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John H. Bronsema
John H. Bronsema, age 90, died Thursday, December 30, 2021 in Grand Haven. He was born on February 28, 1931 in Muskegon to Nicholas and Hilda (Bultema) Bronsema, and resided in the area all of his life. John worked for Holland Motor Company for 22 years, before retiring in 1989. John was a member of McGraft Memorial Congregational Church, Muskegon Vikings, and Elk Lodge #274. He enjoyed volunteering at Hackley Hospital, and serving as an usher for the Frauenthal and Civic Theatre. John loved golfing and bowling through the Elks for many years. He had a reserved table on Thursday nights at The Station for over 30 years, and enjoyed meeting family and friends for dinner. On January 1, 1951, John married the former Barbara Patterson, and she preceded him in death on September 1, 2016 after 65 years of marriage. He and Barb did a lot of traveling with the Orchard View Travelers over the years with their good friends, Bob and Mary Ann Page. SURVIVORS include two children, Susan (Thomas) Heethuis of Traverse City, and James (Sheryle) Bronsema of Muskegon; he will be lovingly remembered as "Grandpa Harris" to 4 grandchildren, Jeffrey (Emy) Heethuis, Megan Heethuis, Nicholas (Sarah) Bronsema and Stacy (Ryan) Skiba; 7 great grandchildren, Jarrod, Catelyn and Lola Heethuis, Harper and Finnleigh Bronsema, Sawyer and Claire Skiba. John was also preceded in death by six sisters, Ruth Stivenga, Bessie Smith, Jennie Pierce, Kate Cooper, Betty Daniels, and Winnie Bronsema. Funeral Services will be 11 AM Tuesday, January 4, 2022 at The Lee Chapel of Sytsema Funeral & Cremation Services, 6291 S. Harvey St. Norton Shores, MI 49444 (231) 798-1100 with Pastor Mark Olsen officiating. Visitation with the family will be 1 hour prior to the services, from 10-11 AM. Burial will take place in Oakwood Cemetery. Memorial Contributions in John's name may be donated to the Hospice of North Ottawa Community, Mona Shores Sailor Classic or Muskegon Big Red Athletic Foundation. Share memories with the family online at www.sytsemafh.com.
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You Should've Given That Idea Before, NCBN Sir!
Nara Chandra Babu Naidu is praised as Chanakya of politics as he was able to get 3rd Front to form the Government in 1996, in India and then, decided to support BJP, to forge a better alliance partner.
That old friendship has turned into animosity now, as BJP Government failed to honour the special status promise, that helped them and TDP win elections in Andhra Pradesh.
NCBN decided to go against BJP and he gave a call for all Telugu speaking people in Karnataka to defeat BJP.
His followers are saying, it is his sensational announcement that made BJP fall short of the simple majority, magic number.
Now, after Yadyurappa took the CM post, he made few comments it seems. He said that if JD(S) and Congress, MLAs sat outside Raj Bhavan, the entire National media would have concentrated on the issue and the manipulations wouldn't have been easy.
He also commented that BJP is trying hard to form government everywhere and acting like power hungry people all the while.
Well, his comments attracted Social media satires and trolls. They are saying NCBN should have given this idea before Yedyurappa became 23rd CM.
Also, few are commenting that NCBN can never talk of values as he did even more unethical things to his father-in-law and TDP Supremo, Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao to become CM in 1996.
NCBN Vs Congress; Who Lost Because Of Whom?
Did CM Ramesh Just Bring Down NCBN Range?


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bucket.objects.each do |object|
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It all makes sense, however I'm not quite sure how can I tell the grant read permission to ALL users?

A: The example you have can work, but is more suited for complicated ACLs (access control lists).  Amazon S3 has a number of canned-acls you can use for your objects.  The follow snippet will update the ACL for all objects in your bucket so anyone can read them.
bucket.objects.each{|obj| obj.acl = :public_read }

Alternatively, you can set the ACL for an object when you upload (or copy) it.
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puts obj.public_url
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I bought the latest issue of Miniature Wargames with Battlegames number 400 this week (August 2016 issue) at W.H. Smith's on the local high street. To be honest I haven't bought this magazine much over the last ten to thirty years, beginning to read it again about two months ago on a long train journey.
To be honest the local High Street has changed a lot too since I read issue 1 in late 1982. Just around the corner is the vanished Woolworth's, now Poundland or Wilko, both home to erratic supplies of cheap pound store plastic warriors. Nearby is the sad site of an empty British Home Stores; never again will I have an affordable family snack (shades of John Shuttleworth there) in the BHS café, a High Street standby since childhood shopping trips. Instead there are dozens of coffee shops, clothes, lifestyle and interior shops to choose from.
The High Street today feels like the obituary columns of the last few years as childhood icons of light entertainment and music from the 1970s to 80s die off or are (posthumously) disgraced.
So how have things changed in the gaming world between Issue no. 1 late 1982 of Miniature Wargames and this milestone issue number 400, now edited by Henry Hyde?
In his editorial in issue 400, Henry Hyde reflects on first writing for the original magazine under the original Editor Duncan McFarlane in issue 47 which would have been in the mid 1980s.
Henry was writing his Editorial or Briefing as the Brexit vote was declared and writes about his hopes that Brexit will not affect the friendly gaming fraternity's travels and the business side of the wargames / gaming / fantasy industry across Europe.
One of the reasons I haven't bought many gaming magazines over the last ten to thirty years since regularly gaming as a child and teenager is the boxfile of Miniature Wargames I have kept from its first issue through to its early twenties. Along with a couple of folders of useful Military Modelling tips, history and gaming articles cut out and filed away in plastic A4 sleeves, these have been just enough for when the gaming mood has recurred over the last thirty years like a benign form of malaria. For some people their recurring malaria or family curse is steam trains or sci-if, for me it is toy soldiers and gaming.
On the rare occasions since the late 1980s that I have bought or more likely flicked through random issues of games magazines in the newsagents, I have found many of them very advertorial, very product and current games system based, great if you're playing that complex games system, puzzling or dull if not.
The launch issue of Miniature Wargames brought home for me by my late father was of great interest, not least for the eight full pages of colour photographs of figures and terrain from Peter Gilder's Wargames Holiday Centre in Yorkshire (which featured in a two page article). "We shall have great regards for the aesthetics of the hobby …" Duncan Macfarlane the Editor claimed in his introductory Editorial. The magazine certainly did. These were not the Airfix and assorted plastic figures I had grown up with. Airfix figures featured in Donald Featherstone books. Where were they here? This was the grown up world of hex boardgames and metal gaming figures.
The articles in Issue 1 were by some games people I had heard of in Military Modelling (also first encountered around c. 1981/82) or from borrowing their books in the local library: Terry Wise, George Gush and Phil Barker.
An article on Computer Assisted Wargaming by Mike Costello was forward looking but beyond me in 1982 (and arguably now) – "A minimum of 12K usable memory will be needed …" for programming, less than the average single email today?
Some articles I found beyond me at the time, such as Paddy Griffiths' article about Wargames Developments which formed in May 1980 and mentioned their journal or newsletter 'The Nugget', edited then as now by one Bob Cordery, writer of Wargaming Miscellany, one of the gaming blogs I regularly read.
Now having rethought my way through some early Featherstone rules, I find the Wargames Developments much more accessible now. Good reason to keep these early articles and refer back to them.
The idea of 'fanzine style' digital colour photography enriched gaming blogs and digital download copies of magazines were in 1982 almost Science Fiction in themselves at the time. At the time Peter Laing's lists were typewritten and reproduced faintly on A4, as were John Mitchell's English Civil War starter rules that I bought from Peter Laing (I will post more about these soon).
Hex-A-Noughts the free Sci Fi Board Game by Julian D. Fuller, a staff writer who also reveiwed several board games in this issue, remains uncut in my Issue 1 and unused to this day. These were way beyond my 'bear of little brain' style of gaming both then and now, preferring the simple 'back of postcard' rules that began to appear in later MW issues.
The article on building "Small Buildings for the Battlefield" by Ian Weekley of Battlements with some inspiring but sadly black and white photos was of more immediate use. Basil Fletcher of Fortress Models and Ian Weekley's "How to build terrain and fortresses" articles would be a great reason to keep buying Miniature Wargames over the next few years. A one page article by John Sharples on random generation of the location of terrain features is something I still use today as a solo gamer.
The article on the English Civil War siege of Chester and Battle of Rowton Heath 1645 by Terry Wise and an excellent article by Nick Slope on A Plain man's Guide to 15mm Figure Painting would soon become very useful once I made it to the adverts pages.
It was overall the colour pictures of terrain and figures that caught my attention then as today, since most wargames books at the time were sparsely and often badly illustrated in black and white. Colour pictures still form an important and inspiring part of Miniature Wargames today, along with the ever important adverts.
Amongst the familiar names are some ranges that survive today, others are now the subject of wargames blogs and vintage figure hunting. There are late 1982 adverts for Minifigs, Jacobite Miniatures, QT Models, Heroics and Ros, Skytrex, Campaign Figures, Chronicle and Dixon Miniatures, Wargames Research Group, Gallia Buildings, Irregular Miniatures, Standard Games with its Felt Hexes and Cry Havoc games (paper soldiers). Bill Lamming's advert is cancelled by an overprint breaking news – "Bill Lamming Has Retired." I hope Bill enjoyed a happy retirement!
The one that caught my eye and matched my schoolboy pocket money funds was Peter Laing's 15mm English Civil War range. "Send 21p stamps for List and Sample" from "Over 750 items from Ancients to WW2".
Write off I did and the ECW sample must have impressed as I bought hundreds of Peter Laing English Civil War and Medieval figures over the next few years. What wasn't to like about foot figures at 7p, his curious horses and riders at 14p and guns or waggons at 20p? I still have them and still use them regularly today.
Scroll forward 34 years from 1982 to 2016 and for a magazine to achieve 400 monthly issues is quite an achievement. I was surprised a few months ago to still find it on the magazine shelves. Airfix magazine has gone and come back again, Military Modelling has survived and even Miniature Wargames was launched in the demise / aftermath of Battle for Wargamers merging with Military Modelling.
"Those of you with a knowledge of the recent history of wargames magazines may well consider our launching of this one to be a somewhat perilous adventure! However there is definitely a gap to be filled; no general circulation wargame magazine has succeeded in establishing itself since the demise of "Battle" several years ago. We feel that we can become established because we have a solid financial basis from the outset and thus have several advantages over those magazines which have tried and failed in the recent past." Editorial, Issue 1 Miniature Wargames.
400 issues on in Miniature Wargames there are regular or perennial favourite articles such as new figure, rules, board games or book reviews and exhibition reports that would not be out of place 34 years ago, but are now enhanced with beautiful colour photographs.
However being up to date on the hobby, there is a regular review article on wargames blogs where Henry Hyde the "Editor takes his regular reconnaissance flight over the digital front line", beautifully and wittily phrased.
Interestingly Henry's opening rant is about "anonymous blogs …so please reveal who you are. if you are broadcasting to the world and want us to read what you write, the least you can do is have the courtesy to tell us who you are!" Whoops! I, Mr MIN, Man of TIN have been duly warned.
Similarly technological and unimaginable in 1982 is a Kickstarter funded "Miniature Wargaming the Movie" by Joseph Piddington, reviewing the past, present and future of the hobby from H.G. Wells to modern figure designers, a Who's Who of the industry. A documentary movie like this is a natural step, developing the thriving YouTube and podcast audio-visual citizen contribution to the gaming hobby. Unimaginable in 1982, even before you could imagine an 80s Cable TV station for wargames?
YouTube of course allows you now to track down the slow but beautiful Gilder landscaped wargames featured on Tyne Tees 1978 TV series Battleground, which hopefully visually did for the "Aesthetics" of the hobby on TV what Miniature Wargames did (and still does) in magazine form. Duncan Macfarlane, then a school librarian in Hull and soon to be the original Editor of Miniature Wargames, featured as one of the two gamers in the Edgehill episode in 1978.
Some authors continue to pioneer and review their scene, John Treadaway having written about fantasy since I started reading his articles in the Battle for Wargamers Wargames Manual (Military Modelling Magazine Extra, MAP 1983) and he's still reviewing figures in Miniature Wargames Issue 400, 3o+ years on.
Lovely article in MW 400 as part of a series by Diane Sutherland, "Wargames widow", in this issue for example turning a pound store gardening bundle of willow twigs into frontier log cabins. One project to try, after searching pound stores for more cheap plastic warriors of course! I remember another series of similar articles by women gamers, modellers or wargames widows like Nell Clipsom in early Miniature Wargames issues.
I look forward to photocopying, downloading (what did that mean in 1982?) and printing off the free French Foreign Legion game paper figures featured in an interesting exhibition demonstration game by Phil Dutre from Belgium.The stepped hill idea was just brilliant. Aesthetics were certainly there in bundles … and a French Foreign Legion Airfix Desert Outpost just like mine at home.
What with the new release of Helion books wargaming series of paper soldiers and rules reviewed in issue 399, who would have thought that paper soldiers would be making a comeback?
Junior General website aside, these paper figures are gifts that remind me of those included as a giveaway from the Standard Games Saxon Army paper figures (now unobtainable?) given away free in the Battle For Wargamers Wargames Manual (Military Modelling Magazine Extra special issue, MAP 1983) and advertised for sale (then £2) in the back pages of Miniature Wargames Issue number 1. Scanned copies of these may be gracing my tabletop this Autumn to coincide with the 1066 Battle of Hastings anniversary.
"Old School" wargames and large scale games (featuring fabulous Spencer Smith Miniatures and 18th century games) are a colourful feature of Issue 400.
Burnout or stress of a different type is featured in the Miniature Wargames / Battlegames commendable contribution to PTSD forces charity Combat Stress (the veterans' mental health charity), a lingering and crippling after-effect of service more widely understood and publicly supported since witnessing the effect on the service generation of the Falklands War of 1982 (Miniature Wargames' launch year), Iraq, Afghan and Northern Ireland conflicts. Thankfully this charity is in place and the condition recognised now that the last of my own 1980s school friends who became servicemen are retiring from the forces.
Towards Miniature Wargames Issue 800 to be downloaded in 2050?
Joy and Forgetfulness blog author Conrad Kinch in his regular page offer hints on how to encourage or include new wargamers or hobbyists, something discussed in Issues 398 or 399 as my whole generation and above gets older, who will be buying the Airfix figures or their own version of my much loved Peter Laing figures in 10 to 20 years time?
Teaming up with model railway exhibitions and other craft hobbies into multi-faceted hobby exhibitions is one interesting suggestion in an article by David R. Clemmet and Thomas Davidson from issue 398. Model railway enthusiasts (for some people, their version of the recurring hobby malaria that they can never quite shake off throughout life) are apparently pondering the same "who will play with Hornby trains or model railways in 20 years?" question.
Will all the games have gone digital or 3D Virtual Reality by 2050?
Will the missing Peter Laing moulds have turned up by then?
If there are any of us still left gaming by 2050, maybe, just maybe I will by have gotten around to contributing 2000 words towards Miniature Wargames new feature "Wargaming My Way" on the stuff you might have seen on this blog over the next 34 years on very, very simple rule sets and cake decoration soldiers.
Woolworths, BHS and other staples of British life have gone since 1982. Airfix figure supplies come and go. Miniature Wargames magazine and this hex-scapist, diverting and fulfilling hobby and community will hopefully keep going strong for another 400 issues. Huzzah!
Happy Anniversary Henry Hyde and his team at Miniature Wargames, 400 issues young!
Posted by the (irritatingly anonymous) Mr MIN, Man of TIN, July 2016.
Miniature Wargames No. 2 featured a well-remembered article by Paddy Griffiths of Wargames Developments which featured the infamous Hair Roller Armies, an idea developed into artillery, wagons, cavalry and full ACW rules by Andy Callan in Miniature Wargames No. 9. This went down really well (or not) in a family with hair dressing amongst its trades, namely "WHERE ARE MY BEST HAIR ROLLERS?" I still have them today. But this is a topic for another blogpost.
Does anyone else still have theirs?
This 30mm white plastic cake decoration guardsman was around when I was a child, whether I hope a left over 'treasure' from a family birthday cake or maybe just part of a random jumble sale bag.
I can't recall his origin but this Drum Major was too big to fit with my other figures, so I kept him aside in my odds box.
The idea of a parade or band of these marching over a cake seemed highly appealing.
I always loved the decorated cakes on display in our local bakery window. Beyond the reach of most ordinary families in the 70s and 80s, who did you know who had a 'boughten' birthday cake from a shop? I recall staring for many years at the same pale green and white line iced football match cake with players and goals. Clever but by then very very stale!
It was also fascinating to rummage through the boxes and boxes of cake decorations in bakers or stationers, but they were pretty expensive for such cheap and badly painted plastic. Seemingly the boxes always seemed far too full of wedding cake figures or ballerinas, rather than useful, convertible figures for gaming.
Sadly I have yet to find an online museum of vintage cake decorations to find out more about this Guards Drum Major.
Fimo / Polymer Clay and Resin figures online now seem to have replaced these cake decoration selections in shops. Some of these offer creative possibilities!
This Father's Day gift this year has a double significance.
My late father had a small and much loved collection of lead toy figures during the Second World War.
Somehow these figures did not survive the war, given up for the war effort or passed on to other children. I can't recall how they vanished but I kept a look out for suitable lead toy soldiers for him as possible birthday presents.
My grandfather was a professional driver and later chauffeur and probably handyman / gardener to one of the directors of a prosperous southern English building firm. My grandfather was given some lead toys to pass on to his little boy such as a 1930s coronation coach that had carelessly been dropped by his employer's children into the garden pond.
This driver grandfather went on to serve in the RAF, driving airfield vehicles such as petrol bowsers throughout the bombing of airfields during the Second World War.
My father as a wartime child in his Morrison shelter played with a plaster and lead barrage balloon toy, hoisting it up through the mesh sides. (William Britain's made such a toy). He also had a small plane carved out of aircraft crash turret Perspex, long since lost.
I recall my father talking about a boxed set of Britain's RAF firefighters that he was given amongst his lost legions, but never found such a replacement figure for him as a present.
The choice makes sense with his father's RAF ground crew wartime experiences, who would have seen these RAF firefighters in their protective Asbestos Bestobell Suits.
Maybe these strange figures were all that was available when the supply of toys became scarce as companies including Britain's turned their factories over to war production. I think he also had some Britain's peaked cap khaki infantry firing.
Apparently this Britain's Firefighters of the Royal Air Force set no. 1758 of 8 figures (or 2 in larger display set 2011) was only produced for a short while, introduced circa 1939 /1940 to 1941, which explains why it took too long to track one down.
I wonder if my interest in toy soldiers, replaced by plastic by the time I was born, came from my father's lost legions?
Dad was always keen when I was small to join in toy figure games on the floor, garden or tabletop. Later he encouraged my collecting of yet more Airfix or other plastic figures with the gift of history, modelling or gaming magazines; I'm sure he enjoyed reading the history articles on the train home.
He had many stories to share from his National Service years in the British Army, which I will save for another figure and another blogpost.
That was the history of my family in toy soldiers part 1.
Posted by Mr. MIN, Man of TIN, June / July 2016.
One of the things I like about Tintin are the interesting 'Euro' nations and enemies that Belgian author and illustrator Herge created as foils for his intrepid young reporter detective Tintin.
Great uniforms amongst enemy troops, but as a child I couldn't work out why the Police in Tintin for example of what I took to be a supposedly British / English setting for Captain Haddock of Marlinspike Hall looked so odd.
Had Herge (I wondered as a child) never been to Britain? Slowly as I got older I realised that Herge was drawing mostly European / Belgian settings and that the books are translated all over the world.
This 'Glocal' World (both Global and Local) of Herge in translation has strange villains and fake euro Imagi-Nations such as Borduria in the Calculus Affair and the regime of the villainous Kurvi-Tasch with his strangely fascist moustache logo on his very Nazi looking generals, troops and 1950s looking tanks.
Even though Tintin goes back to the 1940s, to me his books are the 'Funny Little Cold Wars' of the 1950s and 1960s in graphic novel / comic strip version, akin in style and feel to the early 1960s James Bond movies with the suave and stylish Sean Connery and his menacing enemies.
A range of plastic Tintin figures / key ring figures is available online in various sizes.
Tintin should prove equally good inspiration for some paint conversions of Pound Store Warriors from modern / WW2 green / toy army men.
So why not make up your own Imagi-Nations, uniforms and all?
Making up your own enemies, uniforms and all isn't that far from the truth.
The fictional (Esperanto speaking!) aggressor troops had a white ensign or badge with black triangle.
The Tintin / Calculus Affair Kurvi-Tasch troops also have a look of the strange Atlantic modern troop figures that occasionally and erratically appeared in shops in the 1980s, featuring an odd sort of Euro army appearance. They looked strangely foreign, even futuristic on occasion (not quite American, not British and not German). Only later did I discover that they are meant to be Italian / Euro troop types. Atlantic figures and their strange box art are well covered in the Airfix's Competitors chapter of my much-thumbed copy of Airfix's Little Soldiers by Jean Christophe Carbonel (Histoire & Collections publishers, 2009). Some of the Atlantic figures were recently reissued by NEXUS.
Posted by Man of TIN, June 2016.
This Terracotta Army Chinese warrior came from an unlikely pound store source of a local Spar shop a few years ago, embedded in a block of plaster like those 'dig your own dino' gifts.
In these blind bags you had no idea if you were going to get a warrior, a horse or what inside the plaster block.
What I like about this figure, once excavated, is the black undercoat with simple gilt finish. A quick and simple to try on smaller plastic or pound store figures maybe?
The figures are about 50mm high, so almost 1:32 scale and would make an interesting figure for various games.
The figure would look good painted up as a space emperor – Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon? They also have a slightly automata robotic look about them. These figures have no weapons.
The Terracotta Army Chinese Horse figure also surfaced in my sometimes chaotic collection recently again showing the black and gilt paint finish.
An attractive paint scheme (if poor face painting) for a Charbens G I American infantryman figure of hollow-cast lead.
This colour scheme would work well in gloss acrylic on pound store plastic figures.
This figure in my collection is one half of a stretcher party, Charbens figure set No. 210.
They are notedly similar in style and paintscheme to Timpo lead hollow-cast GI figures of the 1950s.
Made of hollow-cast lead, they have an animation to them that you could see followed through into plastic figures like Airfix, Timpo, Crescent and Lone Star / Harvey. The lack of bases to the kneeling figure or minimal bases on the Grenade Thrower are ways of saving expensive metal and similar in this way to the American 'pod foot' dime store figures.
Their modern plastic pound store warrior equivalents often have similar minimal plastic saving bases, making them cheap but annoying if they keep falling over!
These repainted figures with few colours are not unlike some of the postwar paint colour reductions by figure manufacturers. To keep production costs down, an increasingly smaller palette of colours was used by many figure manufacturers. Some figure painters were paid according to / by the number of colours per hundred figures completed.
Reference numbers are to the Charbens figure list in Norman Joplin's The Great Book of Hollow-Cast Figures (New Cavendish, 1993/99) which shows this range on page 77 / plate 143.
All these figures are postwar hollowcast lead figures produced by Charbens (London, 1920-66) from 1945 to 1960s when lead figures were phased out in favour of plastic.
The Charbens name came from brothers Charles and Benjamin Reid who set up their own hollowcast business in the early 1920s, one of them having previously worked for William Britain.
Blog posted by Mr MIN, Man of TIN, July 2016.


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Slow start for gender pay transparency in Germany
Aumayr-Pintar, Christine
eurofound.link/ef19059
Równouprawnienie płci Płaca i dochód Warunki pracy i trwała praca
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EF19059
One year after Germany's introduction of the Entgelttransparenzgesetz (Wage Transparency Act), the results are somewhat underwhelming. This law is Germany's take on the European Commission's recommendation on introducing pay transparency measures to combat the gender pay gap. It entitles employees of companies with more than 200 staff to know what their peers in similar positions are earning. It also requires larger private companies, with more than 500 employees, to regularly review their pay structures and to publish – as part of their financial reports – details on their equality and equal pay policy and what action they are taking.
But, according to a survey of employee representatives, implementation of these measures is low: only a minority of companies are reviewing their pay structures. [1] Another survey, of German companies, found that fewer than 1 in 10 has received enquiries from staff about their pay in relation to that of comparable colleagues. Even among larger companies, only 16% have had employees ask for such information, and in those cases, the number of enquiries has been low. [2]
Is the German pay transparency law a 'Papiertiger' – one that exists on paper only? Looking beyond Germany's borders, it's apparent that other countries also had bumpy rides when they started to implement similar measures, including Denmark, where non-compliance has been very high, and Belgium, where roll-out was delayed due uncertainties around the reporting method.
EUR-Lex: Commission Recommendation of 7 March 2014 on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency
Evidence shows that 'believing' matters
But let's take a step back and start on a more positive note: Germany is among only eleven Member States that have taken action on the Commission's recommendation, which dates back to 2014.[3]And while such recommendations are not binding, the very low implementation across Member States to date suggests that there is a wider issue at play. Eurofound's research shows that it all comes down to 'beliefs'. Whether governments and social partners believe in the existence of a gender pay gap that needs to be addressed. Whether company managers believe that it is possible to detect gender (or other) gaps in their pay structures and that having a closer look might be a worthwhile thing to do. And whether employees believe that their pay is justified and set in a fair (and transparent) way vis-à-vis their colleagues with similar tasks, qualifications, experiences and performance.
As Eurofound's study – which reviews implementation in the first countries to have acted on the recommendation – finds, non-action is often linked to non-belief. And such non-belief seems to be well-rooted in Germany, as evidenced by a survey of 1,000 senior human resource managers. [4] This showed that a large proportion is sceptical about the effectiveness of the law. And nearly all say either that no gaps exist between staff in similar positions or doing the same work, or that such gaps as exist can be explained by other individual factors such as experience, performance and education (but not gender). (This also raises the question of whether all the econometric work separating explained from unexplained causes of the gap has done more harm than good in this respect, as explainable causes are too quickly equated with 'no action needed'.)
Publication: Pay transparency in Europe: First experiences with gender pay reports and audits in four Member States
Blog: Ten points about pay transparency in Europe's companies
No-one can prescribe meaningful dialogue
Are sanctions a solution? France had very low compliance among companies with regard to gender equality reporting, so the government introduced higher fines, and compliance improved. [5] Yet there are grounds to believe that reports generated with the stick of sanctions 'end up in drawers'. [6] The potential of any of the four pay transparency measures recommended by the Commission – the employee's right to request information, company pay reports or pay audits, as well as encouraging the social partners to address the gaps in their fields – lies within the process, not the paper outputs. It's about creating awareness, about talking the issue through with employees, employee representatives, managers, social partners and government officials. It's also about selecting tools, agreeing on data and looking jointly at them, about scrutinising and questioning the data and analysing them further, identifying possible gaps, agreeing on action and taking action.
Pay audits or reports don't answer questions; they just point to more. And while sanctions are likely to promote compliance, no fine or threat within legislation will be able to generate the necessary dialogue and engagement. Yet it might nudge more actors to take the first steps – and some eye-openers are guaranteed to await them.
When transparency remains opaque
The German law is relatively unique and wide-ranging as it combines three out of the four recommended measures. Yet not much notice of it has been taken to date, unlike the British version. In the UK, companies are required to openly publish their pay statistics on a dedicated website. The pay data are given as average wages per wage quartile by gender, complemented with the number of men and women in each quartile, possibly accompanied by an explanatory note. They also have to report the percentage difference in mean and median hourly earnings between men and women. Bonuses are also disclosed. And while such statistics are very basic and go only a short way to highlight gender pay gaps, they sparked enormous public interest at the time of publication, triggering debates and raising awareness around issues of vertical and horizontal segregation in the workplace (or rather, why are there so few female pilots in Ryanair or so few women in senior positions in finance?).
The legal requirements in the German-speaking Member States, in contrast, are much less transparent and more secretive, as the issue is almost exclusively dealt with at company level. In addition, the pay reports are not published and might not even be discussed in public (the Austrian variant) or the published reports do not include any pay statistics (the German variant). Against this background, it isn't too surprising that individual employees in Germany have not started to avail of their new information rights.
GOV.UK: Gender pay gap service
Bundesanzeiger: Search for company pay reports
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Der Dominantseptakkord (Sigel: D7) ist ein auf der Dominante, also der fünften Stufe einer diatonischen Tonleiter, gebildeter Septakkord.

Beispiel: In C-Dur ist die fünfte Stufe G. Die Töne des zugehörigen Dominantseptakkords – aus der entsprechenden mixolydischen Skala – sind G-H-d-f.

Die kleine Septime G-f und die verminderte Quinte (das Umkehrintervall des Tritonus) H-f sind Dissonanzen, die nach Auflösung streben. Der Ton H ist die Terz der Dominante, die dann in den Grundton C der Tonika leitet. Das f ist die Septime der Dominante, die in die Terz E der Tonika fällt.

Der Dominantseptakkord wurde historisch, wie auch andere Septakkorde, zuerst von Komponisten des Hochbarock verwendet. (Wenngleich es bereits zuvor harmonische Bildungen gab, etwa 1529 bei Pierre Attaignant, die sich – bei der Renaissancelaute durch Weiterklingen von leeren Saiten oder Basstönen – wie ein Dominantseptakkord anhören können).

Da die Dominante bevorzugt als Dur-Akkord auftritt (auch bei einer Moll-Tonart, obwohl die erste Terz dann nicht Bestandteil der Tonleiter ist, siehe bei Dominante), unterscheiden sich die Dominantseptakkorde von C-Dur und c-Moll nicht voneinander.

Umkehrungen

Der Dominantseptakkord hat eine Grundstellung und drei Umkehrungen:
 Grundstellung (Grundton im Bass)
 Quintsextakkord (Terz im Bass)
 Terzquartakkord (Quinte im Bass)
 Sekundakkord (Septime im Bass)

Bezeichnungen
Die  allgemeine Funktionsbezeichnung des Akkordtyps ist D7. D steht dabei für die Funktion der Dominante, nicht für den Ton d.

In der Tonart C-Dur steht der Dominantseptakkord auf dem Grundton g und wird daher dort mit dem Akkordsymbol G7 bezeichnet.

Varianten
Im Dominantseptakkord ist der verminderte Dreiklang auf der VII. Stufe der Grundtonart enthalten. Dieser wird in der Funktionstheorie als verkürzter Dominantseptakkord bezeichnet und kann anstelle des vollständigen Dominantseptakkords eingesetzt werden. Aufgrund seiner Vieldeutigkeit eignet er sich besonders gut zum Modulieren. Gleiches gilt übrigens für den verkürzten Dominantseptnonakkord mit kleiner None, der einem verminderten Vierklang auf der VII. Stufe entspricht.

Im Jazz kann die Terzschichtung des Dominantseptakkords mit der kleinen, großen oder übermäßigen None (letztere aufgrund des Symbols 9 manchmal "Kreuz-Neun" genannt), mit der Undezime und der Tredezime fortgesetzt werden (7-9-11-13). Die Quinte kann um einen Halbton nach oben oder unten alteriert werden.

Auflösung des Dominantseptakkords
→ Septakkord, Abschnitt: Dominantseptakkord

In der Regel löst sich der Dominantseptakkord folgendermaßen auf (vgl. obenstehendes Notenbeispiel):
 Die Durterz des D7 (der Leitton) wird immer einen Halbtonschritt nach oben in den Grundton (bzw. die Oktave) der Tonika aufgelöst.
 Die kleine Septime des D7 (der Gleitton) geht immer eine kleine Sekunde nach unten in die Terz der Tonika. (Steht die Septime im Bass, entsteht zwangsläufig ein Sextakkord.)
 Die Quinte des D7 geht zum Grundton der Tonika.
 Der Grundton des D7 bleibt entweder (als Mittelstimme) liegen oder springt (im Bass) ebenfalls zum Grundton der Tonika.

Zugeordnete Skalen
Bei der Improvisation über einen Dominantseptakkord wird im Jazz der Tonvorrat einer Skala, die auf den Dominantseptakkord bezogen ist, verwendet. Es handelt sich dabei zumeist um Skalen, die neben den vier Tönen des Dominantseptakkordes (Grundton, Terz, Quinte und Septime) weitere Töne enthalten, die eng an die zugrundeliegende (diatonische) Skala anknüpfen, also beispielsweise neben den Akkordtönen dieses Vierklangs ausschließlich diatonische Töne verwendet werden. Ausnahmen sind die alterierte Skala und der Ganzton-Skala (GT), in denen zwar jeweils die Quinte fehlt, die aber nichtsdestotrotz die Dominante zum Tragen kommen lassen, da für den Klang der Dominante nur Grundton, Terz und Septime ausschlaggebend sind und die Quinte daher ersetzt, der Akkord also substituiert werden kann. Als Ergänzung von Grundton, Terz und Septime werden im Jazz oft♭9, ♯9, ♯11, ♭13 als Spannungstöne ("Tensions") benutzt.

Eine Übersicht über die Spannungstöne ("Tensions"), die in den Skalen vorkommen, die in Folgenden genannt wurden, finden sich in nebenstehender Tabelle.

Skalenklischees:

Eine auf die Funktion des betreffenden Dominantseptakkordes bezogene Skala nennt man im Jazz ein "Skalenklischee".

Folgende Skalenklischees kommen zum Einsatz, wenn der Dominantseptakkord sich in dominantischer Funktion auf einen diatonischen, also tonleitereigenen, Akkord auflöst (als Dominante mit Funktion V7/I oder als Sekundärdominante mit Funktion V7/II, V7/III, V7/IV, V7/V oder V7/VI):
 Bei Auflösung hin zu einem diatonischen Dur-Akkord (V7/I, V7/IV oder V7/V) wird typischerweise die mixolydische Skala verwendet, oder alternativ – außer bei V7/IV – auch die HM5-Skala oder HM5+#9 oder die alterierte Skala, bei V7/V außerdem auch Mixo #11. Teils werden für V7/IV ebenso wie für V7/V als weitere Möglichkeiten angegeben: Mixo♭9, Mixo #11, Mixo♭13 und HD3.
 Bei Auflösung zu einem diatonischen Moll-Akkord (V7/II, V7/III oder V7/VI) wird typischerweise die HM5-Skala oder HM5+#9 oder die alterierte Skala verwendet; bei V7/II alternativ auch Mixo♭13. Teils wird zusätzlich HD3 angegeben.

Folgende Skalenklischees kommen zum Einsatz, wenn der Dominantseptakkord aus einer Tritonussubstitution resultiert (als Substitutdominante mit Funktion SubV/I, SubV/II, SubV/III, SubV/IV, SubV/V oder SubV/VI):
 Typischerweise wird hier Mixo #11 als Skalenklischee eingesetzt (auch die mixolydische Skala wäre möglich, ist hier aber unüblich); bei SubV/I, SubV/IV oder SubV/V kann zusätzlich die alterierte Skala verwendet werden.

Wenn der Dominantseptakkord sich in der Funktion einer Doppelsubdominante ♭VII7, etwa bei einer Back Door Progression der Form IVm7–♭VII7– I, auf die Tonika auflöst:
 Typischerweise wird hier Mixo #11 verwendet, da diese Skala gebildet wird, indem den Akkordtönen dieses ♭VII7-Vierklangs ausschließlich diatonische Töne angefügt werden.

Lässt sich kein eindeutiges tonales Zentrum feststellen, wird die mixolydische Skala unterlegt.

Funktionsunabhängig einsetzbare Skalen:

Unabhängig von der Funktion kann bei einem Dominantseptakkord die Halbton-Ganzton-Skala (HTGT) oder die Ganzton-Skala (GT) verwendet werden.

Zur Jazz-Improvisation über Akkordfolgen (z. B. II-V-I oder VI-II-V-I und Varianten davon) siehe auch: II-V-I#Jazz-Improvisation

Literatur
 Wieland Ziegenrücker: Allgemeine Musiklehre mit Fragen und Aufgaben zur Selbstkontrolle. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1977; Taschenbuchausgabe: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, und Musikverlag B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-442-33003-3, S. 117–120.

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Ribemont è un comune francese di 2.042 abitanti situato nel dipartimento dell'Aisne della regione dell'Alta Francia.

Storia

Simboli
Lo stemma del comune di Ribemont si blasona:

Alias: scaccato d'oro e d'azzurro.

Il capo di Francia ricorda che l'antica signoria fu annessa ai domini della Corona nel 1399, venduta al Re di Francia da Florence de Ribemont, sposa di Guy IX de Moy.
Le figure nel campo dello scudo vanno lette come un rebus del nome del paese che nel 1696 si scriveva Riblemont: il sole è chiamato Ri nell'astronomia cinese; i due covoni, oltre a riferirsi alla coltivazione dei cereali, richiamano il suono Blé ("grano" in francese); il monte completa l'insieme per formare il nome Riblemont.

Onorificenze
 Croix de guerre 1914-1918

Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse
 Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo, inclusa nella lista dei Monumenti storici di Francia nel 1921
 Ex abbazia benedettina di Saint-Nicolas-des-Prés fondata nel 1083, Monumento storico dal 1982
 Museo Condorcet, casa natale di Nicolas de Condorcet

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Following hot on the heels of this astonishing header from Boost, here are some excerpts from the module defining tuples in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler 7.4.1:
data (,) a b = (,) a b
deriving Generic
data (,,) a b c = (,,) a b c
(If you can't read Haskell: (,) a b is another notation for (a, b). This defines types for two- and three-element tuples, with a default implementation of the Generic interface.) Okay so far? The file proceeds to define 4-tuples, 5-tuples, and so on until we get to the 8-tuple definition:
data (,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h = (,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h
-- deriving Generic
Surprise commented-out deriving clause! But it's all plain sailing from here… until we get to 63-tuples:
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{- Manuel says: Including one more declaration gives a segmentation fault.
data (,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a_ b_ c_ d_ e_ f_ g_ h_ i_ j_ k_ l_ m_ n_ o_ p_ q_ r_ s_ t_ u_ v_ w_ x_ y_ z_ a__ b__ c__ d__ e__ f__ g__ h__ i__ j__ k__
= (,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a_ b_ c_ d_ e_ f_ g_ h_ i_ j_ k_ l_ m_ n_ o_ p_ q_ r_ s_ t_ u_ v_ w_ x_ y_ z_ a__ b__ c__ d__ e__ f__ g__ h__ i__ j__ k__
…followed by commented-out definitions of everything up to 100-tuples.
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Spreadsheet party
I spent most of last week holed up in a meeting room at Collabora Towers with Michael Meeks (of SUSE) and Eike Rathke (of Red Hat), working on a prototype of collaborative spreadsheet editing in LibreOffice Calc, using Telepathy tubes to start editing sessions with your IM contacts. Michael's got a much more extensive and eloquoent post about where we got to, and here's a quick screencast of the prototype in action!
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Looking around Wayland
My new adventure at Collabora involves Wayland, like all the cool kids. I was distraught to learn that, since Wayland only provides clients with pointer position information to the surface currently under the pointer, and only relative to that surface, xeyes no longer works. We'll see about that…
Watch a phone-cam video of the eyes in action ((with unintentional soundtrack by Marco, Jo and Daniel)) in your choice of WebM or freedom-hating H.264! (I apologise for the shakes, but it yielded smoother results than the GNOME Shell screencast thing.)
The pointer's position is provided to clients which request it, relative to a surface of their choosing. Thanks to the way surface transformations work in Weston, the eyes still work when rotated without any further effort:
Ready for the desktop!
Joking aside, I don't really expect my branch to be merged any time soon, not least because it's very much a proof-of-concept and is pretty easy to break. But it was a useful exercise in learning my way around the Wayland and Weston code-bases. The work involved was actually pretty small in the end:
Implement a pair of eyes which only work when the cursor is over them;
Define a protocol extension allowing clients to ask to track the pointer position relative to a surface;
Plumb it into the compositor and client.
Now onto something a little more useful…
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We have been blown away and completely humbled by the response to our appeal. Our hearts are full of gratitude to everyone who has donated and come up with ways to raise funds for the current situation. Through your generosity, we have been able to work alongside our partners to implement change around the world and bring hope and life to people in the poorest and most devastating situations.
We've talked a lot about our appeal, and the heart of Links continues to be invested in changing the lives and situations of as many people as we can, fighting for justice and fighting against poverty. Our main focus has been, and continues to be, our appeal and we are currently stepping into a new phase with this. Up until now we have been using all funds raised on emergency relief and, although this is still vital for countries who are still in the throes of the pandemic, we are also going to be focusing on moving into a sustainability phase - for example, helping people to build businesses back up and providing more healthcare training, to give them the knowledge they need moving forward.
However, we also need to remember the importance of general funds. As well as appeal money and money coming into specific projects, we need to have a firm foundation of money coming into our general fund to allow us to keep strong and do what we do. As you can imagine, we have had to cancel many events due to Covid-19, and there are question marks over future events too. This means that, for Links, we are missing out on the amazing fundraising opportunities that we are usually blessed with, and we don't have the money coming into our general fund that we usually would. Please do consider giving what you can or raising funds to allow us to reach out, dream big and implement change. Thank you so much to our World Changers who give regularly to our work; we wouldn't be able to do it without you.
It is amazing to see how people are adapting around our current situation. Fundraising is still something we can do, we just have to think of ways of doing it a bit differently - let's get creative!
Here are a few fundraising ideas:
Zoom Party: Zoom has been a great way of connecting people during this time and enabling people to socialise. A Zoom Party could be a great way to all get together. You could host a quiz or a workshop, and everyone could give a donation to take part.
Give It Up: We all have bad habits! Why not kick the habit whilst fundraising for Links? If your habit is costly, why not donate the money you save? Alternatively you could take part in a 24-hour fast. Whether this is fasting food and identifying with the hungry around the world or fasting something that is personally sacrificial - this can be a great way to raise funds!
Hike: Why not raise money by hiking in some of the beautiful backdrops that the UK has to offer. As many of our partners will often have to walk similar distances on a daily basis to collect water, this can be a great way to fundraise for these projects.
Sponsored Silence: If you're a chatter box who finds being quiet a challenge then perhaps raise funds with a sponsored silence. Just remember, don't be quiet about the cause and your fundraising before or after the event!
Run: Why not set your own goal with the support of those around you? You don't need a big event attended by thousands of people in order to set yourself a challenge and raise money! You may have seen the 5k challenge that has been trending on social media where people run, donate and nominate - you could do something like this too and get others involved!
Bake & Deliver: An alternative to a cake sale - take orders for cakes and deliver them to those who are local to you. You could set a price for the cakes or just ask for a donation. After all, who wouldn't want a sweet treat delivered to their door?
Have your own ideas? We would love to hear them! Thank you to everyone who has given in any way to us. Together we are Confronting Poverty, Creating Potential and Connecting People.
Love, Links


Mar 18 17:15: Magnitude recalculated from 5.6 to 5.5.
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 86.0 to 92.0 km.
Mar 18 17:20: Magnitude recalculated from 5.5 to 5.4.
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 92.0 to 89.0 km.
Mar 19 06:35: Magnitude recalculated from 5.4 to 4.9.
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A huge thank you for your kind and generous presents, flowers and cards. We have received some lovely messages in these and on report slips which show just how many of you really appreciate all of the hard work and dedication shown by staff.
Goodbye to all of the Y6 children and families who leave us today, whether you have been with us for just 4 years or for many years longer, we are so pleased and grateful that you came with us on such a journey. Goodbye also to Mr Edwards – off to pastures new, as he said this morning – having had the best start possible to his career. We wish him every success.


Remember the time when some Kentucky football fans were unhappy that UK athletics director Mitch Barnhart refused to even consider hiring Bobby Petrino, a coach with a flair for putting together dynamic offenses but a coach with a world of off the field issues.
While Kentucky has won seven games the last three seasons and earned three straight bowl berths, Louisville has hit rock bottom. The Cards are not only being beaten, they are being trashed. A 24-7 loss like the one UK had at Tennessee Saturday that has devastated UK fans would seem like a moral victory for the Cardinals.
That's why it was no stunner that Louisville athletics director Vince Tyra fired Petrino Sunday even though it might cost almost $14 million to buy out his contract. Louisville has lost seven straight games and Tyra was stating the obvious when he said he "did not have the confidence" that Petrino could save the program.
Louisville has fired football coach Bobby Petrino two days after the Cardinals lost their seventh game in a row to fall to 2-8.
Reports have surfaced that as many as 20 Louisville players have asked for transfer releases. Three recruits have de-committed.
"It was clear the players weren't responding. The coaches' and the players' efforts have to go in the right direction, but I didn't feel it was going that way," Tyra said after announcing the firing two days after the Cards lost 56-10 at Syracuse when they had four turnovers and 10 penalties. "Something's missing, and in this case I felt like we need to work with a different time frame.
Will they go after Brohm or pick someone with more experience?
I don't know, but I would say Brohm is high on their list. If he is hired at Louisville that concerns me as a UK football fan big time. He can coach.
Let me say here that no matter what we think of Petrino, he did have UK's number. Just look at his record against UK. He is still a great coach and put Louisville football on the map. This is the thanks he gets for one horrendous season. Louisville, what a ZOO! Louisville lost too many DC's under Petrino. Grantham was sorely missed when he left.
So now Petrino can take his $14 mil, meet Pitino and Jurich over tea, and cry together while they count their money. Petrino will not be out of work for long either. He will coach again somewhere very soon, watch.
I kind of hope they go with Steve Kragthorpe or John L. Smith.


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Greece is bracing itself for the most intrusive surveillance of any eurozone state since the launch of the single currency, amid reports that the country's budget deficit is spiralling further out of control.
Officials from the European Commission and the European Central Bank are on standby for a "monitoring visit" to Athens as soon as they receive word from Greek authorities outlining how they intend to get a grip on public debt.
The Greek financial website Ta Nea reported that last year's deficit may have reached 14.5pc of GDP as a result of plunging tax revenues in the late Autumn, even higher than the 12.7pc "shocker" revealed by the new Hellenic Socialist (PASOK) government in November.
Julian Callow from Barclays Capital said a detailed analysis of budget data shows the deficit had been running at an annual rate of 16pc over the second half of the year. "The monthly data is even worse than people realise," he said.
The political picture is muddied by ideological disputes within the ruling party. Much of PASOK's old guard thinks the crisis is largely bogus, whipped up by right-wing forces at home and abroad to prevent them from pursuing a Left-wing spending agenda. Some seem determined to provoke Brussels into reacting harshly so that they can more easily deflect blame for cuts onto the EU.
Greece has been under "monthly monitoring" since mid-2009 by the Eurogroup of EU finance ministers, a task delegated to Commission officials. They are effectively policing details of the Greek budget, a policy that takes the Europe into hazardous terrain. It is unclear whether any nation will tolerate such an erosion of fiscal sovereignty for long, though everybody is on best behaviour for the time being.
Will Greece be the next Dubai?
"There is close cooperation with the European Commission to avoid any danger of rejecting our stability programme, something which would be catastrophic," said Greek government spokesman George Petalotis.
Athens is already facing "correction" under the EU's Article 126 (8). If it fails to assuage the Eurogroup by mid-February, it will face Article 126 (9) and the threat of sanctions: a suspension of (EIB) loans, and ultimately fines.
Both Fitch and Standard & Poor's have cut Greece's debt to BBB+, below the minimum for collateral at the ECB's lending window – once normal levels are restored later this year.
Chris Pryce from Fitch said Greece is at risk of further downgrades if the deficit is raised again. "Any further revisions will not be welcome. A figure of 14.5pc would certainly give us cause to think," he said.
S&P expects public debt to hit 138pc by 2012, nearing the "snowball" point. The interest spread on Greek 10-year bonds over German Bunds was 235 basis points yesterday, implying a sharp rise in debt service costs if the gap continues.
Athens has promised to cut the deficit by 4pc of GDP next year, hinting yesterday at a further €1bn (£895m) in cuts. It is relying on asset sales, sin taxes, a 90pc levy on bank bonuses, and a clamp-down on tax-evasion – a gimmick that exasperates rating agencies. There are few cuts in the bloated structure of state spending. Mr Pryce said Athens is resorting heavily to "one-off" measures.
Greece has no easy way out. As an EMU member it cannot devalue to regain competitiveness lost during its boom, even though foreign tourists are defecting to cheaper Turkey. A deflation policy may be self-defeating if it causes the real burden of public debt to rise further. The nightmare scenario will occur if the ECB starts raising rates just as Greece slides deeper into slump.
Danske Bank said Greece still has time to avoid default, but only if it takes drastic action to prevent debt rocketing above 200pc of GDP within a decade. "The current situation is close to becoming unsustainable," it said.


1. Its a nice guide, the topos are easy to read and understand.
2. The grades are a mess.
This mess I believe possibly reflects the large number of part bolt part trad routes. Wouldnt it be simpler though to have totally bolted routes graded using just French sport grades. This would then free up the finnish grading system allowing it to at least partly represent the protectibility, exposure/scariness of partial/totally trad routes. An example (one of a few I have come across) of a grading oddity can be found at Nuuksio. Routes Jokisen eväät and Indiana Jones are given roughly the same grade ( depends on which topo you are looking at) of 5 but they in no way require the same level of climbing. Indiana is a bolted path to the top and requires a moderate/basic level of skill and guts where as Jokisen is a completely different, more serious, undertaking having only one bolt at 3/5 height.
I apologise if I am treading a well beaten path with this topic but since I cant read Finnish I have no idea what has been written before.
While I am typing I might as well also mention the bolts on Superhiiva at Vanjärvi.
They are daft, the first is on the floor and the second must be for a different route.
Two years ago i was on climbing trip in Finland (mostly at Olhava) and was as surprised as you were by the strangeness of the finnish grade system. I think its looks and feels so oddd because of its origin. My guess is that its were first used only for trad climbs - an they just cant get it rightly adjusted for the sport routes.
I wish we had this great English E-system, too, but as we are lazy and stupid Finns, we don't understand it.
Routes here in Finland get the same grade no matter what the protection. Some dangerous routes are marked with (V) after the name but not all.
I was never even near the thought about stupidity and lazyness, its just one case (i think), when unification seems to be a nice thing, at least in europe (i think, yankees will never go our way).
I cannot tell if you are agreeing or taking the piss. Maybe you are right though in that I am just suffering from homesickness.
Maybe its different on higher grades but it seems to me that Finnish grades just tell you the hardest move on a route, not its sustainedness as French or UK grades do. This isn't a problem on little cliffs, but say at Olhava - Ukkosen johdatin (sp?) and Vekarra get the same grade - 6- but the first has 30 metre of 6- crack climbing and the other has one move of 6-; quite different propositions!
Otherwise Finnish grade seem fine. It like everywhere, there are some easy ones and some tough at each grade. I found myself yesterday on the Naantalli sea-cliffs hanging footless off an overhang with crappy holds trying to do a pullup on a route that is in the guide as 5-! Hardest 5- I've ever found.
TobyA:.I agree up to a point but take the two routes I used as an example, Indiana Jones & Jokisen eväät, are roughly the same technically when done on a top rope but grades should be based on leading difficulty. The height argument is good but I would still like to know roughly what I am up again even if the route is 10m high. Would it be too difficult to grade all sports routes with French grades and leaving Finnish grades for trad and mixed?
I cannot tell if you are agreeing or taking the piss.
Agreeing. The Finnish system has its flaws but I like it.
Would it be too difficult to grade all sports routes with French grades and leaving Finnish grades for trad and mixed?
Yes it would. I mean changing all this to topos would take ages now that the new edition is being published any day. And then there would be routes with different grading systems on same cliff and all that crap, too. Almost all crags here in Finland have both trad- and sport routes.
Indiana Jones & Jokisen eväät, are roughly the same technically when done on a top rope but grades should be based on leading difficulty.
Lots of climbers who have started on climbing wall don't seem to think that there is much difference between top roping and leading! But personal-axe-grinding apart I think it is best to think of Finn grades a bit like US grades - at least at the level we are discussing. 5.9s can be horrendous if its a 40 metre crack with every move 5.9 or it could be one little 5.9 move next to a bolt. You have to just make an educated guess from what you can see from the ground.
Can't remember which is which at Nuuksio as I don't like the crag much but compare 'Rock Vandal' at Rollarit (5) with 'Help' (5) and 'Layback Home' (5) both Kvarnby. Rock Vandal is sustained but no real crux and well protected the whole way = HVS 5a, Help is the climbing equivalent of bare knuckle fighting, basically a complete struggle but short and safe = HVS 5b, Layback Home is badly protected with a nasty landing until you get onto the flake and thats the crux done so = E1 5a. These are my guesses. Lots and lots of 5 might make E1 5b though - do Routsalaisten Reitti at Olhava - 50 mtrs of pure climbing brilliance but it will feel like you've done an E1 by the time you finish even if the moves are probably just Eng. 5a!
If you are from Sheff you've probably done battle with Chequer Crack at Froggart - thats meant to be HVS but would probably get about Finn 7+ !
I wish this conversation had taken place before the accident known as "new" Finnish grading system got too far in the print. The grey bearded eminence might have changed view.
...some ideas are bad, some are born dead.
And then there would be routes with different grading systems on same cliff and all that crap, too.
I cannot see that it would be so confusing.
TobyA:I have never climbed Chequer Crack. It would seem I have few large gaps in my ticked list take, for example, Wales. Rock Vandal will hopefully be on it by the end of this summer.
I wish this conversation had taken place before the accident known as "new" Finnish grading system got too far in the print.
What accident are you refering to? is it related to the new book?
Various different people have told me different things, so I'm still not clear as to how much the grade changes will effect the lower grades, isn't it more about the higher grades and predominantly sports routes?
edit: Toby is fast today I don´t really know how it affects lower grades, nor do I really care.
let's stick to finnish grades as they only contain numbers. french grades have letters aswell and after all grades are only numbers.