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Last November the council postponed consideration of the recommendation until after Commerce Secretary C. William Verity's trip to Japan. The second delay came because of the visit to Washington by Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita last month.
When you've got trade experts in the administration sending a signal like this . . . If the administration does not go along this time they better have a very good explanation, said Mark Chalpin, vice president of the National Constructors Association, a Washington-based trade association.
A congressional staffer said the policy council should rule by Wednesday on the proposal by 14-member Trade Policy Review Group.
A Washington lobbyist for the Japan Federation of Construction Contractors said he was not surprised at the group's vote and said he wouldn't be surprised to see the Cabinet approve the proposal next week.
The Japanese have been trying for some time to make some changes on this issue, but like everything else over there it takes time to build a consensus, said William H. Morris Jr., president of Global USA Inc., the lobbying firm representing the Japanese.
Japanese government officials seemed surprised to learn of the vote and would not comment directly.
We can only say we hope the negotiations presently under way between the two sides will have a satisfactory solution, said one Japanese official.
Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, who has pressured the Japanese for several years to remove restrictions that limit U.S. firms from participating in the Kansai Airport project in Osaka Bay, said he was pleased with the vote and urged the policy council to take action next week.
Despite commitments made at the highest government levels, the Japanese market remains closed to U.S. construction services and supplies . . . When the Economic Policy Council meets next week I'm sure the Cabinet members will understand how seriously the Congress and U.S. industry view our inability to gain access to the Japanese market. The strongest possible action must be taken, including the self-initiation of a 301 investigation, the senator said.
because the issue has been so thoroughly researched in the past year.
The investigation won't be a year; it'll be maybe 90 days, he said.
USMAN Khawaja opened his county cricket stint with a century and recalled Test opener Matthew Renshaw plundered his third on the weekend as they planted their flags for a return under a baggy green in next year’s Ashes in England.
In his first game for Glamorgan, Khawaja, who is being sent to India for remedial work against spin as part of a strong Australia A team in August, smacked 125 against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, the venue for one of the Ashes Tests in 2019.
Khawaja was initially signed by Glamorgan for the T20 Blast but arrived early as a replacement for compatriot Shaun Marsh, who was been called to be part of Australia’s one-day squad for the series against England.
His runs on English soil will be a confidence boost after notching five single figure scores in the Test series against South Africa and with his place in the team far from secure.
Renshaw has also done everything possible to retain his Test spot all the way to next year’s Ashes in England after racking up a third county century for Somerset.
The Queenslander, who was recalled for the final Test on the ill-fated tour of South Africa after both David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were suspended, has been peerless during his English stint.
He carved out 106 against Nottinghamshire at Taunton on the weekend to take his run tally to 411 for the division one side which sits on top on the county championship table.
Renshaw’s runs have come in just eight innings, at an average of 58, and he looks a certainty to retain his place at the top of the Australian Test batting order for October’s two matches against Pakistan, and then in to the home summer.
Renshaw will cut short his county campaign after also being called on to tour with the Australia A squad, where the real fight will begin for national spots after selectors picked players Test players including Peter Handscomb and Mitchell Marsh, who will be captain.
Originally published as Have Khawaja, Renshaw secured Ashes spots?
Dec 24 Fumbles Forced changed from 1 to 2.
Dec 24 Sacks changed from 2 to 1.
Dec 24 Blocked Kicks changed from 0 to 1.
FingerWorks Telestrators, a telestrator provider for professional sports and eSports broadcasters, will unveil its new FingerWorks VR 2.0 at NAB 2019 (South Lower Hall, Booth 6412).
The updated software features live stats integration, live preview, improved masking and a streamlined multicamera VR setup.
FingerWorks VR is a realtime 3D telestration software and graphics engine for live virtual reality and augmented reality applications. FingerWorks VR supports all popular VR geometry and stereo formats in addition to supplying a flattened user interface that makes it simple for analysts and operators to place graphics in the VR space. A “recall” feature enables users to preset camera positioning and graphic placement for instant recall based on which VR camera is on air. The software supports traditional SDI and IP workflows, as well as NDI streaming for resolutions up to stereoscopic 4K 60p. This allows content creators to incorporate graphics to any VR broadcast in real-time without diminishing quality.
"I love unique organelles and protein trafficking!"
What I'd be doing if I weren't studying Plasmodium... I'd be making fires in the mountains and staring into the oceans.
Project: Autophagy proteins in Plasmodium.
"I love proteins and their non-canonical behaviors!"
What I'd be doing if I weren't studying Plasmodium... I'd be making jams and cakes and traveling around the world.
"I love non-model organisms with unique biology!"
Well the UD stats are up ATM.
On a personal note -- I have completed over 600 work units! YeeHaw! Took over 201 days, and stilll plugging along.
If you click the "Top 500" link in my sig it will take you to the Statsman page for our team.
I've watched us go from number 534 to 492 -- anxious to see how we are doing, now that UD stats are working again.
If you go to Statsmans top 1000 UD teams list, you will see we are up to #469. That's a pretty fair jump.
Grim, wouldn't that be coolest if we do find a cure.
Wiggo: when those ET's want to be found by us, they will be -- but not until. We'd sure like to have you on this team till they make a formal appearance.
LOL - He is dedicated to the cause, that's for sure!
According to Statsman he is 49.01% of our team. Compare that to my lowly 4.25%, I look pretty sadly.
But hey, I'm dedicated too! Just not as many machines to dedicate.
Any contribution to the cause shows caring for your fellow man.
i got an idea...how about we all try & rake up some old 486's & 386's & dedicated them to UD...:) that wouldn't be half bad!
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Sony makes televisions, video-game machines and movies, but it has always had a hard time encouraging its various divisions to cross-promote one another’s products.
The company recently announced that it would close one such effort — its sole PlayStation store and the neighboring Sony Style outlet in the Metreon Center, an entertainment and shopping complex in San Francisco. But the company is taking another stab at cross-promotion. This time it is in a 14-screen cinema complex that is opening this week at The Oaks shopping center in this suburb of Los Angeles.
The theater, owned by Muvico Entertainment, will use Sony’s 4K SXRD digital projectors. The SXRD brand will be promoted on screen, as Dolby or THX sound systems are. When customers buy food and tickets, they will find updated menu offerings displayed on 16 Sony LCD televisions. And when the children become bored, they can try out the latest video games on a bank of PlayStation 3 consoles in the “digital playroom.” Muvico hopes to cater to an upscale crowd with cash to spare, just the sort of audience Sony needs. Similar to the ArcLight cinemas in Hollywood and other deluxe theaters around the country, the complex features valet parking and allows customers to take food and alcohol to the reserved seating Premier section, where the wide seats cost $20 each.
Sony thinks this theater is an ideal location to promote its products, which usually carry a premium price. “Customers in Thousand Oaks stay to watch a film’s credits because their names are probably in them,” said George Figler, director of design and construction for Muvico, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Sony could use a good jolt. Revenue from electronics and the video game segment has slumped in the last year. The company expects the fiscal year to show an operating loss of $2.9 billion. Howard Stringer, the company’s chief executive, has been trying to push Sony’s divisions to work together more closely.
Sony’s high-resolution digital projection technology is an ideal way to show live musical events. The company is working with Live Nation to produce a series of at least six concerts, which in addition to their theatrical exhibitions will be shown on home TVs through Sony’s broadband Bravia Internet Video Link service and via the PlayStation Network.
Mr. Fidler also imagines turning the release of a new PlayStation game into an event. A few days ahead of a multiplayer game’s going on sale in stores and online, fans might try it out against remote competitors on one of the giant theater screens.
Sony also hopes to increase its penetration of the digital cinema market. There, its technology is now a distant second to the industry leader, Texas Instruments, which has its D.L.P. cinema projector technology in almost 5,300 screens in North America. Sony has digital projectors in just 300 theaters. But the company says its digital projectors display an image with four times as many pixels as the D.L.P. system, resulting in sharper pictures with richer colors. Sony’s hardware costs 10 to 15 percent more than the T.I. system.
Muvico has committed to use Sony technology in all its new theaters, and eventually retrofit its 12 existing houses that do not yet have digital equipment. A number of AMC and Landmark theaters also use Sony’s 4K systems, and more will follow when money is available, Mr. Fidler said.
The 4 percent tax is on certain gaming activities of nonprofit organizations.
The audit, which covers the gaming tax from five bingo and lottery operations between Oct. 1, 2013, and Sept. 30, 2017, found the government of Guam lost the opportunity to collect an average of $655,238 from the top five nonprofit organizations, a total of $2,620,951.
The definition of “gross receipts” in the Guam Code Annotated is inconsistent with the definition in the Guam Administrative Rules and Regulations.
Form 3260s, the gaming monthly return form filed by nonprofit organizations, weren't timely processed at Rev and Tax.
Bingo gross receipts may be under-reported by nonprofit organizations.
Nonprofit organizations report gaming winnings to Rev and Tax, whereas no information is available on individual taxpayers, including their winnings.
Bingo activities at senior citizens centers are exempt from paying the tax.
The findings in the audit resulted in four recommendations for Rev and Tax, all of which were accepted by Acting Director Dafne Shimizu.
The tax, as written in the Guam Code Annotated, imposes a 4 percent tax “on the gross receipts from limited gaming activities.” However, the Guam Administrative Rules and Regulations defines gross receipts as the total gaming revenue minus winnings paid out by nonprofit organizations. This definition is used by Rev and Tax and, in turn, by the nonprofits when they file Form 3260.
The Office of Public Accountability recommended Rev and Tax amend the definition to include payments for winnings. Shimizu accepted the finding but said she will wait for the outcome of the ongoing litigation regarding rules and regulations before proceeding.
According to the audit, Form 3260s filed from December 2017 to December 2018 hadn't yet been processed as of this January.
A lack of designated staff and turnover in business privilege tax branch staff” are cited by the auditor to have caused a backlog at the government agency.
“With the manual filing and inputting of the gaming taxes, (Rev and Tax’s) backlog will continue to increase without the additional staff needed to properly input, review and monitor these taxes,” the report states.
The auditing office recommended Rev and Tax consider electronic filing options for limited gaming tax forms and dedicating personnel to ensure complete filing and accurate payments of the gaming tax.
Shimizu accepted both recommendations and said the agency will work with the Office of Technology about making Form 3260 available for online filing.
March 31, 2019, 1:32 a.m.
Tracking the Dutch Reformed Church's phased renunciation of apartheid is a tortuous process in decoding semantics. Unlike other Christian churches in South Africa, the Dutch Reformed Church has refused to declare apartheid a heresy.
At a meeting of the white Dutch Reformed Church and its black and mixed-race counterparts last March, Mr. Heyns is reported to have wept in confessing the error of apartheid.
The monument has been closed during restoration, and it may soon re-open to the public.
The Butler County Historical Society is looking for a part-time curator to man the Soldiers Sailors and Pioneers monument in downtown Hamilton when it reopens in May.
Continuing a partnership that made the $500,000 restoration project a reality, the county and Hamilton Community Foundation will split the $24,000 annual cost to employ a curator and care for the collections in the museum. The monument will be open Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Butler County Historical Society is hiring the curator, and Executive Director Kathy Creighton said they will soon begin taking inventory of the historic artifacts and war records housed in the monument that will go on display. She said they already know there are some photographs that have faded from the sunlight, so they will be changing the displays.
Creighton said the new position will pay between $13,000 and almost $17,000 annually and the rest of the money will buy a computer and software for inventory maintenance and other business related to the monument. She planned to send the job description out to veterans groups in the area and advertise to get the word out. The applications are due March 1.
Applicants don’t have to be veterans, but she said that would add something to the position.
The restoration project was three years in the making after the Hamilton Community Foundation challenged Butler County commissioners to match a $250,000 grant they pledged to make critical repairs on the 100-year-old-plus monument. Roof leaks and a deteriorating exterior prompted the challenge.
John Guidugli, president of the foundation, said they have committed to funding for this year but he imagines the partnership will continue into the future.
The county used Community Development Block Grant money to pay its share of the repair. The county had an in-depth study of the structure done by a well-known New York architect, and the original cost estimate was more than $1 million. The final cost, which included the unanticipated copper dome replacement, was $425,870.
County Administrator Charlie Young said the collaboration was exemplary.
The divide in higher education is getting starker. Huge strikes are on the cards unless something is done about it - and soon, writes UCU General Secretary Sally Hunt.
Vice-chancellors’ pay has been in the news throughout the summer – but the headlines have got even worse in recent weeks, with tales of an £800,000 payout at Bath Spa University, a bungled resignation at the University of Bath, and efforts to obscure who is actually setting the vice-chancellor’s pay at the University of Southampton.
What this whole sorry episode seems to be finally doing is shining a light on how our universities are run. We are told that guidance on who sets senior pay in universities and how will now be released in the new year. How effective that will be remains to be seen. So far, Ministerial pleas for pay restraint at the top have fallen on deaf ears for years.
So it is disappointing that the universities minister only saw a handful of vice-chancellors to discuss the best ways to deal with vice-chancellors’ pay in the future.
Without proper engagement with staff and students when the draft guidance is published in the new year, the new proposals risk being as toothless and open to abuse as the present set-up.
At over three-quarters of UK universities, the vice-chancellor sits on the remuneration committee and three-quarters of universities refuse to publish the minutes of the meeting. Hardly open, transparent or even independent.
And a poll for Left Foot Forward released today shows that eight in ten of those with a view say they Vice Chancellors should not sit on the committees that sets their pay.
The figures make clear that THE current system is broken and serious change is needed. For years, when quizzed about the huge pay rises enjoyed by vice-chancellors while staff pay failed to keep pace with the cost of living, universities said senior pay was a matter for the independent remuneration committee.
This is clearly an issue universities are sensitive about – as demonstrated by Southampton’s effort to obscure what committee set the Vice Chancellor’s pay and who sat on it.
But anger at the upstairs-downstairs nature of higher education is not limited to pay. Universities are proposing to end guaranteed retirement payments in USS, the sector’s largest pension scheme.
I have been involved in some tough negotiations over the years in higher education, including two extended periods of national industrial action in 2004 and 2006. But I can safely say that the proposal currently on the table from Universities UK to reform USS pensions is the worst offer I have seen from an employer in 20 years.
The proposals will pick the pocket of a typical lecturer by more than £200,000 over the course of their retirement and will open up a near £400,000 gap between the retirement payments received by academics in post-’92 universities, who are members of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS), and Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) members.
It is no coincidence that many of those leading the attack on UCU members’ pensions have themselves left USS and made private arrangements with their university employer to receive the equivalent of their pension contributions as cash.
When I say the offer is bad, I of course mean for UCU members, but it is bad too for the universities on whose behalf it has purportedly been made. We are unconvinced that all Vice Chancellors want to see their staff’s retirement income devastated, as there are those who no doubt worry what an unattractive pension will do for recruitment.
Our ballot for industrial action over pensions closes on 19 January. Unless the universities row back from their current plans we will see industrial action on our campuses on a scale not witnessed before in this country.
This approach and the growing academic ‘precariat’ was the inevitable outcome of the individual fees scheme which has synthesised market forces governing universities and their relative autonomy from the state. This has allowed the management of the universities to develop private enterprise remuneration schemes exacerbating inequality in both pay and terms and conditions. Labour must act on this and the abolition of fees will help to return this sector to be a very important public service.
The way to deal with this (I suggest) is for the pay of University Vice Chancellors to be pegged at a % of the average pay of the workforce. Increases to be pegged at the same % (average) as those agreed/awarded to the average of employees of that particular university. BUT look out for off the wall performance pay/bonuses!!
The way to deal with this (I suggest) is for the pay of UVC to be tied to the average pay increases of all other employees of the particular university. Increases in pay for UVC’s to be in line with those agreed for all other university employees. Performance related pay should be available to ALL other staff and the UVC’s should receive no more than the average of all other employees. UVC should pay for housing and only receive the same help to purchase a car as other staff BUT only when a car is a requirement for the efficient performance of the UVC’s job.eg for the efficient performance of their job.
of a particular university. UVC’s should only be granted accommodation if it is necessary for the efficient performance of their duties which should be specified and applied to any other employee of the university where the criteria for a particular UVC is met. UVC.s should only have a vehicle provided where it can be seen to be essential for the efficient performance of the job. Housing for UVC’s should only be granted on the basis that he/she needs to ‘live in’ for the efficient performance of their duties and responsibilities normally on campus. In such cases the UVC should receive a ‘rebated rent’.