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This fall, Steve Shedd will plunk down nearly $10,000 to send his two oldest children to Santa Margarita High School in Rancho Santa Margarita. It will be quite a financial pinch for Shedd, particularly since he has never had to pay for his children’s education before.
But Shedd, an antiques dealer whose son and daughter were enrolled at University High School in Irvine, says the extra money he will have to dole out will be worth it.
“I never thought I would be sending my kids to a private school, but I feel I have to,” said Shedd, who last school year led a rally to protest proposed cuts in athletic programs in the Irvine Unified School District. “Private school is the best thing for my children now. Public schools are losing out in the ability to compete. With all the cutbacks made in public schools, it was the last straw.”
After several years of plunging enrollment, private schools are gaining students despite higher tuition costs and the continuing recession. In the last three years, total enrollment in Orange County private schools has risen from 41,699 to 44,688, an increase of 7%.
Parents increasingly are finding that private schools are a viable alternative to public schools. Instead of dismantling entire programs because of state deficit woes, private schools are expanding curricula and keeping student/teacher ratios in check. While public schools by law have to accept all students, including those with discipline problems and learning disabilities, private schools can pick and choose students and thus have more control over their academic standards and environment.
Tuition in many private and secular schools continues to rise, but enrollment continues to rise with it.
At St. Margaret’s Elementary, an Episcopalian school in San Juan Capistrano, tuition can be as much as $6,000, the equivalent of some college payments. The fee does not include field trips, uniforms, or books.
Still, Alana Porter and her husband, who are not Episcopalian, will be footing the high cost of sending their first-grader and eighth-grader to the school this fall, and their 2-year-old son is on the preschool waiting list.
Like non-Episcopalian students at St. Margaret’s, those who attend Morasha Jewish Day school in Mission Viejo do not necessarily practice the school’s religion, said Chaim Heller, Morasha’s director. And as at other private schools, enrollment at Morasha has been increasing.
The school, which rents space from Temple Eilat, started five years ago with 22 children. Next fall it will have 130 students from kindergarten to the seventh grade.
While parents appreciate the religious aspects of the school, they also pay close attention to the smaller class size and the individual attention that is provided by the teachers, Heller said.
“We simply individualize the students’ lessons,” Heller said. “Slower kids get tutoring, smarter students are allowed to go on ahead.”


3 sectors to own for the next decade
These will reward patient investors in the long term.
By James Brumley
Think about stocks you'd be willing to own for 10 years.
It's admittedly tough to consider things on that scale when the media's message -- and what you as an investor should do about it -- seems to change every 10 minutes. Even so, most investors innately know that the biggest rewards tend to get doled out to those who exercise patience.
With that as the backdrop, there are three sectors that long-term investors can be truly comfortable holding for the next decade ... if they can just learn to have faith in the bigger picture and not get sidetracked by the minutia.
Consumers' need to play video games on their smartphone will fade. Investors will eventually figure out that gold is more of a premise than an asset. Sooner or later, homeowners will stop buying electricity from their utility company because they'll be making it themselves using rooftop solar panels.
But people are always going to need washing machines, bulldozers and jet engines.
The industrial sector rarely looks exciting. That's because it isn't. This year's projected income growth of 10.3% trails the broad market's 12.8% growth track, and next year's projected bottom-line improvement again trails the overall market's. Thing is, while the industrials rarely hit a home run, these stocks also avoid the majority of the cyclical problems that zap sectors like financials and materials. The Vanguard Industrials ETF (VIS) is one of your best bets to tap into the ultra-consistent sector.
Top industry in the industrials sector: Water infrastructure.
Every day in the United States, 850 water mains (the pipes that route water from trunk lines to houses) break. Not every year -- every day. The crumbling water main infrastructure is a microcosm of deteriorating pipes and fittings found at all points between the water company's supply and your home. Some experts suggest it will take more than $350 billion to fix all of our water infrastructure problems. The best-of-breed name here may be Northwest Pipe (NWPX).
Yes, it's cliché, but true nonetheless.
While we all grumble when gas prices rise, it's rare for consumers or businesses to dial back how much of it they use. In fact, long-term demand for energy is growing regardless of costs. The same goes for heating oil, natural gas, or any other energy-centric commodity. We're addicted, and alternative energy sources -- despite how interesting they are -- just aren't ready to make a dent. The Energy SPDR (XLE) will work nicely in most portfolios.
Top industry in the energy sector: Natural gas.
Another cliché, but one that will get traction for years to come.
When natural gas prices slumped to a low of $2.12 per million BTUs in early 2012, most explorers and miners could no longer produce it profitably, calling into question the long-term viability of natural gas as a business opportunity. That big price plunge, however, was simply the natural response to an equally-ridiculous surge in natural gas prices in 2008, to a high of $13.60.
Now that the volatility kinks have been worked out, the tug-of-war between gas explorers, utility companies, and consumers seems to be stabilizing around $4.00 per million btu. That's a price that rewards the efficient and cost-effective producers, but doesn't allow the poorly-run companies to thrive. Look at Chesapeake Energy (CHK) as a way to play.
Yes, like the ever-growing demand for energy, the need for more (and better) healthcare is only going to expand in the future. The world's population is not only getting bigger, but we're living longer despite becoming less and less healthy during those longer lives.
Annually, health care in the U.S. is a $2 trillion industry, and is projected to grow at a pace of about 6% per year for at least the next five years. That's not to say the sector's top companies will only be able to grow at that rate, however. Through attrition of their competition and greater economies of scale, the healthcare industry's top players are poised for reliable double-digit growth. The advent of Obamacare will ultimately fan those flames, even if the impending law shakes down those who would have otherwise skipped buying insurance. The Health Care SPDR (XLV) is the easy way to take on a piece of this trend.
Top industry in the healthcare sector: Biotech
Fifteen years ago, biotech companies were high-risk, fringe investments. Today, biotech is the new pharmaceutical industry. The advent of genome sequencing will soon give biotech developers not just new knowledge, but will also provide tools to develop brand new kinds and categories of drugs. That being said, betting the farm on a one-trick pony -- a biotech company that only has one drug in the pipeline -- is still a dumb idea. Look for a company with a large library of biopharmaceuticals and a history of successful new drug development. Biogen Idec (BIIB) comes to mind.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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And turned everything into a major recession...With a collapse of our Financial Systems.
The Markets and some individual Companies have been hitting new or all time highs recently;
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Be careful of "all advice" you might get at this time, many are pushing stocks right now.
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I would kinda wait for what the next 2-4 months might bring..
If there is a substantial correction, and a bottom is close to realization, then I would consider coming into the Markets with more.
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Sooner than later, rates will rise from the artificially low levels created by the Global Feds, and it won't be pretty. Expect stocks to take a massive beating. For those that got in after the Crash of the Great Recession, they will be selling and those that never sold, they should be selling everything now. The Global FEDS bought you time, time to get out before the Mountain of Global Debt, blows the Top Off of the Global Economy. Biggest reward and patience, not this time around.
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“He was talking about diversity at a time when people weren’t talking about diversity and differences,” said Joe Stahlman Seneca-Iroquois National Museum.
The name Red Jacket can be found all over New York State including right here in Western New York. There’s parks and streets named after him. There’s even a huge monument marking his burial site at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
“When he was alive he was a celebrity,” said Stahlman. “American politicians loved him, philosophers, and even everyday folk and it was his speaking style. He had an air about him. He was a public speaker, people came from miles and miles just to hear him.”
In 1792 George Washington gave Red Jacket the “Red Jacket Peace Medal” honoring the Seneca’s role in the Treaty of Canandaigua. After his death, the medal passed through several hands before ending-up at the Buffalo History Museum.
The museum gave the medal back to the Senecas on Monday.
“It’s more than a physical artifact from our shared history,” said Seneca Nation President Matthew Pagels. “This meda, it represents what lives inside each and every Seneca person. The heart of a sovereign and our rightful recognition as such”
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Captain America is no stranger to new costumes, and thanks to what appears to be a coloring error on Marvel Comics' part, the star-spangled Avenger is decked out in red. Earlier this month, with the release of Immortal Hulk #7, fans noticed the Avengers leader in his new scarlet garb and were left scratching their heads.
No, Captain America isn't joining the Thunderbolts circa 2013 when everyone wore black-and-red costumes, nor is he cosplaying as Alpha Flight's Guardian, and given the rigid routines in the life of Steve Rogers, we're pretty sure he doesn't mix his reds when doing the laundry. This is a good old-fashioned coloring error.
You can check out the error from Immortal Hulk #7 below:
The issue in question, which also sees Tony Stark debut a new Hulkbuster armor, is one every fan needs to pick up. ComicBook.com's own Chase Magnett says, "This is still a series that loves twisting the narrative and surprising readers, and it manages to do so in a very big way in its final two pages: two of the best pages in this outstanding series so far." He even went as far to say, "After seven outstanding issues, one thing that is clear about The Immortal Hulk is that it represents the absolute best of what Marvel Comics can achieve in 2018."
Bruce Banner's abusive father has come back in the form of a haunting specter and has sent Hulk on a rampage like no other. The Hulk is smarter, more vengeful and scarier than the Avengers have ever seen him.
So what do you think of Captain America's new duds? Is it a look you want to see continue? Maybe even carried over into the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
As it looks right now, Marvel might not have any plans to correct the coloring mishap but we've reached out to see if that might change. If not, the issue might become a hot item for speculators given the first printing of the book absolutely features the mishap. The second printing might not.
UPDATE: Marvel has said the coloring error will be corrected in future reprints and on digital editions of Immortal Hulk #7. So get those first-print copies while you can!
Are you reading Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing and company? Let us know what you think of Cap's red threads or the series in general in the comments below.


The authors find that small investments are likely to yield large gains from increasing research funding in lung cancer; investing in women's health research yields benefits above investing in general research.
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Molly Waymouth (she/her) is a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. She is accomplished in policy research methods and project management with experience researching and managing in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Waymouth’s research focuses on topics pertaining to health policies, such as examining health care systems and delivery mechanisms, evaluating health reform policies, investigating the effectiveness of health interventions, analyzing population health data, and identifying factors that influence quality and access to care. Waymouth also pursues research in public health policy, maternal and child health, mental and behavioral health, and education policy. Waymouth has experience managing large and complex research projects and using mixed methods approaches for conducting research and analysis. Prior to joining RAND, Molly worked at CMS as an insurance specialist in Medicare coverage policy, assisting with oversight of state Medicaid programs, and supported the roll-out of the Health Insurance Marketplace and ACA implementation. She also served as a public health worker and clinical assistant in a rural health clinic in Guatemala, providing direct patient care and health education on medication, vaccinations, and contraception. Molly holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health with a concentration in health management and policy, a Graduate Certificate in epidemiology and biostatistics from Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, and a B.A. in Spanish and anthropology from the University of Vermont.
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Kapinos, Kandice A., Molly Waymouth, Mark Barrett, Cheryl K. Montemayor, Andrew W. Mulcahy, and Denise D. Quigley, Access to Medical Treatment for Injured Workers in California: Year 2 Annual Report, RAND Corporation (RR-2748-DIR), 2018
Mulcahy, A., Doyle, M., Malsberger, R., and Kapinos, K. , Access to Medical Treatment for Injured Workers in California: Year 1 Annual Report, (RR-2413), 2018
Uscher-Pines L, Demirci J, Waymouth M, Lawrence R, Parks A, Mehrotra A, Ray K, DeYoreo M, Kapinos K, "Impact of telelactation services on breastfeeding outcomes among Black and Latinx parents: protocol for the Tele-MILC randomized controlled trial," Trials, 2022
Baird, Matthew D., Melanie A. Zaber, Annie Chen, Andrew W. Dick, Chloe E. Bird, Molly Waymouth, Grace Gahlon, Denise D. Quigley, Hamad Al-Ibrahim, and Lori Frank, Research Funding for Women's Health: Modeling Societal Impact, RAND Corporation (RR-A708-4), 2021
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Protesters seeking to overthrow Thailand's government will not negotiate over freeing up access to ministries and state agencies that they have blockaded, protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban said on Monday.
The protesters have blockaded seven big intersections in the capital, Bangkok, and forced many ministries and other bodies such as the central bank to close their doors, with staff working from home or back-up facilities. The government asked them on Monday to discuss ways to free up access.
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3 The Lord said to me, ‘Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.’ Hosea 3
On a building next to my first church in Ashton Under Lyne was a blue plaque commemorating the fact that Francis Thompson the author of the poem THE HOUND OF HEAVEN had once lived there.
Here is the story of Francis Thompson if you haven’t heard of him before
Francis Thompson called God “The Hound of Heaven” because wherever he ended up in life, however far from God he ran, the Lord always found him. The Lord passionately pursued Francis Thompson all his life.
The Lord told Hosea to find Gomer and love her again to illustrate the nature of God that He passionately pursues us through life. That there is no place we can find ourselves. No mess we can end up in. Where God will not pursue us to and find us so he can express His love to us afresh.
Preston Sprinke in a book about grace, “We are all, as Robert Robinson wrote in his well-known hymn “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” “prone to wander … prone to leave the God I love.” We are prone to wander, but God is prone to pursue. And He’s faster.”
Gomer rejected her husband’s love, turned her back on him and walked away from their relationship. However rather than letting Gomer lie in the bed that she made for herself, Hosea pursued Gomer till he found her and expressed his for again. The Lord says in the actions of Hosea we see a reflection of His pursuit of Israel. Hosea teaches us that the Lord never gives up on those who give up on Him. Whether its Gomer, the nation of Israel or you and I, those who run away from God will soon hear his footsteps as He pursues them in love.

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A curated selection of Seattle’s finest contemporary drawing.
Remarkably, artists were selected by the unjaundiced eye and not chosen because of their reputation in either the fine art or cartoon art world, ahem.
Artwork was chosen by proximity, spiritual connection and contribution to the Northwest Tradition as pioneered by the likes of Morris Graves, Mark Toby, Peter Bagge and Jim Woodring.
Remarkably (yes, again), the artwork featured in SKID ROAD TO FLOATING WORLD is a mixed miasma of drone drawing, figure drawing, pattern cartooning, metamorphic automatism, cartography, illustration, totem drawing and good ole rain soaked mysticism.
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Artwork on display until June 30th.
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That question is answered in Congress of the Animals, Jim Woodring’s much-anticipated second full-length graphic novel following 2010′s universally acclaimed Weathercraft, and first starring his signature character Frank. In this gripping saga an act of casual rudeness sets into motion a chain of events which propels Frank into a world where he is on his own at last; and like so many who leave home, Frank finds himself contending with realities of which he had no previous inkling.


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High Sugar Grasses for increased Milk Yields from Forage
Interest in high sugar grass has grown rapidly since the first "Aber" High Sugar Grass varieties, bred for elevated levels of water soluble carbohydrate, were introduced by the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research (IGER) now known as IBERS. The levels of sugar in any grass variety will vary according to the seasonal conditions and growth period.
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Differences in sugar as small as 4% can have a marked effect on animal performance. Aber HSG varieties can be up to 50% higher in sugar than conventional grass seed varieties and can show up to 2.5 litres more milk, with dry matter intakes up by 2kg / head / day and live weight gains in youngstock increased by 20%.
Aber HSG diploid varieties such as AberDart have consistently higher sugar contents than both other diploid varieties and tetraploid varieties which in the past have mistakenly been considered to be higher in sugar than diploids.
HSG varieties have also recorded easily the highest D-Values in the NIAB listings for simulated grazing management as well as demonstrating excellent characteristics for a dense, persistent grazing sward.
HSG varieties are equally suited to silage making. Silage made with HSG grass has been shown to retain up to 7 times more sugar than silage made with conventional grass and up to 18 times more sugar when the High Sugar Grass was treated with a silage inoculant. Fermentation quality and nutrient levels were also improved both by use of High Sugar Grass and by use of an inoculant.
There has been much interest in providing increased levels of sugar in the diets of high yielding UK dairy herds. Normally farm livestock only utilise around 20% of the protein in grass. With HSG grass seed varieties this can be more than 50% higher. Sugars provide a source of readily available fermentable energy allowing the rumen microbes to process more forage and to make use of a higher proportion of the degradable protein in the diet in order to produce an increased level of quality microbial protein.
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RWN Grass and Clover Mixtures have been developed specifically to suite the needs of high yielding dairy farms. RWN grass and clover seed mixtures are based on the very best Grass and Clover varieties available. They are designed for maximum D-Value, Sugar levels, disease resistance, and persistency as well as forage DM yield. Our mixtures include a wide range of intermediate and late heading diploid as well as tetraploid hybrid grass seed varieties. We use only the best varieties available. The financial benefits can run into hundreds of pounds per acre over the life of the ley. A major benefit to UK Agriculture.
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A company's IT budget is affected by multiple variables, including the state of the economy, the industry sector in which it operates and its financial health -- not to mention the persuasiveness of the CIO (or other responsible executive) when it comes to fighting IT's corner in the boardroom.
When allocating the resulting IT budget, CIOs need to balance the tactical requirement to 'keep the lights on', by upgrading and if necessary expanding existing systems, with the more strategic requirement to explore new opportunities for digital transformation within the business. All the while, of course, the IT department is expected to deliver value for money by minimising capital expenditure and operational costs wherever possible.
This month's ZDNet special feature explores several aspects of IT budgeting, with particular reference to the upcoming 2016 round. In this introduction, we'll take a look at some recently released survey results -- including from our sister site Tech Pro Research -- and examine how CIOs can get a helping hand with budgeting and IT procurement from specialist SaaS providers and consultants respectively.
Analysts on IT budgets
As noted above, the current economic climate and the industry sector involved are big influences on a company's IT budget. Analyst firm Gartner has recently outlined its view on how the rest of 2015 will pan out for a range of vertical industries, forecasting a total worldwide IT spend of $2.69 trillion -- a decline of 3.5 percent over 2014. Attributing this largely to the strength of the US dollar (and also to slowdowns in emerging markets such as Russia, Brazil and China), Gartner forecasts the biggest spending drops in the government (-5%) and manufacturing & natural resources (-4.5%) sectors, with retail (-1.5%) and banking & securities (-2.4%) holding up best:
In the retail sector, Gartner sees high priority given to spending on technologies that help understand customers better, improve engagement through multi-channel experience and facilitate the buying process. IT infrastructure to accept various mobile payment systems and digital wallets will also be a priority for retailers for the remainder of 2015, says Gartner.
As for the banking & utilities sector, Gartner expects a doubling of IT budget to support digital and other new technology initiatives through 2019, despite a forecast 2.4 percent decline in the 2014-15 period.
IT budget surveys
Market research firm Computer Economics has published an annual IT Spending & Staffing Benchmarks report since 1990 and is a valuable source of IT budgeting metrics for North American organisations. The 2015/2016 report was based on survey information from 203 organisations, split equally among small (operational IT budget <$5m), medium ($5m-<$20m) and large (>$20m) organisations from the US and Canada. Leading industry sectors in the survey sample were Public & Non-profit (18%), Financial Services (12%), Professional & Technical Services (11%), Retail & Wholesale (11%) and Process Manufacturing (11%).
Headline findings from Computer Economics' 2015/2016 survey are that over two-thirds (69%) of IT organisations are increasing their operational IT budgets this year, with a median year-on-year growth rate of three percent. Larger organisations and services companies are doing particularly well in terms of operational IT spending growth. Capital spending on IT, however, remains flat (43% increasing, 37% decreasing, 20% about the same; 0% median YoY growth rate), while IT headcounts show only a marginal rise.
The finding that IT spending as a percentage of revenue, and on a per-user basis, is falling has two possible explanations: IT budgets could simply be lagging behind the general growth in revenue and employee headcount; alternatively, the effects of a transition to the cloud may be showing up -- cloud migration would increase operational spending and depress capital spending, as observed. Backing up the latter interpretation is the fact that 56 percent of surveyed organisations are increasing spending on cloud applications, while just 10 percent are investing in data centre infrastructure:
"In short," concludes the Computer Economics report, "IT executives today are in a good position to think strategically, lobby for IT investment, and deliver real long-term value to the business. We are beginning to see the first signs that cloud computing is having a positive, if disruptive, influence."
The IT professional network Spiceworks has just published its 2016 State of IT report, including survey results from over 800 IT professionals. Over half (59%) of these IT pros were from North America, with the remainder (41%) coming from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Spiceworks' survey has a strong SME focus, with 91 percent of the survey population from companies employing fewer than 1,000 people. The leading industry sectors in the survey sample were Manufacturing (13%), IT services (11%), Healthcare (10%) and Education (8%).
Spiceworks' survey finds that IT budgets remain flat, with planned spending rising by just 0.7 percent overall (7.9% in North America, -0.3% in EMEA). This is despite the fact that more than half (56%) of IT pros expect their company revenues to increase next year, with confidence slightly higher in EMEA (58%) than in North America (55%). Only a third (34%) of IT pros expect their headcounts to rise in 2016, although again confidence is slightly higher in EMEA (36%) than in North America (32%).
When it comes to the drivers of IT spend for 2016, the picture is more incremental improvement than digital transformation, with end-of-life issues, growth/additional need and upgrades/refresh cycles far ahead of 'new technology features' in the pecking order:
Hardware and software projects will account for most of the 2016 IT spend (37% and 31% respectively), although spending on managed service projects and hosted/cloud-based projects both show increases over the figures for 2015. Interestingly, in this SME-heavy survey population at least, the desktop computer appears to be alive and well: 21 percent of hardware budgets will go on desktops in 2016, compared to 19 percent on servers, 16 percent on laptops, 10 percent on networking, 6 percent on external storage and 6 percent on tablet/mobile.
Another noteworthy finding from Spiceworks' survey is that, although 59 percent of IT pros feel that their organisation does not adequately invest in IT security, they only plan to spend nine percent of their software budget, or six percent of their total budget, on security in 2016.
Tech Pro Research
To accompany this special feature, ZDNet sister site Tech Pro Research (TPR) conducted a survey in August 2015 -- IT Budgets: Drivers, trends and concerns in 2016. The 201-strong survey population were mostly IT managers (46%) and CIOs/CTOs (15%) in organisations from over 20 industry sectors, 49 percent of them located in North America. As with the Spiceworks survey, this one has a strong SME focus, with 84 percent of respondents hailing from organisations employing under 1,000 people full time.
The key findings from TPR's survey were as follows:
Year to year IT budgets remain flat (plus or minus ten percent, which is in line with historical trends).
The IT budget creation process begins with IT middle managers and key technical contributors.
Outside IT consultants play a major role in recommending technologies that organizations adopt.
Final IT budget approval occurs at the level of the CFO or the CEO.
Most new IT projects approved in budgets are driven by specific business initiatives.
To sell their budgets, IT decision makers prefer technology investments that can be expensed operationally, and not as longer term capital expenses.
Those approving IT budgets want to see return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) projections for the IT projects that they are considering for approval.
More companies are choosing to in-source rather than to outsource IT.
Because more companies are in-sourcing staff, training in vital skills is an important IT budget item for 2016.
Top project focuses in IT in 2016 are security, governance and networks.
For more details, see the full TPR report, which is also summarised at greater length here. This chart displays the survey population's budget priorities for 2016, and shows a clear focus on operational efficiency, security and business continuity:
Other priorities that have increased visibility since last year's survey include mobile device management, plus the simplification and automation of many internal IT processes.
Software & services for CIOs
Technology Business Management: Apptio
Many CIOs still use elaborate Excel spreadsheets to create and manage their IT budgets, but specialised Technology Business Management (TBM) software is available, notably from leading SaaS vendorApptio.
Founded in 2007, privately held Apptio "allows CIOs to run IT like a business," as co-founder and CEO Sunny Gupta puts it. "It's a business management system based on analytics and data that CIOs can use to get transparency into the cost of IT, make better decisions, benchmark themselves against their peers and communicate the value of what IT provides to the business," says Gupta.
Apptio currently has around 250 customers, many of them large enterprises -- although smaller organisations are also represented. "Our smallest customer is managing four million dollars in technology spend on an annual basis, while the largest customer we have is managing twelve billion," says Gupta.
Typically, CIOs have a high-level understanding of their cost base, but lack transparency at a granular level. "For example, what are they spending on compute, when you count labour, hardware, software, facilities, power and cooling -- all the cost drivers?," asks Gupta. "They don't understand fully what they're spending on things like SAP and cloud services, or what percentage of their spend is on 'business as usual' versus innovation, and cannot describe what part of their IT cost structure is fixed versus variable."
The time certainly seems right for a more data-driven approach to IT management. "A lot of CIOs over the last three to five years have been under pressure to cut costs and have used approaches like insourcing and outsourcing to drive some level of optimisation," says Gupta. "But now their budgets are flat or going down and they're being asked to do more. Also, the cloud is not helping because people can see what a unit of compute from Amazon or Microsoft will cost -- but what is the internal cost structure for running data centres and compute, and how can better decisions be based on real data and facts?"
Because these problems are pervasive for CIOs, Apptio has created a non-profit organisation called the Technology Business Management Council, or TBM Council, whose leadership includes CIOs from organisations like Microsoft, HP Enterprise Group, Exxon Mobil, Nike and Nationwide Building Society.
"What we've done," says Gupta, "is created an industry-standard taxonomy of the IT cost model [called ATUM, for Apptio TBM Unified Model] and the cloud services are represented in there. What Apptio can do is take a bill -- from Microsoft Azure or AWS for example -- and automatically map it into the standard taxonomy, so at any given time a CIO can compare apples to apples: what their cost structure is, what their outsourcers' cost structure is and what the cloud options are. So they're able to continuously evaluate the options and see which workloads make sense to run where."
Apptio has also launched a quarterly IT Economics Report, which mines the company's repository of customer data for (anonymised) insights into IT spending patterns. The inaugural report finds that, when viewed as 'Cost Pools', 44 percent of typical IT spend goes towards people-related costs, with 31 percent going on technology and 13 percent on outside services. Switching costs to 'Resource Towers', business-facing productivity offerings get the biggest share (49%), followed by infrastructure (29%) and IT operations (18%).
Apptio's customer data harbours three groups of companies (which it calls 'archetypes') that demonstrate different ways of sourcing their IT supply chain -- Technology-centric, Vendor-centric and People-centric:
Technology-centric organisations favour spending on hardware and software; Vendor-centric companies spend more on outside services such as consultants, managed service providers and cloud services; and People-centric firms spend more on internal labour and less on contractors and software.
One topic Apptio has lined up for future coverage in its quarterly report is 'How are organisations optimizing run costs in order to fund innovation?'. According to Gupta, this is a common problem: "Every CIO has 70-80 percent of their cost structure and IT budget tied into 'run IT', or business as usual, with only 20-30 percent focused on innovation. Every CIO we talked to, going into 2016, wants to shift at least 5-10 percent of their cost structure from business-as-usual to driving more digital innovation for the business."
A related problem CIOs are wrestling with, according to Gupta, is how to optimise the utilisation of existing in-house IT infrastructure in order to free up resources to exploit cloud services for projects requiring more agility. Then there's the issue of 'shadow IT': "We are finding that anywhere from ten to thirty percent of the cost structure in an IT organisation may be outside the CIO's control. CIOs are under tremendous pressure to be able to respond, and to govern this shadow IT spend that's happening in the enterprise."
TBM software such as Apptio can give CIOs a much more precise handle on these problems, providing them with better ammunition when it comes to budgeting time. As Gupta sums up: "IT is probably the last discipline that's running on spreadsheets: CIOs put in business systems for every other function, but forgot to put it in for themselves."
IT procurement consultants: Turnstone Services
Once CIOs have their IT budgets, they will naturally be concerned to achieve the maximum possible value for money from their suppliers -- a challenging task if multiple vendors are involved.
Enter specialist IT procurement consultancies such as London-based Turnstone Services, which employs CIPS-qualified consultants and has experience of negotiating with over 250 vendors. Turnstone claims that it can save clients -- who are typically FTSE 350 and large public-sector organisations -- around six times the fees it charges, on average.
"We're a bunch of commercial folk specialising in IT sourcing and procurement," says founding director David Brook, "which makes us a bit of a rare breed because most CIOs will do this sort of work themselves. Our claim is that if you're going for a large purchase like an ERP or a WAN, firstly it's very infrequent and secondly, although IT teams may be technically strong or business strong, commercial skills are quite a different thing -- that's our play."
Despite reports of flat IT budgets, Brook finds "a lot more activity going on, a lot more spend happening: the credit crunch has now lifted, and a lot of companies that were in a holding pattern are left with IT systems that are creaking. We're certainly seeing capex spend going up, both on the acquisition of new stuff and renewals."
A significant portion of Turnstone Services' work has turned out to be 'vendor management' (basically, ensuring that suppliers deliver maximum value to their clients), although according to Brook the company didn't start out that way: "A few clients said, 'It's great that you guys came and helped orchestrate a market tender, but we've got a big vendor portfolio -- can you come and do a day a week?' It may not be that glamorous, but there's often quite a bit of value to be found."
Brook notes that contracts are often weighted in favour of the supplier, and are renegotiable mid-term to improve the client's standing -- which is where Turnstone Services comes in with its 'Contract MOT' review and benchmarking service. This combs through IT contracts clause by clause, grading each one using a traffic-light system in order to build a renegotiation plan:
When it comes to spending on business-as-usual versus innovation, Brook is seeing plenty of the latter: "We're involved in two quite large projects that are not only being badged as 'IT transformations', but they're also going to fundamentally rewire the businesses, and while we lay our stall out as being commercial IT procurement, we've done enough of these to know that process change -- and change management -- is essential." Having said that, Brook notes that "there are plenty of organisations that are still very conservative, running data centres and their own servers, with reams of technical guys who want to get stuck into the Meccano."
The typical Turnstone Services customer has £100-£400 million turnover: "there's enough critical mass of IT going on, but there isn't a huge procurement function with some dedicated IT people in it," explains Brook. More generally, he notes that "as in-house functions dwindle, and more use of the external market is made, we're finding that there's more traction for our services. The rise of vendor management this year is testament to that: with more companies outsourcing data centre, disaster recovery and app development, they're starting to realise that you don't need an army of techies to run those -- that's the wrong skillset and that leads to failure."
As 2016 approaches, CIOs find themselves in the (now-customary) position of being asked to do more with the same or less money and little or no extra headcount. Not only do they need to keep businesses running by upgrading and, if necessary, expanding existing systems, but they also need to seek ways to optimise the utilisation of in-house infrastructure and any external services, in order to free up resources for innovative business-transformation projects.
It's a tough assignment, and it's clear that many CIOs will need more than an Excel spreadsheet and a belief in their own vendor-management skills in order to get by.


Former Balfour Beatty chief executive Ian Tyler has been appointed by the Cabinet Office as a ‘Crown Representative’ to help make government savings and improve supplier relations.
Mr Tyler is one of six business leaders appointed to ensure government gets best value from contracts, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude announced today.
The representatives will work with departments to engage early with suppliers, improve relationships and negotiate the best possible contracts.
The other appointees include senior figures the telecoms industry, IT and insurance, as well as Accenture and Freeserve.
Mr Maude said: “We’re serious about equipping the Civil Service with the right skills to help the UK compete in the global race.
“That’s why we’ve recruited experts from the business world, using their commercial insight to work alongside departments to get the most from relationships with our largest suppliers.
“We are spending less overall, but spending taxpayers’ money better.
“Our six new recruits have a big job ahead of them to build on the £800 million saved by renegotiating expensive contracts in the first 10 months of this government – I’m confident they will put the full weight of their expertise behind the challenge.”
Chief procurement officer and commercial director-general Bill Crothers: “We know we can only drive efficiencies if we act as a single customer to maximise our buying power and be a better client.
“Our new Crown Representative appointments will bolster the impact of work departments are doing to identify savings and demonstrate a commitment to improving supplier relationships and performance – an objective that has already made an immediate difference to how government does business.”


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The recreation center «Aktam» is located in the Miorsky district of the Vitebsk region. The houses are surrounded by a mixed clean forest with beautiful ornamental shrubs. Not far away is Lake Vazha, which is included in the Braslav group of lakes. Guests live in cozy houses in the rooms of different categories, where there is everything you need for a pleasant time. Catering is organized in the dining room: local chefs are ready to offer a wide variety of dishes, including using the products of their own farm. You can condemn to this place with the children, since a playground with various swings, horizontal bars, and carousels has been created for them.
Employees of the recreation center are ready to offer corporate events: a large banquet room is located in the dining hall building. In the usual time will also be what to do. For guests there is a Russian sauna, a cafe. On the territory there are gazebos and barbecue areas, as well as an equipped beach. On the lake you can organize fishing, ride a boat or catamaran. The most active vacationers can spend time playing volleyball or table tennis. They also offer to go on sightseeing tours of Braslav, Miory, Pastam and Mosar. And in the season of picking mushrooms and berries, guests can go to the nearest forest, which is rich in gifts of nature.
The recreation centre is located on the bank of lake Vazha with the area of 2,92 km². The lake Vazha is connected with the lakes Uklya, Obsterna, Nabista. These lakes are in the group of Braslav Lakes.
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*1977, grew up in Klosters, studied – after the preliminary course – at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zürich, and studied architecture at the ETH Zürich in1998-2004. She worked in Chur, Glasgow, and Zürich, and has had it in architecture practice jointly with Judith Gessler since 2006, and as the collective AMJGS since 2012. She is a member of the managing board of the Zürich chapter of the Swiss Werkbund (SWB), and hence a member of the governing board
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*1975, grew up in Schübelbach and studied architecture in Winterthur and Berlin. He worked in architectural practices in Zürich, Vienna, and Berlin, and founded his own design studio in Dresden in 2006, which he operates today with Florian Kessel in Berlin and Zürich. Since 2007, he has taught at the ZHAW Winterthur, and beginning in 2011, has also worked as an editor werk, bauen + wohnen.
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*1947, grew up in Schaffhausen. Concluded her studies at Zürich University in 1978 in anthropology and art history. 1981-1997, headed the department School and Museum at the Pesta-
lozzianum Zürich, and relaunched the Winterthur Gewerbemuseum as co-director beginning in 1998. Since 2011, she has realized numerous exhibitions and events there. Until 2011: member of the Eidgennössische Design-kommission.
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*1938, grew up in Riehen. After studies as an interior architect at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich (today the University of the Arts) she worked as an exhibition organizer and specialized journalist in Switzerland and abroad. Up until 2001, she headed an interior architecture practice in Zürich. In 1980-2003, she taught at the architecture department of the ZHAW in Winterthur. In 2008-2014, she was a member of the governing board of the Swiss Werkbund (SWB).


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Lucy JONES & others 1 v. Ronald BOYKAN & others.2
The plaintiffs, Lucy Jones (Lucy), Sierra Jones (Sierra), Nicole Jones (Nicole), and William Owens (Owens), appeal from an order dismissing their appeal from a Superior Court judgment on the basis that their notice of appeal was not timely filed. We reverse. Our decision illustrates some of the traps for the unwary that lurk within the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure.
We begin by reciting the procedural history as background for our decision in this matter.
1. The plaintiffs' complaint. On June 12, 2003, the plaintiffs filed a complaint in the Superior Court against the defendants, Ronald Boykan (Boykan) and the city of Springfield police department (department), alleging that Boykan, a police officer, on or about June 12, 1999, entered a convenience store owned by Lucy, falsely arrested Nicole and Owens, and caused injury to all of the plaintiffs.
In count I, all of the plaintiffs claimed assault and infliction of emotional distress, and Lucy, Nicole, and Owens claimed battery; in count II, Lucy, Nicole, and Owens claimed civil rights violations under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; in count III, Nicole and Owens claimed violations of G.L. c. 93A; in count IV, Nicole and Owens claimed false arrest.
2. Judge's ruling on Boykan's and the department's motion to dismiss the plaintiffs' second amended complaint. On June 15, 2006, Boykan and the department filed a motion to dismiss the plaintiffs' complaint on several grounds, including the statute of limitations. The department also claimed that it was misnamed as a party in the action, as Boykan was an employee of the city of Springfield (city), not the department.
After the defendants responded to the plaintiffs' complaint and after the defendants' motion to dismiss was filed, the plaintiffs, without seeking permission from the motion judge as required by Mass.R.Civ.P. 15(a), 365 Mass. 761 (1974), filed a second amended complaint adding the city as a party.3 The motion judge noted that the plaintiffs had not properly amended the complaint but, nevertheless, treated the plaintiffs' complaint as amended to include the city as a party, and the motion to dismiss as encompassing the plaintiffs' claims against the city. On appeal, the city does not raise any issue whether the amended complaint was properly amended.
On July 27, 2006, the motion judge issued a decision and order allowing Boykan's and the department's motion as follows: dismissing all claims by Nicole and Owens against Boykan, the department, and the city; dismissing all claims by Lucy against the department and the city, but denying the motion to dismiss as to Lucy's claims for assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Boykan; and dismissing all claims by Sierra against the department and the city, but denying the motion as to Sierra's claims for assault and battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress against Boykan.
3. The entry of judgments on the motion to dismiss the plaintiffs' complaint and the plaintiffs' attempted appeal. As a result of the motion judge's order in July, 2006, two separate “judgments” were entered in the matter on August 15, 2006. The first “judgment” dismissed Lucy's and Sierra's complaint against the department only. The second “judgment” dismissed Nicole's and Owens's complaint against Boykan and the department. However, neither “judgment” dismissed the plaintiffs' complaint against the city. Moreover, no order entered under Mass.R.Civ.P. 54(b), 365 Mass 821 (1974).4 After the entry of the two judgments, Lucy's and Sierra's claims against Boykan still remained.
On September 1, 2006, the plaintiffs filed an “interlocutory notice of appeal” as to the August 15, 2006, judgments. This notice of appeal was premature because other claims were pending, and therefore it was of no effect. Mass.R.A.P. 4(a), as amended, 430 Mass. 1603 (1999). See Padden v. West Boylston, 64 Mass.App.Ct. 120, 123-124, 831 N.E.2d 927 (2005).
4. Boykan's motion for summary judgment. On December 18, 2006, Boykan filed a motion for summary judgment as to Lucy's and Sierra's claims. On February 6, 2007, a Superior Court judge allowed the motion as to these two plaintiffs' remaining claims against Boykan. Summary judgment entered on February 16, 2007, dismissing Lucy's and Sierra's claims. The February 16, 2007, judgment made no mention of the claims addressed in the August 15, 2006, judgments. The February 16, 2007, judgment was not final, however, because, as of that time, no “judgment” had referred to the claims against the city.
On April 5, 2007, a notice of appeal was filed on behalf of the plaintiffs. Like the September, 2006, notice of appeal, the April 5, 2007, notice of appeal was premature because, as of that date, there was no final judgment.
5. Amended judgment. On April 12, 2007, the judge sua sponte issued an amended judgment pertaining to the “judgments” entered on August 15, 2006. In her subsequent decision and order addressing the defendants' motion to dismiss the plaintiffs' appeal, the motion judge stated that the amended judgment had been issued to correct “a clerical or scrivener's error (the name of the person who heard the dismissal motion).” In addition to correcting the judge's name, however, the amended judgment stated that the complaint of the plaintiffs was “hereby dismissed against the defendant(s) Springfield Police Department and the ․ City of Springfield and the Complaint of plaintiffs Nicole Jones and William Owens is ․ dismissed against the defendant Ronald Boykan.” Thus, for the first time, a judgment entered dismissing the plaintiffs' complaint against the city. Moreover, the entry of the April 12, 2007, amended judgment represented the first time that, together with the various judgments previously entered, all claims involving all parties were addressed in a judgment. On May 9, 2007, the plaintiffs filed a notice of appeal from the April 12, 2007, amended judgment.5
6. The defendants' motion to dismiss the plaintiffs' appeal. On June 7, 2007, the defendants filed a motion to dismiss the plaintiffs' appeal as untimely on the basis that no notice of appeal was filed within thirty days of February 16, 2007, as required by Mass.R.A.P. 4(a). In response, the plaintiffs claimed that their April 5, 2007, notice of appeal was timely filed, within the sixty-day period allowed for cases in which the Commonwealth is a party.6 In the alternative, the plaintiffs argued that no final judgment entered until April 12, 2007, because prior to that date no judgment had addressed the plaintiffs' claims against the city. Accordingly, they argued, their May 9, 2007, notice of appeal was timely filed.
The motion judge allowed the defendants' motion on the basis that the amendment only corrected a clerical error, see Mass.R.Civ.P. 60(a), 365 Mass. 828 (1974), and “the date of the entry of the final judgment remained February 16, 2007.” She dismissed the plaintiffs' appeal.
Discussion. We now address whether the plaintiffs' appeal was timely commenced. We recognize that, pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P. 60(a), it is permissible for a judge to correct sua sponte “[c]lerical mistakes in judgments, orders or other parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or omission․” The parties sharply dispute whether the correction in this instance was “clerical,” as the judge concluded. See Gagnon v. Fontaine, 36 Mass.App.Ct. 393, 396, 631 N.E.2d 1029 (1994).7
However, whether the amendments made by the judge sua sponte could be categorized as clerical is of no consequence to the timeliness of the plaintiffs' appeal.8 Prior to the entry of the April 12, 2007, amended judgment, the only document indicating that the city had been dismissed as a party was the judge's order appended to her memorandum of decision that preceded the entry of the two “judgments” on August 15, 2006. Neither of those judgments dismissed the city as a party. “It is the entry of a final judgment, not the order found in the concluding paragraph of the judge's memorandum of decision, that starts the appellate clock. See Swift & Co. v. Superior Pet Prods., Inc., 5 Mass.App.Ct. 904, 370 N.E.2d 454 (1977).” Department of Rev. v. Mason M., 439 Mass. 665, 673, 790 N.E.2d 671 (2003). Even if the amended judgment represented a clerical correction properly made under Mass.R.Civ.P. 60(a), no “judgment” that entered prior to the amended judgment (including, as relevant to the timeliness of the notice of appeal, the February 16, 2007, judgment) disposed of all claims against all parties. Here, the claims against the city were not adjudged dismissed until the entry of the amended judgment on April 12, 2007. As no “judgment” previously had addressed the plaintiffs' claims against the city, no judgment entered before April 12 was final, in the sense contemplated by Mass.R.Civ.P. 54(b) and Mass.R.A.P. 4(a).9 Therefore, the plaintiffs' appeal should not have been dismissed as untimely.
Because the April 12, 2007, amended judgment was indeed a final judgment, and because no final judgment entered before that date, the plaintiffs' notice of appeal was timely filed on May 9, 2007. Therefore, the order dismissing their appeal was in error.
Order dismissing plaintiffs' appeal reversed.
3. The amended complaint was filed on April 25, 2006. There is no copy of the second amended complaint in the record. According to the docket, however, the second amended complaint was filed on June 26, 2006.
4. Rule 54(b) provides that when multiple claims or multiple parties remain after an order of decision, final judgment should not enter unless a judge makes an “express determination that there is no just reason for delay and upon an express direction for the entry of judgment.” See Long v. Wickett, 50 Mass.App.Ct. 380, 385-390, 737 N.E.2d 885 (2000). The plaintiffs' second amended complaint presented multiple claims involving multiple parties.
5. If the February 16, 2007, judgment had been final, then neither the April 5, 2007, notice of appeal nor the May 9, 2007, notice of appeal would have been timely because both were filed more than thirty days after February 16. See Mass.R.A.P. 4(a), which provides, in pertinent part, that a notice of appeal “shall be filed with the clerk of the lower court within thirty days of the date of the entry of the judgment appealed from.” We later discuss an argument by the plaintiffs that, in their circumstances, they had sixty days within which to file their notice of appeal. See note 6, infra.
6. We need not address the claim that the plaintiffs had sixty days to file a notice of appeal because we conclude (later in this opinion) that the February 16, 2007, judgment was not a final judgment. Nevertheless, we agree with the motion judge that the plaintiffs did not have sixty days to file their notice of appeal. The plaintiffs rely on Mass.R.A.P. 4(a), which states in relevant part that “if the Commonwealth or an officer or agency thereof is a party, the notice of appeal may be filed ․ within sixty days of such entry [of the judgment]․”We reject the argument. Boykan was a city employee; the city is not a subdivision of the Commonwealth for purposes of calculating the appeal period. See and compare Okongwu v. Stephens, 396 Mass. 724, 730-732, 488 N.E.2d 765 (1986). Thus, in this matter, the appropriate period in which a notice of appeal may be filed is thirty days.
7. As the judge correctly recognized, the correction of a clerical error does not extend the time for taking an appeal from a final judgment. See 11 Wright, Miller, & Kane, Federal Practice and Procedure § 2871 (2d ed. 1995).
8. Though the question is immaterial to resolution of the issue before us on appeal, we nonetheless express our view that the amendment was clerical, so as to remove any uncertainty regarding the judge's authority to act pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P. 60(a), and any related uncertainty regarding the validity and finality of the amended judgment entered on April 12, 2007.
9. We pause to observe that much unnecessary confusion arose in this case from the entry of separate “judgments” on August 15, 2006, each addressing discrete claims involving only certain parties. A significant purpose inherent in Mass.R.Civ.P. 54 and Mass.R.Civ.P. 58, as amended, 371 Mass. 908 (1977), is to provide certainty and clarity concerning the existence and terms of a final judgment. That purpose is defeated when, as occurred in the present case, judgments enter in piecemeal fashion on separate claims involving separate parties. When partial judgments enter in piecemeal fashion it is impossible to ascertain whether a particular judgment concludes the case except by reviewing the entire docket history and comparing the various judgments entered over the course of the case to the array of claims and parties set forth in the pleadings. In the absence of a rule 54(b) certification, supporting entry of final judgment as to fewer than all claims or parties, the better practice is to defer the entry of anything designated a “judgment” until all claims are determined as to all parties and then to have a single final judgment enter as to all claims and parties.

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During the first half of the twentieth century, taking the train meant traveling at speed and in styleelegant dining services and sleeping quarters, parlor and club cars, and dome cars that allowed unparalleled views of the surrounding landscape. To lure travelers on board routes that crisscrossed the United States, the rail industry hired accomplished artists to create posters that celebrated the romance of exploring Americas seashores, deserts, plains, and mountains by rail. The twelve posters in this calendar feature both speeding locomotives and their destinations.
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US Security and Exchange Commission to go after ICOs who don’t fulfill proper registration requirements
The announcement was made by SEC co-director of enforcement Stephanie Avakian in a speech made on September 20th.
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- The SEC has released public statements warning investors of the risk of ICOs. They believe investors excitement about the potential of ICOs could overshadow the risk associated with these types of investment.
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Wishful thinking is always too good to be true. Relief among investors over the fiscal cliff deal has given way to doubts about the true worth of the agreement, causing the ‘single unit’ EUR to slip against the ‘mighty’ dollar. There are concerns that US lawmakers have merely ‘kicked the can’ further down the road. Congress managed to make a last-gasp deal this week to delay spending cuts, this time by two months. The result is that investors should expect another standoff between the Democrats and the Republicans in the coming weeks.
Looking at the OANDA OrderBook data for open EUR/USD positions, this week’s initial relief rally has clearly ended abruptly. And no wonder. Some key US economic issues remain unresolved, as yesterday’s final vote in Congress has only temporarily averted the immediate pain of tax hikes on US citizens. Not helping matters is tomorrow’s NFP report. Investors have been naturally reluctant to make any bold moves ahead of the report, especially in this illiquid forex market.
Capital Markets should expect investor focus to soon shift back to the US debt ceiling negotiations. A successful compromise would allow the US government to continue borrowing and fend off the possibility of default. Yet it is now feared that some Republicans could become “obstinate in negotiations this time around,” feeling that they have already given up too much in the current deal.
Economic data storm this week
This morning’s weekly US jobless claims report coupled with the ADP payrolls data should provide a hint to tomorrow’s monthly employment report. Analysts expect this week’s claims release to recoup some of last week’s holiday–affected drop to +350k. At the same time, consensus is looking for an uptick in the ADP reading of +15k to +133k. The unknown variable for tomorrow’s employment number is expected to be ‘storm-related construction hiring.’
Also reported later today is the minutes to the FED’s December meeting. The release will allow the market to perhaps get a better handle on Bernanke’s new conditional policy guidance. Despite the market trading thin, such data releases will be fast and furious for the remainder of our first trading week this year.
Overnight in Asia, investors witnessed China’s non-manufacturing PMI rising for the third consecutive month to 56.1 in December from 55.6 in November. Digging deeper, the new orders index increased +1.1 points to 56.1 and ended up being the highest score for the last calendar year. The report showed strengthening activities for construction and service sector, a good combination to aid domestic demand and current Chinese growth momentum. This is certainly a good mix to keep global investors somewhat optimistic.
The euro region has provided a mixed bag of results this morning. ECB data shows that credit conditions in the region remained weak in November. There has been a continuous drop in private sector lending (-0.8%) and no change to the broad money supply. Despite the liquidity position of eurozone banks improving overall last year, private sector lending has not seen any uptick. Even the ECB’s decision to cut the deposit rate to zero has had little impact. Demand for credit continues to be impeded by euro and global growth concerns and the market’s uptick in risk aversion.
Investors are left to ‘pick the best of a bad lot’ when it comes to EUR and GBP currency pairs. The number of unemployed in Germany edged higher last month (+3k), but managed to beat market expectations. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate now stands at +6.9%. Employment conditions for Europe’s backbone remain upbeat when we compare it to most members in the Union. The periphery states are reporting +25% unemployment rates!
Activity data in the UK construction industry fell quicker than expected last month, driven mostly by the weakness in house-building (PMI construction: 48.7 from 49.3 in November). Coupled with a steepening decline in ‘new’ business it certainly signals further trouble ahead. New business levels have now fallen for a seventh consecutive month. When it comes to EUR/GBP, sometimes it’s about picking the best of the worst!
Patience is to be applauded. There will be plenty of opportunities for investors to act out their strong market conviction that’s been supported by fundamentals, technical and liquidity. For the time being, it has been a “crap” shoot amongst the sharp retracement of yesterday’s EUR gains. Market focus will now be switching to tomorrow’s NFP release. Because so many have missed this move, selling EUR upticks is the favored strategy once more. Convincingly through 1.3100 does open up a hole for some!
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Community Ambassador alumna Ray Koçi works to make the streets of Tirana more child-friendly
An Open AQ Impact Story
Ray Koçi is the program director of Qendra Marrëdhënie (QM), which translates to Relationship Center in English. QM is a nonprofit group focused on urban research and action in Tirana, Albania. They examine neighborhood planning through the lens of building safe and healthy spaces for children and their caregivers, with a particular focus on improving quality of life through better air quality. Ray has extensive experience working with international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that focus on human rights and on social issues that require communities to come together for solution-building.
In joining OpenAQ’s 2021 Community Ambassador program, Ray wanted to better advocate for improved air quality in Albania, especially in Tirana, its capital city. At that time, she was working with QM on improving streets for children and their caregivers. With expertise in urban planning and management and experience as a double community mediator and public institutions liaison, Ray had an informed perspective on how air quality affects communities and livelihoods and how to advance Tirana’s child-first urban planning policies where school streets are the primary focus.
As a result of the Community Ambassador program, Ray gained additional skills to support her nonprofit’s work in urban planning and providing a healthier environment for kids, as well as to help QM create and push forward a holistic agenda aimed at improving city-making in Albania. Specifically, QM was able to expand its School Streets program in collaboration with the Municipality of Tirana, vocally supported by the mayor and deputy mayors. Ray happily reports, “So far we have implemented tactical interventions in six school streets. One of them was the pilot from the year I started the ambassador program. Five more schools have been implemented [since then], and one of them has even had capital construction undertaken by the city, which is the greatest news for a project like this.”
Ray says that while it was challenging that the Community Ambassador program was completely online, she was glad that she was able to learn more about air quality and that she was able to expand her network through the program. The workshops with air quality experts proved valuable in supporting interventions with data and advocating for better quality in public spaces within Tirana. Ray shares, “The impact of the ambassadorship for me (both personally and in my daily work) was getting more in depth on air quality and its direct effects on loss of life; looking and understanding different data sets which is relevant to pursuing the policy and regulation changes; connecting to professionals in the world and getting an extra perspective from air quality experts focusing in different fields; understanding methods of work that could be used for our context here including communicating the impacts of air quality better; and setting up new connections here with the relevant authorities based on this experience.” As part of the Community Ambassador program, Ray also wrote a detailed air quality landscape assessment for Albania and thus gained a deeper understanding of the current air quality landscape in her country. Her connection with fellow Community Ambassador Melusi Molefe from Durban, South Africa also proved fruitful as they were able to swap development and action plans for their cities.
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