The full poll and some crosstabs are in the subscribers-only section. Here's a Southtown article on the poll that is to be released today.
Illinois voters say education funding is the leading issue in the race for governor, but only a slim majority are willing to pay more taxes to support low-income schools, according to a poll released today by Speak Out for Illinois Schools, a coalition of education and community organizations.
Forty-four percent of Illinois voters said education was the top issue in the November election, over issues like job creation, government waste and health care.
And nearly two-thirds of voters want to see an increase in the state share of funding for public education, compared to 24 percent who think it should remain at the same level.
But voters are split over whether they want to part with more of their hard-earned cash to fund education.
Just more than half are willing to pay more taxes to increase funding for low-income school districts. Samantha Anderson of Communities for Quality Education is optimistic about that 51 percent.
Funding for low-income schools was the only expense a majority of voters were willing to pay with a tax increase, the poll shows. Teacher training, school construction and programs for wayward youth, for example, garnered just 30 percent in favor of higher taxes.
Samantha shouldn't be too optimistic. Neither should politicians pushing a tax swap. 49/51 is hardly a mandate for a sweeping change in the way low-income school districts are funded. And with these percentages, assuming, of course, that they mean anything at all, any politicians pushing an income tax increase would be taking a huge risk.
I don't think too many taxpayers are willing to go that far.
In a statewide poll, more than half of respondents favor paying increased income or sales taxes in return for more education spending.
Sgoes up to 55% when school funding is paired with property tax relief, as in the most popular legislative proposal.
That's even bigger news. It means people recognize that the state's reliance on property taxes to fund education has to end.
Then consider the results in context: The elected official with the biggest bully pulpit has been aggressively opposed to these proposals for four solid years. Yet a very solid majority still supports them.
Imagine where those numbers would be if a strong leader advocated the position instead of trying to poison the well against it. I think it's reasonable to assume support of 65% or higher.
Or think of it this way: The concept of paying higher income or sales taxes in return for better education funding is more popular than any candidate for governor.
In the Capitol Fax, it said that voters, by a margin of 55%-41% favored the icome tax increase with a property tax swap and increased funding for education. That's exactly what SB 750 would have done. That's not a toss up%, that's a clear majority. I wish Topinka led Blago by this margin!
The problem we face regarding public education is not about a lack of money. It is a lack of leadership to tackle the sacred cows keeping public education in the 19th Century.
Until someone has the political courage to ask the right questions and take on these entrenched special interest groups, expect the extortion to continue.
New Jersey has reached the point where school taxes are driving the state into financial ruin; people are moving out, businesses are relocating, perpetuating this cycle of failure.
Switching from property taxes to something else is little more than justifying new funding sources for a broken system.
We will continue to see alternative schools grow in response to public school failure. It appears that instead of reforming our public education system, voters will merely avoid it. There is coming a day when enough children will not depend on public schools to justify the massive taxes spent on it. Then voters will demand a change.
Until then, expect to see politicians scurry around promising money we don't have to schools that do not educate.
I don't agree with Vanilla Man about the state of public education, but Spartacus, we had this whole discussion the other day — that's not what HB 750 would have done. HB 750 would have substantially increased the overall tax burden on middle-class families, increased education funding, and significantly reduced the property tax burden on businesses, particularly in south Cook County. I do believe that there's a tax increase out there that could command a veto-proof majority in both chambers, but right now I don't know if anybody's really looking for that, and it certainly isn't HB 750.
I guess this shows the triumph of misinformation provided to the public on school spending versus reality.
A lot of the response is based on how the question is asked.
Would you support raising your state income taxes by 67% to further subsidize a "low income" school district so that it can maintain an average teacher salary of over $81,000 for 10 months of work? (Ref www.isbe.net for Thornton HS district 205)?
Would you support raising your state income taxes by 67% to further subsidize a district with the 40% "low income" students (the state average) which provides retirement bonuses so that employees can retire on pensions over $75,000 per year at age 55?
Do you support ending teacher tenure job protection for low performing senior staff in Illinois "low income" public schools, so that more qualified staff may be hired to educate our children?
Do you support requiring "low income" school Boards to have a secured source of funding for staff contracts before approving those contracts, in order to prevent student programs from being put at risk due to deficit spending?
What do you think the response to this poll would be? Using the "low income" hook biases questions just as badly as the ones I've presented.
The problem is that heinous legislation such as HB750 isn't targeted just at "low income" schools. It would raise the foundation level which would also increase flat grants to even the most expensive ond overpriced schools.
Just about everyone would favor providing "adequate" funds for educating "low income" kids. The problem is that the bureaucracy saps the resources without delivering effective value for the expenditures.
Most people don't know that Illinois ranks ninth in the nation in spending per pupil, they think we're "49th" based on misinformation.
Most people think that our teachers are "underpaid", yet our instructional salaries rank third among states in the nation according to the NEA 2005 Rankings.
Education quality and funding in Illinois is clearly dysfunctinal, but effective solutions will never be achieved until ALL aspects of spending and funding equations are examined, not just the ones the unions and educrats want on the table.
OK, Rich, I tried posting a comment - no bad words or anything like that - and twice now it's bounced back with "Already said that!" - what's the deal? I know it's not because of any editorial direction, maybe a hosting malfunction?
Apparently, the public has figured out that overrelying on property taxes to fund schools is not fair to poor districts or to property owners.
How long will it take legislators?
Only one party is listening and promising to pass something like HB 750 to more fairly fund low income schools…and that party is not the Democrats or Republicans.
Your propensity to spew out false figures and outright lies is one of the reasons that you will never be elected to anything.
To me, this is good news for Topinka. For her, it couldn't get any better than making this election a choice between selling a long-term asset for a short term profit and increasing the revenue generating ability of another long-term asset.
Selling the lottery is a temporary solution that will guarantee we have the same problem in another 20 years. Topinka's plan alienates the current crunch without a drop-off in the future. Explained in those terms, which are as honest as they are easy to understand, Topinka could ride the wave education funding concern into the Mansion easily.
Feel free to check this out, bloggers.
Note: The District of Columbia is included in this survey, so I adjusted the rankings to only include the states.
This proves who the real liar is, "3 dollar" Bill!
VanillaMan and Bob make the lead in for the "let's just kill off public education" argument without going the full nine innings. Perhaps because they know their team can't hit major league pitching. It all sounds good a first but has long been discredited as yet another regressive policy from greedy Republicans.
This country and its prosperity are due in significant measure to the proposition that a public system of education is a key to our liberty and to tapping into the energy and best ideas of all our citizenry. Not maybe, not sort of. If you think you have a better idea than a robust system of public education - open to all, regardless of creed or income - fine. Go make your own country. Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Madison et. al. made this one and they were a whole lot smarter about these and about the nature and best course for mankind than you or me.
The job of the Democratic leadership in Springfield is to figure out how. 750 wasn't a very good start but it was a start. We need a credible bill now that can get passed. That will require the Democratic leadership to act like, well, leaders. Time for President Jones and Speaker Madigan to let the word out that we need a real bill in the post-election Veto Session that knocks down dependence upon State property taxes for school funding in exchange for something the poll shows that 54% would support, i.e. as close to a revenue-neutral increase in State sales and/or income taxes. Remember, in this case as in so many others, the perfect is the enemy of the good. We need a bill.
Once again, Rich Whitney holds the most popular position.
Mr. Whitney's position is just the Third Coming of 750, which is a non-starter. There are real reasons why 750 didn't make it, either time, and they're not of the "'Cause I Didn't Introduce It" variety as you might expect.
The quote is from Rob Lowe on the West Wing following a spirited argument against raising taxes for education.
As far as the "nine inning" baseball reference, we're the ones wanting to solve the problem, provide the quality of education for which we pay and our children deserve.
The lefty solutions are simply throwing more money into a dysfunctional system and hoping it somehow does some good.
We simply understand that there are structural impediments to providing quality public education in Illinois that throwing in tons of money won't address. We think those impediments should be removed prior to wasting more resources without positive effect.
You see, we student and taxpayer activists also believe that education is the "silver bullet" that can minimize poverty, create the well informed electorate that our Republic needs to survive, and become the instrument by which the US can also dominate the 21st Century.
The difference between us is that we know the educational bureaucracy will steal every silver bullet we provide, leaving us only with blanks with which to defend our children.
We just want to keep he ammo dry and safe from enemies so that we may use it when necessary.
funny I was just talking property tax to my small fry yesterday. he asked me how much I pay to send him to school. I think the thought was that he'd be happy to save me the money. I told him that I was paying for his schooling before he was even around and that i'll be paying for his kids schooling too through property taxes,even got into percentages I put the poor bugger to sleep. many people have problems w/it because once their kids are done–they aren't seeing the benefits. I personally don't have a problem w/the property tax system other than the fact that the distribution aspect is unfair. Don't know the solution–texas tried the Robin Hood thing and it got shot down. I thought the best aspect of 750 was putting some teeth into the service tax. we're going to a service economy–makes sense to me. I know their are certain services that would be a hardship on people to tax but really if you have the disposable income to pay for alot of the services people utilize then you should also have the wherewithall to pay a tax on said service.
and–in terms of there being problems with schools that you can't just throw money at–quite true although they need the money too. biggest problem is lack of parental involvement. always same people volunteering, same in every school. probably same in the home too w/homework etc. People want the bumper sticker on their car but they're not willing to put in the time w/their kids.
Q: If a bipartisan panel of experts has concluded that it takes a budget of $6400 in order to ensure that 2/3 of kids in a school system perform at grade level — before you even start taking into account special needs kids — but the state only provides $5400 per child, what percent of kids can we expect to perform at grade level?
Q: According to Chicago teachers, what is the number one thing that they would like to see additional school funding go for?
A: If you said E, you are correct.
Q: Whose job is it to remove bad teachers from the classroom?
Q: Who claims that 57% of American manufacturers have jobs they can't fill because they can't find qualified workers to fill them?
Q: Who blamed the ongoing loss of manufacturing jobs on the underperformance of Illinois schools?
Q: Who blamed the high vacancy rate in Chicago's downtown commercial properties on our over-reliance on local property taxes to fund education?
No one is actually "throwing money" at schools, which you would know if you ever read the school code and the myriad of checks and balances and red tape the average school district has to go through just to get the paltry some it does receive from the state. But complain to me about how "throwing money at the problem" when the state finally does start providing schools with the subsistence level of funding every education expert for the past 20 years has agreed is needed. Then, we'll talk.
I'm not saying Thornton is the model for statewide school funding reform. But it sounds to me like you need to be talking to the voters who elect the Thornton School District. Why should we hold back property tax relief in every other part of the state just because you're too lazy to get off your duff and run for school board? If thngs are as bad as you say, e-mail me and I'll be happy to volunteer for your campaign.
Meanwhile, the rest of us have got to move forward.
P.S. the average salary for PS teachers in Illinois ranked 6th, not 3rd. But if you think the money is so great, and the job is so easy, I'd love to see you get up in front of the classroom. Not ONE person I've made that challenge to has taken me up on it. You could be first, Bob.
thornton has lost funding due to the local ECONOMICS over the years. If the business tax base has decreased over the past decades (loss of steel industry and such in Harvery,Riverdale and surrounding communities). in turn,this has placed more burden on the homeowner. added to this the lack of increse in state aid. (54% to today's 36%) So Bob give the full story, not the snipit.
Education funding depends on property values. period. If there is something better, then put it to paper…or will we all settle for a casino?
Well put. By the way, there aren't many teachers retiring with $75,000 pensions where I live. Maybe, a few administrators, but it's a rare teacher in rural Illinois who earns $75,000 a year, much less retire with that much.
I agree 750 would be far preferable to gambling as a base of support for education, but as long as we have governors who pledge vetoes, that's the best we'll get.
Let me respond to each of your misstatements.
First, regarding the "Non-Partisan" EFAB committee that came up with the notorious foundation level for public education, it's a five person committee appointed by the Govenor made up of not one but TWO teacher union presidents, a former Democratic legislator who has served as a consultant to Chicago Public Schools, the executive Vice President of perhaps the most politically dependent bank in Chicago, and a Democratic Lawyer who chairs the committee. If you think this group's goal results in a "fair and balanced" evaluation of how much it should cost to educate a student in Illinois, I'd like to have some of whatever you're smoking.
As far as claims that the teacher union's main goal is not to fatten their pocket books, you are indeed naive.
Practically every teacher union negotiation begins with lowering class size "for the children" but ends up being about how much the increase in salaries and benefits will be.
"Poll talk" is just PR, reality happens at the negotiating table.
As far as removing poor quality teachers, I'd refer you to a study performed by a downstate reporter who did an extensive study of this earlier in the year. He found out that it's practically impossible to fire an incompetent tenured teacher. He found only a handful that were able to be removed in the last several years.
This means either that Meeks and his fellow travellers were lying about the quantity of "unqualified" teachers in Illinois public education, or the system is practically immovable in reagrds to getting rid of recalcitrant dead wood.
The reporter also found that the legal costs to remove an incomptetent, or even criminal, teacher, exceeds $100K. Most schools with large numbers of ineffective tenured teachers live with the problem, because they can't afford to get rid of the worst and hire the best under current Illinois law.
As far as manufacturers complaining that Illinois is doing a poor job of educating new workers, I couldn't agree more. Considering that the last reported spending in Illinois was over $9,000 per student according tho the NEA, and the "foundation level" by the highly biased EFAB committee is $6,400, it proves that we are NOT getting the value we're paying for as Illinois taxpayers. Thanks for making my point.
As far as landlords complaining that real estate taxes are too high and are affecting occupancy rates, OF COURSE they'd take that position.
I noticed you conveniently left out the point that lowering real estate taxes through fair compensation and benefits for staff could substantially reduce taxes. I'm all for that!
As far as your admonitions regarding my activism and dedication to education, I'll have you know I've run for school boards three times, and have become a major campaign target for the unions each time. In the last High School board election, the local teacher's union gave an unprecendented $10,000 to my opponents to help beat me. They've also "vetoed" my participation in non-voting Education, Finance, Building and Service Committees. The IEA, preventing diversity of opinion whenever possible.
As far leaving my six figure per year job to teach, I've done it. Because I have a Masters degree, over 100 semester hours of college science and 30 hours of math, I thought there might be a use for me in public education. I found out differently.
I learned to teach at the college level, and for a year I was mentored by some of the best staff you could ever find. My nationally normed teacher evaluations rose from the 30th poercentile to the the 70th percentile in my final semester. While teaching college at nights, I did substitute teaching in the Southland at over 14 high schools, and quickly got a basis of comparison by whioh to form opinions and what works and what doesn't in education.
Following a year training as a teacher at the college level, I found that there were no opportunities for me in public education.
You see, because I didn't take courses in Political science (2), US History, "History and Philosophy of Public Education", American Literature, and about a dozen other classes irrelevant to teaching high school science, the great state of Illinois deemed I was "unqualified" to teach sceince and math to disadvantaged children. Instead, they let teachers whose understanding of science and math was less than elementary provide their education, with predicatably poor results.
Instead of working in public education as I wanted, I got a job teaching honors and conceptual physics at one of the most competitive private high schools in Illinois.
After two years I left teaching to become an engineering manager for dozens of school renovation and addition projects for far less money than I could've earned managing refinery and power projects.
I've paid my dues and walked the walk, Yellow Dog.
By the way, I'll be running for the school board again next spring. I'm sure the unions will be out in force against me, and any debate about reforming education.
Can I still count on your support?
Regarding teacher salaries and benefits, I suggest you check out the Teacher Retirement System data found on www.thechampion.org. I'll bet you'll be amazed at how much you may have underestimated how much yoour school staff is REALLY making.
The problem with Thornton, which is a microcosm of most low income, minority, corruption and union dominated systems, is not that outside funding was reduced, but that they grew their salaries, benefits and patronage much faster than any State or Federal revenue growth could sustain.
sharon Voliva and her Board had tough choices to make; do they limit staff salary and benefit growth and allocate resources to give the students the tutoring and extra service they need, or do they let the unions increase salaries at such a rate that necessary and desirable programs for the kids are shut down.
sharon Voliva and her bunch chose the latter.
It wasn't the State or the Feds.
The simple fact is that they knew that property values were declining for a number of reasons, gangs, aging infrastructure, and governmental corruption.
They knew they couldn't afford to pay teachers $27K above state average, and they couldn't afford to pay administrators $17K above state average, but they did it anyway.
What's happening at Thornton is what will happen to other such schools if we raise taxes and flood them with money without safeguards that the money won't be grabbed by jackals without providing quality education to the children.
that's why HB750 and its onerous clones must never pass unless we put in protection of the new funding, and provide the tools for school boards to control employee costs and retention.


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Q: Can you use logical operators in BigQuery to select different dates depending on current date? At my work we run a report a couple times a week to pull some information from BigQuery.
We run the report every Monday and Thursday.
I'd like to automate the report to run on these days and want to know if I can put in some logic so that if I run the report on a Monday, it runs the data for the previous business week (Sunday - Saturday), and if I run the report on a Thursday, it runs the report for the current business week so far (Sunday - Wednesday).
On another report where I only run the report for previous week I use:
select last_day(current_date - 14, week(monday)) as lw_week_start, last_day(current_date - 7, week(sunday)) as lw_week_end
And to get the current week dates I can use:
select last_day (current_date -7, week(monday)), (current_date -1)
So can I put both of these in my query, and use some sort of logic to say, if I run on a Monday use the first one, if I run on a Thursday, use the second one?
Thanks

A: You can define the period as a CTE (or if you prefer as variables) and then use that information in the query:
with period as (
      select (case when extract(dayofweek from current_date) = 2
                   then last_day(date_add(current_date, interval -14 day), week(monday))
                   when extract(dayofweek from current_date) = 5
                   then last_day(date_add(current_date, interval -7 day), week(monday))
              end) as lw_week_start,
             (case when extract(dayofweek from current_date) = 2
                   then last_day(date_add(current_date, interval -7 day), week(sunday)
                   when extract(dayofweek from current_date) = 5
                   then date_add(current_date, interval -1 day)

              end) as lw_week_end

     )
select . . .
from period cross join
     . . .

Notes:

*

*This only includes Mondays and Thursdays.  I imagine you want to extend this to the other days of the week.

*current_date is the current date UTC.  You might want to include your timezone:
  select current_date('America/New_York')

A: /* if current_date is monday then it will return previous week report
else it will give report for present week for any other current_date */

IF (EXTRACT (DAYOFWEEK FROM CURRENT_DATE)) = 2 THEN
select last_day(current_date - 14, week(monday)) as lw_week_start, last_day(current_date - 7, week(sunday)) as lw_week_end;
ELSE
select last_day (current_date -7, week(monday)) as week_start, (current_date -1) as previous_day ;
END IF

Scripting on BigQuery
BigQuery Date fuctions

A: Simply add below to your where clause
where your_date_column in unnest(
  case extract(dayofweek from current_date())
  when 2 then generate_date_array(last_day(current_date() - 14, week(monday)), last_day(current_date() - 7, week(sunday)))
  when 5 then generate_date_array(last_day (current_date() - 7, week(monday)), current_date() - 1)
  end
)

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He's current research agenda focuses on cross-system and interagency collaboration between child welfare and specialized service providers, including those operating in substance abuse treatment, mental health and family courts. She approaches child maltreatment prevention and intervention from a systems perspective. Her work on child abuse and neglect research incorporates quantitative and mixed methodology, secondary national survey data and the collection of primary data at the county, state and national levels.
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Franklin Pierce (American National Biography)
Larry Gara, "Pierce, Franklin," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00788.html.
American National Biography Online
Personal and public tragedy plagued Pierce's presidency and undoubtedly contributed to his serious drinking problem. He was president at a time that called for almost superhuman skills, yet he lacked such skills and never grew into the job to which he had been elected. His view of the Constitution and the Union was from the Jacksonian past. He never fully understood the nature or depth of Free Soil sentiment in the North. He was able to negotiate a reciprocal trade treaty with Canada, to begin the opening of Japan to western trade, to add land to the Southwest, and to sign legislation for the creation of an overseas empire. His Cuba and Kansas policies led only to deeper sectional strife. His support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act and his determination to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act helped polarize the sections. Pierce was hard-working and his administration largely untainted by graft, yet the legacy from those four turbulent years contributed to the tragedy of secession and civil war.
How to Cite This Page: "Franklin Pierce (American National Biography)," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/18372.


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Q: TO Use Cygwin within Eclipse 3.6 I'm working in J2EE application. We are developing application in java/j2ee. In our project we use cygwin to simulate linux os, run shell script included in application and to deploy. How to use eclipse to embed eclipse and cygwin and deloy in run/debug mode.
Am new to this kind of stuff and confused to how to proceed further. Please suggest me how to proceed with this.
Thanks in advance.
Appreciated for guiding...
We r developing j2ee project in window env. and deploying in linux server.
so to simulate linux in windows we use cygwin.
Now we use eclipse to develop and get into cmd prompt and start cygwin and then run basic shell script to initialize variables and build the project and deploy the EAR in linux server ...
For these two purpose i have to toggle the window and i couldn't debug the code and check for check time data.
Is there any possibility to merge cygwin with eclipse to start the server  or in run in debug mode, so that my developement process would be efficient and easy to code walk through... My enter team is following the first process which may tedious work.
Can any one suggest to work efficient with this project
Thanks in advance

A: Don't use shell scripts for your deployment process. Maven almost certainly has plugins for everything your shell scripts are currently doing, and it runs on Windows and Linux transparently.


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PR Voices S1E7: Intergenerational Connections, Puerto Rican style
One of the distinct characteristics of Puerto Rican, and other Latino groups, in the United States are the strong ties forged between generations. Even amongst some of our youngest cohorts, Millennials, connecting to other generations is incredibly important. This desire to connect intergenerationally informs the places we frequent, the activities we engage in, and the programming our Puerto Rican-led spaces offer. In this episode of Puerto Rican Voices, we bring you three unique stories about intergenerational exchanges (and the people that make them happen).
In our first segment we share with you the story of how the humble paper kite is connecting generations of Puerto Ricans in the neighborhood of El Barrio. Artivist Miguel Luciano, who was born in the plastic kite generation, packs art, history, and intergenerational bonding into his paper kite-making workshops. His workshops are grounded not only in this tradition that Puerto Ricans brought to New York City from the island, but in the history of the neighborhood itself. Yesterday's Puerto Rican children flew their kites high on the rooftops of New York City. Through Miguel's workshops, today's children are breathing new life into this old-age practice. Traditions, culture, and generations connect in a living history. He'll introduce you to his workshop, the impetus behind it, and the real reason the workshops exist.
From El Barrio we travel all the way to the South of New York City, and more specifically to Brooklyn, where one of the last bastions of the Puerto Rican community, a real life vecindad, in Williamsburg lives. Generations of Puerto Ricans, newcomers and well-settled, flock to Toñita's Caribbean Social Club—where everybody knows your name. Founded in 1973 as a food and music hangout for baseball teams in the area, today the Caribbean Social Club is a gathering place for generations and generations of Puerto Ricans. Scratch that. Generations and generations of people, regardless of where they come from, have found a home in Toñita's space. Learn the story of the place, of the ring-wearing gran dama behind it, and how her little space gives back to the community. You will want to visit the club and won't want to leave.
We close this new episode of Puerto Rican Voices with a visit to the Clemente Soto Velez, or the Clemente. A hub of creativity and art, the Clemente shines light on all manifestations of arts from Puerto Rico and Latin America. This Lower East Side space houses other Puerto Rican icons such as children's theater Teatro Sea, the annual Borimix, and Latea theater, amongst many other artists and workshops. It's no surprise, then, than on any given day, diverse generations of Puerto Ricans meet at Clemente. Join us in this tour of the Clemente Soto Velez and its offerings. In the process, learn what makes Clemente not a Puerto Rican Arts Center but a Puerto Rican Center for the Arts.
While traditions come and go, the bonds we establish across generations keep our culture, people, and stories alive. These segments are testament to that. Check them out. Invite the parents, abuelos, aunts, and uncles to join in the viewing. We'll catch you online, boricuasonline.


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Ye Thought Evil Against Me, But God Meant It unto Good
"But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive." Genesis 50:20
One of the most touching accounts in all of the Scriptures is the story of Joseph, who was a type of Christ in so many ways. I never read these verses without being deeply moved in my heart and spirit. When he stood before his brothers, who had so maliciously betrayed him and sold him to strangers because of their jealousy and envy, Joseph caused all of his attendants to leave, "and he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard." With a heart that was torn by love, he said to his brothers, "I am Joseph!"
Can you imagine such a scene! LOVE embraces jealousy, hate, envy, pride, and betrayal, and CONQUERS THEM! Joseph said to his brothers, "Ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good."
What do you think was going through the minds of his brothers? Certainly they deserved his scorn and revenge, to be thrown into prison, or to be punished for the hatred and persecution they inflicted upon Joseph. Joseph could have related his years of suffering, the false accusation of a crime he utterly abhorred, and his stay in prison, where for a time he was "laid in iron" and constrained by heavy fetters (Psalm 105:18).
When he entreated the Pharaoh's butler to intercede for him, he forgot him. Years of waiting, wondering "how these things could possibly be," knowing the bent of his heart for God, yet bound in an Egyptian prison with no hope of getting out.
BUT GOD, in His providence, had His hand on Joseph through it all! Let me bring to your attention a principle that we should never forget. God's purposes for Joseph were accomplished by the very means used to defeat them. At every turn, Satan sought to discourage and defeat Joseph, to assault and destroy the "plan of God" for God's devoted servant, Joseph, but to no avail. In "God's time and God's way," He exalted Joseph to be second only to Pharaoh, to be the supreme governor of the Egyptian kingdom, and all were ordered to bow to Joseph (Genesis 41:43). God exalted him to be both "the shepherd and the stone of Israel," that he might not only provide for Egypt and the neighboring kingdoms, but also be an effectual support to all his kindred, and preserve the lives of those very persons who had sought his destruction.
We cannot understand many of the things that take place in our lives. We are absolutely bewildered and, like Joseph, wonder how it can be happening. But God has His time, His means, and His way. If we follow in faith, daring to believe in His faithfulness and loving care, we will see His hand in it all when He brings us through our "wilderness" to His appointed place.
God's way to glory was through the anguish and agony of Gethsemane. His way to the crown was by the way of the cross. So, in our lives, there must be the "molding, melting, making process" that He takes us through, that we might "be conformed to the image of His Son." Is this not your desire?
Then we, like Joseph, must keep our eyes fixed on Him, "looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith" (Hebrews 12:2). Let us then wait for HIS TIME, HIS WAY, HIS WILL!


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India Observers > Business > India becomes world's 5th largest economy, overtakes UK, France
India becomes world's 5th largest economy, overtakes UK, France
A US-based think tank World Population Review in its report said India's economy is the fifth largest in the world with a GDP of USD 2.94 trillion and that it is developing into an open-market economy from its previous autarkic policies.
India emerged as the world's fifth largest economy by overtaking the UK and France in 2019, says a report.
A US-based think tank World Population Review in its report said that India is developing into an open-market economy from its previous autarkic policies.
"India's economy is the fifth largest in the world with a GDP of USD 2.94 trillion, overtaking the UK and France in 2019 to take the fifth spot," it said.
The size of the UK economy is USD 2.83 trillion and that of France is USD 2.71 trillion.
The report further said that in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, India's GDP (PPP) is USD 10.51 trillion, exceeding that of Japan and Germany. Due to India's high population, India's GDP per capita is USD 2,170 (for comparison, the US is USD 62,794).
India's real GDP growth, however, it said is expected to weaken for the third straight year from 7.5 per cent to 5 per cent.
The report observed that India's economic liberalisation began in the early 1990s and included industrial deregulation, reduced control on foreign trade and investment, and privatisation of state-owned enterprises.
"These measures have helped India accelerate economic growth," it said.
India's service sector is the fast-growing sector in the world accounting for 60 per cent of the economy and 28 per of employment, the report said, adding that manufacturing and agriculture are two other significant sectors of the economy.
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Can I establish a share in a property if I have entered into an arrangement to purchase it illegally?
Birketts LLP
United Kingdom June 22 2018
The recent High Court case of Kliers v Schmerler and Anor (2018) shows that the answer is yes, depending on the circumstances.
The claimant, who belonged to the Hasidic Jewish community, asked the High Court to make a declaration that she had a share in the equity of the property in which she lived. She contributed 75% towards the purchase price and her husband contributed 25%. However, her name did not appear on the title deeds.
As explained in our article from 28 November 2017, 'Cohabiting couples, property and the 'common law myth', not having your name on the title deeds does not necessarily mean that you do not have a share in the property. What matters is what was agreed or understood between you and the person/people on the title deeds.
The real obstacle facing the claimant in this case was that the arrangement to purchase the property was illegal. The purpose of the arrangement was to allow the claimant's brother to obtain a mortgage and housing benefit unlawfully, in that the mortgage declarations made by the brother were false. The claimant had been aware of this unlawful purpose, however, she claimed that she had been pressured into accepting the arrangement by her family and religious leaders.
There is a general legal principle that a claimant will be prevented from pursuing a civil claim if the basis for the claim arises from some illegal act by the claimant. The exact application of this principle depends on the circumstances.
Historically, when considering whether to recognise a person's rights in a property where there has been illegal activity, the court has not been interested in the underlying justice of the case. In Tinsley v Milligan, for example, the House of Lords focused instead on a technical issue. Did Milligan (the person claiming the share in the property) need to 'rely' on her illegal conduct (fraudulent benefits claims, assisted by the fact that she was not on the title deeds) to prove her claim? If the answer was yes, then her claim would fail. If the answer was no, her claim would succeed.
Fortunately for the claimant in Kliers, Tinsley is no longer good law. It was overruled by the Supreme Court case of Patel v Mirza (2016). The Supreme Court held that courts should focus on the justice of the case, together with policy considerations underlying the classification of certain actions as 'illegal'.
Following Patel, the High Court in Kliers held that neither justice nor public policy would be served by refusing the claimant's claim. The claimant had been put under unfair pressure from family and religious leaders to enter into the arrangement. Although public policy against the unlawful acquisition of mortgages was strong, it was not strong enough to prevent the claimant from obtaining the remedy which she sought, namely, a declaration that she had an interest in the property. Furthermore, leaving matters as they stood would allow the fraud to continue, when it should be undone.
In summary, entering into an illegal property transaction will not necessarily prevent you from establishing that you have a share in the property. However, the facts of this case were quite unusual (particularly that the claimant claimed that her religious community had placed her under social pressure to accept the arrangement), so a case turning on slightly different facts might have been decided differently.
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Lars Samuel Lalin, född 1729, död 15 december 1785, var en svensk musiker, pjäsförfattare, hovsångare, skådespelare och medlem i Musikaliska akademien.

Lalin arbetade som sånglärare i Stockholm då han började skriva pjäser åt operateatern i Stora Bollhuset, av vilka två hade premiär år 1747 och 1750. Han utnämndes till kammarmusikus 1762, hovsångare 1764 och gjorde en studieresa 1765–1767, varefter han blev ledare för de offentliga kavaljerskonserterna på Riddarhuspalatset. Han invaldes i akademien 1771 och blev dess sånglärare, och 1773–1783 var han anställd vid Operan som skådespelare, där han medverkade som Jupiter i Thetis och Pelée mot Elisabeth Olin och Carl Stenborg.

Hans son, Johan Samuel Lalin, var 1785–1795 också anställd som skådespelare vid Operan.

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 Hofsten, Sune och K.G. Strömbeck, Kungliga teatern: repertoar 1773–1973 opera, operett, sångspel, balett, 1974.

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Svenska dramatiker
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What to plant to attract pollinators, insects, bees, moths and butterflies to your garden.
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What is pollen and nectar?
Nectar – nectar is loaded with sugars and is a bee's main source of energy.
Pollen – pollen provides a balanced diet of proteins and fats.
Bees forage for both nectar and pollen from plants and flowers. Dry pollen, is a food source for bees, which contains 16 – 30% protein, 1 – 10% fat, 1 – 7% starch, many vitamins, but little sugar. Bees mix dry pollen with nectar and/or honey to compact the pollen in the pollen basket. The protein source needed for rearing one worker bee from larval to adult stage requires approximately 120 to 145 mg of pollen.
Pollen comes in different colours and you can see it either dusted on the bee, in the pollen sacs on the bees leg, or stored in the beeswax foundation along with honey and brood. Each plant produces a different pollen colour and because honeybees collect pollen from only one source at a time it is easy to see the colours. The bee adds a tiny amount of nectar to the pollen as it collects it which makes the pollen stay on the bee's pollen basket or sac, which is in fact on just one strand on each rear leg. However, bumblebees' pollen sacs don't have similar colours, because they gather pollen from a variety of plants so the colours are mixed up.
Here is a link to a pocket pollen colour guide that will help with your identification.
Why do pollinators collect pollen?
The nectar is the bees source of energy while the pollen is consumed because it is a source of protein and other nutrients and is feed to growing larvae. In the process of collecting pollen and nectar they inadvertently fertilise flowers, trees, and plants (read more).
Plants can attract pollinators through scent (e.g. moths find flowers at night using the smell) or colours (bees are more attracted to some colours e.g. blue, purple, violet, white, and yellow). Some bees also have a special connection with certain flowers. These bees are called oligolectic and it means that you will see the females gather pollen only on a few species of plants. For more information on the different types of bees and what plants they like click here.
Bees are a big help to plants that flower because they help with pollination. When honey bees land on a flower to drink its nectar, pollen grains stick to its legs and bodies. Then, the pollen rubs off on other flowers and helps them reproduce.
Bees and other pollinators are active in the fifesmallholder garden and woodland, from very early in Spring until the Autumn frosts. Sometimes, if you are lucky you might see a bumble bee flying in a warm winter day but rarely a honey bee. Moths and butterflies are also seasonal, some overwinter and others migrate here in good weather. In order to make sure that there is always pollen and nectar available, it's important to have suitable plants in flower, at the appropriate time.
As well as providing bee friendly habitats and nesting sites why not join the Bumble Bee Conservation Trust and/or your local Beekeepers association?
Flowers clustered into groups of the same species will attract more bees than individual plants scattered through the border. Where space allows, make the clumps four feet or more in diameter.
Bees forage for both nectar and pollen from plants and flowers. Read more.
Here in Britain 'pollinators' means small flying insects such as hoverflies, bees, beetles, butterflies and moths.
What do I need to plant for nectar and pollen?
Research suggests native plants are four times more attractive to native bees and pollinators. They are also usually well adapted to your growing conditions and can thrive with minimum attention. Below is a list of plants and flowers suitable for pollinators and include pictures of ones that grow in our garden and woodland.
An annual is a plant that grows, flowers and sets seed all in one year.
Perennials are plants that flower and die down in the winter but return every spring/summer.
This honey can be sought after because of its rarity. The Hawthorn only yields nectar for a short period of time so the bees have to be quick. Read more about the Hawthorn tree.
A weed is a flower in the wrong place.
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What plants provide what colour of pollen?
Although I always have something in flower in my garden throughout the year, it is springtime when I get the most excited. I have a lot of spring bulbs and my perennial flowers and shrubs are a good source of nectar and pollen to any bumble bees or honey bees that venture out in warm sunny days.
A range of some of these plants can be purchased from our shop.
Check out my Plants For Bees post or click here for a link to some simple guidelines to encourage the sustainable build-up of pollinating insects – what to plant and when.
Annuals: Garden annuals are useful for both pollen and nectar.
Perennials: These plants are a real boon to any insect reliant on nectar or pollen, as they provide a food source year after year, and require little input from gardeners once they are established.
Bulbs: The early pollen and nectar from bulbs is vital to bees each Spring. Some are found wild, whilst others are cultivated.
Trees: Fruit and nut trees are much loved by bees.
Shrubs: A number of ordinary garden shrubs are useful to bees for both nectar and pollen.
Weeds: What man might consider a weed, is a bee's bread and butter, so think before you make your garden too tidy.
Vegetables: The flowers of a number of vegetables are attractive to bees, though normally these are harvested before the plant reaches the flowering stage. If just a few plants at the end of a row could be left to set seed, this would be beneficial to bees, and could save the gardener money on next year's seed.
Salix Viminalis – very fast growing and ideal for firewood etc.
to adorn your garden or to be used in flower arrangements.
Willows will grow in a range of habitats and survives in most localities. In soil of pH 6.0 – 8.0 Most soil types. Most topography.
Willows are the fastest growing & highest yielding tree or shrub in Britain. When grown as Short Rotation Coppice they can produce as much as 10 to 15 tonnes of dry wood per hectare per year and often more on the better sites.
Farmers are now growing willow to supply power stations with a natural, renewable and carbon neutral source of energy. It is usually harvested on a 3 year rotation then chipped, dried and loaded into giant hoppers to be fed automatically into the boilers to produce electricity and/or heat.
For a smallholder or householder though, logs are more useful than woodchips. Known as the 5 year Coppice Rotation, a site is divided into 5 beds and 1 bed is harvested each year, providing a regular supply of firewood year on year.
Using this system, 500 plants on 750 sq m (less than a fifth of an Acre) can produce 1 Tonne of dry firewood every year.
To read more about firewood click here.
These plants are delivered as setts – unrooted cuttings. Willows should be planted during the time when they are dormant, i.e. after the leaves have dropped and before the sap starts to rise again.
They establish rapidly in any soft earth, free of weeds. Soak them in water overnight, then plant them to about half their depth, coloured end pointing upwards. Cut back half the new growth in the winter after planting to make them bush out.
Country folk have been familiar with the healing properties of willow for a long time. They made an infusion from the bitter bark as a remedy for colds and fevers, and to treat inflammatory conditions such as rheumatism. Young willow twigs were also chewed to relieve pain. In the early nineteenth century modern science isolated the active ingredient responsible, salicylic acid, which was also found in the meadowsweet plant. From this the world's first synthetic drug, acetylasylic acid, was developed and marketed as Aspirin, named after the old botanical name for meadowsweet, Spirea ulmaria.
Willow benefits pollinating insects in early spring. Willow plants when flowering produce both nectar and pollen. Females give only nectar, but male plants give both nectar and pollen. Planting a variety of willow types, will give an extended flowering season. The Salix Viminals often flowers in April, at the end of the period that is crucial to honey bee brood building time.
Willow is a good supplementary feed for sheep and lambs, it also helps them cope/expel/resist worms.
The Gaelic words for willow are shellach, or suil, and feature in Scottish place names such as Achnashellach in Ross-shire, Glensuileag in Inverness-shire and Corrieshalloch on Speyside. These names would have referred to both the presence of willow and the attendant industries utilising the willow's gifts.
What is the white spot on my honey bees -is it a disease or mite?
It is October, autumn here in Scotland and my bees are taking advantage of a late spell of warm weather to gather stores for the winter. I can often tell what they are bringing in to the hive by the colours on their bodies. Some of the bees in the picture have a white spot on their backs. This is a good example where the bee has been touched by the plant whilst it has been raiding the flower for nectar. This crop of nectar which was swallowed by the bee will be regurgitated and turned into honey, and capped with wax for eating later when it is too cold to fly.
This is the plant that causes the white spot, Himalayan Balsam. A good source of food for bees in autumn.


How can we Upgrade the Humble Bike Lane?
Watching a design documentary on Netflix, it got me thinking what could we redesign in the transportation world? Biking is the hot topic on everyone's lips these days, and while the protected bike lane is the ultimate solution, it takes a lot to implement. There are hundreds, if not thousands, or even millions of kilometers of regular bike lanes out there, so I got to thinking if there is something we can do to improve the humble bike lane without changing anything else. Something that could be done quickly and easily with little impact to anyone else. What do you think? Any merit in these ideas? Would you feel safer? Anyone out there feel like a trial project?


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New Abolitionists Radio Weekly 4/27
Our last program during National Poetry Month 2016. In honor of that we have a special evening planned. On tonight's broadcast we'll be joined by a much revered guest. Internationally celebrated spoken word icon Abiodun Oyewole Original member of the legendary group The Last Poets.
• Abiodun is a founding member of the American musical spoken word group, The Last Poets. On May 19, 1968, the anniversary of Malcolm X's birthday, Dun and two others David Nelson and Gylan Kain read poetry in tribute to Malcolm X at a memorial for him, and the group was born. The group's message, deeply rooted in Black Nationalism, quickly became recognized within the African American community. The Last Poets along with the artist Gil Scott-Heron are credited as having had a profound effect on the development of hip-hop music. In 1970, the Last Poets were signed by jazz producer Alan Douglas and released their first album. This album includes their classic poem Niggers are Scared of Revolution. The Last Poets' spoken word albums preceded politically laced Rhythm and Blues projects, such as Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, and foreshadowed the work of hard-hitting rap groups like Public Enemy and Dead Prez. After being sentenced to four years in a North Carolina prison for larceny, Oyewole was forced to leave The Last Poets. He served two and half years of his sentence and during that time attended a nearby college where he earned his B.A. degree. He went on to earn his Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York City, where he has served as a faculty member. Oyewole rejoined The Last Poets, during its 1990s resurgence. The Last Poets took part in Lollapalooza in 1994 and released a new album entitled Holy Terror in 1995 and a book called On a Mission: Selected Poetry and a History of the Last Poets in 1996. Oyewole continues to tour various venues giving lectures on poetry and politics. Oyewole lives in New York City.
• If time allows we plan to cover a few important stories, people and events relevant to the abolitionist's movement. Hold onto your chair. Tonight will be powerful and poetic in every sense. • Our Rider of the 21st century railroad is Eddie Bolden, who had been imprisoned for 22 years and missed out on many moments with his son Dominique "Dom". Eddie had been wrongfully convicted of killing two men. He was exonerated this year but it wasn't until last week that he had been freed. His release was just in time to be there for Dom's graduation.
• Our abolitionist in profile comes courtesy of tonight's guest Abiodun Oyewole and is Sojourner Truth, born Isabella ("Bell") Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883. An African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
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New Abolitionists Weekly 4/6/2016
Today is April 6th 2016. National Poetry Month
Exactly 45 years and two days to the day after MLK was shot and killed by James Earl Ray or so they say. He said that in the end we would remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. That thing on which our continued oppression depends.
• So let's start from the top. What's a good cop? The NYPD 12 must be among the best and today we'll share their story via the News4 I-team who produced the program titled: More NYPD Officers Say There's Proof of Quota-Driven Arrests.
At one point you can hear them clearly say "We are the predators and you are the prey." When Commissioner Bill Bratton was asked his opinion of these explosive facts he was quoted as saying "Bullshit! Is my response to that."
• Our next story sounds like it may be about communist China but it's actually about South Carolina where the 6th amendment is a non-existent right. Legal director of the CR crew SC ACLU Susan Dunn was about done when she said this one about the SC citizen's plight:
"When you go to a summary court in South Carolina, you find yourself in a judicial netherworld, where the police officer who made the arrest acts as the prosecutor, the judge may not have a law degree, and there are no lawyers in sight,"
• Next on our list of reports for tonight is courtesy of TruthDig and this one is big. On our abolitionist wish list this is major and we #SALUTE your resolution and bravery. Starting Sept. 9, prisoners nationwide will begin a coordinated work strike to protest prison slave labor and modern day slavery.
• That should be enough but there's more to tell still. Like how Walters Scotts family will be receiving 6.5 mil.
• And how a Maryland judge who is white has been banned from the bench for life over the violence of ordering a Bailiff to stun a black man for speaking when specifically told to be silent.
• And the story of another black body on the Aiken, SC streets told by overseer creeps to get against the car and spread his cheeks while they violated his rights in the ultimate disrespect to him, it is racist hate manifest as state sanctioned rape when you're performing a roadside search of a black man's rectum.
• We don't write them we just select them. There is always more than enough insanity handy. Like a New Orleans man who is facing life in prison right now for stealing $31 worth of candy.
• Speaking of insane, it's a national shame and that much is clear when you award the most proxy racist self-hating black cop in America "Law Enforcement Leader of the Year."
• Then, Just like Crispus Attucks was the first casualty effectively during the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770 at the start of the civil war, so was a homeless schizophrenic named Lester Wallace the first to fall only 9 hours after 3 strikes law was passed on March 8th 1994. The Clintons 1st victims as Wackenhut Correction drones. Story courtesy of Matt Taibbi's article in the recent Rolling Stone.
• In This week's Rider Of The 21st Century Underground Railroad segment we salute Brooklyn's Andre Hatchett who regained his life at 49. He maintained his innocence and would not quit. March 2016 He was exonerated after serving 25 torturous years in prison for a murder he did not commit.
• Our Abolitionist in profile tonight is the little known black abolitionist John S. Jacobs, 1815-1875 Author of the serial narrative entitled: A True Tale of Slavery. From The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation, February 7, 14, 21, 28, 1861. We'll honor and remember him by reading a selection of his work.
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Industry Voice: Your Questions Answered by Federated Hermes Impact Opportunities
Federated Hermes
22 February 2021 •
Your Questions Answered: a quarterly Q&A series featuring the top 10 questions that clients and prospective clients ask our investment teams.
What is the difference between impact and ESG investing? How big is the investable universe? These are just a couple of the most commonly asked questions about our Impact Opportunities capability. We recently sat down with the team to tackle some of these most pressing questions.
What is the difference between impact and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing?
ESG investing considers financially material environmental, social and governance factors alongside traditional financial metrics in investment analysis and investment decisions.
Impact investing can be defined as identifying companies which can generate positive social or environmental outcomes in addition to financial gains. Impact investors typically use the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the framework for targeting investments. The three key concepts which distinguish impact investing from conventional investing are:
Intentionality: an investor's intention to have a positive social or environmental impact through their investments;
Additionality: fulfilling a good cause beyond the provision of private capital; and
Measurable impact: being accountable and transparent in reporting on the financial, social and environmental performance of investments.
How big is the investable universe?
Our benchmark, the MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index (IMI) is broad, with 8,768 constituents across 23 developed-market and 26 emerging-market countries.
The first - and simplest - stage of our process is to filter out companies which don't meet our liquidity criteria (that is, $5m+ per day). Subsequently, we eliminate the stock opportunities which do not meet one of our nine impact themes. These nine themes are: water, food security, health & wellbeing, education, financial inclusion, future mobility, impact enablers, energy transition and the circular economy. We believe that there may be as many as 1,000 companies within the investment universe which have some link to our themes. However, when we check for relatively material exposure and assess for some degree of intentionality, the number of stocks narrows to about 200 names. Assessing broadly for measurability (ability to quantify impact) brings us to around 100 stocks. Of that group about 10 companies are fully researched and closely monitored. We are then ready to add one of these fully researched stocks to our portfolio when they fall to a certain price level, or when there is more upside than one of our existing holdings. The remaining 90 companies are also followed, with new impactful companies coming onto our radar at regular intervals.
How impactful can you be in public markets?
As recently as the early 2010's, impact investing was considered the preserve of philanthropy and private markets. While that is still a big factor today, the sheer scale of public equity markets allows for genuine impact. The market capitalisation of global public equity markets is about $60tn[1] - and the estimated funding gap for achieving the SDGs is between $25-30tn[2]. As such, it is essential that public-market capital is directed towards solving the structural, underserved needs of society.
Figure 1. Directing public-market capital to society's underserved needs is an imperative
Source: The UN
Equity markets also provide investors with the opportunity to invest in impactful companies in a liquid, scalable and accessible way. As public equity impact funds grow, and as capital is channelled towards impactful companies, it helps to reduce the cost of capital for these companies.
In addition, investors can also be impactful in public markets by promoting change and accelerating impact through active and sustained engagement. Our Impact Opportunities Fund has active, best practice stewardship at its core. We engage, alongside our stewardship team, EOS at Federated Hermes, to help businesses become more impactful for the wider benefit of the society and the environment.
What makes the Impact Opportunities Fund stand out from its peers?
By pioneering sustainability and investment since our 1983 inception, the international business of Federated Hermes has been working to deliver long-term portfolio returns from purposeful companies and positive outcomes for decades. Our Impact Opportunities Fund was a natural extension of our longstanding commitment to deliver Sustainable Wealth Creation that enriches investors, society and the environment - for current generations and those to come. Our vast experience in sustainability and investment ensures we are pioneer in the impact investing space.
As the world faces a myriad of challenges from climate change and biodiversity loss to health pandemics, we believe it is essential to mobilise capital to address the underserved needs of society and deliver strong long-term investment returns. As a pure impact fund, we therefore invest solely in measurable, sustainable impact. Through a combination of thematic and impact investing, we seek to capture opportunities created by megatrends - and our robust process considers a company's impact metrics alongside its financial metrics.
Meanwhile, our rigorous impact assessment quantifies the positive impact of each of our holdings. As such, we can demonstrate to investors how their capital allocation has made a contribution to the attainment of the SDG targets.
We believe that integrated and collaborative engagement with companies is necessary to deliver impact, and we are fortunate to have in-house expertise from EOS at Federated Hermes, a global leader in stewardship.
What's more, we define ourselves as patient capital investors because we aim to outperform the broad global equity market by investing in what we deem to be best-in-class companies that seek to create positive, sustainable impacts over the long term. In this way, we aim to invest in future leaders today and capture the growth opportunities of tomorrow.
To find out more about our Impact Opportunities capability and for a deeper dive into the teams' nine impact themes, read the full Your Questions Answered here.
The value of investments and income from them may go down as well as up, and you may not get back the original amount invested. Any investments overseas may be affected by currency exchange rates. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results and targets are not guaranteed.
For professional investors only. This is a marketing communication. This document does not constitute a solicitation or offer to any person to buy or sell any related securities, financial instruments or products; nor does it constitute an offer to purchase securities to any person in the United States or to any US Person as such term is defined under the US Securities Exchange Act of 1933. It pays no regard to an individual's investment objectives or financial needs of any recipient. No action should be taken or omitted to be taken based on this document. Tax treatment depends on personal circumstances and may change. This document is not advice on legal, taxation or investment matters so investors must rely on their own examination of such matters or seek advice. Before making any investment (new or continuous), please consult a professional and/or investment adviser as to its suitability. All figures, unless otherwise indicated, are sourced from Federated Hermes. All performance includes reinvestment of dividends and other earnings.
Federated Hermes Investment Funds plc ("FHIF") is an open-ended investment company with variable capital and with segregated liability between its sub-funds (each, a "Fund"). FHIF is incorporated in Ireland and authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland ("CBI"). FHIF appoints Hermes Fund Managers Ireland Limited ("HFMIL") as its management company. HFMIL is authorised and regulated by the CBI. Further information on investment products and any associated risks can be found in the prospectus, the key information documents or the key investor information documents, the articles of association as well as the annual and semi-annual reports. In the case of any inconsistency between the descriptions or terms in this document and the prospectus, the prospectus shall prevail. These documents are available free of charge (i) at the office of the Administrator, Northern Trust International Fund Administration Services (Ireland) Limited, Georges Court, 54- 62 Townsend Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. Tel (+ 353) 1 434 5002 / Fax (+ 353) 1 531 8595; (ii) at https://www.hermes-investment.com/ie/; (iii) at the office of its representative in Switzerland (ACOLIN Fund Services AG, Leutschenbachstrasse 50, CH-8050 Zurich www.acolin.ch). The paying agent in Switzerland is NPB Neue Privat Bank AG, Limmatquai 1/am Bellevue, P.O. Box, CH-8024 Zurich.
Issued and approved by Hermes Fund Managers Ireland Limited ("HFMIL") which is authorised and regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Registered address: The Wilde, 53 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. HFMIL appoints Hermes Investment Management Limited ("HIML") to undertake distribution activities in respect of the Fund in certain jurisdictions. HIML is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered address: Sixth Floor, 150 Cheapside, London EC2V 6ET. Telephone calls may be recorded for training and monitoring purposes. Potential investors in the United Kingdom are advised that compensation may not be available under the United Kingdom Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
[1] Source: UNCTAD World Investment Report, 2014.
[2] Source: Bloomberg - referencing the market cap of the MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index.
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Commentary: U.S. counterclaim on steel, aluminum tariffs has gangster logic
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to U.S. President DonaldTrump during the second day of the G7 meeting in Charlevoix city of La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, June 9, 2018. (Xinhua/ REUTERS)
by Xinhua writers Zhu Dongyang, Gao Pan, Ye Shan
BEIJING, July 20 (Xinhua) -- The United States filed challenges against China, the European Union (EU), Canada, Mexico and Turkey at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday, claiming that the U.S.-initiated steel and aluminum tariffs were "wholly legitimate and fully justified" on national security grounds, while the countermeasures taken by these economies were "completely without justification."
The United States is fiddling around with double standards and violating international rules, and its bullying has been resisted by other WTO members.
First of all, steel and aluminum are mostly civil products which are part of the commodities in international trade. If imports of steel and aluminum harm national security, there would be no product that does not harm national security.
The imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports with the excuse of "national security" is an abuse of the WTO's national security exception clause. Such an abuse would put the entire international trading system and multilateral trade rules at risk, and cause serious damage to the multilateral trading system.
According to the statistics of the U.S. Commerce Department and Defense Department, steel imports only account for about one-third of its domestic consumption, of which the U.S. defense industry needs only 3 percent.
It is safe to say that U.S. domestic steel production is sufficient to meet the needs of national defense, and it is impossible for steel imports to harm its "national security."
International trade experts have repeatedly pointed out that U.S. imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum is utter trade protection. This has become a broad consensus among WTO members. It is clear who is undermining and violating multilateral trade rules.
Secondly, during its negotiations with trade partners over the exemption of steel and aluminum tariffs, Washington forced them to implement "voluntary export restraint." Such an attempt to bring back the quota era is another serious violation of WTO norms.
While the United States imposed high tariffs on steel and aluminum, it granted exemptions to some individual economies for political and economic reasons. Washington's discriminatory double standards violate the WTO's most-favored-nation treatment principle.
The United States has abandoned multilateral trade rules in favor of self-serving double standards, forcing some economies to set limits on their exports, while granting exemptions to others solely for its own interests, thus seriously disrupting the international trade order.
Thirdly, the fight against U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs by other economies is a righteous move to uphold the basic principles of the WTO and safeguard the multilateral trading system. It is also a necessary move to urge Washington to comply with its WTO obligations.
It is a typical gangster logic for the United States to impose tariffs and not allow others to retaliate.
The current multilateral trading system, represented by the WTO, was established by all parties worldwide through consultation, and the more than 160 members, including the United States, are obliged to follow the rules of the world trade body.
As the world's largest economy and a founding member of the WTO, the United States' trade bullying has threatened the foundation of the multilateral trading system. If other economies do not fight back, the international trade system will be reduced to a status that is governed by the "law of the jungle."
The international community sees clearly who wields sticks of high tariffs at will at the price of international trade rules, or who is taking necessary "legitimate defense" to uphold the multilateral trading system.
It is also believed that the WTO will make a just verdict.


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Saudi Arabia prepares to welcome foreign tourists
As Saudi Arabia forges ahead with Vision 2030, with tourism earmarked as a key economic driver, tourism and travel leaders from the Kingdom convened at the ATM 2021 Saudi Arabia Tourism Summit on the Global Stage on May 17 to discuss the strategy's positive repercussions for the country, its people, investors and millions of global travellers.
Addressing a capacity crowd at the in-person ATM 2021 were Fahd Hamidaddin, CEO, Saudi Tourism Authority, Majed Alnefaie, Acting CEO of Seera, Captain Ibrahim Koshy, CEO, Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAUDIA), and Dr Afnan Al Shuaiby, Founder and CEO of FNN International and Chair of the Arab International Women's Forum.
The audience heard how Saudi Arabia is preparing to reopen its borders for foreign tourists imminently, and it is well on its way to realising its ambition for attracting 100 million tourists per year by 2030.
Fahd Hamidaddin, CEO of Saudi Tourism Authority, discussed the Kingdom's response to the coronavirus pandemic, having just opened up to international tourism in September 2019: "While the travel and tourism sector was paralysed globally, Saudi Arabia kept moving. Although the priority was to save lives, we were also committed to protecting livelihoods and saving jobs through our successful domestic tourism campaign, which resulted in a 33 per cent increase in spending, hotel occupancy was at 50 per cent, and the number of Destination Marketing Companies (DMCs) within the Kingdom increased from 17 to 93."
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The domestic market strength was underscored in 2020 and Q1 2021, with Saudia operating its 28 domestic airports at close to 80 per cent of its 2019 levels, and demand exceeding capacity at times. The numbers are expected to pick up even further with the recent resumption of international travel for residents and citizens and the operation of the new King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) as a true regional hub."
Discussing the outlook for Saudia, CEO Captain Ibrahim Koshy said: "There are many things taking place in Saudi Arabia that will accelerate a return to profit for the airline. We will come out much leaner and stronger as a business, with expected profitability in 2024, if not earlier, as the potential market for the Kingdom continues to grow at a fast pace. We may also see aircraft orders this year to meet that expected demand in capacity."
The second session of the ATM Saudi Arabia Tourism Summit on the ATM Global Stage explored the "giga-project effect", from developments that preserve and promote the Kingdom's heritage, culture and natural assets to theme parks, futuristic cities in the desert and luxury resorts with a strong focus on sustainability.
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