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Q: Checkboxes NgModel with verifications and get method on update I want to pop up browser confirm alert on click but when I press cancel, my unchecked checkbox change, while my method properly is not running.
HTML
<input name="related" type="checkbox" [checked]="attr.related (change)="updateOnCheck(i)" [(ngModel)]="attr.related" #related="ngModel" />

component
updateOnCheck(i: number) {
   this.dataService.update(this.checkrelated).subscribe(res => {.... etc})
}

A: try this
updateOnCheck(i: any) {
   this.dataService.update(this.checkrelated).subscribe(res => {
    // Your code
   })
}

A: For simple input without wrapped component use:
you.component.ts
@Component({
  selector: 'app-your-component',
  styles: [],
  template: `
    <input type="checkbox" (change)="onCheckboxChange($event)" />
  `
})
export class YourComponent {
  onCheckboxChange(event: MouseEvent) {
    const value = (event.target as HTMLInputElement).checked;
    if (value) {
      /// your code
    } else {
      /// another code
    }
  }
}

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We harvested a 'grand' total of £75 worth of veg this week, excluding anything from the store. We had 35 meals with ingredients from the allotment and fed two other families.
Here's a photo of one of the harvests. We picked new potatoes, broccoli, sprouts, brocollini, lots of types of kale, chard, kalettes, golden beets, spring onions, celery, rocket, lots of bean tops and loads of lettuce. We also raided the store for: carrots, potatoes, onions, shallots, garlic, red beetroot and dried pears/apples.
The first batch of potatoes (Charlotte) have broken through the top of their pots, they will be going to the polytunnel soon.
I'm over the flu, but all of my upper legs (trunk to calves) is covered with an incredibly itchy rash, that is driving me just a little bit crazy! Doctors think this is an auto-immune reaction and I'm on steroids.We've got a few aphid problems in the greenhouse and polytunnel, so I've made up a batch of home made garlic spray and I will be using that regularly from now on.A few of the lettuces had downy mildew on the leaves and we losts a few plants to rotten stems, that always happens at this time of year.


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Q: imwarp and transformPointsForward giving different results with the same warp Trying to create an image panorama software
I am creating a projective2d warp using 4 matching points on two different images to create a square.I then center both squares to zero and work out the difference between them using fitgeotrans
i then warp the image using imwarp and the projective2d warp I have just calculated.
images{1,i+1} = imwarp(images{1,i+1},finalWarps(1,i));

I am then trying to find the new location of the 4 matching points I used to create the projective2d warp using transformPointsForward
transformPointsForward(finalWarps(1,i),stitchCoords{i*2});

The new coordinate location is not matching where it was on the pre warped image even though I am transforming the coordinates I used to calculate the warp forward using the same warp and I am seeing different results using imwarp and transformPoitnsForward
I hope this all makes sense!


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HMS Albion visits London for International Shipping Week
The 18,500-tonne amphibious assault ship is the Royal Navy's only capital ship capable of travelling upstream on the Thames
Tom Blackburn
HMS Albion will remain moored at Greenwich to host a series of events for International Shipping Week (Image: Courtesy of Mr Sam Barnard)
Devonport-based amphibious assault ship HMS Albion has arrived in London for a rare visit, mooring up on the River Thames at Greenwich.
The vessel - which is in the capital to mark International Shipping Week 2021 - is the Royal Navy's only capital ship capable of making the journey upstream along the Thames.
Along the way, HMS Albion sailed past some of London's most iconic landmarks, including the Thames Barrier and the O2 Arena.
READ MORE: What is the Royal Naval Reserve? Do they get paid?
On Monday (September 13), meanwhile, she participated in the Ceremony of the Constable's Dues at the Tower of London.
The ceremony has a history dating back to the 14th century when Richard II declared that all large naval vessels voyaging up the Thames were required to pay a levy to the Constable of the Tower of London.
Today, whenever a Royal Navy ship moors at the Tower Wharf, the ship's commanding officer presents the Constable - who continues to enjoy the perk - with a barrel of wine.
HMS Albion's commanding officer, Captain Simon Kelly, said he was "thrilled" to be able to visit London and play a part in supporting International Shipping Week.
"My team are looking forward to this visit and are very excited about performing the 'Ceremony of the Dues' at the Tower of London," he explained.
"As a sailor, marching a keg of wine to the Tower of London to pay our 'Dues' is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity - I am thrilled that we have this rare privilege."
Capt Kelly added that the maritime sector was vital to the UK economy, contributing £46.1 billion annually and accounting for 95% of imports to Britain.
The 18,500-tonne HMS Albion will remain docked at Greenwich for most of this week. While she's there, she'll host several events related to International Shipping Week.
German warship Sachsen spotted in Plymouth waters
Devonport ceremony marks completion of HMS Portland refit

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BET Awards Hit 4-Year Ratings High, Rules As Sunday's No. 1 Program
It draws 7.8 million viewers and is also narrowly the week's No. 1 primetime telecast in 18-49 demo
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BET's annual kudocast "The BET Awards" hit a four-year ratings high on Sunday — topping all its broadcast and cable competition on the night in both demos and total viewers.
The show, which celebrates the achievements of African-Americans and other minorities in various fields of entertainment, averaged a 3.4 rating/10 share in adults 18-49 and 7.77 million viewers overall, according to Nielsen. In both categories, this is a slight improvement over the previous three years and the best since the 2009 show, which aired days after the death of Michael Jackson and drew 10.6 million.
Competitively, no other Sunday primetime telecast came close in the 18-49 demo, as it finished well ahead of HBO's "True Blood" (2.2 rating) and CBS' "Big Brother" (1.9). And for the week, the BET Awards edged out the premiere of CBS' "Under the Dome" and Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals on NBC as the No. 1 telecast in the demo.
In total viewers, the only program close to the BET Awards on Sunday was CBS' "60 Minutes" (7.17 million).
The show, originating this year from the Nokia Theater L.A. Live after seven years in the Shrine Auditorium, was hosted by Chris Tucker and included performances by Chris Brown, Mariah Carey and Justin Timberlake. Drake was honored with video of the year for "Started From the Bottom."
The 3.4 demo rating puts the BET Awards on par with the most recent ABC telecasts of the Billboard Music Awards (3.5 in May) and American Music Awards (3.4 last November).
And in total years, the BET kudocast tops the most recent version of the Tony Awards on CBS (7.3 million last month) as well as last September's telecast of the VMA Awards on MTV (an atypically low 6.13 million when it aired on a Thursday and on the same night as the Democratic National Convention).
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My great grandfather was an illustrator for the then brand new Sears &Roebuck Catalog. He used crosshatching to depict shadows. In an ink medium I use a very rapid depiction of a random quantum field of wave chaos for shadows. (beyond scribbles) At 6 feet away the chaos disappears and a macro whole emerges.
Breaking news BANNON removed from national security council.
To correct my cataracts I would be facing four surgeries due to the complications of Fuchs dystrophy. They would have to go in a specific order and over the course of 2 years. Since Fuchs varies hourly with changing corneal thickness and bubbles there are days I have better than average vision and times that discourages driving or art. Yesterday I did an ink on enamel portrait of Leonard Bernstein conducting a grand pause from imagination, not a photo. It is a "painterly" blend of impressionism and realism in my minds eye but to normal vision it might be crap.
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Former champion Stan Wawrinka to miss French Open, sets sights on grass-court season
Three-time Grand Slam winner Stan Wawrinka's hopes of competing at the 2021 French Open are over after he failed to recover following foot surgery.
The 2015 Roland Garros champion underwent a "small procedure" on his left foot at the end of March, adding that he would be "out for a few weeks".
Although the 37-year-old has returned to the practise courts, he has not recovered in time for Roland Garros and will miss the clay-court Grand Slam for the first time since 2004.
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"After having a small surgery on his foot in March, as much as we had hoped he'd be ready to play in Paris, he wasn't able to come back to full fitness in time," a statement read.
It added: "Stan is now working hard with his team for the grass court season and hopes to hit the ground running in June."


text: Shakthi is a western Sydney storyteller with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. He's a writer, director and producer of film and theatre, and composer of original music as one half of the band Kurinji. Recent projects include his debut play, Counting and Cracking, which recently completed a sold out season to rave reviews at the 2019 Sydney Festival, with Belvoir; Laka, a multi-platform film and VR project touring around the world, from Brewarrina to Los Angeles; and Rizzy's 18th Birthday Party, which premiered at Carriageworks in 2014 and was adapted into feature film Riz for the 2015 Sydney Film Festival. Both Laka and Counting and Cracking form part of Shakthi's Colony body of work, a universe of interconnected stories stretching from before colonisation through to an imagined 22nd century. Shakthi is the current Artistic Director of Co-Curious. Co-Curious is a sister company to CuriousWorks, where Shakthi was the Founder and Artistic Director from 2003-2018. Shakthi was the inaugural Associate Artist at Carriageworks and is the recipient of the Phillip Parson's and Kirk Robson awards.


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India's telecom regulator TRAI may come up with stringent regulations for international SIM card and global calling card companies, following a detailed discussion with these companies, earlier this year, PTI reported.
The TRAI had reached out to consumers through an SMS-based survey, seeking feedback on services provided by international SIM cards providers. The discussion between the TRAI and these companies took place following the survey, which revealed that nearly half the consumers who used the services felt that it worked partially or did not work at all.
A few operators who were part of that TRAI meeting then included Matrix, Uniconnect and Oneworld Teleservices.
"TRAI will be recommending tighter checks on these companies, including a monitoring mechanism on how much business are they are doing, how many cards are they selling…," a person was quoted as saying. The PTI report said that the regulator is likely to recommend norms favouring support refund and compensation to customers in case of service failure during overseas travel.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had earlier this year asked international SIM card and global calling card companies to explain the reason for the poor service, following numerous instances of unsatisfactory service quality provided to travelling consumers.
The report said that TRAI's recommendations will talk about refunds for prepaid and compensation (for postpaid users) in case the card does not work. The regulator is also mulling over mandating a 24-hour call centre support.
"Technically there are enough ways to establish the veracity of customer's claim that a particular card did not indeed work," the person added.
The regulator had earlier asked these international SIM cards and global calling card companies to check their records, analyse the issue and revert with their responses over the next few days.


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Q: AngularJS ng-pattern and required can not work together on number field correctly? I have a form and i need to validate a field with both ng-pattern and required but they can't not work together correctly.
Form have only a number field which expects the value is an integer value.
When i type "0.3" the validation displays correctly. But when i type "abcd.." the validation displays "This field is required". It should be "Must be number"
I have create a plunk that demo my issues :
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Thank in advance


Kicker Substation 450 Watts Amplified 10 Sub Loaded Truck Subwoofer Box. The item is in a factory sealed box (NEVER OPENED).
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Architecture of Monaghan
1827 – Lough Fea, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan
Architect: Thomas Rickman
Designed for the Shirley family by the historian Thomas Rickman and which is his only Irish commission,
1829 – Courthouse, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
Architect: Joseph Welland
The Courthouse was probably designed by Joseph Welland and cost around £10,000. A fine building constructed from large blocks of yellowish stone and placed on a plinth of ten steps.
1830 – Ballybay House, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
Architect: John B. Keane
Ballybay House, residence of Edward John Henry Leslie C.M.G., M.V.O; (1890-1966), British Ambassador to Rome,
1830 – Gate Lodge, Camla Vale, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
Former gatelodge for Camla Vale house, and not Rossmore Castle as usually assumed, due to its proximity across the road.
Photograph Copyright Brian Lenehan and licensed for reuse under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic.
1835 – Hilton Park Dovecote, Clones, Co. Monaghan
Architect: James Jones
An interesting feature of the Hilton estate is the vast tower over a gateway into the farm yard to the rear of the house.
1836 – Castleshane, Co. Monaghan
Originally a medieval house on the site was constructed in 1591, this Elizabethan or Jacobean style house was built in 1836 for the Lucas Scudamores.
1836 – St Patrick's Church of Ireland, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
Architect: William Farrell
Next to the Courthouse is St Patrick's Church of Ireland – a fine building with aneedle spire,
1836 – Ulster Canal Stores, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
Former stores for the now defunct Ulster Canal. Originally fronted by a small harbour and alongside a humpbacked bridge over the canal which provided access to the first floor stores,
1840 – Lock Keeper's Cottage, Templetate Lock, Smithborough, Co. Monaghan
Fine stone cottage overlooking a former lock on the now closed Ulster Canal. The canal which linked Lough Erne to Lough Neagh was never a financial success and was only open for a few years before the railways arrived and put paid to any chances it may have had.
1840s – Drumreaske House, Co. Monaghan
Architect: William Walker
Possibly added to by local architect William Walker in a simple tudor style. For many years after the departure of the Kane family,
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Quonset Hut in Minnesota – A territory where farming of corn, soybeans, wheat, and dairy products; paper pulping; and mining of iron ore are the major industries, Minnesota is the 32nd state in the United States made official on May 11, 1858. It is the 21st most populous state in the US with a total of 4,919,479 residents or "Minnesotans" as of the year 2000. The community has a total area of 86,943 square miles with a sum of 87 countries.
Its state capital is St. Paul while its largest city is Minneapolis. Minnesota is strategically located 44.839 North and 92.994 West. And because of its position on Earth, Minnesota is the fourth coldest state according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration for the years 1971-2000.
In the interest of the state's weather and the major industries of the population, Quonset hut is beyond doubt a necessity in Minnesota. An all-purpose, lightweight building that can be transported anywhere and assembled without any skilled labor, Quonset hut is a beneficial structure to one and all. Made of prefabricated material with a standard size of 20 ft by 48 ft (6m x 15m), 10 ft (3m) radius, and 720 square feet (67 squared meters) of usable floor space.
A Quonset building is a convenient architecture that can be utilized for anything. It can serve as a storage, a base depot, or even a commercial space. Beyond question of a doubt, Quonset hut's sole purpose has already been proven and has been widely accepted by many. However, because of the emergence of various Quonset hut suppliers around the world, people find it hard which one is the best.
Minnesota Quonset Hut dealers are no doubt leading contractors in the industry for such durable structures. Over the years, they have delivered quality Quonset huts to everyone and because of they're commitment to provide only the best, they continuously strive to deliver to everybodys expectations. Note that finding a reliable Quonset building supplier is crucial. It should not be treated as something trivial. Thus, it follows that you consider only the best which can absolutely attend to your metal Quonset building needs. Look for the supplier/contractor that can give quality output, excellent customer service, professional work ethic, and of course, affordable costing. All these — Quonset Hut can clearly offer.


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Point Financial commits $5 Million in equipment lease financing to Checker Schuck's Kragen (CSK), an Arizona-based speciality retailer for replacement automotive parts and accessories. The company is publically traded on the New York Stock Exchange (CAO).
CSK is backed by InvestCorp. CSK is an exciting addition to the Point Financial lease financing portfolio.
About: CSK Auto is an Arizona-based company that is currently the largest retailer of automotive parts and accessories in the western United States and one of the largest such retailers in the United States, based on store count. CSK Auto has the number one market position in 22 of the 32 geographic markets in which they operate, based on store count. CSK's four brand names under management include Checker Auto Parts, Schuck's Auto Supply, Kragen Auto Parts and Murray's Discount Auto Stores.


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The Two Sisters
The Two Sisters is a story about one good and one bad sister and an evil witch. Its lesson: "one good turn deserves another" or "what goes around comes around." Published in English Fairy Tales , retold by Flora Annie Steel (1922), illustrated by Arthur Rackham. You may enjoy a similar version by The Brothers Grimm, titled The Old Witch.
Once upon a time there were two sisters who were as like each other as two peas in a pod; but one was good, and the other was bad-tempered. Now their father had no work, so the girls began to think of going to service.
"I will go first and see what I can make of it," said the younger sister, ever so cheerfully, "then you, sis, can follow if I have good luck."
So she packed up a bundle, said good-bye, and started to find a place; but no one in the town wanted a girl, and she went farther afield into the country. And as she journeyed she came upon an oven in which a lot of loaves were baking. Now as she passed, the loaves cried out with one voice:
"Little girl! Little girl! Take us out! Please take us out! We have been baking for seven years, and no one has come to take us out. Do take us out or we shall soon be burnt!"
Then, being a kind, obliging little girl, she stopped, put down her bundle, took out the bread, and went on her way saying:
"You will be more comfortable now."
After a time she came to a cow lowing beside an empty pail, and the cow said to her:
"Little girl! Little girl! Milk me! Please milk me! Seven years have I been waiting, but no one has come to milk me!"
So the kind girl stopped, put down her bundle, milked the cow into the pail, and went on her way saying:
"Now you will be more comfortable."
By and by she came to an apple tree so laden with fruit that its branches were nigh to break, and the apple tree called to her:
"Little girl! Little girl! Please shake my branches. The fruit is so heavy I can't stand straight!"
Then the kind girl stopped, put down her bundle, and shook the branches so that the apples fell off, and the tree could stand straight. Then she went on her way saying:
So she journeyed on till she came to a house where an old witch-woman lived. Now this witch-woman wanted a servant-maid, and promised good wages. Therefore the girl agreed to stop with her and try how she liked service. She had to sweep the floor, keep the house clean and tidy, the fire bright and cheery. But there was one thing the witch-woman said she must never do; and that was look up the chimney!
"If you do," said the witch-woman, "something will fall down on you, and you will come to a bad end." Well! the girl swept, and dusted, and made up the fire; but ne'er a penny of wages did she see. Now the girl wanted to go home as she did not like witch-service; for the witch used to have boiled babies for supper, and bury the bones under some stones in the garden. But she did not like to go home penniless; so she stayed on, sweeping, and dusting, and doing her work, just as if she was pleased. Then one day, as she was sweeping up the hearth, down tumbled some soot, and, without remembering she was forbidden to look up the chimney, she looked up to see where the soot came from. And, lo and behold! a big bag of gold fell plump into her lap.
Now the witch happened to be out on one of her witch errands; so the girl thought it a fine opportunity to be off home.
So she kilted up her petticoats and started to run home; but she had only gone a little way when she heard the witch-woman coming after her on her broomstick. Now the apple tree she had helped to stand straight happened to be quite close; so she ran to it and cried:
"Apple tree! Apple tree, hide me
So the old witch can't find me,
For if she does she'll pick my bones,
And bury me under the garden stones."
Then the apple tree said: "Of course I will. You helped me to stand straight, and one good turn deserves another."
So the apple tree hid her finely in its green branches; and when the witch flew past saying:
"Tree of mine! O Tree of mine!
Have you seen my naughty little maid
With a willy willy wag and a great big bag,
She's stolen my money—all I had?"
The apple tree answered:
"No, mother dear,
Not for seven year!"
So the witch flew on the wrong way, and the girl got down, thanked the tree politely, and started again. But just as she got to where the cow was standing beside the pail, she heard the witch coming again, so she ran to the cow and cried:
"Cow! Cow, please hide me
So the witch can't find me;
If she does she'll pick my bones,
And bury me under the garden stones!"
"Certainly I will," answered the cow. "Didn't you milk me and make me comfortable? Hide yourself behind me and you'll be quite safe."
And when the witch flew by and called to the cow:
"O Cow of mine! Cow of mine!
Who stole my money—all that I had?"
She just said politely:
Then the old witch went on in the wrong direction, and the girl started afresh on her way home; but just as she got to where the oven stood, she heard that horrid old witch coming behind her again; so she ran as fast as she could to the oven and cried:
"O Oven! Oven! hide me
So as the witch can't find me,
And bury them under the garden stones."
Then the oven said, "I am afraid there is no room for you, as another batch of bread is baking; but there is the baker—ask him."
So she asked the baker, and he said, "Of course I will. You saved my last batch from being burnt; so run into the bakehouse, you will be quite safe there, and I will settle the witch for you."
So she hid in the bakehouse, only just in time, for there was the old witch calling angrily:
"O Man of mine! Man of mine!
Who's stole my money—all I had?"
Then the baker replied, "Look in the oven. She may be there."
And the witch alighted from her broomstick and peered into the oven: but she could see no one.
"Creep in and look in the farthest corner," said the baker slyly, and the witch crept in, when——
he shut the door in her face, and there she was roasting. And when she came out with the bread she was all crisp and brown, and had to go home as best she could and put cold cream all over her!
But the kind, obliging little girl got safe home with her bag of money.
Now the ill-tempered elder sister was very jealous of this good luck, and determined to get a bag of gold for herself. So she in her turn packed up a bundle and started to seek service by the same road. But when she came to the oven, and the loaves begged her to take them out because they had been baking seven years and were nigh to burning, she tossed her head and said:
"A likely story indeed, that I should burn my fingers to save your crusts. No, thank you!"
And with that she went on till she came across the cow standing waiting to be milked beside the pail. But when the cow said:
"Little girl! Little girl! Milk me! Please milk me, I've waited seven years to be milked——"
She only laughed and replied, "You may wait another seven years for all I care. I'm not your dairymaid!"
And with that she went on till she came to the apple tree, all overburdened by its fruit. But when it begged her to shake its branches, she only giggled, and plucking one ripe apple, said:
"One is enough for me: you can keep the rest yourself." And with that she went on munching the apple, till she came to the witch-woman's house.
Now the witch-woman, though she had got over being crisp and brown from the oven, was dreadfully angry with all little maid-servants, and made up her mind this one should not trick her. So for a long time she never went out of the house; thus the ill-tempered sister never had a chance of looking up the chimney, as she had meant to do at once. And she had to dust, and clean, and brush, and sweep ever so hard, until she was quite tired out.
But one day, when the witch-woman went into the garden to bury her bones, she seized the moment, looked up the chimney, and, sure enough, a bag of gold fell plump into her lap!
Well! she was off with it in a moment, and ran and ran till she came to the apple tree, when she heard the witch-woman behind her. So she cried as her sister had done:
For if she does she'll break my bones,
Or bury me under the garden stones."
But the apple tree said:
"No room here! I've too many apples."
So she had to run on; and when the witch-woman on her broomstick came flying by and called:
"O Tree of mine! Tree of mine!
Have you seen a naughty little maid
Who's stolen my money—all I had?"
The apple tree replied:
"Yes, mother dear,
She's gone down there."
Then the witch-woman went after her, caught her, gave her a thorough good beating, took the bag of money away from her, and sent her home without a penny payment for all her dusting, and sweeping, and brushing, and cleaning.
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This was a study to compare the risk of serious infections in chronic plaque psoriasis patients treated with either infliximab or non-biologic systemic therapies, including MTX. (This was not a comparison of various biologic agents in psoriasis).
Investigators grouped several non-biologic systemic therapies, including methotrexate, ciclosporin, acitretin, fumaric acid esters, psoralen-ultraviolet A or hydroxycarbamide and analyzed rates of serious infections (SIE) associated with death, hospitalisation or the need for intravenous antimicrobial therapy.
Among 3843 psoriasis patients accrued up to October 2016, the SIE rates were significantly higher in the infliximab cohort (47.8 per 1000 person-years) compared to the on non-biologic systemic cohort (14.2 per 1000 person-years) and the adjusted hazard ratio was 1.95, (95% CI 1.01, 3.75 vs. DMARDSs) and was also higher when compared to methotrexate only (adjHR 2.96, 95% CI 1.58, 5.57).
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When will the media business reach the "tipping point" in the ongoing switch from traditional linear programming streams to OnDemand content? Or are we already past it? And the question for media executives - are you ahead of the curve, or behind it?
These and other core questions about the transformation now underway were discussed and debated by a panel of those on the front lines of change at the Media Finance Focus 2015 conference being held at The Arizona Grand Hotel & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. The "Value Equation for OnDemand" panel was held this past spring.
The panel was moderated by BroadView Software's Susan Whalen, VP Sales and included BroadView Founding Partner and President Michael Atkin. Chris Pizzuro, Head of Product, Sales and Marketing for Canoe Ventures, the leading Video on Demand Dynamic Ad Serving and Data Analytics Products vendor, was also be part of the panel.
This year's panel was a follow-up to the overflow crowd that attended last year's. It also follows in the wake of a similar panel featuring Atkin and Pizzuro at NAB 2015. What is clear is that this is the top-of-mind topic for those in the industry wondering how the Television business will finally make the transition into the digital era.
Media Finance Focus 2015 was the 55th annual conference for the Media Finance Management Association and BCCA, the media industry's credit association.
Consumers are moving in droves from appointment television to OnDemand watching of content how, when and where they choose. How can broadcasters respond to this change in media consumption - what emerging models and technologies allow them to monetize it effectively?
OnDemand consumption is an important and potentially profitable business. By looking at each aspect of the value chain we will examine how leveraging content across multi-platform delivery actually can increase consumption and eyeballs. Each platform provides its own avenues for monetization including subscription content, advertising supported and others.
This panel will help CFOs and investors help map out the journey ahead through she shifting currents of multiple revenue streams. Some may find a pleasant cruise downstream, others a white-water adventure shooting the rapids. Those that don't plan (and attend) run the risk of being left high-and-dry.


72AG-DED- Random Expert server is back up. The Online multiplayer campaign server was stopped after the last campaign. Crusader, the server admin, said he wanted to futher devellop the gameplay before the next round. The server features a persistent frontline and statistic system, where every player actions may have an impact on the outcome. It was one of the most popular server in 2017.
For now, the server is in Testing mode, with stats website not available. Here are the list of changes.
Server featured a website that kept track of campaign and individual progress.
The parties have 3 front airfields and 1 rear airfield.
The parties have 3 divisions: 1 tank, 1 artillery and 1 motorized. There are 16 units in each, including air defense units.
The parties have 2 large sectioned warehouses near the cities. 5 sections.
The tank division has a supply column.
Aircraft on the airfields are finite.
The attacking side has 3 tank groups attacking defensive positions, 4 bridges and 3 railway stations.
It is possible to attack only divisions, columns, warehouses, bridges, railway stations and front-line airfields present in the mission.
Divisions accumulate damage from mission to mission. At the end of each mission, all divisions receive a replenishment equivalent to the three units of the division.
Warehouses accumulate damage from mission to mission. The warehouse has a gradation of states from 0 to 80% of the damage in increments of 20%. Complete destruction of one section of the warehouse is equivalent to 15% of the damage to the warehouse. At the end of the mission, the warehouse remains are distributed evenly over its sections, thus, the damage to the warehouse is distributed to all sections.
At aerodromes, damage does not accumulate.
"Suppression" of one warehouse (60% or more damage) reduces the replenishment of divisions by one unit.
"Suppression" of both warehouses (60% or more of each damage) blocks the arrival of aircraft from the rear airfield at the end of the mission.
The destruction of the supply column reduces the replenishment of its tank division by one unit.
Verification of the condition for the transition to an offensive is carried out only after the destruction of two divisions.
Capture of the airfield begins if there are less than 20 aircraft left on it or its strength is less than 50%. One of the parties goes on the offensive. The task of attackers is to preserve the advantage, the defenders are to break off the offensive.
With inaction or insufficient counteraction of the defenders, the adversaries win and capture the airfield.
Disruption of capture occurs if the defenders destroy all 3 tank groups, 3 bridges and 2 railway stations.
Allowed landing on inactive aerodromes. In this case, the aircraft enters an inactive airfield.
offensive missions, divisions of the parties are filled up to 75%.
any mission, the airfield is filled up to 100%, to whom he now did not belong.
any mission, a number of airplanes are transferred from the rear airfield to front-line airfields.
The strongest airfield (the largest amount of airplanes and stocks).
The weakest airfield (the least amount of airplanes and stocks).
Random one from remaining in the frontline zone.
Of all the aerodromes located outside the front zone, the three most populated aerodromes are first selected. One of them is chosen randomly.


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MEP Welcomes Commerce Testimony on Line 3
On Monday, September 11, the Minnesota Department of Commerce released an analysis arguing that the proposed Enbridge Line 3 replacement pipeline, which would carry Alberta tar sands oil across Northern Minnesota, was not needed by the state, based on independent analysis of oil consumption projections. The Department further testifed that the pipeline's environmental and social impacts on Minnesotans would outweigh the benefits, and that the previous Line 3, which is aging and running at low-capacity, should be removed and cleaned up. This analysis came as a surprise to many observers, especially considering that Enbridge has already begun construction on segments of the pipeline in Wisconsin in Canada.
Steve Morse, the Minnesota Environmental Partnership's Executive Director, welcomed the Commerce conclusions in a press release. "The age of growth in fossil fuel demand is over," Morse said. "We don't need increased fossil fuel capacity." Instead, "We need to get about the business of abandoning and cleaning up the existing Line 3."
Though this report represents a significant blow against this hazardous pipeline, the Department of Commerce does not have the authority to prevent Line 3. The politically independent Public Utilities Commission will consider these and other arguments in hearings next spring, when it determines whether to grant Line 3 a certificate of need. But it is clear that sustained pressure from advocates on the pipeline's harmful effects is not going unheard.
The Public Utilities Commission should take into account the harmful effects that this oil pipeline would have on water, climate change, and the health and livelihoods of Minnesota's indigenous communities. And it should carefully consider the Department of Commerce conclusion that this new fossil fuel infrastructure is not needed. It will take continued, vocal advocacy from Minnesotans to make sure that these concerns are heard. We invite residents from across our state to educate their neighbors and speak up on Line 3's threats to our water and climate. Visit mepartnership.org to learn more find out how to take action!
Department of Commerce News Release on Line 3
MEP press statement on Department of Commerce testimony
WCCO coverage of Commerce testimony, featuring interview with Steve Morse
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Great Lakes Commission to work on water solutions in Duluth
Next week, the city of Duluth will host the annual meeting of the Great Lakes Commission (GLC), an interstate compact dedicated to discussing and implementing good public policy for water, land, and economic prosperity in the Great Lakes region. MEP staff will be in attendance to join in discussing solutions to some of the most pressing water issues, such as invasive species and pollution, that face the Great Lakes today. Click here for more information about the Great Lakes Commission's important work on protecting and improving these waters for future generations.
'25 by 25′: Town hall on water quality held in Bemidji
(From Bemidji Pioneer) — Local and state officials talked about ways to improve water quality in Minnesota on Wednesday before turning the question to residents for more ideas. The event was the seventh of 10 water quality town hall events held across the state. Starting in July, the series of meetings are part of an initiative launched by Gov. Mark Dayton dubbed "25 by 25," meaning a goal of improving the state's water quality 25 percent by 2025. Dayton, who was initially scheduled to appear at the event, was unable to attend. However, his water advisor Anna Henderson was on hand to address the crowd of about 250 people at Bemidji High School. "We're here to listen and learn from all of you about the water quality improvements that you want to see and how we can increase the pace of progress," Henderson said. >>Read More.
Dayton's 25 by 25 meetings head to the Twin Cities
Governor Dayton has so far hosted five of his ten planned town hall meetings on his proposed "25 by 25" Water Quality Goal throughout Minnesota. The Governor is seeking input on how to improve the health of our state's waters by 25% by the year 2025, and wants to hear Minnesotans' ideas. The next several meetings will be coming to Minneapolis, Burnsville, and Stillwater. To find out how you can give your own input at a town hall, visit www.eqb.state.mn.us/25by25
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New study: green energy a major job creator in state
(From The Timberjay) — The clean energy industry has become a significant bright spot in Minnesota's overall economy in recent years, creating nearly 3,000 new jobs in just the past 12 months. That's according to a new report from Clean Energy Trust and Environmental Entrepreneurs, which is being highlighted by state officials, including Lt. Gov. Tina Smith. With the latest growth in employment, the clean energy industry— which includes businesses and workers advancing renewable sources of energy production and energy efficiency improvements—now employs just over 57,000 Minnesotans according to the study. Of those jobs, just over 17,000 are located outside the Twin Cities metro area, making the sector a major employer in outstate Minnesota. >>Read More.
Chippewa County wind farm likely to go up in early 2018
(From West Central Tribune) — Equipment began arriving this week for the construction of an 18-turbine wind farm in Chippewa County, but work is not likely to get underway until spring. Company officials with Palmer's Creek Wind Farm outlined plans for the 44.6-megawatt wind farm to Administrative Law Judge Barbara Case at a public hearing Monday evening in Montevideo. The Public Utilities Commission has developed a draft permit for the project, and is expected to act on the permit by year's end. Judge Case said public comments on the project will be accepted by the PUC through Sept. 21. It's an opportunity to point out what could be improved, or issues regulators might not be aware of, she said. Company officials had hoped to begin work this fall, but the permit process is not complete. >>Read More.
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Families clash over proposed hog farm in Zumbrota Township
(From MPR News) — A family proposing a large hog operation near Zumbrota Township on Thursday showed up at a press conference held by neighbors who oppose the facility. Backed by the Land Stewardship Project, Zumbrota Township retired farmer Dale Post and about a dozen others held signs such as "No Factory Farms" and "Family Farms NOT Factory Farms" as they spoke in a downtown Lakeville park about their concerns about odors and hydrogen sulfide gas, which results from animal waste and can be harmful to health at certain levels. >>Read More.
Air Quality alert issued for Minneapolis-St. Paul area
(From Pioneer Press) — Unusually warm temperatures, sunny skies and high levels of ozone coming in from the south and central United States are creating unhealthy air quality for some people in the metro and southern Minnesota. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency released an air quality alert Thursday that'll be in effect from noon to 8 p.m. Friday. Air quality index levels are expected to climb through the afternoon and settle after sunset. People with respiratory problems, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart conditions could be affected by the higher levels of ozone. Those who have asthma or COPD, make sure to have your inhaler with you and take other necessary precautions, the MPCA said in the statement. >>Read More.
A new bee "sky rise" in Como Park offers home for pollinators
(From Star Tribune) — A new custom-built high-rise featuring a sleek wood and metal design and breathtaking views of Como Lake hit the market Wednesday morning. Best of all? The list price is free — to bees and butterflies. The pollinator "sky-rise" is the work of Public Art St. Paul and the Bee Lab at the University of Minnesota. The purpose of the striking yellow tower is more than artistic, however. Researchers hope to learn what kind of man-made housing will attract, protect and nurture pollinators at a time when natural habitat is disappearing. At the same time, officials hope the tower and its nearby bins of free flower seeds — milkweed, purple prairie clover and black-eyed Susan — will elicit support for developing even more pollinator habitat. >>Read More.
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Where things stand with the effort to allow mining near the Boundary Waters
(From MinnPost) — For those who don't want mining — or even the whiff of mining — to come anywhere near northern Minnesota's protected Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the last weeks of the Barack Obama administration were good ones. Just as Donald Trump was preparing to take office, the Obama administration declined to renew mineral leases held by the company Twin Metals, and began the process of blocking off nearly a quarter-million acres of Superior National Forest from mining projects for up to 20 years. Fourth District DFL Rep. Betty McCollum, one of Congress' staunchest opponents of mining near the Boundary Waters, said back then that Minnesotans should celebrate the victories, but cautioned that "we have more work to do." >>Read More.
Weekly Outdoor Trivia – Answers Below Job Postings!
1. What peak in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is Minnesota's highest point?
2. What Minnesota county is named for a Dakota word meaning "where the buffalo fish come"?
3. Minnesota's state park system is the second-oldest in the United States. Which state's is the oldest?
Upcoming Environmental Events
Northside walk to the river, September 21
Folwell Recreation Center, Minneapolis
Hosted by Friends of the Mississippi River
Eureka Recycling's Third Annual Zero Waste Summit, September 23
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, St. Paul
Hosted by Eureka Recycling
Hold the Line: March and Public Hearing to Stop Line 3 Pipeline, September 28
Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul
Hosted by various groups
Collect native prairie seed at the Sand Coulee SNA, September 30
Sand Coulee SNA, Hastings
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Conservation Director | Friends of the Mississippi River
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State Director | Environment Minnesota
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Trivia Answers: 1) Eagle Mountain. 2) Kandiyohi. 3) New York
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How Pending "Trade" Deals Would Undermine Zoning and Local Land Use Rules
Posted on April 17, 2015 by Yves Smith
By Ben Ross, president of the Action Committee for Transit for 15 years. His new book about the politics of urbanism and transit, Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism, is published by Oxford University Press. Originally published at Greater Greater Washington
A key principle of land use in the United States is that homeowners can often veto new buildings on nearby land that other people own. A trade agreement that's currently in the works could have a huge impact on that long-established system of local control.
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade pact that would change the rules for investments and trade among its signers. It's currently in behind-closed-doors negotiation among 12 countries, including the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and Singapore. Other countries could join later.
A recently leaked draft of the TPP gives investors from member nations the right to sue when a decision by a local government "interferes with distinct, reasonable investment-backed expectations."
Panels of private lawyers chosen by the investors and the federal government will meet to decide the suits. If the investors win, the federal government must reimburse them for the loss of future profits.
Critics of the TPP argue that it could gut environmental and health regulation. They point to the past history of trade agreements to back up that concern. The TPP's backers, on the other hand, assert that the treaty only bans arbitrary or discriminatory actions.
No matter who turns out to be right about that, the pact is likely to undermine local oversight of land use.
The TPP Goes Against the Spirit of American Land Use Law
Homeowners' power to influence development—what I call "suburban land tenure" in my book Dead End—is an entitlement that most people in the United States take for granted. But it is just the sort of local decision-making the TPP seeks to curb.
Trade treaties aim for decision-making that is stable, predictable, and rational. US land use regulation, on the other hand, bends to meet the often capricious desires of the neighbors. Local officials turn to hard-to-pin-down concepts like "compatibility" and "historic significance" to justify their responsiveness to constituents.
Whatever one thinks of this arrangement, its linguistic evasions are unlikely to satisfy panels of trade lawyers meeting thousands of miles away, under rules that don't even guarantee the local government the right to speak.
Consider this hypothetical case, which is also utterly routine: A foreign landowner proposes a new city building. Neighbors petition for a "historic" designation for the house now standing on the property, and the preservation board approves, blocking new construction. Meanwhile, there are no petitions or designations for nearby houses similar in age and architecture. Is the landowner entitled to compensation?
Or let's say the master plan for an area near a Maryland Metro station calls for 15-story buildings. The zoning allows such tall buildings only if the planning board approves the design; otherwise property owners are limited to three stories. A foreign landowner applies to build a 15-floor building, but neighbors protest against the height of the structures and the planning board cuts the size to nine floors. Will the landowner get the value of the square feet he wasn't allowed to build?
A Lot depends on the Treaty's Details, but We Aren't Privy to Those
It's hard to say exactly how the TPP would affect land use regulation in these and other cases. Wording for the agreement isn't final yet, and that will certainly influence how arbitrators rule in the future. But if Congress gives trade negotiators "fast track" authority, the public will have no say in what follows. Negotiations will stay behind closed doors, and Congress won't be able to change provisions it doesn't like.
Once the pact goes into effect, amendments will require a unanimous agreement from all the countries that signed.
Even after the TPP passes, it will take years for the legal issues to play out. What will happen then if foreign landowners are winning large financial payments from the federal government? Will foreign developers refuse all compromise with local zoning boards, knowing that rejection wins them the same profits as approval? Will the federal government interfere with local zoning decisions that could provoke a large payout? Will domestic builders demand the same rights as foreigners?
You don't have to be a fan of current land use practice to object to this transfer of power. All too often, zoning laws empower affluent minorities at the expense of the larger community. They outlaw the lively urban neighborhoods that more and more Americans want to live in.
The cure for these ills is more democracy, not less. Land use regulators should answer to the entire electorate, not to small groups of influential landowners and not to unaccountable tribunals that put the interests of big money ahead of the common good.
This entry was posted in Guest Post, Politics, Real estate, Regulations and regulators, TPP on April 17, 2015 by Yves Smith.
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scott April 17, 2015 at 6:34 am
Don't foreign corporations know that all they have to do is bribe the city council/zoning commission to get what they want? It really doesn't take that much money or time, especially if you can get a CRE developer in your pocket who knows the system.
We have a local developer who buys old strip centers, gets them rezoned, then sells the land to Wal-Mart. Usually this happens so fast that none of the neighbors notices. In a recent case, though, the existing zoning had a 100,000 sqft limit on a parcel so WMT is building a 99,900 sq ft supercenter on a very small lot less than a mile from other grocery stores in 3 directions (and less than 3 miles from another supercenter to the West and another one to the North, also adjacent to a Sam's). Makes me wonder what kind of tax giveaways convinced WMT to build a store where one absolutely isn't needed.
Steve H. April 17, 2015 at 7:40 am
If I understand correctly, that method is no longer necessary with TPP. Simply by submitting the plan and having it rejected, the case can be taken to the tribunal and local government forced to pay for lost (alleged) profits. Once the property is bought, not one more penny need be dumped into the local economy, via buildings or bribes or nuthin'.
I may have erred saying local government would have to pay. Wondering how it works when federal government has to pay for local planning decisions.
Just left a message for Congressman Todd Young's D.C. office on fast track.
Did not say bad words, but implied them.
Same for Sens Coats & Donnelly. "Is this the sell-out?"
DanR April 17, 2015 at 7:43 am
The TPP may help in removing perceived capriciousness in American law. I think many foreign entities see American law as unduly vague and subjective. If these entities are in countries with corruption, they may project their experiences onto the American legal system and think that the complexity and subjectivity of American law invites corruption.
Jeremy Grimm April 17, 2015 at 5:47 pm
Huh? If you really want to play troll be a little less unduly vague and subjective with your comment.
Interesting juxtaposition of "capriciousness" with "corruption". I've encountered considerable caprice in bureaucracies without the least hint of corruption — at least for a person of my means. Of course, with greater means I doubt caprice is a necessary preclude to corruption.
I doubt the foreign experience of bureaucracy differs greatly. I believe there is little caprice where there is corruption — outcomes tied to the depth of petitioner's pockets are hardly capricious.
A final query — is American law really so peculiar in its complexity and subjectivity? Those seem like natural attributes of all law and its enforcement.
different clue April 17, 2015 at 10:34 pm
Are there really foreigners who think that? I am so sorry to hear that. We are a very generous and welcoming people, and people who feel like that are generously welcome to stay away and not invest here.
Knute Rife April 19, 2015 at 10:00 pm
And the USSR refused to attend the 1984 Summer Olympics in LA because it alleged the security would be inadequate to protect its athletes. It was a straw man to justify a boycott retaliating against the US boycott of Moscow in 1980. This is a straw man, too. Other countries know developers have little trouble getting the majority of projects approved here, but they would rather have a treaty that turns the federal government into an ATM.
TedWa April 17, 2015 at 8:40 am
The Wyden-Hatch-Ryan deal includes these provisions:
–The final wording of the Trans-Pacific Partnership has to be made public at least 60 days before Obama signs any agreement. Congressional action likely would take another two months, which Wyden said gives the public and lawmakers plenty of time to understand and debate the provisions in the trade pact, which is still under final negotiations.
–The partnership would have to include enforceable labor, environmental and human rights standards, the latter of which Wyden says has not been included before in a U.S. trade pact.
–The partnership would be required to prevent local censorship of the Internet.
–A bill to provide assistance to workers who lose their jobs because of trade agreements must move in tandem with the fast-track bill through Congress. Wyden said it would expand coverage to include not just manufacturing workers but those in service jobs as well.
–Trade officials would have new enforcement measures aimed at cracking down more quickly on violations of the trade agreement.
–A super-majority of 60 senators could decide to remove fast-track authority after they see the final terms of the partnership.
Rebuke :
But opponents argued that the provisions didn't amount to much. Elizabeth Swager of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign argued that it is too late to give public access to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement after negotiations are complete.
Wyden has "signed off on legislation that would make transparency in trade negotiations qualitatively worse," Swager said in a statement. "This is a betrayal of Oregon's working families and of democratic policymaking, and Oregonians won't stand for it."
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who has expressed skepticism about the trade pacts, said Thursday that he would wait to read the terms of the deal before drawing judgment on the legislation. But he did say that the provision allowing 60 senators to jettison the fast track wouldn't provide much of a safeguard.
"It's not an off-switch if it takes 60 votes," he said.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called the fast track bill "another bad deal that lowers wages and outsources jobs." The labor federation announced it would began an ad campaign urging Oregon members of Congress to oppose the bill.
dee preston April 17, 2015 at 8:40 am
Why doesn't our govt officials get that if the ttp is passed we won't need them anymore. This is stealing pure and simple. If this passes we've seen nothing yet. Why isn't the mainstreet media reporting on this? We will all pay the price for their silence and the destruction of all we hold dear. Where is the america we all love and cherish? Where did she GO?? Only God knows!
lakewoebegoner April 17, 2015 at 9:48 am
" Why isn't the mainstreet media reporting on this? "
Making people think about things—especially when it comes to numbers or legalese—hurts ratings. Just look at the dreck that fills the morning network news shows from 7:05am to 9:00am.
Bread (or cheap corn syrup) and circuses (reality TV stars) for the win!
I should also add that if you draw up a venn diagram of "the interests/passions of journalists and news editors" and "international trade law," you ain't going to see much overlap.
…which is why pretty much the only people pounding the table about TPP/TTIP are in the blogosphere.
jrs April 17, 2015 at 11:46 am
Ok so it's boring and people arguably don't like to think, but really WHO OWNS THE MEDIA. And isn't that enough?
The MSM works for the social class which seeks TPP/ TPIP. Therefor they will not print or broadcast anything which would concern the social class they work for.
Ivy April 17, 2015 at 8:50 am
TPP seems to include an unconstitutional element of taking private property rights away from citizens. How will Obama, Wyden, et al rationalize that?
How much of TPP and TTIP is a blunt instrument to counteract perceived economic viability threats from China, disguised in other forms?
crittermom April 17, 2015 at 10:18 am
How will they rationalize that?
The same way they did the IFR & banksters: If you're not part of the 1%, you just don't matter & they don't have to rationalize a damn thing.
If you are, then money in your pocket seems to be reason enough.
The TPP terrifies me. What hasn't been stripped of our democracy & the America this country was founded on, will be with this.
Seriously, can we afford yet another year of this so called leadership?
I want my country back, dammit!!! Of the People, By the People, For the People. Hello?
Well they can use eminent domain for private (not just public) interests already, this was the Supreme Court ruling on Kelo v. City of New London. So for large corporations if they wish. It is my understanding many of the pipelines like Keystone XL also take private property really, they take tribal land and so on. I'm not saying the TPP isn't horrendous.
I think it's the real and ultimate purpose, the corporate rule is just a bonus (get it while you can!) or what is perceived necessary to achieve that (but who really cares if you beat china and turn the rest of the world into a corporate dictatorship? Not the citizens, but it's not their interest this is being done in)
JTMcPhee April 17, 2015 at 2:20 pm
TPP-TTIP look more like OFFENSIVE weapons, whips and clubs actually, against what is left of the sovereignty that extended "rights" first to the feudal barons beyond the absolute monarchy, and mostly because the royal levies interfered with the private wars and wealth grabs that the barons wanted to get on with. That seems a lot more likely than that this secret sh_t is in any way any kind of "defense" against "economic viability threats from China." In the Game of Thrones and Empire, the endgame is moneyed interests against everyone else, that latter set being the ones who actually grow the crops and weave the cloth and hammer out the arms and armor and other futile and destructive toys.
This whole scam looks like the final theft of the legitimacy of all politics. NC has that illuminating series that ought to be looked at every so often, "Journey Into a Libertarian future," http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/journey-into-a-libertarian-future-part-i-%E2%80%93the-vision.html, which sure seems to illuminate the nature of the Beast us ordinary people are getting trampled by. Not that this whole rodents' nest is anything new: http://americasquarterly.org/perales
Question: who will be the enforcers that make the rulings (a word used advisedly) of the Corporatokleptocratic Tribunals stick? All well and good for a decree to go out from the Kaiser that Keokuk's zoning impacts the "reasonable expectations of profit" of some fracker or feedlot operator nominally headquartered in that funny "Ugland House" in the Caymans. But there is some history in "America" that in abusive economic times, people kind of gather from the neighborhood when the Sheriff comes to conduct the foreclosure sale or attach the assets, and give him and his posse to understand that "¡no pasarán!"
So what happens to the big old oil or mining or real estate development corporation that gets its "judgment" from the Corruptnik Panel on this month's Arbiter Maxima, when the minions try to collect the billions of whatever the denominated currency of "restitution" of imaginary profits happens to be, and The People tell them to "Go f__k themselves"? Looks like our "representative government" has this all in hand, since Wyden says TPA, TAA to move together; Preference, Enforcement Bills In the Mix, per the April 17 ed of "Inside US Trade's World Trade Online," which hides behind a paywall at http://insidetrade.com/. Maybe someone else has access to see what the enforcement mechanisms are supposed to be.
Of course, these grand overarching "Agreements," that pervert and crush what's left of "liberal" mythology of "governance" give all the "rights" and powers to pure socialize-loss-privatize-profit entities, don't seem to have a lot of legitimacy, except in a very pro forma sense that power trumps rights of the less powerful. There ain't jack that I can find about the enforcement processes that gives ordinary people any rights here. Except, at the last, the right of resistance.
"Law" only exists when there's a regularized structure including enforcement of legitimately adopted rules governing rights and obligations. Failing that, there's a tendency to descend into anomie…
Agree, and thanks for the new word: "anomie" — I very much like it and it is fitting to the ongoing deconstruction of our communities.
susan the other April 18, 2015 at 3:06 pm
yes, that is a great word; think i'm gonna put it to good use.
I believe that none of TPP/ TTIP is about "threats" from "China". "Threats" from "China" will eventually be put forward as the "national security excuse" for Obamatrade, but the point is exactly in the negative features discussed in all these NaCap articles.
The point is to establish and cement One World Corporate Globalonial Government, to the profit of the Overclass who harvests the most of the money and the non-money wealth and power.
vidimi April 17, 2015 at 9:14 am
i know that americans are understandably more concerned with the TPP than the TTIP, as in the latter it's the US that is the regulatory weak link. here in europe, though, the TPP gets hardly any mention and all the talk (which isn't all that much) is focused on the TTIP.
This is a mistake, though, since if A=B and B=C, then it follows that A=C and that a TTIP will bind europe to a lowest common denominator with not just the US but also Asia.
Praedor April 17, 2015 at 9:23 am
I've always tried to zero in on both but people have no attention spans. TTIP IS = TTP but imprisons Europe instead of Asia. Both deals imprison the USA…under true, unadulterated corporatocracy. The deals literally elevate corporations to co-equal status with countries (superior to countries, actually, since they get to undo any regulations or laws they think will hinder alleged profits). Unfortunately, the way the US Constitution is written it seems to allow for totally wiping out all provisions of the Constitution via simple Treaty. Treaties are THE law of the land, when signed so if a treaty undoes a prior constitutional protection or procedure, that's OK. Treaties trump even amendments, so it seems.
Treaties as the law of the land? Tell that to Native Americans. Didn't work so well for them.
As citizens, we need to stop the TPP, but who in power is listening to us?
When it benefits the Globalonial Overclass, Treaties will indeed be the Law of the Land. The Constitution is wired up that way. That doesn't mean that the American people cared / care about that where Indians are concerned. But many Indian Nations do have Treaty Law on their side, technically speaking. It is just a matter of somehow torturing the non-Indian authorities and people to recognize and follow the Constitutional Treaty mandate in these cases.
I remember reading somewhere where an Indian spokesman was asked something like: Do American Indians believe in the United States Constitution? He said something like: "Of course we do! In fact, we are the ONLY people in America who DO believe in it."
It's true. We took inspiration from the native Americans. They were as awesome in the first centuries of this now USA as we immigrants were abject. What karma.
Vatch April 17, 2015 at 10:30 am
My understanding is that the U.S. Constitution has priority over treaties, but treaties have priority over federal laws. State constitutions and laws are subordinate to the U.S. Constitution, treaties, and federal laws. But my interpretation might be wrong, and anyhow, the current Supreme Court is likely to give preference to pro-business treaties, even if the treaties violate the Constitution. Here's the relevant clause from Article VI. Note that the hierarchy that I described among the U.S. Constitution, treaties, and federal law is not explicitly stated. All we really know is that state laws and constitutions are subordinate.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
This web site annotates the Constitution:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/art6_user.html#pg917
From the Supreme Court's ruling in Gibbons v. Ogden:
In argument, however, it has been contended, that if a law passed by a State, in the exercise of its acknowledged sovereignty, comes into conflict with a law passed by Congress in pursuance of the Constitution, they affect the subject, and each other, like equal opposing powers. But the framers of our Constitution foresaw this state of things, and provided for it, by declaring the supremacy not only of itself, but of the laws made in pursuance of it. The nullity of an act, inconsistent with the Constitution, is produced by the declaration, that the Constitution is the supreme law. The appropriate application of that part of the clause which confers the same supremacy on laws and treaties, is to such acts of the State legislatures as do not transcend their powers, but though enacted in the execution of acknowledged State powers, interfere with, or are contrary to the laws of Congress, made in pursuance of the Constitution, or some treaty made under the authority of the United States. In every such case, the act of Congress, or the treaty, is supreme; and the law of the State, though enacted in the exercise of powers not controverted, must yield to it.
I'm still confused.
hunkerdown April 18, 2015 at 2:17 am
Reid v. Covert established that treaties couldn't override the Constitution. Makes me wish we'd gotten that Second Bill of Rights in.
Calgacus April 18, 2015 at 5:47 pm
Vatch: but treaties have priority over federal laws. No, they're at the same level. Treaties can be self-executing (not need enabling legislation to take domestic force) or non-self-executing (need enabling legislation, more usual probably). Federal laws or treaties have to exercise only Constitutionally granted powers of the federal government. "Made in pursuance of the Constitution" or "under the authority of the United States" are the relevant phrases above – neither Congress nor a Treaty could not make a state governorship hereditary, for example. So another commenters comment that treaties can supersede the Constitution is quite wrong.
No treaty has ever been declared unconstitutional. The US Supreme Court has the right to interpret treaties, which is actually a greater power. If one can just interpret "black" to mean "white", why ever nullify a law? (This doesn't work with respect to the states – the State Supreme Courts are the supreme interpreters of their own State's law, not the US Supremes.) Interpretation and the usual need for enabling legislation has created enough wiggle room to obviate the need for declaring treaties unconstitutional. However, the TPP etc are so absurd that they have a chance to be first, were there a court which actually decided cases on law and reason rather than wealth.
The wikipedia article "Treaty Clause" is quite good, has citations for most of the above, resolves most of the usual muddles I see here.
Fast track pertains to the TTIP too.
I thought we didn't negotiate with terrorists?? It's basically a coup of government, democracy and our national sovereignty by our very own financial terrorists. Wyden's deal doesn't say anything about the international tribunals where corporate attorneys can act as both judge and lawyers in these cases. A revolving door between sitting on the bench and defense of corporate claims of lost earnings. How can they lose. Monsanto would be able to sue their way to controlling the worlds agriculture. We'd be competing for jobs on a global basis, lowering wages. This thing is anti-Constitution. Isn't there some way to prosecute those trying to quiet coup our government??? It's Obama and Holders Too Big To Fail run a muck.
justsayknow April 17, 2015 at 10:06 am
So after the TTP and TTIP are (almost certainly) passed who exactly pays the "lost profits" fines? Is it the US Treasury? The state? Or the local governing authority?
Side note: Contacted my congressman and both senators. Only one of their interns bothered to ask my opinion. Only two wanted my address.
They just wanted my zip code when I called.
EmilianoZ April 17, 2015 at 2:37 pm
Strange, I was told by an intern that they needed your full name to log the call.
Vatch April 17, 2015 at 3:12 pm
Probably each office has different procedures. I suspect that Senators in larger states are less likely to want the names of callers, because they get more calls than Representatives or Senators from small states.
jrs April 18, 2015 at 1:16 am
jrs April 17, 2015 at 12:01 pm
Under MMT I'm told we can just create money for that!
Yves Smith Post author April 17, 2015 at 1:57 pm
The relevant governing body. Oh, and they are on the hook for lost potential profits.
John M April 17, 2015 at 10:47 am
Let's call TPP what it is. A Bill of Rights for multinational corporations that establishes their supremacy over nation states and individuals. It is an extension of the Citizens United ruling and worldview that corporations are entities, not just equal, but superior to individuals and nation states.
Kind of an extension of the Magna Carta, too, if you look at the real nature of that document…
Let's call TPP what it is:
ending U.S. sovereignty.
Mel April 17, 2015 at 10:58 am
More than one law lately has been passed under the assumption that "this will only be used against Bad People". The talking mouths try to justify the ISDS provisions by saying that they'll protect trade against capricious local decisions. Might look good until those local decisions are your own. Signing a blank check against your future decisions and actions means you may soon find you can't afford your own lives.
I think the civil forfeiture laws were passed via the same bad thinking.
Ron April 17, 2015 at 11:00 am
The more local and regional control that is lost along with jobs due to these trade agreements the quicker Americans will come to develop a strong distaste for these agreements and the political class that approves them.
Curtis April 17, 2015 at 11:20 am
It would seem that after TTP, eventually the dragon will be forced to eat it's own tail. Just be patient the whole process will self correct and society may be able to begin again.
I wouldn't mind salvation through collapse, although I rather wish it would come quick before these things pass in that case! And if it wasn't for the fact bad conditions can last a long long long time before they are corrected, our lifetimes perhaps. Can't they?
craazyboy April 17, 2015 at 12:45 pm
It takes 157 years.
I was wondering how the two White House petitions to require the release of the full text of the TPP are doing. I was shocked, but not really surprised, to learn that each has fewer than 1000 virtual signatures.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/release-complete-text-tpp
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-public-entire-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-pact-allowing-our-us-representative-agree-its-terms
There is, though, an absolutely idiotic petition to rename the planet Uranus, which is even stupider than the petition that demanded that the government build a death star.
Signed both petitions — THANKS!
Here's the popular petitions, including pardoning Edward Snowden which has had over 100k for a long time.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions/popular/0/2/0/
I don't think a single one of these petitions is being answered.
It's rational for people to stop signing White House petitions unless they are using them to get the word out. And I'm not even sure if a "the TPP" sticker I saw on a "Stop" sign isn't a better way to get the word out to the ignorant than these BS petitions which probably mostly reach the converted.
Yves Smith Post author April 18, 2015 at 3:32 am
White House petitions are not very useful. But Congresscritters pay attention to ones by Credo, etc. They are tantamount to polling on narrow issues.
TedWa April 17, 2015 at 11:17 pm
I hope sheeple democrats don't take Wydens compliance with the Repuglies as a go ahead on fast track. I guess if he had to compromise, making it so that it's public for 60 days should wake up those that aren;t.
This atrocity is the opposite of the Constitution.
McWatt April 17, 2015 at 11:28 pm
The local shenanigans surrounding Zoning Laws is now so great I can't imagine what would transpire if Uber money became involved from the TPP. Sounds like Ben is on the side of "transit oriented" development which has run amok in suburban areas near large cities. You can not believe the developments that have been built because of phony "transit oriented" needs and how bad they been. Local governments are sweet talked into providing millions of dollars of subsidies to already wealthy developers to build these huge monstrosities. Then the developer either bankrupts or sells the development which turn out to be difficult to rent and nightmares for small villages to administer. These developments all have commercial ground level components that typically sit vacant adding to the nightmare of already vacant existing commercial properties. This dream of stacking people vertically ruins school districts, adds to local governments service costs and never pays for itself with the promise of increased real estate property tax revenue. It is mathematically impossible to add more people and lower your tax burden. Our town has been taken over a dozen times by these developers with a handful full of gimmie and a mouthful of much obliged.
Jeremy Grimm April 18, 2015 at 12:49 am
@McWatt — I live in a relatively small, pop. 22,000, community with a downtown business center that sits half and more than half empty across from the half-empty small shopping center across the street — which was half-empty when the business center was built. I never gave it much thought until your comment. Now, I'm curious to find out more how the business center came about. No transit orientation was necessary for what on further reflection starts to look like "local shenanigans."
I recall an even larger downtown development I saw about ten years ago when I went back to visit Winooski, Vermont hoping to eat at a favorite restaurant I used to go to in the middle 1980's. The Winooski development was a multi-block and multi-story complex with no apparent rationale behind its construction and appeared to be largely vacant. I can only imagine what kind of shenanigans went into building that development in a town of less than 10,000. Especially in a place like Vermont. Maybe the place has filled up with tenants now, but with the sale of the IBM plant nearby that seems doubtful. [Can anyone in the area fill me in on what things are like in Winooski now?]
I think you're right. Things are bad without the help of the TPP. With TPP added in it will make for some very interesting times in our local communities. Even those far away from large cities.
Aumua on 2:00PM Water Cooler 1/17/2020When is it going to end? It's not...


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In the World's Most Crowded City, the 'World's Worst Job'
A look at the sewer cleaners of Dhaka
By Kate Seamons, Newser Staff
Posted Mar 24, 2018 4:00 PM CDT
A view of Dhaka. (Getty Images)
New York is America's most crowded city, at about 27,000 people per square mile. That's downright airy compared to Dhaka, Bangladesh, which ranks as the planet's densest city at 115,000 people per square mile. And as the Guardian reports, it's not just overflowing with people. Dhaka has a serious sewer problem, one that's exacerbated during monsoon season, when drains that can't keep up with the population and the weather cause "the low-lying city [to fill] with water like a bathtub," writes Poppy McPherson. That has created the existence of what has been referred to as the "world's worst job": sewer cleaner. The cleaners' tools can be as primitive as bamboo sticks plunged into clogged manholes; sometimes, the cleaners themselves are the ones plunged into the filth.
It can be deadly work, no more so than in 2008, when seven cleaners tasked with clearing a manhole got sucked in; onlookers used shovels and hammers to bust open the road and retrieve them. Only three survived. And even the unscathed aren't unscathed: "The sewerage lines are acidic and poisonous due to rotten filth," explains one sewer cleaner. "So cleaners are 100% sure to have health problems, especially skin problems." McPherson explains that the city's Mughal-era canals used to provide drainage, but after Bangladesh gained its independence in 1971, they were filled in to make way for development. The city agreed to move forward on a plan to resurrect some of those canals—but that was five years ago, and little has been accomplished. Read the full story here. (Read more Dhaka stories.)