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Popular Android Apps Banned For Sending User Data To China
Posted by amaxx On May 7, 2019
A major Chinese developer is in hot water with Google from an extensive BuzzFeed investigation which revealed that the company's apps were abusing user permissions, allowing the company to commit fraud on a massive scale.
As a result of BuzzFeed's findings, Google took the step of removing six different apps made by the company down from the play store.
This was including a popular selfie app that boasted more than fifty million downloads. The apps were all products of the DU Group, which was spun off from Baidu, one of China's' largest tech companies. The newly independent firm claims that its apps have been downloaded more than a billion times by users around the world.
Whether that claim is true or not, the reality is that the six apps Google removed from the Play store had been downloaded more than 90 million times. The list of offenses varied from one app to the next, with some of them fraudulently clicking on ads to generate revenue, and others containing code that the DU Group could have selectively activated to engage in more nefarious forms of ad fraud.
A company spokesman had this to say about the matter:
"We explicitly prohibit ad fraud and service abuse on Google Play. Developers are required to disclose the collection of personal data, and only use permissions that are needed to deliver the feature within the app. If an app violates our policies, we take action that can include banning a developer from being able to publish on Play."
The apps Google removed from the Play Store are:
Total Cleaner
Smart Cooler
RAM Master
AIO Flashlight
Omni Cleaner
If you have any of these installed, you should strongly consider deleting them and finding less intrusive alternatives.
Apple Music Will Soon Play Nice With Amazon Echo
Some Android Apps Are Charging People Big Money
Google Fights Back Against Hackers Targeting User Data In Apps
New And Potentially More Dangerous Intel Vulnerability Discovered
Security Issues Found In Several VNC Applications

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Law, M., Nolan, D. J. & Holdstock, R. (2008). Method for the quantitative assessment of transverse weld metal hydrogen cracking. Materials Characterization, 59 (8), 991-997.
Diffusible hydrogen introduced during the welding process can drastically reduce the toughness and ductility of welds in steel structures. In welds experiencing high levels of longitudinal residual stress (such as upper passes in multipass thick sections), transverse weld metal cracking can occur. While there are methods available for assessing susceptibility of heat affected zones in the parent material to hydrogen cracking, there are few that are applicable to the deposited weld metal, and none that are quantitative in relation to transverse cracking. Therefore, the current work was undertaken to develop a test that isolates and quantitatively assesses the effects of diffusible hydrogen on transverse cracking in the weld metal. The test method was based on four point bending of as-deposited weld metal with controlled levels of diffusible hydrogen. It is proposed that such a test configuration allows quantitative assessment of the relationship between applied stress/strain, hydrogen content, microstructural characteristics and the fracture behaviour. There were two variations on the test method; the first involved rectangular specimens machined from bead on plate welds providing a geometrically regular specimen with low variability in test results, and the second involved an as-welded bead on plate specimen (un-machined) which inherently has a higher level of variability due to greater irregularity in the specimen geometry, but which has the potential for industrial application due to the much simplified sample preparation and handling required. The method shows a high level of reproducibility and shows great potential for future application for both assessment of susceptibility of weld metals to hydrogen embrittlement, as well as more fundamental studies of the physico-chemical mechanis ms underlying hydro gen embrittlement phenomena.


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posted Friday, December 28, 2012 - Volume 40 Issue 52
Discrimination persists in Maryland
Marry Gay couples or don't marry anyone, court clerks told
by Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer
When Gay and Lesbian couples begin to marry in Maryland on January 2, county clerks who object to marrying same-sex couples will cease to marry anyone, according to a report in the Washington Examiner.
When clerks at St. Mary's County Circuit Court told their supervisor, Joan Williams, that they had religious objections to marrying same-sex couples, she decided they should recuse themselves from marrying anyone and pass the duty on to other court clerks.
'There are some [clerks] that have voiced some opposition to doing it - [they have] religious feelings about it ... so it's basically my idea that they won't do any marriage at all,' Williams said. 'Some people are just very against same-sex marriages, and I have to respect their reasons and their decisions.'
St. Mary's is a rural county in southern Maryland, between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River. Like other Maryland counties, it will be legally required to begin marrying same-sex couples on January 2.
In suburban Montgomery County, northwest of the District of Columbia, circuit court officials are scheduled to perform six same-sex marriages that day, said clerk Loretta Knight.
WASHINGTON NO BETTER
Here in Washington state, a Thurston County Superior Court judge recently told court employees he would not marry same-sex couples (see story in last issue). While judges are not required to marry anyone, this state's county auditors are required to issue marriage licenses to all couples who apply.
David Ammon, spokesperson for the Washington Secretary of State's office, told SGN that officials who object to issuing licenses to Gay or Lesbian couples must furnish another official who will do so, so that no one is turned away because of sexual orientation.
John Zito, president of the Maryland Wedding Professionals Association, told the Washington Examiner that he spoke with a wedding photographer who 'didn't feel comfortable' taking same-sex couples' photos.
'I'm a photographer by trade myself, and I've done a couple of commitment ceremonies, and it is kind of awkward,' Zito said.
'When you have two men, I don't know how to pose them, and this person didn't know how to provide them the same services [as he would provide straight couples] if they didn't know how to pose them.'
WEDDING TOURS CANCELED
Discover Annapolis Tours announced recently that it would suspend its popular 'Wedding Tour' - in which wedding parties tour the city on an old-fashioned trolley - because the owner, Matt Grubbs, has religious objections to same-sex marriage.
According to the Baltimore Sun, Grubbs said in an e-mail to a prospective client that he was legally obligated either to accept Gay and Lesbian parties or to cancel the tours altogether.
By opting out of the wedding industry, rather than picking and choosing between clients, businesses can avoid discrimination complaints, according to Glendora Hughes, general counsel for the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights. Hughes would not comment on any specific business' practices before a formal complaint has been filed and an opinion issued.
The St. Mary's County Circuit Court's decision - changing which clerks perform marriages - also appears to skirt discrimination charges, said Carrie Evans, executive director of Equality Maryland, the group that spearheaded the campaign for marriage equality.
However, the photographer might be in legal trouble if he picks his clients based on their sexual orientation, Evans said.
'Would he opt out of [photographing] African Americans getting married because he can't do the lighting right?' she asked.
Fiscal cliff-diving - What the budget crisis means for the LGBT community
New funding announced to address poverty in LGBT community
'Love has prevailed'
Pope should practice what he preaches
The top local news of 2012
Stay safe - Violent crime is a growing problem for Seattle's LGBT community
Marriage equality pioneer dies
Churches at odds in Texas
The top LGBT news stories of 2012
No goodwill toward Gay men
Bad pope, no flowers
Mexico repeals ban on Gay blood donors
Statement by Seattle City Council Member Nick Licata on the City Hall marriage ceremonies
Not a banner, but an historic LGBT year
A win in Wisconsin - Appeals court upholds domestic partner benefits
Illinois could be next state to legalize gay marriage
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to host same-sex weddings at City Hall
Maines first married gay couple: We finally feel equal
Brown appeals injunction against gay-conversion law
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What Does Fukushima's New "Level 7" Status Mean?
Warning You are repeating the same MISTAKE!
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By KRISTA MAHR Krista Mahr – Tue Apr 12, 6:40 am ET
Japanese officials announced on Tuesday morning that they were planning to raise the event level at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from a 5 to the maximum level of 7, the highest on the international scale for nuclear incidents and the same level assigned to the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl in the Ukraine.
The decision was made after Japan's nuclear safety body determined that at one point after the March 11 earthquake, the plant was releasing 10,000 terabecquerels of iodine-131 for several hours; level 7 accidents are defined as releasing tens of thousands of terabecquerels. "The INES rating itself is not an indicator of a daily phenomena, but the assessment after careful consideration and calculation on the event that happened in the past," Ken Morita of NISA told TIME on Tuesday morning. (See inside Japan's nuclear wasteland.)
NISA has also noted, however, that the amount of radioactive material being released at Fukushima today is less than 1 terabecquerel. The agency says that, to date, Fukushima has only released about 10% of total radiation released 25 years ago in Chernobyl, or about 1.8 million terabecquerels. About 30 people, mostly workers, died in the immediate aftermath of Chernobyl, though the UN has estimated that the long-term death toll due to exposure could eventually be as high as 4000.
The International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), designed in 1989 by the IAEA and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the OECD, ranges from 1 (anomaly) to 7 (major accident). The scale is intended to help easily communicate with the public to indicate the seriousness of a nuclear event. Chernobyl is the only other nuclear accident to have been given a 7, an accident classified as having a major radioactive release with widespread impact on the environment and public health. According to INES, "Such a release would result in the possibility of acute health effects; delayed health effects over a wide area, possibly involving more than one country; long-term environmental consequences." (Read the IAEA's glossary of short- to long-term health effects of radiation exposure here.) (See the world's top 10 environmental disasters.)
Besides Chernobyl, the only event that's come close to a 7 before was a 1957 accident at a fuel processing plant (where spent nuclear fuel is recycled into new fuel) in Russia, in which an off-site release of radiation prompted preventative evacuations. The Three Mile Island accident in the U.S. in 1978, in which a reactor core was severely damage but off-site release of radioactivity was limited, was classified as a 5. Almost all reported events at nuclear facilities are a level 3 or under, according to INES.
Tuesday's announcement comes on the back of a minor fire spotted by workers outside Fukushima's reactor 4 on Tuesday morning, shortly after the second of three major aftershocks to hit the beleaguered northeast in the space of 24 hours. Three people in Iwaki died in landslides triggered by the 7.1 aftershock on Monday evening. The government also expanded the exclusion zone around Fukushima on Monday to include several towns within a 30-km (19-mile) radius that had formerly been told that they could remain at home, but were recommended to stay indoors. The towns now added to the mandatory evacuation zone were found to have high levels of radiation. (See the battle to hold Fukushima's cores.)
Meanwhile, Greenpeace has said that in a survey conducted in Fukushima last week, its team of experts found radiation levels 75 times higher than the government recommendation in 11 samples of vegetables from gardens and small farms. The environmental group also announced that it found radiation levels equivalent to an annual exposure of 5 millisieverts – the evacuation threshold for Chernobyl – in a playground in Fukushima City, population 300,000. Greenpeace is urging the government to delay the start of the school year.
Though raising Fukushima's level to 7 may not herald any immediate worsening of events, it is sure to add to many residents' growing concern – and feelings of helplessness – over what could happen at dozens of other nuclear reactors spread across this seismic archipelago. On Sunday, over 17,000 people protested at two separate demonstrations in Tokyo against nuclear power. It was the first time that Yohei Nakamura, 45, had ever been to a protest. "For a long time I've been suspicious of nuclear power, but now I realize it's a serious problem," he said amidst the crowds carrying placards and shouting slogans. He said anti-nuclear demonstrations were undercovered in the Japanese press because of the influence of Tokyo Power and Electric Power Company, which owns Fukushima. "TEPCO is one of the most powerful companies in Japan," Nakamura said. "They use a tremendous amount of money for adverstising. If the mass media shows anti-nuclear power activities like demonstrations, they risk losing TEPCO as an advertiser."
Japan Declares Crisis at Level of Chernobyl (online.wsj.com)
Japan ups nuke crisis severity to match Chernobyl (ctv.ca)
Japan's Chernobyl: Nuke crisis level raised (cbsnews.com)
TOKYO: Severity Of Crisis At Crippled Nuclear Plant Now Match Chernobyl Disaster (lostchildreninthewilderness.wordpress.com)
Japan Nuclear Disaster Put on Par With Chernobyl – New York Times (news.google.com)
Fukushima Likely to be Rated Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (slog.thestranger.com)
Japan Widens Evacuation Area (online.wsj.com)
Japan upgrades nuclear crisis to same level as Chernobyl (guardian.co.uk)
Japan Raises Nuclear Threat Level to Highest Possible (onebluestocking.wordpress.com)
Japan nuclear crisis on same level as Chernobyl (msnbc.msn.com)
Progress 20110412 (bluegriffon.org)
links for 2011-04-11 (martinandrade.wordpress.com)
20110411-Papers Away (thebloggingpath.com)
Before It Explodes (current.com)
20110411-More Spooks (thebloggingpath.com)
Bryan Baird's Newsletter (2011/04/11) (shizuokagourmet.wordpress.com)
I can't belive this … news article on yahoo… (cityandcountrysahm.wordpress.com)
links for 2011-04-11 (economistsview.typepad.com)
Food & Drinks Bloggers in Japan (expanded on 2011/04/12) (shizuokagourmet.wordpress.com)
A Response from RealCatholicTV (deaconjohnspace.wordpress.com)
Japan Considers Raising Nuclear Disaster from Level 5 to 7 Based on Extremely High Radiation Readings (ritholtz.com)
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Photo Exhibition at UOS Museum
By Jeong Sae-hee | webmaster@uos.ac.kr
▲ Pictures that are on display at the museum
There is an ongoing photo exhibition at University of Seoul Museum free of charge for anyone. UOS Museum collects, stores, and exhibits cultural heritages of Seoul to support educational activities of students at the UOS, allowing both students and locals to enjoy a cultural life. In celebration of Seoul as Korea's capital city for 620 years, UOS Museum has prepared a meaningful exhibition of pictures that best show the old Seoul in the late 1990s during the early stage of modernisation.
The exhibition is named "Unfamiliar, Seoul Around 1900" and is the second photo exhibition on Seoul since the construction of the museum, following the display of "Memories of Seoul" in 2013. "Unfamiliar, Seoul Around 1900" introduces not only the vintage photos of Seoul, but also newspapers, magazines and travel diaries that were published in the West around the same time.
Photos taken can be categorised into two: life inside and outside of the palace. For those interested in visiting the exhibition, UOS Museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during weekdays and 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on the weekends until Oct. 30. If you participate in a simple survey, you can get a booklet as well as postcards of the photos that are on display at the exhibition.
By Jeong Sae-hee
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US Government Official DeBriefs ICT Policy Committee on Latest ICANN Meeting
On August 7, Suzanne Radell, the U.S. representative to the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and senior policy advisor at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, met with USCIB's ICT Policy Committee to discuss the outcome of the ICANN 47, which was held in Durban, South Africa on July 14-18, and its implications for ICANN's management of the evolving domain name system going forward. In particular, Radell discussed the GAC's decision to file a formal objection to the ICANN Board against Amazon's application for the .amazon generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) name – and the U.S. government's decision to abstain from this objection.
The Internet's domain-name system (DNS) allows users to refer to web sites and other resources using easier-to-remember domain names — such as www.uscib.org — rather than the all-numeric addresses assigned to each computer on the Internet. The right-most label in a domain name is referred to as its "top-level domain" (TLD). Examples include .com, .org, or .edu. In June 2011, ICANN's board voted to expand the gTLD program "to enhance competition and consumer choice, enabling the benefits to innovation via the introduction of new gTLDs." Examples of new gTLDs include company brand names (e.g., .microsoft, .google), sectors (.investments, .loan), or professional services (.architect, .attorney), to name a few. Amazon applied for the .amazon new gTLD as a company brand name.
The objection to Amazon's application was driven primarily by Brazil, with support from Peru, Venezuela and other Latin American countries that share the Amazon region, on grounds that the Amazon "is a very important cultural, traditional, regional and geographical name." The objection prompted extensive interventions in the Public Forum component of the ICANN meeting—as well as in media commentary—as intellectual property experts argued that there is no basis in international law for countries to claim ownership of geographic terms. They further urged the ICANN Board to seek counsel about the legality of the GAC's objection to the .amazon gTLD application. The U.S. government's abstention on this issue appears to suggest that Washington shares these concerns.
Radell also examined other challenging issues that eluded a GAC consensus in Durban, which could potentially affect USCIB members and will likely dominate the ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires, November 17-21. These include: (1) the protection of Inter-governmental Organization (IGO) acronyms in the domain name system; (2) enhanced safeguard advice for new gTLDs for regulated or professional sectors (e.g., .cash, .health, .doctor); and (3) a decision on whether or not to allow the contracting process to move forward for applicants of so-called "closed" gTLDs, a terms that refers to a new gTLD in which the applicant is the sole registrant for the domain name.
Staff contact: Barbara Wanner
More on USCIB's ICT Committee
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Modified on January 28, 2015
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Japan coach Halilhodzic wants 11 samurai warriors for Australia clash
Vahid Halilhodzic says Japan have the "weapons" to hurt Australia. PHOTO: AFP
Japan coach says there's no room for error against Australia
ASIAN ZONE GROUP B
JAPAN AUSTRALIA
Japan coach Vahid Halilhodzic has called on his players to fight like samurai warriors in tonight's World Cup qualifier against Australia after being tipped to win - by a "psychic" parrot.
Local media reported yesterday that an avian tipster called Olivia had predicted a win for the home side, which would book their spot in a sixth successive World Cup Finals in Russia next summer.
But Halilhodzic, who according to some reports may face the axe if Japan lose the Saitama clash, has demanded that his players give fans a performance to be proud of against the Asian champions.
"I need 11 samurai warriors," the fiery Franco-Bosnian said yesterday.
"Nobody just gives you a ticket to Russia.
"If we don't believe, we will make it difficult for ourselves. We can't afford any mistakes."
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Australia can also progress with a victory after Saudi Arabia crashed to a 2-1 defeat by the United Arab Emirates yesterday morning (Singapore time).
But coach Ange Postecoglou bristled at the suggestion that Australia would be any less committed against the group leaders in their penultimate game.
"While people are making a big deal about last night's result, I can guarantee the boys won't bat an eyelid," he insisted.
"The motivation for tomorrow is the same as it would be regardless.
"Our goal is to win here tomorrow night and win on Tuesday (against Thailand).
"Our fate's been in our hands the whole way and it continues to be."
Japan top Group B with 17 points - one more than Australia and Saudi Arabia.
The UAE have 13, meaning they, too, have a mathematical chance of qualifying.
"There's quality in all the teams and, if you're not on your game, you could lose," warned Postecoglou.
"The pressure probably got to Saudi Arabia a little bit."
Postecoglou expects a tight game against Japan, with neither side likely to take too many risks.
"I'd be very surprised if the Japanese try to play out from the back," he said. "We'll press them, absolutely ready to go.
"But I've got a feeling they're just going to launch it and, if they do that, we've got to make sure we're in the right space to play that kind of football."
Japan, too, will have no qualms about winning ugly.
But, if they fail to beat Australia, they get a second bite of the cherry away to the Saudis next week, when a draw will see them through to Russia.
However, it remains to be seen whether Halilhodzic will make the trip to Jeddah should they slip up against the Australians.
The former Algeria coach, who has polarised opinion within the Japan Football Association, stuck to script yesterday.
"I've been studying Australia for the past two months," he said.
"We have the weapons to hurt them and will look to hit them with everything we have." - AFP
Group A: China v Uzbekistan, South Korea v Iran, Syria v Qatar
Group B: Thailand v Iraq
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i/o Data Centers Expands With Phoenix Site
i/o Data Centers has leased a 530,000 square foot, power-rich industrial building in Phoenix and plans to convert the facility into a data center.
Rich Miller | Jan 08, 2009
i/o Data Centers has purchased this 530,000 square foot building in Phoenix.
i/o Data Centers has leased a huge, power-rich industrial building in Phoenix and plans to convert the facility into a data center, the company said today. At a time when data center construction has been sharply curtailed by the credit crisis, i/o Data Centers said its "Phoenix ONE" project is fully funded following a $56 million equity investment last month by Sterling Partners.
The 530,000 square foot facility near Sky Harbor Airport was built in 2005 to house the bottling operations of LeNature's Beverages, which never fully occupied the building before filing for bankruptcy. i/o Data Centers has signed a 20-year lease with landlord CBRE Investors, and plans to use the site as both a data center and its corporate headquarters.
The 31-acre campus currently has 40 megawatts of power and an on-site substation, and i/o Data Centers says it will eventually expand capacity to 120 megawatts. Six fiber providers have committed to providing connectivity for the building, which is adjacent to a major fiber trench.
"Our customers need scalable power and space to support their IT operations, and we help them do it in a capital-efficient way," said i/o Data Centers' President, Anthony Wanger. "Even though the economy is slow, the demand for high quality data center power has continued to be strong. Our customers need to grow their IT operations and we help them do it. We have constructed a well-capitalized, profitable business and will continue to grow with our new and current client base."
Local officials were thrlled to have a tenant for the huge building. They're also familiar with Wanger and the i/o Data Centers team, who developed the city's carrier hotel at 120 East Van Buren, which is now owned by Digital Realty Trust (DLR).
"The Phoenix facility is a great fit for i/o's data center and the local community," said Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. "It is perfectly situated in Central Phoenix and offers the size and abundant supply of power to attract numerous Fortune 500 companies, while providing high-wage, highly-skilled job opportunities for local Phoenix residents."
Wanger said i/o Data Centers' first phase of construction will feature 180,000 square feet of raised-floor data center space in four pods, with the first two pods completed by June 1and the next two available as of Sept. 1.
"We are able to turn the space this quickly because most of the 'big and heavies' are in place," said Wanger, who said the site has a 69kv electrical sub-station, 18 internal 480v sub-stations and redundant chiller plants and water feeds. The company will install computer room air handlers (CRAH), UPS systems and 2.25 megawatt generators to complete its retrofit for data center use.
Wanger said the existing infrastructure will save up to $20 million in costs. "We like inheriting in-place improvements and find these sites help speed to market," he said. "For example, this sub-station would take 18 to 24 months to design, permit, build and connect."
i/o Data Centers said it will also expand its current 125,000 square foot data center in Scottsdale, known as Scottsdale ONE. With the facility near capacity, the company is converting 8,000 square feet of office space into two data center pods with 4 megawatts of conditioned power.


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The first habitation of the site dates from the Neolithic and Early Minoan period (3rd millenium B.C.). In the late Classical period (beginning of the 4th century B.C.) the Gortynians established the sanctuary of Asklepios at the harbour. During the tremendous earthquake of 46 B.C. the city was destroyed and subsequently rebuilt. In the Early Christian and Byzantine periods, a small settlement developed and the basilica was erected. The small Byzantine church of St. John was built in the 14th century. The archaeological investigation of the site started after the first visit of the English captain H. Spratt, in the middle of the 19th century. Excavations were carried out by the Italian Archaeological School at Athens in 1900, 1910 and 1912-13, and revealed the sanctuary and other buildings. Since then no excavation had taken place in the ancient city until recent years, when the investigations of the Greek Archaeological Service brought to light the Minoan settlement and graves.
Apart from consolidation work on the monuments, extensive restoration has not been carried out with the exception of the columns of the temple of Asklepios which were immediately restored by the excavators.
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It's a warm Saturday afternoon, and a group of more than 50 adults and children have gathered near the entrance of Oakland's Redwood Regional Park.
"This is going to be really good for you," says Dr. Nooshin Razani, who directs the crowd, a mix of ages, race, and ethnicities, to a nearby picnic area. They chat and mingle as they sit down to a lunch of chicken sandwiches with chocolate chip cookies.
Razani is a pediatrician with UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland and a nature champion. Each month she and a handful of staff from the hospital join patients and their families on an outing to an East Bay Regional Park District park. "The park visits provide us a unique experience with our patients," said Razani, a petite, soft-spoken woman who often brings her own children, ages 3, 9, and 10 years old, to the park outings.
There's increasing evidence that spending time in nature improves physical and mental health, but a recent study found children today spend half the amount of time outside as they did 20 years ago. Green space, explained Razani, has value-added benefits. Getting into nature—forests, waterways, natural landscapes—relieves stress and helps people to think more clearly and feel happier.
At Children's, doctors are prescribing park visits as a way to improve patient health. They routinely ask patients and families if they have access to nature, and by access to nature, they mean more than just an ability to take a simple walk outside. Based on the patient's response, doctors can then write a "park prescription" for the patient and any extended family to return to the clinic on the first Saturday of the month when they catch and ride a bus to a two-hour sponsored park outing. "If you are going to recommend that patients get in nature, you have to make it possible," said Razani.
Children's partnered with the park district to create this park-visit program, called SHINE, for Stay Healthy In Nature Everyday. The district provides the transportation, food, and a naturalist to guide the group, and Children's supplies the participants.
Since SHINE launched in May 2013, the program has taken off. Attendance to the outings has doubled, and there have been almost 40 park outings and more than 600 park visits with many families going more than once.
Razani has studied the impact of the park outings, and the results look good for nature. "Our study shows that physician referrals to parks can lead to reduced stress," she said. Recently, Children's received a $200,000 grant from REI to support a new Center for Nature and Health at the hospital at which Razani and colleagues will continue to explore the health benefits of the great outdoors.
At the close of the day, the group stands in a circle, and Razani asks all the members to close their eyes and silently rate their level of stress on a scale of one to 10. From there, they wander back to the bus for the ride home, a little more relaxed than when they arrived.
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Q: Finding a set of values I have a curve_hex generator, it uses two coordinates, I'm looking for only one coordinate. The script searches for one coordinate value easily, but if I specify several coordinates for the search, then it does not find anything.
wanted='58611774815559422402170859520215717661755632997646071327165159211728464937238'
curve_hex='(58611774815559422402170859520215717661755632997646071327165159211728464937238, 108722706890170119196943746054760504186165603293283329661416022207913727808252)'
if str(curve_hex).find(wanted)!=-1:
   print (curve_hex[str(curve_hex).find(wanted):str(curve_hex).find(wanted)+len(wanted)])
else:
    print ('not')

One value is found normally. But if I add several values, the script writes an error
wanted='58611774815559422402170859520215717661755632997646071327165159211728464937238', '108722706890170119196943746054760504186165603293283329661416022207913727808252'
curve_hex='(58611774815559422402170859520215717661755632997646071327165159211728464937238, 108722706890170119196943746054760504186165603293283329661416022207913727808252)'
if str(curve_hex).find(wanted)!=-1:
   print (curve_hex[str(curve_hex).find(wanted):str(curve_hex).find(wanted)+len(wanted)])
else:
    print ('not')

Tell me how to do it right. What am I doing wrong. I have just started learning python.

A: Very exciting that you are learning python, I would also suggest that you might want to spend some time in the stackoverflow section explaining how to ask a question because I am not 100% sure what you are trying to achieve with your code.
From my understanding, if you are happy with your if else conditions, and your only problem is that you can't add multiple values to wanted. I would convert wanted to a list that includes all your wanted values, and loop over those.
Something like this:
wanted = ['586..{copy the whole value here}', '108...{copy the value here}']
curve_hex='(58611774815559422402170859520215717661755632997646071327165159211728464937238, 108722706890170119196943746054760504186165603293283329661416022207913727808252)'
for value in wanted:
    if str(curve_hex).find(value)!=-1:
       print (curve_hex[str(curve_hex).find(value):str(curve_hex).find(value)+len(value)])
    else:
        print ('not')

Edit: formatting and typos

A: You are misleadiong some basic concepts:
Difinitions like this result in diferent types
    wanted='58611774815559422402170859520215717661755632997646071327165159211728464937238'
    type(wanted) # string

    wanted='58611774815559422402170859520215717661755632997646071327165159211728464937238', '108722706890170119196943746054760504186165603293283329661416022207913727808252'
    type(wanted) # tuple

    curve_hex='(58611774815559422402170859520215717661755632997646071327165159211728464937238, 108722706890170119196943746054760504186165603293283329661416022207913727808252)'
    type(wanted) # string

So you should choose a type first. Tuple is the best case.
    wanted=('58611774815559422402170859520215717661755632997646071327165159211728464937238', '108722706890170119196943746054760504186165603293283329661416022207913727808252')
    curve_hex=('58611774815559422402170859520215717661755632997646071327165159211728464937238', '108722706890170119196943746054760504186165603293283329661416022207913727808252')
    for i in wanted:
        for x,j in enumerate(curve_hex):
            if i in j:
                print(f'{i} in {curve_hex} at position {x}')

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Q by Aston Martin shows off its full capabilities with the one-of-one Victor
The bespoke coupe features technologies from the Vulcan and One-77.
Q by Aston Martin has demonstrated its ability to customize their existing lineup of cars but this time around the division is showing off what they can do with a fully bespoke creation. The Victor is a one-off inspired by the Vantage models of the 70s and 80s, wrapped in the current Aston Martin design language and built on the same technologies found in their Vulcan and One-77 hypercars. The Victor is powered by a Cosworth-upgraded 7.3L V12 that produces 836 hp and 606 lb-ft of torque.
The engine is also coupled to a six-speed Graziano manual gearbox, making this the most powerful Aston to use a manual transmission. It also features a motorsport clutch and two independent oil coolers to accompany those immense power figures, and it uses the same pushrod suspension as the Vulcan. Other details include adjustable dampers, Brembo carbon ceramic brakes, center-lock alloy wheels, and a Bridge of Weir leather interior with exposed carbon fiber trim.
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Three levels of "Q by Aston Martin" customization services will be available.
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The editions will come in six liveries and will feature an all-new aero kit.
Q by Aston Martin commemorates their 1959 Le Mans win with a limited edition DBS
The car celebrates the historic 1-2 Le Mans victory with the DBR1.


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Hey guys! My name is Timmy Conlin and I am a junior here at Bemidji State. I grew up in Rosemount, Minnesota and graduated from Rosemount High School in 2015. After high school, I attended Inver Hills Community College where I received my two-year Associates of Arts degree. At Bemidji State, I study Marketing Communications, I am a Resident Assistant in Oak Hall, play on the rugby team, am in the business club and attend every BSU hockey game possible. When I am not on-campus, I enjoy a variety of activities including: snowmobiling, hiking, camping, kayaking, pond hockey and snowboarding. I also shoot pool semi-professionally when I am back home. Over the last couple of summers, I have worked at a summer camp west of the Twin Cities called Camp Tanadoona. I have enjoyed my last two summers there as the Camps Programs Coordinator teaching children all the great things nature has to offer while challenging them and having some fun. I also spend one week of my summer as a mentor Team Leader at Eagle University. Eagle U is a youth development and success program that is focused on helping teens and young adults succeed in every aspect of their lives. I love taking everything I have learned out in the world and applying to what I do at BSU. Go Beavers!


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William Gemmell: WWI amputee postively identified
By: Kirstie Ross
On: 19 Sep 2014
Untitled [William Gemmell and eight other WWI soldiers sitting around sheep fleece at Oatlands Park, Surrey, England], 1918, England. Maker unknown. Te Papa
Te Papa holds 28 sepia-toned photographs taken of New Zealand servicemen who were wounded during World War I. None of the men in these photographs are identified. However, thanks to Julie Gemmell of Waikouaiti, we now know that one of the men in two of these photos is William Clement Gemmell, Julie's grandfather. In the photograph above, William is standing on the far left of the back row. In the one below he is third from the left, seated at the table.
William had his right leg amputated after he received a gunshot wound to his right thigh during the during the Third Battle of Ypres at Passchendaele. (Below the table you can see the bottom of his wooden leg below the cuff of his trousers.)
These photos show William learning to class wool with other convalescing soldiers and amputees. These lessons were part of in a vocational training scheme that was established for disabled New Zealand soldiers and gave William a less physically demanding alternative to farming, his pre-war occupation.
William spent from February to June 1918 at Oatlands Park, in Surrey, England, where the vocational training scheme was set up. The officer in charge noted that he 'has put in an attendance of 55 full days with the Class and has a very good grip of the subject. Had he taken the Bradford course would have made an expert classer; as it is, he is quite proficient for ordinary shed work'.
Untitled [William Gemmell and nineteen other WWI soldiers posed around a display of graded wool samples at Oatlands Park, Surrey, England], 1918, England. Maker unknown. Te Papa
Julie, her siblings and cousins all knew their grandfather well. 'He was an influential person in our family's life', she wrote in an email to me. She also shared details of William Gemmell's long, full and prosperous life: he was 'born into a farming family at Incholme in North Otago in 1883. His father had come from Ayrshire in Scotland. Following his return from WW1 with his disability the family farm was sold as he was unable to continue with the physical work.
My father had been born in 1917; my grandfather and my grandmother [Isabella nee Corrigall] had a daughter after he returned. My father and grandmother had lived in Duntroon during the war but the family made their home in Oamaru on William's return. Although he couldn't farm he was involved in various business ventures in Oamaru, my grandfather drove cars (slowly) that were specially modified for him, he had a small farmlet, with sheep that he managed and always a wonderful vegetable garden. He was an astute businessman and entrepreneur.'
Julie's brother elaborated on this point. William Gemmell 'was a major trader in livestock in North Otago. Apart from his own farm of 100 acres he also leased a lot of land and crops and turned over a huge number of lambs. He had his own livestock company. He was a significant businessman in Oamaru, with his own bank for funding house purchases and he owned the Ford car dealership.'
Julie also recalled: 'My grandfather had been fitted with a prosthetic wooden leg that was unjointed so he walked stiffly and used a walking stick. As children my siblings and I were always very intrigued by his wooden leg and also the felted cloth covers for his stump. They would be hung to dry on the clothes rack above the coal range. My grandfather also had a spare leg that hung on the wall to one side of his bed. I don't remember if he ever used it. He was as active as his leg would allow I think.
His vegetable garden was on a slope but he would anchor himself downhill with his wooden leg and work uphill. He grew lots of brassicas and also large areas of currants and gooseberries. He maintained a fernery, other fruit trees and a sizeable ornamental garden around the house.
He had many "cronies" with whom he socialised – whether or not they were war veterans like him I am not sure. He lived until he was 91 and for most of that time remained as physically active as was possible.'
This generous family remembrance reveals how one man, after the Great War and missing a leg, took his disability in his stride and accomplished many things besides the 'ordinary shed work' that was expected, in 1918, to be his lot after he returned home.
Visit Road to Recovery: Disabled soldiers of World War I on level 4 at Te Papa
Read about WWI soldiers 'on the mend' in Holding on to Home: New Zealand Stories and Objects of the First World War by Kirstie Ross and Kate Hunter
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A new corpus fund to finance the treatment of resident doctors suffering from various ailments will be set up by the state government. The decision came up after the demise of an intern, Dr Samidha Khandare, at Sion Hospital, who was suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MRD-TB) in june.
Minister of medical education, Vijaykumar Gavit, while addressing the members of the legislative council, said that the state would ensure good treatment to the resident doctors.
Gavit said, "We wanted to insure doctors but the insurance companies did not show much interest. Hence the state will set up a corpus fund to treat doctors".
The issue was brought up by Congress legislator Alka Desai, as she was not in favor of the overall conditions of the doctors. "Doctors are overworked and the living quarters are a mess. They are treated in a shabby manner," said Desai.
24 year old Dr Samidha Khandare, a resident of Akola, was suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). After finishing her MBBS from Lokmanya Tilak Medical College, Khandare was interning at Sion hospital and there she caught the disease. Undergoing her treatment at Sion hospital, khandare was later shifted to PD Hinduja hospital , where she acceded on June 30.
As stated by Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors, the long hours of work and unhygienic living conditions make the resident doctors more prone to TB.
Deputy Chairman of the legislative council Vasant Dawkhare has instructed the minister to arrange a visit of legislators to the quarters of the doctors in both government and civic hospitals, so as to ensure the council members of getting firsthand experience of the whole situation.
As observed in the recent years, resident doctors have been facing many problems such as long working hours, substandard living conditions, and security issues.
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Per Gustaf Johannes Malmberg, född den 7 maj 1870  i Valdemarsvik, Östergötlands län, död den 8 juli 1955 i Norrköping, var en svensk präst. Han var bror till Ernst Malmberg.

Biografi
Malmberg avlade teologisk-filosofisk examen vid Uppsala universitet 1892, teoretisk teologisk examen 1898 och praktisk teologisk examen 1899. Han prästvigdes sistnämnda år och tjänstgjorde i Kisa, Eksjö, Fivelstad, Norrköpings Hedvigs och Östra Eneby församlingar 1899–1904. Malmberg var pastorsadjunkt i Norrköpings Sankt Olai 1904–1922. Han blev regementspastor i Kalmar regementes reserv 1902, vid regementet 1904, vid Andra livgrenadjärregementet 1908, i regementet 1922, i Livgrenadjärregementet 1929 och tjänstgörande fältprost 1940. Malmgren var tjänstgörande extra ordinarie hovpredikant från 1913. Han blev kyrkoherde i Västra och Östra Ed 1922 och kontraktsprost i Norra Tjust 1932. Malmberg var ledamot av stadsfullmäktige i Norrköping 1908–1922. Han blev ordförande i Gamleby folkhögskolas styrelse 1932 och i Diakonistyrelsens militärutskott 1937. Malmberg blev ledamot av Vasaorden 1921 och av Nordstjärneorden 1937 samt kommendör av andra klassen av sistnämnda orden 1941.

Bibliografi

 Vårt gamla Norrköping I–III (tillsammans med Arthur Nordén, 1913)
 Vårt Sverige och andra dikter (1914)
 Om Fältprästerskapets verksamhet (1940)
 Den innersta fronten (1940)
 En bok om Valdemarsvik (tillsammans med Ernst Malmberg, 1943)

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Präster i Svenska kyrkan
Svenska kommunalpolitiker
Kommendörer av andra klassen av Nordstjärneorden
Ledamöter av Vasaorden
Svenska präster under 1900-talet
Svenska politiker under 1900-talet
Personer från Valdemarsvik
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In it's 21st year and with a new venue to call home, Scotland's biggest music festival will have something for everyone.
Preview: T in the Park, Strathallan Castle, Perthshire (10-12/07/15)
By Camilla Cassidy	on	 June 3, 2015 Live, Previews
T in the Park 2015 will be the Scottish festival's 21st year; moving from its previous home at a Kinross airfield to a new venue at Strathallan Castle, where a 3000-year-old roundhouse has just been discovered during building preparations. The festival is shaping up to be a weekend as colourful and fun as its namesake.
Tickets are available both for individual days or for the whole weekend, with a huge diversity of acts across six stages that will surely please any festival goer. On Friday headliners Kasabian, David Guetta and Sam Smith will play the Main Stage, with the whole day boasting both festival regulars as well as T in the Park newcomers, including Hozier and Lucy Rose.
Saturday's top billed acts include The Libertines and Avicii, though the day will be a busy one, and they may have to vie for attention alongside the likes of Alt-J, George Ezra, Jessie J and The Proclaimers. Sunday closes the weekend with The Prodigy, Sterophonics and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, plus Paloma Faith, Clean Bandit and Modest Mouse, to name a few.
For time away from the hustle and bustle of the stages, the festival has a fairground and its chilled out 'Healthy T' area, with over 30 vendors serving local food. And, of course, Fancy Dress Friday – although this year's theme has yet to be announced.
T in the Park runs from Friday July 10th to Sunday July 12th. Day and weekend tickets are available, with standard camping and the rather heavenly pre-assembled and kitted Tangerine Fields camping pitches.
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It used to take eight weeks to get a new business license in Des Plaines. Now it takes two, thanks to this young mayor. Shortly after taking office last year, Matthew Bogusz "threw down the gauntlet," he says, and pushed for the change in this suburb of about 59,000 just north of O'Hare International Airport.
This year he budgeted nearly $22 million for infrastructure improvements, about five times what the city was spending in 2009, without a tax increase. "There will be more construction than anyone has seen in any one season," says the lifelong Des Plaines resident, who, as an alderman, led efforts to clean up the city's finances.
His next goal: to improve the city's image as a good place to live and invest. This effort will require him to tap skills learned at his day job in the Chicago office of Starcom Mediavest Group, an advertising firm where he works on brand strategy for Kraft Foods Group Inc.'s Oscar Mayer line. "I like problems that don't have obvious solutions," he says.


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Bomb, flow, hurtle or delicately pick your way down, the Forrest Mountain Bike Park has something for you.
Set within the beautiful bushland and rolling landscapes of the Great Otway National Park and the Otway Forest Park are over 65 kilometres across 16 purpose-built, waymarked singletrack trails for riders of all skill levels. Forrest hosts some of Victoria's key mountain biking events each year, and is home to a craft brewery, excellent cafes and activities including walking, fishing and horse riding.
In recent years, the Forrest community, the Forrest MTB Club and key agency representatives have worked hard to improve the Forrest MTB Trails network.
The Forrest township has a population of around 250 people and is fast becoming a major mtb hub in Victoria. Despite its small size, you'll be surprised at the number of services and facilities catering for bicycle tourists and visitors.
The Forrest community welcomes and celebrates MTB acitivites and visitors. As a visitor, this becomes apparent as soon as you roll into town. Here, local businesses proudly display their affection and conneciton to the trails and the local Forrest MTB Club is comprised of passionate local riders and community members who work hard to maintain the trails. They welcome new members from near and far. You can find out more, and connect with them via their facebook page.
The trails of Forrest are clustered into two main areas to the north and south of the town, with two designated trailheads the best access points.
The southern trails surround the township of Forrest and offers six rides from easy to more difficult, including the famous Red Carpet trail extending from Lake Elizabeth to the start of the Barwon River. Forrest Trailhead is located on the main Forrest-Birregurra Road, just south of the brewery. This gives access to three trails to the west and three trails to the east.
Yaugher Trailhead provides access to an extensive range of trails for all skill levels in the northern sectin of the park. This trailhead is located a short ride north of town up Tiger Rail Trail to Yaugher Road.
Forrest Mountain Bike Club members hit the trails on most Thursdays nights most of the year round!
Every Thursday night they meet at the Forrest Brewery at around 6pm to leave by 6:15.It's mainly during daylight saving but some ride all year around using lights over winter. All abilities are catered for, with the group spliting into separate groups. The stronger group is known as the Brew Crew & the other group is the Soda Crew, you then have the option to stay for dinner and have a chat about the ride. Keep an eye on the Club's Facebook page for more info.
Beyond the awesome mtb trails, if you can tear yourself away, Forrest is a great base for furhter exploring the Otways - feel dwarfed amongst the ancient giants of the forest; follow the sounds of a trickling stream to the edge of a cascading waterfall; join the colourful meeting of green forests and blue ocean; bare witness to the ever changing moods of the Southern coast... Nature is king in the Great Otways and there's a lot to be explored.


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Books: A Realist Theory of Science
A Philosophy of Science in Tune With the Complexities of General Practice
Alistair Appleby
British Journal of General Practice 2018; 68 (676): 539. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18X699665
Aviemore Medical Practice, Muirton, Aviemore, Inverness-shire. Email: alistairappleby@nhs.net
For correspondence: alistairappleby@nhs.net
Bhaskar Roy Verso, 2008, PB, 286pp, £15.39, 978-1844672042
Roy Bhaskar was a prominent philosopher of science from 1975, holding, among other posts, World Scholar at the University of London. After 30 years of medical practice, this book helped to explain much of what medical school science failed to, in particular how patients might be understood as an inseparable symphony of mind and matter.
Bhaskar shows that we cannot explain the universe solely in terms of molecules and physical laws, and launches a detailed attack on the philosophical and practical problems of this view. He is keen to restore a dynamic dialogue between philosophy and science, which he feels has broken down over the last 300 years. Bhaskar spends much of the book building a new version of science rooted in a central position between these great paradigms. This position — where science observes an objective material reality, but only fallibly — is one where ideas and experiments find equal footing.
Bhaskar uses a key question: Are there any pre-conditions of science being possible, and what are these?
This leads to the argument that the molecular order and structure in the universe pre-dates and is independent of humans, but that humans must have independently thinking conscious minds with which to investigate this structure. Without these preconditions, no science is possible. Much of the rest of the book describes an updated version of science, now often referred to as 'critical realism'. This includes key ideas such as emergence — that complex things, including the conscious mind, are more than their component parts.
Bhaskar's book is written in difficult language, which many readers will find challenging, but those who persist will find that he describes a scientific world that is invigoratingly in tune with general practice. His arguments demolish simplified linear and atomistic accounts of science that still arguably dominate medical science. This new philosophy of science, if correctly understood as a modified account of reality, should revolutionise medical thinking in the decades to come.
By offering an integrated and complex science, where clinical outcomes arise in contextual and non-linear ways, and where ethics and biology do not have to vie for truth, this is a real science of humanity for the real world of general practice.
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When I put in my codefusion code in wwwwroot folder and go to localhost to test my website, I get "unable to load library null". I researched this problem and from this http://john-sieber.com/post/unable-to-load-library-null-error-with-coldfusion-custom-tag and other sites, it seem 32 bit c++ dll file for my cf custom tag does not work in my new 64 bit machine.
So to solve this problem, I got visual studio 2008 and decided to rebuild the dll in 64 bit. The c++ source code was originally created in vc++ 6 and when I tried to open the project solution file (.sln), it gave me xxx.vcproj could not be loaded. The project is either missing from disk or acess was denied. But I was able to open the file using new Project from existing code. After that I went to the configuration manager and changed platform to x64 and build the dll file successfully.
Using the new 64 bit dll file, i still get "unable to load library null" error. Further, the original 32 bit dll file was 1.5 mb while the new dll I build is only 148 kb. Any suggestion on what I did wrong or what should I do?
Mgetz suggested I open the project file instead of solution. When I tried to open .dsp project file, I get "cannot load the project due to a corrupt project file" error. In the source folder, i dont have a .vcproj file, i have .sln, .dsw and .dsp files plus .h, .cpp, .def and .rc files.


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The Myth of Deregulation and the Financial Crisis
In an opinion piece on American Banker, Rep. Jeb Hensarling wrote that:
The great tragedy of the financial crisis, however, was not that Washington regulations failed to prevent it, but instead that Washington regulations helped lead us into it.
Even putting aside the issue of causality, my colleague Robert Greene and I recently examined the data on regulatory growth as we sought to answer the question, "Did Deregulation Cause the Financial Crisis?" Our conclusion was that there was no measurable, net deregulation leading up to the financial crisis.
The data on regulatory growth came from RegData, which uses text analysis to measure the quantity of restrictions published in regulatory text each year. The graph below shows the number of regulatory restrictions published each year in Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations, which covers the subject area of banks and banking, and Title 17, which covers commodity futures and securities trading. Deregulation would show a general downward trend. Instead, we see that both titles grew over that time period. The only downward ticks we see occurred because of some consolidation of duplicative regulations from 1997 to 1999 (see our article for more details on that).
As we wrote at the time:
[W]e find that between 1997 and 2008 the number of financial regulatory restrictions in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) rose from approximately 40,286 restrictions to 47,494—an increase of 17.9 percent. Regulatory restrictions in Title 12 of the CFR—which regulates banking—increased 18.2 percent while the number of restrictions in Title 17—which regulates commodity futures and securities markets—increased 17.4 percent.
This entry was posted in New Publications, Regulation and tagged American Banker, CFR, consolidation, deregulation, financial crisis, growth, Jeb Hensarling, myth of deregulation, regulation, Robert Greene, Washington on September 24, 2013 by Patrick McLaughlin.
The Economics of Regulation Part 2: Quantifying Regulation
I recently wrote about a new study from economists John Dawson and John Seater that shows that federal regulations have slowed economic growth in the US by an average of 2% per year. The study was novel and important enough from my perspective that it deserved some detailed coverage. In this post, which is part two of a three part series (part one here), I go into some detail on the various ways that economists measure regulation. This will help put into context the measure that Dawson and Seater used, which is the main innovation of their study. The third part of the series will discuss the endogenous growth model in which they used their new measure of regulation to estimate its effect on economic growth.
From the macroeconomic perspective, the main policy interventions—that is, instruments wielded in a way to change individual or firm behavior—used by governments are taxes and regulations. Others might include spending/deficit spending and monetary policy in that list, but a large percentage of economics studies on interventions intended to change behavior have focused on taxes, for one simple reason: taxes are relatively easy to quantify. As a result, we know a lot more about taxes than we do about regulations, even if much of that knowledge is not well implemented. Economists can calculate changes to marginal tax rates caused by specific policies, and by simultaneously tracking outcomes such as changes in tax revenue and the behavior of taxed and untaxed groups, deduce specific numbers with which to characterize the consequences of those taxation policies. In short, with taxes, you have specific dollar values or percentages to work with. With regulations, not so much.
In fact, the actual burden of regulation is notoriously hidden, especially when directly compared to taxes that attempt to achieve the same policy objective. For example, since fuel economy regulations (called Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards) were first implemented in the 1970s, it has been broadly recognized that the goal of reducing gasoline consumption could be more efficiently achieved through a gasoline tax rather than vehicle design or performance standards. However, it is much easier for a politician to tell her constituents that she will make auto manufacturers build more fuel-efficient cars than to tell constituents that they now face higher gasoline prices because of a fuel tax. In econospeak, taxes are salient to voters—remembered as important and costly—whereas regulations are not. Even when comparing taxes to taxes, some, such as property taxes, are apparently more salient than others, such as payroll taxes, as this recent study shows. If some taxes that workers pay on a regular basis are relatively unnoticed, how much easier is it to hide a tax in the form of a regulation? Indeed, it is arguably because regulations are uniquely opaque as policy instruments that all presidents since Jimmy Carter have required some form of benefit-cost analysis on new regulations prior to their enactment (note, however, that the average quality of those analyses is astonishingly low). Of course, it is for these same obfuscatory qualities that politicians seem to prefer regulations to taxes.
Despite the inherent difficulty, scholars have been analyzing the consequences of regulation for decades, leading to a fairly large literature. Studies typically examine the causal effect of a unique regulation or a small collection of related regulations, such as air quality standards stemming from the Clean Air Act. Compared to the thousands of actual regulations that are in effect, the regulation typically studied is relatively limited in scope, even if its effects can be far-reaching. Because most studies on regulation focus only on one or perhaps a few specific regulations, there is a lot of room for more research to be done. Specifically, improved metrics of regulation, especially metrics that can be used either in multi-industry microeconomic studies or in macroeconomic contexts, could help advance our understanding of the overall effect of all regulations.
With that goal in mind, some attempts have been made to more comprehensively measure regulation through the use of surveys and legal studies. The most famous example is probably the Doing Business index from the World Bank, while perhaps the most widely used in academic studies is the Indicators of Product Market Regulation from the OECD. Since 2003, the World Bank has produced the Doing Business Index, which combines survey data with observational data into a single number designed to tell how much it would cost to "do business," e.g. set up a company, get construction permits, get electricity, register property, etc., in set of 185 countries. The Doing Business index is perhaps most useful for identifying good practices to follow in early to middle stages of economic development, when property rights and other beneficial institutions can be created and strengthened.
The OECD's Indicators of Product Market Regulation database focuses more narrowly on types of regulation that are more relevant to developed economies. Specifically, the original OECD data considered only product market and employment protection regulations, both of which are measured at "economy-wide" level—meaning the OECD measured whether those types of regulations existed in a given country, regardless of whether they were applicable to only certain individuals or particular industries. The OECD later extended the data by adding barriers to entry, public ownership, vertical integration, market structure, and price controls for a small subset of broadly defined industries (gas, electricity, post, telecommunications, passenger air transport, railways, and road freight). The OECD develops its database by surveying government officials in several countries and aggregating their responses, with weightings, into several indexes.
By design, the OECD and Doing Business approaches do a good job of relating obscure macroeconomic data to actual people and businesses. Consider the chart below, taken from the OECD description of how the Product Market Regulation database is created. As I wrote last week and as the chart shows, the rather sanitized term "product market regulation" actually consists of several components that are directly relevant to a would-be entrepreneur (such as the opacity of a country's licenses and permits system and administrative burdens for sole proprietorships) and to a consumer (such as price controls and barriers to foreign direct investment). You can click on the chart below to see some of the other components that are considered in OECD's product market regulation indicator.
Still, there are two major shortcomings of the OECD data (shortcomings that are equally applicable to similar indexes produced by the World Bank and others). First, they cover relatively short time spans. Changes in regulatory policy often require several years, if not decades, to implement, so the results of these changes may not be reflected in short time frames (to a degree, this can be overcome by measuring regulation for several different countries or different industries, so that results of different policies can be compared across countries or industries).
Second, and in my mind, more importantly, the Doing Business Index is not comprehensive. Instead, it is focused on a few areas of regulation, and then only on whether regulations exist—not how complex or burdensome they are. As Dawson and Seater explain:
[M]easures of regulation [such as the Doing Business Index and the OECD Indicators] generally proceed by constructing indices based on binary indicators of whether or not various kinds of regulation exist, assigning a value of 1 to each type of regulation that exists and a 0 to those that do not exist. The index then is constructed as a weighted sum of all the binary indicators. Such measures capture the existence of given types of regulation but cannot capture their extent or complexity.
Dawson and Seater go out of their way to mention at least twice that the OECD dataset ignores environmental and occupational health and safety regulations. Theirs is a good point – in the US, at least, environmental regulations from the EPA alone accounted for about 15% of all restrictions published in federal regulations in 2010, and that percentage has consistently grown for the past decade, as can be seen in the graph below (created using data from RegData). Occupational health and safety regulations take up a significant portion of the regulatory code as well.
In contrast, one could measure all federal regulations, not just a few select types. But then the process requires some usage of the actual legal texts containing regulations. There have been a few attempts to create all-inclusive time series measures of regulation based on the voluminous legal documents detailing regulatory activity at the federal level. For the most part, studies have relied on the Federal Register, the government's daily journal of newly proposed and final regulations. For example, many scholars have counted pages in the Federal Register to test for the existence of the midnight regulations phenomenon—the observation that the administrations of outgoing presidents seem to produce abnormally large numbers of regulations during the lame-duck period
There are problems with using the Federal Register to measure regulation (I say this despite having used it in some of my own papers). First and foremost, the Federal Register includes deregulatory activity. When a regulatory agency eliminates words, paragraphs, or even entire chapters from the CFR, the agency has to notify the public of the changes. The agency does this by printing a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register that explains the agencies intentions. Then, once the public has had adequate time to comment on the agencies proposed actions, the agency has to publish a final rule in the Federal Register—another set of pages that detail the final actions the agency is taking. Obviously, if one is counting pages published in the Federal Register and using that as a proxy for the growth of regulation, deregulatory activity that produces positive page counts would lead to incorrect measurements.
Furthermore, pages published in the Federal Register may be a biased measure because the number of pages associated with individual rulemakings has increased over time as acts of Congress or executive orders have required more analyses. In his Ten-Thousand Commandments series, Wayne Crews mitigates this drawback to some degree by focusing only on pages devoted to final rules. The Ten-Thousand Commandments series keeps track of both the annual number of final regulations published in the Federal Register and the annual number of Federal Register pages devoted to final regulations.
Dawson and Seater instead rely on the Code of Federal Regulations, another set of legal documents related to federal regulations. Actually, the CFR would be better described as the books that contain the actual text of regulations in effect each year. When a regulatory agency creates new regulations, or alters existing regulations, those changes are reflected in the next publication of the CFR. Dawson and Seater collected data on the total number of pages in the CFR in each year from 1949 to 2005. I've graphed their data below.
*Dawson and Seater exclude Titles 1 – 3 and 32 from their total page counts because they argue that those Titles do not contain regulation, so comparing this graph with page count graphs produced elsewhere will show some discrepancies.
Perhaps the most significant advantage of the CFR over counting pages in the Federal Register is that it allows for decreases in regulations. However, using the CFR arguably has several advantages over indexes like the OECD product market regulation index and the World Bank Doing Business index. First, using the CFR captures all federal regulation, not just a select few types. Dawson and Seater point out:
Incomplete coverage leads to two problems: (1) omitted variables bias, and, in any time series study, (2) divergence between the time series behavior of subsets of regulation on the one hand and of total regulation on the other.
In other words, ignoring potentially important variables (such as environmental regulations) can cause estimates of the effect of regulation to be wrong.
Second, the number of pages in the CFR may reflect the complexity of regulations to some degree. In contrast, the index metrics of regulation typically only consider whether a regulation exists—a binary variable equal to 1 or 0, with nothing in between. Third, the CFR offers a long time series – almost three times as long as the OECD index, although it is shorter than the Federal Register time series.
Of course, there are downsides to using the CFR. For one, it is possible that legal drafting standards and language norms have changed over the 57 years, which could introduce bias to their measure (Dawson and Seater brush this concern aside, but not convincingly in my opinion). Second, the CFR is limited to only one country—the United States—whereas the OECD and World Bank products cover many countries. Data on multiple countries (or multiple industries within a country, like RegData offers) allow comparisons of real-world outcomes and how they respond to different regulatory treatments. In contrast, Dawson and Seater are limited to constructing a "counterfactual" economy – one that their model predicts would exist had regulations stayed at the level they were in 1949. In my next post, I'll go into more detail on the model they use to do this.
This entry was posted in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Regulation and tagged CAFE, CFR, Clean Air Act, consumption, Corporate Average Fuel Economy, Doing Business, Doing Business Index, economic development, economics of regulation, economy, endogenous growth, Federal Register, growth, Jimmy Carter, measures of regulation, metrics of regulation, OECD, Product Market Regulation, regulation, schumpeterian growth, spending, tax, Ten Thousand Commandments, US, Wayne Crews, World Bank, World Bank Doing Business on July 24, 2013 by Patrick McLaughlin.


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