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Manifesto Plans for Digital Britain
Philip Virgo
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I have now read many comparisons of the party manifestos but, as I have said previously, most commented on what they wanted or did not want to see. The most succinct is that produced by Public Technology Net – but it may be too succinct. Tech UK has looked at the manifestos from the perspective of suppliers of technology and published its own. Meanwhile Think Broadband examined the Conservative , LibDem and Labour manifestos from the perspective of Broadband obsessives. Many of the promises on technology issues appear similar at first sight. What is different is the context and the detail, if any, given as to how they will be achieved. I promised that I would do a canter through the Conservative Manifesto taking topics in the order in which they appear. I have not been able to make time to complete this to my satisfaction. What follows is far too long and I may return to issues, topic by topic – but here goes.
I will leave out Brexit. In my previous blog I explained briefly why we have so much less to fear from "Hard Brexit" and a new relationship based on true partnership, than we have to fear from getting embroiled in the detail of the forty years of fudged compromises on which I (and my father before me), spent so much of our lives. To those who say I was too brief, I would say that I find it painful to admit that I wasted so much of my life examining the entrails of intractable problems (trying to find "acceptable ambiguities" to "harmonise" that on which there was no real agreement) or irrelevant, unworkable and/or counter-productive "solutions" (like the GDPR). I voted remain, but Juncker made clear that "reform" was not an option. The English and Welsh took him at his word. It is now apparent that the lifeboats are in better shape than the Titanic.
As I go through the Conservative manifesto I will digress to make comparisons with the other manifestos. I will also comment on how wider issues affect the IT and digital communities, users not just suppliers.
The first section of the Conservative Manifesto is about "A strong economy that works for everyone ".. It contains a pledge (Page 14) to the stick to the promise of cutting Corporation Tax 17% and the promise of "a full review of the business rates system to make sure it is up to date for a world in which people increasingly shop online." These, plus the pledge for a simpler tax system "especially for self-employed people and small businesses", need to be juxtaposed with those in the section on "New Rules for a Changing economy", including on "Rights and protections in the 'gig' economy":
"In the modern economy many people choose jobs like driving, delivering and coding, that are highly flexible and can be mixed with other employment. This brings considerable advantages to millions of people but we should not ignore the challenges this kind of employment creates. These workers are officially classed as self-employed and therefore have fewer pension entitlements, reduced access to benefits, and no qualification for sick pay and holiday pay. Yet the nature of their work is different from the traditional self employed worker who might be a sole trader, a freelancer or running their own business.
We will make sure that people working in the 'gig' economy are properly protected … to ensure that the interests of employees on traditional contracts, the self employed and those people working in the 'gig' economy are all properly protected."
This leads into a section on "Stopping tax evasion" with the "tougher regulation of tax advisory firms … further measures to reduce online fraud in Value Added Tax."
The clear aim, in marked contrast with other parties, is to to increase tax take by reducing headline taxes and closing loopholes. The biggest of the latter are those used by major players in the on-line world to avoid paying tax other than via Luxembourg or the Crown Dependencies. How much of that which is done over the Internet is really more efficient in any sense other than the ability of those running the business to avoid local tax?
Those whose prime reason for outsourcing is to cut pension liabilities need to be concerned over the section on protecting private pensions: "tighten the rules against … abuse, and increase the punishment for those caught mismanaging pension schemes … new powers to issue punitive fines for those found to have wilfully left a pension scheme under-resourced … disqualify the company directors … a new criminal offence for company directors who deliberately or recklessly put at risk the ability of a pension scheme to meet its obligations."
The following section on "Reforming rules on takeovers and mergers" contains an explicit reference to telecoms, i.e. BT: We welcome overseas investment and want investors to succeed here but not when success is driven by aggressive asset-stripping or tax avoidance. We shall also take action to protect our critical national infrastructure. We will ensure that foreign ownership of companies controlling important infrastructure does not undermine British security or essential services. We have already strengthened ministerial scrutiny and control in respect of civil nuclear power and will take a similarly robust approach across a limited range of other sectors, such as telecoms, defence and energy.
The section on A Modern Industrial Strategy begins with spreading wealth and opportunity across "every community in the United Kingdom, not just the most prosperous places in London and the south east". This depends on spreading reliable, resilient gigabit connectivity, not just a Universal Service Obligation, across the entire UK although that comes later in the manifesto. What follows is an emphasis on skills: rebalancing effort from academic to technical, but not at the expense of offending the academic lobby.
Our modern industrial strategy … will help young people to develop the skills they need to do the high-paid, high-skilled jobs of the future … make a modern technical education available to everyone, throughout their lives, to provide the skills they need. We will remove the barriers that hold back small firms with big potential – and let them compete when government itself is the buyer … we will deliver the … broadband – that businesses need.
… we will work to build up the investment funds of our universities across the UK. … larger, aggregated funds to increase significantly the amounts invested in and by universities … universities to enjoy the commercial fruits of their research, through funds that are large enough to list, thereby giving British investors a chance to share in their success … £23 billion National Productivity Investment Fund … include £740 million of digital infrastructure investment …
The skills we need ... the next Conservative government will give Britain the technical education it has lacked for decades … but we must also address the immediate needs of those sectors of the economy suffering shortages in skills. We will … ask the Migration Advisory Committee to make recommendations …. about how the visa system can become better aligned with our modern industrial strategy … to set aside significant numbers of visas for workers in strategically-important sectors, such as digital technology, without adding to net migration as a whole.
However, skilled immigration should not be a way for government or business to avoid their obligations to improve the skills of the British workforce. So we will double the Immigration Skills Charge levied on companies employing migrant workers, to £2,000 a year … using the revenue generated to invest in higher level skills training for workers in the UK.
The revelations emerging after the collapse of British Airways systems after outsourcing to an Indian-multinational, whether the staff and the equipment who failed were in Mumbai or Heathrow (immigrants with Tier 2 visas in place of the in-house staff who had been made redundant) gives context to this section. I gave numbers and links in my most recent blog . Arguments based on the very small number (under 300) of those coming in under the "exceptional talent" route must be viewed alongside the 50,000 or so "technicians" imported each year. Those who wish to remain free to import staff with genuinely scarce digital skills have to be seen to help use the revenue generated by the increased levy to reduce their own dependence on imported talent. Meanwhile the Labour party comments about re-introducing Tier 3 visas and relaxing controls on their dependents look like a red rag to a working class bull.
The sections on "freedom of movement" to and from the rest of the EU need to read in the context of wishing to maintain the current reciprocal arrangements for Britons working or retired across the rest of the EU. The resolution will almost certainly entail moving towards processes common across most of the EU. These restrict access to benefits, housing, schooling, health care etc to those with evidence of "entitlement", whether as a local resident or because they can produce evidence that their employer or their home government will pay. Vince Cable is right in pointing that such a move did not require Brexit – but he should also say why he did not propose this while the LibDems were in coalition. The reasons, which link to the "real" case for ID cards (alias joined up identities for dealing with central and local government) reflect credit on none of the main parties – nor UKIP.
We should remember Michael Howard's consultation on entitlement cards and original objectives of the Government Verify programme when reading the later section in the Manifesto on the "relaunch" of the Verify programme (page 81) and that on restoring confidence in our democracy by addressing electoral fraud (page 43). "We will legislate to ensure that a form of identification must be presented before voting, to reform postal voting and to improve other aspects of the elections process to ensure that our elections are the most secure in the world. We will retain the traditional method of voting by pencil and paper, and tackle every aspect of electoral fraud."
Backing small businesses
We will ensure that 33 per cent of central government purchasing will come from SMEs by the end of the parliament … ensure that big contractors comply with the Prompt Payment Code both on government contracts and in their work with others. If they do not do so, they will lose the right to bid for government contracts.
This pledge presents a major challenge to the dinosaurs of the IT world, whether outsourcers or systems integrators. It also needs to be read alongside the earlier comments on tax reform and the self employed. Until the rise of inflexible outsourcing and PFI contracts, many departments made extensive use of ad hoc teams of individually checked and vetted individuals of known competence to supplement the skills of their in-house teams. If the 33% target is to be taken seriously it implies a return to that approach – perhaps using registers of consultants and their skills maintained by professional bodies, trades unions and/or trade associations.
Six years ago, before I retired from EURIM I was seeking support for a programme to look at the reform of public procurement . The evidence then in front of me suggested savings of 25 – 50% (or more) from cutting out the procurement overheads which had caused markets to implode around a small group of consultancies and contractors with whom officials might spend years specifying and negotiating an inevitably doomed mega deal – before they retired to join them as advisors.
Not surprisingly that programme had to be dropped for lack of support. Turkeys do not not vote for Christmas. Times appear to have, however, changed.
The NHS has just dropped plans to force all public sector contractors inside IR35 The reason given in the article are to do with IT consultants walking out but the need to attract back the many GPs and Consultants who retired last year to avoid pensions caps may also have had something to do with it. Perhaps the time has come to roll back on Tony Blair's assault on small businesses in every part of the economy, from road transport to health care, with the IT SME world slaughtered en passent.
Prosperous towns and cities across Britain (page 24) and Shared Institutions of the Union (page 34)
move many of the functions of central government out to cities around Britain where possible and to see our vast cultural assets reach people around our country too … combined authorities, mayoralties and local enterprise partnerships … responsible for co-ordinating their own local industrial strategy … bringing together local businesses, political and public sector leaders to drive growth and economic regeneration … Starting with the UK Government's arm's-length bodies, we will start moving significant numbers of UK Government civil servants and other public servants out of London and the south-east to cities around the UK. We will ensure that senior posts move too, so that operational headquarters as well as administrative functions are centred not in London but around Britain. And we will do so in a way that encourages the development of new clusters of public services, private businesses and, where appropriate, universities.
This will require investment in high capacity the broadband infrastructures to support the decentralised civil service functions, driven by local partnerships organising their own programmes. Hence the critical importance of attracting investors to fund the necessary construction – using utility business models underpinned via leasing contracts and regulatory certainty.
back new scientific and technical institutions … universities make their full contribution to their local community and economy, sponsoring local schools and being creative about how they can open up opportunities for local people
Some Universities, usually former Polytechnics, welcome the idea of becoming a local enterprise hub. Others, including most members of the Russell Group, think it detracts from their status as global research hubs. A few see no conflict. One example of the latter is Plymouth, home to most of the world's expertise in Oceanography and much of the UK's in both Marine Engineering and in measuring the effectiveness of Medical treatments. We need more of those who cheerfully combine both approaches (as interestingly do some of the oldest, but not newest, Cambridge Colleges).
Our Countryside Communities
Around the world a growing number of high tech businesses are based in rural areas with world class communications. The Conservative and LibDems are competing for the rural vote. Banks and Government agencies have been seeking for over a decade to herd us on-line to be fleeced . But many, from most of those aged over 65 to those living in inner city "not spots" or rural areas served by crapband are now among the "digitally excluded".
The Conservative pledge to "enhance the provision of public services in rural areas" is therefore likely to be electorally popular, as is the means: "We will safeguard the post office network, to protect existing rural services and work with the Post Office to extend the availability of business and banking services to families and small businesses in rural areas. A third of all SMEs in rural areas use their post office weekly and our ambition is that all routine small business and consumer banking services should be available in rural post offices. We will support pharmacies and village schools in rural areas."
But we also need to revitalise and reintegrate the Post Office/Royal Mail network in urban areas, where a visit to a sub-Post Office to do business with some-one you recognise and who recognises you, or from a regular postman, who you know and who recognises you, is one of best ways of reducing the rising tide of linked on-line crime, courier fraud and impersonation. Hence my recent blogs on the saga of West Norwood sorting office
Leaving the European Union
We want to agree a deep and special partnership with the European Union. This partnership will benefit both the European Union and the United Kingdom: while we are leaving the European Union, we are not leaving Europe, and we want to remain committed partners and allies to our friends across the continent.
no deal is better than a bad deal for the UK … control of our own laws … control immigration and secure the entitlements of EU nationals in Britain and British nationals in the EU … maintain the Common Travel Area and maintain as frictionless a border as possible for people, goods and services between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Workers' rights conferred on British citizens from our membership of the EU will remain. We will pursue free trade with European markets, and secure new trade agreements with other countries. We want to work together in the fight against crime and terrorism, collaborate in science and innovation – and secure a smooth, orderly Brexit. And we will protect the democratic freedom of the people of Gibraltar and our overseas territories to remain British, for as long as that is their wish.
As we leave the European Union, we will no longer be members of the single market or customs union but we will seek a deep and special partnership including a comprehensive free trade and customs agreement. There may be specific European programmes in which we might want to participate and if so, it will be reasonable that we make a contribution. We will determine a fair settlement of the UK's rights and obligations as a departing member state, in accordance with the law and in the spirit of the UK's continuing partnership with the EU …
We want fair, orderly negotiations, minimising disruption and giving as much certainty as possible – so both sides benefit. We believe it is necessary to agree the terms of our future partnership alongside our withdrawal, reaching agreement on both within the two years allowed by Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.
a Great Repeal Bill .. will … convert EU law into UK law, allowing businesses and individuals to go about life knowing that the rules have not changed overnight. This approach means that the rights of workers and protections given to consumers and the environment by EU law will continue to be available in UK law at the point at which we leave the EU. The bill will also create the necessary powers to correct the laws that do not operate appropriately once we have left the EU, so our legal system can continue to function correctly outside the EU. Once EU law has been converted into domestic law, parliament will be able to pass legislation to amend, repeal or improve any piece of EU law it chooses, as will the devolved legislatures, where they have the power to do so.
… additional bills to ensure that when we have left the EU there is a clear statutory basis for United Kingdom authorities to exercise powers that are currently exercised through EU law and institutions.
… We will not repeal or replace the Human Rights Act while the process of Brexit is underway but we will consider our human rights legal framework when the process of leaving the EU concludes. We will remain signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights for the duration of the next parliament.
As I said in my blog on why WTO "rules" are better than a bad deal, my own view is that the reason markets were not panicking, at least not until they began to fear a hung parliament, was that they could see an orderly process toward a new and more productive relationship with a reformed EU. There is an expectation that the Commission will move away from its current "non-negotiation" position before it is sidelined as time runs out and we are into WTO dispute processes under International, not EU, law.
The United Kingdom is a global nation.
If that view is correct, those running international businesses are far more interested in what we aim to do after Brexit with our new freedom of action, than the details of Brexit itself.
Do we really intend to exercise the leadership stated on page 38, including as a "global champion of free trade" while also leading "a global effort to close down online spaces for those who abuse children, incite violence or propagate hate speech … " , taking up "leadership in a new arena, where concern is shared around the world… the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet "… strengthening "Britain's response to white collar crime by incorporating the Serious Fraud Office into the National Crime Agency, improving intelligence sharing and bolstering the investigation of serious fraud, money laundering and financial crime … and the response to cyber threats on private businesses, public services, critical national infrastructure, and individuals, working with the National Cyber Security Centre to prevent attacks wherever possible and with the police and international law enforcement agencies to ensure perpetrators are brought to justice."
If so, the paradox is that Brexit will lead to an increase, not a decrease, in practical pan-European co-operation, but in the context of helping make a reality of global co-operation.
World Class Technical Education
Labour has promised to scrap tuition fees for those going to University, thus leaving graduates with "only" the debt from their living expenses. By contrast the ambitious Conservative plans to reform technical education at every level can be seen as giving students the option of "graduating with a career not a debt" (my words).
"For too long in this country, technical excellence has not been valued as highly as academic success. We want British technical education to be as prestigious as our world leading higher education system, and for technical education in this country to rival the best technical systems in the world.
This will require bold reform of the funding, institutional and qualifications frameworks for technical education, in partnership with British industry. We have already introduced high quality apprenticeships that can reach to degree level and beyond for the 200,000 young people who choose to enter full-time vocational study after their GCSEs each year. We now need to go further to improve technical education and offer young people a real choice between technical and academic routes at sixteen.
… replacing 13,000 existing technical qualifications with new qualifications, known as T-levels, across fifteen routes in subjects including construction, creative and design, digital, engineering and manufacturing, and health and science. We will increase the number of teaching hours by fifty per cent to an average of 900 hours per year and make sure that each student does a three-month work placement as part of their course. And we will extend our reforms to the highest levels of technical qualification.
… invest in further education colleges to make sure they have world-class equipment and facilities and will create a new national programme to attract experienced industry professionals to work in FE colleges.
… new institutes of technology, backed by leading employers and linked to leading universities, in every major city in England. They will provide courses at degree level and above, specialising in technical disciplines, such as STEM, whilst also providing higher-level apprenticeships and bespoke courses for employers. They will enjoy the freedoms that make our universities great, including eligibility for public funding for productivity and skills research, and access to loans and grants for their students. They will be able to gain royal charter status and regius professorships in technical education … anchor institutions for local, regional and national industry, providing sought-after skills to support the economy, and developing their own local identity to make sure they can meet the skills needs of local employers.
… a major review of funding across tertiary education as a whole, looking at how we can ensure that students get access to financial support that offers value for money, is available across different routes and encourages the development of the skills we need as a country.
We will put employers at the centre of these reforms. We will deal with local skills shortages and ensure that colleges deliver the skills required by local businesses through Skills Advisory Panels and Local Enterprise Partnerships working at a regional and local level. We will deliver our commitment to create 3 million apprenticeships for young people by 2020 and in doing so we will drive up the quality of apprenticeships to ensure they deliver the skills employers need. We will allow large firms to pass levy funds to small firms in their supply chain, and work with the business community to develop a new programme to allow larger firms to place apprentices in their supply chains. We will explore teaching apprenticeships sponsored by major companies, especially in STEM subjects.
Lastly, we will make the system easier for young people taking technical and vocational routes. We will introduce a UCAS-style portal for technical education. We will introduce significantly discounted bus and train travel for apprentices to ensure that no young person is deterred from an apprenticeship due to travel costs."
One of the issues for IT and Digital Employers is how they are going to work with and through bodies like the new Institute for Apprenticeships . This is more important than trying to find short term wriggle room on Tier 2 or other Visas, or agonising over the meaning of freedom of movement. It should not, however, be either/or but both. We need to link the definition of skills in shortage (to justify visas) to the definition of those for which training should be expanded. Thus, if there really is a shortage of curry chefs or network engineers, those seeking visas should also be helping organise training programmes and apprenticeships to produce those with at least the level of skill of those they are seeking to import.
Career learning
The Conservative objectives also extend to those already in work
We will in the next parliament produce the best programme of learning and training for people in work and returning to work in the developed world.
We will help all workers seeking to develop their skills in their existing jobs by introducing a new right to request leave for training for all employees. Alongside this, we will help workers to stay in secure jobs as the economy changes by introducing a national retraining scheme. Under the scheme, the costs of training will be met by the government, with companies able to gain access to the Apprenticeship Levy to support wage costs during the training period.
We will break down the barriers to public sector workers taking on more qualified roles because of their prior educational attainment. For instance, we will ensure that teaching assistants can become qualified teachers and healthcare assistants can become nurses via a degree apprenticeship route, in addition to other routes.
We will equip people with the digital skills they need now, and in the future, by introducing a right to lifelong learning in digital skills, just as we have done for literacy and numeracy.
For businesses employing former wards of the care system, someone with a disability, those with chronic mental health problems, those who have committed a crime but who have repaid their debt to society, and those who have been unemployed for over a year, we will offer a holiday on their employers' National Insurance Contributions for a full year … targeted support for young people between the ages of 18 and 24 so that everyone, no matter what their start in life, is given the very best chance of getting into work.
… support companies to take on parents and carers returning to work after long periods of absence and back similar schemes in the public sector, including the country's biggest employer, our NHS."
I am particularly pleased to see the reference to returner programmes, linked to reference to the gender pay gap (on page 56), because this is one of our biggest pools of untapped labour and one where the IT industry is at its most remiss – despite the clear potential shown by successful programmes in the past.
The sections on "Cutting the Cost of Living", "A Restored Contract between the Generations" and "Our National health Service" also contain pledges relevant to the world of IT and Telecoms:
"We will make billing for telecoms customers fairer and easier to understand, including making clear when a customer has paid off the price of their handset …. strengthen the hand of online consumers. We will act to make terms and conditions clearer, and end the abusive use of subscription services, including by making it clearer when free trials come to an end. Promote technological solutions to prolong independent living …
increase the Immigration health Surcharge to #600 for migrant workers and #450 for international students to cover their use of the NHS (competitive to the costs of health insurance paid by UK nationals working or studying overseas) …
support GPs to deliver innovative services that better meet patients' need, including phone and on-line consultations and the use of technology to triage people so they see the right clinician more quickly … give patients, via digital means or over the phone , the ability to book appointments, contacts the 111 service, order repeat prescriptions, and access and update aspects of their care record, as well as control how their personal data is used. We will continue to expand the number of NHS approved apps that can help monitor health care… live publication of waiting times
Section 5 of the Manifesto is headed "Prosperity and Security in a Digital Age and begins with reference to A digital charter that balances freedom with protection for users, and offers opportunities alongside obligations for businesses and platforms … two fundamental aims …
make Britain the best place to start and run a digital business …
make Britain the safest place in the world to be online
Including with "access to the best talent from overseas to compete with anywhere in the world" and the UK funds repatriated from the European Investment Fund put into British Business Bank to provide: a sustainable business model for high-quality media online, to create a level playing field for our media and creative industries … skills and digital infrastructure that creative companies need … favourable tax arrangements … creative industries tax credits scheme … robust system for protection of intellectual property … with strong protections against infringement.
… make doing business online easier for companies and consumers .. the right to insist on a digital signature … digital cancellation of contracts … digital companies to provide digital receipts, clearer terms and conditions when selling goods and services online and support new digital proofs of identification … same protections in online markets as they have on the high street … broadband switching easier and pricing more transparent.
… ensure that consumers and businesses have access to the digital infrastructure they need to succeed … Universal Service Obligation … gigaspeed connectivity …full fibre connection voucher for companies .. major fibre spines in over a hundred towns and cities … ten million premises connected to full fibre and a clear path to national coverage over the next decade.
By 2022 we will extend mobile coverage further to 95 per cent geographic coverage of the UK. By the same date, all major roads and main line trains will enjoy full and uninterrupted mobile phone signal, alongside guaranteed WiFi internet service … roll out of a new 5G network providing gigaspeed … majority of the population covered by a 5G signal by 2027."
The headline difference between the Conservatives and the other parties appears to be over the gigabit and 5G ambition, the pace of change and the reference to fibre spines to link the hundred or so would-be "smart cities". Meanwhile the LibDems refer to investing #2bn in local community broadband and Labour says that "on one day one we will instruct the National Infrastructure Commission to report on how to roll out Ultrafast (300 mbs) across the UK within the next decade". On March 23rd I spent a day at an NIC consultation event at which we were given to understand they were planning to have such a report ready before the summer break. That was before the election was called. Meanwhile Sadiq Khan may be about to launch a exercise to look at installing 4G across the London underground London is now the only big City without full mobile connectivity above and below ground.
The big question is which party will be more effective at attracting new investment into new players. Analysts do not believe BT can afford the investment needed to hold onto its current market share. Hence the main reason its share price is down 30% over the past year. Meanwhile its competitors appear to have found ways of building new, more reliable, networks for less than the cost BT claims for upgrading existing ones. Will they be given the incentives to do so? Will the Conservative plans to overhaul our sclerotic planning processes so as to pull forward investment in new homes also help cut the cost/delay of building and installing new communications infrastuctures?
The devil will be in the detail – one of the reasons this blog is delayed is the time it has taken to write up a couple of events on that detail – e.g. how getting council highway departments (and their outsourcing operators) to work with (instead of against) those building new networks could more than halve both the cost and time necessary. In this context I commend the excellent report published by BSG on 23rd May. It was released during purdah so has had limited publicity.
The safest place to be online
The LibDems appear more concerned over freedom of speach, with players like Google and Facebook trusted to set their own rules, while GCHQ and law enforcement are not. Meanwhile as Tech UK pointed out, the Labour Manifesto is technology lite.
The Conservatives believe "we must take steps to protect the vulnerable and give people confidence to use the internet without fear of abuse, criminality or exposure to horrific content… online rules should reflect those … offline … as unacceptable to bully online… as difficult to groom … as hard for children to access violent and degrading pornography … and as difficult to commit a crime …
Where technology can find a solution, we will pursue it. We will work with industry to introduce new protections for minors, from images of pornography, violence, and other age-inappropriate content not just on social media but in app stores and content sites as well. We will put a responsibility on industry not to direct users – even unintentionally – to hate speech, pornography, or other sources of harm. We will make clear the responsibility of platforms to enable the reporting of inappropriate, bullying, harmful or illegal content, with take-down on a comply-or-explain basis.
We will continue to push the internet companies to deliver on their commitments to develop technical tools to identify and remove terrorist propaganda, to help smaller companies build their capabilities and to provide support for civil society organisations to promote alternative and counter-narratives. In addition, we do not believe that there should be a safe space for terrorists to be able to communicate online and will work to prevent them from having this capability.
We will educate today's young people in the harms of the internet and how best to combat them, introducing comprehensive Relationships and Sex Education in all primary and secondary schools to ensure that children learn about the risks of the internet, including cyberbullying and online grooming.
… We will give people new rights to ensure they are in control of their own data, including the ability to require major social media platforms to delete information held about them at the age of 18, the ability to access and export personal data, and an expectation that personal data held should be stored in a secure way.
… an expert Data Use and Ethics Commission to advise regulators and parliament on the nature of data use and how best to prevent its abuse. The Commission will help us to develop the principles and rules that will give people confidence that their data is being handled properly. Alongside this commission, we will bring forward a new data protection law, fit for our new data age, to ensure the very best standards for the safe, flexible and dynamic use of data and enshrining our global leadership in the ethical and proportionate regulation of data. We will put the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care on a statutory footing to ensure data security standards are properly enforced.
We will continue with our £1.9 billion investment in cyber security and build on the successful establishment of the National Cyber Security Centre through our worldleading cyber security strategy. We will make sure that our public services, businesses, charities and individual users are protected from cyber risks. We will further strengthen cyber security standards for government and public services, requiring all public services to follow the most up to date cyber security techniques appropriate.
In general the Conservatives appear to be consistent in wanting the same law to apply on-line and off-line: At a time when the internet is changing the way people obtain their news, we also need to take steps to protect the reliability and objectivity of information that is essential to our democracy and a free and independent press. We will ensure content creators are appropriately rewarded for the content they make available online. We will be consistent in our approach to regulation of online and offline media
I look forward to discovering what this means in practice. Some years ago I enjoyed a small round table on the plans of the old Press Complaints Commission to try to cover on-line media. Guido Fawkes (Paul Staines) and myself were the only practicing bloggers present. Computer Weekly was then part of Reed Elsevier and I had to abide by our intrepretation of PCC rules. Guido/Paul did not. I still agree the principle. I remain as sceptical as Guido/Paul over the practicality of setting up suitable processes although I abide by the the same "rules" as I did then (checking the provenance of my sources but only attributing them if they are content).
The section on Digital Government and Public Services contains some great aspirations:
a new presumption of digital government services by default and an expectation that all government services are fully accessible online, with assisted digital support available for all public sector websites … every person can find out up to date information about roadworks, planning applications and bus routes online … 'schools maps' … operational performance data of all public-facing services for open comparison … central and local government … required to release information regularly and in an open format, and data will be aggregated and anonymised where it is important to do so … digital transformation fellowships, so that hundreds of leaders … open data … .
But … "assisted digital" really has to be available for all. Those developing the user interfaces need to develop them for ease of access over the equipment used by the blind, deaf and those with limited dexterity and their trusted carers . They should not be allowed to regard such facilities as add-ons. They are not add-ons for those most dependent on public services. They should be at the heart of the specification. A consequence of following such design disciplines is systems that are faster and easier to use over mainstream equipment.
.. common platforms across government and the wider public sector … one single, common and safe way of verifying themselves to all parts of government … using their own secure data that is not held by government. We will also make this platform [Verify] more widely available, so that people can safely … access non-government services such as banking … rationalise the use of personal data within government, reducing data duplication across all systems … 'Once-Only' principle in central government services by 2022 and wider public services by 2025.
The concepts behind the Verify programme are admirable but for systems to be capable of use by trusted carers (or other intermediaries) requires that those running the Verify programme start to listen to their advisory committees and stop trying to plough ahead with solutions that only fit that 80% of the population who are reasonably fit and well and lead reasonably orderly and simple lives. Early in my career I learned that the "once only" principle is a dangerous illusion. It makes for simpler systems but even before the rise of hacking and deliberate fraud there were often good reasons for duplication and variation (e.g. different part numbers for components that were supposedly interchangeable but came off different production lines and failed in different ways). There are similar situations with regard to, for example, human identities and medical diagnoses. Most of the common excuses for duplication are, however, not good. We do indeed need to rationalise the use of personal data and reduce duplication while introducing robust but humane processes for helping those who may, or may not, have been impersonated. But we also need to recognise the limits.
We also want to use digital innovation to help tackle the great challenge of an ageing population, in conjunction with our social care reforms set out in chapter four. We will support new providers seeking to use digital technology to monitor long-term conditions better, deploy carers to patients or support better domiciliary care away from hospitals.
This is, perhaps, one of the most important sections in the manifesto. The first event organised by PITCOM, back in 1981, was on Computer Based Aids for the disabled. It was opened by a young Sir George Young as Minister. The technology was already up to the job. It could cut costs significantly. The problem was moving funding between pots. It still is. Today the technologies to aid remote consultation and diagnosis and give more control over their environment to the physically frail, as well as to monitor their condition and better enable their carers to look after them, are a fraction of the cost. They should enable us to be able to afford to care for an aging population (me!!!!) without having to rely on armies of immigrants. The big need is for tech entrepreneurs to appreciate that the elderly control far more of the UK's disposable wealth than the young and are willing to pay for that which is fit for purpose. As the wealthy buy assisted technology the costs of installation and maintenance (not just production) begin to come down, until the not so wealthy can afford it. Ultimately, it will become commonplace – and may even be adopted by the NHS. This was one of the future growth markets identified in "No End of Jobs" (Bow Group 1984) as being capable of more than filling any gaps in the employment market created by automation.
Then come the other uses of technology to: transform the management of our national infrastructure … autonomous vehicles … improve our railways … efficient use of our electricity infrastructure and electric vehicles … manage our airspace … support for businesses developing these new technologies, creating a better environment for them to be tested in the UK.
Digital Land
Central to upgrading the UK telecommunications and energy infrastructures at affordable cost is the three dimensional mapping of the UK, above and below ground, to enable sharing and avoid the "accidental excavation" that accounts for around 20% of all major network outages. It also helps transform land management at all levels from flood prevention and farming to identifying unused or under-used inner city properties to help meet the targets for new homes. The proposal is to: combine the relevant parts of HM Land Registry, Ordnance Survey, the Valuation Office Agency, the Hydrographic Office and Geological Survey to create a comprehensive geospatial data body within government, the largest repository of open land data in the world. This new body will set the standards to digitise the planning process and help create the most comprehensive digital map of Britain to date.
It could also put the UK in the frame as the global test bed for secure inter-operability standards in a 5G world – the obvious way forward from the interim report of the Future Communications Challenge Group.
Finally we have a Framework for Data and the Digital Economy
a regulatory framework in law to underpin our digital charter and to ensure that digital companies, social media platforms and content providers abide by these principles … a sanctions regime to ensure compliance, giving regulators the ability to fine or prosecute those companies that fail in their legal duties, and to order the removal of content where it clearly breaches UK law … an industry-wide levy from social media companies and communication service providers to support awareness and preventative activity to counter internet harms, just as is already the case with the gambling industry.
Just as we led the world in regulating embryology … if we create the right system of governance for the digital economy and use of data, we will attract the right businesses who want to become the global centre for data use and research.
and An international settlement
open discussions with the leading tech companies and other like-minded democracies about the global rules of the digital economy, to develop an international legal framework that we have for so long benefited from in other areas like banking and trade.
There is little doubt that, if we get it right, the UK could become the most trusted place to base a global information business, as it is currently for a global money (aka financial services) business. But that means recognising that trust is earned, not claimed. Britain became globally trusted after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 which demonstrated that the King/Executive had come under the rule of law.
Whether we are still trusted in the same way, afrer teh recent Home Office reinvention of the Crown Prerogative is for others, not us, to judge. But London is unique in that you can do business in whatever language, under whatever law and jurisdiction you wish. Our membership of the European Union was beginning to jeopardise that status, whatever other benefits it brought. We must ensure that our post-Brexit policies exploits, not jeopardise, that advantage.
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Golden State Warriors Fan Blog
The City of Dis (W's 101, Magic 115)
Posted on January 7, 2023 by Chris L
Disengaged. Disarticulate. Dispirited. Discordant. Disarray. Dis-hovering.
I'm up in Mendocino and told Viggy I could cover if the power and wifi held.
I kind of wish they hadn't.
Posted on November 16, 2022 by Chris L
I feel surprisingly curious, even upbeat, right now.
All the usual caveats obtain. Really really bad Spurs' roster last game. Can't remember Pop getting off the bench 2nd half. He did pull a slip of paper out of his shirt pocket a couple times, but I think it was a wine list, not a rotation chart.
Of course, watched the game at Chase with Adam. Things always make more sense then. Amazing without missing a beat to discuss family, books, politics, travel—and the present perfect state of the W's—in one flow.
Though the observations below are filtered through conversation and equally through Viggy's fine, necessarily acerbic last post, the errors are all mine.
I'm almost exclusively interested in which new developments from the Spurs' game might carry forward. Starting with tonight.
Tryin' to make it real…(W's 15, Magic 46)
Posted on November 4, 2022 by Chris L
…compared to what?
The Future of Fast Break, Part 2 (Warriors / Hornets and Warriors / Pistons Open Thread)
Posted on October 29, 2022 by viggy
Six years ago, on May 20th, Adam sat down and wrote a blog post that changed my life. In an effort to better balance the enormous demands on his time, and also add some new voices to the Fast Break mix, he put out some feelers and asked all of us, the Fast Break community, to jump into the mix and add two or three writers to the stable. By some miracle, I was one of those selected, along with Robert. We joined mainstays Adam and Chris to complete a writing quartet, distributing games evenly using a Google sheet that I still have pinned today. We've seen incredible highs (three championship banners raised in 2017, 2018, and 2022) and incredible lows (Games 5-7 in 2016, the end of the 2019 Finals, and everything about the 2020 season). It's hard to believe that I've spent over half a decade now writing for a blog that I spent over a decade reading religiously.
Fun Stuff, Game Thread
The Offseason So Far
Posted on July 23, 2022 by viggy
It still feels surreal that, despite a season filled with soaring highs and crushing lows, the Golden State Warriors ended up as NBA Champions. It is a widely accepted truth of sports that re-ascending the mountain after getting knocked off of it is immensely difficult, and for the Warriors to have managed it despite all of the pertaining circumstances is a treat unlike any other. But time rarely stands still in the NBA, and so we already find ourselves looking ahead to next season, with about a month to go before the schedule is released. Already, the offseason has spanned a championship parade (!), the draft, the California Classic at Chase, the Salt Lake City Summer League, the Vegas Summer League, and the start of free agency. Let's look through each of these events with a Warriors-focused lens together…
Kicking Down the Cobblestones (W's 3, Celtics 2)
Posted on June 14, 2022 by Chris L
The idea was to flow through the day. To have an idea but not fixate on it. I've done versions of all the elements before. Which doesn't mean they couldn't be new. Unless I didn't let them be. Hanging out at MOMA, writing, good coffee, long leisurely walk down 3rd Street, meeting Adam early enough that we could catch up on all the important stuff. Like friendship and family and travel. And how the Celtics might defend high screens for Steph this game. And whether or not the W's might've discovered something about how to attack a Celtic defense anchored by Robert Williams.
Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy.
Fun Stuff, Game Summary
"Klay Thompson Walks Back In"
It was the most memorable, purposeful—and almost literally liturgical—walk in W's history.
But what were we cheering exactly?
Certainly the man himself. And hope against hope that maybe somehow he wasn't hurt as badly as we thought? Game 6 Klay. The sheer courage.
"Just a two minute rest, I'll be ready." — Klay Thompson, June 13, 2019
And lest we forget (and I doubt many of us have), when Klay walked off the court the second time that night, the W's were up 85-80 with 2.19 left in the 3rd in Game 6 against the Toronto Raptors. And we'd been watching that game in belief and disbelief that even without Kevin Durant that Game 6 Klay (30: 8-12 fg's, 4-6 on 3's, 10-10 ft's—with 14 mins left) and his teammates might've quite possibly willed that series back to Toronto. And then who knows?
(Below the response of the Oracle crowd is still as poignant as retrospectively the broadcast commentary sounds beside the point.)
Klay's been to six straight finals. And counting.
"I just want to frigging win." — Klay Thompson yesterday on tonight's game.
And so Klay Thompson walks back in tonight.
"Right Guy!"—an Ode to Kevon Looney
Posted on June 1, 2022 by Chris L
I still remember listening to that first interview with Kevon Looney. It was the morning after the W's drafted him in 2015. In fact, I can still remember the bend in Hwy 1 where I pulled over to give myself the best chance of maintaining good reception.
There was just something about the guy. His humility and common sense and quiet intelligence and self-awareness (even then). He fell to 30 in that draft. All the talk/reservations were about his hips. He might need a major procedure. He might not be ready for a while. Maybe he wouldn't ever be ready.
Still, I thought, it was a good risk. The W's had just won the championship. They didn't need anybody. If Looney panned out, it would be pure gratuity.
And so it has been. Took a while because of health. But so it has been.
I began rooting hard for Looney way back then. And haven't let up since.
Scant evidence (W's 128, Lakers 112)
Posted on April 7, 2022 by Chris L
I thought for the longest time that there'd be virtually nothing to learn from last night's game. Except that the W's were listless and disengaged—and that playing a game against a defunct Lakers' team that was even minus the vets who'd defuncted them (why did those guys even fly up?) seemed baldly motivation-less. It wasn't even a good scrimmage.
Reggie Miller said at one point: "Is this a pre-season game?" That felt about right. But a bad pre-season game.
I hadn't expected much. Certainly hadn't expected a ramped-up W's team playing for all the marbles. But I had hoped for a coolly efficient workmanlike performance. Something to continue to build on.
Towards the end of the 3rd quarter (spanning into the 4th), the W's finally gained some coherence (Kerr said "traction")—and there ended up being distinct takeaways after all.
Fun Stuff, Game Summary, Strategy
Crashing into the Looking-Glass (W's 17/16, Magic 25/29)
Posted on March 22, 2022 by Chris L
I wasn't being facetious or faux witty when I said pre-game that the W's are playing this season in reverse. After last night's Magic game, the next time the W's have a couple days off, they'll be heading back to training camp.
It's hard to imagine a more systematic collapse than the one we've been watching (ever-hope-against-hopefully) the second half of this season. Hard to imagine. Even harder to explain. But at this point it doesn't appear that all the King's horses and all the King's men can put it all back together again.
Illustration of Humpty Dumpty from Through the Looking Glass, by John Tenniel, 1871.
Just Fine in the West (Warriors 122, Grizzlies 120) January 26, 2023
Deja Vu (Warriors 116, Nets 120) January 22, 2023
The Short-Handed Warriors Surprise the Cleveland Cavaliers…and Warriors Fans (Warriors 120, Cavs 114) January 21, 2023
June Basketball (Warriors 118, Celtics 121) January 20, 2023
The Road to Boston January 18, 2023
Lackadaisical (Warriors 113, Suns 125) January 10, 2023
The City of Dis (W's 101, Magic 115) January 7, 2023
Looney Tunes (Warriors 143, Hawks 141) January 2, 2023
Revenge, Part 2 (Warriors 112, Jazz 107 and Warriors 118, Blazers 112) December 30, 2022

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Arizona Hops & Vines
3450 Highway 82 Sonoita, AZ
Arizona Hops & Vines is a cheeky little winery run by two crazy awesome sisters (Megan and Shannon), with a ton of help from their friends and their many children. Hops & Vines is the result of some pretty fearless dreaming in the face of many well-meaning and reasonable assertions that their dream of opening a winery "will never work." Well. If you want to absolutely guarantee that we're going to do something, all you need to do is assert that it's impossible.
Sonoita Vineyards Winery
290 Elgin-Canelo Rd. Elgin, AZ
Sonoita Vineyards Winery sits on a hilltop in the rolling grasslands of Southern Arizona at an elevation of 5,000 feet. Elgin's first commercial vineyard planted in 1979 and Sonoita Vineyards Winery opened in 1983. Our tasting room and gift shop are open daily from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. We hold three festivals a year: The Blessing of Sonoita Vineyards held in April; Harvest Festival in July/August, and St. Martin's New Release Festival in November. The winery has accommodations for special events in our Vintage room along with the winery grounds.
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Flying Leap Vineyards
342 Elgin Rd., Elgin, AZ
Flying Leap Vineyards prides itself on staffing its tasting rooms with experienced sommeliers who revel in explaining the art of winemaking and viticulture in Southern Arizona wine country. Its intimate tasting rooms are located in Bisbee, Tucson, and at its picturesque vineyards in Elgin. FLV also operates a tasting room on Willcox's popular "winery row." It is located in the former Headquarters Saloon, where Wyatt Earp's brother Warren famously met his end during a barroom gunfight in 1900. Call ahead to book a group tour of Flying Leap's vineyard, or join in one of the regular rural, nighttime astronomy events, when you can see an array of stars invisible to those in the area's more brightly lit urban centers. Even better, Flying Leap in the process of expanding its operations to brandy, grappa, moonshine, bourbon, and whiskey distilling.
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Good things come in small packages, and Keeling-Schaefer Vineyards is proof of that. The small winery produces estate-grown and bottled Rhône-style wines on 21 vineyard acres along Rock Creek, in the sunny Chiricahua foothills near Willcox. Its award-winning wines have been featured and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal and Arizona Highways—and Wine Spectator awarded two of its wines, the Three Sisters Syrah and the Best Friends Viognier, some of the highest ratings any Arizona wines have ever received. Pay a visit to the Keeling-Schaefer Tasting Room, located in downtown Willcox in the restored 1917 Willcox Bank and Trust Building, which features pressed-tin ceilings, and the original wood flooring.
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Territorial boundaries drawn by past empires, who have had little regard for geographic realities, often become major sources of conflict.
Throughout history, empires have chosen specific boundaries based on mainly cultural and physical geographic areas. The British Empire, which controlled many geographic areas in various continents throughout the world, was notably known for performing choosing specific boundaries. Frequently, in the news I see Israel and its territorial disputes with its neighbors; therefore, I have decided to focus on Israel's sources of conflicts based on its boundaries. I will begin with a brief geographic history of Israel for an understanding of its current events.
The land now known as Israel was once called Palestine is considered a holy land to the Muslims, Jews, and Christians. Ancient Hebrews that lived in this region called the area Caanan. After 1000 B.C., this area was split into two different kingdoms which were called Israel and Judah and were invaded by other empires constantly, some of which were the Egyptians, Macedonians, Romans, Persians, and the list continues. Most of the original Hebrews who settled the region were then forced to emigrate elsewhere. Afterwards, Palestine became a center of Christian pilgrimage after the emperor Constantine converted to that faith. Hundreds of years later, the Arabs gained control of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire and Muslims continued to rule this region until the 20th century. Throughout this period, Hebrews started to settle back into Palestine. During World War I, British forces defeated the Turks in Palestine and governed the area until they officially withdrew in 1948, which formed the State of Israel. In the following days, Muslim forces from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq invaded the new formed nation. As a result, Israel had increased its original territory by 50%, taking western Galilee, a broad corridor through central Palestine to Jerusalem, and part of modern Jerusalem. Almost a decade later, Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal and forbidden Israeli shipping to travel through the newly created canal. This led Israel to seize the area known as the Gaza Strip located on the Sinai Peninsula. Another decade later, Israel made simultaneous attacks against Syrian, Jordanian, and Egyptian air bases, totally defeating the neighboring Muslim nations which tripled the size of Israel's territory. The areas controlled by Israel were the Golan Heights, the West Bank of the Jordan River, Jerusalem's Old City and the Gaza Strip.
As a result, the dispute over the territories controlled by Israel has created a sense of instability in the region. The land that was provided to the Hebrews from Great Britain is now in constant turmoil. The Palestinians, who are of Arab descent, are now looking to regain control of their land. Constant upheavals in the area known as Gaza continue to rise. The primary issue that continues to instigate this conflict is the attempt to maintain an ethnically preferred state which is inevitable considering the majority of people in Israel are now Jewish. This region once was mainly settled by Muslims; however, they are now prohibited from returning to their homes because the state proclaims Judaism. Furthermore, Israel's military occupation over the aforementioned regions that were seized prior to the 1970's is still burdensome to the Palestinians who have minimal control over their lives and live in disarray daily. Peace efforts continue to try to resolve this conflict, but Israel refuses to give the controlled land back to its rightful owners who were forced out. Obviously, when the original borders were implemented, no one took into consideration that people would be forced out and not have anywhere to go. Hopefully in the future, Israel will resolve this issue by giving back the Gaza, West Bank, and the other areas they have taken control of especially because it is a constant battle to keep these lands for Israel.
For the record, I have no bias toward either side; I am just stating my observables.


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Q: Passing JSON data to REST service when i'm passing json data using POST rest service getting error like unsupported mediatype.
Caused By: Exception [EclipseLink-4002] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.6.1.v20150916-55dc7c3): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.DatabaseException
Internal Exception: java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: ORA-00001: unique constraint (HR.BUSINESS_CARD_DETAILS_PK) violated

Error Code: 1
Call: INSERT INTO BUSINESS_CARD_DETAILS (ID, ADDRESS, COMPANY, CREATEDATE, DEPARTMENT, EMAILID, FIRSTNAME, JOBTITLE, LASTNAME, MIDDLENAME, MOBILENO, USERNAME) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
    bind => [12 parameters bound]
Query: InsertObjectQuery(com.killthebookservices.BusinessCardDetails[ id=220 ])
    at org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.DatabaseException.sqlException(DatabaseException.java:331)
    at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.databaseaccess.DatabaseAccessor.executeDirectNoSelect(DatabaseAccessor.java:902)
    at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.databaseaccess.DatabaseAccessor.executeNoSelect(DatabaseAccessor.java:964)
    at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.databaseaccess.DatabaseAccessor.basicExecuteCall(DatabaseAccessor.java:633)
    at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.databaseaccess.DatabaseAccessor.executeCall(DatabaseAccessor.java:560)
    Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

When i tried to call rest using these as headers in postman --
Content-Type: application/json, response: request failed.
Accept: application/json, response: Unsupported Media type.
this is my rest method - (FACADEREST),
package com.killthebookservices.service;

import com.killthebookservices.BusinessCardDetails;
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.util.List;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContextType;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.DELETE;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.PUT;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;

@Stateless
@Path("com.killthebookservices.businesscarddetails")
public class BusinessCardDetailsFacadeREST extends AbstractFacade<BusinessCardDetails> {

    @PersistenceContext(unitName = "KillTheBookDataServicePU",
                        type=PersistenceContextType.TRANSACTION)
    private EntityManager em;

    public BusinessCardDetailsFacadeREST() {
        super(BusinessCardDetails.class);
    }

    @POST
    @Override
    @Consumes({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
    public void create(BusinessCardDetails entity) {
        super.create(entity);

    }

    @PUT
    @Path("{id}")
    @Consumes({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
    public void edit(@PathParam("id") BigDecimal id,BusinessCardDetailsentity) {
        super.edit(entity);
    }

    @DELETE
    @Path("{id}")
    public void remove(@PathParam("id") BigDecimal id) {
        super.remove(super.find(id));
    }

    @GET
    @Path("{id}")
    @Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
    public BusinessCardDetails find(@PathParam("id") BigDecimal id) {
        return super.find(id);
    }
    @GET
    @Override
    @Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
    public List<BusinessCardDetails> findAll() {
        return super.findAll();
    }

    @GET
    @Path("{from}/{to}")
    @Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
    public List<BusinessCardDetails> findRange(@PathParam("from") Integer from, @PathParam("to") Integer to) {
        return super.findRange(new int[]{from, to});
    }

    @GET
    @Path("count")
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    public String countREST() {
        return String.valueOf(super.count());
    }

    @Override
    protected EntityManager getEntityManager() {
        return em;
    }

}

I'm using this to create rest services.

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How do I find the value of an original Uzilevsky (Living Stones, 1981) colored pencil linear landscape or who would I contact to point me in the right direction?
Did you ever get any information about this? I ask because I have a similar orginal linear landscape and I would be very interested to get any information about its value.
-- Paul Gollnick (gollnick@acsu.buffalo.edu), February 04, 2003.
-- John Marchetti (marchettijohn@yahoo.com), March 14, 2003.
I'll get on the bandwagon. I also have an original Uzilevsky linear landscape titled "They hung their harps among the willows". Getting some sense of value would be very helpfull. All I know is how much I paid.
-- Rinus Baak (r.baak@worldnet.att.net), March 22, 2003.
Here I am to join you - I have an oval foil linear landscape entitled, "Oaksprings Impressions!" I can't find this advertised or noted anywhere; was purchased many, many years ago (when Uzilevsky's linear work was popular) from a small art gallery with a bit of story behind how I acquired it. Any idea of where further info/value can be obtained? Of course, any and all info will be appreciated.
-- mary jane (eksooh@yahoo.com), May 25, 2003.
Marcus is still alive and still selling. If you do a google search, you will find that he has his own web sight. He sells his linears for between $700 and $1850. Read the Bio, He is also a musician /composer. He has traveled with the New Christy Minstrels, jammed with Bob Dylan, and cut a few CDs.
-- Dwight Benson (dazedandconfused@mindspring.com), June 16, 2003.
Has anyone in this discussion group ever received assistance in any manner?
-- mary jane (eksooh@yahoo.com), August 18, 2003.
I have two Uzilevsky pieces. They are from Oaksprings Impressions and dated 19 85. One is called Triburon. Does anyone know anything about it?
-- Helen Meistrich (meistric@swbell.net), October 15, 2003.
-- judy freeman (judyfree3@aol.com), July 05, 2004.
I CONTACTED MR. UZILEVSKY OM 7/10/04 AT HIS WEB SITE AND ASKED HIM ABOUT THE VALUE OF MY 1981 LINEAR LANDSCAPE "THE LOWLANDS". HE STATED THAT HE THOUGHT IT WAS WORTH ABOUT $2000.00 BUT HE COULD NOT BE SURE.. HE DID STATE THAT IT WAS AN ORIGINAL AND A ONE OF A KIND,, NO NUMBERED PRINTS. HOPE THIS IS OF SOME VALUE TO SOMEONE.
-- George Rickard (Rickypoo201@aol.com), July 11, 2004.


This level has hard difficulty. For this level try to play with orange candy or break colorbomb with orange candy. Try to make and break wrapped candy to have more orange candies available to break.
I agree. The required orange candy does not drop down. Most frustrating level.
Not one person can complain about this level since last year. I can't even get close.
This level is not fun. No orange candies fall, even when matching 2 special candies and when I do finally get some color bombs they all explode at the same time. It's not fun and I have no desire to continue to lose. Needs more moves and less timed bombs. Terrible level and I am getting tired of trying.
I agree. Not fun. Just want it over to get to a more interesting game.
I agree. Not enough orange and get timed out. Frustrating.


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Things You Didn't Know About The American Comedian Bill Burr
By Chika Udeh
Comedy is often looked at as lesser performance art; but through the efforts of comedians like Bill Burr, the field has become one of the most appreciated entertainment fields in the world.
Bill Burr is widely considered one of the big shots in the comedy. The American stand-up comedian is also an actor, writer, and podcaster but he is best known for his cynical observational humor. The comedian always refers to himself as 'that loud guy in the bar' with 'uninformed logic'. He has remained one of the finest and funniest comedians in the country for years thanks to his 'rage-fueled humor' and his failure to heed to political correctness.
Bill Burr's life before he became popular
William Frederic Burr, commonly known as Bill Burr, is a native of Massachusetts. He was born on the 10th of June 1968 in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. The comedian is of German, French, and Irish descent.
After graduating from High School in 1987, Bill went to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, where he bagged a bachelor's degree in radio. After his education, he worked in warehouses and as a dental assistant before finally settling in the entertainment industry as a comedian, a passion he had nursed since his childhood years.
Bill Burr's career officially started in 1992 after he moved to New York City and since then, he has been able to release a good number of comedy albums and specials. In one of his early years as a stand-up comedian, Bill Burr dedicated himself to making 300 stand-up shows for a single year.
His first stand-up album, Emotionally Unavailable, was, later released in 2003; and in 2007, he started a weekly podcast, Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, where he offers his sharp and forthright view on experiences and events of the week. The following year, he released his Why Did I Do This?, an hourlong stand-up special which made it on the Billboard Comedy Albums chart. He often mentions Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Sam Kinison, and George Carlin, as his biggest influences.
While improving his skills in comedy, he appeared on several radio programs as a guest and took up roles in films and TV series some of which include Date Night, Stand Up Guys, Breaking Bad, and Netflix's adult animated sitcom F for Family. His debut movie, however, is a comedy thriller Perfect Fit which was released in 2001.
Bill Burr's excellence as a comedian earned him a place as the first stand-up comedian to be hosted on The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien. Other shows he appeared on include The Jim Gaffigan Show, Black or White, Passionada and Twisted Fortune, among many others.
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Some of the notable awards he has received so far include the Comedian of the Year Award which he received in 2011 at the Boston Comedy Festival and the Alumni Distinction Award which he received from his alma mater Emerson College in 2013. Among his achievements is 'All Things Comedy', a digital media studio he co-founded with Al Madrigal.
How Much Is He Worth
Following his talents as a stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster, Bill Burr has been able to earn an impressive amount for himself. With a career that is over a decade long, the American star has an estimated net worth of $12 million.
Aside from his career as a comedian and actor, the Massachusetts native has garnered credits as a producer and as a writer, which no doubt added to his total net worth.
Who are His Brother and Parents?
Bill grew up with his parents who are in the field of medicine; his mother, Linda Ann, was a nurse while his father, Robert Edmund Burr, was a dentist. He has a brother whose name is Robert, but unfortunately, no other information has been given about him.
Is He Married and Does He Have a Daughter?
Bill Burr is happily married to Nia Hill, a producer, screenwriter and director who was his girlfriend for a long time. The pair exchanged their marital vows in 2013 and on January 20, 2017, they welcomed their daughter, Lola. A few days after the birth of their daughter, Bill made a joke about him not being ready to take on fatherhood on the popular Jimmy Fallon's Late Night Show.
Bill Burr & Wife, Nia: image source
Nia is a Black American who was raised in Los Angeles, California. She gained attention as an actress when she appeared in Lila, Long Distance, and Carpool; however, she made her first lead role in the movie Divorce: A Love Story. Bill Burr and his wife are still living together happily with no rumor of divorce between them.
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Height & Weight
Bill Burr is not just known as one of the leading stand-up comedians in the entertainment industry, but he is also known for his good looks, The stand-up comedian stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches with a body weight of 63 kg. His other body measurements are not available at the moment
Chika Udeh
Chika holds a B.A in English language/History and has over 5 years experience in content development and journalism. She loves playing with writing, wordsmiths, and storytelling in all its forms, and when she is not writing about famous people and events that matter, she is probably listening or dancing to some cool jams.
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