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Grand Chess Tour 2019 gains four new countries
1/25/2019 – The Grand Chess Tour is expanding in 2019 to eight tournaments. The Your Next Move Blitz and Rapid in Leuven is replaced by tournaments in India, Ivory Coast and Romania and a new classical tournament is planned for Croatia. There will be twelve full GCT participants and a $1.75 Million Prize Fund. | Pictured: London organiser Malcolm Pein hands the GCT 2018 trophy to Hikaru Nakamura | Photo: Grand Chess Tour (Lennart Ootes)
Paris returns and Bucharest joins
At the close of the London Chess Classic in December, The Grand Chess Tour (GCT) announced plans to expand the tour to at least "six regular-season events" culminating in final matches — the "GCT Finals" in London, as in 2018.
The Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Rapid and Blitz Invitational, held for the first time last year, was seen as a test run for a Grand Chess Tour event and the Tata Steel Chess India brought elite players to Kolkata, India for the first time last Autumn. Both cities will host GCT rapid and blitz events in 2019. An additional classical tournament in Croatia was mentioned but without details. GCT advisor Garry Kasparov has a second home in Croatia, which granted him citizenship in 2014. The Sinquefield Cup remains the other classical tournament.
The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament, which was previously slated to be replaced by the new rapid and blitz events in Africa and Asia, remains on the schedule. The GCT ultimately decided it was better to keep the extra tournament so as to be able to invite a total of fourteen wildcard players across the five rapid and blitz events. Four of the five rapid and blitz tournaments will have seven full tour participants and three wildcards. The remaining tournament will include eight full tour players and two wildcards. Evidently, the GCT will not return to Leuven, Belgium this year, however, they retain the option to rejoin the tour in 2020 if feasible.
Merchandise designed with a Belgian flag could now become collector's items
| Photo: Grand Chess Tour Instagram
The press release and subsequent rumours made clear that additional events were under consideration already for 2019.
Today we learn that additional rapid and blitz tournaments will be held in Paris, France and Bucharest, Romania. We also have the complete list of invited players and the schedule for the tour.
It's worth noting that the players' list is preliminary; it remains to be seen whether all twelve invited players will sign up to play five tournaments in an increasingly crowded calendar. The finalists from London 2018 (pictured) are likely to return.
Of course, the money will be hard to beat. For instance, the GCT classical tournaments will each carry a prize fund of USD $325,000, divided between the twelve players. By contrast, the recently announced Grand Prix series is expected to have a prize fund for each event less than half as much (EUR €130,000) and divided between 16 players.
Saint Louis, MO, January 24, 2019 – The fifth edition of the Grand Chess Tour (GCT) will see the tour expand to eight tournaments and increase the number of full tour participants to twelve. The tour will also welcome fourteen event level wildcards in 2019. Tour participants will fight for a record prize fund of $1.75 million as the GCT expands its reach to four continents to include tournaments in Africa, Asia, Europe and America. The prize money on offer for the classical tournaments has been increased to $325,000 per event ($90,000 for 1st place and $60,000 for 2nd) while the prize fund for the GCT Finals in London will also be raised to $350,000 ($150,000 for 1st place and $100,000 for 2nd).
The new tournaments will be in Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire), Kolkata (India), Bucharest (Romania) and Zagreb (Croatia). Major sponsors already confirmed for the 2019 season include Vivendi SA, Colliers International, Tata Steel India, St Louis Chess Club and Superbet Group. Gameplan Sports have been appointed as the official sponsorship and branding partner of the tour.
Croatia GCT and the Sinquefield Cup will be classical tournaments with five rapid and blitz tournaments to be held in Abidjan, Paris, St Louis, Bucharest and Kolkata. The GCT Finals will once again be held in London as part of the 2019 London Chess Classic.
The twelve full tour participants will play in both classical events as well as in three of the five rapid and blitz tournaments. The classical events will be expanded to eleven-rounds while the rapid and blitz events will all use the GCT's traditional ten player formats.
The full schedule for the 2019 regular season (including arrival and departure days) is as follows:
Cote d'Ivoire Rapid & Blitz, May 6 - 13, 2019, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia GCT (Classical), June 24 - July 9, 2019, Zagreb, Croatia
Paris Rapid & Blitz, July 26 - August 2, 2019, Paris, France
St Louis Rapid & Blitz, August 8 - 15, 2019, St. Louis, Missouri USA
Sinquefield Cup (Classical), August 15 - 30, 2019, St. Louis, Missouri USA
Superbet Rapid & Blitz, November 4 - 11, 2019, Bucharest, Romania
Tata Steel India Rapid & Blitz, November 20 - 27, 2019, Kolkata, India
London Chess Classic (GCT Finals), November 30 - December 10, 2019, London UK
Full Tour Participants
The twelve players listed below have been invited to participate as full tour participants of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour. All ratings listed are from the respective ratings lists as at 1 January 2019.
# Name FED URS (Rank) FIDE (Rank) Selection Method
1 Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2859 (1) 2835 (1) URS #1
2 Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2806 (2) 2749 (16) Winner 2018 GCT
3 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2796 (3) 2780 (6) Runner-Up 2018 GCT
4 Caruana, Fabiano USA 2794 (4) 2828 (2) 3rd Place 2018 GCT
5 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 2792 (5) 2817 (3) URS #2
6 Ding, Liren CHN 2788 (6) 2813 (4) URS #3
7 Aronian, Levon ARM 2782 (7) 2783 (5) URS #4
8 So, Wesley USA 2779 (8) 2765 (11) FIDE Ave Rating #3
9 Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 2778 (9) 2763 (13) GCT Nominee
10 Kramnik, Vladimir RUS 2768 (13) 2777 (7) FIDE Ave Rating #1
11 Giri, Anish NED 2765 (14) 2783 (5) FIDE Ave Rating #2
12 Anand, Viswanathan IND 2761 (16) 2773 (8) FIDE Ave Rating #4
GM Sergey Karjakin and GM Yu Yangyi have been selected as the first and second alternates respectively and will be offered full tour contracts if any of the twelve players above decline their invitations.
Full press release with regulations (PDF)
Grand Chess Tour™
The Grand Chess Tour is a circuit of international events, each demonstrating the highest level of organization for the world's best players. The Tour was created in partnership between the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (Sinquefield Cup) and Chess Promotions, Ltd. (London Chess Classic). The legendary Garry Kasparov, one of the world's greatest ambassadors for chess, inspired the Grand Chess Tour and helped solidify the partnership between the organizers. — grandchesstour.org
URS™
The Universal Rating System (URS™), is a revolutionary new sport's rating system designed to assess the relative strength of participants across a wide variety of competitor vs competitor sports or games. The URS™ was developed as the result of a collaborative research project funded by the Grand Chess Tour, the Kasparov Chess Foundation and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. The system is the product of detailed research conducted over more than two years by some of the world's leading experts in methods of rating chess players. — universalrating.com
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Set up in 1998, Gameplan Sports Pvt. Ltd. is one of India's foremost corporate branding agencies, working primarily in the fields of sports and literature. The company presents innovative and cost-effective ideas that give sponsors maximum exposure. Key activities include marketing and management of international and domestic sponsorship rights in India; marketing and management of Indian and international cricket tournaments, player endorsements, syndicating content in print and electronic media, in-stadia advertising, 3-D signs, event management, event promotions, hospitality and memorabilia. – http://gameplan.co.in/


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PM's call for building toilets draws mild response from corporate sector
Contrary to expectations, India's corporate sector is not too excited about the Prime Minister's call for utilising Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds to build toilets in government schools, official data suggests. Two months since the appeal was made, companies have collectively signed up to build only 16,009 toilets. This is against the requirement of 2,44,934 government schools that are functioning without toilets.
Data collected by the Union Human Resource Development ministry indicates that 35 corporates and public sector undertakings (PSUs) have pledged support for building toilets in schools as part of the Clean School Campaign. In his Independence Day speech, Narendra Modi set August 15, 2015, as the deadline for providing toilets in all government schools across the country.
He also asked corporates to use their CSR funds for the purpose. As per latest data, PSUs and corporates have pledged to pick up the tabs for building 43,509 toilets. Of these, corporates account for only 16,009 toilets.
Of the 2,44,934 government schools across the country which did not have toilets at the time Modi set the deadline, 1,01,768 schools did not have separate toilets for girls. A majority of the schools without toilets are located in five States: West Bengal, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh.
Among the PSUs which have signed up are the Airports Authority of India, the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, National Aluminium Company Limited, and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation.
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import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.defaultIfEmpty;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.BooleanUtils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import com.adaptris.annotation.AdvancedConfig;
import com.adaptris.annotation.InputFieldDefault;
import com.adaptris.core.util.Args;
import com.adaptris.util.GuidGenerator;

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Catch a selection of artworks created by pairs of youth-senior dyads who share their personal stories of love, courage and resilience through artistic expressions.
This showcase is part of Project ARTISAN (Aspiration and Resilience Through Intergenerational Storytelling and Art-based Narratives) developed by Nanyang Technological University Singapore, with the National Arts Council and the National Museum of Singapore.
Embark on a bouncy adventure with interactive inflatable playgrounds that are inspired by iconic mosaic playgrounds of yesteryear, or inflatable bouncy castles! You can also go on an "animal hunt" with our animal springers for more bouncy fun.
The Families for Life Bouncy Castles is supported by Families for Life.
Registration starts at 10.30am, and the competition starts at 11am. The prize presentation ceremony will be held from 12.30pm to 1.30pm at the National Museum's Gallery Theatre, Basement Level.
Unleash your creativity in this colouring competition that features a Singapore icon. Express your thoughts on what makes Singapore, what your dreams for Singapore are or what makes Singapore home.
This competition is open to the first 150 pairs of parent/ grandparent and child/ grandchild. A colouring pack (with retail value of $18) is available with a minimum donation of $5. Limited to the first 200 participants.
The programme and prizes are supported by STAEDTLER.
Record your wishes for Singapore with your friends and families in this video booth, and send yourself a copy of this memorable event!
What's your birthday wish for Singapore? Personalise a special pop-up birthday card and pen your wish for Singapore!
Celebrate Singapore's identity as a foodie paradise – try your hand at creating mini paper-mache of local desserts such as potong ice cream, ice-cream wafer sandwich and ice kachang. Bring home your own glass magnet creation, wearable headgear or postcard inspired by your favourite Singapore icon!
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Watch the process of 3D printing with experts on-site to explain the steps to create your own 3D model, which can be redeemed with a completed scavenger hunt or reflection card.
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Learn how we transform everyday objects and "junk" into a playground!
Be entertained by Dunman High School and spend an exciting afternoon with Singapore's dynamic duo Jack & Rai, and sing along as they perform on the special red Steinway piano!
In 2018, students from Haig Girls' School explored what playgrounds mean to them through the creation of advertisement campaigns on playground safety, visiting and learning from NMS's exhibition, The More We Get Together: Singapore's Playgrounds 1930 – 2030, and visiting an inclusive playground with children with special needs. Their experiences have culminated in an inclusive publication that they hope will encourage readers to think about what play means to every child, everywhere. Come listen to them as they share their writing, advertising campaigns and experiences!
A special treat for the little ones – come and listen to Esther as she shares the story of Timmy and Tammy at the Dragon Playground, which features Singapore's dragon playground – the guardian of friendships!
Did you know that between 1975 and 1983, the National Day Parade was brought to multiple heartlands each year? This National Day, come listen to Grandma Georgina share her memories of past National Days, and be inspired to ask your own grandparents about their memories. Featuring engaging dramatisation and interactive hands-on activities, these storytelling sessions are a wonderful introduction to Singapore's history and heritage, as told through our grandmas' first-hand experiences!
This programme is supported by ACE Seniors.
This giveaway is supported by Families for Life.
Enjoy delicious grub from food trucks owned by our very own Singaporeans. From light bites for snack lovers to wholesome meals to satisfy the bigger appetites, we've got something for everyone!
Please note that food and drinks (including bottled water) are not permitted in the galleries. The Families for Life Mobile Café and games are supported by Families for Life.


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Carla gains Graduate Nurse award and dream role - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Carla gains Graduate Nurse award and dream role
A former medical practice manager who graduated last April with a USC Bachelor of Nursing Science has been recognised for her outstanding performance in her first year on-the-job with the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (SCHHS).
Caloundra's Carla Dreyer, 41, didn't realise her employer was presenting a Graduate Nurse of the Year award until she was called up recently to receive it.
"I feel honoured to be chosen," she said. "I worked hard during my first year as a graduate nurse, doing my best to learn as much as I could.
"After a placement at Nambour General Hospital during my degree, I worked at the nearby Glenbrook Residential Aged Care Facility as a graduate.
"Glenbrook provides a transitional rehabilitation program for the elderly, to help them either transition safely back home or gain an aged care placement. This role gave me the opportunity to extend my nursing skills and enhance my team leadership skills."
Carla is also now celebrating her appointment to the emergency department at Nambour General Hospital with a rotation to Sunshine Coast University Hospital at Birtinya later this year.
"I've reached my goal of becoming an emergency nurse and I'm loving it. My role is to provide initial, primary and secondary assessment and care for patients and I'm learning alongside an amazing team of health professionals.
"Communication is a big part of the job, and it's important to develop therapeutic relationships with patients and their families."
Carla, a married mother of three current university students, said the support services and study flexibility offered at USC had helped her achieve her degree.
"I grew up in the little country town of Jerilderie, NSW, and left school in grade 10 to work on our family farm – but I always wanted to be a nurse," she said.
"It was really competitive gaining a graduate position and I used the USC resume service and was shortlisted with Queensland Health. I was so nervous when I sat the medication calculation exam at the Sunshine Coast Health Institute.
"Now I would love to further develop my emergency medicine nursing."
SCHHS Nurse Educator, Graduate Program, Claire Hallinan said Carla was nominated by senior nursing staff to receive the Graduate of the Year award from a cohort of 84 graduate registered nurses and midwives from universities across Queensland.
"The criteria for this nomination was that the graduate nurse demonstrated the ability to consistently excel in the role both clinically and professionally, demonstrate the ability to work and support their team, and achieve the graduate program expectations," Ms Hallinan said.
"Carla's hard work and passion for the job made her a standout nomination for the award."
USC Senior Lecturer in Nursing Dr Marc Broadbent said Carla showed academic strength in her studies and applied herself well on clinical placement.
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Queensland's first large-scale study of all sudden infant deaths to date has identified key factors contributing to the state's persistently high annual death rate of babies.
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With an ATAR of 98.70 and diverse interests, Caloundra school-leaver Teagan Osborn had plenty of options open for 2021.
USC to welcome 5,500 new students during O Week
Hundreds of new USC students from across Australia brought colour and excitement to the Sunshine Coast campus today for the first day of Orientation.


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    this.email = email;
}

public String getPassword() {
    return password;
}

public void setPassword(String password) {
    this.password = password;
}

public String getMessage() {
    return message;
}

public void setMessage(String message) {
    this.message = message;
}
public void login()
{
 //logic
}

I want to have login() method in one class and setters and getters in another class. And also how to Use .xhtml for both files. please help me

A:
how to seperate getters and setters from managed bean in JSF?

Just introduce another managed bean whose purpose it is to hold your data.
@Named
@ViewScoped
public class LoginModel implements Serializable {
    private String userName;
    private String password;

    //Getters and setters ...
}

@Named
@ViewScoped
public class LoginController implements Serializable {

    @Inject
    private LoginModel loginData;

    public String logIn(){
        if(isLoginDataValid(loginData)){
            return "index.xhtml";
        }
    }
}

Please make sure you use javax.faces.view.ViewScoped as the annotation. Do not use javax.faces.bean.ViewScoped.
Using part of jsf might look like.
<h:form>

            Username:

                <h:inputText value="#{loginModel.userName}"/>

            Password:

                <h:inputText value="#{loginModel.password}"/>

                <h:commandButton value="Login" action="#{loginController.logIn}"/>

</h:form>

A: I am not aware of a solution for separating the getters and setters into a different class. For what I think you would just run in circles getting effectly the same semantic result as having the getters and setters on the same bean as the rest of your stuff.
Now, for your business logic, you could always use different classes to manage that logic. Nothing is really stopping your from doing that, as long as you reference them through your bean methods, as this bean is your gate to your JSF page.

A: First of all, read about three-tier architecture. You should always separate your business logic from presentation tier. In your case presentation tier includes jsf pages and managed beans as controllers. I propose the following template for your application:

*

*Create service class LoginService and annotate it @Stateless:
@Stateless
public class LoginService {
    public void login() {
        //your logic here
    }
}

*Inject this EJB to your managed bean:
@EJB private LoginService loginService;

//getters and setters are omitted
public void login() {
    loginService.login();
}

The template above will separate your business logic from managed bean and hold it frontend-independent (for example, if you decide to add RESTful services to your application, you can use EJB injection by the same way). And don't remove getters and setters from your managed bean. Managed bean needs to be a POJO with getters and setters for every field.

A: If it is just about verbosity, you could try the lombok framework and annotate your fields so getters and setters are not needed
Disclaimer: I did not use it myself

A: Keep the data in DTO class and create object and setters getters in Bean class. and access the properties of DTO class through Bean class in xhtml.
Bean class
@SessionScoped
@ManagedBean(name = "loginBean")
public class LoginBean implements Serializable {

LoginDTO loginDTO = new LoginDTO();

public String logIn() {
   //here the logic
}

public LoginDTO getLoginDTO() {
    return loginDTO;
}

public void setLoginDTO(LoginDTO loginData) {
    this.loginDTO = loginData;
}

}
DTO class
public class LoginDTO {
private String email;
private String password;
private String message;
private String localeCode;

public String getEmail() {
    return email;
}

public void setEmail(String email) {
    this.email = email;
}

public String getPassword() {
    return password;
}

public void setPassword(String password) {
    this.password = password;
}

public String getMessage() {
    return message;
}

public void setMessage(String message) {
    this.message = message;
}

}

and access data in xhtml like  value="#{loginBean.loginDTO.email}"

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It should almost be forbidden to come up with a recipe like this. Because it's almost as easy as it's to scratch your hair. So this is not the great rocket science. And you don't have to roll the whole arsenal out of different remedies to make these Turkish flatbreads. Flour, water, salt, yeast and then raise a little roll, roll, roll and then fry them on a pan. And wupti, you have the most beautiful freshly made flatbreads, that you can imagine. And believe me … when you've tried to make these, you do not want to go to the supermarked and pay 1,5 eur for a bag of 4 pieces of half-dried bread baked a week ago.
Or … maybe YOU want to. But if you have children, I can promise you, that they will almost demand, or at least ask, why you don't make them yourselves. And as a bonus, these are so easy to make, that your kids can make them alone, while you're doing something else. (HA, who says child labor isn't good sometimes? Just a joke of course).
My lovely mother in law has also made these so many times. And that's one of the first things I can remember, when I started coming in the family. Freshly baked flatbread and delicious different food. So yes, it's no wonder, that I have fallen in love with Turkish cuisine. It was so much different from everything I had ever tasted before.
I remember that my mother-in-law stood and fried her bread on the frying pan. But if there were left overs the next day, the breads only needed a little water and just a turn on the hob (!!) or the stove again and wupti, there you have the most delicious steaming hot bread. A bit crazy and exotic in my world (because my mother have never done something like that).
These flatbread can be used for several things. I really like them together with meze or a good pot because I love to sit and soak the juice or the filling up with bread. And then I really like that these breads are not real bread. Understood that it is not a heavy bread, that fills the stomach like the otherwise lovely Pide ekmek. Sometimes it just has to be light.
And, of course, the breads can be used as wrap around something – or dürüm as you would say in Turkish (that means roll and I'm sure you know them). The most obvious is around kebab or köfte with a little salad, a little onions and parsley and maybe a little dressing or whatever you just find. Everything is good in the company of these flatbread.
However, I would highly recommend you only to make the ones, that you need for your dinner. They soon become a bit boring the following day, but as mentioned, they can be heated by first wetting them with a little water and then on the pan. When frying them, it's important, that it's on a dry pan. Otherwise, you will have a failed attempt on Indian Naan bread instead, if you use grease on the pan.
I remember that my mother-in-law often made enough flatbread, so she could put some in the freezer. So her boys could just pick them up and heat them, when they got home from school and work. I have not tried it, but I'm sure it would also be a hit at home. And then it's nice and easy.
1: dissolve the yeast in the water and knead the other things in (not all the flour at once) - the dough must be slightly moist and smooth, so that it is easy to work with.


I am a professional ballet dancer and have been on a diet my whole life. When I started as a free-lance dancer, it was more difficult to keep up with up with the diets that I was on. My main motivation to make a change was being an example for my students and husband. I am so happy to feel younger and more energetic. In the first week the protocol feels difficult, but after you see the change that happens, it gives you more inspiration to keep going. Specifically, when you feel full of energy and lose weight. I have never experienced that before and it made me feel happy.
"I love how self confident I have become, and I love how pretty I look in a dress. If I am happy I can make a lot of people happy. "
I wish I found this program a long time ago!! It's never too late! I just wish that I had learned about this years ago.
Now that I've lost the weight, I enjoy being happy about my body and inspiring others to see how they can really change their life.


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An unidentified man (at left in foreground) stands on the rocks along the shore of the private island residence of former heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney, as White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff prepare for President John F. Kennedy's trip to Maine. Johns Island, Johns Bay, Maine. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]
View of the rocks along the shore of the private island residence of former heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney, as White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff prepare for President John F. Kennedy's trip to Maine. Johns Island, Johns Bay, Maine. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]
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A jeep drives along the beach on the grounds of the private island residence of former heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney, as White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff prepare for President John F. Kennedy's trip to Maine. Johns Island, Johns Bay, Maine.
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View of the grounds of the private island residence of former heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney, as White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff set up communications equipment for President John F. Kennedy's trip to Maine. Johns Island, Johns Bay, Maine.
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Reliance buys majority stake in furniture retailer Urban Ladder
New Delhi, Delhi, India Published: Nov 15, 2020, 11:41 AM(IST)
A woman walks past a poster of Reliance Industries installed outside the venue of the company's annual general meeting in Mumbai. Photograph:( Reuters )
Reliance Retail Ventures Limited, a unit of Reliance Industries, has an option of buying the remaining stake, the company said, adding that it intends to invest a further 750 million rupees by December 2023.
Reliance Industries Ltd said on Sunday it has bought a 96% stake in online furniture retailer Urban Ladder for 1821.2 million rupees ($24.4 million), furthering its attempt to expand its presence in India`s online retail market.
The Indian conglomerate is expanding its so-called new commerce venture, which ties neighbourhood stores to Reliance for online deliveries of groceries, apparel and electronics in a space currently dominated by Walmart Inc`s Flipkart and Amazon.com Inc`s Indian arm.
"The aforesaid investment will further enable the group's digital and new commerce initiatives and widen the bouquet of consumer products provided by the group," Reliance said in a filing to exchanges on Sunday.
Reliance Industries, controlled by Asia`s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is lining up investors in its retail unit after the conglomerate raised over $20 billion this year from global investors, including Facebook Inc, by selling stakes in its Jio Platforms digital business.


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Mitigating publicity-driven vote inflation
Following the Reddit debacle™ back in January, we've had another instance today of a question becoming overwhelmingly popular due to external "advertising".
As soon as Joel tweeted about Eric Lippert's fantastic answer, the viewcount shot up. The OP received three gold badges for the question, which itself has so far garnered 191 upvotes and been favourited 107 times... despite being, frankly, a medium-quality question at best, with a whole slew of pre-existing duplicates.
Fortunately, this scenario comes up fairly rarely, but in my opinion it does demonstrate a fundamental flaw in the Stack Exchange voting system: question/answer score isn't merely a function of upvotes and downvotes, but also of how many masses of people have had the opportunity to vote, however it was that the question became known to them.
Now, I'm almost loathed to suggest the following as it's a pretty hacky "fix", but I want to open the floor to ideas, suggestions and opinions by starting with the following draft proposal:
Question/Answer Score = Ceil((Upvotes - Downvotes) / f(Number_Of_Question_Views))
where f is some weighted, but linear, transformation.
Even if constructed such that questions with an "average" number of page views would not see any significant impact from the addition of the new factor, this would immediately result in heavy rep changes for quite a few people, and for quite a few honestly high-quality questions. This could be a practical drawback, but I reckon the result would be a much fairer distribution of rep.
And it's not just about reputation. I'm almost anticipating an onslaught of "Stack Overflow is not a competition" comments on this suggestion, but reputation is the mechanism for determining, if only partially, the strength of an individual contributor... and the strength of individual questions/answers. It's misleading to have super-highly voted questions that are orders of magnitude lower in quality than some absolutely superb questions that are stuck with a score of, say, 12.
The overall question of whether users should benefit from publicity has been posed before; in this question, I'm pre-supposing that the answer is no, and asking what can be done about it.
It was also discussed more generally two years ago. Again, since I'm suggesting a specific "fix", I'm not considering that to be a duplicate.
This question is also related, though it focuses on internal SE factors rather than the effects of massive external publicity.
The floor is open.
discussion feature-request voting views
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Eric was rep-capped shortly after the question was tweeted. – user102937 Jun 23 '11 at 23:18
@Robert: The question wasn't, though. – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 23 '11 at 23:19
The question? Avrahamshuk was rep-capped also. – user102937 Jun 23 '11 at 23:21
@Robert What about question/answer score (which I think is more important here)? – R. Martinho Fernandes Jun 23 '11 at 23:27
Yes, what @Martinho said. (And let's not forget those three gold badges.) – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 23 '11 at 23:31
@Robert: My gripes isn't so much with the rep. But I think the question is poor, and it definitely is a dupe of many others and should have been closed as such, instead of being upvoted. In fact, it even was closed as a dupe (and I flagged it for merging Eric's answer into one of the others) but Joel reopened it and merged an older question into this one instead. Whether Eric's answer is worth 1k upvotes is debatable, but as a side-effect the question has gained almost two hundred upvotes more than it deserves. And not closing such an obvious dupe sets a bad precedent. – sbi Jun 23 '11 at 23:32
@Martinho What do you mean by "question/answer score"? What is that supposed to measure? – Adam Lear♦ Jun 23 '11 at 23:33
When I first read this Meta post, I was going to say it wasn't a problem. Then I saw the score on the answer and was like o_O. – waiwai933 Jun 24 '11 at 3:02
@sbi: Closing and deleting questions that have exemplary answers on them, regardless of the quality of the question, amounts to content destruction. I don't care how obvious the dupe is or how bad the question may seem, closing and deleting questions without considering the answers is just irresponsible. As Jeff points out, what we are really looking for are quality answers, not quality questions, so if someone like Eric Lippert can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, I say more power to him. – user102937 Jun 24 '11 at 21:36
@Robert: Yeah, all those irresponsible people that close duplicates, how dare they. Or even worse, merging these duplicates. Is that what you are saying? And who is even talking about deleting? – sth Jun 25 '11 at 3:02
@Tomalak: True, that. – user102937 Jun 25 '11 at 4:01
@Robert: Merging was invented to salvage quality answers from bad questions. And, as I wrote in my comment you replied to, "I flagged it for merging Eric's answer into one of the others". Nobody wanted to get rid of Eric's great answer. We wanted to get rid of the bad question it was given to. – sbi Jun 25 '11 at 5:40
And, really, if it was one of us mere minions who had given such an answer, who'd have hesitated to close a dupe and ditch it? – sbi Jun 25 '11 at 5:41
1) Merging only works on questions that are exact duplicates. 2) It's not about the person posting the answer, it's about the quality of the answer. – user102937 Jun 25 '11 at 5:44
@Robert: Being an exact duplicate of an earlier question is bad beyond all means and a perfect reason to close a question; no further reason needed, and the one exception to this rule I would consider valid (this one being a much better question than the ones before it) doesn't apply. And, FWIW, I consider it an abuse of your mod powers that you cut down the list of questions this one was a dupe of to a single one and then prevented everybody else from adding to it. – sbi Jun 26 '11 at 11:13
The foundation of the Stack Exchange Q&A model is democratic voting. A Winston Churchill quote comes to mind:
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time
While it is true that some freak situations produce voting patterns that defy merit, it is also true that voting is terribly unfair in a multitude of ways, some extremely common. Everywhere you look voting produces poor results:
Posts in low-view tags rarely get out of the single digits
Trivial posts are routinely highly upvoted while hard ones nearby get only a few
Posts are frequently overvoted based on the popularity of the author
Voters are sometimes tricked by smooth-talking posters
Once a post gets votes (either way), future voters are often less cautious
Voting cultures are different in essentially non-overlapping tag areas
Posts that are pranks or joke answers can become wildly popular
And the list goes on and on: democracy is an extremely dull tool, but it is sharper than all the alternatives.
The good news is that inequities tend to get smoothed out over time and what looks bad under the microscope looks better in the aggregate. Common unfair outcomes can be mitigated with special case rules like the reputation cap. Other caps can be imagined.
In fact the real tragedy is not that a high-view question unfairly rewarded the reputation of the asker and answerers, but that the merits of those particular posts become less meaningful. And this is actually a common outcome where the votes don't match up with the technical merits of the posts.
This just is what it is. It's the system we've chosen for all its flaws. The best we can do is add some checks and balances for the most egregious inequities. I think in this case the checks worked and we should just accept these outliers for what they are: outliers.
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Even I real life a lot of people vote for the wrong party. :-) – Bo Persson Jun 24 '11 at 7:32
There is nothing undemocratic about using "votes per 100 views"... – Ian Ringrose Jun 24 '11 at 8:20
"In fact the real tragedy is not that a high-view question unfairly rewarded the reputation of the asker and answerers, but that the merits of those particular posts becomes less meaningful." That's what I'm saying. – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 24 '11 at 8:45
The only comparison to democracy here would be if one party got a billion dollars to spend on advertising on the Internet, TV, etc, and the other could only stand around with megaphones in a single city. – DeadMG Jun 24 '11 at 12:33
@DeadMG: Parties success is at least partially decided by how much money they have to spend on campaigning. The way they appropriate that cash often has absolutely nothing to do with the merits of their proposed policies. I think the analogy is quite apt, because to my mind this is one of the fundamental flaws in a capitalist democracy. Not that there are any particularly fairer systems: perhaps the analogy extends there too. – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 27 '11 at 22:00
(tl;dr: The top 50-100 are already crowded with worse, more popular questions. If a vote limiter is put into place it won't help move better questions to the top, without cleaning up the top first.)
I think it is pretty telling when that question, while having received far more credit than it deserves, isn't even in the top 50 overall. Let's be honest, if you forget it is a dupe and look at this question compared to the top 50 overall, it's actually pretty good!
It has concise, digestible code.
It has applicable output.
It has an answerable question.
This is the sort of question--or the older questions that this is a dupe of--that should be in the top 50!
Instead, the top 50 are all "popular" because of votes rather than "technical merit". Only 4 of the top 50 are real, actual problems being solved by the community:
Flash CS4 refuses to let go: The question is poor, but it has refreshing, actual code.
Cycles in family tree software: No code, but a problem to be solved, even if it may be a joke.
RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags: This poor guy got thrown under the bus for having a "bad" solution in his question, but he has a solvable problem...and code!
Why doesn't gcc optimize aaaaaa to (aaa)(aaa)?: CODE! RESEARCH! Be still my beating heart....I'm actually shocked people voted for this.
Also in the top 50 are a smattering of interesting questions that show research and likely should exist as fascinomas, but fundamentally the questions with technical merit are not the questions the community deems "useful" if we use community votes as a metric.
Placing a vote cap/ratio won't help questions with technical merit rise to the top because the reality of behavior on SO is the community at large doesn't spend a lot of time voting on questions (and we've known it for years). They even added a badge to help!
Further, a vote cap/ratio won't keep tweeted/famous questions from going to the top, because it can't get there! The top is already crowded with famous, bad questions...
I'm not sold on a better cap, but whatever system (if any) gets put in place needs to include deleting, closing, or moving (archive.stackoverflow.com?) the vast majority of the other popular questions. Otherwise, how will the new better questions move to the top?
An answer that actually addresses the question, with RESEARCH! EVIDENCE! +1! – jscs Jun 24 '11 at 3:47
The gcc optimization actually was mentioned by Reddit as well - it got the same effect that the scope one we're discussing now did. Although, admittedly, half as many votes for the answer. – Grace Note♦ Jun 24 '11 at 11:47
This is a community-generated site. It works by getting lots of people to make different sized contributions which, we hope, in the aggregate, collectively produce an artifact that makes the Internet better.
Collectively generating useful artifacts is tricky. Wikipedia was one of the first and most amazing examples of the phenomenon. See, e.g., Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody for a book-length treatment of the subject by Clay, who is now a member of Stack Exchange's board of advisors.
There are many principles involved in making successful systems for generating large artifacts from a large number of smaller actions.
The relevant one here is that you need to allow people to contribute at different levels. At the lowest level, the only contribution you ask for is a simple vote, up or down. At a slightly higher level, you ask people to type questions or answers. At an even higher level, you ask people to moderate or contribute on a frequent basis. Each of these levels requires successive amounts of commitment. You can't create a successful site that demands that each visitor immediately exhibit the highest level of commitment. You have to provide some easy things that people can do that, nevertheless, contribute to the awesome artifact that everyone is putting together.
The way in which these sites combine lots of discrete, small actions by many people into a large artifact contains many surprises.
One such surprise is that something which appears to be a terrible question can be the grain of sand that becomes an amazing pearl of knowledge. In this case we got an amazing article by Eric Lippert about memory management out of a question which had already been asked before. Upon closer examination, though, that particular question was, in fact, an exemplary question about the particular misunderstanding that Eric cleared up. You literally could not ask for a more pared-down, simple and clear example of the code necessary to illustrate the question that Eric answered.
That question is valuable because it triggered an amazing artifact and a great explanation of a common misunderstanding. This led to thousands of programmers learning something new. As such, the very idea that it doesn't deserve the upvotes it got is almost nonsensical. Maybe there's some luck involved in the fact that this particular version of the question triggered a great response by Eric, but the truth is there was only one other pure duplicate of this question I could find on the site that had pared it down so concisely, so it's more like a 50%-50% chance rather than a lightening strike.
I think a lot of the reaction I see here ("hey, this question is terrible, why did it get so many votes?") stems from a sort of snobbery because the question was asked by someone who is closer to the beginning of their understanding of C-style languages.
The artifact we're trying to generate here at Stack Overflow is intended to be valuable to learners at all stages of their learning process. As such you need honest questions about basic things and you need amazing answers to those questions.
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All true. But what do you think about the weighted equation the OP posted? Could it be put to some useful purpose? You haven't really addressed the "bikeshed" factor. – user102937 Jun 24 '11 at 20:36
I don't think it makes any sense. A question that garnered 100,000 views did 100 times more good for the world than a question that garnered 1000 views. If it gets a few more votes it deserves them. If anything the fact that so many reddit/ycombinator/twitter users do not have accounts and can't vote makes me think perhaps such a question deserves a BOOST in votes, if anything. – Joel Spolsky♦ Jun 24 '11 at 20:48
I think that your assumption of snobbery on the part of those concerned about the upvotes for the question is mistaken. You asserted on the question itself «dupe answer doesn't mean dupe question»; by the exact same token, good (even fantastic) answer doesn't mean good question. – jscs Jun 24 '11 at 21:11
@Josh: Mistaken and slightly insulting. – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 25 '11 at 17:32
@Joel: So are you suggesting that a comparison of answer scores between different questions has no intrinsic meaning? My main issue was that, despite Eric's answer being great, when you look at the sort of scores that answers usually get, 1548 is clearly on an entirely different scale... and this is only because you happened to tweet it. My suggestion was designed to take us towards a system where scores, as an indication of question or answer quality, can be reasonably interpreted on the same scale, no matter which question you're reading or how many people happen to have seen it. – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 25 '11 at 17:36
See, to my mind, an absolute number of votes has no meaning at all if the factor of how many votes could have been cast is ignored from the equation. – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 25 '11 at 17:38
@Tomalak: but what about all those people who don't have an account? How do you determine how many votes, in which direction, and on which posts they would have cast? That's pure speculation. And you can't just extrapolate from the behaviour of registered users who have taken their time to earn the right to vote. They are, by definition, very different from random passers-by. And if you just ignore the passers-by, then you're right back to square one, because the current system already does just that: every single vote on a popular question ultimately comes from within the community. – ЯegDwight Jun 27 '11 at 22:30
@RegDwight: Mm. Tricky! – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 27 '11 at 23:31
First off, on the specific question and answer:
Regarding upvotes on the answer: holy goodness, what the heck happened there? I just threw together a little analogy about what "unspecified behaviour" really means while I was waiting for the unit tests to finish. I had no idea it would strike such a chord. I don't consider it to be particularly insightful, but apparently a lot of people liked it, so, I guess that's good.
Regarding upvotes on the question: I think that despite being a duplicate, and being a pretty basic question about C/C++ programming, it really is quite a good question. The original poster, like many C novices, was apparently of the honest belief that some tool is supposed to prevent you from doing something dangerous. Disabusing people of this common belief and letting them know how much trouble they can get into with an "enough rope to hang yourself" language like C has value.
Now, to address the more general points raised in this question.
The question suggests tweaking the "scores" of questions (upvotes minus downvotes), answers (same) and participants (reputation) in particular ways. What is not clear to me, Tomalak, is what metric for goodness you believe may be improved appreciably by tweaking the algorithms.
I see a number of benefits of having a scheme of "scores" for questions, answers and users. Benefits include:
Encouraging desirable behaviours
Discouraging undesirable behaviours
Identifying unusally awesome or horrid questions, answers and users
Before tweaking the system I would first ask "is it broken?" I don't care a bit about some abstract notion of "fairness". I care about two things:
does the system work well in the vast "middle ground"? Most questions, answers and users are in the middle; the system has to serve them well.
I think you are not proposing any change that would be germane to the vast majority of normal boring questions, answers and users. My second concern is:
in the outlying cases, does the system tend towards undesirable miscategorizations?
That is, in the outlying cases we might be:
misidentifying horrid questions/answers/users as awesome
misidentifying middle-of-the-road questions/answer/users as awesome
misidentifying middle-of-the-road questions/answer/users as horrid
misidentifying awesome questions/answer/users as horrid
In the first case, we have stuff that is really toxic that is getting the attention of something that is really good. This is clearly undesirable.
In cases three and four, we have stuff that is acceptable or awesome being voted down as horrible. This is also clearly undesirable. (See my question from yesterday and this post about deleting good answers on bad questions for more thoughts on that.)
But the situation we find ourselves in today is the second case. We've got what's arguably a middle-of-the-road question and a middle-of-the-road answer that have been identified as awesome.
Who really cares? Is that really such a big deal, compared to the other three outlying cases? I would be prioritizing:
first, get the system working for the vast bulk of middle-of-the-road questions, answers and users.
second, ensure that good or awesome content/users is not misidentified as undesirable
third, ensure that bad content/users is not misidentified as desirable
last, worry about middling content getting more attention than it deserves.
In short, I think you're trying to solve the least important problem. I would be inclined to just live with it. Sometimes mediocre questions are going to get voted way up just out of the "viral" nature of attention on the internet. It's maybe an imperfection of the system, but the system in general works well.
Eric LippertEric Lippert
I can't disagree with you on any of these points. But, it's clearly a thing so I thought it worth bringing up, whether we decide in the end that it's important or not. I still think that these edge cases represent a symptom of scenarios that we're just lucky happen so rarely at present; that the voting system doesn't represent "fairness" across different questions is a problem when we define "quality" as score. I honestly don't know how much of a "big deal" it is, but it does make me anxious enough to have opened this discussion. :) – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 27 '11 at 21:58
@Tomalak: Oh, absolutely I think it is reasonable to bring this up and discuss it. Better to actually make a rational decision based on consideration of the facts rather than just let it slide and hope for the best. – Eric Lippert Jun 27 '11 at 22:00
That's the hope! – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 27 '11 at 22:07
I actually think the rep cap is precisely the mitigation you're looking for. It distringuishes between a contribution that helps people again and again over time, and one that just got a lot of attention at one instant, perhaps with the help of publicity. After 20 votes on a single day, the rewards stop. Sure, people will see that big giant upvote number, and some badges, but Eric didn't suddenly get 10K powers overnight from nothing more than writing that (amazingly good) answer.
I think some of what Eric has written on SO and P.SE in the last few weeks has been astonishing. It can only attract people to these sites, and we are damn lucky that he happened to be having the kind of week that led to these answers being written. I am all for rewarding that, and rewarding askers for happening to trigger it. But I note with pleasant surprise that the rep cap served an interesting and entirely appropriate purpose here. Well done, system!
Kate GregoryKate Gregory
"After 20 votes on a single day, the rewards stop" - the rewards for the person stop, but the rewards for the question/answer do not. You're right, though, that the repcap system did a damn good job on a individual level. – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 25 '11 at 17:40
Perhaps what is good for the Goose is good for the Gander. If we cap people, why not questions? They both are "gaining" attention using the same system, right? – Edwin Buck Nov 30 '11 at 20:33
I definitely think that this is a problem. Reputation and votes should be directly proportional to the value of the question or answer they are awarded for. Not that I'm trying to take anything away from Eric or the questioner here, it's not like it's a bad question or answer, but was Eric's answer worth a thousand upvotes? I don't think so. This is especially since niche questions that actually have difficult answers that require a lot of efforts receive relatively low rep because they apply to less people- C++ TMP questions tend to suffer from this, I've noticed, and some hardware/software-specific questions also.
I can't help but agree- the rep should be proportional to the number of people who viewed. If you only got viewed by 50 people but 25 of them voted you up, that should definitely be worth more than if you got 1500 upvotes from 45k views. I just made that up and don't know the numbers, but the point is the same.
DeadMGDeadMG
Looks like Eric got about 174 rep from that question. So says his reputation page, at any rate. Is there any harm in the answer receiving 1000 upvotes beyond potentially not being "worth it"? – Adam Lear♦ Jun 23 '11 at 23:28
@Anna: If you're looking for a stellar question to read, you're going to do so on the merits of the voting system. This question breaks that system and pushes truly stellar questions off the list. The question doesn't deserve at all to be rewarded just because one of the answers was marvellous. Similarly, though it's a great answer, the number of upvotes alongside it is simply ridiculous when considered in comparison to other fantastic answers on SO. – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 23 '11 at 23:32
@DeadMG: Thanks for phrasing my thinking in another way; always handy! – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 23 '11 at 23:33
@Tomalak I see your point regarding the question, but I still don't see a problem with the votes on the answer. Does it really matter how many votes it got? Who is it harming? Going back to the question votes for a moment, how many stellar questions are being harmed by this? It may be just my perception, but it seems like there are enough mediocre low-vote type questions that anything with, say, over 10 votes is worth reading. Whether it has 10 or 100 votes isn't that big a deal. – Adam Lear♦ Jun 23 '11 at 23:35
@Anna: If it doesn't matter how many votes an answer gets, then why do we vote on them at all? – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 23 '11 at 23:39
@Tomalak I'm not saying voting is pointless. My question is, does it matter if an answer gets 20 votes or 1000? Thousands of people who visited that question could've voted for other answers, but for the most part didn't. I think that speaks to the quality of the answer. – Adam Lear♦ Jun 23 '11 at 23:40
@Anna: If voting isn't pointless, then a difference between a score of 20 and a score of 1000 inherently does "matter", yes. That the answer is the highest-quality answer and thus has more votes than the other answers is all well and good, but it's become one of the highest-voted answers on SO not through its own merits, but because of some arbitrary external influence on the view count. It's simply not what the answer score is supposed to represent. – Lightness Races in Orbit Jun 23 '11 at 23:43
@Anna: I think the harm is mostly to people who get there from searches later. At least IMO, much of the legitimate reason for having scores on questions and answers is precisely to guide them to the questions and answers that are likely to be of the greatest help for them. When a rather mediocre question with a fairly good answer out-scores much better questions with at least as good of answers, the scores become not merely useless, but downright harmful (misleading). – Jerry Coffin Jun 23 '11 at 23:49
@Anna: When votes appear to come primarily for a question/answer being tweeted, there's a very good change (bordering on certainty) that the people giving the up-votes haven't looked at (or even looked for) the other questions or answers. In short, it says a great deal about the number of people who follow Joel's tweets, and next to nothing about the quality of the answer in question. – Jerry Coffin Jun 23 '11 at 23:52
I had this happen to one of my answers on Server Fault. Jeff and/or Joel tweeted it and it made a small splash on Hacker News and both my answer and the question got a lot of votes. I think (well hope) the person who asked the question wouldn't be too unhappy if I said that several of the answers to that question were an example of good answers being the making of an average question.
The upboat was very nice, but regardless of whether not the question or any of the answers "deserved" that much attention, the fact is that posts of either kind that take the imagination of the web at last are a great chance to publicise the sites and build our userbase. That's more people asking the questions you love to answer or helping you solve that tricky problem that's keeping you awake at nights.
I might well be biased but I think that's worth the rep boost anyone associated with the publicised question might get. And the cap should stop it getting totally out of hand.
Rob MoirRob Moir
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The 'Alliance surge' - The Remain party breaking the mould in Northern Ireland
Alliance party leader and candidate Naomi Long (centre), at the European Parliamentary elections count in Northern Ireland. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
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It's been a long time coming, but Northern Ireland's Alliance Party might finally be moving centre stage, says DAVID MITCHELL.
In Britain, the big story of the 2019 European elections was the breakthrough of a group that formed just weeks before the poll - Nigel Farage's Brexit Party. But in Northern Ireland, there was another shock success - for a party that has been around for half a century without making a major electoral impact.
Since it was founded in 1970, the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland has usually been in fifth place behind the main unionist and nationalist parties. But in the 2019 European elections, it ended up, after the final round of counting, with the highest number of votes overall. This surprise result came just three weeks after it secured 11.5% of the vote in the local government elections - almost double its share five years ago and its largest since 1977.
It's being called the "Alliance surge". Everyone is talking about a party which, for decades, was widely, if unfairly, regarded as too boring to talk about.
Alliance's success is down to a combination of factors: events, leadership, and ideas.
The events are the unique circumstances surrounding the European poll. It appears that some Sinn Féin voters put Alliance as their first preference in the belief that Sinn Féin's Martina Anderson would be elected anyway, and that Alliance was the most likely Remain party to take the third of Northern Ireland's European Parliament seats (the DUP's pro-Brexit Diane Dodds being virtually guaranteed the other one). Alliance also mobilised its own constituency, gained support from pro-Remain unionists abandoning the equivocating Ulster Unionist Party, and received thousands of lower preference votes from the SDLP and Greens.
Then there's the candidate who took that European seat, Naomi Long. The "Ginger Ninja" (a description she herself embraced in a previous campaign) has been leader of the party since 2016. Predecessors have been statesmanlike but cerebral. Northern Irish politicians can be dour, evasive, or crassly hostile. Long has the ability to translate Alliance's policies into compelling common sense. Her tone of perpetual exasperation has clearly captured the mood of a public which has much to be exasperated about: no power-sharing government between unionism and nationalists; not much reconciliation since the Troubles; and Brexit, which a majority do not want.
What Alliance actually stands for is also crucial. First and foremost is reconciliation. It's the largest and oldest party to draw support from both Catholics and Protestants. It also has a progressive social and environmental agenda, an important selling point for many young voters. And on the border question, it's pragmatic. For Alliance (and this is incredible to many unionists and nationalists), the constitutional status of Northern Ireland is secondary to how social and political life is arranged for the good of citizens in the region.
Alliance, along with the SDLP and other moderates, were decades ahead of their time in calling for a Good Friday Agreement-type solution to the violent conflict. Yet an electoral breakthrough for the self-styled "radical centre" never came. For cynics, this suggested that the non-aligned "third tradition" of which Alliance spoke was mythical - a fantasy of the conflict-insulated middle class.
What appears to have happened now is that Alliance's vision has finally been amplified by an attractive leadership, and a specific electoral opportunity has arisen for this vision to be endorsed by the public in a manner that actually converts into seats won.
In the past, Alliance has been derided for supposedly being on the fence about Northern Ireland's national question. But Brexit has given the party the chance to take a crystal clear stand on the major issue of the day. Indeed, there are likely few other parties in Europe so ideologically suited to making a case for the European Union. Alliance's belief in sharing and diversity, suspicion of nationalism, and longstanding support for immigration, all translate seamlessly into a principled pro-EU argument.
There are several implications of the Alliance surge. It strengthens the anti-Brexit, pro-backstop voice of Northern Ireland. It raises major questions for the two main unionist parties which have become cold houses for voters who care about rights, reconciliation and the impact of Brexit. It further challenges the "two communities" architecture of the (suspended) Northern Ireland institutions - which Alliance has long-criticised as divisive.
And it proves, along with the growth of the Greens, that there is a section of society which does not fit into the unionist and nationalist blocs, and which wants to be heard. If there is a referendum on Irish unity in the coming years, it may well be the followers of Long's Alliance Party who decide the outcome.
After 50 years, the future really could be in their hands.
- David Mitchell is an assistant professor in conflict resolution and reconciliation at Trinity College Dublin. This article also appears at theconversation.com.


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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › Arkansas › Western District of Arkansas › 2020 › Mayberry v. Social Security Administration Commissioner › Filing 17
Mayberry v. Social Security Administration Commissioner, No. 6:2020cv06014 - Document 17 (W.D. Ark. 2020)
Court Description: MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by Honorable Barry A. Bryant on October 30, 2020. Judgment to be entered accordingly.(jlm)
Mayberry v. Social Security Administration Commissioner Doc. 17 IN UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS HOT SPRINGS DIVISION LINDA D. MAYBERRY vs. PLAINTIFF Civil No. 6:20-cv-06014 ANDREW SAUL, Commissioner, Social Security Administration DEFENDANT MEMORANDUM OPINION Plaintiff, Linda D. Mayberry, brings this action under 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), seeking judicial review of a decision of the Commissioner of Social Security Administration (Commissioner) denying her claim for supplemental security income ("SSI") under Title XVI of the Social Security Act (hereinafter "the Act"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 423(d)(1)(A), 1382c(a)(3)(A). In this judicial review, the court must determine whether there is substantial evidence in the administrative record to support the Commissioner's decision. See 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). The Parties have consented to the jurisdiction of a magistrate judge to conduct any and all proceedings in this case, including conducting the trial, ordering the entry of a final judgment, and conducting all post-judgment proceedings. ECF No. 5. Pursuant to this authority, the Court issues this memorandum opinion and orders the entry of a final judgment in this matter. 1. Background: Plaintiff protectively filed applications for DIB and SSI on September 3, 2017, and March 20, 2018, respectively. (Tr. 10) 1. In her applications, Plaintiff alleged being disabled due to diabetes and neuropathy with an alleged onset date of January 4, 2010. (Tr. 10, 151). Plaintiff's application was denied initially and again upon reconsideration. (Tr. 10). Plaintiff requested an 1 References to the Transcript will be (Tr. ___) and refer to the document filed at ECF No. 10, These references are to the page number of the transcript itself not the ECF page number. 1 Dockets.Justia.com administrative hearing, and that administrative hearing was held on November 6, 2018. (Tr. 2445). At this hearing, Plaintiff was present and represented by counsel, Sherri McDonough. Id. Plaintiff and a Vocational Expert ("VE") testified at the hearing. Id. At the hearing, Plaintiff amended her onset date to September 3, 2017, and voluntarily withdrew her request for hearing as it pertains to her DIB application for a period of disability and disability benefits. (Tr. 10, 27-29). Following the administrative hearing, on March 11, 2019, the ALJ entered an unfavorable decision. (Tr. 7-19). The ALJ found Plaintiff had not engaged in substantial gainful activity since her amended onset date of September 3, 2017. (Tr. 12, Finding 2). The ALJ determined Plaintiff had the severe impairments of: diabetes mellitus II with peripheral neuropathy, peripheral vascular disease and hypertension. (Tr. 12-14, Finding 3). Despite being severe, the ALJ determined those impairments did not meet or medically equal the requirements of any of the Listings of Impairments in 20 CFR Part 404, Subpart P, Appendix 1 ("Listings"). (Tr. 14, Finding 4). The ALJ considered Plaintiff's subjective complaints and determined her RFC. (Tr. 1418, Finding 5). The ALJ evaluated Plaintiff's subjective complaints and found her claimed limitations were not entirely consistent with the medical evidence and other evidence in the record. Id. The ALJ determined that Plaintiff retained the RFC to perform the full range of light work as defined in 20 CFR 416.967(b). Id. With the help of the VE, the ALJ found Plaintiff would be able to perform any of her Past Relevant Work ("PRW") of machine operator-plastics blow molding. (Tr. 18, Finding 6). Based upon this finding, the ALJ determined Plaintiff was not disabled at any time from September 3, 2017, through the date of his decision. (Tr. 18, Finding 7). 2 On December 27, 2019, the Appeals Council denied Plaintiff's request for review. (Tr. 15). On September 5, 2019, Plaintiff filed the present appeal. ECF No. 1. Both Parties have filed appeal briefs. ECF Nos. 15, 16. This case is now ready for decision. 2. Applicable Law: It is well-established that a claimant for Social Security disability benefits has the burden of proving his or her disability by establishing a physical or mental disability that lasted at least one year and that prevents him or her from engaging in any substantial gainful activity. See Cox v. Apfel, 160 F.3d 1203, 1206 (8th Cir. 1998); 42 U.S.C. §§ 423(d)(1)(A), 1382c(a)(3)(A). The Act defines a "physical or mental impairment" as "an impairment that results from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities which are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques." 42 U.S.C. §§ 423(d)(3), 1382(3)(c). A plaintiff must show that his or her disability, not simply his or her impairment, has lasted for at least twelve consecutive months. See 42 U.S.C. § 423(d)(1)(A). To determine whether the adult claimant suffers from a disability, the Commissioner uses the familiar five-step sequential evaluation. He determines: (1) whether the claimant is presently engaged in a "substantial gainful activity"; (2) whether the claimant has a severe impairment that significantly limits the claimant's physical or mental ability to perform basic work activities; (3) whether the claimant has an impairment that meets or equals a presumptively disabling impairment listed in the regulations (if so, the claimant is disabled without regard to age, education, and work experience); (4) whether the claimant has the Residual Functional Capacity (RFC) to perform his or her past relevant work; and (5) if the claimant cannot perform the past work, the burden shifts to the Commissioner to prove that there are other jobs in the national economy that the claimant can perform. See Cox, 160 F.3d at 1206; 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1520(a)-(f). The fact finder only 3 considers the plaintiff's age, education, and work experience in light of his or her RFC if the final stage of this analysis is reached. See 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1520, 416.920 (2003). 3. Discussion: Plaintiff brings two points on appeal: 1) whether the ALJ erred in failing to fully and fairly develop the record regarding Plaintiff's neuropathy and deep vein thrombosis; and 2) whether the ALJ erred in his evaluation of Plaintiff's subjective complaints. ECF No. 15. The Commissioner argues the ALJ's opinion was supported by substantial evidence, and the ALJ properly evaluated Plaintiff's subjective complaints associated with her neuropathy. ECF No. 16. Of particular concern to the undersigned is the ALJ's RFC determination. RFC is the most a person can do despite that person's limitations. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(1). It is assessed using all relevant evidence in the record. Id. This includes medical records, observations of treating physicians and others, and the claimant's own descriptions of his or her limitations. Guilliams v. Barnhart, 393 F.3d 798, 801 (8th Cir. 2005); Eichelberger v. Barnhart, 390 F.3d 584, 591 (8th Cir. 2004). Limitations resulting from symptoms such as pain are also factored into the assessment. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(3). The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has held that a "claimant's residual functional capacity is a medical question." Lauer v. Apfel, 245 F.3d 700, 704 (8th Cir. 2001). Therefore, an ALJ's determination concerning a claimant's RFC must be supported by medical evidence that addresses the claimant's ability to function in the workplace. Lewis v. Barnhart, 353 F.3d 642, 646 (8th Cir. 2003). "[T]he ALJ is [also] required to set forth specifically a claimant's limitations and to determine how those limitations affect h[er] RFC." Id. In making his RFC determination, the ALJ gave little weight to the opinions offered by the state agency medical consultants. (Tr. 1382). The ALJ gave good reasons for affording little 4 weight to these opinions. However, The ALJ did not specifically consider any other opinion evidence. (Id.). The ALJ's RFC determination must be supported by medical evidence that addresses Plaintiff's ability to function in the workplace. "Well-settled precedent confirms that the ALJ bears a responsibility to develop the record fairly and fully, independent of the claimant's burden to press his case." Vossen v. Astrue, 612 F.3d 1011, 1016 (8th Cir. 2010) (quoting Snead v. Barnhart, 360 F.3d 834, 838 (8th Cir. 2004). Further evidence regarding Plaintiff's ability to use both her hands and her feet is necessary for the full and fair development of this record. The Court finds the ALJ's RFC determination is not supported by substantial evidence and requires remand to further develop the record and further consider Plaintiff's maximum RFC. On remand, the ALJ is directed to address interrogatories to a medical professional requesting that said physician review Plaintiff's medical records; complete a RFC assessment regarding Plaintiff's capabilities during the time period in question; and give the objective basis for the opinion so that an informed decision can be made regarding Plaintiff's ability to perform basic work activities on a sustained basis. Alternatively, the ALJ may order a consultative examination, in which, the consultative examiner should be asked to review the medical evidence of record, perform examinations and appropriate testing needed to properly diagnosis Plaintiff's condition(s), and complete a medical assessment of Plaintiff's abilities to perform work related activities. See 20 C.F.R. § 416.917. With this evidence, the ALJ should then re-evaluate Plaintiff's RFC and specifically list in a hypothetical to a vocational expert any limitations that are indicated in the RFC assessments and supported by the evidence. The undersigned acknowledges that the ALJ's decision may be the same after proper analysis. Nonetheless, proper analysis must occur. Groeper v. Sullivan, 932 F.2d 1234, 1239 (8th Cir. 1991). 5 1. Conclusion: Accordingly, the Court concludes that the ALJ's decision is not supported by substantial evidence, and therefore, the denial of benefits to the Plaintiff should be reversed and this matter should be remanded to the Commissioner for further consideration pursuant to sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). ENTERED this 30th day of October 2020. Barry A. Bryant /s/ HON. BARRY A. BRYANT U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE 6


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