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Business rates giant CVS slammed by customers for 'unfair' treatment
Following the Government's decision to freeze rates until 2017, CVS is billing its customers for two more years, prompting a backlash
By Rebecca Burn Callander and Rebecca Burn Calland 30 May 2015 • 7:30pm
'They've had £20,000 out of us,' says one disgruntled customers. 'I do not want to pay another £10,000' Credit: Photo: PA
The UK's largest business rates specialist has been accused of acting "unfairly" by a group of unhappy customers, after the company continued to demand payments after its apparent five-year contract.
CVS (Commercial Valuers and Surveyors), which trades as CVS, negotiates business rates bill reductions on behalf of its clients on a no-win, no-fee basis, charging 50pc of the total savings.
Business rates are re-evaluated every five years but in 2013 the Government announced it was to review the way they were calculated, and deferred the start date of the next "rateable period" by two years. CVS has required its customers pay until 2017.
A clause included in the fine print of its standard contract states: "Rating period is the five-year term from one re-evaluation of a rateable value to another."
"What if the Government extended the period for 20 years?" said Grahame Connor, the founder of accountancy firm Connor Warin, who has been invoiced for £5,000 by CVS for the two-year period. "What would happen then?"
Colin Noble, founder of PEC Packaging, which manufactures automotive packaging on behalf of clients including Jaguar Land Rover, has paid CVS £70,000 over five years. "This two-year extension is just the sting in the tail," he said. "It's unfair."
Keith Tuckley, licensee of the Earl of Chatham pub in London, is another unhappy CVS customer. He said: "They've had £20,000 out of us and I do not want to pay another £10,000."
Sandra Spearing, founder of South West Reclamation, which sells antiques and renovation materials, is being billed £1,000 a year by CVS, including VAT.
"I feel so stupid," she said. "I didn't even realise we had to pay every year. 50pc is so high, I thought it was a one-off payment. Now it could be another two years of payments."
CVS' website claims that it has processed more than 58,000 business rates appeals since 2010. In 2013, the company turned over £22.4m.
CVS' board boasts a number of well-respected directors. Chief executive Mark Rigby is chairman of professional rugby union team Wasps, while Peter Chappelow, CVS chairman, is non-executive chairman of OKA, the homewares company owned by Lady Astor, mother of Samantha Cameron, the Prime Minister's wife.
The largest shareholding in CVS is owned by convicted fraudster Jason Peter Clarke, who was successfully prosecuted by North Yorkshire trading standards in 2000 for using the promise of business rates reductions to con tens of thousands of businesses.
Mr Clarke pleaded guilty to six offences of fraudulent trading through the Strattons and Oldfields companies.
CVS is regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and is a member of the Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation and the Institute of Customer Service.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors confirmed this week that it was launching a full investigation into the allegations against CVS.
"I'm refusing to pay up," said Mr Connor. "I'm hoping that if enough of us get together, we can launch a class action."
A spokesperson for CVS said: "The Government's decision to postpone the next business rates revaluation has had dramatic and damaging consequences for businesses across the UK. In this context, CVS' professional surveyors work hard to reduce businesses' rates and we only ever charge clients when they are saving money.
"These complaints reflect only a handful of cases from our 50,000 clients, for whom we have saved £600m since our incorporation. We are fully regulated and our contractual terms are very clear, but we are always willing to discuss any instance in which a client is in some way dissatisfied."
A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government, which is responsible for business rates, said: "The Government postponed the revaluation to provide certainty for businesses and avoid sharp changes and unexpected hikes in business rates.
"The Enterprise Bill announced this week will create a faster and more efficient appeals system that limits the number of speculative appeals allowing the speedier resolution of genuine appeals. This should reduce the costs and frustration for businesses and ensure that businesses receive any reduction in their rates bill more quickly.
"While the issue at hand is a private contractual matter between the individuals concerned, the changes outlined will help ensure that undue profits cannot be made from the system."
rebecca.burn-callander@telegraph.co.uk


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MLK Day was a 'day on' at Penn State Worthington Scranton
Penn State Worthington Scranton Chancellor Marwan Wafa, far left, and Multi-Cultural Programs Coordinator/Development Martin Lacayo, far right, present this year's Excellence in Diversity Awards to Salma Ahmed, second from left, and Parminder Parmar, third from left.
Credit: Jordan Goldman
By Jordan Goldman
DUNMORE, Pa. — Penn State Worthington Scranton (PSWS) hosted its third annual MLK Day Luncheon and Excellence in Diversity Awards Ceremony in The View Café on Monday, Jan. 15, with the theme "A Higher Destiny".
In honor of King the campus awarded Diversity Awards to two recipients and welcomed guest speaker LaTida Smith, CEO of the Moses Taylor Foundation in Scranton.
After the ceremony, students and faculty observed the national day of community service by volunteering at several events throughout the area, including the Keystone Rescue Mission in Scranton, the Gino Merli Veterans Center, and a birdhouse-building event on campus benefiting the Lacawac environmental sanctuary.
LaTida Smith, president and CEO of the Moses Taylor Foundation in Scranton, previously spent 12 years with the St. Luke's Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio before moving to Northeastern Pennsylvania with her family.
While in Cleveland, Smith oversaw the grantmaking process within the community, and also managed the HIV/AIDS unit and served as a community educator for Planned Parenthood in the city of Cleveland.
Speaking to a packed room at the PSWS café, Smith implored everyone to not give up on the community service ideals that motivated Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement so many years ago. King, like us, also experienced uncertain and troubling political times, she told the crowd, yet he never once wavered in his commitment to uplifting society through the collective work of regular people.
"Dr. King reminded us that human progress is not automatic," Smith said, describing the importance of the local community in spurring effective and lasting legislative change that has the power to benefit people from all walks of life.
As King, quoting Theodore Parker, once said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
"The sum total of everyday people like you and I are what helps to bend the arc," Smith said.
This event is held annually to honor the work and memory of Martin Luther King Jr. and to recognize members of the local community who work to uphold his vision of a more inclusive and accepting society.
The Excellence in Diversity Awards, which are awarded as part of the MLK Day celebration, are given to an internal member of the Penn State community, and an external member of the greater Scranton community, who demonstrated exemplary community leadership, ambition and acceptance of different races, religions, opinions, and peoples in general.
This year's PSWS Excellence in Diversity Award was presented to Penn State faculty member Parminder Parmar, an associate professor of human development and family studies at Penn State Worthington Scranton, who is a reliable formal and informal resource for the diverse student body here on campus.
Parmar was one of the first to participate as a facilitator in the campus's Diversity Circles exercises, and has shown commendable ambition towards promoting acceptance and tolerance among all of those who call Penn State home.
She has been a driving behind teaching students about the Diwali festival, the autumnal Hindu celebration of the "festival of lights", as well as the Holi festival in the Spring, also a traditional Hindu celebration observed on the Indian subcontinent.
As a member of the Penn State family, Parmar has brought awareness and appreciation of Indian culture and communities to people of all backgrounds at Penn State Worthington Scranton.
Aneri Patel, a nursing student at PSWS, writes of Parmar: "She works tirelessly in support of the Indian community. She has spread awareness about the different festivals and/or traditions of the indian culture. An example is how she educates the non-Indian community, she does a presentation in class, explains its origin and why we celebrate it."
The community Excellence in Diversity Award was presented to Marywood University student Salma Ahmed, who works as an interfaith youth core officer, as well as an international ambassador and public relations officer for the Deen Community Center in Scranton.
Ahmed has been an active participant and organizer for interfaith and multicultural events in the community and is the leader of the Better Together program at Marywood, which aims to provide students the platform to learn about the perspectives and opinions of different cultures, as well as share their own.
She also works to welcome and prepare for refugees entering the Scranton community, and her charismatic personality and experience as a civic volunteer allow her to effectively help refugees and Scranton residents of different races, economic classes, and religions to accept and appreciate each other as vital pieces of a broader cultural mosaic.
Ahmed is also a board member of the Islamic Center of Scranton and volunteers for Marywood University's Thanksgiving Adopt-A-Family and Kids Stuff programs. In addition, she works with Hilltop Manor and the Weinberg Food Bank on a summer lunch program to provide meals for underprivileged children in the community.
Melinda Krokus of Marywood University writes of Ms. Ahmed, "One of the many remarkable attributes about her is how she can fold people seemingly effortlessly into these at times difficult conversations and yet set a tone of civility that is contagious. I have seen her do this in the classroom, in the broader community, and in her friendships as well."
The campus thanks everyone who participated in the MLK Day ceremonies and community services and hopes next year's services will be even more successful.
Activities and Traditions
Recent alumna helps others as an ESL teacher, credits peer tutoring experience
Penn State Scranton named as a 2022-23 Pa. National Guard-friendly school
Penn State Scranton dedicates new Engineering Building
International, domestic students visit D.C. for Global Engagement trip
Scranton campus hosts congressman, NSF director to discuss STEM education
State Rep. Jonathan Fritz receives Friend of Penn State Legislative Award

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Pu Songling
Pu Songling (Chinese: 蒲松齡; 5 June 1640 – 25 February 1715) was a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai zhiyi).
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1.1 Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1740)
2 Quotes about Pu Songling
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1740)[edit]
My talents are not those of Kan Pao, elegant explorer of the records of the Gods; I am rather animated by the spirit of Su Tung-P'o, who loved to hear men speak of the supernatural. I get people to commit what they tell me to writing, and subsequently I dress it up in the form of a story; thus in the lapse of time my friends from all quarters have supplied me with quantities of material, which, from my habit of collecting, has grown into a vast pile.
"Author's Own Record", trans. Herbert Allen Giles in Gems of Chinese Literature (1922), p. 235
Variant translation:
With time
And my love of hoarding,
The matter sent me by friends
From the four corners
Has grown into a pile.
"Author's Preface", lines 28–32, trans. John Minford in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin, 2006), pp. 30–31
How foolish men are, to see nothing but beauty in what is clearly evil! [...] Heaven's Way has its inexorable justice, but some mortals remain foolish and never see the light!
"The Painted Skin", trans. John Minford in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin, 2006), p. 521
Quotes about Pu Songling[edit]
One striking difference between many of Pu Song-ling's literary ghost stories and their Western counterparts is the frequent undercurrent of whimsy and humor, found precisely in the conjunction of the ordinary and the supernatural, the domestic and demonic.
Stephen Owen, An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (1996), p. 1103
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The Anthropocene Crisis
By John Bellamy Foster on August 1, 2016 in Articles, Forewords
"Foreword," to Ian Angus, Facing the Anthropocene (New York: Monthly Reviwe Press, 2016), 9-17.
The Anthropocene, viewed as a new geological epoch displacing the Holocene epoch of the last 10,000 to 12,000 years, represents what has been called an "anthropogenic rift" in the history of the planet.2 Formally introduced into the contemporary scientific and environmental discussion by climatologist Paul Crutzen in 2000, it stands for the notion that human beings have become the primary emergent geological force affecting the future of the Earth system. Although often traced to the Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth century, the Anthropocene is probably best seen as arising in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Recent scientific evidence suggests that the period from around 1950 on exhibits a major spike, marking a Great Acceleration in human impacts on the environment, with the most dramatic stratigraphic trace of the anthropogenic rift to be found in fallout radionuclides from nuclear weapons testing.
Facing the Anthropocene, Ian Angus, Sole Author
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Reason and Intuition in the Assessment of Evidence in Litigation
Judge Jack B. Weinstein argued quite some time ago that when counsel and court weigh the relevance of evidence, its probative value, and the question of undue prejudice, both reason and intuition must serve as the guide to the resolution of such questions. This position has always seemed to me to be eminently sensible. I mention this now only because a few legal scholars continue to take extreme positions on the question of the role of intuition and rational analysis in the assessment of evidence. Some legal scholars seem to assert that only intuition and ineffable common sense can serve to resolve disputes about matters such as probative value, while a few other scholars seem to go to the other extreme by suggesting that only rational analysis provides answers. My own view is that reason and rational analysis have an important role to play -- or we are justified in hoping and supposing that they play a useful role -- but that explicit rational analysis alone can only rarely provide the solution to an inferential problem. This is because any real-world assessment of evidence by the organism known as homo sapiens necessarily involves a wide variety of complex perceptual and information processing mechanisms that operate at a subconscious level, largely out of view of the mind's eye. Quite some time ago -- more than a century ago -- the "German polymath" Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) uttered the dictum that perception is "unconscious inference." While there have been some occasional challenges to this hypothesis -- mainly by behaviorally-inclined psychologists who, like B.F. Skinner, seem anxious to deny the existence of "mental states" --, Helmholtz's dictum seems true: perceptual processes, processes that may not seem "rational" or "cognitive," in fact employ complex information processing procedures that seem to have a great deal of "logic" and "reason" in them. See, e.g., the many interesting recent studies of the nature of the logic that informs or underlies visual perception: Richard L. Gregory, "Knowledge in Perception and Illusion"; Daniel Kersten, "What Is the Visual System Like?"; Shimon Edelman, "Visual Perception" (including entries on "visual performance" and "visual competence" -- and much,much more).
So what? What does this stuff about the (supposed) "logic of perception" have to do with the price of tea in China -- or with the structure and nature of inference and proof in litigation?
This: The premise that there is a great deal of logic in our perceptual and subconscious processes suggests, on the one hand, that rational analysis has its uses, and, on the other hand, its limits. We must be modest in our expectations of the powers of explicit rational analysis of evidence, but we are also entitled to think, believe, or hope that rational analysis is occasionally able to bring features of inferential problems and inferential processes to the mind's eye, with the possible result, at least occasionally, that our submerged and tacit cognitive and perceptual processes work somewhat better than they otherwise would have worked.
Reason and Intuition in the Assessment of Evidence...


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package tests

import (
	"context"
	"testing"

	"github.com/golang/mock/gomock"

	"github.com/apache/thrift/lib/go/test/gopath/src/optionalfieldstest"
	"github.com/apache/thrift/lib/go/test/gopath/src/requiredfieldtest"
	"github.com/apache/thrift/lib/go/thrift"
)

func TestRequiredField_SucecssWhenSet(t *testing.T) {
	// create a new RequiredField instance with the required field set
	source := &requiredfieldtest.RequiredField{Name: "this is a test"}
	sourceData, err := thrift.NewTSerializer().Write(context.Background(), source)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("failed to serialize %T: %v", source, err)
	}

	d := thrift.NewTDeserializer()
	err = d.Read(context.Background(), &requiredfieldtest.RequiredField{}, sourceData)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("Did not expect an error when trying to deserialize the requiredfieldtest.RequiredField: %v", err)
	}
}

func TestRequiredField_ErrorWhenMissing(t *testing.T) {
	// create a new OtherThing instance, without setting the required field
	source := &requiredfieldtest.OtherThing{}
	sourceData, err := thrift.NewTSerializer().Write(context.Background(), source)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("failed to serialize %T: %v", source, err)
	}

	// attempt to deserialize into a different type (which should fail)
	d := thrift.NewTDeserializer()
	err = d.Read(context.Background(), &requiredfieldtest.RequiredField{}, sourceData)
	if err == nil {
		t.Fatal("Expected an error when trying to deserialize an object which is missing a required field")
	}
}

func TestStructReadRequiredFields(t *testing.T) {
	mockCtrl := gomock.NewController(t)
	protocol := NewMockTProtocol(mockCtrl)
	testStruct := optionalfieldstest.NewStructC()

	// None of required fields are set
	gomock.InOrder(
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadStructBegin(context.Background()).Return("StructC", nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadFieldBegin(context.Background()).Return("_", thrift.TType(thrift.STOP), int16(1), nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadStructEnd(context.Background()).Return(nil),
	)

	err := testStruct.Read(context.Background(), protocol)
	mockCtrl.Finish()
	mockCtrl = gomock.NewController(t)
	if err == nil {
		t.Fatal("Expected read to fail")
	}
	err2, ok := err.(thrift.TProtocolException)
	if !ok {
		t.Fatal("Expected a TProtocolException")
	}
	if err2.TypeId() != thrift.INVALID_DATA {
		t.Fatal("Expected INVALID_DATA TProtocolException")
	}

	// One of the required fields is set
	gomock.InOrder(
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadStructBegin(context.Background()).Return("StructC", nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadFieldBegin(context.Background()).Return("I", thrift.TType(thrift.I32), int16(2), nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadI32(context.Background()).Return(int32(1), nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadFieldEnd(context.Background()).Return(nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadFieldBegin(context.Background()).Return("_", thrift.TType(thrift.STOP), int16(1), nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadStructEnd(context.Background()).Return(nil),
	)

	err = testStruct.Read(context.Background(), protocol)
	mockCtrl.Finish()
	mockCtrl = gomock.NewController(t)
	if err == nil {
		t.Fatal("Expected read to fail")
	}
	err2, ok = err.(thrift.TProtocolException)
	if !ok {
		t.Fatal("Expected a TProtocolException")
	}
	if err2.TypeId() != thrift.INVALID_DATA {
		t.Fatal("Expected INVALID_DATA TProtocolException")
	}

	// Both of the required fields are set
	gomock.InOrder(
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadStructBegin(context.Background()).Return("StructC", nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadFieldBegin(context.Background()).Return("i", thrift.TType(thrift.I32), int16(2), nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadI32(context.Background()).Return(int32(1), nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadFieldEnd(context.Background()).Return(nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadFieldBegin(context.Background()).Return("s2", thrift.TType(thrift.STRING), int16(4), nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadString(context.Background()).Return("test", nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadFieldEnd(context.Background()).Return(nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadFieldBegin(context.Background()).Return("_", thrift.TType(thrift.STOP), int16(1), nil),
		protocol.EXPECT().ReadStructEnd(context.Background()).Return(nil),
	)

	err = testStruct.Read(context.Background(), protocol)
	mockCtrl.Finish()
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal("Expected read to succeed")
	}
}

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Dolce & Gabbana DG2256
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«Ніч яка місячна» (Ночь какая лунная) — украинская песня, слова которой написал Михаил Старицкий, хотя в большинстве источников она упоминается как «народная песня». Музыка написана Николаем Лысенко, а впоследствии и Андреем Волощенко и Василием Овчинниковым. Музыка А. Волощенко и В. Овчинникова была напечатана в 3-й части «Школы игры на бандуре» В. Шевченко в типографии В. Гроссе 1914 года.

Самая ранняя известная запись романса 1937 года была сделана Николаем Платоновым с аккомпанементом Оскара Сандлера (фортепиано), Л. Розенфельда (скрипка) и В. Хотинского (виолончель). Единственный известный сохранившийся экземпляр грампластинки с этой записью Ногинского завода грампластинок находится в частной коллекции Олега Беседина (Днепропетровск).

Песня исполняется в фильме «В бой идут одни "старики"» Николаем Кондратюком.

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Written by Luke Alex Davis• January 18, 2013• 7:18 pm• Hip Hop
Sho Baraka – Talented 10th
ATL rapper Sho Baraka drops Talented 10th.
It was MLK Day not too long ago and to commemorate the occasion, Sho Baraka dropped his third studio album Talented Xth, his first full-length album as an independent artist. The Christian rapper's sophomore offering, Lions and Liars, debuted at #15 on the Billboard Hip Hop charts, #3 on the iTunes Hip Hop charts and #14 overall on the iTunes charts back in 2010 so he's no rookie. The title and idea behind Talented 10th was based on the W. E. B. Du Bois essay of the same name. He gave each track a chapter name based on a famous identity, from Cliff and Claire (Huxtable) to Peter Pan, showcasing his intelligent wordplay over a wide range of powerful beats (and some controversy with the use of strong language on the song Chapter 9 – Jim Crow). With that being said, as this is his third album, he falls into something I like to call the Third Album Theory. I won't bore you with an full explanation but according to my theory, it's make or break from here. Judging by how this sounds, I'll be shocked if this doesn't takeSho Baraka to a higher plateau.
Stream Ali, a cut from the LP below.
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PM affirms resolve to curb inflation
Updated: 16:26' - 01/08/2018
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has reiterated the Government's resolve to control inflation, noting that although the consumer price index (CPI) in July fell slightly from the previous month, the pressure of rising inflation remains considerable.
Technicians assemble a blade for a wind turbine that belongs to the Dam Nai wind power project in Ninh Thuan province. The project is playing a big role in the socio-economic development of the province__Photo: Cong Thu/VNA
The PM was chairing the Government's monthly meeting in Hanoi on July 31 to review the socio-economic situation in July and the first seven months of 2018.
He said the socio-economic situation in July was better than in June when inflation was controlled well with the CPI down 0.09 percent after surging in the two previous months.
Though there remain a number of difficulties, Phuc asserted that the Government would try to keep this year's inflation within 4 percent as targeted by the National Assembly.
Core inflation (CPI excluding fresh food, energy, and State-managed services such as health care and education) has just risen by 1.36 percent in seven months.
Stressing the need to take more measures to rein in inflation, he noted significant pressure for rising inflation as a result of higher interest rates in the world market, exchange rates and prices of essential goods, especially amid a trade war between China and the US.
Highlighting other positive economic figures, the Cabinet leader said industrial production expanded strongly by 14.3 percent in July, including a 16.6-percent increase in processing and manufacturing.
Other indices like retail sales of consumer goods and services, the number of international arrivals, foreign direct investment, budget revenue and exports also posted good growth. Notably, exports stood at approximately USD 134 billion as of mid-July, leading to a trade surplus of USD 3.1 billion. Nearly 80,000 new businesses have been set up while 18,700 firms have resumed operations so far this year.
With encouraging socio-economic signs, many international organizations project a good economic outlook for Vietnam, he said, noting that the Asian Development Bank forecast this year's GDP growth rate at 7.1 percent while Standard Chartered predicted this figure at 7 percent and inflation at around 4 percent.
However, Phuc also pointed to many shortcomings along with challenges to the economy, including the complex flooding situation. He asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and relevant agencies to take stronger measures to manage reservoirs and dams and study the lesson of the recent hydropower dam collapse in Laos.
Expressing his worry about the slow equitization of State-owned enterprises, he blamed many ministries, sectors and localities for not being drastic enough and requested them to accelerate this work. He noted that the Government would hold a national conference on State-owned enterprises in the future.
Regarding the national high school examination cheating in some localities, he said these scandals had greatly impacted public trust. He demanded the whole political system and relevant agencies to deal with this problem thoroughly.
In terms of scrap imports into Vietnam - another public concern, the PM said the Cabinet's standing members had met to discuss and issue directions on this issue with the determination of not turning Vietnam to the world's dumping site. He added that the public security sector had been assigned to investigate and launch criminal proceedings against importers abandoning imported scrap to avoid responsibility.- (VNS/VLLF)
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HomeSportsWarriors edge Pacers 102-100
Warriors edge Pacers 102-100
INDIANAPOLIS: Caris LeVert #22 of the Indiana Pacers towards the Golden State Warriors at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on December 13, 2021 in Indianapolis. – AFP
LOS ANGELES: Two-time league MVP Stephen Curry is simply two three-point baskets clear of breaking Ray Allen's all-time NBA listing after his Golden State Warriors rallied past due to edge the Indiana Pacers 102-100 on Monday. Curry got here into the sport desiring seven three-pointers however may just set up handiest 5, leaving him one wanting tying Allen's listing of two,973.
"I'm taking part in the instant, knocking at the doorstep. It's lovely surreal," Curry mentioned after scoring 26 issues with six rebounds and 6 assists. "You simply stay taking part in basketball, taking photographs you assume you'll be able to make and benefit from the revel in." In 35 mins of taking part in time, he shot 5 of 15 from past the arc in entrance of a crowd of 17,018 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse area in Indianapolis that had been keen to look him spoil the listing.
Curry and the Warriors were given off to a sluggish get started, trailed for lots of the recreation and had been 55-47 at the back of on the part. The 33-year-old Curry didn't hit his first three-pointer till the second one quarter and dedicated 4 of his seven turnovers within the first part as he was once smothered by way of the Pacers' stifling protection. "I wasn't going to let him do it on our courtroom," mentioned Indiana's Malcolm Brogdon, who had 23 issues and 8 assists.
Curry made some seize baskets down the stretch, scoring 5 of the Warriors' ultimate seven issues, together with his 5th and ultimate three-pointer – a 24-foot effort with 84 seconds left at the clock to drag the Warriors to inside of two issues at 100-98. He then sank two unfastened throws to tie it 100-100 earlier than Kevon Looney were given the profitable basket with 13 seconds to head. "It was once a grind-it-out roughly win," mentioned Curry, who neglected a possible record-tying three-pointer within the ultimate seconds.
'Numerous hype'
"We had a aggressive spirit down the stretch and we were given sufficient stops." The 3-time NBA champion Curry admitted that the listing has turn out to be a distraction for the staff. "Let's be fair," Curry mentioned. "There may be a large number of hype round this listing. Every now and then it will get everyone dashing, taking part in out of our pores and skin. We needed to remind ourselves how we play offense." Curry doesn't have to attend lengthy to get his subsequent shot on the listing, towards the New York Knicks on Tuesday. "It is going to occur when it occurs. I've appreciate for all nice shooters that experience come throughout the league," Curry mentioned.
"I simply wish to benefit from the second as a result of it's been a very long time coming." Andrew Wiggins contributed 15 issues for the Warriors, whilst Draymond Inexperienced accrued a team-high 9 rebounds to head with 15 issues. Domantas Sabonis led all scorers with 30 for the Pacers, who noticed a three-game profitable streak ended. The Warriors are actually 22-5 at the season and a few of the favorites, at the side of the Phoenix Suns and Brooklyn Nets, to win the NBA name.
In Los Angeles, Marcus Morris scored a season-high 24 issues because the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Devin Booker-less Phoenix Suns 111-95 within the first recreation between the competitors since final season's playoffs. Reggie Jackson added 19 issues and Terance Mann had 17 issues and 9 rebounds for the red-hot Clippers, who've gained 4 instantly. The Suns, who lead the Western Convention this season with a 21-5 listing, had been lacking stars Booker and Deandre Ayton.
The Clippers had been additionally short-handed, taking part in with out all-stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. The Suns beat the Clippers in six video games final season within the Western Convention ultimate earlier than dropping to the Milwaukee Greenbacks within the NBA finals. In Boston, Jayson Tatum had 42 issues on 16-of-25 taking pictures because the Celtics beat the Greenbacks to snap their three-game dropping streak. In Toronto, Scottie Barnes scored 14 of his 16 issues within the first part because the Raptors defeated the Sacramento Kings 124-101. – AFP
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Navistar recalls certain models due to faulty hex flange lock nuts
By The Trucker News Staff - December 5, 2022
Home > Equipment & Tech > Navistar recalls certain models due to faulty hex flange lock nuts
More than 31,000 big trucks and buses are being recalled by Navistar due to improper heat treating on hex flange lock nuts.
WASHINGTON — More than 31,000 big trucks and buses are being recalled by Navistar due to improper heat treating on hex flange lock nuts.
According to recall notices filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — 22V-869 and 22V-869 — the defect could result in unstable steering, increasing the possibility of a crash.
Company officials say they aren't aware of any crashes related to the issue.
Included in the recall are certain 2021-22 International CV and 2022-23 HV models, along with 2023 models of the HX, Lonestar, LT, MV and RH.
The defective parts — used between January and August 2022, depending on the vehicle — did not fail at the time of vehicle assembly.
Navistar officials said they quarantined vehicles in their plants on Aug. 26 until they were sure good parts were being used in production.
Navistar dealers will replace all suspect hex flange lock nuts with those made to its design specifications for form and surface hardness. Dealers and owners of the affected vehicles will be notified by first-class mail beginning Jan. 20.
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HomeIngredientsGlobal interest in cannabis has governments, companies racing to dominate supply chain
Global interest in cannabis has governments, companies racing to dominate supply chain
The many uses of cannabis, from industrial hemp to recreational marijuana, is the hottest growth story in botanicals. In the global arena, questions surrounding supply chain dominance are adding urgency to this opportunity.
Todd Runestad | Jan 17, 2019
Hemp, fittingly, is now growing "like a weed" around the globe. By the end of 2017, the global hemp trade was valued at $3.1 billion and is expected to nearly double that to an estimated $5.7 billion by 2020, according to New Frontier Data.
It's hard to think of another crop that increased production that fast, and even as the industry is growing like a weed, questions around how to build a supply chain that big and that fast are growing even quicker.
And while the rising wave of CBD awareness is a U.S. story, on a global scale the picture is more complicated.
Some of those complications are rooted in the surprisingly broad uses this single plant represents. According to Hemp Business Journal, industrial hemp can be used in an estimated 50,000 different products across a wide spectrum of industries, from textiles to food products, building materials to bio-plastics, nutraceuticals to nanomaterials, ethanol to animal bedding.
In 1941, for example, Henry Ford introduced a prototype automobile built almost entirely of hemp—all the way down to the fuel source. In its December issue that year, Popular Mechanics declared that one day Ford would "grow automobiles from the soil." Unfortunately, as hemp had been outlawed in 1937 because of its association with marijuana, the project stagnated. But the promise of hemp-fueled bio-plastics remains today, and auto makers like BMW use it for door panels and dashboards.
All those different applications lead to different sourcing networks built on supply chains that serve different product lines.
China set to dominate another industry
Many countries have their own domestic hemp markets, which usually are focused on specific industrial applications. Just as the U.S. market is taking off, export opportunities to Central and South America are slowing, as countries such as Uruguay, Brazil and Columbia establish their own domestic markets.
China is now the world's leader in hemp production, responsible for $1.1 billion in domestic sales—roughly one-third of the entire global market, according to New Frontier Data. With a 6,000-year history of growing hemp and rapid movement into new opportunities, China presents a difficult market from which to capture data. Estimates of the Chinese hemp acreage in 2017 range from 100,000 acres to 200,000 acres or more.
But China grows hemp mostly for textiles. More than 75 percent of the Chinese hemp industry goes toward consumer cloths and woven fabrics. Of the remaining 25 percent, $200 million is for industrial applications and personal care, while hemp-derived CBD is just a tiny sliver of that at $53 million, according to Hemp Business Journal.
One only-in-China facet of Chinese law is that exclusively Chinese companies can grow and sell hemp in China. Foreign companies are required to export any Chinese hemp they source. This—coupled with the Chinese government driving the planting of market-dominating acreage—makes China the leading source of hemp for other countries in Asia, including South Korea and Japan.
China's 2012 five-year plan specified hemp among three commodity crops for which it would establish infrastructure. Four research institutes and a medical university have been tasked with conducting research into the greater cannabis plant, while the world's largest CBD extraction facility opened in China in 2016, according to San Francisco investment house Mazakali.
The trick with China is manifold. The Asia-Pacific region is home to six out of 10 humans—more than 4 billion people. And Chinese hemp, specifically, is very much poised to dominate that market in the years to come, much like Chinese-based ingredients dominate the whole of the dietary supplements ingredients business.
"Demand for Chinese-grown hemp is expected to soar as consumers around the world embrace the plant's versatile uses," said Giadha Aguirre de Carer, founder and CEO of New Frontier Data. "Within Asia, Japan and Korea will be particularly promising markets for CBD products, both to serve the large beauty and cosmetics markets and to provide low-risk therapeutic alternatives for the large aging populations in both countries."
But for now, the main issue with Chinese-grown hemp is that it is grown for textiles. And hemp grown for textiles looks very different from hemp grown for its trendy use in America—namely, CBD. Yet the risk is more than manifest, with Chinese hemp likely already making it into U.S. CBD products. As with any product that has a supply chain spanning the globe, maintaining quality raw material from farm to final factory presents potential challenges.
"A lot of hemp in China is for textiles," said Jared Stanley, vice president of cultivation for Charlotte's Web, the leading CBD producer in the U.S. "The back side doesn't have quality-control parameters that we might see on U.S. oil. Unfortunately, it might go through a middle man in Europe, and people think they might get hemp free from pesticides and herbicides and fungus, from reputable companies in Europe, but it might be from China that's grown for textiles and not for human consumption. That's a problem."
Another compelling storyline in Asia is Thailand. While nations the world over define legal hemp as cannabis with less than 0.3 percent THC, Thailand defines it as less than a full 1.0 percent THC. That percentage is a goal for many in the U.S. hemp industry, and the primary reason why the core hemp industry was able to prevail itself upon Colorado voters, who in the recent November elections voted to take the definition of hemp out of the Colorado constitution and instead make it a mere statutory definition. This gives the Colorado legislature the flexibility to redefine hemp however they want, and the core Colorado hemp growers would like nothing more than to see the definition of industrial hemp move to that higher 1.0 percent THC threshold, just like Thailand.
If Thailand can prevail upon at least Southeast Asia, the rest of the region could follow suit, with the global market not far behind in following that definition.
Let's go: Europe
In Europe, France is far and away the leader in hemp production—mostly for fiber and grain production. In 2016, France led Europe by growing about 35,000 acres, followed by Estonia with 8,500 and the Netherlands with 6,000 acres.
U.S. CBD leader CV Sciences began selling CBD, with its PlusCBD Oil, before the 2014 Farm Bill was signed, by sourcing hemp from the Netherlands and having it processed into oil in Germany.
"We started sourcing hemp before there was a source," said Josh Hendrix, director of domestic hemp production for CV Sciences. "Obviously, hemp is ramping up everywhere. In France and China it's for the stalk, the fiber, of the plant. In Europe it's used for dashboards for cars." Europe is far ahead of the U.S. in processing capability and capacity, Hendrix says. "There are processing bottlenecks in the U.S. We're years behind Europe, but that's all changing quickly now."
Oh, Canada
While Europe had been growing between 20,000 and 40,000 acres of hemp a year, there was a decided and steady uptick beginning in 2011. In 2017, Europe grew more than 80,000 acres. (The U.S., by comparison, grew no hemp until 2015, but in 2017 it broke the 20,000-acre barrier, according to Vote Hemp.)
Canada, however, has suddenly supercharged its hemp efforts. Canada grew only 10,000 acres in 2008, but by 2014, the country grew double Europe's production at more than 100,000 acres. By 2017, it was up to 138,000 acres.
With Canada fast on the way to legalizing all things cannabis, the great white north is looking to become a dominant global player in the hemp business.
Canada has a burgeoning export market. Sales to South Korea, were about $235,000 in 2014-15 but then absolutely skyrocketed to $16.7 million the next year, and then to $31.7 million in 2016-17, according to the Canadian Seed Trade Association. When China noticed its neighbor buying all that Canadian hemp, it aggressively moved in on the South Korea market, much to the chagrin of Canadians, according to New Frontier Data.
But Canada still holds several advantages.
"Canada is an easier place to navigate and cultivate hemp," said Stanley. "That's because they average your last ten years' test results, and the average has to be less than 0.3 percent THC. That's because hemp [THC content] can vary region to region and season to season."
Manitoba Harvest, the global leader in hemp foods, and its partner ingredient supplier, Hemp Oil Canada, received self-affirmed Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) status in 2018 for its complete line of hemp seeds, oil and protein powder. The company has also submitted to FDA for GRAS notification.
"We care so deeply about transforming consumer health and removing any doubt about the benefits of hemp foods, that we've invested hundreds of hours on the rigorous process to obtain GRAS notification from the FDA," said Bill Chiasson, CEO of Manitoba Harvest. "This is a milestone for the entire hemp food industry."
The GRAS status removes regulatory barriers for food innovators, ingredient buyers and mass-market food service buyers to use hemp foods in their product offerings.
"Hemp seeds are a sleeping giant pushing into the mainstream," said Mike Fata, founder of Manitoba Harvest. "We're excited for this new 'it food' status."
Hemp, hemp, hooray
Hemp's fortunes seem to be growing nowhere but up. Whether it's for the health benefits of CBD in America or hemp seeds for nutrition or get-high dope for adult entertainment in Canada, textiles in China or industrial applications such as cars and clothes in Europe, the hemp revolution is changing the way the world regards what was once a questionable commodity.
Now that so many companies and countries stand behind it, hemp isn't just growing like a weed. It's growing whole industries along with it.
This article originally appeared in Nutrition Business Journal's 2018 Global Report and touches on issues explored in the NBJ CBD Opportunity Guide (publishing in February). Email Cindy Van Schouwen, [email protected], to learn more about both NBJ reports.
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COVID-19 and the Script of "Urban Flight"
Maria Sulimma
University Duisburg-Essen
Curator's Note
Our theme week explores some of the stories surrounding urban life that circulate as a result of COVID-19 and its media coverage. It is as part of the research group City Scripts that we describe such stories as scripts. They are "artful combinations of narrative, medial as well as figural acts of framing, inscription, description and prescription." FN1
In the summer of 2020, an avalanche of articles and television news proclaimed an "urban exodus" or "urban flight" from US-American cities. My video contains snippets from CNBC, ABC, CNN, and the German ZDF – for a sample newspaper article see Haag FN2. These reports follow the same narrative formula; their "ingredients" are: excited realtors, urban dwellers (typically white heterosexual couples) packing their belongings or looking at real estate, moving trucks, and deserted New York City streets (reminiscent of post-apocalyptic films and TV shows). Often the reports speculate that working from home as a lifestyle change might extend beyond the duration of the pandemic. It is telling that so many of the interviewed middle-class and upper-class urban dwellers express the flexibility of their work-life, whereas only the German report interviews Broadway actors, salespeople, and hairdressers who cannot as easily work from different locations. This connects with feminist urban studies scholars highlighting how the measures to counter the pandemic depend on a heteronormative understanding of the city as "a collection of households, which are imagined as families, which are imagined to live in a house they own." FN3
My contribution is not interested in the accuracy of this script of "urban flight" – it has been debunked as anecdote rather than data-based. Curbed's Jeff Andrews finds that "there are half-truths to the narrative that — if you string them together — form what sounds like a logical idea." FN4 Instead, what made the script of "urban flight" so persuasive? Which kinds of cultural anxieties – related to cities –are referenced in this script?
By developing the narrative of people fleeing the city, the script recycles the age-old dichotomy between the city and the country. Absurdly, it groups cities aside from New York or San Francisco with suburbs among the "non-urban" or rural (in the video: Miami). Further, the script temporally overlaps with the Black Lives Matter protests and Donald Trump's rhetoric of Democrat-governed cities as "on fire." It is easy to see how this script plays into a fear of anti-urban elitism that right-leaning media have long cultivated.
By describing an urban "flight," the script also references past population shifts in US-American cities, such as the "white flight" and middle-class departure in the mid-twentieth century. This departure (especially from deindustrializing cities) left city governments struggling to cope with financial losses and remaining city dwellers experiencing government neglect and the devaluation of space. I suspect that to more left-leaning observers this script may be motivated by the sense that our cities are just not working the way that economic forces shape them. In this version, the script may express a hope that the departure of bourgeois middle- and upper-classes may allow for a kind of "pre-gentrification" living, yet another fiction of urban life.
FN1 Barbara Buchenau and Jens Martin Gurr, "'Scripts' in Urban Development: Procedural Knowledge, Self-Description and Persuasive Blueprint for the Future." Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City (Routledge, 2021), 142. Open access: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/charting-literary-urban-studies-jens-martin-gurr/e/10.4324/9781003111009
FN2 Matthew Haag, "New Yorkers Are Fleeing to the Suburbs: 'The Demand Is Insane'." Aug. 30, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/nyregion/nyc-suburbs-housing-demand.html
FN3 Jeff Andrews, "No, the Pandemic Is Not Emptying Out America's Cities." Aug. 31, 2020 https://www.curbed.com/2020/08/suburbs-housing-boom-urban-exodus-coronavirus.html
FN4 Marguerite Van Den Berg "Beyond Cities of 'Households' – the Urban Life We Need." July 9, 2020 https://femrev.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/beyond-cities-of-households-the-urban-life-we-need/
About City Scripts:
The German research group Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures: American Models, Transatlantic Interventions (short: City Scripts, www.cityscripts.de ) explores the imaginative strategies and narrative scenarios which the centers of old industries (steel, coal, and cars) in the United States and Germany are devising to forge paths into their futures.
Covid-19; Urban; Script; City Scripts; Narrative; Media Coverage
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