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It's about time we started taxing wealth in the UK
10:06 am - August 30th 2012
Nick Clegg wants to tax wealth. So do I. There's no other way to reduce wealth inequality in this country, and that wealth inequality is deeply destructive of community in the UK.
That it so happens revenue can be raised a the same time is a bonus.
But Clegg is wrong if he thinks that a mansion tax (as Matthew Oakeshott is suggesting he's demanding) is going to address this issue.
There is no doubt that Council Tax needs to be reformed, but a mansion tax would need a revaluation of vast numbers of properties simply to result in a tony number paying a small additional contribution. That's not efficient by by measure thought of.
If Clegg is serious he has to do three things. First, if we seriously tackled tax havens vastly more wealth would be found and be subject to income tax. This would create real tax justice.
Second, we could, of course, have a 50% tax rate, which the Lib Dems have just got rid of.
Third, we could stop income being sheltered in limited companies by taxing the profits of private companies as the personal income of their owners.
Fourth we could eliminate the abuse that having a capital gains tax rate ;less than the income tax rate permits.
Fifth, inheritance tax could be made to work. There are numerous ways to do this: cutting allowances would be a start.
Sixth, ending large numbers of tax reliefs that are solely designed to create loopholes for the wealthy would be of great value. So let's get rid of venture capital trusts, EIS, higher rate charity reliefs and so much more.
Now that's an agenda to ensure wealth and the income it gives rise to is taxed. Clegg has a long way to go.
10:28 am, August 30, 2012
1. codhead99
There's more that can be done. A radical and complete overhaul of land taxes is required by introducing Land Value Taxation. Based on the maximum developed potential of the land, it would go some way to removing land banks and ensuring currently empty properties are released onto the market.
LVT would also ensure that those who profit directly from taxpayer-funded infrastructure improvements, would also contribute more towards the improvements they've had a financial benefit from.
Introduce LVT first and then look at reductions in income and other forms of taxes.
2. Chaise Guevara
Jesus Christ. I regularly get annoyed with right-wingers using the straw man that lefties only want to tax the rich out of jealousy and spite. I always thought they'd made it up out of whole cloth to avoid addressing the actual issues.
No longer. Today I discover that it's all your fault. Nice job breaking it, hero.
3. William Davison
No Richard, the first thing Clegg needs to do is back a Land Value Tax, a Tax that cannot be avoided. You have been told this enough times as has Clegg. Its as if you are both trying to divert attention from a Tax that cannot be avoided with proposals that can be avoided.
4. Phil
There's only one thing that I disagree with in this article.
"Nick Clegg wants to tax wealth"
Shouldn't that be "Nick Clegg says he wants to tax wealth"? Because there's no relationship between what Nick Clegg (a) says and (b) believes let alone (c) does.
Honestly tired of RM's ill-informed drivel. The tax system is already heavily distributive, and much more so than countries such as Sweden and Denmark which the left so admire.
Lets just compare shall we?
The top rate of income tax in Denmark cannot exceed 51.5%, but that INCLUDES their equivalent of NI and council tax. VAT is 25%. Corporation tax is 25%, but most companies pay a reduced rate, and Cap gains tax is 25%. Inheritance tax is 15% over a similar threshold to the UK.
In Sweden the top rate of tax works out to about 58% after deductions for NI and council tax (as well as other normal deductions) are considered. VAT is again 25%, corporation tax is 26.3% as is Capital gains (though there are a lot of execptions to this tax rate). There is no IHT.
In the UK, we have a top tax rate of 45%, but that DOES NOT include NI and council tax. NI for a top rate taxpayer is 12%, on top of 13.8% for the employer. VAT is 20%. Corporation tax is 24% (20% for small businesses) and Capital gains tax is at 28% for high rate taxpayers. IHT is 40% over threshold.
So, what we see in this ismple comparison, and assuming people agree that VAT is a regressive tax and income taxes are progressive, is that the UK has a MORE progressive tax regime than those social democratic countries RM likes to harp on about. You'd think a so called tax expert would know this.
Then again, the truth and RM never seem to cross – his claim he invented country by country reporting is utter tripe. It is the alternative to the accepted method of cross border accounting – transfer pricing (guidelines from 79, regulated for between 94 and 96 in OECD). Which there are armies of accountants around the globe doing, and have been doing so for decades.
CbC reporting was thoroughly rejected a long time ago as being essentially unworkable for export/import and cross-border businesses, as it leaves little room to account for companies which produce in country A (a cost or loss), sell in country B (profit) and are headquatered in country C. With transfer pricing you can offset profits and losses and leave a net profit and pay tax on it once (RM is particularly opposed to the ability to choose domicile). With CbC reporting this is near impossible to do, and would essentially lead to companies paying tax on gross profits rather than net profits, which is clearly nonsense.
Ultimately I fear that RM's real dream is some kind of socialist command economy where the great bulk of wealth created and moeny earnt is controlled directed by the state, nominally in the aims of "equality". The problem with such command economies is that it's always the person who suggests them who thinks they would be best fit to run such a thing.
6. JC
If we want to tax wealth, we should at least talk about it instead of confusing wealth and income. There are many people that can be considered wealthy who do not have a high income. Similarly, there are those who might be considered to have a high income who do not have much wealth.
An example of the former is a pensioner on a teacher's pension with a house valued at over £1M. It wasn't worth anything like that when it was bought, but gentrification and prices rises have made it that. The latter is someone (I was this person) who, after years of struggling on an average income, found somewhere they could excel and gets paid a 6 figure salary.
Firstly, most wealth has been earned, and income tax paid, so we are in the realms of double taxing, such as IHT. Pensions are wealth that has not been taxed (if it is a final salary version) and could be included and taxed as assets.
How should we treat a property? Say it's worth £1.5M and the resident pays the equivalent of a £200k mortgage. Is the excess £1.3M wealth? What if it's a council house?
How about investments in companies? If someone invests £1M should it be taxed?
As for IHT, it's a mess. There are ways of getting round it (ask the Millibands) if you're wealthy enough. The poor don't pay it, as it right, but the bulk is paid by the middle, not the wealthy.
7. Shrugged
I'm also for LVT. Another benefit of LVT is that it will provide Councils with an incentive to grant planning permissions (consequently providing more housing) because it will be a 'free' way of increasing the V.
8. MatGB
If Clegg is serious he has to do three things.
He is, I've read the policy consultation document.
First, if we seriously tackled tax havens vastly more wealth would be found and be subject to income tax. This would create real tax justice.
Income is not wealth, therefore this point is irrelevent.
Income is not wealth, therefore this point is irrelevent. However doing this remains LD party policy and the Tories are opposed to it, which any well informed commentator would know.
Reform of inheritance tax is indeed in the consultation document, the most likely proposal is to scrap it entirely and replace it with an Accessions Tax.
So, 6 points made by Richard and unless he's being incredibly opaque and unclear, 4 of them are completely irrelevent, one is already something being pushed for by the party, another is in the policy proposal but in a much better form.
9. Shinsei1967
I actually thought this was a surprisingly sensible set of suggestions. Many of RM's proposals could just as happily come from a right wing think tank. Most "neo-liberals" want all the allowances and distortions removed from the tax code so as to simplify things (and lower the tax rate as a quid pro quo).
The raising of CGT to nearer the income tax rate was one of first things Osborne did as Chancellor. Not that RM ever gives any credit to Osborne for anything. Brown ludicrously reduced CGT so that his private equity friends could make even more money. The Treasury claim that a 28% CGT rate optimises the capital gains tax take.
A 50p top rate of income tax is clearly nonsense for an economy like the UK that attracts tens of thousands of foreign professionals and business people to be based here. Having one of the highest income tax rates in the developed world is clearly silly.
What does surprise me about RM's list is there is no real mention of taxing the unearned wealth that many London and South East property owners who were fortunate to buy 20 years ago have made.
For every dodgy businessman with £5m in a Caymans bank account there are hundreds of London headteachers, university lecturers and GPs who live in £2m houses they bought for £200,000 back in the early 90s.
On some of the practical challenges in administering a wealth tax, try Howard Davies in the FT on: Don't make wealth tax a habit :
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c027693c-f120-11e1-a553-00144feabdc0.html#axzz251RTVR00
Think: How to value the shares in a family run business or small company? Do you trust an estate agent to value your house? Is a work of art to be included as wealth and, if so, how is it to be valued? Would there be a system for dealing with appeals against valuations?
12:25 pm, August 30, 2012
11. Duncan Stott
I've only one thing to add to MatGB's excellent comment:
"a mansion tax would need a revaluation of vast numbers of properties simply to result in a tony number paying a small additional contribution. That's not efficient by by measure thought of."
This would be a dead easy job. HMRC's Valuation Office Agency already collects all the data needed to carry this task out. All Mansion Tax needs is the political will.
12. X
"What does surprise me about RM's list is there is no real mention of taxing the unearned wealth that many London and South East property owners who were fortunate to buy 20 years ago have made"
Its not " unearned wealth " and they were not "fortunate" enough to buy there houses, they established enough of an income due to there working choices which allowed them to be able to buy there property, they then spent a couple of decades paying council tax and maintaining there property.
13. Shinsei1967
@Duncan Stott
Could you explain how HMRC has these property valuations and how they determine them.
Take a 5 bed farmhouse in Chipping Norton. Bought in 2000 for £1m. Put on the market in 2007 for a cheeky £1.6m but only got a £1.35m offer. Local estate agents say put it on the market today for £1.3m but accept £1.15m for a quick sale.
What's it actually worth ?
1:04 pm, August 30, 2012
14. Lamia
What a car-crash of an article.
Richard's title refers to 'wealth' but most of his suggestions here are to do with income. Does he not understand the difference? And it appears his primarymotivation is spite before any economic benefit.
This has already been covered; there are numerous people who own what are now very expensive homes, but who spent a long time paying the mortgage (and council taxes etc, as pointed out) on those. A lot of those people may not have much else in the way of actual money in the bank. Yet you are suggesting just levying an additional sum on them each year. What if they are retired and are on a very low income? Sell the house? Ah, of course, make them sell what many have spent most of their working life trying to achieve, and have indeed bought through their own work.
Also pretty stupid to suggest that "unearned" income is not taxed in the UK. In some cases it is taxed twice…
Housing: stamp duty + cap gains (for 2nd homes only)
Dividends: income tax (and possibly cap gains)
Shares and other financial assets: Cap gains
Pensions: untaxed on the way in, income tax on the way out
Remembering also that people also pay income tax on earnings *before* they can accumulate any of the above assets….
16. Ken
I agree largely with what you say, but surely most of what you suggests relates to income rather than wealth. Inheritance tax effectively taxes wealth (unless you pass it on the person inheriting it in which it could be regarded as taxing their income), but the rest of your suggestions seem to relate to income. I'm all for closing loopholes, increasing the top rate of tax, properly taxing capital gains and investment income, but I don't see a really sensible way of actually taxing wealth (i.,e., the total of someone's wealth rather than amount by which it has increased).
17. Cherub
Would it be more absurd than this article to suggest that people be taxed punitively if they buy a newspaper or give significant money to a political party?
Who said "unearned income" wasn't taxed ? Clearly all income is taxed. Whether it is from actual 9-5 work or dividends or interest income.
And all capital gains are taxed apart from capital gains on your primary property.
I'm just surprised that RM never mentioned this in an article about wealth taxes as it is clearly the largest source of "wealth" in the country.
It is an economically unproductive anomaly that if you have spare cash you can buy a bigger house and not have too pay capital gains on any increase whereas if you invest your spare cash in investing in a UK company you'll be clobbered for income tax on dividends and CGT on any gain.
Of course there are problems with CGT on primary property (as Lamia points out) but there are solutions. For instance, a mansion tax could be rolled up and paid on the death of an asset-rich/cash poor homeowner.
And property inflation is clearly an unearned gain, regardless of whether you've been paying council tax and maintaining the property.
And "working hard to pay the mortgage" ? Yes, that's why the CGT would be on the GAIN. You buy a house for £200k then you are paying off a £200k mortgage. But if the house is then worth £2m, you pay CGT on the £1.8m GAIN.
19. Redfish
Here is an easy start – simplify Income Tax
1. Scrap NI and raise the base rate of tax to 32% (initiall) / 41% / 46%
2. Tax all income with the new Income tax rates – Dividends, Capital Gains etc
With the money gained from 2 you could probabl reduce 1 for everyone and remain tax neutral (which is prety fair)
Make all momey earned within the UK subject to UK tax, so no paying people offshore or distributing dividends a la Philip Green
20. Chaise Guevara
@ 14 Lamia
"Ah, of course, make them sell what many have spent most of their working life trying to achieve, and have indeed bought through their own work."
Judging from the attitude shown in the OP, I think Richard would very cheerfully do that, possibly while shouting "Bwa ha ha ha!"
@ 18 Shinsei
You can spend that extra cash on a bigger house, but stamp duty does increase as the value of the house goes up…so you do end up paying more for larger houses.
Your primary residence doesn't have any cap gains attached, but secondary residences do….so if I buy a second house purely for investment purposes for say 500k, which goes up to 750k over a period of time, I pay stamp duty initially and when I come to sell it I pay cap gains on the increase in price (250k) at a rate dependent on my total income. I also pay tax on any rental income at normal income tax rates, again depending on my total earnings.
The reason for the lack of CGT on a primary residence is that home ownership is something successive governments want to promote – people need roofs over their heads. But do remember, that first house is essentially an unproductive asset in terms in income – I don't get any more direct functionality if ii live in a small house or a large one….but I've sunk a lot more cash into the large hosue which I now no longer can invest in other assets which do give me a direct return. Roughly speaking it evens out in the wash.
@ 20 Chaise
Seconded…I sometimes wonder what world he lives in. His tone always suggests to me he seems to think only he can solve the worlds problems and lead us into his idea of what the sunlit uplands are….probably in chains.
@ 21 Tyler
Agreed. I don't know enough to comment on his specific proposals (except to agree with other posters that income =/= wealth), but when someone admits that they'd take money from others *simply for the sake of it*, I know I won't be pinning their colours to my mast.
I'm all for taxing the rich, within the bounds of reason and pragmatism, to help the less well-off. But not out of sheer spite.
23. MatGB
Jennie just pointed out to me. Richard says Clegg needs to do three things.
Then lists 6 points.
I really hope he counted better when he was working as an accountant.
Incidentally, I disagree with Duncan on the Mansion Tax, I always thought it was a half baked proposal, a poor mans LVT. Either reband Council Tax properly, or go the whole hog and introduce LVT, mansion tax is a waste of time.
I'd be even happier to see Council Tax reformed to become a proper property tax rather than the mutated poll tax it is today, and even happier with proper LVT.
But while these options appear to be off the table, I'd rather have Mansion Tax than nothing.
@ Chaise
In fairness to Murphy, he said that it was because "wealth inequality is deeply destructive of community in the UK."
But nonetheless I'm glad you can see through the mirage of his intellectual and fiscal Stalinism.
I'm right of centre, and I guess you are moderately left of centre, but I do agree with the left (and most of the right) that there should be a degree of redistribution of wealth. It's a question of how.
Where I take massive issue is with the likes of RM who as you say, wants to take money from other people simply for the sake of it, not least because he thinks he knows better when it comes to spending it. That is command economy style thinking, autocratic bordering on the dictatorial, and should have died a death when the Soviet Union did for all the good it did there.
I'm also a realist. You can't airbrush out all inequality, however hard you try. Some people are born better off, some are smarter and some can run faster etc….some are simply downright lucky to be in the right place at the right time. The world is not fair.
I also think that aspiration is a massive driver of growth and invention. If we were all paid rougly the same, and there was little I could do to better my life through my own labour, I probably wouldn't. Some might, but if there was little chance of reward, or if President for life Murphy arbitrarily confiscated much of my earnings, I would seriously consider spending more time on my backside. I think both aspects drive human nature, and that strive to better ourselves, for most at least, is rewards based.
Where I am strongly in favour of more equality is in opportunity – specifically education. A poor kid (like I was) can easily make good in life given the right education and some hard work, and come out on top. Rather than trying to squash the rich down to the lowest common denominator, why not try and lift the poor up. Better still, why not try and give the poor the means to lift themselves up.
That much of the left still think in terms of class warfare, the rich somehow robbing the poor and feeling the need to define and control their lives through labelling them as deprived in some way, engendering the idea that they have been cheated and locking them into subsistence on the state is to that part of the political spectrum's enternal shame.
27. Planeshift
An excellent idea. But one that won't happen without significant reform of the tabloids who would simply attack the idea as a tax rise, regardless of how many times it was pointed out as revanue neutral – they'd even attack it if an actual tax cut occured at the same time.
9:38 am, August 31, 2012
"I'm also a realist. You can't airbrush out all inequality, however hard you try. Some people are born better off, some are smarter and some can run faster etc….some are simply downright lucky to be in the right place at the right time. The world is not fair. "
Agreed. All political positions should be based in the real world.
"I also think that aspiration is a massive driver of growth and invention. If we were all paid rougly the same, and there was little I could do to better my life through my own labour, I probably wouldn't. "
Agreed again! Of course, communistic state control isn't the only way to kill aspiration. The same can happen in more libertarian systems where, for example, education is too expensive for the poor, meaning that those who are born into poverty are going to stay there unless they're incredibly lucky.
"Where I am strongly in favour of more equality is in opportunity – specifically education. A poor kid (like I was) can easily make good in life given the right education and some hard work, and come out on top. Rather than trying to squash the rich down to the lowest common denominator, why not try and lift the poor up. Better still, why not try and give the poor the means to lift themselves up. "
Good philosophy. I'd add the caveat that in the specific case of children we should be lifting them up rather than giving them the tools to do so and leaving them to their own devices. Children aren't fully responsible for their own lives.
"That much of the left still think in terms of class warfare"
Well, "class warfare" is just one way of describing inequality, really. Where members of the left try to present it as an "us vs them" battle between the haves and have-nots, I suspect that's because it positions them into a place that is easy to defend and hard to attack. Simply put, it's easier to get away with sneering at the upper class than sneering at the working class.
And of course the right is hardly innocent of this either. Hence the attempts to dismiss liberalism, environmentalism, and even socialism (FFS) as the witterings of overprivileged, skinny-latte-sipping, Guardian-reading yoga affectionados. Both sides have people who like to play the man rather than the balll.
29. SadButMadLad
It's interesting to see a general consensus that Richard Murphy's views are not well received by anyone, even those on the left. If you read his own blog you would think that no one disagrees with him. That's because, as has been mentioned above, he is totally authoritarian in thought as well as deed as he imposes a strict censorship rules on the comments on his blog. And it is censorship as anyone who disagrees with him and tries to debate politely is banned. The best he will say is "With respect I disagree with you", but in actual fact it shows no respect at all as he then refuses to debate the point.
Oakeshott is spot on. The LibDems need to start thinking about how to replace Clegg as leader before the next election.
8:20 pm, September 1, 2012
Agreed with Chaise, Tyler and others. I support sensible and constructive redistribution of wealth, but that has to be (a) workable and (b) not simply out of spite.
I would not be likely to be touched directly by any of Richard's proposals (although arguably would be indirectly, along with many others, as I think they are economic lunacy). I don't own a home, a business, land, or have a private pension. I have virutally zero. But I am very much against high-handedly trying to squeeze as much as possible out of people wherever possible, and especially regarding primary properties. That is just brutal. I can handle someone living in a house which is worth a lot which they've worked hard to pay for, even if it's gone up very nicely in value.
The growth of wealth in property can be something of a mirage anyway – one's house may be worth ten times what it was, say, twenty years ago, but so is quite probably the house one might buy if one sold one's own.
I also think a land value tax could be much trickier than people imagine. Not all land is, or even should be, developable or economically viable, so to demand money for someone owning it is not necessarily right. And then there is the issue of common land and land owned by trusts and even, arguably, public bodies. If there's one way to guarantee councils will sell off more land, it's to slap a tax on every bit of land.
Often it's not actually 'theirs' anyway; it may have been bequeathed under certain conditions which make ownership or trusteeship void if they are not adhered to; a lot of assumed council property is not something council have deeds for. Not so far form where I live the council sold off a school and its land to provate developers. Now a lot of schools were started by private benefactors under the condition that the land and buildings were for a particular educational purpose; they were often later handed over to local government administration, which is fine so long as councils continue to use them for the original purpose. But they are arguably not the council's to dispose of simply as they like – in fact it's fair to guess that a great deal of council sell-offs of property have been, strictly, sell-offs they had no legal right to make. In any case, I think a LVT is something to be extremely wary about.
(sorry for typos above.)
Lamia: "I also think a land value tax could be much trickier than people imagine."
Absolutely. I think it would become necessary to apply a similar approach to the banding method now used to assess residential properties for local rates to avoid the wrinkles of the old rating system in which each individual property had its own rateable value. The result was continuing appeals because of noisy pubs, shops, and traffic or because views or the neighbourhood had changed with new local developments.
The incidence of a land value tax would fall disproportionately on London and the South East regions – as the inheritance tax (IHT) does – when those regions are already paying for the gap between tax revenues and public spending in the rest of Britain.
8:05 am, September 5, 2012
34. Lucy
The Lib Dems have long argued that the burden of taxation should be shifted from income towards wealth. There is nothing inconsistent in Clegg calling for a wealth tax (which is more than the mansion tax) while also supporting the reduction in the 50p rate to 45p. In Britain, wealth is concentrated in even fewer hands than income and is an untapped source of government revenue. If taxes on income are to be reduced for the poorest workers through a significantly higher personal allowance . I would support Land Value Taxation as part of a wealth tax.
@ 4 Phil. I think you could say that about a lot of politicians..
35. Gareth
Again, there is a bigger picture….The system itself
The bloodline of all these rulers around the world goes back to evil roman blood. That of the emperors who invented christianity though were still rapping christians up in fresh animal skins and setting 'the beasts' onto them. One of the biggest contradictions of our history, yet we surcome as subjects.
The Roman empire interbread with the German linage around 900BC.
You know that from here, the bloodline spread all around Europe and the America's.
I just ask people to be informed. Inform themselves about history and as to the whys and hows. Look at all the kings and queens who display mental evils and illness, between 1000AD up to the present day. This proves that the DNA from those evil Roman rulers, still claims the world and systems of it, to this day.
9:37 am, September 12, 2012
36. David
I struggle financially and pay my taxes but I do believe that we should reduce taxes on hardworking small/ to medium size companies and individuals and taxing the wealth (ier ) only results in avoidance and mass exodus and I do think it is in many cases coming from a place of envy. On saying that, it depends on what one calls wealthy and also depends on which tax . Large corps should be reigned in but in many cases a tax is unfair such as personal INHERITANCE TAX. – it is misunderstood as a tax for the rich. It is not. It is a tax on the middle hardworkers who live in London and the south, who are not financially savvy. family homes are sold to pay the gov It is a wicked tax that only the savvy know how to avoid. ( i.e Miliband ! ) the threshold is far too low. a small house in fulham that a family might have been living in for generations would result in a pay out of £3 or £400,000 to the government and that family would have already paid tax all their lives. This tax can not be justified.
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The tiger is an apex predator and an umbrella species: ensuring their survival allows many species they need and live with to flourish in its large shared habitat. However, killing for profit or in retaliation, destruction of habitat for industries or subsistence, and a thriving illicit global trade have drastically reduced tiger populations across its range. Today, fewer than 3,200 tigers exist in the wild, spread across 13 countries in Asia and the Russian Far East.
Bhutan is unique in that its tiger habitat is contiguous across the whole country and extends from lowland subtropical jungles all the way to subalpine forests. The highest altitude for tiger in the world was recorded in Wangchuck Centennial National Park at 4,400 masl (meters above sea level). Bhutan is also the only place on the planet where snow leopards and tigers are found in the same landscape.
A population baseline for Bhutan's mountain tigers is an important metric to help measure conservation success. It also allows conservationists to understand the spatial layout of important tiger habitat in order to better guide their protection. In addition, understanding tiger biology is critical to implementing effective conservation interventions. This project is a long-term initiative to build a sound knowledge base to guide tiger conservation.
Over the last three years, we have supported Bhutanese biologists at the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE) in carrying out tiger surveys in Royal Manas and Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Parks to contribute to Bhutan's national tiger survey efforts. Results from these surveys will now be used to understand tiger movements and ecology. Conservation policies and management using sound science is the only way we can ensure that resources are focused on the right interventions in the right areas. In other words, it enhances higher return on conservation investment.
On September 2, 2017, Amankora, in partnership with the Kora Tigers Cycling Team and the Bhutan Foundation, led an online campaign to raise funds for the Regional Center for Tiger and Cats Research based in Gelephu.
A total of Nu. 630,000 was raised for tiger conservation. The funds raised were handed over to His Excellency Lyonpo Yeshey Dorji, Agriculture Minister, at a handing-over event on September 27, 2017. The event highlighted the center's significance in global tiger conservation. We are happy to support this initiative and look forward to working with the center.
To mark the 2017 International Tiger Day, the Bhutan Foundation supported the National Tiger Center to to lead a two-day stakeholders' meeting in Gelephu, one of the regional hubs for trade and commerce between India and Bhutan. The region is known to be increasingly becoming a hotspot for tiger poaching and illegal trade of tiger parts.
The meeting brought together members and youth from neighboring communities, who discussed the importance of tiger conservation and of spreading awareness throughout the country.
To celebrate International Tiger Day, the Bhutan Foundation put together a short informative video on the status of the tiger, both globally and in Bhutan. The video shows clips taken by camera traps that were set up by field biologists from the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environmental Research and the Department of Forests and Park Services. Mountain tigers roam all across the country—from subtropical foothills on the Indian border all the way up to the snowy mountains.
With a thriving population of tigers inhabiting unfragmented landscapes across Bhutan, it is now crucial for conservationists to understand tiger movement to ensure that key habitat requirements are protected for posterity. This requires accommodation of development activities within such landscapes in a way that is not detrimental to the long-term survival of this endangered cat. In order to collect this vital information, the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE) has initiated a tiger radio-telemetry study in Royal Manas National Park and Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park in partnership with the park management authorities. As soon as the monsoon ceases, trapping exercises will resume.
According to the National Tiger Survey of Bhutan report released by the government, Bhutan has an estimated 103 adult tigers. Important contributions to the survey were made by UWICE through its surveys in Royal Manas and Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Parks. They also provided the science and rigor behind these surveys to have them withstand scrutiny by the global scientific community. Bhutan was thus established as a source population of tigers, with several females breeding multiple cubs that survive into maturity. The tiger surveys were fully implemented by Bhutanese biologists.
UWICE and the Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park (JSWNP) completed surveys in JSWNP in central Bhutan. They placed 120 self-triggered camera traps in the Black Mountains. The field teams also discovered evidence of rampant musk deer poaching in the remote alpine meadow–subalpine ecotone that are rarely visited by officials. Such undertakings also present excellent opportunities for training and inspiring young field personnel through active mentoring. The field trips saw active participation from several JSWNP personnel and UWICE researchers. This project was supported by UWICE, JSWNP, the Bhutan Foundation, University of Montana, Wildlife Conservation Society, and National Geographic Society.
UWICE completed surveys in Royal Manas National Park in southern Bhutan. The team leader and head of the conservation biology department with the institute, Tshering Tempa, said in the past, studies on the subject were carried out on a short-term basis most of the time. "This is a comprehensive research and took us a minimum of four years," he said. "We're determined to understand tigers and other cats in these biologically diverse and as yet unexplored forests of our country." Tshering Tempa said Manas was an extremely rich and productive ecosystem, which explained the high density of cats and associated species. "Also, Bhutan's stringent conservation laws have played a role in keeping this magnificent place that sustains some of the last tigers on the planet alive," he said. The Bhutan Foundation and WWF-Bhutan program supported this research.
This project is mainly implemented by the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environmental Research (UWICER) in partnership with the University of Montana, North Carolina State University, US Fish and Wildlife Services, National Geographic Society/Waitt Institute, and Karuna Foundation. Other partners in Bhutan's tiger conservation efforts include the Wildlife Conservation Division, Department of Forests and Park Services, and World Wildlife Fund.
As we embark on the exciting next phase of this project, biologists at UWICE are getting ready to start the tiger movement study in November 2015. Most of the necessary equipment and training have to be procured or sourced abroad. Further, logistics in Bhutan's mountainous terrain drive up field costs. Nevertheless, results from this program will be critical in providing a sound basis for tiger conservation science. Any finding will also be Bhutan's contribution to conservation science and will be useful in tiger conservation globally.


Abbstami was just an ordinary Urbaniac, until she became the victim of the first-ever RULEBREAKER attack.
It was an ordinary morning for Abbstami until RuleBreaker captured her account and kidnapped her. She had very few words to explain everything to Mayor_DaMan and viewers on the forums. Having been whipped and flogged Abbstami had barely any breath but lots of skill and funky spirit inside her.
Abbstami using this skill managed to escape Rulebreakers clutches.
DylanMackay - Where were you kept after being kidnapped?
Abstammi - I was kept in a basement with mold everywhere and very dim light coming from the door. At night I had to sleep in a potato sack which smelt of old cheese.
DM - How did he torture you?
A - He flogged me with a very thin rope. I still have the battle scars. He also told me very bad jokes.
DM - Sounds awful. What was 'RULEBREAKER' like?
A - I couldn't see properly but he was average height and build.
I heard him on the phone talking to his friend.
He said, "I've got her, where will you be?"
He had a fire patterned mask on and golden-brown eyes.
DM - What did you do to escape?
I realized it was getting lighter. Rulebreaker was just about to torture me again when the phone rang. He left the door open so I snuck out to the corridor and out a window. With my new sidekick. I jumped on A.R.T.I.E (my robot)'s back and returned to my account ASAP!
But I liked the tune that Rulebreaker made so I'm keeping it and his pic of a vampire.
Mayor DaMan and everyone else has been so supportive. I sure hope that this never happens again.
How safe are the streets of Urbanville these days? With the revealing of the games Flingo Flango and Goatfist of Fury it seems that villians are coming out of hiding and making a move to take over the town. False accusations or warning?
Afro_Chic of the Hustle Alliance has been taken hostage by Sacred_Apollyon of the Family. Sacred has claimed to have hid the hero in the pages of Urbaniacs while trying to convert her from hero to villian. He challenges all who care for Afro-Chic to search for her and has even posted a reward for anyone smart enough to. Mayor Daman has also contributed 5000 urbos to the first person to find the missing heroine.
Be on the lookout for clues given from a temporarily escaped Affy in the forums and if you want to guess where she is urbogram the link to Sacred_Apollyon.
Who if anyone will find Afro_Chic, and will it be too late?
Attention: Heroes and Other Anti-Villains of Urbanville!
GoatFist is on the rise.
which may lead to our own despair and tribulation.
hear about him in their first week of residence.
finally went too far in his attacks against our fair community.
looked closer, a glowing Cloven Fist became visible.
city database and made himself Urbaniac of the Day.
the error and replaced his appointment with Fredlock.
keep the streets safe from evil such as GoatFist.
your "Urb-On," as our beloved Mayor would say.
Now that all the tracks are laid down, the judges are getting their judge on. Stay Tuned to the Chronicles and City Hall as the finalists may be revealed this weekend!
Sometimes the heart of man is blinded by the needs of discovery. As a result we become architects of our own destiny.
These documents refered to in part 1 are bvery mysterious. Were people experimented on? No one can translate how certain people gained their special powerd. Perhaps there is a greater purpose at work?
Scientists looked all over the planet for any signs... a connection to something. Is Urbaniacs randome is is there purpose? Would evil win or would good be victorious?


Witch, our window switching application, is designed to be always-running (what good is a window switcher if it's not active?). The program itself exists as two components: the user interface, where you modify Witch's settings, and the background process that watches for the Witch activation keystrokes and builds the list when activated. The background process is named witchdaemon, and some users have emailed us with concerns about the RAM usage of this background daemon.
Why is Witch using so much real RAM?
Why is Witch reserving gigabytes of virtual memory (VSIZE in top)?
Read on for the details on both real and virtual RAM usage by Witch—the explanations are somewhat detailed and technical (especially relative to virtual memory), so put on your geek glasses before proceeding.
The number of windows you're switching between. Keep more windows open, and generally speaking, witchdaemon will use more RAM.
The setting of the "Show" pop-up menu in the Appearance tab of Witch's settings. Set it to 'application icons' for the least memory usage; using 'mini window previews if possible' will use the most RAM.
Using window previews, either via the "Pop up a preview of the selected window after a" pop-up menu (also on the Appearance tab of Witch's settings), or by pressing the Space Bar with a window selected. Show lots of window previews, and RAM usage will increase.
The easiest way to reclaim this memory is to simply open the Witch settings panel—this will restart witchdaemon automatically, and thereby clear the cached image data.
As it turns out that this huge figure in VSIZE is nothing to worry about, and it's not exclusive to Witch. So if you've seen it, and wonder if you should care, the answer is you shouldn't.
You're headed into a maze of twisty little passages, all alike…at least, that's how I feel when I start discussing OS X and memory management. In short, it's a very complex and powerful system that generally works very well, but can be really confusing at times. Keep in mind I'm not a programmer (Peter is our founder and programmer) or memory expert, so the following is a semi-educated amateur's attempt at explaining Witch's huge VSIZE number, and why you shouldn't care about it.
That 308GB of VSIZE reflects the memory that has been marked as possibly required for my currently running apps—yikes! But the reality is that this amount of memory will never be used or needed. Even more important is that application authors don't control this VSIZE figure; the system does it itself, based on what the author's code needs to do. So why is it so big? The honest answer is that I don't know why, nor seemingly does anyone out there, at least based on some internet searches.
This command shows you the breakdown between what's marked (VIRTUAL) and what's being more actively used (RESIDENT). The lines I highlighted in red show three items that take no RESIDENT RAM, but have huge VIRTUAL values. Add them up, and of the 8.8GB in total VSIZE, roughly 8.1GB of it is taken up by things that aren't using any RAM—and that aren't controlled by Witch.
Don't be alarmed by super large VSIZE on OS X — An example of a three-line Ruby program with a 10GB VSIZE value!
OS X and virtual bloat — This one goes into details on Mozilla's large VSIZE. There's some good info in the comments, too.
Finally, Apple's support article on Using Activity Monitor contains some tips on how to use Activity Monitor to understand memory usage.
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Hi there, apologies for using the comments section for something totally unrelated to the post above but your contact link only allows 'contact' through mail which I don't use (I use gmail and I was unable to copy/paste an email adress from the contact link). Does name mangler allow for alternate naming? I.e. I've been scanning books and I have a file with all the left hand pages and another with all the right hand pages. Would it be possible using name mangler to number all the Left pages as odd numbers and the right hand ones as even numbers. That way when I merge the files the 'book' will be ordered and all I have to do is convert to pdf. Thanks for your help.


A hotel restaurant is a tricky design challenge: brisk business breakfast and romantic dinner date must work in the same surroundings. The designers at Box Interior had an especially difficult brief for Market, the restaurant in the Shangri-La: the space was located in a highly modernist piece of architecture (by West Coast great James Cheng), was supported by one of Asia's most opulent hotel brands, and had to accommodate one of the world's revered chefs (Jean-Georges Vongerichten). What's more, there were three separate rooms—a bistro, a bar, and a fine dining space—plus spacious patios, all of which had to facilitate the ebb and flow of up to 200 diners. There's a subtle whiff of luxe Asia in the result, but the work never feels far from this side of the Pacific, either. Against a basically black-and-white palette, Box threaded hits of olive green to tie the rooms together, and cleverly positioned the restaurant's bar smack in the middle of things, so that even the most sedate fine diners get warmed up en route to their table by cocktail sippers on Philippe Starck barstools. Hats off to this happy cacophony. Jean-Georges's feng shui master (flown in from France) gave the setup his blessing. And our judges awarded it Gold. Main Street's Campagnolo (1020 Main St., 604-484-6018. Campagnolorestaurant.com) nabbed Silver. Marc Bricault's skill as a bricoleur (basically, one who uses materials at hand) works a quirky magic while never veering into kitsch. Check out (to take one detail) the lights—bare bulbs are a bit too hip just now, but Bricault makes them shine brighter than anyone else. Campagnolo's gutsy Main Street location conceals a little design gem. Bronze goes to Mis Trucos, (1141 Davie St., 604-566-3960. Mistrucos.ca). The tone of the room is not unlike the tapas on the menu: small and tasty. In essence, the place amounts to $45,000 of careful, light touches (not counting owner Kris Barnholden's construction hours). Guests lounge in designer chairs but funky castoffs are what reign here: 1960s light fixtures burn above tables made from wood that Barnholden nabbed from an old pool hall; the bar is all century-old cedar salvaged from his childhood home. Hands-on and handsome—Vancouver needs more places like this. Shout-outs to the recession-chic touches like the antlers at The Diamond (6 Powell St. Di6mond.com) and the radiator railings at Pourhouse (162 Water St., 604-568-7022. Pourhousevancouver.com). And to the new Keg Yaletown (1011 Mainland St., 604-633-2534. Kegsteakhouse.com), for a deck so splendid you won't know which view to settle on.


Fantastic boat with very little fuel consumption, due two new Mercruiser engines and transmission. 100h run with guarantee. Bow thruster, easy to park with a lot of accessories, dinghy and trailer. German approved. Ready to go anywhere.


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Peregrin Took and Faramir of Gondor.
October 11, 2016 October 11, 2016 / stephencwinter	/ 2 Comments
Few first meetings could be more dramatic. When Pippin first sees Faramir he is standing on the walls of Minas Tirith with Beregond looking over the unnaturally darkened fields beneath him towards the great river. Faramir is riding with four companions towards the city when they are attacked by five of the Nazgûl from the sky. Faramir is able to master his horse even amidst such terror but the others are not able to do so. They are thrown by their maddened horses who flee for their lives. Bravely, Faramir returns to aid his men but despite his courage all would have ended tragically had it not been for Gandalf's intervention. Revealed in light, Gandalf rides to their aid and is able to drive the Nazgûl away and together all return safely to the city. Faramir's men will never forget that he went back to them.
Pippin is among the crowd that greets the heroes calling out their names. He looks upon Faramir's face and sees it as the face of "one who has been assailed by a great fear or anguish, but has mastered it and now is quiet". He is reminded immediately of Boromir who he had always liked for his "lordly but kindly manner" but in Faramir he sees something more, "one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Elder Race" and his heart goes out to him. Pippin knows that Faramir is one that he would be prepared to followed even under the wings of the Nazgûl.
Last week we thought together about the great masculine archetypes of king, magician, warrior and lover and the role that they play in the journey towards wholeness and maturity. We saw that the least developed of these in Pippin is the magician. The immature boy magician is usually expressed as the trickster and we have certainly seen that in him. He needs Gandalf at this point in his life if he is to grow up. But now we see the most developed of the archetypes within him. Pippin is a lover and from this moment onwards Faramir is the object of his love and devotion.
The ancients knew that eros is the energy of life and the Fathers of the Church were to take that insight and develop it in their wonderful reflections on God and reality at a time when theology was mysticism and mysticism was theology. Occasionally we see an elder in whom eros is wonderfully alive but sadly we often see its absence in a barrenness or its twisted presence in the well known caricature of the "dirty old man". When it is mature and alive it is seen in a profound love for life, in a compassion that reaches out to all and a warmth, even a fire, that transforms everything about it. How wonderful it is when we encounter an elder like this.
Readers may have noticed that I have said nothing here about sex and the lover. Of course eros is profoundly connected to sex but not primarily to sexual intercourse. When the two become interchangeably one we are left with a destructive immaturity. Eros is reduced to sexual conquest and the Other, whether male or female, merely to the object of conquest. This is usually linked to the immature bullying warrior archetype.
The mature expression of eros is a wild desire for the blessedness of the Other.
So when we say that Pippin loves Faramir, and he does love him, we do not mean that Pippin wanted to go to bed with Faramir. What we mean is that Pippin wishes with all his heart to be the cause of blessing in Faramir and to be blessed by him. Quite simply he would die for Faramir and regard it as gain. And soon Pippin will be able to show his love by saving Faramir's life.
How vitally important it is that we learn eros in this way and that we teach it in this way to our young people. It is not only we who learn who will be transformed but the whole of reality too. All life will have a fruitful and a joyous energy about it.
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Statistics of the Champions Trophy-2
May 28, 2017 May 30, 2017 abn397 AC Gilchrist, Choker's tag, Cricket, Cricket statistics, ICC Champions Trophy, ICC Knockout Trophy, JC Buttler, JH Kallis, KC Sangakkara, M Jayawardene, ODI cricket, SR Tendulkar	AC Gilchrist, Choker's tag, Cricket, ICC Champions Trophy, ICC Knockout Trophy, JC Buttler, JH Kallis, KC Sangakkara, M Jayawardene, NL McCullum, ODI cricket, SR Tendulkar, statistics
Continuing from Part 1
Fielding: 10 or more dismissals:
The leaders Sangakkara and Gilchrist are predictable. Note that McCullum and Dravid both alternated between keeping and fielding. The most by a "pure" fielder is by M Jayawardene.
Innings fielding (4 or more dismissals):
The overall best is by Buttler, while the unlikely record-holder for stumpings is DO Obuya of Kenya. The "other" McCullum, who never played in Tests, has the record for non-keepers.
Fielding average (0.400 and above from 15 or more innings):
Sangakkara and Boucher lead overall, while Dwayne Bravo leads among non-keepers.
All-round overall performance (see criteria in table):
Kallis is clearly the best here, while Afridi barely meets the qualification of an all-rounder.
All-round match performance (30+ runs and 3+ wickets):
The best all-round performances would be that of Tendulkar and Kallis. See the scorecards below:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66165.html
But Kallis's performance was more crucial as it came in the final in 1998:
That was before the "choking" tag came up. And it remains South Africa's only win in an ICC tournament until now.
Tail piece: It is possible that the 2017 Champions Trophy will be the last such tournament. See the news item below which is the most recent reliable report I could find. Possibly the ICC will decide on this after this tournament is over. If held, the 2021 championship is likely to be held in India.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/story/1028721.html
May 27, 2017 May 28, 2017 abn397 Andy Flower, CH Gayle, Champions Trophy, Cricket, ICC Champions Trophy, ICC Knockout Championship, KD Mills, M Muralitharan, MF Mahroof, NJ Astle, ODI cricket, statistics for air traffic	Andy Flower, Chris Gayle, Cricket, ICC Champions Trophy, ICC knockout, Kyle Mills, M Muralitharan, MF Mahroof, NJ Astle, ODI cricket, statistics
For a quick overview of past tournaments see the previous post:
https://abn397.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/history-of-the-champions-trophy-since-1998/
Here are the statistics for all CT matches from 1998 to 2013. In case there is any doubt, it also includes the qualifying matches for the teams seeded 7th to 10th in 2006 which were played just before the "main" tournament for the top 8 teams.
Batting-most runs-250 and above:
Chris Gayle leads M Jayawardene and Sangakkara. The two Sri Lankans have played the most CT matches (22).
Gayle, Ganguly and Gibbs (the three Gs?) have the most centuries (3).
For scores of 50+, Dravid leads with 6 while several others have 5.
Highest innings scores (all scores of 100 and above):
Astle and Andy Flower lead, with Astle making his score against the US on its one Championship in 2004. As we will see later, Tendulkar's 141* featured in one of the best all-round performances in the championship.
Batting averages (minimum 15 innings batted):
Chanderpaul is just above Gayle here.
It can be seen that the highest strike rates are 88.77 by Gayle and 88.01 by Jayasuriya.
Bowling (15 or more wickets):
Headed by the relatively unheralded Kyle Mills followed by Muralitharan.
Best innings bowling (including all 5wi):
Note that the only 6-wicket haul came from one of the qualifying matches in 2006.
Best bowling averages (minimum 750 balls bowled):
Muralitharan has the best bowling average, economy rate and strike rate.
To be continued:
Karun Nair's Test records
April 21, 2017 abn397 batting record, Brendon Kuruppu, Centuries and no fifties, Cricket, KK Nair, Obscure Facts, Ravi Bopara, RE Foster, statistics, Test Cricket, Test debut	"Test Cricket", Batting records, Brendon Kuruppu, Centuries and no fifties, Cricket, David Lloyd, KK Nair, KL Rahul, obscure facts, Ravi Bopara, statistics
You will remember the fuss about Karun Nair when he scored his triple century in his third Test at Chennai. We now look at his oddly skewed Test career after he has completed 6 Tests. This should be apparent from this sequence of scores:
He has a respectable average of 62.33. But he scored 303 of his 374 runs in one innings (81.0 %) and never made another score above 50. To be precise, his next highest score is only 26.
It is hoped that he will play at least a few more Tests and score more centuries. Until then, he holds a couple of records in all Tests. This does NOT include the highest maiden century, as Gary Sobers (365*) and Bob Simpson (311) are ahead.
Highest score by someone who scored only one century ( 150 and above):
KK Nair heads this list, ahead of England's RE Foster who held the record for about 113 years. His 287 was the world Test record until early 1930 when Andy Sandham made 325 (in his last Test), though Bradman crossed it with 334 later the same year.
Foster, Kuruppu, Fawad Alam, K Ibadulla, C Bannerman and A Jackson were making their Test debuts. Gillespie made his only century in his last Test while batting as nightwatchman. There are several other current players here led by MT Renshaw with 184.
Another quirky record is the highest Test score made by someone who never made a fifty (i.e. a score between 50 and 99). This gets a bit messy due to Statsguru's limitations, but we get these figures:
Highest score by those who scored one century and no fifty (110 and above):
Highest score by those who scored two centuries and no fifties (all cases):
Highest score by those who scored three centuries and no fifties (all cases):
No one has scored more than three centuries without a fifty. For a short time KL Rahul shared the record with Bopara. But Rahul scored his first fifty soon after he scored his third century.
As we can see, KK Nair is the only one to score a triple century but no fifty. David Lloyd and Brendon Kuruppu are the only ones to score a double century but no fifty. And Ravi Bopara's Test career may be over, but he also holds a record which may not be broken for a long time.
KK Nair is also the only current player with one or more centuries and no fifties.
More on Chinaman bowlers in Tests
March 31, 2017 March 31, 2017 abn397 All-round performance, Chinaman in cricket, Cricket, Debut in cricket, EE Achong, Knighted cricketers, Kuldeep Yadav, LO Fleetwood-Smith, MG Bevan, PADLR Sandakan, PR Adams, statistics, Test Cricket	"Test Cricket", All-round performance, Chinaman bowler, Cricket, EE Achong, Kuldeep Yadav, LO Fleetwood-Smith, MG Bevan, PADLR Sandakan, PR Adams, statistics, Test debut
This article: http://www.cricketcountry.com/news/chinaman-bowlers-kuldeep-yadav-lakshan-sandakan-tabraiz-shamsi-and-others-in-international-cricket-2-588700
gives a comprehensive history of all those who have bowled in the Chinaman style (left-hand wrist-spinner) at some point in their Test careers. I am going a little further in studying the performances of those who exclusively bowled in this style (even if they were not regular bowlers). A number of famous names including the alleged inventor Ellis Achong, Johnny Wardle, Gary Sobers and Bernard Julien bowled in various other styles.
So here are the "exclusively Chinaman" bowlers and their careers in brief. This is in chronological order:
Even the change bowlers have taken fivers and tenners.
The best innings bowling in this category is 7-75 by Lindsay Kline:
The best match bowling is 10-106 by Paul Adams:
There is also Michael Bevan's tenner along with 85*, which makes him among the relatively few to score a fifty and take 10-wickets in a match:
A few years before that Allan Border also scored 75 and took 11 wickets with his little-used left-arm spin against the West Indies:
The full list of those who scored 50 and took 10 wickets in a match:
Sir Richard Hadlee is the only one to do this more than once, while "Sir" Ravindra Jadeja also makes an appearance.
It is interesting to see that these occasional bowlers achieved a ten-wicket haul which well-known bowlers such as Willis, Brett Lee, Kallis, Thomson and Sobers were not able to manage during their long careers:
Over 200 wickets with no 10-for:
Coming back to the Chinamen bowlers, here are the best innings and match bowling figures on debut:
The trio of PADLR Sandakan, LO Fleetwood Smith and Kuldeep Yadav have the best performances in innings as well as match bowling. Here is Sandakan's debut:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/995451.html
We now look forward to competition between Sandakan and Yadav for being the best current Chinamen bowlers.
Footnote: Michael Bevan, who seems to have had some Indian ancestry, was soon dropped from the Test team as his batting was not good enough. He then became one of the mainstays of Australia's ODI middle-order.
New Zealand-South Africa Tests review-II
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Having covered the general history and batting aspects in Part I, we now turn our attention to bowling, fielding and all-round performances.
Bowling-most wickets (20 and more):
Steyn and CS Martin lead. Kallis and Vettori do not seem to have done too well here.
The most 5wis are by Steyn (6), Martin and Ntini (4 each).
The most 10wis are 2 by Steyn.
Best innings bowling (All cases of 6wi and above):
The two best performances are from the distant past, though KA Maharaj has done well in this series.
Best match bowling (all cases of 9wm and above):
CS Martin's 11-wicket haul was instrumental in NZ's only home victory against SA. Philander has the best figures in recent years.
Best bowling averages (Minimum 2000 balls, complete list):
Steyn expectedly heads the averages. But Vettori seems to have had a bad time here.
The best economy rates are 1.43 by Tayfield and 2.03 by JR Reid.
The best strike rates are 33.0 by Steyn (who else?) and 49.6 by Martin.
Fielding-most dismissals (10 and more):
The old-timer John Waite leads, although Boucher has more catches (but less stumpings) than Waite. de Villiers has 9 dismissals as keeper and 13 catches as a fielder. The most catches by pure fielders are 18 by GC Smith and 16 by Kallis. De Kock is moving up rapidly.
Best innings fielding figures (5 dismissals and above):
Best match fielding figures (6 and above):
The most catches by a fielder are 5 by WR Endean.
Best dismissal rate (Minimum 20 innings, 0.500):
Waite is far ahead, while GC Smith has the highest for pure fielders. De Kock has not played enough yet, and is likely to be the leader in due course.
All-round performance (see the criteria):
Surprisingly, neither Kallis nor S. Pollock meet these relaxed criteria so we are only left with Reid and Vettori. And Vettori's bowling average is truly disastrous.
All-round match performance (50 and 5wi):
Oddly enough, the better-known all-rounders such as Kallis and S.Pollock do not appear here. In case you were wondering, Sir Richard Hadlee's career neatly fitted into South Africa's years of absence.
New Zealand-South Africa Tests review-I
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Tests between NZ and SA are not normally followed much in India-and particularly the just-concluded series which coincided with an intense India-Australia series. In case you missed it, SA won 1-0 with 2 draws. NZ would almost certainly have won the 3rd Test if rain had not washed out the last day.
As you will see from the table below, New Zealand finds it particularly to defeat South Africa at home- they have won precisely one Test there in Tests since 1932-33. They have done slightly better in South Africa, winning 3 Tests.
That one Test win was in March 2004, which resulted in a 1-1 drawn series. In South Africa, the 1961-62 series was drawn 2-2 with one draw. In 1994-95, New Zealand won the first Test of the series in South Africa but went on to lose the series 2-1.
We now proceed to Batting-most runs (500 and more):
The most centuries are 6 by Kallis followed by 4 by Amla. Kallis and Amla also have the most 50+ scores (12 and 11 respectively).
Highest individual scores (125 and above):
In this series, KS Williamson made the highest score for NZ v SA in NZ, surpassing the 170 by SB Styris in 2004. (That was in the one Test which NZ won at home against SA). However the highest by NZ against SA is still SP Fleming's 262 in 2006.
Highest batting averages (Minimum 20 innings, complete list):
Interesting that the highest average is that of DJ McGlew of the 1950s and 60s. The next two, Kallis and Amla, are predictable. Spare a thought for CS Martin at the bottom of this table.
All-round fails in ODIs
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Note: Data as on 25th March 2017:
Having covered batting, bowling and fielding fails in the three formats of cricket, we finally turn our attention to all-round fails in ODIs. (T20Is have already been covered.) For all-round performance we take the cases of (batting + bowling) as well as (batting + bowling + fielding).
No runs and no wickets in ODIs (2 or more matches):
There are, in fact, as many as 58 players who did not score a run or take a wicket in their ODI career. Here we have listed only the 13 who played 2 or more matches.
These include a few Test players such as T Bosch, RG Hart and KV Sharma.
No runs, no wickets and no dismissals in ODIs (complete list):
A few more Test players here, of whom the best known among current players may be PHT (Tharindu) Kaushal and Zafar Ansari. The most well-known may be the Australian pace bowler of the 60s Alan Connolly who played one ODI at the end of his career which included 29 Tests. We have already met Anwar Hussain Monir as one of the most unsuccessful Test bowlers. M Watkinson had scored 80+ in a Test against the West Indies.
Note something odd about the career of A Dananjaya? We will soon return to him.
No batting and bowling in ODIs (complete list):
Note the newcomer Zafar Ansari (3 Tests) and the forgotten Roger Tolchard (4 Tests against India in 1976-77; he was Alan Knott's reserve but was considered a good enough batsman to displace a specialist batsman in Tests). Apart from our now familiar A Dananjaya, all of them did get to field (but not to bat or bowl).
No batting, bowling and fielding in ODIs (complete list):
We need to know more about him and his ODI career.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/player/574178.html
He has a nice smile.
He has played 5 T20Is and even a side 50-over match against Bangladesh a few days ago, so he may yet play more ODIs.
This explains what happened in his one ODI so far:
In this rain-affected match, his team did bat and got to 123/8. He was the No 10 or 11 batsman and never got to bat. And he could not bowl or field as rain prevented New Zealand's innings from starting. Let us hope he plays at least one more ODI so that he loses this record.


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The legislation, however, has sparked debate about how to optimize infrastructure usage and balance wear and tear with more supply-chain efficiency.
Last year, Reps. Mike Michaud (D-Maine) and Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) introduced H.R. 763, the Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2011, proposing that truck gross vehicle weight limits of 80,000 lb on most interstate highways with five axles be increased to 97,000 lb with an additional axle.
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But the House voted down the bill— added as a provision to the House's proposed five-year, $260-billion transportation funding reauthorization—and called for a three-year period during which the U.S. Dept. of Transportation would study safety effects from a weight increase.
Unlike the big trucking firms, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association also opposes the bill, fearing increased costs to its constituents. "This will lead to tax increases for all motorists as the amount of road and bridge damage from heavier trucks will far outstrip any user fee paid by the companies benefiting from the weight increase," the group stated in a release.
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