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The Acland mine surrounded by pristine farm land.
Acland Farmers Appeal Coal Mine Case To High Court
EDO today represents farmers and concerned community members in the High Court against a coal mine expansion on prime agricultural land.
Local community group, Oakey Coal Action Alliance (OCAA), has reached Australia's highest court in their epic legal battle to defend some of the best farming land in Queensland from New Acland Coal's stage 3 expansion of their thermal coal mine on the Darling Downs.
Proposals to expand the controversial mine were first rejected by the Newman LNP government in 2012 and the revised application was then again rejected by the Palaszczuk ALP government in 2018 following a recommendation of refusal by the Land Court in 2017.
Pictured (left to right): Andrew Kwan (EDO), Oliver Jones (barrister), Paul King (OCAA), Jeremy Kirk SC, Dr Chris McGrath (barrister) and Sean Ryan (EDO).
Appeals by the mining company first led to the project receiving environmental approval in March 2019, and then in late 2019 to the Land Court refusal recommendation being found to have not observed principles of fairness. However, the tainted Land Court decision was allowed to stand to affect subsequent decisions.
On behalf of OCAA, EDO will be arguing that it is in the interests of justice that a completely fresh Land Court hearing, unconstrained by decisions found to have not observed procedural fairness.
The Acland farmers deserve a fair hearing.
Acland Farmers Granted Special Leave to Appeal Coal Mine Case To High Court
The Acland community will head to the High Court to ask for a Land Court hearing unclouded by questions of fairness – part of a long-running battle to protect prime agricultural land from coal mining.
Today the High Court granted a special leave application for Environmental Defenders Office client the Oakey Coal Action Alliance Inc (OCAA) to appeal a 2019 Court of Appeal decision which concerned the validity of a prior Land Court decision.
It's the next step in the Acland community's fight to protect their high-quality farmland and groundwater from the massive Stage 3 expansion of the New Acland Coal mine.
The full High Court hearing is likely to take place later this year.
EDO Principal Solicitor Sean Ryan said:
"This is a significant step for our client and the Acland community which has been fighting for years to protect their groundwater and prime agricultural land.
"Today's decision to allow special leave to appeal represents a significant hurdle that has been cleared but it's not the end of the matter.
"It's fundamental to the administration of justice that courts and their decisions are fair and impartial – that is why it is so important for the questions around this case to be resolved in the High Court.
"The original Land Court decision was found to have failed to observe the requirements of procedural fairness, however it continued to affect subsequent decisions.
"Our client, OCAA, is now asking for clarity. The Acland farmers deserve decisions unclouded by questions of fairness, and OCAA is asking this High Court whether the correct law has been followed in this instance.
"In considering an application for the grant of a mining lease, the Minister for mines must consider any Land Court recommendation for the application.
"The Queensland Government is right to wait for the outcome of this High Court process to clarify whether the existing recommendation is valid."
Acland is under threat
The community in and around Acland has been fighting for more than a decade to protect their land and their way of life from New Acland Coal's mine.
The revised Stage 3 mine would completely surround the town of Acland and impact neighboring farms, which are situated on land which is among the best 1.5% of agricultural land in Queensland.
In 2017, the Land Court recommended refusal of the mine due to groundwater, noise and intergenerational equity impacts. New Acland Coal appealed and succeeded in excluding groundwater considerations, but failed to show the decision was affected by apprehended bias.
OCAA appealed the decision of the Supreme Court to the Court of Appeal, and the mine cross-appealed arguing the original decision was affected by apprehended bias. The cross appeal was successful with the Court of Appeal finding that the Land Court hearing "failed to observe the requirements of procedural fairness".
Usually a finding of apprehended bias would invalidate the whole judgement. However, on November 1 2019, the Court of Appeal gave final orders in the case and chose not to set aside the original decision.
This throws into doubt a Land Court re-hearing of the noise arguments in the case, which was largely bound by the findings of the original Land Court decision – the judgement that has been found to be unfair.
To add to the confusion, New Acland Coal had already conceded that pursuing the apprehended bias claim was the 'nuclear' option which, if successful, would require a new Land Court hearing. The Court of Appeal gave NAC the opportunity to withdraw that position after articulating precisely what the position would be if they pressed the argument on apprehended bias and it was successful. .
The Environmental Defenders Office applied for special leave to appeal to the High Court on behalf of OCAA, so that they can have clarity around the decision which has profound impacts on their homes and livelihoods and ensure they can have their day in court in a hearing that's not overshadowed by claims of bias and unfairness.
The Environmental Defenders Office uses the law to help communities like those at Acland protect their land and their local environment from mining, climate change and environmental mismanagement.
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Q: How to represent a big number in Java How can I represent and use a large number in Java? In scientific computing there are a number of times that I need numbers to be greater than a long.

A: You should use BigInteger for this..
They can be as large as you need - until you run out of memory.
eg:
BigInteger Bigintvar1 = new BigInteger("1234567890123456890");
BigInteger Bigintvar2 = new BigInteger("2743561234");
Bigintvar1 = Bigintvar1.add(Bigintvar2);

A: The java.math.BigInteger class provides operations analogues to all of Java's primitive integer operators and for all relevant methods from java.lang.Math.
You can refer here for BigInteger

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Q: Deleting all variables with over 30% missing values I found this function to detect proportions of missing values for each column in any given dataframe:
propmiss <- function(dataframe) lapply(dataframe,function(x) data.frame(nmiss=sum(is.na(x)), n=length(x), propmiss=sum(is.na(x))/length(x)))

I assign it to a variable like this:
propmissdf <- propmiss(df)

Then I loop through the dataframe to NULL variables in my data like this:
for(i in (1:length(df))){
  var = names(df)[i]
  if((propmissdf[[var]][[3]]) > 0.3) { #the 3 index represents the proportion inside propmissdf
  df[var] <- NULL
   }
}

This gives me an error:
Error in if ((propmissdf[[var]][[3]]) > 0.3) { :argument is of length zero

But it works, somehow. It gets rid of several variables with missing value proportions greater than 0.3, but if I run the for loop again, it gets rid of more until 3 or 4 more times until it gets rid of all of them. Why is this happening? Please feel free to correct my problem, or to come up with a better way to remove variables with over 30% NAs.

A: You can use something like this:
df <- df[colSums(is.na(df))/nrow(df) < .3]

*

*colSums(is.na(df)) would calculate how many NA values there are in each column.

*Divide that output by the number of rows in the data.frame to get the proportion.

*Use < .3 to create a logical comparison that can be used to subset the relevant columns.

Sample data and example:
set.seed(2)
df <- data.frame(matrix(sample(c(NA, 1:4), 20, TRUE), nrow = 4))
df
#   X1 X2 X3 X4 X5
# 1 NA  4  2  3  4
# 2  3  4  2 NA  1
# 3  2 NA  2  2  2
# 4 NA  4  1  4 NA

colSums(is.na(df))/nrow(df)
#   X1   X2   X3   X4   X5
# 0.50 0.25 0.00 0.25 0.25

df[colSums(is.na(df))/nrow(df) < .3]
#   X2 X3 X4 X5
# 1  4  2  3  4
# 2  4  2 NA  1
# 3 NA  2  2  2
# 4  4  1  4 NA

For reference, here's a quick timing comparison:
set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(matrix(sample(c(NA, 1:4), 4000, TRUE), ncol = 1000))

akfun <- function() {
  i1 <-sapply(df, function(x) {
    pr <- prop.table(table(factor(is.na(x), levels=c(TRUE, FALSE))))
    pr[as.logical(names(pr))]< 0.3
  })
  df[i1]
}

amfun <- function() df[colSums(is.na(df))/nrow(df) < .3]

identical(amfun(), akfun())
# [1] TRUE

system.time(akfun())
#    user  system elapsed
#   0.172   0.000   0.173
system.time(amfun())
#    user  system elapsed
#   0.000   0.000   0.001

A: We can loop over the columns with sapply, get the count of 'NA' values with table, use `prop.table to find the proportion and create a logical vector.
i1 <-sapply(df, function(x) {

      pr <- prop.table(table(factor(is.na(x), levels=c(TRUE, FALSE))))

      pr[as.logical(names(pr))]< 0.3

 })

This vector can be used for subsetting the columns.
df[i1]

If we need to remove the columns
df[!i1] <- list(NULL) #contributed by @Ananda Mahto
df
#   X2 X3 X4 X5
#1  4  2  3  4
#2  4  2 NA  1
#3 NA  2  2  2
#4  4  1  4 NA

NOTE: df taken from @Ananda Mahto's post


Fleurety (1991-present) is a Black Metal band from Norway.
ollowing their formation in December 1991, Fleurety, under the membership of Svein Egil Hatlevik (a.k.a. Magic Logic/a.k.a.Zweizz; drums/synthesizer/vocals) and Alexander Nordgaren (guitar/bass), set the tone with their first demo, Black Snow two years later; a recording that managed to offend the entire Norwegian black metal clique with what was apparently deemed unreasonably high-pitched vocals. Typically unabated by the controversy, salt was added to the wound in the Autumn of 1994 with the release of the blatantly titled A Darker Shade of Evil, a 7" EP that was essentially a re-run of the demo, except with improved production.
In the Summer of 1995 'Misanthropy Records', in cooperation with 'Aesthetic Death Records', released the band's debut album, Min Tid Skal Komme, this time to be met with critical acclaim on account of the avant-garde nature of the music. A long break then ensued for many reasons, the most obvious being that the various members engaged themselves with other musical projects: Nordgaren spent time on his solo project I Left The Planet and played live guitar with Mayhem, while Hatlevik recorded an album with the Industrial/Noise outfit Aphrodisiac (on 'Misanthropy Records'' sub label, 'Elfenblut') and joined Dødheimsgard.
In June 1996 and in the Autumn of 1997, Fleurety recorded the tracks that would appear on the mini-CD Last-Minute Lies. The first recording session included vocalist Ayna Johansen and saxophone player Mari Solberg, and resulted in a song called Vortex and led to a deal with 'Supernal Music'. The other two songs were recorded with the aid of vocalist Karianne Horn and saxophone player Mari Solberg.
In the Summer of 1998, Fleurety entered recorded their second full-length album, Department of Apocalyptic Affairs, assisted by a number of friends and acquaintances in the form of: Einar Sjursø (of Beyond Dawn), Carl Michael (of /of Aura Noir), Maniac and Hellhammer (both of), Sverd (of Arcturus), Garm (of Ulver), Carl August Tideman (of Arcturus/of Tritonus), Knut (of Ulver/of Arcturus), and vocalist Vilde of the dark gothic/Electro act Magenta, along with the bass player of the Norwegian Pop/Rock act Ephemera, Karianne Horn and Mari Solberg (as on the current mini-CD), and two other singers.
Due to logistic complications arising from the band members' being occupied with their studies, and each currently residing in different countries, plus various disputes, including with their record labels, new releases have been somewhat slow in coming.


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Tulketh Priory was a priory in Ashton-on-Ribble, Lancashire, England. The priory was the home of a group of Cistercian monks from Savigny Abbey in Normandy until they moved to Furness Abbey in 1127. Tulketh Hall was later built on the site of the priory.

References

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Demolished buildings and structures in England
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Colorful rogue Matthew Williamson finally has a concrete location and opening date for his second-ever store, next to Alexander McQueen at 413 West 14th Street in the Meatpacking District.
What can we expect from the Spring 2009 opening of his 2,500-square-foot space? His flagship London location boasts a tropical garden, but we imagine he'll follow the MePa minimalist interior trend and let his striking patterns of flattering colors speak for themselves. He just also happens to be the designer for Emilio Pucci, which should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect.
We'll be watching construction through winter, but seriously though retailers, stop it with the black vinyl over your windows during construction; whatever happened to good old taped-up paper with ripped holes like a build-out peep show?


Aerial view of Newark Liberty Airport where operations were briefly halted after drone sightings. Credit: Fan Railer (talk).
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) briefly halted operations at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport on the evening of 21 January after two drones were seen flying in the airport's airspace.
Two incoming flights at Teterboro Airport reported that the drones were flying at 3,500ft. One of them came within 30ft (9m) of an aircraft, according to the BBC.
The FAA in a statement said: "At approximately 5pm, we received two reports from incoming flights into Newark that a drone was sighted at about 3,500ft above Teterboro, New Jersey.
Teterboro is located approximately 20 miles north of Newark International and operates as a general aviation airport.
A spokesperson for United Airlines said in a statement that the passenger carrier is monitoring reports of drones sightings.
"The impact to our operations has been minimal so far. We are working closely with the airport and the FAA to return our operations to normal as quickly as possible," the airline added.
Newark International incident comes after major chaos during the Christmas period at London's Gatwick and Heathrow airports, when drones paralysed operations at both airports.
A similar drone sightings incident near Gatwick Airport last month caused widespread disruption and led to the cancellation of approximately 1,000 flights. Around 140,000 passengers were affected by the incident.


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U.S. TV's Answer to James Bond Might Finally Be Coming to the Big Screen, Featuring an A-List Superstar Whose Movies Have Grossed More Than $3 Billion Thus Far
Mar 18, 2013 • Post A Comment
The TV show we're referring to was a huge baby-boomer favorite: "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.." In its time, it was the most successful U.S. TV version of the James Bond franchise, which had hit movie theaters in 1962. And who is in talks to play superagent Napoleon Solo? Superstar Tom Cruise.
All of this is being reported by our friend Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline.com.
The article also says that the film "will be directed by 'Sherlock Holmes' helmer Guy Ritchie. The original MGM TV series ran from 1964-68, with Robert Vaughn and David McCallum playing Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, respectively, two agents of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. With gadgets and their wits and charm, they fought the evil forces of THRUSH. Warner Bros has long been high on the project, especially when the studio had Steven Soderbergh ready to direct George Clooney in the lead. The actor dropped out because he needed surgery on his neck and back, and he wasn't up for a physical role. After Soderbergh departed, the studio turned the project over to Ritchie and his producing partner Lionel Wigram."
Lindsay Lohan Headed to Lockup in Plea Bargain
Given the Importance of Local News to the Bottom Line of Most TV Stations, the Latest Pew Research Center's Report on News Is a Major Wake-Up Call
Jon88
March 19, 2013 at 05:17 am, Reply
Dear TVBizwire transcriber, That's "U.N.C.L.E.," not "Uncle." You're welcome.
No. Just No. I have no personal issue with Mr. Cruise, but he is simply the wrong actor for this role.
Unlike the way it is in the MI movies, Solo is not the leader but part of a team. Solo is not solo… he has a partner. An equal. Who could (would) co-star with Mr. Cruise that would truly be a CO-star and carry an equal part of the movie?
Besides, America's "James Bond" isn't Napoleon Solo…
It's Derek Flint.
Digital Guy
March 19, 2013 at 13:43 pm, Reply
Agree with John. Derek Flint was the James Bond of the U.S. He worked on his own. The Men from U.N.C.L.E. worked as a team; and Tom Cruise is too old for this part anyway.
I agree! Quit casting that little guy!
He just ruins the image we baby boomers have have of wonderful characters.
He was a horrible Jack Reacher already….we lost the whole impact of the 6'6″ Reacher…..

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Maxwell King | The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers with David Newell "Mr. McFeely" of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
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In conversation with award-winning journalist Tracey Matisak
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood as we welcome Maxwell King, author of The Good Neighbor, a personal, professional, and artistic biography of Fred Rogers. A figure as deceptively sophisticated as the namesake television program that brought an unerring message of kindness, compassion, and equality to millions of children, Mr. Rogers remains one of America's most beloved cultural icons. King, CEO of the Pittsburgh Foundation, former president of Heinz Endowments, and editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer for eight years, weaves archival documents and original interviews into a portrait of the man who—spoiler alert—really was as gentle and empathetic as we all hoped he'd be.
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How to Be Very, Very Popular is a 1955 comedy film written, produced and directed by Nunnally Johnson. The film starred Betty Grable in her final film role and Sheree North in her first leading role.

Johnson later said "I don't much like to think of How To Be Very, Very Popular because it brought fame and fortune to nobody. It was just a lousy mistake on everybody's part. "

Plot
Stormy Tornado and Curly Flagg are two showgirls from a San Francisco cabaret who witness the murder of one of their fellow performers and can identify the killer. Not wanting to get mixed up in a murder rap, the girls flee the scene and hide out at Bristol College, disguising themselves as boys. However the need for attention makes the girls want to stand out in their stage costumes and then the trouble begins.

The ladies hide in the room of Fillmore Wedgewood, who proudly calls himself "the world's oldest student", and is always looking for ways to forestall graduation and facing "the real world" outside.

College President Dr. Tweed tries to coax a sizeable donation from wealthy alumni B.J.Marshall. This proves difficult when Marshall is continually caught in the crossfire of the comical events that follow.

Cast

Betty Grable as Stormy Tornado
Sheree North as Curly Flagg
Bob Cummings as Fillmore "Wedge" Wedgewood
Charles Coburn as Dr. Tweed
Tommy Noonan as Eddie Jones
Orson Bean as Toby Marshall
Fred Clark as B.J. Marshall
Charlotte Austin as Midge
Alice Pearce as Miss "Syl" Sylvester
Rhys Williams as Cedric Flagg
Andrew Tombes as Sergeant Moon
Noel Toy as Cherry Blossom Wang
Emory Parnell as Police chief

Background
How to Be Very, Very Popular was the third adaptation derived from the 1933 novel She Loves Me Not by Edward Hope. The novel was first made into the 1934 Paramount comedy She Loves Me Not which starred Miriam Hopkins as Curly Flagg and co-starred Bing Crosby. That was then remade as True to the Army for Paramount in 1942. How to Be Very, Very Popular was based on the Broadway adaptation of She Loves Me Not by Howard Lindsay which was adapted from the original Edward Hope (Edward Hope Coffey) novel. It was also based on a second play, Sleep It Off, which was about a woman hypnotised for 24 hours.

It was written, produced and directed by Nunnally Johnson who had written and produced How to Marry a Millionaire. Johnson called Popular "an old fashioned farce. Wacky." He said he felt like making a comedy after doing two dramas, Night People and Black Widow.

The character of Curly Flagg was the lead in She Loves Me Not but was made the secondary character to Stormy Tornado in How to Be Very, Very Popular to accommodate Betty Grable. She had been the number one box office attraction throughout the 1940s and early 50s with her films making enormous amounts of money for 20th Century Fox.

Nunnally Johnson said he wrote the script for Grable and Marilyn Monroe who had previously starred together in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) which is credited for basically creating the changeover in who was the top star at Fox. Grable was the top star in the 1940s and Monroe would become the top star of the 50s. However, there was no rivalry between the two bombshells, in fact Grable is said to have famously told Monroe, "go and get yours honey! I've had mine". The two became friends after that.

In December 1954 Fox announced the film would star Monroe. Sleep It Off was an alternative title. However Monroe refused to make the movie. In January 1955 the studio suspended her and replaced her with Sheree North who had been meant to appear in a film called Pink Tights.

Johnson said North had "been in the bull pen warming up too long and I'll hope she'll emerge from this a star. To date she's just been a threat but she's good looking and frank as they come."

Johnson later said in an interview he was "handed" North, and knew nothing about her. Johnson called the script "a mess, and Sheree, nice little woman, but unbelievably untalented. Untalented in the sense that she couldn't do this. [Johnson looks from left to right] You know;, she had to do this. [Johnson looks left, looks down, looks up to the left]. Her eyes would go down like this. I'd say, "Now; look, when you turn from him to her, can't you just look?" She says, "Isn't that what I'm doing?" I said, "No, this is what you're doing." With that kind of talent, it was hard to get anything out of her."

In the absence of Monroe, Fox offered the co starring role to Betty Grable. Robert Cummings then joined the cast.

Archer MacDonald was meant to play a key role but was hospitalised for ulcers and replaced by Tommy Noonan.

Johnson reflected "Betty was good as always, but its only distinction, if you want to call it that, is that I'm convinced that Billy Wilder pinched the plot." Wilder would make Some Like It Hot with Monroe, which had a similar plot..

Song credit
Song "How to Be Very, Very Popular" by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn
Vocal Supervision    Ken Darby
Orchestration    Edward B. Powell        Skip Martin

Reception
At the time of its release, How to Be Very, Very Popular was greeted with mixed-to-positive press. Betty Grable's performance was generally praised, whereas newcomer Sheree North's performance drew less impressive notices. North appeared on the cover of LIFE just before the film's release. It enjoyed reasonable success, earning an estimated $1.65 million in rentals at the North American box office during its first year of release.

See also
List of American films of 1955

References

Notes

External links

How to Be Very, Very Popular at TV Guide (1987 write-up was originally published in The Motion Picture Guide)

1955 films
1955 comedy films
20th Century Fox films
American comedy films
Remakes of American films
American films based on plays
Cross-dressing in American films
Films based on American novels
Films directed by Nunnally Johnson
Films scored by Cyril J. Mockridge
Films set in universities and colleges
Films with screenplays by Nunnally Johnson
CinemaScope films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films


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Q: Android ADT not detecting device in Windows XP-64 bit I am trying to install and develop an application in android, for that I just downloaded the latest "adt-bundle-windows-x86_64" and un-zip it.
Eclipse and all are working but it didn't recognizing the android device ( Samsung Galaxy SL ).
I downloaded the 32 bit version and tested the same device in that machine. Its working fine.
I google a lot and did many things like enable USB debug and all.. Installed Kies, Updated the kies also.
Some one please help


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Do you need to get some of your decisions approved? You can now request and record decision approvals in Cloverpop. After recording a decision, just click the "Request Approval" button next to the final decision.
The approver will receive a notification of your request with a link to the decision. The approval will be displayed on the decision summary with any comments from the approver.
You'll be able to start your weigh in from the decision summary page at any time.
Polls are a good way to generate ideas from your team. You can now invite participants to generate ideas of choices for a decision and select them without your having to define any choices first. Simply click "Go to decision summary" after entering the question and any context. Then invite your participants.
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We shall make Imo Nigeria's economic hub – Okey Ezeh
May 23, 2018 nigerianewspoint
An APGA front line governorship aspirant in Imo State, Mr. Okey Ezeh has said the absence of credible leadership accounts for the economic stagnation which currently bedevils the State. Imo State, he lamented, now performs poorly in all indices of economic prosperity, sharing places with some terrorism-infested states of the North East in terms of economic viability.
Ezeh made this disclosure while speaking to the LGA Executive of APGA in Owerri West on Monday.
According to him, "Every day, I dream APGA, I dream Imo, I dream progress. There is nothing else that beats in my heart other than how to make Imo an economic force in Nigeria. States like Yobe are now more productive than Imo State because of ineptitude, corruption and greed. Our challenge is lack of credibility and integrity in leadership. It's time for our people to elect a credible technocrat who can create value. This is why we are in this contest," he stated.
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Also speaking, the LGA Woman Leader, Mrs. Grace Ugo described Mr. Okey Ezeh as a true Christian who has many qualities in common with Jesus Christ. She said despite all that he went through in the Party, Ezeh still loves everyone and loves the Party unconditionally. According to her, this is certainly an opportunity to show sincere appreciation.
It can be recalled that in the aftermath of its unimpressive outing in 2015, APGA in Imo State became unattractive to most people, and even some persons that had run for offices on its platform left without looking back. It was, however, Mr. Okey Ezeh who came all out and championed the resurgence of the Party and rekindled hope in the faithful. This demonstration of faith has won him genuine love and massive following from APGA members across the State who always seize every opportunity to show him gratitude.
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Q: VBA DAO Accessing Excel 2010 like database I am trying to use DAO to write some VBA into Excel 2010. I want to be able to access an excel 2010 workbook like a database. I am trying to open a workbook instead of a mdb file. Is there any way I can use DAO with an excel workbook instead of an actual database?
Dim db As Database
Dim rst As Recordset
Dim SQL As String

SQL = "SELECT * From [DataSheet$]"

Set db = OpenDatabase(ThisWorkbook.FullName)
Set rst = db.OpenRecordset(SQL)

'displays the first record and first field
MsgBox rst.Fields(0)

'close the objects
rst.Close
db.Close

'destroy the variables
Set rst = Nothing
Set db = Nothing

I borrowed code from here http://www.excel-spreadsheet.com/vba/dao_ado.htm

A: Actually, you can connect to Excel workbooks using DAO by extending the arguments of DAO.OpenDatabase():
Dim conn As Object, db As Object, rst As Object

Set conn = CreateObject("DAO.DBEngine.120")

' EXCEL OLDER VERSION
Set db = conn.OpenDatabase("C:\Path\To\Excel_Workbook.xls", False, True, "Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;")

' EXCEL CURRENT VERSION
Set db = conn.OpenDatabase("C:\Path\To\Excel_Workbook.xlsx", False, True, "Excel 12.0 Xml;HDR=Yes;")

Set rst = db.OpenRecordset("SELECT * FROM [SheetName$]")

MsgBox rst.Fields(0)

rst.Close
db.Close

Set db = Nothing
Set conn = Nothing
Set rst = Nothing

A: I figured out my issue. Using the code below you can access an excel file and treat it like a database.
Option Explicit

Private Sub btnConnect_Click()
  Dim dataConection As New ADODB.Connection
  Dim mrs As New ADODB.Recordset
  Dim SQL As String
  Dim DBPath As String
  Dim connectionString As String

  DBPath = ThisWorkbook.FullName 'Refering the sameworkbook as Data Source

  'You can provide the full path of your external file as shown below
  connectionString = "Provider=MSDASQL.1;DSN=Excel Files;DBQ=" & DBPath & ";HDR=Yes';"

  'Open connection
  dataConection.Open connectionString

  'Create SQL query
  SQL = "SELECT * From [DataSheet$]"

  'Open record set (query or table, connection)
  mrs.Open SQL, dataConection

  Do While Not mrs.EOF
    Debug.Print "  " & mrs!Name
    mrs.MoveNext
  Loop

  mrs.Close

  'Close Connection
  dataConection.Close
End Sub


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Web Memo
Don't Confuse the Platform with the Train
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) published a new paper making the case against regulating social media platforms as common carriers. In Don't Confuse the Platform with the Train: The Case Against Regulating Social Media Companies as Common Carriers, co-authors Dan Greenberg and Jessica Melugin make the case that government encroachment on speech, property, and economic liberty are the wrong way to deal with widespread frustration about content moderation decisions on the part of social media companies.
Antitrust Skeptic's Bibliography
How antitrust regulation hinders innovation and competition.
Questions and answers on CEI's antitrust policy position.
Selected readings on antitrust regulation.
Op-eds, articles, and commentary from CEI experts on antitrust.
Last year, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon over its third-party seller program. On Friday, a judge dismissed it. When it was first filed, my colleague Jessica Melugin and I argued that the lawsuit stood on shaky legal ground and would harm consumers if it succeeded.
Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit Dismissed
Ryan Young, CEI.org - March 21, 2022
Yesterday, I wrote about four problems with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY)'s new antitrust bill, the Prohibiting Anti-Competitive Mergers Act. There is a fifth problem: Its $5 billion threshold for automatically rejecting mergers is not indexed for inflation.
New Anti-Merger Bill Not Indexed for Inflation
There is yet another antitrust bill in Congress. The Prohibiting Anticompetitive Mergers Act, sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY), seeks to prevent big tech mergers larger than $5 billion. While companies could appeal this automatic denial in court, they would have to prove the Federal Trade Commission, the Justice Department, or both acted in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner in denying a merger. That is an uphill climb that stacks the deck against companies, and may dissuade many from even trying.
New Antitrust Merger Bill Is Fatally Flawed
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has opened an antitrust investigation into investment funds centered around environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. He argues that they are financing a coordinated political agenda ("ESG May Be an Antitrust Violation," op-ed, March 7). First Amendment concerns and the heavy legal lift of proving collusion aside, this investigation is wrongheaded for two reasons.
If You Play With Antitrust Fire, You Might Get Burned
Ryan Young, Wall Street Journal - March 13, 2022
In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, a venture capital investor in the e-commerce firms Deliverr and Wish calls for breaking up Amazon because of its alleged predatory pricing. Although it's tempting to dismiss that charge as a competitor's sour grapes, it would be better to refute the argument on its merits, lest someone picks it up and runs with it.
With Inflation Rising, Why Punish Companies Seeking to Lower Prices?
Jessica Melugin, National Review - February 18, 2022
Last July, 36 state attorneys general filed an antitrust suit against Google focusing on app distribution for Android devices through the Google Play Store. The 144-page complaint is filled with blunders, but the allegations on security warnings that accompany third-party downloads demonstrate a particularly limited understanding of cybersecurity, open-source software, and technology in general. The lawsuit shares sentiment with the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710), which seeks to force companies like Apple to permit third-party applications. Both ignore the increased security risks to consumers.
State Antitrust Lawsuit Trivializes Security Threats in Mobile App Market
Alex Reinauer, CEI.org - February 15, 2022
Thursday brought some interesting news, none of which were kind to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) antitrust case against Facebook.
Good News for Facebook Competitors, Bad News for the FTC's Antitrust Case
Ryan Young, CEI.org - February 4, 2022
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which advanced out of the Senate Judiciary committee after a markup last Thursday, will hurt U.S. consumers and concentrate even more power at the Federal Trade Commission. Republicans, even those who quarrel with 'Big Tech' firms over speech issues, should be wary of this legislation.
It Should Be the End of the Line for the Senate Antitrust Bill
Jessica Melugin, Real Clear Policy - January 27, 2022
Microsoft's couldn't have picked a more inauspicious day to announce its planned acquisition of gaming company, Activision Blizzard. The news came concurrently with antitrust regulators at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice announcing their intent to rewrite and expand merger rules to "accurately reflect modern market realities."
A Dangerous Antitrust Game for Microsoft and Consumers
Jessica Melugin, CEI.org - January 25, 2022
Perhaps Congress' enthusiasm for ongoing government oversight of business decisions, embodied in tomorrow's closed door markup of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992), is best explained by a quote from economist Ronald Coase:
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Jessica Melugin, Ryan Young, CEI.org - January 11, 2022
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) launched a new video, "Antitrust Explained," disputing recent calls by politicians and academics to use antitrust laws and regulations to break up large companies.
The video provides a history of antitrust policy in the United States and explains the negative impact these laws and regulations can have on the market, consumers, and our economy.
Antitrust, Explained
1. What is antitrust?
Today's body of antitrust laws is the culmination of over one hundred years of unclear objectives, contradictory interpretations, and controversial court decisions. At its most basic, antitrust is regulation restricting certain business arrangements and decisions. In the U.S., the stated aim of antitrust law is preserving competition in the marketplace to the benefit of consumers.
2. Why was antitrust created and what's its history in the U.S.?
The earliest impulses towards federal antitrust legislation grew out of dissatisfaction with the railroads of the late nineteenth century, which were themselves government granted monopolies. When the problematic results of this government-created uneven playing field began to surface, so did political alliances calling for corrective government action. To that end, rate discrimination was outlawed with the passage of The Interstate Commerce Act passed in 1887. By 1888, antitrust planks appeared in both of the major political party's platforms..
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The earliest impulses towards federal antitrust legislation grew out of dissatisfaction with the railroads of the late nineteenth century, which were themselves government granted monopolies. When the problematic results of this government-created uneven playing field began to surface, so did political alliances calling for corrective government action. To that end, rate discrimination was outlawed with the passage of The Interstate Commerce Act passed in 1887. By 1888, antitrust planks appeared in both of the major political party's platforms.
The most contentious point of antitrust law debate was to follow; Congress passed the Sherman Act in 1890. Whether the intent of the lawmakers was consumer welfare, outlawing certain business practices, preventing cartels, or blocking mergers has been the subject of debate ever since. Section I of the Sherman Act prohibits contracts, combinations, and conspiracies in restraint of trade or commerce. Section II outlaws monopolization, conspiracies, and attempts to monopolize. There are also criminal consequences for violations and obligations for federal officers to institute equity proceedings on behalf of the public good.
A series of court cases that were contradictory in their reasoning followed: United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States and, much later, United States v. Alcoa.
The Democratic Congress of 1914 made a two-pronged attempt to strengthen antitrust policy. The House created the Federal Trade Commission, while the Senate took the lead in creating the Clayton Act that same year. The Act attempted to provide clarity to the courts by expressing naming prohibited practices and forbade tying and exclusive dealing in situations where the practice could significantly reduce competition.
The next century saw continued ambiguity and action in antitrust law. Cases included numerous suits against IBM, the National Bell telephone system being broken into so-called Baby Bells by consent decree, and the case against Microsoft in the late 1990s.
3. Was it effective in achieving its objective?
Since the true aim of antitrust law has been unclear from its inception, it's difficult to claim the policy has been a success. But the Microsoft trial is a useful example of the intrinsic failures of antitrust policy.
The software company was accused of using anti-competitive means to leverage its monopoly of the Windows operating system to gain dominance in other markets. Specifically, Microsoft was forcing original equipment manufacturers and Internet service providers into exclusionary agreements, pricing the Internet Explorer browser at a predatory level, and bundling the browser in the Windows 98 operating system. Microsoft settled the case in 2001, avoiding the harsh remedy of being split up by instead agreeing to allow rivals to integrate their software into the Windows operating system.
The charges against Microsoft ring hollow to readers today. And for good reason; the market was already responding to technological changes toward high-speed Internet, web-based computing and ultimately today's handheld devices that render Microsoft's dominance in PCs vastly less influential. The charges illustrate that government antitrust enforcement is perilously slow compared to the creative destruction of the marketplace and highlight the hubris of regulators who think they can know the future of technology. Years of litigation and millions of dollars later, the case against Microsoft seems silly, wasteful, and superfluous - because it was.
4. Did it have any other effects?
The real cost of antitrust is the innovation it prevents, therefore it's hard to quantify the extent and specifics of the harmful, unintended consequences. But undeniably, the looming threat of antitrust action has hindered business decisions that may have proved beneficial for consumers and wealth accumulation by entrepreneurs. Antitrust has also certainly cost taxpayers plenty in public enforcement. Antitrust action has also introduced a public choice problem in that regulators may exercise their powers to promote their own preferred policy positions. This dynamic leads to intense lobbying by regulated entities for both relief from antitrust regulation and for benefits of barriers to entry that limit competition from new entrants in the market.
5. What alternatives to antitrust exist?
Creative destruction in the unfettered marketplace is a much better guarantor of consumer benefit than clumsy antitrust law. Economist Joseph Schumpeter aptly identifies creative destruction as the positive force that drives innovation and raises standards of living for consumers. It was this creative destructive in the marketplace, not antitrust law, that displaced Kodak, Blockbuster, MySpace, local taxi monopolies, and many more. Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other socioeconomic system ever attempted. Antitrust regulation slows this engine of growth, rather than improving it.
6. Are those alternatives more or less effective?
Markets move faster and have better information than regulators. No depth of expert knowledge can rival the price signals and inherent incentives of the marketplace. Bureaucrats cannot predict the future and have failed, often tragically, when they attempt to do so. Markets are also more reliably objective than the whim of regulators or politicians. Federal Trade Commission regulators and Department of Justice lawyers are only human and commensurately vulnerable to biases and opinions.
7. What is Hipster Antitrust?
Sometimes called "hipster antitrust" or "the new Brandeis School," there is a resurgent line of attack from enthusiasts for antitrust regulation that emphasizes that company size and consolidation are problematic in themselves, and that therefore companies like Amazon and Google should be the subject of antitrust action even if they are not monopolies in any generally-accepted sense. As such, far from being a new school of antitrust, it represents a throwback to the "big is bad" approach that characterized antitrust action before the adoption of the consumer welfare standard. Furthermore, the "hipster antitrust" approach has so far failed to substantiate its claims, while its supposed benefits are speculative. Its approach therefore appears subject to the same criticisms outlined above.
8. What's the best way forward?
The Competitive Enterprise Institutes advocates abolishing antitrust law, removing the remaining government monopolies, and preventing the creation of new ones. It's the barriers to creative destruction caused by over-regulation that should be removed. For example, eliminating the financial regulation that makes launching an initial public offering of stock prohibitively expensive would spur more creative destruction in the marketplace. On the flip side of the coin, new regulation of today's big tech firms could do more to lock their dominance into place than to restrain them. If today's gang of FANG is allowed to trade curtailed behavior for barriers to entry of tomorrow's competitive threat, innovation will slow and consumers will suffer. Let the lawyers stamp out fraud and let the market do its job.
Read CEI's full antitrust FAQ here
The State Antitrust Paradox
In a paper for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), senior fellow Mario Loyola writes that unlike their federal counterparts, antitrust enforcers at the state level often use antitrust law to shield powerful local constituents from competition. In The State Antitrust Paradox, Loyola argues that state-level policymakers would benefit from absorbing the key insights of Bork's book. He makes four concrete recommendations that would help ensure consumer welfare is at the center of state-level antitrust enforcement.
Read the full paper here.
Regulators should use the law proactively to break up companies that are abusing their market power and restore a competitive market. The size of a company is a good guide as to when this should be done.
Interventionist
Antitrust law is unnecessary. Market processes routinely undermine monopolies—and attempts to create monopolies. Laws against "unfair competition" prevent property owners from experimenting with joint ventures and other innovations that can improve consumer welfare.
Consumer Welfare
Abuse of market power is rare and dominant market positions can be achieved through delivering improvements in consumer welfare. Therefore, antitrust laws should be used not to break up companies that have grown big through successful competition, but to address instances of collusion, price fixing, or other anti-competitive behavior.
Read Iain Murray's full web memo here
Few economic concepts elicit such strong reactions as that of monopoly, and the policy intended to address it—antitrust regulations (called competition policy in the European Union). Yet, both supporters and opponents of antitrust regulations agree on one fundamental point—that effective competition is vital to the American economy and the welfare of its citizens. However, they differ in how the law should encourage this. There are essentially three schools of thought regarding antitrust policy:
Selected readings on antitrust.
For more than two decades, the willingness of policy makers to rethink the presumption that economic regulation automatically benefits consumers has driven the deregulation of the transportation, telecommunications, banking, and electricity sectors. Yet antitrust regulation enjoys continued esteem in both the business and popular press. High-profile antitrust enforcement actions increasingly constitute a business hazard for aggressive, successful firms, threatening to disrupt innovation and economic growth.
Since economic regulations—including antitrust—transfer wealth, they inevitably attract political entrepreneurs seeking entry or price regulation to hobble or preempt competition. Thus, a more skeptical interpretation of antitrust activism is that antitrust benefits political "entrepreneurs" rather than consumers. Such enforcement for competitive advantage often harms consumers by increasing prices and decreasing output by undermining little-understood efficiencies. Rethinking the true impact of these practices, from "collusion" to "predatory pricing" to "discrimination," should be a goal of policy makers.
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