MANHATTAN (CN) — For the first time in U.S. history, ordinary citizens fought in court Wednesday to have a president's business dealings declared as violations of anti-corruption provisions of the Constitution.
"Diplomats are bragging that they're going to this president's hotel to curry favor with him," attorney Deepak Gupta argued this morning in the unprecedented hearing.
Giving no indication of how he would decide this groundbreaking issue, U.S. District Judge George Daniels vigorously put both parties on the defensive with a series of sharp questions during 2 1/2 hours of arguments.
"You both are in uncharted waters," Daniels said at one point.
On Trump's side, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate insisted that the federal judiciary has no role in enforcing the previously obscure clauses.
"The court lacks jurisdiction to issue an injunction against a sitting president of the United States," Shumate said in court Wednesday.
Blasting this as an "extreme view," Gupta described this interpretation of the separation of powers as a recipe for impunity.
"I want to address the government's view that the president is above the law," said Gupta, an attorney with the firm Gupta Wessler.
To earn the right to take the president to court, Gupta will have to prove not only that the president's business dealings are illegal, but that his clients have been harmed by them.
For lead plaintiff CREW, a group dedicated to rooting out conflicts of interest in government, the task of keeping tabs on Trump's global business empires has required constant vigilance.
Gupta's other clients in the hotel and restaurant industry meanwhile have been put in the position of competing directly with the president.
Hotel booker Jill Phaneuf, who works for the Kimpton Carlyle Hotel and the Kimpton Glover Park Hotel on Washington's Embassy Row, alleges that the diplomats among her clientele are more likely to turn to the Trump International Hotel.
If the case goes to trial, Gupta promised, the court would see that Trump's Washington hotel charges higher rates than the competition, even while it has lower occupancy rates, to cater to an elite clientele.
"That's because it's an emoluments magnet," he said.
Gupta told the court that he has numerical proof of Trump's competition with another of his clients, New York hotel mogul Eric Goode.
Ranked 35th in the area, Trump SoHo's price differs by only $1 from Goode's Bowery Hotel, which outranks its nearby competitor by two points but has an important drawback.
"What our clients can't offer is the ability to curry favor with the president of the United States," Gupta said.
Daniels appeared skeptical that Gupta has shown enough to prove standing, the legal principle showing one has been personally affected by conduct that brought them to court.
"Why do they have that right?" Daniels pressed.
The judge noted that Gupta's clients would still be competing with the president of the United States regardless of whether Trump illegally accepted foreign cash.
Shumate, the Justice Department attorney, depicted Trump's businesses as just like any others in the highly competitive hospitality fields of New York and Washington.
"What the plaintiffs want you to assume is that President Washington was a crook," the government's attorney added later.
Apparently unimpressed by the comparison, Daniels noted that the legislative branches of their time might not have been concerned that these businesses posed any conflicts of interest with foreign governments.
"They were not particularly concerned with George Washington selling tobacco," he said.
Daniels posited that the Framers intended the clauses to be a "prophylactic rule" preventing conflicts before they arise.
Since the emoluments clause proscribes certain foreign business transactions only "without the consent of Congress," the Republican-led Legislature presents another variable in the case.
"Your clients would not have a cause of action no matter how severe [their complaints] if [Congress] decided to consent," said Daniels.
Though no federal courthouse may have heard an emolument case before, Gupta argued that internal rulings the question from the White House's Office of Legal Counsel embody longstanding precedent that the Trump administration has ignored.
Two former White House counsel — under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama — have joined the fight against Trump.
Obama's ex-attorney Norm Eisen addressed reporters at a press conference after sitting at the plaintiff's table throughout this morning's hearing.
"This case involves constitutional provisions that have rarely been litigated in the centuries since the Framers included them in our Constitution, but the case implicates concerns about corruption of American officials by foreign and domestic governments that are as vital today as they were in the 1780s," Eisen said.
Gupta's co-counsel Joseph Sellers, from the Washington firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, called the government's comparison of Trump to the first president of the United States a "gross mischaracterization" of history.
Judge Daniels ended Wednesday's hearing with plans to issue a ruling in the next two months.
If he allows the case to proceed, the challengers estimate that they will pursue a weeklong trial seeking Trump's divestiture from his businesses.
Eagerly awaiting the judge's call, a young man waited outside the courtroom dressed in a red, white and blue football jersey and matching face paint. He stood next to a folding chair and a grill top covered in hot dogs.
The punchline was apparent: Just the previous day, the Trump administration lost its first federal court battle over the third iteration of its travel ban against Muslim-majority nations, one of a long line of defeats over the controversial executive order.
Identifying himself only as Tim, the man later crossed enemy lines to pose with plaintiff's attorney Eisen for a Twitter photo, holding cans of Budweiser.
The props at the courthouse tailgate party had an unlikely resonance for today's hearing.
Posing a hypothetical conflict of interest, Daniels asked the government's attorney to suppose a foreign power gave $1 million to Trump business that sold hot dogs, hoping that the president would sign a treaty.
The point the judge had been making was clear.
"Just because it's a business transaction doesn't mean that it's not an emolument," he said.


Just a quick post to show you my outfit from the other. I'm not a big skirt wearer and although I love this royal blue one I reserve it for work. It's versatile and comfortable when you're spending the day sitting at a desk but also pretty enough that it looks like you've made at least some effort!
One of my favourite colour combinations is royal blue and magenta. They just seem to compliment each other so well. These tights from City Chic are the best I've ever owned. No small statement! They're thick, stretchy and high waisted and actually fit my thighs in them! I'm not generally a fan of coloured tights but I do like this pairing.
And as you probably already know about me I love a good slouchy shrug or jacket. This one is super comfy for a manic Monday.


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LJ Partnership expands Isle of Man Trust & Administration team
Isle of Man News - POSTED Mon 16-10-2017
by LC
LJ Partnership, the London-headquartered private wealth partnership, has promoted Mark Veale to the role of Managing Director of its expanding Isle of Man Trust & Administration team. This is in recognition of the contribution he has made to the Isle of Man operation over the past 18 months in his previous position as Director and Head of Client Services.
LJ Partnership supervises in excess of $14bn of assets (including $4.5bn in real estate assets) on behalf of individuals, family offices, foundations and charities.
As well as its Trust and Administration division, LJ Partnership provides direct investment and investment management services. LJ Partnership is regulated in the Isle of Man by the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority as a trust and corporate services provider.
In addition, two further new roles have been created within the Isle of Man operation as part of the expansion of Mark's team. Adam Greenwood has been appointed as Finance Director and Sophia Birchall as Head of Compliance. Both these new roles will be predominantly Isle of Man based but will also provide operational and financial support to the other offices within the Trust and Administration division.
Mark has over 20 years' experience in the financial services, fiduciary management and administration sectors, spending the past 17 years specialising in the offshore fiduciary sector. He is STEP qualified.
Prior to joining LJ Partnership, he headed up the Trust operation of a respected independent firm Kreston in the Isle of Man, holding leading positions in their client services divisions.
Mark commenced his career with RBS Group before moving into Trust and Administration with Barclays Private Bank & Trust.
His experience includes managing property owning structures; traditional wealth ownership structures; as well as administering trading companies and their activities. Mark holds the STEP diploma in International Trust Management.
Adam Greenwood has substantial financial accounting experience in banking and Trust and Administration and was previously Chief Finance Officer and Company Secretary at ICM Group on the Isle of Man. He is a member of the Association of Chartered Management Accountants.
Prior to her appointment at LJ Partnership, Sophia Birchall worked since 2011 for Northern Wychwood Trust Limited an independent Trust and Administration business based on the Isle of Man where she was also Head of Compliance. Between 2008 -11 she spent three years at Barclays Private Bank and Trust (IOM) Ltd, where she was responsible for administering a portfolio of complex, high net worth trust and company structures.
Sophia is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries and Administrators, a member of STEP and is about to complete her qualification as a member of the International Compliance Association.
Robert Burton, Partner and Head of Trust and Administration at LJ Partnership congratulated Mark Veale and welcomed the new joiners. "Mark Veale has proven experience in our industry and is a highly respected and valued senior member of the team."
"In both Trust and Administration, and in his wider work in the offshore fiduciary sector, his excellence is well known and his promotion to Managing Director is well deserved."
"Adam Greenwood and Sophia Birchall have joined us knowing we offer the supportive, stable and well-resourced environment that they both seek. We are delighted to welcome individuals of such a high calibre at such an important point in the development of LJ Partnership's Trust and Administration business, both on-Island and internationally."
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What exactly is "relaxed homeschooling"? Before I answer that, I will give you a tiny bit of background. I am saving the major details for another post for another day about why we chose to home school, but here's a tidbit. Our decision to homeschool took a few years to come to and religion had zero factor in it. I think an assumption most people make about homeschoolers is that we are all wildly religious and refuse to teach our kids about evolution. To be honest, that may have been the case even a couple of decades ago. This is not so much the case these days. The number of secular homeschoolers in America is increasing quite rapidly. Homeschooling has changed greatly over the last decade or so (read more here).
Anyway, back to the story. We went the traditional brick and mortar route with our two oldest in the beginning. They both went to pre-school, then Kindergarten, and continued on through until a couple of years ago to a regular school. There was bullying, there was favoritism by teachers, and a general feeling of unhappiness from both of the children. I thought an informal, kind of hippy/crunchy private school would be better. There were no desks. Reading time was done lounging on bean bags. At first it seemed great, but then the cracks in the program became more and more obvious. It wasn't so fantastic after all. It was more of the same wrapped in zero fashion sense and Birkenstocks with socks, but cost an arm and a leg. One thing led to another, and I was so frustrated with depending on other people to educate my children that I just took the leap. I could see that the love of learning had been zapped out of them. They griped and complained every school morning. Carmen had so much anxiety about going that it started to manifest physically. One morning Gabriel literally started hyperventilating when we pulled up. School had become a situation that they couldn't wait to get through. They despised it. How would they ever cultivate a love of knowledge and be lifelong students of information if they already hated it and they weren't even out of elementary school yet?
Initially when I pulled them out of regular school, I was absolutely overwhelmed and terrified of homeschooling. I did not have the confidence in myself to teach them. I enrolled them in an online public school thinking that would be better. It was not. At all. Again, it was the same old crap of hours and hours of sitting to learn about things they had zero interest in. As soon as they took the test, the information went out of their heads. While being at home helped with the issues of bullying and being totally dependent on someone else teaching them since I was present each school day, it was not for us. Children don't want to sit still. It's not natural for them. They need to explore, move their bodies, and it's human nature to gobble up information that you are interested in. They weren't enjoying life and I could tell.
There are a lot of different types of homeschool styles. I was going to be the most organized and regimented homeschool Mom that the world had ever seen! The fall that we started I ran to Target and bought a day planner. I sat for hours and planned out exactly what we would do at each hour of each day. I think we followed that schedule for the first week and then I scrapped it. We are all night owls. My husband is in the bar business, and we also own a wine and craft cocktail bar together. We have never really had a normal 9-5 schedule with bankers hours. And rest is so crucial to everyone but especially children who are still developing. We sleep in. Sometimes we stay up really late and sleep in really late. Guess what? We still get our studies done in a fraction of the time other children sit at school all day. I didn't know it at the time, but we had officially become relaxed homeschoolers.
I think there's a good bit of wiggle room as far as a concrete definition of "relaxed homeschooling". The beauty of it is that it's open to interpretation and each family can make up their own rules, to an extent. For us, it means we just go day by day. Most days, they complete a few pages in workbooks and then do Spanish and Math lessons online on Khan Academy's free site. We also read together. I always have hot chocolate on hand and we all sip it our of our favorite mugs while we take turns reading paragraphs. They love to snuggle on the couch in their onesies while we read. We travel a good bit and take a lot of local field trips. I'd like to incorporate a lot more international travel in the very near future. We can do that since we have open schedules! There's no waiting for summer break or spring break to take trips.
This school year, I bought them each grade appropriate workbooks and books that interested them to read independently. I never ever say no to books. I will buy them as many as they want. In the fall they each completed their studies of our state's history, Spanish workbook, life cycle of plants, handwriting workbooks, and of course the daily math and spanish online that I mentioned above. Currently, as far as workbooks they are finishing up their geography and then we will move to the grammar workbook. We have been intensely focused on Spanish because we are going there in 2019. I want them to be able to interact with the locals in Spanish. Plus, it's their heritage (Colombian) on their father's side. We have been doing a lot of flash cards and watching Spanish movies. Gabriel is very interested in history so he focuses a lot on that during his "me time" and Carmen is obsessed with the history of fashion/costume design. They can both tell you cool facts about their individual interests. For example, did you know people used to wear powdered wigs to prevent lice from jumping from one head to another? Disgusting, yes. Interesting and something I did not know? Yes. They didn't even teach me that at my fancy super expensive fashion school in my History of Fashion class! Gabriel can tell you more about the Cuban Missile Crisis than most adults I know. On the flip side, there are days where we don't do anything except watch documentaries on Netflix. I let them decide the topic as long as it's educational. No, creepy pasta stories on YouTube absolutely do not count (we recently had that conversation). However, when the kids around us are out of school for snow days or whatever, we are still learning.
We have never been happier than we are now. The children are no longer stressed out. They are more willing to help around the house. They fight with each other less. Way more smiles, way less conflict and drama. When it's time to sit down and get to work, there is no longer dismay. They WANT to do it! None of us have been sick due to viruses or bacteria at all in a very long time, whereas if they were piled into a tiny classroom with their peers they would have been. I know they are getting the proper nutrition each day. This is especially important for us all due to our autoimmune issues and dietary restrictions. They are more active than ever. On top of everything else, they have proven to me that homeschooling was indeed an excellent decision for our family. Their love of learning has returned and with gusto too.
I am so glad I got over my fear of homeschooling. It has turned out to be one of the best decisions we have ever made for our family. At the end of the day, as a parent or educator you have to realize that each child is different. We don't all learn the same way. We don't all NEED to learn about the same things. Of course, basic skills like addition and subtraction are important and we cover those. The sooner that America as a whole realizes this, the better off we will be. Currently our children are testing lower than other developed and industrialized countries. You don't have to agree with me, but I truly believe our educational system is failing us (you can read more about this here and here). Learning is not a one size fits all standard regimen. Each child is unique, and relaxed homeschooling facilitates advancement and an intense love of learning that seems to be disappearing in the conventional school setting. Every family is also unique and has different needs. I am fortunate enough to be able to do the work I do (this blog and managing social media pertaining to it, and coordinating events and the wine program at our wine bar) from home when I have time. Homeschooling is not for everyone either. I have friends that would not excel or like this lifestyle, and it has nothing to do with intelligence. This is the right choice for us, and I am so glad homeschooling is a part of our lives now.
I absolutely agree about the educational system. The way kids are taught seems to get worse every day and I worry about when it's time to put my kids into school. I have been thinking of homeschooling since my son was born, so I look forward to your future posts about it.
Thank you so much! It has definitely been a blessing for us.
Don't you just love homeschooling? It's so beneficial! You rock! I love the period costume!
Yes, 100%. My only regret is that I didn't take the plunge earlier.
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Star Fox 64 3D Review
Jesse September 23, 2011
The Plot: If you've played the original, no changes to the plot have been made. For those who didn't, here's a summary: Andross was a scientist who nearly wiped out his own planet, Corneria, due to his testing of various biological weaponry. Because of this, General Pepper banishes Andross to Venom, which was then a desolate wasteland. Five years pass, and Corneria picks up odd activity on Venom, which results to General Pepper recruiting the Star Fox team, consisting of James McCloud, Peppy Hare, and Pigma Dengar, to check it out. Upon arriving to Venom, however, Pigma backstabs the team and has Peppy and James captured by Andross' forces. Peppy manages to barely escape, with James sacrificing himself, and sadly has to deliver the bad news to James' son Fox. Years pass by after James' unfortunate end, and Andross has seized control of the entire Lylat System as his army advances toward Corneria. With the Cornerian army dangerously close to submission, General Pepper hires the newly-rebuilt Star Fox team, which includes veteran pilot Peppy Hare, ship mechanic Slippy Toad, ace pilot Falco Lombardi, and their leader Fox McCloud, to take down Andross and save the Lylat System from the mad scientist's iron grip.
The Good: Star Fox 64 3D takes the original N64 game that you know and love, and bumps the graphics up to Wii levels with rendering familiar places like Corneria and Solar. The game is just flat out beautiful, and a great demonstration of what the 3DS is capable of; exactly like how Ocarina of Time 3D showed to the world. It's really breath-taking to view Zoness from the cockpit view. Not only are the graphics beautifully done, so is the redone voicework. Those cheesy lines everyone remembers from the game have been faithfully recreated using the very same voice actors who recorded them way back then. There's just something charming about hearing Wolf's famous "Can't let you do that, Star Fox!" line redone again by the same actor after four years. There should also be a mention of actual new dialogue for most of the cast mixed into their classic lines.
Multiplayer has also been enhanced, with Battle Mode being given a significant upgrade. You can now either fight your buddies or the AI in four-player multiplayer dogfights in Meteos, Corneria, Venom, or wherever. You can choose the traditional setup or you can use a setup that mimics that of Mario Kart and gives the player unique powerups, such as engulf the arwing in flames and become a flying meteor to your opponents, or even fire off a giant version of the charged-up laser shot. The game takes advantage of local multiplayer and offers download play using a single cartridge. This means as long as someone has one copy of the game, anyone with another 3DS can play the multiplayer.
The Bad: Now, I may love this game to absolute death, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. For one thing, the lack of online multiplayer is a really hard blow to take. This is more of a missed opportunity for Nintendo, as the inclusion of online multiplayer dogfights would've had a lot more folks anxiously waiting to get their hands on the game as soon as possible. And while the multiplayer battles are fun to play, the fact that it's local play is only going to hurt the product in the end. As for the quest itself, the game is faithfully recreated to the upmost of accuracy. Unfortunately, this also has the downside of making the game a little too easy for veteran players who know all the loopholes of the original. I, myself, can easily go through the path I usually follow and beat the main quest in no time. (Corneria – Meteos – Fichina – Katina – Solar – Macbeth – Area 6 – Venom)
Extras: The game offers two vastly different control schemes. One's labeled as the 'Nintendo 64 Style', which gives the player the classic style of play with the slide pad controlling the Arwing. The other is labeled 'Nintendo 3DS Style' that lets you control the Arwing via the 3DS's gyroscope function. The game's difficulty also adjusts to what play style you use. If you decide on the gyroscope, the game lessens the difficulty so that inputs don't have to be as precise.
Final say: Star Fox 64 3D brings back one of the most spectacular Nintendo 64 games and makes it even better by adding enhanced graphics and well-structured multiplayer. While some elements of the game could've been done better than they should have, there's no denying that you'll fall in love with the Star Fox crew all over again once your world-saving trip is over. Don't forget that barrel roll!
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We often wait to give gifts to someone until it is his or her birthday or some special holiday like Christmas or Hanukkah. But this takes much of the surprise out of our gift-giving; it makes it too predictable. The real joy in giving and receiving gifts is in the unexpected. When, for no reason, we give a gift to a friend, just because we feel like giving him something special, there is a great gladness in being so unpredictably generous and open and loving. Perhaps we can also give ourselves more in our life in this open and generous and spontaneous way. Maybe we can begin by just picking someone who is special to us and give him an unexpected gift just because we want him to know how important he is to us. So give, even if it's not his or her birthday; give unexpectedly and see the joy you create.


Coincidence or not? Kylie Jenner jammed out to Kanye West's new album with her pal Anastasia Karanikolaou in a video posted to her Snapchat on June 23. Interestingly enough, the ladies were listening to "All Mine," the very song where Yeezy calls out Tristan Thompson for his cheating scandal. After the clip surfaced on Instagram, fans were living for it since they felt Kylie could have been throwing some subtle shade at Khloé Kardashian's baby daddy. Watch the video above to see the rumored diss!
"Ayy, if it ain't all about the income, Ayy, ayy, let me see you go ahead and spend some," Kylie rapped while laughing. The reality star didn't mention anything about Tristan in particular, but some fans still were hoping she was trying to send a message. "If I was Kylie I woulda been like yup! Hell yea! All these shots on Christian mingle that's what almost got Tristan b—h a-s single," one wrote, while others agreed by liking the comment. Kylie and Anastasia seemed to be having a blast together on their girls' night!
As we previously reported, Kanye wants nothing but the best for Khloé. "Kanye told her she's too pretty, too intelligent, and too smart to be with a man whose proven he's going to cheat for life," an insider told In Touch exclusively. "He asked how many times does she want to be heartbroken." Kanye didn't hold back on his verse about Tristan in "All Mine," but he obviously will have to respect Khloé's decision no matter what.
Khloé and Tristan recently returned to Los Angeles with their precious daughter True and fans don't know what to make of their situation. Luckily we will get some answers soon, since she will reportedly be discussing the cheating scandal on the upcoming season of KUWTK. Khloé finally broke her silence on why she's trying to make amends with her baby daddy, while setting the record straight to a fan. "You have no knowledge of what goes on in our household or the enormous rebuilding this takes to even coexist," she tweeted on June 25. "I'm proud of my strength. I appreciate your opinion and I hope you hold that same opinion to everyone else who has stayed in situations." Well, there you have it!


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Notice of Motion by Councillor J Moore Under Standing Order No 6
Meeting of Council, Tuesday 23rd July 2019 6.00 pm (Item 48.)
Exeter City Council notes that:
1. The decision to sell the green space at Clifton Hill, close the Clifton Hill Sports Centre and sell land currently leased by Exeter Ski Club, as confirmed at the Council meeting of 26 February 2019, has proved highly contentious.
2. The council received several petitions and numerous other representations opposing the sale: 1,800 people signed an online city-wide petition to save the sports centre; 500 signatures were collected door-to-door by the Save the Clifton Hill Green Space group, and the petition to save the Ski Slope was presented at the Council meeting on 26th February with a total of 2,624 signatures. All were ignored.
3. On May 2nd of this year Independent Cllr Jemima Moore, one of the Clifton Hill green space campaigners, was elected with 1,359 votes, pushing voter turnout in the Newton and St. Leonard's ward up from 34% to 39%.
4. Clifton Hill was earmarked for sale before the consultation on Exeter's Physical Activity Strategy, and thus the Ski Slope, Sports Centre and green space were excluded from city-wide strategic planning intended to enhance the wellbeing of people in Newtown and the whole of Exeter.
5. We are facing a climate emergency, loss of biodiversity and dangerous levels of air pollution. Exeter needs open spaces and trees to provide "green lungs" that mitigate rising temperatures and pollution. The ambitious Exeter Garden City vision cannot be achieved if we build on the last remaining city centre green spaces.
6. There is no guarantee that sale of the Clifton Hill site will achieve the expected £8.5 – £9 million, and yet this estimate has repeatedly been used as the sole justification for the decision. Failure to meet this target could result in accusations of maladministration, or a legal challenge.
7. The Council holds other assets that could either be sold to raise revenue or used for social housing to address local need and generate income in the longer term. The sale of buildings and car parks should always be prioritised, before our green spaces, trees and wildlife are lost forever.
8. It is not too late to rethink the Council's decision to sell the Clifton Hill site, and for all of us to work together to seek a better solution.
Exeter City Council therefore resolves to put the decision to sell the Clifton Hill site on hold, pending a four month review period during which other options for raising revenue – including a full and transparent assessment of other Council assets that could be sold without losing green space – are explored.
Councillor J.Moore, seconded by Councillor D.Moore, moved a Motion in the following terms:-
In presenting the Notice of Motion, Councillor J.Moore, said that she had been delighted that the Leader had made the recent announcement that the Clifton Hill green space and ski club site had been saved. She said that she and her colleagues and residents in the area had been campaigning for this. She welcomed his invitation to work together on the future use of those parts of Clifton Hill to reach a common ground for the continuing benefit of the local community. She welcomed also the change in stance in respect of the future use of Northbrook Golf course and Bull Meadow as well as the undertaking to protect play parks. She did not wish to withdraw her Motion as she wanted to ensure that these announcements would be publicly confirmed. She also asked the Leader to confirm that these sites would not be used for student accommodation and to formalise the status of the sites in the next cycle of meetings for confirmation at the next Council meeting.
The Leader did not wish there to be any uncertainty over his statement regarding the retention of that part of Clifton Hill, originally considered for disposal and the protection of the green space. They had made a commitment for housing to be built on part of the site but there was no intention to build student accommodation. He said there was every intention to see the area at the rear of the Clifton Hill site retained as green space. He would continue to engage with Members at the appropriate time.
Councillor J Moore in seeking the assurances from the Leader withdrew her Motion for the present time and welcomed the opportunity to work together to keep such green spaces in the city. She still wished for the matter to be pursued within the next cycle of meetings. The Leader advised that he would continue to work with senior Members who were a part of the Informal leaders Group.


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How to add a taxonomy term programmatically in drupal 8 ?
I ran the check in Drush, but the first line throws "\Drupal::$container is not initialized yet".
Can you please guide where to put this code so that it can be executed. I do not know I have to create a separate PHP file or I need to use in theme_name.them file or I have to create a custom module to use this.
For that you must create a custom module. Here a guide to create a custom module. You can also do in your template.php but it's not recommended.
Just create a php file inside your drupal installation and run "drush php-script your_file.php"
how to insert custom field value to taxonomy to newly created taxonomy.
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Ian H. Birchall
The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx
From International Socialism (1st series), No.66, February 1974, p.32.
Mikhail Lifshitz
Pluto Press, £2.70 hardback, £1.35 paperback.
MOSCOW in 1933 was not a good place for developing marxist theory. The sectarian 'Third Period' was about to give way to the opportunist Popular Front. In the cultural field a crude insistence on class values was to be replaced by an unprincipled loving up to the representatives of the 'progressive bourgeoisie'.
That Lifshitz was able to produce this valuable little essay under such conditions is a tribute to his scholarship—and to his ability to keep his head down. The book, short though it is, goes beyond the limits of its title. By tracing one particular theme, he gives us an intellectual biography of Marx, showing how his ideas on art developed as part of his overall view. For it is only in such a context that the question is of any interest; otherwise Marx's tastes in literature would be no more significant than his taste in wine.
Lifshitz begins with the early Marx's relation to HegeL Hegel saw knowledge as a means of reconciling the contradictions in reality; an attitude which Marx scorned as a refusal to struggle. Marx preferred the Romantic tradition which saw art as an activity which could help to transform reality.
Since art is an aspect of man's attempt to actively transform reality, it necessarily comes into conflict with capitalist society. For capitalism reduces everything to its value expressed in terms of money; even the greatest work of art can be measured as of the same value as a certain quantity of manure. Hence Marx, for all his hatred of censorship, shows that bourgeois 'freedom' merely replaces the tyranny of the censor by the tyranny of commercialisation.
Where Marx differed from the Romantics was that he did not believe that the problems of art could be solved in artistic terms. As Lifshitz points out, Marx lived at a time when the interest in literature and art was giving way to an interest in sociology and economics. There was a future for art – but only in the context of the revolutionary transformation of society. Lifshitz sums up Marx's view with the slogan: 'Art is dead! LONG LIVE ART!'
This leads straight into the question of proletarian literature. Here Lifshitz provides a valuable counterbalance to the work of Lukacs, who always stresses the value to marxists of works which remain within a bourgeois framework. As Lifshitz shows, Marx believed that as capitalist society became more and more incompatible with aesthetic values, the proletariat offered the best source of inspiration for literature.
Writing of Marx's treatment, in the German Ideology, of Eugene Sue's novel The Mysteries of Paris, Lifshitz says:
'The Mysteries of Paris deals with various types of the lumpenproletariat; but even in these sunken representatives of a great class, Marx found many traits far more deserving of the artist's attention than the prosaic monotony of bourgeois relations. Marx considered virile determination, fighting ability and strength of character to be among the best subjects for artistic treatment. And he not merely pointed out that plebeian-proletarian types are fit subjects for literary treatment; he actually spoke of literature as originating in the "lower classes of the people".'
Here, however, Lifshitz's analysis comes to a stop. There is no attempt to look for the proletarian writers of the thirties. Lifshitz was clearly unwilling to praise hacks, yet unprepared to champion the unorthodox.
And the limitations mar even the treatment of the nineteenth century. The most surprising gap in the book is that it makes no mention of a man who was both a major intellectual influence on Marx and a great revolutionary poet in his own right – Heinrich Heine, author of one of the first great poems of proletarian revolution, The Weavers.
But despite such omissions, we should be grateful to Pluto for making available an interesting volume which, in its 108 pages, raises more questions than many ponderous works of five times the length.


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Golanthara Vartha () is a 1993 Malayalam film directed by Sathyan Anthikad, written by Sreenivasan and produced by B. Sasikumar. The film stars  Mammootty, Shobana, Sreenivasan and Kanaka in the main roles.

Plot

Rameshan Nair is a shopkeeper and is happily married to Lekha, a school teacher. The entire village is proud of Rameshan Nair due to his honesty, social work and his courage to fight against social injustice. Even the local police are fed up since the people trust him.

Rameshan Nair takes the onus of transforming a local goon Karakuttil Dasan to a noble person. Rameshan Nair plans to get him married so that he understands his responsibility .A few elderly men in the village along with Dasan prefer Rajani as Dasan's wife. Ramesh Nair opposes the marriage since Rajani is a prostitute. Rameshan Nair had witnessed Rajani being caught by the police during a hotel raid. The news of Rajani being a prostitute spreads rapidly with Rajani's family members not accepting her. Further Rajani also loses her job as a school teacher. Not being able to bear the humiliation, Rajani confronts Rameshan Nair and informs that she had visited the hotel for a job interview and the police had mistakenly arrested her. The court later released her since she was proved innocent. Ramesh Nair visits the police station and is convinced of her innocence. Rameshan Nair feels guilty & tries to persuade her family members and the school (where she lost her job) but none of them accept her.

Rameshan Nair explains the situation to his friend Hassan who agrees to support him. Hassan informs that Rajani could stay at Safiyatha's house till she secures a job. However Safiyatha would only allow married people to stay hence Rameshan Nair and Rajani should act like husband and wife. Initially Rameshan Nair was reluctant to act like her husband, but he agrees since he feels that he is responsible for Rajani's current situation. Rameshan Nair also assumes that the husband's act would be short lived since Rajani would leave the house once she is independent. Rameshan Nair ensures that there is no physical contact between him and Rajani.

Rameshan Nair does not inform his wife about Rajani since his mother feels that Lekha would feel hurt and divorce him.

The news of Rameshan Nair's extra marital affair spreads in his village. Lekha is deeply hurt and believes in her husband's relationship. Later Rajani meets Lekha and tells her the entire story. Rajani informs that, Lekha must be proud to have a husband like Rameshan Nair, who is sincerely committed in their relationship and who loves Lekha a lot.

The story ends with Rajani leaving for the Middle East as she has secured a job and Rameshan Nair living happily with Lekha.

Cast

Soundtrack

The film features songs composed by Johnson and written by O.N.V. Kurup.

References

External links

 Golanthara Vartha at the Malayalam Movie Database

1990s Malayalam-language films
Films shot in Palakkad
Films directed by Sathyan Anthikad
Films with screenplays by Sreenivasan
Films scored by Johnson

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A getaway is always a good idea when it comes to finding a way to wind down and relax when the stress of everyday life builds up. Perhaps nothing holds the cure for attaining calm as purely as nature itself. For those who adore a trip outdoors and have a particular affinity for the wonders of water, spending some time in George W. Childs Park is sure to please. An oasis of cascading waterfalls and scenic trails, you'll be finding your way back to your happy place in no time.
When nature gives it her all, she never fails. While one waterfall is stunning, three will take your breath away. For visitors, this dream is a reality at George W. Childs Park. Nestled into the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania, this exquisite area of land hosts three gorgeous waterfalls to please the eye and mind. Incredible to encounter, visitors will find an equally pleasing hiking loop that extends approximately a mile and half for scenic viewing. A beautiful combination of rustic wooden bridges and wildlife make this Poconos park a nature lover's paradise. For history buffs, a 19th century mill still stands on park grounds to admire during a leisurely stroll.
George W. Childs is best remembered as an iconic Philadelphia publisher who impacted both the world of journalism as well as his community. He opened the park to the public in 1892 with the firm belief that everyone needs a place to be close to nature. In 1983, the park was officially integrated into the National Parks System.
With so much beauty to offer and a seemingly endless amount of ground to explore, it's no wonder that locals and visitors make time to visit George W. Childs Park time and again. In an effort to keep the area pristine and available to visitors for years to come, it's important to note that while the waterfalls make for a gorgeous view, they are not open for public swimming. Additionally, the National Park System asks that all visitors assist in the clean up of litter in order to maintain this natural wonder so many appreciate. Due to its popularity, this Poconos park was designed with limited parking spaces to avoid over-crowding. Not to fear though, if at first you don't succeed, simply try again. Parking tends to rotate rather quickly and you'll soon find yourself exploring lush green woodlands and wondering at waterfalls!
From the breathtaking designs nature constructs without aid, to the history that's been maintained directly on park grounds, George W. Childs Park is a must-see when you're staying near Dingmans, Ferry, Pennsylvania. Contact us today to add a natural touch to your next dream vacation.


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Posted inEnergy, Environment
Mountaintop Mining Crackdown? Or Not?
[imgbelt img=dumping.jpg]For news about coal mining, we turn to Ken Ward, Jr., and the Charleston (WVA) Gazette, and the news was swirling yesterday that the federal Environmental Protection Agency was going to more closely scrutinize permits that use mountaintop removal mining techniques. In this kind of mining, the tops of mountains are blasted, scrapped off and pushed into the valleys (and streams) below, exposing the coal seam. Ward reported that EPA wasn't blocking permits, but it was reviewing its position on whether this kind of mining violated existing laws.EPA's move confused everyone. Coal interests warned of massive unemployment. Environmental groups declared victory. The EPA said Monday that its position on mountaintop mining was "in a state of transition." Today, in his Coal Tattoo blog, Ward reports that EPA may be starting to slow mountaintop mining, but "we don't know how much of a crackdown it's eventually going to turn out to be."Ward reviews the history of mountaintop mining — and by the end of his article, we're not so sure what is likely to happen. The Louisville Courier-Journal quoted President Obama as saying, "I will tell you that there's some pretty country up there that's been torn up pretty good." Ward notes that on two different mine permits, Obama's EPA has taken two entirely different positions on mountaintop mining. So which position will EPA eventually take? We'll have to wait — and read Coal Tattoo.
by dyadmin March 25, 2009 March 25, 2009
[imgbelt img=dumping.jpg]
For news about coal mining, we turn to Ken Ward, Jr., and the Charleston (WVA) Gazette, and the news was swirling yesterday that the federal Environmental Protection Agency was going to more closely scrutinize permits that use mountaintop removal mining techniques. In this kind of mining, the tops of mountains are blasted, scrapped off and pushed into the valleys (and streams) below, exposing the coal seam. Ward reported that EPA wasn't blocking permits, but it was reviewing its position on whether this kind of mining violated existing laws.
EPA's move confused everyone. Coal interests warned of massive unemployment. Environmental groups declared victory. The EPA said Monday that its position on mountaintop mining was "in a state of transition." Today, in his Coal Tattoo blog, Ward reports that EPA may be starting to slow mountaintop mining, but "we don't know how much of a crackdown it's eventually going to turn out to be."
Ward reviews the history of mountaintop mining — and by the end of his article, we're not so sure what is likely to happen. The Louisville Courier-Journal quoted President Obama as saying, "I will tell you that there's some pretty country up there that's been torn up pretty good." Ward notes that on two different mine permits, Obama's EPA has taken two entirely different positions on mountaintop mining. So which position will EPA eventually take? We'll have to wait — and read Coal Tattoo.
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Mountaintop Mining Crackdown? Or Not?

by dyadmin, The Daily Yonder
March 25, 2009

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For news about coal mining, we turn to Ken Ward, Jr., and the Charleston (WVA) Gazette, and the news was swirling yesterday that the federal Environmental Protection Agency was going to more closely scrutinize permits that use mountaintop removal mining techniques. In this kind of mining, the tops of mountains are blasted, scrapped off and pushed into the valleys (and streams) below, exposing the coal seam. Ward reported that EPA wasn't blocking permits, but it was reviewing its position on whether this kind of mining violated existing laws.

EPA's move confused everyone. Coal interests warned of massive unemployment. Environmental groups declared victory. The EPA said Monday that its position on mountaintop mining was "in a state of transition." Today, in his Coal Tattoo blog, Ward reports that EPA may be starting to slow mountaintop mining, but "we don't know how much of a crackdown it's eventually going to turn out to be."

Ward reviews the history of mountaintop mining — and by the end of his article, we're not so sure what is likely to happen. The Louisville Courier-Journal quoted President Obama as saying, "I will tell you that there's some pretty country up there that's been torn up pretty good." Ward notes that on two different mine permits, Obama's EPA has taken two entirely different positions on mountaintop mining. So which position will EPA eventually take? We'll have to wait — and read Coal Tattoo.

This article first appeared on The Daily Yonder and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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Regional Service Provider Network Provisioning
6connect Helps Regional Service Provider Eliminate Network Provisioning Headaches While Expanding Client Base
"Our unique architecture provisions IPv6 now and for the future, allowing our customers to manage network complexity and maximize its benefits for their growing high capacity networks and data centers."
— Bill Bien, CEO, 6connect
Over the last decade, a leading regional network service provider (SP) has developed one of the most robust, dense, and reliable fiber networks in the country. With over 10,000 route miles of fiber and more than 4,000 buildings served, the SP offers unparalleled regional density, performance, and reliability as the premier metro fiber and bandwidth provider in its service area. Its footprint encompasses over one third of Fortune 500 companies, as well as telecommunications carriers, wireless carriers, financial services companies, health care organizations, schools, universities, governments, and other enterprises.
The main goal of the SP is to deliver best-in-class dark fiber while providing the highest quality of service. Service reliability is of the utmost importance to its clientele. In many cases smaller SPs generally use spreadsheets for IP address management (IPAM) and DNS information required to provision services for its customers. However, provisioning and configuring networks in this manner is a very manually intensive and time-consuming process. As a SP grows larger and its footprint begins to rapidly expand, manual configurations become burdensome and constrain growth.
The SP was using a legacy platform that lacked integration and could not scale to fit its needs. "We had staff spending 45 minutes to grab and enter data for each customer address," explains one of the SP's senior engineers. "And they would be doing that all day."
Manual network provisioning is limiting because it is done in isolation rather than across systems, and it only addresses vendor specific hardware or software elements rather than entire networks. Using a legacy platform that lacks integration and cannot scale to fit a growing footprint forced the SP to look for a better solution in order to ensure network reliability for its customers. Specifically, it was looking for a flexible, scalable, and automated solution that would most effectively address its rapidly changing provisioning needs. It also wanted a solution that had DNS control capabilities so that it could offer customers managed update capabilities.
In order to achieve a faster, more flexible solution that reaches across the entire network architecture and offers management control of complex IP address space and DNS zones, the SP chose 6connect's ProVision Suite. Offering the industry's first fully-automated suite built from the ground up to support the discovery, planning, provisioning and management of IP networks, ProVision provides portals and templates that offer better control and faster access to fully automated tools that provide a unified interface to manage IPv4/IPv6, DNS and assets.
One of 6connect's strengths is the ease of its implementation process. With legacy provisioning solutions, service providers would have to execute a complex mass extraction of its existing customer database and its existing IPAM database. 6connect's tool made it easy to make the extracted information usable almost immediately. "The implementation was virtually painless. It is a very easy and straightforward tool," says the senior engineer.
"Unlike its competitors, 6connect was willing to go the extra mile with roadmap requests on its unified IPAM solution," the senior engineer added. "We couldn't find another vendor that offered this service as part of an already feature-rich package."
"ProVision is a fully integrated solution that solves address management challenges in minutes after it is initiated," notes 6connect's CEO, Bill Bien. "Our unique architecture provisions complex network protocols and credentials like IPv6 now and for the future, allowing our customers to reduce network complexity and maximize its benefits for their growing networks and data centers."
"ProVision offers a consistent interface and the ability to scale more effectively. It is now very easy for SP users to allocate an address for an IP router," explains the SP's senior engineer. "Instead of staff spending up to 45 minutes to grab and enter data per customer address, it is now automated and only takes about 20 to 30 seconds."
In addition, ProVision's DNS module gives the SP the ability to offer a convenient portal to its customers where they can login and make changes to their own accounts. This means reallocating engineering resources away from provisioning requests to more strategic projects. ProVision's built-in support for ISC BIND infrastructure also meant no additional work for integration into their existing DNS environment. .
"If it wasn't for 6connect, our IPv6 transition would have been very painful," added the senior engineer. "Using 6connect's features, we are able to set forth a very clean, aggregated layout for LAN addresses. It became very easy to allocate an address for an IP router."
In addition to saving time and money, ProVision helps the SP to better control its network, offer a convenient self-service option to its customers, and provide the kind of excellent service reliability that meets and exceeds its reputation.
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Sen. Susan Collins, a key swing vote on the tax package, accused reporters of ignoring her influence over the final legislation and unfairly criticizing her efforts to pass a pair of Obamacare stabilization bills. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Collins decries coverage of her tax bill support as 'unbelievably sexist'
The Maine Republican decried the media coverage as premature and unfair.
By ADAM CANCRYN
Sen. Susan Collins on Tuesday blasted coverage of her support for the GOP tax bill as "extremely discouraging" and "unbelievably sexist."
The Maine Republican, a key swing vote on the tax package, accused reporters of ignoring her influence over the final legislation and unfairly criticizing her efforts to pass a pair of Obamacare stabilization bills.
"I believe that the coverage has been unbelievably sexist, and I cannot believe that the press would have treated another senator with 20 years of experience as they have treated me," she told reporters in the Capitol. "They've ignored everything that I've gotten and written story after story about how I'm duped. How am I duped when all your amendments get accepted?"
Collins, whom Obamacare supporters earlier this year hailed as a hero for blocking GOP repeal legislation, has faced intense criticism from those same voices for supporting the repeal of the law's individual mandate as part of the tax bill.
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She's also been criticized for conditioning her support for the Senate's tax bill on passage of a pair of bills aimed at stabilizing Obamacare markets. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has pledged to her they will pass — but House Republicans have balked at any "bailout" for insurers. That prompted speculation that her demands won't be met, as it's still not certain that the House will accept the insurance measures in a year-end spending bill.
But Collins, who has maintained throughout the tax debate that GOP leaders will follow through on their pledge, decried the media coverage as premature and unfair. She pointed out that she's already secured a series of changes to the tax bill itself, including the preservation of the deduction for large medical expenses, a capped state and local tax deduction, and hospitals' access to tax-exempt private activity bonds.
"The list goes on and on," Collins said. "[Ohio Sen.] Rob Portman would tell you that I've had more impact than anybody who was not a conferee."
Collins also singled out a report that she said included a line about how she "didn't cry" during a recent meeting with protesters, many of whom suffer from grave medical conditions. That line was later removed after Collins complained, but not before the story posted online.
The stealth repeal of Obamacare
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"I can't imagine a reporter writing that about a male senator meeting with the same group, and, in fact, I have proof because they met with [Arizona Sen.] Jeff Flake," she said. "So it's been extremely discouraging to see the press coverage on this given the significant impact that I've had on this bill."
Collins said the reaction to her support for the tax overhaul has been mixed.
"We've had a lot of protesters, including those that have staked out my home on Sunday mornings," Collins said. "But we've also had a great deal of support, from small business," for example.
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I am not able to connect to our SuSE10 - 64 bit machine via ssh. I tried to restart the service using "/etc/initd.d/sshd restart", it is failing without any error message.
1. In the file /etc/init.d/sshd there is an option "start" . Under that there is a statement "startproc -f -f $SSHD_PIDFILE /usr/sbin/sshd $SSHD_OPTS -o "PidFile=$SSHD_PIDFILE"
I added echo $? and restart ssh. Now it failed with error 7.
2. I compared the binary files /usr/sbin/sshd of this machine and another machine [suse 10 64 bit] in which ssh is working. Both differ.
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and then restarted ssh. Still the same error.
error 7 is ERROR_SSH_UNSUPPORTED_CIPHER - There is no cipher supported by both: client and server.
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Is this an internet-connected server? If your binaries have changed, I would look closely to see if a rootkit has been installed.


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Adjournment Debate. - Kerry Recycling Co-operative.
Mr. Spring
I will be brief in bringing this matter to the attention of the Minister for Social Welfare. It involves the procedures within the Department of Social Welfare in relation to appeals made by three young men in Tralee regarding decisions made pertaining to their entitlement or otherwise to unemployment assistance. Whereas the immediate problem relates to social welfare the problem also would involve the Department of Labour and the Department of the Environment in relation to the efforts these men have been making over the past 12 months to form a viable recycling co-operative covering the town of Tralee and, indeed, the County of Kerry.
The situation at present is that they have received a decision from the Department of Social Welfare. I understand the Minister is aware of the names of these people but I can give them if required. They received a decision, on the grounds that they were not available for employment from 21 March 1990, that they would not qualify for unemployment assistance because of the clause "being available for work and genuinely looking for work". I have heard many statements from the Minister for Social Welfare during his term of office as Minister for Social Welfare, that he was seeking to introduce flexibility in the regulations pertaining to unemployment assistance and unemployment benefit to ensure that persons have opportunities to come back into the workforce. This is the exact type of case he has referred to on many occasions here in the House.
These three young men, who have had difficulty in breaking out of the unemployment cycle, took it upon themselves to try to organise a recycling co-operative in the town of Tralee. Indeed, they have been working as volunteers for nearly a year to create the possibility of a legitimate income for themselves and their families in the area of reclamation and recyclables collections. At one stage they had tremendous co-operation from the local FÁS office and had feasibility studies carried out by the Regional Technical College in Tralee which established that the project would be viable provided initital grant assistance is forthcoming to the group. Unfortunately, because of the Department of Social Welfare decision of 21 March 1990 and also of the threat by the local health board, the three people in question will now lose their supplementary welfare benefit. These people are faced with a very unsavoury prospect. They have been trying to create work for themselves on a voluntary basis. They are available for work. I am sure the Minister is aware that the unemployment rate in the town of Tralee and in County Kerry at present varies between 18 per cent and 21 per cent of the work force. There are no immediate prospects available to them.
Because of the difficulty and the lack of work opportunities they set out to create an opportunity for themselves with the co-operation of FÁS, which has ended, and with some initial co-operation from local authorities, which is not as forthcoming as I would like to see particularly in the context of the project they are trying to set up. The project is one which I would have thought the Departments of the Environment and Labour, in particular, would have genuinely set out to assist, given the necessity for bringing about recycling programmes. I would like if the Minister — I am glad he is in the House this evening — could ensure that these people are again given the opportunity to obtain assistance from the Department of Social Welfare.
In relation to their appeal, which was heard, they were not informed of their right to be legally represented at that appeal. Also all the three members of the recycling co-operative were heard together, not individually as they should have been entitled to under the social welfare code. They are available for work. Without any stretch of the imagination they are doing something which may provide them with viable jobs in the long-term. They are doing it on a voluntary basis. There is no profit being derived from what they are doing at present. I would ask the Minister for Social Welfare if he could intervene to reverse the decision which has been made by his Department. The Minister has frequently stated his commitment to the introduction of legislation which will allow non-paid workers with community co-operatives and other bodies to receive unemployment payments. This is an opportunity for the Minister to show his commitment in this area and to show he is prepared to ensure that a system within the social welfare code has the necessary degree of flexibility. I would also ask him to call on his colleagues, the Minister for Labour and the Minister for the Environment, to examine the project which these three young men, all with families, have been trying to get off the ground, and which holds a long-term prospect. If the Department insist on refusing their unemployment assistance claims they will kill off any prospect this project has of getting off the ground thus leaving the three people concerned no choice but to Minleave the country. I appeal to the Minister to intervene and ensure while they are trying to get the project off the ground that the Department of Social welfare allow them claim their social welfare entitlements. The decision in this case has been harsh beyond reason.
Minister for Social Welfare (Dr. Woods)
As the Deputy has said, the people concerned are dealing with the Department of the Environment and the Department of Labour at present in relation to the development of this project. That is true but as the Deputy is, no doubt aware, decisions on entitlements under the Social Welfare Acts are given by deciding officers and appeals officers who are statutorily independent of the Minister. Whether we agree with their decisions or not, I must emphasise that my experience is that these deciding officers and appeals officers act with honesty and integrity in their application of the provisions of the Acts. For this reason I must say I am saddened by the terms chosen by the Deputy to frame his motion. By any objective interpretation these terms cast a shadow on the honesty and integrity of deciding officers and appeals officers in their application of the provisions of the Social Welfare Acts. They suggest they may at times choose to be deliberately harsh on applicants rather than act objectively. This has not been the case, is not the case and will never be the case, especially while I am Minister for Social Welfare.
A claimant for unemployment assistance must satisfy a means test in order to obtain a qualification certificate and, in addition, must satisfy the other statutory conditions of being capable of, available for, and genuinely seeking work to qualify for payment of assistance.
When it became known that the three claimants were involved in the operation of an enterprise known as the Kerry Recycling Co-op, their claims were submitted to a deciding officer to determine whether they continued to fulfil the above mentioned conditions. They were interviewed in connection with their involvement in the co-op and each of them admitted they were not available for alternative employment. Accordingly, the deciding officer disallowed their claims on the basis that they were not available for work.
They appealed this decision and were granted an oral hearing of their case on 16 May 1990. Having considered all the evidence and the arguments vigorously presented to him, the appeals officer concluded that, by undertaking the foundation of the Kerry Recycling Co-op and by working full-time in the development of that scheme, the claimants were not available for work within the terms of the legislation. He, accordingly, disallowed the three appeals.
I hope the Deputy will accept that in the circumstances I have explained and within the context of existing social welfare legislation the claimants in question have not been treated harshly. They have been treated as sympathetically as possible within the terms of the legislation. We are in a changing world and the thinking and methods of yesterday are not appropriate to the circumstances of today and will be less appropriate for those of tomorrow. Since I became Minister for Social Welfare I have introduced significant flexibility into the system governing unemployment payments. I am continuing this process and I aim to achieve further progress within the confines of the principles which govern these payments and on which the relevant legislation is based.
I have introduced measures to facilitate the participation of the unemployed in education courses, to allow them take up part-time work and do voluntary work of benefit to their communities while still receiving payments.
At present I am finalising a pilot scheme to give certain unemployed persons the opportunity to pursue third level education courses on a full-time basis. I also propose to include participation in certain community enterprise-type projects in this pilot scheme. What I have in mind is an initiative which would bridge the gap between developing a project and qualifying for community enterprise programme or other assistance or becoming self-supporting. The type of project the kerry Recycling Co-op are engaged in would, to my mind, be suitable for inclusion in the initiative. Other projects I hope to accommodate are projects for groups, such as travellers and the homeless, which have as their objective the reintegration of particularly disadvantaged people into the workforce.
The Deputy will appreciate that it takes time to design and implement initiatives of this kind having regard to the need for controls and to the financial implications. I expect to be in a position to make an announcement about this in the near future.
Deputies can be assured of my strong views that the unemployment system should be flexible and supportive of people when they are making every effort to make productive use of their time or to get back into the labour market. That is why I am introducing the pilot scheme. I can assure the Deputy that this will be put in place in the very near future.
May I ask a brief supplementary?
A brief question.
In relation to the pilot scheme, does the Minister consider that legislation is necessary and, if so, will it be introduced before the end of the session?
I intend to introduce a pilot scheme without legislation and in the process prove that these can be worked without seeking extensions which, as the Deputy realises, is the problem.
The Dáil adjourned at 8.55 p.m. until 10.30 a.m. on wednesday, 20 June 1990.
Adjournment Debate. - Verolme (Cork) Dockyard.


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January 31, 2022 Posted by ASEAN Briefing Written by Ayman Falak Medina Reading Time: 4 minutes
Indonesia and Singapore have signed three key treaties on defense, airspace management, and extradition.
The treaties grant Indonesia control over the airspace over its Riau Islands province. The airspace had been administered by Singapore since 1946.
Both countries signed an extradition agreement that covers a list of over 30 extraditable offenses, for crimes dating back 18 years.
This allows the Indonesian authorities to extradite those who embezzled the billions of dollars from the government's liquidity funding program during the Asian financial crisis in 1997.
On January 25, 2022, Indonesia and Singapore signed three landmark treaties covering defense, airspace boundaries management, and extradition, ending years of sometimes-heated public wrangling on these longstanding bilateral issues.
The Flight Information Region (FIR) agreement, Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) agreement, and an extradition treaty were signed at the 5th Indonesia-Singapore Leader's Retreat, on the Indonesian island of Bintan, heralding a new age for relations between the two countries.
An extradition and defense agreement was signed in 2007 by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, but it was never ratified by the Indonesian Parliament. At the time, they cited security concerns over allowing the Singapore military to conduct training exercises on Indonesian soil. The consensus now reached by both sides showcases that diplomacy can still result in positive outcomes in an increasingly contentious region.
The treaties will still need to be ratified by the parliament of both countries.
Realignment of the flight information region
Under the FIR agreement, Indonesia and Singapore have agreed that Jakarta will now control the airspace above Indonesia's Riau Islands province. The airspace has been administered by Singapore since 1946, under the order of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
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Singapore, which was then under British rule, was granted control of the airspace above the Riau Islands during the 1946 ICAO convention in Dublin, Ireland. Singapore was considered to have the necessary technology and manpower to administer the airspace whereas Indonesia, having declared independence from the Dutch a year earlier, was fighting a brutal war of independence against their former colonial masters.
The area serves as a corridor for flights in and out of Singapore's Changi Airport and the country will continue to regulate flights through parts of Indonesia's FIR for 25 years, which can be extended. The agreement thus ensures Changi's status as an air hub in Asia remains guarded.
According to Indonesia's Coordinating Ministry of Maritime and Investment Affairs, the country will delegate civil aviation services under its reclaimed FIR and send personnel to a Singapore air traffic control center. This will ensure that Indonesia's sovereignty is maintained.
Extradition treaty
Under the extradition treaty, Indonesia and Singapore will grant extradition for a list of over 30 extraditable offenses, including money laundering, corruption, narcotics, bribery, and terrorism funding.
Singapore has long been accused of benefiting from the ill-gotten gains of Indonesian fugitives. On their part, Singaporean officials have rebutted each time and pointed out that the country has cooperated with Indonesia on a number of fraud and graft investigations. The country's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani commented in 2016 that Indonesians had parked around US$200 billion worth of assets in Singapore or 80 percent of the US$250 billion of overseas assets stashed by wealthy Indonesians. To put this into perspective, Singapore's GDP in 2016 was estimated at US$316 billion.
The latest extradition treaty allows for the extradition of crimes dating back 18 years, enabling Indonesian authorities to extradite those who embezzled the billions of dollars from the Indonesian government's liquidity funding program during the Asian financial crisis in 1997.
Indonesia recently established a task force aimed at retrieving bailout funds given to borrowers and bank owners that were never repaid after the Asian financial crises. The country's central bank bailed out over 48 debtors, amounting to US$10 billion with most being misused by the debtors. The task force has until 2023 to chase any overseas assets.
Further, the new treaty closes a legal loophole on the changes of citizenship that fugitives use to evade prosecution. Extradition requests can now be based on the citizenship status of the accused from at the time the offense occurred.
Defense cooperation agreement
The Defense Cooperation Agreement enables the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) to conduct military training in Indonesia, with full respect to its sovereign territory.
Indonesia and Singapore signed a military training area agreement (MTA) in 1995, which would allow troops from space-starved Singapore to conduct military exercises in Indonesian waters, specifically near the Riau Islands province and the outer islands of the South China Sea. However, Indonesia re-evaluated the agreement in 2003, arguing that Singapore's military exercises often exceeded the demarcation area and had invited other countries, such as Australia and US, into the area.
Indonesia and Singapore signed their first DCA in 2007 after the MTA ended in 2003, to once again allow the SAF to conduct military exercises in Indonesia. However, Indonesia's House of Representatives still perceived Singapore to be a risk when they conducted military exercises in Indonesia's archipelagic waters, and thus the DCA was never ratified.
What other agreements were signed?
The two leaders reviewed the ongoing bilateral relations between Indonesia and Singapore, looking at new areas of collaboration, such as human capital development, and sustainability.
MoU on financial and economic cooperation
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) on financial and economic cooperation covers traditional collaboration, such as on fiscal policies and customs cooperation, as well as emerging areas, such as climate finance and the digital economy.
ASEAN'S DIVERSE RANGE OF ECONOMIES PRESENT AMAZING OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT
Further, the central banks of both nations also signed an MoU to strengthen bilateral ties and promote collaboration on a range of payment innovations and regulatory functions. These include monetary policy, financial stability, regulatory frameworks, and countering anti-money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
MoU on energy cooperation
Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry will seek to establish the Indonesia-Singapore Energy Workgroup. This will serve as a platform to facilitate electricity trading, the development of new technologies, such as carbon capture, and the financing of low-carbon energy infrastructure.
The human capital partnership agreement
Indonesia's Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology and Singapore's Ministry of Education have signed a Human Capital Partnership Agreement (HCPA) to deepen educational cooperation between institutions and students.
Moreover, the HCPA will enable regular overseas exchanges and internships of students and educators.
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Q: Passing comma separated .txt file to MYSQL command not allowed with MySQL version I am getting this error when I run my script update.sh:
ERROR 1148 (42000) at line 16: The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version
My MySQL version is: Server version: 5.6.26 Homebrew
I checked in the documentation and it allows for this command:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/load-data.html
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS rsAdmin;
USE rsAdmin;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS  hdfs_archive (
   inputpath        char(255) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
   policy       enum('ARCHIVE','DELETE','CONCATENATE') NOT NULL DEFAULT 'ARCHIVE',
   retention        int NOT NULL DEFAULT 6,
   outputpath       char(255),
   user         char(32),
   status       varchar(512)
);

TRUNCATE TABLE hdfs_archive;
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE './archive_data.txt'
INTO TABLE hdfs_archive FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' IGNORE 2 LINES ;

Line 16 is:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE './archive_data.txt'

My project structure is:

A: Please see another section in the manual:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/load-data-local.html

If LOAD DATA LOCAL is disabled, either in the server or the client, a client that attempts to issue such a statement receives the following error message:
ERROR 1148: The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version

If you are lucky, adding --local-infile=1 will do the trick (depends on the server configuration).
Otherwise, the SQL script is OK (it worked for me).

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