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Q: Unsatisfied dependency expressed through field 'clientRepository'; Hello  every  am  new to  spring  and am  trying to  create  a simple  application  for CRUD but i have  been  getting the  error  below.
Am using  STS
Before  i past  my solution  i will like to  list  the  solution  i tried without success .
[java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not a managed type
UnsatisfiedDependencyException: Error creating bean with name
Spring + JPA - Why I receive the error java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.PersistenceContext.properties()?
Post-processing of merged bean definition failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException
but i still get  the same error
Error creating bean with name 'clientServiceImpli': Unsatisfied dependency expressed through field 'clientRepository'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'clientReposito':
Here goes  my  code
// My  ClientRepo
@Repository
public interface ClientReposito extends JpaRepository<ClientDao, Long>  {

}

//My Entity  class
@Entity
//@Table(name = "demande")
public class ClientDao {

    @Column(name = "Id")

    private int  id ;

    @Column(name = "groupe")
    private String  groupe;

    @Column(name = "client")
    private String Client ;

    @Column(name = "quantite")
    private int  quantite ;

    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }
    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }
    public String getGroupe() {
        return groupe;
    }
    public void setGroupe(String groupe) {
        this.groupe = groupe;
    }
    public String getClient() {
        return Client;
    }
    public void setClient(String client) {
        Client = client;
    }
    public int getQuantite() {
        return quantite;
    }
    public void setQuantite(int quantite) {
        this.quantite = quantite;
    }

}

//Client Service
@Service
public interface ClientService {

    public  void saveUser(ClientDao clientdao);
}

// Client service Implementation
@Service
public class ClientServiceImpli implements ClientService{

    @Autowired
    private ClientReposito clientRepository;

    @Transactional
    public void saveUser(ClientDao clientdao) {
        clientRepository.saveAndFlush(clientdao);

   }

}

//Controller
@Controller
public class ClientController {

    private ClientService clientService;

    @Autowired
    public void setClientService(ClientService clientService){
        this.clientService=clientService;
    }

    @GetMapping("/index")
    public String greeting(@RequestParam(name="name", required=false, defaultValue="World") String name, Model model) {
        model.addAttribute("name", name);
        return "";
    }

    @RequestMapping(value = "/")
    public String welcome() {

         System.out.println("welcome page started");
         return "redirect:/index.html";

        }

    @GetMapping(path = "/thankyou")
    public String thankyou() {

         System.out.println("welcome page started");
         return "";

        }

}

//Full  exception
Error starting ApplicationContext. To display the conditions report re-run your application with 'debug' enabled.
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org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException: Error creating bean with name 'clientServiceImpli': Unsatisfied dependency expressed through field 'clientRepository'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'clientReposito': Post-processing of merged bean definition failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.PersistenceContext.synchronization()Ljavax/persistence/SynchronizationType;
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:587) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:91) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:373) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1344) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:582) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:502) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:312) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:228) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:310) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:200) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:760) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:868) ~[spring-context-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:549) ~[spring-context-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.refresh(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:140) ~[spring-boot-2.0.0.RELEASE.jar:2.0.0.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:752) [spring-boot-2.0.0.RELEASE.jar:2.0.0.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:388) [spring-boot-2.0.0.RELEASE.jar:2.0.0.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:327) [spring-boot-2.0.0.RELEASE.jar:2.0.0.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1246) [spring-boot-2.0.0.RELEASE.jar:2.0.0.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1234) [spring-boot-2.0.0.RELEASE.jar:2.0.0.RELEASE]
    at banque.Test.main(Test.java:11) [classes/:na]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_161]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[na:1.8.0_161]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[na:1.8.0_161]
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) ~[na:1.8.0_161]
    at org.springframework.boot.devtools.restart.RestartLauncher.run(RestartLauncher.java:49) [spring-boot-devtools-2.0.0.RELEASE.jar:2.0.0.RELEASE]
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'clientReposito': Post-processing of merged bean definition failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.PersistenceContext.synchronization()Ljavax/persistence/SynchronizationType;
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:560) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:502) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:312) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:228) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:310) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:200) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.config.DependencyDescriptor.resolveCandidate(DependencyDescriptor.java:251) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1138) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1065) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:584) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    ... 24 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.PersistenceContext.synchronization()Ljavax/persistence/SynchronizationType;
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$PersistenceElement.<init>(PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:653) ~[spring-orm-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.lambda$buildPersistenceMetadata$1(PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:435) ~[spring-orm-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.doWithLocalMethods(ReflectionUtils.java:522) ~[spring-core-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.buildPersistenceMetadata(PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:420) ~[spring-orm-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.findPersistenceMetadata(PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:394) ~[spring-orm-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessMergedBeanDefinition(PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:332) ~[spring-orm-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyMergedBeanDefinitionPostProcessors(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1016) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:557) ~[spring-beans-5.0.4.RELEASE.jar:5.0.4.RELEASE]
    ... 33 common frames omitted

//POM.xml
  <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
  <groupId>org.primefaces</groupId>
  <artifactId>primefaces</artifactId>
  <version>6.0</version>
</dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
    <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.4.Final</version>
     </dependency>

     <dependency>
    <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
    <version>5.2.3.Final</version>
</dependency>

    <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
        </dependency>

  </dependencies>

A: You have two hibernate-core dependencies in your project. The one with spring-boot-starter-data-jpa and the  other.
So you need to delete/exclude one  of them. I strongly suggest to remove the hibernate core dependency for compatiblity and to resume all the talks.


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Биография
Сын маршала Сейма Польши в 1919—1922 годах и Сената Польши в 1922—1927 годах, Войцеха Тромпчиньского.

Закончил Городскую гимназию в Оструве-Велькопольском. Выпускник и доктор honoris causa Университета имени Адама Мицкевича в Познани. Профессор Ягеллонского университета в Кракове и Высшей школы планирования и статистики в Варшаве. Руководил кафедрой, а затем институтом международных хозяйственных отношений Высшей школы планирования и статистики. Один из основателей Польского экономического общества в 1945 году.

В 1945—1950 годах главный директор, а с 27 сентября 1950 по 18 декабря 1956 президент, Национального польского банка. В сентябре 1950 по декабрь 1956 государственный подсекретарь (заместитель министра) в Министерстве финансов ПНР. С 9 декабря 1956 по 22 декабря 1968 министр зарубежной торговли ПНР в правительствах Юзефа Циранкевича. С декабря 1968 по октябрь 1971 заместитель председателя Плановой комиссии при Совете Министров ПНР. С февраля по октябрь 1971 был исполняющим обязанности председателя этой комиссии.

Член Польской объединённой рабочей партии (ПОРП) с момента её создания в 1948 году. С июня 1964 по декабрь 1971 кандидат в члены ЦК ПОРП. Депутат Сейма ПНР V созыва с 27 июня 1969 по 21 декабря 1971 года по списку ПОРП от избирательного округа № 1 (Варшава-Средместье).

В 1971—1978 годах посол Польской Народной Республики в Соединённых Штатах Америки.

Скончался 18 февраля 1982 года. Похоронен на кладбище Воинские Повонзки в Варшаве.

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 Орден Строителей Народной Польши (1979)
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 Кавалер ордена Polonia Restituta
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Выпускники Университета им. А. Мицкевича
Послы Польши в США
Почётные доктора университета имени Адама Мицкевича в Познани
Члены Польской объединённой рабочей партии
Министры Польши
Похороненные на кладбище Воинские Повонзки
Депутаты Сейма Польши
Президенты Национального банка Польши
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The cost of wind and solar generation is falling in many parts of the world, not only versus new-build fossil-fuel plants but also relative to the marginal operating cost of existing generation capacity. This is creating a huge opportunity for regulated utilities to decarbonise their generation mix and rapidly grow their regulated asset base. We only invest in utilities whose generation mix is lower than the average of the grid, thereby avoiding carbon emissions. But sector dynamics vary by country, and investors must consider policy-related drivers and risks.
Wind and solar power producers
Renewable power capacity is growing in all major economies. By 2050, the amount of solar and wind energy capacity in the US is forecast to be 1,100% and 150% higher, respectively, than it was at the start of 2019. Independent power producers will play a big role in the build out of renewable energy infrastructure, alongside regulated utilities. As with regulated utilities, sector dynamics vary by country and investors must consider policy-related drivers and risks.
Solar and wind energy capacity in the US
Source: BNEF
Renewable energy equipment
From makers of wind-turbine blades and solar-panel components to whole-system manufacturers, a broad spread of companies supply the renewables sector. However, some of the technologies are easily replicable, meaning that not all of these companies possess defensible competitive positions.
Waste to energy providers
With waste-per-capita increasing in many countries and limited landfill capacity, as well as mounting concern over landfill pollution, the need for waste-to-energy solutions is growing. Waste to energy can be a low-carbon solution, though that depends on the average footprint of the grid in which it is located.
2 Electrification
Electrification is key to controlling emissions and saving energy. It will entail an overhaul of ground transportation, with a move ultimately towards self-driving electric vehicles and mass electrification of heating and many industrial processes.
Semiconductor companies
Electrification is a significant driver of semiconductor demand. For instance, electric vehicles (EVs) require double the semiconductor content of internal combustion engine cars, and many multiples of the power semiconductor content. With cars becoming smarter and more connected, advances in semiconductor technologies are a key driver of e-vehicle development. Longer term, new materials (like silicon carbide) are on the horizon that will make power semiconductors more efficient. Monitoring technology change is key to picking winners in the sector.
McKinsey estimates there will be 20.5 million self-driving vehicles by 2030, from almost nothing today. Alongside semiconductor makers, specialist mobility software providers will be needed to enable the shift towards smarter transport.
Transport sensors
The future of transport is electric and connected. This transition will require huge increases in sensor content per car, including radar, lidar, ultrasonic sensors and electric current sensors.
Battery technologies
Batteries hold the key to electrification. Companies active in this area include battery makers, battery-component suppliers and battery capital equipment manufacturers. In-depth analysis is vital to understand which pieces of the supply chain are likely to maintain margins and long-term sustainable returns. Given the use of precious metals in batteries, commodities expertise and ESG analysis is particularly key for investors.
3 Resource efficiency
Less discussed than the other themes, resource efficiency is a crucial aspect of decarbonisation.
Electric efficiency
From the generating plant to the consumer, the electrical grid requires efficiency solutions at every stage. The broad range of products that apply here include meters and sensors.
Energy efficient heating, appliances and lighting
Heating needs not only to be electrified but made more efficient. Appliances and lighting also need to reduce their energy usage. 60W LED bulbs can save up to 75-80% of energy relative to traditional bulbs.
Around 30% of greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings, making building efficiency a key area of decarbonisation. Higher building-efficiency standards in various countries are driving demand for insulation and a range of other products.
A map — and a clear sense of direction
Of course, mapping the universe is just the first step. Decarbonisation is a nascent and disruptive area, consequently requiring careful navigation.
For this reason, the Global Environment strategy invests in a focused portfolio of leaders in their fields, targeting companies with three key attributes: growth potential, sustainable returns and competitive advantage. That's because when you're taking a road less travelled, you need more than a map. It's also crucial to have a clear sense of direction.
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Onstage and Backstage podcast from Hal Leonard is available on iTunes and Libsyn. Each episode authors and their guests have a chat about the topics of their books. Today, Steven Sater talks about Spring Awakening and writing his book A Purple Summer: Notes on the Lyrics of Spring Awakening with two original cast members, Jonathan Groff and Lauren Pritchard.
In February 1999, Steven Sater conceived the radical notion of creating a rock musical from Frank Wedekind's notorious Symbolist drama, Frühlings Erwachen, and he enlisted his friend and writing partner Duncan Sheik in the enterprise. That night, Sater came home and began writing the first lyric of Spring Awakening: "Mama Who Bore Me" – a lyric which still stands, verbatim, just as he first wrote it.
In rich detail, Sater's notes address the literary sources and allusions of each lyric. He also writes feelingly of what prompted the songs over the course of the show's eight years of development. In so doing, Sater expands on his partnership with Sheik and his experiences with original cast members, Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff, now also known from Glee.
The following is an excerpt of A Purple Summer: Notes on the Lyrics of Spring Awakening by Steven Sater, available March 13, 2012 from Applause Books.
One winter night in 2007, our first Wendla (Lea Michele) texted me from backstage of our Broadway theater: "Were you thinking about our show when you wrote the lyrics to 'The Guilty Ones'?" She was referring to how our sweet, unknown show had gone longing for a home for years until we finally got it on.
Lea (as ever) had a point. But I had actually been thinking about something else when I wrote the lyrics: namely about the guilty longing we all try to keep from ourselves. Wendla and Melchior have found such unfathomable pleasure—love?—in each other's arms.
As Prospero states in The Tempest, "We are such stuff / As dreams are made on." If we cannot know what dreams are, how can we ever know ourselves?
Sorrow is the shadow of our dreams, for it feeds on the unfulfillment of those dreams. Yet, sorrow also fuels our desire to fulfill them. Like the lover in Shakespeare's rueful sonnet, Melchior asks himself — how has he had Wendla "as a dream doth flatter / In sleep a king, but waking no such matter"?
A Purple Summer is available March 13, 2012 from Amazon, B&N, independent bookstores, and ApplauseBooks.com.


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Construction on the Lower Don should be finished in a few months, but more work is needed to make Toronto's ravines accessible for residents.
The author and his daughter exploring the Lower Don Trail. Photo by Courtney Walker and used courtesy of Andrew Reeves.
We watched from the Don River overpass. An older cyclist slowed as he approached a blue metal gate blocking the Lower Don path. My daughter and I had just emerged from a monotonous stretch of trail following the river like a ruler's edge from Queen Street to Riverdale Park. North of there, the trail was closed, according to a scratched and spray-painted placard from the city. Undeterred, the cyclist moved towards the bank of the Don and contorted his body around the fencing, wheeling his bike around as the back tire hung briefly above the river. We watched as he plopped the bike on the trial, mounted, and sped away into the construction zone.
That was May 2016. I had just begun a stretch at home with my four-month-old. Desperate for long walks to keep her asleep, I often turned to the Lower Don. I gravitate towards water, and it was close to home. The Lower Don trail stretching from Corktown Common to Pottery Road and beyond had closed the previous September for what the city had promised was a year-long delay. The end result would be a new pedestrian bridge at Pottery Road, a revitalized underpass beneath a defunct rail line and trail repairs to contend with ceaseless tree roots upending the concrete.
Anyone who's walked or biked the Lower Don knows these repairs are badly needed. Crossing Pottery Road during rush hour was like playing a high-stakes, live-action game of Frogger, while the near-90-degree turn needed to get through the narrow, corrugated metal tube that was the Belleville Underpass either brought traffic to a standstill or resulted in heart-stopping close calls as cyclists swerved to avoid each other in the confined space.
We returned to the Lower Don in April. My daughter can walk now. She can feed herself (sort of), recite lines from her favourite books, and knows to run away from me when she doesn't want her diaper changed. I've been walking the Lower Don with her since before she could do these things, and I wonder what new skills she'll acquire before it opens. As we approached the same overpass where we witnessed the cyclist casually disregard city fencing, I stopped and looked down. The fence was still there, still warped from abuse, still allowing frustrated residents to pass through, almost a year after officials said it would be gone.
Sunny days and warmth are finally muscling out our sweater-weather spring. So in anticipation of the countless joggers and cyclists and strollers about to descend on the Lower Don, it was time to ask the City: What gives?
I called up Matthew Cutler, public relations head for the department of parks, forestry and recreation. The Lower Don will be closed until July 2017, he told me. Delays at Pottery Road and the Belleville Underpass came from the unexpected challenges from working alongside rail lines.
"Both the bridge and the underpass directly intersect with the rail corridor," Cutler said. The Pottery Road bridge is fully installed, yet there's no connection to the trail on account of stringent Metrolinx guidelines. While the track running beside and over the Lower Don trail isn't active, Cutler said, Metrolinx insists that their rail lines be considered live at all times. "We have had to build the underpass as though tomorrow trains will run on top of it," he said.
The author and his daughter walk along the Don River. Photo by Courtney Walker and used courtesy of Andrew Reeves.
Unearthed relics also set the project back. When excavation began on the underpass, workers discovered foundations from a previous culvert at the same site, pieces of metal and wood so big they couldn't be worked around. "We didn't expect that," Cutler said. The new find necessitated a full re-engineering of the underpass, which meant lengthy delays.
City residents haven't helped matters. "There's been a lot of vandalism…throughout the process," Cutler said. Signage for the trail closure has been graffitied over to the point of illegibility. That twisted blue metal gate we witnessed cyclists and pedestrians squeeze past? Cutler recalled getting phone calls from several locals happy that the work was done and the trail open. "That wasn't the case," he said. Some frustrated resident had simply torn it down.
The repairs are part of a broader blueprint for revitalizing the Lower Don as a recreational system. In 2012, City Council commissioned urban design firm DTAH to study ways of connecting Torontonians with the river. They tabled their master plan in late 2013, spelling out the central question facing parks department planners as the city booms: How can you design natural amenities like the Don Valley for more urban residents while simultaneously protecting what pockets of natural environment remain?
There's no simple answer, yet the report is a comprehensive plan for reimagining the Lower Don. Crucially, increasing the trail's deplorably small number of access points takes centre stage. Staircases and walkways at Dundas and Gerrard streets and the Bayview on-ramp will help people get to widened pathways leading to picnic areas and observation points. When it's ready, the Belleville Underpass will also offer a much more pleasant user experience. The turn will be gradual and the sight lines better, accented by landscaping and public art. Council has put up $18 million.
The Lower Don Valley in the spring. Photo by Tania A. in the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
But the Pottery Road bridge and Belleville Underpass are just two pieces of the master plan. Torontonians could face years of extended trail closures as the plan is implemented from Taylor Creek to Corktown Commons. "We can't have one-off projects in a space this small," Cutler said. "Over the next 10 years, the trail could be closed more often than it's open if we take these projects one at a time." Effective capital coordination of future projects is essential.
While the extended shutdown of the Lower Don has been brutal for those relying on the Don River for recreational green space, the project and its frustrations have taught the City a lesson. "It's helped us to refocus our energies on the rest of the Master Plan," Cutler said, to figure out minimizing closures and maximizing public use of the space.
This story has been updated with the correct link for the master plan. June 1, 2017, 12:40 p.m.


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The EU has taken an important step toward integrating the payments market. Broadening its regulatory scope to include both traditional and emerging payment systems actors, the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) creates a level playing field for all. This reflects recent developments in consumer spending trends, and provides affected stakeholders with a clear wakeup call. The payments market has shifted, consumers expect different services, and authorities are aligning their regulations accordingly. The text of the Directive creates both significant challenges and a wealth of opportunities—and it is not advisable to turn a blind eye to either. Understanding changes and reacting early will be key to yielding the best results.


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Bob Lanier, 1925-2014
On Saturday evening, former Mayor Bob Lanier passed away. He was 89. In his lengthy career of public service, Lanier served as the Chairman of the Texas Highway Commission, Chairman of METRO and the Mayor of Houston for three terms from 1992 to 1998.
Born to humble beginnings, the brilliant Lanier earned a degree from the prestigious University of Texas Law School and went into private practice in Houston. Soon thereafter, he shifted his sights to real estate and development, and amassed a small fortune. But Lanier's central priority was never to earn money, and he made a point of shifting toward public service later in his career.
Serving on both the Highway Commission and at the helm of METRO, Lanier tirelessly worked to improve traffic and congestion around town. Perhaps most notably, Lanier butted heads with the mayor at the time, Kathy Whitmire, over an ambitious and pricey proposal to build a massive monorail system throughout Houston. Lanier decried the idea as a naive boondoggle, and — among other reasons — used it as an impetus to run for mayor and win. One of his first goals was nixing the monorail proposal; a decision that is still divisive within Houston political circles.
Over the next six years, Lanier worked hand-in-hand with business leaders and political establishment figures. He did a lot to improve traffic, namely by investing more into roads. He also increased the number of police officers in the city, a driving factor in a huge plunge in the crime rate (which was also attributed to a nationwide trend).
But, Lanier — always a card-carrying Democrat — also accomplished many progressive goals. He dedicated the bulk of his last term in office to saving/expanding affirmative action in Houston, namely reserving a share of city contracts to minority & women owned businesses. In a time when the national sentiment moved against the use of racial preferences in places as liberal as California, Houston bucked the trend in 1997 when they approved Lanier's affirmative action program. The New York Times ran a headline on the topic, because of just how unexpected the voter support was. Lanier fastidiously worked to accrue corporate backing for affirmative action, and touted the program as a way to ensure diversity within Houston.
Lanier was also an important union backer, insisting upon their inclusion in big public sector developments such as the downtown Hilton Hotel at the convention center. Perhaps most importantly, Lanier worked to ensure diversity in this city within politics as well as business. He appointed both Ben Hall and Gene Locke as City Attorney, propelling both men's political careers, and he was also invaluable in electing Lee Brown, the first African-American Mayor, as his successor.
I only met Lanier a few times in passing, but I am close with few people who knew him very well. What they all told me was that the casual, cheerful, "grandfatherly" demeanor he emitted in public did not change one bit behind closed doors. Even ideological opponents of Lanier conceded that he was a righteous man who tried his hardest to do what he thought was right for this city.
Lanier was the mayor when I was born and, unlike any succeeding mayors, I do not personally remember any of his term. But what I've read and what I've been told suggest, better than I could ever recall, that he was a truly inimitable figure within local politics. Among others reasons, Lanier's endorsement of Locke was one of the reasons my family supported him in 2009, the first mayoral election I intently followed.
Houston has truly lost a giant. My deepest sympathies and condolences are extended to his widow, Elyse Lanier, as well as his other family.
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2015 Mayoral election
Since the beginning of the year, I have been intermittently trying to sit down with the prospective candidates for Mayor in 2015. Mayor Annise Parker, of course, is term-limited at that time, meaning that the election will be an open race. At this time, there is only one candidate openly running for Mayor, complete with signs and social media presence, and that is City Councilmember Oliver Pennington (R-District G). However, there are typically about nine other names that keep coming up as likely Mayoral candidates. These individuals range from being completely ready to go, to simply intently looking into the situation. Additionally, there are about two or three other people I have heard mentioned in passing as possible candidates, but never by anyone willing to go on the record. I will only be discussing the former category.
The eight other candidates, in addition to Pennington, are former Congressman Chris Bell (D-TX), City Councilmember Jack Christie (R-At Large 5), Eric Dick (R), City Councilmember Stephen Costello (R-AL1), METRO Chairman Gilbert Garcia (D), City Councilmember Ed Gonzalez (D-District H), former City Attorney Ben Hall (D), City Councilmember Michael Kubosh (R-At Large 3) and State Representative Sylvester Turner (D-Harris County). Among those I have heard passing on the race are Sheriff Adrian Garcia (D), City Controller Ronald Green (D), Laura Murillo and County Treasurer Orlando Sanchez (R).
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More attacks on Boykins
Last night, I came across this advertisement for the Georgia Provost for District D campaign on my telephone. The over-the-top display really goes all out against frontrunner Dwight Boykins.
The astute will remember two attacks focused on Boykins over the summer, largely criticizing the candidate for voting once in a Republican primary and sometimes giving meager sums of money to unopposed, incumbent Republican officeholders. The two perceived transgressions were enough to label Boykins as a "Republican." The dirty tactics, which were condoned by multiple minor candidates, featured imagery of Boykins photoshopped next to prominent Republican politicians.
Now it appears that Georgia Provost, Boykins' opponent in the December runoff, has given into these unsubstantiated attacks.
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Equality in Houston
The Houston Chronicle reports that Mayor Parker has doubled down on her calls to institute a comprehensive non-discrimination ordinance protecting LGBT people in Houston.
When Mayor Lee Brown took office in 1998, he issued an executive order forbidding municipal employees from discrimination because of sexual orientation. In 2010, Mayor Parker took office, she expanded this to also include gender identity. The San Antonio ordinance, by comparison, prohibits employment discrimination in all forms and bans all city-condoned discrimination, including in public housing.
Gay rights has a somewhat long and tumultuous history in this city. In 1984, the City Council, under the leadership of Mayor Kathy Whitmire, passed an ordinance protecting municipal employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation. The next year, voters strongly disavowed the ordinance, in an epic moment of homophobia that climaxed with Louie Welch saying the solution to the AIDS epidemic was to "shoot the queers."
Mayor Brown restored the protections in 1998, and attempted to push through a domestic partnership package near the end of his career, in 2001. At that point, a charter amendment was approved —with a mere 52% of the vote— to ban any "plus-one" benefits for municipal employees. If 2001, the height of the culture wars and homophobia, could only muster 52% in support of discrimination, a repeal effort would surely cruise to victory today.
While I do not see why charter language prohibiting partnerships would preempt a non-discrimination ordinance, the City Attorney, David Feldman, thinks it is a somewhat substantial roadblock. "We would have to either accommodate the prohibitions in the charter or, to effectuate it as San Antonio did, we would have to put an amendment on the ballot. The cleanest thing would be to take it the voters," Feldman told the Chronicle.
Morris then interviews both Ellen Cohen and C.O. Bradford on the matter. Both appear to support it, but Bradford is somewhat more tepid (probably in an attempt to take a shot at the Mayor more than anything pertaining to the issue).
If the issue goes on the ballot, it would hopefully do so in 2014. Next year will most likely be a pretty awful one for Democrats and Democratic values nationwide, but I would predict that in a city as progressive in Houston, considering how far most people have come on the issue, the amendment rescinding the discrimination would probably pass easily.
Perhaps the biggest immediate story on this whole issue is a tidbit at the very end of the article. Morris notes that "A campaign spokeswoman for Parker's top challenger this fall, Ben Hall, declined comment." I attempted to contact Hall's campaign myself, but received no response by press time. However, Morris uses the word "declined," indicating to me an active rejection. This would appear to me that Morris got in contact with the campaign, and was stonewalled when he brought up the ordinance.
As the astute may recall, Ben Hall's campaign was at the gay pride parade, where it was prominently featured. I have never gotten a straight answer out of his campaign on any LGBT issues but this is a somewhat pressing inkling. At that time, I had the following words to say about Eric Dick's campaign (who also participated in the parade but refused to support any gay rights issues):
It is the height of hypocrisy to participate in the gay pride parade yet not stand up when questioned about gay rights, specifically gay marriage. His statement come across, to me, in my humble opinion, as a whimpering sycophant, seeking the approval of the crowd but when directly questioned, equivocates as to his approval on the issue at hand.
Ben Hall would too be a whimpering sycophant if he opposes this proposed charter amendment. For the good of this city and his campaign, I hope he is not.
UPDATE: Ben Hall DOES NOT support gay marriage. Whimpering sycophant, indeed. Hall still has yet to take a position on the issue of the non-discrimination ordinance or domestic partnership benefits, but given his position on gay marriage, I have a bad feeling about the issues now.
Hall's campaign truly needs to figure out what side of the aisle they occupy. 72% of Democrats, which Ben Hall ostensibly is, support gay marriage, as do over 80% of people under 30. To take such a reactionary position on the issue in such a liberal City is horribly damaging to his brand and his chances as a candidate.
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Parker endorsed by AFL-CIO
From another one of those Press Releases that somehow doesn't find its way into my inbox:
Annise Parker has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO. The labor organization lauded Parker for not being too austere with city services and for helping the Middle Class. With the disappearance of labor support, the paths to victory for Hall keep getting smaller and smaller.
I believe the time has come and gone for a competent Republican to run for this office. Any GOP candidate that would enter over the summer would probably only put up token opposition (a TJ Huntley of sorts). Accordingly, we are going to have to start discussing the reality of an election with only two major candidates. Such an election could easily be solved in November if the fringe candidates don't take away too many votes. Hall still has a chance, but he would have to do quite a few things first.
The Mayoral election of 1991 brought the idea that Mayors would have to be "moderate" in order to win the election. This was allegedly evident by Bob Lanier's defeat of Kathy Whitmire after so many years in office. Throughout the 90s and most of the 00s, Houston retained an identity as a broadly centre-left city, which would still elect some real conservatives to citywide positions (Michael Berry and Shelly Sekula-Gibbs, to name a few). Accordingly, Lee Brown faced some excruciatingly tough and close elections, and Bill White retained the identity of Lanier's moderation.
I posted a while back about why Parker seemed to be imitating Brown, but I think I was a tad mistaken in that assertion. The demographics and politics of Houston have significantly changed then. Conservatives can only win citywide in three very distinct possibilities:
The first is that they are such a RINO that nobody even knows or can tell they are Conservative. This was my experience with Stephen Costello. I wasn't very in 2009 because of his political affiliation, but by 2011, I didn't really care what letter he chose to put next to his name.
The second is that the candidate's opponent is either incompetent or horribly unpopular (or both). Jack Christie is the perfect example of this.
Last but not least, if the Republican/Conservative is just so then there is still a chance of victory. This is what I call the "Kubosh Coalition." Michael Kubosh has a very god chance in November, mainly because of all of the support he may garner from the African-American community. Now, the vast majority of Houston Conservatives can't say the same, so this is a very special occurrence.
Hall isn't a Conservative by any means, but the consensus is that he will have to masquerade as one if he wants to win. White Progressives aren't going to vote for him when they like the incumbent. With Labor now out of the question, Hall has to become a "Kubosh Conservative" if he wants to win.
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Hall lists his supporters
Perhaps I missed this, but it is news to me that Ben Hall now has a gigantic list of his supporters on his website. Many of these names stood out to me. I have taken the liberty of creating a Wikipedia page for this year's mayoral election, which lists most of this info, but I would like to go over some of the more surprising supporters.
It is no surprise that Dr. Hall would receive the bulk of his politician endorsements from the African-American community, but it did catch me off guard how pervasive his support was. There were rank-and-file politicos like Jarvis Johnson and Carol Mims Galloway who were listed, which is almost expected. However, the three African-American politicians who were on the list, and three who were off the list, which I would like to talk about a little bit. C.O. Bradford, Lee Brown and Al Green were all listed as supporters of Dr. Hall's candidacy. However, Dwight Boykins, Ronald Green and Sheila Jackson Lee are all conspicuously absent.
Now, Bradford did support Parker in 2009, but got into a somewhat high profile feud with her before the 2011 elections, during which rumors actually floated about him challenging the Mayor in the election. I cannot remember if he ever came around to Parker's candidacy in 2011 after nobody feasible ran against her, but it makes some sense that he would immediately jump on the bandwagon to endorse Parker's opponent. Ronald Green, on the other hand, never really had a rocky spell with Parker, and, by all accounts, the two still get along pretty well. However, Ronald Green and Bradford have something in common: they both have higher ambitions. Personally, the first time I met both of them, I felt a very strong inkling that they wanted to be the Mayor, sort of like when one meets the Castro brothers, you know they want to be Governor/Senator/President. Accordingly, I find it interesting that Bradford would endorse Hall, who will probably lose, if he might be interested in running in 2015.
Second, I find it very intriguing that Dwight Boykins,who is running for the City Council with some very high profile support, is not listed among Hall's supporters, but his honorary campaign treasurer, Lee Brown, is. For that matter, some of Boykin's supporters, like Borris Miles, have also stayed out of the race. I am going to assume it has something with the fact that as someone who is probably getting elected, Boykins won't want to be on the Mayor's bad side.
Third, Al Green is a public supporter, while Sheila Jackson Lee is not. Green, if you might remember, was the one who made Hall stand down and endorse Locke back in 2009. I guess Green felt obligated to help Hall this time around. I suppose that Jackson Lee is more tepid to support Hall as some of her former political opponents (e.g., Jarvis Johnson and Craig Washington) are in Hall's column.
Another point I would like to make is that Bob Lanier is quoted and prominently featured on Hall's website, as providing a testimonial that reads "He is exactly what Houston needs at this time." However, Lanier is not mentioned among Hall's official list of supporters, and the quote isn't dated, leading me to think that, maybe, he said this back in 2009.
Finally, I was surprised by how many people in the Jewish community support Hall. Alan Rosen, the recent Constable for Precinct 1, and Alvin Zimmerman, his campaign strategist, aren't really surprises, but I saw a few names of the parents of people I went to Hebrew School with (PLEASE NOTE: The "Hurwitz"s that endorsed Hall are not related to me, I have an "o" in my last name).
Just as an aside and a blast from the past, Rod Paige, Bush's 1st term Secretary of Education, is listed as a supporters. Also, someone is listed with the name "Drayton McClane," which may or may not be a typo for Drayton McLane, as in the former Astros owner.
Parker doesn't have a supporters page, but I assume it will be a priority now. Can't wait to see who I find on her list!
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Boykins does Social Networking right
Dwight Boykins, a candidate for District D, has really hit the ground running on Social Media. Today was one of those pleasant experiences where, simply by happenstance, I come across something I can write about, and I don't have to go digging for it. I logged on my Facebook today to find this advertisement from his campaign:
I have four things to say about this. First, Lee Brown is his treasurer! Second, I really like that he having what looks to be a legitimately free, family-focused event for his kickoff, located in a Shopping Centre. This is very different from most local politicos these days, who have $250-a-plate kickoffs at restaurants. He is really trying to be a community candidate, and that is quite respectable. Third, he has a website, which is a development for me. His website can be reached –> here –> and will also be put onto my election tab soon enough. He also has a Twitter –> here –> which has 100 followers (more than Ben Hall). He has a Facebook page –> here –> with not quite so many likes.
For a City Council candidate to have such an awesome Social Media infrastructure this early is noteworthy, especially from a District candidate. He has also snatched up quite a few key endorsements from major politicos in the African-American community and beyond. Besides Mayor Brown, Boykins can claim the support of State Representative Borris Miles, former HISD Trustee Arthur Gaines, former City Councilmember Jew Don Boney, former District Judge Levi Benton (a Republican), HCC Trustee Michael Williams and HISD Trustee Paula Harris. Additionally, Sheriff Adrian Garcia and former Congressman Chris Bell support Boykins. Cassius belli, so do I.
On a completely unrelated note, I will be writing the Wikipedia articles entitled "Houston mayoral election, 2013" and "Houston elections, 2013" this next week. I may start redirecting people there to keep track of Websites, Social Media, Endorsements, etc. Also, I will be back in Houston next week!
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Former county cricketer finishes round-the-island swim
Duncan Hall
Updated: Nov 16, 2020 09:09 AM
Dockyard in sight: Elliott Wilson seen from the air as he ploughs through the water to Dockyard on the last leg of an around-the-island swim (Photograph by James Doughty)
A former professional athlete overcame a fear of sharks to complete a round-the-island swim at the weekend.
Elliott Wilson emerged from the water at Royal Naval Dockyard after completing the last of 32 legs in the marathon venture, a 68-minute swim from Spanish Point, last Friday.
Mr Wilson said: "It was incredible. I was quite apprehensive about today's swim because some days it looks pretty scary.
"But I was very surprised – today's swim was easy. I had a little bit of a current behind me, and it wasn't that rough.
"I'm just delighted, really."
Friday's swim was in sharp contrast to Thursday's 70-minute effort from Cooper's Island to Tucker's Town.
He said: "That was pretty intimidating, a tough swim, a lot of swell."
Mr Wilson said finishing the final leg provided a "definite sense of achievement".
The 44-year-old British national is the chief executive of a wealth management firm.
A former professional cricketer with English county side Worcestershire the 6ft 3in', 230lb sportsman moved to the island in 2018 after he married Tiffany, who is Bermudian.
Mr Wilson splits his time between the island and Britain.
He said: "The ocean here is just beautiful – doing this swim is the way I got to know Bermuda. It has been a pleasure."
Mr Wilson began his journey in December 2018, with a 47-minute swim from Shelly Bay into Flatts, getting an early taste of what was to come when he had to battle against the tide.
He completed five swims before the end of that year, swam 16 legs in 2019, and wrapped up his journey with 11 swims this year, including five since last Saturday.
The swims ranged from 28 minutes in length to two hours, 17 minutes.
All were completed without back-up from a support boat.
Most legs took place after work as Mr Wilson, an early riser, got a full day in at the office before he left work mid-afternoon.
For each swim, Mr Wilson said he wore a swim cap, snorkel and mask, watch, long-sleeve rash vest to protect against sunburn and Portuguese man-of-war, and rash trousers or shorts for the swims.
He admitted problems included "controlling the fear, the panic".
Mr Wilson said: "I was in situations where I could have panicked. I was at the end of a swim, I was very tired, got hit by a current, and couldn't guarantee that I could get by a headland.
"At those moments, the number one thing to do is never panic."
He added: "A couple of the toughest swims were a privilege because of the challenge."
Mr Wilson kept a diary throughout, with his wariness about the danger posed by sharks a regular feature.
He said: "I stopped the swim at one time because the shark thing was on my mind.
"I was swimming and constantly looking around me. That was not fun, so I stopped.
"As time passed, I forgot how scared I was, and resolved to get back in the water."
Mr Wilson added: "There is not a large shark risk, but it does play on your mind.
"But I looked at history, and how many people have been eaten by sharks in Bermuda – none. It was more dangerous driving home after the swim than the swim."
But Mr Wilson said he had a "very close call" during a swim from Daniel's Head to Mangrove Bay in August when two jet skiers who were part of a group nearly hit him.
He added they appeared to be unaware apparently he was in the water, despite a bright pink swimming cap and an inflatable orange buoy he dragged behind him.
Mr Wilson said another jet skier spotted and warned others in the group to slow down.
Mr Wilson's diary also detailed the underwater world, including seeing a barracuda, black grouper, parrot fish, turtles, and a school of about 50 "silver coloured fish two feet long".
He wrote after a 72-minute swim from Church Bay to Whale Bay Beach last November: "Beautiful swim. More fish than any other swim. Flat. Clear water. Beautiful boiler coral reefs. Safe swim as shallow even though mainly cliffs.
"Got out at Church Bay early evening and watched an incredible God-inspired sunset. Bermuda is such a beautiful place."
High spirits: Elliott Wilson celebrates after completing Friday's swim to Royal Naval Dockyard (Photograph by Duncan Hall)
Getting close: Elliott Wilson in Dockyard after his swim from Spanish Point to Dockyard (Photograph by Duncan Hall)
Project complete: swimmer Elliott Wilson after finishing the 32nd and final leg of his project (Photograph by Duncan Hall)
Final leg: Elliott Wilson after finishing Friday's swim from Spanish Point to Royal Naval Dockyard (Photograph by Duncan Hall)
'I hope this relationship can last and never end'
Published November 16, 2020 at 8:00 am (Updated November 16, 2020 at 9:09 am)


Spec scripts made a strong showing in November. Kicking things off, Lakeshore Entertainment picked up Mark Hogan's spec The New Mrs. Keller, which has been described as a Hitchcockian techno-thriller. Escape Artists snagged Let Her Speak, a true-story spec based on Texas state Senator Wendy Davis's 11-hour filibuster to stall anti-abortion legislation. Sandra Bullock is attached to star. New Republic Pictures and Will Packer Productions are teaming up for Green Rush. Written by Matt Tente, the crime spec follows an ex-con who schemes with his daughter to steal millions of dollars worth of medical marijuana taxes from city hall. Amy Pascal's Pascal Pictures picked up Envoy, a sci-fi/thriller spec written by Kat Wood. The script follows a military intelligence specialist who attempts to become the first-ever human representation to alien life. Finally, Sentient Entertainment scooped up Tony Mosher's drama/thriller spec Sirius about two members of a Danish special forces dog sled team who get trapped not only by the frigid weather but also highly trained adversaries. Pierre Morel is set to direct.
– Misha Green has signed on to write/produce the remake of Cleopatra Jones for Warner Bros.
– Sam Cohan has been tapped to adapt the documentary Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators for Millennium Films. The film will follow creators H.A. and Margaret Rey as they try to escape Nazi-occupied Europe with their original Curious George manuscript.
– Quentin Tarantino will write/direct a movie about the Charles Manson murders for Sony.
– Allan Heinberg will script a Multiple Man movie for Twentieth Century Fox. James Franco is set to star.
– Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama to adapt Morbius: The Living Vampire for Sony. This will be a spinoff from the Spider-Man franchise.
– Gary Dauberman to write/produce an Are You Afraid of the Dark? adaptation for Paramount.
– DC and New Line have found Adam Sztykiel to write their Black Adam adaptation. Dwayne Johnson to star.


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Queensland's shameful management of the Fraser Island World Heritage site
Posted by johnsinclair | Feb 2, 2010 | Conservation, Fraser Island | 0
Queensland's Fraser Island was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1992 — eight years before Sarawak 's Gunung Mulu National Park. The fight to have Fraser Island World Heritage listed though started in 1974 and was a major public debate for almost two decades prior to its recognition. It is therefore surprising that once it was listed the Queensland Government has allowed it to become so degraded that some people are now arguing that it needs to be placed on the World Heritage in Danger List.
It isn't that Fraser Island lacks the values that warranted its World Heritage listing in the first place. It is just that the management values for Fraser Island are pre-occupied with recreation Management to the neglect of the protection of its World Heritage values.
Photos tell the story
On Fraser Island 4WD recreational vehicles rule all policy decisions even though environmental studies have conclusively shown the impact of the 4WDs in compacting sand in the substrate and thus accelerating water erosion. The mobilization of sand as a result of this means that over a three year period more than a million tones of sand has been mobilized and sluiced down the slopes. That means over a tonne of sand it relocated for every visitor to Fraser Island!
Some roads are now scoured down to a depth of 4 metres and they continue this on-going down-cutting every time it rains. As little as 5mm of rain is more than enough to start mobilizing surface sand on roads. Some of the sand is deposited lower down the slopes; other sand is being sluiced into the iconic perched dune lakes.
Some of the sand is deposited so that picnic tables begin to get buried and other picnic spots are being scoured out demonstrating the fragility and mobility of any disturbed soil surface on Fraser Island.
In 1963 Indian Head had a lawn of thick grass extending right to its summit. Since then the unprotected surface soil has been disturbed but hundreds of thousands of feet. This has been eroded and washed away by rain exposing an ever expanding area of bare rock. There are no plans to repair the damage or rectify this problem in the foreseeable future.
A disproportionate amount of the budget is spent on recreational facilities, visitor safety and management, waste management. Road widening and upgrading has become an obsession. This focus has led to the neglect of research and the natural resource management, — environmental monitoring of wildlife and ecosystems, fire management, weed control, and quarantine.
The preoccupation with recreation management on Fraser Island is encouraging more and more visitors to visit Fraser Island in unsustainable ways. Recreation is degrading Fraser Island's World Heritage values including its iconic lakes. Recreation management is at the expense of managing the island's natural resources. These suffer from lack of adequate monitoring. No monitoring of the water quality in the lakes was done for a decade while road run-off continues to pour into the lakes impacting on water quality.
Fraser Island has less than one kilometre of boardwalks. Queensland government policy prevents any feasibility into developing an environmentally more sustainable light rail people mover there. Yet Mulu National Park in Malaysia, with exactly a tenth of the visitor number of Fraser Island puts Fraser Island management to shame.
How can Malaysia manage Mulu National Park so well for 35,000 visitors annually while Queensland fails to properly manage Fraser Island — an asset that attracts ten times the number of visitor? Why does Queensland that fail to do enough to stop the degradation on Fraser Island while reaping the financial rewards and kudos for its World Heritage status?
John Sinclair, one of Australia's leading nature conservationists, has lead the fight to save Fraser Island since 1971 when he founded the Fraser Island Defenders Organisation.
In 1993 he was the recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize (Island Nations). In 1990 he received the United Nations Environment Program's Global 500.
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Inspect Lake McKenzie Picnic Area
Indian Head circa 1974
Indian Head Degradation
Lake McKenzie Road after 5mm rain 19-April-2008
Runoff draining to Lake Allom
Road to Lake McKenzie
Road Widening 27-April-2004
Roadwork 27-April-2004
Fraser Island Pedestrian Down Cutting
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Another dispatch from the world outside of the Internet to the world inside: STAY IN THERE! It's awfully boring out here, and the natives are growing restless. I guess we'll need a gatling or two at the fort's gate.
Foreshadowing can be done quite subtly and elegant, of course, but the b-movie way is doing it in a much more literal sense: If there's a character whose identity is not yet to be disclosed, and who still needs to be shown doing something, you just show his dark silhouette or shadow on the wall.
1. It has to be the threatening shadow of Dr. Fu Manta, because the flick's title is "The threatening Shadow of Dr. Fu Manta".
2. The shadow speaks with the same thick German accent as the friendly and solicitous, yet vaguely disquieting German scientist the protagonists met two scenes earlier.
3. The silhouette shadowed against the girl's bedroom walls is hunchbacked, has one leg that is too short, and one hand replaced with a primitive hook. Coincidentally, the creepy professor's lab assistant displays exactly the same deformities.
4. The name of one of the actors is on the 'Big List of Perennial Villains', in which he has an automatic monopoly on all shadowy threats in the movie. This list encompasses Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, George Zucco and many, many others.
As regards Gregory's epitaph, I admit it turned out a bit prosaic, but I'm just no good at these things. And I like concise epitaphs, anyway, like the one on Jewni Asew's tombstone. Asew was the most successful and notorious double (or rather, triple) agents of the early 20th century, and his tombstone is inscribed only with his name – in code!
Installation date for my Internet connection has been pushed back to Feb. 6th, and I have my doubts even about that…hoping for the best, though.
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Capital & Class
Vol. 38 Nbr. 1, February - February 2014
Beyond and beneath the hierarchical market economy: global production and working-class conflict in Argentina's automobile industry.
Author: Fishwick, Adam
Position: Diversity or dependence? - Report
The hierarchical market economy (HME) category for Latin American political economies represents the most recent and successful extension of the varieties of capitalism (VoC) framework (Schneider 2009; Schneider & Soskice 2009; Friel 2011). It claims that the region should be understood as one characterised by the hierarchical coordination of economic activity by transnational corporations (TNCs) and economic grupos within a liberal regulatory environment. Two problems with this position will be presented in this paper. (1) First, it fails to adequately capture the determinants of firm behaviour by marginalising the global interconnectedness of production and exchange networks. Second, in privileging the agency of firms it obscures the struggles of workers within and against these structures and the unstable forms of capitalism that this produces.
Via this critique, the first section of this paper develops a critical perspective on the global commodity chain (GCC) and global production network (GPN) approaches (Gereffi & Korzeniewicz 1994; Dicken 2011). On one hand, it will be argued that the GCC/GPN framework contributes significantly to going beyond the HME category by offering an interpretation of firms' behaviour that adequately considers the impact of their transnational relations. On the other hand, it will be argued that going beneath the HME category requires a more substantive engagement with those actors often neglected or marginalised by 'firm-centrism' (Selwyn 2012). Working-class conflict must be incorporated into the analysis of specific sectors and their transnational production networks, for workers' political interests and the conflicts that arise around them produce unstable forms of capitalism that tend to be reified in firm-centric accounts of both the HME and orthodox GCC and GPN literatures.
In order to concretise this theoretical critique, the second section of the article will examine Argentina's automobile industry during its most rapid period of development in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on the city of Cordoba. This case addresses three important aspects of the theoretical argument: the sector is an example of a hierarchically ordered and 'failed' experience of economic development that HME scholars emphasise; it has always been highly dependent upon the global firms and technology on which GCC/GPN concentrate; and it was an important arena of worker militancy (see also Bailey & Shibata in this special issue on contestation). TNC investment decisions were induced by both national policy incentives and imperatives derived from their structural position in the global economy. Workers then mobilised to contest these decisions, particularly over new production processes and forms of managerial discipline. This combination of global competitive pressures and the conflicts they induced left the automobile industry in Cordoba fragmented and internationally uncompetitive, but also as a site for the emergence of potential alternatives to this particular form of industrial capitalism.
Going beyond and beneath: A critique of the HME category
The rise of the varieties of capitalism (VoC) approach in the last ten years has successfully countered the prominent notion of global capitalist convergence. Since Hall and Soskice (2001) launched the approach as a coherent set of theoretical and empirical propositions, studies reinforcing the claims of continued divergence in Western capitalist countries have proliferated. Complex matrices of domestic institutions are shown to form part of an iterative process whereby corporate strategies are shaped in response to the opportunities arising from particular regulatory environments. Such corporate strategies are then claimed to reinforce and reproduce distinctive forms of capitalism (Hall & Soskice 2001: 14-17; Schneider & Soskice 2009: 33). The importance ascribed to the state in constructing these institutional environments offers an antidote to efforts to minimise its economic role, but for advocates of this approach the most significant economic actor in maintaining divergence is the firm. The positive reception received by this framework has encouraged its extension beyond the original focus on the Anglo-Saxon liberal market economy (LME) and the continental European coordinated market economy (CME). The most successful of these extensions has been Ben Ross Schneider's categorisation of the Latin American hierarchical market economy (HME). As such, the HME category--and the VoC approach on which it is based--is the key point of reference for this article's critical engagement with comparative capitalisms (CC) research, although other perspectives will also be briefly discussed.
In defining the HME it is argued that, unlike in LMEs and CMEs, firm strategies and relations in Latin America are coordinated primarily by hierarchy as a default preference (Schneider 2009: 18). The prominence of TNCs and large diversified business grupos means that hierarchy is built into inter-firm relations and the corporate governance structures of Latin American enterprises. These entities are the key conduits for access to capital, technology and markets, and so can continually reproduce the hierarchical relationships that sustain them. Hierarchy also facilitates the weakening of broad-based labour movements and the consolidation of asymmetric bargaining. This tendency then reproduces low levels of investment in skills and training and the informal, low-skilled character of the HME (Schneider 2009: 5-13; Schneider & Soskice 2009: 33-41). The HME is then posited as an inefficient form of socioeconomic organisation that hinders economic development, reproduced by hierarchical economic relations and the predominantly liberal institutional environment. (2)
The approach, however, has been strongly critiqued as ahistorical, methodologically nationalist, and firm-centric (Ebenau 2012: 211-216). First, it is argued that in limiting change to a narrow path-dependency model, HME over-emphasises historical continuity. It is a static 'snapshot' of Latin America that is projected as both cause and consequence of the present predicament. Radical changes in the region throughout the 20th century and long-run historical processes are not adequately incorporated into the framework, leaving little analysis of the 'default to hierarchy' as contested social practice. Secondly, an emphasis on national institutions reinforces this stability, for it conceals the effect of institutional changes at both a sub- and transnational level. Instead, it is argued that the national level, whilst still important, is but one element of the 'multiscalar' environment upon which an understanding of capitalist diversity must rest. The HME appears as a self-contained and self-explanatory model, in which actors and institutions within the relatively closed national political economy reproduce and reinforce the contemporary form. Finally, it is argued that by focusing primarily upon the constitutive power of firms, the state and labour are reduced to little more than bystanders in the face of corporate strategy.
Whilst the reincorporation of the state is important, this article will focus on extending this critique of firm-centrism to better understand the activity of firms and the constitutive role of labour. First, even on its own terms, HME fails to adequately explain the role of firms in constructing and reproducing hierarchy. The notion that hierarchy is a 'default preference' for powerful actors conceals the important determinants of agency that make this so. Whilst proponents of HME do acknowledge the global nature of TNCs, firm behaviour remains determined by the prevailing national institutional context. Decisions to relocate investment in technology and skills are seen primarily as being intended to reproduce hierarchy, rather than being linked to strategies responding to global competition. Secondly, whilst the TNCs and the grupos upon which HME proponents focus are undeniably powerful actors, they are not alone. For example, Schneider (2009: 1-2) argues that he moves away from traditional academic concerns on Latin America by incorporating labour relations and worker training. Yet in the HME category there is...
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George J. Batavick to Remain on the Financial Accounting Standards Board
Norwalk, CT, May 22, 2008—The Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) has announced that current FASB member George Batavick will extend his present term on the Financial Accounting Standards Board as the Board conducts its search for a candidate to fill the open seat.
Mr. Batavick, former comptroller of Texaco, previously had indicated his desire to retire from the FASB at the end of his first term, expiring on June 30 of this year.
In February 2008, the FAF reduced the number of FASB members from seven to five. The change in structure, combined with FAF's criteria for FASB Board membership, has extended the length of the search process.
"The Trustees of the FAF thank George for his selfless commitment to the FASB and its process," said Robert E. Denham, chairman of the FAF Board of Trustees. "We are delighted to have further access to his expertise as our diligent search for a new Board member continues."
Two other FASB members, G. Michael Crooch and Donald M. Young, will leave the Board as of June 30, 2008.
About the Financial Accounting Foundation
The FAF is responsible for the oversight, administration, and finances of both the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and its counterpart for state and local government, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). The Foundation also is responsible for selecting the members of both Boards and their respective Advisory Councils.
Since 1973, the Financial Accounting Standards Board has been the designated organization in the private sector for establishing standards of financial accounting and reporting. Those standards govern the preparation of financial reports and are officially recognized as authoritative by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Such standards are essential to the efficient functioning of the economy because investors, creditors, auditors, and others rely on credible, transparent, and comparable financial information. For more information about the FASB, visit our website at www.fasb.org.