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Baseline outlook for economic recovery is too optimistic
David Morgan AO
Dr David Morgan AO is Chairman of Chi-X Australia and an Operating Partner and Chairman for J.C. Flowers & Co. Europe and Asia Pacific. Dr Morgan served as CEO of Westpac Banking Corporation from 1999 to 2008.
The purpose of this note is to provide some observations on the world economic outlook (WEO). While there are many global economic forecasts out there, the pre-eminent WEO is produced by the IMF. They bring to bear an unparalleled depth and breadth of economic experience and expertise to the task. The IMF's WEO is not top down, but the aggregation of 189 individual country forecasts from the respective IMF country specialists. These forecasts are generally (but not always, of which more below) untainted by political pressure.
Baseline forecast
The IMF's baseline forecast is for a decline in world output of 3% for world output in 2020 and 6% for advanced economies output. This is much worse than the GFC downturn (when world output was broadly flat) and would represent the worst recession since the Great Depression (The decline in advanced economies output in the Great Depression 1929-32 was estimated to be around 16%.)
Usually, the balance of risks around the IMF's baseline scenario are fairly even as between upside and downside. Not this time around. The IMF notes:
"much worse growth outcomes are possible and maybe even likely ... risks of a worse outcome predominate." (WEO April 2020, Ch1, pg. v).
It then presents three alternative scenarios:
a) longer coronavirus outbreak in 2020
b) new outbreak in 2021, and
c) a combination of (a) and (b).
These scenarios produce significantly longer and deeper world real output declines, between 3% and 8% worse than the baseline decline of 3%.
Unique nature of this crisis
This crisis is like no other.
First, the shock is very large. The speed and extent of output loss associated with this health emergency and related containment measures dwarfs those associated with the global financial crisis.
Second, under current circumstances there is a different role for economic policy. In normal crises, policymakers try to encourage economic activity by stimulating aggregate demand as quickly as possible. This time, the crisis is to a large extent the consequence of needed containment measures. This makes stimulating activity more challenging and, at least for the most affected sectors, undesirable.
Third, the uncertainty around the outlook is extreme and much greater than usual. The extent and duration of the economic fallout depends on (inter alia):
a) the pathway of the pandemic
b) the intensity and efficacy of containment efforts
c) the extent of supply disruptions
d) the repercussions of the dramatic tightening in global financial market conditions
e) shifts in spending patterns
f) behavioural changes (such as people avoiding shopping malls and public transportation)
g) confidence effects, and
h) volatile commodity prices.
So, we could just throw our hands up in the air and say 'this time around, it's simply too hard'. But, in the meantime, of course we all have to get on with our lives. Having no macro view whatsoever is generally unhelpful for many of those. At a minimum, it makes sense to have some view on at least the mainstream scenario.
Mainstream macro view
I believe there is a mainstream macro view in the market at present. It is probably closest to the IMF baseline scenario. It is often referred to as the 'V-shaped recovery' scenario. It would seem to be the most likely scenario underpinning the US stock market at present (although the 25% weighting of tech stocks, and 15% weighting of healthcare stocks, are also factors in the elevated level of the S&P 500 at present; as of course is the record low level of bond yields).
This scenario may well turn out to the correct. However, in my view, even if its optimism turns out to be correct regarding the pathway of the pandemic, I believe it is overly optimistic regarding the speed and the extent of the recovery in real output.
IMF baseline overly optimistic
The IMF's baseline forecast is now overly optimistic. First, and mainly, because of developments in the period since the forecasts were finalised on 7 April. Second, as noted, the IMF forecasts are based on an aggregation of individual country forecasts. Those forecasts are too optimistic for emerging market and developing countries taken as a whole, excluding China. These countries comprise about 40% of global GDP. As of 7 April, a number of these countries were extremely reluctant to concede they were facing major coronavirus challenges and economic recession. These countries are not infrequently characterised by relatively weak governance and health systems.
Additional factors indicating longer and deeper recession
In addition to these factors, I believe the baseline forecast is too sanguine in a variety of other respects, including:
a) confidence and sentiment effects
b) the likely responses of firms and households, and
c) rapid structural changes, especially concerning globalisation, digitalisation and automation.
The first key structural shift in the future stimulated by the current crisis will be to a different balance between globalisation and national self-reliance. Of course, global trade tensions were already on the horizon before the pandemic. These focused on China, including their dominance in global manufacturing supply chains. Following the pandemic, these tensions will be accompanied by advanced countries in particular pursuing increased self-sufficiency in key necessities. Supply chains will become more local, less global, more robust. The costs and benefits of globalisation will be reassessed, with a move back in the direction of economic nationalism. This will take time, involve disruption, and lower economic growth.
A second big development will be to accelerate markedly the trend to digitalisation and automation of work. The share of in-person services will decline in retail, hospitality, travel, education, health care and government. For in-person retail, in particular, much of the temporary lockdown will prove permanent. Many retail stores will not reopen. Many low/medium skill, in-person service jobs won't return. We will be sharply accelerating the move to a much less labour-intensive production function. Hence structural unemployment is likely to increase significantly.
A third development will be heightened risk aversion on the part of business and, particularly, households. One of the remarkable features of this downturn is the extent of the decline in private consumption expenditure. In most downturns, the brunt is borne by major reductions in private investment and trade, with some relatively minor reduction in consumption expenditure (focused mainly on delay of purchase of consumer durables). Private consumption would typically fall in such downturns by less than a percentage point or so.
This time around, the major hit is to private consumption, especially consumption of services. In South Korea's first quarter GDP (the first major country GDP release after China), private consumption dropped by a staggering 23% at an annualised rate. (US Q1 GDP data came out on April 30, it showed a 4.8% decline in GDP). Moreover, most of this drop in Korea was on consumption of services, which for the most part can't be made up later, like a delayed new car purchase. This phenomenon is likely to involve a much slower pick-up in consumption expenditure, by far the largest component of GDP in most economies, than in normal cycles.
There will be a major flight to safety, much lower consumption, more saving, and reduction of extremely high private non-financial sector debt loads. A mere message from the government that the lockdown is over won't get everyone to return to their former habits of spending (including with respect to travel, tourism, hospitality and entertainment).
Companies in particular will see the crisis as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to put through huge cost cuts deemed too draconian in more normal times. The move to remote working during this crisis has provided a great opportunity to see much of what people actually do and who is truly vital to the institution. There are very large numbers who will not be retained.
Implications of record levels of public debt
There is another concern that households and firms could have about debt other than that of their own sector—and that of course is the record levels of public debt being incurred—both by governments and central banks. The record levels of public debt could spook markets. This increase in sovereign borrowing costs, or simply the fear of it materialising, could prevent many countries from continuing the income support assumed in the IMF forecasts. Or have such countries turn to their central banks to directly finance government spending, thereby undermining—perhaps irretrievably—central bank independence from the government of the day.
Indeed, there is a not implausible case that in some countries that Rubicon has already been crossed (notably but not only in Japan). This has been generally a taboo in most advanced economies for many decades. The counterargument to this is that governments really have no option but to 'throw the house' at this crisis. For something of this speed and magnitude, the social contract in advanced economies requires government to step in and keep the connective tissue of firms alive. Perhaps so far so good.
This support can go on for one or two quarters, but if the downturn turns out to be deeper and longer, the sustainability of this strategy will surely be called into acute questioning. How will this public debt be paid down? The denominator effect (that is, GDP growth) will be super important.
There is also re-opening risk as regards the trajectory of the pandemic. (Indeed, the debate is shifting from the depth of the downturn to the speed and extent of re-opening). Re-opening will show the ongoing pressures of the virus. Next time around, we will have better tracing and social distancing. But over time, if there is no herd immunity and vaccine, a second wave is a very distinct possibility. A recent article by the economic historian, Niall Ferguson, documented how most past pandemics had at least a second wave.
Finally, there are political economy concerns. So far, the crisis in Italy, for example, seems to have brought people together. But if the effects of the virus do not diminish rapidly, we will be likely to face the 'make or break moment' for the Euro area. The EU (as distinct from the ECB) will need to step in, in a very major way. If they do fail to do so, the leader of Italy's hard-right League party Matteo Salvini and his populist anti-Euro supporters are likely to be back in charge. Obviously, there are also potential political economy concerns in the up to 40% of the world with weak governance and health systems.
Whether it is assumed there are one or two waves of the pandemic in the northern hemisphere, there is a lot of commonality between (a) the IMF's baseline scenario, albeit with a lot slower and weaker recovery as I forecast above; and (b) the IMF's scenario 2.
Both are consistent with a 2020 real output decline much worse than during the GFC, and a 2021 real output decline more or less on par with the GFC recession. Either way, the best part of two years of extremely deep recession the likes of which we have not seen since the Great Depression.
Dr David Morgan AO is Chairman of Chi-X Australia and an Operating Partner and Chairman for J.C. Flowers & Co. Europe and Asia Pacific.
Dr Morgan served as CEO of Westpac Banking Corporation from 1999 to 2008 and is a former Head of the Australian Bankers Association. During the 1980s, Dr. Morgan worked for the Australian Federal Treasury, where he was appointed Senior Deputy Secretary. Dr. Morgan was Chair of the Future of the Australian Economy Stream of the Prime Minister's 2020 Summit.
In 2009, Dr Morgan was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the finance sector, corporate social responsibility and economic reform.
Chi-X Australia is a sponsor of Firstlinks. This article is general information and does not consider the circumstances of any person.
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Alan S
Same as Gary M.
Emmanuel Daniel
Great to see David Morgan sharing his thought patterns. Yes, these are all the factors that a good credit man should take into account, and yes it is better to be really conservative if you don't feel like wanting to disburse the loan (or investment in his current roles).
Niall Ferguson knows nothing except anecdotes from the past. 10 years from now when the real trends from this crisis are well worn, he will restate the obvious. Entrepreneurs and opportunists would have learnt nothing from this article. Erudite but not illuminating. Needs to be rewritten by a trend tracker.
Yogan R
As per your modus operandi David, excellent, well researched global view.
Gary M
Great to read such a genuinely global perspective, especially when it confirms my opinion.
Are debt and its servicing cost serious worries?
The impact of the pandemic on Australia's debt and deficit has forced the government into borrowing on a scale unimaginable at the start of 2020. What are the implications, and what is even more important?
Phil Ruthven AO
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Do you have a gut feeling that things are not quite right in the world today – that America is in decline just as the Roman Empire was centuries ago? Do you know anyone who doesn't? (You probably do.) Most conscious folks do sense that liberty and freedom are inexorably being swallowed up by unseen forces.
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People who believe that freedom is free are lost souls. Freedom was never free, and never will be. One of the most disheartening truths today is the extreme gullibility of the American people to the point that even when confronted with facts, the lies are believed rather than the facts. This is not only with respect to the propaganda put forth by the government controlled media, but also in regards to the denial of statutes that state clearly (rare) to whom "laws" apply. The purpose of this website is to correct this little flaw – to succeed where our education system fails. Sheeple get what they deserve and so do sovereigns.
"Many, if not most, will scoff at the idea that America could ever fall to totalitarian rule and there is a sense in which even I find it incredible America will come to such a hideous end: I continue to hope a majority of Americans will eventually wake up, open their eyes, see the growing monster approaching us, reverse course and set America in a new direction of expanding freedom. But as matters stand now, they do not see what is coming and as long as they do not, we will continue to inch our way towards totalitarianism and this is not some awful fate to be suffered by generations to follow in some distant future."
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They purposely withhold this information from you. Your incognizance of certain key information prevents you from successfully asserting your Rights. That is why, in court, you have no rights, but those they choose to lend you and why you must have an attorney to represent you. "They" seem to be unaffected, leading most of us to believe that privileged people can get away with almost anything. But not the rest of us.
What happened to our unalienable Rights? Want to know? Then read on.
The founders of our powerful nation understood how men driven by arrogance, greed and corruption could become tyrants and oppressors over the People. It had happened over and over throughout history and they had just fought the revolution for this very reason. They provided us, via the Organic Documents they created, tools with which to protect those Rights. Today's generations have failed to learn them and more importantly, to act accordingly to them.
"Are we a free people in the good old USA?" Answer the questions and decide for yourself:
1. If told by license whether you can get married or not, are you free?
2. If permitted by license to use your talents in an occupation, are you free?
3. If stopped on the street, whether driving or not, and asked to show your ID and answer questions about who you are, where you are going, and what you are going to do when you get there, are you free?
4. If your earnings, your fruits of labor, are taken, are you free? Currently, this amounts to half of your earnings. Thus who are you working for half the time?
5. When you buy an item, whether it be a car, truck, land, a house, and the State, county, and city tax your ownership produced through the fruits of your labor in order to dole it out to others, are you free?
6. When unconstitutional invasions on your private property are done by government agents, including law enforcement, are you free?
7. When government tells you what lawful business (any that do not interfere with the rights of others) you may start on your own property, are you free?
8. When government tells you whether you can build a shed on your property, are you free?
9. When government makes laws in direct contradiction to the Constitution of the united States of America, including arms and the God-given unalienable right of self-protection, are you free?
10. When the federal government is allowed to add on charges to a telephone company's equipment along with unlawful taxes which then are charged to its customers, is the company an unfettered private enterprise as it should be? Are you free to pay just for the company's service? Or are both in involuntary servitude to the government?
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Social Engagement: Connecting with Customers and Prospects – The Radian6 Social Engagement Console now enables companies to engage with customers directly where the conversation is taking place — whether on Twitter, Facebook or other social channels. The Social Engagement Console also brings in third-party data to provide a comprehensive view of social conversations. New add-ons include the ability to see Trending Topics from Twitter, Bit.ly statistics to determine the reach of shared links and more. In addition, Radian6 is now natively integrated with Salesforce, across the full suite of Salesforce apps and platform.
Social Workflow: Delivering Millions of Social Conversations Across the Enterprise – With the launch of Radian6 Social Hub companies will be able to organize massive amounts of social media conversations by applying sophisticated analysis and rules. These action streams can automatically route relevant social content for quick engagement and response. In addition, Social Hub now populates social customer profiles, helping marketers create relevant campaigns based on what the consumer likes.
Social Websites: Empowering Marketers to Move at the Speed of Social – Siteforce empowers marketing organizations to move at the speed of social and quickly and easily build socially rich websites to engage with customers and prospects. Using a powerful drag and drop studio, marketers can build, edit and publish pixel perfect websites, without any help from IT. Siteforce uses a powerful and flexible content management system, allowing companies to better engage with customers and prospects by adding social features like Twitter streams, Facebook likes and more.
Founded in 2006, Radian6 was created with the idea that companies need to monitor the social web in order to effectively join conversations with customers and prospects. Radian6 captures hundreds of millions of conversations every day across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, blogs and online communities, and provides actionable insights in real-time. Today, Radian6 is changing the face of marketing with the introduction of the Radian6 Social Marketing Cloud. As many companies adopt social media to engage with their customers, Radian6's customer base is rapidly expanding. More than 2,500 companies, including leading global brands like AAA, Activision, GE, GEICO, GNC, PepsiCo, Pizza Hut, Southwest Airlines, UPS and more than half of the FORTUNE 100, now use Radian6.
Salesforce Radian6 is generally available today for customers, starting at $600 USD per deployment, per month.
Radian6 Social Hub is available today in a limited release and is currently scheduled to be generally available in early 2012. Pricing for the Social Hub will start at $1,200 USD per deployment, per month.
Radian6 Social Insights is currently scheduled to be generally available in December 2011 and the API is generally available today. The Social Insights partner solutions are priced individually, starting at $60 USD per month and the API starts at $5,000 USD per deployment, per year.
Siteforce is generally available today. Siteforce charges per site and per website developer user. Through the end of 2011, companies will be able to get started with one site, two contributor users and two publisher users for $9,900 USD per year. Siteforce can be purchased stand-alone or added to existing salesforce.com installations.
With more than 100,000 customers, salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company that is leading the shift to the social enterprise. Social enterprises leverage social, mobile and open cloud technologies to put customers at the heart of their business.


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Moors youths rescued
A MOUNTAIN rescue team from Huddersfield has been involved in a high-profile rescue of thousands of youngsters taking part in a moorland challenge.
Almost 2,500 young people from across Britain were taking part in the Ten Tors Challenge which had to abandoned on Dartmoor in Devon when the weather deteriorated yesterday.
The event, which includes an overnight camp on the bleak moor, is organised by the Army. Eight members from Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team had travelled down on Friday to help.
One of the members, Duncan Sission of Penistone, used to be a member of the Dartmoor rescue group before moving north and joining Woodhead Mountain rescue Team.
The Huddersfield team has travelled down for the last six years with equipment, radios and a vehicle.
There were 400 teams of six teenagers on the moor tackling hikes of 35, 45 or 55 miles over Saturday and Sunday.
But with the moor rain-lashed all Saturday, the organisers decided to end it early at 9.30pm on Saturday night and were led from the moor or flown to safety by helicopters.
Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team helped the youngsters to get into the warm and dry.


This simple statement by Campbell coach Kevin McGeehan spoke volumes.
As many watched Friday's second Big South semifinal – some possibly seeking to use Campbell's finish in the Big South tournament to define star Chris Clemons' legacy – they saw something quite different unfold. Fourth-seeded Gardner-Webb took the court with seemingly everything stacked against it.
A huge, incredibly supportive crowd. A Campbell team that lost just one Big South contest at home. And then, there's the matter of Clemons and fellow star Andrew Eudy.
Runnin' Bulldog forward DJ Laster addressed the challenge following Thursday's quarterfinal victory over High Point.
To seemingly everyone in Buies Creek, North Carolina, and beyond, a victory by Laster's club seemed unthinkable.
Gardner-Webb will now see if it can do the unimaginable. Five Runnin' Bulldogs finished in double figures to lead a nearly 60 percent shooting effort, propelling the school to just its second conference championship game in Division I history on the strength of a thrilling, 79-74 victory over Campbell.
"I'm really proud of our team. To come in here and win in that environment against a really good basketball team and a player like Chris, I'm just proud of our guys," said Gardner-Webb coach Tim Craft.
Campbell (20-12) gave its revved-up home crowd exactly what it wanted to start the game, racing out to an early 10-3 advantage. Gardner-Webb countered with a 7-0 run to draw the score level, allowing both sides to settle into the battle that eventually unfolded. Another Runnin' Bulldog burst later in the period allowed the fourth seed to spring ahead by seven, before eight straight Clemons points allowed the Camels to again surge ahead. A Cory Gensler triple gave Campbell a 40-38 advantage at the interval.
The home side continued to keep the pesky Runnin' Bulldogs at bay, keeping the lead for nearly nine minutes of the second stanza before a Jose Perez trey again tied the game. Gensler returned fire with a three of his own, beginning a tug-of-war that lasted several minutes.
Gardner-Webb (22-11) briefly stunned the fourth-largest crowd in Gore Arena history, unleashing a 13-4 spurt that opened a ten-point lead with 3:46 to play. Campbell called a 30-second timeout to steady the waters, as the fans continued to try to will the Camels to a spot in the Sunday showcase.
In a four-year show of Chris Clemons and Andrew Eudy that has featured so many highlights, everyone had to realize there was another act to come. The next three minutes nearly stole the show.
Campbell ramped up its defensive pressure out of the stoppage, putting Gardner-Webb in a vise. Gensler knocked down a jumper, followed by a forced turnover on the inbounds play. Clemons then drove the lane, absorbed contact and converted a bucket. The free throw would not fall, but the do-it-all star converted another layup. Gensler then stole the ball, and an extended possession led to an Isaac Chatman three.
Gardner-Webb requested a timeout, with the lead having been sliced to one. The crowd reached a volume it had not reached the entire night. There was a visceral excitement. Everyone knew what was coming.
The ending, however, had been rewritten.
Perez converted a bucket on the ensuing possession, drawing a foul in the process. The free throw would not fall, leaving the lead precariously dangling at just one possession. Campbell had three looks at a bucket that would have tied the game or drawn them closer, with the last being a perfectly-shot Gensler triple that agonizingly circled out, leaving Campbell to foul and allowing Gardner-Webb to close out the contest by making all four free throw attempts on their final two possessions.
Clemons again paced his club, tallying 23 on a 9-for-24 (3-for-14 from distance) effort under heavy pressure all night. Gensler knocked down 8-of-15 shots, including four threes, scoring 20. Chatman finished with career highs in points (18) and boards (nine).
Freshman of the Year runner-up Perez delivered a stellar performance for the Runnin' Bulldogs, racking up 19 points and six boards in 38 minutes of play. Laster added 17, with Eric Jamison contributing 14. Jaheam Cornwall and Nate Johnson both added 10 apiece. Perez' play proved particularly vital, as he took advantage of Campbell playing extended stretches without Eudy due to foul trouble, while buffering his club against extended outages from David Efianayi, also due to fouls.
Campbell claimed an automatic bid to the NIT, by virtue of its regular-season Big South championship. Its postseason destination will be announced in the NIT selection show next Sunday evening.
Gardner-Webb will play for a conference championship for the second time in its Division I history. UCF defeated the Runnin' Bulldogs in the 2005 Atlantic Sun championship in Nashville in the school's only other title game appearance.
The championship game will be played in Radford University's Dedmon Center at 1:00 (Eastern) Sunday. The game will be televised on ESPN.


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Le genre Bolborhynchus est un genre de psittacidé. Il comprend trois espèces de petites perruches.

Liste des espèces
D'après la classification de référence (version 2.2, 2009) du Congrès ornithologique international (ordre phylogénique) :
 Bolborhynchus lineola – Toui catherine
 Bolborhynchus orbygnesius – Toui de d'Orbigny
 Bolborhynchus ferrugineifrons – Toui à front roux

Références externes

Psittacidae

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Van Hollen Secures Maryland Priorities in Bipartisan Water Infrastructure Package Passed by Senate Today
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) announced the Senate passage of the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (S. 4136) including key priorities he worked to secure in the legislation for Maryland. The legislation as a whole authorizes much-needed investments in our nation's water infrastructure including to support clean drinking water and healthy communities, improve our environment, and strengthen our economy. For Maryland, the bill includes key resources to ensure our shipping … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Hirono, Warren Urge VA to Immediately Begin Offering Abortion Services to Veterans and Eligible Dependents
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to take immediate administrative action to offer abortions and all abortion-related services to veterans and eligible dependents. Following the far-right Supreme Court's disastrous Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, over 800,000-or half of women veterans in this country-live in states that are certain or likely to ban … Continue Reading
Van Hollen Releases Text of FSGG Appropriations Bill, Including $500 Million in Funding for New FBI Headquarters, Investments in Economic Prosperity for Our Communities, Removal of Harmful Legacy Riders
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, released the text of the Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations bill. The Subcommittee provides funding for the Department of the Treasury, the Executive Office of the President, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and more than two dozen independent federal agencies. "Our federal funding bills should provide investments in key priorities for our … Continue Reading
Van Hollen Secures Two Climate Provisions in Newly Released Inflation Reduction Act; Applauds Progress on Combatting Climate Change, Rising Costs
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement applauding the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes key provisions from the Senator's HOPE for HOMES Act and his and Senator Markey's Clean Energy Accelerator (National Climate Bank) proposal: "We are facing the moment of truth in our battle to confront the climate crisis. We need to act - and we can't afford to wait any longer. The costs and harms of doing too little are rising by the day. Moreover, seizing this … Continue Reading
Van Hollen Statement Following Meeting with Family of American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement after his meeting with Anton Abu Akleh, the brother of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was recently shot and killed while reporting on an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin: "Standing up for the freedom of the press and the rights of American citizens cannot be a priority only when it's convenient. The United States must defend these values and hold both our friends and foes … Continue Reading
Van Hollen Provisions Pass Senate in Bipartisan Bill to Enhance American Competitiveness in Technology, Innovation
Senator Van Hollen delivers a speech on the U.S. Senate floor on July 26 urging passage of the bipartisan competition package Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) voted to support Senate passage of the bipartisan competition package to boost American leadership in innovation and technology, including key provisions the Senator worked to secure. The CHIPS and Science Act invests in American semiconductor manufacturing, research and development, and emerging technologies and will lower … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Merkley, Colleagues Sound Alarm on Climate Crisis in Letter Requesting Appropriated Funds to Support President Biden's Use of the Defense Production Act
U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) sent a letter to Senate Appropriations Energy and Water Subcommittee Chair, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), requesting the committee support President Biden's use of the Defense Production Act to strengthen the U.S. solar panel supply chain by including funding to the maximum extent possible in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. "Manufacturing the components and building the supply chains to power the … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Cardin, Sarbanes, Ruppersberger Announce $900,000 to Improve Tipton Airport
Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen John Sarbanes and Dutch Ruppersberger (all D-Md.) announced $900,000 in federal funding to improve access to Tipton Airport in Anne Arundel County. The funds will allow the airport to reconstruct and rehabilitate their access road and are administered through the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Improvement Program (AIP)'s Military Airport Program. The members have consistently fought … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Cardin, Sarbanes Announce $4 Million to Mitigate Noise for Residents Near BWI Marshall Airport
Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressman John Sarbanes (all D-Md.) announced $4,000,000 in federal funding to support noise mitigation efforts for residents living near the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. This funding will support the installation of noise mitigation measures for over 220 residences in Glen Burnie. Following the transition to NextGen flight paths, the lawmakers have worked with local Maryland communities, facilitating … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Warren, Porter, Cárdenas Reintroduce the Behavioral Health Coverage Transparency Act
Today, United States Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representatives Katie Porter (D-Calif.) and Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.) in reintroducing the bipartisan Behavioral Health Coverage Transparency Act, legislation that would strengthen oversight and enforcement of federal mental health and substance use disorder parity laws. This bill was previously introduced in 2016, 2018, and again in 2019. For the first time, the Behavioral Health Coverage … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Cardin, Sarbanes, Brown Announce $1 Million for Continued Capacity Building at the Chesapeake Shipbuilding Corporation
Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen John Sarbanes and Anthony Brown (all D-Md.) announced $1,114,539 in federal funding through the Department of Transportation to help the Chesapeake Shipbuilding Corporation in Salisbury, which specializes in cruise ship production, with increased demand for cruise travel as recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Funding comes through the Department of Transportation's Fiscal Year 2022 Maritime Administration (MARAD) … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, U.S. Department of Commerce Invest $3.2 Million in American Rescue Plan Funds for Flood Protection Measures to Support Business Development in Annapolis, Maryland
Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.2 million grant to the city of Annapolis, Maryland, for the design and engineering of a new city dock employing flood prevention measures. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan. This project will provide the modern and climate-resilient infrastructure necessary to support established businesses and attract … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Cardin, Trone Host U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Becerra in Maryland's Sixth District
Friday, Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.), Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and Congressman David Trone (Md.-06) discussed medical research, abortion care, and suicide prevention in Frederick and Montgomery Counties. Senators Van Hollen and Cardin along with the Secretary and Congressman Trone - a cancer survivor - visited the National Cancer Institute (NCI) facility in Frederick, Maryland to discuss the Cancer Moonshot Initiative, an attempt to … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Markey Express Support for FDA's Proposed "Life-Saving" Ban on Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars
Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in support of FDA rules proposed earlier this year that would ban menthol in cigarettes and flavored cigars. Menthol numbs the throat and mitigates the harshness of tobacco smoke, making menthol cigarettes more appealing to youth and people beginning to smoke. "By increasing youth smoking and making cessation more difficult, menthol cigarettes have magnified … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Sasse Call for U.S. to Negotiate a Tax Agreement with Taiwan
U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) introduced a resolution to encourage the President to begin negotiating a tax agreement with Taiwan. "For decades, Taiwan has been a key economic partner of the United States. Yet, right now Taiwanese and U.S. businesses are double-taxed due to the lack of a formal joint tax agreement. It's time to address this gap in our trade policy, and our resolution urges the Biden Administration to begin negotiations to that end," said … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Merkley Sound Alarm on Monkeypox Outbreak, Highlighting Inequities of Vaccine Access
U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urging the agencies to acknowledge inequities of vaccine access and immediately increase access to the JYNNEOS monkeypox and smallpox vaccine to all communities in the United States. Joining Senators Van Hollen and Merkley in the letter are Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Martin … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Wyden, Cornyn, Colleagues Call on Russia to Release Brittney Griner From Wrongful Detention
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) in introducing a bipartisan Senate resolution calling on the Russian government to immediately release U.S. citizen Brittney Griner from her wrongful detention, and urging the U.S. government in all its interactions with the Russian government to press for the WNBA player's release. In addition to demanding action to end the 5-month-long wrongful detention of Griner, the resolution also … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Beyer Introduce Legislation to Improve ATF, Strengthen Gun Violence Prevention
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Representative Don Beyer (D-Va.) introduced legislation to improve and modernize the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in order to strengthen gun safety in our communities. The legislation - which follows last week's Senate confirmation of Steve Dettelbach to serve as ATF Director - would remove irresponsible statutory restrictions that stand in the way of ATF's mission to protect the public from violent criminals, … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Protect Access to Reproductive Health Care Funding
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in introducing the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act. The bill would protect access to critical reproductive health care services-like birth control, cancer screenings and more-by providing a consistent and strong source of funding for the Title X Family Planning Program. The Title X Family Planning Program is the only federal program dedicated to providing … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, U.S. Department of Commerce Invest $2.4 Million in American Rescue Plan Funds to Support Waterfront Infrastructure Improvements to Boost Tourism in Cambridge, Maryland
Today, Senator Van Hollen and the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.4 million grant to the Chesapeake Conservancy, Annapolis, Maryland, to support development of infrastructure that will attract tourists to Cambridge, Maryland. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan. This project will support redevelopment of the Cambridge waterfront through construction of a new promenade and other improvements. This EDA grant will be matched … Continue Reading
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Star Wars PlayStation Evolution (1995-2017)
March 5, 2019 March 5, 2019 Lisa Clark
You know how I love talking about the evolution of Star Wars games here. There have been so many games to come out since 1982 with Star Wars themes. We continue to love them, play them, and reminisce on them even today. For today's post, I've found a little gem focused on a specific type of Star Wars game – the PlayStation platform. We have had Star Wars themed games for the PlayStation since 1995. In this video from PSNext, we can see the full evolution of Star Wars games for the this platform – from those early days in 1995 (when I was just a girl) to as recently as 2017. What will the future hold for PlayStation and Star Wars? Only time will tell. In the meantime, check out this video for a recap of all the Star Wars games PlayStaion has brought to us over the years….
Star Wars: Battlefront Hits VR With PlayStation
March 16, 2016 July 26, 2020 Philip Thalberg
With the VR wars in full swing, Sony fell somewhat behind as far as spectacular and hype-filled announcements were concerned at least, but they were apparently only squaring off to release this one: it looks like there will be a Star Wars Battlefront experience coming to Sony's PlayStation VR as a fruit of the partnership between EA and Sony and as one of the 50 games which will be available for the VR device come its October 2016 release. The announcement was made at Sony's GDC presentation which focused on the VR headset. Now then, as the expression "Star Wars battlefront experience" clues us in, it's not an actual game we're looking at, rather something described as "a cinematic gaming experience" by Sony Computer Entertainment's Andrew House. House also said that there would be no shortage of content for the upcoming VR platform, given how some 230 developers are already…


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Shredweiser presents The Balas Perdidas Americana Tour
6 Americans and 2 Spaniards head out on a journey of a life time. 8 amigos gettin wild round the USA!
Chris Dafick
51 backers pledged $2,232 to help bring this project to life.
Oakland, CA Documentary
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Name is in the credits as a backer and your receive a free copy of The Balas Perdidas Americana Tour and a free Shredweiser Tee Shirt. And the option to send in your own footage for "The Backers Montage" that will be added to the bonus.
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Scottish Gypsy Travellers' Life Under Lockdown
As an international think tank based in Scotland it is fitting that we begin this blog series with a post about a community right here at home; a community whose voice and struggles have been routinely silenced at every opportunity for the past 500 years. The Scottish Gypsy Travellers have been denied 'identity, visibility and respect'[1], and the outbreak of the coronavirus and resulting lockdown measures are piling onto their pre-existing struggles.
'Official' history hides, misrepresents and mythologises Gypsy Travellers, serving to help socially and economically marginalise communities and quash their nomadic lifestyle, resulting in a situation when the average male lifespan is 52, and 95% are unemployed[2]. Being aware of how mainstream education is complicit in marginalising this community makes it all the more imperative that we work with them now, on their terms. So, let us firstly shed light on who they are, learning from their version of events using the pictorial history produced by community member Shamus McPhee as our source:
A history of persecution
The first official record of Romani Gypsies in Scotland was noted in the Book of the Treasurer to King James IV in 1505, and over the following 300 years the nomadic tinsmiths of Scotland merged with the Roma gypsies, resulting in 'Gypsy Traveller' clans, such as the McPhees. Right from the beginning of their official recognition, their persecution was legalised, including being legally hung and drowned in a manner resembling witch trials. Moving further through their history, progressive restrictions on roadside camping have been enacted. In 1865 it became a criminal offence to camp on private property without the consent of the landowner, and by 1994 the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act forbade it even when permission had been granted! The full array of targeted acts against their nomadic lifestyle were done to promote a settled existence, where dissent was punished accordingly, often taking the form of deportation to British colonies and inclusion in the Caribbean slave trade. Historical discrimination of communities frequently means they remain marginalised, being denied community-led redress.
During the 1950's, 'experiment sites' were chosen as the best policy to ensure they remained settled. By providing Gypsy Travellers with substandard homes, their good behaviour and sedentary lifestyle was to be rewarded with improved housing. Conditional on local councils' approval, however, 90% of planning applications have been refused[3]. Such sites are still widespread and include Bobbin Mill in Pitlochry, picture above[4], where Shamus and his sister Roseanna grew up. Roseanna McPhee is a social justice activist and educator, having a key involvement in the historic ruling of 2009 that the Gypsy Traveller community are legally an ethnic minority[5]. Roseanna is also on the TGP board of directors; the production of this blog has been done with her involvement, and we are proud to work with and learn from her.
No heating, no help – not even on the map
'Experiment sites' are particularly vulnerable to the pandemic and the adverse impacts of lockdown, which is having a significant impact on residents. Many members of the Bobbin Mill site have long-term auto-immune and neuro-immune conditions (a result of their impoverished conditions at the hand of their historic discrimination), and, as such, an outbreak in the community could be extremely deadly. This is amplified by their cramped conditions- at the Tarvit Mill site for instance, just down the road from St Andrews in Cupar, Fife council advised a family get rid of two caravans where children slept because of apparent fire risks, moving a large family including teenagers and children into one space. Thus, the instruction to self-isolate should a family fall ill is made incredibly challenging.
Years of neglect by councils mean staying at home is incredibly difficult. Electricity, for example, is bought by toping up meter keys, so lockdown conditions have left some homes without heating (the central living areas have no heating facilities regardless). Bobbin Mill had a breakthrough in the last few days, after waiting for SSE to supply them with online meter key top ups.
Why did it prove so difficult to switch online?
Their site is quite literally off the map.
Their postcode is unrecognised, and despite a six-year battle with the council since a caravan burned down and the fire brigade was unable to find its location, it remains unrecognised… Supermarkets have issues delivering to the site, and a supply of logs supposed to be sent for additional heating has gone off the radar. For a community with low employment and education levels due to their marginalisation, community members are struggling to work online set ups, with Tarvit Mill also having difficulties. Despite high levels of disability and vulnerability of members at this site too, they never received letters confirming them as a 'high risk' category and therefore struggle with accessing food delivery slots. The end results are they live in poor health on sites which were purposely substandard in the 1950's, are running out of coal and logs, and are having issues with purchasing more energy and food. The community worries that, because this is an issue which won't affect the majority and they are so marginalised, it could turn into "a bit of an emergency".
Briefly, it is necessary to mention the situation surrounding those who still are on the move. Roseanna tells us that because Scottish national parks have closed with police turning people away, alongside the instructions to stay home, the communities who travel have had to disappear off the map with people struggling to locate exactly where they are. The anxieties this causes around those in the wider Gypsy Traveller community who have lost touch with friends just adds to their fear and trepidation, especially knowing the difficulty they will be facing in getting hold of gas canisters for cooking in caravans.
An unprecedented opportunity?
These are worrying times for the community, and with few reassurances about their safety it is essential that these fears are heard. Few of us are aware of the realities Gypsy Travellers face- their voices are lost and ignored, falling into an abyss of stereotypes and discrimination. Today, we are all worried about our friends, family and access to resources; this is the stuff of everyday life for many members of marginalised communities. In all this despair there is hope: we can use this lens to look to a post-crisis situation where the voices of those facing injustice and marginalisation are offered the microphone. We can promote their endeavours, such as 'RAJPOT', which proposes to be the first Gypsy Traveller led inter-cultural peace centre aiming to give voice to their experiences and allow their stories to resonate. We believe this blog series is an opportunity to share these stories, experiences, and endeavours, and hope to continue offering the platform to as many frontline communities as possible.
* Anyone from the community reading this, the number for a remote top-up of meter keys call: 0345 070 7378 (Roseanna says it takes about a week for the new key to arrive with your new balance) *
Written by Jamie Hinch, TGP's Emerging Researchers Programme Coordinator, in collaboration with Roseanna McPhee, Scottish Gypsy Traveller social justice activist and TGP board member.
[1] https://www.iriss.org.uk/sites/default/files/2017-06/gt-timeline-A4-web.pdf
[2] http://www.hidden-treasures.org.uk/about-shamus-mcphee
[4] Sent to us by Roseanna McPhee.
[5] For more information on the case, here is a lecture where Roseanna discusses the ruling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m4cMP8srSQ&t=1157s
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Ohio state Representative Christina Hagan is not even 30 yet, but she has already set her sights on becoming the Buckeye State's youngest member of Congress on a Trumpist platform.
Hagan was the youngest person ever seated in the Ohio House of Representatives at 22 when she was appointed to the seat she still holds in 2011. Now she hopes to succeed Republican Rep. Jim Renacci, who is stepping down to run for governor, as the representative for Ohio's 16th congressional district.
The 28-year-old Hagan is positioning herself as the candidate most closely-aligned with the president in the race. She recently spoke with The Daily Caller on how she lives up to that position.
Immigration is one of the key issues associated with Trump, and Hagan fully supports the White House-backed RAISE Act, which aims to reduce legal immigration and make it more merit-based.
"The RAISE Act is necessary immediately in my opinion. It's only prudent to reform our legal immigration system and ensure that there is a merit-base for how we're bringing people into the United States. They should be helping us to contribute to our economy and not displacing middle-class Americans," the congressional hopeful said.
On foreign policy, Hagan, who was recently endorsed by former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka, strongly echoes the non-interventionist stances the president expressed during the 2016 campaign.
"When we are failing our foster children and we have hundreds of thousands of children in our care at the state because of an opioid epidemic, and we're spending globally to democratize nations that have no interest in being democratized, we are simply robbing from the people in our country who need us most," the Republican told TheDC.
The young state representative isn't the only Republican candidate in the field to be the next congressman of the 16th district. One candidate who is attracting a fair amount of attention is former NFL player Anthony Gonzalez. Gonzalez has attracted the support of powerful players in the Ohio GOP, as well as that of retired football star Peyton Manning and Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam.
Hagan says she isn't fazed by this challenge, claiming it just bolsters her anti-establishment credentials among the contenders.
"Anthony has ran plays on the field. I have actually fought and debated on behalf of my constituents and the legislature, so I've already been up against the establishment, and I've been fighting them since day one. So these guys that are getting in the race, they have an idea about Washington being broken, but they've never experienced it," she said.


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« Our new company will be exceptionally well-positioned for growth in the most strategic areas of next-generation IT , » said Dell boss Michael Dell.
EMC boss Joe Tucci said: « The waves of change we now see in our industry are unprecedented and, to navigate this change, we must create a new company for a new era ».
Mr Dell will be chairman and chief executive of the combined group that, Dell said, would be the world's « largest privately-controlled, integrated technology company ».
The price per share agreed represents a 20% premium on Friday's EMC closing share price of $27.86. EMC shares were up about 4% in pre-market trading on Monday.
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As you are looking on the net for online casinos to play in you are faced with common features of the casinos. The games they show are same as other places some might wonder why that is. Basically there is only a few types of software that the casinos pull their games from even though each is owned privately they still provide the same machines to play. This might question why play at one over the other. What it comes down to is how they treat their customers. If you are a long term member and being ignored in the casino then it might not be the place to continue at. Online casinos should be giving promotional deals to users who have frequent their site, those that have spent a decent amount and players who have won. A good casino sends gifts for birthdays or other holidays then depending on how long and how often you play you may even receive offers for trips and other special items. If the casino you are playing in doesn't basically comp you for being a decent player then it is time to change to a different place. If they want your business they need to earn it just like any regular casino that you join some sort of rewards card with. Keeping players does mean treating them good, of course you can not always expect to win but you should be getting offers at the least to help make your deposits go farther. It is just a common way good online casinos keep the users playing by acknowledging them as a player.
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After a couple of years, over a million sales and over 10 million downloads for iphone, we're finally venturing into Android waters with a port of Fling! for Android.
And to mark this occasion we thought it might be time to resurrect this blog, and with some future posts we'll describe how life as an independent iphone games developer has panned out, from the initial rollercoaster ride at the top of the AppStore throuhg to today, and compare how things on Android go with the Apple AppStore ….
But for now, its enough to mention that we're mighty proud of our Android port – we've worked hard to made it work on all the various Android devices as close as possible as the iPhone version. It comes with all the latest additions we made to the iPhone version – the extra levels, the new themes, the support for 6 different languages, the new Frenzy game-mode, etc. And Android users can even post their scores+progress to the same leaderboards that the iPhone users are using.
We blogged earlier about how our iphone puzzle game Fling! hit #1 when we gave the full version away for a couple of days.
It's really been great to see just how Fling! has been so popular with gamers everywhere, and we're grateful to everyone who downloaded it for helping make it a success.
For us, the model of giving away a trial version of an app in order to sell the full version has proven essential – while we just had the full version of Fling! available, even while it was featured by Apple, we had relatively insignificant sales or momentum. In our opinion, this trial-version model works great for both gamers (as they can try before they buy), and us (as we haven't found any other great ways to get our apps noticed).
How easy it is to replicate this success with the free trial-version and paid full-version model we can't say – obviously a lot depends on how popular a game proves to be. For example, there's another game with a trial version sitting above Fling in the free apps in the US for the past week, for which the paid version of that game hasn't cracked the top 20 while Fling climbed well into the top 10. And even if a game has a free version which is compelling and thus produces as high a percentage of 'upsales' as Fling! has, is there any guarantee that the free version will climb to the top 10 free apps in the first place? Its hard for us to say what determines this – our previous game Fuzzle had a free trial version which while also essential to Fuzzle's success, never reached such heights in the charts (and this despite Fuzzle being featured by Apple under "What's Hot", which our experience is showing to be somewhat of a boost but in no way guarantees an app's success, and despite Fuzzle being released at a time when there was much less competition in the AppStore).
Want to know how to convert an app from drowning in the sea of over 65,000 apps, selling in single or double digit numbers, into the #1 downloaded app in the AppStore within a week?
Our app Fling!, despite being well received and even being featured by Apple (featured under "What we're playing", which it turns out isn't as lucrative for sales as being in something like "What's hot"), was not selling a great amount, so this week we decided to try making it free as a promotion for a few days and sure enough, like our previous app Fuzzle before it, within three days it had rocketed to the top of the free apps, sitting yesterday+today at #1, having leapfrogged over the thousands of 'lite'/'trial' apps and everything else that was being giving away for free.
And while this is undoubtably cool, and the idea that an individual or small team can (still) make a small iphone app and with zero marketing dollars have it potentially seen+played by millions of people is really amazing, what this doesn't tell you unfortunately is how to make $$$ by doing this ….
If you liked Fuzzle, we strongly encourage you to check out Fling! Containing 10,000's of unique puzzles, its guaranteed to give many hours of enjoyment.
So far its been getting overwhelmingly positive reviews (with a 5-star average in the AppStore so far!). Like with Fuzzle, we plan to keep improving it continually, so are looking for any suggestions/feedback about what users would like us to do next. And we encourage everyone to review / tweet / share it so that everyone can experience this unique puzzle game.
Along with the Fuzzle Lite release, Fuzzle was updated, in response to all the user feedback we've been getting. In additional to some stability fixes, it contains more difficulty levels (with the default easy level being easier, and a new medium difficulty level being similar in difficulty to the old easy level) to satisfy a broader range of users. It also contains a 'clockless' mode for users looking for a more relaxed, thoughtful game. And an alternate input mode for users prefering to tap twice rather than drag-drop to move stones.
A further update is also underway – it contains support for three undos per game. This should help some users who make occassional mistakes moving. Plus it allows you to try your luck again when that ball comes in exactly the position you didn't want it!
Also, we aim to have global high score support in this next update, although we are still testing to ensure everything is working perfectly before releasing this feature.
There also seems to have been some confusion among some users with Fuzzle having been free for a short period and then Fuzzle Lite coming out free – we had a promotional campaign whereby we gave Fuzzle away for free for a short period of time. This generated a lot of good publicity for us, and meant some lucky users got the full game for free. Now we have Fuzzle Lite as the free version for users to try, so have no more need for such promotions, so Fuzzle will remain at it standard price $1.99.
One issue a few iPhone game developers like me have run into is that for most games you want to have the status bar hidden. Now theoretically this is quite simple to do, by simply having UIStatusBarHidden ticked in your Info.plist settings.
Now this code does works, but the problem with it is is that until the code is executed, the status bar shows – so your splash screen will come up with the status bar still showing, which is kind of ugly (you can still see this effect in some published apps/games).


While the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan is scheduled to end this December, reconstruction operations supported by government contractors in that country will continue for "the foreseeable future," John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), said this week.
With more than $20 billion of appropriated reconstruction funds still in the pipeline, SIGAR will have an important mission and work to do for some time to come, said Sopko, speaking to government contractors at a lunch in Arlington, Va., sponsored by the Professional Services Council.
Moving forward, it will be crucial for SIGAR to maintain and expand a dialogue with contractors working in Afghanistan to develop "a valid body of lessons learned" to apply to future reconstruction programs, he said.
"My work on the hill as well as my experience practicing law have [deepened] my deep interest and desire in listening to, and where appropriate, working with the contracting community to improve operations of our government," said Sopko, former chief counsel for oversight and investigation for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Sopko said that SIGAR would like to begin working with the contracting community on developing a framework for collecting lessons learned.
"We would be receptive to receiving not-for-attribution comments or otherwise protecting the confidentiality of our sources," he said.
He cited recent legislation to address illegal taxation by the Afghan government as an example of how SIGAR and the contracting community have worked together successfully on a government contracting issue in Afghanistan.
But during a visit to Afghanistan he met with industry representatives about the problem and even witnessed deliveries of fuel at a border crossing being held up by the Afghan Finance Ministry over "bogus taxes." A subsequent SIGAR audit report found that the ministry of finance had levied more than $9 million in business taxes and associated penalties on 43 U.S. contractors supporting reconstruction programs.
SIGAR recommended that the U.S. government develop a consistent position on the appropriate taxation of contractors and also urged Congress to seek reimbursement. As a result, Congress included a requirement in the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act that the Defense Department withhold assistance for Afghanistan in an amount equal to the total of all taxes assessed by the Afghan government on assistance provided by DOD.
Sopko also said that another area of "common concern" with contractors is protecting direct, government-to-government assistance to ensure that funding doesn't "go to undeserving friends and cronies" of Afghan government officials. The U.S. government, along with other international donors, has committed to channel at least 50 percent of its development assistance through the Afghan national budget, rather than through contractors and nongovernmental organizations operating on behalf of the U.S. government.
Congress created SIGAR, an independent, free-standing agency, in 2008 to provide tougher oversight for U.S. reconstruction programs in Afghanistan. It is the job of SIGAR's nearly 200 auditors and investigators, including more than 50 staffers on the ground in Afghanistan, to protect the massive U.S. investment in reconstruction, Sopko said.
SIGAR is also a temporary agency. Its mandate will expire when the amount of unexpended reconstruction funds fall below $250 million, he said. As of January 2014, Congress has appropriated more than $100 billion for Afghan reconstruction, making it the most costly effort to rebuild a single nation in the history of the United States.
Sopko said he fully appreciates the significant contributions that contractors have made to the reconstruction effort.


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Meyer emigrò all'estero per trovare fortuna e nel 1817, giunse a Piedimonte d'Alife (l'attuale Piedimonte Matese) insieme a Rachele Wunderli; si sposò con quest'ultima a Roma nel 1823. Lì chiese lavoro ad Egg, anch'esso svizzero, il quale aveva una fabbrica tessile nel sito dove sorgeva il convento abbandonato del Carmine. Fece rapidamente carriera in azienda diventando caposala del reparto tintoria e candeggio.

Nel frattempo, a Scafati, in riva al fiume Sarno sorse un nucleo industriale-tintorio, nel luogo proprio dove adesso sorge il municipio. Quest'edificio fu prima di Antonio Bouisson, poi di un negoziante francese Francesco Richard e infine di Donna Maria Antonia Oliva Grimaldi, principessa di Gerace. Meyer arrivò a Scafati nel 1824 perché aveva saputo che nel 1812 questa nobildonna aveva installato una tintoria, che lui acquistò chiamandola "Tintoria Rosso di Adrianopoli" e a cui diede una certa rinomanza.

Nel 1825 si associò con Giovanni Rodolfo Zollinger, chiamando così lo stabilimento "Meyer & Zollinger" e ingrandendosi con una tintoria a quadri; suscitò una certa considerazione anche presso la corte reale. All'epoca, nella tintoria lavoravano più di 1500 persone, ma a seguito del colera del 1837 e di una grande inondazione del fiume Sarno nel 1841, dovette liquidare Zollinger nel 16 aprile 1851.

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Berkshire Bank Wins Corporate Social Responsibility Award for Employee Volunteer Work
betsy October 29, 2018
Boston, MA — Berkshire Bank, America's Most Exciting Bank, was recently named a winner of PR Daily's 2018 Corporate Social Responsibility Awards in the Employee Volunteer Program category. Berkshire Bank was chosen from a wide pool of entries to receive first prize in the Employee Volunteer Program category for the ingenuity and impact of its XTEAM® volunteer program.
Berkshire's nationally acclaimed employee volunteer program provides employees with paid time off to volunteer during regular business hours.
Last year, 100% of Berkshire's employees nationally donated 40,000 hours of service to benefit community organizations.
Berkshire also closes down its offices each June for its Xtraordinary Day of Service, providing all employees with an opportunity to go out in the community and volunteer as a team.
In 2018, Berkshire employees completed 74 service projects that ultimately benefited more than 500,000 individuals.
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"We're honored to receive this recognition, but more importantly, we are proud of all of the Berkshire Bank employees who share their time and expertise as part of our XTEAM. This honor is a testament to their hard work, dedication and commitment to making our communities thrive," said Gary R. Levante Vice, President of Corporate Social Responsibility at Berkshire Bank.
Ragan's Corporate Social Responsibility Awards celebrates teams, organizations and consultants who have redefined the field with their groundbreaking work. As a winner in the program, Berkshire Bank joins an elite group of past winners, including Alex + Ani, International Paper, St. Joseph's Health, Bayer Crop Science, Arrow Electronics, Alliance Data, Viacom, U.S. Bank and Toronto Pearson Airport.
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