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Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Figures from the DWP (Department of Works and Pensions) show that the number of people on Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) is falling for all people upto the age of 60.
However, people between 60 and 64 years of age are still not getting the jobs they need - they are still nearly 3 times more likely to be on unemployment benefit than they were in the year 2000.
Why do you think this is? (You can select upto 2 answers from the poll):
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However, people between 60 and 64 years of age are still not getting the jobs they need - they are still nearly 3 times more likely to be on unemployment benefit than they were in the year 2000.
Why do you think this is? (You can select upto 2 answers from the poll):
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Sunday, 27 April 2014
A graph from the 2013 British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey shows fewer than 1 in 10 Britons have wanted this in the 30 years since 1983. More than 90% have consistently wanted the level of tax & spend to remain the same or to increase.
Saturday, 26 April 2014
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Posted by Jake
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Labels: Article, Austerity, Big Society, Bonus, Graphs, inequality, pay, taxation
"the love of money is the root of all evil"
1 Timothy 6:10
This biblical quote means people aren't bad for nothing: to be really bad they need to be really well paid. Of course not all well paid people are evil, but that's the jist of it.
However, if someone tells you paying huge salaries is the only way to hold on to the best people who can make all of us more prosperous, tweet them this post. The statistics show they are wrong.
On the day between Good Friday and Easter Day in April 2014 the DailyMail reported:
1 Timothy 6:10
This biblical quote means people aren't bad for nothing: to be really bad they need to be really well paid. Of course not all well paid people are evil, but that's the jist of it.
However, if someone tells you paying huge salaries is the only way to hold on to the best people who can make all of us more prosperous, tweet them this post. The statistics show they are wrong.
On the day between Good Friday and Easter Day in April 2014 the DailyMail reported:
“Barclays has been under fire for
raising bonuses at its investment bank to £1.6billion, up 13 per cent, despite
a 37 per cent fall in the division’s profits and regardless of vows to cut its
pay bill.”
The bosses of Britain’s top companies pretend they are forced
to pay humungous money to keep the best people. They claim that keeping
these people, by paying them lots of money, makes all of us richer.
Is this actually true? Let's take a look at the statistics:
Is this actually true? Let's take a look at the statistics:
Compare the UK and German wages of the 99th percentile (the group earning 99th highest out of 100). Figures from the EU’s Eurostat, give the equivalised disposable (see below for definitions) household incomes. These show in 2012 (most recent figures available when writing this post) the German elite took home nearly 25% less than their UK equivalents.
Thursday, 24 April 2014
As firms prepare for their annual general meetings, Business
Secretary Vince Cable has written to all FTSE 100 members to remind them that
pressure on pay awards must be kept up to assuage public anger. He said pay
levels at banks in particular had been "ridiculous". He singled out
Barclays, which has its shareholder meeting scheduled for Thursday. Last year,
Mr Cable introduced rules forcing listed firms to give shareholders a binding
vote on directors' pay to make a "clearer link between pay and
performance". The move followed investor anger over rising boardroom
salaries at a time of falling share prices and sluggish earnings. "A lot
of trust has been lost, because of the extremes of what happened in 2010, when
pay escalated massively unrelated to the performance of companies," Mr
Cable said. His letter on pay follows a series of corporate reforms announced
by Mr Cable in recent days, including a public register in which companies will
have to list their true owners, and a crackdown on "rogue directors". BBC NEWS
Foodbanks see
donations surge after they were criticised by Mail on Sunday
Britain's biggest food bank provider, the Trussell Trust,
saw a surge in donations after a Mail on Sunday article criticised the charity
for failing to run proper checks on people claiming food parcels. Before the
article, there had been about 250 public donations since the Trussell Trust
launched its JustGiving page in late January. That jumped to more than 3,300,
worth more than £36,000. Several donors cited the article as the reason for
contributing. One donor, calling
themselves Spitting Feathers, said: "I am incensed by the disgraceful
article. Call this journalism? I don't. I'm not a Christian and admire the work
being done by human beings for their fellow human beings. Thank you." The
Mail on Sunday said it carried out an investigation which found that volunteers
did not carry out adequate checks on those who claim vouchers and one of its
reporters obtained three days' food simply by telling staff at a Citizens
Advice bureau – without any proof – that he was unemployed. Many claiming food
parcels were also asylum seekers, the paper reported. GUARDIAN
Councils sit on £67m
in emergency help for poor
Figures released in response to Freedom of Information Act
requests indicate that by the end of January councils in England were sitting
on £67m of the £136m that had been allocated to local welfare schemes. Under
the new local welfare assistance schemes, four in 10 applications for emergency
funds are turned down, despite evidence that many applicants have been made penniless
by benefits sanctions and delays in processing benefit claims. Under the
previous system – the social fund – just two in 10 were. In some parts of the
country, as many as nine in 10 applicants are refused crisis help. Under the
new system, emergency funds are no longer ringfenced, meaning that councils can
divert unspent cash to other budgets. Local authorities are anticipating
further problems over local welfare in 2015 when the DWP scraps funding for the
schemes. GUARDIAN
Energy giants pocket
£75m of green tax cuts which were supposed to save millions of households £50
on their energy bills
Millions of households have missed out on a £50 saving on
their energy bill because a cut in the green tax has been swiped by suppliers
rather than handing the cut to their customers. All of the big six firms —
British Gas, EDF Energy, Eon, Npower, Scottish and Southern Energy and Scottish
Power — will save money this year after the Government slashed network charges
and the cost of implementing green schemes. And they will no longer have to
pick up the tab for a Warm Home Discount — which gives vulnerable customers a
£135 reduction on their electricity bill. The Government had said the green tax
cut would save households around £50 on their annual gas and electricity bill. However,
four months on and millions of customers have not received a penny in discount.
An estimated five million households have missed out on the reduction because
they are on a fixed-rate deal. The energy companies claim most people have
benefited by up to £35. But this still means they have pocketed the
remainder — at £15 from each fixed-rate
customer, that makes £75 million. DAILY MAIL
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Posted by Hari
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Labels: Austerity, Big Society, budget cuts, Cameron, inequality
Saturday, 19 April 2014
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Posted by Jake
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Labels: Article, Austerity, Big Society, credit crunch, Graphs, inequality, Inflation, pay, taxation
In April 2014, just before Easter, newspapers including the Express and the Telegraph reported:
For the first time in 4 years prices were not rising faster than wages. Were they right about the squeeze being over?
Actually, in the 5 years upto March 2014 price rises have outstripped wages in 57 months out of 60.
This has left us on average 8% worse off than 5 years ago.
“March’s UK inflation figures suggest that the six-year squeeze on real earnings is finally over”
For the first time in 4 years prices were not rising faster than wages. Were they right about the squeeze being over?
Actually, in the 5 years upto March 2014 price rises have outstripped wages in 57 months out of 60.
This has left us on average 8% worse off than 5 years ago.
Friday, 18 April 2014
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Pay rises scrape
ahead of inflation - but only if you work in the private sector AND get an
annual bonus
Wages including bonuses were on average 1.9% higher
in February compared to the same month in 2013, said the Office for National
Statistics, while the consumer price inflation rate for that period was 1.7%. But pay including bonuses was only 1.7% higher when you look at
the three months to February and compare it to the same three months of the
previous year, suggesting on this measure that real incomes actually flatlined.
Furthermore, public sector workers saw pay increases of only 0.9% and
the average wage excluding bonuses was only 1.3% higher in February. GMB
general secretary Paul Kenny said: 'The recovery under way is welcome but we
have a very long way to go to climb out of the hole caused by the recession.' Part of the growth is simply because the UK population has increased. Kenny added: 'Given
the increase in population, GDP per head is still 5.8% below 2007
levels. This is the root cause of average earnings being down 13.8% in
real terms since then. The pay of the bottom 50 per cent of the workforce is
still being squeezed.' The news comes as millions of health and local
government workers gear up for possible strikes in protest at pay increases of
1%. DAILY MAIL
Hospital bed shortage
exposed: UK now has second lowest number per capita in Europe
A study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development found that among 23 European countries, the UK now has the second
lowest number of hospital beds per capita. As a result, countries such as
France and Germany now have more than twice as many beds per head as Britain. Only
Sweden — which has invested heavily in community care — has fewer beds for its
population. Meanwhile levels of overcrowding in hospitals have repeatedly
breached recommended safety limits, causing longer waiting times, cancelled
operations and a raised the risk of the spread of superbugs. Official figures
show that since 2001, more than 50,000 NHS hospital beds have been lost in
England alone. TELEGRAPH
Landlords'
'substantial' interest-free mortgage advantage is denied to first-time buyers
More first-time buyers would be able to own property if
interest-only mortgages were made available to them, a study by the Institute
of Housing has concluded. Interest-only mortgages – where monthly payments
cover just the interest part of the bill, and do not go toward reducing the
debt – were widely popular before the banking crisis. But since then they have
been all but banned under new, tougher rules. Landlords are exempt from the
rules, as buy-to-let lending is not regulated as tightly. The difference
creates a "substantial advantage" for landlords. The Institute of
Housing figures showed that renting was more expensive, in all regions, than the
cost of meeting interest-only mortgage payments. So if someone renting were
able to borrow an interest-only loan, not only would they become property
owners but they would see a cut in their monthly outgoings. TELEGRAPH
Starbucks HQ
relocation to UK 'will generate negligible tax revenue
Starbucks claimed that the head office move would "mean
we pay more tax in the UK", but the amount is expected to be negligible
based on an analysis of head office operations in Amsterdam. Accounts filed in
the Netherlands show the existing head office has been loss-making
since 2010, and paid just €342,000 (£281,500) in tax last year. Starbucks was
heavily criticised by MPs and tax campaigners in 2012 after it emerged that the
business had paid just £8.3m in tax since coming to the UK in 1998, despite
sales of more than £3bn. Accountant and campaigner Richard Murphy said the
coffee chain's small head office operation, currently in Amsterdam, was little
more than a "conduit or moneybox" used by Starbucks to collect "royalty payments" and move them on to other parts of the group. Starbucks'
European head office was at the centre of criticisms 18 months ago that it had
been artificially depressing the group's tax bills around Europe by charging sister
companies heavy royalty fees. Moving these headquarter operations to London is
the latest example of a wave of multinationals arriving in Britain after a
series of controversial tax reforms pushed through by George Osborne to woo
international firms. GUARDIAN
Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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The cartoons included in this guest post from Barnet UNISON were drawn by cartoonist Tim Sanders with lyrics from a UNISON supporter
The “Tale of Bob in Barnet” provides an insight into the challenges facing Barnet UNISON and our members.
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Posted by Hari
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Labels: Austerity, benefits, budget cuts, education, elections, inequality, NHS, taxation
Sunday, 13 April 2014
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Posted by Jake
3 comments
Labels: Article, Big Society, elections, expense fraud, Graphs, inequality, Labour, LibDems, protests, the government, Tories
[Updated Aug 2016]
Whatever you think of Jeremy Corbyn, one thing he's done that all the others in the Labour or Tory parties haven't, is get hundreds of thousands to join the party.
Corbyn's strongest card is his promise to go much further than this. To get a significant portion of the millions who never vote, to vote Labour. Can he do it? Who knows. But getting non-voters to vote is no longer crazy talk. Think UKIP. Think Brexit.
It matters because, for decades, UK elections have been decided as much by who doesn't vote as by who does.
In politics how high you reach depends less on how tall you stand and more on who you stand on. For decades political parties have gained power standing on people who don't vote.
In the twilight weeks of the electoral cycle, like little children at bedtime, politicians see terrors lurking on every sofa across the land. Millions of zombie voters who might be roused if they get annoyed enough. Not to vote for what they are for, but to vote against what they are against.
Consider the sudden ejection of Maria Miller from her role as the Secretary of State for Culture. Miller was given the boot in the month before
the May 2014 local and European elections. When Jeremy Hunt, the previous
Secretary of State for culture (what is it about that ministry?), was caught up in far more serious allegations David Cameron rescued Hunt by promoting him to
Secretary of State for Health. Luckily for Hunt there were no key elections in sight then. What ultimately did for Miller
wasn’t her sin but her timing - getting caught during the witching hours that run for the few weeks before the Local and the European elections.
This is a lesson you must remember dear voter. It is a lesson you must not let our politicians forget you remember. You must keep them afraid of you.
Once the dark electoral hours have passed, politicians of all parties forget about us electors. For example the key strategy of successive Tory governments is to appear to cut taxes
and spending. A graph from the 2013 British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey shows fewer than 1 in 10 Britons have wanted this in the 30 years
since 1983. More than 90% have consistently wanted the level of tax & spend to remain
the same or to increase.
Friday, 11 April 2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
Posted by Hari
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Labels: benefits, Big Society, budget cuts, Cameron, inequality
Thursday, 10 April 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Posted by Jake
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Labels: Article, Austerity, budget cuts, education, Gove, Graphs, taxation
Did they or didn't they? Did the Tories abolish the 50% tax rate, or didn't they.
Actually, they did and they didn't:
a) They Did: People earning more than £150,000 have been spared the 50% rate (52% including 2% National Insurance).
b) They Didn't: People with student loans earning more than about £43,000 are heading for a 51% rate (including 2% National Insurance).
This is illustrated by a graph in the IFS report "Payback time? Student debt and loan repayments: what will the 2012 reforms mean for graduates?" showing the marginal tax rate for people repaying student loans.
Graduates will start paying an additional 9% of their earnings once their pay exceeds £21,000. The 40% income tax rate kicks in at about £43k (assuming 1% annual increases in the upper earning limit). Marginal rate = 40% (income tax) + 2% (NIC) + 9% (Student Loan) = 51%.
Added on 5th December 2014, after the Autumn Statement:
The government announced a new £10,000 postgraduate student loan, starting in the 2016/17 academic year, to be repaid concurrently with the undergraduate loan. The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) calculated the effective marginal 'tax' rate for a postgraduate who took loans for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Paul Johnson, boss of the IFS, stated this highly qualified individual once over the £21,000 earnings threshold would be paying 50% as a basic rate taxpayer, and 60% as a higher rate taxpayer:
Actually, they did and they didn't:
a) They Did: People earning more than £150,000 have been spared the 50% rate (52% including 2% National Insurance).
b) They Didn't: People with student loans earning more than about £43,000 are heading for a 51% rate (including 2% National Insurance).
This is illustrated by a graph in the IFS report "Payback time? Student debt and loan repayments: what will the 2012 reforms mean for graduates?" showing the marginal tax rate for people repaying student loans.
Graduates will start paying an additional 9% of their earnings once their pay exceeds £21,000. The 40% income tax rate kicks in at about £43k (assuming 1% annual increases in the upper earning limit). Marginal rate = 40% (income tax) + 2% (NIC) + 9% (Student Loan) = 51%.
Added on 5th December 2014, after the Autumn Statement:
The government announced a new £10,000 postgraduate student loan, starting in the 2016/17 academic year, to be repaid concurrently with the undergraduate loan. The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) calculated the effective marginal 'tax' rate for a postgraduate who took loans for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Paul Johnson, boss of the IFS, stated this highly qualified individual once over the £21,000 earnings threshold would be paying 50% as a basic rate taxpayer, and 60% as a higher rate taxpayer:
"it is worth saying that those who take out the loan
would face rather high effective marginal withdrawal rates on earnings of 50%
for basic rate taxpayers (20% income tax, plus 12% NI, plus 9% repayment of undergraduate
loan, plus 9% repayment of postgraduate loan) and 60% for higher rate
taxpayers."
Bupa 'harming NHS' by
offering patients “bribes” of £2k to use public services instead of private
hospitals
Bupa is accused of offering the cash handouts to customers
who agree to undergo cancer, heart, gynaecological and other operations on the NHS. A letter
from the private health giant to a male cardiac patient explains: “The cash
payment takes the place of private treatment funding... If you are admitted to
hospital under the NHS as an in-patient for any of the above procedures, we
will pay you a fixed sum amount.” Operations can cost fives times more than the
cash payments offered by Bupa. For example, private hospitals charge a minimum
of £10,000 for having a pacemaker fitted. So Bupa is offering its customers £2,000
to have it done on the NHS. This effectively passes Bupa’s costs onto the NHS. The
cash payments have been condemned as “outrageous” and “disgusting” by doctors. Bupa
raked in a staggering £2.57billion in revenue last year, and pocketed
£139million in profit - up 26% on 2012. Bupa denied that the cash offers were
bribes, and insisted it was simply “offering customers choice”. MIRROR
Benefit cheats face
higher fines and losing their homes
Welfare cheats will be forced to sell their homes and pay
higher fines to reimburse taxpayers for the money they have wrongly claimed,
under plans to tackle benefit fraud. The plans form part of a major campaign
from ministers this week to publicise reforms to the welfare system, which the
Conservatives regard as among their most popular, vote-winning policies. A
publicity campaign, including posters urging claimants to report those whom
they suspect to be cheating the system, and letters warning individuals to
check they are not receiving too much. TELEGRAPH
MP expense pong: Ex-Culture Secretary Maria Miller bought a £1.2m mansion with proceeds of '2nd home'
Maria Miller’s stunning new home, a sprawling barn conversion complete with oak beams, wood-burning stove and library cost her £1.2million - almost exactly the profit she made selling a property funded by taxpayers. Mrs Miller made taxpayers fund some of the mortgage payments on her London property, then sold it and used the whopping profit to buy this ‘charming’ Tudor house in Hampshire. It boasts five bedrooms, a spectacular vaulted gallery and its own woodland set in more than an acre of land. DAILY MAIL
Are high frequency
traders rigging stock markets? Split-second sharks accused of profiting at
expense of ordinary investors
US financial firms are being accused of using speed - an
advantage of just a few thousandths of a second - to fleece big money rivals
and by extension ordinary savers and investors. The allegations have prompted
the US Justice Department to say it is probing high-speed trading for possible
insider trading violations. The FBI and US financial watchdogs are also
investigating the industry. The book focuses on Wall Street share trading, but
one City insider has commented: 'The same players are in the UK and Europe – if
it’s happening in America, it’s happening here too.' DAILY MAIL
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Posted by Hari
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Labels: benefits, Big Society, elections, inequality, MP, politicians
Sunday, 6 April 2014
Sunday, April 06, 2014
Posted by Jake
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Compare and Contrast
- IPSA: Recommends that Maria Miller repay £45,000 for mis-claimed expenses
- MPs: Over-rule IPSA, reducing the amount to be repayed by £39,200 down to £5,800
- IPSA: Recommends MPs get an 11% payrise, taking their basic salaries up from £66,396 in 2013 to £74,000 in 2015
- MPs: State they are forced to accept this salary hike as they have no power to over-rule IPSA. With great reluctance they will courageously loosen their belts and swallow it.
Saturday, 5 April 2014
Saturday, April 05, 2014
Posted by Jake
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Labels: Article, Austerity, benefits, Big Society, credit crunch, Graphs, housing, inequality, Inflation, pay, pensions
It's the oldest trick in the book. Convince your competitor to lower his guard, and then biff him.
Adam Smith, the capitalist icon, believed everyone scuffling selfishly for their own benefit would result in an ‘invisible hand’ distributing a nation’s wealth pretty fairly.
Adam Smith, the capitalist icon, believed everyone scuffling selfishly for their own benefit would result in an ‘invisible hand’ distributing a nation’s wealth pretty fairly.
Smith’s advice
was based on the reality that you can’t trust anybody else to pull for your
benefit. You can only really trust people who are pulling in the same direction
as you. And any student of tug-of-war will know it is all much less strenuous if
the other side simply drops the rope and stops pulling.
Graphs from the “Budget 2014: Background Briefing”, produced
by Parliament's impartial House of Commons Library, show how ordinary Britons have been tricked into dropping
the rope in the great economic tug-of-war. It also shows how those who want
Britain to be a more prosperous place, whether of the left or of the right, should stiffen up and grab the rope again.
From Budget 2014: Background Briefing |
A separate graph using ONS data shows that the fall in wages is not a short term effect of the recession triggered by the banking crash. In the decades since the 1960's the share of GDP paid to employees has dropped from around 60% down to around 54%.
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Lib Dems must oppose
bedroom tax, says party president Tim Farron
In a damning assessment of the policy, Mr Farron said it
impacted on the most vulnerable and was “wrong and unnecessary”. The Liberal
Democrat president, who is currently developing the party’s housing policy,
also said it reduced the amount of money available to invest in new homes. The
policy means that tenants have their housing benefit reduced by 14 per cent if
they have one spare bedroom, and 25 per cent if they have two or more spare
bedrooms. The idea is for them to move to a smaller home. But thanks to a
critical shortage of housing stock, many are stuck with a benefits cut because
there are no smaller homes for them to move to. INDEPENDENT
Bring back Dad's Army
banks, says George Osborne
Chancellor George Osborne has hailed Captain Mainwaring as a
role model for today's bank managers. He said the bumbling Dad's Army character
was at the centre of his community and knew all of his small business
customers. Asked about Lloyds Bank's
recent decision to axe half of its small business advisers, with the loss of
1,000 jobs, Mr Osborne said banks should be focusing on building closer
relationships with their customers. He singled out two relatively new banks to
the UK - Handelsbanken and Metro Bank - as leading the way. Handelsbanken is
Sweden's biggest bank and now has 170 branches in the UK. It specialises in
"traditional" banking, with customers having a more active
relationship with their bank manager. Osborne said of Captain Mainwaring: "the
bank manager was at the very centre of local life, knew all the businesses,
knew the people who ran the businesses and was empowered to make judgements
about who had a good idea, who maybe had had a couple of failures in the past -
but that wasn't their fault - and had a good idea going forward.” BBC NEWS
Atos quits £500m work
capability assessment contract early
The £500m agreement to carry out work capability assessments
had been due to end in August next year but following widespread public and
political anger over the tests, which have been criticised by MPs and
campaigners as crude and inhumane, the agreement will now end early next year. There
has been mounting evidence that hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people have
been wrongly judged to be fit for work and ineligible for government support. Last
year the work and pensions select committee said the government's handling of
the assessment was damaging public confidence and causing claimants
"considerable distress". The committee said the problems with the
computer-led, points-based assessment "lay firmly with the DWP", but
added that the department was failing to apply "sufficient rigour or
challenge to Atos". More than 600,000 appeals have been lodged against
Atos judgments since the work capability assessments began, costing the
taxpayer £60m a year. In four out of 10 cases the original decisions are
overturned. GUARDIAN
At last! Rip-off
pension charges capped at 0.75%
Rip-off charges which can wipe out more than a third of the
value of a worker’s pension pot will be banned next year. Pensions Minister
Steve Webb described the crackdown in which charges will be capped at 0.75 per
cent as ‘a full frontal assault on poor value for money’. Over the next ten
years, workers who diligently save into a pension will be around £200million
better off as a result of yesterday’s announcement. This is because the money
will go into their pension pots, rather than being siphoned off in high charges
by well-paid fund managers. DAILY MAIL
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
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