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The Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets return to the court on Thursday night for Game 4 of their Western Conference semifinals series at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Florida.
LeBron James and company currently hold a 2-1 series lead. Despite the early series lead, the Lakers know they have to keep their foot on the gas to keep the pressure on Houston.
"Every time you lose a game in the playoffs your group is super desperate, and if you lose two in a row it just heightens even more," Lakers head coach Frank Vogel said, via ESPN.com. "We know they're going to come out with the backs against the wall mindset and really execute and play extremely hard on both ends of the floor, and play with desperation. We've got to make sure that we match that.
"What's happened so far in the series is behind us. They've got an offense and some players on their team and a system that will never allow us to be comfortable. So we've got to bring the same desperation."
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Report: Republican Gov. DeSantis to Replace Scott Israel with Broward's First Black Sheriff
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is reportedly planning to replace embattled Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel with the county's first black sheriff.
Politico reports that the new appointee will be Coral Springs Police Sgt. Gregory Tony.
Tony was recommended by Andrew Pollack, father of the late Meadow Pollack, who was killed in the February 14, 2018, Parkland school shooting. Pollack said, "[Tony's] a law-and-order-type policeman who wants to do right by the community and keep the community safe."
News of a replacement for Sheriff Israel comes just days after he told his staff that DeSantis was suspending him over his office's handling of the Parkland schooting.
On January 8, 2019, Breitbart News reported that Israel was convinced his suspension was inevitable. The Miami Herald quoted BSO union chief Jeff Bell saying, "We know that he is telling everyone at the public safety building that he is going to be gone."
Israel has taken heavy criticism for allowing former deputy Scot Peterson to retire following the Parkland shooting. Peterson stood outside the school building and listened to shots being fired instead of going inside to confront the gunman. By not firing Peterson, and allowing him instead to resign, Israel was ridiculed for allegedly contributing to scenario in which the former deputy, aka the "Coward of Broward," now draws over $100,000 a year in pension.
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FIFA's Human Rights Agenda: Is the Game Beautiful Again? – By Tomáš Grell
4. September 2017 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Editor's note: Tomáš Grell holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University. He contributes to the work of the ASSER International Sports Law Centre as a research intern.
Concerns about adverse human rights impacts related to FIFA's activities have intensified ever since its late 2010 decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cup to Russia and Qatar respectively. However, until recently, the world's governing body of football had done little to eliminate these concerns, thereby encouraging human rights advocates to exercise their critical eye on FIFA.
In response to growing criticism, the Extraordinary FIFA Congress, held in February 2016, decided to include an explicit human rights commitment in the revised FIFA Statutes which came into force in April 2016. This commitment is encapsulated in Article 3 which reads as follows: ''FIFA is committed to respecting all internationally recognized human rights and shall strive to promote the protection of these rights''. At around the same time, Professor John Ruggie, the author of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ('UN Guiding Principles') presented in his report 25 specific recommendations for FIFA on how to further embed respect for human rights across its global operations. While praising the decision to make a human rights commitment part of the organization's constituent document, Ruggie concluded that ''FIFA does not have yet adequate systems in place enabling it to know and show that it respects human rights in practice''.[1]
With the 2018 World Cup in Russia less than a year away, the time is ripe to look at whether Ruggie's statement about FIFA's inability to respect human rights still holds true today. This blog outlines the most salient human rights risks related to FIFA's activities and offers a general overview of what the world's governing body of football did over the past twelve months to mitigate these risks. Information about FIFA's human rights activities is collected primarily from its Activity Update on Human Rights published alongside FIFA's Human Rights Policy in June 2017. More...
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – June 2017. By Tomáš Grell
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Editor's note: This report compiles all relevant news, events and materials on International and European Sports Law based on the daily coverage provided on our twitter feed @Sportslaw_asser. You are invited to complete this survey via the comments section below, feel free to add links to important cases, documents and articles we might have overlooked.
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Mitigating Circumstances and Strict Liability of Clubs in Match-fixing: Are We Going in the Wrong Direction? An Analysis of the Novara and Pro Patria Cases - By Mario Vigna
20. July 2017 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Editor's note: Mario Vigna is a Senior Associate at Coccia De Angelis Vecchio & Associati in Rome, Italy. His main practice areas are sports law, commercial law, and IP law. He also has extensive experience in the Anti-doping field, serving as Deputy-Chief Prosecutor of the Italian NADO and as counsel in domestic and international sports proceedings. He is a frequent speaker at various conferences and workshops. He was not involved in either of the cases discussed below.
Gambling in football is a popular and potentially lucrative activity. It also raises numerous issues. When faced with the issue of gambling, the European Court of Justice (now Court of Justice of the EU) determined that gambling was economic activity per se, notwithstanding gambling's vulnerability to ethical issues, and thus could not be prohibited outright.[1] With the legality of gambling established, it was left to the proper legislative bodies (national legislatures, national and international federations, etc.) to regulate gambling in order to guard against fraud and corruption. Gambling was not going to disappear; the dangers inherent to gambling would require attention. More...
Overdue payables in action: Reviewing two years of FIFA jurisprudence on the 12bis procedure – Part 2. By Frans M. de Weger and Frank John Vrolijk.
7. July 2017 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries, International Sports Law Material (0)
Editor's Note: Frans M. de Weger is legal counsel for the Federation of Dutch Professional Football Clubs (FBO) and CAS arbitrator. De Weger is author of the book "The Jurisprudence of the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber", 2nd edition, published by T.M.C. Asser Press in 2016. Frank John Vrolijk specialises in Sports, Labour and Company Law and is a former legal trainee of FBO and DRC Database.
This second blog will focus specifically on the sanctions available for FIFA under Article 12bis. It will provide explanatory guidelines covering the sanctions imposed during the period surveyed.
The possibility to impose sanctions under article 12bis constitutes one of the pillars of the 12bis procedure. Pursuant to Article 12bis of the RSTP, edition 2016, the DRC and the PSC may impose a sanction on a club if the club is found to have delayed a due payment for more than 30 days without a prima facie contractual basis[1] and the creditor have put the debtor club in default in writing, granting a deadline of at least 10 days.[2] The jurisprudence in relation to Article 12bis also shows that sanctions are imposed ex officio by the DRC or the PSC and not per request of the claimant.More...
5. July 2017 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
In this first blog, we will try to answer some questions raised in relation to the Article 12bis procedure on overdue payables based on the jurisprudence of the DRC and the PSC during the last two years: from 1 April 2015 until 1 April 2017. [1] The awards of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (hereinafter: "the CAS") in relation to Article 12bis that are published on CAS's website will also be brought to the reader's attention. In the second blog, we will focus specifically on the sanctions applied by FIFA under Article 12bis. In addition, explanatory guidelines will be offered covering the sanctions imposed during the period surveyed. A more extensive version of both blogs is pending for publication with the International Sports Law Journal (ISLJ). If necessary, and for a more detailed and extensive analysis at certain points, we will make reference to this more extensive article in the ISLJ. More...
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – May 2017. By Tomáš Grell
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The end of governance reforms at FIFA?
The main sports governance story that surfaced in the press (see here and here) during the last month is related to significant personal changes made by the FIFA Council within the organization's institutional structure. In particular, the FIFA Council dismissed the heads of the investigatory (Mr Cornel Borbély) and adjudicatory (Mr Hans-Joachim Eckert) chambers of the Independent Ethics Committee, as well as the Head (Mr Miguel Maduro) of the Governance and Review Committee. The decision to remove Mr Maduro was taken arguably in response to his active role in barring Mr Vitaly Mutko, a Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, from sitting on the FIFA Council due to an imminent conflict of interests. These events constitute a major setback to governance reforms initiated by the football's world governing body in 2015. For a more detailed insight into the governance reforms at FIFA, we invite you to read the recent blog written by our senior researcher Mr Antoine Duval. More...
The Olympic Games and Human Rights – Part II: Human Rights Obligations Added to the Host City Contract: Turning Point or Empty Promise? – By Tomáš Grell
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This is a follow-up contribution to my previous blog on human rights implications of the Olympic Games published last week. Together with highlighting some of the most serious Olympic Games-related human rights abuses, the first part has outlined the key elements of the Host City Contract ('HCC') as one of the main legal instruments regulating the execution of the Olympic Games. It has also indicated that, in February 2017, the International Olympic Committee ('IOC') revised the 2024 HCC to include, inter alia, explicit human rights obligations. Without questioning the potential significance of inserting human rights obligations to the 2024 HCC, this second part will refer to a number of outstanding issues requiring clarification in order to ensure that these newly-added human rights obligations are translated from paper to actual practice. More...
The Olympic Games and Human Rights – Part I: Introduction to the Host City Contract – By Tomáš Grell
9. June 2017 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries (1)
Editor's note: Tomáš Grell is currently an LL.M. student in Public International Law at Leiden University. He contributes to the work of the ASSER International Sports Law Centre as a part-time intern.
In its press release of 28 February 2017, the International Olympic Committee ('IOC') communicated that, as part of the implementation of Olympic Agenda 2020 ('Agenda 2020'), it is making specific changes to the 2024 Host City Contract with regard to human rights, anti-corruption and sustainable development. On this occasion, IOC President Thomas Bach stated that ''this latest step is another reflection of the IOC's commitment to embedding the fundamental values of Olympism in all aspects of the Olympic Games''. Although the Host City of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games is scheduled to be announced only in September this year, it is now clear that, be it either Los Angeles or Paris (as Budapest has recently withdrawn its bid), it will have to abide by an additional set of human rights obligations.
This two-part blog will take a closer look at the execution of the Olympic Games from a human rights perspective. The first part will address the most serious human rights abuses that reportedly took place in connection with some of the previous editions of the Olympic Games. It will also outline the key characteristics of the Host City Contract ('HCC') as one of the main legal instruments relating to the execution of the Olympic Games. The second part will shed light on the human rights provisions that have been recently added to the 2024 HCC and it will seek to examine how, if at all, these newly-added human rights obligations could be reflected in practice. For the sake of clarity, it should be noted that the present blog will not focus on the provisions concerning anti-corruption that have been introduced to the 2024 HCC together with the abovementioned human rights provisions. More...
Exploring the Validity of Unilateral Extension Options in Football – Part 2: The view of the DRC and the CAS. By Saverio Spera
31. May 2017 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries, International Sports Law Publications (0)
Editor's Note: Saverio Spera is an Italian lawyer and LL.M. graduate in International Business Law at King's College London. He is currently an intern at the ASSER International Sports Law Centre.
This blog is a follow up to my previous contribution on the validity of Unilateral Extension Options (hereafter UEOs) under national and European law. It focuses on the different approaches taken to UEOs by the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) and the Court of arbitration for sport (CAS). While in general the DRC has adopted a strict approach towards their validity, the CAS has followed a more liberal trend. Nonetheless, the two judicial bodies share a common conclusion: UEOs are not necessarily invalid. In this second blog I will provide an overview of the similarities and differences of the two judicial bodies in tackling UEOs. More...
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On 18 May 2016, the day the first part of this blog was published, the Commission said in response to the Hungarian MEP Péter Niedermüller's question, that it had "not specifically monitored the tax relief (…) but would consider doing so. The Commission cannot prejudge the steps that it might take following such monitoring. However, the Commission thanks (Niedermüller) for drawing its attention to the report of Transparency International."
With the actual implementation in Hungary appearing to deviate from the original objectives and conditions of the aid scheme, as discussed in part 1 of this blog, a possible monitoring exercise by the Commission of the Hungarian tax benefit scheme seems appropriate. The question remains, however, whether the Commission follows up on the intent of monitoring, or whether the intent should be regarded as empty words. This second part of the blog will outline the rules on reviewing and monitoring (existing) aid, both substantively and procedurally. It will determine, inter alia, whether the State aid rules impose an obligation upon the Commission to act and, if so, in what way.
In order to correctly decipher the potential consequences of Hungary's behavior under EU State aid law, it is necessary to make a distinction between the part of the aid scheme declared compatible in the tax benefit scheme in the Hungarian sport sector decision, i.e. the donations for the sport infrastructures used by the professional sport organizations, and the donations used to cover personnel costs. Due to the fact that these two types of donation destinations were allowed based on two different exception procedures (the general exception found in Article 107(3)c) TFEU for the aid to sport infrastructure, and the General Block Exemption Regulation or the de minimis aid Regulation for the aid to cover personnel costs), the rules on reviewing and monitoring aid differ slightly. This blog will only focus on the review and monitoring rules of the tax benefit scheme in the Hungarian sport sector decision.
Reviewing and monitoring State aid schemes – a Commission obligation?
A decision to approve an aid scheme (also known as a "positive decision" under Article 9(3) of the Procedural Regulation 2015/1589), should not fully release the Commission from any obligations regarding ex post control of that scheme. As can be read from Article 108(1) TFEU, "(t)he Commission shall, in cooperation with Member States, keep under constant review all systems of aid existing in those States. It shall propose to the latter any appropriate measure required by the progressive development or by the functioning of the internal market."
The Commission's responsibilities appear straightforward. After declaring the Hungarian tax benefit scheme compatible with EU law, it is obliged to review the implementation and usage of the aid by the Member State and the beneficiary, or beneficiaries. The CJEU settled as far back as 1974 that the Commission's obligation to review existing aid is binding and that the Member States in question the obligation to cooperate with the Commission.[1] In fact, as Advocate General Lenz stated in his opinion in the Namur-Les Assurances du Crédit case, the Commission's task to constantly review aid is even more necessary for aid schemes, like the Hungarian tax benefit scheme, as compared to individually authorized aid measures.[2] Pursuant to Article 108(1) TFEU and Article 21 of the Procedural Regulation, where the Commission considers that an existing aid scheme is not, or is no longer, compatible with the internal market instead of immediately launching a formal investigation, the Commission must issue a recommendation to the Member State concerned. The recommendation may propose, in particular:
Substantive amendment of the aid scheme;
Introduction of procedural requirements; or
Abolition of the aid scheme.[3]
It is important to note that in accordance with Article 288 TFEU, fifth sentence, recommendations have no binding force. Therefore, the proposed measure itself is not binding for the Member State. Only where the Member State accepts the proposed measure, shall it be bound by its acceptance to implement the appropriate measure.[4] However, if the Member State refuses to accept and implement the recommendations, the Commission could launch a formal investigation in accordance with Article 108(2).[5] Article 108 (1) TFEU and Article 21 of the Procedural Regulation also require the Member States to cooperate with the Commission for the purpose of reviewing aid schemes. This cooperation is further specified in Article 26 of the Procedural Regulation, which obliges Member States to submit annual reports on existing aid schemes to the Commission.[6] The reports allow the Commission to monitor the compliance with the positive decision by the Member State. As was already discussed in part 1 of this blog, Hungary too is required to submit a yearly monitoring report containing information on the total aid amount allocated, the sport infrastructure projects funded, their beneficiaries, etc.[7] A failure by Hungary to submit an annual report, would allow the Commission to propose an appropriate measure as listed above.[8] Whether Hungary actually submits annual reports to the Commission is currently unclear.
Monitoring the tax benefit scheme in the Hungarian sport sector – not as straightforward as it appears
The Commission has repeatedly expressed its ambition for more and better monitoring of State aid schemes. This ambition follows from its primary objective to increase Commission enforcement focus on cases with the biggest impact on the internal market, as can be read from, inter alia, the State Aid Modernisation (SAM) Communication of 2012. Better targeted State aid control means an "increased responsibility of Member States in designing and implementing aid measures" for cases of a more local nature and with little effect on trade, as well as "enhanced ex post monitoring by the Commission to ensure adequate compliance" with the State aid rules.[9] In 2006, the Commission introduced a regular, ex post, monitoring exercise of existing aid schemes. The monitoring exercise gradually increased from 20 different schemes in 2006, to 75 schemes in 2014, covering all Member States, all main types of aid approved as well as block-exempted schemes.[10] The monitoring exercises conducted in 2014 led to the openings of four formal investigations.[11] The willingness to increase monitoring seems logical when taking into account EU case law, which imposes, in practice, an obligation for the Commission to review previously approved aid schemes. Yet, only a very small amount of existing aid schemes is monitored, nor is it realistically possible to do monitor all the schemes. As can be read in the recently published DG Competition Management Plan 2016, over the last 10 years the Commission declared over 3000 aid schemes or measures compatible with EU law after a the preliminary phase ("decisions not to raise objections") alone.[12] This amount does not take into account positive decisions or block exempted aid schemes and measures, all of which should, strictly speaking, be monitored. Exact numbers on the amount of existing aid schemes currently running throughout the EU are not available, but one could safely say that the overwhelming majority of existing aid schemes are not monitored. Unless the State aid department of the Commission dramatically increases its resources, both in terms of finances and staff, monitoring all existing State aid schemes will remain utopic.
The "specificity" of State aid to the professional sport sector and why extra monitoring in the sector should be considered
The Hungarian tax benefit scheme is not functioning in accordance with its original objectives: many of the sport infrastructure projects funded with public money do not seem strictly necessary and selected professional football clubs benefitted disproportionately. Under these circumstances, a monitoring exercise conducted by the Commission could be needed. If a monitoring exercise confirms disproportionate spreading of subsidies, a consequent set of appropriate measures taken by Hungary could bring the scheme in line with its original objectives. However, given that the majority of schemes are not monitored, there is a very big chance that the Hungarian tax benefit scheme is not one of the "lucky ones" selected. It is also unclear whether the Commission's answer to the Parliamentary question of 18 May in any way increases that probability.
The State aid complaint procedure as an alternative
Another way to force the Commission to look into the aid scheme, not yet discussed above, is through a State aid complaint procedure. Although the tax benefit scheme was already approved by the Commission in 2011, this should not rule out the possibility of an interested party submitting a complaint to inform the Commission of any alleged unlawful aid.[13] Pursuant to Article 12(1), the Commission is obliged to examine without undue delay a complaint by an interested party, thereby automatically triggering the preliminary State aid investigation of Article 108(3) TFEU. Although 'unlawful aid' refers to new aid put into effect in contravention of Article 108(3) TFEU[14], and not existing aid, such as aid schemes authorized by the Commission[15], 'new aid' also refers to existing aid that has been altered by the Member State.[16] In accordance with the Commission's State Aid Manual of Procedures, for an aid scheme to be altered, the complainant would need to demonstrate that a change has taken place that affects "the evaluation of the compatibility of the aid with the common market".[17] In addition to this, the complaint would need to include, inter alia, information on the (functioning of) the scheme, the amount of aid granted, and why the scheme is no longer compatible under Article 107(3).[18] A further highly important criterion is for the interested party to demonstrate to the Commission that the complainant is directly affected in its "competitive position" by the aid scheme.[19] This criterion empowers the Commission to separate formal complaints from the complaints that are "not motivated by genuine competition concerns", thereby reducing considerably its workload of having to launch a (preliminary) investigation based on every single complaint it receives.[20] Complaints submitted by complainants, who the Commission does not consider to be interested parties, will be regarded as "general market information"[21] and do not oblige the Commission to investigate.
The "specificity" of State aid to professional sport – no complaints by other clubs
The "interested party" criterion was only added after the reform of the Procedural Regulation in 2013[22], and has affected the professional sport sector considerably. The two years prior saw great activity by the Commission in the sector, including the opening of four formal investigations into alleged State aid to professional football clubs like Real Madrid and Valencia CF.[23] The investigations into alleged aid granted to Real Madrid and Valencia CF were not launched after the submission of a complaint by an interested party, but after "the attention of the Commission was drawn by press reports and information sent by citizens in 2012-2013".[24] The end of formal investigations into alleged aid granted to professional sport clubs coincided with the introduction of the "interested party" criterion: since citizens are not considered interested parties, the Commission does not have an obligation anymore to investigate complaints, or any form of information, submitted by them. At this moment, only complaints submitted by interested parties, i.e. a party directly affected in its competitive position, have the potential of triggering fresh State aid investigations in the professional sport sector.[25]
Which persons or undertakings fulfill the "interested party" criterion? The answer to this question requires a case by case analysis and depends on the aid measure or scheme chosen by the public authorities.[26] Nonetheless, where aid is granted to a professional sport club, the clearest example of an interested party would be another professional sport club. Getting professional sport clubs to submit State aid complaints is, however, easier said than done. Contrary to other economic sectors where competitors would complain if they feel that they are directly affected in their competitive position, no professional sport club has ever submitted a State aid complaint, nor is it likely to happen anytime soon. As is confirmed by Dutch professional football club FC Groningen's director Hans Nijland in an article published on 18 May by the Dutch magazine De Groene Amterdammer , "if (another football club) manages to sign a deal with its municipality, I will not complain. In fact, I would say congratulations, well done".[27] The same mentality probably prevails in Hungary, making it very unlikely that a Hungarian professional football club, or any other professional sport club, decides to submit a complaint alleging unlawful aid to, say, Puskás Akadémia FC due to the disproportionate distribution of subsidies under the tax benefit scheme.
Why extra monitoring in the sport sector should be considered
The advantages of EU State aid control include efficient government spending in the economy as well as better accountability and transparency of aid measures.[28] Nonetheless, with the chances of the Commission monitoring existing aid in professional sport, such as the Hungarian tax benefit scheme, being very slim, and given the unlikeliness of a submission of a complaint by a competing professional sport club, how useful are the State aid rules to achieve better accountability and transparency in (professional) sport? Local governments will continue spending large amounts of public money on projects that distort competition and are contrary to the general public interest, without a meaningful risk of being called back. Furthermore, as long as the Commission does not prioritize State aid enforcement to the professional sport sector, similar to how it enforces the State aid rules regarding fiscal aid to multinationals[29], it is also unlikely that it will investigate ex officio.
From the "efficient use of Commission resources" viewpoint, it is, in a way, understandable that the Commission has decided not to prioritize State aid to professional sport. They are, after all, not the most distortive State aid cases. However, this lack of prioritization is not being compensated with the submission of complaints by interested parties, meaning that public authorities have less to fear from State aid control in the professional sport factor, as compared to other market sectors.
To prevent a complete carte blanche for the public authorities, I would argue that the Commission should impose upon itself stricter conditions as regards monitoring State aid measures and scheme to the benefit of professional sport clubs. The current monitoring system, where the chance of being monitored is smaller than not being monitored, is inefficient in a sector where competitors do not serve as watchdogs. Only by radically increasing the monitoring chance in the professional sport sector can better accountability and transparency of aid measures be achieved.
[1] Case 173/73, Italy v Commission, [1974] ECLI:EU:C:1974:71, para 24.
[2] Opinion of Advocate General Lenz in Case C-44/93, Namur-Les Assurances du Crédit SA v Office Nationale du Ducroire , [1994] ECLI:EU:C:1994:262, para 86.
[3] Procedural Regulation 2015/1589, Article 22. Contrary to the decision options of formal investigations, a decision to order a recovery of the aid from the beneficiary or beneficiaries, as listed in Procedural Regulation, Articles 9(5) and 16, is not an option for the "review procedure".
[4] Ibid., Article 23(1).
[5] The Enterprise Capital Funds (ECF) decision is a good example of a formal investigation based on ex post review and monitoring. Following a "selected" monitoring exercise in 2011, it was discovered that the UK had failed to take the appropriate measures to bring an aid scheme in line with the Commission Guidelines on Risk Capital , even though it had promised to do so. This led to the Commission opening a formal investigation in November 2011.
[6] Pursuant to Procedural Regulation, Article 26(1), the obligation to submit annual reports applies to decisions "to which no specific reporting obligations have been imposed in a conditional decision". Under a conditional decision, the Commission attaches to a decision conditions subject to which aid may be considered compatible with the internal market. The tax benefit scheme in the Hungarian sport sector decision has no specific conditions attached to it, apart from the usual obligation for the Member State concerned to submit an annual report to the Commission.
[7] Commission Decision of 9 November 2011, SA.31722 – Hungary - Supporting the Hungarian sport sector via tax benefit scheme , para 57.
[8] Procedural Regulation 2015/1589, Article 26(2).
[9] EU State Aid Modernisation Communication of 8 May 2012 , para 19.
[10] Commission Staff Working Document of 4 June 2015, " Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on Competition Policy 2014 ", page 10.
[11] Ibid. One of the investigations involved the Enterprise Capital Funds scheme – Supra n5.
[12] DG Competition document of 18 March 2016 REF. Ares(2016)1370536 " Management Plan 2016 ", page 15.
[13] Procedural Regulation 2015/1589, Article 24(2).
[14] Ibid., Article 1(f).
[15] Ibid., Article 1(b)(ii).
[16] Ibid., Article 1(c).
[17] Internal DG Competition working documents on procedures for the application of Articles 107 and 108 TFEU of 10 July 2013, State Aid Manual of Procedures , Section 5, para 1.2.1.
[18] A complaint that does not comply with the compulsory complaint form, or if the complainant does not provide sufficient grounds to show the existence of unlawful aid can be withdrawn by the Commission. See Procedural Regulation 2015/1589, Article 24(2).
[19] Form for the Submission of Complaints Concerning Alleged Unlawful State Aid or Misuse of Aid , point 3.
[20] Draft Report by the European Parliament of 19 March 2013 on the proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 93 of the EC Treaty (COM (2012) 725 final) , page 17.
[21] Supra., No 19.
[22] Council Regulation (EU) No 734/2013 of 22 July 20-13 amending Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 93 of the EC Treaty [2013] OJ L204/14.
[23] An explanation on why the public financing of sports infrastructure and professional sports clubs only started to attract State aid scrutiny in recent years can be read in: Ben Van Rompuy and Oskar van Maren, "EU Control of State Aid to Professional Sport: Why Now?" In: "The Legacy of Bosman. Revisiting the relationship between EU law and sport", T.M.C. Asser Press, 2016.
[24] See, for example Commission decision of 18 December 2013, SA.36387 Spain – Alleged aid in favour of three Valencia football clubs, para 3. The other formal investigations to professional football clubs (i.e. Real Madrid , five Dutch football clubs and four Spanish football clubs ), were also launched after the Commission received information through citizens and/or the press.
[25] Or the Commission decides to open an investigation ex officio pursuant to Procedural Regulation 2015/1589, Article 12(1). However, this is very unlikely, given the lack of priority given by the Commission to sport.
[26] For example, in the case of the Hungarian tax benefit scheme, clubs or associations not active in the sport sector (e.g. theatre clubs, art clubs, etc.), could potentially argue that they have been placed in a disadvantageous position, since they cannot receive donations under the scheme. An aid measure provided in the form of advantageous land transactions, such as the Real Madrid case, could directly affect any undertaking interested in purchasing the same land, or any other plot of land against other market conditions.
[27] Hester den Boer and Bram Logger, " Een spits van belastinggeld; Onderzoek – Lokale overheden blijven profvoetbal massaal steunen ", De Groene Amsterdammer, 18 May 2016, page 5.
[28] See for example Oskar van Maren, "EU State Aid Law and Professional Football: A threat or a Blessing?" , European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 15 1/2016, pages 31-46.
[29] High profile formal State aid investigations into alleged aid granted by means of selective tax agreements between Member State governments and multinationals like Starbucks, Fiat, Amazon or Apple, have launched in the last few years.
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Although HIIT workouts can be very effective, they are not without a few pitfalls and aren't necessarily for everyone. A certain level of fitness is required right from the start in order to achieve the intensity required. This kind of intensity can translate into a high rate of injuries compared to less intense training, so make sure you monitor joints, muscle tweaks and maintain correct body positions while doing your intervals.
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Ice cream lovers unite... this one's for you!
Ice cream sandwiches are the superior ice cream, are we right? You can hold it in you hands and eat the entire thing!
This recipe produces two delicious and less naughty ice cream sandwiches that you can share among 4 people (if you are willing to that is).
The biscuit component is very simple to make, the base of it is toasted muesli to provide a serious crunch factor and there is no added sugar just a little honey.
Now for the important part, the ice cream. You can personalise this as much as you like. You could use a vanilla yoghurt and protein powder for a vanilla ice cream or you could even experiment with chocolate by adding some cocoa to a plain yoghurt and a chocolate protein powder, be inventive.
Either way, the overall result is a scrumptious high-protein dessert that everyone is bound to love.
Blend muesli in a food processor to a fine crumb.
Mix together muesli, honey, almond meal and coconut oil. Press into four cookie cutter rings or similar moulds. Place in the fridge to set.
When ready to remove, run a knife around the outside to help loosen. Be gentle.
To make your ice cream: place all ingredients into a bowl and whisk to combine.
Place into similar moulds to those used for the base. Set in the freezer for about three hours or best overnight.
To assemble sandwich place ice cream between two bases at top and bottom to make a sandwich formation. Enjoy!


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Q: Currency Rate not importing correctly from Webservicex For the past few days it seems Magento's default currency rate updater has not been working.
As you can see, after I click import, most of the currency rates show 1:1 which is obviously not right. We are on Magento CE 1.9.2.1.

A: The webservicex.net application that does the conversion for Magento seems to be not working.
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Its failed in the past and come back - hopefully the same this time but who knows. I've sent an email to support@webservicex.net but it bounced back

A: The issue, as others have pointed out, is that the WebserviceX is now returning a -1 for all currency conversions. Until this is fixed I suggest you use another exchange API.
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I have coded a module which will allow you to easily switch between the two.
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The meatless Whopper's 'Impossible' goal: To save the planet
May 08, 2019 · 2:00 PM EDT
By Jason Margolis
Listen to the story.
Burger King patrons in St. Louis were greeted by a somewhat confusing menu: A Whopper with no beef.
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The Whopper is an icon of American culture. But the Whopper is getting a complete overhaul — and when we say complete, we literally mean complete. It's also a new Whopper with a bold goal: To save the planet.
The new Impossible Whopper comes from Impossible Foods, a Silicon Valley start-up that produces plant-based alternatives to animal meat. Scientists in California spent years trying to find just the right plant-based formula to recreate the flavor, texture and sizzle of a beef hamburger. It's part of a global effort to cut down on the environmental impact of meat — especially beef.
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"At a global scale, what we eat, it matters a lot because agriculture as a whole, it accounts for about a quarter of all the [greenhouse gas] emissions on the planet," said Paul West, co-director of the Global Landscapes Initiative at the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment. "And one of the biggest impacts on our climate in terms of food is livestock, especially beef."
The big environmental concern with beef cattle is all the methane, a potent greenhouse gas, that they produce.
"Now, I know it sounds funny if you think about a cow that is burping and farting, and yet it does actually have a big impact on the planet," said West.
Impossible Foods' five-word mission statement is bold: "To save meat. And Earth." The company says that modern animal agriculture is wreaking havoc on the climate and our ecosystems, and they want to entice burger lovers to keep going to backyard barbeques, just enjoying a satisfying substitute.
The Impossible Burger has been available in select restaurants and grocery stores in the US, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore for a short while, but the company is hoping its appearance in 59 Burger Kings around St. Louis, Missouri, will be a breakout moment.
Video of The Impossible Taste Test | Impossible Whopper
In its commercial, above, Burger King advertises "real people" who are nearly speechless that an alternative Whopper could taste so similar to the traditional beef one. That's Burger King's spin, of course, but I wanted to put it to the test myself. I ate a lot of Burger King as a teenager, more than I care to admit, and know the Whopper well.
I went to a St. Louis Burger King, sat in a corner booth and put the two burgers side by side. I removed the onions, because I don't like onions, then bit into my two Whoppers.
A tale of two Whoppers.
My opinion: The two burgers were close in taste and appearance, but the Impossible Burger was slightly less flavorful than a traditional beef Whopper.
My Impossible Whopper at Burger King in St. Louis.
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Now, not to be too disparaging toward Burger King, but neither Whopper was worth writing home about. That said, I've had an Impossible Burger at another restaurant, and it was terrific — juicy, moist, super-flavorful meat crumbles. It's also similar to beef in terms of calories, protein and fiber.
The Impossible Burger is designed to "bleed" like a traditional beef hamburger.
So, how did they do it? Impossible Foods says the key ingredient is a protein, produced from soy, called heme.
To scale up, scientists at Impossible Foods genetically engineer yeast to produce big batches of heme and combine it with other plant-based ingredients. It's the heme, which is highly abundant in animal muscle tissue, that gives beef that bloody, juicy flavor. Impossible Burger's lab-grown heme helps replicate that.
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"They're actually going after meat eaters trying to create a product that actually does imitate meat in a way that you wouldn't really know the difference," said Eric Bohl, who has also tried the Impossible Burger. "They're not trying to go after a niche market of vegetarians and vegans, they're really looking at the broader public and doing a pretty good job of creating products that taste fairly similar."
Bohl isn't some vegan environmentalist — he's with the Missouri Farm Bureau, which represents the state's livestock producers.
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The writing is on the wall: The vegetarian burger movement is growing fast. White Castle is selling an Impossible Slider and Carl's Jr. is offering a burger produced by the company Beyond Meat. Burger King says its St. Louis experiment has gone so well that it's rolling out the Impossible Whoppers nationwide. Add it up: Some ranchers are bracing for a fight against meatless burgers.
"I have not tried one, and I do not intend to," said Bill Bullard, the CEO of R-Calf USA, which represents about 5,000 cattle producers across 44 states. He says consumers are being misled by companies that sell plant-based meat alternatives.
"These companies need to be disciplined or have the responsibility and integrity to clearly denote that the products that they are producing and offering to consumers are not a meat product, is not derived from family farmers and ranchers here in the United States of America and instead is lab-produced," said Bullard.
Impossible Foods research technician Alexia Yue pours a heme solution, the key ingredient, into a plant-based mixture for burgers at the company's facility in Redwood City, California, March 26, 2019.
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Several states are considering laws requiring that only products from animal flesh can use the word "meat." Missouri, the nation's third-largest beef-producing state, passed the first such a law last summer. Backers of the new plant-based products are pushing back with a lawsuit, arguing that the labeling laws muzzle free speech and are an attempt by the conventional meat industry to stifle competition. (The Impossible Burger doesn't actually use the word meat in its labeling, so they're in compliance with the new Missouri law and thus free to sell their Whoppers in St. Louis.)
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even more cold northerly winds today on the Albion plateau than yesterday!
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When 13 street trees in a row died, Loblaw removed them. What replaced them was 'beyond ridiculous'
Loblaw says the signs on Dupont Street could be swapped out for more trees next year.
By Jack LakeyContributing Columnist
Tue., Sept. 13, 2022timer2 min. read
You can't be too careful when it comes to tripping hazards, but planting 13 warning signs in sidewalk cut-outs for street trees seems a step too far.
Toronto is serious about the business of increasing its tree canopy. It works hard at adding to the number of trees that provide oxygen, shade and wildlife habitat by planting more and encouraging citizens and businesses to do the same.
Between 2008 and 2018, the city's canopy cover increased from 26.6 to 28.4 per cent, from 10.2 million to 11.5 million trees. Its website, toronto.ca, notes that the overall health of street trees, planted in sidewalks and boulevards, "has improved significantly, with a 25 per cent increase in trees rated good or excellent.
"While representing only 5.4 per cent of Toronto's urban forest, street trees provide 19.4 per cent of the total structural value."
So it came as a surprise when an email arrived from Larry Peloso, saying he was baffled by the replacement of 13 dying street trees on Dupont Street with an equal number of shiny, beautiful warning signs.
Peloso copied me a note he sent to city councillor Mike Layton (Ward 11, University-Rosedale), asking why dying street trees planted in sidewalk cut-outs, along the north side of Dupont, just east of Christie Street and in front of a Loblaw store, were swapped out for signs.
"When Loblaws opened it came with a nice row of trees along the sidewalk," said Peloso, who describes himself as "an avid urban guy."
"Without the proper care, as is often the case, they died and were cut down. The square holes were filled in with gravel and that's how it stayed until, I guess pedestrians stumbled or tripped and complained.
"The result is absolutely beyond ridiculous, though it has solved the problem."
He said he couldn't get a straight answer from the city or a Loblaw store manager about who's responsible for the signs, adding, "they talk about how trees improve the streets, but I don't know if I can say the same about a row of bright yellow hazard signs."
STATUS: In most cases, the municipal road allowance includes sidewalks, but apparently not here, at least not the full expanse of sidewalk. The city emailed to say "the signs in this location are on private property."
That left Loblaw, since the signs are right in front of a store. An email to Loblaw corporate communications netted the following reply: "We can confirm that the sidewalk outside our Dupont St. Loblaws had trees planted in cut-outs, which were subsequently removed because of the falling hazard they caused after dying.
"The signs are a temporary measure to bring awareness to the tripping hazard caused by a lip (on the cut-out) where the trees were removed. We are actively working with our property management partners to replace the trees in 2023 and, in the meantime, urge pedestrians to be mindful when walking past the store."
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Asymbescaline (3,4-diethoxy-5-methoxyphenethylamine) is a lesser-known psychedelic drug.  It is a homolog of mescaline. Asymbescaline was first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin. In his book PiHKAL, the dosage range is listed as 200–280 mg, and the duration listed as 10–15 hours. Asymbescaline produces few to no effects. Very little data exists about the pharmacological properties, metabolism, and toxicity of asymbescaline.

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Spring is here, with its weddings, celebrations, reunions and parties. Fill the buffet and dress the table do the nines with an exquisite tablecloth. Venezia has all the beauty of a classic! It's a must for the new classy trend.
Jacquard 100% cotton - warp and weft colour - wash at 60°C - do not bleach - hot iron** - soak in cold water before use - do not tumble dry.


Perry C. Hanavan, Au.D., teaches in the Communication Disorders program at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, SD. He has presented numerous hearing technology related topics at ASHA, AAA, Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology Summer Institutes, Midwest Conference on Deaf Education and HLAA Conventions. He currently serves on the Audiology Awareness Campaign Executive Board.
This presentation focuses on new and emerging digital hearing assistive technologies (HAT) that provide hearing access in the classroom, home and other listening environments for infants and children with hearing loss. New digital HAT for both hearing aids and implant devices will be examined including Bluetooth microphones, made for iphone (Mfi) compatible hearing aids and implants and how they provide hearing access. Federal laws accommodating HAT in educational settings for students deaf/hard of hearing (IDEA, 504 and ADA) will be reviewed.


"Internationally acclaimed actor Matthew Perry (Friends, The Odd Couple) leads the cast in the World Premiere of his playwriting debut, The End of Longing in the West End in 2016.
This fast paced, and bittersweet comic new play, will be directed by the critically acclaimed and award-winning director, Lindsay Posner (Speed-the-Plow, Other Desert Cities) reuniting the pair, following their first West End collaboration on Sexual Perversity in Chicago at the Comedy Theatre in 2003.
A sharply written and hilarious dark comedy, The End of Longing, will make you realise that broken people don't need to stay broken."


If you end up calling the Ghostbusters, you can now be on a first-name basis with them.
Paul Feig, who is directing the franchise's forthcoming all-female reboot, responded to a fan on Twitter who had asked him to divulge the names of his film's four main characters.
"Okay, here you go," Feig wrote. "Erin Gilbert, Jillian Holtzmann, Abby Yates and Patty Tolan. Now you know even more." Feig did not identify which actress would be playing each character, although Melissa McCarthy has been rumored to be playing Yates, judging by her nametag seen in an on-set photo.
Feig has been on a spoiler tear of late, tweeting numerous images and details about the highly anticipated project.
The new Ghostbusters film stars McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth. It hits theaters on July 22, 2016.


Two Cleveland events, Content Marketing World 2015 and the first-ever medical hackathon, help put Cleveland on the map.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In the past few weeks, Cleveland has been the site for two very exciting and cutting-edge events: Content Marketing World 2015 and the Cleveland Clinic's Hackathon. Both have reason to be proud.
Convention Center on Sept. 9-11 was a spectacular success. More than 3,500 people paid big money to attend three days of conferences, a concert by the Bare Naked Ladies, an interesting talk on creativity by John Cleese and a "fireside" chat between Nick Offerman from the TV show "Parks & Recreation" and CMW founder Joe Pulizzi.
During the event, I met the CEO of a Canadian tech company. He was attending the event and wanted to let me know how important CMW had become.
David MacLaren is an affable, witty and gregarious cat. He is the CEO of MediaValet in Vancouver. His company sells software that helps businesses manage their rich media assets. The software allows users to aggregate these assets in the Cloud, organize them and enable users to share the media assets across various platforms. Cool stuff.
"This is the show to go to for content marketing," McLaren said. And while it was his first time to Cleveland, he said he loved the architecture, the water (Lake Erie), the vibe (when was the last time someone told you Cleveland had a vibe?) and the people.
Matt Engel, CEO of Attend, a venture-backed software company headquartered in Boston, also joined CMW. Attend recently finished its Series A round with the lead investor being .406 Ventures, also out of Boston. The software helps sales people maximize their one-on-one interactions at events. Attend has created an event management tool that seamlessly integrates with Salesforce.com. The software's goal is to turn attendees into sales prospects and prospects into customers.
Consider Engel a big fan of Cleveland and CMW, too. "Everyone is so damn nice," he noted. "And having the event in Cleveland really helps make the show affordable for a startup like us." Being at the show is mission critical for Attend to sell its software.
It was a great surprise to meet up with Jeff Rohrs of Yext, a digital location management software platform for mobile devices. Rohrs is the Chief Marketing Officer of the company and has a unique perspective on the CMW event.
While Rohrs works in New York City, he lives in Lakewood. He said he has seen CMW grow over the past few years from a niche trade show to a global marketplace convening in the grand ballrooms of the Convention Center.
"As CMW grows, I hope Cleveland will continue to find ways to accommodate CMW guests with open arms. Midwestern hospitality goes a long way, and CMW introduces thousands of people each year to Cleveland for the very first time. With a little luck, it also has the potential to attract new businesses and business people to the region -- and that's a rising tide that lifts all boats," he said.
The word is out, Cleveland, you are now the center of the universe for content marketing, and it's a great place to be.
Last Chance for Medical Hackathon. The first-ever Cleveland Medical Hackathon will wrap up today with judging on all the software that was developed during the course of the 24-hour session.
A hackathon is an event, typically lasting a day or two, in which a large number of developers and entrepreneurs gather to collaboratively build software solutions to a number of issues. It is a communal approach to large societal, business or political issues that merit software solutions. The goal of the medical hackathon is to tackle challenges in making the increasing levels of data collected through technology useful to healthcare systems and to the patients they serve.
Judging the final software entries starts at 9 a.m. and will go until noon. The event is taking place at the HIMSS Innovation Center located in the Global Center for Health Innovation, also known as the "Medical Mart."


I am always on the search for the latest "it" cream. Whether it be a cult product or a new release, I love to test new skincare treats!
My latest love first came into my life almost 2 months ago to the day. This time, created solely for night-time use. I know that there are different types of skincare product users out there. Some being the ones who like an all rounded product and others being just like me, the type who enjoy having different creams for the morning and evening.
Typically, morning or day-time creams are a lot lighter to the touch and are instantly absorbed by the skin, leaving little to no traces of texture on the skins surface. Whereas, night creams tend to be very thick, leaving a lovely layer of hydrating product on the skins surface which slowly gets to work throughout the the night.
I am definitely a lover of both of these but would never switch my creams around. I could not make it through the day with a thick layer of cream on my skin and would not feel very refreshed if I used a light cream over night!
Since using the Fade Out Brightening Night Cream, I have actually debated using this as an all rounded day-to-night product! It's difficult to explain but this cream feels so light yet extremely nourishing just like a night-time cream should be. It does not leave a greasy layer to the skin yet my cheeks feel so plump and supple... Did I mention that this cream is also very affordable?!
Having used this for almost two months now, along with my trusty electric facial cleanser, my skin has made a lot of improvements in not only texture but also appearance! This cream claims to "intensely nourish and hydrate, restoring natural suppleness, elasticity and tone, and helping your skin repair itself" which is completely true, in my experience! It is also rich in vitamin A and Omega 3 which is an added bonus!


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Airplay at Lossie
Airplay is our project supporting young people on RAF stations. Yesterday we opened a new Airplay park at RAF Lossiemouth. Sarah Riley-Evans, from Airplay Lossie, tells us more.
Braving arctic conditions and dodging snow storms we launched a new state-of-the-art games area at Lossiemouth yesterday and for just a few minutes we were blessed with blue skies!
We were joined by the current Station Commander, Group Captain Ian Gale, and a former Station Commander Air Marshal Chris Nickols, who has recently taken on the role of Controller at the RAF Benevolent Fund.
It was a real privilege to see Air Marshal Nickols again as he was the Station Commander who actually appointed me many moons ago.
One of the first things he said to me back then was that he wanted to improve the services for the RAF children so it was an absolute delight to give him a tour of the facilities.
Young people with a parent in the RAF face all the stresses and strains of growing up but they also have to face being uprooted from schools and friends as their parent gets posted.
They have to cope with mum or dad being deployed and doing a dangerous job and they never know if their parent will be at home for Christmas or birthdays.
As Airplay is run by the RAF Benevolent Fund for RAF young people, we instinctively understand these pressures. We are able to offer focused personal support, particularly during stressful times when a parent is away serving their country.
In just two years we have grown to over 100 members aged 7 to 17 years and thanks to the generosity of the RAFBF we can now offer dedicated youth activities four nights a week.
We have over 90 personnel deployed from RAF Lossiemouth over the Christmas period and many of them have children. Airplay Lossie will not be shutting down for the festivities as we know this is when our members need our support most.
Between trips to the pantomime to craft days to Christmas parties, we will be there providing a listening ear and a friendly face and a source of fun and laughter.
We are very grateful to the RAF Benevolent Fund for building our new play parks as it has been a massive investment. Now I can't wait for spring to come as we have exciting plans to run sports outreach at our new games area. We have just recruited a couple of volunteer sports coaches to offer football and basketball tuition in the evenings which will further enhance what we offer at Airplay Lossie.


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El pistolete es un arma de fuego de llave de rueda, pequeño calibre y variada longitud que se usaba en el siglo XVI. Posteriormente, a los pedreñales también se les denominó pistoletes.

Manuel Orozco y Berra dice que eran arcabuces pequeños. Argumenta que Sebastián de Covarrubias en su Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española (1611) dice que el pedreñal es un arcabuz pequeño o pistolete que se dispara con pedernal. Pero que en su época se llamaba pistolete a la pistola pequeña o de bolsillo. Se cargaba por el cañón, es decir era de avancarga. Se popularizó en Europa en el siglo XVII.

La caballería española adoptó el pistolete, que se colgaba de un gancho en el borrén izquierdo de  la silla de montar, abandonando las scoppietas empleadas en la expedición a Orán en el año 1509. Las caballerías francesa e inglesa también lo utilizaron. Los franceses lo llamaban pistolet d'arçon. Su nombre proviene de que se colocaba en un soporte fijado al arzón de la silla y que no la portaba el caballero.

Historia

A mediados del siglo XIX se incluye la pena a imponer al homicidio voluntario o heridas causadas con el pistolete, escopeta y fusil, de lo que se deduce o que aún se empleaba en dicho siglo un modelo evolucionado o que se denominaba así a las pistolas de pequeño tamaño. Es mencionado en otras recopilaciones de leyes, como Extracto de la Novísima recopilación de Juan de la Reguera y Valdelomar, de 1854, con multas y penas de destierro, y en la Enciclopedia española de derecho y administración o Nuevo teatro universal de la legislación de España e Indias de 1850, donde se recoge una pragmática de 1611 de Felipe III en la que se considera delito su tenencia, y el disparo con esta arma se penaba con la muerte y la confiscación de bienes, aunque solo causase heridas. En otra pragmática de 1632 de Felipe IV ante la proliferación de los pistoletes endureció las penas por su tenencia, incluso penas de destierro.

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Mangoes belong to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous species of tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae, of which Mangifera indica, or the common mango, is commonly cultivated and used for food. The mango is indigenous to India. Cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions and distributed widely in the world, mango is one of the most extensively exploited fruits for food, juice, flavor, fragrance and color.
In several cultures, its fruit and leaves are ritually used as floral decorations at weddings, public celebrations and religious ceremonies.
Mango trees (Mangifera indica L.) grow 35 - 40 m (115 - 131 ft) tall, with a crown radius of 10 m (33 ft). The mango tree is long-lived; some specimens still fruit after 300 years. In deep soil the taproot descends to a depth of 6 m (20 ft) and the profuse, wide-spreading feeder roots also send down many anchor roots which penetrate several feet of soil. The leaves are evergreen, alternate, simple, 15 - 35 cm (5.9 - 14 in) long and 6 - 16 cm (2.4 - 6.3 in) broad; when the leaves are young they are orange-pink, rapidly changing to a dark glossy red, then dark green as they mature. The flowers are produced in terminal panicles 10 - 40 cm (3.9 - 16 in) long; each flower is small and white with five petals 5 - 10 mm (0.20 - 0.39 in) long, with a mild sweet odor suggestive of lily of the valley. The fruit takes three to six months to ripen.
The ripe fruit is variable in size and color. Cultivars are variously yellow, orange, red or green and carry a single flat, oblong pit that can be fibrous or hairy on the surface. Ripe, unpeeled fruit gives off a distinctive resinous, sweet smell. Inside the pit 1 - 2 mm (0.039 - 0.079 in) thick is a thin lining covering a single seed, 4 - 7 mm (0.16 - 0.28 in) long, 3 - 4 cm (1.2 - 1.6 in) and 1 cm (0.4 in). The seed contains the plant embryo.
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Instructional Leadership: Creating an environment accepting of and suitable for all students, where communication is key.
Instructional Focus: Acknowledging the diversity of students and committing to meeting their needs. The educational community procures the proper materials and ongoing professional development.
Safe and Orderly School Climate: Students and their families are treated with respect, the students feel safe in school, and they are afforded opportunities for leadership roles.
High Student Expectations: Students feel valued and are aware of the high expectations of them.
IDRA's work in defining teacher quality emphasizes that this quality must also be accompanied by teaching quality in the context of a supportive school and community environment as exemplified in the Quality Schools Action Framework™. Developed in 2005, the Quality Schools Action Framework™ is a change model for school reform that emphasizes that widespread, effective change can only happen when the many aspects of the system work together toward the success of all students. This requires valuing all learners no matter the color of their skin, wealth, religion, gender, national origin, language characteristics, or orientation.
IDRA moves beyond simply defining quality as credentials and includes teacher perspective, instructional strategies, and the surrounding organization of the school and community.
In 1998, IDRA and the Mexican and American Solidarity Foundation created a model teacher preparation and leadership development program with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Learn more about the IDRA Alianza project. Research publications developed through the project are below.