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22 Days in May by David Laws – book review
By Mark Pack | Mon 29th November 2010 - 10:27 am
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Many insider accounts have already appeared of the events retold in David Laws's book 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative Coalition. It is therefore one of the book's strengths that not only is it written in a lively style which gives some freshness to the now familiar sequence of events but it also adds many new insights.
Although only briefly mentioned by Laws himself, perhaps the most important is how much the Liberal Democrats owe to Chris Huhne. In April, just before the second TV debate, I wrote,
It's worth taking a moment to reflect on one of the reasons why Nick Clegg did so well in the first debate and also why the party was poised in a happy and strong position such that Nick's debate victory boosted the party
Not only did Chris Huhne play the role of Gordon Brown in the debate preparations, but the very fact that a closely defeated leadership candidate was used in such a role reflects on how closely and how well Nick and Chris now work together.
Their leadership contest was tetchy at times and finished a nail bitter. Some predicted the outcome would doom the party to splits and further trauma, but Chris has played his role perfectly.
Laws's book brings out into the public Huhne's close involvement in shaping the party's approach to a hung Parliament and how he persuaded many others of the virtues of coalition over confidence and supply. The environment in which that was done was one of mutual respect and debate – a sharp contrast from the Labour Party where so much of their approach to the hung Parliament was shaped by former and future personal ambitions.
In Laws's account, the final outcome of the coalition talks between the three main parties was pretty much determined by the result the voters decided on (wittingly or not) in the general election. There are no "what if…" moments from the post-result events which can spur alternative histories except for one – perhaps it might have been no AV referendum and confidence and supply rather than coalition. But it would still have been Cameron as Prime Minister, and Laws's book does not suggest any plausible sequence by which that could have turned out differently.
Laws emphasises the strong Liberal Democrat desire to avoid a second general election in 2010 because of the strong (and rich) position the Conservatives would be in but above all because a period of instability after May 2010 could have wrecked havoc on the financial markets and would have been the worst possible advertisement for electoral reform in the future. As it is, the sort of anti-hung Parliament arguments that the Conservatives used before polling day are now impossible for them to make in future with a straight face.
The book has a few barbs at others, though they are generally good humoured or discrete, as in the lack of naming names when Laws says of Clegg that, "refreshingly for a Lib Dem leader he did not spend all his time obsessing" about hung Parliament scenarios in advance of the election.
The one exception is Gordon Brown who, in every political book I have read that has come out since May, gets a heavy pasting regardless of the political loyalties of the author. As Laws recounts saying to Clegg when discussing hung Parliaments in advance of May, "If his own Cabinet colleagues cannot work with him, what chance do four or five Lib Dem ministers have?"
One nugget about Brown's views that Laws does reveal is that in the post-election negotiations, Brown expressed a willingness to speed up the pace of deficit reduction. Another nugget about Labour's rather dysfunctional approach to handling a hung Parliament is the quote from Peter Mandelson who, on opening formal talks with the Liberal Democrats, added that, "Of course, Alistair Darling will have views on all of this … We do not presume to know Alistair's views". A rather more conventional approach to negotiations would have seen the lead negotiators knowing their own Chancellor's views before entering the room.
Aside from Brown and Labour's approach to negotiating, some of the sharpest comments are directed at Liberal Democrat habits or outlooks, as in the description of the party's manifesto policy to scrap tuition fees as a "comfort blanket" and an electoral "gimmick".
More good humoured are Laws's accounts of Paddy Ashdown, who comes through in the book as having played a central role as an advisor to Nick Clegg and others and who hasn't changed his habits: "I switched off my phone only to be woken half an hour later by Paddy who, having failed to get through on my mobile, had managed to track down my pager number instead. I cannot remember what he said to me at 3:15am, but I have the distinct recollection of thinking that it could have waited until a more civilised hour."
Laws's book offers some insights into his own political views, particularly how his liberalism differs from Conservatism. Interestingly he concurs with the views of David Howarth, the former Liberal Democrat MP and a man usually seen as being from a different political tradition within the Liberal Democrats than David Laws. In Reinventing the State, Howarth argued that social and economic liberals agree on objectives, but differed on the best means to achieve them. Laws here agrees, describing the Orange Book as seeking "to explain how 'social liberal' ends could be delivered by 'economically liberal' means".
Overall the book is an easily digestible quick read, with enough new little anecdotes to keep it interesting even for a reader already familiar with the events. It is also good to see David Laws do what some, but not enough, politicians do in their accounts of events – he remembers the contribution of staff and volunteers (both in his constituency and in the party centrally), naming, praising and thanking many.
You can buy 22 Days in May by David Laws from Amazon and see also Helen's interview with David Laws about the book.
Read more by Mark Pack or more about chris huhne, david laws, featured, gordon brown, nick clegg, paddy ashdown or peter mandelson.
This entry was posted in Books.
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LDK 29th Nov '10 - 10:31am
Agreed, Chris' involvement impressed me, and his instincts. Leafing through the art collection was a bit weird though (but something I might have done to pass the time).
steve_way 29th Nov '10 - 12:02pm
"the description of the party's manifesto policy to scrap tuition fees as a "comfort blanket" and an electoral "gimmick".
At least this is a more honest explanation than Clegg's agonising and Cables linking it to outright victory. However, if quoted accurately it will lead to more disquiet amongst those PCC who have today written to Clegg.
"One nugget about Brown's views that Laws does reveal is that in the post-election negotiations, Brown expressed a willingness to speed up the pace of deficit reduction."
Although this shouldn't really have been a requirement from a party whose candidates had been just days earlier standing on a platform stating early cuts would be a disaster.
In all the excerpts I have read (the ebook is due as an early Christmas prezzie!!) do show an approach the negotiations that may have been pragmatic but that did seem to veer far from the tone and content of the campaign. It may have been felt to be economically correct to speed reduction (although I disagree) but I see it as entriely anti-democratic and almost an abuse of those who voted.
Coalition with Labour was virtually unworkable and all parties knew it. The Lib Dems were only ever in a room with them as an offering to the left of the party.
Anon 29th Nov '10 - 12:11pm
Nevertheless it is perhaps unfortunate that whilst Cameron negotiated to ensure he could keep all of the pledges to pensioners he made during the election, the LibDems were rather less unsuccessful in respect of the students.
Chris Squire 29th Nov '10 - 12:20pm
Re: ' . . they are generally good humoured or discrete . . ' : 'discreet!
Sk84goal 29th Nov '10 - 12:57pm
On the day a petition signed by 104 PPC's calling on all Liberal Democrat MPs to vote against the proposed rise in tuition fees is sent out. And all you wish us to comment on is a book review!
Come on get a grip, Who signed it, What are they asking?
Anders 29th Nov '10 - 1:13pm
Oh come on Sk84goal, the tuition fees rise has been discussed on here countless times so saying that it's being ignored and all that we want people to comment on is a book review is ridiculous. Anyway, this is Lib Dem Voice not the Lib Dems, and they can choose to do what they want and doubtless there will be lots of posts on all sorts of things over the day.
If you want to know about the petition and who signed it, then you can find it here: http://derekdeedman.mycouncillor.org.uk/liberal-democrats-parliamentary-candidates-petition/
John Fraser 29th Nov '10 - 2:01pm
So laws has admitted that the negotiations with Labour were not taken seriously by him and Clegg. After all previous propoganda about labour not being the serious party.
Laws and Clegg wanted a pact with the Tories as basically laws and Clegg are Tories.
the militant tendancy sydrome has hit the Lib dems… a party within a party that is quite happy to rubbish things such as student fees.
Anthony Aloysius St 29th Nov '10 - 2:10pm
"Oh come on Sk84goal, the tuition fees rise has been discussed on here countless times so saying that it's being ignored and all that we want people to comment on is a book review is ridiculous."
Actually, I think it's astonishing that LDV has been ignoring the developments concerning the tuition fees issue over the past few days – particularly the revelation that Lib Dem ministers may abstain. The fact that there have been so many repetitious discussions about it in the past only makes it more surprising.
Graham D 29th Nov '10 - 2:19pm
Anders – no I think Sk84goal makes a valid point – especially as this is 'dealt with' by the comment on Laws' 'view' on the subject.
The reality is, that most Liberal Democrats accepted the idea of the Coalition despite many of us having fought Conservatives all our political lives – mainly because we all tend to agree with the argument that British politics needs to be less tribal and more constructive.
But as this letter points out – the leadership appear to be hellbent on destruction of the party taking the line that they do on tuition fees. The main reason being that the party appear now to the public at large to have no principles whatsoever. People who didn't even care about the issue still believe that a party that signs a pledge to oppose something is untrustworthy when they do a complete volte face on the subject. That is all political capital gone in the first 6 months – a spending spree worthy of a Labour Chancellor – and for what – a referendum on a voting system none of us wanted and a salary increase for Nick and a couple of others? Someone, somewhere saw us coming.
muxloe 29th Nov '10 - 3:16pm
"Laws emphasises the strong Liberal Democrat desire to avoid a second general election in 2010 because of the strong (and rich) position the Conservatives would be in but above all because a period of instability after May 2010 could have wrecked havoc on the financial markets and would have been the worst possible advertisement for electoral reform in the future."
which is it – was an election avoided because the Conservatives considered to be strong or rich? If the reason was to avoid an election due to a lack of party cash then fair enough that is at the party's discretion but why not be more honest about this? If the reason is fear of the Conservatives being a strong position then this is a platitude that needs to be challenged. Without coalition agreement it is far from certain that the Tories would have been in a strong position. On the contrary they would have been a party who failed to score an open goal by gaining a majority despite the economic crisis and the ineptitude of Labour under Gordon Brown; Cameron would have looked weak and there would have been serious mutterings about his position and strategy. It is not guaranteed that they would have been in a strong position. What would have happened would have been a straight fight between Labour and the Conservatives and the Lib Dems would have been squeezed. I personally believe that this is a compelling reason for electorate reform to provide a more pluracratic political set up but do not concur with the view that the Tories were in a strong position.
Nick (not Clegg) 30th Nov '10 - 10:35am
Perhaps someone with better It skils than mine could provide a link to Steve Richards' article on page 5 of the Viewspaper section of today's (Tuesday 30 November) Independent.
The Tories were in a strong negotiating position: made all the stronger by the LibDem negotiators' all-too transparent desire to surrender.
Sid 30th Nov '10 - 12:03pm
John Fraser: "So Laws has admitted that the negotiations with Labour were not taken seriously by him and Clegg. After all previous propaganda about Labour not being the serious party." Everything I've read suggests that we could not take Labour seriously because they were not serious themselves – see the quote from Mandelson in the article. Did you see Nick Robinson's programme, which suggested that the Labour negotiators didn't even have a plan written on the back of a fag packet?
Nick (not Clegg) 30th Nov '10 - 12:10pm
If the LibDems had written their plan on a fag packet at least it would have come with a health warning!
bryan 30th Nov '10 - 5:38pm
Has Laws paid back the money yet?
Paul Sellers 16th Dec '10 - 12:12pm
As non-LD, but a constituent of David's who has admired some of his political commitments, I have to say that it looks to me like being the junior partner in the colaition has simply squeezed the party to the point of asphyxiation.
Indeed, an opinion poll taken on 9 December shows the LDs on just 8% (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8280050.stm ). Surely one has to question the wisdom of those who have so quickly turned the Liberal Democrats back into the grist for the two-party mill.
The real crunch will come when the referendum on electoral reform is held next year. In mid-2009 there was clear support for change, but by summer 2010 this had slipped back to level pegging, and more recent polls make it apparent that the vote is likely to be lost.
Surely that will be the time to evaluate whether to stick or fold? To continue bidding on the bad hand of coalition with the Conservatives would be to fritter away the LD's dwindling political capital.
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Originally the memorial had a 4-faced electric clock, which served as the town clock however the clock is now missing and clock dials have since been painted to represent 4.28am, the time of the original landing of the ANZAC`s on Gallipoli. The memorial was the most costly World War One memorial in Queensland.
It was relocated to its present position in 1972.
The memorial was unveiled on Anzac Day 1926 by His Worship, The Mayor of Cairns, Alderman A.J.Draper. The cost of the memorial which was erected by Melrose and Fenwick was £2074. After the day portion of the ceremony was completed at 9pm that night the "Last Post" was sounded by Bugler H Brown, a native of the Etheridge District, in front of a silent crowd of between 600 and 700 persons.
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Q: NHibernate is turning my collection readonly. How can I stop it? I'm having a bit of an issue with Nhibernate / Fluent NHibernate
I have a class that has a collection and a backing field, and methods for manipulating the collection like so:
Edit: I've added the virtual modifier to Children since I forgot to stick it in the example code below (it was 2 am)
public class MyClass
{
    private IList<SomeChildObject> children;

    public virtual IList<SomeChildObject> Children { get { return new ReadOnlyCollection<SomeChildObject>(children); } }

    public void AddToChildren(SomeChildObject obj)
    {
        children.Add(obj);
    }
}

And I have my Fluent NHibernate mapping like this:
public class MyClassMapping : ClassMap<MyClass>
{
    public MyClassMapping()
    {
        HasMany(x => x.Children)
            .Inverse()
            .LazyLoad()
            .Cascade.AllDeleteOrphan()
            .KeyColumnNames.Add("MyClassID")
            .Access.AsReadOnlyPropertyThroughCamelCaseField();
    }
}

Now all is good when I pull back an instance of MyClass from the database.
MyClass myClass = repo.GetById(12);

myClass.AddToChildren(new SomeChildObject());

This works fine.
And then I make some changes and persist the changes to the database.
Once the changes have been saved, I then try and add another child object
myClass.AddToChildren(new SomeChildObject("Another One!!!"));

And it falls over with "InvalidOperationException: The Collection is ReadOnly"
Seems the NHibernate is doing something somewhere in it's proxy. Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?
Thanks in advance.

A: What happens if you disable lazy loading on the entity level ?  That is, make sure that NHibernate doesn't use dynamic proxies for this class ?  (This has no effect on the ability of lazy loading a collection; lazy loading the collection will still work).
In my applications, I use the same approach as the one that you've demonstrated here (private collection field, property that wraps around the collection and returns a readonly list), and I do not have those issues that you're having.
But, the difference is that I declare in my mapping ( I do not use fluent NHibernate, but plain old xml files :) ), that NHibernate should not use dynamic proxies for my class:
 <class name="SomeClass" table="SomeTable" lazy="false">
      <!-- rest of mapping goes here -->
   </class>

A: Given that children is a private field, it's not possible for the proxy to be modifying it, as the proxy can only front virtual fields and properties, unless there's some way to set children that isn't in your code.  It certainly looks very bizarre, but we would need to see the rest of the class that applies to this.

A: Your mapping tells nhibernate to use the public Children property, so it won't use the private field "children".
I don't think you can specify private fields in the fluent nhibernate mappings, so if you would want that, you should use an alternative mapping strategy, like xml mapping files.
You can do the following to see if this is indeed the problem:

*

*make the "children" field public (for now, just to test it)

*change the mapping to use the "private" lowercase children field

*now see if the problem still persists

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Published: 19 June 2014 I know this topic has been discussed many many times, but still I think a lot of developers, just like me until recently, are still not clear what actually is the difference between the two. So I think I'd like to put it into my own words to describe the differences.
On the other hand, for OOP, the focus is on data organisation and abstraction. It tries to make us think of our program as interacting concepts rather than as a bunch of data with functions twiddling their bits. The goal is to write programs that scale better and are more adaptable to change.
For example, if we are to code up a system to record data on cars, trucks and buses through forms, if we coded a form builder that would render each form element based on some parameters, and then created an array for each type of the vehicle to define their fields, then call a display function in the form builder code file and pass it the fields array of the vehicle, I would still consider this OOP even if we've used no classes, objects.
OOP is a technique for programming, when we say a language is object oriented, that means it provides mechanisms that makes it convenient to use the object oriented style. What actually decides if our code is procedural or OO is our approach towards solving the problem.


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  constructor(oMap?: any) {
    this.id = null;
    this.text = null;
    this.rev = null;
    this.avatardocid = null;
    this.avatarid = null;
    this.url = null;
    this.personid = null;
    this.startDate = null;
    this.endDate = null;
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      if (oMap.id !== undefined) {
        this.id = oMap.id;
      }
      if (oMap.rev !== undefined) {
        this.rev = oMap.rev;
      }
      if (oMap.text !== undefined) {
        this.text = oMap.text;
      }
      if (oMap.avatardocid !== undefined) {
        this.avatardocid = oMap.avatardocid;
      }
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        this.avatarid = oMap.avatarid;
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Firstly, I have addressed this issue before on my blog, but lets just clear it up before we start. In the UK a "crisp" is a thin cut, deep fried potato (Canadian aka chip), a "chip" is a thick cut, deep fried potato (Canadian aka fries), so the thin cut apples we are making are crisps not chips- are we all clear?
Whatever you choose to call these, they are healthy, tasty and up for experimentation and customization- think sugar, cinnamon, ginger, curry powder- oh the possibilities!
To be honest you don't need a recipe for the basics of this- simply wash & dry, slice thin, place on a lined baking sheet and bake on a low temp until just starting to colour and are looking dried out. Cool, eat and enjoy. I find you get a better result by not coring the apples first and the seeds seem to make their way out of the slices anyway. If you have any left, simply store in a airtight jar or container.


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declare(strict_types=1);

/*
 * This file is part of the RollerworksSearch package.
 *
 * (c) Sebastiaan Stok <s.stok@rollerscapes.net>
 *
 * This source file is subject to the MIT license that is bundled
 * with this source code in the file LICENSE.
 */

namespace Rollerworks\Component\Search\Tests\Extension\Core\DataTransformer;

use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
use Rollerworks\Component\Search\Exception\TransformationFailedException;
use Rollerworks\Component\Search\Extension\Core\DataTransformer\DateTimeToStringTransformer;
use Rollerworks\Component\Search\Tests\assertDateTimeEqualsTrait;

/**
 * @internal
 */
final class DateTimeToStringTransformerTest extends TestCase
{
    use assertDateTimeEqualsTrait;

    public function dataProvider()
    {
        $data = [
            ['Y-m-d H:i:s', '2010-02-03 16:05:06', '2010-02-03 16:05:06 UTC'],
            ['Y-m-d H:i:00', '2010-02-03 16:05:00', '2010-02-03 16:05:00 UTC'],
            ['Y-m-d H:i', '2010-02-03 16:05', '2010-02-03 16:05:00 UTC'],
            ['Y-m-d H', '2010-02-03 16', '2010-02-03 16:00:00 UTC'],
            ['Y-m-d', '2010-02-03', '2010-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'],
            ['Y-m', '2010-12', '2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC'],
            ['Y', '2010', '2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC'],
            ['d-m-Y', '03-02-2010', '2010-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'],
            ['H:i:s', '16:05:06', '1970-01-01 16:05:06 UTC'],
            ['H:i:00', '16:05:00', '1970-01-01 16:05:00 UTC'],
            ['H:i', '16:05', '1970-01-01 16:05:00 UTC'],
            ['H', '16', '1970-01-01 16:00:00 UTC'],
            ['Y-z', '2010-33', '2010-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'],

            // different day representations
            ['Y-m-j', '2010-02-3', '2010-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'],
            ['z', '33', '1970-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'],

            // not bijective
            // this will not work as PHP will use actual date to replace missing info
            // and after change of date will lookup for closest Wednesday
            // i.e. value: 2010-02, PHP value: 2010-02-(today i.e. 20), parsed date: 2010-02-24
            //array('Y-m-D', '2010-02-Wed', '2010-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'),
            //array('Y-m-l', '2010-02-Wednesday', '2010-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'),

            // different month representations
            ['Y-n-d', '2010-2-03', '2010-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'],
            ['Y-M-d', '2010-Feb-03', '2010-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'],
            ['Y-F-d', '2010-February-03', '2010-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'],

            // different year representations
            ['y-m-d', '10-02-03', '2010-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'],

            // different time representations
            ['G:i:s', '16:05:06', '1970-01-01 16:05:06 UTC'],
            ['g:i:s a', '4:05:06 pm', '1970-01-01 16:05:06 UTC'],
            ['h:i:s a', '04:05:06 pm', '1970-01-01 16:05:06 UTC'],

            // seconds since Unix
            ['U', '1265213106', '2010-02-03 16:05:06 UTC'],

            ['Y-z', '2010-33', '2010-02-03 00:00:00 UTC'],
        ];

        return $data;
    }

    /**
     * @dataProvider dataProvider
     */
    public function testTransform($format, $output, $input)
    {
        $transformer = new DateTimeToStringTransformer('UTC', 'UTC', $format);

        $input = new \DateTime($input);

        $this->assertEquals($output, $transformer->transform($input));
    }

    public function testTransformEmpty()
    {
        $transformer = new DateTimeToStringTransformer();

        $this->assertSame('', $transformer->transform(null));
    }

    public function testTransformWithDifferentTimezones()
    {
        $transformer = new DateTimeToStringTransformer('Asia/Hong_Kong', 'America/New_York', 'Y-m-d H:i:s');

        $input = new \DateTime('2010-02-03 12:05:06 America/New_York');
        $output = $input->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        $input->setTimezone(new \DateTimeZone('Asia/Hong_Kong'));

        $this->assertEquals($output, $transformer->transform($input));
    }

    public function testTransformDateTimeImmutable()
    {
        $transformer = new DateTimeToStringTransformer('Asia/Hong_Kong', 'America/New_York', 'Y-m-d H:i:s');

        $input = new \DateTimeImmutable('2010-02-03 12:05:06 America/New_York');
        $output = $input->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        $input = $input->setTimezone(new \DateTimeZone('Asia/Hong_Kong'));

        $this->assertEquals($output, $transformer->transform($input));
    }

    public function testTransformExpectsDateTime()
    {
        $transformer = new DateTimeToStringTransformer();

        $this->expectException(TransformationFailedException::class);

        $transformer->transform('1234');
    }

    public function testReverseTransformEmpty()
    {
        $reverseTransformer = new DateTimeToStringTransformer();

        $this->assertNull($reverseTransformer->reverseTransform(''));
    }

    public function testReverseTransformWithDifferentTimezones()
    {
        $reverseTransformer = new DateTimeToStringTransformer('America/New_York', 'Asia/Hong_Kong', 'Y-m-d H:i:s');

        $output = new \DateTime('2010-02-03 16:05:06 Asia/Hong_Kong');
        $input = $output->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        $output->setTimezone(new \DateTimeZone('America/New_York'));

        $this->assertDateTimeEquals($output, $reverseTransformer->reverseTransform($input));
    }

    public function testReverseTransformExpectsString()
    {
        $reverseTransformer = new DateTimeToStringTransformer();

        $this->expectException(TransformationFailedException::class);

        $reverseTransformer->reverseTransform(1234);
    }

    public function testReverseTransformExpectsValidDateString()
    {
        $reverseTransformer = new DateTimeToStringTransformer();

        $this->expectException(TransformationFailedException::class);

        $reverseTransformer->reverseTransform('2010-2010-2010');
    }

    public function testReverseTransformWithNonExistingDate()
    {
        $reverseTransformer = new DateTimeToStringTransformer();

        $this->expectException(TransformationFailedException::class);

        $reverseTransformer->reverseTransform('2010-04-31');
    }
}


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Ajinkya Rahane is ready to Play IPL if it ensures the safety of fans
Indian red ball middle-order batsman and Delhi Capitals batsman Ajinkya Rahane is ready to play and entertain cricket fanatics in the IPL in empty stadiums (behind closed doors) if it ensures the safety of the cricket supporters.
Ajinkya Rahane said in an Instagram Live session:
COVID-19 pandemic has taught everyone that unexpected things can happen, therefore we need to be happy about what we are doing, and should value what we have. As for IPL or any other sport, I feel it could be played without spectators. All of us have played domestic cricket in almost empty stadiums, so that's an experience all cricketers are used to. Of course, we are nothing without our fans, and that's why their safety is of utmost importance.
Even if they get to watch some live action from home, I am sure that will be an enjoyable experience as well. The safety of fans is key, and if we need to play in empty stadiums for that, we are open to do it. I'm trying to be as positive as possible during this lockdown, and staying at home with my wife and daughter. It's given me an opportunity to bond with them, and I am also able to help my wife in cooking and cleaning. I'm also trying to revive my karate skills, something that I pursued as a child. It definitely helps me in maintaining my agility and fitness, and I am enjoying it a lot.
It is something I've really been eager about, and it has stemmed in because of the things I've heard about the team from the likes of Ishant Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, and Shreyas Iyer. They've told me that it"s like a huge family where everyone is always backing each other, and enjoying each other's successes. My idols growing up were definitely Rahul (the wall, Rahul Dravid) Sir and Sachin (Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar) Sir, but I've always admired Ricky (Australian former world cup winning captain Rickey Ponting) Sir also. I used to try to copy his batting and fielding styles. And therefore, I'm really looking forward to working under him. I'm sure he will help me immensely in my batting as well as overall leadership.
As most of you know, The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has postponed the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 indefinitely. The IPL 13 which is scheduled to start from March 29, was postponed till April 15, but Prime Minister of India on Wednesday announced lockdown extension to fight the coronavirus pandemic in India till May 3, BCCI has postponed the cash-rich league until further notice.
The BCCI may or may not consider a September-October window after May 03 or later and may take a call depending on the global situation. IPL 2020 could be staged at October-November window, lets hope for the best, these are some suggestion that was given by experts and former legendary players. The fate of big ICC tournaments, Women's ODI World Cup 2021, Men's T20 World Cup will be decided once the situation gets better and even T20 World Cup could be pushed to 2021.
McCullum, the coach of IPL side Kolkata Knight Riders gave a suggestion that:
I think the IPL will try and target that October window and the T20 World Cup will get pushed back.
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Small-business startups face many hurdles
By MediaNews and Marton Dunai
One in 10 Americans owns a small business. In the private
sector, small businesses create half the gross domestic
output, employ half the workers and pay nearly half of total
payroll.
Apart from their undeniable economic weight, small
businesses represent a piece of the American dream in
which anyone can start out on his or her own and strike
Small ventures often have a higher failure rate. More
than half of small businesses close within four years of
opening, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Although
entrepreneurship hasnt suffered from the high
failure rates, especially in the Bay Area, nobody goes into
business aiming to fail.
MediaNews is following one entrepreneur
as he works toward his dream of launching a business.
During the course of a year, MediaNews will chronicle
his efforts as he prepares, opens and operates his business.
Vlad Shapiro has wanted to be in the food business for as long as he can remember.
"My father operated a restaurant in Minsk," he said. "I hung out around kitchens all the time. I always wanted to have my own restaurant one day."
When he was 11, Shapiro and his family moved to San Francisco, escaping the communism of Belarus and abandoning their modest but established lives for years of poverty here. At 12, Shapiro was the first in the family to bring home a paycheck here, lying about his age to get a job as a busboy in a pizza parlor.
During high school and college, he worked his way up in the restaurant industry, becoming manager of the chic restaurant Roe in downtown San Francisco. Now 30, he recently left that post to launch a venture of his own.
But instead of opening a restaurant, he decided to open an assembly kitchen by purchasing a franchise.
The assembly kitchen is a newer concept that allows customers to make their own meals without the hassle of shopping, chopping and cleaning up. Customers rent work stations where they use freshly chopped ingredients tocreate set menu items. They take those meals home in containers without cooking them and put them in the freezer for consumption later. It takes a few hours to put together a few weeks' supply of food, at about $3 per portion.
"I had been looking for a business opportunity," Shapiro said. "When I first heard about this, I immediately knew I had found it."
Many others thought the same. Supported in the past five years by franchise chains such as Dream Dinners or Dinner By Design, the business model for assembly kitchens has grown explosively. As of December, 361 companies were operating 1,091 assembly kitchens nationwide, according to the Easy Meal Prep Association, the industry's trade group.
Shapiro joined the largest of those chains, Fort Worth, Texas-based Super Suppers Inc., which operates nearly 200 restaurants.
Buying a franchise is less risky than starting a stand-alone business and offers more security, Shapiro said.
He had been in the industry long enough to know that restaurants often require a person and a half to manage.
"I just got married," he said. "If I opened a restaurant right now, I'd be married to the restaurant."
Shapiro and his wife, Jane, invested everything they had in the business — and more. If the assembly kitchen opens in March, as planned, it will have been roughly a year and a quarter of a million dollars in the making.
It has been a long ride. They spent six months studying the competition, consulting the franchiser's disclosures, shelling out $35,000 for the license and finally settling on a place. The couple signed a lease in November for a 2,000-square-foot unit in Concord's Heritage Square. They will begin paying the $7,000 rent in March.
The clock is ticking — the assembly kitchen boom has arrived in the East Bay. Nearly a dozen kitchens already operate here. Concord remains a blank spot for now, but with a quarter-million people and thousands of workers based within a few miles, it won't stay that way too long.
Shapiro had about two months to gather all the necessary permits and line up the contractors and planners before remodeling. He hired John Newman, whose Millennium Construction Group is based a few blocks from Heritage Square. They worked on the plans together — an essential step, Newman said.
"The clients are too often under time pressure to finish the job," Newman said. "That's what creates cost overruns."
Shapiro was itching to start the job. Days after signing the lease Nov. 9., he filed his construction plans at the county Health Department, a notorious bureaucratic bottleneck. A month of waiting followed.
"When the Health Department says they can't come until next week, I lose that week," Newman said. "I have to juggle manpower constantly."
By law, the first review of plans has to happen within 20 days. In reality, it takes four to six months, said Concord Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Keith McMahon, who has worked with the Health Department to streamline the process.
"More than half of the permits never make it out on time," McMahon said. "That's unacceptable."
Shapiro was relatively lucky. He received his first review in a little more than a month, allowing him to resubmit the required amendments before Christmas.
Food permit process
At the Health Department, initial proposals are reviewed as they come in. For a simple permit to sell food, such as a video store asking to sell only prepackaged candy, the review takes a few hours, but proposals can get stuck for days behind requests from a full-service restaurant or a large supermarket.
Almost no plan passes in the first round. Resubmitted plans are reviewed separately, typically within days. Still, the process can drag on for months.
Staffing, long an excuse for delays, was especially bad last year, said Joe Doser, who oversees retail food permit reviews. The department received nearly 600 applications, or three times the normal amount. School district kitchens, 15 Safeway supermarkets, 20 new Starbucks locations — and that was far from the end of it.
"You'd be surprised at the kind of applicants we get," Doser said. "I mean, you can get food now in Fry's Electronics."
Doser pulled his field inspectors to help his three proposal checkers with the year-end processing frenzy. Meanwhile, he has requested funding for additional staff and is trying to fill vacancies.
Next July, the county will take over regulation of skilled nursing facilities from the state. That's 600 additional facilities, most neglected for 20 years or more.
Still, Doser is optimistic.
"I can see the light at the end of the tunnel," he said. "After years of lagging behind, we're finally almost caught up."
Hammer in hand
While waiting for the Health Department to approve his food permit, Shapiro was busy planning, getting price estimates, securing other permits — and bleeding money.
After the franchise fee, he paid $30,000 for Super Supper's Tuscan-style decor package, $30,000 for kitchen equipment, a small advance to Newman and about $6,000 to the architect, as well as paying various permit fees.
He had spent about $100,000 before construction even began.
"Right now, I feel like writing checks is all I'm doing," he said before Christmas. "But I see the silver lining. I'll be here with a hammer on New Year's Day."
The day after he got the keys, he called some friends and demolished what was left of the furniture store. After a long day of removing carpets, lighting fixtures and signs, he showed off a large blister on his palm.
"We gutted this place in a day," he said, beaming. "I just saved $1,500."
Next to a neat pile of trash, the revised plumbing plans were rolled out on the concrete floor.
"They wanted a second hand-washing sink," Shapiro said. "They'll get it. Once I get the pre-authorization, we'll rip up the floor and get it done from the plumbing up."
He rolled up the plans, took his jacket and started for the door. On the fresh spots of carpet glue, his steps sounded like Velcro.
Out front he looked around, taking a deep breath of the warm evening air.
He turned back inside to make sure everything was OK. He turned the lights off, then back on. Then off again.
He locked up. "I'll be back at 7 a.m. tomorrow."
Contact Marton Dunai at (925) 952-2671 or mdunai@cctimes.com.
MediaNews
Marton Dunai


Marche´ Bar & Grill is Back in Business at Trellis Bay!
As the cleaning and rehabilitation of Trellis Bay Beach picks up steam, Marche´at Trellis Bar & Grill has re-opened. A popular Beef Island spot before the hurricanes, they're back in business with fresh paint and smiles, serving breakfast and lunch. Current hours are 6:00am to 6:00pm Tuesday to Friday, and 7:30am to 6:00pm on Saturday and Sunday.


A historical look at the history of less than truckload trucking companies.
This is the second time I have written an article about a trucking company with a very low assigned ICC number. The first article was about Truck Transport ICC 2. As with the majority of those companies, Lang Transportation had been operating for a number of years before submitting an application to the Interstate Commerce Commission for authorities to continue in business.
Lang Transportation was a pioneer in the transportation of petroleum products using tank trucks in the western states. Another division of the company operated the city bus service in Long Beach, California. The company was started by Howard and Michael Lang.
In December 1925 the company was already using a fleet of about 100 trucks and trailers. They also were about to begin construction of a new terminal and garage on land fronting 400 hundred feet on the corner of Fifty- fifth Street and Santa Fe Avenue in Los Angeles.
The bus operations of Lang was sold in 1947 to National City Lines, a large firm that operated city bus lines in medium sized localities across the country. In 1949, the trucking operations of Lang were acquired by System Tank Lines. By that time Lang had 4,000 miles of routes across several western states, 6 terminals and some 240 pieces of equipment.
One of the founders of Lang, Howard Miles Lang, died at age 52, on October 28, 1955.
i realize that Lang Transportation was not a less than truckload Carrier Of General commodities like most of the companies written about here were, but with such a low ICC number I felt it was interesting to include.
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A world champion sheepdog trainer, who has been served notice to leave his rented farmland, has appealed to the Melton farming community to offer him a site where he can pass on his skills.
Nij Vyas, who lives in the hamlet of John O'Gaunt, near Melton, has been training sheep farmers and their sheepdogs for 23 years and last month celebrated winning the inaugural UK Four Nations Nursery Championship which involved the best handlers in the world.
But he is concerned he may no longer be able to train others from next month, when he must leave the land he rents at Tilton on the Hill.
This is the fifth time in seven years he has been given notice to leave farmland, having also previously rented fields at the Langtons, Lubenham and Saddington in the past.
Nij, who was also part of the five-man England team which won the World Sheepdog Trials in the Netherlands last year, said: "There is a huge demand here in the UK and since moving to Melton word has spread about my training classes and more and more people are coming for training so it would be nice if someone came forward to let me rent some land.
"Many of the youngsters are far more skilled and able than I was when I first started.
"They need help and guidance, but sadly, once again, I will not be able to offer this for much longer.
"I naively believed that Leicestershire would embrace the fact that they had a world sheepdog trials medalist and UK Nursery Champion, but sadly this is proving not to be the case.
Nij said he moved to the Melton area to be more central to a large sheep farming community. He says he needs just five or six acres of land to do his training on and to keep his small flock of sheep but he is frustrated that landowners seem unwilling to allow him long-term leases of fields to work with sheep farmers from throughout the UK.
"Only a handful of farmers have been sympathetic to my cause of wanting to work with the farming community and give something back and offered me support by offering sheep or land to train on," said Nij, who has five sheepdogs.
Despite strong demand for his training sessions, Nij says many sheep farmers in Leicestershire prefer modern mechanical methods of controlling their flocks. He argues that using sheepdogs saves valuable time in the busy life of a farmer. Training a young pup requires five to 10 minutes a day, he says, with the right facilities and know how.
Nij added: "The Border Collie remains the most economical and efficient way of managing livestock and there is no greater pleasure to be had than in moving a large flock of sheep with a couple of well trained dogs rather than chasing them around with quad bikes and risking injury.
"The vast majority of farmers say they do not wish to compete in sheepdog trials yet the very purpose of trials is to replicate the jobs that farmers have to do on the farm daily.
"Whether they like it or not they are competing against time, the elements and the terrain.
If any landowners are interested in renting out a field to Nij in the Melton area they can call him on 07530 439561.


Lucid Vision Labs says its Triton cameras come with an optional IP67 sealed lens tube which allows them to operate in harsh environments without needing bulky enclosures.
It comes with active sensor alignment to improve optical performance and a lightweight 29 x 29 mm size.
Triton's M12 Ethernet and M8 I/O connectors provide a robust connection, which is resistant to shock and vibration and is protected from dirt, dust, and water.
According to Lucid, all cameras are actively aligned to help minimise sensor tilt and rotation and to position the image sensor the lens mount for sharp, crisp images, even in the corners.
Due to its rugged, industrial design, Lucid says the Triton camera provides long-term reliability and is ideal for a wide range of industries such as factory automation, intelligent transport systems, life sciences and logistics.


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CFP: Engineering and social justice special issue, get your papers in!
By skookumchick on February 19, 2009.
Call for Manuscripts: Special issue of Engineering Studies: Journal of the International Network for Engineering Studies on "Engineering and Social Justice"
Editors, Engineering Studies: Gary Downey (Virginia Tech, USA) and Juan Lucena (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
Special Issue Editor: Jen Schneider (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
This planned special issue of Engineering Studies invites submissions from scholars across the disciplines who study engineering and its intersections with social justice.
Engineering, as educational and professional practices often aimed at developing technologies for specific purposes, and social justice, as political practices often aimed at more equitable distributions of advantages and disadvantages in society, may appear at first glance to be incommensurable. Yet many engineers, engineering educators, and engineering studies researchers have been inquiring into relations between engineering and social justice through recent publications and workshops.
For some, social justice seems to offer opportunities for educating future "global" engineers. For others, it appears to offer opportunities to address problems that have long plagued engineering, including low recruitment and retention rates, lapses in ethics education and understanding, and questions about engineering's status as a profession, to name a few. Still others find in social justice important challenges to the theory and praxis of engineering in the world. This recent and growing interest leads us to ask: Why engineering and social justice? Why now?
The editors are especially interested in historical, social, cultural, philosophical, rhetorical, and organizational studies of engineers and engineering in the context of social justice. Possible submission topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
What are the aims of engineering, and how do these aims align with the aims of social justice?
How do understandings of engineering and social justice shift or evolve across cultural, temporal, and organizational contexts, both within and beyond countries?
What challenges do social justice constructs or themes pose to engineers and engineering?
Where and when have images, policies, and/or practices of engineering and social justice been brought together, and what have been the outcomes?
Scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit manuscripts. We are particularly interested in manuscripts that may contribute to and facilitate broader discussions and debates about engineering, research, practice, and policy.
Interested authors should submit titles and 350 word abstracts by March 15, 2009 to the Guest Editor, Jen Schneider, Liberal Arts and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines, jjschnei@mines.edu. Please be sure to include contact information and institutional affiliation as well. The Guest Editor will invite a maximum of five manuscripts for full consideration. All submitted manuscripts will be subject to the journal's normal double-blind review process. Completed draft manuscripts will be due June 15, 2009.
Engineering Studies is published three times yearly by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. See http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/engineeringstudies for more information, including detailed author guidelines.
Also, to join the International Network for Engineering Studies and receive the journal, see www.inesweb.org/join. Annual membership is inexpensive at $56US, or $46US for those who qualify for the discount. If you would like to sponsor a member for one year or need such sponsorship, contact Crystal Harrell, INES Secretary, at crcrigge@vt.edu .
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Conference flogging
I'm still trying to figure out this blogging publicly thing, and am writing a bigger post about it for later in the week. In the meantime, here are a couple of great-sounding conference coming up, and you still have time to get your abstracts in! Engineering, Social Justice and Peace: Grounded in…
Federal Mine Inspectors Lost in the Line of Duty
When MSHA's Gary Jensen, 53, died last week in a rockburst at the Crandall Canyon mine, it had been 26 years since a federal mine inspector had died in the line of duty. Mr. Jensen joined MSHA in 2001 as an inspector. He had worked for nearly 30 years as a coal miner, and was especially…
Engineering and Society: Working Towards Social Justice
I've always thought the born-digital, high-quality review articles (called "lectures") that Morgan & Claypool publish as part of their Synthesis product are one of the best products out there. They really get publishing scholarly and professional materials in the digital age. One of their most…
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Hanging up my blogging shoes
You might have guessed this was coming. My blogging frequency has dropped off dramatically this year, particularly this semester. I keep writing "yep, I haven't died yet - I'll tell you all about what I'm doing sometime, really" posts, and not ever following up. Other signs have included.... I…
Two books and a blog for your future perusal
One of my colleagues Amy Slaton (a historian of engineering and engineering education at Drexel) has started a new blog in conjunction with the completion of her new book, Race, Rigor and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line. Her work is brilliant --…
My year of travel
Okay. It's been another month since I blogged. But since I last wrote, my dad wrote the family holiday letter and asked me how many places I've traveled to. Here's the list. January To Detroit to look at the SWE Archives To RTP for ScienceOnline2009 February To Arizona, invited to a workshop on…
20th anniversary of Montreal Massacre: We remember
On December 6, 1989, an armed gunman named Marc Lepine entered an engineering classroom at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec. He demanded all 48 men in the class leave the room, lined up all 9 women against a wall, and, shouting "You are all a bunch of [expletive] feminists!", proceeded to…
Blogger guilt
Folks, I don't know what to tell you. It's like I don't even remember how to blog anymore. I think I've posted 2 real posts in 2 months. I have ideas stacked up in my head for posts - a post from FIE 2009, a post from SWE including the cool "Father Knows Best" episode where Betty decides to be…


In a case study, GIIF's Partner ACRE Africa reports that the project has helped Edward and Pauline Mkopi in Kenya protect their crops with weather index, area yield, and hybrid insurance. After several seasons of drought and excess rainfall, the Mkopis say "they now confidently invest in their maize and sunflower farm because they know they are insured against all kinds of risk." They also feel confident in working with ACRE Africa because the product relies on accurate data to determine how to do payouts.
The soil that Abdoulaye Ndiaye holds in his hand is dry and dusty. A little further away in the Kaolack region the groundnut plants are already beginning to spring up in the fields, but in Paskoto village Abdoulaye and his fellow farmers have not seen a drop so far this season. "The most important challenge for us is the weather. It is God who decides. We have no choice, but are just left looking for ways to handle the situation," Abdoulaye says, now using his hand to shield his eyes against the stark sunlight.


We sadly discovered Judy '62 to be among our departed HHS classmates at the HHS Holbrook '60s Reunion in Las Vegas.
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