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President Biden's Trustbusters Aren't Just Experts on Tech. They Know About Big Ag.
The new administration is signaling it might take on the massive agricultural groups.
Tom PhilpottMarch 29, 2021
President Joe Biden looks like he's ready to bust up some monopolies, and it's not just tech oligarchs who should be worried.
After he tapped antitrust stalwarts Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission and Tim Wu to the National Economic Council, media accounts focused on a possible crackdown of the giant companies that dominate the internet. "Biden taps another Big Tech trustbuster," declared Politico Playbook. "Biden Is Assembling a Big Tech Antitrust All-Star Team," echoed Wired. And for good reason. Khan, a legal scholar most recently at Columbia University, made headlines in 2017 with her blistering paper "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," an exposé of the everything store's monopolistic behavior and the assault on the the antitrust establishment that has allowed it to flourish. She also served as counsel for the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law and co-authored its landmark 2020 report teasing out Big Tech's anti-competitive tendencies. Wu, author of the 2018 book The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age and also a Columbia Law School professor, is most famous for coining the phrase "net neutrality" and calling for Facebook to be broken up.
But their hirings should make agribusiness titans quake, too. Biden's appointments might now be famous for wanting to break up big tech. But both have aimed their antitrust chops at farm country, too, says Joe Maxwell, executive director of Family Farm Action, a non-profit that fights corporate control of agriculture. "Those are tremendous choices," Maxwell said of Wu and Kahn. "They signal a seriousness about antitrust within the Biden administration that was not indicated in his campaign."
Like the internet, agriculture is a prime example of a sector under the grip of corporate hyper-consolidation. Democratic and Republican administrations alike have watched idly while the seed and pesticide markets merged under the control of four globe-spanning conglomerates. The German chemical giant Bayer, which subsumed US seed/agrichemical giant Monsanto in 2017, is allowed to aggressively market the herbicide dicamba (along with seeds for cotton and soybean crops designed to withstand it) with scant pushback from the Environmental Protection Agency, despite overwhelming evidence that it is easily airborne and wreaks havoc on neighbors' land. Mega-players like Tyson, JBS, and Smithfield dominate the meat industry; they have flexed their political power during the coronavirus pandemic, operating their factory-scale slaughterhouses with little federal restraint even as tens of thousands of workers tested positive for COVID-19 and hundreds died.
But these Biden administration officials could shake up agribusiness as usual. Back in 2012, half a decade before her seminal Amazon paper, incoming Federal Trade Commission member Khan published the definitive account of the Obama administration's ultimately failed effort to check the power that giant poultry companies like Tyson and JBS wield over their farmer-suppliers. The administration promised farmers that it would use antitrust law to level the playing field in their dealings with the meat oligopolies, only to retreat when the industry organized its Congressional allies to push back.
"By raising the hopes and championing the interests of independent farmers against agribusiness, the administration effectively reached out to the millions of rural voters who don't normally vote Democratic but whose ardent desire to reestablish open and fair markets for their products and labor often trumps any traditional party allegiance," Khan wrote. "Instead of translating that newfound trust into political capital, the administration squandered whatever goodwill it had begun to earn." The Democrats' rural America meltdowns in the 2016 and 2020 elections make her analysis look all too prescient.
Governed by a five-member panel that will soon include Khan, the FTC operates a bit like an FBI for antitrust, with the power to launch investigations and lawsuits against companies suspected of violating antitrust law.
As for Wu, in a 2018 Medium post called "Antitrust's Most Wanted," he listed the "10 cases the government should be investigating—but isn't." Landing at number four: "Big Ag." Over the last five years, Wu wrote, the "agricultural seed, fertilizer, and chemical industry has consolidated into four global giants: BASF, Bayer, DowDuPont, and ChemChina." As a result, "seed prices have tripled since the 1990s, and since the mergers, fertilizer prices are up as well." Wu called for an investigation of whether the US Department of Justice was right to approve the spasm of mergers that rolled up the industry in the mid-'2000s.
Back in November, just weeks after the presidential election, I made the case that incoming President Joe Biden should muster the federal regulatory apparatus to rein in the power of Big Agribusiness. The idea seemed fanciful at the time. Famously allied with Big Credit Card, Biden showed little appetite for challenging corporate power over his long Washington career, which dates to 1972. During the same period, federal antitrust enforcement faded and dozens of industries fell under the grip of a handful of companies, which used their heft to boost profit, stifle innovation, tamp down worker wages, and gain political influence.
But since becoming president, America's oldest incoming chief executive appears to have learned a new trick. As Mother Jones' Kara Voght recently showed, Biden has stuffed his administration with proteges of his vanquished 2020 presidential rival, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.), who has spent much of the past decade crusading against the monopoly power of corporate behemoths. During the 2020 presidential primary, Warren vowed to "appoint trustbusters to review—and reverse—anti-competitive mergers, including the recent Bayer-Monsanto merger that should never have been approved."
Barry Lynn, executive director of the anti-monopoly think-tank Open Markets Institute and a long-time, influential critic of lax US antitrust policy, says the Democratic presidential primary foreshadowed Biden's shift. A dawning sense came over the party that the Obama administration's failure to challenge corporate consolidation had helped stoke the emergence of Donald Trump—from the rise of giant tech platforms that facilitated the spread of misinformation, to Big Ag's tendency to drain wealth and people from rural areas, leaving behind fertile ground for right-wing populism.
While Biden avoided detailed discussions of economic policy to stay laser-focused on the flaws of Donald Trump, high-profile contenders like Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Cory Booker "displayed an awareness of the monopoly problem that we haven't seen in national politics in 110 years," Lynn says. Biden won the political battle, but his opponents succeeded in establishing unchecked corporate power as a menace to be confronted by the new administration. And all three made agriculture a key part of their pitch.
Of course, not every Biden personnel choice heralds a crackdown on the power of Big Ag. To lead the USDA, he tapped Tom Vilsack, a former marketing executive for the (highly consolidated) US dairy industry. The USDA plays a key role in overseeing the agribusiness landscape. The ag secretary advises the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice on mergers; and enforces rules designed to protect livestock farmers from being pushed around by meat packers.
Before he was a dairy exec, Vilsack steered the USDA during the entire Obama era, presiding over the failed attempt to thwart Big Poultry chronicled by Khan. A former governor of Iowa, Vilsack also served as Biden's top rural adviser during the 2020 campaign—and advised him against taking on Big Ag from the campaign trail, because of the "substantial number of people hired and employed by those businesses here in Iowa," as he told a political podcast. In reality, agribusiness corporations aren't major employers in Iowa, and the jobs they do provide tend to be low-paying and highly dangerous ones in the meatpacking sector. Biden followed Vilsack's advice—and then promptly placed fourth in the Iowa caucus and later flopped in the general election throughout the rural Midwest. Biden's decision to restore Vilsack's reign at the USDA drew strong support in agribusiness circles.
But even Vilsack's department will have an antitrust champion within its midst. In early March, the department appointed Andy Green, a researcher at the liberal think-tank Center for American Progress, to a new position: the USDA's senior advisor for fair and competitive markets. In 2019, at the height of the Democratic presidential primary, Green co-authored a paper arguing that "growing corporate power has left relatively small farms and ranches vulnerable to exploitation at the hands of the oligopolies with which they do business." The piece didn't mince words, urging antitrust enforcers to "take affirmative steps to break up monopolies." It also proposed a "temporary moratorium on mergers in the agriculture sector" and a revival of the "powerful tools of antitrust enforcement that have been eroded over the past four decades."
"My expectation is we're going to see some pretty dramatic actions," Barry Lynn, executive director of the anti-monopoly think-think Open Markets Institute, says.
The question now becomes how these key personnel moves translate to change on the ground. Under Biden, will the giant meat companies continue to squeeze workers and farmers with little to worry about from federal regulators? Will Bayer and Corteva (the agribiz offspring of the Dow-DuPont mega-merger) maintain their near-monopoly over the US seed and pesticide markets? Will yet another wave of mergers wash over the industries that feed us, further concentrating profits and lobbying power?
Lynn says Big Ag and other consolidated industries face a different political landscape than they did a decade ago—and not just within the White House. Then, Bernie Sanders was a backbencher who rarely drew headlines. Now, he's a celebrity lion of the Senate—and has potent allies including Warren, Booker, Amy Klobuchar, and others joining him on the antitrust beat. On the House side, a "squad" of insurgent progressive Democrats, led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.-N.Y.), represent a budding constituency eager to take on Big Everything. Two major antitrust champions—Booker and frequent Big Ag critic Rep. Ro Khanna (D.-Calif)—recently joined the powerful Senate and House agriculture committees, respectively.
"This isn't 2009 or 2010," Lynn says. "We see a citizenry that is awake to the monopoly problem, and we have policymakers in power that intend to get it fixed." He adds: "They're still fighting resistance within the bureaucracy, immense resistance in business community and within the Republican Party. But it's my expectation we're going to see some pretty dramatic actions."
Despite All the Fake Meat, Americans Are Still Gobbling Up the Real Stuff
Biden's Big Jobs Plan Is Really a Climate Bill. But It Left Out Farming.


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Study and Reimbursement of Fees Procedure
Approval to Undertake Study
Rate of Fee Reimbursement and Conditions
Claiming a Reimbursement of Fees
Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) Implication
(1) The University of Newcastle (University) is committed to encouraging and supporting staff in the pursuit of further studies and qualifications to assist them in gaining the skills and expertise required to deliver on the University's core business and strategic plan.
(2) This procedure outlines the process for staff to seek approval:
to undertake a course or program of study that leads to a formal qualification; and
for the reimbursement of associated study fees.
(3) Supervisors and staff.
(4) This procedure applies to courses or programs of study that lead to formal qualifications that are relevant and appropriate to the staff member's current or likely future duties and responsibilities at the University, and are of benefit to the University.
(5) This procedure does not apply to:
University-initiated staff training and development such as short programs/prescribed courses, continuing professional development (CPD) or similar, and conferences;
the University's Special Studies Program (SSP); or
the reimbursement of professional association/body fees.
(6) Eligibility for study leave, examination leave and reimbursement of associated fees will be in accordance with the relevant Enterprise Agreement.
(7) Staff should seek to undertake study at the University of Newcastle where a relevant program is offered. In circumstances where a relevant program is not available through the University of Newcastle, including because of the mode of delivery available, study through another institution may be approved.
(8) Before commencing the proposed program of study the staff member must complete an Application to Undertake a Program of Study With or Without Reimbursement.
(9) The staff member must submit the completed Application to Undertake a Program of Study With or Without Reimbursement to a relevant authorised delegate, via their supervisor (if relevant), for it to be considered for approval.
(10) In determining a staff member's application to undertake a program of study, with or without reimbursement, the relevant authorised delegate will consider the following:
enterprise agreement provisions – the application must meet the requirements of the relevant enterprise agreement;
relevance – the course of study must be relevant and appropriate to the staff member's current or likely future duties and responsibilities at the University, or be of benefit to the University;
budget – whether the School or business unit has sufficient budget available to cover the reimbursement of fees;
equity – equity for all staff in the School/business unit in accessing the funds available for development within the School or business unit budget. This includes consideration of the number of study programs the staff member has previously undertaken that have been supported by the University and the estimated total cost of the proposed program of study as outlined in the Application to Undertake a Program of Study With or Without Reimbursement;
access to study/exam leave – consideration should be given to staff coverage that may be required where multiple staff from the same area have their course of study approved and will need to access study leave or exam leave simultaneously;
employment provisions – previously agreed employment arrangements (for example traineeships) where a commitment has been made to support prescribed studies; and
development – the development or progression opportunity that the study will provide the particular staff member as discussed during the Performance Review and Development (PRD) process.
(11) An approval granted by the relevant authorised delegate will apply for the duration of the program of study, unless:
the staff member displays unsatisfactory conduct or service;
the staff member is not progressing as planned through the program;
the staff member ceases employment with the University;
the staff member transfers from their current Unit/School to another Unit/School; or
as otherwise specified by the supervisor or Head of School/Director.
(12) Once approved, the staff member will:
retain the approved form; and
provide their relevant School/Unit and Human Resource Services with a copy of the approval.
(13) Human Resource Services will save a copy of the approval on the staff member's file.
(14) Staff members who have approval to undertake an approved program of study will have access to study leave, examination leave, pre-examination leave and travel time as outlined in the relevant University Enterprise Agreement.
(15) The rate of reimbursement is up to 50% of the individual tuition course fees for study at the University of Newcastle, or up to 25% for study at another institution.
(16) Staff must be employed by the University of Newcastle to claim reimbursement of study fees.
(17) Reimbursement of any fee or charge will only be made on production of proof of the successful completion of each course/subject, such as an official transcript or grades.
(18) To avoid unnecessary cost to the University, staff are expected to apply for credit for previous study where applicable.
(19) In exceptional circumstances, a relevant authorised delegate may approve a higher proportion of reimbursement of fees if the study provides significant and immediate benefit to the organisation.
(20) Where applicable, staff may choose to pay their study fees up-front or defer payment through HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP.
(21) Once a course/subject has been successfully completed, an Application for Reimbursement of Study Fees form should be completed by the staff member. Where possible this should be made in the calendar year in which the course is undertaken.
(22) Evidence of payment or deferral of payment of study fees and proof of the successful completion of each course/subject, such as an official transcript of grades, must be attached to the form.
(23) The application form must be provided to the relevant authorised delegate for approval. The Application for Reimbursement of Study Fees form is to be returned to the staff member after the relevant authorised delegate has approved the application.
(24) Once the Application for Reimbursement of Study Fees form is approved, the staff member must claim reimbursement through the Fraedom Expense Management System by:
raising a Cash Expense claim, Reimbursement of Study Fees; and
attaching the scanned and approved Application for Reimbursement of Study Fees application form (as 1 image document) to the Fraedom expense claim for approval.
(25) Reimbursement costs can attract Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT).
(26) FBT can apply to any reimbursement of HECS fees paid to staff. Other course fees are exempt from FBT as long as the staff member could have claimed the expense as an income tax deduction. For any transaction subject to FBT, the cost of the benefit effectively doubles and could have personal taxation implications.
(27) FBT will be charged to the relevant College/Division on a regular basis, in addition to the reimbursement. The correct detail code must be used to ensure the transaction is identified by Financial Services as being subject to FBT. Please contact finserv-taxation@newcastle.edu.au if you require further information.
(28) A staff member may seek a review of a decision regarding the approval to study and reimbursement of fees in accordance with any relevant provisions of the applicable Enterprise Agreement or employment contract.

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Q: How do I write a python dictionary to an excel file? I'm trying to write a dictionary with randomly generated strings and numbers to an excel file. I've almost succeeded but with one minor problem. The structure of my dictionary is as follows:
Age: 11, Names Count: 3, Names: nizbh,xyovj,clier

This dictionary was generated from data obtained through a text file. It aggregates all the contents based on their age and if two people have the same age, it groups them into one list. I'm trying to write this data on to an excel file. I've written this piece of code so far.
import xlsxwriter
lines = []

workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook('demo.xlsx')
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()

with open ("input2.txt") as input_fd:
    lines = input_fd.readlines()

age_and_names = {}

for line in lines:
    name,age = line.strip().split(",")

    if not age in age_and_names:
        age_and_names[age]=[]

    age_and_names[age].append(name)

print age_and_names

for key in sorted(age_and_names):
    print "Age: {}, Names Count: {}, Names: {}".format(key, len(age_and_names[key]), ",".join(age_and_names[key]))

row=0
col=0

for key in sorted(age_and_names):#.keys():
    row += 1
    worksheet.write(row, col, key)

    for item in age_and_names[key]:
        worksheet.write(row, col+1, len(age_and_names[key]))
        worksheet.write(row, col+1, item)
        row+=1

workbook.close()

But what this is actually doing is this (in the excel file):
11    nizbh
      xyovj
      clier

What should I do to make it appear like this instead?
Age   Name Count         Names
11        3        nizbh, xyovj, clier

A: The problem was indeed in the two for loops there. I meddled and played around with them until I arrived at the answer. They're working fine. Thank you guys!
Replace the for loops in the end with this:
for key in sorted(age_and_names):#.keys():
    row+=1
    worksheet.write(row, col, key)
    worksheet.write(row, col+1, len(age_and_names[key]))
    worksheet.write(row, col+2, ",".join(age_and_names[key]))

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This is our neighbourhood and these are our streets.
Our children walk by the Royal Free Hospital (RFH) to school every day .
Do we want them to grow up healthy and not acquire the habit of smoking?
Then, if the answer is: "No, we don't want our children to suffer lung debilitating cancer," write to the chief executive of the RFH and tell them to enforce "No Smoking" everywhere on their site or by the hospital entrances on Pond Street.
How they enforce that is up to them, but enough is enough. It's time for action without delay. The areas by the main entrance and on the gardens on Pond Street are full on cigarette butts which need the RFH team to clear up daily so as to set an example to all who litter.
In fact, it's all our duty to not pass by when people are puffing away next to signs that say "No Smoking". We may find it hard to say it the first time but as long as we are polite it will be easier next time. It's the law: "No Smoking" in public places.
The RFH Trust has a duty of care to the public, not only to patients who enters its doors, but also towards the general public who gather outside its doors by taking control those who smoke on their land.
Inside this great hospital they are treating and dealing with the grief caused by cancer so I urge them to remove all traces of smoking by giving tough love in whatever way necessary.
Why should we, the non-smokers, have our lives affected by those who want to kill themselves?
There are no excuses for no action from the management.
What's caused this shambles in relation to the story "Barnet audit chief: I wish we had looked closer into Trishul Shah fraud orders" (Ham&High) is a series of bad decisions by the Conservative councillors, followed by an attempt to save money in order to sustain the high payments to Capita.
We already paid them more than £352million.
In short: we, residents, pay Capita's profit with the poor services we get.
Some other latest outrages include a council's internal audit report, concealed from the public since last May, admitting the use of agency staff without due process for booking and approving payments and without DBS checks. This means some vulnerable Barnet residents are put at risk by the very council that owes them a duty of care.
Barnet social services face a cut of £800,000, including 40 empty social workers' posts which have been frozen.
Cllr Richard Cornelius will probably defend his position of uncompromising outsourcing ideology by bragging that he got "£4.12m payment from Capita" (source: urgency committee report published November 22, 2018) to compensate us for the failing service delivery, including the defunct IT system for adult social care (MOSAIC) and also the "delays in delivering housing on council land".
Or that the Gainshare – a method by which we paid Capita a percentage of the savings they delivered, in which the Barnet blogger Mr Reasonable found numerous miscalculations to our disadvantage – will stop.
He will not tell you that this £4m we'll get back, plus the £2m they claim Capita saved the council, are no match to the £30m that Capita had promised to save.
This is not a victory but a capitulation of the council at a time when Capita is on its knees with shares prices falling through the floor.
This is the time to end the contracts and bring all the outsourced services back in-house under the councillors' accountability and our democratic control.
Capita continues to deliver services for Barnet Council, but given Capita's poor record in delivering services including financial control, how does Barnet Council monitor what Capita is doing?
At Barnet Council's audit committee meeting the chief executive officer reported "a number of weaknesses being addressed, including strengthening financial controls and providing greater clarity around roles, responsibilities and accountability between commissioning and delivery functions". Does this mean that council officers and Capita are not sure who is accountable and responsible for ensuring services are delivered properly?
Members of the audit committee were told of new processes that were being introduced to ensure that Capita, Barnet Council and the external auditors talked to each other about controls. Had they not been doing this in the past?
Members of the committee were given copies of a report of the external auditor (Grant Thornton) in which two of the appendices had been redacted for reasons of commercial and personal confidentiality. They were told by the chairman that it was against the law to reveal the redacted information to councillors. It was only after great persistence on the part of the majority of the committee members and a resolution passed by them that the chief executive officer conceded that they could see the full report.
How can councillors perform their duties properly if information is withheld from them?
Who is running Barnet Council?
Your report on the meeting of Barnet Council's audit committee ("Barnet audit chief: I wish we had looked closer…") reveals not only poor job performance but also worryingly undemocratic practices.
It was not clear at that meeting on whose authority pages of the report into the recent fraud were redacted, but it is officers who prepare the papers for committee meetings. Does any officer, even the CEO, have the authority to redact information from papers members have the responsibility to scrutinise? The CEO has also signalled that on December 11 he will not be presenting the policy and resources committee with the three full business cases on the options for maintaining, altering or removing Capita's control that the members voted for in July.
By whose authority does any employee ignore or override a decision by the elected members? Mr Hooten refused to answer that question. Will councillors unite across party lines on December 11, as they did on November 22, to insist that their decision be respected, or will the Tory majority continue to let the tail wag the dog?
There is further impact on the Met's budget because of the government's unfunded extra demands due to police pay rises and changes to pensions.
This was announced as part of the chancellor's October budget but there was no actual increase in police funding.
As a result of Conservative government policy so far, the Metropolitan Police have been forced to make cuts of £720m over recent years with a further £325m of cuts required by 2021.
In the last financial year, the police officers' well deserved pay rise cost £28.1m. This equates to the cost of approximately 468 officers. This financial year, the cost to the Met of the police officers' pay increase was £28.8m. This equates to approximately the cost of 480 officers.
The Home Office has now informed the police that they expect their pension rule changes to result in increased employer contributions, which the Met has estimated will amount to a further £43million unfunded cost in 2019-20, then £108m in 2020-21 and the years which follow. On top of this there are likely to be further costs associated with an increase in contributions to police staff's pensions too. These costs are less clear at this stage, but the Met's current estimate is around £9m in 2019-20, then £22m in 2020-21 and beyond.
Altogether, this approximately equates to the cost of over 850 officers in 2019/20 and over 2,150 officers from 2020/21 onwards.
It can therefore be seen that in the forthcoming police settlement for next year, the government must recognise that extra funding is needed if we are to avoid yet more massive cuts in London's police service and even fewer officers to protect London and Londoners.
A dozen cycle hoops were installed in Fitzjohn's Avenue in August 2018 on a strip of tarmac that was laid in place of the grass verge.
It was positioned on the corner with Netherhall Gardens, without any notification to nearby residents such as myself.
It seemed to be an unlikely place, remote from shops. I wondered who was expected to use them? I have seen only one bike attached there so far.
Cllr Stephen Stark of the Hampstead Town ward (across the road from the hoops (which are in the Frognal & Fitzjohns ward) eventually obtained for me this explanation from the Camden highways manager. It read that "cycle hoops were introduced to both aid cycle parking along with eradicating the coach overriding of the verge that was taking place at this area".
But if cycle parking for schools was expected to be encouraged, surely the schools will have their own. The Finchley coaches did park about once a month for school outings with nearside wheels off the carriageway to reduce obstruction to traffic, but the hoops did not stop this action so, in September, two conical iron bollards were installed on the edge of the pavment and the number of hoops slightly reduced.
Despite the hope, I have not seen the hoops being used, indeed few cyclists use the steep Avenue. I think that the hoops are not in keeping with the conservation area guidelines for street furniture, and that just a couple of bollards could have been installed from the beginning, preferably of the slim type as at the Swiss Cottage Library, and without loss of grass. I wonder how much this exercise cost in total?
The anger of those of us fighting the over-development at Swiss Cottage has focused on the developer, Essential Living (Swiss Cottage) Ltd, which has made not a single concession to the local community in the five years of this battle.
And the fact that it is five years, and counting, confirms how stupid it has been. If it had come back with a more modest proposal at the start – one respecting the site and the needs and feelings of local groups – by now it could have had a building in operation and earning money, which I believe is all it cares about. Instead it faces more months of opposition and mounting costs.
But the reality is that we have been betrayed by every public body supposed to protect us from such developers, from the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, via the planning inspectorate, and down to the lowliest planning officer in Camden, and they don't get much lower than that!
Which brings us to the final public body's stupidity. Transport for London (TfL) refused to even discuss a safer alternative, doing all the trucking access from the A41 where they inevitably arrive and leave.
TfL is still posed to convert this whole section of road to a bus-and-bike lane, yet refuses to allow the use of one lane for the trucking traffic. How stupid can you get?
Can no one help in such an awful situation?
Is Sadiq Khan, the mayor, happy to allow a local community to be bulldozed out of the way when a safer alternative is available?
I have asked, but had no reply to date, so it is back to the community to act in our own defence.
This week I launched a new bill asking the government to end the indefinite detention of migrants and asylum seekers in the UK.
In my speech to the Commons, I argued the law needed urgent reform and proposed a 28 day maximum time-limit on detention for immigration purposes.
My bill was co-sponsored by Labour, Lib Dem and Conservative MPs and gained support from all corners of the commons. It echoed calls for a time-limit from two parliamentary inquiries, the United Nations, the Prisons Inspectorate, human rights campaigners and others.
Hampstead and Kilburn has a phenomenal record for welcoming migrants and refugees, across successive generations.
that their human rights are respected.


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Dit is een lijst van transfers uit de Nederlandse Eredivisie in de zomer van het jaar 2015, als voorbereiding op het seizoen 2015/16. Hierin staan alleen transfers die clubs uit de Eredivisie hebben voltooid.

De transferperiode duurt van 1 juli 2015 tot en met 1 september. Deals mogen op elk moment van het jaar gesloten worden, maar de transfers zelf mogen pas in de transferperiodes plaatsvinden. Transfervrije spelers (spelers zonder club) mogen op elk moment van het jaar gestrikt worden.

Eredivisie (mannenvoetbal)
Eredivisie 2015
Transfers, Eredivisie

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So, you've recently bought a brand new smart air conditioner from Orient and are now wondering how to get started. In today's post, we'll be acquainting you with all the knowledge you'll ever need to enjoy eComfort technology at its full capacity.
Read through this step-by-step guide to get going.
After you've successfully logged in, a screen similar to the below-attached image will appear.
In the next step, you will need to create a site. A site can also be termed as the location where the air conditioner is installed, it can be your living room for example.
For site creation, you'll be required to assign it a name & type. Let's suppose the air conditioner you are willing to control is the one installed in your bedroom on the ground floor, so you may name the site or location as "Ground Floor Bedroom" & click "Save".
Once the site is created, you'll be able to view it on "My Sites".
Now you would be required to assign your device (air conditioner)the created site, simply click the "plus "sign and you'll be redirected to a new menu.
In this step, you would be connecting your appliance by choosing its type.
After clicking the selected device, you'll be redirected to a new page by clicking "NEXT" to proceed on the new window.
Click on "NEXT" button that popped up on the new window.
Before proceeding further, establish system to kit connection by scanning Wi-Fi hotspot of the AC's Wi-Fi kit on your personal device (PC/Mobile) and click on "SCAN" button.
Establish system to kit connection by finding the device's SSID on your system. Click "NEXT" after placing the password on the empty field. Now click "SCAN" to find all available local internet connections. (Note: Make sure to connect to the right SSID, the hotspot name/SSID & the password key can be found on the appliance's box & leaflet).
After clicking "Scan", Mevris will search for all available Wi-Fi connections to let you connect the air conditioner to the internet.
Now select your local internet connection, enter your Wi-Fi's password & then click "OK".
Now, connect your system back to the local internet & click "Next".
Click "NEXT" to complete the "Add Device flow".
After establishing connection between the system & the internet, you'll be redirected to the site/asset detail page to verify the status of the added appliance.
If you're a current user of Mevris, then skip the signup steps and proceed from log-in.
Note: If you do not get it right at the first attempt then there's no need to panic, just follow the instructions carefully and you will be able to enjoy your smart air conditioner in no time. And, if you still have any more confusion then feel to contact us at 03000561441.


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Watch Peggy's Full Song-And-Dance Number From Tonight's Two-Part Episode Of AGENT CARTER
Well, it looks like Peggy finally got that dance! ABC has released the an extended clip showing off Marvel's first musical number in its entirety featuring Peggy shaking a leg with a few friends!
KingPatel | 2/23/2016
Filed Under: "Agent Carter" Source: Entertainment Weekly
AGENT PEGGY CARTER MAKES A DEADLY DEAL WITH THE ENEMY, ON "MARVEL'S AGENT CARTER" ON ABC
"The Edge of Mystery" - Peggy and Sousa propose a trade with Whitney Frost, while the SSR gets help from Howard Stark that may be the key to eliminating Zero Matter, on "Marvel's Agent Carter," TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 (9:00-10:00 p.m. EST) on the ABC Television Network.
"Marvel's Agent Carter" stars Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter, James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis, Enver Gjokaj as Chief Daniel Sousa, Wynn Everett as Whitney Frost, Reggie Austin as Jason Wilkes and Chad Michael Murray as Chief Jack Thompson.
Guest starring are Lotte Verbeek as Ana Jarvis, Lesley Boone as Rose, Rey Valentin as Agent Vega, Kurtwood Smith as Vernon Masters, Brian Glanney as Agent Ford, Ken Marino as Joseph Manfredi, Tina D'Marco as Nonna, Matt Braunger as Dr. Samberly, Tom T. Choi as Doctor Chung, Russell Edge as Agent Blackwell, Tim Brown as snub-nose and Damian O'Hare as Nick Driscoll.
"The Edge of Mystery" was written by Brant Englestein and directed by Metin Huseyin.
PEGGY FACES SHOCKING BETRAYALS AS SHE CLOSES IN ON WHITNEY FROST, ON "MARVEL'S AGENT CARTER" ON ABC
Lyndsy Fonseca Guest Stars as Angie Martinelli, and the Episode Includes a Dance Number Featuring the Show's Cast and "Dancing with the Stars" Dancers Louis van Amstel, Dmitry Chaplin, Damian Whitewood, Sasha Farber, Anna Trebunskaya and Karina Smirnoff
"A Little Song and Dance" - Peggy desperately tries to save Dr. Wilkes with a dangerous plan to stop Whitney Frost. But Thompson makes a surprising move that could destroy them all, on "Marvel's Agent Carter," TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EST) on the ABC Television Network.
Guest starring are Lotte Verbeek as Ana Jarvis, Lesley Boone as Rose, Bridget Regan as Dottie Underwood, Rey Valentin as Agent Vega, Kurtwood Smith as Vernon Masters, Ken Marino as Joseph Manfredi, Matt Braunger as Dr. Samberly, Max Brown as Michael Carter, Tim Soergel as Paul, Bert Rotundo as Ralph, Lyndsy Fonseca as Angie Martinelli, Lon Gowan as truck driver and Russell Edge as Agent Blackwell.
"A Little Song and Dance" was written by Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters with teleplay by Chris Dingess and directed by Jennifer Getzinger.
"MARVEL'S AGENT CARTER" (Season 2) "Marvel's Agent Carter" returns for a second season of adventure and intrigue, starring Hayley Atwell in the titular role of the unstoppable secret agent for the SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve). Dedicated to the fight against new atomic age threats in the wake of World War II, Peggy must now journey from New York City to Los Angeles for her most dangerous assignment yet. But even as she discovers new friends, a new home — and perhaps even a new love — she's about to find out that the bright lights of the post-war Hollywood mask a more sinister threat to everyone she is sworn to protect.
Agent Carter features:
Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter
James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis
Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark
Chad Michael Murray as Agent Jack Thompson
Enver Gjokaj as Agent Daniel Sousa
Bridget Regan as Dottie Underwood
Wynn Everett as Whitney Frost
Currie Graham as Calvin Chadwick
Lotte Verbeek as Ana Jarvis
Reggie Austin as Jason Wilkes
Kurtwood Smith as Vernon Masters
Ken Marino as Joseph Manfredi
Lyndsy Fonseca as Angie Martinelli
Agent Carter returns February 23
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The Top Threats To Your Company's Reputation
Posted on February 23, 2017 May 12, 2020 by Dorothy Crenshaw
In today's volatile media and social environment, good PR comes at a premium and brand reputation is fragile. Look at Trump's dressing down of Nordstrom, or the controversy Uber runs into just about every time Travis Kalanick does anything. (More on that later.)
Some argue that presidential tweets might actually be good for business, even when they're negative, and recent evidence bears that out. But most types of reputation crises are decidedly unwelcome. For a startup or small business, a sudden wave of negative coverage can be fatal. According to the World Economic Forum, more than twenty-five percent of a company's market value is directly attributable to its brand reputation.
So how should brands prepare for an unknown, uncontrollable event that could impugn its reputation? A sudden crisis can be an externally driven event that is entirely unpredictable, like the death of a chief executive or an accident by a business partner. Such was the case in 2010 when the Deepwater Horizon, under contract to BP, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Many crises strike closer to home; they can take the form of a rogue employee action, or a regional lapse that affects an entire brand, like the Chipotle E. coli contamination of 2015.
More often than not, a threat to a company's reputation originates inside the organization. In some cases it's a creeping cultural problem that turns malignant over time, like the pressure that drove Wells Fargo employees to open a few million fake accounts to earn commissions without the knowledge of their customers.
How To Spot The Worst Reputation Threats
Most crisis events are a long time in the making. Here are the most common reputation threats and how to anticipate them.
The Data Hack
A hack or security breach can have a huge PR ripple effect, undermining relations with customers and tarnishing a brand image for years. The notorious 2013 hack of Target cardholders ultimately cost the company $242 million. Believe it nor not, that figure is relatively low as a percentage of total sales, but the loss of customer trust and public confidence is a great deal harder to measure. Even the hijacking of a brand's social media account can be damaging. Following the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP was impersonated on Twitter, adding to its image problems. And look no further than the hack of Sony Pictures emails in 2014 or the Democratic National Committee leaks of last summer to appreciate the consequences of private information becoming public.
Of course, there's not much for marketing and communications teams to do to foil threats beyond insisting that their employers or clients harden their security infrastructure. But they can prepare for the risk, given that a data security breach is at the very top of common reputation threats. It's not only possible, but likely to happen in today's environment.
It's the way a breach is handled that makes all the difference. To minimize the reputation impact, every business should have a cross-functional plan for timely response in the event of a data hack or other breach. A typical task force should include the CTO, CMO, CCO, and involve a designated media spokesperson who is well qualified and prepared to update stakeholders, including press and social media. Prompt notification and transparent communications to all affected audiences are critical elements here.
The Viral Customer Complaint
Remember when musician Dave Carroll made a music video complaining that United Airlines had broken his guitar? Or the FedEx worker caught on camera tossing a fragile package over a residential fence, ruining its contents? Those viral customer complaints are almost quaint in light of today's environment. As public relations and customer relations increasingly overlap, the goals of each should be aligned, and employees empowered to take quick action in case of a problem. Customer service reps should be incentivized not by the volume of complaints they handle, getting customers off the phone quickly and efficiently, but by the number of complaints they actually resolve to the satisfaction of consumers. For truly sophisticated companies, customer relations managers are authorized to resolve ordinary complaints by waiving a minor charge, for example, and even equipped with talking points that help build a relationship and strengthen the brand reputation rather than letting a bad situation grow worse.
The good news is that "viral" customer service works both ways. Of course, millions of complaints are positively resolved every day, with no credit to the brand, but occasionally a smart move turns PR lemons into lemonade. The story about a young boy's stuffed giraffe left behind at a Ritz-Carlton hotel still makes the rounds. Any parent can understand the trauma that results when a favorite toy is lost on a trip. In this case the Ritz-Carlton notified the family to say they'd found the giraffe. Not only did they send it back to the family, but they took photos of "Joshie" lounging by the pool to reassure his young owner that giraffe was safe and enjoying his break.
A Toxic Organizational Culture
It's not the crime, it's the cover-up, as the saying goes. A transparent culture can minimize almost any brand threat, and inevitably, a repressive culture will make it worse. Experts call it "risk connectivity," which is a fancy way of saying one threat will expose and compound others.
A culture that rewarded "sandbagging" of customers to make profit numbers was at work in the Wells Fargo mess, and CEO John Stumpf's perceived failure to take responsibility for it cost him his job. Stumpf claimed he set a tone that rewarded integrity at the top, but he either didn't recognize or didn't address the "tone from the middle" that truly shapes organizational behavior.
More recently, there's the letter posted by former Uber engineer Susan Fowler about the unrelenting sexual harassment and apparent retaliation she experienced during a year at Uber. Now, Uber is no stranger to criticism, with its so-called "bro" culture and accusations of sexism. (What can you say about a CEO who told the L.A. Times he calls the company "boober" because of "the salutary effect his company's success has had on his sex life.") Ugh.
But while Uber has in the past treated criticism casually or with defensiveness, in this case Kalanick is taking Fowler's letter very seriously. He called the treatment she endured "abhorrent" and launched an "urgent investigation" headed by former Attorney General Eric Holder. Kalanick's tweets and his internal memo were followed by comments from Uber investor Chris Sacca and Board member Arianna Huffington, who promised to assist the investigation. No one has questioned Fowler's integrity and all have expressed outrage on her behalf. Most importantly, Uber seems committed to transparency regarding its problem and the outcome of the investigation, and that's why it will survive the scandal.
Many companies never learn the virtues of transparency in tackling a deeply rooted cultural problem, particularly one like sexual harassment that can hide in plain sight. Look at Fox News; it took a clever legal strategy by anchor Gretchen Carlson's representatives to bring down Roger Ailes. (Carlson circumvented a binding arbitration agreement by bringing suit against Ailes personally rather than Fox itself.) But once the suit was filed, the dominoes began to fall. So many women came forward with claims similar to Carlson's that Fox was forced to investigate and confront its systemic failures, and Roger Ailes was out.
In fact, how an organization treats an employee who reports malfeasance―or how it treats any complaint that can threaten corporate brand reputation―is at the heart of its culture and the best predictor of its PR survival. A company that has institutionalized ethical behavior and openness will be better equipped than most to identify major reputation threats before they escalate. A culture that rewards transparency and openness, on the other hand, enables resiliency for organizations when things do go wrong.
An earlier version of this post appeared February 9 on the AMA Executive Circle blog.
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Boko Haram attacks reported across northern Nigeria on polling day
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One soldier was killed and 20 others wounded Saturday in a Boko Haram attack in Maiduguri the northeast, just hours before voting began in Nigeria's presidential election, security sources said.
A civilian militia source in Borno state capital Maiduguri told AFP "at least 13" blasts were heard throughout the city at dawn, around two hours before voting opened at 8 a.m.
Residents also reported hearing the explosions.
"Boko Haram terrorists attempted to enter the city but were intercepted," a security source told AFP.
"They resorted to firing RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades] on the city. Attempts have been made to locate the source of the firing."
A second source said one of the explosions occurred at the headquarters of the Nigerian Army 7th Division as troops were preparing to go out on operations.
"One soldier was killed and 20 were injured. There were other explosions at Maimalari barracks but there was no casualty," he added.
A fighter jet was seen flying over the city, and the source said troops were searching for the source of the fire.
Can anybody identify what this unexploded rocket is that landed in Teacher's Village, Maiduguri, today? @PeccaviConsults @beegeaglesblog @TomaszRolbiecki @BokoWatch https://t.co/Kwk8ayDPWC pic.twitter.com/rBU97kDLSO
— Obi Anyadike (@Enugu62) February 23, 2019
Three shells fell into an open rice field in the Teachers Village camp for people displaced by the conflict but there were no immediate reports of casualties. Images from the area appeared to show an unexploded Grad rocket.
But the army denied there had been any attack on "Maiduguri township or its neighboring communities," saying "Borno State especially Maiduguri township is calm and peaceful."
Borno state police commissioner Damien Chukwu acknowledged the sound of gunfire but said it was "for security purposes," insisting there was "no threat to public peace and order."
Director of Army Public Relations Colonel Sagir Musa tweeted that the "gun fire was not targeted at members of the public but was for security calculations."
Islamic State claims Grad rocket attacks
In a statement, Islamic State claimed fighters from its West Africa province affiliate fired five Grad rockets at Maiduguri airport, two at Nigerian army positions and three at another location that is unclear.
Boko Haram split into two factions in mid-2016. One is led by Abu Mus'ab Al-Barnawi and largely focuses on attacking military and government targets, while the other, led by Shekau, is notorious for suicide bombings and indiscriminate killings of civilians.
Shekau pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, but ISIS central only gives formal backing to the Barnawi faction, which is known as Islamic State West Africa province.
At about the same time as Maiduguri was attacked, insurgents also moved on Geidam, north of the Yobe state capital Damaturu, but were repelled by troops who were alerted by locals, security sources said.
Musa acknowledged what he called a "futile attack on a security outpost in Geidam general area," saying that no casualties were recorded and the situation was calm.
It was unclear which faction attacked the town, but a military base in Geidam was attacked by ISWA fighters on January 23.
Elsewhere in Borno, Boko Haram fired rockets at the town of Gwoza, injuring three people and partially damaging a mosque, AFP reported.
In recent weeks the wider Gwoza area has seen a number of attacks, all blamed on Shekau's faction. On January 30, Nigerian troops "neutralized" five Boko Haram insurgents and captured a suspected militant in the Gwoza area.
There were also clashes in Auno and Goniri, on both sides of the border between Borno and Yobe, and an attack late on Friday on Zabarmari village, 10 km (six miles) outside Maiduguri, AFP reported.
Voters were on Saturday casting their ballots in Nigeria's presidential election, with incumbent Muhammadu Buhari, a former army general who has vowed to defeat the jihadists, seeking a second term in office.
Boko Haram's bloody insurgency began in northeastern Nigeria in 2009 but has since spread into neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a regional military response. Some 27,000 people have been killed and two million others displaced, sparking a dire humanitarian crisis in the region.
Both factions of Boko Haram have intensified attacks in the region over several months, but the upsurge in ISWA attacks has been much more serious. Amid signs of a takeover by more hardline leaders, the group has launched dozens of assaults on military targets in Borno and Yobe states in Nigeria.
In the Borno town of Gamboru, on the border with Cameroon, Chadian troops in about 50 vehicles, including tanks, arrived at about 11:30 am on Saturday, while voting was in progress.
The Chadians are part of the regional Multinational Joint Task Force fighting Boko Haram. N'Djamena said on Friday night it had deployed more than 500 soldiers to support their Nigerian counterparts.
With reporting from AFP
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