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Settler assaults on internationals in Tel Rumeida and tree planting in Beit Omar
in Reports March 3, 2007
by ISM Hebron, March 3rd
Throughout the afternoon, settlers in Tel Rumeida harrassed Palestinian children who were outside playing, enjoying the first sunshine in a few days. They yelled insults and repeatedly pretended to charge at one child riding a bike.
Three internationals were physically assaulted over the course of a few hours. The first attack was against a member of CPT, who was hit in the ear with a rock while standing on Shuhadda Street. Settlers threw rocks at the group of human rights workers (HRWs), hitting one in the ear and causing it to bleed.
The second incident occurred when two HRWs attempted to film four settler teenagers who were trying to goad their dog into attacking an older Palestinian man. When the settlers saw that they were being filmed, they charged the woman with the camera. The other HRW intervened, and in the process was bitten by the dog and repeatedly shoved by one of the settler youths. A soldier eventually broke up the confrontation, but then proceeded to lecture the HRWs that we were not allowed to film in Tel Rumeida. The soldier also noted that the altercation was no big deal because "They're just 16-year old boys." In under two years, these same boys will be given guns.
Beit Omar
A group of international volunteers joined local Palestinians in Beit Omar north of Hebron to plant olive trees today. They visited Beit Omar Municipality and met the Mayor of Beit Omar who welcomed the international visit to the village. He gave brief information on the area and and land confiscation by Occupation authorities. According to him, about 30 per cent of the land in Beit Omar has been confiscated for the construction of the planned apartheid wall, but it is actually about 60 per cent of the village's agricultural land.
After the meeting with the Mayor, the volunteers gathered on land near the Gush Etzion settlement block where the wall is planned to be built. Local Palestinians, together with internationals planted 150 olive trees on the land. About 20 Israeli soldiers and police officers turned up but didn't disrupt the planting.
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Will Mobile Develop a Dual Revenue Stream Where the Web Failed?
By Catharine Taylor
Updated on: August 13, 2009 / 1:44 PM / MoneyWatch
The first reason to watch this clip from 3-Minute Ad Age is because of the headline, "People Logs 18 Million Mobile Page Views Monthly" -- but the second is that listening to Fran Hauser, who heads digital operations for Time Inc.'s style and entertainment properties, makes you wonder if mobile will succeed in developing multiple revenue streams where the Internet has not.
Hauser points to People's Celebrity News Tracker app for the iPhone. Released in June, it's currently ranked #67 among paid apps (although it was higher at the time of release). At $1.99 a pop, it's cheap, but those dollars add up. It's also ad-supported. While this one app isn't enough to save Time Inc., it's worth noting that distributing these apps is virtually free. I haven't studied the profit margin on magazine subs vs. digital applications, but it's got to tilt in favor of the latter. (I have however been reading Chris Anderson's book, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price," in case you can't tell.)
I mention this app not only because of the revenue stream it generates but also because of the consumer behavior behind it. It's strange how content publishers online have trouble charging for anything, and, yet, in the mobile environment, they are able to. Some of the other best-selling apps from the media-sphere (not including games) are the apps for the Weather Channel ($3.99), AOL Instant Messenger ($.99), the Twitter apps Tweetie ($2.99) and Twitter Pro ($.99), and Weather Bug Elite ($.99).
An easy assumption as to why people are willing to pay for these is that the builders of these apps got the price point right -- but I don't think that's what it is. Consider that on the Web, newspapers have trouble even charging $.99 for a story.
Instead, I think what's going on is that the Web world was built around the notion that everything is free; the mobile realm, even though it's so closely related, was not. Not only are people used to paying for every aspect of their cell phone's basic services, the app market is so new that no free precedent had been set when app developers started charging for them; the mobile app world created a paid market early. Granted, there are many free apps, but I'd argue that if the entire app market had started out as being free, people would balk if developers started to charge. It's a perception game, more than anything else, and one that will benefit mobile content providers.
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A single-user blog
Alf Eaton · October 22, 2017
As an exercise, I've been trying to make the simplest possible blog, using the best possible tools.
It's a single-user blog, so there's no need to worry about protecting against malicious users, and the permissions are quite straightforward.
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The authenticated user object contains a verified email address, which we use for permissions:
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".indexOn": "published"
"private": {
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A post is created in the private collection, then written to the public collection on publication.
The client interface uses react-redux-firebase for communication with the database, and Material UI for the app elements.
The following components are inside an App container, which handles the routing:
Displays the user's profile picture, or a "Sign in" button if they haven't yet signed in.
Displays a loading bar until the user is authenticated.
Displays a list of posts, with 3 possible actions:
Creates a new post.
A menu of actions ("Unpublish", "Remove") for each post.
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The editor contains a "Publish" button, which writes the content and metadata to the public collection, where anyone can read it via the public JSON API.
The source code for this app is hosted on GitHub.


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O Supercusto corresponde, em termos gerais, à diferença entre o Custo de Reprodução e o Custo Real de uma obra ou serviço de Engenharia. O conceito foi inicialmente proposto por MÁRIO LOPES (2014a) e posteriormente publicado pelo mesmo (2014b).

Conceitos de Superfaturamento

Conceito Tradicional
O Superfaturamento corresponde, segundo o Conceito Tradicional, à emissão de uma fatura, para a cobrança por uma obra (ou serviço) de Engenharia, contendo um preço acima do preço de mercado.

Conceito Moderno
O Conceito Moderno de Superfaturamento foi inicialmente proposto por ALAN LOPES durante as discussões do anteprojeto do PL 6735/2006, da Câmara dos Deputados, em 2006. Esse Conceito foi ampliado por OLIVEIRA JR. et al. (2008). Posteriormente, foi publicado por ALAN LOPES (2011). Em termos gerais, o Conceito Moderno de Superfaturamento, segundo a definição ampliada de OLIVEIRA JR. et al., é caracterizado como:
 Medição de quantidades superiores às efetivamente executadas/fornecidas;
 Deficiência na execução de obras e serviços de engenharia que resulte em diminuição da qualidade, vida útil ou segurança;
 Pagamento de obras, bens e serviços por preços manifestamente superiores à tendência central (mediana ou média) praticada pelo mercado ou incompatíveis com os fixados pelos órgãos oficiais competentes, bem como pela prática de preços unitários acima dessa tendência central (mediana ou média) de mercado;
 Quebra do equilíbrio econômico-financeiro inicial do contrato em desfavor da Administração por meio da alteração de quantitativos (jogo de planilha) e/ou preços (alterações de cláusulas financeiras) durante a execução da obra);
 Alteração de cláusulas financeiras gerando recebimentos contratuais antecipados, distorção do cronograma físico-financeiro, prorrogação injustificada do prazo contratual ou reajustamentos irregulares)."

Conceito Necessário
O Conceito Necessário de Superfaturamento foi inicialmente proposto por MÁRIO LOPES (2014b) e parte de duas ideias básicas. A primeira é a decomposição da diferença entre Preço Contratual e Preço Real da obra em duas parcelas:
 Diferença entre Preço Contratual e Preço de Reprodução (Preço de Mercado): Sobrepreço, originado no Sobrecusto. Corresponde a fraude.
 Diferença entre Preço de Reprodução (Preço de Mercado) e Preço Real: Superpreço, originado no Supercusto.

A primeira parcela (Sobrepreço) está situada acima do Preço de Mercado. A segunda parcela (Superpreço) está situada abaixo do Preço de Mercado. Os conceitos de Superfaturamento anteriores não levam em conta essa segunda parcela.

A segunda ideia básica é a mudança do paradigma de referência de preço para obras públicas. Em vez de utilizar o Preço de Mercado, é necessário utilizar o Preço Real da obra, uma vez que esses dois parâmetros não têm relação direta um com o outro (na prática, o Preço de Mercado tem funcionado apenas como teto para o Preço Real). O Preço de Mercado não deveria ser utilizado como referência porque está baseado em custos de varejo, ou seja, em um mercado onde as empresas de Engenharia não atuam (porque compram no atacado). Nesse caso, é necessário definir o Superfaturamento como a emissão de uma fatura com Preço acima do Preço Real. Desse modo, o excesso no preço ocorre porque uma parcela do Preço (Superpreço) foi composta com um Custo Fictício, e não apenas porque uma outra parcela do Preço (Sobrepreço) esteja acima acima do Preço de Mercado.

MÁRIO LOPES também propõe a divisão do Superfaturamento em quatro tipos:
 Físico: diminuição de quantidade e qualidade (redução do Custo com manutenção do Preço). Corresponde a fraude. Equivale aos dois primeiros tipos do Conceito Moderno;
 Tributário: sonegação fiscal (redução do pagamento de impostos com manutenção do Preço). Corresponde a crime contra a ordem tributária;
 Financeiro: jogos de planilha, ou seja desbalanceamentos cronológico e quantitativo. O desbalanceamento cronológico mantém Custo e Preço, mas antecipa o fluxo de caixa. O desbalanceamento quantitativo aumenta o custo com aumento do Preço (geração artificial de aditivos). Correspondem a fraude. Equivalem ao quarto e quinto tipos do Conceito Moderno;
 Legal: corresponde ao Superpreço, ou seja, corresponde à parcela do Preço da obra (ou serviço) originada a partir do Supercusto. Trata-se de uma cobrança legal, mas imoral.

O terceiro tipo de Superfaturamento, de acordo com o Conceito Moderno, corresponde a Sobrepreço. Porém, em tese, esse tipo não ocorre como pagamento de preço superior ao Preço de Mercado, pois uma proposta de preços com tal característica seria inabilitada durante o processo licitatório. Na prática, esse terceiro tipo recai nos dois tipos anteriores, ou seja, ocorre Sobrepreço (pagamento com preço global maior que o de mercado) porque as quantidades e a qualidade foram minimizadas, mas não porque os preços unitários (ou global) estejam acima do mercado. A situação onde (desrespeitando-se a Lei de Licitações) haja pagamento de Preço acima do Preço de Mercado extrapola o âmbito da Engenharia e passa a ser um problema jurídico.

Conceito de Supercusto
O Supercusto é a diferença entre o Custo de Reprodução e o Custo Real de uma obra.  A um Supercusto, corresponde um Superpreço, ou seja, a diferença entre o preço de reprodução e o preço real de uma obra (ou serviço de Engenharia). O Superpreço é, portanto, um preço originado a partir de um custo fictício, pois o Supercusto corresponde a uma parcela fictícia, irreal, do custo da obra, que não acontece, embora seja cobrada (ao compor-se o preço, que é apresentado na fatura).

Causas do Supercusto
O Supercusto ocorre, basicamente, como consequência da própria legislação brasileira, que, segundo MÁRIO LOPES (2016):
 Adota um controle redundante, referencial e atenuado. É redundante porque tenta controlar o preço que, em teoria, já está limitado pelo regime de empreitada. É referencial porque usa o preço obtido em um mercado de referência (o preço de mercado) como referência, e não o preço do mercado real, ou o preço real da obra. A legislação define o preço de mercado como parâmetro a partir do qual se mede o dano ao erário. O preço de mercado é obtido a partir do custo de mercado, que nada mais é do que o custo obtido a partir do SINAPI. É atenuado porque os critérios de controle estão definidos em termos relativos, tais como "arbitrário", "injusto" e "indevidamente justificado".
 Permite a possibilidade de aditivação, criando um sistema híbrido, que se comporta como regime de empreitada quando o custo diminui, mas que se comporta como regime de obra por administração quando o custo aumenta.
 Elimina a possibilidade de contratação pelo regime de obra por administração, define o pagamento na conclusão do contrato e permite a fixação de preço máximo, o que praticamente direciona a contratação de obras públicas para o regime de empreitada.
 Devido à adoção do regime de empreitada, é necessária a adoção de um sistema de referência para obtenção do custo direto da obra (nesse caso, um custo referencial superestimado), bem como a utilização de um BDI referencial (e, portanto, alienado da realidade da obra) para a estimativa do preço de venda (PV = CD (1+BDI). A legislação estabelece que o sistema de custos de referência seja do varejo (custos unitários do SINAPI).  . Essa diferença de custo entre varejo (do sistema de referência) e atacado (praticado pelas empresas) corresponde, inicialmente, aos Efeitos Cotação e Barganha que, segundo SILVA FILHO et al, representam cerca de 15% do total da diferença entre o Custo de Mercado e o Custo Real da obra. Mesmo assim, esse percentual é bem inferior aos 35% de desconto que a Administração obtém em licitações com efetiva competitividade, conforme demonstrado por LIMA (2009) e PEREIRA (2009), apud SILVA FILHO et al.

Relação entre Supercusto e Superfaturamento
O Supercusto compõe o Superpreço, que é a parcela legal do Superfaturamento e que está situada abaixo do Preço de Mercado, mas acima do Preço Real da obra (ou serviço de Engenharia). O gráfico a seguir, adaptado a partir de MÁRIO LOPES (2014b), ajuda a ilustrar esse relacionamento.

Engenharia civil
Custos

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Ryhall, the township in which Robin Hood's Stone was located.
'Robin Hood's Stone' is listed as a field-name in the English Place-Name Society's volume on Rutland, which refers to unspecified maps dated 1780 and 1801. A search in Rutland tithe awards has not yielded any results. According to an article in a local newspaper (2015) , Robin Hood's Stone "was to be found at Belmesthorpe at one time". Belmesthorpe is in Ryhall township, only about 600 m south of Ryhall itself. However, as the writer cites no source for his rather imprecise statement, let us stick with Ryhall, a slightly less specific but more certain localization. In lieu of the actual coordinates of the stone I use those for Ryhall in the infobox and on the Google map.
Waites, Bryan. 'Was national legend Robin Hood the outlaw of the Forest of Rutland?, Rutland Times, published 21 January 2015.
Places named Robin Hood's Stone.
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The storyline shifted with a phone call from Dad, one afternoon in March.
My dad called three days later. He needed help getting his tax papers ready for the accountant and wanted to take me up on my offer. I couldn't imagine being particularly useful in that regard, but if he was asking for help, I was not inclined to hesitate. My father is a crack businessman — organized, efficient, self-reliant. I couldn't remember him wanting anything from his children other than our company and happiness. But the storyline was changing.
I loaded my laptop with any work I might need, and cashed out some airline points for a flight to Florida three days later. When their car pulled up to meet me at the airport, Mom was behind the wheel. I don't think I'd ever seen her drive when Dad was in the car. As Dad got out of the passenger seat to give me a hug, I could see that just getting out of the car was painful. I hoisted my suitcase into the trunk and got in the back seat.
Memories of my last visit, just three months before, flooded me when I walked into their apartment. In December, Charles and I had flown out from Santa Fe, and our son Ariel and his girlfriend Hanna flew in from Germany, where they've been living. We celebrated Hanukkah and Christmas, winter sunshine and my dad's birthday. Wheeling my bag into the guest bedroom where "the kids" had slept, I could still see Hanna's cute sandals and Ariel's big flip-flops in my mind. But the story was changing.
Dad had lost 10 pounds since January. Standing up, he would lean on a counter or chair for support; sitting, he slumped a bit from the pain. The dining room table had been co-opted as his workstation, since it was less painful than sitting at his desk. He handwrote tax data into lists that I typed into a computer spreadsheet.
We all know we're going to lose our parents someday. It's Chekhov's proverbial gun on the wall in the first act that will go off by the end of the play. It's actually the "better" grief, compared to seeing children go before their parents. My parents have been remarkably healthy and fit for their 80-some years. I loved seeing my friends' jaws drop when they learned my parents' ages, when they came to visit last summer for Ariel's graduation party. I told my brother our dad had been "blessedly spoiled" by good health for so long. But age was gaining ground.
I made Dad's breakfast in the morning — an elaborate ensemble of three or four cereals, sliced fruit, raisins or dried cranberries, which I'd watch him make for years. I made dinner with Mom, watched Dr. Oz with her in the afternoon ("Ozzie!" as she gushingly calls him), and showed her how to search for recipes on her laptop. I accompanied them to doctor appointments and met their financial advisor. I enjoyed the time just to settle into being a daughter, without rushing off to the beach or a museum with the hubby and son.
After dinner every night Mom took two containers of gelato from the freezer and put them on the kitchen counter with three spoons that we'd use for eating straight from the jar. I could still hear her shrieking when as kids one of us put a spoon in the ice cream container after it had been in our mouths. The rules had changed.
For several years I've had a tendency to picture a human lifespan in the typical five-act structure of a Shakespearean drama. By their ages — 84 and 88 — my parents are deep in Act V. They've just been so healthy that that reality hasn't pressed itself upon me. By the usual formula, the Grand Dramatist may have plenty of action in mind before the final exeunt but no major new plotlines, no new characters. Looking at their lives' drama, I see two profoundly kind people: loving parents, good citizens. They donate to PBS, recycle everything, support the arts, volunteer. They've even been able to model a loving 60-year relationship. I don't know how much more you can hope for from parents.
Meanwhile, the other half of my loving relationship was 2000 miles away. I was able to keep up with work by email and phone, but as my trip ended its second week, Charles began emailing photos of the apricot tree blooming outside our front door. Spring was reaching Santa Fe — for all intents and purposes for the first time in two years. Would the hard frosts and winds that blasted out last year's spring nip this one before I got home?
"You should write a story about the apricot tree that didn't bloom long enough," Mom said.
I peered over the edge, hoping I had been exaggerating the distance to the ground, but as I looked down at the terraced slate patio below us, I couldn't imagine jumping without getting hurt. I woke in deep panic, before my turn to jump.
I couldn't make heads or tails of this dream until I told it to Charles the morning after I got home. It was about preparing myself to let go of my parents, he suggested. We know many people who have gone through the process, but each of us has to make that leap ourselves. I know it is a natural, inevitable process, maybe even ultimately beautiful. But I also know I'm not ready to see that curtain fall.
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I have no educational certificate and I never attended any school, but I attended lesson classes. My job experience with some white men gave me the opportunity to learn their language by relationship.
I trained as a tailor under Mr Disu Alade Igbalajobi from Ijaye. I sew both English and Yoruba dresses. My tailoring business boomed because I displayed expertise in the profession. I had four sewing machines and employed four journeymen who worked on shifts. I have been living in Lagos since 1949, the same year I met Prince Femi Kehinde Osinowo, who is still around till today. I am the first Nigerian to have a record label, the late Badejo Okusanya, who owns Badejo Sound Studio, baptised me into the world of music business. He was my boss because he was responsible for my eventual transformation from tailoring business to the music industry.


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His project will follow the story of character Jeremy Ravine who wakes up on a black sanded beach without any memory of who he is or where he is from.


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T he economic development of South Africa is closely tied to the development of a skilled workforce said Gwebinkundla Qonde, the director general for the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) in his address at the National Artisan Development Strategy conference, held in Benoni at the end of last year. "A good artisan training system needs to produce quality artisans who will contribute to the country's economy." Qonde told delegates that DHET "should be able to produce 30 000 qualified artisans each year" – as required by the National Development Plan (NDP). Qonde highlighted that the Artisan Development Strategy Framework "seeks to establish a national baseline for an integrated national artisan development system, which defines critical components of artisan development ranging from the artisan training system itself, funding regimes, quality assurance, and impact measurement issues". He stressed that "skills development needs to occur at every given opportunity … at a college, a university or at a workplace". Experiential skills "Expansion of skills development in the workplace is the fastest and most immediatemechanism that we need to utilise as that is wheremuch of the existing skills base resides in the country and it must be leveraged. This puts a direct responsibility on public and state-owned companies and the private sector employers to open up workplaces for learners to gain experiential skills," said Qonde. "As we grow the number of institutions such as TVET colleges as fast as resources allow, these must be correspondingly linked to workplaces as training spaces in order to expand the learning process of future artisans." Qonde stressed that the success of the proposed Artisan Development Strategy is centred "on the need to get more employers involved".
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Dismissing concerns about the shrinking construction workforce, Mr Newman said there were already people who had left the projects in Gladstone, who had moved on to other gas and LNG projects around Australia.
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Mr Newman said he was looking forward to his upcoming visit to Houston, where he would spruik the great LNG story of Queensland and tell them "we are open for business".
Santos chief executive David Knox said while the investment and economic contribution of Australia's gas industry was important, "the real value will be measured by our ability to operate responsibly".
"Santos GLNG has provided $5.1 billion worth of work to Queensland businesses and over the coming decades will contribute billions of dollars in royalty payments to the people of Queensland," he said.
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EARLIER: QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman has joined Santos CEO David Knox on a visit to Curtis Island to mark the 75% completion milestone at the GLNG project.
The Santos GLNG project is on track for the first shipment of LNG to sail out of Gladstone Harbour next year.
With the 6000-strong workforce delivering about 4.5 million work hours so far this year, Santos GLNG has already achieved a number of construction milestones in 2014, including the breakthrough of the pipeline tunnel underneath Gladstone Harbour and the completion of the final modules which will form the first LNG processing train.
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Want to avoid phishing schemes? Security keys, cards or other means of two-factor authentication are very important, but just as important is letting users know they should NOT respond to suspicious emails (it's unlikely an African king really wants to share his money with you to protect it from overthrowers of his government).
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The objective of this paper is to develop a concept of exceptionality as a useful contrast to the concept of everyday life and the domestication of media artefacts as they have been developed in the literature. First, I demonstrate that media objects that carry symbolic communication are not fixed in the time and space of everyday life. Instead, the articulation of forms of symbolic communication such as painting and television are continually negotiated by the individuals and social groups that use these objects. In the second part of the paper, I consider how artists employ the concept of exceptionality as a strategy for contrasting media objects from the rhythms of everyday life. The analysis of several examples of artworks suggests that by making use of exceptionality, media artists are able to interrupt commonplace activities including the processes of domestication and convert them into useful resources.


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FX Weekly Preview: Economic Data in the Holiday-Shortened Week
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The capital markets will turn increasingly quiet in the week ahead as the Christmas holiday thins participation. If this is the season of goodwill, investors are lapping it up. Global equity markets are finishing a strong year on a high note. Record highs were recorded in the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Stoxx 600. The MSCI Emerging Markets equity index is at its best level since August 2018. Risk assets are doing well, while interest rates have backed up. The CRB Index of commodities is at the year's highs.
It is as if investors once again sense a synchronized recovery. There may be doubts over the magnitude of Chinese purchases of US goods over the next couple of years, but agreement signals an extension of the broad tariff truce, and this is seen as an unalloyed good. China's economic data suggests some stabilization of the world's second-largest economy. After cutting rates three times this year, Fed officials across the hawk-dove spectrum say the US economy is in a "good place,"
Recent data from East Asia suggests the trade implosion may be ending, and Micon's guidance underpinning ideas the headwinds in the semiconductor industry may be abating. Japan's economy is contracting in Q4, as the economy reels from the sales tax increase and the typhoon, but is expected to return to growth early in the New Year. The PMI readings in Europe suggest the worst may be passed, even if meaningful traction is still elusive.
The UK election lifts some Brexit uncertainties, but the terms of the new relationship with the EU is fraught with risks. Prime Minister Johnson is maneuvering to avoid a repeat of the Brexit delays, which means that if an agreement is not struck by the end of next year (and such negotiations usually take years to complete), the UK will leave with only the WTO standards governing this significant relationship. This is understood to be potentially significantly disruptive. The UK joins Japan and Canada among the G7 to provide fiscal stimulus in 2020.
The economic calendar is light next week, and in any event, ought not to challenge the holiday mood. The US reports the Chicago Fed's National Activity Index. It has been in negative territory in all but two of the first ten months of the year. In 2018, it fell in three months. This year's average reading is -0.29, while in the Jan-Oct period in 2018, it averaged 0.19. This is not a widely followed report, but like the Leading Economic Indicator, which has not risen in since July, offers some worrying signs about the strength of the US economy.
While the headline durable goods orders for November ought to have improved from the 0.5% reading in October, the details may be poorer. Most of the orders appear to be coming from the auto sector, and when transportation is eliminated, a small gain is likely. Shipments are expected to have fallen by after the 0.8% gain in October than snapped a three-month decline. Existing home sales set the cyclical high in September and slipped (by 0.7%) in October and may have slipped a touch again in November, according to the Bloomberg survey.
Rounding out next week's US data includes the Richmond Fed's manufacturing survey and the weekly jobless claims. Three other Fed surveys for December have been reported. The Philadelphia and Kansas Fed survey were sequentially weaker and poorer than expected. The Empire State survey tick up (3.5 from 2.9) but missed the median forecast (Bloomberg survey) of 4.0. Weekly jobless claims spiked to year's high (252k) in the week ending December 6 and pulled back (234k) in the week ending December 13. The four-week moving average before the jump was a little below 220k.
The divergence between the Atlanta and New York Fed's GDP trackers narrowed a bit last week as the former edged up to 2.1% (from 2.0%) while the latter nearly doubled to 1.3%. The implied yield of the December 2020 fed funds futures contract rose to 1.395% last week from 1.32% the previous week. It is the highest since August 1. The current effective average is 1.55%. This means that about a 60% chance of a cut next year has been discounted.
Economic Events: United States, Week December 23
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Japan's sales tax increase brought forward economic activity and especially consumption. This was evident in the depressing October reports. However, in the holiday-shortened week ahead, Tokyo will likely report a bounce back in retail sales in November. After a 14.2% drop in October retail sales, the median forecast in the Bloomberg survey calls for a 5% rise. However, industrial production, which slumped 4.5% in October, probably continued to contract in November. The median forecast looks for a 1.1% decline. It would be the third contraction in four months.
Canada and Sweden have parallel stories. Inflation is firm in both countries, and this appears to be the driver of monetary policy considerations, while the real economies disappoint. Sweden's Riksbank became the first central bank to have introduced negative rates to bring them back zero. Sort of. The refi rate is at zero, but the repo rate and deposit rate remain in negative territory (-25 bp and -35 bp, respectively). The economy has disappointed. The composite PMI has not been above the 50 boom/bust level since August. The three-month average of house prices in November was at its lowest level of the year. Industrial orders fell for the fifth consecutive month in October. Unemployment is volatile in Sweden, but this year's average through November is about 6.8%, nearly 0.5% above the year-ago period.
Many observers see the Riksbank move as indicative of some general official recognition that negative interest rates are not working. However, this seems to be an exaggeration. At her first press conference as ECB President Lagarde pushed back against such accusations and defended negative rates. The Swiss National Bank also shows no signs that it has become convinced that negative rates are counter-productive. Nor does the BOJ seem ready to throw in the towel on negative interest rates.
Canada reported the highest median core CPI (2.4%) in a decade last week, and that helped lift the two-year yield to nine-month highs (~1.75%) and seemed to reinforce the Bank of Canada's decidedly neutral policy. Yet real sector data disappointed. The 38.4k full-time positions lost in November was the largest decline of the year. The median forecast in the Bloomberg survey called for a 10k increase. It was the first back-to-back loss of full-time jobs since March-April 2017. The latest disappointment was last week's report that showed retail sales collapsed 1.2% in October, the largest decline since November 2017. Excluding autos, Canadian retail sales fell by 0.5%, the third consecutive monthly decline. It has not risen since June.
Canada will report October's monthly GDP on December 23. The economy expanded at a monthly average of 0.1% and a 1.3% annualized pace in Q3. That compares with a monthly average of 0.3% in Q2 and an annualized pace of 3.5%. The median forecast expects that the economy stagnated in October. The risk appears to be on the downside.
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How 'Failing Grayling' earned his nickname
The probation service, which is to be renationalised after Chris Grayling's decision to privatise the system, ended up costing the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds.
But this is far from the first controversy in the Transport Secretary's ministerial career.
– Brexit ferries
Ferry contracts were ultimately scrapped (Gareth Fuller/PA)
Mr Grayling sparked outrage when it emerged he had awarded a £13.8 million contract to Seaborne Freight – a company with no ships – to mitigate the potential consequences of a no-deal Brexit.
A total of £100 million in contracts was awarded to three companies – Brittany Ferries, DFDS and Seaborne – but were ultimately scrapped at an estimated cost of £56.6 million after Brexit was delayed.
The Department for Transport's woes did not end there – it agreed an out-of-court settlement of £33 million with Eurotunnel, which claimed the rushed contracts had been handed out in a "secretive" way and it should have been approached.
– Train timetables
Hundreds of trains were cancelled after timetable changes (Lynne Cameron/PA)
Mr Grayling was criticised for the weeks of chaos following changes to train timetables in May 2018.
The number of trains cancelled each day by Govia Thameslink Railway and Northern reached up to 470 and 310 respectively.
An investigation into the fiasco by the Office of Rail and Road found "nobody took charge".
– Virgin East Coast bailout
The Virgin Trains contract on the east coast mainline was brought to an end five years early (Virgin Trains/PA)
The DFT was forced to bring the east coast mainline back under public control in May last year after a deal with Virgin Trains East Coast ended five years early.
Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald said Mr Grayling had "gifted" Stagecoach and Virgin, which took over in 2015, a "£2 billion bailout".
– Southern Rail
Southern passengers have been hit by a long-running dispute (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
The long-running dispute between Southern and unions over driver-only trains has led to years of disruption and delays for passengers due to repeated strikes.
The National Audit Office found although action by unions was a "major contributor" to delays and cancellations, the DfT made decisions that "negatively impacted on passengers".
– Book ban for prisoners
Inmates in the library at Wandsworth Prison in London (PA)
Another controversy was Mr Grayling's decision to ban prisoners being sent books by friends and family.
Literacy campaigners and prison reform groups branded the plan "cruel" and said it put prisoners at greater risk of self-harm and suicide.
It was eventually ruled unlawful by the High Court.
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More than 50 magistrates resigned in disgust after the Ministry of Justice – under Mr Grayling's tenure – introduced mandatory fees ranging from £150 to £1,200 for defendants in a bid to help pay for the court service.
It is estimated thousands of innocent people may have pleaded guilty in a bid to minimise costs – the fees were scrapped within six months.
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The Government was forced to refund £27 million after Unison's campaign (Andrew Matthews/PA)
Fees of up to £1,200 for employees to take bosses to tribunal for discrimination were introduced by Mr Grayling as justice secretary in 2013 in a cost-saving measure.
They were scrapped in 2017 after the Supreme Court sided with trade union Unison that the fees unfairly discriminated against women and other groups of workers, forcing the Government to refund £27 million to thousands of people hit with the charge.
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Domestic violence victims were forced to face their abusers in court without an advocate after cuts to legal aid (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
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The Court of Appeal ruled the restrictions were unlawful in 2017.
Other controversial moments include an attempt to cuts legal aid to prisoners and a £6 million contract to train prison staff in Saudi Arabia despite its appalling human rights risk and use of capital punishment.
He was also criticised for awarding a contract to Carillion to run prison maintenance when it was clear the firm was going bust.
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A paper bag will soon cost a nickel in Albany County
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Chairman of the Albany County Legislature Andrew Joyce at a meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 12 (Jim Franco/Spotlight News)
ALBANY — By March 2020, New York state retailers who hand out plastic bags will get fined. And in Albany County, a paper bag will cost you a nickel as per the "Reusable Shopping Bag Incentive Act" approved by the Legislature by a vote of 22-14 on Tuesday, Nov. 12.
Albany County is one of many municipalities across the state that opted to force retailers to charge a nickel per paper bag at the register. According to state law, 40 percent, or 2 cents, will go to Albany County to purchase reusable bags for lower income people and for programs to educate and promote the benefits of reusable bags. Sixty percent, or 3 cents, will go to the state's Environmental Protection Fund.
The fee does not apply to any customer using the supplemental nutrition assistance program or special nutrition program for women, infants and children.
"The goal of charging the nickel is an incentive to get people to bring their own, reusable bags to retail stores to carry out their merchandise," said Legislator Joanne Cunningham, D-Delmar, a sponsor of the local law. "A fee on paper bags will help to incentivize consumers to bring their own reusable bags. This is the goal we are aiming for — reduce plastic use and reuse our bags when we shop."
Assemblywoman Pat Fahy speaks during the meeting of the Albany County Legislature on Tuesday, Nov. 12 (Jim Franco/Spotlight News)
Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, D-Albany, who spoke in favor of implementing the fee at the public comment period, said she would work to modify how the fee money is distributed with ideally some going to the retailer.
Legislator Mark Grimm, R-Guilderland, said the fact 60 percent of the fee is being kicked up to the state is why he voted against the measure.
"The bag fee is one more way the state has of reaching in your pocket," he said. "Sixty percent is going back to the state even though it is produced by county taxpayers."
The bill now heads to the desk of County Executive Dan McCoy to either veto it or sign it into law.
According to the governor's office, New Yorkers use an estimated 23 billion plastic bags a year, and nationwide studies show that about 50 percent of single-use plastic bags end up as litter. In addition to preventing plastic bag litter in the environment, the ban's aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with plastic bag production and disposal, from the petroleum used to produce the bags to emissions from the transportation of bags to landfills.
"You see plastic bags hanging in trees, blowing down the streets, in landfills and in our waterways, and there is no doubt they are doing tremendous damage," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement when he signed the bill banning plastic bags on Earth Day earlier this year.
On March 1, 2020, New York will join Hawaii and California in banning the use of single-use plastic bags.
A yet to be specified Albany County department will oversee implementation of the fee program and enforce the new law, which will apply to any retailer required to collect sales tax on the merchandise it sells.
Some bags are exempt under the law, so plastic bags may still be distributed to consumers in a certain circumstances such as a bag used by a pharmacy to carry prescription drugs, a grocery store to carry uncooked meet and fish and produce bags for bulk items such as fruits and vegetables, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
A standing room only crowd at a meeting of the Albany County Legislature on Tuesday, Nov. 12 (Jim Franco/Spotlight News)
In addition to state Environmental Conservation Law penalties, retailers in Albany County will receive a written warning for a first violation of the law. The second violation will earn a $100 fine, the third violation equals a $250 fine and a fourth violation will cost the retailer $500. For each subsequent violation, the fine will be $100 a day until compliance is achieved.
Stores are prohibited from passing along any fines to employees, according to the Albany County law.
Stores are not required to offer paper bags, which are more expensive, bulkier and not as easy to handle as plastic bags. The storage of paper bags is more of an issue than plastic too because of their size and the fact they attract vermin. Since the retailer does not get any of the nickel fee, many stores may simply not offer any type of bag. Retailers could also opt to only sell reusable bags at checkout.
A reusable bag, according to the DEC is any bag "made of cloth or other machine washable fabric that has handles or a durable bag with handles that is specifically designed and manufactured for multiple reuse."
A "durable bag" has a minimum of 125 uses, with each use the "equivalent to carrying a minimum of 22 pounds over a distance of 175 feet, according to the DEC. It must have a capacity of at least 15 liters and a minimum fabric weight of 80 Grams per Square Meter, which is a measurement of polypropylene density. The higher the GSM the more durable the bag. A reusable bag cannot be made of "film plastic, bioplastic, biodegradable materials, compostable plastic, plant-based materials or decomposable materials," according to the DEC.
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