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Guest post by Gary O'Callaghan. Ireland and the IMF: financing capital flight
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Maith an fear Gary. You have done your country some service.
I am reminded of David Graeber.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
The 2008 bank guarantee was a disaster, but in fairness to the late former MoF, the man received the political equivalent of a hospital pass. His predecessors had left the stable door open.
Haughey saw that sovereignty was an asset like any other, and that Ireland Inc could be sold for a price. He had a nice line in shirts, but we have unfortunately lost ours. We need to take our democracy more seriously, and get rid of some ideological blinkers.
As so often in history, the record shows that finance was exported in huge volume into a country which did not have the regulatory or business infrastructure to invest it productively, so it went into consumption and mostly flowed back out. Like mainlining heroin, wonderful until you need another hit.
They say catastrophe happens silently. Our government and DoF were captured by a combination of domestic and foreign private stakeholders. The breadth and depth of that capture will become apparent as debt deflation takes hold. It's not just capital that is pulling out.
Shay Begorrahsays:
For those without a Microsoft Office Document viewer the following Google Docs seems to give a good view of the article, even the graphs.
Ireland and the IMF: financing capital flight – "Don't mention the war on behalf of German financial interests."
1. The IMF would possibly say that it's only a minority partner in the Irish bailout.
2. As regards the current account, in respect of merchandise exports, there is a permanent foreign company surplus related to tax strategies that is mainly held in the dollar accounts of US banks or even during a year can be invested in US Treasuries without technically being booked as a transfer to the US.
This surplus masks the real deficit as it's not part of the domestic economy.
The surplus rose from €23bn in 2007 as imports fell, to €26bn in 2008, to €37bn in 2010 and €36bn both 2011 and 2012. Meanwhile services went from a deficit of €4bn in 2007 to €11bn in 2010 and a surplus of €3bn in 2012.
I know that there are other flows, including FDI, where rising 'trapped cash' balances are treated as an inflow.
I'm wondering if this has any impact on the calculation here?
JC Trichet called Dominique, just after he called 'Jens', and he reminded him that French banks would be in trouble in some Patsy did not pick up the tab.
Dominique had no problem in agreeing to shaft somebody else. It was nothing new to him.
Gary's note raises again the issue of the IMF funding the Eurozone common currency area at all. The Eurozone has not had a BOP deficit of any consequence at any stage prior to, or during, the crisis.
Most of the Fund's assets now consist of loans to countries in Europe, an extraordinary state of affairs, and have been lent in financing a moral hazard machine for bank creditors. If all Eurozone members are to be required to provide 'national backstops' for future bank busts, the machine trundles on and the issues ducked in 2010 will arise again.
Kevin O'Rourkesays:
If I were a developing country delegate at the IMF I would be pretty ticked off Colm.
I would also have to say that, although the IMF has been on the side of the angels when it has come to analysis and advocacy, they have caved in and signed off when it comes to actual decision-making. Time for them to apply a bit of conditionality to the Eurozone as a whole.
Pay no attention to that great sucking sound. Remember: twas the public sector wot did this to you!
Frank Galtonsays:
It's very interesting but —
Latvia shurely not the only comparison one could make. Non Eurozone and its foreign shareholders in its banking system didn't pull the plug, which helped sustain funding. Our banking system funding dried up completely. That interaction of government solvency plus banking solvency must give the bailouts a different character. Our FDI also gives the balance of payments a different profile as to some extent it was offsetting the domestic private sector (firms + households) current account deficit, so even in 2008 it didn't look so much like a current account crisis.
Contrasting the IMF treatment of two countries, one of which is in the EA and the other not, and with widely different economic circumstances, apart from a boom funded by foreign capital, is hardly likely to throw up many valid results.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-28/nordic-banks-draw-latvian-rebuke-as-dominance-denounced.html
As to the role of the IMF, its involvement is readily explained by the fact that the US (with Canada) and the main countries of the EU dominate its decision-making. It has not been a good experience, either for the IMF or the EU.
Latvia will adopt the euro on 1 January 2014.
Rumours in money markets that 80 year old German pensioner who had accumulated 1bn art collection also had a few Anglo seniors in his portfolio. No doubt Francis will be along soon with the poor mouth.
Contrasting the IMF treatment of two countries, one of which is in the EA and the other not, and with widely different economic circumstances, apart from a boom funded by foreign capital, is hardly likely to throw up many valid results
Anonymous lobbyist dismisses detailed report from former IMF economist about unusual nature of IMF program in Ireland.
rfsays:
re Latvia
what do people think of this analysis?
http://demographymatters.blogspot.ie/2013/10/as-good-as-it-gets-in-latvia.html
@ CMcC
'If all Eurozone members are to be required to provide 'national backstops' for future bank busts, the machine trundles on and the issues ducked in 2010 will arise again'
That isn't the half of it. We live in an age of financial tyranny.
'Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser made notably cautious comments Friday on CNBC. "I think many people – myself included – I'm not alone in this – are beginning to worry about the consequences of how we unwind ourselves from all this stuff… It's not because that we know what's going to happen. It's because unintended consequences or the build-up of risks can be very important. I think we have to balance, not just the risks in the economy, but our own risks that we're creating down the road."
http://www.prudentbear.com/2013/11/the-mayjune-dynamic.html
But it has thrown up a valid result and one that is new to me. The IMF knew from the outset that their funding was to facilitate the shifting of private financial debt onto the public purse; to ringfence capital and protect its flight.
That this approach ran counter to their normal modus operandi of providing assistance only for current account deficiencies must have been very apparent to the IMF.
The IMF, despite its protestations and its spinning the idea that it has a very different minority view, is coming across as a very unprincipled and duplicitous gang member, both in relation to Ireland and Cyprus. The IMF does what the big boys want, regardless of what it says on the tin.
Attempts to wash its hands of the consequences of decisions of which it was an integral part, sound very unconvincing.
@ Joseph Ryan
The idea that an organisation like the IMF can be divorced from the interests of the countries making up its membership does not reflect the reality.
Scandinavian banks, and one in particular, Swedbank, were so dominant in Latvia that they decided to stay the course (also in other Baltic countries). In Ireland's case, a la Iceland, we had our own banking masters of the universe, whose edifices have either been closed down or largely taken over by the state. Most other foreign banks have folded their tents and have left.
In most instances, home governments had to dig deep to keep their own banks afloat after their foreign adventures. The idea that they would happily cooperate in digging deep for banks of others, the supervision of which was not their responsibility, might be defensible in an ideal world but not in the real one.
I frankly find it puzzling that the political dimension is taken as a fact of life when discussing domestic economic issues and seemingly ignored in the case of international ones. Latvia is a case in point. There are many economic arguments against its adoption of the euro. The political argument of seeing the country even more firmly anchored in the EU clearly outweighs them.
This is a good blog for the politics of the IMF (and related links) for anyone interested
https://blogs.wellesley.edu/jjoyce/
his book also looks decent
francissays:
@ James Ryan
Ireland IMF request Ireland 11/28/2010
DSK in IMF office until 5/18/2011
Jens becoming head of Bundesbank 5/1/2011, and with that a vote on the ECB council, but announced Feb 2011
Nevertheless I doubt that Trichet called Jens over the Ireland decision.
Gary O'Callaghansays:
Thank you for comments.
I fully agree with Colm and Kevin. Can the IMF continue to disburse huge sums to euro area members, when there is no external imbalance for the euro area as a whole, and without conditionality for the euro zone itself?
This is a very serious issue and the Fund has been very reluctant to comment on intra-euro-area issues, such as Ireland's burden. The latest IMF review of euro area policies was a damp squib:
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2013/cr13231.pdf
The main point in the Note was to highlight the extent of the capital flight envisaged in the Irish program. Details of the current account are less interesting. Also, the comparison with Latvia was more of a heuristic device–it is easier to grasp these issues when there is some comparator. That is all.
But, as a matter of interest, I use the same graphs to present three other IMF programs here (if it works!):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33284044/IMF%20Program%20Selection.doc
just a short question: how high are "disburse huge sums to euro area members" ?
john gallahersays:
@francis-fyi
https://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/europe.htm
thanks John !
I always enjoy the fast and precise answers from you
So to keep it for you in Dollars : – )
the undrawn would be 33b for Poland as precautionary credit line, from which they havent taken a single cent so far,
and our traditional problem child Greeeeeece, with 25 b, and the rest of the undrawn chicken sh*T
@francis…………working…later…:)..robbing peter to pay…….
"In December 2011, euro area countries committed to providing additional resources to the IMF of up to 150 billion euro (about $200 billion)." link above.
Poland may not be a poster child,
but the 1303 % quota seem a little high for me.
Did I miss something?
john , good point!
basically the EA provided to the IMF all the 137 b ever promised to European, not only EA countries, all undrawn included, or …… ?
Fiatluxjnrsays:
AEP teams up with Prodi….
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100025983/italys-mr-euro-urges-latin-front-warns-germany-wont-sell-another-mercedes-in-europe/
Is deflation a real concern…for us?
@ Flj
With a team like that, how can you go wrong?
The Spanish are not about to hitch their wagon to that of Italy.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/155f4564-42ec-11e3-8350-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2ji4ZKHAu
AEP:
"As readers know, I have been arguing for a long time that the Greco-Latin Bloc and those with shared interests such as Ireland should seize control of the European institutions and dictate the policy with a very sharp knife held to the throat of Berlin's über-bully Wolfgang Schauble."
Most people here would call that an open, conscious and repeated attempt of inciting terrorism.
No indeed. Better to keep walking the camino of unemployment and emigration. Good for the soul.
'Since the start of the year, more than 100,000 industrial jobs have disappeared, dwarfing the 2,400 new posts created in the automobile sector since January.
@Francis
Thought that bit was OTT.
@ francis
AEP is writing for a particular audience and is not to be taken seriously.
The view of the CBI, on the other hand, is!
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/britische-unternehmen-warnen-vor-eu-austritt-a-931553.html
Old story…..they are trying to make up for lack of home markets…
http://www.thelocal.es/20131016/spains-auto-industry-targets-export-driven-growth
You are a bit harsh as regards AEP. He does provide interesting alternative views.
Getting blood from a stone…
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_04/11/2013_526252
I enjoy reading him myself, especially as I do not have to have a subscription to the Telegraph to enable me to do so although, given the paper's many excellent sections, I would consider a subscription if it were a bit more affordable.
But I do not take him seriously. Neither, I suspect, does the vast bulk of the Telegraph's readership.
Wolfgang Schäuble may be a physical cripple, because he was already a victim of a deluded terrorist, incited by alien hate mongerers, but he survived with a an excellent mind and full of energy. His 2 brothers are dead already.
We begin to see the character of some "allies" in their repeated actions.
We might have been at war with Russia at some times, but I am not aware that they have ever betrayed us.
wiki/Romano_Prodi: "employee of Goldman Sachs", "Prodi had been made Prime Minister, Rome prosecutor Guiseppa Geremia concluded that there was enough evidence to press charges against Prodi for conflict of interest in the Unilever deal", "Prodi was accused of being "a KGB man"
It seems the view of the CBI is not to be taken seriously…they often get it wrong.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/10426125/Why-bring-up-Europe-It-will-be-largely-irrelevant-five-years-from-now.html
Francis,
AEP call to arms has absolutely no credibility. However the gun aimed to the heart of the European project by the uber bullies of the German political establishment has loads of credibility. This comes for a nation that has destroyed Europe twice in the last century.
Tull,
I do remember your repeated Morgenthau fantasies.
I can judge what the role of AEP at the telegraph is.
In former times revelations like wikileaks were distributed across media like Spiegel, guardian, NYT, and some others.
The NYT has become an organ of US state, the guardian is under vicious attack, time to look at the other survivors
Sarah Careysays:
@KO'R
"I would also have to say that, although the IMF has been on the side of the angels when it has come to analysis and advocacy, they have caved in and signed off when it comes to actual decision-making. "
Agree. To what extent would you link that to its French political leaders?
Pass me the Freedom Fries…
@ Gary O'Callaghan
I guess that the point I made about the headline current account as per above, is valid.
Irish sovereign debt maturities were valued at about €25bn in 2011-2013.
As regards reversal of capital flows, there could hardly been much practically done about most of it.
The 3 main foreign banks operating in the Irish domestic market: RBS, Bank of Scotland/Halifax and post crash Lloyds, and Danske, have incurred losses of about €25bn.
That's the cost of their bad bets but they couldn't be forced to pump in more capital if that wasn't their preference.
@ MH
Assuming they could afford – or, rather, their governments – such a preference.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-02/denmark-s-too-big-to-fail-banks-seek-bailout-text-in-sifi-law.html
MH,
I don't understand the point about the current account, I fear.
But the point of the Note was to demonstrate the size of capital outflows.
It might appear that little can be done to stem capital outflows. It is indeed difficult. Such policies rely on restoring trust in the banking system, in particular, and there is a long literature on what can be done. (The paper by Cottarelli and Giannini referred to in the Note is a good place to start).
In the Irish context, a firm commitment from the ECB to provide adequate liquidity support to Irish banks would have been a good start. Instead, there was public grumbling from ECB Board members that liquidity support was already too high. Bank run anybody?
..too insolvent banks…:)
Martina Stevis writing in the WSJ a while back says its all bout the 'models',regarding the final question posed in the above paper-half the staff at IMF are economists,do turkeys vote for xmas.
inflows/outflows.
http://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2013/html/sp131105_1.en.html
Constancio references this paper from yesterday-link in summary did not work paste/clip.
http://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2013/html/pr131104.en.html
@DOCM,irelands belts and suspenders….thats that then.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/df381c50-460f-11e3-b495-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz2jhgjinP0
@ JG
No surprise there! It reinforces me in my view that the continued external financial pressure will bring a halt to political grand-standing and, ultimately, lead to a better functioning economic and political system. But how long will it take? That is the question!
From the Constancio speech.
"It is clear that for the successful completion of the rebalancing process Europe needs more investment and higher domestic demand growth. We therefore need a more coordinated approach to macroeconomic policy at the euro area level to achieve higher demand growth, as well as the continuation of structural reforms in all member countries in order to increase growth and facilitate a more encompassing rebalancing process.
At the same time, to support national structural reforms in stressed countries, the enactment of the announced contractual programmes with financial means to support their implementation should play a significant role.
Finally, it would be important if a future decision could be reached to implement at the euro area level what is referred in the President Van Rompuy's Report "Towards a genuine Economic and Monetary Union" as "….the establishment of a fiscal capacity to facilitate adjustment to economic shocks. This could take the form of an insurance-type mechanism between euro area countries to buffer large country-specific economic shocks. Such a function would ensure a form of fiscal solidarity exercised over economic cycles, improving the resilience of the euro area as a whole and reducing the financial and output costs associated with macroeconomic adjustments."
The idea of "contractual programmes" is evidently still very much alive. As matters stand, the conduct of economic policy is legally a matter for the individual states. The emphasis on "contractual" is evidently designed to get over this hurdle. It would also be necessary to involve national parliaments as budgetary authority ultimately rests with them (as in the case of Ireland although one would never know it from the cavalier way governments have acted over the years).
You will note the messages to Germany in the first paragraph quoted. The structural reforms that Germany needs to undertake are currently being addressed to some extent in the coalition negotiations.
@DOCM,Hi DOCM…Fitzgerald.."When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they put up.".
Now they can get on with negotiating it.
Constancio's speech was quite good,certainly an improvement on the 'we all partied' mantra.Its from a conf. toady,so far the other papers are not available but here is the link-Nixon should be good.This part was refreshing.
"The more important factor driving the economic imbalances up to 2007 was the increasing private financial deficits – or put differently, rising private debt levels financed by the banking sectors of both core and peripheral countries."
http://www.santanderinternationalbankingconference.com/programme
Regarding Germany-SWL at mainly macro had interesting view.
http://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/
That is, of course, the most significant point in the speech from a general political and economic policy analysis point of view. However, achieving "higher demand growth" is often equated in the German political world with outside pressure to go on a spending spree. The German electorate would not stand for it. More importantly, it would not work. But making some of the changes sought by the SPD and not raising taxes would go some way towards a solution.
There are also interesting moves on the energy front cf.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-05/eu-set-to-recommend-overhaul-of-state-support-in-energy-markets.html
The problem I have with an approach at the macro level is it seems to ignore issues such as these. All the countries involved give massive amounts of state aid – i.e. their taxpayers money – to support their "national champions"(not to mention insisting on lower emission standards for industrial sectors with a particular national interest). This is a mutually destructive approach.
@DOCM-Gary's paper is quite good,don't want stray too far but i was following the vote in Berlin over the weekend.Energy not really my area,where's Brian Woods,Snr when you need him.I did assist the eldest on a paper she did on 'nuclear' power but from a US perspective,some rather convincing arguments for it,but clearly downside risks too.
The ongoing negotiations over an Irish LC may include taxation,should be fun to observe.
Berlin vote was this weekend,i know you have a FT sub.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ce5b24a4-44d4-11e3-a751-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2jhgjinP0
Coal?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-04/merkel-facing-power-dilemma-as-coal-plants-open-energy-markets.html
Too much power, if you will pardon the pun, was left by the Allies, by default, in the hands of a German chancellor with the mind to use it, a problem accentuated by reunification. Both Merkel and her immediate predecessor have not used it well.
@DOCM,from today's 'grilling' !
"Mr Deroose highlighted the need for a stronger focus on improving competitiveness. Mr Masuch admitted that the Troika had underestimated the resistance put up by the better-off vested interests."
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20131104IPR23615/html/MEPs-incensed-over-Troika-crisis-management
no decision here until next year.
http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2013/11/05/karlsruhe-esm-ezb-entscheidung-braucht-laenger-als-erwartet/
The EP would be easier to take seriously if (a) the quality of those elected was better and (b) it did not cost one billion euro a year, if I am not mistaken, to run (a large proportion of the bill being paid by Germany's taxpayers). On the other hand, a system of checks and balances is essential to the functioning of any democracy (which, as we all know, is without price).
As to the BvG, staying out of harm's way has become its leitmotif. Indulging serial constitutional complainants like Peter Gauweiler brings with it certain risks.
By the way, any chance of abolishing your Senate as a way out of the current Washington gridlock?
@DOCM-a few interesting bits and pieces will be revealed.
it is actually election day here,but no current plans to abolish the senate.
However,on a much much lighter note they did abolish this in the staff canteen,always disliked Henry,he was an awful analyst:)
http://nypost.com/2013/11/04/blogger-gets-eaterys-bathroom-staff-fired/
@ John G
I definitely enjoyed the NY Post link!
What SWL points out so precisely, the 6-shooter rampage of PK on Germany is a pretty remarkable event. I am not aware of anything similar from PK so far or from any other driven person.
Does anybody here remember anything similar or even in excess of that?
The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-demands-explanation-from-british-ambassador-over-secret-listening-post-in-berlin-8923082.html
reveals of course our full, wholly inappropriate "outrage" over a minor "tapping communication from an embassy would be violation of international law", kind of a wrong parking ticket.
And that the correct word is ' "invited", rather than summoned' 
@francis,its actually big 'news' over here,i think some the UK papers running with it,the owner Keith is English.
I like them a lot,quite a few off the restaurants downtown attract a certain type that like too powder their noses,delaying other people this prevents that.
A lot off work went into the above paper,which is well worth a read,so my last post on 'bathrooms' and attendants.
I think invite is just below summon in diplo. speak,but it was a an invite one could not refuse…..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/05/balthazar-bathroom-attendants-downton-abbey-and-the-nature-of-human-progress/
'What SWL points out so precisely, the 6-shooter rampage of PK on Germany is a pretty remarkable event. I am not aware of anything similar from PK so far or from any other driven person'
Krugman is getting excited now because he has come late to the stock-flow consistent macroeconomics party. He has finally got religion. People like Bill Mitchell and Michael Pettis have been highlighting the issues for years.
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=3574
in an attempt to scale the UK public opinion on the parking ticket,
like I did this recent screening of the german online press,
Independent: headline, 3rd most viewed, 2nd most commented, showing up as head in the lower down subsections UK, world as well
FT 5th position,
telegraph about 20th position , "to attend a meeting" 🙂
other suggestions ?
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/ireland-now-expected-to-exit-troika-bailout-unaided-1.1584982
Matters remain finely balanced!
The interesting point is the limitation on the freedom of action of the German government because of the need to consult parliament. Such a requirement is contrary to any form of effective government involvement in the detailed implementation of an international agreement. Or maybe that was the intention?
In the matter of financial guarantees, it is difficult to imagine how it could operate without having the opposite effect to that intended.
MickeyHickeysays:
The system continues to be rigged against the PIIGSF. The ECB should be moving heaven and earth to get the inflation rate EZ wide above 2%. If Germany can block that then the PIIGSF have to save themselves as best they can including ejecting EZ members who are opposed to stimulus.
The USA has more leverage on German domestic policy than the PIIGSF have and appear to be prepared to use it. Commodity prices are declining based on lack of demand in China which makes the risk of world wide deflation a real threat.
The EZ in particular is vulnerable to a prolonged period of deflation. If that happens protectionism and nationalism will tear Europe apart and Germany will be the least of our worries.
@DOCM,any chance they can all get on same prayer sheet,yesterdays meeting can't have gone well for the minister.
A somewhat interesting comp. btw. latvia v greece here,not in same league as above paper but still worth a …
Heres bloomberg on above situation.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-06/ireland-still-needs-a-safety-net.html
A link for which the spiegel article from which I got it, apparently disappeared.
http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/arose/Spill.pdf
Havent seen that in a while.
comparing the situation of countries with and without the euro
no wonder it was "disappearing", because it was in the zeit.de
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2013-11/suedeuropa-waehrung-euro-krise
@francis thanks francis,will take a look just rushing out too something.
don't panic,no really don't don't…like W T F….oh its only the IMF further demolishing what little credibility they had left:)
http://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2013/11/06/once-and-for-all-why-capital-levies-are-not-the-answer/
Two very interesting links, neither with any surprising content. (One could, however, have been spared the question by the journalist on the supposed importance of the Protestant as opposed to the Catholic ethos. Bavaria is as Catholic as they come.)
Equally, with regard to Greece, the point of difference has nothing to do with religion but acceptance of a fundamental requirement of democratic cohesion; you must pay your taxes! The score rate for assessed collections at the moment is somewhat above 50% as I understand the latest reports.
In relation to Germany, the fundamental point relates to the distinction between the powers of the executive in a democracy and that of its parliament. Merkel, the tactician, has fudged the difference in a manner which would have been unthinkable for earlier German chancellors (not including Schroeder).
Ireland has a choice between the mercies of the Bundestag or the markets.
we had such a levy after WWII, it was called "Lastenausgleich".
and both the social democrats and the Greenies had that in their programs.
Just the details became a little hazy shortly before the elections.
@DOCM,apols have too dash,yes that question has all sorts of weird implications.
I've said it before but in fairness not privy too the details if possible grab the LC.
This is quite good,VB had something in IT today also.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/stephen-kinsella/stephen-kinsella-our-socalled-economic-truths-are-often-based-on-faith-not-evidence-29726548.html
We are very fortunate in NY to have a distinguished visitor tomorrow will pose the question and report back…cant say too much but I'm sure you can figure it out,should be fun looking forward to it.
http://www.ifscireland.ie/events
@francis-enjoy later ok:)
http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2013/nov/05/moral-case-wealth-tax
To quote Stephen Kinsella;
"Were I advising the minister, I would argue not to go for any precautionary credit line."
It is to be hoped that all those being paid from the public purse, including the staff of universities, share the inherent sense of go-it alone confidence implicit in this advice.
Does anybody have some reference for this claim of Ken Rogoff (in the guardian link) ?
"As the economists Maurice Obstfeld and Galina Hale recently noted, German and French banks earned large profits intermediating flows between Asian savers and Europe's periphery. "
Hale and Obstfeld:
http://conference.nber.org/confer/2013/SDf13/Hale_Obstfeld.pdf
@DOCM,its an interesting question.The election was signposted,as was the outcome.So further talk on that a waste off time,assume the irish govt were aware off the timeline.Odd exit strategy,the posing has a bit off a whiff…
@ francis,the imf proposal is moot,they tipped their hand.Will read your link,GOC thanks for the above link.
@ GOC
a) Thanks for your original study.
To your Figure 1. Did I miss this in the text, or what is the estimate of how much of the DEU 81% 1Q2008 of IRL GDP were pass through to the US subprime disasters, via the IFSC? Which could explain most of the 83 – 41% delta to 2Q2012?
When I look at the timing, the risk manager thing in Ireland happened 1Q2007, the IKB /Sachsen LB in Summer 2007, and the crashes of US house (S&P C&S) and stock market (S&P500) being of 2008, a clear trouble signal in Jan 2008.
So to me it looks like the crash in in the US drove all subsequent reactions, but to see this clearly, one would need (at least) quarterly data
b) Thanks for the Hale link!
I tried to interpret this with respect to my question above as well. Didn't help much.
To its content in comparison to Rogoff's claim.
It does not talk at all about profits, especially not that they could be large.
The data are incomplete, having series jumps from 1997 and in 1999. For Germany the lending fraction increased from 16% to 19%, how exciting…. Fig 7 upper left. The pictures in Fig 10, compare for Bayern and DB left/right scales 10 or 3, with numbers of 30 b vs. a balance sheet of 2000 b for the DB, gosh that must have been the focus of their attention, and it compares to Fin(ancial centers) and not, as claimed by Rogoff, Asian savers.
Comparing Fig 8 Core lending of max 80 to Fig 9 GIIPS max borrowing 300 gives a fraction of about 25%, astonishingly SMALL ! Given the vicinity, and the removed FX risk.
And so a Harvard Genie Rogoff sees "giant profits" in astonishingly small fractions, which barely come out of the noise, if at all, given the broken data series. And of course, he also did his PhD with Krugman at the MIT, like all the crazies. His sloppiness was not just one time with one excel sheet, I count 5 in this short sentence only.
And Rogoff was not the mastermind of the ECB policy. Prodi was not the father of the Euro, the French demanded it, and it would have been not signed off by Germany without the precautions, other now lament.
And there will be no wealth transfer from the north to richer people in the south.
@ John Gallaher
It is interestingly the socialist America, which has wealth taxes if the form of property taxes on real estate, capital gains taxes on it.
I can still sell all my stock bought before 2009 without any capital gains tax, take that 🙂
LOL, but I gave it some serious thought, when they will break that promise, when I bought at Xmas 2008, being aware that this would probably be my last regular paycheck for a while 🙂
I did post the paper above more as a reference for all, that there are voices with some data, that the Euro is not the source of all evil for the periphery, and not in an expectation of a detailed, timely analysis from you, which would be nice to have, of course.


On March 4th and 5th, Hubbard-Hall sponsored middle school students from Middlebury, Naugatuck, Newtown and Southbury Connecticut in the local You Be The Chemist® (YBTC) challenge. YBTC is an educational and fun academic competition for 5-8th grade students in chemistry designed by the Chemical Educational Foundation which is a part of the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD).
Each local challenge participant received a goodie bag provided by Hubbard-Hall Inc. and additional prizes donated by Edmond Town Hall, Denmo's and Quassy Amusement Park. The state champion will represent Connecticut in the national challenge this June in Philadelphia.


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Q: Find empty cells of a DataTable except in certain column I'm working on a module to upload and validate an Excel file with the ExcelDataReader plugin.
The excel consists on 5 columns per row. I had converted the uploaded file in a DataTable, and now I need to validate there aren't empty or null cells except for the cells of the last column.
I have a snippet to find the nulls with linq, but it works for every column.
DataSet result = reader.AsDataSet();
DataTable excelTable = result.Tables[0];

var rowList = excelTable.AsEnumerable().Select(x => x.ItemArray).ToList();
var emptyCells = rowList.Select((value, index) => new { value, index })
                         .Where(x => x.value.Any(y => y == null || y == DBNull.Value))
                         .Select(x => x.index).ToList();

if(emptyCells.Any())
{
    emptyCells.ForEach(x => {
           data.Errors.Add(new ExcelError { Row = x, Details = "This row has empty cells." });
    });
}

How can I exclude the last or an especific column of the DataTable? Thanks in advance!

A: You can use a .Where on the array of values to ignore a particular index:
.Where(x => x.value
    .Where((y, idx) => idx != 3)
    .Any(y => y == null || y == DBNull.Value)
)

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REPORT OF PRESTES' STAY IN BERLIN FROM 27 NOVEMBER TO 1 DECEMBER
Detailed summary of Prestes' visit to Berlin and the GDR.
"Report of Prestes' Stay in Berlin from 27 November to 1 December," December 07, 1961, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, SAPMO-BArch, DY 20, IV 2/20/331. Obtained for CWIHP by Jim Hershberg and translated by Sean O'Grady. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/121219
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Subj.: Visit of Cde. Prestes in Berlin from evening of 27.Nov until the morning of 1.Dec
At the last visit of Cde. Sergio Holmos, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazil, it was agreed that Central Committee members, during their trips to the Soviet Union, should always visit the ČSSR and GDR, because it is important for the Central Committee to at least inform the three Parties of these lands about the political situation in Brazil and to exchange experience.
For this reason, Cde. Prestes came to Berlin on his return trip from the 22nd Party Congress of the CPSU, wanting to study the situation here in Berlin and to acquaint himself with our measures and proposals for the solution of the West Berlin question. The reason for this was the intensified imperialist agitation against the GDR and against a peaceful solution to the West Berlin question, which was observable in the August events in Brazil.
Cde. Prestes had detailed conversations in Moscow with the entire secretariat of the Politburo of the CPSU, where Cde. Khrushchev was also present. He also had a further three-hour personal conversation with Cde. Khrushchev. At a two-day stay in Prague, he had a several hour conversation with Cde. [Antonin] Novotny. In Moscow, he conducted 20 meetings, including one at the Party College and others at similar institutions.
In Berlin he was received by Cde. Grueneberg on Monday evening [27 November 1961] at Ostbahnhof and brought to the Party guesthouse. On Tuesday morning he took part in an inspection of the anti-fascist protection wall. Prestes was accompanied by Gazzaneo, a journalist from the Brazilian party newspaper, who on Tuesday afternoon interviewed the representative of the Minister for Foreign Relations, Cde. Stab, during which time Cde. Prestes conversed with the bras. Cde. Alfredo Gerhardt, Isula Gerhardt, und Fausto Cupertino. In the evening, the Brazilian comrades visited the state opera. On Wednesday morning, we visited the memorial for socialists together with Cde. Mina Ewert, and afterwards the Trade Union College in Bernau, where Prestes spoke before the assembled students. In the afternoon, [Prestes] had a multi-hour conversation with Cde. [Peter] Florin [Director of the SED CC Department of International Relations], and Cde. [Deputy Foreign Minister Georg] Stibi. In the evening we visited the theater of the Berlin Ensemble, where "Frau Flinz" was performed. On this day he also gave a further television interview that was broadcast on Thursday evening. Thursday morning was occupied by conversations with Brazilian students, who had come to Berlin from Leipzig and Freiberg. Students from Berlin were also present at this session. On Thursday afternoon and evening Cde. Prestes visited Cde. Prof. Johann Lorenz Schmidt and the author Anna Seghers. Here again the August events were discussed in detail. Early Friday [1 December 1961] the Brazilian Comrades flew by LOT [Airlines] back to Brazil via Amsterdam - Paris.
In the conversation with Cde. Florin, Cde. Prestes requested that the books of Jorge Amado should, until further notice, not be published in the GDR and that new works from Jorge Amado should no longer be translated.
He named Cde. Helio Contreiras of Leipzig as responsible to the Brazilian Central Committee for the Brazilian students in the GDR, and Cde. Fausto Cupertino as the interim successor for Cde. Alfredo Gerhardt, who returns to Brazil on January 20th.
P.S. On Thursday at noon, a conversation with Cde. Kiefert and Selbmann of the Berlin district leadership took place. Here, the Berlin situation was substantially and thoroughly discussed. Comrade Gazzaneo also had a discussion with a member of the federal leadership of the FDGB [Free Federation of German Trade Unions] and a conversation with two former border crossers, who now work at EAW Treptow [VEB Electrical Equipment Factory, Berlin-Treptow].
Brazilian Communist Party
Brazil--Foreign relations--Germany (East)
Prestes, Luís Carlos, 1898-1990
Report on Visit of Luis Carlos Prestes, Chairman of the National Leadership of the Brazilian Communist Party
SAPMO-BArch, DY 20, IV 2/20/331. Obtained for CWIHP by Jim Hershberg and translated by Sean O'Grady.
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A NEW funeral director has opened in Castlegate
Jason Price, a former Royal Navy gunner, who has worked for several funeral directors including the Co-op and Dignity, has painstakingly restored the Tudor-style Queen Victoria Nurses Home, between East Street and George Street.
He was inspired to enter the profession, following the death of his young nephew and realised how important getting everything right can be.
He said: "I have learned from several businesses in the industry and have taken the best from each."
The Queen Victoria Institute for Nurses was established in Grantham in 1901 and two years later the building was opened as a memory to the Queen; thanks largely to a fund launched by then Mayor Trynor Lynn.
Facilities included four bedrooms, a bathroom with wc plus more sleeping accommodation on the second floor.
The building cost £836 on top of the £42 paid for the land.
Price & Son Funeral Directors
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Recently, Money Magazine released its list of the 10 Best Big Cities to Live In, and it's no surprise San Diego made the cut. Money Magazine based its list on a variety of factors, including the overall cost of living, population, local attractions, iconic neighborhoods and promising job growth. In San Diego, the diverse collection of neighborhoods, cultures and attractions contribute to a healthy tourism industry and are the reason so many choose to call San Diego home. San Diego is a welcoming city with a thriving economy and residents of all ages and cultures. There are many reasons that those residing in San Diego speak so highly of the city and report a high quality of life. Below, you'll find a breakdown of just a few of the reasons San Diego is such a great city to call home.
Big city living can often come with a hefty price tag. The cost of living in some of California's major cities are among the most expensive in the country, with San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland sitting among the top five most expensive. In San Diego, the cost of living is much more affordable than many of its counterparts. With a median home price of $555,000, big city living is far more accessible to the average family.
A projected 4.4 percent increase is expected in the job market by 2022 in San Diego. While a decrease in available employment opportunities is expected throughout the U.S. by 2026, San Diego's economy continues to thrive, making it an ideal locale for young families and those just beginning their careers. The promising economy in San Diego makes it a great location for entrepreneurs to enter the business market, as well.
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Q: how to locate element present on table on webpage using selenium How to get location of a particular column , how to get count of rows present on table

    Table Data
    More Table Data

    More Table Data
    Table Data

consider above as a table structure

A: Are there any attributes that you can use to identify the table?  Or will it require the index of the table elements?  Can you provide example url/html?
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
table = soup.find("table", { "class" : class_name })
print len(table.findAll("tr"))

I typically find that using beautifulsoup / pandas dataframes easy for these types of problems.. example using wikipedia below:
import pandas as pd
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2

car_data = pd.DataFrame()

model = 'Tesla_Model_S'

wiki = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{0}".format(model)
header = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
req = urllib2.Request(wiki,headers=header)
page = urllib2.urlopen(req)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
table = soup.find("table", { "class" : "infobox hproduct" })

for row in table.findAll("tr")[2:]:
    try:
        field = row.findAll("th")[0].text.strip()
        val = row.findAll("td")[0].text.strip()
        car_data.set_value(model,field,val)
    except:
        pass

print car_data

A: In HTML code snippet for Table you can notice that table is mainly form by two tags.
 TR and TD.
TR represents row in table and TD represents column in table.
Below are the simple code snippet which shows how to locate number of rows and columns present in table.
int Row_count = driver.findElements(By.xpath("/table/tbody/tr")).size();

System.out.println("Number Of Rows = "+Row_count);

Note: Xpath will vary always but tag /table/tbody/ will remain same in most cases.
int Col_count = driver.findElements(By.xpath("/table/tbody/tr[1]/td")).size();

System.out.println("Number Of Columns = "+Col_count);

**Note:***tr[1]/td* selects the first row in the table and gives all the columns present in the that table.
In the same manner you can easily fetch any web-element present in the web table by changing your Xpath Logic.


The National Performance Network is proud to announce that Steve Bailey has been engaged as Chief Operating Officer, effective September 1, 2011.
Trained as a theatre director and lighting designer at Trinity University in San Antonio, while at Jump-Start Bailey directed 75 original productions seen across the U.S. and South America. He will continue his artistic connections with Jump-Start for the near future; he is co-directing the 2011 season opener and will continue his long-time work with Divadlo z Pasaze, a Slovak theatre company for mentally challenged people.
Bailey, 53, is widely recognized nationally as the face of Jump-Start, but he and the company have made a focused effort in the past few years to develop and share leadership across the organization. A new producing director for the company will be named mid-September.


Actor Studio - easily create your very own actors: Just select clothing, accessoires - choose colors you like - done!
Optional 3D-hardware accelerator supportfor realistic shadows, reflective surfaces etc. You can also change the lights in your room: Dimming, coloring etc.
Introducing a new actor format (.act files) containing all the resources for an actor - no more problems with name conflicts etc. Of course the previous actor files are still fully supported.
Every nick name has separate chat log files, which are kept on daily basis.
The new browser works around the operating system limit on the number of BMPs etc., i.e. the "BMP max out" problem is gone.
moove Roomancer styles. Users can completely change the look of the browser. Members interested in creating their own styles are invited to download the moove Style Compiler.
Actors with real facial expressions: Moving eye lids, bulging eyes, a tongue. There is also a fun-to-use expression editor.
A new house display: All rooms and visitors are displayed in a graphical window. This allows you to chat with your visitors without even entering the room.
Simplified user interface using "Showcases": These are graphical windows giving you direct access to postures, actions, etc.
Voice chat (this requires DirectX 8) with video captured pictures.


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Elijah Coleman Bridgman (April22, 1801November2, 1861) was the first American Protestant Christian missionary appointed to China. He served with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. One of the first few Protestant missionaries to arrive in China prior to the First Opium War, Bridgman was a pioneering scholar and cultural intermediary, and laid the foundations for American sinology. His work shaped the development of early Sino-American relations. He contributed immensely to America's knowledge and understanding of Chinese civilization through his extensive writings on the country's history and culture in publications such as The Chinese Repository — the world's first major journal of sinology, which he began and edited. Bridgman became America's first "China expert." Among his other works was the first Chinese language history of the United States: "Short Account of the United States of America" (or "Meilike Heshengguo Zhilüe") and "The East-West Monthly Examiner" (or "Dong Hsi Yang Kao Meiyue Tongji Zhuan"). As a translator he contributed greatly to the formulation of America's first treaty with the Chinese government under the Qing Dynasty.

Early life

Bridgman was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts to a Lieutenant Theodore Bridgman and his wife Lucretia (Warner) who owned a farm at Pond hill which had belonged to his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Ebenezer. Elijah graduated from Amherst College (1826) and Andover Theological Seminary (1829).

Missionary career in China
In response to the urging of Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society and the Christian American merchant David Olyphant, who offered free sailing passage, Bridgman was ordained and was appointed for service in China by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions on October6, 1829 as their first appointee. In 1829 he sailed to China with David Abeel aboard the Olyphant & Co. owned ship Roman. They arrived in Canton on February 19, 1830, where they were welcomed by Morrison. Bridgman and Abeel studied Chinese and Elijah soon began the literary labors to which he devoted much of his life. In 1832 Bridgman started a mission press and began publication of "The Chinese Repository", which he edited until 1847.

Bridgman preached in a church among the Factories on Whampoa (Huangpu), near Canton, his "simple, pious and judicious character" impressing William John, 9th Lord Napier of Merchiston, the First Chief Superintendent of the British Trade there, and, in September 1834, upon the latter's return to Macau, he particularly called upon Bridgman to attend upon him every evening in his last days before succumbing to typhoid.

In the same year, Bridgman became the first joint secretary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; he was a founder of the Morrison Education Society and its president for many years, and active in organizing the Medical Missionary Society of China (1838). From 1839 to 1841 he worked at Macau, preparing a Chinese chrestomathy to aid in language learning. During negotiations to secure American access to China, Bridgman assisted as translator and adviser from 1842 to 1844.

In 1840, Bridgman was part of a group of four people including Walter Henry Medhurst, Charles Gutzlaff, and John Robert Morrison who cooperated to translate the Bible into Chinese. The translation of the Hebrew part was done mostly by Gutzlaff from the Netherlands Missionary Society, with the exception that the Pentateuch and the book of Joshua were done by the group collectively. This translation, completed in 1847 is very famous due to its adoption by the revolutionary peasant leader Hong Xiuquan of the Taipingtianguo movement (Taiping Rebellion) as some of the reputed early doctrines of the organization.

From 1845 to 1852 he continued to work as a translator. On June 28, 1845, Bridgman married Eliza Jane Gillett, an American Episcopalian missionary. They worked together at Guangzhou and adopted two little Chinese girls. Eliza later, in 1850, founded and managed for 15 years the first girls' school in Shanghai. Elijah Coleman Bridgeman died on November 2, 1861, in Shanghai after 32 years of missionary work. After her husband's death Eliza moved to Peking, secured substantial property and started Bridgman Academy, noted for educating a large number of Chinese women leaders.

Shortly after baptizing his first convert Bridgman moved to Shanghai in 1847, where he was primarily occupied in working on Bible translation, his version appearing shortly after his death. Bridgman published a translation of the Hebrew Bible, characterized by the accuracy of the translation and its loyalty to the original Hebrew texts.

Later he was the first president of the Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society (later the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, established in 1857, and edited its journal until his death in 1861.

Bridgman and his wife were both buried in Shanghai.

Works

Elijah Coleman Bridgman, ed. Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman (1864). The Pioneer of American Missions in China: the Life and Labors of Elijah Coleman Bridgman.

References

Bibliography

 Drake, Frederick W. "Bridgman in China in the early 19th-century," American Neptune 46.1 (1986): 34–42.

 Eliza Jane Bridgman, The Pioneer of American Missions to China: the life and labors of Elijah Coleman Bridgman (New York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1864); online edition
Missionary Herald; 58 (1862): 75-78 and 68 (1872): 110–112, provides informative obituaries of Elijah and Eliza Bridgman, respectively
Eliza's Daughters of China, or Sketches of Domestic Life in the Celestial Empire (1853) has an introduction by Elijah.
Bridgman, Elijah; Letters to Children from China; 1834
Lazich, Michael C.; E. C. Bridgman (1801-1861), America's First Missionary to China

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An Phoblacht Republican News, Iml. 1, Uimh. 38
Volume 1, Number 38
This copy of An Phoblacht/Republican News joins other editions in the Archive. This one from 1979 bridges the gap between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s.
The front page article argues that:
'SURPRISING', 'SHOCKING' and 'EMBARRASSING' is how most of the Irish newspapers and political commentators described a survey which shows that 72% of people in the Free State are in favour of a unilateral British withdrawal, that 21% of the people are in support of I RA activities and '42°/o sympathise with their motives! The slavish mentality of the establishment was ex pressed best by the Irish Press which was worried about the consternation it would cause loyalists and that it would prejudice British opinion!
Another piece states:
THE IRA's ambush of two British soldiers in plain-clothes at the bottom of Belfast's Whiterock Road a week last Monday was a double success. Not only was it a technical military success in undoubtedly curbing the activities of Brit undercover men – one was killed and one seriously wounded – but also brought immediate political and propaganda pay-offs in encouraging 'troops out' sentiment in England.
There are many interesting pieces but of particular interest is one on the Left Press which looks at 'Irish Socialist', 'Starry Plough', 'Socialist Republic', 'Militant' and 'United Irishman'. It also looks at 'Comment' from the British and Irish Communist Organisation. Of this latter it says.
COMMENT is the fortnightly magazine of th British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO) who are the main proponents of the two-nations theory. As the BICO support the British occupation of the north • a basis for the advance of Socialism, they have earned themselves the same sort of respect that is due to the Flat Earth Society.
More from An Phoblacht
An Phoblacht/Republican News, Vol. 16, No. 26 (1994)
An Phoblacht/Republican News, Vol. 9, No. 50 (1987)
An Phoblacht, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1970)
An Phoblacht in the archive
From the CLR 8
By: entdinglichung Tue, 27 Dec 2022 09:26:20
did AP regularly do reviews on other leftwing groups publications back then?
By: WorldbyStorm Tue, 27 Dec 2022 10:15:00
In reply to entdinglichung.
Not that I've seen in copies I've read – I always got the impression they ignored a lot of the left – but others would probably have a better sense of it than me.
By: Colm B Tue, 27 Dec 2022 11:54:44
APRN occasionally did wee snippets on the WP/OIRAs shenanigans in the North…gossipy stuff on gangsterism etc. But that, I suspect, was just a hangover from the days of the feuds, when the Officials were still seen as significant rivals. Others on the left were indeed just ignored.
Funny thing is, back in the day, I always enjoyed reading those snippets, existing, as I did, in that peculiar state of suspension… knowing the accusations were probably true and feeling it was evidence that I was in a revolutionary party (cos it did illegal things!) but at the same time denying to all and sundry that these Provo smears were true but…. sort of simultaneously believing that they were just smears against the poor innocent members struggling for Peace and Progress in the North.
In reply to Colm B.
State of suspension. That's it precisely ColmB.
There's a psychological term for it but it doesn't run to me right now?
btw., when visiting the SF bookshop in Dublin 1993, I was rather impressed by the big variety of non-SF publications they were selling, was a kind of collector back then, got copies of the PD and Red Action papers and of LLB there
By: roddy Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:01:37
The problem was that the Provos knew the Stickies far too well.For a start ,families were split between the 2 outfits,up to and including Gerry Adams' family for example.Secondly defections from the Sticks to the Provos occured throughout the 70s , during and after the hunger strikes and even in the 90s.I was amazed to see people once connected to the Officials turn up at SF meetings during the heyday of the peace process and enthusiastically urging votes for Martin McGuinness.
True though in a way there were quite organic links to both those orgs at a bit of a remove.
See Sinn Féin in the archive
An Phoblacht, published by Sinn Féin, was first published in 1970 as a weekly newspaper, taking its name from earlier republican papers. Originally published only in the South, it merged with Sinn Féin's Northern Ireland paper, Republican News, in 1979 and carried both names until the 2000s, when it…
See An Phoblacht in the archive


StorIT's Suren Vedantham (left), shakes hands with Unitrend's regional manager Michael Orange after signing the deal.
StorIT, a specialist data management solutions distributor, has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Unitrends, a maker data protection and disaster recovery solutions.
Under the accord, StorIT will promote and distribute Unitrends complete portfolio of end-to-end solutions in data protection, backup and disaster recovery (DR) solutions across the Middle East, North Africa and India.
In addition, StorIT will help build Unitrends channel network, train and certify partners on data protection, back up and DR solutions.
"With this partnership with Unitrends, we are now in a position to offer our customers and partners Unitrends' well-proven hybrid solution from a single source for all requirements of scalable appliances, software and cloud-based solutions for backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery. By leveraging our strong channel network in the Middle East, we plan to increase Unitrends' business and market share within the region," said Suren Vedantham, managing director, StorIT Distribution FZCO.
StorIT said it will undertake activities such as training, certifications, systems design and architecture, implementation services and support. The company added that its team will also work closely with Unitrends to ensure its channel network receives strong sales, marketing and technical support to effectively sell the vendor's integrated physical backup appliances that protect physical and virtual environments.
"We are looking forward to extending with StorIT our high growth strategy into the Middle East, to build strong relations with valuable partners and continue to provide to our customers easy to use and well positioned enterprise class backup and recovery solutions. The expertise of StorIT is a great asset for the development of Unitrends in the region," said Michael Orange, regional manager, MEA, Unitrends.
Orange added StorIT will work with Unitrends to initiate channel enablement and training programmes, which will be followed by a road show to create awareness on the product portfolio and technology.


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Design Thinking: a new style of solving problems with a dose of empathy
Learn to solve problems at work and in life with Design Thinking and a liberal dose of empathy
Design Thinking has been around for centuries as a problem-solving framework but it's only in the last 5-10 years that the concept has gained ground as an alternative to a purely analytical approach to problem-solving.
Prasun Chaudhuri | | Published 19.11.18, 06:46 PM
Picture this. You work for a company in remote East Africa that sells treadle pumps used to irrigate small plots of land. After a few years, you notice that the pumps have been selling extremely well in some regions while they don't sell at all in other regions. You've been tasked by your boss to increase the sales figure in the low-sales regions.
What do you do? You think design and apply human-centred Design Thinking principles to sort out the problem. Design Thinking has been around for centuries as a problem-solving framework but it's only in the last 5-10 years that the concept has gained ground as an alternative to a purely analytical approach to problem-solving. In fact, it was the master artist of Italian Renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci, who applied the concept of design in fields ranging from flying machines to anatomical studies.
Ashoke Chatterjee, former executive director of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, believes Design Thinking is all about "imagining the future". "It brings together an interdisciplinary team to solve a problem or create something new," he says. According to him, British mechanical engineer L. Bruce Archer — who later became a professor of design research — was the modern proponent of the concept. "Archer designed an 'optimal hospital bed' for UK's National Health Services, which was adopted as the standard across the world," he elaborates.
How do you solve the treadle-pump sales puzzle with Design Thinking? Simple, you reach out to prospective buyers. You get into their shoes and find that sales are low because of how the pumps operate. You are supposed to stand on the pump and push a pedal to make it work. Now, most of those using the pumps are women and pushing the pedal makes them sway their hips in a way that is considered very immodest and is actually taboo in their society! "Once we realised the problem, the pump was redesigned, and adoption rates shot up," explained Melinda Gates, head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, while explaining why the organisation takes Design Thinking so seriously, and how it's helped them achieve so much in different parts of the world.
The concept was summed up by business magnate and investor Steve Jobs, believed to have fuelled the modern design revolution as the CEO of Apple Inc: "Design is not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works."
Design is not just about a product, fashion, jewellery or home décor, points out Nidhi Goyal, associate dean, Anant National University, Ahmedabad. "You can apply the concept of design on any system, procedure or process. Design Thinking is a mindset to develop and deliver innovative ideas and solutions to complicated problems. It teaches you to think critically and develop creative problem-solving skills," she says.
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Goyal cites the example of Apple phones, the most sought-after designer product. "We love Apple products because of their minimalist design. For instance, the single-user button and the superb touch interface in iPhone. People are ready to spend a fortune to get one," she says. According to her, empathy is a key element of Design Thinking. "As a designer, you have to put yourself in the users' shoes. You have to think from the other person's perspective," she explains. Design Thinking emphasises the importance of deep exploration into the lives and problems of people. That is the reason sales representatives in East Africa had to delve into the life of women farmers to find a solution.
Empathy requires us to put aside our learning, culture, knowledge, opinions and worldview purposefully, in order to understand other peoples' experiences of things deeply and meaningfully. It requires humility, because we also have to abandon our preconceived ideas and biases. It requires that we have a heightened awareness of other peoples' needs, wants, motivations and goals.
Amit Sheth, professor at Anant National University, believes India needs Design Thinking in every aspect of life. "We have to think original and question existing things. This can be included in planning towns, designing bridges and urban infrastructure," he says. He rues the fact that India's urban planners hardly use this concept. "When Mumbai's suburban train network or Calcutta's Metro Railway were planned, no one had thought that these cities will expand and explode with people in a few decades. Poor design leads to at least several deaths in suburban trains in Mumbai and frequent snags in the underground railway system in Calcutta," he explains.
Sheth cites Netherlands as a country that has taken Design Thinking seriously — in politics, development, urban planning and in multiple spheres and across diverse platforms. "No decision or policy is implemented by the Dutch unless it is approved by a design body. It can be a housing, a road network or a healthcare project," he says
Anant National University — that focuses on the fields of Architecture, Interior Design and Urban Planning — has introduced bachelor's and master's courses to teach students Design Thinking. Its course on Interaction Design trains students to design and develop interactive digital products, environments, systems and services required to solve contemporary challenges. "Above all, we try to awaken empathy, an innate quality in students, so that they can be good designers and problem-solvers in diverse fields," says Goyal.
Go ahead and put yourself in another's shoes to solve problems.
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I must admit to never having seen the great British bake off, but I might get hooked on the big allotment challenge. The contestants seem like a thoroughly nice bunch, but I'd be surprised if there's not a battle of the beans as we get more into it. The challengers had only had their allotments for 13 weeks and they were allowed to bring their own soil improvers. The large range of crops they grew was impressive.
1. Grow three uniform radishes – Well I'm glad I'm not the only person who's ever had problems growing a radish. I won't spoil the surprise for those who want to catch it later, but there were tears !
2. The next challenge was to provide 7 perfect long stemmed sweet peas and to make a hand tied bouquet using even more sweet peas. I've never been a huge flower fan, but I'm keen to set aside a little patch for cut flowers.
3. The final challenge was to make a jam and a curd, using their home grown produce. There were some surprising combinations. Someone tried to make tomato jam, which wasn't a great success and the use of cornflower to thicken the curd was a definite no no. The rhubarb and custard curd looked yummy and apparently a few crushed coriander seeds will really bring out the taste of blueberries.
As with all these shows someone had to go, and I was a little sad, as I rather liked them. They were obviously gutted to be leaving, and there were more tears on the way !


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St. Andrew's routs Oxbridge Academy in rematch of last year's playoff clash
By Adam Lichtenstein
Jan 14, 2020 | 9:02 PM
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In this file photo, Yussif Basa-Ama, center, is surrounded by Blanche Ely players in the Kreul Showcase game at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek. (Gary Curreri)
The last time St. Andrew's faced Oxbridge Academy, it handed the ThunderWolves their first loss in an eight-point regional-semifinal victory last season.
Tuesday's game was not as hotly contested.
The Scots (12-4) cruised to a dominant 83-21 victory over the ThunderWolves (1-14) in West Palm Beach, controlling the game from the opening tip.
"[We are] a very talented team; it's a talented team," St. Andrew's coach John O'Connell said. "I don't think we've played to the best of our ability yet this year, but there's certainly a lot of talent there. The schedule has been tough night in and night out. It's just been very tough. It's kind of nice to get a little bit of a breather.
"I know [Oxbridge Academy coach] Antwan Harrington is going to bring this program back. But they're young right now."
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St. Andrew's dominance was thorough enough that the Scots got a running clock and took out many of their starters in the third quarter.
Six different St. Andrew's players reached double digits in the points column.
Junior guard Andrew Klimek led the Scots with 15 points. Fab Five picks Yussif Basa-ama and Joshua Minott had 12 and 11 points, respectively. Basa-ama had 6 rebounds, while Minott had 3.
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Junior Tyler Zankl had 13 points, while junior Devin Hines had 12 and junior Kenny Turner had 10 points.
"To be able to have a great group of guys, very talented group of guys around me, it makes my job easy," Basa-ama said.
Although St. Andrew's beat Oxbridge last year, they fell in the next round to Tampa Catholic. Basa-ama said he and the rest of his team are determined to get to states this season.
"That is the goal, to get to Lakeland," Basa-ama said. "Last year, we were so close but we lost in the regional finals. I still feel that hurt, to get that close and end up losing. So this year, we're not going to let that happen again."


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Kristian Knudsen est un joueur danois de volley-ball né le  à Kolding (Danemark-du-Sud). Il mesure  et joue réceptionneur-attaquant. Il totalise 148 sélections en équipe du Danemark.

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Ligue des champions (1)
Vainqueur : 2007
Championnat d'Allemagne (1)
Vainqueur : 2007
Championnat de Belgique (1)
Vainqueur : 2001
Championnat du Danemark
Finaliste : 1999, 2000
Coupe d'Allemagne (1)
Vainqueur : 2007
Coupe de Belgique (1)
Vainqueur : 2001
Coupe de France (1)
 Vainqueur : 2009

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What a year it's been. I was asked over the holidays for my thoughts on how strong the films have been in this year and whether it will be a good Oscars year. It's an interesting question — there are always incredible, fantastic, original films. But I don't yet have a standout favorite, one that supersedes all the rest (for me, last year, Arrival was the one that stuck).
That doesn't necessarily mean it's a weaker year — but I do feel like perhaps this awards season isn't as strong. Maybe this could be attributed to the pull of focus and attention due to the massive change currently ongoing in the industry in the wake of sexual harassment and abuse scandals. Viewing movies through those hyper-focused lens could certainly influence perceptions and feelings towards certain projects that perhaps in other years might not have been so heavily scrutinized. It's a good change, I think, and a necessary one for the industry. But who knows — it may be a factor to my feeling that this year hasn't quite lived up to others.
I'll watch pretty much anything with Jessica Chastain and Aaron Sorkin has long been one of my faves so this movie was high on my list. It was another fascinating female-centric story that I knew basically zero about going in (I, Tonya of course being the other). It's a long movie, and that might be my only critique. It could have used with a bit more editing to tighten the lags and let the story breathe. But overall, it was such a fun movie to watch and I was captivated from the start. The dialogue, as expected, was sharp and quick — and Jessica Chastain did a great job keeping up (no easy feat with Sorkin). It may just get a screenplay nod but it is definitely still worth watching. Also Idris Elba. Enough said.
Put me firmly in the camp of fans who absolutely LOVED the direction this film took and is 100% on board with the pivot from a sole focus on Skywalkers to a more universal take on the Force. I do feel like this movie was what the franchise needed to break away from the usual format of the Star Wars movies (I loved The Force Awakens but it wasn't exactly unpredictable). It breaks my heart that this trilogy was so clearly set up to focus on the big three — The Force Awakens for Han Solo, The Last Jedi for Luke, and the final one Leia. But I'm looking forward to how the franchise will address that and wrap everything up with the final (??) installment.
Salma Hayek is brilliant in this under-the-radar film about a massage therapist and holistic healer who ends up staying for dinner at a client's house when her car breaks down. Connie Britton, John Lithgow, and Jay Duplass round out the stellar cast directed by Puerto Rican director Miguel Arteta. This has been on my list for a year since it premiered at Sundance, and I'm glad I finally was able to watch it. The screenplay nails the dialogue so often seen between affluent White "allies" to POCs and immigrants and how delicate that balance can be. It's a slow-burn but I enjoyed watching the build-up — for anyone seeking more films starring and created by Latinos, this one should definitely be on the list.
Whatever I was expecting from this movie, it definitely wasn't this. They were not lying or exaggerating when they said there is a 5-minute single-take, unedited scene of Rooney Mara doing nothing but eating pie on the kitchen floor. It's a quiet, intimate, deeply reflective film — almost no dialogue and carried solely on the emotional human connection of life's existential questions. This is the kind of film I would not recommend to everyone, but to those who would appreciate the intention and feeling behind it will no doubt be just as moved.
It literally took about ten minutes into this film to realize why Tiffany Haddish is getting so much attention and awards buzz and not that much longer to be fully on board and behind the push. And listen if Melissa McCarthy can get an Oscar nomination for her role in Bridesmaids there is literally no reason why she shouldn't either. The movie is a great raunchy girls' night movie — not my absolute fave (I do really love Bridesmaids) but a super fun and silly and ridiculous and funny movie nonetheless.
I'll wrap this up with a few thoughts on how the race is looking this side of the Globes — which again, don't actually mean much but as voting began that same weekend and continues through last week it would be naive to think it won't have some sort of impact. We'll have a better sense in the next couple of weeks after SAG on the 21st and then nominations on the 23rd (ahhhhhhhhhhhhh).
The Globes as always were a delightful mix of predictable and shocking. Focusing solely on the film side for the purposes of this post — Three Billboards got ALL the love while Get Out, Call Me By Your Name, and The Post were all but ignored. Don't expect that to repeat on Oscars night. While Lady Bird snagged wins for Best Picture (Musical/Comedy) and Best Actress for my personal fave Saoirse Ronan, director Greta Gerwig was conspicuously absent from the Best Director nominations. What with the current climate in Hollywood, the Academy would do well to rectify that with an honor.
I still find it too early to make any sort of predictions. As I said above, it is by no means a weak year — just an interesting one. I have my list of absolute favorites (Lady Bird, Get Out, Coco, and Call Me By Your Name among them). Perhaps the standout will emerge more slowly this year. And hey I still have lots more to get through!
So brace yourselves ladies and gentlemen — the race is on. Until next time, happy watching!


I will be going back home to New York when the residency ends. My plan is to find a job and save up to go to Hong Kong for a while. I'm also considering looking for work there. I will continue making art at home and fire elsewhere. Regarding possible ceramics related jobs, I've emailed a couple of places, but haven't heard back yet.


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