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VEGWORLD NEWS
Miyoko's Kitchen "Butter" Lawsuit Voluntarily ...
A lawsuit challenging a vegan butter has been voluntarily dismissed according to Food Navigator.At the center of the lawsuit is Miyoko's Kitchen, a vegan food company known for their variety of cheeses. A class action was filed in 2018 by Jasmine Brown claiming that the Miyoko's Kitchen vegan butter did not meet the FDA standards that would let it ...
New York City Vegetarian Food Festival: A Celebrat...
I recently had the incredible privilege of attending one of New York City's premier food events. The NYC Vegetarian Food Festival™ proves the New York City food scene is being driven by plant-based cuisine, with an emphasis on urban farming and sustainability. Set in the heart of downtown of the largest city in the US, NYC Vegetarian Food Fest...
H&M Removes Cashmere From Its Collections...
Due to stronger animal cruelty concerns, the second-largest clothing retailer in the world– H&M– is now selling more vegan clothing than ever. H&M's aim is to stop using cashmere (and remove cashmere from its current line of clothing) by the end of the year 2020. This action is part of the company's larger 2030 goals list, which ...
Lead Character in Disney's Aladdin Remake Introd...
A new Disney superstar will be introducing an online vegan community to help people make the transition to veganism. Mena Massoud, the vegan actor who plays the main character (Aladdin) in Disney's newest remake of the film of the same name, is planning to launch an online community on June 1 that will be a key element of his Evolving Vegan br...
Vegan Cheese is Finally On The Up and Up...
Despite initial pushback, the vegan cheese industry has been performing exceedingly well. For anti-vegans, there are two foods that people most commonly refuse to give up in lieu of healthier, vegan options– bacon and cheese. While bacon requires a separate discussion, vegan cheese has been gaining massive traction in the past few years, despi...
A Majority of The Wu-Tang Clan is Now Vegan...
According to Wu-Tang Clan Group member Jason Hunter (more commonly known by his professional name "Inspectah Deck"), a majority of the Wu-Tang Clan is now enjoying a vegan lifestyle. In an interview with Metro UK, Hunter said, "My end goal is to become a vegan. Eighty percent of the Clan are vegan right now." A few of the vegan Wu-Tang Clan me...
Dairy Farmers Team Up With Plant-Based Milk Compan...
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Investments in Plant-Based Foods and Beverages Hit...
A few days ago, the Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit in support of alternatives for animal agriculture products, released a report that summarized the health of investments in plant-based food and beverage alternatives. In short, plant-based alternative companies are on the rise– and fast. The report's findings are supportive of the tren...
IKEA Feeds into Vegan Trend With New Plant-Based M...
The massive furniture chain has been catering to vegans recently. Just last month, IKEA introduced a vegan, strawberry soft-serve to the menu at all of its European locations. Now, the chain has announced its plans to serve a new vegan version of their popular Swedish meatball in all of its store restaurants worldwide.This announcement from IKEA tr...
A Nudge for Veganism: Tyson Recalls 12 Million Pou...
It's indeed a great time to be vegan. According to federal food safety officials (USDA), Tyson Foods has issued a massive recall of chicken strips which may contain metal contaminants. The meat brand recalled approximately 11.8 million pounds of frozen chicken products due to metal contamination, which is a continued expansion of a recall that...
Adidas Is Creating a Recyclable Running Shoe Made ...
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Plant-Based Products Are Becoming More Mainstream...
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Vegan Activists Urge Prada to Discontinue Exotic A...
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AMAA's New Brazilian JiuJitsu Instructor - ATeam & Team Clark Gracie NYC Team Up!
AMAA's New Brazilian JiuJitsu Instructor – ATeam & Team Clark Gracie NYC Team Up!
José Luis Becerra is a Venezuelan Professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter with a professional record of 7-0 with 6 submission and 1 TKO.
Beccera is known as "El Lobo" (the wolf), for his use of submissions in MMA.
He is a Naga World Champion.
He is a black belt in Brazilian JiuJitsu and has been training for 16 years and teaching for 9 of them.
Jose has been extremely successful in using Brazilian Jiujitsu in his MMA matches, skillfully finishing his opponents with submissions and controlling them on the ground.
We find that his ability to use Brazilian JiuJitsu in competition as well as his 16 years of extensive gi experience and his very deep rooted lineage will bring the education, student development and experience the AMAA-Team Clark Gracie JiuJitsu Program requires.
Now, lets note that these are more advanced or trained students, and that as a beginner you will be starting from the very basics, sparring or rolling in classes like this if you chose to. Our main focus will always be to teach you the very best self defense basics, and the foundation of Andersons Martial Arts Academy.
As you know Andersons Martial Arts Academy carries a very strong and rooted Gracie Jiujistu and Brazilian JiuJitsu lineage.
In our first years in 1996 as Sifu Anderson opened his doors in New York City he began to offer Gracie Jiujistu classes, having started his BJJ journey with Rickson Gracie, after Sifu was awarded his blue-belt from Rickson in the art he knew that he had to continue his practice in New York, and continued by training with Rodolfo Amaro, Megaton Diaz, and eventually being awarded his black-belt under Vitor Shaolin Ribero. Sifu Dan was Shaolins first black-belt, and after that accomplishment he sought to rekindle his long standing relationship and study with the Gracie family.
We have since established ourselves as a Gracie Academy, ingrained in our Jeet Kune Do lineage.
The Gracie Brazilian JiuJitsu program that we offer at the Academy is certified and also upheld by Clark Gracie, who is the grandson of Carlos Gracie, the founder of this Brazilian Jiujitsu. Clark is living in San Diego and teaching and still competing regularly, and winning!
Students that want to original Gracie self defense curriculum: The 5pm Gracie JiuJitsu Class on Thursdays will now be specifically focused on Gracie Self Defense – so feel free to explore that, it will go wonderfully with your JKD curriculum.
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The Council's Freedom of Information Act Publication Scheme can be viewed here.
Details of all FOI requests and responses will be posted on this page.
I have spoken to the Housing Development Officer at Mid Sussex as we do not hold the details here. There is what's called a common housing register which is held for the district, but as our affordable houses are specifically for those with Ashurst Wood connections then only those on the register that qualify will be considered. As the homes are not actually available as yet, then they have not so far been advertised; at which time they become available then those on the register who are eligible can then bid. The Council will then look at the look needs and the connections with Ashurst Wood.
Currently on the register for rented: 68 with Ashurst Wood connections, Currently on the register for shared ownership: 11 with Ashurst Wood connections.
FOI request from Ashurst Wood resident relating to proposed development at Wealden House dated 3rd February 2019, and response dated 11th February 2019.


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Mistakes Get Made
February 9, 2015 Issue
Democracy floats on currents of change. Is it ever capable of managing them?
By Jackson Lears
President John F. Kennedy announces a US blockade of Cuba, October 22, 1962
The word "democracy" has been bruised and beaten during the last few centuries. It has been pressed into the service of dictators and demagogues, of dewy-eyed imperialists and utopian prophets of consumer sovereignty. It has been routinely used to endow power grabs with an aura of righteousness and to recast the pursuit of particular economic interests as a defense of universal principles. After all the ill use, there are gray moments when democracy seems to be more of a phantom than a foundation.
The Confidence Trap
A History of Democracy in Crisis From World War I to the Present.
By David Runciman.
David Runciman is not discouraged. In The Confidence Trap, he returns to the project pioneered by Alexis de Tocqueville: to take democracy seriously as a description of actual societies rather than a mere slogan. Apart from a few such outliers as India and Japan, the societies in question are nearly all in Western Europe and North America, with the United States getting the most attention and standing in, much of the time, for democracy in general.
In Runciman's view, democratic societies seem to lurch from one crisis to another, without ever thoroughly addressing the problems that caused them, but also without ever (well, hardly ever) collapsing altogether. The explanation for this pattern, he decides, depends on Tocqueville's insight that faith is "the lynchpin of American democracy"—faith in the survival and ultimate triumph of democracy, everywhere. The belief that democracy was part of "the providential plan of the universe" could lead to a supreme confidence in its capacity to withstand challenges. But confidence could become a trap, by encouraging complacency and ultimately a kind of fatalism. And fatalism in turn could foster recklessness as well as resignation, because, as Runciman argues, "one way of trusting to the future is to act as though it is already here and jump right in." Democratic fatalism fostered restless energy—the "superabundant force" that Tocqueville sensed throughout the American "social body"—but it could also slide into stagnation.
What was true in Tocqueville's time remains so today, from Runciman's view. American democracy, like democracy in general, has been fated to drift from one crisis to another, because democratic crises are never moments of truth. "They are moments of deep confusion and uncertainty. Nothing is revealed," he writes, and yet democracy continues to adapt to the challenges history poses to it. Indeed, adaptability, Runciman concludes, is democracy's fundamental strength, and the main reason it survives crises that bring down more autocratic regimes.
This is a variation on the argument Walter Lippmann made in Drift and Mastery (1914), which Runciman calls Mastery and Drift. The inversion is revealing. Runciman and Lippmann both assume that democracies are always moving somewhere, if only on the currents of change. Both ask whether democracies should simply float on those currents, or navigate them to their own ends—and if so, how and when? Lippmann's book was a rallying cry to his fellow Progressives to turn drift into mastery, to bend government to benign purposes and promote "a life that shall really be interesting" for the untutored masses. Runciman's book, written a century later after decades of denigration of government, takes a more chastened view of state power. Much of the time, he suggests, we are better off letting mastery yield to drift. In many ways this view is more humane and less manipulative than the young Lippmann's faith in managerial expertise. (Lippmann would become more skeptical of government planning, and in the latter pages of The Confidence Trap Runciman invokes his warnings to American presidents against grandiose overreaching.) But while Runciman deepens Lippmann's dismissive view of popular rule, he sometimes dilutes his predecessor's strong sense of the unequal power relations between the governors and the governed—even in a society that calls itself a democracy. In consequence, The Confidence Trap tends to float above the messy details of social conflict. Its argument, though fresh and interesting, neglects a central theme in twentieth-century political history—the growing insulation of government from popular control or even influence. Its conclusion is more hopeful about the future of democracy than the evidence warrants.
Runciman focuses on seven episodes from the past 100 years when American and European democracy was sorely tested. He begins in 1918, when the Allies' unexpected victory left them unprepared to implement Woodrow Wilson's visionary plan of peace for the postwar world. Then he jumps to 1933, and the failure of the World Economic Conference in London to address the international causes of the Great Depression. Thereafter he touches down in 1947, as the Cold War began and Americans debated how to respond to Soviet advances in Eastern Europe; 1962, when the Cuban Missile Crisis threatened the world with nuclear conflagration; 1974, when the US debacle in Vietnam and the persistence of stagflation created a transatlantic sense of futility; 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and history ended, according to Francis Fukuyama; and lastly in 2008, with the failure of Lehman Brothers leading to a pause in speculative mania and to long-term unemployment for millions. In every case, Runciman argues, democracy demonstrated its tendency to drift into danger and its capacity to improvise pragmatic responses that allowed it, eventually, to drift some more. This is the confidence trap, and the pattern seems clear: disaster is repeatedly if inadvertently averted.
These are ambitious claims, and Runciman asserts them vigorously. His style is confident and conversational, peppered with witty asides and sharp perceptions. Recalling an honorable tradition in social thought, Runciman orchestrates an interpretation based on two ideal types, democracy and autocracy. Democracy is the name for "any society with regular elections, a relatively free press, and open competition for power." This contrasts with autocracy, which exists in "any society in which leaders do not face open elections and the free flow of information is subject to political control." So far, so good—one can quarrel with the presence of no more than two alternative polities, but one has to begin somewhere. The problems begin when ideal types are transformed into historical actors.
Throughout The Confidence Trap, democracy takes chances, makes mistakes, gets things wrong or right and somehow muddles through. Not everyone will be troubled by this trope. The attribution of will and choice to abstractions is a time-honored literary device: good enough for Tocqueville, good enough for us. It is also a practice more common among political theorists than among historians, so my frustrations with Runciman's argument may be rooted in my own disciplinary predilections.
Still, there are times when Runciman's method limits historical understanding by obscuring the motives and responsibility of particular persons. I am reminded of what passed for penetrating marginalia in my graduate school days: my classmates and I would write "Who has power?" in the margins of books whose characters were abstractions like Society, Technology and the National Mood. I found myself posing the same question in the margins of Runciman's book, along with another: "Who benefits?"
The problem is not that there are no people in The Confidence Trap: the book is full of fascinating characters and anecdotal detours. But the relationship between individuals and the larger polity is occasionally left unclear. "Democracies might benefit when individuals take chances and make mistakes, since this is the best way to keep politics open to new ideas," Runciman writes. "But when whole democracies take chances and make mistakes, individuals are the ones to suffer." It is hard to know what the phrase "whole democracies" refers to, unless it is the governments empowered to "take chances" in democracy's name. Runciman's ideal type of democracy tends to be socially diffuse, cutting across national boundaries and class divisions, the governors and the governed. He pays little attention to the role of concentrated wealth and power in creating structural constraints on the exercise of democracy. He assumes majority rule to be a continuing fait accompli and the influence of public opinion on policy to be direct and unproblematic.
The argument that flows from these assumptions is intriguing and frequently insightful, but at certain key points it is indifferent to counterevidence. This is especially true in the realm of foreign affairs, the least democratic aspect of public policy—no American war has been debated and declared by Congress since 1942—and also the one most susceptible to exceptionalist beliefs. As Tocqueville understood, the faith in democratic providence was peculiarly American; no other nation (not even France) has ever been quite as convinced of its unique, divinely ordained destiny to promote democracy throughout the world. Democracy was the excuse for foreign military intervention, the driving force (along with less exalted motives) of millennial nationalism. A focus on ideal types screens out important particulars that make democratic societies different in different places.
Runciman's historical interpretations range from thoughtful reflections on the origins of the Cold War to a misinformed account of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The recurring motif is anticlimax. What looks to be a utopian transformation or an impending catastrophe turns out to be less transformative or catastrophic than anyone had hoped or feared. In 1918, Woodrow Wilson overreached, dreaming of world comity but discovering that democracies (including his own) were unready for it. In 1933, the World Economic Conference in London dithered in the face of disaster, but the democracies (except for Germany) managed to preserve the confidence of their citizenry. In 1947, the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe provoked Winston Churchill and Harry Truman to apocalyptic fervor, but George Kennan and Walter Lippmann steered democracy toward the more reasonable strategy of containment; meanwhile, the emergence of postwar democracies in Japan, India, Israel, Germany, France and Italy showed evidence of democracy's adaptability to various conditions. Heroic aspiration was not on the agenda; democracy's chief strength was its capacity to function as an "improvised, inadvertent form of politics," Runciman writes.
This case is ably and persuasively argued, but when he claims that the Cuban Missile Crisis was also "a victory for democratic inadvertence," the argument comes unhinged from evidence. Runciman begins his account of the missile crisis by quoting the political philosopher Louis Halle, who wrote that in 1962 that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was experiencing "a new kind of weakness…the weakness of the superior power that, in spite of its superiority, cannot afford to risk the test of force." Halle's notion that the USSR was "the superior power" in 1962 was quite mistaken; it was apparently based on the false claim made by the Kennedy campaign in 1960 that the United States needed to close a "missile gap" with the Soviet Union. In fact, the United States had about nine times as many nuclear weapons as the USSR.
The difficulties in this account arise from theoretical assumptions as well as factual inaccuracies. Citing another theorist of that era, Thomas Schelling, Runciman says, "In games of chicken—where the loser is the one who blinks first—the rational strategy is to behave irrationally, so as to convince your opponent you are incapable of recognizing when it's time to blink." From the outset, then, we know that Runciman's version of the Cuban Missile Crisis will unfold in the universe of Grand Strategy, where potentially cataclysmic confrontation is a game of chicken, the appearance of strength is more important than the facts on the ground, and nuclear war is a war like any other.
Runciman describes Khrushchev's decision to put missiles in Cuba as an act of "Soviet aggression" to which Kennedy had to respond forcefully. The president did just that, confronting the Soviets in a nationally televised address with satellite photos of the missiles, demanding their withdrawal and instituting a naval blockade of the island. Lippmann called JFK's televisual strategy naïve and reckless, but Runciman thinks it was shrewd. "Kennedy understood that untutored public opinion was one of his weapons in that negotiation; it signaled to the Soviets that he could not afford to back down." Indeed, Runciman notes, public opinion was constantly on the Kennedy brothers' minds during this crisis. Robert told the Russian ambassador that he could only accept Khrushchev's proposal—for the United States to withdraw its Jupiter missiles from Turkey in exchange for the Soviet missiles' removal from Cuba—"if it wasn't seen as a trade, since democratic public opinion wouldn't stand for it. Khrushchev had to be seen to act first, no conditions attached, which is what he did. Five months later, Kennedy withdrew the weapons from Turkey." This was a triumph for democratic inadvertence, Runciman concludes, yet it was no cause for celebration. "American democracy had avoided catastrophe only by coming right up to the brink…. It had been taken by surprise, felt itself outraged, shut its eyes to the risks, held its breath, and survived. It had lived in the moment." As for the immediate political consequences, the Democratic Party did better than it might have expected before the crisis, but not as well as it might have hoped, given that JFK "had just saved the world" from the threat of nuclear annihilation.
This account is troubling for both conceptual and empirical reasons. Abstractions like democracy and public opinion are Runciman's main characters, yet during the crisis it was men who only could have guessed (assuming they cared) what the majority wanted who were making all the decisions—in secret. If public opinion really did want Kennedy to refuse to "back down," there could never be a stronger case for ignoring public opinion. Nor was this an exercise in game theory, a test to see who blinked first. Nuclear war was not—and is not—a war like any other. As one of my undergraduate mentors, the historian William Harbaugh, used to ask: "What circumstances give a president the authority to put the world under the shadow of nuclear war?" And his answer was always the same: none.
Still, in this case, the circumstances themselves also deserve close attention. The standard account of the crisis that Runciman reprises, with Kennedy facing down "Soviet aggression," has been dismantled by Sheldon Stern and other historians whose work has drawn on the so-called ExComm tapes—recordings of Kennedy's meetings with the Executive Committee of the National Security Council. As recent scholarship makes clear, Khrushchev was responding to a series of provocations by Kennedy: the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, a massive US military buildup designed to close a nonexistent missile gap, and the installation of Jupiter missiles in Turkey, near the Soviet border. The Jupiter missiles were immobile, aboveground, and required a long preparation to launch. Naturally they looked like first-strike weapons to the Soviets. And indeed the Kennedy administration had considered the first-strike option during the Berlin crisis of 1961. No wonder Khrushchev thought that putting missiles in Cuba would just be giving the Americans "a little of their own medicine" (as he later told the American journalist Strobe Talbott), not to mention deterring future US attempts to topple the Castro regime—which he had every reason to expect.
Yet at the same time both the Soviets and the Americans knew that the Cuban missiles in no way altered the strategic balance. Long-range missiles, whether fired from underground silos in Ukraine or from submarines at sea, were just as lethal as mid-range missiles fired from Cuba. The real problem the missiles posed was not strategic but political. And it was a problem of Kennedy's own making—not a consequence of "the irrational intransigence of democratic opinion," as Runciman says. Kennedy had made toughness on the Soviet Union a centerpiece of his foreign policy, and the failure of his invasion of Cuba only intensified his obsession with unseating Castro. When Russian missiles appeared in Cuba, JFK ignored the possibilities of diplomacy and instead publicly confronted the Soviets. This was an extraordinarily provocative—and unnecessary—raising of the stakes. In the end, Kennedy partially redeemed himself by accepting Khrushchev's peace proposal, resisting his own more hawkish advisers' calls for another invasion. But the fundamental fact remains: democracy did not put the world in the shadow of nuclear war; Kennedy did. People, not abstractions, make policy.
After the near miss of nuclear war became just another successfully managed crisis, Runciman writes, American democracy continued to drift—periodically enveloped by a sense of emergency, learning nothing from the crises of the past. I would say worse than nothing: the Cuban Missile Crisis taught, if anything, the wrong lesson, that toughness gets results, while the US defeat in Vietnam produced only "bitterness, confusion, and a desire to forget," in Runciman's words. Other democracies were more willing to acknowledge failure. India, blindsided by the Chinese seizure of disputed territory in 1962, quickly acknowledged the blunder and sought aid from Western Europe, the United States and even Israel. Runciman concludes from this conduct that "democracies are not proud when it comes to facing up to their mistakes, largely because they make so many of them. They tend to be pragmatic." This may be true for countries that have not drunk too deeply from the springs of messianic nationalism, but for "the indispensable nation"—as Madeleine Albright called the United States—admitting mistakes is a sign of weakness. That's because the American tradition, especially in foreign policy, is deeply anti-pragmatic—Protestant Christianity, secularized into providentialist zeal. Its chief rhetorical form is the jeremiad, wherein the speaker laments moral decline and rallies his audience to rebuild a righteous community. Drift, in the eschatology of the jeremiad, is a form of slackness.
The rhetoric of the jeremiad shaped journalists' response to the events of 1974, a moment characterized by a "pervasive sense of drift" that created a "crisis of democracy," according to James Reston of The New York Times. Democratic leaders, among them Richard Nixon and Willy Brandt, were resigning under clouds of scandal; the American war in Vietnam was grinding to a humiliating halt; and the prosperity of the postwar era was disappearing in the swamp of stagflation. In Runciman's view, politicians did not have the courage to stand up to the public's demands for social security and a continually rising standard of living, to impose the fiscal discipline that was needed to fight inflation and get the country moving again. Yet "the feeling of impending disaster proved an asset, because it enabled the democracies to let off steam. Nonetheless, it meant that they did not really know what they were doing." Still, they managed to stumble into a solution to stagflation—putting the central bankers in charge, allowing the interest and unemployment rates to rise. Later, Reagan and Thatcher would tighten the screws. From Runciman's vantage, austerity would breed prosperity, which was just around the corner. "The outward failures of the 1970s turned out to be a success story for democracy," he writes. "The success became fully visible in the triumph of 1989." In this view, the shift toward neoliberal consensus occurred in a fit of absence of mind. Politicians backed into a resurgent laissez-faire orthodoxy through a series of ad hoc adjustments to policy. They did not really know what they were doing.
This account of the emergence of neoliberalism is illuminating in many ways. It captures the bafflement of policy-makers whose familiar Keynesian solutions suddenly seemed inadequate to the task at hand. The feeling of futility seemed to disable leaders on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet the turn toward neoliberalism was not simply a stumble on to the right policy solutions. It was part of a broad ideological shift promoted by people with powerful institutions at their disposal. It can be traced to (among other things) the Powell memorandum, which future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell sent to the US Chamber of Commerce in 1971. Powell urged an ideological counterattack against the alleged enemies of capitalism in universities and the media; in effect, he envisioned the creation of a respectable right-wing political culture—Fox News, The Washington Times, the Heritage Foundation and the like. The success of this counteroffensive has been stunning and anything but ad hoc. Powerful groups have worked systematically to shift the fulcrum of debate rightward. These developments are at least as important as "excessive wage demands" in explaining the fragmentation of the mid-century Keynesian consensus.
With the collapse of communism in 1989, Runciman finds another anticlimax—one rooted in the contrast between disillusionment and hope. Marxist-Leninist societies had to deliver on their utopian promises and could not; liberal democracy did not have to deliver anything, but simply retain its promise as something that still made sense to believe in. Francis Fukuyama's announcement of the end of history (apart from its other obvious absurdities) failed to recognize that the strength of democracy is precisely that it doesn't need an "end"—"it doesn't foreclose the future. That is how it survives the vagaries of history," says Runciman. Fukuyama, like Nietzsche and Allen Bloom, was haunted by the specter of banal self-satisfaction that he believed would envelop society after external challenges to democracy had disappeared. Yet Fukuyama ignored, in Runciman's view, "the restless quality of all democratic societies, including the most comfortable ones." Here, as in Tocqueville, "restlessness" is a stand-in for entrepreneurial ambition.
When democracies lose their restlessness, they lose their edge, Runciman believes, as the Japanese did in the 1990s. Their attachment to security and stability prevented their embrace of neoliberal "reforms"—a move India made more successfully, though by government fiat rather than popular vote, as Runciman acknowledges. Maybe ordinary Indians weren't as entrepreneurial as their rulers (or the International Monetary Fund) thought they should be. Maybe, in contemporary democracies, top-down decisions are more important than the will of the people. These are the kind of possibilities that undermine the explanatory power of democracy tout court, unmoored from political economy or power relations.
When he turns to the crash of 2008, Runciman assumes that if politicians had braved the wrath of the voters and chosen "the drastic measures needed to stave off disaster," the disaster could have been averted. By his reckoning, "drastic measures" do not apparently include the prosecution of securities fraud or the restoration of the barrier between commercial and investment banking, but they do involve the stabilization of budget deficits. Unfortunately, Runciman notes, "the insistent demands of the public" overrode "the moderating influence of the experts," and fiscal discipline was forgotten. Still, in his view, the crash and the response to it reveal the familiar pattern: democracies paring down pending catastrophe into manageable proportions, postponing the evil day of reckoning forever, if they can. Improvisational to the core, "democracies are always trying something new," Runciman claims. Surveying the current political wasteland, littered with stale technocratic slogans, one wonders what he has in mind.
We had better hope it is something truly new, because familiar formulas fail to address the four challenges to democracy that Runciman cites in conclusion: "war, finance, environmental threat, and the existence of a plausible rival." He does not seem unduly concerned that concentrated wealth on Wall Street or in the energy industry might create obstacles to problem-solving in financial or environmental policy. Nor does he acknowledge how the rise of the national security state, complemented by surveillance technology, has negated democracy by transforming warmaking into a secret enterprise planned and largely conducted by experts. Democracy has little or nothing to do with contemporary war, certainly not the kind remotely controlled by democracies. As for surveillance, Runciman acknowledges that "democracies have access to multiple new sources of information," but that "they just don't know what to do with it all." To whom does "they" refer? The CIA? The NSA? Certainly not to any institution that could plausibly be called democratic.
Finally, there is the question of rivals to democracy, the chief contemporary one being autocratic China, in Runciman's view. China can respond to crisis more quickly than democracies because its government is not hamstrung by the need to please public opinion, he thinks; but like other autocracies it has less capacity than democracy to own up to mistakes and change course when required. There are other potential rivals, including the hybrid regimes that have proliferated in the wake of communism's collapse. The most prominent is Russia, which, Runciman says, has "turned into a pseudo-democratic kleptocracy, in which people use money to get power and power to get money." This may be true, but this same language could be used to describe much of public life in the contemporary United States, especially in light of recent Supreme Court rulings—most notoriously Citizens United—equating money and free speech.
The ambiguity of the distinction between democratic and pseudo-democratic governments suggests the largest problem with Runciman's explanatory scheme—its tendency to neglect contradictory evidence. The Confidence Trap creates a smoothly functional interpretive apparatus, perfectly suited to exposing the recurring pattern of crisis, drift and renewed crisis. This in itself is an important achievement. But it remains a partial one. Too often, the particularities of place and power slip out the side door, into the dark. We need to bring them to light if we want to restore full meaning to the battered word "democracy."
Jackson LearsJackson Lears is editor of Raritan, and is writing a history of animal spirits in American economic and cultural life.

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Remember when the most screen time you'd get during the school day was playing a game of Oregon Trail? These days, kids spend so much of their lives in front of computer, smartphone and television screens—both at home and at school. In fact, research shows that 8- to 18-year-olds consume an average of 7 hours and 11 minutes of screen media per day!
With kids everywhere beginning a new school year, parents should be aware of the effects of excessive screen time so that they can implement strategies for protecting their little ones' eyes.
Have you ever noticed that when you spend a few hours staring at a digital screen, your eyes start to feel tired and strained, maybe a little dry and blurry? These are all common effects of excessive screen time.
Digital screens are a source of blue light, exposure to which can cause digital eye strain, retina damage and possibly even age-related macular degeneration.
Monitor screen time. Beyond eye damage, excessive screen time among children is associated with obesity, lack of sleep, problems at school and behavior issues. A general rule of thumb is to cap entertainment screen time at two hours per day. This gives your little one's eyes a break from screens and ensures that they don't miss out on other important things like exercise and sleep.
Follow the 20/20/20 rule. Speaking of giving the eyes a break, are you familiar with the 20/20/20 rule? According to Medical News Today, this rule, designed by optometrist Jeffrey Anshel, "says that for every 20 minutes spent looking at a screen, a person should look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds." It's an easy way for your child to remember to take frequent breaks.
Adjust screen positioning. The way you position your child's screens can make a notable difference in digital eye strain. For example, computer screens should be positioned slightly below eye level, as staring up at a screen requires the eyes to open wider and work harder. Mobile devices, on the other hand, should be held at minimum 25 centimeters from the face. There's even an app that can help with this!
Wear blue-light blocking glasses. Blue-light blocking glasses (also commonly referred to as "computer glasses") are really hip right now—and with good reason! They help reduce digital eye strain and decrease visual stress by filtering out blue light. Real Shades recently came out with our own line of affordable computer glasses called Screen Shades, available in a variety of sizes and colors your little one will love.
Schedule regular eye exams. Even if you follow all these tips, your child may still experience vision problems—whether related or unrelated to digital screens. The best way to stay on top of their vision health is to schedule routine eye exams.
It's a digital world we live in, and there's no stopping that—for better or worse! But with the right strategies in place, you can do everything in your power to protect your child's eyes from the effects of digital screens. Good luck, and have a great school year!


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26/06/2019, 4:29 am Updated: 26/06/2019, 5:53 am
Boris Johnson believes Gatt 24 offers a possible 'way forward' on Brexit (Ben Birchall/PA)
The Tory leadership contest has propelled a piece of Brexit jargon into the national conversation – Gatt 24.
– But what does it mean?
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) is a post-Second World War legal agreement that forms the basis for the trade in goods around the world today.
It was replaced by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in the 1990s, although the original Gatt text is still in use.
If Britain leaves the EU without a deal then trade would have to take place in line with WTO rules – and their associated tariffs.
Article 24 allows for the creation of an interim agreement necessary for the formation of a customs union or a free-trade area, which could stay in place for up to 10 years.
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has dismissed Bris Johnson's claims on Gatt 24 (Stefan Rousseau/PA)
– Can Gatt 24 be used for Brext?
Boris Johnson has insisted Gatt 24 offers a possible "way forward" with "agreement on both sides".
However, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, a Brexiteer who is backing Jeremy Hunt for the Tory leadership, warned Brussels has made clear no such agreement would be forthcoming.
Even if the UK and EU agreed to pursue Gatt 24, other WTO members could veto it.
According to the House of Commons Library, the possibility of rejection has proven to be enough of a deterrent that no WTO members have notified an interim agreement since 1995.
And, against all this, Gatt 24 only applies to the trade in goods.
According to figures, services accounted for 40% of the UK's exports to the EU in 2017. A separate agreement under the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) would be needed for that.
Finally, such a move would be unusual to say the least, because it is the reverse of a normal Gatt 24 application.
WTO expert Peter Ungphakorn explained in a blog post: "The UK and EU have a single market arrangement and are withdrawing some or all of its features. Here the notification will be needed almost at the start of the negotiations, not at the end.
"Knowing the final destination so early in the process might not be so easy."
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Jedwabna nadzieja (ang. Silk Hope) – amerykański film telewizyjny z 1999 roku na podstawie książki Lawrence'a Naumoffa z udziałem Farrah Fawcett.

Obsada
 Farrah Fawcett – Frannie Vaughn
 Brad Johnson – Ruben
 Peggy McCay – Pani Vaughn, matka Frannie i Natalie
 Ashley Crow – Natalie, siostra Frannie
 Scott Bryce – Jake
 Herb Mitchell – Claude Osteen

Treść
Frannie Vaughn była zawsze czarną owcą w rodzinie. Niespokojna dusza, prowadziła przez lata "rozrywkowe" życie, zmieniała mężczyzn jak rękawiczki. Matka i siostra Natalie uważały, że ma to po ojcu, który opuścił rodzinę, gdy jego dwie córki były jeszcze małe. Od tamtego czasu żona i córki nie miały od niego żadnych wieści.

Kiedy okazuje się, że matka jest ciężko chora i lekarze dają jej najwyżej pół roku życia, Frannie decyduje się wrócić do rodzinnego miasteczka Silk Hope, w stanie Północnej Karoliny. Niestety, przybywa za późno. Frannie ma wyrzuty sumienia. Postanawia zostać w domu, uporządkować swoje sprawy, zacząć nowe życie.

Aby udowodnić, że się zmieniła, Frannie podejmuje pracę w miejscowych zakładach odzieżowych. W fabryce spotyka brygadzistę Rubina, w którym się zakochuje.

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One Moment in Time
A Brief Biosketch
Glenn Snyder grew up in Marin County, a few miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in International Economics, Glenn worked as a strategy and finance professional at well-known public companies. In 2001, Glenn earned his MBA with a double emphasis in International Business and Finance from the University of San Francisco. Shortly after his MBA, Glenn pursued two of his dreams, teaching, and writing, while still working full time.
For five years, Glenn taught both Managerial Finance and International Trade & Finance at San Francisco State University, while he also wrote the first draft of One Moment in Time. In May of 2011, Glenn published his first novel, One Moment in Time. He has also published a supplement to Principles of Corporate Finance through McGraw-Hill, presented at several finance and leadership conferences, and been a regular/co-host on the FP&A Friday's podcast.
Glenn Describes his inspiration for One moment in time
Although it sounds cliche, the inspiration for One Moment in Time came from a dream. It was one of those rare dreams that you remember well after you wake up. As I began to write, the story came together very easily. I wanted to write a story about the power of the individual, how one person can truly change the world, and the dream gave me the twist I was looking for. I hope you enjoy reading about Jack Barrett as much as I enjoyed writing about him.
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The new proposal intends to be in harmony with the original form and character of the existing property and the historic pattern of extensions within the terrace.
The design of the proposed extension aims to mimic the form of the butterfly roof by mirroring the monopitch of the existing two storey annex. However, at one storey, the proposed design refrains from interrupting the form of the original building and is instead subservient in its massing.
The new brick extension will provide a generous kitchen/ dining room that will connect directly with the garden. The uninterrupted plan of the extension will allow continuos views through the house and allow the ordering of rooms
to be adapted more freely. In addition, the floor level of the kitchen/dining room will be lowered by 250mm to allow for a more generous floor to ceiling height. The garden will also be lowered across its entirety to allow for a level threshold from kitchen.
The new extension is proposed to be built in brick with hard wood timber framed sliding doors.
All new rooflights will will be powder coated aluminium framed in dark grey colour to match the existing slate roof. The roof of the extension will be constructed in structural timber and clad in a GRP proprietary roofing material as non visible from its surrounding.


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Chef Michael's menu is full of creatively inspired local Florida Keys cuisine. Not just any seafood restaurant in Islamorada, our dinner offerings include mouth-watering preparations of meat and game, because, in the sportfishing capital of the world, sometimes you just get fished out!


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A high result is generally considered to represent good cash management, since a business is holding onto its cash for as long as possible, thereby decreasing its investment in working capital. However, an extremely long DPO figure can be a sign of trouble, where a business is unable to meet its obligations within a reasonable period of time.
A low DPO figure generally implies that a business is paying its obligations too soon, since it is increasing its working capital investment. However, it may also mean that a firm is taking advantage of early payment discounts being offered by its suppliers. The savings implicit in most early payment terms can make early payment an extremely attractive option, justifying a low DPO figure.
Given these disparate interpretations of DPO, a good way to evaluate the payables performance of a business is to compare its DPO to that of other companies in the same industry. They are likely all using similar suppliers, and so are being offered the same early payment discounts.
The DPO measurement can be useful as part of a larger examination of the liquidity of a business by a lender or creditor, or by an investor who wants to understand the cash position of a potential investee.


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German government plans global military offensive
By Johannes Stern
New military interventions by the German army (Bundeswehr) in Africa, the Middle East and Asia are being discussed and prepared in German defence and foreign policy think tanks, under the pretext of the "struggle against the causes of [refugee] flight".
An article entitled "The Do-gooders" in the current issue of the news magazine Der Spiegel provides insight into these far-reaching plans. The projects are so massive that even the establishment Spiegel describes them as a "project between despair and megalomania."
The goal of the government is "to ensure that as few refugees as possible set off for Germany," and to "make large parts of the world a better place," the Spiegel authors write. The article quotes Federal Defence Minister Von der Leyen: "We need to restore state power and stability in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya."
The article leaves no doubt that this will be achieved by a massive expansion of German militarism abroad. "German military missions are being planned, expanded or extended from Mali to Iraq to Afghanistan—to a degree that nobody could have imagined just a few short months ago," the authors write. The government was currently reviewing "the possibility of making Tornado reconnaissance planes available on the periphery of the Syrian conflict."
In other words, following in the footsteps of the United States, France, Britain and Russia, Germany is preparing to intervene directly into the Syrian conflict with its air force.
Similar plans are being forged for Afghanistan. Last week, Hans-Lothar Domröse, the highest-ranking German NATO General called for the resumption of combat operations in Afghanistan and air strikes against the Taliban. Last Thursday, Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke out in favour of creating in Afghanistan "internal alternatives to flight", i.e., regions to which refugees from Afghanistan could be deported.
According to Der Spiegel discussions have already taken place at the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence "at state level" on increasing the number of Bundeswehr soldiers who deliver weapons and training to Kurdish peshmerga fighters in Iraq. The Bundeswehr is also planning "new arms shipments to the Kurds and the extension of aid to the central government in Baghdad."
In addition, the deployment of the Bundeswehr should be extended to Mali, and the Defence Department was even considering a possible military mission in "the failed state of Libya". According to the magazine, there "was little doubt in the German military leadership ... that the army would participate in such a mission." An unnamed general is quoted saying: "As a leading nation within the alliance, Berlin can no longer stand aside."
More outspoken German officers went even further. Domröse has already spoken of possible missions in Syria or Iraq. "It makes sense to militarily stamp out our neighbours' fires. Otherwise, there is just misery and millions of people who begin fleeing to us," Der Spiegel quotes Dömrose.
Of course, neither the magazine nor Domröse and the federal government explain how it "makes sense" to oppose streams of refugees with exactly the same military methods which have devastated Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria and turned millions into refugees in the first place.
In reality, the German elite is not the least interested in the "misery" of millions, which results from its own policies. Rather it is greedy for markets, raw materials, strategic influence and global power. A policy of more frequent and "dangerous military missions abroad," as Der Spiegel put it, is precisely the new foreign policy openly proclaimed by president Gauck and the German government at the Munich Security Conference in 2014.
At that time Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) had declared that Germany has to "lead more often and more decisively in the future" to pursue its global interests. Specifically, he listed "Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Afghanistan, tensions in East Asia" as part of an "incomplete list of hot spots in the coming year" for German foreign policy.
This doctrine is now to be put into practice. On 18 September, at a conference of the Alfred Herrhausen Society and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Berlin, Ursula von der Leyen declared: "Leading from the centre is no longer a vision, it is now an actual description. It is no longer a question of whether, but of how."
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Germany's Grand Coalition intensifies war policy in the Middle East
German minister of defence to head European Commission
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Students block right-wing think tank on "Dictatorship Research" at Berlin's Humboldt University
Lübcke's murderer was part of vast underground German neo-Nazi terrorist network
German Defence Minister to become EU Commission president
Deutsche Bank to eliminate one in five jobs
New report confirms Germany's deep-seated inequality
IYSSE wins seat in student parliament at Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany


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Clement Westerhof Finally Receives House Promised In 1994 By FG
The Federal Government has redeemed its pledge to Clement Westerhof, a former coach of the 1994 Super Eagles 28 years after by handing over the keys of a 3-bedroom bungalow to him.
The FG had pledged to give the Dutchman a house for winning the 1994 AFCON, and it was redeemed in 2019, but since the house was still under renovation, FG promised that the house keys will be given to Westerhof once it was ready for occupation.
On Wednesday in Abuja, Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works and Housing, handed over the keys to Westerhof at the prototype housing estate along Gwagwalada-Kuje road, on Wednesday in Abuja.
He was represented by Mr Solomon Labafilo, Director, Department of Public Buildings and Housing.
Fashola said that the government came up with the scheme called prototype housing scheme in Lagos, Abuja, Port-Harcourt, and other parts of the country.
"The programme was started in 2014 and we have phases I and II while the total houses completed and occupied are 206.
"The phase II is where the allocations for the two coaches were made, Jo Bonfrere has house 1A and Clemens Westerhof has unit 1B," Fashola said.
Fashola said the government was committed to rewarding citizens who made sacrifices to project the good image of the country.
"It will interest you to know that the government's pledge to the 1994 Super Eagles was not fulfilled until when President Muhammadu Buhari approved that all the members be handed over their houses.
"Westerhof was allocated his in the prototype housing scheme here in Gwagwalada and other beneficiaries were allocated their homes in the respective states of their choice in the National Housing Programme estates across the country.
"We handed over keys and Certificate of Occupancy today to former coach of the Nigeria Super Eagles who led the 1994 Team, Clemens Westerhof.
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"This is to show government's resolve to ensure that Nigerians, irrespective of time, who made sacrifices to project the good image of the country are recognised and encouraged to keep working for the corporate benefit of all.
"We have entered a season of completion and handover of keys to beneficiaries in 35 states and the FCT to Nigerians who have successfully subscribed for houses built under the National Housing Programme (NHP) through the ministry's website: Https:nhp.worksand housing.gov.ng.
Fashola revealed that the web portal was launched on Nov. 12, 2021, adding that over 13,000 applications had been received from Nigerians who have created personal account profiles on the website.
The minister, therefore, called on all Nigerians to avail themselves of the opportunity of owning a house in the 35 states and FCT that have been completed except for Lagos State.
Westerhof, represented by Mrs Charity Biwet commended the Federal Government for fulfilling its promise after so many years, adding, "it was something noteworthy.
"I stand in here with great joy to receive these keys to this beautiful edifice, I love the building and am sure the owner will love it.
"It is a promise kept and it is really encouraging to see that efforts are being recognised and rewarded. We appreciate this and I will convey the goodwill of the president and the minister to Mr Westerhof."


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Avaya Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2020 Financial Results
businesswire, February 10, 2020, 12:00 pm
Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) today reported financial results for the first quarter ended December 31, 2019.
First Quarter Financial Highlights
GAAP Operating income was $15 million; Non-GAAP Operating income was $151 million
Adjusted EBITDA was $174 million
CFFO was 2% of revenue, and 8% of revenue when adjusted for one-time strategic deal payments
Cloud, Alliance Partner & Subscription revenue was 18% of revenue
Repurchased $132 million of common stock, or 10.7 million shares, at an average price of $12.27 per share
"Our solid operational execution resulted in revenues and adjusted EBITDA above the mid-point of our guidance for the quarter," stated Jim Chirico, President and CEO of Avaya. He added, "At the same time, we continued to strengthen our position in public, private, and hybrid cloud communications markets, including our newest cloud-based UCaaS offering, Avaya Cloud Office, which is on schedule for introduction at the end of March. The increased breadth and depth in our portfolio enable us to deliver innovative and tailored solutions using consumption models, such as subscription, that facilitates our customers transition to the cloud using Avaya technology."
Mr. Chirico concluded, "During the quarter, we made substantial progress in returning capital to our shareholders. In early November, we paid down $250 million in long-term debt and by the end of December, we repurchased nearly 11 million shares using approximately $132 million of the $500 million program approved by our Board."
Financial Results for the First Quarter
GAAP
Non-GAAP (1)
(In millions, except percentages)
Net (loss) income
Adjusted EBITDA(1)
Adjusted EBITDA margin(1)
Cash provided by operations
Additional Key Performance Metrics
Revenue year-over-year decline of 3%; non-GAAP revenue year-over-year decline of 4% in constant currency(1)
Total Contract Value (TCV) of $2.3 billion*
86% of non-GAAP revenue was Software & Services
65% of non-GAAP product revenue was Software
59% of non-GAAP revenue was Recurring
Added approximately 1,300 new logos
Large deal activity with 68 deals over $1 million, 6 over $5 million, and 3 over $10 million
(1) Non-GAAP revenue, Non-GAAP gross margin, Non-GAAP operating margin, Non-GAAP operating income, adjusted EBITDA, and constant currency are not measures calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. ("GAAP"). Adjusted EBITDA margin is calculated based on non-GAAP Revenue. Refer to the "Use of non-GAAP (Adjusted) Financial Measures" below for more information on the calculation of constant currency. Refer to the Supplemental Financial Information accompanying this press release for more information, including a reconciliation of these measures to the most closely comparable measure calculated in accordance with GAAP.
* We define TCV as the value of all active ratable contracts that have not been recognized as revenue, including both billed and unbilled backlog.
Avaya added several new well-recognized and respected industry leaders to strengthen the company's position in the market as a leader in enterprise communications and accelerate the company's momentum as it executes on its strategy and transformation to the cloud. They include Anthony Bartolo, executive vice president, Products and Solutions; Simon Harrison, Chief Marketing Officer; Jon Brinton, vice president, North America Channel Sales; and William Madison, vice president North America Cloud Sales. Each of these leaders brings with them significant strategic and operational expertise along with proven track records in their respective disciplines.
Avaya was recognized with two Frost & Sullivan awards:
2019 Customer Value Leadership Award for Customer Journey Intelligence, recognizing the advanced AI and other Customer Journey Intelligence innovations that have been built into Avaya's broad, industry-leading portfolio of customer and employee engagement solutions.
2019 North America Product Leadership Award in the enterprise safety solutions market for Public Safety Solutions.
Avaya IX™ Workspaces was named as a 2019 Contact Center Technology Award winner, presented by CUSTOMER magazine. Avaya IX Workspaces helps to improve agent productivity and the overall customer experience by integrating multiple applications into a single agent desktop and by empowering customer support personnel to personalize the customer experience by enabling them to view and interact with customer journey details.
Google Cloud Contact Center (CC) AI capabilities are now integrated with Avaya IX Contact Center solutions and is now available for customers globally. The powerful combination of Avaya AI conversation services and Google Cloud CC AI are providing a better experience for clients by seamlessly blending automated and assisted experiences throughout a customer's interaction with the contact center.
Financial Outlook – 2Q Fiscal 2020 – unless otherwise noted, values reflect December 31st, 2019 FX rates
GAAP revenue of $673 million to $698 million; Non-GAAP revenue of $675 million to $700 million
This non-GAAP revenue figure reflects a constant currency decline of (5)% to (2)%
GAAP operating income of $22 million to $32 million; GAAP operating margin of 3% to 5%
Non-GAAP operating income of $116 million to $126 million; non-GAAP operating margin of 17% to 18%
Adjusted EBITDA of $140 million to $150 million; Adjusted EBITDA margin of ~21%
Financial Outlook – Fiscal Year 2020 – unless otherwise noted, values reflect December 31st, 2019 FX rates
GAAP revenue of $2.83 billion to $2.91 billion; Non-GAAP revenue of $2.84 billion to $2.92 billion
This non-GAAP revenue figure reflects a constant currency decline of (2)% to 0%
GAAP operating income of $130 million to $180 million; GAAP operating margin of 5% to 6%
Adjusted EBITDA $650 million to $700 million; Adjusted EBITDA margin of 23% to 24%
CFFO of ~5% of revenue, and ~7% of revenue when adjusted for one-time strategic deal payments
Approximately 93 million to 97 million weighted average shares outstanding; ending share count of approximately 80 million to 83 million shares
Cash requirements for restructuring pension & OPEB, cash taxes, capital spending and net cash interest payments for fiscal year 2020 are expected to be:
Restructuring: $35 million to $40 million
Pension/OPEB: ~$55 million
Cash Taxes: $65 million to $75 million
Capital Expenditures: ~$120 million
Net Cash Interest Payments: $190 million to $195 million
Avaya's outlook does not include the potential impact of any business combinations, asset acquisitions, divestitures, strategic investments, or other significant transactions that may be completed after February 10, 2020. Actual results may differ materially from Avaya's outlook as a result of, among other things, the factors described under "Forward-Looking Statements" below.
Conference Call and Webcast
Avaya will host a live webcast and conference call to discuss its financial results at 8:30 AM Eastern Time on February 10, 2020. To access the live conference call by phone, listeners should dial +1-877-858-7671 in the U.S. or Canada and +1-201-389-0939 for international callers. To join the live webcast, listeners should access the investor page of Avaya's website at https://investors.avaya.com.
Following the live webcast, a replay will be available on the investor page of Avaya's website for a period of one year. A replay of the conference call will be available for one week soon after the call by phone by dialing +1-877-660-6853 in the U.S. or Canada and +1-201-612-7415 for international callers, using the conference access code: 13698454.
About Avaya
Businesses are built on the experiences they provide, and every day millions of those experiences are built by Avaya (NYSE: AVYA). For over one hundred years, we've enabled organizations around the globe to win – by creating intelligent communications experiences for customers and employees. Avaya builds open, converged and innovative solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration – in the cloud, on-premise or a hybrid of both. To grow your business, we're committed to innovation, partnership, and a relentless focus on what's next. We're the technology company you trust to help you deliver Experiences that Matter. Visit us at www.avaya.com.
This release contains certain "forward-looking statements." All statements other than statements of historical fact are "forward-looking" statements for purposes of the U.S. federal and state securities laws. These statements may be identified by the use of forward looking terminology such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "might," "our vision," "plan," "potential," "preliminary," "predict," "should," "will," or "would" or the negative thereof or other variations thereof or comparable terminology. The Company has based these forward-looking statements on its current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While the Company believes these expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections are reasonable, such forward-looking statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond its control. These factors are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), and may cause its actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. For a further list and description of such risks and uncertainties, please refer to the Company's filings with the SEC that are available at www.sec.gov. The Company cautions you that the list of important factors included in the Company's SEC filings may not contain all of the material factors that are important to you. In addition, in light of these risks and uncertainties, the matters referred to in the forward-looking statements contained in this report may not in fact occur. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by law.
Avaya Holdings Corp.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited)
(In millions, except per share amounts)
Amortization of technology intangible assets
Amortization of intangible assets
Restructuring charges, net
Other income, net
(LOSS) INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES
(LOSS) EARNINGS PER SHARE
Diluted
Weighted average shares outstanding
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited)
(In millions, except per share and shares amounts)
Current assets:
Accounts receivable, net
Contract assets
Contract costs
Property, plant and equipment, net
Deferred income taxes, net
Goodwill, net
Current liabilities:
Debt maturing within one year
Payroll and benefit obligations
Contract liabilities
Operating lease liabilities
Business restructuring reserve
Non-current liabilities:
Pension obligations
Other post-retirement obligations
TOTAL NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value; 55,000,000 shares authorized at December 31, 2019 and September 30, 2019
Convertible Series A, 125,000 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2019 and no shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2019
Common stock, $0.01 par value; 550,000,000 shares authorized; 100,505,954 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2019; and 111,046,085 shares issued and 111,033,405 shares outstanding at September 30, 2019
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
Condensed Statements of Cash Flows
(Unaudited; in millions)
Net cash provided by (used for):
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
Net increase in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
Use of non-GAAP (Adjusted) Financial Measures
The information furnished in this release includes non-GAAP financial measures that differ from measures calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP"), including financial measures labeled as "non-GAAP" or "adjusted."
EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) before income taxes, interest expense, interest income and depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA is EBITDA further adjusted to exclude certain charges and other adjustments described in our SEC filings and the tables below.
We believe that including supplementary information concerning adjusted EBITDA is appropriate because it serves as a basis for determining management and employee compensation and it is used as a basis for calculating covenants in our credit agreements. In addition, we believe adjusted EBITDA provides more comparability between our historical results and results that reflect purchase accounting and our current capital structure. We also present adjusted EBITDA because we believe analysts and investors utilize these measures in analyzing our results. Adjusted EBITDA measures our financial performance based on operational factors that management can impact in the short-term, such as our pricing strategies, volume, costs and expenses of the organization, and it presents our financial performance in a way that can be more easily compared to prior quarters or fiscal years.
EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA have limitations as analytical tools. EBITDA measures do not represent net income (loss) or cash flow from operations as those terms are defined by GAAP and do not necessarily indicate whether cash flows will be sufficient to fund cash needs. Adjusted EBITDA excludes the impact of earnings or charges resulting from matters that we do not consider indicative of our ongoing operations. In particular, our formulation of adjusted EBITDA allows adjustment for certain amounts that are included in calculating net income (loss), however, these are expenses that may recur, may vary and are difficult to predict. In addition, these terms are not necessarily comparable to other similarly titled captions of other companies due to the potential inconsistencies in the method of calculation.
We also present the measures non-GAAP revenue, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin as a supplement to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP. We believe these non-GAAP measures are the most meaningful for period to period comparisons because they exclude the impact of the earnings and charges noted in the applicable tables below that resulted from matters that we consider not to be indicative of our ongoing operations.
The Company presents constant currency information to provide a framework for assessing how the Company's underlying businesses performance excluding the effect of foreign currency rate fluctuations. To present this information current and comparative prior period results for entities reporting in currencies other than U.S. dollars are converted into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect on the last day of the Company's prior fiscal year (i.e. September 30, 2019).
In addition, we present the liquidity measure of free cash flow. Free cash flow is calculated by subtracting capital expenditures from Net cash provided by operating activities. We believe free cash flow is a measure often used by analysts and investors to compare the cash flow and liquidity of companies in the same industry.
The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation from, as substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP and may be different from the non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. In addition, these non-GAAP measures have limitations in that they do not reflect all of the amounts associated with the Company's results of operations as determined in accordance with GAAP.
We do not provide a forward-looking reconciliation of expected second quarter and full year of fiscal 2020 non-GAAP revenue, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin or adjusted EBITDA guidance as the amount and significance of special items required to develop meaningful comparable GAAP financial measures cannot be estimated at this time without unreasonable efforts. These special items could be meaningful.
The following tables reconcile historical GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures.
Supplemental Schedules
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA
Impact of fresh start accounting adjustments
Restructuring charges, net of sublease income
Advisory fees
Acquisition-related costs
Share-based compensation
Change in fair value of Emergence Date Warrants
Loss on foreign currency transactions
Gain on marketable securities
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Revenue
Dec. 31,
Adj. for
Non-
Pct. in
Currency*
Sept. 30,
Mar. 31,
Revenue by Segment
Unallocated amounts
Revenue by Geography
APAC – Asia Pacific
Americas International
Total International
* Constant Currency is a non-GAAP financial measure, as noted in "Use of non-GAAP (Adjusted) Financial Measures" above.
(1) – (4) Reconciliation of Non-GAAP measures above:
(1) Q419 Non-GAAP Results
Adj. for Fresh
Non-GAAP
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Gross Margin and Operating Income
March 31,
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Gross Profit and Non-GAAP Gross Margin
Items excluded:
Adj. for fresh start accounting
Non-GAAP Gross Profit
GAAP Gross Margin
Non-GAAP Gross Margin
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Operating Income
Operating Income (Loss)
Impairment charges
Non-GAAP Operating Income
GAAP Operating Margin
Non-GAAP Operating Margin
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Gross Profit and Gross Margin by Portfolio
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Gross Profit and Non-GAAP Gross Margin – Products
GAAP Gross Profit
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Gross Profit and Non-GAAP Gross Margin – Services
Net cash provided by operating activities
Source: Avaya Newsroom
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