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William Lyon Mackenzie
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William Lyon Mackenzie, a journalist, politician, rebel and reformer, was born on March 12, 1795 in Dundee, Scotland. He was noted for being a bright, difficult student
In 1820, Mackenzie sailed to Canada. He settled in York and wrote for the York Observer.
In 1822, Mackenzie married Isabel Baxter. That same year he started printing his most famous newspaper, the Colonial Advocate.
Mackenzie was critical of the Tory government. In 1826, Tory supporters broke into the office of his newspaper, destroying the press and type faces. Mackenzie sued the eight major participants and won 625 pounds in damages. This indicated that despite the corruption in the government, the court system was fair.
William Lyon Mackenzie and Responsible Government
In 1827, Mackenzie ran for public office and used his newspaper to deconstruct his opponents' policies. He won and pushed for reforms on everything from agriculture to commerce, attacking the Bank of Upper Canada and the Welland Canal Company for their close ties to the government.
In the 1830 election Mackenzie was one of the few reformers who won and he became frustrated by the democratic process in Upper Canada. His Tory opponents attacked him constantly for his attempts to politicize and reform any organization he joined.
When the legislature reconvened in January, 1831, Mackenzie continued to push for reforms in the colonial government, criss-crossing the province collecting names and signatures. He met with mixed success, as his Tory opponents blocked him at every turn but was successful in dividing York into four ridings.
He continued attacking the Bank of Upper Canada, the Welland Canal Company and King's College. Mackenzie was expelled from the legislature after calling it "a sycophantic office." This action made him a martyr in Canadian politics. Despite Tory attempts to get rid of him, Mackenzie was re-elected in 1832. In response, the Tories expelled him again. Mackenzie was re-elected again by acclamation.
In 1834, York became the city of Toronto. The Tories and the reformers presented lists of candidates to form Toronto's first city council. Mackenzie was selected as an alderman and voted mayor by his fellow councillors, but proved unable to meet the demands that accompany running a city. Many of the reformers on the council, including Mackenzie lost in the 1835 election.
The Rebellion of 1837
Most of Mackenzie's mid-1830s attempts at reform were blocked by the Tories, who had British support. Mackenzie believed that the only way to achieve lasting reform was to overthrow the government. During the spring and summer of 1837, Mackenzie's newspaper, now called The Constitution, hinted at the possibility of an armed uprising. As the day of the rebellion neared, Mackenzie's newspaper printed daily warnings of what was coming. At first, things seemed to be going Mackenzie's way. There was an altercation with loyalist troops as the rebels approached the city. In the space of a single volley, Mackenzie's rebellion was over.
William Lyon Mackenzie's Legacy
He pushed for government reforms all through the 1840s and 50s, but his failure to achieve his goals during the Rebellion of 1837 discredited Mackenzie in the eyes of many of his contemporaries and he gradually faded from public consciousness. William Lyon Mackenzie died on August 28, 1861 following an apoplectic seizure.
Mackenzie did much to popularize the reform movement in Canadian politics and his influence remained in Ontario politics for decades after his death. His willingness to attack the corruption and cronyism of the Family Compact may have made him the first Ontario nationalist and ensured the establishment of responsible government in Canada.
Armstrong, Frederick H and Ronald J Stagg. "William Lyon Mackenzie." The Canadian Dictionary of Biography Online. University of Toronto, 2000.
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To make the casserole, place the onion and mushrooms in a large saucepan and saute over medium-high heat for 7 to 8 minutes, or until it starts to brown. Add water a little at time to keep onions from sticking to the pan. Add the garlic and oregano and cook another minute.
Add the tomatoes and seasonings and cook over medium heat for five minutes.
Cook the pasta in the boiling water until it is not quite al dente (it will finish cooking in the oven.) Drain the noodles and add them to the tomato mixture. Mix well and pour into a 9x13 inch baking dish. Top with No-Cheese Sauce and bake, uncovered, for 25 to 30 minutes, or until bubbly.


Robin Byrd is a playwright/poet originally from Indiana residing in California. FIDDLIN' ON THE MOUNTAINTOP was produced by Green Light One-Acts (GLO 2015) in Santa Monica, CA. Robin was in a New Play Development Program with Little Candle Productions, Pasadena, CA (2015). Robin's play, BOX, was read at the 2015 LA FPI SWAN Day Action Fest in Los Angeles, CA.
THE GRASS WIDOW'S SON was read at the 2012 DC Black Theatre Festival's New Works Reading Series in Washington, D.C. Her play TENNESSEE SONGBIRD was a Finalist for the 2012 Black and Latino Playwrights Conference in San Marcos, TX; it was read at the 2009 National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, NC; it also won "Best Concurrent Play Lab Script (3-way tie) at the 2008 Great Plains Theatre Conference where her play, THE BOOK OF YEARS, and a scene from DREAM CATCHER (a semi-finalist for the 2008 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference) were read in previous years.
Her other plays include THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS, FOR THIS REASON, and IN TIMES LIKE THESE, all produced at the West Angeles Church Theater in Los Angeles . Also produced at West Angeles were 10-minute plays/monologues: JEZEBEL: DAUGHTER OF THE NIGHT, SOLOMON AND THE SHULAMITE, RAHAB, EBEDMELECH, and PHARAOH which were included in a collaborative piece "Family Reunion".
Robin has also performed her monodrama, ME, MY FIDDLE, AN' MOMMA, which was recently read at the 1st Annual SWAN Day event in Portland, Maine on 29 March 2008.
Her poetry has been read in venues in Los Angeles and Indiana and has been published in two International Library of Poetry books.
The playwright is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., the Theatre Communications Group, the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights (ALAP), and the American Film Institute from which she holds a certificate in screenwriting. The playwright also serves as Blog Editor for the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LA FPI).
The Grass Widow's Son 3 Females / 6 Males, Additional cast: 3 Males (Soldiers, Indians, Slaves), 2-Acts *Reading - 2012 DC Black Theatre Festival's New Works Reading Series, Washington, DC.


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Archer Daniels Midland has been making news lately as it shops around for a new place to call home. Already, the global food-processing and commodities-trading company is pushing a bill in the Illinois legislature that would give it up to $24 million in tax breaks.
Why should we, the taxpayers of Illinois, support such a bill?
Simply put, it comes down to jobs — in this case, 100 of them. That's not a lot, but they're all at the senior executive level, and if the executives start moving, others may follow.
We all know why jobs are important: People holding those jobs pay taxes. Employees, especially executives, are consumers — big consumers. And companies, especially big companies, make charitable contributions where they work and live.
Consider Boeing's move here in 2001. The state and city gave up $63 million in taxes, but a study showed that the payback would be $5.3 billion over 20 years. The decision was clear.
Boeing's move also gave Chicago something intangible, the cachet of being seen as a place where heavy hitters want to do business. The more corporations you have in the city, the more attractive you become. CEOs figure the other companies must be there for a reason.
I'm a lifelong Chicagoan, and I've seen too many corporate headquarters leave, like those of First Chicago, Amoco and Continental Bank, my former employer. Now that I'm a business professor, I see students, particularly seniors, scared about what awaits them in the Chicago job market.
So I support tax incentives for ADM to relocate to Chicago. The tax deal should not, however, be unqualified. The state must ensure it's getting a good deal — and the company must deliver what it promises. Both parties should start by setting clear expectations on the number of jobs that will be provided and how long the company will stay. If the company does not meet its targets, subsidies should be cut.
Tax breaks ultimately put pressure on the city and state to ensure they're desirable to business. The more attractive we make ourselves, the fewer incentives we'll have to offer.
Nirtaut is a clinical professor at Loyola University Chicago's Quinlan School of Business.


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Keeley Emma Donovan, an English journalist/broadcaster, is currently working for the BBC as a weather presenter for television and radio services in North England. She is known for her work on the BBC's Look North and Radio Humberside stations and is also quite famous for being one of the most beautiful reporters and journalists out there. Keeley Donovan's full name is Keeley Emma Donovan.
Early Life And Education Of Keeley Donovan
Donovan was born on 14 May 1983 in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. She grew up in nearby Tetney, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire. She was born to Terry Donovan, a professional football player from Liverpool, who briefly represented the Republic of Ireland at the international level.
Her late grandfather, Don Donovan was of Irish ancestry and represented both Grimsby Town and the Republic of Ireland as well as managed Boston United from 1965 to 1969. Keeley also has a younger sister, Kirsty.
Keeley Donovan graduated high school from Humberston School. She then joined Franklin Sixth Form College in Grimsby, where she studied mostly media.
After that, she moved to Leicester where she studied for a BA at De Montfort University. She then returned to Grimsby in order to do a post-graduate NVQ Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education.
Keeley Donovan's Career
Keeley Donovan started her career in broadcasting at the early age of 14, presenting for Channel 7 Television, a local cable TV station based in Immingham. While continuing her studies, she started freelancing to earn some money. In 2005, she began freelancing for BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and, a year later, joined the locally-based Propeller TV.
Keeley Donovan studied broadcast meteorology with the Met Office and the BBC Weather Centre and then started presenting weather forecasts for the BBC's regional TV as well as the local radio services in the Yorkshire and North Midlands, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and North East and Cumbria regions.
She also works for the current affairs magazine, Inside Out, as a reporter. Moreover, she is also an occasional newsreader for the Leeds edition of BBC Look North.
Keeley Donovan co-presented her first networked TV series, Break-In Britain, a daytime factual show produced by BBC Cymru Wales in September 2015. Recently, she has also become the co-presenter of the BBC series 'Countryfile Diaries'.
Keeley Donovan's Net Worth, Salary, And Body Measurements
Keely Donovan's current net worth is not revealed right now. She earns a huge amount of money from her journalism career. According to a source, BBC pays an annual average salary of around $80K to radio presenters. However, she has not talked about her net worth and earnings, yet!
Keeley Donovan's Personal Life
Keely Donovan is a married woman. She is engaged to Johnny I'Anson, a BBC radio presenter. The newly engaged couple has been dating for a few years and recently got engaged. Donovan and I'Anson got engaged in August 2017. They tied the knot on June 25, 2018, in a private wedding ceremony.
However, they have not announced their wedding plan yet. Keeley Donovan also loves traveling. She likes meeting new people on the way and sharing adventure stories.
As with her family, she is also a football fan. She is also a cat person and admits that sometimes her cat, Allan, gets more attention than any other member of the family.
It has been suggested that Keeley Donovan's pa s sion for fashion has helped Donovan attract an army of loyal fans and male advisors.
She has even been dubbed 'the hottest weather girl' in Britain. There were also rumors saying that she got her job due to her looks, only to attract more male audiences. She, however, strongly denies these rumors and believes that, aside from her good looks, she is also a talented journalist and there's more to her than what meets the eye.
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The project is located within the 9 hectare (22.5 acre) site of Greystones Harbour & Marina, Greystones, Co. Wicklow. The site for this development lies on a coastal strip of reclaimed land between the Railway Line / Cliff Walk and the recently constructed Marina. The overall development is designed to provide leisure, recreational, open space, marine facilities and mixed use residential, commercial, civic and social amenities centred around the new harbour and marina, which is substantially complete and which has mooring facilities for up to 230 leisure craft.
The project involves the construction of 153 houses and 205 apartments comprising a mixture of two-storey semi-detached, two-storey terraced and three storey duplex units.
The Foundations to the houses comprise top driven precast concrete piles into the gravel / clay with precast concrete ground beams and precast concrete ground floor slabs. The superstructure to the houses comprises timber frame construction.
Civil engineering requirements include provision of foul and surface water drainage services, surface water outfalls at marina wall, petrol interceptors and watermains, as well as provision of roadways, footpaths, paved car-parking spaces, boundary walls etc.
The Public Plaza comprises an area of 9,340m² with both hard and soft landscaping. The works include underground drainage including a foul pumping station, a fuel pumping station, fuel tanks, attenuation tanks and underground ducting to serve all the M & E utilities on-site.
Some of the foul drainage in particular is in the region of 3m to 4m deep in places.
The public plaza has a carpark suitable for 30 to 40 cars on a granite paved surface, the rest of the square is a mixture of granite paving slabs and setts. The northern side of the plaza is mainly soft landscaping with footpaths running through it.
The main foul and watermain rising main was excavated up along Victoria Road under the railway bridge to the nearby pumping station. This involved excavation adjacent to the bridge abutment and thus close liaison with Irish Rail.
DBFL are providing full civil, structural and PSDP services on this development.


Yesterday was a historic moment for the Lebanese diaspora community and for NC State University in Raleigh.
Crowded into the Park Alumni Center, NC State's Chancellor announced the launch of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies. This is the only center-outside of Lebanon-dedicated to research about the Lebanese Diaspora in the US and throughout the world, and to the dissemination of this knowledge to the scholarly community and general public. The only one! And it's here, at NC State.
The fact that the Center found a home here is no surprise. 4 years ago, when the Lebanese in North Carolina Project was born, the mission was simple: research, preserve, and publicize the Lebanese-American experience in North Carolina. Because archives, libraries, and museums could only provide a small sampling of history, we asked the community for support. Our idea was that each community served as the custodian of their own history. We asked all of you to tell us your stories, share family photo albums, home movies, and treasured artifacts. We asked you to invite us to your cultural events, teach us your favorite recipes, and introduce us to your network of friends who may be able to do the same.
In these 4 years, we received such a generous outpouring that we accomplished in directing a full-length documentary, Cedars in the Pines, a traveling museum exhibition, educational programming for K-8 grade students in NC schools, and developed a digital archive of the rich material you provided. And all this with the historical narratives provided by the community. These cultural projects dealt with immigration, loss, racism, hard work, family ties, marriage, intergenerational relationships, politics and civic life, food and culinary traditions and more. You told us about your identity, about your journey, and about the concept of belonging.
After 4 years, we are taking what we learned from the community in North Carolina, and we are refocusing on the diaspora in the United States and the world. The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies received $8.1 million to endow the center from Dr. Moise Khayrallah. It was his vision 4 years ago that inspired The Lebanese in North Carolina Project; his altruism that helped the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese Studies Department at NC State to succeed. And it is now, with his dedication to education and community that he has allowed the Center to do such important work that will benefit all of us–not just Lebanese, or Middle Easterners-but all of us.
From the team who has been working hard for the past 4 years, we thank you, for all that you have done. Without you, we could not have succeeded, and as we move into the future, it is you that we will look to for support.
Check out the the News and Observer coverage, a great article by an NC State journalist, and coverage by The Technician. And check out our Events page for upcoming activities at NC State.


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Q: Fetching non-utf8 data with XMLHttpRequest I want to fetch a document from the web with xmlHttpRequest. However the text in question isn't utf8 (in this case it's windows-1251 but in the generic case, I wouldn't know that for sure).
However, if I use responseType="text" it treats it as though the string is utf8, ignoring the charset in the content-type (resulting in a nasty mess).
If I used 'blob' (probably the nearest thing to what I want), could I then convert that to a DomString taking into account the encoding?

A: I actually found an API which does what I want, from here:
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2014/08/Easier-ArrayBuffer-String-conversion-with-the-Encoding-API
Basically, use responseType="arraybuffer", pick the encoding from the returned headers, and use DataView and TextDecoder. It does exactly what is required.

const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.responseType = "arraybuffer";
xhr.onload = function() {
  const contenttype = xhr.getResponseHeader("content-type");
  const charset = contenttype.substring(contenttype.indexOf("charset=") + 8);
  const dataView = new DataView(xhr.response);
  const decoder = new TextDecoder(charset);
  console.log(decoder.decode(dataView));
}
xhr.open("GET", "https://people.w3.org/mike/tests/windows-1251/test.txt");
xhr.send(null);

fetch("https://people.w3.org/mike/tests/windows-1251/test.txt")
  .then(response => {
    const contenttype = response.headers.get("content-type");
    const charset = contenttype.substring(contenttype.indexOf("charset=") + 8);
    response.arrayBuffer()
      .then(ab => {
        const dataView = new DataView(ab);
        const decoder = new TextDecoder(charset);
        console.log(decoder.decode(dataView));
      })
  })

A:
If I used 'blob' (probably the nearest thing to what I want), could I then convert that to a DomString taking into account the encoding?

https://medium.com/programmers-developers/convert-blob-to-string-in-javascript-944c15ad7d52 outlines a general approach you can use. To apply that to the case of fetching a remote document:

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*Create a FileReader to read in the fetch response as a Blob

*Use FileReader.readAsText() to get back text from that Blob in the right encoding

Like this:

const reader = new FileReader()
reader.addEventListener("loadend", function() {
  console.log(reader.result)
})
fetch("https://people.w3.org/mike/tests/windows-1251/test.txt")
  .then(response => response.blob())
  .then(blob => reader.readAsText(blob, "windows-1251"))

Or if you instead really want to use XHR:

const reader = new FileReader()
reader.addEventListener("loadend", function() {
  console.log(reader.result)
})
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()
xhr.responseType = "blob"
xhr.onload = function() {
  reader.readAsText(xhr.response, "windows-1251")
}
xhr.open("GET", "https://people.w3.org/mike/tests/windows-1251/test.txt", true)
xhr.send(null)

However, if I use responseType="text" it treats it as though the string is utf8, ignoring the charset in the content-type

Yes. That's what's required by the Fetch spec (which for this is what the XHR spec relies on too):

Objects implementing the Body mixin also have an associated package data algorithm, given bytes, a type and a mimeType, switches on type, and runs the associated steps:
  …
  ↪ text
              Return the result of running UTF-8 decode on bytes.

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NHL Makes OLG First Canadian Sports Betting Partner
On Wednesday morning, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) announced its new partnership with the National Hockey League (NHL), becoming its first sports betting partner in Canada. The multi-year partnership designates OLG's PROLINE (retail) and PROLINE+ (online) as the official sportsbook products of the NHL. Any hockey fan or even casual observer knows the league's deep ties in Canada, and this is likely the start of many partnerships with the Great White North.
What Does the Partnership Entail?
OLG will be the official sponsor of the 2022 NHL Heritage Classic between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres in Hamilton, Ontario, to kick off the new partnership with the NHL. That event takes place in just six days, so the timing of this partnership announcement is ideal for both parties. PROLINE+ is the presenting sponsor of the NHL PreGame event at the Heritage Classic.
The partnership between the OLG and NHL is also expected to include co-branded promotions for "sports betting enthusiasts" during some games in the current NHL season as we head towards the postseason. The partnership also grants OLG distribution rights to the NHL's logo and specific team trademarks for marketing purposes.
Two teams play their home games in Ontario – the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Ottawa Senators – two of Canada's most popular sports teams. With the strong brand recognition these teams carry, the expectation is that OLG will be able to tap into a strong existing consumer base with its NHL partnership.
Existing NHL Partnerships
The NHL already has several existing partnerships with various sports betting corporations with a strong presence in the United States and globally, including DraftKings, FanDuel, MGM, Betway, Bally's, PointsBet, and William Hill (Caesars). A handful of those platforms are expected to operate in the Canadian market eventually. Still, in the meantime, the NHL will be partnered with one of the only legal online platforms in the country.
The NHL has also launched responsible gaming initiatives such as the "Have a Game Plan, Bet Responsibly" campaign, aligning with the OLG's emphasis on these matters. The OLG has a PlaySmart program that has received certification at the World Lottery Association, and there will continue to be a strong emphasis placed on responsible gaming.
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Ontario Sports Betting Launch
On June 22, 2021, Canadian legislators passed C-218, which removed the federal ban on single-game sports betting throughout Canada and allowed provinces to legalize their sports betting market individually. The passing of C-218 is comparable to the United States overturning the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act in 2018.
In August 2021, the OLG launched its expanded sports betting product through PROLINE and PROLINE+, giving the corporation a temporary monopoly over Ontario sports betting. On April 4, the regulated iGaming market will launch, and several more platforms are expected to be added to the Ontario market. The first four approved for the Ontario market are PointsBet, theScore, Rivalry Corp., and 888, with at least 30 total applicants for licenses.
OLG could experience some challenges in retaining its existing customer base once major United States operators such as FanDuel and DraftKings join the Ontario market. Still, with about 15 million people, Ontario has a larger potential consumer base than some established US markets such as Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Ontario would be the fifth-largest state in the US by population.
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Another winning recipe from Appetite for Reduction. This one will have you drooling and wondering when you turned into such an amazing chef. Not kidding. It's that good. No need to marinate the tofu all day or anything, either. I love that the list of ingredients is pretty short and it comes together really fast. I like to spice it up a little and add dash of hot chili garlic paste to the sauce. It's super good. I also tend to use more shallots than it calls for, but I just like them a whole bunch. I can never find Thai basil to use and my one attempt at growing it from seed in my apartment window failed miserably. All my windows face north, so I have nowhere near enough light. Anyway, in the absence of Thai basil, you can use regular old basil or even a different variety of purple basil; I used both this time. We like to have spring rolls with this and I'm a big fan of Ling Ling Brand - you can find them in the freezer of stores like Whole Foods or natural grocers like Sevananda.


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Luke Shadid tops Bradley baseball award winners
May 31, 2019 at 10:18 AM May 31, 2019 at 12:21 PM
PEORIA — Junior shortstop Luke Shadid of Peoria was named Bradley baseball's most valuable player and earned two other awards, as selected by the players and coaching staff.
Shadid, an all-Missouri Valley Conference second-team selection, received the A.J. Robertson MVP award along with the Rod Thompson Award for best team batting average and, for the third consecutive season, the Troy Guidotti Hustle Award.
Shadid, who played at Notre Dame, led the 2019 Braves in batting with a .344 batting average and 49 runs scored, while sharing the team lead with 12 doubles. Despite batting leadoff for all 50 games, Shadid also finished second on the team with 42 RBI and a .574 slugging percentage.
Luke's older brother, senior center fielder Andy Shadid, also a Peorian, earned his fourth consecutive Kirby Puckett Gold Glove, becoming the first player since the award's inception in 1992 to earn the award four times.
The Mike Dunne Award for Bradley's best pitcher went to senior Mitch Janssen of Princeville.
The No. 1 starting pitcher all season, Janssen finished his senior year 4-2 with a 2.06 earned-run average in his 16 appearances, while boasting a .199 opponent batting average. Janssen's ERA is the third-best by a BU pitcher (totaling at least an inning per game) since metal bats were introduced to college baseball in 1974.
Freshman first baseman Connor O'Brien of San Diego was selected for the Tim Trunk Award as the team's most improved player. O'Brien earned All-MVC first-team accolades by batting .282 with seven doubles, four home runs and 25 RBI in 46 games.
Senior second baseman Christian Dominguez is the ninth recipient of the Phil Kaiser Memorial Award. The son of Bradley head coach Elvis Dominguez, Christian played sparingly during his first three years, primarily as a defensive replacement or pinch runner, but was part of the season-long platoon at second base in 2019.
Bradley finished with a 31-19 overall record and tied for fourth in the Valley at 11-10. The Braves secured consecutive 30-win seasons for the first time since 1992-96 and consecutive winning Valley records for the first time since 1986-87.


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$269 million in taxpayer money has been given to private voucher schools so far this biennium
September 5, 2018 by Bill Hurley
Democrats on the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee released a memo from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau Tuesday revealing that private voucher schools in Wisconsin have received $269.6 million in state funding so far in the 2017-19 biennium, while public schools have seen a $90.6 million reduction in state aid. The memo also showed that:
Approximately $475 million of taxpayer dollars were paid to voucher schools over the 2015-17 biennium, during which time public schools in those districts faced a $150 million aid reduction.
Private school voucher programs in Wisconsin have already received over $2.5 billion [$2,576,900,000 approx.] in total state funding, and that number is only growing.
The Democrats released the figures in a news release in which they stated:
"As our children go back to school, we want the best for them and their bright futures. But Republicans have funneled millions of tax dollars to unaccountable voucher schools while our K-12 public schools continue to go to referendum just to keep the lights on," said Rep. Katrina Shankland (D-Stevens Point). "Instead of funneling tax dollars to private schools, the Legislature should fairly fund our public schools so that everyone in Wisconsin has the same opportunity to learn and succeed."
"Taxpayers have the right to know how much of their hard earned dollars are going toward voucher schools, especially since voucher schools are not required to meet the same accountability standards as public schools and have shown no significant improvements over public school performance," said Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton).
"Access to a quality education should not depend on your zip code. Unfortunately, eight years of misplaced Republican priorities have made it impossible to ensure our public schools can meet and exceed our standards for educational excellence. We must invest in our public education system so that all of our children have equal access to the best educational opportunities – it's what they deserve," said Sen. LaTonya Johnson (D-Milwaukee).
"As a mother of two children in public school and a member of the budget committee, I hear from people across our state who question why my Republican colleagues and Governor Walker are creating a second, private school system while not adequately and consistently funding the public school system where most of our Wisconsin children are educated," said Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison). "Republicans' big campaign donors want to privatize public education to make a buck, and they are willing to destroy our public school system to do so. People should be outraged by their disregard for the 870,000 children in public schools, whose future, and our state's future, depends on a strong public school system."
A copy of the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo can be found here.
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Wisconsin must demonstrate that we value our teachers, Governor Evers writes
In a column released Wednesday, Governor Tony Evers says Wisconsin must do better in demonstrating that it values its teachers. "We must … recognize that part of supporting our kids in the classroom means supporting the educators who teach our kids," Evers writes. "Wisconsin pays our public school teachers less than the national average, which makes it harder to recruit and retain talented educators. According to recently-released data, Wisconsin has fallen to 33rd in the nation for average teacher pay. Teacher salaries in our state are some of the lowest in the Midwest. Teachers moving across the border to Illinois or Michigan can see pay bumps of $10,000 or more. That's just not good enough, folks. As we continue to fight for the resources our schools need to invest in our kids, we must do everything in our power to ensure that educators know the work they do is valued and that they mean something to our kids and the people of our state."
Taxpayers' bill for private voucher schools soars to $350 million
Wisconsin taxpayers will be spending $349.6 million to support private schools this year through the state's voucher program, up from $302 million last year, according to figures released by the Department of Public Instruction. According to DPI, the taxpayer-funded voucher programs will support a total of 43,450 private school students this year, up from 40,039 students last year.
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Барнстапл () — бывший речной порт, крупный город, община и столица неметропольного района Норт-Девон графства Девон, что в Юго-Западной Англии. Барнстапл располагается на берегах эстуария реки То. Население общины Барнстапла — 23 710 человек, но население городской местности, которая включает в себя Стиклпат, Раундсвел и Бикингтон — 30 916 чел. Смежные территории, такие как Бишопс Тотон, Фремингтон, Лендкей и другие пригородные поселения, образуют район внутри района, известный под названием «Барнстаплская городская зона», с населением 53 514 чел.

Город служит главным обслуживающим и административным центром для Совета Норт-Девона.

С 1974 года общиной Барнстапл управляет городской совет.

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Q: GeoPDF export in QGIS requires GDAL 3, how do I get GDAL 3? I would like to use the new GeoPDF export feature of QGIS 3.10. The changelog states that it requires GDAL 3. I have QGIS 3.10 installed on OS X from the binary installer. The export GeoPDF feature is unavailable to me because GDAL 2 is enclosed in the program. Under about QGIS I find this:
Compiled against GDAL/OGR 2.4.1
Running against GDAL/OGR 2.4.1
Here are my questions:

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*Am I right in my assumption that I cannot 'just' install GDAL 3 to solve this issue, but need to compile QGIS from source against GDAL 3?

*If assumption 1 is incorrect: how can install GDAL 3 to use the GeoPDF function?

*If assumption 1 is correct: are precompiled installers available with GDAL 3?

I would be surprised if an end-user feature like this would require the program to be self-compiled.
Edit: this question is similar to this one for Windows however, for Windows an advanced installer is available. For OS X it is not.
For now I will:

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*Try QGIS on Linux (don't have Windows).

*Inform on the development of the Mac version or add feature request.

*Hope I can have this feature on the Mac soon as well.

If all fails I'll borrow a PC with ArcMap.


Comparative 2010 PISA test scores. Numbers by the UN, graphic by Erick Simpson Aguilera.
Panama's education system is world-class horrible, intentionally so because an inbred ruling elite sees everything as a zero-sum competition and has rigged things in the hope that their kids get a special advantage over everyone else their age. But it's no way to run a society or its economy.
It's worse yet when the government and the corporate mainstream media play to the widespread ignorance.
For example, when the lead story in La Prensa is that Panama's public debt is up to $21.415 billlion, which is $7.749 billion more than it was four years ago. With most of Panama's economic sectors slowing down and the regional economy across Latin America and the Caribbean a mess, it ought to be cause for concern.
But not to worry, says the Ministry of Economy and Finance. On the ministry's composite of ratings issued by bond rating agencies — mostly before the Panama Papers revelations and the Waked bust — across the region only Chile has a lower perception of risk than does Panama. Gee, numbers based on the hunches of the companies that didn't see the 2008 financial melt-down coming — OBVIOUSLY those kind of statistics can't lie. Or at least it should be obvious to anyone who learned what the powers that be wanted him or her to learn in Panama's public schools.
"We should keep the pressure on ramping up the air campaign, accelerating support for our friends fighting to take and hold ground and pushing our partners in the region to do even more," [Clinton] said.
"We have generals that feel we can win this thing so fast and so strong, but we have to be furious for a short period of time, and we're not doing it!" Trump complained.
A mean, abusive security guard in a dead end job with a multinational corporation went into a downward spiral and shot more than 100 people on his way down. He was allowed to purchase a weapon that should not be readily available in society. He pledged allegiance to the world's most obnoxious organization in the course of his death mission, on which he alone sent himself.
There is no doubt that the Islamic State is doing its utmost to incite life's hateful losers to do such stuff. It is properly part of the world's indictment. More serious counts are genocide and slavery, crimes against all humanity for which any nation may try and punish any perpetrator. The world did not need the Orlando massacre to justify war against the Islamic State.
But do we lash out in rage, carpet bombing towns that the jihadis control to kill innocent people who already have to endure the fanatics' rule? Do we arm "our" jihadi fanatics to fight against "those" jihadi fanatics? Do we restore Western colonialism and issue orders from Washington about which people will hold which ground and follow which policies there?
Before the shooting started in Orlando there was ample reason to give any significant Islamic State leader the same status as Nazi war criminals had. The nightclub attack does not change that. These people must be politically, religiously and militarily defeated and hunted to the ends of the Earth and to the ends of their lives as the most dangerous of criminals. But lashing out in blind rage is never a good way to fight.
It seems that neither of the presumptive presidential nominees of the two major US political parties have much to say about discrediting the ideas that are at the core of the jihadis' appeal, about marginalizing their movement within the cultures of Islam. It seems that neither of them convey a sense of restraint that keeps Americans from trying to fix that which it is not up to Americans to fix, that keeps Washington from trying to govern that which Washington can't govern.
Does President Obama have the balance right? Probably not, but that he is trying to strike balances among contending powers in Syria and Iraq while limiting direct US participation does at least indicate a basic sense of reality. That's something that's lacking in the discourse of those whose first and only response is to bomb somebody else whenever a maniac with some real or claimed international tie explodes into a violent rage in the USA.
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.


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title: SQL Union Operator
localeTitle: Operador da União SQL
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## Operador da União SQL

### Descrição

Para este guia, discutiremos a seção Operador UNION da instrução SQL.

O operador UNION é usado para combinar os resultados de várias instruções select em um conjunto de resultados.

As instruções SQL devem ter o mesmo número de colunas na instrução Select.

### Exemplo Básico

Instrução SQL

```sql
SELECT 'aaaaa'
 UNION
 SELECT 'bbbbbbbbb';
```

Saída

```text
+-----------+
 | aaaaa     |
 +-----------+
 | aaaaa     |
 | bbbbbbbbb |
 +-----------+
 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
```

### Exemplo usando as tabelas dos alunos

Instrução SQL

```sql
SELECT StudentID, FullName FROM student WHERE studentID BETWEEN 1 AND 5
 UNION
 SELECT studentID, studentEmailAddr FROM `student-contact-info` WHERE studentID BETWEEN 7 AND 8;
```

Saída

\`\` \`text + ----------- + -------------------------------- + | StudentID | FullName | + ----------- + -------------------------------- + | 1 | Monique Davis | | 2 | Teri Gutierrez | | 3 | Spencer Pautier | | 4 | Louis Ramsey | | 5 | Alvin Greene | | 7 | Maximo.Smith@freeCodeCamp.org | | 8 | Michael.Roach@freeCodeCamp.ort | + ----------- + -------------------------------- + 7 linhas no set (0,00 seg)
```
## SQL UNION ALL Operator

 The UNION ALL operator is an extension to UNION operator where it should result you a A+B of rows in the ouptput assuming A and B is your input, in simple terms UNION ALL doesn't deduplicate.

 ### Basic Syntax

 SQL Statement
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sql SELECT expressão1, expressão2,… expressão _n FROM tabelas \[WHERE condições\] UNION ALL SELECT expressão1, expressão2,… expressão_ n FROM tabelas \[WHERE condições\]; \`\` \`

Como acontece com todas essas coisas SQL, MUITO MAIS para elas é o que está neste guia introdutório.

Espero que pelo menos isso lhe dê o suficiente para começar.

Por favor, consulte o manual do seu gerenciador de banco de dados e divirta-se tentando opções diferentes.

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Used-car sales volumes receded month on month across European markets in November, whereas supply improved. The balance has therefore tipped from demand to supply, but residual values (RVs) are clinging on to growth in most markets. However, used-car prices are now falling in Spain and the UK.
RV growth in absolute terms continues to outpace list-price changes. Average prices of three-year-old used cars, represented as a retained percentage of their original list price (%RV), also gained in November except in Spain and the UK. Although, the month-on-month deviations were all in a narrow range of -0.8% in the UK to 1.5% in Italy.
New-car registrations in Europe enjoyed their third consecutive month of year-on-year growth in October. The 14.1% gain far exceeded the 7.9% growth recorded in September, although the base of comparison was lower. These figures confirm the ongoing improvement in new-car supply, which has been constrained by pre-existing semiconductor shortages as well as additional challenges caused by the war in Ukraine and COVID-19 lockdowns in China.
But, the situation is only slowly improving and the Autovista24 outlook for new-car registrations in Europe in 2022 and 2023 is poorer as business and private buyers contend with rising inflation and interest rates as well as economic uncertainty. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly derailed the European new-car market from March 2020 onwards, which will acutely reduce the volume of cars de-fleeting after three years.
This means undersupply into the used-car market is expected to persist in the coming years, which would ordinarily support RVs. However, the cost-of-living crisis will also erode consumer demand for used cars. The net effect of supply challenges and diminishing demand means Autovista24 forecasts that the %RV will only edge forward, if not decline, across European markets in 2023 and 2024.
Click to open the interactive dashboard
The interactive monthly market dashboard features Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. It includes a breakdown of key performance indicators by fuel type, including RVs, new-car list prices, selling days, sales-volume and active market-volume indices.
There are upside and downside risks to this base-case scenario. Used-car prices will come under greater pressure if the economic situation deteriorates in Europe, with a more negative impact on demand. This would be compounded if there are significant supply improvements.
For example, lower demand for consumer electronics could see a quicker resolution of the semiconductor shortages in the automotive industry. According to VNC Automotive, the 'semiconductor drought could soon become a flood of chips.'
Conversely, there are risks of greater disruption to new-car supply, which would benefit used-car prices. Automotive suppliers could succumb to mounting costs and economic headwinds. The risk of the war in Ukraine escalating also remains, with potential consequences for Europe's fragile automotive supply chain. Any unforeseen improvement in used-car demand, especially if fewer new cars can be delivered, would also push RVs higher.
Demand weakens in Austria
'As elsewhere in Europe, living costs are rising in Austria and used-car transaction activity is slowing down compared to the first half of the year,' noted Robert Madas, Eurotax (part of Autovista Group) regional head of valuations, Austria, Switzerland, and Poland.
The sales-volume index clearly shows weakening demand with declines of 5.3% compared to October and 25.6% versus November 2021. Hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) have been the most heavily impacted with the sales volume down 40% year on year.
Conversely, the supply volume of passenger cars aged two-to-four years in November was 1.1% higher than a month earlier and 11.2% higher than in November 2021. However, supply was significantly lower in 2021 than at the beginning of 2020.
Average days to sell have increased significantly to 69.4 days. This development also confirms the slowdown in used-car demand. Battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) are currently selling the fastest, averaging 57.2 days, followed by HEVs with 61.4 days, petrol cars with 68.7 days, and diesel cars with 70.2 days. Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) are selling the slowest, averaging 71.3 days.
Despite weakening demand and improving supply, RVs of 36-month-old cars have increased slightly. The average %RV increased by 0.9% month on month in November, with cars retaining 54.8% of their list price on average. This is a solid 20.7% year-on-year gain.
HEVs are currently leading with a trade value of 56.6%, followed closely by PHEVs (55.3%), diesel cars (55.2%), and petrol cars (54.5%). Meanwhile, 36-month-old BEVs retain the lowest value, at 53.3% of list price.
Although used-car demand is set to cool, the supply side will not change in the medium term because new-car registrations are still markedly lower than before the crisis. 2021 was down 27% compared to 2019, and the outlook for 2022 is even below last year's volume. The market parameters will therefore not change significantly in the medium term.
Madas forecasts RVs of three-year-old used cars will remain high and end 2022 approximately 17% up on December 2021. For 2023 and 2024, Madas expects RVs to decrease by between 2% and 3% year-on-year due to weakening demand.
RV gains slow in France
The French used-car sector changed in 2022, with the %RV gaining 6.2% year on year in November. However, there has been a significant downturn in used-car sales since the beginning of the year. This is mainly linked to the long delivery delays for new cars and higher prices for both new and used models.
'Prices of used BEVs have increased the most as RVs were low when first appearing on the market as the technology was not developed enough to provide sufficient range. This reduced the usability of vehicles and, in turn, the number of customers,' explained Ludovic Percier, residual value and market analyst, France, at Autovista Group.
Petrol cars have enjoyed the second highest gains, followed closely by diesel cars. 'High-powered petrol cars have especially increased in value, due to their rarefication on the new-car market amid the increased malus (purchase penalty), which can now cost up to €40,000,' Percier added.
As new-car buyers have switched from diesel to petrol or other fuel types over the past couple of years, offers have reduced on the used-car market and prices have risen. Even with the introduction of more low-emission zones (ZFEs) and the poorer image of diesel, Percier believes RVs will still increase as used demand remains stable and supply diminishes. This is also because ZFEs are only in cities with a population of over 150,000, which does not target high-mileage drivers. Accordingly, Percier does not foresee a bigger impact on the RVs of used diesels until 2024 and 2025.
Plug-in hybrids have gained in value this year too, thanks to longer ranges and improved acceptance in the market. However, this trend has reversed over the past couple of months, with values down month on month in November in absolute terms, and this will be reinforced from mid-2023.
Overall, RVs continue to rise in France due to higher list prices and lower offers of used cars on the market. However, the gains are lower as private buyers focus increasingly on older cars and/or lower segments because of tighter budgets. Used cars aged over 12 years are suffering the least from weakening demand, showing that buyers are no longer following price increases.
'We expect RVs to continue to increase next year in absolute terms, as list prices of new cars also rise, but a decline in the %RV is anticipated by 2024. We are in a bubble market that should explode soon,' Percier concluded.
Remarketing boost in Germany
The German new-car market is slowly recovering. Especially in the fleet sector, where vehicles that were ordered a long time ago have finally been produced and are now being registered.
'This is positive news for the used-car market, whereby almost every new fleet vehicle also means a young vehicle is returned and freed up for remarketing. Thus, the quantities available are slowly growing again and offer buyers more choice,' explained Andreas Geilenbruegge, head of valuations and insights at Schwacke (part of Autovista Group).
Stock days are growing accordingly, although vehicles are still showing stable selling days for now. As production capacities continue to develop, the question arises as to whether more of the delivered new vehicles will again be registered through dealer and manufacturer channels.
'While this would be conducive to volume recovery, it could at the same time put pressure on residual values by weighing down prices of very young used cars. A kind of fatigue effect in the previous upward spiral of used-car prices can already be observed even without this price pressure,' Geilenbruegge noted.
Although average prices for three-year-old cars continue to rise, list prices of vehicles under consideration are rising almost identically. This means that the used-car price increase is essentially the result of more expensive vehicles flowing into the market. Accordingly, the adjusted %RV shows stagnation across most fuel types, except for PHEV gains and BEV losses.
For the remaining weeks of 2022, one or two attractive returns will presumably arrive at dealerships. However, there should be no pressure to sell and the usual price drop at the end of the year is not anticipated. The forecast for this year, i.e. the comparison of December 2022 against December 2021, is disproportionately higher than for the coming years.
Nevertheless, 'a value plateau at a high level can be expected until at least 2025. Only dwindling purchasing power will put a stop to the price surge and will not make every retailer's desired sales price possible,' Geilenbruegge added.
RV trend continues in Italy
The RV trend in Italy continues to indicate slight but steady growth, with no major changes expected before the end of 2022. A vehicle registered three years ago with 60,000km retains 51.4% of its original list price, a 1.5% month-on-month increase.
'We expect further modest growth for 2023, estimated at around 1.6%, while from 2024 we believe the %RV will start on a slow downward path (-1.9%) due largely to the gradual resolution of production, supply, and delivery problems,' commented Marco Pasquetti, head of valuations, Autovista Group Italy.
All fuel types have experienced strong price growth compared to 2021 but the %RV of BEVs and compressed natural gas (CNG) cars declined by 1.6% and 2.3% respectively month on month. For the latter, the increase in fuel costs is weighing heavily, as discussed in recent months.
Hybrid vehicles are still experiencing a growth phase, with an increase compared to October of 5.9% for full hybrids and 5.1% for plug-in hybrids. HEVs are selling the fastest, at an average of just over 47 days, with some models such as the Honda CR-V, Kia Niro and Toyota C-HR even selling in less than 20 days. 'This interest is also confirmed by positive sales figures in the new-car market, a sign that Italians are finally starting to focus on the benefits of automotive electrification,' Pasquetti explained.
'Impoverished profile' in Spain
Although the Spanish new-car market grew by 11.7% year on year in October, the market is still down 5.8% in the year-to-date. With only two months to go before the end of the year, the total number of passenger cars registered amounts to 666,247 units.
Meanwhile, Spain's used-car market has contracted for nine consecutive months and declined 4.8% year on year between January and October. With 1,552,237 changes of ownership, this equates to a ratio of 2.3 used cars for every new car sold.
'In addition to the general loss of volume, the problem of an impoverished profile persists. With an increasingly depleted stock of young used vehicles, the bulk of transactions are for vehicles over eight years of age,' explained Ana Azofra, Autovista Group head of valuations and insights, Spain.
Although networks and dealers are increasingly integrating these older vehicles into their offerings, this segment is still very much dominated by private sellers. We are therefore at a time of lower transaction volumes, compensated in the distribution networks by higher profitability,' she added.
A three-year-old used car with 60,000km on the clock is selling on average for 21% more than a year ago. However, prices seem to have peaked, with the %RV falling 0.7% month on month.
On the one hand, ongoing supply shortages will lead to a certain amount of stability. On the other hand, the economic crisis and connected rise in interest rates are holding back demand and, therefore, the used-car market.
'By fuel type, we see modest falls in the %RV development of internal-combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in 2023 and a healthier evolution of hybrid and electric vehicles. The outlook for BEVs is somewhat more restrained than for HEVs but is also positive. The only electrified vehicles expected to buck the trend with a negative development are PHEVs, with their high prices and limited advantages. Regulations could yet accelerate their decline,' Azofra concluded.
Supply improves in Switzerland
The Swiss used-car market is showing signs of increasing supply, but it is still at a lower level than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now with rising living costs, used-car transactions are slowing down compared to the first half of the year.
Across all two-to-four-year-old passenger cars, the supply volume in November was 3.4% higher than a month earlier and 37.6% higher than in November 2021. But supply was significantly lower in 2021 than at the beginning of 2020. Meanwhile, the sales-volume index shows weakening demand, with a 4.8% fall compared to October and a 16.8% decline year on year. HEVs have been impacted the most, with sales volumes down 40% year on year.
Despite weakening demand, the average value retention of 36-month-old passenger cars grew slightly to 51.7% in November (up 0.5% month on month and up 15.8% year on year). BEVs posted particularly strong year-on-year %RV gains of 25.2%. Nevertheless, petrol cars are currently leading, retaining 52.4% of their original list price, followed by BEVs (50.6%), diesel cars (50.4%), and HEVs (49.5%). 36-month-old PHEVs retain the lowest value, at 48.9% of their list price.
The average days to sell increased in November, with a passenger car aged two-to-four years in stock for 70 days. BEVs are selling quickest, after an average of 55 days, followed by petrol cars and PHEVs after 70 days, diesel cars after 71 days, and HEVs after 76 days.
'The disrupted supply of new cars, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, and recent list-price increases are key factors in the future development of RVs. Supply chains are still significantly affected, leading to long delivery times for many new vehicles,' commented Hans-Peter Annen, head of valuations and insights, Eurotax Switzerland (part of Autovista Group).
As the demand is likely to weaken further, pressure on RVs is to be expected. However, supply will not improve significantly in the medium term as new-car registrations in 2022 are markedly lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic (2021 was down 23.4% compared to 2019). Annen forecasts that RVs of three-year-old used cars will remain high and finish 2022 13.8% up on December 2021.
'The market parameters will not significantly change in the medium term, even as used-car demand cools. For the years 2023 and 2024, we expect RVs to fall by about 3% year on year due to weakening demand,' Annen added.
UK follows depreciation pattern
The UK's used-car market followed a depreciation pattern in November. The average %RV at three years of age fell by just under 1% month on month, to 62% of the original price. Compared to November 2021, the average %RV is down 0.7% – surprisingly, the first month in 2022 where it has dipped below last year.
'This is quite extraordinary when we consider that values increased by some 30% in 2021. So, despite reasonably lacklustre retail demand, values have remained high throughout 2022, a reflection of the lack of used stock flowing into the market. This is confirmed by the active-market volume index, which shows a year-on-year decline in available stock of over 26% during November,' explained Jayson Whittington, Glass's (part of Autovista Group) chief editor, cars and leisure vehicles.
Looking ahead to 2023, Whittington stressed the importance of recognising that most households in the UK have already experienced shrinking disposable incomes. Energy costs increased earlier this year, and while consumers have been protected from the full impact of wholesale price rises by the UK Government's Energy Price Guarantee, this cap is due to be raised in April 2023 – adding £500 (€578) to the average annual bill.
In addition, consumers are facing sharp inflationary pressures affecting many everyday essentials. Recent interest-rate hikes have also significantly added to the burden of mortgage holders, with the cost of car finance also increasing.
'It therefore seems inevitable that the UK will enter a recession as consumers grapple with a new reality. A recession does not necessarily spell danger for the used-car market though. Past recessions have shown that the used-car market is very resilient as consumers tend to continue buying cars. However, they will perhaps look at a cheaper model or buy a used car instead of new,' Whittington surmised.
It is also important to remember that three years ago in March, the UK began to experience the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns, which kicked off the start of new-vehicle supply constraints. Therefore, fewer cars will be returning to the used-car market in 2023, which will help to prop up RVs.
'So, despite some challenging times ahead, Glass's does not expect residual values to come under serious pressure, although a downward correction in the region of 5% is likely,' Whittington concluded.
The November 2022 monthly market dashboard provides the latest pricing, volume and selling-days data.
Used Vehicles Car Residual Values
Monthly Market Update: Balance of weak used-car supply and demand maintains residual values
Monthly Market Update: RVs hold as lack of replacement cars prevents de-fleeting
Monthly Market Update: Used-car prices stubbornly resist weakening demand
Monthly Market Update: Modest RV growth in July despite stable new-car list prices