As part of helping you to apply PEST Analysis for scenario planning I want to examine the impact of tax on business.
First a disclaimer. Although I'm a chartered accountant I know next to nothing about tax and this article in written from a UK perspective although I expect its lessons for strategy purposes will apply in many parts of the world.
The impact of tax on business is an important issue at the moment because of the Austerity Cuts to reduce Annual Deficits.
One alternative to difficult spending cuts is to increase taxation since the annual deficit is the difference between tax revenues received and the public expenditure made.
Tax should be levied on the ability to pay so the high earners and wealthy should pay more tax proportionately than the poor.
That last option is usually the one adopted because of the apparent fairness that tax should be linked to the ability to pay.
But there are two problems which leads to a third problem.
First, the wealthy benefit little from state spending so they're paying for something that they wouldn't do in a rational, free world. You don't eat dinner in a restaurant, get the bill for £85 and say to the waiter, because I earn ten times the average income I'd like you to charge me £850 (or more if you follow the increased proportion logic).
Second, high tax rates have been proven to provide a disincentive to earn more and create wealth. That's not good for the individual but terrible for the country which desperately needs growth and for businesses to create more employment.
These factors together therefore encourage high earners to look for ways to legally avoid paying tax.
Moving their homes and businesses overseas – or if they are not in the UK, avoid coming in the first place, therefore creating a potential shortfall of top talent.
Paying accountants and tax lawyers to look for every loophole and using artificial tax avoidance schemes which reduce their effective tax rate (tax paid as a proportion of income).
This creates an effect where increasing the tax rates can reduce the tax collected by the government and reducing the tax rate can increase the tax collected by government.
Into the logic of the numbers you then need to consider the political issues (cutting taxes is good, increasing public expenditure is good, increasing tax on the high earners is seen as good because of the apparent fairness) with the emotional reactions of the general tax payers and the people who have to pay the extra tax.
I've read that about 90% of the 30 million taxpayers are net takers rather than net contributors. That is they get more back from state expenditure than they pay in tax. That makes the 3 million net contributors very important to the economy and you can see how there's a risk of "killing the golden goose." Push too hard and they can decide that it's not worth playing and that means trouble for the rest of us.
The UK currently has a 50% tax rate on incomes introduced as one of the final acts by the last Labour Government. The Institute of Fiscal Studies suggests that the highest tax rate that won't reduce tax revenue is below 50% and HM Revenue & Customs are reporting on the impact of the 50% tax rate in 2012.
Tax freedom day in 2011 (when you've worked long enough to pay the tax) was May 30, after that everything is yours to keep.
The top 1% of earners pay 24% of all income tax.
In a new survey of global competitiveness the UK is ranked 94th out of 142 countries for the extent and effect of taxation. In 1997 it was fifth.
The tax rules are incredibly complicated as politicians have tinkered with them. The problem is that the more complicated it gets, the more it opens up opportunities for loopholes.
The big advantage of the flat rate tax is its simplicity and how it stops exceptions.
We need to look at income tax from the perspective of customers and the entrepreneurs, managers and employees.
A reduction in income tax will put money into the pockets of employees and since most people spend what they earn, will increase consumer expenditure and create a surge in demand.
Consumers will buy more if they wanted more or will trade up in price/quality. They will switch from low priced substitutes to higher priced substitutes (e.g. move from home cooking to takeaways to meals out at restaurants).
Tax breaks for the less well-off are more likely to create demand throughout the rest of the economy than for the better offer who may decide to save more.
An increase in taxes has the opposite effect as it reduces discretionary expenditure. Basic products and services – food, energy, accommodation – will be less affected than the treats we buy.
Higher tax rates for the entrepreneurs are likely to change their behaviours in terms of the risks they are prepared to take and could force some to review where they decide to live.
Higher tax rates for well paid employees – e.g. top footballers – act as a demotivating factor to come to this country which can only be offset by increasing pay rates to compensate. The same can happen with professional managers although boards need confidence that the extra value created will cover the increased costs.
Employers have to pay a proportion of the employee's gross salary to the government as national insurance. While it sounds like political rhetoric, this is literally a tax on jobs.
Along with the red tape of employment law, the minimum wage and the difficulty of finding employees who can make a positive contribution, it helps to explain why so many one-man-band businesses don't have any intention of employing anyone else.
Businesses pay corporation tax on taxable business profits.
Owner-managers of businesses are able to look across the income tax, national insurance, corporation tax and other tax schemes to find the best profit extraction policies that maximise the cash they bank personally compared to the cost to the business.
Shareholders receive their dividends from profits after tax so higher tax rates reduce the likely returns on equity investment and may make it tougher for small, entrepreneurial businesses to raise finance.
Businesses can pay capital gains if they sell a capital asset (rather than a trading asset like stock) for a profit but the main capital gains issues arise when the business itself is sold.
Various reliefs are given to entrepreneurs who have sacrificed their short term rewards by leaving profits in the business to finance future growth. Often an entrepreneur will see their business as their pension, an asset to be sold to finance their retirement.
Increasing capital gain tax rates and cutting back on the entrepreneurs' reliefs may provide a disincentive to grow the business. Personally I think income tax and corporation tax rates have more impact on incentives because of their "cash now" impact.
Apart from a few stamp duties on the transfer of particular assets, the big issue here is inheritance tax on family businesses. I have no idea how this works at the moment. If you're in this situation, go and talk to a tax expert.
In the UK, very small businesses have a choice of whether to register for VAT or not (HMR&C guidelines).
A VAT unregistered business doesn't charge VAT on their sales. This can give them a profit or pricing advantage for sales to consumers compared with bigger competitors but they can't reclaim the VAT they pay on their purchases. Increases in VAT rates therefore increase their costs but increase their pricing advantage as well.
For businesses that do register for VAT, an increase in the rate becomes an administrative burden. If VAT rates change, then prices should change which creates short term difficulties with labelling. VAT is added to the price of what they sell but reclaimed on their purchases.
VAT changes affect the ability of the consumer to buy at the margin. Recent years have seen VAT in the UK reduce from 17.5% to 15%, return to 17.5% and then increase to 20% on most items excluding food and children's clothes.
Those people on a fixed budget will be able to buy less of something which may be the item the business sells if it is considered a non-essential. For other customers a small increase (2.5% either way) will make little impact on deciding whether to buy an item or not although it may bring forward purchases to beat the increase.
Tax is raised on purchases of items like petrol and diesel, cigarettes and alcohol through various duties. This may be because the government is trying to discourage consumption e.g. environmental issue for petrol, health issues for cigarettes.
Increases in excise duty make the items more expensive for consumers and will dampen demand although there is a "you'll have to grin and bear it" factor too. I can't say that my purchasing behaviour seems to be influenced much by the duty except where it forces prices to go past a psychological barrier.
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Deutsche Börse Group, one of the world's largest exchange organisations, has acquired a minority stake in data analytics firm Trifacta to push growth in its data services business. The transaction was made by its venture capital arm DB1 Ventures for an undisclosed sum of money.
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So far, the company has raised more than $76 million in funding, including the $35 million in fresh capital that it raised last year from Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners and a new investor, Cathay Innovation.
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Here's a simple idea that really seems to have struck a cord with supporters, so their enthusiasm and willingness to get involved has made it a huge publicity attraction as well as a fundraising money-spinner. The brilliant thing about this idea is that the supporters do most of the work and they have a great time too.
RSPCA NSW created the event. The marketing materials were prepared by a graphic design house, following RSPCA's brief.
Cupcake day for the RSPCA was a fundraising day. We encouraged supporters to register to become a RSPCA cupcake cook, then bake cupcakes and sell them to friends, family and colleagues and send the money to us.
Many charities in Australia have fundraising days. The RSPCA has an event called 'million paws walk', when people register to walk their dogs. This event has very high infrastructure costs so we wanted to find an event that would cost little to put on and that could be coordinated by our supporters. We supplied the advertising materials.
The campaign included sponsorship from a national weekly magazine, TV placements, a website, www.rspcacupcakeday.com.au, and a mechanism to generate an online community – through uploading pictures of supporters' cupcakes and stories to the site.
Who would have thought that a humble cupcake could change lives? Our supporters got behind this initiative. We had anticipated that most participants would be schoolchildren. We were wrong – 60 per cent of the participants were from the business and corporate sector. Because we had no way of measuring its uptake we promote it as strongly as we might have done with this event. But we have learned for next time.
Initial set-up costs (event identity, marketing materials and website development) – AUS $26,908.58; these costs will not be incurred again. Printing and postage nationally - $32,720.27. Total event costs nationally – $59,628.85.
Total income nationally - $309,353.01.
This was a simple idea, simply executed that resonated with its multiple audiences. It was a great testament to the power of a supporter to run a campaign on a charity's behalf. And it was a lot of fun. Also the outlay in terms of costs, planning and preparation was minimal and the return was overwhelming.
We have made cupcake day for the RSPCA an annual event.
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You can be certain of judging a book by its cover if it has barbed wire and a blood-red poppy on it. As a familiar title, Goodbye To All That summons up the muddy craters of the Western Front as surely as Far From The Madding Crowd brings to mind the woods and heaths of Hardy's Dorset. The geography of literary England includes Flanders and Artois by virtue of the writers who fought the Great War for possession of the Steenbeck, Hill 60 and the Double Crassier slag heap. By the end of 1915, such names were known throughout the English-speaking world as bywords for blood and battle.
Of the few landmarks to survive the First World War and the tide of forgetfulness that followed the Second, two stand paramount: the Golden Virgin of Albert, which became a defining symbol of the Battle of the Somme, and the Cloth Hall of Ypres, one of the glories of Gothic Europe, the ruin of which represented in British eyes the violation of Belgium and thereby the justification for entering the war as well as the vindication of sticking it out to the bitter end.
The rubble and dust of the ruined Cloth Hall posed an immediate question to the citizens who returned to YPres in 1919: to rebuild or forget? Some proposed that the Cloth Hall should be preserved as it was, a ruin, to memorialise its own desecration for future generations. The French did this with several villages wiped off the map during the battle for Verdun. Winston Churchill too, believed that the despoilation of Ypres should be left untouched as a potent symbol of what had been lost and what had been saved. There was, he said, no place on earth more sacred to the English. Every year since, for nearly a hundred years, the English, the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish have made the pilgrimage.
Virtually every Division in the British Army passed through Ypres during the Great War. The troops called it 'Eeps', or 'Eep-rez', or 'Wipers'. Once they had passed through the town into the Salient there was no respite. The Germans occupied all the high ground. They could reach the British trenches from three sides with precisely aimed artillery fire. The Salient, a buffer zone of soggy farmland to the east of Ypres, was where the British Army had made its stand in 1914. One million men were killed or wounded in the subsequent defence of the town as, month by month, the pinnacles and buttresses of the Cloth Hall and St Martin's Cathedral next door were pulverised by the German guns until only stumps remained. Soldiers who survived, and who returned to Ypres after the War, men like the writer and former infantryman, Henry Williamson, were astounded to discover the thoroughness of peacetime reconstruction.
Henry Williamson made his name as a writer of nature stories, chiefly the children's classic, Tarka The Otter, published in 1927. He was so profoundly scarred by the Great War he was never able to escape it. When he married in 1925, a visit to the old Western Front formed part of his honeymoon. His postcards home showed the blasted buildings of Arras and Amiens ('lovely weather, but very hot') and the wasteland of Messines Ridge ('comparatively untouched, this part!'). The book that eventually grew out of Williamson's pilgrimage, The Wet Flanders Plain, contributed to the development of what has since become a highly collectable sub-genre of the Great War book – the Then and Now retrospective.
Today, no English reader can look up at the Cloth Hall's tower or the spire of St Martin's, or the new-fangled facades enclosing the Grand' Place of Ypres, without seeing in them the ruins they once were. It is the ruins we go to see.
Within the re-built city of Ypres today, Henry Williamson himself is one of those wraiths he once imagined. By day and night he and his comrades are in our thoughts. WE think we can still hear and echo of the rumbling artillery batteries, the grumbling infantry, the mule trains and ambulances. At twilight on the ramparts, and when the mist of a grey dawn rises from the moat, we see the British marching to their fate.
The first 'Then and Now' books emerged as tourist guides, among the earliest of which were those published by the Michelin Tyre Company f or motorists. Each Western Front battlefield – Ypres, Arras, The Somme, Verdun – had a slim Michelin volume to itself comprising a series of itineraries designed around a day's driving.
Henry Williamson felt affronted by the naked commercialism of battlefield tourism. He found Ypres' re-paved market square full of souvenir sellers and charabanc touts hawking for passengers. M. Rolander's half-day tour took in Zonnebeke, Sanctuary Wood, Hill 60, Shrapnel Corner and the Canadian monument at St Julien, all for 12 shillings and sixpence. It must have been a bone-shaking ride. Many roads had not been re-laid. Photographs of the post-war Salient show a moonscape scored by trenches, pitted with over-lapping shell holes and littered with wire, wrecked tanks and other rusty debris. Many of the serene British cemeteries familiar to modern visitors, the so-called 'silent cities', were still in the process of being reclaimed from the swamp.
The early guidebooks were produced for those who hadn't fought, the bereaved, the non-combatants and the curious. Returning veterans like Henry Williamson knew where they wanted to go. They went by foot, with their old trench maps to guide them. Williamson describes in The Wet Flanders Plain how he cadged a lift with a party of brass hats returning to the Salient for the dedication of a battlefield memorial.
Ten years later again, there was even less to see. By the mid-Thirties, a note of desperation was creeping in. Returning veterans, seeing how completely Peace was effacing the evidence, began to fear for posterity's understanding of the suffering they had gone through. Their anxieties were not eased by a prevailing mood of disillusion. The best selling Great War books of the Twenties and Thirties were anti–war books, persuasive dramatisations of futility and waste. Ex-subalterns like R.H.Mottram, who wrote a minor masterpiece in his Spanish Farm Trilogy, felt the need to redress the balance. Nine years after his trilogy was completed and more than 20 years after he first crossed to France with the Norfolk Regiment, Mottram returned to the battlefields for a final valediction. It was called, Journey To The Western Front, published in 1936.
Mottram was plain stylist, simple in method, unshowy in his effects. Journey To The Western Front is probably the best book of pilgrimage in English because it seeks to capture 'the past in the present' – the character of that specifically British sector of the Western Front from the Salient southwards to the Somme.
Most writer-pilgrims shared Mottram's wistful, elegaic tone but lacked his sensitivity in selecting their human details. More typical of the predominant tone was Pilgrimage, by Lt.-Col. Graham Seton Hutchison, published by Rich & Cowan in 1935. It is a journalistic summary of the main battles on the Western Front spiced with personal recollections and bits of French history lifted from guidebooks.
Corbie was mainly familiar to those who served on the Somme as a staging post. Far more important to the English were the towns of Amiens and Albert. Amiens was the favourite resort of young subalterns in search of a spree, distant enough to be safe from shelling, big enough to be able to supply most needs. Throughout the Somme offensive of 1916, wine, women and poetry books could all be procured in Amiens. But grubby little Albert was not only within range of the German guns, it was a constant target, being a well-known bottleneck in the British supply chain. It served the Somme as Ypres served the Salient. It was the last place on earth for tens of thousands of young men.


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Can you believe it's Friday already!?!?!
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So I was up late and I saw this weeks sketch at Deconstructed Sketch.
I had to play and get an early start on my monthly assignments this month.
So...are you prepared to be shocked??!!
I created two cards...YES!! I know...Crazy eh?!?
No not really, but I loved this weeks sketch that I was encourages to make two cards!!
Gorgeousness right!!! I LOVE them both!!
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Love these big sentiments stamps!!
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Son of a German mother and Italian father, Giovanni Morassutti is an actor, director, and cultural entrepreneur currently living in Berlin, Germany. He studied acting and directing since he was a teenager approaching the work of the realistic school first with Susan Strasberg, then as an auditor at the Actors Studio in New York, as a student of Salem Ludwig at the HB studio and then with John Strasberg with whom now works as an assistant and coordinator for his workshops in Berlin. He also wrote the preface of the Italian version of his book Accidentally on purpose published by Dino Audino in 2016. In America, Giovanni worked with Ellen Stewart founder of La Mama e.t.c. , Ted Mornel, Kathleen M. Wilce, and Gus Van Sant. In Italy, after graduating from the National Film School in Rome directed by actor Giancarlo Giannini, he was cast in several roles in theatre and film productions working with Fabio Jephcott, Roberto Faenza, Cinzia Th Torrini, Andrea Manni, Stefano Usardi, Matteo Corazza, Lidia Biondi, Harris Freedman, Riccardo Milani among others. Parallel to his work as an actor he has also been teaching several workshops on acting in English. In Theatre he directed Sola in casa by Dino Buzzati starring Lydia Biondi and presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in 2012 and the theatre production of Madre sin Panuelo by Jorge Palant sponsored by the Argentian Embassy and presented in Rome and Milan in the fall of 2015. In Berlin, he was cast among other projects, in For the time being directed by Daniela Lucato that was presented at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival.


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Part 1: Happiness; Chapter 3: The Practice for Transforming Our State of Life [3.4]
3.4 The Real Aspect and Power of the Gohonzon
President Ikeda discusses the significance and layout of the Gohonzon, citing passages from the writings of Nichiren Daishonin and the Lotus Sutra.
Nichiren Daishonin states that he inscribed the Gohonzon as the "banner of propagation of the Lotus Sutra" (WND-1, 831). In other words, it is the object of devotion for kosen-rufu—that is, for accomplishing the wide propagation of the Mystic Law. In "The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon," he says:
"How wondrous it is that, around two hundred years and more into the Latter Day of the Law, I was the first to reveal as the banner of propagation of the Lotus Sutra this great mandala [the Gohonzon of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo] that even those such as [the learned Indian Buddhist monks] Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu, [and the Great Teachers of China] T'ien-t'ai and Miao-lo were unable to express." (WND-1, 831)
Carrying on the Daishonin's spirit, the Soka Gakkai is propagating the "object of devotion for kosen-rufu" that the Daishonin, while enduring great persecution, inscribed for the happiness of the people of the Latter Day of the Law.
The Daishonin models the Gohonzon after the Ceremony in the Air1 as depicted in the Lotus Sutra when the "Life Span" (16th) chapter is being expounded. The "Life Span" chapter reveals the eternity of the Mystic Law on three levels: the eternity of the Buddha (true effect), the eternity of living beings (true cause), and the eternity of the land (true land). [The true effect, true cause, and true land are together referred to as the three mystic principles.]
The significance of the Ceremony in the Air becomes clear with the integration of the three mystic principles in the "Life Span" chapter. The Ceremony in the Air symbolically reveals that the Buddha, the living beings, and the land are all entities of the eternal Mystic Law. In other words, the eternal Mystic Law pervades the entire universe. Nichiren Daishonin expressed this Law as Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
In "The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind," the Daishonin discusses the aspect or layout of the Gohonzon in detail.
The true object of devotion is described as follows:
"The treasure tower sits in the air above the saha world that the Buddha of the essential teaching [identified as the pure and eternal land]; Myoho-renge-kyo appears in the center of the tower with the Buddhas Shakyamuni and Many Treasures seated to the right and left, and, flanking them, the four bodhisattvas, followers of Shakyamuni, led by Superior Practices. Manjushri, Maitreya, and the other bodhisattvas, who are all followers of the four bodhisattvas, are seated below. All the other major and minor bodhisattvas, whether they are disciples of the Buddha in his transient status or of the Buddhas of the other worlds, are like commoners kneeling on the ground in the presence of nobles and high-ranking court officials. The Buddhas who gathered from the other worlds in the ten directions all remain on the ground, showing that they are only temporary manifestations of the eternal Buddha and that their lands are transient, not eternal and unchanging." (WND-1, 366–67)
In form, the Gohonzon depicts a multi-tiered structure, with the treasure tower of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as its central axis. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo in the center indicates the fundamental truth. Since Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the central axis of life and the universe, it is expressed by the treasure tower that soars up in the center of the Ceremony in the Air.
On either side are the Buddhas Shakyamuni and Many Treasures, who represent functions of Myoho-renge-kyo (cf. WND-1, 384). Many Treasures is the Buddha of the past, signifying eternal truth, and represents the Law as the object of wisdom, or that which wisdom perceives. Shakyamuni is the Buddha of the present, and represents the wisdom to perceive the Law. Indeed, these are two aspects of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. The two Buddhas seated together indicates the "fusion of reality and wisdom."2
The important point is that we make neither Shakyamuni nor Many Treasures our object of devotion. Both Shakyamuni and Many Treasures, too, became Buddhas through Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. It is always Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, the fundamental Law for attaining Buddhahood, that we make our object of devotion. In terms of the layout of the Gohonzon, this is clear from Nam-myoho-renge-kyo being written large in the center with Shakyamuni and Many Treasures positioned to either side.
Awakened to Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, Buddhas unfailingly carry out bodhisattva practice to lead all people to enlightenment. The four bodhisattvas—Superior Practices, Boundless Practices, Pure Practices, and Firmly Established Practices—represent such bodhisattva practice.
The reason these four bodhisattvas—the leaders of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth3—all have "practices" in their names [as indicated by the Chinese character that means "practice" or "action"] is that they express their wisdom of enlightenment as action. That is to say, they exhibit actions that are "superior," "boundless," "pure," and "unwavering" based on infinite life force that is one with the Mystic Law.
They can be said to correspond to the four noble virtues of Buddhahood—a state of life that is forever (eternity) secure (true self), refreshed (purity), and joyful (happiness).
The Bodhisattvas of the Earth, displaying the power inherent in life, seek to protect and free from suffering all living beings and the entire world.
The Daishonin says that all the other major and minor bodhisattvas of the theoretical teaching and those from other lands are not elevated into the air but are "on the ground." These bodhisattvas could be said to represent various altruistic practices, or concrete actions taken to further the enlightenment of all people according to their individual circumstances.
These bodhisattvas are innumerable, and therefore they cannot all be depicted in the Gohonzon. Nevertheless, the Gohonzon unmistakably includes all of their benefit.
Each of these beings of the Ten Worlds4 who have gathered before the treasure tower of the Mystic Law express a part of the functions of the Mystic Law. Illuminated by the light of the Mystic Law, they embody the Mystic Law and "display the dignified attributes that they inherently possess" (WND-1, 832). Displaying their unique character, they express the richness of the Mystic Law. This is the meaning of "illuminating and manifesting one's true nature" (cf. WND-1, 746).
When the light of the sun passes through a prism, it divides into a continuous spectrum of colors from red to violet. Sunlight is the totality of these individual colors, each being a component of that light. The light of the sun contains countless hues. Therefore, when it shines on something, some of its colors are absorbed and some are reflected back, producing the various shades we see.
The Mystic Law is the ultimate source of life. It gives birth to and encompasses all things. Illuminated by the sunlight of this all-inclusive Mystic Law, everything shines with rich individuality.
The Daishonin explains that myo (of myoho or Mystic Law) has three meanings: to open, to be fully endowed, and to revive (cf. WND-1, 146). The benefit of the Gohonzon naturally includes these three functions. The Gohonzon (Nam-myoho-renge-kyo) has the power to unlock the Buddha nature in all people; it contains all benefit and embraces all capacities; and it has the revitalizing power to liberate people from any kind of negative karma and misery. In short, it has the power to enable everything to display its highest potential. It is a life-giving teaching.
The Ceremony in the Air is a "realm transcending time and space." It does not take place in some historically specific time or place. That is precisely why we are able to join in the Ceremony in the Air anytime and anywhere.
By chanting to the Gohonzon, which is modeled on the Ceremony in the Air, we become one with the eternal and universal life in the present, and we open a state of life in which we can survey the entire universe from right where we are. Through our daily practice of gongyo and chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, we join the eternal Ceremony in the Air here and now. We cause the treasure tower to shine within us and in our daily lives and activities. That is the wonder of the Gohonzon. A magnificent "cosmos" of life opens to us, and reality presents itself as a world of value creation.
From The World of Nichiren Daishonin's Writings, vol. 2, published in Japanese in January 2004.
*1Ceremony in the Air: One of the three assemblies described in the Lotus Sutra, in which the entire gathering is suspended in space above the saha world. The heart of this ceremony is the revelation of the Buddha's original enlightenment in the remote past and the transfer of the essence of the sutra to the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, who are led by Bodhisattva Superior Practices.
*2Fusion of reality and wisdom: The fusion of the objective reality or truth and the subjective wisdom to realize that truth, which is the Buddha nature inherent within one's life.
*3Bodhisattvas of the Earth: An innumerable host of bodhisattvas who emerge from beneath the earth and to whom Shakyamuni Buddha entrusts the propagation of the Mystic Law, or the essence of the Lotus Sutra, in the Latter Day of the Law.
*4Ten Worlds: The realms of hell, hungry spirits, animals, asuras, human beings, heavenly beings, voice-hearers, cause-awakened ones, bodhisattvas, and Buddhas. They are also referred to as the ten life states of hell, hunger, animality, anger, humanity, heaven, learning, realization, bodhisattva, and Buddhahood.

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April 4, 2014 10:07AM EDT
Ethiopia: Updated Submission for the Universal Periodic Review
(All updates in bold)
Ethiopia's human rights situation since 2009 has been marked by a harsh intolerance for any criticism of government actions and a sharp decline in freedoms of expression and association. Critics of government policy continue to be subjected to harassment, arbitrary detention, and politically motivated prosecutions. Two repressive laws passed in 2009—the Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSO law) and the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation—have been used to decimate independent media and civil society organizations.
Political space has also constricted as the ruling party, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has consolidated control, the EPRDF officially won 99.6% of the votes in the 2010 parliamentary elections after intimidating political opponents, restricting media, and ensuring political support through its control of access to government services and other resources. Over the past five years most legitimate political avenues for peaceful protest have been shut down and opposition leaders, civil society activists, and independent journalists have been jailed or forced to flee.
While Ethiopia's commitment to economic development is laudable and has brought some benefits, communities affected by certain programs –such as the "villagization" program in Gambella and the development of irrigated sugar plantations in the Lower Omo Valley—have experienced serious abuses such as forced relocations, inadequate consultation and lack of services in resettlement sites.
There has been little or no apparent effort to investigate or ensure accountability for these abuses or for past serious crimes by the security forces in Gambella, Somali Region, Oromia, and in the wake of the 2005 election protests.
During the 2009 UPR process, Ethiopia rejected the recommendation calling for amendment of the Anti-Terrorism law. But Ethiopia accepted recommendations to take "measures to provide for free and independent media" and to "take steps to ensure civil and political rights are upheld, including freedom of expression and freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention."However, Ethiopia failed to implement these recommendations. Since the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation was passed in 2009, the government has used this repressive law to detain and convict journalists, political opposition supporters, and peaceful protesters for exercising their right to freedom of expression and association. Thirty-four people, including 11 journalists and at least 4 opposition supporters, are known to have been sentenced under the law since late 2011 in what appear to be politically motivated trials. The provision on pre-trial detention allows suspects to be held in custody for up to four months without charge, one of the longest periods in anti-terrorism legislation worldwide. The provision violates due process rights guaranteed under Ethiopian law and international law.
Blogs and Internet pages critical of the Ethiopian government are regularly blocked and independent radio stations, particularly those broadcasting in Amharic and Afan Oromo, are routinely jammed. Attempts by journalists to establish new publications are systematically restricted and in 2012 printing houses also came under threat for printing publications critical of the Ethiopian government. Ethiopia's journalists live in constant fear of threats, harassment and persecution should they publish anything that is critical of government policy. As a result, critical voices in Ethiopia's media are few and far between, and the independence of Ethiopia's media is at its lowest point since the EPRDF came to power in 1991.
The government has the capabilities for widespread monitoring of telecommunications. Phone records and phone recordings are easily obtained by security officials, usually without warrants, and their contents are sometimes used during unlawful interrogations against individuals who express dissent or are perceived to be actively involved in opposition politics. This contributes to a "culture of fear" effectively silencing dissenting voices and limiting freedom of expression.
Many governments have called for the amendment of the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation. The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights expressed its grave alarm "at the arrest and prosecutions of journalists and political opposition members, charged with terrorism and other offences, including treason, for exercising their peaceful and legitimate rights to freedom of expression and freedom of association." Ethiopia has yet to address these concerns.
During the 2009 UPR, Ethiopia rejected recommendations from a number of states to repeal or amend the CSO law to bring it in line with international standards. But the government had accepted the recommendation to "ensure that the freedom of association is guaranteed in accordance with the provisions of article 22 of the ICCPR" and other general recommendation on freedom of association. However, since2009, there has been a dramatic reduction in the number of independent organizations working on human rights issues in Ethiopia. Few, if any independent organizations are able to investigate sensitive human rights violations or speak critically on Ethiopia's human rights record from within the country.
TheCSO law delivered a terrible blow to independent civil society in Ethiopia. It is one of the most draconian laws regulating nongovernmental activity in the world and bars human rights activity, including work on human rights, governance, conflict resolution, and advocacy on women's rights, children's rights and the rights of people with disabilities, by any organization that receives more than 10 percent of its funds from foreign sources.
A vibrant civil society is a prerequisite for achieving sustainable progress on human rights and the rule of law. Since the law's adoption, Ethiopia's most important human rights groups have been compelled to dramatically scale down operations or remove human rights activities from their mandates, and an unknown number of organizations have closed entirely. Numerous governments have called for the repeal or substantial amendment of the law, citing its violation of fundamental guarantees on freedom of association.
Right to Peaceful Assembly
For the past two years Ethiopia has seen unprecedented public demonstrations by parts of its Muslim community, which constitutes at least 30 percent of the country's population. The protests stem from the Ethiopian government's insistence that the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs accept members from an Islamic sect known as al-Ahbash, and the government's efforts to impose the sect's teachings on the ethnically and culturally diverse Muslim community. The government also sought to influence the operations of the Awalia mosque in Addis Ababa.
In 2012 and 2013 Ethiopian security forces have harassed, assaulted and detained hundreds of these protesters. Particularly serious crackdowns occurred in July 2012 and August 2013. Journalists attempting to report on the events have also been arbitrarily detained and beaten. At least 29 prominent Muslim leaders, activists, and others believed to have a role in organizing the protests were arrested in July 2012 and are being prosecuted under the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation. Since January 2013 the hearings have been closed to the public, including the media, diplomats, and family members of defendants.
Arbitrary Detention and Mistreatment in Custody
Ethiopia had accepted during the previous UPR to "promptly respond to complaints of harassment, intimidation or arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders" and to uphold the right to freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention.However, Human Rights Watch has documented hundreds of cases of arbitrary detentions in Addis Ababa, Oromia, Gambella, and Somali Region over the past years. Students, members of opposition groups, journalists, peaceful protesters and others seeking to express their rights to freedom of assembly, expression or association are frequently detained arbitrarily.
Ill-treatment is common in detention, particularly in Addis Ababa's Federal Police Crime Investigation Center, known as Maekelawi, where most individuals are held during pre-charge or pre-trial detention. Abuse and coercion that in some cases amount to torture and othe ill-treatment are used to extract information, confessions and statements from detainees. Individuals are often denied access to legal counsel, particularly during pre-charge detention. Mistreated detainees have little recourse in the courts and there is no regular access to prisons and detention centers by independent investigators.
Lack of Accountability for Abuses by Security Forces
Ethiopian security forces have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law in at least three separate armed conflict situations over the past decade: in the Somali Region in 2007, in Somalia between 2006 and 2008, and in Gambella in 2003 and 2004. Human Rights Watch concluded that abuses committed by Ethiopian forces in Somalia amounted to war crimes, and that abuses committed in Somali Region and Gambella amounted to crimes against humanity.
The Ethiopian government routinely dismisses serious allegations of human rights abuses as unreliable or politically motivated. On a handful of occasions, the authorities have established investigations into large-scale abuses, including after allegations of crimes against humanity in Gambella in 2003, the post-election violence in 2005, and in response to a Human Rights Watch report documenting war crimes in the Ogaden area of Somali Regional State in 2007. The inquiry into post-election violence was the most credible initiative, but after the members of the inquiry concluded that police used excessive force against protesters, killing up to 200 people, the inquiry's findings were altered and the authors of the report were threatened and fled Ethiopia. The 2008 inquiry into events in the Ogaden failed to meet basic standards of credibility and failed to find any evidence of serious abuses by Ethiopian security forces.
Ethiopia rejected recommendations during the 2009 UPR to investigate human rights abuses committed by security forces in the Somali Region.
Abuses in the Context of Development Programs
Human Rights Watch has documented abuses in the implementation of some of Ethiopia's development programs. In 2009, in the lead-up to the 2010 elections, the government used donor-supported programs, salaries, and training opportunities to punish dissent and discriminate against political opponents—both real and perceived. Victims described being denied access to seeds and fertilizer, agricultural land, credit, food aid, and other resources for development. There are insufficient monitoring provisions in place to ensure that development programs are not subject to discriminatory practices and do not contribute to abuses. The Ethiopian government has not conducted any meaningful investigation into any of these allegations.
Abuses have also been documented during the implementation of the "villagization" program in Gambella and in the Lower Omo Valley's irrigated sugar plantations.
In Gambella, the implementation of "villagization"—whereby pastoral and semi-pastoral communities are relocated to new sites with improved services—has been marked by forced displacement, arbitrary detentions and mistreatment, inadequate consultation, and no compensation. People sent to the new villages sometimes found the land infertile and frequently had to clear the land and build their own huts under military supervision, while the promised services (schools, clinics, water pumps) were not in place when they arrived.
In Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley, around 200,000 indigenous peoples are being relocated and their land expropriated to make way for state-run sugar plantations. Residents reported being moved by force, seeing their grazing lands flooded or ploughed up, and their access to the Omo River, essential for their survival and way of life, curtailed.
The Government of Ethiopia Should Be Urged To:
On Freedom of Association, Expression and Peaceful Assembly
Repeal or significantly amend the Charities and Societies Proclamation of 2009. At minimum, the government should repeal provisions of the law that directly infringe on the government's human rights obligations. In particular, the government should:
remove the provisions that label local groups as "foreign" if they receive significant funding from sources outside Ethiopia, and eliminate restrictions on the activities of these groups;
remove the ban on non-Ethiopian groups carrying out work that touches on human rights, governance, advocacy and other key issues;
ensure a right of appeal and unfettered access to the courts for all organizations and individuals subjected to adverse decisions under the law; and,
immediately unfreeze the bank accounts of the Human Rights Council and the Ethiopian Women Lawyer's Association.
Repeal or significantly amend the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of 2009. At minimum, the government should repeal provisions of the law that directly infringe on the government's human rights obligations. In particular, the government should:
revoke articles 3, 5(b), 6, 20, and 23; and,
release all journalists, opposition members, and others indiscriminately detained or unlawfully imprisoned for their peaceful expression of their views under the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation.
Immediately halt the use of unnecessary or excessive force against peaceful demonstrators and other persons by security forces.
Enact protections for the right to privacy to prevent abuse and arbitrary use of surveillance, national security, and law enforcement powers as guaranteed under international law applicable to Ethiopia.
On Accountability for Abuses by Security Forces
Launch or invite the establishment of independent inquiries into serious violations of international humanitarian law and other serious abuses by Ethiopian military forces in Gambella in 2003 and 2004, in Somali Region in 2007-2008, and in Somalia in 2006-2008. Ensure that all personnel responsible for serious abuses are appropriately and fairly prosecuted. Senior officials implicated, including as a matter of command responsibility, should be prosecuted regardless of rank.
Ensure that benefits from development programs are available to citizens on a non-discriminatory basis, regardless of their political affiliation, religion, or ethnicity.
Ensure that any development-induced displacement is carried out according to international best practice.
Ensure that donors, independent human rights investigators and media have unimpeded access to the whole country, including Somali Region, Lower Omo and Gambella, to monitor human rights impacts associated with development assistance.
Discipline or prosecute as appropriate all government and military officials, regardless of position, implicated in human rights violations associated with development programs.
On Human Rights Treaties and Cooperation with Human Rights Mechanisms
Issue standing invitations to all UN special procedures, including the Working Groups on Arbitrary Detention and Enforced Disappearances, and the Special Rapporteurs on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Human Rights Defenders, Torture, Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Freedom to Freedom of Expression and Opinion, among others, to investigate and report on allegations of serious abuses in Ethiopia.
Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and fully align national legislation with all obligations under the Rome Statute, including by incorporating provisions to cooperate promptly and fully with the International Criminal Court and to investigate and prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes effectively in its national courts.
Sign and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention Against Torture.
Universal Periodic Review
Kenya Should Address Unlawful Killings by Police
Letter to Inspector General of Police Regarding Unlawful Killings by Police
Group's Leader an Adviser to Prime Minister
Kenya: Nairobi Police Executing Suspects
Dozens Killed in Low-Income Areas


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Q: ResultSetExtractorException in SQL-Interpolation I'm facing some issues with SQL-Interpolation in ScalikeJdbc. Upon trying to run following piece of code
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    at scalikejdbc.WrappedResultSet.get(WrappedResultSet.scala:479)
    at scalikejdbc.WrappedResultSet.longOpt(WrappedResultSet.scala:233)
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*How can I get rid of this error without having to use Query-DSL?

*Is there anything I can improve upon (in terms of performance / security) in above code-snippet?

Frameworks / Libraries

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EDIT-1
In response to @Kazuhiro Sera's answer, I'm providing my mapResult method
def mapResult(rs: WrappedResultSet): (Long, Long, Long) = {
  val count: Long = rs.long("count")
  val minOpt: Option[Long] = rs.longOpt("min")
  val maxOpt: Option[Long] = rs.longOpt("max")
  (count, minOpt.getOrElse(0), maxOpt.getOrElse(Long.MaxValue))
}

A: It depends on your mapResult function. I am afraid that mapResult tries to fetch tag_id from the ResultSet value. In this case, your SQL query returns only count, min, and max.

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Mike Ellis, worked at the Science Museum and on this project and writes a great blog about the project here.
Launchball is a pretty cool game.
The layout of the game is easy to understand and the concepts are really clear. You begin by placing a few 'blocks' containing a battery, or wind turbine, or water heater in the space to get your ball activated and sent to its goal. Then you "TEST" your setup and see if it works yet. Hints are available for Luddites like me who need a little help.
The game has multiple levels of play that progress with complexity. A good part of my morning got consumed trying to understand how to get the ice melted, by placing the water tank and the heater in just the right location.
From the very first step, you are asked to participate in creating a solution to each challenge. And once you've explored this you can create your own levels.
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Fire Horse Forge in Ballard makes razor sharp works of art
by Brandon Burnstead
Every trade his its tools. Instruments used to construct, to craft, to create. In the kitchen a chef's tool of choice is the knife. A razor sharp blade able to withstand pressure and heat because it to is forged in fire.
"The idea of making knives is particularly appealing to me because everybody eats, a lot of us cook," said David Tuthill, owner of Fire Horse Forge in Ballard. "The idea of something I made being put to the test on a daily basis holds a lot of appeal for me. I think that's one of the real driving forces for me, is just the challenge of really making the best thing I can make."
Tuthill is a metalsmith. For him creating these blades is less of a career and more of a calling, one that first piqued his interest more than three decades ago.
"I was probably 14 or 15 when the original 'Conan the Barbarian' came out," he said. "There's that first scene of his dad pouring molten metal, then forging it and quenching it in the snow. It really ignited something in me that filled me with a desire to pursue some sort of metal-working. I jumped into forging in my early 20s, and I've been doing it for 30 years now."
At Fire Horse, Tuthill teaches classes like a two-day Beginning Knife Making workshop and Chef's Knife workshop, but it's the custom pieces that take up the vast majority of his time - between eight and 24 hours for a single knife. It's a laborious process that begins simply with a piece of metal. To watch him work is to watch a light show, small in scale and yet somehow spectacular. White hot metal moves from the fire, to the press, to the anvil. The beat of the hammer like a drum, sending sparks flying as a knife slowly start to take shape.
"Forging is my favorite part of knife making. It's where I really feel like I've made the deepest connection with the blade," Tuthill told me.
Each knife has its own look, its own personality. It's only at the end, when the blade is etched, that the personality comes to life, that those tiniest of details are revealed.
"I really love doing it," he said. "There are a lot of stages throughout the process of making a knife that can be incredibly frustrating. Once you get past that and you're looking at the finished product it really is all worth it."
Ultimately, each knife will pass from his well-worn hands to another's, to the hands of a cook, a chef. It is, after all, a tool - and tools are made to be used.
"I'm not a person who works in food, but to be attached to that and provide tools for people who make their living doing that, it's sort of all connected. I don't know if I would say it completes the circle, but it's definitely part of the circle for me, so there's some real gratification there."
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На́па Кьятванча́й (; род. 27 июля 1967 года в  Накхонратчасиме, Таиланд) — тайский боксёр-профессионал, чемпион мира по версии WBC (1988-1989 годы), интернациональный чемпион по версии WBC (1988 год) в минимальном весе.

Биография
Кьятванчай родился 27 июля 1967 года в тайском городе Накхонратчасима (Корат).  Профессиональную карьеру начал в 1987 году, в возрасте 20 лет, дебютировав в минимальной весовой категории. Уже в пятом по счету профессиональном бою он завоевал титул интернационального чемпиона WBC, выиграв раздельным решением судей у индонезийца Нико Томаса.  В 1988 году, проведя защиту своего первого пояса, Кьятванчай вышел на титульный бой с чемпионом мира по версии WBC японцем Хироки Иокой. Их первый поединок в июне 1988 года завершился вничью, а в повторном тайский претендент победил чемпиона решением большинства судей, нанеся ему первое поражение в карьере и завоевав титул WBC. В 1989 году Кьятванчай дважды защитил свое чемпионское звание, победив единогласным судейским решением Джона Арифа из Индонезии и нокаутировав все того же Иоку. Однако 12 ноября 1989 года Напа проиграл техническим нокаутом в 12 раунде корейцу Чхве Чом Хвану и потерял чемпионский пояс.  Кьятванчай предпринял попытку вернуть утраченный титул WBC в минимальном весе, но 8 июня 1990 года уступил единогласным решением судей действующему чемпиону мира Хидэюки Охаси. В 1992 году, после ряда малозначимых рейтинговых боев, тайский боксёр попробовал себя в первой наилегчайшей весовой категории. Получив право на бой за чемпионский титул WBC в новом весе, Кьятванчай 14 сентября 1992 года проиграл нокаутом во втором раунде многолетнему чемпиону мира Умберто Гонсалесу из Мексики. До конца 1992 года таец потерпел еще одно поражение от  будущего претендента на чемпионский титул в минимальном весе филиппинца Алы Вилльяморы и прервал свою карьеру почти на 4 года. Вернувшись на ринг в 1996 году, Кьятванчай уступил четырежды в пяти проведенных боях, в том числе известному японскому боксёру Кацусигэ Кавасиме, и в 2000 году завершил выступления.

Профессиональная карьера
На профессиональном ринге Кьятванчай дебютировал 7 августа 1987 года, выступал в минимальной и первой наилегчайшей весовых категориях.  Большинство боёв (12) провёл на родине, в Таиланде, 9 поединков в Японии, два в Индонезии, по одному в Южной Корее и США.

1987—1988 годы
Дебютировав на профессиональном ринге 7 августа, Кьятванчай до конца года провёл 4 боя, во всех одержав победы, причем в трёх - досрочные. В пятом по счёту профессиональном бою тайский боксёр получил право на титульный поединок за звание чемпиона мира по версии WBC International в минимальном весе. Его соперником стал индонезиец Нико Томас. 26 января 1988 года в Джакарте Кьятванчай сумел победить своего оппонента раздельным решением судей. Один из рефери отдал победу хозяину ринга Томасу со счётом 115:113, однако двое других посчитали, что таец был сильнее - 118:113, 118:111. 16 апреля 1988 года Напа защитил завоеванный титул. Поединок вновь состоялся в Индонезии, а претендентом на пояс WBC International стал местный боксёр Хим Сурьяман. Кьятванчай выиграл большинством судейских голосов со счётом 120:104, 114:114, 118:113 и вскоре получил статус претендента на титул чемпиона мира по версии WBC в минимальном весе, которым владел японский боксёр Хироки Иока.

Первый бой с Иокой

Бой состоялся 5 июня 1988 года в японской Осаке. Иока проводил вторую защиту принадлежавшего ему чемпионского пояса WBC, и претендент на титул сумел оказать чемпиону достойное сопротивление. По итогам поединка двух боксёров, не имевших в послужных списках ничего кроме побед, один из судей отдал предпочтение японцу, второй - Кьятванчаю, а третий выставил ничейный счёт. Таким образом, Иока сохранил чемпионский пояс.

В сентябре 1988 года Кьятванчай выиграл еще один рейтинговый бой, а 13 ноября провёл повторный поединок с Иокой.

Второй бой с Иокой

В повторном бою Кьятванчай сумел убедить судей в своём превосходстве над соперником. На этот раз двое рефери отдали ему победу со счётом 115:112, а на карте третьего значился ничейный результат. В итоге большинством судейских решений Кьятванчай победил Иоку и завоевал принадлежавший японцу титул чемпиона мира по версии WBC в минимальном весе.

1989 год

Первую защиту завоеванного титула Кьятванчай провёл 11 февраля 1989 года в своем родном городе Накхонратчасиме. Его соперником стал индонезиец Джон Ариф.

Бой с Арифом

Несмотря на то, что Ариф на момент боя владел титулами чемпиона Индонезии и интернационального чемпиона по версии WBC, Кьятванчай значительно превосходил  соперника в классе. Тайский боксёр уверенно победил оппонента, о чем свидетельствовал счёт судейских записок - 119:106, 120:108, 120:107.

Следующим претендентом на титул чемпиона мира по версии WBC, принадлежавший Кьятванчаю, был назначен все тот же Хироки Иока. Их третий бой состоялся 10 июня 1989 года.

Третий бой с Иокой

Бой с Иокой, как и два предыдущих, прошёл в Осаке, но на сей раз у японца было немного шансов на победу. Кьятванчай доминировал в ринге, послал соперника в нокдаун в пятом раунде и еще дважды отправлял его на канвас в одиннадцатом, вынудив рефери Марти Денкина остановить поединок и зафиксировать победу тайца техническим нокаутом.

Третью защиту титула Кьятванчай провёл 12 ноября 1989 года против экс-чемпиона мира по версии IBF в первой наилегчайшей весовой категории, боксёра из Южной Кореи Чхве Чом Хвана.

Бой с Чхве

Чхве Чом Хван в итоге сумел добиться решающего преимущества, но Кьятванчай в определенные периоды боя оставался опасным для претендента. Побывав на настиле ринга уже в первом раунде, в пятом таец сам послал оппонента в нокдаун. Правда, в дальнейшем Чхве не давал усомниться в своем преимуществе. В седьмом и двенадцатом раундах кореец ещё дважды отправлял чемпиона в нокдаун и оформил победу техническим нокаутом в заключительном отрезке боя.

1990—1992 годы
В январе 1990 года Кьятванчай победил в рейтинговом бою достаточно сильного соперника, будущего чемпиона мира по версии WBC в первом наилегчайшем весе филиппинца Роландо Паскуа и снова стал претендентом на утраченный пояс WВС в минимальной весовой категории. Титульный поединок с участием тайца состоялся 8 июня 1990 года в Японии, его оппонентом стал действующий чемпион мира Хидеюки Охаси.

Бой с Охаси

Охаси стал чемпионом, победив обидчика Кьятванчая, корейского боксёра Чхве Чом Хвана, и в этом бою впервые защищал свой титул. Таец сумел выиграть несколько раундов, однако в итоге уступил единогласным решением судей (112:117, 112:116, 110:116).

После поражения в бою с Охаси карьера Кьятванчая пошла на спад. За два года он провёл четыре боя с малоизвестными соперниками. Однако в сентябре 1992 года таец получил новый шанс громко заявить о себе. Многолетний чемпион мира по версии WBC в первом наилегчайшем весе мексиканец Умберто Гонсалес проводил третью защиту возвращенного им в 1991 году чемпионского пояса, и Кьятванчай в качестве претендента на титул впервые в карьере вышел на американский ринг.

Бой с Гонсалесом

В первом раунде Гонсалес имел серьёзное преимущество и в концовке обрушил на соперника град ударов, следствием которого стал нокдаун Кьятванчая. Таец сумел подняться, но был явно потрясён и его откровенно спас гонг, возвещающий о конце раунда. Однако в начале второго трёхминутного отрезка боя Гонсалес продолжил атаковать и еще трижды отправлял Кьятванчая на настил ринга, после чего рефери остановил поединок.

До конца 1992 года Кьятванчай проиграл еще один поединок - уступил в Японии филиппинскому боксёру Але Вилльямору и прервал свою карьеру почти на четыре года.

1996—2000 годы

Свое возвращение на ринг в 1996 году таец отметил победой, но в дальнейшем не смог оставаться конкурентной величиной в своей весовой категории, делая длительные паузы в выступлениях и проводя мало боёв. В период с 1998 по 2000 год он четырежды дрался в Японии, проиграв все поединки. В числе его оппонентов за этот период был Кацусиге Кавасима, будущий чемпион мира во втором наилегчайшем весе по версии WBC. Последний бой Кьятванчая состоялся 28 октября 2000 года.

Список поединков

Примечания

Ссылки

Боксёры Таиланда
Боксёры минимальной весовой категории
Боксёры первой наилегчайшей весовой категории
Чемпионы Всемирного боксёрского совета
Боксёры 1980-х годов
Боксёры 1990-х годов
Боксёры 2000-х годов

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Małgorzata Szczęśniak (ur. 1954) – polska scenografka i autorka kostiumów współtworząca duet artystyczny z Krzysztofem Warlikowskim.

Życiorys
W 1972 ukończyła Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych w Krakowie. Później studiowała na Wydziale Filozofii i Psychologii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. W latach 1981–1984 studiowała na Wydziale Scenografii Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie. Wśród jej profesorów na ASP byli Andrzej Kreütz-Majewski (promotor jej pracy dyplomowej) oraz Lidia i Jerzy Skarżyńscy.

Jest żoną Krzysztofa Warlikowskiego, z którym regularnie współpracuje od pierwszej połowy lat 90. Była autorką scenografii i kostiumów do niemal wszystkich jego spektakli, zarówno przedstawień teatralnych, jak i operowych.

Jej prace niejednokrotnie były prezentowane na wystawach indywidualnych i zbiorowych w Europie. W 1990 Szczęśniak brała udział w Quadriennale Scenografii w Pradze, w 1994 pokazała swoje prace na Wystawie Młodych Scenografów w Katowicach. W 2007 roku powróciła na praskie Quadriennale, gdzie jej projekty reprezentowały polską sztukę scenograficzną. W 2008 roku otwarto wystawę jej prac w centrum kulturalnym "La Bellone" w Brukseli (kuratorka: Ewa Toniak). Wystawie towarzyszyła publikacja i pierwsza monografia twórczości scenografki : Pojawia się i znika. Małgorzata Sczęśniak. Wystawa projektów scenograficznych. W lipcu 2013 w Nowym Teatrze w Warszawie architektka Aleksandra Wasilkowska przygotowała wystawę Pojawia się i znika. Architektura scenografii Małgorzaty Szczęśniak. W 2015 otrzymała nagrodę za najlepszą scenografię na Festiwalu Boska Komedia za pracę przy spektaklu Francuzi Warlikowskiego. Jury w uzasadnieniu stwierdziło, że "scenografia wciąga widzów w wielość przedstawionych światów, by doświadczali ciągłości rozwoju dramatu poprzez stworzenie silnie osadzonego w przestrzeni poczucia czasu".

Odznaczenia i wyróżnienia
Postanowieniem prezydenta RP Bronisława Komorowskiego z 22 czerwca 2015 została odznaczona Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski "za wybitne zasługi w pracy twórczej i działalności artystycznej, za osiągnięcia w promowaniu polskiej kultury" i 1 lipca tego roku udekorowana tym odznaczeniem.

W 2021 została wyróżniona nagrodą International Opera Award.

Rodzina
Jej młodszy brat Paweł Szczęśniak (ur. 1958) był jednym z założycieli kawiarni Prowincja i Nowa Prowincja w Krakowie.

Realizacje – scenografia (wybór)
 1992: Auto da fé
 1993: Kochankowie piekła (Teatr Ludowy w Krakowie)
 1993: Markiza O. (Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Krakowie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 1993: Zdrada (Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Krakowie, reż. Marek Fiedor)
 1993: Trucizna teatru (Teatr Nowy w Poznaniu, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 1994: Oleanna (Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Krakowie, reż. Paul Lampert)
 1994: Kupiec wenecki (Teatr im. Wilama Horzycy Toruń, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 1997: Elektra (Teatr Dramatyczny w Warszawie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 1997: Tancerz mecenasa Kraykowskiego (Teatr Powszechny w Radomiu, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 1998: Perykles (Piccolo Teatro w Mediolanie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 1999: Hamlet (Teatr Rozmaitości w Warszawie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2003: Ubu Rex (Teatr Wielki w Warszawie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2003: Dybuk (Teatr Rozmaitości w Warszawie w koprodukcji z Wrocławskim Teatrem Współczesnym, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2004: Makbet (Staatstheater w Hanowerze, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2005: Krum (Teatr Rozmaitości w Warszawie w koprodukcji ze Starym Teatrem w Krakowie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2006: Wozzeck (Teatr Wielki w Warszawie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2006: Madame de Sade (Tonnel Groep w Amsterdamie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2006: Ifigenia w Taurydzie (Opera Paryska, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2007: Anioły w Ameryce (Teatr Rozmaitości w Warszawie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2009: (A)pollonia (Nowy Teatr w Warszawie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2009: Król Roger (Opera Paryska, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2010: Macbeth (Theatre La Monnaie Bruksela, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2010: The Rake's Progress (Staatsoper Berlin, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2011: Opowieści afrykańskie według Szekspira (Nowy Teatr w Warszawie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2012: Marylin Mongoł (Teatr Ateneum w Warszawie, reż. Bogusław Linda)
 2012: Poppea e Nerone (Teatro Real, Madryt, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2013: Kabaret warszawski, (Nowy Teatr w Warszawie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)
 2015: Francuzi (Nowy Teatr w Warszawie, reż. Krzysztof Warlikowski)

Przypisy

Absolwenci Akademii Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie
Absolwenci Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (II Rzeczpospolita)
Polscy scenografowie teatralni
Polscy kostiumografowie teatralni
Urodzeni w 1954


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Q: Kubernetes: deploy application to multiple node pool I have Kubernetes cluster, hosted on Google cloud platform, that running two deployments: app1 and app2.
My cluster have two Node-Pools: pool1 and pool2.
Deploying pods, from yaml file, like this:
kubectl apply -f ./app1.yaml
kubectl apply -f ./app2.yaml

Actualy, it deploy two pods to pool1, which is the cluster "default-pool".
I want to change this behavior to deploy app2 to pool2 (and app1 to pool1 - as before, default). Looking to pseudo command like this:
kubectl apply -f ./app1.yaml
kubectl apply -f ./app2.yaml --pool=pool2

explicit give the pool name when publishing new pod.
How to do it right?
Thanks!

A: You need to have labels differentiating the nodes in each pool. Then look at pod affinity to bind pods to nodes with certain labels. If you have to have this off the command line I believe it would be possible via overrides it won't look nearly as pretty as your desired line

A: You can have two .yaml files for two deployments and you can select the node pool as follows.
nodeSelector:
    nodeclass: pool1

Add the above code to your yaml file.


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Magical Habana praised
Skipper Jean de Villiers says Bryan Habana has magic in his hands and feet following his 50th test try.
Rugby player Bryan Habana. Picture: EWN
Jean de Villiers
Reuters | 2403 days ago
PRETORIA - South Africa captain Jean de Villiers believes Bryan Habana has magic in his hands and feet after the winger notched up his 50th test try against Samoa on Saturday.
The 2007 IRB Player of the Year became the sixth person in test history to reach the milestone, managing it in his 86th appearance for the Springboks and helping the side to a 56-23 victory.
"It is a wonderful effort, to score 50 tries in a career at all levels of rugby is great, but to score 50 for your country in tests is outstanding," De Villiers told reporters.
"He is a classy player, but has also put in a lot of hard work over the years. There always seems to be magic when he touches the ball. Hopefully there will be many more."
Habana will join French side Toulon at the end of the Super Rugby season, one of a number of Springboks who are looking to cash in on lucrative deals in Europe and Japan.
But unlike most who are forced to give up their international careers when moving away from South Africa, national team coach Heyneke Meyer has already hinted Habana will remain in his plans leading up to the 2015 World Cup.
"In Super Rugby he has looked rather ordinary this season but there is something about Bryan that when you put him in a Bok jersey he's extraordinary," Meyer said recently.
"He is a great player, we go back a long way and he has always played well for me."
Habana still has some way to go to reach the top of the international try-scoring ranks, however.
Japan wing Daisuke Ohata heads the list with 69 in 58 tests, followed by Australian David Campese who grabbed 64 in his 101 appearances in a Wallaby shirt.
Wing Shane Williams managed 58 for Wales and another two for the British and Irish Lions, while current Japan player Hirotoki Onozawa has 55 to date.
Rory Underwood ran in 50 tries in his 91 tests, 49 for England and one with the Lions, a mark matched by Habana in five fewer tests.
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Don't Buy This "Hot" IPO
by Louis Basenese, Wall Street Daily • June 14, 2011
In recent weeks, investors have lapped up technology IPOs like crazy. We've done our best to warn you not to get caught up in the hype, noting why you should avoid Groupon, but take a closer look at LinkedIn.
Last Thursday, another IPO hit the markets – Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO), which makes data storage hardware and software that boosts data center speeds.
The company boasts a first-class client list, with Facebook and Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) as two of its newest customers. And Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) all resell servers using Fusion-io's technology.
Being involved with such heavy hitters is probably a significant reason why many investors bought into the IPO hype.
[ad#Google Adsense 336×280-IA]When the stock began trading, it jumped above $25 per share – about 33% above the offering price of $19 per share. But by the end of the day, the stock had faded and closed down almost 10% from its intra-day high.
That kind of bumpy ride is pretty typical for the first day of trading. But with that frenzy behind us, let's take a closer look at how Fusion-io should perform down the road…
Fusion-io Missed the Mark… Big Time
Recall that before LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) went public last month, we tested the company's fundamentals against five hallmarks of a successful IPO. It passed, indicating LinkedIn's ability to survive long term.
So let's see how Fusion-io stacks up against the same test:
~ Age: Since more established companies tend to fare better during an IPO, the fact that Fusion-io was founded in 2005 should indicate a green light, right?
Not so fast. A peek into the company's S-1 shows us that it didn't actually start selling products until April 2007 and that the majority of its growth didn't kick in until the end of 2009. Sorry, rookie… you've failed this test.
~Revenue: As we've mentioned before, companies with more than $50 million in sales before they go public tend to gain momentum after an IPO, rising by an average of 38.8% over three years. So it doesn't bode well that Fusion-io's sales only hit $36 million in 2010.
~ Verifiable Growth Opportunity: Fusion-io's sales blasted from $648,000 in 2008 to $36 million in 2010 – an impressive 5,455% jump in two years. But don't expect such rampant growth to continue much longer. Why?
Well, much of that boost is due to Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Facebook. Revenue from these companies alone accounted for 20% and 52% of its total sales, respectively.
And since most of Fusion-io's business comes from installing large-scale data storage facilities, it doesn't benefit from repeat business to its customers, either. And as for service/maintenance contracts… forget 'em. They "typically have a one-year term" and only accounted for 2.8% (or $1 million) of its 2010 revenue. In other words, unless a giant company like Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) hops on board, once Fusion-io's current deals fizzle out, look out below.
~ Profitability: According to Fusion-io's S-1 filing: "We have incurred significant net losses during our limited operating history and may not consistently achieve or maintain profitability."
Need we say more?
To be fair, though, that's boilerplate language included in the S-1 filing for most startups. And as The Wall Street Journal says, nowadays "losing money seems hip… Groupon has gotten a wild reception for its IPO filing… [even though it's] losing money — gobs of it."
Of course, we've already broken down why we're not giving into the Groupon hype. And we're similarly pessimistic about Fusion-io, too.
Although the company is trending toward profitability, it counts on large purchases from a limited number of customers for the majority of its revenue. In fact, over the past nine months, the top 10 customers accounted for 91% of sales.
[ad#article-bottom]Lose one of them and hopes of profitability are eroded. That's not a risk we think investors should gamble on.
~ Valuation: Fusion-io had originally filed to price shares between $13 and $15. But the company ended up getting $19 per share, which values the company at about $1.5 billion. That's just too rich for our liking.
And even if we give the company the benefit of the doubt and use the most recent quarter's results (remember, aided by big orders from Facebook), the company is still trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of more than 60. And that certainly doesn't qualify as "undervalued."
All in all, not a strong showing. And that doesn't bode well for the company's long-term stock market performance.
Ahead of the tape,
— Louis Basenese & Justin Fritz
Source: Wall Street Daily
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