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MANILA, Philippines — Two lawmakers urged President Duterte to stop the continuing professional training program of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), which they said has become a scam.
"Mr. President, please suspend this broken program indefinitely for the sake of Filipino professionals here and abroad, including tens of thousands of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)," Reps. Neil Abayon of Aangat Tayo and Bernadette Herrera-Dy of Bagong Henerasyon said.
They said the requirement for professionals to undergo continuing education through seminars and training is laudable, but the PRC has failed to implement it correctly, taking into account the situation of professionals, particularly OFWs.
They said the PRC has been "deaf and blind" to the complaints of professionals, prompting them to address their concerns to the President.
Abayon said the continuing professional development program has become a big money-making racket.
"There are entities and people out there who charge tens of thousands of pesos for training. Given current difficult economic times, how can our professionals cope with that? There are even some event organizers who are of dubious character, yet they flourish," he said.
He said he is almost certain that the scammers are in cahoots with PRC insiders.
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These are difficult times Game of Thrones fans live in: The penultimate TV season ended Sunday, leaving viewers reeling until 2019. While the sixth novel in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, on which the HBO show is based, has no foreseeable release date.
But as sure as winter is coming and a Lannister always pays his debts, GoT enthusiasts will come to the rescue of fellow Thronies.
Case in point: Software engineer Zack Thoutt, "tired of waiting for the next GoT book to come out," trained a recurrent neural network to write it instead.
By feeding the AI Martin's first five narratives, Thoutt used predictions from the network to create a new story—the first five chapters of which are available online to read.
And, if Thoutt does say so himself, "are packed with as many twists and turns as the books we've all come to know and love."
Martin began writing his epic fantasy series in 1991: "A Game of Thrones" was published five years later. Initially envisioned as a trilogy, the author has so far delivered five out of a planned seven volumes. The most recent, "A Dance with Dragons," took five years to compose, and was released in 2011.
Six years later, the world anxiously awaits cliffhanger resolutions, new battles, and the actual coming of winter.
It remains unclear when "The Winds of Winter" will hit shelves; in December, Martin teased "a lot of dark chapters," but no proper deadline. Truly desperate readers, however, can get their GoT fix from Thoutt.
Having just completed a Udacity course on artificial intelligence and deep learning, the data scientist "needed a new project to keep my skills sharp," he wrote in a blog post.
"One episode into season seven of Game of Thrones (I'm a huge fan!), the idea hit me—why not train a network to write new chapters for the book we're all waiting for?"
Neural networks—like those used to generate bizarre pick-up lines and trippy artwork—are modeled on the human brain and nervous system; recurrent neural networks are a subset that work with sequences of data, like text.
Thoutt, according to Vice's Motherboard, works with a "long short-term memory" RNN, able to remember plot points from "thousands of words ago" and, theoretically, avoid repeating events.
After poring over all 5,376 pages of Martin's omnibus, Thoutt's AI penned five predicted chapters of its own, each based on a prime word—usually a character name. So far, you can read "Tyrion," "Arya," "Varys," "Jon," and "Jaime."
See below for what Thoutt calls the "SparkNotes summary," which contains spoilers for the artificial intelligence-produced saga.
Family lines be damned: Sansa is actually a Baratheon, much to Jaime's chagrin:
"'I feared Master Sansa, Ser,' Ser Jaime reminded her. "She Baratheon is one of the crossing. The second sons of your onion concubine.'"
And Ned Stark is still alive, while Jon Snow turns out to be a Lannister:
"At once they were back there, and they realize the way they wanted him to answer. When Jon Lannister staggered backward, Ned saw his axe and left hand in his head."
Meanwhile, Varys poisons Daenerys "and another of the dead men," Jon rides a dragon, Jaime kills Cersei, and, praise the AI gods, Hodor returns—with an expanded vocabulary:
"Hodor looked at them bellowing, 'Which road you should be home.'"
The current story ends at chapter five on a "weird note" (Thoutt's words, not mine—though he's very right), as Jon's Targaryen side breaks through:
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"People have dreamed and speculated about the potential of AI for decades, but I think that technology is finally on the cusp of breaking through the barrier between interesting toy projects and legitimate software that can dramatically increase the efficiency of humankind," Thoutt wrote in a blog post.
"My GoT AI is a small taste of what is possible with deep learning," he continued. "Everyday researchers around the world are coming up with new network architectures to better address problems that we face in society. The possibilities of AI going forward are vast, and I'm excited to be on the cutting edge of the technology behind the AI movement."


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I'm hoping someone can help me find an ID on this species of frog, there is very limited info online.
The individual was found near Batchelor in the Northern Territory (~100km south of Darwin), near wetlands but not adjacent to water; it was out in the early afternoon jumping around the leaf litter. It appears grey in the picture but was almost a metalic silver with very clear markings, and was about 12mm long. Any help would be much appreciate!
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Nice shot, it is a Desert Tree Frog (Litoria rubella). The frogs from the Top End are very striped (particularly so as juveniles like the one in your photo) when compared to frogs from elsewhere.
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At Wingbeat, we believe that one of the most beautiful things falconry can offer is the pursuit flight. The contest for aerial supremacy, which can play out in so many ways, is the perfect demonstration of the predator/prey relationship. These flights demonstrate so much of the falcon's potential and allows the falconer, now merely a spectator, to experience ringing flights, dramatic stoops and rapid low-level tail chases.
The perfect pursuit flight is a culmination of many factors and is only achieved when they all synchronise. The falcon, the way she is exercised, shaped and managed, as well as the quarry and the environment are all key elements.
As falconry continues to progress, we are seeing an increased availability of top class falcons due to the success of captive breeding, but a decrease in suitable land and quarry. As fieldsports evolve, all accept a degree of artificial substitution in order to fit into an ever-changing world.
Wingbeat specialises in the production and use of Roprey. Our artificial quarry, engineered specifically for this purpose, allows for a whole new branch of falconry. Our aim is to provide every falconer with the opportunity to achieve consistent high quality flights and truly optimise the performance of their falcon. When Rofalconry is combined with hawking live quarry, the effect on the falcon must be seen to be believed.
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From Arthur Nicols 20 August 1872
11. Church Row | Hampstead | N.W
August. 20th 1872.
Dear Sir.
On one occasion you did me the honour to take notice of some observations I had made on the habits of the Koala under domestication;1 and, since I understand that you are about to publish a work on the modes of Expression among animals,2 I submit the following to your notice as perhaps bearing upon one division of the subject.
I saw this happen very frequently which perhaps give it additional interest— When in Australia I had two dogs, a pointer and retriever, who had been brought up together, and who often communicated with each other thus. One would lie upon the balcony of an upper story facing the street, and the other near my feet as I sat at the table within my room. The sentinal on the balcony kept a look out in the street, and on seeing a dog pass would jump up, come to his companion lying near me, touch the latter with his nose and wag his tail, when they would both hurry down into the street and "interview" the stranger. Sometimes they would both go to the balcony take a look at the stranger and lie down again without further notice of him. That there was direct communication in this I have no doubt, and whatever was expressed by the one animal was evidently understood by the other without mistake or hesitation.
For a considerable period I acted as shepherd to a large flock of sheep in Australia and then employed myself in taking notes of their means of inter-communication which appeared to me to be well defined, and directed to certain ends which were foreseen by the animals, and attained.
If it would be of any interest to you, I shall be happy to forward you a few of the prominent cases when I have picked them out from my note books.
When the "Contents" page of your forthcoming work is ready I shall esteem it a great favour if you will obliged me with a copy—
Dear Sir | Yours truly | Arthur Nicols.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 26 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent 2d ed.: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874.
Offers observations on expression in Australian dogs, since he knows CD plans to publish on the subject.
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On, October 2nd, 2018, the following headline appeared on Amazon's blog:
The internet went nuts at the announcement. As is fitting in today's social networked world, Amazon Senior Vice President of Operations Dave Clark posted a video to Twitter showing the announcement as it was made at an Amazon Distribution center. See below:
Shared the new Amazon $15 minimum wage with the team here at LGB3 early this morning! Best All Hands Ever!!! 👊😃 pic.twitter.com/RqkvHQuomO
— Dave Clark (@davehclark) October 2, 2018
It's particularly heartwarming when the employees erupt in cheer. A few of them start high-fiving each other; most have little, or no reaction at all.
Amazon goes on in the blog post to declare itself the new lobby for labor; it announces its support and leadership in the push to hike the federal minimum wage to $15/hour. With this declaration, Amazon paints itself brilliantly as the caregiver of its employees, and a proponent for all who work for an hourly living. It paints the federal minimum wage as preposterously low, thereby turning the tables on the politicians who have recently criticized Amazon for not sharing it's success with employees.
On the face of it, these actions are nothing short of loving, corporate paternalism.
Except that face value is never the entire story.
The push to hike the minimum wage nationally is not a new one; it wasn't started by Amazon. The Populist movement known as Fight for $15 began in 2012. Six years later, it's gaining strength, rapidly. The move by Amazon simply shows it has taken notice.
Fight for $15 was originally started by a few hundred fast food workers in New York City. They were unionized, and subsequently vilified. According to the Fight for $15 website, the movement has now grown to 300 cities on 6 continents. Today, home health aides, child care teachers, airport workers, adjunct professors, and retail employees are also in its ranks.
If that is not a diverse set of careers, I don't know what is.
On Fight for Fifteen's Twitter feed, activist Shaun King posted the following after the Amazon announcement:
Jeff Bezos admitted a real degree of failure here and openly stated that the critics were right and he was wrong.
He surprised many of us by not only granting full time employees the $15 per hour wage, but part time and season employees as well.
Whole Foods employees too. https://t.co/hdQYEOp10b
— Shaun King (@shaunking) October 2, 2018
Clearly, among the socialists, a victory lap is being taken. The Amazon minimum wage hikes will not take effect until November 1st, just in time for the holiday shopping season's peak. As we will talk about later, there's no doubt this move by Amazon will impact wages across retail. That may not be a good thing given the recent fragility and the cyclical nature of the retail sector.
There are a few points of concern regarding this move by Amazon, in addition to its impact on the rest of the retail sector.
First, the following from the Amazon press release:
This is very vague. It doesn't say how employees who already earn more than $15/hour will be affected. There's good reason for that. A little later, we'll see that current, experienced employees of Amazon are not the main beneficiaries of the raises. Existing employees will only get a $1.00-$2.00/hour raise, meaning some experienced employees will be paid the same as new employees. Those who make the current federal minimum wage ($7.25/hour) at Amazon, will see their pay double! For those who make $14/hour, a 7% raise and entry-level pay will be all they see. That is a recipe for some disgruntled employees.
It's possible that no one was making $7.25/hour at Amazon before this announcement was made. It's possible that everyone at Amazon was already making closer to $15/hour. Why do I say that? Because upon further investigation, I stumbled across this article in the New York Times from 2016. In the following excerpt, we see that including bonuses and stock awards (RSU program), the average worker at the Middletwon, Deleware Amazon facility was already making in excess of $15/hour. From the New York Times:
"…pay at the Middletown warehouse starts around $13 an hour and health care and parental leave benefits are the same for warehouse workers as they are for senior executives at Amazon. The company said full-time workers at the facility made, on average, over $15 an hour in overall compensation when including base pay, bonuses and stock awards."
Given the above information, the pay raises for most existing Amazon employees probably average somewhere around 7%, and no where near the 100%+ implied by the doubling of the minimum wage.
Thanks to the Dodd-Frank Law passed after the financial crisis, large public companies are required to disclose median annual pay figures. 2018 is the first year that this requirement took effect. You can read more about it here.
The Wall Street Journal also has a cool site here where you can actually compare your pay to the median pay at other companies.
Amazon's median pay has been widely made public. It is $28,446 per year! According to the WSJ, that's about 14% of the median pay at Google, which is $203,185.
If you don't know what median salary is, it's the salary of the person who sits right in the middle of the pay pyramid. That is to say, half of the people at Amazon and Google make more than the respective median number, and half make less.
Median salary is not the same as average salary. I would imagine that the average salary at Amazon is actually higher than $28,446, probably much higher; this is because of the huge disparity in income between management/white collar jobs, and the blue collar jobs that are hourly pay.
What is the hourly rate implied by the $28,446 per year? We can calculate that with the following formula:
It comes out to $13.68/hour. This number does not include bonuses and compensation in stocks offered by the Amazon RSU program, both of which are being removed from hourly employee compensation. In a recent New York Time article, an example of how bonus compensation adds to hourly pay is given. From the New York Times:
"…her bonus amounted to $1.28 an hour in August. In the three months around the holidays, that could be more than $2.50 an hour, far more than the $1-an-hour increase in base pay she's getting."
If we take the average of $1.28/hour and $2.50/hour, we can come up with a generous estimate for how bonuses impact hourly wages on average over the course of a year. Adding $1.89/hour to $13.68 gives a hourly rate plus bonus payout of $15.57/hour. So already, this exceeds the $15/hour new minimum wage.
How about stock RSU payouts? According to the New York Times, experienced employees, those with 2+ years with the company, were receiving 2 shares per year in compensation. At current Amazon share prices, this comes out to ~$3,500/year. How does this add to hourly wage? Let's do the math:
It comes out to $1.68/hour. Adding this onto the wage and bonus total of $15.57/hourly comes out to $17.25/hour!
So what does this tell us? First, it confirms the 2016 New York Times excerpt above that employees already make more than $15/hour. Second, it means that the MEDIAN worker at Amazon, the guy who sits right in the middle of the pay pyramid, WAS making $17.25/hour when factoring in bonuses and stock compensation. If Amazon is true to form when it says that all workers will see a boost in total compensation, the new median wage, with the new minimum wage in place, would have to be at least $17.25/hour.
A little side note: why does it not make any sense to look at average salary? In other words, why do we consider median salary instead of average salary? The problem with looking at average salary at Amazon is that a very small portion of the employees skew the average salary much higher than where most employees actually fall. That is to say, a small number of people make orders of magnitude more money than the rest of the employees, skewing the average very high.
For example, if Jeff Bezos is CEO, and he makes $1 Trillion/year, and he has 10 employees, and they each make $30,000/year, the average salary would be $90,909,118,181. The problem is that nobody makes $90.9 Billion/year. That makes the average salary a useless statistic on its own. The median salary would be $30,000/year, because there are 11 total employees, and 5 make more than 30K, while 5 make less. The median is more accurate in depicting the "middle" salary.
The example above may seem unrealistic, but its actually not. Reducing Jeff Bezos salary to 1 Billion, which is accurate, would still leave the average a useless number. The bigger the gap between the average salary and the median salary, the bigger the wealth/income inequality. The fact that the average salary is a useless statistic is evidence that there is a wealth disparity problem in the United States: nobody makes the average; everyone either makes way less, or way more, and the concentration is definitely in the former.
The pyramid structure in capitalist corporate structure implies that, at the bottom, a lot of people each make a little money, while at the top, very few people each make a lot of money.
This fact by itself does not necessarily guarantee wealth inequality. The reason why wealth inequality has become a problem is because the people at the top, the sum of their salaries, is far larger than the salaries of all the people at the bottom put together.
Employees at Amazon Web Services (AWS), for example, easily make 6-figure salaries. According to Business Insider, a Senior Content Acquisition Manager at Amazon makes $164,495.
A Quality Assurance manager (QA manager) at Amazon makes the same amount, but has a salary of $137,898. The rest of a QA manager's compensation comes from stock payout and bonuses. That type of variable compensation is a huge selling point for employees working at Amazon, and staying at Amazon. That type of compensation is also far more expensive for companies like Amazon.
Why you ask? The answer to that lies in understanding Restricted Share Units, the program by which Amazon awards stock to employees. Amazon requires that employees are vested before the shares are given to them.
That means employees don't own the shares the day they are given to them. There is a vesting period between the day they are compensated, and the day they are paid out. Buzzfeed is incorrect below when it says,
"…Amazon employees, like many tech employees, receive options to purchase a certain number of shares in the company in addition to their base salaries."
Restricted Share Units (RSU) are not stock options, and the employees do not have to purchase the shares. They are given the shares. This is an important things to point out, to realize that RSUs are not stock options.
With that said, the vesting period helps Amazon actually avoid paying a lot of compensation. How? Because employees who do not stick around for the entire vesting period, do not get their shares. At a company like Amazon where the employee turnover is extremely high, this works to their advantage.
RSUs also require Amazon to dilute their existing shareholders. What does that mean? It means that when an employee becomes vested, Amazon provides the employee with new shares. New shares means that the number of outstanding shares increases. When the number of outstanding, or floated, shares increases, it means that there are more shares in the market. When there are more shares in the market, the value of the company is diluted across a larger number of shares, meaning each share is worth less, all else equal. Existing shareholders don't like this.
Think of shareholders as the owners of Amazon; they own the company. The fewer shares outstanding, the more concentrated the ownership of the company becomes. Adding more shares and giving them to new owners, means value is diluted. Again, existing shareholders don't like that. The face Amazon removed the RSU program when they raised the minimum wage shows that there was a give, but also a take. The below is directly from the Amazon blog posting where the raise to $15 minimum wage was announced.
The spin that Amazon puts on it is that workers prefer to get their compensation now, without having to "vest". This may be true in some cases, but not all. The "direct stock purchase plan" that is mentioned above is exactly what existing shareholders would want Amazon to implement. That plan means employees would simply be buying existing shares in the market, just as anyone would buy shares in the market. The key is that no new shares have to be issued, and therefore no dilution of existing shareholders occurs.
Notice also that the "RSU grant program for stock which would vest in 2020 and 2021" is being phased out. According to BuzzFeed,
"…5% of Amazon employees' shares vest in the first year of their employment, 15% in the second year, 40% in their third, and the final 40% in their fourth year."
So putting the two together, anyone who has 1-2 years left (today is October 2018, so 2020 and 2021 are about 1-2 years from today) to become fully vested, will get screwed. Why? Because in the last 2 years of the vesting period is when employees get the most number of shares awarded to them. It's entirely possible that Amazon was aware of this. It's also entirely possible that maybe, as a result of the huge recent returns in Amazon stock, turnover has actually gone down over the past few years, meaning more employees than normal were to become vested in 2020 and 2021. If a large number of new shares would have to be issued, existing shareholders could be diluted substantially.
Basically, there is an argument to be made that the elimination of the RSU program was a way for Amazon to get ahead of a large vesting obligation coming due in 2020 and 2021, and the minimum wage increase was simply a way to offset the flak they would otherwise get from the elimination of the program.
There is also an argument to be made that the magnificent rally in Amazon's stock is a big driver behind the elimination of the RSU program. The chart below shows that in January of 2015, Amazon's stock price was ~$300. Today, October 10, 2018, even after a massive sell-off in the market, the stock is trading over $1,700 per share; it was trading over $2,000 per share a week ago. That is a 600% in a little less than 4 years. Quite frankly, amazing.
With that said, much of the rally in Amazon stock was due to cheap money; because interest rates have been so low, investors have bought the entire market, not just Amazon, in search of yield. The cheap money environment, as communicated by the Federal Reserve, is now over. That means there is a substantial potential for stock market valuations to come down quite a bit; Amazon would not be immune to this. Today's market sell-off may be just the start.
So what's the point? Diluting existing shareholders during a rising rate environment is a double whammy; shareholders lose money on declining stock market valuations due to rising interest rates, and then they also lose money on the RSU program when new shareholders are issued shares, diluting valuations.
There is also a third potential effect; if new shareholders get their shares at a time when the market is in decline, new shareholders may immediately sell to protect their compensation and avoid losses. Amazon could perform a share buyback in response, to take those shares out of the market immediately, but the share buyback would mean using profits from the business, or borrowing money, to conduct the buyback. In a rising interest rate and declining stock market environment, using cash or loans in this way is bad, especially when there's a simple way to avoid it all: discontinue the RSU program.
And that's exactly what they did.
By the way, the RSU program is only being eliminated for hourly employees. They are the "weak hands", i.e. shareholders most likely to see in a market decline. How many of them does Amazon employ? 250,000! Let's say on average Amazon had to issue 0.5 shares per hourly employee as part of the RSU program. That means adding 125,000 shares to the outstanding float every year!!! That is some serious dilution!
Macrotrends provides us with the following data on Amazon outstanding share count for the past few years:
- Amazon shares outstanding for the quarter ending June 30, 2018 were 0.500B, a 1.63% increase year-over-year.
- Amazon 2017 shares outstanding were 0.493B, a 1.86% increase from 2016.
- Amazon 2016 shares outstanding were 0.484B, a 1.47% increase from 2015.
- Amazon 2015 shares outstanding were 0.477B, a 3.25% increase from 2014.
Clearly, the increasing number of outstanding shares at Amazon has been an issue, as evidenced in the above.
Amazon is considered a Consumer Cyclical company. Cyclical means the business goes up and down with the business cycle and economic conditions. The short of it is that when unemployment is low, wages are stable, and corporate profits are high, consumer cyclical stocks make a lot of money.
Examples of such stocks are automotive, housing, and retail stocks. Amazon is a retail stock primarily, although recently it has experienced explosive growth in web services (cloud computing) and advertising.
With that said, the 250,000 employees we mentioned earlier, most of them, possibly almost all of them, work in Amazon's retail business. It is safe to say that the business cycle in the US is turning; the business cycle is correlated with interest rates. The Federal Reserve is making an attempt to cool off the economy, and higher interest rates will turn the business cycle, which will hurt Amazon's retail business.
The conclusion? Removing the RSU program for these hourly employees makes sense if the business cycle is turning to the downside. Consumer cyclical stocks will see reduced valuations.
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO, has never disputed that Amazon is a low paying place to work. He's been actually quite candid about that fact. This probably has to do with the very modest origins of Amazon. There's a great 60 Minutes piece below that is worth a watch to get an idea exactly how modest Amazon's origins actually are.
Amazon has caught a lot of flak over the past few years because of how it has devastated the competition in the retail space. Many accuse it of being a monopoly in the retail space. Amazon benefited for a long time from the fact that it did not have to charge sales tax. In my state of Illinois, Amazon was not incorporated, therefore, I never paid tax on any purchases. Consequently, I bought everything off Amazon; other retailers had to cut prices to compete, and many to the point they had to shut their doors (anyone remember Borders Books?)
For a long time, Amazon simply served as a broker of products, a place sellers could place their products for sale. That meant it didn't even have to warehouse most stuff sold on its site. As Amazon grew, and sucked retailers into its platform, it began to offer logistics, warehousing, and shipping, to its sellers.
When this happened, it began building warehouses all over the country to make sure products were available all the time. It charged sellers for this service, and therefore it was able to keep prices low, at the expense of sellers. Sellers of course, found that there was nowhere else they could go to get the same customer reach; quite simply, Amazon monopolized the consumer and the producer to its retail platform.
The below chart shows the extent of that monopoly; traffic to Amazon.com is larger than Walmart.com by 57%, and larger than Ebay.com and Target.com combined!
For a long time, Amazon very rarely made a profit. In the below chart, you can see that net income at Amazon only recently exploded higher, much of it thanks to advertising and Amazon Web Services (cloud computing).
The reason why Amazon's advertising revenue has exploded is because of the traffic it's getting to its site. Amazon has become formidable competition to Facebook and Google, on the advertising front, because of the traffic it has diverted away from other retailers, and to Amazon.com. To get an idea just how explosive the growth in advertising has been recently, check out the following graph from Recode.
So how does this relate to the hike to $15 at Amazon? Well, as the Wall Street Journal recently noted, world-wide, Amazon has 575,700 full time employees. WSJ notes that's 4 times the size of Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle. Quite frankly, when you employ that many people, it makes sense to try and make them as happy as possible. Populism in itself makes it so politicians feel compelled to attack companies like Amazon. Bernie Sanders especially made it a point to attack Jeff Bezos at every turn. Recall that Bernie Sanders was a powerful force in the 2016 Democratic primaries. Some say corruption within the Democratic party was the only reason Hillary Clinton and not he, got the nomination. Bernie Sanders is a populist candidate; his tweets certainly should concern Jeff Bezos.
Here's a Bernie Sanders tweet prior to the announcement of the Amazon minimum wage raise:
This is what oligarchy looks like. This is what greed is doing to our country.
Amazon (whose CEO, Jeff Bezos, is the richest person in the world) used its enormous power to kill a modest tax designed to address the affordable housing crisis in Seattle.https://t.co/n0esx7VlsJ
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 13, 2018
And then after the hike, and a response by Jeff Bezos:
Thank you @SenSanders. We're excited about this, and also hope others will join in. https://t.co/kasWkkOhWo
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) October 2, 2018
It's not a surprise that many people are calling for and trying to organize Amazon employees; community organizers and labor unions realize the power of numbers. Amazon wants to avoid unionization at all cost. They don't want to deal with potential union strikes. UPS nearly experienced one over the summer; in that case, a strike could have done serious damage to UPS going into the holiday season. Amazon and UPS are in similar businesses in terms of logistics; Amazon wants to avoid unions like the plague.
The New York Times reported back in 2016 that unions have not been able to penetrate Amazon, yet. When that article was written, Amazon employed 90,000 people. Today, it employs nearly triple that, and most of them work in the warehouses and distribution centers where unionization would be most effective.
Amazon needed the optics of Senator Bernie Sanders congratulating Jeff Bezos. It needed to take the focus off its success! That in itself was reason enough for increasing the minimum wage to $15. Amazon also needs to get ahead, today and in the future, of any labor issues, pay included. In the ever tightening labor market (we'll talk about that next), Amazon will give a little, so that it can continue to make a lot.
Record Low Unemployment
The AVERAGE hourly wage for workers in the United States is $22.73 / hour. We can see that from the below chart. We can also see that average hourly wages have been rising.
source: tradingeconomics.com
The fact that hourly wages have been rising means that wage inflation is real, and here to stay in the near future.
The market for jobs is extremely tight today, in October 2018, going into the holiday season. The most recent unemployment report released by the government put unemployment at 3.7%. In order to attract temporary employees for the holiday season, the Amazon raises made sense.
In this article by Gizmodo, a leaked email by the Whole Foods CEO shows that experienced Whole Foods employees would see nowhere near the benefits from the raises, as would new employees. At most, for supervisors, the raise would be $2/hour, and for anyone making $14/hour, their raise would be $1. Another article by Bloomberg seems to confirm that information, although Bloomberg claims some workers would see a raise of $1.25. According to Gizmodo, one employee said that,
"…veterans of the company are the ones feeling shafted. "This means that I will make only a dollar more than new team members and I've been promoted 5 times while being here almost 6 years," a current Whole Foods employee told Gizmodo via email. "I'd like to hear from John Mackey why my years of work and dedication under their constant missteps is worth only a dollar more than a new team member."
There is no doubt that new employees will feel the raises far more than experienced employees, given that the US Federal minimum wage is currently $7.25/hour. This is further proof that Amazon's intent is to attract new workers; retaining experienced employees seems to not be the priority, especially since the departure of experienced employees in protest will save Amazon lots of money on RSU payments.


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Once described as "Britain's number one terrorist", Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness played a major role in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Widely accepted as a one-time IRA chief of staff, Mr McGuinness (66) moved from his army role to successfully share political power with one of his deadliest enemies.
Not alone did he share power with anti-republican DUP leader Ian Paisley, the two got on so well together they were dubbed the "Chuckle Brothers".
Born in 1950, Mr McGuinness is the second eldest of seven children. His father William worked in an iron foundry and the family of nine lived in a two-bedroomed house in the Bogside in Derry. His mother Peggy was originally from Donegal.
When he left school at 15 he experienced sectarianism first hand. He was rejected for a job as a mechanic because of his Catholic religion.
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In July 1972, Mr McGuinness was part of a seven-member IRA delegation flown to London to meet Northern Ireland Secretary of State William Whitelaw to try to end the Troubles. These talks were unsuccessful.
The following year the Special Criminal Court in Dublin sentenced Mr McGuinness to six months in prison for IRA membership. He had been caught in a car containing large quantities of explosives and ammunition.
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His switch to politics came in 1983 when he contested elections for the British House of Commons. He was finally elected in 1997, after three failed attempts, to represent Mid Ulster.
Mr McGuinness refused to take the seat in line with Sinn Féin party policy as it would have involved swearing an oath of allegiance to the British Crown.
He was re-elected to the seat in 2001, 2005 and 2010.
In the 1990s, the 'Cook Report' on ITV claimed he was "Britain's number one terrorist", fuelling unionist calls for Sinn Féin to be banned. He and other Sinn Féin figures responded with a series of counter-attacks on the 'Cook Report'.
Meanwhile, during the 1990s he was the IRA's chief negotiator in secret talks that ultimately brought about the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. This pact ended the conflict, and Mr McGuinness was appointed education minister in the new Northern Ireland Assembly.
One of his first decisions was to eliminate the controversial 11-plus examination which he himself had failed 38 years previously.
The assembly was suspended after disagreements over issues like policing and the decommissioning of arms, but a new agreement was reached in 2006.
Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party became the two largest parties in the assembly and formed a coalition.
Mr McGuinness was appointed deputy first minister with DUP leader Mr Paisley as first minister.
The two bitter enemies became firm friends and after Mr Paisley's death in 2014 his wife Eileen revealed Mr McGuinness had been very supportive to her family.
When Mr Paisley retired in 2008, Mr McGuinness worked as deputy to then-first minister Peter Robinson, who was considered to be even more anti-republican than his predecessor. In 2010, the pair agreed on the transfer of powers from Britain to Northern Ireland and were both re-elected in 2011.
Later that year, Mr McGuinness stepped down from his assembly post to run in the presidential election in the South. When he finished third in that race, he returned to the assembly.
But his relationship with Arlene Foster, who took over as first minister in 2015, has been far more strained.
Mrs Foster spoke of her difficulties with Mr McGuinness because he delivered a graveside oration for the IRA man she believed tried to murder her father.
She said, however, she would still work with Mr McGuinness as "the past is the past".
He was opposed to Brexit and concerned it would see the return of a "hard Border" between the North and South of Ireland.
In recent months he has battled ill-health, although he yesterday insisted it has "absolutely nothing" to do with his resignation.
In early December, he withdrew from a planned visit to China on medical advice and Mrs Foster travelled without him.
In an interview before Christmas, Mr McGuinness said: "I am being attended to by a wonderful group of doctors and nurses from our health service and I think that's all I have to say about it at the moment."
He has never let go of his view that Ireland would be united. "I believe a united Ireland is inevitable. Absolutely, but I believe it can only happen by peaceful and democratic means," he said.
Irish Independent
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While both footprinting and fingerprinting attempt to analyze a network for vulnerabilities; footprinting performs it in a more generalized manner, while fingerprinting examines specific aspects of the network.
In footprinting , the attacker may utilize "whois", nslookup, traceroute, enumerators, pinging, social engineering, , or other tools to ascertain information about the network, such as: key personnel, topology, protocols used, IDS / IPS in use, IPs of machines on the network, ports, shares and services that are vulnerable , et cetera.
In fingerprinting, the attacker will direct specially crafted packets at the target, which will elicit a signature response from the device. This response will tell the attacker what OS, service, version et cetera, the node is using, as a result the attacker is able to fine-tune their assault.
These acts of remote fingerprinting can be either active or passive. When the fingerprinting is passive, the attacker is monitoring for traffic that is occurring between the device, and other nodes. When there is active fingerprinting, the attacker is sending uniquely constructed packets to the device, and monitors the response.
Fingerprinting can be mitigated against by using "scrubbers", which will "normalize" the packets, and remove the unique identifying traits that the attacker is seeking.
There are also "personality" strategies, such as the use of IP Personality, which will alter packets, and cause responses from the device to appear as if it was from a another device, with different characteristics. Additionally, firewalls may be deployed to block traffic with abnormal combinations of IPs, and ports.


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Reliability panel annual market performance review 2015
"It's inspiring to work with people who have different skills, knowledge and expertise."
By Neil Howes, Senior Advisor
I really enjoy the people side of what I do. My colleagues have different skills, knowledge and expertise. It's inspiring to see how those layers of insight come together to create something that's shaping the future of Australia's energy market.
I recently worked on the Reliability Panel Annual Market Performance Review 2015. That report is designed to provide an overview of the performance of the national electricity market as a whole, in terms of reliability, security and safety of the market. I was the project leader, and my role involved a lot of liaison and engagement with consultants, and internal and external stakeholders.
Consumers are great drivers for me, too. Electricity and gas are used by everyone, from mums and dads and families to big business and industry. The cost of energy can have a big impact on the economy as a whole, and the work I do reviewing the industry's reliability, security and safety can impact that.


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Proving that no subject matter is off limits, I made two versions of the Beckley Furnace (and submitted one) for an exhibit featuring the "Northwest Corner" of Connecticut. The first version of the Beckley Furnace is collaged, where the second version is pieced with embroidery details. Beckley Furnace I was also juried into the SAQA Local Color: CT Stories show.
The Beckley Furnace, located in North Canaan, CT, is a state-owned historic site and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Built in 1847, and continuing in operation until 1919, it was built for the production of pig iron.


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Heaven Is A Place With Therapy Dogs
February 22, 2018
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Well, that might not be the case if you're into cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, or snakes, but Comfort Dogs on Campus is sure to please the students who would agree that being in a room full of dogs is only a slice of paradise.
When speaking to Jennifer Osinski, the director of the Accessibility Office here at Bucks, she explained that Comfort Dogs on Campus is an event that begins from March 1, from 11:30 a.m., to 1:30 p.m. in which "a volunteer group shows up to provide therapy dogs for students and faculty. "
Osinski also added that the event would take place "here at the Students Services Office, in the room behind the receptionist's desk." The purpose of this event is to reduce stress in students by providing emotional support and improving moods through these therapy dogs.
The therapy dogs belong to Nor'Wester Therapy Dogs, a non-profit organization that once started as a "reading dog" program but has now evolved into an organization dedicated to all branches of education, in the effort to become a true learning program.
More specifically, the organization uses therapy dogs to motivate children into working by making their environment more enjoyable, which would enhance their learning experience. In addition, the therapy dog handlers work well with children and support them by helping them with their academic and reading skills.
In addition, the organization also participates with the community, in events that support the group's mission. The group also aids in crisis intervention, in which therapy dog teams work with other groups to support families and students going through a community-wide tragedy.
Although they have worked with many schools, Osinski admitted that this would be the first time working together for such a program. In other words, this event is a pilot, and of it goes well, then there could be more collaborations with this organization in the future.
Despite this being the first time, Osinski wasn't worried in the least. She revealed that her confidence comes from the fact that many faculty members here at Bucks had already worked with the organization and have always been met with great reviews.
Faced with such positive comments, Osinski happily stated, "We're very lucky to have such a supportive team. They're fantastic and I look forward to working with them."
When asked if there would be another events such as this one, Osinski replied by saying that although there could be more in the future, she noted that in the end, it is all "one step at a time."
Osinski ended it off by saying that she is "looking forward to meeting everyone" and also mentioned that "if any student needs help, to reach out to our services," jokingly adding that they are all free. More seriously, she expressed her optimism for this event and ended by saying that she and the Student Services Office truly "would like to help anyone in need."
If you would like to know more about the organization, visit www.NorWesterReaders.com. If you're a big dog lover, then this is not an event that you want to miss, so stop by when you have the chance!


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Electronic Arts have today announced that they will be releasing UEFA Euro 2008 in preparation for the football (soccer) tournament which begins in June in Austria and Switzerland...
The 2007 version is even better than FIFA 08.
To the Champions leugue game which was good but this will be the Euro 2008 you know the one were England failed to qualify for
I hope your not replyin to me And i think its very shallow of you to tar every single Brit who attends a England game as people who cause trouble and violence Reported as Offensive
I'm the DISAGREE BANDIT and i must DISAGREE with you racist self how dare you say ENGLAND fans are trouble makers and violent if anything ENGLAND has been working harder than any country to stamp out violence and not even let the known trouble makers travel to such events so keep them kind of comments were they belong Reported
See this selling well in England lol....
At least we get to participate and win on this one
In few words "How to milk more money from football fans"!
Ok, now will EA concentrate their efforts on the Xbox version or the PS3 version? Obviously most the effort will go towards the Peter Moorebox, get that up to speed then, sloppy port the rest. The reason I ask is because I wonder how many people realize that Fifa 2008 sold more copies on PS3 than Xbox. If they always cater for the biggest market like the Bots say (i can say that in here cant I?) then PS3 should be the lead console for this game with Xbox getting the rushed port.
on EA being the moneysluts they are to shift focus over to the bigger selling platform.
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Wealden District Council
The term "taxi" is a generic term applied to both Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Vehicles. The primary difference between the two is that Hackney Carriages "ply for hire" and use taxi ranks, whilst Private Hire Vehicles, which can only be booked in advance, may not.
If you intend to be a Hackney Carriage Driver in the Wealden area you must apply to us for a Driver's Licence and a Vehicle Licence.
If you intend to be a Private Hire Driver you may also need to apply for a Private Hire Operator Licence (see below) in addition to the Driver and Vehicle Licences.
If you intend to make provision for and the acceptance of bookings in the Wealden area then you will need a Private Hire Operator's Licence issued by this Authority. Please note that this requirement does not apply to Hackney Carriage Drivers/ Operators.
Information on the differences between the two types of vehicle can be found on our Vehicle Licences page below. If you do not live or work from an address in Wealden, the Council is unlikely to grant a Hackney Carriage Vehicle Licence to you.
Information and advice on applying for a Driver's Licence.
Information and advice on the different types of vehicle you may wish to drive, and details of how to apply for each.
Information and advice on applying for an Operator's Licence.
You can make all of your taxi payments online. If you would like to view our fees before you pay please visit our Taxi Licensing Fees page.
If you already hold a licence then you may find the information on this page useful.
The Wealden District Council Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Licensing Handbook is free to download and it is essential that all drivers, proprietors and operators read the handbook.
View the latest version of our newsletter.
If you use taxis, please visit this page which contains advice to keep you safe.
Our public registers are updated monthly.
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Between their on screen appearances and notable celebrity owners, several cars have sold for millions at auction. Some of these cars are well known for the movies that they starred in while others are sought after for the people that have driven them. Brigitte Kruse & GWS Auctions, Inc is here to highlight celebrity cars that were sold for millions at auction!
1968 Ford GT40 Owned by Steve McQueen
This racecar comes equipped with a V-8 engine and 440-horsepower making it a frontrunner. Its rich racing history, including drivers like David Hobbs and Mike Hailwood behind the wheel, made it a must have for Steve McQueen to use in the racing shots of "Le Mans." This GT40 is one of only three lightweights, which allured many buyers and boosted it to an $11,000,000 price tag at auction.
1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider Owned by James Coburn
James Coburn owned this car for over 25 years and drove it to and from movie studios. This small car has a V-12 engine with 280-horsepower. On both the front and rear suspensions you can find telescopic shocks. Throughout the time that Academy Awards Winner James Coburn owned this car, he had it painted dark blue, silver, and burgundy. At an auction in Italy in 2008, this car sold for almost $11,000,000.
1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 Owned by Steve McQueen
The adrenaline junkie Steve McQueen, who performed many of his own onscreen stunts, was drawn to this car for its speed. With 300-horsepower and a V-12 engine, it goes fast, just like McQueen liked it. It was delivered to the set of "Bullitt" where it made an appearance. In 2014, the car was sold at auction for just over $10,000,000 after being completely restored by Ferrari Classiche.
1955 Ferrari 857 Sport Owned by Andy Warhol
With many upgrades and modifications, this racing car isn't as fast as some of its competitors. It came equipped with a 750 Monza chassis and a Tipo 129 engine complete with a light-alloy block head and twin overhead camshafts. The fact that it was owned by Andy Warhol drove the price up at auction to $6,270,000.
James Bond's 1964 Aston Martin DB5
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A healthy, balanced diet is an essential part of maintaining colon health.
"Only a small percent of colon cancer is hereditary," says Sherry Henricks, APN/CNP, Northwestern Medicine. "That means dietary lifestyle choices play a large role in colon health."
Many of the components of healthy eating ring especially true for colon health. Foods associated with a lower risk of colon cancer include yellow and orange fruits and vegetables, which are high in beta-carotene, and fiber-rich foods, such as whole grains.
Try to incorporate these foods into your diet:
- Carrots
- Sweet potatoes
- Pumpkin
- Summer squash
- Brown rice
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- Seeds
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- Apples
- Pears
- Broccoli
Omega-3 fatty acids, found in wild salmon, walnuts and olive or canola oil, can also contribute to a colon-healthy diet, and recent research from Northwestern Medicine suggests even coffee could be beneficial.
On the flip side, processed foods pose a risk to colon health, which means avoiding bacon, sausage, hot dogs and lunchmeats. You should also limit fatty cuts of red meats.
Eating for colon health is easier and more instinctive than you may expect.
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Car owners are often left wondering whether they should repair or replace the car's windshield when there is a chip or crack in the glass.
Windshield repair or replacement depends on the size, location and severity of the damage. The majority of windshield repair shops can repair quarter-sized rock chips and cracks up to three inches long. Anything bigger than that calls for a windshield replacement.
The location of the damage is also an important factor in determining whether you should repair or replace your windshield. Cracks at the edge of the windshield are likely to spread faster than others and can damage your windshield. But if they are no too big, they can be repaired.
Here is some information that will help you make the decision more easily.
Windshield Replacement
- A crack or other damage bigger than a credit card should call for replacement.
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Masters football review – week 17
Division One leaders Raiders were held to a second successive draw, while the lead was closed at the top of Division Two, writes Jeremy Silverstone.
Andrew Sherwood is the Jewish News Sport and Community Editor
North London Raiders dropped points for the second week running, as the Division Two leaders saw their lead closed.
Leaders North London Raiders were held to a draw for the second week running as they were held to a 2-2 draw by London Lions A. Lee Cash and Gideon Gold seeing their strikes cancelled out by efforts from Craig Pearl and Paul Lenchner.
Honours were also even in the clash between St John's Wood Tigers and Temple Fortune. Robert Botkai's double and James Ryan scored for Fortune, with Mark Nathan, Ashley Marks and Paul Herszaft replying for the Tigers.
Glenthorne remain in second place, on goal difference, thanks to a 6-1 win over Brady B. Gary Adams scored twice, with Lloyd Nygate, Dave Michaels – from the penalty spot – Greg Morris and David Galman all finding the back of the net. Roger Kay netted Brady's consolation.
EDRS edged past Hendon Harriers with a 2-1 win, Barry Silkman and Martin Seifert sealing them the points, while Brian Deal scored for Harriers.


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A heart warming surprise reunion between a long-deployed military mother and her graduating daughter.
Navy Siblings Reunited After 30 Yrs
Cmdr. Cindy Murray and Chief Aviation Ordnanceman Robert Williamson lost touch as children. A brother and sister who both serve in the U.S. Navy and have been separated for the past 30 years were finally reunited at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) on Friday. In an emotional reunion, long lost siblings Cmdr. Cindy Murray and Chief Aviation Ordnanceman Robert Williamson came together for the first time in three decades. The siblings, originally from Denver, lost contact in the late 1970s after their parents split up and went in opposite directions. Williamson, about 6 years old at the time, remained with their father in Denver. Murray, about 14 at the time, moved away, losing touch with both her father and little brother.The brother and sister lost all contact and for the next 30 years they searched high and low for one another to no avail. Little did the siblings know that they had both enlisted in the U.S. Navy and were serving in the same state, less than 320 miles away from each other. Murray, a senior nursing officer, is assigned to NMCSD's Military Health Center. Williamson is assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 122 at Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif. Finally, on Friday, the siblings got the reunion they had long been dreaming about. As Williamson and Murray reunited, Williamson greeted his sister with a Navy salute fit for a Commander followed by a long, heartfelt hug."It's my brother!" Murray screamed through tears. The pair were speechless as they embraced. They then walked hand-in-hand, both visibly overcome by emotions. Murray said she and her brother had tried for so long to find each other but, despite technology and social media, the pair just couldn't connect.