayati raj system and borrowers command ownership of resources of income generation. Realising this limitation, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) correctly assessed, “Conceptually, the government’s and the World Bank project of microfinancing and SHGs serve as an alternative to rural credit which has drastically declined after liberalisation. SHGs cannot be a substitute for institutional rural credit. Such an approach must be opposed.” [On Certain Policy Matters, Document adopted in CPI(M) 18th Congress in 2005]
Recent incidents in Andhra Pradesh come as a rude
shock to the proponents of financial inclusion through microfinance.
incidents resulted in suicides of 57 people, out of which, 17 are the
of the world’s largest MFI, SKS Microfinance. As more than 30 of them
the intensity of the shock is such that the government of Andhra
been forced to proclaim an ordinance. The Reserve Bank of
The concept of microfinance is having its roots in the
neo-liberal project itself. As neo-liberalism gripped the minds of
makers across the continents, the governments started retreating from
welfare state. Retreat of development finance from provisioning of
financial access forced vulnerable sections of people to face financial
exclusion. This resulted in widespread struggles questioning the
neo-liberal project, such as in
Providing small loans to individuals, possibly within the groups as capital investment to enable income generating opportunities is the essence of microfinance. To be eligible under microfinance schemes, the potential beneficiaries were asked to form into groups by mobilising their initial thrifts within each village. In this way, the duration between the formation of group and their eligibility for loan helped private lending agencies to gauge their cohesiveness and also the saving culture.
Currently MFIs are having global assets worth $50 billion and are not damaged much by the ongoing crisis of financial capitalism. This proves the resilience of this industry. By the end of the 20th century, governments appropriated the conceptual utility of microfinance by making it as a centre piece in its developmental strategies focussing on women. This also helped the governments to manage the grassroots who are disgruntled with the consequences of structural reforms. This role of SHGs is nowhere more evident than in the state of Andhra Pradesh when Chandrababu Naidu used SHGs as powerful instrument to shift the tide towards TDP during the 1999 general elections.
Another important aspect of the MFI as a developmental tool is turning the non-governmental organisations into self-sustainable entities. With this, the whole concept of NGOs has undergone a major change as they shifted their orientation from service to market and also from deemed agencies of transformation into potential counter hegemonic social forces through microcredit. They are gradually adopted into the circuits of international finance capital through the generous funding from international agencies. As neo-liberal project progresses, the popularity of NGOs as vehicles of development also has gone up. This also led to a standardisation of NGO pattern from group of social workers to CEO headed line department with technocratic professionals heading various departments. We can see this shift in all the NGOs active in MFI business.
Once NGOs were co-opted by finance capital, gradually
they are transforming themselves into banks, a phenomenon that began
Grameen Bank. In
The institutionalised origins of rural credit in particular and credit in general goes back to the 1970s when the welfare state took initiative in expanding the outreach and intensity of credit as a source of rural development. In continuation, in the post nationalisation period, Indian banking system's depth as well as outreach increased enormously. This growth is reflected in its commitment to increase the bank presence in rural areas and in its efforts to reach the most vulnerable sections of the society. A mandate for all nationalised banks to expand their operations at least by 25 per cent in rural areas helped to meet the first characteristic where as devising the concept of priority sector helped banking industry to mould their orientations into social banking. Priority sector includes emphasis on directed lending to sectors such as agriculture and small scale industries and also members of historically disadvantaged sections of society. Put together, nationalised banks are mandated to lend 40 per cent of their total lending to these sections/sectors and out of that 25 per cent must be disbursed to individuals belonging to weaker sections. The newly conceived program of Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP) became the policy vehicle to redirect the credit to priority sector. Out of total bank lending, priority sector lending reached nearest to its target only in 1987 and from then onwards witnessed gradual decline. Particularly with the beginning of restructuring of Indian economy, total lending to priority sectors came down to nearly half of the '87 peak.
This deterioration is linked to the change in RBI outlook
about social banking as a result of the government accepting Narasimham
Committee recommendations. In policy terms, it implied that the
agreed to direct lending initiatives based on need, business prospects,
profitability and financial viability, minimising operations cost. In
period, National Sample Survey Organisation surveys in two rounds, 1993
1999 shows that in rural areas 72 per cent of households are indebted
informal sources of lending. Out of that 72 per cent, loans raised
informal money lenders stood at 22 per cent and pawn brokers stood at
21 per cent.
The credit is redirected from weaker sections
and sectors of society to capital markets and consumer credit.
resulted in excluding the vast sections of people both vulnerable and
vulnerable people from accessing the financial services thus leaving
open for the entry of private financial intermediaries. Exactly this
time when Chit fund companies flourished across the country. Chits like
Margadarshi in Andhra Pradesh and Sriram, Sundaram Finance in Tamilnadu
At the same time, influenced by the changes in
international policy scenario, governments both at the centre and in
adopted the concept of micro-credit modelling around Self-help Groups
NABARD championed this concept in
At this juncture, institutionalised money lending in
the form of MFIs entered the scene after realising the potential of
sector. They replaced SHGs with joint
lending groups (JLGs). In case of SHGs, there is no need of collaterals but they have to run around the banks for
loans. In case of MFIs, different types of collaterals starting with
cards, gas connections to valuable items at home are initiated. As MFIs
the business of advancing capital for profit, they hunt around the
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John Duigan’s first success, Mouth to Mouth, won the Jury Prize at the 1979 Australian Film Awards, and for the multi-award winning mini-series Vietnam, in which he cast Nicole Kidman in her first dramatic role, he won Best Director at the Penguin Television Awards. Other Australian-based films included Winter of Our Dreams, with Bryan Brown and Judy Davis, for which he won the Australian Writers Guild award for Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Australian Film Institute Awards;
The Year My Voice Broke, which won AFIs for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, the Australian Writer’s Guild award for Best Screenplay, Australian Critics Circle award for Best Film and Jury Prize at Rio De Janeiro; Flirting, for which he cast a young Naomi Watts in her first screen role, also an AFI Best Film and Critics Circle Best Film winner, and Sirens with Hugh Grant, Best Film winner at St. Petersburg. In 1991 he received the Byron Kennedy Award for ‘an impressive and original body of work both as writer and director’. From 1994, he was based mainly in the UK, working there and in the United States over the following twelve years. Between 2005 and 2010, he returned to his studies in Philosophy to work on a book of secular ethics, after which he resumed work on film in Australia with Careless Love in 2011-12, and on a new novel.