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Status SOLD $55
1993 24p brown Machin horizontal strip of 5 forgeries. This forgery was briefly available through London corner shops & as 24p was the first class rate of the day, it was a big seller before the Royal Mail in association with Scotland Yard began an investigation. The gang of forgers , nicknamed The Lavender Hill Mob by police, were identified and brought to trial at Winchester Crown Court in January 2000 charged with forging stamps and banknotes. Fine MUH. (5) The leader of the "mob' was Kenneth Maidstone of Upminster, Essex who was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. Three confederates got from three to eight years. A fourth was convicted but died of cancer before being sentenced.


The Government will introduce staged 12.5 per cent increases in tobacco excise over the next four years to battle smoking-related cancer and help return the Federal Budget to surplus in 2016-17.
Smoking kills over 15,000 Australians every year and is one of the leading preventable causes of death and disease in Australia.
We know that increasing excise is the single most effective way for government to reduce premature death and disease due to smoking. We expect it to be particularly effective in dropping the number of young people who smoke.
Over 750,000 hospital bed days per year are attributable to tobacco-related disease and smoking has been estimated to cost over $31 billion a year.
The increases in tobacco excise will raise $5.3 billion over the forward estimates for the Commonwealth Budget.
The increases will commence on 1 December 2013, with further increases on 1 September 2014, 1 September 2015, and 1 September 2016. These are in addition to the increases that will occur under indexation arrangements.
The increase in excise serves several purposes – it will provide funds for cancer and stroke related health services, it will deter young people from taking up smoking, and it will help return the Budget to surplus.
This is a significant public health measure that will also help to build on the Government's record investment of an extra $4.1 billion for world class cancer care here in Australia since 2007.
Australians would agree that we need to consider all sorts of measures to reduce the impact of cancer caused by smoking.
The Government has already made large investments in health and hospitals. National Health Reform is providing a minimum of $16.4 billion in new funding for public hospitals over the six years from 2014-15 to 2019-20.
The 2013-14 Budget also included a $226.4 million investment in cancer care.


While the kids take a break from their studies this week, it's an important opportunity to SEE THEM, HEAR THEM, and BELIEVE THEM. When they're around, they can certainly stretch our capacities, grow our boundaries, and force reflection that is often uncomfortable...BE GENTLE in response to this please. They are doing their job...let's do ours.


The NWT Bowling Hall of Fame was created in November, 1999 to recognize persons who have made significant contributions to the sport of bowling in the Northwest Territories. It was noted that some may be of the mind that Hall of Fames should be reserved for elite athletes, however, at it's inaugural meeting, the Hall of Fame Committee recognized that without the founders and builders of the sport there could be no achievers. As a result, the Hall of Fame Committee chose to recognize both those who have contributed to the sport as a volunteer and those who have excelled as athletes in the sport.
The Committee then chose to have a crest designed that would be imprinted on a gold ring. A friend of one of the committee members, Mr. David Oystrek of Yellowknife, was asked if he would design a crest on their behalf and he agreed. ON the crest you will see a Raven – a bird well known in the NWT; ice and water representing Great Slave Lake – a connection between the communities of Yellowknife and Hay River; the polar bear – a symbol of the NWT; and a bowling ball with 5 pins.


The New Finance Bank (FNB) has issued a first-ever private corporate bond on the Malawi Stock Exchange which economists say is a great milestone in expanding the financial market.
The bank seeks to raise K14 billion in three years through the corporate bond. So far K4 billion has been listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange.
Zandire Shaba, chief executive officer for NFB, said the corporate bond signifies the banks's desire to participate in the development of the financial market in Malawi.
"If it were possible to say my speech in one sentence, I should have simply said 'the lion roars again with majestic pride' we are celebrating that as we continue making strides in contributing to the development of this great nation we are have been listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange, let me say it this is the first ever corporate bond listed on this exchange market," said Shaba.
She adds, "Today we have attained another milestone considering the amount of regulatory compliance and checks that an institution has to go through to get to this point".
NFB CEO states that the bond listing signifies our desire to participate in the development of the financial market of Malawi and subsequently have a positive impact on the day-to-day lives of Malawians.
Malawi Stock Exchange chief executive officer John Kamanga holds the view that the corporate bond provides investors with option to spread risks as well as maximize returns.
"This is great news, indeed, to us because this is the first ever private bond to be listed on the stock exchange; we believe this is just the beginning and many more corporates will emulate New Finance Bank.
He is of the view that an economy strives on the backbone of a vibrant financial market with many tradable financial instruments that provide investors with options to spread their risks as well as maximize returns.


UnnecessaryStubbingException is runtime and sub class of MockitoException. Mockito JUnit Runner triggers UnnecessaryStubbingException only when none of the test methods use the stubbings. This means that it is ok to put default stubbing in a 'setup' method or in test class constructor. That default stubbing needs to be used at least once by one of the test methods.
UnnecessaryStubbingException(String message) : Will throw exception with message.
It is highly recommended to remove unused stubbings to keep the codebase clean. You can opt-out from detecting unused stubbing using MockitoJUnitRunner.Silent() or MockitoRule.silent() (when you are using Mockito JUnit rules.


Piedmont – the "foot of the mountain" – located in northwest Italy and bordered by both Switzerland and France, is home to a unique blend of culinary delights.
With its beautiful mountains and rich agricultural lands, Piedmont, which famously hosted the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, is home to a unique blend of cuisine influenced by its alpine locale, with warm dips such as bagna càuda and fonduta, Italian breadsticks called grissini, the white Alba truffle, the famous aperitif Vermouth and premium chocolate confections.
Bagna Càuda: Made with Italian anchovies, fresh garlic, butter, olive oil and sometimes cream and a shaving of fresh white Alba truffle, this decadent warm dip for raw, roasted or boiled vegetables is a Piedmont classic.
Fonduta: Using Fontina Valle d'Aosta DOP cheese from the neighbouring region of Aosta Valley, Piedmont's decadent interpretation of fondue is made with a blend of the melted cheese, egg yolks, milk, butter and topped with white Alba truffle.
Grissini: A specialty of Turin, these thin, crispy breadsticks are hand-made and flavoured with local herbs, spices or seeds. They're perfect for serving at the beginning of a meal, or wrap with Italian prosciutto as an appetizer.
Vermouth: Originating in Turin, centuries ago, this herb-infused fortified wine is traditionally enjoyed as an aperitif prior to a meal. Turin's style of vermouth is sweet, herbaceous and reddish brown in colour, and is a key ingredient in the famed Manhattan cocktail.
Tartufo d'Alba: In October and November, the open-air markets and festivals scent town after town with the aroma of this region's treasured white truffle. Gourmet shops here in Canada carry imported white Alba truffles – dried or fresh in jars – or its essence infused in olive oil and salt.
Gianduja: This silky, spreadable chocolate with hazelnut paste was created in Turin in the late 1700s by a crafty chocolatier. Since then, his original recipe has spawned other Italian specialties, including Gianduiotti, Turin's famous hazelnut chocolate.


The Czech NGO People in Need¬– which has previously brought public attention to Juliet Michelena's case through its website monitoring human rights abuses, www.eyeoncuba.org– was pleased to learn last week about the independent journalist's release. However, she was a victim of censorship and was arbitrarily jailed since April 7th after being accused of an attempted assault. Last month the prosecutor asked for a two year sentence. Finally all charges against her were dropped.
Although Juliet's case has had a happy ending, the gravity of such a case remains: In Cuba, a place where the authorities subjectively decide on one's fate, any independent journalist can be arbitrary arrested, charged and sentenced. That is why People in Need asks the Cuban authorities to respect basic human rights: the freedom of speech and expression, the right to receive a fair trial.
Her case is a pure example of how fake evidence can be invented and how a person can be unlawfully imprisoned without a trial for several months. Furthermore, once the trial started she had to confront a new obstacle: the defending lawyers were not actually defending her, but omitting evidence, refusing witnesses and delaying procedures. After being misrepresented by four of them, she finally decided to give up having a lawyer at all.
Regarding the charges against her, the Prosecution changed its mind: in the beginning she was accused of threats against a neighbor, but the Court suspended the trial for lack of evidence. Then she was accused of attempted murder. Why this switch? Because more serious charged meant she could be kept in prison.
Paradoxically, Niurka Suarez Leon, the woman who aggressed and prevented Juliet Michelena from participating in a workshop organized this past April by The Cuban Network of Community Communicators in Havana, became the plaintiff.
Juliet's lawyers repeatedly refused evidence in her defense: witnesses that stated she never went to the plaintiff's neighborhood, testimony that Michelena had been visited in prison by a State Security agent who offered to release her if she gave up dissident activities.
All these intentional procedural errors demonstrate the lack of judicial guarantees and how exposed and vulnerable to state repression independent Cuban journalists are. Please share her case!


It's futile to deport without securing our borders. Most return -- again, and again, and again. But, his deportation record does make good press.
Regardless, his "record" deportations are only one side of the story. Here's another. . .
The union, the National ICE Council, is troubled that the president is pandering to pro-illegal-immigration activists. The head of the union said the order to free illegal aliens forces immigration officials to ignore the law.
Illegal aliens seem pretty comfy to me.
The fact of the matter is we dont have a clue as to the actual numbers. The reason is obvious, they never passed through a check point that tracked their coming or going. Any organization regardless if it is government or private that claims to have a number is making a false claim.
They have guesstimates. Guesstimates are flawed at best and normally agenda driven.
To answer the op's question. The answer is too many.
No way -- California has twice that many alone !!
They claimed there were 11 million illegals here over 10 years ago and there is no way that many millions have not arrived since then. The census alone proves that. In 10 years the census shows a tremendous increase in "hispanics" and it's not because the long-time American hispanics decided to start gulping fertility pills. Even the government acknowledges these 200-400% increases in the population of hispanics are from immigration.
Ten-twelve years ago when they estimated 11 million illegals were here, there was not the amount of Spanish being spoken as there is now, it was a far more isolated problem 10-12 years ago. It's at least doubled.
The 11-12 million is the ones they know about. There could be another 11-12 they don't know about.
You're assuming 300,000,000 + is the correct number for the population? Counting unknown illegal aliens, the population could be close to 350,000,000.
Obama has also ordered that no illegal aliens be deported unless they've been convicted of a felony.


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PHOTO: New Juventus Signing Cristiano Ronaldo Arrives in Turin After Sensational Switch From Madrid
Former Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has finally arrived in Turin, having completed a €105m move to Juventus last week.
The Portugal international has spent the last nine years of his career at the Santiago Bernabeu but is now set to head into a novel challenge with Champions League hopefuls Juve, who are eager to get past that final hurdle in Europe.
Ronaldo, a five-time Ballon d'Or and Champions League winner, is still at the peak of his powers despite being on the wrong side of 30. The forward has scored 49 goals for club and country since the beginning of last season, and will likely embellish the already potent I Bianconeri attack next term.
He's set to become a mega-earner as well after penning a four-year deal worth €30m a season.
On Sunday, Juve announced the arrival of the Ronaldo in Turin via their official Twitter account, posting a photo of the attacker walking across an airstrip after landing in Italy.
"These years in Real Madrid, and in this city of Madrid, have been possibly the happiest of my life," Ronaldo wrote to the Madrid fans upon his exit.
"I only have feelings of enormous gratitude for this club, for this hobby and for this city. I can only thank all of them for the love and affection I have received.
"However, I believe that the time has come to open a new stage in my life and that is why I have asked the club to accept transferring me. I feel that way and I ask everyone, and especially our followers, to please understand me."
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Dec 30, 2015 Youtube video of Sparkling Shoko Bracelet is ready for veiwing. The recipe for it and the expanded version called Regal Rondels Bracelet can be found under "Articles". Happy New Year!
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Q: django listing by category , with indexview and detailview classes I am using generic views for list and details, on the index page I am getting my list but not getting my category list, but I am getting a category list on another template.
I want to list the category on the index page, and on click of that category, image go to that list which is filter by that specific category.
I hope you understand my question
. below is the view for brand index and model for category
class BrandsIndexView(generic.ListView):
    template_name = "brands/index.html"
    context_object_name = "latest_brands_list"

    def get_queryset(self):
        return Brands.objects.filter(created_on__lte=timezone.now()).order_by('-created_on')[:10]

model for category

class Category(models.Model):

    category_name = models.CharField(null=False,max_length=200)
    category_slug = models.SlugField(
        max_length=200, db_index=True, unique=True)
    category_image = models.FileField(upload_to="brand_cat_images",null=True,blank=True,validators=[file_ext])

class Brands(models.Model):
    brand_name = models.CharField(max_length=200 , null=False,help_text="Enter Brand Name")
    brand_slug = models.SlugField(max_length=200 , unique=True)
    brand_logo = models.ImageField(null=False, blank=False, upload_to="brand_logo")
    brand_description = models.TextField(max_length=250 ,null=True,blank=True)
    brand_category = models.ForeignKey(Category,on_delete=models.CASCADE ,default="None",related_name="category")

A: You need to create a brands listview which is filtered by category slug, then define a url which accepts the category slug as argument.
You could use the get_queryset method as below:
def get_queryset(self):
    cat_slug = self.kwargs['slug']
    cat = Category.objects.get(category_slug=cat_slug)
    qs = cat.brands_set.order_by('brand_name')
    return qs

Example url:
    path('categories/<slug>', views.BrandsListView.as_view(), name='brand_category'),

Template example:
      <a href="{% url 'brand_category' 'some_category' %}">

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What are the Dangers of Living Near Cell Phone Towers?
Fighting with spouse gets good results!
Are the cell towers and antennas popping up all over the country - -the very ones that we depend on for clear reception and a wide coverage area -- safe?
The government and cell phone companies maintain cell towers (and phones) are safe.
Cell Phone Towers: Risky or Not?
A study by Dr. Bruce Hocking in Australia found that children living near three TV and FM broadcast towers (similar to cell towers) in Sydney had more than twice the rate of leukemia than children living more than seven miles away.
"People living in the vicinity of cell site base stations suffer from effects such as miscarriage, cardiac disruption, sleep disturbance and chronic fatigue could well be early indicators of the adverse health effects. Symptoms of reduced immune system competence, cardiac problems, especially of the arrhythmic type, and cancers, especially brain tumor and leukemia, are probable."
Symptoms can include mood swings, indigestion, ulcers and joint pain.
Dairy cows that were kept in close proximity to a TV and cell phone tower for two years had a reduction in milk production along with increased health problems and behavioral abnormalities. In an experiment, one cow with abnormal behavior was taken away from the antenna and the behavior subsided within five days. When the cow was brought back near the antenna, the symptoms returned.


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Interview with Addameer's Mourad Jadallah: hunger strikes reignite prisoner movement
March 2, 2012	by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments
Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada London 1 March 2012
Palestinians in Ramallah demonstrate in support of hunger striking administrative detainee Hana al-Shalabi, 27 February 2012.
(Issam Rimawi / APA images)
Addameer is a Palestinian human rights organization that works to support political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian jails. The center offers free legal aid to political prisoners, advocates for their rights and works to end torture and other violations of prisoners' rights.
The group's ten lawyers visit more than 500 prisoners inside Israeli jails each year. They also represent prisoners held by the Palestinian Authority, representing more than 400 Palestinian prisoners arrested by PA security forces in 2009-10.
Addameer was a key player during the recent campaign to free Khader Adnan, a prisoner in Israeli "administrative detention" (internment without charge or trial) whose 66-day hunger strike ended in February after a deal was struck to release him in April.
Addameer representative Mourad Jadallah was in London this week to speak about the Palestinian prisoners movement at a meeting called by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Israeli Apartheid Week organizing committee.
Asa Winstanley: Maybe you could start by telling me about yourself and what you do.
Mourad Jadallah: My name is Mourad Jadallah. I'm a legal researcher working with Addameer, a human rights organization based in Ramallah. Addameer was created in 1991 in Jerusalem and we were forced to move to the West Bank, because we lost our Israeli permission to work in Jerusalem in 1994. It's part of the soft transfer of the Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
AW: You've been working on the case of Khader Adnan. There's more than 300 Palestinian "administrative detainees" held by Israel, so why did Khader Adnan gain so much attention?
MJ: He was arrested by Israel many times before this last time, and he was arrested also by the Palestinian Authority. And he got a request from the Israeli intelligence forces to meet with them seven months before his arrest on 17 December and he refused to go. We think Khader Adnan is a special prisoner, because on the second day after his arrest he started a hunger strike.
His hunger strike went on for 66 days, refusing the torture, the ill treatment and also the administrative detention. During this time he refused to talk to the Israeli interrogator, to the Israeli prison director and to the guards. He refused to give any legitimacy to the Israeli prison services and the occupying power and as well to the Israeli military court in Ofer.
AW: So his hunger strike was a rejection of the entire system.
MJ: Exactly … He continued the hunger strike of the Palestinian prisoners in September [which started when Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Ahmad Saadat went on hunger strike]. And he said: I am not doing the first hunger strike, I'm just continuing the Palestinian resistance inside the prisons and I don't want to give legitimacy to the Israeli occupation and I don't want my people to be divided. So we shouldn't leave the PFLP prisoners alone, because what happened after the hunger strike in September and October …
AW: The prisoners deal happened — the deal between Hamas and Israel to release a captured Israeli soldier in exchange for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.
MJ: Yes … After the hunger strike, [Israel] arrested 150 Palestinians from the PFLP, because they want to punish all the activists who supported the hunger strike. All of them got administrative detention. They are under administrative detention, just because they supported the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike which was between 27 September and 18 October.
Mourad Jadallah at a Palestine Solidarity Campaign meeting in London
(Asa Winstanley)
AW: Because it's administrative detention in those cases, there are no charges. But have the Israelis been saying anything about those prisoners? Have they accused them of anything in the media?
MJ: No. They arrest them and the day after, sometimes on the same day, they inform them that you got an administrative detention order, which is on for six months or three months or four months …
You have children under administrative detention, you have women. You have journalists. You have human rights defenders. You have directors of human rights organizations in Palestine who spent many years under administrative detention: Shawan Jabarin, the director of Al-Haq, a human rights organization. He was under administrative detention for a couple of years. Ali Jaradat, a journalist, spent 19 years under administrative detention, on and off. And we have cases where people spent six years continuously under administrative detention.
AW: A deal has now been made between Khader Adnan and Israel for his release in April. Do you think Israel will stick to the deal or will they renege on it?
MJ: In both cases, Khader Adnan won his case. Because he forced the court to say that this administrative detention will be the first one and the last one. Here is where he marked his victory. But there is no guarantee that Khader Adnan will not be the subject of [another] administrative detention after a couple of days from his release. But what is important about Khader Adnan's case is that he encouraged a lot of people to go on hunger strike against administrative detention. He opened a new school for the Palestinian prisoners. And all the administrative detainees today since Khader Adnan's hunger strike, they boycott the military court.
AW: So Khader Adnan's case has reinvigorated the prisoners' movement, you think?
MJ: Exactly. And this is the second push for the prisoners' movement. The first one started with the latest hunger strike in September, then you have the exchange on 18 October and then the second phase on 18 December, and you have Khader Adnan's hunger strike. And today you have Hana al-Shalabi's hunger strike. All these things happened within less than six months.
AW: I understand that Arrabe, Khader Adnan's village where he was arrested, is part of Area A under the Oslo agreement, meaning it is theoretically under the control of the Palestinian Authority forces. Did the PA have a role in his arrest?
MJ: His secret file was basically built by the information that the Palestinian security forces provide. And that's why when we at Addameer prepared his profile after ten days on hunger strike and we sent it to the Palestinian media, they refused to publish it. The Palestinian Authority started to talk about Khader Adnan [only] when he was on his 34th day of hunger strike. I remember with the hunger strike in September, all the youth movements asked [Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud] Abbas to give a speech for the people about the hunger strike, and he refused.
So Khader Adnan, I think he's very clever. Because everyone, even inside Fatah, they are talking about the peaceful, popular resistance. What do you need more than a hunger strike to support, if you are really interested in popular resistance? Why did the Palestinian media and the Palestinian Authority ignore Khader Adnan and his hunger strike? Because he's [affiliated with] Islamic Jihad? Or because he's taking the memory back to the days when the prisoners were leading the national resistance?
He's a young man — he's 34 — and he proved that he's a leader. All the people in the street called him The Leader Khader Adnan. So you have a youth movement in the street, and finally they get a leader. So during the protests and demonstrations to support Khader Adnan, all the youth from all political parties, they were in front of Ofer to support him, because they saw they have identification with this leader, they said: here's a leader. [PA negotiator] Saeb Eerekat is not a leader for the Palestinians.
AW: Something of an international movement built up around Khader Adnan, with people on Twitter getting it to "trend." What difference do you think that made in bringing attention to the case?
MJ: We saw that social media has played a very important role during the Arab Spring. I think I can call the Arab Spring the third Palestinian intifada. I think it was normal to see this lobbying for the case of Khader Adnan on social media. We have friends who prepared every day a new poster for Khader Adnan, counting his days [on hunger strike to take to the demonstrations].
During [another] hunger strike in 2000, people were killed, and that was just three to four months before the second intifada, so the Palestinian Authority know this very well and the Israelis know this very well, so they avoid [talking about it]. Now the Palestinian Authority is saying Khader Adnan achieved this deal because we spoke to the Egyptian commanders, and the Egyptian authorities then spoke to the Israeli authorities.
Where have they been since the beginning? This is what we say in Arabic: they have one [person] responsible for the failure, but you have a hundred fathers for the victory.
But we think that this victory belongs to Khader Adnan and the youth who supported him on the street, in Ofer prison and in all the protests.
AW: What is the future for Palestinian prisoners' resistance?
MJ: I think Khader Adnan [teaches] us a good lesson: that if we support the individuals, they can succeed. So now we will encourage other prisoners to use this network and this is what we want to see with Hana al-Shalabi's hunger strike.
One thing that Khader Adnan confused the Israelis with is [that] when they put him under administrative detention without charge, they made it easy for everybody around the world to support him, because he's not part of the political parties; they don't charge him [with being] part of Islamic Jihad — there's no charge [so people just said to Israel, try or release him].
AW: That's an important point, because it brought in a lot of people who would otherwise have nothing to do with it.
MJ: Exactly. This is the weak point of administrative detention. We all know very well that administrative detention is against humanitarian law and the Geneva conventions, et cetera. But we never succeed as human rights defenders to fight against the administrative detention the way that Khader Adnan did.
Asa Winstanley is a London-based investigative journalist who has lived and worked in occupied Palestine. His website is www.winstanleys.org.
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Creativity Works at Grierson Awards 2021
On Wednesday 10th November, I alongside five other Creativity Works: Content Production 2021 alumni, worked as a runner at the 49th annual Grierson Awards
We worked alongside members at Ballistic Events, who prepared for this award ceremony for months.
As well as working with trainees and mentors from Grierson DocLabs, which is a training scheme for documentary programme-making.
The ceremony took place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre and was also live streamed for free on The Grierson Trust's YouTube Channel.
The Grierson Awards was created in 1972, after John Grierson, a Scottish documentary maker who is known as the father of British documentary film.
This award honours the best documentaries in Britain and internationally.
The runners on the night were all assigned different roles to carry out during the awards. Some of us looked after celebrity guests whilst others took care of ticketing.
I was part of the ticketing team that worked alongside staff from Ballistic events.
We were briefed on how to electronically ticket people using ipads and guide guests towards the cloak room and toilets.
I really enjoyed this job way more than I expected as I was able to talk with guests even if it was just for a brief moment. It was also extremely exciting to see people we recognised from TV and online in real life.
Runners did not get the opportunity to see the award ceremony itself, but we were able to attend the after party.
The staff did a phenomenal job of dressing the room to fit the occasion, with blue theme lights that lit up and created warmth throughout the room.
The After Party was definitely the highlight of my evening, as it gave me the opportunity to socialise with the nominees and the guests.
It was a great opportunity to network and expand our contacts, talking to people such as Marian Mohamed who is the producer and director of Defending Digga D on BBC; Jane Zurakowski, a Production/Talent Manager at the BBC; and Xavier Alford, the director of Locked In which won best science documentary.
It was welcoming to know that people within the industry are more than willing to help up and coming filmmakers. Which made me realise just how accessible the industry really is once you know the right people.
Teaching me the importance of networking and social events.
All in all, this was truly an amazing experience and I would highly recommend it if you are given the opportunity to attend.
Events like these give you once in a lifetime opportunity to network and meet people, and you never know; depending on who you meet you might just get your lucky break.
By Grier Thomas Anderson
UK Music Video Awards - My Experience
All thanks to Create Jobs, a group of us from the most recent course- Creativity Works: Creative Content Production- were able to attend the 2021 UK Music Video Awards (MVA's.)
Creativity Works: Content Production 2021 (WEEK ONE)
Programme Officer Lucy Carasco gives us a run down of what happened on the first week of the Creativity Works: Content Production course
Creativity Works: Content Production 2021 (WEEK SIX)
Programme Officer Jordan Reilly takes us through the last week of Creativity Works: Content Production


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Eagles lead local teams in opening meet
Southern Door's boys and girls teams placed fifth in the Chief Kahquados Invitational high school cross country meet Thursday in Fish Creek.
In the 5k girls race, Maggie Grota placed seventh (21:57) and Gracie Englebert 10th (22:12) in a field of 88 runners to lead the Eagles.
Gibraltar placed sixth, Sturgeon Bay ninth and Sevastopol 13th in the season-opening meet.
Sturgeon Bay's Allison Alberts finished 13th (22:40), and Gibraltar's Kayla Scharrig 14th (22:41) to lead their teams.
Freedom ran away with the team title, with its top five runners all finishing in the top eight. Jaci Hinz placed first (20:09) and Lauren Vosters second (20:35).
In the 5k boys race, Gibraltar's Caleb House placed fifth (17:58), Southern Door's Michael Bertrand 12th (18:29), Sevastopol's Lucas Stenzel 17th (19:01) and Sturgeon Bay's Izaak Polechek 30th (19:52).
Gibraltar placed sixth, Sevastopol seventh and Sturgeon Bay 10th in the team standings. Reedsville won the team title.
Freedom's Travis Reiter placed first (16:46) and Algoma's Jacob Wahlers second (16:52) in a field of 89 runners.
CHIEF KAHQUADOS INVITATIONAL
Boys team scores: 1. Reedsville, 56; 2. Freedom, 72; 3. Mauston, 79; 4. Algoma, 128; 5. Southern Door, 134; 6. Gibraltar, 161; 7. Sevastopol, 175; 8. Roncalli, 187; 9. Mishicot, 234; 10. Sturgeon Bay, 270; 11. Oconto, 287.
Southern Door results: 12. Michael Bertrand, 18:29; 16. Karl Meier, 18:56; 33. Derek Huber, 19:58; 42. Ben Kielar, 20:20; 44. Ben Hoida, 20:32.
Gibraltar results: 5. Caleb House, 17:58; 21. Matt Scharrig, 19:25; 39. Ian Moore, 20:14; 57. Ian Chomeau, 21:59; 59. Juan Jauregui, 22:13.
Sevastopol results: 17. Lucas Stenzel, 19:01; 22. Josh Pflieger, 19:27; 32. Isiah Spetz, 19:53; 56. Kyle Carlson, 21:57; 73. Ty Zaworski, 23:24.
Sturgeon Bay results: 30. Izaak Polechek, 19:52; 66. Jacob LeFeber, 22:33; 70. Hayden Shefchik, 22:47; 72. Tommy Renfrew, 23:01; 80. James Dickson, 24:01.
Girls team scores: 1. Freedom, 20; 2. Mauston, 95; 3. Kewaunee, 102; 4. Roncalli, 137; 5. Southern Door, 151; 6. Reedsville, 167; 7. Algoma, 184; 8. Gibraltar, 189; 9. Sturgeon Bay, 208; 10. Mishicot, 248; 11. Hilbert, 269; 12. Oconto, 291; 13. Sevastopol, 316.
Southern Door results: 7. Maggie Grota, 21:57; 10. Gracie Englebert, 22:12; 32. Jennifer Vandertie, 24:38; 52. Theresa Kaser, 26:46; 62. Emma Hanson, 27:16.
Gibraltar results: 14. Kayla Scharrig, 22:41; 18. Jenny Leonard, 23:20; 54. Brielle Fitzgerald, 26:47; 56. Hannah Helm, 26:55. 63. Ava Hitzeman, 27:22.
Sturgeon Bay results: 13. Allison Alberts, 22:40; 29. Kenzie Daoust, 24:25; 53. Charlie Pollock, 26:46; 65. Tanya Blau, 27:29; 68. Rebecca Hendrickson, 28:03.
Sevastopol results: 59. Liz Fiscus, 27:07; 61. Kiana Copisky, 27:10; 66. Lexi LeClair, 27:32; 83. Lamyra Adams, 31:02; 88. Lilly Birmingham, 32:37.


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Q: While installing cloud manager facing oracle-j2sdk1.7 installation failed im trying to install cloud manager on ubuntu 12.04.
But im failed and below is the error :
oracle-j2sdk1.7 installation failed. See /var/log/cloudera-manager-installer/3.install-oracle-j2sdk1.7.log for details. Click OK to revert this installation.
Any help can be appricaited now.
Regards,
BJ

A: Looks like its some kind of lock already in place which might occur at login or because of the first attempt at the installation failing.
Try logging in, maybe even rebooting and trying again.
If this still fails, try the following:
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update

This should force an update and recreate the directory correctly. There's a thread about this on the Ubuntu forums which might be more useful and provide a lot more information on this problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1986288
If this is still a problem. Provide the full stack trace/log that is mentioned in the error.
We can't blindly provide advice, we need the actual error from the log in order to help you.


A mud with density high enough to produce a hydrostatic pressure at the point of influx in a wellbore that is sufficient to shut off flow into the well. Kill-weight mud, when needed, must be available quickly to avoid loss of control of the well or a blowout. Thus, it is usually made by weighting up some of the mud (link to ID 2107) in the system or in storage by adding barite or hematite. Unless diluted in advance, the mud may become too thick and perhaps un-pumpable due to high solids loading. A weight-up pilot test can identify if and how much dilution will be needed in advance of adding weighting material to the mud in the pits.


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Žižice is a municipality and village in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.

Administrative parts
Village of Drnov, Luníkov, Osluchov and Vítov are administrative parts of Žižice.

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Villages in Kladno District

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The answer to "instant hair growth" is that there isn't any. I am sorry to report that there is just no known magic hair bullet. If you want to go from a short chop to long flowing locks instantly you have limited options. Your best bet for overnight long hair is to consider hair extensions, long wigs, clip-on braids, tails or other "instant hair".
Yes, there are lots of things that can maximize the potential of your hair growing cycle but it is folly to imagine that you can go to bed one night with chin length hair and the next day wake up with a new inch of growth.
There are some very rare exceptions, but hair on most people is genetically programmed to grow an average maximum of 6 inches a year.
Yes it is really true. Anything in life worth having takes time, commitment and focus.
It is also true that not everyone can have that gorgeous head of waist length hair. People with fine, thin, or severely damaged hair may have a difficult time growing hair past a medium length. Other factors can also retard hair growth including serious illness, ingesting some prescribed medications and a variety of environmental factors.
If you believe that you have the right type of hair to grow it long then make a serious commitment to hang in there for the duration. Growing long, strong, luscious hair requires time, effort and focus.
How long? Remember that the average person is genetically programmed to grow hair at the rate of 6 inches a year. If you want to grow 30 inches of hair, plan on waiting approximately five years to experience that length. Is it worth it? Only you can be the judge.
Application: After washing hair towel dry and apply product on damp hair throughout entire scalp, massage thoroughly. Do not rinse out. Strongly recommend using daily.
Nioxin has produced an entire product line that claims to inhibit the hormone (dht) that causes the miniaturization of the hair follicle and eventual hair loss. While no product available seems to actually be able to produce long lasting new growth, this one seems to help maintain and enrich the hair that is still present. I have witnessed the results of long term use. It seems to be a useful aide in bolstering thickness.
Who wants healthy hair. We dare you to name one woman who has never been concerned about her hair. We are always trying to make it look more beautiful, healthier, more thick, more bouncy, more lustrous and just more gorgeous.
In reality hair care is not just a quick shampoo; in fact most of us have just a little extra regimen to take care of it. We are here to help you understand your hair and its problems better, along with tips to nourish it.


Take the adjudication certificate to the appropriate Court and complete an affidavit form which is available at the Court. In the affidavit you need to swear whether any money has been paid to you by the respondent which would reduce the amount owed by virtue of the adjudication decision.
With assistance of Court Registry staff, have the adjudication certificate registered as a judgment of the Court. This judgment will result in obtaining a money order.
Commence enforcement option at the appropriate Court with the assistance of Court Registry staff.
What If the Respondent leaves ACT? If the respondent/defendant has left ACT, it is still possible to pursue them for payment. A 'Notice to the Defendant' is attached to the claimants other enforcement documents which demands the respondent's action regardless of their whereabouts.
There is a manifest error of law on the face of the adjudication decision; or strong evidence that the adjudicator made an error of law and that the determination of the question may add, or may be likely to add, substantially to the certainty of the law.
On the determination of an appeal the Supreme Court may confirm, amend or set aside the adjudication decision or remit the adjudication decision, together with the Supreme Court's opinion on the question of law which was the subject of the appeal, to the adjudicator for reconsideration; or, if a new adjudicator is appointed by the Supreme Court, to that adjudicator for consideration.
If an adjudication decision is remitted, the adjudicator must make the new adjudication decision within 10 business days after the day the decision was remitted or within the time directed by the Supreme Court.


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Campaigns walk fine line
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama put campaign battleground travel on hold to tour the ravaged New Jersey coast today, while under-the-wire campaigning resumed in swing state Florida that is critical to Republican Mitt Romney's victory plan.
Obama is emphasizing his incumbent's role for a third-straight day, skipping voter contact in the handful of states that will decide the election to visit victims of Hurricane Sandy around Atlantic City in a state he's confident of winning. The president's actions have forced Romney to walk a careful line.
The former Massachusetts governor must show respect for the storm's casualties all along the Eastern Seaboard. But Romney can ill afford to waste a minute of campaign time, with the contest virtually deadlocked in several key states and the election six days away.
Florida is among the most closely fought and the biggest prize among the swing states with 29 electoral votes. Without victory in Florida, Romney will have an uphill and limited path to electoral victory.
Romney has three stops scheduled across the state with former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio, while the Obama campaign dispatched Vice President Joe Biden for two stops in the state today.
GOP running mate Paul Ryan was campaigning across his home state of Wisconsin today before planning to take his children trick-or-treating. Wisconsin is part of the Romney-Ryan campaign's strategy of trying to put Democratic-leaning states in play and forcing Obama to play defense in areas he has expected to win.
After tamping down his partisan tone yesterday at an Ohio event that emphasized victims' relief, Romney planned a full-blown return to the trail today. Sandy largely spared Florida, so Romney calculates he can campaign there without appearing callous.
Obama's revised schedule is a political gamble, too. Rather than use the campaign's final Wednesday to woo voters in tossup states, he will go before cameras with New Jersey's Republican governor, Chris Christie. Christie is one of Romney's most prominent supporters and a frequent Obama critic. But Christie praised Obama's handling of the weather disaster, a political twist the president's visit is sure to underscore.
Obama also took full advantage of incumbency yesterday. He visited the Red Cross near the White House to commiserate with victims and encourage aid workers. "This is a tough time for millions of people," the president said. "But America is tougher."
While Obama and Romney moved cautiously yesterday, their campaigns exchanged sharp words in Ohio and expanded their operations into three Democratic-leaning states, a move that will reshape the contest's final six days.
Romney's campaign is running ads in Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and a pro-Romney group is doing the same in Michigan. The three states were considered fairly safe for Obama, but his campaign is taking the threat seriously. It sent former President Bill Clinton to Minnesota yesterday, and it is buying airtime in all three states.
Republican strategists differ on the Romney campaign's thinking. Some think Romney's aides fear losing all-important Ohio, and they hope for a stunning last-minute breakthrough elsewhere to compensate. Others say the GOP camp has so much money — and so few chances to buy useful airtime in saturated states — that it can spend millions of dollars on a long shot without scrimping in a battleground.
"If they didn't have so much money, they wouldn't be able to do something with so little chance of success," said Democratic strategist Tad Devine.
Another sign that Ohio looms large for the Romney campaign: a guest-filled rally in suburban Cincinnati on Friday to kick off the campaign's final four days. Set to join the GOP ticket are golf legend Jack Nicklaus, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.


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Small Hypoallergenic Dog Breeds – Small Non-Shedding Dogs
If you are looking for a small hypoallergenic dog, there are plenty choose from! Check out our small hypoallergenic dog breeds list below!
Whether you are after small dog breeds that don't shed because you have allergies, or because you just don't like dog hair all over the place, then this list of cute dogs that don't shed will be useful in assisting you in your research.
The best dogs for allergies are either dogs with hair not fur, or hairless dogs … and small dogs have the added benefit of shedding less dander than larger dogs. While all dogs shed some dander, low-shedding dogs tend to spread less dander around than those that shed more, because the dander (which is often the cause of pet allergies) is trapped in their coat, rather than being released into the air when a dog sheds.
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Managing Pet Allergies
Please remember that, while these dogs are hypoallergenic, they still shed some dander, and they have saliva, and they pee – all of which can contain allergens to irritate sensitive allergies! In addition to this, their coats can pick up allergens from the atmosphere or from the outdoors, which need to be cleaned regularly.
To manage your pet allergies, your dog will need to be wiped or brushed regularly (outside), and washed reasonably regularly with a gentle shampoo, to keep them free of allergens. If they have hair that doesn't shed, then you also need to get them groomed every 6 weeks, to ensure their coat stays in good condition.
Having a pet dog is a wonderful thing, and can bring so much joy to a person or family. For those with dog allergies, choosing the right dog that sheds the least and has the characteristics you are looking for in your canine companion can ensure you have a wonderful addition to your family, while still remaining healthy.
So click around, read all you want, and hopefully you will find your perfect pet in this list of small hypoallergenic dogs.
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Peruvian Inca Orchid vs. Xoloitzcuintli
One holds a sacred place in Mexican society. In contrast, the other is considered the cultural heritage of Peru — no doubt, both Xoloitzcuintli and Peruvian Inca Orchids are ancient yet exotic dog breeds! These hypoallergenic dogs make fantastic pets for families with...
Is the Xoloitzcuintli Dog Hypoallergenic?
Are Xoloitzcuintles Dogs Hypoallergenic? Yes! Lack of hair makes Xolo dogs hypoallergenic. It also makes them a perfect pet choice for people with dog allergies. The Xoloitzcuintli Hypoallergenic Dog (skip this section) Xoloitzcuintli (pronunciation:...
Is the American Hairless Terrier Hypoallergenic?
Is the American Hairless Terrier Hypoallergenic? 110 percent! American Hairless Terrier hypoallergenic dogs' lack of hair makes them a perfect companion for people prone to dog allergies! The American Hairless Terrier Hypoallergenic Dog (skip this section) A...
Is the Dandie Dinmont Terrier Hypoallergenic?
Is the Dandie Dinmont TerrierHypoallergenic? Yes! Dandie Dinmont Terriers are hypoallergenic dogs. They hardly shed or drool. The Dandie Dinmont Terrier Hypoallergenic Dog (skip this section) Dandie Dinmont Terrier hypoallergenic dogs were originally bred on...
Is the Lowchen a Hypoallergenic Dog?
Is the Lowchen a Hypoallergenic Dog? Yes! The Lowchen is a hypoallergenic dog breed that hardly sheds or drools. The Hypoallergenic Lowchen (skip this section) Bred to be the ultimate companion to humans — the nature of the Lowchen hypoallergenic dog will make...
Is the Norwich Terrier Hypoallergenic?
Are Norwich Terriers Hypoallergenic Dogs? 110 percent! This perky and plucky pooch makes the perfect playmate for allergy sufferers! The Hypoallergenic Norwich Terrier Inquisitive, lovable, and spritely, the cute-as-a-(furry)-button Norwich Terrier is...
Are Miniature Bull Terrier Hypoallergenic?
Is the Miniature Bull Terrier Hypoallergenic? You bet! Unlike its standard cousin, the Miniature Bull Terrier sheds little hair and is ideal for those with fur intolerances! The Hypoallergenic Miniature Bull Terrier It's a Bull Terrier — but a...
Are Lakeland Terriers Hypoallergenic?
Are Lakeland Terriers Hypoallergenic Dogs? Yes, they are! With a low propensity to drool, and a wiry coat that sheds little — the Lakeland is a superior hypoallergenic doggie! The Hypoallergenic Lakeland Terrier Things in life typically come in threes —...
Are Silky Terriers Hypoallergenic?
Are Silky Terriers Hypoallergenic Dogs? Yes! With a distinctive silky and smooth coat that doesn't shed, he's the ultimate allergy-friendly pooch! The Hypoallergenic Silky Terrier All that hair, right? It's true that the wonderful coat of the Silky Terrier is possibly...
Are Australian Terriers Hypoallergenic?
Are Australian Terriers Hypoallergenic? 100 percent! With a harsh, dense, and waterproof double coat — the Australian Terrier is the perfect companion for pet parents with intolerances! The Hypoallergenic Australian Terrier One look at the Australian Terrier's thick...
Are Affenpinschers Hypoallergenic Dogs?
Are Affenpinschers Hypoallergenic? Indeed they are! Having a low-shedding coat and with little propensity to drool makes them perfect for allergy sufferers! The Hypoallergenic Affenpinscher With a confidence that's off the scale, a hunger to explore, and...
Are Brussels Griffons Hypoallergenic Dogs?
Are Brussels Griffon Hypoallergenic Dogs? Yes, they are! With little shedding, hardly any dander and little proclivity to slobber or drool—they're a wonderfully compact hypoallergenic doggie! The Brussels Griffon Hypoallergenic Dog With its strong sense of...
Are Norfolk Terriers Hypoallergenic Dogs?
Are Norfolk Terriers Hypoallergenic Dogs? Absolutely! This tenacious tiny terrier is ideal for allergy sufferers who need a low-shedding pooch. The Hypoallergenic Norfolk Terrier Friendly, feisty, and fearless, the completely adorable Norfolk Terrier...
Are Coton de Tulear Dogs Hypoallergenic?
Is the Coton de Tulear Hypoallergenic? You bet! With virtually no-shedding, low dander, and slobber free—it's an ideal hypoallergenic pooch! The Hypoallergenic Coton de Tulear You have enough to worry about, without suffering coughs, sneezes, and skin issues...
Is the Cockapoo Hypoallergenic?
Are Cockapoos Hypoallergenic? Too right! Lacking any slobbering traits, a coat which doesn't shed, and a low dander count… it's a wonderful hypoallergenic dog. The Hypoallergenic Cockapoo With an outgoing and loving personality that's constantly optimistic and...
Are Scottish Terriers Hypoallergenic Dogs?
If you're looking for a spirited side-kick with an attitude problem, a Scottish Terrier might be the dog for you! These short little spitfires are very brave, very determined, and very loyal. It's easy to confuse a Scotty with a Schnauzer. If you do, they'll almost...
Are Maltipoos Hypoallergenic Dogs?
The Quick, Easy Guide to Hypoallergenic Maltipoo Dogs! The Maltipoo is a small hypoallergenic dog. They rarely shed and are great for apartments. What's on this page? At the end of our article, we have a "Maltese Personality Test" where we will tell you if a Maltipoo...
Are Cavapoos Hypoallergenic Dogs?
Are Cavapoos Hypoallergenic? Yes! The Cavapoo or Cavoodle is a hypoallergenic dog breed that hardly sheds or drools. (updated April 2020) The Cavapoo, also known as Cavoodle, is a cross between a miniature or toy poodle and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. In...
Are Border Terriers Hypoallergenic Dogs?
Are Border Terriers Hypoallergenic? Yes! The Border Terrier is a small hypoallergenic dog breed that hardly sheds or drools. This alert and medium-energy dog was originally bred in England and Scotland. Mainly they were used for hunting foxes, otter, and other vermin...
Are Maltese Hypoallergenic Dogs?
Are Maltese Hypoallergenic? Yes! The Maltese is a small hypoallergenic dog breed that hardly sheds or drools. The cute, button-eyed Maltese is the prince of toy dogs. As the oldest toy dog breed, this Ancient Dog of Malta is believed to have originated on the island...
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Number of UK goods vehicles declines
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Goods traffic on UK roads has fallen 1.1 per cent, according to national statistics published by the Department for Transport.
Freight traffic on UK roads has fallen 1.1 per cent, according to national statistics published by the Department for Transport.
The DfT said that generally, traffic in Great Britain grew by an estimated 0.2 per cent between 2004 and 2005, which was less than estimated.
The findings show that overall, the number of goods vehicle (excluding light vans) operating on UK roads, fell by 1.1 per cent.
The use of light vans increased, by an estimated 2.9 per cent in the same period.


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Japhet Mcneil(Howard Hoops Combine) Is The Smooth Talking New Yorker Not Preaching On TV But On The Court With Combine Sports
If your in an arena in Germany and have your ears on properly in radar mode, it is very possible you could hear a Japhet McNeil (183-PG-85, college: Bridgeport) smooth talking someone even when your in a line dreaming of sinking your teeth into a juicy German Hot Dog. Even if your totally preoccupied as your watching a food stand attendant prepare the scrumptious Hot Dog, you will notice Japhet McNeil no matter what. Even if you don't know him personally, just seeing him in front of you in his modern threads, massive wide simile and hearing his mesmerizing words, you could easily think that back in the day he was one of those guys that was loved in school and was popular. His smooth talking is something everyone notices. 'My wife tells me that! I guess that's from growing up in the heart of New York City. When I attended East Carolina Univ. The Southern people would say ' Jah your talking to fast ' and I would reply ' I'm not talking to fast, your just listening to slow', laughed Japhet McNeil. Japhet and I go way back and still have a nice relationship today after having first met during his rookie season in 2008-2009 when he balled for USC Heidelberg. I remember watching a game between TV Langen and USC Heidelberg and seeing his dazzling basketball talent for the first time. USC Heidelberg was a team that had another young and talented player named Jibril Hodges who is the son of NBA champion, NBA three point contest winner and Michael Jordan teammate of the early 90's Craig Hodges. The team also had a very young Danilo Barthel who currently is one of the big guns for the German national team at the Olympics in Japan. The American knew early on that Danilo Barthel was special. 'Sometimes when you see a kid and he has the goods you know he got that 'IT' Danillo Barthel had it', remembered Japhet McNeil. We met and understood each other masterfully and over the years a nice friendship developed as well as various interviews that today stands at 8. The first interview we did together was in 2009 and how could he forget when I invited him to my weekly basketball radio for Radio Fortuna in 2009 which at that time was the first ever weekly basketball radio show on German radio. '8 .That's the Number!!! 2009. Woooow!!! That's a blessing. I'm all about longevity. Father time is definitely undefeated. I Remember our first interview like it was yesterday. It was in Frankfurt. The set up was really cool. It reminded me of a radio station room. You gifted me a bottle of wine or maybe it was Sekt. Your hospitality was on point. I remember my girlfriend at the time, who is my wife presently accompanying me and she kept saying how cool the experience was on our way back to the city I lived in at that time. Honestly I've lost count on how many. But I do know that every time we're able to chop it up about basketball and life. It's always real. I truly enjoy our encounters and I appreciate and thanks your continued support and allowing me to express myself over the years! You mean a lot to the basketball community and I'm glad I'm able to share my continued journey through your journalism!! Your a legend Miles stay blessed', stressed Japhet McNeil. I love meeting Japhet again in arena's and it has happened on occasion in the last years in Frankfurt in Bonn. I'm always amazed to witness everyone that he knows. I remember over the years when he would watch his buddy fellow New York native and former Euroleague and Seton hall great Jordan Theodore (his brother from another mother) or observe him conduct passionate talk about basketball with coach Joey King who worked under top German coach John Patrick. Mcneil's smooth talking never eludes him and sometimes he inserts that special New Yorker language that I don't understand. I always wondered why he didn't go into acting. I could easily have seen him slip into the Eddie Murphy role in Beverly Hills Cop and watching him weasel out of jams. 'That's interesting you say that because I would love my daughters to go into acting. I'm a big movie guy. I watch all genres. Eddie Murphy is a big act to follow. He's one of the Goats ( Greatest Of All Time ) I'm not sure if I can play Eddie but you better believe if I put my mind to it I can come close. To believe is to achieve', warned Japhet McNeil. Instead of having gone the Hollywood route, he did something way better for the game of basketball. Instead of preaching on TV, he decided to keep preaching on the court.
Miles Schmidt-Scheuber and Japhet Mcneil in 2019
Even if Japhet McNeil who remembers ex easyCredit BBL player Wayne Bernard being his toughest cover in his rookie season is 36 years old, he is still playing professional ball today even if it isn't in the foreground anymore like usual as he has found another big Love called Combine Sports. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York and attended Christ The King High School where he led the team to a Catholic Division A title in 2003. He averaged 18,0ppg as a senior and finished with over 1,100 points and finished third on the school's all-time assist list behind future NBA players Omar Cook and Erick Barkley. He then had a steady NCAA career at East Carolina from 2003-2006 where he played 81 games. He then finished at Bridgeport University where ex NBA 229Cm player Manute Bol played as he averaged 16.6ppg, 4.0rpg, 4.9apg, StealsNCAA2-1 (4.0spg), FGP: 38.3%, 3PT: 34.6%, FT: 67.3%. He began his professional career in 2008 in Germany with USC Heidelberg averaging 14.8ppg, 3.1rpg, Assists-1 (7.9apg), Steals-1 (3.5spg), FGP: 45.4%, 3PT: 24.1%, FT: 63.3%. He belonged to the top players in the German Pro A and after that would carve out a solid professional career. He brought his talent to Finland to Kori-Konkarit Loimaa (Finland-1st Division) and also played two seasons for Schieren Black Frogs (Luxembourg-N2). But somehow he found a second home in Germany where he would always come back to and play. He also had experience with teams BG Karlsruhe (Pro A),BSW Sixers (Pro B), 1 FC Kaiserslauteren (Regionalliga) and DJK Nider-Olm (Regionalliga 2). Despite his age, he has always kept in shape mainly because of his new baby and business Combine Sports which has allowed him to still compete and play the game he cherishes. 'I am still playing professional. I say that proudly because the journey hasn't been easy you constantly have to find ways to reinvent yourself because it's a young man's sport. Off course you can play at an older age but your glory days are when your in your early to late twenties. The body recovers faster. Younger legs. You have less responsibility in life. The list goes on. The last team I was signed to was DJK Nieder-Olm. Regionaliga-2. Due to COVID 19 we were not able to play a full season. For a numerous amount of reasons I decided that playing at a lower level in Germany would be beneficial for the current phase I am in pertaining to my life', stated Japhet McNeil.
Miles Schmidt-Scheuber and Japhet Mcneil in the Fraport arena in Frankfurt in 2016
So let's fast forward to 2021. At the moment as usual Japhet McNeil who remembers ex NBA players Travis Diener and Darius Washington being his toughest covers in the NCAA is in Germany and has declined to take a trip back home to New York to visit family and friends as he has preferred to get a jump on some opportunities. 'Basketball is great and has been great to me, I will continue to use basketball as a tool. The possibilities are endless', warned Japhet McNeil. One of those great new opportunities has been teaming up with Ron Howard to form the Howard Hoops Combine which will run from August 5th to the 9th in Germany. Life has been extremely tough for everyone in the last year and a half with COVID and obviously has affected him in many ways which is very understandable. 'First and foremost. I'd like to send out my condolences & prayers to the families that experienced losing a loved one / ones due to COVID 19. I Also want to highlight the people who was tested positive and was able to beat COVID 19. I had a few challenges with COVID 19 but the biggest challenge I'd say was not knowing. I'm thousands of miles away from my family & Parents. God forbid if any one of them would have came down with Covid. There's NO WAY that I could get home and aid them. It was a zoo. Travel bans in full effect, hospitals wouldn't allow family members to visit patients, you couldn't even have a proper burial. Really tough time that our world experienced. I'm very happy that we are returning to a sense of Normalcy', stressed Japhet McNeil. By nature he is a very upbeat human being who is always good for a joke and having a good time, but COVID also has given him time to reflect on serious things and helped him learn new things. 'Going through this time period that I've encountered off the court with Covid made me appreciate the little things that we have in life. For example. Going to a restaurant of your choice, taking trips with family to see family, the option of going to the gym to hoop and most importantly the health of your loved ones. As a man I value those things a lot more and it taught me to never take life for granted', warned Japhet McNeil.
Before becoming a part of the Howard Hoops Combine, the Queens native who has Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson and Lebron James on his personal NBA Mount Rushmore first had to build up Combine Sports something he has done successfully, but with COVID he met many new challenges. 'Building my own business and brand was always part of my plan. My only problem was always being on the move. I never got the opportunity to sit down and actually map out the direction I wanted to go in because I was always chasing the next basketball contract. When COVID hit that forced me to sit down and really think about what's next. Life after basketball. I had to find something that I was just as passionate about and for most athletes that's not an easy task. This COVID period gave me some time that I needed to get my mind right mentally. It allowed me to get my paper work in order so that I can gain Dual Citizenship. American & German Passports, I accomplished that. It also allowed me to spend quality time with my wife and daughters which validated the reason for me playing at a lower level with a less strenuous schedule. The COVID period allowed me to set the blueprint for my business / brand and execute. I began investing in the market. My main goal was to gain in life because it was so much time taken away due to our COVID 19 rough patch', warned Japhet McNeil. He has built up Combine Sports steadily over the years and continues to build it up. It may not have been the best choice in his life now, but I bet it's at second place tied with his wife. 'What we do at Combine Sports is basketball skill development. I wanted to find a way to sculpt our younger generations through basketball. My intent is to introduce and instill the things I've learned from the game of basketball to all nationalities, to all people whether your black, blue, yellow, green, white, or orange!! In this world hate and racism still exist, but through competition and sports we become one. I've met some of my closest friends from competing on the basketball court and they had different backgrounds, had different beliefs, dressed differently and spoke differently as well. The one thing we had in common was our will to be better basketball players and our will to win. A Universal language!!! I've learned so much by being open minded and it made me a better leader, player, trainer, person, father, son, friend, Husband. Hopefully I can spread that amongst the people I encounter with Combine Sports. – The best Choice I could have made at this phase in life is Josie and Jiana Mcneil. My daughters. Everything stems from them. They are the reason why I work smarter & harder', warned Japhet McNeil. Some guys go into coaching or get normal 9-5 jobs while others just want to remain on the court and help the youth of today get better. 'I love to develop and train players. I'm very passionate about it. Basketball has been my job ever since I can remember. I got free gear, free trips, through AAU, my tuition paid in full at Christ the King High School b/c of basketball. Awarded a full athletic scholarship for college. A 12 year playing career as a professional athlete overseas. I wanted to find a way to stay in the field without feeling like it's a job. I'm able to train players that I've competed against. Players that are still playing professional. I train JBBL Players as well as NBBL players here in Germany. Last week My bro Tyrone Nash a Notre Dame University standout that also played in the BBL here in Germany called me up and booked some sessions. My BROSKI Jordan Theodore Ex Unics player, just signed to a team in Tokyo plans to come punch the clock with Combine Sports. I'm not big on name dropping because just as I look forward on training those great players, I'm looking forward to training my 8 year old client whose parents sacrifice their time. Drive them to and from the workout. Sit and watch the workout. Doing all of the above after working their 9-5 shift. The real MVP's! The future for Combine Sports is to become a international household name for developing basketball players. I want to continue to build the brand. Grow my following with the Combine Sports Clothing brand. (Combine-Sport.Com ). I want to help young European basketball athletes attend High Schools and Universities on full athletic scholarships in America using my connections I've made throughout my career. I want to have the option of helping basketball athletes from America come play professional in Europe. The options are limitless. My short term goal is to invest in a location that I can build a Combine Sports Basketball lab. That's the main problem in Germany. Resources. A Gym. A Vertimax machine, the shooting Gun machine, high quality modern training equipment that enables the athlete ETC. Once you own a space with a basketball court. You can set the bar!! Ownership!! That is the short term Goal', stressed Japhet McNeil.
Networking is something that is done everywhere to help build connections and just help a product grow and with Japhet McNeil and Ron Howard coming together to join forces is a no brainer. Ron Howard is the God Father of helping unknown players and sometimes with no resumes help attain their dream of becoming a professional basketball player. Ron Howard also played professional ball in Europe at the same time as Japhet McNeil. Howard formed Howard Hoops in 2015 and the German basketball community is so small. but why did it take so long to come together? 'Ron and I go way back. We used to see each other out all the time at events whether it was in Frankfurt or Kaiserslautern on and off the court. We had mutual friends. I respected his basketball mind and his will to help basketball players and he respected mine. We've had several conversations on where or what could we bring to the table together. Our main objective is to give back, to help the next person change their surroundings, change their lives through basketball. We came up with the Howard Hoops Combine. Your Right about that. The German basketball community is small. I guess it was more about timing. We are trying to recover from a pandemic. A lot of players lost out on opportunities to play overseas. Seasons for European basketball Clubs were affected by the pandemic tremendously. Sponsorships were cut. That means less money for budget. So many factors played apart. When you look around there's not to many platforms that allows players to come display their talent and earn a professional contract to play overseas basketball. Not in Europe!!! Coaches in Europe or Club managers receive 25 emails with game film a day from different players and agents. That can be overwhelming for the club and coaching staff. A lot of players become lost in the pile of emails. We want to create and build an atmosphere where players can be seen or talked to directly by European coaches, agents, or club managers. With hopes of signing a contract to start their career or further their careers', stated Japhet McNeil. It is too bad that they never actually faced off on the court. That would have been a brutal basketball battle. ' I heard Ron was a Dawg!! If he attacked his opponents like he does his goals then I have no doubts about his hooping ability!! He's a lefty. Lefty's are uncanny, very hard to guard', said Japhet McNeil. The combination of Howard and Mcneil with their talent of finding players, placing them on pro teams and developing their skills is one of a kind. 'Our Main Goal is to create a platform that basketball players can use to earn a professional contract to play overseas basketball. Not only Americans. We hope to have all nationalities. The best player for the job. We aim to build relationships with players, agents, agencies, club managers and coaches. To build trust worthy relations that if a player or team is needed we are able to help both parties. When it all boils down to having two individuals with a lot of experience in Europe that's passionate about the game of basketball. Passionate about helping basketball players change their lives. Both platforms Howard Hoops and Howard Hoops Combine's general purpose is to use basketball as a tool. Ron Howard has encountered and helped so many basketball players through and through. I have in different ways as well. Now we are Combining our powers as a unit to continue to push the basketball culture forward', warned Japhet McNeil. The Howard HOOPS Combine will have the biggest roster ever and will play games against each other as well against German regionalliga teams Ibbenburen and Bigger See where German coaches and Gm's will be in attendance to observe the raw talent.
Miles Schmidt-Scheuber and Jahet Mcneil in the Telekom Dome in Bonn Germany in 2019
Even with the Howard Hoops Combine being his biggest issue at the moment, the American is always good for giving his two cents on certain basketball topics and he is never short with his answers. Americans living in the states who never saw Luka Doncic develop in Europe with Real Madrid continue to be slow on giving him the deserved props on his ability. But if you ask American players in Europe who played against him years back and saw him play give him more respect. It isn't any different with Japhet McNeil. But he doesn't share the same opinion with me yet that he is currently a top 3 NBA player. 'I'm Very high on Luka 'Magic 'Doncic. But what I'm not big on is giving a player that top 3 tag so easily. The basketball culture known for that. They love the New kid on the block ready and willing to give that top 3 tag away. For other great players they drag them through the mud to get that tag. They have to be Superman in order to get that top 3 tag. They pick and choose swayed by what have you done for me lately, it's funny how quickly sports fans forget. That goes for the fans and sports analyst. First they love you and then they hate you. Then they Love you again! Thats a Hov Bar – Luka is dead NICE!! But he's not top 3 yet. Has to learn how to lead. He knows how to win. Won in Europe. Won several awards individually. He has to figure out how in the NBA. Last but not least Luka has to make free throws! He supposed to be shooting 85% and up! He is a great young talent. Slovenia and the NBA will be in great hands', expressed Japhet McNeil. He also gave his personal opinion about where Chris Paul is in the top point guards of all-time and how team USA will fair at the Olympics. 'With or W/o a ring I believe Chris Paul ( CP3) is Top 5 PG's all time. He will be a first ballot hall of famer. It's only right I go with team USA. I do think it's a lot of parity in teams. When you look at every roster you see a legit NBA player or two or a Very good European player listed. I won't be surprised if team USA doesn't win it all. I can tell you that', commented Japhet McNeil. You also have to be very careful when asking him about the biggest basketball debate question currently about who is the greatest of all-time Michael Jordan or Lebron James. I mean how can one seriously omit Kobe Bryant in this discussion? 'Michael 1 ( A ) Kobe 1 ( B ) LBJ 1 ( C ) – It's the highlight watching fans and the sports analyst who never played a lick of basketball that don't have The late GREAT Kobe Bryant In the GOAT discussion. The real students of the game. Current and past NBA players mention Bean in the Greatest of all time discussions!! Real Hoopers know!!! #BlackMamba', warned Japhet McNeil. Of course, he is no stranger to my last question in interviews 'what was the last movie that you saw', but this time, he gave his feedback on the Coming To America sequel and why they should have left it alone. 'I did see the sequel to Coming to America and I took it for what it was worth. It's hard to top part one. I think they prolonged the sequel. All the actors in the sequel accomplished and established. As opposed to part one no Hollywood household names. The actors and actresses were trying to be where they're at financially as actors in the sequel. It's a DIFFERENT Funny way more Raw', warned Japhet McNeil. In my book Japhet McNeil could easily moonlight as an actor, but then again if that didn't work, he could easily be a movie critic.
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Communism works so well, soldiers had to push Fidel Castro's hearse because the Cuban government couldn't find a working truck
This is Part Three of a series on how incentives affect the distribution of energy/resources throughout a society and the destructive effects of social systems like communism. (Part One and Part Two are here)
But before we criticize these programs too much, let's understand where they came from:
The Industrial Revolution, which began around 1760 in Britain, created mass economic and social dislocation as millions of workers were forced off their farms and flooded into the cities.
Communism: the world's single biggest source of murder in the 20th century
The booms and busts of the unregulated (and regulated) industrial economy caused sudden, unpredictable unemployment and, without a social safety net of some kind, starvation. This suffering unleashed Marxism, which soon transformed into an anti-capitalist, anti-Western ideology and tore across the planet, demolishing regimes and killing millions of people.
Reason.com attributes 94 million deaths to communism. The Black Book of Communism places the total between 85 and 100 million people. Historian on the Warpath totals almost 150 million people killed or murdered by communist governments, not including war deaths. (Wikipedia estimates that WWII killed, between battle deaths in Europe and the Pacific, disease, starvation, and genocide, 50-80 million people–and there were communists involved in WWII, also.)
The US and Europe, while not explicitly communist, have adopted many of socialism's suggestions: Social Security, Welfare, Medicaid, etc., many in direct response to the Great Depression.
These solutions are, at best, a stop-gap measures to deal with the massive changes new technologies are still causing. Remember, humans were hunter-gatherers for 190,000 years. We had a long time to get used to being hunter gatherers. 10,000 years ago, a few of us started farming, and developed whole new cultures. A mere 200 years ago, the Industrial Revolution began spreading through Europe. Today, the "post industrial information economy" (or "robot economy," as I call it,) is upon us, and we have barely even begun to adapt.
We are in an age that is–out of our 200,000 years of existence–entirely novel and the speed of change is increasing. We have not yet figured out how to cope, how to structure society for the long-term so that we don't accidentally break it.
We have gotten very good, however, at creative accounting to make it look like we are producing more than we are.
By the mid-1950s, the Industrial Revolution had brought levels of prosperity never before seen in human history to the US (and soon to Europe, Japan, Korea, etc.) But since the '70s, things seem to have gone off-track.
People fault outsourcing and trade for the death of the great American job market, but technical progress and automation also deserve much of the blame. As the Daily Caller reports:
McDonald's has announced plans to roll out automated kiosks and mobile pay options at all of its U.S. locations, raising questions about the future of its 1.5 million employees in the country and around the globe.
Roughly 500 restaurants in Florida, New York and California now have the automated ordering stations, and restaurants in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C., will be outfitted in 2017, according to CNNMoney.
The locations that are seeing the first automated kiosks closely correlate with the fight for a $15 minimum wage. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a new $15 minimum wage for New York state in 2016, and the University of California has proposed to pay its low-wage employees $15.
There is an obvious trade-off between robots and employees: where wages are low enough, there is little incentive to invest capital in developing and purchasing robots. Where wages are high, there is more incentive to build robots.
The Robot Economy will continue to replace low-skilled, low-wage jobs blue collar workers and young people used to do. No longer will teenagers get summer jobs at McDonald's. Many if not most of these workers are simply extraneous in the modern economy and cannot be "retrained" to do more information-dependent work. The expansion of the Welfare State, education (also paid for with tax dollars,) and make-work administrative positions can keep these displaced workers fed and maybe even "employed" for the foreseeable future, but they are not a long-term solution, and it is obvious that people in such degraded positions, unable to work, often lose the will to keep going.
But people do not appreciate the recommendation that they should just fuck off and die already. That's how you get communist revolutions in the first place.
Mass immigration of unskilled labor into a market already shrinking due to automation / technological progress is a terrible idea. This is Basic Econ 101: Supply and Demand. If the supply of labor keeps increasing while the demand for labor keeps decreasing, the cost of labor (wages) will plummet. Likewise, corporations quite explicitly state that they want immigrants–including illegal ones–because they can pay them less.
In an economy with more demand than supply for labor, labor can organize (unions) and advocate in behalf of its common interests, demanding a higher share of profits, health insurance, pensions, cigarette breaks, etc. When the supply of labor outstrips demand, labor cannot advocate on its own behalf, because any uppity worker can simply be replaced by some desperate, unemployed person willing to work for less and not make a fuss.
Note two professions in the US that are essentially protected by union-like organizations: doctors and lawyers. Both professions require years of expensive training at exclusive schools and high scores on difficult tests. Lawyers must also be members of their local Bar Associations, and doctors must endure residency. These requirements keep out the majority of people who would like to join these professions, and ensure high salaries for most who do.
While Residency sounds abjectly awful, the situation for doctors in Britain and Ireland sounds much worse. Slate Star Codex goes into great detail about the problems:
Many of the junior doctors I worked with in Ireland were working a hundred hours a week. It's hard to describe what working 100 hours a week is like. Saying "it means you work from 7 AM to 9 PM every day including weekends" doesn't really cut it. Imagine the hobbies you enjoy and the people you love. Now imagine you can't spend time on any of them, because you are being yelled at as people die all around you for fourteen hours a day, and when you get home you have just enough time to eat dinner, brush your teeth, possibly pay a bill or two, and curl up in a ball before you have to go do it all again, and your next day off is in two weeks.
And this is the best case scenario, where everything is spaced out nice and even. The junior doctors I knew frequently worked thirty-six hour shifts at a time (the European Court of Human Rights has since declined to fine Ireland for this illegal practice). …
The psychological consequences are predictable: after one year, 55% of junior doctors describe themselves as burned out, 30% meet criteria for moderate depression, and 12% report considering suicide.
A lot of American junior doctors are able to bear this by reminding themselves that it's only temporary. The worst part, internship, is only one year; junior doctorness as a whole only lasts three or four. After that you become a full doctor and a free agent – probably still pretty stressed, but at least making a lot of money and enjoying a modicum of control over your life.
In Britain, this consolation is denied most junior doctors. Everyone works for the government, and the government has a strict hierarchy of ranks, only the top of which – "consultant" – has anything like the freedom and salary that most American doctors enjoy. It can take ten to twenty years for junior doctors in Britain to become consultants, and some never do.
I don't know about you, but I really don't want my doctor to be suicidal.
Now, you may notice that Scott doesn't live in Ireland anymore, and similarly, many British doctors to take their credentials and move abroad as quickly as possible. The British medical system would be forced to reform if not for the influx of foreign doctors willing to put up with hell in exchange for not living in the third world.
From the outside, many of these systems, from underfunded pensions to British medicine, look just fine. Indeed, an underfunded pension will operate just fine until the day it runs out of money. Until that day, everyone who clams the pension is in deep trouble looks like Chicken Little, running around claiming that the sky is falling.
There's a saying in finance: The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
BTW, the entire state of California is in deep trouble, from budget problems to insane property tax laws. They already consume far more water than they receive, (and are set for massive forest fires,) but vote for increased population via immigration with Mexico. California's economy is being propped up by–among other things–masses of cash flowing into Silicon Valley. This is Dot.Com Bubble 2.0, and like the first, it will pop–the only question is when. As Reuters reported last February:
LinkedIn Corp's (LNKD.N) shares closed down 43.6 percent on Friday, wiping out nearly $11 billion of market value, after the social network for professionals shocked Wall Street with a revenue forecast that fell far short of expectations. …
As of Thursday, LinkedIn shares were trading at 50 times forward 12-month earnings, making it one of the most expensive stocks in the tech sector.
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) trades at 29.5 times forward earnings, Facebook Inc (FB.O) at 33.8 times and Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) at 20.9 times.
Even after the selloff, LinkedIn's shares may still be overvalued, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine data.
LinkedIn should be trading at $71.79, a 30 percent discount to the stock's Friday's low, according to StarMine's Intrinsic Valuation model, which takes analysts' five-year estimates and models the growth trajectory over a longer period.
Linked in has since been bought out by Microsoft for $26 billion. As Fortune notes, this is absolutely insane, as there is no way Microsoft can make back that much money off of LinkedIn:
Source Fortune
"Ebitda" stands for Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation. There is absolutely no way that LinkedIn, a social network that barely turns a profit, is worth more than Sun, EMC, Compaq, and Time Warner.
Shares normally trade around 20x a company's previous year's earnings, though right now the S & P's P/E ratio is around 25. In 2016, LinkedIn's P/E ratio has been around 180. (Even crazier, their ratio in 2015 was -1,220, because they lost money.)
Ever wonder where all of that money from QE is going? It's turning into Ferraris cruising around San Francisco, and LinkedIn is not the only offender.
But these companies will not maintain fantasy valuations forever.
(While we're at it: Why the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went so Wrong:
When the deal was announced on Jan. 10, 2000, Stephen M. Case, a co-founder of AOL, said, "This is a historic moment in which new media has truly come of age." His counterpart at Time Warner, the philosopher chief executive Gerald M. Levin, who was fond of quoting the Bible and Camus, said the Internet had begun to "create unprecedented and instantaneous access to every form of media and to unleash immense possibilities for economic growth, human understanding and creative expression."
The trail of despair in subsequent years included countless job losses, the decimation of retirement accounts, investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department, and countless executive upheavals. Today, the combined values of the companies, which have been separated, is about one-seventh of their worth on the day of the merger.)
So, that was a bit of a long diversion into the sheer artificiality of much of our economy, and how sooner or later, the Piper must be paid.
When I try to talk to liberal friends about the problems of increasing automation and immigration on the incomes of the American working class, their response is that "We just need more regulation."
In this cheerful fantasy, we can help my friend who cannot afford health insurance by requiring his employer to provide health insurance–when in reality, my friend now cannot find a job that lasts for more than a month because employers just fire him before the health insurance requirement kicks in. In fantasy land, you can protect poor people by making it harder for landlords to evict them, but in the real world, this makes it even harder for the poorest to get long-term housing because no landlord wants to take the chance of getting stuck with them. In fantasy land, immigration doesn't hurt wages because you can just legislate a higher minimum wage, but the idea that you can legislate a wage that the market does not support is an absurdity worthy only of the USSR. In the real world, your job gets replaced with a robot.
This is not to say that we can't have some form of welfare or social safety net to deal with the dislocations and difficulties of our new economy. Indeed, some form of social welfare may, in the long run, make the economic system more robust by allowing people to change jobs or weather temporary unemployment without dying. Nor does it mean that any inefficiency is going to break the system. But long-term, using legislation to create a problem and then using more legislation to prevent the market from correcting it increases inefficiency, and you are now spending resources to enforce both laws.
Just like Enron's "creative accounting," you cannot keep hiding losses indefinitely.
You can have open-borders capitalism with minimal welfare, in which the most skilled thrive and survive and the least skilled die out. This is more-or-less the system in Singapore (see here for a discussion of how they use personal savings accounts instead of most welfare; a discussion of poverty in Singapore; and Singapore's migration policies.)
Or you can have a Japanese or Swedish-style welfare state, but no open borders, (because the system will collapse if you let in just anyone who wants free money [hint: everyone.])
But you cannot just smash two different systems together, heap more laws on top of them to try to prevent the market from responding, and expect it to carry on indefinitely producing the same levels of wealth and well-being as it always has.
The laws of thermodynamics are against you.
(Return to Part One and Part Two.)


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