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NASCAR: The Evolution Of The Sport (1965-1969)
Bert WilberCorrespondent IJanuary 23, 2010
On Oct. 19, 1964, NASCAR issued new rules for the 1965 NASCAR Grand National campaign designed to curb speeds and increase the focus on safety. The engine displacement remained unchanged, but special limited edition engines were banned, including the Chrysler Hemi.
Chrysler packed up and pulled out of NASCAR in protest. Richard Petty would not defend his championship, and top contenders David Pearson, Paul Goldsmith, Bobby Isaac, Jim Paschal, and LeeRoy Yarbrough were on the sidelines. It was a season marked by protest and controversy.
In February, Fred Lorenzen won a rain-shortened Daytona 500, finishing a lap ahead of runner-up Darel Dieringer. Fords and Mercurys took the top 13 positions as the factory Chrysler team continued its boycott.
Tragedy reared its ugly head toward the end of the month when Richard Petty lost control of his 1965 Plymouth Barracuda drag car at a dragstrip in Dallas, Ga. The car veered into a group of spectators, killing an eight-year-old boy.
Veteran Ned Jarrett prevailed in a season-long struggle with rookie driver Dick Hutcherson to capture his second NASCAR Grand National championship. Jarrett and Hutcherson traded the points lead five times during the season. Jarrett's quest for a second NASCAR title was in jeopardy when he injured his back in a race at Greenville, S.C., in June. With the aid of a back brace, Jarrett continued and managed to overtake Hutcherson in the 34th race of the season at Bristol. Jarrett won 13 races during the season, while Hutcherson set an all-time record for a freshman by winning nine events. Hutcherson led the standings after 13 races, another rookie record.
The 1966 NASCAR season was marked by the re-introduction of Chrysler's legendary Hemi engine and Ford's departure from the sport. With less competition and more power than ever, Chrysler was a frequent visitor to the winner's circle early in the season, though Ford's boycott took a big bite out of attendance. By the end of the season, Ford had realized that without NASCAR performances, sales were suffering, and so Ford returned to the speedways in force.
Fan attendance got to be such an issue that only 7,000 spectators showed up, plus 5,000 Boy Scouts, who were admitted free, to see Richard Petty dominate the Rebel 400 at Darlington, finishing three laps ahead of runner-up Paul Goldsmith.
April 1966, also saw a Junior Johnson-built No. 26 Ford, driven by Fred Lorenzen in Atlanta's Dixie 400, introduced as one of the most radical cars to ever compete in NASCAR Grand National competition. The front end of the car sloped downward, the roofline was lowered, the side windows were narrowed, the front windshield was sloped in an aerodynamic position, and the tail was kicked up. Several of rival drivers called the car "The Yellow Banana," "Junior's Joke," and "The Magnafluxed Monster."
Controversy brewed again in August when Richard Petty edged Buddy Baker to win the Dixie 400 at Atlanta International Raceway. Points leader David Pearson's Dodge was ruled illegal and didn't start the race, while the Junior Johnson Ford driven by Fred Lorenzen was permitted to compete despite unapproved aerodynamic enhancements. NASCAR president Bill France admitted that "the rules were bent at Atlanta," but adds he was also hoping the lax rules would lure Ford drivers back into NASCAR racing.
By 1967, the car makers were back in the NASCAR Grand National chase in full force. At Daytona, more than 80 cars filed into the big speedway, and all factory teams were on hand with the exception of General Motors. A record crowd of 94,250 paid to attend the Daytona 500, which was won in 1967 by Mario Andretti. The excitement at Daytona set the tone for the rest of the thrilling season.
Curtis Turner started the 1967 season with a bang, as he became the first driver to surpass 180 mph on an official qualifying run in Daytona 500 time trials. Turner's No. 13 Smokey Yunick Chevelle was clocked at 180.831 mph, earning the pole position. It was a controversial achievement for two reasons. First, it meant an unsponsored GM car had beaten the Ford and Chrysler factory entries. Second, the car was roughly 7/8 scale. An engine failure in the final 100 miles would ultimately put Turner out of the Daytona 500. USAC star Mario Andretti would lead the final 33 laps and win his first Grand National race, the Daytona 500.
The 1968 NASCAR Grand National season would pit the sleek Ford Torino and Mercury Cyclone models against the brute horsepower of Chrysler's Hemi. General Motors was still on the sidelines, staying out of racing because it feared violating federal safety standards.
The Fords and Cale Yarborough's lone Mercury were the top dogs on the superspeedways, while Richard Petty's Ford racked up wins on the short tracks. Ford scored in nine of the 12 major races on big tracks. The excitement of the season gave NASCAR a needed boost in popularity among fans as well.
Bobby Allison won the 1968 NASCAR Grand National season opener at Middle Georgia Raceway in Macon. As an added bonus to highlight the start to the season, an elaborate moonshine operation was discovered beneath the track. Peach County Sheriff Reggie Mullis called it, "one of the most well-built moonshine stills ever operated."
Cale Yarborough swept both races at Daytona International Speedway in 1968, winning the Daytona 500 in the final laps and romping to an easy win in the Firecracker 400. While the Wood Brothers Mercury team had full Ford factory backing, 60 Minute Cleaners provided additional sponsorship for three years.
As the end of the 1968 season neared, Richard Petty finished seven laps ahead of the field in the 150-miler at Orange Speedway in Hillsborough, N.C. It was the last NASCAR Grand National race ever staged at the venerable 0.9-mile dirt oval. Petty also announced he would leave Plymouth to drive Fords in the 1969 season. All of Petty's 92 wins had come in Plymouths, until then.
At the beginning of the 1969 NASCAR Grand National season, Ford and Mercury were virtually unbeatable. On the big tracks hosting races of 300 miles or more, Ford tied together a 13-race winning streak. Fords took the top five spots at Atlanta, the top four at Michigan, and finished first and second in eight of the 13 victories. All of that changed in September with the introduction of the Dodge Charger Daytona at the Talladega 500.
Meanwhile, behind-the-scenes frustrations built among the drivers, who held a secret meeting in Ann Arbor in August and formed the Professional Drivers Association. The rough track at Talladega proved to be a catalyst: drivers wanted to postpone the race to wait for safer tires to be developed that could handle the surface, but officials refused. Most of the drivers loaded up their cars and went home. The first official drivers' boycott in NASCAR history had become a reality.
In the final months of the 1969 campaign, the PDA drivers returned to the speedway, albeit with considerable tension, to cap off another season of thrills and controversy. The annual 500-lapper at Martinsville Speedway was run two weeks after the Talladega boycott, and many of the spectators were angered with PDA president Richard Petty for calling the strike. Late in the race, a fan hurled a beer can that struck Petty's windshield. Despite the close call, Petty outran Pearson down the stretch and won the race.
In another example of fan frustration, Richard Petty was denied a possible win due to fan intervention. Petty was seemingly on his way to victory until a late-race caution was thrown to remove a beer bottle that had been thrown from the grandstands. Petty's big lead was erased and David Pearson came on in the final lap to steal the win.
Despite tensions between drivers and fans, manufacturers continued to try pulling out all the stops in their quest to stifle the competition. Ford Motor Co. introduced sloped nose extensions on their Ford Torinos and Mercury Cyclones in 1969 in an effort to lengthen their advantage over Chrysler products. The extensions provided a definite advantage over the conventional Dodge Chargers, particularly on the high-speed ovals. The new Ford was coined the Torino Talladega while the Mercury special edition was the Cyclone Spoiler. Fords didn't lose on a superspeedway until September.
NASCAR signaled a milestone in popularity at the end of the 1969 season, signing a contract with ABC Television, which would televise nine NASCAR Grand National races, including five live broadcasts during the 1970 season. NASCAR was on a roll.
* Many thanks to wikipedia, about.com, and NASCAR.com for some of the data for this article .


The hamlet pachequera Lo Ferro, will host from 23 to 29 August 2010, the XXXI Festival Internacional de Cante Flamenco de Lo Ferro, the flagship campus of the Festival.
The tribute to the Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas de La Union and the city is undoubtedly the most striking event programming Lo Ferro Flamenco 2010.
On the other hand stresses the harbinger of the Festival: Juan Tomás Frutos, President of the Association of Journalists of the Region of Murcia and Director of Information Services TVE in Murcia, or artists such as 'El Capullo de Jerez', one of the top prizes El Festival de Cante de las Minas de La Union, and others like Luis Heredia 'El Polaco' or Jesus 'The Huts' for the gala on 24, for the benefit of the Spanish Association Against Cancer.
Of course we will continue to devote a day to promote Flemish school this year and celebrates its twelfth year.
In addition, for the days of competition has been talked about dancers as Soraya Clavijo, Award "Carmen Amaya" Festival of Cordoba.
Also trademark "Flamenco Solidario" Lo Ferro Festival will offer its first gala to associations such as PROMETHEUS (Association of physical and mental disabilities Torre Pacheco), SODITOR (Association of diabetic Torre Pacheco), Murcia ALCER (Donors' Association organs), CYSTIC FIBROSIS REGION OF MURCIA, or the Spanish Association Against Cancer.
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Whether you are an individual, freelancer, small business owner, or a marketing/PR manager at a large organisation, choosing a reliable print company to help you with your printing needs has become a foremost challenge nowadays. There are countless commercial printing companies that claim to give you different packages, all at what seem like, very competitive rates. How do you tell them apart and choose the one company that's right for you?
Choosing the right printing company may sound like a pretty basic task, but you will be surprised how easy it is to make a mistake. There are many options available, from local printers Cambridge to online printers based half way round the world in Singapore. Many people simply buy from who they already know, or go for the cheapest quote they get and hope for the best, but quality, service and green credentials are just as important as price. Here are a few important steps that will help you chose a reliable printing company.
Why Hire a Printing Company?
Having some basic knowledge about the printing techniques makes it easy for you while deciding on a printing company. No idea? Don't panic, here's brief overview: there are two major types of printing techniques – offset printing and digital printing. Offset printing expertise, is the use of plates which are used to transfer an image from a plate onto a rubber blanket, and then to a sheet of paper – ideal for bulk orders. Digital printing does what it says in the title, it is printing using large-format and/or high-volume laser or inkjet printers. However, digital printing has a higher cost per page than more traditional offset printing methods.
By going to visit their premises before committing to any type of contract, you have the chance to ask questions, see how they perform and how their system works in terms of efficiency. The quality and presentation of their premises will reflect the quality of work they produce. Remember you are testing to see if your account holder and you have a good rapport with one another, this will mean a friendly working relationship can blossom.
It's always best practice to as to see samples of recent work from your short-listed printers that reflect the specification of your project so you can make an informed evaluation. Check if the finish is to the standard and quality you need – is there any smudging of the ink – or mis-spelt text? Are the images clear or blurred? It's not always the case but sometimes low price can means low quality, because companies can use cheap ink and paper to be able to offer very low cost printing. Whether you go for an expensive company or a cheap one, just make sure you are happy with the quality of print you will be receiving and that it's right for your business!
It is more than likely that you will be assigned an account manager – you want them to be honest, trustworthy. Ideally you should look for a printer who can manage your project in its entirety, from print, personalisation, binding, storage and delivery. It is far more cost-effective and efficient if the same company can handle it at every step.
Google around – search on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, and most importantly their website! How long have they been established? What do their customers say? What companies have they worked for? What examples of their work do they provide? It's worth doing as much research as you can up front, before you exchange any money or signatures.
Now this may be more important to some rather than others, however if you use a printer who does not manage its carbon footprint then this could reflect badly on your business. Look for a printer who is committed to taking care of the environment, they are aiming to prevention of pollution, and are using as many natural resources as possible. You could always look to see if they have FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) and PEFC accreditations, or they may even offer recycled paper and environmentally-friendly inks!
Be Loyal to your Print Provider!
Once you have found a good printer offering a quality, value for money product and excellent customer service then stay loyal! Good working relationships with your printer will potentially enable you to get better service such as discounts, faster turnaround and personal delivery – you really will reap the benefits!


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Time for change on harassment, including on Parliament Hill: minister
Compliance & Enforcement Human Resources Labour/employment Mental Health occupational health and safety Workplace Harassment/Discrimination
OTTAWA – The time has come to crack down on harassment in federal workplaces, including Parliament Hill, says Employment Minister Patty Hajdu.
"Parliament Hill features distinct power imbalances that perpetuate the culture that people with a lot of power and prestige can and have used that power to victimize the people who work so hard for us," Hajdu said Monday in the House of Commons as she kicked off debate on proposed legislation to support safe workplaces.
"It's a culture where people who are victims of harassment or sexual violence do not feel safe to bring those complaints forward."
The legislation, introduced last fall, is aimed at giving workers and employers a clear course of action to better deal with allegations of bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct.
Later Monday, MPs agreed with a motion tabled by NDP House leader Ruth Ellen Brosseau to fast-track the legislation, known as Bill C-65, sending it straight to the House of Commons human resources committee for further study.
The proposed changes would merge separate labour standards for sexual harassment and violence, subjecting them to the same scrutiny and dispute resolution process, which could mean bringing in an outside investigator to review allegations.
They would also – for the first time – bring parliamentary staff under the protection of the Canada Labour Code.
The proposed rules, which also apply to banks, transportation, telecommunications and other federally regulated industries, would enforce strict privacy rules to protect victims of harassment or violence.
"Things need to change and it starts with saying emphatically that it is never OK," Hajdu told the House. "It is never OK for someone to take advantage of a position of power to victimize another person. It is never OK that victims, far too often women or young workers or people of colour or people of the LGBTQ2 community, have been forced to stay silent and keep their trauma to themselves."
Bill C-65 comes to second reading in the House of Commons at a time when the so-called #MeToo movement has reached Parliament Hill, including allegations against Liberal MP Kent Hehr, who resigned from cabinet last week pending an investigation.
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel responded with an impassioned speech on how what life can be like for women on the Hill.
"Women are still touched. Our hair is still stroked. Our shoulders are still rubbed," she said. "We are still given hugs and cheek kisses that linger a bit too long. To fit in, we still laugh at the lewd jokes, and maybe even tell one ourselves, to be considered safe to socialize with and one of the boys."
She also noted how women are shamed for standing up for themselves, but also shamed for making the choice to stay silent.
"These things are used to control us, to demean us, and to silence us."
Rempel urged everyone who witnesses harassment to say something about it, rather than forcing the victims to do it themselves.
"We cannot be bystanders any longer," she said, calling on the government to require everyone – from volunteers and interns to MPs and ministers – to take training on how to prevent sexual harassment from happening in the first place.
"Women here need to stand together regardless of political stripe and support each other as these claims occur and demand that our leadership take action when they occur," Rempel said. "Men need to call out their peers when harassment happens. MPs need to let their staff know that they have voices and that they should use them."
She also mentioned a report by Maclean's magazine that her own party was aware of an allegation of sexual assault against former Ontario MP Rick Dykstra, and allowed him to remain on the ballot in the 2015 campaign.
"Those people should be ashamed of themselves and they should have no role or influence in this or in any political party," Rempel said.
Dykstra has not returned a request for comment on the allegations.
He lost his seat in the 2015 election and went on to become president of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, a position from which he resigned over the weekend just before the Maclean's story was published.
Hajdu acknowledged Monday that legislation will not be enough.
"It takes a culture of zero tolerance. It takes leadership in every organization to stand up and say 'This is not acceptable, time's up, we are not going to sit back and listen to, you know, whispers and rumours and innuendo and do nothing about it," she told a news conference.
Hajdu said #MeToo has helped focus a spotlight on the problem.
"It is our responsibility to ensure that that light does not fade."
The proposed legislation would give more power to staffers, she said, including by making sure they have access to a neutral third party to examine their complaints, so that they are not forced to rely upon the MP or senator who employs them.
Tougher harassment rules to apply to online spaces, says Labour Minister Hajdu
Political staffers split on whether harassment legislation will work: survey
Parliament Hill security investigating alleged incident of racial profiling
Manitoba awareness campaign aims to stop sexual harassment of civil servants
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Don't Forget To Tackle These Jobs This November!
Happy Halloween everyone, I hope you had a good one! Since it's fallen on a Monday, me and my boyfriend celebrated last night instead with some pumpkin carving, scary films and plenty of gimmicky spooky themed treats. With October done and dusted it means we're accelerating towards Christmas at an alarming rate, but thankfully there's still a month to get everything in order. As well as planning and budgeting for the festive season, it's time to make some changes in the home as the cold weather really is on the way now. Here are a few essential jobs to add to your list.
I definitely recommend having a deep clean at the start of each month, and tackle the kinds of jobs that don't need doing every time you clean the house. For example I plan on hiring a rug doctor to give all of the upstairs carpets a clean this month, as well as wash all of the curtains in the house. Now is also a good time to get rid of the old to make way for the new. If you know you're going to have lots of new and exciting things coming into the home at Christmas, then get rid of what you're no longer using. You'll need room for that Christmas tree on the first of December!
If you haven't already started cranking up your heating every night, chances are November will be the month that you do. Now is the perfect time to have your boiler serviced, and check that there are no issues. The last thing you need is for it to pack up on you over the next few months now the temperatures are dropping quickly. Regular servicing allows the engineer to pick up on any issues early on, potentially saving you a lot of money and hassle later down the line. If you have an air conditioning unit, get that serviced at the same time. Since you won't be using it until next year, it will give you peace of mind that everything is in full working order. Companies such as ACE Group are able to to service your unit for you.
The clocks going back means we've reached the stage in the year where it's dark when you get up for work, and dark when you get home. While this is always a bit depressing, at least having nice lighting softens the blow. Use a couple of different light sources in each room so you can tailor the ambience to however you want it. For example you could have a very low, soft light for watching tv but something brighter for reading. I've recently invested in Ikea's Hektar oversized lamp and I'm obsessed- it adds quite an interesting and industrial look into an otherwise pretty and girly room.
Finally, while it's likely to be wet and dreary until the spring there are important jobs to get sorted in the garden. Clear gutters which can become blocked with fallen leaves, and cause leaks and damage to the house. Jet wash paving slabs and decking to remove any mossy layer that's accumulated, as this can become slippy when it gets rained on. If you're celebrating bonfire night this weekend, having good seating for guests and a fire pit to keep warm is a good idea!
What tasks are you planning on getting done in the home this November?


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In the rear view mirror, second quarter GDP was revised down from 2.5% to 2.0%. The more forward looking durable goods orders declined for a second month, down -0.7%. Another leading indicator, the University of Michigan final consumer sentiment reading for November showed that consumer confidence has rebounded about halfway from its debt ceiling debacle collapse that began in July. Personal income was up 0.4%, while spending rose only 0.1%. The personal savings rate rose .2% to 3.5%.
With the continuing exception of Oil prices, and a small increase in corporate bond yield spreads, all of the high frequency weekly indicators turned in another positive week.
Let's start again this week by looking at jobs. While there was some weekly noise, the trend remains positive. The BLS reported that Initial jobless claims rose 5,000 to 393,000. The four week average declined 2500 to 394,250. The four week average remains close to its best reading in over 3 years.
The American Staffing Association Index rose by 1 to 92 last week. In the last couple of months, this series has resumed a slight upward trajectory, but remains lower YoY.
Tax withholding returned to a positive YoY reading this week. Adjusting +1.07% due to the 2011 tax compromise, the Daily Treasury Statement showed that while for the first 16 reporting days of November, $109.7 B was collected vs. $112.1 a year ago, a decline of -2.4 B, for the last 20 days, $137.5 B was collected vs. $130.0 a year ago, an increase of $7.5 B or 5.7%. I use the 20 day metric precisely because there is a definite pattern to deposits by day of the week. Thus it appears that last week's negative YoY 4 week loss may have been an outlier. This will be closely watched in the next several weeks.
Housing continues to show stabilization. The Mortgage Bankers' Association reported that seasonally adjusted purchase mortgage applications increased 8.2% last week. On a YoY basis, purchase applications were up 4.8%. Although YoY reports have been negative for several months, the actual change is very slight, and we remain firmly within the range that purchase mortgage applications have been in since May 2010. Refinancing fell -4.0% w/w despite near record low rates, and may have been strongly influenced by seasonality.
YoY weekly median asking house prices from 54 metropolitan areas at Housing Tracker showed that the asking prices declined -0.3% YoY. Once again, this is a new "best" YoY reading in 5 1/2 years. The areas with YoY% increases in price increased to 21, meaning that 40% of all metropolitan areas in this survey now have YoY positive changes in asking prices. Only Chicago still showed double-digit YoY% declines. YoY asking prices for houses could turn positive on a nationwide basis as early as this week.
Retail same store sales remained positive as they have been all year. The ICSC reported that same store sales for the week of November 12 decreased -0.9% w/w but increased 2.8% YoY. Shoppertrak reported that YoY sales rose 3.8% YoY but were off -3.4% week over week. We have entered a period of high seasonality, so the YoY figures are by far the more reliable measure of sales.
The American Association of Railroads reported that total carloads increased 1.9% YoY, up about 10,400 carloads YoY to 545,100. Intermodal traffic (a proxy for imports and exports) was up 7,000 carloads, or 3.0% YoY. The remaining baseline plus cyclical traffic increased 3400 carloads or 1.1% YoY. Total rail traffic has improved substantially in the last two months after having turned negative for 6 of 12 weeks during the summer.
Weekly BAA commercial bond rates rose .04% to 5.16%. Contrarily, yields on 10 year treasury bonds fell .03% to 2.02%. This is the second week of very small increasing spreads in contrary directions. If it were to continue and amplify, it would represent significant weakness.
Finally, the Oil choke collar remains engaged, as Oil closed at $96.77 a barrel on Friday. This remains above the recession-trigger level calculated by analyst Steve Kopits. Gas at the pump decreased $.07 to $3.37 a gallon. Measured this way, we probably are about $.10 above the 2008 recession trigger level. Gasoline usage is once again off substantially, down -2.7% YoY, at 8592 M gallons vs. 8829 M a year ago. The 4 week moving average is off -3.9%. This continues to suggest that consumers have permanently altered their gasoline usage habits towards more conservation.
Money supply was not reported this week.
If ECRI's recession call is correct, it appears it will have to be imported from Europe and China via manufacturing, or else the consumer is going to have to finally give out due to real wage declines. There is simply no sign of recession in the recent weekly indicators. More specifically, the continuation of sub-400,000 initial jobless claims reports suggest that we will see a good jobs report this coming Friday.
This Thanksgiving something like 99% of Americans owe a special thanks to the Occupy Wall Street movement. It is not a question of what the movement does next, or what agenda or specifics it needs to succeed. It already has succeeded, and the only question is whether its success will continue.
Let's flash back nearly 5 months. The House Republican caucus refused to pass what until then had been a pro forma raising of the US's debt ceiling, taking the payment of our country's debts hostage to partisan demands about cuts in social spending. Over the Fourth of July weekend, President Barack Obama proposed a "grand bargain", for the first time explicitly proposing cuts to Medicare and Social Security as an enticement to obtain tax increase concessions from the GOP. The GOP still refused, even though the proposed "bargain" was weighted something like 10 to 1 in favor of spending cuts over tax increases. At the end of the day, only 174 House Republicans mustered the political courage to vote in favor of paying this country's bills. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats had to come to their rescue on August 2. In direct reaction to that debacle, Standard and Poor's downgraded the US's credit rating from AAA two days later.
During that 5 week period, according to the daily Gallup poll, the economic confidence of Americans plummeted - to ratings not seen since the worst of the "great recession."
Economic indicators began to show outright contraction by mid-August. More and more it looked like a recession might be about to start.
A group calling itself "New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts" announce[d] a meeting on Wall Street on August 2 to protest potential austerity measures as a result of the debt-ceiling crisis. That day, another set of protesters planning for an upcoming "occupation" protest joins them, and, according to occupywallst.org, after the assembly the two groups "gather into working groups to plan for the September 17 occupation of Wall Street."
As Dean Baker described so well yesterday, the OWS movement has successfully forced the mainstream media and Washington to acknowledge that by far the biggest problem facing this country is not deficit reduction at all, but rather the now-chronic lack of jobs in the economy, and the longstanding and ongoing and increasingly disparate distribution of income in the US, due to economic and tax policies that favor an upward redistribution of wealth to a very few at the top, who are "too big to fail", vs. "the 99%" for whom there are no bailouts but only calls for austerity and sacrifice.
That relentless focus by the OWS movement has shone the bright light of day on the efforts of the elite in Washington to enshrine the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy while spending cuts are proposed for everybody else.
As a result, OSW is directly responsible for two outcomes in Washington in the last two weeks. One is the failure of the 'Supercommittee' in which Democrats refused to capitulate to GOP demands of no meaningful tax increases, and unlike July refused to dangle ever larger Social Security and Medicare cuts as an enticement. As a result, on January 1, 2013 the Bush income and estate tax cuts are set to expire, and cuts in military and general domestic spending will make up the difference.
Secondly, GOP hostage-taking came to an abrupt and very quiet halt. The latest stopgap budget resolution was set to expire on Saturday November 19. In stark difference to their behavior earlier this year, the House Republican caucus quietly passed another stopgap resolution to avoid a government shutdown through December 16.
Meanwhile economic confidence has regained at least part of its lost ground, and recent data shows that Americans are increasing their spending on purchases like cars. The threat of at least an imminent domestic recession appears to be receding.
Without the Occupy Wall Street movement, I doubt very much Washington would have been derailed from its toxic austerian plans. So this Thanksgiving Day I say "Thank you, OWS."
My father is in for the holidays, so I think this is a good time to sign off for the already holiday shortened week. We'll be back next Monday.
U.S.-based multinational corporations added 1.5 million workers to their payrolls in Asia and the Pacific region during the 2000s, and 477,500 workers in Latin America, while cutting payrolls at home by 864,000, the Commerce Department reported.
The faster growth abroad was concentrated in emerging markets, such as China, Brazil, India and Eastern Europe, according to economists Kevin Barefoot and Raymond Mataloni, of the U.S. Commerce Department.
"Judging by the destination of sales by affiliates in those countries," the economists wrote in a recent survey, "the goal of the U.S. multinational corporations' expanded production was to primarily sell to local customers rather than to reduce their labor costs for goods and services destined for sale in the U.S., Western Europe and other high-income countries."
This is a a point that needs to be stressed when we're talking about the "outsourced" jobs. In reality, there are many regions of the world that are growing at far more impressive rates than the US. In addition, these are new markets with an emerging middle class. That means is simply makes more sense to locate the factories and manufacturing facilities in these countries to sell to that market.
For those of us in the economic blogsphere, Barry Ritholtz over at the Big Picture is a bit like a blogfather. He was one of the first economic bloggers who I read regularly. We've traded some occasional emails and he's always been very gracious.
His latest Washington Post column illustrates why he has such a great reputation: his research is exhaustive, which appeals to the academic side of me. His latest column for the Washington Post adds much more intellectual weight to the argument that the CRA and the other government GSEs weren't the cause of the financial mess.
This is an incredibly good point, and should put the argument to bed for good: did the rest of the world have CRA legislation or GSEs" If not, why did these economies also experience an economic bubble?
So, prices spiked in neighborhoods that weren't the targets of the legislation. That's one powerful law if it can effect economic areas not intended to be effected.
The private market underwrote the vast majority of the sub-prime loans. These organizations weren't subject to the law.
And that's the buzzer ending the game.
For those of you who still adhere to the CRA/GSE line of argument please do us a favor: don't reproduce.
And a special thanks to Barry for being intellectually rigorous at a time when our political and economic discourse is incredibly stupid.
The 5-minute charts clearly shows prices consolidating and then breaking support at the 123 level. Prices are now moving lower in a downward sloping channel.
When trading patterns -- like this topping triangle pattern -- the general rule of thumb is to measure the height of the pattern and the subtract or add that to the break-out point to get a price target. Here, the height is roughly 7 points (122-129), so our price target is in the 117 range.
I've added the Fibonacci levels for added measure.
I've added some of the technical indicators to the graph to show that overall, volume is weakening and the MACD is showing declining momentum, as well as giving a sell signal. In short, the weight of the evidence is clearly in the "market moving lower" camp. This jibes with the overall fundamental situation, which is also equity negative.
Oil has broken through its upward sloping trend line and is now trading around the 10 day EMA. While the EMA picture is still bullish, the 10 day EMA is now moving sideways, telling us the shorter trend is weakening. Also note the MACD has given a sell signal. The next level of support is around the 200 day EMA, where we also have previously established price levels.
Gold is still in the middle of a multi-year rally, with several trend lines currently supporting prices. However, notice that prices may be forming a topping pattern right now, indicating the rally may be over.
Supporting that view is the current 6-month daily chart, Notice there are two failed rallies, with the second topping below the first. Also note the weakening EMA picture, with the EMAs unable to show maintain a strong rally posture.
Is vocational training the answer?
It's been quite a while since I looked at detailed metrics of future job growth, something I devoted a lot of time to a couple of years ago. With a divergeance in forecasts between recession vs. continued growth, this is a good time to take another look. Some of the metrics have performed better than others. Many continue to support optimism, but at least one is downright ominous and may be telling us that revised jobs data will show substantial job losses from earlier this year.
One point I frequently made is that this is a "bifurcated recovery", where manufacturing and sales are performing much better than job and income growth. Although we've had a recent slowdown in some ISM series, the description of a "bifurcated recovery" is still valid.
If the trend continues then by about next summer aggegate hours (red) will have made up all of their comparative losses with jobs (blue) and we can start to expect job growth to fully reflect growth in hours.
The closest thing I found to a "holy grail" leading indicator for future job growth when I took a thorough look over 2 years ago was real retail sales. Real retail sales tended to lead turning points in jobs by about 4 to 8 months. Since sales are still rising, we should expect continued job growth over the next few months as well. (This metric has also recently been touted by Prof. Karl Smith of UNC - Chapel Hill at Modeled Behavior).
This is yet another indication of just how significant government job losses have been to the relatively poor jobs recovery. At the same time, because real retail sales are a leading indicator for jobs, this reinforces that we should expect to continue to see positive job growth in the economy, with private jobs at least being added at something like a 2% YoY rate.
No break in trend happened. Since this scatter graph ends with October, it doesn't show the decline in the 4 week moving average below 400,000 in the last couple of weeks. Should that continue through the end of November, I would expect a very good November employment report, with something like 175,000 private jobs being added.
Okun's law is actually a rule of thumb that holds that for every 2% YoY increase in GDP, there should be a 1% decline in the unemployment rate. Generally speaking, 2% YoY GDP growth equals no change in unemployment. A 4% GDP increase gives you a 1% decrease in unemployment. Contrarily a 0% YoY change in GDP gives you a 1% increase in unemployment.
Since 1948 there has never been a period of 2 or more quarters where YoY GDP% growth was under 2%, that has not equated actual YoY job losses in the next few months. If this relationship holds true now, then contra all of the other above data, we should have already been seeing outright job losses, and they could continue through the winter.
As I said, this contradicts virtually all of the previous indicators we have discussed. A possible explanation comes via Jeff Miller of A Dash of Insight, who informed us yesterday that the BLS's Dynamic Business Report of actual job data collected from the states showed that in the first quarter of this year only 250,000 jobs were created, rather than the 500,000 previously reported. If this revision is applied to all of the 2011, it would mean that the pathetic job gains of this past summer turn into outright significant losses. Not only would this tend to vindicate Okun's law, it would affect all of the data sets above. For example, the scatterplot graph above would probably then show that we did indeed break trend in the direction of a "double-dip."
So adjusted, the recent initial claims levels aren't so bad. In fact, they are better than most readings during the last 50 years.
This metric likewise predicts a continued decline in the unemployment rate over the next few months.
Continued job losses in government continue to have a depressing impact on job growth during this recovery, causing distinctly subpar growth compared with previous recoveries. Undoubtedly as I have pointed out just a few days ago, that housing until recently did not participate in the jobs recovery also has had an effect.
At the same time, most of the above metrics suggest that we should see continued job growth in the months ahead, and a continuing decline in the unemployment rate compared with a year ago. If present underlying economic trends continue (as to which there is obviously no guarantee), then by next summer or so we may see stronger job growth as the deficit in aggregate hours is completely made up.
The contrary indicator is Okun's law, which suggests we should already be in the throes of actual job losses. It is possible that we will find when the jobs data is revised that we did lose a significant number of jobs earlier this year, but that the situation will improve going forward from here, which would be more consistent with all of the data sets above.
The IWMs hit resistance at the 200 day EMA and moved lower. They are now resting on the 50 day EMA. The long lower shadows over the last two trading sessions show that prices have moved below key support levels, but closed higher.
The QQQs, broke lower, printing one strong candle and a shorter one on Friday. Thursday's volume number was pretty strong, but Friday saw a drop.
The SPYs have moved thorugh the 200 day EMA and have printed closes right below the 50 day EMA over the last few days.
The combined impact of these charts is simple: as a combined unit, the equity averages are pointing lower. The QQQs have the strongest technical support as they are sitting on the 200 day EMA, while the IWMs are right at the 50 day EMA. As a general FYI, the general rule of trading thumb to use when trading a consolidation pattern is figure out the height of the pattern at its widest/largest and subtract that amount from the point where prices break through.
The long end of the treasury market moved higher last week, but notice that prices did not close above previously established highs. Also note the volume was incredibly weak, indicating a lack of movement into the market. This tells us that traders are looking for another safe haven asset.
Although it printed stronger volume, the dollar is still in the middle of an upward sloping channel and is also centered right around the 200 day EMA.


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The Fraley Festival will be taking place again as it has for 45 years. Carter Caves State Resort Park is the location, with activities in the lodge, campground, and the Annadeene and J.P. Fraley Amphitheater. Workshops take place during daylight hours and performances of many players of traditional music take place in the evening. The festival celebrates the traditional Appalachian music of the region and was started by Annadeene and J.P. Fraley in 1971. Fiddling, singing, banjo, guitar, and dulcimer playing, and storytelling are what you get to hear when you come to the festival. Musicians and listeners come back year after year to enjoy the good music and good company in this beautiful park. .
Jamming in the parking lots and outside the lodge.
Evening concert performances of 10-minute sets of traditional music.
Demonstration workshops of instruments, singing and storytelling.
Enjoyment of the beautiful park including hiking to caves, natural bridges and box canyons.
RV and primive campgrounds with plenty of music!


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Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis
Author(s) : Jessica Benjamin
Also by Jessica Benjamin
Beyond Doer and Done to: Recognition Theory,...
The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the...
Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and...
A discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an 'other' - other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one which is still recognisable. The second understands and recognises this other by its function as a repository of characteristics cast of oneself. 149 pages.
Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and Sexual Difference
Jessica Benjamin
The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination
Beyond Doer and Done to: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third


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Q: Apache DefaultHttpClient: How to set max. total connection and default max. connections per route I'm using a singleton DefaultHttpClient to make around a dozen or more parallel HTTP requests per second. I wonder how to set the values x (max total connections) and y (default max connections per route) for the 'PoolingClientConnectionManager' in the code below in a smart way.
I'd expect the PoolingClientConnectionManager to help me in order that I do not have to change those values if there are load peaks or if load is much lower than usual. What can I do? Or do I have to set the values to something that will always be bigger than what I actually need?
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poolingClientConnectionManager.setMaxTotal(x);
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Edit: is it a good idea to say poolingClientConnectionManager.setMaxTotal(Integer.MAX_VALUE)?

A: As of version 4.2 one can use a BackoffManager in order to dynamically  adjusts the size of an available connection pool based on feedback from using persistent connections.
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/http/impl/client/AIMDBackoffManager.html


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Here is the HTML CODE that I used to put my form on my Contact (http://www.bwservices.ca/contact_en.html) page. If anyone is good with HTML and forms please tell me what is wrong with my HTML.
Hitting submit it takes one to the thank you page. What is not working?
If you are not getting the information to your e-mail then post the php script that you used.
I am not getting the e-mail to my inbox. I am not even using php I think.
You have set the action of the form in ""http://www.bwservices.ca/thank_en.php"
This means that the form info is submited to this page. In this page, you should have, apart the visual part, a script in php that should process your info and send the mail in your inbox. If you don't have an script in there, you will never receive an email.
Do you know what HTML / PHP script I should inbed in the thank_en.php page by any change George?
php scipts may be of different kinds, depending on what they are required to do. I suggest that you take a look at Andy's tutorials on forms: the link is in his signature.
This is the site I use to make my forms www.jotform.com/ (http://www.jotform.com/) It is a very useful tool but then I need to figure out what I type in my <form action> spot.
Therefore- if you want to use their form, check with them on how it is done.
If you have created the form and then applied it to your website- then you will need to create a php script to process it. Check out the tutorials that were suggested above and adapt them to your need. Your action will coincide with the php script you write and where you put it.
Please don't take the above as being harsh- I simply mean that they have a forum attached to their program that might help you out with the problems you are having.
Accually, I figured out that if you don't change the <form action> you can log on the www.jotform.com (http://www.jotform.com) and view the messages on there. So it's like an inbox but for forms.
So I will just keep it like that until then.


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Phil Smith's Sunderland AFC player ratings: O'Nien, Burge, Robson and Watmore shine in South Shields triumph
13 Sunderland pubs from yesteryear - how many of them can you remember?
Salem Hill attack: Victim left with 'serious' head injuries after assault in Sunderland remains critical in hospital
A man left with 'serious' injuries to his head and face after an assault at a Sunderland home is in a critical condition in hospital.
By Debra Fox
Saturday, 22 June, 2019, 15:23
Emergency services in Salem Hill, Hendon, following a serious assault in the street.
The man, who is 33, was found unconscious at a property in Salem Hill, Hendon, by emergency services on the evening of Thursday, June 20.
Northumbria Police confirmed to the Echo on Saturday, June 22, that the victim remains in hospital.
He is in a critical but stable condition.
A 45-year-old man arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent remains in police custody.
A force spokeswoman said: "We would still encourage anyone with information which could assist the investigation to come forward."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Northumbria Police on 101 quoting reference 1098 200619 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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Children's care servi...
Leeds City Council (18 006 945)
Category : Children's care services > Other
Summary: Mr B complains about the Council in its role as legal guardian for his son. Mr B says the Council has not shown regard to his son's culture and religious heritage. He says the Council has not involved him in decisions about his son's care or communicated with him properly. The Ombudsman does not find fault in the Council's actions.
The complainant, who I refer to as Mr B, has made several complaints to the Council about its care of his son ("C"). C is a looked after child in the care of the Council. Mr B is concerned the Council has not allowed his son to attend mosque or religious events. He is also concerned about how the Council has managed contact arrangements and says the Council is victimising him, his wife ("Mrs B") and C.
I have investigated whether the Council complied with recommendations made by a Stage 3 panel following a complaint by Mr B.
The Local Government Act 1974 sets out our powers but also imposes restrictions on what we can investigate. We cannot investigate a complaint about the start of court action or what happened in court. (Local Government Act 1974, Schedule 5/5A, paragraph 1/3, as amended)
I considered the information provided by Mr B and the Council. I discussed the complaint with Mr B then made further enquiries of the Council. I sent a copy of my draft decision to both parties for their comments.
C is the adopted child of Mr and Mrs B. In 2015 the court issued a Care Order, which placed C in the care of the Council. A Final Care Plan was agreed, which set out objectives and contact with Mr and Mrs B whilst C was in foster care. Contact arrangements were at the discretion of the Council but it was recommended regular contact be encouraged.
The care plan outlined that C's religion and culture had played an important part in his life so far. It stated the Council should continue to encourage and facilitate C's involvement in religious activities, whilst taking his views into account.
The care plan said the Council would prioritise C's cultural and religious requirements when identifying the right match for a foster placement. However, this could not take priority over ensuring the match meets his complex needs.
Since 2015, C has had several different foster placements. Many of the placements have broken down for various reasons. The Council has now placed C with a long-term foster carer, which it considers meets C's needs. However, the foster carers are not from the same cultural or religious background as C.
Mr B has made several complaints to the Council since the care order in 2015. He is concerned C has bounced between multiple foster placements and the Council has not taken reported incidents of attempted self-harm and other behavioural issues seriously. Mr B says the Council does not properly facilitate contact between them and C. He says council officers are not sensitive to or respectful of C's cultural background.
Mr B complained in 2018 and this progressed through all three stages of the Council's children's complaints procedure. A Stage 3 panel heard the matter in August 2018. It did not uphold Mr B's complaints but recognised the importance and benefits of keeping Mr and Mrs B involved and in touch with C. It made recommendations, the full details of which are set out below at Paragraphs 22 to 35.
Following the Stage 3 panel, the Council wrote to Mr and Mrs B to arrange contact times between them and C up until January 2019. Contact was to take place once a month with an agreed period of three hours for each session.
Mr B requested leave from school of two weeks for observance of Muharram. He also sought added contact sessions for religious observance. The Council said it felt best to keep to the arranged contact times as C had expressed that he did not, then, identify as Muslim. It also said it would not normally endorse that amount of absence from school.
The first contact session in August 2018 was due to last for three hours. However, the Council booked taxis for times that would only leave two hours. Mr B raised this and the Council apologised and rectified the mistake. It noted the contact between Mr and Mrs B, and C appeared to have gone well. The following week C had another contact session with his parents to attend a mosque event.
During September 2018 Mr B raised further concerns that the Council was not allowing C to attend further religious events. Mrs B said C turned up at their home unannounced and asked for additional contact to attend an event. The Council later responded to say that C had told them he did not wish to attend mosque at that time and it could not force him to attend.
A further contact session took place at the end of September 2018, which the Council again noted was a positive session. In October 2018 Mr and Mrs B had a meeting with the Council to give their views and discuss plans from then on.
A family time session was meant to take place in October 2018 but was cancelled. The Council said it cancelled the session at C's request. Mr B said the Council did not tell C about the session until the last minute, at which point he panicked.
In November 2018, the Council placed C with a long-term foster placement following a period of multi-systemic therapy. Mr and Mrs B raised their concerns that the foster placement was not a cultural match for C. The Council said it had not been possible to find a cultural match and it felt this placement met C's needs.
C's looked after child review was due to take place in November 2018. The Council wrote to Mr and Mrs B to say it would hold separate meetings for them and C. It said this was so C could contribute freely and honesty without being anxious about expressing his views which may differ from their own. C was supported for the review by an advocate from a local children's rights charity.
A further family time session took place in November 2018.
Stage 3 Panel Recommendations – Views of Mr B and the Council
Children's Social Work Services ("CSWS") consider whether to ask for advice and comment from experts in the field of supporting adoptive parents, people not previously involved in the case, on ways of improving the working relationships between the service and the parents.
Mr B says the Council has not taken advice from anyone in the field of supporting adoptive parents. He says the Council has not complied with this recommendation.
The Council says it arranged a meeting between its team manager and social worker, and a service delivery manager of a local adoption service, for December 2018. The Council accepts it delayed in arranging this meeting and apologises for this. It says this was because its focus was on finding a stable placement for C.
2. There needs to be continual vigilance from all concerned, in their dealings with parents, about issues and behaviour which are culturally sensitive.
Mr B says the Council has not showed continued vigilance about culturally sensitive issues. He says the Council has placed C with long term foster carers that are not of the same cultural background. He says the Council has not allowed C to attend mosque, or religious events, such as Ramadan and Muharram. Mr B feels C could have attended these events if the Council had been more flexible. He also says council staff have continued to call C by an abbreviation of his name, which is not respectful of his heritage.
Mr B lists several occasions in which professionals have called C by an abbreviation of his name, including:
Speaking to C's children's home in September 2018
During a core meeting in October 2018
During a call to C's children's home in October 2018
In meetings with the therapeutic social work team in November 2018 and January 2019
The Council says it has made every effort to seek a culturally matching foster placement but it has not been possible at present. It says it has given all foster placements details of C's culture, background and family faith and made efforts to involve Mr B in its plans. The Council says C's full name should be used and it has put this on the front screen of his record so everyone is aware. It says this commitment must be seen within the context that C does not, at this time, self-identify as Muslim. It says it remains to undertake life story work with C when he is ready.
3. CSWS to check that information about the child's cultural background, agreed with parents, is "top of the file", brought to the attention of social workers and others new to the case, and properly taken into account in placements and other decisions.
For the same reasons as outlined at Paragraph 24 above, Mr B says the Council has not complied with this recommendation.
The Council says it has made sure everyone involved with C is aware of his cultural and religious background. However, it says there is a clear tension as C clearly expresses his views which diverge from his parent's strongly held views. The Council says it must find a balance.
4. CSWS to work out, in collaboration with parents, proper advance planning of Family Time, taking into account parents' commitments as well as the pattern of the child's activities.
Mr B says the Council manages contact haphazardly. He says he and Mrs B were supposed to have a contact session with C in October 2018. He went for the session but it was cancelled at the last minute. C then told him that he did not know about the contact session and panicked.
The Council says family time is planned until January 2019. It is being revisited and supplemented so that all parties have clear expectations and understanding. It says it has arranged contact with as much notice as possible.
5. CSWS should also try to build in time for the social worker and supervisor (if appropriate) to meet C's parents on a regular agreed basis in between reviews to listen to and respond to their concerns, providing a clear explanation of CSWS actions — the purpose being to provide an alternative to parents feeling that they have to route their concerns through the complaints procedure. Such meetings should include feedback from both parties on how Family Time has been going.
Mr B says he had a meeting with the Council in October 2018 but nothing concrete has happened or moved forward since then.
The Council says it has held meetings with Mr B to resolve concerns and provide him with an opportunity to express his views.
6. The social worker to discuss with C, at a suitable occasion, whether an independent advocate would be helpful to him.
Mr B says C was adamant he wanted to meet an advocate and asked for a solicitor. He says C has now seen an advocate from a children's charity but this is not the same as seeing a solicitor.
The Council says C has an independent advocate from a local children's rights service. C has access to this advocate, who has represented on his behalf about things he says are important to him. The advocate also attended his looked after child review in November 2018.
7. CSWS to re-visit the Family Plan worked out at a Family Group Conference (see 30 above) and consider whether it should now be updated and applied for C's benefit, and if so how best to do this.
Mr B says the Council has not re-visited the Family Plan at all.
The Council says C has recently moved into a foster placement, which it considers is a positive and supportive environment. It says it does not consider revisiting the family plan would be beneficial for him, at this time. However, this is something it will look at when his reviews occur.
Recommendation 1
The Council accepts it has delayed in complying with this recommendation. The Stage 3 panel made its recommendation in August 2018 and the Council did not set up a meeting until December 2018.
The recommendation itself is not specific about timescales. It may be reasonable to infer the Council should have acted promptly and it does not appear the meeting was arranged until after my investigation started. However, the recommendation is also not specific about the outcome the Council should look to achieve.
The panel only recommended the Council consider whether to ask for advice. Whilst it should have considered this sooner, it has now done so and decided to set up a meeting with the adoption service. The Council has now complied with the recommendation and the delay is not sufficient in of itself to amount to fault, when the panel set no timescales. I also accept the Council's priority was to find a stable placement for C.
Even if the delay did amount to fault, I would likely have recommended the Council apologise and take steps to comply with the recommendation. The Council has already done both so it is unlikely I could achieve a different outcome for Mr B.
I have read through the Council's correspondence with Mr B from August 2018 onwards. I cannot see an example in which the Council referred to C by an abbreviated name. It is mentioned in that correspondence that a Council officer did so during a meeting in early August 2018. However, this does not appear to have happened again since.
I understand that before August 2018 it is something that happened several times. This was part of the reason the Council made this recommendation. Mr B has given several examples of times since then professionals have used an abbreviated version of C's name.
It is clear the Council accept they should refer to C by his full name while communicating with Mr and Mrs B and have acted to ensure all staff know this. For this reason, I cannot find fault in how the Council has responded to the recommendation. However, it appears there are still occasions when individual members of staff do still use the abbreviation. The Council should continue to reinforce with all its staff that they should not refer to C by an abbreviated name when communicating with Mr and Mrs B.
The panel's recommendation is that the Council be vigilant about issues that are culturally sensitive. However, it still must take into account all relevant considerations and find a balance between the views of Mr and Mrs B and the wishes of C. If C does not currently identify as a Muslim and does not wish to attend religious events, I cannot criticise the Council for not ensuring he does.
I also accept it may not be possible for the Council to find a culturally matching foster placement. This is not always possible and it is not for me to criticise the Council's choice of foster placement if it is satisfied the placement is stable and meets C needs.
I can see from the correspondence the Council has been in regular contact with Mr B. It has always given reasons and explained why it has taken a course of action he is concerned about. I can see no evidence the Council has not been sensitive to Mr B's views or culture. It is not my place to criticise decisions it has made about how best to balance the strain between C's wishes and those of his parents.
I therefore cannot find any fault in how the Council has complied with this recommendation.
This recommendation covers similar points to those at Recommendation 2. Again, I can see no evidence the Council has not complied with this recommendation.
From the correspondence, it is clear all council officers are aware of C's cultural background and have responded to Mr B's concerns. However, the Council does have to find a balance in any situation between C's wishes and that of Mr and Mrs B.
The panel recommended the Council must properly consider issues about C's cultural background when making decisions. However, if it cannot find a suitable foster placement with the same cultural background, I cannot criticise the Council for finding an alternative placement that it feels is stable. Likewise, if C does not identify as a Muslim and does not wish to attend religious events, I cannot criticise the Council for not ensuring he does so.
Dates for family time between August 2018 and January 2019 were set at the start of August. Family time was to take place once a month on agreed dates. I can see that family time did take place on the agreed dates, except for in October 2018.
The recommendation is about ensuring family time is planned in advance. The Council did plan family time in advance, considering each party's commitments, so this is not something I can find fault with.
In terms of managing family time sessions, I accept the Council cannot force C to attend sessions if he says he does not want to. I agree the Council should encourage C to attend and should make sure he is aware of family time sessions in advance. I take on board that C indicated to Mr B he was not aware of the session. However, other family time sessions have gone ahead as planned and the Council maintains it was C's personal choice not to attend. The circumstances of the case support this and I cannot question the merits of the balance the Council has found between encouraging C to attend and respecting his wishes.
I therefore cannot find fault in how the Council has complied with this recommendation.
The recommendation does not specify how often meetings should take place between the Council and Mr and Mrs B. It says on a regular, agreed basis. Without a specific figure, it is difficult to know exactly how regularly the Stage 3 panel had in mind. It is clear this should take place at least once between each looked after child review, possibly more often.
I can see there has been one meeting of this nature in October 2018. Mr and Mrs also attended a meeting about C's Education, Health and Care Plan ("EHCP") in August 2018 and were invited to the looked after child review in November 2018. Aside from this the Council has had further sustained contact with Mr and Mrs B since August 2018.
With the above in mind I cannot find fault in how the Council has complied with this recommendation. It has held a meeting with Mr and Mrs B specifically for this purpose in October 2018 and engaged with Mr and Mrs B in other meetings and in general. However, the Council should continue working towards this recommendation to ensure Mr and Mrs B's views are heard and considered.
The recommendation says the Council should discuss with C whether an advocate would be helpful to him. It does not specify the advocate must be a solicitor and advocates can come in many forms. If the Council has discussed this with C and facilitated him to have an advocate from an independent organisation who can represent his views, I cannot find it has not complied with this recommendation.
I can see the Council has assisted C to find an advocate from a local children's rights organisation. That advocate has supported C several times, including with his looked after child review. I therefore cannot find any fault with the Council for not complying with this recommendation.
It is difficult to form a view on whether the Council has complied with this recommendation. This is because the recommendation does say the Council should revisit the family plan and consider whether it should be updated. The Council has said it is not going to revisit this right now because it would not be in C's interests.
Taking the recommendation into account as a whole, however, it does not say the Council must update the family plan. It only says it should consider whether to do so for C's benefit. If the Council is of the view the current family plan is appropriate and updating it would not be to C's benefit, it is not my place to criticise this decision.
I accept the Council's comments that it will look at this as and when C's reviews occur and, on balance, do not find fault in the Council's compliance with this recommendation.
Based on the above analysis, I do not find fault in how the Council has complied with the Stage 3 panel's recommendations.
It is a difficult case as Mr and Mrs B clearly have C's best interests at heart. I found Mr B to be very genuine and concerned for C's welfare when discussing the case with him. He appears to have received some conflicting messages from the Council and C about what C's wishes are. It may therefore be understandable he believes the Council are not acting in C's best interests. However, there is no evidence for me to say the Council is misrepresenting C's wishes. That is not to say C is either, only that he may understandably find it difficult to express his views.
The Council must find a balance between the wishes of C and his parents. The Stage 3 panel's recommendations were about ensuring the Council continued to listen to Mr and Mrs B's views and concerns when striking that balance and making decisions about C's care. I can see no evidence the Council has not complied with these recommendations so cannot find fault in its actions. It should, of course, continue to work towards these recommendations.
I have not found fault with the Council in the way it has complied with the Stage 3 panel's recommendations.
Part of Mr B's complaint is about the frequency of contact he and his wife have with C. He also hopes for a re-unification, where C returns to live at home. I am not able to investigate these parts of the complaint because they are subject to a court order and therefore outside of the Ombudsman's jurisdiction.


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Q: What to do to solve error on beegfs "Unknown storage target" jaqueline botelho
18 de mai. de 2022 15:34:29 (há 4 dias)
para beegfs-user
Hello everybody,
I would like some help with a problem. We have this problem in beegfs:
[root@headnode beegfs]# beegfs-ctl --nodetype=storage --setstate --state=good --force --targetid=13
Node did not accept state change. Error: Unknown storage target
[root@headnode beegfs]# beegfs-ctl --listtargets --nodetype=storage --state
TargetID Reachability Consistency NodeID
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1 Online Good 1
2 Online Good 2
3 Online Good 3
4 Online Good 4
5 Online Good 5
6 Online Good 6
7 Online Good 7
8 Online Good 8
9 Online Good 9
10 Online Good 10
11 Online Good 11
12 Online Good 12
13 Offline Good 13
14 Online Good 14
Note that the only one that is online is target 13. And when I try to put it online it returns the message "Unknown storage target".
Does anyone know what to do to fix it? I would be grateful in advance if you can help.
Regards,
Jaqueline


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SXSW 2017 Film Festival kicks off at the Paramount
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Hundreds of people waited for hours in downtown Austin to get a glimpse of a few of their favorite celebrities.
South by Southwest premiered the film "Song to Song" to kick off the 2017 Film Festival.
SXSW organizers decided "Song to Song" was the perfect film for opening night because it was actually filmed in Austin about the live music scene.
This is the first time the movie has ever been viewed on the big screen.
Celebrities like Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchette and Natalie Portman make up the star studded cast and SXSW badge holders hoped to get into the Paramount Theater to be among the first to see it, or, at the very least, to be one of the lucky few who got a glimpse of some big name actors walking the red carpet.
"I was born and raised in Austin, I've always gone to SXSW, and my mom… she started going to SXSW with me last year and we've been going to see films together, and this is the opening night of the premiere, and we weren't sure we'd be able to get in, but it's worth it to try," said SXSW badge holder Samantha Skinner.
After "Song to Song," crowds gathered around the Paramount a second time for a screening of "Alien." Fassbender and director Ridley Scott planned to answer fan's questions and give them a sneak peak of the latest film in the franchise.
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China Putian, Nortel to Establish Joint Venture for 3G Telecom
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China Putian and Nortel (NT) signed a Joint Venture Framework Agreement to establish a joint venture for research and development, manufacture and sale of 3G mobile telecommunications equipment and products to customers in China.
China's Premier Wen Jiabao and Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin, currently on an official visit to China, witnessed the signing ceremony.
Under the Joint Venture Framework Agreement (JVFA), China Putian and Nortel agree to prepare and negotiate with each other on a definitive joint venture agreement by June 30, 2005.
When established, the new company – named Putian-Nortel Networks Telecommunications Equipment Co., Ltd. – will likely be headquartered in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, and will focus on TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) and WCDMA (Wideband CDMA) products and solutions, as well as related network engineering and optimization services. China Putian will own 51 percent of the joint venture; Nortel, the remaining 49 percent.
"The signing of today's JVFA signals a new level of cooperation between Nortel and Putian," said Xing Wei, president, China Putian. "It will position us to capitalize on the tremendous opportunities presented by China's rapidly growing wireless industry and to significantly accelerate the internationalization of our 3G offerings."
"The JVFA strategically reinforces our commitment to driving the evolution of China's telecom industry," said Bill Owens, president and chief executive officer, Nortel. "Nortel and Putian are both leading telecom players in the market, and this collaboration will not only enable us to fully leverage our respective resources and expertise in wireless networking solutions, but will also strengthen our capability to offer industry-leading solutions for our customers and new prospects in China.
The current agreement builds on a June 2004 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by China Putian and Nortel for cooperation on R&D and manufacture of 3G equipment and products. The two companies have already cooperated on such projects as the recent 3G field trials sponsored by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII).
A front-runner in the development and commercialization of TD-SCDMA technology and products, China Putian is a director of China's TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance and, by rotation, the current chair.
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Empire of the Sun is an up-and-coming indie/electronic duo with a particularly fitting name. The 1984 novel that Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore drew inspiration from is a tale of disoriented youth and immense freedom being closed in on by hostile forces. In a similar manner, Empire of the Sun's debut album, Walking on a Dream, explores the territory of youth and depravity as they confront the pains of reality.
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Songs like "Crying" and "Love Dog" are the highlights of the album, fusing the classic feel of TVOTR with innovations that are simple, yet foreign enough to excite the listener.
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Vranduk, ilirska Arduba, naselje v osrednji Bosni, 10 km od Zenice. Stoji na levi obali reke Bosne na mestu, kjer je reka najožja in ima videz soteske.

Zgodovina
Naselje je zgrajeno na temeljih nekdanjega ilirskega naselja Arduba.

Ime Vranduk je prvič omenjeno leta 1410. Zaradi svoje dobre geostrateške lege je nadziral promet med Panonsko nižino in obalo Jadranskega morja. Bil je samo eno od mnogih srednjeveških bosanskih mest v tej regiji, ki je imela bogato politično, gospodarsko in kulturno življenje.

Od starega dela mesta se je ohranila citadela s stolpom in del obzidja, ki je obdajalo središče mesta. V bližini stolpa je džamija sultana Mehmeda Osvajalca.  Po nekaterih podatkih je zgrajena na ostankih srednjeveške cerkve. Pod mestom je ohranjen predor, zgrajen med drugo svetovno vojno.

Geografija
Vranduk spada v Zeniškodobojski kanton, ki ima dvanajst občin: Breza, Doboj-jug, Kakanj, Maglaj, Olovo, Tešanj, Usora, Vareš, Visoko, Zavidovići, Zenica in Žepče. Kanton meri 3.950 km2 in ima približno 400.000 prebivalcev. Ozemlje je večinoma hribovito. Ob reki Bosni je magistralna cesta M-17, ki se navezuje na avtocesto Zagreb-Beograd in cesto Slavonski Brod-Sarajevo-Neum.

Gospodarstvo
Več kot polovica področja je gozdnata. V okolici se ukvarjajo predvsem s sadjarstvom, zelenjavarstvom in govedorejo, pridelavo mleka in mlečnih proizvodov ter mesa in mesnih proizvodov. Poleg kmetijstva je na tem področju tudi rudarstvo, predelava kovin, lesna in tekstilna industrija in predelava usnja.

Sklici

Ilirska naselja
Zgodovina Jugovzhodne Evrope
Naselja v Bosni in Hercegovini