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Fans Parliament Minutes February 2015
Official Meeting Minutes
Debate about the increased attractiveness of securing promotion to the Premier League surfaced at last night's Wolves Fans Parliament meeting as members were, in keeping with recent years, given an advanced briefing of the club's latest financial results.
Financial controller Rita Purewal was present to answer questions on her disclosure that Wolves were set to announce a pre-tax loss £1.7m but because the statutory accounts include the large financial 'provision' brought into calculations in the last few seasons, the Club were able to announce figures that would show a final pre-tax profit of £8.5m on the year ending on May 31, 2014. (Please see www.wolves.co.uk/ for the headline story).
Ben Smallman, who felt the club might have done more in the last two transfer windows, quickly asked whether there was now a sense of urgency to return to the top flight given the astonishing new TV deal figures that were announced two days ago.
"The news illustrates the massive difference between being in the Premier League and being in the Championship," Jez told the meeting. "We will have to look at our strategy and think what we can do to improve our chances of promotion without going bankrupt. How much can you spend and be able to deal with that outlay if you still don't get there? There has to be a semblance of sanity.
"The fact we moved early in January and spent a lot of money on a good young player (Benik Afobe) who has scored three goals in four games to date was almost held against us because we didn't then pull a rabbit out of the hat on the last day. But the management of the Bakary Sako situation was very important when there could easily have been a different scenario. We could have cashed in on that situation but we didn't."
Tom Bason asked to what extent the balance sheet, which shows a healthy improvement on last year, was affected by parachute payments. "In the 2013-14 figures, parachute payments were just under £20m but they have fallen quite substantially for the present year," Rita added. "Almost half that value has been wiped out, which is a worry." Secretary Richard Skirrow added: "That's why it was important to move on big earners who were no longer part of the plans. We were not as successful as we might have been but there was quite a bit of loan activity."
Rita ran through the main highs and lows of the 2013-14 financial year and said everyone at Molineux had been 'pretty shell-shocked' at being relegated for a second consecutive season. "It was a difficult time for all of us," she added, "and a tough year lay ahead on a lot of levels. We undertook a review and created an exceptional one off provision of £27.5m following the relegation. This enabled us to write off those costs which we considered onerous and would not contribute any economic value for the years ahead. However, Kenny Jackett was appointed in the Summer and things started to improve quite rapidly both on the field and financially. We also received an increase in Sky money, following the new Premier League Broadcasting Deal in 2013 of 70%, which trickled through to us in the form of parachute payments." She also spoke of a record-breaking season in League One and the 30,000-plus landmark crowd at the game against Rotherham at Easter.
Parliament chairman Matt Grayson said: "We had a fairly significant restructuring (after landing in Sky Bet League One) with some painful decisions. But it gave us a blank canvas to go forward. And how many clubs would still press the button on a decision to develop a new academy and arena at that sort of time?" Jez added: "During the reshaping, we deliberately brought down the age of the squad."
In answer to a question from Michael Clarke, Rita said that 60 per cent of the club's income was from central funding. The other 40 per cent was split evenly between commercial activity and ticket revenue. Matt said it was important the right balance was struck between attracting as many fans to Molineux as possible and the need to generate substantial income from ticket sales to them.
Jez responded to an enquiry from Dave Benton about player salaries by saying that that level of detail would not appear in the final accounts as it was sensitive information but the financial results would show the wage-bill for the club's staff as a whole.
When Michael Clarke asked if Wolves were cash-stable? Rita replied: "Cashflow is difficult in this business but we do have some in hand. We're not overdrawn. Going forward, depending how the team does that is, potentially, another story, with the parachute payments stopping."
Steve Phillips asked if more investment was likely on the basis that, Steve Morgan's £30m injection was 'fine - but was made several years ago and doesn't match the value of the asset required.' Jez answered: "I have a jaundiced view of club accounts. How much is a club worth if you put it on the market? The majority are for sale right now. They require constant funding to keep them afloat. When Sir Jack Hayward was preparing to hand Wolves over there was a queue of one and we all delighted to do that deal. It's not an asset. It's a liability. That's one of the reasons why Sir Jack took the decision he did."
Richard Skirrow added: "The nub of it is that wonderful gift from Sir Jack. He effectively gave the 'house' away, in a phenomenal gesture, on condition that £30m was spent on home improvements. The lack of further investment hasn't handicapped us to date. Richard said that the swift reinvestment of a lot of the transfer revenues raised towards the end of the Summer 2012 transfer window, although obviously to a very disappointing effect - and proceeding with the Academy Arena at Compton Park despite the relegation to League One - showed 'a continuing ambition from a wealthy owner.'
Jez said the priority was to get back to the Premier League, then 'recharge the finances of the business and stay in there.' "We hope we have a chance of going up this year," he went on. "That's why we kept Bakary and spent a load of money on Benik Afobe." The meeting heard that there were a variety of good reasons why some of the other targets had not come to fruition. But Jez denied that Kenny Jackett had felt handicapped in any way in looking for players: "On the contrary," he said. "He is in line with it."
The chief executive pointed to the fortunes of clubs like Wigan and Fulham this season as a way of emphasising the difficulties Wolves encountered two years ago. Ben Smallman named Leeds, Southampton and Norwich as other big clubs who had dropped into League One and asked: "Are we ahead of schedule?" Jez replied: "I'll be really disappointed if we can't finish in the top six. In my opinion, we should never be below that position in the football hierarchy. I think we are content with progress so far rather than ahead of schedule. We had a dreadful November but if everyone pulls together, we have a chance. Richard Skirrow said the club had looked at what some of those other sides had done and thought that could be matched at Molineux. "But for a terrible November, we would have been in a better position," he said.
Clive Smith asked Rita whether things had gone as well as they could possibly have gone financially from this time last year and was told: "Yes. The restructuring was paramount and was an important part of our financial planning. We couldn't carry those costs going forward. We were very competitive with our pricing and made sure we got our fans back on side."
Greg Asbury suggested that Wolves were not viable in the Sky Bet Championship but was told by Jez: "We want to go up more than we need to go up." Matt also pointed out that, among the current leading bracket of sides, Bournemouth, Derby, Middlesbrough, Ipswich and Watford were prospering without receiving parachute payments – and that Wolves went up in 2009 as champions when they weren't receiving them.
Jez said in response to a question from Steve Phillips about selling academy players it was important to have a model that produced good enough players to get to the Premier League and then stay there. He said that the business plan obviously included selling some players, like David Davis, to recoup some money to put back in. He reminded the meeting that Joleon Lescott had also come from the academy and pointed out: "Buying and selling players is a key part of the game. We have a massive net purchase of players under Steve Morgan because of his patronage. We are trying to build a strong base." The chief executive later told Dave Quarrell that he was still surprised so many owners in the game were criticised by supporters and agreed with Richard Perkins that it was vital the club continued to groom their own young players. "Other clubs can't believe that we have this many home-grown players in the first team squad," he said.
Richard Skirrow concluded the financial results part of the meeting by saying that whilst his comments should certainly not be misconstrued, in addition to the figures being a lot better than might have been the case, it had also been an enjoyable 18 months for the club and the supporters.
Wolves Fans' Parliament members have been canvassed for their opinions as discussions continue on setting prices for the 2015 early bird season ticket scheme.
Wednesday night's third meeting of the season extended the debate on where and how the club should pitch the price when they make an announcement in the coming weeks.
Head of Ticketing and Membership Lynne O'Reardon took her usual place on the top table when members met in Molineux's International Suite and said she hoped there could be an element of reward for fans who have been season ticket holders for a considerable period.
Roger Phillips said: "We always get hung up on pricing. A fiver here or a tenner there isn't going to make a big difference. It's things like the weather and moving games to a Friday night that make it less attractive for me to come here."
Michael Clarke agreed that pricing had to be in line with expectations on the pitch claiming there had been some 'unforgiveable mismanagement' in past seasons. He said it would be wrong for the club to look back and praise themselves for the last 18 months.
Parliament chairman Matt Grayson pointed out that the Club had acknowledged mistakes in the past but after being relegated to Sky Bet League One Wolves set about developing, and then implementing a plan, which had seen the Club promoted straight back to the Championship, with a group of young and exciting players. Although many fans say they actually prefer Championship football, the Club's aim is to win as many games as possible and to try and return to the Premier League as quickly as possible.
Steve Phillips said he had watched Wolves for well over 20 years in this division and wanted to see them more in the Premier League.
Simon Wade addressed the thorny issue of booking fees by proposing: "In the interests of PR, don't mention it. Roll it into the price with a bit of spin....don't mention the words." Mark Rigby asked where the extra £6 went and Lynne replied: "We have spent 18 months trying to have it called an admin fee. It funds the running of the ticketing department by partly offsetting the actual processing costs and charges that we incur per transaction and, if we remove it, it will go forever."
Richard Perkins asked whether a cup game could be included in the price of a season ticket as has been the case before but Lynne explained that a certain amount of money had to be assigned to the opposition from ticket sales and the club could easily find themselves sharing money they in effect didn't have. Richard Skirrow said that was one of the reasons the cup idea had been stopped in the past. Richard Perkins also said he was disappointed Wolves fielded shadow teams in the cups.
Simon Wade asked what the time-frame was with early-bird deliberations and was told by Jez that there was a final meeting at the beginning of next week. Steve Phillips suggested a freeze on the price for now and a hike in the summer. Jez said: "That's the premise, that it's a higher summer cost. Buy your ticket today, lock in at a low Championship price and, who knows, you could be watching us in the Premier League. When we were relegated to League One, we wrote cheques to our season ticket holders giving them a rebate.......we didn't have to." Greg Asbury said fans needed to be reminded that they can make substantial savings through buying early bird tickets.
Lesley Matile said fans were less sensitive to the price if the team were playing well and Lynne told Chris Bate that the windows that make up the offer were still to be discussed but likely to be a four week window. Dave Benton said he still thought there should be a strong loyalty element with discount offered to long-serving season ticket holders. He argued that supporters needed an incentive to return. Ben Smallman thought that a good idea and Mark Rigby asked what was to stop fans missing a year and thinking they could get their discount the year after. Lynne O'Reardon said the club were looking at opening the promotion to all fans regardless of whether they were existing season ticket holding on news that the fans' survey which, Jez reminded the meeting, had shown that seventy per cent of respondents, from what Lynne confirmed was over 3,000 replies, considered this policy to be right. Matt underlined that retention of season ticket holders was very important but we needed to grow the number as well.
Jez said that, when the club first introduced the early-bird scheme in 2002, the reduction was substantial over the summer prices. "It was supposed to be a special offer....a thank-you for getting supporters locked in early for the following season," he said. "It's perceived as a different campaign now because supporters are used to it but a majority of supporters attending matches at Molineux benefit significantly over the previous strategy." Steve Phillips found support from Mark Rigby in saying price was a big factor but Jez said it was by no means the only factor.
Mark Rigby said some wouldn't renew because of all the other promotions on ticket prices. Matt said the club worked hard to make sure those promotions didn't undermine the overall season ticket value. The bottom line, Jez summed up, was that the cheapest way to attend games was still through buying an early-bird season ticket.
Roger Phillips talked about the recent scheme where a season ticket holder could to be accompanied by a friend. The club pointed to the big gate for the special half price offer at the Blackpool game, admittedly partly helped by the Sir Jack tribute, and to how there had been a 4,700 take-up from season ticket holders to take a friend for free to the following Charlton fixture. Steve Galloway said there was a difficulty getting the latter idea to work because you might not have a seat next to you available for a friend. Lesley Matile said she didn't take up the Charlton offer and said she hadn't received the relevant email from the club – some fans who sit near her hadn't received it either, although most in the room had. The club now use email as a prime publicity tool, more so than website or programme stories.
In answer to a question from Greg Asbury, Lynne O'Reardon said there was a discount on individual ticket prices for groups of ten and more. She said an extension to the 'Family Four' idea as a season ticket was also being considered.
Steve Galloway kicked off the lengthy 'other business' section of the meeting by congratulating the club on their part in the tributes to Sir Jack. "Unfortunately, we have had too much practice in the last few years," he said. Mark Rigby suggested there should be a statue of the former owner-chairman and Steve went further by suggesting fans might be asked to put a tenner in – the amount he famously asked Steve Morgan for when handing over control of the club in 2007. Lesley Matile described this as 'a great idea.'
The club were pleased that the decision to notify supporters outside the stadium as well as inside about a minute's silence – discussed at the last Parliament meeting following the unfortunate behaviour at the Birmingham game on November 1 – had been well justified by the conduct at the Fulham game.
Michael Clarke was also highly impressed by the Sir Jack tributes and asked whether the images on the video screens could be made permanent. Jez said they couldn't because of contractual arrangements but promised that the club would address the issue of a lasting memorial. In reply to a question from the room, the chief executive said there were no plans to change the name of the stadium. "Molineux is iconic, brilliant," he said. "Unless my boss tells me differently, we are not going to do it." Dennis Green was told by Matt Grayson that the book of remembrance was still in the foyer.
Switching to more mundane issues, TVs on the concourse of the Steve Bull Stand were cited as being a problem as they were close to the toilets and made access difficult near the end of live lunchtime games. Steve Sutton is already looking at the matter. Likewise, Dave Quarrell asked whether the Billy Wright Stand could have a clearly marked thoroughfare but was told that was very difficult because of the tight concourses.
Returning back to the transfer window, Dave Benton said a lot of fans did appreciate the club's stance on the Sako development but suggested many were concerned that the club were lacking in back-up resource. He pointed to there being no back-up striker on the bench in the win at Huddersfield and no replacement for Dave Edwards if he were sidelined for a substantial spell. He said that situation may be the difference between having a real go at promotion this spring and falling just short. He referred to having seen Thomas Ince and Jesse Lingard snapped up by Derby, Ben Watson go to Watford and Nick Powell still kicking his heels. Jez replied: "It's getting more and more complicated. Some of the players we tried to bring in didn't want to come for whatever reason. The Benik Afobe deal took eight weeks before he signed. If you're not going to just throw loads of money at it, it is very, very difficult. He has scored three in four games. We would like to sign three or four more of those types of targets, yes, but that's not a reality. We said we would make an exception for a striker and we did; a player to make a difference but still maintain our policy of keeping that dressing room on-side with everyone else. That is very challenging. The loan window is still open and there's a willingness still to sign someone else who would fit in."
Matt said the re-signings the club made in January were also important. Lesley Matile proposed that it might be interesting to have a guest speaker at a future meeting to explain the complexities of seeing through a transfer.
Matt apologised to Dave Quarrell for the problems on the results page of the website, especially with the junior sides, but pointed out that the Club's coverage of the U21's and U18's had massively improved this season with coverage of games, player interviews and background content. Jez promised it would be looked at. Dave also said a number of Molineux Mix members had mentioned the distortion problems on the PA system. Jez pointed out that it would cost a lot of money to rectify but the club were aware of it.
Jez had news regarding a stadium improvement by revealing there should be a scoreboard before the end of the season above the boxes in the Steve Bull Stand. It will bear moving messages, such as latest scores and adverts, and will be centred on the half-way line. He said the decision was made as a direct result of the discussions within the Parliament.
Chris Bate likened the present team to the 2009 promotion-winning one but asked whether the club had been trying to do Danny Batth's contract on the cheap as it seemed to be a drawn-out matter. Matt said the club had to deal with the player's agent as well as the player and these things take time. And Jez expressed surprise that such a view would be taken. "We try to be as transparent as we can be." He added that the dressing room contained a group of players who had a harmony. "That spirit was the cornerstone that got us promoted before and kept us in the Premier League twice," he said. "We will not sign a player who will throw a hand grenade into that and run the risk of destroying that harmony. I'm not going to do that and betray the players who are have committed to us. We know the type we want to sign in terms of age, wages and attitude."
Mark Rigby asked whether shirts with poppies on the front could go on sale around Remembrance Day next season, with some of the proceeds going to charity. The club said it would be considered but no promises could be made.
Simon Wade enquired about the possibility of cheaper tickets for away fans but was told that clubs, under a Football League rule, couldn't offer seats to away fans cheaper than home fans were paying for comparable facilities. Steve Phillips said ticket revenue becomes less important with greater TV money.
Michael Clarke harked back to Steve Morgan's encroachment pitch side to speak to the referee at the end of the Bournemouth game in December and asked who was there to stop a repeat. "To get from the directors' box to have a go at the ref doesn't reflect well, even though every fan would have liked to have done it too," he said. Jez responded: "Steve doesn't need a babysitter and he won't get one. He wouldn't think kindly about that idea. I didn't know he was down there that day until I saw him. If he leaves his seat, how do anyone know he isn't getting up to go to the toilet? He got punished and we move on. These things happen all the time but I don't think it will happen again." Dave Benton reminded the meeting that Steve had gone into the dressing room towards the end of the Mick McCarthy eraand said he hasn't been in since and doubts he will again.
To a question from Mark Rigby, Matt Grayson said the possibility of using former players in a meet-and-greet role at the museum was being considered. The meeting also heard that the museum attendance at the Sir Jack tribute weekend had been very good, with positive feedback. Jez said the museum was so good that it didn't need former players to enhance the experience but it could happen on occasions.
Chris Bate asked what the overall club position was in convincing supporters to renew their season tickets and was told by Jez: "The drive from the club is.....well, we can all kid ourselves but special occasions aside, making the on field football better and sustained football success are the most important, as well as doing the marketing things right." The Chief Executive also urged Parliament members to look at other clubs' accounts to see how Wolves were performing off the field.
Dave Quarrell enquired about the need for administration fees for away tickets and gave Jez the chance to clarify a point he feels he may previously have explained only partially. At a previous meeting, Jez said Wolves made no money out of selling tickets for away games but clarified his comment on Wednesday by saying in keeping with the rules of the Football League the club charges a small commission (5%) but this was balanced by the same amount Wolves had to pay visiting clubs for tickets they sold for matches at Molineux. "It offsets really, we lose money on away tickets sold for Molineux and we gain money for tickets we sell for our away games but, regardless of that we still have to carry out that transaction for on ticket sales for away games and incur the relevant charges," he said.
Matt concluded the meeting by urging fans to enter April 18 in their diaries – the date of the home game with Ipswich – as that was planned to be the day of the club's memorial service at St Peter's Collegiate Church in honour of fans and former players no longer with us.


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module Datajam
  module Datacard
    module APIMapping
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      require 'datajam/datacard/api_mapping/definition'
      require 'datajam/datacard/api_mapping/input_field'
      require 'datajam/datacard/api_mapping/output_field'
      require 'datajam/datacard/api_mapping/metadata_attributes'
      require 'datajam/datacard/api_mapping/settings'
      require 'datajam/datacard/api_mapping/response_definition'
      require 'datajam/datacard/api_mapping/endpoint_definition'
      require 'datajam/datacard/api_mapping/endpoints'
      require 'datajam/datacard/api_mapping/request'
      require 'datajam/datacard/api_mapping/defaults'

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China has announced the right economic policies and can have a soft landing — "level off at a rate of growth that's sustainable" — if Beijing sticks to its script, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Thursday.
Lew appeared on CNBC's "Squawk Box" from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with global financial markets experiencing turmoil on plunging oil prices and concerns about an economic slowdown in China.
"The real question for China is a nervousness about will they stick to policies they need to stick to, and are they making policy in a way the world understands," Lew said. "The communication has been uneven. It has not been clear."
"You have to separate some of the movement in the economic indicators from the way they've made policy and announced it," he added, saying the growth picture for the world's second-largest economy was "not that dramatically different" from end of last year.
"I don't think things have changed as dramatically as the sentiment towards China has changed," he said.
In what he said he's learned from frequent dialogue with his counterparts in China, Lew observed: "I think transparency is new to them. And ... being bounced around by markets is new to them."
"These reforms they have to stick to are essentially saying that they'll let their economy be bounced around some and they won't feel the need to act every time it moves," he continued. "I think the sooner they demonstrate that, the sooner they'll build confidence back up."
Lew said he's made it clear to China that currency "devaluations that are designed to gain unfair competitive advantage are unacceptable" and the U.S. will push back.
But currency moves because of a slowing economy are another story, he said. "If they could be clear about what they're doing, I think it would be helpful."
On oil, Lew said this is the first time he's heard cheaper oil "described only as a bad thing."
He insisted there are positive aspects as well. "Economic growth in the United states, in spite of headwinds internationally, we're maintaining steady growth, good consumer demand. Lower oil prices are part of the reason for that."
"I don't want to pretend that there aren't downside risks. I follow the downside risks very carefully," Lew said. "If you're in the oil patch, it feels terrible. If you're an oil exporting country, it's very disruptive."
Asked whether he'd support International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde for a second term, Lew stopped short of a formal endorsement. But he did say: "I have a very close working relationship with Christine Lagarde. I have the highest regard for her. I think she's done a great job. I look forward to continuing working with her."
Separately, during a trip to Puerto Rico on Wednesday, Lew said the Obama administration was ready to do all it could to help the debt-ridden territory, but he strongly urged Congress to urgently pass legislation, allowing a debt restructuring.


Comic-Con International returns to the San Diego Convention Center in 2017, beginning with Preview Night on Wednesday, July 19, and running Thursday, July 20 through Sunday, July 23, 2017. Comic Con International is the country's longest continuously-run comics and popular arts convention.
Comic-Con International once again features a massive schedule of programming events—the largest of any comics or pop culture convention in the country. This is the most extensive Comic-Con International programming schedule to date. It spans all four days and includes 19 separate rooms in the Convention Center, ranging from 168 seats to the massive 6,500-seat Hall H.
Beyond the Convention Center, you will find Comic-Con programming at four other locations in downtown: the San Diego Central Library, the Hilton Bayfront Hotel, the Horton Grand Theatre, and the Marriott Marquis.
This year's lineup features some big names like Arthur Adams (Writer, Artist), Sergio Aragonés (Cartoonist, MAD, Groo), Andrew Aydin (Co-author, MARCH trilogy), Marguerite Bennett (Writer, Batwoman, DC Bombshells), Box Brown (Writer/artist, André the Giant: Life and Legend, Tetris: The Games People Play), Gail Carriger (Author, Parasol Protectorate, Finishing School series), Joyce Chin (Artist, Marvel covers, including America, Deadpool the Duck), Gemma Correll (Cartoonist, The Worrier's Guide to Life, A Pug's Guide to Etiquette), Melanie Gillman (Cartoonist, As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreams), Mike Grell (Writer/artist: Starslayer, The Warlord, Jon Sable, Freelance), Dean Hale (Co-author, Princess in Black series, Calamity Jack) and more.
The Masquerade reminds us that the creative arts reside in all of us, that the arts are not meant to be just a spectator sport, and that among our attendees there is plenty of amazing talents and creativity worth showcasing. More than a few times over the years we've seen our contestants go on to professional costuming or related careers in the arts.


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Nobel problem: Economists want to see their profession diversify
United States economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson were awarded the Nobel prize in economic science on Monday for their work on auction theory – a body of work that influences how prices are set for things such as radio spectrum that underpins telecommunications, including your smartphone.
It is a stunning achievement that acknowledges an economic theory that touches billions of lives. But this year's award – like most years – is also an opportunity to explore the lack of diversity within the economic profession and the profound influence that can have on policies that impact society as a whole.
Milgrom and Wilson join a league of Nobel laureates in economics that are overwhelmingly male. Since the Nobel committee began awarding an economic prize in 1969, only two women have won.
Last year, Esther Duflo became the first female economist to win the prize for her work with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kramer on their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". Political economist Elinor Olstrom became the first woman to win the prize "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" in 2009.
There is also a dearth of women on the prize committee itself. This year, Eva Mork was the only female economist on the six-person Economic Science Prize Committee. But many economists believe it will take a more diverse field of professionals to solve the world's most pressing economic challenges – and that more must be done to attract and recognise women and people of colour so they are regularly represented at the highest level of the field.
The myth of meritocracy
Only 24 percent of PhD economists working with the US federal government identified as Black, Hispanic, Asian or as other minorities, a 2019 study from by the Brookings Institute found, and minorities comprised just 21 percent of economics faculty in US academia. The same study found that women made up just 30 percent of PhD economists at the federal-government level and just 23 percent of economics faculty in academia in the US.
Closing those gaps starts with addressing the biases and factors that lead women and people of colour to be excluded from the field or overlooked in the first place.
I know that my research would be different if I were not a woman, and I can think of many examples of economic insights that would never have come to light in an exclusively white, male, elite economics.
Shelly Lundberg, University of California Santa Barbara
One of them is the myth that economics is a meritocracy, said Shelly Lundberg, distinguished professor of economics at University of California, Santa Barbara.
"They claim that economics is economics, you either do it well or badly, and what we are aiming for is a meritocracy, plain and simple," Lundberg told Al Jazeera. "I think that this view is wrong, and is itself an illustration of how narrow is the viewpoint of economics now."
And while many economists say the work – not the economist – should be the central focus when it comes to promotions, publications, and prizes, research that shows women in the field are held to "higher standards in publication and promotion," said Lundberg.
Lundberg added that diverse perspectives also lead to diverse policy proposals that can potentially change the world we live in.
"The questions we ask and the answers we consider are informed by our experiences," she said. "I know that my research would be different if I were not a woman, and I can think of many examples of economic insights that would never have come to light in an exclusively white, male, elite economics."
A narrow pipeline
But how can economists make their field less white, male and elite and more diverse and representative of the societies they study?
Research shows the work starts in education.
For example, the gender gap is already evident at the undergraduate university level: there are nearly three males for every female economics major in the US, according to a 2018 analysis co-authored by Claudia Goldin, Harvard University's Henry Lee Professor of Economics and Tatyana Avilova, the project manager for the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge.
The numbers are similar in the United Kingdom.
"Women are under-represented in economics because of the lack of role models, that is, senior economists in important organizations are usually men," Ana Galvao, a professor of economic modelling and forecasting at the University of Warwick, told Al Jazeera. "This leads to an unconscious bias linking being a top-quality economist with the male gender. This affects the choices of young women when deciding their career and currently, only 30 percent of UK undergraduate students in economics are female."
Our questions and our research will be more thoughtful, more nuanced, more rigorous the more diversity we have in the profession with regards to gender, race, ability, sexuality, religion, family background and other lived experiences.
Tatyana Avilova, Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge
Avilova and Goldin decided to study why female students aren't choosing or staying in the field, examining data about US students who majored in economics and graduated between 2011 to 2015.
They found that even though female students outnumber male students at the undergraduate level more broadly, there was a higher rate of males graduating with economics degrees.
One reason: women were more likely to leave the field depending on how they fared from the start. Using data from an anonymised institution called "Adams College," Avilova and Goldin found that a woman who received a grade of B+ in a "principles" course (a fundamental economics course required for higher-level classes) had a 27 percent chance of going on to major in economics. Men, on the other hand, had a 41 percent chance of continuing if they received a B+.
They found that "many students do not major in economics not because of true revealed preferences, but because of lack of adequate information about what economics is, what economics studies and what skills it teaches, and what careers are available to students who major in economics," Avilova, now a PhD candidate at Columbia University, told Al Jazeera.
Using their findings, Avilova and the other members of the Women in Economics Challenge encouraged economics departments to explore ways to keep women in the discipline, including curriculum-based interventions that help students with different learning styles stay engaged, offering counselling and tutoring sessions and bringing in more diverse faculty members and guest speakers.
Bias and scrutiny
Once women enter the field of economics, they may face more scrutiny than their white male counterparts.
Alice Wu, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, focused her 2017 study on online conversations conducted on a popular forum called Economics Job Market Rumors, a virtual water cooler where economists discuss the latest comings and goings in the field and academia.
Wu found that when women were mentioned, discussions quickly pivoted towards their personal information and physical appearances.
She also found that the words used in posts with the strongest predictive power for females included "hot," "attractive," "pregnant," "gorgeous," "beautiful" and "lesbian," as well as other more inappropriate terms. The words that were used in posts with the strongest predictive power for males, however, included "philosopher," "keen," "motivated," "textbook" and "homosexual."
The lack of diversity in the economics profession has been the subject of increased scrutiny.
In 2018, the American Economics Association created a new standing committee on equity, diversity and professional conduct, and added new inclusion initiatives, such as grants for study and travel, the costs of which can be barriers to advancement for early-stage economists.
There has also been a groundswell of grassroots activism among female economists and economists of colour.
The Sadie Collective, named after Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first African American to earn her doctoral degree in 1921, is an organization created by undergraduates to address the pipeline for Black women in economics and related fields. The group shares job opportunities, holds panel discussions, and elevates minority conversations among Black economists.
The effect of the COVID-19 crisis
While there have been small signs of progress when it comes to diversifying economics, the continuing COVID-19 crisis has exposed and exacerbated long-standing inequities, too.
Preliminary research by Olga Shurchkov, an associate professor of economics at Wellesley College, found the number of academic papers submitted by women dropped substantially in March and April of this year, coinciding with the closure of schools across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. Shurchkov also found that male faculty were four times more likely than female faculty to say they had a stay-at-home partner.
Shurchkov and her research team are continuing to collect more data on the subject, especially as virtual schooling and hybrid schedules mean that economists who also have caregiving responsibilities may have limited capacity for research and publication this fall and into 2021.
For academics, one year of professional upheaval could impact their career for decades – offering fewer opportunities for publication and achieving tenure.
There is much work to be done when it comes to creating parity for women and people of colour in economics, as well as a variety of other academic fields. But many economists are doing all they can to improve inclusion at all levels of their profession – from students to Nobel laureates.
As the pipeline of students entering economics widens, the thinking goes, representation will improve, too, including in front of Nobel committees. And that could have a positive effect in so many ways, Avilova said.
"Our questions and our research will be more thoughtful, more nuanced, more rigorous the more diversity we have in the profession with regards to gender, race, ability, sexuality, religion, family background and other lived experiences, and the better the economics discipline will be for it," she said.
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At 8:40 p.m. on June 26, a 23-year-old man from Freeport was arrested and charged with aggravated unlicensed operator, unlicensed operator and disobeying a traffic control device on Broadway.
A 23-year-old man from Jamaica, Queens was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and unlawful possession of marijuana on Broadway on June 26 at 8:50 p.m.
On June 27 at 3:47 p.m., a 28-year-old man from Howard Beach, Queens, was arrested and charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance and petit larceny at Rite Aid, 400 Sunrise Highway.
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Tom was involved in the food business industry for decades prior to joining Sunbelt. He has experience in engineering, manufacturing, sales management, distribution, consulting and organizational management. He also has experience in start-up businesses and integrating companies into the existing framework of the purchasing company to maximize profitability.
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I recently participated in the Collaboration Film Challenge, a short film festival designed, as the name suggests, to get filmmakers to work together.
We then had a few days to come up with five pitches for short films based on the quote. Once a pitch was selected for us, we had a week to write, shoot, and edit the final project.
Paranormal CATTIVITY was my pitch, a found-footage horror movie. With sock puppets.
I'm happy to say that we were the runner-up in the Audience Award for Best Film.
-Tom, who still has some dead puppets in the trunk of his car.


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Jon Hicks, renowned connoisseur of cheese and creator of fine visuals, shares his thoughts on content management systems and weighs the pros and cons of Expression Engine vs Textpattern.
The upshot is, that for a lot of client sites, EE is wonderful (if you can put up with the admin side) –- especially sites that need members, forums and all that jazz. The thing is, if a site doesn't need those things, it's less pain and more pleasure to use Textpattern.
If you happen to crave for the details which cause this summary verdict, hop over to Jon's journal.
Very rarely have the resources not been available with txp to complete the task I needed to do with relative ease.
Is there a way to do memberships in TP? Let's say I want to create a dynamic PHP application and I don't want to waste coding time developing membership code. So if I have a free area, and a paid area for basic and an advanced users…can this be handled with a plugin? Which one?


Bermuda's team to represent the island at the NatWest Island Games departs for Gotland on Thursday.
Many of Bermuda's top athletes are involved in the Games and the Chef de Mission, Jon Beard, believes that this group of athletes will continue the success and reputation that Bermuda enjoys in the Games.
Mr Beard expressed his praise of the hard work completed by his committee of: Juanita Blee, Georgina Francoeur, and Laura Bolton.
He and the national sports governing bodies involved , wish to express their thanks to companies and organizations who have supported Team Bermuda, saying that without their support many of these athletes would not be able to participate. The team has been outfitted thanks to the continued support of Sun Life Financial International, who has provided the team's uniforms since 2015.
Beard emphasized that, "representing Bermuda is an honour that our athletes do not take lightly, and the uniforms provided by SLF International ensure that they represent us in style".
I certainly think we can medal in some events!
I had to google Gotland.
It does seem pretty out-of-the-way. Then again many people wouldn't be able to find Aland or Ynes Mon on a map either.


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Cheval Magazine est un magazine mensuel français tourné vers le domaine équestre et équin . Fondé en , il est édité par les Éditions Larivière.

Description
. Les articles s'orientent sur l'actualité du monde du cheval, des reportages (découvertes de peuples cavaliers par exemple) des aides pour les disciplines équestres, des dossiers sur les races équines, l'éthologie, la santé et l'alimentation du cheval ainsi que des conseils pratiques pour les cavaliers, propriétaires de chevaux et passionnés des équidés en général.

Histoire
À sa fondation en 1971, le magazine est simplement nommé Cheval. Il est racheté en 1978 par Bernard Chéhu qui revoit sa ligne éditoriale, l'oriente sur la relation avec le cheval, et modifie le titre pour Cheval Magazine. Sous sa direction, Cheval Magazine devient le leader de la presse équestre en Europe. Installé d'abord à Versailles, le magazine déménage ensuite à Montfort-L'Amaury.

Le service Minitel 36 15 CHEVAL propose des petites annonces dans les années 1980 et 1990. La version numérique de Cheval Magazine pour tablette est lancée en 2013. Le site internet chevalmag.com est créé en 2000 et la page Facebook du magazine est ouverte en 2009.

En , le magazine est vendu à une filiale du groupe de presse hippique Paris-Turf, ID Editions. Il y sera rejoint par Cheval Pratique en octobre 2017. La rédaction s'installe à Aubervilliers puis à Châtillon.

Le 30 juin 2020, à la suite de la mise en redressement judiciaire du groupe Paris-Turf qui est repris par NJJ presse, la holding personnelle de Xavier Niel, les titres Cheval magazine et Cheval Pratique sont repris quant à eux par les Editons Larivière à Clichy. À partir du numéro d'octobre 2020, les deux titres sont fusionnés sous le nom de Cheval magazine.

Tirage
Comme de nombreux titres de presse papier payante, Cheval Magazine subit une réduction de ses ventes :

Cheval pratique
Cheval pratique était un magazine français mensuel consacré à l'équitation et au cheval. Il a été créé par la SARL MTE (Mathieu Thevenot Editeurs) et racheté en 1993 par les éditions Larivière. En 2020, le magazine a fusionné avec Cheval Magazine.

Publication généraliste autour du cheval, le magazine ciblait un lectorat d'adolescents ou de jeunes adultes.

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Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Presse équestre

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Magazine français
Presse mensuelle en France
Presse consacrée aux animaux en France
Presse équestre
Titre de presse créé en 1971
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Hammarby är en småort i Eskilstuna kommun  i Södermanlands län och kyrkbyn i Hammarby socken. Småorten ligger på östra sidan om Mälarvägen som leder norrut mot Sundbyholm.Här ligger Hammarby kyrka med ursprung från 1100-talet.
Strax väster om Hammarby ligger Lövhulta.

Hammarby bestod ännu i slutet av 1800-talet av sju gårdar, idag finns endast några få byggnader kvar. Bland dessa finns komministerbostället Kyrkotorp, en parstuga som möjligen härstammar från 1600-talet och den forna fattigstugan, en tillbyggd enkelstuga.

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Orter i Eskilstuna kommun
Småorter i Sverige


I was met by many carabineers headed by a major. Rizal does not say here that he wants monuments, streets, or schools in his name, just a fond kiss and a warm breath so he could feel he is not. José could speak more than 20 languages. If over my grave some day thou seest grow, In the grassy sod, a humble flower, Draw it to thy lips and kiss my soul so, While I may feel on my brow in the cold tomb below The touch of thy tenderness, thy breath's warm power. Paalam na liyag, tanging kaulayaw, taga ibang lupang aking katuwaan, paaalam sa inyo, mga minamahal; mamatay ay ganap na katahimikan. Andrés Bonifacio, José Rizal, Katipunan 1640 Words 7 Pages Rizal's first trip abroad The departure of Jose Rizal for Spain was kept secret from Spanish authorities, friars and even to his parents especially to his mother because she would not allow him to go.
Rizal, as a student, manifested proficiency and excellency because at a very young age, his mother was teaching him basic skills like reading which. Since he arranged to have it delivered to his sister Narcisa he did intend that it should be published. My dream of liberation is my desire to dedicate my life to our beloved country. My dreams, even in early adolescence, My dreams, in youth, then overflowing with vigor, Were one day, to see thee, gem of the Orient seas, Dry they ebony eyes, hold thy brow serene, Without frowns, without furrows, nor stigma of shame. I die just when I see the dawn break, Through the gloom of night, to herald the day; And if color is lacking my blood thou shalt take, Pour'd out at need for thy dear sake To dye with its crimson the waking ray.
Farewell, parents, brothers, beloved by me, Friends of my childhood, in the home distressed; Give thanks that now I rest from the wearisome day; Farewell, sweet stranger, my friend, who brightened my way; Farewell to all I love; to die is to rest. He entered a Jesuit-run Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1872 and obtained a bachelor's degree with highest honors in 1876. The seventh child born to Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonzo Rizal, José Rizal became a national hero to his country, the Philippines. Others simply dislike the idea of tampering with a popular and traditional image which was already immortalized in stamps, paper currency, books and souvenirs, among others. For language is the final judge and referee Upon the people in the land where it holds sway; In truth our human race resembles in this way The other living beings born in liberty.
Dream of my life, my living and burning desire, All hail! Archived from on May 4, 2006. So for reasons of this outline and other constraints it will unfortunately be necessary omit some aspects of their story in this outline report. Duties and Responsibilities: To create, apply and control financial procedures and forms, ensuring that each transaction and payment has the necessary approval and justification. Raleigh writes his experience with love as terrible and unbearable; it was written in 1588 in an era where poets would typically write about the wonders of love, or write to a love. Title Rizal did not ascribe a title to his poem. Pray thee for all the hapless who have died, For all those who unequalled torments have undergone; For our poor mothers who in bitterness have cried; For orphans, widows and captives to tortures were shied, And pray too that you may see your own redemption.
One is is the original Spanish version and the other is in English or Tagalog, I can't really remember. He emphasizes how his dreams have always included the burning desire for freedom: Dream of my life, my living and burning desire, All hail! It repeats over and over the theme of love being false and untrue. I think Rizal is encouraging the Filipino youth to be proud of being a Filipino and to use their talents and skills to transform what is happening to our society to a better one. Rizal does non state here that he wants memorials. We are also thrown into the world of Rizal's novels. To ensure that we will not forget Rizal and his heritage, his life and memories were being raised on arts as wells as on television.
Farewell to thee, too, sweet friend that lightened my way; Beloved creatures all, farewell! He used the biblical Eden to describe the Pre-Hispanic Philippines which is an imaginary time of purity and innocence. Farewell to you all, from my soul torn away, Friends of my childhood in the home dispossessed! First Movement: Writes Poem in Prison Farewell, dear Fatherland, clime of the sun caress'd Pearl of the Orient seas, our Eden lost! He used the biblical garden of Eden to describe the pre-Hispanic Philippines. Jose Rizal Jose Rizal is the most traveled Filipino hero in history. Then, should it be necessary, it can be amended. To My Fellow Children Sa Aking Mga Kababata Whenever people of a country truly love The language which by heav'n they were taught to use That country also surely liberty pursue As does the bird which soars to freer space above. In addition to becoming a fine poet, Rizal attained proficiency in many areas of study, such as education, architecture, business, and horticulture.
And when my grave by all is no more remembered, With neither cross nor stone to mark its place, Let it be ploughed by man, with spade let it be scattered And my ashes ere to nothingness are restored, Let them turn to dust to cover thy earthly space. Also on bronze at the in Manila, but less known, is the 1944 one of novelist. This is the challenge faced by the Filipinos in celebration of the 153rd anniversary of the birth of Jose Rizal. Tell me what you think of it. With the help of his friend, father Sanchez, he made a map of Mindanao in front of the church.
Give thanks that I rest from the wearisome day! He said that he is glad to give his life to Filipinas even though his life was brighter, fresher, or more blest than it is now — pertaining to the time when he wrote the poem. In order to avoid detection, he used the name Jose Mercado, name of his cousin in Calamba. It can be found … in the Avenida de Las Islas Filipinas. He also excelled as a musician, theologian, psychologist, and journalist. Then it doesn't matter that you should forget me: Your atmosphere, your skies, your vales I'll sweep; Vibrant and clear note to your ears I shall be: Aroma, light, hues, murmur, song, moanings deep, Constantly repeating the essence of the faith I keep.
Now, he satisfies his death by saying he will be going to a place where there is peace — no slaves, no oppressors, no killed faith. Rizal said that their dedication and patriotism to the country is without second thoughts. Dream of my life, my living and burning desire, All hail! This speaker is well versed in the history of his country and the world; he knows the sacrifices that earlier patriots have endured to attain that most valuable gift of freedom. The army's intent was to kill Filipino soldiers like Rizal, who had formed a rebellion against the Spanish incursion. Audience, Dance, Energy 1493 Words 2 Pages Rizal life works and writings chapter 20 summary Free Essays on Summary Of Rizal S Life Works And Writings Chapter 1 for students. He gives everything to Filipinas.


Midwood High School is a public, urban, co-ed high school located on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City. The school is administered by the New York City Department of Education, has over 3,500 students. Its H-shaped building, with six Ionic columns and a Georgian cupola, was constructed in 1940. The Principal of the school is David Cohen.
Midwood offers 14 Advanced Placement courses and the College Board listed it among the best schools in the nation in terms of Advance Placement offerings. Midwood has nearly 100 clubs, including Akiva, Philosophy, Young Democrats, and a Gay-Straight Alliance. Midwood has 2 classes that specialize in creating projects for the nationwide Intel competition. In 1999, Midwood had more semifinalists in the Intel Science Talent Search than did any other high school in the nation. As of 2006, Midwood had more semifinalists in the Siemens-Westinghouse Science and Technology Competition than any other New York City high school.
Midwood has several sports teams including teams in baseball, basketball, football, golf, cheerleading, handball, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, wrestling, and volleyball. Midwood's rival school is James Madison High School, which is a short ride down Bedford Avenue. Midwood High School conventionally places among the best high schools in Brooklyn. It is ranked as one of the top 100 high schools in the nation. Midwood is ranked as a School of Excellence by U.S. News and World Report. Midwood has also been chosen as a Blue Ribbon Secondary School of Excellence by the United States Department of Education.
Midwood High School is highly academic and offers not only several Advanced Placement courses, but a wide variety of athletic and extra curricular opportunities for all students.


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Yet another woman found assaulted
A serial killer known as the Kensington Strangler may have struck again. Philadelphia Police said a woman was assaulted around midnight Tuesday night near where the strangler has struck in the past.
Locations of the purported Kensington Strangler attacks
Police spokesman Lt. Ray Evers said the same task force that's investigating the strangling crimes is looking into other incidents in the area to see if there's a connection.
City Councilmember Maria Quinones-Sanchez represents part of the affected community.
"When you look at the root of the people involved," Quinones-Sanchez said. "Even the victims in this case – the trail leads back to an environment that's, particularly in Kensington, of one of drugs and prostitution. In an area that I talk about many times – the forgotten area – it's a contained criminal element that has existed there, that is very visible, but that many times we ignore."
The police spokesman said there's an increased police presence in the Kensington area. Quinones-Sanchez said she hopes the string of crimes will draw attention to the nuissance businesses, vacant lots, and drug use in the area.
Too late to save Philly's historic Jewelers' Row? Neighborhood property owners think so
Philly just challenged an infamous slumlord to a legal death match and won


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Terror Finance
It Just Got Easier for Iran to Fund Terrorism
by Jonathan Schanzer and Mark Dubowitz
http://schanzer.pundicity.com/17588/it-just-got-easier-for-iran-to-fund-terrorism
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, did not enter into Tuesday's historic deal with six world powers to reset relations with the West. It was the promise of more than $100 billion in sanctions relief, rather, that greased the wheels of the recently completed diplomacy in Vienna. And though the windfall of cash will certainly strengthen its position, the real prize for Iran was regaining access to a little-known, but ubiquitous banking system that has been off-limits to the country since March 2012.
SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, is the electronic bloodstream of the global financial system. It is a member-owned cooperative comprising the most powerful financial institutions in the world, which allows more than 10,800 financial companies worldwide to communicate securely. It's hard to find a bank that doesn't use SWIFT to communicate with other banks — unless, of course, you've lived in Iran for the past few years.
SWIFT disconnected 15 Iranian banks from its system in 2012 after coming under pressure from both the United States and the European Union at the height of the effort to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions. It was a major blow to Tehran. Sure, it was how Iran sold oil, but it was also how Iranian banks moved money. According to SWIFT's annual review, Iranian financial institutions used SWIFT more than 2 million times in 2010. These transactions, according to the Wall Street Journal, amounted to $35 billion in trade with Europe alone.
SWIFT is now poised to let those 15 banned Iranian banks, including the Central Bank of Iran, back in. But the move is controversial, to put it mildly. The system is subject to EU laws and international banking standards, which are unambiguous about terrorism finance. Deal or no deal, Iran remains a threat because of its past financing of terrorist networks. As recently as this past June, the Financial Action Task Force, a global anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism finance standards body, warned that Iran's "failure to address the risk of terrorist financing" poses a "serious threat ... to the integrity of the international financial system."
Even U.S. President Barack Obama at his press conference this week acknowledged Iran's "support for terrorism" and "its use of proxies to destabilize parts of the Middle East." With Iran re-connected to SWIFT, it will be poised to more easily move funds to terrorists' coffers, foment conflict around the region, and possibly even procure equipment for a clandestine weapons program, should it choose to violate the nuclear deal.
"De-SWIFTing" Iran did not happen without controversy. But under congressional pressure, Obama administration and EU officials eventually agreed to take the step in mid-2012. Around the same time, the White House began its back channel nuclear negotiations with Iran. This was no coincidence: Cut off from the formal financial sector, Iran was desperate for a way back in. The Obama administration saw this as an opportunity. Secret talks led to public negotiations in October 2013 and the announcement of an interim agreement one month later.
So long as the Iranians continued to engage in dialogue, the P5+1 world powers agreed to provide sanctions relief. Direct sanctions relief under the Joint Plan of Action, the interim deal signed in November 2013, yielded the Iranian regime a total of $11.9 billion from frozen oil revenues, allowing the country to replenish its dwindling foreign exchange reserves. This contributed to a modest economic recovery in 2014 and 2015, but the pressure from sanctions remained, and Iran's economy remained stymied.
"Without SWIFT, there was nowhere to spend [the sanctions relief]," one U.S. government official told us in April. "The Iranians have been complaining to us throughout the JPOA process that sanctions relief means little without the ability to bank."
It is no coincidence, then, that the deal explicitly calls for the banks that were originally banned from SWIFT to be allowed back into the system. SWIFT issued a release on Tuesday afternoon in response to the announcement, stating that it "is aware of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and the potential sanctions relief this may entail."
For the time being, however, the financial messaging service noted that "all the current EU sanctions remain in place.... Any decision to lift sanctions on countries or individual entities rests solely with the competent government bodies and applicable legislators."
In plain English, SWIFT is putting the onus on the EU to assume the burden of the decision of whether Iran will be reintegrated into its system. So, upon "Implementation Day" — when the International Atomic Energy Agency verifies that Iran has fulfilled the implementation of specified nuclear measures — the EU will be obliged to order SWIFT to readmit Iran's banks.
While Iran's readmission to SWIFT is underway, Iranian banks will also get a boost from a provision in the agreement that calls for the United States to delist the Central Bank of Iran. This is no small matter. In 2011, invoking Section 311 of the Patriot Act, the U.S. Treasury took the extraordinary step of designating the entire "Islamic Republic of Iran [as] a jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern." The Treasury cited Iran's "support for terrorism," "pursuit of weapons of mass destruction," and "deceptive financial practices" as reasons for the action. It specifically targeted Iran's Central Bank and made it clear that the entire country's financial system posed "illicit finance risks for the global financial system."
With the Central Bank no longer in the vise-like grip of the U.S. Treasury, and with SWIFT messages flowing, Iran's financial sector will soon be operating at pre-sanctions levels. The nuclear deal also lifts sanctions on 23 Iranian banks designated for proliferation financing — including both nuclear and ballistic missile activity. Only Bank Saderat, designated for its role in facilitating the financing of terrorist groups, will remain on the Treasury's blacklist. This will give Khamenei bragging rights for having survived the most crippling cocktail of financial sanctions in modern history. Loyalists to the ayatollah are framing this as a victory for the revolution in their ongoing struggle against America.
While supporters of the agreement might argue that the deal represents good news for the Iranian people, regardless of how the regime sees it, plugging Iran back into the formal financial sector poses a danger to the U.S.-led global financial system. The sanctions were put in place to combat Iranian money laundering and terrorism finance based on evidence that met strict legal criteria. That is all set to disappear. In other words, the measures required of the United States in the new Iran deal directly contradict the Obama administration's own Patriot Act finding.
To make matters worse, the agreement just reached in Vienna grants more than $100 billion in cash to Iran, which could flow to the coffers of terrorist groups and rogue actors like Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Damascus. At the president's press conference on Wednesday, Obama dismissed this fear, claiming the money would not be a "game-changer" for Iran. It's hard to understand his logic: This infusion of cash will relieve budgetary constraints for a country already spending at least $6 billion annually to support Assad. For a country with only $20 billion in fully accessible foreign exchange reserves prior to November 2013, this is hugely significant.
More importantly, the relaxed banking standards will grant the Iranian regime the ability to move its money anywhere in the world. With EU sanctions also set to be lifted on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, major IRGC companies and banks, and the Quds Force, the IRGC's extraterritorial terrorist arm, Europe will become an economic free zone for Iran's terrorist activity.
These concerns about Iran using its new sanctions relief windfall to send money to terrorists will bedevil U.S. leaders for years to come. The integrity of the formal financial sector is now pitted against the White House's desire for a diplomatic victory. This is a battle that the Obama administration may win for the next year and a half — but one that a future U.S. president may want to revisit, if Iran remains a leading state sponsor of terrorism into 2017.
But Iran has an insurance policy. The nuclear deal grants the Iranians their own "snapbacks" against a future president's attempt to reimpose SWIFT sanctions on terrorism grounds. The agreement is clear on this: "Iran has stated that if sanctions are reinstated in whole or in part, Iran will treat that as grounds to cease performing its commitments ... in whole or in part." So, while SWIFT snapbacks remain a theoretical tool of coercion, Tehran could trump that with threats of nuclear escalation, a move that is backed by the language of the agreement.
Iran's readmission to SWIFT is among the more dangerous aspects of the deal, making the enforcement of terrorism financing laws in the face of Iranian intimidation a monumental challenge for the next president and his or her economic warriors in the U.S. Treasury.
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I Still Believe in Miracles: 30 years of Inverleith House
Inverleith House, Edinburgh, 23rd July to 23rd October
The title of this exhibition, part of this year's Edinburgh Art Festival, comes from a work Scottish artist Douglas Gordon created for Inverleith House in 2005. It reprised Gordon's 1994 text piece "I believe in miracles"—but also gestured to the miracle that is Inverleith House: a bold contemporary art institution set in one of the world's great botanical gardens. When Paul Nesbitt became Exhibitions Director in 1986, his brief was to curate shows of botanical art. Gradually, however, he began to include leading international and upcoming British artists, who were inspired by this 18th-century building and its setting. Andy Golds-worthy, Tina Modotti, Ed Ruscha, Richard Tuttle, Isa Genzken, Philip Guston, Richard Hamilton, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Karla Black and Juergen Teller make up a formidable roll-call. This summer's exhibition includes work by 30 artists—alongside displays of botanical drawings by John Hope (1725-86) and Hugh Cleghorn (1820-95).
William Eggleston Portraits
National Portrait Gallery, 21st July to 23rd October
Inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, those masters of black-and-white documentary photography, in the 1960s the American William Eggleston began to explore the dye transfer colour printing process. A ground-breaking 1976 exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, introduced his careful, eccentric, mysteriously beautiful saturated colour photographs of ordinary people from the American South. This is the largest exhibition to date of portraits from his whole career.
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In Prospect's July issue: In her final issue as Editor Bronwen Maddox explores the legacy of former Prime Minister Tony Blair having spoken with him at a Prospect event on 24th May. She examines his domestic policy, the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan and what the future holds for the Labour Party. The Chancellor George Osborne lays down his view on why the public should to "Remain" in the EU, and Ian Hargreaves takes a close look at what is happening at the BBC. Also in this issue: Former Conservative leader David Davis suggests he can see a very narrow set of circumstances that might push him towards running for the party leadership again, William Skidelsky writes about why tennis is the best sport and Vanora Bennett looks at Svetlana Alexievich's extraordinary work recording Russia's lost voices.
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Graduated from Kuwasawa Design School, and Waseda University.
Founded PAOS in 1968 and continued to pursue research and practice on the theme of the establishment of design theories for management and the development of application-oriented design methodologies.
PAOS has worked with some 100 corporations representing Japan on CI branding and business strategy design, establishing a long track record of success and producing numerous hallmark case studies in the process.
About 100 corporations, including NTT, INAX, Bridgestone, KENWOOD, Benesse, Nissan and others.
Published many books about corporate identity including "Design Policy : Corporate Image Formation", "DECOMAS – Design Coordination as a Management Strategy".
From 1998 to 2000, He worked as a chairman of the G Mark (Good Design Award) and helped guide the privatization of the organization.
From 2010 to 2018, Course Director of STRAMD (Strategic Management Design) Tokyo and Osaka.
In 2015, Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee.
Director of the Japan Graphic Designers Association (JAGDA), many others.
Mainichi Design Award, Japan Sign Design Association Award Grand Prix, The 1st Katsumi Masaru (father of Japanese Design) Memorial Award, The 1st Kuwasawa "Design of the Year" Award, many others.


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Kenn Kaufman, född 1954, är en amerikansk författare, ornitolog och förgrundsfigur inom den amerikanska naturskyddsrörelsen känd för sina populära fälthandböcker om fåglar, fjärilar och däggdjur i Nordamerika.

Född i South Bend, Indiana, där Kaufman inledde sin bana som fågelskådare redan vid sex års ålder.  När han var nio flyttade hans familj till Wichita, Kansas där hans fascination för fåglar nådde nya höjder.  Vid sexton års ålder, inspirerad av fågelskådande pionjärer som Roger Tory Peterson, hoppade han av high school och började lifta runt i Nordamerika på jakt efter nya fåglar.  Tre år senare, 1973, satte han ett nytt rekord för antal fåglar sedda i Nordamerika under ett år (671 st). I det här rekordet inkluderas dock regioner som Baja California vilka inte längre räknas till samma fågelregion som resten av Nordamerika. Det har även överträffats av andra fågelskådare flera gånger sedan dess. Denna enorma fågelresa kors och tvärs genom hela kontinenten, totalt mer än tiotusen mil, utmynnade senare i den självbiografiska boken Kingbird Highway.

Kaufman är numer bosatt i Rocky Ridge, Ohio.

Bibliografi på svenska
 Kingbird highway: en berättelse om fågelpassion (Kingbird highway) (översättning, biografiska notiser och artlista av Lennart Nilsson) (Ellerström, 2004)
 Bevingat liv: möten med fåglar (Flight against the sunset) (översättning och kommentarer Lennart Nilsson) (Ellerström, 2010)

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Vacations to English speaking countries are easy trips for Americans to plan. After all, there is no language barrier or is there? The Irish have an accent and so do the Brits, although they're always surprised when we mention it to them. On a recent trip to London, we spent a day in Southampton with our new friends, Joanne, Margaret and Polly. Three generations of lovely British women. They told us they watch so many American TV programs that they don't even notice our Yankee accents anymore. Who knew?
I didn't have any problems understanding the people we came in contact with, but I did have to interpret for Tom on several occasions! I guess some people are better at languages than others and years of studying French must help.
The other interesting thing we found was almost every single person who worked in retail, hospitality and food service in London were foreigners. I bet 90% were from other European countries. The spoke English, but with a different accent. Even the manager at our hotel was from New Jersey.
The written language is another story. The British and Americans have different words for the same items. A US car has a trunk, theirs has a boot. We eat sausage and they eat bangers for breakfast. Some of the signs and sayings are really a hoot to our American ears.
Every busy street corner has "Look Right" written on the pavement. We're lucky they constantly remind us. It's one of the hardest things to remember. NEVER, ever cross the street against the walk sign! You think traffic is bad in New York or Chicago? Those cities have nothing on London.
I was thrilled that Kensington Palace recognized that I am a Queen and should be treated like one! My favorite.
Train lingo. The conductor reminds you to "Mind your step" when you alight from the train.
A bump in the road. Has anyone read Le Petit Prince? This sign should remind you of the French classic.
Road closed, use another route.
This is from the Churchill War Rooms Museum.
Harrods sells "take away" food. Order in advance.
The English are so orderly.
Did you find other interesting signs that we would never see in the US?


Whatever Happened to Financial Privacy?
THE DICTATES of the Washington regime have, with the wildly misnamed "Patriot Act," finally taken away all of our financial privacy, which is a fundamental part of our personal privacy.
US navy sailors line up beneath the First Navy Jack flag during the USS Kitty Hawk Departure Ceremony, August 2008.
PROOF WE ARE ruled and "protected" by dangerous morons can be found in this document, entitled "Crisis Controlled," from the Virginia State Police (VSP), authored by Trooper John R. Wright.
Not only is the whole essay written on about a fifth-grade level of literacy and intelligence, not only does it characterize anyone, left or right or otherwise, who questions the constitutionality or morality of our current rulers as a "terrorist," but it wraps itself in smarmy authority-worshipping "patriotism" of the most repellent variety imaginable, which is the opposite of real patriotism.
Prisoners at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba: What crimes have they committed that Bill Clinton and George Bush have not?
THE NEOCON TALK HOSTS like Hannity and Limbaugh and their coevals from the "liberal" side are making a lot of noise about the "terror suspects" who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo without trial and without legitimate charges for nigh onto a decade now.
The Republican shills say "we've got to be firm with these terrorists and protect Amurrica!" The Democrat shills claim to stand for the Constitution and "American values" by calling for the closing of Gitmo, though lately some have waffled on that. Both are liars, but millions of deluded Americans identify with one side or the other and have a rah-rah-for-our-team attitude, slavishly following the blogs and talk shows that keep them agitated, angry, blind to reality, and supporting one wing or another of the Evil Empire.
Government nabobs and Fox News liars won't respond truthfully, Jesse. As we biologically descend to the level of a Third World state and become ensnared in Mideastern religious wars, our government and morals and culture will increasingly resemble those of Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, and Menachem Begin. Torture included.


Nollywood actress Sola Kosoko-Abina is currently in a joyful mood as she welcomed a bouncing baby girl with her husband Waheed Abina. The new bundle of joy arrived in the early hours of Saturday, April 13, 2019.
Her younger sister Bidemi Kosoko was the first to hit the internet with the news of the latest addition to the Prince Jide Kosoko's clan.
AND MY PRINCESS HAS ARRIVED 🤗💋 I asked for an angel and God blessed me with one. Looking into your cute face, I saw a reflection of me. Adorable is what you are. Can't just stop staring at you. I am presently in cloud because you have brought me happiness.
Welcome to the world my latest joy. God will bless you for me. Amen. Rejoice with me my wonderful social media family. Ire ayo ati anu oluwa ko ni tan ni odede everybody. Amin.