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'Planning key to survival in low oil price regime'
By EMEKA UGWUANYI On Oct 10, 2016
The immediate past Managing Director of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) and now the Vice President, Safety and Environment (S&E), Shell Upstream International Leadership Team, Babs Omotowa, spoke to The Nation shortly before leaving for his new assignment. He spoke on how to manage militancy in the Niger Delta, low oil price regime, contributions of NLNG to the economy and his achievements at the gas company, among other industry issues, EMEKA UGWUANYI reports.
How has the low price of oil affected your operation as a gas company?
I think oil price fluctuations have always been the case since 1970's, it goes up and down. Even in 1998, oil price was around $40 per barrel. I think it was always expected. From 2012, we had already started to plan in anticipation that oil and gas prices will come down. In specific terms, it has affected our revenue significantly because gas price follows oil price. Compared to 2014 when oil price was about $140 per barrel when we had over $11 billion, this year we might be earning about $5 billion. That is clearly more than 50 per cent reduction in revenue. But the key thing is what we have done since 2012, because I said since 2012 we had anticipated price crash and we have been working towards it. We have been able to take action to minimize our cost because while we cannot control oil price, we can control our cost, and improve our efficiencies. Those are the things we have done such that even though we are more than 50 per cent lower in revenue, we will still be able to deliver a net income after tax of close to $5 billion at the end of the year.
Niger Delta militants a few months ago resumed attacks on pipelines, which led to shutting down of a major line that supplies gas to NLNG. Did it have additional impact on your operation?
I think the whole issues around militancy affect the entire oil and gas industry. Since 2008 when we started to see this insurgency in the Niger Delta, it has affected oil and gas generally, so I wouldn't go to any specifics on NLNG but I will say for us as a country, this is a major issue that the country needs to tackle. The whole issues around militancy lower production and create higher cost for the industry, and all the stakeholders must work together to try and find lasting solution for the betterment of the country. So it is an issue that we all need to pay attention to and find ways to resolve, bring all the gladiators together. I think the key thing at the end of the day is, the Niger Delta where oil and gas is produced has to be developed. That is the fundamental cause that everybody can talk about – the devastation of the environment, poor skills, poor development and no infrastructure. We all need to work together, government especially which has the biggest role to play in providing infrastructure, and the oil and gas industry that have to support in all that effort. I think if we all can address that, it will gradually bring an end to the insurgency.
Will the Federal Government's moves to clean up Ogoniland and remediate the environment help reduce militancy?
It is in the right direction. You cannot have a situation where environmental degradation impacts people's livelihood, ability to fish, live in a clean environment. If you leave such you create the opportunity for playing into the hands of those who want to take laws into their hands. I think the effort of the Federal Government to start the cleanup of Ogoni is really welcome, and it is unfortunate that this was not done in the last administration because the UNEP report was issued in 2011 and we should have made huge progress on the issue over time as a country.
In your last facts and figures, you posted impressive financial results where NLNG contributed four per cent of the nation's GDP and contributed substantial revenue to government's treasury. Based on the realities in the industry, do you feel this feat can be achieved?
As I mentioned earlier, our revenues have come down by more than 50 per cent. I think there would be some impact when you look at what can be distributed either in taxes or dividends. But as I said we have taken all actions to reduce cost, improve efficiencies so that we can still return a very healthy contribution to the government. I think it is an issue that will affect the entire industry, so relatively NLNG will still continue to be a major contributor, and of course every other oil company will also be similarly affected by the low oil price. But we are making all efforts to continue to provide and we are providing quite a lot of revenue to the government.
Is the plunge in revenue one of the reasons the company cut the salaries of staff of one of its subsidiaries by 50 per cent?
As you rightly said, it is the shipping subsidiary of Nigeria LNG. We have three key factors that caused that, one is the huge decline in revenue. With that decline we actually had to take a lot of actions, part of which include taking off a number of our ships which we have laid up. So we had that kind of huge decline. Most other companies would have gone on to retrench and lay off their staff. We believe that rather than lay off staff, it is better to retain and pay them wages that are commensurate. I think the wages that they are being paid even with the reduction is above what their colleagues in the shipping industry earn. The reduction doesn't reduce their salaries below their peers in the shipping industry. The desire not to retrench staff and the fact that the realignment of their salaries in line with industry is just what has taken place in that subsidiary. But note it is not in the entire NLNG, it is its subsidiary in the shipping line.
Why didn't the reduction apply across board, why the shipping arm only?
It is a shipping industry. The shipping industry is a different industry, so the salaries paid to the staff in that industry is commensurate to the shipping industry. You have to understand that it is a subsidiary that operates in a different industry. It is not an oil and gas industry, it is a shipping industry so their salaries are commensurate to people who similarly serve on ships and distribute products all over the world. We benchmark their salaries with ship personnel from all over the world, not just Nigeria.
At what stage is the construction of the planned Train 7, which now has been split into Trains 7&8?
We are still at basis for design stage. This is the step before the FEED (front end engineering and design) work. We will complete that basis for design by the fourth quarter of this year and the Board will then take decision for the next step which will be the front end engineering and design.
How much has gone into the new Train project?
Since inception we have spent close to $600 million and most of that on clearing the facilities and the site. We have been able to acquire the land and sand-fill them and get them ready and we have spent quite some money doing all the engineering type work.
What cost are we expecting from conception to completion of the project?
Overall, the project cost can be up to $10 billion; but however, we are looking at how to reduce that cost because each of the Trains 1 to 6 was done at about $2 billion. The fact is that we have seen cost increasing over the years, which has brought it up to $10 billion. But with the low oil price, we are trying to see how we can bring the cost down so that it will be profitable with the low oil price scenario.
In January 2014, NLNG achieved export of 3000 cargoes, which is about 15 years from the commencement of business, do you see the company achieving this feat within the same period in the future?
Of course we are actually producing more cargoes now than when we started. Remember when we started in 1999 we had only two Trains and by 2008 we grew it up to six Trains. At six Trains we produce an average of 300 cargoes every year. From 2012 we have produced over 1200 cargoes and I expect that will continue into the future. I expect we probably can produce another 3000 cargoes in 10 years from 2014 as against about 15 years at the initial time.
Very soon, you will vacate your seat for another person to take over. What are the two things you think you will be remembered for at the NLNG?
I think it is not in my place to determine what I will be remembered for. Others will remember me for various things; but I think that the thing that gives me satisfaction internally was that we were able to work for four years without any fatality in the company. There used to be an average of about two fatalities every year before I came and since 2012 we have not had any fatality. I'm happy about that. I'm also happy that in the company we have been able to develop a very good culture where everybody works towards the same culture and objectives. I'm also happy internally that we were able to anticipate from 2012 the low oil price that we are in today and we started to prepare the organisation since 2012 and today we are much better for it as a company. Externally, I'm happy about the work we have done in Bonny to be able to clear a lot of legacy projects that we had and the promises we made in the past. Now, we have agreed to a new 25-year marshal plan, which hopefully will turn Bonny into a Dubai or a Singapore in about 25 years time. I'm also pleased about the work we have done with six universities across the country. We have been able to support them to build and equip engineering facilities. I'm also happy that we contributed significantly to Nigeria. I think in my time, we have been able to contribute more than $22 billion to the government's treasury, part of which last year everybody remembered, the bailout fund. I'm sure I will be remembered for different things by different people.
You said there are some plans you have accomplished for Bonny, can you name a few of them?
We have developed the 25-year marshal plan. We have mapped out the terms such as residential areas with high rise, areas that will be for tourism, agriculture, industries development. Bonny has been mapped out for that, so to achieve this dream, we contribute N3 billion to a foundation in Bonny every year. To be able to make this dream become a reality, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed last year with the community and we are working with the community to achieve that. Our dream is that in about 25 years, everyone will look at Bonny and use it as a model for how community development can be actualised.
Does the marshal plan include Nigeria LNG's plan to connect Bonny by road so that people can access the area not just by water?
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No, that is a separate initiative. Road into Bonny is a Federal Government's project. It has been in the drawing board since the 1970s. What have done now is to offer to partner with the government to provide them (government) with 50 per cent of the cost of the project, which is a total of about N60 billion. When the government is ready with its own fund, they can come and we support that.
On the building of science laboratories for six universities, in how many universities have you completed the projects?
We have completed the projects in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, University of Ibadan, University of Port Harcourt and University of Ilorin, so four universities are completed. The remaining two are the University of Maiduguri and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, which will hopefully be completed in the next few weeks.
What is the latest on the NLNG-NIMASA conflict?
We have met with the Minister of Transport and the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). This administration is in a very positive relationship with that and I think we have had very positive conversations on that but the issue will still have to be resolved by the courts. The case is in court and what we have agreed with the minister and the NIMASA DG is that we need to have the case properly heard in the court and accelerated. There have been a lot of efforts in the past by the counter parties to delay the case with technical frivolities in the court. The Minister and the NIMASA DG have committed to help to ensure that the case itself is heard rather than all the technical delays that we are seeing, so that is ongoing in the court. We are in the Supreme Court on one of the technical issues that has been filed. Hopefully we can resolve that and get back to the substantive case itself and get it right but I would say again that the minister and the NIMASA DG have shown commitment. We have had excellent relations and the conversations are going on very positively.
In a previous meeting, you said the Nigeria LNG is looking globally to see how to maximize revenue generation and increase market share considering the realities on ground, which new frontiers have you been able to break?
We have continued to make progress in places like South America – Argentina, Brazil are the creative new market. We are also looking at new markets in China and India. There is a lot of emerging markets in the world and I think we are well positioned to be able to take those opportunities. The fact the NLNG has been a reliable supplier over the years has enabled us to be able to attract such buyers in the global market. So we are making progress and achieving success in that regard. That is part of the reason we have been able to do even better today than the anticipated impact oil price fall would have had on us.
Which is the biggest market now?
Asia is still where we have our largest market but Europe is at the heart of our business, close to 50 per cent of our product still gets sold in Europe. We used to divert a lot of that in the past to Asia but these days because the arbitral between Europe and Asia has really disappeared there is not as much diversion as we have in the past, so Europe and Asia are at the heart of our business
NLNG had seven per cent of the global market in the past, do you still see yourself retaining or surpassing this percentage?
It all boils down to how quickly we move on with our Trains 7 & 8 because other countries are not waiting. The United States, for example, has started to export and they are planning to even increase export as well. The likes Mozambique and Tanzania are looking at export and in Australia, they are also looking at export. If we sit only on what we have today and others are coming in then our percentage will be low but if we are able to bring in Trains 7 & 8 quickly that will increase our percentage in the market or at least allow us to retain that percentage.
But you are still at that seven per cent level?
We are still at about that level but because as the likes of the US coming into the market and you also see some facilities like in Angola and Egypt trying a bit though they are not producing as much as they should produce. So that keeps us relatively at about the same level.
What's the level of government's support to actualise Trains 7&8?
The present administration is very supportive. The minister of petroleum and the NNPC have been very supportive. If we had received that kind of support in the last administration we would have made tremendous achievement on Train 7
How long will it take you to complete the two trains?
With the present administration, we have received all the support we need. When we met with the President Muhammadu Buhari at the beginning of his administration, he was very supportive and made it clear that when he was the minister of petroleum, he knew there was enough gas in Nigeria for all the export and domestic use, and 12 Trains was what he was expecting. He gave us strong support, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have been very supportive. If we had received this amount of support during the last administration we will not be where we are today. We would have made tremendous progress on Train 7 by now.
How long will it take to finish Trains 7&8?
Before you get to Final Investment Decision (FID), you have to finish the FEED work, tender for new engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, and ensure that all the Nigerian Content aspects of it are all resolved. We are still looking at about two to three years to finish that kind of work before you take the FID. When you take the FID, it takes you about four years to build the Train itself, so we are still looking at about six to seven years before they will be ready.
Retailers of LPG said a cabal has hijacked the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) business, which is the reason the price of the commodity shot up by 50 per cent and refused to come down. The retailers said the cabal comprised of off-takers and terminal owners that the NLNG appointed, so what is your take on this?
To say that they are cabals is what those who said would have to throw more light on who those cabals are. But NLNG supplies to terminals that exist. If a terminal doesn't exist, we cannot supply to it. And today in Lagos there are two terminals that can take LPG (cooking gas) and we supply to those two terminals. There are efforts to build terminals in Port Harcourt when those ones are built we will supply to them. So those who think they can bring any cabal that should build terminals or have that investment, let them do, so that we can supply to them. We have no interest in any cabal or any one. We have been working since 2007 to improve LPG supply in the country when the refineries were unable to supply the product. NLNG has been the only supplier of the product since 2007. It supplies more than 80 per cent of LPG in the country and we do that up till today. I think the challenge in LPG is one around infrastructure. We need as a country to build more receiving terminals. The only two we have in Lagos is not enough. We have to build more terminals in Port Harcourt and Calabar. We have to invest in transportation of LPG from those terminals into the country either by rail or by trucks. We have to get all of that done. We have to make sure that we have enough distribution centres across the country. So there is quite a lot of infrastructure work that needs to be done.
As NLNG, we have carried out a study, we appointed KPMG late last year to carry out a study on what needs to be done to unblock all of these challenges and they have submitted their report. We have also engaged with the Vice President's Office and we are working with the VP around how the government will take a lead on unblocking all these issues and the private sector will also take an investment. At NLNG, we are not aware of any cabal, we do not subscribe to any cabal. We supply to any terminal that is available. We are encouraging any person who is able to invest in any other terminal to invest so that the product can be made available. We are working with the government both the executive and the legislature on actually how to unblock all the challenges across the entire value chain so that LPG is available not just in Lagos but in Sokoto, Kano and Kaduna so that the issues around deforestation and people chopping trees can reduce and health and environmental concerns of people in those areas can be further improved.
Which terminals do you supply to and how much does the NLNG sell LPG to the terminals?
We supply to the PPMC terminal (NOJ) and Nafgas. Those are the two terminals in Lagos that can take LPG and we supply to them. Each of them we supply to at least once a month. If they can twice a month, we are ready to supply but part of the challenge is even at the PPMC terminal, because the terminal is also the same one receiving PMS and all of that, many times we have to wait to be able to discharge into those terminals. Prices fluctuate, it is a market-driven price. We are able to supply at the price the market globally pays for LPG. So there is no single price, so I cannot tell you the price is X or Z. As the oil price has come down significantly, the LPG price has also come down. If the oil price goes up tomorrow, the LPG price will go up also, so that is how it fluctuates.
LNG has a power plant that generates about 340 megawatts (Mw), do you see yourself replicating this in one or two places in the country considering the power challenge?
We are not a power company and cannot pretend to be one. And the requirement of power in the country is huge. We are talking of at least 40,000Mw. The 340Mw you described is mainly for use in our plant but we also supply to the host community – the over 250,000 people in Bonny. But there are people who are much better placed, who are in the power industry, who can build power plants and not just gas power plants but hydro power plants, renewable types of power plants such as solar. Those are the kind of experts who need to build the mega power plants that we need in Nigeria.
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What is Paul Krugman afraid of?
By Ezra Klein@ezraklein Dec 29, 2014, 9:00am EST
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Paul Krugman is a lot of things. New York Times op-ed columnist. Nobel prize-winning economist. Arcade Fire fanboy. Obama administration frenemy.
But the side of Krugman I've always found most interesting is the sci-fi obsessive. Krugman has long claimed it was science-fiction author Isaac Asimov's "psychohistorians" who led him to economics. "Someday there will exist a unified social science of the kind that Asimov imagined," he wrote, "but for the time being economics is as close to psychohistory as you can get."
Punditry tends towards the short view. What will happen in the next election? What will happen in Congress next week? What just happened on cable news? And as a pundit, Krugman takes on those topics often. But sci-fi takes the long view. It gravitates towards the threats and hopes humanity will face if it is lucky enough to survive into a world vastly different than our own. And so when I got a chance to sit down with Krugman recently, I asked him to take the long view — the science-fiction view.
Ezra Klein: You're a big science fiction fan, so I'm curious if you have apocalyptic fears that lurk outside the policy window.
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Paul Krugman: If you look at the long sweep of history, global integration has tended to bring mass pandemics in its wake. My understanding is that you basically got waves of major plagues in the ancient world, pretty much whenever somebody controlled the steppes of Central Asia well enough that substantial commerce between China and the West could take place. Pretty soon afterwards, lots of people died. In the opening of the New World, it wasn't the conquistadors, it was the microbes that really did it here.
Now we have this very integrated world with very uneven levels of public health. You have to think that a pandemic is at least a possibility. I think we can be reasonably sure that it won't actually involve zombies, but aside from that, it's a real threat.
Ezra Klein: I worry about that too, but I worry about it because I think it's still hard for us to grok the level of bacterial integration we really have in the modern world. When I see the efforts to make sure that unauthorized immigrants can't access government healthcare programs, I always wonder what folks think is going to happen if these people get sick? These are the people who are preparing our food and taking care of our children. And it just gets worse when you're talking about threats outside our borders.
Paul Krugman: Yeah, the way Ebola was covered was about at the same level as media coverage of shark attacks. The public would have learned nothing. Maybe we would have learned we need to close the borders or we need to fear people who don't look like us. I guess Time just named the Ebola responders their person of the year. Good for them, but the public has no idea of how much we depend upon this pretty much invisible line of defense that is looking pretty shabby these days.
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Ezra Klein: A fear I hear about a lot lately is the idea that we'll build a self-improving artificial intelligence that will ultimately destroy us.
Paul Krugman: The history of artificial intelligence is that it's always ten years ahead, and that's been true for about 50 years.
Ezra Klein: But let's assume it does emerge. A lot of smart people right now seem terrified by it. You've got Elon Musk tweeting, "Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable." Google's Larry Page is reading Nick Bostrom's new book Superintelligence. I wonder, reading this stuff, whether people are overestimating the value of analytical intelligence. It's just never been my experience that the higher you go up the IQ scale, the better people are at achieving their goals.
Our intelligence is really lashed to a lot of things that aren't about intelligence, like endless generations of social competition in the evolutionary fight for the best mates. I don't even know how to think about what a genuinely new, artifical intelligence would believe is important and what it would find interesting. It often seems to me that one of the reasons people get so afraid of AI is you have people who themselves are really bought into intelligence as being the most important of all traits and they underestimate importance of other motivations and aptitudes. But it seems as likely as not that a superintelligence would be completely hopeless at anything beyond the analysis of really abstract intellectual problems.
Paul Krugman: Yeah, or one thing we might find out if we produce something that is vastly analytically superior is it ends up going all solipsistic and spending all its time solving extremely difficult and pointless math problems. We just don't know. I feel like I was suckered again into getting all excited about self-driving cars, and so on, and now I hear it's actually a lot further from really happening that we thought. Producing artificial intelligence that can cope with the real world is still a much harder problem than people realize.
How broken is Washington?
Ezra Klein: What do you think about the argument that's playing out on the left between the vision of the Democratic Party represented by Hillary Clinton and the vision represented by Elizabeth Warren? Do you think they're that different?
Paul Krugman: I would say at this point it looks mostly like symbolism. Among liberals in America, there's actually fairly widespread dismay over actually what I think of as Clinton-Blairism; the kind of '90s liberalism that is not really taking on economic inequality, not really taking on Wall Street. And there's a sense that Hillary Clinton might be a return to that.
But I don't think Hillary Clinton is going to try and make it 1999 again. I remember in 2008 —as a Times columnist, I can't do endorsements, so you have no idea which party I favor in general elections — but I was skeptical of Obama at a time when a lot of people on the Left were very, very high on him. I heard a number of people saying, oh, god, if Hillary is elected, she's going to bring in the old Rubin crowd, people like Larry Summers, to run the economy. And then Obama got elected and did exactly that. I think, if anything, he was more conventional on economics than she was.
I think at this point, Elizabeth Warren is now the visible embodiment of the wing of the Democratic Party that's determined not to return to Clinton-Blairism. That makes her useful even if she doesn't run, as — I don't know — a ghost or something looming over Hillary.
Ezra Klein: Do you think it is possible at this point for a president to be successful amidst divided government in Congress?
Paul Krugman: I'd say basically no, but it depends on your definition of success. You can have the economy expanding, no foreign crises, and you can preside over a time of prosperity, which is kind of what happened with Bill Clinton. But if anything actually has to be done, no. Everybody in Washington has learned this very damaging lesson, which is that if somebody else holds the White House, but you have blocking power, sabotage works.
I think we are in for a very ugly time until one party or the other establishes a strong enough hold that the other party finally has an Eisenhower moment of essentially accepting the changes and going back to some kind of politics around a relatively narrow range of issues.
Ezra Klein: When you say it that way, it sounds like we're in a dangerous period in American politics. You have an electoral system that is biased a bit towards Democrats at the presidential level and heavily biased towards Republicans at the House level. So you're likely in for a really long period of divided government. And I agree with you, I think you have a level of political polarization that makes successful legislating very, very difficult amidst divided government. It seems possible that we're looking at a decade or more in which we have a political system that is essentially unable to make any forward motion on major problems. It might be able to respond to a crisis, but it cannot affirmatively legislate.
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Paul Krugman: Well, I'm not even sure about responding to a crisis. I find myself in meetings with international financial types. It's all the usual discussions, and they don't like to talk domestic U.S. politics, but then at some point, somebody says, what if we had another major financial crisis? What if we really needed something like TARP again? What are the chances that something like TARP could actually happen in this political environment? And everybody goes quiet, and looks down at their blotter.
Ezra Klein: I'd push on that a little bit. I think back to TARP, and it failing the first time, but then the crushing market reaction moving Congress. I still think market reactions can move Congress. What scares me is that you can really screw up a country by not doing things you should have done. But then the crisis doesn't come in a sharp moment where you can identify the cause. It's just in lost percentage points of economic growth over a long period of time where nobody can be clearly blamed, and there's not an easy, obvious fix.
Paul Krugman: One of my pet peeves actually is that people talk about policy as if, as long as you've avoided a hot crisis, things are okay even when they're obviously not. The pet peeve that affects me personally is the cancellation of the Hudson Rail Tunnel in New York City, and it's kind of perfect. Essentially, because of political partisanship, we still have the world's greatest city totally dependent on a tunnel completed in 1910 for all public transit linkage to the west. That doesn't show up in an abrupt collapse, but those sorts of things show up in a steady degradation of our prospects.
The future of American politics
Ezra Klein: What do you think are the big stories for the next five years in American politics? What do you think it is that people should be paying attention to but they're ignoring?
Paul Krugman: We have the continuing toll of a weak labor market. Yes, the unemployment rate is down, but we still have a lot of long-term unemployment. We still have a really lousy environment for new college graduates. This doesn't show up in any dramatic event, but it means that we're seeing a lot of dreams getting killed in ways that are going to take a toll on national morale, with hardly any focused political pressure to do anything about it.
Then there are the environmental issues. I think crashing oil prices are going to put the brakes on fracking, but as best as I can make out, done right, shale can in fact be an important, very positive force. But that requires that there be adequate regulation to make sure that it is done right. Given the current environment, it's very unlikely that that'll happen. So we're going to be seeing a lot more stories of poisoned wells, of earthquakes. These ongoing environmental issues that will probably produce a lot of local rage. You drive into certain parts of Pennsylvania and there's obviously huge local anger, but it's not likely to move things on a wider front.
Then there's the trend towards inequality, which has not reversed, let's put it that way. You might wonder at what point at which there's enough revulsion to be politically effective. I remember when we were writing stories about 30,000 square-foot mansions, and we're talking about those being torn down for 80,000 square-foot mansions. So it goes on.
Ezra Klein: Do you worry more about wealth inequality or income inequality?
Paul Krugman: Income inequality, but I don't think they're separable issues. We need to worry a lot more about lagging incomes in the bottom half or bottom two-thirds of the income distribution than we worry about soaring incomes at the top. And the people in the bottom two-thirds of the income distribution have hardly any wealth. For them, wealth has gone from essentially zero 30 years ago to essentially zero now. So for them, it's income that is crucial.
The wealth inequality measures are useful because they are, in some ways, a more reliable gauge of what's happening at the top. If incomes fluctuate a lot at the top, you can argue, though it's overstated, that it's a changing cast of people. But the top 0.1 percent in wealth is not an ever-shifting cast of characters.
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Ezra Klein: Do you think the story of median and lower-than-median wage stagnation and the story of income inequality are the same story, or different? It seems to me that you can see different patterns. The story of the huge changes in income inequality seems to really be focused in the top three or four percent, and it seems to start about 10 years after media wage stagnation. Or, I guess, to put it another way, do you think we could solve wage stagnation without solving income inequality?
Paul Krugman: Probably not. I think if you really did something about wage stagnation you would find that it would have a pretty strong effect in curbing incomes at the top as well. I think if you try to understand the factors behind soaring incomes at the top, they are many of the same forces that are leading to stagnating incomes for workers. The idea that we can totally separate these things is wrong. It almost harkens back to the Clinton-Blairism. You did have, in the UK at least, a fairly serious attempt in Blair/Brown to tackle poverty and to reduce income inequality, combined with a sympathetic, laissez faire attitude towards the top one percent. It produced results for a while, but in the end, it seems to be economically and politically unsustainable. It gave rise, eventually, to a regime that's doing its best to increase inequality on all fronts.
Ezra Klein: Have you seen plans from any politicians, or even any think tanks, for addressing income inequality that feel to you equal to the scale of the problem? I feel like you hear politicians rail on income inequality as a defining challenge of our time, and then they want to raise the top marginal tax rate by three percent or something. There's a real gap between the scale of the problem people are describing and the solutions they're willing to embrace. Do you think this is a problem we actually know how to solve?
Paul Krugman: I think it is, but we know that it takes an extraordinary political environment to change it. The Great Compression took place under FDR. They took a society that was about as unequal as what we have now, maybe more so because of a weaker social safety net, and turned it into a broadly middle-class society that lasted for more than a generation. But that was done through a combination of a dramatic increase in unionization, extremely high rates of progressive taxation, and wage controls during the war that were used to compress the wage distribution.
So we can describe a set of policies that will restore a middle-class society, but they take FDR-sized majorities in Congress, and even then, it took a war to really bring those changes about. Which is why everybody, me included, talks about chipping away at the margins and hopes that, cumulatively, you're going to get something done.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
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Malawi's Banda quits presidential race, backs opposition chief
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Banda first came to power in April 2012 following the sudden death of then president Bingu wa Mutharika. At the time, she was serving as vice president.
Former Malawian President Joyce Banda speaks at a conference on women in development programmes in Lagos.
Malawi's former president Joyce Banda has pulled out of the May 21 presidential race and endorsed opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera, who heads the Malawi Congress Party.
Speaking to AFP, Banda, who heads the People's Party, confirmed her decision, saying: "Yes, it is true".
But she declined to comment further ahead of a joint news conference with Chakwera on Saturday.
In a joint statement, the two parties said they had begun talks in 2015, a year after Banda lost the presidency, partly as a result of a huge multimillion-dollar corruption case known as the "Cashgate" scandal.
She fled the country into self-imposed exile but returned to Malawi last year, saying the allegations against her were politically motivated. She has never faced any charges.
Six weeks ago, Banda and Vice President Saulos Chilima said they had formed a four-party alliance in a bid to take on President Peter Mutharika in the May vote.
But it didn't last long, with Banda announcing just days later that she had submitting papers to run as a presidential candidate.
Now 68, Banda first came to power in April 2012 following the sudden death of then president Bingu wa Mutharika. At the time, she was serving as vice president with his death propelling her into the top office where she served until May 2014.
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Top 11 Best Things to Do in Austin if Under 21
"April 7, 2022 By Jackie
There are many things to do in Austin if you are under 21. As the population continues to grow, the city's scene has long since achieved the type of trendy metropolitan status that no other Texan town has been able to surpass. Then how did the city do it?
Austin is known for its live music culture, which draws big-name artists from all over the globe, and its eclectic food scene, which serves much more than tacos and BBQ. Outdoor recreation is a big part of Austinites' weekends since the city is on a lake and is just a short distance from a slew of neighboring swimming holes and parks.
To make it easier for you to identify the best things to do in Austin, we've done our research to provide you with a list of them. You'll discover the city's famous arcades, parks, museums, top theaters, restaurants, music shops, and festivals.
1. Austin City Limits
2. Pinstack
3. The Hideout Theatre
4. Zilker Park
5. Barton Springs
6. Franklin Barbecue
7. Waterloo Records
8. Pinballz Lake Creek
9. Bullock Museum
10. Laguna Gloria
11. Mayfield Park
The top 1 you should not miss in Austin if you are under 21 is the Austin City Limits Music Event, an annual music festival held in Zilker Park.
For more than a decade, Austin City Limits has been the name behind exciting and popular music festivals in Austin, Sydney, and Auckland and is an award-winning performance venue. Festivals like this one are one of the main reasons Austin is referred to as the Live Music Capital of the World.
This long-running concert series showcases musicians from many musical genres in a live-music environment. Originally designed to highlight original Texas music, the program has broadened its scope to include a diverse spectrum of genres and musicians, including Pearl Jam, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, and Neil Young.
In addition to rock, pop, and hip-hop, there are eight stages and other 130 performers that you should not miss. Also, the food booths are stocked with Austin favorites, while art sellers are on hand to offer their crafts.
Pinstack, located in Tech Ridge Center, is a bowling arcade that offers a vast range of games and activities suitable for people under 21. There are bumper cars, laser tag, and bowling, to name a few.
You can bowl a perfect game at the state-of-the-art bowling lanes or face your fear of heights on a 24-foot high rock climbing wall. Dodge your opponent's laser beam in the two-story laser tag arena, or strap yourself in for a wild trip with bumper cars.
The vast gaming area has the most up-to-date video games and virtual reality technologies, including four-player Halo: Fireteam Raven and Virtual Rabbids, arcade classics, and the most up-to-date pinball machines. A 20-foot high ropes obstacle course towers above the gaming area are excellent for team development.
If you're here, don't miss dining on the lanes, on the patio, or in the tucked-away restaurant, separated from the gaming area. WTF Platter, Blackened Seared Salmon, Texas Smokehouse Burger, Classic Margherita Pizza, and PINSTACKED Cheese Fries are the menu highlights and Pinstack's weekly chef's specials.
The Hideout Theatre, located at 617 Congress Ave, has been in the business of improv theatre since 1999. Their acts are improvised at the moment, and each is one of a kind. Improv is a spontaneous, engaging, and enjoyable activity. But, like with many beautiful things, you'll have to see it for yourself to appreciate it.
If you are a drama theater fan, you'll surely enjoy this place. It has several improv styles, including short-form (games, like Whose Line, is it Anyway?), long-form (more significant scenes with relationship and character development), and narrative (a full-length drama act on the spot).
Don't miss out on its variety of improv courses for adults, children, and teenagers on weeknights and weekends if you want to improve your acting skills. They provide Free Sample Programs and new Level One classes for adults. You'll be studying improv from someone who has performed on stage and in the classroom for years.
In Austin, Zilker Park is renowned as the "jewel in the heart," and with good reason. Among the 351 acres of parkland are a natural spring-fed swimming pool, a sculpture garden, stand-up paddleboarding, dinosaurs (in the prehistoric gardens of the botanical garden), and unparalleled views of the Austin skyline.
Zilker Park, Austin's premier recreation area, is nestled beside the Colorado River. While you're here, take in the downtown skyline, cool off in the Barton Springs Pool, explore the Hike and Bike Trail, or see a show featuring some of the best live music. Also, festivals, including Austin City Limits Music Festival and ABC Kite Festival, are hosted each year.
Don't miss out on the Austin Nature and Science Center, located on the park's west side, that provides free entrance to visitors of all ages. Workshops are offered at the facility, with a wildlife preserve and a mammal boardwalk where you can see real prairie dogs, foxes, and bobcats. There is a large outdoor display called the Dino Pit, where you can pretend to be paleontologists and dig up fossils.
You can find Barton Springs Pool, one of Austin's crown jewels, inside Zilker Park's 358 acres. With an average temperature of 68°F to 70°F, the pool is perfect for year-round swimming and is three acres in area. From state senators who have authored legislation to free-spirited sunbathers who turned heads in the 1970s, Barton Springs Pool has drawn a diverse group of people.
Barton Springs is a popular recreational destination in the city and is home to the critically endangered Barton Springs Salamander, a federally protected ecosystem. The pool's depths span from 0′ to 18′, with grassy spaces around it for visitors to relax.
To get a memorable experience, attend Splash!, an educational exhibit adjacent to the pool bathhouse that teaches visitors about the biology and history of Barton Springs and the Edwards Aquifer that sustains it.
Franklin Barbecue would win the "Most Hyped Restaurant" title in Austin. It is perhaps the most talked about in Texas. Is it possible for a BBQ establishment to achieve this degree of fame? Aaron Franklin, a James Beard Award-winning chef, spent years perfecting his skill before launching the BBQ trailer that he outgrew.
Seasoning and smoking bring out the best in the meat. Forget about any other kind of pulled pork once you've had this one. In Franklin's house-made sausage, you'll find a spicy, delicious, and juice-zing treat. In other words, don't dismiss the hype just yet.
James Beard award-winner Aaron Franklin seasons and smokes his brisket to juicy perfection. It's so good that people queue up and sometimes wait four hours for a taste. You won't be dissatisfied with either La Barbecue or Leroy & Lewis, and you'll miss half of your life if you miss tasting them during your visit.
If you are a die-hard music fan, Waterloo offers everything you need, from a vintage Willie Nelson LP to the newest Leon Bridges album. As the city's most famous and visible music shop, it has a wide selection of new releases from independent and major labels and deluxe reissues of classic albums.
The used daily arrival area contains many jewels, ranging from legendary hip-hop singles to weird disco rarities. However, it takes a real digger's luck to get a discovery from their dollar bins. You can stay up with local musicians by checking out the Texas best-seller rankings and keep an eye out for in-store concerts by updating yourself with their event calendar.
If you're more of a book and film buff than a vinyl fanatic, check out the comprehensive music-themed sections, including CDs for the analog-challenged.
Pinballz Lake Creek, located on Research Blvd, has the most games, attractions, party rooms, and event facilities among three Pinballz facilities, with more than 100,000 square feet of entertaining family entertainment.
If you visit this place, you'll have fun with its incredible attractions, such as their Virtual Reality (VR) Arena, XD Dark Ride Theater, bumper cars, laser tag, laser maze, and mini-bowling. Also, maximize your enjoyment through a full menu of delectable scratch-made food from Mikki's Tavern, hundreds of classic pinballs, tickets & prize games, and modern and new video games.
Don't miss to set off on a thrilling journey into a new realm brimming with surprise and excitement in Hologate VR. Put on the Hologate headsets, and you with your friends (maximum of three) will be transported into a virtual reality world where you can battle robots, zombies, dragons, dodge, and snowballs.
To keep up with the latest exhibits, films, and activities, stop by the Bullock Museum. It is situated only three blocks north of the Capitol in downtown Austin.
The Bullock Texas State History Museum has three levels of exhibits, an IMAX with Laser theater, a 4D special effects theater, a cafe, and a museum shop. For more than 700 years, the museum has collaborated with other institutions to present unique historical objects and develop exciting exhibits that reflect Texas's rich cultural heritage.
A visit to Texas isn't complete without learning about the state's unique past. From the Alamo to the murder of John F. Kennedy, Texas has a colorful and significant history. Don't miss everything from Bush family lore and space research to breathtaking IMAX films and free public events to fully enjoy this museum.
The Laguna Gloria branch of The Contemporary Austin Museum, located on the beaches of Lake Austin and only a 10-minute drive from downtown, is the ideal site to see the newest and best sculptures and designs. Grab a cup of coffee at Mozart's Coffee Roasters in West Austin, then drive up the road to the museum, which is nestled on the slopes of Mount Bonnell.
Even though you're just five miles from downtown, you feel like you've been transported to another world as you enter The Contemporary Austin–Laguna Gloria's gates. You can glimpse art from modern artists from around the globe throughout the grounds, from towering sculptures to tranquil forested trails.
One of Austin's most popular sites for weddings and other private events, the Driscoll Villa, was constructed in 1916 and is located in Laguna Gloria. The Art School at The Contemporary is located on the opposite side of the grounds. It offers students a range of mediums to hone their technical abilities while expanding their creative potential.
Mayfield Park, originally known as the Mayfield-Gutsch Estate, is a prominent destination in this city. The park is situated in downtown Austin on 36th Street, just across from the Austin Museum of Art. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1994.
On your visit to Mayfield Park, you can enjoy two acres of cottage gardens. These gardens have a variety of lovely blooms and ever-changing scenery that varies depending on the season you visit. You can find waterlily ponds in the botanical gardens. You can spend a whole morning or afternoon roaming through the gardens, taking in the sights and smells.
Witness the park's many peacocks, often regarded as some of the most beautiful birds on the planet, for a full-blown experience. The peacocks dance about the grounds confidently and brilliantly amid the tourists. The park's peacocks have become renowned, and they are featured prominently in the park's marketing and promotional materials.
Are you ready to see all of Austin's beautiful places? This isn't even close to covering half of them, but it should get you started. Austin is waiting for you!
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Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories
For the first time ever, Fantagraphics is proud to present a single-volume collection of Gilbert Hernandez's "Heartbreak Soup" stories from Love & Rockets, which along with RAW magazine defined the modern literary comics movement of the post-underground generation.
This massive volume collects every "Heartbreak Soup" story from 1993 to 2002 in one 500-page deluxe hardcover edition, presenting the epic for the first time as the single novel it was always intended to be.
Palomar is the mythical Central American town where the "Heartbreak Soup" stories take place.
Luba, the guiding spirit of Palomar since the outset, has been hailed by The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Time magazine as one of the great characters of contemporary American fiction.
Included are such classic tales as "Sopa de Gran Pena," "Ecce Homo," "An American in Palomar," "Human Diastrophism," and "Farewell, Mi Palomar." Palomar presents one of the richest accomplishments in the history of the artform in its ideal format for the first time, making it a must-have for longtime Love & Rockets fans and new readers alike.
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Palomar is probably the best graphic novel I have read. The book is densely plotted and densely peopled with characters that you wind up caring very deeply about. In the middle of the book there is a long story called "Human Diastrophism" in which a plague of monkeys, archeologists, and a serial killer invade Palomar straining the dynamics of the town and revealing a lot about the characters.
Because Palomar is a small place, we get to see how everyone experiences each other over time, their interweaving and shifting (or inflexible) dynamics, loves, losses, disappointments. The book is sad, funny, philosophically rich, full of friendship and the absurd intensity and cartoonishness of friendship and romantic love over time.
I've never had an army buddy. Womb buddy? Anyway, it'd be good to have that easy-to-pinpoint relationship term such as "army buddy" because people would go "ooh yeah I get it" right away. I won't eat their fried slugs. I know that I'd still be the asshole who won't eat the food no matter how hungry everyone is. That scene in Empire of the Sun (everything I need to know in life I learned from Empire of the Sun) when they eat the weavils in the rice to get protein? I'm the sister Katsa in Nicolas Gage's Eleni (best book in the world that people refuse to read). I can see it now: "It tastes like chicken, Mariel!" "But I'm a vegetarian!" Other things they could've fried than banana slugs: 1. The prison scenes were creepy as hell. (Not the love scenes! I also loved the photographer that tells the one girl she looks like Sophia Loren and she has no idea who that is.
Its interesting to watch the characters ageanother feature almost totally lacking in the superhero comics where Aunt May always looks ancient and Mary Jane never starts to sag. The storyline is very soap opera-ishthe sexcapades of a small Latin American town (Mexican?). She has sex with just about everybody, has half a dozen children all by different fathers, and is a successful businesswoman and eventually the mayor of the town. While its certainly a depiction of a matriarchal society, its also a fantasy of matriarchywhere women, especially young nubile girls, are always sexually available to ugly older men like Guadalupe and Pipo to Gato or Tonantzin to practically everybody. And what annoys me is how much sexism and the machismo of Latino culture is elided by the portrayal of these superstrong women who are always drawn (except for the lesbian Maricela) in the glamour-style of comic book babes: huge bosom, perky nipples, big butts, gorgeous faces and hair, long legs, and so forth. People like Pipo cross the border effortlessly and despite Pipos complete lack of schooling and that shes saddled with a kid as a teenager, shes able to effortlessly create a clothing line and get a TV show by virtue of her good looks, large ass, and perkiness. The women who have horrendously bad taste in men seem never to really suffer for it and bearing one child after another apparently doesnt hold them back, except for a brief moment when Luba loses it and returns the various kids to their Dadsmen who never seem to have to accept responsibility for fathering children. While I think the series was an important step toward breaking comics out of the superhero serial mode and also giving minorities a voice, I think there are probably better visions of Latin America waiting to be discovered or createdthe sort of stuff that is willing to confront the darkness and depth that lies at the heart of their culture rather than quasi-pornographic celebrations of liberated female sexuality that nevertheless apologize for and naturalize patriarchy.
(Or, actually I cheated a little -- the book I came across randomly was merely volume one of a brand-new paperback collection by its publisher Fantagraphics, being offered as a cheaper and more mobile version than the all-in-one coffeetable-sized hardback collection they put out in 2003; when I discovered that the Chicago Public Library has not yet acquired volume two of this new paperback series, I simply checked out the larger hardback version, and finished up the stories that way.) For those who don't know, the original Love And Rockets consisted of several different persistent storylines, each of which was run by a different member of the multi-sibling Hernandez family, who as a group originally created and funded this historically ultra-important title from the dawn of alt-comics; the "Palomar" stories (named after the town where they take place, also known as the "Heartbreak Soup" stories after the very first tale in the series) was the one maintained by brother Gilbert, an expansive look at a fictional village somewhere on the west coast of Central America, and all the remarkable things that happen there from roughly the 1950s to 1980s (and sometimes both before and beyond).
To answer the inevitable eye-raise -- this is a comic for adults -- and to address the obvious comparison -- Garcia Marquez's Macondo has nothing on Hernandez's Palomar. That's not to say this is a gory comic or that there's no surrealism; rather, it has sudden flashes of violence that are truly scary, mostly because they happen to characters you've watched grow before your eyes; its sudden flights into the unreal, in dreams and hallucinations, are the more effective for that. I can't remember being afraid that any of Garcia Marquez's characters might die, but I did here.
Extra kudos for "An American in Palomar" about an exploitative photographer who thinks he can get a good series out of "the impoverished natives" while getting a good lay out of the town girls--and even more praise for not letting it drop, bringing the consequences back years later in a completely unexpected way.
I suspect that this series looked better in relation to the contemporaneous comics of the 80s and 90s. 2- The humor was too often silly and cartoonish, like old time comic strip gags.
One of the more effective devices Hernandez uses, purely magic realism, is of the tree with the ghosts of recently passed characters waving from its shadow.
Gilbert Hernandez, born in 1957, enjoyed a pleasant childhood in Oxnard, California, with four brothers and one sister.
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UNGA: Beijing +25
Statement by Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Beijing +25 Youth Delegate Celia Lima on Accelerating the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, 1 October 2020.
01. Oct 2020 | General Assembly
Prime Minister Erna Solberg:
Twenty-five years ago, we agreed on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. And we do have much to celebrate today – women play a greater role in political and economic life. More girls are in school than ever before, and fewer women die in childbirth.
However, COVID-19 has highlighted how easily these achievements can be reversed. There is an alarming increase in women´s poverty. The risks of early pregnancy and harmful practices, such as child marriages, are growing. Acts of violence against women and girls have increased across the world.
So our response to this crisis must have a gender perspective at its core. Our recovery efforts must ensure that girls go back to school. That women are part of decision making processes. That they can access health care, including sexual and reproductive health and rights. And that efforts to rebuild and stimulate the economy are targeted at women.
The fact is that we will not be able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals without investing in women and girls.
The Norwegian Government recognizes the vital role young people play as partners and leaders in development. We are dependent on the hard work of committed girls and young women to achieve the targets set out in the Beijing Platform for Action. I would therefore like to give the floor to our youth delegate Celia Lima.
Beijing +25 Youth delegate Celia Lima:
As we mark the anniversary of the Beijing declaration, we stand on the shoulders of the women and queer people who fought for the rights we enjoy today.
The Beijing declaration was, and is, radical. But looking at the status of women globally, 25 years later, it is clear: to reach the 2030 Agenda, decision-makers need to be pressured by the impatient voices of youth.
Globally, youth are a powerful force for radical change. When the space for young women's participation is widened, our claims to equal opportunities to education, work and a life free from violence can no longer be ignored.
I urge every UN member state to commit to ensuring meaningful youth participation in all processes that concern youth, and to take the particular actions needed for young women and girls' voices to be heard. Because "Nothing about us, without us".


Did you know that there is a United States work visa available specifically to Canadian citizens who have a job offer in the United States? This visa is called the TN visa, and it is available for professionals who work in certain occupations. This visa is even quicker to obtain than most work visas, because you only need to apply at the border instead of by mail. However, quick does not necessarily mean easy. You still have to meet all of the requirements.
The job offer that you have received for the United States must be formatted as a petition for a TN visa on your behalf, as well as in an occupation that is on the designated NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) list for the TN visa, which includes professional occupations that require a high level of education and often a university degree or higher.
The employee must be able to prove that they are qualified for the job they have been offered through their credentials and resume, as well as references and other information.
The TN visa is a temporary visa, which means that applicants must be able to show they have strong ties to Canada and will return there when they are finished working in the United States. TN visas are generally good for about three years.


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Equitable Tolling of the Motion to Reopen Deadline
By statute, noncitizens who have been ordered removed have the right to file one motion to reopen. 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(A). In most cases, these statutory motions to reopen are subject to strict filing deadlines. See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i), (b)(5)(C)(i). However, as nine courts of appeals have recognized, the deadlines are subject to equitable tolling, a long-recognized principle through which courts can waive the application of certain non-jurisdictional statutes of limitations where a plaintiff was diligent but nonetheless unable to comply with the filing deadline. Several courts have also recognized that the numerical limitation on motions to reopen is subject to tolling. The Council continues to advocate in the remaining courts of appeals for recognition that that the motion to reopen deadlines are subject to equitable tolling and, with the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers' Guild (NIPNLG), has filed amicus briefs in the Fourth, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits.
The Supreme Court granted reivew in one of these cases, Mata v. Lynch. Petitioner Noel Mata sought equitable tolling of the deadline to file a motion to reopen based upon ineffective assistance of counsel. After the BIA denied his request, the Fifth Circuit held that it lacked jurisdiction to review the decision. Mr. Mata sought review by the Supreme Court, arguing that the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that it has no jurisdiction. The Council, AILA, and NIPNLG, represented by the law firm of Kurzban, Kurzban, Weinger, Tetzeli & Pratt, P.A., submitted an amicus brief in support of Mr. Mata. The brief explains the time-consuming process that noncitizens facing removal must go through to make an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. It also presents the stories of several immigrants whose requests for tolling of reopening deadlines originally were denied by the BIA, but eventually were granted after review by a federal court of appeals. The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Fifth Circuit. Mata v. Lynch, 135 S. Ct. 2150


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Huskies expected to challenge for 8th national title
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UConn coach Geno Auriemma isn't tempering any expectations for this season's team.
A year ago, the Hall of Famer and Olympic coach was telling anyone who would listen that his Huskies were not good enough to win an eighth national championship.
They went 33-5 and lost in the national semifinals.
UConn returns four starters from that squad and brings in what is widely regarded as the nation's top recruiting class, including 6-foot-4 Breanna Stewart, the consensus national player of the year coming out of high school.
This season, Auriemma is telling anyone who will listen that his team is "really, really, really good," and he believes they can win it all, even though defending national champion Baylor returns Brittney Griner and every starter from last year's undefeated team.
"If everyone expected us to go to the Final Four and contend for a national championship without Maya Moore, isn't the expectation level this year to go undefeated and win every game by 100," he joked Tuesday. "So, I might as well say, 'Yeah, that's what we're going to do."
Stewart gives the Huskies a lot of options they didn't have a year ago. She is a good rebounder and can step outside and hit a jump shot.
Auriemma said she also has a smooth, unrushed style that reminds him of former NBA star George Gervin.
Fifth-year senior guard Caroline Doty, who played with Maya Moore and Tina Charles said Stewart has that type of potential.
"To have her length and her athleticism, being able to shoot the 3 and having all her options down low, it's unbelievable," Doty said. "With (our coaches) working with her every single day, she's going to be something very, very special."
She also says all the right things, such as how she doesn't care if she's the next big name at UConn, as long as the team wins.
"Obviously Coach Auriemma has gotten a lot out of a lot of players coming through his program and I would just like to reach my potential here," she said.
But Stewart isn't the only star. The Huskies rotation could include 10 players, led by junior guard Bria Hartley and last year's Big East freshman of the year, forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis.
Junior center Stefanie Dolson and sophomore Kiah Stokes, will be joined down low by Stewart and 6-2 freshman Morgan Tuck, whom Auriemma says has been the best post player in the early practices.
"They don't play like freshmen at all," Dolson said. "They're already playing like upper classmen. I think the chemistry that we have is amazing and like coach said, the expectations are definitely high. We plan to win a national championship and not lose a game."
Sophomore Brianna Banks is expected to get more time at point guard, where the Huskies also can play Hartley and have freshman Moriah Jefferson, who played with Stewart and Tuck on the under-18 USA national team.
The team also has plenty of veterans such as Doty and senior guard Kelly Faris, the team's top defender.
Mosqueda-Lewis said the team understands that some now consider Baylor to be the dominant program in the women's game. But, she said, nobody should be thinking of the Huskies as underdogs.
"I don't think our role really matters to us," she said. "Our goal never changes, whether our role is being Darth Vader or people are actually rooting for us. We're going to try to win a national championship. And if we need to knock off Baylor, which is probably going to have to happen, then we will."


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In the year 2011 Marion also played for the Chicago Bears for two years. He signed a contract worth $5 million with Chicago Bears.
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30 April, 2008. It was a Wednesday.
I've had quite a few job titles where I basically did the same function: Software Engineer, Software Developer, Technical Lead, and so on. In some companies, a Software Developer is a completely different position than Software Engineer, and in others they're used interchangeably.
The connotations and implications from each title are strikingly different. The term "engineer" has a much different meaning than "developer", taken outside the context of software. A Developer might lay out the plan of a new subdivision, where its green areas are, what style homes should be built and what theme the neighborhood should adhere to. The Engineer lays out the water and sewage lines, elevations, roads, utilities and other functions vital for sustainable human habitability. A Developer creates the vision and designs the implementation, while the Engineer ensures that quality, regulatory and ethical standards have been met.
That's not to say an Engineer isn't creative. In a family full of Engineering graduates (including myself), no Engineer would have a job if they weren't creative. Every problem is an implementation of a different pattern, but the details make each challenge completely different than the one before.
As well as a host of other "ilities". One critical difference between me as a Developer and they as an Engineer was that Engineers are licensed by an independent group.
Licensing isn't a one-time affair, you have to renew your license, which has its own requirements including continuing education. Even if not working in the public sector, licensing is considered a career necessity.
But we have certifications, right?
Anyone that has interviewed candidates for positions knows the sad state of software certifications. At best, software certifications signify that your are certified to be an absolute beginner for that topic. For some reason, software certifications still hold value, though all involved, managers, HR and candidates, know that the certifications aren't worth bytes it was emailed with.
Would licensing help our industry? We live in a sad state of affairs when identities are not stolen because of sifting through your mail or stealing your wallet, but because of careless, ignorant developers. In a Twitter conversation with an ex-colleague, Terry noted that software development lacked discipline, respect and accountability. Can licensing help prevent the ridiculous failures, by both raising the bar and raising the stakes for individual failure?
If a bridge fails, the engineers can be held liable if they are found to cut corners, or even sheer ignorance. Oversight in the form of inspectors is supposed to help, but in the end, the engineers are held accountable.
I see Developers as code monkeys, slapping code out without regard to reliability and maintainability. Engineers have a much longer horizon too look at, they must ensure the bridge they build lasts 100 years, not six months. Shouldn't we hold ourselves up to the same standard?


Corinne Lea has one more week to raise $1 million, or face losing the 80-year-old Rio Theatre to developers.
When Vancouver's beloved Rio Theatre went up for sale, Corinne Lea knew exactly what she needed to do: figure out a way to buy the building.
One of the last independent theatres on Canada's West Coast, the Rio was built in 1938 in the city's bustling Commercial Drive neighbourhood. Since then, it's not only played host to everything from independent cinema to big blockbusters, but since Lea took over the programming in 2008, the 450-seat theatre has become a favourite spot for top indie bands, improv comedy and viewing parties for events including the Oscars and World Cup soccer matches. It's also a Vancouver International Film Festival venue.
Then last year, in the midst of Vancouver's blistering hot property market, the landlord — former owner of the popular Fifth Avenue, Ridge and Park theatres, and founder of the Vancouver International Film Festival Leonard Schein — put the building up for sale. Lea says that after the city gave the green light for higher-rise development in the area, a developer stepped in to make an offer. Schein gave Lea one week to counter.
Lea sounded the alarm on social media, asking for donations and investors to help save the theatre, and in five days collected 22,000 signatures and testimonials under the #SavetheRio banner. Her group's offer to purchase was accepted, and they were given just 60 days to raise money in order to get approved for the mortgage. Lea needed to raise $3 million for the deposit — $1 million in donations from the public, and an additional $2 million from investors.
"To stop developers from giving it the same fate as other beloved cultural institutions in the city, we need to take action!" called out organizers on the campaign website.
The original deadline for the deposit was Tuesday, April 3, and in a last-ditch attempt to meet it, American filmmaker, actor and author Kevin Smith performed two free shows; the theatre also hosted a 30-hour marathon of performances.
"Kevin Smith was a huge highlight. He took the time out to like fly into Vancouver and do two back-to-back sold-out shows — all for free. He did that on his own time, and he did it just to help save the Rio. It was amazing," says Lea, who says that night alone they raised over $50,000. Comedians Eric Fell and Patrick Maliha also hosted a marathon that went from 6 p.m. Sunday night until midnight Monday.
"And our two hilarious hosts did not sleep the entire time, and they never ran out of jokes, which was amazing," she says. "And there were actually a couple of customers who lasted the whole 30 hours, too. It was just a good spirit."
So far the #SavetheRio Indiegogo campaign, which also drew Twitter support from Hollywood superstar Ryan Reynolds, has raised over $428,000 — an enormous sum, but not enough for the deposit, so the owner gave them a two-week reprieve, until April 16. In an effort to attract more donors, incentives from gift-certificates to tote bags are being offered on the fundraiser site.
Twenty-five percent of funds raised will go directly to The Rio business (Shameless Lee Productions Ltd.) to cover the costs of the purchase and campaign; the other 75 percent will be donated to The Vancouver Art House Society, a non-profit that will invest the donated funds to purchase the property and become an equity shareholder.
"It's so amazing and beautiful — we get everything from someone making a special trip down here to give us 25 bucks to people who hand us a $500 cheque," says Lea. "And all the artists who have donated their time and their art. It's such a community spirit. It's really inspiring."
Now Lea is in a mad dash to raise the extra funds and says that if everything goes according to plan, it would be business as usual at the Rio, whose tag line is "an experience you can't download."
"We would just keep rocking it. We just want to keep doing what we're doing and keep providing the community with an awesome venue with great programming," says Lea. "I'm positive it is going to work. From the beginning I've said failure is not an option — and this has been such hard work, I didn't go through all of this just to give up in the end. No, this is going to happen."


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Kamala Harris meets Waukee residents amid neighborhood price hike
Sean Cordy - Reporter
Aug 10, 2019 at 7:25 PM Aug 11, 2019 at 8:32 AM
In March, residents at the Midwest County Estates in Waukee woke up to the news their rent could see a hike of around 70 percent.
The park had just been purchased by Havenpark Capital, a Utah-based company that has bought a number of similar mobile estates throughout Iowa.
A resident of the park for 10 years, Matt Chapman who has lobbied for mobile housing action for three years, said the future is uncertain.
"It's a big question mark. Where do we go? What do we do?" Chapman told the Dallas County News.
On Saturday, Aug. 10, California senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-CA) walked through the park with Chapman to give an answer should she win the 2020 election.
"Part of what I'm going to do for families and individuals that are paying over 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities," the senator said. "They'll get a tax credit. But we also have to give a credit for affordable housing."
This matches up with her Rent Relief Act introduced in her home state in 2018. Additionally, residents of government-subsidized housing can claim a refundable tax credit for their rent. She wrote an op-ed in the Des Moines Register in April that attributed 21 million Americans paying 30 percent or more of their income on rent and utilities, proposing a tax credit to help renters with an affordable home.
There is skepticism raised by the Los Angeles Times that such a bill would hurt larger metro areas that already have an increase in homelessness. Landlords would also have more incentive to raise prices with an overwhelming figure qualifying for assistance.
The effect of a 2020 bill won't be nearly quick enough as more flyers giving residents notice are appearing every month, Chapman said.
A majority of residents in the 300-lot park are either on a fixed income, support a family as a single parent, or retired, leaving few options beyond staying at their current residence.
Harris and Chapman both said that puts everyone's wallets on the line, needing to sacrifice grocery and medical money for rent. A 2014 study by the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau estimates mobile home residents have one-quarter of the median net worth among other households.
While walking down the road to Chapman's house, Harris spent time talking with other residents to get a pulse on the situation. She spoke with a woman who said that her "grandmother can't move" to other housing under present circumstances in the area.
Pam Root, a retired park resident added that living with social security has become difficult with the onset of the new rent even after cutting corners elsewhere since her husband has medical expenses to consider.
Chapman said he hopes to see more legislation help with rent control and will continue to lobby to that effect.
Harris also spoke to the effect of helping mental health. While not entirely connected to the housing topic at hand, Chapman told a story of helping another resident who suffered a psychological disorder and lost his home to a fire, left without another place to live.
"We have failed to deal with the health of the body above the neck," Harris told Chapman.
After Harris left for her next campaign event in West Des Moines, Chapman told the Dallas County News he was happy with what the senator had to say. But he will continue fighting for more attention on the state and local level, hoping to get more candidates out more discussion in the future about affordable housing and enacting bills to control rent hikes.
Harris will continue her trip in Iowa with visits to Des Moines, Lacona, and Mount Pleasant on Sunday. She will be in Burlington and Davenport for public events on Monday.
She is currently fourth in the democratic polls at 8.3 percent as of Aug. 10.


The Criminal Investigations Department together with the Army have commenced investigations into an incident where an army commando, in possession of a firearm, was in close proximity to the president at an event held in Angunukolapelessa.
The army commando was taken into custody and was remanded until May 12.
The Police Special Task Force arrested an army commando who was in possession of a firearm and was in close proximity to President Maithrirpala Sirisena at a party meeting held in Angunukolapelessa.
He was later handed over to the Presidential Security Division and steps were taken to release him. The Criminal Investigation Department which carried out investigations into the incident later arrested the Army Commando after informing the Army. He was later presented before the acting magistrate of Angunukolapelessa.
As per orders issued by the acting magistrate he was remanded until May 12.
Police Media Spokesperson ASP Ruwan Gunasekara stated that it has been confirmed that the Army Corporal was attached to the Commando Regiment in Ganemulla. It has also been revealed that he was attached to the security detail of the former president.
He went on to note that the CID is conducting further investigations and also into a possible lapse of security at this event where the president was in attendance. The purpose of the corporal attending this event is also being investigated. An investigation is also underway into how the soldier entered the premises of the meeting.
He further stated that it was reported that the Corporal had arrived at the location with MP Namal Rajapaksa, for his protection. Police STF personnel had apprehended the corporal when he approached, and had thereafter handed him over to the PSD. Steps had then been taken to remove him from the premises.
The CID is also taking steps to record statements from the PSD officers responsible for security at the premises where the meeting was held. The CID will submit a report to the IGP following investigations.
Meanwhile, the Ministerial Security Division stated that MP Namal Rajapaksa has never received any security personnel from the MSD for his protection. However, Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has 225 police officers and army personnel for his security.
Army Media Spokesperson Brigadier Jayanath Jayaweera stated that the army and police are carrying out separate investigations into the incident.
Meanwhile, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka noted that they have been informed that the soldier in question was attached to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's security detail and is a corporal in the commando regiment.
He stated that he is definitely an individual who has previously been attached to Mahinda Rajapaksa's security detail and that even at the moment, he is with Mahinda Rajapaksa. So, he is well aware that no one, other than the assigned officers, can come close to the President with a firearm.
Thus. it was noted that it is very suspicious why a person who is on Mahinda Rajapaksa's security detail, had come close to President Maithripala Sirisena with a pistol.
It was also stated that if a proper investigation and debriefing is not carried out, then there will be a lack of faith regarding the security of the president and the security affairs of the country.
He stated that the fact that it took a week to arrest him is a joke. The officers there, at the time, either from the police or the army, should have arrested him on the spot. Nowhere, in the world is there a precedent where someone who has done such a thing is allowed to go home and then arrested in court.


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More Good News for Merseyside
Written by Hamish A C Ross
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One of the world's most modern shipping terminals, Liverpool2 was officially opened on Friday 4th November 2016 at the Port of Liverpool by the Secretary of State for International Trade, Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP.
The £400 million investment by Peel Ports, one of the UK's biggest port operators, will provide a state-of-the-art ocean gateway for UK importers and exporters with road, rail and canal connections linking directly to the heart of the UK mainland, accessing a catchment of over 35 million people, almost 58% of the UK's population.
The new deep water facility will complement the existing Royal Seaforth Container Terminal at the existing Port of Liverpool, with each terminal having capacity to handle around 1 million containers per annum. The Port is already the country's biggest transatlantic port (45% market share) and the only major container port in the north or west of the UK.
Liverpool2, which is one of the UK's largest private sector infrastructure projects, was developed in response to changing trading patterns and shipping industry trends towards the use of 'mega' ocean-going container ships. Liverpool2 will now be able to handle the biggest cargo vessels in the world.
Mark Whitworth, CEO of Peel Ports said: "Today marks the beginning of a new era for the Port of Liverpool. Our investment will help global shippers to transport cargo more efficiently to their end destination with lower costs, congestion and carbon emissions. Liverpool is in the right location, providing state-of-the art facilities and technology, and offers a real competitive advantage with a shorter supply chain and providing an all-water route right to the heart of the UK via the Manchester Ship Canal.
"Liverpool2 will create a new trading gateway in the UK. We are already exploring and succeeding in creating new opportunities for UK exporters, having recently signed a significant Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to create a strategic alliance aimed at facilitating international trade and generating new business by promoting trade routes between Liverpool and the west coast of South America via the Panama Canal." Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox said:
"Exporting is vital to the economic health of our nation. This investment at Liverpool2 will boost crucial cargo capacity, create local jobs and is yet another sign that the UK is open for business with the world.
"Liverpool is ideally located to increase our trade with countries west of the UK, including the US, Canada and South America, and this new port opens up even more opportunities with new markets and export destinations for UK businesses."
Liverpool currently has around 8% of the container market in the UK. This figure would be expected to rise to between 15% and 20%.
More on this and other news in Sea Breezes Magazine - January 2017 Issue


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Drawing on the testimony of Michael Bauer, the gay son of Jewish Holocaust survivors who lived through the AIDS Crisis, we will ask: When is it okay to draw comparisons and connections between Holocaust history and injustice today?
Join us for this interactive online workshop led by Unsilence, co-facilitated by Unsilence founder Dr. Danny M. Cohen and Unsilence educator Sammi Oberman. Hosted by the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Presented by the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida.
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