New Delhi, Jan 12: Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) - the two regional powerhouses in Uttar Pradesh have decided to enter a pre-poll alliance ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha election. The two parties have a mixed bag of experience over allying with each other. While their tie-up in 1993 had ended up in a sour taste in the mouth of BSP chief Mayawati and she vowed not to entertain the SP again, they successfully defeated the BJP in unison in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-elections early last year. Now, the two parties have decided to come together to ensure that the BJP did not run away with the prize in the state like it did in high-profile elections in 2014 and 2017.
Mayawati rightly deserves a pat on her back for retaking an initiative to join hands with the next-generation leadership of the SP after her "failed experiment" in the 1990s which incidentally was also to stall the saffron brigade's march at the height of the Ayodhya movement.
Strategically, the tie-up is the best recipe the two regional parties could up with to ensure that they reverse the shocking trend of 2014 and 2017 when Cyclone BJP had blown away all the Opposition forces. After the success of the by-election experiment last year, it was not surprising that the two parties would join hands for the big one and especially after the thumping the BJP received in three Hindi heartland states last month. Both the BSP and SP have been gainers from the BJP's loss in those states and they will now be energised to replicate the same in their own turf. The SP, BSP and other parties like the Rashtriya Lok Dal can only hope to see a turnaround from their ordeal of 2014 and 2017 if they come together and ensure a transfer of votes. It is their own disunity in those two years that saw the BJP running away as outright winner because the vote-shares could not be translated into seat-shares the way the local parties would have liked.
would not be without its challenges both from within and externally.
Will they cannibalise each other's vote bank?
A major challenge for the alliance will be the prospect of cannibalising each other's vote bank. A by-election or two is fine but it is a completely different ball game when the national election is concerned. The SP and BSP are more or less parties with a common vote bank. While Mayawati is a Dalit icon, the SP has a strong following among the backward castes. And the top of it, both parties aim to appease the Muslims and other small castes. The quest to build rainbow social coalitions by both parties could lead to a difficulty in laying down the territory of each.
Both parties are big forces in UP and their leaderships harbouring strong ambitions. We have seen in the past how Mayawati has revealed through her action to become the prime minister. Electoral results going against her in the last two major elections might have put a check on her but that could be temporary the moment the Dalit icon finds her feet back on the ground. SP leader Akhilesh Yadav is still young in politics but as a youth leader, he has shown how ruthless he can be when wresting the party's control from his father, the shrewd Mulayam Singh Yadav. The BSP and SP have come together to defeat a common enemy today no doubt, but as we have seen in the neighbouring Bihar, it is not very easy for two heavyweight leaders to continue working with each other for long, even against a common foe.
Mayawati as a leader has always been a mystery for her allies. She had left an alliance with the SP in the mid-1990s to join the BJP to become UP's first Dalit chief minister. Recently, she extended support to Congress in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan after initial attacks but again threatened to dump the Grand Old Party-led governments if cases failed against Dalits during the recent Bharat Bandh in April were not withdrawn. It is very difficult to presume which way Mayawati will go and depending on the results of the Lok Sabha election, she might conceive fresh ideas to cater to her own political ambitions.
Electorally, the alliance could see a challenge in ticket distribution. Since both the SP and BSP are established players in UP politics, compromising on the number of seats could see both of them left with the tough task of pacifying disgruntled leaders and candidates. That could even see other outfits like Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh's uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav reaping a benefit by engineering fissure within the SP.
Amid the tie-up, Mayawati has spoken straight that the Congress is not welcome in it. She refused to see any difference between the Congress and BJP and added that alliance with the Congress didn't help them in the past for its votes don't get transferred. The message is clear: The UP heavyweights are not convinced about the Congress's electoral power anymore and consider it more as a baggage even after it won three states recently. This could be an interesting development in the national politics in the days to come for with leaders like Mayawati, Akhilesh and Mamata Banerjee not showing much confidence in Congress president Rahul Gandhi, the Grand Old Party's presence in the anti-BJP front could be under question and that could make the very idea of the pan-India opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi scattered and unappealing for the voters.


More than 30 years ago, when he was still a builder in Manhattan, Donald Trump said he had one great ambition: He wanted then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan to appoint him America's envoy to Moscow to negotiate a nuclear arms deal. "It'll take one hour of discussion before the Cold War is over," Trump was said to have boasted at the time.
Plainly, the Trumpian grandiosity was always there, but what happened to the ambition? Now that he's president, Trump doesn't need to wait for an appointment to try his hand at nuclear negotiation. Only last year the president called nuclear weapons "the biggest problem in the world." And yet Trump has barely mentioned the issue while his administration announced Friday it is pulling out of the three-decade-old Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and is possibly setting its sights on former President Barack Obama's 2011 New START treaty, the strategic arms reduction pact that will expire about two weeks into the next presidential term if it isn't extended. Negotiations on such an extension would need to begin soon.
Trump has always yearned for the big deal, and he's demonstrated that he's not fond of any treaty he didn't negotiate himself, especially if it was Obama's doing. Trump pulled out of Obama's Iran nuclear deal, Paris climate pact, and Trans-Pacific Partnership, and he replaced former President Bill Clinton's NAFTA trade deal with the slightly retooled U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, even though the not-yet-confirmed accord retains most of the provisions of the original one.
But the nuclear arms arena is especially wide open and ripe for fresh presidential negotiation, many nuclear experts say. While some lament the likely demise of the INF pact—having served notice, Washington now has six months to formally withdraw—they also acknowledge that to some extent the treaty was based on outdated threats and technology. And they say Trump could, at long last, put his own stamp on nuclear arms negotiations in this new era.
In contrast to the INF Treaty, which Washington has accused Russia of violating for years, the Trump administration has not questioned whether Putin is adequately observing the New START treaty.
There may be several reasons why Trump is not moving ahead on nuclear weapons negotiations, despite his long-ago ambitions. One, they are notably difficult and abstruse, and Trump is not known as a details person (though the same reputation did not stop Reagan, who signed the INF Treaty in 1987). Second, Trump has purged his administration of moderate internationalists who tend to favor diplomacy—with Defense Secretary James Mattis and Chief of Staff John Kelly the most recent departures. His ultra-hawkish national security advisor, John Bolton, has long inveighed against both the INF and New START treaties.
The summit, however, was widely deemed a political disaster for Trump, and it was perhaps the last time the president spoke in such positive terms of his relationship with the Russian leader. At the summit, Trump fumbled by appearing to accept Putin's denials of interference in the 2016 election over the findings of his own U.S. intelligence agencies, and since then the president has been hemmed in by almost constant questions in the media about whether he has been compromised by Putin and Russian intelligence—financially, sexually, or in some other way. The FBI at one point even opened up an investigation into whether Trump was a Russian counterintelligence asset. At the G-20 summit in Argentina in November 2018, Trump felt pressured to cancel his one-on-one with Putin (though he later held an "informal" meeting, the White House said, at which once again no official note-takers were reportedly present).
The oddity of Trump's furtive relations with Putin under the shadow of the Russia probe is that he had previously said one of his goals as president was to dramatically improve relations with Moscow. And shortly before the Helsinki summit, Trump said he planned to discuss nuclear arms reduction with Putin.
Experts say advances in technology—both in the nuclear arms themselves and in the ability to monitor them—justify creative new arms control deals building on the INF and New START treaties, since the older pacts don't account for many of these changes. The Russians, for example, say they are working on advanced new weapons systems such as an "unlimited range" cruise missile as well as hypersonic weapons, while in his U.S. Nuclear Posture Review, Trump outlined the development of a new nuclear-armed, sea-launched cruise missile.
New surveillance and verification technology not available during the INF Treaty era could also shift the focus from delivery systems—which are observable from space—to monitoring the number of nuclear warheads themselves. And despite some Russian concern over the possible passing of the INF Treaty—which covered ground-launched intermediate-range nuclear weapons targeted at Europe—Moscow's own advances in air- and sea-launched weapons have rendered the agreement partly dated from its perspective as well.
Even so, the Kremlin remains concerned over the size of the U.S. arsenal and, with an economy roughly one-tenth the size of America's, Putin knows he can't afford another arms race of the kind that once bankrupted the Soviet Union.
"If I were playing the Russian hand, I would say, 'Let's have a new treaty, a Donald Trump treaty rather than an Obama treaty,'" said Matthew Bunn, a nuclear arms specialist at Harvard University's Belfer Center. "If the Russians were clever, they would propose something to Trump attractive enough to get his Nobel Peace Prize juices flowing." By tweaking the New START pact as he did with NAFTA—and there are ample opportunities, since a slew of new missile systems not currently covered by the treaty could then be accounted for—Trump could call the new accord his own.
But Trump may need to get past his Putin problem first. "I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics," Trump said in Helsinki. He now has an opportunity to prove it.


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"Love (Is All We Need)" is a song recorded by British DJ Adam J, and features Sugababes' Amelle Berrabah and production team The Nightcrashers. It was released on 19 August 2013, and is Berrabah's second solo release as a featured artist since her collaboration with Tinchy Stryder on his single "Never Leave You" in 2009. The song is credited to Adam J as lead artist and features Amelle's vocals. The song failed to chart.

Background
In May 2013, Amelle Berrabah confirmed she'd nearly completed work on her solo album, and was looking to release the collection some time in the summer. Berrabah later revealed further details about her solo album, and hinted at the release of a new single: "I'll be starting a promo at the end of June with my single and the rest will fit into place. I'm really excited and can't wait." In June 2013 it was announced that Amelle Berrabah had teamed up with British DJ Adam J for his new single, which was stated to feature production team The Nightcrashers. The single was released on 19 August 2013.

Music video
A lyric video for the song was released onto YouTube on 24 June 2013, which also confirmed Berrabah's collaboration with Adam J. On 19 July 2013, Nightcrasher Records previewed a 'Behind the Scenes' video of the shoot for the single. The official music video for the single premiered on 26 July. The video shows Amelle singing in a nightclub, while other scenes show a couple's romantic relationship story, with Adam J acting as a narrator.

Track listing
Digital remix EP
 "Love (Is All We Need)" featuring Nightcrashers & Amelle – 3:32
 "Love (Is All We Need)" featuring Nightcrashers & Amelle (Extended) – 6:00
 "Love (Is All We Need)" featuring Nightcrashers & Amelle (Extended Instrumental) – 6:00
 "Love (Is All We Need)" featuring Nightcrashers & Amelle (Radio Edit) – 3:17

Release history

References

2013 singles
2013 songs
Amelle Berrabah songs
Songs written by Amelle Berrabah
Songs written by Pete Kirtley

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It's Up,Up and Away in LA again this weekend for the 26th Annual Great Falls Balloon Festival! This is always a huge attraction for the Lewiston/Auburn area on the third weekend of August.
The festival features hot air balloon rides, live music,delicious food and more. You can check out the full schedule of events here.
Look at these wicked beautiful, colorful hot air balloon photos captured by lifelong Blimpster, Alan Holbrook of Turner at last year's festival . Great shots, Al!


We can hardly claim to be experts on the life of Pai but it doesn't mean we aren't to tell you all about our time there! This small town in Thailand's north-east is a strange microcosm of backpacking life in the country. A timeless town where the strumming of The Beatles drifts out onto the sleepy streets amidst the tempting wafts of curry paste steam. So what is it about life in Pai that keeps drawing us in?
7 Let's Wok with Mr T – Cooking in Pai Part 2.
Our trip up to Pai didn't start out too well. Our guesthouse in Chiang Mai had a pick up arranged. We sat and waited, a small group of weary backpackers with slight hangovers from the night before. A short delay, stretched into a longer wait and eventually we went to enquire as to the whereabouts of our pick up. It should have been there two hours previously but had never showed. Luckily, they were able to organise space on a second minibus and we were soon on our way…just three hours after we were meant to have left.
The road between Chiang Mai and Pai, despite being well laid and smooth, is incredibly winding. I rarely get any kind of motion sickness on our travels but boy, did I feel rough on this journey! I put a box set of Scrubs on the ipod and concentrated on it as hard as I could, gritting my teeth against the ever-present threat of losing my breakfast.
The place we decided to stay, Twin Hut, was located across the river from the main town (back when there were only two options over there). We mounted the bridge that spanned the Pai River to make our way over and I was horrified to see holes everywhere. The bridge was made of bamboo and dried leaves! It was seriously in need of repair and I was seriously unhappy that we were clambering across it. Not only did we weigh more than your average Thai local, but we were both wearing our backpacks and day bags giving us an extra 15kgs each, at least.
Slowly we edged our way across, the bridge creaking and cracking underfoot with every tentative step forward. Reaching the opposite bank we leapt onto the solid ground with relief. Trying to swim in that fast-flowing brown river, bedraggled and backbacked up would have been quite impossible!
Twin Huts is a collection of basic, wooden A-frame huts. Ours had a double mattress, a plug and a mosquito net. That's all we needed really. The toilet and shower block wasn't too far from our hut and the place was a bargain. I wonder if that's what the backpacking experience was like 30 years ago all over Thailand?
It was seriously tasty and I was really getting into Thai soups (after a really nice Tom Yum a few days before and another local variant in Chiang Mai).
I chomped down on a huge slice of galangal and it was so intense. It felt like I was sucking wood chips and it wasn't pleasant. I had to set it aside rather than putting it back in to ensure I didn't do it again…bleurgh.
The highlight of our time in Pai itself was a day's cooking lessons with the enigmatic Mr T…no, not that one. I am not sure that Mr T runs his classes any more, which is a shame because it was so relaxed and fun. Plus, you actually got stuck right in which isn't always the case in group cooking lessons.
We started by going through a selection of Thai ingredients. He talked us through the different spices, flavours and vegetables that are used in lots of Thai cooking. We were all given a recipe book (which I still use all the time) with specific recipes and generic methods so that we could continue to cook when we got back home. He gave us suggestions for alternatives to use when we got home too, which was nice. White wine vinegar as a substitute for tamarind for example. With this out of the way, it was time to get physical!
The first half of the day is all about preparing lunch, and that means curry. We all picked one and he helped us prepare the ingredients we would need for the paste. We chopped lemongrass, galangal, chillies and more. He gave us a stern warning about washing our hands after chopping the chilli.
This is something that Mr Fluskey promptly forgot, and he came back from the toilet with tears in his eyes.
We took to the floor with pestle and mortar and began to pound. I wonder if Mr Fluskey was taking some of his pain out on his paste? Then it was time to wok! He demonstrated once whilst passing around a small bottle of Sangsom (Thai whiskey).
"If the wok gets dry, add a little coconut milk.
I knew I liked this guy!
Once all the curries were done, we sat around the table and got to try them all. They were delicious, if I do say so myself.
We had some downtime and so we decided to spend the next three hours in the pool up the road. Fluid swimming pool only charge a little to get in, but it was an extravagance after having paid for the cooking course. We went in and gazed longingly at the rich flashpackers buying western comfort snacks and fancy pink drinks while we sipped our 10 baht chlorinated water. They were living their best life in Pai! At least we knew there was more yummy food to come.
Let's Wok with Mr T – Cooking in Pai Part 2.
More cooking, and for dinner it's stir fry time. Somehow I turned all of this….
…into pad thai. I have made this so many times since being back in the UK and it makes me so happy every time. We were allowed to invite anyone we wanted for dinner and so we met back up with our travel buddies Simon and Cait. It meant a chance to reconnect and they got a free dinner. Mr T's generosity didn't end there. For as long as we were in Pai, we could return at dinner time and practise cooking. After dinner we went with him to a local tattoo shop. He was getting some of his massive back tattoo filled in. I hate needles so we had to make our excuses and leave relatively soon….shudder!
We went on a trek but I think I will write about that in a separate post.
Returning exhausted from the trek, we made once again for Twin Hut. It was with surprise and great joy that we crossed the bridge. They had refurbished it in our absence so we strolled confidently across. Simon and Cait messaged us to say that they had taken part in Mr T's cooking lesson that day and so we joined them to cook more awesome dishes and try theirs. It was a free dinner for us when we really needed to eat lots! What goes around comes around.
Pai was a strange place. We spoke at length to a girl who had arrived as a backpacker and now ran promotions for a local bar. It seemed to have a strange pull over people with it's laid back vibe and out-of-the-way location. It isn't on the way to anywhere and it is very simple living. I can see how it's easy to get sucked into backpacker life in Pai but I am glad that we moved on when we did.
You had a great time.Pie is the most romantic hotspots for couples. You are so lucky.


If you've read my blog for any period of time, you know that it's almost a journal of my journey with God. I document, process, and proliferate what the Holy Spirit is teaching me. Today is no different, and I would like to submit a thought to you that I am still processing through and applying to my doctrine, but that is taking me deeper in my relationship with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Often the Holy Spirit will drop a thought in my spirit that shakes up how I previously viewed some aspect of my relationship with Him. And in step with Proverbs 25:2—which says, "It's the glory of God to conceal a matter; and the glory of kings to search it out"—instead of giving me the full understanding of how what He has just told me actually works, He just leaves it there to draw me into the pursuit of revelation. Before I present the thought I'll say this: if you have questions or don't understand something, don't get discouraged… get excited! Questions are the gateway to revelation. If you don't have questions, how can you expect to uncover revelation?
So, in light of that, here is the thought (and feel free to add your own thoughts in the comments): We are called into absolute, surrendered obedience to Jesus as our Lord and King. His commands are not suggestions, they are mandates. But in the midst of our total laid down submission, He allows us to walk in partnership with Him. He allows us to have a voice and a say in what happens in the earth and in what He does.
To expound on this thought let me give some Scriptural context. I don't think any of us disagree with the part about obedience and surrender. John chapters 14 and 15 couldn't be any clearer that those who are truly lovers of God are the ones who obey His commands (see my blog post on Obedience). Joshua 1:8 says, "Let not this book of the law depart from your mouth, but meditate in it day and night that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it." I could go on and on with verses about obedience. The entire book of James could be a reference for this.
We are additionally called to walk according the leading of the Holy Spirit moment-by-moment (Romans 8:14; Galatians 5:16). One of my mentors said something so good recently regarding the word Paraclete, which is used to describe the Holy Spirit in the New Testament. He said, "A Paraclete is not someone that is there to assist you in whatever it is that you decide you want to do. A Paraclete is someone whom—without them—it would be impossible to do what you have to do. It's like you're stranded in the wilderness and your friend is going into cardiac arrest so you call 911 and get on the phone with a heart surgeon. That heart surgeon is a Paraclete—he's not there to give you some advice here and there, you are there to do exactly what he says so that your friend stays alive." We are to be led by the Holy Spirit… the Bible says that being led by the Holy Spirit is the very key sonship (Romans 8:14).
But here is the paradox… God also gives us the mind-blowing privilege of having a say in how He does things. I don't fully understand it, I just know that the Word tells us it's true. Let me give some examples.
I first began to notice this at the very beginning of the biblical narrative in Genesis. Genesis 2:4-6says, "This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground." The Bible says that plants had not grown on the earth because there "was no man to till the ground." This begs the question: was God unable to till the ground Himself? We know that's not the answer, God can do whatever He wants whenever He wants however He wants. So what's the answer? God longs for partnership.
The second place I noticed this same thing was just a few verses later in Genesis 2. Verse 19 says, "Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name." What caught my attention was that God didn't bring the animals to Adam, tell Adam what to name them, and then simply give Adam the task of applying the name to each animal. God actually let Adam do something that only God had previously had the ability to do—create. God brought them to Adam to "see what he would call them." Are you tracking with me?
If we are reading this section of Scripture through the filter of the revelation that God's very nature is that of a Father, this makes perfect sense. I almost get a picture of God being almost giddy with excitement as He brings the animals to Adam "to see what He would name them." It's like God was almost full of curiosity to see what Adam would come up with. How can a God who knows everything be curious? I don't know. It's like asking how can a God who knows everything forget our sins? I don't know. The Bible just tells that He can choose to forget. I just laughingly and joyfully say "Yes and amen." So I suppose He can also choose to be curious.
It's like a Father who can't wait to give His child a gift to see what they will do with it or how much they will enjoy it. 1 Timothy 6:17 says that "God gives us all things liberally to enjoy." I believe some of The Father's greatest joy comes from seeing the joy we get from the perfect gifts that He gives (I could write an entirely other blog post on this… maybe next week).
The last place I want to mention—although there are other places in Scripture where we see this—is Acts 15. In Acts 15, they call together a council of the Apostles to talk about doctrine concerning the Gentiles. These are massive doctrinal decision they are making. And in Acts 15 the Apostles write a letter in which they make an interesting statement. They say, "For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well" (verse 15). It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us… This is a really interesting statement.
In conclusion, what we see from all of this is the truth that God never wanted (or will ever want) us to be robots. Am I a full believer in absolute obedience and surrender? More than you know. And I will continue to be. But God longs for partners—He longs for sons. He wants to give us the freedom to create and to be imaginative like He is. I love the way David Yonggi Cho described the Holy Spirit. He called Him his, "Senior Partner." This is such great way to view Him. We have the privilege of collaborating with the God of the universe, yet His Word still holds the final say. What a God we serve!
I hope this post helped you see the Lord in a new way. Let me know what your thoughts are in the comments!


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Sawbridgeworth and Bishop's Stortford Homebuyers & Landlords Set to Save £3,211,030 in Stamp Duty Over Next Nine Months
The British are infatuated with owning their own property and politicians know that. Margaret Thatcher used it as a vote winner in 1979 when she allowed council house tenants to buy their own home. Coming to the present day, Boris Johnson's Conservative government have anxieties that the Brits have not been buying nearly enough homes lately and, as with all countries in the world, the British property market was put 'on ice' for several months to help contain the Coronavirus, exacerbating the problem.
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced on Wednesday plans to boost the property market by momentarily scrapping Stamp Duty Tax (a tax paid by homebuyers) when they buy a property that costs less than £500,000.
Interestingly, Stamp Duty was originally introduced in 1694 as a way to raise funds for The Nine Years' War (1688–1697) against Louis XIV of France and applied to property and some legal documents.
Why is this important? Well the Government recognise that when the property market is working well, the economy also tends to work well, yet one of the barriers to people moving home is Stamp Duty. Even before Coronavirus, Brits were moving 40.21% less than they were at the start of the millennium, and now with this dreadful situation, the natural reaction is for people to stay put in their own homes, meaning another potential nail in the coffin for the economy.
Stamp Duty has raised not an insignificant £166.53bn since 1998, impressive when you consider the NHS costs £129bn per annum. Looking at more recent figures, the Government currently raise £1.045bn per month from Stamp Duty Tax and this statement will remove a good chunk of that from the Chancellors coffers each month, yet the Government knows a healthy property market will help the wider economy.
As Stamp Duty is a transaction tax, it restricts labour market mobility, making people who are thinking of switching jobs think twice before moving. Stamp Duty also holds back elderly homeowners from downsizing to smaller homes, which is an issue for the UK, as we don't have enough homes to meet supply and also curtails first time buyers as it forces them to use some of the savings on the tax, as opposed to using for a deposit.
Before the changes, the Stamp Duty thresholds were as follows:
- Zero percent up to £125,000
- Two percent of the next £125,000 (the portion from £125,001 to £250,000)
- Five percent of the next £675,000 (the portion from £250,001 to £925,000)
- Ten percent of the next £575,000 (the portion from £925,001 to £1.5 million)
- 12% of the remaining amount (the portion above £1.5 million)
and between the 8th July 2020 and 31st March 2021
Landlords and Buy to Let Landlords will also benefit from these reduced rates, yet will still have to pay their additional premium for second homes (as they have since April 2016).
To give you an idea how significant this is, if these rules had been in place exactly a year ago for Sawbridgeworth and Bishop's Stortford properties purchased under £500,000 (i.e. between 8th July 2019 and 31st March 2020).
Stamp Duty would not have been paid on 487
Sawbridgeworth and Bishop's Stortford properties, worth in total £166,838,300
Anyone buying any home in Sawbridgeworth and Bishop's Stortford over £500,000 are also winners in this, as they will save having to pay the first £15,000 in stamp duty (under the old scheme). This is because during these 9 months, stamp duty is only paid on the difference over £500,000 (so if you buy a property for say £620,000 – one only pays the stamp duty on the difference between £620,000 and £500,000 i.e. £120,000).
I'm all for reducing Stamp Duty, which is imposed progressively at higher rates the higher a property costs (as you can see from the tables above). Yet, short-lived changes to property taxation risk warping the property market and generating a 'property market hangover' in Spring 2021. I am part of a group of 2,500 estate and letting agents from the UK, and most of us were running at 150% speed before this announcement, coping with the post Coronavirus explosion in demand.
Now it seems that the 'feast' will continue until the end of March 2021 as many more people will move to take advantage of the cut in tax. However, some are suggesting this could lead to 'famine' down the line as it will stop people moving into the late spring and summer of 2021.
History tells us different stories on the influence on transaction volumes from changing Stamp Duty rates. In 1991 the Tory's raised the Stamp Duty threshold at which house buyers started paying and Gordon Brown did so in 2008 when we went into the Credit Crunch. More recently, both George Osborne and Philip Hammond fine-tuned Stamp Duty so that landlords had to pay an additional Stamp Duty Premium after March 2016 whilst first-time buyers pay less Stamp Duty and the purchasers of more expensive homes (over £1.5m) pay more.
The Stamp Duty changes for landlords in 2016 affected the property market only for a short while and by the autumn, transactions levels had returned to normal. However, in 1991, John Major's Stamp Duty change encouraged home buyers to bring forward home purchases but nevertheless the property market ground to a standstill again once the benefit ended (although the steps up the 1990's Stamp Duty levels were much harsher as the tax applied to the whole purchase price, not the margin steps as it had in the 1990's).
So how much money will Sawbridgeworth and Bishop's Stortford people save when buying a home under £500k?
The average Stamp Duty paid by those Sawbridgeworth and Bishop's Stortford homebuyers in the 9 months between 8th July 2019 and
31st March 2020 was £6,594
Being objective, I can see why the Chancellor could see this as a suitable way to motivate spending because when people move home, they are more inclined to spend comprehensively on property renovations and the services of solicitors, home removal people, tradesmen and estate agents. So, drastically reducing Stamp Duty will undoubtedly help the UK economy, or at least contain some of the damage from the Coronavirus.
Also, the experience of being in lockdown will have confirmed to many Sawbridgeworth and Bishop's Stortford people that they need a bigger home or one with a bigger garden. I also suspect other people may be able to work from home on a more long-lasting basis, meaning there could be a shift from the larger cities to outlying towns and even a move to the countryside.
So, these are my thoughts, what are yours?
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It's almost here. It's the time of year kids look forward to all year long…summer. Its three months of fun without going to school and without having to set an alarm. But, just because kids are turning off their alarm clocks, doesn't mean they should be turning off their brains too. Three months is a long time to go without learning something, don't you think?
As parents, we continuously hear about how we should always read to our kids. But, what about helping them keep up in math too? It's just as important. During the summer, there is plenty of time to slip in some math lessons to keep their brains fresh and help them get ahead for the fall. Leap Ahead is a great online program that offers just that, without breaking the bank. Problem solving, algebra, and geometry are just a few of the topics covered.
If your child is entering grades three through nine, this is a great opportunity. LeapAhead! Online Summer Math Program even offers a gifted program for parents and children who want a greater challenge. Whichever program you choose, there are plenty of exercisesto keep your child's mind active.
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It's no secret that my three and a-half year old loves to talk. I wonder where she gets that from?Anyway, she just doesn't tell you what she's doing or what project she might have made at school. She loves to tell my business. That's why I now call her The Town Crier.
Most times, I don't mind. But there are times when I don't want people to know that I went to Target for the third time in a week or that we had to rush to Sam's Club because I had no more diapers in the house although I could have sworn I bought another pack. There's also the times when she lets people know I took her to McDonald's for lunch and let her have a soda. I love the looks I get for that one.
From what I made or may not have made her for dinner to what we did all day, she makes sure everyone knows what we're up to. She's also makes sure everyone knows what I'm talking about on the phone. I resorted to talking in code or spelling things, but now she's on to me. Those little ears know too much sometimes.
If you want someone to know something, just tell her. Right before Mother's Day, my husband took her and her sister shopping. He made the mistake of letting her see where he hid my present. When I came home, she pointed to a high cabinet in the kitchen and said (in the cutest voice), "Mommy,there's a present in there for you." I started laughing. My husband just stared at her and reminded her she wasn't supposed to tell.
She even tells on her sister. I don't have to worry if the little one is doing something wrong, because she'll let me know. I think this is going to get her in trouble one of these days. But for now, she's my little town crier.
Sometimes Mother's Day is kinda like Christmas. There's so much hype about it, and at times the reality doesn't live up to all the expectations. Sometimes Santa doesn't fill your wish list, whether it's December or May.
So, what are the big Mother's Day gifts? Flowers, candy, jewelry…they're alright, but do I really want them for Mother's Day? Honestly, no…especially not the candy. Swimsuit season is practically here and a pound of truffles is not going to help the cause. Flowers…well, I guess they aren't bad, but they're going to die in a week anyway. Jewelry…it's pretty, don't get me wrong, but I'm not diggin it this year. So, what's left?
There are loads of other "Mom" gifts that all the stores are trying to pawn off on all the men looking for that "perfect" gift. But, I don't see any of those stores wrapping a big bow around a box of "peace and quiet", "I'm not doing s***t today", and "Can everyone just STFU today", do you? They also seem to be forgetting "nap in a box". Those, my friends, would be great! But no, instead, we are brainwashed to believe that a bracelet and a dozen of roses would be oh so much better.
I know a lot of you out there would love some flowers, candy, or jewelry, and that's just fine with me. But, you can't honestly say you wouldn't enjoy a day where the kids didn't scream, a day when you didn't accidentally stick your finger in poop because your daughter moved faster than you could move the diaper, or even a day when you didn't have to ask your significant other to unload the dishwasher (the dishes don't magically walk themselves back into the cabinet, contrary to popular belief).
I think when it comes to Mother's Day, actions speak louder than gifts. Showing a momma she's appreciated, or God forbid, actually speaking the words, can actually get you a lot further. Women dig that stuff, trust me.
Okay, so what's on your Mother's Day wish list? What's on mine? Honestly, I just want to have a nice drama free day with the people I love, and I'm not just saying that. If some gifts come my way, so be it. If not, I'm good. I'll just be steering clear of the poop and the dishwasher.


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John Cassara began his 26 year U.S. government career as an intelligence officer during the Cold War. He later served as a Treasury Special Agent in both the U.S. Secret Service and US Customs Service, where he investigated money laundering, trade fraud and international smuggling.
He was an undercover arms dealer for two years. Assigned overseas, he developed expertise in Middle East money laundering, value transfer and underground financial systems. Concerned about trade-based money laundering, he invented the concept of Trade Transparency Units (TTUs). He also worked six years for Treasury's FinCEN and was detailed to the Department of State. Mr. Cassara's final assignment was with Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI). Since his retirement, he has lectured in the United States and around the world on a variety of transnational crime issues.
He has been a consultant for government and industry. He is on the Board of Directors of Global Financial Integrity. He has testified numerous times as an expert witness before Congressional committees. Mr. Cassara has authored numerous articles and five books, including Trade-Based Money Laundering: The Next Frontier in International Money Laundering Enforcement and the 2020 release of Money Laundering and Illicit Financial Flows: Following the Money and Value Trails.
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Q: how can I read and add objects from a file by skipping the first 3 lines? I am basically working on a small piece of code that is apart of a bigger project. I am dealing with reading objects from a file and storing it in an ArrayList. I am getting a java.util.InputMismatchException even though I am 99.9% sure that my variables are accordingly. Meaning that I am not calling read.next() for an integer.
However, I think that even though the variables are correct, I am still getting the InputMismatchException error.
I spaced the data for each object in the file using String formatting, does that interfere with the reading of the file? Would that cause a InputMismatchException?
File I am reading and storing from:
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Firstname      Lastname       Goals               Caps                Assists
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Jack           John           6                   23                  12
Donald         Evans          2                   3                   2
Momcilo        Stevens        12                  34                  1
Aleksandra     Freece         0                   3                   1
Mark           Hemming        0                   0                   0

Code that is supposed to skip the first 3 lines and store the objects:
        ArrayList<Player> x = new ArrayList<Player>();
        System.out.println("Enter the name of the file that you wish to delete information from: ");
        String name = scan.next();
        try{
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(name));
            Scanner scan = new Scanner(br);
            br.readLine();
            br.readLine();
            br.readLine();
            while (scan.hasNext()) {
                x.add(new Player(scan.next(),scan.next(),scan.nextInt(),scan.nextInt(),scan.nextInt()));
            }
        }
        catch (IOException ex) {
               System.out.println("Unable to open file." + ex.toString());
            }

Error that I am getting:
Exception in thread "main" java.util.InputMismatchException
    at java.util.Scanner.throwFor(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.Scanner.next(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.Scanner.nextInt(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.Scanner.nextInt(Unknown Source)
    at roster.Team.delete(Team.java:93)
    at roster.Driver.main(Driver.java:34)

A: The code worked perfectly fine for me. Also, make sure to wrap your Closeable resources in a try-with-resources or at least close them. I'm referring to BufferedReader and Scanner. They both implement Closeable and need to be closed to release the resources they lock.
Code:
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public class ReadBySkip {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try (Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in)) {
            ArrayList<Player> x = new ArrayList<>();

            System.out.println("Enter the name of the file that you wish to delete information from: ");

            String name = scanner.next();

            try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(name));
                 Scanner scan = new Scanner(br)) {
                br.readLine();
                br.readLine();
                br.readLine();
                while (scan.hasNext()) {
                    x.add(new Player(scan.next(), scan.next(), scan.nextInt(), scan.nextInt(), scan.nextInt()));
                }
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                System.out.println("Unable to open file." + ex.toString());
            }
            System.out.println("x: " + x);
        }
    }

    private static class Player {

        private final String firstName;

        private final String lastName;

        private final int goals;

        private final int caps;

        private final int assists;

        private Player(String firstName, String lastName, int goals, int caps, int assists) {
            this.firstName = firstName;
            this.lastName = lastName;
            this.goals = goals;
            this.caps = caps;
            this.assists = assists;
        }

        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return "Player{" +
                    "firstName='" + firstName + '\'' +
                    ", lastName='" + lastName + '\'' +
                    ", goals=" + goals +
                    ", caps=" + caps +
                    ", assists=" + assists +
                    '}' + "\n";
        }
    }
}

Output:
Enter the name of the file that you wish to delete information from:
readbyskip.txt
x: [Player{firstName='Jack', lastName='John', goals=6, caps=23, assists=12}
, Player{firstName='Donald', lastName='Evans', goals=2, caps=3, assists=2}
, Player{firstName='Momcilo', lastName='Stevens', goals=12, caps=34, assists=1}
, Player{firstName='Aleksandra', lastName='Freece', goals=0, caps=3, assists=1}
, Player{firstName='Mark', lastName='Hemming', goals=0, caps=0, assists=0}
]

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Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI), which represents Ireland's 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs), has welcomed the publication of the latest OECD Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) results which indicate further improvements since 2009 in the performance levels of Ireland's 15-year-olds, most notably in science, where it now ranks 9th out of 34 OECD countries, but also in reading where it ranks 4th, and in mathematics where it ranks 13th.
ETBI welcomes the Minister for Education and Skills Ruairí Quinn T.D. moves to tackle the cost of school uniforms.
Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI), the representative body for Ireland's Education and Training Boards (ETBs) today welcomed the statutory establishment of SOLAS, the national training authority which replaces FÁS and which is now tasked with overseeing the establishment of a world-class Further Education and Training (FET) sector as envisaged by Minister Quinn when first announced in July 2011.
The 'new Anti-Bullying Procedures launched my Minister Quinn today involve a significant updating of the 1993 guidelines and they provide much-needed clarity to schools and parents about the nature of bullying and how schools and parents can collaboratively address a problem that has reached epidemic proportions in the Internet age' says Michael Moriarty, General Secretary of Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI).
'Minister Quinn's proposals for reforming school admissions are a reasonable and proportionate response to addressing a problem that many parents face each year in obtaining a school place for their sons or daughters' says Michael Moriarty, General Secretary of Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI).
While today is a significant day in the lives of the Leaving Certificate class of 2013, it is important to keep this 'milestone' in perspective, says Michael Moriarty, General Secretary of Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI).
The establishment of sixteen Education and Training Boards (see below) on Monday July 1st 2013 marks an historic event in Irish education. These new statutory education authorities, formed from the aggregation of Ireland's 33 VECs (abolished on July 1st) and the integration of the 16 FÁS Training Centres (on-going to June 2014), will be the vehicles for the delivery of coordinated education and training programmes across Ireland for decades to come.
On behalf of the Irish Vocational Education Association (soon to be Education and Training Boards Ireland), I welcome Minister Quinn's decision today to allocate a further 500 posts for Special Needs in first and second level schools.
The most vulnerable in our schools are those who need the most help and assistance to realise their full potential, and this cohort of students should never have their life chances diminished.
I wholeheartedly welcome also that Minister Quinn has fast-tracked the recommendation of the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) to review the present allocation model governing Special Needs resources. On the basis of some evidence from schools, there is a need to adopt a more transparent model which is seen to provide a more equitable distribution of Special Needs resources. We need a system which is more obviously underpinned by the principles of equity and fairness, and the current allocation model does not inspire full confidence in this regard.
The Education and Training Boards Act has been signed by the President and awaits commencement. The Act provides for the establishment of 16 new education and training boards to replace the soon to be dissolved VECs. The ETBs will have significantly greater functions than VECs and will also take on the current training functions of FAS when the 16 FAS training centres are transferred to the ETBs.


At Travel GAAPS we are always in search of actuaries in extreme locations. I spent the bank holiday weekend hiking in the Peak District.
Somewhat surprisingly, I did not come across the head offices of any major insurance companies whilst trekking along the Pennine Way.
It seems that actuarial vacancies are concentrated in financial centres such as London, Paris and New York, rather than on mountain-tops populated primarily by sheep.


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Federer, Murray, Nadal in same Wimbledon half
LONDON - Former champions Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal were all placed in the same section of the Wimbledon draw on Friday.
Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic was kept apart from the other members of the 'Big Four'. However, the Serb may have to beat third-seeded Stan Wawrinka, the man who defeated him in the French Open final earlier this month, in the semi-finals. Djokovic begins his title defence against experienced German Philipp Kohlschreiber before a possible second-round clash with 2002 champion Lleyton Hewitt, who is playing in his last Wimbledon.
If the seedings work out, the last 16 would see Djokovic face Kevin Anderson of South Africa, US Open champion Marin Cilic against Kei Nishikori, Wawrinka facing David Goffin and Grigor Dimitrov taking on Milos Raonic. In the bottom half, seven-time champion and second seed Federer could face Feliciano Lopez, Tomas Berdych would meet Gilles Simon, 2013 winner Murray could play Jo-Wilfried Tsonga with two-time champion Nadal, seeded 10 this year, up against compatriot David Ferrer.
Federer, the holder of 17 Grand Slam titles and the runner-up to Djokovic last year, starts his campaign against Bosnia's Damir Dzumhur, who he beat in the French Open third round. Murray, seeded three and the 2013 champion, begins against Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan. That's a clash which will invite more questions over women coaching men.
Murray has Amelie Mauresmo in his corner while Kukushkin is coached by his wife Anastasia. French Open champion Wawrinka, who has never got beyond the quarter-finals at the All England Club, starts against Portugal's Joao Sousa. Nadal, the 2008 and 2010 champion who is down at his lowest ranking for a decade, begins with a clash against Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci.
In the women's draw, five-time champion Serena Williams and 2004 winner Maria Sharapova were drawn to meet in the semi-finals. Top seed and world number one Williams, who is bidding to hold all four majors at the same time for the second time in her career — 'the Serena Slam' — has a 17-2 record over Sharapova. The Russian's last win over the American was in the 2004 Wimbledon final.
Serena could meet sister Venus, a fellow five-time champion and playing in her 18th Wimbledon, in the fourth round. Serena starts against Russian world number 113, Margarita Gasparyan. First up, Sharapova will take on British wild card Johanna Konta, who made the quarter-finals on grass in Eastbourne this week. Second seed and defending champion Petra Kvitova would potentially meet Simona Halep in the semi-finals. Kvitova, also champion in 2011, starts against Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands.
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From: Mark Graybill <saundby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:26:10 -0700
I'm afraid I'm not presently working actively on much that is Stella-related, though occasionally I spend a little time thinking about "Texas Table Tennis", a game I started working on some time ago. It's Pong with paddles that do things like the paddles in the more advanced Breakout-style games, most noticeably shooting-- at the ball, at objects onscreen, and shooting holes in your opponent's paddle.
I've also got ideas about "bar fight" sequences with objects flying back and forth across the playfield, interacting with the ball and shots from the paddles.
-Mark G.
On Jul 7, 2004, at 1:57 PM, Manuel Rotschkar wrote:
Ha! What could be better than this classic to celebrate the return of [Stella]! ;-)
Well, I myself am a bit lazy these days, taking a break after finishing Seawolf.
I started talking to Jeff McCord about a 2600 port of "Sword of Fargoal", but basically that's it.
Well, he didn't reject it straight away, but he also didn't say yes. In his own words "A very strong 'probably'" :lol:
- keep your fingers crossed.
I was toying with a few other things, but nothing serious. Considering a port of the 8-Bit game "Silicon Warrior" for example, but no matter how you look at it, the game just plain sucks... ;)
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Cal. Litig. 2020, Volume 33, Number 1
Artificial Intelligence Will Transform the Practice of Law
Can Ai Sue in Federal Court?
Capture the Flag: Winning With Forum Selection Clauses
Current Legal Issues in Video Games and Esports
Editor's Foreword the Future Is Here
From the Section Chair What We've Done and What's to Come
MCLE Article A Trial Lawyer's Guide to Rule 3.3
Reflections on Becoming an Appellate Lawyer Hall of Famer
Report on the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Federal Courts Symposium Featuring Judges of the Central District of California
Tech Tips: Making Use of Fastcase
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution By Eric Foner
What Is the Ccpa and Why Should Litigators Care?
Embracing Evolution in the Delivery of Legal Services
By David Majchrzak
David Majchrzak is a seasoned ethicist, a certified specialist by the State Bar of California in legal malpractice law, and a shareholder with Klinedinst PC. David is rated AV® –Preeminentâ"¢ by Martindale-Hubbell and, among many other bar-related activities, serves as co-chair of California Lawyers Association's first Ethics Committee.
Several jurisdictions and law-related organizations, including California, Arizona, Utah, the American Bar Association, and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, are considering making fundamental changes in the legal industry. This includes opening up the practice of law to a broader group of professionals, permitting non-lawyers to have ownership interests in law firms, and further revising advertising rules. Although these concepts are not new, they usually have been dismissed fairly quickly in the name of public protection. But these ideas are gaining traction and it may not pose as much a threat to litigants (or litigators) as many may instinctively suspect.
Where We Are Justifies Some Changes Being Made


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Q: Why does my timeout is exceeded? I'm developing an API with Node.js and Express and i'm using Mocha and Supertest to write unit tests. I have a BIG file of tests which test every route with almost random parameters to see if my error handling works well.
Everything was great until, for no reason, my requests are starting to timeout.
This is more or less my code :
var supertest = require("supertest");
var should = require("should");

var server = supertest.agent("http://localhost:3000");

function requestAuth(url, type, auth, params, callback) {
  if (params == null) {
    server[type](url)
    .type('form')
    .auth(auth.email, auth.password)
    .expect("Content-type",/json/)
    .expect(200)
    .end(callback);
  }
  else {
    server[type](url)
    .send(params)
    .auth(auth.email, auth.password)
    .type('form')
    .expect("Content-type",/json/)
    .expect(200)
    .end(callback);
  }
}

describe('Testing route 1', function() {
  describe('Testing param 1 error handling', function() {
    it('should return error 1', function(done) {
      requestAuth(route1, "post", {email: email, password: password}, {param1: "blahblahblah"},
      function(err, res) {
        res.body.should.have.property('error');
        done();
      });
    });
    it('should return error 2', function(done) {
      requestAuth(route1, "post", {email: email, password: password}, {param1: "blahblahblah"},
      function(err, res) {
        res.body.should.have.property('error');
        done();
      });
    });
    // etc
  });
  describe('Testing param 2 error handling', function() {
    it('should return error 3', function(done) {
      requestAuth(route1, "post", {email: email, password: password}, {param1: "blahblahblah"},
      function(err, res) {
        res.body.should.have.property('error');
        done();
      });
    });
    it('should return error 4', function(done) {
      requestAuth(route1, "post", {email: email, password: password}, {param1: "blahblahblah"},
      function(err, res) {
        res.body.should.have.property('error');
        done();
      });
    });
    // etc
  });
  //etc
});

describe('Testing route 2', function() {
  //etc
});

Except that i have of LOT of tests.
At some point, let say that when i'm testing route 8, every tests starts to fail with the following message :
  12) Route 8 Testing Param 1 error handling should return error 1:
     Error: timeout of 2000ms exceeded
      at null.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/nodejs/mocha/lib/runnable.js:139:19)
      at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:92:15)

I really don't get it. Everything worked well since then, done is called at the end of every request, should be good. Nothing happens on the server side even though routes are ok. This is really weird...
Also, if the route 8 tests are getting weird, and that i comment route 7 tests for example, than route 9 tests will starts to act wrong.
I think this is coming from supertest. Is it possible that it is overloaded ? How could i fix that ?
Thanks in advance for your responses.

A: Your tests themselves have a time limit to complete your actions. This means that if the resource isn't set up and available in those two seconds, or if the test completes after two seconds it will fail. Use this.timeout = [milliseconds] as the first line of the failing test to extend the timeout.
MochaJS Test Level Timeouts


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Gamera – Super Monster (1980)
aka Uchu kaiju Gamera
Date: 7-8-2017
Directed by Noriaki Yuasa
Featuring Mach Fumiake, Yaeko Kojima, Yoko Komatsu
What it is: Kaiju on a budget
Space invaders arrive to conquer Earth armed with a heady supply of monster stock footage. Fortunately, space women and a little boy team up to defeat them… and they have their own supply of Gamera stock footage.
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The release of the final release for GDP and the international investment position provide an opportunity to assess progress on the trade war.
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The release of the final release for GDP and the international investment position provides an opportunity to assess progress on the trade war. I for one have gotten tired of "winning."
Figure 1: Current account (NIPA definition) (blue), and Net International Investment Position (green), both as a share of GDP. Orange shading denotes Trump administration. Source: BEA, 2018Q4 final release, 2018Q4 international investment release, author's calculations.
There's been some volatility in trade flows in recent quarters; it's likely that that is partly due to the timing shifts aimed at avoiding Chinese tariffs. Note the spike in net exports in 2018Q2.
Figure 2: Change in current account (NIPA definition) (blue), net exports (red), and net exports excluding petroleum (green), as a share of GDP, since 2017Q1. Orange shading denotes Trump administration. Source: BEA, 2018Q4 final release, and author's calculations.
Figure 3: US exports of goods to China (blue) and seasonally adjusted (red), in billions of US dollars, annual rates, on log scale. NBER defined recession dates shaded gray. Orange shading denotes Trump administration. Seasonal adjustment implemented using X-13, ARIMA X-11. Source: BEA/Census January international trade release, NBER, and author's calculations.
The plummet in exports is glaring. The export series shows little evidence of recovery (although the seasonally adjusted series has stabilized at roughly 40% lower than peak levels).


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Press Release -- May 11th, 2011
Source: Juniper Networks
Tags: Ethernet, IPv6, MPLS, Router, Video, VoIP
U.S. Defense Department Certifies 15 Juniper Networks Routers for Deployment in Department of Defense Networks
Solutions to be deployed for mission critical, real-time services, including voice, video and data communications
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 11, 2011 — Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR, news, filings) today announced that 15 of its custom edge router solutions have been tested and certified by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) for interoperability with Defense Department networks and have been added to the Unified Capabilities Approved Product List (UC APL).
This most recent certification from the JITC includes Juniper Networks® J Series Services Routers, SRX Series Services Gateways, M Series Routers and MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers. This certification allows Juniper Networks routers to be deployed by the various military services to carry converged mission critical, real-time services such as voice, video and data communications. The breadth of the Juniper Networks router portfolio will allow the DoD to address network needs with improved efficiency and flexibility.
JITC interoperability testing and certification are required by the U.S. Department of Defense for all networking devices supporting real-time services. The Unified Capabilities Approved Product List certification process ensures products are capable of meeting the demanding security requirements to connect to the Defense Information Systems Network and open standards-based interoperability with Defense Department Networks.
"This round of JITC certifications demonstrates our commitment to providing a robust portfolio of network solutions that meet the highest level of connectivity standards," said Brian Roach, vice president, Federal, Juniper Networks. "Juniper Networks has a proven ability to ensure that critical government communications are delivered with high QoS, even in the face of network congestion."
These router certifications follow other recently announced JITC certifications of Juniper Networks solutions. The Juniper Networks EX3200 and EX4200 Ethernet Switches; MX240, MX480 and MX960 Universal Edge Routers; and the CTP 1000 and 2000 Series circuit-to-packet solutions received certification in August 2010. Additionally, Juniper Networks SA Series SSL VPN solutions were previously certified for interoperability with Defense Department Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) requirements.
The J Series routers provide up to a Gigabit Ethernet performance for enterprise remote, branch and regional offices. They run the modular Junos® operating system which offers many advanced services (MPLS, IPv6, QoS, multicast) and security (stateful firewall and IPsec VPN). The J Series routers ease deployment and reduce operational costs by integrating key branch location services such as routing, security, and IP telephony into one easy-to-operate platform.
The SRX Series Services Gateways are high-performance security, routing and network solutions for enterprise and service providers. SRX gateways pack high port-density, advanced security, and flexible connectivity, into a single, easily managed platform that supports fast, secure, and highly-available, data center and branch operations. SRX Series Service Gateways are based on Junos, Juniper Networks' proven operating system which delivers security and advanced protection services, the foundation of the world's largest networks. The Junos operating system also supports rich routing capabilities, and the Junos operating system's unique architecture provides reliable service operations and manageability, even under the highest loads.
The M Series is a family of high-performance, multiservice edge routers, with advanced routing features that delivers exceptional flexibility and reliability over a wide range of connectivity options without compromise. This allows the rapid deployment of new services while minimizing the total cost of ownership. Designed for high-performance service providers and enterprises, the M7i, M10i, M120, and M320 can be deployed in the small and medium core, multiservice edge, collapsed POP routing, peering, route reflector, campus or WAN gateway applications. Speeds range from DS0 up to OC192/STM-64 and 10 GbE.
The MX Series routers are a family of high-performance Ethernet Services routers with powerful switching and security features that meet network requirements for advanced IP voice and video services, including VoIP, interactive video conferencing, IPTV and multicast services. The MX Series features advanced routing features such as MPLS network virtualization, low latency multicast, advanced QoS, IPv6 and security capabilities (IPsec/Stateful Firewall, NAT and DAA) to accelerate and secure the delivery of time-sensitive traffic.
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net).
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