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Two Perry Co. schools removed from failing list
Published 4:39 pm Saturday, January 27, 2018
By Adam Dodson | The Selma Times-Journal
Two Perry County schools have come off the Alabama State Department of Education's failing schools list, giving the school system a perfect record with non-failing schools.
Francis Marion School, with 766 students, is no longer considered failing after spending four straight years on the list. Robert C. Hatch High School, population 641 students, came off the failing list after two straight years.
According to Al.com, both Francis Marion and Robert C. Hatch have 100 percent of their student population living in poverty.
Despite this, both schools have been able to get out of the bottom six percent, which is the cutoff for failing schools, equaling 75 schools total.
The schools worked their way off the list thanks to increasing motivation combined with improved instruction. Superintendent of Perry County Schools, John Heard III, was pleased with the news about his non-failing school system, but credits the success to his peers and students.
"Of course, we are proud to be off the list," said Heard. "We have improved our attendance to 95 percent, which was a big factor. Instruction was focused on and improved, and the results have shown."
Despite the elation of Perry County's successful school district, criticism of the ALDOE's system of judging failing schools remains.
Heard highlighted some of these issues, and is not alone in his distaste.
The testing used by the ALDOE appears to be flawed in the eyes of many public administrators. The ACT Aspire, which has been used as the baseline measurement for what is considered "failing" until 2018, is not considered a sufficient gauge on school performance.
The department of education has used the reading and math scores from this test to include the bottom six percent of scores on the list.
While some method of accurate performance measurement is obligatory, Heard believes this way fell far short of what was needed.
"This way of judging students gives the kids no motivation to perform. If they are not doing it for pride, they have no skin in the game," Heard said.
"Either they are considered failing or they pass the test and are considered not failing."
While the ACT Aspire is criticized for the lack of incentive it provides students, other facets of the ALDOE's failing list are even less approved.
As aforementioned, the failing list only looks at the ACT Aspire scores from reading and math, giving a very small window for potential to gain ground.
In addition, the failing school list has a designated quota of six percent every year. Heard remarks that this is a moot way of viewing "failing" and does not look at Alabama's performance compared to the nation.
"With this system, there is always going to be a bottom six percent that is considered failing no matter what anyone does," Heard said. "Looking at only two courses makes it difficult to improve."
According to Alabama Department of Education communications director Michael Fibley, there is no uniform policy across the country that states must abide by.
This means that what is considered "failing" in Alabama may not be considered "failing" in another state.
The ACT Aspire is no longer the preferred method of looking at failing schools.
The ALDOE will implement a two-year program until a permanent solution is found.
Despite his disagreements with the testing system, Heard is proud of his school district for working their way to better performance.


Three different shades of red, so ready for three different levels of frustration  No, but seriously, all-inclusive, I am looking forward to reading these 213 pages of densely packed science.
Teaser: dr. Jiazi Yi presenting NSx & LoRA – looking promising.
I guess my students are right….I'm old….


I'm not sure if I post this on the right place, but here's our very first Storymap, about a Frenchman suspected to be the Brussel's Jews Museum Killer. He spent more than a year travelling (Lebanon, Turkey, mostly Syria for the Jihad, then Malaysia, Singapore, Germany...). He's been arrested in Marseille, he's now in custody.
And thanks for this handy and beautiful tool.


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Moving Image Archive News
Information on Film Archiving, Preservation, Restoration, and Presentation
Australia's Oldest Film, Online and in the Vault
Late in October, 1896, Lumière cinematographer Marius Sestier took his newfangled movie camera out into central Melbourne to shoot what is now Australia's oldest, known, surviving film, Patineur Grotesque.
Performing for a gathering crowd, the bearded, cigar-puffing Humorous Rollerskater (as the film's title has been translated) stumbles about, struggling to keep his hat on his head, and then to retrieve it from the ground. Adding to the comic effect is that he sports a large, white, hand design on the seat of his trousers.
The brief footage – it is only one minute long, and apparently an excerpt from a longer piece of actuality footage – is now saved in a restored print at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, the Australian capital. It is online at the NFSA australianscreen website
In March, the Australian arts minister (and former Midnight Oil frontman) Peter Garrett announced the discovery of the key piece of the country's film history. The footage not only features some of the earliest images of Australia caught on film, "Patineur Grotesque also helps fill a missing link in global cinematic history, acknowledged as a forerunner to the work of two of cinema's earliest comedians, Charlie Chaplin and Max Linder," Garrett said.
A March screening at the NFSA marked the film's first-ever showing in Australia, because while Sestier's several other Australian films were a fixture of all his shows throughout Australia at the time, Patineur Grotesque was never on an Australian program. It was, however, screened across Europe and as far away as Mexico, and was one of the first films to broadcast images of Australia abroad.
Garrett provided some details about the restoration of the 1896 project. Patineur Grotesque, like 10 other Lumière films held in NFSA's collection, was shot on a rare 35mm film format which became obsolete in the early 1900s but, he said, "in a credit to their ingenuity, NFSA technicians built special tools and modified standard equipment to copy and preserve the film. Adapting film-copying equipment to run the unique Lumière format had never been done before in Australia, and has only been achieved a handful of times around the world."
NFSA curator Sally Jackson believes the film was made by Sestier between October 29 and 31, 1896, probably in central Melbourne at the current site of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, just before he filmed the 1896 Melbourne Cup. What is known is that the skating film premiered in Lyon, France, on February 28, 1897, but was never shown in Australian until it was presented at the National Film and Sound Archive in March, 2010.
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Fast error correction
Scientific papers on the novel coronavirus retracted due to misunderstandings and methodological flaws, most committed in good faith
Edited version of photo by Angela Deane-Drummond / Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
Fabrício Marques
Issue # 292
CommunicationEthicsPublic health
The Retraction Watch website, which runs a database of more than 20,000 scientific articles removed due to errors or misconduct, started tracking papers on COVID-19 that have been retracted after their results were challenged. The number of invalidated studies is small and almost all involve mistakes made in good faith, a result of over-eagerness to share results that could help in the fight against the epidemic. Of the more than 10,000 papers published on the disease by mid-May, only seven (0.07% of the total) contained errors or methodological issues that compromised their conclusions, leading to their retraction.
The list of retracted articles includes a manuscript published on the preprints repository medRxiv by Chinese and American researchers who examined the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China. The research was based on cases recorded in the country prior to January 26. Since the epidemic exploded in February, the authors requested withdrawal of the paper so that they could conduct a new analysis. This had repercussions on other studies that used their findings, one of which was a report published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases (Lancet ID) by Imperial College London, which projected the number of cases and deaths in a range of scenarios and helped many countries to devise strategies to combat the pandemic. The Imperial College group asked that the Lancet ID article be corrected, with the removal of data from the Chinese study, but noted that this did not change the forecasts.
One of the most talked-about cases involved a paper shared on bioRxiv in late January by researchers from the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences in New Delhi, India. The title itself stated that there appears to be an "uncanny similarity" between the novel coronavirus and HIV—the virus that causes AIDS. The manuscript only remained available for two days, but that was long enough to spark a number of conspiracy theories on social media. There was so much criticism of its methodology that the authors quickly removed the paper from the repository.
Reprint repositories were rebuked for instantly sharing scientific results, leaving the task of evaluating data consistency to readers. Retraction Watch editors Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus believe the criticism of preprints is overblown, noting that even scientific journals with strict and selective peer-review systems sometimes have to retract problematic articles. They point out that one of the benefits of preprint repositories is that they quickly identify problems in manuscripts and correct them. "When scientific journals publish bad or erroneous research, it can take months or years for the papers to be corrected or retracted—if they ever are," wrote the pair in an opinion piece on the Stat News website.
A group of French researchers requested the retraction of an article published in the Bulletin de la Dialyse à Domicile on April 13 that warned of the danger of contamination through contact with the peritoneal dialysis fluid of patients with COVID-19. The paper described a case study of a dialysis patient with symptoms of the novel coronavirus whose fluid tested positive for the virus. The findings were found to be entirely false because the patient did not have COVID-19. The eight authors attributed the blunder to an innocent mistake rather than negligence.
In one retracted article, however, there were signs of misconduct. On February 26, the Lancet Global Health announced the retraction of a letter describing the experiences of nurses fighting the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. "In addition to the physical exhaustion, we are also suffering psychologically," wrote the two authors: Yingchun Zeng, a nurse, and Yan Zhen, a specialist in traditional Chinese medicine. After publishing the letter, the journal was notified that the authors were not part of the task force mobilized to care for the sick in Wuhan. The pair later admitted that it was not a first-hand account.
The most unusual example is an article published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology on March 5 and retracted two days later. The paper addressed the existence of potential false positives when testing for COVID-19 in individuals who had close contact with the disease in China. The journal's editors did not explain the reasons for the retraction and it was not possible to analyze the original article, which disappeared from the internet. According to a report published in the journal Nature on April 15, retractions of articles about COVID-19 in China may be linked to government attempts to control the dissemination of research results on the disease. University representatives have reported that studies on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can only be published with permission from the ministries of education and science and technology. The Chinese journal Practical Preventive Medicine retracted a paper published in early March that suggested the SARS-CoV-2 virus could spread as far as 5 meters in aerosol particles—twice the distance generally considered safe by health officials. Again, there was no explanation of what was wrong.
The most recent removal was a preprint uploaded on May 11 by researchers at Raymond Poincaré University Hospital in Garches, France, which discussed the potential of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin therapy in reducing the number of people admitted to hospital with pneumonia caused by COVID-19. The paper was not conclusive—its title ended with a question mark—but the authors opted to remove it on May 20, citing the controversies about these drugs, which were found to be inefficient in other studies, and the need to review the data. The preprint had been praised on Twitter by French physician Didier Raoult, from the IHU Méditerranée Infection hospital and Aix-Marseille University, author of the first article to highlight the efficiency of the treatment, which sparked global interest. Raoult's work is now being investigated by Elsevier on suspicion of misconduct. There are indications that the study, published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents on March 20, began before being assessed by an ethics committee, and that its peer review was rushed. The paper was approved for publication just one day after being presented to the journal.

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The Retraction Watch website, which runs a database of more than 20,000 scientific articles removed due to errors or misconduct, started tracking papers on COVID-19 that have been retracted after their results were challenged. The number of invalidated studies is small and almost all involve mistakes made in good faith, a result of over-eagerness to share results that could help in the fight against the epidemic. Of the more than 10,000 papers published on the disease by mid-May, only seven (0.07% of the total) contained errors or methodological issues that compromised their conclusions, leading to their retraction. The list of retracted articles includes a manuscript published on the preprints repository medRxiv by Chinese and American researchers who examined the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China. The research was based on cases recorded in the country prior to January 26. Since the epidemic exploded in February, the authors requested withdrawal of the paper so that they could conduct a new analysis. This had repercussions on other studies that used their findings, one of which was a report published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases (Lancet ID) by Imperial College London, which projected the number of cases and deaths in a range of scenarios and helped many countries to devise strategies to combat the pandemic. The Imperial College group asked that the Lancet ID article be corrected, with the removal of data from the Chinese study, but noted that this did not change the forecasts. One of the most talked-about cases involved a paper shared on bioRxiv in late January by researchers from the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences in New Delhi, India. The title itself stated that there appears to be an "uncanny similarity" between the novel coronavirus and HIV—the virus that causes AIDS. The manuscript only remained available for two days, but that was long enough to spark a number of conspiracy theories on social media. There was so much criticism of its methodology that the authors quickly removed the paper from the repository. Reprint repositories were rebuked for instantly sharing scientific results, leaving the task of evaluating data consistency to readers. Retraction Watch editors Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus believe the criticism of preprints is overblown, noting that even scientific journals with strict and selective peer-review systems sometimes have to retract problematic articles. They point out that one of the benefits of preprint repositories is that they quickly identify problems in manuscripts and correct them. "When scientific journals publish bad or erroneous research, it can take months or years for the papers to be corrected or retracted—if they ever are," wrote the pair in an opinion piece on the Stat News website. A group of French researchers requested the retraction of an article published in the Bulletin de la Dialyse à Domicile on April 13 that warned of the danger of contamination through contact with the peritoneal dialysis fluid of patients with COVID-19. The paper described a case study of a dialysis patient with symptoms of the novel coronavirus whose fluid tested positive for the virus. The findings were found to be entirely false because the patient did not have COVID-19. The eight authors attributed the blunder to an innocent mistake rather than negligence. In one retracted article, however, there were signs of misconduct. On February 26, the Lancet Global Health announced the retraction of a letter describing the experiences of nurses fighting the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. "In addition to the physical exhaustion, we are also suffering psychologically," wrote the two authors: Yingchun Zeng, a nurse, and Yan Zhen, a specialist in traditional Chinese medicine. After publishing the letter, the journal was notified that the authors were not part of the task force mobilized to care for the sick in Wuhan. The pair later admitted that it was not a first-hand account. The most unusual example is an article published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology on March 5 and retracted two days later. The paper addressed the existence of potential false positives when testing for COVID-19 in individuals who had close contact with the disease in China. The journal's editors did not explain the reasons for the retraction and it was not possible to analyze the original article, which disappeared from the internet. According to a report published in the journal Nature on April 15, retractions of articles about COVID-19 in China may be linked to government attempts to control the dissemination of research results on the disease. University representatives have reported that studies on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can only be published with permission from the ministries of education and science and technology. The Chinese journal Practical Preventive Medicine retracted a paper published in early March that suggested the SARS-CoV-2 virus could spread as far as 5 meters in aerosol particles—twice the distance generally considered safe by health officials. Again, there was no explanation of what was wrong. The most recent removal was a preprint uploaded on May 11 by researchers at Raymond Poincaré University Hospital in Garches, France, which discussed the potential of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin therapy in reducing the number of people admitted to hospital with pneumonia caused by COVID-19. The paper was not conclusive—its title ended with a question mark—but the authors opted to remove it on May 20, citing the controversies about these drugs, which were found to be inefficient in other studies, and the need to review the data. The preprint had been praised on Twitter by French physician Didier Raoult, from the IHU Méditerranée Infection hospital and Aix-Marseille University, author of the first article to highlight the efficiency of the treatment, which sparked global interest. Raoult's work is now being investigated by Elsevier on suspicion of misconduct. There are indications that the study, published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents on March 20, began before being assessed by an ethics committee, and that its peer review was rushed. The paper was approved for publication just one day after being presented to the journal.


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Extensive documentation for all software and hardware components that are part of our solutions.
The technical support provided for Magister solutions are provided either direcly by our company or by one of the members of our network. We have implemented a call-center system for incoming notices and inquiries that is capable of handling 50 simultaneous calls. All notices made through the call center are registered in the CRM system and receive a ticket number. Our clients can know at any time the status of their notices thanks to e-mail notifications that are send whenever a change is made.
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All our Certified Partners are integrated in the same CRM system in order to have an accurate and complete perspective on response time and quality of delivered servces. Magister provides audio and video pro bono support for the whole network thus ensuring a fast and reliable transfer of know-how on a national level.
The main available support types are: Solution Service, Fiscal Assistance, and Help desk.
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The Kerry and Simone Vickar Family Foundation has committed $2 million to establish an endowed chair in their name at the Levine Cancer Institute, to support academic and clinical research in hematologic oncology and blood disorders, like myeloma.
The first endowed chair will be Edward Copelan, MD, who was head of the bone marrow transplant unit at the Cleveland Clinic before joining the Levine Cancer Institute in 2012.
Under his direction, a new blood and marrow transplant unit opened in 2014 at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C. At Levine, Copelan already is implementing new therapies and achieving some of the most successful outcomes in the nation, according to a press release.
"I am deeply grateful for Kerry and Simone Vickar's generosity and dedication to improving the lives of cancer patients in our region," Copelan said . "Their commitment will prove instrumental in advancing our translational research efforts; improving the effectiveness of blood and marrow transplantation; and launching clinical trials designed to enhance treatment and diagnosis of blood cancers," he said.
Kerry Vickar, founder of his namesake foundation, was born in Canada and moved to Charlotte in 1991, as an executive with a packaging business. Today, Kerry is the chairman and chief executive officer of May Heavy Equipment, a heavy equipment dealer in the Carolinas.
"With private philanthropic support, these researchers are given the academic and scientific freedom to pursue ideas that can move medical science forward and lead to novel therapies," added Raghavan, emphasizing the importance of this initiative in attracting bright minds in medical research.
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Training starts with an idea. Make sure that idea is correct.
More and more of the newer science seems to fly in the face of conventional wisdom.
This trend brings into question everything that we know—and more importantly, everything that we think we know.
Sitting in the armchair, this isn't a problem. If we theorize about the differences between barefoot and shod running, and never actually go out for a run, never actually pushing the system to observe its behaviors, theory seems like a great idea. It seems like all we need to do.
But we don't do theory for its own sake. The point of theory is for it to help us in practice. So we go out and run, and if our mental model—our suppositions, assumptions, beliefs, and beliefs about our knowledge—is different from how the world actually works, the discrepancies between that mental model and the real world will begin to show up as pain on our knees.
One of the reasons I love running is because out on the road, mental models accelerate towards the ground at 32.2 ft/s2. The collision between our mental model and the ground is as close to truth as we lay athletes are ever going to get.
Writing this was brought on when I read a post by The Gait Guys, talking about achilles tendonitis, and possible solutions to it. Conventional wisdom would suggest that the way to reduce achilles tendonitis is by shortening the achilles tendon, a.k.a. raising the heel on the shoe.
Why? Simple. If you raise the heel of a shoe, you loosen the achilles, so it's not carrying the weight of the body anymore. By all counts, that should do the trick.
But that's the problem. This solution was thought up in the armchair, and never tested in practice. Theoretically, it should work. But that's because a theory is a mental model: a self-contained little idea of the world. Given the rules of that model, raising the heel is an excellent solution. Now, all that has to happen is for that model to coincide with the realities of the body.
The body isn't just a series of simple machines put together. It is a complex entity, built from stacks and stacks of systems, each doing a different job. And the job of one of those systems is to regulate impact force by using touch receptors.
Because that subsystem—the central nervous system—is also at play, the behaviors of the body/system will be "unpredictable." But it's only unpredictable because the theoretical model doesn't account for that subsystem.
When we account for this system, its actual behavior seems a lot more reasonable: in order to maintain tension on the achilles, the body raises the foot as the leg approaches the ground. However, this means that the leg can accelerate for a longer period of time, making the initial contact forces that much more powerful.
We need to understand the systems we're playing with.
We need to go out and test them, and get a feel for their behavior. The phrase "push the envelope" comes from test pilots: every one of those pilots climbed into the cockpit fully aware of the mathematical model that predicted the flight capabilities of the airplane—also called the "flight envelope." Pushing the envelope literally means taking the plane into unpredicted territory—literally pushing the aircraft beyond what the mathematical predictions say that it can take.
Dangerous? Yes. Necessary? Absolutely. The reason flying such a safe mode of transportation these days is because a few brave and knowledgeable people understood that there is a big discrepancy between the armchair and the road—between the predictive model and the actual system.
Let's take these lessons and put them into our running. Let's push our own running envelopes to see what sorts of behaviors our body exhibits—and then modify our training and adapt accordingly.
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TeleBärn ist ein konzessionierter regionaler Privatfernsehsender in der Schweiz. Inhaber von TeleBärn ist CH Media.

Zum Sendegebiet gehören die Kantone Bern, Solothurn und (Deutsch-)Freiburg. Zu empfangen ist TeleBärn über Kabel, über verschiedene digitale Angebote (SwisscomTV, SunriseTV etc.) und als Live-Stream. TeleBärn ist nach TeleZüri das grösste Schweizer Regionalfernsehen.

CH Media erbringt Technik-, Produktions-, Vermarktungs- und Management-Leistungen für TeleBärn. Chefredaktor von TeleBärn ist ab 1. Dezember 2019 Markus von Känel. Chefredaktor der TV-Senderfamilie (TeleBärn, TeleZüri, Tele M1, tvo und Tele 1) ist Oliver Steffen.

Allgemeines
Das Unternehmen besteht seit März 1995. Das Jahresbudget beträgt rund 7,5 Millionen Franken. Der Sender hatte im 1. Semester 2018 in seinem Konzessionsgebiet (Personen 3+ mit Gästen) eine Tagesreichweite von rund 83'800 Personen (oder 6,8 % des Potenzials von 1,218 Millionen Personen), in der Deutschschweiz von 146'400 Personen (oder 2,8 % des Potenzials von 5'186 Millionen Personen) und ist damit einer der führenden Schweizer Regionalsender. Der Sender ist in Bern am Dammweg 3 untergebracht.

Geschichte
Das Unternehmen wurde am 1. März 1995 durch die damalige Berner Tagblatt Medien AG (später Espace Media Groupe) lanciert. Als erste Sendung gingen um 19 Uhr die RegioNews über den Sender.

Im Jahr 2007 ging die Aktienmehrheit der Espace Media Groupe und damit auch von TeleBärn an das Zürcher Verlagshaus Tamedia über. Nachdem Tamedia 2011 beschlossen hatte, sich von den elektronischen Medien zu trennen, übernahm das in Aarau domizilierte Medienhaus AZ Medien den Sender auf den 1. Januar 2012. Unter dem Dach der AZ Medien bildete TeleBärn zusammen mit den Sendern TeleZüri und Tele M1 eine eigentliche Senderfamilie. Am 1. Oktober 2018 wurden die AZ Medien mit der NZZ-Mediengruppe zu CH Media zusammengeführt.

Seit dem 3. August 2022 ist das Newsportal BärnToday online, das mit TeleBärn und Radio Bern 1 in eine trimediale Redaktion eingegliedert ist.

Programm
Nach einem wechselnden Nachmittags- und Vorabendprogramm (14.00–18.00 Uhr) beginnt das eigentliche Hauptprogramm von TeleBärn um 18.00 Uhr. Die Programmstunde 18.00–19.00 Uhr wird nach der Erstausstrahlung stündlich wiederholt, wobei die regionalen Nachrichten bei entsprechender Newslage bis in die Nacht hinein aktualisiert werden. Um den Bezug zur Region zu unterstützen, werden die Sendungen in Mundart moderiert.
Kern des Programms ist die regionale Nachrichtensendung News. Jeden Tag produzieren die Videojournalisten des Senders rund eine Viertelstunde News. Schwerpunkt bilden aktuelle Geschichten aus den Kantonen Bern und Solothurn. Bei grossen Ereignissen behandelt der Sender auch nationale oder internationale Themen. Die tagesaktuelle Berichterstattung aus der Region wird – im Anschluss an die News – durch die Sendung Fokus (das regionale Tagesgespräch) und die regionale Wetter-Show abgerundet. Am Montag gibt es statt Fokus seit 2012 das Gesundheitsmagazin Check-up zu sehen. In der zweiten Programmhalbstunde folgen verschiedene aktuelle Talk- und Unterhaltungssendungen.

Bei den Berner Stadtrats- und Gemeinderatswahlen sendet TeleBärn den ganzen Nachmittag live aus dem Berner Ratshaus.

Sendungen
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 Check-up (Mo, 18.15 Uhr): Gesundheitsmagazin
 Geld (Fr, 19.15 Uhr): Wirtschaftsmagazin
 TalkTäglich (Mo–Mi, 18.30 Uhr): Aktuelle Talkshow
 Tierisch (Do, 18.30 Uhr): Sendung für Tierliebhaber, Tiervermittlung
 Lifestyle (Fr, 18.30 Uhr): Trendmagazin
 SwissDinner (Sa, 18.25 Uhr): Unterhaltungs-Kochsendung
 Visite (Sa, 18.50 Uhr): zu Besuch bei Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauern
 SonnTalk (So, 18.25 Uhr): Gesprächsrunde zu den Themen der Woche

Weitere Sendungen im Nachmittags- und Vorabendprogramm u. a. Sara macht's, homegateTV, praxis-gsundheit, GlobeTV u. a.

Bei grossen Skirennen wie zum Lauberhornrennen wird die Sendung «Ski extra» ausgestrahlt.

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December 12, 2014 / 2:31 AM / 5 years ago
Convicted money manager to stars avoids repeat trip to U.S. prison
Nate Raymond
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former money manager to Hollywood stars who served prison time for operating a $10 million investment fraud avoided another trip to the slammer Thursday, even as a Manhattan federal judge said she was "deeply troubled" by his latest crime.
Financial advisor Dana Giacchetto (L) exits the Manhattan Federal Court house in New York December 11, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Dana Giacchetto, a former investment advisor to A-listers such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz, was sentenced to two years probation, including four months home confinement for using a stolen credit card to spend more than $9,000.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan said she nearly decided to not give the non-prison sentence as prosecutors pushed for up to seven months for his latest, although smaller, financial crime.
"I'm deeply troubled by this kind of crime with this kind of history," she said.
Giacchetto, 52, pleaded guilty to fraud in 2000 for taking money from accounts of non-celebrity clients to finance a high-flying lifestyle and give extraordinary returns or mask losses to star clients.
He was sentenced in February 2001 to 4-3/4 years in prison, although he was released early in July 2003, records show.
In the latest case, brought in February, prosecutors said Giacchetto used a stolen American Express card number over two months in 2013 on airline services, liquor and food delivery and dentistry, among other things.
Ronald Fischetti, his lawyer, said the credit card had belonged to an investor in a Las Vegas play called "Stripped." During a hearing Thursday, he pushed for a light sentence given the small size of the amounts at issue.
Megan Gaffney, a prosecutor, called that argument "bizarre."
"These two offenses, while not similar in scale, are similar in character," she said.
Giacchetto, dressed in jeans and a blue t-shirt, said he was "very troubled being in front of you your honor," and said he regretted what he did.
"I don't want to go to jail again," he said.
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Who is the greenest of them all?
By johnredwood | Published: May 2, 2013
The BBC has had much sport displaying and increasing the splits in the Eurosceptic vote between UKIP and the Conservatives. There are always UKIP people and even some Conservatives who will play along with this BBC agenda.
The BBC have spent an equal amount of energy ensuring the real splits between the Greens and the Lib Dems are not brought to light, though the Lib Dems are defending the second largest number of Council seats and the Greens have a better track record at winning seats than UKIP, including one in Parliament.
I realise the BBC is never going to represent the majority of people who value the flexibility of their car for work and pleasure, and resent the strident anti motorist stance of the ultra greens. I understand the BBC will not stand up for Granny when she complains that green energy is too dear for her to keep warm -or they will run a piece demanding more public subsidy. BBC journalists as a whole just do not understand how most of us feel, that we like belonging to the modern world, so we can use some of the great technolgy it offers, and need cheaper energy to enjoy it to the full.
I would like the BBC to even up their coverage of other parties by submitting the Greens and their more mainstream Lib Dem big brothers and sisters to some scrutiny for their policies of hounding the motorist and pricing people out of the energy market. They could seek to answer the important question "Are the Greens truly much greener than the Lib Dems?" Which of these two green parties has the best way of torturing motorists to get them off the roads? Who has the most devilish plans to drive energy prices higher to control its use?
The journalists should press until one or other says "Let them all walk". Will one of them tell Granny that energy prices on their watch do need to rise until she either wears extra woollies or shivers at home? That would make as entertaining box office as the Eurosceptic scraps we have been hearing.
If only it were the green type policies which the BBC supported.
It seems to me they are selective on almost any topic now, so much so that they appear to be an organisation which is completely socialist in thought and deed, apart from when salaries come into question.
Then they simply must compete with private industry for the so called best people, even though there are no shareholders to satisfy, no profits to make, and they have a legal captive and fully paid up customer base.
The BBC will win or lose a general election for any Party.
Look at the support Brown got last time around.
So called investment, investment, investment, instead of borrow, borrow, borrow, debt, debt, debt, waste, waste, waste.
Mark W
Minor correction. Socialists have always supported high pay and perks for themselves behind closed doors.
Indeed and top pay and pensions, at the BBC, are about 3 times the market rate.
"Socialists have always supported high pay and perks for themselves behind closed doors"
True enough !
Bazman
That will be banking and other insider companies subsidised by the taxpayer then? You have got to laugh at how market trust failed and how fast it had to be restored. Ram it.
The problem that you fail to grasp with the left is that they are so certain that they are right and so self righteous with it. So the behind closed doors greed of socialists in power is far worse than that of bankers (whose taxes financed browns boom).
The certainty of being right, a character floor of the left, is that nearly every time they get close to absolute power anywhere in the world then murdering the opposition and dissenters follows. Capitalists just don't do that.
Give the way that certain right wing people ignore everything that doesn't conform to their ideology it seems that capitalists are also so certain that they are right and quite self-righteous with it. Especially when they pay themselves a large salary regardless of their company's economic performance.
Well what in fact you have is communism for the rich. Socialising losses and privatising profits often making the profits from the backs of the whole population who have little choice but to pay and the poorest having to pay the most. Often the right wing governments are murdering the poor by poverty and the burden of the market fantasy that they do not have to face. A small elite in many rich countries and a massive poor underclass which due in many countries Britain included is growing expanding the economy will not help them either. If you think that making society more equal as closing the massive wealth gap by bringing up the poor you are another free market fantasist. Ram it.
Yes Baz, I see your fantasy of communism for the rich elite played out in Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Honk Kong, Singapore, etc etc etc
Such poverty,such decline.
Posted May 4, 2013 at 12:57 pm | Permalink
As I said communism for the rich. The Soviet Union was always proud of the amount of calories the population had avalible and so should we judging by the amount of overweight people all also have cars, fridges air con and computers. What poverty comrade? You are right.
I have little doubt that if the BBC didn't try to attract the best people you would demand that they should be shut down because they lack well know actors, presenters, and journalists.
Who exactly did the BBC support in the last general election? Also does this mean the BBC supported Thatcher when she was Prime Minister?
Indeed but no chance. What is amusing is how most of the solution proposed, by the greens or Libdems, do not actually work to reduce c02 in real terms (bikes, electric cars and walking are good examples). Even if you accept their silly catastrophic climate modeling. Steak, chips and claret are very inefficient fuels. Electric cars save no energy, on balance – power station to vehicle motion. With current technology they are far too much of a compromise for most people and far too expensive and often very dangerous. Why on earth are tax payers paying grants for them?
Not that there is anything much wrong with extra woollies, hot water bottles and an electric blanket for granny.
I see no one is buying the Nissan Leaf, this despite all the mad grants and hugely biased fuel tax system.
Also I read today that the electric car manufacturer Coda has filed for bankruptcy.
Chris Manuell
Lifelogic : The reason they are giving grants to enable the buying of Electric cars is the hope that lots of people will have them plugged in so that the electricity generators will be able to draw back power from their batteries when the wind drops and the wind turbines don't produce any power, the idea is that they can avoid power cuts cheaply.
Quite what the owners of the cars will think when they go out to get in their car and find the battery not as full as they would like, is another matter.
That is why they are wanting us to have smart meters, so they can control how much energy we can have, while charging us double for what we do have.
What is amusing is how most of the solution proposed, by the greens or Libdems, do not actually work to reduce c02 in real terms (bikes, electric cars and walking are good examples).
Your claims are getting more and more farcical. Walking, cycling, and electric cars all produce significantly less CO2 than cars. No one produces over 400g of CO2 for every kilometre they walk.
Even if you accept their silly catastrophic climate modeling.
Which has been prove to be correct by scientific studies.
Steak, chips and claret are very inefficient fuels.
Petrol and diesel aren't more efficient and produce more CO2.
Electric cars save no energy, on balance – power station to vehicle motion.
If the method of power generation produce less CO2 per kilometre that the car can travel than petrol then, on balance, electric cars do reduce CO2 emissions.
Electric cars? I'm guessing the production and disposal of batteries is not part of your calculation?
I doubt that the production and disposal of batteries produces much more CO2 than the production and disposal of petrol engines.
Uni,
Many studies have shown that these electric and hybrid vehicles whilst clean and fuel efficient in terms of CO2 as they travel along are not green on a wholelife basis, due to the environmental costs of making the vehicle's more complex components and especially the costs in environmental terms of making the limited life batteries.
One error there. Climate modelling has NOT proven to be correct by scientific studies. The forecasts made by eg James Hansen in 1988 and by the IPCC in 1990 have proven to be incorrect.
Posted May 3, 2013 at 11:05 am | Permalink
Indeed Richard1, the original reports from the IPCC predicted runaway increases in global temperatures after 2000 and the opposite has happened.
Many of the outlandish claims made in Al Gore's film, (which was scandalously force fed to our primary school pupils) have also stubbornly failed to come true.
EG Still able to book holidays on islands that are now meant to be under water and ski in winter in places that are now meant to have no snow and ice.
Decades ago the warmists told us to look at the figures well I am right now, and they quite simply do not confirm the dire predictions made at that time.
What relevance does your point about climate modelling have regarding whether climate change is occurring or not?
Scientific studies have shown that the average global temperature is still rising and just because it isn't rising as fast as some predictions doesn't change the fact that it is still rising.
The main point is that still no one from the warmist side will admit that the computer models all these dire predictions were based on, are now proving to be wrong and that they should urgently reassess their raw data that made these models and run their predictions again in the light of what is actually happening today.
There have been no rises since 2000 that can be called statistically significant on a scientific basis which is g=huge statistical variance to the predictions..
We are in the realms of small decimal points of one degree Celsius readings averaged out over the whole of the planet.
Hardly catastrophic warming or is that a non PC word "catastrophic" now its all climate change.
I notice other points made were not addressed.
We go round in circles on this. There is no disagreement that CO2 is a greenhouse gas & that, absent any amplifying 'feedbacks', a doubling of atmospheric CO2 gives c. 1C rise in temperature. There are many scientists and other experts who believe feedbacks are in fact neutral or negative, therefore we do not face dangerous global warming, therefore we should not be turning the world economy upside down to prevent a nonexistent threat. I don't suppose either you or I are qualified to have an independent view. But the evidence from what has actually happened to the climate in recent decades supports the sceptical, not the alarmist case.
Bile… Cough!
….Still there… Dreadful.
Oh that bile problem, its what happens to you if you are a bitter old socialist Baz!
Lifedodgic do you seriously think that saying chip claret and steak is less efficient than diesil is a valid point? What you are saying is that if you powered a car on Beluga Caviare it would be expensive to run. How old are you? Ten?
I was beginning to feel alone with the view that the BBC were ramping up coverage of UKIP to create a split on the right.
And apart from a solo outing on QT the greens have been buried on Andrew Neil's daily politics, which is about as neutral as the BBC gets but hidden away on a midday slot. I don't believe I will ever see a Green/LibDem get a Paxman vs Howard style grilling over their drive to take us back to the Stone Age.
At present I find the greens an amusing joke and consider their Brighton seat the result of the candidates charm and a 4 way marginal in a student area. But the idea of them holding any influence would be terrifying. The LibDems have ruined this government and are most likely to be the one party that has the best odds of being in the next government too. Although they'd show more of their vicious side if in coalition with Labour.
What the BBC don't highlight is that the combined 'right' support is large and thus there is little appetite for the social democratic policies that go back to the mid 90s. Cameron should spot this too.
A recent case, on his blog, was taken by Peter Hitchens on the bias of the BBC. It failed as I imagine Hitchens knew it would, but how others view it is rather more interesting.
As an additional comment. On DP the green leader said they wish to help small business. After I'd stopped laughing it crossed my mind that Dracula would claim the same wish to help young virgins to walk the streets at night.
The thought that crossed my mind is that I have never ever met anybody describing himself as a Green whereas at least in the Essex village in which I live (admittedly close to Simon Heffer whom I admire but don't know) be assured it is like falling off a log finding UKIP supporters–who would vote in droves once the admitted FPTP barrier gets overcome somehow.
margaret brandreth-j
I have been bled dry several times now and have become a clingon to the small things I have, which is why I am still single. You never know I may have a doppleganger at work again , or someone signing my name which I have tried to make as complicated as possible by reverting to my christian name. Bye the way .I have been told that using the terminology christian name is not politically incorrect. Is this true?
Francis Irving
In terms of motivation, the Greens want cheap energy – they are concerned that increased international demand and increased extraction costs are making fossil fuels unaffordable.
There is a transition cost to other systems – a capital investment. Then solar in particular is much cheaper.
I am all in favour of investment in R&D on solar power, battery systems and indeed on other fuels storage systems and engines. But they are actually installing wind farms, PV house bling and encouraging people with large subsidies to buy wind and electric cars before they have sorted the technology and made it economic.
Giving a government grant and perverse tax incentives to encourage people to buy technology before it is working properly is mad. It just mis-allocates funding, resources and wastes billions.
R&D investment get it working then role it out. Rolling it out before it works or is economic is bonkers. The investment needed is just R&D not production and installation yet.
Statements by the PM and Greg Barker make it clear that DECC are going along with the idea that, if we all had electric cars, the electricity available from wind would match the total battery capacity. Even if 5 Dinorwic hydro storage stations were built it would not match the fluctuating power. Greg barker said that the new power network was being put in so that we can charge our cars when we need to. It seems that the opposite is true. We already have connections to where cars are kept. The changes are to make us use wind energy in cars, as otherwise there is nowhere else to store it. Perhaps it would be cheaper to give everyone £5k to put a battery in the shed.
Problem is like fusion does not work, is a fantasy and is unviable.
Are they in favour of allowing the market to decide which are the fuels to utilise to provide us with the cheapest energy? Yes or No?
Depends over what time period you're talking about. Certain fossil fuels may become very expensive by the end of this century as they become more scarce.
Fossil fuels will never run out that is not the problem.
Francis ,
Are you sure the Greens want cheap energy ?
Seems to me that some of the Greens and the UK establishment elites want population control rather than engineering solutions which would deliver cheap energy or available energy .
The hypothesis that "increased international demand and increased extraction costs are making fossil fuels unaffordable. " might hold true if oil was subject to market pricing rather than set by a cartel and gas prices were not linked to oil .
The cost of production is only part of the cost of a barrel of oil . The House of Saud maintains security in the Middle East and in aggregate will exceed the lifting costs of the oil from Saudi .
Greens would prefer it if energy didn't exist.
ChrisXP
Prime example of butchering roads to favour cyclists has happened just a few miles from my home. A long, straight 50mile-per-hour road in a rural setting has had its width slashed in order to provide a cycle-path. At the same time, the speed limit has been cut to 30mph. Every time I drive along it, the cyclepath is empty. A proposal for several hundred houses is also in the offing, just partway along that same road….so soon there will be a lot more cars all squeezing along a narrowed road.
I am not against people cycling anywhere, but the assumption that we must ALL go everywhere by bike (including the elderly) is lunacy. Sometimes it just isn't practical, especially when carrying goods. There seem to be a number of agendas aimed at restricting people's movements, pushing them to live in large towns or cities and bullying them out of their cars. The daft thing is, if everyone gave up their cars and went on bikes, the tax take from fuel duty would drop like a rock, and governments would then be taxing bicycles. The whole thing just goes round and round in ridiculous circles….presumably us peasants must give up our cars to make more room for the ultra-wealthy and their Rollers?
The Greens are basically anti-capitalists using the green theme as a vehicle to drive their Marxist ideology. They would re-nationalise the energy industry.
Given that the current problems with the energy industry is that there won't be enough power because the private companies didn't build any replacements for the power plants that are being closed would you mind explaining why renationalisation would be a bad thing? Don't forget that the Government is having to give EDF a large amount of subsidies to build a new nuclear power plant.
I used to work for the CEGB, there was nothing wrong with it except we used to gold plate everything in the interest of system security and "keeping the lights on". We had forty year forward plans and kit that would last even longer. Every where you went you would trip over apprentices and honours graduates in engineering.
We did more research and had more experts than the companies that supplied us with the kit. The bit that slowed us down was, like the rest of the public sector, nationalised trade unions that had their own political agenda and infiltrated large public sector industries for a vehicle to fulfil them.
The current electric oligopoly (supplier companies are maintaining pricing power in the market), depends on the government for a long term plan.
I rarely recognise the partial BBC that complainants on this site report.
Harriet Harman had a torrid time on Today yesterday and her discomfort was reported repeatedly on the news.
Politicians of all colours are routinely prodded and probed for weakness and lack of knowlege. That Conservative more regularly feel uncomfortable may be that their communication skills are not up to scratch or they are not fully in control of their brief. Mr Gove swats away the brickbats, Mr Osborne too for all his failings as a Chancellor for the middle income earners usually comes out on top. The two Eds however regularly appear to be making it up as they go along and resort to soundbite.
Green soundbite sounds persuasive and is repeated mantra style. If you disagree counter with your own pithy statements and repetition. Your speeches in the house are noteworthy (your put down of Ms Lucas marvellous) but that point does not reach the masses and how many within the House have you converted?
It takes a thief to catch a thief. In this world of short attention spans and headlines the available weapons have changed.
For some the word "green" is a euphemism for "hair shirt". The fact that so-called green policies are inefficient is, for them, beside the point. What they want is an excuse to ration or, even better, shut down consumption of those goods and services which they deem we are unworthy to enjoy. Fossil fuels are the most obvious example. Some want a reintroduction of ration books because we consume and waste too much food. The aim is to foster a sense of guilt. On the BBC Woman`s Hour I once heard by chance (I was about to make myself a cup of coffee) commentators earnestly discussing and advocating that we should resort to eating grubs and insects. to supplement our diets. The Australian Aborigines were held up as an exemplar. In my opinion there is a campaign under way, aided and abetted by the BBC to promote this extension of the green movement. Recent FRS elections (eg of Professor Ehrlich) are, I believe also significant in the promotion of this latest catastrophe agenda.
Where would be the balance? You would have three groups – Greens, LibDems and BBC, all spouting the same guff.
Steven Granger
You talk as if your own party has no responsibility at all for any of this green nonsene. Those "devilish plans to drive energy prices higher to control its use" are supported by your own party. Osborne has just introduced the carbon tax that will make things even worse. The climate change act was passed almost unanimously and you didn't have the guts to vote against it despite claiming here to oppose it. Much more is planned by our masters in Brussels and this is supported by your party. Did not Cameron recently instruct his MEPs to support the plans to "backload" carbon emissions licences to artifically inflate the Carbon price? (Thankfully, most of them did not oblige). You talk a good game on this website but your actions (and those of the party that you support and remain a member of) show you to be a bunch of hypocrites.
This is a good point. Greens, whenever they are interviewed on the BBC, get a strikingly easy ride given how absurd their policies are. We must encourage true egalitarians to vote Green, as they do have the most anti-capitalist agenda, in order to get more of a split on the left.
By contrast, if I was a eurofederalist social democrat I would vote UKIP in Conservative seats in the General Election, this being the best way to prevent a Conservative victory and so prevent any renegotiation or any In-Out referendum.
The license fee is a tax to fund a State Corporation. It totals around £2.5 billion pounds each year. What is a State Corporation doing making programmes for entertainment? What is a State Corporation doing creating a vast website which they once said they wanted to be the biggest in the world? What is a State Corporation doing broadcasting sport? What is State Corporation doing choosing the news and current affairs issues that we should see?
The bias and partility of the BBC cannot be denied or hidden, indeed the Corporation acknowledges it. And it sets the news agenda in Britain.
It is beyond internal reform, it must be broken up. The entertainment and sport should be sold off or dissolved where they have no value.
The news and current affairs should be given to each of the nations, they can then decide how they are to be funded.
Indeed, over climate science we have the scandal known as "28gate"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100189491/28-gates-later-the-bbcs-nightmare-gets-worse-and-worse/
Why on earth don't you take your revenge on the BBC and SLASH the licence fee?
The fact that THREE AND A HALF THOUSAND, MILLION POUNDS is taken from us ( on pain of IMPRISONMENT! when did the state become so overbearing?! to be given to a left wing organisation full of champagne socialists on truly fantastic salaries and pensions that those of us in the private sector can only salivate at – is quite unbelievable.
When New Labour were in power the BBC openly derided conservatives – I remember Michael Howard being interviewed on the Today program before the 2005 election and he was shouted down and belittled by the interviewers. It was quite surreal.
I always assumed if ever the Tories got in again they would exact their revenge. But, no, you continue this foul monopoly and extortion.
What bothers me most about BBC bias, is that so many people can't see through it.
I can watch a Labour politician spouting nonsense, and thinking consciously to myself, 'but they would say that, wouldn't they', so I know to pick holes in it. With the BBC, they are supposed to be neutral, so a lot of people believe what they say, and haven't the capacity or the presence of mind to question what they hear.
That, in my experience, is the way of the socialist. I keep hearing a completely different account these days emanating from Labour politicians of the financial crash under the last Labour government. Yet apart from some very straight BBC journalists, it appears not to be challenged. And Europe just takes the biscuit. I cannot rely upon anything the BBC says about the disaster zone that is the EU. The same highly-paid journalists who assured us not so long ago, that the crisis in the EU was over. Really, when was that then?
This has to change, but can we look forward to the necessary changes under pro-EU people like Patten?
The BBC produces some quality programmes, but the rest is tainted by liberal socialism that massages the information to suit themselves, and I resent having to pay for it, like it or not, just as I would if I had to pay the Labour party levy on trade union subscriptions, or even pay for a Labour party political broadcast.
Lamentably, there is no proper and effective mechanism to hold them to account and change it, so I come back to the parallel with socialism. That rules by decree, and puts down descent. I venture that anyone who wanted to change the BBC from within, would find it very difficult to do, an impediment to their advancement, if not an end to their BBC career altogether.
Is a little balance and enlightenment too much to ask for the compulsory payment we give them?
Just hours after posting this, the BBC came out and said there was 'bullying' by 'untouchable' people, which threatened the careers of those who complained or showed dissent. You heard it here first folks, or at least you would have done had my post appeared earlier.
The BBC would love to see a permanent split on the "right" so that the UK would have a permanent lefty government. Hence their encouragement of ukip.
Ah! There's the answer from the paranoid fantasists as to why the BBC is reporting UKIP gains. What would be the fantasy if they did not report UKIP gains?
But they are suddenly giving UKIP greatly increased air time Baz, its no fantasy. We see more of dear Nigel than the PM.
You don't have to be a conspiracy theorists to work out that UKIP are splitting the vote of the Conservatives and this will result in an easy Labour victory at the next election which is what most BBC staff would like.
Why are the rest of the news channels doing the same? It's a story and had they ignored this story the conspiracy theorists would behave been vindicated. You are trying to create intrigue where there is none.
It could be worth researching how green the BBC is.
For example, how much energy do their shiny new trendy buildings consume? What is the lifespan of these buildings compared to the energy and material required in their construction? How much fuel is used by BBC employees getting to and from work? What proportion of food is thrown out from the subsidised canteens? How many tons of paper is consumed? How often are computers replaced? Are green/recycling solutions used for sewage processing?
Whilst it is fashionable to attack the BBC and I hold no brief for them, I find very little difference between any of the media outlets. News reporting these days is news from press releases: "The BBC/ITV/Sky News etc, has learned that XYZ….."
In fact they have learned nothing, they have all been given the same press release and if you switch from news outlet to news outlet, the news agenda and commentary is almost identical.
While agreeing about the institutional Guardian-bias in the BBC I can't see the point of them highlighting differences between a couple of small parties like the Greens and LibDems. It makes sense for them to give more coverage to what the Conservatives are saying and it is hardly their fault when Ken Clarke is sent out with the express intention of insulting UKIP in the media.
behindthefrogs
It also seems to me that this blog is very muh biased towards your own views.
I will agree that the "green" spend and Tax is often misplaced but surely the criticism should be concentrated on this fact. A lot more of the green spend should be directed at improving the technology. This would also have the advantage of improving the UKs position in manufacturing and selling products to the rest of the world.
BBC takes over 500 million pounds from the welfare budget to cover Licence Fees for people aged 75 and above.
Why doesn't the government change the rules so that the over 75s are exempted from the requirement to have a TV Licence?
That will save the welfare budget 500 million pounds, and the BBC can learn to be more thrifty with tax payers money.
When a UKIP government is formed energy policy should be its second order of business. First will be the total transformation of the BBC. Journalists having even less spine than a spiv politician will always betray each other when seeking their individual main-chance. The very concept that some individuals will not is anathema. That is why so FEW are needed to enact a reckoning, & of course why it seems impossible to locate England's next leader; one Churchill or Thatcher slays a thousand dragons. I think of the Hebrides in the early 90's: most turned down the heat due to penury via Sheik. Now it's tax (for the Earth!) for "green" (a sham: actually NHS folly & tins for Yobs). What a fiddle! The young ones actually BELIEVE this racket; think the lads at Rourkes Drift would buy this laugher! Today we are so much more STUPID!
I believe the Greens/Lib Dems should be questioned closely about the commitments from the EU with regard to climate change, and in particular the launch of the new strategy in April on adaptation to climate change. I quote from Richard North's excellent blog:
http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=83853 (Links to all EU docs are in the original article).
"Climate change: the EU juggernaut rolls on"
"…Completely oblivious to the real world, the "colleagues" in Brussels today have launched their strategy on adaptation to climate change, complete with an address from Connie Hedegaard, the commissioner for "climate action".
This is on the back of COM(2013) 216 final, the strategy document which was published on 16 April, and today's monster report from the the European Environmental Agency (EEA), plus no less than nine Commission staff working documents, such as this one, and this, where the detail is buried.
No one outside the loop is going to read but a fraction of the hundreds of pages – life is too short. But the problem for us all is that climate change adaptation is now to take a central part in all EU policy-making, as we see here, in a report which outlines the principles and recommendations for integrating climate change adaptation considerations under the 2014-2020 rural development programmes.
That adaptation is now a key policy driver is indicated in the foreword to the EEA report, written by professor Jacqueline McGlade, executive director of Agency. Adaptation, she writes, is not simply about doing more, "it is about new ways of thinking and dealing with risk and hazards, uncertainty and complexity".
And in a clue to the mindset, we find McGlade telling us that climate adaptation requires precautionary "science" and approaches, with an emphasis on "probability and multiple reactive thresholds", rather than a reliance on the statistics of the past. There is also scope, we are told, "for increased complementarity between adaptation and mitigation actions". (End quote)
My questions to the Greens/Lib Dems and Conservatives supporting the EU policy (in addition to those already asked about shortage of energy supplies, affordability, suffering felt by consumers, both private and business):
Do they really understand the complexities of what has been proposed and have they closely scrutinised it?
Do they condone the use of this mind numbing jargon, such as that by McGlade above, and do they actually understand it? How can that be translated into a meaningful message for the public, or is their understanding not relevant?
What account has been taken when formulating this strategy of up to date findings by various climate scientists (including the recent Russian scientists' study) that the earth seems to be cooling and possibly heading for a major cooling period?
It is hardly the fault of the Greens/Lib Dems that their critics couldn't be bothered to read the reports on Climate Change. Also the fact you don't understand this report doesn't mean it is full of "mind numbing jargon".
The Greens/Lib Dems also aren't under any obligation to explain these reports to anyone.
If you have peer reviewed scientific evidence that the earth is cooling why don't you send it to professor McGlade so it can be included in this report.
Germany is finally waking up.
'Once believed to hold the key to future jobs and prosperity, renewable energies in Germany are now emerging as a complete flop and a national embarrassment … ' reports the NoTricksZone (climate news from Germany) website.
'Expensive green subsidies are useless' says today's edition of Die Welt, going on to add,
'The German solar industry is dissolving faster than you can even see. One third of all companies disappeared from the market within one year. Solar power subsidies of more than 100 billion euros [$130 billion] over 20 years have led to only a mere flash in the pan. According to the official numbers, today there are barely 6000 employees in the German solar cell and module production.'
As the Department for Transport continue to be institutionally anti-motorist and pro rail, as evidenced by their actions, and the Conservatives Party are the majority party in government, it could be argued that currently it is the Conservatives that "has the best way of torturing motorists to get them off the roads". After all, is it not Ministers who decide!
Well John if you want the BBC to show more concern about the plight of people how about they investigate how the benefit cuts are driving people deeper into poverty. I'm sure there's plenty of people at food banks who would love the chance to explain how the Conservatives' austerity is harming them.
Alternatively they could provide a report on how the Prime Minister's wife and father in law owns shares in a company that will benefit from the Government's plans to construct 1,000 houses on an area of greenfield land in Lincolnshire.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/planning/10031895/Samantha-Cameron-the-building-firm-and-a-20m-planning-bid.html
If you want the BBC to become more critical then you shouldn't be surprised if they criticise your party.
Is it much of surprise that the campaign by charities and Trades Unions and Church groups to hand out free food to those on limited budgets is popular?
It would have been equally popular under your glorious leaders Brown and Blair Uni, but these groups would not have organised such a scheme under a Govt they support, despite demand which would have been just as strong.
Firstly food banks did exist when Blair and Brown were in power. They weren't a necessary because unemployment was lower and neither PM was cutting the benefits of the poor.
Secondly the demand for food banks is stronger now because 1 million more people are unemployed at a time when the Government is cutting benefits and legal aid. So Conservative policies have resulted in food banks being needed more than when Labour was in power.
More!! They don't just hand food out. You have to fulfil a criteria and often has to be signed by a Doctor or the like. You Dickensian view of the undeserving poor scoffing potatoes, shovelling down bread and chomping on free meat is a fantasy many from many backgrounds are using them there use has tripled. Care to explain why? If your benefits have a large gap or are now not enough to cover adequate food and you have stopped smoking/drinking gambling and other luxuries like heat. What do you then cut back on? Oh! non of this is true? Get real.
To get both of you waving your plackards and shouting your slogans is for me an achievement.
Stuck as you both are in a seventies class war time warp.
Free food will be popular if offered.
Both you and I know this is politically motivated campaign rather than one motivated by genuine charitable concern.
It's not 'free food' as you say. It has been pointed out that you must meet a criteria to enable you to receive this. Are benefits 'free money'? See how far you get with that one.
Baz,
You are being pedantic. I'm well aware you have to "qualify" but its still free food.
There are no money costs involved in "qualifying"
You qualify if on benefits, if a single parent, if in debt or if you get a letter from a Doctor or social worker. The list is endless.
I predict when word gets round on how to "qualify" the take up will soar.
If I qualify I will be going to get some 'free food'. Count on it. You argument is now paper thin.
Far from it Baz
Your statement that you would go and get free food for yourself though not in desperate straits, proves yet again that Uni's original argument that the rapid increase in free food hand outs are caused by the wicked Coalition's policies were wrong.
You like everyone else would be drawn to any offer of free food if you could pass as"qualified"
You base your argument on it is easy to get qualified and is all a conspiracy to prove the coalitions policies are wrong. That these policies are in no way related to the increases in the number of food banks, which are just run by people opposed to the government? All a bit far fetched don't you think? Almost a communist denial of the system I would say. Thought of a job In North Korea?
They don't have food banks in North Korea Baz
Most the population are starving to death and the State would not allow such things.
This is where socialism ends with all equally poor and equally starving except the glorious leader and his mates of course.
You are right. We do seem to be going that way by socialism for the rich.
Back to your meaningless cliché I see Baz.
Standards of living for the majority of citizens in the Western democracies over the last few decades have been rising enormously, which make your claim complete nonsense.
Your solution is to take all the money off the few very rich and give it to the poor.
You can see where that idea of forced equality gets you.
You all end up equally poor.
The inequality of wealth is higher than it has ever been. You believe this is a price worth paying and no harm can come from it?
I see yesterday the Supreme Court invited the EU to indulge in a round of fines for breaching NOx emissions limits, with a requirement that a mitigation strategy (involving paralysing major cities with traffic bans) be pursued. The judgement inlcudes the following "undisputed" remark:
Nitrogen dioxide, along with ammonia, also contributes to the formation of microscopic airborne particles, one of the many components of
particulate matter (PM 10 and PM 2.5) which have been calculated to have an
effect equivalent to 29,000 premature deaths each year in the UK.
A candidate for "I'm sorry but I'll read that again". That does not attribute any particular level of deaths to NOx – not that you would think so reading the Guardian comments.
Meantime the House of Lords wants the EU to regulate to set targets for UK renewables for 2030; a new carbon tax; expensive undersea power cables so other countries could impose power cuts on us; and shale gas regulation (presumably they hope the EU will ban it de facto if not de jure, as we have already done with coal). If our own Parliament can't regulate there is a strong case for abolition, made stronger by the absurdity of these proposals.
I suspect the remarks regarding nitrogen dioxide and ammonia was based on the scientific evidence presented by an expert witness. The fact that you did not quote the evidence presented does not make it wrong.
The EU has not banned coal and has no plans to ban it. Though they have banned coal power plants that produce high levels of certain emissions.
You despite particulates are bad for the health or their role in premature death is exaggerated? As a worker in the metal trade I deal with particulates every day and many employers are against spending money on protection against this not productive you see. The ones who went along with their arguments now rue the day. No protection no work. My breathing is good, but in the city why should we be exposed and have to listen to apologists fools?
Yes I agree, the greens should have much more coverage . The general public would get a balanced perspective upon how we ALL feel about living in a modern clean and green world.
Whilst we all need our cars in these jobs where we have to travel the country looking for work it is not accpetable to say that we cannot use cars. Some of the places I have needed to go to for instance would need a train journey , 3 buses and a hike accross fields and country lanes. There always has to be compromise. How can goods be delivered without a satisfactory logistics system? YET to not curtails the unecessary carbon emissions is futile. I remember when I was a child living in Manchester with winter fogs (smog) every year . The younger people will not remember this, but these are the areas we need to look at internationally.
If you drive to Cheltenham you will discover that the Lib-Dem Council there has in place a wonderful array of traffic-lights that grinds motor traffic to a near halt. I think even the Greens would be challenged in coming up with such a business hostile place to shop. A lot of Cheltenham's shopping streets are run-down. So we have cause and effect?
Electro-Kevin
Radio 4 the other day were discussing Strict Liability (Dutch style) whereby any accident between motorist and cyclist renders the motorist automatically guilty unless he can prove otherwise.
If this goes the way of 'whiplash' injuries lawyers and fraudsters will clean up.
Why not Strict Liability for cyclists vs pedestrians – while we're at it why not excise discs, insurance, cycling licences, breath tests, bans … for cyclists ? They are the most lawless of road users by far.
Today's cyclists ignore the highway code all too often in my experience – mowing down pedestrians on pavements they have no business to be on, ignoring red lights, not having lights after dusk and so forth.
My experience in Holland was there was no strict liability law, but perhaps it's changed recently. Indeed it was quite hard pursuing a motorist who caused damage to my cycle and knocked me off (fortunately no more than the odd bruise and scratch for me).
Want to save energy? Then switch off the anti English BBC.
BBC propaganda? LIke UKIP are Turbo Tories John? These people like lifelogic and are coming to get you. The Tories at least agree that there must be some basic employment legislation. UKIP do not believe there should be any and like lifpoghy when questioned on how and when do not know anything. Fruitcakes and fantasists. Driving energy prices for profit and subsidised dogma will see huge numbers of the population just not switching on their heating or driving to service richer areas, they can't afford the train/bus/heating Getting the green/transport/energy agenda sorted. What will the rich do then? Pay more? What then? Replies are expected from the usual fantasists.
Funny how all the media is playing the same tape and yet somehow the BBC is the one lambasted by the usual BBC haters. The problem is not the BBC, the problem is that Tea Party Brits (a.k.a. angry old white people) have lost faith in the Tories and are migrating to UKIP. Mr. Redwood can continue to stick his head in the sand but that will not change the situation.
"The BBC have spent an equal amount of energy ensuring the real splits between the Greens and the Lib Dems are not brought to light."
There are very few real differences between the Lib Dems and Greens. They are both parties of, by and for the sanctimonious and puritanical middle class. Everything else is secondary.
"Which of these two green parties has the best way of torturing motorists to get them off the roads?"
Although the Lib Dems and Greens both hate motorists (excepting themselves of course), the two parties that have caused most harm to motorists (via fuel duty) are Labour and the Tories. When is the last time a major politician in any political party had anything nice to say about motorists? I think Blair once said something nice, and Thatcher was the last leader when the interests of motorists were ever considered at all. As for most politicians, they are typical ruling elite who think there is one rule for them (free travel courtesy of the taxpayer, and as and when they see fit) and another rule for everyone else.
On the general point about energy, the Lib Dems and Greens want expensive energy (even if they might sometimes claim otherwise). Cheap energy is a disaster for them, because it means human beings can do things (i.e. impact the world), and the Lib Dems and Greens do not like human beings doing anything except contemplating the infinite.
Nuclear power is the answer, lots of nuclear power stations providing constant energy to a growing Britain. Independent of other countries supplies, and giving us energy security and confidence.
Latest types and a determined plan for decommissioning and waste storage or disposal in remote and geologically sound locations.
Green energy can still be created by those who can have access to affordable natural assets. Hydropower etc as long as it gives a fair return on capital investment. In the long run I will be dead so in the meantime I love my Mercedes but hate the roads round here.
Waste storage or disposal in remote and geologically sound locations? Like where? Specific place. Nuclear is an expensive dangerous fantasy. Who should pay for all this the taxpayer and the bill payer subsidising foreign nuclear energy companies often state owned for decades into the future and then forever on the clean up?
All the waste ever produced by nuclear power plants would fit onto a football pitch sized cube.
Plenty of remote places on Earth to store it.
Coal gas and oil explorations and production has killed hundreds of thousands more than nuclear yet it is nuclear that is considered dangerous.
Clean, safe and minimal CO2
And already working well for France just a few miles off our coast.
Subsidised by the government on a massive scale. The waste is mainly low level and generates on a massive scale such as gloves tools filters etc. Where in Britain would this waste be stored? Nirex spent millions investigating geological conditions in the Lake District in Cumbria to no avail. I've got to hand it to you though the council in Cumbria rejecting planning permission for nuclear waste storage is ironic considering Sellafield is already there!
This idea that nuclear is clean and safe is another fantasy the cost is astronomical for a start the money could be spent on cheaper ways to generate transmit and economise energy much more cheaply and safely.
What energy streams are these Baz, that are cheap, not subsidised, clean, safe and low CO2?
Face it windmills etc are also heavily subsidised.
Ps low level waste which has a radiation level akin to the luminous dial on your wristwatch used to be incinerated but new EU rules put a stop to it.
Clean coal, more efficient gas powered stations, better building regulations and more efficient appliances would go a long way to solving the energy problems. Windmills are a non starter and like nuclear a power source of last resort or a specific application such as a nuclear powered submarine which is used as a power of last resort in effect. You are for the burning of nuclear waste or any other rubbish for that matter. Idiotic idea.
If you were to incinerate low grade radioactive waste at extremely high temperatures and then filter the exhaust output there are no health and safety issues.
But even if you bury these items, it is of no great concern as it takes up a tiny amount of space buried deep down and encased in thick walls of concrete
I like the energy types you mention but favour a wider range of methods including nuclear.
Effectively all energy types are currently subsidised to one level or another..
This was investigated by Nirex and the question of how long 'forever' was asked. It was agreed that a hundred thousand years was in human terms forever concrete does not last forever and the the Lake District was geologically to unstable. This idea in incineration is just retarded. Filter the particles? I mean who sets the filtration and how can you be sure it is maintained? A basic problem is that a piece of wood burns differently to a circuit board, that should not be burned. Or a piece of plastic. I live near an incinerator once and all the cars panels in the street that faced the chimney had paint problems with a fine dust on them in the mornings. All brands all models. Coincidence? Residents complained that their health had got worse since the building of the incinerator. Radioactivity in the waste too?
A fundamental point is that burning waste destroys it forever, making any of the components of the rubbish unable to be ever recovered by as yet unimagined methods.
A cavalier short term attitude that we expect from fatalistic right wing fantasists trying to make something very expensive on the cheap by cutting corners.
You are showing your lack of engineering knowledge with these repeated incorrect posts on modern incineration techniques and methods of safe waste management from nuclear power plants.
Your usual descent to personal abuse in your last paragraph just confirms that you have no valid arguments.
Its simply about engineering, science and safety, not left or right wing politics.
Wood burns the same as plastic? I don't think so. What is this God like incineration technique? Your belief in technology is laughable and what of the potential future resource gone forever?
people don't merely have to put extra woollies on – large number die of cold – figure in my memory is 28000, but may be wrong
Where they to poor to buy clothes? Did they die outside? Must have spent their money on luxuries instead of heat. Same ones that no doubt scrounge off the food banks.
You can't "scrounge" off food banks Baz, you have to qualify which is a difficult process so only deserving cases qualify for the free food.
If there where no food banks and someone had no food do tell us how they would get some without money Edward. Begging on the street or would that all be just show?
Where are these starving people Baz?
Do tell us.
Any socialist dictatorship I know?
They are hidden behind closed doors Deadward II. Living in their own shame with medical evidence of malnutrition and other problem caused by an adequate diet. It is not possible to live on a quid a day food in this country as many try to do as the are so skint of ten due to accommodation problems.Maybe they could become peasants huh? You think you can tell us that none is skint in this country?