I welcome the opportunity to discuss this matter of public importance in the Senate today. I welcome the opportunity to set the record straight, because we hear many mistruths spoken in relation to school funding. We hear many Labor lies in relation to school funding, and we heard a few just then from Senator Lines. We hear this talk that only the Labor Party is committed to school funding and we hear suggestions endlessly from Senator Lines, from Ms Ellis, from Mr Shorten and from others who all suggest that there are somehow cuts and reductions in relation to school funding.
I welcome the opportunity to put on the record, from the first full year of the coalition government to the last year of the budget that will be handed down tonight, exactly how much money is available for schools, which demonstrates that it goes up each and every year. For the record, in 2014 the Commonwealth provided $13.7 billion in school funding. In 2015 we provided $14.9 billion. In 2016 we are providing $16 billion. In 2017 we will provide $17.4 billion. In 2018 we will provide $18.2 billion. In 2019 we will provide $19.1 billion. In 2020 we will provide $20.1 billion. You do not need a particularly high level of numeracy understanding or mathematics to look at those figures and understand they go up each and every year.
Senator Lines finished by saying, 'It's a question of trust'. Well based on Labor's claims that school funding is somehow going backwards, you clearly cannot trust the Labor Party. The facts speak for themselves. The figures that have been paid to schools, that are being paid to schools and that are locked into the budget forward estimates demonstrate that funding goes up each and every year into the future. The funding equation is quite clear. Is the Labor Party promising that it will spend more into the future? Yes. I do not deny that. I also acknowledge that the Labor Party is proposing around $100 billion in new taxes into the future as well. The Labor Party's policy is clear. They can talk about their policy, but they should not mislead about the coalition's policy, which does ensure funding growth and growth that is well in excess of inflation.
Much ofSenator Lines's contribution was based on arguments of what the states say. Well, surprise, surprise: state and territory governments ask for more money. As sure as night follows day, through the history of the federation, state and territory governments have always asked for more money; as sure as night follows day, through the history of federation and into the future, state and territory governments will always ask for more money. What we see is that those opposite are apparently a pushover when it comes to simply handing over more money. They will hand over more money on a whim, regardless of the fact that it requires higher taxes and/or increased debt from them. In fact, what we see is that the Labor Party have found one magic formula. It is the magic formula of having higher taxes and increased debt, because they promise to increase taxes by a lot, then they realise that those tax rises do not raise as much as they promised, and, oops, suddenly debt and deficit levels have gone through the roof. We have seen that just in the last couple of days.
What is the Labor Party's promise in relation to school funding and school spending? They promise over the next decade to spend an extra $30 billion. They go well beyond the budget, because it is easier for them to fudge the figures that way. They promise that over a decade they will spend an extra $30 billion. In announcing that they would do that, they said that they would pay for it by increasing the tax on tobacco. They said that that would raise about $40 billion. That is fine. They say, 'This well and truly pays for our school funding commitment,' and this was the Labor commitment. Just yesterday in the House of Representatives Ms Ellis said that it was tobacco tax that was paying for school funding increases. As recently as yesterday she singled out one tax rise—one only. The tobacco tax was to pay for the school funding increase. Then what do we discover? We discover that Labor's tax rise in relation to school funding only raises half as much as they said. That in relation to the $30 billion that was going to be there for school funding, $20 billion of it will not be there. Two in every three dollars is actually missing. So we get the double whammy: we get the tax rise from Labor, if they are elected, and we also get the reality that we will end up with much bigger deficits into the future, because the tax they promise will not be there, just as it was not there for the mining tax. Classic Labor: higher taxes, higher deficit—higher debt to fuel higher spending. The real problem is that the spending is done with no real idea of how they want to see it used. No reforms are attached to the spending, just a desire to hand over billions of extra dollars to the states and territories.
We are committed, as I said at the outset and as I detailed in the figures, to growing school funding every single year into the future—growing it ahead of costs. We are determined that that funding will be distributed according to need. Let me make clear what we mean by that. We mean that schools in low socioeconomic areas should receive more funding than other schools. We mean that students with disability should receive adjustment funding more than other students. We mean that students of an Indigenous background should receive additional support. We mean that small schools in rural and regional areas should receive additional support. We are committed to needs-based principles in the distribution of school funding. That is exactly how we will make sure school funding is distributed into the future—not just when it comes to how a bureaucrat in Canberra carves up the funding, which is what happens at present. We want to make sure that flows through to how the states and territories distribute the money.
What many people do not appreciate, and what I do not think the Labor Party appreciate, is that the model they signed up to when they delivered so-called Gonski funding at the tail end of the Gillard government was actually 27 different funding agreements around the country. It was not a uniform model; it was 27 different agreements, with lots of different special deals built into that with different states and territories and different non-government jurisdictions. And once they write out a great big to cheque to a state or territory they cannot guarantee that the money is going according to need in any event. There is nothing in the way Labor has structured it that ensures states and territories deliver the moneys to schools according to need. The Commonwealth gives the money to the states, and states do what they want with it by and large. That is not good enough, and we will take a different approach to this in the future to ensure that we do fund according to need.
We will also make sure that we fund according to real reform for our schools. Over the last 20-odd years real funding for Australian schools has gone up by more than 100 per cent—it has more than doubled—and enrolments have only gone up by about 18 per cent in that time. So there is a lot of extra funding that has gone into our school system. Yet on good international measures, we see that our reading and literacy standards, our numeracy and mathematics standards, our science measures and our engagement in foreign language studies have all gone backwards. We have been spending a lot more and getting poorer results as a result. So it is not a question of how much money is being spent; it is a question of how well it is being spent.
That is why we have detailed reforms that address, from the earliest years, the identification of reading deficiencies in young children; that ensure intervention occurs at those earliest years; that ensure that students who are completing high school should have minimum standards of mathematics, literacy and numeracy; that ensure that those going on to university are actually required to have ambitions in maths and science and in English and humanities; that, importantly, reward our most capable teachers—not performance-based pay, as some try to mislead in this debate, nor pay based on NAPLAN results or the like, but pay that recognises those most capable teachers, as independently assessed by their peers and by the experts; that ensures they get a reward, an encouragement to stay in the teaching profession; and that provides greater incentives to go and work in the most disadvantaged schools. We want to ensure we get the best teachers into those most disadvantaged schools.
These are real reforms that can make a real difference to lift the outcomes for Australian students. They can ensure we actually turnaround the decline in performance and give us the best possible chance to raise our education standards in the future. It is real change rather than the hollow promises about more spending that we hear from those opposite.
In a previous MYEFO the Coalition had planned to ONLY cover funding against the CPI allowing for enrolments past the forward estimates. The senator failed to mention that important fact. This mean spirited policy would have impacted state budgets and left schools in a mess if costs had outstripped inflation. So now we see a more benign arrangement in the 2016-17 budget where total school funding "will be indexed by an education sector specific index of 3.56 per cent, with an allowance for changes in enrolments".
If it is a matter of trust, Labor is right in claiming 'that school funding is somehow going backwards' after 2020 based on the previous massive increases. The 'facts' speak for themselves.
School, hospital, and pension funding are all going backwards with increased taxes, rates, insurance and other cost of living expenses because of the Coalition policy of tying funding to the CPI under the guise of 'budget repair', which will no doubt go towards paying for the $48 billion cost of the extra spending on reducing the tax obligations of business.


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Opening Bell: 10.11.21
The second K and R step down from KKR; Izzy crypto trading?; SEC eyes EPS, Archegos; and more!
KKR Co-CEOs Henry Kravis and George Roberts Step Down [WSJ]
Joe Bae and Scott Nuttall, who have served as the firm's co-presidents since July 2017, will become co-CEOs, effective immediately, KKR said Monday, unveiling a plan that has been months in the making…. KKR also announced a corporate reorganization aimed at helping the firm transition to a "one-share, one-vote" structure from the current dual-class setup that gives the two founders extra influence…. The two co-founders have led KKR as it developed into a global investment firm with $429 billion in assets across numerous business lines at the end of the second quarter. In February, the firm closed a deal to buy insurance company Global Atlantic Financial Group Ltd., giving it $90 billion more to manage.
Millennium memo warns staff to log personal crypto trades with compliance [FN]
While one of the people said they thought the memo was a new shift in policy, the other said the fund had required staff to disclose such holdings for the last three years and that the September note was intended as a reminder to employees to alert compliance teams to personal holdings in cryptocurrencies…. Millennium, headed by Israel Englander, is among hedge funds piling into crypto trusts, futures, and ETFs, and is hiring staff to build out its crypto operations….
The Pandemic's Over for Big Banks. Now Comes the Hard Part. [WSJ]
Analysts expect banks in the S&P 500 to report aggregate profits of about $31 billion, up about 20% from a year ago but down 20% from the second quarter, according to FactSet. Profits are expected to hold steady in the fourth quarter…. Those pandemic blips concealed lackluster growth in banks' lending business and temporarily swelled trading revenue. Analysts are trying to figure out what the new normal looks like….
"Though loan growth has been slow to recover, we believe that we have reached the inflection point," Goldman Sachs bank analysts wrote.
SEC Digs Deeper Into Companies' EPS Manipulation [WSJ]
"Three cases is not a huge amount, but it does show that they're focused on it," said David Rosenfeld, associate law professor at Northern Illinois University and former co-head of enforcement for the SEC's New York office. "It takes a fair amount of time to unravel cases involving accounting issues…."
"Many investors suspect EPS manipulation is more common than the cases suggest," said Amy Borrus, executive director of the Council of Institutional Investors, which represents pension funds and other large money managers.
SEC Investigating Archegos for Potential Market Manipulation [Bloomberg]
Authorities are reviewing whether Archegos bought multiple stakes in the same companies across several banks in an effort to avoid triggering public disclosure rules…. SEC Chairman Gary Gensler told Congress in May that more stringent disclosure laws may be warranted for investment firms after the Archegos debacle, and he later signaled plans to make more industry data publicly available.
Three U.S.-based experts receive economics Nobel Prize [AP via NBC News]
Canadian-born David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded half of the prize for his research on how minimum wage, immigration and education affect the labor market.
The other half was shared by Joshua Angrist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dutch-born Guido Imbens from Stanford University for their framework for studying issues that can't rely on traditional scientific methods.
Opening Bell: 9.10.18
Moonves forced out; Ma stepping down; Crypto crashing hard; Urine therapy is in; and more!
Opening Bell: 7.8.21
No more Didis; Archegos exodus; SEC stills Skybridge scheme; Commerzbank should have waited to lay off Wirecard vet; and more!
Chinese companies on the chopping block; recession risk rises; crypto-401(k)s checked; Elon Musk is homeless; and more!
Banks dump bad debt; rich people dump bad-paying bank accounts; SEC dumps on crypto's public ambitions; and more!
Archegos escapees; Elliott sharpens its knives; failed Cabinet nominee to be failed money manager; and more!
Bank of Japan Launches Easing Campaign (WSJ) At his inaugural policy board meeting Thursday, Haruhiko Kuroda convinced the nine-member panel to agree to a major expansion of government bond purchases, including buying longer-term debt, which is designed to drive down longer-term rates. The BOJ also broke free from some self-imposed limits that the previous leadership under Masaaki Shirakawa adhered to. "Our stance is to take all the policy measures imaginable at this point to achieve the 2% price stability target in two years," Mr. Kuroda said at a news conference following the two-day meeting, one of the most closely watched in the central bank's recent history. ECB holds fire on rates (FT) The European Central Bank kept its main refinancing rate on hold at 0.75 per cent on Thursday, hours after the Bank of Japan stunned investors with a dramatic easing plan that will see it double its monetary base over two years. ... The ECB has been reluctant to cut its own interest rates further, which might involve moving into negative territory on its 0 per cent deposit rate, and would face difficulty adopting a quantitative easing programme itself. Yet inflation has been falling below the bank's 2 per cent target, unemployment is at a record high and the 17-nation bloc remains in recession. Weekly Jobless Claims Get Weaker as Outlook Dims (Reuters) Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 28,000 to a seasonally adjusted 385,000, the highest level since November, the Labor Department said on Thursday. It was the third straight week of gains in claims. Coming on the heels of data on Wednesday showing private employers added the fewest jobs in five months in March, the report implied some weakening in job growth after hiring accelerated in February. Enron's Jeff Skilling Could Get Early Release From Prison (CNBC) Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who is serving a 24-year prison term for his role in the energy giant's epic collapse, could get out of prison early under an agreement being discussed by his attorneys and the Justice Department, CNBC has learned. Skilling, who was convicted in 2006 of conspiracy, fraud and insider trading, has served just over six years. It is not clear how much his sentence would be shortened under the deal. MF Global Trustee's Report Blasts Former CEO Corzine (WSJ) A risky business strategy, failure to improve inadequate systems, as well as "negligent conduct" by former Chief Executive Officer Jon S. Corzine and others contributed to the unraveling of MF Global Holdings Ltd., a new report said Thursday. The report, released by Louis J. Freeh, the trustee for MF Global Holdings—the parent company of the U.S. brokerage firm MF Global Inc. and other units—laid much of the blame at Mr. Corzine's feet, accusing him of implementing trading strategies with minimal oversight and exceeding board-approved limits for some European trades the company made under his stewardship. Nightclub dancer "Ruby" stands up for Berlusconi outside court (Reuters) Carrying a large sign reading "The Ruby case: Are you not interested in the truth any more?", she said she had been used as part of a deliberate campaign against Berlusconi by magistrates and sections of the press. "Today I realize that there is a war under way against him that I do not feel part of, but which has dragged me in and injures me," she said, reading a prepared statement. "I do not want to be a victim of this situation." KKR to Carlyle Target $3.6 Trillion in 401(k)s Accounts (Bloomberg) Carlyle Group LP (CG), Blackstone Group LP (BX) and KKR & Co. (KKR), which usually open their doors only to clients willing to commit at least $5 million, are lowering that threshold or offering investments directly to individuals, an effort to attract fresh cash amid lackluster fundraising. Their ultimate goal: a slice of the $3.57 trillion Americans have accumulated in their 401(k) retirement plans. ... "We definitely would like to be part of 401(k) platforms," Michael Gaviser, a managing director responsible for individual investor products at KKR, which oversees $76 billion, said in an interview at the firm's New York headquarters. "We think about it every day because there's so much demand." Tiger Cubs Report a Rough Q1 (II Alpha) The first quarter was especially tough for long-short hedge fund managers - and the biggest, most prominent Tiger Cubs were not immune. ... New York-based Tiger Global, for example, was up only 2.5 percent in March and 5 percent for the first three months. Moscow Tries to Reinvent Itself as Financial Hub (NYT) "The idea is to upgrade the position of Moscow in ratings, to become closer to the leaders of innovation and to the big boys of international financial centers," Andrei V. Sharonov, the deputy mayor for economic affairs, who led a roadshow tour promoting the city in Asia, said in an interview. ... Certainly Moscow has a lot of wooing to do. A city of traffic-clogged highways and sprawling concrete apartment blocks, Moscow is widely known as a singularly difficult place to do business. It did attract the big banking houses from New York and London after the fall of Communism. But cronyism, the lack of transparency and shady accounting gave companies pause. Weak courts and selective enforcement encouraged companies to conduct business outside Russia. North Korea Warns U.S. It's Authorized Nuclear Attack (Bloomberg) North Korea stepped up threats against the U.S, authorizing its military to conduct a potential "smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike" while again restricting South Korean access to a joint industrial zone. Mark Zuckerberg's Childhood Website Was Slightly Uglier Than Facebook (DI) "The only site where a yellow eye blinks at you." Norwegian schools reschedule exams amid Bieber fever (AFP) Bieber, who is 19, sparked chaos in Oslo in May last year when dozens of teenagers chased the singer's car in the hope of following him to a free concert at a location that was only revealed at the last minute.
Opening Bell: 11.9.21
GE-3; Hertz hauls it in; if you need your money within five years, Izzy Englander isn't interested; and more!
GameStop can't stop; Citi readies the pinkslips; ARK-trocious; Izzy in Paris; and more!

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Awesome clinic!! Compassionate, loving, professional. Entire staff was amazing and helped our family navigate through a difficult illness with our beloved Labrador, Brandy. I'm so glad that a friend recommended this office to us! They were wonderful to work with!! Highly recommended them!
High quality facility with a staff that goes above and beyond. We would like to take the time to thank Dr Nina Waldron and the entire emergency staff for their thoughtfulness and caring during the time they spent with Jim and I along with our dog Merope. Even though we lost our little girl that evening without this facility there would have been so much more suffering not only for Merope but for us. I would highly recommend this facility, not only are they specialist with extraordinary hearts but are special individuals one and all. Thanks so much for the card, you are all a true blessing!
YOU ARE THE BEST!!!! Such an amazingly loving and caring veterinarian family! This was our first time here, the Dr was extremely knowledgeable for our little Guinea pig Oreo. My daughter had to experience her first loss of a pet and we felt so blessed to have found BVS and were able to go through this with this amazing staff! You could see and feel the heart of ever staff member as they helped us through doing what was best for Oreo. They went above and beyond when we received a card in the mail to let us know how sorry they were for out loss. This was not just a simple little note, the entire card was filled up with sincere and heart felt message from each staff member. It was one of the most sincerest and touching gestures I have ever received. We cant thank you enough for everything you have done for family!!! YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!
Very Caring and Knowledgeable Staff Bluegrass was very kind and supportive of me and the love of my life "Onka Belle" a 9 year old Pit Bull Cross who was my loyal and trusty sweet companion for 8 of those 9 years. Onka had cancer and they did all they could for her and me. She is now my guardian angel ... Thank you Bluegrass for helping both she and I - thank you for caring.
Exceptional Care The entire staff was the most caring, kind and compassionate people during one of the most difficult times of my life. They sensed the love I had for my dog and just how difficult my decision was and they made it as easy as possible for me. Thank you so much for your kindness and respect. It meant a lot.
Wonderful staff. A great facility with great staff members and treatment.
Took great care of my puppy Staff was very good. Made sure my puppy was taken care of.
I believe they genuinely cared for my little pup while visiting with them The only issue with Denali stay was that I waited for a very long time with the initial visit and sat in the room too long without someone coming in and checking. Whether the Dr. was busy or not, someone should have checked in. That would be my only complaint.
Excellent service from a caring staff We were on the road from Kentucky back to Minnesota when our dog became seriously ill and required surgery. We were referred from a Middlesboro vet and were seen immediately. The need for surgery and the cost were explained to us very clearly and she had surgery that very day. The staff kept in touch with us on a daily basis, and when we were able to pick up our dog, we even got a refund as she did not require as many days as been expected. The staff continued to check with us on our dog's progress while we were on the road back home. I highly recommend this veterinary service.
Efficient and high quality I was impressed with the service. Coming in at a weird hour and as a new customer I was unsure how the visit would go but I was very pleased. They had a great deal of respect for my dog and my time.
Thank you very much for taking the time to review our hospital. Your feedback enables us to evaluate our work. Thank you for entrusting us with the care of your precious pet.
Compassionate and highly skilled Caregivers gave high quality care. Everything was fully explained and I never felt rushed. They were there for me when I needed them. Expensive though.
Very thorough I brought my dog in for a diagnosis of lameness, the emergency vet who saw her was very thorough in her exam, even seeking another opinion from her colleagues. Though it was not the outcome I had hoped for, I did get the answer I sought.
We weren't really sure what was wrong with our Great Dane when our primary vet sent us to BVS. The team there worked around the clock to get answers to why his health was deteriorating so quickly. Everyone was really nice and even when we had to take him to UT to see a neurosurgeon they still called to check in on him. I would recommend BVS to anyone who's pet is need of help.
Very satisfied with care received.
Compassion and quality care from all staff members I recently took my cat, Sammy, in for an echocardiogram to monitor his heart murmur. Everyone from the reception desk, I believe her name is Lauren, to the doctor were very welcoming and gave outstanding customer service. Dr. Antu Radhakrishnan is amazing! He explained in full detail options for treatment. He also informed me that check ups are at a discounted rate to help with follow up treatment. This is extremely helpful since vet bills can quickly add up. I have been to other specialist offices that did not offer a discounted rate and am thankful that BVS does. Definitely a place I trust with my fur babies!!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience at our hospital through a review. We greatly appreciate you taking the time to provide us with your feedback. It helps us assess our performance.
Great staff.... and more! While I had an appt for a Friday, I arrived with my dog on Thursday evening because of his increasing lethargy. Without waiting, we were greeted, a brief history taken and was immediately taken back for evaluation. Within 10-15 mins, I was taken to a room and soon, Dr. Bowen met with me to discuss findings. She was thorough in explaining what she thought needed to be done and answered any questions I had. Then, a tech discussed an itemized statement with me and took my payment. They encouraged me to call at any time for an update, etc. Since I live an hour away, I called the next morning and Dr. Pratt returned my call in a timely fashion. After more testing was done, she called again, discussed the diagnosis, along with treatment plan and prognosis. I was able to bring him home later that day and Dr. Pratt was thorough in explaining discharge information, medications, etc. and patiently answered my questions. This was my first experience with Bluegrass Veterinary Specialists and if needed, I will return again!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience at our hospital. We greatly appreciate the first-hand explanation of how our hospital and services run. We appreciate you taking the time to write a review and for your confidence in our care!
Due to our dog not being emergent we waited over 2 hours before a vet ever saw our dog. No one came in at all during this time to update us or let us know when someone might be with us. Our total visit time was close to 5 hours for a UTI.
Thank you for taking the time to review our hospital. We greatly appreciate the feedback. We are disappointed to hear about your long wait and lack of communication updates. Our staff is trained to provide wait-time expectations and regular updates to clients, especially in exam rooms. We shared your review with our entire staff and have reminded them to be mindful and considerate of our client's time by providing reasonable wait-time expectations and communicating with clients about any delays in being seen. Again, we appreciate your review and business.
Top Quality Care, Personable Experience This place is legitimately the best of the best. The quality of care that you receive from the entire staff is top notch. My pet had to stay overnight twice and I was updated at all hours and received calls/texts from the veterinary specialists. Would highly recommend!
Thank you for taking the time to review our hospital and your experience. We greatly appreciate your feedback and business.
"Very thorough and the Drs and staff were great" We know you all took the very best care of Daisy that you could. Her life was filled with so many people who loved and cared about her. Thank you again for helping us thru our sad time. I will recommend Blugrass Veterinary Specialists to anyone.
Thankful for after hours emergency care ! I am so thankful for the compassionate and excellent care the vets at Bluegrass Vet gave my cat,Coal. He was quickly diagnosed and had to stay overnight.The vets over the course of 48 hours communicated with me by phone on his care and update me on his status which I really appreciated. They encouraged me to visit . I highly recommend the Hyperbaric oxygen therapy which made him recover quickly and he liked it .I also received a follow-up call after he came home checking on how he was doing. I am glad that that there is such a place for after our emergencies and such a compassionate and knowledgeable staff available .
Thank you for taking the time to review our hospital. We greatly appreciate your feedback. It truly helps us evaluate the care and service we provide.
Excellent customer service!!!!! Customer service was far above any expectation I had! They even followed up to check on Coco later-don't even get that from my regular vet!!
Knowledgeable and courteous staff Staff is always helpful and courteous. Vets have immense knowledge. Facility has all the best equipment for treating my dog.
Excellent care My 16 yr old dog passed away sunday morning. The staff there saw to it that his remains were taken care in a very efficient manner. They were VERY good to me.
Excellent Service, Great People!! My dog had a back injury and they treated her amazing, she had treatment in the hyperbaric chamber and they were very thorough and took excellent care of her! Highly recommend them!!
Greatly trusted, prompt and affordable. Love this hospital!! I have taken several to this hospital for emergency and specialty care both with my small animal rescue and my personal pets. I have always felt welcome, confident in the care and even extensive care has always been affordable. Thank you for all you do!!


We held our first 'mock interview' day at The Youth Zone last month, hosted by staff from the Bibby Line Group, one of our Patrons. as part of our Enterprise and Employability programme.
Young people were invited to The Hive for a day of workshops, skills and coaching focused on interview skills and techniques.
Workshops included mock interview sessions where attendees could take part in interview scenarios and gain some valuable feedback from employers, have their CV reviewed and take part in job skills chats.
The feedback from attendees was that the day was a success and has given them more confidence as they feel more prepared for their next interview.
Our 'Get a Job Course' is an 8-week employability skills programme which offers each enrolled student a great chance to get into work, apprenticeships, training or further education. We now have 21 companies on board who are offering support to Hive members in many ways including work placements, employer talks, apprenticeship opportunities, company visits and tours.
Our next 'Get a Job' course will start on 4th September. Course outline and sign up details will be posted up online.


1,000 miles marks the culmination of my course of study at the University of Texas. As an MFA student in the playwriting program, I have juggled my responsibilities to the department with my role as a professional playwright, frequently splitting time between Austin and my hometown of Chicago, where I opened four world premieres from 2010-2012. In this thesis, I discuss the ways in which my work has been influenced by the aesthetics of both artistic communities. I focus on two of my plays in particular: Kingsville, which premiered in Chicago during my first semester at UT, and Colossal, which opened in Austin just weeks before graduation. Through the lens of these two plays, I outline my artistic evolution over the past three years, highlighting the ways in which my work has drawn from the very best of Chicago's storefront theaters and Austin's experimental scene.


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This is what it looks like when David Duchovney loses a bet.
(2012) Drama (Image) David Duchovney, Vera Farmiga, Ty Burrell, Graham Phillips, Justin Kirk, Keri Russell, Anthony Anderson, Dakota Johnson, Adelaide Kane, Evan Boymel, Justin Wheelon, Timothy Gibbs, Olga Segura, Nicholas Lobue, Ricardo Andres, Caleb Dane Horst. Directed by Christopher Neil
As the saying goes, we can choose our friends but we don't get to choose our family. We're kind of stuck with them, regardless of how much (or how little) we like them. That can be a bad thing but it can be a good thing too.
Ellis (Phillips) would probably lean towards the former if you asked him. His parents are divorced, and are none too friendly with one another. His mom Wendy (Farmiga) is a trust fund hippie who never met a new age concept she didn't become obsessed with. She's self-centered and vindictive; not the best mom on Earth (as Ellis normally is the one who has to pay her bills because she's so flighty) but she's not the worst either.
How his dad (Burrell) wound up with her is something of a mystery. He went to an exclusive prep school in New England where he's used his connections to get Ellis accepted into. Although a snooty prep school would seem to be a completely alien environment for Ellis, who's used to the desert psychedelics of Arizona, he recognizes that it would be a boon for his future so he goes but not without much whining from his mother.
Ellis isn't particularly upset at being separated by so many miles from his mom, but he does feel something for Goat Man (Duchovney) who goes by Javier but who's real name is Steve. Goat Man is a herbologist and botanist who look like a cross between Jerry Garcia, Grizzly Adams and Moses with a Smith brother thrown in for good measure. He lives in the pool house with his goats, in exchange for tending the pool and landscape for Wendy. Their relationship is strictly platonic. Goat Man is most interested in botany so that he can grow some amazing marijuana, which he shares with Ellis. Goat Man takes Ellis on treks which are essentially walkabouts with no particular destination in mind – just an exploration of the land and its inhabitants.
Ellis is doing well in school but the pressure is getting to him. His roommate Barney (Lobue) is clearly not a good influence on him; his father is making overtures at reaching out and establishing a relationship with his estranged son. Goat Man, who promised to send Ellis weed hasn't sent him anything and Wendy's obnoxious lout of a boyfriend (Kirk) won't let Ellis talk to his mother.
But Frank turns out to be a decent soul even though his impending marriage to Judy (Russell) is doing the fandango in Ellis' brain, almost as much as the impending birth of his half-brother to the very pregnant Judy has. And he's been coerced by the coach (Anderson) of the track team to run cross country, which he's not really comfortable with at first. How can you run towards a future if you don't even know which way you're going?
Based on a novel by Mark Jude Poirier, this is one of those quirky indie movies that really wanders aimlessly through the plot the way a Deadhead might wander through a pot field, with a benevolent smile and a lack of purpose. Ellis doesn't really have to much of a major crisis; sure he drinks too much for a15-year-old, and he does way too much pot, but he's getting straight A's and for the most part is a pretty well-adjusted kid given to bouts of douchebagness from time to time which is not out of line with the behavior of most real life 15-year-old boys.
Duchovney has always been a big draw for me. His easy-going laid-back charm meshes nicely with his intelligence. That the X-Files movies didn't make him a major movie star has more to do with what was going on behind the camera rather than in front of it; both he and Gillian Anderson have all the tools to be big screen power players. In her case, I think it's a choice not to go down that path; that also might be true of Duchovney.
I don't think Farmiga really knew what to make of her character and in many ways that's my main frustration with the movie. She's quite the self-centered bitch throughout but there's no doubt that Wendy really loves Ellis with all her heart and soul; Frank's betrayal, whatever it might have been (and it's not really explained why they split up, at least not that I can remember) really devastated her and has been in some ways the focal point of her life. She has certainly poisoned her son towards her father, making it impossible for Frank to see him. Early in the movie, Ellis believes his mother about the behavior of his dad, but as the movie progresses and he gets to know not just his dad but also his sweet-natured fiancé his attitude towards him changes.
There are no real epiphanies here other than that adults aren't perfect and that there's nothing wrong with life that a little toke can't fix. Phillips plays Ellis like he's living in an "Afterschool Special" and doesn't do too bad a job of it, but I never really got to know Ellis all that well and found Goat Man far more interesting. Now, I'm wondering if there's going to be a sequel all about Ellis' discovery of peyote.
REASONS TO GO: Duchovney is interesting, even behind all that hair. Dynamic between Ellis and Frank works nicely.
REASONS TO STAY: Too quirky for its own good. Meanders quite a bit. A movie for stoners.
FAMILY VALUES: There is a fair amount of drug use, including teen pot smokers and alcohol drinkers. There is also plenty of bad language, some sexuality and nudity.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The producers had to hire someone to teach Duchovney to roll a joint like an expert – the actor claims he'd never rolled one in his entire life..
CRITICAL MASS: As of 8/16/12: Rotten Tomatoes: 13% positive reviews. Metacritic: 38/100. The reviews are pretty poor.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Dead Poets Society
NEW MEXICO LOVERS: Several of the "trek" scenes are shot in the beautiful New Mexico highlights, doubling for Arizona.
NEXT: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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Posted on October 23, 2011 by carlosdev
David Duchovney is justs a material girl trying to live in a material world.
(2009) Dramedy (Roadside Attractions) David Duchovney, Demi Moore, Amber Heard, Ben Hollingsworth, Gary Cole, Chris Williams, Lauren Hutton, Glenne Headly, Christine Evangelista, Rob Pralgo, Tiffany Morgan, Joe Narciso. Directed by Derrick Borte
Our society has devolved into one in which the old truism "whoever dies with the most toys wins" has taken on a new meaning. The crucial signposts of life have become the things we acquire – the shiny new sports car, the state of the art electronics, the high end golf clubs, the designer clothes. Our pursuit of the trappings of success has overcome our pursuit of excellence, making keeping up with the Joneses more than just a spectator sport.
Into a wealthy suburban enclave move in Steve Jones (Duchovney), his impossibly gorgeous wife Kate (Moore), his gorgeous daughter Jenn (Heard) and his handsome son Mick (Hollingsworth). They don't just have the outer trappings of success – they embody it.
However, what you see on the surface – behind the beautiful home, the flashy car, the nice clothes – is something completely different than what is underneath. There are problems in the perfect family. In fact, they aren't really a family of all.
What they are is revealed in the trailer, which is another case (see Dream House) of a marketing department robbing a film of its maximum impact. For that reason, I'm leaving the plot description a little thin, other than to say that what the movie is really about is America's obsession with consumerism and how it robs us of our soul.
Duchovney is perfect for the role of Steve. He has a dry delivery that just hints of the smarmy while remaining acerbic and eventually, empathetic. For a role that could easily descend into self-parody and completely turn off audiences, the very likable Duchovney turns it into a role that audiences will identify with as his character is forced to confront the fall-out of his actions and put his familial loyalty to the test.
Moore has never been one of my favorite actresses, but it has to be said that she can play the driven executive-sort better than nearly anybody and that's the place she goes for this part. She makes a good foil for Duchovney and I must say the 40-something Moore looks amazing.
That's neither here nor there though. What I liked is that first-time writer/director Borte takes a terrific concept and uses it to look at an issue that is subtle and seldom explored onscreen, with surprising insight and humor. There is an element of parody to it, but it also hits somewhat uncomfortably close to home.
When it comes right down to it, we tend to be sheep moving from one trend to the other, fickle consumers with an eye to what's the latest and greatest, not realizing that these things are going to be obsolete in less time than it takes to bring it home from the store. Still, keeping up with the Joneses is as American as apple pie. We just should take a good look at the Joneses and ask why we should aspire to keep up with them.
WHY RENT THIS: A witty, smart commentary on materialism. Duchovney's dry delivery serves him well here.
WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: The movie's plot twist is given away in the trailer. The final reel is a bit predictable.
FAMILY VALUES: There is some drinking and teenage drug use, a bit of sexuality and a fair amount of foul language.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Borte is the brother of professional surfer Jason Borte; both were born in Germany but raised in Virginia.
NOTABLE DVD EXTRAS: None listed.
BOX OFFICE PERFORMANCE: $7M on a $10M production budget; the movie was unprofitable.
TOMORROW: The Three Musketeers (2011)
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Early 608 circa 1898
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A complete Instruction Book and Workshop Manual
is available for the Rivett 608 and other models - it also
covers much of the 8" Precision
Early Rivett 8" Precision lathe.
Was this beautifully-finished 8-inch Precision Lathe, as the makers proudly boasted in their literature, "The most complete tool of its kind ever conceived." ? Despite the fact that at the time the use of excessive hyperbole in advertisements was common, this was indeed a lathe that came as close as possible to the ideal in its class. Thoroughly well-thought-out as a design and made from the finest-quality materials, it was manufactured to a standard of fit and finish that even the passage of many decades cannot fail to disguise.
Edward Rivett had a long background in the watch tool industry before he turned his hand to manufacturing larger machines. From 1884 he was the General Manager of The Faneuil Watch Tool Company of Boston and expanded the factory's product range to include precision grinders and more profitable lines of larger bench lathes, including the No. 3 and No. 4. By the late 1890s he had designed, and was producing, the 8" Precision, which used the headstock and tailstock of the earlier No. 4 plain-turning precision bench lathe, but with a completely different bed 40-inches long, of cast-iron, profile milled and with a hand-scraped finished on all faces. The distance between centres, was 22 inches and the swing 81/2 inches. The (initially) unusual arrangement of having the smallest headstock pulley by the front bearing (instead of the other way round as is still common) meant that not only could the bearing could be much larger than normal for a lathe of the same centre height - but it was also surrounded by a greater mass of supporting metal.
Both spindle bearings had outer surfaces which were cylindrical in section - and could be continuously adjusted for wear whilst preserving their central alignment. The front bearing was 21/2" inches in diameter and both were 23/8"-long. Until about 1910, a now hard-to-find 4OS collet was used, later models employed the 4NS - and the last versions a 5C.
The maker's description of the spindle and its bearings is worth considering: " ….. of the best tool steel, and like the spindles are made as hard as fire and mercury will make them, and then ground with diamond to a perfect fit." I suppose that says it all, really ……
If the headstock bearings were particularly well made, then the design and construction of the bed and carriage was even more impressive for, instead of sliding just on the top surface of the bed, and being located by keeper plates front and rear, on the Rivett 8" Precision almost the entire front face of the lathe bed was brought into play as part of the saddle-bearing surface to produce a bedding area of 74 square inches, a figure which it is believed has never since been surpassed on any lathe of comparable size Most lathes use only the top face, and upper edges of their beds to guide the saddle, but on the Rivett the front face of the bed, formed into dovetails and plain ways, was used to support the apron as well. This resulted in a very stiff structure beneath the cutting tool and a saddle-to-bed bearing area of 74 square inches (the rare English Spencer lathe had a similar but inferior system - and the little Toyo precision lathe of the 1960/70s rejoiced in twin aprons guided by both front and rear bed faces).
Fortunately, most examples of the lathe carried a maker's plate on the front of the apron complete with patent dates: May 17th 1887, November 10th 1891 and August 27 1895. However, these are not always a reliable indicator of production schedules and were often applied for some years before being granted: neither were they were they always strictly connected with the machine to which they were applied, often being used as a form of self-advertising - though in the case of Rivett's superb products this would have been entirely justified. If any reader has an 8-inch Precision, or a variation of the lathe with different dates on the plate, the writer would be interested in hearing from them.
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The leadscrew, having been cut from, "one of the best master screws in the country.", was used only for generating threads, a separate power shaft being fitted to operate the power longitudinal and cross feeds. The power sliding, that is, along the bed, was operated through a "friction gear", able to be engaged and disengaged by a lever on the apron. A useful automatic disengage was also fitted to this feed, its trip stop being adjustable along the bed. Later 608s included a micrometer adjustment in the apron part of the stop, which allowed the machining of shoulders to within finely set limits.
An unusual extra, invented by Mr Rivett himself and which could only be fitted at the works for $50 before delivery of a lathe, was a device to compensate for temperature variations in the length of the leadscrew. No specific details of this compensatory mechanism are known.
As time passed the 8" Precision underwent numerous small changes; improved and enlarged micrometer collars, larger backgears of a different ratio, alterations to the leadscrew quadrant assembly, the option (never advertised) of a modified headstock casting with a single very wide flat-belt come pulley), the introduction of a screwcutting gearbox and changes in design to the apron and its power feed mechanism. The final version of the 8" Precision was the "608 Toolroom Lathe" - and it is this with model, and the watch-making lathes, that the name of Rivett is most closely associated today..
A fine example of a Rivett "8-inch" Precision mounted on a contemporary cast-iron stand. The drive is a non-original but very useful variable speed unit controlled by a remote handwheel mounted on the left-hand end of the lathe
As advertised in 1914 and 1915 - suitable for the requirements of those using the 608 for experimental and scientific work, the beautifully-presented quartered-oak stand contained a half to three-quarters horse-power motor arranged on a hinged plate. An electrical switch was mounted on the cabinet face and the unit is shown fitted with the optional overhead-drive drum designed to power spindles held in the toolpost or mounted on the lathe bed.
Part of the complex countershaft and "overhead" drive system--one of several offered for the lathe
Rivett 8" Precision fitted with a device catalogued as either the "Slide Rest and Milling Attachment" or "Cutter Milling and Gear Cutting Attachment" was a milling slide which included an indexing unit but was of a simpler construction than the "Spiral Attachment and Traverse Miller".
The cross feed travel was 4 inches and the vertical and angular movement 5 inches. Cutters up to a maximum diameter of 3 inches could be manufactured by the attachment, except ball cutters which could be generated in the range of 1/8 inch to 3 inches in diameter.
Index plates were supplied having 45, 56, 60, 64, 72, 80, 84 and 100 indents with others available to special order.
Rivett's advertising emphasised the pride they had in their lathes' ability to generate cutters and claimed that, even though they had milling machines of the very best kind in their workshops, nearly all their special angle cutters were made on either their No.4 or 8-inch precision lathes.
Also visible in this close up is the neat mechanism by which the screwcutting changewheels were driven. A gear, fitted to the left-hand inboard end of the headstock spindle, (and shrouded by the drive pulley) drove a gear and shaft which passed underneath the spindle bearing and emerged to drive a set of changewheels on the double-slotted quadrant arm. Later versions of the lathe offered the option of this mechanism including tumble reverse - but as space was very limited within the headstock belt-pulley, the gears were very small and prone to wear out both themselves and the larger gear that drove them.
Missing a particular size of large drill ? Why hesitate, fire up your Rivett 608 and make one !
The picture above shows an early Rivett 608 fitted with the "Spiral and Traverse Milling and Grinding Accessory" being used in just such a way. The drive to the milling head was from an overhead drum of the type illustrated on the page showing the bench mounted machine - whilst the indexing unit was powered through the changewheels from an auxiliary belt pulley.
The cutter-carrying worm-driven horizontal spindle could be removed and replaced by the collet-mounted high-speed grinding wheel shown to the left in the illustration above.
A reader writes: I thought you would be interested to see a rare item I have recently acquired from the USA for my Rivett lathe. Unfortunately, it had various bits bolted to it and the top hat was missing - together with the acme screw and handle. When it arrived the handle for the slide was bent and couldn't be coaxed back to shape with heat and snapped. I made all the missing parts, sourced the absent gears and made two versions that can easily be changed from one to the other with no modifications to the original. One has the original-type gearing - as shown in the catalogue - the other driven directlya scooter 24-Volt DV motor. I made several collet inserts to use an ER25 chuck and two drills and can now mill and drill with it easily.
The original was supplied with either a worm gear or crossed spiral cut gears depending on the speeds required. The spiral cut gears I use give a 1:2 reduction and nicely reduce the motors 2800 r.p.m. by half..
The original machined surfaces throughout were all scraped and very little worn. It had been used without lube for a while and worn the front bevel - so that needed refacing and scraping in. The fit of the glass-hard spindle in the cast iron was perfect and needs a very thin, high-speed spindle oil. Hence, it runs with a very fine film of oil and, even so, the bearing remain oil-tight. I ran it for 15 minutes at 1450 rpm without the bearing getting warm, only about 10 degrees hotter than the surrounding material. The only issue I have is that it's rather restrictive as to making larger-size gear wheels. Ideally, it should be offset towards the chuck so it would cut a disc lined up ahead of the cross slide. Also, the amount it can be moved is rather limited when using larger gear cutters. I have made two riser blocks that that allow me to cut 5-inch diameter wheels. I can easily change back to the original height without modification as I have a spare acme screw the original length.
This Rivett accessory is a joy to have and would love the other attachment that cuts spiral gears, but that's only a pipe dream as I have never seen one except in one photograph.
The Spiral Attachment, which screwed onto the headstock spindle and driven by an extension from the changewheels, was designed to work in conjunction with the Traverse Milling Attachment.
The Rivett Compound Slide Rest was a magnificent piece of work, and so carefully made that only a light touch was needed on the levers to reset any of the angles. In addition, the whole device could be slid off the carriage by slackening just one lever. The eccentric toolholder was especially well designed and enabled the tool height to be instantly set without the use of spanners or packing pieces. To modern eyes this early unit does lack bulk and the micrometer dials were obviously far too small. Later versions were offered with the choice of T slots in the top slide - and the dials were increased in size at least twice.
The Rivett Patent "Slide Rest Milling Attachment" was designed to hold and manipulate
work whilst being machined by a cutter held in the headstock spindle. .
The neatly engineered Rivett 608 Taper Turning Attachment for tapers up to 15" in length.
The Slotting Attachment carried a sliding head, adjustable for height, mounted on the lathe ways. Although deceptively simple, this device was considered a most useful accessory; a job could be bored and faced, then slotted without losing the critical settings - a risk that was always present in the transfer to a dedicated slotting machine.
Slotting head - detail
The Rivett "Forming and Cutting-off" slide assembly carried two toolposts, the nearer for holding the robust, circular-section forming tool and the rearmost an inverted tool for parting-off - which is still the best way to do this on any small lathe.
"Combination Cutting-Off Attachment" This device carried either an inverted parting-off tool or a knurl.
Traditional pattern tip-up tool rest
This grinding attachment was designed to grind gear and other cutters. It mounted on the same base plate as that use by the traditional tip-up tool rest illustrated below.
Complex milling slide in position on bed
Complete high-speed internal and external grinding attachment
Grinding head fitted with a stone for external work
Component parts of the "overhead" to drive toolpost and bed-mounted grinding and milling accessories
The Rivett Dock threading attachment
Adjustable knurling tool
Off-set centre and drill unit
A certain elegant beauty of form: Rivett 8-inch Precision travelling and fixed steadied
A complete Instruction Book and Workshop Manual is available for the
Rivett 608 and other models - it covers much of the 8" Precision
Lathe shown on this pages as well.


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Lord Rennard will "under no circumstances" be advising the Liberal Democrats, one of his accusers has been told by the party.
The party has come under renewed fire for reinstating Lord Rennard, exactly seven months after he was suspended following an investigation into claims he brought the party into disrepute for pestering women.
Vince Cable has come out in support of the decision not to remove the Liberal Democrat peer from the party saying there were no grounds to pursue expulsion although he did admit that the inquiry process had been 'very difficult' and 'very painful'.
Labour said Nick Clegg had sent a "clear message to women voters" while former Lib Dem activist Susan Gaszczak, one of Rennard's accusers, claimed "the party democracy obviously has no moral compass".
She told the Today programme this morning that the party had been guilty of "one fudge after another", and revealed that she had received a text message from party president Tim Farron assuring her that the peer would not be advising the party in the run-up to the general election.
"This is the final step and the reason why I resigned in July was that I saw this coming," she said.
"We're considered to be credible and the party have done nothing about it. I would never take his ability to win elections away from him, he was a fantastic election strategist, and he just had a problem with wandering hands and trying to use his position of power."
Another accuser, Bridget Harris, told the World at One the party had "manifestly failed" to address the issue of harassment and said the Liberal Democrat grouping in the Lords would now have to decide whether to take the matter seriously.
"Even if technically his party membership has been suspended, what I would be interested to find out is whether the Lib Dem group in the House of Lords is prepared to accept him back in," she said.
"Now, if the culture of the party has really changed, then I think that they have to ask themselves whether it's acceptable for Lord Rennard to be a spokesperson or a member of the Lib Dem group in the House of Lords. And that's really a question that Nick Clegg still has to answer."
Lord Rennard apologised in May for invading the "personal space" of the women, after a party found credible evidence he had done so.
The inquiry concluded, however, that there was not sufficient evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he had sexually harassed the women.


When You Cross That Line is Sam Slaughter's debut chapbook flash fiction collection inspired by Florida Man stories.
About the author: Born and raised in New Jersey, Sam received his BA from Elon University in 2009. Following stints in Montana, back in New Jersey, and New Hampshire, he settled in Florida where in 2014 he earned his MA-English degree from Stetson University. He has had both fiction and nonfiction published.


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Top Six Fintech Stories of 2018 (So Far)
Every day brings a new development in the ongoing disruption of the financial services industry. To help make sense of the recent activity, we've highlighted six of the top fintech stories from the first half that signal where the industry is going.
- Cailin Cowley
In case there were any lingering doubts about disruption in financial services, the first six months of the year have seen several considerable developments that speak to both the momentum in fintech as well as the legitimatization and embrace of new technologies that have already altered the larger investment ecosystem.
The fintech universe, itself, continues to expand and now encompasses categories ranging from insurtech and payments to regtech and roboadvisors. CB Insights, in its most recent report, documented that VC-backed fintech companies collectively raised a record $5.4 billion across more than 320 deals in Q1 – a sign that both investors and entrepreneurs recognize additional white space worthy of pursuit. Meanwhile, tech giants such as Amazon and Alibaba continue to make inroads in financial services, further motivating incumbents like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to ratchet up their investments in new technologies and capabilities. The former, in May, even launched a cryptocurrency trading desk.
The tectonic shifts occurring across financial services, while posing new risks, has also created considerable opportunities, whether it's to help legacy asset managers reimagine their back- and middle-office operations, address the growing data risk that comes with digitalization, or simplify investing and wealth management for the masses. Another corollary of this activity is the barrage of news that can make it hard for casual observers to discern which stories matter most and highlight the direction of the industry at large.
We've taken the time to reflect on the year so far and have provided our take on some of the most notable news stories that have emerged. What follows is by no means comprehensive, but rather speaks to the key themes that are top of mind for many of our fintech clients.
Amazon checks out checking accounts
As a rule, anything Amazon does commands attention. But the online retail and tech giant created a buzz in the financial services sector when news broke in March that the company was in talks with big banks, including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. to develop checking accounts. Amazon's access to millions of loyal customers (particularly younger consumers) and its wealth of data makes it a force to be reckoned with. Initially, many banks felt threatened by its potential entry into the market. The story has changed slightly as it has developed, however, as incumbents are viewing Amazon more as a partner than as a threat. (It's worth noting that Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway have also teamed up to create a new venture in healthcare.) Only time will tell if and how the company plans to develop banking products. At the very least, the developing story put banks on notice and served as a call to action for institutions to reevaluate their business strategies moving forward.
Robinhood on the rise
Founded in 2013, Robinhood set out with the goal of letting users trade securities for free. Five years later, it's clear that their value proposition to democratize stock trading resonated with the public. A recent funding round for the online stock brokerage pushed its valuation to about $6 billion – up from $1.3 billion the previous year. Baiju Bhatt and Vlad Tenev, the two co-founders, have achieved an unprecedented amount of success in a relatively short amount of time, demonstrating fintech's transformational potential.
The company, which has over 2 million users, continues to attract traders, by extending into new markets, such as cryptocurrency.
Fraudsters won't quit
Question: What do Sears, Panera Bread, Delta Airlines, Saks Fifth Avenue, Under Armour, and SunTrust each have in common?
Answer: They've all experienced a data breach in 2018. In fact, nearly every week sees another big-name company disclose compromised customer data. As Bluefin, one of our fintech clients, will tell you, each of the aforementioned breaches was the result of malware and were completely preventable. Until businesses both big and small learn this lesson, the frequency of data breach announcements will only increase.
Related: GDPR to Shine the Light on Fund Managers' Data Governance
It's no secret that financial services companies have a target on their backs as well. What has changed, however, is that the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, will force global fund managers to report any and all data breaches or face fines of as much as 4% of global revenues.
To be sure, GDPR is a wide-ranging directive that sets data collection and processing guidelines across all industries. Within financial services, however, the penalties that come with noncompliance have only increased the emphasis on cybersecurity and the urgency with which executives are addressing their shortcomings. In a recent survey of asset management executives polled by BackBay and Osney Media, roughly half indicated that they would increase spending on cyber security in the coming year.
DOL fiduciary rule gets pushed back, only to be struck down
Since its inception, the Department of Labor's (DOL) Fiduciary Rule has been top of mind for many of our clients in both BackBay's wealth management and fintech practices. Debate on the potential outcome and impact for wealth managers, should the regulation ever pass, lingered in the news for months. However, in March, the rule was vacated by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The SEC still plans to forge ahead in establishing its own fiduciary rule, so we will stay tuned to see how the regulation will ultimately play out.
Arizona sets the stage for fintech sandboxes
With new fintech players entering the market at a rapid pace, legacy regulators have had trouble keeping up with how to manage the risk in this new space. Fintech sandboxes have been established to allow new fintechs to be utilized on a trial basis with looser regulatory restrictions, while still offering consumer protection.
Sandboxes have been successfully deployed in other countries such as the U.K., but in March, Arizona became the first U.S. state to follow suit. Critics argue that it could allow firms to get away with activities that wouldn't be in the best interest of the consumer, while proponents claim it will help drive innovation in the financial services industry. There are several potential outcomes, but of particular note, industry participants will be tracking the impact on emerging Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) since it's high on the radar of the sandbox's lead sponsor, Arizona Rep. Jeff Wening.
As the fintech industry evolves there's sure to be no shortage of major news coming out of the sector, and we look forward to keeping you up-to-date on the latest and biggest news in fintech. Stay tuned for our regular updates!
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A warming, hearty dish, packed with flavour. Delicious chunks of pumpkin nestled amongst tender risotto rice, teamed up with our lightly spiced vegan wholefood sausages and infused with rosemary and thyme. A real autumnal treat!
Preheat oven to 200°C and cook the Cauldron Vegan Wholefood Sausagesas per pack instructions and roast the pumpkin on a baking tray with a splash of vegetable oil for approximately 15 minutes.
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Kind of a rough week here at Planet Lippstone. More on that in a bit.
We literally ran into her on the street in Lisbon, Portugal, Christmas Day 2011. It was hard not to. She was leading the way, and her trusting owner was just along for the stroll.
Nina, you see, refuses to wear a leash. I'd be nervous with all the traffic, but she seemed to do just fine.
She pawsed long enough to pose.
Nina's named for the late, great Nina Simone. Feisty — and fitting.
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Prelude to Civil War: Francis Graham Wilson on Spain
July 1, 2019 By Richard J. Bishirjian
This essay appears in the Spring 2019 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.
In 1967—just over half a century ago—Francis Graham Wilson published a study of Spanish traditionalist thought. Wilson, a little-remembered political theorist teaching at the University of Illinois, was instrumental in focusing the attention of American conservatives on parallels between Spain and representative government in the United States.
What, if anything, is there in the Spanish experience to recommend to our examination of the fragility of democracy in America in the twenty-first century? Is there evidence that the United States today may be heading toward a civil war like that experienced by Spain in the twentieth century? Francis Graham Wilson was already ahead of his time in asking such questions when he wrote Political Thought in National Spain more than fifty years ago.
Like better-known scholars Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss, Graham was a student of classical philosophy and brought to his study an understanding of political order and the conflict between Enlightenment reasoning and traditional thought. Wilson was an American, however, unlike Strauss and Voegelin, who were European émigrés. He was also a political conservative and a Catholic convert who appreciated the role of the Catholic Church in Spain and saw danger in the animosity toward religion of the French ideologues, whose ideas altered the course of Spanish history from the nineteenth century onward.
His study of Spanish political thought is an act of recovery of the writings and ideas of Spanish conservatives who, in their defense of tradition, political order, and Christianity, are very much like American political conservatives. Virtually unknown in America, few books and essays by Spanish traditionalists are available in English translation, so Wilson and a handful of specialists had to keep their ideas alive for an English-speaking audience.
American thoughts readily turn to England or France, but Spain is more often an afterthought, a destination at the end of a European vacation. Seldom is Spain an intellectual journey. Yet disorders that are present in American civil society in the twenty-first century were present in Spain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Spanish traditionalists who sought to overcome the failures of Spanish politics and culture, therefore, may be guides to understanding our own troubles. That is what Francis Graham Wilson thought.
In Roman times, the Iberian Peninsula now occupied by Spain and Portugal was known as Hispania. In AD 711, Hispania was invaded by the Umayyad Caliphate, one of four Caliphates formed after the death of Muhammad. Christian Europe was compelled to confront a rising Islam. Charles Martel pushed back Islamic raids into France in 732, but in Hispania, now known as al-Andalus, Muslims were dominant for more than 780 years until the Reconquista in 1492.
Ferdinand and Isabella ruled the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the fifteenth century and affirmed the Catholic faith as the official religion. Their grandson, Charles, established the Hapsburg dynasty in Spain. Coinciding with the Hapsburg dynasty, Spain experienced a Golden Age in literature, art, and music, the era of Calderon, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Velázquez, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Francisco Guerrero.
In 1700, Charles II, the Spanish Habsburg ruler, died and named the sixteen-year-old grandson of Louis XIV of France as his successor. Fearing a Spain controlled by France, a war of succession was waged by the Hapsburgs—whose archduke, Charles, had support within Spain—in league with France's rival, England. Thus erupted a series of wars with major European powers from 1702 to 1714 that left Spain weakened and divided.
Ninety-four years later, Napoleon Bonaparte invaded the Iberian Peninsula and established his brother, Joseph, as king of Spain. With the introduction into Spain of the French esprit revolutionnaire that accompanied Napoleon's conquest, many Spanish intellectuals turned against the monarchy, the Catholic Church, and Spain's system of autonomous fueros (regions).
Their influence led Ferdinand VII (1808–1833) to abrogate Spain's "Semi-Salic Law of Succession," replacing his brother Carlos Maria Isidro's (1788–1855) claim of succession to the throne with that of the king's infant daughter, the future Isabel II. That decision also meant that after Ferdinand's death, his wife, Maria Cristina (1806–1878), became regent and in effect ruled Spain until she herself was deposed.
Under her minister, Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, the regime persecuted the Spanish Church, outlawed most male religious orders, shut down more than 1,500 monasteries, closed the majority of schools and charitable institutions run by religious orders, abolished the tithe, and monitored religious publications. The regime also confiscated Church property, thus creating a new class that, according to the historian of Spanish traditionalist thought Alexandra Wilhelmsen, "owed its material well-being to the Revolution, thus increasing the number of supporters of the new liberal State."
Ferdinand's brother, known as Carlos V to his supporters, was compelled to think through what was happening to his claim to the throne and, as a consequence of the king's actions, to Spain. Dubbed "The Pretender" by those who rejected his claim, Carlos V in 1833 launched the first of four Carlist Wars, a split between members of the Royal Family that was mirrored in Spanish society.
During the lifetime of Ferdinand VII, Spanish traditionalists, known as realistas, advocated:
acceptance "of the historical Catholic unity" of Spain;
rejection of revolutionary ideas that were not Spanish;
rejection of the creation of a new Spain via liberal "constitutionalism," as Spain, these realistas argued, was hundreds of years old and its historical experience and institutional legacy was the basis of civil society;
reliance on the legislative Cortes, but with limited powers;
defense of regional autonomy, or the fueros—i.e., a vigorous regional government and a small national government;
"sovereignty" represented in the person of the king, not by popular election; and
opposition to the Enlightenment notion of division of power.
As Alexandra Wilhelmsen writes in her contribution to a Festschrift for her father, Saints, Sovereigns, and Scholars: Studies in Honor of Frederick D. Wilhelmsen, the principle of the realistas was that "the political realm should reflect . . . power . . . personified in the king."
This program was summarized by Wilhelmsen in four words: "God, Fatherland, Fueros, King." After Carlos VII's death, the realistas became known as Carlists.
In 1967, in light of his reading in the history of traditionalism in Spain, Francis Graham Wilson was compelled to ask whether America would follow the course taken by Spain in the twentieth century, including acceptance of socialism, hostility toward limited government, rejection of religion, and civil war.
In searching for documents in which non-Spanish readers may find evidence of affirmation of traditional order in Spain, we can turn to Carlos V's "Manifesto to the Spaniards" of February 20, 1836, and the works of Juan Donoso Cortés (1809–1853), Rev. Jaime Balmes (1810–1848), Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856–1912), and Ramiro de Maeztu (1875–1936).
Perhaps best known, Donoso Cortés was a Spanish diplomat and descendant of the conquistador Hernando Cortés (1485–1547), who destroyed the Aztec Empire and brought Mexico under the sovereignty of the King of Castile.
Like many Spanish intellectuals who came of age after the French Revolution, Donoso Cortés was captivated by L'esprit revolutionnaire until he was "mugged by reality" and realized that his earlier attraction to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his "General Will" was contrary to real political order. Cortés countered that ideology by affirming the universality of mankind and human solidarity: "Humanity is a living and organic unity which absorbs all men, who in place of constituting it are only its instruments."
Deeply religious, Donoso Cortés wrote, "It is essential to [liberalism] to repress alike all supreme affiliations and all radical negations, and thus, by means of discussion, it confounds all ideas and propagates skepticism." And of socialism he wrote, "The strength of socialism consists in its being a system of theology." Donoso Cortés believed that the intellectual crisis of Europe was "too profound to be cured by liberal devices." Concessions to the Enlightenment were impossible—Donoso Cortés turned to St. Augustine, Bossuet, and Vico.
Rev. Jaime Balmes would second Donoso Cortés's views: "the Catholic religion may fearlessly claim the gratitude of the human race, for she has civilized the nations who have professed her, and civilization is true liberty," he wrote. A Catholic priest, Jaime Balmes believed Martin Luther had "sowed the seeds of endless trouble by the extravagant doctrine that a Christian is subject to no one." Rousseau he also rejected. "Rousseau is a miner who saps in order to overturn."
In seeking a philosophy to counter Rousseau, Balmes turned to St. Thomas and his concept of just law that, derived from the eternal law, is binding on conscience. He wrote: "In that of St. Thomas, law is the expression of reason, in that of Rousseau, the expression of will; in the former, it is an application of the eternal law, in the latter, the product of general will." We should remember the influence of St. Thomas among nineteenth-century Spanish traditionalists when we reflect upon the closing of the soul of Catholic higher education in the United States.
Loss of cultural knowledge was lamented by Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, a Spanish scholar who sought to recover the greatness of Spain's intellectual heritage. Best known for Historia de las ideas estéticas en España (1881–1891), his edition (1890–1903) of Lope de Vega, his Antología de poetas líricos castellanos (1890–1906), and his Orígenes de la novela (1905), Pelayo was nominated five times for a Nobel Prize in literature. In "Indications of Spain's Intellectual Activity in the Last Three Centuries," Menéndez y Pelayo bemoaned that "Our books are forgotten."
But perhaps the most forceful advocate of Spanish traditionalism was the political theorist Ramiro de Maeztu. Maeztu was a member of the "Generation of '98" that faced the reality of Spain's decline after the Spanish-American War.
He lamented the acceptance of "humanism" that by the end of the sixteenth century had dominated Europe, which led to a loss of consciousness of man's living in sin. That in turn shaped the idea of the "state" as supreme.
Maeztu traces the idea of the state from Hobbes, who argued that the state was founded on necessity, through Rousseau, who asserted man's natural goodness and gave to the state, in Maeztu's words, "supreme, unique, and absolute power."
The unity of the power of the state, which all the political theories of the modern age affirm, worked against the principle of subsidiarity. In Spain, stability had been given to political order by socially corporate institutions—the family, Church, guilds—which were dissolved by the discovery of human personality in the Renaissance. There were consequences: "the clergyman left the Church to become a humanist, a heretic, or the minister of a king." The landlords neglected their duties and saw in their properties only a source of income, which they needed in order to live at the royal court.
In Germany the state eventually became an ethical ideal, and German children were taught that "goodness is immanent in the State." The "hedonistic ideology" of France also came under Maeztu's critical eye, as did laissez-faire economics.
Maeztu lamented a lost opportunity to reshape Spanish university education: he felt that General Primo de Rivera, as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930, was too busy "to engage in any popular education that might touch the people. The general had permitted all of the key positions in Spain, especially the professorships in the universities, to remain in the control of the liberal and socialist enemies of the Spanish tradition."
Maeztu's enemies were not too busy that they forgot him. He was murdered by Republican soldiers in 1936 after the Nationalist uprising against the Second Republic.
Dynastic turmoil that included the murder of Catholic priests, and the dominance of L'esprit revolutionnaire among the intellectuals, had contributed to the departure of King Alfonso XIII in 1931 and the proclamation of the Second Republic. The brutal Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) was fought between Spanish leftists defending "the Republic" and traditionalists who joined forces with the Spanish military led by Francisco Franco, who subsequently established an authoritarian regime that satisfied few except Franco sympathizers.
We begin to see some affinities with Spain after World War II, when the recovery of classical philosophy by American scholars informed their rejection of the influence of Rousseau. In turning away from the Enlightenment, some American conservatives still affirm the natural law teaching of St. Thomas.
The American defense of the Constitution as a fixed body of law founded on a philosophy of limited government is very similar to the Spanish traditionalist defense of properly ordered government. Americans share rejection of centralized power in the administrative state as well. Alas, the extreme "tribal" divisions in American civil society in the twenty-first century are also reminiscent of divisions in Spain that led to civil war.
Liberty, which we Americans cherish, originates in Christianity and religious truth. Francis Graham Wilson emphasized that we should not ignore "tradition" as an existing body of judgments or truth: tradition "is a kind of deposit of political faith," he wrote, and a "profound attachment . . . to a community of truth." Integral to that community is a belief in Providence. Thus Donoso Cortés saw the hand of Providence when England was a balance to the power of Revolutionary France.
American political conservatives also have a love for the liberal arts and share the concern of Spanish traditionalists regarding the role of universities in shaping the intellectual classes. Wilson writes: "The interpreters of a culture do not just happen. They are 'formed.' Is not this the most important of questions? Who makes the intellectuals—the writers, artists, and leaders of politics and religion—in a modern society?"
Had the universities of Spain turned against revolutionary ideology, the tragic history of that country's civil war and the resulting authoritarian military regime might have been avoided. That is an important lesson to remember as we come to appreciate the transformation of America's liberal university system into a "Left University" and ask if we Americans may be heading down the road to civil war from which Spain, even today, has barely recovered. ♦
Richard J. Bishirjian is the author most recently of The Coming Death and Future Resurrection of American Higher Education.