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I have of late become more interested in how to keep training as you get older, as many of us lose flexibility, get stiff joints/injuries and lose the natural athleticism of youth. As such, I've become more interested in what I call "natural movement". By this I mean, (as far as is possible) moving in a way that is natural for the body, rather than forcing a movement. For example, many people overly tense up at the end of the end of a technique with too much forced exhalation. Learning to relax more and breath more naturally is healthier at all ages, but more so as get get older.
Being a subscriber to Russell Stutely's email Newsletter, it seems he is also having thoughts about adapting training as you get older (and he's younger than me).
Anyway, I've long been an admirer of Russell Stutely (who has done an interview for this website before, so I thought I would share his thoughts. If you want to join up to his newsletter or find out more about Russell then CLICK HERE to visit his website.
Anyway, here in Russell's own words:-
What are we all training for? You know I have been giving this a lot of thought over the last few days. After many long years of training, some great times, some awful times, some amazing times… I look back at the training partners / friends / colleagues etc. So many have stopped training for various reasons; Family, fed up, drifted away, injuries etc.
We have trained pretty hard… In my biased view anyway! We were always the first to step and try something out, spar or fight at whatever level people want… and for what? What did we really gain from it? I have a list of niggling little injuries (some a bit more than that) which are going to plague me for life.
I have friends in the same boat give or take. Yesterday I was at the gym, at my hilltop lair… and there was a younger couple doing Yoga together. They looked in great shape, were physically gifted (judging by the positions) and as I found out were completely injury free after 20 years!
I hobbled away cursing them under my breath 🙂 They were also really nice to chat to… which made me hate them even more! 🙂
As a Coach it is my job to teach in the best possible way. To give the best possible advice on an individual level. To guide, help, assist and to pass on as much knowledge and information in the most efficient manner possible. I am asked on many occasions about hard training, sparring, fighting etc. My answer recently has been do it if you want to.
A few years ago my answer was ALWAYS that you MUST do it.
My answer today and for the forseeable future, is why do it?
Unless you have aspirations to be a proper fighter, then why bother? You will probably get injured. The injury / injuries could well have an impact on your daily life - for the rest of your life.
Do you really want to take those chances to satisfy your own ego? I need to know what I am doing works? Is a standard cry… or it needs to be pressure tested.
Well… yes and no. We all know that a good punch in the mouth works right? So do we really need to pressure test that? We all know that a soccer kick to the head works right? Do we really need to pressure test that?
What we really need to pressure test is HOW TO GET INTO POSITION to punch them in the mouth etc etc.
This can be trained at speed and power with SAFETY in mind.
This is called training HARD AND SMART.
Something which I did mention in my 200+ A4 Page Book - Karate - The Hidden Secrets many years ago. Available all over the web and at my store:-)
I don't know about you but I really wish I was as injury free as the Yoga couple I met!
NO.. I am not bothered about being in as good as shape as them either! Or about being as nice….They need to rotten up like the rest of us! 🙂
What is IMPORTANT is knowing what I / You want from your training. That is the KEY. Everyone is different and everyone is on their OWN JOURNEY. I will try to NEVER judge anyone else's journey ever again.
If you / they or I am ENJOYING my training, then carry on doing it. I still think it is CRITICAL to UNDERSTAND as much as possible about your Art. It is ESSENTIAL that you make it as efficient and effective as possible.
This is achieved through UNDERSTANDING…. and NOT through beasting yourself and others in the blind hope that ONE MORE PUSH UP will make me understand better!
Use some of the annoying Yoga couples wisdom… take your Art to the next level by UNDERSTANDING IT BETTER.
Ironically, this is what I have been doing for years with the various studies made… BUT at the same time doing that ONE MORE REP as anyone who has actually trained with me will testify!
Now it is time to drop the ONE MORE REP mentality!
I have officially stopped hard / open sparring. At 46 that is acceptable I think!
I am actually taking my own advice and training a bit smarter! I hope that this little note has given you food for thought?
I will write more soon.
Thanks Again,
Russell Stutely


text: Jan Kooi The African corporal Jan Kooi achieved some fame in the Netherlands for his courageous feats in the Atjeh (now Aceh) war, the longest, deadliest and most inconclusive war in Dutch colonial history. The sultanate of Atjeh, on the northern tip of Sumatra, was known to be a stronghold both of piracy and of orthodox Islam. During the 19th century, the Dutch gradually expanded their control over Sumatra. The Atjeh war commenced in 1873 and ended only in 1904. To this day, there is a secessionist movement in Aceh fighting against Indonesian government troops. Jan Kooi entered into the service of the Dutch East Indies army in 1869, at the age of 20 years. He was born in Elmina in 1849. His mothers' name was Essowa. His father's name is poorly readable in the army records: something like 'Dinaba'. With his new Dutch name of Jan Kooi, he enlisted at the recruiting station in Elmina for the duration of 12 years, receiving a considerable bounty of 200 guilders. On 30 May 1870 he left Elmina on the ship Ternate, arriving in Batavia (Jakarta) on 14 August 1870. With the other new arrivals, he was sent for training with the 1st infantry bataillion. Almost a year later, training was completed, and Kooi was sent to Atjeh with the 2nd infantry bataillion. From 1874 to 1879 he was engaged in numerous military expeditions in Atjeh, earning himself a range of distinctions: the Atjeh medal 1873-1874; the distinction for extraordinary efforts in Atjeh 1873-1874; twice he is mentioned with distinction in the campaign records; in 1881 he is awarded the bronze medal. On top of these decorations, Jan Kooi was the first African soldier to be awarded the highest military honours in the Dutch army:the Militaire Willemsorde (4th class) No wonder that he was a famous man during his brief stay in the Netherlands in 1882, on the way back to his native Elmina. Newspapers reported how he had saved the life of his commander by killing two Atjeh fighters, while himself suffering ten bullet wounds under enemy fire. Later that year he earned a reward of 100 guilders for saving the life of lieutenant Bijleveld by killing a heavily armed Atjeher. The article in the Overveluwsch Weekblad noted that Kooi spoke perfect Dutch, but also spoke warmly about his family and homeland. During his stay in Harderwijk, the garrison town with the recruiting station for the colonial army, he had twice his portrait painted. Two very different portraits: the highly formal soldier's posture on the portrait by J.C. Leich; and the impressionistic portrait by Isaac Israels, one of the most famous Dutch painters in the 19th century. After army service, Jan Kooi settled in his native Elmina, which meanwhile had been handed over to the British. Here we encounter him once more in the baptismal records of the church of St. Joseph: on 30 May 1886, Joannes Kooi is mentioned as the godfather to Grace Maria Plange, daughter of Jacob Plange and Arala Yaniba.Copyright © 2001 Ineke van Kessel. email@example.com

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Analyst Report: YouTube Revenue Likely $3.7B In 2013, Video Ad Sellout Low At 14%
Rory Maher, a Managing Director over at HillsidePartners, an institutional equity boutique focused on the technology and media industries, has issued his latest report on the state of YouTube's business. In it, he details why he believes that 2013 gross revenue will likely be $3.7B for YouTube, versus his previous $5B estimate in his last report. Based on recent statistics provided by Google, he estimates video ad sellout on YouTube to be just 14% and that their channel revenue is likely at a $20M run rate. Some other highlights from his report:
- YouTube Mobile Likely Generating $800M In Annual Revenue. We estimate YouTube's mobile business will generate just under $800M in 2013. We determine our YouTube mobile revenue figure by taking the amount of mobile videos viewed (1B per day) and apply reasonable pre-roll sellout and CPM assumptions of 10% and $20, respectively.
- Video Ad Sellout On YouTube Likely 14%. We estimate sellout of video advertising (pre-roll, truView, interstitial, and any ad appearing within the framed video) to be 14% of videos played on YouTube given updated viewing figures provided by the Company. We calculate our estimates by taking information provided by Google on the number of hours watched annually, the length of the average video, and the number of YouTube videos with some form of monetization on them.
- Original Channels Continue To Grow Double-Digits Monthly. We estimate subscribers of the original channels grew 14% monthly from launch until March 2013 and have grown 11% per month since then. In our opinion, recent viewership has likely been negatively impacted by competition from the new channels for eyeballs, but international expansion starting in October 2012 has likely enabled the original channels to maintain double-digit monthly subscriber growth, attractive growth in our view.
- Strong Ad Sellout During Daytime/Primetime. We surveyed videos on some of the top rated channels during a weekday afternoon and found nearly 90% sellout in pre-roll or Truview video ad inventory on the videos we viewed.
- Lower Sellout During The Weekend Indicates Advertisers Buying Inventory By Daypart. We found lower sellout during the weekend, highlighting how YouTube sells much of its video inventory by daypart. For example, we found 20% video ad inventory sellout during weekend mornings.
- Channel Revenue Likely At $20M Run Rate. Advertisers we speak with indicate YouTube is receiving $20 CPMs for pre-roll and Truview packages on its original channels launched in 10/11 with new channels being added 10/12. Assuming 4 videos viewed per sub per month and 50% video ad sellout we estimate the original channels are likely driving revenue at a $20M annual run rate.
- New Channels Have Outperformed Since Launch Vs Original Channels. We estimate the new channels launched in 10/11 have already outperformed the first YouTube channels due primarily to international distribution. For example, we estimate the new YouTube channels have accumulated 11.3M subscribers in the first 8 months since launch vs 7.6M for the first channels over the same period following launch.
The big takeaway from the report is the idea that Google will likely continue to gain share of online video, especially as viewing transitions to mobile. I think anyone would be hard-pressed not to agree with that statement. Google will continue to steal share of online video as usage moves to mobile where, as the report states, its app is superior to other online video apps and has the advantage of preferred placement in the Android OS. The transition to mobile and growth of Android has driven industry-leading growth in online video ads on YouTube especially as advertisers have significantly increased spend on mobile video ads. For example, according to Comscore in January 2012 Google wasn't even in the top 10 online video properties in terms of ads viewed, but accounted for 13% of all video ads viewed in April 2012 and 18% by April 2013.
Even with all of this data it's still interesting to see how a huge percentage of streams served by Google every day, via YouTube, still aren't being monetized in any capacity. At some point, it would be nice if Google could just stop hosting UGC content that has zero chance of making them any money. Of course, the problem with that idea is that Google gets so much of its traffic from users visiting the website to see their own clips, that traffic would drop dramatically, even to the premium content, if they did away with the free video hosting. It's a necessary evil of being in their business, thanks to their size and scale. Free video hosting is something they probably will never be able to move away from – even though it would reduce their costs and allow them to focus on premium content that they can monetize.


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The Mechanism is a melancholic series of black-and-white photographs that form a sci-fi story about contemporary life. Bringing together images made in multiple cities, the work deals with themes of technology, surveillance and urban society. Lange attempts to trace the effects of technological developments on human experiences, using architectural tropes to build a narrative loaded with the threats and promises of the future. Cutting back and forth between close-up views and cityscapes, The Mechanism offers a filmic sequence of photographs that is at once affective and estranging.
Mårten Lange (b. 1984, Gothenburg, Sweden) studied photography at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, United Kingdom. His books include Citizen (Études Books, 2015) and Another Language (MACK, 2012), as well as a number of self-published books including Chicxulub (2016) and Machina (2014; 2007), among others.


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Health IT Infographic: Evolution of the Electronic Health Record
I'm a huge fan of infographics. I think they provide simple and very easy to understand explanations of often difficult to comprehend subjects, like health IT. The following health IT infographic shows the evolution of the electronic health record since 2009 when they really started to gain attention. One of the things I particularly like about this image is that it defines the difference between EMRs and EHRs, something that is often confused, which is a huge pet peeve of mine.
What's somewhat interesting about the information here, too, is that large, teaching hospitals utilize EHRs more than other organizations. Ironically, in the past, it's been reported and much discussed that teaching hospitals don't actually spend much time teaching student how the use the electronic health records.
Also, the bigger the practice, the more likely they are to have an EHR. This suggests that size does matter.
There's some other good info buried in the following piece. Take a look; I look forward to your feedback.


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The headlines in the case were sadly familiar. An angry adult armed with a gun used it to shoot and kill an unarmed Black teenager he thought seemed "bad"—this time, because the teenager and his friends were sitting in a car listening to music the grownup didn't like. In this outrageous Florida case a middle-aged White man, Michael Dunn, was convicted of three counts of attempted murder and one count of shooting a gun into an occupied car. Jurors agreed he faced no threat after he was annoyed by loud music—coming from a car he had deliberately chosen to park next to—and then started an argument, pulled a gun on the car's Black teens, and fired three shots at the young men inside the car as they tried to drive away from him.
But the jury could not agree on the most serious charge of first-degree murder for shooting the first seven bullets at the stationary car and hitting 17-year-old Jordan Davis in his lung, liver, and aorta. Florida's notorious "Stand Your Ground" law which gives gun owners a license to kill if they feel threatened was allegedly enough for three jurors to vote against conviction. At least one juror said she believed Michael Dunn did get away with murder: "There is no longer a Jordan Davis, and there is only one reason why that is. The boy was shot and killed for reasons that should not have happened."
In an interview with Good Morning America Jordan's mother, Lucia McBath, said she believed the jurors in her son's case did the best they could with the laws they had, but also made it clear she believes our nation's existing laws did not protect Jordan or millions of other victims of gun violence in America. When asked what justice for her son would look like she answered: "Justice for Jordan will be, ultimately, really when we change the laws. Because that will be not just justice for Jordan, and justice for Trayvon, and justice for all the children at Sandy Hook, and justice for Aurora, and justice for Virginia Tech, and the Navy Yard—it will be justice for everyone that has suffered because of these laws, and will continue to suffer. So once the laws are changed, that's the ultimate justice for all."
Researchers at Texas A&M University studied the impact of Stand Your Ground laws, like the one enacted in Florida in 2005, across the country and concluded in a 2012 study that "the laws do not deter burglary, robbery, or aggravated assault" but do "lead to a statistically significant 8 percent net increase in the number of reported murders and non-negligent manslaughters." Evidence is also clear that these laws have a disparate racial impact. Researchers from the Urban Institute found that when White shooters kill Black victims, 34 percent of the homicides are deemed justifiable, while only 3.3 percent are ruled justifiable when the situation is reversed.
Now researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research have released the results of a new study on the effectiveness of another crucial segment of our nation's gun laws: those requiring background checks before purchasing a gun. For this study the scholars took a close look at the state of Missouri's 2007 repeal of its permit-to-purchase law. Before it was repealed this law required all handgun purchasers in Missouri to obtain a license verifying that they had passed a background check. The researchers wanted to know what happened when this requirement was taken away—and they learned that repealing that law has led to a 16 percent increase in Missouri's murder rate. The study showed between 2008 and 2012 there were an additional 55 to 63 murders in Missouri each year associated with the law's repeal. During those same years, the national murder rate dropped by over 5 percent.
The research controlled for changes in policing, incarceration, burglaries, unemployment, poverty, and other laws adopted during the study period that could affect violent crime. The spike in murders only occurred for murders committed with a gun and happened statewide, while bordering states showed no increase. The number of handguns recovered from scenes of crimes or from criminals quickly doubled after the repeal. In a press release, lead author Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, said: "This study provides compelling confirmation that weaknesses in firearm laws lead to deaths from gun violence." Co-author Jon Vernick, JD, MPH, deputy director for the Center for Gun Policy and Research, added: "Because many perpetrators of homicide have backgrounds that would prohibit them from possessing firearms under federal law, they seek out private sellers to acquire their weapons. Requiring a background check on all gun sales is a commonsense approach to reducing gun violence that does not infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners."
Requiring a background check seems like common sense to most Americans—and yet some lawmakers refuse to make it happen. Others, like those in Missouri, are actually moving backwards. The same press release noted: "Only fifteen states require individuals purchasing handguns from unlicensed sellers to pass background checks, with ten of these states requiring all purchasers to acquire a permit-to-purchase license. A 2013 public opinion survey from Johns Hopkins found the majority of Americans (89 percent) and gun owners (84 percent) support requiring a background check system for all gun sales. The majority of Americans (77 percent) and gun owners (59 percent) also reported supporting requiring people to obtain a license from a local law-enforcement agency before buying a gun to verify their identity and ensure that they are not legally prohibited from having a gun."
This latest Johns Hopkins study is another key step in finding out what works to reduce gun violence. The available evidence is clear: Stand Your Ground laws do not reduce gun violence. Background checks do—just one part of a network of solutions that can help. We need a robust commitment to much more research on the epidemic public health threat of gun violence to identify all of them. And when we know what works, we need leaders who will listen to and act on the research and public opinion to preserve lives. We do not need any more suffering families. Jordan Davis's father Ron said: "All the other 17-year-olds out there—they shouldn't have to fear the adults with the guns that are running around here shooting them at will. If you throw popcorn in someone's face, they want to shoot you because you threw popcorn in their face. That's what we've come to. But we have to stop."
We really do have to stop!
Marian Wright Edelman is President of the Children's Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.
Mrs. Edelman's Child Watch Column also appears each week on The Huffington Post.


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Tucked inside President Biden's $2 trillion plan to rebuild and improve America's infrastructure, which he announced this week, is the promise to address the racism baked into decades of urban planning in the U.S. Eric Avila is a professor of history and Chicano studies at UCLA. He has written about how systemic racism shaped America's urban development. He joins us now. Welcome.
ERIC AVILA: Thank you. Great to be here.
CHANG: So Biden's plan includes funding to dismantle highway projects that, when they were built, required tearing down neighborhoods or cleaving through communities of color. Can you just remind us of the time frame that these highway projects were underway and how these highways came about?
AVILA: So a lot of the highways that exist today date back to 1956. That was the year that Congress, under the Eisenhower administration, unanimously approved bipartisan legislation to build a national highway infrastructure. But this was the 1950s, and we think very differently about cities and communities today than we did back in the 1950s.
CHANG: And the construction of these highways, I mean, they often devastated these communities of color. We saw this in cities across the country. Can you talk a little bit about where you and I are? We're in L.A. What did L.A. look like before these freeways sprung up and then what did these freeways do to L.A. after?
AVILA: Well, the few communities of color that did exist in Los Angeles in the early 20th century, these were neighborhoods that were seen as expendable obstacles to progress, and they were either bypassed by many highways that were built or they were targeted directly for destruction because they were in the path of planned highway projects. A lot of that dated back to 1930s policy we know as redlining, which often targeted racially minority communities, especially with African Americans.
CHANG: And after these freeways carved into so many communities of color, what did that do to the communities?
AVILA: It destroyed many communities, and it destroyed the economic, social and cultural lifeblood of these communities. It also divided them, creating these huge barriers within communities or between communities. The best example I can think of in Los Angeles is the Boyle Heights neighborhood. You could imagine an army of bulldozers and wrecking balls invading Boyle Heights to clear neighborhoods to build these massive freeway interchanges that have a huge footprint upon what used to be racially and ethnically diverse working class, sustainable communities. But the freeways and their interchanges destroyed that. And that happened on a national pattern throughout the United States.
CHANG: Given how many communities of color have been devastated by the construction of freeways across America, I mean, how does the Biden plan intend to right these past wrongs?
AVILA: One way is to emphasize clean energy and addressing air pollution in communities of color, largely because of the presence of toxic infrastructure, like freeways. Another would be, I think, to remember the communities that were sacrificed to the interstate highway project. I mean, there's many examples of people gathering to remember neighborhoods that were lost to highway construction.
In St. Paul, The Rondo Days Festival is a means by which the residents of an old African American neighborhood that was bisected, essentially destroyed, by a freeway, they come together to remember the neighborhood that was lost. That's, I think, an important part of the history that we need to remember - what was lost in the effort to build a national highway infrastructure.
CHANG: How hopeful are you that the Biden plan will actually help remedy these wrongs we're talking about?
AVILA: I am heartened by the fact that we're even having this conversation and that we're, you know, finally, at a national level, beginning to recognize that these freeways are not innocent spaces. You know, they were built upon institutional and systemic bias. And I'm hopeful that, you know, some real changes are going to be made.
CHANG: Eric Avila is a historian at UCLA. Thank you very much for joining us today.
AVILA: Thank you so much. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Wagner Group, a private mercenary firm widely believed to be linked to Russia's defense ministry, first rose to prominence back in 2014. They were fighting in Ukraine alongside pro-Russia separatists in Donbas in the east. Well, look at Ukraine today and you will find Wagner fighters in combat alongside official Russian forces. And while the Kremlin denies links to the group, they are now openly advertising in Russia for new recruits.
I want to bring in Sean McFate, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and also a U.S. Army veteran and himself a former private military contractor. Sean McFate, welcome.
SEAN MCFATE: Thank you for having me.
KELLY: What role has Wagner been playing in Ukraine this year?
MCFATE: Wagner Group has changed its role, but right now its main role is sort of body supply to the ongoing fight in Ukraine.
KELLY: Meaning what? Meaning Russian troops have been suffering a lot of losses, and they need - what? - warm bodies?
MCFATE: Yeah, exactly. So as we all know, Russia went into Ukraine in February thinking this would take six days at most. It's now six months. And Putin has a problem. And that's this - is that he's running out of people. So what he's started to do in desperation is start to recruit heavily from the periphery of Russia - like sort of, you know, eastern Russia, where nobody is really paying attention to it - and also the Wagner Group, using mercenaries to fill in the ranks so that, you know, mothers don't see their dead sons coming home in body bags.
KELLY: So as you track this group, what are you seeing in terms of recruitment? Now, I was reading and seeing pictures of, like, big billboards saying, hey, you know, you want an adventure this summer? Come join Wagner.
MCFATE: Yeah, they're - it's kind of absurd. It's ludicrous. They have like, you know, sort of like a Disney World camp thing. But I would say this - I think it's split. The Wagner Group is still keeping a core of their best cadre that they don't send into Ukraine, but they're just sort of flying the doors open for any sort of living, breathing person who they can deploy to Ukraine. But they're sort of the rank and file, the tread grease, whatever you want to call it, the cannon fodder.
KELLY: It seems to present something of a challenge for the Kremlin, which doesn't acknowledge links with the group and also doesn't acknowledge that what's happening in Ukraine is a war. It raises the question, why would you need private contractors? Do they have to explain any of this or, because they control state-owned media, that it's just not a question that, you know, ever rises to senior levels in the Kremlin?
MCFATE: It - state-owned media does manipulate people's perception of reality within Russia, clearly. But the Wagner Group is emblematic of larger problems with Ukraine. And the fact that they've taken the Wagner Group and de facto made it public kind of destroys why the Kremlin used the Wagner Group in the first place all these past years. They allow you to fight wars in secret without consequences. And the Kremlin loves to do that. Now that the Wagner Group is some, like, third-rate recruiting apparatus, it's losing that luster, reputation and plausible deniability factors.
KELLY: One last thing to ask you, which is what is the U.S. position here?
MCFATE: The U.S. intelligence community generally has a blind spot towards mercenaries. They think of the Wagner Group merely as a proxy group. But it's not. I mean, these are for-profit actors, and they're not unique. I mean, you know, a year ago, Colombian mercenaries assassinated the president of Haiti. And we still don't know who hired them. The mercenaries don't know who hired them. And that's the power of mercenaries, and I think that's why we're seeing them return. But you wouldn't really know it if you talk to people inside Washington, D.C.
KELLY: Sean McFate of the Atlantic Council and author of "The New Rules Of War." Sean McFate, thank you.
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Dry ice is used to clean permanent molds in the foundry. The advantage of this non-abrasive and non-corrosive cleaning procedure is that it neither damages the material to be cleaned nor does it leave behind dry ice residue. With dry ice (solid CO2), the most complex geometries, as are often found on permanent molds, can be cleaned without damaging or dismantling equipment. At BMW in Landshut, this was previously done manually, placing a great strain on the worker.
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Anthony J. Pearson
The Rudolph and Susan Rense Professor Emeritus
Millis 433A
Other Information
Education: PhD, University of Aston (U.K.)
Organic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis, Natural Products, Synthesis
Education and Awards
- BSc, University of Leeds (UK) 1971
- PhD, University of Aston (UK) 1974
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University, 1974-77
- Sir Gilbert Morgan Medal, Society for Chemical Industry, UK, 1973
- SERC Advanced Fellow, Cambridge University (UK), 1977-82
- CWRU Sigma XI Research Award, 1984
- John S. Diekhoff Award for disginguished graduate teaching, 1994
Research Synopsis
We currently have two research themes: (1) Development of organoiron chemistry for applications in organic synthesis, and (2) Development of organocatalysts for asymmetric aldol reactions.
The discovery and development of new reactions is a very exciting outcome in organic synthesis research. Our group has been fortunate to discover a number of new reactions (all by accident!), some of which are illustrated here.
This [6+2] ene-type reaction was discovered by graduate student Mark Zettler, the example given here showing how a densely substituted multicyclic structure can be constructed, that relates to the sesquiterpenoid verrucarol. Subsequent work by graduate student Xiaolong Wang resulted in a two-step procedure for stereospecific conversion of a readily prepared cyclohexadiene into a molecule that has much of the structure in place for synthetic approaches to the complex alkaloid gelsemine. Xiaolong also developed a sereocontrolled asymmetric ene cyclization that uses dynamic diastereoselectivity during the ene coupling process:
Recent work on this ene reaction has shown that the pendant alkene can be replaced by an aldehyde, which could provide an approach to compounds such as spirostaphylotrichin A:
Organocatalyzed Asymmetric Aldol Reactions
We have recently developed several new proline-derived organocatalysts for use in asymmetric aldol reactions. The design principle uses an anthranilic acid core as a structural template to induce a reverse turn and give a chiral binding pocket for the substrates, as exemplified here:
Selected Publications
- A. J. Pearson and D. V. Ciurea. Synthesis of a Key Precursor for Orienticin C and Model Study on Ruthenium-mediated Macrocyclization. J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 760-763.
- H. Paramahamsan, A. J. Pearson, A. A. Pinkerton, and E. A. Zhurova. Toward an Understanding of 1,5 Asymmetric Induction During Nucleophile Addition to Arenechromium Tricarbonyl Complexes: Conformational Preference and Orientation of the Chromium Tricarbonyl Tripod for Transmission of Chirality. Organometallics 2008, 27, 900-907.
- A. J. Pearson, D. V. Ciurea, and A. Velankar. Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Ristocetin A Aglycone Using Arene-Ruthenium Complexes as SNAr Substrates: Construction of an Advanced Tricyclic Intermediate. Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49¸ 1922-1926.
- H. Paramahamsan, A. J. Pearson, N. M. Pinkerton and A. A. Pinkerton. 1,5-Asymmetric Induction During Nucleophile Additions to Arenechromium Tricarbonyl Complexes, h6-{4-[[Spiro[(1R,2S)-1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-3.2'-[1,3-dioxolan]-2-yl]oxy]toluene}chromium Tricarbonyl. Acta Cryst. 2008, C64, m147-m148.
- A. J. Pearson and Y. Zhou. Diels-Alder Reactions of Cyclopentadienones with Aryl Alkynes To Form Biaryl Compounds. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 4242-4245.
- A. J. Pearson, E. Kim, and H. Sun. A Synthetic Pathway To Diquinane and Angular Triquinane Systems via an Iron Carbonyl Promoted Tandem [6+2] Ene Type Reaction. Tetrahedron 2010, 66, 4943-4946.
- A. J. Pearson and S. Panda. N-Prolinylanthranilic Acid Derivatives as Bifunctional Organocatalysts for Asymmetric Aldol Reactions. Tetrahedron 2011, 67, 3969-3975.
- A. J. Pearson and S. Panda. N-Prolinylanthranilamide Pseudopeptides as Bifunctional Organocatalysts for Asymmetric Aldol Reactions. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 5548-5551.
- A. J. Pearson, S. Zhang, and H. Sun. Stereocontrolled Intramolecular Iron-mediated Diene/Vinyl Ether Cyclocoupling Reactions. J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 8835-8839.
- A. J. Pearson, S. Panda, and S. D. Bunge. Synthesis of a Potential Intermediate for TMC-95A via an Organocatalyzed Aldol Reaction. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 9921-9928.
- A. J. Pearson and S. Zhang. Stereocontrolled Intramolecular Iron-mediated Tandem [6+2]-Ene-type Diene/Dienol Ether Double Cyclization Reactions. Tetrahedron Lett. 2015, 56, 3105-3107.
Textbook and Monograph Publications:
- A. J. Pearson Metallo-Organic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons 1985, 388 pp.
- A. J. Pearson Iron Compounds in Organic Synthesis, Academic Press, 1994.
- Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. L. A. Paquette, Editor-in-Chief. S. D. Burke, R. M. Coates, R. L. Danheiser, S. E. Denmark, D. J. Hart, L. S. Liebeskind, D. C. Liotta, A. J. Pearson, H. J. Reich, J. H. Rigby, and W. R. Roush, Editors. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1995.
- Handbook of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. L. A. Paquette, Editor-in-Chief. Volume C, Activating Agents and Protecting Groups. A. J. Pearson and W. R. Roush, Editors. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1999.


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Who we are
Ahead Loft Ladders is a UK based Loft Ladder & Loft Boarding Company
Personal data
Ahead Loft Ladders uses the information collected from you to provide services and marketing information that Ahead Loft Ladders believes may be of interest to you and your business. In having made your initial contact with Ahead Loft Ladders, you consent to Ahead Loft Ladders maintaining a marketing dialogue with you until either you opt out (which you can do at any stage) or we decide to discontinue promoting our services. Ahead Loft Ladders also acts on behalf of its clients in the capacity of data processor. When working exclusively as a data processor, Ahead Loft Ladders will be acting on the instruction of its client and will aim to ensure that the client is fully GDPR compliant.
Some personal data may be collected about you from forms and surveys that you complete; from records of our correspondence and phone calls; and from details of your visits to our website, including but not limited to personally identifying information such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Ahead Loft Ladders may from time to time use such information to identify its visitors. Ahead Loft Ladders may also collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website along with transaction information collected in the process of performing its business.
Ahead Loft Ladders's website uses cookies, which are strings of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Ahead Loft Ladders website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Ahead Loft Ladders's website.
Any information Ahead Loft Ladders holds about you and your business encompasses all the details we hold about you and any sales transactions, including any third-party information, we have obtained about you from public sources and our own suppliers, such as credit referencing agencies.
Ahead Loft Ladders will only collect the information needed so that it can provide you with its services. Ahead Loft Ladders does not sell or broker your data, although coincidentally there may be times when your information could be contained in data that Ahead Loft Ladders has purchased from a third-party list broker, on behalf of a client.
Who we share your personal information with
Ahead Loft Ladders will not pass on your personal data to third parties unless: it is a requirement of the service or product you have with us, where this will be detailed within the contract, if it is a prerequisite to the service or product you intend to have with us, you will be notified beforehand, we wish to undertake marketing to you under our legitimate interests, or it is a legal requirement to do so.
- Analytics services (Google Analytics)
- Advertising networks (Google, Facebook, Bing, or Amazon)
- Network service providers who provide the service agreed in your contract
- Other service providers if purchased through us, e.g. insurance companies
- Companies we have a joint venture or agreement to co-operate with
- Companies we have contracts with, to provide you with the services agreed in your contract, e.g. device repair centres
- If you use direct debits, we will share your data with the Direct Debit scheme
- Debt collection agencies or other debt recovery organisations
- Law enforcement agencies, regulatory organisations, courts or other public authorities if we have to, or are authorised to do so by law
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets as part of the process of evaluation and to ensure continuity of service
These third parties have access to your information so that they may perform these tasks on our behalf and they are prohibited by us from using or disclosing your information for any purpose other than to provide this assistance, except to the extent required by law. We may permit our service providers to use aggregate information which does not identify you or de-identified data for other purposes.
Some of the data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It will also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who are owned by and solely work for us. This includes staff engaged in the provision of support services. We will take all steps necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and we have the necessary legal contract in place to fulfil these services.
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your computer's (or alternative web browsing device's) hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide rich shopping features such as recommend products and loyalty discounts, as well as the storage of items in your Shopping Basket between visits. The Help menu in most common browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of Ahead Loft Ladders's essential features, we recommend that you leave them turned on. For instance, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to add items to your Shopping Cart, proceed to Checkout, or use any features that require you to Sign in. If you do leave cookies turned on, be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.
Google Ads
Your use of the Google Ads integration is subject to Google's terms at: https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/6169371. Ahead Loft Ladders will be able to view and manage your account and stores your Google Ads account number. As part of the integration, Ahead Loft Ladders receives user token with permissions on ad accounts. Google will share with Ahead Loft Ladders the following: settings details (e.g., name, budget, bid strategy, creative) and performance metrics (impressions, clicks, etc.) for all campaigns, ad sets, and ads in the ad accounts the user has "connected" to Ahead Loft Ladders. This data is used to suggest enhancements to campaigns to increase their performance. Ahead Loft Ladders does not share this data with third parties which can be found in the section "Sharing Information With Affiliates and Other Third Parties".
Main service provider: Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics Terms of Service: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/gb/ General overview on Google Analytics security and privacy principles: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en, as well as Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies.
Google Analytics Privacy Policy
Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyse traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website.
We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with Personal Data. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
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Transfers to third countries are possible. As an appropriate safeguard standard contractual clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR were concluded. For third countries/companies which fall under an adequacy decision, the adequacy decision also applies.
Ahead Loft Ladders may from time to time share your details with third party analytical resources for the purposes of better understanding customer behaviour and performance, website performance, improved ad relevance and any other analytical process to give Ahead Loft Ladders a better understanding of how to develop its offering to its customers. These third parties will be employed solely for the purpose of the aforementioned analytical purposes, and as such Ahead Loft Ladders will ensure that the third party is contractually obliged to use the data only for the analytical purposes set out in the agreement between Ahead Loft Ladders and the third party, and Ahead Loft Ladders will also ensure that the third party is contractually required to maintain a level of security around the shared data, at least as safe as Ahead Loft Ladders itself employs.
Failure on the part of the third party to meet its contractual obligations will result in Ahead Loft Ladders recovering the data, and taking all reasonable actions to ensure the third party no longer has access to the shared data. Any third party cookies used on Ahead Loft Ladders will adhere to the same standards as first party cookies and not collect any personally identifiable information.
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This website may on occasion use the so-called "Facebook Pixel" and the Conversions API of the social network "Facebook" by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (Meta) for the following purposes:
- Facebook (website) Custom Audiences
We use the Facebook pixel and the Conversions API for remarketing purposes to be able to contact you again within 180 days. This allows us to display interest-based advertisements ("Facebook Ads") to users of the website when they visit the social network "Facebook" or other websites also using this tool. In this way, we pursue the interest in displaying advertisements that are of interest to you in order to make our website or offers more interesting for you. - Facebook conversion
We also use the Facebook Pixel and the Conversions API to ensure that our Facebook Ads match the potential interest of users and are not annoying. With the help of the Facebook Pixel, we can track the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad (so-called "conversion").
Due to the marketing tools used (Facebook Pixel and Conversions API), your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Facebook server as soon as you have agreed to the use of cookies requiring your consent. Through the integration of the Facebook pixel and the usage of the Conversions API, Facebook receives the information that you have called up the corresponding website of our internet presence or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a Facebook service, Facebook can assign the visit to your account.
The processing of this data by Facebook takes place within the framework of Facebook's data policy. Special information and details about the Facebook pixel, the Conversions API and its functionality can also be found in the Facebook help area.
Legal basis for processing any personal data
To meet Ahead Loft Ladders's contractual obligations to clients and to conform to relevant legal obligations they have.
Legitimate interests pursued by Ahead Loft Ladders and/or its clients
To promote the services offered by Ahead Loft Ladders and/or to market the services and/or products offered by Ahead Loft Ladders's existing clients.
Through agreeing to this privacy notice you are consenting to Ahead Loft Ladders processing your personal data for the purposes outlined. You can withdraw consent at any time by emailing ; by phoning 01903 649169; or by writing to us. See last section for full contact details.
Ahead Loft Ladders may, on occasion, pass your Personal Information to third parties exclusively to process work on its behalf. Ahead Loft Ladders requires these parties to agree to process this information based on our instructions and requirements consistent with this Privacy Notice and GDPR. Ahead Loft Ladders does not broker or pass on information gained from your engagement without your consent. However, Ahead Loft Ladders may disclose your Personal Information to meet legal obligations, regulations, or valid governmental requests. Ahead Loft Ladders may also enforce its Terms and Conditions, including investigating potential violations of its Terms and Conditions, to detect, prevent or mitigate fraud or security or technical issues; or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety of Ahead Loft Ladders, its clients and/or the wider community.
Retention policy
Ahead Loft Ladders will process personal data during the duration of any contract and will continue to store only the personal data needed for seven years after the contract has expired to meet any legal obligations. After seven years any personal data not needed will be deleted.
Data storage
Data is held on multiple servers within the United Kingdom. Ahead Loft Ladders does not store personal data outside the EEA.
Data transfers
Although Ahead Loft Ladders does not store personal data outside of the EEA, in certain circumstances we may need to transfer personal data outside of the EEA in order to provide our services (e.g. when processing transactions for international numbers). In such cases, Ahead Loft Ladders is committed to ensuring that third party data processors, who may themselves store personal data outside of the EEA, adhere to the highest possible level of data privacy, and, wherever practically possible, will endeavour to impose legally binding obligations on said third parties. This may include, but is not limited to, relying on EU adequacy decisions and/or PCI compliance regulations, and/or enforcing standard contractual provisions.
Your rights as a data subject
At any point whilst Ahead Loft Ladders is in possession of or processing your personal data, all data subjects have the following rights:
- Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
- Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
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You can request the following information:
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- How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (ICO).
- Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
- The source of personal data if it was not collected directly from you.
- Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.
To access details of what personal data is held, identification will be required. Ahead Loft Ladders will accept the following forms of ID when information on your personal data is requested: a copy of your driving licence; passport; birth certificate; and a utility bill not older than three months. A minimum of one piece of photographic ID listed above and a supporting document is required. If Ahead Loft Ladders is dissatisfied with the quality, further information may be sought before personal data can be released.
All requests should be made to or by phoning 01903 649169 or by writing to us at the address further below.
In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Ahead Loft Ladders or its partners, you have the right to complain to Ahead Loft Ladders directors. If you do not get a response within 30 days, you can complain to the ICO.
The details for each of these contacts are:
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JSR 227: A Standard Data Binding & Data Access Facility for J2EETM
Reason: Withdrawn at the request of the Specification Lead. JCP version in use: 2.7 Java Specification Participation Agreement version in use: 2.0 Description: An API and associated metadata format for declaratively binding and accessing data in J2EETM applications. Please direct comments on this JSR to the Spec Lead(s) Team
This JSR has been Withdrawn The following changes have been made to the original proposal: 2006.08.23: Specification Lead: John Smiljanic E-Mail Address: john.smiljanic Telephone Number: +1 512 703 4711 Fax Number: - Original Java Specification Request (JSR)
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Section 1. Identification Submitting Member: Oracle Name of Contact Person: Ted Farrell E-Mail Address: firstname.lastname@example.com Telephone Number: +1 650 506 9812 Fax Number: +1 801 365 5378 Specification Lead: Mike DeGroot E-Mail Address: email@example.com Telephone Number: +1 650 506 2862 Fax Number: +1 801 365 5378 Initial Expert Group Membership: Oracle Corporation Supporting this JSR: Oracle Corporation Section 2: Request 2.1 Please describe the proposed Specification:Increasingly, enterprise applications model persistent datasources as Java classes and develop Business Services[1] that query, manipulate, and persist these objects. However, developing interactive user interfaces that use Business Services to correctly manipulate the data objects requires understanding and coding against complex sets of design patterns and standards that underly the various Service technologies. This proposed specification will define a framework of classes, called Declarative Bindings, that formalize the characteristic interactions between typical UI components and values and methods available on Business Services. By using the Declarative Bindings set forth in this specificiation, any Java UI rendering technology can declaratively bind to any Business Service. Example UI components and controller technologies include: JSP JSTL tags, JSF, Struts, and Swing. Example business services include SOAP Web Services, EJB Session Beans or any Java class being used as an interface to some functionality. When accessed by the UI components and UI controller, the metadata-driven Declarative Bindings interact with the classes that they are bound to, providing J2EE standards-compliant support for things like:
The Declarative Binding classes provide attributes that are easily accessible to all user interface technologies that support EL or Java. Declarative Bindings manage the interaction with Business Services. They drive their behavior off metadata, which is convenient for tools vendors. One of the goals of this proposal is allow interoperability between tools products that interactively bind sophisticated interfaces to the services that provide the data. To facilitate a common mechanism for accessing diverse Business Service technologies this specification proposes that the Declarative Bindings access the Business Services via a lightweight abstraction layer called Data Controls. Data Controls provide supplemental metadata about the Business Service's capabilities and constraints as well as support a simple interface for normalizing typical interactions with the Service. Data Controls comprehensively describe the attributes and methods so that UI components can make intelligent assumptions about how to render the data. In addtion, the Data Control standardizes access to functionality that is typically required by data-intensive, interactive user interfaces. Examples of functionality could include how the Business Service is instantiated, navigated, invoked, sychronized, transacted or released. This JSR will not impose any requirements for the types of attributes or methods on the Data Control or any implementation requirements. Those decisions will be left to the implementor of the Data Control and revealed to the Declarative Bindings and UI via the Data Control interface. [1] By Business Service we mean any class that publishes objects and provides methods that manipulate the objects. I.e. The actual term may vary according to the Business Service technology, SessionFacade, WebService, ApplicationModule, etc. 2.2 What is the target Java platform? (i.e., desktop, server, personal, embedded, card, etc.)JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 2.3 What need of the Java community will be addressed by the proposed specification?This specification provides one standard way for user interfaces to access the data of the application, regardless of the implementation or specific technology used for O/R mapping or distributed object communication. 2.4 Why isn't this need met by existing specifications?This area of technology is not covered by existing standards. 2.5 Please give a short description of the underlying technology or technologies:There are two parts to this technology: Declarative Bindings and Data Controls. Declarative Bindings describe and manage the characteristic interactions between specific kinds of UI components (View and Controller layers) and the methods provided by a Business Service (Model layer). Data Controls provide supplimental metadata about the Business Service's capabilities and constraints.as well as a simple interface for normalizing typical transactional interactions with the Service. 2.6 Is there a proposed package name for the API Specification? (i.e., javapi.something, org.something, etc.)javax.datacontrol 2.7 Does the proposed specification have any dependencies on specific operating systems, CPUs, or I/O devices that you know of?No 2.8 Are there any security issues that cannot be addressed by the current security model?No 2.9 Are there any internationalization or localization issues?These will be explicitly addressed by the specification. 2.10 Are there any existing specifications that might be rendered obsolete, deprecated, or in need of revision as a result of this work?
2.11 Please describe the anticipated schedule for the development of this specification.We hope to have the specification completed in time to be included in the next major revision of the JavaTM 2 Enterprise Edition platform (post 1.4). 2.12 Please describe the anticipated working model for the Expert Group working on developing this specification.Oracle will lead the specification and implementation work, with experts contributing to the API specification. This will include email discussions, monthly phone calls and possibly a F2F meeting. 2.13 Please describe how the RI and TCK will de delivered, i.e. as part of a profile or platform edition, or stand-alone, or both. Include version information for the profile or platform in your answer.The RI and TCK will be made available in stand-alone form at the time of the final release. There will most likely be earlier versions of the RI and TCK that are developed as this JSR progresses. 2.14 Please state the rationale if previous versions are available stand-alone and you are now proposing in 2.13 to only deliver RI and TCK as part of a profile or platform edition (See sections 1.1.5 and 1.1.6 of the JCP 2 document).Not applicable. 2.15 Please provide a description of the business terms for the Specification, RI and TCK that will apply when this JSR is final.It is Oracle's intention to create open source licenses that are as similar as possible to an "Apache"-style license. Additions or changes to this basic open source format will be limited to those terms required to comply with the JSPA, or which explain terms or limitations of the licenses granted under the JSPA. Currently intended terms are as follows:
Section 3: Contributions 3.1 Please list any existing documents, specifications, or implementations that describe the technology. Please include links to the documents if they are publicly available.The "Data Control" and "Data Binding" technologies are used in Oracle 9i JDeveloper version 9.0.5. This will be shipping in preview mode in July of 2003. 3.2 Explanation of how these items might be used as a starting point for the work.The expert group will consider them as a starting point for ideas on defining the specification. |


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The article below is a copy of "the international man" newsletter.You're likely thinking that a discussion of "sound banking" will be a bit boring. Well, banking should be boring. And we're sure officials at central banks all over the world today—many of whom have trouble sleeping—wish it were.This brief article will explain why the world's banking system is unsound, and what differentiates a sound from an unsound bank. I suspect not one person in 1,000 actually understands the difference. As a result, the world's economy is now based upon unsound banks dealing in unsound currencies. Both have degenerated considerably from their origins.
Modern banking emerged from the goldsmithing trade of the Middle Ages. Being a goldsmith required a working inventory of precious metal, and managing that inventory profitably required expertise in buying and selling metal and storing it securely. Those capacities segued easily into the business of lending and borrowing gold, which is to say the business of lending and borrowing money.
Most people today are only dimly aware that until the early 1930s, gold coins were used in everyday commerce by the general public. In addition, gold backed most national currencies at a fixed rate of convertibility. Banks were just another business—nothing special. They were distinguished from other enterprises only by the fact they stored, lent, and borrowed gold coins, not as a sideline but as a primary business. Bankers had become goldsmiths without the hammers.
Bank deposits, until quite recently, fell strictly into two classes, depending on the preference of the depositor and the terms offered by banks: time deposits, and demand deposits. Although the distinction between them has been lost in recent years, respecting the difference is a critical element of sound banking practice.
Time Deposits. With a time deposit—a savings account, in essence—a customer contracts to leave his money with the banker for a specified period. In return, he receives a specified fee (interest) for his risk, for his inconvenience, and as consideration for allowing the banker the use of the depositor's money. The banker, secure in knowing he has a specific amount of gold for a specific amount of time, is able to lend it; he'll do so at an interest rate high enough to cover expenses (including the interest promised to the depositor), fund a loan-loss reserve, and if all goes according to plan, make a profit.
A time deposit entails a commitment by both parties. The depositor is locked in until the due date. How could a sound banker promise to give a time depositor his money back on demand and without penalty when he's planning to lend it out?
In the business of accepting time deposits, a banker is a dealer in credit, acting as an intermediary between lenders and borrowers. To avoid loss, bankers customarily preferred to lend on productive assets, whose earnings offered assurance that the borrower could cover the interest as it came due. And they were willing to lend only a fraction of the value of a pledged asset, to ensure a margin of safety for the principal. And only for a limited time—such as against the harvest of a crop or the sale of an inventory. And finally, only to people of known good character—the first line of defense against fraud. Long-term loans were the province of bond syndicators.
That's time deposits. Demand deposits were a completely different matter.
Demand Deposits. Demand deposits were so called because, unlike time deposits, they were payable to the customer on demand. These are the basis of checking accounts. The banker doesn't pay interest on the money, because he supposedly never has the use of it; to the contrary, he necessarily charged the depositor a fee for:
Assuming the responsibility of keeping the money safe, available for immediate withdrawal, and
Administering the transfer of the money if the depositor so chooses by either writing a check or passing along a warehouse receipt that represents the gold on deposit.
An honest banker should no more lend out demand deposit money than Allied Van and Storage should lend out the furniture you've paid it to store. The warehouse receipts for gold were called banknotes. When a government issued them, they were called currency. Gold bullion, gold coinage, banknotes, and currency together constituted the society's supply of transaction media. But its amount was strictly limited by the amount of gold actually available to people.
Sound principles of banking are identical to sound principles of warehousing any kind of merchandise, whether it's autos, potatoes, or books. Or money. There's nothing mysterious about sound banking. But banking all over the world has been fundamentally unsound since government-sponsored central banks came to dominate the financial system.
Central banks are a linchpin of today's world financial system. By purchasing government debt, banks can allow the state—for a while—to finance its activities without taxation. On the surface, this appears to be a "free lunch." But it's actually quite pernicious and is the engine of currency debasement.
Central banks may seem like a permanent part of the cosmic landscape, but in fact they are a recent invention. The US Federal Reserve, for instance, didn't exist before 1913.
Unsound Banking
Fraud can creep into any business. A banker, seeing other people's gold sitting idle in his vault, might think, "What is the point of taking gold out of the ground from a mine, only to put it back into the ground in a vault?" People are writing checks against it and using his banknotes. But the gold itself seldom moves. A restless banker might conclude that, even though it might be a fraud on depositors (depending on exactly what the bank has promised them), he could easily create lots more banknotes and lend them out, and keep 100% of the interest for himself.
Left solely to their own devices, some bankers would try that. But most would be careful not to go too far, since the game would end abruptly if any doubt emerged about the bank's ability to hand over gold on demand. The arrival of central banks eased that fear by introducing a lender of last resort. Because the central bank is always standing by with credit, bankers are free to make promises they know they might not be able to keep on their own.
How Banking Works Today
In the past, when a bank created too much currency out of nothing, people eventually would notice, and a "bank run" would materialize. But when a central bank authorizes all banks to do the same thing, that's less likely—unless it becomes known that an individual bank has made some really foolish loans.
Central banks were originally justified—especially the creation of the Federal Reserve in the US—as a device for economic stability. The occasional chastisement of imprudent bankers and their foolish customers was an excuse to get government into the banking business. As has happened in so many cases, an occasional and local problem was "solved" by making it systemic and housing it in a national institution. It's loosely analogous to the way the government handles the problem of forest fires: extinguishing them quickly provides an immediate and visible benefit. But the delayed and forgotten consequence of doing so is that it allows decades of deadwood to accumulate. Now when a fire starts, it can be a once-in-a-century conflagration.
Banking all over the world now operates on a "fractional reserve" system. In our earlier example, our sound banker kept a 100% reserve against demand deposits: he held one ounce of gold in his vault for every one-ounce banknote he issued. And he could only lend the proceeds of time deposits, not demand deposits. A "fractional reserve" system can't work in a free market; it has to be legislated. And it can't work where banknotes are redeemable in a commodity, such as gold; the banknotes have to be "legal tender" or strictly paper money that can be created by fiat.
The fractional reserve system is why banking is more profitable than normal businesses. In any industry, rich average returns attract competition, which reduces returns. A banker can lend out a dollar, which a businessman might use to buy a widget. When that seller of the widget re-deposits the dollar, a banker can lend it out at interest again. The good news for the banker is that his earnings are compounded several times over. The bad news is that, because of the pyramided leverage, a default can cascade. In each country, the central bank periodically changes the percentage reserve (theoretically, from 100% down to 0% of deposits) that banks must keep with it, according to how the bureaucrats in charge perceive the state of the economy.
In any event, in the US (and actually most everywhere in the world), protection against runs on banks isn't provided by sound practices, but by laws. In 1934, to restore confidence in commercial banks, the US government instituted the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) deposit insurance in the amount of $2,500 per depositor per bank, eventually raising coverage to today's $250,000. In Europe, €100,000 is the amount guaranteed by the state.
FDIC insurance covers about $9.3 trillion of deposits, but the institution has assets of only $25 billion. That's less than one cent on the dollar. I'll be surprised if the FDIC doesn't go bust and need to be recapitalized by the government. That money—many billions—will likely be created out of thin air by selling Treasury debt to the Fed.
The fractional reserve banking system, with all of its unfortunate attributes, is critical to the world's financial system as it is currently structured. You can plan your life around the fact the world's governments and central banks will do everything they can to maintain confidence in the financial system. To do so, they must prevent a deflation at all costs. And to do that, they will continue printing up more dollars, pounds, euros, yen, and what-have-you.


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