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Commissioner of Income Tax, Bombay Vs. Rasiklal Maneklal & Ors [1989] INSC 103 (29 March 1989)
Pathak, R.S. (Cj) Pathak, R.S. (Cj) Misra Rangnath
CITATION: 1989 AIR 1333 1989 SCR (2) 179 1989 SCC (2) 454 JT 1989 (2) 16 1989 SCALE (1)719
Indian Income Tax Act, 1922--Sub-s. (1) of s. 12B--Amal- gamation of two companies resulting in dissolution of one of them and allotment of shares of the surviving company to the shareholders of the dissolved company--Whether amounts to 'exchange' or 'relinquishment' within the meaning of the sub-section.
Words and Phrases--Meanings of 'exchange' and 'relin- quishment'.
Sub-s. (1) of s. 12B of the Indian Income Tax Act, 1922 provides that tax shall be payable by an assessee under the head "Capital gains" in respect of any profits or gains arising from the sale, exchange, relinquishment or transfer of a capital asset.
The respondent-assessee who owned 90 shares in the Shorrock Co. which stood dissolved under a scheme of amalga- mation with another company known as New Shorrock Co., which was sanctioned by the High Court, was aborted 45 shares of the New Shorrock Co. in terms of the provisions of the said scheme. During the assessment proceedings for the assessment year 1961-62, the Income Tax Officer omitted to consider the applicability of s. 12B 10 the case of the assessee. Later on, the Commissioner issued a notice under s. 33B to the assessee stating that the receipt of 45 shares of the New Shorrock Co. "in exchange" of his original holding of 90 shares in the Shorrock Co. had resulted in an assessable profit, and passed an order directing the Income Tax Officer to revise the assessment and to include an amount of Rs.49,350 representing the capital gain resulting from the transaction. On appeal by the assessee the Appellate Tribu- nal held that the transaction represented neither an ex- change nor a relinquishment and, therefore, s. 12B of the Act was not attracted. However, at the instance of the Revenue the Tribunal referred the question to the High Court which answered it in favour of the assessee.
Dismissing the appeals, 180
HELD: The sole question is whether the receipt of the 45 shares of the New Shorrock Co. upon amalgamation by reason of the share holding of 90 shares of the Shorrock Co. can be described as an "exchange" or a "relinquishment" within the meaning of s. 12B. It seems plain to us that no exchange is involved in the transaction. An exchange involves the transfer of property by one person to another and reciprocally the transfer of property by that other to the first person.
There must be a mutual transfer of ownership of one thing for the ownership of another. In the present case, the assessee cannot be said to have transferred any property to any one. When he was allotted the shares of the New Shorrock Co. he was entitled to such allotment because of his holding the 90 shares of Shorrock Co. The holding of the 90 shares in the Shorrock Co. was merely a qualifying condition enti- tling the assessee to the allotment of the 45 shares of the New Shorrock Co. The dissolution of the Shorrock Co. de- prived the holding of the 90 shares of that company of all value. [183B-E] On the question whether there was any relinquishment, the decision must again be against the Revenue. A relin- quishment takes place when the owner withdraws himself from the property and abandons his rights thereto. It presumes that the property continues to exist after the relinquish- ment. Upon amalgamation, the shares of the Shorrock Co. lost all value as that company stood dissolved. [183E-F]
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeal Nos. 1905-06 (NT) of 1974 and 3414 of 1984.
From the Judgment and Order dated 24.7.73 and 7.9.81 of the Bombay High Court in I.T.R. No. 19 of 1967, 66 of 1964 and 27 of 1972 respectively.
B. Datta, Additional Solicitor General, M.B. Rao and Ms. A. Subhashini for the Appellant.
Soli J. Sorabji, Harish Salve, Mrs. A.K. Verma and Jeel Peres for the Respondents.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by PATHAK, CJ. The assessee is a Hindu Undivided Family deriving income from interest on securities, dividends, property and dealing in shares. In 1941 the assessee pur- chased a share of the Shorrock Spinning and Manufacturing Co. Ltd., hereinafter referred to as 181 "the Shorrock Co.", of the face value of Rs. 1,000 for Rs.3,307. Later this share was split into 10 shares of Rs. 100 each, and from time to time a total of 80 shares of the face value of Rs. 100 each was issued to the assessee by way of bonus shares. In consequence, on 31 December, 1959 the assessee owned 90 shares in the Shorrock Co. of the face value of Rs. 100 each.
There is another company called the New Shorrock Spinning and Manufacturing Co. Ltd. to which reference may be made as "the New Shorrock Co.". It was decided to amalgamate the Shorrock Co. with the New Shorrock Co., and upon peti- tions filed under s. 39 1 and s. 394 of the Companies Act, 1956 the Gujarat High Court made an order dated 23 September, 1960 directing meetings of the share holders of both the companies. The meetings were held on 27 October, 1960 and the scheme of amalgamation was approved. On 25 November, 1960 the High Court sanctioned the scheme of amalgamation and declared that the scheme would be binding on members of both the Companies.
Under the scheme of amalgamation, the undertaking and all the property rights and powers as well as all liabili- ties and duties of the Shorrock Co. were to stand trans- ferred and vest with effect from 1 January, 1960 in the New Shorrock Co. The scheme of amalgamation provided further for an increase in the share capital of the New Shorrock Co. and it permitted the creation of 14,625 new ordinary shares of the face value of Rs. 125 each of the transferee company.
The newly created shares were to rank pari passu with the existing shares of the transferee company in all respects.
Under the scheme the New Shorrock Co., as the transferee company, was directed to allot to members of the Shorrock Co., the transferor company, one share in the transferee company for every two shares of the transferor company held by them. The order of the Court directed that the Shorrock Co. should file a certified copy of the order with the Registrar of Companies within 14 days for registration, and on such certified copy being delivered the transferor compa- ny would stand dissolved and the Registrar of Companies was to place all documents relating to the transferor company on the file relating to the transferee company and the folios relating to the two companies were to be consolidated accordingly.
During the assessment proceedings for the assessment year 1961-62, the previous year being the financial year ended 31 March, 1961, the Income Tax Officer, although apprised of the fact of the scheme of amalgamation and of the acquisition by the assessee of 45 shares of the 182 New Shorrock Co. omitted to consider the applicability of s. 12B of the Indian Income Tax Act, 1922. On 21 January, 1964 the Commissioner of Income-tax issued a notice under s. 33B of the Act to the assessee stating that the receipt of 45 shares of the New Shorrock Co. "in exchange" of his original holding of 90 shares in the Shorrock Co. in December 1960 had resulted in an assessable profit, and this aspect had been overlooked by the Income Tax Officer when making the regular assessment, and, therefore, he proposed a revision of the assessment. After heating the assessee, the Commis- sioner of Income Tax passed an order dated 29 January, 1964 directing the Income Tax Officer to revise the assessment and to include an amount of Rs.49,350 representing the capital gain resulting from the transaction of the acquisi- tion of 45 shares of New Shorrock Co. in place of the 90 shares held in Shorrock Co. On appeal by the assessee before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, the Appellate Tribunal held that the transaction represented neither an exchange nor a relinquishment and, therefore, s. 12B of the Act was not attracted.
At the instance of the Revenue the Appel- late Tribunal referred the following questions to the High Court for its opinion:
"1. Whether on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the sum of Rs.49,350 could be assessed in the hands of the assessee as capital gains as having ac- crued to the assessee by exchange or relin- quishment as provided for under section 12B of the Act?
2. If the answer to the above question is in the affirmative, whether the said sum of Rs.49,350 was assessable in the year 1961-62?" Before the High Court the Revenue did not contend that the transaction constituted a sale or a transfer, and the parties confined themselves to the point whether the trans- action represented an exchange or a relinquishment for the purposes of s. 12B. The High Court took the view that no exchange can be said to have taken place on the allotment of the 45 shares of the New Shorrock Co. under the scheme of amalgamation. Nor, in the opinion of the High Court, did it constitute a relinquishment. In the result, the High Court answered both questions in favour of the assessee and against the Revenue.
The relevant portion of s. 12B of the Act provides:
183 S. 12B(1) Capital gains. The tax shall be payable by an assessee under the head "Capital gains" in respect of any profits or gains arising from the sale, exchange, relinquish- ment or transfer of a capital asset effected after the 31st day of March, 1956, and such profits and gains shall be deemed to be income of the previous year in which the sale, ex- change, relinquishment or transfer took place.
The sole question is whether the receipt of the 45 shares of the New Shorrock Co. upon amalgamation by reason of the share holding of 90 shares of the Shorrock Co. can be described as an "exchange" or a "relinquishment" within the meaning of s. 12B of the Act. It seems plain to us that no exchange is involved in the transaction. An exchange in- volves the transfer of property by one person to another and reciprocally the transfer of property by that other to the first person. There must be a mutual transfer of ownership of one thing for the ownership of another. In the present case, the assessee cannot be said to have transferred any property to any one. When he was allotted the shares of the New Shorrock Co. he was entitled to such allotment because of his holding the 90 shares of Shorrock Co. The holding of the 90 shares in the Shorrock Co. was merely a qualifying condition entitling the assessee to the allotment of the 45 shares of the New Shorrock Co. The dissolution of the Shor- rock Co. deprived the holding of the 90 shares of that company of all value.
On the question whether there was any relinquishment, the decision must again be against the Revenue. A relin- quishment takes place when the owner withdraws himself from the property and abandons his rights thereto. It presumes that the property continues to exist after the relinquish- ment. Upon amalgamation, the shares of the Shorrock Co., as has been mentioned earlier, lost all value as that company stood dissolved. There is no relinquishment.
The connected cases raise similar questions, and are dealt with accordingly.
In the result, we agree with the view taken by the High Court, and dismiss these appeals with costs.
H.L.C. Appeals dismissed.


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The World Bank, Poverty Creation and the Banality of Evil
Alnoor Ladha,
A sign outside the World Bank Group in downtown Washington, DC. The World Bank's "Conference on Land and Poverty" takes place this week. (Photo via Mark Van Scyoc / Shutterstock.com; Edited: LW / TO)
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This week, the World Bank is convening its 16th annual "Conference on Land and Poverty," which brings together corporations, governments and civil society groups to ostensibly discuss how to "improve land governance."
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As this is happening, hundreds of civil society organizations are denouncing the World Bank's role in global land grabs. As the organization I am part of, The Rules, is a member of Our Land Our Business, the umbrella campaign of farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and grassroots organizers from around the world protesting against the Bank's policies, I often get asked the question, why do civil society and the World Bank have such differing views of the Bank's role? Reading the Bank's website, one would think that the World Bank was in the same line of work as the activists challenging their policy. In fact, they have recently adopted the earnest tagline of "Working for a world free of poverty."
In the Grips of Ideology
As always, the first place to start is ideology, as it is always a background condition. The World Bank is an unapologetic proponent of neoliberalism, a moral philosophy that pushes self-interest, corporate control and "free markets." These forces, they believe, will result in such a large amount of overall economic growth that enough will trickle-down to the "masses" to lift them out of poverty.
World Bank ideology is deeply linked to the belief that corporate interests and country interests are one in the same.
Many have pointed to deep flaws in this logic, including Thomas Piketty, who showed through exhaustive analysis of long-term trends how wealth actually congeals in this system. What's more, there is ample evidence to show how the self-interest the World Bank believes in, far from ensuring a fair system in which the well-being of all is addressed, actually results in a set of rules that are rigged in favor of a tiny elite. Research from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has shown that a super entity of just 147 companies controls over 40 percent of corporate wealth. The corporations behind this potent web of power are largely Western corporations, mostly concentrated in the financial sector.
World Bank ideology is deeply linked to the belief that corporate interests and country interests are one in the same. The old US adage of "what's good for GM is good for America" has expanded through globalization into wholesale neocolonialism through multinational corporations. The recent cable leaks that show how the US State Department exerts influence and strong-arms countries around the world on behalf of the agricultural giant Monsanto is just one example of such egregious policy. (1)
Who's Developing Whom?
The two main pillars of the dominant development model are financial aid and foreign direct investment (FDI) to drive economic growth. Each crumbles as a viable strategy under closer inspection.
The dominant story is that rich countries are generous benefactors of poorer countries and that through foreign aid they are offering them a ladder. However, Dr. Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics has shown that when you follow the money, foreign aid is a drop in the ocean compared to the vast flow of money from poor countries to rich. For every $1 of aid that trickles into poor countries, $18 flows out. That means poor countries are loosing about $2 trillion a year due to explicit, pro-corporate policies of rich countries and the World Bank.
For every dollar of wealth created since 2008, 93 cents goes to the top 1%.
We are also told that FDI will lift all boats in the global economy. Indeed, the majority of neoliberal economic policy (in both rich and poor countries as all governments have adopted this logic) is geared toward an increase in FDI. Yet, we know that for every dollar of wealth created since 2008, 93 cents goes to the top 1%. Therefore, by definition, wealth creation creates inequality. So how then could more concentrated wealth solve the problems of the world's poor?
A related question is how the FDI strategy fares in the face of the natural limits of our planet. Research by David Woodward at the New Economics Foundation shows that the establishment's strategy for poverty alleviation, best articulated by the Sustainable Development Goals, would require global GDP per capita to rise by more than 12 percent a year until 2030. That would mean global production and consumption would have to increase by a factor of 12, pushing us to a global GDP per capita of more than $100,000.
This is of course absurd. We would need five planets of resources to sustain this type of consumption. Even if this scenario were to play out, it only moves the poorest people above the $1.25-a-day poverty rate, which is way below the $5-a-day rate that is necessary for a standard of living for basic health and well-being, although this says nothing about human dignity or fair distribution of wealth.
Which brings us full circle back to our friends at the World Bank. Given the radical inefficiencies of the global economy, the disastrous path dependency on perpetual material growth, the capital-created destruction of our ecosystem, increasing global instability due to inequality, and the constant state of war and plunder required to prop up the current system, how could anyone advocate for a business-as-usual approach?
Technocracy and the Banality of Evil
Part of the problem in large institutions like the World Bank, with over 12,000 employees and octopus-like tentacles, is that no one is incentivized to ask these types of questions. In fact, in 2014, as part of the Our Land Our Business core group's discussions with the Bank, a high-level employee leading one of the country ranking projects, suggested that these types of questions were "above their pay grade." In other words, even the most senior employees of the World Bank compartmentalize their thinking, allowing them to believe that they are actually helping the world's poor by simply increasing FDI.
"The consequence of non-thinking is genocidal, or certainly can be."
If we look at the history of the World Bank, these command-and-control structures have contributed to generations of World Bank technocrats' ability to impose life-denying structural adjustment programs without any accountability or redress for their actions. Not only are they not apologetic for their consequences, intentional or otherwise, but they actually remain smug in their "expertise" and forced imposition of policy. Many believe that these types of policies are the historical relic of an old Bank that has matured and learned from the ills of its past. The Bank's rebranding belies the fact that it continues to strong-arm countries into pro-corporate, anti-poor, neoliberal policies through new mechanisms such as their Doing Business rankings and the Enabling the Business of Agriculture project, which force countries into a race to the bottom, cutting environmental and social standards, slashing corporate taxes and eliminating trade barriers protecting local industries (a practice rich countries continue to deploy for their own development).
This type of behavior holds deep corollaries with Hannah Arendt's analysis of the Adolf Eichmann trial in which she coined the term "the banality of evil." As Judith Butler reminds us, the banality Arendt is referring to is not just how commonplace violence became or how desensitized the perpetrators were to the horrors they inflicted. Rather "what had become banal – and astonishingly so – was the failure to think. Indeed, at one point the failure to think is precisely the name of the crime that Eichmann commits. We might think at first that this is a scandalous way to describe his horrendous crime, but for Arendt the consequence of non-thinking is genocidal, or certainly can be."
Stated Intentions vs. Exploitative Practices
The implications of the World Bank's policies cannot be understated. The Oakland Institute, a leading land rights think tank, has documented how local communities around the world face forced evictions and human rights abuses linked to Bank-financed projects. For example, in Uganda, the government evicted 20,000 people for a plantation forest by UK-based New Forests Company, a beneficiary of the International Financial Corporation's (IFC) funds (the IFC is the World Bank Group's private sector investment arm).
In 2014, the Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) teamed up with the US Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), a US government agency, to create a $350 million insurance facility to cover the risks of investments made by the Silverlands Fund, a private equity fund accused of financing land grabs. Essentially, the World Bank and OPIC are using tax payer money to cover the risks associated for a private, land grabbing hedge fund to do business in "emerging markets."
Many of the bankers believe they are working in the interests of the same people they are harming.
In Honduras, the IFC financed the palm oil producer Corporación Dinant, accused of assassinations and forced evictions of farmers. Complaints filed against the IFC led to an investigation that found multiple failures in its handling of the loan to Dinant.
These types of "oversights" have been rampant in Bank projects leading to land grabs, the mass displacement of tens of thousands of people, a transition to corporate agriculture and monoculture, further concentration of wealth, and the destruction of local livelihoods and culture in countries as diverse as Mali, Uruguay, Laos, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and the Philippines, just to name a few.
The World Bank's president, Jim Yong Kim, acknowledged that this trend will remain constant since the Bank will continue to finance development projects such as dams that "always lead to resettlement."
This is development in the eyes of the World Bank.
Although it is couched in new language such as "public-private partnerships" and "shared value," the logic remains the same: the privatization of wealth and socialization of loss. As Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute points out, "a Dracula by any other name is still a Dracula."
Re-Localizing Power
What's most troubling about the World Bank's corporate model of development is that there is a very clear and superior alternative. Even the Bank and UN organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) tout the ability of smallholder farming to fight poverty and bring about sustainable development. Yet their policies enforce the exact opposite outcomes.
We seem to have embarked on the late stages of the banality of evil. First, the technocratic response adds up to little more than denial. In order to further the interests of the systems it serves, it fought smallholder farming until the facts were undeniable. The second is sincerity to the point where many of the bankers believe they are working in the interests of the same people they are harming. This is manifest in the giant banner erected on the side of their DC office that says "End Poverty 2030" or the Bank's tagline about ending poverty.
The third is persuasive rhetoric, to the point of evangelical fervor. Many of us in civil society have become complicit by believing in the Bank's stated objectives and even legitimizing the use of their doublespeak.
Regenerative farming techniques, which many smallholders already practice, could offset over global carbon emissions by over 40 percent if scaled on cultivated land.
The fourth stage is a doubling down of the pathological behavior – a turning of the screws, if you will. New rankings, new conditionalities, new mandates, more pro-corporate growth. All the while the other states of denial, sincerity and rhetoric reach a fever pitch. There are no contradictions in this behavior; rather they are symptoms of the same psychosis.
So what must be done? Ultimately, this boils down to a question of who has power. Right now, it is centralized to the point of monopoly, and the World Bank's policy prescriptions shape the future centralization of power even further. However, there are alternatives.
Firstly, developing country governments, progressive foundations and nongovernmental organizations, grassroots organizers and allies of all stripes must focus on the needs of smallholder farmers, who currently produce up to 80 percent of the food and farm 80 percent of the land in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. This would require championing measures to protect existing land users, including anti-eviction laws and recognition of customary systems.
Secondly, we are now realizing the ability for smallholder farmers to significantly help address climate change. In fact, they may be our best bet. According to new research from the Rodale Institute, if instituted universally, regenerative farming techniques, which many smallholders already practice, could offset over global carbon emissions by over 40 percent if scaled on cultivated land. They could offset another 71 percent of emissions if practiced on pastured land. That adds up to over 100 percent of current carbon dioxide emissions.
This could also be the silver bullet against GMOs and industrial agricultural methods. Not only are they hazardous for our health and have no proven yield increases, they are actually contributing to carbon dioxide emissions by creating an opportunity cost to use carbon-reducing and climate-friendly methods of regenerative farming.
These shifts will not be supported by the World Bank, rich country governments and their "development arms" such as DFID and USAID, or the US State Department and their allies at Monsanto. A regenerative economy with distributed wealth and local food security is not in their interests. But then again, the keepers of power have never been incentivized to support progressive reform. There has never been a more important moment to shift power away from corporate oligarchy and their technocratic lieutenants back to the world's majority. Let us heed Hannah Arendt's plea to become thinking citizens once again.
1. It is important to note the makeup of the World Bank's governance structure. Out of the 185 countries that jointly own the Bank, only eight have directors on the Bank's board: the United States, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. The World Bank's president is, and always has been, an American.
Alnoor Ladha
Alnoor Ladha is a researcher, writer and community organizer. He is the co-founder and executive director of The Rules, a think tank focused on the global political economy, and a member of the Our Land Our Business campaign , a coalition of over 280 civil society organizations, demanding an end to the World Bank's Enabling the Business of Agriculture project.

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Q: In Rayleigh scattering, does a light wave cause the electrons (themselves), in a particle, to move at the same frequency as the incoming light? The excerpt below, about Rayleigh scattering, is taken from the following page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering

Rayleigh scattering results from the electric polarizability of the particles. The oscillating electric field of a light wave acts on the charges within a particle, causing them to move at the same frequency. The particle therefore becomes a small radiating dipole whose radiation we see as scattered light.

Is Wikipedia trying to say that the light wave is causing the electrons, themselves, to move at the same frequency as the incoming light (i.e. visible light)? If so, how can this be? From my understanding, an electron, when in its orbital, doesn't vibrate in a classical manner, and it's not even known where the electron is when in an orbital.
If Wikipedia is not referring to the electrons in their orbitals, then what might they be referencing?

A: An electron in an atom is in a specific orbital only if it is completely isolated.  The incoming radiation perturbs the system, so that it can no longer be described as being in a specific orbital.  The electron will be in a superposition of all the orbitals of the isolated atom.  In this state, the charge distribution in the atom is not fixed; it does oscillate at the driving frequency.

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Time shifting is a very basic operation you come across when handling a Signals and Systems problem. This appears quite prominently as a concept in various problems in GATE EC and GATE EE. Time Shifting is an operation that finds its place in the engineer's book.
Consider that we are given a signal x(t). How do you implement time shifting and scaling to obtain the signals x(αt + β), x(-αt + β), x(αt – β) or x(-αt – β)? Here α and β are both positive quantities.
The first thing we need to get clear is that a negative time shift implies a right shift and a positive time shift implies a left shift.
I remember it by the thinking of creating an arrow out of negative sign, – to →. This tells me right shift is negative time shift. The other (+ time shift) would obviously mean a left shift.
Returning to our original agenda – the next thing to know is that time shifting and scaling can be implemented, starting from both left and right sides. Since, we are specifically discussing time shifting, we set α = 1 which is responsible for scaling.
This is a general method which always works.
Then to implement x(-t – 3), working from the right, we first implement right shift by 3 (due to -3) and then do time reversal (due to -1 coefficient of t).
When we work from the left side, we first take common everything that is coefficient of t. So, x(±αt ± β) becomes x[±α(t ± β/α) ]. For x(-t – 3), we get x[-(t + 3)]. So, we first implement time inversion [due to -1 getting multiplied with (t + 3)] and then we do left shift by 3 (due to +3).
This method always works for continuous time signals. But it does not always work for discrete time signals. For discrete time signals, when taking t's co-efficient out common, a fraction is created inside the bracket and so this method fails.
The last thing we need to do is verify that the final results from both approaches are the same.
Suppose we want to shift the origin from (0, 0) and (0, a) (where 'a' is positive). Then it is a right shift for the axis, or left shift for the signal relative to the axis. And hence x(t) changes to x(t + a) contrary to what we intuitively expect it to be x(t – a) due to right shift for axis. Similarly, if we want to shift origin to (0, -a) then this is left shift for axis but a right shift for signal relative to axis. So, x(t) changes to x(t – a).
This lack of understanding causes us to believe that shifting signals and shifting axes are two different concepts. So we tend to remember two different sets of rule for them. Now, we see that they are just one thing. This makes it easier to remember and helps avoid errors.


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Facilitating Difficult Conversations About Encroaching Old Age (BBC News / Independent Age)
Summary Independent Age (using the services of ComRes) conducted a survey which indicates that many people avoid talking about getting old and planning for loss of independence in old age. People tend to find conversations about end-of-life care particularly difficult … Continue reading →
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The Power of Language: Weighing the Pros and Cons of the Term "Frailty" (Nursing Times / Age UK / BGS / BritainThinks)
Summary The "Frailty: Language and Perceptions" report, commissioned by Age UK and the British Geriatrics Society, indicates that use of the word "frailty" could deter older people from accessing services. Medical terminology such as "frailty" (and presumably "geriatric" too?) sometimes … Continue reading →
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Realising the Value Programme (NHS England / Dementia / Australian Journal of Dementia Care)
Summary The NHS Five Year Forward View requires more support for people with long term conditions, enabling them to manage their own health. The NHS England "Realising the Value Programme" is about putting such plans into action. "NHS England is … Continue reading →
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NHS England's Realising the Value Programme for Patient and Community Empowerment (NHS England)
Summary The "Realising the Value Programme" allows NHS England to award grants of up to £500,000 to charities and not for profit organisations (or consortia) to identify and / or implement evidence-based approaches to self-care. Initiatives involving the commissioning and … Continue reading →
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Support For People in Managing Their Health: Patient Activation (King's Fund)
Summary This King's Fund report introduces a new concept and method for measuring patient engagement. "Patient Activation" is a behavioural model which offers insights about why some patients engage more fully in their health and care than others. Up to … Continue reading →
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Have you ever had one of those moments where you wished everyone on your team was more like you? Communication would be so much easier and everyone would just get along all the time. Or so we think. What about creativity and innovation? Aren't diverse teams better for coming up with novel ideas? I am about to create and hire a new team, so it is a topic I have been pondering lately, particularly because I work with several people who show strong preferences about who they work with.
I learned the value and challenges of hiring a diverse team very early, when a friend and I hired our very first team for a university summer program. We were students and co-directors of the program. It would have been very easy for us to hire our friends and have the best summer ever. However, we had inherited a significant debt from the previous year, the Engineering Society and the Faculty were upset about the money we had to borrow, and the program was getting stale. When we assembled our team we intentionally hired twelve people with different talents and personalities to help us develop a creative program and to connect with a wider audience. For our first management experience the team was a challenge because everyone had vastly different motivations and work ethics. Fortunately, we were mature enough to recognize our differences and not get into too many conflicts. It was worth it because we had the most successful year ever.
While it is much easier to manage similar individuals, I will always create teams with complementary rather than complimentary backgrounds, talents and personalities. That means I intentionally hire different people so that the group is stronger than any individual on their own. Two of my developers recently showed me the power of that. As we were discussing the design of our new intranet, the developer with the hard-core IT background consistently challenged ideas from a security and maintainability point of view. The web developer consistently challenged ideas from a useability and accessibility point of view. Even with opposing points of view, they focussed on understanding each other and are coming up with a solution that will make the best of both worlds. I need those conversations to happen so we will be better able to meet the business needs than if I only had only one or the other point of view on the team.
As a manager of diverse teams, I have to constantly work at improving my listening, coaching and motivational skills. It also means I have to push opposing personalities to understand each other, find common ground, and work with each other professionally. I never ask that everyone likes all their teammates as they would their friends, but I do ask that they figure out how to work with each to reach a common goal. It is a lot of work, but it's my job. Those are the same skills needed to build strong customer relationships, so I may as well master them with internal teams.
What do you think? Are diverse teams worth the effort?
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Diverse teams are worthwhile if the team leadership can handle the extra workload, if not a diverse team is at more risk of factions and death by infighting.
This varies a little with the goals of the team, a creative project, particularly one which is meant for a wide audience, is always better when you have many perspectives going into it, but you have to watch out that everyone on your team are bringing their perspectives to the same goal.
Game and web development are particulary susceptible to this. Vision is key, and communicating that vision is critical when you have people with not just different skill sets, but different attitudes towards solving problems. You benefit from having more than one approach available, but when you pick a direction, you need to put in the extra effort to explain the chosen direction to those with other points of view.
Whether a team has diverse or similar personalities they need to be aligned with the project vision and goal(s). I'll discuss that in a future post. If you have a team with diverse personalities, aligning everyone to the vision and goal(s) is one aspect of management that becomes more challenging.


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The government often contracts with private individuals and companies to offer different services to the public via various programs. What's more, government agencies can also partner with private parties to provide goods and/or services to the government. A government fraud takes place when such a contractor makes false payment claims or tries to defraud the government by supplying counterfeit or sub-standard products or services to the government wrongfully. In most cases, the authorities can investigate and then issue government fraud charges against you. When this happens, it's essential to get an experienced defense lawyer soonest possible. Spodek Law Group can offer lawyers who can handle your case professionally.
Social security fraud – Social Security Administration offers numerous benefits to many Americans every year. In case you face an allegation of social security fraud because a prosecutor believes that you were engaged in a fraudulent scheme to get social security benefits, you need the help of a lawyer. Schemes can involve offering false information, making false statements concerning your income, hiding information that could affect your benefits or using social security benefits you get on behalf of someone else for your benefit.
Defense contractor fraud – A large section of government defense expenditure is covered by defense contracting. Some services and goods that defense contractors provide regularly include building facilities, repairs, equipment, technical services, and supplies. There are various situations in which the government can allege fraud against you in your defense contract including offering cross charge expenses from the fixed cost to cost-plus contracts, failure to provide services or products, substituting substandard products for the ones that were specified on the contract, or improper allocation of expenses.
Health care fraud –according to reports, health care fraud is known to cost the nation billions every year. This kind of fraud occurs in various ways including people engaging in identity theft with the aim of obtaining more benefits or making false payment claims of engaging in fraudulent billing practices.
This act is the cornerstone of fraud enforcement by the government. It allows whistleblowers to get a reward under qui tam provisions. Usually, the government fraud cases are prosecuted under the False Claims Act which was endorsed during the civil war. This legislation is still used to date, and it lets specific whistleblowers offer testimony/ direction that can be a basis for False Claims Act charges. Additionally, the whistleblowers are offered legal standing to sue depending on the investigation and the prosecution, eventually sharing in the proceeds the government covers. When you have a professional who can represent your case including a legal firm that understands what is required to establish a valid charge, you will be on the safe side.
Since fraud against the government is a grave matter, and you may be subjected to severe penalties when convicted, including restitution and imprisonment, you need to work with a professional criminal defense attorney from our organization. In case the alleged fraud connects you with your job as a government contractor, you could be excluded from getting federal programs for good, an occurrence that could end your career. It is advisable that you contact a proficient fraud attorney as soon as you can if you are accused of this kind of offense.
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Manchester City boss says former Liverpool star Raheem Sterling must improve to reach the top [Video]
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Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has challenged new Raheem Sterling to improve his game in order to justify his £49million price-tag.
The England international completed his transfer to last season's Premier League runners-up earlier in the week from rivals Liverpool [via BBC Sport] and his huge transfer fee has been met with some scepticism from many in the media including former Reds defenders Phil Thompson and Jamie Carragher [via Sky Sports].
However, Pellegrini has shrugged of claims that City paid over the odds for the 20-year-old and is excited by the potential of the young winger:
"The price is not the most important thing, the most important thing is to choose the player you need," the Chilean manager said [via Mirror Sport].
"The price is so difficult to see. It depends on the performance of the player in the next years. Every time you need a player the price is very high, not just for City, but for every team."
"He's a very young player so he has a lot of things to improve. I think it's important for him to have a new challenge in our team where he will play with great players which will improve his game. He will also improve us as a team
"It will depend how he works over the next few years, but I am sure he will be very important in our team, especially for his speed," Pellegrini added.
After a good start to the season on a personal level for Sterling, his form dipped towards the end of the campaign as the constant transfer rumours coupled with playing out of position as a wing-back certainly affected his performances for the Reds.
His final goal in the colours of the Merseyside outfit came in the 2-0 victory against Newcastle United back in April as he cut in from the left-wing to curl the ball past Tim Krul.
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Q: matlab display messages sometimes I find that when running matlab scripts messages written through disp() don't show up until the script terminates. Is there a way to force the display of msgs during the script?

A: Try using the fprintf function. If you're displaying the iteration number in a loop everytime, instead of something like disp(['Iteration : ', num2str(i)]), you can simply print the same info as
fprintf('Iteration : %u\n',i)

A: Try adding a drawnow call after the disp().


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Barry hits home with humor
By Becky Gottel
Big Trouble by Dave Barry
I was totally disturbed by the front cover of "Big Trouble," which boasts a picture of Tim Allen and Rene Russo and the tag "Soon to be a major motion picture." The movie came out in 2002 and I do not know anyone who has seen it.
But, regardless of its "big trouble" as a movie, I loved "Big Trouble" the book by Dave Barry. It is a hilarious story about 10 to 15 characters whose lives eventually collide at the Miami airport where they have followed a nuclear bomb in a suitcase. Most of them have been shot at by this point. And no, if you're wondering, there is no deeper meaning than that.
You can fly through this book. It's not so much the clever plot, but its brilliant humor (which Barry creates without ripping anyone apart – with the exception of Miami, which does take some ribbing). It's not as tight and sharp as his other writing – he works better in his standard column form because the book is missing his knack for describing the current flavor of politics, world events, trends and family life. He still works in some of his standard jokes on teenagers:
"This sound system sucks." Matt had great contempt for any sound system that was not loud enough to stun cattle.
"Why'd your dad buy a Kia?" asked Andrew.
"'Cause he's a dork," explained Matt.
Andrew nodded understandingly. His dad was a dork, too. It seemed like everybody's dad was a dork. It amazed Matt and Andrew that their generation had turned out so cool.
Overall, it is so refreshing to have a comedian make fun of everyone and everything. Barry is not discriminating or political; he can just see humor everywhere. For instance, if you have ever had a job, you'll appreciate Barry's descriptions of interactions with my favorite minor character – "Big Fat Client from Hell":
Eliot Arnold, of Eliot Arnold Advertising and Public Relations (which consisted of Eliot Arnold), nodded thoughtfully, as though he thought the Client From Hell was making a valid point. In fact, Eliot was thinking it was a good thing that he was one of the maybe fifteen people in Miami who did not carry a loaded firearm, because he would definitely shoot the Client From Hell in his fat, glistening forehead.
At times like these – and there were many times like these – Eliot wondered if maybe he'd been a bit hasty quitting the newspaper. Especially the way he'd done it, putting his foot through the managing editor's computer. He'd definitely burned a bridge there.
Barry makes a few missteps in his quest for humor. In the middle of the book, there is a kidnap scene with an implied possibility of rape. As a young female, it's actually not very funny when an insane man with too many guns and too few marbles kidnaps one of the main characters – a young female – so that she can be his girlfriend.
Other than that, the only other major problem was that "Big Trouble" is somewhat embarrassing to read because, if you are like me, there is a great risk you will start giggling in public. Luckily, those around me at Za's were forgiving.


The unofficial results are in for the Mansfield ISD school board election, which took place on May 5. Three seats were up for re-election.
Michelle Newsom was uncontested for the Place 1 seat. Desiree Thomas took the majority of the votes for the Place 2 seat with 69 percent, and Randall Canedy won the race for the Place 3 seat with 60 percent of the votes.
Results are not official until votes are canvassed. The canvassing of votes will occur on May 15 at a called board meeting.
More information about MISD school board elections is available here.


I've been watching Crowfall for some time, as I found it a very good game when I first read about it. And that's it, I'm watching, since it's not released: The front page announces the next test, various awards for being "most anticipated" and opportunities to "invest", along with the proud announcement that they collected $10M for nothing. Because they have no published game.
Star Citizen is an even bigger problem. As we know from the Don Quixote of the topic, the game has serious development problems, mostly because they picked a single-player engine for an MMO, they are way behind schedule and yet collected over $100M from donators.
Dear people, you get what you pay for. If you pay for a game, you get a game. If you pay for power, you get power in a rigged game. If you pay for development, you get development. The more you pay them, the more development you get. I guess Star Citizen will be in development as long as there are enough benefactors to keep the show running. When there are not, they publish whatever they have to avoid lawsuits and call it a day. I hope Crowfall will be different, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Buyer: you have a product to evaluate and legal right for refund if they product does not meet specifications.
Investor: you put money into a company for later divends or selling your share for higher. You have ability to audit the company, either personally or by investor services ratings.
Selfless donator: you give money to a noble cause with no expectation to get anything in return personally. You expect the cause to make the World a better place with your contribution.
Mark of a con: you give money and you're not any of the above.
I heard Star Citizen is selling yet another ship isn't implemented yet in a game not published. Be sure to buy it now!
You put Crowfall's invest options in quotes. I thought its worth pointing out that this option appears to be legitimate investment in your category 2. I don't know enough about this to know if it's all just an elaborate scam or of its a good investment. It's not however just a rebranded donation.
I don't know Star Citizen's case in deep, but in the case of Crowfall I think you have some facts wrong. They don't say they collected 10M$, they say they have 10M$ funding. If you see the detail you'll see that only 3M$ out of 10 are crowdfunding (http://crowfall.com/en/funding/). Investing in the company through Microventures / Indiegogo you have real company stocks and as any investment you're taking risks, it can go right or wrong.
Hahaha, well done Gevlon and spot on.
The only thing CR is actively working on is inventing stretch goals to milk more money out of his fanbase.
I really loved the Wing commander games, I played them all and Privateer with all the expansions too. But when it comes to crowdfunding, I really do not see the point why I should pay money for the hope that the dev gets a game right. Sorry, no way!
I think Gevlon might have to republish his article on sunk costs.
Star Citizen's troubles are obvious when you realize that they choose artists to talk about physics. They are still (this far into development) trying to hammer out how fast ship X should be or how many guns of what size you should be able to fit in a specific ship to give it a particular "feeling" to the pilot. This is after they described power management, heat management, cpu management... it is as if they don't understand the point of the systems they themselves are designing. Which is why these systems are always in flux... or perhaps that is just a marketing ploy... similar to "Ship stats are not final".
Someone should really make an mmo without a world or back story or theme. Sort of like an mmo that knows its an mmo. If that makes any sense.
That would be preferable to an MMO without a game engine.


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Millicent Dolly May (Millie) Small (Clarendon (Jamaica), 6 oktober 1946 – Londen, 5 mei 2020) was een zangeres van Jamaicaanse afkomst.

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Haar bijnaam was "The Blue Beat Girl". Ze werd ontdekt door Robert Blackwell, de broer van Island Records-oprichter Chris Blackwell. In 1963 vertrok ze naar Engeland, waar ze een cover opnam van het liedje "My Boy Lollipop". Deze single was een van de eerste en grootste ska-hits. Ernie Ranglin was de gitarist die haar begeleidde.

Small scoorde ook nog een hit met "Sweet William". In Jamaica werd zij bekroond met de Orde van Uitmuntendheid.

Small was de jongste van een gezin met 12 kinderen. Ze overleed in 2020 op 73-jarige leeftijd.

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We are a Catholic college with a strong tradition of academic and sporting achievement. Knowing our students personally and guiding each of them to achieve their full potential is key to our and their success. Behind everything we ASPIRE to fulfil our six core values: Achievement, Spirituality, Respect, Independence, Relationships and Enjoyment.
As a faith school within the state educational system, we work in partnership with our Local Authority and the Catholic diocese of Portsmouth to create a learning community that we are all proud to be part of. Recent local and diocese inspections have praised our ethos, outcomes and the attitude of our students as an outstanding college.
"It gives me great pleasure to introduce myself as the Head of School at St George Catholic College. It is a privilege and honour to be entrusted with the job of leading such a fantastic college. I am determined that it continues to build on its legacy and continues to flourish at the heart of our community, having being part of it for 12 years. Our mission statement is that 'We ASPIRE to be everything that God has created us to be'.
"By working together, we can ensure that all students enjoy their time at our college, make outstanding progress and leave us with the necessary skills and attitudes to lead successful and fulfilling lives. It is important that we are ambitious and I know that our students will always respond positively to a challenge.
"The college is mixed and now well oversubscribed, with a record breaking number of students wanting a place with us in every year group. There is much to continue to look forward to as a brand new state-of-the art science and technology block begins construction. Every teacher and member of staff here is determined to provide the highest standards for all students.
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Hero dog on the mend after trying to save owner
by Dawn Walton	| Posted on February 11, 2015
Carmen, a 9-year-old boxer dog, hailed as a hero for trying to save her owner's life and nearly losing her own life in a house fire, is bouncing back. Firefighters in Goshen Township, Ohio found the dog covering her owner's face and shielding him from the flames in a basement fire last week. Unfortunately, her owner, Ben Ledford, 33, died from his injuries. (Here they are in happier times.)
The fire also did serious damage to Carmen's lungs. She was put on a ventilator and is being cared for around the clock by veterinarians at the Cincinnati Care Center, who have been posting updates on the dog's condition to their Facebook page.
This week, vets started the process of slowly weaning Carmen off ventilator support. While her vital signs remain stable, she still needs intensive critical care. She also started to wake up from the sedation drugs.
And, even better news came Wednesday as she came off the ventilator. She also received ultrasound therapy to reduce some of the swelling. And, she is awake.
"Carmen also stood with support from our team on a peanut therapy ball for about five minutes which was amazing. She still requires oxygen therapy at this point but is breathing very well and has started rehabilitation to get her back to being strong," the clinic said.
Meanwhile, fundraising campaigns are underway to pay for Carmen's significant medical bills. The campaign has already exceed its $25,000 goal, but cash keeps pouring in from around the world.
"The ongoing support for Carmen, and Carmen's family, has been overwhelmingly positive," campaign organizer and relative Phil Ledford wrote on the page. "The family is humbled by the generosity being offered to help Carmen."
Meanwhile, a similar campaign for the Woster family, whose home was burned in the blaze, is also underway. Ben Ledford, who was a business partner with the family, was also living in the home. So far, it has almost reached its $5,000 goal.
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Q: convert letter to number in sql I have a student table, one of its column contains the grade obtained by student(eg, A,B,C...). I need to assign a number to every grade (eg, A->10, B->8, C->6 ...)
I am new to sql and I am not getting any idea on how to do it.
I tried one method which I found online:
select letter_grade, case when 'A' then 4 end as lettergrade from students;

But its not working

A: You are on the right track:
SELECT
    letter_grade,
    CASE letter_grade WHEN 'A' THEN 10
                      WHEN 'B' THEN 8
                      WHEN 'C' THEN 6
                      WHEN 'D' THEN 4
                      ELSE 0 END AS number_grade
FROM students;

A: An Oracle solution (which will not work in other SQL dialects, because it uses an Oracle proprietary function) is to use decode(). This function compares the first argument to the second, forth, sixth etc. and when it finds a match, it returns the argument immediately following the match. If no match is found, it returns the default entered as the last argument.
select student_id, letter_grade,
       decode(letter_grade, 'A', 10, 'B', 8, 'C', 6, 'D', 4, 0) as numeric_grade
from   students


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Q: Displaying ACF field in page or archive head I would like to use an ACF field to inject Schema merkup to a few specific pages on my WordPress website. Some of them are custom taxonomies or custom post types.
After a two hour research on the topic, I am still stuck.
I have created a text area field called schema_code and entered the desired Schema markup for some of my sub pages.
I currently use this code in my functions.php which does not do anything:
function acf_header_script() {
  $schema = get_field('schema_code');
  echo '<script type=application/ld+json>' . json_encode($schema_code) . '</script>';
}
add_action ( 'wp_head', 'acf_header_script' );

What am I missing here? Thanks a lot!

A: The second parameter of the ACF get_field() is required in this case, since you're not in the loop.  It is either the post->ID or it's the taxonomy ID where it's {taxonomy_name}_{taxonomy_id} https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_field/
Since you want to do this on pages and archives, etc... You need to first determine if it's a single page or an archive, etc.
function acf_header_script() {
    // is it a single post?
    if ( ! is_single() ) {
        // no? get the queried object.
        $object = get_queried_object();
        if ( is_a( $object, 'WP_POST' ) ) {
            $param = $object->ID;
        } else {
            $param = $object->taxonomy . '_' . $object->term_id;
        }
    } else {
        // yes it's a single.
        global $post;
        $param = $post->ID;
    }
    $schema = get_field( 'schema_code', $param );
    // if $schema is not empty.
    if ( $schema ) {
        echo '<script type=application/ld+json>' . json_encode( $schema ) . '</script>';
    }
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'acf_header_script' );


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Jefferson Ochoa Fernández (born 9 November 1996) is a Colombian taekwondo practitioner.

In 2019, he competed in the men's flyweight at the World Taekwondo Championships held in Manchester, United Kingdom.

He qualified at the 2020 Pan American Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Heredia, Costa Rica to represent Colombia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He competed in the men's 58 kg event where he was eliminated in his first match.

In 2021, he won the silver medal in the men's 58 kg event at the Pan American Taekwondo Championships held in Cancún, Mexico.

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Living people
1996 births
Colombian male taekwondo practitioners
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic taekwondo practitioners of Colombia
People from Santa Marta
Sportspeople from Magdalena Department
21st-century Colombian people
Competitors at the 2022 South American Games
South American Games medalists in taekwondo
South American Games bronze medalists for Colombia