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About Seven Group Holdings Ltd
Diversified operating and investment group Seven Group Holdings Ltd (ASX: SVW) has a number of businesses and investments across the industrial services, oil and gas, and media sectors. Headquartered in Australia, Seven Group Holdings operates both here and in China.
In the industrial services space, its business WesTrac Group is the sole authorised Caterpillar dealer in Western Australia, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It also owns Coates Hire, Australia's largest equipment hire business; and AllightSykes, a supplier of lighting towers, generators and pumps.
Seven Group Holdings has a 40% shareholding in Seven West Media, Australia's largest multiple platform media company. This includes household name media brands such as Seven Network, West Australian Newspapers and Pacific Magazines. The group also has a 28% shareholding in Beach Energy and has interests in oil and gas projects in Australia and the US.
Seven Group shares first listed on the ASX in 2010. The Seven Group share price has since gone from strength to strength and now sits comfortably on the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) alongside Australia's biggest companies.
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Mr Terry James Davis Non-Executive DirectorNon-Executive Chairman Jun 2010
Mr Davis is Group Managing Director, Coca-Cola Amatil Limited from 12 November 2001 to 3 March 2014. He is Director of St. George Bank Limited from December 2004 to December 2008. He has over fifteen years' experience in the global wine industry including Managing Director of Beringer Blass (the wine division of Foster's Group Limited) and Managing Director of Cellarmaster Wines Group between 1987 and 1997. He is Council Member of the University of New South Wales Council from June 2006 to June 2014. He is Chairman of the Independent & Related Party Committee.
Mr Ryan Kerry Stokes Executive DirectorChief Executive OfficerManaging Director Feb 2010
Mr Stokes is a Director of WesTrac; Chairman of Coates Hire; Director of Beach Energy, and Director of Seven West Media. Mr Stokes is Chief Executive Officer of Australian Capital Equity Pty Limited (ACE). Mr Stokes was appointed Chairman of the National Gallery of Australia on 9 July 2018. He is also a member of the IOC Olympic Education Commission. Mr Stokes is a former Chairman of the National Library of Australia. He was also a member of the Prime Ministerial Advisory Council on Veterans Mental Health established in 2014, retiring in 2019.
Mr David Ian McEvoy Non-Executive Director May 2015
Mr McEvoy has experience in the oil and gas industry for over 40 years, in technical, senior executive and non-executive director roles. He was employed for almost 34 years with ExxonMobil. He concluded his executive career at ExxonMobil in 2002 as Vice President Business Development, ExxonMobil Exploration Company. Mr McEvoy earlier served as a Regional Vice President of Exxon Exploration Company from 1992 to 1997, where he was responsible for exploration activities in the Far East, USA, Canada and South America. He joined Esso Australia Limited in 1969. He is Member of Risk Committee and Independent & Related Party Committee.
Mr Richard Anders Uechtritz Non-Executive Director Jun 2010
Mr Uechtritz is Director of JB Hi-Fi Limited since 28 April 2011. He is Chief Executive Officer and Director of JB Hi-Fi Limited from June 2000 to May 2010. He has over thirty years' experience in retailing. He is co-founder of Rabbit Photo and Smith's Kodak Express. He is Director of Kodak (Australasia) Proprietary Limited from 30 July 1998 to 20 July 2000. He is member of the Independent & Related Party Committee.
Ms Sally Annabelle Chaplain Non-Executive Director Nov 2015
Ms Chaplain has experience in financial services and mining, engineering and infrastructure services. Ms Chaplain is the Chairman of Canstar Pty Ltd, MFF Capital Investments Ltd and a Non-Executive Director of Super Retail Group Ltd. Previously she was Chairman of Queensland Airports Ltd and a Non-Executive Director of a number of companies including Downer Group Ltd and Credible Labs Inc. In the public sector she has previously served as a member of the Board of Taxation and as a Director of EFIC. She is Chair of Risk Committee and Member of Independent & Related Party Committee.
Mr Christopher John Mackay Non-Executive Director Jun 2010
Mr Mackay is Managing Director of MFF Capital Investments Limited since 1 October 2013. He is Former Chairman of Magellan Financial Group Limited. Mr Mackay co-founded Magellan after retiring as Chairman of the investment bank UBS Australasia in 2006, having previously been its Chief Executive Officer. He has experience in business management, capital allocation, risk management and investment. He is a former investment banker and corporate and banking lawyer, with experience in the financial and corporate sectors over many years. He is a Director of Consolidated Media Holdings Limited from 8 March 2006 until 19 November 2012, when the company was taken over by News Corporation. Mr Mackay was a member of the Federal Treasurer's Financial Sector Advisory Council and the Business Council of Australia, and a Director of the International Banks & Securities Association. He is member of the Independent & Related Party Committee.
Hon Warwick Leslie Smith Non-Executive Director Sep 2014
Mr Smith has been Chairman of Advisory Board Australian Capital Equity since 1 November 2006. Mr Smith also holds the position of Chairman at Ord Minnett; Chairman of AIM Funds and is a Director of Estia Health Limited since 17 May 2017.He has served as Chairman of the Australia-China Council for over eight years and is the Founding Chair of the National Foundation of Australia-China Relations. He is a member of the Business Council of Australia Board where he is Chair of Trade & Investment and Chair of the Global Engagement Group. Mr Smith is former Chairman of New South Wales & Australian Capital Territory and Senior Managing Director of the Australia New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ), former Chairman ANZ Thailand and former Chairman and Director, ANZ Greater China. Formerly he was Chairman of E*TRADE, the Australian Sports Commission and an Executive Director with Macquarie Bank; and a Federal Government Minister with a parliamentary career spanning 15 years. He is Member of Risk Committee.
Ms Katherine(Kate) Leigh Farrar Non-Executive Director Feb 2019
Ms Farrar is currently the Chief Executive Officer of LGIAsuper. Formerly Ms Farrar held executive roles at McKinsey & Company, QEnergy Ltd, Morgans Stockbroking, Ergon Energy Retail and Suncorp. As the Managing Director of QEnergy Ltd, Ms Farrar built the company from its inception in 2009 to 2016. She is Chief Operating Officer of Ergon Energy Retail. Ms Farrar has served on the Boards of UnityWater, Mater Health Services Ltd, and the Australian Energy Council. She was also previously an Executive Director of Morgans Stockbroking, Your Essential Super Solution, and the Chair of the Queensland Music Festival. She is Member of Risk Committee and Independent & Related Party Committee.
Mr Warren Walter Coatsworth Legal CounselCompany Secretary Jul 2005
Murray John Vitlich Chief Executive Officer Coates
Jarvas Ernest Croome Chief Executive Officer WesTrac
Richard Joseph Richards Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
James Nathan Goth Group Chief Operating Officer
Gitanjali Bhalla Group Chief People Officer
Warren Walter Coatsworth Legal CounselCompany Secretary
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Q: Spring boot + Spring data elastic search + elastic search 5.6.0 I am trying to build a Spring Boot App(1.5.9.RELEASE) with Elastic Search 5.4.1 and I have this conflict when I run maven > install

My pom.xml is
<properties>
    ...
    <elasticsearch.version>5.4.1</elasticsearch.version>
</properties>
<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>spring-libs-snapshot</id>
        <name>Spring Snapshot Repository</name>
        <url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-data-elasticsearch</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.0.RC2</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-data-elasticsearch</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>
        <artifactId>transport</artifactId>
        <version>5.1.1</version>
    </dependency><dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
    </dependency><dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-data-commons-core</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

Any help will be welcome, thanks!

A: This is due to the compatibility issues between spring-data-elasticsearch, elasticsearch and springboot.
Have a look at this and change accordingly
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-elasticsearch/wiki/Spring-Data-Elasticsearch---Spring-Boot---version-matrix

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In honour of the change that happened in England with the election of Jeremy Corbyn, Froggy will address English questions.
With the absence until now of the Labour Party as a serious opposition party, various groups sprang up to conduct various political campaigns. There is the National Health Action Party, set up in desperation at Labour conniving with the privatisation of the Health Service. There is '38 Degrees' a campaigning organisation set up in 2009, in imitation of groups like change.org and Avaaz. Founding members include the husband of Anita Roddick of the Body Shop; Gordon Roddick is also associated with a number of other causes including the Big Issue. This is their explanation of their name: "38 Degrees is the angle at which snowflakes come together to form an avalanche—together we're unstoppable."
The Conservatives actively dislike 38 Degrees, because it works by getting its members to send emails en masse to MPs on a large number of issues. 38 Degrees work on non emotional issues, one good example being the 'Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014'; this Act was criticized by charities including the Royal British Legion for preventing non party organisations from taking part in election campaigns. 38 Degrees, being a prime target of this 'gagging law', led a vigorous campaign against it; it didn't win the day, but it made the law known to millions who would otherwise have never heard of it.
38 Degrees only launches campaigns after canvassing membership opinion. For example, on the question of the UK bombing ISIL, members were equally divided so no campaign was started. Members are invited to start campaigns: "Campaigns by you: Is your local hospital under threat? Know a beautiful place that needs protecting? Is there a company that should be challenged to change its ways, or something the government can do to make the UK a better place? With 38 Degrees, you can start a campaign on any issue that's close to your heart. It only takes a few minutes to get started."
They have at least a million 'members', people who are on their internet mailing list, making regular donations in many cases. Most of the work starts and continues on the internet, but they also give out leaflets and collect signatures on the streets, pay for bill boards, take part in demonstrations, and organize visits to MPs, either in their constituency or in Westminster. Some members have started groups that meet for the purposes of campaigning.
David Lammy and TTIP
38 Degrees got its members to go out in the streets and collect signatures against TTIP, the US-EU trade treaty; taking part in this, I found the people on Green Lanes, North London, amazingly interested. Almost everyone stopped to talk about it. The idea that investors can sue governments who put obstacles in their way in the shape of regulations and social/environmental legislation struck people as particularly objectionable.
38 Degrees then got its members to make appointments with their MP to hand in the petition in a public manner; they provided leaflets, a banner, posters, badges and a large box representing a petition box. In that way I and two others met David Lammy, M.P. for Tottenham, in the Main Lobby at Westminster. He asked if we were NHS workers, knowing that they are particularly vulnerable under TTIP, since it is a public service, where procurement is not yet completely freely available to private enterprise. He then said he understood how Tottenham people could be against TTIP, since they already suffer a loss of control in their everyday life, 'with outsourcing of jobs, and generally privatization.' He said he would raise the subject with Jeremy Corbyn and 'our bis' Angela Eagle; he said when asked that he would support Jeremy Corbyn against TTIP.
We will see what happens to this declaration of support when the question comes up in the House of Commons. The energy and resources harnessed by 38 Degrees and the NHA among others should transfer to the new Labour Party.
Visiting the House of Commons I saw the agenda: '3 pm, House is sitting; prayers, Bp Bristol'. Each daily sitting in the House of Commons begins with prayers, read aloud, usually by the Speaker's Chaplain. Fact little known on the Continent! Or by the public probably, ready to be astonished and horrified if that sort of thing happens anywhere else in the world, especially in the non-Christian world.
Assisted Dying Bill
A mention in last month's Labour Affairs of the vote against this Bill implied MPs were out of touch in rejecting it. On the contrary MPs showed in their decision that they had thought about the subject and were not swayed only by emotion or expediency as I would say the public is.
The bill does not concern people who are in pain or incapacitated, it only concerns those who want to avoid pain and incapacity in the near future; it concerns people with a terminal illness that leaves them 6 months or less to live, who are able to say they have made the decision to die, and are able to commit suicide by taking the fatal dose themselves. A doctor would bring the requisite drug, and the whole procedure would have to be approved by two independent specially licensed doctors and a judge.
This would cover only cases where the person is not already so affected by their final illness that they are unable to express themselves or unable to take their own life. It does not apply if the person is suicidal or even depressed.
It applies to people who are still in good enough physical and mental health, when suicide is presumably very difficult to contemplate and carry out on your own. The name of the Bill is misleading, because it is not assisted dying (that is what hospice doctors do), it is assisted suicide.
The guarantees are not as strong as they look: A very low number of GPs have indicated that they would seek a licence to participate in assisted suicide; moreover, the family doctor no longer exists, so in depth personal knowledge of cases would be the exception rather than the rule. The judge would not have to meet the patient; they would only have to confirm the doctors' decision, and in a time frame of 14 days.
The problem is not that a flood of people would avail themselves of this new legal possibility. The problem is that it changes the way suicide is considered by society. Instead of being relatively rare, and a catastrophe for all concerned, suicide becomes an option that has to be considered by everyone in that particular situation.
You are given 6 months to live; the specialist, yourself, your family and friends, all know that the option of suicide exists. Instead of suicide being a solution envisaged by a few, it becomes a possible solution that everyone has to accept or reject. Should I? Shouldn't I? Would it be better for others if I did? The Bill puts people under a horrible pressure. 'Choice creates the burden; it does not set you free' as the conservative MP for Winchester said during the debate.
Lyn Brown (Labour) said: 'My mum died suddenly and unexpectedly, riddled by cancer, but I know that my mum, faced with a terminal prognosis in a world where there was the possibility of state-assisted suicide, acceptable and accepted by society, would have tormented herself during her last months with the question of when she should ask for that button to be pressed. She would have worried about the stresses that my sister and I would have endured, she would have worried about the weight of her care being shouldered by the nurses and the doctors, and she would have been anxious that folk would think that she was consuming too many resources, selfishly staying alive, costing money, when she could and should just die.'
'My mum was not vulnerable. She was not alone or a depressive. She was dearly loved; and yet I know that the mere existence of legal and assisted suicide would have placed an enormous burden on her. But what of those without a loving family? What of those elderly people—let's face it, they do exist—with families more interested in the cost of care, and its impact on their dwindling inheritance, than the priceless gift of life? Would not some of my more vulnerable constituents think that they ought to take a course of action because it is available and despite the safeguards in the Bill, which I acknowledge have been carefully crafted? Can we be absolutely sure that they would not be pressured into it?'
Lyn Brown's comments show that the pressure to commit suicide would come, even if you did not have grasping relatives, from society as a whole and from the State.
Once suicide becomes desirable for people in order to avoid pain and incapacity, there are no arguments against it becoming desirable for people who are in pain or incapacitated. It will be argued that the quality of life is worse when you can't express yourself, and can do nothing for yourself, so it's not fair to withhold assistance in dying in these cases, even though the person is not able to take the lethal dose themselves; then mental suffering should also be considered as a reason for helping someone to die. It is not logical to accept assisted suicide but refuse euthanasia.
People facing a terminal illness that will make them incapacitated may want to hasten the moment of death, to avoid that period of incapacity. But where does that leave people who live in a state of incapacity for years?
Emotional campaigns, using characters in popular soap operas, sway the public into approving the understandable desires of a few, and stop the public from considering the effects on the rest of society. Individual choice is put before the interests of the whole society, since individual choice is considered more important than the public good.
A good society promotes life; it puts money and effort into finding cures for diseases and ways to ease suffering; it votes credits for research into palliative care. It does not offer suicide as an answer. It has a National Health Service and not individual paid insurance. 'In Oregon, patients with lung cancer and prostate cancer are already being denied treatment on their state health insurance plan and are instead being offered assisted dying.'
The Bill was defeated 330 votes to 118. Almost as many Labour MPs voted in favour of the bill as voted against it, including several members of Jeremy Corbyn's new shadow cabinet, such as Maria and Angela Eagle, Hilary Benn, Kate Green, Kerry McCarthy, Rosie Winterton and the new shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith. Jeremy Corbyn himself did not vote.
Jeremy Corbyn's election was welcomed by various disabled activist groups because he has always supported them. They were particularly opposed to this bill because of the message it contains is that disability is something that should be avoided even if the price is death. The Labour Party should have a policy of protecting all life, and investing in the hospice movement and improvements in palliative care in the NHS. It should start chipping at the worship of individual choice and replace it with a concern for public good.
Some of their MPs already have this point of view, for example Lyn Brown who said: 'I am afraid that I cannot support this Bill. My concern is that we will fundamentally change the way that our society thinks about and deals with the terminally ill, severely disabled people and the vulnerable, troubled and elderly.' Helen Jones said: 'This Bill is not just about individual autonomy; it is asking us to take a decision that will have a profound effect on society. This Bill is not simply about those who have a terminal illness and are expected to die within six months, because it will inevitably be extended. It is a Bill that will in future lead to consequences for this society that in my view no civilised society should contemplate. For that reason I will vote against it.'

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Sutcliffe's Commentary
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1 Kings 22:2. Jehoshaphat had married his son Jehoram to Athaliah, daughter of Jezebel; probably from the idea that the connection would prevent internal war for the future: oh fatal mistake!
1 Kings 22:7. Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides? It was a maxim, even of the ancient pagan priests, that nothing of importance was to be undertaken without consulting the gods.
1 Kings 22:17. As sheep that have not a shepherd. Cyrus and David are called shepherds. Here then is a plain inference, that Ahab should be killed, and the Israelites lose their shepherd. Ministers must still prophesy evil against the wicked: to them they are "prophets of disasters." Iliad 1.
1 Kings 22:38. The dogs licked his blood, as Elijah had foretold: 1 Kings 21:19.
REFLECTIONS.
After the sentence of the Lord on Ahab by Elijah, we left him penetrated with the deepest appearance of true repentance, which was at least so sincere that it obtained a personal respite. But on the removal of the rod, Ahab's old habits and old company drew him back into his former sins. He neither demolished his altar, nor dismissed the order of his pensioned prophets. Hence God resolved to destroy him, and such is his way with those who spare their sins. Hence the great difficulty, the almost impossibility of converting an old and a hardened sinner.
It is always dangerous, and often fatal, for a good man to visit and associate with the wicked; more especially to contract matrimonial connections, as we shall find was now the case. Jehoshaphat was indeed courteously entertained in Samaria; but Ahab's court attempted to improve this visit to their interest, and to involve him in a war with Benhadad his old ally, for the recovery of Ramoth-gilead, a frontier town. And to human appearance there was the fairest prospect of success; for if God saved Israel with seven thousand men, how much more when the king of Israel and the king of Judah were joined. There was however a moral difference: when God first saved Samaria the Israelites had just renewed their covenant on Carmel: now they had reverted to all their former sins. The errors of those kings were productive of some good to the church, in causing to be laid more fully open the manner in which God governs the world, and reveals himself by vision to the prophets. Micaiah, supposed to be the disguised prophet who reproved Ahab for letting Benhadad go, saw in a vision the Lord sitting on a throne, and surrounded with a throng of angels. He asked who would go and persuade Ahab, that he might go up, and fall at Ramoth? A spirit, evil no doubt in his disposition, offered to go and be a lying spirit in the mouth of his prophets. Conformably to this vision, the whole phalanx of those prophets, though scattered in different places, began in the most extravagant terms to augur the success of the expedition. And who could doubt, when statesmen and prophets were agreed, but that the assurances were from God.
Whenever we have serious doubts and misgivings of mind concerning any eventful step, we ought to be cautious how we act. Jehoshaphat saw something in these men he did not like, and would not be satisfied without farther intimations; for God had promised the Theocracy of Israel instruction of this superior kind. Therefore he asked for another prophet: and Ahab was obliged either to consult Micaiah, or lose the company of the king of Judah. Micaiah presently appeared; and was full proof against all secret efforts to make him temporize with his ministry. But finding that the company resolved not to hear a dissentient voice, he said, Go up and prosper, taking care that his looks and the inflections of his voice should sufficiently convey his meaning to the king. This method produced the desired effect: the king perceived his meaning, and abjured him by the living God to tell the truth. Then at once he said, that he saw all Israel scattered on the mountains as sheep without a shepherd; a most delicate declaration that the king should surely fall in the expedition. What a multitude of remarks crowd upon us from this vision. How safe are the righteous while God watches over them in an angelic council. How infatuated was Abab to follow his passions against a warning so clear: and how weak was Jehoshaphat to go without God, against his own ally. Happy that he escaped with his life.
We have now in Ahab a model of the hardness and infatuation to which a man may attain by a long course of crimes, and by a disregard of sacred truth. Hitherto he had always shown some reverence or awe when divinely reproved; but now he set revelation at defiance, and reserved the prophet in the fortress, that he might die on his safe return. He suffered the lying prophet to strike him in his presence, and meanly disguised himself in the battle, that he might elude the sentence of God. Oh how just for heaven to strike at last. How instructive is the fall of this king to audacious characters in all future ages! How sure is the long suspended blow to fall at last on the impenitent. A thousand circumstances, all trivial, all chance, all accidents in appearance, shall conspire to avenge the quarrel of heaven on those who defy the sanctifying power of Omnipotence!
Let all good men learn to shun too intimate a connection with the wicked. Good from them they cannot get; they may get harm, and harm of the most serious kind. How calamitous that Jehoshaphat, who seemed resolved to do nothing without God, should be so far misguided by seeing an obscure prophet so degraded as to doubt whether he were a prophet. The torrent was strong, and he was borne away with the stream. He became a partaker of Ahab's sins; and it was a special favour of heaven that he was not a partaker of his punishment. Happy that he returned with his life. And as the Lord did not bless him in this connection, so he did not bless him in his connection with Ahab's house in the fleet of Ezion-geber. This was driven on the rocks almost as soon as it left the port. Learn then, oh my soul, that God is sufficient to protect thee without seeking the aid of the wicked, or carnal connections in marriage.
Sutcliffe, Joseph. "Commentary on 1 Kings 22". Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/jsc/1-kings-22.html. 1835.


A new year, and quite possibly, a new pen. Certain watch collectors, including our very own Senior Editor Bhanu Chopra, have a passion not only for watches but also for pens, so we like to report on what's new and interesting in the world of fine writing instruments from time to time.
Capra NV is based in Northamptonshire, UK; the brand offers luxury writing instruments that are British made to exacting Formula 1 standards. A family-owned company, over the past 40 years Capra NV has been involved in manufacturing motor racing and chassis components for some of the most recognizable names in motorsport.
It was Vanita Dhand-Panchal, Co-founder of Capra NV and her husband, engineer Nitul who three years ago had the idea to introduce a luxury goods division of the company capitalizing directly on the experience and skills the company had developed in the field of motor racing, one of the worlds' most demanding industries where the only constant is rapid change.
The knowledge gleaned from the components industry has enabled them to produce fine writing instruments with high levels of manufacturing knowledge, unusual metals and groundbreaking techniques.
The company's myriad skilled manufacturing operations form the basis of Capra NV pen collections. Each luxury writing instrument is meticulously designed and produced with a clarity of form and design. Each pen takes 8 weeks to produce from start to finish. Pens such as the Emissary X are hand finished using a specialist ceramic used in supercars and Formula 1 cars.
The coatings range from an advanced coating of Amorphic carbon used extensively for motor racing components to improve performance, to a hand coated specialist ceramic lacquer used in Supercars.
Dark Shadow is made with advanced metal alloys and coated with amorphic carbon as used in motor racing and supercars. The body is spiral fluted and detailed with a full- length raw carbon fibre weave.
The 'Emissary X' is detailed with a diamond cut full-length groove on an advanced metal alloy. Coated in a ceramic lacquer and capped with a genuine gemstone cabochon. The pen is available in black, blue, red or white.
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or מָקֹם; also (feminine) מְקוֹמָה; or מְקֹמָה; from קוּם; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind); country, [idiom] home, [idiom] open, place, room, space, [idiom] whither(-soever).
or סִיחֹן; from the same as סוּחַ; tempestuous; Sichon, an Amoritish king; Sihon.
from מָלַךְ; a king; king, royal.
the same as חֶשְׁבּוֹן; Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan; Heshbon.
probably from עוּג; round; Og, a king of Bashan; Og.
of uncertain derivation; Bashan (often with the article), a region East of the Jordan; Bashan.
a primitive root; to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.; [idiom] after, appear, [idiom] assuredly, bear out, [idiom] begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), [phrase] be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, [idiom] scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, [idiom] still, [idiom] surely, take forth (out), at any time, [idiom] to (and fro), utter.
from קָרָא; an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite); [idiom] against (he come), help, meet, seek, [idiom] to, [idiom] in the way.
from לָחַם (in the sense of fighting); a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare); battle, fight(-ing), war(-rior).
a primitive root; to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively); beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), [idiom] go forward, [idiom] indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, [idiom] surely, wound.


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Students uniqueness includes learning preferences, abilities, and speed. Students should set their own pace rather than allow a teacher to tell them how "fast" to learn. This responsibility is necessary in a university setting as programs are usually intense with a large volume of content and few infrequent meeting. At KVA we track a student's progress based on assessments and continuously communicate with students about the rate of their progress (what they have accomplished in how much time, and if this progress continues at the exact same rate what the final grade will be). Between the self-pacing and this system of tracking progress, students are able to adjust their goals and day-to-day routines to accommodate for success in all courses.
It could mean that the student mastered every outcome to a level of 80%.
It could mean that student mastered 80% of the course to a level of 100% (but then which content did they not address at all).
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At KVA the progress grade on a report card, or the final grade on a transcript means that student mastered that quantity or portion of the course outcomes. At KVA students help determine type and timing of assessment, and we prefer that they don't engage in assessment until they believe they are at a level of mastery.
We have implemented an enrichment program that fits well within our independent program and flexible scheduling model. To meet the needs of gifted and talented student, depending upon the specific needs of individuals, we can compact and accelerate curriculum and program, group together students with similar interests, and provide extra content and/or depth.
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Opposition parties on Wednesday ratcheted up pressure on President Moon Jae-in to cancel his appointment of a senior science innovation official who was mired in a 2005 stem cell research fraud scandal.
On Monday, Moon appointed Park Ky-young to lead the Science, Technology and Innovation Office at the Ministry of Science and ICT, triggering searing criticism from scientists, politicians and civic groups that called her unfit for the post billed as a science policy control tower.
Park, a biology professor at Sunchon National University, served as a senior advisor to former President Roh Moo-hyun for some two years until 2006 when she resigned over a shocking revelation that Hwang Woo-suk, the country's leading stem cell scientist, fabricated his 2004 research paper.
Park was a co-author on the paper, a fact that sparked calls to accept moral responsibility for the scandal. A Seoul university panel found that Hwang used forged data for the paper to claim to have created the world's first cloned human embryo.
"The newly established science office is a control tower that handles an annual budget of some 20 trillion won ($17 billion)... Putting Park, involved in the unprecedented scandal, in the post is like allowing a cat to take care of fish," Lee Yong-ho, policy chief of the minor opposition People's Party, said during a party meeting.
"If the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae really wants to carry out science and technology innovation, it should cancel the appointment," he added.
Khang Hyo-shang, the spokesman of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, voiced concerns that Moon's latest appointment could be seen as the government overlooking past research fraud.
"Putting this person in a high-level post could give the wrong signal to the science communities at home and abroad that the government would overlook past fraud," he told Yonhap News Agency over the phone.
Joo Ho-young, the floor leader of the minor Bareun Party, echoed Lee's view, criticizing Moon's disputed personnel selection style.
"Park is partially responsible for the Hwang scandal given that she lost the opportunity to take care of it (at the time)," Joo said during a meeting with senior party members. "Even, some from the (ruling) liberal camp call the appointment wrong."
The ruling Democratic Party appeared disconcerted amid the controversy over Park, concerned that it could hamper legislative efforts to support Moon's reform initiatives during the regular parliamentary session slated to begin next month.
A day earlier, the Korean Union of Public Sector Research and Professional Workers published a statement demanding Moon retract the appointment.


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Dr. Sarath Guttikunda is Director of the independent research group UrbanEmissions.info and an adjunct associate professor of the Center for Climate Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (Mumbai). His research interests are in studying the impact of emissions at urban, regional, and global scales, using model and survey tools at various complexities. For recent reports/papers, refer to http://www.urbanemissions.info
The following Q&A with Dr. Sarath Guttikunda is exclusive to DelhiAir.org. __________________________________________________
What causes the air pollution in Delhi?
The air pollution problem in Delhi is seasonal and complex. We have the wintertime highs and the summertime lows. This also goes hand in hand with the media coverage.
Major sources of air pollution, especially for the particulate matter, are vehicle exhaust, industrial combustion (including brick kilns and power plants), residential cooking and heating, diesel generator sets, open waste burning, and dust from various activities (natural and fugitive). Of these, emissions from residential heating, open waste burning, and brick kilns are notably higher in the winter months. Also, in the month of November, there is field residue burning for 1-2 weeks in the Northern states, which further increases the emissions and the consequent pollution levels in the city, during this period.
While the emissions scenario is known to worsen the pollution levels in the winter months, the meteorology also plays its part. The air is notably compressed with the mixing heights dropping down to less than 100 meters (as compared to more than 2000 meters in the summer months), which further exacerbates the pollution levels.
Has it always been this bad?
Anecdotally, what we are seeing today is the level of pollution observed in the city, before the compressed natural gas was introduced. Although, there is very little monitoring data from the late 90s to conclusively say it.
The PM2.5 concentrations in the last four years followed a similar trend, with the winter month averages of 250 micro-gm/m3 and overall annual averages of 150 micro-gm/m3. See the graph below, which shows the average of measurements from the four monitoring stations operated by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee. World Health Organization guideline for PM2.5 is 10 micro-gm/m3 for an annual mean.
Will it get worse in the future?
Hopefully not if the pollution sources can be systematically addressed to control the emissions. For example, in the transport sector, periodic improvement in the fuel quality between 2000 and 2014 led to some reduction, besides the reductions from converting buses, autos, and taxis to run on compressed natural gas; in the residential sector, penetration of liquefied petroleum gas and electricity usage led to some reduction from cooking activities; in the industrial sector, relocation of the clusters led to some reduction
Will the Delhi Government's new rule to allow only odd-numbered license plates to drive on the roads one day and even-numbered ones the next, help alleviate air pollution caused by traffic?
Data says not as much as we anticipate, for the following reasons:
This rule is applicable for private vehicles – 4-wheeler vehicles with nearly 70% running on petrol and 2-wheeler vehicles which exclusively run on petrol. We know that most of the PM2.5 emissions in the transport sector come from diesel combustion and we are not addressing it here.
The overall public and paratransit system is not at full capacity to absorb the likely shift of this rule. We estimate a need for more than 13,000 public transport buses for safe, comfortable, and reliable travel in Delhi – for operations under this rule and otherwise through the year.
We are forgetting that the road transport is only a part of the air pollution problem in the city and of that, the private vehicles a small share. According to the central pollution control board study to apportion pollution sources, road transport accounts for 9-21% of the measured PM10 pollution in the city. We are waiting for results from a new study conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, which is likely to put the shares in the same ballpark.
Having said that, if we successfully cut the use of private vehicles during the daytime, we are anticipating a substantial decrease in the vehicle share of ambient PM2.5 during the day, partly due to the fact that there will be lesser private vehicles and partly due to reduced congestion on the roads. We are eagerly awaiting the test to start and how the implementation will be between Jan 1-15, 2016.
What measures could make a big difference?
As pilots or experiments, these one-off measures like odd/even rule for private vehicles, truck banning, and age limits, are helpful. However, air pollution needs to be tackled at the policy level first. One-off measures that place the burden on the consumers alone will not have as wide-reaching impacts as a concerted effort at the top (the management) and the bottom (the public). We need solutions where decisions can be taken and implemented in a decent time frame, and not depend on the consumer or enforcement for its success. For example
(a) Supplying clean fuel for all vehicles and all India (from 2Ws to heavy-duty trucks), in which we don't need to worry about who is driving and when. Currently, Bharat-IV fuel is available in Delhi and Bharat-III outside. Almost all the trucks delivering goods in the city or just passing through are likely to use the lower quality fuel available outside the city and pollute the city. A unified and expedited "one nation, one fuel" strategy and a better standard fuel will help reduce the emission burden from the road transport sector.
(b) Supplying clean and reliable power for all (from households to shops to industries), will cut down any need for diesel generator sets or any other fuel for combustion in the industries. This can also include promotion of renewable energy, especially small scale at the residential sector or in the telecom sector (the telecom towers are the largest consumer of diesel outside the road transport, catering to nearly 1 billion people across the country).
(c) Pick up and manage every kilo of waste generated; knowing that any kilo of waste not picked up, has the potential to burn. Data says that the city produces nearly 11,000 tons of waste per day, with a landfill catering facilities for 7,000 tons of waste per day. This can include educational programs to not generate waste, segregation of waste at the source and at the landfills to recycle and reuse, and stricter regulations to control burning of waste.
(d) Dust free and pothole-free roads. Though dust control has limited benefits to the PM2.5 fraction, it is a major component (and still harmful) of the PM10 fraction. The programs to vacuum clean all the roads, pave all the roads, and wet sweep the dusty unpaved roads, will help to control this source.
(e) Improving service in public, para, and non-motorized transport (walking and cycling) sectors. This needs infrastructure support from the Government and public awareness campaigns to make a successful transition from dependent on private vehicles to sharing the road space.
(f) Most of the power generation in the city is based on natural gas. The city grid also draws from power plants 200 km away, all of which operate on coal. These plants are close enough to occasionally influence the air quality in the city. This can be reduced by implementing stricter norms to control particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide emissions at these plants, which currently lags behind the international practices.
(g) Of the seasonal problems, the brick kiln technologies can be refurbished, with minimal infrastructure changes, from the current fixed chimney bull trench kilns to fixed chimney zigzag kilns, with better heat transfer rates. This requires an intervention from the city and central authorities to mandate a technology change and likely support to the kiln operators to aide the transition.
What next steps are needed to help policy-makers make the best-informed decisions?
Most importantly two things:
(a) Dramatically improve the monitoring capability in the city and in the satellite cities (Gurgaon, Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad), so that we know exactly how much is the pollution, where is the pollution, and where it could be coming from; and disseminate the monitoring data in real time, as both absolute numbers and as health alerts for everybody to see and take precautions, if necessary. This could go hand in hand with the practice of emergency measures, in case of serious health alert situations.
(b) We all are in agreement that the pollution crisis is real and present, and needs immediate attention. So, make the pollution control plan at the sectoral level, by understanding the role of each contributing sector to the problem.
Thank you, Dr. Guttikunda, for sharing your insights and time with DelhiAir.org and our friends and followers.


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It's a male. It's a female.
It doesn't matter when it comes to the gender of gingerbread cookies.
A cafe in Auckland, New Zealand has taken on that philosophy by peddling "GingerBread Gender Neutral Person" cookies. For $2.50 (about CAD$2.08) cookie cravers can munch on these politically correct snacks.
"A little something for everyone," The Tannery captioned a picture of the gingerbread cookie jar on Facebook.
Cafe owner Andre Cettina told New Zealand-based news site Stuff that the gender-neutral cookie was inspired by a patron who wondered why they were traditionally called "gingerbread men" and not "gingerbread people."
Cettina said the genderless cookies were "tongue-in-cheek" at first but eventually became a good conversation starter with customers.
Customers of The Tannery have stopped by and taken photos of the cookie jar and shared it on social media.
"We've had a lot of people commenting saying 'stop being so pedantic, it's just a biscuit'," he said. "I had to reply to them going, 'Did you miss the whole point?'"
The cafe owner said he's also received positive feedback from customers who found humour in the name change.
Gender-neutral gingerbread people aren't unique to The Tannery. Stuff reported U.K. supermarket Co-op Food launched a gingerbread person in April called "Crumbs."
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George Whyte (24 March 1909 – 23 October 1992) was a Scottish professional footballer who scored 49 goals from 372 appearances in the Football League playing for Accrington Stanley and  Lincoln City. He also played in the Scottish Football League for Dunfermline Athletic, for Rhyl Athletic in Wales, and for English non-league club Gainsborough Trinity. He played as a left half or outside left.

Life and career
Whyte was born in Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, and played in the Scottish Football League for Dunfermline Athletic. He moved south to play for Welsh club Rhyl Athletic and then signed for Third Division North club Accrington Stanley. He made his debut in the 1929–30 Football League season, and went on to make 73 league appearances, scoring 15 goals, before he and Stanley teammate Harold Riley joined fellow Northern Section club Lincoln City in the 1931 close season. According to a season preview in the Daily Express, Whyte was "expected to be a useful substitute" for Walter Lax, who had been transferred to Blackpool for a "substantial sum".

Whyte made his debut in the first match of 1931–32 and played in every match that season as Lincoln won the Northern Section title and promotion to the Second Division. Originally an outside left, he was converted to play at left half in the following season. Whyte set a club record of 183 consecutive appearances in league matches, between March 1934 and September 1938. He left Lincoln at the end of the 1938–39 season, having made 322 appearances in all first-team competitions, a total that at the time was the third-highest in the club's history.

After his football career ended, Whyte worked for the Lincoln Co-operative Society. He died in 1992 at the age of 83.

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Post author By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
President Trump, I thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your protection of a vulnerable people that has been massacred throughout the ages.
By now everyone is piling up on US President Donald Trump. They're calling him a loser. They're reveling in his defeat. They're saying America has been saved from the ogre.
But I, for one, will not join in this in this pileup. While I accept the results of the election, in bowing to the majesty of the American democratic tradition, I also submit to Jewish values that tell me to show gratitude to a true friend of our people.
Trump was always a controversial figure. He could at times be deeply divisive, and he reveled in being a counterpuncher. But I will remember him as a staunch friend of the world's most persecuted nation.
To be a Jew is to almost expect bigotry, double standards and prejudice. To be a Jew is to accept the unbelievable fact that in the lifetime of my parents six million Jews were murdered by firing squads and poison gas. To be a Jew is to live with the almost daily vilification of Israel, the world's only Jewish state.
Onto the stage of tragic history rose President Trump with an unfailing defense of our people at every turn, for he proved to be the greatest friend of Israel ever to occupy the Oval Office.
Trump fundamentally changed the tenor toward Israel at the disgustingly unfair United Nations, where demonization of Israel was a 70-year tradition. He hired the most pro-Israel people ever to serve in an American administration. From Nikki Haley to David Friedman to Jason Greenblatt to Jared Kushner to Avi Berkowitz to Mike Pompeo and, of course, Mike Pence, Trump's subordinates had Israel's back at every turn.
They shut down the corrupt Palestinian Authority quasi-embassy in Washington because of its Mahmoud Abbas's constant incitement against Israel. They held Hamas accountable for its genocidal ambitions and actions against Jews and defunded UNWRA. They recognized Jerusalem as Israel's eternal capital, and they recognized the Golan Heights as being forever sovereign Israeli territory.
Israel has had many friends in the White House, from John F. Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson to Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan and, of course, George W. Bush. But Trump easily outdid them all.But he was also the protector of Muslim life, as he demonstrated in Syria, when he fired American missiles at the butcher Bashar Assad, who gassed Arab children and was given a pass by Barack Obama. Trump did this even as he was vilified by his opponents as a hater of Muslims.
If he was hated by the Arabs and Muslims, as his American opponents would have you believe, how is it that only Trump was able to forge peace between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan? Obama could not pull it off. To the contrary, the Arab nations despised Obama's policies of appeasement of genocidal Iran and, due to Obama's policies, began to see Israel as a kindred spirit rather than as an enemy.
Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for possibly beginning the end of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but was given scant praise by his critics for this incredible achievement.
Most notably, he took America out of the execrable Iran deal, which legitimized a regime that hangs gays from cranes and stones women to death. He stopped the immoral payments to a regime that is the foremost purveyor of terrorism around the world.
It is fashionable to attack Trump now that he has lost the election, even as he lost by the thinnest of margins and garnered more than 70 million votes. But I will not be one who joins the demonization of a true friend of my people.
Rather, I will thank him and ask his successor, Joe Biden, who has a long history of friendship with the Jewish people and Israel, to embrace his predecessor's 180-degree shift toward Israel and continue to champion the Middle East's only democracy.
Gratitude is a dying virtue in our world, which puts partisan loyalty before basic decency and values. To be sure, Trump, like the rest of us, is a flawed man, and he, like all presidents who preceded him, made many mistakes. For such is the price we all pay for human leadership.
But on the subject of Israel and the Middle East, as well as other notable accomplishments, especially the growing of the American economy, he was exceptional and deserves to be recognized as such.President Trump, I thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your protection of a vulnerable people that has been massacred throughout the ages.
May God bless you and keep you, and may the country that you have served for the last four years be fair and thankful in their assessment of your legacy. And may President-elect Biden follow in your trailblazing footsteps of friendship to Israel and the Jewish people.
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Oceans divide, faith unites
Fr Leonard Uzuegbu (left) with Archbishop Mark Coleridge in Umuahia, Nigeria. Fr Leonard was ordained in Brisbane's Cathedral of St Stephen on June 27, 2014.
Archbishop Mark Coleridge ordained 10 priests at Mater Dei Cathedral, Umuahia, Nigeria, on July 19. He was there as a guest of Bishop Lucius Ugorji of Umuahia, as a result of the partnership between the Umuahia and Brisbane dioceses. Brisbane episcopal centre project officer LISA FORBES writes about the ordination Mass.
ARCHBISHOP Mark's voice rang out in Mater Dei Cathedral, singing "N'aha Nna, na Nwa, na Muonso" (Igbo language for "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit").
After a moment's pause of astonishment, the congregation responded with a hearty "Amen!" And then applauded.
Bishop Lucius Ugorji and Archbishop Mark Coleridge process through the crowd after the Mass in Mater Dei Cathedral, Umuahia, for the ordination of 10 men.
The Archbishop continued the greeting in Igbo, and the nun sitting beside me leaned over and whispered, "He has done it perfectly!"
Mass continued in English, but the opening exchange between our Archbishop and the thousands of Igbo people gathered in the cathedral highlighted the very special nature of this event held last Saturday (July 19) in Umuahia, Nigeria.
Ten men were ordained as priests by Archbishop Mark for Umuahia diocese, including Chukwudi Chinaka and Nicholas Okafor.
Fr Chinaka and Fr Okafor completed their seminary formation at Holy Spirit Seminary, Banyo, and had parish placements at West Chermside/Wavell Heights and Murgon respectively.
They also had brief diaconal placements at Gayndah and the Cathedral of St Stephen.
Bishop Lucius Ugorji welcomed the Archbishop and paid tribute to the extraordinary nature of the friendship between our two dioceses, initiated between himself and Archbishop John Bathersby over eight years ago, and growing in strength each year.
In his moving homily, Archbishop Mark noted how far Brisbane is from Umuahia, but explained that there is no separation in Christ.
As each deacon came forward and knelt before the Archbishop, placing their joined hands between his, they promised respect and obedience to Bishop Lucius and his successors.
The laying on of hands at the ordination.
Then ushers hurriedly rolled out large red carpets in an area below the sanctuary and the 10 men prostrated themselves while the Litany of Saints was sung in Latin.
A special moment during the Laying on of Hands was to see newly ordained Fr Leonard Uzuegbu lay hands on Chukwudi and Nicholas in turn. Fr Leonard was ordained for Brisbane in the Cathedral of St Stephen on June 27 this year.
Once the ordination rite was completed, the Procession of Gifts began, and the cathedral exploded with colour and song.
Each priest's extended family (several hundred people in most cases) danced and sang as they brought forward their gifts – money, bananas, melons, yams, packages of toilet rolls, bottled water, sacks of rice, even goats!
They presented their gifts; then gathered at the steps of the sanctuary to receive a blessing.
They were so liberally sprinkled with holy water by their priest that, before the Eucharistic Prayers, ushers rushed forward with mops to dry the marble sanctuary steps.
At the end of Mass, Archbishop Mark prayed the final blessing in Latin and all turned to face the Marian shrine to the east of the cathedral and sang the Salve Regina.
Then, three-and-a-quarter hours after Mass began, the bishops, priests, deacons and servers processed outside into the cathedral precinct where each family group had set up a series of tents to accommodate their members.
Much feasting, dancing and singing continued for hours into the late afternoon.
Archbishop Mark visited the Chinakas' and Okafors' tents to congratulate each family.
Progress through the crowds was slow, however, as he was much in demand for photos and blessings for anyone who caught sight of him.
In time, the Archbishop's pastoral assistant Fr Anthony Ekpo and Fr Uzuegbu managed to usher him safely through the crowd.
All in all, it was a marvellous experience of worship and prayer, and I was so glad to be part of it.
Fr Chinaka and Fr Okafor will return to Brisbane in early September. Fr Chinaka will join the Ipswich parish as associate pastor, and Fr Okafor will minister in Surfers Paradise.
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A black man and his son allegedly get roughed up by ticket inspectors and the police for not having a ticket
by Migrant Tales, under Enrique Tessieri
A new case of aggressive and dehumanizing treatment of a black father and his son by a Helsinki Regional Transport Authority (HSL) train ticket inspector and later on by the police, according to Helsinki Times. The reason: Not having a valid train ticket.
Both the father, David Gill, and his teenage son Max were returning from a basketball tournament in Tampere.
The event, which was a traumatic incident that won't be forgotten for a long time by the father and son, reveals a system and problem on HSL's transport.
In the last three months, the cases of aggressive and unprofessional treatment by HSL train inspectors or security guards became public on social media in June and July. The latest incident took place on August 5.
The first incident that received wide coverage on social media involved an East African nursing student removed aggressively from the train. In contrast, the following month involved a minor, also black, who was manhandled by the security guards for not having a valid ticket.
In all three cases the victims are black and on HSL-run trains.
In one of the videos below, the father, David Gill, asks the police what they are doing as they detain him. "Why are you searching me? What did I do? I didn't do anything! I called the police as well!"
The statement by the father that he called the police as well as a sad reminder of what happens when foreigners ask for help. You call for help, and you get detained because the police give the benefit of the doubt to the security guards.
Below is a Helsinki Times account of how the incident developed:
In David's recounting of the event, they had entered the train and had not realized that their ticket was invalid until being confronted by onboard ticket staff, who instantly treated the pair with aggression and suspicion. David had misplaced his own ticket, while his son's ticket was found to have not been validated on the train's validation machine.
"As [Max] was moving towards a seat, the ticket guy comes up and asks about our tickets", recalled David.
"One of the ticket agents grabbed Max by his backpack. I asked him to take his hand off my son and then calmly tried to remove his hand from my son's backpack. He then hit me in the stomach with his forearm."
"While this was happening his two colleagues surround us. We felt very threatened. They asked for our ID then gave me a fine for not having a valid ticket".
Taking into account these three cases in the last three months, one wonders if HSL has done anything to improve the situation?
Get in touch with us ([email protected]/040 8400773) If you know of any cases or are yourself a victim of abuse by HSL ticket inspectors and security guards
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Councilman Terry Sinnott won't seek re-election, citing 'polarized' community
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by Bianca Kaplanek July 2, 2018 July 2, 2018 094
DEL MAR — After eight years on City Council, Terry Sinnott recently announced he will not seek re-election in November.
"Two terms are enough for any sane person," he wrote in a July 1 email to friends and supporters. "The political atmosphere in Del Mar has become too polarized for me to enjoy the work.
"Plus, I have been able to work with my colleagues and accomplish much of what I set out to do in 2010," he added.
During his tenure the city built a new City Hall complex, sidewalks throughout Del Mar, a somewhat controversial roundabout on Jimmy Durante Boulevard and a walking path to the Grand Avenue Bridge.
Other accomplishments include passing a half-cent transaction fee to help fund utility undergrounding and other high-priority projects, developing a master plan for Shores Park, establishing a public arts program, setting aside funds for paying down employee pensions and starting a downtown streetscape improvement project.
He said he is most proud of the civic center complex, an $18.5 million project dedicated June 30 that was completed on time and within budget.
"It really is a wonderful asset to the community," Sinnott said. "I'm also very proud of our financial situation and our Finance Committee, a very strong group of folks that have been providing a good objective analysis of how we move forward financially.
"I've worked hard to get that group to be a big asset to the community," he added.
He said one project that has moved slower than he anticipated is strengthening the city's law enforcement.
"Because of the influx of visitors that we get every summer and the number of people coming to Del Mar, we need stronger, more community-oriented policing than we have been getting," Sinnott said.
He and his colleagues are slated to weigh in on a recommendation, possibly this month, from the city manager about whether Del Mar should create its own police department or pay for more services from the San Diego Sheriff's Department.
An analysis several years ago by the Finance Committee concluded Del Mar, which doesn't have a lot of high-priority crimes, was spending a lot of money for "a high level of service for low-priority calls," he said.
According to committee members, the best option was for Del Mar to create a standalone police department.
"Financially, that's a better solution," he said. "It would give us more community-oriented policing (and) our resources would stay in Del Mar and not be dispatched to other communities. But if that's not a solution the community can support, we have to spend more money with the sheriff to get more police officers in the community."
Sinnott served as mayor, a position that rotates annually in Del Mar, in 2013 and 2017. During the latter the Del Mar Fairgrounds, located in the city, hosted the Breeders' Cup successfully for the first time.
But that year also saw its share of controversy. Sinnott was consistently on the losing end of 4-1 votes for an ordinance that severely restricted short-term rentals in most residential neighborhoods and split the community.
He supported the firing of Pat Vergne, the city's longtime and well-liked community services director and chief lifeguard, after he was accused of misusing public funds and workplace misconduct.
Over the years the community was also divided on decisions regarding sea-level rise and anything to do with dogs on beaches or at Shores Park.
"I think since November 2016 the community has gotten more polarized," he said. "It just seems a shame that we couldn't have come to some solution through more of a dialogue.
"It seems that the atmosphere has changed," he added. "It probably reflects the mood of the community, for one. And it probably reflects leadership on the council, number two."
Sinnott, who chose not to elaborate on those comments, said he ran for City Council in 2010 because "there was a frustration that we weren't, as a city, getting a lot done."
"We were talking a lot," he said. "We were discussing things. But we weren't really implementing things. So, I'm proud of the fact that … our councils have been able to really get a lot done over the last eight years."
Sinnott thanked the community for the opportunity to serve the city, something he still plans to do in other capacities.
"I'm retiring from the council, but I'm not retiring from active participation in the city," he said.
"I have enjoyed working with Terry Sinnott on council," Mayor Dwight Worden said. "While in some situations we have found ourselves on opposite ends of the policy spectrum, I have come to know Terry as a team player and as an intelligent and respected advocate for the positions he believes best serve our city.
"I wish him well in his retirement from the council," added Worden, who is also up for re-election in November. "As for my own situation, I expect to be making an announcement shortly."
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Asia-Pacific (ex-Japan) equities: Strategic opportunities amid a diverging landscape
Asia-Pacific (ex-Japan) equities marginally fell year-to-date (as of 24 September) amid substantial dispersion among markets1. The recent resurgence of COVID-19 cases, coupled with rising inflation across the globe and volatility in China, has raised questions about the pace of the economic recovery and the trajectory of regional equity markets. In this investment note, our Asian Equities investment team outlines the key factors that will drive equities for the remainder of 2021. Although the divergence in regional performance is expected to continue, we believe the broad Asian equity universe offers attractive opportunities for active managers to find diversification and reasonably-valued companies.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, both last year and into 2021, we foresaw a divergence in the performance of Asian equity markets. In 2020, those East Asian markets with superior virus containment measures and relatively higher inoculation rates led the region, while ASEAN countries lagged due to concentrated urban populations, limited access to vaccines, and less developed healthcare infrastructure.
Looking at regional performance year-to-date (24 September 2021), this dynamic has experienced some changes (see Chart 1). Some North Asian markets, such as Taiwan, have continued to perform, while others have fallen along with the worst-performing market, China. India has emerged as the best performing regional market, rebounding after experiencing a second wave of COVID-19 earlier in the year. Meanwhile, ASEAN markets have posted marginally negative performance.
Chart 1: Asian equity market performance, 2021 (YTD)2
Rest of 2021: Growth divergence expected to continue
After a sharp recovery from the pandemic-driven collapse in economic activity so far in 2021, we expect growth, both globally and across Asia-Pacific, to moderate throughout the rest of 2021. The resurgence of COVID-19 cases, particularly in India, has deferred the highly anticipated economic recovery to the latter part of the year. Even then, the hope of any significant recovery throughout the remainder of the year depends greatly on inoculation rates and each country's ability to contain the spread of new variants.
On the policy front, the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) adopted a more hawkish tone at its June policy meeting3 and might begin the long process of tapering its monthly asset-purchase programme. This is likely to be one of the most closely watched events moving forward. Other major central banks have also indicated shifts towards a tightening bias4.
Our current macro assessment: monetary policy and inflation
In our view, most market participants are not yet ready for tighter monetary policy globally. This is evidenced by companies with negative free cash flow trading at the highest price-to-book (P/B) values, relative to the market, in the past 20 years. The market may be pricing in excessive optimism on these companies, with growth fuelled by external capital rather than organically generated cash flows. However, this may be challenged into a sell-off as bond yields rise.
Inflation may also challenge some companies. Rising raw material prices, freight costs, and the reduced supply of electronic components and semiconductor chips in the first half of 2021 is expected to place pressure on the corporate profits of certain downstream industries. However, we think the impact of cost-push inflation will ease when supply chains across different regions resume to more normal levels.
China: Opportunities amid increased volatility and a shifting regulatory landscape
In China, regulatory and policy risks have recently escalated. While the extensive rollout of new rules and regulations creates short-term pain and may impede the near-term growth of some listed companies, we believe the long-term benefits of stable and orderly development in the affected sectors far outweigh the short-term risks to earnings.
Looking ahead, China's economic agenda will centre around the development of advanced technology, the real economy, industrialisation and decarbonisation. These are areas where we anticipate policy tailwinds.
For example, we are positive on China's renewable energy sector – especially companies in the power- grid network and solar-energy supply chain – where we see strong structural growth potential, driven by the government's goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2060.
The readiness of 5G infrastructure is expected to unleash the potential of segments such as industrial automation, autonomous driving, smart cities, and artificial intelligence. Such development is expected to drive demand for cybersecurity software and services. This area remains underappreciated, in our view.
We also see opportunities in regions outside of China, i.e., Europe, the US, and other emerging markets. This includes companies exposed to the recovery in consumption and investments.
Tech in Taiwan and Korea
While investors may be concerned about short-term weakness in the tech cycle, we believe the long-term growth outlook for the sector in Taiwan and Korea remains promising. We expect another round of tech-product upgrades to occur in 2022, as tech bellwethers introduce new chips and software that must be supported by new product specifications. Furthermore, the deployment of 5G-related applications remains at a nascent stage of growth, and we believe that momentum will gather pace in 2022.
India: A slower rebound favours financials, materials, IT names
India suffered a setback after COVID-19 cases spiked during the second wave. But as this appears to be easing and state governments have indicated they will take a more measured approach when easing restrictions, suggesting that a more gradual economic recovery lies ahead. We expect a downward revision in the full-year 2022 earnings estimate before seeing improvements in 2023. Given rising material and commodity prices across the globe, we think that Indian-branded consumer-goods companies face margin pressure.
That said, we see favourable risk-reward characteristics in the following sectors:
Financials: Most large banks are well capitalised, and we expect credit costs will be under control. Furthermore, the banks are more likely to benefit from formalisation and the cyclical recovery following the second COVID wave.
Materials: We are optimistic about the domestic building materials sector, as we believe companies here could pass on cost increases at a faster rate than pure consumer companies.
IT services: With US corporate earnings showing strength, IT remains cyclically well positioned. We are more positive on larger-cap names, as they are better positioned to manage salary inflation and attrition during the upturn. IT also gives protection against policy tail risk if the rupee depreciates due to changes in global monetary policy.
Structural growth opportunities over the longer term: We are constructive on macro themes, such as import-substitution plays that benefit from the "Made in India" policy and the "China+1" supply-chain diversification trend5. Opportunities are present across the materials and healthcare sectors.
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ASEAN: Opportunities amid a challenging economic landscape
The recovery in most Southeast Asian countries now looks more subdued following the resurgence of COVID-19 cases. The spread of the more infectious Delta strain amid a relatively slower vaccination rollout has taken its toll on the region's economy. We now expect a downward revision to growth outlooks for this year. That said, we believe that companies in the following sectors will outperform:
Healthcare: During the initial stage of the outbreak, hospitals suffered from low patient flows and the cancellation of elective surgeries. Over time, these hospitals managed to pivot and have subsequently benefited from assisting the government in performing COVID tests and treating patients. Income derived from these services has helped sustain earnings growth. Post-COVID, these facilities should benefit from the normalisation of operations and a resumption in healthcare tourism.
Exporters: Manufacturers in Southeast Asia should continue to do well due to solid demand from re-opening in the US and Europe. Some companies have benefited from the shift in orders from China to Southeast Asia. While restricted operations and component shortages may cause some disruption, we believe the impact will be short-lived. The exporters also tend to benefit from a stronger US dollar in the event of tapering-related anxiety.
Digitisation of the ASEAN economies: As highlighted the 2021 outlook, Southeast Asian countries, particularly Indonesia, are experiencing robust growth in their digital economies. Data centres in Indonesia are rapidly expanding as digitisation gathers pace across the financial, e-commerce, and ride-hailing sectors. Demand for logistics and warehousing services has grown strongly in the region, and we see high levels of investment in these areas. We anticipate the public listings of key sector leaders in the second half of 2021, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia, will set the benchmark for the future listing of more "new economy" businesses in Southeast Asia.
The divergence of Asian equities' performance thus far in 2021 is poised to continue. North Asian economies and Singapore with higher vaccination rates and better containment measures should have a longer runway for growth. In contrast, the recovery for many ASEAN markets has been delayed and may not occur until the end of 2021 or early 2022. This divergence offers a unique opportunity for active managers to choose quality companies throughout the region.
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1 MSCI Asia-Pacific fell 2.58% through 24 September 2021) but there was significant divergence between the best-performing market (India) and worst-performing one (China).
2 Bloomberg, as of 24 September 2021.
3 Transcript of Chair Powell's Press Conference -- June 16, 2021 (federalreserve.gov).
4 People's Bank of China, European Central Bank, Bank of England, and Reserve Bank of Australia.
5 Multi-national companies based in China to look for another supply chain centre in Asia to diversify supply chains.