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The Defense Production Act Won't Bring Us Supply-Chain Security
By William F. Shughart II
Also published in The Hill Thu. March 24, 2022 « Show Fewer
Emphasizing the importance of rare earth metals and minerals to America's national security and economic well-being, two prominent members of Congress—Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), head of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the committee's ranking Republican—have urged President Biden to ramp up domestic mining operations immediately by invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA).
Title III of that 1950 law was dusted off by President Trump to jumpstart the production of ventilators for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. President Biden issued executive orders in February 2021 authorizing the act's taxpayer-financed incentives—loans, loan guarantees, direct purchases and purchase commitments—to ensure that the U.S. economy has sufficient capacity to produce "critical items" like vaccines and personal protective equipment.
More than two years into the federal government's demonstrably ineffective and costly response to the now-endemic SARS-CoV-2 virus, Washington seems to have awoken at long last to another policy-manufactured "crisis" that has been in the making for two decades: overreliance on imports from China and other hostile trading partners for supplies of essential inputs such as nickel, lithium, and manganese.
A year ago Murkowski called U.S. dependence on mineral imports our Achilles' heel. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing chaos in global commodity markets seem to make it even more urgent to address the problem head-on.
It is true that U.S. manufacturers rely fully on mining operations located overseas for supplies of 17 essential minerals, including most of the metals required for electric-vehicle batteries. China is home to about 16 percent of the world's capacity for mining and processing raw lithium. It also dominates global cobalt supplies from the mines it controls in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where much of that blue metal is found and is a major player in nickel. All told, China controls about 80 percent of the materials necessary for making batteries, and is the chief source of rare earth minerals, along with almost all manganese and graphite-refining capacity on the planet.
Russia and two former Soviet states, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, account for just under half of the fuel consumed by U.S. nuclear power plants, nuclear medicine facilities, and other industrial uses. As one response to the Ukraine invasion, the Senate is considering a ban on uranium imports from Russia, from which the United States obtains 16 percent of its total uranium supplies.
Depending on China and Russia for imports of critical materials would not be worrisome in a peaceful world of unfettered international commerce. But that is not the world now dancing to the tunes of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
The irony is that neither globalization nor supply-chain interruptions explain why the United States relies heavily on foreign suppliers of production-critical minerals. Such resources—worth an estimated $6.2 trillion—are available in the ground here. They remain unexploited, though, because of environmental and other regulations that hamstring domestic mining operations. A decade or more is required nowadays just to obtain the permits needed to open a new mine, assuming that the permits eventually are granted. Minerals production can be "re-shored" by lightening the regulatory burden on U.S. mining operations and speeding the permitting process.
Invoking the Korean War-era Defense Production Act is an ill-considered response to a supply-chain crisis for which Washington itself largely is responsible. It represents crony capitalism at its worst, empowering politicians and bureaucrats to shower financial incentives on some U.S. mining companies but not others.
President Biden is notorious for trying to shift blame to "Big Oil" and "Big Food" for inflation and other adverse consequences of his own policies. He has warned that the United States faces serious materials shortages that could derail efforts to deploy advanced clean-energy technologies and even to produce weapons essential for national defense.
While it may seem counterintuitive, the digital age and the brave new world of fossil-free energy will require more mining than ever. The demand for lithium, for example, is predicted to explode 42 times its current level by 2040. Getting Washington out of the way and allowing market price and profit signals to guide resources into the mining of "critical" minerals is a surer path to supply-chain security than channeling taxpayer-financed largesse to a few favored recipients.
Mobilizing one policy tool (the Defense Production Act) to offset the counterproductive effects of another (keeping minerals "in the ground") is a fool's errand, but it's business as usual in our nation's capital.
William F. Shughart II is the Research Director at the Independent Institute and the J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.
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Morris Fraser, Irish Child Psychiatrist – History of Child Sex Crimes Exposed
Child psychiatrist worked after abuse conviction
Psychiatrist Morris Fraser
A child psychiatrist, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a child while working for a Belfast hospital in 1972, was allowed to remain on the British medical register for 24 more years during which he was convicted on abuse charges on two further occasions.
Griffith College academic, Niall Meehan, who has published an account of Morris Fraser's crimes, has called for the case to be investigated by the Goddard Inquiry which is conducting Britain's most comprehensive-ever examination of child abuse.
Mr Meehan's study, published by Spinwatch, traces Frasers' meteoric rise from Senior Psychiatric Registrar for children at the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1971 to media guru on the Troubles' impact on children.
But in 1971 he sexually assaulted a member of his Belfast boy scout troop in London.
The police failed to inform the hospital about his London conviction which also went unreported in the media.
Fraser walked free from court, ordered not to reoffend for three years.
But a year later, media reports of his arrest in New York prompted the hospital to suspend him.
He was found guilty of attempted sodomy and deported to Britain where the General Medical Council was considering his fitness to practise in the light of his London conviction.
However, Mr Meehan says its minutes do not refer to his American guilty plea and that Fraser was soon announcing he had been allowed to continue practising without restrictions.
Seventeen years later, he was jailed for a year by a London Court for taking and distributing over 1,000 indecent images of children.
Three years after that, following media queries, he voluntarily deregistered.
Northern Ireland is not covered by the Goddard Inquiry but Mr Meehan said it cannot avoid investigating the entire Fraser saga because he abused the Belfast scout in London.
Morris Fraser
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OLD PEADO IN COURT,NEVER TOO LATE TO JAIL THE BASTARDS
Oban child abuse jury hears summing ups
By Neil Macphail
fiscal Eion McGinty
Oban Sheriff Court
A 78-year-old man has been described in court as a manipulative and dangerous child abuser.
Fiscal Eoin McGinty was summing up for a jury hearing the trial of Angus Grant of Ceol na Mara, 3 Vaul, isle of Tiree at Oban Sheriff Court.
The trial has heard evidence from four women who claim that Grant sexually abused them when they were children, one as young as three years old.
Grant pleaded not guilty to using indecent practices towards the girls at various locations over a period stretching from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, and a verdict is expected on Friday after the sheriff addresses the jury.
The alleged victims ranged in age at the time from three to 11.
Mr McGinty said: "Those who abuse children are manipulative and dangerous, and that is what I say Angus Grant is, manipulating situations when he is alone with children. Whether it is on walks, in a greenhouse, or simply taking advantage of a situation offered to him on a plate when a trusting child climbs into bed for a cuddle."
He added: "It can be sanitised and dressed up in terms of inappropriate behaviour, inappropriate touching. But it is child abuse. It is sexual activity with children."
Referring to Grant's evidence he added: "You are to believe that four independent women have come up with a plan, concocted to bring about, for an unknown reason, the disgrace and downfall of Angus Grant. An immaculately executed plan which has culminated in a trial before a jury at Oban Sheriff Court.
"You saw them give evidence. You saw how raw these events remain in their memories many years later. You might agree that if these women are lying then there should be a shipment of Oscars winging its way to Oban as we speak."
Defence advocate Sarah Livingstone said: "This man is presumed to be innocent, not guilty. How would you defend yourself if, after 30-odd years, somebody pointed the finger at you?
"But it is not his job to prove his innocence, it is the fiscal's job to prove his guilt.
"You have to be satisfied these women are all credible and reliable. It is not a simplistic approach, but if you believe them that's the end of it."
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B y now, it should come as no surprise that Girls Grammar Girls are clever, confident and connected. In last term's Arts Report, we celebrated their creativity, showcasing the amazing work they have produced across Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Art. With Term 2 being one of the busiest on the Arts Department's calendar, it seems timely that we celebrate the courage of our talented students. Artist Henri Matisse's iconic words really do ring true: "Creativity takes courage". The courage required to innovate, to perform, and to share a little piece of the self with an audience cannot be understated. Luckily for us, our girls have courage in spades.
Term 2 has seen Girls Grammar students achieve fantastic successes in a range of artistic pursuits, and the work of our young artists has enjoyed great visibility in our local community and beyond. Events including Gaia Festival and Beef Week, alongside competitions such as the Rockhampton Eisteddfod and Dance Star Competition have allowed our girls to test their courage, producing some outstanding results.
Girls Grammar students achieved great success in the Dance Star competition, with Dance Company making it through to the State Finals on the Gold Coast, and soloists Emilia Heilig, Tia Wilson and Tyla Cringle qualifying for Nationals. Students in years 7 – 10 Dance also shared their creative choreography with our schooling community in the Semester 1 Dance showcase.
Our girls have been making some exciting industry contacts, participating in workshops with both the Queensland Ballet and Queensland Theatre at the end of Term 2. This was accompanied by the opportunity for students to view QT's performance of 'The Longest Minute' at the Pilbeam Theatre. Despite landing right before the mid-semester break, a small, dedicated contingent of students seized the opportunity to end the term with a final boost of artistic goodness. This high-energy show about one girl's dream to become a professional footballer could not have been more timely, sending us off into the holidays in great style.
The Arts Department wishes our students a safe and happy mid-semester break. We look forward to seeing you again for an action-packed second semester!
Click here to see some of the great work to be produced in the Arts Department in Term 2!
The first half of the year draws to a close and with it a chance to reflect on a great six months at Girls Grammar.
A big highlight for me has been the chance to get back into the classroom. It reminds me that core to what we do is teaching and learning. I have the chance to go on this journey with a truly wonderful group of young women who are engaging, intelligent and who also have the capacity to surprise me with their wit and humour. I see how they apply themselves to their work. I see their determination to succeed and I know these are qualities not just limited to my class. These are the characteristics of so many of our girls who are taking advantage of the considerable opportunities they have at Girls Grammar.
Our Year 12 students have led the way. From the start of the year when they took their first tentative steps into leadership to their formal where they emerged as beautiful young women – the Year 12 class has been getting about the job well. They have raised money, coordinated Mocktails and semi formals. They have Relayed for Life, collected for the Salvos, helps the primary girls at Cross Country. They have prepared for QISSN, played Touch Football judged cattle. They have sung in choirs, performed in dance and debated with fire.
As we enter the second part of the year, we encourage our girls to keep their eye on the main game – setting yourself up for the best start at a future. In the next 16 weeks of school, I encourage you to spend the extra time at your desk, complete the extra exercises, commit to your studies. In the next months, we have important work to do – Core Skills, final exams.
We are looking forward to what promises to be a great semester and we will also welcome 9 new students from a range of backgrounds and places. It is great to see the enthusiasm each of these girls has shown for starting their Girls Grammar journey.
They will become a part of a community – one that celebrated in style at our recent Race Day. It was my privilege to tour the school on the Sunday with the 20 year reunion group – (and a couple of 10 years). I am always struck by the sense of camaraderie these women have after so many years.
It was a wonderful opportunity for me to attend the ICPA conference in Winton recently. Not only did I get the chance to go back through Emerald – my first posting as a graduate teacher, I got to catch up with a few familiar faces from Alpha, Clermont and the Dawson Valley. The ICPA is a great advocate for education of rural and remote children and it's important we support them in their work.
11 weeks certainly proved to be a big term. I want to wish our QISSN team all the best for the upcoming competition in Townsville and thanks Ms Kate Lang for her work with the team. We start Semester 2 with our delayed Sports Carnivals. Ms Doherty will accompany the All Schools OzTag team to Brisbane at the end of week 1. We will also prepare for Rockhampton District Trials in Athletics. A busy start which will lead up to the announcement of the Australian Educator Awards in August, we we are one of eight finalists in the Regional School of the Year.
I hope that you have a restful break and time with your children and families. If there is rain – I hope it is beneficial to you and that the frosts don't hit too hard. We look forward to seeing you all in Semester 2.
As we come to the end of another successful term at Girls Grammar, I want to congratulate the students for their extraordinary effort. It has been a busy but a rewarding experience for our students in so many ways. We began Week 1 with the Anzac ceremonies, and throughout the term we were busy with Gaia Festival, Beef Week, NAPLAN, Relay for Life, Year 12 Formal, Year 10 Mocktails, Race Day and much more.
Our boarders were full of energy and excitement during the week leading up to their departure to return home for the holidays. It has been a great term with the boarders and I wish them all a happy holiday with their families.
It is always a highlight of Term 2 when the Year 12 formal takes centre stage in the CAB, with the walk through prior to the event. It was lovely to see all the boarders congratulating the girls and wishing them well for their formal.
I wish to thank the boarding staff who have worked with the girls throughout the term, particularly around planning events and days out at the weekends. There was certainly some beautiful weather and the girls made the most of it at the beach, competing in Softball Sunday, Golf, Yeppoon Lagoon and many other activities.
Thank you once again to our boarding families and your support during the term. I look forward to working with you all next term and I hope you have a wonderful time during the holidays with your daughters.
Parenting Ideas– RGGS is a member of Parenting Ideas and I invite you to get online and browse practical tips in raising confident kids and resilient young people. Michael Grose is one of Australia's leading parent educators and has published, "The Spoonfed Generation", "Thriving" and many more. This website has some excellent information, so I encourage you to look at the variety of topics available.
Referral Agencies in Rockhampton – We continue to work with a number of referral agencies in Rockhampton, including Child Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) based at the Rockhampton Hospital, Headspace and Wahroonga. These agencies have a variety of services including counselling, assessments and group therapy sessions. If you require any information on services available, please contact me on 0407196205.
We have reached the half way point! What an exciting Semester we have had, especially being awarded Finalist Regional School of the Year in the Australian Education Awards. By now many of you have received your Academic Reports for the Semester. I encourage you to now to get some rest, enjoy some well-deserved family time and refocus for the Semester ahead. Reporting time is a great reflection on the efforts you have contributed towards your studies. It is a time to ask yourself the question, 'did I give my best effort?' We have been working at a whole school level on focusing on the growth mindset strategy of effort praise versus person praise. Carol Dweck's studies have proven when we give feedback on the effort being applied to the task, rather than the outcome, improved results are seen.
We will be welcoming a number of new students to our community next Semester which is always exciting to see students desiring to be a Girls Grammar girl. Please make our new families feel welcome and a part of this very special place.
I trust that you will have an enjoyable time over the next couple of weeks. We have a very exciting event coming to our school next term as we are hosting OptiMinds. Girls Grammar will have ten teams participating in this unique competition. Good luck girls. I am sure the effort you put into preparing, rehearsing and resource building will be well worth it on the day!
See you on the playground.
Prep – Year 2 girls competed in High Jump on Tuesday, last week of Term 2. The girls had great fun seeing how high they could jump.
Saturday 9 June saw McKeague Hall play host to the year 10 Mocktail evening. This grade 10 cohort had decided to make the night an evening of glitz and glamour. The girls' dresses and suits of their partners did not disappoint. After socialising on the deck, the girls and their partners took to the dance floor in McKeague to dance the evening away. Hits like the 'Macarena', 'Nutbush City Limits' and 'Cha Cha Slide', along with some games of musical chairs made for a very entertaining and enjoyable night for all who attended. This was a great way to finish off a very busy exam block for the hardworking and studious Year 10 cohort.
On Friday 29 June the Primary Student Council held their RSPCA celebrations. This year the student council decided to sell popcorn and poppers to fundraise money to donate to the RSPCA animal shelters. After a quick fashion parade and a surprise visit from the Poly Wonga it was time to settle in with our treats to watch The Nut Job 2. What a big hit the morning turned out to be! With the support from students in Prep to Year 6, the Primary council raised a grand total of $155.00.
On Friday 8 June the Primary Student Council held their annual Teddy Bears' Picnic and what a fun filled morning this was. With the help of Miss Hoare in Mrs Carroll's absence the Primary council ran a spectacular morning filled with 'Beary' adventures. Fun and laughter was heard throughout the CAB area whilst the girls made their way around the various activities such as Going on a Bear Hunt, pin the bow on a Bear and many more. They even made some 'Beary' good disguises for their teddies. The Primary council cannot wait to see all the teddies again next year.
Some of the beautiful work the Year 9 / 10 Home Economics students have created this term. The assessment task was to create a pillow case for the Ronald McDonald House for patients along with another matching functional item this could include another pillow, bag, stuffed owl, zip bag or toiletry bag . We will be sending Ronald McDonald House in Brisbane 34 pillow cases at the end of the term- these will be given to patients as they leave Ronald McDonald House as a positive memory for their stay.
Undefeated and steam-rolling the competition, our senior debating team is yet to lose in the Rockhampton and District Debating Competition. Last night our girls – Kailee Butcher, Taylor Busbridge and Brianna Austin went up against St Brendan's in our Paterson Museum to debate 'Money is the root of all evil'. We, as the negative team, had some very compelling arguments and rebuttals to dismiss the competition. The adjudicators were very impressed with how articulate and well-presented the RGGS girls were in both manner and matter of the debate and stated how our girls are still 'a force to be reckoned with'. July 31 will be the next round against RGS at their campus.
A big thank you needs to go to Linda Busbridge for making an amazing cheese and cold meat platter for the evening.
Girls have shown great interest and intrigue in these topics and it has been great see such a high interest in the studies of the past and present. Within these units of work, the Humanities teaching team have also implemented strategies designed by the Collins Institute. Following a very successful implementation in term 1 of well-researched strategies, students in all grades have been practicing these in their classrooms and achievement of knowledge retention, linking to results is evident. This strategy is very well suited to the Humanities classroom and can be used to summarise key documents of information and will be used for lengthy research tasks, without students being intimidated by dreaded plagiarism.
Students have had a good term in Humanities and the teaching team are very excited for another productive and successful term in term 3.


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McDermott, Maureen
Maureen McDermott (born New York City, NY) is an American cellist. Hailed by the press as "a musician of commitment and energy….with brilliance of technique and masterful interpretations," McDermott sustains an active career as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher. Concerts in the U.S. have included chamber music performances at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall's "Great Performers Series", Barge Music, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, a debut at the 92nd St Y, the Kennedy Center and the Van Cliburn Foundation in Texas. An active chamber music performer, Ms. McDermott is a member of the McDermott Trio (with sisters Anne-Marie and Kerry) and a founding member of the cello quartet "CELLO". Ms. McDermott is a founding member of the Lighthouse Chamber Players, a group that performs throughout Cape Cod every summer.
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An interview with Allan Peiper, November 14, 2005
Cycling, spirituality and the meaning of life
Meeting the man behind A Peiper's Tale
The cover of A Peiper's Tale.
Photo ©: John Flynn
At face value, A Peiper's Tale presents as an honest account of life inside the professional peloton. Taken from the perspective of a man who came from unconventional beginnings to ride as a domestique with the top-shelf pro teams including Peugeot and Panasonic in the 1980s, Allan Peiper speaks with candidness about the big issues in the sport: from doping to dodgy deals, team politics and, more recently, his role as a directeur-sportif with Davitamon-Lotto.
But it's fair to say this book is not 'just' about the bike. Peiper shows himself to be a person of depth and introspection, whose life journey from the back-blocks of rural Australia to Belgium and then the big-time reveals much about 'the human condition' and our personal spirituality. Cyclingnews' correspondent John-Michael Flynn enjoyed a coffee with him at the recent Noosa International Criterium, where he talked about cycling, life and the need to bare his soul to the world in print.
Dressed in a white linen shirt, the tanned and leathery skin of this 45 year-old former pro-cyclist could easily blend in with the alfresco atmosphere in Australia's sub-tropical holiday mecca of Noosa.
As I sit across the table sipping a cappuccino and listening intently, it's Peiper's piercing blue eyes (captured intelligently on the cover of his book), which give him away. For here is a man who could never make a living as a poker player, and his book tells us as much, by way of his frank and honest accounts of life as a pro cyclist.
But those eyes tell us yet more, for Peiper carries with him the scars of a troubled past, troubles which shaped his career and form the basis of what is an inspiring life story, put into print. He is, it must be said, a child of his generation. The ten years post-cycling have been spent on a journey of spirituality, where Peiper explored meditation, yoga, visited India twice, and sought solace in the dreaming country of Australia's Western Desert, in the search for meaning.
"I've done a lot of self reflection in the last years and going back to my youth I saw what made me so angry and saw what made me want to succeed to prove that I was worthy," Peiper recalls.
"The scary part is when you get to the end of your career; how do you put it in order and how do you live with the ghosts of the past? When you come to stop bike riding, that's when the rooster comes home."
"I lived in rat-infested houses with twenty other people, where there was no front door and I had one blanket and very little food, but there was a brotherhood there between us because we were all the same."
- Peiper speaks about his early days
as an aspiring amateur in Belgium
To summarise the opening chapters of his book, Peiper was raised in country Victoria and grew up in a dysfunctional family, with an alcoholic and at times violent father. At sixteen, Allan's parents separated, but when his mother decided to go back his wife-beating father, young Peiper had enough and left home for good. Within a year, after working a factory job and saving every dollar, the Australian junior champion would find himself in Belgium, chasing the dream of becoming a professional road cyclist.
"You know, I was just spurred on by the fact that I couldn't go back," Peiper recalls of his bold decision to travel halfway across the world to live in Belgium. "I lived in rat-infested houses with twenty other people, where there was no front door and I had one blanket and very little food, but there was a brotherhood there between us because we were all the same."
The book goes on to chart a course through Peiper's four years racing as a junior in Belgium before he turned pro at the age of 21. Central to the story is his relationship with the family of Belgian champion Eddy Planckaert, who took the young Australian in and helped shape his career.
He learnt early on how to wheel and deal in order to survive, even stealing produce from the fields, but when I suggest that it all sounds like a romantic existence for a young Australian cyclist in Europe, there are some reservations. "Looking back you might say romantic but it was a life struggle in those days you know and I sold races to win races.
"I made deals with two or three riders in the same race that they'd pay me if they won, but I still sprinted for first prize; if I won I took the money for first prize and if they beat me I took the money they paid me and my second prize."
Life as a pro domestique
The man behind the book,
Following on from a stellar junior career, Allan Peiper's pro career began in 1983 when he joined the French Peugeot team. He spent three years with Peugeot then signed with Panasonic, where the Australian rode for five years from 1986 to 1990, before finishing his career with a two year stint at the Belgian team Tulip Computers.
Peiper's palmar�s could put many a struggling pro cyclist to shame, but he insists winning races was not the highlight of his career. "I define myself not so much as a winner, even though I won 35 races as a pro you know, time trials and prologues against the best riders," he recalls. "I won some nice races, I won a stage at the Tour of Italy and I won the team time trial in Tour de France, but for me, being a team player was the most important part of my career."
Not surprisingly, the former Peugeot and Panasonic domestique gets emotional when recalling some of the great cyclists he rode for and it is the sprinters, in particular Belgian great Eric Vanderaerden, who comes in for special mention in his biography.
"Eric was a hard man, he was the man I rode for, he was the pivotal figure in my career," Peiper says. "He was the closest thing that I could define to Robbie McEwen."
On the burning question of who is Australia's greatest ever road cyclist, it is Phil Anderson, not McEwen, who Allan rates at the top of his list. Not just for his stellar feats on the bike, but the role Anderson played in changing the entire look of professional peloton at a time when English speaking riders were very much outsiders.
"There were a lot before me, but only very few that ever succeeded," Peiper said of the Australians on the roads of Europe. "Phil Anderson was the first one to wear the yellow jersey and wore it for ten days and put (Australian) cycling on the map."
Doping in cycling
The topic of doping is a recurring theme in the book and it is perhaps on this subject where A Peiper's Tale differs from the routine of most benign professional sporting biographies, which tend to neatly tip-toe around the topic.
"I tried to ride clean, most of the time," Peiper reveals in the book's introduction.
It is an admission which is unlikely to earn praise from the media in his home country when this book is released there. Australians have long proclaimed a holier than thou attitude to drugs in sport, but for a rider who was one of the ground-breakers for Australian cycling in Europe, there is no intention of justifying the use of illegal performance-enhancing substances.
Peiper simply says he wants the broader community to understand what drives a cyclist to succeed, and the world he is confronted within in a team environment where riders place their trust in doctors and team management who don't always have the cyclists' best interests at heart.
"What got my back up was sensationalism from the newspapers portraying the bike rider as being the worst man and it's not always black and white," the Davitamon Lotto directeur-sportif says. "It's always the sportsman himself who ends up being the dupe, whether he had anything to do with or not, whether someone gives it to him unbeknown."
Peiper points to the recent non-negative test result of Danilo Hondo as an example where the zero tolerance approach to doping can, in his opinion, claim unfortunate victims. "Danilo Hondo was sentenced to two years this year for some stupid product that's been off the market for two years in a ridiculous race that had no value to him.
"But how does he stand up and say, look I didn't do this?" he asks. "If you walk down death row, your career's over."
Contrasting, or perhaps even contradicting his feelings about the existing 'black and white' approach to doping penalties, Peiper also speaks with optimism about the existing testing regime, which he believes is making the environment safer for young riders. "Things are getting better things are definitely different," he says.
Cadel, Robbie and the Lotto boys
Allan Peiper admits after his time in the wilderness, he is now positioned in one of the best jobs in cycling as a directeur-sportif with Davitamon-Lotto. The Victorian is one of five Australians at the Belgian team and he speaks glowingly of his work with riders Nick Gates, Henk Vogels, Robbie McEwen and Cadel Evans, with Nick Sanderson joining the team in 2006.
While McEwen's feats speak for themselves, it is Evans who arguably holds the most promise as the team prepares its abundantly talented G.C. rider for his second Tour de France [Evans finished 8th this year in his first Tour - ed.]
"There's some skills of Cadel's that still need to be honed, his descending skills still need to be honed," Peiper concedes. "Lance showed us how to do it, we're just following all the steps he took."
Preparing Evans for the Tour de France will be a key focus for Lotto's team management in 2006. But therein lies a challenge, providing for the needs of an up and coming G.C. rider, who just happens to be on the same team as one of the world's top three sprinters.
"Mark [Sargeant] is aiming for top five next year with Cadel," Peiper revealed. "There needs to be a lot more groundwork done. I don't know that we do have the right ingredients to support Cadel in the right manner, because whatever happens with a sprinter like Robbie McEwen and a classification rider like Cadel, there needs to be a compromise."
"Robbie's a blessing,"
As for McEwen, Peiper resorts to 'football coach speak' when he says he's not about to play up to the egos of the big name sprinters who are handsomely paid to win races. But then comes that streak of honesty which permeates throughout the book when he drops the poker face and admits "Robbie's a blessing. Any team would love to have Robbie. There's a drive in Robbie that not many bike riders have."
Reviewer's comment:
If you love a good sporting biography as I do, A Peiper's Tale is the sort of read which will make you cry, make you laugh, then make you want to blow the doors off your best mate on the next training ride. I suspect Peiper hasn't told us everything about his career, but some confidences are best honoured and we are all entitled to a degree of privacy.
Allan has been generous enough with this book to give us a glimpse inside of a world most of us only get to observe from the periphery, and his contribution to the debate on the big issues like doping should be valued. A fine read.
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Privacy AND Innovation ...NOT Oligopoly -- A Market Solution to a Market Problem
The crisis caused by the Internet oligopolies has us careening toward regulation that will likely entrench those oligapolies -- to the detriment of the consumers we seek to protect (and the innovators who might benefit us). One need look no farther than yesterday's front-page stories in both WS Journal and NY Times.
However, many recognize that the real problem with the Facebook-Google duopoly on advertising stems from "the original sin of the Internet," the reliance on the ad model that mis-aligns incentives by making users "the product, not the customer." The problem is that few see how to fix that underlying problem, so very few are even trying!
How can we get services that serve all of of us affordably? It seems impossible (as Zuckerberg, himself, explains), but this is just a failure of imagination (as called out by such notables as Tim Berners-Lee and Jaron Lanier). My previous post explains in some detail how Zuckerberg has just thrown up his hands, and how we can all be far more imaginative about that.
But let's consider how our current response is likely to make matters even worse. The problem is that we are moving to regulate the symptom instead of treating the disease.
Some view this a a simple matter of regulating data privacy and control, but as many now observe, regulating that will concentrate even more power in the oligopolies. Such regulations (going into effect with Europe's General Data Protection Regulations next month, and increasingly likely here) will be cumbersome and costly in a way that will constrain innovation and market forces. They may bring some relief, but at what cost? As Zuckerberg testified: "A lot of times regulation by definition puts in place rules that a company that is larger, that has resources like ours, can easily comply with but that might be more difficult for a smaller startup." And there is high risk that regulation will overshoot.
And on the flip side, many critics of regulation point out that many consumers care little about data privacy and control as long as they get services they want at affordable cost (as advertising enables). That brings us back to the question of business models. With or without regulation of privacy, will consumers really get services they want, if we stick to the ad model?
Why regulation is a band-aid, not a cure
Maurice Stucke offers this analysis in Harvard Business Review, "Here Are All the Reasons It's a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data:"
Lower-quality products with less privacy
Surveillance and security risks (Government capture, Covert surveillance, Implications of a data policy violation/security breach)
Wealth transfer to data-opolies
Loss of trust
Significant costs on third parties
Less innovation in markets dominated by data-opolies
Social and moral concerns
Political concerns (Bias, Censorship, Manipulation)
Regulating data privacy and control will not eliminate most of these problems -- in fact, it may make many of them worse.
As Tim Wu outlines in the Times, "Don't Fix Facebook. Replace It," what we really have here is failure to align business models. He quotes Walter Lippman on "free" TV (in 1959): it is ultimately "the creature, the servant and indeed the prostitute of merchandising." Things have only gotten worse, -- merchandising has gotten far more sophisticated, and we prostitute more and more of our life to it.
This is not to say that there is no need for regulation of data privacy and control, but that it should be limited to areas that business model solutions can not address well.
Aligning the business models
What we need is to move aggressively to change the business models.
A key part of the issue is to ensure that users are compensated for the value of the data they provide, as outlined in a recent WSJ article by Posner and Weyl, "Want Our Personal Data? Pay for It." That can be done as a credit against user subscription fees (a "reverse meter"), at levels that users accept as fair compensation. That would shift incentives toward satisfying users (effectively making the advertiser their customer, rather than the other way around). Paying for user data is long overdue -- independent data agent "infomediaries" were proposed and richly explored in 1999, in Hagel and Singer's book, Net Worth.
But a the deeper challenge is to address the total value proposition -- to balance the varying value exchanges of users, platforms, advertisers, and other participants in this network market. If platforms pay users for their data, at what level? If users pay platforms for service, at what level? Different users get different levels of value and have different abilities to pay. Serving an added user costs little, but continuing to provide and improve services take investment. That is where we need real creativity in our business models. How do we make the subscription price fair and affordable to provide essentially universal access, and still make the business sustainable? (Consider this thought experiment for directional guidance.)
FairPay points to one possible market-based path to dealing with this high inherent variability in value -- as outlined in "Who Should Pay the Piper for Facebook? (& the rest)" (and in the rest of this blog and in a recent journal article). Companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter could move in in that direction on their own initiative. But they are so seduced by their tens of billions of dollars in advertising that they see little reason to try. Trying might cost them in the short term, even if it could make them more profitable in the long run.
One way to force the platforms to move toward business models to better serve consumers is with simple regulatory mandates, as outlined in my previous post: "require that X% of revenue must be user-derived by some date -- with X starting small, but then increasing in stages over time. As X increases, incentives for tolerating ad-related abuse would be reduced and offset by pressure to be customer-first. Let [each platform] figure out how best to do that, but give them targets over time, and hold them to it." This kind of light touch works well for vehicle emissions, as a market-based solution -- why not for Internet platforms?
The drunkard's search
Our challenge is much like "the drunkard's search" (as illustrated above). The light of regulation is much brighter than the light of innovative business models. But the cure we seek is down that street.
FairPay offers us a flashlight that points down that street. It is not yet clear how broadly and effectively FairPay can enable this kind of transformation of business models to work. But it illuminates a direction that should take us closer, if not all the way. Maybe others have better ideas, but FairPay is easy to try, and maybe better ideas will become apparent once we start down this road -- even if the flashlight of FairPay does not take us all the way.
But in any case, it is urgent that we start moving in that general direction -- that is where the real cure is.
More on business models: Who Should Pay the Piper for Facebook? (& the rest)
Broad suggestions on opening up the platform oligopolies are in a post on my other blog: "Architecting Our Platforms to Better Serve Us -- Augmenting and Modularizing the Algorithm"
Update 2/26/19: My article in Techonomy, To Regulate Facebook and Google, Turn Users Into Customers.
Update 5/4/18: Bloomberg reports: Facebook Weighs Ad-Free Subscription Option
More about FairPay
For a full introduction to FairPay see the Overview and the sidebar on How FairPay Works (just to the right, if reading this at FairPayZone.com). There is also a guide to More Details (including links to a video).
My article in the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, "A Novel Architecture to Monetize Digital Offerings" provides an overview of FairPay (summarized more briefly in the ESADE Knowledge article "Three building blocks to monetize a digital business," and previously in Harvard Business Review, "When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price.").
Even better, read my highly praised book: FairPay: Adaptively Win-Win Customer Relationships.
(FairPay is an open architecture, in the public domain.)
(My work on FairPay is pro-bono. I offer free consultation to those interested in applying FairPay, and welcome questions.)
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Who Should Pay the Piper for Facebook? (& the rest)
It's the economics, stupid! -- that's the fundamental problem / fundamental fix
[Update 4/10/18: Zuckerberg hints that "certainly we consider" ideas in the direction suggested here.]
[Update 5/4/18: Bloomberg reports: Facebook Weighs Ad-Free Subscription Option]
[A newer post, Privacy AND Innovation ...NOT Oligopoly -- A Market Solution to a Market Problem, focuses on regulatory issues.]
The Facebook fiasco spotlights the perfect storm we now face, as the dream of digital media empowerment turns sour. Many have suggested a range of remedies. But at its heart this is a business model problem -- we may need a multi-pronged remedial effort, but without fixing the underlying business model, other measures will have limited effectiveness. We have not been imaginative about the business model -- but we can do much better. This post explains how.
Tim Berners-Lee (inventor and champion of the Web) put his finger on this issue:
Two myths currently limit our collective imagination: the myth that advertising is the only possible business model for online companies, and the myth that it's too late to change the way platforms operate. ...On both points, we need to be a little more creative. Create a new set of incentives and changes...will follow.
Facebook brought this to a head, but the ugly glare falls on Google, Twitter, and others. Many rightly blame this "original sin" of the Internet ad model that enabled wide access to "free" services. It is now all too clear why it matters that "if you are not paying, you are the product." We created an "attention market" monster that seeks only to "engage" us -- an economy of clickbait and misuse of our own data. That threatens our privacy, our mental health, and the very democracy we thought digital media would enhance. Internet services have lost our trust. How can we get them to serve our needs? We must realign basic incentives.
It is true that many factors are at play: oligopolies fed by data moats and returns to scale; closed, opaque systems that confine us to anti-competitive "walled gardens;" amoral advertisers seeking profit from us; and even enemies of our democracy. We almost certainly need regulation on data ownership/privacy and concentrations of power -- but those will take time to shape, and they will always be crude and inflexible instruments.
What we can do now, to facilitate all of the rest, is to change the fundamental economics of social media by introducing new and better incentive structures -- from the operational roots, up. We need to align value creation and value capture to better serve users, and thus regain their trust. Facebook, Google, Twitter, and the others can move on their own in that direction now (and can profit from that). Lacking that, we can actively encourage competitors to do better. Doing this will change the incentives that drive our attention economy -- faster and more surely than regulation. ...But we may need regulation too.
Many see this need for a new social contract, one that recognizes that if we are to have "our" media serve us -- as people and as citizens -- we must pay to make that sustainable. When we pay for our media, we become the customer they are driven to serve. We need to vote with dollars, not just "likes" -- to pay for what we value, and motivate our services to serve us. Incentive structures determine actions. Driving engagement to sell ads drives these services in the wrong direction. So, how can we re-engineer our incentive structures for digital media services?
What we have here is failure of imagination
Zuckerberg admits to the problem, but sees no solution. The Times asked him "about Facebook's business model -- selling advertisers and developers the ability to target Facebook users based on their personal data." He described his dilemma:
…having [Facebook] be free and have a business model that is ad-supported ends up being really important and aligned…Now, over time, might there be ways for people who can afford it to pay a different way? That's certainly something we've thought about …But I don't think the ad model is going to go away, because I think fundamentally, it's important to have a service like this that everyone in the world can use, and the only way to do that is to have it be very cheap or free.
Zuckerberg fails to see that solutions are emerging to enable that "it be very cheap or free" for some, but sustained by user payments from others (those who can afford to pay a fair and sustaining price for the value they receive). That seems impractical only because we are stuck in our old logic.
The old logic of scarcity, rather than the new logic of digital abundance.
The old, but aberrant, logic of pre-set prices.
In this digital age we can not only deliver services widely at very low cost, but we can mass-customize prices – not secretly, to exploit customers, but openly, in ways that customers buy-in to as fair.
We are so used to the alienating 20th century model of mass-marketing based on pre-set prices (and driven by advertising) that we don't see how consumers can work together with businesses to set customized prices that are fair for each of us.
What is fair depends on realized value (who, what, where, when, how, and why) and on ability to pay. But now we can apply the power of digital to restore and improve on the principles of value-based pricing that humans have relied on for millennia to take those value factors into account. Doing that is not only good citizenship, but good business.
We need to re-invent our business models and pricing architectures to apply a new logic more suited to our new digital economy.
FairPay points to a better way
One architecture for moving toward such a new logic, called FairPay, has gained recognition for operationalizing a solution for businesses now (as outlined in the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, and a nicely illustrated summary of that, and previously in Harvard Business Review). The details will depend on context, and will need testing to evolve and refine over time, but the principles are clear and well supported.
Digital goods and services are not scarce -- but the willingness of consumers to sustain service providers is scarce. FairPay structures an "invisible handshake" to seek a fair allocation of that willingness to sustain over the course of the relationship. (It considers total value, both to the consumer and from the consumer, including use of personal data and attention to ads). To each provider according to their ability to create and deliver actual value. From each consumer according to their willingness and ability to pay to sustain that. (...With incentives that ensure both.)
The FairPay architecture centers on the continuing relationships we have with our digital services providers. The digital economy facilitates and thrives on ongoing relationships -- many are awakening to the deep changes of our shift to "The Subscription Economy." Those relationships can be managed to work as a "repeated game" (see details) that motivates mutual cooperation, fairness, dialog, trust, and transparency – to keep the game going. We create a process that repeatedly customizes fair prices for the value realized in each relationship -- for consumers who may be rich or poor, heavy or light users, and tolerant or intolerant of advertising and uses of personal data. (See this detailed use-case example.) By doing that, these services can generate good revenue from most customers -- and can make judicious levels of advertising acceptable to many of them.
Many are calling for similar shifts in our economics: rethinking the value of our data as labor, membership models, and even proposals to turn Twitter into a cooperative. But FairPay shows how companies and consumers can embrace this new invisible handshake to move in desired directions now, fully embedded into routine operations, without waiting for new laws or new capital structures.
By harmonizing fundamental business incentives in this way, we will break the vicious cycle of exploitation and abuse, make services both affordable and sustainable, regain trust between businesses and their customers, and shape a new social contract. Working under that new social contract will reduce the need for externally imposed remedies -- and better position us to apply external remediation to our markets where needed.
Taking action now, at Facebook's initiative?
FairPay is a fundamental architecture for ongoing business-customer relationships that harmonizes the entire spectrum of current practices ranging from conventional pricing to radical extremes like pay what you want. It is applicable to profit enterprises and nonprofits alike (and it is in the public domain, for anyone to apply). Businesses like Facebook can better understand their current incentive models from this value-based perspective, and can test and gradually introduce more innovative models in ways that ensure they actually make their incentives more win-win. That can both increase profits and also empower consumers, by creating more cooperative, transparent, and trusting relationships.
Ideally, such a transition could be entirely self-initiated by Facebook (and the other platforms).
Facebook could first test FairPay at the margins, for specific "premium" services like reducing ad loads and giving users more control over filtering criteria and data privacy. [**See update below suggesting Facebook is considering this.]
This could include "reverse metering" to recognize and give credit for the value that users provide to Facebook, paying with their attention and their data. The same FairPay process can let users individually determine what level of advertising and data usage they will tolerate, in return for reduced payments.
Even with a significant level of advertising revenue continuing, sharing that revenue with the customer would shift platform incentives toward satisfying users and providing ads that the customer considers relevant (effectively making the advertiser the consumer's customer).
That reverse meter could also credit user-generated content and viral sharing.
Simple trials at the margins could begin to shift some percentage of Facebook revenue to be user-funded, rather than ad-funded. Once trialed with privacy-sensitive and social-welfare-minded users, it could be proven, refined, and extended to others to shift the revenue base more broadly. As the percentage of user revenue increases, Facebook would be inherently motivated to be more user-value-first in its decision processes.
Facebook reported that in the US and Canada it generates about $7/month in advertising revenue per user. (Of course that is now under serious threat, as based on advertising abuses and monopoly rents. Is it fair that Facebook gain such high margins? Perhaps it should be only a fraction of that, say $1-2/month.)
Whatever the fair level of revenue per user with its current model, expecting revenue of comparable magnitude from a shift to user-paid revenue does not seem outlandish, at least for a significant portion of users who want and can afford a premium, ad-free (or ad-reduced) and privacy-strict service. For them, a rate of even $10 per month may not be unreasonable (perhaps even more for some users with full-feature, high usage and high ability to pay). Gradually, the broad range of users could be phased in, including large numbers at rates that are "very cheap or free."
But still, there is the question of what is a fair profit margin for Facebook's service -- are current levels unfairly high monopoly rents and spoils of abuse? That brings us to consideration of more forceful change...
A heavier hand? -- mandated gradual improvement (the vehicle emissions regulation model)
To the extent that Facebook and the others fail to shift their incentive structures deeply and quickly enough, external measures can be applied by competitors, and by government.
Many have proposed competitive efforts, new "alt-Facebook"services that offer more customer-first business models and practices. FairPay can help make those strategies successful. But the path to scale at the level of Facebook seems slow and difficult. Given the severity and urgency of the crisis we are now facing, mandated action by Facebook may be required.
Here too, changing the fundamental incentives -- and monitoring and tuning them to ensure that they work as desired -- is the best way to achieve results.
Change can be mandated in much the same way that we mandate increasingly strict vehicle emission standards. Shifting at once to a reader revenue model would be challenging, and something Facebook management and shareowners might be very reluctant to pursue. But regulation could be staged to require that X% of revenue must be user-derived by some date -- with X starting small, but then increasing in stages over time. As X increases, incentives for tolerating ad-related abuse would be reduced and offset by pressure to be customer-first. Let Facebook figure out how best to do that, but give them targets over time, and hold them to it.
If we force digital services businesses to find more win-win customer-sustained business models, they will find ways to to do that far better that we can yet imagine -- whether with forms of FairPay, or some variation on similar themes. That will make them and their users (and all citizens) much happier. But if we as consumers and citizens and regulators don't have the imagination to push them to use their imagination, they will not try very hard.
The nuclear option? - regulation as a public utility
Of course, given the gravity of the threat to public welfare and the urgency of change in corporate mind-set -- and the fact that Facebook currently provides what some might view as "essential" communication services along our social graph that we would not want to do without -- providing utility services -- there is an obvious extreme option. Nationalize Facebook, or at least regulate it as a public utility, funded by its users, with government subsidies as needed (much as was done with the Bell System). This might be done as a temporary custodianship that would revert to private control when appropriate. Such a structure would immediately incentivize Facebook to put public welfare first. That may seem drastic, but is that so unreasonable for an essential public service that can do great harm if misused?
The Bell System was a regulated monopoly until 1982, when it was broken up into independent "Baby Bells" connecting to users, long distance services, and equipment suppliers.
Telephone service regulation followed the earlier and still continuing example of railroads being regulated as "common carriers."
Postal services have always been public services, paid in part by users, but subsidized by governments as needed.
Public radio and TV are government-funded with voluntary payments by users.
Hasn't Facebook become a common carrier? How can it be reasonable for Zuckerberg to have the unchecked, unmonitored, exclusive control of this new "Pa Mark" that that serves all of us as a utility (much as "Ma Bell" did)? Clearly, there is an antitrust case here, and the breakup of Ma Bell is instructive, as I explore more deeply on my other blog.
Toward a win-win future
Any of these options (alone or in combination) would begin to change the fundamental incentive structures of our essential digital services -- more or less dramatically. We can apply the heavy hand of regulation* -- but to the extent we can shift internal corporate operational incentives to align with consumer welfare -- we are likely to achieve better outcomes more organically, in ways that are more continuously adaptable to changing needs and ongoing technical advances. To the extent business see that and act to get ahead of this, they can solve the problem better that regulators, at least in large part.
Whatever we do, we need to move quickly and decisively. Facebook still can take the initiative, and perhaps retain a high degree of autonomy. Alternatively, we may conclude we need stronger and swifter measures. In any case, it is essential that we put the consumer (and the public) first, by putting incentives in place to drive that.
The surest way to do that is by having the consumer pay -- so that Facebook is driven at every level to satisfy them, and not the advertisers and hucksters who seek to buy consumer attention cheaply.
We need to have the imagination to rethink our obsolete economic assumptions, to get creative about mass-customizing our value propositions, and to seek a path up this ladder of value.
FairPay is one architecture that points in that direction. If you don't like that one, find another. In any case, we need to move aggressively on whatever path we can manage to find, as long as it leads toward full, fair, and transparent alignment of value creation and value capture.
[*Update 4/9/18: An excellent summary of how intractable regulatory solutions are is in today's column in The Information by Sam Lessin. I commented on it: changing the business model economics would reduce the severity of the abuses that regulation can only crudely seek to remedy.]
[**Update 4/10/18: Zuckerberg suggested in his Senate testimony that Facebook would "certainly consider ideas like that." As reported: "By not rejecting the possibility of a paid product, Mr. Zuckerberg's comment could be interpreted as endorsing the idea that Facebook might experiment with a version of its social network that relies on subscription revenue instead of advertising."
A newer post, Privacy AND Innovation ...NOT Oligopoly -- A Market Solution to a Market Problem, focuses on regulatory issues, and more on the business model problem is in Cool Hand Zuck -- What We Have Here is Failure to Innovate / Looking Toward a Better, Fairer Future.
Related points are in my previous post, Zuckerberg: How to Fix Facebook -- Stop Hanging Us With the Ad Model! -- A New Economics, and my 2012 post, Beyond the Ad Model - A New Economics for Media.
Another prior post, How Market Commerce Can Become More Cooperative, Fair, and Human, addresses Twitter (when there was some excitement about the idea of turning it into a cooperative). The same principles can apply to any digital service to consumers.
Other posts in this FairPayZone.com blog explain the key principles that enable this:
FairPay Changes the "Game" of Commerce -- the basic structure of the repeated game
The Ghost of Pricing Future -- A Thought Experiment -- pricing for value and ability to pay
An Invisible Handshake for The Digital Wealth of Nations -- a more cooperative twist on the invisible hand
Making Customers Want to Pay You -- Research on How FairPay Changes the Game -- the behavioral economics .behind this
Even better, read my highly praised new book: FairPay: Adaptively Win-Win Customer Relationships.
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"Anyone responsible for monetizing digital content in consumer markets should understand this radically new perspective on pricing and how to maximize lifetime customer value."
- Shelly Palmer, Business Advisor, Author, Commentator
"...an innovative and visionary methodology …what disruption could look like..."
- Lucila Pagnoni, News Corp Australia
"...groundbreaking..."
- Professor Pennie Frow, University of Sydney Business School
"...compelling ...promises to transform business..."
- Professor Adrian Payne, University of New South Wales Business School
"Highly recommended for digital business entrepreneurs, as well as established firms..."
- Jim Spohrer, IBM and ISSIP.org
Foreword by Adrian Payne
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management Article on FairPay
Australasian Marketing Journal Article on FairPay -- "AMJ Best Paper of 2019"
"When Selling Digital Content,
Let the Customer Set the Price"
Video and Slides of
FairPay Presentation at ISSIP
Peter Drucker:
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence,
it is to act with yesterday's logic."
How FairPay Works
...over a relationship, as a repeated game
...through a deceptively simple balancing dynamic:
1. Set the rules (Seller). As usual, the seller sets the ground-rules of the game, but in this repeated game, the rules favor fairness, transparency, and cooperation on both sides. The seller decides to whom to make a FairPay offer, on what terms and conditions. FairPay offers are a privilege that can be granted or withheld.
2. Set the price (Buyer). Reversing traditional practice, the buyer is granted the power to set the price to whatever value-based price the buyer considers fair -- after the sale, when the real value is experienced and known.
3. Repeat the game? (Seller). This seller power is what makes FairPay work, balancing the power of the buyer to set the price. The seller tracks the price, and determines, in the context of the overall history, whether it seems fair enough to the seller to continue the FairPay game for another round.
The buyer knows this is a repeated game, and must consider the consequences when exercising his price-setting power. That motivates the buyer to price reasonably fairly. This builds a relationship based on fair value exchange, that adapts and evolves over time. The seller manages "dialogs about value" that frame the value that was delivered, and a suggested price for that -- and nudge the buyer to be generous by offering more value for more generosity.
This repeated game structure gives buyers a strong incentive to price fairly – and enables sellers to limit their future exposure to those who do not.
More broadly, it shifts the entire focus of customer relationships from short-term transaction price to long-term relationship value.
...See Overview for more
Consumers -- Pay only what seems fair to you:
Pay what you think fair for products or services – after you try them
Make every purchase on a trial basis – so you can always be sure to get your personal fair value for your money
Agree to set your price fairly – in your judgment – and explain why you think it is fair
Keep that privilege as long as you can convince the seller that you are being fair
Businesses -- Get the most revenue from the most customers by continuously learning what each one values:
Engage in real dialog with each of your customers and listen to their perceptions of the value they get from your products/services
Make a trial offer to every potential customer who sees potential value
Suggest a price after use that you think is fair for that particular customer, considering all relevant factors
Offer incentives, such as premium tiers and perks, to entice fairness, even generosity
Let your customers self-select into segments (based on usage, value perception, willingness and ability to pay, ...)
Limit your risk from those trial offers by tracking the results (fairness) for each buyer, and limiting future offers if you judge that buyer to not pay fairly
Retain set-price plans for those who refuse to play the game fairly
Learn how much freedom (FairPay credit) to extend (or what restrictions to enforce) to get satisfactory results from each customer segment
Continue to make every offer a trial...
...as long as each buyer continues paying fairly--in your judgment
Delight your customers: give them what they really want, at a price they really think fair.
Shift the conversation from price to value, and from transactions to relationships.
Empower them to engage with you and tell you what they value.
Make commerce a repeated game that drives value creation to build a profitable relationship with high Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).
Sample FairPay Offer
...This sample offer letter to consumers shows how a newspaper might frame FairPay as a privileged benefit to regular patrons – to enable them to participate in a win-win pricing process and personalize their value propositions – as an alternative to a standard freemium "soft paywall."
FairPay Application/Market Sectors
...Overview of major market sectors in which the FairPay revenue model is readily applicable
Why would anyone pay if they do not have to? ...and other FAQs
...The answer is simple: Buyers who do not pay will not get further offers.
Resource Guide to Pricing
...Annotated links and references on Pricing, Pay What You Want, and other related background
The Invisible Hand of Relationship -- An Invisible Handshake
So Last Century! - It's Time to End the Tyranny of Set Prices
Subscribe To The FairPay Zone feed
FairPay Changes the "Game" of Commerce
Business Model Generation with a new spin: FairPay Revenue Models
The IoT Cloud of Value -- New Big Data for a Customer-Centric Revolution
FairPay: "Better Strategies for Monetizing Digital Offerings" MIT Enterprise Forum 12/1/11
Winning Back Lost Customers -- Before They Get Lost
"Why should I pay you?" - Bezos' Washington Post - Mapping a New Business Model for Journalism
Post-Bundling -- Packaging Better TV/Video Value Propositions with 20-20 Hindsight
The Relationship Economy -- It's All About Valuing Customer Experiences
2020 Vision -- The Restoration of the Customer
FairPay-What-You-Want for Costly Products? Etsy? Everlane? Tiffany?
Privacy AND Innovation ...NOT Oligopoly -- A Marke...
Who Should Pay the Piper for Facebook? (& the rest...
Richard Reisman - Teleshuttle Corporation
President and founder of Teleshuttle, I have decades of experience innovating in digital media industries. I have managed and consulted for corporations of all sizes, developed a variety of pioneering online services, and hold over 50 patents now licensed by over 200 companies to serve billions of users. I generally develop my work through Teleshuttle Corporation, in collaboration with partner companies. My work on FairPay is now being pursued as a pro-bono project aimed at fostering testing, refinement, and wide adoption. My book on FairPay was published in 2016 by Business Expert Press. (More at http://bit.ly/RRFPbio.)
Reisman is working on FairPay on a pro-bono basis, welcomes inquiries about it, and offers free consultation to those interested in evaluating and applying it. Please email to fairpay [at] teleshuttle [dot] com.
Teleshuttle Corporation
Smartly Intertwingled [Reisman on User-Centered Media]
The FairPay Zone Blog by Richard Reisman, Teleshuttle Corp is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at FairPayZone.com.


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I am creating this profile on behalf of my son. My name is Sriharsha and I am working as an IT Business Analyst in the Private sector. I have completed my MCA. I grew up in a Upper middle class, Nuclear family with Moderate values.
Hello, here are a few lines to help you know me better. I have done Bachelors in EnC, almost spent my education in last bench only. I am open minded, bit dynamic with variant shades of emotions, good sense of humour and heroic presence. I was a national level sportsmen got much medals but more than that knew how to face ups and downs in a composed way now not playing from few years,became bit lazy. Usually I never get bored as i try to entertain myself every now and then. I enjoy working,dancing, listening songs, shopping online (lazy), cooking,arguing,etc..., I worked in Infosys for few years in Mysore,Hyderabad,Pune and Mangalore but I wanted to do something more so started my own venture CHIPSAPP a software development company in Bangalore initially, now we have office setup in Shimoga with a good domestic client base. My family is well settled in Sagar my father is a Civil Engineer and mother is a happy home maker I spend most of the time in home. Thanks for reading a bit about me.
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Ziba Restaurant, a family-owned Persian Restaurant, welcomes families, friends, and neighbors for an unforgettable experience. Once there, you are attended to like a family while the excellent staff delivers tasty, authentic, classic Persian food. Ziba Restaurant has withheld its origins and has brought back a piece of the Persian Tradition. With mellow music playing the in the background and a friendly environment, our goal is to provide you with the best reasonably priced cooking. When you step into Ziba Restaurant, you are instantly swept up by ways of mouth-watering fragrances, wafting delightfully from the assortment of dishes we are carrying out from the kitchen.
All of our dishes are prepared with the freshest ingredients and the finest halal meat. Many things separate Persian food. While we use the basic ingredients, we also add ingredients that enhance it: Pomegranates, pistachios nuts, rose water along with a mixer of vegetable to create a delicious taste that will have you coming back for more.
Entrees may also be made available Vegetarian Style.
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Recovery of Dengue Viruses from Patients during Epidemics in Puerto Rico and East Pakistan
Philip K. Russell
Philip K. RussellDepartment of Virus Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Department of Microbiology, University of Maryland Medical School, Washington, D.C.
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Edward L. BuescherDepartment of Virus Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Department of Microbiology, University of Maryland Medical School, Washington, D.C.
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Jack M. McCownDepartment of Virus Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Department of Microbiology, University of Maryland Medical School, Washington, D.C.
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Viruses, closely related if not identical to dengue virus type 3, were recovered from the acute phase bloods of persons with clinical dengue fever in outbreaks in Puerto Rico (1963) and East Pakistan (1964). Because viruses from each epidemic induced little if any overt disease upon inoculation of suckling or weanling mice, the recovery and identification of these viruses were dependent entirely upon cell culture techniques using the challenge virus resistance test. Monolayer cultures of primary African green monkey kidney (GMK) cells, or continuous heteroploid GMK cells (BS-C-1) were found to be more sensitive for detection of dengue viruses than was the diploid early passage BS-C-1 cell. Titrations of newly recovered viruses were regularly and reproducibly made in the former cells. Titers of cell culture propagated dengue viruses were too low to permit demonstration of complement fixing or hemagglutinating antigen, but adequate for performance of neutralization tests to identify newly recovered strains. The techniques ultimately developed for recovery and characterization of dengue viruses in the GMK cell culture system are described.
* Present addresses: Department of Virology, SEATO Medical Research Laboratory, Bangkok, Thailand (PKR) and Departmento de Medicina Preventiva, Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala, Guatemala (JO). Please address reprint requests to the Department of Virus Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
Copyright © 1966 by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1966
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Newly appointed vampire governor of New Jersey, Belladonna Barrone is fast discovering that life as a vampire isn't much easier than life as a mobster's wife. But that experience certainly taught her some things about how to handle the problems that come with being governor. That is until a friend is kidnapped by the fae and his life put in danger, all because of her actions.
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Figuring out how to save him feels very much above her paygrade, but she's the boss and the decision about how to handle this potentially deadly situation is completely up to her. With the clock ticking, she has no choice but to attempt a rescue.
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Ein Milchsammelwagen ist ein Nutzfahrzeug zum Transport von Rohmilch vom Erzeuger zur Molkerei. Eine integrierte Annahmeeinrichtung mit Vakuumpumpe und Volumenzähler erlaubt das Umpumpen der Milch von der Milchkanne, Milchwanne und vom Milchtank in das Fahrzeug.

Hersteller
Bedeutende deutsche Hersteller von Milchsammelwagen waren bzw. sind:
 Strüver Tankwagenbau (Hamburg)
 Ahrens & Bode GmbH & Co., heute abo Magyar GmbH (Schöningen)
 Alfons Schwarte GmbH (Ahlen), heute Schwarte Group GmbH (Emsdetten)
 Jansky, heute Schwarte Group GmbH (Emsdetten)
 Otto Tuchenhagen, heute GEA Group (Büchen)
 HLW GmbH (Nordwalde)

Literatur

 Lange, Peter Dr.: Die Geschichte des Milchtransports, Brilon 2010, Podszun Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86133-562-7

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Boaters are able to use a lock in Whitley again after it was closed for six days while a sunken boat was removed from the canal bed.
Fobney Lock, near Island Road, was shut on Wednesday, August 10 after a mechanical fault caused a narrowboat to sink to the bottom of the Kennet and Avon Canal.
Everyone on board managed to escape unharmed but other boaters on the canal were forced to moor up or turn back as they were unable to use the navigation.
After the initial recovery operation failed the Canal and River Trust said the lock would be reopened by Monday, August 15.
But the deadline was missed as contractors were forced to wait for assistance from a specialist team.
The workers managed to haul the vessel out of the canal the following day and the lock was reopened at 3pm.


Managing Information Systems: Providing Practical Solutions to Housing Practitioners is a one-day course that is aimed at staff working in Housing Sections of Local Authorities.
This intensive training course will be of particular relevance to those who work on the coalface of Housing. Participants may work as line managers and manage a team of staff or may be a Team Member. Participants may work with large volumes of data and are required to produce reports regularly to management. This programme seeks to empower participants by providing the knowledge that will help develop a more structured and systematic approach to managing your data and help you produce reports from your Systems.
An effective Management Information System is an essential tool for processing data in a manner that provides accurate and current information to management and thereby facilitate strategic decision-making. Planning, controlling and administrating are the main components of such a system and therefore form the basis of this training programme.
Given that iHouse is the system most commonly used by Local Authorities, it will be referred to in this training.
The course will explore business tools and techniques that will help Local Authority staff identify problems and define and implement solutions. It is delivered as part of the Housing Training Network.
This one-day course will run from 9:30am to 5:00pm. Participants will received course documentation on the day.
15 May 2019 at the Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore, Co. Offaly.
15 May 2019 Bookings for this course will close one week prior to course start date.
Please note, that in the event of a cancellation less than 48 working hours before the commencement of a course, a 15% cancellation fee will be charged. Cancellation fee will also apply to non-arrivals on the day.
This course will be of interest to all staff working in Housing Sections of Local Authorities who wish to explore ways to manage information / data more effectively and efficiently.
What are Management Information Systems? Why do we use them? Are we getting the most from our Systems?
The course will explain why Information / Data Management is so important to ensuring Quality, Efficiency, Compliance, Security & Sharing.
The training will introduce Project Management Principals and will discuss ways to manage big projects & break these Projects into deliverable tasks.
We will offer guidance on how to use Project Management skills to deliver objectives on time with the resources available: e.g. managing the Summary of Social Housing Assessments Project Life Cycle.
We will examine methods to help identify problems, investigate the nature of these problems and look at the best approach to formulating and implementing a solution.
We will discuss and demonstrate practical solutions to common Housing issues e.g. Delivery of SSHA, Stock Reconciliation.
Business Intelligence / Reporting: How to manipulate your data & Produce Quality reports.
Show how you can build a review process to review qualified households.
We will show you a glimpse at the future of reporting in Local Authorities with a view of various other Reporting Options and Visualization Tools.
To complete the course, participants will be given an Impact Assessment Quiz. This voluntary online multi-choice quiz is designed to help to embed the information provided during the course. It normally takes place approximately two weeks after the training and can be undertaken a number of times if necessary.
Please be advised that participant email addresses for those enrolled on relevant IPA / Housing Training Network programmes, including this course, will be shared with TestReach Ltd for the purposes of completing the Impact Assessment Quiz. TestReach Ltd is a provider of online assessment services based in Dublin, Ireland.
This course will be delivered by Eileen Davis, BSc (Hons) Computer Science, NDip in Software Engineering, ProfDip Statistics for Policy Evaluation, NCert Computer Science, NCert Marketing.


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Dead Ringer (2018)
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Jamie Poulton is the lead singer of a tribute band called Dive, but he is later given the opportunity to replace the highly popular and iconic member of a boy band called D5. Coming from humble beginnings, he jumps at the chance to live life on the opposite side of the spectrum, but there are a number of twists and turns that he will have to endure as he continues on his deceptive adventure of being the much sought after idol known as Donny Martin. He hopes to be able to get away with this identity takeover while enjoying his time in the spotlight.
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