Cumberland County, TN is among the safest counties in the USA with 0.85 per 1,000 residents crime rate compared to national 4.69 per 1,000 average. It has higher total crime rate than Knox, Shelby, Blount, Sullivan, Hamilton counties in Tennessee.
Cumberland County, TN property crime rate is 12.72 per 1,000 residents, lower rate than national average of 28.42 per 1,000. There were 426 larceny theft related arrests in 2016 that increased by 9.79% compared to 2015.
Total arrests in Cumberland County in 2016 increased by 4.74% compared to 2015 and is lower than national average of 33.12 per 1,000 people. Violent crimes decreased from 81 to 50 while non-violent crime increased by 9.87% from 679 to 746.
Violent crime rate in Cumberland County decreased by 38.27% from 2015 and decreased by 50.98% in the last 5 years since 2011 from 102 to 50. In 2016 violent crime rate in Cumberland County was 81.83% lower than the national average. Your chance of being a victim of a violent crime is 0.085%.
Property crime rates in Cumberland County increased by 9.87% from 2015 and decreased by 24.26% in the last 5 years since 2011 from 985 to 746. In 2016 property crime rate in Cumberland County was 55.25% lower than the national average. Your chance of being a victim of property crime is 1.272%.
You'll be in more risk in Cumberland compared to Hawkins county that had 15.71% lower crime rate compared to Cumberland county according to the FBI.
Murder rates of 0.0000 per 1,000 people is lower than national of 0.0614 per 1,000 people and lower than average 0.0354 in Hawkins county.
Burglary rates of 3.8189 per 1,000 people is lower than national of 5.0167 per 1,000 people and higher than average 3.1116 in Hawkins county.
You'll be in more risk in Cumberland compared to Carter county that had 42.36% lower crime rate compared to Cumberland county according to the FBI.
Robbery rates of 0.0341 per 1,000 people is lower than national of 1.3602 per 1,000 people and lower than average 0.0708 in Carter county.
Motor Vehicle Theft rates of 1.6367 per 1,000 people is lower than national of 2.8637 per 1,000 people and higher than average 0.6371 in Carter county.
According to the records in Cumberland, Tennessee, the most crimes, that's 45.3% of all records in county are committed by the people aged between 31-40.
The overall crime rate in Cumberland County is 0.59% lower than the national average.
For every 1,000 residents, there are 3.72 daily crimes that occur in Cumberland County.
Cumberland, TN is more violent than Hawkins.
In Cumberland County you have a 1 in 74 chance of becoming a victim of any crime.
Year over year crimes in Cumberland, TN have increased by 4.74%.
Summary: On April 16, 2019, Cumberland County Law Enforcement arrested 31-year-old James Williams for COUNTERFEIT CONT SUB- ATTEMPT in Cumberland, Tennessee. COUNTERFEIT CONT SUB- ATTEMPT is a offense but all suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Information about upcoming court dates for Williams may be obtained from one of the following law enforcement or prosecuting agencies: Cumberland County Law Enforcement.
Summary: Tasha Davis was arrested on April 16, 2019. Tasha is 37 years old, . Davis is charged with PROMOTION OF METH MANUFACTURE by police near Cumberland, Tennessee. bond was set at unknown as individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. To learn more about this incident including upcoming court dates, you may contact the following: Cumberland County Law Enforcement.
Summary: 48-year-old Angela Baker was arrested in Cumberland, Tennessee for SALE OF SCH II (METH) OVER .5 GMS on April 16, 2019. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Cumberland County Law Enforcement and others with information about this arrest and related court dates can be contacted for updated information on this arrest.
Summary: Arrested on charges of COUNTERFEIT CONT SUB- ATTEMPT on April 15, 2019 was James Williams. The 31-year-old Williams was arrested by Cumberland County Law Enforcement. Bond was set at unknown amount for the charge because Williams is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Police agencies listed here may assist with more information including court dates: Cumberland County Law Enforcement.
Summary: Arrested on April 15, 2019 was 37-year-old Tasha Davis. Cumberland County Law Enforcement is charging Davis with PROMOTION OF METH MANUFACTURE, but Tasha is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Police and district attorneys near Cumberland, Tennessee found here may provide more information about this incident: Cumberland County Law Enforcement.


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Anti-Single Use Plastic Campaign
Plastic Ban and Regulation
Climate Change Expenditure Tagging
National Local
Green Climate Fund People's Survival Fund
Climate Science Youth Program Communities for Resilience
Foreign Assisted Project Management System
NDC Support Project for the Philippines Mainstreaming Sustainable Climate Action within Financial Institutions in the Philippines Resilience and Preparedness towards Inclusive Development Support to the Philippines in Shaping and Implementing the International CC Regime
Framework, Standards, Assessments, and Policy Review
Development of a National Framework and Plan of Action for Philippine Climate-Smart Hospitals Development of Standards for Climate-Smart Buildings Development of the Green Jobs Assessment and Certification System and Guidelines National Policy Review on Energy
Gender and Climate Change Greenhouse Gas Inventory Monitoring of Climate Change-related General Appropriations Act Provisions
National Climate Change Action Plan
Monitoring and Evaluation Updating
National Climate Risk Management Framework Nationally Determined Contributions National Integrated Climate Change Database and Information Exchange System Technology Needs Assessment for Climate Change Mitigation
Gender And Climate Change
Statement of Advantages
The Climate Change Act of 2009 declared it a policy of the State to incorporate a gender-sensitive, pro-children and pro-poor perspective in all climate change and renewable energy efforts, plans, and programs. In 2012, the amendments to the Climate Change law provided for the creation of a local climate change adaptation fund, the People's Survival Fund, the utilization of which shall take into account projects responsive to gender-differentiated vulnerabilities, among other considerations.
The implementation of these important provisions of said legislative measures in the policies and programs of the Climate Change Commission ensured and promoted the (1) active involvement of women in decision-making (through its multi-stakeholder consultations, capacity-building initiatives, and participation in international climate negotiations); (2) integration of gender concerns and perspectives in policies and programmes (through the development and updating of plans); and (3) assessment of the impact of climate-resilient development policies and interventions on women (through monitoring and evaluation reports and gender analysis of projects for funding under the People's Survival Fund and other climate finance facilities).
In 2019, the CCC adopted the Commission Resolution 2019-02, the Resolution resolved to strengthen gender-based approaches in the formulation and implementation of climate change policies, plans, programs, and activities in the country, including the generation of sex-disaggregated data and conduct of gender analysis. Moreover, it resolved to coordinate with agencies concerned in promulgating policies, directives, and initiatives supportive of the collaborative approach to accomplish the objectives of the Resolution.
The Commission is also undertaking a new initiative with support from the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Support Programme to conduct a NDC gender analysis that will provide entry points in ensuring that gender-responsive initiatives are incorporated in the Philippines' first NDC.
Lastly, the CCC has also ensured that gender-balance and women representation is present within the organization. Under its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations, the Commission shall be composed of four Commissioners, including the President as ex-officio Chairperson. At least one of the Commissioners shall be a woman. Also, the Commission established a GAD Focal Point System to monitor the GAD mainstreaming efforts of the Commission in climate actions, and appointed gender focal points to international fora i.e. UNFCCC and IPCC.
Targets Beneficiaries
The target beneficiaries of this initiative are women, girls, and other vulnerable gender groups.
To ensure that the Climate Change Commission's policies, programs, measures, and activities are aligned with the national gender equality and women empowerment goals, it established a deep convergence with the Philippine Commission on Women.
The major accomplishments and programmed activities of the CCC on gender and climate change are reported to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action on Women Empowerment Review[1]:
Enabling Policies and Institutional Mechanisms
- In November 2018, the Climate Change Commission and Philippine Commission on Women forged a Memorandum of Understanding to ensure the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) and build capacity for engendering climate actions.
-In January 2019, through Commission Resolution 2019-02, the Climate Change Commission resolved to strengthen gender-based approaches in the formulation and implementation of climate change policies, plans, programs, and activities in the country, including the generation of sex-disaggregated data and conduct of gender analysis. Moreover, it resolved to coordinate with agencies concerned in promulgating policies, directives, and initiatives supportive of the collaborative approach to accomplish the objectives of the Resolution.
NCCAP Monitoring and Evaluation Report 2012-2016
The CCC leads the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of the implementation of the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) 2011-2028.
The M&E report for 2012 to 2016 reviewed the mainstreaming of climate change actions at the policy and system level to capture the level of response to climate change impacts.
The M&E report used a nationwide results-based M&E system with gender considerations incorporated in the indicators to identify and monitor the results that can be attributed to NCCAP interventions.
In the seven thematic priorities of the NCCAP, two thematic priorities have been identified to have climate change and gender-related actions covering the reporting period of 2014-2016:
Environmental and Ecological Stability
The National Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) system for the Philippines 2012-2017 reported that 43% of the over 13,000 trained were women. They were trained on safeguards information system, land use planning, and forest resources assessment.
Furthermore, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Forestry Management Bureau reported that in Panay, 10% of the 725 trained Bantay Gubat (Forest watchers) were women. They were trained in forest protection and community-based law enforcement.
Climate Smart Industries and Services
The Philippines enacted the Green Jobs Act of 2016 that will enable the just transition to a low carbon green economy. The law defined "green jobs" as "employment that contributes to preserving or restoring the quality of the environment, be it in the agriculture, industry or services sector," and "decent jobs that are productive, respect the rights of workers, deliver a fair income, provide security in the workplace and social protection for families, and promote social dialogue."
Philippine Nationally Determined Contribution
In 2015, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, whereby Parties are required to submit a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The Parties' NDCs will communicate its ambitious efforts on climate change adaptation and mitigation.
The Philippine Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) submitted in the same year, stated that the Philippines will continuously pursue reforms to address climate change while safeguarding the full enjoyment of human rights, gender equality, and full and equal participation of women.
Currently, the Philippines is preparing to submit its first NDC to the UNFCCC.
The CCC also leads the development of an NDC Gender Action Plan, which will ensure that gender equality and inclusive participation is taken into consideration in the NDC implementation.
Green Jobs Assessment and Certification Standards
The CCC, under the Green Jobs Act of 2016, was mandated to develop and administer appropriate standards for the assessment and certification of green goods and services, and green technologies and practices for the purpose of regulating the availment of incentives under the law.
The CCC, in the development of said standards, engaged the Philippine Commission on Women as one of the key stakeholders to ensure that gender consideration is included in the certification process.
Gender-Responsive Capacity-Building Initiatives
The CCC undertakes capacity-building efforts for national government agencies, higher educational institutions, and local government units through the Communities for Resilience and Support to Climate Field Schools programs. It also holds project proposal development writeshops and training to facilitate access of local government units to climate finance facilities, such as the People's Survival Funds.
The CCC ensured the gender balance of participants, trainers, experts, and coordinators involved in these programs. The CCC also included indigenous cultural communities who are particularly vulnerable, among the beneficiaries in its knowledge-sharing and capacity-building programs.
In 2017, CCC supported efforts of the Department of Agriculture and helped sustain the Climate resiliency Field Schools (CrFS) piloted by the Rice Watch Action Network (R1) in select partner municipalities.
The objective was to cover more stakeholders in the CrFS and raise awareness among local government officials and farmers on climate action. At least 45 barangays with a total of 577 enrollees from 13 local government units were covered by the CrFS intensive and special learning sessions.
In 2018, the CrFS program of R1 won the Gender-Just Climate Solutions Award, Transformational Climate Solutions category, from the Women and Gender Constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The CrFS was recognized for engaging women and youth, promoting diversification of income sources, and capacitating women on activities traditionally dominated by men.
In November 2019, the CCC in collaboration with the NDC Partnership conducted a Peer-to-peer learning exchange on Mainstreaming Gender Equality in the NDC in the Asia Pacific Region. This workshop provided an enabling platform for the countries in the Asia Pacific region to discuss how to mainstream gender in their NDC development process.
Moreover, this workshop has also built a common understanding of the nexus between Gender and Climate Change. The Philippines was chosen as the host countries given its major role in the international community in championing gender equality and women's empowerment.
International Climate Change Negotiations
The Philippines is highly regarded in the negotiation process at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC as a leader of developing countries. In several instances, the Philippines has been nominated by the Parties to facilitate a negotiating group.
As Chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum in 2015, the Philippines, on behalf of 48 developing countries, led the advocacy for the ambitious global warming threshold of 1.5C, now enshrined in the Paris Agreement as its long-term temperature goal (stated as: "limiting global average temperature to well below 2 °C and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C").
The Philippine advocacy for a highly ambitious climate goal has upheld the fundamental principles of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, as well as historical responsibilities, and climate justice.
Gender Balance in the Philippine Delegation
The Philippine Delegation to COPs is comprised of at least 40% women, including senior negotiators, experts, and technical staff.
The Philippine Delegation continues to enjoin developed countries to improve their mitigation targets, mobilize climate finance, and accelerate its flow as well as the development and transfer of technology.
Support to Gender Decisions of the UNFCCC
The Philippines has actively supported the development of a Gender Action Plan of the UNFCCC. In 2016, the Philippines, through a formal submission to the UNFCCC, proposed elements and guiding principles for the advancement of the Lima Work Program on Gender and Climate Change, including (i) development of skills and capacity-building training programs on gender and climate change for both UNFCCC Secretariat and State Parties; and (ii) mainstreaming a gender perspective in the Guidelines on National Communication, including financial commitments of Parties that are in line with women's human rights and gender equality.
At COP23 in 2018, Parties adopted a Gender Action Plan and invited the Secretariat and relevant organizations to undertake the activities under priority areas - capacity-building, knowledge sharing and communication, gender balance, participation and women's leadership, consistent implementation of gender-related mandates and activities, and gender-responsive implementation and means of implementation.
Designation of Gender Focal Points to the UNFCCC and IPCC
In 2017, the Philippines designated its National Gender Focal Point to the UNFCCC to assist with all gender-related decisions and mandates under the UNFCCC processes.
In 2018, the Philippines nominated two gender focal points to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Task Group on Gender, with the aim of developing a framework of goals and actions to improve gender balance and address gender-related issues within the IPCC. The IPCC is the lead scientific body serving the UNFCCC.
Philippine Membership in the Green Climate Fund Board
The Philippines secured a seat as an alternate member of the Green Climate Fund Board from 2019 to 2022, providing an opportunity to shape the policies of the Board and its funding decisions. Senator Loren Legarda serves as the Philippine representative, and most of her advisers, are women.
Support for other international platforms related to Gender and Climate Change
In 2019, the CCC, together with the PCW and other agencies, represented the Philippines in the Asia Pacific Ministerial Review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform+25. The Commission as part of the working group on developing the Asia Pacific Ministerial Review Document ensured that the Philippine national policy on climate change is present Ministerial Document.
Gender-Responsive Country Programme for the Green Climate Fund
The CCC, as the National Designated Authority to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), leads the development of the Philippine Country Programme to the GCF for the period 2018 to 2022, in consultation with various stakeholders, including the Philippine Commission on Women. The GCF is a global fund created to support developing countries in responding to climate change.
The draft Country Programme, which identifies projects/programs that will help the country attain its ultimate goal of achieving climate resilience and green growth, considers existing gender, environmental, and social safeguards and recognizes the Gender Policy of the GCF.
It takes into consideration outcome and output areas in the National Climate Change Action Plan with corresponding result areas in the GCF, such as improved equitable access of men and women to sustainable water supply and accessible gender knowledge products on climate change.
Programs, activities, and projects in the draft Country Programme were shortlisted based on country ownership, impact potential, and sustainable development potential, which includes potential to address gender inequalities and empower women.
Gender Mainstreaming in Knowledge Exchange Platforms
The CCC convenes and hosts local and international fora, workshops, and training for technical experts to help build the capacities of institutions and stakeholders to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate adaptation and mitigation programs and projects.
The annual observance of the Global Warming and Climate Change Consciousness Week in November provides another opportunity for the Commission to gather thousands of stakeholders and showcase the collective efforts of all sectors towards increased climate action.
The CCC ensured the gender balance of participants, trainers, resource persons, experts, moderators, facilitators, and coordinators involved in these activities.
Most notably, in 2018, the CCC, together with the Asian Development Bank, the Government of Palau, and the United Nations Environment Programme, Secretariat of the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN), organized the 6th Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in in Manila.
A gathering of more than 1,000 adaptation experts from government ministries, academic and research institutions, non-governmental and civil society organizations, financial institutions, private sector, and UN agencies from over 70 countries, the Forum focused on learning from adaptation action, moving towards climate-resilient development.
Through this international knowledge exchange platform, the CCC organized sessions of leading experts and champions of gender mainstreaming to promote the integration of gender perspectives in climate impact assessments and climate actions.
The Forum delivered the following key messages:
Gender equality aspects should be integrated into climate adaptation plans, strategies, and actions. This supports and strengthens existing capacities, and facilitates women's economic empowerment, and builds women's leadership and skills – particularly in plans relating to migration, resettlement/relocation, and disaster preparedness and response. Women are agents of global change and must be empowered, while their climate adaptation actions, stories, and innovations should be highlighted.
There is a need to establish a knowledge management platform on gender mainstreaming climate change adaptation. This would allow for upscaling efforts, including attracting investments in technology and data, which would assist in equipping women to build resilience in their communities, in the face of projected disasters.
Research must work across sectors and utilize all available expertise. It is important to strive for gender parity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, to make the best use of human resources.
Adaptation often involves being innovative in finding solutions to address locally-specific risks. Science-informed governance which is inclusive, and puts the welfare of the communities, especially women, children and vulnerable groups at the core of climate action and investment plans, provides the ideal environment to build genuine resilience and ensure 'no one is left behind'.
For FY 2020
Delivery of the Gender, Climate Change, and Climate Change Expenditure Tagging (CCET) training for the Commission on Audit
Represented the CCC and delivered a presentation during the Regional Gender and Climate Change Virtual Workshop, 22 July 2020
Continued collaboration with PCW on joint activities for mainstreaming gender and climate change
Development and implementation of the CCC GAD M&E Framework
Preparation of the CCC GAD Accomplishment Report for FY2019
Ways Forward:
For 2020, the CCC will begin the development of the Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance Document of Commission Resolution No. 2019-002.
[1]The document contains the Philippines accomplishments in gender equality and women's empowerment for 2014-2019
Through the Asia Pacific Adaptation Forum, an international knowledge exchange platform, the CCC organized sessions of leading experts and champions of gender mainstreaming to promote the integration of gender perspectives in climate impact assessments and climate actions.
There is a need to establish a knowledge management platform on gender mainstreaming in climate change adaptation. This would allow for upscaling efforts, including attracting investments in technology and data, which would assist in equipping women to build resilience in their communities, in the face of projected disasters.
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Q: Thieving/Sneaking Glitch? Sometimes, when I jump off a tall rock or exit a cave while sneaking, when I exit or land, I will still be sneaking but the crosshairs will appear to be not the shut eye, but the normal crosshairs. Is there a way to fix this? It does not allow you to stand up, or run while like this. I have to re-enter the cave or jump off another rock to get it back to normal again.
P.S. For jumping off a rock, you must take some form of fall damage.

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Zimbabwean-born all-rounder Hilton Cartwright has established himself as one of the up-and-coming talents in Australian cricket.
Cartwright represented Australia A in 2016 and his improving performances – including a knock of 117 against India A in September – have attracted attention.
Cartwright is also in the Perth Scorchers squad for BBL|06.


If you love our fine feathered friends and loathe the variant of tree rat called squirrels, Brome Bird Care is for you.
The Knowlton company founded 20 years ago by Paul Côté, makes a feeder called the Squirrel Buster that actually works. Using a weight-sensitive perch system that shuts the seed ports when anything heavier than a bird climbs on it, the Buster keeps squirrels and other critters on the ground, where they belong.
To date, it has sold over 4 million units around the world, generates $14 million a year in sales and employs 12 in its Knowlton headquarters.
For these and other reasons, but mostly because it really does drive rodents crazy, Brome Bird Care has been voted best in class by the prestigious American geek magazine Popular Science.
He eventually broke through, and has never looked back. Today, there are 12 models on sale at big box stores, online and in your local hardware. Each comes with a limited warranty on parts. Because the company is committed to recyclable products designed to last a lifetime as part of a sustainable vision of the planet, Brome Bird Care items never need to be thrown out. Replacement parts are readily available and provided free of charge.
"Instead of spending money on advertising, we spend it on customers," Coté explained. Four million feeders later, the policy obviously works.


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Royal St George's
The host of The 149th Open
The Open may be preparing itself to head to Northern Ireland for the first time since 1951 next summer but 12 months later, a familiar host will return to the rota for one of the world's great sporting events.
Royal St George's in Kent will host The 149th Open from 12-19 July 2020 and you can stay ahead of the curve by registering your interest in tickets.
Following unprecedented demand to watch The Open at Royal Portrush in 2019 – with all four Championship days already selling out – those registering will be informed of all the latest ticket information, including how to ensure priority access to tickets.
Darren's greatest moment
Royal St George's became the first course outside Scotland to host golf's oldest Championship in 1894 and 2020 will be the 15th time The Open has been contested on the historic Kent links.
It was last played at Royal St George's in 2011 when Darren Clarke showed his mastery of links golf in challenging weather conditions to hold off Americans Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson to become Champion Golfer of the Year.
And the Northern Irishman admits victory was the realisation of a childhood dream.
"It was an unbelievable feeling to lift the Claret Jug and know that my name was displayed on the trophy alongside so many of the greatest players ever to play the game," said Clarke.
"The Open is what it is all about for me as a golfer and it is the championship I always dreamt of winning from when I first took up the game as a kid.
"I have so many wonderful memories from that week at Sandwich and I will be thrilled to go back there for The Open in 2020."
Return to Royal St George's
Not only was 1894 the first time The Open had been played outside of Scotland but The 35th Open was won by JH Taylor, who became the first English professional to win the Championship.
Over the years, the historic links at Sandwich has seen some of golf's greatest players lift the Claret Jug including Harry Vardon, Walter Hagen, Henry Cotton, Bobby Locke, Sandy Lyle and Greg Norman, who secured a two-shot victory over Sir Nick Faldo in 1993.
Clarke is far from the only man excited about the return to Kent, with Martin Slumbers, Chief Executive of The R&A, saying:
"We are very much looking forward to the return of The Open to Royal St George's in 2020.
"The Open is a true celebration of sport and the global spotlight will fall once again on Sandwich.
"Royal St George's has produced a series of outstanding Champion Golfers over the last 120 years and it is a thrilling prospect for golf fans to see the greatest players competing on one of the world's finest links courses."
Kent welcomes The Open
Hosting The Open always provides a huge boost to the local community and plenty of Kent dignitaries are ecstatic to welcome the event back to Kent.
Paul Carter CBE, Leader of Kent County Council, said: "We are absolutely delighted that we have secured The Open in 2020 at Royal St George's.
"In 2011 there were over 180,000 visitors to The Open, and an extra 37,000 passengers travelled on the special High Speed train service from London St Pancras.
"The benefits to the tourist economy was massive, amounting to over £64 million. Significant transport improvements were needed to improve spectator flows in and out of Royal St George's and KCC has played a leading role in facilitating partnership funding with the Local Enterprise Partnership and District Councils Dover and Thanet."
Christian Brodie, Chairman of the South East Local Enterprise Partnership, added: "The Open is one of the country's iconic sporting events and it's fantastic news that Royal St George's will host it again.
"The Open in 2016 was worth an estimated £110 million to Troon and Scotland and in 2020 it will present us with an opportunity to highlight the economic opportunities for business to invest in East Kent to a global audience."
Royal St Georges
Harry Vardon
Henry Cotton
Bobby Locke
Royal St George's Recap / Glory for Lyle in 1985
The 149th Open Royal St George's
Exemptions for The 149th Open / Updates confirmed ahead of Championship at Royal St George's
Chronicles Unseen / How practice made perfect for Greg Norman


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Ocon: Hard for F1 drivers to ease COVID-19 precautions in off-season
By Luke Smith
@LukeSmithF1
Published on Friday December 25th 2020
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Esteban Ocon feels it will still be hard for Formula 1 drivers to stray from their strict precautions to avoid getting COVID-19 during the winter break.
Three F1 drivers missed races across the course of the 2020 season through illness as the FIA enforced strict protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the paddock.
Sergio Perez missed the two Silverstone races after testing positive ahead of the British Grand Prix, while Racing Point team-mate Lance Stroll pulled out of the Eifel GP ahead of qualifying, later testing positive for COVID-19.
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton had to skip the Sakhir GP following his positive test result after the previous race in Bahrain, but returned in time for the Abu Dhabi season finale.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said F1 drivers were living "like hermits" to ensure they did not pick up the virus and miss a race, potentially derailing their season.
Renault F1 driver Ocon explained that he was planning an intense training programme over the winter, but said it would be hard to waver from the intense precautions to avoid contracting COVID-19.
"There is going to be a high period of training, I need to catch up on the weight that I've lost during the season and get my fitness level up again," Ocon said.
"But it's a bit tricky to travel at the moment in Europe. It's a bit tricky to just drop the precautions really, because we can't really do that.
"We're not going to be tested as much, but we don't want to get sick and lose 15 days and feel unwell.
"Hopefully [I'll have] a good Christmas with my family, an easy New Year really, because there's nothing to do, and then get back to work training."
AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly told Autosport that he was eager to spend time with his family and friends over the winter, having been unable to see them much through the season.
"I still want to be careful with the people around me, but still I'm going to take more freedom to see my family, to see them over Christmas, spend more time with them," Gasly explained.
"It's the same with my friends. I came back after two months in France [last month], and they were there and I told them, 'I'm sorry, I wish I could see you, but I just don't want to take the risk,' because you never know.
"It's kind of frustrating not to be able to. You feel like you're a bit in a cage, where you don't have the freedom to really do and see the people you want.
"I'm clearly going to take the opportunity over the off-season to do it, because who knows what is going to happen next year. We may be in a similar situation.
"Clearly during the off-season and the small time we have, I'll try to have a better social life hopefully."


Can I find the console width with Java?
Is there a way to find the width of the console in which my Java program is running?
I have no desire to change the width of the buffer or the window, I just want to know its width so I can properly format text that is being printed to screen.
There are no reliable cross-platform solutions to this problem. Indeed, there are situations where it is not possible to know what the real console width is.
For example, on a Linux system you can typically find out the notional terminal dimensions from the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables. While these variables are automatically updated when you resize some "terminal emulator" windows, this is not always the case. Indeed, in the case of a remote console connected via telnet protocol, there is no way to get the actual terminal dimensions to the user's shell.
EDIT: Just to add that if the user changes the dimensions of his/her xterm on Linux after launching a Java app, the Java app won't be notified, and it won't see the new dimensions reflected in its copy of the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables!
EDIT 2: My mistake, they are bash shell variables, but are not exported to the environment by default. You can "fix" this by running export COLUMNS LINES before you run your Java application.
JLine promises to work on Mac, too.
I've found that it returns bad widths (like 1!) under the Eclipse console (but even Java's native Console doesn't work under Eclipse!), and, unfortunately, under Cygwin. But I've worked around this with code that checks for unreasonable values (< 10) and just uses 80 in those cases.
Edit: See @dave_thompson_085's comment about ProcessBuilder, as that's almost certainly a better approach.
This works for me on Linux, but I wouldn't expect it to work everywhere. It will hopefully work on Mac. It definitely won't work on Windows, though it might with Cygwin.
Java 6 has a class java.io.Console, but it unfortunately lacks the functionality you're asking for. Getting the console window width is not possible with the standard Java library and pure, cross-platform Java.
Here is an alternative Java console library which allows you to get the screen size, but it includes a Windows-specific DLL. You might be able to take the source code and compile the C part into a Linux or Mac OS X shared library, so that it will work on those platforms as well.
I have been working on this problem before. I use a couple of different techniques. However it is difficult to have a truly cross platform solution.
You can read/test and append "export COLUMNS" to the .bashrc file in every Linux users home directory with the String.contains("export COLUMNS") method and the user.dir property.
That would allow you to get the columns to load up every time the java app starts up.
Another option you have is to execute yor Java.jar with a bash script at startup. Inside the script you can use "tput cols" to get the width. Then pass that value to your Java app as a String arg.
//#pass the columns, lines and an optional third value as String args.
why is this such a difficult task with Java? Obviously a good place to write a good API. I guess we could try Apache.commons.exec as well?
There's a trick that you can use based on ANSI Escape Codes. They don't provide a direct way to query the console size, but they do have a command for requesting the current position size. By moving the cursor to a really high row and column and then requesting the console size you can get an accurate measurement.
Now watch stdin, you should receive a sequece that looks like \u001b[25;80R", where 25 is the row count, and 80 the columns.
I first saw this used in the Lanterna library.
Python seems to have a good solution: 11.9.3. Querying the size of the output terminal. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this to be available in core Java, but you might be able to use Jython to make the Python functionality available.
When run without the cmd.exe part, it shows that the command could not be found. Also note the redirectError part. If not used then the Java output size will be used, not the actual one. Only with this combination it was possible to grab the actual size.
Is there a way for Java to determine the size/dimensions of the command-line console it's running in?
How to center a print statement text?
Is there any way to automatically break lines in a cmd window?
how to get a terminal size changed event?


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Dave Smith Instruments Mopho Keyboard + Tetra Combo
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Tetra + Mopho Keyboard Bundle!!Tetra:Tetra is our next-generation analog poly synth. Tetra takes the award-winning sound and features of Mopho, multiplies them by four, and packs them in a box...
Tetra + Mopho Keyboard Bundle!!
Tetra:
Tetra is our next-generation analog poly synth. Tetra takes the award-winning sound and features of Mopho, multiplies them by four, and packs them in a box less than half an inch larger!
Tetra has multiple personalities. It is a four-voice, analog poly synth, a sort of "mini Prophet." It's a four-part, multitimbral synth with separate outputs, essentially four Mophos in one very compact box. And it's a voice expander for other Tetras or the Prophet '08.
Physically, Tetra is similar to Mopho, with four assignable parameter controls per program and a row of controls dedicated to the most commonly used performance parameters. All of the parameters can be accessed from the front panel and Tetra is fully programmable. A free, downloadable editor is available for Mac OS and Windows to facilitate more comprehensive tweaking.
Most of the rotary controls are detented encoders, but Cutoff and Resonance are potentiometers, allowing full sweeps with a single turn. The Push It button is a manual trigger to play notes and latch sequences on without the need for a MIDI controller.
Audio is output in mono, stereo, or per voice, via the four audio output jacks. There is also a headphone out. MIDI communication is by standard MIDI in and out jacks or USB. Poly Chain Out is a special, dedicated MIDI output to chain multiple instruments for increased polyphony.
The voice architecture is based on the Prophet '08, but with the addition of a sub-octave generator for each oscillator and a fully programmable feedback loop for each voice. That breaks down to two DCOs, a resonant low-pass filter, three DADSR envelope generators, four LFOS, deep modulation routing, an arpeggiator, and a 16 x 4 analog-style step sequencer per voice. Feedback is capable of producing effects ranging from mild distortion to fairly extreme harmonic instability. (That's a good thing.) The possibilities are nearly endless. And the audio signal path is 100% analog.
Tetra a la Mode
In Program Mode, Tetra is a four-voice, polyphonic synthesizer with four banks of 128 programs. As with the Prophet '08, each program contains two layers—each layer is essentially a separate patch—that can be used to create keyboard splits or stacked sounds. Banks 1 and 2 are the Prophet '08 factory programs; banks 3 and 4 are a combination of Mopho and new programs.
In Combo Mode, a different program can be assigned to each of the four voices. Combos can be used for mammoth unison patches or for triggering up to four different 16 x 4 sequences—each with its own program—simultaneously. Combos can also be used to create "modular-style" polyphonic patches, where each voice plays a different program, with a slight variation on the same sound or even a drastically different sound.
In Multi Mode, Tetra becomes a multitimbral sound module capable of playing four monophonic parts on four MIDI channels, with separate outputs for each voice. Coupled with a MIDI sequencer and DAW, Tetra can play complex arrangements or analog drum parts with each part individually processed and recorded to its own track.
This One Goes to 12...and 16
Up to four Tetras can be poly chained for eight, twelve, or sixteen voices total. When used with a Prophet '08, up to two Tetras can be poly chained for a maximum of sixteen voices. In addition, the Prophet's front panel controls map directly to almost all of Tetra's parameters, so the Prophet acts as a programmer and control surface. And a Mopho can be connected to Tetra's Poly Chain Out for five-voice operation.
Affordable, fully programmable poly synth with a 100% analog signal path.
Classic, real analog sound—including legendary Curtis analog low-pass filter.
Four-part multitimbral capability with four separate outputs.
Combo Mode for huge unison patches, stacked sequences, and "modular-style" poly sounds.
Expandable: poly chain with other Tetras, Prophet '08, and Mopho for expanded polyphony
Just 7.9" x 5" (20.07 cm x 12.7 cm).
Free editor for Mac OS and Windows.
Mopho Keyboard:
The Mopho Keyboard is a compact and affordable—but powerful—monophonic analog synthesizer. The voice architecture is similar to a single voice of the Prophet '08, but with a couple of twists to distinguish it from its award-winning sibling. We have added two sub-octave generators—one per oscillator—for additional girth and crushing basses. It also has an audio input that lets you process external audio and mix Mopho's own audio output back in pre-filter for feedback effects that can range from subtle distortion to extreme skronk. It features the same semi-weighted keyboard action as the Prophet.
The Mopho Keyboard's voice architecture features two oscillators, two sub-octave generators, selectable 2- or 4-pole low-pass filter, feedback, and a ton of modulation options, including three envelope generators, four LFOs, and a 16 x 4 step sequencer. It has a full-sized, semi-weighted, 32-note keyboard with velocity and aftertouch and full-sized pitch and modulation wheels. The Poly Chain feature enables expanded polyphony using other DSI synths. For example, combining a Mopho Keyboard with a Tetra results in a very portable five-voice poly synth. Other features include USB and the ability to process external audio through Mopho's filter and VCA.
The Mopho Keyboard is fully programmable and all the parameters are logically arranged for easy access on the front panel. A free editor is also available for Mac OS and Windows to facilitate programming.
The Mopho Keyboard delivers classic analog sound in a remarkably compact package and—perhaps best of all—it's affordable!
Affordable, fully programmable mono synth with a 100% analog signal path.
Full-sized keys with velocity and aftertouch.
USB connectivity.
Measures approximately 18.65" L x 11.1" W x 3.6" H (47.4 cm x 28.2 cm x 9.1 cm) and weighs under 10 pounds (~4.5 kg).


"While current dispensing restrictions limit how often a person can collect their Levlen ED prescription, this should not stop patients from accessing their medicine or taking it as directed.
"We thank pharmacies and wholesalers for their assistance in helping to manage this stock issue and apologise for any inconvenience," Fitt explained.
Concerns about the availability of Levlen in New Zealand were raised earlier this month.
Recently, pharmacies had been asked to dispense the pill in one-month courses, rather than the three-month courses usually given out.
But on Friday that request will become mandatory as officials step up efforts to maintain sufficient supply until the medication was restocked in late March.
So a fun Masters thesis for somebody: use regional variation in the timing here to check the extent to which the fixed costs of going to the dispensary affects both the likelihood of scripts being filled and unplanned pregnancies. Prescriptions like this should be in Pharmac data accessible in IDI.
In April, medical professionals were asked to ration prescriptions of Durex condoms for men with large penises, as increased demand contributed to a global shortage.
Durex Confidence 56mm condoms and Gold Knight Larger were the Pharmac-funded brands affected by dwindling supply.
At the time, Pharmac said the Durex condoms would be temporarily unavailable in New Zealand, but the brand's five other varieties in differing sizes were available.
In July, a disagreement between the brand's owner and its Indian partner cut up to 60 per cent of supply.
Of course, condoms remain accessible (at a somewhat higher cost) at the supermarket; it's just the subsidised ones that are short. No non-prescription options for birth control pills.
The Stuff comments thread is more amusing than most.
What should Knightean economists do?


I'm so happy about next year's text. Anxiety is such a problem for so many of us- myself included. After a faith strengthening regional convention, this is the perfect reminder to start the new year with.
This necklace features a the text in chocolate brown lettering, adorned with beautiful watercolor dandelions in purple shades... purple dandelions? Why not. ;-) The art is sealed under an oval glass cabochon and framed in a simple pendant setting.
Outside dimensions- 1 1/4 inches square.. Antique silver alloy metals. Cable chain in your choice of lengths is included.


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Q: Trying to get facebook/twitter/myspace statuses and other data for statistics I was wondering if anyone knows how to gather data from millions of people around the globe via these social networks in order to get the statistics. I need this for a project I'm trying to do and do not need to know the actual person posting such information (such as statuses, comments, information about them, etc) so as not to break any data privacy laws.
I need to know things like how many people commented about Obama today and what was their sex (female or male) and things like that.
is that possible in any way?
Thanks a million

A: I think you're asking if there are any resources to mine for social data.
Your best bet is to check out the Twitter or Facebook APIs. Variables like age, sex, location will probably be far more difficult to ascertain than raw status info, but it can be done.
For Twitter, I would recommend using the Twitter streaming API and filtering for specific keywords.

A: For MySpace, use the Real-Time Stream PUSH feature: http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=Category:Real_Time_Stream

A: the best tool so far used to get data from most of the social network site is this, build an algorithm that will suit your need from the data you collected


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The Address of the Messiah
Written in Bible prophecy long before Jesus was born.
My all-time favorite drama is Our Town, written in 1937 by Thornton Wilder and performed for the first time in 1938, the year of my birth.
Thornton Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1897. From age 9 to 17 he lived in China where his father was the U.S. Counsel to Hong Kong and Shanghai. Wilder earned degrees at both Yale and Princeton. He died in 1975 at age 78. By that time he had become an American icon and was internationally recognized as an outstanding playwright and novelist.
I witnessed Our Town my first time in 1953 when I was in junior high school. It impacted me so profoundly that I wept on and off for three days afterwards. It is a story about family life in a small New Hampshire town, Grover's Corners, at the turn of the 20th Century. It is a deceptively simple, down-to-earth story that emphasizes the beauty and sacredness of life.
There is a scene in the play where a sister shares an insight with her brother:1
Rebecca: I never told you about a letter Jane Crofut got from her minister when she was sick. He wrote Jane a letter, and on the envelope the address was like this: It said: Jane Crofut; The Crofut Farm; Grover's Corners; Sutton County; New Hampshire; United States of America.
George: What's funny about that?
Rebecca: But listen, it's not finished: The United States of America; Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar System; the Universe; the Mind of God — that's what it said on the envelope.
When I was recently reminded of this remarkable passage, I decided to use it as a format to write my own unique address:
David R. Reagan
North American Continent
County of Collin
Town of Princeton
In similar manner, each of us has a unique address, and so did the Messiah. His address was spelled out in advance in Bible prophecy:
From the Shemite branch of humanity (Genesis 9:26 and Luke 3:36)
Through Abraham (Genesis 12:3 and Matthew 1:1)
Through Abraham's son, Isaac (Genesis 17:21 and Luke 3:34)
Through Isaac's son, Jacob (Genesis 28:14 and Luke 3:34)
Through the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:8 and Luke 3:33-34)
Through the family of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1 and Luke 3:32)
Through the house of David (Jeremiah 23:5 and Luke 3:31-32)
Through a virgin (Isaiah 7:14 and Luke 2:11)
In the town of Bethlehem (Micah 5:2 and Matthew 2:1)
Would reside in Nazareth (Matthew 2:23)
Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary of Nazareth, fulfilled every one of these prophecies, and in doing so, there should be no doubt that He was the Messiah promised by God through the Hebrew prophets.2
The Scriptures give the Messiah a unique address, an address that points to only one person in history — Jesus of Nazareth.
You know your current distinctive natural address here on earth. But do you know your eternal address? Can you say with absolute confidence that you have a mansion reserved for you in the magnificent New Jerusalem where the Redeemed will live eternally with God? (Revelation 21:1-7). Or, is your current eternal address a place of unimaginable horror called Hell?
The glorious thing is that you can decide your eternal address. You can do so because God in His unfathomable grace and mercy sent His only begotten Son to die for your sins, and when you place your faith in Him as your Lord and Savior, you are born again and sealed for eternal life in the New Jerusalem (John 3:16 and Ephesians 4:30).
Place your faith in Jesus today and guarantee your eternal address.
1) Three Plays by Thornton Wilder (New York: Harper Brothers, 1957), p. 45.
2) Jesus fulfilled 109 specific prophecies. A listing of all of these can be found in Dr. Reagan's book, The Christ in Prophecy Study Guide. This guide also provides a detailed listing of all the Second Coming prophecies contained in both the Old and New Testaments. Printed in a large, letter size format for easy reference and note taking. 150 pages. To order, visit our Store.
The Truth of the Virgin Birth
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Christmas is now officially over, the New Year is here, and for me, it's time to give my body time to regroup. Every January, various charities promote an alcohol-free month; among them this year are Alcohol Concern (Dry January), the British Liver Trust (Love Your Liver) and Cancer Research (Dryathlon). So there's no better time to highlight our range of non-alcoholic drinks to see you through the month.
There is a wide range of products in that often-overlooked part of any drinks cupboard: syrups and mixers. While many have been created to complement spirits in cocktails or long drinks, they also make great accompaniments to mocktails or non-alcoholic pick-me-ups. One of my favourites is Claytons Kola Tonic, made with extract of the West African kola nut, known for its stimulant properties. Incredibly versatile, it's great as a standalone drink (think concentrated still cola), but mixing with two parts Fever Tree Ginger Ale makes it come alive. For a delicious mocktail, blend together 25ml with a banana, the juice of half a lime, and a tablespoon of simple syrup (you can make your own or for a luxurious touch, use Trois Rivières Sirop de Sucre de Canne) with ice.
January shouldn't mean saying goodbye to indulgence completely, so why not try one of our more unusual drinks – Taj-Mahal Saffron Syrup – made with the world's most expensive spice. Safinter has been growing (and selling) saffron since 1912 from its base in Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, and produce this sugar-sweetened syrup to an ancient Indian recipe. One of its many uses is a spicy cardamom and saffron coffee: just add four teaspoons and half a teaspoon of ground cardamom to a mug of black coffee, and you have a perfect winter beverage. If you'd rather use the spice's unique semi-sweet and bitter character in food, then it can be used to poach pears, or simply as an ice-cream sauce.
With the winter frost starting to bite, one way to keep warm is with the Munich-based Becks range of organic hot drink powders – cacao powder for a rich hot chocolate, and a brace of spiced chais: classic masala ('Om', flavoured with spices including cardamom, ginger, cinnamon and cloves) and vanilla ('Enchantment', with anise and grated orange peel).
I am participating in Dry January – but having been recently diagnosed with diabetes, this is 'dry' in terms of sweetness rather than going alcohol-free. It is a balancing act, as a lower sugar level generally means a higher alcohol content (as sugar = alcohol + carbon dioxide), so the risks of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) are both present when drinking. An easy place to start to drink healthier is with mixers – use Naturally Light Tonic Water rather than the full-fat version, or even better, carb-free Spring Soda Water.
New to our offering is the Belvoir range of fruit-based cordials and pressés. While fruit juices contain a high level of (natural) sugars, 'drier' cordials such as ginger and lime and lemongrass can be used in small quantities if you like the occasional indulgence – the pressés are higher in sugars though.
Beer can be trickier as bottles rarely (if ever) give sugar figures. Lager and stout are the two styles with lowest carb levels, so of the Harviestoun range, Schiehallion (available in 33cl and 50cl) and Bitter & Twisted are the safe bets (unlike the Ola Dubh range, there is no need to worry whether naturally occurring sugars from the wood-ageing process are present in the bottle). Cider, sadly, contains high sugar levels – for many brands, a pint is almost equal to an adult's daily recommended allowance. But if it's your tipple, then a higher-strength, drier style such as the oak-aged Dupont's Cidre Reserve 2012 would be the best choice. From the renowned Calvados producer, this is a cider for sharing; split between two, there is enough for a generous glass each.
As with many aspects of a diabetic diet, moderation is the key, so even a single measure of a sugar-heavy liqueur can be enjoyed as an occasional treat (and to keep my very sweet tooth happy).
Another new addition to our website is the addition of allergen information to the product pages, covering a total of 14 allergens (celery, crustaceans, egg, fish, gluten, lupins, milk, molluscs, mustard, nuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, soybeans and sulphur). If a product contains (or may contain) any of these, a message similar to the example on the right is displayed (as can be seen for Caymanas Chocolate Caribbean Rum Cake).
If you're staying alcohol-free for January for charity, personal reasons or both – good luck!
Claytons Kola Tonic is a very unique drink mix first sold in the 1880's. The heart of the drink is genuine West African Kola Nut extract, a well-known natural stimulant. Clayton's can be mixed with gin, rum, vodka, beer and stout, or lemonade, ginger ale, ginger beer, soda water or orange juice.


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Is This the End of the Unreformable Democratic Party?
By Michael Hudson
Posted in: Electoral Politics, Politics/Gov., US | No comments
Source: Counterpunch
Photo by Naresh111/Shutterstock
History has been rewritten almost daily this week, almost immediately as it occurs. A Wall Street Journal editorial on November 4 spun its view of what is at issue for the Democratic Party: "Voters warn Democrats to walk away from the Sanders-Pelosi agenda." The Democrats' own leadership quickly agreed with this take, playing the blame game against the Progressive Caucus for insisting on economic reforms that opinion polls have reported are precisely what voters say they want.
But these are not the policies that the party's major donors want. What really is at issue is just whom the Democratic Party (and their duopoly partners the Republicans too, of course) supports: corporate lobbyists and the Donor Class, or wage-earning voters seeking economic policies that benefit them as employees, consumers and debtors.
Can there really be doubt as to what is causing the apathy of voters to support the Clintonite Virginia candidate Terry McAuliffe? Was his loss really because voters opposed Sanders and the Congressional Progressive Caucus as radical extremists for supporting the policy platform that President Biden himself ran on and which got Democrats elected? Was it that Democrats are not sufficiently supporting their Wall Street and corporate donors and lobbyists, and that somehow voting for McAuliffe might empower Bernie Sanders, AOC and the Squad?
Democrats calling themselves "centrist" or "moderate" insist that the Progressives surrender to the Manchin-Sinema rewrite of the original version of the Build Back Better (BBB) act and make it into a grab-bag benefiting the Five Percent instead of the 95 Percent by replacing its most popular proposals with giveaways to the wealthy – as if this will win elections. Or at least, win campaign financing for the party.
One of the most popular proposals in the original BBB act was twelve weeks of paternity/maternity, sick and caregiving leave, child support and pre-schooling support. Such aid is provided by nearly every advanced nation for its citizens. But the Democrats assigned Senator Joe Manchin the task of opposing this as an anti-corporate move to subsidize employees getting paid without working. Nancy Pelosi and the House leadership obliged by removing it altogether, but then agreed to a rather stingy four-week support program. Even so, Joe Manchin will not commit himself to support the downsized BBB bill when it is sent over to the Senate, saying that he wants "to work with Republicans on paid leave in separate legislation."[1]
In today's U.S. political duopoly the role of the Democratic Party is to protect the Republicans from attacks from the left. What the Republicans and centrists want is the "hard" business infrastructure program, not its pro-labor elements. The Progressives rightly warn that their only opportunity to get the pro-voter BBB version approved by Congress is to tie it to Biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill. Their fear is that Manchin will make good on his preference to wait a half year (meaning "never" in political time) before submitting the BBB that was downsized first from $6.5 billion to $3.5 billion, and now to a reported $1.8 billion.
Another popular element criticized as being too pro-labor to appeal to voters is dental and vision care for Medicare recipients, and payments for hearing aids and home health care. As medical and health insurance costs squeeze family budgets, most voters also back negotiating drug prices to stop the price gouging by the pharmaceutical companies. Governments throughout the world have long been doing this. But the "centrists" threatened to exclude it, and finally proposed some reduction in the most exorbitant monopoly prices by promising a give-back to their drug-company donors in the form of more patent protection (for research initially funded by the government itself). The aim is to prevent other drug companies from producing low-priced generic versions after the patents expire.
Student debt relief has been drastically cut back, along with plans two free years of community college. One after another, Biden's campaign promises are being broken – with Biden himself disowning them and showing impatience at how long it is taking the Progressives to surrender to "reality".
Already thrown overboard at the start of the Biden Administration was his promise to raise the minimum wage. The Senate parliamentarian pretended that this could not be submitted as a "reconciliation" agenda, on the ground that it did not affect federal revenue. That was nonsense, of course. Raising the minimum wage would reduce federal subsidies to families below the poverty level – a subsidy that has long saved Walmart and other minimum-wage employers dollar for dollar by enabling them to pay less than the actual living wage, as food stamps and other transfer payments make up the gap.
Joe Manchin sheds crocodile tears over the government paying for pro-labor policies, but shows no concern about giveaways to the wealthy, to the corporate interest or for military spending – or for tax cuts for the highest income brackets. It is as if only pro-voter policies add to the national debt.
Neoliberal Clintonite centrists vetoed Progressive proposals to pay for their program by passing one of the most popular taxes of all: a tax on financial trading gains, to be collected by closing the carried-interest tax loophole that frees financial speculators and money managers from having to pay income tax on their gains, lowering the rate to the capital-gains tax rate. The heavy hand of Wall Street campaign donors far outweighs what voters want – including reversing the Trump Administration's income-tax cuts for the wealthiest classes.
While downsizing these early popular elements, Congress has increased its giveaway to the Donor Class in an attempt to win them over. Most egregious is cutting taxes for the wealthiest home owners, especially on the East Coast, by raising the income-tax deductibility of property taxes – the State and Local Tax (SALT) – from $10,000 to $72,500. As Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Bernie Sanders sounded exasperated on election-day Tuesday when he explained that this $400 billion giveaway to the wealthiest 5 percent was so large, that "the top 1% would pay lower taxes after passage of the Build Back Better plan than they did after the Trump tax cut in 2017. This is beyond unacceptable."
Sanders pointed out that "Democrats campaigned and won on an agenda that demands that the very wealthy finally pay their fair share, not one that gives them more tax breaks."[2] But the Democratic leadership replied that without favoring the Donor Class, their campaign financing would shrink – a prospect that would lead Senate recipients of lobbying largesse to vote down the BBB.
The Democratic leadership argues that failure to increase subsidies and tax breaks for the economy's wealthiest rentier layer, and to cute back social spending for wage-earners, will threaten their electoral prospects – by reducing their fundraising appeal to the Donor Class. The mainstream press chimes in with the view that pro-labor policies are so radical that they will frighten most middle-class voters as an attack on property and their own hopes to somehow join the ranks of the rich someday. President Biden is blaming Progressives for "blocking" the program by trying to preserve the policies that most voters actually want, and which he himself ran on in his presidential campaign a year ago.
But most voters are wage-earners, after all. And many need child support and other social welfare spending, and lower drug prices and other living costs. Voter polls in Virginia reported that economic issues were their most important concern, as they are in most of the United States.
The problem is that pro-labor social policies are not what the major lobbyists and campaign donors want for themselves and their clients. This raises the obvious question: Did Democrats lose on Tuesday because their leadership was supporting opposing what their campaign contributors want instead of the Progressive agenda that most voters say they want and what they voted for last November?
Is the U.S. political system a democracy, or oligarchy?
Put bluntly, is the Democratic Party an agent of democracy, or oligarchy? The past month's Congressional debacle confirms Aristotle description of democracy: Many states have constitutions that are democratic in form, he wrote, but actually are oligarchies.
The reason, he explained, is that democracies tend to evolve into oligarchies as a result of the increasing concentration and polarization of wealth. That gives the leading families control of the political system. (In his schema, oligarchies aim at making themselves hereditary aristocracies.)
The translation of wealth into political control has been accelerating since the 1980s, and almost all increase in U.S. wealth and income in the year and a half since the Covid-19 outbreak struck in spring 2020 has accrued to the One Percent in the form of rising stock, bond and real estate prices. In the non-financial economy, prices charged by the oil, pharmaceutical and IT monopolies have also increased, while housing prices have risen nearly 20 percent in the last twelve months. These sectors are the largest lobbyists and political campaign contributors.
The Democratic leadership policy is to back the candidates who are able to raise the most money. For most candidates the lion's share come from these lobbyists and special interests, for whom their donations are a business investment. Only a minority of progressive candidates have been able to raise enough in small sums from many individuals to become political players.
The situation is much like that of ancient Rome. Its constitution organized voting according to wealth cohorts, mainly measured by land ownership. The wealthiest Senatorial class, followed by the equite "Knights", were assigned voting weight overshadowing that of the 99 Percent. In the United States, to be sure, all votes on election day are counted equally, but in practice the One Percent limit the range of policies that can be voted on and then implemented. The first problem is how to be nominated in the first place and vie with rivals in the political primaries. In America, success requires support from the Donor Class. Similarly in Rome, to succeed as a candidate running for office required heavy backing by the wealthy. (Crassus played this role, financing Caesar's campaign, among others.) Leading politicians tended to be heavily in debt to their backers.
In the United States, the debt is not as crassly monetary. What is owed to donors is political support. The job description for a politician is to deliver voter support to one's campaign contributors. That is how oligarchies suppress democracy, today as in the Roman Republic.
Centrists and moderates support existing oligarchic trends in economic polarization
Upon taking office, President Biden said that nothing would really change. This was the opposite of Barack Obama's slogan of "hope and change," but it was simply more honest. The Biden Administration not only has maintained Donald Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy, it has increased them under the BBB's SALT provision. Biden has extended offshore oil drilling rights, and policies benefiting the financial and corporate sectors.
This is called being a "centrist" or "moderate." If the world is polarizing between the One Percent and the 99 Percent, between creditors and debtors, monopolists and consumers, where is the middle ground? The Chinese have a proverb: "He who comes to a fork in the road and tries to go two roads at once will get a broken hip joint." Being a moderate means not interfering with the economic trends that are polarizing the U.S. economy between the rentier One Percent at the top and the increasingly indebted 99 Percent.
That is the situation confronting today's economy. Refusing to take steps to change the dynamics that are enriching the oligarchy means not reversing or even slowing the trends that are polarizing the economy. The Democratic Party leadership has opposed the influence of the Progressive Congressional Caucus from the beginning. This is oligarchy, not democracy. It is not even the largely empty formalities of political democracy, to say nothing of substantive economic democracy.
What really is democracy, after all? It is the ability of voters to get legislated the policies that they want – and which presumably are in their economic and social interests. But the process is manipulated by the DNC's reliance on the Donor Class. Its political program is simply a marketing vehicle, with no "truth in advertising" regulation.
The question is, can it be reformed? Can democracy succeed without replacing the Democratic Party leadership. Indeed, can it succeed without an altogether different political system from today's Democratic-Republican duopoly with its common set of donors?
What I cannot understand is why the Progressive Caucus has not insisted on naming their own supporters to the DNC.
The current Democratic impasse shows that no progress can be made without changing the institutional structure of American politics. It seems that the only way to do this is to make sure that the Democratic Party loses so irrevocably in 2022 and 2024 that it is dissolved enough to enable the Progressives to revive the near corpse.
The Democrats' identity politics – any identity except that of wage earners
The Democratic role is to protect the Republican party from challenges from the left. Its tactic for many decades now has been to use identity politics to replace the traditional economic concerns of voters as wage earners, consumers, debtors and, in a rising proportion of cases, as renters faced with losing their homes if they fall into arrears as rents and housing prices are soaring. Identity politics is a strategy to fragment the wage-earning majority of voters into separate ethnic, racial and gender identities. That distracts attention from their class consciousness whose interests do not match those of the Donor Class that has gained control of the Democrat-Republican duopoly. This control and divergence of interests explains the DNC's refusal to back progressive candidates.
Instead of appealing to wage earners, the Democratic leadership since the 1960s has aimed at getting voters to think of themselves as hyphenated Americans. Half a century ago it was Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Polish-Americans and so forth, with patronage along ethnic lines in the big cities. Today the identity politics has broadened to aim at women, especially white suburban women, whose support they lost in Virgini;, the Hispanic vote, which also faded this week; and support from black voters, whose support has most recently been mobilized by House Majority Whip James Clyburn and what has been called the Black Misleadership Council (though ethnic support for these misleaders finally is weakening as voters learn just who their campaign contributors are). The Democrats' calculation has been something like, "OK, we've written off the working class. But maybe we can get some voters to think of themselves as some other identity." They've pandered to black voters with cultural applause, but not economic benefits. They've sought Hispanic support, but that is falling away as the Democrats hesitate to give economic support to low-income workers with families, whom they readily write off when offered enough Donor Class money from corporate lobbyists. But cultural pandering to identity politics fails when voters see their economic condition as being the most important political issue.
Is America a failed state?
As of Friday morning, the BBB is still stymied as Congressional staff ponder over what has become a 2,135-page bill. Little trust is left regarding Manchin's hint of support in the Senate. The fear is that the bipartisan $1 trillion business-friendly infrastructure bill will be passed, leaving the BBB's social programs abandoned.
The failure to solve this problem seems to be a duplicitous ploy of President Biden and the Democrats' quasi-Republican Clintonite core. Why not simply remove Manchin from his committee memberships, and stop federal subsidy of his West Virginia constituency? Instead, they have put him in charge of the environment bill, which he has disfigured on behalf of the lobbying money he receives from the oil and coal sectors.
It is difficult to see what may replace today's political quandary. The United States does not have a European-style parliamentary system that permits new parties to run and be represented in government. If they did, the Democratic Party would probably go the way of European Social-Democratic parties and shrink to a merely marginal has-been.
But real political and economic democracy is blocked by the existing Constitution and the Senate filibuster requiring a 60 percent majority to pass laws, backstopped by a Supreme Court imposing 18th-century solutions to 21st-century finance capitalism and its neo-rentier economies.
[1] Alexander Duehren, Natalie Andrews and Richard Rubin," Paid Leave Is Back in House Bill," Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2021.
[2] Jordain Carney, "Sanders: Proposed five-year SALT cap repeal 'beyond unacceptable,'" The Hill, November 2, 2021. The most recent report, as of Nov. 4, is that Sanders agreed to the tax giveaway for home owners making under $400,000, which is now being put forth as the top of "middle-class" income. See Senators Sanders and Menendez Propose Eliminating SALT Cap for People Earning Under $400K.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4984949/senators-sanders-menendez-propose-eliminating-salt-cap-people-earning-400k
Michael Hudson is the author of Killing the Host (published in e-format by CounterPunch Books and in print by Islet). His new book is J is For Junk Economics. He can be reached at mh@michael-hudson.com
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Area of Culture, Education, Science and Community
What is participation
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Citizen Assets
Citizens initiatives
How to collaborate with a participation body?
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An extraordinary PAM to respond to the pandemic and relaunch the city
PAM. Robust proposals to lead the recovery and set out a fairer and more sustainable economic model.
The Covid-19 crisis has forced shock measures to tackle the resulting social and economic emergency. In a move to look forward and take on the challenges for the city in the coming years, the Municipal Action Programme (PAM) 2020-2023 has been developed as an extraordinary roadmap to review and update the priorities set out some months ago, and to focus all available resources on tackling the current exceptional situation.
The crisis has paralysed economic activity in the city, breaking with the dynamism anticipated at the beginning of the year. The existing climate and housing crises have become worse, with other weaknesses exposed such as the excessive reliance on tourism, the insufficiency of resources for healthcare systems and a care model sustained by women in precarious or casual labour conditions.
The PAM+ 2020-2023, validated today by the Government Commission, addresses these challenges and sets out the opportunities opened up thanks to favourable responses from European, Spanish and Catalan administrations which put Barcelona in a good position to tackle structural changes, the economic reactivation and the generation of quality stable jobs.
The PAM includes the 73 priority measures to tackle the crisis which came from the Barcelona Pact, with strategic action geared towards achieving the 17 sustainable development goals in the UN's 2030 Agenda.
Six main areas of action for the PAM+
Recovery to make the economy stronger, more resilient and diverse.
More support and social inclusion resources for the most vulnerable.
Acceleration of the ecological transition against the climate crisis, boosting safe and sustainable mobility and the shift to a new energy model.
Strengthening of education, culture, science and sports in the city.
Neighbourhood approach for a safer and friendlier city with metropolitan vision, basically through the Neighbourhood Plan.
Implementation of an open city, with a digital, transparent, cross-cutting and participatory administration.
Participatory process
In parallel to the public scrutiny period established by the Regulations on Citizen Participation, a preceptive participatory process was also under way but had to be interrupted because of the state of emergency. Even so, 13,512 people (7,137 women and 5,880 men) took part in person in one of the 204 meetings organised, or through the mobile points set up in 138 busy public places.
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DB Cargo UK employee flies the flag for Team GB
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DB Cargo, the UK rail freight operator is celebrating the news that one of its employees represented Team GB in the Age Group World Triathlon Championships in Rotterdam earlier this month.
Dr. Amy Pressland, 32, from York is International HR Projects Manager at DB Cargo UK, but is currently seconded to group partner Euro Cargo Rail SAS based in Paris, France.
Amy took part in the four day event in Rotterdam (14th-17th September). She achieved 27th place in her category - the 30-34 AG Female Sprint and competed against 56 other women.
At the event Amy completed a 750m swim, a 20km bike race and a 5km run. There were over 20 nationalities taking part in the competition.
At the time Amy completed her swim the water temperature was 16 degrees Celsius but that didn't deter her. She explained, "The swim was quite choppy but it's my favourite discipline so I didn't mind too much."
Amy qualified for Team GB at an event in Redcar in July of this year. She came third in her category which gave her automatic qualification to the Age Group World Triathlon Championships.
She is extremely proud of her achievement and has her sights firmly on the next competition. She said: "I wanted to come in the top-30 at the World Championships; I came out of the water in 16th place (swimming is my strongest discipline) and finished the race in 27th overall.
"As it was my first World Championships I wanted to finish in the top half and was really pleased with my result. It was a tough race but I loved representing Team GB.
"I'm competing in the European Age Group Triathlon Championships next August in Strathclyde and my aim is to finish in the top 20. The standard of the other competitors at the World Championships was really high and it was a lot to take in, but I'll be better prepared when I put on my Team GB triathlon suit again next year."
Amy's been competing in Triathlons for seven years and has a gruelling training regime. She trains between 10-12 hours a week but she still manages to find time to complete all her work commitments.
Sandra Buchser, Head of HR at DB Cargo UK, said: "This is an outstanding achievement for Amy and we as an organisation are proud to have her as part of our team. She is passionate about her sport and that dedication and commitment carries through to the role she has at DB Cargo UK.
"As an employer we encourage people to take part in activities outside of work as that's what makes them unique and therefore an asset to our business and an inspiration to others."