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The Indian power sector is in deep crisis — which can be traced back to the reforms ushered in by the Electricity Act 2003 — and the banks as always stand to pay the price.
And for the past few months, the government and the private power producers have been working overtime to come up with a plan to save thermal power plants with generating capacity of more than 75,000 megawatts (MW) from being sold for peanuts or being shut. They have come up with a so-called "five-pronged strategy", but one that leaves untouched the problems at the structural and policy levels.
On 12 February this year, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a circular with a revised framework for Resolution of Stressed Assets. Loans that have been fully or partially defaulted on are categorised under 'stressed assets'.
Under the new RBI rules, creditors to companies that are defaulting on loans of Rs 2,000 crore or more, as on 1 March 2018, will have to implement a Resolution Plan within 180 days, or file for insolvency under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) within 15 days from the expiry of the deadline. If a company defaults after 1 March 2018, then the 180 days will be counted from the date of such first default.
As per the RBI's timeline, the deadline for the power sector is end of August. The total Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of the private power generation companies stand at Rs 70,000 crore as of this year. The defaulting power projects are at various stages of construction and production. According to media reports, power generation assets of more than 10,000 MW with debts of more than Rs 34,600 crore are currently already facing insolvency proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).
Both the power ministry and the companies had requested the RBI for a special dispensation for the power sector, and asked for at least 12 up to 18 months — on the ground that the companies had defaulted due to factors outside their control, such as shortage of coal, lack of long-term power purchase agreements, etc.
The RBI had refused, and a clutch of power generation companies under the banner of Independent Power Producers' Association of India had approached the Allahabad High Court. On 1 June, the court had granted a reprieve to these companies from facing insolvency proceedings till the finance ministry met with the stakeholders to come see if the issue could be resolved.
Even before the court ruling, leading bankers had reportedly been working to design a scheme for bailing out the stressed power assets without the latter being subjected to the IBC.
On 8 June, interim finance minister Piyush Goyal had announced the setting-up of a committee of bankers that would submit a resolution plan. The panel was headed by Punjab National Bank non-executive chairman Sunil Mehta, and included SBI chairman Rajnish Kumar and Bank of Baroda managing director PS Jayakumar.
Now, if the stressed power assets were to face insolvency proceedings under the IBC, it would amount to a garage sale. Not only would the stressed power assets likely find it hard to find bidders, but once a company is declared insolvent it would sell for scrap value. And it would not help the NPAs of the banks, as the banks are likely to be among the last in the line of lenders to be paid. So the banks would likely gain nothing from the distress sale. And the power projects being shut or liquidated is not an option, as it will spell doom for the power scenario in in the country and be a terrible drain on the economy.
According to speculation in the media, the bail-out plans that the banks had been considering included a debt-equity swap — whereby a creditor cancels the outstanding debt in exchange for equity in the company. However, this would only amount to dressing up the books of the banks, as the NPAs would be reduced only theoretically.
Then there was also talk of setting up a state-owned bad bank — a structure set up to buy the bad loans of another bank or a group of banks/financial institutions. That way the loans would be off the balance sheets of the original lending banks, and the defaulting companies would become credit-worthy again. However, that would amount to transferring the debt to the taxpayers.
Another solution looming on the horizon was that the stressed assets be handed over to an Asset Reconstruction Company (ARC).
An Asset Reconstruction Company (ARC) is a specialised financial institution that buys the bad debt or NPAs from the banks at a cheap price, so that banks can clean up their balance sheets by getting rid of the NPAs while the specialists in the ARC can turn the stressed assets around or sell them. The ARCs came into existence after the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (SARFAESI) Act was passed in 2002.
On 2 July, interim finance minister Piyush Goyal said the Sunil Mehta-led committee of bankers had come up with a five-pronged strategy — to be known as 'Project Sashakt' — to deal with the NPAs with the banks. Goyal said the government had accepted the plan and the report submitted by the panel.
The five prongs of the strategy are — SME (small and medium enterprises) resolution approach for loans up to Rs 50 crore; bank-led resolution approach for loans between Rs 50-500 crore; resolution approach led by ARC, Asset Management Company (AMC) and an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) for resolution of loans above Rs 500 crore, the NCLT/IBC approach, and an asset-trading platform (a platform for trading performing and non-performing loans). The plan for setting up a bad bank was reportedly dropped.
On 6 July, it was reported that banks had finalised an inter-creditor agreement and were working on the five-pronged strategy. State-run banks are also reportedly working on setting up an Asset Management Company (AMC) as also an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) to raise money and back the AMC.
"An independent AMC would be set up, and AIF would raise funds from institutional investors," Goyal was quoted by the Economic Times. He said the government would have no role and the banks would work independently.
It is also reported that the government is banking on two public-sector ARCs — Arcil and India SME Asset Reconstruction Company — to bid for stressed assets based on "independent due diligence" by the AMC and AIF. After the ARC acquires the stressed assets, it will be "responsible for financial restructuring and transfer equity of the borrower (the stressed company) held by it to the investment fund. The operating expenses and a reasonable return on capital will paid as a fee to the to the ARC."
However, Sunil Mehta told Mint that multiple ARCs, AMCs and AIFs can bid for stressed assets under Project Sashakt. "The moment banks sell it to asset reconstruction companies and these ARCs will in turn transfer the ownership of asset to the Alternate Investment Fund (AIF). The AIF then becomes the effective owner because the intent is that the promoter if at all he is there becomes the minority."
While one needs to wait and watch how the "five-pronged strategy" plays out — and while it does provide relief to the stressed assets of private power producers — what is clear is that it does not address any of the structural issues plaguing the power generation sector, and the power sector as a whole.
This is also unlikely to help the banks, as simply making the defaulting companies credit-worthy again without fixing the many structural problems unleashed by the 2003 power reforms is going to lead to the same problem again, only much worse.
As mentioned in the beginning of this piece, the Electricity Act 2003 — which had replaced the Electricity (Supply) Act 1948 — can be blamed for much of the crisis that the power sector in India finds itself mired in today.
The 2003 Act dismantled the State Electricity Boards (SEBs) and trifurcated the electricity boards into three separate entities — generation, transmission and distribution. This move was in keeping with the World Bank model of "unbundling" of the power sector, which would allow entry of private companies into the safer and more profitable aspects.
The 2003 Act also brought in delicensing in power generation, eliminating the need for private companies to obtain a license for setting up a power plant.
As a result, a large number of private companies entered power generation. As the current crisis of stressed power generation assets illustrates, most of the private generation began taking place with the help of bank loans — in fact, priority sector lending of nationalised banks was made available to these private players under the then finance minister, P Chidambaram.The free hand given to private producers also led unplanned capacity addition. And private power plant owners were resorting to all kinds of shenanigans to reap profits.
Meanwhile, transmission and distribution remained with the state governments, except for a few cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Surat and Ahmedabad, where there are privately owned distribution licensees. In Odisha and Delhi, the privatisation of distribution had failed spectacularly. Although some states, such as Himachal Pradesh, had resisted the unbundling, Kerala is the only state that has not trifurcated its electricity board.
The crisis goes beyond the power generation, of course. Thanks to the private producers, the state-owned distribution companies (discoms) had no control over the cost of generation, mainly due to faulty power purchase agreements.
In fact, the discoms have already accumulated losses of Rs 4.14 lakh crore while their debt has risen to 4.22 lakh crore as of 2015-16.
For a more detailed analysis of how the crisis originated in the 2003 power sector reforms, read this and this.
So no matter the eventual efficacy of the "five prongs" of the stressed assets resolution strategy, it is not going to make the power sector crisis disappear — nor is it going to help the banks, already saddled with NPAs of Rs 8.41 lakh crore as of December 2017, in the long run or even strengthen them.
Even if the government can manage to ensure adequate supply of coal to top power plants— the government has allowed the states to import coal flagging shortage for the next 2-3 years — the problem will persist.
The government must review the disastrous consequences of the Electricity Act 2003, the serious and deliberate loopholes it allowed, and take decisions to undo the untold damage caused by the so-called "reforms" of the power sector at the level of policy.
In other words, the government must scrap or amend the Electricity Act 2003 — but not in the way it currently envisages it, in the form of the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2014.
The amendment Bill seeks to further bifurcate power distribution into carriage (the distribution infrastructure carrying the electricity to consumers) and supply (or the sale of electricity to consumers). The motive is the same — to bring in private companies to make profits by compete over selling the power while the government lays down the wires.
While power employees across the country have been protesting against the Bill and the overall crisis that government policy has dumped the sector into, if the government does not pay heed and continues focussing all its energies on cultivating private profit, darkness awaits a country where nearly 30 crore people still do not have access to electricity. As for the banks, well.
Source: News Click, July 7, 2018
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News & Opinion | September 15, 2016 9:00 am
FBI Director to Americans: Cover Your Webcam, Dummy
Don't get Big Brother'd, brother
By Evan Bleier @itishowitis
As a brilliant man once said, "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you."
With regard to webcams, that's increasingly looking like a pretty spot-on sentiment.
We found out over the summer that Mark Zuckerberg — just like the resident conspiracy theorist in your office — covers his laptop's webcam with tape. And now the head of a little organization called the FBI has confirmed he also endorses that tactic.
During a conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, FBI Director James Comey equated covering up the webcam on your computer to common sense. "There's some sensible things you should be doing, and that's one of them," he said, according to The Hill. "You do that so that people who don't have authority don't look at you. I think that's a good thing."
Comey then compared covering a webcam to some other basic methods of modern self-protection: "I hope people lock their cars. Lock your doors at night. I have an alarm system. If you have an alarm system you should use it, I use mine."
Point taken.
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Security Expert Locates Sirius XM Bug That Allowed Vehicle Hacking
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Essential to one of Chef's cheese sandwich recipes. Goes great with any Italian pasta dishes and soups. What's best is to cut a fresh piece and add some homemade strawberry jam.
In Norway, the loaf can be one of the cheapest bread types, but also an expensive one. There are not many ingredients to a decent one, but if you need a good one for a special occasion, this is the recipe for you. It's a little heavier, with a sweet taste and softness with the use of syrup. You can use less yeast, but it will need more time raising. I also believe it won't be as fresh and tasty, because a longer raising time may cause it to dry out a bit.
Start by melting butter in a medium-sized pot. Use medium heat, so the butter does not get browned.
When melted, add in milk and heat for two more minutes.
Add flour, salt, and baking powder, to a mixing bowl.
Add the warm butter and milk mixture.
Use the hook tool, and start mixing at low speed for 2 minutes.
When time is up, remove the hook tool and let the dough rest for 15 min.
Take the dough out of the bowl and onto the kitchen counter. If the dough is sticky use a little bit of white flour.
Split the dough into two, and roll each part into a large bowl. Press down and make a valley in the middle, and roll it into a bread shape.
Repeat procedure with the other dough part.
Summary Essential to one of Chef's cheese sandwich recipes. Goes great with any Italian pasta dishes and soups. What's best is to cut a fresh piece and add some homemade strawberry jam.
I am currently not making any Gristle Bread recipes. Unless you have space for a 10 feet long oven used for 10 seconds. I will say though I am working on new recipes that you could easily use with a Gristle oven that basically nobody but a few bakeries has. This oven has temperatures over 1000 o C and is used to "gristle" or sear the bread before it's baked in a normal oven. This process keeps its moisture in the dough better. But if you eat regular bread and a regular gristle bread you won't taste very much difference. But the process and its history from the world war times is cool! Towards the end of my internship at the bakery, I worked at we got this kind of oven and it was really cool to learn about.


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A reminder, that while writing is primarily a solitary venture, that a supportive critique group can help you take your writing and your writing career to the next level.
But we all know joining a group to have our work pored over and critiqued isn't always easy. So here are a few tips to help you survive the process and get the most of the experience.
This article isn't technically from this past week, but we think Leonard's rules definitely deserve repeated consideration.
We're glad Ryan Holliday pinned this blog entry, because if someone can write three books in as many years, we want to know their secrets.
Truthfully, Passive Guy's bestseller made a little money, but not as much as some of us might think. Another interesting read on publishing–the ups and downs of it all.
Do MFA Programs Lack Diversity?
Junot Diaz seems to think so. An abridged version of Diaz's introductory essay to a new writing collection, "Dismantle: An Anthology from VONA/Voices Workshop," was published in the New Yorker this week. His thoughts have a lot of writers and MFAers talking.
Harper Lee calls herself old-fashioned. She says she likes dusty books and libraries. But even she has joined the e-book age and agreed to allow her classic novel to be published as an e-book.
We are so excited about this news! Whatever you do, go out and support book day tomorrow! If this event takes off, it just might be the annual day to save bookstores, both here in California and nationwide.


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Нау́чный консе́нсус — коллективные решения, позиции и мнения сообщества учёных в определённой области науки в конкретный момент времени. Консенсус предполагает общее согласие, но не обязательно единодушие. Научный консенсус не является, сам по себе, научным аргументом, и не является частью научного метода, однако содержание консенсуса само по себе может быть основано на научных аргументах и на научном методе.

Консенсус достигается через общение на конференциях, в процессе публикации, повторения и проверки чужих результатов и рецензирования научных работ. Это приводит к ситуации, в которой учёные внутри отдельной области легко понимают, что такой консенсус существует, в то время как пояснить его наличие людям со стороны является сложной задачей, так как нормальные научные дебаты об уточняющих деталях могут восприниматься ими как оспаривание консенсуса. Время от времени научные структуры выпускают специальные издания, посвящённые краткому изложению текущего консенсуса в какой-либо области для его продвижения в более широкие научные круги. В тех случаях, когда имеется мало противоречий, касающихся темы исследования, установление научного консенсуса происходит довольно легко.

Научный консенсус может быть использован в популярном или политическом споре по вопросам, которые являются спорными в публичной сфере, но которые не являются спорными в рамках научного сообщества, таких, как факт биологической эволюции или отсутствие связи вакцинации и аутизма.

Как консенсус изменяется со временем

Существует множество философских, исторических и социологических теорий о процессах развития научного консенсуса. Так как история науки чрезвычайно сложна и существует тенденция проецировать известные ныне результаты развития консенсуса на прошлое, выделяя «выигравших» и «проигравших», построить аккуратную и точную модель развития науки очень сложно. Это становится сверхсложным также и благодаря тому, что различные области науки по-разному относятся к различным формам доказательств и экспериментальной проверки.

Большинство моделей развития науки опираются на примат новых данных, получаемых посредством эксперимента. Философ Карл Поппер предположил, что так как никакое количество экспериментов не может доказать научную теорию, но единственный эксперимент может опровергнуть её, то весь научный прогресс должен базироваться на процессе опровержения, когда эксперименты построены так, чтобы получить эмпирические данные, которые не могут быть объяснены в рамках текущей теории, что будет демонстрировать её неверность и требовать построения новой теории.

Среди наиболее влиятельных противников такого подхода выделяется историк Томас Кун, который возразил, что полная совокупность экспериментальных данных всегда содержат некоторые противоречия с теорией, и только лишь их наличие и даже опровержение ими какой-либо теории не приводит к существенному развитию науки или подрыву научного консенсуса. Он предположил, что научный консенсус работает в форме «парадигм», которые состоят из связанных между собой теорий и их начальных допущений, а также положений о природе допустимой теории вообще, которые разделяются исследователями в данной области. Кун показал, что только после накопления достаточного количества «серьёзных» аномалий научный консенсус входит в стадию «кризиса». В этот момент активно разрабатываются новые теории и парадигмы, и в конечном счёте одна из конкурирующих парадигм сменяет предыдущую — происходит не эволюция, а революция в науке, смена парадигмы. Модель Куна подчеркивает также социальные и личные аспекты развития теорий, показывая на исторических примерах, что научный консенсус никогда не был делом чистой логики или только фактов. Однако эти периоды нормальной и кризисной науки не являются взаимоисключающими. Исследования показывают, что они скорее представляют собой различные параллельно существующие и используемые пути ведения научного исследования, чем различные исторические периоды.

В последнее время некоторые более радикальные философы, такие как Пол Фейерабенд, придерживаются мнения, что научный консенсус чисто условен и не относится ни к какой внешней по отношению к науке истине. Эти взгляды, хотя и породили широкую дискуссию, обычно не разделяются даже философами.

Научный консенсус и научное меньшинство

Как стандартный пример проявления психологического принципа «склонности к подтверждению», научные результаты, подтверждающие существующий консенсус, как правило, более благосклонно принимаются научным сообществом, чем те, которые противоречат ему. В некоторых случаях учёные, критикующие текущую парадигму, серьёзно критикуются за свои оценки. Исследование, которое подвергает сомнению хорошо подтверждённую научную теорию, обычно проверяется более дотошно для выяснения соответствия скрупулёзности и документированности исследования силе заявленных эффектов. Эта осмотрительность и аккуратная тщательная проверка используются для того, чтобы защитить науку от преждевременного отхода от разработки идей, хорошо обоснованных интенсивными исследованиями, в сторону новых идей, которые ещё должны пройти проверку временем и экспериментом. Тем не менее такое развитие событий часто приводит к конфликту между сторонниками новых идей и сторонниками консенсуса, то есть идей более распространённых, причём как в случае последующего принятия новой идеи сообществом, так и её отбрасывания.

Т. Кун в книге Структура научных революций (1962) рассмотрел эту проблему детально. Некоторое количество примеров смены консенсуса по мере накопления доказательств даёт современная история науки, например:

 Теория дрейфа материков Альфреда Вегенера не признавалась основной массой геологов, пока накопленные неопровержимые доказательства и предложенный приемлемый механизм источника их движения не привели к смене парадигмы фиксизма парадигмой мобилизма через 50 лет после предложения теории.
 Теория симбиогенеза, развивавшаяся с 1960-х гг. Линн Маргулис, теперь практически общепринята как теория происхождения митохондрий и пластид.
 Теория прерывистого равновесия, предложенная в 1972 году палеонтологами Нильсом Элдриджем и Стивеном Гулдом, которая пока не стала доминирующей, но признаётся как действительно возможный путь эволюции.
 Теория о существовании прионов — особых инфекционных агентов, чисто белковых, и не содержащих нуклеиновых кислот, вызывающих, например, губчатую энцефалопатию — предложенная С. Прузинером и сначала отвергнутая, так как существование организмов, размножающихся без участия рибонуклеиновых кислот, до этого считалось невозможным.
 Теория бактериального происхождения большинства гастритов и язв желудка, связанного с Helicobacter pylori, которую в 1982 году предложили  и , была сначала отклонена медиками, так как считалось, что никакие бактерии не могут выживать в агрессивной среде желудочного сока. Маршалл поставил эксперимент на себе, выпив культуру бактерии и продемонстрировав развитие язвы, которую затем успешно задавил приёмом антибактериальных средств.

Тем не менее, на каждую идею, принятую научным сообществом, приходится множество идей, неверность которых действительно была доказана. Два классических примера —  и .

Неопределённость и научный консенсус в политической стратегии

В публичных дебатах на политические темы утверждение о том, что среди учёных на эту тему существует консенсус, часто используется как аргумент для утверждения верности теории и поддержки для предлагаемого образа действий теми, кто получает выгоду от стратегии, основанной на этом консенсусе. Аналогично утверждения об отсутствии консенсуса часто продвигаются противоположными сторонами.

Полемика вокруг вопроса о наличии научного консенсуса по причинам глобального потепления затронула широкие общественные круги. Однако историк науки Наоми Орескес опубликовала в Science статью, показывающую, что обзор аннотаций 928 научных статей, опубликованных между 1993 и 2003 годами, показывает полное отсутствие аннотаций, явным образом отвергающих теорию антропогенного характера глобального потепления. В редакционной статье Washington Post Орескес утверждает, что противники антропогенного характера потепления излагают состояние науки таким образом, что реальный нормальный диапазон научной неопределённости любых фактов превращается во впечатление, что в этой области есть существенные научные разногласия или вообще отсутствует консенсус. Исследования Орескес затем были подтверждены другими методами с большей интерпретационной независимостью.

Теория эволюции — общепринятая часть биологической науки, причём её проникновение настолько глубоко, что только очень небольшая часть биологических феноменов может быть понята без обращения к её концепциям. Оппоненты эволюции утверждают, что в научном сообществе существуют значительные расхождения в позициях по этому вопросу.  C. Дж. Гулд возражает на это, что креационисты не понимают сути дебатов в эволюционной теории, которые идут не о том, «есть» ли эволюция, а о том, «как» она протекает.

Внутренне присущая науке неопределённость — теории никогда не могут быть окончательно доказаны, но только опровергнуты (см. фальсифицируемость) — ставит перед политиками, стратегами, юристами и бизнесменами серьёзную проблему. Там, где научные или философские вопросы могут пребывать в подвешенном состоянии десятилетиями, эти люди вынуждены принимать важные решения по ним, базируясь только на современном понимании вопроса, даже если оно скорее всего неполно, неточно и не представляет собой даже относительной истины. Самая тонкая часть вопроса — это определить, что из предлагаемых наукой вариантов ближе всего к истине. Например, социальные действия против курения, вероятно, начались намного позже достижения более-менее устойчивого научного консенсуса о вреде курения.

Определённые области политики, такие как разрешение на использование определённых технологий, могут иметь огромные и далеко идущие политические, экономические и психологические последствия, если научные предсказания разойдутся с действительностью. Тем не менее, в той степени как мы ожидаем, что стратегия в данной области должна отражать известные релевантные данные и общепринятые модели соотношений между наблюдаемыми явлениями, альтернативы использованию научного консенсуса для принятия решений практически нет, как минимум в случае, когда необходимость разработки стратегии становится насущной. Хотя наука не может дать «абсолютной истины» (или её противоположности — «абсолютной ошибки»), её применение связано с её возможностями указать путь к росту общественного блага и уменьшению страдания. Рассмотренное с такого угла зрения требование, чтобы стратегия принятия решений базировалась исключительно на проверенной «научной истине», не принимая во внимание мнения науки об ещё не до конца исследованных феноменах, привело бы к параличу принятия решений и означало бы на практике защиту приемлемости всех измеримых и неизмеримых рисков и издержек стратегического бездействия. Такой анализ инициировал развитие .

Разработка стратегии на базисе очевидного научного консенсуса ни в коем случае не препятствует постоянной переоценке как самого научного консенсуса, так и ощутимых результатов принятых решений. Более того, те же соображения, которые внушают уверенность в правильности консенсуса, приводят и к его непрерывной проверке — с соответствующим уточнением стратегии, если это необходимо.

См. также
 Argumentum ad verecundiam — обращение к авторитету
 Consensus (medical)
 CUDOS
 Эмпиризм
 Парадигма (философия)
 Научная позиция

Ссылки
 Национальная философская энциклопедия. Научный консенсус
 Green Facts. Scientific Consensus

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"Our return isn't doing well," she said.
"Mom, why the sudden concern about how your portfolio is performing? You've owned the same two index funds for 20 years and never had a problem."
Ah! This was a classic case of fixating on one investment rather than the entire pot of money. It was time to have another talk with her about the basics. This talk was needed every ten years or so when stocks were either doing very well or very poorly.
"Mom, you know stocks don't always go up. There are long periods when they perform poorly. You remember 1987, 2001, and 2008?
"I know, I know," she said, then added those dreadful words, "This time it's different."
Augh! This is going to take longer than I thought. After more explaining and reasoning, and more pushback from Mom, she finally acquiesced, but not because of my brilliance in investment advising.
And there you have it – why prolonged bull markets (and sudden bear markets) are dangerous. Ten years of great stock returns (and a year or so of really bad stock returns) turns my mother into an "inadvertent market-timer." At age 86, bless her soul, Mom has decided that bonds don't cut it anymore and stocks are the place to be. So, we needed to have "the talk", and we'll have it again after the next bear market hits, or the stock market doubles again.
I have no idea where the stock market is going, but I do know people have a tendency to extrapolate into the future what just happened in the past, and that makes them susceptible to inadvertent market timing. I also know inadvertent market timing ends badly when the trend reverses. My advice to Mom and to all investors is to stick with your long-term plan. As John Bogle would say, "Stay the course!"
My mother hasn't brought up their portfolio in a while, but I know she's looking at it! So far I haven't been fired as the family investment adviser. Even if that happens, she can't fire me as her son - or can she?


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Le New York Institute for the Humanities (ou NYIH, littéralement Institut de Lettres de New York) est une organisation affiliée à l'Université de New York (NYU). Cet institut a été fondé en 1976 par Richard Sennett, dans le but de promouvoir l'échange d'idées entre les membres de l'université, les professionnels et la société civile. L'institut organise régulièrement des séminaires ouverts au public, ainsi que des meetings regroupant quelque 150 confrères.

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Diamond industry on sickbed again
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The diamond industry was expected to recover this year and signs began to show during the first sight of the year when rough diamond sales amounted to US$545 million which was more than US$500 million registered during the same period ...
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San Francisco, CA: InsideBoard, the first platform for change management (50,000 active users)based on Artificial Intelligence algorithms, announces the launch of the InsideBoard App, available in the Salesforce AppExchange. The unique change management app, dedicated to the adoption of Salesforce, will be presented on September 25, 2018, in San Francisco at Dreamforce18, the most inspiring technology event of the year. As a silver partner, InsideBoard will exhibit on booths #1644 and #1742 at the Customer Success Expo. InsideBoard will also be a platinum partner of the French Salesforce delegation represented at Dreamforce18.
Created in 2014 by Michaël and Yohan Bentolila, InsideBoard is founded on a strong conviction: to achieve transformation objectives, it is necessary to create the desire for that transformation through the use of project marketing by digital means and to engage employees throughout. The recipe for success: unique artificial intelligence algorithms to recommend personalized content to the right person at the right time (via the Boost Your Success module). There are also dashboards that measure individual and collective uses in an intuitive and shared manner via success indicators; a gaming and challenges module to create emulation and automatically detect the project's ambassadors, the development of skills and continuous training courses known as the Training Path.
InsideBoard, a Salesforce partner since its inception in 2014, is integrating its change management application in AppExchange to provide all users with a rich individualized experience so they can adopt their CRM quickly and without the need for custom development.
The added value of InsideBoard: offering multiple levers of commitment to employees to continuously support them throughout a transformation project, which stretches over a period of 4 to 12 quarters on average: "InsideBoard's goal is to make users feel more relaxed, more fulfilled, and like agents of their own change in Salesforce-driven transformation projects via new uses and modules that integrate seamlessly with the AppExchange.", says Michaël Bentolila co-founder and CEO of InsideBoard.
For Olivier Derrien, Managing Director France, Salesforce SVP for Southern Europe: "The integration of InsideBoard into the AppExchange strengthens the user experience offered by Salesforce, based on the adoption and achievement of customer relationship transformation performance. Change management is an essential element in the success of our projects, and InsideBoard is the key partner in bringing about this adoption via digital."
InsideBoard's presence in Salesforce's AppExchange provides an additional guarantee of trust for clients who will be able to use the change management platform as part of a globally recognized and secure ecosystem.
"The arrival of InsideBoard in the AppExchange reinforces our technological partnership with Salesforce, in terms of the complementarity of our artificial intelligence engines, the fluidity of interactions between the two platforms and transaction security", says Yohan Bentolila, co-founder and CTO of InsideBoard.
InsideBoard is now connected to the thousands of Salesforce clients, which will enable it to accelerate its growth internationally. "We are proud to be in the Salesforce AppExchange, which confirms our strong four-year partnership. It is an additional step towards the industrialization of InsideBoard, which will result in the opening of its platform to its integration and consulting partners (including Accenture, Atos, BearingPoint, Deloitte, EI-Technologies, Ernst and Young, PwC, Twelve, and VO2 Group). For us, Dreamforce is the perfect opportunity to present the InsideBoard App", says Michael Bentolila.


BLANCO welcomes renowned celebrity chef, former Martha Stewart food editor and leading author Ying Chang, who recently redesigned her eco-friendly kitchen using BLANCO. We spoke to the national authority on Asian culture and cuisine about her new kitchen and her design concept.
What were some of the main challenges you faced when remodeling your kitchen?
The main challenge was to find a place for a large sink. We enlarged our windows so we were looking for a good spot to put a large sink and since I don't have a large kitchen, we needed a sink that would fit.
Was space a concern when designing the kitchen?
Well, we wanted to have a space large enough for two sinks. My son is a great cook so we wanted two sinks and we are always bumping into each other so we decided a prep sink and large sink would work beautifully for us. Plus, everyone always likes to chip in and help me cook, so it was practical to have a two sinks for meal preparation.
Why did you choose BLANCO?
I chose BLANCO because I love the design and functionality. I use the sink a great deal in the cooking process. Washing large pots, plates, vegetables plus I love the drain pan which I constantly use for cooking. I also think it's more of a clean look and having a build in drain pan feature really attracted me to the sink. Plus a deep prep sink is great for washing vegetables and very multifunctional.
You also selected the BLANCO SOLON COMPOST SYSTEM. Is recycling a big part of your lifestyle?
I chose SOLON™ because I believe in recycling, composting and having a vegetable garden.
Chinese people don't waste food. Most of the meals that I prepare at home are made from whole foods and not processed or packaged. I eat food that I can identify with so I try to use fresh ingredients all the time and whatever I don't use I compost, so very little waste goes in the trash.
It sounds like BLANCO plays an active role in your eco-friendly living. Your thoughts?
I am totally focused on "living green" and use all eco-friendly appliances in my kitchen with low formaldehyde. I also like open clean space when I am cooking. For example, I placed my gas cooktop to face an open space for entertaining so I could have more counter space and I don't like having cabinets hang over my head while I'm cooking or preparing a meal.
Your kitchen sounds perfect – exactly the way you wanted it. Was that difficult in achieving?
My kitchen from early on, had many special needs – green remodeling, open space, two sinks, etc. I am a writer, not a designer so I had to rewrite and rewrite the initial design draft until it was what I wanted and it's not easy (or cheap) to make revisions in a remodel so it has to be close to perfect before the remodeling starts. I spent years looking for what I wanted and I finally got it!
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Nixie the bad, bad fairy isn't really that bad . . . at least, she doesn't think she is. But sometimes she has to be a teeny-tiny bit bad because that goody, goody fairy, Adorabella, is just too . . . well . . . just too GOOD.
Fairy dust and magic are fine, but when your wand's as mischievous as you are, sometimes you have to rely on your own genius inventions to get you out of trouble!
I really enjoyed this book! It had lots of funny words in it that made me laugh.I like how Nixie the bad bad fairy plays tricks on people. her wand is naughtier than herself.I found the book very interesting and quite easy to read.I really liked the pictures they made me laugh, especially when Adorabella fell in the mud.I loved all the activities at the back of the book.The recipe for Lemon frosted cakes looks delicious, I hope to make them with my mum one day.I think this book would sell all around the world and I'd love to read more of these books.
My little girl was very eager to read this book – I think the idea of a bad fairy really appealed to her as fairies are usually good! Nixie isn't really bad though – she is just naughty and her wonky wand doesn't help matters! There is also a goody-goody fairy called Adorabella – although it turns out she is also a bit naughty (and a little bit annoying!). We love Nixie!! It's a story about all the fairies getting ready for the biggest event of the fairy calendar – the Blossom Ball. But will it be the best Blossom Ball ever?! The chapters are short, the font is quite big and the text is spaced out which makes it less daunting for a younger child to tackle. It has nice black and white illustrations and quirky text all the way through and there are even recipes and things to do at the back! Overall, a great book that has become a bedtime favourite in our house!!
I was really lucky because I won this book straight from the publisher. This book is about a fairy called Nixie, who is always getting the blame for things Adorabella does. I think it is good when Nixies friends Fidget and Fizz catch Adorabella with Nixies stolen wand and they get her back by turning her clothes into candy floss. This book is very enjoyable and funny, children my age will love it. I give it five stars.
I loved this book, it's nice to see a story from a not so perfect fairy point of view. She's naughty but lovable. Great book.
I read this book to my 5 year old. It took us while to get going with it and funnily Scarlett was slightly put off at the beginning due to the fact Nixies favourite animal was spiders! Scarlett HATES spiders and it actually put her off reading the book for a while! Once we got into the book she really started to enjoy it. It was a great transition from a picture book to a fiction book aimed at older children. This was because of the wonderful illustrations on many of the pages, nice large one sometimes taking up half the page. Scarlett is at the stage of wanting to listen to (and sometimes read herself) something that is a bit more challenging, but as she is only 5 she still wants to see some pictures in books to help her imagine a scene. She loved the story once it got going and loved the ongoing squabbles between Nixie and Adorabella. She became quite angry when Adorabella hid Nixies wand from her and told me it was stealing! She loved it when Nixies tried to help Tabitha Quicksilver with the lemon frosted cupcakes and ended up making them dance around the room! A great book that was a light, easy read. Took a while to get going but in the end Scarlett really enjoyed it!
This tells the story of Nixie the fairy who is quite naughty. My grandaughter who turns 5 in August insisted on reading this herself to me. Its taken a while but the book is aimed at an older audience, this taken into consideration, the story itself is funny and appealing to younger girls as well. My grandaughter loved nixie, and the cheeky phase we are going though she/we could certainly relate. The illustrations, all be it stars and flowers on each page made the book more appealing especially when nixie herself appears, making sure she remained engaged in the story.


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The Woman Who Married a Bear
Sitka, Alaska, is a subarctic port surrounded by snow-dusted mountains. In addition to honest work, there is a lot of alcohol consumed and other people's money appropriated. Bars are loud, fights are mean. Rowdy youths party in the ancient Russian cemeteries, sitting on overturned gravestones. Sitka is hardly straight-laced, but murder is uncommon enough to be widely noted—like the Indian big-game guide killed by an ex-miner obeying voices from the earth's center. The victim's mother, a Tlingit…
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Sitka, Alaska, is a subarctic port surrounded by snow-dusted mountains. In addition to honest work, there is a lot of alcohol consumed and other people's money appropriated. Bars are loud, fights are mean. Rowdy youths party in the ancient Russian cemeteries, sitting on overturned gravestones. Sitka is hardly straight-laced, but murder is uncommon enough to be widely noted—like the Indian big-game guide killed by an ex-miner obeying voices from the earth's center. The victim's mother, a Tlingit Indian, summons to her nursing home a local investigator named Cecil Younger. The case is old and ostensibly solved. She wants him to investigate anyway. What he unearths is a virtual fairytale contrived to hide a primal conspiracy.


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A Texas Rancher Cloned Deer For Years. Some Lawmakers Want To Legalize It.
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·National Reporter, HuffPost
April 21, 2021, 5:45 AM ·10 min read
AUSTIN, Texas — A Republican legislator wants to legalize deer cloning, and is accusing Texas wildlife officials of using the COVID-19 pandemic to undermine a breeder's attempts to spawn big bucks.
In a state that often blurs the distinction between hunting and farming, many game ranches have looked to science ― from supplemental protein to artificial insemination ― to grow bigger game for the deep-pocketed customers willing to pay well over $10,000 to shoot them. The proposed law, from state Rep. Matt Krause of Fort Worth, would legalize cloning to help in that endeavor.
But the prospect of commercial deer cloning has raised concern from wildlife officials, who say a rancher cloned and sold deer for years without the state's knowledge or authorization.
Krause filed the bill on behalf of Jason Abraham of Canadian, Texas, who told HuffPost he has cloned somewhere between 35 and 40 deer over the past decade. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department issued a regulation forbidding deer cloning last November.
A whitetail deer in the mesquite of Texas. (Photo: JudiLen via Getty Images)
Officials say they thought their rules always barred commercial cloning, but decided to make the prohibition more specific after hearing from unspecified sources that breeders interpreted the rules as permitting cloning.
Abraham thinks they were specifically targeting him. "We did this for 12 years, making clones," he said. "They put me out of business overnight."
Legalizing the practice, wildlife officials say, threatens to introduce unknown biological variables into the state's wildlife populations, and could make it harder to track chronic wasting disease, or CWD, a severe prion illness spreading across the country's deer herds.
HuffPost was not able to verify if any other states allow deer cloning. Texas officials said they did not know, either, and deer conservation organizations said they don't track the information. Asked about federal oversight, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service referred HuffPost to the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which in turn said to ask the Food and Drug Administration. An FDA spokesperson said the agency has no rules governing the cloning of either wild or captive deer.
Abraham said his is the only business in the country cloning deer ― or rather, it was, until Texas officials shut him down last year.
Krause, the state representative, described the action as regulatory overreach that threatens to upend the deer breeding business, a $1.6 billion annual industry in Texas.
"We need to get back to a place where the legislature gives their input on some of these big, wholesale changes, including the prohibition of deer cloning," Krause said at a March 29 committee hearing.
Krause's bill sailed through committee on a 6-2 vote, but needs approval from both houses of the state Legislature and the governor to become law.
A Market For Clones
Texas has a peculiar relationship with its deer, which creates unique incentives to clone. Unlike other western states that have vast public holdings, around 95% of Texas land is privately owned. Pay-to-hunt schemes abound due to the lack of access to public land.
In the United States, deer are generally considered a public wildlife resource managed by the states. At least five states either ban captive deer breeding or didn't have a recognized industry as of 2018, according to a report that year by the Quality Deer Management Association. Other states allow it, but consider the animals livestock. Texas is one of about a dozen states that classify captive deer as wildlife.
A 2005 photo shows a lab at ViaGen, a company in Texas that offers cloning of farm animals. (Photo: Carol Guzy/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Commercial hunting has driven major land use trends in the past few decades. Landowners have increasingly enclosed their holdings behind tall fences, partly to keep exotic wildlife from escaping hunting ranches and partly to keep desirable deer from getting killed on neighboring properties. And a 1985 legal change made it easier for game ranches to start breeding their own deer, in the interest of hosting the most impressive bucks.
Nearly 1,000 people in Texas hold deer breeder licenses allowing them to propagate and raise deer, usually with the ambition of growing bucks with the kind of towering racks that fetch the highest prices from paying hunters. Buck fawns raised in captivity can take just two years to grow to a size that might take four years for a fawn in the wild.
Commercial hunting in Texas spurred the first experiments with deer cloning. A few years after scientists cloned the first mammal, Dolly the sheep, in 1996, an unidentified hunter from South Texas presented Texas A&M University Professor Mark Westhusin, an expert in animal biotechnology, with the testicles of an exceptional buck, and asked him to extract the semen — a common industry procedure.
Instead, a group of researchers, led by Westhusin, used skin cells from around the testicles to clone eggs, which they inserted into a captive doe. They produced the world's first cloned whitetail deer in 2003.
TPWD would not allow the deer, named Dewey, to be transferred beyond the university. Westhusin and two others went on to form a company, Revolution Whitetails, that cloned three or four more bucks from the cells that produced Dewey for the original requester. The company cloned between eight and 10 whitetails for private breeders before exiting the business.
"At that time, there was no talk about turning clones out to shoot 'em," Westhusin said. "They were too damned expensive."
A separate company, ViaGen Pets and Equine, went on to acquire rights for cloning technology, propagating both domestic and wild species. It partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to clone a copy of the endangered black-footed ferret earlier this year, for example.
Abraham connected with ViaGen to clone horses, propagating hundreds of them. In 2013, Abraham sued the American Quarter Horse Association in federal court for refusing to register reproductions of prizewinning racers and cutting horses. He lost.
Around 2009, a rancher approached Abraham and asked him if he could clone deer. Abraham acquired permission from ViaGen, along with a deer breeder's license, and launched his business.
Abraham charged about $50,000 for whitetails and $75,000 for mule deer, focusing on what he calls "blue hens" ― does that reliably birth fawns that grow into exceptional bucks.
"We don't necessarily need to clone the bucks, because they can freeze the semen on them," Abraham told HuffPost.
Because Abraham produced his clones from cells harvested from hunted deer, he disputes TPWD's authority to regulate them. In the United States, the only time public wildlife becomes private property is the moment a hunter legally kills it and places a state-issued tag on the carcass.
Abraham's business attracted some local press attention in 2013 ― along with a condemnation from Outdoor Life magazine, which denounced his business as an unwelcome manipulation of wildlife. He began plotting his exit from the deer breeder business around 2014, saying he suspected TPWD would require him to kill off his deer herd because the agency had "weaponized" chronic wasting disease. He let his license lapse, but kept cloning for other breeders.
Wildlife officials say they only found out about Abraham's work after Krause filed legislation to protect him. His cloning operation "was not lawful activity," TPWD Big Game Program Director Mitch Lockwood told HuffPost. "We weren't even aware that it was occurring."
TPWD consulted with several deer breeders before the November changes. None opposed restricting cloning, Lockwood said. Some worried that expanded cloning would damage their industry.
Cloning threatened to introduce deer with modified genetics into wild populations, Lockwood said. And the agency worries that having more deer with identical DNA would thwart its efforts to contain CWD, the cervid version of mad cow disease. In Texas, every deer bred in captivity receives a unique ID number. If an animal's identification tags get lost, which happens, the state relies on DNA testing to tell the deer apart.
"Obviously, that could be hard to do if these deer have the same DNA," Lockwood said.
The idea of legalizing deer cloning struck Westhusin, the Texas A&M professor, as farcical. He never asked the government's permission to clone deer for science. "I don't know why there would be a bill to allow it — there's no bill that says you can't," Westhusin said. "And there shouldn't be, in my opinion."
He dismissed the concerns of wildlife officials, saying there's no scientific foundation for claiming the clones would mutate in the wild or make it harder to track CWD.
But he also questioned whether deer cloning makes business sense. Deer breeders today are growing much larger bucks than the one whose scrotal cells yielded his team's first clone in 2003.
"We already have giant deer," Westhusin said. "Times have changed. Someone might have an economic model that might make it work, but I can't come up with one with the deer we have in pens now."
'More Like Livestock'
The deer cloning bill promises to heighten long-simmering tensions over deer breeding and high fencing — both controversial subjects in Texas hunting circles.
Tall fences have helped keep large ranches profitable and intact, preserving crucial wildlife habitat in an era where large holdings routinely get subdivided. Well-managed properties often encompass thousands of acres, vastly exceeding a typical whitetail's home range. And some ranches are now looking to high fences not to keep wildlife in, but to keep chronic wasting disease out.
Abraham described the breeding system as a way to add value for hunters hoping to shoot bigger bucks than those that normally roam Texas.
"A low-fence guy, he puts out no effort, and he says 'Come out and shoot a deer,' and maybe you do it and you shoot a junk deer," Abraham said. "It might be a little bit more money to shoot a bigger deer under a high fence, but not a lot more."
If a deer's identification tags get lost, the state relies on DNA testing to tell one animal apart from another -- which becomes more complicated with clones.
But critics often view the fencing as the privatization of wildlife, and they deride enclosures as "canned hunts" where the wealthy can purchase large animals that skilled hunters spend a lifetime chasing. "It was never OK to clone deer," rancher Brian Treadwell, the only person to testify in opposition to the bill at its March 29 committee hearing, told HuffPost. "However many he's cloned, he's cheating the value of public resources."
Neither of the two most prominent groups that score deer sizes accept animals killed behind enclosures, no matter how large. That's partly because the Boone and Crockett Club founded the scoring system in the late 19th century to preserve a biological record of wild animals at a time when unregulated market hunting pushed many species, including the whitetail, toward the brink of extirpation from the United States.
Comparing wild, free-ranging animals to those bred in pens would be like "comparing apples to oranges," according to Roy Grace, records chairman for Pope and Young, the main scoring group for archers.
"Most non-hunters, if you told them you were hunting inside a pen, they would not have a positive response to that," Grace told HuffPost. "They are often treated more like livestock than wildlife."
And conservation groups typically prefer leaving wildlife to breed the old-fashioned way. "We will definitely oppose this," said Kip Adams of the National Deer Association, the country's largest deer conservation group, referring to Krause's legalization bill.
While the state works with nearly 1,000 licensed deer breeders, TPWD Wildlife Director John Silovsky noted that every year, 1 million people in Texas buy a hunting license. About 4 out of 5 of them are planning to hunt deer.
"We have a responsibility to all those people, whether they're a deer hunter or a deer breeder," Silovsky said. "We're managing this resource for everybody."
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article misstated the location of the city of Canadian, Texas, and misstated the name of the National Deer Association.
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There are four brain injury elements needed to diagnose a permanent brain injury.
The diagnosis of traumatic brain injury can be confirmed without a positive imaging study. Positive image studies such as a CT or MRI. It can be proven with these four brain injury elements. The problem is that in the acute stage, the doctors don't consider the injury serious enough. Because of this they may not perform a sufficiently detailed inquiry to find and/or document such elements.
For most of these elements it will be obvious to a family member or a loved one. Even if they point them out to a physician it doesn't mean that they will be taken seriously and more evaluation will be done. For instance, your loved one is in an accident and seems to be functioning fine but when asked what month it is, they forget a whole chunk of time. They may have post traumatic amnesia. Or let's say that your loved one is normally a docile person. After the accident they become extremely irritable and hard to manage. This would be an example of change of mental state. Only those who knew them would know this isn't the same person as before the accident. All these are brain injury elements.
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Mining and mineral production in Fiji contribute a small amount to the economy, although gold exports account for a sizeable amount of the country's foreign trade earnings as the country's third most valuable export (2012). In 2012 gold contributed 7.93% to all exports in the country. The country is located on the Pacific "Rim of Fire", known as a location of significant porphyry copper-gold and epithermal gold deposits.
The Emperor Gold Mine, managed and owned by the Vatukoula Gold Mines Plc., is the country's primary gold mine and has been extracting gold as far back as 1935. The mine closed briefly in 2006, to be reopened in 2008. Prior to its initial closure the mine produced a total of 220 metric tons of gold and 62 of silver.
In 2007 copper-gold deposits were discovered in joint exploratory venture between Nittetsu Mining, Mitsubishi Materials Corp and Newcrest Mining, 30 kilometres off the coast of Suva. The Namosi Joint Venture, as it is now known, was then thought to be one of the world's largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits. In 2011 the group was licenced to explore further in the seas around Fiji.
Other mines of particular significance include the Tuvatu Gold Mine and the Mount Kasi Gold Mine, which reopened in 2013 when Newcrest Exploration was given licence to carrying out $13 million in exploration works over the next three years.
Recent employment figures for the extractives industry in Fiji are unavailable. However, according to the Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics, the mining and quarrying industry employed 0.66% of the Fijian labour force in June 2006, equivalent to 2,154 workers – a significant increase from 1,899 in December 2005.
There are several locally operated quarrying companies in Fiji, the most notable of which is Fiji Industries Ltd and Standard Concrete Industries. Quarrying activities in the country mainly focus on the production of materials for construction including limestone, sand and gravel. In 2008, Standard Concrete Industries, the country's largest supplier of ready mix concrete, concrete blocks and paving slabs, expanded its operation base with the establishment of a 'super' quarry in Nadi. The quarry is located at the base of the Sleeping Giant mountain range in Sabeto, and produces crushed stone from hard rock deposits.
The Department of Mineral Resources is responsible for the oversight and development of Fiji's mineral and groundwater resources. The ministry is involved in research into geographical hazards, minerals and groundwater development, as well as managing the country's mining and quarrying sector through several government-backed acts and regulations and granting licences for exploration.
The Mining Act of 1966 is currently under review by the government. The current act relates to the mining of precious metals and other minerals, and specifies that the ownership of minerals is vested in the state. According to the Mining Act, administrative control over mineral resources is the responsibility of the Director of Mineral Development under the direction of the Minister for Lands, Mineral Resources and Energy. The Mining Act further provides for the appointment of inspectors of mines.
Clay, gravel, sand and stone are not defined as 'minerals' under the Mining Act and as such come under the separate Quarries Act. This act provides for regulation of quarrying activities by inspectors of mines as appointed under the Mining Act. Regulation of quarries is the responsibility of the Minister for Mineral Resources, who is also the Minister for Lands, Mineral Resources and Energy.
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Fiji is not currently EITI compliant.
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So it's that time of year again to get out there and support your local independent record store by snapping up those limited edition vinyls that are released only through physical stores and then listing it an hour later on ebay for double the price.
Koothoomi Records unfortunately do not take part in this annual event as we only have an internet based store and no matter how independent we are, we are not allowed to stock these limited edition vinyls that are released for Record Store Day, so like those of you who cant be bothered to go from store to store trying to find a hidden gem, we will be crawling through ebay trying to pick up a bargain or two.
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Opening Date For Universal Orlando Resort's "Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon" Announced
January 15, 2017 March 29, 2017 Amy Crooks	0 Comments universal orlando, universal orlando resort, universal studios
Universal Orlando Resort recently announced the opening date of "Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon." Great!!! It will officially open on April 6, 2017. Are you planning on visiting Universal Studios to ride it? I hope to! 🙂
More information from Universal Orlando Resort below:
UNIVERSAL ORLANDO'S NEW RIDE, RACE THROUGH NEW YORK STARRING JIMMY FALLON,
WILL CELEBRATE ITS GRAND OPENING ON APRIL 6, 2017
The Tonight Show will take the show on the road to Universal Orlando Resort
from April 3rd through 6th to celebrate the attraction's grand opening
Universal Orlando Resort announced that its newest ride, "Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon," will officially grand open on April 6, 2017. The attraction will give guests the ultimate "Tonight Show" experience as they get up close and personal with the show's most hilarious segments before taking off on a wild and action-packed race through New York City against Jimmy Fallon himself.
To celebrate the attraction's Grand Opening, "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" will take the show on the road with tapings from Universal Orlando Resort from April 3 through 6. Additional details on celebrity guests and how to become a part of the show audience will be released over time.
As they experience the attraction, guests will make their way through Studio 6B to board the world's first-ever flying theater, which seats up to 72 audience members, for the race of a lifetime. They will speed through the streets of New York City and all the way to the moon and back, encountering iconic landmarks from the Statue of Liberty to the Empire State Building to everything in between.
"Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon" will be the first attraction at Universal Studios Florida to feature an all-new Virtual Line experience, allowing guests to spend less time waiting in line and more time discovering even more incredible thrills throughout Universal Studios. The Virtual Line system is accessible via the Official Universal Orlando Resort App or at kiosks located outside the attraction entrance.
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