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you border crosser
in this simulation
you constantly slip
and call one border
by the other's name
the names aren't straight
inside of you and you
conflate one with two
because you still yearn
for another border
four by four hidden
crossers that everyday
irrigated jeep tries to cross
this is the border simulator
where you imagine
your way through
the relationship you can pretend
to get chased by someone
who looks like you
employed by the border
to grab others like you
that's the number
of remains found
in the year not the deaths
you can catch the catcher
of catchers who funnel
crossers into more habitable
parts their words don't know
how to border each other
their worlds don't know
how to border each other
or where to draw the imaginary
dotted line we were crossing
and it was fine until the words
left us and we couldn't see
each others eyes or fear
but we knew it was there
and their bland coyote
is all bright division
with his shoulders
over the desert
and through the cholla
and there's pressure
to keep the cars moving
Bachelard says humans love caves
and hidden drawers
these coyotes love hiding
Guatemalans in little cupboards
in the back of their trucks
in clever compartments
once over they pop out
with open arms and say cabrón
Gabriel Dozal is from El Paso, TX. He is an MFA candidate at the University of Arizona. This is his first publication.
You Whom They Border first appeared in TLR Chemistry.


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After a filling meal of pierogis and sauerkraut at the Busy Bee restaurant in Wicker Park, I crossed Damen and hurried through the park, past the smack heads and other lost souls, arriving at the party at about nine. When I walked into the cramped apartment on Evergreen, I recognized him immediately from the photo on the jacket of my copy of The Man with the Golden Arm. Algren was sitting restlessly on a chair in the kitchen talking to a tall blonde named Dottie. He took long drags on his Marlboro and was sipping from a glass filled with what looked like rye.
A guy that I knew, Bill Schmidt, an old beatnik who owned a hole-in-the-wall bookstore on Wells, sat nearby and asked me if I would like to meet the writer he called Lord Nelson. Of course I jumped at the opportunity, and Bill introduced me to him as a nice kid with literary pretensions. Algren smiled at me knowingly and said how could I stand hanging out with a bullshitter like Schmidt. We all laughed, no feelings were hurt in this good comradely banter.
I wanted to say something of importance to Algren. Perhaps some details about his love affair with Simone and how Sartre reacted to it. Maybe express my empathy to him about how he got screwed by Hollywood. Instead, after a few seconds of painful silence, Algren turned his attention back to Dottie, while I walked away heading into the living room.

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Hip osteonecrosis
What is Core Decompression and Cell Therapy for?
Core Decompression and Regenerative Treatment are two out of the string of treatments for osteonecrosis, or what is also known as avascular necrosis of the hip. Before we dive right into the thick of it, let us first understand the condition.
Osteonecrosis, or avascular necrosis (AVN), develops when the head of the femur is deprived of blood supply. Without the necessary nourishment, the femoral head dies, it will gradually collapse, and may lead to degenerative changes. This can cause severe pain and disability, much like arthritis does.
Osteonecrosis can affect anyone, but it is more common in individuals between the ages of 40-65. Men develop osteonecrosis of the hip more often than women. Patients with osteonecrosis that is caught in its very early stages, or before the femoral head collapses, are potential candidates for Core Decompression and Cell Therapy.
Core Decompression is done under spinal or general anaesthesia. The patient is placed on their back or in a supine position. The surgeon may use live x-ray or fluoroscopy to serve as a guide during the procedure. He then creates a small incision on your hip and a guide wire is passed from the incision through the neck of the femoral bone to the necrotic area in the femoral head. A hole is then drilled along the wire from which the necrotic bone is removed. This immediately reduces pressure and it also creates a space for new blood vessels to grow and nourish the affected bone.
The cavity that is left behind in the bone is sometimes filled with bone graft taken either from another part of your body or from a donor. In some cases, synthetic bone graft material is used. The incision is then closed with sutures
Meanwhile, if cell therapy is done alongside core decompression, the collection of bone marrow or mesenchymal cells from the iliac crest is accomplished by the use of a single beveled aspirating needle, or a standard 10 ml syringe. It is prepared by rinsing it with an anticoagulant solution. The needle is positioned at a 45-degree angle and successive aspirations are done to afford aspiration from the largest possible space. A trocar is used to position the stem cells to where they are supposed to be placed before it is administered.
Any surgery involving bones, muscles or tendons pose a risk for re-injury or injury to another part in the surrounding area. Infection, bleeding and loss of function are also possible with this procedure. There is also a chance that there will be damage to the nerves and blood vessels in the legs and hip. Rejection of the bone graft is also possible with core decompression.
Cell therapy posed no risk since this is an autologous donor, which means that the cells are the patient's own. This prevents the possibility of allergic reactions or rejection. The procedure is also minimally invasive percutaneous injection and not a major surgery, hence there are lesser risks.
To be well-prepared for surgery, it is best to understand and discuss this with your doctor. He can walk you through what will happen during the surgery and what to expect afterwards. You may undergo scans and pre-operative testing to determine the best approach in restoring blood flow and to relieve pressure in your hip. Once it is determined that you are a candidate for core decompression, you are advised not to eat or drink anything after midnight before surgery.
After the operation, you may be advised to use crutches or walkers for 6-12 weeks to prevent weight bearing at the hip joint until the femur joint heals completely. This may require time off work and other physical activities. You may resume your regular activities 3 months after the surgery. Therefore, the key to a speedy recovery is to adhere to post-surgical instructions and to prevent undue stress on the affected area.
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CAS-001 - CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner Certification Exam
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Example Questions
A security analyst is tasked to create an executive briefing, which explains the activity and motivation of a cyber adversary. Which of the following is the MOST important content for the brief for management personnel to understand?
Threat actor types, threat actor motivation, and the attack impact
The security engineer receives an incident ticket from the helpdesk stating that DNS lookup requests are no longer working from the office. The network team has ensured that Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity are working. Which of the following tools would a security engineer use to make sure the DNS server is listening on port 53?
Which of the following elements are essential elements of a privacy policy? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.
A mid-level company is rewriting its security policies and has halted the rewriting progress because the company's executives believe that its major vendors, who have cultivated a strong personal and professional relationship with the senior level staff, have a good handle on compliance and regulatory standards. Therefore, the executive level managers are allowing vendors to play a large role in writing the policy. Having experienced this type of environment in previous positions, and being aware that vendors may not always put the company's interests first, the IT Director decides that while vendor support is important, it is critical that the company writes the policy objectively. Which of the following is the recommendation the IT Director should present to senior staff?
1) Consult legal and regulatory requirements; 2) Draft General Organizational Policy; 3) Specify Functional Implementing Policies; 4) Establish necessary standards, procedures, baselines, and guidelines
_________ consists of very large-scale virtualized, distributed computing systems. They cover multiple administrative domains and enable virtual organizations.
Grid computing
A network engineer at Company ABC observes the following raw HTTP request: GET /disp_reports.php?SectionEntered=57&GroupEntered=-1&report_type=alerts&to_date=01- 01-0101&Run= Run&UserEntered=dsmith&SessionID=5f04189bc&from_date=31-10-2010&TypesEntered=1 HTTP/1.1 Host: test.example.net Accept: */* Accept-Language: en Connection: close Cookie: java14=1; java15=1; java16=1; js=1292192278001; Which of the following should be the engineer's GREATEST concern?
Sensitive data is transmitted in the URL.
A security administrator is investigating the compromise of a software distribution website. Forensic analysis shows that several popular files are infected with malicious code. However, comparing a hash of the infected files with the original, non-infected files which were restored from backup, shows that the hash is the same. Which of the following explains this?
The infected files were specially crafted to exploit a collision in the hash function.
The security administrator at a bank is receiving numerous reports that customers are unable to login to the bank website. Upon further investigation, the security administrator discovers that the name associated with the bank website points to an unauthorized IP address. Which of the following solutions will MOST likely mitigate this type of attack?
Configuring and deploying TSIG
A database is hosting information assets with a computed CIA aggregate value of high. The database is located within a secured network zone where there is flow control between the client and datacenter networks. Which of the following is the MOST likely threat?
Inappropriate administrator access
An IT administrator wants to restrict DNS zone transfers between two geographically dispersed, external company DNS name servers, and has decided to use TSIG. Which of the following are critical when using TSIG? (Select TWO).
Secure exchange of the key values between the two DNS name servers.
A secure NTP source used by both DNS name servers to avoid message rejection.
The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) has requested that the MTD, RTO and RPO for key business applications be identified and documented. Which of the following business documents would MOST likely contain the required values?
A company receives an e-discovery request for the Chief Information Officer's (CIO's) email data. The storage administrator reports that the data retention policy relevant to their industry only requires one year of email data. However the storage administrator also reports that there are three years of email data on the server and five years of email data on backup tapes. How many years of data MUST the company legally provide?
A University uses a card transaction system that allows students to purchase goods using their student ID. Students can put money on their ID at terminals throughout the campus. The security administrator was notified that computer science students have been using the network to illegally put money on their cards. The administrator would like to attempt to reproduce what the students are doing. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?
Use a protocol analyzer to reverse engineer the transaction system's protocol.
Which of the following is the predicted elapsed time between inherent failures of a system during operation?
Mean time between failures
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has decided to outsource systems which are not core business functions; however, a recent review by the risk officer has indicated that core business functions are dependent on the outsourced systems. The risk officer has requested that the IT department calculates the priority of restoration for all systems and applications under the new business model. Which of the following is the BEST tool to achieve this?
Business impact analysis
Continuous monitoring is a popular risk reduction technique in many large organizations with formal certification processes for IT projects. In order to implement continuous monitoring in an effective manner which of the following is correct?
Logging must be set appropriately and alerts delivered to security staff in a timely manner.
Which of the following is a group of people who prepare for and respond to any emergency incident, such as a natural disaster or an interruption of business operations?
Incident response team
An Information Security Officer (ISO) has asked a security team to randomly retrieve discarded computers from the warehouse dumpster. The security team was able to retrieve two older computers and a broken MFD network printer. The security team was able to connect the hard drives from the two computers and the network printer to a computer equipped with forensic tools. The security team was able to retrieve PDF files from the network printer hard drive but the data on the two older hard drives was inaccessible. Which of the following should the Warehouse Manager do to remediate the security issue?
Update the hardware decommissioning procedures.
A healthcare company recently purchased the building next door located on the same campus. The building previously did not have any IT infrastructure. The building manager has selected four potential locations to place IT equipment consisting of a half height open server rack with five switches, a router, a firewall, and two servers. Given the descriptions below, where would the security engineer MOST likely recommend placing the rack? The Boiler Room: The rack can be placed 5 feet (1.5 meters) up on the wall, between the second and third boiler. The room is locked and only maintenance has access to it. The Reception AreA. The reception area is an open area right as customers enter. There is a closet 5 feet by 5 feet (1.5 meters by 1.5 meters) that the rack will be placed in with floor mounts. There is a 3 digit PIN lock that the receptionist sets. The Rehabilitation AreA. The rack needs to be out of the way from patients using the whirlpool bath, so it will be wall mounted 8 feet (2.4 meters) up as the area has high ceilings. The rehab area is staffed full time and admittance is by key card only. The Finance AreA. There is an unused office in the corner of the area that can be used for the server rack. The rack will be floor mounted. The finance area is locked and alarmed at night.
The Finance Area
A security administrator is conducting network forensic analysis of a recent defacement of the company's secure web payment server (HTTPS). The server was compromised around the New Year's holiday when all the company employees were off. The company's network diagram is summarized below: -Internet -Gateway Firewall -IDS -Web SSL Accelerator -Web Server Farm -Internal Firewall -Company Internal Network The security administrator discovers that all the local web server logs have been deleted. Additionally, the Internal Firewall logs are intact but show no activity from the internal network to the web server farm during the holiday. Which of the following is true?
The security administrator should review the IDS logs to determine the source of the attack and the attack vector used to compromise the web server.
The security administrator must reconfigure the network and place the IDS between the SSL accelerator and the server farm to be able to determine the cause of future attacks.
A company has decided to move to an agile software development methodology. The company gives all of its developers security training. After a year of agile, a management review finds that the number of items on a vulnerability scan has actually increased since the methodology change. Which of the following best practices has MOST likely been overlooked in the agile implementation?
The security requirements definition phase should be added to each sprint.
After a security incident, an administrator revokes the SSL certificate for their web server www.company.com. Later, users begin to inform the help desk that a few other servers are generating certificate errors: ftp.company.com, mail.company.com, and partners.company.com. Which of the following is MOST likely the reason for this?
The servers used a wildcard certificate.
Which of the following statements are true about Risk analysis? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose three.
It recognizes risks, quantifies the impact of threats, and supports budgeting for security.
It adjusts the requirements and objectives of the security policy with the business objectives and motives.
It provides the higher management the details necessary to determine the risks that should be mitigated, transferred, and accepted.
How many levels of threats are faced by the SAN?
An organization is finalizing a contract with a managed security services provider (MSSP) that is responsible for primary support of all security technologies. Which of the following should the organization require as part of the contract to ensure the protection of the organization's technology?
An interconnection security agreement
A company is planning to deploy an in-house Security Operations Center (SOC). One of the new requirements is to deploy a NIPS solution into the Internet facing environment. The SOC highlighted the following requirements: -Perform fingerprinting on unfiltered inbound traffic to the company -Monitor all inbound and outbound traffic to the DMZ's In which of the following places should the NIPS be placed in the network?
In front of the Internet firewall and in front of the DMZs
A software project manager has been provided with a requirement from the customer to place limits on the types of transactions a given user can initiate without external interaction from another user with elevated privileges. This requirement is BEST described as an implementation of:
Separation of duties
A company wishes to purchase a new security appliance. A security administrator has extensively researched the appliances, and after presenting security choices to the company's management team, they approve of the proposed solution. Which of the following documents should be constructed to acquire the security appliance?
To support a software security initiative business case, a project manager needs to provide a cost benefit analysis. The project manager has asked the security consultant to perform a return on investment study. It has been estimated that by spending $300,000 on the software security initiative, a 30% savings in cost will be realized for each project. Based on an average of 8 software projects at a current cost of $50,000 each, how many years will it take to see a positive ROI?
Nearly three years
A security administrator notices a recent increase in workstations becoming compromised by malware. Often, the malware is delivered via drive-by downloads, from malware hosting websites, and is not being detected by the corporate antivirus. Which of the following solutions would provide the BEST protection for the company?
Deploy a cloud-based content filter and enable the appropriate category to prevent further infections.
Which of the following activities could reduce the security benefits of mandatory vacations?
Have a replacement employee run the same applications as the vacationing employee.
Have a replacement employee run several daily scripts developed by the vacationing employee.
What routine security measure is most effective in protecting against emerging threats?
System patches
A programming team is deploying a new PHP module to be run on a Solaris 10 server with trusted extensions. The server is configured with three zones, a management zone, a customer zone, and a backend zone. The security model is constructed so that only programs in the management zone can communicate data between the zones. After installation of the new PHP module, which handles on-line customer payments, it is not functioning correctly. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this problem?
The PHP module was installed in the management zone, but is trying to call a routine in the customer zone to transfer data directly to a MySQL database in the backend zone.
An administrator is unable to connect to a server via VNC. Upon investigating the host firewall configuration, the administrator sees the following lines: - A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 3389 -j DENY - A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j DENY - A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 10000 -j ACCEPT - A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j DENY - A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --sport 3389 -j ACCEPT Which of the following should occur to allow VNC access to the server?
A line needs to be added.
An online banking application has had its source code updated and is soon to be re-launched. The underlying infrastructure has not been changed. In order to ensure that the application has an appropriate security posture, several security-related activities are required. Which of the following security activities should be performed to provide an appropriate level of security testing coverage? (Select TWO).
Penetration test across the application with accounts of varying access levels (i.e. non- authenticated, authenticated, and administrative users).
Code review across critical modules to ensure that security defects, Trojans, and backdoors are not present.
Fred is a network administrator for an insurance company. Lately there has been an issue with the antivirus software not updating. What is the first thing Fred should do to solve the problem?
Clearly define the problem
A company is in the process of implementing a new front end user interface for its customers, the goal is to provide them with more self service functionality. The application has been written by developers over the last six months and the project is currently in the test phase. Which of the following security activities should be implemented as part of the SDL in order to provide the MOST security coverage over the solution? (Select TWO).
Perform grey box penetration testing over the solution
Perform static code review over the front end source code
An organization has just released a new mobile application for its customers. The application has an inbuilt browser and native application to render content from existing websites and the organization's new web services gateway. All rendering of the content is performed on the mobile application. The application requires SSO between the application, the web services gateway and legacy UI. Which of the following controls MUST be implemented to securely enable SSO?
Local storage of the authenticated token on the mobile application is secured.
Software and systems as a service in the cloud provide flexibility for administrators. The administrator can create, shutdown, and restart virtual servers as needed. However this flexibility also leads to a problem. Which of the following problems is directly related to that?
VM Sprawl
Company XYZ is building a new customer facing website which must access some corporate resources. The company already has an internal facing web server and a separate server supporting an extranet to which suppliers have access. The extranet web server is located in a network DMZ. The internal website is hosted on a laptop on the internal corporate network. The internal network does not restrict traffic between any internal hosts. Which of the following locations will BEST secure both the intranet and the customer facing website?
Dedicated DMZ network segments
Unit testing for security functionality and resiliency to attack, as well as developing secure code and exploit mitigation, occur in which of the following phases of the Secure Software Development Lifecycle?
Secure Software Implementation
What is this formula for SC information system = [(confidentiality, impact), (integrity, impact), (availability, impact)}?
Calculate CIA aggregate score
A newly-appointed risk management director for the IT department at Company XYZ, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, needs to conduct a risk analysis regarding a new system which the developers plan to bring on-line in three weeks. The director begins by reviewing the thorough and well-written report from the independent contractor who performed a security assessment of the system. The report details what seems to be a manageable volume of infrequently exploited security vulnerabilities. The likelihood of a malicious attacker exploiting one of the vulnerabilities is low; however, the director still has some reservations about approving the system because of which of the following?
The resulting impact of even one attack being realized might cripple the company financially.
The internal auditor at Company ABC has completed the annual audit of the company's financial system. The audit report indicates that the accounts receivable department has not followed proper record disposal procedures during a COOP/BCP tabletop exercise involving manual processing of financial transactions. Which of the following should be the Information Security Officer's (ISO's) recommendation? (Select TWO).
Implement mandatory training
Review company procedures
Which of the following Web sites provides a virtual community where people with a shared interest can communicate and also can post their thoughts, ideas, and anything else and share it with their friends?
Social networking site
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a small bank wants to embed a monthly testing regiment into the security management plan specifically for the development area. The CISO's requirements are that testing must have a low risk of impacting system stability, can be scripted, and is very thorough. The development team claims that this will lead to a higher degree of test script maintenance and that it would be preferable if the testing was outsourced to a third party. The CISO still maintains that third-party testing would not be as thorough as the third party lacks the introspection of the development team. Which of the following will satisfy the CISO requirements?
White box testing performed by the development and security assurance teams.
Which of the following is the MOST appropriate control measure for lost mobile devices?
Require that the compromised devices be remotely wiped.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a corporation purchased the latest mobile device and wants to connect it to the company's internal network. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) was told to research and recommend how to secure this device. Which of the following recommendations should be implemented to keep the device from posing a security risk to the company?
A corporate policy to prevent sensitive information from residing on a mobile device and antivirus software.
Encryption of the non-volatile memory and a password or PIN to access the device.
A firm's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is concerned that its IT staff lacks the knowledge to identify complex vulnerabilities that may exist in the payment system being internally developed. The payment system being developed will be sold to a number of organizations and is in direct competition with another leading product. The CEO highlighted, in a risk management meeting that code base confidentiality is of upmost importance to allow the company to exceed the competition in terms of product reliability, stability and performance. The CEO also highlighted that company reputation for secure products is extremely important. Which of the following will provide the MOST thorough testing and satisfy the CEO's requirements?
Sign a NDA with a small consulting firm and use the firm to perform Grey box testing.
The IT Manager has mandated that an extensible markup language be implemented which can be used to exchange provisioning requests and responses for account creation. Which of the following is BEST able to achieve this?
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2020 Toyota Tundra Colors, Consept And Engine – Instead of its previous types, the model 2020 Toyota Tundra will probably be completely different in each and every element from the auto when compared with its earlier versions. From interior design to exterior assets hired, each and every tiny factor can vary through your preliminaries of your model. The newest the first 1 should undoubtedly feature a much better fuel economy and enhanced pickup. Changes in body and chassis through the car will arise which can recover the glory in the Tundra. Let us check out the updates in the new 2020 Toyota Tundra.
2020 Toyota Tundra – Exterior And Interior Design
There may be not any established reports, but gossip nevertheless swirls about regarding the design and specs inside the 2020 Toyota Tundra. It appears that the interior will most likely be re-designed which will come with new seating, directing and directing line adhere move. Also, that contain two trims crew cab and twice cab. Even though some resources say it appears in 4 various lower levels, SR Solitary Cab Prolonged Your mattress, Sr5 Twice Bed mattress, Constrained Twin Cab and Platinum Staff Max.
The exterior will most likely be constructed with much lighter, nonetheless, more powerful resources of metallic. We may see new fenders and plenty of changes in the cabin. Nevertheless, the total design of your booth is just not but determined, but it is likely to acquire new liquids.
2020 Toyota Tundra – Engine Modification
The Toyota Tundra gives the V8 form of the engine at the displacement of 4.6-liter/281, providing the petrol by dock injections obtaining the hp, powered by gasoline chilling. Gossip declare that the turbocharged motors making use of the 5.-liter V8 fuel engine can be employed. Capturing a reservoir capacity for 26.4-liter in addition to a put together fuel economy of 16 a long way per liter (which is estimated) with only top rated revocation and 6-amount automated Transmission Variety delivers an end result between 350 hp to 500 hp because it is a diesel centered auto.
The very best velocity in the descendant of your own 2020 design is approximately 108 miles per hour at 381 hp production electricity which obtains to 60 costs of speed in 6.7 mere seconds. The best pace, performance, as well as the pickup, are anticipated to have a designated improvement which regains the excitement in the Tundra. The Transmission Enter the 2020 design is starting out change so we will find high EPA standing and Fuel performance.
2020 Toyota Tundra – Release Date And Price
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The discharge of your 2020 Toyota Tundra may possibly exist in the fall of 2021 or perhaps in mid-2018. The price in the earlier design ranges from $31215 to $40000. Whereas the new a single features a minimal amount of $30000. Given that the price is just not nevertheless confirmed these rates are only an assumption in the previous product. Finally, we may begin to see the new design with the 2021 Chi-community Auto Show. For a reason, that earlier has become launched in the identical found in 2013.


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Part E: Local Development, Labour, Health and Safety - 41. Labour | 41.1 Applicability of Labour Law
This topic is used to make reference to all other applicable law resources relating to labour law. It is important to indicate other relevant law texts because the law reader/user otherwise may not be aware of legal obligations arising from the other general legal sources. The indication at the beginning of the labour section alerts the user to read other labour law sources in conjunction with the mining law. These sources can be national codes and regulations but also international applicable law sources.
In order to reduce the potential human rights risks, mining companies in Africa are faced with the increasing requirement to adopt and apply international labour standards such as established in the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176).
41.1 Example 1:
Article [_]
The prospecting and operating of mines and quarries must comply with the following general principle: the working of mines, quarries and the exploitation of the resulting products must comply with the laws and regulations relating to labour.
Drawn from Rwanda's mining law (2014), this provision is a general reference to the labour laws and regulations. The text works if the country has a strong and independent labour law.
The article is placed at the beginning of the mining law under the title general principles. In addition, it is advisable to place such reference at the beginning of the sector concerning labour law. If there are multiple applicable law sources it is advisable to name the specific laws (e.g. labour law, social security provisions, etc.).
41.1 Example 2:
Article [_]
All labour relationships in the mining sector, independent of their legal qualification by the parties, except those with independent contractors duly recognized by the relevant [Regulating Authorities], are regulated by the [national Labour Code] and its regulations. If dispositions of the [Labour Code] or its regulations establish lower standards than in the present [Code][Act][Law], the latter shall prevail.
Inspired by language from Sierra Leone's mining law (2009), Congo's mining law (2002) and Cameroon's mining law (2010), this provision highlights the prevalence rule as applicable to the Mining Code, ensuring that the labour rights of the workers are implemented, even if the general law is less strong on these standards.
It would be advisable to set principles and rules at least for the following subjects in the Mining Law itself, because they are particularly important for the mining sector:
- time of underground work
- health and safety
- national quota of workers
- right of participation into unions.


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Michael Jordan Wiki, Bio, Stats, Age, Basketball, Net Worth, Wife, Kids and More
|Michael Jordan Wiki, Bio, Stats, Age, Basketball, Net Worth, Wife, Kids and More
Michael Jordan Biography/Bio/Wiki
- Real Name: Michael Jeffrey Jordan
- Nick Name: MJ
- Date of Birth: February 17, 1963
- Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York
- Age: 55
- Profession: Basketball Player
- Zodiac Sign/ Sun Sign: Leo
- Residence: Wilmington North Carolina, Highland Park Illinois and Brooklyn
- Religion: Christianity
Michael Jordan Education
- School: Emsley A. Laney High School, Wilmington
- College: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Qualification: Graduation
Michael Jordan Family
|Michael Jordan Childerens
- Mother: Deloris Jordan
- Father: James R. Jordan, Sr.
- Brother(s): James Jordan Jr. and Larry Jordan
- Sister(s): Deloris Jordan and Roslyn Jordan
Michael Jordan Hobbies & Favourite Things
- Food: Chicken nugget, Pepperoni, Pulled pork and Swiss steak
- Actor: Harrison Ford and Johnny Depp
- Actress: Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep
- Sports: Basketball
- Musician: NA
Michael Jordan Spouse/Wife and Girl Friends
|Michael Jordan Wife
- Marital Status: Married
- Son: Marcus Jordan, Jeffrey Jordan and Ysabel Jordan
- Daughter: Jasmine Michael Jordan and Victoria Jordan Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan Physical and Body Stats – Height, Weight
- Height: 1.98 m
- Weight: 216 lb or 98 KG
- Chest: 43
- Biceps: 16
- Waist: 34
- Thighs: 31
- Eye Colour: Black
- Hair Color: Black
Michael Jordan Net WorthThe net worth of Michael Jordan is 165 crores USD. He lived a very luxurious life.
Michael Jordan Social AccountsMichael Jordan remains active on social media websites to share their photos, videos and latest updates regarding to their life. The official Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts of Michael Jordan are given below:
- Michael Jordan Official Facebook Page
- Michael Jordan Official Instagram Account
- Michael Jordan Official Twitter Account
Michael Jordan Stats
|Michael Jordan Stats
Michael Jordan's was a very wonderful player. He is a sportsman by his choice not by any pressure. He loves to play the Basketball. Here is the list of Michael Jordan Stats and career highlights.
|Michael Jordan Career Stats
Michael Jordan Cars Collection
|Michael Jordan Cars Collection
Michael Jordan has Chevrolet C4 Corvette, Ferrari 512 TR, Porsche 911, Toyota Land Crusier, Aston Martin DB7 Volante, Mercedes-McLaren SLR 722 Edition and Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano.
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PEARCY — The Bryant Lady Hornets' tradition of excelling in the 4×400 meter relay continued on Friday as the group of Zhania Hall, Megan Lee, Amya Smith and Ella Reynolds ran a 4:04.66 to win the event at the 6A State championship meet at Lake Hamilton.
In addition, Reynolds won a State title in the 400-meter run in a time of 57.48 as the Lady Hornets accumulated 81.25 points to finish fourth. The Bryant girls won the 6A-Central Conference title a week before and wound up the highest placing Central school at State. Bentonville won with 144.75 points followed by Rogers with 106 and Fayetteville with 99, all from the 6A-West.
The Lady Hornets 4×400 quartet beat out Fayetteville (4:07.24), while Reynolds, in the 400, edged Kessiah Bemis of Fayetteville (58.89). Hall was sixth in 1:00.40.
Deborah Shaw won all-State honors as well by finishing second in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.50. Georgia Brain of Rogers won in 14.93.
Reynolds added a third-place finish in the 200-meter dash. Kamaria Russell, who won both the 100 and 200, finished in 25.14 with Bemis second in 25.95.
Smith was third in the 100 in 12.62 behind Russell (12.07) and Grace Posey of Bentonville West (12.42). Bryant freshman Parris Atkins was fifth in 12.78 and another freshman V'Mia Palmer was eighth in 13.00 as the Lady Hornets scored well in the event.
Kristin Garner, who set a school record in the pole vault last week at the conference meet, was one of two athletes that cleared 10'2" at State. Based on number of attempts, Garner was third. Springdale Har-Ber's Emily Roberts won by clearing 12'. Bryant's Madelyn Thomas cleared 9'10" to finish fourth.
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The Meet of Champs is Saturday, May 11 at Lake Hamilton. The Heptathlon and Decathlon will be held in Fayetteville May 15-16.


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Welcome to Villa Ida
Do you dream of a relaxing Summer holiday by the sea with good friends or your children and grandchildren? The rental cottage Villa Ida in Bromarv has plenty of room (Map)! The villa, with its atmosphere of old time summers and its private beach, is located in the lush inner Archipelago of Raseborg by the south-west coast of Finland between Hanko and Kimito. The distance from Helsinki and Turku is about 120 km and you will reach the villa by car. All services in the village of Bromarv are within walking distance.
You will find the Booking Calendar under Contact!
Villa Ida
- 140 m² + 20 m²
- Six bedrooms, ten beds
- Three showers/toilets
- Well equipped kitchen
- Free wifi
Prices 2020
Price/week (incl. VAT)
w 18 – w 25: 900,00€ – 1100,00€
w 34 – w 42: 900,00€ – 1100,00€
w 26 Midsummer: 1350,00€ – 1500,00€
w 27 – w 33: 1250,00€ – 1400,00€
Price/weekend (incl. VAT)
w 18 – w 25: 600,00€ – 800,00€
w 34 – w 42: 600,00€ – 800,00€
The Villa ca also be rented weekdays
but for min. two nights
w 26 – w 33: Only weekly rental
- Arrival monday from 06.00 PM, departure monday 12 o´clock at the latest.
- If you're less than five guests we can give you an offer.
- Bed linen, towels and final cleaning is not included in the price.
- If needed we offer bed linen, 15 €/set, and towels, 5 €/set, please order in advance.
- Final cleaning, which costs 175€, may also be ordered in advance.
- Dogs are welcome by special agreement.
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The two storey building of 140 m², can accomodate up to ten guests. There are six bedrooms, two of them with entrance through a bigger bedroom. Villa Ida, built in 1903, was renovated a few years years ago and has all modern comforts. The main building has 1 shower and toilet, the side building 2 showers, 2 toilets and a small electric sauna.
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Lanier County High School Prom 2018 – Lanier Prom went all out on their School Dance Package. They got the Video Screen Upgrade and the Uplighting Upgrade. As you can see from the photos, it looked Amazing! Their Prom Theme "A Night at Gatsby's" turned out spectacular. The Gatsby images on the video screen and the uplighting, really brought it all together. See you guys again at the 2019 Homecoming Dance.
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Online Hidden Object Games and Production Buildings: Uptasia
When you first start playing the game Uptasia, you start out with only your beautiful villa. In order to be able to sell goods and thus ensure your success, you need production buildings like the bakery. Place it on an open field and construction will commence. In the meantime, you can play hidden object games, free & online, right in your villa. Try the hidden object games for yourself!
Producing Goods
The key to quickly building a profitable empire is to produce goods that can then be sold for a profit.
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You get points and bonus points by playing hidden object games online + free of charge. You'll need them to unlock further production sites and upgrade your villa.
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The higher your level, the larger the array of production facilities you'll have at your disposal. You can see an overview of the available factories in the shop. Every production building you build unlocks new hidden object games in your villa. The points that you earn through hidden object games enable you to buy additional production slots.
Factories and New Hidden Object Games
Once you've built the bakery, the related picture puzzle game will appear in your villa. The points you earn there will be accumulated. You'll need them later on, to buy additional slots in your production buildings. You'll also need to earn points to upgrade your villa to the next level. Leveling up will, for instance, unlock the carpentry. Placing that workshop on your map will in turn unlock a further picture puzzle game in your villa. The points you earn are required for villa upgrades and additional production slots. More production means more profit thanks to more sales.
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Since 2006, the company Upjers has developed browser games. Their rich portfolio includes games like the zoo simulation My Free Zoo and the amusement park and theme park manager My Fantastic Park.
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Music Legend Liam Gallagher Set To Take The MTV Unplugged Stage
"Tonight I'm a rock'n'roll star..."
And forever more, mate.
Today in bloody exciting news, former Oasis frontman, Liam Gallagher, has been announced as the next artist to step on to the MTV Unplugged stage. The iconic performer showcased his music for one night only at the Hull City Hall in the UK earlier this month and the special will air on Friday 27th September at 10pm AEST.
"I'm honoured to be performing at the legendary showcase that is MTV Unplugged," said Liam. "I'll be playing songs from my number-one debut solo album, I'll be playing some stone cold classics from the mighty Oasis and I'll be showcasing some of my new songs from my upcoming second solo album 'Why Me? Why Not.' I'd love it if you could join us as it's sure to be a biblical evening. P.S. I Love Hull!"
We simply cannot wait.
Tune in to watch MTV Unplugged: Liam Gallagher Friday 27th September at 10pm AEST - only on MTV!


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This study treats ideas of how newspapers should be edited, from the middle of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century. It deals both with notions of communication and how these were carried out. The empirical focus is on the Swedish province Östergötland and its two main cities, the ecclesiastical, military and administrative Linköping and the mercantile and financially important Norrköping. The dissertation, which to a great extent is concerned with the history of concepts, is divided into three parts: "A Civic Press, 18th Century", "Marginalisation and Modern Breakthrough, 1790–1840" and "Modern Press Established, 1840s".
The dissertation shows that what could be termed A Civic Press (or A Press of the Citizens) dominated during the 18th century. The publishers of newspapers considered it their duty to publish letters to the paper. The newspaper reading citizens identified a corresponding right. The newspaper should not merely reflect or represent a public debate; it should actually be one, in order to promote a better society. This ideal was to a great extent put into practice – primarily by the traditional and enlightened élite of the Old Regime. The birth of the modern, liberal press is best seen as a marginalisation of the Civic press. The publisher, who saw himself obliged to publish what was sent to him, was gradually replaced by a new and rather absolutist kind of editor (in Swedish called publicist) whose explicit goal was to reach lower social strata. This change can also be seen as a professionalization. An important result is the chronology that the dissertation establishes for this process. The Civic press was long-lived. Eventually many of the conservative opponents of the modern press gave in and adopted the liberal way of editing. The Civic press is nevertheless easy to trace as late as around the middle of the 19th century.
Those who criticised the modern press, did so to a large extent with the Civic press as an ideal in mind. These today somewhat neglected editors and debaters – often seen as agents of an Absolutist public sphere or as enemies of the freedom of the press per se – celebrated, in other words, what is the closest historians will ever get to finding Habermas' ideal type.


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The largest transportation company of the Kamensk-Uralsky launched a system of non-cash payment on public transport. Starting from today, on city routes 201, 2, 5, 12, 14 and 15, you can pay for travel by any bank cards, as well with Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay. MST Company became a technical partner of the project. For implementing this project, we used our own products: cross-platform software for POS-terminals called JoinPOS, as well as our cloud system for monitoring and managing payments called RetailBUD.
The main objective, facing our specialists, was the introduction of a system of non-cash payments on public transport. However, in a developing such projects, it's necessary to take into account a multitude of tasks related to a current infrastructure of a transportation company. Thus, in addition to non-cash payments, we faced a number of tasks:
- A fight against fraud. Collecting information about cash and non-cash transactions, as well as an analytical mechanism for identifying fraud among employees, is one of a key methods against financial fraud on transport. The implementation of our solution allows to increase a profit of transportation company up to 15%.
- Automated Reporting. Sooner or later, all transportation companies face with various mistakes in reporting. In this case, a human factor is the main cause almost of all mistakes. The introduction of the automatic reports system, allows to completely eliminate a human factor, as well as reduce the time for reporting.
- Accounting of tickets. It's not a secret, that efficiency of using paper travel cards is extremely low. Therefore, the transport company wanted to replace paper travel cards to plastic cards with Mifare technology, which help to increase both efficiency and raise sales. Another important task, posed to our specialists, was a full compliance with Russian legislation. Each ticket must contain all the requisites required by federal law.
- Advanced Process Analytics. Our client was needed an expanded analytics, that would allow to see a structure of payments in the context of routes, POS-terminals, cash and non-cash payments, and also in a context of each employee of the company. In addition to payments, the company had a need for in-depth analysis of passenger traffic for optimization of routes.
Installation of terminals
The first stage of introducing our payment solution was the installation of payment terminals on all buses of the enterprise. Even in those moments, when equipment was not yet installed, we modeled and worked out on possible points of failure, and a main point in this case was a device autonomy. Most certified wireless terminals have a fairly modest battery capacity, which does not allow you to work a whole shift without recharging.
Therefore, we needed a solution allows us to charge a terminal right in a salon of a bus. Using power bank was not a cheapest solution, which requires the changing of the carrying case design. Using a cigarette lighter receptacle near a bus driver, extremely negatively affects the ability to pay travel by bank cards. Therefore, we decided to equip conductor's workplace with a cigarette lighter receptacle, to charge a POS-terminal right in a salon. We also took care of convenience of using the terminal. After polling employees, as well as our own tests, we developed a protective case, that takes into account all the nuances of work on transport.
After choosing appropriate equipment, it's time to implement our software JoinPOS. The JoinPOS software runs on the payment terminal, providing all standard financial functions, such as: payment, cancellation, refund, reconciliation, etc. However, for this project, the JoinPOS functionality was significantly extended. We have introduced a number of specialized functions that are necessary for the proper functioning of the payment system.
- Choosing an employee (conductor). Each conductor of the company, at the beginning of a shift, selects its own personal account, thereby "tying" the POS-terminal to it.
- Choosing a route. After choosing his personal account, the conductor also chooses a route, where he or she will work this shift.
- Ability to accept cash. One of the most important functions for accounting sold tickets and drawing up a complete picture of the transaction flow. This function is very simple for conductors, and does not require any special knowledge. To perform a cash operation, it is simply enough to press one button on the terminal, and after that the printer prints a ticket.
- Faster Online - Quick payment function . This function is especially important for big passenger traffic. The bottom line of this technology is that a passenger needs to insert his card (if it is contact) into a terminal just for one second, and all further requests will be processed without a card. Using quick payment technology reduces the overall passengers service time, thereby preventing occurrence of queues.
- New Tickets. In close cooperation with the company, we developed two types of tickets: for cash and cashless payments. Each type of ticket fully complies with the Russian legislation and contains all necessary information.
- Trip report. After completion of each route, controller prints a trip report from the system menu. This report is printed on a terminal and shows the number and amount of cash and non-cash transactions, as well as the series and number of the first and last tickets solded on the route.
Completely new tickets system
We fully reworked tickets system for cash and non-cash payment. Now all tickets contains all the necessary details established by the Russian legislation. Also, in addition to the main information, we have added some special information on tickets by request of the transport company. Thus, adopting a new ticket format, the company managed to completely leave obsolete coils with tickets, that were regularly ordered and printed in typographical way.
Introduction of analytics and reporting system
Our cloud service RetailBUD is an analytical center, used to obtain and process information. Information about all routes, employees and terminals is adding to the company's page. Each object like a route, an employee or a terminal, has it's own page, where, company receiving the analytical slice of data.
Thus, a route page display the information about revenue, by year and month. The employee's page, shows its effectiveness in the context of each month. And the terminal page, displays detailed information about a terminal itself, its turnover, a number of transactions, as well as a list of cash and non-cash transactions with the ability to search for a particular transaction.
The Transaction section allows to get accurate statistics on cash and non-cash payments. Transaction reporting is performed using various conditions, such as: transaction date, terminal model, route, amount, transaction status, employee's name. After a report is compiled, all the results can be saved in .XLS (Excel). Using the accumulated statistics, the transport enterprise receives full information about transactional flow.
Also RetailBUD monitors the current status of each POS-terminal and displays its status on the page of this terminal. If the terminal does not have a single operation per day, it will be marked as inactive, and responsible employees will be notified about it.
The transportation company of Kamensk-Uralsky received a complex software and hardware solution, allows to accept payments on transport, optimize company's internal processes, obtain a full amount of data on incoming payments, and also collect a big amount of analytical information.
We've made this project for a quite long time. But in the end, we received a comprehensive system, that not only solved all our everyday's problems, but also provided a great data analysis tools.
Marina Karandina
We are particularly interested in atypical and complex projects. This project became for us the starting point in the implementation of a single standard for payment solutions on public transport.
Maxim Bornovolokov
CEO, MST Company LLC
In January 2019, "MST Company" LLC has finished implementation of the RetailBUD solution on all routes of "Passazhirskoe Transportnoe Predpriyatie" LLC company. Additionally, all buses of the company were equipped with charging stations for payment terminals.
During the preparatory work, as well as implementation of the RetailBUD, we were convinced, the MST Company responsibly approaches each stage of work, and also fully fulfills its obligations. Employees of the MST Company represent a vivid example of highly skilled organization of production processes. We sincerely believe that trusting benevolent relations with customer is a great feature of company's professionalism.
With RetailBUD, we have been able to significantly optimize our business processes. All work with tickets, transport and employees was transferred to RetailBUD, where we received a single service to manage all the processes of our company. The service automatically calculates efficiency of each conductor, which ensured an increase payments and, as a result, profitability of our company.
"Passazhirskoe Transportnoe Predpriyatie" LLC recommends MST Company LLC as a reliable partner and responsible contractor for public transport enterprises that place high demands on quality of performed work.


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Hello! My name is Jillian Begley and I will be your fifth grade teacher for the 2018-2019 school year. I am originally from NY, and go back to visit yearly to see my family and friends. I went to Siena College, in upstate NY, where I received a bachelor of arts in English and Dowling College where I recieved a masters of science in Elementary Education. I moved down to North Carolina after I got my teaching degree in 2006. I started my first teaching job in 6th grade at HJ MacDonald Middle School, where I taught language arts and social studies for 10 years!
What an amazing 10+ years in North Carolina: I got my first teaching job in 2006, married my college sweetheart in 2009, had my first baby boy in 2011, bought a house in 2012, had my second baby boy in 2016, and changed from middle school to elementary school in 2017!
Last year was my first year teaching 5th grade and I loved it so much so here I am excited to start year 2 as a 5th grade teacher! I am so excited to be here and know that it will be an AWESOME year! I am looking forward to another exciting and rewarding year here at BME!!


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Scotland Yard is facing another case of alleged racism after a black firefighter claimed he was assaulted and tasered by a group of police officers because of his skin colour.
Edric Kennedy-Macfoy, 28, also says he was insulted and arrested without good cause when he went to assist the six policemen while they were dealing with a disturbance last year.
The firefighter, who was off duty at the time of the alleged incident, has lodged an official complaint against the force which is being investigated by both the MPS Directorate of Professional Standards and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
It is the latest in a wave of race related allegations made against Metropolitan Police officers which are being probed by the two watchdogs.
Mr Kennedy-Macfoy claims he was driving through Harrow in north London during the early hours of September 4 last year when he spotted a youth throw a rock at a police van. He says he then stopped his car and approached a group of officers, who were dispersing a group of party-goers from a property in Harrow View, to inform them.
However, the firefighter claims he was insulted by the policemen, which included an inspector, sergeant, detective constable and two constables from Harrow borough, before being detained without good cause. Mr Kennedy-Macfoy also claims he was assaulted during his arrest before being tasered.
He was later charged with obstructing police, but found not guilty following a trial at Brent Magistrates' Court in February.
The firefighter originally issued a complaint against the six officers shortly after the incident. But the force did not launch a misconduct investigation because criminal proceedings against Mr Kennedy-Macfoy were ongoing. However, his solicitor sent a further complaint letter outlining the precise details of the alleged incident last week.
A Met Police spokesman confirmed the MPS Directorate of Professional Standards is investigating the incident, which was also automatically referred to the IPCC as a taser was discharged. The Met said it was taking the allegations "extremely seriously".
None of the officers, which also included a constable from the Diplomatic Protection Group and officers from black and ethnic backgrounds, have been suspended or restricted. There are now 12 separate allegations of racism by Met officers under investigation by Scotland Yard and the IPCC.


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It was interesting that Bill Shorten was channelling Gough Whitlam this week in his speech at Bowman Hall, Blacktown, where the ALP joined celebrities before the 1972 election win to sing the now famous "It's Time" song. Gough was an inspirational leader but an economic light weight. Ironically, the leader I've been hoping Bill Shorten could become — Bob Hawke — passed away last night.
This wasn't a great week for the economy and history shows Labor governments often cop a crappy economy. And because it's led by "bleeding hearts for battlers", if you sum up the messages the Party puts out before elections, they're OK performers in a weakening economy.
Whitlam walked into the oil crisis of the early 1970s but his policies didn't help. As Graham Richardson told me in an interview last week, Gough's appointment of the very left-wing Jim Cairns as Treasurer, "showed us what Gough thought about economics!"
Hawke and Paul Keating won the 1983 election on the back of a recession, where the Budget was deep in deficit and both unemployment and inflation were sky high. The jobless rate was around 10%, with inflation around the same mark!
Hawke and Keating not only became different leaders in themselves, deregulating the financial system, floating the dollar, winning the unions over to the Accord to link wage rises to productivity and tax reform, they even dismantled trade protection, which helped explain why our economy has grown for 28 years without a recession!
That story was helped by John Howard and Peter Costello but since the GFC, the reforms haven't been memorable, though a lot of that was because of the GFC, which was largely created by crazy lending in the US and the failure of debt rating agencies to properly rate collateral debt obligations (or CDOs), which were thought to contain basically AAA home loans. However, they were stacked with sub-prime or NINJA loans, where the borrowers had no income, no jobs and no assets!
This was a Great Depression in the making. The fact that we didn't see unemployment go over 6% shows Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan did the Labor thing and threw money at the problem, and it worked.
Unfortunately, Labor's infighting and leadership changes meant that politics dominated over sound economics and the results weren't great. Under Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull, the Coalition suffered the same leadership weaknesses. At least under Turnbull and Morrison, their "jobs and growth" platform at the last election has worked out and the Budget's last reading was a surplus!
So do we need a Gough-Shorten or a Hawke-Shorten, given where our economy is heading?
This is an easy question to answer: it's a Hawke-like leader we need with the economy challenged by a slowdown, falling house prices, both business and consumer confidence weakness, a banking system not lending enough following the Royal Commission castigation process and a global economy challenging us with digital disruption, as well as someone called Donald Trump, who's trying to mess with our most important export customer — China!
Happily, the Treasurer-in-waiting, Chris Bowen, is said to have studied Paul Keating, though I don't think he has shown the ability to disagree with his leader like Keating did. The strength of the Hawke-Keating partnership was the differences they brought to the table. Hawke was the most economically-trained PM ever, though Keating, who learnt on the job, picked up the knowledge faster than anyone I've seen. He made mistakes on interest rates in the late 1980s but so did the rest of the world's central bankers, as deregulation brought with it monetary policy challenges never seen before.
But on the big issues, except on the tax package of 1985 (which was to bring a retail sales tax or RST which was like a GST in principle), Hawke and Keating had guts. They took on their own Party, the unions and business. With business, they understood that their Government had to work hand-in-glove with the job-makers and investors, who would not only help raise the lifestyles of Australians but ensure they remain in power.
I always remember Hawke explaining his un-Labor policies to a probing and biting journalist like Richard Carleton, where he said something like "I can't do anything for my constituency if I'm in Opposition."
That was reality and good sense that I hope Bill Shorten can embrace, if he wins tomorrow. I hope he and Bowen will look to Hawke and Keating rather than Whitlam and Cairns.
When Whitlam lost the 1975 election, Tanberg penned an apt cartoon that showed Gough sitting in a classroom with Malcolm Fraser sitting behind him like a pair of school mates.
On the blackboard was the word: "ECONOMICS" and Gough was talking to Malcolm saying: "This is a great subject. I failed it last year!"
If Bill wins, I hope he understands what Hawke understood. I said it in yesterday's column but here it is again: "It's the economy stupid."
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Subject: After ENRON - The Future of Auditors & Pensions - in the Information Society.
3rd July 2002.
Recent financial scandals and market fluctuations will, I believe, have far reaching consequences that ITAC members may like to factor into their planning.
1) The populace will learn to count, with consequences for government.
2) The Big Four auditors will break up.
3) Pension Fund Managers will have to fight for their lives.
4) Telework makes it different - Financial Modellers had better get it right.
5) The race for unearned income. Invest in reality. The corporates are not dead yet.
Thanks for your notes about my forecasts. In essence I believe as do several famous commentators that the ENRON etc Bubble may prove to be a greater force for change than the 911 disaster. Telework and the Information Society have a role and an influence that has never existed before, for example with the sale in April 02 of the one-billionth personal computer and with up to 28 million USA telework home-offices and mobile-offices established. A large percentage of these have programmes like EXCEL that enable unprecedented arithmetic calculation.
To date the majority has been innumerate concerning "Big Business" and "Government Financing" and have trusted the professionals (The City/Wall Street) who purport to understand and are able to read the runes. This latter elite have shown themselves to have feet of clay and, comparable to the social transformation at the time of translating the Bible into English and enabling the populace to read it for themselves and to think for themselves, rather than accept the authority of The Church, ordinary people, thanks to computers, will now learn how to (ac)count. This ability to comprehend financial matters, previously the exclusive, hermetic preserve of a tiny, priest-caste elite will transform society. And it has already started.
The immediate problem in this the wealthiest of any society in history, is that computers enable ever more automation, daily reducing necessity work - and taking jobs out of the market. EG, the Oxford (UK) car factory employed about 12,000 men 15 years ago. It now employs less than 2,000 and makes as many cars; but rewards for "necessary" work remains the largest and most accepted means of distributing wealth. Wealth is more and more generated by machines, not by people. The rapid disappearance of the historic mechanism for sharing wealth - paid necessity work - is the cause of the underlying panic behind the anxious search for early retirement and unearned income (pensions) that afflicts most OECD countries and underlies the insatiable greed displayed at ENRON and in many board-rooms. All unearned income (investments, rents, dividends etc) are (A) governed by the (necessarily decreasing) Bank Base Rate and (B) are pyramid selling systems where the older generation (expanding population) rely on the efforts of the younger generation (now a reducing population) to maintain them.
Today there is too much capital chasing too little unearned income and this will get worse as my (our) generation, the War Bulge, dump ourselves onto the retirement market - to be retired for 30 years or more. Governments' problem is not that we don't have the wealth - automation has given us that - but that the (work-ethic) mechanisms to share it out are no longer appropriate. The circumstances have changed but nobody knows how to change the rules of the game. And Economics has never been a science - but an occult art.
The panic engendered by the frantic thought that we might starve to death, in our old age, in a land of unprecedented vast wealth and plenitude, is what drives the guy with $10m to "need" another $100M - enough is never enough. And hence to ENRON and the other corporate fraud/theft cases that sabotage society's sanity.
Government must stop the panic. Education and truly scientific and fair economics, without the crazy distortions of the dogma of political parties (tribes of mutual help-ourselves-supporters), are the ways forward. But we are unlikely to get to the new wealth distribution methods for an automated society without first suffering systemic collapse and frightening dislocations.
PS - and remember to move to higher ground.
1) The populace will learn to count, with consequences for government.
There is nothing new about "Bubbles" and the financial world survives them bursting. What is new is the power of computing at everyone's fingertips and the speed and availability of information.
In 1969 at Pergammon Press in Oxford, the novel, punch card fed computers that recorded the business (the global sales of exclusive academic papers) occupied 1,000 cubic feet and had the power of today's pocket calculators. A financial reporting scandal at that company, the Leasco affair, occupied some 50 external auditors from three firms for six months. Access to the computing room was highly restricted. The chances of any non-professional grappling with the numbers or the flow of transactions were zero. The outside world had to trust the auditors.
In the
This will be as profound a change as was the majority learning to read. It will be a transformational power in society. Governments, banks and all financial officers have only a little time to sweep their stables clean before the general populace spots the errors and scams - and loses all faith in, and stops investing in, leaders.
2) The Big Four auditors will break up.
In the
It is imperative that the Stock Exchange authorities clean up the reports on all quoted companies. This will inevitably mean huge adjustments in most reports to remove the distortions. Acceptable world standards will have to be forged (no pun intended) and applied. Arthur Andersen have lost their moral authority and their business. The partners are likely to be sued for everything they have by small and large shareholders and by employees. The other Big Four will swiftly follow. This collapse will be rapid, as it too important to leave to chance and to "laissez faire".
From the remaining 2,520,000 registered OECD auditors, tough specialist audit firms will spring up to become trusted by the Stock Exchange managers, financial journalists and, most important of all, by individual investors. A key factor in these trends is the response of the insurers when/if the Big Four are pursued for professional negligence on an unprecedented scale.
3) Pension Fund Managers will have to fight for their lives.
Where? the question will slowly dawn on the emerging accounting and
arithmetically empowered consciousness of the ordinary citizen's mind, were the
powerful, skilled and hugely well paid
Not only have
specific shareholders and tens of thousands of employees been cheated but
hundreds of millions of pension investors, having saved for up to 40 years, are
currently being braced to anticipate crushingly low returns when they
retire. In the
All Financial Services Products will be examined using common-sense criteria and the sellers will lose their credibility as the arithmetically enabled population figure out the sums. Then we will ask where the money has gone. This will lead to a rapid decline in the incomes of brokers and of all financial services providers. Governments will introduce reliable investment and savings vehicles where the transactions, investments and running costs are entirely transparent and accessible to investors on their home computers.
4) Telework makes it different - Financial Modellers had better get it right.
The Information Society and the population's ability to access and process data and to communicate findings, makes this scandal different from all the ones that have preceded it. Up to the advent of the personal computer a tiny fraction of society could address major financial and economic matters. They were the privileged minority who could count and most have looked after number-one first and society second. As recently as 1992, in Thatcher's Shareholders' Democracy, the millions of small shareholders who had bought via the Internet, were locked out of transactions when share prices collapsed; while the big players could get out. Handling money, other than weekly cash wages, has been a very restricted practice. Income has been more secretive than incest. After ENRON that level of secrecy is already changing and, just as youngsters astonish their elders with their computer skills, so will they astonish professional financial analysts whose errors will be spotted by small investors checking their finances.
5) The race for unearned income. Invest in reality. The corporates are not dead yet.
Most of the world's valuable assets are owned by major companies. Governments own diverse public monopolies, chief among them being their right to collect taxes and to hold public land. Safe Government Bonds do not greatly increase in value but do pay interest.
As OECD
countries change their breeding habits, for example the UK and Italy are now
below replacement levels at 1.6 children per family, and as we all are
increasingly reluctant to die on time; and as technology automatically creates
ever greater amounts of real wealth (houses, tables, food, cars, clothes, TV's
etc) with fewer jobs, an ageing population, sold on and fixed on the idea of
early retirement, is applying its capital to acquire unearned income. The basic
economic problem is too much capital chasing too little unearned income to
support as much as 30 years of retirement in an ever shrinking job market. All
unearned income is governed by the Bank Base Rate - still high in the
The Information
Society makes the problem more acute. The minute one of us would-be-capitalists
finds a good investment, the whole world wants to join in, swamps the source of
our retirement income and wrecks our hopes. As investors are
frightened away from the Stock Markets by bent accountants supporting insatiably
greedy managers, share prices falter and fall, making the dividends a better
return, attracting buyers. Those who quit the stock markets may buy
houses to rent out. This has been particularly encouraged in the
In the medium and long term the best bet is to invest, for the long term, into the shares of stable, working corporations. These, properly managed and accurately reporting results, will yield a sensible dividend and steady growth in the share price (look back over the past 25 years). Apart from owning your own business - and probably running it until you drop - investing in the major companies is the safest way to proceed. Most have secure Balance Sheets of real, fixed assets that increase in value. Make sure they do not have lurking Class-Action problems (tobacco, Bophal etc) that will bankrupt them. Borrowing to make an investment and a quick buck is however perilous and like all betting is doomed to fail. Property is a safe option, but needs intensive management (hard work) and can be subject to long capital value cycles.
Oct 01 - USA Stats from ITAC show 28.8M
Noel Hodson, Director
SW2000 Telework Studies
CEO, Experts Unlimited
Director, The International Telework Association and Council (ITAC)
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The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and technology company Iteris organized a three-hour long "mobile workshop" on July 17 during the group's 2018 Joint Policy Committee Meeting in Spokane, Washington, to explore that city's growing bike infrastructure and highlight what can be done to foster its further development.
Barb Chamberlain, the director of the active transportation division within the Washington Department of Transportation, helped guide 35-plus riders on a 10-mile ride along a combination of bike/pedestrian-only trails and city streets to illustrate the infrastructure needs of Spokane's Master Bike Plan that seeks as part of the city's six-year capital improvement plan to create a "complete grid" of bike- and pedestrian-only pathways.
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"State DOTs are a key facilitator of such networks as they often own the most 'direct grades' for those trails," she explained to the AASHTO Journal. "WSDOT is partnering with local agencies here in Spokane to help develop a complete 'bike/walk' network so people can travel from one end to the city to the other without having to drive a car."
The 10-mile bike trip included a stop at Spokane's Kendall Yards development; a 78-acre residential area crafted from a former rail yard and built with deliberate proximity to the city's Centennial bike/pedestrian trail to provide residents with quick access points to downtown and suburban locations without having to rely on motorized vehicles.
"It's what we call a 'trail-ordered community' in that it is not car-focused," Chamberlain explained. "The key focus it to build a trail network that will give you 20-minute access to major city locations by bike. It's part of the city's six-year plan to make the Centennial trail the center of a regional trail network for urban residents."
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