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The Airspresso couldn't be more appropriate for me to write about if it had my name written all over it. It's a nerdy espresso maker which uses a bike pump to provide the pressure and drive the hot water through the grounds. It also looks hard to use, giving a good opportunity to complain.
It works like this: you put the grounds in the red part and tamp them with the included tamper. Screw this aluminum basket to the end of the plastic tube, balance on top of your cup and then add hot water. Then, screw on the lid, attach a bike pump and then pump it. Moments later you'll have a quadruple 120 ml shot of espresso, complete with creamy crema thanks to the pressure.
The cool-looking gadget is designed for outdoors use, which means you'll also need to bring along some way to boil water. And you'll also need a flat surface, and probably a very steady pumping hand. I'm no flailer, but when I put air into my tires with anything but a floor-pump, the wheel and the bike wobble. Imagine doing the same with a 250 gram (9 ounce) tube filled with water. It will get messy.
Aside from these problems, though, the Airspresso seems like a good bet if you can't stand the usual crappy camp coffee, and just have to have a perfectly made espresso when roughing it in the wilds of the back country. Oh, and it costs $180 Australian ($180 US).
Airspresso product page [Airspresso via My Cuppa and Oh Gizmo]
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Soundwalk Collective & Jesse Paris Smith ft. Patti Smith
Killer Road
Sacred Bones
Killer Road is a concept album conceived and created by Soundwalk Collective, Jesse Paris Smith and Patti Smith. It focuses on the death of vocalist Christa Päffgen, early collaborator of The Velvet Underground, better known as Nico.
Nico died of a cerebral hemorrhage on July 18th of 1988. After falling off her bicycle due to a heart attack, she hit her head, fell unconscious and died later that evening after being misdiagnosed with heat exposure at a local hospital in Ibiza where she was vacationing at the time.
Patti Smith recites spoken word renditions of Nico's lyrics rearranged over ambient music and cricket noises throughout the album. It is a pleasant, if slightly creepy, experience. Later in the live section of the album Smith sings in a particularly haunting fashion, adding to the eerie atmosphere of the already jarring piece of work. Fans of either Nico or Smith will enjoy the tribute and as a concept album it is an interesting piece of art. Musically the album is enjoyably trancelike though it is not entirely accessible. There is no storytelling on Killer Road. The songs are loosely connected lyrics read as poetry and though it can be quite powerful it can also be confusing.
"My Heart Is Empty," the second track on the album, is mostly accompanied by cricket noises. Smith whispers out the lines of this track slowly but surely, building up a wonderful tension that keeps you hanging onto every word. On the other hand, when it's over you are unsure if you just listened to a song or an audio recording of a piece of performance art. That feeling is prevalent throughout the album, possibly making it a difficult listen for audiences not interested in performance art, Patti Smith, or Nico. "Secret Side" is a more musically ambient track on which Smith performs very well. Her spoken word is varied and fits the strange tones of the music. "I Will Be Seven" is one of three live tracks featured on Killer Road. It is slow and methodical, beginning with Smith repeating "I will be seven when I meet you in Heaven." "I Will Be Seven" is one of the few times Smith sings on Killer Road. When more melodic vocals do come up they are no less prone to feeling like performance art than the spoken word pieces are. Some interesting things are done with these vocal lines, sometimes more for the sake of being interesting than being good music.
Though there are no great club hits or emotional ballads on Killer Road, the team behind it created something different and special. The album is worthwhile for what it is, which is a wonderful artistic tribute to a pop culture icon.
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SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE & JESSE PARIS SMITH ft. PATTI SMITH – KILLER ROAD
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On March 1, 2008, SGI-USA's Culture of Peace Distinguished Speaker Series invited former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury to speak on how we can create a culture of peace throughout America and the World. View the entire lecture as well as the Q&A session that followed.
Visit the Culture of Peace Resource Center to view more videos and transcripts from the Distinguished Speaker Series.


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While it might have closed down its retail activities in India, General Motors promised to offer after deals and administration support to its current clients. Staying aware of its guarantee, the American automaker has declared an across the nation benefit camp for all Chevrolet proprietors between March 16 and March 20, 2018. The administration camp will be held at the 170 approved Chevrolet workshops the nation over and is relied upon to be gone to by more than 15,000 clients amid the period. The administration camp will furnish clients with proficient upkeep and repairs at the workshops.
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All Chevrolet models will be reviewed in the administration camp and the organization will give master counsel on support necessity of their autos. The automaker has likewise arranged a scope of offers for clients, while the vehicles are qualified for a free wellbeing registration and free best wash. Proprietors can benefit rebates up to 25 for every penny on work expenses and Chevrolet real parts alongside alluring rebates on different partnered administrations, the producer said in an announcement.
In the wake of making a solid section in the Indian market in the late 1990s, GM had its offer of hits and misses in the developing auto showcase over its two decades here. Be that as it may, much to the shock of its clients, merchants principals and the press alike, the organization chose to pull the attachment on its retail activities a year ago. This, notwithstanding the way that the organization had new items in the pipeline for the Indian market, alongside a key turnaround system with the new age Chevrolet Beat hatchback and the Beat Essentia subcompact vehicle. The automaker halted all retail tasks before the finish of 2017.
Having sold the Halol plant to Chinese auto goliath SAIC, GM keeps on assembling vehicles from the Talegaon office in Maharashtra, yet are confined to just fare markets. SAIC, in the interim, is advancing in India under the brand name 'MG Motors' and will begin tasks in 2019.


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EMC Synergy Meeting Highlights July 26 2004
This meeting was led by Peter Manousos and was attended by Geoff Dimego, Pete Caplan, Dave Plummer, John Ward, Kevin McCarthy, Bull Bua, Larry Burroughs, Keith Brill, and Steve Jascourt.
John Ward reported that contract negotiations for the new system are complete and the Phase II equipment is in Gaithersburg. At the same time the equipment for the backup site in Fairmont, VA has arrived and will be unloaded. "Acceptance" testing for the Gaithersburg system should be started in the next 2 weeks. Access to the machine will be allowed after a 30 day period (estimated September 15th). A moratorium on the current system will begin September 21st (coincident with WRF ensemble start) and should end January 15, 2005. During the moratorium, products added in new AWIPS builds will not be effected as long as they are already produced by NCEP.
2. Notes from EMC
a. Global Modeling Group: Pete Caplan reported that the Grid Scale Statistical Interpolation (GSI) Data Assimilation System is not yet into parallel production. The coupled atmosphere-ocean climate model which has been testing for quite a while will be officially implemented with a major publicity event on August 24.
b. Mesoscale Modeling Group: Geoff Dimego reported that some of the components for the final Eta bundle (details in last synergy meeting highlight notes of 6/07/2004) are still being worked on, so the bundle will be prepared for parallel testing by the moratorium date and implemented not until after the moratorium. The WRF Ensemble output (details in the last synergy meeting highlights of 6/07/2004) will not include spaghetti and probabilistic outputs due to the limited membership. BUFR soundings are still intended to be generated from the WRF.
c. Global Ensemble Prediction System: No report.
d. Short Range Ensemble Prediction System: Geoff Dimego reported that he is briefing the NCEP Director today for August 10 implementation of the 32-km SREF with enhanced physics diversity and rescaled perturbation.
e. Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch (MMAB): Larry Burroughs reported AWC is interested in accessing surface visibility at .5 degree resolution. Job implementation forms have been submitted for sending northern hemispheric vessel icing and visibility fields to AWIPS. Also COFS has recently improved its data assimilation system with good results.
3. Miscellaneous
HPC inquired on behalf of AWC the status of an AWC request to lower the upper bound for the calculation of the maximum wind level from 70 mb to 100 mb. Pete Caplan requested to forward the AWC inquiry to Hua Lu Pan. HPC inquired on behalf of Southern Region SSD the possibility of quantifying the impact of additional upper air data being ingested by the models due to North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME). EMC responded that CPC has already been tasked as part of NAME to conduct and compare statistics between reruns of the model (Eta 32 km using either EDAS or RDAS) with and without NAME data. HPC also inquired to EMC and NCO to check on the status of BUFR output being available to 84 hours as the data is still only available to 60 hours. This output will be issued as soon as possible, but a 90-day change notification might be required.
4. Next Meeting Monday August 30th, 2004 at noon in room 209.


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One recurring SOBCon07 item (issue?) has been this question: to add or not to add a picture of yourself on your blog. And the opinions vary (but of course ;-))
Both the Stop/Start and Kiss2 blog have been 'picture-less' till now. For various reasons. The
best most obvious reason (for me) is the fact I never really feel 'like my picture', plus (as I mentioned over at Adam - Monk at Work - Kayce post on this subject we were told as children/teenagers/young adults that showing off was no good for anything. Do/be normal, than you're showy enough.
But then came SOBCon07 and pictures of all the bloggers I know (from the pictures on their blogs) appeared everywhere and it was great fun (a sport even) to recognise who's who. And then the conversation about pictures on blogs started. And I kept pondering. And made a decision.
That's me (left ;-)) on the most 'natural' picture I could find in my files. Enjoying myself enormously during a reunion of Ton's (right) family last December in our home town Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands.(Followed by a reunion of my 'extended with step-family' own family the day after)
Ton's sister Lia (we have a very international family - she lives in Berlin, my own brother lives in Paris, we live in the UK) had come up with this lovely idea to create, well, enjoyment pictures of every part of the family. All Ton's sisters (3) with their family and his only brother with his family were 'framed' like this. (Every time I show these pictures to others they all 'borough' the idea for their own family, so another 'meme' started?)
For the blog I've cropped the picture a bit, see top left of this blog and somewhere halfway on the right on the Kiss2 blog.
So, that's me. Hope everyone is happy now ;-)
Don't think I've changed much in 39 years (I'm the child in the middle - only daughter among two brothers)


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Datopian Tech 👩💻
We are experts in data management and engineering
This is an overview of our technology
# Data Management Systems
A Data Management System (DMS) is a framework. It can be used to create a variety of solutions such as Data Portals, Data Catalogs, Data Lakes (or Data Meshes) etc. We have developed two DMS stacks that share a set of underlying core components:
- CKAN: the open source data management system we created in 2007 and that we continue to develop and maintain. The main information on CKAN is at https://ckan.org/ (opens new window). Here we have some specific notes on how we develop and deploy CKAN as well as our thoughts on the next generation of CKAN (v3).
- DataHub: a simpler version of CKAN focused on SaaS platform at DataHub.io (opens new window). DataHub and CKAN v3 share many of the same core components.
# Solutions
You can use a DMS to build many kinds of specific solutions
- Data Portals are gateways to data. That gateway can be big or small, open or restricted. For example, data.gov (opens new window) is open to everyone, whilst an enterprise "intra" data portal is restricted to its personnel.
- Data Catalog: see https://ckan.org/ (opens new window)
- Metadata manager: see Publishing
- Data Lake: you can use a DMS to rapidly create a data lake using existing infrastructure. For example, using the DMS' catalog and storage gateway with existing cloud storage and data processing capabilities.
- Data Engineering: you can use components of the DMS to rapidly create, orchestrate and supply data pipelines.
# Features
A DMS has a variety of features. This section provides an overview and links to specific feature pages that include details of how they work in CKAN and CKAN v3 / DataHub.
There are many ways to break down features and this is just one framing. We are thinking about others and if you have thoughts please get in touch.
- Discovering and showcasing data (catalog and presenting)
- Views on data including visualizing and previewing data as well Data Explorers and Dashboards
- Publishing data
- Data API DataStore
- Permissions and Authentication
- Versioning
- Harvesting
# Components
A DMS has the following key components:
- HubStore
- Data Flows and Factory
- Storage
https://coggle.it/diagram/Xiw2ZmYss-ddJVuK/t/data-portal-feature-breakdown (opens new window)
# Frictionless
The Frictionless approach to data. See https://frictionlessdata.io/ (opens new window)
Our team created this whilst at Open Knowledge Foundatioin and continue to co-steward it.
# OpenSpending
https://openspending.org/ (opens new window)
# Developer Experience
Service Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Developer Experience (DX) for our CKAN cluster technology.
Old cluster
- Deploy in old cluster
- Exporting from CKAN-Cloud
- Cloud - start on CKAN cloud documentation


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As announced earlier this month, indieWIRE is pleased to be the official media sponsor of The American Pavilion at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. The Pavilion, which serves as a communication and hospitality center for the thousands of Americans in Cannes, will be an important hub for indieWIRE during the upcoming Festival de Cannes and will feature a daily roster of events and programming.
The upcoming schedule of events at the American Pavilion is as follows:
In Conversation: Francis Ford Coppola
Friday, 5/15, 5:30-7pm
Moderator: Scott Foundas, LA Weekly
American Directors in Cannes
Sunday, 5/17, 10-11:30am
Panelists: Lynn Shelton ("Humpday"), Lee Daniels ("Precious"), Josh and Benny Safdie ("Go Get Some Rosemary")
Moderator: Eugene Hernandez, indieWIRE
Meet the New Sundance
Sunday, 5/17, 3-4:30pm
A talk with the new heads of the Sundance Film Festival on what's ahead for the fest and American indie film.
Panelists: John Cooper, Festival Director; Trevor Groth, Program Director
Moderator: Sharon Swart, Variety
Fan Nation
Sunday, 5/17, 5-6:30pm
Fans are driving the box office and distributors are paying attention. A look at how a close network of websites, fests, and events cultivate the fan-word, which can make or break a film.
Panelists: Tim League (Fantastic Fest), Tom Quinn (Magnolia Pictures), Todd Brown (Twitchfilm.com), Jon Fougner (Facebook), Sacha Gervasi ("Anvil! The Story of Anvil")
Moderator: Karina Longworth (SpoutBlog)
Surviving the Recession
Monday, 5/18, 12:30-2pm
A look at how filmmaking is surviving the global recession. What's changed and what has stayed the same? Has the recession permanently altered business, or is it an extended speed bump? What mix of ingredients can get a film financed or bought in these times?
Panelists: Agnes Mentre (Wild Bunch), Jeb Brody (Vendrome), Roeg Sutherland (CAA), Stuart Ford (IM Global), Ben Browning (Wayfare), Joe Drake (Lionsgate), Glen Basner (FilmNation)
Moderator: Michael Fleming, Variety
Plug in. Play: Tax Credits and Advanced Technology in South Louisiana
Monday, 5/18 3:00-5:00pm
Hosted by the Lafayette Entertainment Initiative, this panel will discuss the production boom in Louisiana based on its highly successful tax credit program as well as the Fiber-optic and supercomputing infrastructure in the community of Lafayette that is positioning itself to service the next generation of content developers in the entertainment industry.
Panelists: Marcus Brown (Actor, Producer & Entertainment Industry Liaison for Lafayette, Louisiana); Joey Durel (City-Parish President of Lafayette Consolidated Government); Chris Stelly (Director of Film & Television, Louisiana Economic Development); Ken Badish (Executive Producer, Active Entertainment); Charles Richard (Director of the Cinematic Arts Workshop, University of Louisiana at Lafayette).
It's a mad, new media world.
Monday, 5/18, 5:30-7pm
Hard times in the print world mean good times for a new media journalists. Is it possible for print outfits to adapt, or are they too big? Is it possible for digital outfits to grow, or will the business model continue to restrict it? What will all this mean for the future of entertainment industry reporting and film criticism?
Panelists: Sharon Waxman (The Wrap), Anne Thompson (ThompsonOnHollywood), Karina Longworth (SpoutBlog), James Rocchi (MSN Movies/AMCtv.com), John Horn (LA Times)
Moderator: Eugene Hernandez (indieWIRE)
Documentary: The New Journalism
Tuesday, 5/19, 10:30am-12pm
As newspapers and TV networks close their bureaus around the world, their work is being replaced by independent filmmakers. Doc filmmakers and distributors talk about the pros and cons of their increasingly important profession.
Panelists: Anne Aghion ("My Neighbor, My Killer"), David Fenkel (Oscilloscope Laboratories), Richard Lorber (Lorber Media)
Moderator: Thom Powers (Toronto International Film Festival)
Indie Film's Reboot: Up with Indie Releasing
Tuesday, 5/19, 12:30-2pm
Specialty releasing is due for a rebirth! Industry execs will look forward to the next wave of independent distribution. How can a film maximize its theatrical life, and beyond?
Panelists: Randy Miller (Consolidated Picture Group), Chris Hyams (B-Side), Howard Cohen (Roadside Attractions) and Trevor Macy (Intrepid Pictures)
Moderator: Alexis Garcia (Endeavor)
In Conversation: Eli Roth
Tuesday, 5/19, 3-4pm
The director of "Hostel" and "Cabin Fever" talks about his double life as an actor in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" and director of "Hostel" and "Cabin Fever."
Moderator: Tim League (Director of Fantastic Fest & Founder of the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin)
Everybody's Gay on Queer Night!
Tuesday, 5/19, 10pm-2am
Get your gay on, lust the night away, be a dancing queen, take a walk on the wild side…
All festival and Marche badge holders invited
New Platforms for Filmmakers: Are They Working Yet?
Wednesday, 5/20, 10:30am-12pm
It's been several years now since digital platforms promised to stretch the spectrum of content viewing. Where do we stand now? And are filmmakers benefiting?
Panelists: Liesl Copland (Endeavor), Mark Lipsky ("Gigantic"), Efe Cakarel (Founder and CEO, The Auteurs) John Sloss (Cinetic), Lisa Schwartz (IFC Entertainment)
Moderator: Scott Macaulay (Filmmaker Magazine)
Cannes Trivia Night
Wednesday, 5/20, 9pm-12am
Cannes virgin or festival expert? Come test your knowledge at our version of the ultimate pub quiz! Special guest contestants ensure a fun night for all!
In Conversation: Terry Gilliam
Thursday, 5/21, 4-5:30pm
Thursday, 5/21, 4pm – 5:30pm
The director of "Brazil," "The Fisher King," and "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" talks about his past, present and future.
Moderator: James Rocchi (Critic and Journalist, MSN Movies & AMCtv.com)
SAGIndie Karaoke Party
Thursday, 5/21, 9:00-11:30pm
A fun-filled night of karaoke hosted by Tim League, Founder of the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin.
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When I was in high school, there happened an event that has stuck with me ever since.
I was the field commander of the high school marching band. It was the best thing that could have happened to me, honestly. I took my job very seriously, regarding each of the band members and color guard as members of my own family, who I would defend to the death (I was very theatrical back then). Anyway, part of my duties was to ensure safe transport of persons and equipment post game. Our instruments were hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. So I would holler out "Band coming through!" And other things, like "Watch out!" And "Excuse us!"
(This is basically my podium/ladder-basically huge)
The event happened one home game my first year commanding (I was commander for 2 years-the first in school history, I believe). I was VERY passionate about my job, but also very polite and I was trying to get all the band and guard members into the school without damaging anything or anyone. Carrying my "ladder" (it was a platform I conducted from which was more than twice my size and a workout all its own), I was announcing our departure when a group of our school's football players came up from behind me and yelled "No one gives a shit about you band faggots." And I do not think there has been a single moment in the history of who I am that I contemplated murder more seriously. I think I could have wafted my ladder at him (and yes, I know exactly who he was) and it would havebeen a blood bath. Thankfully my director saw and heard what had happened and talked me down. If I recall, I had to stay after the game because he was telling me about how some football player wasn't worth my future. I fumed about it for days. And when the football player came down to the band room to apologize to the director (but not the rest of us), I saw red once more. If it had been a band member, we would have been crucified! How dare he just get off with some shitty apology! Make him pay, dammit!
But this story doesn't end there. Fast forward to the last day of the year 2015 (so today-6 years later), that same football player and one of his cohorts is playing Call of Duty with my husband. They know who he is, but none of them know who I am, other than his wife. So my husband (who was in the band as well) asked if they remembered that incident, as well as a couple others. And they did. I held no hopes that they might have changed, fully expecting them to make more slurs and laugh about it. My opinion was so low, even after over half a decade of separation that I expected them to be the same low-life people they had been before. And after six years of holding that grudge, I got my apology.
So, there was enough time in 2015 to see to it that I learned one more lesson. I spent a good chunk of time today thinking about the implications of the entire event. How is it that I try so hard to hide the mistakes I made in high school from the me I am now, so that people judge me (and you know they will) based on the person they see before them and not the one from before-but would not extend the same courtesy to someone I barely knew? Why did I expect him and his friends to not change what-so-ever, but to have seen nothing short of a revolution in myself? What did that say about me?
And as I look at the clock, watching time pass by, I have a smile on my face. I cannot condone his actions, but my own are no different. I had originally started this post as a declaration of how we are all pressured into being unique but also conforming. And what I learned was that those are the struggles which have defined my past. I'm going into 2016 with a keen awareness that maybe I need to do more to be a kinder person, to keep less stereotypes, to open my heart to forgiveness and the pursuit of happiness. Because one of the only things that is more liberating than"I love" is "I forgive".
Time may change me, but I can't change time.


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FAAC J275 SA traffic bollard
Retractable traffic bollard
The Semi-Automatic retractable J275 SA traffic bollard is particularly suited to town centres and areas difficult to wire. In fact, thanks to a gas operator, raising and lowering is fully mechanical and does not require any electrical connections.
- Power supply and wiring not required
- Simple and safe movement, thanks to the specific unlocking key
- "Full optional" product; equipped with the main accessories
- Low position lock guaranteed against accidental release
- Extremely simple maintenance
HDP8500LE Laser Engraver Specifications
Warranty: Printer: 3 years; Laser module: 2 years; Laser diode: 5,000 hours
Laser Type: 12W air cooled DPSS laser
Laser Personalization Types: Subsurface and tactile laser engraving; microtext; MLI/CLI
Communication Interface: Optional Ethernet LAN
Registration Capability: Camera Vision System
Laser Speed: Up to 2300 cards per 8-hour shift depending on card coverage of laser data
Power Input: 100-240 VAC, 8.5 A MAX, 50 Hz – 60 Hz
Dimensions: 13.5″ H x 15.0″ W x 14.0″ D (343mmH x 381mmW x 356mmD)
Dimensions and Weight (printer) 15.5″ H x 28.2″ W x 14.0″ D (394mmH x 716mmW x 356mmD); 61 lbs / 27.7 kg
Dimensions and Weight (engraver) 20.5″ H x 10.0″ W x 20.0″ D (521mmH x 254mmW x 508mmD); 88 lbs / 40.0 kg
Dimensions and Weight (laminator) 13.5″ H x 15.0″ W x 14.0″ D (343mmH x 381mmW x 356mmD); 29 lbs / 13.2 kg
System Security Standards
Password Protection
Lockable Housings
Network Data Encryption
Supported Software Drivers: Windows® XP / Server 2003 / Vista (32 bit & 64 bit) / Server 2008 R2 (64 bit) / 7 (32 & 64 bit); Mac OS X v10.4 / v10.5; and Linux
Card Standards
Materials: Polycarbonate cards recommended; accepts ABS, PC, PET, PETG, composite
Card Size: CR-80 only
Card Thickness: 30 mil to 50 mil (0.762 mm to 1.27 mm)
- Government-to-citizen IDs
- Driver Licenses
- National IDs
- Border crossing cards
- Voter registration
- Service bureau ID production
- University student ID/payment cards


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You are a resident of Taman Mastertuition. After a discussion with the other residents, you
write a letter to complain about the rubbish problem in your area. Address the letter to the President of the Municipal Council, Puchong.
Use the following notes to write your letter:
- rubbish not collected regularly – stench unbearable
- rubbish scattered all over – bins full – cannot be covered
- grass not cut – two months – long – children cannot play outside homes – snakes
Model Answer:
16-2 Jalan Puteri 2/5,
Bandar Puteri,
47100 Puchong.
The President
The Municipal Council,
Puchong, Selangor. 1 April 20xx
Dear Sir,
Complaint About Irregular Collection of Rubbish and Uncut Grass
On behalf of the residents of Taman Mastertuition, I wish to lodge a complaint about the irregular collection of rubbish and uncut grass.
- The rubbish collection service in my area is irregular. The garbage trucks do not come regularly to Taman Mastertuition to collect rubbish. Sometimes, the rubbish is left in the bins for one to two weeks. The stench from the bins is very strong and unbearable to the residents.
The rubbish is scattered all over by stray dogs and cats. Flies are seen everywhere. The bins get so full that the lids cannot be covered tightly. Stray cats and dogs knock these bins down and scatter the rubbish all over. This makes the whole area very untidy and dirty.
The grass has not been cut for more than two months. It is now long and unsightly. Children cannot play outside their houses because there may be snakes hiding in the long grass.
We would like you to look into this matter and take immediate action.
Thank you.
Your faithfully,
**sign here****
( Bryan Low)


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Grady College doctoral student to lead panel at South by Southwest Interactive
Felicia Harris, a doctoral student in the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, will be a first-time presenter at the 2014 South by Southwest Interactive conference held March 7-11 in Austin, Texas. She will present Monday, March 10 at 9:30 a.m. at the Sheraton Austin.
Harris' session, "Hashtag Intervention: Why #BlackGirlsRun," merges her research interests-black women's health and emerging media technology-as it explores how a culturally specific social media campaign has successfully contributed to the adoption of healthy behaviors offline.
Co-founded by Ashley Hicks and Toni Carey,Black Girls RUN! encourages African-American women to prioritize fitness and healthy living. Since 2009, the organization has gained a social media presence that includes nearly 21,000 followers on Twitter and over 99,000 likes on Facebook. It has resulted in the formation of more than 70 running clubs nationwide.
"Every single day black women are taking their first steps, actually hitting the pavement," said Harris, BGR researcher and enthusiast. "It went from this cyberspace movement to something that is very real, where women can actually meet up and go running together."
Harris will moderate the panel that includes Hicks and Carey, engage with the audience and discuss trends that have the potential to drive future health movements.
"That's why we wanted to take the conversation to a place where there are a lot of forward-thinkers," Harris said. "They can hear it, see what's happening and try to replicate it."
Harris began tracking the hashtag #blackgirlsrun for a class project in summer 2013 by mapping Twitter conversations and following Facebook. Feeling inspired, Harris began her transition from an outside observer to an active BGR participant.
"I slowly but surely became a runner, and that was my conversion to healthy behaviors," she recalled. "I have been able to feel that sense of connection and social support by being connected to the BGR Facebook page or following a conversation with a hashtag on Twitter and joining in from the confines of my own home."
Her panel was chosen based on a combination of public votes and decisions by South by Southwest advisory board members and staff.
Though it will be the first time Harris will present at the conference, she has attended twice before.
To keep up with Harris' session, follow the hashtag #BGRSXSW. More information about the 2014 South by Southwest Interactive conference may be found at http://sxsw.com.
UGA Grady College
Established in 1915, the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication offers undergraduate majors in journalism, advertising, public relations, digital and broadcast journalism and mass media arts. The college offers two graduate degrees, and is home to the Peabody Awards, internationally recognized as one of the most prestigious prizes for excellence in electronic media. For more information, see www.grady.uga.edu or follow @UGAGrady on Twitter.


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text: European Vacation Day 15 Florence, Italy Posted October 24, 2015 by Girl With Chalk Arrived in Florence, Italy. Visited the Duomo Cathedral and had some pizza. The Duomo Cathedral in Florence, Italy. Close-up of the entrance. The dome ceiling. Close-up of a section of the dome ceiling. Had to have pizza and beer while in Italy.


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Looking back on this past week, I put out my big Fall 2015 Anime Round-UP with just about everything I'm watching, I caved and started watching Seraph of the End today for my b-tier fantasy fix. No clue how I'll keep it in my schedule with Too Many Shows to watch anyway but I do like having choices for when I'm in the mood to watch this. And then I talked about MORE anime as I broke down K: Missing Kings and hopefully convinced all of the K watchers to see the movie before the second season, and maybe even contextualized why I like such a weird show (weird as in "this isn't exactly good so why am I enjoying it?"). And then I talked about EVEN MORE anime, kinda as I talked about the first Log Horizon novel. And then I talked about a totally different medium, manga, as I reviewed the first volume of Fuuka for OASG (with excellent timing since Kodansha USA just said they were going to put it out as an ebook).
To continue with this week's theme, I actually picked up volume 8 of No. 6 from a bookstore while I was out. I haven't started collecting this manga yet but I know that when I do I want one of the original print run with the colored pages in it so I might as well. Plus, I didn't really like the ending to the No. 6 anime but I know the manga follows the original light novels (which also had a crazy ending but a thematically coherent crazy ending) so this seemed like the better way to support the series.
Finally, now that I have memberships to all of the places that show anime I finally feel like participating in the Anime Power Rankings again! So for this week I went with:
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This little amphibian from the rain forests of Indonesia's island of Sulawesi is the only one of the world's 6,455 frog species to give direct birth to tadpoles, eschewing the common froggy practice of laying eggs, scientists said on Wednesday.
"Reproduction in most frogs could not be more different from human reproduction. In this case, what is most interesting, ironically, is that the reproductive mode is more similar to our own," said herpetologist Jimmy McGuire of the University of California, Berkeley, whose research appears in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.
This frog, usually gray or brown, measures about 1-1/2 inches long (40 mm), weighs less than two-tenths of an ounce (5 grams) and belongs to the Asian group of fanged frogs. Males possess two fang-like projections from the lower jaw that are used in fighting.
The frog lives along small streams and puddles in rainforest habitats, doing its best to avoid being eaten by larger fanged frog species as well as snakes and frog-munching birds.
Its mode of reproduction sets this frog apart.
"The vast, vast majority of frogs have external fertilization. For mating, the male grips the female around the waist and releases sperm as she releases her eggs," McGuire said.Those eggs mature through stages including the aquatic tadpole larval phase, typically limbless with a tail that propels it through the water.
About a dozen frog species rely on internal fertilization, McGuire said. All but the newly identified one either deposit fertilized eggs or give birth to froglets, essentially miniature versions of an adult that already passed through a modified tadpole stage while still in an egg capsule inside the female.
The female Limnonectes larvaepartus (meaning "marsh swimmer that gives birth to larvae") instead gives birth to tadpoles."It's totally unclear why this mode of reproduction has not evolved more frequently," McGuire said.
"My favorite topic when it comes to frog evolution and diversification is the bewildering variation in reproductive modes that occur. Frogs exhibit all sorts of interesting twists."
There have been frogs that swallowed their eggs and brooded them in the stomach, a species in which the male broods the eggs in his vocal sac, and many species that carry eggs and tadpoles in pouches on their backs and sides, he said.
(Reporting by Will Dunham; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)


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In terms of finances, 2015 was a pretty great year. We were able to travel to the Netherlands in May. My husband was able to quit his job in late August in order to begin his graduate school internship. We paid the last tuition bill for graduate school in December, without loans of any kind. And we received word that my husband got a very helpful fellowship, which will see him through his last semester of graduate school and into the job market in 2016.
I'm already gathering tax documents for 2015, as well. I adjusted my withholding in late 2015 in order to have a bit more in my checks to see us through that last tuition payment; this worked out well, even if we owe some taxes in April, we'll have our savings built back up by then.
One thing that's totally up in the air at the moment is a future job for my husband. We are, obviously, hoping and praying that he finds something wonderful very quickly after graduation, but we have planned for a period of unemployment.
Some of our major savings efforts slowed in 2015, mainly due to paying tuition and living on one income, but we did manage to save a significant amount nonetheless, close to 30% of our income. That percentage will likely drop in 2016, as we will have one income for more of the year, but we have accounted for that in our planning.
We are both looking forward to a trip to Indianapolis later in the year, as part of the fellowship award. We are hoping that I can go on the trip and and find fun things to do while my husband has training during the day. Indianapolis isn't exactly Amsterdam, but it is the current city of author/vlogbrother John Green, so we may run into him and become best friends.
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After beer, wine is the most famous alcoholic drink in Germany. In the last few years, however, wine consumption in Germany has shown new trends that have an effect on the type of wine marketed, and, consequently, on imports. German consumers' increasing attention to quality, the origin and production techniques, as well as to health and the environment, have on one hand given rise to the phenomenon of "premiumization" of the wine market and on the other, favoured good quality regional and organic wines entering the German market.
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BOSTON – House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said on Monday that a bill to legalize casinos could be taken up by legislators in July pending the outcome of talks with Gov. Deval L. Patrick.
"That is my desire," DeLeo said when asked if a casino bill could be approved in July. "I think that is maybe all of our desires but the proof will be once we get to talk about the details whether that is going to happen or not."
DeLeo met in a regular leadership meeting on Monday with Patrick and Senate President Therese Murray, but he said that they did not discuss casinos. The leaders have indicated that they have had few, if any, in depth discussions about casinos since a bill died last year.
DeLeo said he still has an agreement to talk about details of a casino bill with Patrick and Murray.
DeLeo, a Winthrop Democrat, previously has said he wanted to delay a casino debate until passage of a state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. A six-member House-Senate panel is attempting to approve a compromise budget from the different versions approved in each legislative branch this spring.
Legislators held a public hearing on casino bills on May 4.
Patrick opposes slots for the tracks and effectively killed a casino bill last year because it authorized two slot licenses for racetracks. Patrick has said that casinos are not a high priority for him but that he would like to reach an agreement with DeLeo and Murray to avoid a drawn-out debate that takes attention from other issues.
Sen. Stanley C. Rosenberg, D-Amherst, the Senate point man on casinos, said on Monday that state legislators could attempt to obtain two thirds votes for casinos in both branches, or enough to override a possible veto of a casino bill from Patrick. Those veto-proof votes might be needed if no deal can be reached with Patrick, he said.
On the other hand, he said, if Patrick, Murray and DeLeo can reach an agreement on casinos, then only simple majority votes in the House and the Senate would be needed to approve expanded gambling.
Rosenberg said the main issue that still needs to be resolved is whether or not to approve slot machines for race tracks. The top three leaders on Beacon Hill must decide whether to limit "slots in a box" to just tracks, or to allow them in other facilities, he said.
Rosenberg said that leaders seem to agree that any bill should include three casino resorts for the state.


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In a recent blog post I reported on IFA+ and the issues that appliance manufacturers are facing when trying to connect their things. In this post, I'd like to share what I spoke about at IFA+.
EVRYTHNG @ Home
Rather than focusing on promoting Web of Things best practices, which are slowly but steadily being adopted by many communities out there, this time we went for a refreshing look at the IoT @ home topic.
Those of you that have used the EVRYTHNG cloud and tools probably know that one of the unique aspects of our Software as a Service platform is that through a single system, we provide identity and access management, flexible data and meta-data storage, custom business rules and fine-grained analytics and SDKs (Software Development Kits) for manufacturers of smart appliances – as well as the next generation of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG). To give you an indication of the opportunity presented in the FMCG sector, research we conducted in 2013 revealed that 3,040 billion FMCG products had the capability of being connected to the web, as opposed to 6.5 billion consumer electronic devices.
Additionally, the smart appliances side of the coin is well covered nowadays, with many new connected appliances appearing on the market on a daily basis. Therefore, I wanted to reflect on the other side of the IoT spectrum, the side of what we might call "dumb products" (i.e. FMCG & CPG), as opposed to connected things – which are also often called "smart things". Calling them dumb just because they are not connected might not really be fair, but the whole point is that we need to do them justice: showing that in a home context, when talking to appliances, they can become smart too.
One remark I often get when talking about FMCG products and the IoT is that they don't belong. Well as a matter of fact, they really do. The initial definition of IoT came from a number of researchers at Auto-ID Labs: a network of labs around the world working on the Automatic IDentification of objects. Back in 1999 when the term "Internet of Things" was coined, their vision of the IoT was a world of tagged objects, distributed readers and standards that would create a world-wide network of tagged objects, known as the EPCNetwork.
So, yes, dumb objects belong to the IoT too.
The first – and mandatory – step to make them part of the IoT is to ensure they can at the very least be identified by smarter things. This can be achieved using several automatic identification technologies. Some of them require line of sight (and hence quite often human intervention) such as the well-known 1D barcodes (e.g. EANs, UPCs), QR codes or image recognition. Other techniques allow for identifying objects without line of sight and quite often with very little to no human intervention: NFC tags (they require touch), long range RFID (e.g. EPC UHF), BLE and other iBeacons. All of these Auto-ID techniques can store EVRYTHNG's unique and crypto-secure identities, and are supported by our platform and SDKs – a thorough description of how they work isn't the goal of this post however, therefore see this presentation for a more detailed explanation.
Instead let's assume a (near) future where all FMCG products are tagged, and explore a few exciting opportunities this may bring for smarter homes.
Smart laundry detergent meets smart laundry machine
We all know that smart thermostats are good because they might help us reduce our energy consumption. Well it turns out that laundry detergents could too, if used correctly. Consider a laundry detergent with a unique SKU (Stock Keeping Unit or Product in the EVRYTHNG world) in the form of a QR – or better – NFC tag. Then consider a laundry machine that can read it, resolve it (e.g. through the EVRYTHNG cloud) and set itself to the right washing mode, with the right temperature, using the right amount of detergent.
Smart gifts
Imagine a new experience blending virtual and physical gifts around the Christmas tree: put a unique QR or NFC tag on a bottle of whiskey and you can start adding virtual gifts such as personalised videos to your products.
Smart fridge
The smart fridge is probably the most mocked and cited example of IoT and smart homes. There are many reasons for this, but one of them is that as long as the products aren't smart, the fridge won't really be either.
Consider tagged FMCG products again, with smart labels using RFID or NFC and readers embedded in your fridge. In this scenario the fridge could then monitor what needs to be replenished, tell you when things are about to go bad, help you balance your diet, broadcast a not-so-smiley face to your smart watch when you eat three bars of chocolate in a row…
Not fully convinced yet? Well then let's add some sensory capabilities to our smart labels, such as a temperature sensor. Then, your fridge could tell you that eating these strawberries might not be such a good idea after all because they were stored at a temperature way above the threshold for too long.
And many more…
Tailored insurance, based on objects you have scanned and actually have in your home; and smart buttons that can order products for you; attaching a small BLE (Bluetooth low-energy) sensor to your shoes, keys or bags – and your tablet or smart watch can tell you where they are, or alert you that you've left your gym gear at home.
A far-fetched future?
At this point, you should be worrying about one aspect of these use-cases: cost. FMCG are fast moving by definition, and sold with smaller price margins. So the likelihood of putting a 10 cent tag on a pack of laundry liquid is unlikely. Agreed, but there is hope.
First of all, these tags could be used to simplify not just your life, but also those of the manufacturers and suppliers – thus justifying their cost. The very same tags could be used to track and trace products, or to confirm their authenticity. (The EVRYTHNG cloud offers these two services as modules that can be activated for any product or thing active in on our platform.)
Then, as with all things in technology, prices are going down as we invent amazing new techniques and processes. You might for example have a read about our exciting partnership with ThinFilm, who print NFC tags instead of producing them the expensive, traditional way (i.e. as any other electronic component). Thinfilm are currently working on a version of their NFC tags that will support printer sensors and batteries.
So yes, dumb products have the right to become smart too…


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Not for the first time, it looks like there are some problems with iMessage not working today, with users reporting that while iMessage is not completely down – it is not working as it should be.
We have taken a look ourselves and it seems as if there are still some problems with the service. As far as we're aware, we can send messages whilst using iMessage on Mac, but those trying to use iMessage not iPhone are seeing problems with Apple sending messages as an SMS text instead.
It looks like we are not the only one experiencing problems with iMessage down today either, as this could have been a problem throughout the weekend for many users.
Have a look to see what others are saying about related iMessage problems on iPhone via social media:
Why isn't iMessage not working 😤
— Thing 2⃣ (@britt_nay_nay2) June 23, 2014
Is anyone else's iMessage not working? Like sometimes it will be an iMessage, others it's a text message? 😡
— âš"ï¸LacieeDawn (@LNastyyyy_) June 21, 2014
Why is my iMessage sending me messages hours later and it's not working😂
— Erdog. (@ErinBallesty_) June 22, 2014
Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be an instant fix and we haven't heard anything from Apple today. We know that iOS 7.1.2 is expected soon, but now Apple may have to issue an update immediately this week if the iMessage problems continue.
Have you experienced the same issue today, with iMessage forcing you to send messages as texts instead – even on a WiFi connection? Let us know your current status below.
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In April, May and June the Third Circuit vacated convictions in three cases. The first, United States v. Lopez, addresses prosecutorial misconduct (Doyle error); the second, United States v. Vasquez-Algarin, addresses law enforcement misconduct (Fourth Amendment/forced entry); the third, United States v. Dennis, addresses trial court error (failure to give an entrapment instruction) in the larger context of reverse-sting stash house operations. Each opinion touches on policy concerns raised by the legal issues; the majority and Judge Ambro's concurrence in Dennis are particularly worth reading for anyone litigating stash house cases. The three cases were decided by three non-overlapping panels of judges.
Articles Posted in Searches and Seizures
The D.C. Circuit Holds That A Judge In D.C. Cannot Authorize A Bug in Maryland
The United States government thought that Lonnell Glover was a drug dealer. They tapped his phone, but he spoke in code so they couldn't get any evidence on him that way.
The government knew that Mr. Glover liked to talk in his truck, as so many Americans do. So they decided to get authorization from a judge to put a bug – a little microphone – in his truck.
The bug was authorized by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. The truck, at the time, was at Baltimore Washington International Airport (or, more accurately, Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington International Airport).
The Supreme Court Says A Seizure Isn't Incident To A Search That Happened A Mile Away
Someone told the police that Chunon Bailey sold drugs. Worse, he sold drugs and had a gun at his house at 103 Lake Drive in Wyandanch, New York.
That someone was a confidential informant.
The police took that tip and got a search warrant for 103 Lake Drive.
You Can't Suppress The Body, But You Can Suppress The Fake ID Used To Find The Body
The Supreme Court has said that you can never suppress the body of a person accused of a crime – the person's identity is not able to be kept out of evidence, even if that identity is the result of an unlawful arrest or search.
This is a huge issue in illegal reentry cases. If a person is deported then returns to this crime, that's illegal reentry. If the person is deported after having been convicted of certain kinds of felonies – whoa buddy, that's illegal reentry after having been convicted of an aggravated felony.
In light of the Supreme Court's rule about how you can't suppress the body of the person accused, many people who handle illegal reentry cases find them massively depressing. If you can't suppress the person's identity, even if the knowledge comes from an unlawful search, then you've gutted the Fourth Amendment for people accused of illegal reentry.
If A Person Ought To Have A Franks Hearing, Then They Ought To Have A Franks Hearing; Pre Franks Is Not Franks Enough
In a criminal case, most lawyers need to figure out what motions to file. A big part of this is to sit down with the government's evidence and try to figure out what parts of the government's case came from something that violated the constitution.
It's frustrating when some part of the evidence came from a search warrant – challenges to search warrants are tricky, because a judge already signed off on the warrant. It's not to say it can't be done, it's just different than challenging, say, if the FBI ran into a client's office and took a bunch of stuff without a warrant.
Sometimes you can challenge a warrant if the affidavit in support of the warrant clearly didn't establish probable cause to think there was going to be evidence where the cops searched.
The Eighth Circuit On How To Get Your Stuff Back After The Government Takes It Using A Search Warrant
There's little judicial attention paid to folks who have their stuff taken by the police executing a search warrant – and who want it back later.
Thankfully, just in time for Christmas, the Eighth Circuit breaks out with United States v. Bailey.
Not George Bailey And Perhaps Not A Wonderful Life
The Tenth Circuit Offers A Recent History Of Fake Drug Checkpoints And The Fourth Amendment
No one likes a liar.
Well, almost no one. Chief Judge Kozinski seems to like liars, at least some of the time.
But, generally, lying leaves a bad taste in our societal mouth. This is true even when the police do the lying.
The Fourth Circuit Holds That If The Police Prevent Your Car From Legally Moving, They Have Seized You
The Eighth Circuit Holds That Omaha Police Can't Run Into A Hotel Room Without A Warrant Even When They Just Finished A Very Exciting Chase And Are Proud Of Themselves For Finding The People They Were Looking For
It must be hard for the police to be hot on a chase, then have to slow down to get a warrant.
But, even though the police are excited from being on the trail of a suspected drug mule, the Eighth Circuit held, in United States v. Ramirez, that just because the police are hurrying to get their man, they still have to get a warrant to search his room.
The Great Omaha Goose Chase
The Police Cannot Search Your Car To Kill Time While They Wait For Your Aunt To Give You A Ride
I've long thought the punishment for failing to turn off your high beams when you drive past another car at night should be much more draconian. Part of me is encouraged to see that the police of Massillon, Ohio apparently agree.
Excessive Use of High Beams
Two men were driving in Massillon, Ohio after midnight on the Fourth of July. The driver declined to dim his high beams as he drove past a car coming toward him. As it happened, the other car was a police car.


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In his press conference on November 6th, ECB President Mario Draghi pledged monetary stimulus, although only "if needed." His exact statement was: "The Governing Council has tasked ECB staff and the relevant Eurosystem committees with ensuring the timely preparation of further measures to be implemented, if needed." In response to questions from journalists, he mechanically repeated the phrase, "if needed" four times. A fortnight later—on November 21st in Frankfurt—in a speech that drew much attention for promising bold new action, President Draghi coined a new phrase: "We will do what we must," echoing his famous "whatever it takes." He said: "We will do what we must to raise inflation and inflation expectations as fast as possible;" but he repeated verbatim: "the Governing Council has tasked ECB staff and the relevant Eurosystem committees with ensuring the timely preparation of further measures to be implemented, if needed."
The "if needed" theme appeared earlier on October 9 in a speech Mr. Draghi delivered at the Washington-based think tank, the Brookings Institution. His prepared remarks said: ""We are ready to alter the size and/or the composition of our unconventional interventions, and therefore of our balance sheet, as required."
the ECB is behind the curve even as a debt-deflation cycle is ongoing in the so-called "periphery."
These words have won Mr. Draghi many admirers for his determination to move decisively forward. But the actions tell a different story. The "if needed" mantra is only the most recent example of the ECB's congenital conservatism in dealing with the ever-unfolding crisis. Once again, the ECB is behind the curve even as a debt-deflation cycle is ongoing in the so-called "periphery." Rather than a central bank that helps revive growth and inflation, the ECB has become a safety net for dealing with near-insolvency conditions. Its coyly-stated target of an additional trillion euros in balance sheet expansion will not occur and, if it does, would have a trivial effect. By consistently using words while failing to act in time, the ECB is eroding its hard-won credibility.
The Eurozone's Debt-Deflation Cycle
According to the latest Eurostat data, in October, the 12-month average inflation rate in the eurozone was 0.6%; it was 0.3% for Italy, 0.0% for Spain, and -0.1% for Portugal. In his November 21st Frankfurt speech, Mr. Draghi claimed that such low inflation not foreseen. "Last November," he said, "[inflation] still stood at 0.9%. This was low, but it was generally expected to rise safely above 1% by now."
The claim that in November 2013 inflation was "generally" expected to rise is puzzling. Already in April, Guntram Wolff warned of deflationary pressures. And by November, futures markets were projecting annual inflation at below 0.9%. The risk of an out-of-control cycle of rising debt and falling inflation was manifest. And since fighting deflation is harder the more entrenched it is, at least one commentator urged prompt action in January this year: "the ECB's insistence on waiting for more evidence of deflation is a dangerous gamble."
Finally, on June 5th, with mounting evidence that inflation would not turn up on its own, the ECB did announce several new measures. These were intended "to provide additional monetary policy accommodation and to support lending to the real economy." But did the measures match the task at hand?
- Zsolt Darvas and Pia Hüttl pointed out, the lower policy rate could be expected to have little effect since banks were already drawing down their reserves at the ECB.
- Silvia Merler was skeptical of the "targeted long-term refinancing operations (T-LTROs)" to stimulate lending. Indeed, a Wall Street Journal survey of market participants on September 18th concluded: "Well it seems that not all banks have gone gung-ho for the European Central Bank's first longer-term refinancing operations, or TLTRO." Even if there had been more interest, Wolff was concerned that the measure would delay needed restructuring of banks while it did little to improve monetary conditions.
- Finally, Carlo Altomonte and Patrizia Bussoli quickly did the numbers and explained that the highly-touted program for the purchase of asset-backed, or rebundled, securities would make little difference because the size of the asset-backed securities market was too small. More bluntly, Jacques de Larosiere, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, told Reuters on November 20th, "It is a strategy with little prospect of success." Because the ECB cannot assume the risk of default, it is limited to the purchase of only the safest slices of the already small market for rebundled securities. The ECB's calls to others with deep pockets for help went, understandably, unheeded. And, as expected, miniscule quantities were purchased in the inaugural round.
Ironically, now that Mr. Draghi is openly concerned about persistent low inflation, he seems to have run out of instruments to counter the tendency. For this reason, it helps him and his colleagues to claim that the June 5th measures will eventually be effective. But just like the forecasts last year projected higher inflation, the new claim has no support in logic or evidence.
For anyone who wants to see it, a debt-deflation cycle is ongoing in the distressed economies. Scary though they are, the focus on the eurozone headline numbers is somewhat besides-the-point. The focus should be on Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In a recent blog post, Giulio Mazzolini and I showed that countries experiencing faster-than-expected increase in their debt-to-GDP ratios are also those experiencing faster-than-expected fall in inflation. In other words, the authorities have very nearly lost control of a process that will become ever harder to manage as it becomes more entrenched. The ECB's measures are woefully behind the curve.
Is the ECB Irrelevant?
In October 2008, right after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, the major central banks stepped in to provide desperately needed liquidity to banks and financial markets. Figure 1 shows the expansion of the balance sheets relative to the GDP, normalized to 100 in January 2007 (to eliminate the pre-crisis differences due to variations in financial structures). Even at that existential moment, the ECB's actions were much more conservative than those of the U.S. Federal Reserve or the Bank of England.
More importantly, a sizeable fraction of the increase in the ECB's balance sheet was to support the Belgian and French banks, which meant, in effect, Fortis and Dexia. Since Dexia has remained distressed, the support it received was as much to prevent it from filing for insolvency as it was to provide temporary liquidity. This distinction between liquidity and solvency took center stage in mid-2011.
Market's expectation of how long policy rate will remain low determines the extent of decline in long-term interest rates
A central bank can undertake two principal actions: actively stimulate the economy and passively promote lending (see Hetzel, 2012, especially chapters 14 and 16 for the theory and application to the Great Recession in the United States). Active monetary stimulus of the economy is normally achieved by reducing its policy interest rate. The market's expectation of how long the policy rate will remain low determines the extent of the decline in long-term interest rates and the consequent increase in investment. When the policy rate falls to zero, the central bank can buy financial assets to directly lower the long-term interest rate, an action often described as "quantitative easing."
In contrast to active monetary stimulus, the central bank can passively provide funds to banks in the hope they will lend more to release credit constraints on economic growth. However, there is no guarantee that the banks will use their easier access to funds for new lending.
By these conventional categories, the ECB provided no active stimulus. Policy interest rate reductions always lagged behind the fall in activity; indeed, interest rates were raised in 2008 and, more disastrously, in 2011 (Hetzel, 2014). And, the ECB has been virtually absent in the purchase of assets to directly influence long-term rates.
The ECB did provide banks with additional "liquidity." But, in doing so, it acted in a manner highly unusual for central banks. For an extended period, the ECB's so-called liquidity operations have, in effect, propped up insolvent banks and have thus been a giant exercise in forbearance.
Consider the evidence. The rise in the ECB balance sheet from June-2011 to June-2012 tracks the rise of its so-called Target 2 balances (Figure 2). Before the crisis, banks in the so-called "core" countries had lent large sums to the "periphery" banks. By 2011, the core banks wanted their money back, but the periphery banks, with no alternate source of funding, appeared likely to default on their repayment obligations. Through the Target 2 system, the "core" country central banks lent funds to the "periphery" central banks, who then funded their private banks, allowing the repayment of private periphery debt to the core. Thus, the bulk of Target 2 expansion was used to prevent a wave of defaults rather than provide liquidity to otherwise solvent banks.
Despite many criticisms, the expansion of the Target 2 balances in 2011-12 was appropriate because it prevented disorderly defaults and panic and, hence, maintained financial stability. But that balance sheet expansion provided no monetary stimulus and, importantly, it was only in part a liquidity operation. Because the expansion was not followed by aggressively closing down or restructuring banks—while inflicting losses on their creditors—the breathing space gained was misused to provide extended regulatory forbearance to weak and insolvent banks.
In the United States, the closest similar action was through the purchase of asset-backed securities, which play a more significant role than in Europe. These purchases helped stabilize U.S. financial markets and, unlike the Target 2 expansion, they also helped lower the long-term interest rate and thus provided monetary stimulus. Moreover, in the U.S., the insolvency risks were dealt separately by recapitalizing banks (using fiscal resources) or by closing down and restructuring banks (through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation).
With time, the Eurosystem's Target 2 balances have come down, but they remain substantial by any reasonable international norm or the eurozone's historical standard, pointing to the persistent distress in the European banking system. Even the banks that have stabilized remain weak.
Figure 3 reinforces the view that the key problem lies in viability and solvency of eurozone banks. The repayment of the Target 2 balances has followed the partial recovery of the euro area banks' market value-to-book ratio (the market value of the banks' assets relative to the accounting value on their books). Thus, as banks have retrieved some of their lost credibility, they have been able to pay the ECB back.
But even as late as September 2014, the price-to-book value of banks in the Eurozone was still below one. Put simply, several years into the crisis, the financial markets still regard some of the assets on the banks' books as fictitious. A large segment of the euro area banking system is unable to stand on its own legs and, therefore, requires continued ECB support.
Note: The market-to-book ratio is given by the value of the shares outstanding of the Euro Area banks, divided by the aggregate book value of the same institutions.
Today, the market is reading into Mr. Draghi's statements an intention of raising the ECB's balance sheet by 1 trillion euros to about the 3 trillion achieved in June 2012. How meaningful would that expansion be?
even an increase of 1 trillion euros will make the effective ECB stimulus a small fraction of what the U.S. Federal Reserve achieved
If we stipulate that nearly all of the ECB's outstanding balance sheet is essentially propping up weak banks, then the current effective monetary stimulus—active or passive—is close to zero. Hence, even an increase of 1 trillion euros will make the effective ECB stimulus a small fraction of what the U.S. Federal Reserve achieved. Moreover, since the measures proposed will almost certainly not accomplish the 1 trillion euro target, whatever expansion does occur will have virtually no stimulative effect.
With the Bank of Japan's balance sheet now exploding, the ECB is set to remain—by far—the central bank with the tightest, most conservative monetary policy among the major central banks. A measure of the ECB's conservatism is the dollar/euro exchange rate. At about 1.24 (although down from almost 1.4 seven months ago), the exchange rate is about the same as at the start of the crisis. The U.S. economy is about 9 percent larger than its pre-crisis level while the eurozone economy has struggled to reach that level. Looking ahead, the expected growth rates clearly favor a growing U.S. lead. Yet, the euro has remained about as strong as just before the crisis started.
It is as if the ECB has become irrelevant except to limit the fallout from insolvency risks. The ECB's balance sheet can hold, or promise to buy, obligations that might otherwise not be honored. This was the case with the Target 2 balances. And this was the case also with the ECB's "outright monetary transactions (OMT) program," which offered to buy "unlimited" quantities of sovereign debt. For the OMT, the ECB's word was enough; for Target 2, the ECB actually helped pay off the obligations of distressed banks in the hope that these banks would eventually recover enough to repay the ECB.
The ECB's extended support of banking distress is unusual for a central bank. It raises important questions about what exactly the ECB does. It especially raises questions about the ECB's new role as a bank supervisor. Can the ECB be an effective supervisor while it has an incentive to practice forbearance?
Starting in September 2007 from 5¼%, the U.S. Federal Reserve rapidly lowered its policy rate to a ¼ percent by late-2008. The U.S. Fed also initiated its first QE operations in December 2008.
Throughout, the ECB has been in a reactive mode: delays and half measures have been the norm. In 2007-8, it was obsessed with the threat of inflation, even though the rise in inflation was clearly temporary and the prospects for growth were evidently weakening. Only after the Lehman-induced meltdown in September 2008 did the ECB begin lowering rates. However, the response was always forced and the ECB obsession with inflation continued through mid-2011, when it twice raised interest rates. In October 2011, the ECB policy rate was still 1.5%, reaching a ¼% only in November 2013; and the debate on whether a seriously-sized QE is necessary is still ongoing.
Even the much-celebrated OMT decision came in the face of an imminent financial collapse. By then, the periphery was badly wounded, and the deep scars acquired then have remained. The ECB spent much of last year denying the risk of deflation. Finally, on June 5th this year it initiated actions that contemporary analysis warned would not be up to the task. And now the promise is to do more, but only if needed.
"Cheap talk" is a legitimate policy tool. With their words, policymakers, especially central bankers, can change expectations and create a self-reinforcing cycle of growth and optimism. But talk can also create a cognitive bubble.
The American philosopher and linguist George Lakoff explains that for those who live in a certain cognitive frame, the metaphors and rhetoric come to have real meaning and debating the details become the source of endless fascination. Mr. Draghi has successfully placed the current focus on the "if needed" metaphor. The ECB's chief economist, in his November 18th interview with the Financial Times, repeated that the central bank remained "willing to act," "if needed." The consensus within the ECB's Governing Council remains steadfast with a "wait and see" and "won't rush" approach.
Others play by the rules of the cognitive frame. Thus, despite the serious concerns with the June 5th measures—documented carefully by my Bruegel colleagues—journalists have no interest in asking ECB officials: "What exactly are we waiting for?" The financial markets have no interest in public policy: once the rules are set, they seek opportunities for short-term bets. On July 9th, the International Monetary Fund's Executive Board somewhat incredulously concluded: "Directors welcomed the exceptional measures recently taken by the European Central Bank (ECB) to address low inflation and strengthen demand, as well as its intention to use further unconventional instruments if necessary." Belatedly, on November 25th, the OECD became a lone official voice calling for more urgent steps.
In the meanwhile, the futures markets are betting that euro area inflation in the coming year will be about 0.45% and over the next two years will be 0.55%. The continued risk of declining inflation is only partly due to global commodity price trends. The eurozone periphery's debt-deflation cycle is set to continue, with spillovers through weak demand to the core and beyond that to the rest of the world.
Having delayed so long, if today the ECB were to buy sovereign bonds, as many think it should, the stimulative impact would be negligible
There is some risk that in this cognitive bubble the words create a deceptive sense of forward movement, breeding more inaction. Inaction causes the central bank to lose credibility since even apparently sensible actions lose traction (Bordo and Siklos, 2014). Having delayed so long, if today the ECB were to buy sovereign bonds, as many think it should, the stimulative impact would be negligible. The historically low sovereign yields will fall further: how will that help revive growth or inflation? A shift to a higher inflation target and one that is more "symmetric," obliging the ECB to act more decisively, could help. But was a target needed to recognize that the euro area is falling into a debt-deflation cycle?
There are four possibilities. First, inflation may turn up, relieving the pressure on the ECB. In the current weak global economy, with China slowing noticeably, the probability of this happening is low. But the euro area may finally get lucky with a rebound in food and energy prices. Second, the ECB actions may have greater impact than the analysis in this blog gives it credit for. Third, the ECB could take truly bold action by coordinating with the US Federal Reserve and other central banks to engineer a substantial depreciation of the euro. And, in that fantasy land, there would also be a sizeable fiscal stimulus. Finally, of course, the drift could continue.
For their generous comments, and without implicating them, I thank Michael Bordo, Ajai Chopra, Guntram Wolff, and especially Giulio Mazzolini who produced the graphics despite the demands on his time before moving on.
Bordo, Michael and Pierre L. Siklos, 2014, "Central Bank Credibility: An Historical and Quantitative Exploration," Presented at the 2014 Norges Bank Conference "Of the Uses of Central Banks: Lessons from History", Oslo, Norway.
Hetzel, Robert, 2012, "The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure," Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hetzel, Robert, 2014, "Contractionary Monetary Policy Caused the Great Recession in the Eurozone: A New-Keynsian Perspective," Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Working Paper WP 13-07R.
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On April 5 this year, President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law. The legislation designed to give a new designation of emerging growth companies an easier path to going public and to raise funds privately. It has however, been criticized by the Securities and Exchange Commission and others for weakening regulations.
Still, there's no doubt that this controversial legislation will "reduce friction" and costs in the IPO mechanism, potentially enabling many more small but growing companies that meet specific thresholds of revenue to go public. In the following article, Armanino Partner Jeremy Sucharski explores the JOBS Act and assess its impact on IPO activity.
Fast growing technology startups and mid-caps considering an IPO should have an easier path to becoming public companies thanks to the JOBS Act. EGCs will benefit from changes to the IPO process including:
Featured in the new Act is an "on-ramping" process that provides EGCs of under $1 billion in annual revenue or under $700 million in market capitalization, a lengthened transition period of one to five years during which the regulatory requirements are scaled back in order to ease the cost of compliance. During the on-ramp process, smaller companies are exempt from the most controversial requirement of the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002, Section 404(b); the personal certification and guarantee of financial controls by the chief executive officer and attestation by a licensed auditor. However, companies are still required to comply with the other provisions of the act.. EGCs are also exempt from:
In an article that recently appeared on "D – All Things Digital," a tech blog, Benchmark Capital Partner Bill Gurley was quoted as saying that in the pre-JOBS Act world, a company with $80 million in revenue and 10 percent operating margins would have paid between $3 million and $5 million to go public. "That's half your profit," Gurley said.
Under the JOBS Act, EGCs can spread their expenses out over a longer period of time, meaning that you have budget flexibility.
If you're considering an IPO and your company qualifies as an EGC, start your IPO readiness activities early because the more runway you have the less risk you take on. Here are some of our suggestions for IPO readiness for EGCs:
Register with the SEC as an EGC – All companies that qualify as EGCs must do this. However, the process is simple and takes only an hour or two. This is the first move to putting yourself on the IPO runway.
Set a five-year timeline – Once you register with the SEC the clock starts ticking and you have up to five years to complete the ramp up to your IPO. It's important to be prepared to take the full five years in the event you need all of that time. You cannot control what happens in the markets or the business environment so the more time you have the more options you have in terms of accelerating, aborting or staying on schedule for your IPO if market conditions warrant any of those options. Even if you exceed the $1 billion revenue / $700mm market cap limits for EGC sometime in the five year window, the JOBS Act rules enable you to take advantage of the full timeline if you began as a qualified EGC.
Address highest risk areas first – Although you are exempt from auditor sign off aspect of SOX compliance during the five year ramp up, this is one of the high risk areas that must be addressed if you aspire to gain full access to the public markets. Becoming SOX compliant takes time and money. Having solid financial controls in place before you go public will allow you to have some experience and knowledge before you are required to be fully compliant.
Set up or revamp accounting and business processes – Consult with your accountants or business consultants to audit your accounting processes. Identify where improvement is needed and collaborate with your consultants to get these in place.
Update your technology – There is a whole new breed of cloud financial management technology that is revolutionizing corporate accounting. Best-in-class SaaS providers are delivering ERP, CRM, business intelligence, stock option accounting and budgeting and forecasting tools that seamlessly integrate with legacy systems and deliver data to desktops, smartphones and tablets. These technologies benefit companies because they are customizable and feature rapid ROI and low total cost of ownership. Issues like security, protection of data and investment in hardware and software are taken care of by the providers, who are providing most of the infrastructure, usually for a subscription fee.
Budget flexibly – This is a five-year plan, so you can be flexible. For instance, maybe your business is cyclic or seasonal so you know that in years 1 through 3 you'll have more to spend on IPO readiness than in years 4 and 5. Matching your IPO readiness expenses with your business cycles is a good way to fund your pre-IPO ramp up.
Whether you question the potential risks of allowing these relaxed rules for smaller companies or believe the JOBS Act will jumpstart the U.S. economy, you should know the benefits and the risks of operating in this new environment for your company. However, if an IPO is one of your goals and your company qualifies as an EGC, you owe it to yourself and your enterprise to explore the potential benefits of registering with the SEC and starting down the IPO runway.
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