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Met Office claim that public did not want seasonal forecasts is a sham »
Tags: Abuse of Power, Dishonesty, Incompetence, Met Office, Our Tax £s, Spin, Weather
A Freedom of Information request submitted to the Met Office by Autonomous Mind reveals the Met Office did not tell the truth when it said it had scrapped its seasonal forecast.
Despite repeatedly trailing the line that the Met Office no longer issues seasonal forecasts because the public says they are not of use (a separate blog post on that public view later today, with some new information that has come to light… Update: part two can now be read here), the reality is that the department's Chief Executive, John Hirst, engaged in a smoke and mirrors exercise in an attempt at reputation management.
At a Board meeting of the Met Office on 26 January 2010, (original Minutes extract received under FOI: 0012014 AM Attachment) a recommendation was tabled by Hirst to rename the forecasts and locate them in a different part of the department's website, and that Hirst:
'… proposed to the board the changes the Met Office was considering to manage the presentation of these longer range forecasts.'
This is clearly not a decision to stop seasonal forecasting, merely a tweek to its presentation – presumably to allow the Met Office the ability to deny a forecast when weather events show it to be inaccurate. It is equivalent to the EU's renaming of its proposed constitution without changing the substance of the content so it could be ratified as a treaty without referenda being held. A change in presentation does not change the substance of the content.
The Met Office logic is that although it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck it is actually a horse. This explains the weak attempt to disown the seasonal temperature probability map that the department published in October. But Hirst's actions now reveal the map is a forecast after all, in everything but name. The details from the Minutes are shown in the blue highlighted section in the screenshot below (click to enlarge):
The words 'forecast' and 'forecasts' appear seven times in that section, which seems quote a lot when talking about something the Met Office deny is a forecast. The FOI response comes just one day after the Met Office was seemingly caught out in another lie, when it told Andrew Orlowski of The Register this week that it:
'… never suggested that we warned cabinet office of an 'exceptionally cold early winter'
although a Met Office spokeswoman was quoted in the Daily Mail on 4 January as saying:
'We did brief the Cabinet Office in October on what we believed would be an exceptionally cold and long winter,'
The Met Office employs a large number of very good, honest and dedicated people. This and my other blog posts on the subject are no criticism of them.
But the department is being run by an unreliable group of executives who have been exposed as dishonest in the course of their efforts to underpin and further a politicised agenda (climate change) and secure even more public money for additional supercomputing power. At the head of this group is John Hirst. Suspiciously his executives remained silent about the story published by Roger Harrabin, only denying they had warned of an 'exceptionally cold early winter' after Katabasis' FOI request revealed the claim was not true.
The unpleasant whiff of deceit and clumsy spin continues to emanate from the Met Office and there now absolutely must be a formal investigation into its management and its executive. The public deserves and is entitled to much better for its money.
Update: The excellent Katabasis is on the case and builds on this post over at his place. Definitely a must read.
Part two of this blog post is now live…
22 Responses to "Met Office document shows it only renamed its seasonal forecasts"
1 Barry 01/02/2011 at 1:20 pm
Point 17 indicates the reason for sticking with the seasonal forecasts – prestige within WMO circles.
Who are the people getting improved forecasts? T'ins't us!
2 Baa Humbug 01/02/2011 at 1:56 pm
"Setting the forecast as a worldview, then down to European scale…."
But of course. The world view will ALWAYS be a warmer one. Then if Europe has a warm season, they can claim that. And if GB has a warm season, they can claim that too.
These people aren't public servants, these people are out n out politicians with advocacy agendas.
In the westminster system, there is nothing more dangerous than the politicization of the public service. Our poor brethren in GB are paying the price.
there needs to be a clean-out, a thourough one.
3 none 01/02/2011 at 2:06 pm
point 17 has a typo: "leaders in the filed" instead of "field"
4 GeorgeGR 01/02/2011 at 2:18 pm
Brilliant work AM!
BTW, has anyone written to Mr. Harrabin asking his explanation on how and why he wrote what he did?
One should also ask him how he is planning to correct the clearly and misleading impression created by his erroneous article and whether his conduct will have implications in regard to his position?
No matter how this is spun, In my opinion, this is at best an example of really bad journalism by Harrabin (not surprised though).
5 Mac 01/02/2011 at 2:21 pm
So what is the difference between a scientific and an operational forecast?
6 biddyb 01/02/2011 at 2:47 pm
As Barry says, Point 17 talks about being "groundbreaking" and "leaders of the field" and "without continued effort to develop it was noted that none of the forecasting improvements over the years would have been made", while in the next point, 18, they agree that it would have to be scaled back so that they are updating every month "rather than a season at a time" and then updating that every two weeks.
In other words, they haven't broken any ground and are having to go back to forecasts a few days ahead which they might get right.
7 Cassandra King 01/02/2011 at 3:12 pm
Visiting the UKMO website and clicking on weather warnings we see this line.
"The Met Office has responsibility for providing weather warnings for the UK."
Is this a legal responsibility or simply a corporate aim?
The warning system for the next five days is green(for normal) and no warnings are issued for the entire UK. We see that the UKMO has a weather forecast for the UK out to one month(30dys)ahead and it only consists of this one tiny paragraph below.
"Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:
Most parts will have a fine day on Thursday with some sunshine but wintry showers in the northwest. Friday and Saturday turn very windy with some heavy rain at times.:
So our forecaster that costs us hundreds of millions of pounds per year hands us this lazy poorly worded rubbish and thinks we should be happy?
The forecast for day 6 to 15 is a little longer, but the weather warning map stops at day five, perhaps they just cannot be bothered or they ran out of money?
"UK Outlook for Sunday 6 Feb 2011 to Tuesday 15 Feb 2011:
Sunday looks like being a very wet day with heavy rain across central and western areas. This may lead to localised flooding in prone areas, perhaps with some snow over northern hills. Drier in the southeast. Generally mild in the south, cooler with scattered wintry showers in the north. Very windy at times with gales or severe gales in the west. Tending to become drier on Monday, but still with showers and strong winds. It looks like it will continue unsettled through the following week and weekend with periods of heavy rain at times and strong winds, perhaps with gales or severe gales at times in the north and west. The south and southeast will be near normal or mild, but cooler in the north with wintry showers at times."
So for all the money the UKMO receives we get a couple of poorly written paragraphs out to 2wks and a weather warning map out to five days, is this a service for which we pay a very high amount, possibly the most expensive meteorological service on the planet.
It looks to me that they really cannot be bothered with the boring annoying task of providing a decent weather service, perhaps they feel this drudge work is the equivalent of mopping the floor and is beneath their talents?
Now contrast this with its climate change services, no expense spared full Monty service going the extra mile to provide us with all the CAGW theologies and dogma(never mind the quality feel the width). The primary service feels like it is an after thought add on, something for the lower order office clerk to slap together while the big wigs can concentrate on higher things like saving the planet(and their reputation). This paragraph taken from the climate change section reveals much about the mindset of the UKMO I think.
"Policy relevant science
The Government funds the Met Office to do core research in support of practical decision-making.
We offer world-leading expertise to help Government and public services make strategic decisions about weather and climate change impacts.
We offer an understanding of the future through risk analysis and long-range forecasting, enabling them to make better informed decisions."
Now reading this ego bloated nonsense and then experiencing the bitter winter of 2010 they didnt see coming, reading this and then remembering the near total shut down of UK transport because the UKMO failed in its core duty to PREDICT THE WEATHER.
We see the bloated ego and the puffed up pretensions, they are trying to sell themselves to themselves, we have a window into their corporate mind with these few words. They have become a legend in their own lunchtimes in their own minds, they cannot admit the truth not least to themselves, they are the bloated heifers you see in Vegas wearing ultra tight leggings, they are the tiny fat bald guy wearing a toupee and built up heels and a corset, judgemental? Perhaps it is but maybe it is time to judge!
8 James P 01/02/2011 at 3:16 pm
"scattered wintry showers"
What other sorts of shower might one get in Winter..?
9 George Tetley 01/02/2011 at 3:34 pm
A big thank you AM, the problem in Britian is not the Met. office its the country, I guess someday in the distant future there will arrive a 'saviour" until then the population, who are not revolt minded will continue to suffer and watch the latest group of overpayed idiots on Tv ( when a football player is worth 45,000,000, whats a politician worth ? )
10 Green Sand 01/02/2011 at 3:37 pm
Well done sir, keep up the good work.
It appears that just like our politicians they much prefer posing on the international stage.
Typically:-
"commitment by the Met Office as a centre for Long Range Forecasting within.WMO. The science remains groundbreaking with the Met Office being leaders in the filed (sic)."
"Significantly useful amounts of skill over tropical regions"
Has anybody heard any comment from the Met Office about the following chart?
Hadley Centre Central England Temperature (HadCET) dataset
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/
Well as it is only the UK I suppose the change in trend is not worthy of comment, even if it is the "world's oldest thermometer.
11 Cassandra King 01/02/2011 at 4:12 pm
Just an an added note about the above post.
The met office climate change section of the website contains a claim that..
"We offer an understanding of the future through risk analysis and long-range forecasting, enabling them(politicians)to make better informed decisions."
Note the words "long-range forecasting"? How far into the future does the UKMO make these forecasts?
Note the sentence at the end, "enabling them to make better informed decisions" Better than what, casting the bones or reading the runes or better than lets say accuweather or weather action?
The met office failed to live up to its own hype on its own website yet still those words remain as clear as day, the met office claim they no longer produce seasonal forecasts but they still claim to be producing long range forecasts, whats the difference I wonder?
I would dearly like to see one of these advertised long range forecasts, anyone know where I can find one, maybe wikileaks has one?
12 John Kehr 01/02/2011 at 5:12 pm
This is a pretty impressive show of incompetence. The political bias at the top is really making the entire MET look like a bunch of idiots.
While I am sure that there are many competent people there, the ones at the top are making them all look bad.
I also wonder if they had a non-CO2 forced forecast that did manage to predict a cold winter, but since it wasn't politically correct they had to trash it.
John Kehr
The Inconvenient Skeptic
13 Ray 01/02/2011 at 6:05 pm
As a result of observing the output of the UKMO for several years, I appear to have come to a similar conclusion to you about the attitude of their management.
Instead of "We've made a mistake, how can we correct it", their attitude seems to be "We've made a mistake, how can we spin the facts to make it appear that we haven't".
A new team, which is prepared to admit past mistakes, is required.
14 jorgekafkazar 01/02/2011 at 6:50 pm
"The Met Office logic is that although it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck it is actually a horse."
Hard to imagine an entire horse being associated with the Met Office…
15 Jonathan Stuart-Brown 03/02/2011 at 12:57 am
The Met Office have just made clear that they officially told The UK Government (in a secret report) and put in every Met report (in secret) that there would be a revolution in Tunisia, Egypt and that Andy Murray would lose in the Australian Tennis Final. They are almost omnipotent and infallible, utterly honest and humble.
There really is no need old chap for any more of these beastly Freedom of Information requests. We are utterly honest chaps you know.
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Liquid calories have a trick of largely escaping the notice of the systems we have that note and tally our food/calorie intake. People will eat just as much at the next meal as if they hadn't had the liquid. At least, those of us who are susceptible to weight gain will, I suspect that some of those lucky folk who are relatively resistant to weight gain might have better-performing satiety systems.
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Oct 12/12 – I am reminded again of this by the recent attention to acellular starch following the publication of the ground-breaking paper by Dr. Ian Spreadbury. I have long wondered – what about acellular fat? When eating unprocessed foods, I can't think of much acellular fat a person would run into – except from milk or, I suppose, egg yolks. Of course, as soon as you apply heat this changes – as in cooking fatty meats. Do people, or some people, or a few people, have less satiety value from acellular fat than from fat eaten when inside cells? Having said this, I think the problem with acellular starch is vastly more important and I believe Dr. Spreadbury's work is a substantial contribution and should receive wide attention. For people who do not tolerate carbohydrates well, fat in either form is much better than carb loads beyond their tolerance – and now we have this question about impact on the microbiota as well.
I expect there will be more to come on the topic of acellular starch. To find any other posts on this site that relate to this topic, click on the tag "acellular". (unfortunately, the "tags" cloud does not ick up content on pages (like this), only on posts.


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On Wednesday May, 16 Dr. Maikanti Baru, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), at the public hearing organized by the House of Representatives' Committee on the Petroleum Industry Administrative Bill (PIAB), Petroleum Industry Fiscal Bill and the Petroleum Industry Host Community Bill recommended that petroleum licences be divided into two components (exploration and production phases).
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On Thursday May, 17 Emmanuel Boakye Agyarko, Ghana's Minister of Energy, announced that Ghana is set to award nine new upstream oil blocks for commercial exploration off its western coast. Six of the nine blocks will be awarded in 2018 while the remaining three will be given out next year through a mix of open competitive tender and direct negotiations. The six blocks range in size from 1,000 to 1,500 square kilometres in the Western Basin. Two of the blocks are ultra-deep-water at 3,000-4,500m. 2D and 3D seismic data were taken in the blocks between 2000 and 2013 with very promising interpretations indicating "mostly oil". State oil company, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) will acquire one of the blocks to explore in partnership with a strategic partner to develop its technical capacity and become an operator.
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Oil prices climbed above $80 a barrel for the first time in three-and-a-half years amid simmering global tensions over Iran. The International Energy Agency report also revised its global outlook for 2018 down from 1.5 million to 1.4 million bpd due to the expected increase in prices. The looming sanction against OPEC member, Iran contributed to rising oil prices and the market is expected to tighten for the rest of 2018. Oil prices have jumped to over 70 percent in the last year due to a rise in demand and restricted supply by OPEC.
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For those dealing with mental illness and drug use problems, it's important to understand that not dealing with these issues may lead to homelessness. Fortunately, detox centers like St. Gregory Recovery Center provide a beacon of hope for those who may feel hopeless. People struggling with addiction no longer need to fear; contacting St. Gregory's program today represents the start of a brighter tomorrow.


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Q: Cannot get JSON data from URL Apologies for asking what looks like a frequently asked question but I cannot seem to be able to get the data from the following URL: http://www.strava.com/stream/segments/860503
I have tried the following:
$(document).ready(function() {
    $.ajax({
        url: "http://www.strava.com/stream/segments/860503&callback=?",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function(data) {
            $(document.body).append(data.latlng);
        }
    });
});

And:
$(document).ready(function() {
    $.getJSON("http://www.strava.com/stream/segments/860503&callback=?", function(data) {
        $(document.body).append(data.latlng);
    });
)};

But I am not having any luck. I have fiddled around with 'json' and 'jsonp', adding the '&callback=?' to the URL as well as other things suggested on SO, but to no avail.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

A: have you tried ? The difference being the cb instead of ? at the end of the URL.
$(document).ready(function() {
    $.getJSON("http://www.strava.com/stream/segments/860503?callback=cb", function(data) {
        $(document.body).append(data.latlng);
    });
)};

A: That particular URL does not support JSONP. Neither does it provide support for Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) via the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header, therefore it is impossible to directly call it via ajax.
The requirement for JSONP support is that the server must output the callback name as a function, passing the JSON as a JavaScript object or array in the argument to the function. For example:
myCallback({ ...... });

A possible solution is to proxy the ajax request through a server side script on the same domain, where cross origin is not a problem for server to server requests.

A: the data from "http://www.strava.com/stream/segments/860503" has no callback. it is not made for cross-domain. if your script is on the same server use:you have acces to the php of the server use echo  $_GET['callback'].'('.json_encode($return) .')';
else try to use [php] cURL;

A: please watch This Side Example I think usefull for you
http://demos.jquerymobile.com/1.0a2/experiments/api-viewer/docs/jQuery.getJSON/index.html

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In this tutorial I have taken three Text View and one Image View for profile pictures. Lets start quickly.
NOTE – If you got error after importing this code then just delete value-11 and value-14 folders and remove extended ActionBarActivity and do it to Activity and import it.
Lets do the code , firstly start the code with designing part that's my personal point of view that always start with designing part i.e. XML . Many developers also do the same. So take new Android project and name whatever your is and go to your Layout folder and double click activity_main.xml and paste the following code.
In this xml file I have taken a simple ListView that going to show us on launching our application.
After that we should go to strings.xml file in our values folder and take arrays for listview .
Now take another XML file for custom View that you want in your android application . This View is something like if you want to show images,text,radio button,buttons in your list view than you have to take new XML file and you have to make your view which we going to embed in our simple List View.
Here we take list_item.xml for this View and in it I have taken ImageView,TextView .
Now Coding part , In this part I have taken a three java files in our src folder , get started with it. I have taken a Bean class namely RowItem.java .What basically a Bean class is that it is a reusable software component it encapsulate many objects into one and we can access this objects from multiple places , also maintenance become so easy .Its upto you that you want to take this Bean Class or not.
After this make a CustomAdapter.java class in your project under src folder and paste the following code.This class should extends Baseadapter and thus you should implements rest of the override methods .
1). Class Should extends Baseadapter and implements overrided methods .
2). Take inner class ViewHolder and declare some TextView and ImageView respectively .
3). Take LayoutInflator object and ViewHolder object.
4). Write a condition for Views and setImageResources and setText .
Now take MainActivity.java file and include the below code there .
Now Run your project and see your output in the emulator .
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New Year's Garbage, From Sea To Shining Caspian Sea
Zohreh Moshtaghi, Citizen-Reporter
The Iranian calendar year starts with the spring equinox, so not only does nature renews itself but people embark on holiday trips and outingsto rejuvenate themselves as well. But for a long time now these same merry outings have turned into a plague on nature. The new-year travelers leave behind an inordinate amount of garbage in wildlife areas or around historical sites before returning to their urban lives.
During the holidays, like many of my fellow citizens, I travelled from north to south to enjoy parts of the country I don't usually visit, but what grabbed my attention everywhere was not the rebirth of nature but the garbage that travelers had scattered about. With some patience and compassion they could have found better places, like trash cans. The pictures that I took and that you see here prove the point.
Two things were obvious. First, people use too much throwaway plastic containers and utensils. Second, there is hardly a place in a country as vast as Iran which has not been occupied by garbage, especially by plastic garbage.
Environmental experts say that plastic containers such as mineral water and soda bottles, chips and biscuit wrappers, and so on, take from 400 to 800 years to break down and return to nature. As a result they inflict long-lasting damage to th environment.
In recent years environmental education in Iran has improve, but a considerable number of people leave their garbage at the scene of their fun-making, especially when they are traveling during carefree times of year like the Norouz holidays. We should mention, of course, that in certain locations like tourist attractions and historical sites, the custodians quick to gather the garbage left behind by travelers but in other locations like forests, mountain trails and river banks—in other words, where nature is the attraction—there is nobody to clean the garbage. It remains where it is and after a while it turns a beautiful natural scenery into a garbage dump.
This new year, according to media reports and postings on social networks, local people in some towns and villages have taken the matter into their own hands by organizing activities to clean up the mess left behind by sightseers or by preventing them from littering in the first place. For example some environmentally conscious people distributed garbage bags among visitors and asked them to carry off their garbage when they were done enjoying their trip.
The road to universal love for the environment, however, is going to be a long one. We don't know how many more new years should come and go before caring for the environment becomes a national practice.
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Athanase Louis Victoire Dupré (* 28. Dezember 1808; † 10. August 1869) war französischer Mathematiker und Physiker.

Athanase Dupré erhielt seine Ausbildung am Collège in Auxerre und der École normale supérieure in Paris und unterrichtete dann bis 1847 am Collège Royal in Rennes. In diesem Jahr wurde er zum Lehrstuhlinhaber für Mathematik an die Universität Rennes berufen und 1866 wurde er dort Dekan der Faculté des Sciences.

Er beschäftigte sich mit Zahlentheorie und in den 1860er Jahren mit Thermodynamik; von ihm stammt das Lehrbuch Théorie mécanique de la chaleur (1869), das wesentlich zur Verbreitung dieses damals neuen Wissensgebiets in Frankreich beitrug. Zusammen mit seinem experimentell arbeitenden Sohn Paul Dupré untersuchte er die Kapillarkräfte und die Oberflächenspannung von Flüssigkeiten. Diese Arbeiten führten auch zu einer Formulierung der Youngschen Gleichung, die noch heute als Young-Dupré-Gleichung bekannt ist.

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Step back in time and reminisce in these two 1920's buildings from the Auburn Automobile Company that are now listed as National Historic Landmarks.
Tour the International Gallery of Trucks and engines, plus a model car/truck and toy collection. Gift shop. Open daily 9-5.
Admission $8.00 adults, $4.00 children.
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I am very concerned about Germany. Democracy is becoming more and more a facade. Over the last 7-9 I am following what's going on: a minority is pushing through it's intentions. Industry has always been a strong factor, but nowadays political decisions are nearly entirely driven by industrial, financial and trust intentions. These economical sectors are heavily inter-webbed with politics in Germany and in the European Union. Political corruption takes place in the highest ranks and the the only consequences are those suffered by population, not those who caused it.
In two days there will be elections for the next president in France. The French election campaigns are heavily focused on interior aspects: most of the French people don't want to drop social aspects entirely or be unprotected from the financial powers outside their countries. Even the favorite candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, which has a neo-liberal consultant, has some aspects (i think 3 or 4) in his 'program'. He wants to protect French economics (as he has good very friends in these milieus) and increase 'buying power/capacities'. Germany in opposite concentrates on Export and economical liberty (=without responsibility).
You know, in Germany, there is only one truth. One 'reality' – everything else is wrong. Of course this is not true but that's the 'official' german politics, media and economics point of view. Therefore they also call the French people dreamers. Like always you hear from everywhere in Germany the same statements from politicians and media (no diversity): "Dreaming is Ok, but they should start to see the reality!". Their reality is the the so called "Globalization" – which of course mainly means financial, economical globalisation because many other aspects of society are not standardized across the world.
Germans, from my perspective, seem to be more conformists than the French people. French seem to have a bit more of revolution in their veins. French media is also much more critical towards government. In Germany the media adopts information from the government without verification or happily self-censor them selves in order to be political correct.
Therefore, from a European point of view, there is a heavy need of a counter-weight in Europe to the German's heavy weight, to bring in some balance. I fear that, though Sarkozy is probably going to negotiate hard i.e. about being less strict with the stability of the the Euro or taxing financial business, he is in general still very close to the neo-liberal perspective. And probably also therefore still the favorite of the Chancellor of Germany.
In addition to that, Sarkozy is also a hardliner in terms of security. In Germany the last two ministers of interior are crazy. They want security(-state/complete-control) at all costs. They completely forget Germany's past and that in a state there also only humans working. Centralization of power and information above a certain level is dangerous because abuse, power-greed etc will always happen.
Ségolène Royal is the other French candidate. One of her weak points is, that she is less a communication/media master than Sarkozy. But she makes still a strong impression on me. I am not sure how good she could hold against Germany's position, but – though she has a very generalized and less left-winged program – she has a unusual perspective. It might worth to give her a chance. I know that many people in France want "a change" and put their bet on Sakozy. In Germany, recently we had plenty of changes – so called "Reformations" – I am sure that these are not you want in France!
"We won't do that, though we should."
"We don't want to do that, but it looks like we have no choice…"
"We didn't had a choice, it had to be done."


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The DR. Tone PSU10 power supply is a must have item for any multi pedal using guitarist. The ingenious design of this pedal means that you can power up to 10 pedals: 8 x 9V pedals making it ideal for powering multiple stompbox style units; as well as having two adjustable outputs that can each power a 6V, 9V or 12V pedal. Therefore, if you happen to have a boutique pedal in amongst your compact units, or a more power hungry bit of gear that requires a little more juice, then DR. Tone have you covered.
The PSU10 layout is very easy to read and understand. LED indicators allow you to quickly identify operational ports, with lights representing the main DC input, the two adjustable outputs, and one for each bank of four 9V outputs. A large On/Off switch is illuminated, making it very easy to see on a dark stage. The unit comes with 10 connectors, which allows you to get on with the task of setting up and playing in no time at all.
The intuitive layout and versatile power output options make it incredibly useful. The team at DR. Tone appreciate that everyone's setup is unique, and have endeavoured to ensure that no pedal needs to be excluded – and the delightfully compact nature of this unit means that your other gear won't be under intense competition for space on your pedalboard.
When you're doing your thing on stage, it is imperative that you have reliable and robust gear that can take a bit of abuse. The DR. Tone PSU10 is built to take a beating, with a solid chassis that holds up to the most vigorous of tests. Whether you're just setting off on your musical journey, or are a seasoned pro who takes to the stage on a regular basis, the DR. Tone PSU10 is an absolute must for every guitarist, and at this price, it's an absolute bargain.
Note: Make sure to check the voltage and current requirements of your pedals to make sure they are compatible with the PSU10 before connecting them.
Posted on 01/08/2017 by K If you have a couple pedals plugged on, it works fine. If you have the advertised maximum of 10? It just doesn't work, it's not a powerful enough unit. Even with 7 pedals, my bare minimum set up, one or two of the pedals connected on the right hand side of the unit either doesn't work or fails disastrously, making horrible sounds like as if you're permanently plugging and unplugging a cable. If you have less pedals, it works fine, but to be honest five pedals or less and you can just get a snake and a 9v power supply that'll power them all for half the price of this. Thought I'd try it out before I'd spend over £100 on a power supply, but for the amount of pedals I use I have no choice.
Posted on 18/05/2017 by GuitarMan Used it for 2 years with no issues. Had 6 pedals hooked up including: Boss TU2, ToneGauge Chorus, Tech 21 Boost DLA, CryBaby Wah, Boss Reverb, MXR Micro Amp. Whether using with Marshall head, or small Rivera amp, never had any issues of noise, and I gig every week. Highly recommended!
Posted on 17/05/2015 by Luke Used it for the first time at a gig last night and it worked great. I had no static sound mentioned in the previous post but in fairness I only had 2 pedals attached. Great value for money!
Posted on 08/03/2015 by Gask The power supply is good for the price, it supplies the pedals well and is compact. However the supply is not isolated and not grounded, so if you have a few pedals in a chain then a high pitched static sound will be heard.
If you are looking for a cheap power supply then it's good, but for the long run I would suggest paying a little bit more money and getting an isolated multi-power supply.


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Q: Query events from native calendar that my app created I have an app which I can create events for native android calendar with. I want to query all events from native calendar that my app created and show them in list. I only know how to query all possible events in native calendar.
fun readCalendarEvent() {
    val dummyEvents = mutableListOf<DummyEvent>()
    val cursor: Cursor? = context.contentResolver.query(
        CalendarContract.Events.CONTENT_URI,
        arrayOf("calendar_id", "title", "description", "dtstart", "dtend", "eventLocation"),
        null,
        null,
        null
    )
    cursor?.let {
        while (it.moveToNext()) {
            val calendarId = it.getString(0)
            val title = it.getString(1)
            val description = it.getString(2)
            val dtStart = it.getString(3)
            val dtEnd = it.getString(4)
            val eventLocation = it.getString(5)
            val dummyEvent = DummyEvent(
                calendarId, title, description, dtStart, dtEnd, eventLocation
            )
            dummyEvents.add(dummyEvent)
        }
    }

    Log.d(TAG, "readCalendarEvent: $dummyEvents")
}

This is code for adding events in native calendar:
fun insertEventInNativeCalendar(eventEntity: EventEntity) {
    val calId: Long = 1
    val recurringRule = getRecurringRule(repetition = eventEntity.repetition)

    val values = ContentValues().apply {
        put(CalendarContract.Events.DTSTART, eventEntity.startTime.timeInMillis)
        put(CalendarContract.Events.DTEND, eventEntity.endTime.timeInMillis)
        put(CalendarContract.Events.TITLE, eventEntity.title)
        put(CalendarContract.Events.DESCRIPTION, eventEntity.description)
        put(CalendarContract.Events.EVENT_LOCATION, eventEntity.location)
        put(CalendarContract.Events.EVENT_COLOR, eventEntity.color.toString())
        put(CalendarContract.Events.CALENDAR_ID, calId)
        put(CalendarContract.Events.ALL_DAY, eventEntity.isAllDay.toInt())
        if (!recurringRule.contains("NEVER")) {
            put(CalendarContract.Events.RRULE, recurringRule)
        }
        put(CalendarContract.Events.EVENT_TIMEZONE, TimeZone.getDefault().id)
    }

    context.contentResolver.insert(CalendarContract.Events.CONTENT_URI, values)
}


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More Updates on the Novell and Microsoft Deal
Eben Moglen, a lawyer for the Free Software Foundation, remarks that the new deal may violate Section 7 of the GPL! So now you see that the stakes in the GPLv3 talks are very high! The GPLv2 may indeed be our saviour against Microsoft's tyranies, but more on that momentarily! Mr. Moglen specifically comments:
"If you make an agreement which requires you to pay a royalty to anybody for the right to distribute GPL software, you may not distribute it under the GPL," Moglen told CNET News.com Thursday. Section 7 of the GPL "requires that you have, and pass along to everybody, the right to distribute software freely and without additional permission."
And, it seems that Microsoft wants to play the role of the mafia, asking for money to protect other Linux distros against being sued by MS for violating patents. "You might want to buy our 'insurance policy', it's a dangerous town," he would say in a gangster movie. In reality he said:
"If a customer says, 'Look, do we have liability for the use of your patented work?' Essentially, If you're using non-SUSE Linux, then I'd say the answer is yes,"
Competing Linux vendors "are certainly welcome to get involved to quickly provide these covenants not to sue,"
Both quotes courtesy of this eWeek article.
On Open Sources, Matt Assay points out:
Microsoft wasn't going to sue Novell, anyway.
A little remarked, but still true fact is that Novell has long held patents that go to the heart of Microsoft's Office business. Whatever saber rattling Microsoft might do about Linux, it knows that Novell has a great "counter argument." This announcement was little more than public acknowledgment of an uneasy truce. And it's a truce that helps Red Hat as much as it does Novell..
The patent protection applies to Red Hat, whatever Ballmer might say. Specifically, he said:
"Novell is acting as a proxy for its customers, and only its customers. If they (businesses) want patent peace and interoperability, then they'll have to look to Suse Linux."
Given that most of the code in SUSE Linux is (gasp!) exactly the same as in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it's hard to see what lawsuit Microsoft could launch against Red Hat (or Ubuntu, or Debian, or….) that wouldn't land on Novell's SUSE Linux, as well. So they won't. It's a clever gimmick, but only that.
Finally, in this article, Red Hat expresses frustration and anger over Novell selling their soul.
So, this should tell you a few very important things!
1) Licenses are a PITA, but they are necessary! Without the GPL, we'd be sunk! The choice of the license matters too, as a BSD license would not have offered this level of protection.
2)Microsoft's racketeering should prove, once and for all, that Microsoft is pure evil – just like a mafia! Gates, with his foundation, may be a nice guy, but the company he co-founded is seriously lacking in any kind of ethics or morals. They truly disgust me. Of course, they funded the SCO case, so what could you expect?
Eric Mesa
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In "M$"
GPL shows benefits in unexpected places!
In "FSF"
GPL wins Legal Battle Again!
GNU GPL V3 Draft is out!
Why Unbreakable Linux is a bad idea
In "Linux"
More Atmel Code available!
In "Geek Love"
2 responses to "More Updates on the Novell and Microsoft Deal"
Penguin Pete says:
8 Nov 2006 at 6:38 am
I see you're reeling in shock, too. While as long as the rest of us are careful, this won't swamp Linux's boat, I think Novell's days are numbered. The majority of the FOSS community is collectively calling for tar and feathers.
I'm still too spaced out to say anything intelligent about this. It's been a long week of having a cold, Halloween, elections, and having a killer deadline on a writing project, with this MS-Novell bombshell dropped in the middle of it. Is it all a dream? Auntie Emm, is that you?
Eric Mesa says:
8 Nov 2006 at 8:56 pm
I just hope that, at best, nothing bad happens and, at worst, Novell dies. I don't want to see this take down the whole thing. (Which it won't) Or set things too far back like what happened when ReactOS was accused of having reverse engineered code.


Two people have been injured and a road remains closed following a crash in Desford.
A car and a transit van were involved in a collision on Hunts Lane at just after 1.30pm today.
Firefighters from Southern and Western stations were called to make the vehicles safe.
Two casualties were treated at the scene by East Midlands Ambulance service.
Leicestershire Police are also in attendance and the road remains closed, a fire spokesman said.


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Robert Ramirez.
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Robert Ramirez Named Head of Carnegie Mellon School of Drama
Ramirez joins CMU after heading the performance program at the University of Texas at Austin.
PITTSBURGH: Robert Ramirez has been named the new head of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. Ramirez, who now serves on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, starts in his new post on Aug. 1. He succeeds a four-member interim leadership team that included Megan Monaghan Rivas, Kyle Haden, Dick Block, and Amy Nichols, who in turn succeeded longtime drama head Peter Cooke after his retirement in 2020.
"I've admired Robert's leadership for years and could not be more delighted that he will be joining us at CMU," Mary Ellen Poole, the dean of the College of Fine Arts, said in a statement. "I'm absolutely convinced that he is the right person to take the School of Drama forward, in community and in this exact moment."
Ramirez is a professional voice artist, voice and acting coach, director, and actor. He joined the faculty at UT Austin in 2014 as an associate professor and head of acting, and became the head of the performance division in 2016. He was named the chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance in 2020, where he set out to transform hiring practices, resulting in the addition of five full-time, tenure-track BIPOC faculty members in two years. Ramirez also previously served as an associate professor of acting, voice, speech, and dialects at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and as an adjunct professor of voice and speech for the stage at Marymount Manhattan College. Ramirez is a graduate of the Los Angeles Theatre Academy at Los Angeles City College and received his MFA from the University of Delaware's Professional Theatre Training Program.
"I am indeed honored to join the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon," Ramirez said in a statement. "This is an opportunity to build upon the solid reputation and foundation that exists here among every discipline that contributes to the theatremaking process and performance industry."
As one of the oldest degree-granting programs in the United States, the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama strives to be a community of educators, learners, leaders, and artists who cultivate an equitable, diverse, open, and inclusive community based on empathy and integrity. The university also serves as the exclusive higher education partner of the Tony Awards and celebrates arts education and teachers each year with the Excellence in Theatre Education Award.
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Arthur de Bussières, ( - ) est un poète québécois.

Biographie

Né à Montréal de parents pauvres, Arthur de Bussières étudie à l'école Saint-Jean-Baptiste auprès des clercs de Saint-Viateur. Quittant la demeure familiale en 1895, il travaille d'abord comme peintre en bâtiment et décorateur de vitrines de magasin. Ses premiers poèmes sont publiés dans Le Monde illustré dès septembre1896.

Il devient membre de l'École littéraire de Montréal le  octobre 1896 après y avoir présenté trois de ses poèmes. Il est l'ami des poètes Émile Nelligan et Charles Gill. Il quitte cette école en 1900 mais revient en 1910. Il est surtout ami avec Henry Desjardins, à qui il dédie le poème Réminiscences. Cette amitié est réciproque : . Il était aussi lié avec Joseph Melançon, qui lui dédie le poème Somnium.

Collaborateur aux soirées du Château de Ramezay, sa période littéraire est brève. Trois de ses poèmes sont publiés dans Le Petit Messager du Très Saint-Sacrement édité par Louis Dantin puis repris dans Franges d'autel (1900).

A. de Bussières publie ses poèmes dans plusieurs revues québécoises de son époque : Le Monde illustré (24 poèmes entre le 5 septembre 1896 et le 8 février 1902), Le Passe-temps (20 poèmes entre le 30 octobre 1897 et le 27 septembre 1913), L'Avenir (deux poèmes entre le 4 et 9 novembre 1900), L'Étudiant (un poème le 13 avril 1901), La Revue populaire (six poèmes entre septembre 1908 et juillet 1914), Les Débats (six poèmes entre le 10 décembre 1899 et le 7 avril 1901), L'Alliance nationale (quatre poèmes entre mars 1897 et décembre 1906), Anthologie des poètes canadiens (trois poèmes en 1920).

L'ensemble de ses poèmes sera repris en volume près de vingt ans après sa mort, dans le recueil Les Bengalis, dû à Casimir Hébert, qui a reçu le cahier portant ce même titre des mains de la sœur du poète, Madame Wilfrid Massie. Le recueil compte au total 61 poèmes, dont la production s'échelonne ainsi : six en 1896, dix-huit en 1897, onze en 1898, douze en 1899, neuf en 1900, une en 1910, deux en 1911, deux en 1912.

A. de Bussières excellait dans le sonnet, mais avait plus de difficulté avec la prose, selon le journaliste Olivar Asselin. Poète infortuné, ayant connu sa bohème, il lisait Baudelaire, Hérédia, Leconte de Lisle et Maurice Rollinat.

Décédé en 1913, il reçoit une place dans l'Anthologie des poètes canadiens de Jules Fournier en 1920.

Il est passé dans l'oubli pendant un certain temps, mais il a été redécouvert grâce aux nombreuses études sur Nelligan.

Publications
 Les Bengalis, avec des textes inédits d'Arthur de Bussières ; présentation, chronologie, bibliographie, notes, par Robert Giroux, Sherbrooke, Cosmos, 1975

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

 Charles Lorenzo, L'influence parnassienne sur la littérature canadienne-française en général et particulièrement chez Émile Nelligan, Paul Morin, René Chopin et Arthur de Buissières, Université de Montréal, 1953
 Henry Desjardins, « Le Sonnet. Essai de critique sur M. Arthur de Bussières », le Monde illustré, 13 mai 1899, p. 22-23 ; 20 mai 1899, p. 38-39.

Lien externe

 Fonds d'archives Arthur de Bussières (P83) conservé par le Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française

Notes et références

Naissance en janvier 1877
Naissance à Montréal
Décès en mai 1913
Poète québécois
Décès à 36 ans


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Back in November 2000, just one month before the government passed the 11 bills of Christmas as a result of the "Blacklisting of the Bahamas" by the OECD, we cornered a friend of ours who manages one of the more respected private banks in Nassau to interview him on the effects of the OECD action. The effects of those 11 pieces of legislation are now known to all.
Now in October 2003, The Bahamas faces the prospect of implementing an Act to legitimise a "Tax Information Exchange Agreement signed with the United States back in 2002.
With this in mind, we pigeon holed another banker friend (BF) of ours to ask him a few questions about the proposed Tax Information Exchange Act, 2003 (proposed Act). Here is the result of our conversation.
Nassau Institute: The proposed Act refers to an exchange of tax information between two countries. What reciprocity is there for The Bahamas?
BF: As The Bahamas is not a nation that imposes direct income tax, there is no readily apparent reason it should be acting as a vassal tax collector for the United States of America, or any other sovereign nation or supra-power. Since we do not anticipate requests of the USA for tax information exchange on Bahamians resident in the USA, what reciprocal benefits can we reasonably expect if reciprocity is the key to negotiating any agreement.
Nassau Institute: What then can The Bahamas expect to gain from the proposed Act?
BF: If it is conceded that there is no or little reciprocity for The Bahamas, we can expect to gain little or nothing in return. What is in the best interest of The Bahamas and the Bahamian people? If this TIEA is to proceed in its present form, The Government of The Bahamas and Bahamians need to be fully informed as to the benefits expected to accrue. Is this yet another bill to kill or devastate our already severely depressed financial services industry in the wake of the 11-piece financial services legislative package? Can we afford to send over 4,000 financial professionals and associates to the unemployment queue? If we are serious about this legislation, we should, as a government, negotiate something in return that generates fair value in exchange. . . something that will make up for what we can expect to lose in the process?
Nassau Institute: Can the country expect to reap big dividends from the Tax Convention business from United States Corporations?
BF: It has been advanced that the TIEA will bring us the long sought after tax convention business. However, even this will only directly benefit the major and larger hotels with ample convention space. How many hotels can accommodate large conventions, other than Atlantis and Radisson? While the tourism industry needs to bolster their sagging profitability, convention tax deductibility is not likely to be much of a factor in selecting competing host convention sites. In considering hosting conventions whether in The Bahamas or elsewhere, larger American companies' corporate meeting planners rarely consider tax deductibility as a significant or material factor. The most significant factors in their decision-making are the quality of the hotel and its facilities, location, convenience, and most importantly cost. Notwithstanding tax deductibility does lower net cost and while we offer convenience as a result of our proximity to the USA, cost is prohibitive relevant to other competitive domestic and foreign sites. The point here is that tax deductibility is not a significant factor in the decision. (The recently published Tourism Task Force Report is ample evidence of high costs of Bahamian hotels.) Further, the benefits of TIEA should not be seen for the additional tax convention business to the tourism industry generally, and specifically to the major hotels, at the expense of our second largest private industry: financial services.
Nassau Institute: Are we negotiating with a "gun to our heads?"
BF: We have heard repeatedly the argument that the 11-piece financial services legislative package was negotiated with a gun to our heads. Have we not learned from this experience after almost three years? Have we not seen the decline in our financial services industry? Prior to that legislation, we boasted of over 400 licensed banks and trust companies. Three years later, licensed banks and trust companies are under 300; and, of those 300, many are still in the painful throes of extremely costly compliance catch-up (KYC) with many not expected to meet the extended deadline of December 31, 2003.
Nassau Institute: What about the right to confidentiality and financial privacy?
BF: The right of confidentiality, particularly the right of financial privacy, is the most telling and compelling of all justifications to reject this Bill in its entirety. With other legal acts, and in particular the recent Patriot Act, supplemented by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2002, the USA has virtually eliminated its citizens' rights to financial privacy. That is no reason for The Bahamas to do the same. The right of confidentiality and financial privacy is enshrined in our Constitution. It is a long-held practice in this country and most democratic nations around the world. It should not be abandoned nor in anyway compromised; in fact, it should be strengthened. It has firm grounding in the earlier successes of the financial services industry in The Bahamas.
Nassau Institute: What is the potential impact on our sovereignty?
BF: While The Bahamas may have been negotiating with a gun to its head, that is no reason to again negotiate with a gun to our head in other international agreements, including the TIEA. Although we are a small country, the negotiating process involves at least two parties with each bringing to the table something that the other wants or needs. Negotiations should never be conducted in the absence of goodwill and fair dealing, nor should it be under duress or fear. Without that 'something' to give for 'something' in return, there is really nothing to negotiate. If we were to agree to their demands with nothing in return, then we have been abjectly defeated. With little or nothing to bring to the table, certainly no benefits can be expected. Will we suffer fool's gold as a vassal tax collector for the USA, and possibly later for other countries, including the EU and other member-states of the OECD? We have plenty of demands that we can make in exchange for TIEA and the USA is likely to give up even more than we might ask. And, our sovereignty is not negotiable?
Nassau Institute: If we sign on with the USA, what about other countries or trade pacts?
BF: Once a precedent has been set with the signing and implementation of a TIEA with the USA, negotiations for TIEA's will be demanded by other states, including the EU and OECD member-states? Upon the original signing of intent of a TIEA, then Prime Minister Right Honourable Hubert A. Ingraham unequivocally promised that the only TIEA to be signed would be with the USA. Will the PLP Government be willing to back up that pledge with or without a gun to its head?
Nassau Institute: Should we want tax competition rather than tax harmonisation?
BF: Much has been said in the last 2 or 3 years about the OECD's initiatives and posturing over global tax harmonization. This has resulted in The Bahamas blacklisting, paving the way to the forced 11-piece financial services legislation with its resultant damaging effects. The US-based think tank, Center for Freedom and Prosperity ("CFP"), has lobbied hard with great success on the issue of tax competition, not the tax harmonization programs proposed for tax havens by OECD. The OECD, and particularly those member-states in the EU, have forged unilateral global solutions to the real world problems their member states face, caused by their own high tax welfare policies. Some of these countries, e.g., France and Germany et al, with their high-cost welfare states and unfunded pensions are bankrupt. CFP argues quite convincingly that tax harmonization is bad tax policy; countering with the argument that tax competition is essential for global competition and economic growth. CFP advances the notion that these high-tax nations have no other real world alternatives but to reduce taxation to minimize flight capital by their own citizenry, instead of demanding other countries to become their vassal tax collectors.
Nassau Institute: Will there be "fishing expeditions" through Multiple Identification of Taxpayers?
BF: It has been strongly promised by Government officials, including those from the Ingraham Administration, that no TIEA will permit "fishing expeditions". How can we be assured of that? While the Bill states that information requests must identify the taxpayer for whom the tax information is sought, it does not appear to prevent a request that includes multiple taxpayers.
Nassau Institute: What is "foreseeably relevant or material?"
BF: This nice legal phrase is used throughout the Bill. That language poses further threats of permissible "fishing expeditions". This language could force the Minister to permit such information requests without satisfying himself that there is reasonable evidence of tax offenses. However, this may be difficult for him to do in the absence of specific knowledge and expertise in the underlying foreign tax law or tax administration policies. The use of the word "foreseeably" opens up Pandora's box…. as merely a suspicion of past or future tax offenses could justify such a tax information exchange request.
Nassau Institute: Do you think the Minister will have excessive power of enforcement if the proposed Act becomes law?
BF: The Bill foresees the Minister of Finance issuing regulations for the enforcement of the Act, but does not seemingly address controlling the use and abuse of excessive power. Also, the Act does not indicate the methodologies and processes as to how the Minister will determine if the information request application is reasonable opposite the claims or suspicion of the requesting state. Is it expected that the Minister can correctly determine, on the basis of a fully completed request application, the validity or reasonableness of the information requested based on his judgment or determination (or that of Ministry staff) alone?
Nassau Institute: Is there any protection for the provider of information in the proposed Act?
BF: While the Bill does provide some assurance that the provider of the information requested is protected by not excluding or restricting the right of any person aggrieved by judicial review of the Supreme Court, it does not go far enough in protecting the information provider from criminal or civil charges. Further, the information provider is at risk of civil or criminal charges if he should provide false, altered or misleading information, whether intentionally or not.
Nassau Institute: Does the proposed Act provide any protection for the taxpayer?
BF: There is nothing in the Bill to indicate that the aggrieved taxpayer, whether or not a resident of The Bahamas, has any right to, or knowledge or defence of, the information request and its potential claims, charges or consequences. This amounts to a unilateral ex parte petition. The Bill should request additional information on the request application, to advise whether or not the requesting state has informed the taxpayer of the claim, investigation and his rights (if any). The answer to this question could aid the Minister in determining if the request is justifiable and reasonable and/or if a "fishing expedition". It could possibly prevent legal action brought by the aggrieved taxpayer for losses incurred as a result of unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. (It is believed to be a rare case in the USA that a taxpayer would not be notified by the Internal Revenue Service, prior to investigation or claims on a taxpayer, as such action is normally a last resort after years of collection attempts prior to taking the case to the tax court or pursuing tax fraud.)
Nassau Institute: We read something about an Advisory Committee. Do they have any power?
BF: Reasonable consideration by the Minister on the advice and recommendations of the Advisory Committee is not assured based on the language of the Bill. Consequently, it may appear to be simply a political non-substantive appointment that would render the Committee powerless and ineffective in rendering any advice and recommendations as a matter of public policy and interest. This would be especially evident should there not be either public consultation or the case where the Minister simply refuses to listen, reason or accede to the Committee's advice and recommendations.
Nassau Institute: In closing, if you were Prime Minister for a day, what would you do with the proposed Tax Information Exchange Act, 2003?
BF: I believe the proposed TIEA bill should not be permitted to proceed and if it is to proceed, then it should be substantially amended.
Nassau Institute: Thank you very much for your time and effort.
BF: You are very welcome. Hopefully it will help the lawmakers with their deliberations.
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