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Universal Basic Income is (not) the Solution
Around the world, the sudden lockdown to limit the pandemic's spread is leading to an abrupt economic slowdown. With cash handouts as the only way to avoid starvation and social unrest, the topic of Universal Basic Income is back on the table. Here is why it is (not) the solution.
by Jan Fürth
UBI as a bandaid or a permanent fix?
"In times of crisis, we are all socialists", as social media memes liked to comment economic measures taken by governments facing the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. Italy, Canada, Germany and even the US are among those who have included cash handouts in their action plans, with many countries following suite. At the beginning of April, Spain made international headlines by announcing the introduction of a permanent Universal Basic Income (UBI), even if it's not really universal. Finally, in his Easter message, Pope Francis came out in favour of the idea. What was a marginal idea only several weeks ago jumped to the forefront.
Without a question, various forms of (universal) basic income are necessary steps in this time of pandemic to allow people to stay in quarantine while preventing them from starving and losing their homes. Especially, as the quarantine is expected to be on and off, with waves of infection over the next months or years. However, UBI as a long-term instrument has several pitfalls that we must avoid if we don't want it to become yet another aspect of neoliberalism. Indeed, there is a real risk that UBI could serve as an instrument to worsen the precarisation of labour and excessive consumerism if it is not accompanied by a radical redistribution of wealth and a reorganisation of economic relations.
While we should welcome the prospects of freeing people from the necessity to sell their labour or to be policed by social services in order to have a bare minimum to survive on, there are many ways in which UBI could be far from emancipatory. Indeed, we should be wary of a dystopian capitalist future in which the masses on a low UBI would be providing cheap and flexible labour for Uber, Wolt, Airbnb and all the other gig economy villains. With UBI ensuring the basic needs of workers, these corporations could have a powerful argument to scrap work contracts, the minimal wage and social security contributions.
In this sense, a low UBI could just be a perverse way to trap people in the Western consumerist lifestyle by giving them enough to feed corporations but not enough to discourage them from selling their labour to consume even more. As the foremost supporter of UBI in the USA and Democratic Party primaries' candidate Andrew Yang writes on his website: UBI "actually fits seamlessly into capitalism. […] Markets need consumers to sell things to. UBI is capitalism with a floor that people cannot fall beneath." While Yang does speak about social issues, this rhetoric betrays the fact that UBI could just be a little fix for the system without really challenging it. A modern version of Ancient Rome's system of panem et circenses, bread and games for the masses.
Tax, seize, transform
Far from discarding UBI as a tool of neoliberal capitalism, we should see it as a two-edged sword that could be part of a series of immediate measures towards a major overhaul of socio-economic relations. Indeed, in the short-term, it can help society better absorb the shocks of the radical socio-economic changes necessary to avoid new social and environmental destruction, and in the long-term it can be part of a new economical system in which productivism and profit are not central tenets anymore. Accompanied by a radical redistribution of wealth and a reorganisation of economic relations, UBI can be a source of great personal and social emancipation.
If UBI does not go hand in hand with a radical redistribution of wealth, it risks being implemented to the detriment of other key sectors of social intervention such as infrastructures, housing, education, public transport and healthcare. Thus, it can only be introduced if it radically questions wealth redistribution. As a way to immediately fund it, addressing tax justice is crucial. According to the EU Parliament, up to a trillion euro is lost every year to tax avoidance and tax evasion! Yet, no action is taken as EU countries are pitted against each other, with some of them like Ireland having become financially dependent on its role as a tax haven.
While UBI can be financed by taxing the richest individuals and big corporations, we cannot stop short of greater changes and we must challenge the very structure of this system. Thus, UBI should be seen as a tool for radical reforms and a shift in the public and political discourse about labour, wealth, living conditions and the social structure, rather then the end goal, in efforts to stop the madness of the current system built on greed and destruction. With the current crisis, states have a historical chance to challenge the rule of capital and lay the bases for a social and environmental economy. Indeed, now and in the upcoming months, corporations on their knees can be cheaply bought off by the state, or simply nationalised, and transferred to the workers themselves. With UBI, the shocks of mass unemployment and of the transformation can be better absorbed.
Redefining work
In a context of necessary transformation, UBI is not about getting rid of work. It's about valuing everyone's existence while also redefining what is work, who does it and for how much. The post-pandemic cannot be a return to the so-called 'business as usual', but must be an acceleration of socio-economic changes. Escaping the grip of global finance through taking back control over public finances and moving away from a growth- and profit-driven economy, it is time to massively invest in socially owned green energy, infrastructures, healthcare, education, housing, agriculture and culture. This requires a lot of work and workers, but it must be done without setting a hierarchy between workers based on their market value.
Indeed, one of the injustices of capitalism is that it sets the standards for what is 'work' and how much one earns, with little interest for real value based on social usefulness. Thanks to its financial strength translated in political power, it has been increasingly socialising costs and privatising profit. This is especially obvious in the case of unpaid labour in the care sector (childcare, home care, domestic work), mostly performed by women. Despite its usefulness for capital itself, capitalists have largely escaped their responsibility to contribute to it. In efforts to unharness work from a profit-driven logic, UBI can put an end to this artificial separation between labour and chores, and finally remunerate those people who are often performing inestimable tasks outside of traditional working collectives.
Whether it's being with children, taking care of the sick at home or just doing other forms of communal, reproductive work, everyone can be sure to at least a living wage through UBI, without bureaucratic hurdles and policing. As we see in these times of pandemic, and as we could see before, many people are eager to help each other without expecting a reward. Unfortunately, this is not seen as 'work' in our system, and only few people can afford to devote all their time and energy to serving the community. Instead, they are forced to enter into economic relations based on a logic of exploitation and financial return on investment. This has dire consequences for both society and environment, as human energy is more often than ever put in the service of personal greed and resource depletion.
Social emancipation
UBI is not the solution, but if it comes along with a radical redistribution of wealth and deep changes in economic relations, then it can be a formidable tool on the path to rebuild a social economy from the bottom-up. With UBI covering basic needs, social investments restoring public services and systemic rules restraining or eliminating big capital, the way will be paved for new economic relations based on environmentally responsible and non-hierarchical principles. Limiting the possibility and the need to sacrifice human and non-human well-being in order for one to make a living can open up countless possibilities for creativity and emancipation.
I see the revival of rural communities freed from the need to compete on the global market. I see the sprouting of autonomous workplaces that can develop without the pressure of instant profit-making, with workers able to make decisions collectively without fearing to die of hunger, without the unfair competition of asocial corporations, without state repression and financial rapacity. I see individuals able to devote themselves to their artistic projects and to communal work without having to think about food, rent and the bills. I see slower societies in which no one is pushed aside and social uncertainty is sent to the dustbin of history. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has decided to postpone the Government's planned week governing from the Gold Coast so she and her Ministers could focus on the response and recovery from Severe Tropical Cyclone Debbie.
"My Government is committed to the Gold Coast and I wanted my Ministers to be on the Gold Coast to coincide with 12 months' to go before the start of the 2018 Commonwealth Games," the Premier said.
The Palaszczuk Government held a Community Cabinet meeting on the Gold Coast in May last year.


'Leadership is often the most important component of a road safety initiative. The suggestion that better is possible is powerful. In the Temiskaming Shores Area, a small group of advocates are challenging the notion of what's possible when it comes to road safety. Mark Wilson, Resource Manager of GEMS (Going the Extra Mile for Safety) is here to show was a small but dedicated group can do to make roads safer for all.
Late in 2018, OGRA commissioned a survey to gage Ontarians' thoughts and opinions about road safety. The results were illuminating. Scott Butler, OGRA's Manager of Policy and Research will provide a brief overview of the findings and explain what they might mean for municipalities.
Julia Grady, co-creator of 10C Shared Space will share the recipe for how, over the span of 3 years, her small community organization redeveloped a landmark 15,000 square foot property, engaged over 140 investors, raised over $5,000,000 in social financing, community bonds and sponsorship and grew its community change-making membership by over 500%.


1. Distance Vector Routing Protocol – These protocols selects best path in the basis of hop counts to reach a destination network in the particular direction. Dynamic protocol like RIP is an example of distance vector routing protocol. Hop count is each router which occurs in between the source and the destination network. The path with the least hop count will be chosen as the best path.
Updates of network are exchanged periodically.
Updates (routing information) is always broadcast.
Routers always trust on routing information received from neighbor routers. This is also known as routing on rumors.
As the routing information are exchanged periodically, unnecessary traffic is generated which consumes available bandwidth.
As full routing tables are exchanged, therefore it has security issues. If an authorized person enters the network, then the whole topology will be very easy to understand.
Also broadcasting of network periodically creates unnecessary traffic.
2. Link State Routing Protocol – These protocols know more about the Internetwork than any other distance vector routing protocol. These re also known as SPF (Shortest Path First) protocol. OSPF is an example of link state routing protocol.
Hello messages, also known as keep-alive messages are used for neighbor discovery and recovery.
Concept of triggered updates are used i.e updates are triggered only when there is a topology change .
Only that much updates are exchanged which is requested by the neighbor router.
Neighbor table- the table which contains information about the neighbors of the router only, i.e, to which adjacency has been formed.
Topology table- This table contains information about the whole topology i.e contains both best and backup routes to particular advertised network.
Routing table- This table contains all the best routes to the advertised network.
As it maintains separate tables for both best route and the backup routes ( whole topology) therefore it has more knowledge of the inter network than any other distance vector routing protocol.
Concept of triggered updates are used therefore no more unnecessary bandwidth consumption is seen like in distance vector routing protocol.
Partial updates are triggered when there is a topology change, not a full update like distance vector routing protocol where whole routing table is exchanged.
3. Advanced Distance vector routing protocol – It is also known as hybrid routing protocol which uses the concept of both distance vector and link state routing protocol. Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is an example of this class if routing protocol. EIGRP acts as a link state routing protocol as it uses the concept of Hello protocol for neighbor discovery and forming adjacency. Also, partial updates are triggered when a change occurs. EIGRP acts as distance vector routing protocol as it learned routes from directly connected neighbors.


The aims and objectives of the study are to explore and analyse the principles of higher education policies in the EU and China. The purpose is two-fold. The first is to identify the similarities and differences between the EU and China. The second is to explore if there are any lessons for China to learn from the EU in the field of higher education policy. To this end, this study reviews descriptive materials on higher education policies produced by Chinese and European Union authorities.
The argumentation and task presented above may serve as a frame of categorization and analysis of the materials. As the nature of the materials does not permit much quantitative analysis, conventional qualitative research methods of document and content analysis will be used. The approach used in this research is basically historic-genetic with the aim of examining the process of the forming of higher education policy in a problem-centered way.
The materials of the EU's and Chinese higher educational policies will be dissected from the policy texts and then arranged by classifying according to the subjects. After this, through close reading and elaborate analysis of the content, answers to the research questions will be sought. In the course of qualitative study, specific attention will be given to the exploratory and descriptive of the EU's and Chinese higher education policies in nature.
Not all comparative research seeks general explanations, but all research that seeks to offer general explanations must be comparative. Another important tool in the analysis is the comparative method. The very essence of comparison in this dissertation will be three steps: identification of differences and similarities; explanations of possible reasons or causes for these differences and similarities and then analysis, assessment, and conclusions including lessons to be drawn. Comparison will be involved in inductive reasoning process.
As a result of careful study, I have given a detailed picture of the status and development of the basic educational ideologies, strategies, contents, governance and decision-makings in both the EU and China systems. I have also explored the different backgrounds and considered the distinctive responses in Europe and China to future challenges in higher education. In addition, I have approached with much attention the role of higher education in promoting European integration, a topic that may have special relevance for China, given the huge size of the country and the diversity of different regions.
Regions and countries with different political and socioeconomic systems and dissimilar higher education traditions have similar patterns in reforms in higher education. On the basis of the study, it seems that the coherency of the Chinese system is deteriorating. It has become more flexible, the trend towards internationalization is obvious, and it is expanding and yet holding on to its competitiveness through increased effectiveness and commercialization. The Chinese higher education policies is also directing towards a more segmented and, regarding the needs of education, a more equipment oriented education supply. In the EU on the other hand, the system seems to be moving towards higher coherence, but the above described principles concerning China can also be applied to the EU. The common contextual factors, particularly the increasingly trend of globalization, seem to have considerably shaped higher education policy in the EU and China. The higher educational systems are, thus, at least at a normative level becoming more homogenized.
No nation has all the answers to the perplexing questions facing the new challenges of the 21st century, especially in the field of higher education system. National circumstances in terms of specific economic, sociological, political and educational realities are just too complicated for one to simply transfer institutions or even ideas from one country to another. Yet, perspectives from other countries can at least suggest ways of approaching problems that might lead to potential solutions. Comparative or joint higher education policies can illuminate and pose alternatives. This in itself is the right reason for this study to pay adequate attention.
The study will give readers some well-argumented information on how these two giants make use of higher education as a tool to face the challenges of knowledge-based economy and globalization.


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Nigerian Returns $80k Bitcoins Transferred To Him In Error
Radio France Internationale has reported the story of a Nigerian who returned to its rightful owner $80,000 worth of bitcoins mistakenly transferred to his account.
Keith Mali Chung
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Keith Mali Chung woke up to find 7.8 bitcoins in his account. That is the equivalent of $80,000 or €72,302. He immediately began trying to track down the owner of the bitcoins.
Bitcoin is the original digital currency that is exchanged between users online.
"I trade in bitcoin, but never such a high amount," Mali Chung explains on the phone from the Nigerian capital, Abuja and continues, "I knew it had to be a mistake so I posted an announcement via some WhatsApp groups to track down the owner."
Three days passed and no-one responded, so Mali Chung took to Twitter to track down the owner. That prompted a response from someone who had the correct encryption code for the transaction.
Please RT,
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thank you. Kindly retweet
Bitcoin Keith (The African Bitcoin Bull) (@BitcoinKeith) September 12, 2019
The owner of the bitcoins mistakenly transferred to Mali Chung is a Nigerian politician who has asked to remain anonymous.
Nigeria is plagued by political cronyism, and consistently ranks among the lowest 20 percent on Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index..
In June, the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force announced that cryptocurrency firms will be subjected to rules to prevent the abuse of digital coins such as bitcoin for money laundering.
The move by FATF, which groups countries from the United States to China and bodies such as the European Commission, reflects growing concern among international law enforcement agencies that cryptocurrencies are being used to launder the proceeds of crime.

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Which is the more subversive: a group of senior people in the security services who are giving secrets to the enemy, or a group of senior people in the security services who are working systematically to bring down the elected government here? The question would worry most democrats, but for the authors of books about the security services it is no worry at all. To a man, they are absorbed with the first danger. The second danger, they protest, does not exist. Or rather, if it does exist, it is best not to mention it.
Security service bosses, they tell us, have been agents of the enemy. The first difficulty here is that enemies change. From 1940 to 1945, for instance, the enemy was Germany, Italy and (to a slightly lesser degree) Fascism. Russia (together with the Communism which that country purported to represent) was an ally. The small group of university-educated Communists, who thought that the best way to advance the cause of peace and socialism was to infiltrate the British security services in the interests of Russia, naturally did very well in those years. They did not even have to tell lies. They devoted themselves with energy and skill to undermining the enemy (Germany, Italy, Fascism) and building links between the British state and the Russian state. In those years they flew high over the more typical officers of British Intelligence at home and abroad, whose natural sympathies were right-wing, and who tended to side politically with Hitler and Mussolini rather than with anything which stank of Communism.
Surprisingly quickly, after the war, the enemy changed. Suddenly Germany and Italy were allies; Russia and Eastern Europe enemies. In the security services, the balance of power changed too. The old reactionaries came out of their caves, dusted themselves off and set out in hot pursuit of the Lefties who had had it so good for so long. In the McCarthyite atmosphere which spread across the Atlantic, and with the demise of the Labour Government, the Communist culprits were hunted down. Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean fled to Russia in 1951; Kim Philby was finally exposed in 1963; Anthony Blunt in 1979. The first three took refuge in Russia. Blunt died in disgrace, deserted both by the Leftist friends of his youth and by the Royal Family and his colleagues in the Establishment, who had patronised him in his prime.
All through this period the Right grew in confidence and determination. The hunting of Communists in their own ranks became an obsession. Many top men in MI5 (always more paranoid than MI6, which had to deal with foreigners and therefore could not regard them all as one big rabble) became convinced that the Communist cancer had spread far higher even than the agents who had been exposed and deposed. 'Soviet penetration of the security services', it was suggested, had gone right to the top.
What was the evidence for this? The hardest and toughest piece of evidence is laid bare (for the millionth time) at the beginning of this latest book on the subject. In January 1963, a former SIS officer, Nicholas Elliott, was sent to Beirut to denounce Kim Philby to his face as a Russian agent. As soon as he did so, Philby confessed, and gave Elliott an extensive though not complete account of his work for the Russians. Elliott went on his way and Philby promptly cut and ran for Russia.
Nigel West, like many other spy-writers before him, is intrigued by this episode. Most significant of all, he believes, was a remark Philby is alleged to have made to Elliott on the latter's arrival. This remark, described by West as 'ambiguous', was as follows: 'I had not expected you so soon.' Nigel West concludes: 'Philby's disappearance from Beirut, and his unexplained comment to Elliott, suggested that the KGB had been in control of the episode; and they had known of Elliott's offer of immunity and had enabled Philby to prepare a cover story.' Moreover, 'the logical conclusion of this viewpoint was the existence of another highly-paid source within the small group of counter-intelligence experts privy to Elliott's mission. The only question was the name of the culprit' (my emphasis). This 'logical conclusion' set off the 'molehunt', which absorbed the time and effort of a substantial section of the security services for half a century.
The Philby incident, therefore, deserves a closer look. Kim Philby had endured several tough interrogations during the Fifties after the flight of Burgess and Maclean. He had fooled his rather dim-witted interrogators, and had convinced them of his loyalty. But he must have known that he could not last for ever. There was, for him, a constant danger that he would be unmasked. No doubt he had his instructions from the KGB that as soon as he was uncovered, he should confess to his activities on behalf of the Russians, and buy time for his flight to Russia.
That is exactly what happened, and what anyone with a grain of common sense might have expected to happen. One day Elliott arrived with the news that Philby's role as a Russian agent was now so obvious that it was futile to deny it. Philby at once agreed, provided Elliott with an account of his work for the Russians, waited for Elliott to go on his way, and then fled to Russia. Nothing could have been more rational or predictable. Now consider the allegedly sinister remark of Philby to Elliott: 'I did not expect you so soon.' That could have meant that a plane had arrived early, or that a taxi had made rather good time from the airport. At its most sinister, it could have meant that Philby had been expecting, before long, to be denounced but had such a low regard for his colleagues in the security services that he had imagined it would take them rather longer than it did.
To most people who put two and two together and make four, the remark has no significance whatever. But to the wild men of MI5 it proved that Russian agents were sitting at the top of the British security services. From that moment started the long MI5 campaign to root out the traitors in their midst. The finger of suspicion was pointed at Sir Roger Hollis, the hard-working, conventionally-minded former head of MI5, and his deputy Graham Mitchell. Mitchell, Nigel West tells us, had, at some time in his career, 'gained something of a reputation as a Leftist'. This was a remarkable achievement, since Mr Mitchell had spent a slice of his early life as an enthusiastic assistant at Conservative Central Office.
This book, like all the others, drags on through the interminable committees and inquiries which were set up to investigate Hollis and Mitchell and any other moles who might at any time have gained something of a reputation as Leftists. The two officers at the centre of this molehunt were Arthur Martin and Peter Wright. Wright was a brilliant scientist and a grammar-school patriot who always doubted the patriotism of his public-school superiors. He held extreme right-wing views. His devotion to rooting out Lefties at the top placed him at the head of the Fluency Committee, the team which investigated Hollis, and allowed him to move freely round MI5 and to establish contacts among officers who shared his views. Thus, by the mid-Seventies, Wright was in a position of great power inside the security services. His devotion to sniffing out the Left inside the service was matched only by a devotion to hounding the Left in society at large. He shared Mrs Thatcher's view that socialists because they are socialists are traitors. In the early and middle Seventies, when the Left took vast strides forward in the industrial and political field, Wright and his supporters in the security services threw their considerable influence and energies into the domestic political fray. Caution was thrown aside in March 1974 after a minority Labour administration was elected in the middle of an unstoppable miners' strike. In the interregnum between the two elections of that year, and in the months following Labour's second victory in October, the Wright faction used all their information and their skills, not just to disorientate the Labour Government, but also to ensure that a new, 'more resolute' leadership was established over the Conservative Party. At its mildest, this campaign took the form of leaks to the media, 'catching out' ministers in lies which were prepared for them, feeding foreign journalists with fantastic notions of the 'extremism' of Labour ministers, leaking secret government plans so that they could be 'neutralised' before they were announced. It involved burglaries and break-ins at the homes of senior ministers (even the Prime Minister) and their staffs, and even, as has recently been revealed, inspiring 'disorientating events', the most important of which was the Protestant Workers' strike in Northern Ireland in April 1974.
By 1976, the back of the Labour Government had been broken. Harold Wilson resigned, and begged his successor, James Callaghan, to carry out a full-scale investigation into what he felt had been the subversion of his office by the security services. Callaghan refused. Although Wilson continued with his allegations, the security services felt reprieved. Wright's offensive had been successful. Not only was the Labour Government a pale shadow of what it had seemed in 1974. The Conservative Party now had a 'resolute' leadership. The whole political and industrial atmosphere was moving sharply to the right.
Peter Wright was still not satisfied, however. His indignation had outlived the causes of it. He was still furious: the men who had been his masters in the Fifties, Sixties and even Seventies had been Communist traitors. He wanted to go on burgling and bugging Labour ministers, to continue with his dirty tricks and his invasion of private lives. But he found all this much more difficult. His colleagues warned him off, told him to cool it. In a high sulk, he retired to start a stud farm in Tasmania and prepare his Great Indictment.
He was a thorn in the flesh of the security services, who watched him warily. They were no less right-wing than before, but they found they could get on well with Callaghan and, even more so, with his successor in Downing Street, Margaret Thatcher.
The Prime Minister's declared intention was to destroy British socialism for ever, so what reason was there now to 'disorientate' the elected government? Of course the buggings and the burglaries continued, but this time against 'legitimate targets' – against enemies of the Government (Sara Keays perhaps, or Hilda Murrell) – not against the government itself. The security services could now bask in their respectability, which would be sadly compromised if any of the unfortunate behaviour of the Wright gang in the mid-Seventies were exposed. The only person who might expose them with any credibility was Wright himself, who was still sorting out the notes and secret documents for his Great Book.
How to spike Wright? That was the awkward problem which dogged the MI5 bosses. In late 1980, they came up with a solution. Peter Wright in Tasmania was astonished to get a letter from a former MI5 colleague, Lord Rothschild. The peer enclosed a first-class air ticket to London and begged Wright to use it.
Before long Wright found himself being introduced to Chapman Pincher, the celebrated spy writer from the Daily Express, who, Rothschild suggested, might be just the person to get Wright's ideas across. Pincher agreed with Wright that Sir Roger Hollis, who had conveniently died, was a prime suspect as a Russian agent. Rothschild suggested that Wright hand over his material to Pincher, and that Pincher write a book. Wright agreed. Pincher travelled to Tasmania in October 1980, got all the material, returned to England, and signed a contract with Sidgwick and Jackson for a fantastic £60,000 advance (the envy of us Sidgwick authors ever since): £30,000 of it went straight to Wright.
The contract was signed in December and the book, with the glamorous title Their trade is treachery, was ready the following month. Hardly were the page proofs printed than they were being read by MI5, and its shadowy legal adviser Bernard Sheldon. As expected, the book was just the job for MI5. It concentrated almost entirely on Sir Roger Hollis, who, being dead, did not matter. It whipped up a nice anti-Communist froth. It did not demand a public inquiry.
MI5 were delighted. Bernard Sheldon persuaded a slightly hesitant Prime Minister and Home Secretary (the ever-persuadable William Whitelaw) that there was no need to prosecute the book under the Official Secrets Act, although it was brim-full of official secrets. The Government's law officers were not even consulted. Mrs Thatcher formally cleared Sir Roger Hollis. And the main outcome as far as MI5 were concerned was that Wright's sting had been drawn.
But had it? The irascible old maverick was not at all pleased when he read Pincher's book. He felt, as he put it later, that he had been sold down the river (though for a good price). He had wanted the book to campaign for a full public inquiry into the pinkos who had ruled MI5, but Pincher's book hadn't even asked for an inquiry. Wright realised he had been duped. He had handed over the bulk of his material, but he hadn't got what he wanted. He put it around that he would be writing his book anyway, and he would publish the whole lot, including all the bugging and the burglaries and the disorientation of the Wilson Government.
The 'Pincher plan', alas for MI5, had not worked. Now who would rid them of this impudent pest in Tasmania? Who would rubbish Wright, and in the process rubbish Pincher?
Step forward another 'expert' in the spy field, Mr Nigel West, who writes almost as dreadful prose as does his rival Pincher. Mr West is another right-winger, the son of a Tory MP, and now Tory candidate for the safe seat of Torbay. On page 128 of this latest book, Nigel West is quite frank about how his earlier book, A Matter of Trust, came to be written. It was, he discloses, 'an unorthodox method' of exposing the real mole-in-chief. This was not Sir Roger Hollis, after all – but his deputy, Graham Mitchell, the man from Conservative Central Office. Nigel West's main source was the obsessive 'molehunter' Arthur Martin, probably the only MI5 officer more right-wing and more worried about Reds in High places than Peter Wright. Wright had furnished the material for Pincher's book; Martin did the same for West's book, and in the process poor Pincher (and Wright) got a bit of a hammering.
Pincher promptly wrote another book, entitled Too Secret Too Long, in which he restated the Wright thesis that Hollis was a spy. West now writes another one too, which restates Martin's thesis that Mitchell was. Now that Mitchell, like Hollis, is dead, the thing can be said out loud, without fear of a libel writ.
Needless to say, the evidence that Mitchell was a spy is laughably thin. Mrs Thatcher has been obliged publicly to dispense with that allegation too. But the real purpose, from MI5's point of view, of both West books was to discredit Pincher and Wright. For someone like me who has no time whatever for Chapman Pincher, it is pleasant enough to read about his inconsistencies and contradictions. Nigel West, like all sectarians, does not mince his words. Summing up Pincher's relationship with Wright, West writes: 'At long last, at the end of his career he had stumbled across a source that undermined all his previous observations about MI5 and its brilliant efficiency.' Molehunt is the latest shot in a silly if profitable war between authors who would seem to be without the wit or resources to find and sift information themselves, and to have become dependent on their sources – and, more relevantly, on those who put their sources in touch with them. The result has been that although these authors, and others like them in the past, pretend to be independent observers of the security services, their books manage to leave out any reference to the most controversial activities of the security services in recent years: the disorientation of the Wilson Government and the hounding of dissenters. Book after book has poured off the presses, each one challenging the other in circulation terms: Their trade is treachery, A Matter of Trust, Too Secret Too Long, Molehunt – all of these are about the subversion of the security services, not one of them has a single word to say about subversion by the security services. That is why none of them has been prosecuted. It is also why the one book which does tell some of the real story is the only one against which the British Government has thrown the full weight of its legal powers.
The Government is prepared to risk any amount of humiliation in the Australian courts in a desperate fling to stop Wright's book. As their tolerance of Pincher and West in the past has proved, this has nothing to do with any principle about the trustworthiness of MI5 officers. On the contrary, MI5 officers can say what they like, and get it published, provided MI5 and the Government like what they say. The very idea that a representative of the loony Right should be allowed to tell how his secret gang, armed with all the information and powers of the state, conspired in the humbling of a Labour government, and in the election of Mrs Margaret Thatcher as leader of the Conservative Party, is obviously unthinkable.


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Q: NetLogo - applying values to patches within polygons I have animals walk around and a line then connects all the locations that they walked to. The line forms a closed polygon. I also used the graphics extension to fill the polygon for visual purposes. But I don't know how to have all of the patches that fall within the polygon become the territory of the owner (i.e., the animal that formed the polygon). It is possible for patches to be owned by multiple animals. The code below illustrates overlapping polygons. I'd really appreciate any help on this. Thanks!
extensions [graphics]

breed [animals animal]
breed [homeranges homerange]

animals-own
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patches-own
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homeranges-own
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to setup
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  random-seed 4
  ask patches
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    set owner nobody
    set pcolor grey
  ]

  let $colors [brown orange violet sky lime]
  let $Name ["t6" "t7" "t8" "t9" "t10"]
  ask n-of 5 patches with [(pycor < 10 and pycor > -10) and (pxcor < 10 and pxcor > -10)]
  [
    sprout-animals 1
    [
      set shape "circle"
      set color item who $colors
      set pcolor color
      set X (list xcor)
      set Y (list ycor)
      set Name item who $Name
      set owner self
    ]
  ]
  graphics:initialize min-pxcor max-pycor patch-size
  reset-ticks
end

to go
  repeat 5
  [
    ask animals
    [
      rt 45
      fd 2
      set X lput pxcor X
      set Y lput pycor Y
      set pcolor [color] of self
    ]
  ]
  ask animals
    [
      pen-up
      let tempXY (map [list ?1 ?2] X Y)
      graphics:fill-polygon tempXY
      ; create a turtle, which draws the homerange boundary
      hatch-homeranges 1
      [
        hide-turtle
        set Name [Name] of myself
        set color [color] of myself
      ]

      ; draw the homerange boundary
      foreach tempXY
      [
        ask homeranges with [Name = [Name] of myself]
        [
          move-to patch (item 0 ?) (item 1 ?)
          pen-down
        ]
      ]

      ; connect the last point of the homerange with the first one, to close the polygon
      ask homeranges with [Name = [Name] of myself]
      [
        let lastpoint first tempXY
        move-to patch (item 0 lastpoint) (item 1 lastpoint)
      ]
    ]
end

A: If you look at http://netlogo-users.18673.x6.nabble.com/Netlogo-Point-in-Polygon-td4980030.html you'll find a past (2012) discussion of solutions to this problem.
At the end of the thread, Jim Lyons posts a link to a model on the Modeling Commons, but the model doesn't seem to exist there anymore. He's here on Stack Overflow if you want to ask him about it.

A: An answer was provided in this post: NetLogo - misalignment with imported GIS shapefiles. The polygons are exported as a GIS shapefile and imported back in using the GIS extension.  Then the gis:intersecting was used to give a variable to those patches that fall within the GIS-imported polygons.

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Q: Call jquery function from MVC Action method function AddScheduledCandidate() {

if (ValidateScheduledCandidate()) {
    InsertGoogleEvent($('#comment').val(), $('#SchDateTime').val() );

    $.post(WebsiteURL + 'VideoRepository/AddScheduledCandidate', { id: $('#hdnId').val() }, "json")
                            .done(function (response) {

                                    window.location.href = response.Url;
                            })
    }
}

The problem in above code is that my page is redirected before google calender info is inserted. It is because I know jquery code doesn't execute line by line and before completing google calendar event, redirect code is fired and google calendar record is not inserted.
Any Help will be highly appreciated.
Thank you

A: It seems insertgoogle event is async server call so try something like below to sync call .
function AddScheduledCandidate() {

if (ValidateScheduledCandidate()) {

$.post(WebsiteURL + 'VideoRepository/AddScheduledCandidate', { id: $('#hdnId').val() }, "json")
                        .done(function (response) {

 InsertGoogleEvent($('#comment').val(), $('#SchDateTime').val() );
                           window.location.href = response.Url;
                        })
}
}


The walls of the citadel lie 100 metres above the town near to the River Doubs. The walls are up to 20 metres high and 6 metres thick. It offers visitors spectacular views over the old town of Besançon and surrounding areas.
During May to September you can hire kayaks along the river. Enjoy the mountains and undulating plateaus which stretch across this region, a great way to get tranquillity away from the crowds.
Local to the Jura region, Comte cheese is made from unpasteurized cows milk and has the highest production of all French cheese, over 40,000 tonnes a year. It's also rather tasty.
The rock-splitting Herisson Falls, for example, (31 in all, including the 60m Grande Cascade) are high on most visitors' agendas, as indeed are the Gouffre de Poudrey caves (complete with sight and sound show).
A music and wine tasting event happening on the third weekend in July in Arbois, the capital of Jura, famous for its gastronomy. The musicians are experts and this is a real treat.
Jura is home to one of the world's most spectacular mountain locations, so you can expect to see a breathtaking variety of awe-inspiring, achingly beautiful features left to us by Mother Nature.


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Q: Modal, how to open other pages from directory ? JS HTML CSS

Marathon

Weight Lifting

Jogging

How to add modals so I can open other pages ( image01.html, image05.html ....) when I click on h1 from that photo.. I am new in this and i can't find a soulution. Any help would be great


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#include "ifmap/ifmap_uuid_mapper.h"

#include "db/db.h"
#include "db/db_table_partition.h"
#include "ifmap/ifmap_node.h"
#include "ifmap/ifmap_server.h"
#include "ifmap/ifmap_server_table.h"
#include "ifmap/ifmap_table.h"
#include "schema/vnc_cfg_types.h"

void IFMapUuidMapper::SetUuid(uint64_t ms_long, uint64_t ls_long,
                              boost::uuids::uuid &uu_id) {
    for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
        uu_id.data[7 - i] = ms_long & 0xFF;
        ms_long = ms_long >> 8;
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
        uu_id.data[15 - i] = ls_long & 0xFF;
        ls_long = ls_long >> 8;
    }
}

std::string IFMapUuidMapper::UuidToString(const boost::uuids::uuid &id) {
    std::stringstream uuid_str;
    uuid_str << id;
    return uuid_str.str();
}

std::string IFMapUuidMapper::Add(uint64_t ms_long, uint64_t ls_long,
                                 IFMapNode *node) {
    boost::uuids::uuid uu_id;
    SetUuid(ms_long, ls_long, uu_id);
    std::string uuid_str = UuidToString(uu_id);
    uuid_node_map_.insert(std::make_pair(uuid_str, node));
    return uuid_str;
}

void IFMapUuidMapper::Delete(const std::string &uuid_str) {
    uuid_node_map_.erase(uuid_str);
}

IFMapNode *IFMapUuidMapper::Find(const std::string &uuid_str) {
    UuidNodeMap::iterator loc = uuid_node_map_.find(uuid_str);
    if (loc != uuid_node_map_.end()) {
        return loc->second;;
    }
    return NULL;
}

bool IFMapUuidMapper::Exists(const std::string &uuid_str) {
    UuidNodeMap::iterator loc = uuid_node_map_.find(uuid_str);
    if (loc != uuid_node_map_.end()) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

void IFMapUuidMapper::PrintAllMappedEntries() {
    std::cout << "Printing all UUID mapper entries - UUID : type:NODE-FQN\n";
    for (UuidNodeMap::iterator iter = uuid_node_map_.begin();
         iter != uuid_node_map_.end(); ++iter) {
        IFMapNode *node = iter->second;
        std::cout << iter->first << " : " << node->ToString() << std::endl;
    }
}

// Routines for class IFMapVmUuidMapper

IFMapVmUuidMapper::IFMapVmUuidMapper(DB *db, IFMapServer *server)
        : db_(db), ifmap_server_(server), vm_table_(NULL), registered(false) {
}

IFMapVmUuidMapper::~IFMapVmUuidMapper() {
    Shutdown();
}

void IFMapVmUuidMapper::Initialize() {
    vm_table_ = static_cast<IFMapServerTable *>(
        db_->FindTable("__ifmap__.virtual_machine.0"));
    assert(vm_table_ != NULL);
    vm_lid_ = vm_table_->Register(boost::bind(&IFMapVmUuidMapper::VmNodeProcess,
                                              this, _1, _2));
    registered = true;
}

void IFMapVmUuidMapper::Shutdown() {
    if (registered) {
        vm_table_->Unregister(vm_lid_);
        registered = false;
    }
}

void IFMapVmUuidMapper::VmNodeProcess(DBTablePartBase *partition,
                                      DBEntryBase *entry) {
    IFMapNode *vm_node = static_cast<IFMapNode *>(entry);
    std::string tname = vm_node->table()->Typename();
    assert(tname.compare("virtual-machine") == 0);

    if (!IsFeasible(vm_node)) {
        std::string vm_uuid;
        bool val = NodeToUuid(vm_node, &vm_uuid);

        // Its possible that the add came without any properties i.e no object
        // and hence no entry in node_uuid_map_
        if (val) {
            node_uuid_map_.erase(vm_node);
            uuid_mapper_.Delete(vm_uuid);
        }
        return;
    }

    // Ignore 'change' if the 'add' has already been processed.
    if (NodeProcessed(vm_node)) {
        return;
    }

    IFMapObject *object = vm_node->Find(IFMapOrigin(IFMapOrigin::MAP_SERVER));
    if (object) {
        // Insert into the uuid-node-mapper
        autogen::VirtualMachine *vm = static_cast<autogen::VirtualMachine *>
                                                        (object);
        if (vm->IsPropertySet(autogen::VirtualMachine::ID_PERMS)) {
            autogen::UuidType uuid = vm->id_perms().uuid;
            std::string vm_uuid =
                uuid_mapper_.Add(uuid.uuid_mslong, uuid.uuid_lslong, vm_node);

            // Insert into the node-uuid-map
            node_uuid_map_.insert(make_pair(vm_node, vm_uuid));

            // Check if there were any vm-reg's for this VM whose processing we
            // had deferred since the vm-node did not exist then.
            std::string vr_name;
            bool exists = PendingVmRegExists(vm_uuid, &vr_name);
            if (exists) {
                bool subscribe = true;
                ifmap_server_->ProcessVmSubscribe(vr_name, vm_uuid, subscribe);
                pending_vmreg_map_.erase(vm_uuid);
            }
        }
    }
}

IFMapNode *IFMapVmUuidMapper::GetVmNodeByUuid(const std::string &vm_uuid) {
    return uuid_mapper_.Find(vm_uuid);
}

bool IFMapVmUuidMapper::VmNodeExists(const std::string &vm_uuid) {
    return uuid_mapper_.Exists(vm_uuid);
}

void IFMapVmUuidMapper::PrintAllUuidMapperEntries() {
    uuid_mapper_.PrintAllMappedEntries();
}

void IFMapVmUuidMapper::ProcessVmRegAsPending(std::string vm_uuid,
        std::string vr_name, bool subscribe) {
    if (subscribe) {
        pending_vmreg_map_.insert(make_pair(vm_uuid, vr_name));
    } else {
        pending_vmreg_map_.erase(vm_uuid);
    }
}

bool IFMapVmUuidMapper::PendingVmRegExists(const std::string &vm_uuid,
                                           std::string *vr_name) {
    PendingVmRegMap::iterator loc = pending_vmreg_map_.find(vm_uuid);
    if (loc != pending_vmreg_map_.end()) {
        *vr_name = loc->second;
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

void IFMapVmUuidMapper::PrintAllPendingVmRegEntries() {
    std::cout << "Printing all pending vm-reg entries - VM-UUID : VR-FQN\n";
    for (PendingVmRegMap::iterator iter = pending_vmreg_map_.begin();
         iter != pending_vmreg_map_.end(); ++iter) {
        std::cout << iter->first << " : " << iter->second << std::endl;
    }
}

bool IFMapVmUuidMapper::IsFeasible(IFMapNode *node) {
    if (node->IsDeleted()) {
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

bool IFMapVmUuidMapper::NodeToUuid(IFMapNode *vm_node, std::string *vm_uuid) {
    NodeUuidMap::iterator loc = node_uuid_map_.find(vm_node);
    if (loc != node_uuid_map_.end()) {
        *vm_uuid = loc->second;
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

bool IFMapVmUuidMapper::NodeProcessed(IFMapNode *vm_node) {
    NodeUuidMap::iterator loc = node_uuid_map_.find(vm_node);
    if (loc != node_uuid_map_.end()) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

void IFMapVmUuidMapper::PrintAllNodeUuidMappedEntries() {
    std::cout << "Printing all node-UUID entries - type:NODE-FQN : uuid\n";
    for (NodeUuidMap::iterator iter = node_uuid_map_.begin();
         iter != node_uuid_map_.end(); ++iter) {
        IFMapNode *node = iter->first;
        std::cout << node->ToString() << " : " << iter->second << std::endl;
    }
}

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Indonesia Veterinary Science Journals List
Veterinary Science Journals
Indonesia is a country located in Southeast Asia with a population of over 258 million people. The name Indonesia derives from the Greek translation of the Indus River and the word meaning "Indian island".
Indonesia is a border in between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It covers 5,120 kilometres (3,181 mi) from east to west and 1,760 kilometres (1,094 mi) from north to south. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the Malaysian Borneo. There are five main islands (Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Irian Jaya), two major archipelagos (Nusa Tenggara and the Maluku Islands), and sixty smaller archipelagos.
Indonesia is the Southeast Asia's largest mixed economy with both private and public sectors. The Indonesian economy is the world's 16th largest by nominal GDP and the 8th largest by GDP at PPP. Indonesia has extensive natural resources, including crude oil, natural gas, tin, copper, and gold. Indonesia's major imports include machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels, and foodstuffs, and the country's major export commodities include oil and gas, electrical appliances, plywood, rubber, and textiles.
Indonesia veterinary journals list focuses on the veterinary science, animal anatomy, and zoology. The list of veterinary journals Indonesia plays a crucial role in spreading the unique research on biochemistry. Numerous veterinary journals include Italian Journal of Animal Science, Journal of veterinary Science and technology, Journal of Animal Nutrition and many other journals which provide good information about veterinary.
Veterinary Science Journals List
Journal of Animal Health and Behavioural Science Journal of Animal Research and Nutrition Open Access Journal Journal of Animal Sciences and Livestock Production Open Access Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Allied Science Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Health Journal of Veterinary Science & Medical Diagnosis Hybrid Open Access Journal Research & Reviews: Journal of Veterinary Sciences Open Access Journal Research & Reviews: Journal of Zoological Sciences Open Access Journal Veterinary Research Journal


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Q: Downloading and opening zipfile I would like to download the following zip folder which contains 2 files and open it to manipulate the data.  Presently I only know how to download it manually.
https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/exdata%2Fdata%2FNEI_data.zip
I would also like to download the following zip folder which contains a series of nested folders containing data that I am interested in downloading to manipulate.  Presently I am only downloading them manually:
https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/getdata%2Fprojectfiles%2FUCI%20HAR%20Dataset.zip
Can anyone advise me how to do it through coding in R?

A: Here's a way to do it:
fn <- "https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/exdata%2Fdata%2FNEI_data.zip"
download.file(fn, tf <- tempfile(fileext = ".zip"))
unzip(tf, exdir = td <- file.path(tempdir(), "myzip"))
(list.files(td, full.names = TRUE, recursive = TRUE))


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You are here: Home1 / FPI in the News2 / Coon Rapids Expands Operations to Recycle Additional Foam Packaging
Coon Rapids Expands Operations to Recycle Additional Foam Packaging
May 4, 2021 /in FPI in the News
The Coon Rapids Recycling Center received a $50,000 grant from the Foam Recycling Coalition (FRC) to increase the recycling center's capacity to manage, process and recycle more post-consumer foam polystyrene, including foodservice packaging and protective packaging.
The Coon Rapids Recycling Center, a residential drop off center located in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, focuses on materials that cannot be recycled at curbside — items ranging from carpet to appliances and electronics. The FRC funding, along with funding from a state of Minnesota Capital Improvement Project grant, allows the center to expand their current operations, purchasing equipment to assist in additional foam polystyrene recovery and performing maintenance and repairs to their existing foam densifier.
The recycling center accepts common household recyclable materials, oil and oil filters, scrap metal, organic food waste, electronic waste, batteries, mattresses and other materials. With a repaired densifier and new forklift, the center can expand their current foam polystyrene recycling program to accept foam foodservice packaging, cups, trays and other containers.
"It's terrific to see more foam material coming to our recycling center. But with the increase, we needed to expand, find a solution to maintain our existing equipment and handle additional material," said Colleen Sinclair, City of Coon Rapids recycling coordinator. "The Foam Recycling Coalition grant means we can continue serving our residents and collecting these recyclable materials for the foreseeable future."
Coon Rapids is the 18th grant recipient to receive FRC funding since 2015. Over 3 million additional residents in the U.S. and Canada can recycle foam as a result of FRC grants.
"We work with forward thinking communities, like the City of Coon Rapids to expand recycling programs for their residents," said Natha Dempsey, president of the Foodservice Packaging Institute, which houses the coalition. "We've kicked off another year of FRC grants to continue to fund innovative programs that will help recover foam polystyrene packaging throughout North America."
The 2021 Foam Recycling Coalition grant application process is open to public and private entities. Applications are due May 28, 2021. Visit www.RecycleFoam.org to learn about foam recycling, read about previous recipients or apply for a grant.
The grant is made possible through contributions to FRC, which focuses exclusively on increased recycling of post-consumer foam polystyrene. Its members include Americas Styrenics; CKF Inc.; Chick-fil-A; Dart Container Corp.; Dolco Packaging; Dyne-A-Pak; Genpak; INEOS Styrolution America LLC; Pactiv Evergreen; and Republic Plastics.
https://fpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/fpi-logo.png 0 0 Jennifer Goldman https://fpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/fpi-logo.png Jennifer Goldman2021-05-04 10:00:272021-06-02 17:42:53Coon Rapids Expands Operations to Recycle Additional Foam Packaging
22nd Annual Industry Report Indicates Some Growth Despite Pandemic An Updated Look at Consumer Perceptions on Foodservice Packaging


Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
Another great talk from 27C3 — this one by Michael Steil (aka mist) — about reverse engineering the famous MOS 6502 microprocessor. For many folks, myself included, the 6502 was the first micro we ever worked with and this talk brings back memories. I can still remember the opcodes. Oh, those halcyon days!
The video above is just the first part. You can see all the parts in order at his website, pagetable.com.


With Thanksgiving coming up next week, have you already thought about ways how to spend your days before the holiday? Well, you could send simple "Thank You" emails to your past clients, perhaps design something free for somebody, or take some time to improve your website. To those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, we've got a nice icon set for you today — all available in PNG, PSD, AI and SVG formats. This set of 15 free icons was created by the design team at ucraft. Please note that this icon set is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. You may modify the size, color or shape of the icons. No attribution is required, however, reselling of bundles or individual pictograms is not cool. Please provide credits to the creators and link to the article in which this freebie was released if you would like to spread the word in blog posts or anywhere else.
With Thanksgiving coming up next week, have you already thought about ways how to spend your days before the holiday? Well, you could send simple "Thank You" emails to your past clients, perhaps design something free for somebody, or take some time to improve your website. To those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, we've got a nice icon set for you today — all available in PNG, PSD, AI and SVG formats.
This set of 15 free icons was created by the design team at ucraft. Please note that this icon set is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. You may modify the size, color or shape of the icons. No attribution is required, however, reselling of bundles or individual pictograms is not cool. Please provide credits to the creators and link to the article in which this freebie was released if you would like to spread the word in blog posts or anywhere else.
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"Autumn is here and Thanksgiving is just around the corner and we can't imagine a better time to share this set of icons with you. In the spirit of giving back we decided to create 15 icons to help you celebrate this holiday. Spruce up your commercial project and give it that homely and warm tone. You can also share them with your family and friends (that's entirely up to you); just be sure that you are kind and grateful to people around you."
A big thank you to the folks behind ucraft — we sincerely appreciate your time and efforts. Keep up the brilliant work!


text:
IN PEASANT FARMING
Pravda No. 133,
Signed: V. I.
the Pravda text
First printing 1963
Second printing 1968
Vol. 19, pp. 209-12.
Translated from the Russian by George Hanna
Edited by Robert Daglish
Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo,
[email protected] (June 2002)
CHILD LABOUR IN PEASANT FARMING
In making a proper appraisal of the conditions in which capitalism places small agricultural production the most important things to study are the conditions of the worker, his earnings, the amount of labour he expends, his conditions of life; then the way the livestock is kept and tended, and, finally, the methods of cultivating and fertilising the soil, the waste of its fertility, etc.
It is not difficult to understand that if these questions are ignored (as they often are in bourgeois political economy) a totally distorted picture of peasant farming is obtained, for the real "viability" of the latter depends precisely on the conditions of the worker, on the condition of his livestock, and on the way he tends his land. To assume without proof that in this respect small production is in the same position as large-scale production is merely begging the question. It means at once adopting the bourgeois point of view.
The bourgeoisie wants to prove that the peasant is a sound and viable "proprietor", and not the slave of capital, crushed in the same way as the wage-worker, but more tied up, more entangled than the latter. If one seriously and conscientiously wants the data required to solve this controversial problem, he must look for the regular and objective indicators of the conditions of life and labour in small and large-scale production.
One of these indicators, and a particularly important one, is the extent to which child labour is employed. The more child labour is exploited the worse, undoubtedly, is the position of the worker, and the harder his life.
The Austrian and German agricultural censuses give the number of children and adolescents employed in agriculture
in relation to the total number of persons employed in agriculture. The Austrian census gives separate figures for all workers, male and female, under 16 years of age. Of these, there were 1,200,000 out of a total of 9,000,000, i.e., 13 per cent. The German census gives figures only for those of 14 years of age and under ; of these there were six hundred thousand (601,637) out of fifteen million (15,169,549), or 3.9 per cent.
Clearly, the Austrian and German figures are not comparable. Nevertheless, the relative numbers of proletarian, peasant and capitalist farms they reveal are quite comparable.
By proletarian farms we mean the tiny plots of land (up to two hectares or almost two dessiatines per farm) which provide the wage-worker with supplementary earnings. By peasant farms we mean those from 2 to 20 hectares; in these, family labour predominates over wage-labour. Finally, there are the capitalist farms; these are big farms, in which wage-labour predominates over family labour.
The following are the figures on child labour in the three types of farms.
Type of farm
Group according to
size of farm
Children employed
(% of total number
of workers)
(under 16)
Less than half a hectare . . . . . .
1/2 to 2 hectares . . . . . . .
2 to 5 " . . . . . . .
5 to 10 " . . . . . . .
10 to 20 " . . . . . . .
20 to 100 " . . . . . . .
100 hectares and over. . . . . . .
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
We see from the above that in both countries the exploitation of child labour is greatest in peasant farms in general, and among the middle peasant farms (5 to 10 hectares, i.e., 4.5 to 9 dessiatines) in particular.
Thus, not only is small production worse-off than large-scale production, we also see that the peasant farms, in
particular, are worse-off than the capitalist farms and even than the proletarian farms. How is this to be explained?
On the proletarian farm, farming is conducted on such an insignificant plot of land that, strictly speaking, it can not seriously be called a "farm". Here farming is a secondary occupation ; the principal occupation is wage-labour in agriculture and in industry. In general, the influence of industry raises the standard of life of the worker, and in particular, it reduces the exploitation of child labour. For example, the German census shows the number of persons under the age of 14 employed in industry to be only 0.3 per cent of the total (i.e., one-tenth of that in agriculture) and those under 16 years of age only 18 per cent.
In peasant farming, however, the influence of industry is felt least of all, while the competition of capitalist agriculture is felt most of all. The peasant is unable to keep going without almost working himself to death and compelling his children to work as hard. Want compels the peasant to make up for his lack of capital and technical equipment with his own muscles. The fact that the peasant's children work hardest also indicates that the peasant's cattle work hard and are fed worse: the necessity of exerting the utmost effort and of "economising" in everything inevitably affects every side of the farm.
German statistics show that among wage-workers the largest percentage of children (3.7 or nearly 4 per cent) is to be found in the big capitalist farms (of 100 dessiatines and over). But among family workers, the largest percentage of children is to be found among the peasants -- about five per cent (4.9 per cent to 5.2 per cent). As many as 9 per cent of temporary wage-workers employed in big capitalist enterprises are children; but among the peasants as many as 16.5 to 24.4 per cent of the temporary family workers are children!
In the busy season the peasant suffers from a shortage of workers; he can hire workers only to a small extent; he is compelled to employ the labour of his own children to the greatest extent. The result is that in German agriculture, in general, the percentage of children among family workers is nearly half as big again as that among wage-workers --
children among family workers -- 4.4 per cent; among wage workers -- 3 per cent.
The peasant has to work harder than the wage-worker. This fact, confirmed by thousands of independent observations, is now fully proved by statistics for whole countries. Capitalism condemns the peasant to extreme degradation and ruin. There is no other salvation for him than through joining the class struggle of the wage-workers. But before the peasant can arrive at this conclusion he will have to experience many years of being disillusioned by deceptive bourgeois slogans.


20 m / 66 ft. fringe tail. Incl. 2 swivels - if necessary the fringe tail can be easily devided into 2 x 10 m / 33 ft.
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TROON ACQUIRES PETER BURWASH INTERNATIONAL
Scottsdale, Ariz. (December 1, 2021) – Troon®, the leader in providing golf and club-related leisure and hospitality services, is pleased to announce it has acquired Peter Burwash International (PBI), a leading tennis management company whose portfolio includes over 30 properties globally.
Founded in 1975, Peter Burwash International specializes in tennis instruction, program development, marketing, operations and daily tennis activities for five-star resorts, hotels and tennis clubs worldwide. PBI Founder and Chairman, Peter Burwash, a former Canadian champion, has been an icon in the tennis industry for over 45 years as a world-renowned coach, widely sought after motivational speaker, tennis TV commentator and author of eight books. Recognized for its innovative Tennis For Life® instruction and exceptional customer service, PBI directs tennis programs for exclusive properties in North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
"PBI is the perfect addition to our Troon family of brands as we continue to grow our racquet sports division," said Tim Schantz, president and CEO, Troon. "PBI's focus on providing quality programs and professionals, and passion for customer service is consistent with Troon's mission. When we add PBI's global network of resorts and clubs to our existing Cliff Drysdale Tennis portfolio, it creates inside of Troon the largest third party operator of racquet sports in the United States and provides exciting and numerous opportunities for PBI, CDM and Troon associates, members and guests to enjoy racquet sports around the world."
PBI will continue to operate under the Burwash brand and be run by the same culture and leadership that has existed since its founding. The purchase strengthens Troon's commitment to be the worldwide leader in the racquet sports industry, adding to the 2018 acquisition of Cliff Drysdale Tennis, the nation's largest tennis management company. Troon's family of brands includes Troon Golf, Troon Privé, Troon International, Indigo Sports, CADDIEMASTER, True Club Solutions, Cliff Drysdale Tennis and RealFood Hospitality, Strategy and Design. The acquisition brings together CDT and PBI, making them the number one tennis operator in the world.
"Troon aligns with our commitment to quality service and providing our clients with the utmost value," said Rene Zondag, President of Peter Burwash International. "This relationship brings immense support to our existing clients without compromising on the standard we have delivered for decades. We are thrilled to join the Troon family and appreciate the dedication and commitment of all PBI team members and partners who have made our great company what it is today."
"We are very excited to welcome PBI to the Troon family and I look forward to working together to grow our racquet sports business," said Don Henderson, CEO and President of Cliff Drysdale Tennis. "PBI's methodology and standout service for their clients has always been something I've admired, and we will be working closely to elevate racquet experiences worldwide."
The combination of Troon, Peter Burwash International and Cliff Drysdale Tennis lays the foundation for a blueprint of success aimed at growing the racquet sports industry on a worldwide scale, and raising the standard for operations across the industry.
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., Troon is the world's largest golf management company providing services at 590-plus locations around the globe, including managing 640-plus 18-hole equivalent golf courses. In addition to golf, Troon specializes in homeowner association management, private residence clubs, estate management and associated hospitality venues. Troon's award-winning food and beverage division operates and manages 610-plus food and beverage operations located at golf resorts, private clubs, daily fee golf courses and recreational facilities. With properties located in 45-plus states and 30-plus countries, Troon's family of brands includes Troon Golf, Troon Privé, Troon International, Indigo Sports, CADDIEMASTER, True Club Solutions, Cliff Drysdale Tennis, Peter Burwash International and RealFood Hospitality, Strategy and Design. Troon-affiliated properties include Indian Wells Golf Resort in Indian Wells, California; Yas Links Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates; The Club at Savannah Harbor in Savannah, Georgia; and Lake of Isles in North Stonington, Connecticut. For additional news and information, visit www.Troon.com, or connect with Troon on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Troon Chronicles, Press Room, or subscribe to Troon Magazine.
About Peter Burwash International (PBI)
Founded in 1975, Peter Burwash International is the world's premier tennis management company; specializing in tennis instruction, program development, marketing, operations and daily tennis activities for five-star resorts, hotels and tennis clubs worldwide. PBI Founder and Chairman, Peter Burwash, a former Canadian champion, has been an icon in the tennis industry for over 45 years as a world-renowned coach, widely sought after motivational speaker, tennis TV commentator and author of eight books. Recognized for its innovative Tennis For Life® instruction and exceptional customer service, PBI directs tennis programs for 31 exclusive properties in North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. For more information, visit www.pbitennis.com.
About Cliff Drysdale Tennis
Founded in 2001 by International Tennis Hall of Fame member Cliff Drysdale and partner Don Henderson, specializes in daily tennis and fitness operations and management for resorts, hotels and private clubs; sports design and construction consultation for companies interested in building world-class facilities; educational programs, summer camps, clinics and retreats; and resort, hotel corporate outing planning and leisure operations. Cliff Drysdale Management's property portfolio currently boasts 33 tennis facilities nationwide, including multiple Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal ranked tennis resorts on Tennis Resorts Online's Top 100 list. In July 2018, Troon acquired Cliff Drysdale Management. The acquisition brought together two influential sports management companies that have been excelling at locations around the world for more than two decades. For more information, visit www.cliffdrysdale.com
Rob Myers
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Methods of Ethics
Henry Sidgwick
EMPIRICAL HEDONISM
§2. We have yet to give to the notions of pleasure and pain the precision required for quantitative comparison. In dealing with this point, and in the rest of the hedonistic discussion, it will be convenient for the most part to speak of pleasure only, assuming that pain may be regarded as the negative quantity of pleasure, and that accordingly any statements made with respect to pleasure may be at once applied, by obvious changes of phrase, to pain.
The equivalent phrase for Pleasure, according to Mr. Spencer, is ``a feeling which we seek to bring into consciousness and retain there''; and similarly, Mr. Bain says that ``pleasure and pain, in the actual or real experience, are to be held as identical with motive power''. But---granting that pleasures normally excite desire---it still does not seem to me that I judge pleasures to be greater and less exactly in proportion as they stimulate the will to actions tending to sustain them. Of course neither Mr. Bain nor Mr. Spencer must be understood to lay down that all pleasures when actually felt actually stimulate to exertion of some kind---since this is obviously not true of the pleasures of repose, a warm bath, etc. The stimulus must in such cases be understood to be latent and potential; only becoming actual when action is required to prevent the cessation or diminution of the pleasure. Thus a man enjoying rest after fatigue is vaguely conscious of a strong clinging to his actual condition, and of a latent readiness to resist any impulse to change it. Further, the stimulus of moderate pleasures and pains may become unfelt through habitual repression. For instance, in a habitually temperate man the stimulus to prolong the pleasure of eating or drinking usually ceases before the pleasure ceases: it is only occasionally that he feels the need of controlling an impulse to eat or drink up to the point of satiety. So again, a protracted pain of moderate intensity and free from alarm---such as a dull prolonged toothache---seems sometimes to lose its felt stimulus to action without losing its character as pain. Here again the stimulus may be properly conceived as latent: since if asked whether we should like to get rid of even a mild toothache, we should certainly answer yes.
But even if we confine our attention to cases where the stimulus is palpable and strong, Mr. Bain's identification of ``pleasure and pain'' with motive power does not appear to me to accord exactly with our common empirical judgments. He himself contrasts the ``disproportionate strain of active powers in one direction'', to which ``any sudden and great delight may give rise'', with the ``proper frame of mind under delight'', which is ``to inspire no endeavours except what the charm of the moment justifies''. [2] And he elsewhere explains that ``our pleasurable emotions are all liable to detain the mind unduly'', through the ``atmosphere of excitement'' with which they are surrounded, carrying the mind ``beyond the estimate of pleasure and pain, to the state named `passion','' in which a man is not ``moved solely by the strict value of the pleasure'', but also by ``the engrossing power of the excitement''.[3] It is true that in such cases Mr. Bain seems to hold that these ``disturbances and anomalies of the will scarcely begin to tell in the actual feeling''[4], but it seems to me clear that exciting pleasures are liable to exercise, even when actually felt, a volitional stimulus out of proportion to their intensity as pleasures; and Mr. Bain himself seems to recognise this in a passage where he says that ``acute pleasures and pains stimulate the will perhaps more strongly than an equivalent stimulation of the massive kind''.[5] I also find that some feelings which stimulate strongly to their own removal are either not painful at all or only slightly painful:---e.g. ordinarily the sensation of being tickled. If this be so, it is obviously inexact to define pleasure, for purposes of measurement, as the kind of feeling that we seek to retain in consciousness. Shall we then say that there is a measurable quality of feeling expressed by the word ``pleasure'', which is independent of its relation to volition, and strictly undefinable from its simplicity?---like the quality of feeling expressed by ``sweet'', of which also we are conscious in varying degrees of intensity. This seems to be the view of some writers: but, for my own part, when I reflect on the notion of pleasure,---using the term in the comprehensive sense which I have adopted, to include the most refined and subtle intellectual and emotional gratifications, no less than the coarser and more definite sensual enjoyments,---the only common quality that I can find in the feelings so designated seems to be that relation to desire and volition expressed by the general term ``desirable'', in the sense previously explained. I propose therefore to define Pleasure---when we are considering its ``strict value'' for purposes of quantitative comparison---as a feeling which, when experienced by intelligent beings, is at least implicitly apprehended as desirable or---in cases of comparison---preferable.
Here, however, a new question comes into view. When I stated in the preceding chapter, as a fundamental assumption of Hedonism, that it is reasonable to prefer pleasures in proportion to their intensity, and not to allow this ground of preference to be outweighed by any merely qualitative difference, I implied that the preference of pleasures on grounds of quality as opposed to quantity---as `higher' or `nobler'---is actually possible: and indeed such non-hedonistic preference is commonly thought to be of frequent occurrence. But if we take the definition of pleasure just given---that it is the kind of feeling which we apprehend to be desirable or preferable---it seems to be a contradiction in terms to say that the less pleasant feeling can ever be thought preferable to the more pleasant.
This contradiction may be avoided as follows. It will be generally admitted that the pleasantness of a feeling is only directly cognisable by the individual who feels it at the time of feeling it. Thus, though (as I shall presently argue), in so far as any estimate of pleasantness involves comparison with feelings only represented in idea, it is liable to be erroneous through imperfections in the representation---still, no one is in a position to controvert the preference of the sentient individual, so far as the quality of the present feeling alone is concerned. When, however, we judge of the preferable quality (as `elevation' or `refinement') of a state of consciousness as distinct from its pleasantness, we seem to appeal to some common standard which others can apply as well as the sentient individual. Hence I should conclude that when one kind of pleasure is judged to be qualitatively superior to another, although less pleasant, it is not really the feeling itself that is preferred, but something in the mental or physical conditions or relations under which it arises, regarded as cognisable objects of our common thought. For certainly if I in thought distinguish any feeling from all its conditions and concomitants---and also from all its effects on the subsequent feelings of the same individual or of others---and contemplate it merely as the transient feeling of a single subject; it seems to me impossible to find in it any other preferable quality than that which we call its pleasantness, the degree of which is only cognisable directly by the sentient individual.
It should be observed that if this definition of pleasure be accepted, and if, as before proposed, `Ultimate Good' be taken as equivalent to `what is ultimately desirable', the fundamental proposition of ethical Hedonism has chiefly a negative significance; for the statement that `Pleasure is the Ultimate Good' will only mean that nothing is ultimately desirable except desirable feeling, apprehended as desirable by the sentient individual at the time of feeling it. This being so, it may be urged against the definition that it could not be accepted by a moralist of stoical turn, who while recognising pleasure as a fact refused to recognise it as in any degree ultimately desirable. But I think such a moralist ought to admit an implied judgment that a feeling is per se desirable to be inseparably connected with its recognition as pleasure; while holding that sound philosophy shows the illusoriness of such judgments. This, in fact, seems to have been substantially the view of the Stoic school.
However this may be, I conceive that the preference which pure Hedonism regards as ultimately rational, should be defined as the preference of feeling valued merely as feeling, according to the estimate implicitly or explicitly made by the sentient individual at the time of feeling it; without any regard to the conditions and relations under which it arises. Accordingly we may state as the fundamental assumption of what I have called Quantitative Hedonism,---implied in the adoption of ``greatest surplus of pleasure over pain'' as the ultimate end,---that all pleasures and pains, estimated merely as feelings, have for the sentient individual cognisable degrees of desirability, positive or negative; observing further, that the empirical method of Hedonism can only be applied so far as we assume that these degrees of desirability are definitely given in experience.
There is one more assumption of a fundamental kind, which is not perhaps involved in the acceptance of the Hedonistic calculus considered as purely theoretical, but is certainly implied if it be put forward as a practical method for determining right conduct: the assumption, namely, that we can by foresight and calculation increase our pleasures and decrease our pains. It may perhaps be thought pedantic to state,it formally: and in fact no one will deny that the conditions upon which our pleasures and pains depend are to some extent cognisable by us and within our own control. But, as we shall see, it has been maintained that the practice of Hedonistic observation and calculation has an inevitable tendency to decrease our pleasures generally, or the most important of them: so that it becomes a question whether we can gain our greatest happiness by seeking it, or at any rate by trying to seek it with scientific exactness. {Note.}
[ME, Empirical Hedonism §1]
[ME, Empirical Hedonism---Continued §1]


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Louis Vallet est un écrivain anarchiste français. Il fut collaborateur des Primaires de 1930 à 1937.

Biographie

Selon Régis Messac, Louis Vallet est un observateur attentif, sceptique et ironique, qui sait « discerner les motifs d'une action, les intentions secrètes, les sentiments cachés sous la façade des paroles ». Ses recueils sont « un dessert pour l'esprit, un ensemble de friandises que l'on se plait à savourer lentement ». De plus, toujours selon Messac, sa « dureté n'est qu'apparente. [Vallet] est un sensible qui se cache, et se hâte de rire de l'hypocrisie du monde, de peur d'en trop souffrir. Du point de vue purement littéraire, c'est un artiste qui pique ses mots dans l'esprit du lecteur et qui sait être d'une brièveté excessive, d'une netteté à l'emporte pièce. Il a, de son maître Jules Renard, le goût de la notation exacte, et le sens de la phrase dépouillée. Un écrivain indépendant, un peu amer, plein d'humour et de saveur ».

Bibliographie
 Boulettes de papier (1936).
 Grimaces dans le miroir, Paris, René Debresse, Bibliothèque de l'artistocratie, Cahiers mensuels de littérature et d'art n° LXXIII, 75 pp. (janvier 1937).
 Facettes du monde, nouvelles très courtes illustrées par des bois originaux de Louis Moreau, 17 pp. (1938).
 Saison sur mon village (1938).

Écrivain français du XXe siècle
Anarchiste français

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for the accreditation of official observers from foreign states and international organizations during the second round of Ukraine's presidential elections on 21 April 2019
Ukrainian citizens shall not be accredited as official observers from foreign states and international organizations (hereinafter "the observers").
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The Commission shall decide to cancel the observer accreditation when his or her revocation is requested by a relevant organization or a foreign diplomatic institution in a form of a letter properly drafted and signed.
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