The Sensex ended higher by 416 points at 27,127 and the Nifty gained 130 points at 8,159.
Benchmark indices snapped five day losing streak and ended in line with the Asian peers after the US Federal Reserve said it would take a "patient" approach on deciding when to raise interest rates.
Also, the Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Constitutional Amendment Bill on the long-delayed Goods and Service Tax which aided the sentiments. The Sensex ended up 416 points at 27,127 and the Nifty advanced 130 points to close at 8,159.
In line with the large counterparts, the mid and smallcap indices ended up 2.6% and 3% each.
Meanwhile, foreign institutional investors were net sellers in Indian equities worth Rs 1,636.36 crore on Wednesday, as per provisional stock exchange data.
The rupee rebounded from a 13-month low hit in the previous session, after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would take a "patient" approach in deciding when to raise interest rates.
It is currently trading at 63.2 against the US dollar.
Gold: Gold climbed on Thursday on the back of US Federal Reserve comments. Spot gold was up 0.8%at $1,197.60. On Wednesday, it fell as far as $1,183.73, its lowest since December 1.
Brent crude held steady above $61 a barrel on Thursday, bringing a sharp drop in prices to a temporary halt as companies are forced to cut upstream investments around the world. Sectors & Stocks: On the sectoral front, all sectoral indices ended in green.
BSE Consumer Durables index was the top gainer up 5% followed by BSE Metal, Power, Realty and Capital Goods indices up between 2-3%.
Also, Bankex ended higher by 2.5%. Financials rallied across the exchange. ICICI Bank gained 4%.
The bank was in news after being penalised by RBI for violating KYC and anti-laundering norms. SBI gained 1.6% as PSU banks have extended their gains from yesterday.
According to Moody's Investors Service, the ability to raise private capital that dilutes the government's stake is credit positive for undercapitalized public-sector banks because government resources to recapitalize the banks are limited. Axis Bank and HDFC twins ended up between 0.6-3%.
Cigarette maker and Index heavyweight ITC gained around 0.7%.
According to media reports, tobacco will be covered under Goods and Services Tax.
Tata Motors gained 2%. According to media reports, Tata Motors is in the process of developing vehicles for the defence sector, which are capable of carrying weapons. Among other auto stocks, Maruti Suzuki was up 4% and Bajaj Auto gained 2%. Tata Steel gained 2%.
The Odisha government has allowed the steel major to resume mining from four key iron ore mines in the state.
Hindalco surged 4% and Sesa Sterlite gained 1.5%. Coal India gained around 0.5% after paring early losses .
All the five trade unions of the company - which has a work force of 3,50,000 - have served a notice declaring their intention to go on strike from January 6 through January 10. Oil and Gas shares ended the session on a firm note.
RIL, GAIL and ONGC ended up between 0.4-4%. Consumer Durables stocks rallied on the bourses after the government initiated steps for one of the country's biggest economic reforms by introducing a bill that seeks to amend the constitution to create a harmonised GST.
The jewellery stocks led the rally on the BSE with PC Jeweller and Titan up 15% and 6% each. Other gainers include Rajesh Exports, Blue Star, Bajaj Electricals and Symphony up between 4-5%.
Cipla gained around 4%. The Delhi High Court has reserved its verdict on a dispute between pharma firms Novartis and Cipla over manufacturing of the drug Indacaterol, used for treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. BHEL, NTPC, Tata Power and L&T were some of the notable gainers and gained between 2-5.5% on the BSE.
On the flip side, Dr Reddy's share price fell in the light of a sharp intraday fall of Rouble price under the impact of sliding international oil prices recently.
The assumption being that the company's revenues will be hit due to the devaluation of Russian currency.
The stock ended the session with marginal losses. M&M and HUL were the other prominent losers on the BSE and were down between 0.2-0.5%.
Japanese stocks enjoyed their best day in 6-1/2 weeks on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve expressed confidence in the U.S. economy and promised a "patient" approach to raising interest rates, boosting Wall Street shares.
Following the global trend, Hong Kong shares finished up on Thursday, snapping five consecutive days of losses, underpinned by a rally on Wall Street.
The Hang Seng index rose 1%, to 22,832 points, while the China Enterprises Index gained 0.5%, to 11,331 points.
However, China stocks slipped on Thursday as hot brokerage shares cooled on questions about margin trading and investors shifted interest to coming listings. Shanghai Composite index ended marginally lower by 0.1% at 3,058.
The market breadth ended positive on the BSE with 2,172 gainers and 684 losers.


Put your strength, stability and mental toughness to the test with this brutal Shoulder Press challenge.
The Ultimate Shoulder Press Challenge from Ben Boudro on Vimeo.
Looking for a grueling Shoulder Press workout?
Well, look no further. This will absolutely bury your shoulders and leave you with that fire in your arms that just keeps on burning!
Set up a bench that allows you to sit straight up. You'll want your back to be supported for this.
Grab 2 dumbbells and pick a weight that will challenge you for 20 reps. I used 25's. Yes, I'd go that light if this is your first time.
Perform 8 reps of Shoulder Press.
At the top of rep 8, hold your arms straight over your head with your arms completely extended for 10 seconds.
Go right back to performing another 8 reps and again hold at the top for 10 seconds.
Keep repeating this for 8 rounds without rest. Well, at least that's the goal.
I won't lie to you. My first attempt at this, I was only able to go for 6 rounds. When I tried again a few days later, I got to 7 rounds and had to drop the weights yet again.
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Finally the next week I was able to complete 8 rounds with smooth reps.
What happened? My anaerobic capacity and muscular endurance increased!
What's so good about that? Well, first of all, my shoulders are looking bigger than they were before. Second, I'm able to perform better Bench Presses, Push-Ups and other movements that require my shoulders to stay stable and strong. In addition, I challenged my mental toughness. Trust me, you are going to want to drop the weights after about 5 rounds. Stay focused, keep your form right and press through this!
Before I go, let me say that 25 pounds was good for me. That doesn't mean you should automatically pick 25's. Choose a weight that is safe for you and keep your form perfect!


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On the night 2022
BEST COMPANY CONNECTION (LARGE)
WINNER: RAPID7
Grainne Ni Cheallaigh, Chris Wallace and Kirsty McAleese from Rapid7 is presented with the 'Best Company Connection – Large' Award by Liz Toner, vice president of Global Talent at event partner First Derivative
Rapid7 provides staff with an exceptional working environment
WORLD-leading cyber security company Rapid7, which has had a presence in Belfast since 2014, topped the Best Company Connection (Large) category at the Irish News Workplace & Employment Awards
Rapid7 believes in simplifying the complex through shared visibility, analytics, and automation that unite teams around challenges and successes of cyber security.
The company is well known for its outstanding culture and dedication to providing its 2,600 employees with the career experience of a lifetime, and its commitment to providing staff with exceptional working environments is a result of these factors.
Creating engaging workspaces and nurturing a culture of collaboration, engagement, inclusion and participation is very much part of Rapid7's DNA.
So when significance of the Covid19 pandemic began to become clear in March 2020, the whole company was faced with rethinking its approach to how it engaged with staff around topics such as wellness, employee support, engagement, leadership, communication, and what it means to be a part of a highly collaborative organisation at a time when the human interactions that most people take for granted are no longer possible.
But the company's holistic response, led by its executive team, which delivered a master class in leadership in uncertain and challenging times, resulted in Rapid7 not only surviving throughout the pandemic, but in genuinely thriving, with a high focus on managing staff mental health and engagement, zero redundancies and furloughing.
Its office in Belfast grew from 187 staff in March 2020 to over 360 in March this year, with further growth in our other locations around the world, including its Dublin office, which has grown from 68 staff in March 2020 to 81 staff in March 2022.
It underlines an outstanding culture and dedication to providing employees with the career experience of a lifetime, and its commitment to providing staff with exceptional working environments is a result of these factors
The early stages of Rapid7's response to Covid 19 were marked by local offices (including teams in Asian locations, who were impacted earlier than in the UK and US etc) receiving a high level of close contact support from executive leadership and people strategy teams, providing impacted staff with the support needed to keep themselves and their families safe.
Throughout those initial weeks and months, the senior leadership team provided daily updates to staff, keeping people up to date with guidance and advice received from medical experts, and our approach to navigating the evolving crisis.
Rapid7 made the difficult decision to move to fully remote working, and the successful transition had a number of keystones.
Company Town Halls, normally a monthly occurrence where the CEO and members of the executive team communicate updates to all employees, moved to weekly, which increased level of communication.
Activities around support and wellbeing took a number of forms during the pandemic, including inviting noted mental health experts to present to employees.
Its people strategy team began a programme of connecting 1:1 with hundreds of staff around the world, working to ensure individuals had the support, connections and resources they needed to stay healthy, engaged and effective.
Rapid7's sense of community, helpfulness, empathy and camaraderie also came to the fore, with the Little Moose Academy being established directly by employees to group-source content for working parents to use for their children.
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Remembering Playland
By Jessica Davis-
This summer, Bitter Lake Community Center is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the opening of Playland, a 12-acre amusement park that operated for three decades where the community center now stands.
After surviving several fires, the Great Depression, World War II and the growing popularity of television, Playland closed in 1960. Bitter Lake Community Center, 13035 Linden Ave. N., is marking the park's anniversary with a temporary exhibit, a lecture next Tuesday, July 19, and a concert and picnic on Aug. 13.
"It's really neat that we're here offering recreation and community, just as Playland did," said community-center coordinator Barbara Wade.
A passionate following
The exhibit, on display through the summer in the Bitter Lake Community Center's lobby, contains pictures, news articles and miniature models of many of Playland's attractions. Also at the center, on Tuesday, July 19, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Kay Schlegel, curator of the Playland Exhibit for the Shoreline Historical Society, will present a free lecture with old photographs and film reels on Playland's history and impact on the Bitter Lake community.
"[Playland's] been a passion of mine since I [started] researching it in 1980," said Schlegel, who also co-edited the memory book "Once Upon a Time in Playland" with Victoria Stiles, director of the Shoreline Historical Museum. The book was just released in June and is available at the museum, at 749 N. 175th St. in Shoreline.
"We're already thinking of Volume Two," Schlegel said.
The Shoreline Historical Museum also houses a permanent exhibit on Playland.
"[Playland] is very dear to the hearts of many, many people," Stiles said. "It brings back a lot of happiness for people to remember this great place."
Seattle's answer to Disneyland
One of Playland's first co-owners, Leo F. Smith, was president of the Washington Amusement Co. He had built other amusement parks at Columbia Beach and Jantzen Beach in Portland.
But, a year after Playland opened, it was sold to roller-coaster builder and designer Carl E. Phare, who successfully operated the park for most of its 30 years. The park offered all types of entertainment over the years including dance marathons, flagpole-sitting contests, a log ride, merry-go-round, mystery house and rollerskating rink.
"It would be the equivalent to Disneyland in L.A.," Schlegel said.
Phare designed the park's biggest attraction, The Dipper, one of the largest roller coasters on the West Coast, soaring 85 feet in the air, with 3,400 feet of track and one virtual somersault.
At the time of its operation, the park was located outside of the city limits. Visitors came from all over the Puget Sound area and as far as Eastern Washington and Portland, Ore. Many Seattleites came via the Interurban trolley, for a 25-cent fare that included admission to the park.
Playland also hosted a variety of special events, including Fourth of July fireworks shows, special nights for city workers and other local employees, as well as a Memorial Day balloon launching.
The park also honored school-patrol children with a free day at the park, sponsored by the Washington State Patrol. Kids were treated to lunch and a handful of ride tickets.
"It was really something to be recognized," said Ronnie Pierce, captain of the schoolboy patrol from 1940 to 1942 at Lake Forest Park grade school. As a boy, Pierce enjoyed driving the bumper cars and watching the car races at the Aurora Speedway.
Stiles visited Playland herself as a child, just before it closed. "There were a lot of rides, that as a 6-year-old, I was not allowed to go on," she said. "It seemed like a huge place."
Schlegel has her own memory of visiting the amusement park in 1957 when she was 4 years old. "The lights were so mesmerizing," she said. "It was like a fairyland, like nothing else I had experienced before."
Schlegel was disappointed to find that there was no trace of the park left when she took her own kids to the site years ago. "It was sad not having anything left of the park," she said.
A continued presence
Playland has continued to make an impact on Schlegel's life. She met her husband, Hal Schlegel, a former Playland employee, while working on an exhibit about the amusement park for the Shoreline Historical Museum.
Hal worked at Playland as a teenager for a few years in the late '50s, living a half-block away from the park at the time. He ran many of the rides and games. "It was a magical place to work for as a kid," he said.
Hal often found himself enjoying Playland's rides on his breaks and even on his days off.
He was a regular patron of Playland, from 1945 until the park closed in 1960. Playland likely closed due to the demand of its valuable lakefront property and the upcoming threat of the Seattle World's Fair of 1962, Stiles noted.
"Those are my fondest memories," Hal said. "I wish everyone had been able to see it. Maybe we could've been able to save the park in some way."
The community center will host an outdoor concert and picnic in recognition of Playland from 4 to 6 p.m. on Aug. 13. The concert, featuring the 18-piece band Route 66, will help raise funds to improve the Bitter Lake shoreline. For more information, call Bitter Lake Community Center at 684-7524, or visit www.seattle.gov/parks/centers/bitterlk.htm.
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Nuevo Laredo trucker: Threatened at home, told to smuggle immigrants to SA
By César Rodriguez, LMTonline.com / Laredo Morning Times
Updated 6:12 pm CDT, Wednesday, August 12, 2020
A man stated that he was recently threatened into smuggling three immigrants who had crossed the border illegally, according to an arrest affidavit.
At about 6:30 p.m. Aug. 3, a tractor trailer arrived at the Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 35. Authorities identified the driver as Daniel Alejandro De La Cruz-Resendez. He was referred to secondary inspection after a K-9 unit allegedly alerted to possible contraband.
"De La Cruz-Resendez then drove from the primary inspection lane, stopped at approximately 40 feet and informed the (agents) that he was transporting undocumented subjects in the cab," states the affidavit filed on Aug. 5.
Agents said they found three people in the sleeper cab. All were immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala who had crossed the border illegally.
Homeland Security Investigations responded to follow up on the case. De la Cruz-Resendez allegedly agreed to a post-arrest interview. He stated he was a resident of Mexico and had been a truck driver for approximately seven years.
De la Cruz-Resendez further stated that about two weeks ago, some men approached him at his home in Nuevo Laredo and recruited him to transport immigrants north of the checkpoint, according to court documents.
"De la Cruz-Resendez claimed that he agreed to transport the (immigrants) because the individuals had threatened him," states the affidavit.
He stated he was instructed to park behind a Walmart in Laredo. A man then came to drop off the immigrants, authorities said.
"De La Cruz-Resendez stated he was to be paid $2,000 to transport the (immigrants) to San Antonio, Texas, states the affidavit.
De La Cruz-Resendez claimed he had smuggled immigrants on two prior occasions, according to court documents. De La Cruz-Resendez was charged with transport, attempt to transport and conspire to transport immigrants who had crossed the border illegally. He remained in federal custody as of Wednesday.


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Q: Is it possible to introduce method responses in JUnit tests? Is it possible to 'feed' expected responses from underlying methods to classes under test in JUnit? Of course, you can splatter the code with if-statements doing something else in case the code is "under test" or introduce an extra bag of objects either forwarding a request to an object (normal obperation) or doing that "something else", but it leaves a feeling of smelly code and extra bugs. Is there a better approach to keep test code really out of the program code?
I imagine something like if ClassUnderTest.doSomething() calls ClassB.getValue(key) don't call that function at all, instead, hand value foo as an imaginary return value of ClassB.getValue() back to ClassUnderTest.doSomething()? Can that be done some way? Can I access "key" later to see if my method posed the right question? (See: I don't want to test the functionality of ClassB here, just the `doSomething()̀  method itself.)

A: I think what you are looking for are mocking frameworks.
The most popular these days seems to be Mockito.

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We are happy to announce the release of ReportLab 3.5, changes include the addition of balanced columns and the addition of hyphenation functionality. See the relevant documentation page for further information.
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The Sunless products we carry here at Tanning Cove are made by tanners for tanners. The products are safe and created to help your tans last longer and look better. We carry Sunscreens much safer and more natural than drug store ones to help you and your skin whether you have a spray tan or not. No harsh chemicals just sun blocking ingredients.
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EPIC: Donald Trump Just Announced Class Action Lawsuit Against Google, Facebook, and Twitter
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From Conservative Brief:
Donald Trump is taking the fight to Google, Facebook, and Twitter, which includes two social media giants who banned him from their platforms.
The 45th President of the United States announce class action lawsuits against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Axios reported a preview.
It's the latest escalation in Trump's years-long battle with Twitter and Facebook over free speech and censorship. Trump is completely banned from Twitter and is banned from Facebook for another two years.
Trump is scheduled to make an announcement at a press conference today at 11 am.
Trump's legal effort is supported by the America First Policy Institute, a non-profit focused on perpetuating Trump's policies.
The group's president and CEO and board chair, former Trump officials Linda McMahon and Brooke Rollins, will accompany him during the announcement.
Class action lawsuits would enable him to sue the two tech CEOs on behalf of a broader group of people that he argues have been censored by biased policies.
Axios notes that no evidence has been presented by Trump or his allies that either platform has a bias against conservatives, but it is a prevailing belief among many conservatives and a lawsuit could force the two Silicon Valley giants to show precisely how they determine who gets banned, shadow banned or otherwise punished.
Trump was banned from Twitter for life, but Facebook gave a timetable for his possible return in June.
Facebook's vice president of global affairs Nick Clegg issued a blog post announcing a minimum two-year ban for Trump, Politico reported.
"Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr. Trump's suspension, we believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols," he said. "We are suspending his accounts for two years, effective from the date of the initial suspension on January 7 this year."
"We are suspending his accounts for two years, effective from the date of the initial suspension on January 7 this year," it said.
"We are today announcing new enforcement protocols to be applied in exceptional cases such as this, and we are confirming the time-bound penalty consistent with those protocols which we are applying to Mr. Trump's accounts," it said.
But even when Trump comes back the company has announced that he will have to live by special rules made for him., which is significant because it means the ban is not permanent.
"When the suspension is eventually lifted, there will be a strict set of rapidly escalating sanctions that will be triggered if Mr. Trump commits further violations in future, up to and including permanent removal of his pages and accounts," it said.
"In establishing the two-year sanction for severe violations, we considered the need for it to be long enough to allow a safe period of time after the acts of incitement, to be significant enough to be a deterrent to Mr. Trump and others from committing such severe violations in future, and to be proportionate to the gravity of the violation itself," it said.
It is of note that the suspension will continue through the 2022 midterm elections where Trump is expected to play a key role for Republicans.
The news of the lawsuit also comes after his former staffer, Jason Miller, announced the start of his own site.
The platform, known as GETTR, launched on Thursday and its mission statement reads that it is a place that is "fighting cancel culture, promoting common sense, defending free speech, challenging social media monopolies, and creating a true marketplace of ideas," Politico reported.
Trump's former spokesman, Jason Miller, is leading the platform. A person familiar described the site as similar to Twitter.
Trump's involvement with the project is unclear as is whether or not he will set up an account on GETTR and use it, though his proximity to Miller suggests that this may be the latest attempt to get him back in the churn of social media
The former president has been looking for alternative ways to engage with his base online after having been booted off Twitter and suspended from Facebook after encouraging the Capitol rioters on January 6. And his prior effort to engage online—through the launch of a professional blog—ended quickly amid widespread ridicule and poor readership.
GETTR is one of the highest-profile projects in a larger ecosystem of pro-MAGA tech and social media platforms that have blossomed on the right, largely fueled by a sense that Big Tech is attempting to silence conservative and pro-Trump ideology from being disseminated online. In recent months, it was widely reported that the Trump team was searching for a platform on which to re-establish his online presence, either by buying a company outright and rebranding it as his exclusive platform, or becoming a featured draw.
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Rezan's Wake is a Zandalari battleship and Princess Talanji's personal ship which was used as an escape ship during [110 - 120] The Stormwind Extraction. It is currently docked at the Port of Zandalar in southern Dazar'alor.
The skull at the front of the ship is missing its top part, due to the Alliance attack on it before reaching Zandalar.
The ship after escaping the Alliance fleet and docking at the port in Dazar'alor.


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Q: import JPlayer in React component (with webpack build process) How do I access the jPlayer object within my React component? There are many places I may be doing something wrong, so bear with...
I am developing a Redux/React web application. Starting with the scaffolding provided by the Yeoman generator, generator-redux, I have the skeleton of my app in place. This is my first encounter with webpack, having used grunt/gulp/bower in the past (though never set those up from scratch, either).
I ran npm install jquery jplayer --save so now my package.json has
"dependencies":{ ...
   "jplayer": "^2.9.2",
   "jquery": "^2.1.4",
...}

and  the jplayer module is in the node_modules directory of my project: so far so good. But the jPlayer docs don't make the import process terribly clear, and I'm not sufficiently familiar with the whole node/webpack/babel/etc. ecosystem to be very sure of myself.
My plan is to create a React component called Player which will live in a file called Player.js in the js/components directory. How do I import the jplayer object in this scheme? I'm doing import { jPlayer} from 'jplayer' at the head of my Player.js which does not seem like it is doing what I want it to be doing, but I'm honestly a bit at a loss of how to check properly. There is no jPlayer defined in this or the top level in the console...
My imports look like this:
import React, {Component} from 'react';
import {connect} from 'react-redux';
import {bindActionCreators} from 'redux';
import * as PlayerActions from '../actions/PlayerActions';
import styles from '../../css/app.css';
import $ from 'jquery';
// import {jPlayer} from 'jplayer/dist/jplayer/jquery.jplayer';
import 'jplayer';

For debugging, I also added this to the Player class in Player.js
componentDidMount() {
  console.log("Regulators, mount up");
  console.log($('#jquery_jplayer_1'));
  console.log($.jPlayer);
  console.log(jPlayer)
}

which gives this output in the Chrome console:
Regulators, mount up
[div#jquery_jplayer_1, context: document, selector: "#jquery_jplayer_1"]
undefined
Uncaught ReferenceError: jPlayer is not defined

At this point, I would expect that $.jPlayer to be <jPlayer object> or some such. I want to call $('#jquery_jplayer_1').jPlayer(...) at this point, as per the docs for jPlayer.
I know I'm kind of stumbling about blindly here, with a partial knowledge of many components combining into a lot of confusion! Any guidance, and in particular a high-level view of these pieces and their interactions would be most welcome!
In case it's relevant, here's the webpack.config.js
var webpack = require('webpack');
var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');

var devFlagPlugin = new webpack.DefinePlugin({
  __DEV__: JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(process.env.DEBUG || 'false'))
});

module.exports = {
  entry: [
    'webpack-dev-server/client?http://localhost:3001',
    'webpack/hot/only-dev-server',
    './js/index.js'
  ],
  output: {
    path: __dirname + '/static/',
    publicPath: '/static/',
    filename: 'bundle.js',
    hot: true
  },
  plugins: [
    new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
    new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin(),
    devFlagPlugin,
    new ExtractTextPlugin('app.css')
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  module: {
    loaders: [
      { test: /\.js$/, loaders: ['react-hot', 'babel'], exclude: /node_modules/ },
      { test: /\.css$/, loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract('css-loader?module!cssnext-loader') }
    ]
  },
  resolve: {
    extensions: ['', '.js', '.json']
  }
};


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SAND domain profile
The SAND domain (named after Sp100, AIRE-1, NucP41/75, DEAF-1) is a conserved ~80-residue region found in a number of nuclear proteins, many of which function in chromatin-dependent transcriptional control. These include proteins linked to various human diseases, such as the Sp100 (Speckled protein 100 kDa), NUDR (Nuclear DEAF-1 related), GMEB (Glucocorticoid Modulatory Element Binding) proteins and AIRE-1 (Autoimmune regulator 1) proteins.
Proteins containing the SAND domain have a modular structure; the SAND domain can be associated with a number of other modules, including the bromodomain (see <PDOC00550>), the PHD finger (see <PDOC50016>) and the MYND finger. Because no SAND domain has been found in yeast, it is thought that the SAND domain could be restricted to animal phyla. Many SAND domain-containing proteins, including NUDR, DEAF-1 (Deformed epidermal autoregulatory factor-1) and GMEB, have been shown to bind DNA sequence-specifically. The SAND domain has been proposed to mediate the DNA binding activity of these proteins [1,2].
The resolution of the 3D structure of the SAND domain from Sp100b has revealed that it consists of a novel α/β fold (see <PDB:1H5P>). The SAND domain adopts a compact fold consisting of a strongly twisted, five-stranded antiparallel β-sheet with four α-helices packing against one side of the β-sheet. The opposite side of the β-sheet is solvent exposed. The β-sheet and α-helical parts of the structure form two distinct regions. Multiple hydrophobic residues pack between these regions to form a structural core. A conserved KDWK sequence motif is found within the α-helical, positively charged surface patch. The DNA binding surface has been mapped to the α-helical region encompassing the KDWK motif [2].
The profile we developed covers the entire SAND domain.
July 2002 / First entry.
PROSITE method (with tools and information) covered by this documentation:
SAND, PS50864; SAND domain profile (MATRIX)
Sequences in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot known to belong to this class: 28
undetected by PS50864: 0 (false negative or 'partial')
Matching PDB structures: 1H5P 1OQJ 1UFN [ALL]
1 Authors Gibson T.J. Ramu C. Gemuend C. Aasland R.
Title The APECED polyglandular autoimmune syndrome protein, AIRE-1, contains the SAND domain and is probably a transcription factor.
Source Trends Biochem. Sci. 23:242-244(1998).
2 Authors Bottomley M.J. Collard M.W. Huggenvik J.I. Liu Z. Gibson T.J. Sattler M.
Title The SAND domain structure defines a novel DNA-binding fold in transcriptional regulation.
Source Nat. Struct. Biol. 8:626-633(2001).
DOI 10.1038/89675


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You can easily improve your character's abilities through the GTA 5 PS3 cheats below:
Invincibility Mode: Right, X, Right, Left, Right, R1, Right, Left, X, Triangle
Reloads character's special abilities: X, X, Square, R1, L1, X, Right, Left, X
Increase star level: R1, R1, Circle, R2, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right
Removes one star from wanted level: R1, R1, Circle, R2, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left
Sprint: Triangle, Left, Right, Right, L2, L1, Square
Quick swim: Left, Left, L1, Right, Right, R2, Left, L2, Right
Drunk mode: Triangle, Right, Right, Left, Right, Square, Circle, Left
High jump: Left, Left Triangle, Triangle, Right, Right, Left, Right, Square, R1, R2
Super hit: Right, Left, X, Triangle, R1, Circle, Circle, Circle, L2
Full blood and weapons: Circle, L1, Triangle, R2, X, Square, Circle, Right, Square, L1, L1, L1increase
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You can get weapons and control the weather easily. Here is the complete cheat:
Get weapons: Triangle, R2, Left, L1, X, Right, Triangle, Down, Square, L1, L1, L1
Weapons with explosive power: Right, Square, X, Left, R1, R2, Left, Right, Right, L1, L1, L1
Set the target on fire with a shot: L1, R1, Square, R1, Left, R2, R1, Left, Square, Right, L1, L1
Added a parachute to inventory: Left, Right, L1, L2, R1, R2, R2, Left, Left, Right, L1
Falling from the sky: L1, L2, R1, R2, Left, Right, Left, Right, L1, L2, R1, R2, Left, Right, Left, Right
Slow motion shooting: Square, L2, R1, Triangle, Left, Square, L2, Right, X
Change the weather: R2, X, L1, L1, L2, L2, L2, Square
Moon gravity: Left, Left, L1, R1, L1, Right, Left, L1, Left
Slow motion: Triangle, Left, Right, Right, Square R2, R1
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Freestyle car: Triangle, R1, R1, Left, R1, L1, R2, L1
Spawn a BMX bike: Left, Left, Right, Right, Left, Right, Square, Circle, Triangle, R1, R2
Spawn a golf cart: Circle, L1, Left, R1, L2, X, R1, L1, Circle, X
Propeller plane: Right, Left, R1, R1, R1, Left, Triangle, Triangle,, X, Circle, L1, L1
Limousine car: R2, Right, L2, Left, Left, R1, L1, Circle, Right
Spawn a motor: R1, Right, Left, Right, R2, Left, right, Square, Right, L2, L1, L1
Spawn a car: R2, L1, Circle, Right, L1, R1, Right, Left, Circle, R2
Spawn a dirt bike: Circle, X, L1, Circle, Circle, L1, Circle, R1, R2, L2, L1, L1
Spawn acrobatic planes: Circle, Right, L1, L2, Left, R1, L1, L1, Left, Left, X, Triangle
Garbage truck: Circle, R1, Circle, R1, Left, Left, R1, L1, Circle, Right
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"Although not a legal requirement, this voluntary donation fulfills our pledge to donate profits from foreign government patronage at our hotels and similar business during President Trump's term in office," Sorial said in a written statement.
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The Trump International Hotel in Washington, just a few blocks from the White House, has been a frequent host to foreign guests. Lobbying records show the hotel took in about $270,000 in payments tied to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2016 and 2017. In February 2017, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. booked the hotel for a gala to celebrate the anniversary of his country's independence from British rule.
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What Was The Sydney Slaughterhouse?
By Luke T. Harrington/May 26, 2021 2:07 pm EST
Depending on who you talk to, Australians are either very proud or quietly ashamed that the modern-day nation — parts of it, at least — was originally founded as a penal colony. What this meant was that the United Kingdom took mostly petty criminals who would have otherwise been filling up their crowded prisons and instead exported them to Australia, where they would be put to work (via BBC).
In other words, the entire continent, at a time not too long ago, was little more than a glorified prison. There were minds, though, who envisioned the Australia we know today: a modern, developed country with a booming economy, a global pop culture reach, and a chain of steakhouses that borrows your name. Along the way, though, there were a number of hiccups and bumps in the road. After all, you don't build a world-class country on your first try. And sometimes you set out to build a state-of-the-art hospital, and you get stuck with a roach-infested, blood-soaked mess with a nickname borrowed from the meatpacking industry. And if that seems oddly specific, just read on.
The Sydney Hospital was built by rum importers
Officially known as simply Sydney Hospital, the facility that would later be better known as the "Rum Hospital" or the "Sydney Slaughterhouse" was the brainchild of Lachlan Macquerie, who served as the governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, and was dedicated to developing it into a full-fledged nation. The first step, for Macquerie, was to start building the basics of civilization, including a state-of-the-art hospital. When the British Treasury refused to send him the money to build one, though, Macquerie had to turn to less orthodox funding channels.
Macquerie's solution was to persuade some liquor importers to build it for him, in exchange for a total monopoly on the Australian liquor trade (via Culture Trip). And if hiring some rum-runners to throw a hospital together sounds crazy to you, you obviously lack the imagination of a 19th-century Australian governor, but also you probably have a point. The facility's construction was widely criticized, even when it was brand-new, with a shoddy foundation and walls that were overrun with vermin in just a few years. The place needed repairs almost as soon as it was built.
All that, though, is to say nothing of the quality of care that was available there, which was nothing short of downright horrific.
The Rum Hospital was a perpetual horror show
Medicine has progressed at light speed in the last century, but in the 19th, most of it was still based on the literally ancient "four humors" theory. In other words, many diseases were thought to be the result of having "too much blood," so you can imagine how the treatments went. One hospital assistant, Henry Cowper (quoted by the Sydney Living Museums), relates his experience in removing five pounds of blood from a patient in a single day, and then expressing frustration when said patient "dropped down Dead."
Some of the other cures ("cures") employed in the hospital, as taken from the notes of surgeon William Redfern (quoted, again, at the Sydney Living Museums), include a treatment for sore eyes made from lead and opium and a cure for tuberculosis sores that was comprised of rubbing them with the leg of a poisonous toad, which would "cause the parts to swell very much for about 12 hours, and give Violent pain." Add in poor ventilation, overcrowding, and the fact that anesthetic hadn't been invented yet, and you had a hospital that sick inmates would literally beg not to be sent to — hence the "Slaughterhouse" nickname (via The Sydney Morning Herald).
Given this sordid past, you might be shocked to learn that the Slaughterhouse actually still stands to this day, housing both a mint and New South Wales' parliament. Which proves, we guess, that Macquerie knew what he was aiming for — even if he had an unusual way of going about it.


How did we get into this Brexit mess? Why is it proving so difficult to leave the EU? Was it Theresa May's botched 2017 election, which vaporised her Commons majority? Or perhaps her general incompetence and lack of vision?
How about the fierce determination of Europhile civil servants to save stupid Leave voters from themselves, cooking up a half-in-half-out withdrawal guaranteed to split the Tories?
Maybe it was the cynical ambivalence of HM's Opposition, with Labour simultaneously backing both Brexit and a second referendum, having always intended to cause chaos and spark a general election by voting down the UK's exit, contradicting its own manifesto? Then there's the relentless big business lobbying, with corporate vested interests determined to keep Britain behind the EU's protectionist wall and smaller rivals ensnared in Brussels's red tape.
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Having grown up 'London Irish' in the 1970s and 1980s, I feel in my bones the fragility of relations between the two countries that define my ethnicity. As such, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and subsequent Anglo-Irish rapprochement have been a source of much personal relief to me and millions of other Irish exiles born and raised in Britain. I also fully understand Brexit is a serious irritation in the land of my fathers.
Being in the EU always meant far more to Ireland than the UK. Joining in 1973, along with Britain but on equal terms, was an enormous step. The Irish Republic, a mere quarter-century on from formal independence, was finally able to represent itself on the world stage. It has been this escape from the stultifying 'Brit' dominance that makes EU membership central to modern Ireland's identity.
That's why Brexit causes such Irish unease now. It renews the gnawing sense that Ireland is yet again set to suffer from the seemingly thoughtless, oppressive actions of its much bigger neighbour.
Economically, the Republic of Ireland remains closely linked to Britain. The UK accounts for €1 billion of Irish trade each week and one in ten jobs. Around 55 per cent of Irish exports of timber and construction materials are sold in Britain, along with 50 per cent of beef exports and 45 per cent of all food and drink sold abroad.
In purely practical terms, four-fifths of the Republic's exports use the UK as a 'land bridge', crossing the Irish Sea, then travelling by road across Britain before leaving southern and eastern ports, headed for the EU and global markets. To say Brexit could be an inconvenience for the Republic if no UK-EU deal is signed is an understatement.
Yet Britain voted to leave. That's why, after the 2016 referendum, the then Taoiseach Enda Kenny created joint committees of Irish and British civil servants to resolve cross-border issues. This was seen at the time as uncontroversial. In May's Lancaster House speech, she said Britain was leaving the customs union and, for months afterwards, no one raised Irish border issues.
It was only in June 2017, when May lost her majority, becoming reliant on the DUP, and Varadkar replaced Kenny, that the Irish border hit the headlines. Brussels then saw an opportunity to raise the political stakes by asserting the 'impossibility' of avoiding 'a hard border' unless Britain stayed in the customs union. That prevents the UK signing trade deals with the rest of the world, of course, while compelling us to keep sending Brussels billions of pounds each year under the EU's common external tariff.
Since then, Dublin has danced religiously to the EU's tune. Varadkar disbanded Kenny's working groups and cranked up the rhetoric, claiming that Brexit threatened the Good Friday Agreement. Many of those responsible for that precious treaty robustly dismiss such claims. 'This is scaremongering. I do not see a connection between this process and peace in Northern Ireland,' said Lord Trimble, Northern Ireland's former first minister, who won the Nobel prize for his efforts in securing peace in Ulster.
'EU negotiators have been rigid and intransigent to the point of being obstructive — and I'm sorry to say the government of the Republic has thrown itself in line with that,' said Lord Carswell, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland when the 1998 agreement was signed.
Varadkar leads a minority government in need of support from Irish nationalists. He has an incentive to make the Brits sweat. But the fact is that the head of HMRC, and his Irish counterpart, have both said there is no need for any additional physical infrastructure on the Irish border. Just last week, two of the world's leading customs experts told the Commons Northern Ireland Select Committee this, insisting we can rely on existing technology, trusted trader schemes and behind-the-border checks.
By changing the constitutional status of Northern Ireland without Ulster's consent, it's the EU's ghastly withdrawal agreement that could upend the Good Friday Agreement, not minor changes to the administration of Ireland's somewhat limited cross-border trade.
Britain's political class has screwed up Brexit — yes. But its Irish counterpart, ironically, has forgotten the importance of sovereignty, democracy and self-determination.


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Mathel Walker was born on Oct. 13, 1926 in Lyman, Wyoming. She was the fourteenth child born to Levi Orson Walker and Amelia Jane Grow. Mathel was seven years old when her mother passed away. She was very close to her father and her siblings.
She was the first in her family to graduate from high school and LDS seminary. She moved to Wales, Utah to live with her sister Theo; and that is where she met her sweetheart, LaRay Neal Anderson. They were married Dec. 20, 1945. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Manti Temple on June 13, 1946.
Mathel and LaRay were blessed with six sons: Ivan, Russell, Lester, Guy, Spencer and Neal. She loved her daughters-in-law as much as her boys. She enjoyed music and played the accordion, piano and organ. She served as the ward organist for many years. She loved to crochet and took great pride in providing an altar cloth she had crocheted for the Manti Temple.
She loved to do family history work and served at the LDS Church History Center. She was dedicated to her family and friends and served in many church callings. After LaRay passed away in 2005, she served several church missions and as a temple worker.
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Mathel was blessed with 24 grandchildren and 53 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, two sons, and 18 siblings. We would like to acknowledge and thank the Beehive House and Icare Home Health and Hospice for their loving service.
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Lionized as the Father of Mexican Independence and champion of the downtrodden and oppressed, in 1810 the renegade parish priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla launched a failed rebellion against the Spanish authorities that ended in his capture and execution.
Despite its failure, the rebellion inaugurated an 11-year-long struggle for independence and exposed the deep fault lines of race and class that divided New Spain in the waning days of the colonial period.
Akin to the Haitian Revolution in terms of the horror it struck into the hearts of the privileged and propertied, the Hidalgo rebellion made glaringly obvious to Mexico's elite the potential dangers of sparking social revolution from below in the fight for political independence.
Thus, when independence did come in 1821, it came as a fundamentally conservative transfer of power that preserved the former colony's rigid race and class hierarchies.
The son of a hacienda manager, Hidalgo studied at the Jesuit college in San Nicolás in Valladolid and the Royal and Pontifical University in Mexico City, earning his bachelor's degree in 1774.
Steeped in the classics, he also delved into Enlightenment thinkers and learned several Indian languages. After entering the priesthood, from 1778 to 1802 he taught and served as rector at his alma mater of San Nicolás, earning a reputation as something of a maverick and freethinker.
Assigned to the backwater village of Dolores in 1803 as punishment for various offenses, he proved as much concerned with his parishioners' material wellbeing as their spiritual salvation, instructing them in a host of practical enterprises (such as apiculture, viticulture, silk growing, and tile manufacture).
The parish of Dolores lay in the Bajío, the "breadbasket" of the colony just north and west of Mexico City. Over the previous decades, the Bajío had seen the progressive impoverishment of its mostly mestizo and Hispanized Indian population, along with an accumulation of social grievances that would prove crucial in the events to follow.
After the crisis of authority sparked by the Napoleonic invasion of Iberia in 1807–08, plots and conspiracies against the Spanish colonial government multiplied. One such plot, set to be launched on December 8, 1810, counted Hidalgo among its participants.
Upon learning that the authorities had been informed of the scheme, Hidalgo leapt into action. At around 2:00 in the morning of September 16, 1810, the slumbering residents of Dolores were awakened by the ringing of the church bell.
Addressing the assembled crowd in words that will never be known with certainty, Hidalgo, in his famous Grito de Dolores (Cry of Dolores) urged his parishioners to defend their religion and rise up against the bad government of the hated gachupines (Spanish).
Grabbing their hoes and digging sticks, the inflamed crowd made its way to nearby San Miguel, gathering recruits as it went. Around noon the next day, in the village of Atotonilco, Hidalgo appropriated from the local church a banner of the dark-skinned Virgin of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, which henceforth would serve as his movement's emblem and standard.
The rebellion snowballed with astonishing rapidity. Looting and pillaging Spanish residences and public buildings, armed with machetes, slings, and farming implements, the crowd had become an impassioned mob of thousands.
Around noon on September 28, the ragtag army reached the provincial capital of Guanajuato, where they had their first sustained encounter with the Spanish military. Overrunning the town by sheer force of numbers, the crowd slaughtered some 500 Spaniards, burning, pillaging, looting the granary, and wreaking widespread havoc.
Over the next month, the army continued on its rampage, taking the provincial capitals of Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, and Valladolid before heading toward Mexico City, the heart of Spanish power in the Americas.
On October 30, 1810, at Monte de las Cruces on the outskirts of Mexico City, Hidalgo's 80,000 to 100,000-strong army defeated a much smaller but formidable Spanish force sent to stop them. At this point, Hidalgo made what many consider his most momentous and enigmatic decision.
Instead of following the advice of his lieutenants and sentiments of the crowd and descending into the colony's capital city, he opted to retreat. Scholars continue to debate his reasons, though most consider that he found intolerable the prospect of the mass slaughter that would surely follow.
From this point the movement rapidly lost momentum, as his makeshift army divided and desertions mounted. In March 1811 Hidalgo was captured far to the north in the deserts of Coahuila. Tried and found guilty of heresy and treason, he was executed at dawn on July 31, 1811, his head displayed on a pole atop the ashen walls of the Guanajuato granary.
Mexicans celebrate national independence on September 15–16, in commemoration of Hidalgo's Grito de Dolores, even though actual independence did not come until 11 years after the revered priest's fateful cry.
More recent scholarship has focused on the social bases of Hidalgo's rebellion and the confluence of social and cultural dynamics that created the most massive popular uprising in New Spain's history.
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Ecuador extends curfews after violent protests
By Amy Woodyatt, Mariano Castillo, Daniel Silva-Fernandez and Claudia Dominguez, CNN
Updated 10:33 AM ET, Sun October 13, 2019
Ten days of clashes have followed President Lenín Moreno's move to end state fuel subsidies.
(CNN) Ecuador's military has extended curfews and transit restrictions throughout the country following more than a week of violent protests.
Ten days of clashes have followed President Lenín Moreno's move to end state fuel subsidies -- part of a package of economic reforms drawn up in the wake of a $4.2 billion financing deal with the International Monetary Fund.
The joint command of Ecuador's military announced that restrictions to transit, which were originally announced on October 8, will be extended to 24 hours a day, in a televised statement Saturday.
Demonstrators throw a Molotov cocktail during of protests in Quito on Saturday.
The move came four days after Moreno issued an executive decree that limited transit in areas close to government buildings and installations, during the nighttime hours.
"With this measure, the armed forces and national police are authorized to take control of public spaces and places of association and gathering, search people and vehicles to reestablish public order and security," the command said.
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Occupational licensing has a sizeable impact on job mobility in the US
Mikkel Hermansen
More than a fifth of American workers are required to hold an occupational licence to do their job, usually with the aim of protecting public health and safety. However, secular declines in job mobility, business dynamics, and productivity growth have raised concerns over the costs of licensing and its potential influence on these trends. Using novel administrative data with nearly complete employment coverage, this column presents suggestive evidence of sizeable effects of licensing on job mobility, especially on job-to-job flows across states.
Economist in the Economics Department Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
For some time, occupational licensing reform has been high on the political agenda in the US (White House 2015, NCSL 2019). However, those within licensed professions are often strongly opposed to reform (Kilmer 2018). Regulators license an occupation by establishing a set of requirements (e.g. education, work experience, exams) needed to carry out certain activities and use a protected title. The aim is usually to protect the health and safety of consumers, and to ensure the quality of services. However, licensing has expanded well beyond 'traditional' professions such as doctors, lawyers and teachers, and now also applies to security guards, home inspectors, interior designers, and even florists in some states. As a result, more than 20% of American workers are licensed (Figure 1), resembling the levels seen in both the EU and Japan (Koumenta and Pagliero 2017, Morikawa 2018).
Figure 1 Many occupations require a licence and covers more than 20% of all workers
Percentage of workers with an occupational licence by occupation, 2015 (EU) and 2018 (USA)
Note: The proportion of total employment in each occupation is reported in parentheses for the United States. For comparison, occupational classification codes used in the EU (ISCO-08) have been converted to occupational codes used in the United States (SOC 2010). In cases when the ISCO-08 code links to more than one main SOC group, the group with the highest employment share is used.
Source: Current Population Survey, BLS; Calculations produced by Maria Koumenta (Queen Mary University of London) based on the EU Survey of Regulated Occupations.
Research on the costs and benefits of occupational licensing has struggled to find evidence of better quality of services (Kleiner 2017), except for some of the first professions to become licensed more than a century ago, such as midwives and doctors (Anderson et al. 2016, Law and Kim 2005). By contrast, evidence of higher prices and wages, lower mobility, and weaker firm productivity is growing (Gittleman et al. 2018, Blair and Chung 2019, von Rueden et al. 2020). This poses the question of whether (and by how much) occupational licensing contributes to the secular decline in job mobility, interstate migration, and productivity growth.
In a recent paper (Hermansen 2019), I attempt to provide macro-level evidence of the link between licensing and job mobility by making use of administrative data from a relatively novel Job-to-Job Flows database from the Census Bureau. Previous studies have usually had to rely on survey data with limited sample sizes or have been forced to study only a few specific occupations. Comprehensive data on licensing regulation over time is, however, still incomplete. As a result, I have to rely on licensing variation across states to make inference.
Coverage of occupational licensing
The state level governs most of the occupational regulation in the US, with substantial variation in coverage and licensing requirements. Fewer than 50 occupations are licensed in all states, while more than 400 occupations are licensed in at least one state. My estimates suggest that the share of licensed employment varies from around 15% in Hawaii and Mississippi to more than 27% in Illinois and New Jersey. This is similar to the variation seen across the EU (Koumenta and Pagliero 2017).
Differences in licensing coverage matters for job mobility. A simple scatter shows lower job-hire rates in states with a higher share of licensed employment (Figure 2, Panel A). Job hires can be from non-employment, or directly from another employer (job-to-job hire). It should be noted that the new employer may be located in the same state, or in another state altogether. Breaking up the job-to-job hire flows suggest that occupational licensing depresses interstate hire in particular (Figure 2, Panel B). States with high licensing coverage attract substantially fewer job-to-job hires from other states compared to low-licensing states. This is not surprising since a licence obtained in one state is not automatically recognised in other states, effectively imposing non-tariff trade barriers and mobility constraints between states.
Figure 2 High occupational licensing coverage depresses job-to-job hire between states
Note: Licensed employment by state is computed by mapping information on licensing regulation to occupational employment statistics and aggregating across states (Hermansen 2019). Panel B shows simple averages across 25 low- and high-licensing states; see Hermansen (2019) for an employment-weighted decomposition.
Source: OECD calculations based on Job-to-Job Flows database, Census Bureau; careeronestop.org and Occupational Employment Statistics, BLS.
I scrutinise these correlations by formal empirical analysis, exploiting the cross-sectional state variation. It is important to bear in mind that the available data do not allow me to infer causal effects. Still, the analysis finds significantly negative associations between licensing coverage and all available measures of job mobility, incluing job hires, job separation, transitions in (and out) of non-employment, as well as job-to-job moves. These associations are economically important, which is illustrated with a simulation exercise in Figure 3, taking estimates at face value. If overall licensing coverage had been gradually reduced in the 2000s (to five percentage points lower in 2018 compared to the observed level; see Panel A), job hire and separation rates could have been substantially higher (Panels B-D). The job-hire rate could have increased by as much as 0.6 percentage points, corresponding to a quarter of the decline observed since 2000 (Panel B).
Figure 3 How would job mobility look like if licensing coverage had been reduced in the 2000s?
Note: Upper and lower bound estimates reflect the estimates from the cross-sectional estimation with control for sex/age or sex/education using the NCSL and COS indicator, respectively.
Source: OECD calculations based on Job-to-Job Flow database from the Census Bureau.
Strictness of occupational licensing regulation
Licensing (or not licensing) an occupation is just one aspect of regulation. The requirements to obtain a licensure for the same occupation in two different states can be quite different. Training requirements for cosmetologists range from 500 hours in South Carolina to 2,100 hours in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota (Figure 5). Virginia requires ten years of experience to acquire a HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) contractor licensure, whereas six states license this occupation without any training or experience requirements. Fifteen states do not license HVAC contractors at all.
Figure 4 Training and experience requirements vary substantially across states
Note: All training and experience requirements are converted to hours (1 week = 40 hours, 1 month = 2000/12 hours; 1 year = 2000 hours). For some occupations, a few states with missing information are not recorded
Source: Occupational Licensing Database from the National Conference of State Legislatures.
I construct a new indicator for the strictness of regulation (on scale of 0-6) to summarise the variation in licensing requirements across states. The indicator has four components: (i) entry restrictions (such as minimum age and out-of-state licensing recognition), (ii) education and training requirements, (iii) renewal requirements, and (iv) restrictions for ex-offenders (such as blanket bans and limitations on background checks). This information is available for 31 occupations only (NCSL 2017), which are all licensed in at least 30 States.
Using the strictness indicator in similar empirical analysis as above, I again find significant and economically important associations between licensing strictness and job mobility. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that if the most regulated state (Washington) reduced the strictness indicator to the level of the median tates (North Carolina), the job hire rate could increase by 0.4 percentage points (Figure 5, blue bars). This would correspond to one-fifth of the decline since 2000. Interestingly, education and training requirements are found to have a positive association with job-to-job hire and job-separation in a joint estimation (with all four components of the indicator). This may suggest that human capital investments from licensing improve job opportunities, all else being equal.
Figure 5 How would job mobility change if strictness of regulation was reduced from maximum to median state level?
Simulated effect of the most regulated state in each dimension moving to the median state regulation level
Note: The figure shows five separate policy experiments based on the constructed strictness indicator and its subcomponents (see Hermansen, 2019). Licensing strictness reflects Washington reducing the indicator from 2.9 to the median level of 2.4 in North Carolina. Entry restrictions reflects Nevada reducing the sub-indicator from 2.6 to the median level of 1.7 in Virginia. Education and training reflects Washington reducing the sub-indicator from 2.4 to the median level of 1.8 in Minnesota. Renewal requirements reflects Washington reducing the sub-indicator from 3.4 to the median level of 2.5 in Utah. Restrictions for ex-offenders reflects Alabama reducing the sub-indicator from 4.2 to the median level of 3.6 in Georgia. Insignificant estimates at the 5% level are set to zero.
Source: Hermansen (2019).
Policy implications
Regulating occupations plays a legitimate role in protecting consumers and ensuring that markets work effectively. But emerging evidence points to excessive and costly occupational licensing, possibly reflecting successful lobbying from professionals seeking to protect their market or gain status. My findings support the conjecture that the licensing of more and more occupations may have made an important contribution to the secular decline in dynamism.
States could delicense or use less restrictive alternatives such as voluntary certification to revive job mobility. The problem of interstate barriers for job-to-job moves by 'out-of-state' licenses not always being recognised is of particular concern. Recently, Arizona was the first (and so far, only) state to automatically grant occupational licences to anyone who moves there with a licence from another state. Interstate compacts (a binding contract between states) is another alternative that has been found to increase the mobility of nurses (Abdul Ghani 2019). Yet, forming compacts for every occupation would be cumbersome and time consuming. The US may want to look to Canada as an example of a system that facilitates mobility of licences through an internal free trade agreement, or to the EU's efforts to increase cross-country mobility for regulated professions.
Author's note: The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OECD.
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Anderson, D M, R Brown, K K Charles and D I Rees (2016), "The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality", NBER Working Paper, No. 22456.
Blair, P and B Chung (2019), "How Much of Barrier to Entry Is Occupational Licensing?", British Journal of Industrial Relations 57(4): 919-943.
Gittleman, M, M Klee and M Kleiner (2018), "Analyzing the Labor Market Outcomes of Occupational Licensing", Industrial Relations 57(1): 57-100.
Hermansen, M (2019), "Occupational Licensing and Job Mobility in the United States", OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1585.
Kilmer, M (2018), "A Look at Occupational Licensing Reform across the United States", Arkansas Center for Research in Economics.
Kleiner, M (2017), "The influence of occupational licensing and regulation", IZA World of Labor, No. 2017:392.
Koumenta, M and M Pagliero (2017), "Measuring Prevalence and Labour Market Impacts of Occupational Regulation in the EU", European Commission.
Law, M and S Kim (2005), "Specialization and Regulation: The Rise of Professionals and the Emergence of Occupational Licensing Regulation", Journal of Economic History 65(3): 723-756.
Morikawa, M (2018), "Occupational licenses and labor market outcomes in Japan", Japan & The World Economy 48: 45-56.
National Council of State Legislatures (2019), "The Evolving State of Occupational Licensing: Research, State Policies and Trends".
National Council of State Legislatures (2017), The National Occupational Licensing Database.
von Rueden, C, G Nicoletti, I Bambalaite (2020), "Occupational Entry Regulations and their Effects on Productivity in Services: Measurement and Firm-Level Evidence", OECD Productivity Working Papers, forthcoming.
White House (2015), Occupational Licensing: A Framework for Policymakers, report prepared by Department of the Treasury Office of Economic Policy, Council of Economic Advisors and Department of Labor.
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Auburn Head Baseball Coach Butch Thompson (Photo: Auburn Athletics)
Auburn Baseball Coach Butch Thompson has announced the addition of video coordinator, Blake Beck, to his staff.
Beck's duties will be to coordinate video analysis, including player development and scouting. Beck had the same responsibilities while at Mississippi State from 2014-15, while Thompson was an assistant under coach John Cohen. Beck comes to Auburn from Troy, where he served as a volunteer assistant coach for the baseball team.
"Blake understands the SEC and what my expectations will be. I also know because of his baseball background" says Thompson of Beck, "he will be a big asset to us as we scout opponents and his video work will help us continue to develop our student-athletes. We are thrilled to add him to our staff."
Beck earned his bachelor's degree from Troy in 2014, and his masters from Mississippi State in 2016. Beck also played baseball at Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa from 2010-2011.


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