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Besim Üstünel (* 1927 in Gaziantep; † 2. Juni 2015 in Istanbul) war ein türkischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Politiker. Er war Senator und Finanzminister der Türkei.

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Besim Üstünel wurde 1927 als Sohn von Emin Üstünel und seiner Frau Zekiye in Gaziantep in der Südosttürkei geboren. Er hatte vier Schwestern und vier Brüder.

Nach dem Besuch der Grund- und Sekundarschule seiner Heimatstadt studierte Üstünel an der Istanbul Üniversitesi Wirtschaftswissenschaften und graduierte im Jahr 1946. Nach seiner Promotion an der Universität absolvierte er ein Postgraduiertenstudium an der London School of Economics.

Besim Üstünel lehrte anschließend an der Fakultät für Politikwissenschaften an der Ankara Üniversitesi. In dieser Zeit war er als Gastprofessor an der Universität Stockholm und der University of Minnesota. Üstünel arbeitete außerdem beim Staatlichen Planungsamt der Türkei.

Im Jahr 1965 wurde er auf Wunsch von İsmet İnönü stellvertretender Generalsekretär der Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP). Er wurde allerdings kein Abgeordneter. Bei der Wahl zum Senat der Türkei im Jahr 1975 wurde er Senator für die CHP und blieb bis zum Militärputsch 1980 im Amt. Zwischen dem 21. Juni und dem 21. Juli 1977 war er Finanzminister in der Übergangsregierung von Bülent Ecevit. Der Versuch der Bildung einer Minderheitsregierung scheiterte allerdings an einem Misstrauensvotum und Süleyman Demirel wurde mit einer Koalitionsregierung von Adalet Partisi, Millî Selamet Partisi und Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi neuer Ministerpräsident.

Nach dem Militärputsch im Jahr 1980 nahm Üstünel seine akademische Laufbahn wieder auf und lehrte erst an der İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, dann an der Marmara-Universität und schließlich an der Galatasaray Üniversitesi. 1986 dozierte er an der Seijō-Universität in Tokio als Gastprofessor. Außerdem war er in den Jahren 1980/81 Sprecher der türkischen Delegation im Europarat.

Üstünel starb am 2. Juni 2015 im Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital. Nach einer religiösen Zeremonie in der Teşvikiye-Moschee wurde er am 4. Juni 2015 auf dem Friedhof Ulus beigesetzt.

Er war verheiratet mit Gülen Üstünel (geborne Cin).

Werke
 Avrupa Müşterek Pazarı'nın Türk ekonomisi üzerinde muntemel tepkileri. Ankara 1962
 Ekonominin Temelleri. Istanbul, ISBN 978-975-304-0648
 Makro Ekonomi. Alfa Yayınları, Istanbul 1990
 Ekonominin temelleri. Dünya, Istanbul 2003

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Finanzminister (Türkei)
Mitglied der Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi
Person (Europarat)
Ökonom (20. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (Universität Ankara)
Hochschullehrer (Universität Stockholm)
Hochschullehrer (University of Minnesota)
Hochschullehrer (Istanbul)
Türke
Geboren 1927
Gestorben 2015
Mann


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Updates 15/10/2014 - Ranged/Magic Rework!
Quite a lot for today, huh? I've reworked range and magic maxhits! They are adjusting better to melee now. Again a little list for all the changes.
Magic maxhit scaling off your magic level now. Spells give a base damage, so it's still worth using higher level ones!
Spell bonus removed from staves/wands/croziers. Normal casting hits as much as autocasting now.
Seercull & Dragon arrows are now level 70 ranged and have their maxhits improved accordingly.
Dragonhide parts now have equal defence bonuses.
Karil was buffed, slightly better than black dragonhide now.
Void melee is now hitting more than full bandos.
Metal dragons and KBD have stopped their havoc and are now hitting way less on dragonfire shields!
Dragon darts have been added to barrow chest and barrow item rewards are significantly less common from the chest.
The ranged/mage changes will be tested a day from now on and we might tweak them again. Yet these changes are not final and are an attempt to flaten out the differences between melee and mage/ranged.
I am glad for these updates!
what about z bow and sara have they been buffed?
Yeah, they hit more too! They are in the bows & arrows category.
What a great updates Thomy, We really appreciate your time spent on developing the server!
hopefully its more balanced now.


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Die Inflation der Bildung beschreibt einen Prozess, bei dem immer mehr Absolventen von Schulen, berufsbildenden Einrichtungen, Hochschulen und Universitäten verschiedene Abschlüsse mit besseren Zensuren (Durchschnittsnoten) erreichen und dennoch bei einem Vergleichstest bzw. bei Studien national oder international zunehmend schlechter abschneiden. Somit steht dieser Prozess für mehr und vermeintlich "bessere" Bildungsabschlüsse, die mit einer realen Abnahme der Bildungsqualität einhergehen.

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Begonnen hat dieser Inflationsprozess mit dem Wahrnehmen der Bildungsbenachteiligung bestimmter gesellschaftlicher Gruppierungen und dem Versuch, dieser entgegenzuwirken. Man kann diese "Inflation der Bildung" daher auch als Teil der Bildungsparadoxe verstehen.

Dem zugrunde liegt der politische Wille, die "Durchlässigkeit" bei Bildungsabschlüssen zu erhöhen, ohne dabei die tatsächlichen Leistungen der Schüler, Auszubildenden und Studenten zu verbessern. Dies kann man unter anderem durch einen niedrigeren "Punkte-Noten-Schlüssel" (weniger Punkte für eine bessere Zensur) und verschiedene "Nachteilsausgleiche" (z. B. mehr Zeit bei Klausuren für Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund) erreichen, und somit sind die Anforderungen für einen Abschluss senken. Nachteilsausgleiche waren ursprünglich für Menschen mit Behinderungen gedacht, werden jedoch mittlerweile auch auf sozial Benachteiligte und Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund ausgedehnt.

Als eigentliche Ursache sind die Versprechen aller Parteien zu sehen, die Bildung in Deutschland zu verbessern. Nach jeder Legislaturperiode stehen dann erneut Wahlen an und die jeweils regierenden Parteien wollen nun einen messbaren Beleg für eine vermeintliche Verbesserung präsentieren. Folglich müssen also die Noten bzw. die Abschlüsse verbessert werden, die jedoch eher eine reale Abnahme der Leistungen bedeuten und keine Steigerung. Dieses erfolgt durch indirekte Einflussnahme der Kultusminister bzw. Kultusministerkonferenz auf die Notengebung bzw. Notenschlüssel und Nachteilsausgleiche.

Einige Politiker sehen die Ursache der Problematik in der Bewertung von Bildungsergebnissen an sich und fordern die Abschaffung von Zensuren bzw. Noten zur Bewertung. Offen bleibt dabei, wie die Qualität der Bildungsergebnisse auch in Zukunft sichergestellt werden soll.

Problem der Wirtschaftlichkeit
Bildungseinrichtungen in Deutschland unterliegen mehr und mehr der Wirtschaftlichkeit.

Das heißt, der Bildungsauftrag gerät zunehmend in die "Defensive" und die Wirtschaftlichkeit drängt in den Vordergrund. Bildungsabschlüsse werden somit zu einem Produkt, das vermarktet wird. Schulen und Hochschulen bekommen öffentliche Mittel in Abhängigkeit von ihrer Schüler- bzw. Studentenanzahl. Daher sind Bildungseinrichtungen bestrebt, möglichst viele Lernende und Studierende zu haben.

Siehe auch
 Noteninflation
 Bildungsexpansion
 Bildungsparadox

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Bildungssoziologie

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It's no surprise that articles about ORSA, IFRS, and ACA top the list of most viewed articles worldwide in 2015. Also making the list are pieces on the root causes of the risk corridor funding shortfall and ideas for former employee plan participants. The top 15 articles and reports for the year are listed below.
This year, preliminary estimates indicate that the increase in the Medicare Part B premium will be higher than the cost inflation alone, and a quirk in the laws may require the increase to be spread unevenly among beneficiaries, at least for this year.
The 2014 transitional reinsurance program had a coinsurance rate of 100% rather than 80%, and this had implications for the final 2014 financial results of issuers of individual and small group market plans that complied with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Milliman carried out a cross-disciplinary survey to find out what insurance companies understand and expect from an ORSA, the effort to complete an ORSA, and the benefits of doing so.
A comparison of the proposed accounting standard for insurance contracts, IFRS 4 Phase II, with Solvency II and MCEV.
As defined contributions savings plans continue to mature as the primary retirement vehicle for most employees, more discussion is occurring to help former employees protect and grow their accumulated retirement accounts.
Drones have taken center stage and the property/casualty insurance industry is responding.
This paper focuses on the potential impact of the new Actuarial Guideline 48 requirements.
The Milliman Public Pension Funding Study annually explores the funded status of the 100 largest U.S. public pension plans.
This paper explores strategies that new and existing issuers can use to ensure optimal risk transfer payments.
Declining interest rates made 2014 a banner year for pension plans with substantive allocation to fixed income investments, benefiting plans that pursued a liability-driven investing strategy.
This paper assesses whether the Australian corporate bond market meets the requirements as outlined in Australian Accounting Standard 119 (AASB119) and determines a methodology to derive a full discount rate curve allowing for possible limitations in available market data.
In 2015, the cost of healthcare for a typical American family of four covered by an average employer-sponsored preferred provider organization (PPO) plan is $24,671 according to the Milliman Medical Index (MMI).


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Stocks: Beware the Early Days of January
Kopin Tan
The Trump rally could peter out as monetary policy "normalizes." Pixabay
President-elect Donald J. Trump is so passionate about branding that he has put his name on casinos, hotels, golf courses, steaks, vodka, wines, water, fragrances, universities, bike races, and even a board game. Thus, the name that investors have given the stock-market rally is hardly surprising.
The Trump rally is doing very well right now, thank you very much. Our seven-year-old bull market's latest leg up might have begun in late June or even in February, but the postelection surge has loudly proved naysayers wrong, just as the candidate did. Last week, the Standard & Poor's 500 index hit its 17th record close of 2016, the Nasdaq Composite its 14th, and the Russell 2000 small-cap index its 13th. Even fusty Dow theorists were given reason to cheer when the Dow Jones Transportation Average finally chugged to its first record in two years, joining the Dow industrials—which made new highs every day last week—at the crowded summit.
In the stock market, it is already the most wonderful time of the year. While stocks look overbought in the short term, with three of four stocks already stretching above their 50-day averages, the bullish throng won't thin now—not when selling after Jan. 1 lets you put off paying capital-gains tax until April 2018, when the tax rate just might be lower. Even recent laggards are catching up, a sign that brokers are getting calls to hoover up anything that hasn't yet shimmied higher. That helped swell to 18.6% the crop of S&P 500 stocks pushing 52-week highs, the highest in two years, notes Bespoke Investment Group.
We've come a long way since the summer, when U.S. 10-year Treasuries yielded just 1.36% and the Swiss government could borrow money for 50 years and charge you interest for the honor of lending to Bern. But if 2017 sees a shift back to "normal"—or at least more normal interest rates and monetary policy—let's remember that the removal of central-bank crutches, however gradual, and the transition to fiscal support could be bumpy and bring about a widening range of potential outcomes.
You can already see this in the 2017 forecasts. Vocationally bullish strategists often pencil in a slightly upbeat target for the coming year—something within reach to strive for. But lately there has been a telling divergence between bullish and bearish scenarios: Morgan Stanley 's bull case pegs S&P 500 per-share earnings at $147.30 next year, and the index pushing to 3050, but its bear case puts earnings at $114.40 and the index at 1625. Bank of America Merrill Lynch likens 2017, the Chinese year of the rooster, to "an erratic bird with fat tails." Its bull case puts the S&P 500 at 2700, its bear case at 1600.
The Trump Stock Rally: 'Big, Fat, Ugly Bubble'?
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It makes sense that a market less muffled by trillions in central-bank liquidity will become more volatile. Stocks become less likely to move in an undifferentiated huddle, and stock-picking skill is rewarded. Among the things to behold: Earnings are rising anew after five quarters of declines. The deep freeze in energy-investment spending will thaw as recovering crude-oil prices have nearly doubled since January. Rebounding home prices and record stock prices lifted net U.S. household wealth last quarter to a record $90 trillion (or $105 trillion minus $15 trillion in debt). Proposed tax cuts and infrastructure spending could goose growth and nudge money parked on the sidelines, and in the bond market, into stocks.
AMONG THE THINGS TO BEWARE: S&P 500 stocks aren't cheap—they're already fetching 17.3 times projected profits—and profit margins already straining decade-long highs now must confront tightening wages, rising rates, and volatile currencies. Unlike households, corporations have binged on cheap rates, and net debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization among Russell 2000 companies (excluding financials and cash-rich technology names) are near the highest in at least 30 years, notes Merrill Lynch. The percentage of S&P 500 companies using buybacks to shrink outstanding shares year over year recently peaked near 65%, just as it did in 2007, and is starting to slip. Rallying stocks ratchet up expectations for the new administration to deliver and avoid policy missteps.
Be greedy when others are fearful—that's what Warren Buffett says. But what happens when the fear is of missing the rally and trailing the benchmarks?
Above all, the rotation from bonds to stocks after a 35-year bond bull market can be fraught with risk. It's a healthy sign that rates are finally resuscitated from the depths of deflation fears. When 10-year yields are below 5%, modest increases in interest rates have historically helped stocks, notes David Kelly, JPMorgan 's chief global strategist. On the other hand, this rate-hike cycle may prove more difficult than others. "Rates are rising from extraordinarily low levels, and fixed-income investors will not have the buffer of juicy yields" to protect against capital depreciation of falling bond prices, writes Kelly.
Can Trump pull off structural—as opposed to merely cyclical—improvements? Productivity of our overall economy has grown at the most listless pace of any expansion since World War II, and demographics, debt deleveraging, and deflationary pressure from automation are formidable forces. If Trump succeeds in making our economy much more productive, he would have earned the right to affix his name to one of the more enduring expansions of our time.
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A Storybook Wedding Album is a truly original, contemporary alternative to the more traditional wedding album. It tells the story of your wedding day from beginning to end, with an almost cinematographic rhythm and feel.
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SPRINGFIELD, Va., September 2, 2020 – A new video from Wildlife Forever, funded in part by a BoatUS Foundation Grassroots Grant shows watersport boat owners how to easily follow "Clean, Drain, Dry" at the boat ramp to help prevent the spread of Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS). Support for the video…
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SPRINGFIELD, Va. September 1, 2020 – For the nation's 12 million boat owners, Labor Day weekend is the last blast, with many enjoying the end-of-summer boating ritual with family and friends aboard, according to Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS). The national advocacy, services and…
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SPRINGFIELD, Va., August 31, 2020 – Last year, 76,418 recreational boaters had a reason to summon nonemergency, routine assistance from TowBoatUS, the nation's largest on-water towing service for recreational boaters. Accidentally running aground, dead batteries and dead engines were the chief culprits…
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SPRINGFIELD, Va., August 24, 2020 – A one-two punch with two tropical storms bearing down on the Gulf Coast this week is getting the attention of recreational boaters, leading some to wisely haul out their vessels to a safe location and make storm preparations. Tropical Storm Marco, expected to run along the…
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Gulf Shores | Orange Beach | Perdido Key| is a coastal community on the Emerald Gulf Coast, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the population was 5,044. However, since the year 2000, Baldwin County as a whole, has experienced rapid population growth, second only to Shelby County in Alabama. The location of Gulf Shores on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico makes it vulnerable to hurricanes. In September 1979, Hurricane Frederic leveled most of the town. In September 2004, Hurricane Ivan caused extensive wind and flooding damage. In 2005, while we are still cleaning up from Hurricane Ivan, Hurricane Katrina caused extensive damage and flooding'
Orange Beach is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 3,784. It is part of the Daphne–Fairhope–Foley Micropolitan Statistical Area. The location of Gulf Shores on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico makes it vulnerable to hurricanes. In September 1979, Hurricane Frederic leveled most of the town. In September 2004, Hurricane Ivan caused extensive wind and flooding damage. In 2005, while still cleaning up from Hurricane Ivan, Hurricane Katrina caused extensive damage and flooding
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Talk is cheap in the world of APTs. The malicious packages publicly associated with advanced threats are simply the ones that were easily detectable using today's technology. What does it take to construct and deliver remotely controllable espionage packages guaranteed to bypass the layers of defensive strata of a security savvy victim? Let's walk through some of the ways.
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This report describes one aspect of UN sponsored anti-Israel agitation on the Question_of_Palestine, the activities of The Division of Palestinian Rights.
See The_Question_of_Palestine for more information and resources.
United States policy objectives for a more effective United Nations seek to ensure the highest standards of integrity, to promote efficiency, to allocate resources to high priority programs, and in doing so, to adhere to the letter and spirit of the UN Charter. In this context, it is important to note that the UN has sharply deviated from these standards in its treatment of Israel. Many UN entities spend a substantial amount of time as well as resources listening to virulent attacks against Israel. More than 25% of the General Assembly Resolutions adopted at each session are directed against Israel.
Even more important: a UN-sponsored anti-Israel propaganda apparatus directed from an office in the UN Secretariat functions year-round and worldwide. This anti-Israel apparatus has created a comprehensive program to de-legitimize Israel - - all of it bearing the imprint of the UN and paid for by the UN.
According to the DPR's own Website, the DPR supports the work of the CEIRPP and the SCIIHRP. The mandates of all three entities are renewed annually by the General Assembly, authorizing them to lead a worldwide effort to: convene international conferences, create a network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to organize additional anti-Israel activities, provide a special pro-Palestinian Website (UNISPAL) and orchestrate an annual "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" at which Israel is singled out for condemnation. These programs have expanded over the past thirty years and continue even as the U.S. and the international community are seeking to bring peace to the region.
While the General Assembly's overwhelming focus on condemning Israel is widely known, the year-round UN campaign against Israel, directed from the Secretariat, has passed under the radar screen of many interested individuals and organizations. In fact, the Secretariat supports three entities whose agendas are fully committed to anti-Israel propaganda -- the DPR, the CEIRPP, and the SCIIHRP.
(d) preparing studies and publications on "the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people" and promoting their widest possible dissemination, in cooperation with the UN's Department of Public Information (DPI); and working with the DPI to assure that the UN's Website itself links directly to UNISPAL and other Palestinian-related sites; and (e) maintaining and developing the Web-based United Nations Information System on "the question of Palestine," UNISPAL.
The DPR, as its Website states, does the substantive work of the CEIRPP. The CEIRPP provides an organizational front that makes the anti-Israel campaign appear to be run by the General Assembly when it is in fact run out of the Secretariat. International meetings are called in the name of the CEIRPP, rather than the DPR, and it is the Chair of the CEIRPP that presides over the meetings. However, the representatives of Member States who serve on the CEIRPP, including the Chair, are diplomats accredited to the UN who have many other responsibilities. As a result, it is the DPR that does the real work of the CEIRPP.
East European Group: 2 (Belarus, Ukraine), Latin American and Caribbean Group: 2 (Cuba, Guyana), European Union and West European and Others Group: 3 (Cyprus, Malta, Turkey), Asian Group: 6 (Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan), African Group: 7 (Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone).
The current Chair of the CEIRPP is Senegal. One of the Vice Chairs has for years been Cuba, which plays a major role in the anti-Israel effort at the UN.
The Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Human Rights Practices Affecting the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (SCIIHRP) There may have been a historic reason why there are two UNGA committees dealing with Israel and the Palestinians. SCIIHRP, which has only three members (Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Senegal) was created in 1968, followed by CEIRPP in 1975. Their respective reports have overlapped. It is likely that the same personnel write the CEIRPP and the SCIIHRP reports.
International Conferences. Guided by the DPR, the CEIRPP organizes international conferences on the Palestinian issue, conferences loaded with anti-Israel invective and anti-United States rhetoric. Ten such meetings, sponsored and paid for by the UN and attended by country and NGO representatives as well as representatives of other UN agencies, were held during the last three years, including three each in New York and Geneva, and one each in Beijing, Cape Town, Kiev, and Rabat. The UN budget proposal for 2006 and 2007 calls for eight such meetings in that two-year period. The most recent meeting, held on March 8-9, 2005 in Geneva, was devoted to the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Israeli security barrier, which most speakers at that meeting called "the wall." All of the 19 speakers, including one Israeli, denounced Israel's security barrier (which for most of its length is a fence, rather than a wall). No one who might question the correctness of the Opinion or who would explain the changes in the route mandated by the Israeli High Court of Justice appears to have been asked to speak.
NGO Network. Led by the DPR, the CEIRPP, according to its reports, "has developed a network of more than 1000 NGOs from all regions active on the question of Palestine. National and international NGO's, political and humanitarian organizations, NGOs promoting human rights or economic and social development, solidarity-, charitable- or action-oriented groups, churches, trade unions and professional associations, organizations with special focus on women, children, refugees, and detainees, are part of the network." However, it appears that only those NGOs that subscribe to the CEIRPP/DPR line of thought participate actively in the network.
According to the DPR reports, "specific NGO meetings in support of the Palestinian people are being organized every year…. Regional meetings [on the Palestinian question] usually include a one-day workshop of NGOs, in order to discuss the relevant issues and to encourage participating organizations to adopt a plan of action for the foreseeable future in support of the Palestinian cause." Topics on which recent workshops were held include "How to Work with the Media," "The Question of Palestine within the Global Peace Movement," and "Sporting, Cultural and Economic Boycotts" of Israel. Day of Solidarity. The DPR also plays the key role in the "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People." This annual event, sponsored by the United Nations, is another occasion on which Israel is singled out, as the UN makes special arrangements for vilifying one of its members.
The International Day, held on November 29 each year, commemorates the official vote by the UN General Assembly on November 29, 1947 recommending that the Palestinian Mandate be divided between a Jewish and an Arab state. The DPR arranges this anniversary of an important UNGA Resolution to be a day of mourning.
"Commemorative activities are organized", including "a solemn meeting" of the CEIRPP and "a Palestinian exhibit sponsored by the CEIRPP and presented by the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine." There are meetings in observance not only in New York but also at UN offices in Geneva and Vienna.
It is clearly highly inappropriate for the UN Secretariat to take a position favoring one side on an issue that is in sharp contention among the interested parties and in which the UN is to be an impartial mediator of the dispute -- and to advertise its one-sided position on its Website. But that has not stopped the DPR from highlighting in its "Information Note" on the "Day of Solidarity" the Palestinians' alleged "right to return to their homes and property from which they have been displaced". The so-called "right to return" is one of the issues which is in dispute between Israel and the Palestinians. Under the "road map," it is to be resolved in the "final status talks." Implementation of the "road map," a carefully balanced document, is vested in the "Quartet," which consists of the European Union, Russia, the United States, and the UN. By prejudging this issue, the DPR, in effect, undermines the role to be played by the UN.
UNISPAL. The UN's obsession with condemning Israel is also illustrated by the DPR's work with the UN's Department of Information (DPI), and the creation of the Website of the UN Information System on the question of Palestine (UNISPAL). The UNISPAL Website reveals that these agencies of the UN Secretariat are neither fair nor evenhanded, as they repeatedly distort the history of the last sixty years. But they are very energetic and effective in their propaganda effort: According to their report, in the year ending September 2004, DPI issued 49 press releases on the question of Palestine. Its Arabic Website was visited 112,000 times. News stories concerning the conflict were included in its E-mail service, which has 27,000 subscribers. Further, United Nations radio covers the question of Palestine in six official languages. UNISPAL provided footage on the destruction of Palestinian housing to international broadcasters, trained Palestinian television and radio broadcasters, and arranged briefings on Palestine for students visiting the United Nations.
The CEIRPP states correctly that a solution of the question of Palestine must be based on the relevant United Nations Resolutions and makes mention of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. But it contends that these resolutions call for Israel's withdrawal from "the Palestinian territory" occupied since 1967, implying withdrawal from all occupied territory. As is well known, the word "the" does not appear in the controlling text in UNSC Res. 242, which speaks of withdrawal from "occupied territories" and the establishment of "secure" borders. The fact that the Security Council resolutions did not pre-determine the new border is recognized in the "road map," which calls for resolution of the border question in "final status talks". The CEIRPP thus prejudges a major issue in contention between the parties and, in doing so, misleads the public as to the content of the relevant UNSC resolution.
While the CEIRPP concedes that suicide bombings and Qassam rocket attacks by Palestinian groups against civilians in Israel "also contributed to the cycle of violence," it implies that there is nothing wrong with attacks on the Israeli military or on Israeli civilians in the occupied territories, and that actions taken by Israel to defend itself against attacks in the course of the "Al-Aqsa intifada" are a wrong committed against the Palestinians.
The CEIRPP "expressed concern over Israel's announcement of a so-called unilateral disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip, and parts of the West Bank." Its position appears to reflect the views of the late Yasser Arafat, but perhaps not of the current Palestinian leadership, which seems more inclined to solve existing problems. This demonstrates how close the DPR has been to the Arafat view of the conflict. The CEIRPP mischaracterizes Israel's security barrier as "the wall." In its report, the CEIRPP alleges that as a result of the construction of the security barrier "875,000, 38% of the [Palestinian] population have been affected and … 263,200 living in 81 localities have become isolated." According to the authoritative, on–the-ground demographic analysis by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the total number of Palestinians who would be living west of the security barrier (that is, on the Israeli side) would be fewer than 10,000 or less than one-half of 1% of the Palestinian population of the West Bank. According to that analysis, no locality will be isolated.
This analysis demonstrates that in dealing with Israel, the United Nations General Assembly and the Secretariat violate the lofty goals spelled out in Article 1 of the United Nations Charter: to "maintain international peace and security," "develop friendly relations among nations," "achieve international co-operation," and "be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends." The work of the DPR and the two UNGA committees distracts UN attention and resources from many pressing problems in other regions, and undermines international efforts – including those of the United Nations itself – to promote peaceful resolution of disputes between Israel and the Palestinians. Meaningful reform of the United Nations must include an end to the UN's in-house anti-Israel campaign, now run out of an office in the Secretariat.
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Student Activities in Wales
Wales at its best can be a very large place to explore with plenty of towns, activities, and festivities going on wherever you choose to go. There is the interesting concept of how the welsh accent changes every five miles to the point where it may be hard for some people to tell it is the same accent from one side of the country compared to the other, as well as the various carnivals and fates that go on around the country at different times of the year. However, in this article it is not Wales in general that is talked about but instead I will be focusing more on the town of Neath. I have chosen this town in particular as it holds a special place to me, being my home town, and it still holds fun memories for me.
A great place for visiting students to relax and meet some of the Welsh folk around town is Victoria Gardens. This fairly large garden, which also doubles as a park and place for activities such as Zumba, was opened on 22nd June 1897 for the purpose of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. However, it wasn't officially opened as the garden's it is today until 30th June 1898.
There are some features in Victoria Gardens which are also interesting culture-wise. One of these features are the Gorsedd stones which are positioned near the centre of the gardens. These stones, 12 in a circle with a Logan stone as a platform in the middle, represent the 12 counties of Wales and are often used for ceremonial purposes such as the Eisteddfod which occurs once a year. Another feature, placed in the centre of the Gardens, is the bandstand which is a constant place for band groups and music artists to perform their talents. The bandstand shows the musical side of Welsh culture and is a good cultural example for students to see whether they are visitors to the town or not.
Also in Victoria Gardens there is the statue of Howell Gwyn who was born on June 24th 1806 and died on January 25th 1888. He was a British conservative politician who spent a lot of time with the people of Neath and often partook in the town's festivities. For this reason, the people in Neath made a bronze statue of him which is still a much liked feature in the garden's today.
Another place of cultural importance from a student's perspective would be Neath Abbey ruins. The ruins were originally from a Cistercian monastery, built in 1129, that eventually fell to ruin but once was the largest monastery of its time. It was also called the "The fairest Abbey in all of Wales" by Tudor historian John Leland. There is still a fair bit of the monastery left behind as ruins that are still standing to this day and since becoming a spot for artists, tourists, and more it has become more of a cultural hotspot than ever for students.
Even though they are certain parts of Neath which would no doubt be good places for students to see some of the culture in the town, I believe there is no better way to see the culture of Neath than to visit something people so often use, the town centre.
As you are walking in the town centre you may come across musicians playing their instruments in the streets, a sight that has now become commonplace amongst people. Usually when I'm there it is familiar to see someone playing tunes on the accordion such as Ar lan a mor, meaning at the seaside. This song is one of many that are written in welsh and due to them often being sung here in Neath I believe that it shows us to be more angled towards the singing side of Welsh culture.
I hope this article has proven useful to you, and perhaps after reading this you will consider coming to this nice enough town. But for now, remember to keep on with your studies and do your best!


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просто установить centermode: true не подходит, так как в начале слайдер должен стоять так

собственно сам код

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SYBIL FITZ_SIWARD of Northumbria
RESIDENCE: SCT
RESOURCES: See: LDS (AFN: B1DK-HK) [S443] [S1905] [S2142]
Father: SIWARD Earl of Northumbria
Family 1 : DUNCAN III "The Gracious" of Scotland
+MALCOLM III Canmore "Longneck" of Scotland
DONALD BANE III of Scotland
+MARGARET of Scotland
DUNCAN IV Earl of Moray
aka: Maud? "Related to Earl of Northumberland." [S2142]
_STYRBIORN___________
_BIORN STYRBIORNSON__|
| (0953 - ....)       |
_SIWARD Earl of Northumbria_|
| (0978 - ....)              |
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|--SYBIL FITZ_SIWARD of Northumbria
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Susan Jane BARRINEAU
15 Nov 1880 - 23 Sep 1915
RESIDENCE: Williamsburg, SC
BIRTH: 15 Nov 1880 [449788]
RESOURCES: See: Notes [S3330]
Father: John McCottry BARRINEAU
Mother: Isabella J. MCCANTS
From: githomas ozell0755@earthlink.net To: SCWILLIA-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Death Cert. Williamsburg, SC:
Susan Jane Disher nov 15, 1880 - sep 23, 1915 Nephritis (married)
F: John M. Barrineau
M: Isabella (McCardis?) McCants?
Alt. 14 Nov 1881
_Levicy "Levi" S. BARRINEAU _+
_James Edward BARRINEAU _|
| (1822 - 1882) m 1852    |
|                         |_Mary K. BARRINEAU __________+
|                           (1792 - 1850)
_John McCottry BARRINEAU _|
| (1855 - 1925)            |
|                          |                          _Asa BROWN __________________
|                          |                         | (1795 - ....)
|                          |_Susan McCrea BROWN _____|
|                            (1831 - 1857) m 1852    |
|                                                    |_Margaret PATTERSON _________
|                                                      (1802 - ....)
|--Susan Jane BARRINEAU
|                                                     _Alexander MCCANTS Jr._______+
|                                                    | (1798 - 1870) m 1819
|                           _Robert S. MCCANTS ______|
|                          | (1832 - ....)           |
|                          |                         |_Martha Jones DANIEL ________+
|                          |                           (1801 - 1860) m 1819
|_Isabella J. MCCANTS _____|
(1862 - 1900)            |
|                          _Daniel? BARRINEAU __________+
|                         | (1810 - ....)
|_Eliza J. BARRINEAU _____|
(1835 - ....)           |
Dooley BIBB
RESIDENCE: Clark Co. MO
RESOURCES: See: [S1210] [S1062]
Family 1 : Sereptha E. LEWELLEN
MARRIAGE: 16 Mar 1843, Clark Co. MO
CHRISTIAN HAMILTON of Haddington
RESIDENCE: Scotland
Family 1 : ROBERT BOYD 7th Lord of Boyd
ROBERT BOYD 8th Lord of Boyd
Family 2 : ROBERT LINDSAY 9th Lord of the Byres
MARRIAGE: 26 Jan 1610
Donald MCKENZIE
RESIDENCE: of Surry Co. VA
RESOURCES: See: [S24] [S2285] [S2802]
Family 1 : Sally Carter HARRISON
MARRIAGE: ABT 1796, Surry Co. Virginia
[S24]
Judith Ann Susan MOSELEY
RESIDENCE: Buckingham & Appomattox Cos. VA
BIRTH: 14 Jul 1817
DEATH: 11 Aug 1845
Father: Thomas MOSELEY
Mother: Jane M. BONDURANT
Henry Walthall (Husband) Marriage: 5 APR 1843
_John MOSELEY ______________+
_Benjamin MOSELEY _________|
|                           |_Elizabeth WILLIAMSON ______
_Thomas MOSELEY _____|
|                     |                            _Richard POVALL ____________+
|                     |                           | (1720 - 1771) m 1751
|                     |_Susannah POVALL __________|
|                       (1758 - 1820) m 1771      |
|                                                 |_Tabitha HUDSPETH __________+
|                                                   (1723 - 1791) m 1751
|--Judith Ann Susan MOSELEY
|                                                  _Joseph Augustus BONDURANT _+
|                                                 | (1718 - 1806) m 1745
|                      _William Thomas BONDURANT _|
|                     | (1769 - 1803) m 1791      |
|                     |                           |_Agnes Elizabeth RADFORD ___+
|                     |                             (1720 - 1806) m 1745
|_Jane M. BONDURANT __|
|                            _Robert Peter MOSELEY ______+
|                           | (1732 - 1804) m 1756
|_Judith Anne MOSELEY ______|
|_Mary Magdelene GUERRANT ___+
Jane PICKEREL
RESIDENCE: Pittsylvania Co. VA
Father: Thomas PICKEREL Sr.
Mother: Sally DALTON
_Henry PICKRELL (PICKRELLIN) _|
| (1750 - 1814)                |
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_Thomas PICKEREL Sr._|
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|                     |_Rebecca LOWE ________________|
|                       (1750 - ....)                |
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|--Jane PICKEREL
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|_Sally DALTON _______|
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|______________________________|
Thomas SHIPP
1707 - ABT 1752
RESIDENCE: Essex and Caroline Co. VA
BIRTH: 1707, St. Ann's Parish, Essex Co.Virginia
DEATH: ABT 1752, Caroline Co. Virginia
RESOURCES: See: LDS 2DN6-F1 [S2612]
Father: Richard SHIPP Sr.
Elizabeth Unknown (Wife) b. 1707
Richard Shipp b. 1725 d. 20 Aug 1801 in Culpeper Co., VA
Thomas Shipp b. 1727 in St. Anne's Parish, Essex County, Virginia, America m. Rachel Grant (Wife) b. 1731
_William SHIPP III___+
_Josiah SHIPP _______|
|                     |_Sarah Jane BUTT ____
_Richard SHIPP Sr.___|
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|                     |_Elizabeth BROOKS ___|
|                       (1662 - ....) m 1684|
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|--Thomas SHIPP
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ELEANOR SOMERSET
RESIDENCE: ENG & Wales
Father: HENRY Herbert SOMERSET 2nd Earl of Worcester
Mother: ELIZABETH BROWNE
Aka: Elizabeth
_HENRY de BEAUFORT 2nd Duke of Somerset_+
_CHARLES SOMERSET 1st Earl of Worcester_|
| (1460 - 1526) m 1492                   |
|                                        |_JANE or JOAN HILL _____________________
|                                          (1438 - ....)
_HENRY Herbert SOMERSET 2nd Earl of Worcester_|
| (1495 - 1549) m 1522                         |
|                                              |                                         _WILLIAM HERBERT Earl of Huntingdon_____
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|                                              |_ELIZABETH HERBERT of Huntingdon________|
|                                                (1476 - 1508) m 1492                   |
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|--ELEANOR SOMERSET
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|                                               _ANTHONY I BROWNE Knt.__________________|
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|_ELIZABETH BROWNE ____________________________|
(1500 - 1565) m 1522                         |
|                                         _JOHN NEVILLE Earl of Northumberland____+
|                                        | (1431 - 1471) m 1457
|_LUCY NEVILLE __________________________|
(1466 - 1534) m 1494                   |
|_ISABEL INGALDESTHROPE _________________+
Mary VAUGHAN
ID Number: I5944
RESIDENCE: England and New Kent Co. VA
BIRTH: ABT 1670, England
DEATH: AFT 1707, New Kent Co. Virginia
RESOURCES: See: [S265] [S287] [S297] [S515] [S3402]
Family 1 : John SANDIDGE I
MARRIAGE: ABT 1690, New Kent Co. Virginia
+Thomas SANDIDGE
+John SANDIDGE II
+William SANDIDGE Sr.
"In my Vaughn file I have an abstract of a William Vaughan's will date 8 March 1687/8 proved 16 Jan 1688. His wife was Elizabeth, son John, son William, daughter Sarah. This was from BRIEF ABSTRACT OF LOWER NORFOLK COUNTY AND NORFOLK COUNTY WILLS 1637-1710 by Charles F. McIntosh.
In REGISTER OF ST. PETER'S PARISH, page 71 there is listed the deaths of William Vaughan 16 March 1719 and a John Vaughan "dyed at Mr. Poindexters" 20 Jan. 1724-5.
I do not find a Mary Vaughn that fits the right time frame. There were Vaughans - Cornelius and Martin - in Amherst, King and Queen Counties. Is there proof that John m. Mary Vaughn?" [S3402]
Pierre VEREUL
RESIDENCE: Rouen, Normandy, France
BIRTH: ABT 1575, Rouen, Normandy, France
DEATH: 1632, Rouen, Normandy, France
Father: Jean VEREUL
Family 1 : Ann COUILLARD
MARRIAGE: 4 May 1603, Rouen, Normandy, France
+Jean VEREUL
Ann VEREUL
Catherine VEREUL
Jean VEREUL
Samuel VEREUL
_Jean VEREUL ________|
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Gentoo help give those less fortunate a 'cracking' Easter
Our generous employees and members of the public donated an 'egg-cellent' 500 Easter eggs to those who may not have received a chocolate treat this bank holiday weekend.
For the fourth year running, we have appealed for people to buy just one extra egg when shopping for family and friends. The eggs were then distributed to more than 100 customers who were referred by staff members as socially isolated or financially vulnerable families with children.
Additional eggs were also delivered to a number of beneficiaries across Sunderland including Sunderland Food Bank, Ashkirk Homelessness Household Project, Space4 and the Rainbow Centre.
Sunderland Food Bank currently provide three days worth of nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people referred to them in a crisis. This Easter however, they will also receive an extra special treat in their food parcel.
Kate Townsend, Sunderland Foodbank Coordinator, said "We really appreciate these generous donations from the public, without which the foodbanks couldn't operate.
"Thank you all so much! They will be distributed to our network of foodbanks who run across the whole city. It's amazing to know that there will be families and children receiving Easter eggs over the holiday weekend."
Michelle Meldrum, Executive Director (Operations) at Gentoo said: "We have been overwhelmed by the efforts and generosity of our staff and the local community.
"This kindness will have brought joy to the faces of hundreds of people across Sunderland, who otherwise would not have received an egg this Easter.
"On behalf of Gentoo, I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated an egg, volunteered their time to deliver them or helped spread the word about this year's appeal."
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Ranking potential bargains
A SharePad customer, Chris, reminded me of the power of ranking recently, when he emailed to say (among other things):
"I find that I am playing with spreadsheets to get the data in place rather than actually making decisions. I guess sometimes too much data can be detrimental…"
Decisions are hard, and messing around with data is fun, but there is no shame in getting the data in place. By working out what data we need and how we want to use it we are defining what kind of investor we are. But, as Chris implies, herding the data should get us closer to the end-point – a decision.
Why we should worship the data
In an ancient blog post, one which made me laugh out loud when I first read it and still makes me smile today, blogger Wexboy advocated worshipping the spreadsheet.
His basic ruse was to create a virtual safe space in which we can focus on what matters, and distract ourselves from the daily movement of share prices and the misleading emotions they provoke. My own spreadsheets focus instead on fundamentals. They rank companies, literally guiding me to which shares to buy and sell. Although my rankings incorporate subjective judgements about a business as well as financial data, today I will stick to ranking financial information, which SharePad has in abundance.
In SharePad, ranking a table of shares by a single criterion is simply a matter of double-clicking on a column heading. We can also create tables to show how a share compares to the market or its sector for a wide range of individual financial statistics (see this tutorial). But rankings really come into their own when we combine them, because combinations allow for the fact that in evaluating shares we make trade-offs between one criterion and another.
I often use SharePad filters to isolate a group of shares that loosely meet my requirements, and rank them to decide which to investigate first. To do this we must rank the shares by each individual criterion we are interested in, combine the rankings, and re-rank the shares by the combined ranking. The easiest way to combine rankings is to add them together.
Let's go in search of cheap shares with strong balance sheets using the assets to equity and PE ratios.
Assets to equity
The ratio of assets to equity measures balance sheet strength. Low values are good. The strongest balance sheet has an assets to equity ratio of 1, which means all the company's assets are financed by equity. If the assets to equity ratio is 2, then total assets are worth twice the equity in the business. Remember the balance sheet equation:
assets = liabilities + equity
When assets are only half financed by equity, the other half must be financed by liabilities for the balance sheet to balance. Liabilities are obligations that must be repaid, typically debt and payables (money owed to suppliers or customers for example). Since companies are under no obligation to repay equity, it is a safer form of finance. The greater the proportion of equity finance the stronger the balance sheet.
Intangibles to Assets
Liabilities are not the only thing to worry about when considering the strength of balance sheets though. If the value of the asset side of the balance sheet is suspect we can also get a false impression of a company's financial strength as liabilities may form a greater proportion of the 'true' value of a company's assets. I put true in inverted commas because the value of certain categories of asset are particularly subjective. Chief among these is intangible assets, so the second criteria we will use in our ranking algorithm is the ratio of intangible assets to total assets. This ratio will always evaluate to less than one, since intangible assets cannot be worth more on the balance sheet than total assets. A high value, close to one, is bad, because it means most of the assets are intangible.
The PE ratio probably needs no introduction. It compares the share price to earnings, which is the most recent year of profit after tax. Since earnings belong to shareholders, the PE is a yardstick of the notional return on an investment in the company at the current share price. If a company's share price is ten times its earnings (a PE of 10), investors might expect a 10% annual return (or earnings yield) on their investment each year. To complicate things though, earnings fluctuate, and people's expectations of future earnings embodied in the price fluctuate even more, so the PE ratio is only a crude guide to whether a share is cheap.
Cheap shares with strong balance sheets
To start with we can filter out certain shares we are unlikely to be interested in. These settings are personal, but I exclude very small companies (judging by their market capitalisations), shares in certain industries that do not interest me, and shares with short track records as listed companies.
Also, we need to exclude companies with negative assets to equity, companies whose liabilities are worth more than their assets (and whose equity is therefore negative). These have weak balance sheets but the ratio evaluates to a negative number and this mucks up the ranking. We also need to knock out companies with negative PE ratios for similar reasons. A negative PE ratio means a company had negative earnings, it lost money over the last twelve months.
Note also the last share in the screenshot below, Andrews Sykes, has no entry for the ratio of intangibles to total assets. This is because it has no intangible assets, which is a good thing.
To filter data in SharePad follow these instructions.
Next we tidy up the table columns, deleting some created by the filter that we do not need for ranking and adding a column for the ratio of intangibles to total assets, which is not in the filter. The ratio of intangibles to total assets is a combination of two statistics in Sharepad, intangibles and total assets:
To learn how to add a column to a table and combine it with another statistic, follow this tutorial
A good place to hunt for bargains
Over 300 shares meet the filter criteria, which is a lot to comb through. We need to prioritise – which is where ranking comes in. We now export the table from SharePad using the Sharing tab, add columns to rank each of the three criteria, add the ranks together, and then sort by the combined ranking to show the shares with the strongest balance sheets and lowest PEs at the top.
It all happens in a spreadsheet like the one below, the imported data is on the left, the ranking of the individual criteria in the middle, and the calculation of the combined ranking on the right. In the outermost blue column we rank the combined rankings and sort the whole spreadsheet so number one is at the top:
The spreadsheet uses the RANK formula, which is explained here. You can view my spreadsheet in Google Sheets and make a copy to edit or download a version for Microsoft Excel here.
This spreadsheet may be a good place to hunt for bargains. The results are a curious mix. They include exotic shares in capricious markets like Kakuzi a Kenyan tea grower and Somero which sells specialised equipment for levelling concrete. Also present, are companies in industries that have all but shut down during the pandemic and face uncertain futures while social distancing is still recommended, companies like cruise line Carnival, a couple of pub chains, and Churchill China, a manufacturer of tableware for the hospitality industry – the restaurants we are no longer eating in.
Judging by their PE ratios, investors think the prospects of these companies are bleak but some of them have been highly profitable in better times and their strong balance sheets may give them the resources to survive and prosper. Somero, Castings, a manufacturer of lorry parts and possessor of one of the finest balance sheets known to the LSE, Churchill China, and timber merchant James Latham come to mind.
Postscript: Ranking in SharePad
Perhaps the most famous ranking system was invented by Joel Greenblatt, a hedge fund manager, who popularised it in a best-seller: The Little Book That Beats the Market. It combines return on capital and the earnings yield to identify good firms at cheap prices.
Phil Oakley experimented with versions of the Magic Formula that may improve on it. He also combined Cashflow Return on Capital Invested (CROCI) and Free Cashflow Yield.
A close approximation of Greenblatt's Magic Formula, as well as Phil's alternatives can be found in SharePad's filter library.
I have used ranking to simulate the Fundsmith strategy.
Happy ranking!
Contact Richard Beddard by email: richard@beddard.net or on Twitter: @RichardBeddard
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The United Nations has condemned the killing of three aid workers by Boko Haram terrorists in Rann town of Borno State, North-east Nigeria.
The terrorists had attacked a camp of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the area on Thursday. The international body said three aid workers were also injured, and a female nurse is missing.
Reacting to the killing in a statement on Friday, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, urged the Federal Government to ensure the attackers are brought to book.
"Aid workers put their lives on the line every single day to provide emergency assistance to vulnerable women, children, and men. Our deepest condolences go to the families of the victims and our brave colleagues and we call on authorities to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice and account," he said.
Two deceased aid workers were contractors with the International Organisation for Migration, working as coordinators in the camp for 55,000 IDPs who have fled their homes as a result of the insurgency.
The other deceased aid worker was a medical doctor employed as a third-party consultant with UNICEF.
The UN was also worried about other civilians who may have been injured or killed in the attack, noting that the crisis seemed not to be ending soon.
"The humanitarian crisis in Nigeria's North-east, that has spilled over into the Lake Chad region, is one of the most severe in the world today, with 7.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in 2018 in the worst-affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, and 6.1 million targeted for humanitarian assistance.
"Now in its ninth year, the crisis shows no sign of abating. Close to 80,000 people, including 55,000 internally displaced persons, currently reside in Rann and are supported with humanitarian assistance," the statement added.
The UN, however, said it was working with some non-governmental humanitarian organisations across the North East to provide aid, including food, safe water, and medicine to about 6.1 million displaced persons in the region.
According to the organisation, some 3,000 aid workers are present in the North East, the majority of whom are Nigerian nationals.


I have worked with guys who relished the chance to test their luck - ones who actually smiled when going dangerous situations. I wasn't one of those guys. I don't think I ever hesitated to go into harm's way, but I didn't enjoy it. My primary concern was to go home at the end of my shift. Thus if I could avoid a dangerous situation by diffusing it or avoiding it altogether, I did. It just made sense. It still does.
I think we should all continue training for the day that we are forced to face that ultimate test, but I also think we should spend just as much time learning ways to avoid it altogether. If you've not read the book Verbal Judo, or taken classes like The NRA's Refuse to be a Victim, then your training is not complete. The former will teach you how to diffuse violent situations; the latter how to avoid them in the first place. Both are invaluable.
When I teach firearms, I often tell students that a primary factor in their survival is how they train. Just as critical is what training they choose. Do you know how criminals think? Have you listened to interviews with them? Do you know how and why they choose their victims? More importantly, do you know the type of cues that tell them which people to avoid? The information is out there; you just have to search for it. And with the modern world of computers and the internet, it is easier than ever before.
I don't want to tell you that it is possible to avoid all dangerous situations or all criminals. In separate incidents over the last six months, a 71-year-old, Chicago man was robbed and shot while watering his lawn, another man was pulled from his car and beaten by a group of thugs, and a child was killed by a stray bullet. Incidents like these remind us that no matter what the anti-gun people say or how many gun free zones they make, anything can happen at any time and anywhere. You have to stay vigilant. But the fact is that most violent incidents are preceded by warning signals. The truly prepared individual will learn what to look for and will respond to those signals before things turn ugly. These are what we teach police officers to watch for, and it's the same thing that I teach women in self-defense classes.
Did you notice while driving that the car behind you has made the same turns you have for the last three miles? When exiting your home, did you see the car down the street with four or five guys in it? When walking alone, do you recognize when two or more people first notice you and how they respond? These are just a few things that could mean nothing, or they could be clues that you'll look back on after an attack and say. "I should have recognized the signs." Usually, the difference between these two outcomes is whether you recognize them and how you choose to respond. This is one of the reasons why police officers spend so much time reviewing videos of attacks on fellow officers. In addition to the attack itself, they are looking for the subtle signs that occurred before the attack began. Those provide behaviors that they can look for in future situations. Those clues can mean the difference between life and death on the street.
Police officers have the benefit of watching videos of many lethal encounters both at the police academy as well as during their in-service training. It's not fun, but it's necessary. You don't have to join the police force to have access. There are many videos available online that will show you the same thing. You can see them for yourself. Just take the time to look in detail. Treat it like you are a football coach reviewing game tapes, and look for the hidden clues that most people don't see.
All of this boils down to a term called Situational Awareness. It's not enough to be fully trained, you have to know when to use your training, and the time between the first clue and an attack may only be seconds. But those valuable seconds may be all that you need to avoid the situation before it happens. That's the real win. Yes, you need to be prepared to respond to violence, but it is much better not to be involved in it in the first place.
Look, there are no guarantees. Get a good firearm. Keep it well maintained, and practice regularly to become proficient. That is important. Learn about combat mindset and develop the will to fight through adversity and prevail. Learn basic self-defense skills. They will serve you well. But at the end of the day, you win if you never have to use any of those skills because you used your brain instead.
Diversify your training, learn how to avoid danger, and…Carry On!


The Transrational World. Working in a world beyond reason. The Future of Business and life.
We currently live in a very Orange, Post Modern world. (In Integral Theory – orange is the stage of development that is about achievement, success, status, having the right house, the right car, kids at the right schools, setting and meeting goals. It is the home of modern science, and measurement of all things. It is a very rational world.) Do this, and you get that. Eat too much food and you get fat…… Linear, rational, very sensible, explainable, scientific. Black and white.
I was 24 years old when I first had this rational world unplugged as an adult and learned something about the transrational world. I was working at a very specialised Health Retreat, and my role was to be sure guests lost weight. Every Sunday when the new guests arrived, we would weigh them. They would then spend the week eating a strict non fat, no carb, vegetarian, mostly raw food diet. They also had to walk up and down a steep hill three times a day to get to the dining hall. Low low calories and more exercise than usual. That should mean weight loss, right?
It seemed that pure science of energy in – energy out and what is left is stored as fat worked often but not always. I am sure you have met people who eat large quantities and never gain an ounce? Or people who only have to smell food and they seem to gain weight?
Every Wednesday I would get a call from the gym where the guests were weighed. "Christine, the guests are not happy–they are not loosing weight." Most did, but some people would not shift even a few grams. After observing people who did not loose weight for some months, I developed the skill of being able to pick those guests who would not be able to shift their kilo's. Their weight was part of who they were – emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually – and until they let go of the weight they carried in these domains, they would not shift the kilo's on their physical body. This challenged all of my scientific medical training. It was not rational, or linear, or evidence based. It meant that there was something else going on. The transrational world applied here.
We want our world to be rational and evidenced based. It makes it simple and keeps it from falling into confusion and chaos. It makes us feel we have maintained some level of control, and keeps the fear of not knowing, or understanding, or it not making sense, away from us. And we are terrified by the very thought of chaos and lack of control. The transrational world is not a place of comfort or any level of certainty.
Even in the coaching world there is a large movement built around evidenced based coaching. And definitely the corporate world wants nice neat little formula's as to the returns on all investment.
While most things can be measured, and a degree of measurement is good, not all things are able to be measured, nor should they. There must be a place were we are required to let go and embrace the mystery….to live in the transrational.
Love for example, or compassion, creativity, beauty..these things often make no sense at all, and yet they are also the most important aspects of life.
In coaching, when we work at the level of a persons deepest truth, it would look to a rational, evidence based, outcomes based HR/Training manager, that we are wasting time and money. If we understand the principle of precession we would know that by focusing on working with the person at this level would have precessional effects in all of the desired areas, without actually working on any of them.
Precession is a transrational model.
Even while I lived and worked within the domain of Integral Theory, which at least considers the four domains of the interior and exterior of the individual and collective–or in plain English, our beliefs and values, our relationships and culture, plus the world of the measurable and scientific, I had lost connection with the world beyond the rational scientific. The world that doesn't follow human rules that can cause a terminal illness to disappear in a nanosecond, or someone you were just thinking about to call you. This is what occurs in the transrational world.
I had reduced my world to steps and processes. Do this, get that. Set a goal, take action, get the result.
The problem was that this old trusted method stopped working for me. It is no surprise, as the work I do is often in the world of the transrational. Transcend and include the rational. Somehow I had to be booted out of the rational world I had applied with success to this point to my own life.
My work is often in the transrational world. I know that there is all of the logical elements….the vision, the goals, the strategy and action steps, and then there is this other transrational element. The unexplainable. The space that holds it all together. "Space has shape" Bucky would say.
Mother Teresa worked from this world every day. All the great mystics worked with this world. They did not shirk the work on the physical plane, and embraced the work going on behind the scenes on the spiritual plane. Buckminster Fuller, certainly a mystic in his own right, lived in complete surrender to this world. Albert Einstein, another great example.
Call it God, Spirit, the field, source, light…by whatever name, it is unexplainable because it escapes comprehension and language.
Humankind will continue to attempt to explain the mysterious – to convert the unknown into the known. And we may come ever closer. However, to try to reduce everything to rational sense making equations leaves nothing for the unexpected, heart breaking, heart making experiences that give our life real meaning. It is the kind smile of a stranger, or the phone call from a friend out of the blue that we remember forever.
*Why do we fear the unknown so much?
*What is the healthy benefit of embracing the mysterious component of life?
*How would our life be if we had everything in neat little packages of knowledge? Would the adventure remain? Our exploration into the many realms of time and space?
*Would we become the very mechanistic beings this model is seeking. No randomness, spontaneity, synchronicity? Boring, dull, automatron's?
In the past few months my transformation out of the meltdown has been through a daily application and reconnection with the world of the miraculous..to fully embrace the transrational.
While I have never been afraid of work, and will work all the hours needed to get things done, re-learing how to be in surrender to the world of the transrational..to grace..to let go and let the mysterious play a vital part, to invite that in…is requiring a level of self awareness and discipline that is challenging my deepest thought structures daily.
Sometimes the best work I can do is to sit completely still and do nothing.
In our postmodern, Western Orange level world and work place, the act of being still is unacceptable. Yet the truth is that the solutions to our current global problems will only come from the transrational mind. We cannot reason our way through these problems. It was reason that got us here. Divorcing ourselves from the transrational spiritual domain and relying only on the linear, mechanistic world.
Leadership development for the 21st Century requires schooling in the transrational domain. It requires skill in contemplation, silence, prayer, mindfulness. Show me an MBA program that has "Mystical Contemplation" as one of its core subjects?


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Frank Shellenback
Given Name: Frank Victor
Born: 12/16/1898 in Joplin, MO USA
Died: 8/17/1969 in Newton, MA USA
Attended Santa Clara University 1917-1918
First Game: Wednesday May 8, 1918
Last Game: Saturday July 5, 1919
Frank Shellenback's Batting Statistics
1918 CHA 29 54 4 7 1 0 0 8 1 0 0 8 25 .130 .242 .148 .390
1919 CHA 8 11 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 5 .091 .231 .091 .322
Career 37 65 4 8 1 0 0 9 1 0 0 10 30 .123 .240 .138 .378
Max 29 54 4 7 1 0 0 8 1 0 0 8 25 .130 .242 .148 .390
Frank Shellenback's World Series and Playoffs Batting Statistics
Frank Shellenback's Pitching Statistics
1918 CHA 9 12 28 21 10 2 2 182.2 180 77 54 2.66 1.39 1 74 47 0 0 4 0 779 5
1919 CHA 1 3 8 4 2 0 0 35.0 40 24 20 5.14 1.60 1 16 10 0 0 0 0 148 4
Career 10 15 36 25 12 2 2 217.2 220 101 74 3.06 1.42 2 90 57 0 0 4 0 927 9
'Best' 9 12 28 21 10 2 2 182.2 180 77 54 2.66 1.39 1 74 47 0 0 4 0 779 5
Frank Shellenback's World Series and Playoffs Pitching Statistics
Frank Shellenback's Fielding Statistics
1918 CHA OF 1 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0
1918 CHA P 28 0 0.0 5 28 3 0 0
1919 CHA P 8 0 0.0 1 9 0 0 0
Career OF 1 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0
Career P 36 0 0.0 6 37 3 0 0


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Violent riots further affirm the need to protect the right to health at Lindela—yet Home Affairs idles.
On 28 May 2012, a group of organisations wrote to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to request that it urgently investigate the state of health and health care service provision at Lindela Repatriation Centre (Lindela).
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), SECTION27, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), and People against Suffering, Oppression and Poverty (PASSOP) requested a response from the SAHRC by 11 June 2012. To date, they have not received a response.
Recent reports of violent protests within Lindela add even further urgency and credence to the request and the need to ensure that health and health rights are protected. Therefore, the organisations are now making the request public.
The request details a long and shameful history of human rights abuses at Lindela, especially in regard to the right to health. These abuses have been documented throughout Lindela's existence. Moreover, what we know about Lindela is shocking, but our lack of knowledge of what occurs behind its walls is cause for even greater concern. Despite its history and a recent outbreak of violent riots, Lindela still operates in secrecy and with impunity.
Furthermore, on 30 November 2011, MSF, an organisation with experience and expertise in the provision of health care services in Southern Africa, requested access to Lindela in order to conduct an independent medical assessment of the state of health care provision. The request was denied.
Most recently, on 4 June 2012, violent riots broke out at Lindela. On 8 June 2012, the Times reported on the riots. According to the report, inmates described their lives as "hell". Also according to the Times, the Department of Home Affairs has not responded to several reports about inhumane conditions at the "infamous Lindela Repatriation Centre".
MSF, SECTION27, LHR and PASSOP renew their calls to the SAHRC to urgently investigate the state of health and health care service provision at Lindela. The organisations hope and expect that the SAHRC will act on the request.
MSF, SECTION27, LHR and PASSOP also call on the Department of Home Affairs to take immediate action to resolve the inhumane conditions to which detainees at Lindela are subjected.
The full request is attached.
Please contact John Stephens (by email at stephens@section27.org.za or by phone at 011 356 4100) and Jens Pederson (by email at msfocb-johannesburg-coord@brussels.msf.org or by phone at 011 403 4440) with inquiries.
This statement is endorsed by MSF, SECTION27, LHR and PASSOP.


Almost exactly a year ago, Stacy Black made the decision to pursue a career in Medical Assisting. So in January, she enrolled in the Unitek College Medical Assisting program; in October, she joined the ranks of Unitek College alumni, and just one week ago, she passed her NCCT exam to become a certified Medical Assistant.
"It's hard to pinpoint the best part of studying at Unitek College," Stacy told us. "My whole experience was my favorite part." One factor in particular for Stacy was the Unitek College staff, who she says regularly encouraged her to keep going, regardless of the obstacles.
With her NCCT successfully completed, Stacy plans to pursue her new career path full throttle after the holidays. Through her Unitek College externship, she's already been given the opportunity to test out her new skills outside the classroom, and she can't wait to put those skills to work full-time.
Congratulations to Stacy on her graduation and certification! We can't wait to hear what comes next.


The travel industry could soon be embracing blockchain technology in a big, and important, way. According to a travel industry media outlet, Skift, blockchain could be coming to biometric tracking in travel security, which would completely revolutionize both domestic and international travel.
For blockchain to be integrated, however, it would need to become standardizes to allow different organizations and their blockchain platforms communicate, asserts Hasham. She added that, were this to happen, it would allow for global sharing of data to better protect all countries.
The Department of Homeland Security, to which the CBP belongs, has already made a step toward possible blockchain adoption. It recently published a request for information that seeks to find a blockchain solution to help detect and prevent digital document fraud. The CBP has also been engaged in its own blockchain trials, testing a shipment tracking system that would be able to verify certificates of origin from different trade partners.


Timelines from Ripple Training -- a $59 plug-in set designed exclusively for Final Cut Pro X -- is a cool collection of eight transition effects that create graphical timelines for videos.
The timeline in Final Cut Pro allows 99 video tracks to be layered on top of each other. If a clip is higher [in the timeline] than another, then it obscures whatever is below it. The size of a video clip can be altered, and the clips can be cropped, among many other settings that can be changed. Ripple Training's plug-in makes working with video track timelines simpler.
Each transition in Timelines is highly customizable. You can easily can change just about any detail, including colors, background graphics and text. A unique Director's View provides a bird's eye view of transitions, complete with explanatory text guides and on-screen controls, which makes adjustments to the layout of transition video clips and drop zones easy.
You can choose from preset camera animation styles, and even adjust the preset to create the exact framing desired. What's more, with Timelines you can freeze transitions and add built-in text effects.


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Texas Super Doctors
2020 Top Texas Dermatologists
Philip Hughes, M.D. was selected again as one of the top dermatologists in Texas Monthly's 2020 "Texas Super Doctors." The complete list will be published in the upcoming December 2020 issue.
Texas Super Doctors are the top physicians in their respective practice areas, selected by their peers and verified by the Key Professional Media research staff.
The Super Doctors selection process began in spring 2004 and was repeated annually, when Key Professional Media mailed a survey to more than 52,000 Texas physicians, asking them: "To whom would you refer a loved one or one of your patients for medical diagnosis and/or treatment?" After tallying their replies, the Key Professional Media research team also identified Texas doctors who had achieved special recognition from their peers or had demonstrated other indications of expertise. The researchers made sure each physician is properly licensed and has no history of disciplinary action. In the end, Key Professional Media selected a list of Texas Super Doctors in 20 specialty areas.
"We take great pride in the credibility of our list," says Key Professional Media publisher William White. "We are confident that we offer the most comprehensive and accurate list of top doctors in Texas."
Dr. Hughes was also selected as one of "America's Top Dermatologists 2020" by the Consumer Research Council of America.


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Pub date April 6, 2010
WriterTim Redmond
SectionEditors Notes
IssueVolume 44 Number 27
Tredmond@sfbg.com
A couple of weeks ago, political consultant David Latterman, who often works with downtown interests, sent off an e-mail warning that the pro big-business, moderate bloc needed to get its act together. "It appears as if different groups are unwilling to set aside their egos or agendas, and pool together resources in a comprehensive plan to take back the [Democratic County Central Committee]," he wrote. "And guess what, we're going to lose, in June and November."
His point: the DCCC matters, a lot. "The DCCC controls the supe endorsements that matter most," he noted, adding, "The mayor's race starts now."
And that's absolutely true — and unless the folks downtown are foolish or have given up (and neither is terribly likely) they're going to get the message, and there's going to be a big-money push in the next two months to oust the progressive majority on the county committee.
The DCCC controls the Democratic Party endorsements — and the party slate card is among the most influential political slates in a city where the vast majority of the population votes for Democrats. The DCCC could well make the difference in some of the key supervisorial races this fall — and could play a key role in choosing the next mayor of San Francisco.
But it's not a high-profile election. More than half the votes will probably be absentees. That means it's critical that the progressive candidates can raise money, do mailers, and fight back.
At this point, there's a pretty good consensus on a progressive slate. We published our endorsements last week, and the Milk Club, Sierra Club, Tenants Union, and Assembly Member Tom Ammiano have endorsed most of the same candidates. In the fall, labor, environmental groups, tenants, and other progressive interests will be putting a lot of money into the races for district supervisor. But I could argue that the DCCC is just as important — and if we don't fight this one to win, it's going to be a lot harder in November.
Tim Redmond


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An Artificial Intelligence robot named 'Rosie' looks to have the solution. Rosie is the unique chatbot that forms the online sales and retention offering of high profile Australian fintech company Flamingo, and can guide seekers of financial products from quote to payment, without a single person being directly involved.
Flamingo, which was acquired by ASX listed Cre8tek in September, fuses web-chat, web-forms and machine learning to guide customers through complex decision-making and is reshaping the way financial service firms view their entire online selling eco-system.
Flamingo CEO and founder, Dr Catriona Wallace, says the financial products market has a good deal of complexity.
"Customers often have difficulty with the complexity of financial services products. This makes it difficult for providers to sell to these customers online, resulting in very low conversion rates such as we see within the American insurance industry," Dr Wallace said.
The Flamingo Platform not only reduces the overwhelming nature of purchasing complex products online, it's also extremely intelligent. With each completed transaction, the machine-learning engine intelligently learns more about how customers, provider employees or the autobot 'Rosie' interact.
Every question asked and answered, every keystroke and chat message is analysed by Flamingo's advanced data-mining algorithms and allows the entire online selling process to be automated, meaning employees are required less often, or not at all. And it seems to be working. Flamingo secured Fortune 500 company Nationwide Insurance as a foundation client in May 2016. Following two separate trials for Nationwide, Flamingo is now engaged to be the customer interaction portal for a Nationwide direct-to-consumer new product launch.
Other Flamingo clients include Prime Financial, Quay Credit Union and the New York Daily Gazette.


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Q: Web Share API only works a single time in iOS Safari I have a simple "share button" component in my React app that uses the Web Share API to share a link. Interestingly, in mobile safari it only seems to work a single time for a given pageload. Subsequent clicks on the share button result in the following error:

NotAllowedError: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context, possibly because the user denied permission.

The first click works fine, resulting in the native iOS share sheet appearing with the selection of share options. The subsequent failure occurs regardless of whether the initial share is cancelled or actioned.
Here's the relevant code that produces the issue:
export const SharerButton: React.FC<Props> = ({
  children,
  className,
  url,
  title,
  text,
  onShareSuccess = () => null,
  onShareCancel = () => null,
  kind = 'primary',
  successText = 'Link copied',
}) => {

  const handleShare = async () => {
    const canShare =
      (navigator.canShare !== undefined &&
        navigator.canShare({ title, text, url })) ||
      navigator.share !== undefined;

    if (!canShare) {
      // fallback share (copy to clipboard)
      return;
    }

    return navigator
      .share({ title, text, url })
      .then(() => onShareSuccess(true))
      .catch((error) => {
        console.error(error);
        onShareCancel(true);
      });
  };

  return (
    <Button
      className={className}
      kind={kind}
      icon="share"
      onClick={handleShare}
    >
      {children}
    </Button>
  );
};

Any idea why this could be happening?
I've managed to reproduce the issue in this simple CodeSandbox: https://xgxrn.csb.app/
iOS version: 14.1
Model: iPhone 11 Pro


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Mari Sarv chatting with Greete Jents in her yard in 1961. Photo by R. Hansen. ERA, Foto 5694.
The last carriers of the regilaul singing traditions in the once very rich region of Mulgimaa were the singers of Karksi Parish recorded in the 1960's. Mari Sarv (1884–1977) was a singer as well as a collector of folk traditions. She began sending the notes that she made to the Estonian Folklore Archives after she had seen an appeal in the newspaper in 1930 and became one of the archive's best correspondents. Mari Sarv learned her songs in her youth when she lived at home with her family, who were farm hands on the Karksi estate. There were lots of children and young people there. They sang as they tended the herds, they held many dance parties, and they listened to old women singing the older songs at the swing and the midsummer bonfires. Mari studied to be an artisan. She married Anton Sarv and lived in the town of Nuia. Mari Sarv's songs have been recorded on many occasions starting in 1935 onto wax cylinders and later onto records. Later in the 1960's and 1970's here songs were recorded on tape. Her singing style was unusually slow and full of embellishments. Her speech was slow and thoughtful as well.
Singers and Musicians of the Pärnumaa County
26. Pretty Maid on the Swing
59. A Forest Stands Between the Maidens
93. The Doll Game


Janet and Nelson Hallahan scammed people of money and of their trust in humanity, said a federal judge Wednesday before sentencing the couple to years behind bars.
Senior U.S. District Judge Joe McDade had harsh words for the Hallahans, saying they preyed upon people "who couldn't protect themselves" before skipping town for 12 years to avoid sentencing.
Senior U.S. District Judge Joe McDade had harsh words for the Hallahans, saying they preyed upon people "who couldn't protect themselves" before skipping town for 12 years to avoid sentencing.
McDade handed down a 22½-year sentence for Nelson Hallahan, 65, and a 16-year, 3-month sentence for Janet Hallahan, 55, in addition to ordering the pair to pay $1.44 million in restitution to about 75 victims. Under federal law, the couple must serve at least 85 percent of their sentences and they will get credit for about six months spent in jail since their arrests in May.
"What they did was make friends with people, take these vulnerable people out to dinner, show them attention, share their troubles. They were like family when their intent was to steal their money and to lie to them and to take advantage of them," the judge said.
They were arrested May 5 in Arizona after being on the run for 12 years. They fled after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit mail and bank fraud as well as money laundering. Both also pleaded guilty last month to failing to appear for their 2000 sentencing hearing on the conspiracy charges.
They were accused of bilking about 70 people out of $1.7 million from 1993 until their arrests in 1999.
The judge blasted Janet Hallahan, who told McDade it was her husband who was behind the decade-long Ponzi scheme. Janet Hallahan said her husband was "controlling" and it was that influence that led her to flee with him and not return. McDade said simply he didn't believe that.
"She could have said no and choose to come back to the area, but she chose to flee and stay on the run," the judge said, who added her pleas for mercy fell on "deaf ears."
"She sat at his table, shared his food, realized what he was doing and did nothing but take it and enjoy it," McDade said. "You will get no sympathy from the court for that."
Nelson Hallahan's voice shook as he told the judge he accepted full responsibility, that he used his wife in his scheme and he felt "heartache" for the damage he had done.
But McDade took Nelson Hallahan to task, saying a remorseful tone Wednesday didn't excuse his conduct. McDade called Nelson Hallahan a "con man" whose conduct was worthy of contempt.
"I cannot express in words the contempt I have for this and the contempt all good people should have for this conduct," he said.
Those statements came after an emotional 3½-hour hearing where a half dozen people testified. Some were children of people scammed by the Hallahans. Others were victims. One theme was common — a sense of betrayal by the couple considered friends by many.
Pam Jang, whose mother Mildred Marlin invested her husband's life insurance policy with the Hallahans, said the loss of the money cost her mother, who died in 2004, a better life in her later years. The loss also changed her.
"She became more suspicious of people," she said.
Another woman turned to Nelson Hallahan and said, "You were our friend. We trusted you."
As the woman was talking, Nelson Hallahan buried his head in his hands.