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Has just bought their largest competitor, Sealey, which is complementary as they had different types of products, distribution channels, geographic profile and it will be very accretive to earnings. Offers exposure to a recovering US housing market. At the beginning of the year was trading at 22-23 times earnings and then reported 2 lacklustre quarters and is now trading at 12X earnings. Good business.
Leading manufacturer of non-coil mattresses. Stock reacted poorly to its recent earnings report. Company met consensus estimates, guided in line but this company has historically raised guidance every time they issue a quarterly report and when they didn't do it this time, it caused the sellers to come out. Announced a discount on one of their mattress lines which concerned people about possible competition. Looking at $4 in earnings this year and $4.75 next year.
(Top Pick Dec 15/10, Up 65.65%) Set themselves apart with their patented technology. Captured the high end market. Growing at a rapid rate. Earnings and stock price have both risen dramatically.
(A Top Pick 15/10. Up 43.29%.) Still doing very well.
Dec 15,2010 recommended at 35.78 now at $54.35 gain of 51.9% Makes mattresses, technology developed by Nasa. Have spent money on advertising which has paid off.
Mattresses and their patented technology was developed in NASAU for space missions.
High end mattress producer so not very economically sensitive. Well priced and growing very rapidly. Trades at a reasonable multiple.


Believers Bookshelf - Satan and how he works!
Make no mistake about it - Satan is a real personality. He is also a positive enemy against God, all His purposes, His activities and His people. The name Satan means "adversary," and Devil means "accuser." He is called "the prince of demons" in Matt. 12:24.
In Revelation 12:9-10 our adversary is labeled "the great dragon," "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world." He is also designated there as "the accuser of our brethren," accusing them before God day and night. The name "great dragon" would speak of his power politically as world ruler and "prince of the power of the air" (Eph. 2:2). "That old serpent" speaks of his power spiritually as the deceiver of the whole world and "god of this age who blinds the minds of those who believe not" (2 Cor. 4:4).
Satan is the same old serpent who came in the Garden of Eden and deceived Eve and led her and Adam into disobedience and sin against God. Eve had to afterwards say, "The serpent beguiled (or deceived) me" (Gen. 3:13).
·	What are his main activities?
·	How does the devil tempt us today?
·	What is our best defense against him?
·	Can a believer be demon-possessed?
·	What is his goal in the world?
·	Is he already a defeated foe?
SATAN And How He Works was written by R. K. Campbell to help give scriptural answers to these and other questions about this great deceiver.


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Conus infrenatus, common name the Jeffrey's Bay cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.

Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 24 mm and 50 mm. The shell is rosy white, encircled by articulated lines of chestnut and white spots. The apex is pink.

Distribution
This marine species occurs off Transkei and KwaZuluNatal, South Africa.

References

 Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
 Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 – 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp.
 Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4, 2009 Edition

External links
 The Conus Biodiversity website

 Cone Shells – Knights of the Sea

infrenatus
Gastropods described in 1848

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Q: Should reputation points expire? While looking at the SO question How can I make a redirect page in jQuery/JavaScript? It occurred to me that this was an extremely simple question with an extremely simple answer.  And yet, it has garnered the OP thousands in upvote points, simply because he was the first one to ask this question in the early days of SO.  There are many examples of these simple questions and I believe they don't accurately model a user's participation in the SO community.  People shouldn't be getting thousands or even tens of thousands of points from a question just because they were lucky enough to get it in the system a while ago.
Another related issue is that the non-expiring point system rewards users for seniority.  Simply put, the longer you're around SO, the higher your score will be.  While there's some merit to this, it seems to have a disproportionate effect.  So what can we do to limit these effects?  I'm just brainstorming but here are a couple ideas:

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*Automatically close voting on questions after a certain time period.  Good questions will still be rewarded, but they won't give disproportionately large rewards simply because they are really old questions.

*Expire users' points after a certain time period.  If you expire users' points after, say 3 months, then this will force them to stay active and their points will be more a reflection of "How much have you participated lately"?  It forces old users to stay active rather than resting on their laurels, and allows junior members a chance to catch up to senior members of the community by putting in a lot of effort.  Currently, there is no chance at all for junior members to ever catch up with senior members and their only 'sin' is that they didn't register 5 years ago.

A: Automatically close voting on questions after a certain time period.
This will not create the utopia you hope for. There are two kinds of common questions:

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*Easy, highly specific to the OP, questions.  Answers to these tend to get lots of upvotes in the short term then none ever again.

*Hard, specific but generally applicable questions.  Answers to these tend to get very few initial upvotes because people just browsing the site aren't familiar with these topics. However, these questions are much more useful and people find them on Google. They have a long tail of upvotes.
By cutting off the long tail you penalise the really valuable Q&As; the ones people search for and find answers to.
Of course there's also the super rare first basic question on a particular topic. These are super rare so not worth worrying too much about but they help a lot of people so I'm okay with this as a situation
Expire users' points after a certain time period
This is quite unkind to members who've taken time to help people; you spent years helping people but you had a few busy weeks at work so back to the start for you.

A: I totally agree with your basic premise: it seems super unfair that anyone should earn thousands of rep points for a cheap answer from 2009.
However, your remedy has been suggested before and the math on what the effects would be has been done by Kevin Montrose here. It shows interesting results.

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*We don't know how widespread the actual problem - users gaining tons of reputation points from trivial answers - is. But in any case, it is going to be much smaller than one might anticipate:

A total of 4,843 users have at least one post that has earned them >= 500 rep.

That's 4,843 users out of about 60,000 users with more than 500 reputation points. Out of these 4,843, some have earned some significant undeserved points from a single post. (Keep in mind that there are some legitimately highly upvoted answers on SO - answers which took the authors days or weeks to research.)

*Correcting this by putting a limit on both the maximum rep from a post, and the time frame, would affect a significant number of users across the reputation spectrum.
The premise in the other suggestion is to remove the daily rep cap, and to limit the amount of earnable rep to 100 per question instead. Also, rep can be earned only 6 months after the answer was posted.. The results are such:

Reputation Band    # Users    Average Change In Reputation
[1000, 5000)        22,723                            -486
[5000, 10000)        3,070                          -1,670
[10000, 20000)       1,549                          -3,034
[20000, 30000)         488                          -4,681
[30000, 40000)         178                          -6,986
[40000, 50000)          81                          -7,133
[50000, 60000)          52                          -8,079
[60000, 70000)          39                         -11,072
[70000+]               125                          -6,511

Lower-reputation users would be disproportionally affected by your suggested change, some possibly seeing half their reputation go.
These numbers are also an indicator that the rep gain from these kinds of posts has not gone only to the "super rich", so to speak, and that at least the top users made it to the top despite the current system, not because of it.
If the suggestion above were implemented, the top ten users of Stack Overflow would gain between 12% and 219% additional reputation points, while a total of 101,727 users would lose reputation from the change.

*Your suggestion would not actually create a fair playing field;  it would simply disadvantage different groups of posts.
Because it makes a post's rep gain entirely dependent on the traffic it sees after it is posted, "timeboxing" would disadvantage posts in low-traffic tags, while favouring posts in high-traffic ones. That is an imbalance that is already a problem anyway. Older posts would also be at a massive disadvantage because they stem from times when SO's traffic levels were a fraction of what they are today.
While perhaps creating some improved fairness in some cases - but probably much fewer than you and I think - "timeboxing" would very likely cause great distress among users on all reputation levels. Previous, much smaller changes in the reputation system have provoked protests and wailing on such an epic scale than no one wants to remember them. The expected backlash from this would be way worse, which makes this unlikely to ever happen.
Also, it wouldn't really create actual fairness, either.

A: We already have a daily upvote cap which circumvents outrageous reputation gain.
It's life I'm afraid. Just like the founders of a firm have the majority of the equity. But you're in the tent now and, by your own arguments, you have it easier than future contributors.
Programming is a rapidly developing field so there will always be opportunities to make an impact.
But you're holding reputation in too high a regard: and drawing comparisons with other folk is not constructive for anyone. We're trying to build a knowledge base here. Too bad that the "what's the difference between a struct and a class" has already been asked and answered!
Why not concentrate on answering questions and watch the points trickle in?

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I'm sure you'll eventually (or perhaps can now) find someone on eBay who bought it, had their jollies, and is ready to unload it for a less-than-retail price.
ewww, it will be covered in ebay2600 goo!
[#] Thu Jan 23 2014 11:06:38 EST from zooer
Modems, wArEz, and ANSI art: Remembering BBS life at 2400bps
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/modems-warez-and-ansi-art-remembering-bbs-life-at-2400bps/
Download the current days entire edition of newspaper in just TWO HOURS!
1981 perdects that everyone will get their newspaper from a computer someday.
http://www.wimp.com/theinternet/
[#] Fri Jan 24 2014 05:02:15 EST from vince-q
Jan 23 2014 11:06am from zooer @uncnsrd
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/modems-warez-and-ansi-art-remembering-
bbs-life-at-2400bps/
A very interesting piece of nostalgia.
Thanks for that link!
[#] Fri Jan 24 2014 07:34:23 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
It's funny about that. Lots of 20th century pundits predicted that all news and information would eventually flow through a computer, but they failed to envision the "anyone can be a content producer" nature of the Internet.
They thought that newspapers would be *produced* the exact same way, and only the means of *delivery* would change.
This is similar to the early-1990's mania about how we needed to build an "information superhighway" (which is what Al Gore was really whining about, when a decade later he claimed to have created the Internet). The assumption was that it was going to be a high bandwidth delivery system for top-down produced content -- essentially, 500 channels of the same old crap.
Really it was Netscape who made the Internet burst forth into its current form. Suddenly anyone could be published, could be heard, eventually could even produce video for consumption by millions. Oh to have had that kind of capability when we were teenagers making videos for the fun of it!
And of course, Big Media has been working as hard as they can to destroy the end-to-end nature of the Internet. Sometimes they succeed, other times they fail. With apologies to Sowell, the price of end-to-end Internet is eternal vigilance.
[#] Fri Jan 24 2014 18:07:10 EST from the_mgt
http://meandmyzxspectrum.tumblr.com
[#] Sat Jan 25 2014 22:41:53 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
Oh yeah, look at all the 1980's computer nerds (yeah, I was one, but at least I had a better computer)
What a shame to have been going through those years during the one decade when being interested in computers was a stigma.
[#] Sat May 03 2014 12:40:12 EDT from mo
What fun can anyone have using a (whatchatmacallit?) Comm-pew-terr? <shakeshead>
[#] Sat May 03 2014 14:15:28 EDT from zooer
I went to high school with a girl who wanted to be a (spit) lawyer. She thought computers were stupid and
couldn't understand what use people would have for them. She once laughed and said, "What would I use one for,
to put my clients info on it?"
[#] Sun May 04 2014 22:50:34 EDT from ax25
heh, that or recipies.
[#] Mon May 05 2014 05:08:49 EDT from mo
yeahyeahyea!!! \o/
what about a list of: books? --with ratings!! yeahyeahyeah!!! \o/
[#] Mon May 05 2014 10:01:31 EDT from fleeb
Or you could use one to bludgeon girls who wish to be lawyers.
Yeah you could go all ninja with a pocket full of smartphones or something??
My eeepc 701 would be deadly -- if it was dipped in molten lead and put in a swingable bag, or say- cellotape a housebrick to it.
They don't make em like they used too.
Yeah, nobody makes them like that cell phone Perry Mason would use in his car.
[#] Thu May 15 2014 16:33:14 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
I would totally dig a bluetooth "car phone" accessory.
[#] Tue Sep 02 2014 13:58:12 EDT from the_mgt
http://b3ta.com/challenge/zxspectrum/popular/ Images related to the ZX Spectrum, contains heavy doses of british humor and traces of purple dicks.
[#] Thu Sep 04 2014 22:56:32 EDT from ax25
Ugh, guess you can't unsee the goatsee.
[#] Fri Sep 05 2014 07:23:45 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
Funny how the ZX Spectrum ended up being the quintessential historical representation of 8-bit computing.
[#] Sun Sep 07 2014 23:36:08 EDT from ax25
I still like the predecessor (and even play some more recently written games on my phone emulator) - the ZX81 (actually the TS-1000 'Merican version).
Not quite flappy bird, but this is fun:
http://bobs-stuff.co.uk/quack.html
Not quite to the level of the crazy folks that release new Atari 2600 games complete with packaging and rom cartridges, but fun to see what can be done none the less. It does become less of a task when your coding computer does not suffer the same limitations as the original (membrane keyboard), and about 1000x processor and 1000x the memory.


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package de.uni.freiburg.iig.telematik.sewol.log;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import de.invation.code.toval.statistic.Observation;
import de.invation.code.toval.validate.ParameterException;
import de.invation.code.toval.validate.Validate;

public class LogSummary<E extends LogEntry> {

        private final Set<String> activities = new HashSet<>();
        private final Set<String> originators = new HashSet<>();
        private final Set<String> roles = new HashSet<>();
        private final Observation traceLength = new Observation();

        public LogSummary() {
        }

        public LogSummary(List<LogTrace<E>> traces) throws ParameterException {
                addTraces(traces);
        }

        public final void addTraces(List<LogTrace<E>> traces) throws ParameterException {
                Validate.notNull(traces);
                for (LogTrace<E> trace : traces) {
                        addTrace(trace);
                }
        }

        public void addTrace(LogTrace<E> trace) throws ParameterException {
                Validate.notNull(trace);
                activities.addAll(trace.getDistinctActivities());
                originators.addAll(trace.getDistinctOriginators());
                roles.addAll(trace.getDistinctRoles());
                traceLength.addValue(trace.size());
        }

        public Set<String> getActivities() {
                return Collections.unmodifiableSet(activities);
        }

        public Set<String> getOriginators() {
                return Collections.unmodifiableSet(originators);
        }

        public Set<String> getRoles() {
                return Collections.unmodifiableSet(roles);
        }

        public double getAverageTraceLength() {
                return traceLength.getAverage();
        }

        public void clear() {
                activities.clear();
                originators.clear();
                roles.clear();
                traceLength.reset();
        }
}


Stroud District Council will be investing £300,000 over the next four years to promote more sustainable transport in the district.
The plans, which support the delivery of the council's local plan and government policy, will aim to improve the health and wellbeing of residents and tackle increasing congestion and pollution.
"There is increasing concern about air pollution from vehicle emissions. Although the Stroud district does not currently have any areas that exceed national pollution limits, recent research by Stroud-based Enviro Technology Services has suggested that pollution levels could be over 20% higher inside a vehicle with the windows shut than on the road outside. Ever-increasing levels of traffic mean that we need to be proactive in ensuring that pollution is minimised. Recent figures have suggested that rising nitrogen oxide levels are a major cause of over 20,000 premature deaths across the UK and we want to ensure that by reducing pollution levels now, the positive effect on our area will be felt for many years to come.
"By encouraging the use of sustainable transport methods such as cycling, we'll not only be reducing pollution levels but also encouraging a healthier lifestyle, reducing the growing pressure on our health service and if the UK could adopt the levels of cycling seen in Denmark, it's predicted the NHS could save £17billion within 20 years."
A cycle track linking Uley, Dursley and Cam with the Cam and Dursley railway station. The Cam, Dursley and Uley Greenway cycle route is currently being worked on by volunteers.
A cycle track from Sustrans national network 41 to Stonehouse Wharf, Ebley, Stroud, Thrupp and Brimscombe Port. The path will also have sections leading to Stonehouse, Stonehouse railway station, Stroud railway station and Nailsworth.
The tracks will use off-road routes as much as possible and will include improved cycle parking at stations and updated signage. Some parts of the route will also feature lighting and new metalled surfaces.
While the Greenway project requires full construction, the Nailsworth and Stroud routes will only need upgrading and improving, using existing paths following the canal.
"The government have said that 'By 2040, walking and cycling should be a normal part of everyday life and the natural choice for short journeys'". We want everyone in the district to have access to safe, attractive routes for cycling and walking, and in order to meet the government's ambitious targets by 2040 we need to start work now.
"The plans could also be a big win for tourism, as whilst we will continue to attract people to holiday in the Cotswolds, we should also be encouraging them to travel sustainably during their stay. Cycle tourism in the UK is worth £650 million annually and we hope by making these changes, we'll be creating new and supporting existing tourism opportunities in the area."
The plans for the scheme will be put to the full council at their meeting on 9th February 2017.


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We thought you might like to see the interface.
The functions we've shown here are from the standard version of Ruler Connect. There are two others versions if you have more limited requirements.
Ruler SDS is a specialized version for Capita SIMS users that produces the CSV files that need to be uploaded for the new Microsoft Teams for Education system.


The inexperienced India side, with a bunch of young players, recently lifted the Nidahas Trophy with a powerful all-round display on field and this makes swashbuckling opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan believe that a strong message has been sent out that the young squad has the strength to bring trophies for India.
"It was a great achievement to win the Nidahas trophy as we have young bowling unit and youngsters coming in. We all showed a great character. We lost the first match, but came back strong on the opposition and took it out from there. The way we ended the tournament was quite thrilling. We all loved it, our adrenaline was very high," Dhawan said on the sidelines of an event.
The Rohit Sharma-led young side suffered a five-wicket defeat in its opening game of the tri-series but bounced back strong to return home with the trophy.
India went into the series in absence of some of its key players like regular skipper Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni and others, while Sri Lanka and Bangladesh had their full regular side.
Now being done with a successful South Africa and Sri Lanka tour, Dhawan is preparing himself for the grand Indian Premier league (IPL) which is starting next month.


This is being dropped when Everquest goes Free to Play, on 29th February 2012. If you used this before then, you will stop receiving any experience gains on that date.
Added in July 2011. Sign-up page is Recruit Friends... Earn Rewards!. The details are that you will be given a free month subscription for each friend recruited up to 25. The recruit must start their subscription during their trial period.
Note that, although this exp boost stacks with other boosts, the way boosts scale you may not seem to get the full addition, although internally you are; it just gets capped.
If I did the free trial, then found someone in game to refer me would I get two 14 day trials that way? I don't know anyone that plays to refer me, but am afraid doing the trial would rule me out from the raf benifits.
No, the RaF only applies to Station ids that haven't had a trial or previous subscription. You could use two Station ids, but that would mean different characters (I assume that the price of transferring a character between ids would be too high).
Could i creat 2 accounts and recruit one of them with the other one?
And another question,does it have any restriction for different countries?I'm from China and some of my trail accounts seemed not working after the first day.I doubt it has anything to do with my email adress or IP independence.
Yes, you can RaF a second account of your own. There aren't any country restrictions that I am aware of.


As drivers, we are expected to do a lot of things for our "job." While we can choose the hours we work, pay can be inconsistent and some drivers are incentivized to drive at hours they may not prefer, all for the lure of extra pay. So what does this actually make drivers – true independent contractors, or something else? Senior RSG contributor John Ince tackles this question below.
Should Uber & Lyft Drivers Be Employees or Independent Contractors?
A cloud hangs over the entire ridesharing industry. It's a legal cloud of ambiguity as to what exactly drivers are. Are drivers independent contractors as Uber and Lyft would have the world believe? Or are drivers employees – as two important legal bodies have ruled within the last six months? Further adding to the confusion, Recently, the 9th Circuit of San Francisco ruled that a major lawsuit on this issue could not proceed because driver's signed away their rights when the signed up to drive for Uber and agreed to arbitration on these issues. So the issue remains in legal limbo and likely will for the foreseeable future.
It's a legal issue that affects everything in this new space called the gig economy. Labor advocates argue that this gig labor development has set back labor rights fifty years. Those on the other side argue that it's brought flexibility and income opportunities to countless people that otherwise would be wanting.
Strategically, Uber and Lyft's legal teams are simply trying to keep the flood waters behind the dyke. But with each new ruling and each new lawsuit another hole gets punched in the dyke. Many observers, including this commentator, believe that it's only a matter of time until the flood waters start flowing across the entire gig economy. When that happens, business models will be underwater.
And if it comes in the next year or so, the best laid plans of new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi for a late 2019 IPO will be in jeopardy. When that happens, indeed, the financial foundations of ridesharing will start shaking. Investors will begin to question whether it's as an economically viable proposition. They'll wonder whether companies like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are worthy of continued investor capital. So let's take a look at the issue, the recent legal developments and the possible scenarios moving forward.
"Uber Technologies Inc. may be saving more than $500 million a year by misclassifying its California drivers as independent contractors, according to a lawsuit that claims the ride-hailing company is flouting a ruling by the state's highest court. Uber avoids paying an average of $9.07 an hour in expenses and benefits that it would incur if drivers were properly treated as employees, according to the complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco. In other words, if they got minimum wage, overtime, meal and rest breaks, workers' compensation and unemployment and health insurance, as well as Social Security and Medicare benefits.
The case was brought by a car delivery service that alleges Uber uses its illegal labor savings to price rides below their true cost, allowing it to take business and market share from competitors that compensate drivers as employees. The complaint cites an April ruling by the California Supreme Court that set a tougher threshold for companies to classify workers as independent contractors.
"New York City's largest taxi driver advocacy group is hailing a legal decision by the New York State Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, which ruled last Friday that three out-of-work Uber drivers can be considered employees for the purpose of unemployment benefits. The decision was first reported Thursday by Politico.
In other words, three men—and possibly other "similarly situated" Uber drivers who had quit over low pay or who were deactivated from the Uber platform—can get paid.
If those three can file for unemployment insurance, so too can others, adding to the leaks in Uber's ship. Uber will likely appeal. Appeals take time, but eventually another ruling will be handed down, and the writing now appears to be on the wall. In the interim between now and the ruling of the appeals court, the lower court ruling stands, and that's not good news for Uber. But it could be good news for some drivers.
The bigger problem for Uber is that even when they win one case, others soon pop up in other jurisdictions. Lyft recently settled a case on this issue in California, and drivers like me received checks for their share of the settlement. But settling one case, either for Uber or for Lyft, doesn't preclude others from filing similar lawsuits.
Yes, Uber has the legal resources to fight each of these battles, but each adverse ruling makes fighting the next one that much tougher for the companies as legal precedents are set. Take the example of Uber's fight before a tribunal in 2016 in the United Kingdom, which they lost. Uber is now fighting a similar case on this issue before the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
All the cases come down to a matter of money, and the stakes are huge. It's no stretch to say that Uber/Lyft are facing an existential issue here. If the recent San Francisco lawsuit argues that over $9/hr is being withheld by Uber is anywhere near the ballpark, it changes the economics of the industry in a fundamental way – both for the companies and the drivers.
By classifying drivers as independent contractors, Uber (and Lyft) save millions of dollars each year because they don't have to pay for drivers' health, retirement, unemployment, or other benefits that typically come with full-time employment. Then there is the issue of unemployment benefits claims. These cases come on the heels of a ruling from the California Supreme Court about a company called Dynamex. That ruling made it more difficult for companies to defend the proposition that their workers are simply contractors.
Since its inception, Uber has attempted to blur the issue by calling all drivers, partners. But how much of a partner are you when you can be dismissed or de-activated without appeal, for any reason, at any time? How much or a partner are you when the companies dangle bonus money and other incentives that determine in large part just how much you will make in this gig? It's a one sided relationship, like almost all employment situations – and more people and courts are coming to recognize this.
My suspicion is that sooner rather than later, Uber and Lyft will recognize they're fighting a losing battle and will seek to re-group by putting their resources into the development of a new classification which has come to be known as dependent contractors.
The contours of this new hybrid classification will emerge incrementally. I suspect judges will start to recognize the limitations of this current and antiquated dichotomy between employees and independent contractors. When they do, they will establish new criteria and new guidelines that will throw many drivers and gig workers into a new bucket, where the companies are responsible for some but not all of the expenses that they would assume if drivers were employees.
But during this process, drip by drip, Uber and other "gig economy" companies will eventually be forced to consider a new reality: driver are not independent contractors – they're something more than that – and the companies have a financial responsibility to provide drivers with a greater measure of security and protection than they're doing now.
If given legal standing in any of the numerous legal proceeding underway, a new reality will force a reconsideration of business models all across the gig economy. When that happens, you'll start to see valuations of companies coming down from their current stratospheric levels. That will be okay. Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick will no longer be worth $5 billion on paper. He may only be worth $4 billion or $3 billion, but he'll manage to scrape by. And millions of drivers will have a modest measure of security that they don't have now.
Is this independent/dependent contractor issue unique to the rideshare industry, or will it spread to the entire economy?
Is there a place for "the gig economy" where some workers give up all rights for the sake of freedom and flexibility?
From my seat up here in the bleachers, I can't answer these questions. Maybe some of you can. Personally I think driver and all gig economy workers deserve greater economic security protections than they have now. But believing something should happen and believing it will happen are two different things entirely. Only time will tell. What do you think?
Readers, do you think as court cases are settled that drivers will move from an independent contractor model to a dependent or even employee model? Or do you think drivers will remain independent contractors?


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Q: Paypal IPN using PHP to get customized Quantity and Amount I have downloaded the sample paypal IPN script using php and customised with the email for the buyout option and it has also some hidden paramaters such as amount, quantity,return_url, notify_url like this. My main idea is to do the buyout option for the product purchase in my website.The current calculation for the product purchase is as follows:
      Item Price:$20
      Quantity  :10
                           Total amount $200

I need the calculation to some different way as our site have some static set of quantities and prices, so our point of calculation is as follows:
       Item Price:$20
       Quantity  :10

                           Total amount:$20

So, the total amount needs to be the same for the given number of quantities.The IPN configuration doesn't allow me to change the quantity field by this way, please suggest some ideas to overcome this issue.

A: The item price is price per item, the quantity is of course multiplied by the item price.  Your second example should have $2 as the --Item-- price.  If you want to sell "10 items for $20", I think you will need to make a new item for that combo and just but the actual quantity in a custom field.
If you want to use the same item and paypal's quantity field, I think you need to look into calculating a discount and making that part of the parameters (discount_amount_cart or discount_amount_X for item X I think).


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Skywatch is a near-future sci-fi vision directed by Colin Levy, centering on two teen boys who hack an ubiquitous consumer drone delivery service called NexPort in order to prank their neighbors. Naturally things go badly, and when a dangerous conspiracy is uncovered by the pair, they attract unwanted attention from the Amazon-esque corporation pulling strings behind the scenes. NexPort will stop at nothing to keep their secrets hidden, placing the boys in immediate danger. In this era of Stranger Things, the phrase "Amblin-esque" is over-used, referring to the Spielberg-founded production company that gave us E.T. and Gremlins, but I'll apply it anyway. Skywatch really aims to invoke the pleasures of those 80's kids movies, fusing action/adventure escapades with aspects of a high-concept thriller in a way that is kid-friendly but not shorn of all sense of danger. The stakes of the film feel real and high while maintaining, at its core, a slightly corny innocence familiar to works of that era.
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Seven years after its twin opened on Mount Washington, construction has begun on Bear Lodge. And buyers are eagerly waiting in the wings for the 59-unit condo project to hit the market, says Rick Gibson of Royal LePage in Courtenay.
"We are generating a priority list for interested parties and hope to be in a position to presell late this summer." Rick Gibson said he's had expressions of interest from primarily Vancouver Island but also the Lower Mainland, the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States. "People love the slope side access of Deer Lodge and Bear Lodge, and it's right in the heart of the 'downtown' where Mount Washington will evolve."
Bear Lodge will be similar in design to Deer Lodge, except Bear will be built with new rain-screen technology, according to Dennis Serraglio of Appia Developments, which is overseeing the project. "Same number of units, same layouts, different exterior - the color and cladding will be a little different," he said from his office in Vancouver.
The foundation for Bear was poured at the same time as Deer Lodge, in 1996, but the market went soft in BC and Appia decided to suspend construction. Now, the market has rebounded considerably, and Bear Lodge's time has come.
"We definitely want people to know that it's coming to market." Serraglio said. He admitted it's a relief to be moving forward with the project. "It's been sitting there for a long time, a little too long," he said. "It's good to see the Island real estate market heat up again."
Construction is slated to wrap up by February 2005. The units will be fully furnished in time for an as-yet-unannounced opening day.
With the construction of Bear Lodge, Mount Washington offers 3,500 beds for accommodation. Gibson said interest in drive-in, drive-out buildings is at an all-time high, with many buildings totally sold out. "Rest assured that, assuming Bear Lodge sells out as quickly as it appears to be, there will be another building announced very, very quickly in the same area," he said.


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CIGS Seminar:"Rethinking of Compliance: "Do Legal Institutions Require Virtuous Practitioners?""
On November 2, 2012, Prof. Kenneth Winston lectured and lead a discussion entitled "Rethinking of Compliance:"Do Legal Institutions Require Virtuous Practitioners?""
Title: "Rethinking of Compliance: "Do Legal Institutions Require Virtuous Practitioners?""
In the curriculum at the Harvard Kennedy School, we assume we have a settled understanding of which skills and capacities practitioners need (and thus should be trained in) to act competently in public life.
However, in ethics, at least, such agreement cannot be presupposed. In this talk, Prof. Winston poses the core question as to what the moral competence of practitioners consist in and suggest two approaches for addressing it. One focuses on different roles that practitioners play in legal institutions. Here the theme is the interplay between institutional structures and moral virtues. The second approach identifies certain generic competences (virtues) that cut across different roles and thus serve as critical skills for all practitioners in public life, whatever their institutional setting.
Mr. Kenneth Winston, Lecturer in Ethics, teaches practical and professional ethics. He created the Kennedy School's course in professional ethics for mid-career students, which has been offered since 1986. Mr. Winston is also faculty chair of the Kennedy School's Singapore Program, which supports faculty exchanges with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. In recent years, he helped to build HKS's capacity in comparative and international ethics, developing new cases and teaching in overseas venues, especially in Asia. Mr. Winston has written extensively on case teaching, professional ethics, and legal theory. He holds degrees in philosophy from Harvard College and Columbia University, and has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, a senior research fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a John Dewey Senior Fellow.


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Music is something that people of all ages can enjoy. Even small children love music - even if they aren't sure what it is yet.
As kids grow, they might become more interested in music - listening to it, even playing it! But are they ready for music lessons? What is a good age for them to begin music lessons? This article will help answer those questions and help you decide what action to take for your kids.
Past studies have shown that early exposure to music helps children cultivate their interest and skill as they grow older, which can often lead to some long-term benefits of learning music.
Let's take a look at what ages you can begin to encourage an interest of music in your child, and what ages are ideal for starting music lessons.
Babies fall asleep to lullabies for a reason! When a baby is introduced to music at around 6 months, they might begin to engage with it - moving or dancing. As your child grows, they will be able to familiarize themselves with music even more. Once they are around age 2, they will begin to recognize songs and instruments.
A great way to have fun with your child and encourage their curiosity in music is to take a class at Creative Soul. We offer a Makin' Music Rockin' Rhythms Program for children ages 0-3. Check out all the details on our website. We'd love to meet your little musician.
The ages 4-7 are usually the most ideal for starting to learn an instrument. Not only are kids' hands and minds functional enough to play, but they can actually begin to understand the basics of music.
A great way for kids to start learning more about music is to sign them up for a weekly class at Creative Soul called Little Soul Rockers. Children will be able to interact with each other, learning an instrument and the basics of music theory in the process. This also gives parents a little bit of a break in their busy week.
If your child decides that music is something they want to adopt as a hobby, you can also sign them up for private lessons to learn a variety of instruments! And the best part is that they aren't required to have any prior musical experience or knowledge. Our instructors are here to befriend, encourage and teach your child wherever their skillset lies.
Ideal Instruments: Drums, Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Ukulele, Voice, etc.
If your child started learning an instrument at an early age, by age 10 kids can have a moderate to advanced set of skills that they can further work toward developing.
Private lessons at Creative Soul are offered to ages 4 all the way to adulthood. If you, as a parent, would love to pick up a new skill - or maybe you used to play - we'd love to teach you, too! You can choose to learn an instrument with your child or not. It's never too late!
Even if music-making isn't your interest, you can always stay supportive as your child begins music lessons. Talk to them about what they are learning. Ask them to show you!
Ideal Instruments: Banjo, Bass, Drums, Dulcimer, Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Saxophone, Trumpet, Ukulele, Violin, Voice, etc.
Don't forget to check out music lessons at Creative Soul!
What instrument is your child interested in? Is there an instrument you've always wanted to learn? Tell us in the comments!


The Kruger National Park is situated in the north eastern part of South Africa. Its eastern border is the geographical border between South Africa and Mozambique. Its northern edge adjoins Zimbabwe. The red lines in the map below represent tarred roads, the green lines are sand or gravel roads. A couple of years ago the fences in the upper eastern parts of The Kruger were removed to allow a more natural migration of animals to take place and to allow the newly created Transfrontier Park to become populated with animals that had been decimated during the civil war in Mozambique.
In 2006 and 2007 I drove more than 3,000 kms covering every publicly accessible road over a period of some 30 days. I took along a GPS and was able to create useful maps for each drive. I was also able to record much of the wildlife, flora and fauna of The Kruger National. There are many highlights from the drives and lots of lingering memories for me and I hope that in reading these many articles you find them useful in preparing your own "safari".
The Kruger is far more than a safe haven for wild animals in a true wilderness environment. It is more than a game reserve. It is blessed with an amazing variety of landscapes which are responsible for the significant biodiversity within its borders. It is impossible to become bored with The Kruger.
In summary I hope you enjoy this unique Kruger website and that it might even inspire you to visit this wonderful place which is far more than the Big 5 for which it is truly famous. The Kruger National Park is a BIG place.
New Information Being Added To This Kruger Website!
This website is constantly being updated with new info, stories and images, keep us bookmarked! In 2013 after being inspired by my fathers hard work when his book got published (Please see above) I decided to carry on with his research legacy and to gather information from all the roads, camps, hides, picnic spots, rivers, birds, reptiles, trees, mammals, insects, bodies of water and points of interest. I will do this in a completely different way to our my father approached it, so you as the end user, can make the absolute most of your Kruger National Park visit. A special emphasis will be placed on the animals; mammals from the striped mouse to the African elephant, birds from the common Laughing Dove to the rare Bat Hawk - how to find them, where to look and in general the areas where they occur... Please see below for interesting articles added more recently.
Read about all of Kruger's large and small mammals, see pictures, where they occur in the Kruger Park and read interesting stories and facts about them.
Using each of The Kruger's main camps as a base all the roads within these regions were explored. You can use the links to the left and follow along with each of the drives I completed. The camps in the list are from north to south. This was the order in which I made the 6 visits to the Kruger.
Have a look at our new website that covers everything on the Kruger National Park, and tells you all our adventures, here: Stories Of The Kruger. Lots of video content available, an online shop, and our very own custom made map! Launched February 2018!
What's in the Kruger Park?
The Kruger National park is world famous for the high density of the Big 5.
The map above is an example of a distribution I map created from data supplied by the KNP... each black spot on this graph represents the sighting of one of the Big 5 (in this case the distribution of elephants).
Click the links below to view similar distribution maps for all the Big 5 animals found in the Kruger National Park.
The larger coloured dots on the maps identify the various rest camps or Kruger Park Lodges and trails available inside the Kruger Park itself. As can be seen the density of elephants is at its highest in the north eastern quartile of the Kruger National Park. There are relatively few elephants in the western half of the Kruger. The reason is much to do with the underlying geological differences between the eastern and western portions of the KNP.
Lion ... This is a map showing park-wide distribution of the king of beasts, the majestic African lion. Seen on 4 separate occasions during June 2006.
Leopard ... The leopard is probably the most beautiful wild cat to be seen anywhere. It is also the most widely spread big cat but still not easily seen because of its nocturnal and stealth habits. Saw result of Impala kill in June 2006.
Elephant ... the big and generally gentle giant. The elephant once seen in the wild cannot ever be forgotten. I was charged twice in May 2006.
Buffalo ... So often described as the most dangerous of animals and I have a friend, Robin Morris, who can personally attest to this. He was literally saved from certain death by a ranger's gunshot that resulted in a charging wounded buffalo dropping dead at his feet. The incident happened in the 1980's in Botswana during a walking trail.
White Rhino ... The white rhino is massive, and a site everybody should see at some stage in their life. Under careful supervision by armed rangers these animals can often be approached to within a few metres. The map will show Pretoriuskop as a perfect venue to see these large animals.


As my birthday and thanksgiving approach this week I find myself looking back at life. All the things I am thankful for, and just how much everything has changed.
It's funny to me, little things change each day. They don't seem to be too significant, just little changes here and there. But when you look back at everything, it's totally different. Maybe you thought you're somewhere you'd never thought you be, or you're the person you never thought you could be. Things little happen to us each day that affect us. Life has a way of molding us into what it wants us to be. It is only us that define if it's positive or negative. We decide the outcome of each moment; the outcome of our lives. With each passing event we choose how it will affect us; we choose what we cling to and what we let go of. It is simply all up to us. This way of thinking is so refreshing to me, that I control the outcome of my life. Knowing that everything happens for a reason puts me at ease; that there are no mistakes, only lessons. You never really loose in the game of life, you only grow wiser and stronger.
There are positive things that happen every day, yet we put so much time and effort into the negative. Playing the pity game of poor me, and complaining about how awful life is. Negative is easy, it requires little to no thought, it's comfortable, and it's easy to get sucked into. It is easier to judge everyone else, than to judge yourself. I get it, it just isn't okay with me. It doesn't settle well with in me, I cannot be so lazy that I am controlled by mindlessness.
Seeing the brighter side of things will always be the way I choose, looking on the positive side makes me feel whole and complete; knowing that there is good to be found in everything. Just think of how beautiful the world would be if everyone gave into the light as easily as they give into the negative. If we all had empathy, kindness and endless love for one another; think of all that we would accomplish as a species. It would be incredibly beautiful, the true essence of humanity shining so blighting.


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Feb. 05, 2020 at 7:21 am
Colombia has test to coronavirus diagnosis
The Ministry of Health and the National Institute of Health revealed that Colombia already has diagnostic tests to determine if any citizen have the new coronavirus.
According to Iván Darío González, Minister of Health, Colombia is the first country in Latin America to consolidate these tests, which is a positive result for the preparation for this phenomenon.
Martha Ospina, manager of the National Institute of Health, stated that the goal was to test coronavirus in Colombia, thus avoiding sending samples to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States, as the first tests were done on suspected cases, which were eventually discarded.
Likewise, the minister noted that "this is complemented by the work we have been doing for three weeks with Chancellery and Ministry of Transport to work together with Colombian Migration, Civil Aeronautics, Dimar and the airlines, with the aim of be able to control and set protocols to be all on the same mood. In addition, at the instruction of President Ivan Duque, we set up an unified command that will meet weekly."
The minister finally stated that to nowadays there are no confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the country and that the risk remains low, "although it is not zero" because of the chinese people hosted in Urabá
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Q: Input Error: There is no file extension If this is a rookie mistake I apologize for wasting your time.
As part of a larger batch file to create a directory with today's date, copy and paste files to be backed up, change permissions and delete files older then X days I've run into a problem.  Here's where it happens:
echo var D = new Date() > tmp.js
echo D = (D.getFullYear()*100+D.getMonth()+1)*100+D.getDate() >> tmp.js
echo WScript.Echo( 'set YYYYMMDD='+D ) >> tmp.js
echo @echo off > tmp.bat
cscript //nologo tmp.js >> tmp.bat
call tmp.bat

The command prompt spits back this error:
Input Error: There is no file extension in "C:\Users\name\Desktop\Error:".

So obviously the rest of the batch file fails but the weird thing is this works on one machine on the network but not the other.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT: there is one more line to that code that is returning the error, my mistake.
After I call tmp.bat:
mkdir "\\network\file\%YYYYMMDD%"

A: This code, as is, will not generate the indicated error
BUT, if the path to the batch file contains spaces, and the code is something like
cscript //nologo %~dp0\tmp.js

you will get the indicated error as the argument to cscript is incorrectly parsed because the space in the path to the js file. If this is the case (or something similar), quotes in the filename should solve it
cscript //nologo "%~dp0\tmp.js"

Also, the temporary batch file is not needed. Output from cscript can be directly read with the help of for command
set "tmpJS=%~dp0\tmp.js"
>"%tmpJS%" echo with(new Date()){WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(getFullYear()*10000+(getMonth()+1)*100+getDate())};
for /f %%D in ('cscript //nologo //B "%tmpJS%"') do set "YYYYMMDD=%%D"

A: Wow - that is a very convoluted way to get the current date in a variable.
This is not a direct answer to your question, but I think I can make your life much easier :-)
There really is no need for a temporary batch file. FOR /F could process the output of your temporary JS script directly.
But I have an even easier solution - GetTimeStamp.bat is a hybrid JScript/batch utility that can do nearly any date and time computation on a Windows machine.
The utility is pure script that will run on any modern Windows machine from XP forward - no 3rd party executable required.
Assuming getTimestamp.bat is in your current directory, or better yet, somewhere within your PATH, then the following simple call will define a YYYYMMDD variable containing today's date in YYYYMMDD format:
call getTimeStamp -f {yyyy}{mm}{dd} -r YYYYMMDD

There are a great many options for specifying the base date and time, many options for adding positive or negative offsets to the date and time, many options for formatting the result, and an option to capture the result in a variable. Both input and output can be directly expressed as local time, UTC, or any time zone of your choosing. Full documentation is embedded within the script.

A: Figured it out:
running cscript on tmp.js led to an error begin put into tmp.bat
call tmp.bat then returned the weird input error because of the error message inside of tmp.bat.
tmp.bat looked like this when editing
Cscript Error: Can't find script engine "JScript" for script "C:\Users\name\Desktop\tmp.js".

That's why calling tmp.bat returned this error message:
Input Error: There is no file extension in "C:\Users\name\Desktop\error:".

The problem ended up being with jscript.dll. It needed to be (re)registered.
regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\jscript.dll

^Fixed my problem.  Thank you all for the help.


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U.S. heads into semifinals to play Germany
By Kevin Baxter
Of The Los Angeles Times |
OTTAWA — The U.S. wanted Germany and now the Americans will get their wish. Dominating China everywhere but on the scoreboard, the U.S. rode Carli Lloyd's second-half goal to a 1-0 victory Friday in a Women's World Cup quarterfinal played before a sellout crowd of 24,141 at T.D. Place. And that will send U.S. 100 miles up down the highway to meet the top-ranked Germans on Tuesday in the tournament semifinals.
The second-ranked U.S. is the only country to reach the semifinals in all seven Women's World Cups. The Germans beat France on penalty kicks earlier Friday to win its quarterfinal.
The U.S., unbeaten in five games here, outshot China 17-7 and put more shots on goal, 5-2. But the only difference on the scoreboard was Lloyd's goal six minutes into the second half.
It came on a header that was set up by a Julie Johnston longball from just inside the midfield stripe. And it was another clutch goal from a player who has a history of clutch goals, having provided the winning score in the last two Olympic finals.
In this World Cup, Lloyd has the last two U.S. goals in the knockout round. The Americans were playing without two key players in midfielders Megan Rapinoe and Lauren Holiday, who were ineligible for the game after receiving their second yellow cards of the tournament in their Round of 16 win over Colombia.
And they tried to make up for those absences by pushing hard from the opening whistle, outshooting the Chinese 11-4 in a one-sided first half. However that produced little of note with Johnston having one shot blocked by a defender and another go over the net.
Amy Rodriguez, Alex Morgan and Kelley O'Hara also had good chances they were unable to convert in the opening half in what was another unconvincing effort by a U.S. team that has yet to put its stamp on this tournament.
The U.S. had a decided height advantage over the Chinese, whose tallest player is just 5-foot-9. And they exploited that advantage on Lloyd's goal, with the U.S. captain outjumping China's Rong Zhao, who is just 5-6.
The goal was Lloyd's fourth career score in World Cup play and after that the U.S. backed off a bit and relied on its defense, which hasn't allowed a goal since the opening half of its first group-play game.
Morgan Brian nearly added an insurance goal in the 73rd minute but her long strike hit the goalpost and bounced away. Now comes unbeaten Germany, which had scored a tournament-high 20 goals.
Holiday and Rapinoe were missing from the game after picking up their second yellow cards, and Abby Wambach nearly joined them over critical remarks she made about the officiating in that game.
But FIFA stopped short of suspending international soccer's all-time leading scorer, allowing her to come off the bench late in the second half of the quarterfinal with China.
After the Colombia game Wambach suggested French referee Stephanie Frappart may have targeted the two Americans who entered the games with cautions. "It seemed like she was purposefully giving those yellows to maybe players that she knew were sitting on yellows," she said. "I don't know if that was just a psychological thing. Who knows?"
Wambach apologized a day later, something FIFA says factored in its decision to issue only a warning and not a suspension. During the 2012 Olympics, Canadian striker Christine Sinclair made pointed comments about the officiating following her team's semifinal loss to the United States, earning a four-match suspension from FIFA for unsportsmanlike behavior.
Meanwhile, China's team won despite losing. In the run-up to the quarterfinal, the country's state media said the World Cup team will receive the "highest ever" bonus for reaching the tournament quarterfinals, reported to be around 1 million yuan or $160,000.
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Customs procedures
Pre Arrival / Pre Departure Declarations
In its Communication to the Council and the European Parliament amending the Community Customs Code (COM(2003) 452 of 24/07/2003) the European Commission proposed a number of measures designed to meet the need for safety and security in relation to goods crossing international borders, including requirements linked to the US Container Security Initiative (CSI), while, at the same time, remaining in step with the e-customs plans for the future. (see also Press Release IP/05/209 ).
These proposals were adopted by the European Parliament and Council as Regulation 648/2005 (OJ L 117, 4.5.2005, p.13).
Among other measures, the new Regulation requires traders to supply customs authorities with advance information on goods brought into, or out of, the customs territory of the European Community. This will provide for better risk analysis, but, at the same time, for quicker process and release upon arrival, resulting in a benefit for traders that should be equal to, if not exceed, any cost or disadvantage of providing information earlier than at present.
The measures will not apply, however, until the necessary implementing provisions have also come into force. These provisions which will define
the data elements to be included in the pre-arrival and pre-departure declarations;
the time limits for the provision of this information;
the rules for variations and exceptions to these limits; and
the framework for the exchange of risk information between Member States;
Discussions with Member States on the draft implementing provisions commenced in the Customs Code Committee in July 2005. The present state of those deliberations is reflected in the latest working version of the draft proposals and Annex relating to declaration data.
The Commission has undertaken, in a declaration to the European Parliament at the time of the adoption of the Regulation, that the business sector will be closely involved in the comitology decision-making procedure. Where particular matters are being addressed, different European trade federations have been and will be invited, on the basis of their expertise in the different subjects to be dealt with, to present their views directly to the Customs Code Committee.
It is anticipated that a 24 hour deadline for prior declaration will apply to goods brought into the customs territory of the EU by sea , where the voyage duration exceeds that period, but in most other cases, prior notification will probably need to be given just 2 hours, if electronic, or 4 hours if on paper, before the goods are brought into, or out of, the customs territory of the EU.
For goods leaving the Community under a customs procedure the customs declaration itself, including the required security related data, will be used as the pre-departure advice, so as not to place an additional burden on Community exporters.
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I, too, thank the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Dr Whiteford) and congratulate her on introducing this debate.
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