There is huge confusion in the cake-making community regarding the use of decorative glitters and dusts.
Following a notice by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), at the end of last year, online forums, including British Baker's own National Cupcake Week Facebook group, have been awash with comments from perplexed cake-makers as to what they can legally use to decorate their cakes.
The FSA has said it was aware of a number of instances of non-edible cake-decorating materials often described as dust or glitters made from coloured plastic particles, being marketed in ways that may lead to purchasers consuming these materials "due to a misunderstanding that they are intended for consumption", or because the products could not be fully removed from the food before consumption.
The saga, dubbed 'glittergate', concerns the labelling of these types of products as 'edible', 'non-edible' or 'non-toxic'. Several cake-makers said they had stopped using the glitters, due to fears they may get into trouble. Jane Edgar, owner of Cakeaccasions, said that, following the FSA's comments, she had decided not use cake glitters. Angie Townsend, owner of The Tiny Cake Company also said she had stopped using them, as she was unsure whether she was allowed to do so.
According to the FSA, the official requirements for the use of non-edible dust and glitter on foods to be supplied commercially, are that decorative materials intended for consumption "should only be considered safe if they are composed entirely of permitted food ingredients", including additives or colouring. Only then can they be labelled as edible.
Meanwhile, 'decorative' dusts and glitters must meet the requirements for 'food contact materials' if they are intended to come into contact with food or if there is a chance they may do so.
An FSA spokesperson said glitter intended to be consumed must meet the requirements of the additives legislation. "But if the glitter is intended (or reasonably likely) to come into contact with the food, but not meant to be consumed, it must meet the requirements of the food contact materials legislation."
Some firms selling these glitters, have changed their products' description; edible-glitter.co.uk lists edible cake glitter (which can be used with food) and non-toxic cake glitter (suitable for display cakes and centrepieces i.e. not to be eaten), for example.
The FSA spokesperson said any cake-makers unsure of whether a product is safe to eat, from the label, should clarify this with the glitter supplier. "It is the manufacturer's responsibility to ensure that their product is safe/fit-for-purpose," she added.
Sparkle Rae: So what's the general consensus? No glitter if cake or decoration is to be eaten? Just checking as I have stopped using it and this upsets me!
Claire Hancock: With all the hoo-haa going at the moment concerning 'edible' glitter, are yours actually edible or not for consumption? It's all very confusing. People are being told by their EHOs that they are not legal to use on cakes to be eaten. I don't want to buy any if I cannot use them.
Nicki McCourt, Cup Couture: Have heard edible glitter has been re-classified as non-edible and therefore, not allowed to be used on food products. Is this true?
Sarah A Stephenson, Daydream Bakery: What are you all doing about edible glitter non-toxic/edible classification change? Are you still using it or have you found sparkly alternatives?


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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a bewitching revamp that plays like Buffy for 2018
In a recent interview, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa revealed that he almost changed Salem into a dog for his horror-tinged reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Sacrilege!
While the beloved feline remains intact (for the most part), Chilling Adventures… makes other sweeping changes that forgo nostalgia in favour of darkness, drawing inspiration from recent comic books instead of Melissa Joan Hart's wacky show from the '90s.
Set in the town of Greendale "where it always feels like Halloween", Aguirre-Sacasa's revival kicks off just a few days before Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) turns 16, when she must choose between life as a witch and her connection with the mortal world. Although she's determined to study magic, Sabrina's love for high-school squeeze Harvey Kinkle (Ross Lynch) is complicating matters somewhat, not to mention the demonic forces that conspire against her too.
The various elements that usually characterise Sabrina are still present here, but by the time that the pulpy opening credits have finished, it's clear that the Teenage Witch is grown up now, even if she does still attend Baxter High. With no plans to include the original cast in cameo roles or even connect with its sister show Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina consciously disassociates itself from what's come before, and that's one of its greatest strengths.
Most TV shows and teen programmes in particular can take a while to shrug off their growing pains and find themselves, but the pilot for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina hits the ground running like it's being chased by the Dark Lord himself. Although each episode runs close to the hour mark, none of the pacing issues usually associated with Netflix originals are to be found here.
'Normal' characters from Baxter High are occasionally sidelined in favour of their more fantastical counterparts, mirroring Sabrina's own struggle to choose between the world of magic and the realm of mortals. However, a balance is maintained for the most part and each cast member is still given time to shine throughout the first eight episodes we were made privy to.
On the human side of things, Lynch pulls off an impressive 180, bringing a sweet, doe-eyed innocence to the role of Harvey, which is leaps and bounds away from his portrayal of a serial killer in My Friend Dahmer. Jaz Sinclair and non-binary star Lachlan Watson both impress as Sabrina's besties too and Ambrose Spellman (Chance Perdomo) adds even more queer diversity to the cast in the role of Sabrina's pansexual cousin.
It's just as well that the charming young necromancer is on hand to give Sabrina advice, as the sassy Salem of old is no more. Although Sabrina can converse with her familiar, the show effectively silences Salem in a bold move that might disappoint fans from the '90s, but helps ground the story nonetheless.
The silence left in Salem's wake is filled admirably by Sabrina's aunts, who share a complicated and yet always entertaining love/hate relationship. More often than not, Hilda (Lucy Davis) and Zelda Spellman (Miranda Otto) threaten to steal every scene they're in – "Praise Satan!" – but fortunately, Kiernan Shipka still draws focus with a bewitching performance in the lead role.
The Mad Men star was Aguirre-Sacasa's first choice and it's easy to see why. When she declares that "My name is Sabrina Spellman and I will not sign it away," you truly believe that Shipka is Sabrina, perhaps even more so than Melissa Joan Hart, who first made the Teenage Witch a household name a few decades ago.
Both kind and outspoken, loving yet strong, this new iteration of Sabrina is the most complex we've seen so far. To Shipka's credit, the young star successfully keeps a handle on these various contradictions to embody a fully rounded character who we can't help but root for, even when she's terrorising her headmaster with a small army of spiders.
If Riverdale occasionally dips a toe into the realm of horror, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina throws itself headfirst into the murky depths of Sweetwater River, channeling the satanic movies of old to create some genuine "Holy shit!" moments that you might not expect from a show like this. A disturbing makeout session in the mines and an entire episode inspired by The Exorcist are just some of the scares that lie in wait for viewers this Halloween, but that doesn't mean Chilling Adventures of Sabrina doesn't know how to have fun too.
This is best encapsulated by Mary Wardell, aka Madam Satan, a demonically possessed teacher who works for the Dark Lord and befriends Sabrina under false pretences. Doctor Who star Michelle Gomez gives a performance on just the right side of zany here, providing some laughs with her odd, manic looks… That is, when she's not systematically trying to destroy Sabrina's life.
Melissa Joan Hart previously compared the reboot to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, explaining that while her show "was about magic and family", the new one "is going to be more about witchcraft, dark stuff". While the Buffy comparisons are remarkably apt in terms of both quality and potential impact, Hart's description is still lacking in one key regard.
Yes, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is darker, tackling timely issues of misogyny and discrimination with as much vigour as Sabrina defies Satan himself, but the reboot is also about family too. Not an episode goes by where the loss of Sabrina's parents doesn't affect her in some way, and the bond that the Spellmans share is far more powerful than anything that the Dark Lord can throw their way.
A few months back, talk of a Buffy revival worried fans who felt that a new project could tarnish the legacy of the original. Whether these concerns turn out to be true or not, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has proved that supernatural reboots can sometimes surpass their predecessors – and if season two turns out to be as strong as season one, then perhaps we're looking at a show that could even rival the legacy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer somewhere later down the line too.
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Indonesia is an important site for our research support in several ways. It's a young democracy with a large pluralist society, and its environment has global significance.
Information and communication technologies, in particular, are important tools for development in the world's largest island group. Our support enabled one of Asia's most prominent distance learning universities to replace correspondence courses with digital learning technologies.
As a result, the number of adult learners who completed their courses increased, along with satisfaction levels. With an additional IDRC grant, the university replaced lost learning materials and established an Internet access point for students in its tsunami-devastated campus in Banda Aceh.
We have long supported research on the sustainable use of forests in Indonesia. For example, we helped two areas adopt our "model forest" approach for the Berau and Margowitan forests, where the community helps manage it. Developed in Canada and promoted internationally, model forests involve community members, businesses, and local authorities in research and planning for sustainable use of forest resources.
Decentralization of responsibilities from national to local governments in the late 1990s created the opportunity to involve communities in managing large state-owned teak plantations on the island of Java. With our support, there's now a joint community-government forest management model in three districts. This allows farmers to have better access to forest resources.
The Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia — funded by IDRC and nine other donors — has also had significant results in Indonesia. For example, it helped identify the causes, impacts, and costs of the vast forest fires that ravaged the country and region in 1997.
The results prompted the region's environment ministers to pursue alternatives to burning as a land-clearing method. The government uses our co-sponsored report, "Climate Matters: Vulnerability Map of Southeast Asia," which highlights the risks from climate change effects. It helps policymakers and donors decide on a course of action to meet environmental challenges.


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Everything is awful. So why is the stock market booming?
April 10, 2020 at 7:31 am Updated April 10, 2020 at 6:47 pm
The New York Stock Exchange in New York. Current market pricing suggests that investors are counting on a speedy rebound. (Kevin Hagen / The Associated Press)
NEIL IRWIN
What on earth is the stock market doing?
Death and despair are all around. The number of people filing for unemployment benefits each of the last two weeks was about 10 times the previous record — and is probably being artificially held back by overloaded government systems. Vast swaths of American business are shuttered indefinitely. The economic quarter now underway will most likely feature Great Depression-caliber shrinkage in economic activity.
Yet at Thursday's close, the S&P 500 was up 25% from its recent low March 23. It is down only about 14% this year — and is up from its levels of just 11 months ago. There are answers as to why. But that doesn't take away the extremity of the juxtaposition between an economy in free fall and a stock market that is, in the scheme of things, doing just fine.
Two powerful forces are pushing in opposite directions. Commerce is being disrupted to a degree that seemed impossible just weeks ago. But simultaneously, stock investors are betting that powerful interventions out of Washington — including an additional $2.3 trillion in lending programs from the Federal Reserve announced Thursday — will be enough to enable major companies to emerge with little damage to their long-term profitability.
It is a battle between collapsing economic activity and, to use a silly meme from finance Twitter, the federal government's money printer going "brrr." In the stock market, at least, the revving of the money printer is winning.
Paradoxically, said Gene Goldman, chief investment officer of Cetera Investment Management, the shockingly high numbers of jobless claims can even be viewed as helpful to the market, as they increase political pressure on Congress to scale up rescue measures beyond the $2 trillion legislation already enacted.
"Imagine you're a Democrat or a Republican talking about 16 million people unemployed," he said. "It really creates more bipartisan pressure to support the next stimulus package."
The large companies that make up major stock indexes tend to have reliable access to capital, particularly after the Fed's latest actions to prop up corporate lending. They may be more likely than small, independent-owned businesses to weather the economic storm and come out on the other side with greater market share and profits.
The analysts who project corporate earnings are, in the aggregate, forecasting a relatively mild hit. They expect the companies that make up the S&P 500 to experience only an 8.5% decline in earnings in 2020, with revenue falling a mere 0.1%, according to FactSet.
Then there are technical factors.
Some of the strongest performers in this market rally have been the companies most severely affected by the coronavirus crisis, like cruise lines, hotel chains and airlines. That suggests "short squeeze" dynamics, in which a small upturn forced investors betting against those companies to close out their positions, turning the small rally into a large one.
And Saudi Arabia and Russia apparently reached a truce to reduce oil output, causing a rally in oil prices, which is good news for oil companies that have been hammered by plunging prices of crude.
Finally, the gush of money into safe investments, both from private savers and the Fed, is pushing down longer-term interest rates. That makes even weak or uncertain future earnings for shareholders more appealing than they would have been when interest rates were higher.
But just because there are reasons for the stock market rally does not mean those reasons are good ones.
Stock prices are always based on what the world will look like in the future, not the present. In the global financial crisis, stock prices bottomed out in March 2009. The economy did not begin expanding again until July, and the unemployment rate would not peak until October.
But current market pricing suggests that investors are counting on a speedy rebound.
"If this doesn't go on much longer than expected, if it really is a three- to six-month event from the time we turned the switch on the economy off to when we turn it on, then markets have already accounted for that and are looking ahead," said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist for the Leuthold Group. "It could be that the virus stays hot, and this situation stays in place for three or four quarters, and we're not priced for that."
In effect, financial markets are betting that there is some reasonable approximation of normal on some foreseeable horizon.
The current pricing assumes that a cascading series of failures will not happen. That widespread job losses and drops in income will not cause the mass closure of businesses. That people will have a job to go back to and will be willing to spend when the public health crisis ebbs.
Everything about this crisis has been incredibly fast, with the economy going from full health to devastating recession within weeks. In that sense, the financial markets are preemptively adjusting to a possible world in which trillions of dollars from the Treasury and the Fed do the trick and prevent the virus from doing lasting damage.
"The stock market during periods of stress can be quite manic," said Jason Pride, chief investment officer of private wealth at Glenmede. "What is happening here is a flip-flopping of perception from the 'sky is falling' for the majority of March, to being able to glimpse a light at the end of the tunnel today."
It is, in other words, an unusual time in which we can only hope that stock investors know something that millions of people facing a catastrophic economic situation do not.
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About IBSC
Selling your company
Market positioning
IBSC M&A
Specialized in representing the Buyer
Offering the Acquirer professional M&A consultancy from A to Z including implementation of the Post-Merger Integration
a possible Seller, access to a wide database of interested Buyers.
WHY DID I CREATE IBSC M&A ?
IBSC M&A, having the fiscal name Iberian-Scandinavian M&A S.L. has evolved from my first-hand experience as founder, CEO and Managing Director during the last 23 years for Spain and Portugal of a Pan-European IT distributor, with subsidiaries in 26 european countries and a very clear strategy of using acquisitions as a tool for accelerated growth.
Why M&A
An important part of our Group´s clear and well-designed strategy was the growth through centralization, optimization and acquisitions. During the last 15 years, the 44 purchases, both Scale and Scope acquisitions, were essential for the Groups growth far higher than average in the market. A well selected and integrated merger or acquisition is a unique tool for accelerated growth and profitability.
Having participated directly in identifying and evaluating possible candidates; initiating and managing the initial meetings plus negotiations, due diligences, design of contracts and closings have given me a vision and know-how of newer, alternative and more creative formulas which finally succeed in reaching an agreement. Where more traditional formulas had previously failed I saw closing success rate, significantly higher than average.
From theory to practice
Locating, negotiating, closing, leading and doing the actual physical Integration Post-Merger for a considerable number of acquisitions of companies, have brought me incalculable experience and expertise in how to assure smooth and efficient mergers and acquisitions.
problems in the post-merger integrations phase
Most people have heard about mergers and acquisitions, that did not turn out as planned. Actually, in average 70% of all acquisitions fail to create shareholder value. All the nice previous Excel sheets and PowerPoints elaborated through the due diligence showed something very different from the final outcome after the merger of the two organizations. There are many potential factors which the cause could be, such as the incapability of efficiently consolidating databases, pricing policy, customer conditions, contracts and relations to vendors, mapping of products, integration of ERP systems, phones, web, etc. Over half of all acquisitions, that does not live up to expectations, are due to problems in the Post-Merger Integration phase.
THE HUMAN RESOURCE CHALLENGE
However, often the most difficult task is to bring people with different company cultures and different work methods from two different teams together in a short period of time and make them work as one single homogenous team, with a united spirit that pursues the same objectives. Therefore, at IBSC M&A, we offer counselling regarding human resources and hands on by physically being present and helping during the integration phase, assuring a smooth and efficient merger without problems.
It is easier if you know the culture
Having lived and studied in Copenhagen until the age of 25, combined with having worked in Spain as CEO for a Pan European IT Distributor with branches in 26 European countries for 23 years, has given me a wide knowledge of the different European cultures and the IT sector; essential factors for negotiations and being able to close deals. This, together with my extensive network of independent M&A boutiques and private equity funds in Spain and the rest of Europe, offers many unique and interesting cross-border opportunities.
Miguel Cervera Andersen
What IBSC M&A does
IBSC M&A is specialized in creating partnerships between companies in the IT sector in the Iberian and Scandinavian markets, but not limited to, as often one of the partners is from outside these two geographical areas.
The partnerships are created through mergers, acquisitions or capital injections. Mergers and acquisitions can represent an excellent opportunity for accelerated growth and can be key to achieving a defined strategy which ensures future success, especially as medium/large companies tend to dominate more and more.
They also represent an excellent way to ensure growth and continuity for small and medium-sized companies. As part of something larger these companies can benefit from economies of scale and financial strength which were previously unavailable to them.
THE CRUCIAL ELEMENTS THAT GUARANTEE SUCCES
We believe in plain honest talk, direct transparent communication and striping away complexity whenever possible.
We identify these potential partnerships and bring them to fruition using a number of key channels. These include our private networks of active relations alongside an international network of independent M&A boutiques and private equity funds.
M&A from Start to End
In addition, IBSC M&A does not limit itself to provide consultancy and guidance only until the signing of the deal, but also offers hands-on support; advice and physical involvement in the execution of the subsequent integration and merger.
Avoid mistakes
Many mergers and acquisitions, whose original project was well thought out, falter after signing due to lack of experience in the subsequent phase of execution and integration. An important part of the expected synergies never materializes, they have been diluted due to failure of being able to bring together the two organizations within a tight time frame, to work as one.
The most predominant challenges faced, are consolidation of databases, pricing policy, customer conditions, contracts and relations to vendors, mapping of products, integration of ERP systems, phones, web, plus other factors. However, the most important and often ignored factor is the capability to merge two teams into one single homogenous team that pursues the same objectives.
Locating, negotiating, closing, leading and doing the actual physical integration for a considerable number of acquisitions, has brought valuable experience and expertise in how to assure smooth and efficient mergers and acquisitions and avoid mistakes.
At IBSC M&A Integrity, Transparency and Simplicity are fundamental values. As trust is an essential in order to reach agreements and close deals, we believe in plain honest talk, direct transparent communication and striping away complexity whenever possible.
Do you want to sell your company?
If you want to divest or sell, IBSC M&A offers an interesting opportunity to rescue the integrity of the equity and achieve the right price for the goodwill.
Additionally, important and often ignored, this way assures, that all the hard work, tons of dedication and devotion, seller has employed into the company over the last many years, somehow carries on in the future.
At IBSC M&A we identify potential candidates interested in investing or acquiring, help with due diligence, analyses of cost/sales synergies and guides negotiations until the deal is completed. The formulas we utilize, so the two parties reach an agreement, are often very different and more creative than the traditional ones currently being applied in the M&A sector.
Due to the methodologies we employ, companies that already have had several unsuccessful M&A attempts, with the help of IBSC M&A, often manage to close a deal.
Having participated directly in identifying and evaluating possible candidates; initiating and managing the initial meetings plus negotiations, due diligences, design of contracts and closings has given a vision and know-how of newer, alternative and more creative formulas which finally succeed in reaching an agreement.
Deep knowledge of Spanish and Scandinavian culture and IT sectors.
M&A Specialists
Extensive experience in M&A, implementation of synergies, strategies and optimization.
Knowledge of creative and effective formulas, often unknown in the market, assure high percentage of deals are closed.
Smooth merging
Extensive practical experience, hands-on and management, in the process after closing when the execution, merger and integration begin.
Having lived and studied in Copenhagen until the age of 25, combined with having worked in Spain as CEO for a Pan European IT Distributor with branches in 26 European countries for 23 years, has given me a wide knowledge of the different European cultures and the IT sector; essential factors for negotiations and being able to close deals.
An important part of our Group´s clear and well-designed strategy was the growth through centralization, optimization and acquisitions. During the last 15 years, the 44 purchases, both Scale and Scope acquisitions, were essential for the Groups growth far higher than average in the market.
Our own database
Qualified private database of potential partners plus an international network of independent M&A boutiques and private equity funds.
Legal expertise
Considerable expertise in negotiation, purchase and sale contracts, legal, labor and fiscal issues.
Proven success
Locating, negotiating, closing, leading and doing the actual physical integration for a considerable number of acquisitions of companies, has brought valuable experience and expertise in how to assure smooth and efficient mergers and acquisitions and avoid mistakes.
YOU WANT TO ACQUIRE
WHY ACQUIRE OR MERGE?
Mergers and acquisitions can represent an excellent opportunity for accelerated growth and can be the key to achieving a defined strategy which ensures future success in particular as medium/large companies tend to dominate more and more.
FIND THE RIGHT MATCH
We identify potential partnerships and bring these to fruition using a number of key channels. These include our private networks of active relations alongside an international network of independent M&A boutiques and private equity funds.
IBSC M&A helps carry out due diligence, analyses of cost/sales synergies and guides negotiations until the deal is completed. The formulas used, so the two parties reach an agreement, are often very different and more creative than the traditional ones currently being applied in the M&A sector.
Due to the methodologies we employ, companies that already have had several unsuccessful M&A attempts, with the help of IBSC M&A, often
manage to close a deal.
HOW TO AVOID THESE MISTAKES
IBSC M&A does not limit itself to provide consultancy and guidance only until the signing of the deal, but also offers hands-on support; advice and physical involvement in the execution of the subsequent integration and merger.
Locating, negotiating, closing, leading and doing the actual physical integration for a considerable number of acquisitions of companies with turnovers from 1 million to 20 million, has brought incalculable experience and expertise in how to assure smooth and efficient mergers and acquisitions and avoid mistakes.
IBSC Market positioning
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Illinois government leaders square off over school funding
By Kevin Beese For Chronicle Media — August 22, 2017
House Speaker Michael Madigan and the Democrats are looking to convince a handful of Republicans to break ranks and vote to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, which is expected to take place Aug. 23. (Blueroomstream)
It continues to be a numbers game as a vote is scheduled for this week on overriding the governor's veto on school funding.
Can House Speaker Michael Madigan and the Democrats convince a handful of Republicans to break ranks and vote to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, which creates a new state-funding formula for schools? Will lawmakers opt for more money for their local schools now with the risk of that funding shrinking later when the funding formula shifts?
Because Rauner's plan provides more money for schools now than Senate Bill 1 does, lawmakers outside of Chicago may be hard-pressed to justify voting against the governor's amendatory veto according to one political observer.
"It's a fact that the amendatory veto provides more money for districts than Senate Bill 1 does," said Ted Dabrowski, vice president of policy for the Illinois Policy Institute.
To override the governor's amendatory veto, 71 state House members would need to support the measure. There are 67 Democrats in the House currently, meaning all Democrats and at least four of the 51 Republican House members would need to approve the measure.
The Illinois Senate, which has a Democratic super-majority, has already approved the override, putting all the focus — and drama — on the House.
Steve Brown, spokesman for Madigan, anticipated that an override vote in the House would take place Aug. 23.
Brown had no projection as to how the override vote would play out.
"I wouldn't want to make a prediction on the vote at this point," Brown told Chronicle Media.
Dabrowski also said it is tough to read the tea leaves at this point, with so many factors and issues in play, such as schools getting ready to open or already opening, and political leaders not wanting to be blamed for schools not getting needed money, especially in poorer districts.
The spokesman for the Illinois Policy Institute, which has a more conservative tilt, said it isn't right that the House passed a $36 billion spending plan that includes $5 billion in new taxes and purposely withheld education funding until the time when schools have opened or are about to open.
"They are holding kids as pawns. That's not fair," Dabrowski said.
Dabrowski said if the override fails, he would recommend going back to the existing school-funding system until something can be worked out to change the formula. He said that would be better than jeopardizing money for financially strapped districts across the state.
He said with both Rauner and Madigan cranking up the war of words regarding school funding, many citizens don't know enough about the funding formulas proposed under Senate Bill 1 and the amendatory veto.
"I don't think people understand it," Dabrowski said of Senate Bill 1. "It is extremely complex and very political. They should know that the amendatory veto is more fair. If their lawmakers vote for SB 1, they are voting for a bailout for Chicago public schools over their own constituents. If the override fails, they should go back to the drawing board."
Rauner has called SB 1 a bailout for Chicago public schools as well because it carves out certain funding mechanisms, such as a block grant, just for CPS.
Brown said independent agencies, such as Politifact.com and the Better Government Association have proven such allegations are incorrect.
"I don't know why anyone would still be making that argument," Brown said.
Contrary to the Illinois Policy Institute, the Center for Tax and Budge Accountability, which has a more leftist tilt, contends that amendatory veto would harm Illinois schools in the long run.
"The bottom line here is clear," the CTBA said in a fact sheet on the amendatory veto. "The school funding formula created under the amendatory veto is fatally flawed, creates an education-funding system that will be inadequate in amount, inequitable in distribution, and not actually tied to the evidence of what works. These are the same flaws that exist under Illinois' current formula, which has created one of the least adequate and most inequitable education-funding systems in America. SB 1 is the only path to an education-funding formula that: is tied to the evidence of what works, identifies the actual investment needed to educate all children to succeed academically, and equitably distributes new state resources invested in education over time to school districts across Illinois."
CTBA officials note that an "adequacy target," representing the dollar amount that evidence indicates is needed to cover the costs of enhancing student achievement, is part of SB 1. They note that under the amendatory veto, funding would switch to per-pupil in 2020, regardless of whether a district was at its adequacy target or not.
"Obviously, once this change kicks in, many school districts will lose education funding, even if they have less than what the evidence indicates they need to educate the children they serve," the CTBA said. "Hence, under the amendatory veto, school districts will be moved farther away from reaching adequacy when their student populations decline — a highly undesirable and inequitable outcome."
— Illinois government leaders square off over school funding —
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My first sighting of a Tesla Model X
My First Sighting of a Model X
It was on a cold day in December 2017. I was in the mall when I heard music and saw a Tesla X being shown on the main shopping corridor. I stopped and looked in amazement. This vehicle was "dancing" along with the music. Its falcon-winged rear doors along with the trunk lid and the frunk (aka "front trunk) lid plus its two front doors were opening and closing in a symphony of movement along with the music.
I stopped strolling and joined the crowd of onlookers. The car was an eye-catching red and really pleasing to look at. It had apparently been "programmed" to dance with the music. After the music stopped, the doors remained open for the onlookers to inspect more closely.
What struck me at first was the frunk with more storage space under the "hood" where the motor is usually located in a car with an internal combustion engine.
I looked inside and saw a quite extraordinary control panel. The passenger compartment looked roomy and comfortable. The front windshield extended upward and sideward into one's peripheral vision. The view while driving must be impressive.
As I walked around the car several times I noticed the "T" logo and the brand name "Tesla" displayed on signs next to the vehicle. I wondered where the name Tesla came from and what meaning was associated with the "T" logo. I knew from the news that Tesla was an innovative all-electric car that was transforming the auto industry. But I did not know the full story.
I was not shopping for a car so I left the Tesla to the gawking onlookers and continued on with my shopping.
But the image of that Tesla stuck in my mind. I wanted to know more. As time went on, I learned more and more about electric vehicles and Tesla.
Here is what I learned.
Who Founded Tesla Motors?
I was surprised to learn that it was not Elon Musk who founded Tesla, but rather it was Martin Eberhard and Marck Tarpenning. I also did not realize that Tesla was founded as early as 2003.
When GM recalled all its EV1 electric cars and then destroyed them in 2003, Eberhard and Tarpenning saw nothing but vision and opportunity. They had sufficient funds to start the company and later turned to the financial markets.
It was then, in 2004, that Musk became involved with Tesla, leading the financing for the company and being appointed to the Board of Directors.
But due credit should go to Musk, for it was he who led the financing and steered the company from engineering to production and provided the vision for the company to get where it is today.
Why Name the Company Tesla?
The name Tesla might ring a bell with some of you. But not me. Unless you are an engineer, scientist or historian, the name Tesla might just as well be an acronym.
Everybody knows the name Thomas Edison. It was his invention of a DC (direct current) electrical grid that ultimately brought power to the country. Wrong! It was Nikola Tesla's invention of an AC (alternating circuit) electrical grid that ultimately powered the nation. It was Tesla's AC grid that allowed transmission of power over long distances. Tesla was an unusually gifted early inventor of many electrical devices.
Nikola Tesla invented the AC induction motor.
Any Tesla enthusiast knows full well that the name originally chosen for what was then Tesla Motors was based on a motor design credited to Nikola Tesla, who lived in the 19th century. Virtually every car that Tesla has produced, from the Roadster to the Model S to the Model X, has been powered by a version of that venerable 3-phase AC induction motor.
— Steve Bakker, 11 March 2018
Who was Nikola Tesla?
In 1960, the General Conference for Measures and Weights decided the unit for the physical quantity "magnetic induction" would bear the "Tesla" with the symbol..."T"
— Video "Tesla: The Master of Lightning
What Is it Like to Drive a Tesla?
As I studied the amazing-looking red Tesla X in the Mall, I wondered what it is like to drive a Tesla. Surely driving an electric car is much different than driving a car powered by and an internal combustion engine.
Here are some of the questions in my mind about driving a Tesla:
How do the doors work?
How fast does it accelerate?
How does the control panel work?
How far can you go on a single charge of Tesla's battery?
How do you find a Tesla Supercharging station on a road trip?
How long does it take to fully charge the Tesla's battery?
What do you do while you wait for the charging to be complete?
How quiet is the motor?
What about the much-touted autopilot?
How do you turn it on?
How well does it work to keep you in the middle of a lane of traffic?
Which lane is the best lane to drive a Tesla with Autopilot?
How do you change lanes?
How well does it adjust your speed to that of the traffic?
Can the Tesla park itself?
One way to find out is to drive a Tesla yourself. Another is to ride with two guys who drove across America in seven days in a Tesla while they recorded a video as they traveled day by day.
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Downtown Detroit is getting its very own surrealist beach
By Jerilyn Jordan on Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:32 pm
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Life's a beach. In the case of Detroit's latest art installation, life is a super surreal beach ball — lots of them.
"The Beach Detroit" is an interactive art installation by New York art house, Snarkitecture and the latest to wash up on the shore of Detroit's playful art scene thanks to Library Street Collective. "The Beach" will make a splash at 1001 Woodward Ave., in downtown Detroit, in a space that recently housed the cute as heck FriendsWithYou skating installation, Rainbow City Roller Rink.
While it may not resemble a literal beach, as it is devoid of sand, water, and sun, there are familiar visual elements that harken back to summertime and taking a dive requires a bit of imagination.
The downtown space will be transformed and will be entirely white from floor to ceiling. The "water" will be made up of thousands of translucent recyclable, antimicrobial plastic balls. (In other words, not your average, germ-infested McDonald's ball pit.) The installation will feature two "piers" that will allow visitors to observe as well as an island. According to the press release, monochromatic deck chairs, lifeguard chairs, umbrellas, and signage will be strewn throughout the space and act as a nod to the traditional beach-going experience.
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Blood Harmony es el EP debut del cantante, compositor y actor estadounidense Finneas O'Connell. Fue lanzado el 4 de octubre de 2019 a través del sello discográfico OYOY. El EP incluye 7 sencillos entre los que se encuentran los nuevos temas "Lost my mind", "Partners in Crime" y "Die Alone".

Antecedentes
El EP marca su primer lanzamiento como solista después de co-escribir y producir material para su hermana, la cantante Billie Eilish por varios años. Expresó su deseo de que el "título permaneciera ambiguo para los oyentes, y que cada quien fuese capaz de imbuirlo con su propio significado y justificación", pero aclaró que "blood harmony" —armonía de sangre en español— es una "expresión que se utiliza en inglés para describir la armonía que se escucha cuando los hermanos cantan juntos, esa química biológica, creo que habla por sí misma" Finneas también declaró que "había grabado Shelter hace un par de años y la dejé reposar un tiempo para ver cómo maduraba. Cuando buscaba entre mi música para ver qué lanzar este año, me topé con el demo y me sorprendió descubrir lo mucho que me seguía gustando. Usualmente me aburro de mis temas casi al instante». Él agregó que "la letra del tema trata sobre «el sentimiento de efervescencia que surge cuando amas a alguien»". Por último afirmó que este EP actúa como puente para su álbum debut próximo a lanzarse en 2020. En la preventa de boletos de su acto principal, agotó todas las entradas en solo 5 días.

Lista de canciones

Referencias

EP de 2021
Álbumes producidos por Finneas O'Connell

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Black And Blue —en español: Negro y azul— es un álbum de estudio de la banda de rock británico The Rolling Stones, lanzado el 23 de abril de 1976. Fue la decimotercera publicación de estudio en el Reino Unido y la decimoquinta en los Estados Unidos.

Se destaca por ser el primer álbum de estudio de la banda luego de la partida del guitarrista Mick Taylor. También por ser el primero en que aparece Ron Wood quien luego quedaría como miembro oficial de los Stones. Wood había tocado la guitarra acústica de doce cuerdas en la canción «It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)» del álbum It's Only Rock 'n' Roll y aparece en la mitad de las canciones de Black and Blue (principalmente en coros) con Wayne Perkins y Harvey Mandel tocando la guitarra en los títulos restantes.

El álbum desplegó el tradicional estilo rock and roll de la banda con fuertes influencias de reggae y funk. Aunque fue grabado en un momento de transición para la banda, el lanzamiento ha recibido a lo largo de los años críticas mixtas a positivas de publicaciones como Allmusic, con el crítico Stephen Thomas Erlewine diciendo sobre la grabación: "contiene canciones con largos grooves y jams", concluyendo que "eso es lo que lo hace bueno".

Historia

Antecedentes y grabación
En diciembre de 1974 los Rolling Stones regresaron a Múnich, Alemania, (lugar de grabación de It's Only Rock'n'Roll) y comenzaron a trabajar en su siguiente álbum con Mick Jagger y Keith Richards, bajo el nombre de The Glimmer Twins, como productores nuevamente. En vistas a lanzar el nuevo disco a tiempo para su nueva gira por Estados Unidos, Tour of the Americas, la banda continuó su trabajo en Róterdam, Países Bajos al mismo tiempo que audicionaba guitarristas. Entre los aspirantes se encontraban Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher, Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins, Peter Frampton, y Ron Wood, aunque solo Mandel, Perkins y Wood aparecerían en el álbum finalmente. Con mucho trabajo por delante todavía, decidieron posponer el lanzamiento para el año entrante y lanzar en su lugar el compilado Made in the Shade. «Cherry Oh Baby» (cover de la canción reggae de 1971 de Eric Donaldson) sería la única canción del próximo álbum tocada esporádicamente en el Tour of the Americas.

Tras finalizar la gira, la banda fue a Montreux, Suiza, en octubre para hacer algún trabajo de overdub (técnica de grabación), volviendo a Musicland Studios en Múnich en diciembre para realizar trabajos similares. Después de algunos retoques finales, Black and Blue se completó en la ciudad de Nueva York en febrero de 1976. En febrero de 1976 los Stones volaron a Sanibel Island Beach en la Isla Sanibel, Florida, para ser fotografiados por el famoso fotógrafo de moda Hiro para la cubierta del álbum. Estilísticamente, Black and Blue abarca el hard rock en «Hand of Fate» y  «Crazy Mama», el funk en «Hot Stuff», el reggae en «Cherry Oh Baby» y el jazz en «Melody» (con la participación del talentoso Billy Preston, un gran contribuyente en el álbum). Estilos musicales y temáticas se han fusionado en los siete minutos de «Memory Motel», tanto con Jagger y Richards que aportan las voces de una canción de amor integrado dentro de una vida en la calle.

Lanzamiento y recepción

Lanzado en abril de 1976 –con la canción «Fool To Cry» como primer sencillo, que llegó al Top 10 en muchos lugares del mundo– Black and Blue alcanzó el puesto #2 en el Reino Unido y se mantuvo cuatro semanas al tope de las listas de éxitos en los Estados Unidos, siendo certificado platino. La visión crítica fue mixta: Lester Bangs criticó el álbum y escribió en la revista Creem que "este es el primer álbum sin sentido de Rolling Stones, y gracias a Dios"; sin embargo, en la Guía del Consumidor de Creem de 1976, Robert Christgau clasificó el álbum con una A–.

Mientras que oficialmente se acreditaron las canciones del álbum excepto «Cherry Oh Baby» a Jagger/Richards como autores, el crédito para «Hey Negrita» específica 'Inspiración por Ron Wood' y «Melody» indica 'Inspiración por Billy Preston'. Bill Wyman lanzaría después una versión de «Melody» con su banda Rhythm Kings, acreditando a Preston como autor. Dos pistas extras grabadas en las sesiones de Róterdam fueron liberadas más tarde en el álbum Tattoo You de 1981: «Slave» y «Worried About You».

El álbum fue promovido con un polémico cartel en Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, en el cual se apreciaba a la modelo Anita Russell golpeada y sometida, acompañada de la frase "Estoy negra y azul (Black and Blue es una forma popular de referirse a los moretones) por culpa de los Rolling Stones, ¡pero me encanta!". La cartelera se retiró después de las protestas por parte del grupo feminista Women Against Violence Against Women, a pesar de que la banda ganó amplia cobertura de prensa. A pesar de todo este revuelo, la modelo declaró "La gente debería tener más sentido del humor". En 1994, Black and Blue fue remasterizado y relanzado por Virgin Records, otra vez en 2009 por Universal Music y una vez más en 2011 por Universal Music Enterprises en una versión únicamente japonesa en SHM-SACD.

Lista de canciones

Personal

The Rolling Stones
 Mick Jagger: voz; coros en «Hot Stuff», «Cherry Oh Baby», «Memory Motel» y «Fool to Cry»; armonías vocales en «Hey Negrita»; percusión en «Hot Stuff»; guitarra eléctrica en «Crazy Mama»; piano eléctrico en «Fool to Cry»; piano acústico en «Memory Motel»; pisotón en «Melody».
 Keith Richards: guitarra eléctrica; coros en «Hot Stuff», «Hand of Fate», «Cherry Oh Baby», «Memory Motel» y «Hey Negrita»; armonías vocales en «Cherry Oh Baby»; bajo en «Crazy Mama»; piano Rhodes en «Memory Motel».
 Charlie Watts: batería, percusión.
 Bill Wyman: bajo; percusión en «Hot Stuff».
 Ron Wood: guitarra eléctrica en «Hey Negrita», «Cherry Oh Baby» y «Crazy Mama»; coros en «Hot Stuff», «Hand of Fate», «Memory Motel», «Hey Negrita» y «Crazy Mama».
Personal adicional
 Billy Preston: órgano en "Hey Negrita" y "Melody"; piano en "Hot Stuff", "Hand of Fate", "Hey Negrita", "Melody" y "Crazy Mama"; sintetizador de cuerdas en "Memory Motel"; armonías vocales en "Melody"; coros en "Hot Stuff", "Memory Motel" y "Hey Negrita"; percusión en "Melody".
 Nicky Hopkins:  piano y ARP String Ensemble en "Fool to Cry"; órgano en "Cherry Oh Baby".
 Harvey Mandel: guitarra eléctrica en "Hot Stuff" y "Memory Motel".
 Wayne Perkins: guitarra acústica en "Memory Motel"; guitarra eléctrica en "Hand of Fate" y "Fool to Cry".
 Ollie E. Brown: percusión en "Hot Stuff", "Hand of Fate", "Cherry Oh Baby", "Hey Negrita" y "Crazy Mama".
 Ian Stewart: percusión en "Hot Stuff".
 Arif Mardin: arreglo de vientos en "Melody".

 Técnica y diseño
 Keith Harwood: ingeniero de sonido.
 Glyn Johns: ingeniero de sonido.
 Phil McDonald: ingeniero de sonido.
 Lew Hahn: ingeniero de sonido.
 Jeremy Gee: ingenieros asistentes.
 Dave Richards: ingenieros asistentes.
 Tapani: ingenieros asistentes.
 Steve Dowd: ingenieros asistentes.
 Gene Paul: ingenieros asistentes.
 Hiro: fotografía
 Lee Hulko: masterización del LP (original de 1976)
 Robert Ludwig: masterización del CD en los estudios de mastering Gateway (versión de Virgin de 1994)

Posición en las listas

Álbum en listas semanales

Sencillos

Certificaciones

Nota: ^ Cifras de ventas basadas únicamente en la certificación

Referencias

Álbumes de 1976
Álbumes en inglés
Álbumes de The Rolling Stones
Álbumes producidos por The Glimmer Twins
Álbumes de Rolling Stones Records
Álbumes de Virgin Records
Álbumes de Universal Music Group


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Rules derby (or Sheffield derby) is a football derby played in Sheffield, England between Sheffield F.C. and Hallam F.C. It was first played on 26 December 1860 and is the oldest football fixture in the world. The name refers to the fact that the fixture was originally played under the Sheffield Rules.

History
The first match was played at Hallam's home ground, Sandygate Road and resulted in a Sheffield victory by two goals to nil. The teams competed in the first ever football match at Bramall Lane.

The derby is currently not a regular fixture as Sheffield are currently in the NPL Division One South, while Hallam are in the NCEL Division 1, two tiers below, however, the teams do regularly meet in pre-season friendlies and occasionally local FA matches.  The last meeting between the two sides was a 3–2 win for Sheffield on 9 October 2012 in the Senior Cup at the Coach and Horses Ground, Dronfield.

References

Sport in Sheffield
England football derbies
Hallam F.C.
Sheffield F.C.
Football in South Yorkshire


Plenty of people have mocked the ridiculous proposal to create a $15 minimum wage for fast food workers by showing pictures of international McDonald's order kiosks that replace workers in countries with expensive labor.
The economics are straightforward here: Business owners have to decide if a task will be completed by a worker, a machine or a combination of the two. More robots and machines means fewer jobs for humans, but that is a consequence of technology and progress. We want production to be more efficient, as that brings down costs and frees up people to work in other fields, so in the long term it's good to replace workers with machines. In the short term, it can be bad for individual workers who lose their jobs.
Automating jobs with machines requires capital investments and may naturally be more expensive than hiring humans, but as labor costs go up, it becomes more and more tempting to replace workers with automation. This is bad thing overall, as jobs are automated not because it's efficient but in response to a political constraint. It doesn't save the customer any money by bringing down prices.
See the difference? The first example is beneficial to society overall, but the second one is not.
Modern technology allows us to automate more and more jobs, including ones we thought could never be replaced. Fast food cashier is once one of those jobs, and now those workers should be concerned about being replaced by machines.
Okay, so there will still be people out back making the food, right? Well, not always.
A company just invented a machine that makes hamburgers from scratch, with a full-cooked and packaged burger coming out ready to eat every 10 second.
Momentum Machines cofounder Alexandros Vardakostas told Xconomy his "device isn't meant to make employees more efficient. It's meant to completely obviate them." Indeed, marketing copy on the company's site reads that their automaton "does everything employees can do, except better."
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By ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ
WOULD you defend a blatant and deliberate lie? Yes, by all means … at least in PNG's liberal media environment, Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid Post-Courier had shown in the past week that it would.
Not really. Because over the years, Post-Courier has flaunted its sheer arrogance as it printed on its pages stories whose credibility were immediately questionable, but bothering not to admit to the transgression and to rectify it.
And worst, it has even fabricated anti-Asian reports, passed them on as truth, and for which the reporters and editors stood by them even to the demise of their own credibility.
One classic example which stands unparalleled yet in the Pacific was showcased on Page 1 by this paper just very recently.
It headlined a fabricated report that proved to be very damaging to the reputation of some 10,000 Filipinos here in PNG and peddled it across the nation as "the plain truth".
I remember my country's despot, President Marcos, who had once said that "lies when repeatedly uttered become the truth".
As far as I am concerned, Marcos' dictum and what Post-Courier does in its every day reporting where it peddles lies here and there don't differ that much. Henceforth, what this daily dishes out would always be deemed as lies, however hard you try to believe them, simply because the credibility has passed out of existence.
For one thing, it has allowed its cronies to malign and destroy some Asian reputations and institutions using its pages where lies had crawled all over, but denying those aggrieved the same opportunity of having their side on the issue at hand to see print in this very same paper, only to be told that such rejection was a management "business decision".
The events that transpired last week had been the most unsettling, upsetting and stressing for the members of the Filipino expatriate community in Papua New Guinea.
On Tuesday, November 10, Pinoys in Port Moresby and across the country woke up to find themselves in the midst of alleged 16,000 illegal compatriots.
Having read Post-Courier's fabricated report that there are "16,000 illegal Filipinos out of the 19,000 who are in the country right now", they were utterly horrified and in great shock.
A simple arithmetic would immediately show there would only be 3,000 Filipinos living and working legally in the country and they include a few hundreds of those who have acquired PNG citizenship and permanent resident (PR) status. This is not the case, however.
The source of the alleged statistics, according to Post-Courier, was Philippine Ambassador to PNG, Madam Shirley Ho-Vicario, who, on Friday, November 6, purportedly testified at the Parliamentary Bi-Partisan committee probing the anti-Asian riots last May.
In her alleged testimony before a panel chaired by MP Jamie Maxtone-Graham, Madam Ho-Vicario has disclosed there are 19,000 Filipinos in PNG and of this, 80 percent, or 16,000 are illegal aliens.
The Maxtone-Graham panel wanted to know what triggered the marginalized Papua New Guineans to go into rioting and looting variety shops and grocery stores owned and operated by Chinese in the Highlands and in Port Moresby.
The locals are said to hate illegal aliens, particularly Asians whose numbers are growing because they feel that they are robbing them of jobs and livelihoods reserved for them under the law.
Shortly before noon, a flurry of emails was exchanged among Pinoy expatriates who expressed disbelief that there are 16,000 illegal Filipino workers in the country.
But their immediate reaction to the report was: "How could the Ambassador say such things that would give negative picture of the many Filipinos who are here legally and at the same time threaten their safety?
A number have even rebuked the Ambassador, calling her "traitor" and "stupid" for making public such a highly-sensitive and derogatory information.
Pinoy expatriates in Lae were up in arms, berating the Ambassador for the same reason.
One angry expatriate had even called the Philippine Embassy in Port Moresby with a threat to burn it down "for making the Filipinos look bad in the eyes of the international community".
It could not be helped. Thousands of Pinoys in PNG are legally employed as professionals, -- accountants, pharmacists, engineers, teachers, IT experts, foresters, mining managers, company managers, administrative officers, among many others.
Joey Sena, the president of the Filipino Association of PNG (FAPNG), has called for sobriety and calm as he urged the members of the community to be vigilant of their own safety against possible physical harm that may arise following the Post-Courier report.
On the morning that the Post-Courier story broke, Madam Ho-Vicario was nursing a blood pressure already gone berserk as she read the news report, horrified that it has put words into her mouth.
"This is a pure fabrication!" she said of the story.
"How did they (Post-Courier) come up with these figures?"
I interviewed Madam Ho-Vicario at the embassy that afternoon. Distressed and fuming, she vehemently denied the report.
"The Filipino community has been put at risk because of these anti-Asian sentiments, and I, as the representative of the Philippine government here in PNG, have been maligned by the report.
"I'm vehemently denying the report … it's all fabricated … it has no factual basis … it's unfounded and far from the truth.
"I demand that Post-Courier retract the story and print the truth.
"There could never be 19,000 Filipinos living and working here in this country," the Ambassador said.
"I never appeared on the said committee hearing on that day to give evidence on the anti-Asian riots.
"I was never interviewed on that matter or present at the Bi-partisan Parliamentary Inquiry last Friday.
"I never knew who MP (Philip) Kikala is, I didn't know how he looked … I just didn't know him," Madam Ho-Vicario rattled off.
"I would never be able to recognize him from Adam even if you put him in front of me unless he has his nametag pinned on his chest!"
MP Kikala was the source that provided Post-Courier the fabricated figures of "19,000 Filipinos in PNG, of which 16,000 are illegal".
Madam Ho-Vicario said there are only 10,120 expatriates in the country as of June 19. About 670 of them are permanent residents, 6,600 are temporary migrants (work permit and working visa holders) and the rest are holders of tourist visa and business visa.
Just before I filed my story on the Ambassador's denial, I called Post-Courier's editor-in-chief Blaise Nangoi for comment.
"We stand by our story," he told me.
Mr Nangoi said their report was based on information their reporter obtained from a source (Mr Kikala) that was at the parliamentary committee hearing last November 6 when Madam Ho-Vicario purportedly testified.
Categorically denying this, the Ambassador said: "I was never present at the Parliament last Friday".
The National, the leading daily in PNG, carried the denial story the next day, Wednesday, November 11, and was headlined: "Philippine Embassy denies "aliens" report.
On that day, Mr Maxtone-Graham sent an official letter to the Ambassador saying: "The front page report stated in part that you appeared in person before my inquiry on Friday, November 6, during which you gave evidence that 16,000 out of 19,000 Filipino residents in this country are doing so illegally.
"I wish to state categorically that you never appeared before my inquiry, either in person or through a representative on the date as stated by Post-Courier. Neither have we received any written submission from your Embassy.
"The newspaper report is quite erroneous …," Mr Graham stressed.
On that night when I phoned Mr Nangoi for his comment, he said: We will not make any further report on this matter … we stand by our report."
However, Post-Courier had a change of heart, and in its November 12 edition, published the Ambassador's denial of her being present at the committee hearing. The daily finally admitted that it made an error in reporting that she appeared at the committee that Friday to testify.
"She did not attend and made a submission," Post-Courier curtly said.
But still, the paper stubbornly defended its claim on the presence of 16,000 illegal Filipinos. It reported that Mr Kikala testified on a bi-partisan committee hearing last Monday (November 9) that the Ambassador "informed" him about the 16,000 illegal Filipinos in the country.
ow, it is very clear that Post-Courier has confused itself in making the report in an effort to steer clear out of further embarrassment.
First, it reported that Madam Ho-Vicario appeared at the hearing on Friday, November 6, where she purportedly testified on the presence of 16,000 illegal Filipinos out the 19,000 expatriates. But later, it backtracked and admitted that she never did so.
Then, Post-Courier contradicted itself again when it reported in its November 12 edition that it was now Mr Kikala who testified at the committee hearing on November 9 where he declared that the Ambassador "informed" him of the 16,000 illegal Filipinos.
However, instead of making Mr Kikala's testimony the main story for the next day (November 10), it was Madam Ho-Vicario's fabricated appearance and concocted testimony last November 6 that made the headline.
And worst, Mr Kikala was unable to tell Post-Courier on what occasion did the Ambassador divulge to him the derogatory information. Was it during a parliamentary bi-partisan hearing? Was it during lunch or dinner? Or was it during a cocktail party?
From whom did Mr Kikala obtain his statistics? Or, did he deliberately cook up some "blockbuster" story to get some attention and pluck himself out of non-revenue obscurity?
It is ironic that while the Ambassador has categorically said she "never knew MP Kikala or ever met him", the MP insisted on claiming that he obtained the information directly from her.
JUST BEFORE Madam Ho-Vicario was posted in PNG as the Philippine government's ambassador in February 2007, she was fully aware of the number of Filipinos that her embassy would be representing in the country. She knew too that PNG is a hardship post.
"There's no way for me to commit the mistake of giving wrong figures pertaining to the number of Pinoys in Port Moresby," she told me. "I'm not stupid."
Over the years, the number of Filipino expatriates here has played between 8,000 and 10,000, with many of them going home after their contracts expired, but only to be replaced by new recruits.
And the presence of illegal Filipino workers would be one of her concerns because every time they would be in trouble, they would come to the embassy for help. But there were not many, as the Ambassador has noted since her posting more than two years ago now.
With very limited resources the embassy has, dealing with cases involving illegal Filipinos who would come for assistance would be a nagging problem even if there are only a handful of them.
How much more with 16,000? There's just no sense for her to just dish out statistics just for kicks without creating problems later for the expatriate Filipinos and the embassy itself.
But then, if ever there are 16,000 illegal Filipinos, it should not be a problem for the Philippine Embassy to deal with. It belongs to the PNG Immigration Department.
And if there are that many, how come the PNG Government is never aware of them?
Now, the Filipino community is asking: "What is Mr Kikala's agenda? Why is he trying to connive with Post-Courier in maligning Filipinos and foment racist's hatred among Papua New Guineans against them? Are they moonlighting as racists?"
Why did Post-Courier reject a whole-page paid advertorial that the Filipino Association of PNG (FAPNG) was trying to place with the daily for the Monday (November 16) edition?
n this advertorial, the association is asking Post-Courier to rectify its story and correct the negative impression about the 10,000 Filipino expatriates that has been generated by its irresponsible reporting.
It said: "The Post-Courier report has caused enormous damage to our reputation as peace-loving, law-abiding and charitable residents of the international community in Papua New Guinea.
"Now, we are suddenly concerned over our safety, because erroneous report has created animosity among Papua New Guineans who feel marginalized by the present state of affairs in their own country because of enterprising Asians who they feel are robbing them of their livelihood and jobs.
"Therefore, for the sake of fair and honest journalism, we the Filipino community, respectfully ask the Post-Courier to retract its story and correct the negative impression about the 10,000 Filipino expatriates that has been generated by its irresponsible reporting.
"It is only then that our trust and confidence in this newspaper as a source of news and vital information will be restored," the association said in the supposed advertorial for publication in Post-Courier."
Rejecting the requested (paid) advertorial placement, Post-Courier told FAPNG president Joey Sena, as if to justify its move: "It is a business decision."
Does this mean that it is also Post-Courier's business to besmirch the reputation of the Filipinos when it fabricated the "16,000 aliens" report?
But FAPNG is only a small fry and Post-Courier has no problem doing it. It has done the same thing to a bigger institution like the PMIZ project, short for Pacific Marine Industrial Zone, an 815-hectare tuna processing zone now taking shape in Madang province.
Post-Courier, according to some senior Government sources, has allegedly collaborated with a certain Dr Nancy Sullivan, an American anthropologist based in Madang and who flaunts her newly-acquired PNG citizenship as her shield, in trying to sabotage the realization of the billion dollar PMIZ, a pet economic development project of Prime Minister Michael Somare.
Post-Courier did this by printing a series of damaging one-whole page advertorials paid for by ragtag groups of landowners and NGOs as well as a one-page advertorial authored by Sullivan herself discrediting the PMIZ project alongside the Members of the Cabinet who are pushing for its realization.
The advertorials, especially that of Sullivan's, lambasted the PMIZ concept for its being unworkable, lacking in logic and damaging to the environment around the lagoon of Madang, and that it would not at all benefit the local people but only foreign investors who would be … who else? … but Asians.
However, when the PMIZ Board of Directors tried to buy a one-page advertorial to refute such allegations, Post-Courier flatly rejected it, saying it was a "business decision".
The mere fact that it is now the PNG Government requesting publication of its advertorial so its side could also be heard by stakeholders in the local tuna industry and the entire nation, and to allay fears of the locals about the alleged harm PMIZ would create, the rejection stinks and is now viewed as being the pinnacle of this paper's arrogance.
The immediate question comes up? Where is fairness on the part of Post-Courier?
Then the second: Is Sullivan hiding the bigger picture on the PMIZ issue by only telling the locals that they would lose their daily catch to the processing zone canneries once they begin operations and that their beautiful Madang lagoon would be tarnished forever?
Did she not tell the people of Madang that everyday, thousands of tons of tuna are being caught in PNG waters by fishing boats owned by giant overseas canneries while local fishermen could only managed to land a piece or two in every outing?
That if this massive catch by foreign tuna catchers is diverted into the PMIZ tuna plants when they begin operations, those overseas canneries, particularly in rich countries, would be deprived of rich tuna supplies, thus forcing them to close-shop and throw thousands of cannery workers out of work?
Is this why Sullivan and Post-Courier are trying to prevent the coming of the seven-tuna cannery processing zone and deprive Papua New Guineans of some 30,000 jobs and the government million dollars in tax revenues? Are they working with some groups overseas? Is there a big, well-funded foreign lobby going on against PMIZ? Post-Courier may know something about this.
And Sullivan should be deported for economic sabotage. What is the NIO (National Intelligence Office) doing, Sir Prime Minister? For all you know, Sir, your pet project is under threat from her!
MANY, MANY YEARS ago, Papua New Guineans tried to grow rice with help from Filipino experts. But Post-Courier flexed its media muscles to discourage such attempt, by running stories – Australian-written, of course -- telling the nation that rice will not grow in the country.
Sometime ago, Madam Ho-Vicario facilitated the coming of a group of Filipino rice experts to help farmers in the province start a rice farming project.
Immediately after that, she received a call from a white executive at Trukai Rice – an Australian of course -- bullied her on the phone and told her to drop the idea because "rice will not grow in PNG".
Knowing that she has to protect a bilateral relations agreement between PNG and the Philippines by all means within her authority, the Ambassador told him to "go to hell".
Now, rice is growing in many areas of the country, thanks to the technology provided by Asian rice experts, including Filipinos.
This time, Post-Courier is telling Papua New Guineans that the PMIZ is bad for them.
Very soon, PNG will be accepted as the new member of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian) countries. Which means this will make PNG an Asian nation and make Papua New Guineans Asian people.
So, what now Post-Courier? Once this happens, Papua New Guineans should ask this newspaper to pack up and disappear for being a menace to their welfare.
PROMINENT journalists and media persons in the country and Pacfic learnt of the series of events that transpired last week through my weekly column "Letters from Port Moresby" posted on Thursday, December 12, at www.batasmauricio.com, a website based in the Philippines.
In emails sent to me, they reacted with indignation and disgust in the manner Post-Courier handled the Filipino illegal aliens report, and were one in saying that such "rubbish" should have never been allowed to see the light of day.
Prominent media man Justin H Kili, MBE, OL, was first to drop the bomb: All I can say, Freddie, is that yet again, the Post-Courier has published another irresponsible and completely fabricated story … what a shame! I feel for the Filipinos who have been mistreated through the Post-Courier report."
Oseah Philemon, OBE, and The National's Momase Regional Editor, reacted indignantly: "No editor in his right frame of mind would stand by any story if he knows – after being told the facts – that the story he published is wrong, incorrect in detail and ought to be retracted.
"It is responsible and unprofessional of any editor to stand by a story when he knows his newspaper got it wrong … worse of all if the story was fabricated by the reporter.
"That reporter (Pearson Kolo) ought to be sacked forthwith. No excuses. I am rather appalled that the Post-Courier can still hold its head high after committing the worst sin in journalism."
Mr Philemon was Post-Courier's former editor in chief.
Alfred Sasako, a Solomon Islands journalist who worked with Post-Courier during the 80s, was fuming: It's the sort of tabloid rubbish that should have been left to Western newspapers.
"But knowing that the Post-Courier is owned by none other than a westerner, it's hardly surprising that that sort of story should be allowed to run. It's what riots are made of."
Veteran journalist Susuve Laumaea has a more scathing comment: "Freddy, this is typical yellow journalism – concocted from the wildest imagination of the reporter concerned – a story that should never have seen the light of day.
"Why didn't the sub-editor ring the Philippine embassy to get Madam Ambassador's name correctly, ascertained whether she appeared at the inquiry and in the process also verify the story.
"… nothing so dramatic as putting the lives of a whole race of people on the line or writing them off as illegal aliens without proof.
"When it concerns a sensitive issue such as the groundswell of anti-Asian sentiment being stirred up by the people who think they have been badly done by or that their opportunities have been unfairly seized by Asians, editors should pause and weigh the wisdom, public responsibility and social correctness of giving editorial prominence to such a story that could lead to social chaos – even blood bath, vandalism.
"A great number of Filipinos in PNG have been here since the 1970s and a majority of them are permanent residents and naturalised citizens.
"I am saddened by those who "piss" best practice journalism to the wind and can not own up to say a paper erred recklessly in publishing a blatant lie that has the potential to cause considerable grief, anxiety and terror to a group of innocent foreign guests in PNG.
"The editor in chief of Post-Courier is on record as saying … that he and the paper stood by their reporter's story irrespective of direct response from Filipino Ambassador and the inquiry chairman (MP Jamie Maxtone-Graham) categorically denying Madam Ambassador's appearance before the PNG parliamentary inquiry.
"The Ambassador and the committee chairman also unequivocally brushed aside the contention that 16,000 Filipinos were in PNG illegally – that was an outright obnoxious allegation but then, Post-Courier relied on another MP's version of the story.
"In the face of authoritative rejection of the fabricated news story from direct sources concerned, the Post-Courier's stance is deplorable.
"Like you, I was horrified at the potential damage that story would unleash.
Commenting on MP Kikala, Mr Laumaea said: Kikala should be exposed for the liar that he is. He was being more than cheeky.
"In fact, he should take the initiative to categorically and unequivocally retract any responsibility in initiating and peddling a potentially inflammatory hate campaign against Filipinos in PNG.
"With Post-Courier's editor's response, it makes me wonder whether this is the same P-C I grew up at. Standards of ethics, best practice etc have indeed slipped badly between generations of journos that have passed through there, I venture to suggest."
"Would you stand by a deliberate and blatant lie?" Mr Laumaea asked in rhetorical manner, concluding his tirade at Post-Courier.
"Shocking PC story about Pinoy 'aliens'," says David Robie, journalism associate professor and director of the Pacific Media Centre based in Auckland New Zealand.
Some feedback on FaceBook:
Simon Merton: "Brata, although I personally hold a strong dislike for the owners of The National, one has to admit that these days, It is the better paper.
"The Post-Courier has turned into nothing but a gossip fueled tabloid akin to the US National Enquirer. The standards are no longer there, there is no more ethical reporting. It's now just a big Australian corporately-funded propaganda machine."
Darren Moore: "A disgusting display of bad journalism and even worse editing, regardless of the nationality of the owners of the newspaper ( I don't see how that has any bearing on anything, or why it should even get a mention) .
"They should indeed be sued as well as being made to publish some form of retraction and apology."
Pacific-based journalist Lisa Williams-Lahari was herself concerned: I feel an urgent statement needs to go out from as many of us as possible. It's a sad day for Pacific journalism, not just PNG media, when blatant lies are printed as fact, and then defended. Wow, I'm speechless!"
Ms Williams has urged the PNG Media Council to issue a statement which the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF) could support.
She said that as the PFF co-chair has pointed out, "We will call on a return to ethics and standards and encourage a complaints process".
WITH ALL the searing indignation from the Pacific's respected journalists, the last nail to Post-Courier's coffin of credibility has finally been hammered for good.
And before the stench of its death permeates the air, Asians in PNG should start boycotting this newspaper, lest they be contaminated.
Asian communities should tell their citizens owning stores and shops not to sell its copies in their establishments. Its business communities must now withdraw their dealings with Post-Courier – advertisements and all.
In the first place, why should they continue feeding a dog that bites their hands?
Email the writer: jarahdz500@online.net.pg or freddiephernandez@yahoo.com
To view the original web posting, please visit: http://www.batasmauricio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=865:asians-in-png-should-now-boycott-post-courier&catid=40:letters-from-port-moresby&Itemid=117
Posted by Malum Nalu at 11/20/2009 06:02:00 PM
Well not much do say but one think is tru that so many Peopel leave ilegal in Papua Newguinea .
You should not point on the on side witch is tru ,.
Many of Papuannewginis could find a Jop in there own Country ,would not the Companies bring there own Workers and many Ilegal workers to PNG
1991-1998 at Madang PNG
Papuanewgini is a free demokrati ccountry and the Post courier schuol not blamed an closed for other Peopel ,yupela mas tink tink pastaim .No ken bakarimp place bilong yupela na goodpela sindaun bilong all Papuanewginis stopim the Postcourier is a ackt of unstabel region .Luk luk Mekim na save Postcourier mas be open for everyone .
SHirley Vicario should be recalled by the President as Ambassador to PNG since she is not fit for the position, since she is only using it to enrich herself and her family
The 3rd commenter must be ignorant of what duties the Ambassadors uphold and do. Please do not judge so quickly. Instead, why don't we educate ourselves on what is the real issue in this event.
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Dragon029 wrote: Don't tell the birds this, but we're preparing for the second Emu War.
Plus we have been using as others have said up to 100 per month of JDAM and Paveway variants in Iraq and Syria.
All up that has to be one of the larger PGM inventories around, particularly among 'middle powers'.
I think that the RAAF is becoming far more powerful than many expected and is looking at a huge increase in capabilities over the next 5-10 years. The RAN and army aren't there yet but things look pretty good in the future for the ADF as a whole, which is definitely needed what with the issues going on in Asia/Oceania.
It's definitely confirmed ; Australia plans to win the next 2 Emu Wars !
we plug into the USA supply and they'd ramp up production if anything hit the fan.
During the early Iraqi war, we used and were billed for USA munitions on our hornets and our stuff stayed home. I don't know, but I guess it's the same with the hornets in the ME now.
Word on the street is now that we have vast experience in the complex Emu battlefield there will be an expeditionary force set up to battle the Ostrich insurgency. God help us all.
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ASD incident response manager Mitchell Clarke told a conference in Sydney on Wednesday the hackers targeted a small "mum and dad type business" — an aerospace engineering company with about 50 employees in July last year.
He said the firm was subcontracted four levels down from defense contracts. "The compromise was extensive and extreme," Mr Clarke told the Australian Information Security Association national conference in audio obtained by a freelance journalist called Stilgherrian. "It included information on the (F-35) Joint Strike Fighter, C130 (Hercules aircraft), the P-8 Poseidon (surveillance aircraft), joint direct attack munition (JDAM smart bomb kits) and a few naval vessels." Mr Clarke said the information hacked on the new Navy ships included a diagram in which you could zoom in down to the captain's chair and see that it was one meter away from the navigation chair. Mr Clarke described the security breach as "sloppy admin". He said the organization only had one IT person and that person had only been in the job for a short while. An Australian Cyber Security Centre spokesperson said the information released by the ASD staffer, who works for the center, was commercially sensitive but unclassified. "While the Australian company is a national-security linked contractor and the information disclosed was commercially sensitive, it was unclassified," they said in a statement on Wednesday evening. "The government does not intend to discuss further the details of this cyber incident." Comment has been sought from Mr Tehan and the Defense department.
Here is an honest headline at least - text looks OK but I have not read it yet - I JUST READ THE FRICKIN' HEADLINES ma'am.
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"WASHINGTON: An unnamed contractor in Australia was hacked by an unattributed hacker who stole what the BBC says was "sensitive" information about the F-35 and other Antipodean weapon systems.
I contacted the F-35 Joint Program Office, asking how significant the hack was. Here's their response: "The F-35 Joint Program Office is aware of this supplier cyber breach that compromised non-classified data in the summer of 2016. No classified F-35 information was compromised."..."
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