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Zoetis Announces FDA Approval of Simparica Trio® (sarolaner, moxidectin, and pyrantel chewable tablets) New Label Indication for Prevention of Borrelia burgdorferi Infections in Dogs
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Simparica Trio proven to block the pathogen that causes Lyme disease by killing deer ticks
PARSIPPANY, N.J. –January 4, 2022– Zoetis today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new label indication for Simparica Trio® (sarolaner, moxidectin, and pyrantel chewable tablets) for the prevention of Borrelia burgdorferi infections as a direct result of killing Ixodes scapularis vector ticks (black-legged or deer ticks). Simparica Trio is approved for dogs eight weeks of age and older weighing 2.8 pounds and greater. Simparica Trio is the first and only combination product demonstrated to prevent infections that may cause Lyme disease by killing deer or black-legged ticks.
"Tick-borne diseases are a serious threat to pets and Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted by deer ticks. It is critical to have easily accessible and effective options for preventing infections available to protect dogs from ticks so they can spend more quality time with their owners," said Jen Sheehy, DVM BCPA, Medical Lead for Parasitology at Zoetis. "This new efficacy claim provides a new tool to veterinary teams who understand that healthy pets mean happy people and who work every day to provide the best care for our dogs."
Lyme disease is one of the most common tick-borne illnesses transmitted to dogs and data shows that it is a growing threat to dogs in the United States.1 This is the first new indication for Simparica Trio since its approval in February 2020, and it is particularly significant as ticks are a threat year-round. In fact, deer ticks that can carry Lyme disease are especially active in cooler months.2 In 2020, one in 20 dogs across the United States tested positive for Lyme infection.3
"Once dogs are infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria's unique mode of motility allows it to rapidly disseminate throughout the body. This can make the infection difficult to treat," said Dr. Richard T. Marconi, Ph.D. (Microbiology & Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center).i "The most important thing we can do is to prevent infection in the first place using a comprehensive strategy that includes the use of an effective tick preventative product and vaccination."
Simparica Trio delivers on Zoetis' commitment to innovation in parasiticides
The evolution of Simparica Trio's labeling is just the latest example of Zoetis' commitment to next-generation parasiticide products and solutions for veterinarians, enabling them to provide the best prevention and treatment options for pets. Simparica Trio is the first and only product to provide all-in-one protection against heartworm disease, ticks* and fleas, roundworms and hookworms** in a single monthly chewable. Now with FDA approval for the prevention of Borrelia burgdorferi infections by killing deer ticks, Simparica Trio can deliver the comprehensive protection that every dog deserves.
This recent label expansion also included approval for the treatment and control of immature stages (L4 and immature adult) hookworm, which helps provide a more comprehensive intestinal parasite control program. With this addition, Simparica Trio is now approved for the treatment and control of roundworm (immature adult and adult Toxocara canis and adult Toxascaris leonina) and hookworm (L4 and adult Ancylostoma caninum and adult Uncinaria stenocephala) infections. Treatment and control of immature and adult roundworms and hookworms help reduce environmental contamination from worm eggs and lowers the risk of infection in dogs.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION FOR SIMPARICA TRIO:
Use with caution in dogs with a history of seizures. Simparica Trio contains sarolaner, a member of the isoxazoline class, which has been associated with neurologic adverse reactions including tremors, ataxia, and seizures in dogs with or without a history of neurologic disorders. The safe use of Simparica Trio has not been evaluated in breeding, pregnant, or lactating dogs. The most frequently reported adverse reactions in clinical trials were vomiting and diarrhea. See full Prescribing Information.
Clinical signs of Lyme disease in dogs include lameness, enlarged lymph nodes, fever, lack of appetite and lethargy. In some cases, it can also lead to kidney failure. It is possible for a dog to be infected with the disease and not show clinical signs.
About Zoetis
As the world's leading animal health company, Zoetis is driven by a singular purpose: to nurture our world and humankind by advancing care for animals. After nearly 70 years innovating ways to predict, prevent, detect, and treat animal illness, Zoetis continues to stand by those raising and caring for animals worldwide -- from livestock farmers to veterinarians and pet owners. The company's leading portfolio and pipeline of medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and technologies make a difference in over 100 countries. A Fortune 500 company, Zoetis generated revenue of $6.7 billion in 2020 with approximately 11,300 employees. For more information, visit www.zoetis.com.
*Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum), Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum), American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), black-legged or deer tick (Ixodes scapularis), and brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus)
**Roundworms (Toxocara canis and Toxascaris leonina) & hookworms (Ancylostoma caninum and Uncinaria stenocephala)
iDr. Richard T. Marconi has a consulting relationship with Zoetis.
Veterinary Practice News. Study shows increase of Lyme disease in dogs. https://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/study-shows-increase-of-lyme-disease-in-dogs/. Accessed November 29, 2021.
Companion Animal Parasite Council. https://capcvet.org/guidelines/ixodes-scapularis-and-ixodes-pacificus/. Accessed November 29,
CAPC: Parasite Prevalence Maps Canine Lyme Disease USA 2020. https://capcvet.org/maps/#/2020/all-year/lyme-disease/dog/united-states. Accessed November 29, 2021.
Parna Ghosh, Meriam N. Saleh, Kellee D. Sundstrom, Michelle Ientile, and Susan E. Little. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. Jan 2021.11-19.


This video tutorial explains about the difference between primary key and unique key in oracle sql which is also a to be asked interview quiestion. After watching this video you will be able to explain the difference between both the constraints.
. Index 1) Why indexes? Indexes are used by queries to find data from tables quickly. Indexes are created on tables and views. Index on a table or a view, is very similar to an index that we find in a book. Clustered and Non-Clustered indexes Note that Id column is marked as primary key. Primary key, constraint create clustered indexes automatically if no clustered index already exists on the table and a nonclustered index is not specified when you create the PRIMARY KEY constraint. a clustered index dictates the physical storage order of the data in a table, a table can contain only one clustered index. A clustered index is analogous to a telephone directory Non Clustered Index: A nonclustered index is analogous to an index in a textbook. The data is stored in one place, the index in another place. Difference between Clustered and NonClustered Index: 1. Only one clustered index per table, where as you can have more than one non clustered index 2. Clustered index is faster than a non clustered index, because, the non-clustered index has to refer back to the table, if the selected column is not present in the index. 3. Clustered index determines the storage order of rows in the table, and hence doesn't require additional disk space, but where as a Non Clustered index is stored seperately from the table, additional storage space is required. Unique index is used to enforce uniqueness of key values in the index. Let's understand this with an example. Note: 1. By default, a PRIMARY KEY constraint, creates a unique clustered index, where as a UNIQUE constraint creates a unique nonclustered index. These defaults can be changed if you wish to. 2. A UNIQUE constraint or a UNIQUE index cannot be created on an existing table, if the table contains duplicate values in the key columns. Obviously, to solve this,remove the key columns from the index definition or delete or update the duplicate values. 3. By default, duplicate values are not allowed on key columns, when you have a unique index or constraint. For, example, if I try to insert 10 rows, out of which 5 rows contain duplicates, then all the 10 rows are rejected. However, if I want only the 5 duplicate rows to be rejected and accept the non-duplicate 5 rows, then I can use IGNORE_DUP_KEY option. An example of using IGNORE_DUP_KEY option is shown below.


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Spotify has launched a beta test for a new dedicated portal for podcasts. Spotify for Podcasters lets any users distribute their shows to the streaming service by submitting their RSS feeds. with no editorial approval needed. NOTE: A spokesperson for Spotify told RAIN News that in fact there is an evaluation process for uploaded podcasts. The dashboard also offers daily statistics and analytics about a show's complete catalog or individual episodes in addition to back-end management. Spotify boasts millions of podcast listeners and offers categories to help producers encourage discovery.
The beta test appears to be open to any podcasters. Spotify acknowledges in the FAQ for the new portal that it will be adding more features over time. The beta label is because "we haven't yet had a chance to build things we know you need and want." The company is open to hearing feedback and suggestions for the new feature during the ongoing development process.
Podnews tipped us off to this development, and it also has some insights about how Spotify is handling metrics. Since the streaming platform caches audio, stats from Spotify listens won't appear in the analytics offer by a regular podcast host and won't be measured by services such as Podtrac. That caveat applies to podcasts already hosted elsewhere, whose producers want to be exposed to Spotify's large app audience. For new shows uploading to this platform, Spotify is the host, providing platform-specific analytics just like any other podcast host. CORRECTION: The service requires an existing RSS feed, so Spotify is not acting as an open hosting platform for new shows.
Spotify previously announced a move that would let some independent artists directly upload their music to the streaming platform. In both these developments, Spotify is repositioning itself as more than just an access point for a growing suite of entertainment. The company is muscling into SoundCloud's territory as an open platform for enterprising artists and podcasters to take control of their own digital distribution. Dedicated podcast hosts in the vein of Libsyn and Blubrry will want to watch this development with an eagle eye.
They seem to be more of a directory/podcast player app than a hosting service. While they're caching your podcasts (and providing analytics on it), you have to have your content hosted somewhere. At least when I just signed up for it now, that was the case.
Thanks Rusty — we made a couple of corrections to the piece.
Thanks Todd — we learned about our error (mine, specifically, not Anna's), and made the correction.
You did get the facts correct on this article. They are not doing podcast hosting – they are simply giving podcasters that self host or are hosting on a non-partner like soundcloud a way to submit their RSS feed. This is in no way them getting into podcast hosting. This is just a way for people to submit their feeds directly to Spotify.
Thanks Rob — that was my error; I inserted the sentence and misunderstood the Spotify initiative. Article is corrected.


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By Corey GriffinOct 6, 2015, 2:28 PM EDT
The job of an interim head coach is incredibly difficult. You're taking over a group of players in which you had minimal say selecting and things have obviously gone poorly enough to that point to necessitate a major, franchise-altering change at one of the organization's most important positions.
Dan Campbell takes over as the interim leader of the Miami Dolphins after a 1-3 start cost Joe Philbin his job. For all of Philbin's faults, and he had several, Miami's issues run much deeper than motivational tactics and practice habits. In order to correct course, Campbell will have to change the Dolphins' identity on both sides of the ball.
It starts on offense, where quarterback Ryan Tannehill has regressed in a one-dimensional attack under offensive coordinator Bill Lazor. Praised for his ability to apply Chip Kelly's offensive principles to Miami's personnel last season, Lazor's play-calling this year has been scattershot at best and braindead at worst. Running back Lamar Miller, one of the most effective and efficient backs last season, has been an afterthought through four games. Miller has just 37 rushing attempts, four fewer than Le'Veon Bell has in two games and only eight more than Chris Ivory received in New York's win over Miami on Sunday.
As evidenced in Philadelphia, a consistent running game is crucial to success in Kelly and Lazor's offense, which relies on pace but also the air of unpredictability. In this scheme, the offense is supposed to be able to run or pass out of almost every formation, keeping the defense in the dark before the snap and limiting the type of personnel it can play. With no ground game to speak of, defenses are keying on the Dolphins' passing game and preying on a suspect offensive line, which has allowed a whopping 68 pressures thus far, according to Pro Football Focus. The added pressure has turned Tannehill into even more a one-read, short passing machine. Through four games, Tannehill's 4.96 adjusted net yards per attempt ranks 27th with 65 of his 97 completions coming either within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage or behind it.
In order to fix Miami's offense, Lazor, and by extension Campbell, must find a way to make Tannehill more comfortable in the pocket while keeping defenses from blitzing without regard. That means re-establishing Miller and shifting the run-pass balance closer to last year's 40-60 split from the current 27-63 ratio. It would also be wise for Lazor to re-install some of the zone read concepts and designed quarterback runs the Dolphins used after the bye week last season, an added wrinkle that created personnel mismatches and made use of Tannehill's full skill set.
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On defense, the problem is simpler at first, yet eventually more complex. Following their loss to the Jets on Sunday, the unit is dismal in almost every metric – 30th in yards allowed per game and 27th as graded cumulatively by Pro Football Focus. Despite signing defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh to a six-year, $114 million contract and devoting a staggering $32.4 million to their defense line this season, the Dolphins have just one sack. For comparison's sake, the league-leading Broncos have 11 players with at least one sack.
The easiest solution is to fire defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle, whose read-and-react passive scheme negates the best, and most expensive, assets on Miami's defense. Coyle has also come under fire from within his own locker room, with Suh reportedly outright disregarding Coyle following a closed-door meeting with the coordinator. Even if Coyle remains, the Dolphins must become a more aggressive, attacking unit up front to account for a thin and undersized secondary. That means abandoning Coyle's preferred two-gapping method on the defensive line, where players are responsible for the holes on each side, and installing a one-gap system where Suh, Cameron Wake, Olivier Vernon and Earl Mitchell are allowed to run upfield and attack the offensive backfield.
The concern with playing more aggressively up front is it could leave the Dolphins exposed against screens, delays and cut-back lanes. If Suh or one of his fellow linemen were to blow an assignment or over-pursue up front, the entire defense could be exposed for a big play, particularly a secondary that struggles in man coverage. Unfortunately for the Dolphins, it's a risk they have to take. Without a man corner like Darrelle Revis in tow, the Dolphins' best bet to defensive success is to push the pocket and hopefully disrupt the timing between quarterback and wide receiver or tight end.
It's not an ideal fix, but then neither is trying to establish a run game behind a struggling offensive line missing its best player in left tackle Brandon Albert. Teams don't stumble upon firing a head coach midseason. It's the end result of bad drafting, poor roster management and a misunderstanding of the personnel available. The Dolphins check all three boxes, in addition to a head coach nearly the entire team had turned against.
These are problems an interim coach probably can't fix.


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Home Editorial US Opinion and Editorial Huma Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood: Closely Connected
Huma Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood: Closely Connected
Senator John McCain ought to be embarrassed. So should House Speaker John Boehner and Congressman Mike Rogers, the former FBI agent who chairs the Select Committee on Intelligence.
These pillars of the Republican establishment have been championing the cause of Huma Abedin, the deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ms. Abedin's name arose, along with several others, in connection with questions pressed by five conservative House Republicans regarding Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the United States government. The GOP establishment, led by McCain, Boehner and Rogers, has been slamming Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, one of the five House conservatives, over her refusal to back down from concerns over Ms. Abedin.
Here are four things, among many, that we now know:
1. Huma Abedin's mother, Dr. Saleha S. Mahmood Abedin (hereafter, Saleha Abedin), is an influential member of the Muslim Brotherhood's division for women, the Muslim Sisterhood. She is also a zealous advocate of sharia law's oppression of women — which McCain himself condemned in a 2011 interview with Der Spiegel.
2. Not only that: Saleha Abedin is a board member of the International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief. The IICDR has been long banned in Israel for supporting Hamas. It is also part of the Union for Good, which is a formally designated international terrorist organization under federal law. The Union for Good is led by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the chief sharia jurist of the Muslim Brotherhood. He is the world's most influential Islamic cleric, and has issued fatwas endorsing suicide bombings against Israel and terrorist attacks against American forces in Iraq.
3. Moreover, it turns out that Huma Abedin herself was, until late 2008, a member of another of her mother's Islamist organizations, the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. The Center for Security Policy has reviewed past mastheads of the IMMA's journal. Huma Abedin is listed as an assistant editor (to her mother, the editor-in-chief) as far back as 1996, the year she began interning at the Clinton White House. The IMMA was started in Saudi Arabia in the Seventies by Huma Abedin's parents, with the backing of Abdullah Omar Naseef. Naseef is a former secretary-general of the Muslim World League, which, as I've previously explained, has long been the Muslim Brotherhood's principal vehicle for the international propagation of Islamic supremacist ideology. Under the auspices of the MWL, Naseef not only backed the IMMA; he founded the Rabita Trust, which — like the Union for Good — is a specially designated international terrorist organization under federal law.
4. Furthermore, Huma Abedin's brother, Hassan Abedin, besides also being part of the IMMA, was a fellow at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies. On the board at the Oxford Center when Hassan Abedin was a fellow were the aforementioned Brotherhood heavyweights and terror promoters, Sheikh Qaradawi and Abdullah Omar Naseef.
There is a great deal of background information now available about Huma Abedin and her family connections to the Brotherhood. In particular, extensive research has been done by Walid Shoebat, a former Muslim Brother who has renounced the Brotherhood, and the Center for Security Policy. I would encourage interested readers to peruse the information they have put out, and are continuing to unearth. I am simply distilling the highlights, which powerfully demonstrate that it is the Republican establishment acting irresponsibly, not Rep. Bachmann and her conservative colleagues.
In a nutshell, shortly after Huma Abedin was born in 1976, the Abedin family moved from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Saudi Arabia, a country governed by sharia and thus one of the world's most repressive places, particularly for women. The family's move was encouraged by Naseef, who would soon be Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL). Naseef had been dean at the King Abdul Azziz University when Dr. Zyed Abedin (Huma's father) taught there as a visiting professor in the early Seventies. At Naseef's urging, the aforementioned Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA) was formed as an Islamist academic institution, with Zyed Abedin as editor-in-chief of its journal.
As Shoebat relates, the IMMA was operated under the management of one of the MWL's most significant organizations, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth. I discussed WAMY in The Grand Jihad. Its principal role is the indoctrination of young Muslims in supremacist ideology — as outlined in one of its pamphlets, Islamic Views, it aims to "teach our children to love taking revenge on the Jews and the oppressors, and teach them that our youngsters will liberate Palestine and al-Quds [i.e., Jerusalem] when they go back to Islam and make Jihad for the sake of Allah." As Matthew Levitt extensively details in Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad, WAMY has been a financial supporter of Hamas and al Qaeda.
Saleha Abedin, like her late husband, is an academic. She is also a member of the Muslim Brotherhood — specifically, of its women's division, the Muslim Sisterhood. Shoebat explains that Sisterhood members include the wives and some other female relatives of high-ranking Brotherhood members. Indeed, Nagla Ali Mahmoud, the wife of newly elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, as also a Sisterhood member.
Since its founding, Saleha Abedin had been heavily involved in the IMMA. As did her late husband, she has close ties to IMMA's original backer, former MWL leader Naseef. Saleha Abedin has represented herself several times as a representative of the MWL. This is no surprise: She was listed on the MWL's website as a member of the organization — a listing that was evidently purged after controversy arose over Huma Abedin's Islamist ties. (Walid Shoebat copied a screenshot before it was deleted.)
Saleha Abedin also directs the International Islamic Committee for Woman and Child. In fact, the IICWC was listed as a MWL organization on Saleha Abedin's (now deleted) MWL membership page. The authors of the IICWC's charter are Sheikh Qaradawi and several other self-proclaimed Muslim Brotherhood members.
In addition, the IICWC describes itself as part of the aforementioned International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief (IICDR). As the Center for Security Policy has pointed out, the logo for the IICWC brandishes the IICDR emblem. "Dawa" is the the "call to Islam" — i.e., the aggressive proselytism of Islam and its sharia that, according to Sheikh Qaradawi, will lead Islam to "conquer Europe" and "conquer America." Qaradawi, in fact, was the IICDR's chairman. A document from the United Nations archives identifies Saleha Abedin (spelled as "Abdien" and showing her affiliation as "IICW&CH") as figure featured prominently at an IICDR board meeting.
The IICDR has been banned in Israel for providing material support for Hamas — the Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. Hamas is a specially designated terrorist organization under American law. The IICDR supported Hamas under the auspices of Qaradawi's aforementioned Union for Good, which is also a designated terrorist organization under American law. This, too, is no surprise. The financial support of Hamas has long been a top priority of Qaradawi and the Brotherhood. Moreover, the Union for Good was behind the "Freedom Flotilla" by which Turkish Islamists attempted to break Israel's blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza in 2010.
Consistent with Brotherhood membership, Saleha Abedin's work at the MWL, IMMA, and IICWC, has stridently advocated sharia law — specifically, the interpretation endorsed by Sheikh Qaradawi and by the Muslim Brotherhood's leading American think-tank, the International Institute of Islamic Thought, in the manual called Reliance of the Traveller — which I outlined here. The IICWC website calls for the repeal of Mubarak-era Egyptian laws that ban female genital mutilation, child marriage, and marital rape. All of these noxious practices find support in Islamic scripture. Therefore, according to thinkers like Saleha Abedin, they may not be prohibited because nothing permitted by sharia may be forbidden by man-made law.
Moreover, as the Center for Security Policy details, Saleha Abedin published a book called Women in Islam, under the auspices of the IICWC and the IMMA. The book is a sharia guide to women's issues, and it extensively cites the writings of Sayyid Qutb, who was the Brotherhood's leading theorist after the death of its founder, Hassan al-Banna. Qutb was executed by the Egyptian government in 1966, and his writings continue to influence jihadist terror organizations, including al Qaeda.
Women in Islam asserts that man-made laws "enslave women" and that sharia is women's "only escape." The book provides sharia justifications for such practices as: female genital mutilation; stoning and lashing as punishments for adultery; forbidding the death penalty for the murder of apostates (sharia prescribes the death penalty for apostatizing from Islam); the participation of women in violent jihad; prohibiting social interaction between the sexes; requiring women to be veiled; restricting free speech to what benefits Islam; forbidding women from abstaining from sexual intercourse on demand by their husbands; and requiring women to bar entry of any person into their homes unless their husbands have granted permission.
We have no way of knowing, of course, whether Senator McCain was familiar with Saleha Abedin's book when he rose to Huma Abedin's defense. Ironically, though, he told Der Speigel in 2011 that what he found most objectionable about sharia was its mistreatment of women.
Saleha Abedin's book was published in 1999 and has been available through the IMMA ever since. That is very interesting because Huma Abedin herself was affiliated with the IMMA from as far back as 1996 until late 2008, after which she joined the State Department. She is no longer listed, but a screenshot of the IMMA journal's website, captured in 2008, identifies her as an assistant editor.
Besides Huma and Saleha (who is identified as editor), the IMMA website lists Huma's brother, Hassan Abedin, as an associate editor. For a number of years in the mid-2000s, while he was affiliated with IMMA, Hassan Abedin was also a fellow at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies. The board members at the time included Sheikh Qaradawi and Omar Abdullah Naseef — leaders, respectively, of the aforementioned terrorist entities Union for Good and the Rabita Trust.
Michele Bachmann and her four conservative House colleagues — Louie Gohmert, Trent Franks, Lynn Westmorland and Tom Rooney — have called for a serious vetting of government officials who may have Muslim Brotherhood ties. Obviously, it is much needed in light of the Brotherhood's hostility to America, promotion of terrorism, and propagation of Islamic supremacist ideology. Yet, the Obama administration and the Left are obstructing such a vetting — with strong assistance from Republican leadership in Congress. What is going on here is classic misdirection: While everyone is focused on Huma Abedine and the demagoguing of Michele Bachmann, no one seems to be noticing that the administration — with GOP leadership's apparent approval — is serially aligning American government policy with Muslim Brotherhood priorities.
Senator McCain is probably hopeless. But perhaps Speaker Boehner and Chairman Rogers could find a way to attack the Muslim Brotherhood rather than their conservative colleagues. Just a thought.
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BREWTON, NY – Schneider Packaging Equipment Company introduces the newest robotic accumulator/loader for plastic bottle manufacturing. The Robox accumulator/loader is the definitive system for portable, versatile robotic accumulation and case loading.
The Robox accumulator/loader is perfect for packaging operations that have multiple plastic bottle products and numerous pack orientations that would otherwise require multiple machines or manual packing. Schneider's Robox accumulator/loader orients product either necks up, necks down; by row or by individual bottle, with the press of a button. The system is designed to handle the speed of most low to medium output machines.
Equipped with an integral platform that makes transportation practical and set up minimal, the utilitarian Robox accumulator/loader has useful options and configurations in an open and serviceable layout. Cases can be packed with or without a bag and are automatically feed to the case loading station where the robotic arm picks an entire row or two of bottles and places them into the case in the appropriate pattern. If the layer board option has been selected, the robot will select a layer board and place it between the appropriate layers. For pack patterns that require it, the Robox accumulator/loader can turn bottles 90 degrees before placing them into the case.
The machine's small footprint reduces floor space requirements while retaining all the rugged durability that is the hallmark of Schneider equipment. The Schneider Robox accumulator/loader offers a user-friendly set-up utilizing FANUC robotic arms with optimized Human Machine Interface that simplifies changeover and eliminates programming. A standard ethernet port allows remote monitoring and diagnosis.
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Chelsea identify two Serie A players as potential January targets.
Krzysztof Piatek and Daniele Rugani are wanted by the Blues.
Chelsea reportedly want to sign TWO players from Serie A when the January transfer window wants to come arrive.
Maurizio Sarri's appointment led to an onslaught of rumours linking Chelsea with every player currently competing in Serie A. Interested we may have been, but Jorginho was the only player who swapped Italy for England over the summer.
What can't be denied is that Sarri's knowledge of Italian football is vast. If he identifies a player from Serie A that he would like to see in a Chelsea shirt, the club ought to listen to him.
According to Il Corriere Dello Sport (via Calciomercato), Krzysztof Piatek and Daniele Rugani have been added to Chelsea's transfer wish-list for the January window. The report claims that Sarri has played a role in te identification of those targets.
Rugani is a long-term target for the club, while Piatek is currently the top goal-scorer in Europe's top five leagues. They're both young, both talented, the boxes are ticked.
We will see.. Good Luck!


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Q: Free RSS Aggregation between Windows and Mac I recently purchased a MacBook to compliment my Windows desktop machine.  I am hunting around for a free RSS aggregator that I could use on both machines.  Currently I am using Google reader, but I miss the ability to preview articles before I navigate to them.  Additionally I do not want to manage two separate lists for each machine.  It does not matter to me if I use two different products for each OS, or an online product between the two.
Can anyone recommend a feature rich, free RSS aggregator that supports article previews that I can use in a Windows or Mac environment?

A: If you click "Expanded" in the top right, you get something like what you want. But not just a snippet.
Another option is to use http://snackr.net/ and if you really feel excited you can tweak the code. This integrates with Google Reader, and is cross platform, which is nice. However, it isn't quite a passive as you would probably like. You will find it hard trying to find anything with a better feature set than Google Reader though.

A: Try NewsBar for OS X - it will sync with your Google Reader account.

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The Future of Trade
Can twentieth-century mechanisms of globalization be salvaged to continue delivering prosperity in coming decades?
Rohinton P. Medhora
Chinese container ship Cosco Glory waits to be unloaded at the Port of Oakland (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
Critical reviews of hard-hitting commentaries on urgent global issues are published periodically by Project Syndicate as part of their Issue Adviser series. In the latest instalment, below, the president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation assesses the populist threat to globalization and international trade and considers arguments by economists such as Kaushik Basu, Jeffrey Frankel, Laura Tyson and other commentators
With ample prodding from US President Donald Trump and other populist demagogues, public angst about globalization has become one of the defining issues of our time. Indeed, out of all of globalization's many manifestations, populists have singled out international trade agreements for special criticism. To hear Trump tell it, "horrible" trade deals are to blame for almost everything that is wrong in the world today.
To be sure, populist nationalism appears to have suffered a setback in recent months, losing badly in national elections this year in the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom. But globalization is not out of the woods yet. Public concerns about the impact of international economic integration have been building up for years, and will not simply dissipate as a result of a few elections or referenda.
Ongoing debates about globalization have naturally focused on individual free-trade agreements, and on bilateral trade arrangements such as those between the United States and China. But they have also addressed more abstract questions, such as what the future of globalization may hold, and, specifically, whether a new rules-based global consensus can be forged for the twenty-first century.
Project Syndicate commentators have been leading participants in these debates; and, although they tend to support political and economic openness in general, and free trade in particular, their views are hardly monolithic. Taken together, their differing perspectives provide a nuanced prognosis not just for international trade, but also for internationalism itself.
Sour Deals
One crucial indication of where global trade is heading came when Trump took office, and immediately withdrew the US from the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). But another indication will come later this summer, notes Harvard's Christopher Smart, a former special assistant to US President Barack Obama for international economics, trade, and investment, when the Trump administration's strategy and objectives for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement will finally "receive prime-time scrutiny."
During his election campaign, Trump called NAFTA the "single worst trade deal" ever signed by the US. But it is worth recalling that when NAFTA came into force in 1994, it went far beyond the existing international-trade norms and practices at that time, and it significantly advanced the goals of economic liberalism. This was especially important for Mexico, whose membership in NAFTA signaled its intent to become a modern, developed economy. As Laura Tyson of the University of California, Berkeley, points out, "After NAFTA's passage in 1994, trade between the US and Mexico grew rapidly," such that, today, "the US and Mexico are not just trading goods with each other; they are producing goods with each other."
It isn't evident that the Trump administration understands this fact, not least because standard trade figures tend to hide the full impact of cross-border value chains. According to one estimate that Tyson cites, "40% of the value added to the final goods that the US imports from Mexico come from the US; Mexico contributes 30-40% of that value; the remainder is provided by foreign suppliers." When these value-chain dynamics are considered, the US trade deficit with Mexico actually falls by half.
And that doesn't even account for the millions of US jobs that are directly connected to imports, notes Anne Krueger, a former World Bank chief economist. After all, "Foreign automobiles," Krueger points out, "would not be sold [in the US] if the parts and mechanics for servicing them were unavailable."
Were Trump to impose a higher tariff on Mexican imports, as he has repeatedly threatened to do, US exports of intermediate goods to Mexico and Mexican exports to the US would both decline. The result, suggests Daniel Gros of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels, would be a smaller market for US exports to Mexico, more expensive Mexican inputs in US production, and higher prices for US consumers. In fact, one area where US consumers will almost surely foot the bill, contends Smart's Harvard colleague, Jeffrey Frankel, is in the sugar industry, which has long enjoyed "trade protection, in the form of import tariffs and quotas, to ensure that domestic sugar prices far exceed those in supplier countries like Australia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, and Mexico."
According to Frankel, these protectionist measures have cost US consumers "an estimated $3 billion per year," while fueling environmental degradation and job losses in other sectors of the US economy. But despite this poor track record, Frankel expects Trump's NAFTA renegotiation to "produce a sweet deal for the US sugar industry," owing to "a small group of wealthy sugarcane growers, largely in Florida, who offer generous campaign contributions to the relevant politicians." And, beyond exposing conflicts of interests – a prominent feature of Trump's presidency – Smart also suspects that the NAFTA renegotiation will reveal "fundamental flaws in Trump's thinking" on trade.
That's too bad, because, as Frankel points out, the decades-old trade deal could stand to be updated. For example, NAFTA does not currently cover "e-commerce and data localization," and it could do more to protect the environment and workers. Moreover, the US in particular would benefit from adjustments to the current investor-state dispute resolution system and stronger intellectual property (IP) protections.
A reconceived NAFTA could also be expanded. With more countries in the mix, Canada could agree to import more dairy products from the US, in exchange for easier access to Japanese markets for its pork, beef, and lumber exports. Of course, at that point, Frankel concedes, NAFTA would closely resemble the ill-fated TPP.
Likewise, Smart argues that if Trump had kept the TPP on track, he could have improved not just the US position in Asia, but also his own position in the NAFTA renegotiation. Indeed, Mexico was "more willing to engage in a conversation about modernizing NAFTA when the prize included US-backed access to Asian economies through the TPP." Now that the "TPP is off the table, Mexican enthusiasm for a new NAFTA could dim."
This points to the many unintended consequences that could stem from Trump's approach to trade around the world. As Yale's Stephen Roach warns, the stakes are especially high in the case of China. The US and China have long had what he calls "a highly reactive relationship" of economic codependency, whereby one wrong move could set off a destructive downward spiral. Keyu Jin of the London School of Economics provides one example: If Trump acts on his campaign threats against China, she says, "China could stop purchasing US aircraft, impose an embargo on US soybean products, and dump US Treasury securities and other financial assets."
So far, a US-China trade war seems to have been avoided, owing to Chinese President Xi Jinping's bonding session with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in April. But that does not mean the two countries won't lock horns in the future. Moreover, even without an all-out trade war, China could frustrate the Trump administration's "America first" agenda, not least by letting its currency depreciate.
Chinese authorities have every incentive to do precisely that. Since June 2014, notes Cornell University's Eswar Prasad, China has spent almost $1 trillion propping up the renminbi. If Trump gives it a reason to abandon market intervention, the value of the renminbi will fall, China's trade competitiveness will increase, and America's trade deficit vis-à-vis China will grow further. And, as Jin wryly notes, nothing makes Trump more "furious" than the fact that "China exports more to the United States than the US exports to China."
But a China that has been unnecessarily provoked could do far more than hurt Trump's pride. Harvard's Kenneth Rogoff, for example, worries that "huge swaths of Asia," including US allies and partners such as Taiwan (Province of China) and India, are already "vulnerable to Chinese aggression." And, as Cornell's Kaushik Basu points out, Trump's isolationist foreign policy will only encourage China – as well as other emerging countries such as Mexico and India – to become more nationalistic and assertive.
That is the last thing an already messy, multipolar world needs. An American policy of isolationism in the 1920s and 1930s, Nouriel Roubini of New York University reminds us, "helped sow the seeds of World War II." Today, a similar policy could embolden China to step up its territorial claims in Asia and the South China Sea, or precipitate a nuclear arms race between Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt. Even barring a geopolitical crisis, notes Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, Trump's presidency has already introduced uncertainty that will "discourage investment, especially cross-border investment," and make businesses – many of which employ Americans – "think twice as they construct global supply chains."
Still, a slightly more optimistic view holds that Trump's presidency will prompt the rest of the world to forge new ties. For instance, Joakim Reiter and Guillermo Valles of UNCTAD see an opportunity for the "European Union and other emerging economies" to form "a North-South alliance of countries willing to defend and promote global trade." Similarly, Columbia University's Andrés Velasco, a former Chilean finance minister, has proposed reviving a George H.W. Bush-era plan for a free-trade bloc in the Americas, which need not include the US. And to the east, writes Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, "China will promote various trade, infrastructure, and security mechanisms in Asia," and "the 11 remaining members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership may launch their trade pact without the US."
A Confederacy of Economic Dunces
Notwithstanding Trump's ambient Sinophobia, many Project Syndicate commentators see in his trade policy a recipe that would unwittingly make China great and leave America much worse off. This is largely owing to Trump and his key advisers' apparent economic illiteracy. Columbia University's Jeffrey Sachs and Pascal Salin, a former president of the Mont Pèlerin Society, hold very different views on economic policymaking. But both identify the same flaw in Trump's protectionist rhetoric; namely, a misunderstanding of what trade deficits actually mean. As Salin and Sachs both point out, Trump and his advisers routinely misattribute the US's current-account imbalance to "bad" trade deals, when it is really a natural result of the US's low saving rate.
Because Trump is following "gut feelings" instead of a "valid economic theory," Salin worries that he could pursue policies that – like handouts to the sugar industry – will make it "harder for importers to buy what they need from exporters," which "would be especially harmful for the US." And, as Barry Eichengreen of the University of California, Berkeley, argued last year, even if policymakers wanted to put "upward pressure on US prices" to push back against deflation and an impending liquidity trap, there would be far better ways of going about it. "The obvious alternative to import tariffs," Eichengreen writes, "is plain-vanilla fiscal policy – tax cuts and increases in public spending."
Moreover, Trump has no chance of actually changing the US's current account-balance. "There is no particular reason," Sachs reminds us, to believe "that |an increase in US trade barriers would have any first-order effects on the US saving and investment rates, and therefore on the US current-account balance." This may be for the best. If past US presidents had acted on the same kneejerk impulse to save "low-skill jobs," the US economy today "might well have a larger, labor-intensive manufacturing sector," Basu notes. "But it would also look a lot more like a developing economy."
And Salin, for his part, cautions that actually eliminating the US trade deficit would mean sacrificing "the standard of living that countless Americans have come to enjoy." In fact, according to Harvard's Martin Feldstein, Americans could expect to see their real (inflation-adjusted) incomes "decline by about 5%."
Given that Trump and his advisers have embraced what Sachs calls "an economic fallacy that first-year economics students learn to avoid," it is not surprising that they have also proposed misguided economic policies beyond the realm of trade. For example, Roubini predicts that Trump's "migration restrictions will likely reduce growth, by eroding the labor supply." Likewise, J. Bradford Delong, also of the University of California, Berkeley, argues that Trump's push for fiscal stimulus and tax cuts would undercut his own agenda by strengthening the dollar, making it harder for American manufacturers to compete abroad. And, as Emmanuel Farhi and Gita Gopinath of Harvard and Oleg Itskhoki of Princeton demonstrate, such policies would "erode America's net foreign-asset position" and result in a net capital loss.
Sadly, today's economic illiteracy is not confined to the US. Jim O'Neill, a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, believes that Brexiteers in the United Kingdom are beholden to many of the same fallacies as the Trump administration. For starters, O'Neill observes, "Many UK policymakers – and all members of the 'Leave' campaign – are ignoring the likely costs of exiting the EU single market," which, by default, will establish trade barriers between the UK and the EU.
Making matters worse, the current UK government's post-Brexit strategy is fixated on hashing out "patriotic" trade deals with Anglophone countries such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, when it should be focusing on reaching agreements with China, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria. Like Trump and his obsession with the current-account balance, the Leave campaign seems to believe that it can solve all of Britain's problems by simply "taking back control" of trade and immigration. But as O'Neill points out, the UK, with or without Brexit, would still have "persistently low productivity growth, weak education and skills-training programs, and geographic inequalities."
Salvaging Internationalism
Despite their obvious flaws, Trump and the Brexiteers' economic arguments have gained currency with many people across North America and Europe. To push back against populists' dangerously misleading narrative, policymakers who still recognize the benefits of global free exchange will need to find a new way forward.
First and foremost, political, business, and civil-society leaders need to acknowledge that, as Ngaire Woods of the University of Oxford puts it, "those defending free trade have lost credibility with the people they hope to persuade." This is no surprise for Gros, who believes that political elites have, for years now, overhyped the benefits of trade, and created "impossible expectations for trade liberalization." Their biggest mistake, he argues, was to ignore the role of high commodity prices as a driver "of the extraordinary growth in trade in recent decades." When commodity prices finally fell, global trade faltered.
Still, such claims by free-trade advocates are nothing new. In a forthcoming paper, I examine political leaders' statements about trade agreements going back to the 1957 Treaty of Rome, and find that overhyping seems to be the norm. Rarely do leaders acknowledge the potential disruptive effects of economic openness, or implement policies to mitigate them. But, as Woods contends, avoiding hard truths is no longer an option. Elites will have to be far more forthright about the consequences of global economic integration, while "also addressing people's deeper concerns," such as the loss of dignity that comes with economic displacement. If reasonable leaders won't tell the truth, they should not be surprised when nativist demagogues present their own "alternate facts."
Moreover, policymakers need to back up truth-telling with concrete action. As former United Nations Assistant Director-General Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Vladimir Popov of the Russian Academy of Sciences show, countries that have benefitted the most from trade have done so by "providing adequate unemployment compensation and skills training, and promoting new, more remunerative employment opportunities."
With respect to the US in particular, Rogoff proposes a progressive consumption tax to reduce inequality, as well as reforms to free up technological innovation and diffusion. Similarly, Salin recommends lower taxes and fewer regulations, in order to boost economic activity and growth. At any rate, one rule for twenty-first-century social policies, suggests Richard Baldwin of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, is that they should adhere to the principle of "protecting individual workers, not individual jobs."
Globalization in the Twenty-First Century
That principle is all the more important today, when advances in automation and new digital and sentient technologies increasingly threaten individual jobs across many sectors. Nor is this a problem only for developed countries. Brahima Coulibaly of the Brookings Institution warns that "falling technology costs" could derail industrialization in much of Africa before it even gets started. And just as labor-replacing technologies are not strictly a concern for developed countries, they cannot be separated from globalization. As recent research by the Oxford economist Adrian Wood shows, the logic of economic globalization actively aids and abets automation.
As with trade agreements, governments have a responsibility to address the effects of new technologies. They will need to foster honest, dispassionate conversations about the risks and rewards of a hyper-digitized world, to determine how new technologies might be regulated and designed to yield the greatest public good. Beyond the design of individual technologies, observes Tyson, much will also depend "on the design of the policies surrounding them."
Harvard's Dani Rodrik is more skeptical. The time for compensating "globalization's losers," he argues, "has come and gone." With or without domestic-level measures to mitigate the disruption from trade and technology, it may be time to "consider changing the rules of globalization itself," to ensure parity and fairness across countries and sectors. In Rodrik's view, global economic cooperation has been unbalanced, because finance and capital can move much more quickly across borders than goods, services, and especially labor. And, of course, national and supranational regulatory measures move the slowest of all.
Addressing these problems will require a credible system for cracking down on financial crime and tax havens; a global border-adjustment-tax regime for carbon emissions; an international compact on refugees; and a modernized Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. To that end, the Center for International Governance Innovation's Oonagh Fitzgerald and Hector R. Torres of the International Monetary Fund call for the formation of a coalition of countries, led by middle powers, to reform the institutions of globalization in 2018, when Canada and Argentina will lead the G7 and the G20, respectively.
Demonstrating the value of multilateral cooperation will be crucial to salvaging globalization politically. One possible silver lining of Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement is that it has prompted many other countries to reaffirm their commitment to fighting global warming. But, as I have previously argued, the international community also needs to maintain support for accords such as the World Trade Organization's Information Technology Agreement, while exploring other similar opportunities for macroeconomic cooperation.
At the same time, the public should be reminded at every opportunity that there are no quick fixes in international affairs. Just as the backlash against globalization took a decade to spill over into national politics, it will take time for the pendulum to swing back the other way. As Basu argues, today's "slow-motion economic crisis" certainly looks bleak; but it will eventually give way to a "Digital Revolution that promises to lift growth to new heights."
Future conversations about trade will have to account for these coming changes, and for the ongoing conceptual transformation of trade itself. According to Tyson and Susan Lund of the McKinsey Global Institute, "cross-border digital flows" already "have a larger impact on global economic growth than traditional flows of traded goods." That means the trade of the future will be in ideas, which is to say intellectual property; and this will set it apart from trade as it traditionally has been understood.
Intellectual property is characterized by high upfront costs and low reproduction costs. And because that implies a huge first-mover advantage, achieving national primacy could turn out to be the "Great Game" of the twenty-first century. Unfortunately for the US and the UK, Trump and Brexit are unlikely to put either country in a position to win it.
This article first appeared in Project Syndicate
The opinions expressed in this article/multimedia are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of CIGI or its Board of Directors.
Rohinton P. Medhora is president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and is a member of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation, co-chaired by Nobel economics laureates Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz.
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Trump tells Commerce Department to help Chinese company
Posted: 11:12 AM, May 13, 2018
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President Donald Trump said Sunday he has instructed his Commerce Department to help get a Chinese telecommunications company "back into business" after the U.S. government cut off access to its American suppliers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he has instructed his Commerce Department to help get a Chinese telecommunications company "back into business" after the U.S. government cut off access to its American suppliers.
At issue is that department's move last month to block the ZTE Corp., a major supplier of telecoms networks and smartphones based in southern China, from importing American components for seven years. The U.S. accused ZTE of misleading American regulators after it settled charges of violating sanctions against North Korea and Iran.
ZTE, which has more than 70,000 employees and has supplied networks or equipment to some of the world's biggest telecoms companies, said in early May that it had halted its main operations as a result of the department's "denial order."
Trump, who has taken a hard line on trade and technology issues with Beijing, tweeted on Sunday that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping "are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!"
ZTE has asked the department to suspend the seven-year ban on doing business with U.S. technology exporters. By cutting off access to U.S. suppliers of essential components such as microchips, the ban threatens ZTE's existence, the company has said.
During recent trade meetings in Beijing, Chinese officials said they raised their objections to ZTE's punishment with the American delegation, which they said agreed to report them to Trump.
The U.S. imposed the penalty after discovering that Shenzhen-based ZTE, which had paid a $1.2 billion fine in the case, had failed to discipline employees involved and paid them bonuses instead.


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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has now unveiled an extraordinary $130 billion wage subsidy which will see businesses receive $1,500 a fortnight per employee for the next six months.
In the third and largest economic stimulus package announced by the government in response to the coronavirus pandemic, up to 6 million workers are set to be eligible for the $130 billion wage subsidy, known as the JobKeeper payment.
The flat $1,500 payment, which will be delivered by the ATO, will be paid to businesses, including businesses structured through companies, partnerships, trusts and sole traders.
Employers will be required to pass on the full $1,500 a fortnight, before tax, to eligible employees.
To qualify, businesses with a turnover of less than $1 billion will need to self-assess a reduction in revenue of 30 per cent or more, relative to a comparable period a year ago.
Businesses with a turnover of more than $1 billion will need to demonstrate a loss of 50 per cent of revenue.
Eligible employees will include those employed by the employer at 1 March 2020, including those who have been stood down. Retrenched workers can be re-hired to qualify for the payment.
Eligible businesses, including not-for-profits, charities, and self-employed individuals, will need to register an intention to apply on the ATO's website.
Information on the number of eligible employees engaged as at 1 March 2020 and those currently employed by the business, including those stood down or rehired, will need to be provided to the ATO, although the Tax Office will look to use Single Touch Payroll data to pre-populate the employee details for the business.
The ATO will make payments to the employers monthly in arrears but the first payment will be sent in the first week of May and will be backdated to 30 March 2020 to allow employers to start paying their workers now.
Employers will be required to report the number of eligible employees employed by the business to the ATO on a monthly basis.
'A lifeline'
According to Mr Morrison, the wage subsidy is meant to prop up businesses by paying for their employees even as the economy comes to a standstill.
"We will pay employers to pay their employees and make sure they do," said Mr Morrison.
"This plan is about keeping those businesses together, by keeping these employees in these businesses.
"We want to keep the engine of our economy running through this crisis. It may run on idle for a time, but it must continue to run."
What employees will get
Businesses must pay their employees a minimum of $1,500 per fortnight, before tax.
According to Treasury's fact sheet, if an employee ordinarily receives $1,500 or more in income per fortnight before tax, they will continue to receive their regular income according to their prevailing workplace arrangements, with the JobKeeker payment to subside all or part of their income.
If an employee ordinarily receives less than $1,500 in income per fortnight before tax, their employer must pay their employee, at a minimum, $1,500 per fortnight, before tax, meaning employers will not be able to pocket the difference.
If an employee has been stood down, their employer must pay their employee, at a minimum, $1,500 per fortnight, before tax.
The $1,500 will be taxed as ordinary income but employers can choose to pay superannuation on the amount.
Employees who receive the JobKeeker payment will not be allowed to double dip with the recently expanded JobSeeker payment, which is paid through Services Australia.
The latest package by the government brings the total amount thrown at the coronavirus crisis to $214 billion, including the $66.1 billion second tranche support package and the initial $17.6 billion.
Mr Morrison said the government is currently in discussions with Labor to reach agreement over the latest announcement and will be looking to recall Parliament shortly to speed through legislation as it did with the first two packages.
Treasury example:
Employer with employees on different wages
Adam owns a real estate business with two employees. The business is still operating at this stage but Adam expects that turnover will decline by more than 30 per cent in the coming months. The employees are:
Anne, who is a permanent full-time employee on a salary of $3,000 per fortnight before tax and who continues working for the business; and
Nick, who is a permanent part-time employee on a salary of $1,000 per fortnight before tax and who continues working for the business.
Adam is eligible to receive the JobKeeper Payment for each employee, which would have the following benefits for the business and its employees:
The business continues to pay Anne her full-time salary of $3,000 per fortnight before tax, and the business will receive $1,500 per fortnight from the JobKeeper Payment to subsidise the cost of Anne's salary and will continue paying the superannuation guarantee on Anne's income;
The business continues to pay Nick his $1,000 per fortnight before tax salary and an additional $500 per fortnight before tax, totalling $1,500 per fortnight before tax. The business receives $1,500 per fortnight before tax from the JobKeeper Payment which will subsidise the cost of Nick's salary. The business must continue to pay the superannuation guarantee on the $1,000 per fortnight of wages that Nick is earning. The business has the option of choosing to pay superannuation on the additional $500 (before tax) paid to Nick under the JobKeeper Payment.
Adam can register his initial interest in the scheme from 30 March 2020, followed subsequently by an application to ATO with details about his eligible employees. In addition, Adam is required to advise his employees that he has nominated them as eligible employees to receive the payment. Adam will provide information to the ATO on a monthly basis and receive the payment monthly in arrears.
Melissa is a sole trader running a florist. She does not have employees. Melissa's business has been in operation for several years. The economic downturn due to the Coronavirus has adversely affected Melissa's business, and she expects that her business turnover will fall by more than 30 per cent compared to a typical month in 2019.
Melissa will be able to apply for the JobKeeper Payment and would receive $1,500 per fortnight before tax, paid on a monthly basis.
Jotham Lian
accountantsdaily.com.au


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Purotex is a textile treatment technology that uses five 100% natural bacteria or probiotics. The probiotics are selected for their ability to clean up house dust mite allergen along with other allergen types. The active probiotics are placed inside of millions of capsules and are introduced during the textile production. These human friendly bacteria remain non-active until friction force is created.
Purotex has been used to help alleviate excessive allergens in your bedroom. When friction is created between the mattress/pillow and the sleeper's body the probiotics are activated. Under the friction force a small part of the capsules is opened and probiotics become active. The probiotics saturate the bacterial capacity of the textile and by doing so, reduce the risk of dust mite allergen development and growth of molds and harmful bacteria.
1. Inactive probiotics are encapsulated and integrated in the textiles.
2. Friction between body and mattress opens the micro-capsules.
3. The probiotics absorb humidity and self-activate: they start to clean up allergens.
Devan Chemicals has been able to demonstrate that probiotic bacteria can be used to neutralize dust mite's allergens present in textiles. This technology is based on 2 principles.
The probiotic bacteria used in Purotex® have the ability to sporulate. A spore is a reproductive structure that is adapted for surviving in un-favorable conditions for many years. The sporulation process makes it possible for bacteria to survive hard conditions and regain activity as soon as environmental parameters improve.
In order to work over long term, spores should be slowly liberated. The spores are therefore micro encapsulated in reactive microcapsules, which are microcapsules with functional reactive groups on the shell surface. Those microcapsules react covalently with the reactive groups of the fibre and are therefore resistant to washes. The capsules break by friction and release the spores, which in contact with food sources, will transform to probiotic bacteria and will start to consume the allergens of the dust mite.
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Stories about Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers
One of the most beloved writers of our time presents seven short stories exploring the vital ties between fathers and sons.
Luke sees the ghost of his father but can't figure out what Dad wants him to do. Paul takes a camping trip with the grandfather he's just met and discovers what lies behind the man's erratic behavior. Ryan has some surprising questions when he interviews his prospective stepfather for the job. In a compellingly honest collection of stories, multiple-award-winning author Avi introduces seven boys — boys with fathers at home and boys whose fathers have left, boys who spend most of their time with their grandfathers and boys who would rather spend time with anyone but the men in their lives. By turns heartbreaking, hopeful, and funny, the stories show us boys seeking acceptance, guidance, or just someone to look up to. Each one shines a different light on the question "What is the most important thing a father can do for his son?"
Praise For The Most Important Thing: Stories about Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers…
In this collection of seven heartfelt stories, the indefatigable Avi breathes new life into an old theme: the relationship between sons and fathers (and the occasional grandfather). Ranging in tone from the somber ("Departed") to the sprightly ("Tighty-Whities or Boxers?"), the stories have in common a psychological acuity, the presence of inevitable change, and the grace of Avi's simile-rich style.
—Booklist (starred review)
Avi's septuplet of stories suggests that the best thing you can do for your son might just be to hope you've somehow given him the tools to evolve into an adult who will love and understand you on the other side. Though this is tuned to the XY frequency, don't discount it as a book for daughters who value such beautiful prose as "Now, snow drifting down, slowly, steadily, each flake the ghost of a leaf." What Oedipus didn't know about the intricacies of father/son kinship could fill a book—and has.
Avi's deft incorporation of humor, heartache, and the occasional touch of the supernatural will draw readers in as they ponder how family ties bind in both positive and negative ways.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Seven short stories, some written in first person, some in third, offer glimpses into the lives of seven middle-school boys as they navigate complicated relationships with fathers and grandfathers..."What is the most important thing a father can do for his son?" The stories don't directly answer the question, but they do show the consequences of a father's absence, either physically or emotionally, and the varied ways boys find to compensate for the loss. "Be there," the stories seem to say to fathers and grandfathers.
Together, these offerings weave a picture of the relationships that can develop between teenage boys and their fathers and grandfathers—or the lack thereof...readers who take a chance on this collection will be rewarded.
Avi offers a multifaceted view of the way boys and men relate to each other, painting neither a perfectly rosy nor dreadfully bleak picture, and he gives space for each character's personality, making it clear that the relationships are weighted both with history and the boys' and men's temperaments. Few of the stories offer complete resolution, instead of- fering a snapshot of an ongoing and shifting connection.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Avi is a master of just about anything he writes, and this collection is superbly crafted and ideal for discussions.
Avi's latest short story collection introduces the intricate, dynamic, and complicated relationships of sons, fathers, and grandfathers. Readers will find seven distinctive stories, each packed with varying and multifaceted levels of emotional intensity, humor, and personal discovery that invite further conversation.
—Literacy Daily
In true Avi form, in what his fans have come to expect, the stories are page turners. Each story keeps the reader glued to the book, curious to find out how the clever kids are going to come to terms with their experiences and carry on with their lives with a better understanding of who they are and what their family is all about.
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Candlewick, 9780763681111, 224pp.
Avi is one of the most celebrated authors writing for children today, having received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Scott O'Dell Award, the Christopher Award, the Newbery Medal, and two Newbery Honors. He lives in Colorado.


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Drinking water for the Gondologo School
The project aimed to meet the water needs of the Gondologo School and the surrounding population by repairing an existing well and installing an electro-solar supply system, with a pump capacity of over 10 million litres of water.
The Gondologo School and the surrounding population of over 1,000 people were provided with access to clean and safe water. The school grew from 120 students in 2012 to accommodate 8 additional classes of 45 students each. The system operates almost maintenance free apart from regular cleaning of the solar panels and periodical replacement of the distribution taps. The water is sold at a cost to cover future maintenance and repair costs.
The Swiss association Ingénieurs et Architectes Solidaires (IAS) brings together professionals and students who are interested in alternative technologies. It works on a voluntary basis to install systems that are adapted to developing countries that lack energy resources.
Health / Education
December 2012 - November 2013
Burina Faso
With whom
Ingénieurs et Architectes Solidaires (IAS)
www.ias-ch.org
19.1 million (2017)
USD 590/year (2017)
Poverty rate *
Literacy rate
183rd country out of 189 countries (2018)
Following the popular uprising in October 2014, Burkina Faso democratically elected, in November 2015, its first civilian president since its independence. The country's new political stability and fiscal and budgetary reforms have led to improvements in public finances; however, it remains one of the world's poorest countries. Sustained efforts and investments have generated positive human development trends, although access to basic services remains an important concern due to poorly developed community-based services. Despite progress in gross primary school enrolment Burkina Faso has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world. Access to secondary education remains low (13%), as is the quality of the system.
Sources: World Food Program, UNICEF, World Bank, 2016 Human Development Report, Human Development Indices and Indicators (2018 Statistical Update)
*The percentage of the population living below the national poverty line.
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"If I could find the spot where truth echoes..." - How/is it possible to decolonise the art space?
Title: "If I could find the spot where truth echoes..." - How/is it possible to decolonise the art space?
This thesis is an attempt to re-think and re-shape the Finnish art scene. Using the theoretical framework of decoloniality, postcolonialism and feminism we ask: How/is it possible to decolonise the art space? This question is immediately followed by others: Would it be enough to just have a more 'representative' scene or does it involve a more radical process of transformation? And how does one relate this to broader soci-ety? Is decolonisation even relevant in Finnish society? We use auto/ ethnography as our methodology to analyse and interrogate our own involvement in the gallery/collective Third Space – a context that tries to subvert and transgress dualistic categories. Despite our contradictions and ambiguities we attempt to cre-ate a political/artistic space of negotiation and commoning rather than exclusion. Situating ourselves as co-founders and part of the artistic/curatorial collective, we will look at the critique leveled at us specifically. Writing together with Christopher Wessels is an extension of our praxis at Third Space.