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Trade tensions intensify at G20 meeting
By Nick Beams
The G20 finance ministers' meeting in Buenos Aires over the weekend ended with no steps being taken toward resolving the trade war tensions moving through the global economy.
While there was no repeat of the open conflict that marked the meeting of the G7 last month, when US President Donald Trump repudiated the final communiqué, "the schism in global trade relations was laid bare," in the words of a Financial Times report.
The communiqué issued at the end of the talks noted that while global economic growth remained "robust," it had become "less synchronised recently" and short- and medium-term risks had increased. "These include rising financial vulnerabilities, heightened trade and geopolitical tensions, global imbalances, inequality and structurally weak growth, particularly in some advanced economies."
This assessment reflected that made by the International Monetary Fund on the eve of the meeting. The IMF warned that the likelihood of "escalating and sustained trade actions" threatened to have a "serious and adverse impact on global growth while leaving unaddressed the underlying causes of global imbalances."
Rather than confront any of these problems, the main work of the G20 meeting was to try to craft a statement that avoided them.
The commitment to "resist protectionism," which had formed the centre of G20 statements since the global financial crisis in 2008, but was junked last year as the US stepped up its trade war measures, did not make a reappearance.
The question of competitive currency devaluations, which had been put into the spotlight by statements from Donald Trump on the eve of the meeting that the currencies of the European Union and China were being devalued at the expense of the US, was virtually passed over. The communiqué said only that the G20 reaffirmed "our exchange rate commitments made in March," which said competitive devaluations should not be undertaken.
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz rejected Trump's claim that the EU manipulated the value of the euro, saying it carried out "very rational policies that are not geared to artificially creating economic successes through currency levels."
China also denied it was deliberately pushing down the value of the renminbi, which has dropped by 4 percent against the US dollar in the past month.
Rather than any measures to address the eruption of trade war, the G20 meeting was characterised by the manoeuvres of the various participants, reflecting their different economic and political interests as they seek to obtain the best possible position in the deepening global conflict.
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin moved to call the EU's free trade bluff. "If Europe believes in free trade, we're ready to sign a free-trade agreement," he said. But any agreement would have to eliminate tariffs, along with non-tariff barriers and subsidies. "It has to be all three issues," he said.
As Mnuchin well knows, there is no likelihood of such an agreement because the EU has a complex system of subsidies and other arrangements, particularly covering agriculture.
Mnuchin also made clear that measures directed against China, which have led to the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese imports and include a plan to impose a 10 percent tariff on a further $200 billion worth of products, will be intensified.
Underlining the threat made by Trump to target all Chinese exports to the US, Mnuchin said before the meeting that he "wouldn't minimize" the possibility that tariffs could be imposed on $500 billion worth of Chinese goods.
Mnuchin held no discussions with Chinese officials at the G20 gathering, but repeated the claim that the US wanted the Chinese to buy more US products. Earlier, Beijing had offered to increase its exports by $100 billion, but this was rejected as inadequate, reflecting the fact that the drive of the US against China is aimed not at the trade imbalance per se, but at China's promotion of high-tech industrial development, regarded as a long-term threat to US dominance.
Seeking to portray the US as being in a strong position, Mnuchin said that while some individual sectors of the economy, such as agriculture, had been hurt, the overall US economy had not been impacted adversely by the administration's trade measures.
He added that the US would be looking at specific action to assist those sectors "unfairly targeted," including retaliatory measures—a reference to the imposts on US goods by the EU and China.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire repeated the assertion that the EU would not negotiate "with a gun to our head" and called on the US to "return to reason."
He said the US had to be the first to move in the scrapping of tariffs, as it was the first to implement them. The "law of jungle will only lead to chaos," he added.
But there are differences in the EU. They centre on how to respond to the next threatened move by the Trump administration—the imposition of tariffs on European auto imports under national security provisions of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act.
Germany and the Netherlands would be more adversely affected by auto tariffs than France and Italy and, while the official position is that there will be one EU response and the US should remove its threats before negotiations, other moves are underway.
Pierre Moscovici, the EU commissioner for economic and financial affairs, said trade tensions were high and it was a "very challenging time," with multilateralism "under significant pressure." He said the EU would respond "firmly" to protectionism and take action within the rules of the World Trade Organisation. But, in a reference to the visit by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to Washington this week, he added that "we are always willing to go the extra mile to build bridges."
Reflecting the ever closer alignment of the Turnbull government with the Trump administration over its military and economic push against China, Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison said in an interview with Bloomberg that no country was "pursuing protectionism for protectionism's sake."
"There are some grievances that have been around for a decade," he said. "There is legitimate frustration about the failure of the system to resolve the issues that concern the US and others."
So far, Japan has sought to fly under the radar and avoid a direct conflict with the US, while seeking to advance its own agenda by reviving the Trans Pacific Partnership, minus the US, and by signing a major trade deal with the European Union.
Despite being refused an exemption from the US tariffs imposed on a steel and aluminium, Japan did not follow Canada and the EU and initiate retaliatory action.
However, Japanese Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko said last week the "case of autos is different" and "our response would change."


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BR Home Page > Players > Shaun Marcum > 2013 Pitching Game Logs
Born: December 14, 1981 in Kansas City, MO us
Draft: Drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 3rd round of the 2003 MLB June Amateur Draft from Missouri State University (Springfield, MO).
High School: Excelsior Springs HS (Excelsior Springs, MO)
Schools: University of Missouri Columbia (Columbia, MO), Missouri State University (Springfield, MO)
Debut: September 6, 2005 (Age 23-266d, 16,378th in MLB history)
vs. BAL 1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 SO, 1 BB, 0 ER
Last Game: June 17, 2015 (Age 33-185d)
vs. CHC 2.0 IP, 6 H, 0 SO, 1 BB, 6 ER, L
Agents: Rex Gary
Full Name: Shaun Michal Marcum
Pronunciation: \MARK-um\
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Team Record in Appearances: 4-10 / in Starts: 4-8
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Multiple inning appearances: 14, Entered with runners on base: 0
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175 22 Apr 27 NYM PHI L,4-9 GS-4 L(0-1) 99 4.0 5 3 3 2 3 0 0 6.75 18 71 44 13 6 5 8 4 1 0 41 0 1 0 15 1 0 0 0 1 0 .94 -0.211 -1.33 1t start tie 4t 3 out d2
176 24 Apr 29 NYM @ MIA L,3-4 14-GF(15) L(0-2) 1 1.2 4 2 2 1 1 0 0 7.94 10 28 21 5 5 4 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 4.06 -0.689 -1.31 14b --- 0 out tie 15b end d 1
177 27 May 3 NYM @ ATL W,7-5 GS-5 3 4.1 6 3 3 3 4 0 0 7.20 20 87 57 13 7 6 7 4 1 0 40 0 1 0 16 1 0 0 1 0 0 1.40 -0.181 -1.27 1b start a 2 5b 123 1 out a1
178 32 May 10 NYM PIT L,3-7 GS-5 L(0-3) 6 4.2 9 6 6 0 2 1 2 8.59 24 81 53 11 4 6 14 5 2 0 24 0 0 0 22 2 0 0 0 0 0 .81 -0.301 -4.11 1t start tie 5t 1-- 2 out d6
179 37 May 15 NYM @ STL L,2-4 GS-7 L(0-4) 4 6.2 5 3 2 1 3 0 0 6.75 26 96 65 18 6 8 14 4 4 0 56 0 0 0 25 1 0 0 0 0 0 .86 -0.016 0.67 1b start tie 7b 1-3 2 out tie
180 42 May 20 NYM CIN L,3-4 GS-6 L(0-5) 4 6.0 6 4 4 1 7 1 0 6.59 26 104 72 18 13 7 11 1 4 0 50 0 0 0 25 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.06 -0.241 -1.50 1t start tie 6t 3 out d1
181 47 May 26 NYM ATL W,4-2 GS-7 5 7.0 4 2 2 0 12 1 1 5.77 25 108 72 23 19 6 6 2 1 0 73 1 0 0 24 1 0 0 1 0 0 1.10 -0.054 0.92 1t start tie 7t 3 out d1
182 52 May 31 NYM @ MIA L,1-5 GS-7 L(0-6) 4 6.2 7 4 4 2 4 0 0 5.71 27 97 66 16 14 8 13 7 0 0 46 0 1 0 23 2 0 1 1 1 0 1.33 -0.050 -1.18 1b start tie 7b --3 2 out d4
183 57 Jun 8 NYM MIA L,1-2 13-GF(20) L(0-7) 7 8.0 5 1 1 0 7 0 0 4.96 28 105 84 17 11 4 17 4 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.02 0.509 2.33 13t --- 0 out tie 20t end d 1
184 62 Jun 14 NYM CHC L,3-6 GS-6 L(0-8) 5 5.2 7 6 6 1 4 1 0 5.43 25 82 51 19 6 4 16 3 1 0 34 0 0 0 24 2 1 0 0 0 0 .59 -0.347 -3.79 1t start tie 6t -2- 2 out d5
185 68 Jun 19 NYM @ ATL L,3-5 GS-5 L(0-9) 4 4.2 6 5 5 4 6 1 0 5.76 24 96 55 10 12 6 8 6 1 0 34 0 0 0 19 2 0 0 0 0 0 1.11 -0.420 -3.33 1b start tie 5b -23 2 out d2
186 74 Jun 26 NYM @ CHW W,3-0 GS-8 W(1-9) 6 8.0 4 0 0 2 2 0 0 5.08 27 96 57 23 5 11 12 2 2 0 74 1 1 0 25 1 0 0 2 0 0 1.04 0.429 4.03 1b start tie 8b 3 out a3
187 79 Jul 1 NYM ARI W,5-4 GS-6 4 6.0 6 3 3 3 2 1 1 5.03 27 101 61 18 6 9 12 6 1 0 47 0 0 0 22 2 0 1 1 0 0 .60 -0.154 -0.50 1t start tie 6t 3 out d3
188 84 Jul 6 NYM @ MIL L,6-7 GS-6 L(1-10) 4 5.0 11 6 5 1 3 1 0 5.29 27 83 59 16 7 11 12 5 2 0 25 0 1 0 24 1 0 0 0 1 1 .70 -0.401 -4.33 1b start tie 6b -2- 0 out d2
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Commons: 12 March 2020
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Volume 673: debated on Thursday 12 March 2020
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Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Eddie Hughes.)
Mr Richard Bacon
(South Norfolk) (Con)
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It is a pleasure to lead this Adjournment debate, the subject of which is support for community housing—a phrase that comes from the 2019 Conservative manifesto, on which my Conservative colleagues and I fought the recent general election. The manifesto, perhaps for lack of space, conflates two of my life-favourite themes: first, giving people in local communities more real say over the housing that is to be built in their areas; and secondly, self-build housing. On the latter, I declare two interests: first, because what is now known as the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 started life as my private Member's Bill; and secondly, because I am an ambassador for the Right to Build Task Force.
Under the heading "Community housing and self-build"—which I should emphasise for the sake of clarity are by no means entirely the same thing, although there is often an overlap—the Conservative manifesto helpfully states, on page 31:
"We will support community housing by helping people who want to build their own homes find plots of land and access the Help to Buy scheme."
I could hold at least three separate Adjournment debates purely based on that one sentence—first, because there is a great deal to say about community housing and the very successful community housing fund; secondly, because there is also a great deal to say about helping people who want to build their own homes, either as individuals or as members of groups; and thirdly, because there is a great deal to say about the fact that the Help to Buy scheme unfairly and inadvertently excluded custom and self-build from its scope. Although that omission was acknowledged and recognised by the Government in 2014, it did not lead to any action being taken until the 2019 manifesto commitment, so in fact there has been an extended period of unfair competition from state-led intervention, subsidised by our tax-paying constituents, which effectively has operated against self-builders and in favour of large house builders, thus limiting supply and choice while reducing overall quality, sustainability and innovation.
However, I do not want to talk about that—first, because my right hon. Friend the Minister knows that I am a "glass half full" kind of guy, and there is much that is positive to talk about; and secondly, because my conversations with Ministers have convinced me that they are seized of that particular problem in relation to Help to Buy, which I hope will in due course be called "Help to Build", and genuinely want to find a solution that works for self-builders rather than discriminates against them. In the limited time available, I will concentrate just on the first part of the sentence—namely, support for community housing.
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As my hon. Friend knows, I was the person who invented neighbourhood plans. I have a local plan in my home constituency for a town that has some land that it wishes to develop, but it is having enormous problems with the community land trust model in trying to do so. Does my hon. Friend think that that is typical of the problems of the community land trust route, or does he have a solution?
Mr Bacon
I recommend that my hon. Friend talks to the National Community Land Trust Network, because the truth is that there are lots of different solutions that work in different environments. He will have heard, as I did, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government say earlier that the great idea of neighbourhood plans does not work if it is then overridden by developers who take no account of what local communities have said they want. It undermines the credibility of the whole neighbourhood plan process. In my hon. Friend's particular case, I suggest that he talks to Tom Chance and Catherine Harrington at the National Community Land Trust Network, to see if there is a way forward, particularly if my right hon. Friend the Minister does what I hope he will do, which is relaunch the community housing fund so that the funding continues to be available, preferably on a long-term basis.
Danny Kruger
(Devizes) (Con)
Does my hon. Friend agree that community land trusts offer potentially a large part of the answer to the housing shortage in this country —uniquely among new developments, they frequently have considerable support from local communities—and that, although this Budget was overwhelmingly brilliant, it is disappointing that the community housing fund was not extended to meet the enormous demand for community land trusts?
I agree with everything my hon. Friend says. I draw attention to an utterly apposite quote on the front page of "Community Builders", a book by the Demos think-tank. I happened to attend the launch several years ago. It says:
"Giving communities more power over local housing developments can help to get more homes built".
Various arguments are made against community housing and alternative ways of doing things. I want to stress something and make sure that the Minister is aware of it by the end of this debate, so I might as well say it now. We know very well that the Treasury's infrastructure targets are based on what housing can be delivered. I was in a meeting with the Transport Secretary the other day and, like many of us lobbying for our areas, I have been in various meetings with Ministers over the past few weeks. The clear indication given is that if a proposal brings more housing, it is more likely that a Member's constituency will get the bypass it needs or that its major road will be dualled, and so on. My point to the Minister is this. If he and his colleagues want extra housing to be accepted, greater density than might otherwise be achieved, a system that is against sprawl and in favour of the most efficient use of land, including brownfield, and if they want something that is more environmentally sustainable and green, rather than just greenwash, all of that, not just some of it, is made easier if we involve the community.
I talked to the Secretary of State earlier today. He mentioned a view that he believes may be held by some in the Treasury—it was not his view—that community housing may not represent good value for money. I will tell you what definitely does not represent value for money, Mr Deputy Speaker, and that is having a parcel of land handed from pillar to post, from one public sector body to another, sometimes for generations.
When he was Mayor of London, my right hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) said, "Let's cut this Gordian knot and make something happen." The thing that happened was the scheme on the site of old St Clement's Hospital in Mile End, which he had celebrated and opened as Mayor of London. It was the fact that it was community scheme that helped drive it forward. That is much better value for money. In an environment where we are talking about rewriting the Green Book in a more sensible way, we should be thinking much more laterally and broadly about how different approaches can deliver better, faster and greener outcomes that are in every sense better for the community, our nation and people, and also better value for money. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Danny Kruger) for helping me raise that point.
As my hon. Friend alluded to, the Budget did not announce that the community housing fund will continue, although I am sure something will happen in due course. It is worth saying, for the benefit of the House, that the most common form of community-led housing, although it is not the only one, is via a community land trust, which is a legal entity that acquires land through purchase by the community, perhaps though a parish council, another local authority or a gift, and then oversees the development of affordable housing to buy or to rent. The housing remains affordable in perpetuity, while the land value is in effect removed from the equation because the land is held by the community land trust, which is a not-for-profit group that acts as the long-term steward.
Frankly, the community housing fund has been a tremendous success story for this Government. It was originally launched by George Osborne in his March 2016 Budget. The story of what happened next is important, particularly in terms of ensuring value for money. Over that summer, the community housing sector, led by the National Community Land Trust Network, worked up a detailed plan for how the money should be spent, although I regret to say that the Treasury initially decided, at the end of 2016, that the money should be handed to local authorities, which is in effect what happened—in two tranches totalling £148 million. This is a very important point to bear in mind if the Secretary of State or his ministerial colleagues want to discuss the question of value for money with the Treasury, because the Treasury may sometimes suggest that the community housing approach is not necessarily the best value-for-money approach. What actually happened was that the councils, having been given the money in a very non-ring-fenced way, spent it in the way that councils usually do. The Community Land Trust Network then did the obvious thing of talking to the councils about ensuring that the money was spent in the best possible way for community housing projects—and some of it was, which is good news, although, inevitably, not as much as might otherwise have been the case.
In November 2017, our right hon. Friend the present Business Secretary—who was in his place on the Front Bench not a few minutes ago—was Housing Minister, and he addressed the National Community Land Trust Network at its annual conference, announcing a rather more targeted scheme, and it is that scheme that has been such a huge success. In just 18 months, the pipeline in Homes England's system has grown to more than 10,000 homes; that is actual projects that are good to go. Independent analysis by Sheffield Hallam University has found that 859 communities are bringing projects forward, and that the community housing fund has increased the potential pipeline from just under 6,000 homes—when I and some of my colleagues met the then Prime Minister my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) in 2017 to push the idea of announcing and getting on with the community housing fund—to over 23,000 homes today. That is staggering growth and it is down to the community housing fund.
The research estimates the total funding need for projects outside London over the next five years to be about £260 million. That includes £57 million of revenue funding and £172 million in capital funding via Homes England. The Government may ask why so much of the money that was available was underspent when the bids closed in December 2019. The answer is very simple: it was not open for long enough. Eighteen months is too short a time period, even for the very best of housing developers, and in many cases, community groups are, by definition, starting from scratch. They need longer to establish themselves and to develop projects using the revenue component of the fund. Since the fund opened in July 2018, Homes England has received 379 bids, and it is estimated that that would require double the revenue that was in the fund at the point of closure. It is absolutely clear that that part of the fund was a smash hit, but not enough projects, in 18 months, had reached the point where they could bid for the capital element. It makes sense to have a much longer, stable community housing fund over the life of a Parliament.
Communities in every corner of England are playing their part in tackling the housing crisis in this way. We heard the Secretary of State mention First Homes earlier today. Communities are pioneering First Homes. In Cornwall, a community land trust has built 252 homes over 10 years, sold at a discount to make them affordable to local people. Thanks to the community housing fund, there are now plans for another 209. Many colleagues have campaigned to make these schemes happen, including the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Camborne and Redruth (George Eustice), and my hon. Friends the Members for North Cornwall (Scott Mann), for South East Cornwall (Mrs Murray), for St Austell and Newquay (Steve Double), for St Ives (Derek Thomas) and for Truro and Falmouth (Cherilyn Mackrory). Indeed, the predecessor of my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and Falmouth, Sarah Newton—whose loss to this House is much lamented by many—was one of the campaigners who originally suggested to George Osborne the idea of using the additional tax receipts from higher taxation of second homes to fund more community housing.
Communities are pioneering new approaches to affordability. In York, a group called YorSpace has planning permission to build 19 homes and a common house. It is developing a tenure called mutual home ownership, which lets members build up equity in their homes through monthly payments. It has raised £400,000 through a community share issue—local investment by local people—but it needs the community housing fund to provide capital grants.
Communities are building better and building beautiful. Some of us attended the launch of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, chaired by the excellent Nicholas Boys Smith and the much lamented late Roger Scruton. Marmalade Lane and New Ground are two co-housing communities featured in the new "National Design Guide", and both have won numerous awards. They were featured in the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission's report. Communities are pioneering new methods of construction. In Brighton, a self-build co-operative called Bunker is on site as we speak, building its first two homes for families on modest incomes. It is one of many community groups using off-site manufacturing and other construction innovations that the Government want to encourage.
I could go on—there are many other examples. I will give just one, in particular. Communities are working with landowners on projects that no one else would build. In Taunton, Somerset Co-op community land trust got started by converting a disused building into flats for young homeless people, and then went on to develop eight new affordable homes. It had been developing a bid with Homes England to take forward a new 30-home development in partnership with a local landowner, but the community housing fund closed just at the point when it was ready to apply.
The Minister may be familiar with the Oakfield scheme in Swindon, the headquarters of Nationwide Building Society. I recommend that he visit the scheme when he gets the chance. As he will be aware, Nationwide is a mutual building society, not a profit maximiser, and, like many building societies, it is going back to its roots in thinking about how it can do more to solve the housing crisis. This is an interesting scheme because although it is in some senses conventional—that is, it is not a community land trust scheme—Nationwide held a statutory consultation process where it really, seriously took account of what the community wanted for a development on a derelict brownfield site that no other house builder would touch. It now has a beautiful scheme coming forward that lots of local people are supporting. The total number of statutory objections it had in the consultation phase for the planning was zero.
I urge the Minister to reflect on the fact that one of the big problems that not just this Government but every Government have faced is getting people to accept the idea of more housing. I have been on platforms with people taking part in election debates with their political opponents where they have talked about extra housing being a sad price that has to be paid. We have somehow forgotten that the idea of development is cognate with developing—it is supposed to be a good word. We have managed to turn "development" into a bad word. The only way we turn it into a good word again, and therefore get it to be more widely welcomed, is to have good development. It is not an add-on. It is not a small piece on the side that we can perhaps think about at some point in the future if we have time—it is part of recasting how we do housing in this country.
We should not expect that people will get it right all the time. Upstairs a few moments ago, I was reading David Vise's book about Google, where he talks about the fact that we treat Google a bit like a university. We try lots of stuff, and some of it is going to fail. I am not advocating failure—I am advocating success, but the way we get success is by experimentation and learning. By having lots of small, early cheap failures, we are more likely to have success. This applies across Government projects, but it is true in housing, as in many other areas. The great thing about housing is that we have learnt a great deal already, so there are fewer opportunities to make mistakes if we bother to learn those lessons and take more opportunities to get it right.
The housing White Paper, "Fixing our broken housing market", of which I have a copy here, came out three years ago, in February 2017. It has been the Government's view for three years that we have a broken housing market and that we need to fix it. We have had a lot of position papers, we have had every think-tank under the sun coming out with policy statements, and we have had some movement, but we have not had quick enough movement in changing the way in which we do things.
Yesterday, like my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes, I was very pleased, in supporting the Budget, to hear the Chancellor say that there was going to be £12.2 billion extra for affordable housing. I thought personally that the shadow Chancellor was a little churlish in calling it "only" £12.2 billion—I would say that it is quite a reasonable start.
The £12.2 billion that the Chancellor announced yesterday is a five-year programme. The community housing fund was originally slated as a £300 million programme over five years—£60 million per year. The point is that if all that money had been spent—and it has not been yet, for the reasons we have discussed—£300 million is still only 12.45% of the £12.2 billion that the Government are planning to spend on affordable housing. The central burden of "Fixing our broken housing market" is that just doing the same again and again will not solve the problem. We have to start doing things differently. We have to start thinking differently. Community housing, supported through the community housing fund, is a very important part of that.
I was addressing a community housing conference in Surrey only a few weeks ago. I like to refresh my presentation, so that I say things that are interesting to me each time, and there is a chance they might be interesting to the audience. I put up a slide that talked about the well-known national organisation Grandmothers Against All Development, with a question mark after it. The audience looked rather blank, and I said, "I made that up actually." I have yet to meet—and I do not think I ever will—the grandmother whose daughter has just had her second baby and wants her daughter's family not to have somewhere decent to live. All we have to do is bottle that thought and create the wiring under the bonnet to turn it into reality, and we have gone a long way to solving the problem.
The central problem we face with housing is that most people feel that they have no voice. Most people feel that they have no say over what gets built, where it gets built, what it looks like or how it performs in terms of thermal performance. If the Minister really wants green housing, the best thing he can do is involve local people, because I have yet to meet the person who would not prefer to have a house that costs nothing to heat. We have known for many years how to build a house that costs basically nothing to heat—£100 to £150 a year for heat and hot water—and yet we do not routinely do it.
I heard the Secretary of State say in a statement a few weeks ago that the volume house builders would have to ensure they met the quality standards, otherwise they would no longer be eligible for Help to Buy. I found myself thinking: if they did not meet those standards, how can they have been eligible for all these years, basically producing small, expensive, poor-quality, environmentally-unfriendly dwellings that most people would prefer not to buy?
Believe it or not—I can demonstrate it with evidence, which I am happy to share with the Minister—there are more people in this country who want to build their own homes than people who want to buy new ones. Only 33% of people in this country would prefer to buy a new home. Two thirds of people would prefer not to, and 61% of people in this country would like at some point the chance to build their own home. We have to take the energy that is there and turn it into something real, and we need radical changes in how we do things to make that happen.
Rod Hackney, who was the adviser to the Prince of Wales and is a renowned architect, once said:
"It is a dangerous thing to underestimate human potential and the energy which can be generated when people are given the opportunity to help themselves."
That is what we have to make happen.
The Minister for Housing
(Christopher Pincher)
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My hon. Friend the Member for South Norfolk (Mr Bacon), as he has just demonstrated, is an energetic and vociferous champion of those who want to take matters into their own hands—people and communities who want to take the initiative and provide for their own housing needs. He just said that he could bottle his thoughts. In fact, I think he has just uncorked quite a few of them, and we are all grateful to him for doing that. As the founder of the all-party parliamentary group on self-build, custom and community house building and place-making, he has successfully driven this cause forward in this place and elsewhere over many years, and I thank him for bringing this important topic back to the Floor of the House.
In the time that I have, I will say, on behalf of the Government, that the community-led housing movement comprises a broad coalition of community land trusts, housing co-operatives and other organisations set up by local people with the specific purpose of providing good-quality, affordable housing for themselves and their wider communities. With Government support, those organisations are working to deliver housing in every corner of our country.
We want to do more to foster that kind of self-determination, self-empowerment and can-do attitude. We recognise that the community-led housing sector offers significant potential to help meet housing need across England. Crucially, the support and close involvement of local communities enables land to be brought forward for development that is not likely to be made available, or of any interest, to mainstream, speculative developers. That means that, rather than competing with the mainstream house builders, the sector is increasing the overall supply of housing while diversifying the market and increasing resilience in the house building industry.
Sir John Hayes
(South Holland and The Deepings) (Con)
But quantity needs to be matched by quality and design, and beautiful houses should be the entitlement of all communities and all types of Britons. I know the Minister is committed to that, because he is an aesthete like me, but what are the Government going to do to guarantee it?
My right hon. Friend is an aficionado of beauty. I know he served with distinction on the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, and we look forward to bringing forward many of that commission's proposals.
As I was saying, we recognise that community-led housing offers a wide range of benefits beyond just meeting housing needs. It supports the SME sector, as my hon. Friend the Member for South Norfolk made clear, and it helps drive up standards of design and energy efficiency, as my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) mentioned. It sets a benchmark for high-quality new housing that enhances the built environment and creates a strong sense of place. It embraces modern methods of construction, and it helps sustain local communities and local economies, allowing young people to stay in the areas in which they grew up.
The Government recognise that there is huge potential for growth in community-led housing here in the United Kingdom. That is why we announced the community housing fund, making £60 million per annum available over four years to kickstart and drive the growth of the sector. In 2018, a dedicated grant-funding programme was launched by Homes England, the Government's housing delivery agency. We have also made available £38 million to the Greater London Authority to support the sector in London. Capital grants have been available to schemes that have reached the point where they can start building.
This growth has been particularly rapid since the community housing fund delivery programme was launched in 2018, with 135 CLTs either being formed or becoming legally incorporated. We have provided a £6 million grant to Community Led Homes, a consortium of the leading stakeholders, to train an England-wide team of advisers who can help guide community groups through the often daunting and complicated process of taking a house building project forward. The advisers will help build and facilitate the market for community-led housing in the years to come.
As my hon. Friend has said, the Homes England programme was closed to new applicants towards the end of last year. That is because, as for most Government programmes, funding for the community housing fund is not available to the Department beyond the end of the current financial year, although different constraints apply to the GLA, where the funding remains available until 2022-23. I completely understand his frustrations, and let me say to him that I am very sympathetic to the points he has made. I look forward to having further conversations with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer as we approach the conclusion of the main estimates and, beyond that and for future years, the comprehensive spending review.
I fully understand the need for the Government to respect the CSR process. Does the Minister think there is an opportunity to provide limited bridge funding, as it were, just for the sake of continuity, between now and July, when the CSR takes effect, so that many of the schemes that are just on the wrong side of the line do not collapse and the enthusiasm does not evaporate?
My hon. Friend makes a fair point. However, he will know that I am not going to make sudden announcements in an Adjournment debate. Let us wait until we have the main estimates, which will be revised and agreed shortly.
In conclusion, let me say to my hon. Friend that the Government believe debates such as this are important for the sake of building more houses—better and more beautiful houses—for our constituents. He is a great exponent of this industry and sector, and I look forward to further conversations with him.
House adjourned without Question put (Standing Order No. 9(7)).


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The 10 Best Snowboard Bags
This wiki has been updated 23 times since it was first published in September of 2015. These durable and stylish snowboard bags will make it a breeze to travel with your gear this winter. We've included compact and lightweight models designed to carry just one board, as well as more capable luggage that can hold multiple, plus your boots and other essential items. You're sure to find a reliable option that's a good match for your personality and your budget. When users buy our independently chosen editorial selections, we may earn commissions to help fund the Wiki. Skip to the best snowboard bag on Amazon.
10. Athletico Two-Piece Set
With the Athletico Two-Piece Set (around $33), you'll get protection for both your boots and your board at a budget-friendly price. Both of the components are lightweight and equipped with comfortable carrying handles and removable shoulder straps.
Mesh side pockets
Water-resistant material
No padding provided
9. Sportube Series 3
Constructed from high-density polyethylene, the Sportube Series 3 (around $214) is a hard-shell case that's strong enough to safeguard your valuable equipment during travel. It's available in neutral black or vibrant orange, and its sturdy rubber wheels make it easy to transport.
Convenient telescoping design
Heavier than most
8. Athalon Fitted
The water-repellant Athalon Fitted (around $45) is made with rugged, plated metal hardware that allows it to keep its shape, while at the same time protecting your gear from dents and scratches. Its also features durable reinforced stitching and comes in at a very affordable price.
Locking zipper pulls
Distributes weight evenly
Colors are not true to pictures
7. High Sierra Combo
The High Sierra Combo (around $41) comes with a board sleeve and a boot bag, both of which feature water-resistant fabric and self-repairing nylon coil zippers. The larger bag offers a lot of room, though it could use some additional padding.
Convenient lightweight build
Stylish contrasting stitching
Square corners make them bulky
6. Burton Space Sack
The Burton Space Sack (around $54) offers a simple design that's suitable for weekly trips to the terrain park or storage in the off-season. It's got room for an extra deck and is sold in stylish solid colors as well as trendy stripes and checkers.
Available in 129 to 181 cm lengths
Will not break the bank
Not recommended for air travel
5. Grayne Premium
With its ballistic nylon exterior and double stitching throughout, the Grayne Premium (around $43) can stand up to many seasons of use. Its main compartment can accommodate your board, boots, and bindings, while the accessories pocket can hold gloves, goggles, and more.
Inner straps to secure contents
Can be carried like a backpack
Affordably priced
4. Dakine High Roller
From a company that has been making outerwear and accessories for more than 40 years, the Dakine High Roller (about $209) is equipped with oversized urethane wheels. It's roomy enough to hold the gear of two people, and comes with removable bags for footwear and clothes.
Fully padded interior
Holds up well under heavy use
Folds up compactly for storage
3. Thule RoundTrip Roller
You can protect your equipment and clothing while staying organized with the Thule RoundTrip Roller (around $269), which boasts smooth wheels and multiple grab handles. Its S-shaped zipper makes it a cinch to remove anything you need without much fuss.
Reinforced at the top and bottom
Compression straps keep gear secure
Sold in black or blue
2. Dakine Tour
Made of durable polyester, the Dakine Tour (about $94) is fully padded to keep its contents free from dents and scratches. Its large exterior pocket and full-length zipper provide quick and easy access to your boots and other gear on the fly.
Comfortable shoulder strap
11 stylish color choices
1. Burton Wheelie
The smooth-rolling skate wheels of the Burton Wheelie (about $214) make it a breeze to travel with, and its removable interior bag can hold your boots and bindings. It features hardwearing polyester construction and comes in your choice of solid black or cool, colorful patterns.
Handles on the side and ends
Lightweight yet sturdy
Accommodates tsa-approved locks
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Evo Roller Snowboard Bag This reliable selection can accommodate up to two boards (one with bindings and the other without), and has separate internal pockets for boots, outerwear, and accessories. It's equipped with threaded wheels, YKK zippers, an ID tag, and a rubber handle on the end, and padded ones on the top and side. It's backed by a one-year warranty and is also available in a similar version without wheels. Whether you're headed out on a spur-of-the-moment trip or a well-planned annual pilgrimage to the slopes, it can be counted on to get your gear there securely. evo.com
Today we added some tried-and-true models from industry leaders Dakine, Burton, and Thule. The Dakine Tour is just as stylish as it is durable. Unlike many alternatives, this one is fully padded to ensure your board, bindings, and other gear remain free from damage during travel. You won't have to go rummaging for long once you get to the slopes, since it's equipped with a large exterior pocket and a full-length zipper, both of which provide quick access. It's available in three sizes and a multitude of trendy colors and patterns with names like Dark Slate, Tandoori Spice, Green Lily, and Carbon.
If wheels are a must, look to the newly added Dakine High Roller, which is equipped with oversized urethane ones to help you get through airports with ease. It's got enough room to hold your gear as well as a companion's, and its removable bags are highly convenient for anyone who doesn't want their wet footwear touching their other stuff.
Another wheeled option you can't go wrong with is the travel-friendly Burton Wheelie, which comes with smoothly rolling Ixion skate wheels. This one also includes an interior bag, as well as handles on both the side and the ends for convenient transport. Its airport-friendly design accommodates TSA-friendly locks, and you can choose a neutral solid black one or one that features a pattern of camouflage or flowers. (Keep in mind these patterned ones can be much easier for you to spot at the airport.)
Also joining the list is the Thule RoundTrip Roller, which offers a well-designed S-shaped zipper that helps you to remove your board or other gear without much trouble, and it also helps you to keep all of the contents organized. It's also got sturdy, smooth wheels and multiple grab handles, so you'll make your way through the airport with ease.
Leaving the list in this update is the Demon Phantom Fully Padded, amidst user complaints of split seams and broken plastic components.
Why It Is Important To Own a Bag For Your Snowboard
If you load your board into a trunk with other gear, skis, or snowboards, a cushioned bag will safeguard it against abrasions.
One of the most effective ways to protect your snowboard is by purchasing a bag or a case for it. This is especially true if you plan on using a snowboard multiple times, year after year. Loose dirt and gravel tend to lodge themselves between the grooves of any snowboard that has been left out in any cold-weather climate. Over time, this dirt can accumulate, having a negative impact on your snowboard's performance.
A snowboard bag is also beneficial in terms of transport. If you load your board into a trunk with other gear, skis, or snowboards, a cushioned bag will safeguard it against abrasions. A lot of snowboard bags also come with compartments, so you can pack a cloth and a spray bottle for wiping down your board before and after an excursion. Any bag with a shoulder strap will enable you to tote your snowboard, which is advantageous in that an average snowboard weighs 10 lbs, and the majority of snowboarders have to carry a pair of boots and a pair of goggles, as well.
Assuming you live in an area where you won't be using your snowboard for several months of the year, owning a bag may be the key to effective storage. Items tend to get tossed around inside a garage, a closet, or a shed, and a durable bag may be your snowboard's strongest line of defense against jagged objects, including power tools, household appliances, or even sleds.
Waxing a snowboard is beneficial in that it can protect your board's surface, while enabling the board to move faster and turn more sharply. Fortunately, the waxing process isn't difficult. What's more, the process only requires a few towels, a scrub brush, a plastic scraper, a bottle of rubbing alcohol, a block of board wax, and a waxing iron (it is worth noting that a waxing iron is not the same as a household clothing iron) .
After the wax has dried, use a plastic scraper to run along the board at a 45-degree angle, shaving off the excess wax.
Once you've gathered these materials, place your board bottom-side up along a workbench. You can use a stack of books or a pair of concrete blocks to ensure the board sits level, without the bindings or the tail getting in the way. If the board looks dirty, wipe it down by using a scrub brush and some water. After that, gloss over the board with an alcohol-soaked rag to smooth it over.
At this point you want to heat your waxing iron until you notice that it is just warm enough to melt your block of wax. Hold the wax against the iron, while running both of these items in a back-and-forth pattern from approximately six inches above the board. If you are doing this correctly, liquid wax should be dripping down along the length of the board. If the wax begins to smoke, this means that the iron is too hot, and you should allow the iron to cool before repeating this step once more.
Once a coat of wax has been applied, use your iron to run along the board's surface, smoothing in the wax evenly from tip to tail. Be sure to run the wax all the way to - and along - the edges, as this will enable the board to make swifter turns. You'll want to avoid holding the iron over any section for too long, as this may cause the board to bubble. Perform four to five passes before letting the board breathe.
After the wax has dried, use a plastic scraper to run along the board at a 45-degree angle, shaving off the excess wax. Apply even pressure as you're scraping, so that the finished surface is free of nicks or bumps. Next, you'll want to run a scrub brush along the board to eliminate any tiny specks of wax that have gotten caught inside the grooves. Go along the board from end to end, completing a few passes until you have removed the excess dust.
When you're done, leave the board to sit for a few hours. Once the wax has settled, place your board inside its bag or case. A snowboard bag will keep dirt and dust from settling back in, and it will also protect your board from suffering any dings along its base.
A Brief History of Snowboarding
Snowboarding began as an underground activity during the 1940s, with minor pockets of enthusiasts crafting their own rudimentary snowboards throughout the cold-weather regions of the Midwest. A Minnesota man named Sherman Poppen is widely credited with inventing the first commercial snowboard, known as the Snurfer (i.e., snow and surf board) in 1965. Poppen's invention took a traditional water ski and smoothed down its edges.
The rise of skateboarding as a west coast fad had a major influence on snowboarding.
A lot of early snowboards were designed with a narrow shape and no bindings, and they were connected to the boarder's wrist by way of a lanyard or a leash. The lack of safety features proved to be an impediment to sales - a dynamic which manufacturers incrementally corrected by adding foot binders and steel edges to their boards, thereby ensuring a safer, sleeker sweep.
The rise of skateboarding as a west coast fad had a major influence on snowboarding. Not only did skateboarding inspire the more aerodynamic construction of a snowboard, it also opened the door to extreme snowboarding, which, in turn, redefined the boundaries of what a snowboarder could achieve.
The public's intrigue with snowboarding began to increase after James Bond (the Roger Moore version) rode a snowboard during the opening sequence of A View to a Kill in 1985. Thirteen years later, snowboarding became an Olympic sport, and, shortly after, iconic snowboarder Shaun White began competing on a professional level. Over the past two decades, White has not only become a two-time Olympic gold medalist, he has also become the biggest mainstream draw in the history of the sport.
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In "Terraforms: New Paintings," which opens at David Richard Gallery on October 13, Chicago-based artist Adam Scott showcases work inspired by month-long visits to Joshua Tree National Park in California.
An abstract painter who describes himself as an artist who was "weaned on modern painting," Scott has always been fascinated by landscape and place.
Fifteen years ago he incorporated digital media into his paintings. Today, he's interested in involving his hands in every aspect of the creative process.
Scott views his recent paintings as visual distillations of observed geologic phenomena and enjoys coupling his distillations with his interest in the utopic and dystopic aspects of science fiction to create work that reimagines the Western landscape.


Bus Goode and Garth Williams of Goode Motor (Ford-Mercury) in Rupert, Idaho, purchased Young Ford in Burley, Idaho, from Jack and Ethel Young and renamed it Goode Ford. The two dealerships now are part of Goode Motor Auto Group.
The Virginia Automobile Dealers Association has elected officers for 2001. They are: Robert Woodall Jr. of Woodall Chevrolet in Danville, chairman; Stephen Snyder of Checkered Flag Motor Car in Virginia Beach, first vice chairman; Karen Radley of Radley Automotive Group in Fredericksburg, second vice chairman; Richard Carter of Haynes Jeep-Chrysler in Richmond, treasurer; Larry Shelor of Shelor Motor Mile in Christiansburg, vice treasurer; Michael Suttle III of Suttle Motor Corp. in Newport News, secretary; William Dressler Jr. of Dressler Motors in Covington, immediate past chairman; and Donald Hall, president.


The term was in common use in English from the fifteenth century referring to individuals working on the land and residing in the countryside. By the nineteenth century \'peasant\' was employed as a term of abuse (for example, by Marx on the idiocy of rural life) and in the recent past it has been imbued with heroic and revolutionary connotations (as in Maoism, for example). In modern usage peasants are on family farms (farming households) which function as relatively corporate units of production, consumption and reproduction (Chayanov, 1966). The particular social structural forms of the domestic unit (nuclear families, multi-generational extended families, intra-household sexual divisions of labour and property systems), the social relations between households within peasant communities, and the ecological relations of production (the peasant ecotype) are, however, extremely heterogeneous (Wolf, 1966). The terms peasant and peasantry have often been employed loosely to describe a broad range of rural producers as generic types characterized by certain social, cultural or economic traits: the backward or anti-economic peasant, the rational and moral peasant, the uncaptured peasant. These and other terms such as traditional, subsistence, or smallholder, detract however from the important analytical task of situating peasants as specific social producers in concrete, historically specific political economies with their own dynamics and laws of motion.
Peasants are distinguished by direct access to their means of production in land, by the predominant use of family labour and by a high degree of self-sufficiency (see subsistence agriculture). Nonetheless, all peasants are by definition characterized by a partial engagement with markets (which tend to function with a high degree of imperfection) and are subordinate actors in larger political economies in which they fulfil obligations to holders of political and economic power. Peasants as forms of household enterprise rooted primarily in production on the land have a distinctive labour process (the unity of the domestic unit and the productive group) and a unique combination of labour and property through partial market involvement. Peasants stand between those social groups who have lost all or most of their productive assets (proletarians or semi-proletarians), on the one hand, and farming households which are fully involved in the market (so-called petty or simple commodity producers), on the other. Seen in this way peasants have existed under a variety of economic, political and cultural circumstances (feudalism, capitalism; state socialism) spanning vast periods of history and are \'part societies\'. Peasant societies are often seen as transitional — they \'stand midway between the primitive tribe and industrial society\' (Wolf, 1966, p. vii) — and yet are marginal or outsiders, \'subordinate to a group of controlling outsiders\' (Wolf, 1966, p. 13) who appropriate surpluses in a variety of forms (rent, interest, unequal exchange).
In many Third World societies in which peasants constitute an important and occasionally dominant stratum, a central question pertains to the fate of the peasantry in relation to growing state and market involvement. Peasants are invariably the victims of modernity (Moore, 1966). The question of growing commercialization and mechanization of peasant production and of the growth of off-farm income (migration, craft production, local wage labour), is reflected in the long-standing concern with internal differentiation among peasantries and hence their long-term survival (hence the debates over peasant persistence, de-peasantization, and captured peasants). It is probably safe to say that the period 1950-75 witnessed an epochal shift in which the peasantry became for the first time a global minority.
The proliferation of peasant studies in the last 30 years has been the source of important theoretical innovations in political economy speaking to questions of commoditization, class formation, resistance and rebellion (Shanin, 1988). The study of peasants was also key to the evolution of cultural ecology and political ecology insofar as peasant knowledge and practice is an indispensable starting point for the understanding of household management of resources, and hence the processes of ecological change and rehabilitation (Watts, 1983; Blaikie and Brookfield, 1987).
References Blaikie, P. and Brookfield, H.C. 1987: Land degradation and society. London: Methuen. Chayanov, A.V. 1966: The theory of peasant economy, ed. D. Thorner, B. Kerblay and R.E.F. Smith and trans. R.E.F. Smith. Homewood: American Economic Association (first Russian edition, 1912). Kautsky, K. 1899: The agrarian question. London: Zwan. Moore, B. 1966: The social origins of dictatorship and democracy. Boston: Beacon. Shanin, T., ed., 1988: Peasants. London: Blackwell. Selenyi, I., ed., 1998: Privatizing the land. London: Routledge. Skocpol, T. 1980: States and social revolutions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Verdery, K. 1996: What was socialism and what comes next? Princeton: Princeton University Press. Watts, M. 1983: Silent violence. Berkeley: University of California Press. Wolf, E. 1966: Peasants. New York: Prentice-Hall.


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Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu
Place of Birth: Ngcobo, Transkei (Eastern Cape)
Died: 5 May 2003
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Zexit, Ramaphoria, then political landmines
New International Relations Minister Lindiwe Sisulu daughter of the late ANC luminary Walter Sisulu was Ramaphosa's running mate in the ANC elections in December...
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'Dirty tricks' target Cyril
' In the past the ANC has studiously avoided damaging leadership contests and settled on a compromise candidate as it did in Durban in 1992 by bringing in veteran Walter Sisulu to avoid a divisive contest between Thabo Mbeki and the late Chris Hani for the post of ANC Deputy President (AC Vol 57 No 20 Zuma largesse under fire)...
Zuma largesse under fire
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The President looks to his legacy
Yet he is part of the Walter Sisulu dynasty has been endorsed by Mantashe and is likely to be appointed to the cabinet...
The time of Mandela
Nostalgia for liberation heroesAmong older South Africans there is powerful nostalgia for the generation of leaders that included Walter Sisulu Ahmed Kathrada and Mandela...
Political mould starts to break
His KwaZulu-Natal provincial section of the ANC is now the largest and most powerful eclipsing the Xhosa heartland of the Eastern Cape which produced leading lights Walter Sisulu Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela...
Undiplomatic corps
Nkoana-Mashabane has set up a special team including academics Adam Habib of the University of Johannesburg and Somadoda Fikeni the former Council Chairman of Walter Sisulu University to devise a new foreign policy in response to the Development Plan's criticism...
The leadership race opens up
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Malema and Zuma for breakfast
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Tea Party screws Boehner; collateral damage for Obama
Days away from default, no solution for the US debt ceiling has been reached.
On Tuesday, the United States government is planning on running out of the more than $14 trillion that DC lawmakers say the country can borrow from abroad.
As Democrats and Republicans remain unwilling to come to a compromise on the debt ceiling dilemma, the congressional crisis is spiraling into sure catastrophe as the whole world looks to the US, searching for a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, Speaker John Boehner will be able to get his fellow GOP elected leaders to save the economy of the nation and, indirectly, the entire globe.Those lawmakers met last night before Speaker Boehner to vote once more on a hurried, hoped to be infallible proposal to save the country.Instead, it was Pizza Day on Capitol Hill.Hours into a quickly doomed debt discussion, pizza slices in hand, lawmakers moved forward with Thursday night's itinerary and abandoned any talk of the debt for yet another day. Boehner brought lawmakers into his office over the course of a few hours on Thursday evening, but even his own GOP peers couldn't be persuaded to vote yes on a debt ceiling raise. While Boehner gave it one more go at getting a plan to action, there were post offices to be renamed and piping hot pie to be chewed and swallowed on Capitol Hill. As lawmakers licked off every last drop of marinara from their collective lips, legislation to save America went unpassed, and as the pizzapie crumbles fell from slice to box and then to the voting room floor, what was left of a Congressional Pizza Party were mere morsels. Yet, sadly, those meager leftovers are bigger of what's left to borrow for an America preparing for default.President Barack Obama stepped before television cameras this morning to plea to the public once again. It's the fourth time in three weeks he has spoke on the matter of the debt ceiling and though the situation becomes more dire than ever, the president says it comes down to the same thing."What's clear now is that any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan," said President Obama. "We will have to have the support of both the House and the Senate."The president adds that both sides of the aisle have come up with plans that aren't too far off from one another. Posturing needs to be put aside, however, and personal politics and career moves need to take a backseat to saving the country.As if Boehner could not possibly have failed any bigger than his math mix-up earlier the week, he proved the world wrong on Thursday. This time he couldn't get his own party to sign their name to his bill.Many of those freshmen voting no against a debt ceiling raise are Republicans aligned to the Tea Party. Freedom Works, a group made up of the nay-sayers, tweeted people on Thursday to vote against a borrowing limit raise if they were on the fence. Sarah Palin urged others to do the same. Obama added that "there are plenty of ways out of this mess but we are almost out of time." A warning that he has given multiple times as of late. He harped that Tuesday's deadline is days away, and if a bill isn't before him that he can sign into law, the country will not be able to pay its bills on time, "as we always have," he reminds the press."There are a lot of crises in the world that we can't always predict," said Obama. "This isn't one of those."Reporters for the New York Times sat on Capitol Hill Thursday night and watched Republican leaders walk into Boehner's office for a last-ditch talking to in hopes of swaying them to vote for his most recent plan. After Boehner's bill from earlier this week was revealed to have been off by several hundred billion dollars, the House speaker went back to write up one more draft. Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas said he was "a bloody, beaten-down no." Representative Tim Scott of South Carolina, a freshman leadership team member, told the Times he would vote no along with the other freshman from his state. "I am a no at the end of the day," Scott told them. "I was leaning no. Now I am a no.""I am trying to find a way to vote for this bill," Representative Bill Huizenga of Michigan told the Times. "This is a step in the right direction. I wish it were a bigger step."President Obama echoed this morning that modifications can be made to these plans coming from both the left and the right, but a plan must be reached by Tuesday. "This is not a situation where the two parties are miles apart," said Obama. "Today I urge Democrats and Republicans in the Senate to find common ground.""This is one burden we can lift ourselves," said Obama. "We can end it with a simple vote." A vote, said Obama, that lawmakers have been making for decades."The debt ceiling does not determine how much more money we can spend," reminds Obama, "but simply authorizes us to pay the bill what we have already racked up."Raising the limit, says Obama, "Gives the United States of America the ability to keep its word."In the meantime, lawmakers must decide if it is worth it to the American people — and an international economy that will surely be impacted by a downgrade of the US credit rating — if the world is worth of the country keeping their word.
Obama storms out of White House debt talks
S&P may downgrade US credit even after debt ceiling deal
Gold hits record high
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The Fed loaned $16 trillion
Wall Street starts panicking on default
John Boehner screws up big time
Jim Rogers: "Prepare for a lost decade or more"


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The Nitsche conjecture
by Tadeusz Iwaniec, Leonid V. Kovalev and Jani Onninen PDF
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The Nitsche conjecture is deeply rooted in the theory of doubly-connected minimal surfaces. However, it is commonly formulated in slightly greater generality as a question of existence of a harmonic homeomorphism between circular annuli \[ h \colon \mathbb A = A(r,R) \overset {\text {onto}}{\longrightarrow } A(r_\ast , R_\ast ) =\mathbb A^*. \] In the early 1960s, while attempting to describe all doubly-connected minimal graphs over a given annulus $\mathbb A^*$, J. C. C. Nitsche observed that their conformal modulus cannot be too large. Then he conjectured, in terms of isothermal coordinates, even more:
A harmonic homeomorphism $h\colon \mathbb {A} \overset {\text {onto}}{\longrightarrow } \mathbb {A}^\ast$ exists if and only if \[ \frac {R_\ast }{r_\ast } \geqslant \frac {1}{2} \left (\frac {R}{r}+ \frac {r}{R}\right ). \]
In the present paper we provide, among further generalizations, an affirmative answer to his conjecture.
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Retrieve articles in Journal of the American Mathematical Society with MSC (2010): 31A05, 58E20, 30C20
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Tadeusz Iwaniec
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244 and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Finland
Email: tiwaniec@syr.edu
Leonid V. Kovalev
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244
MR Author ID: 641917
Email: lvkovale@syr.edu
Jani Onninen
Email: jkonnine@syr.edu
Received by editor(s): November 3, 2009
Published electronically: November 10, 2010
Additional Notes: The first author was supported by the NSF grant DMS-0800416 and the Academy of Finland grant 1128331.
The second author was supported by the NSF grant DMS-0913474.
The third author was supported by the NSF grant DMS-0701059.
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 24 (2011), 345-373
MSC (2010): Primary 31A05; Secondary 58E20, 30C20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-2010-00685-6


Another cold day here in Cincinnati had me cooking Cheeseburger Soup. Hot soup on cold days is perfect. The kids and hubby are always happy to have soup for dinner. With all the craziness around here today (kids are home from school), I did not have time to make a slow cooker meal which I had planned. So, I made up this quick Cheeseburger Soup and some fresh salads for dinner. This recipe was a hit! All of the kiddos (except for one, ha ha) like ground beef and cheese. So, this soup is perfect. I like that I can usually sneak vegetables into soup and actually get the kids to eat them.
I have been catching quite a few ground beef sales lately (which is rare) so, this meal was perfect to use some! When making this soup I stress to use a sharp cheese (it will leave behind less grease than the cheddar that is normally used in soup).
I had considered taking the night off from cooking and ordering in some pizza and I am so happy I didn't. Everyone loved this soup and I enjoyed the fact that the hubby cleaned up the mess ha ha!


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Our rabbit pen. Rabbits are social animals and love to run and jump with each other in the open space.
Oopsie popping her head out of her burrow.
The burrow is actually a large plastic container with a removable lid. I bury the container most of the way, put some dirt in the bottom with a little straw so it stays cool.
I cover the whole set up with straw and it looks like a natural burrow. When the kits are born, I can dust off the straw and open the lid and see what we were Blessed with!


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Be a Voyeur in Christian Grey's Revamped "50 Shades" Penthouse With This 3D Model
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The interplay of tantalizing eroticism continues within Christian Grey's luxury tower in the recently-released film sequel, Fifty Shades Darker. In the first film, Grey's plush apartment played an integral role in undressing the personas of Anastasia Steele, who liberates herself from her chaste existence, and Christian, who exposes the seething and fiery carnal desires and fetishism behind his glorified masculine beauty, charm, and appearance.
Grey's penthouse, which resonates with his unyielding and intimidating Heathcliff undertones in the first part of the trilogy, turns over a new leaf in the sequel. There is ambient warmth in the penthouse; nevertheless, the high level of sophistication prevails in his penchant for singular tastes and fastidiously-selected objects and it remains unapologetically lush.
As you exit the elevator and walk on the glistening marble floors of the apartment, you are ushered into the uninterrupted space of the great room. There's the Minotti Seymour Serpentine Vis a Vis Sofa, Richard MacDonald's "Angelic Crystal" column sculpture, and a Fazioli grand piano with a price tag of $250,000.
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The unattainable price tags of his objects of desire continue throughout the apartment, with iconic works of art like the sensual painting of the Madonna by Edvard Munch in the master bedroom or the classic icon of modern design by Charles and Ray Eames, La Chaise, which costs a whopping $11,295. He also ensures there is enough feminine grace in the boudoir (or "Ana's room")—and of the 16 other women who stayed there, only lucky Ana gets her own walk-in closet. Talk about taking big steps, Christian!
The spatial explicitness and openness of the penthouse with the sweeping views of Seattle also provide room for candidness. In this retreat, both characters open up to each other and shed their inhibitions and begin their journey of sexual exploration. The (painful) pleasures that await Ana in his play room which she refers to as the "red room of pain" is indeed a Pandora's Box which unleashes sadistic pain, pleasure (at times) and eventually doubts and anger for her. The room, decked with neatly arranged leather studded whip racks and kinky toys, is where Grey's absolute belief in "I do not make love" becomes an unfortunate yet expected reality for Ana; at least in the first film.
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Q: JAVA/ connect time out with socket binding Two parts:
  InetAddress ia = Inet4Address.getByAddress(new byte[]{(byte)192,(byte)168,(byte)10,(byte)100});
  Socket socket = new Socket();
  InetSocketAddress isa = new InetSocketAddress("82.146.58.81", 5277);
  socket.bind(new InetSocketAddress(ia, 0));
  System.out.println("local_address:" + socket.getLocalSocketAddress());
  socket.connect(isa, 1000);
  Thread.sleep(1000);
  socket.close();
  System.out.println("done_1");

  InetAddress ia_2 = Inet4Address.getByAddress(new byte[]{(byte)172,(byte)20,(byte)10,(byte)2});
  Socket socket_2 = new Socket();
  InetSocketAddress isa2 = new InetSocketAddress("82.146.58.81", 5277);
  socket_2.bind(new InetSocketAddress(ia_2, 0));
  System.out.println("local_address:" + socket_2.getLocalSocketAddress());
  socket_2.connect(isa2, 30000);
  Thread.sleep(1000);
  socket_2.close();
  System.out.println("done_2");

First part of code worked, second not - java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out.
I am trying to communicate with the host "82.146.58.81" through different interfaces.
But only the part that has the default route is successful. Why?
Update: I am worked by Ubuntu 17.10, seems the same problem in Armbian too. Problem not reproducible under Windows7
Update: Wrong OUT interface:
[12979.049742] IN= OUT=enp4s0 SRC=172.20.10.2 DST=82.146.58.81 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=25967 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=48985 DPT=5277 WINDOW=29200 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
kostas@work:~$ ifconfig
enp0s16f0u1c4i2: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 172.20.10.2  netmask 255.255.255.240  broadcast 172.20.10.15
        inet6 fe80::17c7:4582:897b:11d5  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 86:38:35:c8:f5:39  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 575  bytes 117085 (117.0 KB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 686  bytes 82681 (82.6 KB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

enp4s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.10.100  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.10.255
        inet6 fe80::80b9:8cf3:92c6:4aef  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:e0:66:ae:2a:de  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 100455  bytes 65543315 (65.5 MB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 1  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 75513  bytes 15658830 (15.6 MB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

kostas@work:~$ route
Таблица маршутизации ядра протокола IP
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default         unknown         0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 enp4s0
default         gateway         0.0.0.0         UG    101    0        0 enp0s16f0u1c4i2

kostas@work:~$ ping mail.ru -I enp0s16f0u1c4i2
PING mail.ru (217.69.139.202) from 172.20.10.2 enp0s16f0u1c4i2: 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mail.ru (217.69.139.202): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=508 ms
64 bytes from mail.ru (217.69.139.202): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=187 ms

A: "However, many OSes do not honour this "hint" and will use the routing table anyway."
Answer here


Freaked-out JetBlue pilot Clayton Osbon was ordered yesterday to undergo a psychiatric exam.
The exam was requested by federal prosecutors, who want to determine Osbon's mental state on March 27, when he wigged out aboard JetBlue Flight 191 from Kennedy Airport to Las Vegas.
Passengers wrestled Osbon to the floor of the Airbus A320 after he left the cockpit and screamed about religion and terrorists. The plane landed safely in Amarillo, Texas, where authorities arrested the pilot.
Osbon, 49, of Port Richmond, Ga., has been held without bail since the incident.