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Today, friends, we ponder our death, we ponder our mortality, we ponder our sin.
Perhaps some of you want to jump right to forgiveness, thinking that pondering our sin is legalistic, that thinking about death is depressing, that confessing our sin is hardly necessary.
I implore you, this morning, to consider that just as Christ was in the tomb for three days and was not resurrected instantly, and those who loved him wept for him, so also we take time to ponder our mortality, and don't run to life instantly, we weep for it; we take time to ponder our sin, and don't run to forgiveness instantly, we weep for it.
Most of us take the shortness of our life far too lightly. We seldom weep for the lost days we have wasted. Yesterday never comes again. And today will soon be gone.
Most of us take our sin far too lightly. We seldom weep for the losses we experience and inflict on others through our sin. Today's the day that we weep for it.
For those who receive ashes today, the words spoken are, "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." It is a reminder of our mortality.
Throughout Scripture, we are reminded that our life is brief, a breath, a mist, a piece of grass. Something that's here today, gone tomorrow. Do you think about that? Do you think about the short, short time you've been given here on this earth? Do you consider how you spend those days? Do you weep for the days you have lost or wasted?
The ashes themselves are a reminder of the shortness of the praise we offer to God. Palm Sunday commemorates a day of joyful praise, but that praise was short-lived because the same people shouted "Crucify him" just a few days later. It was those palms, that short praise that were burned to form the ashes that are on some of your heads. Do you think about how short your praise is to God? How quickly you turn to other things? Do you weep for it?
For many of us, we are reminded of our sin, yet so often, we turn away from pondering it. It is unpleasant to think about how what we did or what we chose not to do hurt ourselves and has lingering consequences in our lives. It is unpleasant to think of how what we did or what we chose not to do hurt someone we love, and has lingering consequences in our relationships.
Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand-a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come.
The Prophet Joel pictures the Day of the Lord coming, and rather than a day when all would feel good and Israel would be vindicated, it is a day to be feared. The coming of the Day of the Lord brings terror to the people because of their sin. How do they react? God calls them to return, which means to repent, and to weep for it.
"Even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning." Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. Who knows? He may turn and have pity and leave behind a blessing—grain offerings and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly. Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber. Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the temple porch and the altar.
When the Israelites saw the Day of the Lord coming, they returned to the Lord, repenting, calling a sacred assembly, returning in fasting, weeping, and mourning.
They chose to rend their hearts – to break their hearts, to weep between the temple porch and the altar. So also we do the today, Ash Wednesday, with many others in church around the world. We call a fast, we weep, we mourn, we rend our hearts, we break our hearts for our mortality and the wasters we have been, for our sin, and the sinners we have been. We weep for it.
In Charles Dickens' classic, Tale of Two Cities Monsieur Manette has, in many ways, lost his life. He was arrested in the prime of his life, taken away from his wife and unborn child, and locked in the North Tower for almost twenty years.
White-haired, emaciated, and with blank eyes, he is released from his physical prison, but he is changed, having forgotten who he was. When asked his name, he slowly replies, "One hundred and five, north tower." He sits on a shoemaker's bench, working in the only way he knew to stay alive through those 20 prison years.
"If you hear in my voice… if you hear in my voice any resemblance to the voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!
If you touch, in touching my hair, anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free, weep for it, weep for it!
If, when I hint to you of a Home that is before us. . . I bring the remembrance of a Home long desolate, while your poor heart pined away, weep for it, weep for it!
If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it!
His daughter holds him and feels his great tears as he breaks down, and for the reader, it is clear that there is hope for this man, for he is weeping for his losses in those years.
You see, friends, only grief permits newness. You need newness.
Only tears bring us to redemption. You need redemption.
Today, as we ponder our mortality, our sin, my friends I implore you: weep for it!
Thanks, Amy! May God guide us all in this season. . .
Thank you Dr. Davis-Abdallah! I'm using a couple wonderful Lent devotions this year and you have summed up today's readings and added an element that I needed very much-to "weep for it." In my Lenten goals, contrition and returning are at the top of my list. As a minister, I am not exempt from these, I am called to these. I am asking God to soften my heart, to awaken my sensitivity. Thank you and may God continue to use you in such a mighty way through this blog.
This is beautiful! Thanks, James!
And a blessed Lent to you and yours!


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First Distribution's MSP and Hosting team has won the 'Excellence in Execution' award, which was bestowed at the 2014 SPLAR Summit in Istanbul, Turkey in November 2014.
Readiness events, consistent roundtables, licensing expertise, driving business with discipline and integrity, on-time reporting, and adherence to compliance at all times contributed to the success of First Distribution's hosting business, and the winning of the award.
First Distribution's SPLA business has grown significantly over the past year-and-a-half, to the point where it is now the largest SPLA distributor in the MEA region with the greatest number of total partners reporting. The company has invested in technical skills from both a back-office and account management perspective, and coupled with the fact that it has more than 10 years of experience in dealing with SPLA, the distributor's understanding of SPLA and volume licensing is currently of an exceptional standard.
First Distribution's MSP Hosting Programme Manager, Chris Richardson, commented: "First Distribution is very proud to have this award bestowed upon us by Microsoft. Winning this accolade shows the market that we are 100% invested in providing the best level of service and technologies to our partners."
Richardson added: "In the ever-changing IT world where customers are looking for an opex-based model, First Distribution's SPLA offering takes the complexity out of licensing while still giving the service provider and end-customer the flexibility that is needed to fit their business. The SPLA Programme is a fantastic opportunity for service providers to offer customers a single point through which to acquire software services and the associated Microsoft products, so that customers do not need to acquire and deploy their own licensed products. First Distribution has the skills to be able to advise service providers as well as customers, with the best advice in deploying and servicing customers' requirements using Microsoft SPLA."
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An NFL quarterback and the SCBC president rebuke NewSpring. The story of what happened next.
NewSpring faced two public relations crises last week, and its response to each tells us much about the church's lack of accountability and unwillingness to submit to correction. On Friday morning, the South Carolina Baptist Convention published a strong and detailed rebuke of the NewSpring's pastor, worship style and governance. The statement by the SCBC president, Pastor Tommy ...
Wayward pastors and the problem of the franchise player
Days after the world started reading Mark Driscoll's nasty diatribe against his own church members, we discovered that two of the four outside members on Mars Hill's Board of Advisors and Accountability (BOAA) had resigned. According to the church's statement as reported by Warren Throckmorton, James MacDonald needed more time to spend governing his own church, ...
Forbes.com on the fallout from the Result Source scandal
Jeff Bercovici from Forbes.com writes about the reasons Result Source closed its website down and how the efforts to land on the NYT bestseller list has affected Christian publishing. "I think it's going to affect this whole business model of how these authors cash in on their fame," Duncan says. "They bill themselves as bestselling authors for ...
'God Blogger' interview with Drew Marshall in Toronto
15-minute radio interview with Drew Marshall in Toronto, Canada, where we briefly review the NewSpring harassment, Driscoll publishing, Furtick baptisms, and Liberty University stories.
How do I get my own concierge pastor?
In Mark Driscoll's apology to Mars Hill last week, he reassured us that he was well cared for by his own team of pastors. I have been a pastor for a long time, but have not had a close pastor since college. I now rejoice that God has been gracious to give me pastors for ...
How Mark Driscoll pockets the money he gives to Mars Hill
Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill have been defending some of their actions relating to the deceptive marketing of the Real Marriage book by claiming that Driscoll had given much or all of the money he had made from the book to the church. Driscoll told a meeting of church leaders that he and his wife were ...
NewSpring and Perry Noble are also Result Source clients
NewSpring contracted with Result Source to "market" Perry Noble's first book, a New York Times best seller, a spokesperson for NewSpring church confirmed today. According to NewSpring's public relations director, Susanne Swift, the church paid $30,000 for the service and purchased 11,000 copies of Unleash! "for use in our Resource Centers and for other uses." Result Source markets ...
Mark Driscoll prepared hundreds of Mars Hill leaders to "push, push, push" his book
In late November 2011, just five weeks before the release of the Real Marriage book, Mark Driscoll met with the church's Community Group leaders to brief them on how they could help promote what was described as a "Real Marriage campaign." (It's unclear exactly how many people are in the meeting, though questions had to be ...
See how the Result Source campaign made Mark Driscoll a half million dollars (Updated)
On Friday Mars Hill posted an announcement where they assured us that Mark Driscoll "did not profit from the Real Marriage books sold … through the Result Source marketing campaign." At the time, I found the statement difficult to believe, because the whole point of the $210,000 "investment" was surely to profit from it. Even ...
On Driscoll, it's called inurement, and it's probably illegal
Mark Driscoll may have imperiled his church's nonprofit status and, with it, cost his congregation millions of dollars in tax deductions. I am neither a lawyer nor an accountant, but I can read IRS publications that describe the kind of hot water that Mars Hill Church and other churches can get into when they use ...


TP is short for Twisted Pair.
UTP is unshielded. STP is shielded.
CAT5 maximum lenght for cable is 100M.
The wires should not be untwisted more the 1cm at the terminations points.
To make an crossover cabel, wire one and according to T-568A, the other according to T-568B.


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Fifth Harmony and DNCE Recording Charity Single to Help the Homeless
December 9, 2016 | By Sara Wilkins
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Fifth Harmony, DNCE, Hailee Steinfeld and Rita Ora are teaming up to record a cover of festive favorite "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" to help the homeless.
The singers, who are all taking part in the annual iHeartRadio Jingle Ball concerts across America, will also be joined by Charlie Puth, Tinashe, and Daya for the charity single, and they will come together to perform the tune for the first time at the star-studded Jingle Ball concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden on Friday night.
According to People, all proceeds from the song's release will benefit the Robin Hood non-profit to help the homeless in the Big Apple this winter.
Officials with Robin Hood will also match all funds raised up to $100,000.
"The homeless in New York City and across the country are hardest hit during the holiday season and its incredible to see that once again musicians and artists have stepped up to help those less fortunate," John Sykes, President of Entertainment Enterprises at iHeartMedia, says in a statement. "iHeartMedia is committed to using all of our powerful assets – radio, digital, video, live events and social – in the spirit of giving back to the needy during the holidays."
The Madison Square Garden leg of the Jingle Ball shows will also feature performances from Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, and One Direction star Niall Horan.
Meghan Trainor had to cancel her scheduled appearance on upcoming Jingle Ball dates, including the New York stop, due to illness. She took to Instagram on Thursday to reveal she had been placed on vocal rest for the next two weeks, forcing her to axe her remaining 2016 gigs.
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Q: Pop up menu event control in Qt When I add a pop up menu in Qt as follows:
QMenu menu(widget);
menu.addAction("AAA");
menu.exec(eventPress->globalPos());

How do I control "AAA" action events. e.g. do something when "AAA" is clicked.

A: You can overloaded addAction.

From Qt assistant
  This convenience function creates a new action with the text text and
  an optional shortcut shortcut. The action's triggered() signal is
  connected to the receiver's member slot. The function adds the newly
  created action to the menu's list of actions and returns it.

MyClass::Popup()
{
QMenu menu(widget);
menu.addAction("AAA", this, SLOT(burnCase()));
menu.exec(eventPress->globalPos());
}

// This is your slot
MyClass::burnCase()
{

}

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Due to the unusual nature of Chlorine gas reacting with steel and aluminum cylinders, the A58L-CL cylinder was introduced for low PPM calibration gases in a convenient, light and portable anodized aluminum cylinder. Primary use is low PPM gas standards for Chlorine. The recommended regulator for use with the 58L is the MESA 500 Series Regulator or the MESA 600 Series Multi-flow Regulator.


Weckenmann systems for surface finishing are ideal for the fast production of top-quality fair faced concrete surfaces.
Smooth surfaces and even colouring of the non-moulded side are especially desired in fair faced concrete surfaces. To achieve this, the surface of the levelled side is finished with a screed or smoothing plank after a short curing phase.
The concrete is then polished with the helicopter trowelling machine after a defined pre-curing time. The helicopter trowelling machine has either a blade power float or a power trowel to give the concrete surface that mould-smooth finish. A water spraying unit that is available as an option can be used to to condition the concrete afterwards.
Helicopter trowelling machines are designed either as a gantry or a bridge. They are either a permanent part of the pallet circulation system or they are used in precast concrete part production with tilting tables or production tables. The machine is controlled manually with a joystick.


The URC-68 requires a very specialized battery, the BA-1112/U, for operation. This battery is long out of production. In the book "Power Up" there is a plan to replace the original 10 "AA" Mercury cells with 8 "AAA" Alkaline cells using battery holders and a dead BA-1112/U, but even dead BA-1112/U cases are hard to find. This battery adapter will use either 9 Alkaline "AA" or 10 NiCad or NMH cells.
The idea behind this battery adapter is to support use of the URC-68 on the ham bands, not for survival. For survival use the batteries should have a long storage life and flat voltage curve like the original Mercury battery or the modern LiMnO2 or LiSO2 batteries. Using the Li batteries for ham use is very expensive compared to ordinary AA cells.
The radio interface socket PCB is at the top and the two brass "Pins" are the sockets. One clip for each "AA" cell. Two "AA" cells between each pair of positive and negative contacts.
Right view installed on URC-68 with 10 "AA" cells, but no mounting screw yet. You can see that the 1112BA extends about 3/4".
Front of URC-68 with 1112BA installed on back. You can see the 1112BA is a little longer than the radio.
Notice that channel "C" is now 223.5 MHz (220 ham band simplex frequency) by adding the proper crystal.
Radio Socket board is about 3" x 0.6" and has two sockets that mate with the pins on the radio. It turns out that standard test prods fit into the 1112BA radio mating sockets, makes it easy to check voltage.
13 June 2002 - the first unit has about 0.136 too much distance between the positive and negative battery contacts, so needs rework. But it does power the URC-68 OK.
14 June 2002 - Moved battery contacts closer toghther and now have excellent contact, 1112BA now needs a mounting screw then it's done.
19 June 2002 - testing with a second URC-68 has shown that 10 "AA' Alkaline cells (15.68 V) is too much voltage for the URC-68. It causes the radio to stop receiving after about 10 seconds, probably over heating the 9 V regulator chip causing it to go into self protect mode. If the original BA-1112/U was made up of 10 each Mercury cells then it's terminal voltage when new would have been 13.2 Volts. Most of the tests described in TM 11-5820-767-34 are made at 13.6 Volts. Other tests are at 11 Volts and 12.5 Volts. Need to remove 1 "AA" cell thus providing 13.68 Volts with fresh "AA" Alkaline cells. If NiCad or NMH cells were used then only 10.8 Volts would be present, 10 of these would be much better.
9 Aug 2002 - using 10 each NMH "AA" cells provides about 13.3 Volts when fully charged and is ideal for the URC-68. 10 each Alkaline cells is too hot. Looks like a diode is needed to select either 9 Alkaline or 10 rechargeable cells. This requires a new layout where there are contacts for a single cell.
As delivered the URC-68 was crystaled so that Channel G (Guard) was 40.5 MHz in the FM mode and 243.0 MHz in the UHF mode.
By installing a crystal at 46.725 MHz in the channel C socket the UHF radio frequency is 223.5 MHz, the 220 ham band simplex calling frequency. The mode is AM not FM. The radio seems to operate (i.e. Transmit and Receive) on this frequency, but there is no one around here on this frequency? The SSB calling frequency is 222.1 MHz, can that be used as the AM calling frequency?
Next, and a bit more of a streach is to try a 61.125 MHz oscillation frequency to give Ts/Rx on 51.0 MHz.
This crystal did not oscillate in two different URC-68 radios so it must be too far out of band.
For this adapter I don't see a large market. But if you really want one we might get a small number of people to sign up for one then figure out the price each. The cost of printed circuit boards comes down as the quantity goes up. Between 2002 and 2006 only 3 people have asked about the adapter or crystals, so there's not enough interest for a piolet run or Xtal group buy. For crystal vendors see my Crystal web page.
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Tissue Engineering Market Size to Hit USD 3,088.53 Million by 2030 at 14.10% CAGR – Report by Market Research Future (MRFR)
Tissue Engineering Market Trends and Insights by Material (Nano-fibrous Material, Biomimetic Material, Composite Material and Nano-composite Material) by Application (Orthopedics, Musculoskeletal and Spine, Skin/Integumentary, Cancer, Dental, Cardiology, Urology, Neurology, Cord Blood & Cell Banking and GI & Gynecology) and Region, Competitive Market Growth, Size, Share and Forecast to 2030
New York, USA, Dec. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tissue Engineering Market Overview
According to a Comprehensive Research Report by Market Research Future (MRFR), "Tissue Engineering Market Information by Material, Application, and Region – Forecast till 2030", the market is projected to reach USD 3,088.53 million by 2030 at 14.10% CAGR during the forecast period 2022-2030.
Tissue engineering involves the development of functional 3D (three-dimensional) tissues that combine scaffolds, bioactive molecules as well as cells. The field comprises scientific areas including chemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, material science, engineering and medicine. Tissue engineering helps form constructs that maintain, improve, or re-establish the injured part or tissue in the body.
Tissue engineering also helps regenerate destroyed tissues by merging the body cells with extremely scaffold biomaterials. Scaffold biomaterials function as platforms for tissue regeneration, facilitating the development of new tissues. Tissue regeneration is quite essential in clinical management pertaining to organ therapeutics like organ transplantation and more. In general, the source of cells used for tissue engineering can either be autologous or allogenic or xenogenic.
With the increase in government funding for medical and academic research, tissue engineering has seen significant growth over time. The current state of the market should be improved by technological developments in the field of 3D tissue engineering, including the use of stem cells, the implementation of 3D bioprinters, and organ-on-a-chip technology that successfully creates in vitro implants. The expansion of FDA clearances, which is encouraging stakeholders in the global market to increase their efforts, appears to be causing sizable business growth.
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Report Attribute Details
Market Size in 2030 USD 3088.53 Million
CAGR 14.10%
Historical Data 2020
Forecast Units Value (USD Million)
Report Coverage Revenue Forecast, Competitive Landscape, Growth Factors, and Trends
Segments Covered By Material and Application
Geographies Covered North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of the World (RoW)
Key Market Drivers The emergence of 3D bioprinting as a novel tissue engineering strategy
Increasing occurrence of infectious and chronic diseases
Tissue Engineering Market Competitive Landscape:
The important participants in the tissue engineering industry are
Organovo Holdings Inc
Many of the market's largest companies for tissue engineering use aggressive techniques such new product releases, partnerships, acquisitions, mergers, and agreements in an effort to attain a more prominent position. As a result, the worldwide market is characterized by intense competition.
In November 2022, Collink.3D 90, a recombinant human collagen (rhCollagen)-based bioink for usage in a variety of 3D bioprinting applications, is being introduced by CollPlant, a business that develops novel human collagen-based technologies and products for tissue regeneration and organ manufacture.
Bioinks are used in a wide variety of soft and hard tissue engineering applications because each tissue or organ has unique mechanical needs that must be met in order to function physiologically.
Tissue Engineering Market Dynamics:
Market Drivers:
The scarcity of organ donors has been a serious problem for doctors all around the world, limiting the number of transplantations. The most recent statistics show that in 2017, about 114,687 Americans were still on the waiting list for liver, heart, kidney, and other organ transplants. This opened the door for tissue engineering, which fills the gap left by the lack of organ transplantation and will only increase demand as 3D printing becomes more widely used in medical applications for regeneration. In the upcoming years, tissue engineering should see steady rise in the restoration of 3D contour, providing a significant boost to the market's expansion.
In several fields, including burn treatment, wound care, neurology, urological goods, and orthopaedics, to name a few, tissue engineering is gaining ground. The management and treatment of paediatric patients can greatly benefit from tissue engineering. Congenital anomalies such esophageal atresia, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, and bladder exstrophy can provide serious complications during surgical correction due to missing organs or tissue that is present from birth. Tissue engineering becomes necessary as a result of this. Additionally, the business for tissue engineering may benefit in the years to come from the increase in burns and injuries.
The tissue engineering market is primarily constrained by a lack of acceptable techniques and biomaterials for capturing appropriate physiological architectures, which results in unproductive cell growth, insufficient, irregular production of growth-promoting factors, and inadequate cell communication and response.
Other market restrictions or constraints include the inability to manage various qualities, such as biological, electrochemical, mechanical, and other and cellular activities, as well as problems with biosensors and biomolecular detection.
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The availability of materials in the tissue engineering sector is one of the difficulties brought on by the Covid 19 pandemic. Several laboratory supplies and product shipments have been canceled, and in nearly every case, the delivery of the materials has been delayed or postponed. This made it difficult for corporations and research labs that rely on research to choose any alternate options, and as a result, it has recently been impacting research output.
The 2022 Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring Conference, which will take place between April 6 and April 10, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona, will feature the most recent advancements in wound care research on Organogenesis' PuraPly AM, Affinity, Apligraf, NuShield, Novachor, and Organogenesis Physician Solutions product lines, according to an announcement made by the company in April 2022.
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Tissue Engineering Market Segmentation
The major applications of tissue engineering are musculoskeletal and spine, orthopedics, cancer, skin/integumentary, cardiology, dental, neurology, urology, GI & gynecology, cord blood & cell banking, and more.
Biomimetic Material, Nano-fibrous Material, Nano-composite Material as well as Composite Material are the key materials analyzed in the study.
Tissue Engineering Market Regional Insights
Due to its access to cutting-edge medical facilities and growing elderly population, America is projected to dominate the worldwide tissue engineering industry. The market for tissue engineering in this region is expanding as a result of the rising number of clinical trials being conducted to evaluate the potential of medicinal products and the growing awareness of infectious and chronic diseases.
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Due to the increased demand for cosmetic surgery, rising rates of cancer, cardiovascular illness, and biomaterial-based research, the Asia Pacific can have the quickest growth in the worldwide tissue engineering market.
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CJEU guidance on gun-jumping: does the measure contribute to a change of control over one of the merging companies?
01 June 2018 | London
For the first time since the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR) came into force the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has provided guidance on the scope the standstill obligation (Article 7(1) EUMR) which prevents parties implementing their transaction before the EU Commission issues a clearance decision.
According to the CJEU the key issue in determining whether conduct is in breach of this provision and constitutes gun-jumping is whether or not it contributes to a change of control over one of the undertakings concerned. Preparatory measures which are taken in connection with the concentration but are severable from those measures actually leading to the change in control should not fall within the scope of Article 7 EUMR. Whether or not such measures have an effect on the market is not relevant in this context.
In a request for a preliminary ruling by the Danish Commercial Court, the CJEU held that KPMG DK and Ernst & Young did not infringe the standstill obligation under Danish merger control (which is based on the provisions of the EU Merger Regulation) when KPMG DK terminated its cooperation agreement with KPMG International before its merger with Ernst & Young received approval. Although termination of that agreement and the merger were interrelated, it was not a measure that resulted in Ernst & Young acquiring the possibility of exercising any influence over KPMG DK. Both parties remained independent before and after termination of that agreement.
The distinction between permissible planning activities and prohibited implementation activities under a suspensory regime is not always easy to make, yet getting it wrong can have serious consequences. Last month the Commission imposed a fine of €124.5 million on Altice, a multinational cable and telecoms company, for gun-jumping conduct (see here for our briefing on the Altice case and an overview of previous gun-jumping cases). The CJEU's ruling goes some way to clarifying this difficult distinction, but it is important to bear in mind that measures will always need to be assessed on the basis of the individual facts and context of each case.
1. Background to the case
In November 2013 the KPMG DK companies and Ernst & Young entered into a merger agreement. At the time KPMG DK was a member of the international network of independent auditing firms KPMG International, which gave it exclusive rights to be included in the KPMG network and to use the KPMG International trademarks ("the Cooperation Agreement"). The Cooperation Agreement also contained provisions on the allocation of customers, the obligation to service clients from other Member States and the annual compensation for participation in the network. In accordance with the merger agreement KPMG DK ended this agreement with KPMG International on 18 November 2013, to take effect as of 30 September 2014.
The merger was cleared in May 2014, but in December 2014 the Competition Council issued a decision finding that KPMG DK had breached the standstill obligation under Danish merger control when it gave notice to terminate the Cooperation Agreement before its merger with Ernst & Young had been approved. The Competition Council concluded that termination of the Cooperation Agreement was a provisional step to carrying out the merger. The conduct was merger-specific, irreversible and likely to have an effect on the market during the period between the notice of termination and approval of the transaction and was therefore in breach of the standstill obligation.
Ernst & Young challenged the infringement decision before the Danish Commercial Court, which requested clarification from the CJEU on the scope of the standstill obligation in Article 7(1) EUMR which is similar to the equivalent provision under Danish merger control.
2. Advocate General Wahl's opinion
In his opinion of January 2018 AG Wahl took the view that the termination of the Cooperation Agreement was a preparatory measure that was not in breach of the standstill obligation. According to AG Wahl, the three criteria relied on by the Danish Competition Council (whether the measure is merger-specific, irreversible and likely to have market effects) are not the relevant criteria for defining the scope of the standstill obligation.
Article 7(1) of the EUMR refers to a 'concentration' which may not be 'implemented' before its notification or until it has been approved. The concept of concentration is therefore crucial to the standstill obligation. Conduct will only infringe the standstill obligation where it allows the possibility of acquiring control over the target's activities. This will cover partial as well as full implementation of a concentration, but the prohibition does not apply to merely internal preparatory measures preceding the concentration.
In this case, although termination of the Cooperation Agreement and the merger agreement were interrelated, that termination did not in any way contribute to a shift in control between KPMG DK and Ernst & Young, so it was merely a preparatory measure, not gun jumping.
3. The CJEU ruling
The CJEU has now endorsed AG Wahl's approach in this case. In light of the objectives of the EUMR, which is to ensure that the reorganisation of undertakings does not result in lasting damage to competition, Article 7(1) EUMR must be interpreted as prohibiting the implementation of any steps which, in whole or in part, contribute to a lasting change of control over one of the undertakings concerned by the concentration.
Measures which are taken in the context of a concentration, but are not necessary to achieve a change of control of an undertaking concerned, do not fall within the scope of Article 7(1). Although they may be ancillary or preparatory to the concentration, there is no direct link to the implementation of the concentration. Extending the scope of Article 7 to such measures would not only extend the scope of the EUMR in breach of Article 1 of that Regulation, but would at the same time reduce the scope of Regulation 1/2003 on the enforcement of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU, which would then no longer be applicable to such measures even if they could be in breach of Article 101 TFEU.
The CJEU also makes it clear that whether or not such transactions produce market effects is not relevant. It cannot be ruled out that a measure which has no effect on the market could still contribute to the change in control over the target and would therefore amount to a partial implementation of the concentration.
The CJEU held that, in light of the above, KPMG DK's termination of the Cooperation Agreement with KPMG International did not contribute to the change of control over the target undertaking, and did therefore not qualify as gun-jumping in breach the Article 7 EUMR.
4. Comment
This is the first time that the CJEU deals with the issue of whether preparatory steps to prepare and facilitate a concentration constitute (partial) implementation of the concentration within the meaning of Article 7(1). The judgment is a clear loss for regulators, including the European Commission (who intervened with submissions in favour of the approach of the Danish Competition Authority). This is because the Court's judgment narrows dramatically the scope of (partial) implementation under Article 7(1). The key test for the CJEU appears to be whether the conduct resulted in a (even partial) change of control.
It remains to be seen how the judgment will be applied to other specific instances of partial implementation such as for example: warehousing arrangements (it can be argued that the target is still independent during the warehousing arrangement and no change of control has taken place); payment of a significant or even the full value of the transaction upfront (does this give any control to the prospective acquirer or not?); changes to the target business in preparation of the concentration including for example changes to IT systems, personnel, scope of the business etc.
Given the significant uncertainty and severe consequences if errors are made, companies should seek specialist advice focussed on the specific situation they are facing.
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Quality Control - NINGBO RISEN HARDWARE CO., LTD.
We check the quality during each production steps.
First, we'll check the quality of the material we booked, if not good, we'll return the material to material factory.
Then we have many QC to check the semi-finished products during each production step, the unqulified parts will be picked out.
Before packing, all the goods will be inspected again, also we'll picked out the no good products during packing.
Final, our sales we'll make a random inspection before the goods delivery.
We always consider the quality as the first.


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if(!dojo._hasResource["dijit._PaletteMixin"]){ //_hasResource checks added by build. Do not use _hasResource directly in your code.
dojo._hasResource["dijit._PaletteMixin"] = true;
dojo.provide("dijit._PaletteMixin");
dojo.require("dijit._CssStateMixin");

dojo.declare("dijit._PaletteMixin",
	[dijit._CssStateMixin],
	{
	// summary:
	//		A keyboard accessible palette, for picking a color/emoticon/etc.
	// description:
	//		A mixin for a grid showing various entities, so the user can pick a certain entity.

	// defaultTimeout: Number
	//		Number of milliseconds before a held key or button becomes typematic
	defaultTimeout: 500,

	// timeoutChangeRate: Number
	//		Fraction of time used to change the typematic timer between events
	//		1.0 means that each typematic event fires at defaultTimeout intervals
	//		< 1.0 means that each typematic event fires at an increasing faster rate
	timeoutChangeRate: 0.90,

	// value: String
	//		Currently selected color/emoticon/etc.
	value: null,

	// _selectedCell: [private] Integer
	//		Index of the currently selected cell. Initially, none selected
	_selectedCell: -1,

	// _currentFocus: [private] DomNode
	//		The currently focused cell (if the palette itself has focus), or otherwise
	//		the cell to be focused when the palette itself gets focus.
	//		Different from value, which represents the selected (i.e. clicked) cell.
/*=====
	_currentFocus: null,
=====*/

	// _xDim: [protected] Integer
	//		This is the number of cells horizontally across.
/*=====
	_xDim: null,
=====*/

	// _yDim: [protected] Integer
	//		This is the number of cells vertically down.
/*=====
	_yDim: null,
=====*/

	// tabIndex: String
	//		Widget tab index.
	tabIndex: "0",

	// cellClass: [protected] String
	//		CSS class applied to each cell in the palette
	cellClass: "dijitPaletteCell",

	// dyeClass: [protected] String
	//	 Name of javascript class for Object created for each cell of the palette.
	//	 dyeClass should implements dijit.Dye interface
	dyeClass: '',

	_preparePalette: function(choices, titles) {
		// summary:
		//		Subclass must call _preparePalette() from postCreate(), passing in the tooltip
		//		for each cell
		// choices: String[][]
		//		id's for each cell of the palette, used to create Dye JS object for each cell
		// titles: String[]
		//		Localized tooltip for each cell

		this._cells = [];
		var url = this._blankGif;

		var dyeClassObj = dojo.getObject(this.dyeClass);

		for(var row=0; row < choices.length; row++){
			var rowNode = dojo.create("tr", {tabIndex: "-1"}, this.gridNode);
			for(var col=0; col < choices[row].length; col++){
				var value = choices[row][col];
				if(value){
					var cellObject = new dyeClassObj(value);

					var cellNode = dojo.create("td", {
						"class": this.cellClass,
						tabIndex: "-1",
						title: titles[value]
					});

					// prepare cell inner structure
					cellObject.fillCell(cellNode, url);

					this.connect(cellNode, "ondijitclick", "_onCellClick");
					this._trackMouseState(cellNode, this.cellClass);

					dojo.place(cellNode, rowNode);

					cellNode.index = this._cells.length;

					// save cell info into _cells
					this._cells.push({node:cellNode, dye:cellObject});
				}
			}
		}
		this._xDim = choices[0].length;
		this._yDim = choices.length;

		// Now set all events
		// The palette itself is navigated to with the tab key on the keyboard
		// Keyboard navigation within the Palette is with the arrow keys
		// Spacebar selects the cell.
		// For the up key the index is changed by negative the x dimension.

		var keyIncrementMap = {
			UP_ARROW: -this._xDim,
			// The down key the index is increase by the x dimension.
			DOWN_ARROW: this._xDim,
			// Right and left move the index by 1.
			RIGHT_ARROW: this.isLeftToRight() ? 1 : -1,
			LEFT_ARROW: this.isLeftToRight() ? -1 : 1
		};
		for(var key in keyIncrementMap){
			this._connects.push(
				dijit.typematic.addKeyListener(
					this.domNode,
					{charOrCode:dojo.keys[key], ctrlKey:false, altKey:false, shiftKey:false},
					this,
					function(){
						var increment = keyIncrementMap[key];
						return function(count){ this._navigateByKey(increment, count); };
					}(),
					this.timeoutChangeRate,
					this.defaultTimeout
				)
			);
		}
	},

	postCreate: function(){
		this.inherited(arguments);

		// Set initial navigable node.
		this._setCurrent(this._cells[0].node);
	},

	focus: function(){
		// summary:
		//		Focus this widget.  Puts focus on the most recently focused cell.

		// The cell already has tabIndex set, just need to set CSS and focus it
		dijit.focus(this._currentFocus);
	},

	_onCellClick: function(/*Event*/ evt){
		// summary:
		//		Handler for click, enter key & space key. Selects the cell.
		// evt:
		//		The event.
		// tags:
		//		private

		var target = evt.currentTarget,
			value = this._getDye(target).getValue();

		// First focus the clicked cell, and then send onChange() notification.
		// onChange() (via _setValueAttr) must be after the focus call, because
		// it may trigger a refocus to somewhere else (like the Editor content area), and that
		// second focus should win.
		// Use setTimeout because IE doesn't like changing focus inside of an event handler.
		this._setCurrent(target);
		setTimeout(dojo.hitch(this, function(){
			dijit.focus(target);
			this._setValueAttr(value, true);
		}));

		// workaround bug where hover class is not removed on popup because the popup is
		// closed and then there's no onblur event on the cell
		dojo.removeClass(target, "dijitPaletteCellHover");

		dojo.stopEvent(evt);
	},

	_setCurrent: function(/*DomNode*/ node){
		// summary:
		//		Sets which node is the focused cell.
		// description:
   		//		At any point in time there's exactly one
		//		cell with tabIndex != -1.   If focus is inside the palette then
		// 		focus is on that cell.
		//
		//		After calling this method, arrow key handlers and mouse click handlers
		//		should focus the cell in a setTimeout().
		// tags:
		//		protected
		if("_currentFocus" in this){
			// Remove tabIndex on old cell
			dojo.attr(this._currentFocus, "tabIndex", "-1");
		}

		// Set tabIndex of new cell
		this._currentFocus = node;
		if(node){
			dojo.attr(node, "tabIndex", this.tabIndex);
		}
	},

	_setValueAttr: function(value, priorityChange){
		// summary:
		// 		This selects a cell. It triggers the onChange event.
		// value: String value of the cell to select
		// tags:
		//		protected
		// priorityChange:
		//		Optional parameter used to tell the select whether or not to fire
		//		onChange event.

		// clear old value and selected cell
		this.value = null;
		if(this._selectedCell >= 0){
			dojo.removeClass(this._cells[this._selectedCell].node, "dijitPaletteCellSelected");
		}
		this._selectedCell = -1;

		// search for cell matching specified value
		if(value){
			for(var i = 0; i < this._cells.length; i++){
				if(value == this._cells[i].dye.getValue()){
					this._selectedCell = i;
					this.value = value;

					dojo.addClass(this._cells[i].node, "dijitPaletteCellSelected");

					if(priorityChange || priorityChange === undefined){
						this.onChange(value);
					}

					break;
				}
			}
		}
	},

	onChange: function(value){
		// summary:
		//		Callback when a cell is selected.
		// value: String
		//		Value corresponding to cell.
	},

	_navigateByKey: function(increment, typeCount){
		// summary:
		// 	  	This is the callback for typematic.
		// 		It changes the focus and the highlighed cell.
		// increment:
		// 		How much the key is navigated.
		// typeCount:
		//		How many times typematic has fired.
		// tags:
		//		private

		// typecount == -1 means the key is released.
		if(typeCount == -1){ return; }

		var newFocusIndex = this._currentFocus.index + increment;
		if(newFocusIndex < this._cells.length && newFocusIndex > -1){
			var focusNode = this._cells[newFocusIndex].node;
			this._setCurrent(focusNode);

			// Actually focus the node, for the benefit of screen readers.
			// Use setTimeout because IE doesn't like changing focus inside of an event handler
			setTimeout(dojo.hitch(dijit, "focus", focusNode), 0);
		}
	},

	_getDye: function(/*DomNode*/ cell){
		// summary:
		//		Get JS object for given cell DOMNode

		return this._cells[cell.index].dye;
	}
});

/*=====
dojo.declare("dijit.Dye",
	null,
	{
		// summary:
		//		Interface for the JS Object associated with a palette cell (i.e. DOMNode)

		constructor: function(alias){
			// summary:
			//		Initialize according to value or alias like "white"
			// alias: String
		},

		getValue: function(){
			// summary:
			//		Return "value" of cell; meaning of "value" varies by subclass.
			// description:
			//		For example color hex value, emoticon ascii value etc, entity hex value.
		},

		fillCell: function(cell, blankGif){
			// summary:
			//		Add cell DOMNode inner structure
			//	cell: DomNode
			//		The surrounding cell
			//	blankGif: String
			//		URL for blank cell image
		}
	}
);
=====*/

}

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Economy Lock and Key has been serving residential clients in the North Bay Area for 30 years. During that time, we have found that many people aren't doing the simple things to ensure the safety of their homes. To better serve our residential customers, we have compiled a simple home security checklist to give you the tools to make sure you are safe and your home is secure.
Sometimes its the simple things that can make the biggest difference. That's why we put together this short checklist of items that you should review for the safety of your home. We have listed items that will help in determining your next steps in increasing your home security.
Review the checklist pictured here and even download a copy for printing out and walking around your home.
Follow us below on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube for more safety tips and products that you can implement to increase the security of your home.
Got questions about home security and some of the security products that can benefit your home? Give us a call or use the email for provided to get in touch with us. We are here to help.
For information on what you can do to better secure your business, check out our security division, Rinkor Technology and the checklist they have compiled for your review.


Atlanta based Distributor of French and Italian wines. We have been in business for over 20 years serving mid-high end restaurants, wine stores and private clubs. Our portfolio was custom selected in the vineyards of France and Italy and directly imported for us by our Avignon importer. Our French portfolio represent most of the AOC and our Italian portfolio most of the DOCG. Our wines are well-represented throughout Atlanta and North Georgia. We are seeking an experienced wine sales representative with a familiarity of our market and a good working knowledge of both French and Italian wines.


This page Shows Our PAST SOLD CARS detail pictures, and You can easily check the vehicle conditions, our shipping preparation procedures, vehicle Qualities, situations all at once by those actual pictures.
JDM Honda Integra B16A VTEC model, We disclose the vehicle actual condition before we ship the car to our custmers!
As We mentioned in "How To Buy 1 2 3" page, The custmer vehicle is always cleaned up completely before the shipment except some cases(sold as is base, or other sales conditions).
All The custmer purchased Car is handed over to the reliable Local Transport company, ZERO transport company in front of our stock yard, then transport to the departure port in good manner.
We always use "Transport Car" in japan except Test driving, so Custmer doesn't need to worry aabout the accidents in Japan wharf, customs area.
There are some sample vehicles, which were sold to our custmer in past.
After purchasing our stock vehicles, or the auction buying vehicle at us, We can provide special service to the custmer.
As you can understand, We can supply it "As is", and modified the vehicle following to custmer's requests.
Changes rims, fits aero parts, body panels, Convert trany Automatic to manual stick shift at our service factory.
We believe You can trust our quality service, and How do we manage your vehicle when You purchase our stock vehicles at us. Please refer to these sample pictuers for the evidence of our best quality services.
Most of Car exporters in japan usually doesn't give our similar, additional custmer service, So If you want to get your dream, and modified vehicle from japan, Let me have your enquiry at us anytime you want!
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Custmer in Vancouver B.C. Canada, Car lands in Canada on July 2005.
Clean up completely before shipment. Very shine looks as Brand new car!
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Landscape may be my favorite photographic genre and Robert Adams is one if its Masters — I'm excited to team up with Fraenkel Gallery to give away 3 copies of his new book, A Road Through Shore Pine this Fall.
A Road Through Shore Pine focuses on a series of 18 never-before-seen photographs made in Nehalem Bay State Park, Oregon, in the fall of 2013. In A Road Through Shore Pine, Adams traces a contemplative journey, first by automobile, then by foot, along an isolated, tree-bordered road to the sea. Through experience gathered over more than four decades, Adams's trees, especially the tips of their leaves, are etched with singular sensitivity to the subtleties and meanings of light.
Submission is easy and you've got three chances to win — Deadline is Sunday, November 16 at 11:59 p.m. CDT.
1. Comment on my Instagram post — I'll draw one random winner from the comments on Monday, November 17.
@FlakPhoto Giveaway! Comment on my post for a chance to win this book — I'll draw a winner from the comments on MON, NOV 17. Good luck!
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Why would a bird continue to nest and live within the perimeter fences of a major airport?
And why, despite several attempts to scare them off, and an increasing number of deaths as they unwittingly fly into the flight path of planes, would their numbers be on the increase?
Perhaps, in order to understand this, it's time to take a fresh look at the Eurasian oystercatcher.
Is the oystercatcher a bird with a death wish – or is it simply too stupid to learn?
In many bird control circles the oystercatcher is jokingly referred to as a 'dodo' for its inability to realise that airports are not an ideal nesting ground.
But, it may not be the oystercatcher that lacks understanding: it could well be us.
The problem may lie in the behavioural change in birds that is a direct response to our own actions as humans, centred on our inability to see things from the bird's perspective rather than our own.
Let's start by considering just how unintelligent the oystercatcher's behaviour actually is.
The oystercatcher's changing behaviour in relation to airports looks like an intelligent, reasoned choice if seen from the bird's point of view – and certainly not evidence of a wilful streak of mis-guided intransigence.
They can confidently out-manoeuvre even the fastest of raptors: this is a bird that thinks and acts fast, even at speeds of 90 mph.
Its broad diet includes shellfish, which are particularly tricky to consume with a beak alone, as anyone who has tried to tackle opening a mussel with a pair if chopsticks can testify.
Here's the real critical point, however.
In the past, ornithologists have observed oystercatchers demonstrating a remarkable ability to evaluate the probable risks of one environment compared to another when deciding where to breed. This has led to discernible movements of the bird should a new threat or opportunity emerge.
Traditional bird strike prevention methods of 'bird scaring' at airports have made hardly any headway at all with this species.
Pyrotechnics, noises, rapid movement, chasing with remote-controlled vehicles are all met with barely the blink of an eye.
As a result, the move is being made from scare tactics to cull tactics.
The oft-used argument is that the oystercatcher has become habituated to the scare tactics and something more drastic is required. What actually seems to be the case, however, is that there may be some truth, after all, in the dodo metaphor.
It's not so much that the bird is now habituated to our scare methods, but that it wasn't at all bothered by them in the first place. Unlike corvids, oystercatchers are not used to being culled by humans.
They are, as a result, not at all afraid of us.
Like the dodo, this makes them sitting ducks when humans began to use fatal threats.
And, just like the dodo, human threats now pose a real risk to their survival.
Despite the oystercatcher already suffering from diminishing numbers and being classed as an Amber species (Birds of Conservation Concern), bird control methods now focus on culling rather than relocating.
It is not just airports that oystercatchers are choosing as nesting locations. Increasingly over the last few years observers have also noted oystercatchers are choosing to nest in places that on the face of it seem ridiculous. A busy public footpath, for example, or roundabouts on main roads in major cities.
Oystercatchers calculate that humans pose absolutely no threat to their eggs.
In addition, in areas where human activity is high they can observe a reduction in threats from their typical predators. This makes the busiest and noisiest environments an ideal choice for risk-free nesting.
Instead of suffering from the disturbance that the increase in air traffic may bring, oystercatchers are now exploiting this as a welcome activity that keeps their potential predators away.
What seems a foolish choice of nest location is actually a successful calculation of the odds.
Oystercatchers have learnt that the airport environment is statistically more successful than other, more natural, choices. And, the greater the number of movements an airport has, the more desirable the habitat is for an oystercatcher.
This is not one 'freak species'.
Similar behaviour has been observed in the traditionally shy stone curlew and many other birds.
The big question is this: the endgame of using traditional 'scare' tactics is to lead to a 'cull' option. If we wish to avoid this we need to address the problem from the bird's perspective and start deploying different tactics that have a greater chance of success before we throw the towel in and bring out the big guns.
Let's recognise the birds' intelligence. And then let's understand their behaviour.
Let's put our thinking towards developing control methods that work, rather than those that are proving increasingly ineffective, as they are outsmarted or ignored by highly cognitive bird species.
Let's focus on a smart response – not one that simply moves from scare to cull. We need to adopt more sophisticated scaring and control methodology – and not blindly fall back on traditional methods – particularly for species that are protected.
Avian intelligence demands bird control methods that are just as complex and as reasoned as the behaviour of birds. With that in mind, using the oystercatcher's own distress calls to convince them that their location is unsafe is a far more effective dispersal method than those which arguably fit more with a human logic.
The oystercatcher call is just one of a whole library of bird distress calls which we offer and supply to airport customers around the world. The bio-acoustic technology uses accurate and expertly curated distress calls to alert oystercatchers and hundreds of other species to danger and repel them from airside environments: literally using the birds' own languages to communicate with them. It is technology such as this that we need to continue to champion and develop in order to recognise and react to behaviour such as that of the oystercatcher, rather than using more basic and impulsive tactics and seeing little or no impact.


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7.30 Report
What's fair pay for a fair day's work for the intellectually disabled?
Posted Thu 21 Aug 2014, 8:54pm
Updated Thu 21 Aug 2014, 8:54pm
Workers with intellectual disabilities from what used to be known as 'sheltered workshops' are seeking back pay after the Federal Court ruled that paying them a fraction of the minimum wage was discriminatory and they are fighting their case despite a Government offer of half what they're claiming in return for dropping their case.
CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: What is a fair day's pay for a fair day's work when you're intellectually disabled? That's what a Senate committee has to decide as it reviews the wages for workers in what used to be called sheltered workshops. A class action is seeking to recover backpay owed to employees after the Federal Court found the way their wages were assessed was discriminatory. The Government today announced a deal with the workshops which aims to increase pay rates, but the workers and their families are fighting on. Louise Milligan reports.
LOUISE MILLIGAN, REPORTER: This is Tyson Comrie-Duvall, heading home after a long day's work. Tyson earns $1.79 an hour packing muesli bars and jellybeans. In seven years, he's had a five-cent pay rise.
This is Matthew Hillis, he loves his factory job driving a forklift and packing goods. He gets $4.50 an hour and his earnings mean his disability pension is docked.
And this is Alysia Maloney. She was paid $4.85 an hour stuffing laminate tabs into plastic pockets. She quit her job in disgust at the low pay.
What do you think it says about the way that they value your work?
ALYSIA MALONEY: That they don't care.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: All three workers have intellectual disabilities and work in government-supported factories where some workers earn as little as $1 an hour.
JOSH BORNSTEIN, LAWYER, MAURICE BLACKBURN: We are one of the wealthiest countries in the world. We can afford to pay intellectually disabled employees more than $1 an hour.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: Besides his intellectual disability, Tyson also has autism and ADHD. He and mum, Claudine, live a frugal existence.
CLAUDINE DUVALL, MOTHER: We live in this house here and it's a Department of Human Services, OK, so what you see here, that's all we have. And what's going to happen to him in the future after me?
LOUISE MILLIGAN: So what's his take-home pay?
CLAUDINE DUVALL: $137.50 a fortnight.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: Tyson's wages have been calculated under a system called BSWAT, which assesses an employee's ability to work.
Tyson has been sent a letter advising him that the system will change. The letter has pictures to help him understand it.
TYSON COMRIE-DUVALL: (Reading from letter) We want to have a meeting to talk to you more about BSWAT.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: BSWAT stands for Business Services Wage Assessment Tool.
KEN BAKER, NATIONAL DISABILITY SERVICES: It was a tool that was developed by government, that is owned by government and the assessment is undertaken by a government agency which is independent of the employer.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: Alysia Maloney is the queen of her suburban bowling alley.
ALYSIA MALONEY: I don't want to be treated any different and I want to be on the same wages as everyone else.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: Wages for workers like Alysia were regularly assessed under the BSWAT system. It produced some bizarre results.
KAIRTSY WILSON, ASSN OF EMPLOYEES WITH DISABILITIES LEGAL CENTRE: She actually answered all the questions correctly for the occ' health and safety, yet she was marked "not yet competent" in that section and I said, "Why has she been marked 'not yet competent' here?" And it was because she had been observed in the factory picking up a piece of paper from the floor without bending her knees.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: Alysia's pay was cut by 75 per cent.
ALYSIA MALONEY: We're better than that and why do they, like, treat us and give us so little wage?
KAIRTSY WILSON: In our society, we work, we get paid for it, so why is there a difference? It's employment, it's not a babysitting service.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: In 2012, a landmark Federal Court decision found that workers like Tyson and Alysia were being underpaid and discriminated against, so Tyson and Alysia are now at the centre of a class action representing up to 10,000 workers to claim back unpaid wages.
JOSH BORNSTEIN: This is an issue which I think is under the radar for most of the Australian community. They're not aware that intellectually disabled employees are being discriminated against in this way and treated so shabbily by the Federal Government and we're determined to make sure that as many people know about this as possible.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: Ken Baker runs the peak body in charge of the workplaces for employees like Tyson and Alysia.
Do you have any issue with people working for $1 an hour?
KEN BAKER: Look, I want wages to be fair and I think it's very important that they be determined in a fair way that accurately reflects a person's range of competencies and skills and their productivity. But I don't want to people to be excluded from employment or priced out of jobs just because their capacity to work is very restricted.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: The Federal Government has introduced legislation that would give disabled workers half the backpay they are owed if they abandon the court case.
The Government argues the disabled workers are better off accepting its deal than waiting for a protracted court case to be decided, but the lawyers wonder why the workers should have to accept only half of what they're legally entitled to. A Senate committee has been scrutinising the Government's offer, and sitting here in Melbourne, it's heard passionate submissions from both sides of the debate.
David Barbagallo runs 230 not-for-profit disability enterprises around the country. He's adamant that if they were forced to pay higher wages, businesses like those would close.
SENATE COMMITTEE MEMBER: What sort of quantum of people who currently work for you would you be talking about, roughly, losing their jobs?
DAVID BARBAGALLO, NOT-FOR-PROFIT CEO: Well I'd expect 90 per cent.
SENATE COMMITTEE MEMBER: 90 per cent?
DAVID BARBIGELLO: Yeah.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: That worries Matthew Hillis' mum, Vicki Smith. Matthew floundered when he tried to hold down a mainstream job, but after six years at a disability enterprise, he has his forklift licence and is learning to drive a truck.
VICKI SMITH, MOTHER: His confidence is sky-high. His self-esteem is incredible from where it was before we came into an ADE and every day is a joy for him to go to work.
JOSH BORNSTEIN: We know that there's an enormous amount of research that says that people go to work not just for money, but, at the same time, getting paid a proper wage is recognition of someone's worth and is important to their sense of well-being and dignity in the workplace. There is no excuse in this country for paying anyone $1 an hour.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: With the Senate committee's report looming on Tuesday, today the Federal Government got in early and announced a $173 million payment to help bolster wages for disabled workers in the future.
MITCH FIFIELD, ASST MINISTER FOR SOCIAL SERVICES: What the $173 million will do is to help create a new wage assessment tool which will be productivity-based. We want to work co-operatively with all parties to make sure that there can be confidence in this wage assessment tool.
LOUISE MILLIGAN: But the minister can't guarantee that the era of $1 an hour is gone for every disabled worker and his deal won't settle the backpay, so Tyson's class action continues.
CHRIS UHLMANN: Louise Milligan reporting.
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On June 29, 2017 the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance (DBF) adopted Final Rules that were originally proposed in May 2017. The issued rulemaking addresses a wide range of changes to State banking regulation. A link to the rules can be found here.
One BSA related change of note, the DBF slightly amended when state-chartered institutions must send a copy of a filed Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) to the Department. The DBF removed the requirements to forward the SAR when the report involves a loss or potential loss of $100,000 or more and when filing on a money-service business (MSB) that is a customer of the institution. The DBF also added additional notification requirements. See below for the current notification requirements.
(c) The SAR involves an affiliate or subsidiary of the financial institution.
(2) Along with any SAR forwarded to the Department, a financial institution shall also notify the Department when law enforcement or the financial institution's insurers, including, but not limited to surety companies, have been notified of the underlying activity.
It is recommended that state-chartered institutions update their BSA procedures for the changes.
On July 10, 2017 the CFPB issued its final rule which limits financial institutions' ability to utilize arbitration agreements. The rule prohibits the compulsory waiver of class action suits via pre-dispute arbitration agreements. The rule takes effect on September 18, 2017 but compliance is not mandatory until on or after March 19, 2018. Institutions should review consumer deposit, credit card, and loan agreements as pre-dispute arbitration agreements are quite common. It may be necessary for institutions to update these documents manually or to contact providers to determine if these forms are available without the pre-dispute language. If an institution is to retain allowable types of pre-dispute arbitration agreements, such agreements must now contain new model language and require submission of certain arbitration records to the CFPB. See the CFBP's page for further guidance here.
While the House passed a resolution on July 26, 2017 to override the arbitration rule, there is no word from the Senate on an impending vote. We will provide updates on any changes of the status of these rules.


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Q: compute group automorphisms using magma I'm learning how to use MAGMA to compute automorphism groups, and I have difficulty interpreting the output.  Concrete (and functional) example:
G := SL(2,3);
print "generators of SL(2,3):  ", Generators(G);
AG := AutomorphismGroup(G);
print "Aut( SL(2,3) ):   ", AG;

Output (executed via the online MAGMA calculator):
generators of SL(2,3):   {
    [1 1]
    [0 1],

    [0 1]
    [2 0]
}
Aut( SL(2,3) ):    A group of automorphisms of SL(2, GF(3))
Generators:
    Automorphism of SL(2, GF(3)) which maps:
        [1 1]
        [0 1] |--> [1 1]
        [0 1]
        [0 1]
        [2 0] |--> [1 2]
        [2 2]
    Automorphism of SL(2, GF(3)) which maps:
        [1 1]
        [0 1] |--> [0 1]
        [2 2]
        [0 1]
        [2 0] |--> [0 2]
        [1 0]
    Automorphism of SL(2, GF(3)) which maps:
        [1 1]
        [0 1] |--> [1 0]
        [2 1]
        [0 1]
        [2 0] |--> [0 1]
        [2 0]
    Automorphism of SL(2, GF(3)) which maps:
        [1 1]
        [0 1] |--> [1 1]
        [0 1]
        [0 1]
        [2 0] |--> [0 1]
        [2 0]
    Automorphism of SL(2, GF(3)) which maps:
        [1 1]
        [0 1] |--> [1 2]
        [0 1]
        [0 1]
        [2 0] |--> [2 1]
        [1 1]

So $SL(2,3)$ has two generators, the matrices $A := \begin{bmatrix}1&1 \\\ 0 & 1\end{bmatrix}$ and $B := \begin{bmatrix}0  &1 \\\ 2 & 0\end{bmatrix}$, and MAGMA says that $Aut(SL(2,3))$ is generated by four automorphisms $f_1, \ldots, f_4$  and specify how each $f_i$ acts on $A$ and $B$.  What I don't understand about the MAGMA output:

*

*Take for instance $f_1$.  What do the $[0, 1]$ and $[2,2]$ mean under $A$ and $B$, respectively?

*Take again $f_1$.  What does $f_1(A) \mapsto [1,1]$ mean?  (e.g. $AB$?)

*I know that MAGMA uses right group action.  Does this convention extend to group automorphisms as well?  In order words, does $f_i(xy) = f_i(x) f_i(y)$ or $f_i(y) f_i(x)$?

Thanks for your help!

A: To answer 1. and 2. together: I think there's just a whitespace error, i.e.
Generators:
    Automorphism of SL(2, GF(3)) which maps:
        [1 1]
        [0 1] |--> [1 1]
        [0 1]
        [0 1]
        [2 0] |--> [1 2]
        [2 2]

should be
Generators:
    Automorphism of SL(2, GF(3)) which maps:
        [1 1]
        [0 1] |--> [1 1]
                   [0 1]
        [0 1]
        [2 0] |--> [1 2]
                   [2 2]

As for 3, I don't think $f_i(xy) = f_i(y)f_i(x)$ makes much sense? Take $f_i = \operatorname{id}_G$ for any non-abelian group $G$...


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