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Tom Hanks' WWII drama Greyhound makes close-quarters action exciting
Hanks anchors this naval Apple Plus TV drama
By Karen Han@karenyhan Jul 10, 2020, 3:39pm EDT
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Apple TV Plus' World War II drama Greyhound makes it clear early on why naval battles aren't seen more often in cinema. Most war movies focus on soldiers on the ground, on immediate and often personal action. In naval battles, it's difficult to convey urgency or speed. By virtue of their immense size, the warships in Greyhound don't seem to be moving particularly quickly, and the German U-boats they're trying to outmaneuver are largely invisible from the surface. Apart from a stray ripple in the waves the ships sail through, it can seem like they aren't fighting anyone at all. Against all odds, director Aaron Schneider manages to convey a sense of urgency.
Greyhound's key ingredient is its star, Tom Hanks. Since transitioning out of his boyish-Everyman phase, Hanks has found a niche playing sincere, competent men doing their jobs to the best of their ability, and his turn as Ernest Krause is no exception. Krause is a career sailor who crosses the North Atlantic for the first time in 1942 as the commander of the USS Keeling (call sign "Greyhound"). He has doubts about his fitness to command the ship, as the young men following his orders all have more combat experience than he does, but he has to put his concerns aside as he attempts to get a convoy of 37 Allied ships safely to their destination.
The whole journey is tense. The action swells when the U-boats draw close, but the convoy won't actually be safe until the journey is complete, as is clear from the stress Krause is constantly facing. Hanks, who also wrote the script (his other scripts include That Thing You Do! and Larry Crowne), adapting C.S. Forester's 1955 novel The Good Shepherd, maintains that tension through repetition. Most of the dialogue in Greyhound is repeated orders. When Krause orders a change in the direction of his ship's rudder, it gets echoed down the line, as soldiers spring into action to make it happen. When he receives radar updates in return, they're relayed through at least one middleman, with each person beginning to speak before the other has finished reporting. Something is always happening.
That constant repetition might seem boring, but Schneider and Hanks' devotion to portraying marine warfare as faithfully as possible brings a streak of originality to a genre that's more often characterized by explosions and action. There's a bureaucracy to life on a warship that feels novel, as each action (a change in course, the firing of a missile) has to travel up or down the chain of command, rather than being an individual soldier's prerogative. It's especially apparent how difficult it is to command such a lumbering machine when the Greyhound is pit against speeding torpedoes. When time is of the essence, watching orders barked up and down the ship is almost painful — and painfully exciting.
Where the film falters, however, is in building a supporting cast around Hanks. Though veteran actors like Stephen Graham and Rob Morgan fill in the ranks, none of the characters besides Krause are on screen long enough to be more than vessels helping orders move along the line. (In Morgan's case, this is a mixed blessing, as his role as a mess officer is one of the few things that clearly reference the racial politics of the time; his character's primary duty is to ensure that Krause is fed. His relationship with Krause is just barely fleshed out beyond that.) Even Krause is a little thinly sketched. Apart from a couple of flashbacks that establish he has someone waiting for him to return home, Krause seems to exist solely on the Greyhound. Hanks' star power and the steadfastness we've come to associate with him serve as a shorthand to fill in the blanks.
Tom Hanks in Greyhound
The naval warfare that comprises most of those blanks is well-executed, though, and a tense change of pace from what audiences have come to expect from on-screen combat. At just 91 minutes, the novelty of the order-passing action doesn't have a chance to become tedious or repetitive, and the successes and failures hit hard not because the soldiers are so well fleshed-out, but because the mechanics that made them possible are so clear.
Given the focus on action, it's a pity to see Greyhound premiere directly on Apple TV Plus, having been delayed from its intended June 12 theatrical release due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview, Hanks described the change in release plans as "an absolute heartbreak," noting the difference in picture and sound quality between watching something in theaters vs. watching at home or on a laptop. Greyhound's greatest asset is its sense of spectacle, unfortunately somewhat diminished outside a theater setting. But Schneider and Hanks keep Greyhound compelling through detail, and through the sheer power of Hanks' furrowed, determined brow.
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No doubt Publicis Groupe chief Maurice Levy and head of Interpublic Michael Roth were discussing snow conditions, or the iniquitous constraints about to be imposed on capital markets by the Volcker Rule. Or were they…? See below.
Is Publicis preparing a bid for Interpublic?
Can it be true? I hear that Publicis Groupe is looking at an audacious all-shares takeover bid for Interpublic.
Publicis is nominally fourth in the marketing services league, behind Interpublic, when ranked by global revenues. However, the gap has been closing steadily in the last year and they are now almost neck and neck. Study their market performance and you would hardly believe both have entered the same recession. Where Publicis, judging from its share price, has outperformed, IPG has significantly underperformed. The market capitalisation of the two companies eloquently tells the story. IPG is now valued at about $3.4bn whereas Publicis is worth $8.26bn, making it nearly two and half times bigger. We might add that, over the past year, Publicis' position has been strengthened by the dollar/euro exchange rate moving in its favour (excepting bumps in the last few of days, of course).
A few ideas come to mind. First, IPG is temptingly vulnerable, whoever decides to have a tilt at it; and Publicis is better equipped than most. Despite Levy's surface optimism about recovery, he knows as well as any other group chief that significant organic growth in the near future is a will-o'-the-wisp. With shareholders to appease, and assets cheap, another round of industry consolidation begins to look attractive. Never mind whether the acquisition is really earnings positive – or dilutive. With an astutely managed 'merger' no one can be certain for years to come. A big acquisition buys time and the benefit of the doubt (as Kraft well knows).
Second, Publicis has some unresolved business with Dentsu, the Japanese agency group with a 15% stake in the group. It has not been a happy arrangement. I noted, for example, tension between the two partners over the Razorfish acquisition last year. Acquiring IPG might be a way of diluting Dentsu's influence by rebalancing Publicis' portfolio. The Dentsu deal, in any case, comes to a close in 2012: Dentsu may want its money back. Dentsu and Publicis-owned Saatchi & Saatchi share a worldwide interest in the Toyota car account. Could there be a bargain to be struck there, for example?
Lastly, never underestimate the human factor. Publicis Groupe chief Maurice Levy is nearing the end of his long and successful tenure. He may wish to bow out on a high note. And this would certainly be a 'C' to crack the chandelier.
According to those in the know, the detail of any such bid would be managed by Isabelle Simon, senior vice president at the French global marketing services conglomerate. More important than the title is the fact that she is charged with acquisitions policy at Publicis. Simon has had a high-flying career as lawyer and financial whizz-kid, in both the United States and Europe. Her last job was as an executive director at Goldman Sachs, where she specialised in M&A and capital market transactions. She was poached by Levy last February. The telephone-number salary attached to her suggests he wasn't thinking of a couple of cheap infill acquisitions.
Will Kraft know what to do with Cadbury's brands?
Now that Kraft has acquired the highly-prized Cadbury brands – and turned itself into the world's largest confectioner ahead of Mars/Wrigley – will it actually know what to do with them?
First, let's get something out of the way. There's been a lot of phony sentimentality about Cadbury and its brands during this protracted takeover. The global geographical fit between these two companies is highly complementary and the cultural gulf far less of a chasm than it appears. Sure, Kraft is a machine conglomerate that munches brands for breakfast: I won't waste time on that. But Cadbury is not quite the pure-play quintessentially British property it seems. A Quaker tradition and two hundred years of family history cannot disguise the fact that Cadbury these days is an international corporation like any other. Its key shareholders are American, its chief executive is American; the breadth of its markets is such that Britain accounts for a small part of them. Of a workforce of about 45,000, only 11% are based in the UK. Certainly it has proved an invaluable training ground for generations of UK marketers, who retain an affection for the company, and produced some great and quirky advertising (latterly through Fallon). But I doubt whether that has much bearing on how the company is regarded outside the UK.
The truth about Cadbury is it was – like a number of other great British corporate brands such as United Biscuits, Beecham, Boots and ICI – a relic of the British Empire. The Empire gave it favourable and abiding access to invaluable growing markets which would these days be recast as "emerging". India springs to mind as a superior example. Nevertheless, just like the rest of these British brands, it created insufficient momentum to transform itself into a genuinely global corporation. Cadbury, whether as a soft drinks operator (Cadbury-Schweppes) or as a pure-play confectioner, conspicuously failed to crack the single greatest market in the world, the United States of America. Its long-term fate, in a globalising economy, could not therefore be in doubt. The surprise, if anything, is that it has taken so long to pass under the hammer.
That said, is Kraft the right global corporation to buy it? Whatever Kraft executives may say in public, the squeeze on Cadbury's assets will start sooner rather than later. It will have to. Cadbury, it almost goes without saying, always meant a lot more to Kraft's future than the other way around. A low-growth US-focused conglomerate in desperate search of high-growth emerging markets (such as Cadbury's), Kraft needs not only to appease long-suffering investors (Warren Buffett being the largest) but to pay down a vast amount of debt it has incurred as a result of the takeover. By my calculations, this alone is about £7bn. The total figure is about £22bn. The near 20,000 jobs it shed and 35 sites it closed in the UK between 2004 and 2008 (mostly Terry's) will be as nothing to the cost-cutting stringencies it inflicts on the Cadbury estate. Attila the Hun's scorched earth policy may come to be judged mild by comparison.
Ultimately, however, there is a more important strategic issue at stake. Will Kraft know how to make best use of the brand culture it has acquired? I rather fear it won't. Kraft is very good at text-book, incremental marketing. It knows how to build on existing brands by rolling them out internationally, as it has done very successfully with Oreo and will probably shortly demonstrate with TUC. It is less gifted in the new product development area. It's hard to believe Kraft executives would ever have had the wit, or self-confidence, to acquire Green & Black's; still less to build from almost nothing some of the world's fastest-growing chewing-gum brands (Trident et al). You could, of course, argue that, thanks to Cadbury, the essential building blocks are now in place. All that is required of Kraft is to deploy superior resources to ensure that they are properly, if less imaginatively, exploited.
Even there, I find room for doubt. Mars, now it has acquired Wrigley, seems better balanced to exploit its global position; it remains essentially a confectioner. Kraft, on the other hand, looks like a corporate identity crisis in the making. Its confectionery elements remain only one part – admittedly a very important, unwieldy part – in the portfolio of a maker of groceries and "sweet snacks".
Good news on the economic front, as the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising unveils the latest quarterly results of its authoritative Bellwether survey.
True, marketing spend fell for the ninth quarter in succession, but the rate of decline is the slowest yet. Some sectors, such as digital and direct marketing, even showed weak signs of growth. Apparently, budgets have been set higher for this year than last, and marketers are more optimistic than they have been for five years. Which emboldened Rory Sutherland, IPA chairman and vice-chairman of Ogilvy Group UK, to forecast an end to the recession.
So trebles all round? Well, not necessarily. IPA director-general Hamish Pringle tells me there may be a sting in the tail of this dying recession.
No, not a double-dipper: it's not that bad. But he has seen this sort of marcoms recovery pattern before (like me, he sports a few grey hairs), and almost invariably it is the prelude to an imminent uptick in interest rates. So expect a hike earlier than the end of this year (though not, I suspect, before the general election). Pringle cautions his prediction falls short of being scientific. It's a bit like counting the number of recruitment advertising pages in the second calendar issue of Marketing Week and gauging the economic recovery accordingly (a good indicator, but not infallible). The magazine was, by the way, gratifyingly plump in that respect.
In the dark days of the Soviet Union, with its ever-present threat of arbitrary incarceration in the Gulag Archipelago, samizdat was a key form of communication between dissidents. Then, it consisted of often hand-written or typed copies of a sensitive document passed from hand to hand, to avoid arousing suspicion.
Nowadays, things have moved on – to China, Iran and the internet. A curious illustration of this has been provided by events in cyber space over the past 24 hours (although their direct causal relationship remains anyone's guess).
It all started with the sensational revelation that, after four years, Google was going write off billions of dollars investment and close its operation in China. The reason stated was that the Chinese government had broken its side of the contractual bargain, amounting to non-interference in an auto-censorship regime, by attempting to hack into the Gmail accounts of several Chinese human rights activists. This is no doubt true, but there is also a hint of Google frustration at being unable to crack the Chinese market (the biggest in the world) in the same way it has done elsewhere. After four years of struggle, Google has gained a "mere" 30% share. Much of the rest of the Chinese search market (60%) is held by a single operator, Baidu, which seemingly enjoys a much more relaxed relationship with the authorities.
Baidu executives, however, will have spent little of yesterday popping the champagne. They were far too busy warding off a cyber attack which for much of the day paralysed their operation. The culprits were a mysterious band of hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army. It is not the first time they have struck. Last month, the ICA attacked Twitter, which makes some sense if we look on the hackers as a proxy of the Iranian government. Twitter has been widely used by the increasingly vocal Iranian opposition as a means of communication. Less clear is why the Iranian Cyber Army should go on to attack Baidu. Some say it's another covert attack on Twitter. Twitter is blocked in China, but several thousand people there have apparently found ways to use the micro-blogger to lend support to the Iranian opposition. If so, the tactic is a sledgehammer to crack a nut with some very negative consequences in view. The Chinese and Iranian governments enjoy a close and mutually supportive relationship. Why jeopardise them? Which rather suggest the Iranian Cyber Army is not what it purports to be at all. Is it perhaps an Iranian opposition group masquerading as a government covert operation? A bunch of mischievous hackers? Or ICA an anagram of CIA?
I don't know. All I can say is that shortly after Baidu went down, the Iranian website room98.ir appeared to be the victim of a counterattack from an organisation calling itself the Honker Union for China.
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Movie night and what to see? Standing in line, I looked up to see what was playing. Getting up to the booth to pay for my ticket, the young man asked me, "What movie Sir?" I replied, "Life of Pi" please, I've enjoyed pie for years and I'm so happy they finally made a movie about it". The cashier looked at me strangely and said "Ok Sir that will be $7.50 please". I said, "Wow, $7.50! Must be some kind of a special today?" The kid looked up and said, "Well Sir, seniors are $7.50. Regular Adults are $10.00. You're considered a Senior Adult so you get to save $2.50 on your ticket".
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And this happened to me when I was only 49! Damn! Maybe I saved $2.50 but I lost years of dignity in that one quick transaction.
So what happened, where did the time go for God sakes? Just an hour and a half ago it was 1965 and graduation day at Kaimuki! Now I stand and look back and say what the hell happened! Close to 50 years have passed and now it's the beginning of the 4th quarter. They call it the Wonder Years, yeah, ok. You wonder what the hell happened to the time.
We are called the Baby-boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, and we were conceived from the Greatest Generation! Our Moms and Dads lived through WWII and when they came home they made babies, a lot of them. Baby Boomers — we are the generation that tested the Government, witnessed the assassinations of our leaders, and we invented Love, Sex and Rock-n-Roll. We fought in nasty wars, came home to work and became doctors, lawyers, teachers, bankers and Radio Personalities! We dedicated ourselves to our jobs and families and then had mid-life crisis and went in search for the meaning of life. We were and still are a fiercely independent bunch of World War ll babies and we continue to make a difference. We are probably the last generation who had a thriving middle class and probably will be the last generation to collect Social Security and Medicare as we know it.
So the question is, have you been playing your fiddle or storing your nuts or playing your fiddle AND storing your nuts. If the latter, good going! Preparing for the fourth quarter is tricky. I'm not a financial adviser but it's good to have a few bucks around to help your co-pay as you go along. But the most important part of the fourth quarter is your sense of humor and balance. It truly comes down to Mind, Body, Soul and laughter. This is way more important than any bank roll you might have, because if you don't have balance and laughter then you have nothing.
And now it's Generation X and Generation Y who have to start to pay their own way and they need to drop the word Entitlement! They need to get off their okole's and get to work. Baby Boomers are not afraid of confrontation and will not hesitate to challenge the establishment. The funny thing is, WE are the Establishment now!
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Set Individual Targets - View and Set Targets
On the Individual Targets page, administrators can view and set individual targets for compensation bonus and equity components.
To set individual targets, go to Admin > Tools > Compensation Management > Individual Targets. Search for and select the appropriate user. Then, click the Edit icon in the Options column to edit the individual targets for the user. This option is only available to administrator who have permission to set targets for individual users.
To view individual targets, go to Admin > Tools > Compensation Management > Individual Targets. Search for and select the appropriate user. Then, click the user's name in the Search Results to view the individual targets for the user. This option is only available to administrator who only have permission to view individual targets.
PERMISSION NAME PERMISSION DESCRIPTION CATEGORY
Compensation Individual Targets - View Grants ability to view bonus and equity targets for individual users. The administrator can view the Individual Target history and Modification History for the user. However, the administrator is not able to create, edit, or delete a target. With individual targets, adjustment guidelines that have a bonus or equity type component have the option of setting target values to individual targets. This permission can be constrained by OU, User's OU, or User. This is an administrator permission. Compensation - Administration
Compensation Individual Targets Grants ability to set bonus and equity targets for individual users. With individual targets, adjustment guidelines that have a bonus or equity type component have the option of setting target values to individual targets. This is an administrator permission. Compensation - Administration
On the left panel, each bonus and equity type that is available in the system is displayed. Bonus types are displayed first in alphabetical order, followed by equity types in alphabetical order. Click the compensation component to set an individual target for that component. When you click a compensation component from the left panel, the right panel updates with past and current individual targets for the component. At the top of the panel, the user's name is displayed along with the component for which you are setting individual targets.
The currency selected in the Currency drop-down list determines the currency that is used in the panel. You can select any of the compensation currencies that are available for the portal. Select User to display currencies in the user's default currency. If the user's default currency has changed over time, the "User" selection displays monetary amounts in the currency in which they were originally set.
If the Currency drop-down is changed, fixed amounts that are displayed are converted to the selected currency using the current corporate currency conversion rates.
Add Target
The ability to add a target is only available to administrators who have permission to set targets for individual users.
With the appropriate compensation component selected in the left panel, click the Add Target link in the upper-right corner of the right panel to add a new individual target for the selected component. A new entry appears in the table. Note: The target that you set is set specifically for the selected user and the selected component. The corresponding user and component type is displayed at the top of the panel.
In the Target Date field, click the Calendar icon to select a target date. The target date cannot be the same as any other target within the component. For example, two individual targets for the Performance Bonus component cannot be set to the same target date.
In the Target section, there are two options:
Select the upper option to enter a target that is a percentage of the user's most recent base salary within the target period's end date. You must then enter the appropriate base salary percentage in the field. The percentage cannot contain more than one decimal place.
Select the lower option to enter a specific monetary value. The monetary value is saved in the currency that is selected from the Currency drop-down list. The fixed amount cannot contain more than two decimal places.
Click the Save icon in the Options column to save the individual target.
View Targets
The target table displays the following information for each individual target:
Target Date - Targets are displayed by descending target date.
Target - The percentage of the user's most recent base salary or a fixed target amount.
Fixed amounts display two decimal places. Percentages display one to three decimal places, depending on the configured decimal precision. The decimal precision for percentages in compensation is controlled by a backend setting.
When the Currency drop-down list is set to User, the fixed targets are displayed in the user's default currency at the time the target was created, regardless of whether the user's default currency changes.
Last Updated - The date on which the target was most recently modified.
Last Updated By - The name of the user who most recently modified the target.
Target Options
The following options are available in the Options column:


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 * 版权所有 (c) 2017,周庆博和他的朋友们有限公司
 */
package com.radish.master.entity;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.util.Date;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;

import org.hibernate.annotations.GenericGenerator;

import com.cnpc.framework.annotation.Header;
import com.cnpc.framework.base.entity.BaseEntity;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;

/**
 * 类说明  入库单明细表
 *
 * <pre>
 * Modify Information:
 * Author        Date          Description
 * ============ =========== ============================
 * zhouqb      2017年10月28日    Create this file
 * </pre>
 *
 */
@Entity
@Table(name = "tbl_instock_det")
@JsonIgnoreProperties(value = { "hibernateLazyInitializer", "handler", "fieldHandler" })
public class InstockDet {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 3309603144734703924L;

    @Id
    @GenericGenerator(name = "id", strategy = "uuid")
    @GeneratedValue(generator = "id")
    @Column(name = "id", length = 64)
    protected String id;

  @Header(name = "所属入库单id")
  @Column(name = "instockId")
  private String instockId;

  @Header(name = "采购明细id")
  @Column(name = "pDetId")
  private String pDetId;

  @Header(name = "采购渠道id")
  @Column(name = "channelId")
  private String channelId;

  @Header(name = "物料编号")
  @Column(name = "matNumber")
  private String matNumber;

  @Header(name = "物料名称")
  @Column(name = "matName")
  private String matName;

  @Header(name = "物料规格")
  @Column(name = "matStandard")
  private String matStandard;

  @Header(name = "物料单位")
  @Column(name = "unit")
  private String unit;

  @Header(name = "入库量")
  @Column(name = "rkl")
  private String rkl;

  @Header(name = "价格")
  @Column(name = "price")
  private String price;

  @Header(name = "多买入库量")
  @Column(name = "dmrkl")
  private String dmrkl;

  @Header(name = "备注")
  @Column(name = "remark")
  private String remark;

  @Header(name = "班组id")
  @Column(name = "teamId")
  private String teamId;

  @Header(name = "班组名")
  @Column(name = "teamName")
  private String teamName;

public String getId() {
	return id;
}

public void setId(String id) {
	this.id = id;
}

public String getInstockId() {
	return instockId;
}

public void setInstockId(String instockId) {
	this.instockId = instockId;
}

public String getpDetId() {
	return pDetId;
}

public void setpDetId(String pDetId) {
	this.pDetId = pDetId;
}

public String getChannelId() {
	return channelId;
}

public void setChannelId(String channelId) {
	this.channelId = channelId;
}

public String getMatNumber() {
	return matNumber;
}

public void setMatNumber(String matNumber) {
	this.matNumber = matNumber;
}

public String getMatName() {
	return matName;
}

public void setMatName(String matName) {
	this.matName = matName;
}

public String getMatStandard() {
	return matStandard;
}

public void setMatStandard(String matStandard) {
	this.matStandard = matStandard;
}

public String getUnit() {
	return unit;
}

public void setUnit(String unit) {
	this.unit = unit;
}

public String getRkl() {
	return rkl;
}

public void setRkl(String rkl) {
	this.rkl = rkl;
}

public String getPrice() {
	return price;
}

public void setPrice(String price) {
	this.price = price;
}

public String getDmrkl() {
	return dmrkl;
}

public void setDmrkl(String dmrkl) {
	this.dmrkl = dmrkl;
}

public String getRemark() {
	return remark;
}

public void setRemark(String remark) {
	this.remark = remark;
}

public String getTeamId() {
	return teamId;
}

public void setTeamId(String teamId) {
	this.teamId = teamId;
}

public String getTeamName() {
	return teamName;
}

public void setTeamName(String teamName) {
	this.teamName = teamName;
}

}

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Tuesday, 5 July 2016, 10:30 in Berlin
Minister Mezouar,
Minister El Haite,
Federal Minister Hendricks,
I am delighted to be here once again this year. I still remember last year's dialogue. At that time, we were unsure about what outcome we would be bringing back when we met again in a year's time. Today we can say a heartfelt thank you to all the participants, especially the French Government for its marvellous work in arranging the Paris climate conference–with great skill, with great dedication, and with extensive diplomatic experience. We were very happy that Franco-German cooperation also played a truly positive role.
When Minister Mezouar thanked Christiana Figueres just now and wished Patricia Espinosa all the best and I looked around at the women who are the Environment Ministers of Morocco and Germany, I thought: gender equality has already progressed quite a lot in relation to climate protection, and women are playing a strong role in its success. I hope Minister Mezouar can handle my saying this. Of course, I too wish the very best to the new Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and once again thank Christiana Figueres very much for the work she has accomplished.
As I have already mentioned to Ms Hendricks, I am a bit envious of her upcoming trip to Marrakesh, a place where I have never been in my life. I think Morocco will be a wonderful host.
We find ourselves—here at what is now the seventh Petersberg Dialogue—in a new era, for there is now a binding global climate agreement. Alongside the many difficulties of the past year, it was really good news that this succeeded. We can state that in Paris the whole global community pledged to curb climate change for the first time. All of the countries committed themselves to the goal of keeping global warming below two degrees and, if possible, limiting it to 1.5 degrees. All of the countries agreed to do their part. Their contributions will be reviewed every five years and adjusted in reference to the global target. The Paris Agreement is thus proving to be a historical milestone in international climate protection. It is a sign of hope. It can have a positive influence on the living conditions of billions of people.
The parents of this Agreement can be truly proud. People have put a lot of their hearts and minds into the negotiations in recent years. I would also like to underscore that major actors who were not so active for many years—here I want to mention the United States and China—helped a lot in bringing about this Agreement, and also carried along many others. In this respect, the signs are looking quite optimistic in this situation.
As the apt saying from football goes, after the game is before the game. Thus, the process is continuing. We have a new stage before us. If one thinks this through carefully, the matter becomes even more serious. Obligations have been taken on. And now they must be honoured. As we in the Federal Government are currently in the process of coordinating our climate protection plan, I surmise that this will still demand a great deal from many others, too.
But for a start we can say that no international agreement has ever previously been signed by as many countries as quickly as the Paris Agreement. On 22 April of this year, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted a celebratory ceremony in New York. More than 170 countries took this as an occasion to sign the Agreement. The Agreement only enters into force when it has been ratified by 55 countries which are responsible for at least 55 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Some countries—above all, threatened island nations—already ratified the Agreement at the ceremony in New York. Additional countries—including the United States and China—have announced their intention of taking this step this year. This is very important.
We as the Federal Government will be dealing with the bill for ratification of the Paris Agreement tomorrow in the Federal Cabinet. We want to attempt to complete the entire process before the climate conference in Marrakesh. We want to then present the instrument of ratification together with the European Union and the other Member States and thereby to send a clear signal that Europe is implementing the outcome from Paris and is pulling together in the same direction when it comes to climate protection.
A great many things are in motion, not only in Europe, but in every region of the world. The global transformation has already begun. The expansion of renewable energy sources is developing with especially rapid momentum. Last year global investment reached a new record high of 286 billion US dollars, meaning that more than twice as much was invested in renewable energies as in fossil fuel power generation. This is an absolutely clear sign. This welcome global trend is a result of better framework conditions, lower costs and concrete expansion targets. The task now, of course, is to make this trend a permanent one.
In Germany, the shift to green energy has set a clear course in any case. By the way, we will be holding the second and third readings of the 2016 Renewable Energy Sources Act in the German Bundestag this week. With this law, we will be beginning a new phase. Renewable energy sources are already the most important pillar of energy production in Germany. We will now be shifting from supported prices that are fixed by the Government to a tendering process. This is a qualitative leap forward.
We in Germany have already set ambitious targets for ourselves. However, the expansion of new pipelines is turning out to be a bottleneck here, and also requires a very high level of acceptance from the public. We still have a lot of outreach to do in this area.
We are not the only ones who have set ourselves ambitious targets. India, for example, wants to develop 175 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2022—including 100 gigawatts of solar energy. The country has also announced that it is doubling its tax on coal extraction. The revenues from this tax are to be dedicated to environmental projects. China will be tripling its solar capacity by 2020. We are looking forward very eagerly to the introduction of emissions trading in China in 2017. Morocco, the host country of the next COP, will raise the share of renewable energy sources in its energy capacity to 42 per cent. This too is a highly ambitious target.
One can say, then, that things are moving forward. But we need progress not only in the area of energy, but rather in all sectors: in business, in transport, and in private households. In my view, three aspects of the Paris Agreement are especially important here: we need to develop long-term strategies, we need to further develop our climate contributions regularly, and we need conclusive answers to questions regarding funding and incentives.
Regarding the first point: the fact that we need long-term strategies is obvious because we have determined that we will make this century a century of decarbonisation. This will be especially dependent on long-term investments, both public and private. The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate estimates that by the year 2030, more than 90 trillion US dollars will be invested worldwide in infrastructures, including for energy, transport and water. The task here is to shape these investments in a climate-friendly way. It is interesting that the extra costs associated with this are actually quite low. They are estimated to lie between 0.3 and at most 4 per cent added onto the investment costs. But in return, we will have climate-friendly investment. I do not want to play down these additional costs. But we have known at least since the Stern Review that in the long term –and in fact even in the medium term—they pay for themselves. When we consider what consequences of climate change we will otherwise be in for, we know that this is certainly worth it.
This means that the success of Paris will in practice play a crucial role in determining what investments are made in the coming years. At the end of May, the G7 countries agreed at their summit in Japan that they would take on a leadership role on this issue and would present their respective strategies well before 2020. The work on this has already begun. I previously mentioned the climate protection plan that we are working out in Germany and that describes the steps towards the target of lowering emissions by 80 to 95 per cent by 2050 in comparison to 1990 levels. The year 2050 is really not so far away anymore. It is now 2016, so we have less than 35 years left until then. If one considers the lifespan of power plants and many other things, one sees that this timespan is in many cases only one investment cycle long. The target of 80 to 95 per cent contains quite a large margin. This is precisely the focus of the political discussions that the Federal Environment Minister currently has to expect.
At EU level, we have agreed that if at all possible, we will develop a climate strategy for the coming decades by 2018. Work is also underway on long-term plans in the United States and Canada. Ultimately, all countries are called upon to develop long-term strategies—not only with an eye to climate protection, but also with an eye to future opportunities for growth and prosperity: Ultimately, the question of whether we are even able to have a successful economy at all is at stake in climate protection. That is why the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, upon which the international community also agreed last year, are so closely connected.
Along with long-term strategies, we also naturally need concrete climate contributions quite soon. This is the second crucial point when it comes to breathing life into the Paris Agreement. The fact that all countries have offered voluntary climate contributions is very welcome. As the Foreign Minister has said, however, the sum of these contributions is not enough to keep warming below the two-degree threshold. That is why it is so important to us for there to be a revision every five years. These revisions will certainly be painful too, because one will be able to see very clearly how far we have come. I have recently had another look at the rise in global CO2 emissions. The series of figures from 1990 to the present day looks truly threatening.
Germany and Europe are adhering to an ambitious mechanism. We are prepared to improve. We in the European Union have set ourselves the target of reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 by at least 40 per cent compared to 1990. We have formulated this as a minimum target. We are, then, leaving quite open the possibility of changing this contribution once again after further reviews. I want to say, however, that even achieving a 40 per cent reduction is definitely ambitious. We will once again be holding discussions about burden sharing on the basis of the recommendations that the Commission is developing.
Targets are fine, but they must be backed up by reasonable funding. This is the third component. The Paris Agreement obligates us to reconcile our financial flows with low-emission, climate-friendly development.
The starting point is the positive thing that remained from the Copenhagen conference, which is the pledge to provide 100 billion US dollars annually to poorer countries from public and private sources beginning in 2020. In Paris this pledge was affirmed and extended to 2025, at which point a new funding target must be agreed. A roadmap for how these 100 billion dollars are to be attained by 2020 is currently being developed in a working group of industrialised countries. At this point I would also like to say that the OECD has provided a great deal of support to us on many aspects of all of these issues.
With numerous funding pledges and initiatives, the industrialised countries are already on a good path. The G7 is also playing a sound role in this. When we in Germany hosted the G7 last year, we launched some concrete initiatives. By 2020, Germany intends to double its contribution compared to 2014. But of course we also know that public contributions are only one part of the equation. We also must interlink them with private investments in a savvy way.
Development banks play a key role in this. The World Bank, the Asian, African and Inter-American Development Banks, and not least the European Investment Bank all want to increase the contribution to climate financing in their portfolios considerably. In this sense, development banks are, so to speak, also strategic trailblazers for private investments. At this point I would like to emphasise that what matters at the end of the day for all affected countries, especially for small island nations, is that the money really arrives. At some point, the moment of truth comes. Then there is no more theoretical juggling of funding amounts. Projects need to be realised. We need to really produce what we have promised.
A large number of private investors are acting of their own accord. In this connection I would like to mention the example of the Carbon Disclosure Project, which is supported by more than 820 institutional investors with assets of more than 95 trillion US dollars. This CDP initiative calls upon companies worldwide to disclose their CO2 emissions and their climate risks.
A working group of the Financial Stability Board, that is, the international body for overseeing the financial system is currently working on recommendations for the disclosure of climate-related risks. I find this to be a very interesting contribution. Previously when one spoke of the FSB, it was generally when dealing with banks that were of systemic relevance or shadow banks. But the fact that this body is now also engaging with climate-related risks shows that climate protection is finding its way into the broader issue of the global financial system. Given that the global financial system has already placed many burdens on us, it would be nice if the global financial system played a more positive role in the issue of climate protection than it did during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.
These are all very good approaches. Some things have started to move. More than 90 countries, which together are responsible for 61 per cent of global emissions, also want to use national or international market mechanisms of placing a price on carbon. I think that here we can learn from one another how these systems can be shaped. We know from European experience how difficult this can be and how closely tied it is to economic development. What might have been expected as an automatically functioning system 20 years ago nonetheless must be coupled with economic development in a savvy way, of course.
At this point I would like to say again that I consider this to be a correct approach. A carbon price directs investment towards low-carbon infrastructures, technologies and products. Such a price ensures that emissions are reduced in the places where it is possible to do so in an especially cost-efficient way. It also yields public revenues that can be used for climate finance both domestically and abroad.
Of course, questions of international competitiveness arise very quickly in this context. That is why we are also following China's actions with close interest. That is why we wish for other countries with which we compete to also take similar steps. That is why we need a global carbon market in the medium-to-long term so that we can have truly fair conditions for competition. In the field of finance this is known as a level playing field. We need this to avoid ending up with permanent readjustments and exceptions. We still have a lot of work to do in grappling with this.
Last year, as part of the German G7 Presidency, we started a platform to foster international dialogue among governments in order to explore forms of cooperation for developing a global carbon market. At this point I would like to highlight the activities of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund to promote global carbon pricing, which I gladly support. As you have probably noticed, the OECD, the World Bank and the Financial Stability Boards are all now involved in these activities. Years ago this was not the case. And this certainly shows that this trend is going to become much more pronounced.
Price incentives will play an increasingly important role in international transport. World population growth suggests that we will have to expect further growth in the transport sector. That is why we face an important decision this autumn at the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization. We want to adopt a binding global market-based measure through which further growth in aviation beginning in 2020 is to become climate-neutral. This is to be achieved through project-based offsetting of emissions.
In addition, we should harness the momentum from Paris for a second major project this year and agree upon the reduction of partly fluorinated hydrocarbons that have an impact on the climate under the Montreal Protocol. This too would be a significant contribution to complying with the provisions that were set in Paris.
On the whole, we can state that sticking with the multilateral approach after the disappointing Copenhagen conference in 2009 paid off for us. Protecting the climate is a global task that can only be dealt with globally. Of course, we are aware that we hold differing degrees of responsibility for climate change, that its consequences impact us differently, and that we have different opportunities to meet this challenge. This remains our philosophy, from the Kyoto Protocol to the present day. Nonetheless, a lot of things have changed dramatically since Kyoto, including the global role of economies. That is why it is so important that the major industrial nations are taking on a leadership role. We will attend to the questions connected to this, especially during Germany's G20 Presidency. Next year Germany will host the G20 Summit. In doing so, we will work very closely with the OECD once again.
We as a global community on the whole depend on the emerging economies and developing countries pursuing, or being able to pursue, a path of transformation. In this area, we want to lend our support to developing nations, especially through a global partnership that was initiated by Germany. I am pleased that Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks and Development Minister Gerd Müller officially launched this initiative yesterday. In this initiative, governments around the world and international institutions support developing countries in the drafting and implementation of their national climate strategies. At the same time, these national climate strategies also serve the goal of overcoming poverty and opening up new economic prospects.
Initial talks this spring showed that there was interest on all sides—among donors, multilateral organisations, and the countries themselves. This is encouraging. The first concrete outcomes regarding the shaping of global partnership are to be presented in Marrakesh. Germany has pledged to finance a secretariat and to provide support in terms of staffing. It is to be led by the World Resources Institute and headquartered in Bonn and Washington. We also want to support the new partnership through our International Climate Initiative and within the framework of our development cooperation.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Paris Agreement points us in the right direction. I have tried to make clear that while this path has been pointed out, we have not yet begun to follow it; that we have many partners in walking this path; and that we also still have many obstacles to overcome. The task at hand is to create and safeguard prosperity—and to do so not at the cost of the foundations of life, but rather on a sustainable path. It is no exaggeration to say that climate protection is no more and no less than a question of survival. Let us therefore breathe life into the climate agreement.
Twitter, Speech by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Seventh Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin on 5 July 2016


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Mumbai Court cancels proclamation offender order against Param Bir Singh in extortion case
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 2 (ANI): Mumbai's Esplanade Court on Thursday cancelled its proclamation offender order against former police commissioner Param Bir Singh in the Marine Drive extortion case.
He was declared absconded on November 17.
Singh has filed an application for the cancellation of a court proclamation order against him in Esplanade Magistrate's court, which declared him "absconding".
Singh, who has been declared "absconding" by a Mumbai court, had arrived at Crime Branch unit 11 office in Kandivali to join the investigation of the Goregaon extortion case.
Six cases of corruption and extortion were filed against Singh after he wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray levelling corruption and misconduct against the then Home Minister and senior NCP leader Anil Deshmukh.
Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer, was removed from the post of Mumbai Police Commissioner on March 17 and was made the General Commander of Maharashtra State Home Guard after he levelled allegations against Deshmukh. (ANI)


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ALEC an Issue in Weston, CT Election
Hat's Off to Leon Karvellis–Way to paint conservatives with ALEC's legislation record. After all, they pay to sell their votes to corporations and promote radical right wing legislation to the benefit of Corporations and the 1%
…The candidates were asked how special interests influence legislators, and particularly how they would deal with ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Mr. Shaban said he attended an ALEC conference but the group "hasn't pitched a bill to me." He compared it to the League of Conservation Voters, saying it is a special interest group like thousands of others "I'm not going to get steered by one," he said.
Mr. Karvelis took umbrage with Mr. Shaban's comparing ALEC with the conservation league.
ALEC is not an above-board lobbying group, he said. It "holds meetings behind closed doors" and then asks legislators to bring ideas and bills back to their legislatures, Mr. Karvelis said. "These people do not have the public's interests in mind," he said, adding ALEC's goals include privatizing education and prisons. He said it was "ludicrous" Mr. Shaban would attend such a meeting.
To read the entire account from the Weston (CT) Forum, please click here.
If you are a politician–take note of this strategy. It's a winner.
By Bob Sloan ALEC, Conservative Dogma, Elections 2012, Ethics in Government, Legislators with ALEC Ties, Privatized Education System, Privatized Prison System No comments Tags: ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, CT, Education, League of Women Voters, Leon Karvellis, political debate, political strategy, Politics, prison labor, privatization, Privatized Education, privatized prison system, Weston Connecticut
ALEC draws attention of the League of Women Voters
The League has supported transparency in government for years.
What is new is that the resolution names, specifically, the American Legislative Exchange Council.
The LWV adopted the resolution because some Casper members were concerned about legislators who received ALEC scholarships to attend its meetings and promote model bills, said Amy Williamson of Laramie, LWV president.
The LWV resolution says in part, "There is evidence that members and committees of the Wyoming Legislature sponsor legislation written by political, business and other interest groups that promote their agendas."
"Efforts by any organization to direct the passage of laws in Wyoming's Legislature must be transparent to citizens and legislators of Wyoming, consistent with the fundamental principles of openness and accountability," the LWV resolution adds.
Please click here to read more about this important action by the League of Women Voters to fight back against ALEC. And demanding transparency on all legislation is necessary to be sure our representatives in government are representing their real constituents and not out there selling their votes to organizations of any political persuasion.
Wyoming LWV–you have our respect and admiration.
By Bob Sloan ALEC, ALEC Corporate Members, Elections, Ethics in Government, Legislators with ALEC Ties No comments Tags: ALEC, ALEC scholarships, American Legislative Exchange Council, Amy Williamson, bashing Democrats, bill mill, Casper, Center for Media and Democracy, Fred Emerich, full disclosure by legislators of all outside sources of their bills., fundamental principles of openness and accountability, Gillette, John Hastert, League of Women Voters, lobbying, Model Legislation, Norine Kasperik, Pete Illoway, Politics, Republicans, sourcewatch.org, State Legislature, transparency in government, Wyoming, Wyoming House, Wyoming Legislature, "corporate bill mill"
Suppressing Votes By Law–Bill Moyers
this post jumps right in to the middle of a conversation regarding voter suppression and Photo ID laws.
KEESHA GASKINS: Again, our research shows us that African American voters, Latino voters, voters over 65, young people 18 to 24 are all in populations that lack this type of ID at rates well beyond the 11 percent of the general population.
BILL MOYERS: You have some startling statistics on your website. Of the states with the highest Hispanic population growth, seven have passed restrictive voting laws. Of the ten states with the highest black turnout, five have passed restrictive voting laws. Of the nine states covered by the Voting Rights Act, six passed restrictive voting laws.
You call it in your report the first rollback in voting rights since the Jim Crow era.
KEESHA GASKINS: Yes, and it is. I mean, when you look at the laws that were passed between 1865 and 1967, the laws that could be ascribed to, sort of, voting and voting rights, depending on how you count, were about 29 laws. In the last 18 months, 23 laws have passed in this country, in comparison between 18 months and that entire period. There has been a concerted effort to limit access to the polls during this period. And this is unprecedented since that time.
BILL MOYERS: Do you think that these efforts to select out certain voters, to discriminate against certain voters that one party or another might not like anything to do with race?
KEESHA GASKINS: It has to do with race because it's clearly affecting voters of color in this country. The Department of Justice identified that, and pursuant to the Voting Rights Act said the laws in Texas, the laws in South Carolina were unfairly discriminatory. And so, whether or not it was the intention of those legislators to do so, the fact is these laws disproportionately impact voters based on race.
There is so much more to be read in this article, or you can watch the embedded video. All you have to do is click here
By Bob Sloan ALEC, civil rights, Disgusting New Republican Laws, Elections, Elections 2012, Voter Restrictions No comments Tags: African-American voters, all men are created equal, Brennan Center, Citizens United, Department of Justice, Disenfranchisement, Dorothy Cooper, Election Day registration, government-issued photo id, Governor Romney, Keesha Gaskins, Latino voters, League of Women Voters, Maine, Michael Waldman, Mike Turzai, NAACP, Ohio, Pennsylvania, republican, Rock the Vote, South Carolina, Texas, The Pew Center, threat to democracy, Voter ID Legislation, voter suppression, voters over 65, Voting Rights Act, young people 18 to 24
ACLU Challenge to Photo ID Ballot Measure May Succeed in MN Supreme Court, Yet Fail in Court of Public Opinion
Thanks to a failed MSM and timid DoJ, most Americans do not realize true purpose of voter suppressing photo ID laws…
[note: this is perhaps the finest reporting that I have seen on Voter Suppression]
It is ironic that so many citizens in the Land of 10,000 Lakes — as high as 80% — would still be taken in by the thick layer of lies that surround the ALEC/GOP push for voter suppressing photo ID laws. After all, it was Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) who so thoroughly demolished the credibility of GOP "voter fraud" salesman Hans Von Spakovsky and his "voter fraud" canard during the September 2011 hearings before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. The hearings were convened in response to the billionaire Koch brothers-funded, Paul Weyrich co-founded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-fueled GOP effort to enact new state voting restrictions across the country.
If a majority of Minnesotans either watched Franken's demolition of the "voter fraud" canard on C-SPAN during the September 2011 Senate hearings or read The BRAD BLOG with any regularity at all, they would realize that polling place photo ID restrictions have nothing to do with preventing "voter fraud" and everything to do with disproportionately disenfranchising poor, elderly, student and minority citizens.
But, alas, the vast majority of U.S. citizens have neither watched the C-SPAN video of the September 2011 hearings nor read any of nearly ten years of articles at The BRAD BLOG. The vast majority are bombarded daily, on the other hand, by an all-pervasive right-wing media that entails not only Fox "News" and right-wing radio, but multiple right-wing newspapers and think tanks — all of whom have no problem at all repeating the lies in service of what they see as the greater good: holding or obtaining political power.
Please click here to read how the ACLU is taking this information and is fighting Voter Suppression in MN. It has already fought and won in MO.
By Bob Sloan ALEC, Disgusting New Republican Laws, Elections 2012, Koch brothers, Voter Restrictions No comments Tags: ACLU, ALEC, ALEC-connected Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer, American Legislative Exchange Council, Brad Friedman, Bradblog, Brennan Center for Justice, Charles and David Koch, Fox News, GOP, Koch, Koch Brothers, League of Women Voters, Minnesota, Missouri, MN Supreme Court, MO Supreme Court, MSM, NY Times, Paul Weyrich, photo ID, provisional ballot, Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution - Civil Rights and Human Rights, Voter ID Legislation, voter impersonation, voter suppression
Photo ID factions gather supporters, devise strategies
from 2old2care:
Former Vice President Walter Mondale, a Democrat, joined former Gov. Arne Carlson, a Republican, and former U.S. Rep. Tim Penny, a Democrat-turned third-party member, in strongly denouncing the proposed constitutional amendment on Tuesday. They said it was an unneeded attack on a fair and honest system, a cookie-cutter plan that came from a national campaign stoked by moneyed conservatives…
…"It comes from the Koch brothers," said Carlson, referring to David and Charles Koch, owners of Koch Industries and major funders of a number of conservative causes nationally…
…"Minnesota has the best record of openness, of honesty, of voter participation, of any state in the union," said Mondale. "This is a clean, solid, exemplary state. This constitutional amendment is designed to discourage voting"…
…Carlson and Mondale said they became involved after reading about the proposed amendment and the push to get it on the ballot. Carlson blamed the issue on the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group of conservative legislators and business leaders that offers model bills to state legislators. Kiffmeyer is listed as the state chair for ALEC in Minnesota.
To read more of this breaking news, and how the ALEC state chair claims not to know who the Koch Brothers are, please click here.
By Bob Sloan ALEC, Koch brothers, Voter Restrictions No comments Tags: ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, Arne Carlson, Charles and David Koch, Disenfranchisement, Josie Johnson, Koch, Koch Brothers, Koch Industries, League of Women Voters, Minnesota, MN Constitutional Amendment, Our Vote Our Future, state Supreme Court, Tim Penny, Voter ID Legislation, voter suppression, Walter Mondale
How Do You Fight Voter Suppression?
The single most effective way to fight voter suppression is to register to vote, and then vote on election day.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) made news this week when they announced that they were discontinuing their Public Safety and Elections Task Force. This Task Force was responsible for the promotion of 'model' voter identification and stand-your-ground legislation that has recently been in the news. This announcement came after many organizations put pressure on corporations to withdraw their support from ALEC.
This retreat by ALEC is an important step for organizations like the League that have worked so hard to protect voting rights and protect the public interest in many other areas. We must still remain vigilant against special interest influence on our government and democracy which has too often been hidden from the public.
The League always encourages voters to stand their ground. Special interests cannot prevail when confronted by an informed and engaged electorate. In order to do this, Leagues across the country will continue to work hard registering and educating voters, while also seeking to improve our government and elections.
To this end, The Charlotte-Mecklenburg League of Women Voters will be on hand from 11AM-2PM on 5/12 at the ALEC Teach-In to register people to vote. Please be sure to bring all materials that you will need to register.
And remember, those who will be 18 by election day in November can register to vote in the 5/8 Primaries.
To find out more about this vital organization, please click here
By Bob Sloan ALEC No comments Tags: 5/12 ALEC Teach-In, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange, educating voters, Ethics and Lobbying, High School registration, immigration, improving elections, Improving Government, League of Women Voters, Model Legislation, Money and Elecions, NAACP, Tom Tillis, Voter ID Law, voter ID=Anti-Democracy, Voter Protection, voter registration, voter suppression


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import argparse
import os
import re
import sys

class StaticChecker:
    """Run simple checks on the entire document or specific lines."""

    def __init__(self, replace: bool):
        """Initialize a :class:`.StaticChecker` instance.

        :param replace: Whether or not to make replacements.

        """
        self.full_file_checks = [
            self.check_for_double_syntax
            # add more checks to the list as they are added
        ]
        self.line_checks = [
            self.check_for_noreturn,
            # add more checks to the list as they are added
        ]
        self.replace = replace

    def check_for_double_syntax(self, filename: str, content: str) -> bool:
        """Checks a file for double-slash statements (``/r/`` and ``/u/``).

        :param filename: The name of the file to check & replace.
        :param content: The content of the file.

        :returns: A boolean with the status of the check.

        """
        if os.path.join("praw", "const.py") in filename:  # fails due to bytes blocks
            return True
        new_content = re.sub(r"(^|\s)/(u|r)/", r"\1\2/", content)
        # will only replace if the character behind a /r/ is a  whitespace character or
        # the start of a line
        if content == new_content:
            return True
        if self.replace:
            with open(filename, "w") as fp:
                fp.write(new_content)
            print(
                f"{filename}: Replaced all instances of '/r/' and/or '/u/' to"
                " 'r/' and/or 'u/'."
            )
            return True
        print(
            f"{filename}: This file contains instances of '/r/' and/or '/u/'."
            " Please change them to 'r/' and/or 'u/'."
        )
        return False

    def check_for_noreturn(self, filename: str, line_number: int, content: str) -> bool:
        """Checks a line for ``NoReturn`` statements.

        :param filename: The name of the file to check & replace.
        :param line_number: The line number.
        :param content: The content of the line.

        :returns: A boolean with the status of the check.

        """
        if "noreturn" in content.lower():
            print(
                f"{filename}: Line {line_number} has phrase 'noreturn', please edit and"
                " remove this."
            )
            return False
        return True

    def run_checks(self) -> bool:
        """Scan a directory and run the checks.

        The directory is assumed to be the praw directory located in the parent
        directory of the file, so if this file exists in
        ``~/praw/tools/static_word_checks.py``, it will check ``~/praw/praw``.

        It runs the checks located in the ``self.full_file_checks`` and
        ``self.line_checks`` lists, with full file checks being run first.

        Full-file checks are checks that can also fix the errors they find, while the
        line checks can just warn about found errors.

        - Full file checks:

          - :meth:`.check_for_double_syntax`

        - Line checks:

          - :meth:`.check_for_noreturn`

        """
        status = True
        directory = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(__file__, "..", "..", "praw"))
        for current_directory, directories, filenames in os.walk(directory):
            for filename in filenames:
                if not filename.endswith(".py"):
                    continue
                filename = os.path.join(current_directory, filename)
                for check in self.full_file_checks:
                    # this is done to make sure that the checks are not
                    # replacing each other and creating an infinite loop
                    with open(filename) as fp:
                        full_content = fp.read()
                    status &= check(filename, full_content)
                for check in self.line_checks:
                    # this is done to make sure that the checks are not
                    # replacing each other and creating an infinite loop
                    with open(filename) as fp:
                        lines = fp.readlines()
                    for line_number, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
                        status &= check(filename, line_number, line)
        return status

def main():
    """The main function."""
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description=(
            "Run static line checks and optionally replace values that"
            " should not be used."
        )
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "-r",
        "--replace",
        action="store_true",
        default=False,
        help=(
            "If it is possible, tries to reformat values. Not all checks can reformat"
            " values, and those will have to be edited manually."
        ),
    )
    args = parser.parse_args()
    check = StaticChecker(args.replace)
    return int(not check.run_checks())  # True -> False, False -> 0 (success)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main())


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Readers ask: How Much Money Does Scotland Have?
1 Is Scotland funded by England?
2 How much debt is Scotland in?
3 How much does England Fund Scotland?
4 How does Scotland benefit from the UK?
5 Is Scotland a wealthy country?
6 Does Scotland benefit from the Barnett formula?
7 Does Scotland have its own debt?
8 How long before a debt is written off Scotland?
9 Is Scotland allowed to borrow money?
10 Does Scotland have a good economy?
11 Where does Scotland get their money from?
12 Does Scotland pay taxes to England?
13 How does Scotland pay for free healthcare?
14 Is Scotland nicer than England?
15 Who pays for Scotland's free education?
Is Scotland funded by England?
The UK's public spending works fairly for Scotland and allows the whole country to pool and share its resources. In 2020 the UK Government guaranteed £8.6 billion of additional funding to help the Scottish Government to respond to coronavirus.
How much debt is Scotland in?
The Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts that by 2016-17, UK debt will be £1.6 trillion. Debt interest charges will be £64.4bn. Using the population method, Scotland's share of the debt would be £132bn. This will exceed 80 per cent of Scotland's GDP.
How much does England Fund Scotland?
£660 million UK Government funding for Scotland.
How does Scotland benefit from the UK?
As part of the United Kingdom, Scotland benefits from public spending that is around 10% higher than the UK average. This helps fund vital public services like health, education and transport. By staying in the United Kingdom, Scotland's public services are more affordable.
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Is Scotland a wealthy country?
The economy of Scotland had an estimated nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of $205 billion in 2020 including oil and gas extraction in Scottish waters.
Does Scotland benefit from the Barnett formula?
They point out that rather than protecting the favourable spending position of Scotland, the Barnett formula steadily erodes that advantage: As it gives equal cash increases (per head), and Scotland's per head spending is higher than England's, Scotland's increases will be smaller as a percentage of their total budget
Does Scotland have its own debt?
The UK Government has said Scotland will not be liable for debts managed by London before independence. Instead anything owing is entirely down to negotiation. The government has just published its March 2019 Whole Of Government Accounts.
How long before a debt is written off Scotland?
The Prescription and Limitation ( Scotland ) Act, 1973, sets out the regulations about when a debt is regarded as 'extinguished,' – this can be either five years or 20 years. Some debts are never extinguished, for example HMRC can chase repayment of income tax and VAT arrears without limitation.
Is Scotland allowed to borrow money?
*Following the Scotland Acts 2012 and 2016, the Scottish Government has the power to undertake capital borrowing of up to £3 billion (with an annual limit of £450m) and resource borrowing of up to £1.75 billion (with an annual limit of £600m).
Does Scotland have a good economy?
Scotland remains a small but open economy and accounts for about 5 percent of the United Kingdom's export revenue. Its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is higher than in all other areas of the United Kingdom outside London and England's eastern regions, and its level of unemployment is fairly low.
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Where does Scotland get their money from?
The money that central government has to spend, collectively called the Scottish Consolidated Fund, comes from the following sources: block grant from the UK Government. EU funds. Scottish income tax (collected by HMRC)
Does Scotland pay taxes to England?
Currently 32.4% of taxation collected in Scotland is in the form of taxes under the control of the Scottish parliament and 67.6% of all taxation collected in Scotland goes directly to the UK government in taxation that is a reserved matter of the UK parliament.
How does Scotland pay for free healthcare?
The NHS in Scotland is managed by the Scottish Government and the majority of NHS Scotland provision is paid for through taxation. Students on a full-time course receive the same free care as employed or self-employed migrants in Scotland. If you are studying part-time you could also be eligible for free NHS treatment.
Is Scotland nicer than England?
In a league table of 272 regions of the EU, Scotland was rated higher than England when it came to quality of life – even though their weather is undeniably worse if you don't love drizzle and shivering. People living there had better education and a more tolerant attitude towards minorities, the study found.
Who pays for Scotland's free education?
University is free in Scotland, but only if you're a student from Scotland (or from the EU, and started in the 2020/21 academic year or earlier). If that's you, you won't pay a penny towards tuition fees at Scottish universities – the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) will cover the £1,820 a year for you.
Where Is Scotland Yard Located?
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Quick Answer: What Is The New Year Celebration Called In Scotland?